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Speaker 1: my life, all my life and grinning all my life.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Sha Shay. I

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Speaker 4: am your host Shen and Sharp. I'm also the proproud

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Speaker 4: of Club Sha Sha. Today's episode is at the Beautiful

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Speaker 4: Landex Bar in Washington, d C. Stopping by for conversation

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 4: From club comedian to arena headliner, He's He's comedy's biggest

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Speaker 4: He's the youngest stand up comedian to sell out the

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Speaker 4: Hollywood Bowl. He's the youngest cast member in the history

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Speaker 4: of mt MTV's popular series wilding out New York Times

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Speaker 4: bestselling author, viral sensation, top creator, social media savvy influence,

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Speaker 4: A prominent actor, popular producer, fame writer, superstar, Harriet Is

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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Matt Right, there was credits.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that I did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you did all that, You did all this? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you were asking what is this?

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Speaker 4: This is a sidecard made with my Kangynac shade by Laportiere.

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Speaker 4: We normally do this, but now we're actually in a

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Speaker 4: place that could actually do a drink.

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Speaker 1: I want to know, look at this. Look at this.

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Speaker 1: Y'all got a big ol'd q.

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Speaker 2: That's Kangnac. Yeah. I don't think I've ever.

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Speaker 1: Had I know you have. This is the best on

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Speaker 2: That's not bad. Yeah, why do you have it in

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Speaker 5: That turned donkey into a horse. That's terrifying. That's powerful stuff, right, Yeah, man,

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Speaker 5: what's what's this in here?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 1: This is straight? This is straight? I try that.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a bug in mine.

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Speaker 5: You just said, yeah, what kind of production is this? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it'd be bugsing cups sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Man. That ain't bad. That's kind of smooth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, So we go we're gonna be right.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be righting this thing here.

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Speaker 2: It's only two pm. Man, let's go.

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Speaker 1: So you have so much going on, thank you.

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Speaker 4: You had to show last night and unfortunately we weren't

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Speaker 4: uh uh, nightcap and UNC and oshow and then to

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Speaker 4: get in. So next time I'm close by, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: come see you. Yeah, because you were telling us you

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Speaker 4: went like three hours.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, hold on, wait a minute.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, last night was a wild show. I think we

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Speaker 5: did like two hours forty minutes something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I did, like my show, which is a little a

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 5: It's one of those shows that, like you so locked

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Speaker 2: I was like, y'all are still here? That's crazy. It

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Speaker 4: You got a film coming out later this year with

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Speaker 1: Your limited edition Net series with Julia Gardner. I love

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Speaker 4: The Ozar some Ruth Langmore, the Altruiths coming out this year.

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Speaker 4: Any upcoming US Europe tour dates, anything you got going on, Lady.

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Speaker 2: Oh Man a Ton.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure exactly when this episode will drop, but

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Speaker 5: I think our next US dates are Jacksonville, Tampa, Savannah,

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Speaker 2: They don't like hearing that. A couple of other ones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, Savannah, you know, I went to school in Savannah,

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Speaker 4: You and I were talking early off camera and then

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Speaker 1: What is it in the damn water in Ohio to

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Speaker 5: I didn't even know half those people were from. That's crazy.

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Speaker 5: We can't wait to get out. That's amazing. Shout out

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Speaker 5: to everyone who just listed for getting out of Ohio.

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Speaker 5: It's an amazing place to grow up, man like, and

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Speaker 2: But in hindsight, it's so wholesome.

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Speaker 5: Man, it's just so quiet, Like I'm so I'm so

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Speaker 1: No social media to get you now, no man distract you. No.

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Speaker 5: I didn't really have social media until I was like

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Speaker 5: I showed up and he was like, oh, you're actually

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: When you grew up in Ohio, your mom and your

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Speaker 4: It later found out that your father, unfortunately took his

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and did.

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Speaker 4: Dig in, how did you find out? Did your mom

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Speaker 1: A little bit.

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Speaker 4: So when your mom told you, and it's like dangn something,

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Speaker 1: In whatever pain you might be harboring, you deal with it.

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Speaker 2: He was also young. I think he was twenty one

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Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, I was talking to my

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Speaker 2: Who knows what he was capable of. At the time,

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Speaker 5: But now as I get older, and I'll go through

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Speaker 5: I don't really I've never really like I've never really

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Speaker 2: But you know, I try to.

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Speaker 5: No, I wanted to play sports, for sure. I played

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Speaker 5: So what, Oh I'm going deep, man, I was receiver

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Speaker 2: I forget that.

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Speaker 1: You're fifteen. That's that's a prodigy.

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Speaker 5: There is a part of me that thinks that's possible.

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Speaker 5: And for some reason he chose Hollywood. Really no idea

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Speaker 4: Did you like You're like at that? At what point

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Speaker 2: I suppose I don't.

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Speaker 2: No? No, Chappelle was my guy.

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Speaker 5: That what him and Dane Cook were like the epitome

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Speaker 2: I was addicted to those guys. That's it's all.

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Speaker 5: I would watch the Chappelle Show and his early stand

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Speaker 5: get what stand up is and I want to do this.

440
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Speaker 5: And then last year I got a chance to go

441
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Speaker 5: play nationwide Arena and actually broke the record for like

442
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,560
Speaker 5: most tickets ever sold there, and I had Dane come

443
00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 5: back and open for me. It was like such a

444
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,600
Speaker 5: cool full circle moment. Man, it was unbelievable. He brought

445
00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,160
Speaker 5: this email printed out that I didn't even remember writing

446
00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,720
Speaker 5: until I reread it. It was this whole email printed out

447
00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 5: being like, hey, my name's Matt. It was like to

448
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,400
Speaker 5: his fan mail email, Yes, hey my name is Matt.

449
00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,520
Speaker 5: I'm like a fifteen year old comedian, same thing as

450
00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,360
Speaker 5: I did Ada, and I was like a big fan

451
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,760
Speaker 5: of yours. I just didn't know if maybe you could

452
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Speaker 5: take me under your wing and mentor me.

453
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Speaker 2: I really want to be just like you when I

454
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Speaker 2: grew up.

455
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Speaker 5: It was the most like charmingly naive email you could

456
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Speaker 5: have sent to somebody. He held on to it after

457
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,760
Speaker 5: all these years. Wow, it was unbelievable, man. I couldn't believe.

458
00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,359
Speaker 5: That was the coolest full circle moment.

459
00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,480
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first joke that you told and

460
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Speaker 1: became hooked?

461
00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 2: Oh first joke and got hooked?

462
00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,760
Speaker 4: Or were you like a class clown in school? Did

463
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Speaker 4: you go to school so that's why you didn't do

464
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:00,760
Speaker 4: well in school?

465
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Speaker 1: You would Jaz.

466
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Speaker 5: Well, but pisted them off as I did do well

467
00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,520
Speaker 5: in school, but I was still around.

468
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Speaker 2: That was what pissed them off the most.

469
00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:08,840
Speaker 5: I spent a lot of time being sent out to

470
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Speaker 5: the hallway, a lot of time and attention.

471
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Speaker 2: Uh.

472
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Speaker 5: We used to have up to like six hour attentions.

473
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,359
Speaker 5: So you would like be s yeah, you get up.

474
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Speaker 1: So you had then in school suspension?

475
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,359
Speaker 2: No, that's happening during the day after school? What was that?

476
00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,320
Speaker 2: What do they used to call it?

477
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Speaker 5: It was like a like an all night or something

478
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 5: like that, where you everybody gets out of school at

479
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Speaker 5: two thirty. Yeah, school, you'd be there till eight thirty

480
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,120
Speaker 5: at night, and they needed to go home and just.

481
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Speaker 1: Go right to bed.

482
00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 2: Man, it was awful.

483
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Speaker 5: I had so many of those. I was so sick

484
00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,639
Speaker 5: of school. But I couldn't help them make it fun. Man,

485
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:39,439
Speaker 5: I was so bored.

486
00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 4: You get on stage, you go to the comedy So

487
00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,000
Speaker 4: so where did you perform? Were you had like a

488
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,440
Speaker 4: talent show where you did your comedy stuff.

489
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Speaker 5: I did do a talent show day in seventh grade.

490
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,840
Speaker 5: This was another weird uh, I guess coincidence. In seventh grade,

491
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Speaker 5: I remember I'd like I just started watching these comedy

492
00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 5: specials and falling over Chappelle and everything, and down in

493
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,400
Speaker 5: homeroom in seventh grade next to my friend Amanda.

494
00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,000
Speaker 2: And for some reason she asks me.

495
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:07,439
Speaker 5: You know, what do you want to be when you

496
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 5: grow up? And I was like, I think I want

497
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,720
Speaker 5: to be a comedian. And I'm telling you on Q

498
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,600
Speaker 5: my teacher comes in and says, hey, everybody, I'm putting

499
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 5: a sheet on the wall.

500
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Speaker 2: We're doing a school talent show.

501
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,200
Speaker 5: And man, it was like, you you got to do

502
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:22,719
Speaker 5: to do comedy, and I signed up.

503
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,199
Speaker 2: I ate the biggest dick possible. It was terrible. It

504
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 2: was terrible, terrible, terrible. I did like a bunch of

505
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 2: impressions of teachers and a bunch of terrible jokes of

506
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:32,920
Speaker 2: what I thought was material.

507
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:34,879
Speaker 5: It was awful, But that was That was like my

508
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,600
Speaker 5: first actual performance and I started real stand up like

509
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 5: a year later after that.

510
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Speaker 4: At the start of every new year, I set my goals.

511
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Speaker 4: I tell myself this year, I'm eating right, I'm working out,

512
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Speaker 4: I'm working hard, staying on track. Then reality hits, work, travel,

513
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Speaker 4: Craven's Distractions, life just love to test your focus. I've

514
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Speaker 4: been there, I've followen off, but I don't stay down

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Speaker 4: already busy schedule. Great prices, no running around, no extra hassle.

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524
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Speaker 4: off track, Amazon can help get you back to the plan.

525
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527
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Speaker 4: did was your grandfather? Your audience was your mom, Your

528
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 4: audience were your friend, your audience. So who was the

529
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 4: first people to ever hear Matt Rife tell a joke?

530
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Speaker 2: Probably my grandpa.

531
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 5: I spent so much time with him, and I was

532
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 5: like so free and confident, and like I said, like

533
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 5: he thought I was the funniest person in the world.

534
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 5: So I used to love to try to make him laugh,

535
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 5: and then that kind of moved back to like, Okay,

536
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 5: now I'm going back on my parents or try some

537
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,439
Speaker 5: of that on them, and work on my mom, not

538
00:21:58,560 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 5: on my stepdad at all.

539
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 2: My sisters weren't trying to hear it. And then it

540
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 2: moved into school.

541
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 5: But once I started doing like comedy clubs, I never

542
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 5: really performed for like people my own age. Like my

543
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 5: material ever since I was fifteen sixteen was always I

544
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 5: was never.

545
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Speaker 2: Like, you know, homework is crazy. I was always like, man,

546
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 2: teachers are crazy.

547
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 5: It was always a little bit more adult skewing, which

548
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 5: I think helped the transition a little because remember Nick

549
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Speaker 5: Cannon was telling me he had a hard time switching

550
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Speaker 5: from like being a kid age yeah, to now being

551
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 5: an adult, and that happens around age twenty one. You

552
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 5: can get away with being nineteen twenty and people are like, Okay,

553
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 5: this is kind of like a this is kind of cute,

554
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 5: but at twenty one, people are like, no, I paid

555
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 5: for the ticket, like you gotta fun.

556
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

557
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 5: So I think that helped with that transition a little bit.

558
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 5: That I never really like catered my set young or anything.

559
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Speaker 1: Right, so.

560
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Speaker 4: Writing kind of the team. Obviously, you can't do a

561
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Speaker 4: whole lot of cursing. You got it, I did.

562
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Speaker 2: I cursed a lot my parents.

563
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Speaker 5: My parents didn't care at all, man, not at It

564
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,439
Speaker 5: was a lot of freedom minute which I cursed all

565
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Speaker 5: the time. It's such a problem. I cuss all the time.

566
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 5: It doesn't even occur to me that I'm like swearing you,

567
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,360
Speaker 5: it's just this is.

568
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Speaker 1: This an on stage problem or this is a real

569
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 1: life like act.

570
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: It's all the time.

571
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Speaker 5: I've been trying so hard not to curse as much

572
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Speaker 5: as this, and I know I can, but I'll say

573
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Speaker 5: like it's the word like like it's all the time. Man,

574
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Speaker 5: I'm trying. I've been trying to work on it. I

575
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Speaker 5: know it's improper.

576
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Speaker 1: So when you first who wrote your first set? So

577
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Speaker 1: did you have it?

578
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Speaker 4: Did you have an idea of what comedy was or

579
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Speaker 4: did you gout like you know what, I'm just going

580
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Speaker 4: wing and I'm gonna tell this joke.

581
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell that or are you writing?

582
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Speaker 5: I was writing, but I didn't know what a set was.

583
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Speaker 5: These open mics I was going to it's usually five minutes. Yes,

584
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Speaker 5: So I had no idea about wrote writing a set was.

585
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Speaker 5: So the first probably three months I was going, so

586
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Speaker 5: you can imagine the first probably twelve times.

587
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Speaker 2: Yeah, on once a week.

588
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 5: I was doing a new five minutes every single show,

589
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Speaker 5: and I mean most of it wasn't good, but every

590
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Speaker 5: now and then I would get I would get some

591
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Speaker 5: big laughs, and that's what kind of kept it addicting.

592
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 5: But it wasn't until comic pulled me aside and was like,

593
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Speaker 5: are you work on.

594
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Speaker 2: Any of these jokes? And I was like, what do

595
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Speaker 2: you What.

596
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Speaker 5: Do you mean work on? Like don't you just go

597
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 5: up there and say over and then the next time noe?

598
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Speaker 2: Else?

599
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 5: He was like, no, you're supposed to like formulate a

600
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 5: set and then you can build on top of that craft.

601
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 5: Like going home and working on the jokes is the job,

602
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 5: not just the performance. The performance is the reward, right,

603
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 5: And so that that today is still my favorite part

604
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 5: about There's nothing there's nothing more exciting to get in

605
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 5: that spark of a new piece of material, a new idea,

606
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Speaker 5: a new premise, and then going home and being like,

607
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 5: I know how to make this better. It's so rewarding, man,

608
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Speaker 5: it's the most addicting part to it.

609
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Speaker 4: It's like it's like bakers say, the first time you

610
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,719
Speaker 4: bake something is not the best time. You bake it

611
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 4: over and over and over So you tell a joke.

612
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 4: The first time you tell it, it's not going to

613
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Speaker 4: be the best time. You refine that joke, yes, and

614
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 4: over time it gets better and better, and you.

615
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Speaker 1: Say, what this definitive product that I'm going to predict exactly.

616
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Speaker 5: The only problem with that is eventually it feels repetitive.

617
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Speaker 5: Eventually you end up performing the joke. It depends on

618
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Speaker 5: how many shows you do, Chris Roxay, youre supposed to

619
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Speaker 5: run a set like I hope I'm not misquoting. This

620
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Speaker 5: is what I from somebody else quoting him. It's like

621
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Speaker 5: you want to run the set like three hundred times

622
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Speaker 5: before recording.

623
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Speaker 2: It for a special.

624
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Speaker 5: Really, and that's a lot, man, I mean when we

625
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 5: do do that many shows. But there's times that I'm like,

626
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Speaker 5: I don't feel like telling this joke at all, but

627
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: it crushes and the audience loves this bit. So now

628
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 5: you're not really it's not as excited to tell it

629
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 5: the same. But part of the job is you got

630
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Speaker 5: to perform it. You gotta tell it like it's the

631
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Speaker 5: first time every time.

632
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Speaker 4: But you know, Matt, the thing is that when old

633
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 4: comedians you could tell a joke over and over. I

634
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 4: could tell a joke and say, I tell a joke

635
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Speaker 4: in Tampa. I can tell that joke in Jacksonville. I

636
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 4: can tell that joke in Miami. I can tell that

637
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 4: joke in Atlanta and nobody would have heard it. But

638
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Speaker 4: now I don't know if you have that like Chappell

639
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 4: or Chapelle have that zip bag.

640
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Speaker 1: He gonna put your phone in there and you not

641
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: gonna hear this joke.

642
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Speaker 5: We we only do it for some I try not

643
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 5: to do it because people hate it. The people complain, yeah,

644
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 5: what if there's an emergency, They'll be fine. Crack the

645
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 5: window on the car will be all right. It's so

646
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 5: annoying because it does make the best show. It makes

647
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 5: people be so attentative. There's no they can't even think

648
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 5: about checking my phone to check the time, check the

649
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 5: notifications or whatever. It is one hundred percent of time,

650
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: the better show. But I try not to have to

651
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 5: do it unless it's a recording of some time. But

652
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 5: we do have a no phone policy at the show.

653
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 5: We announce it one hundred times. It's all over the

654
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 5: jumbo trons, do not have your phones out. Who happens

655
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 5: all the time. It happens all the time, And I

656
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: have little cues on stage that I that I'll do.

657
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 5: My security knows that I can see somebody with their

658
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 5: phone out right now. You got to go, man, just

659
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 5: follow the rule, just be present. So yeah, I can't

660
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Speaker 5: trust you.

661
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 3: Man.

662
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 2: People record the show, they bootleg it.

663
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 5: They're trying to post something out of context and also

664
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 5: without the get you aspect. Like I'm working on a show.

665
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 5: I'm building it.

666
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 2: Every show I'm trying to change.

667
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 5: I don't want you posting the B minus version of

668
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 5: the joke before I get to film it for Netflix,

669
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 5: and it's the A plus version of it. Now you're

670
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 5: not as excited. So it's it's just about privacy and respect,

671
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 5: and I'm respecting yourself as well. You saved up money

672
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 5: for a babysitter, you paid for parking, you, you came

673
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 5: in here and bought drinks about the tickets, like, just

674
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 5: be here at the thing, be with me, be in

675
00:26:58,600 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 5: this environment.

676
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: It's much more exciting.

677
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 4: Did you ever forget a line? Do you ever forget

678
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 4: a line when you first started? Obviously now you're full

679
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 4: time pro, did you ever forget a line?

680
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 5: Like?

681
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: Damn?

682
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 5: My first time, the first time, I was probably two

683
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 5: and a half minutes in and I literally I gotta

684
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 5: find the footage.

685
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: I know it's out there, said morning.

686
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,719
Speaker 5: I remember, I remember saying like, oh shit, I'm like

687
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 5: I'm kind of freezing up right now. And the audio

688
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 5: this was the perk of being fifteens, and they weren't

689
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 5: really gonna boo you with the Glumba's funny bone.

690
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: I remember, just it's just some old black lady. It

691
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: just goes you got a baby, you got it.

692
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 5: And I was like that got a big laugh from everybody,

693
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 5: and then that kind of helped me get back into it.

694
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 5: But yeah, I froze up. I didn't really know what

695
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 5: like memorizing a set was like. I was just kind

696
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 5: of going up there and winging it.

697
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 2: So what happens?

698
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 4: So when you started that, so you're like, okay, I

699
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 4: got five minutes, I got ten minutes, I got fifteen minutes.

700
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: And so you're like, okay.

701
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: I swallowed that bug by the way, I forgot it

702
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: was in there.

703
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 4: So you're like, okay, I got five minutes, I got

704
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 4: ten minutes, I got fifteen minutes. And you're like, okay,

705
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 4: I'm a go here step here's one beat, here's two beats,

706
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 4: here three beats. Is that how you did it, or

707
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 4: you like or you just wink, cause some people Marlon

708
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 4: Wayane says, I don't write down nothing.

709
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm just going up on stage and I'm winging the

710
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: whole thing.

711
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 5: I I'll make a set list, I'll be like I

712
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 5: can bullet point a joke one through, let's call it

713
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 5: twelve or something like okay, but I definitely don't go

714
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 5: up there and I'm not as meticulous with like word

715
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 5: for word. I end up memorizing it that way once

716
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 5: I'm up there, just via repetition. But like, no, I

717
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 5: want to be loose. I want to be I want

718
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 5: to free when I get up there. I don't have

719
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 5: I had to do this video the other day Live

720
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 5: Nation wanted to know like my routine beforehand, like where

721
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 5: do you.

722
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 2: Write down your set? What's your motivation when you get

723
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 2: up there? And I'm like, I'm not like sitting in

724
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 2: a float tank and before my show playing tranquil music

725
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 2: and lighting candles. I'm back there. I just play some music.

726
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 5: I'm hanging out with my boys that open for me,

727
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 5: Like I just want I want to be loose, Like

728
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 5: so much of my set is they're like, hey, you're

729
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 5: on in five minutes and I'm like, oh, okay, I

730
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 5: guess we'll just go go do the thing. I don't

731
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 5: want to be stiff. I want to I want to

732
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 5: feel like we're all just kind of hanging out together.

733
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 4: Right, you also say that I'm not justin Bieber in

734
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 4: all your sense? Do people think that's who you are in.

735
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: All my sets? No? No, no, no no no.

736
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 5: That was like, that was one thing I used to

737
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 5: compare in the very beginning. Yet because he was like

738
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 5: he was it at that tint he was taking over

739
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 5: the world when I was starting out.

740
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: So that bad guy to get compared to, not a bad.

741
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: Guy to be compared to.

742
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 5: Wish wish I had that kind of success, right, But bro,

743
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 5: watching what he went through in like past documentaries and

744
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 5: everything now versus kind of it's not comparative. But I

745
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 5: can only understand the stress I've gone through over the

746
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 5: last couple of years to then times it by a thousand.

747
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 5: For what he went through, I have even more of

748
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 5: a respect. Like I love his music already, but to

749
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 5: see what he went through and how he's persevered. I

750
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 5: know he's had his struggles and everything in the public eye,

751
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 5: but like so much props to him. I can't imagine

752
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 5: what it's like to be that global of a superstar.

753
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: Did you ever think that being a comedian would cause

754
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: this level of stress, had this level of anxiety?

755
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 2: No, man, I thought it was gonna be so much fun.

756
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: I thought I was.

757
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 5: I thought I was just gonna get to be silly

758
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 5: on stage at a comedy club every weekend for the

759
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 5: rest of my life. I didn't know, man, I I

760
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 5: used to be so stressed, and as a as an artist,

761
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 5: starting out as an aspiring comedian, actor, whether you're a singer,

762
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 5: whatever it may be, you're so anxious and you're so

763
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 5: stressed about like, oh, man, am I ever gonna make it?

764
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 5: If I could just make it, I'll be so happy

765
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 5: and satisfied. But that's not sure. You get you develop

766
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 5: new goals, new aspirations, and then you start to wonder,

767
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 5: like can I keep it? Keeping it is harder than

768
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 5: beginning it. Anybody can get a flash in the pan.

769
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 5: It can happen. One viral video can send you into

770
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 5: you know, a moderate level of fame. But like once

771
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 5: you get a taste of selling out arenas and hanging

772
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 5: out with your idols, and you got enough money to

773
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,479
Speaker 5: buy your mama house, your sister's houses, your grandma's houses

774
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 5: like that. That's that's a lifestyle you don't want to

775
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 5: give up, right, It's so addicting.

776
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: I never thought it would be like this.

777
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 5: I've by thirty years old, I've achieved ninety nine percent

778
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 5: of my dreams.

779
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: Damn Yeah, and you're not you half your life is

780
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: not even gone.

781
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 2: I know. And it's such a blessing.

782
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 5: Like everything I get to do from this point forward

783
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 5: is just an amazing extra credit.

784
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: Man, Like, I feel so blessed.

785
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,239
Speaker 5: But it also makes me think about, like how much

786
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 5: time I have left? Like what am I gonna do

787
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 5: with the next fifty years? Like the possibilities are endless.

788
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 4: Is there a situation where you see yourself retiring or

789
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 4: you're just like, you know what, as long as I

790
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 4: can tell the joke, as long as I can entertain

791
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 4: an audience, I don't see myself slowing down.

792
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: I don't see myself stopping.

793
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 5: I can't see myself stopping for the pure fact that

794
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 5: I love it so much and I don't know anything

795
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 5: else Like this, April will be exactly half my life

796
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 5: that I've been doing comedy. It'll be the fifteen year

797
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 5: of mark, so I haven't really known anything. Like I

798
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 5: tell myself, I want time off and how exhausted I'm

799
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 5: I'm like two hours of sleep right down, Like, oh

800
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 5: I'm exhausted. I take three days off. I feel like

801
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 5: I fell off. I'm like, oh, I got to get

802
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 5: back to work. I have this thing I gotta do.

803
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 5: I gotta do this thing over here. So I can

804
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 5: tell myself that maybe some day I want to settle down.

805
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 5: But maybe it's just a different pacing, or maybe it's

806
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 5: transitioning over to acting more. Maybe I just do stand

807
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 5: up kind of when I feel like it. Like Kevin

808
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 5: Hart's done a wonderful balance, right, you know, not got

809
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 5: a couple movies a year, and in the midst of

810
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 5: that he'll go tour, pop int Doo spots, work on

811
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 5: his set. Like that seems it's a harder work though,

812
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 5: Like I know he's like one of the hardest working

813
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 5: he is on Yes, but it feels like it's a

814
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 5: more exciting balance.

815
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: He's not.

816
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 2: He's not totally consumed in touring, which is what I've

817
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 2: been for the last right, because that's a lot of

818
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 2: travel man.

819
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: At least they were like you do you're on location,

820
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: you're in one spot.

821
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: Yes, when you tour, you're in Jacksonville, you're in Miami,

822
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 4: you're in Orlando, you're in Atlanta.

823
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

824
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 5: I'm so sick of planes. Man, if I can drive

825
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 5: six hours, I'll avoid flying. Really, I would other drive

826
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 5: six or seven hours and I would fly for two hours.

827
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: I really would.

828
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: So, I mean, you got a tour bus, do you

829
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 4: and bought the homies hop on the bus y'all chill?

830
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 2: We did the tour bus in twenty twenty four and

831
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: it was so much fun, but it almost killed me

832
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: bro because we were doing two shows a night, six

833
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: nights a week, with meet and greets after each show.

834
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: Is wow.

835
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 5: So we were doing like forty to fifty shows a

836
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 5: month for like nine months straight, and it got to

837
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 5: the point where, like, you get done with the last

838
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 5: show at midnight twelve thirty, then you got a meet

839
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 5: and greet till one one fifteen.

840
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 4: Oh you cutting off the meet and greet. So you

841
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 4: got one hundred into meet and greet, you got.

842
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: Two fifty degree.

843
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: I think we did fifty per show. I think it

844
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 2: was okay, but.

845
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 5: It's amazing it is to get to meet your fans

846
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 5: and everything and hear their stories and all that. It's

847
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 5: like doing another show because you got to be on.

848
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 5: You want to be present.

849
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: You can't do it where you're from.

850
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't be the guy who's being like all right,

851
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 5: get here for the picture, even though you might feel

852
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 5: that way, but like they pay for the experience, these

853
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 5: people that love you the most, you know. But then

854
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 5: you get done with that at one thirty, and now

855
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 5: you get to go back to the bus. Now you

856
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 5: get to like light one up with your boys. Now

857
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 5: you want to just enjoy yourself in Dcpress.

858
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: In other words, you're not going to be a four

859
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: o'clock now four.

860
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 5: Or five, six o'clock, get up it two, walk to whatever,

861
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 5: like the local gym is there, and then now you

862
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 5: got to go back inside for showing them. I was

863
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 5: seeing daylight for like thirty minutes a day for nine

864
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 5: months in a row.

865
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: It sucked my sleep up so much. Man. Wow, Yeah, I.

866
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 5: Had to cancel some shows in Indiana one time because

867
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 5: I literally like I couldn't walk.

868
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: I went five days in a row without a single

869
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: minute of sleep.

870
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 5: Couldn't do it, I couldn't couldn't perform, had to go

871
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 5: to the hospital and everything had to cancel.

872
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: They were so mad.

873
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 5: They were so because it was like night of the show,

874
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 5: like people were getting sad. I'm headed to the venue,

875
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: almost fell over the bushes because like I couldn't see,

876
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 5: couldn't walk straight into everything. And I got there and

877
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 5: they're like, yeah, you're you're exhausted. Yes, he saw some

878
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 5: sleep doctors. They ransom tests and everything, and they're like, yeah,

879
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 5: you know how like your circadian rhythm is kind of

880
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 5: what helps you find your sleep patterns thing.

881
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: They're like, you don't have a bad circadian rhythm. You

882
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: don't even have one, Like your sleep schedule is so

883
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: your body has no idea when it's supposed to fall asleep.

884
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 5: And I'm still struggled. I'm still struggling with that I've

885
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 5: had in my whole life. But that definitely like sent

886
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 5: me over the yet definitely doesn't help. But I also

887
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 5: don't know how to not be that busy, Like I

888
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 5: would rather be exhausted from work than sit around being bored.

889
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 4: You mentioned DL, like your first start you got DL

890
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 4: was coming to the Columbus Funny Bone and you reached

891
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 4: out to him and he puts you on I think

892
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 4: you have a story with Mike Yelp.

893
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: What's some of the best advice.

894
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 4: Because DL has been at this thing thirty forty years,

895
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 4: Mike Eel's been in this thing twenty five thirty years.

896
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: What's some of the best advice these guys given you.

897
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 5: Some of the best advice I've ever been given is

898
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 5: not to quote, but like, just do it.

899
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: Like you.

900
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 5: Sometimes you'll have an idea of a piece of content

901
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 5: you want to film, maybe it's a script idea or

902
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 5: just a joke idea run by a friend and they'll

903
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 5: be like, I don't I don't get it, and you're like,

904
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 5: now you find yourself arguing why you don't get it,

905
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 5: Like you know, I'm trying to convince you is it?

906
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 2: And they're like it just stopped.

907
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 5: My friend Eric Griffin told me, he was like, stop

908
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 5: trying to convince me, just do it, like go on

909
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 5: stage or go film. The thing that you have an

910
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 5: idea for nobody else is aside your brain, nobody can

911
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 5: picture visualize exactly what you're trying to create, which is

912
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 5: exactly why they're not in your shoes. So you have

913
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 5: to go show them and go do it. You got

914
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 5: to gamble on yourself. If you're not committed to your

915
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 5: own decisions, why would anybody trust them in the first place. So,

916
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 5: I mean, I believe in just betting on yourself. And

917
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 5: what's another another good piece of advice somebody's given. Ralphie

918
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 5: May used to tell me not to wear cool shoes

919
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 5: on it. He used to tell me, he was like,

920
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 5: it's distracting from what people are trying to say. I'm like,

921
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 5: you're four hundred fans. You don't think people are distracted

922
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 5: what you're saying right now.

923
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 2: He was a little wrong on that one.

924
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: But he was.

925
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: He was a cool dude. You ever get a chance

926
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 2: to meet him.

927
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: I have not met Rafi, but I hear about it.

928
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 2: The best guy he was.

929
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 5: He was like my first real mentor like he took

930
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 5: me on my first theater tour when I was nineteen.

931
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 5: I used every bit of that check to pay for

932
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 5: my teeth to get done immediately. He was the best.

933
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 5: Even when I was still living in Ohio, he would

934
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 5: let me drive down from Ohio to Nashville where he lived,

935
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 5: and do his Christmas shows with him at Zanies so

936
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 5: that he could pay me some money so I could

937
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 5: go back to Ohio and buy my family Christmas presents

938
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 5: with him.

939
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 2: He was the nicest guy.

940
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 5: When I moved to la he take me out to

941
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 5: lunch and he'd make me order like five meals and

942
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is premiere for you.

943
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: And he was like, no, this is yours. You order

944
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 2: five meals.

945
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 5: Now you get to take the leftovers home with you, right,

946
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 5: and now you don't got to buy groceries this week.

947
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 2: He was the nicest guy.

948
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: Man, that is good.

949
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 5: I'm sleeping middle bunk on the bus and he will

950
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 5: walk by, open the curtain, fart in the bunk and

951
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 5: they go back to his room.

952
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: Diabolic man, but the greatest guy.

953
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned that the Uptown Comedy Store in Atlanta,

954
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 4: Uptown Comedy Club in Atlanta.

955
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: How did Atlanta seem?

956
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 4: Because man, you know, I think as a comedian, you

957
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 4: have to be able to branch off. You have to

958
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 4: be able to get black people to laugh, white people

959
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 4: to laugh, young people to laugh, men to laugh, women

960
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 4: to laugh. It doesn't matter, because funny is funny, and

961
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 4: you have to. And so you coming up and they

962
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 4: looking at this a young white kid. They try to

963
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 4: make me laugh because we laugh different.

964
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 5: Of course, it's more fulfilling to get black people to laugh,

965
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 5: I gotta say.

966
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: Because white people laugh, yes, black people.

967
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: Out owt that's damn it show.

968
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: That's how we laugh.

969
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 4: We all.

970
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: It's the best. But when y'all don't with us, you

971
00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: don't with us, there's no pity laughter boo from the back.

972
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: They don't care.

973
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: Man, it's so fun't feeling. We don't so to.

974
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 5: Get in that, to get to like grow up in

975
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 5: comedy in that kind of do or die environment.

976
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: It definitely helped me like carve my chops.

977
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 5: Like had I not done that, I never could have

978
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 5: done wild now, Like Atlanta's full of beasts, man, Like

979
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 5: I saw Ryan Davis come on here, talk about Ronnie

980
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 5: Jordan and everything. I mean, even Special K back in

981
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 5: the day. Like anybody who went through deaf Jam at all,

982
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 5: I opened for them.

983
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 2: In Atlanta, right, so I'm open.

984
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 5: I'm getting open for like deaf jam crowds in the

985
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 5: middle of Atlanta when I'm fifteen, sixteen years old. It

986
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 5: was the best possible place to cut my chops.

987
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: Man.

988
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 5: Had I gotten wilded out like two years before when

989
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 5: I originally auditioned for it, There's.

990
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: No way I could have survived. Man.

991
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 5: I couldn't have hung with like Carlos Miller, Chicgo being

992
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 5: DC on Fly.

993
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 2: There's no way. Those guys are absolute beasts. Man.

994
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 5: Atlanta is an amazing comedy scene. They really don't get

995
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 5: their credit.

996
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: They deserve because you have to be out the cork.

997
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: But the comedy scene's amazing.

998
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 4: Drive into Atlanta, Yeah, because when you think about it,

999
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 4: you got Quake, you got Bruce Bruce, you got RNSJ,

1000
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 4: you got what's the guy from the Saint Louis uh No,

1001
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 4: a big guy that came on here. Sandy entertained, what's

1002
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 4: the big guy I love?

1003
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: Said, yeah, D Curry. I mean you got that heavyweights

1004
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: DC Curry.

1005
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, going back to uh too

1006
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 5: great advice. I was open for him with the Cleveland

1007
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 5: improv and I was watching his show, and you know,

1008
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 5: he's a really great storytelling. Yeah, he can sit in

1009
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 5: five minutes of silence building up to this one big punchline.

1010
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: I remember going back in the green room afterwards. Is

1011
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 2: so naive.

1012
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 5: And I asked him, I was like, you know, there's

1013
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 5: like there's so much silence in the storytelling that you're

1014
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 5: doing up there. Does it ever feel weird that, like

1015
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 5: does ever feel like you're like bombing up there? And

1016
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 5: he just started laughing to himself and he was like, no,

1017
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 5: I'm not bombing. He was like, I've got their attention.

1018
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 5: He's like, silence is one of the most powerful things

1019
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 5: you can have in stand up comedy.

1020
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if they're quiet, they're listening.

1021
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 5: It's when they start talking amongst themselves, when they start heckling,

1022
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 5: that's when you have a problem. It was like, patience

1023
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 5: and timing is what I'm building up for that one

1024
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 5: punchline that never really occurred to me.

1025
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 2: I thought common was supposed to be.

1026
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: Like boom boom boom.

1027
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't have to be like that.

1028
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 5: If your style of storytelling, grasp them, you know what

1029
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 5: I mean, grab their attention, hold them for that one

1030
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 5: big moment that's so powerful.

1031
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 4: Because some people are storytelling. Some people, you know, thirty

1032
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 4: seconds they boom me go. Some people they take a

1033
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 4: couple of minutes in order to build, to build up

1034
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 4: to that concendo and then boom.

1035
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

1036
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 5: My set now is a perfect mix of I love stories.

1037
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 5: I'd say forty five minutes of my set right now

1038
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 5: is just stories, Like I need you to follow me

1039
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 5: on that right, I gotta practice that patience and timing.

1040
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: Would you like that rapid fire SubTime to that fat

1041
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: And that's just for me, you know what I mean.

1042
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 2: That's where like the crowd work is kind of funky,

1043
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: like that's something new and refreshing.

1044
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 5: I get to do every show that's just kind of

1045
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 5: spontaneous for me. You know, mixes up to set a

1046
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 5: little bit, because like I said, you can get tired

1047
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 5: of your own set.

1048
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 4: So at seventeen, I think, if I'm not mistaken, you

1049
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 4: decided to go to La and your famously. So how

1050
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 4: was that? How was that received? You're like, mom, grandpa, Uh,

1051
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 4: I'm about to be like Jed Clamping. I'm about to

1052
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 4: move to Jack Clamping.

1053
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: Wow, I about one a reference about I'm about to

1054
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: move up out of here.

1055
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 4: I'm going to County. I'm going maybe not Beverly Heell,

1056
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 4: but I'm getting up out Ohio.

1057
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 5: They were so ready, man, My mom really one last

1058
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 5: mouth to feed. They were so supportive because like, nobody

1059
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 5: in my hometown leaves that hometown, and I knew nobody

1060
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 5: in my family has also ever been to college, so

1061
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 5: that there was no like expectation. It was like Okay,

1062
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 5: here's this thing that you're already kind of traveling to do,

1063
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 5: You're already making a little bit of money doing it,

1064
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 5: you're really passionate about it.

1065
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: We think you're good at it, so by all means

1066
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: you've got some good mentors out there. I went out there.

1067
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 5: I lived on Eric Griffin's couch for the first like

1068
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 5: six months I was out there, and then I moved

1069
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 5: to another friend's couch, and then I moved to a

1070
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 5: U What's what's that website called? So you can go

1071
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 5: on just find anything up for listing, Craigslist, Craigslist, couch.

1072
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 5: I did the whole crouch for like two and a

1073
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 5: half three years, taking the bus, like I had to

1074
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 5: grow up so fast.

1075
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: I didn't know about I didn't know about paying bills.

1076
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 2: I didn't know about you didn't know anybody in LA.

1077
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 5: I knew a couple of people just comedians though, just

1078
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 5: commans I have met online or during that first trip

1079
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 5: to LA that were like, when you get out here,

1080
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 5: let me know. And I was lucky enough that they

1081
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 5: fulfilled those promises.

1082
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah.

1083
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 5: And I used to just walk to either the improv

1084
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 5: of the Common Store or the lath Actory every single

1085
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 5: night and just hang out, like just wait and see

1086
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 5: if maybe somebody didn't show up for their spot, and

1087
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 5: somebody there would vouch for me and be like, you know,

1088
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 5: let this kid fill the five minutes until so and

1089
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 5: so gets here. And that's really how I like built

1090
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 5: up to being like, I think I'm the youngest regular

1091
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 5: performer at the laugh Factory besides Tiffany Hattish.

1092
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 2: Wow.

1093
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, just from just from hanging out and people vouching. Man,

1094
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 5: it was it was an amazing opportunity. And just getting

1095
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 5: to just getting to hang out with everybody who had

1096
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 5: seen on TV and that made me want to do

1097
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 5: this was just it was amazing.

1098
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: Man.

1099
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 4: You got some opportunities to be on Disney's but you

1100
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 4: hear these stories. A lot of these kids that on Disney,

1101
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 4: you hear them struggle not only later in life. And

1102
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 4: so why why haven't you Why haven't that befallow in you?

1103
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 4: What was made you so mature that you were able

1104
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 4: to be in that man, that you were able to

1105
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 4: be in that environment and move forward and succeed.

1106
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's because I didn't have my own show.

1107
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 5: I was I was a character on somebody else's show

1108
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 5: and they were struggling, but I'm checking in for a day.

1109
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 5: I'm like, what the fuck is their problem? Reckfast was

1110
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 5: great this morning. Man, this set, this set has everything.

1111
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 5: You'd being pretty ungrateful right now. I mean there was

1112
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 5: just less pressure on me. I got to show up

1113
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 5: on a couple of guest episodes on some really fun

1114
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 5: shows there. But again, that was like my first experience

1115
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 5: with television. So getting to like see what it's like

1116
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 5: to have a green room, getting to like rehearse on set,

1117
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 5: learning what table reads are and everything, learning that you

1118
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 5: can get replaced at a table read. Yeah, I got

1119
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 5: invited back reoccurring on this show. And after the first

1120
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 5: episode went so great, second episode, I felt so comfortable,

1121
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 5: this is like the next season.

1122
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 2: So I went back in there, didn't know my lines, and.

1123
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 5: The first rehearsal of it, the director comes over and goes, hey, man,

1124
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 5: if you don't memorize these lines for this network meeting

1125
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 5: we have coming out, They're like, they're gonna recast you.

1126
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 5: I went back to my green room and just study

1127
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 5: the out of every beat, every syllable, because when the

1128
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 5: network comes in to watch it, you gotta perform it

1129
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 5: like they want to see how it's gonna be on camera.

1130
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 5: That's when I realized like how serious all of this

1131
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 5: wasn't also, how many pieces there are. It's why it's

1132
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 5: so hard to get work as an actor. I think

1133
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 5: because as a comedian you're in control of your own

1134
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 5: destiny to a certain extent, Like you write your own jokes,

1135
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 5: you book yourself for gigs. You are in total control

1136
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 5: of what you can and can't do it for the

1137
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 5: most part, aside from getting on television. For acting, it's

1138
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 5: like there's thirty people you got to get approve of

1139
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 5: for approval of to get a spot. You got the

1140
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 5: cash and associate cashing director, the director, and the producers,

1141
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 5: then the network. It's such a complicated game, which why

1142
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 5: I think stand up has allowed me to get in

1143
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 5: the position I am now because I love to work hard.

1144
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 5: I woke up every day in LA for twelve years

1145
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 5: trying to create new opportunities for myself. So when it

1146
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 5: finally did break, I mean, I want all the work now,

1147
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 5: like exhaust meet man.

1148
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 2: I wanted to be this busy.

1149
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 4: Is it a situation where like when you're a comedian

1150
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 4: you write a set, you're writing that set. Compared to

1151
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 4: television somebody else was writing a joke for you, and

1152
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 4: not necessarily you wouldn't.

1153
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: Write that joke like that.

1154
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 4: So it's like it comes off as it's strange or

1155
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 4: odd because that's not the way I would have wrote

1156
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 4: that joke, and so me is No.

1157
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 5: It happens, especially for network stuff. It's like, you know,

1158
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 5: PG maybe PG thirteen the most. It's some of the

1159
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 5: worst writing ever. I can't tell you how many auditions

1160
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 5: I've gone on for like a network sitcom that I'm like, I'm.

1161
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 2: A professional comedian and I have no idea how to

1162
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: make this funny.

1163
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 5: This is this is such a terrible, terrible joke, and

1164
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 5: this person got paid six figures to write this joke

1165
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 5: right now.

1166
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

1167
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 5: That's why, again, this job is so freeingn I get

1168
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 5: to just be myself. I get to I get to

1169
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 5: just float out my sense of humor projected out there

1170
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 5: and and god willing people like it.

1171
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: Man, did you get an opportunity to get on Comic

1172
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 1: View before he got canceled?

1173
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 5: Yes, dude, that was my first TV credit ever. Actually

1174
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 5: some More was hosting. Yeah, okay, I got found at

1175
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 5: the Comedy Union off of Pico Okay, you know that

1176
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 5: one down the street from Roscoe's.

1177
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,959
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't know that, but it's.

1178
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: It's an older joint. It's closed down now.

1179
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: It was.

1180
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 2: It was one of the it was one of.

1181
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 5: Like the black clubs around that leg, which was one

1182
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 5: of the very few places I could really get stage time.

1183
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 5: And I went in there and Amber Beckham is a

1184
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 5: great casting director. She cast a lot of great shit

1185
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 5: and she saw me in there, So I want you

1186
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 5: audition for Comic View. That's when it was just coming back.

1187
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: I went in.

1188
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 5: We taped in Atlanta. Actually I got a standing ovation

1189
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 5: as the closer for my episode. They front wow, three

1190
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 5: comics per episode, got a standing ovation.

1191
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 2: I think I was. I think I just turned eighteen.

1192
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 5: And they canceled the season before my episode, so I

1193
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 5: never even got to see it.

1194
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know.

1195
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 5: I think Carlos Miller might be the only person who

1196
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 5: got the episode actually are and they saw it and

1197
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 5: were like, nah.

1198
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: Wow, that's I know.

1199
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 4: So in that situation, now you parlayed that you get

1200
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 4: Wilding Out. You're the youngest cast members so far of

1201
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 4: Wilding Out.

1202
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: Did you like?

1203
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 4: How did because Wilding Out is kind of different because

1204
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 4: you're like going back and forth, somebody bagging on you,

1205
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 4: you bag.

1206
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: It's a different So it's like.

1207
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, the pacings up. The intensity is there because, like

1208
00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 5: I said, everybody's a beast man.

1209
00:46:59,320 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1210
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 5: In your Fight for episodes too, it's like it's literally

1211
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 5: like a team. You got a roster, right, but it's

1212
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 5: only so many starters, yes, and you don't get paid

1213
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 5: unless you play either. So we had these We had

1214
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 5: these workshops for like a month before we start filming everything,

1215
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 5: and that's no, it's maybe like two weeks before we're

1216
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 5: going through all the new games and everything. Teach everybody

1217
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 5: how to play the games, how to write for each

1218
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 5: game or whatever. And I went in there as somebody

1219
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 5: who had never really been on a TV show outside

1220
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 5: of a couple of Disney episodes. I'd never done anything

1221
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 5: competitive in the comedy space either, and I was so nervous.

1222
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: I would go in.

1223
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 5: There with my hands in my pockets and super stouched

1224
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 5: over and uh. The producer of Nile Evans was not

1225
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 5: having that shit. He was like, no, you got to

1226
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 5: come in here with confidence like that show. The workshops

1227
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 5: for that show like kind of taught me how to

1228
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 5: be a man like he used to make DC Young

1229
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 5: fly like get in my face, like like about to

1230
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,320
Speaker 5: like hit me. Like he was really about establishing confidence

1231
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 5: in me because he was like, if you can't be

1232
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 5: confident back here, how you're gonna be confident in front

1233
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 5: of a lot. I've packed out crap for all these

1234
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 5: cameras where you get one shot, and it was nerve wracking,

1235
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 5: but it definitely pulled the best out.

1236
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 2: I mean it's one of those instances where like pressure

1237
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 2: makes diamonds, right.

1238
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 5: The pressure was such an institution for for how it

1239
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 5: developed as a comedian.

1240
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: Did you get turned down the first time you auditioned

1241
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: put a show?

1242
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I did.

1243
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 5: It was when they first rebooted this season. It is

1244
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 5: when Carlos and Chico first got on and everything. I

1245
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 5: drove down from Ohio because they had auditions at the

1246
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 5: Uptown Comedy Yeah, and my manager that was able to

1247
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 5: get me an audition. I drove down, which was like

1248
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 5: nine hours and it was an okay audition, but didn't

1249
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 5: get it. I think Pete Davidson actually got on for

1250
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 5: that one, and then I got cast when he left

1251
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 5: as kind of his replacement, just replaced white guy.

1252
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: After white so they replaced and a white guy.

1253
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: A different way because he replaced mikey day.

1254
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 5: When he left, there was just one after another, so

1255
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 5: that there was an opening they got and I didn't

1256
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 5: get the first one. And once I got it, when

1257
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 5: I was just turned nineteen, I think, yeah, bro, I was.

1258
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 2: So barely ready at that time. You can go back

1259
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 2: and watch like I was. I was terrified.

1260
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 5: So much of my stuff from episodes got cut because

1261
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 5: I didn't deliver it confidently.

1262
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: But I needed that I hadn't been ready.

1263
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 5: And that's a that's a reoccurring theme in my life

1264
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 5: for like everything happens so young for me, even the

1265
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 5: arenas and everything. When when our theater tour for The

1266
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 5: Problematic World tour sold out in the first like forty

1267
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 5: eight hours of pre sale. It sold like six hundred

1268
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 5: thousand tickets in forty eight hours.

1269
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 2: My agents were like, oh, we could just we could

1270
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 2: just transfer these two arenas. I was like, yo, I

1271
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 2: just started selling out comedy.

1272
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 5: You're not ready for that, Like, you gotta take the

1273
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 5: necessary steps, you know. I also want to experience theaters.

1274
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 5: The comedy club show is different from a theater show.

1275
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 5: It's different from an arena show is different from a

1276
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 5: stadium show, and I wanted those life experiences. You know,

1277
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 5: if I would have jumped right into arenas, there's no

1278
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 5: way I would have been ready. I was barely ready

1279
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 5: for the theaters. The comedy club was where I was

1280
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 5: like just starting to like kill.

1281
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 2: So it's baby steps.

1282
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: I don't know you, Pete. I mean, Pete got a

1283
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: nice little roster. I don't know your roster like Pete,

1284
00:49:59,480 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: so we.

1285
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 2: Don't talk about comedy. He got it, okay.

1286
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 4: But also someone from Ohio that really good in comedy

1287
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 4: is Gary Owen.

1288
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: And I think it's a beast. Yeah.

1289
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 4: I think early in your career they tried to compare you, like, no, bro,

1290
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm mad.

1291
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a I'm a different person. And that's that's

1292
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 2: no shade. Gary Owen is a legend, like.

1293
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 5: That dude murders Like No, there's very few comedians that

1294
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 5: I that I would not want to follow.

1295
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 2: Gary's one of them.

1296
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 5: Man, But he always has like the cachet of like

1297
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 5: he's a white comic for for for black audiences only, right,

1298
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 5: He's just an urban comic or whatever that means. And

1299
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 5: I just didn't want to pigeonhole an audience. You know

1300
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 5: what I mean, Like I want I want to be

1301
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 5: for as many people as possible. Now, whoever finds me,

1302
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 5: finds me a black people, amazing, it's all white people amazing.

1303
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter to me. Funny funny is just funny.

1304
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 2: But I didn't want to be pigeonholed into like oh

1305
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 2: he only does urban stuff, because it's it's so unfortunate

1306
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 2: that that limits opportunities in Hollywood as well. Like Gary

1307
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 2: was great and was a think like a man. Yes,

1308
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: he was so good. Yes, but because a.

1309
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 5: Lot of Hollywood and the entertainment industry just thinks, oh,

1310
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 5: he only has a black audience. I don't know if

1311
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 5: white people will go see him. It's like that hnders

1312
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 5: a lot of his opportunities. And I could be wrong Gary.

1313
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 5: If I'm wrong, I apologize, But it's really what it

1314
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 5: feels like. He deserves a lot more agree And from

1315
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 5: a young age, I just saw that and I was like,

1316
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 5: I just want to make sure I leave all the

1317
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 5: doors open that I can.

1318
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 2: But he's, oh he's a bast man.

1319
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 4: Are were you surprised by how nick the jokes that

1320
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 4: he would allow you to say on the wild it out.

1321
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my biggest problem with.

1322
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: That show.

1323
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 5: Everyone has their role, right, and my role was the

1324
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 5: white guy, and if you made any jokes outside of

1325
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 5: being the white guy, that shit was like not okay,

1326
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 5: like either fall super flat that nobody wanted it, or

1327
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 5: just kind of frowned upon. Like at a certain point

1328
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 5: as a comedian, I want to say other shit. I

1329
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 5: want to say something kind of clever, something that I

1330
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 5: actually put some thought into, something that's not racially based.

1331
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 5: And that's all they really wanted, after all they ever

1332
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 5: wanted out of it. So after it, like three seasons

1333
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 5: of it, I was like, I just want to do

1334
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 5: other things. You know, it takes up so much of

1335
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 5: my time and not on every episode. It doesn't pay well.

1336
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 5: I need to go tour, I need to go be

1337
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 5: me on stage. So it was a little limiting. Yeah,

1338
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 5: but in the exposure from it was amazing. You know,

1339
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 5: my first season on there, I mean, I'm up thousands

1340
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 5: of thousands of followers that allowed me to tour for

1341
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 5: the very.

1342
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 2: First right, So I'm so thankful for it.

1343
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 5: It was an amazing institution. It was a great opportunity

1344
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 5: and opened so many doors for me. So I'm very

1345
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 5: thankful for it.

1346
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: When you got an opportunity to go against the eighty

1347
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: five South crew.

1348
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go do that show with some

1349
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 2: so bad. But those are some of the most talented

1350
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 2: people I've ever met my entire life.

1351
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 4: Right when you look at the success of eighty five

1352
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 4: South and we mentioned those guys, are you so it

1353
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 4: strikes for me is that you're not surprised that the

1354
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 4: level of success that they're enjoying.

1355
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 2: Not at all. Man, It's so well deserved. They're so talented.

1356
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: Man.

1357
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 5: Sometimes I watch them just riff a freestyle song and

1358
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 5: not only is it a good song, but it's hilarious.

1359
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 5: They're doing the instrumentals, they're doing the lyrics, they're doing

1360
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 5: the jokes all on the spot. They're so talented. Man,

1361
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 5: I really do love those guys. I'm so happy for them.

1362
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 4: Who do you think the all time who's the funniest

1363
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 4: member of Wilding out Cast all time?

1364
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 2: Fuck? Com Oh that's tough.

1365
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean Prime Cat was something else. Some people

1366
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 5: forget he was on that shot in the original Seasons

1367
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 5: Cat Kevin Harts, But then I mean, Carlos is up there.

1368
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 5: Carlos is a brilliant comedian. Man it's gotta be one

1369
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 5: of those three.

1370
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:29,760
Speaker 2: I think, do you have a favorite?

1371
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 1: Probably Cat, probably Cat, probably Catalos Because the.

1372
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: Thing is is that did you see his new special?

1373
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1374
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 4: I did, I did. I watched it, and you know

1375
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 4: what the thing is is that for those guys, I mean,

1376
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 4: it's just like this, it's just because you're your own

1377
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 4: Q and like for a comedian, like if I'm telling us, say,

1378
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 4: it's one thing, but to just jon to just go

1379
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 4: back and forth.

1380
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: You got it.

1381
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 2: You gotta grow up with it.

1382
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 1: You gotta do.

1383
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 5: If you don't got black friends, you don't. There ain't

1384
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 5: no white people don't do it. They call it bully. Yeah,

1385
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 5: it's so frustrated man.

1386
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 4: We called it Joe that we go back and forth.

1387
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 4: I went to an HBC you and so we go

1388
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 4: into the student center. If you if, if if you

1389
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 4: didn't have thick skin and you went to an HBCU,

1390
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 4: you're gonna end up leaving.

1391
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: You end up going to a pup y'all.

1392
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 4: We're gonna beat yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cause that fin'th

1393
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 4: for you because you know we talk. You know you've

1394
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 4: been around black people. We talk different to one another.

1395
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 4: The way you guys communicate with one of the of course,

1396
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 4: and so we bring that right to you. Oh well

1397
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 4: you Ronald, so you will get this too.

1398
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 2: Which is which is why black people are always the

1399
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 2: more fun comedy audience. But you'll know, y'all know what

1400
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 2: jokes are.

1401
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 5: The context is everything. Man, You realize it. It's not

1402
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 5: it's not a personal attention. No, I'm just saying the

1403
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 5: funniest possible.

1404
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 2: The more the more I jones on you, the more

1405
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 2: put through, the more I'll try to hurt your feelings,

1406
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,720
Speaker 2: the more I actually I genuinely love you as a person,

1407
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's so frustrated. White people

1408
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 2: don't get that.

1409
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: It's so annoying person like you're bullying him.

1410
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so we're so sensitive. It drives me insane.

1411
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 5: If I ever get a complaint for anyone material, it's

1412
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 5: a white person one percent of the time.

1413
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 4: The pay you mentioned that they didn't pay a whole

1414
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 4: lot of wilding out so where you got.

1415
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 2: Episodes, it's one thousand episodes.

1416
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 5: But but if you on three episodes, by the way,

1417
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 5: you can't go do other ship. You're taping for a

1418
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 5: couple of weeks, so you're making don't hear it's all

1419
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 5: it's all perspective, right. So I'm making three thousand dollars

1420
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 5: for of the course of a month, which, don't get

1421
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 5: me wrong, it's not it's not bad. People pay their

1422
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 5: bills on that all the times. More I imagine that's

1423
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 5: more than minimum wage. But you can't go do anything

1424
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 5: else when I could be going touring, I could be

1425
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 5: auditioning for other things. Yeah, are going to pay more.

1426
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 5: So it's just it's a it's an investment, it's a gamble.

1427
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 5: You get to hope you're on these episodes. So it's

1428
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,240
Speaker 5: not you know, it's not nine dollars an hour or anything,

1429
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 5: but in comparison to what touring pays or what other TV

1430
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,800
Speaker 5: shows pay, it is very little and you've got taxes

1431
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 5: on top of that, so it ends up being three

1432
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:51,760
Speaker 5: hundred an episode.

1433
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1434
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 4: So another word, it's about the you're going wilding out.

1435
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,359
Speaker 4: It's really about the exposure you're giving an You're giving

1436
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 4: people an opportunity to see Matt Yeah, you see, like.

1437
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: You know what, this dude is really funny.

1438
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 4: If he ever toured, I got to see him because

1439
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 4: I want to see what he really liked, because I

1440
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 4: see hidn go back and forth, and he can jone.

1441
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 4: He got the gift of gap and he's quick with it.

1442
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 4: So if he got a set, he can do something

1443
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 4: forty five minutes. I want to see it.

1444
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 5: It's more of a launching path than anything. The exposure

1445
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 5: for there is unmatched. Man, what are the season twenty

1446
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,280
Speaker 5: six or something like that?

1447
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 2: That's not off. Lucky they have an audience. People love

1448
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 2: the show. People love the people from the show. We

1449
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 2: all tour together.

1450
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 5: As soon as you leave the show, it's like, we'll

1451
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 5: go do shows on the road. Five six cast members

1452
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 5: at the time, sell off these big theaters sometimes in

1453
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 5: arena like.

1454
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 2: People love the show. Dude, that's awesome.

1455
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 4: You mentioned that when you started while and not you

1456
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 4: end up. The first thing you did is about bought

1457
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 4: some new teeth.

1458
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, after my first season. Oh bro, it was

1459
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 2: right after it was in between seasons and Ralphie May

1460
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 2: took me on tour. I couldn't wait to get my practis.

1461
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: Man.

1462
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 2: It was I had a HIGHO teeth, Bro, it was

1463
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 2: I had them straight hands.

1464
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: Man.

1465
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 2: Bro, it was bad.

1466
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:54,879
Speaker 3: Bro.

1467
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 5: It changed everything for me because I had I had

1468
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 5: a beautiful thirty year old girlfriend at this time.

1469
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 2: I'm nineteen years old, I got these terrible teeth.

1470
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 5: I was like, I got to give her a resstay

1471
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 5: because it's not the money, for sure.

1472
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: It ain't the dick. There ain't no way. There ain't

1473
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 2: no way. She's thirty. Yeah, there's no way.

1474
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 1: You said you would rather have died than smile.

1475
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, So I'm still really bad at smiling and photos.

1476
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 2: I just didn't.

1477
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 5: You got a degree on now you could, I know,

1478
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 5: but I don't know how to smile. I feel like

1479
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 5: I look weird in photos when I smiled my teeth

1480
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 5: because I didn't grow up doing I didn't have like

1481
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 5: the practice of doing it.

1482
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: So how long you had to teeth?

1483
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 2: I got him when I was nineteen, So eleven years now.

1484
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 2: When you're good, now, I.

1485
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 4: Try, because you know you normally talk with you. You

1486
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 4: know you got something. You got a missing tooth on

1487
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 4: the side, you got a cavity or gap, you got

1488
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 4: the jack hughes. Yeah, you're talking like, man, ahead with that,

1489
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,959
Speaker 4: because the thing you have ever a comedian, the one

1490
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 4: thing and you bag on people, the one thing you

1491
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 4: cannot have any improfest.

1492
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: Oh, bro, are you kidding?

1493
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 2: You got something? Oh?

1494
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 4: Then go ahead on Jackeline. They call me Jacqueline, all

1495
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 4: of it.

1496
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 2: Relaxed, Relax, Okay, no more conn that's enough.

1497
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 4: So when you got so why why did you say,

1498
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 4: you know what, if I ever Because I said the

1499
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 4: same thing, if I ever get me some money or

1500
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 4: I'm going to get my mouth fixed, y'all have it

1501
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,439
Speaker 4: to be ragged because I have all the people faced

1502
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 4: joning talking about people and they say call you snagger,

1503
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 4: puss or jack and landing, then you feel it some

1504
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 4: type of way. So I'm like, I'm gonna get me

1505
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 4: some teeth. Is that how you thought about it?

1506
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 2: It was more just a confidence thing. Man, I knew

1507
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 2: they were, but I know how important teeth thought When

1508
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 2: you meet somebody, you look at eyes and teeth.

1509
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 5: Yes, the two most important things. And I was just

1510
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 5: so insecure about I know, there was nothing wrong like

1511
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 5: you people. You don't gotta have a perfect smile. You

1512
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 5: can be a wonderful person. People are still gonna like you.

1513
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 5: But I knew the career that I wanted to have.

1514
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 5: And by the way, I checked into get embraces first

1515
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 5: because I just couldn't afford braces growing up.

1516
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 2: So I looked at that.

1517
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: So you're a straight gap teeth, yes, and.

1518
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 5: That would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars.

1519
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 5: But they told me, they were like, you gonna have

1520
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 5: braces for like six years. I was like about to

1521
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 5: be in my early twenties with braces. I wouldn't I

1522
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 5: wouldn't get laid every Are you crazy? My teeth were like,

1523
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 5: I think there were like twenty four thousand dollars. So

1524
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 5: I paid half up front and then I had payments

1525
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 5: for the next like three years, which was terrifying to

1526
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 5: miss a payment that just gonna show up with.

1527
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: Something you can't take about it. And oh, y'all stuck,

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Speaker 1: y'all I missed.

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00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 5: I could have bought two pairs of faked eddies with

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00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 5: his seat. It's unbelievable. I got a Honda Accord in

1531
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 5: my mouth.

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00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 2: Man, it's unbelievable.

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00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 4: When you but how do you feel about people saying that, man,

1534
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 4: you've had other work done. They just faked you'd have

1535
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 4: some Joe Line, you'd.

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Speaker 5: Have some motos the funniest thing in the entire world.

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00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 5: Man Ugly people love to say that.

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00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 2: It's the funny. I'm so, you just get better looking

1539
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 2: as you get older. Okay, yeah, not everybody peaked in

1540
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 2: high school.

1541
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: Man, I don't know what.

1542
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 2: It's so funny.

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00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 5: And it happened the weirdest way because when I first

1544
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 5: started to get famous, everybody's first thing was like, oh,

1545
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 5: he's not funny.

1546
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 2: People just like him because of how he looks, so whatever.

1547
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 5: And then that caught on to being like, Okay, I

1548
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 5: guess he's a good looking comedian. People are like, nah,

1549
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 5: I don't like that. So now we have to find

1550
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 5: some way to make him not good looking. So now

1551
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 5: I now I've had plastic surgery.

1552
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 2: I look the same. I look exactly the same. You know,

1553
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 2: people do age, people do age. I feel like I'm

1554
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 2: aging well. I like to think so, but just work out, man,

1555
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 2: take care of yourself.

1556
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: We see what's going on now. Now Jim Carrey's gotten cloned.

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01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 5: Not here here, I don't know. Man, that shit looks

1558
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 5: Listen to me, man, listen to me. Man, that ship

1559
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 5: it looks weird, it'll look weird.

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01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: Deal. The man got cloned.

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01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. But his eye color is different,

1562
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 2: his nose is different, faces wider, the one I would

1563
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 2: believe more than him. You see Britney Spears seeing her videos.

1564
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 2: How should get a gap in her teeth. She never

1565
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 2: had that before. Yeah, I don't know why they gave

1566
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 2: her my teeth. That shit so weird to me, man,

1567
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I listen, I don't know. I've never been

1568
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 2: invited to any any Diddy parties. I've never been.

1569
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 5: Invited any Illuminati parties. I don't I don't know how

1570
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 5: it goes. I don't know what the weird conspiracies are

1571
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 5: In all, I'm so far out of the loop.

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01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 2: I'm kind of mad. I thought I was doing well.

1573
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 2: I haven't been invited to anything.

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01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 4: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two

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01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 4: is also posted and you can access it to whichever

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01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 4: podcast platform you just listen to part one on. Just

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01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 4: simply go back to Club Shashay profile and I'll see

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01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 4: you there.