WEBVTT - LANCE WOODS - Toasting To Laughter

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very

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<v Speaker 1>special guest, comedian actor Lance Woods is in the building.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much for having me. It smells good

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<v Speaker 2>in here. It does like there's been some cooking going.

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<v Speaker 1>They would say this, there was a girl that made

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<v Speaker 1>us really good tacos. Yes, tacos.

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<v Speaker 2>That what kind of tacos?

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<v Speaker 1>They were ground turkey. But what made her tacos good

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<v Speaker 1>was she did this, like she fried the flower and

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<v Speaker 1>it was like a puffy like pastry type. It was

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<v Speaker 1>really good. It was like all snap, I had to

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<v Speaker 1>call cut.

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<v Speaker 2>And I like it when people get creative with normal ingredients.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I never had tacos like that, but that.

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<v Speaker 2>Means like my tacos Sea, I fried the lettuce and

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<v Speaker 2>then and I seized all the cheese individually. People got

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<v Speaker 2>some things that they do a regular you never thought about.

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<v Speaker 1>Never. Never. But speaking of that, I have a slang

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<v Speaker 1>on the show that goes the broker the dish, the

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<v Speaker 1>better the story. Okay, And lately I get these dishes

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<v Speaker 1>and they're like twenty dollars thirty dollars worth of ingredients. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>it does feed the whole family. But when we saw

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<v Speaker 1>your email, it was very simple. Go ahead and tell

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<v Speaker 1>our listeners what it is you're gonna have me eating today.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm gonna tell you the dish first. This is

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<v Speaker 2>just some cinnamon toast, not just it is cinnamon toast.

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<v Speaker 2>The ingredients are simple. You need bread, you need butter,

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<v Speaker 2>you need sugar, you need cinnamon, You need a toaster

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<v Speaker 2>or a oven.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there we go. I saw that and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh yes, thank god, Oh my gosh. We ain't got

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<v Speaker 1>to do a whole lot of shop, but we could

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<v Speaker 1>just stop by.

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<v Speaker 2>You pick some stuff up.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is stuff stuff you have in your fridg

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<v Speaker 1>at home guys. Cinnamon and sugar and butter. So really,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're out of bread, that's the only thing you

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<v Speaker 1>need to get. So that's it.

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna get some bread.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, go ahead and start making the cinnamon toast.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm gonna start cooking it right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, do I get out? Stay? Do I stay seated?

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<v Speaker 2>Do I?

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<v Speaker 1>Really, it's up to you. It's up to you. This

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<v Speaker 1>is your moment, This is your chef moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Can y'all hear me? You can see me still right, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>and you were in alive you said what you oh duh.

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<v Speaker 2>So look first you take your bread. Damn, take your bread,

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<v Speaker 2>and you put it in the toaster. Now when you

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<v Speaker 2>now this is key. When you put it in the toaster,

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<v Speaker 2>you don't just drop it in the toaster. No, you

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<v Speaker 2>place it in the toaster. Show your bread some love,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. You make this dish with love.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like dropping your baby off at school. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>just you say hey, and you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you set the toaster for it's good. Depending on

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<v Speaker 2>how you like your toast. No, I mean, if you

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<v Speaker 2>want some light skin toast, you go a little more

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<v Speaker 2>that way. You want some dark skinned toast, you go

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<v Speaker 2>a little more that way. You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now we are that's right in the middle.

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<v Speaker 1>The comedy's already started.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, so we're right in the middle. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean on the colorism of the toast. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>everybody has a different method when it comes to pushing

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<v Speaker 2>the toast. To me, I like to use these two fingers.

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<v Speaker 2>This is my toaster fingers, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>So then when you take these fingers.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry for all your listeners out there just wanting

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<v Speaker 1>to hear his backstory.

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<v Speaker 2>And you toast that, and you just let that happen.

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<v Speaker 2>You let that toast happen. That when the toast is toasted,

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<v Speaker 2>that's when you are anticipating. You feel me. You're getting

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<v Speaker 2>excited about what's about to happen. You know what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 2>because oh, this is about to be fantastic. Now if

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<v Speaker 2>you can eat this without the bread being toasted, but

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<v Speaker 2>then it ain't the same.

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't imagine anything without bread toasted, because.

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<v Speaker 2>You shouldn't imagine that. That's something you shouldn't imagine. You

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<v Speaker 2>got it. If it ain't toasted, it ain't the same.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever done it toasted?

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely not.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that sounds absolutely not.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I would never. I don't even so I used to.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, this is real to be going back to

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<v Speaker 2>the origins.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that was what I was about to ask you.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going back to the origins of being broke when

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<v Speaker 2>you I got grew up in a house. I had

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<v Speaker 2>two siblings. I'm in the middle. Yeah, I'm the favorite.

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<v Speaker 2>You got to feed three children, and so it's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of bulk stuff, bread, cereal, snacks, big like just

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<v Speaker 2>filling things. Right, should have a lot of bread because

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<v Speaker 2>bread is cheap, and you can get a good amount

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<v Speaker 2>of bread and you make the sandwiches and all of that,

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<v Speaker 2>and then sometimes you might run out of meat for

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<v Speaker 2>the sandwich, the cheese or whatever. So now you gotta

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<v Speaker 2>get a different kind of creative when it comes. We

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<v Speaker 2>got all this bread, what we're gonna do with it?

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean? So I used to eat

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<v Speaker 2>bread balls. You ever had a bread ball? You want

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<v Speaker 2>to try one?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm down to try bread ball. Okay, No, never mind.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I know what you're gonna do.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna do anything. You're gonna do it. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a bread it's your bread ball.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's do this. Okay, I think I know

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<v Speaker 1>what he's gonna make me do.

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<v Speaker 2>Take that bread. Welcome to there you go. Ball it up,

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<v Speaker 2>ball it up.

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<v Speaker 1>Not the crust, that's that's yo.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I mean. If you were a cruster,

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<v Speaker 2>or if you were not crust, that's on you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna take off the crust.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, take off the crust.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna be a special. I'm gonna be one of those. Mom,

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<v Speaker 1>don't waste the bread.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have.

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<v Speaker 1>A feeling I'm not gonna the bread ball.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you took a lot of the bread off when

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<v Speaker 2>you bring it. It was too late. No, that's not forwarding.

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<v Speaker 2>You got ballt there you there you go, Come on,

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<v Speaker 2>come on, there you go, there you go.

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<v Speaker 1>Where's our hand sanitizer?

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's too late. Wasn't no hand sanitizer the nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why our immune system is so good. These new

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<v Speaker 2>kids is salt. They need sanitizer for everything. Whatever happened

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<v Speaker 2>to eating a little flu covid? You're right, Covid.

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<v Speaker 1>Told us a lot about germs. Guys, we got the

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<v Speaker 1>bread ball.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder if anyone's ever put like cinnamon and sugar

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<v Speaker 1>in the bread ball.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't think. No. I just enjoy

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<v Speaker 2>the raw. But make sure you drink your water because

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<v Speaker 2>if not, it's going the gray ball gonna stay right there,

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<v Speaker 2>ain't going nowhere.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you come from a two parent household?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I came from to a parent household. That's simply

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<v Speaker 2>put you to private school. I had really good parents,

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<v Speaker 2>and Claren's parents had a real good marriage. It was

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<v Speaker 2>the two parent household but we had our issue.

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<v Speaker 1>And they had a really good marriage too.

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<v Speaker 2>No, they did not. They had a very interesting relationship.

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<v Speaker 1>They still married.

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<v Speaker 2>No they are not.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh look she is piping over here, guys.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, boom.

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<v Speaker 1>So your parents separated at what age.

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<v Speaker 2>I was grown? So my dad was around when I

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<v Speaker 2>was really small, and then something happened and they got

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<v Speaker 2>into something, and then he left and he came back,

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<v Speaker 2>probably when I was around ten something like that. He

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<v Speaker 2>was back for maybe a few months. They got married.

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<v Speaker 2>They got married right back, and then they stayed married

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<v Speaker 2>until I was probably like twenty something. I don't remember

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<v Speaker 2>the exact days. But then they stayed married. And but

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't they shouldn't have been together.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so they was fighting from day one, from day one. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so they had a couple of kids after they got

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<v Speaker 1>back together.

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<v Speaker 2>No, we was all there already. Ooh yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so he left and really came back.

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<v Speaker 2>He left and came back. Okay, yeah, yeah, he left

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<v Speaker 2>and came back. They I don't know what happened, but

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<v Speaker 2>they got it.

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<v Speaker 1>Was you didn't ask.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I didn't care, Not that I didn't care, but

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<v Speaker 2>at that time, especially too, it was like staying in

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<v Speaker 2>a child's place. Back then, as an adult, kids weren't

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<v Speaker 2>allowed to ask questions, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Ask questions later that just it wasn't really really chang.

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<v Speaker 2>It just wasn't. I'm somebody who was grateful for a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just grateful for the time, grateful for this.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't thinking like, why did you eat what we

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't good? I didn't think like that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, so you were happy to have them back, happy.

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<v Speaker 2>To have them back, happy to have my mom, happy

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<v Speaker 2>to see them together in the whatever capacity that was.

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<v Speaker 2>And then when they broke up, I was happy that

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<v Speaker 2>they did that because I understood that it didn't make

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<v Speaker 2>sense to be together. I was watching it. You ever

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<v Speaker 2>had parents that argue a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a mixed bread I was exposed to other problems.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I was just yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think people really are you Jamaican? My mom's Jamaican.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like a one.

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<v Speaker 2>Sided oh yeah, yeah. You just you gotta listen and

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<v Speaker 2>be like okay, all right, okay, all.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, it's more like a silent okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well it's crazy. Was that they would argue so much.

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<v Speaker 2>It almost was entertainment. Like when you young you just

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<v Speaker 2>get I mean, you're looking forward to Oh, it's about

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<v Speaker 2>to be some drama and it would be about anything.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how you That's how I knew that was supposed

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<v Speaker 2>really like they would argue over things, that's what.

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<v Speaker 1>You like, over how much butter to put on this

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<v Speaker 1>hot toast.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I'm gonna tell you. Now, I'm gonna show y'all

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<v Speaker 2>this is real. Back back to the basics. So first off,

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<v Speaker 2>she handed me a butter knife to spread the butter

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<v Speaker 2>on the toast. First mistake. This is how you gotta

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<v Speaker 2>do this.

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta take it's already melted by the way.

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<v Speaker 2>You gotta take this just like this, okay, or it

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<v Speaker 2>ain't right.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>The butter knife makes it not official. You take the

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<v Speaker 2>bread and you take the butter, and you spread it

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<v Speaker 2>just like that. That's how you gotta do it. You

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<v Speaker 2>see that. You see what you oh man? Then you

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<v Speaker 2>take the butter night and you clean up your mess

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<v Speaker 2>and you put that over there because they fanted.

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<v Speaker 1>They brought melted butter.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let me tell you something. They go all

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<v Speaker 2>out at eating with broke. But this is going back

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<v Speaker 2>to when you was broke, so you couldn't melt the butter.

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<v Speaker 2>You have to just let the butter sit out and

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<v Speaker 2>hope it melted and put it in the sun or something.

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<v Speaker 2>So then boom, that's how we did it. Like that.

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<v Speaker 2>You spread the butter on it just like that. It

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<v Speaker 2>looks like exactly exactly. Boom.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, cool, Now we got the butter.

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<v Speaker 2>Boom. You see how butter that is.

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<v Speaker 1>Boom, a lot of butter.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you take your sugar, right yep, Okay, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>do it. I'm gonna do it this way. Boom. You

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<v Speaker 2>gonna take the sugar.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the last time you had this, man at

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<v Speaker 1>least twenty something years. Boom, you're about to go down

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<v Speaker 1>and reminiscent plan Boom.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you take the sugar. That's a lot of sugar,

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<v Speaker 2>it is. And you know what's crazy is usually you

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<v Speaker 2>will put the cinnamon first. Oh, you will put the

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<v Speaker 2>cinnamon before the sugar because the cinnamon holds the sugar.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody know that. Oh nope, okay, boom. Then you take

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<v Speaker 2>the cinnamon.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness, that's a lot of cinnamon. Oh my goodness.

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<v Speaker 2>Boom. Now, back in the day, because this is your toast,

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<v Speaker 2>you would have took your finger and spread it properly.

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<v Speaker 2>But thank god we got some civilization now, So now

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna we're gonna spread the sugar and the butter

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<v Speaker 2>and the cinnamon like that boom and put that on

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<v Speaker 2>there like that nice. Now try that and tell me

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<v Speaker 2>that's not taking But tell me that's not the most

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<v Speaker 2>beautiful delicacy in the hood you ever had.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you're eating this too, right, I would.

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<v Speaker 2>Never eat that again in my life. But no, you

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<v Speaker 2>go ahead, and what are you talking about this?

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<v Speaker 1>I think I'm the only tester bunny rabbit around here.

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<v Speaker 2>I got you. I got you here.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, cheers, don't give me your butter outside.

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<v Speaker 2>I got you. That tastes like seventh grade.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I'm better at this than you.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, how to do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh huh yeah, but this is really good. Hold on,

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<v Speaker 1>you cut two little sugar in mind loaded up?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, okay, hold on, go ahead. Now, it's not

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<v Speaker 2>enough sugar. Too much sugar, ain't sweet enough. You know

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying there like that? Take another BikeE Now,

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<v Speaker 2>let me tell you about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me trying to shave up his dish.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me tell you about this. Right here, me and

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<v Speaker 2>my brothers, my cousins, because my house, our houses, everybody

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<v Speaker 2>would come to neighborhood. Everybody come kick them out. My brothers,

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<v Speaker 2>my cousin, my uncles, my young I got uncle. That's

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<v Speaker 2>my age. My mom is the oldest of nine children.

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<v Speaker 2>We'd come in my room, bring the toaster, bring the

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<v Speaker 2>We would literally bring the toaster in the room, bring

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<v Speaker 2>the toaster in the room, bring the loaf of bread,

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<v Speaker 2>bring the butt. And we were just sitting there watching

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<v Speaker 2>TV making this, eating it like this.

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<v Speaker 1>Was the snack.

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<v Speaker 2>This was what it was. But you get full because

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<v Speaker 2>it's bread. We're getting full off this. We this used

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<v Speaker 2>to be like we look forward to yo. You didn't

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<v Speaker 2>bring the toaster. With what you're doing, Go get the toaster.

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<v Speaker 2>You mean nothing to be going back and forth to

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<v Speaker 2>the kitchen. Were playing video games. We're watching Jerry Springer,

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<v Speaker 2>Jenny Jones, Martin the Box remember the Box, right music?

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<v Speaker 2>But and we was eating this. That's how we was

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<v Speaker 2>getting down.

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<v Speaker 1>Take me back, now, So you come from this parent household,

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<v Speaker 1>where does you start to look towards the comedy direction?

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<v Speaker 2>At what age I started comedy when I was I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what I know what age I started going

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<v Speaker 2>into comedy clubs. I was like twenty when I started comedy.

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<v Speaker 2>I started in my church. So what happened?

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<v Speaker 1>While you need some water that dry ass toast.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't need no water, I need a whooping. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna go back. I need to go all the way back.

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<v Speaker 2>I need to go clean my room or something. This

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<v Speaker 2>would just take me back to it. Oh wow, I

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<v Speaker 2>need some chores, you know what.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Oh wow, it's nostalgic.

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<v Speaker 2>It's nostalgic, and you ain't got what the TV put

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<v Speaker 2>your springer on. Let me call it. I'm gonna go

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<v Speaker 2>home and pie in a bit. So I used to

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<v Speaker 2>imitate my pastor. I come from. My pastors were animated,

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<v Speaker 2>So I used to be at the house and I

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<v Speaker 2>would just imitate him to my mom and my sister's joking.

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<v Speaker 2>At this point, my brother had already left for college,

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<v Speaker 2>but I would just be imitating him, just joking around

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<v Speaker 2>and my sister my mom would laugh, and that was

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<v Speaker 2>enough for me. And then my mom at the time,

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<v Speaker 2>she was over the church anniversary. She would put the

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<v Speaker 2>programs together for the anniversaries. She said, I'm gonna have

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<v Speaker 2>you do that at the church. I'm not doing that

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<v Speaker 2>at the church, you know what I mean. No, And

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<v Speaker 2>then so at the anniversary, she put me. I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>know she put me on on the program. So then

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<v Speaker 2>she say, whoever, I don't remember who was am seeing

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<v Speaker 2>the event that night, but they she say like this,

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<v Speaker 2>they say, and next up we got brother Lance. That's

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<v Speaker 2>how it because I wasn't I wasn't like, I wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>talking to you if I wasn't like the life of

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<v Speaker 2>the party. I was really like quiet, real quiet, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I mean. So when they read they was

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<v Speaker 2>everybody was like because they didn't even say what I

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<v Speaker 2>was doing. It was just that I was coming to

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<v Speaker 2>the stage. So I go up and all I remember

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<v Speaker 2>is the first thing I said was you'all know how

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<v Speaker 2>pastor be on Sunday? And then I just went into it.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I tell you, everybody in the church was

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<v Speaker 2>like hollering, like my pastor was like on the floor

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<v Speaker 2>with real tears coming out of like it was real tears,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean. Somebody jumped up, running and

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<v Speaker 2>rant like it was a fire, Like it was insane.

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<v Speaker 2>And that was the first time I had ever done

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<v Speaker 2>anything like that on a stage. I wasn't thinking I

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<v Speaker 2>was going to be a comedian at the time. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I just thought that was fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Now was that? Did that then? Lights some kind of

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<v Speaker 1>spark an you right there?

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<v Speaker 2>It did, But I didn't know how to go from

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<v Speaker 2>that to a comedian.

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<v Speaker 1>What did your mom say after that performance?

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<v Speaker 2>She was like, oh my god, that was so funny.

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<v Speaker 2>She was like you was like, there's some wrong with

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<v Speaker 2>you boy. She was just kind of like that. But

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<v Speaker 2>I started comedy before Instagram. There was no Instagram. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't remember if I think YouTube was out, but it

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't like it is now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>My point of saying, this is the only and I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't grow up in LA or New York. I grew

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<v Speaker 2>up in Sacramento, So you didn't you only see comedians

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<v Speaker 2>on TV. Like I think it's somebody's like they want

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<v Speaker 2>to start comedy now, they'll go on Instagram and they

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<v Speaker 2>got all of these examples of comedians or people who

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<v Speaker 2>are doing humorous things. But like, oh, I can do that,

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<v Speaker 2>But that's not how it was. This was when I

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<v Speaker 2>did that at the church. That was probably two thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and six, maybe or something like that, two thousand and five.

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<v Speaker 2>I started comedy in ten, twenty eleven, when I first

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<v Speaker 2>started getting on stage, you know what I mean. So

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<v Speaker 2>this was eight years earlier or something like that, six

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<v Speaker 2>years or something like that. Yeah, I didn't know. I

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<v Speaker 2>just knew that was real cool.

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<v Speaker 1>And did you start gravitating towards watching comedy tapes?

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<v Speaker 2>Though? I always did I start. I think I probably

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<v Speaker 2>started watching more, but I always grew up watching comedy.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So take me to the first time where you

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<v Speaker 1>start to pursue comedy.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. So it goes back to the church. If so

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<v Speaker 2>much of my story is rooted in the church, That's

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<v Speaker 2>something I'm real grateful for. Because my church, my pastor

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<v Speaker 2>would try to nurture gifts. If he's seeing you had

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<v Speaker 2>a gift, he would try to create things or nurture

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<v Speaker 2>it to to help get you to where you can

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<v Speaker 2>get to. Oh, I do the thing at the church.

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<v Speaker 2>So now going forward, every time there was an event

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<v Speaker 2>at the church, they would just ask me to do something.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you just host it? Like something?

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<v Speaker 1>Just so you went from the kid that they were

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<v Speaker 1>like super quiet, So now this is the kid they

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<v Speaker 1>want to mc.

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<v Speaker 2>That's worse than this. So I used to do the

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<v Speaker 2>sound at the church. Wow, Like I used to because

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<v Speaker 2>I always knew this was always knew I was supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to be a star. I always knew I was supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to be someone impactful, but I ran from it. I

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<v Speaker 2>used to always try to be behind the scenes. So

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<v Speaker 2>instead of doing I would say, I do the sound,

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<v Speaker 2>I do the I'll do the I would hold the camera,

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<v Speaker 2>but I got real bad vision. I got contacts in.

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<v Speaker 2>But if I took my contacts out, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be holding up three fingers that you say you

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<v Speaker 1>ain't see nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if I was, you'd be my color. If I

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<v Speaker 2>took my contacts out, it's bad. But I never wore glasses.

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<v Speaker 2>I just used to thug it out. I didn't wear

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<v Speaker 2>contacts back then either. I just used to just walk

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<v Speaker 2>around blind. So I used to be doing the sound

0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.520
<v Speaker 2>at the church, but I couldn't really see. So the

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<v Speaker 2>pastor would be like telling me to turn stuff up,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm just looking and he's like, yeah, I'm like

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<v Speaker 2>thumbs out. I am doing a good job. It was bad.

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<v Speaker 2>I hold I did somebody's wedding and I was holding

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<v Speaker 2>the camera, but I was all over the place because

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<v Speaker 2>it was bad. I was just trying to do all

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<v Speaker 2>these things, just running from my gift right back to

0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.119
<v Speaker 2>the church. So he would do these things like host

0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.679
<v Speaker 2>this event. We're doing this, can you host it? So

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<v Speaker 2>then he created this first Friday's event. It was like

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<v Speaker 2>a talent show, like people come through and I was

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<v Speaker 2>hosting that and that was another time where I just

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<v Speaker 2>got to just be on It was just me really

0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.200
<v Speaker 2>being on stage in front of people, figuring that out,

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<v Speaker 2>getting comfortable with that. So now fast forward, we're going

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<v Speaker 2>into New Year's Eve, going into the year twenty ten.

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<v Speaker 2>Now a lot of churches have services on New Year's

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<v Speaker 2>Eve to go and you don't got to be out

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<v Speaker 2>there in the streets for New Years. You can come

0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.760
<v Speaker 2>bring the new year in with the law. Yes, when

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<v Speaker 2>I get your years started in the House of the

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<v Speaker 2>Lord like that right. So then my pastor's son, Ishmael

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<v Speaker 2>called me. He said, hey, can you do some comedy

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<v Speaker 2>at the New Year's event?

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, okay, how did it go?

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<v Speaker 2>It went great. But this was my first time ever

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<v Speaker 2>writing jokes. Everything I did before that was me making

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<v Speaker 2>fun of people at the church, are imitating people that

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<v Speaker 2>This was the first time I wrote jokes that had

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<v Speaker 2>nothing to do.

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<v Speaker 1>With the church, and it had to be PG too.

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<v Speaker 2>For sure. Yeah. Yeah, but my church wasn't PG. Never mind,

0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.119
<v Speaker 2>that's another story. Listen, we're not gonna talk about that

0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:55.560
<v Speaker 2>right now.

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<v Speaker 1>So you wrote these jokes and that they landed.

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<v Speaker 2>They landed very well. These jokes. I don't do them now,

0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.359
<v Speaker 2>but I could if I think back to the jokes.

0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.159
<v Speaker 2>I was always good writing, always understood jokes. I understood

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<v Speaker 2>what a punch sign was supposed to be. I understood.

0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.280
<v Speaker 2>I just I had a good understanding of jokes. That

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<v Speaker 2>was the first time I wrote jokes that was just

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<v Speaker 2>like this, I'm not gonna I don't want to. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to tell jokes about sister, her or brother.

0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.680
<v Speaker 2>I just want to write jokes. So that was that.

0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.200
<v Speaker 2>That went, well, that's November going, and how.

0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:29.119
<v Speaker 1>Old are you at that time?

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<v Speaker 2>Twenty twenty two, twenty three, okay, okay, twenty two. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so then that's going into the new year. Now, this

0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.879
<v Speaker 2>was this is crazy. My church is directly across the

0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:47.960
<v Speaker 2>street from a comedy club.

0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:53.960
<v Speaker 1>Oh, the signs are lining up for you very directly, like.

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<v Speaker 2>This, What is up with this?

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<v Speaker 1>Mic is not feeling you today? I don't know what

0:20:58.760 --> 0:20:59.240
<v Speaker 1>is up with it?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it happens But the same way with this is

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<v Speaker 2>how close to like walk across the street and you're

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<v Speaker 2>at the comedy club. But I never knew that because

0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.240
<v Speaker 2>I never knew what a comedy club was.

0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.639
<v Speaker 1>So at some point you acknowledge this comedy club.

0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:14.960
<v Speaker 2>I acknowledged the comedy club.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this the first club you actually go into as ever?

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<v Speaker 1>Stand up?

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<v Speaker 2>Ever?

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<v Speaker 1>And then how did you do over there? You want

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<v Speaker 1>the full story, I want the story where you bombed.

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<v Speaker 2>That story didn't happen for a while. Wow. Yeah, the

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<v Speaker 2>bomb story happened for sure, but it didn't happen at

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<v Speaker 2>that point.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, so you do you start doing comedy in this club?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you stay at this club for a long time

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<v Speaker 1>before you sit in?

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<v Speaker 2>You know this the Sacramento punchline. So I go there

0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.359
<v Speaker 2>because they have a showcase once a month, So June second,

0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:50.200
<v Speaker 2>I go the week the month before May May fifth,

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<v Speaker 2>It was the first Wednesday of every month. It was

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<v Speaker 2>May fifth, but it was single to mile, so they

0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.399
<v Speaker 2>moved it to May twelfth, which is my brother and

0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.000
<v Speaker 2>my uncle's birthday. These dates are all significant to me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's my first time I ever went to go watch

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<v Speaker 2>live comedy. So I go to the punchline and I

0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.560
<v Speaker 2>go watch live comedy for the first time. I sit,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm right in the middle, second row, and I'm just watching,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm like in awe, like watching everybody was amazing.

0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.879
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't believe, like how they was able to do this.

0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.000
<v Speaker 2>I know all these guys now and some of them

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<v Speaker 2>weren't amazing, but to me at the time at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is incredible, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know what I mean. So I said, I'm gonna come

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<v Speaker 2>back and do it next month. So now next month.

0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.600
<v Speaker 2>Now we're at June second. So I pull up, I

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<v Speaker 2>knock on the door. Doors open at seventh, show started

0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.400
<v Speaker 2>and I get there six fifth, I knock on the door. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here. I'm here for the comedy show. She was like, okay,

0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.960
<v Speaker 2>come back in ten minutes when we open. I said, okay,

0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.199
<v Speaker 2>I'm wanting the comedian. And she said, okay, come back

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<v Speaker 2>in ten minutes. Won't be open. I said, okay, cool,

0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.040
<v Speaker 2>I come back at seven o'clock. I'm here and she's okay.

0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.760
<v Speaker 2>Let me. There's the manager and I say, hey, how

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<v Speaker 2>you doing man, I'm here for the show tonight and

0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.680
<v Speaker 2>he said at who are you? I said, ma'am I'm

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<v Speaker 2>Lames Woods, and he was like, I don't know you,

0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.359
<v Speaker 2>and I said, okay, well, how do I sign up

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<v Speaker 2>for the show? He said, there ain't no sign up

0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:11.800
<v Speaker 2>for the show. If I don't know you, I don't

0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.399
<v Speaker 2>You're not That's not how it works. So then I

0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:18.320
<v Speaker 2>was like, oh okay, and then I just left. So

0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.040
<v Speaker 2>I went back to my car. But then I'm like,

0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.359
<v Speaker 2>I can't leave. I told all these people I was

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<v Speaker 2>going to be at the show tonight and.

0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.160
<v Speaker 1>You was advertising the show that you weren't even on first.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know no better. I just I go on

0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.680
<v Speaker 2>the website. They said it's a show, you got a showcase.

0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:35.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm Okaylyn, what do you do?

0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:36.359
<v Speaker 1>You go back?

0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.679
<v Speaker 2>I go back because this is once again before instead before,

0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.720
<v Speaker 2>like Facebook is a thing. But I've told everybody, yeah,

0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.600
<v Speaker 2>listen to me, like yo, this is what we're doing

0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:50.200
<v Speaker 2>this tonight. So I'm I can't leave. I don't got

0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:53.480
<v Speaker 2>everybody's number. So I go back and I'm talking to

0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:55.680
<v Speaker 2>him like, hey man, I talked I'm be on the show.

0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:57.760
<v Speaker 2>Then I just need five minutes. And he was just

0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:00.880
<v Speaker 2>like he would say real mean things walk away. You'd

0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.159
<v Speaker 2>be like everybody say they funny to their bomb and

0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.199
<v Speaker 2>then what then he walk away. I'm just standing there.

0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.000
<v Speaker 2>Damn what happens after the bomb? You know what I mean? Yeah,

0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:11.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm processing all of this. So then twenty minutes go

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<v Speaker 2>by thirty Now it was seven thirty, and I'm like,

0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:15.440
<v Speaker 2>hey man, I just need five minutes of your time, bro.

0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:17.960
<v Speaker 2>So we're standing by the bar. Now, this is what

0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:20.320
<v Speaker 2>the entrance is. So he would come by the bar

0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:23.760
<v Speaker 2>say something, walk away. So now let's say it's seven forty.

0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.840
<v Speaker 2>Show start at eight o'clock, seven thirty five. People keep

0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:29.639
<v Speaker 2>coming into the show saying, A Lance can't wait to

0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:31.639
<v Speaker 2>see you, and hey, do your think the night? Bro?

0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.479
<v Speaker 2>A Lance? Hey do? Hey Bro, I'm proud of and

0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:39.200
<v Speaker 2>he's this was a lesson I learned early about selling tickets. Yeah,

0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:40.960
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know nothing about no guest, less than nothing.

0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.600
<v Speaker 2>Everybody who can to send me bought a ticket. So

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<v Speaker 2>by the time it's seven point fifty five, the club

0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:51.080
<v Speaker 2>is packed and it's probably sixty people that came to

0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:54.840
<v Speaker 2>see me, which is sixty people. Sixty people. Yeah, oh yeah,

0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.520
<v Speaker 2>it's a lot for you. He had. I didn't know

0:24:57.520 --> 0:24:58.800
<v Speaker 2>no better, you know what I mean? This is my

0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:02.359
<v Speaker 2>first introduction into show business. I didn't know. I had

0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:04.159
<v Speaker 2>just sold a bunch of tickets and people came to

0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:06.440
<v Speaker 2>see me, and your hands are tied at this point.

0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.159
<v Speaker 2>So then at seven fifty five he said, okay, you

0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.800
<v Speaker 2>got five minutes. You're going up first. Jesus, I said, okay,

0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:16.520
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even know I was supposed to be nervous

0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:18.159
<v Speaker 2>to go first. Yeah, you know what I mean. I

0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.800
<v Speaker 2>was so like angry because I had a bad temper.

0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.760
<v Speaker 2>It's better now, but especially at that time, I was

0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.800
<v Speaker 2>real like short. So I'm angry because how you talking

0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:28.920
<v Speaker 2>to me? You know what I mean? And I didn't

0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:31.239
<v Speaker 2>tell nobody who came to see me what was going on,

0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:34.120
<v Speaker 2>because then it would have been a group problem. Yeah,

0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean, so I'm trying to just be chill. And

0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:39.760
<v Speaker 2>so then he come back to me eight o'clock he said, okay,

0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:41.280
<v Speaker 2>you're going up third first, he said the first thing.

0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:43.640
<v Speaker 2>He said, you're going third. So then there's a host,

0:25:43.920 --> 0:25:47.239
<v Speaker 2>two comics, and then me the comic that goes on

0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:51.000
<v Speaker 2>before me. He was probably on stage for seven minutes.

0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:56.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't think anybody smiled, not a smile. Yeah, And

0:25:56.640 --> 0:26:01.000
<v Speaker 2>that made me more angry because it's do better, and

0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:03.520
<v Speaker 2>I gotta fight for five minutes and he just get

0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:05.800
<v Speaker 2>to go on with No, he ain't put on no fight,

0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:07.840
<v Speaker 2>and you let this have it. So I go on stage.

0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.480
<v Speaker 2>It went really well. It went really well my first time,

0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:13.639
<v Speaker 2>but like it was, the jokes I were telling were funny.

0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.159
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't a great performance my first time at a

0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:19.000
<v Speaker 2>comedy club, but I still remember the jokes I told.

0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:22.560
<v Speaker 2>I remember like they were quality jokes for my first time.

0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.600
<v Speaker 2>And then from then do you just start to meet

0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.520
<v Speaker 2>the comics and go places and figure out stuff and oh,

0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:31.200
<v Speaker 2>this guy has a room over here, and this guy

0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:32.680
<v Speaker 2>has a room over here. Now if you want to

0:26:32.680 --> 0:26:33.800
<v Speaker 2>hear the bomb, go ahead.

0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:35.879
<v Speaker 1>No, I don't want to hear the bomb. So you

0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:38.160
<v Speaker 1>so after that club, you do well? Do you start

0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:41.720
<v Speaker 1>to now understand the process of going after a certain

0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:43.840
<v Speaker 1>title in the club and pitching yourself.

0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:46.960
<v Speaker 2>No, I still don't see this is what I thought.

0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:49.919
<v Speaker 2>I thought it went well, and I was like, so,

0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.600
<v Speaker 2>am I supposed to wait for HBO to call? Or

0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:54.840
<v Speaker 2>do I need to send them the tape from tonight

0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.040
<v Speaker 2>because clearly they need to know who I am. Did

0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:59.080
<v Speaker 2>y'all see what I just did? Yeah, that's how I'm thinking.

0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:01.000
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know how none of this stuff works. Yeah,

0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:05.240
<v Speaker 2>so I'm like, oh not Yeah, Chris Rocket is funny,

0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.800
<v Speaker 2>but I was funny too, So clearly we should be

0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:10.560
<v Speaker 2>working together. That's how they're supposed to work. What are

0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:13.760
<v Speaker 2>we talking about? So I was just I didn't know.

0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:16.360
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know, Like I ain't know. I was at

0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.960
<v Speaker 2>that point, I'm real like just inquisitive, like I'm trying

0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:20.600
<v Speaker 2>to figure out what am I supposed to be doing

0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:21.600
<v Speaker 2>because I don't know nothing?

0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:23.679
<v Speaker 1>So who are you going to find out? What's your

0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:24.160
<v Speaker 1>next play?

0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:27.280
<v Speaker 2>The comics I met that night. I remember one comics

0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:29.280
<v Speaker 2>is friend of mine still, his name is Miles Weber.

0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:32.520
<v Speaker 2>I was like, yo, how do you make money doing this?

0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:34.359
<v Speaker 2>And he was like, hell if I know?

0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:38.040
<v Speaker 1>Like that was like, how long do you think? How

0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:40.639
<v Speaker 1>long was your struggle for at least not making money?

0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:46.280
<v Speaker 2>Not making money? My first time on stage that was

0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:53.200
<v Speaker 2>June second. The next year, November second was my last

0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:54.560
<v Speaker 2>day work on a day job.

0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:57.680
<v Speaker 1>Oh so within a year you were able to fully

0:27:57.680 --> 0:27:59.640
<v Speaker 1>support yourself off comedy.

0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:03.960
<v Speaker 2>I was able to figure it out. I wouldn't say fully, no, yeah, yes,

0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:06.560
<v Speaker 2>fully supported myself. I had to change some things. I

0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:08.720
<v Speaker 2>had to learn how to manage my money different. Yeah,

0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:12.200
<v Speaker 2>I had to learn what not to do. Okay, maybe

0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:14.399
<v Speaker 2>I don't need that. Do I really need cable? I

0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:14.880
<v Speaker 2>don't think.

0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:17.439
<v Speaker 1>So I really started living on a budget.

0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:19.280
<v Speaker 2>Started living on a budget, you know what I mean,

0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.840
<v Speaker 2>start dating lesser women. But you just have to change it.

0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:25.199
<v Speaker 2>You gotta change some things up. I mean, look, so

0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:26.520
<v Speaker 2>you're not in a budget.

0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.639
<v Speaker 1>That's hilarious. Did you start dating women that had more

0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:30.120
<v Speaker 1>money too?

0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:31.040
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely?

0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:31.919
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:32.520
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely?

0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:33.119
<v Speaker 1>Did you really?

0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:33.840
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely?

0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:34.880
<v Speaker 1>Okay?

0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:35.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:38.080
<v Speaker 1>Did that help you at some point in your journey?

0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:40.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but not like that. It was what really helped

0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:45.040
<v Speaker 2>was I learned how much stuff I don't need. Yeah,

0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:48.920
<v Speaker 2>Like I just learned. Like what I realized is the

0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.960
<v Speaker 2>thing that we get caught up in is we when

0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:56.560
<v Speaker 2>we make money, everything we call everything we get cost

0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:59.640
<v Speaker 2>like constant money. So it's like I haven't had a

0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:03.959
<v Speaker 2>card since my first car. I've never had another car.

0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:09.680
<v Speaker 1>Really no, I'm like very highly, I'm a car no queen. Yeah,

0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.640
<v Speaker 1>and every time I'm about to tire, I'm like, nope,

0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:12.080
<v Speaker 1>put me in.

0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:16.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah another one. Yeah, But that's how the cycle work.

0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:20.240
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like people pay bills on iPhones like they

0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:22.680
<v Speaker 2>want the new phone. So then they add yeah, yeah,

0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:24.520
<v Speaker 2>and it's know. If I'm going to get the new phone,

0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:26.520
<v Speaker 2>just go buy it. If I can't afford it, then

0:29:26.560 --> 0:29:27.120
<v Speaker 2>I don't have it.

0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:30.600
<v Speaker 1>Smart you live within your means, which is a good,

0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:33.840
<v Speaker 1>very good thing. I can't imagine Sacramento and correct me

0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:36.200
<v Speaker 1>if I'm wrong. You get to go up that many

0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:38.400
<v Speaker 1>nights or the times in one night?

0:29:39.120 --> 0:29:41.160
<v Speaker 2>Why not? All right, So I'll tell you this story.

0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to find comedy clubs and things now at

0:29:44.080 --> 0:29:46.600
<v Speaker 2>this point in my head, you can never tell the

0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:49.120
<v Speaker 2>same joke twice. This is what I believe. So I thought,

0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.880
<v Speaker 2>once you told that joke, you got to tell new jokes.

0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:53.400
<v Speaker 2>So every time.

0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:54.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm running at a different speed.

0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.720
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know. And at that point I was just

0:29:57.840 --> 0:30:01.400
<v Speaker 2>so excited. Everything I thought was fun I wrote everything

0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.440
<v Speaker 2>I thought was funny. If I just wrote it all down,

0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:06.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna try it on stage.

0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:08.920
<v Speaker 1>But how many clubs are you averaging a night in Sacramento?

0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 2>So that that's what I was gonna tell you, But

0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:14.280
<v Speaker 2>I'll speed through it. When I was really getting good,

0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:17.960
<v Speaker 2>I was on stage at a minimum twelve times.

0:30:17.760 --> 0:30:21.360
<v Speaker 1>A week, twelve times a week. Yeah, in Sacramento they

0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:22.800
<v Speaker 1>have that many clubs you can get up that. How

0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:28.360
<v Speaker 1>what's the distance between the clubs though, all within already

0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:32.720
<v Speaker 1>thirty miles that's pretty so like almost thirty minutes apart

0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:36.200
<v Speaker 1>or within. Yeah, so what because I'm saying this because

0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:38.080
<v Speaker 1>if you're a comic in New York, you can get

0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.920
<v Speaker 1>reps up that right, most of your comedy. The more

0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:44.000
<v Speaker 1>reps you do, the better you get, right, even though

0:30:44.040 --> 0:30:47.120
<v Speaker 1>you're writing new material on the regular. Clearly, I'm just

0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 1>trying to figure out for you to at least maintain

0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:54.000
<v Speaker 1>yourself how much repping you're doing to get to the

0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:56.720
<v Speaker 1>point where you're semi sustainable within a year.

0:30:56.840 --> 0:31:01.400
<v Speaker 2>So that's what it was. It was. There was three

0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:04.560
<v Speaker 2>comedy clubs, like Major Club. You had the Punchline, You

0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:07.800
<v Speaker 2>had Tommy T's, and then you had Laps Unlimited. Tommy

0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:10.600
<v Speaker 2>T's has since shut the one that Sacramento has, but

0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.680
<v Speaker 2>Punchline and Laps Unlimited are still there. So those were

0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:16.400
<v Speaker 2>the three clubs. Then you had there's a spot called

0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:18.600
<v Speaker 2>the Touch of Class, like a black Spy. It's like

0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:22.000
<v Speaker 2>it's like a nationally known amongst comics. This was like

0:31:22.320 --> 0:31:26.440
<v Speaker 2>a spywork. Every black comic had came through at some point.

0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:28.000
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know if you ever seen Kevin Hart

0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:29.920
<v Speaker 2>Heart of the City. He shot at a Touch of Class.

0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:33.080
<v Speaker 2>The first episode ever was shot in Sacramento. Touch a Class.

0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:36.479
<v Speaker 2>So that was on Sundays. But then there was another

0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:39.760
<v Speaker 2>spot called on the Y, a little bar they did comedy.

0:31:39.840 --> 0:31:41.719
<v Speaker 2>You did that, so I would go to And then

0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:43.560
<v Speaker 2>there was a spot called the Comedy Spot. They did

0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:46.240
<v Speaker 2>mostly improv, but they did stand up too, so I

0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.080
<v Speaker 2>would go, Okay, on Sunday, I could hit the comedy spot,

0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:50.720
<v Speaker 2>I could hit on the Y, and I hit the

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<v Speaker 2>Touch of Class.

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<v Speaker 1>Got it?

0:31:52.000 --> 0:31:55.720
<v Speaker 2>So that's three on Sunday.

0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:59.120
<v Speaker 1>So how long did you work a Sacramento for a

0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:01.520
<v Speaker 1>year or did you When did you start to say

0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:06.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to move out of the Sacramento zone.

0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:07.600
<v Speaker 2>To start you mean to start to travel outside of

0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Sack to the shows.

0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:11.640
<v Speaker 1>Do you still live in Sacramento? You live in La.

0:32:11.760 --> 0:32:13.480
<v Speaker 2>I live in l A. Yeah, okay, but I just

0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:14.080
<v Speaker 2>moved to l A.

0:32:14.720 --> 0:32:20.200
<v Speaker 1>Like how long ago? Oh okay, so you're new here? Yeah, okay, okay.

0:32:20.040 --> 0:32:21.640
<v Speaker 2>But I've been coming to La so long.

0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:24.880
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was like, what I'm trying. What I'm trying

0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:27.880
<v Speaker 1>to get a lay of the land, because got twenty

0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:30.920
<v Speaker 1>more minutes. Is I want to see, like how long

0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.440
<v Speaker 1>it took for you to get that consistency and what

0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:37.400
<v Speaker 1>markets did you have to work to get that consistency up?

0:32:37.680 --> 0:32:40.840
<v Speaker 2>When I the first thing, there's a guy, one of

0:32:40.920 --> 0:32:43.840
<v Speaker 2>the first not one of the first guys whoever took

0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:47.320
<v Speaker 2>me on the road, named Daniel Dugar. I bury you

0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:49.680
<v Speaker 2>and he was like, Yo, you gotta go to grow,

0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:53.360
<v Speaker 2>You got to go to grow. So then he had

0:32:53.400 --> 0:32:57.200
<v Speaker 2>gave me his number one time. And I'm not the

0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.440
<v Speaker 2>best at calling people. I had somebody's number and I

0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:01.000
<v Speaker 2>just want to use I'll be trying to get better

0:33:01.040 --> 0:33:02.760
<v Speaker 2>at that. So I remember I called him one day

0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:04.640
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, Yo, what should I be doing there?

0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:07.200
<v Speaker 2>How can I do this? And then he's big on

0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:09.840
<v Speaker 2>like wardrobe. He's like a real sharp he always with

0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:13.400
<v Speaker 2>his suits. He was like, man, your wardrobe is important.

0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:16.800
<v Speaker 2>He talk. So then me and him we just went shopping.

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:18.719
<v Speaker 2>He's just like, yo, let's just go shopping, bro. Just

0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:20.680
<v Speaker 2>so I started wearing suits and all that. That wasn't

0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:23.440
<v Speaker 2>really my thing, but it was just something. But he

0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:25.480
<v Speaker 2>was like, Yo, why don't you start. You can come.

0:33:25.680 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 2>I got these shows. You can come on the road.

0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:33.000
<v Speaker 2>There's these things called triple runs that's on the West coast,

0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.000
<v Speaker 2>and it'll be like I'm talking about all of these

0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:42.240
<v Speaker 2>small little Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington state, and you get

0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:45.240
<v Speaker 2>in a car and just drive to all of these spots.

0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:47.760
<v Speaker 2>But just like this show might pay three hundred, this

0:33:47.800 --> 0:33:50.040
<v Speaker 2>one might pay one fifty, this one might pay five.

0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:52.560
<v Speaker 2>And then so you do that for a week and

0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:54.800
<v Speaker 2>you might come home with a thousand dollars. If you

0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:57.080
<v Speaker 2>got some merchandise, you might come home with two thousand,

0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.040
<v Speaker 2>fifteen hundred, whatever the case is. Right, So that I

0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:02.320
<v Speaker 2>started to do that, Okay, I would just get in

0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:04.480
<v Speaker 2>the car and just drive, okay, and just go pick

0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.240
<v Speaker 2>up nine hund here, three hundred here, one point fifty here,

0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.360
<v Speaker 2>sometimes get a room time, sleep in the car. Just really.

0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 2>But I was having the most fun because I was

0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:14.840
<v Speaker 2>doing I wanted to do. So if I got a

0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:18.279
<v Speaker 2>drive thirteen dollars, I don't mind, because I'm finna go

0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:20.920
<v Speaker 2>see the most beautiful woman in the world. You know

0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:22.120
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. Comedy?

0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:29.759
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, wait, what so you're doing all of this

0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:32.879
<v Speaker 1>and maintaining a budget. What are you doing with your

0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:36.200
<v Speaker 1>daytime though there's no hustling during the day, You're just

0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:38.040
<v Speaker 1>like living life and writing comics.

0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:40.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was just I was doing regular stuff, went

0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:41.640
<v Speaker 2>to the gym playing basketball.

0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:43.319
<v Speaker 1>Where does that acting enter?

0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:47.400
<v Speaker 2>So I started acting once again. I'm at a show.

0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 2>We're doing. My man Greg Vaughn had a a compedy do,

0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:54.560
<v Speaker 2>a golf tournament and a comedy show before the day before.

0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:57.920
<v Speaker 2>So we're doing the comedy show. It's me, Tony Roberts,

0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:06.319
<v Speaker 2>Chris Spencer, alex Tommy, Buddy Lewis, Flex Alexander. Yeah, that's

0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:09.360
<v Speaker 2>the show. This is in Sacramento two. So we do

0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:12.520
<v Speaker 2>that show and after the show, this guy comes to

0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:14.520
<v Speaker 2>talk to me. He says, hey, man, you're really funny.

0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:17.399
<v Speaker 2>My friend is a movie director and I just want

0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:19.840
<v Speaker 2>you to meet him. Okay, So he says to me,

0:35:19.840 --> 0:35:22.320
<v Speaker 2>he's just I just think you should meet him. I said, okay.

0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:24.319
<v Speaker 2>He said, He said, yeah, are you gonna be at

0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.520
<v Speaker 2>the golf tournament tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'll be there.

0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:28.560
<v Speaker 2>He said, he's gonna be there. I'll make sure that

0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:30.680
<v Speaker 2>you guys meet the golf tournament. I said, okay. Cool.

0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:33.279
<v Speaker 2>So then the next day golf tournament. This guy's name

0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:36.520
<v Speaker 2>is Nick Leasure, film director. So I meet Nick and

0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.279
<v Speaker 2>he was just like, yeah, Brian, here just here. You're

0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:40.879
<v Speaker 2>really funny bro, And yeah, bro, we should just let's

0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:42.560
<v Speaker 2>figure out we can work together. I want to see

0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:44.439
<v Speaker 2>you perform. When do you perform it. I just happen

0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:47.120
<v Speaker 2>to have a show that night at the Tommy t

0:35:47.320 --> 0:35:49.400
<v Speaker 2>that is no longer open. I was like, I'll be

0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:51.839
<v Speaker 2>at Tommy T's tonight. He was like, I'm coming through.

0:35:52.520 --> 0:35:55.480
<v Speaker 2>So he come to Tommy T's. He's bro. That was great, bro.

0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:58.320
<v Speaker 2>I just yeah, we gotta figure something out. The next

0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:00.839
<v Speaker 2>within the week he called. He sent me like a

0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:03.319
<v Speaker 2>script and he was like, I want you to read

0:36:03.360 --> 0:36:06.000
<v Speaker 2>for this part right here, or read this part and

0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:07.600
<v Speaker 2>then just send me like a video of you.

0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:08.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.200
<v Speaker 2>So then I'm like all right, cool. So then I

0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:13.120
<v Speaker 2>send it to him and then he's yeah, come out.

0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:15.000
<v Speaker 2>I want you to come out of the office. Come out.

0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:17.680
<v Speaker 2>Office is yeah, bro, we start filming. We start filming

0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:19.680
<v Speaker 2>in two muths or in a mother or somebody else.

0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.320
<v Speaker 1>Before he gave you the role, did you ever entertain

0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:24.239
<v Speaker 1>the idea of acting for sure.

0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:28.879
<v Speaker 2>I never entertained the idea, but I've never done any

0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:31.160
<v Speaker 2>of the steps that would show that.

0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:32.560
<v Speaker 1>And you didn't go to acting school.

0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:34.880
<v Speaker 2>I did none of those things. I did none of

0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:37.640
<v Speaker 2>those things. But it was like, that's how it came

0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.240
<v Speaker 2>to me. And this was like this movie was like Starr, Mario,

0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:43.000
<v Speaker 2>ven People's and Glenn Plumbers and it was like, I'm

0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:44.320
<v Speaker 2>with seasoned actors.

0:36:44.719 --> 0:36:46.560
<v Speaker 1>Now did you like the whole experience?

0:36:46.840 --> 0:36:50.359
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely? Acting. Acting is a it's a different sport. It's

0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:54.200
<v Speaker 2>like a totally different sport. But I love acting because

0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:57.080
<v Speaker 2>you get to be someone that's not yourself, you know

0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.520
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. You get to disappear into something else.

0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:02.200
<v Speaker 2>It's a different it's a different muscle, Like you challenge

0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:04.360
<v Speaker 2>yourself differently, you know what I mean. You read the

0:37:04.400 --> 0:37:06.200
<v Speaker 2>part and you got to say, Okay, what would the

0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:08.799
<v Speaker 2>character do? Not? What would I do? What would I

0:37:08.840 --> 0:37:10.960
<v Speaker 2>how would he say this? Yeah? Yeah, you know what

0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:11.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean.

0:37:11.920 --> 0:37:16.520
<v Speaker 1>Now, now that you've experienced both sports, which one do

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:17.160
<v Speaker 1>you like more?

0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:17.839
<v Speaker 2>Still?

0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:18.240
<v Speaker 1>Comedy?

0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:21.000
<v Speaker 2>Comedy? Yeah, I got you got more control over the comedy.

0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:23.719
<v Speaker 2>This is I love acting, though I'm getting more into

0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:27.160
<v Speaker 2>the acting space now because I'm first off I'm a

0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:28.759
<v Speaker 2>comic first, I'm a comedian.

0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:31.480
<v Speaker 1>So everything you're very funny, by the way, extremely funny.

0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:35.759
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate you, thank you. But everything I do to

0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:38.359
<v Speaker 2>bring you to my comedy, you know what I mean?

0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:41.480
<v Speaker 2>So I can go do one hundred movies. My goal,

0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:44.640
<v Speaker 2>one of my main goals is for you to now

0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:49.280
<v Speaker 2>come see me do comedy. Right. So it's like Denzel

0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:53.879
<v Speaker 2>just said, he just said, a theater is an actors medium.

0:37:55.360 --> 0:38:01.759
<v Speaker 2>Film is a director's medium. The stage is a comedians medium.

0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:04.440
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. So no matter what I

0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:07.160
<v Speaker 2>do in front of the camera, they might take it

0:38:07.200 --> 0:38:09.960
<v Speaker 2>and edit it different and that's not what I did.

0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:13.160
<v Speaker 2>But that's what they're supposed to do. This is their thing.

0:38:13.680 --> 0:38:16.279
<v Speaker 2>But the stage is my thing. This is how This

0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:19.560
<v Speaker 2>is the purest of my thoughts and how I can

0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:23.359
<v Speaker 2>break it down. This is without the edit, without the cut.

0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:25.520
<v Speaker 2>This is how I feel. I said it, you know

0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:29.680
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. So, yeah, comedy, comedy always be first.

0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:32.919
<v Speaker 2>You never say always, but I feel comfortable saying what.

0:38:32.800 --> 0:38:35.840
<v Speaker 1>Would you say is the downside of being in this industry?

0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:37.840
<v Speaker 1>You've been in it for over twenty years, i'd imagine,

0:38:37.920 --> 0:38:43.399
<v Speaker 1>or almost twenty almost thirteen thirteen, yeah, thirteen.

0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:45.800
<v Speaker 2>Fourteen, my bad, fourteen fourteen years.

0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:47.839
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what would you say is the downside of it?

0:38:47.920 --> 0:38:49.080
<v Speaker 1>If you could say there.

0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:51.240
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like to say a downside, I'll say it affects

0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:53.680
<v Speaker 2>relationships for sure.

0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:57.200
<v Speaker 1>But give me like a romantic relationship all of them?

0:38:57.200 --> 0:38:59.279
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, for sure, all of them, all of them.

0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:00.480
<v Speaker 1>Why do you say all of them.

0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:01.239
<v Speaker 2>You missed so much?

0:39:01.760 --> 0:39:02.480
<v Speaker 1>Do you have children?

0:39:02.680 --> 0:39:05.040
<v Speaker 2>No, I'll be pulling out, but saying why I pulled

0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:06.800
<v Speaker 2>this out to toast. You got to you got to

0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:07.839
<v Speaker 2>get in the pot of there and.

0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:10.920
<v Speaker 1>Now, okay, he's got a strong pull out game.

0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:14.919
<v Speaker 2>You want to eat this sentiment, you got to pull

0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:15.560
<v Speaker 2>it out, you know what I mean?

0:39:16.000 --> 0:39:18.520
<v Speaker 1>Always wrap it up to guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:39:18.560 --> 0:39:20.319
<v Speaker 2>If you wrap it up. Do you really believe that?

0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:25.600
<v Speaker 1>So it'd be affecting all relationships as a family members

0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:27.919
<v Speaker 1>because you said all relationships or relationships.

0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:30.600
<v Speaker 2>Just I can't. I missed all the birthday parties. They

0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:32.239
<v Speaker 2>do it on the weekend on the road, you know

0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:34.400
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. So it's but I think even that

0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:37.600
<v Speaker 2>can change later. It is because I've been on the

0:39:37.719 --> 0:39:42.040
<v Speaker 2>road consistently now six years.

0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:46.319
<v Speaker 1>Was mastering online social media tough for you.

0:39:48.160 --> 0:39:50.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't think I've mastered it.

0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:53.120
<v Speaker 1>But but you're Your following is pretty good though, So

0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:55.239
<v Speaker 1>it looks like you're starting to get a hang of

0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:55.880
<v Speaker 1>the algorithms.

0:39:57.040 --> 0:39:59.640
<v Speaker 2>The following is growing up. I understand how to be

0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:01.880
<v Speaker 2>funny on the internet, which is different.

0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:03.279
<v Speaker 1>It's a different type of comedy.

0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:06.000
<v Speaker 2>Stage, which is different than being funny here. Everything is

0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:09.120
<v Speaker 2>a different kind of thing to be funny. But I

0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:14.719
<v Speaker 2>will say online, I think I need to grow my

0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:20.760
<v Speaker 2>YouTube page. I need to get some long form content. Damn.

0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:24.040
<v Speaker 2>And I got probably got like eight thousand YouTube subscribers.

0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:26.680
<v Speaker 2>That's still pretty good without ever trying. Yeah, I've never

0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:28.200
<v Speaker 2>tried to build a page.

0:40:28.680 --> 0:40:30.600
<v Speaker 1>Why do you feel it's important to build a YouTube

0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:31.000
<v Speaker 1>page though?

0:40:31.239 --> 0:40:34.719
<v Speaker 2>Because I feel like everybody in the world uses YouTube?

0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:35.799
<v Speaker 1>Do you think that?

0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:38.200
<v Speaker 2>And then from the babies to the eldest, does.

0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:39.880
<v Speaker 1>The social media play a role into how much you

0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:40.239
<v Speaker 1>get paid?

0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:45.239
<v Speaker 2>Now? Absolutely, that's it's the new television. It's like the

0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:50.960
<v Speaker 2>last star that was comedian who was like from a movie,

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:51.640
<v Speaker 2>do you know what I mean?

0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:53.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a good point. What do you think of

0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:55.880
<v Speaker 1>these like comics like Matt Rife, that's.

0:40:55.800 --> 0:40:58.200
<v Speaker 2>My friend that's my guy. I love that guy. Yeah.

0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:02.399
<v Speaker 1>It at that, then I'm not gonna say nothing past it.

0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:03.800
<v Speaker 2>Matt, MAT's hilarious.

0:41:03.840 --> 0:41:04.880
<v Speaker 1>I think you think he's funny.

0:41:04.920 --> 0:41:09.080
<v Speaker 2>Man's hilarious. This is what I believe. I believe that

0:41:10.719 --> 0:41:15.200
<v Speaker 2>the way people discover you sometimes is how they're always

0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:20.200
<v Speaker 2>gonna hold you. Matt's been doing comedy for years. Yeah.

0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:22.799
<v Speaker 2>I think Matt was starting fourteen years old. He wasn't

0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:26.240
<v Speaker 2>doing quote unquote crowd work. He was doing the setup,

0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:28.640
<v Speaker 2>primise punts, and he was doing the jokes. He got

0:41:28.719 --> 0:41:29.960
<v Speaker 2>famous from the crowd work.

0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So then I heard about that.

0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:33.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So then if that's how you've seen him, you're like, oh,

0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:34.800
<v Speaker 2>he's just the crowworker.

0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:36.520
<v Speaker 1>Didn't you do it? Didn't he release a special just

0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:38.480
<v Speaker 1>on CrowdWork too? At some point he did.

0:41:38.600 --> 0:41:40.720
<v Speaker 2>He's release two or three of them like that. Yeah,

0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:42.680
<v Speaker 2>he has one on Netflix that's crowd work.

0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:44.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, I think I've seen that.

0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:48.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. But it's it's like the ability to create and

0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:51.480
<v Speaker 2>find your way. This is the hardest thing to do,

0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:53.720
<v Speaker 2>the hardest thing to do is sell tickets.

0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:57.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, how would you describe your comedy though? For people

0:41:57.760 --> 0:42:01.360
<v Speaker 1>that don't know, I've seen him, you was, Yeah, Yeah,

0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:03.600
<v Speaker 1>that's that's why I wanted on the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think my comedy is brilliant.

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<v Speaker 1>It for people that don't know who Lance was is.

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<v Speaker 1>How would you describe your type of comedy is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it is high energy, intellectual warfare.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how I view it. I'm trying to merge the

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<v Speaker 2>worlds of Tony Roberts and Dave Chappelle and find that

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<v Speaker 2>somewhere in the middle where you have this high energy,

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<v Speaker 2>can say any silly thing and also has some introspective,

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<v Speaker 2>thought provoking Damn, I ain't think about it like that

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<v Speaker 2>and try to mix all of that together. It's how

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<v Speaker 2>I view it. Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm

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<v Speaker 2>really entertaining because like I watch comedy and I can

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<v Speaker 2>break down. I understand comedy, so I can tell you, oh,

0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:56.160
<v Speaker 2>that's that. And there's some college that are really good

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<v Speaker 2>and they're boring. Yeah, and like I'll be watching myself

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<v Speaker 2>and I say, I just don't want to be boring.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that there's I think my rule with comedy

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<v Speaker 1>is that people I never say a comic is terrible.

0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:13.360
<v Speaker 1>I think that people laugh at what they can relate to.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that most people laugh at well, and there

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<v Speaker 1>are people that are just genuinely funny, but most people

0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:22.759
<v Speaker 1>laugh at what they can relate to. Yes, that's what

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<v Speaker 1>I've noticed.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and a great comic will make you laugh at

0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:28.239
<v Speaker 2>things you can't relate to it all.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's they can get you to laugh. But I

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<v Speaker 1>noticed that I tend if I look at the comics

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<v Speaker 1>that I'm like totally like, I'm a fan of this

0:43:36.960 --> 0:43:41.200
<v Speaker 1>particular comic, this particular comic. It's comic that's somewhat there's

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<v Speaker 1>some kind of familial familiar.

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<v Speaker 2>Cularity to get the words where I go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>But but I say that to say that because I

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<v Speaker 1>think there are comics that are genuinely funny, but to say, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that comic needs to be a staple in my like yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to continue. Yeah, I think there's got to

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<v Speaker 1>be a little bit more of a relationship with the

0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:06.759
<v Speaker 1>I can relate to the Bilberd's continual anger. I make

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<v Speaker 1>jokes around here all the time, like yo, I totally

0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:11.960
<v Speaker 1>relate to this guy and holding it in and then

0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:16.680
<v Speaker 1>you just randomly explode. I'm like, yo, I got you stop? Yeah,

0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:21.560
<v Speaker 1>or Sebastian, I keep foret I love it, but all

0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:25.239
<v Speaker 1>the toxic like anything toxic, sign me up like on that,

0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:27.600
<v Speaker 1>like Little Drain, I'm like, yo, I message you. But

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<v Speaker 1>I do still can appreciate all different types of comedy.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think even when I talk to other people,

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<v Speaker 1>it's like some people may like say Matt and be

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<v Speaker 1>like he's amazing, and it's okay. You probably find it

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<v Speaker 1>more relatable then yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I think what's happened in entertainment is people like

0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:51.640
<v Speaker 2>the person more than the product, so they want to

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<v Speaker 2>relate to the person. Yeah, And it's once I'm locked

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<v Speaker 2>in with the person, whatever the product, I must support

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<v Speaker 2>it because I like the person. It's especially with the

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<v Speaker 2>social media age, it's like people are literally just falling

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<v Speaker 2>in love with the personality and don't even know what

0:45:08.920 --> 0:45:12.040
<v Speaker 2>you do. They don't know what you're a comedian, singer, dance.

0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:13.600
<v Speaker 2>They just know that they like you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, or they want to be I think with social media,

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<v Speaker 1>I think people tend to follow people they either want

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<v Speaker 1>to be like or don't. I still haven't grasped the

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<v Speaker 1>whole social media idolization because to me, it's like a

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<v Speaker 1>platform where you present whatever you want to present. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like a mirror. It's like a weird picture show. I

0:45:33.280 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 1>don't think there's a lot of authenticity there, but that's

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<v Speaker 1>where comedy is great, because there's a lot of authenticity.

0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:43.680
<v Speaker 1>For any fans that or comics that are trying to

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<v Speaker 1>look up to you, is that you have a phone on.

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<v Speaker 2>It's vibrating, it's down there.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness. Before we close out, I would like

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<v Speaker 1>to see if you could give any advice to any comics,

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<v Speaker 1>young comics trying to be a comedian in the space

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<v Speaker 1>of the common business.

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<v Speaker 2>I think you call it. Yeah, mom, no, just take

0:46:06.280 --> 0:46:10.400
<v Speaker 2>the plan B pill. Don't worry about it. Okay, all right,

0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:15.120
<v Speaker 2>m my mom be tripping.

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<v Speaker 1>Bro, this is I was like, literally, is he really

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<v Speaker 1>taking this phone call right now? But I have a

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<v Speaker 1>plan B. I think that's hilarious.

0:46:22.200 --> 0:46:24.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry my mom? Is she wild?

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<v Speaker 1>Your mom? Is that where you got it? That's Lance

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<v Speaker 1>Woods for you guys right there?

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, mama, we got.

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<v Speaker 1>Lance. How how can people keep up with you and

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<v Speaker 1>find out how to catch tickets to your show?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, So you asked me two questions.

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<v Speaker 1>I did your mom's plan B?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna give the first if you

0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:47.160
<v Speaker 2>want to follow me. It's sir Lance Woods, s I

0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:50.640
<v Speaker 2>R L A N C E W O O D S.

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<v Speaker 2>That's Instagram, YouTube, TikTok x Twitter. What what's the other

0:46:57.239 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 2>ones that TikTok TikTok?

0:47:00.120 --> 0:47:01.520
<v Speaker 1>And by the way, guys, make sure you go and

0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:04.440
<v Speaker 1>follow his YouTube. Okay, he's trying to grow it ground.

0:47:04.200 --> 0:47:07.879
<v Speaker 2>Grow my YouTube Instagram, Sir Lance Woods, please do that.

0:47:07.920 --> 0:47:10.920
<v Speaker 2>It would be really beneficial. All my tour stuff and

0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:12.799
<v Speaker 2>all the ticket stuff is in the link in the bio.

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<v Speaker 2>All of that cool.

0:47:14.360 --> 0:47:16.359
<v Speaker 1>Even after we wrap, he's getting on the road too.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so happy you have me here.

0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:21.439
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate you letting me come here and cook

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<v Speaker 2>this delicacy.

0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:24.520
<v Speaker 1>And I could tell it meant a lot to you.

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<v Speaker 1>It did. What advice would you give to someone, though, for.

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<v Speaker 2>Real, if I gave a comedian advice. Advice is hard

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<v Speaker 2>for me because it's too general. But what I will

0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:37.279
<v Speaker 2>say is, when you starting off, do the things that

0:47:37.360 --> 0:47:40.000
<v Speaker 2>you think are funny and not what you think other

0:47:40.040 --> 0:47:43.040
<v Speaker 2>people will think is funny. That's one of the main

0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:46.520
<v Speaker 2>things comic struggle with is day they try to do

0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:50.160
<v Speaker 2>what they think people will find funny. Versus what you

0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:52.720
<v Speaker 2>just find funny, because the same way you said Bill

0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:55.680
<v Speaker 2>Burr and the Anger, if you was like, people aren't

0:47:55.680 --> 0:47:58.959
<v Speaker 2>as angry as me, then you wouldn't even be able

0:47:59.000 --> 0:48:02.239
<v Speaker 2>to be yourself because that's how your people find is

0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:04.279
<v Speaker 2>by you being you. You know what I mean? If

0:48:04.280 --> 0:48:07.799
<v Speaker 2>you go try to they already got a version of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Just be But I also think comedy good. If you

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<v Speaker 2>a good comic, it'll teach you how to be yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of people don't know they.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the comics are more funny when they're one

0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:25.120
<v Speaker 1>hundred percent yeah themselves, like unexcusably is that the right word, unapologetic,

0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:27.719
<v Speaker 1>unapologetically themselves, like.

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<v Speaker 2>For sure, they are, for sure, But you gotta.

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<v Speaker 1>Even the ones you can't relate to are more funny

0:48:32.239 --> 0:48:33.920
<v Speaker 1>when you're like, oh my gosh, you can't believe this

0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:35.920
<v Speaker 1>comic thinks this way or what's funny?

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<v Speaker 2>Right? I give everybody comic leeway for lack of a

0:48:40.840 --> 0:48:43.239
<v Speaker 2>better time. There's comics that say things that I one

0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:47.640
<v Speaker 2>hundred percent disagree with, but as a comic, he or

0:48:47.719 --> 0:48:51.279
<v Speaker 2>she has that right to express that. My only, it's

0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:53.920
<v Speaker 2>my only. It's a small request I'd be having just

0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:57.279
<v Speaker 2>make it funny. There's a lot of stuff going on

0:48:57.400 --> 0:48:59.680
<v Speaker 2>right now where it's just just for the shock or

0:48:59.840 --> 0:49:02.719
<v Speaker 2>just its just make it funny what you talk about.

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<v Speaker 2>Just make it funny. Yeah, that's it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to

0:49:08.440 --> 0:49:10.960
<v Speaker 1>come see us. I know you went through a lot

0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:14.440
<v Speaker 1>today and you didn't quite on us, So I appreciate it.

0:49:15.440 --> 0:49:18.439
<v Speaker 2>I know that if y'all got an EBT card.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I messed up on the bread though. I

0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:23.279
<v Speaker 1>think I did this brio bread and I was trying

0:49:23.320 --> 0:49:26.040
<v Speaker 1>to was way too fancy. Bread was fancy.

0:49:26.040 --> 0:49:27.160
<v Speaker 2>Bed was way too fancuse.

0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:29.080
<v Speaker 1>I feel like the bread messed up your dish low key.

0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Like I if I wasn't eating tacos before this.

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<v Speaker 2>It didn't mess it up.

0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:35.080
<v Speaker 1>It just it was too thick, you know what I'm saying.

0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:37.080
<v Speaker 1>I feel like the cheaper bread would have worked better.

0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:39.319
<v Speaker 1>I was trying to be fancy for you, Lance. I

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<v Speaker 1>was excited about you.

0:49:42.680 --> 0:49:44.760
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate it, you know what I mean. I'm excited

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<v Speaker 2>about being here. It was good, Yes, it was good.

0:49:47.719 --> 0:49:49.799
<v Speaker 2>Gods like I said it was. It was like two

0:49:49.800 --> 0:49:52.399
<v Speaker 2>pieces of bread back and maybe four switched together back

0:49:52.440 --> 0:49:54.080
<v Speaker 2>in the day, but it was still good and it

0:49:54.120 --> 0:49:58.040
<v Speaker 2>brought back memories. That's what it's about. Reminiscent your childhood,

0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:02.040
<v Speaker 2>where'd you come from? Forget you, what did you when

0:50:02.040 --> 0:50:03.040
<v Speaker 2>you broke? That's who you are?

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<v Speaker 1>And remember Lance here didn't have his parents, didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>a real question. He's out by Thanks for tuning in.

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