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Speaker 1: I like, who does live here in Nashville, So it's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I think the third comedian to have on

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Speaker 1: the show, Nicky Glazer, John Christ, Dusty Slay. We're a

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Speaker 1: regular stopping post for the America's greatest comedians. Here's Dusty

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Speaker 1: on having to take his shoes off at someone's house.

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Speaker 1: I went to someone's house the other day and they

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Speaker 1: So he's gonna hop in just a second and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to him. I met him when the bad Land

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Speaker 1: Sons were doing their announced, which is Brandon Ray's band.

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Speaker 1: He was there and I felt like the exchange on

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Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, man, I'm a big fan,

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Speaker 1: and he was like yeah, and I was like, you're

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Speaker 1: coming over the house right. He had no idea who

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Speaker 1: I was. Really Yeah, I had no idea and he was,

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Speaker 1: uh sure. He didn't want to say and they didn't

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Speaker 1: that was a few weeks ago, and he's here. We

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that in one second. Let me encourage you.

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Speaker 1: You know, Caroline Hobby has a new podcast. It's called

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Speaker 1: Get Real, but she has one with the Um like

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Speaker 1: And I check that out Get Real with Caroline Hobby,

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Speaker 1: Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson, Amy has Four Things with

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Speaker 1: Amy Brown Um and you know, you check out some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff that we do here so is there

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Speaker 1: anything you'd like to say? My d uh. Follow the

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Speaker 1: show on Instagram. I'm putting a lot of stuff up

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Speaker 1: there now, so if you hear something you can see

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Speaker 1: it too. It's the Bobby Cast. The Bobby Cast followed

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Speaker 1: the Bobby Cast because somebody else has Bobby Cast. What

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's a guy named Robert something.

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Speaker 1: Robert Castronado just made it. I remember being a Robert

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Speaker 1: and having like a hidden post. Well, it's the Bobby Cast.

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Speaker 1: And also, if you listen to something you like it,

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Speaker 1: I can't even get Bobby bones still. That dude doesn't

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Speaker 1: really post anything anymore either. All Right, we gotta go,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. This is the newest episode with

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Speaker 1: Dusty Slay. Check out Welcome to Episode with Dusty Slay.

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Speaker 1: This is why I like I like walking in, just

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Speaker 1: Luckily we've already met once right outside of Brandon Ratio. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: over for something. We had to delay this once, right,

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Speaker 1: the thing that we almost delayed it, but then your

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Speaker 1: to the Bobby cast all day and cramming, need to

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Speaker 1: cram for this. I love it. I want to play

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Speaker 1: I think I told you that. I was like, dude,

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Speaker 1: Here's a dusty on I wearing trucker hats. I got

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Speaker 1: this hat a goodwill. Uh. This hat changes me. A

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Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I know what it's like

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Speaker 1: to not really have stuff and I don't care. You know.

424
00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,800
Speaker 1: It's like, I think success makes me happy in a

425
00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,679
Speaker 1: way of achievement, but all the other stuff, I mean,

426
00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,600
Speaker 1: it's nice. I mean, I bought a car this year.

427
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,040
Speaker 1: Wasn't a big deal. I wasn't stressed about it. That's nice.

428
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,199
Speaker 1: I've been in a play the car before that. I

429
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,919
Speaker 1: bought the first tank gas I put in. I was like,

430
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 1: oh no, I didn't have a car for two years.

431
00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,679
Speaker 1: I rode a bike. And then uh so when I

432
00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,119
Speaker 1: put my first tank of gas, and I was like,

433
00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 1: oh man, forty bucks every time. That's what we're gonna

434
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Speaker 1: be doing now. And and now it's like, yeah, I

435
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,960
Speaker 1: mean it's uh you know, I'm not rich, but I

436
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 1: don't have the same problems that I used to have.

437
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,720
Speaker 1: For me, that was the whole deal was I was

438
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,439
Speaker 1: okay with being broke because I grew up broke, Like

439
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 1: I was able to chase a profession and not have

440
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:54,960
Speaker 1: a lot because it didn't give a lot. And I

441
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 1: was okay with that because if you don't have a

442
00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,480
Speaker 1: well you don't know, right, is it was this easier

443
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,800
Speaker 1: for me to to really dig in because I was

444
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,840
Speaker 1: good at being poor, right, it's functioning. Yeah, I think

445
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,679
Speaker 1: there's a freedom and being poor, right, And I always

446
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,000
Speaker 1: thought it was a bad I always thought it was

447
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,560
Speaker 1: such a bad thing. For a while, I was like,

448
00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,919
Speaker 1: woe is me? Until I realized it was like I

449
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,840
Speaker 1: was like twenty eight or twenty nine years old, and

450
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, the greatest thing that ever happened to me

451
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,920
Speaker 1: was I came from nothing because I had nothing to lose. Yeah. Yeah,

452
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's such a freedom in it where

453
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Speaker 1: it's like you don't really have to answer to anyone

454
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,920
Speaker 1: because there's nothing you can lose. But at the same time,

455
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 1: there is those you know the same you know. I remember,

456
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 1: you know that whole joke of you know, just that

457
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 1: thing of what would you do for a million dollars? Right?

458
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 1: I remember sitting around with some friends just talking about

459
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 1: some things, and my one friend was like, oh, I

460
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: would never do any of those things. And I'm like,

461
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 1: and I had a boss at the time that was

462
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,359
Speaker 1: really hard on me that I just I couldn't stand

463
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: the guy. And I thought, you know, what if that

464
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Speaker 1: meant never having to take anything from that guy again.

465
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 1: I'll give it up. I'd do that whatever it is

466
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Speaker 1: for a million dollars, you know. But now that I'm

467
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Speaker 1: at a different place where I have happiness in my job,

468
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't even I don't even want

469
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 1: a million dollars breakdown. You talk about writing a joke,

470
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,959
Speaker 1: and you went from trying to write hockey stuff in

471
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Speaker 1: your opinion, hockey stuff too, you know, things that fulfill

472
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 1: you a little more. I think there's a real insight

473
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Speaker 1: to how people write their own jokes, Like your joke

474
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Speaker 1: writing process is what well, I think. I think it

475
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,679
Speaker 1: changes all the time. I mean now it's a little different.

476
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 1: I mean, something can just happen to me, Uh, some

477
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 1: interaction can happen and it and it just all becomes

478
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Speaker 1: telling that funny interaction in a way that people will

479
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: be able to understand and that people will be able

480
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Speaker 1: to get and it and it can be just changing

481
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: little things, you know. Recently, I got to open for

482
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Speaker 1: the band Alabama in Iowa, and I'm a huge fan

483
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Speaker 1: of Alabama. So after my set, I went out into

484
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: the audience to watch. I mean I had never seen

485
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: them live it's amazing to me. And this lady comes

486
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 1: up to me and she goes, have you ever milked

487
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Speaker 1: a cow? And I said no, and she said do

488
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 1: you want to? And I said no. And then she said,

489
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: my husband's getting wild tonight and I need somebody to

490
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Speaker 1: help me milk the cows right, And I wasn't sure

491
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Speaker 1: if she meant sex, but I said no and I

492
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: regret it, and I was back at my hotel later

493
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,160
Speaker 1: and I was like, I could be milking some cows

494
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 1: right now, but just I was just watching a set

495
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: that I did about two weeks ago, and I was

496
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: doing that exact same story, but it was just small

497
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,439
Speaker 1: little things in there that I wasn't saying that. It

498
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: just comes through repetition. The more I say it, the

499
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 1: more I realized, Okay, they laughed at this, Let's let's

500
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Speaker 1: try that. It's just like a repeat of uh, have

501
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Speaker 1: you know It's like, have you ever milked a cow? No?

502
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: Do you want to? No? Like that always gets to

503
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: laugh from people now. But what I would say before,

504
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 1: have you ever milked a cow? But like, you know,

505
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: I grew up on a farm, but I never milked

506
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Speaker 1: a cow. And then she was like, do you want to,

507
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, no, and that's not funny.

508
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: But somehow the no no is funny. And I would

509
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Speaker 1: say in you in know instead of actually saying the

510
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: word sex, which made it funnier. I'm not a dirty comic,

511
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 1: you know. I don't mind getting a little edgy, but

512
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to go dirty, you know. So for me,

513
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: even saying the word sex is a little dirtier than

514
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: I go. But you know, but it's like some of

515
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: my earlier jokes, it was like, all right, let's let's

516
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Speaker 1: think of this story. One of my first ones I

517
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: wrote was about getting pulled over. Uh that time me

518
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 1: and my friend you know, was drinking, and it's like

519
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: it had it felt like it had to be this

520
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: big thing. It had to be this big thing that happened.

521
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: I went to jail, I got arrested, and that's a

522
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: story worth telling. Whereas the ladies saying do you want

523
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: to milk some cows? Not that big of a deal.

524
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: But it's all about the wording. I don't know if

525
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: that answers the question, but it's like, uh, this weekend,

526
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Speaker 1: I got I gotta I was at this elevator and

527
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 1: we were on the fourth floor. There was nowhere to

528
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: go up. This is the tallest you could get. We

529
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Speaker 1: both got in the elevator. He was with his girlfriend

530
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Speaker 1: and he was like what floor. I said one, So

531
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Speaker 1: we hit one. He hit two and he is you're

532
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: going down, We're going up. I was like okay, and

533
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: it was so weird. I just let it pass right.

534
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: But then the he said, but we'll just ride with

535
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: you anyway. I was like okay, and then it opens

536
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: it too and he goes, well, I guess we stole

537
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 1: it from you. I'm like, what floor did you think

538
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: we were on? You know, we're on the one and

539
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 1: a half floor. But it's things like that that happens

540
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: to me, and then I just uh, Then I just

541
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: figure out the right wording. And then oftentimes it's like,

542
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, I've heard it said you don't let facts

543
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: ruin a good story, right, So if it's not funny,

544
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: then you make up a little something and it's a

545
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: repetition and missing. Yes, absolutely. I mean I listened to

546
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: your podcast with John Chris today and I just heard

547
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: you talk about that that so much of it is

548
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: about failure, and it's like you fail. I fail all

549
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: the time at comedy and it is me going back

550
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: in and saying I'm gonna keep trying that, or I'm

551
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing that. That makes me successful because I

552
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: get better at it. I figure out how to do it.

553
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: When you're in South Carolina and you go, Okay, I'm

554
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 1: gonna do this. You get an old beater car, drive

555
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: around all around the country or way, well, I bought

556
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: a Uh I ended up. I saved what I What

557
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: happened to me was I used to sell pesticides for

558
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: a living. So I was driving everywhere I was Yeah,

559
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: so pesticides to lows and home depot and uh so

560
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: I was driving a old sale Oh yeah, that's hardcore.

561
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: You got in deep. Well, I was driving. I would

562
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: drive to the store and talked that I'd build displays

563
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: and and and talk to them about you know, doing

564
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: this and that normally getting rejected all the time, and

565
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: that that's interesting to me because that was a job

566
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: I wasn't interested in. So the rejection was harder for

567
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: me because it wasn't something I was willing to fight for.

568
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: But sending a veils to a comedy club every month,

569
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: being like, will you book me wasn't that big of

570
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: a deal to me because I'm like, I want to

571
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: get booked here. If if they don't build an extra

572
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: pesticide display for me, I don't really care that I

573
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: want to work this club. So I had. I had

574
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Speaker 1: that job, and I wrecked a few times and I

575
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: had a lot of speed and ticket so my insurance

576
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: was really in pensive and I couldn't figure out how

577
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: to quit the job because I was like, I gotta

578
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: pay for this car and I had really expensive insurance.

579
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: So the trade off what I quit drinking, I quit

580
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: smoking cigarettes. So that was a huge expense out of

581
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: my life. And then I was like, if I sell

582
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: the car, I don't even need the job. So that's

583
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: what I did. I sold the car, quit drinking, quit

584
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: smoking cigarettes, just went back to very basics of life.

585
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: Had a bike and then I just saved up money.

586
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: So in two thousand fourteen, when I bought a car,

587
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: I bought a Volvo, but I bought used Volvo a

588
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles and I put an extra two hundred

589
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand miles on the car. So I put three

590
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: D seventeen on it. And the day I traded it in,

591
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: I pulled in and my car is just leaking all

592
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: this stuff out of the bottom. And I was like,

593
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 1: now it's time, And what do they give me for

594
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: a trade in for a three hundred thousand mile Basically

595
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: they gave me like, uh, you know whatever. I would

596
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: have tried to negotiate. I'm no negotiator, right, So I

597
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,479
Speaker 1: was like, hey, how about the car you knock off

598
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: a thousand bucks? They were like, okay, perfect, which they

599
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: are probably knocked off anyway, but they were like, all right,

600
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: this is you. Ever play a room that's so not

601
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: full it's uncomfortable? Oh so many times. I actually, after

602
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: I did Jimmy Kimmel, I thought my whole life was

603
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: gonna change, right. I thought, Oh, I'm gonna be setlling

604
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: out every room I do now. So I had these credits.

605
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: You know, I did Last Comic Standing in two thousand fifteen.

606
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: I didn't make it very far, but enough far enough

607
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: to use it as a credit. So people would bring

608
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: me up to stage as the headline or there will

609
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: be twelve people in the audience and they're like, you've

610
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: seen him one Last Comic Standing, You've seen him on

611
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, Alive here he is Dusty Sleigh. So I

612
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: would come up and I would go, yes, I'm very famous,

613
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: And that's what I would do all the time to

614
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: kind of break that tension. I would go in very famous,

615
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: very rich, and it would break the tension. And I

616
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: think work in those small rooms like that really helped me.

617
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: Work in small rooms, working big rooms, I mean it

618
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: all helps you to shape you to be the best

619
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: comic who can be. Because you know, Saturday night early

620
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: show at Zany's, people in the room, you gotta be

621
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: you gotta be not doing well two not have a

622
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: good show, you know, but twelve people, you're like, that's hard.

623
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: It's hard to get in there and connect with him

624
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: because that audience is probably thinking, well, this is a

625
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: bad show. We shouldn't have came to see this guy.

626
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: And with a few people, there's not much to feed

627
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: off of with each other, right, Like bigger rooms, listen,

628
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: if you can get them, they're easier to to have

629
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: them kind of reproduce laughter within themselves. Yes, like they

630
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: want to laugh, and that many people that want to

631
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: laugh will kind of spread it around, something like a

632
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: virus in the room. Um. Absolutely, and and something about

633
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: the room being dark or being hidden. Uh, you can

634
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: laugh like, if there's twelve people in the room, it's

635
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: well lit up front, throw all up front with the

636
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: lighting of the stages. You don't want to be the

637
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: one guy laughing. Uh. One of my friends of the

638
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: comedian Nikki Glazer, and she talks about going on Jay

639
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: Leno back in the day and going up. My life's changed.

640
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm after the show boom and nothing. Oh yeah. She

641
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: goes to which like maybe you saw me on Like

642
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: what what you pickles? Like, oh yeah, I know, I know.

643
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: That's the weirdest thing. It's like if somebody is like

644
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: I've seen you somewhere and I'm like Jimmy Kimmel and

645
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: they're like, no, I think you used to work at

646
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: a Low's. Okay, yeah, that's probably it, you know. But

647
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show the first time, I mean that show,

648
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: that set went really well, That set went the way

649
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: that I wanted it to go, and that essentially changed

650
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: my life. I mean it was a chain of events

651
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: that happened. But yeah, I mean that changed my whole career.

652
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: How did you get on that show? What chain of

653
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: events are referring to? Well, I did in two thousand seventeen,

654
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: I did the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, and

655
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: through that I got an audition for Just for Laughs

656
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: the Comedy the Comedy Festival in Montreal, and uh, they

657
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: wanted me to do Unwrapped, but I had a manager

658
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: at the time, so I couldn't do Unwrapped. So they

659
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: were like, all right, you can audition for REP. They

660
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: have those two showcases, and so I did that showcase.

661
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: I didn't get it, but the booker for Jimmy Kimmel

662
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: was there, so that's how I got that booking. But

663
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: I got to meet Jeff Singer from JFL. So then

664
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, I do the Laughing Skull Festival

665
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and Jeff Singer is there and Michael Cox,

666
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: who books the Tonight Show, both there. I had a

667
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: killer set. They both saw it, and Jeff Singer starts

668
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: talking to me again, and you know, kind of just

669
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, talking to me a bit, and I get

670
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: the impression that if I were you know, unrapped, that

671
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: I might be able to get JFL unwrapped, and which yes,

672
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: and and then Michael Cox talked to me and he's like,

673
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: I'd love to have you on the show. Why don't

674
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: you send me a tape. So I start sending tapes

675
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: back and forth with him. I go through some things.

676
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: I come out unwrapped. I dropped the management that I had.

677
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, it's not gonna hurt me.

678
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: I got Jimmy Kimmel on my own. It's not gonna

679
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: hurt me to be without a manager. Even if nothing happens,

680
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: I'll be fine. And so, you know, once I let

681
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: Jeff Singer know that I was officially unwrapped, you know,

682
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: a few weeks went by and I ended up getting JFL,

683
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: which was great. I got just for laughs, unwrapped new faces,

684
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: so pumped, and you know, I was still communicating with

685
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: Michael Cox a little bit, but it had kind of

686
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: died off. And then my set at JFL went so well.

687
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: It was like, I mean, it was all that I

688
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: wanted it to be. I was like, I mean, I'm

689
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: worried that I'm gonna be in Montreal and everybody speaks French.

690
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: No one's gonna get my jokes, no one's gonna know

691
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: what the home depot is, and it just crushed. I'm

692
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: doing a wave joke, I'm getting applause breaks for waving

693
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: at people and it's amazing. And then Michael Cox calls

694
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: me like two days later says, you want to do

695
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show in two weeks, And I said yes,

696
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: and so we got a set together and I'm two

697
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: weeks later, I'm on the Tonight Show. After that show finished,

698
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: you feel like it was a little different than when

699
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: you want on Kimmel. Yeah, I felt great on both.

700
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: But I have a bunch of friends that live in

701
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: New York. So after after I did it, they came

702
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: and after I did it, we all went to a bar.

703
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: We all went to a cigar shop and then out

704
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: to a bar and watched me on the Tonight Show.

705
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: A lot of friends that I started with in Charleston

706
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: we watched me on the Tonight Show and it just

707
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: and then my phone just blew up like never before.

708
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: I was hearing from family members and friends and it

709
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: was amazing. And uh, yeah, I couldn't sleep. I only

710
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: I only had like four hours, so I had to

711
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: be on a plane anyway, but I couldn't sleep. I

712
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: just I felt amazing. There's a picture of you. It

713
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: was on your Instagram of you Leno Foxworthy. Uh the Tennessee. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

714
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: you're you're all the is that the opery? So what

715
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: was behind that picture? What's the story there? Well, I

716
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: got I just got invited to see. I mean, I'm

717
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: a huge Jeff Foxworthy fan, always have been. When I

718
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: was in middle school, I was living in a trailer

719
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: park when his you Might be a Redneck came out

720
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this guy is speaking to me,

721
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: Like he had us walking around school saying yount too,

722
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,239
Speaker 1: and I like we weren't already saying it, you know.

723
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: And uh so, yeah, I mean his agent. I had

724
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: met his agent at the Nashville Comedy Festival and we

725
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: we talked with with him and my manager and uh yeah,

726
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: he invited me just to the opera to see that,

727
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's amazing. And then I get

728
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: there and Nate had just had his Netflix special come out,

729
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: so they were very interested in Nate. But uh, you know,

730
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: I ended up getting to talk to Jeff Foxworthy quite

731
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: a bit and I did an interview with him earlier

732
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: this year. It hasn't come out, but you know, and

733
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: just very exciting for me im and I've always been

734
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: a big fan. So how is it with you and Nate?

735
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: You guys both live here Ish Nate was already uh

736
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: popular before I moved here. I moved here in two

737
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen. The first open mic I did, Nate

738
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: was there and I was already a fan of him.

739
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: I was listening to his first album a lot. And yeah,

740
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: I mean Nate spent a lot of help to me. Nate.

741
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: We don't hang out a ton, but he's such a

742
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: great dude. And any Nate seems to pop up anytime

743
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: there is a import decision for me to make, and

744
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: he just and he's there good advice. It's like he's

745
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: a step ahead of me all way. Well I hope,

746
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: I hope that I'm always kind of following behind what

747
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: Nate does. But yeah, and uh so he's like always

748
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: like I've been there, done that. So he's always a

749
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: lot of help. What's with the show? Did you are? You?

750
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: You're taking a show? Like developing a show? Well, I

751
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: sold a development deal to ABC last year about growing

752
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: up in a trailer park and uh that's a uh

753
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: in my first outing, I had never been to ABC studios,

754
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: but they saw me at JFL too, and they liked it.

755
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: One of the guys from JFL was like, Hey, I

756
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 1: grew up like that too, or one of the guys

757
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: from ABC, and it's it's awesome, and so we sold this.

758
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna get made, but I got

759
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: a couple of other things in the works right now.

760
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. It's sound like me

761
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: when I talk about these shows. I'm like, no show

762
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: ever makes it. That's what I say, No show ever

763
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: makes it. Occasionally want to creep through, but I'm just

764
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 1: gonna keep shooting shots until one does. Yeah, it's funny

765
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: you say that. So you don't think that will get

766
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: made because why that You don't think the passions behind

767
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: it right now? But behind the right with the right people. Well,

768
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: I well, I think a lot of things happen. Like

769
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: one thing happened that like the head of ABC or

770
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: whatever that department left mid production of our mid script writing.

771
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: But it was like, you know, I've never been through

772
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: this before, So I'm paired up with a writer. We

773
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: would write a little something and then we would get

774
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: notes and they would go, we love it, we love it.

775
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: Change this, change this, and we go okay, great, and

776
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: then we would change those things. Have another call and

777
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: they will be like, oh, we love it. Maybe change this,

778
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: maybe change that, and then would have another we love it.

779
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: And then one day I'm at a Longhorn Steakhouse in Eerie,

780
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania about to eat a steak and I get a

781
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: call and they're like, Okay, we're not gonna do it.

782
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: But they didn't say the project is dead. They said,

783
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna go this round. We're gonna

784
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: try to sell it to some other people. I just

785
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: think that's why I think it's not gonna happen. But

786
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: I have some other ideas I got. I got a

787
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,479
Speaker 1: couple of things that I'm working on. Nothing official yet,

788
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: but it seems really good. Potentially a cartoon, which I

789
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: would be I would love that. Are you always writing? Yeah?

790
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: I right all the time. I mean, I'm right, you

791
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: know I'm writing. I I like to do, you know,

792
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: YouTube videos my my top five country songs. So I

793
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: was really interested in your podcast about the songs that

794
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: people think means something, that means something else. I was.

795
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: I was pretty disappointed to find out that Phil Collins,

796
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean any, means nothing, means nothing. I wonder

797
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: if he just was like, you know what, I'm tired

798
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: of people. I'm just gonna say it means nothing. I'm

799
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: tired of telling the story about the guy watching the

800
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: guy drowned. It bums me up. Man. I was living

801
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: in a trailer part for the second time, and me

802
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: and some friends went to Atlanta and we're at a

803
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: hard rock cafe. This is in the when you know,

804
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: hard rock cafe is still doing well here, but uh,

805
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: it used to be like a huge everybody had those shirts.

806
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: And Uh, this guy in the kitchen as that big

807
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: drum solo comes, he bangs on the side of the

808
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: stove or whatever, and I was like, it's just the

809
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: coolest memory for me. I was like, that's amazing. I

810
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: always loved that song anyway, But uh, what did we say?

811
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: What made me say? Oh? Oh? Writing? So I write

812
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: these episodes out for my for my YouTube, and I've

813
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: been right. I've been doing a whole series on my

814
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: podcast about how to become a comic from you know,

815
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: you're sitting on the couch basically to becoming a headliner.

816
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: And so I've been writing those out and now I'm

817
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: writing writing a couple of different scripts. Uh, and I'm

818
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: writing jokes all the time. So I feel I feel

819
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: more creative than ever. And I'm just I'm so happy

820
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: to be doing what I'm doing and I'm actually, uh

821
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: finally making money, which is nice too because I've been

822
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: doing a lot of these shows for twelve people, no

823
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: real money, driving for eight hours to get there. I

824
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: was watching um on Netflix that a special, not not

825
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: a Netflix special, but that had a show I remember

826
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: what it was where they would drive all the way

827
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: across the country and it would show all these comics

828
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: like my Humber that special. They would drive all the

829
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: way across the country to do fifteen minutes and make

830
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: no money. It was like a documentary on struggling comics.

831
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: It's been a while. I've you seen that one? Oh?

832
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'd love to live that one. Oh, I've

833
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: lived that one for sure. But the great thing for

834
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: me is is I lived in Charleston for six years, uh,

835
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: and I got to get all those kinks of not

836
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: being a good comic out of me before anybody in

837
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: the club ever saw me. And now I'm like, you know,

838
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: I I had a pretty high success rate. Or I

839
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: could go to a club, I say, hey, uh, let

840
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: me come up there, let me do five minutes. Once

841
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: you see me, you'll book me. And only one club

842
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: did I not do that do well at and it

843
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: was a club I showed up. There's four people in

844
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: the audience for five minutes. I never made them crack

845
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: a smile, and I was like, all right, well, I

846
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: still want to get booked here, but I can see

847
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: why you wouldn't want to. So you're writing a lot

848
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: of stuff. Do you ever write for other comics? Well,

849
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: I have this real thing. My wife says that that

850
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: I think that no one likes my ideas, but I

851
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: always Uh. That's why stand up has always worked so

852
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: well for me. I don't have to run my idea

853
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: by anybody. I don't have to have anybody think it's funny.

854
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: I just go try it, and then if it's not funny,

855
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: I adjust. I make it funny. But I try to

856
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: write jokes for people. They don't think it's funny, they

857
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: won't try it. I've had so many comics for a

858
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: long time. My my my real passion was to try

859
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: to take a terrible comic that I saw it an

860
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: open mic and make them funny. All I wanted them

861
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: to do was have one five minutes set, but all

862
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: would end up happening was they would do my joke

863
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: one time, it would get better laughs than any other

864
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: joke they ever did, and then they would differ back

865
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: to their old jokes, and then they would just stop

866
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: telling the joke, and then they would resent me. Happened

867
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: every time. I don't know why most comics I tried

868
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: to make funny end up hating me. That's a funny docuseries,

869
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: even on YouTube, find somebody that sucks and they're a

870
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: part of it, and you're right and developed them as

871
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: a comedian and it watches them grow. But you gotta

872
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: find someone that's okay with them being the sucky comic

873
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: right then using your material. I mean, that's that's my passion.

874
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: My passion is to make bad comics good a comedy.

875
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: I was reading your twitter. This is your most retweeted tweet.

876
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: You know it about people saying I'm not country as

877
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: they thought i'd be. This is what you wrote. Somebody

878
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: told me tonight that I wasn't as country as they

879
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: thought i'd be. I felt birth a cow with my hands,

880
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: I've bailed ay and I know how to drive tractor.

881
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how country that they thought i'd be. Yeah,

882
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think it's the accent, right,

883
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I've just lived all over my wife's Canadian.

884
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: We're we're ruining each other's accents. I'm becoming more Canadian,

885
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: she's becoming more Southern like, and I don't know. I mean,

886
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: it's just not there. I don't say y'all a lot.

887
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: I used to, Uh, but I don't know what's happening. Words.

888
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: My wife is a big reader, and she's always trying

889
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: to teach me words. And I'm like, I wish that

890
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: I was more Southern, right, more I had more of

891
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: a Southern accent. But I don't know. I'm not gonna

892
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: fake it, you know, it comes out sometimes. But yeah,

893
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: I mean, my my parents got divorced when I was two,

894
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: and my I always say there was a custody about

895
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: my mom lost, so I had to go live with

896
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: her and uh, but she lived in a trailer part.

897
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: My dad still lives on a farm. So I've done

898
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: all the farming things. I mean, I've drove, I've raked

899
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: hay on one tractor while my dad's on the other

900
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: tractor bailing hey, yelling at me from across the field,

901
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: and I know he's mad by the way he's waving

902
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: his hands. I don't know what I've done, but once

903
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: we get together, I'll be in trouble. And I bailed. Hey,

904
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: I picked up little square bales. I had to birthday cow.

905
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: I had to stick my arm inside of a cow

906
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: and reach for things, you know, and try to pull

907
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: another cow out of it. That country, yeah, you look country. Yeah.

908
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: But people they just I don't know what they think

909
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. You. Uh, you've been I guess the

910
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: full time comics is what? Yeah, two thousand fourteen, I

911
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: went back to the pesticide job for about four months

912
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: and then it was a seasonal job. And I said,

913
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: when this ends, I'm going full time. And when did

914
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: you meet your wife? I met her in two thousand

915
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: thirteen in New York City. So she's not someone that

916
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: I saw you just killing it at comedy been like,

917
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: that's my dude. Well, we were doing open mics in

918
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: New York. She does comedy too. Yeah, she's kind of

919
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: semi retired now. The more money I make the less

920
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: the more she hates traveling, you know. And uh, but

921
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: she uh we met we were both doing open mics.

922
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: I was visiting from Charleston. She was visiting from Canada

923
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: and I was doing pretty well. But no, I mean

924
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: the time she saw me again in two thousand, I think, uh,

925
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: I was doing much better. Your mount rushmore of funny

926
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: people now not comics. They can be comics if you want.

927
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: But your mount rushmore of funny people, well, I would

928
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: say John Candy would go there first. If we're not

929
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: talking stand up comic, that they don't have to be

930
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: stand up comics. John Candy. Uncle Buck is like the

931
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: greatest movie too. I mean, you know, it's a little cheesy.

932
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: It's a John Hughes film, but I love John Candy.

933
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm so sad that he died because I like what

934
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: he does. I would say Jeff Foxworthy definitely goes up

935
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: there for me is a comic. Uh. Steve Martin, I

936
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: love the Let's Get Small album. I just tore that

937
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: album up. I loved it, loved it, and I think

938
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: if I had to put a fourth person, and it

939
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: could be any funny person, I go David's bait. Uh,

940
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: Joe Dirt does it for me. We were doing this

941
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: backstage one of my shows this past weekend. Steve Martin

942
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 1: is online too for just simply from we were talking

943
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: about because I did this bit, which it's only time

944
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: to be only okay, I hadn't, I've never done it before.

945
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: And so I'm standing up and I've got my guitar

946
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh, I'm gonna sing this song.

947
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: It's a real emotional song and these lyrics Ruined mean

948
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: a lot to me. And they bring out a stool

949
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: and then I sit down on the stool, but the

950
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: mic is still at standing distance and I'm singing the

951
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: song with no microphone, right, So I'm just singing it

952
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: forward and people can't hear me because the microphones. And

953
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: it's such a Steve Martin inspired idea, so I just

954
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: sit on the stone. I'm like, but I'm playing the

955
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: guard guitar, so you can't hear anything I'm saying. After

956
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: I set it up and I finished, and I was like, oh,

957
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: that's that's completely Steve Martin influenced. Every part of that

958
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: bit was me watching Steve Martin do stadium shows with

959
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: a dime you want, I'm not gonna do a magic

960
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: trick where people are up in the section g not

961
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: seeing the dime, but that was part of the humor.

962
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Um so Steve Martin's and we say Steve Martin, and

963
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: I've read Born Standing Up like ten times. Well, he's

964
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: so great. I mean the Let's Get Small album. I

965
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: always wish that I could see that because I could.

966
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: I can't find it anything on it. I've only heard

967
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 1: the audio. But it's like there's some physical things he's

968
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: doing that I can only imagine because the laughter, Yeah,

969
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: that's happening. I just love he's He's about ten minutes

970
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: in and he goes, all right, let's get started. I've

971
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: been stalling. I've been waiting for the drugs to kick in.

972
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: And it's just I do that sometimes if my show

973
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: is not going well. After a little while, I'll go,

974
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: all right, let's get started, let's get into it. And

975
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: he's so good. Instead of a last meal, you're given

976
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: a last song, right, It's it's the one that you

977
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: go out on. What is it man? The last song? Ah?

978
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: Oh wow? Uh? You know what. I don't want to

979
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: be too stereotypical of my own self here, but I

980
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: might go, like I Hank Junior country Boy can't Survive.

981
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: I always like that song, and I don't listen to

982
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: it that much anymore because I've burned it up. But

983
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, I always loved it. And what a

984
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: good way to go out. You're about to die. God,

985
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh yeah, I mean I still am.

986
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Uh, you know, I always

987
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: like to separate people from from music. I mean, I

988
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: don't know much about him personally, but sometimes I hear

989
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: stuff about him and I'm like, he doesn't seem like

990
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: a nice guy, but I love his music. I love it. Yeah,

991
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: there are a lot of those he has from the

992
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: thing about him is he has such a big catalog

993
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: that outside of the popular songs that everybody knows he has,

994
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: has so many great songs. I just keep thanks to Spotify.

995
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: I just I just tear him up. What is the

996
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 1: dumbest thing that you hear people say about your profession? Oh? Well,

997
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: oh man, well I can tell you this. This was

998
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: said to a friend of mine, and uh, I don't,

999
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't. He said he missed my friend Aron Webber.

1000
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: He opens for John Chris quite a bit, and he

1001
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: was on the and the guy was like, when are

1002
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: you guys gonna be coming back here? And he was like,

1003
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, we gotta get some you know,

1004
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: we gotta write some new joke and stuff like that,

1005
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: and he goes, oh, don't tell me that scripted. He

1006
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: thinks you're just add living time. I mean, just stuff

1007
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: like that where people want you to tell jokes, just like, hey,

1008
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: tell me a joke. It's like, you know, there's a

1009
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: whole thing that goes into it. There's a stage, there's lighting,

1010
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: their seats, there's an audience, you're in a setting. I mean,

1011
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: all these jokes are funnier when I'm in that environment.

1012
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: For me to just tell you that on the street,

1013
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: all what's gonna happen is I'm gonna tell you the joke.

1014
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: You're not gonna think it's that funny, and then you're

1015
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: gonna go that guy's not funny. Do you have people,

1016
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: because this happens to me a bit, where they're like, hey,

1017
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: will you come to jokes like tomorrow nine we get

1018
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: this event, specific jokes about this event because they just

1019
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: think you can just write jokes like this, And they

1020
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: also don't understand that you almost you have to test

1021
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: them somewhere to really feel confident about them. Otherwise you're

1022
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: just blindly swinging. Yeah. I mean, I've tried to do

1023
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: that for events, Like I'll be doing an event, I'm like,

1024
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna trying to write some jokes just

1025
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: for the event, and then I go out and do

1026
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: them and sometimes they bomb and I'm like, oh, I've

1027
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: just started this whole set by bombing when I could

1028
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: have just went with jokes that I know are good,

1029
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: you know. And it's like, but I think the more

1030
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: that you do comedy, the more you can. Like I

1031
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: just did a week of shows for the company's sheets.

1032
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: The it's like a it's like a gas station restaurant

1033
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: type thing. I know what we travel around. You can

1034
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: order food at the gas station at two am. You yeah,

1035
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: you know, like a taco and uh from the little screen. Yeah,

1036
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: And and it's great. And it's like I did three shows,

1037
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: one Monday, one Wednesday, one Friday, and by Friday I

1038
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: had my sheets jokes down like they were I didn't

1039
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: have many, but I had them down. Monday. They were shaky,

1040
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: they didn't work Friday. They were great because it's my

1041
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: third time saying them. You know, do you you still drink?

1042
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: I don't drink. I haven't drank since two thousand because well,

1043
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, I never liked the expression once an alcoholic

1044
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: always an alcoholic, because I feel like if I'm not drinking,

1045
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm not an alcoholic, right, Uh, I only have a

1046
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: problem if I start drinking again. But I'd like to party.

1047
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no sad story for me. I'd

1048
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: like partying. And when I get a little alcohol in

1049
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: my system, I'm ready to party and I don't stop

1050
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: until I my body forces me to stop. Are you

1051
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: completely straight edge? Now? I'd like to say I'm dry?

1052
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I mean, you know, I mean, no,

1053
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really feel like I abuse anything,

1054
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: but I uh, you know, I I definitely don't drink.

1055
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,479
Speaker 1: I haven't had. I had actually was in a church

1056
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: one time and I had uh communion wine. And every

1057
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: church I had ever been to it was grape juice.

1058
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,959
Speaker 1: And this was a This was a hefty, little little

1059
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: shot of wine that I took and I felt it

1060
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,479
Speaker 1: run down my throat, and I thought, is this gonna

1061
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: break me? I could see myself already at brunch having drinks.

1062
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime I think about drinking, I think, you

1063
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: know what I'm It's been seven years. I could probably

1064
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: have a beer now and be fine, And then I've

1065
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: already imagining myself drinking every day at every opportunity, so

1066
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Your podcast is called We're having

1067
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: a good time. Yes, tell me what the podcast is? Well,

1068
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: the podcast, I mean initially it started off because I

1069
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I I go to a place

1070
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: and do comedy and then I'm not back there for

1071
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: another year. I was like, let me have a way

1072
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: for people to stay in touch with me, to listen

1073
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: to me. So I was like, well, we're gonna talk

1074
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: about some fun conspiracies, bigfoot locked nests, but you run

1075
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: out of those pretty quick. And then I was like, well,

1076
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: I'll just tell stories stuff that I can't make funny

1077
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: on stage. And then I'm like, well I ran out

1078
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: of those pretty quick. So we we started to teeter.

1079
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: We were like we were just me and my wife

1080
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: were just sitting there. We were like, we don't even

1081
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about. So that's when I decided

1082
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: to start this series on helping people become comics, right.

1083
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: And I think it's a nice insight to my story

1084
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: because it's all about from my perspective because I did

1085
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 1: all of these things from Nashville. I don't know and

1086
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to put myself on any kind of pedestal.

1087
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: But I don't know of any other comic who's gotten

1088
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, three late nights two in one year while

1089
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: living in a city like Nashville. Nashville is incredible, and

1090
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: that's why I want to live here. But everybody that

1091
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: gets those things either lives in or has lived in

1092
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: New York or l A or Chicago, and I never have.

1093
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: So it feels good. So I'm trying to share my

1094
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: story with people and what I did while living in

1095
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: a city that's not considered one of the Big Three,

1096
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: and that's called we're having a good time. That that

1097
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: same point, So did you do all of this on

1098
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: that podcast? Is it morphing? As you listen where it

1099
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: starts out and you're talking about you know, UFOs, and

1100
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: then it goes to yes, okay, but season one is

1101
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: us figuring it out. Season two is where we start

1102
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: with the with the new stuff. Season two were okay,

1103
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: we're getting started now. Yeah, I mean season one starts off,

1104
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: we just the you know, first twenty episodes probably as

1105
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: us cutting on the on the microphones and just talking

1106
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: bye bye, you know, probably twenty we're adding in bumpers,

1107
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: we've got sounds, We've got sound effects. A guy named

1108
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: Joe Denham wrote a theme song for me and uh,

1109
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: so now I feel like it's great. And my friend

1110
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: Matt Price wrote a bunch of bumpers for us, so

1111
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: we got uh. I don't know it's I think it's

1112
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: a great podcast as even if you don't want to

1113
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: do comedy for me, I just want people like like

1114
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: knowing where I came from. I just want people to

1115
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: live better lives. And I feel like people can get

1116
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: so caught up in mind sets where they're like, uh,

1117
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'll never be able to do this, or

1118
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: I'll never be able to do this. I'm trying to

1119
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 1: give simple steps on how you can live a better life,

1120
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: but through comedy, but also just be positive people. You know.

1121
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: It's like people can get so caught up with things

1122
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: going on in the world that they get real negative.

1123
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: And that's what my comedy is all about. That's why

1124
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: I like to say we're having a good time because

1125
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about anything serious. I'm just

1126
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: out here trying to trying to make jokes like if

1127
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: you've got this going on in your life or this

1128
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: going on you come to my show for for thirty

1129
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: minutes to an hour, you can just kick back and

1130
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: forget all those problems. You don't get political. I don't

1131
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: get political. I don't. I've decided a long time ago

1132
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,240
Speaker 1: that I didn't even want to make fun of people.

1133
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: If I'm making some front of someone in a story,

1134
00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: it's that specific person. Uh. But it's like, you know,

1135
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: I used to make I used to be a little

1136
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: overweight when I was drinking right, and that I would

1137
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: make fat jokes. But now I'm like, you know what,

1138
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: if a fat person comes to my show, I don't

1139
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: want them to leave feeling bad about themselves. I want

1140
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: them to be happy too, So I don't write those jokes. Either.

1141
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,720
Speaker 1: Where you're from an Alabama is that more Auburn country

1142
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: or Tiede country. Well, I'm from uh town called Opalika

1143
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: and uh which is right next to Auburn, So they're

1144
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: Auburn fans. Where I could what I what I like

1145
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: to say where I come from, you're either an Alabama

1146
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: fan or you went to college. And then I said,

1147
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: but I didn't go to college, so roll tide, you know,

1148
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: and uh, but yeah, my dad's a dieheart Alabama fan.

1149
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: My My mom's a Diehart Auburn fan, and your wife's Canadian.

1150
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: My wife's Canadian. The whole culture has got to be

1151
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: new to her. Oh yeah, she could care less, but

1152
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: she's been down I mean, gun culture, all that stuff

1153
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 1: is pretty new to her. Actually, we once my mom,

1154
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: I was living in a house. It was her that

1155
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: lived there. Two of my nephews and my sister and

1156
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: my brother in law all lived in one house. It

1157
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: wasn't a five bedroom house. It was uncomfortab bowl and

1158
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: I was down there. We were hanging out and uh,

1159
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: my wife was like, do you guys have any guns?

1160
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: Like She's like, I don't see a lot of guns.

1161
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: And then guns started coming out of I mean like,

1162
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: I grew up around guns. I'm comfortable with them. But

1163
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't know you guys had this

1164
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: many guns. Even my one nephew is bringing out all

1165
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: these swords. I was like, what's going on around here? Uh?

1166
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: Some of your dates coming up? You have, uh your

1167
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: Zanies and Nashville, ont levent you're doing. I mean I

1168
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: could read off in these places, um Colorado and uh

1169
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: Green Village, Colorado, you're doing, Boulder, You're doing the funny

1170
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: Bone Comedy Club in Albany, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stress Factory, A

1171
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: couple of nights September, Nashville, Tippy Arizona, West, Palm Beach,

1172
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 1: Um and you're doing You're doing the Grand of Opera

1173
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 1: in Nashville and in the twenty ninth October. That's cool

1174
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: to operas, finn Huh. I love the operation. Some of

1175
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: those dates on the opery, I don't know. I just

1176
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: was told that they sent me a bunch of dates

1177
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: and then they're like, oh, some of them may not work.

1178
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: You haven't got them confirmed, so I don't know they

1179
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: I thought they were, but then I was like, oh,

1180
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: maybe I got a little quick. I jumped the gun.

1181
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: But I've done the opery six times I think now,

1182
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,879
Speaker 1: and I love it. I mean, is it the first

1183
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: time you did it? Were you able to actually separate

1184
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 1: the people in the audience or was it kind of

1185
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: a blur the first time? For sure? A blur. I

1186
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: mean for sure. I was like, my my dad was

1187
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: there and his buddy, and I'm like, well, it's funny,

1188
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: like I always there's metal detectors to get in right,

1189
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: and me my friend Aaron Webber from Alabama, my dad

1190
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: and his buddy all from Alabama. We come up. I

1191
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: couldn't get it. I had to go back to my

1192
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: car put my pocket knife back in the car. Aaron

1193
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: had to go back put his pocket knife back in

1194
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: the car. My dad was being walked in by my

1195
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: agent at the time, and uh, he had to My

1196
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: dad had a knife on him and his buddy had

1197
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: two knives. So they all we all had to go

1198
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 1: back to our car to get rid of our knives.

1199
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: But the my dad's in the audience and I'm like, man,

1200
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: I really want and his friends there and they're staying

1201
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: with me. I'm like, if this doesn't go well, it's

1202
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: gonna be an awkward night. And and then I'm like, oh,

1203
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: my management was in town. Agents. I mean, I had

1204
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: this big crew. I'm not used to having a crew.

1205
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm getting more used to it now, but for so

1206
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: long it was just me, and yeah, it was a

1207
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: total blur. I mean, they had me doing the grand

1208
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: old Opery Instagram live and I'm like, I don't even

1209
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: do what I mean. I I love social media, but

1210
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm not great at it. I'm getting better. I write

1211
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: funny stuff, I have funny content, but doing live things,

1212
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. And they haven't done

1213
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: that with me since. So how did you did they?

1214
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: You do you have a handheld micros? You use the mic,

1215
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: the opery stick mic U the opery stick mind. Well,

1216
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know. You didn't say handheld yeah, handheld? Yeah, yeah,

1217
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't do it without a mic. I mean,

1218
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: for me, it's like even just talking here and having

1219
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: a the mic like this, I don't know what to

1220
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: do with my hands. You know, at least I hold

1221
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: the mike with one hand and then I waved with

1222
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: the other and then I can't get by. For I,

1223
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,479
Speaker 1: I've always struggled with that. I used to, uh put

1224
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: my hand on the mic stand and then I was

1225
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: like I was just massaging the mic stand and I

1226
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: was like I had to get rid of that, and

1227
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: then I would put my hands in my pockets and

1228
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: then that looked weird, and then I didn't know what

1229
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: to do with my hand. A wave joke open that up?

1230
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: Changed everything. Do we have the wave of joke mike? Okay? Uh,

1231
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: don't run the joke. Save the joke? Okay, great, because

1232
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are gonna come out

1233
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: and and and check you out. And it is a

1234
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 1: funny joke, so we'll just we'll hold that one back. Yeah, well, okay, great,

1235
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:18,839
Speaker 1: and I got uh and at least with the hat,

1236
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: we've played that but they didn't see it, right, So

1237
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: that's great. But I don't want to I don't want

1238
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 1: to kill too much. And you've already done this stuff too, right, Yeah,

1239
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: I have so much stuff on YouTube now that is,

1240
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: I have twenty minutes I did a to uh to

1241
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: Tonight shows and and a Comedy Central thing and a

1242
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel So I'm like, I got twenty minutes of

1243
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 1: my favorite jokes online. But the uh, I got four

1244
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: shows in Colorado that I'm about to go do several

1245
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,439
Speaker 1: several cities, and those those dates are all up today.

1246
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: It's only the opera ones that I'm a little I'm

1247
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 1: not sure about. Yeah, the operation get and I love

1248
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: the opera. I love playing the operation. Like what days

1249
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: can you do when you send it off? Like, okay,

1250
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: we'll let you know. Yeah, which ones of these that

1251
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: you said? And uh, it's it's great. And Stally he

1252
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: used to run the reads, a big fan of yours. Yeah,

1253
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: she's great. Yeah, and she was she was like, Dusty's

1254
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: killing He's awesome. You gotta see him. That's how the

1255
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: first had heard about you, with Sally being like, he's

1256
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: gonna play the Opery's awesome. Well, Sally's great. I was

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Speaker 1: so sad I was there on her last night, I think,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, so sad to see her go because

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Speaker 1: I've just really gotten to know her. Uh and it's great.

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Speaker 1: But Dan is great too, and uh so I think

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Speaker 1: he took her place, and so uh yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: but it's like the Opry for me. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: like when I went home that night, like I met

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Speaker 1: John Conley. I've been I'm a huge John Conley fan,

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Speaker 1: and I he's saying rose, yeah, yes he did, And

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Speaker 1: then I missed he did first the next time I

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Speaker 1: was there, and he did Backside of thirty, which is

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Speaker 1: the song that I really like. But I walk in

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Speaker 1: and I hear him singing that, and I was like, dang,

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Speaker 1: I missed it. But uh, I mean I just couldn't stop.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I felt so good. I went home. I

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Speaker 1: just listened to country music all night. I just couldn't

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Speaker 1: And I met I've met Charlie Daniels up there. Charlie Pride,

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Speaker 1: Trace Atkins. It's amazing and every it's still available backstage,

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Speaker 1: like I've made some good buds back there, just in

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Speaker 1: the backstage of the opery Um. Kicks Brooks is one

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Speaker 1: of the first guys that it was like it just

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Speaker 1: came into the dress room because generally leave the door

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Speaker 1: open unless you're doing something changing or you're really needing

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Speaker 1: to remember and zone it on something. He keeps it

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Speaker 1: or open and everybody back to it just goes in

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Speaker 1: everybody's room if they want to remember Kicks Brooks of

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00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: Brooks and Dune coming in my room be like, boy,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? And I was like it was

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00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: before the first time I played the Operrey and I

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00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: was like, uh, you know, I'm a little nervous. And

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Speaker 1: he was like, I've like the opportune hundred times. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's gonna be great. I just remember thinking it's

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00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: freaking Brooks and Done Kicks Brooks from Brooks and Done

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00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: hanging out of my room. It was really it was

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00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: really great. They put me in the Taylor Swift New

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00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: Artists Room. The first time you go in and it's

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00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: got the big quote, I guess it's just the new

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00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: artist room. But Taylor's quotes the real big one above

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00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: the door. It's a real cool experience. Yeah, I love it. Yeah,

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00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: I've been in that room and now they put me

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Speaker 1: in the Funny Funny with all the comedians from the

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Speaker 1: opera up. Yeah, it's so great and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've I've gotten. I did Nashville Squares, which was

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00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: the reboot of Hollywood Squares, but hm in l A.

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00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: I thought it would be filmed in Nashville. But I

1302
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: did that and like, uh, Dina Carter was on that.

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00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up listening to Strawberry Wine. Bob

1304
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: Saggett was the host. All of these things that's been

1305
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: happening for me are very surreal. But I feel like

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00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: that when you when you really work your way up, Uh,

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00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: you feel like that you belong, you know, even when

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00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: you're around these famous people. You're like, yeah, but I

1309
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: worked for this, I learned this. I didn't just get

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00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: this happenstance. So you feel good, Well, how much I

1311
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: got the podcast? Already A fan of your work, I

1312
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: didn't know about the podcast until now. I'm gonna go

1313
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: learn how to be a freaking comedian. I think that's

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00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: the goal. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, uh well, I

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Speaker 1: would love to have you anytime. I know that you

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Speaker 1: said that you don't do clubs, but any I do.

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Speaker 1: I'm not good enough to do clubs. Well, I do

1318
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Speaker 1: a monthly show. I do. I do theaters because again

1319
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: for the same reason we talked about big crowds, they

1320
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: can feed off each other. I need I need the

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Speaker 1: laughter of two thousand people, yes, as I don't have

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Speaker 1: the balls to walk in and do eighty people. Yeah. Well,

1323
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Speaker 1: and it's also my people to come into a show, right,

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Speaker 1: And there's a big difference, as you know, that's true,

1325
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: having to impress people that have no idea what they're

1326
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Speaker 1: walking into. All right, funny guys make me laugh, or

1327
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Speaker 1: people that are fans coming I'm going to see Dusty Slade.

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Speaker 1: There's a difference. Well, I'm still waiting on those. I

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Speaker 1: got a few. I got a few cities where I

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Speaker 1: have that in And uh I, I had heard at

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01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: the beginning of you said you looked at John Chris

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Speaker 1: Followers and you you judge all self worth by uh

1333
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: by fas, I hope he didn't look at my instagrat.

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Speaker 1: We judge all we are are followers. Kid, I'm kidding, no,

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Speaker 1: I I mean I love the climb And like I say,

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Speaker 1: I know that you're probably not gonna come, but open

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Speaker 1: invitation any of my shows. You're welcome any time to watch,

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01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,959
Speaker 1: to watch, or or to come up. Either way. All right, listen,

1339
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: we we've done an hour. I appreciate you coming over,

1340
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.

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01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: Big fan told you that, though awkwardly, when we wrote

1342
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: that show together, I was like, hey, dude, you don't

1343
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: know who I am. I'm a big fan. And you

1344
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: were like, all right, well leave me alone. And I

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01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: was like, all right, just so you know I'm a

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01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: big fan. I was like, you coming over to my

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01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: house and had said nothing about the podcast. I was

1348
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: just like, you're coming over to my house and you're like,

1349
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Speaker 1: all right, I'll see I'll see you. Then, guy, well

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01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: I heard you had a pool, so I'm in alright.

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Speaker 1: Dusty Slay episode at Dusty Slay on Instagram and Twitter. Uh,

1352
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: follow them, google them, check out some clips and go

1353
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: see a live show if you can. And get are

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Speaker 1: those merch shirts the ones you sell it shows? Oh? Yeah,

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01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: I have have NASCAR shirts, Wolf shirts I got hats,

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Speaker 1: you got the whole. I got a flea mark. You're

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01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: dialed in. Oh alright, I'm a Road Guy, Episode one

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Speaker 1: with Dusty Slay. Thanks Na,