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Speaker 1: It's a brand new week on Bombing with Eric Andre,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and

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Speaker 1: other lunatics about their worst moments on stage and getting

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Speaker 1: wrecked by a live audience. We got a wonderful guest.

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Speaker 1: This guy I've known for years. He's one of the

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Speaker 1: funniest guys. You've seen them all over television, movies, cartoons,

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Speaker 1: super funny stand up, polar opposite and energy for me,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I love him even more. My buddy,

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Speaker 1: Ron Funches. He's got a long career in stand up.

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Speaker 1: He's got great stories. His daily routine includes jiu jitsu

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Speaker 1: and weed. He's got stories from being high as fucking

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Speaker 1: hell on an airplane with a bunch of women that

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Speaker 1: looked like they were the cast of the Golden Girls,

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Speaker 1: and him being booed off the stage and running into

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Speaker 1: a van and looking for jobs on Craigslist. He bombs

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Speaker 1: Funches Bombing with Aeric Andre. Did they tell you anything?

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Speaker 2: About this podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's called bombing.

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Speaker 2: I heard a bit, I've heard the name, and then

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Speaker 2: that made me feel like I understood it. But that

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Speaker 2: was about it.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever bombed while doing stand up comedy? How

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Speaker 1: long have you been doing stand up comedy?

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Speaker 2: Sixteen years?

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Speaker 1: Sixteen years? It's a long time, yeah, fair amount. And

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Speaker 1: you started an organ Yeah, stared at the Portland Comedy Vessel.

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Speaker 2: I started at Harvey's Comedy Club in Portland, Oregon.

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Speaker 1: The first time I saw you on stage was at

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Speaker 1: the Portland Comedy Veussele.

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Speaker 3: I remember that.

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Speaker 1: That was cool? Yeah, crushed and you were like you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't even open your eyes on stage. Yeah, well you

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Speaker 1: would like sleep on stage. Well, I was captivated by it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have a vivid memory. And you kind of be

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Speaker 1: like side turned in a distinctive point of view.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just think the point of view in low very

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Speaker 2: low energy.

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Speaker 1: Very low energy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I loved that. I was like by that because I

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Speaker 1: had very high energy. Yeah still do. Yeah, because I'm nervous.

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Speaker 1: It's a nervous energy. But I'm not here to talk

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Speaker 1: about me, not even a little bit. Well yeah, a

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Speaker 1: little bit, Okay, I'm very insecure tremendously. Okay, what's the

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Speaker 1: worst you've ever bombed on stage?

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Speaker 2: The worst I've ever bought, like for like a long time, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean the one that always sticks out in my

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Speaker 2: head was I did a show in Tacoma, Washington at

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Speaker 2: this place that was a converted used to be a bank,

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Speaker 2: and they converted it into a nightclub and I just

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Speaker 2: did it. From the moment I got on stage. They

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Speaker 2: didn't have any interest in anything.

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Speaker 1: Why was it? Why was it so doomed? Were you

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Speaker 2: The opener?

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Speaker 1: Who was?

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Speaker 2: Who was the headliner?

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Speaker 2: This was like in the beginning of me doing comedy.

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Speaker 2: So I was working with a lot of bar comics

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Speaker 1: Pete Well ye Joe font Yeah, yeah, just he was tough.

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Speaker 2: Classic, real like to learn about comedy. Great headliner to

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Speaker 2: start with, like being like, don't be like any of this,

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Speaker 2: don't like this guy at all. He would crush though,

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Speaker 2: because he had very chaotic energy and his jokes were

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Speaker 1: So you're at this bank, Yeah, I'm at this headlining.

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Speaker 1: Hoping this is how many a decades ago? What?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, about fourteen years.

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Speaker 1: So you're like, yeah, you're up and coming, you're figuring

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Speaker 1: You go to Spokane, Washington. Was it Tacoma, Tacoma Washington

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Speaker 2: Just a dull murmur. It's like March first.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, just two guys just

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Speaker 2: Oh y'all got comedy show tonight. Oh y'all got my

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Speaker 2: doing coffee. Oh y'all, do you do your thing?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: only one day after Black History Month and I'm hating

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Speaker 1: Was the audience majority white?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Vibe that they turned on me hard.

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Speaker 3: They were booing me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I didn't literally, And then I just I

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Speaker 2: Oh truly you were miserable?

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Speaker 2: I didn't cry, but I thought about quitting. I called

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Speaker 2: I bought super hard, like let me go kind of jobs.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have skills, car dealership, whatever, yeah, whatever did

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Speaker 2: I went to community college for three weeks. I didn't

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Speaker 2: It was like high school, but they were smoking cigarette

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Speaker 1: What was your major going to be?

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Speaker 1: How are you in high school? Good?

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Speaker 1: I was good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was naturally good at school, but I wasn't.

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Speaker 2: I had no interest in anything. Yeah, I had no

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Speaker 1: Where did you grow up, Eugene.

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Speaker 2: No. I grew up mostly in Chicago and then moved

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Speaker 2: to Salem, Oregon when I was thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Why'd you move to Salem, Oregon at thirteen?

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Speaker 2: That's where my dad was living and he was getting

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Speaker 2: You grew as a kid. Yeah, I'm a Chicago, Chicago kid.

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Speaker 1: just Salem. Yeah, that's a shock for a kid.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a big cultural shift.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's tough. That had to be tough for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was.

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Speaker 1: That had to throw you.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel kind of out of place?

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Speaker 1: Do you always feel out of place? Yeah, but you

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Speaker 1: found especially out of place in Salem? Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: think what's going on in Salem? Nothing, there's nothing going on.

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Speaker 3: That damn thing is going on in Salem.

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Speaker 1: I've never even I've never even heard of Salem.

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Speaker 2: It's not much to Hero.

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Speaker 1: But it's on the ocean. No, it's just in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So there's a river out there. Sure, And that's

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Speaker 1: why you started smoking weed?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and ore Agon for sure you started blazing.

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Speaker 2: The first people I smoked weed with we're Mexican.

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Speaker 2: This is delightful. I'm going to surprise whom I was smoking.

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Speaker 1: What's going on in Salem. I'm trying to paint a

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Speaker 2: Why didn't smoke weed? I sixteen? Sixteen years old? School

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Speaker 2: And then I was later, I was like, I'm bored.

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Speaker 3: My friend Lo Lo.

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Speaker 2: We smoked weed out of a wizard bomb. Let's go,

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Speaker 2: very classic, true, classic way to get onto it. And

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Speaker 2: then I just was like, red vines taste better than

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you're in love with oh yeah, and

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Speaker 2: New passion take breaks every now and then, but other

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Speaker 2: than that, it's my main thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you smoke in the morning if I have the

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Speaker 2: Typical smoke schedule if I'm working, if I'm shooting a show,

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Speaker 2: in the evening before dinner, if I have the day

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Speaker 2: I tend to get up up, workout. Then I'll smoke

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Speaker 2: a ball, play some video games, handle some work, and

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Speaker 2: then it's usually like I don't smoke. I smoke like

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it depends on Yeah, I switch it up because

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Speaker 2: But I started doing jiu jitsu, and I like to

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Speaker 1: It, yeah, quickly unravel. There's so much I do in

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Speaker 1: Cheeseburgers is good. It is good for your taste buds. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't find that I maybe I do and

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Speaker 2: Well, I feel like that's just me regular if I'm

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Speaker 2: It's not the stone. No, it's just I wan't want

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Speaker 1: Boy, it's so good. I'll never quit. I try to

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Speaker 1: You can't do it. M life spent. I just can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't stop living life. Yeah, kids, enjoy left because

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Speaker 2: Think I just want to make sure everything is quality

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Speaker 1: I never heard of this. Yeah, oh yeah, that's my

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Speaker 2: I mean I've done a bunch of high shows all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what's like trashola? Have you ever been like

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had that experience?

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember if I did do that.

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Speaker 1: I huffed ether on stage one time? Is that?

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Speaker 2: What's the our fuels they use.

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Speaker 3: Why did you do that?

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Speaker 1: I don't remember. Oh it was a high show and

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Speaker 1: Then it was like, I have ether at my house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have been my reaction to actually, I

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Speaker 1: incredibly flammable. It's so flammable you can't keep it in

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Speaker 1: It's not it's really bad. I remember huffing either. My

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Speaker 2: No, I don't see that happening for me. I can't

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Speaker 1: What about cocaine.

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Speaker 3: I've never done cocaine.

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Speaker 1: And now that test your organs? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: But your new baby?

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Speaker 2: No, just too high on mushrooms.

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Speaker 3: Really, that show bad, not good, not a good time.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I can tell you the highest that I've been

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Speaker 2: It's a great time. Yeah, it was cool class I'm

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Speaker 2: And then in Osaka they have English speaking comedy club,

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Speaker 2: I was able to, you know, just add above beat

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Speaker 2: later before I bombed. And I get up there and

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00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 2: I'm doing things and I was like, oh, I'm gonna.

448
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out.

449
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,959
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, like I'll figure out joking eventually, and then

450
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 2: the dragon just goes. You could just finish, honey.

451
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: She was right, yeah, yeah, what are we doing it for? Yeah?

452
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: But I mean and That's why I actually like I

453
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 2: don't bomb. It doesn't hurt as much anymore because to me,

454
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 2: it was really fun and it was a real marker.

455
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: My wife was super mad. She was I have no

456
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 2: idea what she was mad, that second wife man, And

457
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 2: I was like, no, don't you see how fun this is? Like,

458
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 2: I'm hey, how the fuck did I get to Osaka, Japan?

459
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 2: Who the fuck thought that I would ever be in

460
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 2: O SOCCA Japan doing stand up comedy? And who thought

461
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 2: I bomb open mic in Osaka, Japan. This is as

462
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,679
Speaker 2: fun as hell. I'm just gonna go to seven eleven

463
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 2: and get some ice cream. And I had a blast.

464
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 2: I loved it. I think bombing is great because I

465
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 2: never played sports. I never did competitive things when I

466
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 2: was younger, And if it wasn't for bombing, I wouldn't

467
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 2: know how to handle failure. It's really helped me go

468
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 2: through the marriages. It's helped me dating and helped me

469
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 2: with business. When people pass on my pitches or whatever,

470
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 2: I's like, oh, I get rejected all the time.

471
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Speaker 1: It's not going to stop rejection. Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah,

472
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Bombing makes you stronger for sure, true, for sure.

473
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: You can get through that. You can get through anything.

474
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: It is like an emotional death. It's ego death, right,

475
00:22:58,600 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.

476
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but well it's really the most Yeah, if you

477
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 2: asked me at the time before I started, but if

478
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 2: you ask me what my biggest fear, if you it

479
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 2: would probably been second place to death. Would be like, oh,

480
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 2: what it would it feel like if I bomb? What

481
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 2: would it feel like if I just suck so much

482
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 2: and you go through it and you're like, oh, that

483
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 2: fucking sucked, but I'm still here.

484
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're still alive, and you're like, oh, fuck, I

485
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,120
Speaker 1: can just have fun. Yeah.

486
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 2: I've been loving it now, especially more that I've been

487
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 2: able to work on TV shows and like have money

488
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 2: that's not relying on me touring. I'm just like, oh,

489
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: I'm always trying, Like fuck, you.

490
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Speaker 1: May hate this, yeah, yeah, that's a great place to be. Yeah,

491
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Speaker 1: that's a great You may hate this is a perfect place.

492
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: I think it really experiment on stage, you see, and

493
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: then if you win, if you find a new joke,

494
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Speaker 1: it's the best feeling in the world.

495
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

496
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Speaker 1: Just keeping that joke fresh is also tough. I feel like, yeah,

497
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: because a joke and rot yeah, sucks. I think it's

498
00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: that's the most painful feeling.

499
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Speaker 2: I think when you're not being authentic to the moment

500
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: when it was like some jokes that were true in

501
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 2: the past.

502
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: Right, they were true to your spirit in the past,

503
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: and then once they get like you're just phoning them in,

504
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: ye lose.

505
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 2: Their magical No, I'm just gonna read that.

506
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. One time I gave I was at Montreal

507
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival, just for last and I gave James Adimian

508
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: ecstasy and I was like, it's strong, so take it.

509
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: You know, he's about to go on stage. Take it later.

510
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: And he was like, you know what, I'm just going

511
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: to take it now because I'm going up first. You're

512
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: a soccer story moments. He's like, I'll just take it

513
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: now because I'm going on first, and then when I

514
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: get off stage, it'll kick in and I'll be high

515
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: and I'll go out on the town have fun. He

516
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: took it, and they kicked him from first to last

517
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: on the lineup, and so when he got out on stage,

518
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, like eyes in the back of

519
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,439
Speaker 1: his head, and then he was like trying to get

520
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: through his first joke and the audience is like, what

521
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on? And then he just like

522
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: admitted to the audience. He goes, listen, I took M

523
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Speaker 1: D m A. I'm high out of my mind right

524
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: now and I'm fucking sailing, and the whole crowd was

525
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 1: like and they were like yeah, yeah. And then he

526
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: just riffed like on like how he was feeling and

527
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: like his like ecstasy experience, and the crowd loved it

528
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: and then like it enhanced his high, and then he

529
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: went out on the I did M D m A

530
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: on stage one time, and it was I bombed, but

531
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Speaker 1: I never felt better. I was just like I didn't

532
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: care that I was bombing. I was so I was

533
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: like yeah, and I was like, I don't even know

534
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: if I'm bombing or not. I feel like elated. I

535
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: felt like I was floating in a cloud. Now I

536
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: do ecstasy and I just kind of melt into a

537
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: puddle of mercury. It doesn't I used to be able

538
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: to take it, and I'd be chatting all night like

539
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: I got just very confident around, like I'm Hugh half

540
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: nurse something. Now I'm just like but I say, in

541
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: my mind, I think I'm cool. I'm like I'm so cool.

542
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: I went to Vegas for my fortieth birthday and I

543
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: took we all took ecstasy, and like, I saw a

544
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: video in my brain like we're like everybody's like smoking

545
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: a blunt and I like party. We had a party bus,

546
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: and in my brain I was like, I'm a fucking

547
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: cool motherfuck, I'm a Miles Davis trumpet so low And

548
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: then I saw the video it looked like we get

549
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: at Bernie something was like holding me up with a stick.

550
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: I'm just like, oh you like a muffet that seeing

551
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 2: half controled come.

552
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: Up with like the puppeteers hand out of it. In

553
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, that was the cool. That

554
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: was Jock Coltraine in my mind.

555
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 2: One time I gave our friend of mine gave James

556
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 2: the DOOMI and I think his first dab.

557
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: Like everybody's just giving James adobiean drugs. Yeah yeah.

558
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 2: At bumber Shoot were bumber shooting Seattle, and James had

559
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: never taken a dab before.

560
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: I warned him.

561
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 2: I was like, it's gonna be pretty intense, ripped. Yeah,

562
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 2: And he took it and then he just said I

563
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 2: have to go. And then he just walked away and

564
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 2: walked all the way back to his hotel.

565
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've totally been there. It's like I have to go.

566
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: I'm just too high. I have to go.

567
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: I get there.

568
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: That's yeah, we've all been there. It's like it's time

569
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: for me to exit the situation with aeric conrey. With

570
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: aeric condrey, what's the word bomb? You ever seen that?

571
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: You weren't? This isn't you like you experienced you witnessed?

572
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 2: I mean, I've watched some bad comedy specials. It's funny

573
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 2: when people.

574
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, like live have ever seen somebody like get

575
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: a bottle thrown at them? Or boot off somebody.

576
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: They got pepper shaker thrown at them or thought shaker?

577
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: I don't remember which one one of the two?

578
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: What what led to that?

579
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 2: Oh?

580
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: They even know?

581
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: Remember that there's that time period when Louis c. K

582
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: was at his utmost power and a lot of white

583
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: comedians were like, I could figure out a way to

584
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: make any word in the joke.

585
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like the highest steaks.

586
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 2: And he tried shaker.

587
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: God, can you tell me what it is?

588
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: Or you're not comedian anymore?

589
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: Protect Okay, all right?

590
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he was still active.

591
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: I tell you a bird, check your care.

592
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: Where was that Portland, Oregon? Suk Suki's Bar and Grill

593
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: is that was that?

594
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: Like the spot back, that was.

595
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: The spot because that was the spot and nobody listened

596
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 2: to you. Everybody would bomb. Everybody would bomb. So if

597
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: you got them to listen to you, if you got

598
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: them to turn you knew you you had your jokes.

599
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: Really yeah, tho the spots for me in New York

600
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: when I was coming up, like they made the boy

601
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: the man, you know, like if you could turn it

602
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: around in those venues where not a single thing there

603
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 1: was conducive to comedy, it's for some reason they had

604
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: a comedy show there that like made you. That's what

605
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: started giving you your superpowers.

606
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, you go into the danger room,

607
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: chain training in ten times gravity, whatever reference you need. Uh,

608
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: it would always just let you. It would separate the

609
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: people who were just like especially you know when you

610
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 2: starting in your twenties or whatever, and there's just people

611
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: there who are like I do this and I do karaoke.

612
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, And those are the shows that

613
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: separate people who are really trying.

614
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: To do it. It does if you persevere through that

615
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: shawshank redemption, crawl through the sewer. You will, you will,

616
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: hopefully you will survive. I think I think it's all

617
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: about like the half of it is just like not giving.

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00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: Up, right, truly, there's no more to be said.

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Speaker 1: There's no more to what can be said. Is there

620
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Speaker 1: any anything, any scraps you left on the table, any

621
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: bombing tale that is coming to mind? They don't have any.

622
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 2: Just again that I think I like bombing.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. We haven't been recording this old time. Okay,

624
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: this is kind of war Ron Funches, You've been a

625
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: true hero, a true friend, a confidant. It's always a pleasure, truly,

626
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing the show. Any bunch

627
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: is always a player your seat appreciate it. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what with aeric Andre. Bombing with airic Andre is

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Speaker 1: edited and sound designed by Andy Harris, and our art

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