1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: That choke when the rest passed you in the carball Star, 2 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: when the only sponsors my broken hard. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: We're hanging on this janky stream. 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 3: Two weird voices in the glow of a stream. If 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 3: the world boss say, let it laugh when welcome back. 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 3: It's a brand a new episode. This is Left with Me, 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: the podcast with Jeremy and I'm. 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 2: Your Jeremy stares at the stats, handshaken over takeout boxes. 9 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: Johnny's already mapping hotels on a napkin with crazy crosses. 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 3: They quit jobs a. 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: Kind and tell their losses. 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: Catch the show good, just shrugs, Oh, it's funny. 13 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: Johnny grants, y'all never earned up. He's jo And thank 14 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 3: you to everybody who listens, but especially thank you to 15 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 3: everybody who's listening on Apple Podcasts. Uh cracking us back 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 3: into the top two hundred comedy podcasts in the United States. Johnny, 17 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, we gotta be doing something right. I 18 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 3: don't know if it's the people that we're talking to, 19 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 3: if it's that banger of a thing song from the 20 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: Pepper Spray Singers, if it's your producing I don't know 21 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 3: what the magic is. But thank you to everybody who 22 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 3: does listen to the pod and of course you can 23 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 3: find us anywhere. You can find us on the free 24 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 3: I Heart radio app and Spotify and of course the 25 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: YouTube's Yes. Well, today we have an amazing guest. He 26 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 3: has done well, He's done just about it all. He's 27 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: not only conquered the comedy world, where he's done everything 28 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 3: from producing, hosting, head lining big shows including arenas. This 29 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 3: guy also you can hear him on morning radio across 30 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 3: the United States. He's just released his first children's book, 31 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 3: Mikey Finds his Voice. You can find it out anywhere. 32 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: But what we're going to really get into is what's 33 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: going on this Friday, June twenty sixth in Lincoln, Nebraska. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: It's a Friday night fights at the Complex. He is 35 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: the ring voice of MMA and boxing at the Complex. 36 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna find out exactly how he 37 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 3: got himself in to the square circle for this one. 38 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Doc Peterson. 39 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 4: So, the president of the Boxing Association came into my 40 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 4: office on like a Wednesday and he said, Hey, we're 41 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 4: doing there's a local fight. He didn't really tell me 42 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: too much about it. There's a local fight coming up 43 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 4: this weekend, and we need a second pay per view guy, 44 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 4: not necessarily the play by play, but the guy that 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 4: can fill in the background and just bs. And I said, sure, yeah, 46 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 4: I'll do it. I'm a boxing fan, but I can't 47 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 4: do the play by play. I don't know enough of 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 4: the intricacies to do that. Because now we got your cover, 49 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 4: just come in and and bullshit within Yeah, I said, done. 50 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 4: So the night before the fights, during weigh ins, I 51 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 4: went and I interviewed all the fighters, so I had 52 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 4: some background stuff to talk about. The ring announcer didn't 53 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 4: show up to do ways, so I filled in and 54 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: did ways that night, just off the cuff. And the 55 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 4: next night the pay per view went really really well. 56 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 4: In fact, the guy that was producing it came to 57 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 4: us the next day and said, dude, that was awesome. 58 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 4: We want we want to hire you to do more. Yeah, 59 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 4: And I said, well, I had fun doing this, but 60 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 4: that's not really my personality. I'm the over the top personality. 61 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 4: I want to be the ring announcer. And he got 62 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 4: with the owner of the complex and they said, okay, 63 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 4: don't he's out, you're in. Let's go. 64 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 3: That was simple, Well, you have I mean, and we'll 65 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 3: get into it, but man, your background of comedy and 66 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 3: hosting and putting together show, I mean, you were perfect 67 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 3: to be front and center in the ring give him 68 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 3: a mic, like, let's go in front of this audience. 69 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 3: So it was kind of a perfect fit. 70 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 4: I appreciate that it wasn't that wasn't always my life, 71 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 4: but it was something that I found later in life 72 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 4: and I ran with it well. 73 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: On Friday, June twenty sixth, we've got a main event 74 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 3: for the Nebraska state heavyweight title belt, Clyde Johnson from 75 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 3: Lincoln versus Corey McIntosh in Minnesota. When I saw you 76 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 3: did you did a preview kind of interview. They're kind 77 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 3: of hyping up the fight as you're like preparing for 78 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,799 Speaker 3: these fights. Do you get much access to the fighters 79 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: ahead of time or is this kind of you have 80 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 3: to do your own research and kind of go from there. 81 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 4: All the local fighters I can have as much access 82 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 4: to as I want. I've just recently started doing some 83 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 4: of those interviews like you saw online. They had other 84 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 4: people from the venue doing them from time to time, 85 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 4: and I said, you know, look, I'm already the face 86 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: and the voice of the complex. Let me jump in 87 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 4: and I'll do this one and we'll see how it goes. 88 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 4: And we had fun doing it. We actually did like 89 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 4: a twenty minute interview and we edited it down just 90 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 4: for that two and a half minute sound clip that 91 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 4: we played on Facebook. But yeah, and it's kind of 92 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 4: fun because I've gotten to know all the regional fighters, 93 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 4: all the local fighters, and then of course you make 94 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 4: connections from all over the country as they come into Oh. 95 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: Absolutely, So what's your favorite boxing MMA? I mean, what 96 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: do you like? You feel it in your bones? 97 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 4: Honestly, I would say boxing. I'm back to being a 98 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 4: more of a true, tried and true boxing fan. When 99 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 4: I first started practicing twenty one years ago, MMA was 100 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 4: just floating, especially in the Midwest, and it seemed like 101 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 4: every fighter who was anybody was coming into my office 102 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 4: to get adjusted. So I was going to a lot 103 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 4: of the MMA fights in the early days, following a 104 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 4: lot of the UFC and that, and now I've kind 105 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 4: of started to switch back towards the sweet science of 106 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 4: boxing and understand it a little more, and so I 107 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 4: would say overall, yeah, it's it's boxing over MMA for me. Man. 108 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 3: Anytime people say, oh, boxing is a dead sport or whatever. 109 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 3: I'm like, go watch a fight and then tell me 110 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 3: it's a dead sport. 111 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 5: Like the. 112 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 3: Game within the game is so much fun and if 113 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 3: you actually like watch a fight, you fall back in 114 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 3: love with it all over again. 115 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 4: Well, and if to anyone who says that boxing is 116 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 4: a dead sport, come out to the Complex on Friday 117 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 4: night and see fifteen hundred people screaming their ass off 118 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 4: at a fight, there's nothing dead about it. In fact, 119 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 4: I'm gonna let a cat out of the bag here. 120 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 4: The complex is doubling their seating capacity. We're going for 121 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 4: fifteen hundred to three thousand seats this year, and with 122 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 4: our ticket sales, we anticipate selling out all three thousand 123 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 4: as well. So there's nothing dead about. 124 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 3: Wow, fifteen hundred. When you said fifteen hundred, I'm like, 125 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: that's a good size venue. But to double down And 126 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 3: I saw you guys have music you know that's starting 127 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 3: up or has started up, And yeah, I mean the 128 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: Complex is very much becoming a big time player. 129 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 4: They are. And what they did was they took an 130 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 4: old it was called Champions Fun Center, and they gutted 131 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 4: it and they turned it into just this huge events 132 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: space and so we've already started with some concerts in there, 133 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 4: and we have I can't say any of the big 134 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 4: names that are coming yet because the ink isn't dry 135 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 4: on the contract yet, but we have some big names, 136 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 4: some rock bands coming from the eighties and nineties that 137 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 4: are gonna kind of come through. We have a couple 138 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 4: of big one off Mexican celebration shows coming in. I 139 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 4: think I can say that Lost Logos is coming in. 140 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 4: So we have and for those shows, since they're not seated, 141 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 4: our capacity is twenty five hundred and three thousand people 142 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 4: for those shows, and we expect every bit of that. 143 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 4: So we're taking the place of like the old Pershing 144 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 4: Auditorium in Lincoln, and you know things that are quite 145 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 4: Cinnacle Bank Arena size. Now those are going to the 146 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 4: going to the complex. 147 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 3: Which is much needed in Lincoln for an indoor facility. Yeah, 148 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 3: very much so needed. So what's your what's your role 149 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 3: in this then? Like what's your I guess I'm not 150 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 3: aware of kind of your hand in hand like relationship 151 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 3: there the complex. 152 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 4: So I really I'm a hired hand. But if you 153 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 4: talk to anyone who is involved with the complex, we 154 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 4: are a family and so Tommy Arciaga, the owner. He 155 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 4: pretty much says, if you work for me, your family, 156 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 4: and I've treated it that way. So everything I do 157 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 4: has to reflect his values and their values and project 158 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 4: that out as well, whether in the ring or the 159 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 4: way that I carry myself outside of the ring and 160 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 4: interacting with people, because now it's it's not just five 161 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 4: hundred people who saw me at a comedy show. It's 162 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 4: fifteen hundred people who saw me at a fight. It's 163 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 4: it's and that's month after month after a month. It's 164 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 4: not just a one off and then six months later 165 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 4: another show. We're doing this every month or every other month. 166 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, so I have no ownership in it, 167 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 4: but I'd take a lot of pride in personal ownership 168 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 4: and everything that we do there. 169 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 3: And then I've you know, and I've been following you 170 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 3: for a few years now, and it seems like anything 171 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: you do, you're all in and it's going to be awesome, 172 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 3: it's going to be professional, it's going to run, you know, 173 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 3: the way it's supposed to run. Everybody has a good experience. 174 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 3: Like I was seriously like looking around, I'm like, all right, 175 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: what's the I mean? You and I started talking you 176 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 3: know a little bit, because I was getting in the 177 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 3: mud and I'm like, where's where's duck getting in the 178 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 3: mud at He's not like he's a pro, he's a 179 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 3: pros pro. Kudos to you. 180 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 4: Man, I appreciate that it may look like that from 181 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 4: the outside. Let me tell you, before I walk into 182 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 4: like a huge show that's sold out with five hundred 183 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 4: people in the audience, I am shitting bricks. I'm not 184 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 4: an asshole to any of the performers, but man, I 185 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 4: am not fun to be around for that last twenty 186 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 4: minutes before I get on stage. 187 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 3: That's awesome. So in all right, So Friday's fight night. 188 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 3: When you're preparing, you know, for your presentation of the fight, 189 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 3: what are some things you do to like get prepared 190 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 3: to be you know, the voice of it. 191 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 4: So the week of especially, I'm really working on the 192 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 4: afflictions in my voice and making sure that my voice 193 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 4: is going to last through a four hour show. So 194 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 4: it's a twelve minute ride to my office in the morning, 195 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 4: at home from lunch, back after lunch, and back after work, 196 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 4: and that entire twelve minutes I am rehearsing my intro. 197 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 4: Not because I think I'm going to screw up the intro, 198 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 4: but because I want to push my voice and have 199 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 4: it ready for Friday night, because the first time you 200 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 4: step in front of fifteen hundred people and you've got 201 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 4: that huge sound system behind you, and you still can't 202 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 4: hear your own voice. Over you, over project, you, over push, 203 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 4: and so I'm always that week of I'm pushing my 204 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 4: voice to make sure that I have it for the 205 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 4: final call of the main event at the last minute, 206 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 4: at eleven o'clock at night, after I've been on the 207 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 4: bike for four hours. 208 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 3: So are you someone who's you know, and I'm sure 209 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 3: you've got many fights, you might probably have a card 210 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 3: in front of you with all the info, or you 211 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 3: somebody who tries to memorize as much you can and 212 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 3: you know, put that forth to the audience. 213 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 4: So both A lot of the things that I do 214 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 4: are completely memorized. But I always have a card in 215 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 4: front of me because you can't forget a sponsor. You 216 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 4: can't forget a fight or smoke town or their weight 217 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 4: and things like that. They get pretty pussy if you 218 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 4: forget where their hometown is or what block glove that 219 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 4: they represent. So I do have a fight card in 220 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 4: front of me. I try to just reference it instead 221 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 4: of reading it word for word. And my comedy background 222 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 4: has definitely helped with that because if you've heard any 223 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 4: of the love hate about my comedy is I never 224 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 4: allowed notes on stage. I don't care if you take 225 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 4: them to a chair or a stool or on the 226 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 4: back of your drink cup. If you brought notes on 227 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 4: my stage, it was the last time you ever performed 228 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 4: on my stage. Because I was paying you better than 229 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 4: anyone else pays in the state of Nebraska. I expected professionalism, 230 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 4: and my fifty minute set, I didn't have one single 231 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: note written down anywhere, right, So if I can, if 232 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 4: I can do it for fifty, you can do it 233 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 4: for ten. 234 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's I've seen a lot of that too, 235 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 3: where it's like, you know, open mics, whatever. But when 236 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 3: you when it's a paid show, you're you're expected to 237 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 3: put on the show and be an entertainer. And part 238 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 3: of that is knowing your you know, knowing your act. 239 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 4: And that's of material. 240 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 3: Exactly when you're out there in the bright lights in 241 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 3: the middle of the ring, do you feel the like, 242 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 3: the the adrenaline pumping much like the fighters themselves, I mean, 243 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 3: do you have to do anything to kind of physically 244 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: get yourself vamped up to. 245 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 4: So they play an intro song for me, just like 246 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 4: they do for a comedy show, just like they do 247 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 4: any of the fighters. They play Doctor Feel Good by 248 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 4: Motley Crue. They crank that up. They play that for 249 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 4: about thirty seconds. And I start all the way up 250 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 4: at the top of the venue next to the DJ booth, 251 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 4: and I walk down the hall, walk down the steps, 252 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 4: I walk into the ring, and that's kind of my 253 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 4: moment to gather my shit. And everyone's like, Oh, that's 254 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 4: just you being cocky and getting pumped up, and no, 255 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 4: that's me biting my tongue in my mouth so that 256 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 4: I don't have a panic attack as I start to 257 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 4: speak and speak too quickly and hyperventilated. Because that crowd 258 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 4: of energy of fight fans is ten times what a 259 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 4: comedy crowd is. 260 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 3: So one of there and they're there. Yeah. And one 261 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 3: of the things that I love about like ma fights, 262 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 3: to your point is Bruce Buffer. I will watch just 263 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 3: for him, like the fights. The fight, it is what 264 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 3: it is. But I'm tuning in for the introductions. I'm 265 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: tuning in for the winter announcement because he you can 266 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: tell physically like he is one hundred percent in and 267 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 3: he gives just as much as the fighters do. So 268 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 3: like to your point, I mean, it's it's it's a 269 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 3: show and it's in itself. 270 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 4: It absolutely is, And I bought I bought it. Like 271 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 4: you said, there's nothing in my world that I do 272 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 4: half ass. So that first show that I was the 273 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 4: ring announcer, I went out and I ordered the most 274 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 4: crazy ass sequin blazer that you could ever imagine. My 275 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 4: shoes all match every blazer that I own. Now it's 276 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 4: become a thing where I walk in and everybody wants 277 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 4: to know what's Doc wearing, what coat does he wearing? 278 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 4: What shoes does he wearing? What's his wife wearing? What 279 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 4: is she wearing? To match? Because her and her my 280 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 4: wife and her best friend come to all the fights together, 281 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 4: so they have she has somebody to sit with and 282 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 4: they both match my my coat every night. Uh so 283 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 4: it is a spectacle and we go all in. There's 284 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 4: no half ass here. 285 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 3: I have seen. So I did see that. Your wife, 286 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 3: she did she do the like ring cards at one 287 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 3: time or for a fight or anything like that. 288 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 4: No, Nope, she's just the hot blonde that gets to 289 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 4: hang out, sit ringside and and hang out with me 290 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 4: and get a great view of the night. 291 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 3: That's awesome. What a what a family affair. And that's 292 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 3: and I have seen you, said the hot blonde. I 293 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 3: have seen you do some contact with two hot blondes. 294 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: Was is that her sister? Like, what's the story there? 295 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 4: No, that's her best friend, her best that's her best friend. 296 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 4: And she's a boxing fan. And the fact that now 297 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 4: my wife has somebody to sit with at those fights 298 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 4: is awesome. Because I'm working, I don't get to hang 299 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 4: out at a table and have a drink or anything 300 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 4: like that. So now she gets to go along too 301 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 4: and hang out and watch all the fights. 302 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 3: That's awesome. It makes it more enjoyable for her as well. 303 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, so you do some You were telling me 304 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 3: that you do some radio work, you know, on the 305 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 3: on all across the country, and I'm I have a 306 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 3: radio background myself. I was just very interested in that. 307 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 3: So like, tell me where I guess people can hear 308 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 3: you and where where you're where you're working radio. 309 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 4: So I work for a company called Enchilada Radio and 310 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 4: they are subcontracted through syndicated radio stations from New York 311 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 4: to LA and they provide voice actors for some of 312 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 4: the skids that you hear on morning drive shows and 313 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 4: morning radio shows. I don't want to I don't want 314 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 4: to let too much out of the bag. But if 315 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 4: you listen to morning radio and you hear the horrible 316 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: date stories or the my bosses and asshole stories, I'm 317 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 4: going to tell you that ninety nine point nine percent 318 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 4: of those are voice actors. Yes, like me, Yes, that's awesome. 319 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 3: So do you get like I guess a schedule or 320 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 3: anything like that, and it's like, Okay, hey you're today, 321 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 3: you are this, and here's your character. 322 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 4: Let's getah. So uh so I get I get a caller, 323 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 4: a text from the agent that I work with, and 324 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 4: she'll say, hey, are you available on Monday at ten am. 325 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 4: We're doing a need twelve minutes or eight minutes or 326 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 4: whatever it is. And then if I'm free, then yeah, 327 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 4: I sign up for it. They send me a script. 328 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 4: Some radio stations they want you to go literally, line 329 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 4: by line through their script and say it exactly as 330 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 4: it's written because they have it timed down. They'll say 331 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 4: this section should take thirteen seconds, and then they're going 332 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 4: to take a commercial break, or this section should take 333 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 4: thirty seven seconds, so we're going to take a commercial break. 334 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 4: And sometimes they do that so that they can then 335 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 4: sell it to other radio stations and they can put 336 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 4: their own spin into it, and their own hosts voice, 337 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 4: they can clip into whatever I've said and respond to it. 338 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 4: Other times, the radio station just wants you to have 339 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 4: the idea and the premise, and they threw forth and 340 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 4: it's all improv. And sometimes I'm online with another actress. 341 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 4: A lot of them that I've done lately are about 342 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 4: like catching cheating spouses, things like that, and they're funny 343 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 4: and they're weird and they're whatever. But then it's just 344 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 4: improv between me and another actress I've never met in 345 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 4: my life. Right, we're not even we're not even on 346 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 4: a zoom call. We're just on a telephone and we're 347 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 4: riffing off each other and telling each other and go 348 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 4: to hell and quip bang and her sister or whatever 349 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 4: else is going on in that script. 350 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 3: People don't realize that morning radio is so much more 351 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 3: like sketch comedy than it is you know, live you 352 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 3: know interactions. It very much is sketch, and it's always 353 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 3: been that way I mean, and it will never not 354 00:18:59,480 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 3: be that way. 355 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes it go so much smoother because if 356 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 4: you don't know who's going to really call in, and 357 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 4: what kind of personality they're going to have, and if 358 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 4: they're going to be able to relatively tell a story 359 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 4: and get the facts out in in a way that 360 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 4: makes sense to the audience concisely and with some humor 361 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 4: or with some drama or whatever. So yeah, hired actors. Sorry, guys, 362 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 4: it's not real. 363 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 3: So have you done any other voice work? I mean, 364 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: I've been reading or listening to audiobooks a lot lately, 365 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 3: and as we're talking, you have kind of those deep 366 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 3: tones and good inflection that I would hear a lot 367 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 3: on audiobooks. I don't have you done any work like that? 368 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 4: I haven't. My wife keeps pushing me to do it. 369 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 4: She wants me to read the smutty dark romance novels. 370 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 4: And he slowly removed your panties, like what I could 371 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 4: do that? I'm in But no, I've looked into it 372 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 4: and it's a lot more in depth than people give 373 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 4: it credit for it. Sometimes some of these sites they'll 374 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 4: have you read a generic script and then you just 375 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 4: set it out in the universe and people can click 376 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 4: and listen to your sound bite and see if that 377 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 4: matches what you want to do or what they want 378 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 4: to do or their vision. You can also click on 379 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 4: a book, read it and submit it and then if 380 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 4: they use it, you get ten cents a page or 381 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 4: you know, something ridiculously low. Wow, it's a lot of 382 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 4: time and the return on it is pretty low. So 383 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 4: I would be doing it for passion and the love 384 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 4: of doing it, not not to make money. If you're 385 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 4: interested in going. 386 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 3: That route, right, and you don't have that kind of 387 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 3: time to just be sent around reading for ten cents 388 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 3: of page. Yeah, that's wild. No, no, Hey, more from 389 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 3: Doc Peterson in just a few seconds. But remember you 390 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: can find out all of his comedy shows and any 391 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: other events he has going on at doc Peterson Comedy 392 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 3: dot com. We'll be right back. Well, you did write 393 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 3: a book. Mikey Fines's voice is out right now. It's 394 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 3: a children's book. And I mean, tell me about that. 395 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 3: How did you? I mean, from ring announcing to you know, 396 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 3: radio sketches. How'd you get to this? 397 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: So? 398 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 4: My wife is a first grade teacher. She went back 399 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 4: to school late in life and found a new passion, 400 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 4: became a first grade teacher, and one day she had 401 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 4: me come into her class as a guest reader. And 402 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 4: it wasn't just her class, all three classes in the 403 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 4: first grade group came down. So I had sixty some 404 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 4: kids sitting in front of me and I read a book. 405 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 4: I read Where the Wild Things Are, And as you 406 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 4: can probably imagine, I was as animated as I could 407 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 4: possibly be. I had the kids standing up and growling 408 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 4: and roaring and you know, having a good time. And 409 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 4: when I went home, I went I think I should 410 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 4: write a children's book. So I did. 411 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 3: That simple tell us about mike finds his Voice. Well 412 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 3: it's uh, got it right here, awesome, perfect, there you go, 413 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 3: little Mikey little microphone. I love that. 414 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 4: So Mikey Finds His Voice is the story of a shy, 415 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 4: quiet schoolboy who has a very famous family. Everyone in 416 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 4: his family is in the entertainment industry, and he tries 417 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 4: different things in the entertainment industry and fails in some 418 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 4: way or another throughout his entire life. And about the 419 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 4: time that he gives up, he falls into exactly what 420 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 4: he was meant to do, and he becomes a professional 421 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 4: ring announcer, So a little bit of real life, but 422 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 4: a little bit of just made up in between. And 423 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 4: it was fun to write. It was fun to draw. 424 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 4: I drew pictures and then I had Ai help me, 425 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 4: and then the editors from Amazon Kendall helped take it 426 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 4: to the next level. But yeah, it was a fun 427 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,160 Speaker 4: book to write. It's fifty pages long, so twenty six 428 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 4: pages are writing in twenty six pictures or so, and 429 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 4: it's kindergarten to third grade is where the demographic is 430 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 4: for that, targeting towards obviously first grade because that's where 431 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 4: my wife is. That's the first captive audience that has 432 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 4: to has to listen to it. 433 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 3: Well, I was just wondering that is this already in 434 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 3: the curriculum? You know, Mike, he finds his voice is 435 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 3: in the curriculum there. 436 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 4: So I've already contacted Lincoln Public Schools and they have 437 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 4: sent out an email to the media people and the 438 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 4: librarians and some of the curriculum people to see what 439 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 4: schools would be interested. If every school's interested, I'd come 440 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 4: out and I'd read the book, and obviously I'd leave 441 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 4: some signed copies behind, and sometimes the PTO picks up 442 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 4: and buys ten or twelve copies and puts them in 443 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 4: the library or distributes them into some of the other classrooms. 444 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 4: So we're working on that deal right now. August eighth, 445 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 4: I think it is. I have a big book signing 446 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 4: and release out at the complex where we're inviting several 447 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 4: different big groups of kids out and I'm gonna we 448 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 4: have a twenty foot projector so we're gonna put the 449 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 4: story on a projector behind me, and I'm going to 450 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 4: read the book every half hour or something like that, 451 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 4: and we'll have cookies and fun on shit like that too. 452 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 4: So it is funny if you've ever seen me do comedy, 453 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 4: or you've ever seen me in the ring or ever 454 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 4: heard my voice acting stuff. And then go and he 455 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 4: wrote a children's book. 456 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 3: So that's when you when I had seen that you 457 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 3: had this children's book come out, I'm like, Okay, now 458 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 3: I need to know is it really a children's book 459 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 3: or is it like a parody for adults like children's book? 460 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 3: Because knowing your comedy, I was like, I wonder where 461 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 3: this is going. 462 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 4: Well. One of my favorite books that I used to 463 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 4: buy brand new parents is is called Go the Fuck 464 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 4: to Sleep. Yeah, and it's a it's a children's book 465 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 4: written for parents with newborns, and it's hilarious and I 466 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 4: love it. But no, this is truly for kindergarten to 467 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 4: third grade little kids. 468 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 3: That's awesome, all right, August eighth at the complex, the 469 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 3: book signing and reading. That's that'll be a lot of fun. 470 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 3: I would be remiss if we didn't talk comedy, even 471 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 3: though you're not like actively doing shows currently. Is this 472 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 3: something you're putting to bed for good or you just 473 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 3: kind of biting your time right now. 474 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 4: I never closed the door on anything that was good 475 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 4: and successful and fun. In fact, last week, right after 476 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 4: we talked the last time, I had a bar in 477 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 4: Lincoln hit me up and begged me to produce a 478 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 4: show coming up here in August. And I haven't committed 479 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 4: completely yet to it. I've already told them that I 480 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 4: would not headline it because I haven't been practicing. I 481 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 4: haven't been rehearsing that material. So if anything, I would 482 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 4: produce it and host it and bring in other people 483 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 4: that I felt good and rock a show like that. 484 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 4: But no, I'll never say never. With the right circumstances 485 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 4: and the right group of people and the right venue. 486 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 4: I'd come back again. 487 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can. You can find all that info. 488 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 3: Doc Peterson Comedy dot com. When you were doing shows 489 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 3: and producing shows, I mean you're talking sellouts, full rooms. 490 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 3: I know you're very particular about your lineups to make 491 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 3: sure you put on, you know, a show that represents 492 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 3: your name and it is appropriate for the audience that 493 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 3: is there. I mean, take me through. I guess you're 494 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 3: kind of your thought process there on when you're putting 495 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 3: together a show. 496 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 4: So to me, venue is paramount. You need to have 497 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 4: a stage, you need to have a sounds and you 498 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 4: need to have lighting. You don't have those three things, 499 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 4: you don't have a show. And I believe, and it 500 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 4: is my opinion that most of the comics in the 501 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 4: region Omaha Lincoln don't understand business for first and don't 502 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 4: understand that if you set the business side of it 503 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 4: up for success first, the comedy will be easy. You 504 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 4: can hire mediocre comedy comedians and have a fantastic show. 505 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,959 Speaker 4: But you can't hire great comedians and have a shitty 506 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 4: business plan and have a good show. It does not work. 507 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 4: And they don't understand that. No matter how many times 508 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 4: I've had that fight, that argument that talk. They don't 509 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 4: get it. And so the first thing I look for 510 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 4: is do I have a venue. It has to have 511 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 4: a stage, It has to be elevated above the audience. 512 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 4: It has to have lighting, it has to have sound. Next, 513 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 4: the thing I'm going to look for is how the 514 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 4: seating is played out. Notice I haven't said anything about 515 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 4: the comedians yet, right, so then so then I'm going 516 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 4: to look for the seating and the layout. Are we 517 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,479 Speaker 4: at a bar that serves food and if so, then 518 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 4: I want open seatings. So people come early and they 519 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 4: order food, and they order drinks, and everybody's bar tabs 520 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 4: go up, and the bar is happy and the waitresses 521 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 4: are happy, and all that I look for. Who is 522 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 4: going to attend that particular venue? You can't have. You 523 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 4: have to know your demographic. And that is something that 524 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 4: I have preached from day one. It was hammered into 525 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 4: my head by a Sleezball producer who I've learned more 526 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 4: or what not to do than what I learned to 527 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 4: do from. But one of the things that he taught 528 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,719 Speaker 4: me was whatever your brand of comedy is, everything in 529 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 4: the show has to represent that. So I know my 530 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 4: demographic very well. Through five years of doing huge shows 531 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 4: all over the country. I know that the people who 532 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 4: buy tickets to my show are thirty five to sixty 533 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 4: five years old, women and married couples or married and divorce. 534 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 4: But they've had that part of the life experience. Most 535 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 4: of them have had children, most of them work outside 536 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 4: the home. All of those pieces go into then the 537 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 4: final piece of who I'm putting on the stage. They 538 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 4: have to relate to the people who are going to 539 00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 4: go to the venue, who are going to buy the tickets, 540 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 4: who going to order those drinks, eat that food, and 541 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 4: show up. So comedians then are the last piece. But that, 542 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 4: to me, that's the easy piece. I can't hire. For 543 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 4: a true Doc Peterson comedy show where I'm the headliner, 544 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 4: I know that everyone in the audience is going to 545 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 4: be thirty five to sixty It's going to be predominant 546 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 4: with women and married couples. I can't put a twenty 547 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 4: year old college kid who tells college humor on that stage. 548 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 4: He will get murdered. I've done it, and it was horrible. 549 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 4: I felt horrible for him, but I was then embarrassed 550 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 4: because I had to go out there. I was hosting 551 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 4: the show where I put one of these college kids 552 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 4: on and I had to drag his ass off there. 553 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't buzz people. Again, that's something that 554 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 4: you know. I don't have a timer or a light 555 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 4: or a buzzer when I'm producing a show. If I 556 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 4: tell you I want ten minutes, then damn it, you 557 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 4: better have ten minutes of material. And if you need 558 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 4: to look at your phone and put it on the 559 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 4: stool so that you know that, hey, nine minutes, I 560 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 4: need to wrap it up and get the hell up stage, 561 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 4: do it. But this poor kid, after like five minutes, 562 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 4: I was ready to gang his ass off stage. I'm 563 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 4: like standing next to the stage, going, how the hell 564 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 4: do I get his attention? 565 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, get on, go dude, wrap it up. 566 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 4: Bro, you are you're you're drowning and you don't even 567 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 4: realize how bad you're drowning. 568 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 3: Well, that's like I always live by in any business 569 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 3: I've been in. Great marketing is like the quickest way 570 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 3: to ruin a business because you can draw them in 571 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 3: with big names or whatever you want to do, and 572 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 3: then you get there and to your point, the seats 573 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 3: aren't right, the acoustics aren't right, the stages, the floor 574 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 3: like that the sound system is non existent, but you know, 575 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 3: all those little things, and then people are like, oh, 576 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 3: I thought I was coming here for a good time 577 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 3: and this sucks, Like I want my ten dollars, twenty dollars, 578 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 3: whatever it is back. You know, Uh yeah, I've always 579 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 3: lived by that. You got to make sure the fundamentals 580 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 3: are there, So now it makes sense why you're for 581 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 3: your shows do so well. 582 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 4: Thank you that you again. It was one of those 583 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 4: I didn't set out to be a comedian. I fell 584 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,719 Speaker 4: into comedy. I was going to support a friend who 585 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 4: was hosting an open mic and it was done at 586 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 4: a bar, a really kind of tough, blue collar bar 587 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 4: where the people weren't interested in the comedy. They wanted 588 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 4: to show up on Wednesday night and have a cold 589 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 4: beer and a greasy cheeseburger and go home to their 590 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 4: wife or kids after a fourteen hour day boring concrete 591 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 4: and hang at your eyeohol. And then they had these 592 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 4: comedians sitting in front of them. They would go and 593 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 4: grab the remote and turn up the TVs to drown 594 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 4: out the comedians. So my wife finally goes, you know, look, 595 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 4: I know you love your buddy, and I'm glad you're 596 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 4: supporting him doing this, because at that time I wasn't 597 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 4: on stage, it wasn't do anything. I was just there 598 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 4: as an ass and the seat to support. And she's like, 599 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 4: I can't do this anymore. The comedians you can't even 600 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 4: call them comedians. This shit is bad. So I said, 601 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 4: tell you what, there's a different open mic next week 602 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 4: at a different bar. I'll get up and I'll do 603 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 4: five minutes. This is just me and that bravado like, 604 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 4: I'm gonna. 605 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 3: Like I could do it, do this. 606 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do five minutes, and if I suck, 607 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 4: you don't ever have to go to a comedy show 608 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 4: ever again. She's like, yeah, I'll take that bet. Five 609 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 4: years later, la, yeah, I mean I got off stage 610 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 4: that night. I've ten foot tall and bulletproof, and you 611 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 4: know as well as I do had an open mic. 612 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 4: People are there for their own crefit. They're there to 613 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 4: practice their own shit. They're not there to listen to comedians. 614 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 4: If you catch another comedian's attention while you're at an 615 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 4: open mic. 616 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 3: Congratulate, that's a big deal. 617 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 4: You get something special. So I got off stage and 618 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 4: people were like, hey, that was pretty good. They laughed, 619 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 4: and the owner of the bar comes up and he goes, hey, 620 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 4: we have an opening and a comedy competition next week. 621 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 4: Would you be interested? Now, he had no idea that 622 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 4: that was my first time on stage, that I only 623 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 4: had that four and a half minutes of material. They like, no, 624 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 4: and I win. 625 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 3: Ye, let's go, you're once again. I could do that. 626 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great, But that's sometimes that's that's how people 627 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 5: fall into you know, something that they are are really 628 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 5: really good at, but they just have no idea and 629 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 5: it's just a matter of like, for you, a challenge, 630 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 5: a bet, you know, to your wife and be like, 631 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'm gonna do it. 632 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 3: If if it doesn't work out, we're done for good. 633 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 3: But it did, it worked out. You found a passion. 634 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 4: It's been fun, it's been it's been a fun thing 635 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 4: to do all over the country and sell out shows 636 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 4: and clubs and venues South Dakota, Las Vegas, and so 637 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 4: it's been fun. 638 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 3: So I know you're complex Lincoln, Nebraska, but you've done 639 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 3: a lot of shows in Omaha. Do you keep tabs 640 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 3: on Omaha Lincoln Comedy? Do you what's what's your finger 641 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 3: on the pulse on it, like currently, would you. 642 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 4: Say Lincoln is struggling. I don't know that they really 643 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 4: have a pulse for the comedy scene. And and I 644 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 4: don't mean that with any disrespect, because there's a couple 645 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 4: of new people who are really trying to fill the 646 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 4: shoes of some people that were really really, really, really 647 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 4: fucking hor They're trying, and so I give them all 648 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 4: the credit in the world for trying and trying to 649 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 4: elevate it and bring it into in line with the 650 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 4: venue and the lights of the sound and the comedians 651 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 4: and all the things Omaha is. Omaha is the most 652 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 4: welcoming comedy group that I've ever been around. Really, as 653 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 4: long as you do it exactly the way they want 654 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 4: you to do it. 655 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 3: There it is wait for the shoot to drop. 656 00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:02,840 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. If if you don't do it their way 657 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 4: and whatever their way is, if you don't do it 658 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 4: exactly like they think you should do it, you are 659 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 4: an outcast of media. And I was an outcast immediately 660 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,600 Speaker 4: because I didn't know. I didn't know their little rules. 661 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 4: I didn't know their little Hey, this is the way 662 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 4: we do it, so you have to do it that way. 663 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 4: And when I do podcasts, for other shows. Talking about 664 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 4: comedy specifically, I always tell up and coming comedians and 665 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 4: people who are aspiring to go to the next level, 666 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,399 Speaker 4: whatever the next level is for them. If you see 667 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,399 Speaker 4: comedians in a particular scene and they've been doing what 668 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 4: they're doing for ten years and they're still in that scene, 669 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 4: don't do whatever the fuck they are doing right. Do 670 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 4: the exact opposite of what they are doing. Because they've 671 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 4: been doing it for ten years and they're still in Omaha, 672 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,320 Speaker 4: Nebraska doing it for thirty five dollars in a cheeseburger 673 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 4: if they're lucky, don't do that. So do something different. 674 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 4: And that's exactly what I did. 675 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 3: So they don't like who do you have like a 676 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,680 Speaker 3: I guess I'm sure you've got folks that you look 677 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 3: up to that you're like this this, this person's doing 678 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 3: a ride. There's somebody who I've kind of idolized, you know, 679 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 3: and not necessarily in the scene or anything, but somebody 680 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 3: that I've taken a lot of inspiration from that I 681 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 3: could say, hey, watch watch this person like this. This 682 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 3: person's doing it right. 683 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 4: So I think that goes back to speaking about the 684 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,440 Speaker 4: kind of comedy that I did and the kind of 685 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,760 Speaker 4: comedy I did was I was a story tell. Everything 686 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 4: I said on stage was routed it in truth. Everything 687 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 4: that came out of my mouth at a comedy show 688 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 4: started as something that really happened in my life. I 689 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 4: love that, and so it's easier to remember. 690 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 3: It. 691 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 4: You don't screw up the details. You don't screw up 692 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 4: the timeline. If you lose your place, you know exactly 693 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 4: where you were because you really lived it. Now you 694 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 4: embellish the details, you change some things, you convict the 695 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 4: innocent and protect guilty and do those kind of things. 696 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 4: But because it was real, I never lost place at 697 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 4: a comedy show ever. I never stood on stage in 698 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 4: the middle of a set and went, oh shit, what 699 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 4: comes next? Because I didn't make it up. It was 700 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,840 Speaker 4: real and the audience may not know it. But everything 701 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,360 Speaker 4: I said also came in a logical timeline in my brain, 702 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 4: So it wasn't like I told a story in a 703 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 4: chronological order with this happened, and this happened, and then 704 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 4: this happened in my life. But the way I put 705 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 4: it together, it made sense in my brain again, so 706 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 4: I never got lost. So the people that I look 707 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 4: up to it and modeled myself after if you will 708 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 4: would be like Tom Segira and Burt Kreischer, those storytellers. 709 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 3: Were talking about that. 710 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, everything they say started with something that really 711 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 4: happened in their life. Fortune Fiendster, I love her. Her 712 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,759 Speaker 4: stories are off the wall, but you know damn well 713 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 4: that most of that really happened. And then she just 714 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 4: took it to the next level. And I love that. 715 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 4: I appreciate it about and it shows a little bit 716 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,799 Speaker 4: of it shows some vulnerability, and people can relate to that, Hey, 717 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 4: this happened to me in my real life, and this 718 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 4: is how we made it funny, or this is this 719 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 4: is my experience in life, and this is how I 720 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 4: turned it into a positive or whatever, and or the 721 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 4: world's shit on me and let's all laugh together at 722 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 4: it because it was funny. But people relate to that 723 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 4: because it's real. 724 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's something that people forget, Like even 725 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,720 Speaker 3: your worst moments, if you can find a little humor 726 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 3: in it, people will will too, because they love when 727 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 3: you're the butt of the joke and that's content, Like 728 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 3: that's material, Like take it to the stage. I get 729 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 3: that stuff's real and they can connect with real. 730 00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,600 Speaker 4: People don't realize how many funny things happened to them 731 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,760 Speaker 4: in a day, And if they just took a sticky 732 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 4: note and wrote down, Okay, this happened to me today. 733 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 4: How do I make that into a bit? Or how 734 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 4: do I embellish that or add that to a larger 735 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,360 Speaker 4: story of random shit that my children have done or 736 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 4: my wife has done to me or whatever? And I mean, 737 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 4: you're talking about the good and the bad. My wife 738 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 4: passed out in the shower after a comedy show. I 739 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 4: made this into a whole bit. So this isn't anything 740 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 4: that I haven't said before. My wife's beautiful round ass 741 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 4: landed on the shower dream oh my, And so the 742 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 4: shower filled with water and it flooded my basement. Oh no, 743 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,360 Speaker 4: I had to rent a shot back. I had to 744 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 4: go rent a rug doctor from High V at four 745 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,280 Speaker 4: am and clean out my basement because I had twenty 746 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 4: one gallons of water in my fucking basement that came 747 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 4: through the ceiling because this beautiful blonde ass plugged the 748 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 4: shower drain filled up the bowl and overflowed. And I 749 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,919 Speaker 4: only found out because I was passed out in bed 750 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 4: because the water turned cold finally, and it woke her up. 751 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 3: It's like, what can your ass not do? Girl? Do 752 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 3: it all? 753 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 4: So you talk about real life and people that can 754 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 4: relate to stupid shit that happens to her. Yeah, there 755 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 4: you go. 756 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,840 Speaker 3: How does she handle when you take a story like 757 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 3: that to the stage can she? Can she find the 758 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,920 Speaker 3: humor in it and laugh at it? Or she like, 759 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,360 Speaker 3: come on. 760 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 4: She's a good sport. And there's been very few times 761 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 4: that I've said stuff that She's like, really, you're gonna 762 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,680 Speaker 4: tell them that? So usually I have to equal it 763 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,399 Speaker 4: out with something equally as bad on my part, yep, 764 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 4: so that you know we're equalizing the playing field. She's 765 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 4: a great sport. She takes it all in stride. She 766 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 4: knows that, uh you know. It's provided a good sight, 767 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 4: income and a lot of fun and and a lot 768 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 4: of experience. She everywhere I went, she toured along with me, 769 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 4: so she got to go and experience all that stuff too. 770 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 3: So yeah, it makes a lot more fun. Yeah, all right, 771 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,239 Speaker 3: I got this something I ask every guess at the end. 772 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 3: Here somewhere I've started to do. My shower song is 773 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 3: the Thong song by Cisco. This is something that is 774 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,520 Speaker 3: my go to when I'm belting out in the shower. 775 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,080 Speaker 3: What what about you? What's your kind of go to 776 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,640 Speaker 3: song when you're in the shower and you're just belting 777 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 3: it out. 778 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 4: If I'm doing it for myself, it's going to be simple, man. 779 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,919 Speaker 4: I'm gonna do the shine Down version. I do play 780 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 4: guitar a little bit, so I'm gonna crank that one 781 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,399 Speaker 4: up and I'm gonna sing that one in the song. 782 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 4: I have a horrible singing voice. It's probably one of 783 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,240 Speaker 4: the top ten worst singing voices you've ever life. Yeah, 784 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 4: but that is not stop me from singing at the 785 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 4: top of my lungs now. If I'm trying to like 786 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 4: shoot a shower snapchat to my wife. When I'm singing 787 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 4: a song, it's gonna be like one of the theme 788 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,280 Speaker 4: songs from one of those dirty romance books or movies, 789 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 4: and you know, I'm doing the show exactly. 790 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,960 Speaker 3: That's why thong songs might go to because it's so theatrical. 791 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,120 Speaker 3: You said you played guitar a little bit. If you 792 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 3: thought about, you know, busting it out for the national 793 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 3: anthem before the big fight on Friday. 794 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 4: That's a lot of pressure. I love to play guitar, 795 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,600 Speaker 4: I'm not good at it. There's a reason I'm not 796 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 4: a famous rock star. Yeah, I am barely average. I've 797 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 4: gotten on stage with a lot of my friends to 798 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 4: play in cover bands over the years, and that gets 799 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,799 Speaker 4: out that little bit of creative juice, that a little 800 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 4: bit of love for love live music and things like that. 801 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 4: But to perform the national anthem, I am in front 802 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,720 Speaker 4: of a crowd like that, which just me and my guitar. 803 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,760 Speaker 4: That scares me way worse than standing up and telling 804 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 4: jokes or or announcing or anything else. I'd have to 805 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:12,759 Speaker 4: think real hard on that. 806 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 3: So you want him play guitar on Friday, but he 807 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,319 Speaker 3: is the in ring voice of Friday Night Fights at 808 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,279 Speaker 3: the Complex Friday, June twenty six. This is in lincod, Nebraska. Also, 809 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,879 Speaker 3: you can get tickets Nitro tickets and you can watch 810 00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 3: it on pay per view. What Doc Peterson Comedy dot Com. 811 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,320 Speaker 3: We've got the book Mickey finds his Voice out. Now, 812 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,720 Speaker 3: what what do you what else you got to promote? 813 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 3: Did I miss anything? 814 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 4: No, that's it's it's Mikey finds his Voice. It has 815 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:43,439 Speaker 4: his own uh yep, it has its own uh Facebook page. 816 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,080 Speaker 4: So if you want to follow that on then I'll 817 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,759 Speaker 4: put up events and signings and fun stuff like that. 818 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 4: I do donate a portion back to some local charities 819 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 4: as well. So go to support Dad. Look for look 820 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,080 Speaker 4: for a comedy announcement possibly coming up. It kind of 821 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,879 Speaker 4: depends on if it it all together and do that, 822 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,080 Speaker 4: but that would be probably in August as soon as 823 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 4: they can put that together. But everything else you can 824 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 4: find it on my regular Facebook phases. Jeremy Peterson, I'll 825 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,399 Speaker 4: put anything. Any fun things that I'm doing up, I'll 826 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,400 Speaker 4: put those right there. 827 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,040 Speaker 3: He's a fun follow, especially when you got around fight time. 828 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 3: You got some good stuff that always comes up, so 829 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,319 Speaker 3: make sure to check them out there. Jeremy Peterson, Man, 830 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 3: thank you for coming on the show. It's been a 831 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,480 Speaker 3: long time coming. I know we kind of talked about 832 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 3: it a while back and it was good to get 833 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,680 Speaker 3: you on. And as we go for it mean when 834 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,640 Speaker 3: you get back in the comedy and get some shows going, 835 00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:35,040 Speaker 3: let's just do it all over again. 836 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:37,839 Speaker 4: Sounds good man. I appreciate it. Thank you for having 837 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 4: me on so good. 838 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:48,120 Speaker 1: When the rents passed to in the carball Star, when 839 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: the only spuzzers my broken hardware hanging on this JANKI 840 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,160 Speaker 1: stream two. 841 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 2: Weird voices in the glow of a stream. 842 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,479 Speaker 3: It's the world to let it laugh.