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Speaker 1: Jenny Johnson. You can catch her at Jenny Johnson Hi

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Speaker 1: let's rewind how, how and why are you a Texans fan.

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Speaker 2: To go with JJ. He's my bud too, JJ. And

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, as somebody who's legitimately funny, how impressed are

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Speaker 2: Right, No, it's not. And he did a great job.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing I can compare it to

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Speaker 2: I'm so pumped because you know, as a as a

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Speaker 2: It was like the worst. I couldn't I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: He's still my old buddy.

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Speaker 1: How impressive is that? Like the dude he signed in

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Speaker 2: It's remarkable. He sent me, he's so nice. He sent

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that the McNair's like took you know,

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Speaker 1: The Year, Jenny. A lot of people listening to this

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Speaker 2: then it must be a good place to live. He

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00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,400
Speaker 2: just he did that based on just how much respect

435
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 2: and appreciation he had for Jamiica Ryans. So I was like,

436
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 2: I love that story. It was so fun.

437
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: He just.

438
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's like, I didn't know where to go. Houston sprawling,

439
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 2: it's big, what neighborhood whatever.

440
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,120
Speaker 1: That's a good hey, it's a good barometer, no doubt. Yeah,

441
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: you're a comedian. When did you make the switch and

442
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 1: decide I'm going to go all in? Because that's a

443
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 1: bold choice. That is hard to do it.

444
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 2: It was a bold choice and it was like, so

445
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 2: my dad passed away in like twenty twelve, and I

446
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 2: had been getting some through Twitter, getting some notoriety. I

447
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 2: had a bunch of followers and I was but I

448
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 2: was still like working in in news. I wasn't, but

449
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 2: I wanted to make the switch because I had gotten

450
00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 2: through Twitter, I got an agent, a manager. I write

451
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 2: as well, So I even pulled the pilot to ABC.

452
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 2: But I was able to I was doing this while

453
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 2: being in Houston, and I was kind of after my dad,

454
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 2: like he was he had cancer and he passed away,

455
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 2: and I just thought, you know, life's too short. I'm

456
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 2: going to just go for it. I can move to LA.

457
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 2: I can try this. If it doesn't work, I've got

458
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 2: like thirteen years experience working in news, I have something

459
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 2: I could fall back on, so let me just give

460
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 2: us a shot. So I moved. I moved out here

461
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 2: to LA and I was still writing. And then I

462
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 2: just was like, I'm writing all these jokes, but I

463
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 2: wonder how it would be if I told them on

464
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 2: stage instead of just you know. Because of like having

465
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 2: social media like popularity, I was able to get spots

466
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 2: like the first set I did was with the Laugh

467
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 2: Factory on Sunset Boulevard. They're like, oh, Jenny Johnson, I five, yeah,

468
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,239
Speaker 2: you could come to a set. I didn't even want

469
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 2: to say that. I'd never done stand up before.

470
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: Sure.

471
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 2: I was just trying to like fake it till you

472
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 2: make it, you know.

473
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,719
Speaker 1: So, so I remember I said, come do it. Were

474
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: they like five minutes would they ask you to do?

475
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 2: You were like, you have ten minutes? So I was like, cool,

476
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 2: all right, And so I just practiced and like, and

477
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 2: I get on stage and it was good, like I

478
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 2: have to say, like it was I had the crowd whatever.

479
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 2: And I remember I got off stage and I saw

480
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 2: I saw my friend Neil Brennan. He was going up

481
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 2: too later and he just was watching. He goes, I

482
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 2: had never seen the full Jenny Johnson stand up experience,

483
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: and that's like nobody else has. That was my first

484
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: time doing it. And he goes, oh, can I give

485
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: you one little piece of advice? I was like sure,

486
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, I would look up. You looked at

487
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 2: your feet all the time. He's like, just I mean,

488
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to tell you how to do live

489
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: your life, but baby, look up.

490
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: Do you remember that.

491
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 2: It only was because like looking out to the you know,

492
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 2: when you're on stage, you could just see the front road.

493
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: The lights are so bright, and I didn't really I

494
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: didn't want to see anyone. And instead of just doing

495
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 2: a thing, we're just look out into the darkness and

496
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 2: that's what you're you know, like nobody can tell that

497
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 2: you can't see the breath. But instead I was just

498
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 2: standing on stage, staring at my shoes, killing my dumb jokes.

499
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 2: And it got what but he was like, hey, just

500
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 2: give me a piece of advice. Yeah, okay, look up,

501
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: all right, do me notice? Thank you? All right, I

502
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 2: will do that.

503
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like it went well. I mean, what

504
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: were what was the nervousness? Like, how nervous were you?

505
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 2: I still get nervous, but when I like, I get

506
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 2: nervous right before I walk on stage, and then once

507
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: I grab the microphone, I'm not nervous anymore. I'm totally fine.

508
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 2: But they're just like and I like it because it's

509
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 2: like excited butterflies, you know, Like I don't you know,

510
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 2: like there's some days that I'm getting ready and if

511
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 2: I'm like headlining a show I was doing, I was

512
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 2: headlining a weekend of shows at the DCM prov and

513
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 2: I was staying with my cousin Brad, who lived there

514
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 2: in the in the area, and right before my first show,

515
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: I'm like walking around his house. I was like had

516
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 2: my AirPods and I'm like listening to my set. He's like, oh,

517
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: you get nervous. I go. This is the part right

518
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 2: now where I'm questioning every decision I've ever made in

519
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 2: my life. Well, I why I think that I can

520
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 2: do six shows this whole weekend. This is where I

521
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 2: want to quit and just go home, like it don't

522
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: come back around. But this is the moment where I

523
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 2: have that like, uh. The thing with like doing stand

524
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: up Too is like because now I've been at it

525
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 2: for I guess I don't know, almost not ten years,

526
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 2: but getting getting close to ten years, and I've been

527
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 2: able to go on the road with so many great

528
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 2: comics and they've let me, like, you know, feature for them,

529
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 2: so I could do like a half hour set I'm

530
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 2: going with like Nick Schwartz and Anthony Jels with a fortune,

531
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 2: themester Brad Williams, so like it's cool just to be

532
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: Leanne Morgan, who's one of my dear friends. She's brought

533
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 2: me on the road with her. The only the only

534
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 2: tough thing with Leanne Morgan is she's from Noxville, Tennessee,

535
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 2: and she does not use language on stage. And she's

536
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: like Genie, I'm like, okay, so I have to sit

537
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 2: there and make a conscious effort not to curse.

538
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: Oh, you've got to tailor your act a little bit

539
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: depending on her. Yeah, okay, okay, Yeah, it's not.

540
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 2: My act so much because I don't do things we're like,

541
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 2: I know a lot of like the common theme with

542
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 2: people say, oh, female comics talk about sex, which I don't.

543
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 2: I just I like observational humor, and but I also

544
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 2: just have a potty mouth where I'm like, well, look

545
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: at this up and guy, I look at you know,

546
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: like I It's just how I talk. And then I

547
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: have to have this conscious thing in the back of

548
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: my head going, don't you don't say that?

549
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: Right? Because she brings her crowd, that's kind of following.

550
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, when someone brings you on the road, you're performing

551
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 2: for that audience that I bought tickets to see them,

552
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: you know. And remember one time, Anthony Jess when I

553
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 2: could we were having dinner one night and I was

554
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: going to open at the Mirage in Las Vegas for

555
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: Nick Schwartzen, and at that point that was like the

556
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 2: biggest show I was going to be doing, like ever

557
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 2: at that point thousands of people. And I told Anthony

558
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 2: that I was nervous, and he goes, well, let me

559
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 2: just tell you, no one bought a ticket to see

560
00:26:54,440 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: you out right, Okay, so if you do great, great,

561
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: if you do bad, they bought a ticket to see Nick,

562
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 2: not you.

563
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: Kind of a little liberating though here in that a

564
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: little bit.

565
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 2: It was because that's how I put like, that's how

566
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 2: my parents would talk to me about things like so weirdly,

567
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 2: that was like, oh my god, thank you. But then

568
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 2: I thought about it. It was like, that's so funny that

569
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 2: he's like, no one bought a ticket to see you.

570
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: And he's okay, but a good point. And then I

571
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 2: told Nick that Nick was laughing. He goes, yeah, I mean,

572
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: Mike fans are like they're they're always up for a

573
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: good time. He's like, he'll try new stuff when you're onstage.

574
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, no, I don't think this will be

575
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: the time that I'm going to bust out some new

576
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 2: material in front of thousands of people. Let me just

577
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: go with the bits that I know were I try

578
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 2: out new materials for the smaller crowds, not thousands of people.

579
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: So you were just here, he said, in the last

580
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: fall in Houston. How much have you performed here?

581
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 2: A lot? A lot of people will bring me along

582
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 2: when they do the Houston mprov because I'm you know,

583
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 2: I have so many people, and I can a lot

584
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: people buy tickets just because I have so many friends

585
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 2: in the in the area and everything. So I performed

586
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: there quite a bit. I even did one headlining show.

587
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 2: It was like on a it was it was like

588
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: the Wednesday before Hurricane Harvey, or like two days before

589
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 2: Hurricane Harvey. And I remember like flying out. There's my

590
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 2: mom is still in Bay City, my sister's and brother

591
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 2: in law and nephew there in like the Conro area,

592
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm getting out of here. Bye. Yeah, yeah,

593
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: y'all don't flown away, bye, I'm going home.

594
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: Did they I didn't. I don't remember. Did Bay City

595
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: get it pretty badly during that one?

596
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: It looked like, you know, as it always does, it

597
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: looks like it's gonna hit that area, and then right

598
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: when it makes landfall, it takes a turn and goes further.

599
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 2: So my my sister had gone and she picked up

600
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 2: my mom. And as it turns out, like at least

601
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: my sister, they didn't lose they didn't lose power anything,

602
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: but my sister and brother in law. I had to

603
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 2: have my mom there for like a week because like

604
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 2: she didn't have power at her house like the neighbors.

605
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 2: I just remember like every day talking to my sister

606
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: and it was truly one of the funniest things of

607
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: like calling, Hey, how's it going.

608
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: I kind of think you tweeted about this? Right, you

609
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: were tweeting about this at the time. Well, it sounds familiar.

610
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: It was entirely And then I kept like making it worse,

611
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: telling my brother in law and my sister going what

612
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,959
Speaker 2: if when you go to take her back home, what

613
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: if the house is just gone? It was washed away,

614
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 2: and then she'll have to live with you?

615
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: And they're like like, if you think.

616
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: That's funny, I'm like, I actually do think it's pretty funny.

617
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: You just left and abandoned us. I'm like, yes, I did.

618
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: I on a plane, y'all.

619
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: R So, what's next for you? What's next for you?

620
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: Comedy wise.

621
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: Comedy wise, I'm still plugging away. I'm gonna record and

622
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: at the end of the summer beginning to fall, I'm

623
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 2: going to record my first album.

624
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: So that's congratulations, that's awesome.

625
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to come up with a name for it.

626
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: So I've just been really really trying to focus on

627
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 2: getting that you know, that hour special because it takes

628
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 2: a long once you have, you know, you have to

629
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: you have to get up on stage almost every night

630
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 2: to work out your material, and there's things are always

631
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 2: changing because I, you know, you want to keep things

632
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: topical as well, so I have to be in the

633
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: know of whatever ridiculous news is going on. Dear clear, politics,

634
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 2: no one wants to hear that. That's a big thing

635
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: that I watched people still try to get on stage

636
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: and talk politics. I'm like, no one wants to hear it.

637
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: Get off this by doing comedy now, for doing stand

638
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: up for the last decade, is there a part of

639
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: you that feels bulletproof as far as I can do anything.

640
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: If I can get up and do that and.

641
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: Do it well, it definitely gives you like more. It's

642
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: just I don't know, it's kind of a weird feeling

643
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 2: because I think before I ever did it, in my

644
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: head what I thought it was going to be. And

645
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 2: then when I get up there, I'm like, I'm in

646
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: the zone. I know my whole you know, however, many

647
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: minutes because you never know when you go do stand

648
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: up shows around town, it's ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Sometimes

649
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Speaker 2: people will grab you. You know, there's three rooms in

650
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: the comedy store. There's two rooms in the improv. I

651
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: could be doing a show in one room and then

652
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 2: maybe the booker goes, hey, somebody can't make it. Can

653
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: you run up and do five minutes? Until like yeah,

654
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Speaker 2: But I just in my head, I have five minutes,

655
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: seven minutes, ten minutes, fifteen, I can do an hour.

656
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 2: But I just see it so much. It's like with

657
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: anything where people think, you know, like oh, you have

658
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: the most fun job, and then it becomes a job.

659
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: You know, like that's that's no different. But I just

660
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: stay so zoned in. I'm like, make sure I have

661
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 2: my phone that's on. You know, there's always a barstool

662
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: on stage. I put my phone, I hit my voice memo,

663
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 2: record it and do my set, get done, you know,

664
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: hit on record, okay, save it and then I go

665
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: home and then I listen to it and I make

666
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 2: notes if I didn't. You know, it's like it's a job,

667
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: but it's a job that I love so much. Like

668
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: it's just fun to be able to like, especially after

669
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 2: being a news producer where you feel like you're the

670
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 2: person who was only giving bad news to people constantly.

671
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, Okay, off the top, what do

672
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Speaker 2: we get out?

673
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Speaker 1: Who?

674
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 2: Apartment fire Southwest Houston? Here we go, Oh right, let's

675
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: do it now.

676
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: You're like the ups delivery guye Christmas right, I mean

677
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: everybody loves yeah exactly.

678
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Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I get to be the person that

679
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 2: makes people happy come to come to a show and

680
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 2: they have fun. I'm like, I also I also really

681
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: enjoy the thing of, like, you know, how it is

682
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: with people when sometimes out here in la As you

683
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: can imagine I could be standing in a comedy club

684
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: and I haven't gone on yet, and somebody will come

685
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: by and they're kind of like, who are you excuse me? Rude?

686
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 2: And then I get on stage and I kill and

687
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: then the person will be like, oh, hey, I didn't

688
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 2: realize that you were a comic.

689
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: That was really how graceful are you do you go

690
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: back at them? How graceful are you with that in

691
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: that situation?

692
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: No, I just act like I have a chip on.

693
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, thank you, that's really nice to do with

694
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: your name. Okay, you know, like I remember I hold rudges.

695
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: You're not gonna remember that face. But I do like

696
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 2: there is something that I really enjoy about that, like

697
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: proving you know, you know you're a competitor.

698
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: You're a competitor.

699
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well song sports fan. I played sports,

700
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: so I always want to I want to be the best.

701
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 2: I want to get the biggest laughs. But I also

702
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: love There's when I was talking about like how much

703
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: fun it is working in sports, It's so much fun

704
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: to like just chill in the green room with other comics.

705
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: It's just a funny. It's a funny atmosphere. There's nobody

706
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 2: that there's no human resource person.

707
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: Brain that's going to storm it.

708
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 2: And it way that wasn't appropriate. It's a free for all.

709
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 2: It's a good time.

710
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: Everybody gat to ask you funniest Houston Texan ever is

711
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: or was the funniest? Yeah, because you know a lot

712
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: of them.

713
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 2: Aaron Foster always made me laugh because he just did

714
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: his own thing. I'm going to be vegan for a while.

715
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: You can't be a NFL running back and a vegan.

716
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 2: I didn't work. I remember he gave a postgame interview

717
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: one time and he just did it in a British accent.

718
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I was there for that one. Yeah, that was interesting.

719
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: He just like doing quirky, weird things. Always made me laugh.

720
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: Connor Barwin, I always liked that. He always made me laugh.

721
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: His pal Sean Cody pretty funny. He's out in LA too.

722
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: He's got some money.

723
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: Yes, but Sean Cody and and Connor together were very funny.

724
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was a good tender.

725
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 2: They were like they were big BF. But yeah, no,

726
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 2: I would say. Owen Daniels also, he always had a

727
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: good sense of humor. But of course anyone that like

728
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: I became friends with. It all started because they started

729
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: following me on Twitter.

730
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Speaker 1: You want to feel really old, circle back to that.

731
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: So last night we had my son's eight year old

732
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: baseball team had a game at seven point thirty and

733
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: on the field we were about to play, Owen Daniels

734
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: was pitching to his son's team because it's coach pitch

735
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: baseball and so I saw that and I was just like, wow,

736
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: we are Yeah, he's yeah, he's coaching the team, he's

737
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: slimmed down and he's still throwing the ball to eight

738
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: year olds and yeah, but it was nice seeing him.

739
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 2: You want to have and you talk about a clutch

740
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: clutch tight end with.

741
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: The Texans with the Ravens for that year and then

742
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: with the Broncos.

743
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 2: With the Broncos he got a super Bowl. He deserved

744
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 2: to win a Super Bowl.

745
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, greatest tight end easily in Texans history. So yeah, it's.

746
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 2: Something like, yeah, anytime the ball was like heading his way,

747
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 2: you just like I had all the confidence every time.

748
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 2: Ye you know, he's real deal, like that guy.

749
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: Indeed. All right, so let's wrap this up.

750
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 2: Well what we say also love that I can't believe

751
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 2: that I know is Brian Cushing.

752
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: He's in he's you talk about competitors.

753
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 2: Oh my god, have I followed him? And like his

754
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: kids are going to be like yeah, when they're older,

755
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 2: I'll see like a video of him playing like one

756
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: of playing little football and I'm like, oh my god.

757
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's something it's something to see for sure.

758
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

759
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other parents are probably like, oh great, here

760
00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 2: comes here comes Cushing and Canner is knocked out there

761
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 2: it is, but.

762
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: Hannah good name. Okay, we got to wrap this up sadly.

763
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: But Jenny Johnson, when's the next Texans game you're going

764
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,479
Speaker 1: to go to? There's like a ton of great ones

765
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: this season in Houston on the road too.

766
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna try to. I'm gonna make it a

767
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 2: point to get to one of those games for sure.

768
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: I'm not sure which one, but hopefully, like maybe if

769
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 2: are they out here?

770
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: No, they're not going west this year. It's all Central

771
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 1: and East.

772
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just I'll make it a point to fly

773
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 2: back to Houston and go because I have to see it. Like,

774
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: I'm so stoked. I have my CJ. Stroud T shirt.

775
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, the company that sponsors me with a lot

776
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 2: of my stuff is homage.

777
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: Yes, they're awesome. Yes, and they sent.

778
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: Me they even sent me a Chester Pitts T shirt.

779
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: N that's great.

780
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: You sent me all sorts of cool gears.

781
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: Well, Jenny Johnson. You can find her on social media

782
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: at Jenny Johns's in Hi five at Jenny Johnson High five.

783
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: You can see her regularly in Los Angeles at the

784
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: Comedy Store at the Improv. She's got an album coming

785
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: out next fall and it's gonna kick all the ass

786
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: in the world. Jenny, it's awesome talking with you. I

787
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: really really love this. I appreciate you making time. I

788
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: know how busy your schedule is, and we can't wait

789
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: to do this again sometime. We can't wait to see

790
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: Out of Texans game. So good.

791
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me on. I

792
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: appreciate it.

793
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: Thank you big thanks to Jenny Johnson. I know a

794
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of you out there listening live in Los Angeles.

795
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: Go take a moment, check her out at the Comedy

796
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: Store at the Improv, and get ready for that big album,

797
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: which I can't wait to hear and can't wait to

798
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: see when it's unveiled later next year, maybe even at

799
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: the end of this year, but she's gonna shoot it

800
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: late summer, early fall, and best of luck to her

801
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: and congratulations on all of that. All right till then,

802
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: so long,