Joe Newcomer is one of those people you’re always happy to see. If you spend time around Austin comedy, you’ve probably seen him working, smiling, and getting ready for another stage. I wanted to sit down and hear how he became that person.
In Episode 41 of Only Bombs!, Joe opens up about his life before stand-up, six years spent recovering, and finding something worth putting his whole heart into. We talk about Kill Tony, fatherhood, the friendships that shaped him, and learning to enjoy a life that still has its share of unfinished business.
There’s plenty of laughter here, too. His dad’s advice is something else, and his answer to why he started doing comedy took us somewhere I wasn’t expecting.
I appreciate how honest Joe was with me. He gives himself credit for the work he’s doing without pretending he got everything right along the way. I’m really glad we got to have this conversation.
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00:00:04 --> 00:00:10 So today is Joe Newcomer. Joe is a very well
00:00:10 --> 00:00:12 -known face here in Austin. He's always everywhere.
00:00:13 --> 00:00:16 Last week, what you did, you said like 23? 23
00:00:16 --> 00:00:20 stages, yeah. Tour shows, 19 mics. Man, that's
00:00:20 --> 00:00:23 crazy. And you were telling me last year, over
00:00:23 --> 00:00:26 a thousand stages. Yeah. Man, that is wild. So
00:00:26 --> 00:00:29 he's one of the hardest -working people here
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31 in Austin. One of the most recognizable faces.
00:00:31 --> 00:00:34 Everybody knows you for your positivity. just
00:00:34 --> 00:00:36 your really outgoing demeanor. Like you were
00:00:36 --> 00:00:39 just, you're just so much fun. I'm so happy to
00:00:39 --> 00:00:40 have you, dude. Welcome to Only Ballons, man.
00:00:40 --> 00:00:43 I am so happy to be here. Hell yeah, dude. I
00:00:43 --> 00:00:48 wouldn't have had any, you know, the Drew Nickens
00:00:48 --> 00:00:51 mention is something I want to thank him for.
00:00:51 --> 00:00:55 He's helped me a lot and he's a really good friend
00:00:55 --> 00:00:59 and I just wanted to shout out Drew a little
00:00:59 --> 00:01:00 bit right at the beginning, yeah. Hell yeah,
00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 dude. Yeah, I love that guy. That was really
00:01:03 --> 00:01:06 awesome just having him on, like period. Oh,
00:01:06 --> 00:01:10 yeah. And then, yeah, when we were just talking
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 and he mentioned you and everything, I was like,
00:01:12 --> 00:01:14 I immediately got excited because I was like,
00:01:14 --> 00:01:16 even during then, I wanted to get you on because
00:01:16 --> 00:01:20 you're just everywhere, man. So where does that
00:01:20 --> 00:01:22 work ethic come from for you and your comedy?
00:01:23 --> 00:01:28 Well, the work ethic comes from my father was
00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 a Marine. Your father was a Marine. And he had
00:01:31 --> 00:01:35 a lot of different sayings. But, you know, one
00:01:35 --> 00:01:38 of the funniest ones I always enjoyed when he
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 would go, hey, I don't mind if you're fucking
00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 around, but don't fuck around while you're fucking
00:01:43 --> 00:01:45 around. Get back here and get it done. You know,
00:01:46 --> 00:01:48 like, yeah, you know, don't don't lollygag while
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 you're fucking around. Get it done. Right. Yeah.
00:01:50 --> 00:01:54 So at every moment of my life, I was I'm always
00:01:54 --> 00:01:56 saying, I've got to get something done here.
00:01:56 --> 00:01:59 Yeah. Something productive and. I'm addicted
00:01:59 --> 00:02:01 to the chaos again, you know what I mean? For
00:02:01 --> 00:02:05 a long time I was recovering from things and
00:02:05 --> 00:02:07 didn't really have a social life for six years.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 And then the last seven years I've been chasing
00:02:10 --> 00:02:16 this. So it fills my time and I say chaos, but
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 I'm really just talking about just trying to
00:02:18 --> 00:02:21 fit as much stuff as I can in every single moment
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 of every single day. Yeah, I feel like when people
00:02:24 --> 00:02:26 are really like talking about the grind of being
00:02:26 --> 00:02:30 a stand -up comedian that like yeah, people sometimes
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 talk about it, but I feel like you are living
00:02:32 --> 00:02:35 him. I am in the middle of that and I've seen
00:02:35 --> 00:02:39 a lot of great comics tap this year with tap
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 and go home basically is what that means. Yeah.
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 We call it tapping and when guys have had enough
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 and they got to get they got to get out of here,
00:02:48 --> 00:02:50 you know, it drives them crazy a little bit,
00:02:50 --> 00:02:53 but I don't do drugs anymore. You know, for the
00:02:53 --> 00:02:55 last 13 years, I haven't done any hard drugs.
00:02:56 --> 00:03:00 So that kind of keeps me out of the mess on 6th
00:03:00 --> 00:03:04 Street. It can suck you in. That street is a
00:03:04 --> 00:03:08 little bit like, you know, the party can suck
00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 you in and spit you out. Oh, yeah, dude. I know
00:03:11 --> 00:03:14 it, man. Yeah. Because I'm being... from New
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 Orleans, you know, like I used to work out in
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 a quarter. And it's just, dude, like that is,
00:03:19 --> 00:03:21 that is a well -known thing, like back there
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24 that you, you can get like sucked in to that
00:03:24 --> 00:03:27 life for sure, man. But like when, so like, what
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 kind of advice would you have for somebody who
00:03:30 --> 00:03:32 is coming in to like Austin, like not realizing
00:03:32 --> 00:03:36 how crazy the grind was going to be? Oh, it's
00:03:36 --> 00:03:40 an opportunity. It's an opportunity to get on.
00:03:40 --> 00:03:43 more stages than you can anywhere else in the
00:03:43 --> 00:03:48 world. And without having to wear a car out.
00:03:49 --> 00:03:54 That's true. This is an opportunity that I couldn't
00:03:54 --> 00:03:58 pass up. I came here three January's ago on a
00:03:58 --> 00:04:04 vacation with a friend of mine. And thank God
00:04:04 --> 00:04:08 for Ashley. brought me here, showed me Austin,
00:04:08 --> 00:04:12 and I did everything I could to go back to California
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 and sell everything and move back. So what brought
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 you out here just to begin with? Were you just
00:04:18 --> 00:04:20 trying to get a fresh start or something? Well,
00:04:20 --> 00:04:25 I was doing comedy in California and having a
00:04:25 --> 00:04:29 lot of shows up and down the West Coast there
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 for the last 10 months to a year before I left.
00:04:33 --> 00:04:37 But in January of 24, my friend Ashley, she brought
00:04:37 --> 00:04:43 me here and I fell in love with Austin and spent
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46 five months working my ass off to get back here.
00:04:47 --> 00:04:49 What are some differences that you found between
00:04:49 --> 00:04:53 California and Austin comedy scenes? I think
00:04:53 --> 00:04:56 in Austin, it's easier for the cream to rise
00:04:56 --> 00:05:01 to the top. Really? I think there are things
00:05:01 --> 00:05:06 that in California, it's, uh, it's a little different
00:05:06 --> 00:05:09 in the structure on how they do things. And I
00:05:09 --> 00:05:11 came here because I thought Joe Rogan had made
00:05:11 --> 00:05:16 a place that comics can come to and, and if they're
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 the cream, they rise to the top. Mm -hmm. You
00:05:18 --> 00:05:21 know, in other places, there's a lot more politics
00:05:21 --> 00:05:26 and things of this nature that, uh, prevent certain
00:05:26 --> 00:05:28 people from progressing in the order they should
00:05:28 --> 00:05:33 be, uh, in other places. And I think it's, closer
00:05:33 --> 00:05:38 to true honesty and closer to anybody can make
00:05:38 --> 00:05:43 it here. If you come here and anybody can work
00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 hard enough and make it. Yeah. You know what
00:05:45 --> 00:05:48 I mean? That opportunity isn't everywhere else.
00:05:48 --> 00:05:50 Yeah. So you have an idea, like, I mean, you
00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 completely, like, you see what you have to put
00:05:52 --> 00:05:57 into it. Oh my God. I've been number one at a...
00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 at other things in my life. I'm a mechanical
00:05:59 --> 00:06:03 engineer, and I'm a tool die maker, and I was
00:06:03 --> 00:06:06 number one on the West Coast for about 15 years
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 at one point, and I know the kind of dedication
00:06:09 --> 00:06:11 it takes to become number one at other things.
00:06:11 --> 00:06:15 And I know that if I just do one thing, I have
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 no hobbies, and I tell women I'm not treating
00:06:19 --> 00:06:23 sleep for sex, and I'm not playing no more games.
00:06:23 --> 00:06:27 This is a serious time, you know. one of my,
00:06:27 --> 00:06:30 maybe my last opportunity to do something serious
00:06:30 --> 00:06:35 in this world. And people want to, oh, tell me,
00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 take a break or take a day off or whatever. And
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 I just look at them and I go, I've had enough
00:06:40 --> 00:06:44 days off. Thank you. Nice. Nice. So like why
00:06:44 --> 00:06:48 comedy to begin with? When I was drug dealing,
00:06:49 --> 00:06:52 there would always be, you know, somebody across
00:06:52 --> 00:06:54 the table and they'd be like, They'd be laughing
00:06:54 --> 00:06:58 at something I said, and they would go, hey,
00:06:58 --> 00:07:01 dude, you should be one of those, one of those,
00:07:01 --> 00:07:03 and I'd be like, comedian? They're like, yeah,
00:07:03 --> 00:07:06 bro, one of those. You should be one of those,
00:07:06 --> 00:07:12 man. And, you know, in drug -dealing period,
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 it became something I used as a weapon, comedy
00:07:15 --> 00:07:18 -wise, because when people are cracking up laughing,
00:07:19 --> 00:07:21 nobody pulls their guns out. Nobody robs you,
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 nobody, nothing bad happens. When they're cracking
00:07:24 --> 00:07:27 up laughing, they're not able to do anything
00:07:27 --> 00:07:31 to me. I used it, used comedy as a weapon when
00:07:31 --> 00:07:36 it was, meant my ass that the joke didn't hit.
00:07:37 --> 00:07:40 And that's way more pressure than this stuff.
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 Yeah. Man, can I ask like, what were you like
00:07:43 --> 00:07:45 dealing? Like, what was that drug life like?
00:07:47 --> 00:07:51 It was a secret life. A secret life. totally
00:07:51 --> 00:07:56 divulge to people what I was doing. You know,
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 there was a lot of dangerous people and serious
00:08:00 --> 00:08:06 about what they did. And if I was letting people
00:08:06 --> 00:08:09 in on all the information that was happening
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 in my life, then would have put them at risk.
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 Gotcha. So like a lot of like burner phones and
00:08:14 --> 00:08:18 things like that? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know,
00:08:18 --> 00:08:25 I mean, whatever I had to use, I didn't like
00:08:25 --> 00:08:27 to be on the phone. I never was on the phone.
00:08:27 --> 00:08:31 I would have a phone just to be able to call
00:08:31 --> 00:08:35 somebody or whatever, but I never used it for
00:08:35 --> 00:08:37 any of that, any of the drug stuff was not on
00:08:37 --> 00:08:41 the phone. Gotcha, yeah. We did it the old fashioned
00:08:41 --> 00:08:43 way where I'll meet you on this date at this
00:08:43 --> 00:08:48 time, in a month, okay? We don't talk about it
00:08:48 --> 00:08:51 in between. So you're like, uh, like kind of
00:08:51 --> 00:08:53 like in those sort of like slums kind of thing,
00:08:54 --> 00:08:58 like owner. Um, so I was somebody that could
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 deal with a lot of people that had it, but I
00:09:01 --> 00:09:06 was also a white guy that I could go to, you
00:09:06 --> 00:09:10 know, big parties, charge white people money
00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 on the, on the, you know, make really good profit
00:09:14 --> 00:09:17 and whatnot, because I could go from, you know,
00:09:17 --> 00:09:22 dealing with, uh, any of the number of different
00:09:22 --> 00:09:24 people I've dealt drugs with on the business
00:09:24 --> 00:09:29 end of things, I could take that and go to a
00:09:29 --> 00:09:33 party where people had so much money. Man, that
00:09:33 --> 00:09:37 life is like, it's always been like just, I guess
00:09:37 --> 00:09:40 like interesting to see that like sort of perspective
00:09:40 --> 00:09:42 and like how people got into that and then what
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 that life like came about, you know. And so the
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 fact that you're coming from that and then you
00:09:47 --> 00:09:50 go into Comedy is pretty admirable, like kind
00:09:50 --> 00:09:54 of turning things around completely. Yes. Yes,
00:09:54 --> 00:09:59 for me it is turning things around and I'm starting
00:09:59 --> 00:10:04 to find out, you know, all my life I've been
00:10:05 --> 00:10:11 one guy or another guy depending on the situation
00:10:11 --> 00:10:14 and I was, I don't think I ever became my true
00:10:14 --> 00:10:21 self. And I think this this version of Joe is
00:10:21 --> 00:10:26 closer to my real self and I'm more than interested
00:10:26 --> 00:10:30 in finding out what happens in this life as this
00:10:30 --> 00:10:33 Joe and not the other things that I've had to
00:10:33 --> 00:10:37 do, you know what I mean? Like, it's really intriguing
00:10:37 --> 00:10:41 and fun and I'm always curious when I wake up
00:10:41 --> 00:10:45 like what's gonna happen today, bro? The sick
00:10:45 --> 00:10:49 -ass shit that's been in my life just in the
00:10:49 --> 00:10:53 last few months, but in the two and a half years
00:10:53 --> 00:10:56 I've lived here, you know what I mean? It's been
00:10:56 --> 00:11:03 quite a ride and the education on who I am is
00:11:03 --> 00:11:07 becoming really, really riveting. I don't watch
00:11:07 --> 00:11:12 TV. I don't need to. I'm living a drama. Yeah,
00:11:12 --> 00:11:15 man, that's, that's a really truly amazing cause
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17 like I love what you're saying about how this
00:11:17 --> 00:11:20 is like your, your true self. And then you feel
00:11:20 --> 00:11:22 like this is more like the person that you want
00:11:22 --> 00:11:25 to be, you know, that's, that's, that's really
00:11:25 --> 00:11:28 awesome that like just something like comedy
00:11:28 --> 00:11:31 could pull that out of you, you know? And I love
00:11:31 --> 00:11:32 that you're waking up every day now and you're
00:11:32 --> 00:11:34 finding like, you know, you can tell you're happy
00:11:34 --> 00:11:36 because like, when I see you out, like I've seen
00:11:36 --> 00:11:38 you out, man. And I'm like, I'm always like,
00:11:38 --> 00:11:42 dude, this guy is like, just. the happiest person
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 in the room, but it feels like actual, legitimate
00:11:45 --> 00:11:48 happiness. Oh, yeah. Yeah? And that's how you
00:11:48 --> 00:11:52 feel, huh? You know, I ended the Kill Tony episode
00:11:52 --> 00:11:56 with one of my favorite mantras. After I meditate
00:11:56 --> 00:12:01 every day, I say, I'm not sure I'm worried or
00:12:01 --> 00:12:05 care about whether I deserve to be happy anymore.
00:12:05 --> 00:12:09 I'm just gonna do it today because I'm capable
00:12:09 --> 00:12:13 of it. That's beautiful, man. And it got a really
00:12:13 --> 00:12:18 great reaction at the end of that show. And I
00:12:18 --> 00:12:21 feel like if there was a message that I want
00:12:21 --> 00:12:26 to stick with people, it's that. It's you are
00:12:26 --> 00:12:30 your own person that can decide I'm going to
00:12:30 --> 00:12:33 be happy today. And the past, if you add up all
00:12:33 --> 00:12:37 my past, I might not deserve to be happy today,
00:12:37 --> 00:12:40 but I don't... I didn't care about it anymore.
00:12:40 --> 00:12:44 I found the trick pony. I found how to circumvent
00:12:44 --> 00:12:48 the system. The days of me worrying about whether
00:12:48 --> 00:12:52 I deserve to be happy or not are over. I'm seven
00:12:52 --> 00:12:56 years into this mode. Into this mode. So what
00:12:56 --> 00:13:01 was the transition like for you? If you can paint
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 a picture about like the polarization of it like,
00:13:03 --> 00:13:05 you know before you're kind of trying to figure
00:13:05 --> 00:13:08 things out and Then you're going to this right
00:13:08 --> 00:13:11 here. So like how did you become this no new
00:13:11 --> 00:13:17 Joe? well, I It all that kind of started when
00:13:17 --> 00:13:21 I died 13 years ago when you died 13 years Yeah,
00:13:21 --> 00:13:25 and I covered that on yeah, I covered that on
00:13:25 --> 00:13:28 kiltoni as well being a hospital and the truth
00:13:28 --> 00:13:36 is I spent six years of basic seclusion where
00:13:36 --> 00:13:39 I didn't have a social life or friends and I
00:13:39 --> 00:13:44 was just in recovery mode. And that's when I
00:13:44 --> 00:13:49 was trying, that's when I was finding out what
00:13:49 --> 00:13:54 do I do now? Now that I'm gonna live and I'm
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 like going, what the fuck am I gonna do now?
00:13:58 --> 00:14:01 For a couple of years, I felt mad at the doctors
00:14:01 --> 00:14:05 for saving me. Like why saving me for what now,
00:14:05 --> 00:14:10 you know? Everything's over. You know, I lost
00:14:10 --> 00:14:13 everything and dug and was in the deepest hole
00:14:13 --> 00:14:17 I could ever put myself in. And what do I do
00:14:17 --> 00:14:24 now? So I just kind of didn't I kind of disobeyed
00:14:24 --> 00:14:27 what the doctors wanted me to do and I got one
00:14:27 --> 00:14:30 of these fit bits and I started just working
00:14:30 --> 00:14:33 out like a madman going, well, if I'm going to
00:14:33 --> 00:14:38 live, I'm going to just get to where I can physically
00:14:38 --> 00:14:42 do whatever I want whenever I want to do it.
00:14:42 --> 00:14:53 And the total of time of six years is, I was
00:14:53 --> 00:14:56 recovering that whole time. Wow. It took six
00:14:56 --> 00:14:59 years before I could have any money to be able
00:14:59 --> 00:15:03 to stand up and walk into a bar or have a drink
00:15:03 --> 00:15:07 or do anything social like a normal person. It
00:15:07 --> 00:15:11 took a long time. And the first job that I had
00:15:11 --> 00:15:18 gotten that gave me that kind of money was I
00:15:18 --> 00:15:23 started moving furniture again. I'm pretty good
00:15:23 --> 00:15:25 at moving furniture and I've worked for Mayflower
00:15:25 --> 00:15:30 off and on a bunch of different times. that kind
00:15:30 --> 00:15:32 of physical shape is what this kind of grind
00:15:32 --> 00:15:37 needs. If I hadn't, I didn't know at that time
00:15:37 --> 00:15:40 I would end up here, but I'm looking back, I'm
00:15:40 --> 00:15:43 very thankful that I was trying to push myself
00:15:43 --> 00:15:47 to another physical level every day and just
00:15:47 --> 00:15:51 recovering, recovering, recovering. And, you
00:15:51 --> 00:15:55 know, it's good that I died because that part
00:15:55 --> 00:16:00 of being me, In my mind, that's all dead, too,
00:16:00 --> 00:16:05 and I have a bunch of regrets. Things that could
00:16:05 --> 00:16:07 have went better that didn't. You know what I
00:16:07 --> 00:16:10 mean? Like, so many things. I've disappointed
00:16:10 --> 00:16:14 so many people. Yeah, I could have been a better
00:16:14 --> 00:16:18 person in so many different ways. You know, it's
00:16:18 --> 00:16:21 very frustrating to be my friend back then, I'm
00:16:21 --> 00:16:24 sure, because it's very disappointing most of
00:16:24 --> 00:16:28 the time, yeah. Uh, there was great times. Don't
00:16:28 --> 00:16:30 get me wrong. I've always been able to have fun
00:16:30 --> 00:16:34 and I was the life of the party too much. But
00:16:34 --> 00:16:39 the truth is, you know, they, they, the people
00:16:39 --> 00:16:42 that friends of mine, they kind of just clocked
00:16:42 --> 00:16:45 out. They went, I had enough, Joe. You know,
00:16:46 --> 00:16:49 it wasn't, they didn't leave me as much as, you
00:16:49 --> 00:16:53 know, they had to. I would have sucked them down
00:16:53 --> 00:16:58 with me, you know? Yeah. You just were spiraling,
00:16:58 --> 00:17:03 huh? I was spiraling in a completely controlled
00:17:03 --> 00:17:08 way, I thought, at the time. But I was also accomplishing
00:17:08 --> 00:17:14 a great many things at work and or doing everything
00:17:14 --> 00:17:19 I could at all times. But I was a real failure
00:17:19 --> 00:17:26 as a father. Yeah. Serious failure. Was it do
00:17:26 --> 00:17:28 you think that it was because of you know drugs
00:17:28 --> 00:17:31 and things like that? Oh, yeah, but I had it
00:17:31 --> 00:17:35 in my mind at the time that That that wasn't
00:17:35 --> 00:17:38 the problem. Yeah, but I was wrong, you know,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:44 I was yeah always trying to tell people and or
00:17:44 --> 00:17:48 think it in my mind that Yeah, no matter what
00:17:48 --> 00:17:51 drugs I'm on. It doesn't matter. This is who
00:17:51 --> 00:17:54 I am and this is what I'm doing and right and
00:17:54 --> 00:17:57 the people who are looking at my drug habit as
00:17:57 --> 00:18:01 the main focal point for them. Oh, they were
00:18:01 --> 00:18:04 all wrong, but they were never wrong. They had
00:18:04 --> 00:18:08 it right. I was the one that was living a fantasy,
00:18:08 --> 00:18:12 living a fantasy. Sure. Yeah. And I get that,
00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 man. Like, cause it's, it's kind of like when
00:18:14 --> 00:18:16 you're, when you're in like that self -destructive
00:18:16 --> 00:18:19 mode, you're just, it's, you know, like I think
00:18:19 --> 00:18:23 you literally just said it right. Before we started
00:18:23 --> 00:18:25 recording it, you know, you said it's like you
00:18:25 --> 00:18:29 were just Like how'd you word it? Like basically
00:18:29 --> 00:18:31 like, you know If you if you don't like this
00:18:31 --> 00:18:33 life, you could just get the fuck out, you know,
00:18:33 --> 00:18:37 that's kind of yeah How I treated people who
00:18:37 --> 00:18:39 would tell me back then they would go Oh Joe,
00:18:39 --> 00:18:41 you shouldn't be doing drugs and stuff and you
00:18:41 --> 00:18:43 should stop and whatnot and then I would go.
00:18:44 --> 00:18:47 Oh, well, thank you for the your advice and everything.
00:18:47 --> 00:18:50 And I go, oh, by the way, you're going to have
00:18:50 --> 00:18:51 to leave now. And they'd be like, what do you
00:18:51 --> 00:18:54 mean? Why do I have to leave? I go, well, I'm
00:18:54 --> 00:18:56 going to do some drugs and you're a buzzkill.
00:18:57 --> 00:19:00 And you just killed my $150 buzz they just put
00:19:00 --> 00:19:04 on this morning. And then just what you said
00:19:04 --> 00:19:07 right now completely killed my buzz. And now
00:19:07 --> 00:19:08 I need some more drugs. And so you're going to
00:19:08 --> 00:19:12 have to go. Unless you want to come up with the
00:19:12 --> 00:19:16 300 bucks you just wasted. Buzz killing me. I
00:19:16 --> 00:19:20 give them shit, but the truth is they had it
00:19:20 --> 00:19:23 right. I was wrong that whole time. I guess it's
00:19:23 --> 00:19:27 all a part of growing up in a way. Yeah. I don't
00:19:27 --> 00:19:29 know if I'll ever be able to consider myself
00:19:29 --> 00:19:33 a full fledged grown up, but yeah. Yeah, it's
00:19:33 --> 00:19:35 a, you know, it's, it's kind of like something
00:19:35 --> 00:19:37 that, like I said, like I, you know, I kind of
00:19:37 --> 00:19:39 dealt with too. And I understand like, you know,
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 like being, being kind of like really like deep
00:19:42 --> 00:19:44 in it and trying to change your life and turn
00:19:44 --> 00:19:47 yourself around and everything. So like, you
00:19:47 --> 00:19:49 know, like it took something as dramatic as you
00:19:49 --> 00:19:51 like literally dying to kind of like shed that
00:19:51 --> 00:19:55 old skin, you know? And so like, in what ways,
00:19:55 --> 00:19:57 like did, like what things did you introduce
00:19:57 --> 00:20:03 into your life to? to get more happiness into
00:20:03 --> 00:20:06 it and to change it around. Oh my god, there's
00:20:06 --> 00:20:10 been so many little formulas and mind tricks
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 that I've played with myself that, you know,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:18 like a couple of the ones that I love, you know,
00:20:18 --> 00:20:21 like no hurting, no hating, no Satan, that'll
00:20:21 --> 00:20:25 change your perspective in certain situations,
00:20:25 --> 00:20:29 you know. Every obstacle is an opportunity in
00:20:29 --> 00:20:32 disguise. Oh, nice. It's our fourth president,
00:20:32 --> 00:20:35 Hamilton, who was his motivational, he was a
00:20:35 --> 00:20:38 motivational speaker. So I'm kind of lifting
00:20:38 --> 00:20:44 that off of him, but it was his mantra as a motivational
00:20:44 --> 00:20:47 speaker. He wrote around the country with the
00:20:47 --> 00:20:50 presidents on the trains doing motivational speeches
00:20:50 --> 00:20:53 while they were campaigning. And that's when
00:20:53 --> 00:20:55 they talked him into being the fourth president.
00:20:55 --> 00:20:57 I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
00:20:58 --> 00:21:01 that's a little history lesson for you. To look
00:21:01 --> 00:21:04 at me, you wouldn't think I've done any sort
00:21:04 --> 00:21:08 of research or whatever, but I've written a thesis.
00:21:08 --> 00:21:13 I've graduated from college. I have a mechanical
00:21:13 --> 00:21:17 engineering equivalency, but it's almost better
00:21:17 --> 00:21:20 than... the mechanical engineering schools because
00:21:20 --> 00:21:23 I was doing it on the job. I was doing, I had
00:21:23 --> 00:21:27 a job while I was going to school and applying
00:21:27 --> 00:21:30 everything I was learning as it was going. And
00:21:30 --> 00:21:33 I think that's a better way to do any sort of,
00:21:33 --> 00:21:36 especially trade school, which most of them,
00:21:36 --> 00:21:40 that's the way they're, the operation and the
00:21:40 --> 00:21:43 protocol as to how your training is to be using
00:21:43 --> 00:21:47 it right then that day, you know, like, and get
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 it. get it right, you know. And I use a lot of
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 the research and development type of aspects
00:21:53 --> 00:21:57 that I would use in mechanical engineering. I
00:21:57 --> 00:22:00 use it in joke writing and I use it in structure.
00:22:00 --> 00:22:06 I use it in efficiency to the ends, which is
00:22:06 --> 00:22:09 I wrote a joke. I got on stage and performed
00:22:09 --> 00:22:11 it. I saw what their reaction was. This is what
00:22:11 --> 00:22:14 I'm doing with it. I'm either scrapping it, working
00:22:14 --> 00:22:16 on it. I think it's great as is, you know what
00:22:16 --> 00:22:19 I mean? Like all of these things are structures
00:22:19 --> 00:22:24 to efficiency in any sort of manufacturing way
00:22:24 --> 00:22:28 can be applied to manufacturing and building
00:22:28 --> 00:22:31 a joke, you know? This is building, this is joke
00:22:31 --> 00:22:33 building, this was metal building, you know what
00:22:33 --> 00:22:37 I mean? The protocols stay the same. Yes. Can
00:22:37 --> 00:22:39 stay the same. You calculate everything. Yes.
00:22:39 --> 00:22:42 That's really cool. I kind of ask this all the
00:22:42 --> 00:22:47 time. What's your process for writing from thought
00:22:47 --> 00:22:52 to page? How do you do it? I sometimes write
00:22:52 --> 00:22:57 in between, but two, three times a week only
00:22:57 --> 00:23:00 where I'm writing outside of this one time that
00:23:00 --> 00:23:06 I write. What I do is I go to a mic, I go, and
00:23:06 --> 00:23:08 put my name up seventh or eighth or something
00:23:08 --> 00:23:11 like that where I see a few artists before me
00:23:11 --> 00:23:15 and I write, I write, I tag, I write, and then
00:23:15 --> 00:23:19 I go right up and perform. I prefer this method
00:23:19 --> 00:23:21 because if you're writing hours and hours before
00:23:21 --> 00:23:26 you're about to go up, something gets lost in
00:23:26 --> 00:23:28 between that time where you didn't do it quite
00:23:28 --> 00:23:30 the way you were thinking of it while you were
00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 writing it. So when I'm writing it and then immediately
00:23:34 --> 00:23:38 going up minutes later, it makes all the difference
00:23:38 --> 00:23:42 and it takes a whole big step out of possibly
00:23:42 --> 00:23:46 forgetting some of the premise that I had written
00:23:46 --> 00:23:48 down hours before where I've written it down
00:23:48 --> 00:23:53 right before I go up and do it. And so at this
00:23:53 --> 00:24:01 point, I'm probably in the 250 to 300 jokes written
00:24:01 --> 00:24:06 and performed each month. Wow. At this point,
00:24:06 --> 00:24:10 this is the highest level of joke writing efficiency,
00:24:11 --> 00:24:14 which, you know, so out of the 250, you know,
00:24:14 --> 00:24:18 if you write, if you write 250 jokes, you know
00:24:18 --> 00:24:21 what? 25 of them are going to be pretty good.
00:24:22 --> 00:24:26 Yeah. I mean, that does make sense. That's how
00:24:26 --> 00:24:30 you get great jokes. If you want 100, Great jokes,
00:24:30 --> 00:24:33 you got to write it and perform a thousand. That's
00:24:33 --> 00:24:35 how I look at it. Yeah, it's just statistics,
00:24:36 --> 00:24:37 right? It's like, it's basically like it's gonna
00:24:37 --> 00:24:38 happen. You're a numbers guy, you know? You're
00:24:38 --> 00:24:41 a numbers guy. Even the things we're saying is
00:24:41 --> 00:24:46 a bunch of zeros and ones. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I
00:24:46 --> 00:24:52 love that calculation that you do in your joke
00:24:52 --> 00:24:55 writing. I can see how it pays off because the
00:24:55 --> 00:24:57 thing was, you and me hadn't actually officially
00:24:57 --> 00:24:59 met for a while, but I would always see you at
00:24:59 --> 00:25:03 the mics and I knew who you were. I would see
00:25:03 --> 00:25:08 you either hosting or you were just, I saw where
00:25:08 --> 00:25:13 it was, what year did you get here again? Like
00:25:13 --> 00:25:17 January of 2024 was the first month I was here.
00:25:17 --> 00:25:22 Okay, so I started here in 23 and so I think
00:25:22 --> 00:25:24 I kind of remember just starting to see you around
00:25:24 --> 00:25:28 like I kind of just because Now that out my memory
00:25:28 --> 00:25:30 serves. I'm just like I'm like, oh, yeah, dude.
00:25:30 --> 00:25:34 I remember because when you came out I was almost
00:25:34 --> 00:25:37 like taken back by like like your energy Oh.
00:25:38 --> 00:25:40 Because you have like a lot of energy. Yeah.
00:25:40 --> 00:25:43 I've gotten a lot of great positive feedback
00:25:43 --> 00:25:48 from a lot of people. Yeah. And, you know, I
00:25:48 --> 00:25:51 just appreciate the back and forth with the positivity
00:25:51 --> 00:25:56 and how much, you know, it's a big reason me
00:25:56 --> 00:25:59 and Drew have become closer and several other
00:25:59 --> 00:26:04 comics that I appreciate in this town. I have
00:26:04 --> 00:26:10 so many young guys that want to kind of call
00:26:10 --> 00:26:14 me dad sometimes you know and The thing that
00:26:14 --> 00:26:16 the thing that that makes me kind of feel like
00:26:16 --> 00:26:20 is you know I get to use some of the dad juice
00:26:20 --> 00:26:24 that I had Thought I was going to use as a father,
00:26:24 --> 00:26:30 but I never really got I never gave myself I
00:26:30 --> 00:26:33 never gave myself the full chance, and now I'm
00:26:33 --> 00:26:37 getting the full chance with so many young guys
00:26:37 --> 00:26:42 that I depend on them just as much as they depend
00:26:42 --> 00:26:45 on me. It's more of a friendship than a bother
00:26:45 --> 00:26:48 -son thing, but I feel like they all want to
00:26:48 --> 00:26:53 call me dad, and I appreciate it. And the thing
00:26:53 --> 00:26:59 that it makes me feel like is, you know, I've
00:27:02 --> 00:27:05 apologized to my son personally enough times,
00:27:05 --> 00:27:07 but that's the way I feel when they're trying
00:27:07 --> 00:27:12 to appreciate me. I'm always thinking, I wish
00:27:12 --> 00:27:16 I could have been this when I was a dad. If I
00:27:16 --> 00:27:20 could go back and change something where I didn't
00:27:20 --> 00:27:23 end up being a failed father. Well, not completely
00:27:23 --> 00:27:26 failed, but, you know, in the overall sense of
00:27:26 --> 00:27:31 the word, yeah. I'm not a successful father,
00:27:31 --> 00:27:34 put it that way. I understand. I remember one
00:27:34 --> 00:27:38 of my favorite jokes I think you did tell was,
00:27:38 --> 00:27:41 it was one where you spoke about your son is
00:27:41 --> 00:27:43 not a drug addict or anything like that. Oh,
00:27:43 --> 00:27:46 yeah. That's one of my favies. Yeah. It always
00:27:46 --> 00:27:48 makes me feel good coming off a stage, which
00:27:48 --> 00:27:54 is this, you know. So my son, he has never done
00:27:54 --> 00:28:00 drugs and he is never going to do drugs and that's
00:28:00 --> 00:28:04 all because of me, you know, and my bad situation.
00:28:04 --> 00:28:09 He is mortified and embarrassed by me in a certain
00:28:09 --> 00:28:12 ways to the point where I just know he's never
00:28:12 --> 00:28:14 going to do any drugs. And then I get to the
00:28:14 --> 00:28:17 point where I'm telling people, oh, even good
00:28:17 --> 00:28:19 mothers and fathers today can't keep their sons
00:28:19 --> 00:28:22 and daughters off of drugs. I go, so in a certain
00:28:22 --> 00:28:26 way, I might be a good father now. I don't know.
00:28:26 --> 00:28:30 Man, I really think just the fact that you're
00:28:30 --> 00:28:33 saying this makes you a good father. I'll tell
00:28:33 --> 00:28:35 you why, man, because when I was... You know,
00:28:35 --> 00:28:37 when I was growing up, I used to be like really
00:28:37 --> 00:28:40 angry with my mom and especially like my dad,
00:28:40 --> 00:28:42 because I didn't grow up with a dad at all. And
00:28:42 --> 00:28:45 I used to be like really, really angry with them.
00:28:46 --> 00:28:49 And my dad, my dad was also a drug addict as
00:28:49 --> 00:28:53 well. And and then I kind of I kind of learned,
00:28:53 --> 00:28:56 like, you know, dude, like people, they're human,
00:28:56 --> 00:28:58 man, like your parents, they're going to they're
00:28:58 --> 00:29:01 going to fuck up and they're growing just like.
00:29:01 --> 00:29:04 Just like the rest of us man and they're learning
00:29:04 --> 00:29:07 and things and it's like You know, the thing
00:29:07 --> 00:29:10 is is the terrible thing about having kids is
00:29:10 --> 00:29:11 like, you know when you have kids especially
00:29:11 --> 00:29:13 with your first kid You're still you're just
00:29:13 --> 00:29:15 learning man. Like you're still learning to be
00:29:15 --> 00:29:18 yourself. You're learning what a father is You
00:29:18 --> 00:29:21 know, you're learning what a parent is, you know,
00:29:21 --> 00:29:24 and it's like, you know and now the fact that
00:29:24 --> 00:29:28 you comprehend and you understand that I can
00:29:28 --> 00:29:31 be better. I am. I want to be better. I am better.
00:29:31 --> 00:29:33 It's like that's testament to your character
00:29:33 --> 00:29:36 that you're, you know, that you calculate things
00:29:36 --> 00:29:38 like you were doing. And it does say that there's
00:29:38 --> 00:29:42 something wrong in my binary. I need to fix these
00:29:42 --> 00:29:45 zeros and ones. Right. Right. And the fact that
00:29:45 --> 00:29:48 you're saying that it shows growth and at least
00:29:48 --> 00:29:52 you're not stuck in that spiral. Oh, yeah. You
00:29:52 --> 00:29:55 know, I'm definitely pulled myself out of the
00:29:55 --> 00:29:58 deep dark hole and the spiral that that life
00:29:58 --> 00:30:00 was. Yeah, do you have a good relationship with
00:30:00 --> 00:30:02 your son? Is that story still working on that?
00:30:02 --> 00:30:06 I think, well, I had been talking to him on the
00:30:06 --> 00:30:12 regular before this year, but I think he's, I
00:30:12 --> 00:30:17 think he's, I don't know, I think the election
00:30:17 --> 00:30:26 has got, I'm not sure that he's, in the mode
00:30:26 --> 00:30:29 of talking to me because his mother's election
00:30:29 --> 00:30:32 in California. That's part of why I think he's
00:30:32 --> 00:30:37 talking to me. Or answering, I was going to try
00:30:37 --> 00:30:42 to go to New Jersey to do a show and he didn't
00:30:42 --> 00:30:45 end up getting back with me. And before this
00:30:45 --> 00:30:47 year, we had been talking on the regular, but
00:30:47 --> 00:30:52 I think it's just an election year and my ex
00:30:52 --> 00:30:56 -wife, I think I'm just a wild card that, you
00:30:56 --> 00:31:00 know, They don't necessarily want me all possibly.
00:31:01 --> 00:31:05 So okay and your ex -wife Can we say her name
00:31:05 --> 00:31:10 or like yeah, her name is Rhonda shader Rhonda
00:31:10 --> 00:31:13 and she is running for California State Senate
00:31:14 --> 00:31:16 Yeah, I remember you I remember you telling me
00:31:16 --> 00:31:20 that I kind of was like I just I remember you
00:31:20 --> 00:31:22 telling me that I remember being like blown away
00:31:22 --> 00:31:25 that you know, yeah, that was the thing I was
00:31:25 --> 00:31:28 like, wow, that's That's insane. That must feel
00:31:28 --> 00:31:33 kind of crazy, huh? It does feel crazy. I'm more
00:31:33 --> 00:31:36 than proud of her. She's obviously working hard
00:31:36 --> 00:31:41 and doing well. And I wish nothing but the best
00:31:41 --> 00:31:44 for any of her effort. I'm sure she's going to
00:31:44 --> 00:31:49 be an amazing politician and or senator because
00:31:49 --> 00:31:55 she is a workhorse type of person that gets a
00:31:55 --> 00:32:00 lot done in a particular day. We were a lot matched
00:32:00 --> 00:32:04 that way. I was able to accomplish a lot and
00:32:04 --> 00:32:08 get a lot of things done. So that's part of why
00:32:08 --> 00:32:13 we were matched up to begin with. But the nightmares
00:32:13 --> 00:32:18 she went through as far as how bad of a husband
00:32:18 --> 00:32:24 I turned into. All of it turns into something
00:32:24 --> 00:32:27 where I'm going, yeah, she just needs to do her
00:32:27 --> 00:32:30 own stuff and maybe my son's gonna call me after
00:32:30 --> 00:32:34 the election's over or whatever. I don't know
00:32:34 --> 00:32:40 what the motive he's in to have him not be calling
00:32:40 --> 00:32:44 me back. But for a couple years before that,
00:32:45 --> 00:32:48 we had been really... doing well on communicating
00:32:48 --> 00:32:50 and whatnot. And I did talk to him on January
00:32:50 --> 00:32:53 1st is his birthday. I did talk to him on that
00:32:53 --> 00:32:59 day this year, but I'm, I'm hoping that at some
00:32:59 --> 00:33:02 point me and him get to really spend some time
00:33:02 --> 00:33:04 together at some point. That's why I wanted to
00:33:04 --> 00:33:08 go to New Jersey when the shows were being offered
00:33:08 --> 00:33:11 to me. And then I ended up turning them down
00:33:11 --> 00:33:15 and not even going when he didn't even go and
00:33:15 --> 00:33:18 do the shows. What would be something that I
00:33:18 --> 00:33:21 guess like they would be shocked to know about
00:33:21 --> 00:33:30 this new version of Joe? That I realized that
00:33:31 --> 00:33:35 I was always my own worst enemy and even though
00:33:35 --> 00:33:38 I looked at people like they were my enemy and
00:33:38 --> 00:33:41 and they were the cause of things that weren't
00:33:41 --> 00:33:44 going right in my life. I realized that all of
00:33:44 --> 00:33:52 it was my own doing and I'm sure there's a bunch
00:33:52 --> 00:33:55 of people in California that when they saw my
00:33:55 --> 00:33:59 Kill Tony episode, they were like, Joe's still
00:33:59 --> 00:34:07 alive? No! Look, oh my God, right? To all those
00:34:07 --> 00:34:11 people and friends of mine that I've had in California,
00:34:12 --> 00:34:17 you know, my deepest apologies on not living
00:34:17 --> 00:34:22 up to the friendship that we had and that I could
00:34:22 --> 00:34:26 have been a better person. And I just, uh, I'm
00:34:26 --> 00:34:31 trying to do right by all of that now in my situation.
00:34:32 --> 00:34:36 Uh, and, uh, if I, if I get the chance to with
00:34:36 --> 00:34:41 any one of them individually to, uh, give this,
00:34:41 --> 00:34:48 uh, my heartfelt, uh, sorry and we can continue
00:34:48 --> 00:34:51 as friends. A lot of people clocked out on me,
00:34:51 --> 00:34:56 bro. They went, I'm not doing this anymore. And
00:34:56 --> 00:35:01 I've got to go, Joe. And I understand that now.
00:35:01 --> 00:35:08 It's fine. But I also know that I don't dislike
00:35:08 --> 00:35:12 any of those people and I certainly don't hate.
00:35:12 --> 00:35:15 any of those people and I think there was times
00:35:15 --> 00:35:18 where I I may have I may have sounded like that
00:35:18 --> 00:35:20 a bunch of times with these people and so I I
00:35:20 --> 00:35:24 don't I want all those people to know that uh
00:35:25 --> 00:35:29 I'm I'm good and I don't and I don't have any
00:35:29 --> 00:35:34 ill feelings about anybody from past I I know
00:35:34 --> 00:35:38 that most of everything that happened to me bad
00:35:38 --> 00:35:44 in my life was my own doing and not theirs But
00:35:44 --> 00:35:47 I blamed him a lot back in the day, you know.
00:35:47 --> 00:35:53 I yelled at him blaming him a lot. I'm not totally
00:35:53 --> 00:35:57 proud of any of that either. I get it man. Do
00:35:57 --> 00:36:00 you feel like that you carry this stuff with
00:36:00 --> 00:36:08 you like daily? My trick here is this. I'm coming
00:36:08 --> 00:36:10 closer and closer to being a hundred percent
00:36:10 --> 00:36:16 present at all times. Nice. And the more I'm
00:36:16 --> 00:36:21 100 % present at all times, then how could I
00:36:21 --> 00:36:24 have any time in my life to worry about the past
00:36:25 --> 00:36:30 or the future? And if I am worried about the
00:36:30 --> 00:36:33 past or the future, then I've got to check myself
00:36:33 --> 00:36:36 on that rule, which is I'm obviously not 100
00:36:36 --> 00:36:39 % present right now, am I? Because if I was 100
00:36:39 --> 00:36:41 % present, I wouldn't be fucking talking about
00:36:41 --> 00:36:44 the past or the future. I'd be concentrating
00:36:44 --> 00:36:46 on what's happening right now. And that's if
00:36:46 --> 00:36:49 there's anything that I become very, very good
00:36:49 --> 00:36:54 at is being here right now without my mind scattered
00:36:54 --> 00:36:57 onto other bunch of other stuff while this is
00:36:57 --> 00:37:00 happening. Yeah. Yeah. That was gonna be my next
00:37:00 --> 00:37:02 question about whether or not this is like either
00:37:02 --> 00:37:05 something that was holding you back or do you
00:37:05 --> 00:37:09 think it's like launching you forward? Say that
00:37:09 --> 00:37:12 again. Like, um, basically I was going to ask
00:37:12 --> 00:37:14 if these kind of like thoughts that like, uh,
00:37:14 --> 00:37:16 that you have, like, it sounds like to me, like
00:37:16 --> 00:37:18 it's actually like you're using it to help launch
00:37:18 --> 00:37:22 you forward as opposed to like the now, you know,
00:37:22 --> 00:37:24 like sometimes maybe my questions come off weird,
00:37:24 --> 00:37:28 but like, I launch myself or we're just like
00:37:28 --> 00:37:32 you're saying on the daily. And there is no way
00:37:32 --> 00:37:35 I'm leaving the house without a smile on my face.
00:37:35 --> 00:37:37 And there's, I have every intention of keeping
00:37:37 --> 00:37:41 that smile. all throughout every day. Hey, there's
00:37:41 --> 00:37:47 a handful of days in every year recently in the
00:37:47 --> 00:37:53 last two years since I've been here that I haven't
00:37:53 --> 00:38:00 totally kept that to a hundred percentile. But
00:38:00 --> 00:38:04 for the most part, you know, man, hey, when you're
00:38:04 --> 00:38:07 on a roll in this life as a man, if you just
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10 stay humble, If you just stay humble, you're
00:38:10 --> 00:38:14 gonna probably stay on the roll. Yeah. You know,
00:38:14 --> 00:38:16 and that's a great trick in this area, which
00:38:16 --> 00:38:20 is, you know, get your momentum going in the
00:38:20 --> 00:38:22 morning, get your momentum going out of the house,
00:38:23 --> 00:38:26 and become great at keeping your momentum. Yeah.
00:38:26 --> 00:38:29 You know, and your day's gonna be full of smiles
00:38:29 --> 00:38:33 and, hey, if somebody comes by and they're bothered
00:38:33 --> 00:38:36 by anything I'm doing, I'm, you know, because
00:38:36 --> 00:38:38 some people in this world are like, hey, hey,
00:38:38 --> 00:38:41 Mr. Happy, don't you kind of ruin my bad day.
00:38:41 --> 00:38:43 I'm having a bad day and you being around with
00:38:43 --> 00:38:46 your big smile is fucking up my bad day. You
00:38:46 --> 00:38:49 know what I mean? And I'm like, oh, I'll be geologically
00:38:49 --> 00:38:52 over there now. Yeah, misery loves comforting,
00:38:53 --> 00:38:55 right? Yeah, and I don't want to be miserable.
00:38:55 --> 00:38:58 miserable with them. If they're choosing it,
00:38:59 --> 00:39:02 that's fine. If they want some help about getting
00:39:02 --> 00:39:04 out of that mentality, sure, I'll talk to you
00:39:04 --> 00:39:07 about that. But outside of that, I'm really not
00:39:07 --> 00:39:10 interested in their content of why they're upset.
00:39:10 --> 00:39:13 Because they're not really upset about the content.
00:39:14 --> 00:39:17 They're probably just like I've been in my life,
00:39:17 --> 00:39:22 which is, yeah, I'm more mad about my actions.
00:39:24 --> 00:39:28 And I'm not upset with how people are. I like
00:39:28 --> 00:39:31 to let people be who they are. You want to be
00:39:31 --> 00:39:34 a certain way. I'm not going to complain about
00:39:34 --> 00:39:37 how you're being or who you're being. More power
00:39:37 --> 00:39:42 to you if it's making you happy. I think we're
00:39:42 --> 00:39:44 all placed here to develop our own algorithm
00:39:44 --> 00:39:48 as to how to be a happy person on a daily basis.
00:39:48 --> 00:39:53 And maybe... Just maybe if we develop our algorithm
00:39:53 --> 00:39:56 just right, it can be a very valuable tool for
00:39:56 --> 00:40:00 God, let's say. If he's wanting to help a bunch
00:40:00 --> 00:40:02 of other people that are of the like mind as
00:40:02 --> 00:40:06 you, and you have a good solution, maybe this
00:40:06 --> 00:40:10 algorithm you've developed could be useful. And
00:40:10 --> 00:40:14 God's definitely not coming back and going, give
00:40:14 --> 00:40:16 me your physically weak and mentally lazy. He's
00:40:16 --> 00:40:21 not going to say those two things. Yeah, so if
00:40:21 --> 00:40:23 you're acing yourself out of the game in this
00:40:23 --> 00:40:28 life you maybe maybe maybe you need to Get yourself
00:40:28 --> 00:40:31 into the right mode. You know what I mean? Yeah
00:40:31 --> 00:40:35 positive move forward find a way to overcome
00:40:35 --> 00:40:42 your obstacles and find the value in this world
00:40:42 --> 00:40:46 is not because You're not gonna find great things
00:40:46 --> 00:40:48 behind something that doesn't take any work to
00:40:48 --> 00:40:52 get it If you've got something that's hard work
00:40:52 --> 00:40:54 and an obstacle in front of you, most likely
00:40:54 --> 00:40:56 that's going to benefit you in ways you never
00:40:56 --> 00:41:01 even imagined if you get up and do the work it
00:41:01 --> 00:41:05 takes. You're going to be feeling like you're
00:41:05 --> 00:41:07 breaking your own arm, patting yourself on the
00:41:07 --> 00:41:09 back, and you deserve to pat yourself on the
00:41:09 --> 00:41:11 back. We all need to pat ourselves on the back
00:41:11 --> 00:41:16 sometimes and go, hey, attaboy, because not every
00:41:16 --> 00:41:18 time there's somebody in my life that's going
00:41:18 --> 00:41:20 to be there to tell me. I don't have a significant
00:41:20 --> 00:41:26 other, and I'm not sure I ever will. I may end
00:41:26 --> 00:41:29 up in some sort of relationship in my life at
00:41:29 --> 00:41:33 some point, but right now, I can't afford the
00:41:33 --> 00:41:36 time, and I can't afford the mentality it might
00:41:36 --> 00:41:39 take to have a relationship. When I have a relationship,
00:41:40 --> 00:41:44 or a hobby, or whatever, again, it will be because
00:41:44 --> 00:41:50 of some degree of success as to the comedy. I
00:41:50 --> 00:41:52 don't have a fallback plan this time. I've always
00:41:52 --> 00:41:57 had fallback plans. I don't know what I would
00:41:57 --> 00:42:00 do if I don't have anything else. There's nothing,
00:42:01 --> 00:42:03 I don't have anything to turn and go to on this
00:42:03 --> 00:42:09 one. This is it. I will be doing this and making
00:42:09 --> 00:42:16 an effort and I, God willing, I won't even take
00:42:16 --> 00:42:18 another day off for the rest of my life. I don't.
00:42:18 --> 00:42:21 really want to. The only day I've taken off this
00:42:21 --> 00:42:23 year was when it froze in the snow on the ground.
00:42:24 --> 00:42:27 That was in January. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy.
00:42:27 --> 00:42:30 But yeah, no, man, like, your, yeah, your work
00:42:30 --> 00:42:34 ethic is definitely is something that is recognizable
00:42:34 --> 00:42:37 for sure because Like I said, I saw it. Every
00:42:37 --> 00:42:39 time I was out, I always saw you. And then Drew
00:42:39 --> 00:42:43 felt like it was so recognizable that he mentioned
00:42:43 --> 00:42:46 it. And he mentioned the number of times you
00:42:46 --> 00:42:49 signed up and everything. Oh, yeah. And I thought
00:42:49 --> 00:42:51 at that point, actually when he said that, I
00:42:51 --> 00:42:52 thought at that point that you guys were good
00:42:52 --> 00:42:54 friends and you knew him and everything like
00:42:54 --> 00:42:56 that. And I was like, oh my gosh. Just becoming
00:42:56 --> 00:43:00 closer and closer through all this. Yeah, it's
00:43:00 --> 00:43:02 really amazing. You signed up so much. You get
00:43:02 --> 00:43:05 on. And then people see your positivity, which
00:43:05 --> 00:43:09 is so wonderful. So you constantly have this
00:43:09 --> 00:43:13 let's go, let's go mentality. So what next? Where
00:43:13 --> 00:43:18 are you trying to get to? That's the frustrating
00:43:18 --> 00:43:23 part in my life right now is I had a plan to
00:43:23 --> 00:43:28 come here and get certain things accomplished.
00:43:29 --> 00:43:33 But now I'm kind of in a mode where I've I've
00:43:33 --> 00:43:36 gotten to those certain goals and I've gotten
00:43:36 --> 00:43:42 to this point. And I'm, I'm through, through
00:43:42 --> 00:43:46 Consolieri with people like Drew and you know,
00:43:46 --> 00:43:53 Yonder, Yonder Wizard and Mumford and Colton
00:43:53 --> 00:44:00 Jones and my younger friend Tyler Marsh are that's.
00:44:00 --> 00:44:04 I'm kind of naming the people that are my consularies.
00:44:04 --> 00:44:08 What do I do now? What should I do, guys? I don't
00:44:08 --> 00:44:12 totally know. It's exciting. It's exciting that
00:44:12 --> 00:44:15 I don't totally know, but it is also frustrating
00:44:15 --> 00:44:18 because I've just spent the last two and a half
00:44:18 --> 00:44:21 years knowing my plan. I knew what I was going,
00:44:22 --> 00:44:26 you know, the goal being, you know, we're in
00:44:26 --> 00:44:30 a business where You can be really, really funny,
00:44:30 --> 00:44:35 but, you know, I compare it to a guy that is
00:44:35 --> 00:44:38 having trouble getting his wife pregnant. You
00:44:38 --> 00:44:40 got to slip one past the goalie somehow. You
00:44:40 --> 00:44:44 know what I mean? Yeah. And I'm at that point
00:44:44 --> 00:44:50 in this comedy, you know, call it a career, I
00:44:50 --> 00:44:54 can't even call it that yet, but, you know, what
00:44:54 --> 00:44:58 I'm heading towards and what I'm trying to accomplish,
00:44:58 --> 00:45:01 is something that I don't even know anymore.
00:45:01 --> 00:45:06 I don't know what the real next plan is. I've
00:45:06 --> 00:45:10 talked to people in Dallas and San Antonio to
00:45:10 --> 00:45:13 try to get to those places to do some shows.
00:45:14 --> 00:45:19 But as far as what the overall plan is, I mean...
00:45:20 --> 00:45:23 I'm happy about the plan we had today and the
00:45:23 --> 00:45:26 fact that this is coming together. And I like
00:45:26 --> 00:45:30 to just take my little accomplishments as I'm
00:45:30 --> 00:45:33 going because, you know, when you've met a small
00:45:33 --> 00:45:38 goal, that's good. Sometimes people set too many
00:45:38 --> 00:45:41 big, giant goals that takes too long to get to
00:45:41 --> 00:45:46 the realization of how much fun it would be if
00:45:46 --> 00:45:48 you accomplished it. And I like to also have
00:45:48 --> 00:45:51 those goals, but the small goals, which was get
00:45:51 --> 00:45:57 here, get done, go to the ride and get some cigarettes
00:45:57 --> 00:46:03 before I did that. And, you know, mash as far
00:46:03 --> 00:46:06 as what we did to get prepared for this. And
00:46:06 --> 00:46:10 the goal is being met. And I'm sure that when
00:46:10 --> 00:46:14 this is all done, I will be feeling like... Wow,
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17 I got that done and I'm going to get all of the
00:46:17 --> 00:46:20 other things I'm going to get done. What a productive
00:46:20 --> 00:46:25 day I'm having already. And I think that can
00:46:25 --> 00:46:30 be derived out of any short -term little goal,
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32 positive thing that you had. You accomplished
00:46:32 --> 00:46:37 something in a particular day. You can just build
00:46:37 --> 00:46:41 yourself up with that on the fly and get yourself
00:46:41 --> 00:46:45 in a positive mode that I like to think these
00:46:45 --> 00:46:53 days that I think people in my life are influenced
00:46:53 --> 00:47:00 by my presence more than ever, where I'm not
00:47:00 --> 00:47:04 worried about going to a place and not having
00:47:04 --> 00:47:07 it be a happy thing. I know when I come in the
00:47:07 --> 00:47:11 room, a lot of people in the room are going to
00:47:11 --> 00:47:15 brighten their eyes and give me a smile and I'm
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17 going to smile back and we're going to give each
00:47:17 --> 00:47:20 other some positive energy. We're all going to
00:47:20 --> 00:47:23 move, do what we were there to do and move on
00:47:23 --> 00:47:28 and have great days. And that's my goal in this
00:47:28 --> 00:47:33 life and if I can repair some of my own wreckage
00:47:33 --> 00:47:36 from the past in my mind where I'm being positive
00:47:36 --> 00:47:40 and good now and not causing any of that wreckage
00:47:40 --> 00:47:46 is why it's a lot easier to be positive and stay
00:47:46 --> 00:47:53 on stage. I'm not saying that all of what I did
00:47:53 --> 00:48:00 in my younger life is something that is okay.
00:48:01 --> 00:48:04 I just know that I'm okay with it now. And I'm
00:48:04 --> 00:48:08 not spending my days going, I don't deserve to
00:48:08 --> 00:48:12 be happy today because I was an asshole 30 years
00:48:12 --> 00:48:17 ago. That's the mentality that this society will
00:48:17 --> 00:48:22 tell you if you did these bad things, you have
00:48:22 --> 00:48:25 no right to feel happy today. Well, guess what?
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27 I do have that right. And I have that choice.
00:48:28 --> 00:48:31 And I exercise that on a daily basis to the point
00:48:31 --> 00:48:38 where I'm overcoming more things and feeling
00:48:38 --> 00:48:43 positive and victorious. five or six different
00:48:43 --> 00:48:47 small times every day. Yeah. Yeah, do you have
00:48:47 --> 00:48:49 anything like not comedy related that you do
00:48:49 --> 00:48:55 that really helps with that mentality? I know
00:48:55 --> 00:48:58 you mentioned earlier that you meditate. I meditate.
00:48:58 --> 00:49:01 Yeah, which I think is really cool. It's a really
00:49:01 --> 00:49:07 good mode of mentality to keep yourself calm,
00:49:08 --> 00:49:11 happy and calm going into it. a particular situation.
00:49:12 --> 00:49:15 Do you know that there's several studies that
00:49:15 --> 00:49:22 say our most intelligent mode is when we're smiling?
00:49:23 --> 00:49:26 No, I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Everybody's
00:49:26 --> 00:49:29 more intelligent while smiling than they were
00:49:29 --> 00:49:31 when they weren't smiling. That's interesting.
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34 And thousands and thousands of studies about
00:49:34 --> 00:49:36 that. That's interesting. I like I laugh I smile
00:49:36 --> 00:49:38 but for some reason like smiling always feels
00:49:38 --> 00:49:42 like unnatural for me. I don't know why Well,
00:49:42 --> 00:49:45 it might be something like, you know, like I
00:49:45 --> 00:49:48 said society says Unless you're unless you're
00:49:48 --> 00:49:50 weak weren't really good. Why the hell are you
00:49:50 --> 00:49:54 smiling? Well wait, oh Wait a minute here. Even
00:49:54 --> 00:49:58 with those degaratized society to tell me I deserve
00:49:58 --> 00:50:01 to smile today Right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So
00:50:01 --> 00:50:03 I've erased all that mentality with that one
00:50:03 --> 00:50:07 statement. It sounds simple, but it's a complicated
00:50:07 --> 00:50:11 little statement and I'm going to repeat it again.
00:50:12 --> 00:50:15 I don't care if I deserve to be happy today.
00:50:15 --> 00:50:18 I'm just going to do it because I'm capable of
00:50:18 --> 00:50:21 it. Yeah. And the rest of the mentality is out
00:50:21 --> 00:50:25 the window. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't have any
00:50:25 --> 00:50:30 hobbies. And you said, you're asking, do I have
00:50:30 --> 00:50:35 something in my life that is, this is it. This
00:50:35 --> 00:50:40 is it. I get really great sleep, that helps.
00:50:41 --> 00:50:43 That's awesome. I get really great rest all the
00:50:43 --> 00:50:47 time and I do well to take care of myself. Exercise,
00:50:47 --> 00:50:50 I do push -ups. I've worked out every day for
00:50:50 --> 00:50:54 the last 13 years. That's a big help. as far
00:50:54 --> 00:50:57 as getting positive mental juices that all comes
00:50:57 --> 00:51:02 from us feeding our brain with muscle. Yeah.
00:51:02 --> 00:51:04 Yeah, you probably like kind of zone out when
00:51:04 --> 00:51:07 you walk, huh? I do. Yeah, because when I was
00:51:07 --> 00:51:09 being in New Orleans, like it was very heavily
00:51:09 --> 00:51:12 like walkable city. So I used to walk everywhere.
00:51:12 --> 00:51:14 And if I missed the bus, well, I just started
00:51:14 --> 00:51:16 walking until I catch the next one. And then,
00:51:16 --> 00:51:19 but I would just remember that like I would zone
00:51:19 --> 00:51:22 out like heavily, like I would be in like You
00:51:22 --> 00:51:23 know, you mentioned like a mantra earlier. I
00:51:23 --> 00:51:28 would be just zoned out, man. Like I could just
00:51:28 --> 00:51:30 be walking on autopilot. You know, so I feel
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32 like you have like all of this stuff that's like
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35 kind of like pulling you like internal. Yeah.
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37 You know, and then it's like, and then you is
00:51:37 --> 00:51:40 like an externally positive person. Exactly.
00:51:40 --> 00:51:42 It's like, this is very, I love it. It's very
00:51:42 --> 00:51:44 interesting. You know, I like getting like a
00:51:44 --> 00:51:50 peek into who you are, you know. It's like almost
00:51:50 --> 00:51:55 having a a part -time job or a service that you
00:51:55 --> 00:52:01 do as far as the extra work and the non -mental
00:52:01 --> 00:52:05 laziness about the extra work on keeping myself
00:52:05 --> 00:52:08 happy, right? At certain moments, especially
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10 when there's something frustrating in front of
00:52:10 --> 00:52:14 me that is so bad that I want to blame the frustrating
00:52:14 --> 00:52:20 person. No matter what ends up happening if something's
00:52:20 --> 00:52:23 frustrating in front of me and or hurts me I
00:52:23 --> 00:52:27 also had the choice to be geologically over there
00:52:27 --> 00:52:30 My bad for being here, you know what I'm saying?
00:52:30 --> 00:52:34 Like and that's if I have anything in my life
00:52:34 --> 00:52:39 to tell you look Your life is not upsetting you
00:52:39 --> 00:52:42 the fact that you were there for that person
00:52:42 --> 00:52:46 to be able to have the opportunity to hurt you,
00:52:46 --> 00:52:53 it's on you, not them. Mmm, yeah, yeah. Stop
00:52:53 --> 00:52:54 blaming other people. Stop blaming other people.
00:52:54 --> 00:52:57 Where you're at. Yeah, sure, yeah. You're the
00:52:57 --> 00:53:00 one that got yourself there. Oh, show me the
00:53:00 --> 00:53:02 two guys that forced you into this room with
00:53:02 --> 00:53:06 this person for them to hurt you. Show me these
00:53:06 --> 00:53:08 two big guys that forced you into that room,
00:53:08 --> 00:53:11 because there isn't any. Right. So the mission
00:53:11 --> 00:53:14 these days for you is just living a fulfilling,
00:53:15 --> 00:53:18 happy life. Yes. Man, that's great. The smile.
00:53:18 --> 00:53:21 Smile. If we smile more than the billionaires
00:53:21 --> 00:53:27 today, we win. Yeah. Yeah. Go, go, go dry your
00:53:27 --> 00:53:31 tears with a bunch of hundreds. Yeah. Because
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34 my day went great. Right. Exactly. Yeah. You
00:53:34 --> 00:53:37 can't let them bring you down, man. You know,
00:53:37 --> 00:53:39 so what is a, what's something that's like a,
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41 that like For the rest of the day, what do you
00:53:41 --> 00:53:43 think that you're going to do for the rest of
00:53:43 --> 00:53:45 the day? You have four or five mics you're going
00:53:45 --> 00:53:47 to be doing tonight? Well, one of my favorite
00:53:47 --> 00:53:54 ones of the week is the tag mic at Sunset. That's
00:53:54 --> 00:53:58 a great workshop mic where all we're doing is
00:53:58 --> 00:54:00 writing tags for each other, trying to help each
00:54:00 --> 00:54:04 other tag up certain premises that we think is
00:54:04 --> 00:54:09 good. Yeah. It's a great workshop. I love Alden
00:54:09 --> 00:54:13 Schaub. He runs that, and he is one of my favorite
00:54:13 --> 00:54:15 people in this whole world. He's such a positive
00:54:15 --> 00:54:18 guy. I love the guy. Yes, and he's also a great
00:54:18 --> 00:54:20 book writer. By the way, this is Alden Schaub's
00:54:20 --> 00:54:22 from when Alden Schaub was on the show. There
00:54:22 --> 00:54:27 you go. Yeah. No, I love Alden too. He's such
00:54:27 --> 00:54:30 a great... Great dude. I have probably seven
00:54:30 --> 00:54:33 of his pins that he gives out for free in my
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35 bag right now. And now because of you, I've got
00:54:35 --> 00:54:38 one too. I know this is probably going to be
00:54:38 --> 00:54:41 a difficult question because of the amount of
00:54:41 --> 00:54:42 mics that you do and everything, but do you have
00:54:42 --> 00:54:49 like a favorite one? Well, that particular one
00:54:49 --> 00:54:51 is one of my favorite ones because I got a lot
00:54:51 --> 00:54:55 of work done at it. The more I can get done work
00:54:55 --> 00:55:02 wise as far as keeping my level of productivity
00:55:02 --> 00:55:07 as far as pumping out jokes at an all -time high.
00:55:08 --> 00:55:11 The other ones I love, like the Wednesday mic
00:55:11 --> 00:55:14 at Creaking Cave, my friend Tyler runs that,
00:55:14 --> 00:55:18 and that's a riff mic. And my saying is, the
00:55:18 --> 00:55:21 riff can giveth and the riff can taketh away.
00:55:22 --> 00:55:24 I don't know how it's gonna go, but here we go,
00:55:24 --> 00:55:28 right? Yeah. And the beauty part about riff mics
00:55:28 --> 00:55:30 is you can always walk away, even if whatever
00:55:30 --> 00:55:34 you did bombed ass, you can always walk away
00:55:34 --> 00:55:37 going, hey, it was just a riff mic, blip on the
00:55:37 --> 00:55:40 radar. I can't count that as far as having a
00:55:40 --> 00:55:43 bad mic. But you could think of something in
00:55:43 --> 00:55:47 the moment. Oh, yeah. Yeah, where it wouldn't
00:55:47 --> 00:55:49 have came to me any other way. Yeah, that is
00:55:49 --> 00:55:53 so cool. So yeah, that's a really great one.
00:55:53 --> 00:55:58 Any type of riff or tag kind of operation in
00:55:58 --> 00:56:02 mic, I'm probably really enjoying that part of
00:56:02 --> 00:56:05 the workshop. Where was the first place that
00:56:05 --> 00:56:08 you went to when you got here to do a mic? Like
00:56:08 --> 00:56:10 the first stage you got here in Austin? I believe
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12 it was Creaking Cave. It was the Sunday night.
00:56:12 --> 00:56:18 It was a Sunday mic in early January of 2024.
00:56:19 --> 00:56:27 And I did my ugly feet set. Okay. And it went
00:56:27 --> 00:56:33 well. It got a lot of pop. And I was thrilled
00:56:33 --> 00:56:37 about it and couldn't believe that this city
00:56:37 --> 00:56:40 existed by then. And we ended up spending three
00:56:40 --> 00:56:43 more weeks here before we left. And we went to
00:56:43 --> 00:56:48 New Orleans. Oh, hell yeah. Me and Ashley. We
00:56:48 --> 00:56:53 were traveling with, uh, it was Ariel, Wes and
00:56:53 --> 00:56:57 Lori were all, uh, with us. It was a kind of
00:56:57 --> 00:57:01 a five person group. Oh, hell yeah. Vacation
00:57:01 --> 00:57:04 thing that. Oh, what a great place to go to.
00:57:04 --> 00:57:08 And then we ended up, uh, in, uh, Alabama on
00:57:08 --> 00:57:12 the old coast. The golf coast? Golf coast. But
00:57:12 --> 00:57:15 I think right there is called gold coast or something.
00:57:15 --> 00:57:17 Oh, golf shores. Golf shores. That's what it
00:57:17 --> 00:57:21 is. Yeah. uh, is where we went after that. And,
00:57:21 --> 00:57:25 uh, you know, then as soon as we got home, all
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28 I did was work, work my ass off to get back here.
00:57:28 --> 00:57:30 That's it. When we drove away in the car that
00:57:30 --> 00:57:33 first time, uh, to go to New Orleans, I was just
00:57:33 --> 00:57:36 looking out the back window in tears. I'm like
00:57:36 --> 00:57:39 going, fuck, I got to get back here, man. This
00:57:39 --> 00:57:43 city impressed me so much that it's just a comedy
00:57:43 --> 00:57:50 frenzy. And, uh, the energy. everybody has here
00:57:50 --> 00:57:55 in a positive way. I've just always appreciated
00:57:55 --> 00:58:00 Austin in a bunch of different ways, but it in
00:58:00 --> 00:58:06 some ways allows a person to have a little happier
00:58:06 --> 00:58:15 existence here in Texas. It's a free place. It
00:58:15 --> 00:58:19 just feels freer here than in other places in
00:58:19 --> 00:58:22 the country maybe because I just feel like Austin,
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24 Texas is keeping it weird. You know what I mean?
00:58:25 --> 00:58:30 This is where acceptance, there's a lot of great
00:58:30 --> 00:58:33 acceptance in this city where whoever you are,
00:58:33 --> 00:58:37 whatever you're doing, Austin opens its arms
00:58:37 --> 00:58:39 and accepts you. Oh, yeah. No, it really does.
00:58:39 --> 00:58:43 I think that this podcast, I probably couldn't
00:58:43 --> 00:58:46 have started Anywhere else it's just like it's
00:58:46 --> 00:58:49 almost like as soon as soon as I said that I
00:58:49 --> 00:58:51 wanted to do something I started to build it
00:58:51 --> 00:58:56 It's just like the entire community You know
00:58:56 --> 00:58:58 like you know has like hit me up to be a part
00:58:58 --> 00:59:00 of it And that's what I love is like you know
00:59:00 --> 00:59:03 just the fact that Austin is so Like it's just
00:59:03 --> 00:59:06 it is a community of people and it does grow
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08 and then over the years I've seen people come
00:59:08 --> 00:59:11 and go But the ones that stay like you, you know,
00:59:11 --> 00:59:12 like the ones that stay and they've been doing
00:59:12 --> 00:59:14 it for a couple of years and things like that.
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16 It's like, and you know, they're here, you know,
00:59:16 --> 00:59:19 it's like, it's a comforting thing, man. It's
00:59:19 --> 00:59:23 like, you know, it becomes like a home. It is.
00:59:25 --> 00:59:31 I'm not sure. There's a, there's a great saying
00:59:31 --> 00:59:35 in a movie called the mission to Mars. And I
00:59:35 --> 00:59:38 love it, but. He's talking to the class after
00:59:38 --> 00:59:42 he gets back from Mars on Earth. People have
00:59:42 --> 00:59:46 seen it, but I love it when he says, this life
00:59:46 --> 00:59:49 is like this. Your problem solved, your problem
00:59:49 --> 00:59:51 solved, your problem solved, your problem solved,
00:59:51 --> 00:59:53 and your problem solved again, and your new problem
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55 solved again, and then someday you might find
00:59:55 --> 01:00:02 your way home. They go, where is that? I don't
01:00:02 --> 01:00:06 know where that is. You find your way home. Is
01:00:06 --> 01:00:08 that Project Hail Mary? Is that from Project
01:00:08 --> 01:00:11 Hail Mary? No, it's from the movie Mission to
01:00:11 --> 01:00:17 Mars with Matt Damon. Oh! Oh! Or Mars, or something.
01:00:18 --> 01:00:21 It's the thing where he gets trapped on Mars.
01:00:21 --> 01:00:22 Yeah, we gotta science the shit out of this thing.
01:00:22 --> 01:00:25 Yeah, and science the shit out of it, and he
01:00:25 --> 01:00:28 was problem -solving to save his own life. But
01:00:28 --> 01:00:31 what he's seen, I'm talking about, is at the
01:00:31 --> 01:00:33 end of the movie when he's talking to the class
01:00:33 --> 01:00:38 after he's back on Earth. Yeah. just tells them,
01:00:38 --> 01:00:42 you know, that saying about the problem -solve,
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44 problem -solve, problem -solve, and then you
01:00:44 --> 01:00:47 find your way where you're home. Yeah. That's
01:00:47 --> 01:00:49 pretty profound. I didn't even think about that.
01:00:49 --> 01:00:55 And I really enjoyed that movie, but the biggest
01:00:55 --> 01:00:58 take I got out of that movie was that one saying.
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01 It's a simple saying, and he's... You know, he's
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03 only saying two things, which is problem, solve,
01:01:03 --> 01:01:05 problem, solve, problem, solve, problem, solve.
01:01:05 --> 01:01:09 And then you find your way home. Oh, it's so
01:01:09 --> 01:01:13 profound and so simple. He said, I thought, wow,
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15 that that's, that's a good one. And, and with
01:01:15 --> 01:01:19 my mechanical engineering background, I, I see
01:01:19 --> 01:01:23 how he was using that. And, you know, in the
01:01:23 --> 01:01:26 movie, he obviously gets off of Mars and gets
01:01:26 --> 01:01:30 back home or to earth, but even back on earth.
01:01:30 --> 01:01:36 I felt like he was also in the movie, it's like,
01:01:36 --> 01:01:38 I still don't even know where home is, even though
01:01:38 --> 01:01:41 I'm back here. I've got more problem solving
01:01:41 --> 01:01:44 to find out, more algorithm of my own happiness
01:01:44 --> 01:01:51 to build. And I have so much work to do and not
01:01:51 --> 01:01:54 enough time to get it done unless you encapsulate
01:01:54 --> 01:01:57 each day and say, this is what I'm going to get
01:01:57 --> 01:02:00 done today and I've accomplished it today. I've
01:02:00 --> 01:02:04 met my goals, even though the big goal may, I'm
01:02:04 --> 01:02:07 still climbing through several other goals, but
01:02:07 --> 01:02:11 I like immediate daily goals that I can pat myself
01:02:11 --> 01:02:14 on the back about and go, yeah, let's go. Yeah.
01:02:14 --> 01:02:18 You know what I mean? Like, alls we have to do
01:02:18 --> 01:02:21 is set them up for ourselves. You know, okay,
01:02:21 --> 01:02:24 one of the greatest things just out of the house,
01:02:24 --> 01:02:27 getting out of the house, I can't, I can't smoke
01:02:27 --> 01:02:32 anything in my house. uh, uh, smoking weed or
01:02:32 --> 01:02:37 whatever. Uh, uh, as soon as I wake up, I'm like
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39 going, well, as soon as I'm ready and out of
01:02:39 --> 01:02:42 the house, I can get high. I can smoke some weed,
01:02:42 --> 01:02:45 right? So that's a dang, I'm dangling that carrot.
01:02:45 --> 01:02:48 I'm going, oh, boom, boom, boom. I'm getting
01:02:48 --> 01:02:50 ready fast because I know I'm going to get out
01:02:50 --> 01:02:52 of the house and I'm going to be able to smoke
01:02:52 --> 01:02:59 and cruise on with my day. And so we can also
01:02:59 --> 01:03:03 use things in our lives that we know we want,
01:03:03 --> 01:03:07 you know? A care, a proverbial care can be anything,
01:03:07 --> 01:03:11 you know? Yeah, yeah. You know, once I'm done
01:03:11 --> 01:03:14 getting ready, I can have my cup of coffee, even
01:03:14 --> 01:03:17 if it's, you know, something that's not, you
01:03:17 --> 01:03:19 know, drug or marijuana based or whatever, you
01:03:19 --> 01:03:21 know, you don't have to... You're just making
01:03:21 --> 01:03:24 small goals. Just small goals with, you know,
01:03:24 --> 01:03:27 dangling carrots and hitting them and getting
01:03:27 --> 01:03:29 them. Hitting them and getting them, dude. That's
01:03:29 --> 01:03:32 it. That's it, man. Well, we're gonna go ahead
01:03:32 --> 01:03:33 and wrap this up, dude. Okay, cool. But this
01:03:33 --> 01:03:35 is your camera if you want to put out anything.
01:03:36 --> 01:03:39 The one thing I do want to say to all the people
01:03:39 --> 01:03:43 out there that are in a very deep hole of some
01:03:43 --> 01:03:45 sort, and you can't see your way out of it, and
01:03:45 --> 01:03:49 you want to think about suicide or anything of
01:03:49 --> 01:03:53 that nature, listen to me. I've crawled out of
01:03:53 --> 01:03:57 the deepest hole there ever was. And if I can
01:03:57 --> 01:04:01 do it, anybody can do it. If I stop doing drugs,
01:04:01 --> 01:04:06 anybody can stop doing drugs. You have to realize
01:04:06 --> 01:04:11 that alls it takes is for you to get up and do
01:04:11 --> 01:04:13 the things that you think are gonna make you
01:04:13 --> 01:04:18 happy. Nothing can stop you except for yourself.
01:04:21 --> 01:04:24 Obstacles are opportunities in disguise, like
01:04:24 --> 01:04:29 I said before. Do not... Find a way to make an
01:04:29 --> 01:04:33 excuse to be lazy that day. Stop it with that.
01:04:35 --> 01:04:38 Just get it done. Just do it. You know, like
01:04:38 --> 01:04:40 the Nike saying, you know, we're here to just
01:04:40 --> 01:04:45 do it. Anybody being lazy and anybody thinking
01:04:45 --> 01:04:48 that that's going to be a productive day of rest,
01:04:49 --> 01:04:53 you might be wrong. You could have accomplished
01:04:53 --> 01:04:57 things that would have helped you. You can get
01:04:57 --> 01:05:01 rest along the way. I've rested right now. I'm
01:05:01 --> 01:05:03 physical rest. I'm resting kind of, you know
01:05:03 --> 01:05:07 what I mean? And as far as getting whole days
01:05:07 --> 01:05:09 of rest, I don't need them anymore. I've had
01:05:09 --> 01:05:13 enough rest. Let's just go. You ready to do it,
01:05:13 --> 01:05:15 man? That's it. That's it, brother. That's what
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17 I want. Oh, yeah. Well, thank you so much, man.
01:05:17 --> 01:05:19 I really appreciate you coming on. Yeah, yeah,
01:05:19 --> 01:05:21 yeah. It means the world. And, you know, if I
01:05:21 --> 01:05:23 had to, you know, because of this discussion,
01:05:23 --> 01:05:25 if I had to, like, sum this whole thing up in,
01:05:25 --> 01:05:27 like, one quote, I think I would think it was
01:05:27 --> 01:05:29 Charlie Chaplin. He said, a day without laughter
01:05:29 --> 01:05:31 is a day wasted. Yeah. And I think it's one of
01:05:31 --> 01:05:34 my favorite quotes. I love that. I love that.
01:05:34 --> 01:05:36 That's a great quote. That's a good one. But
01:05:36 --> 01:05:39 thank you so much for coming. Guys, thank you
01:05:39 --> 01:05:42 for tuning in. Please get the tickets for December
01:05:42 --> 01:05:45 11th show. Once again, they're coming. I'm going
01:05:45 --> 01:05:48 to release everything soon. But thank you guys
01:05:48 --> 01:05:49 for watching. It always means the world. Thanks,
01:05:49 --> 01:05:52 Joe, again. And that's it. That's a wrap. Adios.