I sit down with Jaime-Lee Simmons and talk about her comedy journey, health in comedy, and the difficulties of being an Austin comic. From having a successful podcast to venues around the country, Jaime-Lee speaks about her personal journey and her comedy growth. She has been on KillTony, 2 Girls 1 Blunt Podcast as well as opened for some big names in comedy an emphasizes the importance of honing her craft. Had a blast in this one on one conversation! Thanks for doing the show Jaime-Lee!
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:55 you I sound like I've been smoking for 30 years
00:00:55 --> 00:00:59 Not not any different from the way I sound actually
00:00:59 --> 00:01:02 like I'm like fuck me, too It's kind of I don't
00:01:02 --> 00:01:03 know if it's the weather or what you know what
00:01:03 --> 00:01:07 I mean. It's all the smoking I Know like all
00:01:07 --> 00:01:11 the vaping and shit. Yeah, I gotta quit Yeah,
00:01:11 --> 00:01:14 no, I'm right as she takes a hit all right. I
00:01:14 --> 00:01:17 keep a I keep telling myself the same thing I'm
00:01:17 --> 00:01:19 like dude. I've gotta fucking stop vaping, but
00:01:19 --> 00:01:21 I Don't want to? You know what I mean? Like that
00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 kind of thing? Yeah. I don't want to. I don't
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 drink, so I'm 108 days sober. Woo! Oh man. Congratulations.
00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 Thanks. I'm sober from alcohol, but... Same.
00:01:31 --> 00:01:32 I feel like I have to say that. People are like,
00:01:32 --> 00:01:34 oh, well, you smoke weed. And I'm like, yeah,
00:01:34 --> 00:01:37 I'm high right now. 108 days. When was that?
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 January 1st. January 1st? Mm -hmm. Yeah, me,
00:01:41 --> 00:01:45 it was December. Hell yeah. Yeah. So I haven't
00:01:45 --> 00:01:47 touched alcohol since then. I don't want to.
00:01:47 --> 00:01:50 You know what I mean? I, like, haven't. wanted
00:01:50 --> 00:01:53 to, unless there's like, I went to the rodeo.
00:01:53 --> 00:01:56 You went to the rodeo? Yeah. Yeah. And I just,
00:01:56 --> 00:01:58 it just seemed like such a vibe where I'd love
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 to crush beers and be like, yeah, ride the bull.
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 Right? Yeah. But so there's like moments where
00:02:03 --> 00:02:07 if I'm on a boat, I want to take some shrooms
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 and have a cocktail. I don't know. Like there's
00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 like, if I go to Italy and I'm in the vineyards,
00:02:12 --> 00:02:15 I will break my sobriety for some Italian wine.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:17 Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, I know what
00:02:17 --> 00:02:19 you mean. First like going to a bar, local bar
00:02:19 --> 00:02:22 for no reason. Yeah, I know exactly what you
00:02:22 --> 00:02:23 mean. I think that's like been the hardest part
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 about the whole sobriety thing has been like
00:02:26 --> 00:02:27 just finding yourself in moments where you're
00:02:27 --> 00:02:30 just like, I just, you know, this seems like
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 a pretty badass time and to have a beer, you
00:02:32 --> 00:02:36 know? Yeah. But I'll take gummies or something,
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38 or I don't know. I haven't had shrooms in a while,
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 though. I need some sort of vice, yeah. Right,
00:02:42 --> 00:02:44 yeah. I need something. Yeah, vaping. It just
00:02:44 --> 00:02:47 ends up like that's the fucking thing. Yeah.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 Yeah. That's a pretty badass start. Vaping's
00:02:52 --> 00:02:54 sick. Vaping is fucking sick. Well, welcome to
00:02:54 --> 00:02:55 the show. Thank you for doing this. Thanks for
00:02:55 --> 00:02:58 having me. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Well, I saw
00:02:58 --> 00:03:02 you at Marcus Monroe. Open up for Marcus Monroe.
00:03:02 --> 00:03:04 And that was a pretty fucking killer set. Thank
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 you. That was seriously very funny. Thank you.
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 I was really blown away because, especially with
00:03:10 --> 00:03:14 your dad joke there, that one got me. I was like,
00:03:14 --> 00:03:17 dude, oh my gosh. That's one of my oldest jokes
00:03:17 --> 00:03:21 too. But I've changed it a lot and added to it.
00:03:22 --> 00:03:24 But it's one of my favorites. Right, yeah. I
00:03:24 --> 00:03:26 mean, because it's like, you're setting them
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 up to go in one direction. And you did. I was
00:03:29 --> 00:03:31 just like, because I was sitting there thinking
00:03:31 --> 00:03:32 the whole time while you were telling it. I was
00:03:32 --> 00:03:35 like, you live with your dad. One bedroom. Cool.
00:03:35 --> 00:03:37 And then when that punchline hit, I was like,
00:03:37 --> 00:03:41 oh, fuck. I was like, bravo. I love the dark.
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 I love dark fucked up humor. Because when your
00:03:43 --> 00:03:45 dad dies, the only way that you can handle it
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 is with fucked up humor. Right. So I think I
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 had such a... fucked up childhood that I can't
00:03:51 --> 00:03:55 laugh at silly stuff sometimes. It has to be
00:03:55 --> 00:03:59 really like - Like fucked up. Yeah. I loved Anthony
00:03:59 --> 00:04:01 Jesselny growing up. I liked Jim Jefferies. I
00:04:01 --> 00:04:03 loved that he swore and said cunt all the time.
00:04:03 --> 00:04:06 That's where I was like, oh, I can do this. Oh,
00:04:07 --> 00:04:13 yeah. Yeah, R .I .P. Dad. Anything Jim Jeffries
00:04:13 --> 00:04:16 does, especially about religion, oh my gosh,
00:04:17 --> 00:04:20 I eat them up. Especially Anthony Jesselnyk,
00:04:21 --> 00:04:23 too. I love Anthony Jesselnyk. So would you say
00:04:23 --> 00:04:25 those guys are your inspiration for beginning
00:04:25 --> 00:04:28 comic? I would say that those were probably the
00:04:28 --> 00:04:33 first comics I watched growing up. I didn't really...
00:04:33 --> 00:04:36 My dad was really into comedy, but not stand
00:04:36 --> 00:04:39 -up. like comedy movies. So he was a big Adam
00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 Sandler fan. Oh, OK. And so and he was always
00:04:42 --> 00:04:46 like the silly guy. So I think I grew up around
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 comedy, but not standup comedy. And then it wasn't
00:04:49 --> 00:04:51 until like my high school sweetheart was like,
00:04:51 --> 00:04:54 let's watch this comedy special. Yeah. And I
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 watched Jim Jeffries. I was like, that's. Really
00:04:56 --> 00:04:58 cool. That's right up your alley. But I was a
00:04:58 --> 00:05:00 terrible public speaker growing up and I had
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 no confidence. So I was a very shy, insecure
00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 person. When I saw it, I was like, that's cool.
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 There was no way in hell that I thought that
00:05:09 --> 00:05:12 I would ever do it. Yeah. I couldn't even get
00:05:12 --> 00:05:15 in front of my class with people I knew to do
00:05:15 --> 00:05:17 a presentation. I'd be the type of person like
00:05:17 --> 00:05:18 this with a piece of paper being like, and I'd
00:05:18 --> 00:05:22 have to read exactly word for word. Wow, so it
00:05:22 --> 00:05:24 was never like on your radar that this is something
00:05:24 --> 00:05:25 that you wanted to do. Yeah, I was not a good
00:05:25 --> 00:05:29 bullshitter, like nothing. I couldn't, I wasn't,
00:05:29 --> 00:05:31 yeah. So like what caused you to pick it up and
00:05:31 --> 00:05:35 to begin with? So I would say I started making
00:05:35 --> 00:05:40 like online content and I would do like funny
00:05:40 --> 00:05:44 things, but I focused more on fitness, I guess,
00:05:45 --> 00:05:48 when I like started online. And then I moved
00:05:48 --> 00:05:52 for my... Sales job. I was a sales rep at a marketing
00:05:52 --> 00:05:54 company. I had moved to a new state So I was
00:05:54 --> 00:05:56 in living in Manchester, New Hampshire didn't
00:05:56 --> 00:05:59 know anybody it's kind of east bumfuck nowhere
00:05:59 --> 00:06:01 There's not a lot to do. It's kind of hard to
00:06:01 --> 00:06:03 make friends. Yeah, my whole office is all older
00:06:03 --> 00:06:09 people and There was one kid in my office and
00:06:09 --> 00:06:13 I was like, hey, what is there to do like I'm
00:06:12 --> 00:06:14 I need to make friends. And he's like, oh, I
00:06:14 --> 00:06:17 go to comedy on Thursday. So I went with him
00:06:17 --> 00:06:18 to an, I think, I didn't even know it was an
00:06:18 --> 00:06:21 open mic. That's how I didn't know what was going
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 on. I thought it was a show and I was like, wow,
00:06:23 --> 00:06:27 there's like 50 people here in this small attic.
00:06:27 --> 00:06:29 And this is super fun. And I loved it. And I
00:06:29 --> 00:06:31 was like, I wish I could do that. But again,
00:06:31 --> 00:06:36 I wasn't, I was still terrified to get on stage.
00:06:36 --> 00:06:40 But. I started, I think, watching stand up more
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 and just kind of it piqued my interest. I have
00:06:43 --> 00:06:46 different, some people like grew up on it and
00:06:46 --> 00:06:51 I didn't, but I ended up like six months later,
00:06:51 --> 00:06:52 it was me and a girlfriend and we didn't have
00:06:52 --> 00:06:56 anything to do. And so I was like, well, there's
00:06:56 --> 00:06:59 comedy. Let's go to the comedy show. And so we're
00:06:59 --> 00:07:01 all dressed up because we're about to go out,
00:07:01 --> 00:07:03 and this is kind of our pregame, and we're sitting
00:07:03 --> 00:07:06 in the front, and one of the kids on stage is
00:07:06 --> 00:07:09 like, we're the only women out of like 50 people.
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 Oh, really? It was all open mic 'er dudes. Of
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 course. Yeah. As with tradition. And me and my
00:07:15 --> 00:07:16 friend, like, dressed up, so they're all like,
00:07:17 --> 00:07:20 why are you here? You know what I mean? And we
00:07:20 --> 00:07:22 were like, oh, and my friend just yells, she
00:07:22 --> 00:07:26 wants to try stand up. Oh, no. And they were
00:07:26 --> 00:07:30 like, oh, get on stage right now. And I was like,
00:07:30 --> 00:07:32 no, no, no. I've never wrote a joke in my whole
00:07:32 --> 00:07:36 life. Please don't make me get on stage. Wow.
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38 And then the entire room just starts going, get
00:07:38 --> 00:07:43 on stage. get on stage and I can't be a pussy.
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 So I'm like, fuck, I'm gonna have to do this
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 or I look like a bitch. And so I just chugged
00:07:48 --> 00:07:51 my beer. It was a double IPA, I might add. And
00:07:51 --> 00:07:55 then I got up there and just told a story about
00:07:55 --> 00:07:59 how I was a bad first date. And then I got some
00:07:59 --> 00:08:03 laughs and that was like crack. You actually
00:08:03 --> 00:08:05 got laughs your first time. Just like a couple
00:08:05 --> 00:08:08 here and there, like not, I was bombing in the
00:08:08 --> 00:08:11 turn, like looking back at it. But the few reactions
00:08:11 --> 00:08:14 I did get. It was electric. It was just like,
00:08:14 --> 00:08:17 oh, I like this. And I wrote five minutes that
00:08:17 --> 00:08:20 week, like dove head first into comedy. And I
00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 came back the next week, had a full five minutes
00:08:23 --> 00:08:25 written callback at the end from the beginning
00:08:25 --> 00:08:29 of the set. I like studied comedy. And then,
00:08:29 --> 00:08:33 yeah, I just did. Whoa, all of a sudden it became
00:08:33 --> 00:08:36 my thing So that was like so you you studied
00:08:36 --> 00:08:38 like the joke and the joke structure and everything
00:08:38 --> 00:08:40 like that And then you you just kind of yeah,
00:08:40 --> 00:08:44 there was this podcast It was called let's talk
00:08:44 --> 00:08:48 about sets I Never heard that but that's great.
00:08:48 --> 00:08:52 Yeah, and Basically, it was like some New York
00:08:52 --> 00:08:56 comics. I forget the guy's name Harriet here
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 Harrison tweet or something like that and some
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 other people but they interviewed Like I remember
00:09:01 --> 00:09:04 Mark Normand was on it. They interviewed like
00:09:04 --> 00:09:07 big comics in New York talking about each episode
00:09:07 --> 00:09:09 had different things. Like one of the ones that
00:09:09 --> 00:09:11 I loved was the ABCs of comedy. And so it was
00:09:11 --> 00:09:13 talking about your A jokes, like your best jokes,
00:09:14 --> 00:09:16 your B jokes, which are like, you're still working
00:09:16 --> 00:09:18 on, but they're good and get laughs. And then
00:09:18 --> 00:09:21 your C jokes, it's just probably like the really
00:09:21 --> 00:09:23 new shit that you haven't worked out yet. And
00:09:23 --> 00:09:28 how to set up your set like B, C, A. Oh man,
00:09:28 --> 00:09:31 I never even. Thought to do that. Yeah, so I
00:09:31 --> 00:09:33 was like it taught me like the science behind
00:09:33 --> 00:09:36 like I guess setting up your set and like things
00:09:36 --> 00:09:38 that I wouldn't even know where to start Yeah,
00:09:38 --> 00:09:40 there was one on like storytelling and how to
00:09:40 --> 00:09:43 captivate somebody with how you speak and your
00:09:43 --> 00:09:47 inflection and things like that and so I just
00:09:47 --> 00:09:50 Watch that or listen to like all the episodes
00:09:50 --> 00:09:53 and then Watched a bunch of specials, and I was
00:09:53 --> 00:09:54 like all right I don't want to watch too much
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56 because I don't want to pick up on other people's
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 voices Sure, so I just kind of was like all right.
00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 I'm gonna figure out this kind of From there,
00:10:03 --> 00:10:05 but it was super helpful. Yeah Did your next
00:10:05 --> 00:10:08 time you went up did all that? Stuff that when
00:10:08 --> 00:10:11 it came into play was did it work out? Yeah,
00:10:11 --> 00:10:13 I actually got I actually got lat like more laughs
00:10:13 --> 00:10:17 than the first time still bombing But more that
00:10:17 --> 00:10:22 kept me going Wow But it was fun. It was good.
00:10:22 --> 00:10:24 Yeah. And so, like, was it, so you started in
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 New Hampshire. Mm -hmm. Yeah. And you performed
00:10:27 --> 00:10:30 in Boston as well. I would drive for mics, like
00:10:30 --> 00:10:32 an hour, hour and a half, to go to a three -minute
00:10:32 --> 00:10:36 mic. And to do one spot for three minutes. Oh,
00:10:36 --> 00:10:38 I feel that. I used to drive from Houston here.
00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 Yeah. Jesus. So it's kind of like the same thing.
00:10:41 --> 00:10:43 Yeah. But I totally get it. So you drive from
00:10:43 --> 00:10:45 New Hampshire to Boston and just get like three
00:10:45 --> 00:10:48 minutes. Or Worcester, like, yeah, Western Mass,
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 just for a few minutes. Oh, man, wow. Because
00:10:51 --> 00:10:53 there wasn't a lot of options. It's not like
00:10:53 --> 00:10:55 in New Hampshire, you could go out multiple times
00:10:55 --> 00:10:58 a night. Right, yeah. It was like once a night,
00:10:58 --> 00:11:01 maybe. Yeah, I used to, so I stayed, I lived
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 in Maine for a little bit and used to go to New
00:11:04 --> 00:11:06 Hampshire quite a bit, like around the, I forget
00:11:06 --> 00:11:08 where it's called, but like the White Mountains
00:11:08 --> 00:11:11 kind of area in New Hampshire. Okay. So it was
00:11:11 --> 00:11:12 kind of like, you know, just everything I saw
00:11:12 --> 00:11:14 was just like country. So what you're telling
00:11:14 --> 00:11:17 me, I'm just like, man, I can only imagine like.
00:11:17 --> 00:11:20 You know just a few people like yeah, that's
00:11:20 --> 00:11:22 funny. You know there was like it was like a
00:11:22 --> 00:11:26 small little Town I guess there were still people
00:11:26 --> 00:11:28 they had like a I don't know what the name of
00:11:28 --> 00:11:32 the street Elm Street. It's like our 6th Street
00:11:32 --> 00:11:35 It's like one Street. Just yeah all the restaurants
00:11:35 --> 00:11:38 and bars are on that one Street gotcha Yeah,
00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 but then and then it's just kind of I guess apartments
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 and a little bit more country as you go out yeah,
00:11:43 --> 00:11:45 so like when you got into a city was it like
00:11:45 --> 00:11:48 Was it sort of like, oh shit, you know, like
00:11:48 --> 00:11:51 wasn't like a little nerve wrecking? No, because
00:11:51 --> 00:11:54 I didn't grow, I grew up like my family's from
00:11:54 --> 00:11:58 Boston. So I grew up on the south shore of Massachusetts.
00:11:58 --> 00:12:01 We'd go into the city all the time. I was taking
00:12:01 --> 00:12:03 the subway and middle school by myself. Sure,
00:12:03 --> 00:12:07 yeah. So like the cities, I like love a city.
00:12:07 --> 00:12:11 Yeah, I was like. Yeah, and then I was in New
00:12:11 --> 00:12:12 Hampshire and I was like itching because I was
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 like there's nothing to do and I'm not stimulated
00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 enough. Right. Was there like a place in Boston
00:12:18 --> 00:12:20 that you were just like, all right, cool. I can't
00:12:20 --> 00:12:24 wait to go and perform comedy here. I didn't
00:12:24 --> 00:12:28 perform at a ton of spots. Like I wasn't at Laugh
00:12:28 --> 00:12:32 yet. I obviously I like Laugh Boston. I had fun
00:12:32 --> 00:12:36 at Nick's Comedy Stop. My favorite room though.
00:12:39 --> 00:12:42 I don't know. I guess I wasn't in Boston. I was
00:12:42 --> 00:12:45 only in, I wasn't in Boston for that long. Oh,
00:12:45 --> 00:12:47 okay. Doing stand -up, like maybe not even eight
00:12:47 --> 00:12:50 months. Oh, okay. And I was still an open mic
00:12:50 --> 00:12:53 'er. So, like, there was the Middle East. I had
00:12:53 --> 00:12:56 fun there. Everyone went there. But the Booker
00:12:56 --> 00:13:01 and the host was a little, a little crazy. So,
00:13:01 --> 00:13:04 you started to kind of get an idea about what
00:13:04 --> 00:13:06 the community was going to look like? Yeah, I
00:13:06 --> 00:13:07 did not like the Boston community. You didn't
00:13:07 --> 00:13:10 like the Boston community? Why? What were they
00:13:10 --> 00:13:15 like? Well, I had friends and then I did a topless
00:13:15 --> 00:13:20 comedy show for Black Lives Matter. So because
00:13:20 --> 00:13:22 I was doing topless comedy on my only fans, I
00:13:22 --> 00:13:25 had just started and then I was protesting and
00:13:25 --> 00:13:26 doing everything and I was like, how do I raise
00:13:26 --> 00:13:29 money? And I didn't think at the time because
00:13:29 --> 00:13:31 no one was subscribing only fans. It was a little
00:13:31 --> 00:13:34 more taboo. So I was people were weren't going
00:13:34 --> 00:13:37 to just. create an account and have that be on
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 their credit card statement to watch a comedy
00:13:39 --> 00:13:42 show. And they gotta explain that to their wives,
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 you know? It's just funny stuff, I swear. Yeah,
00:13:45 --> 00:13:51 so I was like, let me do it on Zoom. Zoom? And
00:13:51 --> 00:13:53 I'll just collect Venmos and donate all that
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 money to different charities. And it did not
00:13:56 --> 00:14:00 have a good reaction. Really? It was not like
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 a bad reaction publicly, but I would say it was
00:14:02 --> 00:14:04 a bad reaction in the comedy community. Because
00:14:04 --> 00:14:07 I had posted that poster in every comedy Facebook
00:14:07 --> 00:14:11 group across the country at the same time. Across
00:14:11 --> 00:14:14 the country? And I woke up to basically every
00:14:14 --> 00:14:19 city like, trashing me. Why? Like, oh, she has,
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 just another girl has to show her tits to be
00:14:21 --> 00:14:23 funny and like, blah, blah, blah. And it's like,
00:14:23 --> 00:14:24 yeah, I knew my place. I was an open -micer.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:27 I was not funny, but I was doing this for money
00:14:27 --> 00:14:30 and I wanted to donate my money to something
00:14:30 --> 00:14:34 that I cared about. And so it was just, you know,
00:14:34 --> 00:14:36 and I was like, also there's naked shows. Burt
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 Kreischer takes his shirt off. No one's saying
00:14:38 --> 00:14:42 anything if it were a man. That's true. So. Who
00:14:42 --> 00:14:45 gives a fuck? Also, Republicans don't want to
00:14:45 --> 00:14:47 donate, and conservatives don't want to donate
00:14:47 --> 00:14:50 to the cause to support black people, so what
00:14:50 --> 00:14:52 better way to take their money than for them
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 to pay to see my tits, and then I put that money
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 towards the black community. There you go. I
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 don't know, I feel like that's pretty good. But
00:15:00 --> 00:15:04 I got canceled. You got canceled early on. Yeah,
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 like eight months and I was just like a shell
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 of a human and I was very insecure about it and
00:15:08 --> 00:15:11 it made me like really and a lot of my friends
00:15:11 --> 00:15:14 who I started with kind of turned on me or were
00:15:14 --> 00:15:16 liking hate comments and I was like, I thought
00:15:16 --> 00:15:19 you were my friend. You know, my intention was
00:15:19 --> 00:15:24 fine. Really? I don't know. What I think is really
00:15:24 --> 00:15:27 bold about that, though, is that I remember where
00:15:27 --> 00:15:29 I was when I was eight months in, and it was
00:15:29 --> 00:15:31 just, like, hopefully getting five minutes on
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 stage. I wear button -downs at the beach. I don't
00:15:34 --> 00:15:36 know how I would be able to do topless comedy.
00:15:36 --> 00:15:38 So that's pretty, like, freaking bold that you
00:15:38 --> 00:15:42 even did that. Yeah, I think... I don't know.
00:15:42 --> 00:15:44 I did grow up bullied, and my dad was a drug
00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 lord, and so I grew up with my family in the
00:15:47 --> 00:15:50 newspapers when I was in high school. in a small
00:15:50 --> 00:15:55 town. So I've dealt with a lot of rejection and
00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 groups of people being against me and stuff.
00:15:58 --> 00:16:00 So I think it was a little triggering, but also
00:16:00 --> 00:16:03 at the same time, it's like, God, what do I have
00:16:03 --> 00:16:06 to lose now? You already have an opinion. Fuck
00:16:06 --> 00:16:09 you, I'm gonna make some money and whatever.
00:16:09 --> 00:16:15 Fuck it. Yeah. Did anything ever come of that
00:16:15 --> 00:16:18 like afterwards as far as a comedy goes like
00:16:18 --> 00:16:19 or was it just kind of like you just sort of
00:16:19 --> 00:16:22 like Okay, we just got we got to move on this
00:16:22 --> 00:16:24 I met a ton of comics from across the country
00:16:24 --> 00:16:26 that now I to this day still have like friendships
00:16:26 --> 00:16:32 with as a result of that show that I did and
00:16:32 --> 00:16:36 Are you asking about the show specifically or
00:16:36 --> 00:16:39 no your cancellation or? You're answering exactly
00:16:39 --> 00:16:42 what I was asking. Basically, did anything good
00:16:42 --> 00:16:44 come from it? Yeah, we raised over, I think,
00:16:45 --> 00:16:48 $6 between two shows. Oh, that's fantastic.
00:16:48 --> 00:16:53 And I donated all of that. Made some good friendships.
00:16:54 --> 00:16:57 And a year later, I just kind of stayed laser
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00 -focused and kept working on social media and
00:17:00 --> 00:17:04 comedy. And then a podcast, so that a year later
00:17:04 --> 00:17:08 I was at the Hollywood Improv and some... Guy
00:17:08 --> 00:17:09 came up to me and was like, are you Jamie Simmons?
00:17:09 --> 00:17:12 And I was like, yeah. And he was like, I was
00:17:12 --> 00:17:15 in the Facebook group when all that shit went
00:17:15 --> 00:17:17 down. And I had thought, here I am thinking everyone's
00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 forgot about it, whatever. And then he was just
00:17:20 --> 00:17:22 like, I just wanted to say I thought it was really
00:17:22 --> 00:17:26 cool, blah, blah, whatever. And I'm like, where
00:17:26 --> 00:17:31 were you when I was getting just demolished online?
00:17:31 --> 00:17:33 When you were getting freaking picketed. Yeah.
00:17:34 --> 00:17:36 But people, it was like, oh, now I have a social
00:17:36 --> 00:17:39 media following. And so now I've been along longer.
00:17:39 --> 00:17:43 I think there is a bit of kind of like hazing
00:17:43 --> 00:17:44 in the beginning. You know when you take like
00:17:44 --> 00:17:48 those harder courses? your freshman year or sophomore
00:17:48 --> 00:17:51 year and they're weeding you out of a major if
00:17:51 --> 00:17:53 you're bad. I feel like that's kind of getting
00:17:53 --> 00:17:56 bullied as a newer comic to see, can you handle
00:17:56 --> 00:17:58 this? And that's why a lot, you know what I mean?
00:17:58 --> 00:18:00 And once people were like, okay, she's here,
00:18:01 --> 00:18:04 that didn't get her. Oh, that was cool. Right,
00:18:04 --> 00:18:08 you're in. You're in the in crowd now. But there's
00:18:08 --> 00:18:09 still people who meet me now and they're like,
00:18:09 --> 00:18:12 that was you? I remember that. It got pretty
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 big, huh? It was like... How big was this? Was
00:18:15 --> 00:18:17 it like viral big kind of thing? Or was it like
00:18:17 --> 00:18:20 it was just it was just talked about amongst
00:18:20 --> 00:18:23 comedians. Gotcha. And I because I'd posted in
00:18:23 --> 00:18:25 every group, every scene kind of had their own
00:18:25 --> 00:18:27 opinion on it. There's nothing going on in a
00:18:27 --> 00:18:30 face, a comedian Facebook group for the scene
00:18:30 --> 00:18:32 anymore. No, not like. So there's like what?
00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 Maybe a post with like a comment on it. This
00:18:34 --> 00:18:37 I'm talking every single post I had had like
00:18:37 --> 00:18:41 400 plus comments. Damn. It was like the most
00:18:41 --> 00:18:45 talked about. Yeah. thing for like June 2020.
00:18:46 --> 00:18:47 Yeah. And you said that because there was no
00:18:47 --> 00:18:50 comedy going on. Yeah, it was a pandemic. Yeah.
00:18:50 --> 00:18:52 So it's like everything is shut down. No one's
00:18:52 --> 00:18:55 doing comedy. They're all online. And here is
00:18:55 --> 00:18:57 this new fat female comic being like, I'm going
00:18:57 --> 00:18:59 to donate to Black Lives with her tits out. And
00:18:59 --> 00:19:01 they're all like, fuck you. You're not funny.
00:19:02 --> 00:19:06 Granted, they were right. But that's kind of
00:19:06 --> 00:19:07 like blows my mind. It's kind of like I just
00:19:07 --> 00:19:10 I never heard so many people be like tits. No.
00:19:10 --> 00:19:11 That's what I mean, I'm like, why are you angry?
00:19:12 --> 00:19:13 You know what I mean? It's like, it's not really
00:19:13 --> 00:19:16 like a thing, you know? But when did you end
00:19:16 --> 00:19:19 up in Austin? A year and a half ago. Yeah? Yeah,
00:19:19 --> 00:19:22 I lived it. I moved from New Hampshire to Boston.
00:19:22 --> 00:19:25 I was in Boston for like a year and eight months.
00:19:25 --> 00:19:29 And then I moved to Miami September 2021. I was
00:19:29 --> 00:19:31 there for three years. Yeah. And then moved here.
00:19:31 --> 00:19:33 Did you do Comedy in Miami too? Yeah. Yeah, I
00:19:33 --> 00:19:36 restarted back up and stand up in Miami. Oh,
00:19:36 --> 00:19:39 OK. But the scene there is not that great. Really?
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 It's just Miami, I would say, is probably one
00:19:42 --> 00:19:46 of the hardest cities to do stand -up in. Why?
00:19:46 --> 00:19:53 Do you know? Yeah. Most touring comics don't
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 like to go to Miami. Miami's different than Fort
00:19:56 --> 00:20:03 Lauderdale, but Miami specifically, a comedy
00:20:03 --> 00:20:08 show is someone's pregame. It's a... dude who's
00:20:08 --> 00:20:14 taking out some Hot filler BBL chick who's like,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:17 where are we going? What times like the after
00:20:17 --> 00:20:19 party and like on her phone the whole comedy
00:20:19 --> 00:20:22 show Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that's terrible.
00:20:22 --> 00:20:23 I've gone to so many comedy shows where half
00:20:23 --> 00:20:27 the audience doesn't speak English So I'm like
00:20:27 --> 00:20:29 why am I bombing right now and you're like, no,
00:20:29 --> 00:20:32 they don't understand you they're just like You
00:20:32 --> 00:20:38 know The old Miami improv shut down because of
00:20:38 --> 00:20:40 gangs and stuff. People were bringing guns and
00:20:40 --> 00:20:42 they were shooting up the improv. I'm talking
00:20:42 --> 00:20:46 old Miami improv. The one now, it's in a new
00:20:46 --> 00:20:49 location. It's very nice, I love it. Shout out
00:20:49 --> 00:20:52 to the Miami improv staff. It's a hard place
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 to do comedy. You have to really capture people's
00:20:55 --> 00:20:59 attention. You're in the most materialistic city
00:20:59 --> 00:21:03 where no one gives a fuck about people talking.
00:21:04 --> 00:21:05 They want women to be compliant. You think they
00:21:05 --> 00:21:08 want me to have a personality and a voice? They're
00:21:08 --> 00:21:10 like, shut up, be hot, and we'll feed you. Hey,
00:21:10 --> 00:21:13 take your shirt off! Yeah, it's... No, I already
00:21:13 --> 00:21:16 did that. But it teaches you a lot of skills,
00:21:16 --> 00:21:18 like, to get people's attention and how to...
00:21:18 --> 00:21:21 Yeah, to get sharper and capture them quick.
00:21:22 --> 00:21:24 Yeah, was that something that you kind of...
00:21:24 --> 00:21:27 I feel like you learned that early on, like,
00:21:27 --> 00:21:29 to captivate people and, like, you know, grab
00:21:29 --> 00:21:31 their attention, you know, like, with your comedy,
00:21:31 --> 00:21:33 huh? Like, that... Especially yeah, that's what
00:21:33 --> 00:21:35 happens when you grow up trying to get your parents
00:21:35 --> 00:21:38 attention for so long. You get pretty good at
00:21:38 --> 00:21:42 it Well, I studied marketing and so I was fascinated
00:21:42 --> 00:21:45 by what captured my attention growing up like
00:21:45 --> 00:21:47 what made me watch the YouTube videos that I
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 did or the people that I followed online and
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 like Okay, so they're eliciting this response
00:21:53 --> 00:21:56 in me because of their authenticity and willingness
00:21:56 --> 00:22:01 to Swear and be crazy. Okay, so like that's important
00:22:01 --> 00:22:04 to me And they're helping me, so how do I be
00:22:04 --> 00:22:07 that for somebody else? Gotcha. Where some people
00:22:07 --> 00:22:08 are like, oh, you just want to be in the spotlight.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:11 And it's like, no, I know how to work with the
00:22:11 --> 00:22:14 spotlight, but we're all trying to be in the
00:22:14 --> 00:22:17 spotlight doing what we're doing. Yeah. It's
00:22:17 --> 00:22:19 about what we're trying to say and why, I think,
00:22:20 --> 00:22:25 is important. But yeah, I studied marketing and
00:22:25 --> 00:22:28 business, and I was like, why am I going to get
00:22:28 --> 00:22:32 paid? a shitty salary, work my ass off for somebody
00:22:32 --> 00:22:35 else when I want to do this for myself, you know?
00:22:36 --> 00:22:39 Yeah. So, like, I started my career with a marketing
00:22:39 --> 00:22:42 business, like, mindset. Mindset. Some people
00:22:42 --> 00:22:44 started being like, I just want to be a comic
00:22:44 --> 00:22:46 and be good, and they don't care about the business
00:22:46 --> 00:22:48 side. But growing up poor, I was like, I have
00:22:48 --> 00:22:50 no option but to care about the business side,
00:22:51 --> 00:22:53 so I'm going to do both at the same time. Yeah.
00:22:54 --> 00:22:57 Man, that's... Kind of where I'm at right now
00:22:57 --> 00:23:00 Like I'm trying to figure that part out about
00:23:00 --> 00:23:03 like this, you know, and I just didn't there's
00:23:03 --> 00:23:05 like a whole other side I was just like, you
00:23:05 --> 00:23:07 know, okay I'm just gonna get mics and then you
00:23:07 --> 00:23:09 know, like just have awesome comics and just
00:23:09 --> 00:23:11 come and talk but then I'm like Oh, there's this
00:23:11 --> 00:23:14 whole other area that I'm like I had no idea
00:23:14 --> 00:23:16 about you know what I mean? And this is it's
00:23:16 --> 00:23:20 crazy. Well, yeah, there's it's like Every industry
00:23:20 --> 00:23:24 you're in is a is a business. Yeah, it's like
00:23:24 --> 00:23:29 art is unfortunately, like kind of dying. It's
00:23:29 --> 00:23:32 not about talent. I was just talking to my friend,
00:23:32 --> 00:23:34 Zach Orion, he's a comic, and he was like, we're
00:23:34 --> 00:23:39 in a attention era, not a talent era. Like a
00:23:39 --> 00:23:42 talent comes second to can you get people's attention.
00:23:42 --> 00:23:46 Right, yeah. And it's like, so I think caring,
00:23:46 --> 00:23:48 and people are like, I don't wanna have to care
00:23:48 --> 00:23:50 about that, I should just be a comic. And it's
00:23:50 --> 00:23:53 like, yeah, well there's... some amazing comics
00:23:53 --> 00:23:54 who've been doing it for a long time who don't
00:23:54 --> 00:23:56 know how to go online anymore and aren't selling
00:23:56 --> 00:24:00 tickets. Right. And they are killers. Yeah. Do
00:24:00 --> 00:24:02 you know, there's some people who just like couldn't
00:24:02 --> 00:24:06 keep the attention and now like they're back
00:24:06 --> 00:24:11 in the same position. Yeah. You know, it is important.
00:24:11 --> 00:24:13 It is important. And then you fuck around for
00:24:13 --> 00:24:15 so long. You wake up and you're like some people
00:24:15 --> 00:24:18 wake up and they're like, I don't know, you're
00:24:18 --> 00:24:20 older and it becomes harder. to hustle the way
00:24:20 --> 00:24:23 that you did when you were younger. Yeah, I'm
00:24:23 --> 00:24:25 tired. Yeah, me too. I haven't been doing it
00:24:25 --> 00:24:27 that long. I'm fucking tired. Yeah, me too. That's
00:24:27 --> 00:24:29 why I was telling you. I'm like, hey, look at
00:24:29 --> 00:24:32 me. I didn't even like get ready today. I'm tired.
00:24:32 --> 00:24:35 Neither did I. No, that's the reason why I was
00:24:35 --> 00:24:37 telling you, like, you know, you know, don't
00:24:37 --> 00:24:39 even freaking worry. I'm like, we are we're on
00:24:39 --> 00:24:41 the same page as far as like, give me a minute.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:44 You know, it's yeah, that's that's something
00:24:44 --> 00:24:45 I'm kind of learning, too. I've been talking
00:24:45 --> 00:24:47 to my brother a lot about like trying to come
00:24:47 --> 00:24:50 up with some kind of like segment. like some
00:24:50 --> 00:24:52 kind of like show like kind of other thing to
00:24:52 --> 00:24:55 like supplement this. Like, because even though
00:24:55 --> 00:24:57 I do like this and I do love like this is what
00:24:57 --> 00:25:00 I love doing is just having a conversation, you
00:25:00 --> 00:25:03 know, but like it's like it's not enough, you
00:25:03 --> 00:25:06 know, and it's like and man, I like when when
00:25:06 --> 00:25:09 I got that realization, I was just like. Fuck.
00:25:10 --> 00:25:11 I'm like, man, I don't want to sit there and
00:25:11 --> 00:25:14 be like, this is the top five worst, blah, blah,
00:25:14 --> 00:25:15 blah, blah. You know, like I'm just not that
00:25:15 --> 00:25:18 guy. But I'm like, fuck, dude. Yeah. You know?
00:25:18 --> 00:25:21 Yeah. It's yeah, it's hard. When you're talking
00:25:21 --> 00:25:25 about like podcasting, too, like we were like
00:25:25 --> 00:25:27 making clips and spending money and then they
00:25:27 --> 00:25:29 weren't going anywhere. And I was like, OK, so
00:25:29 --> 00:25:31 what makes a good clip? And it's a hook and it's
00:25:31 --> 00:25:34 a you're making a full point or you're maybe
00:25:34 --> 00:25:36 catching them off guard or there's a joke in
00:25:36 --> 00:25:39 it or a cool story. maybe the way that you cut
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42 it up, because on a podcast you can listen to
00:25:42 --> 00:25:45 someone talk slowly and take a long time to get
00:25:45 --> 00:25:48 to a point, but on a clip you can't. So we were
00:25:48 --> 00:25:50 like, okay, how do we record our podcasts with
00:25:50 --> 00:25:52 clips in mind? And we were coming up with like
00:25:52 --> 00:25:56 the topics and the hooks already. So I would,
00:25:56 --> 00:25:58 every time I started and asked a question, it
00:25:58 --> 00:26:00 was set up like a hook. Like we knew where we
00:26:00 --> 00:26:03 would take the combo and so that we could make
00:26:03 --> 00:26:06 a clip. ahead of time. And then that helped us
00:26:06 --> 00:26:10 grow. But some people don't like. I think about
00:26:10 --> 00:26:13 that sometimes, too, like I met a comic who is
00:26:13 --> 00:26:18 a great comic and he started writing jokes for
00:26:18 --> 00:26:21 clips. Yeah. Yeah. Like with that in mind, like
00:26:21 --> 00:26:23 a hook, whatever, which I think you should just
00:26:23 --> 00:26:26 be like, I think. Good jokes would be able to
00:26:26 --> 00:26:31 do that anyways, but. I don't know. I see where
00:26:31 --> 00:26:33 you're going. See what I'm saying? You know what
00:26:33 --> 00:26:36 I mean? I see exactly what you're saying, because
00:26:36 --> 00:26:38 that's almost like, you know, like it was what
00:26:38 --> 00:26:39 I was telling you before. I'm like, oh, I have
00:26:39 --> 00:26:42 some questions that might be clippables, you
00:26:42 --> 00:26:43 know, stuff like that. It's like, I even hate
00:26:43 --> 00:26:45 like having that mentality, you know, because
00:26:45 --> 00:26:48 I want to have them just like, let's just talk.
00:26:48 --> 00:26:50 You know what I mean? An authentic conversation.
00:26:50 --> 00:26:53 Yeah, just an authentic conversation. But it's
00:26:53 --> 00:26:56 just like that. And I didn't realize that until
00:26:56 --> 00:26:58 like I started getting like more and more episodes.
00:26:58 --> 00:27:02 But I will say that on your podcast, The Two
00:27:02 --> 00:27:06 Girls, One Blonde, those are really entertaining.
00:27:06 --> 00:27:10 Thank you. Those are legit. It just seems like
00:27:10 --> 00:27:13 y 'all just have this awesome energy, you and
00:27:13 --> 00:27:15 Emily, and the way y 'all just bounce off of
00:27:15 --> 00:27:17 one another. And it's almost like y 'all's energy
00:27:17 --> 00:27:20 matches. And I love how y 'all find a way to
00:27:20 --> 00:27:23 bring in the guests. And they kind of match that
00:27:23 --> 00:27:26 energy, too, in their own way. Yeah, so actually,
00:27:26 --> 00:27:29 that was kind of all strategic. Because when
00:27:29 --> 00:27:32 we started, Emily wasn't in comedy or anything.
00:27:32 --> 00:27:35 We were both kind of new to the podcasting world.
00:27:35 --> 00:27:39 So we're figuring out that together. And if you
00:27:39 --> 00:27:42 watch our first episodes, we don't have that
00:27:42 --> 00:27:45 banter, the comedy banter. And we actually started
00:27:45 --> 00:27:50 practicing that and we learned like we like took
00:27:50 --> 00:27:55 note of what led us. uh banter like that and
00:27:55 --> 00:27:57 be silly with each other and it just got better
00:27:57 --> 00:27:59 and better so that we can kind of pick up on
00:27:59 --> 00:28:02 where the other person was going through like
00:28:02 --> 00:28:05 we did over 250 episodes so um wow i didn't realize
00:28:05 --> 00:28:07 it was that much it was like five years long
00:28:07 --> 00:28:11 of a pod oh okay that explains a lot then yeah
00:28:11 --> 00:28:13 and we used to be like number two in stand -up
00:28:13 --> 00:28:16 on apple podcasts oh that's awesome yeah we're
00:28:16 --> 00:28:19 big but it like um unfortunately the podcast
00:28:19 --> 00:28:22 is no longer and i am not friends with emily
00:28:22 --> 00:28:26 but We would specifically bring on gas because
00:28:26 --> 00:28:28 we did the whole thing where we bring on gas
00:28:28 --> 00:28:30 that actually we didn't have a good. They were
00:28:30 --> 00:28:33 good podcast gas for what we were trying to do
00:28:33 --> 00:28:35 and we were like you have to come with some crazy
00:28:35 --> 00:28:37 stories you have to be willing to talk crazy.
00:28:38 --> 00:28:41 You have to be willing to collab on clips. Like,
00:28:41 --> 00:28:44 there was a set of rules before you were even
00:28:44 --> 00:28:46 welcome on our pod. Oh, wow. So it was like,
00:28:47 --> 00:28:49 once we, like, figured out what those were through
00:28:49 --> 00:28:52 trial and error with bad guests, or it just,
00:28:52 --> 00:28:55 like, not being a good episode, we were able
00:28:55 --> 00:28:57 to, like, be like, this person would be a great
00:28:57 --> 00:29:00 guest. And their audience worked with ours. Like,
00:29:00 --> 00:29:04 so one of those people was Che Durena. Do you
00:29:04 --> 00:29:08 know who that is? Um, oh, it's not... He's a
00:29:08 --> 00:29:12 Canadian comic, lives in New York, has a big
00:29:12 --> 00:29:15 fro, talks dirty. He does a lot of sexual jokes.
00:29:15 --> 00:29:19 He did the follow me fucking idiot videos. Blew
00:29:19 --> 00:29:22 up on TikTok. He's doing great. He's hilarious.
00:29:22 --> 00:29:24 But because he was like more sexual and crazy
00:29:24 --> 00:29:29 and we brought him on, the episode did so well.
00:29:29 --> 00:29:32 He collabed on like 15 clips with us. We hit
00:29:32 --> 00:29:35 like 20 million views in a month. That's insane.
00:29:35 --> 00:29:37 From clips just with him because the banter was
00:29:37 --> 00:29:40 so good. The topics were online. He wasn't afraid
00:29:40 --> 00:29:44 to get like open with us. It was just that's
00:29:44 --> 00:29:47 like synergistic energy, you know? Yeah. And
00:29:47 --> 00:29:49 it worked really well. And so we're like, OK,
00:29:49 --> 00:29:52 we want to be able to only invite people on that
00:29:52 --> 00:29:54 we feel that way with. So we stopped inviting
00:29:54 --> 00:29:57 like famous people on in comics. And we're like,
00:29:57 --> 00:29:59 you're our friend. We have such good energy with
00:29:59 --> 00:30:01 you. This is going to make a great episode. Oh,
00:30:01 --> 00:30:04 yeah. And that's kind of what we. But it took
00:30:04 --> 00:30:06 time, it took a long time for us to be able to
00:30:06 --> 00:30:08 get to that point of bantering. Yeah, when you
00:30:08 --> 00:30:11 see clips like that, that you were doing, that
00:30:11 --> 00:30:18 became viral, what's going on through your mind
00:30:18 --> 00:30:24 when you're watching this happen? I think the
00:30:24 --> 00:30:26 first time you're like, oh my God, this is so
00:30:26 --> 00:30:29 cool, I hit a million views, or whatever. And
00:30:29 --> 00:30:33 then, unfortunately, like, drug addiction, it's
00:30:33 --> 00:30:36 never enough. And so you're like, I could always
00:30:36 --> 00:30:38 do better. And then you kind of get, you paralyze
00:30:38 --> 00:30:41 yourself a little bit. Like, when you start focusing
00:30:41 --> 00:30:45 on the numbers rather than the content. So I
00:30:45 --> 00:30:48 think, like, my whole experience with that podcast
00:30:48 --> 00:30:51 was such an ebb and flow of, like, this is really
00:30:51 --> 00:30:54 cool and very exciting and... How awesome is
00:30:54 --> 00:30:57 this to how do I replicate this? Oh, no, I didn't
00:30:57 --> 00:30:59 replicate this. Now everyone's going to not listen
00:30:59 --> 00:31:02 to our pop. Just like, you know, the typical
00:31:02 --> 00:31:08 negative mindset loop you get in. Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:08 --> 00:31:10 And I think that actually ends up like you focus
00:31:10 --> 00:31:12 on the negative. Then you're like, you stop getting
00:31:12 --> 00:31:14 views and you're like, fuck. Oh, yeah. I get
00:31:14 --> 00:31:16 that way right now and I only get like 30 views.
00:31:17 --> 00:31:19 But that ended up happening. There was a time
00:31:19 --> 00:31:20 period where Emily and I had a lot of fun doing
00:31:20 --> 00:31:23 it. And then there was a time period where we
00:31:23 --> 00:31:29 didn't. And our views and audience kind of died
00:31:29 --> 00:31:31 because of that. And you could tell it was very,
00:31:31 --> 00:31:37 like, I think evident that we were not vibing
00:31:37 --> 00:31:39 as well on some episodes. Or just like we didn't
00:31:39 --> 00:31:42 have the same passion for it. Gotcha. Was it
00:31:42 --> 00:31:44 because it felt like a job or anything like that?
00:31:45 --> 00:31:47 Yeah. That was definitely a big part of it. I
00:31:47 --> 00:31:49 think we had our own personal friendship stuff.
00:31:49 --> 00:31:53 outside of that and personal lives and It was
00:31:53 --> 00:31:55 such a full -time job and people don't realize
00:31:55 --> 00:31:59 the dedication of like having to film every week
00:31:59 --> 00:32:01 and do this big production and pay for editors
00:32:01 --> 00:32:05 and then your we did edit like we had an editor
00:32:05 --> 00:32:10 sometimes and But we did all the marketing all
00:32:10 --> 00:32:14 of the like booking and Sponsorships or whatever.
00:32:14 --> 00:32:17 It was was a hundred percent us. We weren't represented
00:32:17 --> 00:32:21 by anybody. So And even uploading the videos
00:32:21 --> 00:32:24 to send to an editor and then editing the stuff
00:32:24 --> 00:32:28 that he sends over even more. It was a lot. And
00:32:28 --> 00:32:30 then I couldn't really focus on stand -up the
00:32:30 --> 00:32:34 way I wanted to. The podcast was a priority.
00:32:34 --> 00:32:38 We didn't have the same love for it, I guess.
00:32:38 --> 00:32:43 And then I was like, why are we spending money
00:32:43 --> 00:32:45 on this? I think we'd be much happier if we just
00:32:45 --> 00:32:49 separated. I think I get it completely, because
00:32:49 --> 00:32:52 I didn't realize how much this was going to get,
00:32:52 --> 00:32:56 but there is this love of the game that I have
00:32:56 --> 00:33:02 for the podcast. the investment, you know, and
00:33:02 --> 00:33:05 I do it all the time. Yeah, I can't go away.
00:33:05 --> 00:33:07 Like we'd be like, I have to get back and record
00:33:07 --> 00:33:09 the pod. You got to get back and record it. Yeah.
00:33:09 --> 00:33:10 Or you or like you need to edit it. And then
00:33:10 --> 00:33:12 you're like, fuck the hard drives at home. And
00:33:12 --> 00:33:14 it's like you're traveling with so many hard
00:33:14 --> 00:33:17 drives or like anywhere you go. Yeah, I know.
00:33:17 --> 00:33:19 I know I have like four of them. So where did
00:33:19 --> 00:33:22 you all like where did you all do that? I mean,
00:33:22 --> 00:33:26 where did you record at our living room? I we
00:33:26 --> 00:33:29 redid our whole living room to be a podcast studio.
00:33:29 --> 00:33:31 Kind of like this whole thing. Yeah, yeah, we
00:33:31 --> 00:33:33 had um, I think I have a picture I could show
00:33:33 --> 00:33:38 you. Oh, yeah. Yeah But yeah, it was like we
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 did green on the walls and we had everything
00:33:40 --> 00:33:43 set up so that it was just easy because it was
00:33:43 --> 00:33:46 so annoying Green on the walls is a good idea.
00:33:47 --> 00:33:49 I Really? I feel like I'm like I knew I want
00:33:49 --> 00:33:52 to do that for this or green somewhere Give me
00:33:52 --> 00:33:55 some green. Honestly. I love it. I think it makes
00:33:55 --> 00:33:59 it look so fun and like eye -catching the green
00:33:59 --> 00:34:02 and neon, any neon lights I always think look
00:34:02 --> 00:34:05 so good online. I know what you're talking about.
00:34:05 --> 00:34:07 I've been wanting to get like Only Bombs like
00:34:07 --> 00:34:08 neon light for this place because I feel like
00:34:08 --> 00:34:11 it would just add that. Yeah, it's super fun.
00:34:12 --> 00:34:13 Yeah. Have you thought about getting another
00:34:13 --> 00:34:16 one? Another podcast, I mean? I'm still figuring
00:34:16 --> 00:34:18 out exactly what I want to do or if I'm just
00:34:18 --> 00:34:20 going to focus on stand -up for a little bit.
00:34:20 --> 00:34:23 Sure. Hell yeah. Your stand -up is killing it.
00:34:25 --> 00:34:27 Are you going? No, actually keep complimenting
00:34:27 --> 00:34:30 me. Yeah, no, your stand -up is killing it. I
00:34:30 --> 00:34:32 think what I was really most impressed by was
00:34:32 --> 00:34:34 your jokes are just tight. You know what I mean?
00:34:34 --> 00:34:37 I can tell you, you've done them a lot, you rehearse
00:34:37 --> 00:34:40 them a lot. And have you kind of noticed a difference
00:34:40 --> 00:34:42 in the evolution of your stand -up? Yeah, I think
00:34:42 --> 00:34:45 I have, they're more tag -heavy. I'm more like
00:34:45 --> 00:34:48 bop, bop, bop. What I'm struggling with, and
00:34:48 --> 00:34:50 I keep hearing this from comics who are better
00:34:50 --> 00:34:54 than me, is that I sound like I'm telling my
00:34:54 --> 00:34:58 jokes. Oh, okay. And I, it sounds like I'm like,
00:34:58 --> 00:35:02 Jesus. It sounds like I'm telling my jokes like
00:35:02 --> 00:35:05 I'm reciting them instead of just talking like
00:35:05 --> 00:35:07 this. Which I, when I'm up there, I'm like, I
00:35:07 --> 00:35:10 feel like I'm just talking. Right. But I've heard
00:35:10 --> 00:35:13 this from enough comedians to be like, yeah,
00:35:13 --> 00:35:15 you had an amazing set and four applause breaks,
00:35:15 --> 00:35:18 but you sounded like you were rehearsing your
00:35:18 --> 00:35:21 jokes. And I'm like, I feel like I'm talking,
00:35:21 --> 00:35:24 but that's kind of where I'm at working on. right
00:35:24 --> 00:35:29 now, and I think I have the writing and the tags
00:35:29 --> 00:35:32 down, but now I need to focus on how do I make
00:35:32 --> 00:35:34 it seem like it's the first time of me saying
00:35:34 --> 00:35:37 it? Yeah. Because you're saying, like, oh, it
00:35:37 --> 00:35:40 sounds like you've rehearsed, which is a good
00:35:40 --> 00:35:43 thing, but also is hurting me, too. Yeah, I see
00:35:43 --> 00:35:45 what you're saying. From killing, I think. I
00:35:45 --> 00:35:48 see what you're saying. Yeah, because I guess,
00:35:48 --> 00:35:51 like, I don't know. I mean, I thought it was
00:35:51 --> 00:35:53 really good, you know, but I think I was like,
00:35:53 --> 00:35:55 I was, the way I was judging it was sort of like,
00:35:55 --> 00:35:59 I was almost, maybe I was expecting like, you
00:35:59 --> 00:36:01 know, somebody to not do well or like bomb because
00:36:01 --> 00:36:03 I've just seen that a lot, especially like if
00:36:03 --> 00:36:05 I go see like national artists or whatever, unless
00:36:05 --> 00:36:07 I'm at the mothership where people are there
00:36:07 --> 00:36:12 to actually see a comic, like I feel like I wanted
00:36:12 --> 00:36:14 to make a shirt that says nobody laughs in Austin.
00:36:15 --> 00:36:17 No one laughs in Austin. Austin's a hard scene.
00:36:18 --> 00:36:20 which is why people get really good. I feel like
00:36:20 --> 00:36:23 I'm in boot camp. It's like, and I don't say
00:36:23 --> 00:36:25 hard, like a negative, you know? But you're fighting
00:36:25 --> 00:36:28 for spots, you're fighting for attention and
00:36:28 --> 00:36:31 to stay relevant. Like, you think, me coming
00:36:31 --> 00:36:34 in with a podcast meant nothing. Like, and it
00:36:34 --> 00:36:35 shouldn't. It should be about what I can do on
00:36:35 --> 00:36:38 stage, you know? But I think that there was an
00:36:38 --> 00:36:41 idea that it would, I felt like was projected
00:36:41 --> 00:36:43 on me and I'm like, no, it's actually I think
00:36:43 --> 00:36:46 making it harder because people like wanna...
00:36:46 --> 00:36:49 Make sure I'm working right to get where I'm
00:36:49 --> 00:36:51 at. Yeah, does that make sense? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:36:51 --> 00:36:53 Yeah, and that's exactly what I see Yeah, you're
00:36:53 --> 00:36:56 finding spots. You're on stage sometimes with
00:36:56 --> 00:36:59 fucking someone insanely good. Yeah, you know
00:36:59 --> 00:37:07 like Yeah, so it's You really have to hold your
00:37:07 --> 00:37:10 own against some of the best comics you really
00:37:10 --> 00:37:12 do You know and when they're so used to seeing
00:37:12 --> 00:37:17 really good comics You're I'm four years in like
00:37:17 --> 00:37:21 that material is not always gonna It shows the
00:37:21 --> 00:37:24 difference in like the length and experience
00:37:24 --> 00:37:27 shows. Yeah. Do you have like a favorite Austin
00:37:27 --> 00:37:34 comic? Hmm I know that's a hard one. I know it's
00:37:34 --> 00:37:36 a hard one because if I had to answer it, I'd
00:37:36 --> 00:37:39 be like fuck I don't even know There's just so
00:37:39 --> 00:37:42 many good ones and for different reasons. Yeah
00:37:43 --> 00:37:46 There is, there is so many. There's so many,
00:37:46 --> 00:37:49 yeah, I don't know. Yeah, there's so many, I
00:37:49 --> 00:37:52 don't think I have a favorite. Yeah, that's completely
00:37:52 --> 00:37:55 understandable. This shit, like, I mean, there
00:37:55 --> 00:37:58 are people whom, like, so I started in 23, in
00:37:58 --> 00:38:04 Austin. So I started in 23, and, you know, there
00:38:04 --> 00:38:07 are people whom I used to just do these, like,
00:38:07 --> 00:38:11 open mic circuits with, who are now, like, you
00:38:11 --> 00:38:13 know, Like, they're great. And they were great
00:38:13 --> 00:38:16 back then, too, you know? But it's just, it's
00:38:16 --> 00:38:18 so awesome just seeing, like, people just kind
00:38:18 --> 00:38:20 of climbing that ladder, you know? Just seeing,
00:38:20 --> 00:38:22 like, people, like, kind of get there and everything.
00:38:23 --> 00:38:26 I feel like you're kind of, like, on that, like,
00:38:26 --> 00:38:28 up and up. Do you feel that way? Or, like, is
00:38:28 --> 00:38:31 it just a constant, like, struggle? Yeah. I feel
00:38:31 --> 00:38:36 like I know what to do to get to where I want
00:38:36 --> 00:38:40 to go. And I'm dedicated enough to be to know
00:38:40 --> 00:38:45 that like if I stay where I'm at that a positive
00:38:45 --> 00:38:48 outcome is in my future. Does that make sense?
00:38:49 --> 00:38:50 So yeah, I'm on up and up, but not in like a
00:38:50 --> 00:38:53 cocky way where it's like, yeah, clout. Does
00:38:53 --> 00:38:55 that make sense? Like I'm like, no, I still got
00:38:55 --> 00:38:59 to put the reps in and work and I am like, and
00:38:59 --> 00:39:02 I have a long ways to go, but I'm very excited
00:39:02 --> 00:39:05 for that journey. And it's so cool to watch my
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07 friends also go through that from being like,
00:39:07 --> 00:39:11 open micers to like on the road doing like arenas
00:39:11 --> 00:39:13 with some people and I'm like, holy shit, this
00:39:13 --> 00:39:16 is so cool to watch people around you like grow.
00:39:17 --> 00:39:19 So because I moved here from Boston and so there's
00:39:19 --> 00:39:21 a huge Boston scene here from the guys that I
00:39:21 --> 00:39:26 started with. Really? Yeah, Mason West is one
00:39:26 --> 00:39:29 of them. Oh, okay. Wait, Mason West, Mason Smith?
00:39:29 --> 00:39:32 What am I saying? I knew a Mason West from college.
00:39:32 --> 00:39:35 Mason Smith, he was one of the only comics who
00:39:35 --> 00:39:37 was nice to me during the cancellation, moved
00:39:37 --> 00:39:40 here. He's the one who recommended me to the
00:39:40 --> 00:39:43 talent booker to open for Marcus. Oh, that's
00:39:43 --> 00:39:45 great. So it's like, but a lot of those comics
00:39:45 --> 00:39:48 hadn't seen me in five years. They just watched,
00:39:48 --> 00:39:51 I guess, my growth online. And so it's like cool
00:39:51 --> 00:39:54 to be like, holy fuck, look at us five years.
00:39:54 --> 00:39:57 I haven't seen any of you guys in years. Yeah.
00:39:57 --> 00:40:00 How good you guys are and like what you're doing.
00:40:00 --> 00:40:02 I don't know. I love it. I love the community.
00:40:03 --> 00:40:08 Oh, that is really cool. I think one of the first
00:40:08 --> 00:40:10 places I ever did stand up was this place called
00:40:10 --> 00:40:14 Bad Astronaut in Houston. And that's where I
00:40:14 --> 00:40:17 met Trey Campbell. And so now Trey Campbell is
00:40:17 --> 00:40:19 like freaking everywhere, you know, but it's
00:40:19 --> 00:40:21 just kind of crazy to see like, you know, like
00:40:21 --> 00:40:23 just we were just at this like little writers
00:40:23 --> 00:40:25 room kind of thing. And then we did like an open
00:40:25 --> 00:40:28 mic, you know. And then all of a sudden, like,
00:40:28 --> 00:40:30 what the fuck? Like, it's just crazy, you know?
00:40:30 --> 00:40:32 Yeah. It's just crazy. It's like... Yeah, even
00:40:32 --> 00:40:38 like, um, like, no, like, uh, Cam Patterson blowing
00:40:38 --> 00:40:41 up on Kill Tony. Deddy, I was friends with Deddy
00:40:41 --> 00:40:45 before Kill Tony, and he was, like, taking the
00:40:45 --> 00:40:47 bus everywhere. Yeah. And, like, had been doing
00:40:47 --> 00:40:50 it for so long, and was very talented, but just,
00:40:50 --> 00:40:51 like, you know what I mean? And then all of a
00:40:51 --> 00:40:54 sudden we got to watch his life. change overnight,
00:40:54 --> 00:40:56 which is like so incredible to be like, fuck
00:40:56 --> 00:40:59 yeah. Like you've been out here grinding every
00:40:59 --> 00:41:01 day doing that. So it's it's really cool to see.
00:41:02 --> 00:41:04 It is really cool to see. And it's also motivating
00:41:04 --> 00:41:06 because like you will be left behind if you are
00:41:06 --> 00:41:09 not hustling like that, too. Yeah, you got to
00:41:09 --> 00:41:11 hustle. That's for damn sure. How many mics do
00:41:11 --> 00:41:16 you usually hit a week? It depends, but not a
00:41:16 --> 00:41:19 ton. Not a ton? No. Are you focusing mostly on
00:41:19 --> 00:41:23 your writing kind of thing? Yeah. Well, the last
00:41:23 --> 00:41:29 year has been hard for me. I think I developed
00:41:29 --> 00:41:35 some sort of autoimmune condition after a toxic
00:41:35 --> 00:41:37 relationship. The move here, I kind of lost everything
00:41:37 --> 00:41:40 in the move and then I went and was in a toxic
00:41:40 --> 00:41:42 relationship. and my nervous system has been
00:41:42 --> 00:41:45 fucked since. So I was like, blood pooling in
00:41:45 --> 00:41:49 my legs, can't walk or stand for long periods
00:41:49 --> 00:41:56 of time. So I was kind of struggling with fatigue
00:41:56 --> 00:41:59 and brain fog as a result, and a lot of inflammation
00:41:59 --> 00:42:01 in my body, which is part of the reason I stopped
00:42:01 --> 00:42:03 drinking, to see if that was causing more inflammation.
00:42:04 --> 00:42:07 I was like, I'll do what I can to... Coming down,
00:42:07 --> 00:42:10 so I was not able to get up as much as I would
00:42:10 --> 00:42:12 have liked to this last year So I'm like disappointed
00:42:12 --> 00:42:14 and I hold guilt and shame for that But also
00:42:14 --> 00:42:17 I was like taking care of my health and now I'm
00:42:17 --> 00:42:19 at a point where I'm like, okay, we're back at
00:42:19 --> 00:42:22 it I'm up trying to get up every night. So tonight
00:42:22 --> 00:42:25 gonna hit some mics. Oh, yeah, but also like
00:42:25 --> 00:42:29 I was doing shows Almost ever like every night
00:42:29 --> 00:42:31 and the nights off. I would be doing only fans.
00:42:31 --> 00:42:33 So it's like Sometimes I'm doing multiple shows
00:42:33 --> 00:42:36 a night and I don't know You're still working.
00:42:36 --> 00:42:39 Yeah, on a night off, I'll do mics. Or if, I
00:42:39 --> 00:42:42 don't know, if it works at the schedule. But
00:42:42 --> 00:42:44 everyone will be like, you should be hitting
00:42:44 --> 00:42:47 mics all the time. But I just don't think, there's
00:42:47 --> 00:42:49 good Austin mics, like Cackle Shack is one on
00:42:49 --> 00:42:52 Mondays, but I sign up for Kill Tony. But that's
00:42:52 --> 00:42:55 a little show, whereas a lot of the mics here
00:42:55 --> 00:42:57 are four people in the crowd to an open room.
00:42:57 --> 00:43:01 I'm not really getting a good gauge. No, I'm
00:43:01 --> 00:43:03 right there with you. I don't know. Whereas mics
00:43:03 --> 00:43:06 in Miami were different. Mics in Miami, like,
00:43:06 --> 00:43:08 I actually felt like I was getting something
00:43:08 --> 00:43:10 out of the mics. I'm like, I'm not gonna do a
00:43:10 --> 00:43:13 midnight mic to four comics. I'm gonna get a
00:43:13 --> 00:43:15 good night's sleep or go home and write and feel
00:43:15 --> 00:43:19 better so that I'm showing up more. I burnt myself
00:43:19 --> 00:43:22 out. I feel that. I feel that. I mean, my whole
00:43:22 --> 00:43:24 thing, like, and, you know, I'm also trying not
00:43:24 --> 00:43:27 to sound like... Cocky or nothing like that because
00:43:27 --> 00:43:29 I'm not I'm not at that point comedic I'm not
00:43:29 --> 00:43:32 either like I should be hitting shit every night
00:43:32 --> 00:43:35 multiple times a night. Yeah, my health literally
00:43:35 --> 00:43:37 Oh, he's getting in the way and it's unfortunate.
00:43:37 --> 00:43:39 You gotta take care of that, you know, especially
00:43:39 --> 00:43:42 like I'm no stranger like stress anxiety like
00:43:42 --> 00:43:44 all that shit like but when it comes time like
00:43:44 --> 00:43:46 I shut I shut everything down I'm like I need
00:43:46 --> 00:43:49 to relax. You know, yeah, so I totally get it
00:43:49 --> 00:43:51 You know, I actually like I really stopped doing
00:43:51 --> 00:43:55 mics. I'd started doing like only shows And it's
00:43:55 --> 00:43:58 like, I've been feeling a lot better personally.
00:43:58 --> 00:44:00 Like if I go out and just do a show, I just,
00:44:00 --> 00:44:03 I get there and I'm just calmer. I know exactly
00:44:03 --> 00:44:05 how much time I have. It's usually longer than
00:44:05 --> 00:44:09 three minutes. I'm more relaxed. And like I said,
00:44:09 --> 00:44:11 I'm not trying to be cocky. I don't get shows
00:44:11 --> 00:44:15 all the time or nothing like that. But when I'm
00:44:15 --> 00:44:18 trying to work on shit, I'll go to mics and everything.
00:44:18 --> 00:44:21 Yeah, I feel like I should be at more. I just
00:44:21 --> 00:44:24 haven't found, there's not a ton of... Good mics
00:44:24 --> 00:44:27 here. There's like cap city. There's but if I
00:44:27 --> 00:44:30 have shows I can't make it up north so it's like
00:44:30 --> 00:44:32 sometimes I'm like, all right Well, I'm gonna
00:44:32 --> 00:44:36 take the show over the mic but um sure Yeah,
00:44:36 --> 00:44:39 but I think with this new stuff that I'm working
00:44:39 --> 00:44:42 on I'm I might just go to Mike's to start talking
00:44:42 --> 00:44:44 on stage. Just so you don't get it out. Yeah
00:44:44 --> 00:44:47 Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. I should
00:44:47 --> 00:44:50 be doing like that, you know I should be working
00:44:50 --> 00:44:53 harder that's to the comics listening. I know
00:44:53 --> 00:44:56 I know Yeah, they have someone know that they
00:44:56 --> 00:44:58 just hit it and hit it and hit it and hit it
00:44:58 --> 00:45:00 and hit it and you know more power to them It's
00:45:00 --> 00:45:03 just you know, like I just can't do it that way.
00:45:03 --> 00:45:07 So I was a physically literate. I cannot stand
00:45:07 --> 00:45:12 Mmm, like walking I'm taking a shower Will cause
00:45:12 --> 00:45:15 me to be an immense pain in my legs. I started
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17 I I've been going to the doctors, taking all
00:45:17 --> 00:45:20 these blood tests, got my IUD out, which I have
00:45:20 --> 00:45:23 felt better. Like, it hasn't even been 30 days.
00:45:23 --> 00:45:25 And immediately I was like, was this the source
00:45:25 --> 00:45:29 of all of my struggles? Because you can get copper
00:45:29 --> 00:45:32 toxicity and all this stuff, and it caused a
00:45:32 --> 00:45:35 lot of inflammation. I instantly feel much better,
00:45:35 --> 00:45:38 but I still have some of the stuff going on.
00:45:38 --> 00:45:41 When I was looking at my symptoms, I was like,
00:45:41 --> 00:45:44 oh, fuck, it looks like MS. Like, it lines up.
00:45:44 --> 00:45:49 with MS, which would be terrifying. People were
00:45:49 --> 00:45:51 like, get on stage. I'm like, I can't stand up.
00:45:53 --> 00:45:57 But then I talked to a therapist and I was like,
00:45:57 --> 00:46:00 cause I'm in therapy to talk about the guilt
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02 and shame. It's like, I feel like I'm a bench
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04 at a, like one of my high school soccer games.
00:46:05 --> 00:46:07 You know what I mean? And I can't play and I'm
00:46:07 --> 00:46:10 like, I want to be out there like, but I'm on
00:46:10 --> 00:46:13 the bench. And then the therapist was like, how
00:46:13 --> 00:46:15 old are you? And I was like 32. And he was like,
00:46:15 --> 00:46:17 I know a lot of people who got diagnosed with
00:46:17 --> 00:46:18 MS at your age and this is sounding. And I go,
00:46:18 --> 00:46:22 oh no, this is another person telling me it might
00:46:22 --> 00:46:26 be MS. So now I have to go to a neurologist and
00:46:26 --> 00:46:30 figure out what the fuck is wrong. Oh yeah. No,
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32 I'm right there with you. I have symptoms and
00:46:32 --> 00:46:33 everything. And I went to my doctor and I was
00:46:33 --> 00:46:37 like, dude, I hate to say this. I think I might
00:46:37 --> 00:46:40 need a colonoscopy. You know, it's like me too
00:46:40 --> 00:46:44 You just start like going like dude check me.
00:46:44 --> 00:46:47 Yeah, there's something wrong There's something
00:46:47 --> 00:46:49 about aging where I'm like, I never cared about
00:46:49 --> 00:46:53 this stuff. And now I'm like, oh Did I get enough
00:46:53 --> 00:47:00 fiber today? My friends recipes about like soups
00:47:00 --> 00:47:02 that are anti -inflammatory with extra fiber
00:47:02 --> 00:47:04 because they're like my boyfriend's not taking
00:47:04 --> 00:47:08 proper shits and I'm like I got you I know exactly
00:47:08 --> 00:47:11 what you mean. I just met a guy at a bar two
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13 nights, or like three nights ago, and he was
00:47:13 --> 00:47:18 like, hey, before you guys leave, should I move
00:47:18 --> 00:47:19 to Austin? And I was like, where are you moving
00:47:19 --> 00:47:22 from? And he's like, Miami. And I was like, no.
00:47:22 --> 00:47:25 No, stay. But then we just started talking, and
00:47:25 --> 00:47:26 he started talking about gut health. Before I
00:47:26 --> 00:47:28 know it, me and my girlfriend are talking to
00:47:28 --> 00:47:30 these two dudes about shitting and gut health
00:47:30 --> 00:47:32 and all this stuff. And I was like, wow, this
00:47:32 --> 00:47:33 is adulting. Because back in the day, they'd
00:47:33 --> 00:47:36 been like, Oh, a girl talked about poop? Oh,
00:47:36 --> 00:47:39 no. And now we're all like, what probiotics do
00:47:39 --> 00:47:42 you use? And what brand of fiber? Like, whatever.
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44 Look, let's get into this shit, OK? Yeah. Like,
00:47:44 --> 00:47:46 no, but totally. Like, for real. Like, my doctor
00:47:46 --> 00:47:49 was like, you need more vitamin D. And I was
00:47:49 --> 00:47:52 like, I work nights. And she was like, yeah,
00:47:52 --> 00:47:54 you need to eat more fish. You need, like, more
00:47:54 --> 00:47:56 vitamin D. All this stuff like that. And I was
00:47:56 --> 00:47:59 like, Doc, is that why I'm tired, like, all the
00:47:59 --> 00:48:01 time? And she's like, probably. Yeah, but they
00:48:01 --> 00:48:04 just say vitamin D and I'm like, well, what's
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05 causing you to not retain the vitamin D? Because
00:48:05 --> 00:48:07 I've been taking vitamin D. That's what they
00:48:07 --> 00:48:10 told me too. Nothing changed. No shit. No. Damn
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13 it. It's not, I think it's not about like supplemental
00:48:13 --> 00:48:16 vitamin D. I think we literally like, I think
00:48:16 --> 00:48:22 as humans, we are experiencing zucosis. Zucosis?
00:48:22 --> 00:48:28 Zucosis as a group. of people in the world. We're
00:48:28 --> 00:48:32 experiencing zucosis because what happens with
00:48:32 --> 00:48:34 us being trapped in our houses, similar to zoo
00:48:34 --> 00:48:37 animals who are trapped in cages, they start
00:48:37 --> 00:48:40 developing behavioral issues and they start hurting
00:48:40 --> 00:48:44 themselves. They start, it's just a whole, they
00:48:44 --> 00:48:46 go through psychosis because they're trapped
00:48:46 --> 00:48:48 in a cage and they're not living their real lives.
00:48:48 --> 00:48:51 So we had COVID or we had that thing we can't
00:48:51 --> 00:48:55 talk about, the Pandy. And we were all stuck
00:48:55 --> 00:48:58 inside and now we all have a slew of mental health
00:48:58 --> 00:49:01 issues and physical symptoms because we are not
00:49:01 --> 00:49:05 meant to be working like this and trapped inside
00:49:05 --> 00:49:08 we're trapped in this is like essentially. system
00:49:08 --> 00:49:11 that we can't escape, and we're all experiencing...
00:49:11 --> 00:49:14 Right. ...zucosis. There is something to that,
00:49:14 --> 00:49:16 though. There's something there. Yeah, because
00:49:16 --> 00:49:17 it does seem like the world is, like, getting
00:49:17 --> 00:49:20 fucked up. Like, yeah, we're all, like, animals
00:49:20 --> 00:49:22 in trap cages being like, we're fucking done
00:49:22 --> 00:49:24 and our bodies are falling apart, we're getting
00:49:24 --> 00:49:29 sick, we're... It's bad. I know somebody, she's
00:49:29 --> 00:49:33 28 maybe, 27, 28, has stage three colon cancer.
00:49:34 --> 00:49:37 No, really? Yeah, a girl. That's fucking awful.
00:49:37 --> 00:49:40 It's the rates for colon cancer around young
00:49:40 --> 00:49:44 women in like their early 20s, like 22 years
00:49:44 --> 00:49:47 old. No, shit. Really? Are skyrocketing. Jesus
00:49:47 --> 00:49:49 Christ. Colon cancer in the young, because of
00:49:49 --> 00:49:52 all the stuff in our food and everything. Holy
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54 shit, yeah. It's really bad. I know the food
00:49:54 --> 00:49:58 is bad. Like, what was it? I saw something, somebody
00:49:58 --> 00:49:59 said something, it was like a Ted Talk or something
00:49:59 --> 00:50:03 like that, but she was like, and I'm totally
00:50:03 --> 00:50:05 paraphrasing here, but she said something like,
00:50:05 --> 00:50:08 if you need to take a shot, to prevent you from
00:50:08 --> 00:50:12 eating the food that you should be eating, then
00:50:12 --> 00:50:14 that's like taking a shot to prevent you from
00:50:14 --> 00:50:18 getting thirsty. Like it shouldn't be that way.
00:50:19 --> 00:50:22 The food shouldn't be that bad that you have
00:50:22 --> 00:50:25 to take a shot to be like, don't eat. You know
00:50:25 --> 00:50:28 what I mean? And it's like, that just clicked.
00:50:28 --> 00:50:30 When she said that, I was like, and I really
00:50:30 --> 00:50:33 wish I remembered who said that. But yeah, when
00:50:33 --> 00:50:34 she said that, it just clicked and I was like.
00:50:34 --> 00:50:37 That is really fucking right, you know? Like,
00:50:37 --> 00:50:38 people are just taking, like, their ozempic,
00:50:39 --> 00:50:40 and it's her zepatide, and, like, all this stuff
00:50:40 --> 00:50:43 to try to get them to stop eating this fucking
00:50:43 --> 00:50:44 terrible food that we have. Well, it's because
00:50:44 --> 00:50:46 it's, like, addicting. It's not even food. It's,
00:50:46 --> 00:50:49 like, chemicals. It is. Yeah. It is very addicting.
00:50:50 --> 00:50:53 I can tell, because I started eating healthy
00:50:53 --> 00:50:55 and, like, pretty raw. Like, I used to never
00:50:55 --> 00:50:58 eat fruits and vegetables. And I started eating
00:50:58 --> 00:51:01 that. as I was healing and focusing on my health,
00:51:01 --> 00:51:03 because I'm very dedicated with stand -ups. So
00:51:03 --> 00:51:07 it's like, all right, well now I'm learning fucking
00:51:07 --> 00:51:09 human anatomy and the basic understanding of
00:51:09 --> 00:51:12 gut health so that I can be a better comic, so
00:51:12 --> 00:51:16 I can survive and do comedy. It's crazy. So have
00:51:16 --> 00:51:18 you noticed a difference since changing your
00:51:18 --> 00:51:21 diet like that? Has it actually made an increase
00:51:21 --> 00:51:27 in energy and things like that? I think that
00:51:28 --> 00:51:32 I think we're very, we're influenced by how we
00:51:32 --> 00:51:34 grew up in our environment. So like, you know
00:51:34 --> 00:51:36 how we can't go to Mexico and drink the water,
00:51:36 --> 00:51:39 but people in Mexico can? Yeah. Okay. I feel
00:51:39 --> 00:51:44 like I grew up eating pizza and like fast food
00:51:44 --> 00:51:48 and frozen shit and leftovers. Same. And so my
00:51:48 --> 00:51:51 body reacted really well to that. So when I switched
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54 to healthy food, my body... did not react and
00:51:54 --> 00:51:57 I had actually like the opposite reaction. The
00:51:57 --> 00:52:00 first time I did it, I had the sugar flu and
00:52:00 --> 00:52:03 I got so sick throwing up because I like cut
00:52:03 --> 00:52:07 out processed foods. Oh, I see. So like withdrawals.
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10 And then because my body had all the enzymes
00:52:10 --> 00:52:14 to process the processed foods, because it prioritized
00:52:14 --> 00:52:17 those growing up, I no longer had the enzymes
00:52:17 --> 00:52:21 to process like broccoli or like actually healthy
00:52:21 --> 00:52:26 of raw foods. Oh my God. So it's like, if I have
00:52:26 --> 00:52:30 warm cooked foods, I react good. But yeah, I
00:52:30 --> 00:52:34 do feel that my body has less inflammation. It
00:52:34 --> 00:52:36 took me a while, it took me years to get used
00:52:36 --> 00:52:40 to healthy food without having bad reactions.
00:52:40 --> 00:52:42 And I realized I'm allergic to a lot of fruits
00:52:42 --> 00:52:47 and random shit. Really? Yeah. So it was like
00:52:47 --> 00:52:49 years of like having bad reactions and I remember
00:52:49 --> 00:52:51 one time I had like the sugar flu Ate fucking
00:52:51 --> 00:52:53 the whole thing of mac and cheese and I was like,
00:52:53 --> 00:52:55 whoa, my headaches gone. I feel better. We're
00:52:55 --> 00:52:59 gonna I can go Do stand -up today? Yeah, but
00:52:59 --> 00:53:00 I'll be like, let me eat this salad and then
00:53:00 --> 00:53:04 I'm like my brain isn't working, you know, hey
00:53:04 --> 00:53:08 Yeah, no, I don't uh, like I don't eat like milk,
00:53:08 --> 00:53:11 you know our drink. I don't eat it You know,
00:53:11 --> 00:53:14 but uh, but yeah, I don't drink milk I really
00:53:14 --> 00:53:15 like I'll eat cheese but like but all that shit
00:53:15 --> 00:53:18 like fucks me up, you know, like real bad and
00:53:18 --> 00:53:20 like Because that's so the cheese in America
00:53:20 --> 00:53:23 is not even cheese. It's not. No, it's not We're
00:53:23 --> 00:53:26 eating plastic that shredded Mexican blend is
00:53:26 --> 00:53:29 plastic Yeah, I saw I saw this video wants on
00:53:29 --> 00:53:31 tiktok of this dude's like making a pizza, right?
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34 And he was like making a pizza with an Italian
00:53:34 --> 00:53:36 guy and the Italian guy was like I'm gonna show
00:53:36 --> 00:53:39 you how to make a real pizza, right? And then
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41 this dude had the audacity to pull out one of
00:53:41 --> 00:53:44 those Babybel mozzarella cheese. And the Italian
00:53:44 --> 00:53:47 dude was like, that's not cheese. That's not
00:53:47 --> 00:53:50 cheese. I don't know what the fuck that is, but
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52 that's not cheese. That's not cheese. And yeah,
00:53:52 --> 00:53:55 I was just like, man, that's the way other people
00:53:55 --> 00:53:59 are viewing our food. Our food is fucked up.
00:54:00 --> 00:54:03 Fucked up. Yeah, apparently government cheese
00:54:03 --> 00:54:06 was like leftover cheese. Oh yeah, yeah, my parents
00:54:06 --> 00:54:08 grew up on government cheese. Yeah, we used to
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10 have like the blocks, where it just said the
00:54:10 --> 00:54:14 word cheese. It just looked like just cheese.
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16 I don't know, it'd be like every week or every
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18 month we'd go up and get our block of cheese.
00:54:18 --> 00:54:20 Was yours in like a silver wrapper? I didn't
00:54:20 --> 00:54:23 have it growing up, but my mom did. Oh, your
00:54:23 --> 00:54:25 mom did, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. Ours was in like
00:54:25 --> 00:54:27 a silver wrapper. It was like silver wrapper
00:54:27 --> 00:54:30 and it just said the word cheese. And it was
00:54:30 --> 00:54:32 like... I don't know about this like even as
00:54:32 --> 00:54:34 like a kid. I was like, I don't think so, dude
00:54:34 --> 00:54:37 So I worked at uh, you know, what wall burgers
00:54:37 --> 00:54:42 is no, it's a it's Paul Wahlberg's Marks Brothers.
00:54:43 --> 00:54:46 He's like a chef his burger restaurant and now
00:54:46 --> 00:54:49 it's a chain but I worked at the original when
00:54:49 --> 00:54:52 they opened it and They grew up in Dorchester.
00:54:53 --> 00:54:57 So like Not a good area to grow up in and they
00:54:57 --> 00:54:59 grew up on government cheese. So like the story
00:54:59 --> 00:55:01 behind the burgers that they made was like their
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03 mom's smash burger or their mom's burger recipe.
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06 And they used like blocks of cheese for their
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08 cheese. I don't know if they still use that,
00:55:08 --> 00:55:11 but I'm pretty sure it was like the idea of like,
00:55:11 --> 00:55:13 oh, we're going to use government cheese because
00:55:13 --> 00:55:16 that's what our we grew up on. Oh, man. Yeah.
00:55:16 --> 00:55:18 I mean, something like that. But there is something
00:55:18 --> 00:55:20 about like about it, though, like where you're
00:55:20 --> 00:55:21 telling me about it. And I'm like, that sounds
00:55:21 --> 00:55:24 appetizing as fuck. It was, I loved the burgers.
00:55:25 --> 00:55:27 I don't know if they actually use government
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29 cheese. Don't quote me on that. I'm probably
00:55:29 --> 00:55:32 wrong. I'm going to get sued. I don't know about
00:55:32 --> 00:55:36 that. That would be kind of cheesy. I would be
00:55:36 --> 00:55:38 like, no, I worked for you. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
00:55:39 --> 00:55:42 Man, I think I worked at Subway and then I used
00:55:42 --> 00:55:46 to eat Subway a lot. And then I read that I think
00:55:46 --> 00:55:49 the bread is made out of something like the same
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51 kind of ingredients or something as yoga mats
00:55:51 --> 00:55:55 or something like that. What? Well, yeah, the
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57 things are like McDonald's and their burgers
00:55:57 --> 00:56:00 not lasting. Yeah. Or their burgers lasting for
00:56:00 --> 00:56:02 like years. I just saw a video of a grandma.
00:56:02 --> 00:56:05 She was like, this burger's from 1984 and it
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07 was in perfect condition. Perfect condition.
00:56:07 --> 00:56:10 I was like, that's how, what is it doing inside
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12 of our body? That's fucking weird. You know what
00:56:12 --> 00:56:15 I mean? That's just so strange. Did you see that
00:56:15 --> 00:56:18 thing about like how it was like some dude On
00:56:18 --> 00:56:22 the internet, like we're saying that, the amount
00:56:22 --> 00:56:25 of burgers that McDonald's puts out doesn't match
00:56:25 --> 00:56:27 the amount of cows. We're eating people. No,
00:56:27 --> 00:56:29 no, we're literally eating people. Soylent green,
00:56:30 --> 00:56:32 basically, yeah. Fried chicken, chicken used
00:56:32 --> 00:56:37 to bleed when you cooked it. Yeah, now I'm like
00:56:37 --> 00:56:39 the same. It doesn't bleed anymore. Yeah, it's
00:56:39 --> 00:56:41 weird. It's fucking strange. It's because the
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43 vampire sucked the blood out of the human meat
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45 that we're eating and the elites are evil and
00:56:45 --> 00:56:49 we're doomed. And I'm just seeing, making sure
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52 I can take a normal shit today and get on stage.
00:56:52 --> 00:56:53 Yeah, I'm like, dude, if I could just get one
00:56:53 --> 00:56:56 log, I think I'll be all right. If I could just
00:56:56 --> 00:57:00 log a log, I think I'll be good to go. But that
00:57:00 --> 00:57:03 is, man, the pursuit of regularity, you know,
00:57:03 --> 00:57:09 in our bodies. I hate adulting. I miss being
00:57:09 --> 00:57:13 a feral, young 22 -year -old just so blissfully
00:57:13 --> 00:57:17 unaware of what... what I was doing to my body
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19 and the impact it would have on me as an adult.
00:57:19 --> 00:57:22 I know. Oh man, I know exactly what you're talking
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24 about. Or stress. Stress will kill you. Stress
00:57:24 --> 00:57:27 will, yeah. I think that's literally what developed
00:57:27 --> 00:57:29 some sort of autoimmune. It's like the moment
00:57:29 --> 00:57:32 I'm stressed, it's like flare up. And then I'm
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34 like, if anything stresses me out, I am not a
00:57:34 --> 00:57:36 functioning human being. So I literally have
00:57:36 --> 00:57:40 to just, every day. Yeah. I'm so grateful. things
00:57:40 --> 00:57:43 are working out for me and nothing can affect
00:57:43 --> 00:57:46 me. Is that what you do to relax? You meditate?
00:57:46 --> 00:57:50 I meditate. Sometimes I just need to zone out.
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53 Sometimes I need a good laugh or like be social.
00:57:54 --> 00:57:58 Sometimes I think a good friend hang. Like I
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00 do game nights and we play this game called Secret
00:58:00 --> 00:58:05 Hitler and it's amazing. So have you ever heard
00:58:05 --> 00:58:08 of the show Traders? No. Okay, so the show Traders
00:58:08 --> 00:58:12 is you have traitors and faithfuls and everyone,
00:58:12 --> 00:58:14 say there's like 20 people, everyone's pretending
00:58:14 --> 00:58:19 to be a faithful, okay? And there's a couple
00:58:19 --> 00:58:22 of traitors amongst you and your goal is to vote
00:58:22 --> 00:58:25 who you as a group think the traitor is out.
00:58:26 --> 00:58:27 And by the end, if you vote all the traitors
00:58:27 --> 00:58:30 out, the faithfuls win the money, but if the
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32 traitors remain in and they get away and you
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34 think that they were a faithful the whole time,
00:58:34 --> 00:58:36 they win the game. So it's a game of lying and
00:58:36 --> 00:58:41 deception. Secret Hitler is liberals and fascists
00:58:41 --> 00:58:45 and there's two fascists and one Hitler and it's
00:58:45 --> 00:58:47 like a political game and you're all kind of
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49 like fighting and lying and you don't know who's
00:58:49 --> 00:58:52 the fascist or and who's like a liberal and you
00:58:52 --> 00:58:54 have to vote them out so that the fascists don't
00:58:54 --> 00:58:57 take power. Okay, so how do you decide like who's
00:58:57 --> 00:59:00 who? It's like cards and we pass them out and
00:59:00 --> 00:59:02 you kind of like game. Yeah, like you secretly
00:59:02 --> 00:59:05 look at it and then you pass like fascist or
00:59:05 --> 00:59:09 liberal policies. Yeah. And yeah, you either
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11 pass fascist or liberal policies. And that's
00:59:11 --> 00:59:13 how you can kind of tell based on the moves that
00:59:13 --> 00:59:15 people are making, like, oh, I think you're actually
00:59:15 --> 00:59:18 a fascist. And then some people are really bad
00:59:18 --> 00:59:20 at lying. So once you press them a little bit,
00:59:20 --> 00:59:24 it gets fun. Do you ever play video games at
00:59:24 --> 00:59:26 all? Yeah. So that kind of reminds me of that...
00:59:26 --> 00:59:30 Shit, I just forgot the damn name. It's that
00:59:30 --> 00:59:32 one with all the little space invaders or whatever.
00:59:33 --> 00:59:35 And then, I forget the name of it, but there's
00:59:35 --> 00:59:38 like one or two bad guys and you're trying to
00:59:38 --> 00:59:41 figure it out. Among Us. Among Us, I haven't
00:59:41 --> 00:59:44 played that one. It's just like that. Yeah, I
00:59:44 --> 00:59:48 love those games. I have a two -hour game night
00:59:48 --> 00:59:49 with my friends and I'm like, oh, I'm healed.
00:59:50 --> 00:59:53 But being outside, too. Yeah. Putting your phone
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55 away and literally going and sitting outside.
00:59:56 --> 00:59:57 Do you take advantage of the paddle boarding
00:59:57 --> 01:00:00 that's out here? I've gone, but not as much as
01:00:00 --> 01:00:04 I'd like to. Yeah. We're kind of in a rain season
01:00:04 --> 01:00:08 right now, anyway. Yeah. Not really. What the
01:00:08 --> 01:00:12 fuck? I know. Also, comedy here is so late. So
01:00:12 --> 01:00:15 it's like... Yeah. So my sleep schedule is fucked
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17 up. Mine too. And like half the day is gone and
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19 then I get ready and I'm like, well the day is
01:00:19 --> 01:00:21 gone. Yeah, do you ever get like where you just
01:00:21 --> 01:00:24 can't sleep no matter how tired you are? Yeah.
01:00:24 --> 01:00:27 Yeah, I'd get that. I'll come home from work
01:00:27 --> 01:00:30 and then I'll just be like, I don't want to sleep.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:32 I'm like, I want to stay up. Sometimes I'm just
01:00:32 --> 01:00:36 like, I just want to pause. Can I press pause
01:00:36 --> 01:00:38 to life? Can I just take a little break and then
01:00:38 --> 01:00:40 I'll come back? Sometimes I feel like that's
01:00:40 --> 01:00:43 the only, I need to go into a pocket dimension
01:00:43 --> 01:00:48 or something. and then not exist and then come
01:00:48 --> 01:00:51 back. Like I'm not suicidal, but I do wanna not
01:00:51 --> 01:00:54 exist sometimes. Does that make sense? Yeah,
01:00:55 --> 01:00:58 that makes perfect sense. Not to concern anybody.
01:00:58 --> 01:01:01 Yeah, that makes perfect sense. There's times
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03 I just like, man, I wanna like just feel what
01:01:03 --> 01:01:06 it's like to just have it all just stop. You
01:01:06 --> 01:01:09 know what I mean? Like just hit pause, take a
01:01:09 --> 01:01:11 break, just have it all just stop and just feel
01:01:11 --> 01:01:15 that kind of like, you know? And it seems like,
01:01:15 --> 01:01:18 you know, because I follow a lot of like, kind
01:01:18 --> 01:01:20 of like those mental health kind of things and
01:01:20 --> 01:01:22 like those gurus who just try to, you know, be
01:01:22 --> 01:01:24 like, this is what you do to heal. This is what
01:01:24 --> 01:01:26 you do to feel better and shit like that. I'm
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27 like, I don't know where the fuck you're getting
01:01:27 --> 01:01:29 that shit from. I was like, that shit doesn't
01:01:29 --> 01:01:31 work with me, dude. Like, I'm like, I'm fucking
01:01:31 --> 01:01:35 crazy. I felt that way, too. And believe it or
01:01:35 --> 01:01:38 not, sitting outside and journaling and meditating
01:01:38 --> 01:01:43 over the long period of time did help. Because
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45 it's like reframing your crazy thoughts. What
01:01:45 --> 01:01:48 was it about journaling that you found helpful?
01:01:49 --> 01:01:51 Well, because I get so like there's so much going
01:01:51 --> 01:01:55 on that sometimes like it's like analysis paralysis
01:01:55 --> 01:01:58 or executive dysfunction. Like there's too much
01:01:58 --> 01:02:02 going on that I can't do anything. Yeah. And
01:02:02 --> 01:02:06 so getting it all out and out of your head. kind
01:02:06 --> 01:02:08 of clear space in your head. And kind of like
01:02:08 --> 01:02:10 putting it in front of you kind of deal? Which,
01:02:10 --> 01:02:12 yeah, and it allows your brain to kind of like
01:02:12 --> 01:02:14 calm down a little bit. And then once you get
01:02:14 --> 01:02:16 everything out and then you meditate, now you're
01:02:16 --> 01:02:19 extra calm, you have a clear mind. And then I
01:02:19 --> 01:02:21 would practice like, I used to be such a negative
01:02:21 --> 01:02:25 person, like, I remember corporate America, every
01:02:25 --> 01:02:26 time I went into the elevator, people would be
01:02:26 --> 01:02:28 like, how are you? And I'd be like, exhausted,
01:02:29 --> 01:02:31 life is miserable, you know, then the usual,
01:02:32 --> 01:02:35 ah, just another day, like fucking working. Slaven
01:02:35 --> 01:02:40 away for them in this rat race And I met this
01:02:40 --> 01:02:42 girl who was super positive like annoyingly positive
01:02:42 --> 01:02:44 where I was like you don't get it You've never
01:02:44 --> 01:02:46 been through shit in your life. That's why you're
01:02:46 --> 01:02:49 so positive You privileged bitch. That's how
01:02:49 --> 01:02:53 it felt, you know, and then She would be like,
01:02:53 --> 01:02:55 it's just the stories. You're telling yourself
01:02:55 --> 01:03:03 Jamie and everything She was right Yeah, she
01:03:03 --> 01:03:04 was right. And they were the stories I was telling
01:03:04 --> 01:03:07 myself. And so I was like, all right, let me...
01:03:07 --> 01:03:10 Let me... Everyone loved her, and she, like,
01:03:10 --> 01:03:13 had such good energy. And I was like, I'm a miserable
01:03:13 --> 01:03:16 person, and I guess that's showing. So every
01:03:16 --> 01:03:18 time I got in the elevator, even though I didn't
01:03:18 --> 01:03:21 feel that way, and I was lying, people were like,
01:03:21 --> 01:03:23 how's your day going? Amazing. I'm so excited
01:03:23 --> 01:03:25 for the day. Do you have any exciting plans this
01:03:25 --> 01:03:30 week? I love life. I didn't think about committing
01:03:30 --> 01:03:36 suicide on my hour -long commute here. And then
01:03:36 --> 01:03:38 over time, all of a sudden, I was having better
01:03:38 --> 01:03:41 days and those answers became real. And then
01:03:41 --> 01:03:43 I was able to get myself out of bad thoughts
01:03:43 --> 01:03:45 quicker. And I was like, fuck, that bitch was
01:03:45 --> 01:03:49 right. Damn it. Yeah. Damn it. Yeah. Sometimes
01:03:49 --> 01:03:53 I feel like I have OCD, ADHD or something. Because
01:03:53 --> 01:03:56 I can't like... I can't sit and, like, focus,
01:03:56 --> 01:03:58 you know? And I do have, like, that kind of thing.
01:03:59 --> 01:04:02 But I feel like those breakthroughs for me, though,
01:04:02 --> 01:04:03 like, are just, like, right around the corner.
01:04:04 --> 01:04:05 I just have to implement them in my own life.
01:04:06 --> 01:04:08 Every day, too. Yeah. And it's about implementing
01:04:08 --> 01:04:11 them in the moments that's hard, when we don't
01:04:11 --> 01:04:13 want to, and we're like, oh, it's fine, you know,
01:04:13 --> 01:04:16 like the extreme moments. Yeah. Well, that's
01:04:16 --> 01:04:19 discipline. Yeah. You know, just having the discipline
01:04:19 --> 01:04:21 to do it even when you don't want to. Yeah, like
01:04:21 --> 01:04:23 when you're super angry and you want to yell
01:04:23 --> 01:04:26 at someone and then you're like... You upset
01:04:26 --> 01:04:31 me and I feel hurt by your stupidity. I'm sorry.
01:04:32 --> 01:04:37 I'm sorry I feel hurt and upset by your inability
01:04:37 --> 01:04:42 to do the things I'm gonna break something. Yeah.
01:04:42 --> 01:04:44 Yeah, it takes control. But once you do that,
01:04:44 --> 01:04:46 you're like, oh, okay I'm not reacting as much
01:04:46 --> 01:04:49 and getting that angry anymore. Yeah. Yeah for
01:04:49 --> 01:04:52 me like getting getting like what do you call
01:04:52 --> 01:04:54 it? Like getting in touch, I guess, with my anger
01:04:54 --> 01:04:58 and then just like, just really just like identifying
01:04:58 --> 01:05:01 what it is. That was a major breakthrough for
01:05:01 --> 01:05:04 me because it was like, then now I'm like, OK,
01:05:04 --> 01:05:07 now I don't get angry, you know, yeah, just get
01:05:07 --> 01:05:10 disappointed. You know, yeah, I'm not angry.
01:05:11 --> 01:05:12 There was this like line, it was like going around
01:05:12 --> 01:05:15 TikTok where you should say to like men that
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17 like. hurt your feelings and you're not supposed
01:05:17 --> 01:05:20 to say you're mad at them or they hurt you. You're
01:05:20 --> 01:05:23 supposed to be like, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
01:05:23 --> 01:05:25 That's a good one, yeah. And then guys are like,
01:05:26 --> 01:05:29 no, my father used to be disappointed in me too
01:05:29 --> 01:05:31 and that's how you cut deep. Yeah, no, it works,
01:05:31 --> 01:05:34 yeah. Because the thing is, is guys are just
01:05:34 --> 01:05:38 natural problem solvers. So if you go to your
01:05:38 --> 01:05:41 boyfriend and you're just like, oh man, I just
01:05:41 --> 01:05:43 can't figure out blah, blah, blah, he's immediately
01:05:43 --> 01:05:45 gonna be like. I got you, babe. Whatever you
01:05:45 --> 01:05:47 need. You know that kind of thing? Because if
01:05:47 --> 01:05:48 my girlfriend says anything, I'm like, dude,
01:05:48 --> 01:05:51 I'm going to build you a new room. Yeah. But
01:05:51 --> 01:05:53 like, but yeah, it's like, so when somebody goes
01:05:53 --> 01:05:56 like, you're disappointed, it's like, oh, shit.
01:05:57 --> 01:06:00 It's like, it's like a hit right, you know. Well,
01:06:00 --> 01:06:01 because sometimes I'm not even mad anymore. I
01:06:01 --> 01:06:04 am just disappointed. I'm like, I'm not because
01:06:04 --> 01:06:07 sometimes I do get upset, obviously, but there's
01:06:07 --> 01:06:09 things that I'm like would have normally just
01:06:09 --> 01:06:13 thrown me for a loop. And now I'm like, I'm able
01:06:13 --> 01:06:16 to identify where it comes from and already to
01:06:16 --> 01:06:19 process it quickly and to go to the next emotion,
01:06:19 --> 01:06:21 which is just like, damn, this sucks. And I am
01:06:21 --> 01:06:22 disappointed because I didn't want this to happen.
01:06:22 --> 01:06:24 And it did. And I'm not going to be mad at you,
01:06:25 --> 01:06:29 but I am going to remove myself or adjust. Well,
01:06:29 --> 01:06:32 sometimes the healthy thing to do is remove yourself.
01:06:32 --> 01:06:34 Yeah, people don't like when you remove yourself,
01:06:34 --> 01:06:37 though. No, no. But, you know, like I think I
01:06:37 --> 01:06:39 guess it comes with maturity, you know, because
01:06:39 --> 01:06:42 I kind of like I remember a time when I was like,
01:06:42 --> 01:06:45 You know, like I remember a time when I was threatened
01:06:45 --> 01:06:47 by that sort of like, kind of removal sort of
01:06:47 --> 01:06:50 thing. But now it's like, I understand. And so
01:06:50 --> 01:06:52 it's a little bit more like, yeah, okay, take
01:06:52 --> 01:06:56 your time. Do what you gotta do. We'll re -discuss.
01:06:57 --> 01:06:59 And then sometimes I have to even teach myself
01:06:59 --> 01:07:02 to stop doing that, you know? It's like, cause
01:07:02 --> 01:07:05 you know, like I want to like latch on and just
01:07:05 --> 01:07:07 be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know?
01:07:07 --> 01:07:11 Yeah, yeah. It's hard, discipline's hard. The
01:07:11 --> 01:07:12 discipline is fucking hard. I'm trying to get
01:07:12 --> 01:07:16 more disciplined. Yeah, yeah, I know. Comedy's
01:07:16 --> 01:07:18 a discipline game. Comedy is a very big discipline
01:07:18 --> 01:07:21 game. A long -term discipline game. Yeah, yeah.
01:07:22 --> 01:07:26 So, speaking of discipline, did you sign up for
01:07:26 --> 01:07:31 Kill Tony a lot before you got on? No. No? No.
01:07:31 --> 01:07:33 Was it a first, second time kind of deal? It
01:07:33 --> 01:07:37 was a third or fourth time. No shit. I just moved
01:07:37 --> 01:07:41 here. Mine... I was the last person to go and
01:07:41 --> 01:07:45 they just pulled, kept pulling for a woman. Oh,
01:07:45 --> 01:07:46 no shit. Yeah. I didn't even know they did that.
01:07:46 --> 01:07:49 So I got up, but I've signed up a bunch. That
01:07:49 --> 01:07:52 was over a year ago, a year and a half ago and
01:07:52 --> 01:07:54 I've signed up a bunch and haven't got on yet.
01:07:55 --> 01:07:59 So I think it's like, you know, hit or miss.
01:07:59 --> 01:08:01 I just got to keep signing up. Yeah, I signed
01:08:01 --> 01:08:03 up a few times afterwards too and it's the same
01:08:03 --> 01:08:05 thing. It's just like, I got pulled on my first
01:08:05 --> 01:08:10 time. That was fucking crazy. That's great. That
01:08:10 --> 01:08:13 happened to Emily. I think it was her first or
01:08:13 --> 01:08:15 second, and not only was it her first or second
01:08:15 --> 01:08:17 time getting pulled, she was the first pull.
01:08:18 --> 01:08:20 Oh, wow. So she like sat down and they went,
01:08:20 --> 01:08:22 Emily. And I was like, and we were all like,
01:08:23 --> 01:08:24 and she was like, oh, no, I didn't even have
01:08:24 --> 01:08:27 time to like process that I'm here at Kill Tony
01:08:27 --> 01:08:30 signups. That's crazy. I couldn't imagine that.
01:08:30 --> 01:08:31 Me, I was like towards the end of the night.
01:08:32 --> 01:08:34 So I had time to sit there and be like, okay,
01:08:34 --> 01:08:36 what am I going to say? You know, that kind of
01:08:36 --> 01:08:38 shit. Sometimes that psychs you out though. Yeah.
01:08:38 --> 01:08:40 Yeah, it does kind of psych you out. Like I wasn't
01:08:40 --> 01:08:42 expecting to go up when I got polled. We'd just
01:08:42 --> 01:08:43 been like, oh, we're not going to get polled
01:08:43 --> 01:08:45 or whatever. And then I saw the Cowboys playing
01:08:45 --> 01:08:47 and the score was 17 -17, which is my birthday.
01:08:48 --> 01:08:49 And I looked at my friend and I was like, it's
01:08:49 --> 01:08:50 going to be a good night. And then I got polled
01:08:50 --> 01:08:52 like five minutes later and I was like, holy
01:08:52 --> 01:08:55 shit. Yeah. I'm so confused by that. Your birthday
01:08:55 --> 01:08:58 is 17, 17? No, my birthday is the 17th, and I
01:08:58 --> 01:09:00 just saw it twice in a row as a score, and I
01:09:00 --> 01:09:03 was like, it's a sign, because I'm mentally ill,
01:09:03 --> 01:09:07 and it was a sign. So am I mentally ill, or am
01:09:07 --> 01:09:09 I a psychic prophet? Either way. Find out next
01:09:09 --> 01:09:14 week. It's a sign. That's funny. How did you
01:09:14 --> 01:09:17 feel when you walked out? I didn't have time
01:09:17 --> 01:09:21 to think, because usually, this was when it was
01:09:21 --> 01:09:24 at Poor Choices. And you run across through the
01:09:24 --> 01:09:26 alleyway and come up back and usually you have
01:09:26 --> 01:09:28 like a minute I think or two to wait while the
01:09:28 --> 01:09:31 interviews finishing before you go on But because
01:09:31 --> 01:09:35 they had pulled for a while to get a girl Yeah,
01:09:36 --> 01:09:39 that time was taken. So they when I like got
01:09:39 --> 01:09:40 to the back They were like you're about to go
01:09:40 --> 01:09:43 up. Here's your water. Give me your shit And
01:09:43 --> 01:09:45 as I'm like getting to the top of the stage,
01:09:45 --> 01:09:48 they were like Jamie Lee Simmons So there was
01:09:48 --> 01:09:51 no I ran and I was like out of breath open thing,
01:09:52 --> 01:09:55 it's like lights, and I was just like, I'm a
01:09:55 --> 01:10:00 star. And in person, I was waiting for them to,
01:10:00 --> 01:10:02 and this is like a part of, I guess, experience
01:10:02 --> 01:10:04 too. And then I've grown since that time going
01:10:04 --> 01:10:09 on. But for me, experiencing it, it was like
01:10:09 --> 01:10:12 almost like every line was funny, like they were
01:10:12 --> 01:10:14 laughing after every line I said. So I was like
01:10:14 --> 01:10:16 waiting for them to stop laughing to continue.
01:10:17 --> 01:10:20 Yeah. but the mic isn't, or the audience isn't
01:10:20 --> 01:10:23 mic'd, and I wasn't crushing, I was doing good,
01:10:23 --> 01:10:26 but I, like, in person, I was like, holy shit.
01:10:27 --> 01:10:29 And then listening online, I was like, I bombed,
01:10:29 --> 01:10:31 because it sounds like I'm bombing, and it sounds
01:10:31 --> 01:10:34 like I'm waiting for them to laugh instead of
01:10:34 --> 01:10:37 waiting for them to stop laughing, you know?
01:10:37 --> 01:10:39 And I was like, oh, that's embarrassing. And
01:10:39 --> 01:10:42 so now I kind of like, I kind of will just steamroll,
01:10:42 --> 01:10:44 you know what I mean? Yeah, I know exactly what
01:10:44 --> 01:10:45 you mean, yeah. And as they're laughing, I'm
01:10:45 --> 01:10:50 trying to get better at that. But yeah, I was
01:10:50 --> 01:10:52 kind of like, eh, about my minute. Because that's
01:10:52 --> 01:10:57 what didn't look as good as it felt. And then
01:10:57 --> 01:11:00 the interview was fine. It was good. I got some
01:11:00 --> 01:11:03 good clips out of it. And it blew up my OnlyFans.
01:11:04 --> 01:11:08 Oh, yeah? Yeah. It essentially paid for my whole
01:11:08 --> 01:11:12 year. Damn. That's bad ass. Because you get reoccurring
01:11:12 --> 01:11:16 revenue from subscriptions. But I was dealing
01:11:16 --> 01:11:18 with health issues and stuff. So I wasn't like
01:11:18 --> 01:11:21 as active on the platform to keep up with it.
01:11:21 --> 01:11:25 So I'm kind of starting over again. But it got
01:11:25 --> 01:11:28 me through a tough time. Oh, yeah. Well, I couldn't
01:11:28 --> 01:11:31 walk and stuff. Man, that's crazy. But I'm glad
01:11:31 --> 01:11:32 I helped you get through a tough time, at least
01:11:32 --> 01:11:34 like, you know, something did, you know. Yeah,
01:11:34 --> 01:11:37 I'm so great. I was so grateful for getting on
01:11:37 --> 01:11:40 and like the opportunity and. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
01:11:40 --> 01:11:43 it is an amazing opportunity, especially like.
01:11:43 --> 01:11:46 I mean, I don't know, when I got on, I was like,
01:11:46 --> 01:11:50 I remember it being like, I was really nervous
01:11:50 --> 01:11:52 and, you know, like, it was something that my
01:11:52 --> 01:11:57 brother wanted to do more than me. And he kind
01:11:57 --> 01:12:00 of introduced me to the show. And so the fact
01:12:00 --> 01:12:03 that I was doing it, I almost felt like imposter.
01:12:03 --> 01:12:05 Like, I was like, I shouldn't be here. It's my
01:12:05 --> 01:12:07 brother who wants to be here. Oh, that makes
01:12:07 --> 01:12:09 sense. That kind of thing. Imposter syndrome
01:12:09 --> 01:12:12 is huge in this industry, too. Oh, yeah. Like,
01:12:12 --> 01:12:14 not feeling, I felt that a lot, because I did
01:12:14 --> 01:12:16 get opportunities because I had social media,
01:12:16 --> 01:12:20 and I am, like, an attractive woman in comedy.
01:12:20 --> 01:12:22 So, like, there were times I did get things for
01:12:22 --> 01:12:24 that, and there were times where, like, no, I
01:12:24 --> 01:12:25 did earn this. Like, that person saw me have
01:12:25 --> 01:12:29 a really good set. Yeah. Sure, maybe they want
01:12:29 --> 01:12:33 to fuck me too, but also, like, I, you can't,
01:12:33 --> 01:12:35 like, totally negate it, you know? So, there
01:12:35 --> 01:12:37 was this, like, imposter syndrome of being afraid
01:12:37 --> 01:12:40 to show up and, like, that I wasn't supposed
01:12:40 --> 01:12:43 to be where I was at or worthy of it. And that
01:12:43 --> 01:12:45 like got to me instead of just staying focused
01:12:45 --> 01:12:47 on like, why am I here and what do I want to
01:12:47 --> 01:12:50 do and focusing on that. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
01:12:51 --> 01:12:53 You know, like that kind of, that kind of thing,
01:12:53 --> 01:12:55 like, you know, like the whole like want, like
01:12:55 --> 01:12:57 people like wanting to fuck you and shit. I feel
01:12:57 --> 01:13:00 like that's only like a female comedy thing.
01:13:00 --> 01:13:02 Like, I feel like men never have to deal with
01:13:02 --> 01:13:04 that shit. Does it make like comedy like that
01:13:04 --> 01:13:08 much harder or like? It's so funny. My best friend,
01:13:10 --> 01:13:13 Zachro is a comic and he's like six, five, good
01:13:13 --> 01:13:17 looking guy. And so he's the only one who, he's
01:13:17 --> 01:13:20 like, no, I totally get your experience. Cause
01:13:20 --> 01:13:23 he experiences that as a man. He like, because
01:13:23 --> 01:13:25 he's a pretty man, I kind of think of like Matt
01:13:25 --> 01:13:27 Rife. You know what I mean? Like where people
01:13:27 --> 01:13:29 were like, fuck you. It's almost like they're
01:13:29 --> 01:13:32 harder on his comedy because he's good looking.
01:13:32 --> 01:13:34 Does that make sense? Yeah. So you guys probably
01:13:34 --> 01:13:37 commiserate with one another. Yeah. So we're
01:13:37 --> 01:13:40 both kind of like, Oh, tough life, being this
01:13:40 --> 01:13:43 pretty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It could be the other
01:13:43 --> 01:13:45 way, where you completely understand why it's
01:13:45 --> 01:13:51 not working out. Yeah. So I think guys do experience
01:13:51 --> 01:13:55 it, not as much. And I think I experienced it
01:13:55 --> 01:13:57 more when I was a newer comic than I do now.
01:13:58 --> 01:14:00 Like I think over time, people are like, oh,
01:14:00 --> 01:14:02 okay, you are a working comic. When I moved here,
01:14:02 --> 01:14:04 people thought I was like a groupie. And I was
01:14:04 --> 01:14:06 like, no, I'm a comedian. No, you're a comedian.
01:14:07 --> 01:14:09 Yeah. No, like you actually put the work in and
01:14:09 --> 01:14:12 everything. Yeah. I mean, no, I mean, it was
01:14:12 --> 01:14:14 badass. It was like, you know, like I said, you
01:14:14 --> 01:14:16 know, I saw your set and the shit was legit.
01:14:16 --> 01:14:18 It was really funny, you know. Thank you. And
01:14:18 --> 01:14:19 it was like I was telling you before, like we
01:14:19 --> 01:14:21 were like, you know, my girlfriend's dad was
01:14:21 --> 01:14:23 even like, like, oh my gosh, I can't believe
01:14:23 --> 01:14:25 you're talking to that, you know, celebrity comedian
01:14:25 --> 01:14:27 and everything. I was just like, I was like,
01:14:27 --> 01:14:29 yeah, she was really good, you know. Oh, that's
01:14:29 --> 01:14:31 so sweet. I was like, yeah, she was really, really
01:14:31 --> 01:14:35 good, so. So what's your goals? Where are you
01:14:35 --> 01:14:43 headed now? My next goal is to develop at least
01:14:43 --> 01:14:52 45. Nice. Something like 25. I focused more on
01:14:52 --> 01:14:54 writing the jokes I currently had and I didn't
01:14:54 --> 01:14:56 focus as much on writing new stuff. Because I
01:14:56 --> 01:15:01 was still figuring out what my voice was. everything
01:15:01 --> 01:15:03 I wrote was so different. So I was like, let
01:15:03 --> 01:15:07 me hone in this so that it's all cohesive. So
01:15:07 --> 01:15:09 like, cause at first when I was writing new jokes,
01:15:09 --> 01:15:11 it was like, each joke was a different voice.
01:15:12 --> 01:15:14 Does that make sense? It wasn't me saying the
01:15:14 --> 01:15:17 jokes. They were individually jokes. So I was
01:15:17 --> 01:15:18 like, okay, let me rewrite these jokes so I can
01:15:18 --> 01:15:22 figure out my cohesive voice. And now I'm like,
01:15:22 --> 01:15:24 I feel I have a good understanding of that. So
01:15:24 --> 01:15:26 now I'm like, okay, let me, and I've been writing
01:15:26 --> 01:15:30 new stuff with that in mind. So one, just be
01:15:30 --> 01:15:32 very writing heavy and get up more, because I
01:15:32 --> 01:15:35 haven't been up as much as I'd like to. Yeah.
01:15:36 --> 01:15:39 And from there, I want to build an audience so
01:15:39 --> 01:15:42 I can go on the road and just start doing headlining
01:15:42 --> 01:15:46 shows in small little cities and breweries and
01:15:46 --> 01:15:47 stuff as I'm growing. Because I feel like when
01:15:47 --> 01:15:51 I'm on the road, I develop so much more. There's
01:15:51 --> 01:15:54 this like... level of confidence when you don't
01:15:54 --> 01:15:56 feel like you're being watched and judged by
01:15:56 --> 01:15:59 your peers, like a little freedom. And here I
01:15:59 --> 01:16:02 feel that judgment. And that's not anyone putting
01:16:02 --> 01:16:04 the judgment on me, it's just me, how I feel.
01:16:04 --> 01:16:06 I don't feel as comfortable to like take risks
01:16:06 --> 01:16:08 on stage, because I feel like every time I get
01:16:08 --> 01:16:10 on stage, it's an audition or something. And
01:16:10 --> 01:16:12 that's probably the story I'm telling myself.
01:16:14 --> 01:16:18 But you know, so when I go on the road or I go
01:16:18 --> 01:16:20 out of town, I'm like, oh, I'm cooking and this
01:16:20 --> 01:16:23 is... I'm feeling comfortable to try shit, and
01:16:23 --> 01:16:25 I just want to be able to get to a point where
01:16:25 --> 01:16:27 I don't need to have this as a home base, but
01:16:27 --> 01:16:29 I don't need it to be on stage. I'm doing my
01:16:29 --> 01:16:33 own thing. But long -term goal, yeah, I'd love
01:16:33 --> 01:16:37 to be like fucking Nikki Glaser and hosting shit
01:16:37 --> 01:16:40 and doing comedy stuff, and I want to be in movies.
01:16:40 --> 01:16:43 I want to do acting as well. Oh yeah, I saw that
01:16:43 --> 01:16:46 with the mob boss. That was an acting reel for
01:16:46 --> 01:16:50 my friend, and I was his plus one. So I had two
01:16:50 --> 01:16:53 shots. I only got like two tries to get the whole
01:16:53 --> 01:16:57 acting reel or whatever, but that got me, that
01:16:57 --> 01:17:01 reel got me an audition for the A24 movie, The
01:17:01 --> 01:17:04 Smashing Hit with Dwayne The Rock Johnson. I
01:17:04 --> 01:17:07 got a talking role audition. I didn't get it.
01:17:07 --> 01:17:09 Another female comic did. And when I saw her,
01:17:09 --> 01:17:11 I was like, that makes sense. I presented myself
01:17:11 --> 01:17:14 too young for the role, I think. Like, yeah,
01:17:14 --> 01:17:16 the way she did it, I was like, oh, I see what
01:17:16 --> 01:17:19 they were looking for. But just doing that acting
01:17:19 --> 01:17:22 reel got me the audition. It looked great. It
01:17:22 --> 01:17:24 really did. And I thought you did great, too,
01:17:24 --> 01:17:26 because I think there was something that you
01:17:26 --> 01:17:30 said in there. I forgot what the comment was,
01:17:30 --> 01:17:32 but it was something like... Like you think I'm
01:17:32 --> 01:17:36 cheating on you? I'm not cheating on you. No,
01:17:36 --> 01:17:40 it was really good. I want to say... Like, you
01:17:40 --> 01:17:41 said something along the lines of, like, this
01:17:41 --> 01:17:43 is my first, like, movie kind of thing, or something
01:17:43 --> 01:17:45 like that, like... It was my first time acting
01:17:45 --> 01:17:48 or doing anything. Yeah, yeah. And I was like,
01:17:48 --> 01:17:50 man, I was like, this is legit. I'm like, it
01:17:50 --> 01:17:52 looks good, which really helps, and everything,
01:17:52 --> 01:17:54 and I thought it was pretty believable. I was
01:17:54 --> 01:17:56 like, man, this is... Thank you. That's really
01:17:56 --> 01:18:00 awesome. Was that, like, crazy to do? Yeah. They're
01:18:00 --> 01:18:02 using, like, movie cameras, and I was, like,
01:18:02 --> 01:18:04 so nervous, and I've never done anything, and
01:18:04 --> 01:18:07 I thought I was gonna have more than two takes,
01:18:07 --> 01:18:11 and I didn't, so... You know, but they focused
01:18:11 --> 01:18:15 on the guy who's real it was obviously but so
01:18:15 --> 01:18:18 it was very nerve -wracking and It was only like
01:18:18 --> 01:18:20 a minute and a half real but we were there for
01:18:20 --> 01:18:24 a couple hours Mmm. Yeah, like a minute and a
01:18:24 --> 01:18:29 half. Oh, yeah, which is crazy. Oh, but Yeah,
01:18:29 --> 01:18:31 I want to get more involved in like comedy sketches
01:18:31 --> 01:18:34 and I think with trauma I said I had an actor
01:18:34 --> 01:18:37 a comedian actor who's on a big I think he's
01:18:37 --> 01:18:40 on insecure or something. He DMed me and was
01:18:40 --> 01:18:42 like, this is really good. And you can like see
01:18:42 --> 01:18:45 it in your eyes. Yes. Like your emotion. And
01:18:45 --> 01:18:47 I was like, and it's, I literally think it's
01:18:47 --> 01:18:50 from growing up with a traumatic childhood. Like
01:18:50 --> 01:18:53 there's a lot of emotion to pull from. Yeah,
01:18:53 --> 01:18:54 there was something. Do you know what I mean?
01:18:54 --> 01:18:55 There was definitely something there for real
01:18:55 --> 01:18:57 though. Yeah. I'm not just blowing smoke. Like
01:18:57 --> 01:18:59 it just, you could tell like, you know, like,
01:18:59 --> 01:19:01 and I was like, I was like, damn, like this is
01:19:01 --> 01:19:03 kind of crazy. And I almost thought it was like,
01:19:03 --> 01:19:06 are you like? I was going to be like, are you
01:19:06 --> 01:19:09 in like an independent movie or something like
01:19:09 --> 01:19:10 that? Or like, you know, is that what it was?
01:19:10 --> 01:19:12 Because I was like, man, it looks like whatever
01:19:12 --> 01:19:14 part this was, it was going to be a big one.
01:19:14 --> 01:19:17 You know, it was just someone's acting reel.
01:19:18 --> 01:19:20 Oh, keep going. Thank you. Thank you. I want
01:19:20 --> 01:19:23 to do more of that. Keep going with that. I wish
01:19:23 --> 01:19:26 that I could have done that. I used to do extra
01:19:26 --> 01:19:28 work and I did like, you know, TV and movies
01:19:28 --> 01:19:30 and things like that. and stuff, but I was just
01:19:30 --> 01:19:32 like a background guy, you know, like nothing,
01:19:33 --> 01:19:35 nothing like actually like on camera, except
01:19:35 --> 01:19:37 for once, you know, ironically, it was an EMT,
01:19:38 --> 01:19:41 which I'm an EMT now. But like, it's just, you
01:19:41 --> 01:19:42 know, but just seeing like, you know, you up
01:19:42 --> 01:19:44 there, like, you know, it's like, it's pretty
01:19:44 --> 01:19:47 cool. But, but yeah, just seeing like, you know,
01:19:47 --> 01:19:50 you actually like, you know, speaking out there,
01:19:50 --> 01:19:52 I was like, that's, that's really neat. And it
01:19:52 --> 01:19:54 looked good. Thank you. You know, I would love
01:19:54 --> 01:19:57 to see it, because I know it said that, This
01:19:57 --> 01:20:00 is before the coloring and everything. And that's
01:20:00 --> 01:20:02 what I do to this footage. And so I'm really
01:20:02 --> 01:20:06 interested to see what the coloring looked like.
01:20:06 --> 01:20:09 Are you able to get that footage? I have somewhere
01:20:09 --> 01:20:12 in my email one of the versions. I don't even
01:20:12 --> 01:20:15 think he ever finished editing it and getting
01:20:15 --> 01:20:21 the final... Let me see. Like the last little
01:20:21 --> 01:20:25 thing of it. But man, so was it something where
01:20:25 --> 01:20:27 he just called you up and was like, hey, I need
01:20:27 --> 01:20:30 somebody to kind of stand in? So crazy enough,
01:20:31 --> 01:20:33 all these comics were like, if you do OnlyFans,
01:20:33 --> 01:20:43 it's gonna not be good for your career. And because
01:20:43 --> 01:20:49 I got invited to go to Burt Kreischer's Roast
01:20:49 --> 01:20:54 premiere in LA. for his roast on OnlyFans because
01:20:54 --> 01:20:58 I was an OnlyFans creator. And then, so like
01:20:58 --> 01:21:01 that helped me with, like that brought me into
01:21:01 --> 01:21:05 like that area. And this guy that I met brought
01:21:05 --> 01:21:07 the stripper, like we went to the strip club
01:21:07 --> 01:21:10 after, he brought like the strippers, there was
01:21:10 --> 01:21:13 like strippers at that party. He worked at the
01:21:13 --> 01:21:16 strip club and brought them. And he apparently
01:21:16 --> 01:21:19 was a fan of mine, found me on social media years
01:21:19 --> 01:21:23 prior. So he came up to me and was like, I've
01:21:23 --> 01:21:25 been following you, blah, blah, blah. We became
01:21:25 --> 01:21:28 friends, and I had mentioned I'd wanted to do
01:21:28 --> 01:21:35 acting, and he writes scripts and does acting
01:21:35 --> 01:21:37 shit. And he's like, I'm doing a reel, and I
01:21:37 --> 01:21:39 need a girl. Do you want to be in it? And I said,
01:21:39 --> 01:21:43 sure. So all from starting OnlyFans, I get to
01:21:43 --> 01:21:46 this premiere, meet this guy, and then I got
01:21:46 --> 01:21:49 the acting thing. Yeah, I mean... I mean, it's
01:21:49 --> 01:21:54 a different time. I feel like OnlyFans isn't
01:21:54 --> 01:21:57 like porn. You know what I mean? Yeah, it doesn't
01:21:57 --> 01:21:59 have to be. Yeah, it's more like one of those
01:21:59 --> 01:22:03 kind of platforms where it's like, you're in
01:22:03 --> 01:22:05 control and you're in charge, that kind of thing.
01:22:05 --> 01:22:08 I keep dropping my date. I am not in control
01:22:08 --> 01:22:11 or in charge. You know the funny thing about
01:22:11 --> 01:22:14 that is everybody drops something in this motherfucker.
01:22:15 --> 01:22:18 Like the last episode I did, the headphones dropped.
01:22:18 --> 01:22:21 Oh, really? Yeah. The last episode, it was like,
01:22:21 --> 01:22:22 the headphones fell off for shit. Like, things
01:22:22 --> 01:22:24 were falling over. It's just, it's such a mess.
01:22:24 --> 01:22:26 Yeah, I'm a mess. This place is haunted. Let's
01:22:26 --> 01:22:28 see if it's here. Here's my showcase link. I
01:22:28 --> 01:22:31 think I found it. If you want, you could send
01:22:31 --> 01:22:33 that to me, and I could, like, right here, we
01:22:33 --> 01:22:36 can, like, I could post it, like, and have a
01:22:36 --> 01:22:38 play. Oh, shit. If you want. I don't even know.
01:22:39 --> 01:22:41 This was from years ago. That was, like, a couple
01:22:41 --> 01:22:44 years ago. Oh, it was a couple years ago? Yeah.
01:22:44 --> 01:22:47 Oh, OK. Maybe two years ago? Oh, okay. I was
01:22:47 --> 01:22:49 thinking it was like... I think I still lived
01:22:49 --> 01:22:51 in Miami when I did it. I don't think I was living
01:22:51 --> 01:22:54 here. I haven't been three. It was a while ago.
01:22:55 --> 01:22:57 Oh, really? Mm -hmm. Oh, yeah. No, I thought
01:22:57 --> 01:23:02 it was like fairly recent. Um, no. Yeah. No.
01:23:02 --> 01:23:04 Gotta do more. Hell yeah. We got great time.
01:23:04 --> 01:23:06 That was a great episode. Yeah, this was fun.
01:23:06 --> 01:23:08 Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for
01:23:08 --> 01:23:09 doing that. I really appreciate it. Is there
01:23:09 --> 01:23:12 anything you want to put out, too? Yeah, you
01:23:12 --> 01:23:15 follow me at the Jamie Lee Show on all platforms
01:23:15 --> 01:23:18 and stay on the lookout for some other stuff.
01:23:19 --> 01:23:21 Hell yeah. Thank you so much, Jamie. Thank you
01:23:21 --> 01:23:23 for having me. This is a great episode. This
01:23:23 --> 01:23:24 is going to be awesome. It'll be fun.