Inside Thoughts Episode 111 ft Learnmore Janosi

Nick talks about Notre Dame fans from philly, dogs ruling the world, and has a conversation with comedian Learnmore Janosi

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of us. Inside Thoughts check.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Check check one, two three. Well live baby, Welcome back
to Inside Thoughts. Appreciate you clicking the play button. Got
a cool interview for you, as always with comedian learn
More GENOESI I got that for you after the podcast.
He's coming through Indianapolis this weekend, so he's a good guy.

(00:36):
I actually saw him for the first time at the
Rubber City Comedy Festival and uh, you just murdered, and
then he went on America's got talent murdered. He's He's
a cool dude. How you doing. You're having a good week.
It's getting wild out there. I had a fun weekend. Uh.
My little sister came up from Savannah. One of my

(00:58):
buddies came up from Texas and me Amy and them
went to the Notre Dame versus Texas A and M game,
and I gotta tell you that might have been one
of my most favorite games I think I've ever been to.
That game was fun. I know Notre Dame lost, but
it was just a fun game. I don't think I'm
allowed to go to Notre Dame Stadium anymore because I've

(01:19):
been three times and they've lost all three times. Two
of the games, you know, like they probably should have won,
like this A and M game, and then like Michigan
State back in two thousand and seven or six, they
lost in double overtime. The only other game I was like,
they're gonna lose, but it's just gonna be fun to
be at. This football game was I think it was

(01:41):
twenty eighteen, uga, maybe I forget what year, but now
the game was fun. I was trying to get tickets before,
like you know, like two three months ago, told everybody
to play, like, hey, we're going to this game. It's
gonna be awesome. I'll get tickets. And I was looking
at the tickets were like expensive as shit for nosebleeds,

(02:05):
and I was like, all right, whatever, I'll get them.
You gotta wait till I get paid, though, And before
I was about to buy them, my little sister was like, Hey,
one of these ladies that comes to my workout classes,
she's like a Notre dame alam. She said she can
get me like good seats at face value. And I
was like, okay, so we get these tickets. They're like

(02:27):
one hundred bucks cheaper apiece than the ones I was
going to get. There were way way up you could
touch Jesus from where we were sitting. We get, my
little sister gets the tickets, We walk out, and you know,
like when you're walking down, you're like, oh, I wonder
when we're gonna stop. It's got to be pretty soon.
We went all the way down. We were second row

(02:49):
behind the A and M bench, like the closest I've
ever sat at that stadium. Was incredible. I turned around,
I looked at my sister. I was like, hey, god shit.
She was like, I know, Sister of the Year. I
was like, yes, you are killed it. And she was
the MVP because she's pregnant so she can't drink, so

(03:09):
she was automatically the DD. So me and my buddy
from Texas were just getting obliterated and yelling and talking
shit the whole time. It was fun, like we were
sitting so close, like you could see everybody. Like Ted
Cruz popped out at that game. I was like ten
feet away from Ted Cruz and I was thinking about,

(03:30):
you know, saying something to him, but.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I didn't want to lose my job.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
It was a fun game though, and like the best
part was Amy. That was her first like big sporting
event that she had been to. Like we had been
to a college football game before. We'd gone to baseball games,
but nothing like a night game at Notre Dame Stadium
where it was a big game. Because the only other
college football game she had been to was Duke Clemson,

(03:58):
which was a big game. But you know, going to
Wallace Wade Stadium is like being at a nice high
school field, you know what I mean. Like Notre Dame
Stadium feels like you're walking in to kind of like
a coliseum kind of feel. You know, there's gonna be
some gladiator shit going on. And we're in there and
they're doing the lights and everything. They're pumping up the

(04:18):
crowd and I'm turning around like Amy's like starting to
get into it. And then the PA announcer was like,
look out on the northwest corner for our troops, and
we all look and it's like five of these big,
you know, military grade helicopters flying super low down to
the field. And I'm not very patriotic, but Amy's jaw

(04:42):
was like on the floor and she was like, well,
what's that? And I was like, this is America. This
is how we do it. This is why we can't
afford healthcare. Right here? Do you see that? Whoam? It
was awesome. It gets you hype, man, even in like
Amy's not really patriotic, she got she was getting hype.
You know, she's British. She was like, I brought you

(05:03):
out all that. She stopped saying bottle of water. She stopped.
She went from ball to that's a bottle of water.
That's what those military great helicopters will do. But it
was it was fun, man. We were she like she
got the full college football experience, like the big game field,
Like we're sitting real close in awesome seats. Famous people

(05:27):
were there, politicians were there, the military flew over the field.
Me and my friend from Texas were just being obnoxious
and then I was sitting in the row in front
of Amy and my sister and my friend just like
that's how the seats worked out. I was like, yeah,
y'all sit together. I'll sit, you know, one in front
and turn around talk shit and blah blah blah. So

(05:50):
there was nobody like sitting next to me in the
two seats like to my weft. So I was thinking,
you know what, we got some room, like, you guys
can stand here. If it gets a little crowded, we
can go to and two you just have more room
because it's bleacher seating. And then like midway through the
first quarter, these two bros walk in and I was like, ah, shit,

(06:10):
you're gonna have to pack it. And I was like, hey,
what's going on? They were like go rest. I was like,
oh my god, these guys are gonna be nuts. Like
they they were obviously late because they had to finish
drinking whatever they brought, so they're why getting in there.
And Notre Dame at first was doing good, but you know,
Notre Dame A and M trading blows back and forth

(06:33):
about halftime. Right before halftime, A and M goes up.
I think it was like twenty eight twenty four A
and M and Notre Dame was trying to like get
down the field and put up some points before half.
And something happened to where CJ. Carr, the quarterback, did
like the clap counts. He was frustrated, but he was
walking away from the center because he didn't think the

(06:54):
play was gonna go off, so he claps in frustration center.
Here's the clap snaps the ball to nobody. Thankfully, Jeremiah Love,
the running back, jumped on it. But then that kind
of like ended the half. It was an anti climactic,
you know, kind of took all the momentum away from
the Irish fans that were yelling, and these two dudes
just started going what was that? Wow? Wow? What are

(07:17):
you doing? What was that? Do we want to play football?
Just going crazy screaming, And there's this there's like this
nice older lady sitting next to my sister in the
row behind like right behind these two fucking psychos, and
she's kind of telling him like, hey, it's halftime, you
gotta chill out a little bit, and you know, cause

(07:38):
the band's coming on. They're doing like, you know, it's halftime,
what's cool down, Let's go get some drinks and everything.
These guys are still like Game seven mode where they're
just like, no, I need to go on the side
launch And I got told couch wow while we're doing wrong,
like what.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Do you do?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Like just going nuts? And this lady was like, boys,
I'm gonna need you to calm down, and he goes,
I don't know about that way, like, you know, all
due respect, we're from Philly. We do things a little
different here. We get well wout. And I was like,
that makes so much sense. I've never met somebody from Philly.
There was a normal functioning member of society. They're all idiots, dude,

(08:16):
They're like, I, I you know what, I take that back.
I think I met one nice person from Philly, one
nice person. Everybody else has got a chunk at their
brain missing it missing. I don't know if they have
like leading the water out in Philly or what, but
there's not too many sane people that are from Philly.
And these two guys said that. I was like, that
makes so much sense. And they did not get happier

(08:39):
as the game went on, Like, dude, it was fun.
Like I know, Notre Dame loss, but as much as
I wanted them to win, it was still the most
fun football game I've ever been to. Like you had
crazy shit happening. There was a lot of points. The
game ended in just a ridiculous way, you know, like
how do you how do you botch an extra point hold?

(09:01):
You know what I mean? The guy fumbled the hold
for the kick and he just he crumbled under pressure.
But he's also like you know, twenty three, twenty four
years old. He's a child, right, what do we do?
I'm gonna get mad at a kid? Yes, No, that's
that's the craziness. And the you know, the Philly was
rubbing off. I can't do that. But yeah, it was fun.

(09:22):
And then A and M drives down the field and
you can like see what happened. And my buddy was
behind me. As soon as that touchdown happened, he was
like what now. He starts turning around to all the
Irish faces, like yeah, what I'm talking about. Everybody's just
kind of like, yeah, yeah, you got it, buddy. Whatever.
But it was fun. Notre Dame's defensive coordinator though, he's ass.
Notre Dame should have lost that game by like three touchdowns.

(09:46):
But A and M's quarterback is not good. Marcel Reid
missed three wide open touchdowns, like just deep shots. Miss them,
like you saw the wide receivers he has are They're
just dudes, like we saw him on the field. You
can see it like you when it's on TV. You
can't always see when someone's open before it's open because

(10:08):
they're focused on the wine of scrimmage. You would see
these guys just break away and be open for like
four or five yards, and everybody in the crowd was like,
oh shit, And then Reid would throw it and just
miss him by a mile. That game should have been
over for a while. So like the fact that the
fact that it was that close was it was. It
was kind of cool. So I had fun. Those Philly

(10:31):
guys definitely need to get some help, though they were
expressing themselves. You know, it probably wasn't about the game,
you know, it's the other thing. Life's getting crazy, dude,
seeing all the shit this week. I thought last week
was bad. It just keeps getting worse. Man Like, you know,
people are getting fired for saying stuff, and it's it's fun. Like,

(10:57):
I think Democrats and Republicans both work on the same team,
and they are not trying to benefit us anymore. So
I do sympathize when somebody's like locked into one side
because I'm like, dude, it's a bunch of rich people
doing insider trading and giving up a bunch of rights
to the corporation so that they can do whatever they

(11:18):
want make a shit ton of money, and then they're
gonna track us and sell and trade our data and blah.
Blah blah, make robots like it doesn't matter, you know
what I mean, Like my blue tie or my REDTI
it doesn't it doesn't matter. They're just trying to fuck us.
So like seeing this stuff and seeing people get caught
up in it, it's sad. I empathize with it, but
it is kind of funny, like seeing that the Conservatives

(11:43):
ended up being the cancel culture people this go around,
you know what I mean. Like Obama was in h
office and they were like, oh, you can't say fucking
shit around here. Oh this is terrible. Cancel culture, won't gay,
like all that kind of stuff, and then you know,

(12:04):
Trump comes through. He's like, yeah, you can say whatever
you want. Like yeah, Biden comes in, you shouldn't be
saying anything. You're like no. Trump comes back around this time,
and now they're like you can't say that, Like, yeah,
you guys sound kind of gay. I don't know. I
just I'm saying. It's it's a funny turn of events
that Conservatives ended up being the uh, the cancel culture people.

(12:27):
It's like an m Night Shamulan plot twist. There's one
dude that's just been I've been I've been consistent, with
what I think on the Conservative Party, and uh I was.
I was all about Trump when he was making the movement,
you know what I mean? I was all about it
because I do want to be able to say, uh, retarded, Okay,
that's that's my personal thing. I grew up with. Down

(12:48):
I won't be able to say, all, right, now, what
he's doing now, I don't like it, and I don't
know how to feel anymore. There's at least one person
that's going through it because everybody else just flips with
what did he say to say, Okay, that's what we're
gonna say. Yeah, no more of that. You're gonna say

(13:09):
more of this now? What did he say? Okay, yeah,
we're gonna say more of this now. It's like, bro,
come on, do you not see what's going on? I
stupidly like I got some family members and friends where
like it bugs me that they're so locked into the team.
It doesn't matter which team, Like, if you're that locked in,
you're lost, you know what I mean? Cause it's like

(13:31):
they don't care about you. Come, let's all get together.
Come on, we can figure it out. Maybe there's gotta
be one smart person in all of us. Somewhere. It's
not me, but I like it bothers me when I
have people in my life that I care about that
are like locked into that stuff. So every once in

(13:51):
a while it'll get the best me. Like I had
to put my phone down yesterday. I was getting amped up.
I was getting pissed cause, like there was a couple
videos I saw of the cash Patel hearing the FBI
director when they were asking him about like Epstein and
all that stuff, and he's just like so blatantly full
of shit and lying. They were like, is Trump on

(14:13):
that list? And he was like ah ba ba and
he was like, do you remember your oath to tell
the truth? Is Trump on that list? He's like, you
want to ask me about this? There's uh, there's crime happening,
and there's Mexicans doing things we don't like, just obviously
deflecting being full of shit. It's like I sent that clip.

(14:35):
I was like, come on, man, like look at this right,
And I sent that out and just stupidly because I
don't know what I thought was gonna happen, Like the
people that are locked in, I was gonna send him
that video and be like, look at this objectively and
they're gon be like, oh, you know what, You're right,
I'm gonna walk away from all that shit. That was
a dump thought on my part, it really was, but

(14:55):
I sent it, and it was just the immediate jump
into the phrases that on Fox News, like, well, you know,
the Democrats had this list for three years and they
do goddamn shit about it. Another thing whatever, Like come on, dude,
it's not you verse them, it's us versus the rich people.

(15:17):
Come on, say it with me us rich people. No,
all right, it's whatever. But yeah, I did. I did
have to. I did have to put my phone down
after a while because I was like, it was one
of those days where you know, like, Okay, I'm just
gonna keep seeing one more ridiculous thing after another today.

(15:37):
I gotta put the phone down. That's what it is, though,
sometimes you gotta do it. It is what it is.
And uh, the people that are gonna be happy are
gonna be happy, and then the people that want to
get locked into that stuff and hate people are gonna
do that. So what are you gonna do? Who am I? Huh?
What am I gonna do to fix? I don't know,

(15:58):
but it's tough, man, just focus on your mental health. Okay.
I am glad, like the way we're dealing with mental
health is getting better. Like I was talking to one
of my coworkers and she was saying her daughter just
went to college, and I was like, ah, she doing
She's like she's doing good. She's doing good. She's she's

(16:20):
going to meditation Mondays. And I was like, the fuck
is as that like tipsy Tuesdays, We're going to Thursday Thursdays.
She was like, no, it's meditation. It's one of those
things where you like, you know, just sit in a
room and somebody's telling you you need to learn how
to be still. Okay, be still?

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Are you all killing now?

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Like I was thinking back when I went to college
for almost a decade because I'm stupid. They like during
finals week or whatever, they didn't know how to handle
mental health. It was like the first kind of acknowledgment
of it, but they didn't know what to do. So
they're like, ah, we know you're stressed and h you know,
here's here's some dogs, like what like, please don't kill yourself.

(17:03):
There's Golden Retriever puppies in the library from three to six.
Go pack them. Please, are fluffy. That's like that's how
they used to deal with mental health. So like I'm
glad that they're starting to. You know, there's programs now
where you actually are kind of focusing on training your brain,
like it's a muscle that you take to the gym.
Cause that's that's what it is, you know what I mean,

(17:25):
Your brain's a muscle. That's why you gotta read books.
Every once in a while. I've been slacking on that,
but every once in a while, I'll take my moment
of zend it. I'll put my phone down and I'll
chill out, dud, cause you got it. You gotta turn
your brain into a gym. Bro. Yeah, oh fucking sorry.
Whfe's gonna keep getting crazy, keep getting crazy, little older

(17:49):
we get. Oh man, I saw this thing that said, uh,
like gen Z is making fun of millennials for how
we text. Like you, just if you're going to be old,
you just got to be old. You can't try and
keep up with shit, like be aware of shit so
that you don't end up being ad dick to anybody,

(18:10):
but you know, don't try and keep up with it,
just like whatever you were locked into until you were
about I don't know, like twenty five thirty. That's what
you gotta stick with. After that, you gotta let it
go because if you ever met somebody that's old, like
my little sister, she is thirty years old. We were
talking about something and she was like, it's giving, and

(18:31):
I was like, the fuck did you? You are thirty
years old? Hey, guess what. You can't say that you
are not that generation that gets to say that it's giving. Nope, nope,
not for you. Somebody else but not you. You can't
say that. Gen Z is making fun of millennials for
how much we use lol and text messages, saying it's outdated,

(18:53):
it's old. Yeah, that's also how you like soften a
text message because we we grew up in the not
knowing how to deal with the feelings. Uh okay, we're
the first ones to try this out. I'm throwing that
out there, but to let you know, I'm kidding lol,
even though nobody has ever put lol and actually laughed

(19:15):
out loud. But that's how we soften up a sentence.
It's called uh, what is it called. It's called fucking
sending text messages where you're supposed to send him no, no,
I just had a brain fire. But like that's that's
what you gotta do, Like stay in your lane for
whatever age group you're in, you know what I mean.

(19:36):
Like my dad is seventy and he tries to keep
up with like sending emojis, and he just sends the
wrong ones all the time. He'll be like hey, and
then he'll send me the like winking, smirking, horny face emoji.
I'm like, hey, dude, don't send that. And he's like,
do you want to know what I had for dinner?
I'm like what, And He'll send me the egg plant emoji.

(19:58):
I'm like, come on, dad, what are you doing? He's
like what you know? You know, like Italian? Come on,
come on, Mike, dude, don't don't do that. Man, Just
leave it, leave it alone, all right, Let's uh, let's
get to your headline of the week and then we'll
get into the interview with learn more Genosi. Where is this?

(20:22):
I probably should have had the thing. It's about a
time traveler. Actually, not even sure this is real, but
it's pretty funny, so just you know, I'll take this
as a real thing. Man who claims to be a
time traveler harasses bystanders and insists that dogs will rule

(20:45):
the earth by twenty eighty seven. So this guy was
walking around approaching pedestrians, pointing to their pets and declaring
them future leaders obsination. He was Austrian. I probably should
have thrown that in there before. I just dropped the
act and on you though. It was crazy. So people
said it was funny at first, but then he kept going,

(21:05):
getting louder and louder until children started crying, and then
you know, he got arrested for that, because once you
make the kids cry, you gotta go, buddy. But he's like, no, no, no,
I'm a travel It's okay. Actually, at this point, I
wouldn't mind if dogs, you know, ruled everything. How much
worse you know. I'd be the goodest boy, the best

(21:28):
boy deserve all the pets. And if I became leader,
I would go outside whenever I wanted to, and I'd
fucking kill the male man. All right, that's enough of that.
Let's get into this interview with the very funny, the

(21:49):
hilarious learn more Genosi. What's going on, bro?

Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm good man, I'm good. Yes, it's good. You know
that I paid you to say that.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, you you sent me the cash at We're all good.
We got that out of the way. You're excited to
come to Indy this weekend.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm so excited. I love Indy.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
You know, it's not my first time there, because I've
been there a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
It's one of my favorite cities to perform comedy. You know.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
That's awesome. Yeah, you got five shows one tomorrow to
Friday to Saturday. What's a war and Moore Genosi show White?
To someone who hadn't seen you before.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well, it's exactly what it sounds like.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
You get to learn more about me, about you know,
where I come from, you know, and you get to
learn more about things that I think about every single day.
So it's all it's all about, you know, learning and
laughing at the same time.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
There you go, Yeah, you go see warn more. You
get to warn more. Don't you speak like nine different languages?
I feel like the last time I spoke to you,
you told me that you started doing stand up in
Zimbabwe or somewhere else, when you ended up doing stand
up in White seven nine different languages? How many is it?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yes, you know I fluently.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
I speak about six and I I had to do
a comedy in different languages, beck in Zimbabwe with every city,
you know, you know, you've got a different language, you know,
so you have to learn how to communicate with everybody.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
So yeah, that is crazy, man, like that that secret
agent level of genius right there. Has Cashel asked you
to be an FBI agent yet or no?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, as long as I'm you know, allowed to go
new people laugh, that's it.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
That's all I can.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
That's all my joke. That's awesome. So you're on You're
don't deport me for saying. This tour. How's it been
going so far?

Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's been great. Honestly, it's been really really great. People
are showing up. I've performed all over America. You know,
it's so nice to see that I can. I'm able
to make everybody laugh, you know, from all of America.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's a dream come true.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
That's awesome. Man. Are you gearing up for like taping
a special? I saw the Chicago in November. You're doing
a special taping? So what are we taking like now Flix,
Hulu to be what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Well, I cannot say, but you're thinking, you're real that's it.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's the direction. To think. You know, yes, I'm working
on it.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Twenty ninth of November, I I'll be recording a special finally,
after fifteen years of doing comedy, I think it's time.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
It is. It's time, and you've already conquered everything else.
You can do stand up in six different languages, You've
been on America's got talent. You know it's time. It's time, man, Yeah,
I think it's time.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know, people are waiting for it. I think it's time.
I give them Monday one.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
You know, right, So if everybody goes to your shows
this weekend, they're gonna get to see the special before
the special, right.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yes, yes, I know.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I've been on the road working on it, you know,
so you know you get to experience it.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's very intimate, you know. So, yeah, it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well that's awesome, man. I've been we haven't watching your
journey the past few years, so I know you're gonna
kill it this weekend and then you're gonna kill it
during the special tapping. Is there anything else you want
to promote hype up for. I'll let you get out
of here.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Well, I applaud most of my stuff on the internet. So,
you know, follow me on Instagram, learn more JR Nazi,
you know, and you get to see a little.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Stuff that I appload every weekend every week.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
There you go. Yeah, I was cracking up watching the
the skit you did where you can pay African tribe
to say whatever you want. You are not the father.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yes, I can deliver messages. You know.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's awesome. Man, Well go go check onorn more out
on Instagram and then go buy tickets, sell out the
whole weekend. You're going to see the special before the
special one and more. I appreciate you taking the time
to talk with men.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
No, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Thanks Money, Money, go Money,