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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I still speaking that that should not have made it
to the rest of us. This is Inside Thoughts to.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Check check one two three, one two three, We're live, baby,
Welcome back to Inside Thoughts.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Appreciate you hitting the play button. It really needs a
lot to me.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Got a good interview for you at the end of
the podcast with comedian Zoltan Causas. I hope I said
his name right, and I asked him when I got
to talk to him, I was saying it right, and
I can't remember what he said. Because it's been a
long week. Man, it's been a long week. It's been
a good week. Last week, had a good week traveling
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doing stand up and it was the most money I've
ever made doing stand up in week.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm not going to tell you how much it was
because that's very not keoth. Is that how you say names.
It's not not Keith at all, bro. But I will
tell you this. If I did this week in stand
up and made the money I made this week every
single week for a full year, I would make as
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much as a minimum wage worker. But it's not about
doing it once. It's about doing it consistently. But it
was a good week started off in Charlotte went to
go see.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
The Morgan Wallin concert. It was pretty It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Morgan Wallin's one of the country shows I actually like
going to because I know most of the songs and
it's just he puts on a good show.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was cool, like when you walked into the stadium,
everybody got like this light up band looked like a
like a house arrest bracelet, but it lit up like
the whole show and the whole crowd had it and
the colors changed and like it made the crowd do
the wave without anybody having to do anything, and it
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went along with the music and it was super cool.
And me and Ames were sitting there like, man, whoever
came up with this as a genius? I was actually
I was talking to somebody about it and they said, yeah,
you know who did that first?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Taylor Swift. So Taylor Swift is a genie. Why wouldn't
she be a genius? She's worth a billion dollars. Taylor
did it first.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So shout out to Taylor Swift for making Morgan's mom
It's concert more enjoyable to watch.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It was.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was a good show. The funniest thing was we
were getting some beer outside, and this lady was walking
back from the bathroom and she had like a gash
on her face that looked like she lost a fight
very recently.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Like blood was just coming out. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I just I will never understand getting in a fight
at a contract, cause I'll tell you what. Those Morgan
Walla tickets are not cheap. I'm lucky enough, you know,
me and Ames get to go for free. But if
I'm paying like four hundred bucks for a ticket, I'm
good vibes. I'm a lover, not a fighter. That's what
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I'm not getting in any fights. And trust me, you
want to get in fights because people are just getting
blackout drunk walking by you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And I can take about maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Three shoulder checks from drunk dudes before I start getting
that twenty one year old angry energy.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm like, oh, dude, do to dead bro.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
See what happens, dude, Dad, I swear.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's like you're five eight am, so that looking at
me while I'm doing this.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But anyway, I just like, you mean to tell me
you're gonna pay that much money and then get in
a fight with somebody, That's ridiculous. And I would never
ever want to get knocked out. And the last thing
I hear is I'm hitting the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Is last nine we lan at the Laker talk. I'm
not I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm not losing money and having that be the last
thing I hear before I wake up the next morning
and I'm going viral on Twitter for getting knocked out
by some dude in Amuet. Yeah, dude, I dressed up
just like Morgan Wallen. No, it's not gay. I just
you know, he's super cool. I just want to look
just like him, go to his concerts, sing his songs,
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jump in his skin.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's weird.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We did get to meet, uh, Morganwowen. He seems like
a nice dude. I mean you read the headlines and
you're like, this guy has got to suck. But you know,
he was pretty nice, seem friendly. I mean he was
you know, we talked to him for forty five seconds.
Anybody can pull off being nice for forty five seconds.
I can pull off happy and cheery for forty five seconds.
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That's what when sometimes people meet me, they're like, oh,
you're so nice. Then I come home and Ames is like,
you're a terrible person. Isn't that right, aims no, No, yeah,
you better say no.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're not We're not doing domestic violence shows. But yeah,
so the concert was super fun. Then I did stand
up in a place called Hendersonville, North Carolina. Super super
nice place, like beautiful looking city, small town. Uh, but
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the people just sucked there there. I don't It was
a weird feeling. Like we were walking around. We were
there like all day, just you know, checking out the city,
and it was one of those things where like people
weren't that normal Southern friendly. It was like, I don't know,
everybody had like a murderous vibe around him, and it
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was it was just kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And then you know, like you're sitting around.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
We were sitting at the bar watching some football, just
killing time before the show, and like three of the
conversations that were going around us were just talking about politics.
And I'll tell you what, I cannot wait until political
season is over, just so like one side can just
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be quiet, you know, because they won their happy and
then the other side can be I can deal with
like one side being unhappy, but both sides just yelling
at each other. It makes me want to kill myself
with people talk about politics. Man, Like, here's my impression
of every politician ever before the election. When they're campaigning,
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they're like, I'm here to work for you. I'm for
the people. I've done poor shit before that I don't know.
I have done middle class things before, Like I used
to work in a McDonald Who knew that working at
a McDonald's was going to be like the the campaign
pressure point.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
This election.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I just like, as soon as as soon as they
get elected, everybody's all excited. They're like, Yeah, my.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Person's gonna go in there and do good things for me.
They care about people. And then as soon as they
get in there, they're.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Like, hey, are you gonna help us, They're like, no, man,
these billionaires are giving me so much money. I'm starting
wars baby, and we're raising the prices on everything. And
then in four years it'll happen again where it's a
I'm for you, I'm for the people, but not my opponent.
My opponent is for not the people. It's for the
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rich people. Every year, every four years, it's the exact
same thing, but it's whatever. We also me names on
our well journey this weekend through western North Carolina got
to experience a historical site that was super cool. Cinematic
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fans and book readers alike, we'll know what I'm talking about.
We got to go to District twelve where they shot
the Hunger Games, or that's what we thought.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It was. This place, so we were where.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Was it Hickory, North Carolina, which also like super cool town.
Everybody was nice in there, but like ten minutes outside
of Hickory is you know where they shot District twelve
for the Hunger Game. So me and names like Hunger Games,
so we were like, yeah, let's go check it out.
We go there and it's just like a bunch of
old barns and shanty houses that look like they're from
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the nineteen thirties. So we walk up and first of all,
it's like, what twenty bucks just to go walk the grounds?
Twenty each to go walk the grounds and h We
walk in and it's a trailer next to a porta
potty is like the office, and gift shop is just
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two shirt racks that say like with the fingers, you
know what I'm talking about. That's just the shirt. So
we walk in and we're like, hey, can we have
two tickets? And the guy's like going through a spiel.
He's like, yeah, we do tours at the top of
every hour. We're actually about to kick off on a
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tour in five minutes. If you'd like me to go
with you, or you can just walk amongst the grounds yourself.
We have forty eight acres you can go. Feel free
to check out. Just don't walk into any of the
buildings except Jennifer Lawrence's house.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You can walk in there.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So we're like, yeah, we're okay on the tour, buddy,
we don't really want to be friends with you for
you know, thirty minutes. So we walk and there's only
one place that has a door open, and it's what's
her name in the cat Andess. We walk into Catness's
house and it's just an old shack.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It was like rolled up five. They didn't even make
it seem like I'm a big hungry games fan, and
it was upsetting, like, oh, okay, we'll put a helmet
in there, like a sight helmet for her dad that
was in the mines. But then it's like also storage
for like fiberglass and some wellies and it was overall
an upsetting experience.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well that's what they didn't even like, you know, like
when you walk into Elvis's house, they're like, yeah, this
is Elvis's house, don't touch anything, like it's a museum.
And they set stuff up like, oh, this is what
Elvis would have done for you. But bah blah, they
didn't do anything. It was like they threw all the
trash into this place. You could even see what. Yeah
it was a storage house. And you walk in and
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you go, okay, that was cool. And then you walk
out and across the street is the bakery that Peter
used to work at or whatever Peter worked at, and
it's all boarded up, looks like, you know, it's got
some graffiti on it or something. And then the guy's
like the tour guy comes out.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
He's like, you guys having a good time.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We're sitting over here going, yeah, we just got screwed
out of forty, but yeah, we're having a great time.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
This is awesome, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
So we walked around for like another two minutes and
then we're like you want to go. Yeah, So if
if you're ever thinking about going to Hickory, North Carolina
to see the Hunger Games district, don't do it. Just
go chilling Hickory. It's nice, little walkable city. It's nice.
They got some good food places. You can basically walk
around the whole three blocks of that town and drink,
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so that's cool. District twelve is absolutely a money grab
for dumb tourist like so that was that was fun.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I can't believe we did that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
But anyway, by the way, it's gonna be Halloween.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It's this season. We carved some pumpkins, Spooky season.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Carved pumpkins and they're actually sitting out on the balcony
right now, rotting because we did pumpkins too early and
it's hot and Raleigh, so they're all melted. Said, there's
flies around them. Probably gonna get in the house.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, but but we did get We nailed the Halloween. Now.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The only thing is, I didn't realize Halloween was such
like a stressful holiday, because you know, when you're a kid,
you're just like, ooh, I get to dress up is
Goku and go get candy and that's it. I didn't
realize how stressful Halloween was coming up with costume ideas, aims.
How many costume ideas have we gone through so far?
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What's the number at do you think.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Every day, I'll think, like we'll have a conversation. It'll
be like, yeah, you want to be this for Halloween? Like, yeah, okay, cool,
it's done. Out of my mind. I'm thinking this is
what we're gonna do for Hallween. Next day he'd be like,
so what about this for Halloween? I'd be like, I
thought we already picked. I know, I'm not feeling it anymore, Okay,
So I gotta be honest. This was a completely new
experience for me, because I'll tell you what from I
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didn't dress up for Halloween for a long time, probably
like the time I was twelve up until I was
twenty six when I shaved my head and became bald.
And then I was just a Ninja Turtle every year
because I had one Ninja Turtle shirt and I was bald,
so I just walked around as a Ninja Turtle.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It was super easy. I was still participating.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know, I did not realize the weight and gravity
of the Halloween costume decoration process because it's going up
on Instagram. So you got to have it right, because
you can't pick something that's been done to death, because
that's just basic. You can't do that you can't do
something that's too ambitious, you know, because you don't want
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people to be like, ooh you care about Halloween that much,
so you gotta find like right in the middle while
still having fun. And I gotta be honest, this is
I don't know how we're going to get through this.
Oh I'm not doing it. Yeah, there's no week. I
just you want to know what the Halloween costume selection
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process has been. It's like, how do you want to
be a leprechaun and a pot of golf?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
How do you want to be naked in a frayd pitch?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I am the ultimate yes man when it comes like,
I'd be so good in the idea room for Halloween,
just like, uh, what are we gonna do this year
for Halloween?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Love it, let's do it. Yeah, I am very Let's
get the peep. By the way, this is a good transition.
Do you have a word for British Word of the week.
It's time for another edition A British people don't speak English?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You got one?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
No, I'll be honest, I'm struggling.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
It's right.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You want to know why cause you're thinking too damn
much about Halloween costumes.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You're losing the plot.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Man, No, no, no, we're done with this. We're rolling
right along. There's no British word of the week. You
did get to hear I didn't cancel you.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, no, no, we'll do it live. We'll do it live.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
No, no, we had a show. You were not prepared.
So guess what your segment gets stripped, cut downe from
the show. We're not having it. Yeah, it's tough. Oh okay, Yeah,
we gotta go to the fair and get.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Some hamburgers, some fried Mars.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Bars or whatever it is. You know what that was.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That was a perfect substitute for the British word of
the week is Amy speaks like a person that goes
to the fair.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But we are so we're gonna We're gonna go to
the fair.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
But I gotta get to uh before the interview with
us Old tanakazakhs Uh, We're gonna do uh your headline
of the week. Chick fil A dropped their trailer for
their first UH streaming episode on their new streaming platform,
which is gonna be called Chick fil A Play and
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it's dropping on November eighteenth. I gotta be honest when
this story came out like a month or two go
with they're like, hey, Chick fil A is doing a
streaming service. I thought, you know, it's a joke, it's
never gonna happen. Now this is actually happening.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I am furious. What are we doing, Chick fil A?
You want to know what your job is to serve chicken?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Chick fil A, not chick full of Take my ten
dollars for some streaming service. I'm not going to watch
in that one football game a year that I have
to have you for. We've lost the plot. You think
McDonald's is making streaming content. They have so much money.
They make the most hamburgers. You're like, oh, we're making
the most chicken sea which is you want to make movies.
(16:37):
Now we've lost the plot. Stay in your lane. Taco Bell,
who is the best run fast food company? I think
just because they have self awareness of what they are.
Every time something happens with them, they apologize or they
make a statement that makes sense. Like the first time
that somebody was like, hey, Taco Bell, your meat's not
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a hundred percent meat, and they're like, you're eating a
Taco Bell, it's eighty percent meat.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
The other twenty percent. Don't worry about it. It's Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And we were like, you know, okay, And then they
came out with a big breakfast menu and everybody was like,
Taco Bell, what are you doing? We like coming to
you at two in the morning, Okay, We're not waking
up at eight thirty am. Craven Taco Bell, and they
were like, yeh, you know what, You're right, you're right,
We're sorry. We'll just serve one breakfast item for those
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people who really hate their lives. Other than that, we're
not doing it. Be like, Taco Bell, how much money
do you have that You're like, you know what, We're
going to start an entertainment branch of our company. When
I when I was younger, I was getting older, like
in high school, and I would spend money on stuff
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that my mom thought was stupid, like I'd buy the
new Madden. She'd look at me and you go, and
she'd go, if you have video game money, you have
rent money for me. That's what I'm feeling like right now.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Chick fil A.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
If you have streaming service money, if you have entertainment
make movies, make animation series money, you have money to
drop the price on your twelve count nugget meal.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Your job is to serve fried chicken and say my
pleasure and make me feel like a king at two
thirty in the afternoon, to stop me from wanting to
kill myself.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's what your job is, Chick fil A.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
We've lost the plot, all right, And with that, let's
get into this interview with comedian Zoltan Cossacks.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
What's going on, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Doing great, Thanks so much for having.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Me, no problem.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So what can people expect because I know they've seen
you on TikTok on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
What can people expect from an in person show?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I mean, everything's usually better in person. I want to
say always better in person, but you know, I want
to hedge my bets. But yeah, you know a lot
of stories about about maybe my childhood, currently living in
New York with my wife, and I guess everything in between.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
That's awesome, man. So you you've been blowing up on
social media. People are seeing you all the time. Are
you working on like getting towards a special because I
know you've done a dry Bar special? Are you trying
to work out something with Netflix? What?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What are we looking forward to here.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I would hope if anyone knows anybody Netflix, if if
you want to send their contact information my direction, I'll
pay a handsome fee for that. We are working towards
the next special, you know, just trying to get the
material together, hopefully filming it next year. Whether that ends
up on Netflix or something, that would be awesome. But
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until that happens, YouTube has been very good to me.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Got you man, Well, hey, I'll see what I can
do on the Netflix connections. I'll just be like, hey,
there's a super funny guy, just call them up real quick.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I appreciate that. Thank you, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
So I got to add because I thought I knew
what the difference was between being polite and having anxiety,
But after watching your stand up, I don't think that
I know what the difference is anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Can you tell me what it is?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Apparently you are not supposed to care what people think,
and that's how I've lived my entire life. I've never
wanted to, like ever be in anyone's way or slow
down their day by me being in the way. And
apparently that is a recipe for anxiety and being a
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people pleaser, which I guess I'm guilty of both.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, I mean, you do have a line of work
where you do rely on the pleasure of other human
beings or them having a good time, you know what
I mean. So maybe you're a little bit of a
people pleaser.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No, I definitely am. This is a big thing where
like comedians are like some comedians are like, I don't
care what people think. I'm gonna go do my thing.
And it's like, you kind of care what people think.
I mean, there's two hundred people in front of you.
If they hate you, you're gonna have some type of
feeling towards that. And I definitely do, like I desperately
crave attention.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Well that's good.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I'm glad you don't go out there and be like, no,
I'm going out there, I'm doing my jokes. I love
when the audience is uncomfortable. It's like no, no, no, you're
trying to make everybody have a good time.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Yeah, I mean that's at least what I try to do.
But you know, to each their own.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm glad you do that. I was just
cracking up.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I was watching the bit where you're talking about being
on an airplane, and you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Know I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I was like, yeah, I do the same thing, like
in a grocery store and make sure that like I'm
not getting in anybody's way, Like, oh, excuse me, are
you looking at this aisle?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I'll move.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I didn't realize that I needed to go to therapy,
So thank you for adding another le to the things
I gotta pay for.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I apologize, I'm just hearing to it. I guess diagnosed
people through stand up material.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Now, I do have to ask because you seem like
a super chill, laid back dude, but apparently you start
fights at your show, or fights happen at your shows
when you bring out Bruce Springsteen or is that just
the people of Philadelphia got a fight all the time.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I gotta be honest with you. I have never had
anything like that happen at my show before. I always
have comedy club employees going. Man, the people that come
out to see you are so nice, they tip well,
and then it's silly. Thirty seconds into my set on
one of the four shows I did out there, almost
a brawl breaks out over I don't even know what,
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and then it gets cleared out and The best part
is the audience. The Philadelphia audience is so used to
that they just looked right back at me and we went, well,
continue with your show, Like that didn't just happen. It's insane, insane.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, They're just like, yeah, bro, this this is what
happens on a Friday night. Can you tell your jokes
now please?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I mean there was a guy in the front row
that didn't even turn around to look at the altercation.
He just kept looking at me and like wondering why
I'm not still doing my material. It was quite the.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Experience, that's It's say.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
The best part about that was I was watching that
video and I was like, oh, he's going to say
something funny, you know about the crowd doing whatever's going on,
and you just hear the whole altercation going on, and
you're just sitting there with my parents are getting divorce
look right in front of me.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I was like, Okay, that's Warres. That's probably exactly what
I do in that situation too.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I mean that's what I do in public. If I
happen to walk down the street and watch two people
go at it, I guess that's I got to find
out what look I have on my face when I
experience confrontation that I'm not involved in, but kind of therefore, Yeah,
I got you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Now, when you when you chop up and edit all
your videos, do you have somebody doing that for you
or are you doing it?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Definitely. I me on a computer. I look like I've
never looked at one before. My wife rips on me
all the time because I have a MacBook, but I
don't know all the secret codes to it. My screen
goes away and then she comes by and does some
voodoo on it and then it comes back. So no,
I definitely outsource all the video editing. I can't do
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any of it.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I didn't know if that was a scenario where you're
going back at that show looking and being like, oh, okay,
so that's what I look like when confrontation happens, or
somebody was like.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Hey, Zaltan, come look at this. You want to see
your face? You want to see it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It was a little bit of that. Yeah, it was
a little bit of a do you want to get
a gander at what you look like when things go down?
You will you will never be a first responder, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's hilarious. But well, hopefully no fights, nothing bad happens.
Everybody in rally's pretty even tempered. It'll be nice. Five
shows this Friday or not. This Friday, Thursday through Saturday
at good Night's Comedy Club. We're gonna sell them all out, Zultan,
Do you want to promote anything else for I'll let
you get out of here.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Give me a look on YouTube. Check out my material
and if you look it, I hope you come out
to the show.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Well, they will definitely go. Check that out. Zaltan. I
appreciate you taking the time talk to me. Bro go
murder this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Thanks man, Thanks again for having me.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Thanks for got money for money for CO, money for CO,
money for