May 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Welcome to the very first episode of Breaking Down a Little with Justin Little.. a raw, loosely structured dive into stand-up comedy, dad life, and trying not to lose your mind chasing creative goals.
In this episode I talk about:
- journey into stand-up comedy
- Being a quiet guy who loves long talks, not small talk
- How open mics gave me the confidence to give comedy a go
- The impact of watching a guy just absolutely crush it as a TV host during my professional gaming days
- How performing stand-up beats awkward social icebreakers
- creative goals around social media, making weekly videos, and trying to make it
- A gig at the Gerogery Hotel that ended in an unexpectedly teachable moment
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Welcome to Breaking Down a Little with
me, your host, Justin Little.
That's why the name's
that, Breaking Down a Little.
Yeah, cool.
Oh, we got that sorted.
It's going to be a podcast about me just
talking about how I feel,
really, like my life and
the journey of stand-up comedy,
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creativity, being a dad and
all the other ways you could
lose your mind.
Yeah, I'm just going to come here every
week, talk about, I pretty
much use this as my journal,
I dare say, talk about my goals, what
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happened last week, what's
going to happen this week,
that type of stuff.
I'll explore different topics, like I
think one that will be
happening quite often is
like talking about social media, how I'm
going to be going into that
space a lot more, focusing
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on different ideas I have, just going
nuts on the socials,
because I want to try making
it.
I want to try making it, really.
I want to try making videos, like, you
know, once, twice a
week at least, which sounds
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easy, but also extremely daunting and
scary at the same time,
because I want to put effort
into my videos.
That's probably what I want to put,
enough effort that they
don't signify that they are
low effort.
But I also want to put in low effort.
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Yeah, that'd be cool.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to be doing.
I was talking about stuff.
Yeah, as I said, like being a dad, I
might talk about being a dad sometimes.
I might not.
Probably will.
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And yeah, I thought I'd start this
episode off by just
talking, you know, a little bit
about me, a little bit about me.
Like I'm from Albury to a small, smallish
town at the very
bottom of New South Wales
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in Australia.
If any international
listeners and I know you're out there.
That's yeah.
So, I mean, like a decently small town
where the comedy
scene, it's not that great.
Like, it's okay.
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There's not like, there's not many
opportunities in way of gigs, shows.
Like, you just, you have to write.
You have to write a lot.
And then you have to take those ideas up
on stage once a week,
if that, and work a lot.
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Yes.
It's working like as a stand-up comedian.
It's a lot of work in your own time,
which is good and also very bad.
So yeah, yeah, we're doing
a stand-up comedy in Albury.
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And that's, yeah, what
else would you like to know?
Why would you like to
know anything, really?
Maybe about how I got into stand-up.
That'd be good.
Realistically, I just have been into
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stand-up a long time.
I've watched it so much of it.
And it didn't occur to me how much I
watched it until friends
started coming to my shows.
And they would, you know, talk about how
they knew that I was going to do it.
Not that they knew how
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I was going to do it.
No one expected I was actually going to
do stand-up, but they
knew my love for stand-up.
Because a recurring theme, apparently I
would, you know, invite friends over just
to watch a comedy special with me.
I would do that often enough that
multiple people have brought it up that
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the last time they see me,
we were just watching
stand-up comedy at my place.
But yeah, none of them really expected I
would do stand-up because
I'm a pretty quiet person.
Generally speaking, when I'm in like a
social environment, not a social
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environment, like a big...
When I'm not around like my closest
mates, that's, yeah, I'm very...
I'm a timid boy.
I sit back and I wait.
I generally just dislike a
lot of small talk, I guess.
And yeah, I find that the
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ice breaking is just difficult.
I like having...
I love having a reason to talk to someone
and finding out about them, you know, in
a meaningful manner.
I love long talk.
Long talk is great.
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But you don't get that at like parties
and small interactions in big groups.
So yeah, I've just kind of always found
it maybe unnecessary to
talk a lot in those situations.
And through that, I've just kind of
gotten used to that feeling and then just
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kind of shut in a little bit.
Which is fine.
I don't care, honestly.
That's out there.
My friends, yeah, whatever.
I've been into stand-up for a long time,
but I never really engaged with it.
Maybe that's the better way.
Like I didn't study
jokes or anything like that.
I just kind of like jokes.
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I like laughing in my own time.
Yeah, and it wasn't until I kind of...
I don't know what drew the inspiration.
I think it was just watching stand-up
comedy on like Instagram, the TikToks or
all that type of stuff.
And I got a little bit inspired by
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personal things in my life that I was
just like, oh, this stuff online isn't
even that good, bro.
It's not that good.
I can write better because I've got real
quality stuff in my life
that everyone needs to hear.
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Turns out no one needs to hear that.
The stories that I thought were funny,
they're probably like a bit more, a bit
too personal in certain...
I'll probably tackle some of those topics
later on down the road
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because they're very...
They're funny things to me because I've
got so much context on why they're funny.
But tricking the audience into getting
that context is very hard.
So yeah, I went down to
an open mic in Albury.
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The one of the month, the one open mic of
the month at the time, I went to that
just to watch one month randomly.
I was just like, hey, hey, wife, hey,
hey, Kaitlyn, I am going down to watch
stand-up comedy and I did that.
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I went and sat by myself near the front
and just watched everyone suck.
Really?
There was some good acts on there that
night, but yeah, it was just...
I know open mic is... it's open mic.
There's people doing a lot of new stuff.
There's people that just will never be
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great, but that's fine.
They love it.
Honestly, they love it and that's fine.
So yeah, I went to an open mic, watched
it and had the usual
thought of, yeah, I can do this.
I can do this better than most of the
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people that were on that night.
That was my thought leading into it.
And I watched the whole night that night
and then went up to the guy that was
hosting it and was just like, hey, how do
I sign up for this thing?
I'll do this next month.
And he was like, oh yeah, cool.
Just reach out.
Like, I don't remember if he gave me his
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phone number or something, but yeah.
And then I reached out like within the
week, so I knew I'd have to reach out
pretty quickly just so
that I had the mental...
Like I had it in my mental system.
I don't know if that's the way to phrase
it, but it is a way.
I just knew that if I had it stored,
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locked in, I would then
write at least something.
I'd attempt to write something and I did.
I wrote three jokes.
I just told my wife again that I'm going
down to the next open mic because the
last one was, oh, it was so much fun.
I went down.
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I went down to this open mic
and I was up first and it was...
The first time I went, there was like
probably like 12, 13 people in the
audience, which is
pretty decent for an open mic.
The night that I signed up for and
prepared for, walked in, sat down.
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About 60 people showed up in the audience
for God knows the reason why.
They must have knew I was
performing, I would say.
They just turned up.
There was a huge crowd for that room.
There was people on the walls lined up,
just standing in this pretty
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tiny room and it was weird.
I was up first and I went up and told
three jokes and they all
worked, which was sick.
I can't remember the first.
What did I say first?
My first joke, I think that ever came out
of my mouth was, what do you call a
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tradie that is also a swinger?
A tradie.
Which, yeah, that was, that's a joke.
I guess it's probably still something I
can do to work that into a better joke.
But I, yeah, I told that.
I told another joke,
which the other joke.
The second joke I told, it's like a 40
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second, 50 second joke with like, it had
like four laugh lines in it.
A four laugh lines, a twist
and it's a, it's a good joke.
In my opinion, still it's a good joke.
I'd be able to go up and
tell it at the next open line.
I'd be able to tell it at a show or
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something because it's, I think it helps
to have more context.
On me, on stage, that would help the joke
a little bit further because it's just
very, it's very out of what I would
usually do, but in a good way.
So, yeah, maybe I'll work
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on that joke a bit more.
And then I did another joke and the last
joke was a bit, bit hackier.
It has legs on it,
but it kind of fell on.
Uncle touching.
Me type material.
Like it's a very, it's a
solid open mind joke, I guess.
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It's a bit edgy baby type thing.
Yeah.
And it was well received on the night.
But yeah, that was one joke.
I'm just like, as soon as I've done, I'm
like, I don't need to do that again.
So yeah, that's it.
That's how I got into comedy by telling
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people my uncle touched me and he didn't.
He just, just for future records.
He didn't at that time aware of.
So I'd like you all to know that.
I mean, that's the whole reason I
actually created this podcast just to
tell you my uncle did not
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touch me inappropriately.
Only appropriately.
It's weird to say that and be thinking
about one uncle in particular, not
thinking of all the uncles.
I have is just one.
I'm just thinking of one uncle when I say
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the word uncle, which
doesn't help that scenario.
And I forgot to I forgot to mention like
one of the key parts of my law, the pick
the key part of my
law that kind of would.
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Be like my biggest probably
my biggest inspiration on why.
I went towards comedy or stand up in
general is because I played professional
video games and oh my
god, I'm such a nerd.
But yeah, I played
professional video games.
I was on TV.
I was on a live tournament.
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Like it was kind of
like pushed out to TV.
It was pushed out to
Channel 10 Channel 10 at 10 a.m.
Because that is 10 a.m.
On a Sunday, which is perfect time really
like who's not watching 10 at 10 a.m.
On a Sunday.
So yeah, we live stream thing TV
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tournament thing for a
game called Rocket League.
If you are familiar
and I know that you are.
And on during this whole like it was a
five week tournament, which was pretty
insane, but it was a
five week tournament.
I was a team captain.
So I have to do interviews every week.
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I'd have to do pregame and postgame
interviews, which that sucked so much.
That was like the first time when I'm
like, oh, I need to do something.
I need to learn how to speak in general.
Like speaking is good.
I think I need to work on my act and I
didn't through the five weeks.
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I did not work on anything at all.
I just done my thing, which was play
Rocket League, get back to the hotel, the
accommodation and watch anime.
That's pretty much all I did every week
because I'd fly there the whole flight.
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I'd just be watching.
I was just hooked on if anyone's
listening that watches anime.
It was when I started getting into Hunter
Hunter and it's like a hundred and
whatever episodes
long and I was addicted.
It is a good anime.
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It's a really, really good one.
And yeah, I just just kept watching new
episodes when I would go away and not
really focusing on what I was doing.
But yeah, anyway, I don't want to
postgame pregame interviews and the host
for the whole event, the guy that would
be on the television the most he would
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whenever there was downtime between
games, he was a he
was a standup comedian.
I didn't learn.
I didn't know that he was a standup
comedian until later on.
But he impressed the fuck out of me.
Like he was so good at his job.
He was just there to ask us questions,
keep things rolling.
And he was just so good.
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Like off the cuff, whenever you do the
interviews, like you'd walk down like
your your team name would get called.
I'd walk down like my me and my whole
team would walk out through this big
tunnel and my team would go off into the
wings where all the computers were.
They would start setting up.
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I would keep walking down the stairs like
the flight of stairs.
It's like 20 stairs like I was nervous.
Is all hell had to walk down 20 stairs
and go to an interview and the guy.
Yeah, the host, Luke, Luke Joseph Ryan.
He's a standup based in
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Perth, I think at the moment.
And he was the host and he would just be
funny like in a good
way, like a really kind of.
He comes across or definitely came across
throughout that as like a
nerdy guy, like a geeky guy, maybe.
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And but he would be like the the cool kid
out of us because he's the host.
He's got such good like conversational
skills and witty responses, but it also
kind of coaches in our responses.
Like he would just be
really on top of it.
Really pinpoint what we're trying to say
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because we're all
nervous young adults really.
And we just all sound like shit and he
made us sound better because we would
say, oh, we're going to
dominate this team this week.
Like they're not even going to stand a
chance and then he would bang.
He'd hit us with a remark to be like, it
would be like this or whatever.
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And you'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I basically said that and there.
I just thought he was
really good on that show.
I talked to him a few times outside of
like filming just a super
down to earth guy at that stage.
I don't know what he's like now, but
hopefully he hasn't gone
off the rails, gone off track.
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But he was he was amazing.
And yeah, after after watching him, like
experiencing him
experiencing the the Luke.
I started thinking about like what I can
do, like how I can be
like that a bit more.
And I started watching like those cringe.
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I don't even know if they cringe.
I think they cringe looking back on me
watching them like just bro, like manly
guys trying to teach you
how to win over a girl.
You know, it's stuff like that where
they're like you you need
to dominate the conversation.
Like it's videos titled like how to
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control any conversation and they give
you like movie like movies as examples,
like as if that's not a fucking script.
It's a script just tell it like it is and
this is that type of stuff.
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And then I found a comedy
and that is a script comedy.
Yeah, that's that's what I like.
I like I like it when like the biggest
draw for me to get to
comedy is like stand up.
Comedy is the fact that the audience
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pretty much is a good understanding.
They're just going to listen to me and
I'm going to talk at them.
And then after the show, they've got some
context of what I'm like and then they
can if they talk to me,
I'm all right with it.
They've just seen me do stand up comedy.
They have something to
break the ice with me.
And I think I've probably already broken
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the ice by just
performing in front of them.
So yeah, fucking a bait small talk just
doing stand up comedy
forcing yourselves on the people.
Oh, that's the best.
I love forcing myself on other people.
No, I don't.
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No, yeah, yeah, sick.
Yeah, since the since the Aubrey scene
isn't that sick, I'm just kind of looking
for different ways to
exploit myself creatively.
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Creatively.
I'm looking for ways to exploit myself
creatively and I've landed on just
talking into the void for like 30 40
minutes each week on the podcast.
And I'm so that's what I'm going to do.
That's what I'm going to do.
What else do I talk about this week?
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What happened this week?
I last week I went to a gig at a place
called the Gerogery Hotel.
Don't dodge the G-Rodge.
They like to say over there
and it was a pretty quiet gig.
Pretty quiet gig.
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That a really good
headliner come down for it.
But yeah, it was just a bit quiet first
probably cold snap around this area like
first month for it
with where it's comedy.
They've it's like a free ticketed show
people don't have to pay.
It's usually just people that eat and
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stick around and watch
comedy and that's that's great.
Like they always generally
just is a wild environment there.
So it leads to some interesting after
stories type of thing.
And yeah, something happened at the end
of the show, which I
thought was very funny for me.
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I go funny in a good way.
I don't mean to shit on him because it's
it's like I found it funny at the time
and I took away a lot from it.
Even though it's dumb.
That's that's what I'm getting out there.
But one of my fellow pals, my comedian
pals was up on his whole like helping
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like packed down my equipment.
Then I went and I set up the show and
there was like an extension lead plugged
in very high like up near the roof.
Basically, I was on the wall very high up
and he's a he's a bit of a tall bloke.
To me. So he stood up on the chair and
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kind of unplugged it
turned around and said to me, I
he said, I know you find it hard to
believe, but I think I'm the most I'm
probably the most
coordinated comedian here.
And I instantly objected to that thought.
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I told him I said straight away.
No, that is not that is not the case.
I don't believe you at all.
And only because and I'll find a point
eventually from this.
It's I made it said to him like, yeah, I
understand why you think that but I I
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think I'm the most I'm better than you.
And I think I'm better than everyone
really, but I'm
better than I'm a builder.
I'm a shed builder.
I I consider myself a very coordinated.
I played a lot of sporting activities.
I don't know if gaming really
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helps with the coordination.
It probably does but
not like a great deal.
I play a lot of table tennis and just a
lot of a lot of sports.
I like a decent high level
for like local communities.
See if that makes sense and but being a
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builder you use your hands.
You use your feet a lot a lot like so
much so much throughout the day without
even thinking of it.
Like you just you just
do stuff you constantly.
Being doing basic things very precise.
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You're you've got good balance because
you need good balance because you walk on
sketchy platforms and not they should be
like sketchy platforms.
But you walk on you you just learn to
just have really good awareness and
coordination because you're using your
hands and feet a lot.
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And that's why I said no,
that's not that's not right.
I shouldn't have pushed on it at all.
But I thought it was funny.
I like having discussions like that where
it's like no, you're an idiot
and I hope that you know that.
I'm just like yeah, I understand why he
thinks that because he's only thinking
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about what he's like.
He hasn't seen me do anything like
coordinated at all except for like if I
can pick a microphone out of a stand or
yeah, that's that's about as far as it
goes because he's only see me in like
committee like stand up
comedy room environments.
So he's putting all of his contacts that
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he has about shooting basketballs or when
he was a kid like
running around and stuff.
And that's that's where all of that like.
It's like all that
bias comes in of like it.
That's why he thinks that he's the most
coordinated of the bunch because he
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doesn't follow me around.
I hope he doesn't but he doesn't he
doesn't follow me around and see what I
like see what any of
us do during the day.
I'm not even like claiming to be the most
coordinated of the lot.
But yeah, I'm just like yeah, it reminded
me a lot about how that applies to so
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much so much things like egocentric bias.
I believe that's the name of the one I'm
thinking of and yeah.
I did like it definitely reminded me of
or maybe reflect on how
comedians size each other up.
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Just based on limited info like we like
when you go to the city like like like
like when you go to the city and do over
mics people are
sizing you up all the time.
And they're judging you based on how you
perform even though even if it's the
worst conditions ever you could take your
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best material to some rooms and just bomb
because there's two audience members
there and they've been paraded by 20
other dudes that look exactly like you
with way worse jokes.
And then you get up on stage and they're
just like they're not for it there.
They hate it and then every other
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comedian is looking at you
because you're the new person.
They go on off but he's not that good and
then they'll just remember that forever.
They'll remember that because yeah, maybe
that maybe we'll get proved to them a
second time and another really shitty
open mic and then they might see you on a
show after that and be
like, oh, he actually done well.
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And then they'll make it some excuse up
like why he done well in that situation
because they're like, oh, well,
everyone's going to do not like it's a
foolproof whatever whatever it is.
It just reminded me so much of that stuff
where you only take in the
information that you receive.
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Of course, of course, that's true.
And happens all the time,
all the time with everything.
And that's that's a point.
That's a point I'm trying to make and it
sounds a complete garbage, but it's
something I need to keep in mind when I
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do things outside of people that are
already familiar with me because you know, I'm not a fan of people.
Yeah, it's when when I go to Melbourne,
like I plan to start going to Melbourne
what quite a bit or just a little bit
more just so I can be introduced to the
scene further connections that are
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already have really push them so that I'm
I start getting booked for bigger and
better rooms than probably better rooms
than I'm kind of I should be doing.
But you use your connections the way you
should, which is just to use them.
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And yeah, so yeah, it's something to
remember of just like, yeah, people
people just people will
remember you for the worst things.
Generally, generally speaking, unless
they're really aware of
that, they're aware that cool.
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They're not though, because they're
comedians, they're
selfish, like an asshole.
So yeah, that's that's that.
I don't know if that was a good point at
all, but that was just in my mind.
And I thought I would let you know, I
would let you know what's going on up
here, up in the brain.
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Okay, oh, my my father looked after my
children the other day, me and my wife
went and what did we
go to me and my wife.
We went to the cube in Wodonga and we
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watched the Melbourne comedy Roadshow.
We wouldn't watch that in Wodonga.
Just the when was that like the other
night on Friday night
and Saturday night, maybe.
And yeah, we watched that.
It was odd.
It was a bit odd in the fact that it
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didn't feel like a really strong lineup
compared to previous years, but it was
still like in total.
It was a good show.
And yeah, my dad stayed here just like
looked after the kids by looked after.
I mean, the kids were
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sleeping when he got here.
He just sat on the
couch and watched videos.
But after that, after that all happened,
we came home and I was talking to my dad
afterwards and he was like bragging and
talking about like stand up in a way that
he he he thinks that he could do stand up
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so much so that I think he is going to
try stand up comedy, which is a good thing.
And I think that is interesting to say
the least because I don't think he's
going to do well at all given given the
context I have about him.
I don't think he's going to do too well.
So that's going to be fun for me.
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I'm probably going to bring him up like
one of the open mics that I run or the
one open mic I run and see how it goes.
I just don't have much faith for him
because I see my father is like a pretty
maybe a bit of a narcissist and yeah,
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we'll see how he goes just because he
yeah, he I don't think you'll be able to
handle the pressure of doing jokes or
having them not received well because he
he's not going to do well.
He's only seen he's seen like stand up
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comedy love Seinfeld like that type of
comedy like Mark Normany.
I've shown him Mark Normany loves Mark
Norman, but he's only like ever seen he's
never been to an open mic.
He's seen me run shows like host shows.
He's come along to that where I'm just
going up there and killing and all the
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acts are going up and killing as well
because I've developed a good room.
And he's seen that and he's like, oh, I
can do that because he doesn't have the
knowledge of how much effort I put into
it and everyone else puts into it.
That's on those shows.
And so he's just going,
yeah, I can I can do that.
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And then he's he's he's
going to fucking do it.
And we'll see maybe
he's got maybe he's okay.
I feel like anyone that's
kind of watched enough of it.
Sorry, I feel like he's gonna he might
structurally have okay jokes, but there
will be things that relate to things that
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people don't feel are relevant anymore.
Like you'll make old
references and stuff like that.
And that's that's
where the issue comes in.
Yeah.
Yeah, my dad's
probably gonna do stand up.
And that's weird because I'm going to
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love watching him bomb.
It will actually be a highlight.
It'll be funny.
And I don't know what else.
Yeah, I'm going to try to do more
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Instagram, TikTok short reels.
I don't know.
I don't like TikTok.
I just don't use TikTok.
And it feels like it's for an audience
that I'm like, I'd be creating.
I'd be creating videos for an audience
that I don't believe in.
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So yeah, I don't know if I'll do TikTok.
I like Instagram.
I enjoy it.
I've got a few sketches and stuff already
filmed and I just never put them out.
And now I kind of I don't know if I will,
but I've got so many ideas for sketches
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and short videos like that type of stuff.
So I'm going to I'm going to start doing
those filming them and
just putting them out there.
I'm hoping I get some attention from it.
If I don't, at least I've made it.
And I really enjoy I enjoy making videos
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that challenge me a lot more than
repetitive, natured videos.
But I understand that they're going to be
the key of any success.
Anything that I can replicate will be
will be what holds like, you know, just
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starts to grow some sort
of like social influence.
So I need to start doing that.
I need to find like a persona
character, something I can do.
Unless it's just that something is making
heaps of different sketches, which great.
That's sick, but that will take time.
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I'm going to trial a few
different content things.
I've already started.
I've got like a decent following that
loves kid stuff because
I've had two viral videos,
which featured my kids.
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And that's that's something I either need
to just go him into as well and just
that's going to be my niche.
Or I do other stuff and just hope that
they like the quality of it that they are
willing to stick around.
So I'm going to. Yeah, I'll probably do
some parenting stuff on my socials.
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I'll also do some just like random
sketches, like just funny videos.
I love just random ideas.
And we do that.
Like I had I had a thought in the car the
other day and I wrote down of this heaps
of like nursery rhymes.
That's a huge thing at the moment.
Just at the moment nursery
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rhymes big in my household.
And it was like a playlist.
My wife was playing.
Kaitlyn was playing a playlist where it's
just like nursery rhymes, but they've
been remixed and they're
like different words in it.
Get like different to what
you'd be used to type of thing.
And I was like, oh, the kids were in the
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back seats like
fighting, but not fighting.
Just like making a lot of
noise while I was driving.
And I was like, oh, we should I should
make a song like a kid's song and it
should be the Shush song.
I don't know if the Shush song exists.
It probably does.
But I just want to make like a 20 second
video of like just me doing the Shush
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song and I'm going to have to figure out
how to make music of it.
And it's just going to be me.
I'm like, I think it's like Shush, Shush,
Shush, shut the fuck up and
just kind of run it like that.
Like going to how
parents would like the nursery.
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Maybe that's how the nursery rhyme should
be in those situations.
Obviously the kids don't.
My kids are too young to even understand
what swear words are.
And yeah, but I just think that's a
funny, a funny angle because there's a
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lot of that like angry
parents or tired parents.
Content and kind of just grabbing a
little bit of it, the people that like
that and transitioning them
into just like comedy fans.
That's going to be the key of like find
something that I can steal an audience
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from and bring them across.
And yeah, I've got I've got a few
different parenting stuff here.
I'm going to be working on this week and
that's going to be sick.
It's going to be so cool.
I love how cool that is.
And yeah, all I've got to do this week, I
think is I don't know if
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there's there might be a.
Am I coming up this week and I've got a I
just have to prepare for a trivia night that I'm going to be doing.
I will be on next week next Wednesday.
I think I have a trivia night that I host
and produce whatever.
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So I'll be just kind of getting as many
questions throughout the week as possible
because I've got to do like 45 questions
and that's that's something I do.
And yeah, I'll just kind of
start putting that list together.
And yeah, I don't know if there's much
more else I want to
cover for this episode.
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So yeah, thank you so much for sticking
around if you have and if you haven't
like, yeah, who cares?
I don't care because this is this is my
thing and just get away from my thing.
You know, get away.
So yeah, thank you so much for tuning
into breaking down a little where now
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we're one step closer to
breaking down a little.
We're going to break down together.
Well, we're just going to break down me.
But that's that's cool.
Thank you.
Welcome to Breaking Down a Little with
me, your host, Justin Little.
That's why the name's
that, Breaking Down a Little.
Yeah, cool.
Oh, we got that sorted.
It's going to be a podcast about me just
talking about how I feel,
really, like my life and
the journey of stand-up comedy,
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creativity, being a dad and
all the other ways you could
lose your mind.
Yeah, I'm just going to come here every
week, talk about, I pretty
much use this as my journal,
I dare say, talk about my goals, what
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happened last week, what's
going to happen this week,
that type of stuff.
I'll explore different topics, like I
think one that will be
happening quite often is
like talking about social media, how I'm
going to be going into that
space a lot more, focusing
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on different ideas I have, just going
nuts on the socials,
because I want to try making
it.
I want to try making it, really.
I want to try making videos, like, you
know, once, twice a
week at least, which sounds
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easy, but also extremely daunting and
scary at the same time,
because I want to put effort
into my videos.
That's probably what I want to put,
enough effort that they
don't signify that they are
low effort.
But I also want to put in low effort.
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Yeah, that'd be cool.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to be doing.
I was talking about stuff.
Yeah, as I said, like being a dad, I
might talk about being a dad sometimes.
I might not.
Probably will.
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And yeah, I thought I'd start this
episode off by just
talking, you know, a little bit
about me, a little bit about me.
Like I'm from Albury to a small, smallish
town at the very
bottom of New South Wales
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in Australia.
If any international
listeners and I know you're out there.
That's yeah.
So, I mean, like a decently small town
where the comedy
scene, it's not that great.
Like, it's okay.
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There's not like, there's not many
opportunities in way of gigs, shows.
Like, you just, you have to write.
You have to write a lot.
And then you have to take those ideas up
on stage once a week,
if that, and work a lot.
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Yes.
It's working like as a stand-up comedian.
It's a lot of work in your own time,
which is good and also very bad.
So yeah, yeah, we're doing
a stand-up comedy in Albury.
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And that's, yeah, what
else would you like to know?
Why would you like to
know anything, really?
Maybe about how I got into stand-up.
That'd be good.
Realistically, I just have been into
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stand-up a long time.
I've watched it so much of it.
And it didn't occur to me how much I
watched it until friends
started coming to my shows.
And they would, you know, talk about how
they knew that I was going to do it.
Not that they knew how
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I was going to do it.
No one expected I was actually going to
do stand-up, but they
knew my love for stand-up.
Because a recurring theme, apparently I
would, you know, invite friends over just
to watch a comedy special with me.
I would do that often enough that
multiple people have brought it up that
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the last time they see me,
we were just watching
stand-up comedy at my place.
But yeah, none of them really expected I
would do stand-up because
I'm a pretty quiet person.
Generally speaking, when I'm in like a
social environment, not a social
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environment, like a big...
When I'm not around like my closest
mates, that's, yeah, I'm very...
I'm a timid boy.
I sit back and I wait.
I generally just dislike a
lot of small talk, I guess.
And yeah, I find that the
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ice breaking is just difficult.
I like having...
I love having a reason to talk to someone
and finding out about them, you know, in
a meaningful manner.
I love long talk.
Long talk is great.
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But you don't get that at like parties
and small interactions in big groups.
So yeah, I've just kind of always found
it maybe unnecessary to
talk a lot in those situations.
And through that, I've just kind of
gotten used to that feeling and then just
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kind of shut in a little bit.
Which is fine.
I don't care, honestly.
That's out there.
My friends, yeah, whatever.
I've been into stand-up for a long time,
but I never really engaged with it.
Maybe that's the better way.
Like I didn't study
jokes or anything like that.
I just kind of like jokes.
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I like laughing in my own time.
Yeah, and it wasn't until I kind of...
I don't know what drew the inspiration.
I think it was just watching stand-up
comedy on like Instagram, the TikToks or
all that type of stuff.
And I got a little bit inspired by
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personal things in my life that I was
just like, oh, this stuff online isn't
even that good, bro.
It's not that good.
I can write better because I've got real
quality stuff in my life
that everyone needs to hear.
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Turns out no one needs to hear that.
The stories that I thought were funny,
they're probably like a bit more, a bit
too personal in certain...
I'll probably tackle some of those topics
later on down the road
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because they're very...
They're funny things to me because I've
got so much context on why they're funny.
But tricking the audience into getting
that context is very hard.
So yeah, I went down to
an open mic in Albury.
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The one of the month, the one open mic of
the month at the time, I went to that
just to watch one month randomly.
I was just like, hey, hey, wife, hey,
hey, Kaitlyn, I am going down to watch
stand-up comedy and I did that.
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I went and sat by myself near the front
and just watched everyone suck.
Really?
There was some good acts on there that
night, but yeah, it was just...
I know open mic is... it's open mic.
There's people doing a lot of new stuff.
There's people that just will never be
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great, but that's fine.
They love it.
Honestly, they love it and that's fine.
So yeah, I went to an open mic, watched
it and had the usual
thought of, yeah, I can do this.
I can do this better than most of the
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people that were on that night.
That was my thought leading into it.
And I watched the whole night that night
and then went up to the guy that was
hosting it and was just like, hey, how do
I sign up for this thing?
I'll do this next month.
And he was like, oh yeah, cool.
Just reach out.
Like, I don't remember if he gave me his
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phone number or something, but yeah.
And then I reached out like within the
week, so I knew I'd have to reach out
pretty quickly just so
that I had the mental...
Like I had it in my mental system.
I don't know if that's the way to phrase
it, but it is a way.
I just knew that if I had it stored,
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locked in, I would then
write at least something.
I'd attempt to write something and I did.
I wrote three jokes.
I just told my wife again that I'm going
down to the next open mic because the
last one was, oh, it was so much fun.
I went down.
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I went down to this open mic
and I was up first and it was...
The first time I went, there was like
probably like 12, 13 people in the
audience, which is
pretty decent for an open mic.
The night that I signed up for and
prepared for, walked in, sat down.
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About 60 people showed up in the audience
for God knows the reason why.
They must have knew I was
performing, I would say.
They just turned up.
There was a huge crowd for that room.
There was people on the walls lined up,
just standing in this pretty
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tiny room and it was weird.
I was up first and I went up and told
three jokes and they all
worked, which was sick.
I can't remember the first.
What did I say first?
My first joke, I think that ever came out
of my mouth was, what do you call a
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tradie that is also a swinger?
A tradie.
Which, yeah, that was, that's a joke.
I guess it's probably still something I
can do to work that into a better joke.
But I, yeah, I told that.
I told another joke,
which the other joke.
The second joke I told, it's like a 40
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second, 50 second joke with like, it had
like four laugh lines in it.
A four laugh lines, a twist
and it's a, it's a good joke.
In my opinion, still it's a good joke.
I'd be able to go up and
tell it at the next open line.
I'd be able to tell it at a show or
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something because it's, I think it helps
to have more context.
On me, on stage, that would help the joke
a little bit further because it's just
very, it's very out of what I would
usually do, but in a good way.
So, yeah, maybe I'll work
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on that joke a bit more.
And then I did another joke and the last
joke was a bit, bit hackier.
It has legs on it,
but it kind of fell on.
Uncle touching.
Me type material.
Like it's a very, it's a
solid open mind joke, I guess.
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It's a bit edgy baby type thing.
Yeah.
And it was well received on the night.
But yeah, that was one joke.
I'm just like, as soon as I've done, I'm
like, I don't need to do that again.
So yeah, that's it.
That's how I got into comedy by telling
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people my uncle touched me and he didn't.
He just, just for future records.
He didn't at that time aware of.
So I'd like you all to know that.
I mean, that's the whole reason I
actually created this podcast just to
tell you my uncle did not
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touch me inappropriately.
Only appropriately.
It's weird to say that and be thinking
about one uncle in particular, not
thinking of all the uncles.
I have is just one.
I'm just thinking of one uncle when I say
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the word uncle, which
doesn't help that scenario.
And I forgot to I forgot to mention like
one of the key parts of my law, the pick
the key part of my
law that kind of would.
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Be like my biggest probably
my biggest inspiration on why.
I went towards comedy or stand up in
general is because I played professional
video games and oh my
god, I'm such a nerd.
But yeah, I played
professional video games.
I was on TV.
I was on a live tournament.
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Like it was kind of
like pushed out to TV.
It was pushed out to
Channel 10 Channel 10 at 10 a.m.
Because that is 10 a.m.
On a Sunday, which is perfect time really
like who's not watching 10 at 10 a.m.
On a Sunday.
So yeah, we live stream thing TV
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tournament thing for a
game called Rocket League.
If you are familiar
and I know that you are.
And on during this whole like it was a
five week tournament, which was pretty
insane, but it was a
five week tournament.
I was a team captain.
So I have to do interviews every week.
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I'd have to do pregame and postgame
interviews, which that sucked so much.
That was like the first time when I'm
like, oh, I need to do something.
I need to learn how to speak in general.
Like speaking is good.
I think I need to work on my act and I
didn't through the five weeks.
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I did not work on anything at all.
I just done my thing, which was play
Rocket League, get back to the hotel, the
accommodation and watch anime.
That's pretty much all I did every week
because I'd fly there the whole flight.
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I'd just be watching.
I was just hooked on if anyone's
listening that watches anime.
It was when I started getting into Hunter
Hunter and it's like a hundred and
whatever episodes
long and I was addicted.
It is a good anime.
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It's a really, really good one.
And yeah, I just just kept watching new
episodes when I would go away and not
really focusing on what I was doing.
But yeah, anyway, I don't want to
postgame pregame interviews and the host
for the whole event, the guy that would
be on the television the most he would
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whenever there was downtime between
games, he was a he
was a standup comedian.
I didn't learn.
I didn't know that he was a standup
comedian until later on.
But he impressed the fuck out of me.
Like he was so good at his job.
He was just there to ask us questions,
keep things rolling.
And he was just so good.
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Like off the cuff, whenever you do the
interviews, like you'd walk down like
your your team name would get called.
I'd walk down like my me and my whole
team would walk out through this big
tunnel and my team would go off into the
wings where all the computers were.
They would start setting up.
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I would keep walking down the stairs like
the flight of stairs.
It's like 20 stairs like I was nervous.
Is all hell had to walk down 20 stairs
and go to an interview and the guy.
Yeah, the host, Luke, Luke Joseph Ryan.
He's a standup based in
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Perth, I think at the moment.
And he was the host and he would just be
funny like in a good
way, like a really kind of.
He comes across or definitely came across
throughout that as like a
nerdy guy, like a geeky guy, maybe.
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And but he would be like the the cool kid
out of us because he's the host.
He's got such good like conversational
skills and witty responses, but it also
kind of coaches in our responses.
Like he would just be
really on top of it.
Really pinpoint what we're trying to say
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because we're all
nervous young adults really.
And we just all sound like shit and he
made us sound better because we would
say, oh, we're going to
dominate this team this week.
Like they're not even going to stand a
chance and then he would bang.
He'd hit us with a remark to be like, it
would be like this or whatever.
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And you'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I basically said that and there.
I just thought he was
really good on that show.
I talked to him a few times outside of
like filming just a super
down to earth guy at that stage.
I don't know what he's like now, but
hopefully he hasn't gone
off the rails, gone off track.
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But he was he was amazing.
And yeah, after after watching him, like
experiencing him
experiencing the the Luke.
I started thinking about like what I can
do, like how I can be
like that a bit more.
And I started watching like those cringe.
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I don't even know if they cringe.
I think they cringe looking back on me
watching them like just bro, like manly
guys trying to teach you
how to win over a girl.
You know, it's stuff like that where
they're like you you need
to dominate the conversation.
Like it's videos titled like how to
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control any conversation and they give
you like movie like movies as examples,
like as if that's not a fucking script.
It's a script just tell it like it is and
this is that type of stuff.
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And then I found a comedy
and that is a script comedy.
Yeah, that's that's what I like.
I like I like it when like the biggest
draw for me to get to
comedy is like stand up.
Comedy is the fact that the audience
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pretty much is a good understanding.
They're just going to listen to me and
I'm going to talk at them.
And then after the show, they've got some
context of what I'm like and then they
can if they talk to me,
I'm all right with it.
They've just seen me do stand up comedy.
They have something to
break the ice with me.
And I think I've probably already broken
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the ice by just
performing in front of them.
So yeah, fucking a bait small talk just
doing stand up comedy
forcing yourselves on the people.
Oh, that's the best.
I love forcing myself on other people.
No, I don't.
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No, yeah, yeah, sick.
Yeah, since the since the Aubrey scene
isn't that sick, I'm just kind of looking
for different ways to
exploit myself creatively.
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Creatively.
I'm looking for ways to exploit myself
creatively and I've landed on just
talking into the void for like 30 40
minutes each week on the podcast.
And I'm so that's what I'm going to do.
That's what I'm going to do.
What else do I talk about this week?
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What happened this week?
I last week I went to a gig at a place
called the Gerogery Hotel.
Don't dodge the G-Rodge.
They like to say over there
and it was a pretty quiet gig.
Pretty quiet gig.
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That a really good
headliner come down for it.
But yeah, it was just a bit quiet first
probably cold snap around this area like
first month for it
with where it's comedy.
They've it's like a free ticketed show
people don't have to pay.
It's usually just people that eat and
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stick around and watch
comedy and that's that's great.
Like they always generally
just is a wild environment there.
So it leads to some interesting after
stories type of thing.
And yeah, something happened at the end
of the show, which I
thought was very funny for me.
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I go funny in a good way.
I don't mean to shit on him because it's
it's like I found it funny at the time
and I took away a lot from it.
Even though it's dumb.
That's that's what I'm getting out there.
But one of my fellow pals, my comedian
pals was up on his whole like helping
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like packed down my equipment.
Then I went and I set up the show and
there was like an extension lead plugged
in very high like up near the roof.
Basically, I was on the wall very high up
and he's a he's a bit of a tall bloke.
To me. So he stood up on the chair and
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kind of unplugged it
turned around and said to me, I
he said, I know you find it hard to
believe, but I think I'm the most I'm
probably the most
coordinated comedian here.
And I instantly objected to that thought.
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I told him I said straight away.
No, that is not that is not the case.
I don't believe you at all.
And only because and I'll find a point
eventually from this.
It's I made it said to him like, yeah, I
understand why you think that but I I
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think I'm the most I'm better than you.
And I think I'm better than everyone
really, but I'm
better than I'm a builder.
I'm a shed builder.
I I consider myself a very coordinated.
I played a lot of sporting activities.
I don't know if gaming really
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helps with the coordination.
It probably does but
not like a great deal.
I play a lot of table tennis and just a
lot of a lot of sports.
I like a decent high level
for like local communities.
See if that makes sense and but being a
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builder you use your hands.
You use your feet a lot a lot like so
much so much throughout the day without
even thinking of it.
Like you just you just
do stuff you constantly.
Being doing basic things very precise.
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You're you've got good balance because
you need good balance because you walk on
sketchy platforms and not they should be
like sketchy platforms.
But you walk on you you just learn to
just have really good awareness and
coordination because you're using your
hands and feet a lot.
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And that's why I said no,
that's not that's not right.
I shouldn't have pushed on it at all.
But I thought it was funny.
I like having discussions like that where
it's like no, you're an idiot
and I hope that you know that.
I'm just like yeah, I understand why he
thinks that because he's only thinking
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about what he's like.
He hasn't seen me do anything like
coordinated at all except for like if I
can pick a microphone out of a stand or
yeah, that's that's about as far as it
goes because he's only see me in like
committee like stand up
comedy room environments.
So he's putting all of his contacts that
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he has about shooting basketballs or when
he was a kid like
running around and stuff.
And that's that's where all of that like.
It's like all that
bias comes in of like it.
That's why he thinks that he's the most
coordinated of the bunch because he
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doesn't follow me around.
I hope he doesn't but he doesn't he
doesn't follow me around and see what I
like see what any of
us do during the day.
I'm not even like claiming to be the most
coordinated of the lot.
But yeah, I'm just like yeah, it reminded
me a lot about how that applies to so
(01:27:16):
much so much things like egocentric bias.
I believe that's the name of the one I'm
thinking of and yeah.
I did like it definitely reminded me of
or maybe reflect on how
comedians size each other up.
(01:27:39):
Just based on limited info like we like
when you go to the city like like like
like when you go to the city and do over
mics people are
sizing you up all the time.
And they're judging you based on how you
perform even though even if it's the
worst conditions ever you could take your
(01:28:01):
best material to some rooms and just bomb
because there's two audience members
there and they've been paraded by 20
other dudes that look exactly like you
with way worse jokes.
And then you get up on stage and they're
just like they're not for it there.
They hate it and then every other
(01:28:22):
comedian is looking at you
because you're the new person.
They go on off but he's not that good and
then they'll just remember that forever.
They'll remember that because yeah, maybe
that maybe we'll get proved to them a
second time and another really shitty
open mic and then they might see you on a
show after that and be
like, oh, he actually done well.
(01:28:44):
And then they'll make it some excuse up
like why he done well in that situation
because they're like, oh, well,
everyone's going to do not like it's a
foolproof whatever whatever it is.
It just reminded me so much of that stuff
where you only take in the
information that you receive.
(01:29:05):
Of course, of course, that's true.
And happens all the time,
all the time with everything.
And that's that's a point.
That's a point I'm trying to make and it
sounds a complete garbage, but it's
something I need to keep in mind when I
(01:29:27):
do things outside of people that are
already familiar with me because you know, I'm not a fan of people.
Yeah, it's when when I go to Melbourne,
like I plan to start going to Melbourne
what quite a bit or just a little bit
more just so I can be introduced to the
scene further connections that are
(01:29:50):
already have really push them so that I'm
I start getting booked for bigger and
better rooms than probably better rooms
than I'm kind of I should be doing.
But you use your connections the way you
should, which is just to use them.
(01:30:13):
And yeah, so yeah, it's something to
remember of just like, yeah, people
people just people will
remember you for the worst things.
Generally, generally speaking, unless
they're really aware of
that, they're aware that cool.
(01:30:34):
They're not though, because they're
comedians, they're
selfish, like an asshole.
So yeah, that's that's that.
I don't know if that was a good point at
all, but that was just in my mind.
And I thought I would let you know, I
would let you know what's going on up
here, up in the brain.
(01:30:57):
Okay, oh, my my father looked after my
children the other day, me and my wife
went and what did we
go to me and my wife.
We went to the cube in Wodonga and we
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watched the Melbourne comedy Roadshow.
We wouldn't watch that in Wodonga.
Just the when was that like the other
night on Friday night
and Saturday night, maybe.
And yeah, we watched that.
It was odd.
It was a bit odd in the fact that it
(01:31:44):
didn't feel like a really strong lineup
compared to previous years, but it was
still like in total.
It was a good show.
And yeah, my dad stayed here just like
looked after the kids by looked after.
I mean, the kids were
(01:32:04):
sleeping when he got here.
He just sat on the
couch and watched videos.
But after that, after that all happened,
we came home and I was talking to my dad
afterwards and he was like bragging and
talking about like stand up in a way that
he he he thinks that he could do stand up
(01:32:27):
so much so that I think he is going to
try stand up comedy, which is a good thing.
And I think that is interesting to say
the least because I don't think he's
going to do well at all given given the
context I have about him.
I don't think he's going to do too well.
So that's going to be fun for me.
(01:32:48):
I'm probably going to bring him up like
one of the open mics that I run or the
one open mic I run and see how it goes.
I just don't have much faith for him
because I see my father is like a pretty
maybe a bit of a narcissist and yeah,
(01:33:11):
we'll see how he goes just because he
yeah, he I don't think you'll be able to
handle the pressure of doing jokes or
having them not received well because he
he's not going to do well.
He's only seen he's seen like stand up
(01:33:31):
comedy love Seinfeld like that type of
comedy like Mark Normany.
I've shown him Mark Normany loves Mark
Norman, but he's only like ever seen he's
never been to an open mic.
He's seen me run shows like host shows.
He's come along to that where I'm just
going up there and killing and all the
(01:33:53):
acts are going up and killing as well
because I've developed a good room.
And he's seen that and he's like, oh, I
can do that because he doesn't have the
knowledge of how much effort I put into
it and everyone else puts into it.
That's on those shows.
And so he's just going,
yeah, I can I can do that.
(01:34:14):
And then he's he's he's
going to fucking do it.
And we'll see maybe
he's got maybe he's okay.
I feel like anyone that's
kind of watched enough of it.
Sorry, I feel like he's gonna he might
structurally have okay jokes, but there
will be things that relate to things that
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people don't feel are relevant anymore.
Like you'll make old
references and stuff like that.
And that's that's
where the issue comes in.
Yeah.
Yeah, my dad's
probably gonna do stand up.
And that's weird because I'm going to
(01:34:56):
love watching him bomb.
It will actually be a highlight.
It'll be funny.
And I don't know what else.
Yeah, I'm going to try to do more
(01:35:17):
Instagram, TikTok short reels.
I don't know.
I don't like TikTok.
I just don't use TikTok.
And it feels like it's for an audience
that I'm like, I'd be creating.
I'd be creating videos for an audience
that I don't believe in.
(01:35:37):
So yeah, I don't know if I'll do TikTok.
I like Instagram.
I enjoy it.
I've got a few sketches and stuff already
filmed and I just never put them out.
And now I kind of I don't know if I will,
but I've got so many ideas for sketches
(01:36:00):
and short videos like that type of stuff.
So I'm going to I'm going to start doing
those filming them and
just putting them out there.
I'm hoping I get some attention from it.
If I don't, at least I've made it.
And I really enjoy I enjoy making videos
(01:36:21):
that challenge me a lot more than
repetitive, natured videos.
But I understand that they're going to be
the key of any success.
Anything that I can replicate will be
will be what holds like, you know, just
(01:36:45):
starts to grow some sort
of like social influence.
So I need to start doing that.
I need to find like a persona
character, something I can do.
Unless it's just that something is making
heaps of different sketches, which great.
That's sick, but that will take time.
(01:37:06):
I'm going to trial a few
different content things.
I've already started.
I've got like a decent following that
loves kid stuff because
I've had two viral videos,
which featured my kids.
(01:37:27):
And that's that's something I either need
to just go him into as well and just
that's going to be my niche.
Or I do other stuff and just hope that
they like the quality of it that they are
willing to stick around.
So I'm going to. Yeah, I'll probably do
some parenting stuff on my socials.
(01:37:48):
I'll also do some just like random
sketches, like just funny videos.
I love just random ideas.
And we do that.
Like I had I had a thought in the car the
other day and I wrote down of this heaps
of like nursery rhymes.
That's a huge thing at the moment.
Just at the moment nursery
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rhymes big in my household.
And it was like a playlist.
My wife was playing.
Kaitlyn was playing a playlist where it's
just like nursery rhymes, but they've
been remixed and they're
like different words in it.
Get like different to what
you'd be used to type of thing.
And I was like, oh, the kids were in the
(01:38:32):
back seats like
fighting, but not fighting.
Just like making a lot of
noise while I was driving.
And I was like, oh, we should I should
make a song like a kid's song and it
should be the Shush song.
I don't know if the Shush song exists.
It probably does.
But I just want to make like a 20 second
video of like just me doing the Shush
(01:38:55):
song and I'm going to have to figure out
how to make music of it.
And it's just going to be me.
I'm like, I think it's like Shush, Shush,
Shush, shut the fuck up and
just kind of run it like that.
Like going to how
parents would like the nursery.
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Maybe that's how the nursery rhyme should
be in those situations.
Obviously the kids don't.
My kids are too young to even understand
what swear words are.
And yeah, but I just think that's a
funny, a funny angle because there's a
(01:39:36):
lot of that like angry
parents or tired parents.
Content and kind of just grabbing a
little bit of it, the people that like
that and transitioning them
into just like comedy fans.
That's going to be the key of like find
something that I can steal an audience
(01:39:57):
from and bring them across.
And yeah, I've got I've got a few
different parenting stuff here.
I'm going to be working on this week and
that's going to be sick.
It's going to be so cool.
I love how cool that is.
And yeah, all I've got to do this week, I
think is I don't know if
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there's there might be a.
Am I coming up this week and I've got a I
just have to prepare for a trivia night that I'm going to be doing.
I will be on next week next Wednesday.
I think I have a trivia night that I host
and produce whatever.
(01:40:40):
So I'll be just kind of getting as many
questions throughout the week as possible
because I've got to do like 45 questions
and that's that's something I do.
And yeah, I'll just kind of
start putting that list together.
And yeah, I don't know if there's much
more else I want to
cover for this episode.
(01:41:03):
So yeah, thank you so much for sticking
around if you have and if you haven't
like, yeah, who cares?
I don't care because this is this is my
thing and just get away from my thing.
You know, get away.
So yeah, thank you so much for tuning
into breaking down a little where now
(01:41:24):
we're one step closer to
breaking down a little.
We're going to break down together.
Well, we're just going to break down me.
But that's that's cool.
Thank you.
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