Mixed Child of The Corn | Hannah Roeschlein

Hannah Roeschlein is a Clay City, Indiana born comedian/writer/producer that's making waves in the Comedy Community and garnering national attention in 5 short years. Although from the same place this is their first time meeting and talking in person. She's performed at almost every major club in New York, Chicago and of course Indiana. They discuss the intricacies of growing up half Asian in rural mid America and how the transition of comedy happened. And how being a Pastor's child affects being in entertainment with a raw unadulterated comedic style. 

Originally aired Date:  Feb 16/23

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S2 (00:30):
Welcome back Ya'll to The hilariously Blunt podcast is Your boy
Walter Ford. Presented by March and Ash. I appreciate it March and Ash. Here I got the hilarious,
hilarious Indiana's own Hannah. I don't know. I don't want
to mispronounce your last name, can you pronounce it? . Rush line.

S3 (00:50):
Like, don't be in a rush. Walk a straight line.
And the funny thing about me saying that kind of
like that phonetically is just because doing comedy the past
five years and my last name is spelled, you know,
I understand why it's hard to pronounce, let's just put
it that way. It's a jumble of letters. You know,
it sounds like a rush line, like I said, but

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it's spelled R, o , e, s, c h l e i
n like, how did we get there? You know, and having.

S2 (01:19):
That.

S3 (01:19):
And having that last name in the cornfields of Indiana,
you know what I mean? And sort of like it
being a mixed child of the corn was really weird
even to this day when people like see my face
and this like more sleek Asian case.

S2 (01:33):
Out of the corn. I mean, funniest sentence I've heard today.

S3 (01:36):
Boy, oh, boy. I grew up Filipino, Filipino in German,
50-50 split in Clay City, Indiana.

S2 (01:43):
Okay, okay. Oh, no. Real quick, let me give you
some credits. Okay. Pass that at the Laugh Factory. Chicago. Yeah.
From Indiana, though. Let's let's start. There You go on it.
Let's let's start at the beginning because I'm from Indiana, too.
Everybody know I'm from Gary, Indiana, and I'm also.

S3 (02:00):
Hi and very happy. I'll be perfectly fine. You can
tell I'm not running on City of Damn near all
day long, just coursing through my system like it's a rap.

S2 (02:12):
Fuel in my body, fuel in my life. You 70,
70 miles west of Indianapolis.

S3 (02:18):
Yeah. So I grew up in a little town called
Clay City, Indiana. Let's say. Look, we had drive your
tractor to school day.

S2 (02:26):
I'm week. I was just going to ask you that.
Was it was it the town that had the the
one stoplight or the boulevard? Scuse me.

S3 (02:34):
There wasn't really even a stoplight. There may potentially one
Clay city was population are 836. They dude I've I've
I've smashed at least a fifth of that number dude.
And I'm not bragging dude. I'm just saying first scale.
I want to try to set the tone for how like,

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I wasn't a young slut. I didn't get into it
until I went to IU and got out of the
fucking slanted hawk eyes of my Asian mom and my
fuckin former hippie found Jesus, Pastor Dad. So I grew
up with a lot of shit happening within my tiny system.
And then I really started going in on Zuma's Fresh

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was 2002 at IU and then dropped sophomore year and
then started 15 years of problem drinking. And then I've
been doing five years worth of comedy.

S2 (03:28):
Okay, so.

S3 (03:28):
That's another timeline. You know, like.

S2 (03:31):
You just gave us the whole life right there, the.

S3 (03:33):
Whole thing and.

S2 (03:34):
Interview.

S3 (03:34):
Right. Later version. That's it. Cut the tape. We cut
the tape. It's over. I wasn't even say it's I
think it's the weed, the weeds, like making me, like,
even more elevated than I'd normally be. So you're welcome.
Internet people that are watching, they're like, I don't know.

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I'm hot. Little boy is growling at us.

S2 (04:00):
Okay, so let's go back a little bit because because
the main reason I like to talk to comedians, I
feel like we're all the kid, you know, weed. You
said the the Hawkeyes. You all right? Well, I think
comedians really get the details. So like I said, we
we all have different lifestyles and different backgrounds, but we

(04:23):
all come together to do the same thing, you know,
saying so Absolutely. That's why I think it's Gigi. So
what growing up, how you did you said you was
always funny. Did you always have any Shakespeare? It was
in part 100%.

S3 (04:35):
Right now, I'm not saying this just because I'm, like
I said, lifted. This is just a knowledge based on
the 38 years of me being alive. Any person I've
ever talked to in any capacity for any amount of time,
I've been able at any age to kind of say
something to them that was like a little above my

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years or make that person laugh. And it didn't matter. Like,
that's the thing about my mom and dad. Like, they
haven't seen me do comedy in all my five years
because of their personal afflictions. Dad being a pastor, mom
being a pastor's wife.

S2 (05:13):
You know, the pastors.

S3 (05:15):
Can also be my mom's full Filipino like she did
not get an accounting degree and Buster ass and come
over here and work hard to have her first born kid.
You know, not really amount to anything but a professional
server turned stand up comic who now recorded an album
called Asian American Psycho. And they don't.

S2 (05:35):
Have their you know.

S3 (05:36):
It was it's a heater he listen to when it
comes out you're going to be like I've never heard
anyone do anything like that. And I don't think I
mean it in a good way. I'm learning. I want
everyone to know, Yeah, I'm old, 38, almost 39 years old,
but I've only been doing comedy five years. So you
guys can like my I'm working on.

S2 (05:57):
It as though.

S3 (05:58):
You guys haven't written a new joke in ten. I
think Me at Five.

S2 (06:01):
Is.

S3 (06:02):
Writing. You can just give me a little time to
figure it out. I also came from the cornfields in Indiana,
like this little.

S2 (06:08):
Band know and I remember I'm from.

S3 (06:10):
Indiana. Indianapolis. Dude, it's like you have to cut your
teeth so differently.

S2 (06:14):
That's so crazy. So yeah, let's go back to that
for quick. So what was the first time like? When
did you say, Fuck it, I'm going to get on stage?
What if somebody forced you or did you do?

S3 (06:24):
Oh, I. I had being a funny kid. Mm hmm.
You know, who just was like, Well, I'm not even
trying to make people laugh at this funeral, but I'm crushing.

S2 (06:34):
I'm killing it. Right?

S3 (06:35):
Isn't it funny? People know if you're just and I'm
not being like a cunt when I say that to
be like, Oh, it's something. So whatever. I find it
more of an affliction than anything else. Like, literally, I
was just at a buddy's funeral in the past ten
days back home in Indianapolis. You know, young, 38 years old. Like,
it's a sad thing. But much to my glee, James,

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is this family chose to have an ultra religious service,
which is always hype. You know, when you're when you've
lost a young buddy and it doesn't feel good and
everything hurts. Well, sometimes the universe just gifts you, you know,
something special where you're like, you know, your buddy from
the club. So, you know, kind of lifestyle when he's,
you know, you'd only die at that age because of X, Y,

(07:19):
Z factors that aren't good. So when you have like
a pastor who's like something out of a Tyler Perry
movie kind of giving us this wild speech, but I
couldn't figure out, like the whole time he was like, coming.
He was like, I know what it's like to do coke.
You know, like, he was.

S2 (07:36):
He was getting mean. It was it was one of
them aka ones where you got to go up.

S3 (07:40):
And down the aisles, dude, Like he was on the
Price Is Right. I was like, if he comes out,
slap his hand out, dap him up.

S2 (07:46):
Yeah.

S3 (07:46):
You know, But the whole time, like I said, I
was just waiting for him to unzip his skin and
Tyler Perry to pop out. You bitches in your buddies
actually still alive. And I would have been like, Oh,
my God, that's honestly easier to believe that everything I
was going.

S2 (08:01):
All right now.

S3 (08:01):
But it caused me not to get into a tangent
about funerals, but it's just like this is this is
all about this is going somewhere.

S2 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a funny thing.

S3 (08:10):
Even at that funeral, I was, like, sitting in the
back with my buddy. There's a ton of people there,
you know, A lot of family. My body was black, so,
you know, I just kind of had, like, there's, you know, black.
If you've gone to a black funeral or like anything,
a church service, which I have being a pastor's daughter,
even though not growing up around black people, I still yeah,
you know, there's a black man I grew up calling

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Uncle Jack, you know, and, you know, so I was like,
I had as much diversity.

S2 (08:35):
As you can have in the middle. What a burning.
I'm not going to get down there.

S3 (08:39):
You know. Well, like, I still was just like I
was like live tweeting in my buddies ear quietly, you know,
like I said, luckily we had an obstructed view, so
no one can see.

S2 (08:50):
It Real quick. I don't want to cut you off
of that. Were you like, Nah, I don't want to
say oddball out. Where did you stand out? You know
where you were from for sure, because I know a
lot of people in that. In that area of our state.
I mean, have a certain way of thinking.

S3 (09:05):
Think about what I said. Also, there's only under 900 people. So, yeah.

S2 (09:11):
Maybe everybody needs.

S3 (09:12):
To tell me everybody right away. Yeah, but it's not
going to take too long. Yeah, You were talking to
me today. I when we're smoking, about being able to
meet like 500 people a day, and I even have
that awareness when I'm, like, thinking about how I could
do more on the Internet or whatever, where I'm like, Hey,
you could meet that many people today. Exactly. So you
could it, you know, like I said, I was also

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like smart and super extroverted. Like the way I am
right now was the way I was then. I just
didn't have as many words, wasn't I?

S2 (09:42):
It just wasn't optional.

S3 (09:43):
There just wasn't much dirty. Cast iron seasoning on this
fucking cast iron skillet, dude. It's like the food tastes
better now. But I was a better kid before. I
used to have hopes and dreams and they weren't fucking comedy.

S2 (09:59):
I.

S3 (09:59):
I grew up wanting to be a con Walter, like
I wanted to be on SportsCenter. So one of the
old bitches, the OG bitches of SportsCenter. Oh, so when
it was like Stuart Scott. All right.

S2 (10:10):
Okay, back then.

S3 (10:11):
That group over, and I'm not getting into how much
you could just. I love sports a lot. So it's like,
you know, I've got like sports that Tyus were from
Indiana like Yeah.

S2 (10:20):
You said you a Pacers fan and I'm a Southern fan.
I'm not even a Pacers fan.

S3 (10:24):
That's awesome.

S2 (10:24):
Okay.

S3 (10:25):
Yeah. I mean, the NBA is the NBA, you know? Yeah,
we both and everyone can win every single year in
a row. Just can't.

S2 (10:35):
We both, both our teams would ask for your.

S3 (10:37):
Staff is going to get injured every now and then.

S2 (10:40):
Like.

S3 (10:40):
Oh like there's going to have to be. And then
they create Avengers squads, you know, as we see like
they're trying to play against like the in space jam
against the Monstars and I'm like, Dude, you're in fucking God,
it's just.

S2 (10:56):
So funny. Okay, real quick, so back to this.

S3 (10:58):
This is a small market. I don't even understand what's happening.
None of these bitches want to live here. Yeah, it's
where all the wives are so upset. You know, you
guys can get your dicks stroked a little bit and
one extra ring and a couple extra three pointers. You're
so we. We can't watch the new stuff like the
new NBA but I like still follow the Pacers, you know.

S2 (11:21):
Yeah. Now cause right now.

S3 (11:23):
I'm paying attention.

S2 (11:24):
Yeah there that that's and that's rare and far between
but that's an object of joke and I'm I got
to touch it because all my all my friends and
family Pacers fans and I be given.

S3 (11:31):
I love it I can handle it you know and
it's not like the Pacers are great. You know we've like.

S2 (11:38):
I'm with it or the.

S3 (11:39):
Last time the Pacers were great was my childhood and
I was like, I was a die hard fan back then.
So honestly, that was the best time.

S2 (11:46):
That was the death of life.

S3 (11:48):
Yeah, I grew up on Reggie Miller, you know, like
just a little kid like that. Like to put how
old I am to perspective, even though it looks like
I'm like, 16. Max, this aside for my voice, you know,
I was like, I grew up Derek Jeter was for
his rookie season. I was ten years old. So like that.
He was one of my early jerk off jams. I'd

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gotten myself to Derek Jeter. Dude, not only was I
Dad raised this Yankee fan, so that was like a
weird thing about us. Like, one of my tattoos is
one of the sports ones. Is my first tattoo ever.
I got it in Terre Haute, Indiana.

S2 (12:21):
Okay, I said I want to. I It's you.

S3 (12:23):
Hey. Hey. Just like one time I blacked out and
found myself. I woke up the next morning under a
tiny tree next to the Holman Center. So that was fun.
Jessie Young slot got up, you know, brushed the mulch
off and went about drinking for another 12 years. Hard.
You know, comedy Seems like I said, the only thing
I could do at some point to, like, have whatever

(12:46):
after all the damage I've done, you know, like I
told you, I wanted to be on SportsCenter. I wanted
to be Linda Cone. I didn't want to be Barron.
Ali Wong.

S2 (12:53):
I'm doing.

S3 (12:54):
Like this is because I got in trouble. This because
I had priors, comedies like my fourth choice. And like
I told you, I'm naturally.

S2 (13:01):
Funny for.

S3 (13:02):
Naturally funny and naturally lazy. So if I already got
funny in me. Comedy is one of those things where
I'm like, Wow.

S2 (13:09):
I mean, why not?

S3 (13:11):
And I even though in comedy, I can say to
the No, no words and do all the dumb shit
and still make money. So that's tell me another office,
this operating like that. Linda and I will.

S2 (13:24):
You know, I'm mad at you because I'm not here.
You know, you're in the.

S3 (13:26):
Same office wall.

S2 (13:27):
Did some lit. Yeah. Now what we do is, like,
it's different, but I feel like all the work is
done beforehand and at home, and then the payoff, you know, comes. But.
But we. We skip past when you start it. Like
the first time I didn't get to get that. But when.

S3 (13:41):
I started.

S2 (13:42):
Comedy, the first like the first time you got on stage.

S3 (13:44):
Five years ago.

S2 (13:45):
Like how how was how did it go?

S3 (13:47):
I was wrong.

S2 (13:49):
So you.

S3 (13:50):
Said. I don't remember. So, I mean, to be honest,
I know.

S2 (13:54):
When did you sign up it?

S3 (13:55):
When I signed up. I mean, it's like I was
a functional alcoholic, you know, to be doing it for
15 years. Mm hmm.

S2 (14:01):
You know, you know how to maneuver.

S3 (14:03):
Oh, yeah. And I basically I went straight into serving
after I dropped out of college. You know, when I
started drinking and alcoholism became just the thing that was
going to guide my life. I could still serve at
a high level. Yeah. You know, there's plenty. The whole
food and beverage industry, whatever. That show. I haven't even
watched it called the bear or whatever with liquor I.

S2 (14:20):
Never heard.

S3 (14:21):
Of. So there's a new show on TV, and it's like,
all about high pressure kitchen situations.

S2 (14:25):
Oh, okay.

S3 (14:26):
Oh, I was like, I don't need to watch this.
I'll be triggered.

S2 (14:28):
Which is all The kitchen's right and I love you.
Then I'll be triggered. I didn't.

S3 (14:34):
I did. I still like. I'm like, we, chef. Yes, chef.
You know, that's my safe word.

S2 (14:41):
Of the year.

S3 (14:41):
Yes, Chef. Okay.

S2 (14:43):
Okay. So here you go. So five years ago.

S3 (14:46):
I was thinking.

S2 (14:47):
What place.

S3 (14:48):
Was. It wasn't a club. I didn't open my going to.

S2 (14:50):
And remember, I know.

S3 (14:52):
In the basement of a restaurant called Shoo Fly.

S2 (14:55):
In Indiana.

S3 (14:55):
In Minneapolis. A basement. Mike. So, as you can imagine,
I never heard it on like, a like a cave
or cavernous like, structure. It sucked. Even though I was fucking,
like I said, 50 shades of blacked out. Who knew
where I was when I would come in with my
joke book? You have to also remember, before I dropped
out of college, I was an English major. So it's
like even though I dropped out, I'm smarter than most

(15:17):
of you. It's like it's a and it's just a pair,
you know? I don't know what else to say.

S2 (15:24):
Parent Because, I.

S3 (15:25):
Mean, honestly, I saw my first set written now and
I've like, it's tucked away somewhere, but I know if
I go back and look at it and I haven't
seen it in five years. That the jokes that I
have written down at least were super sound. And there
are like, honestly, some of the stuff I'm still saying
to this day in its infancy.

S2 (15:45):
Is just edited better, way better, worked on it and
worked on.

S3 (15:49):
When I would get on stage. Walter, I was so
drunk just from the amount that I told you I
was drinking it.

S2 (15:54):
Yeah. No, no.

S3 (15:55):
Today, for 15 straight years is a lot. Yeah.

S2 (15:58):
Yeah.

S3 (15:59):
I was just doing the thing I've always done with
comedy now on top of it. So as you can imagine,
a livewire human being like me with 12 PBR and
four shots of Fernet in her and, you know, an
irritation constantly with men on and off the stage and
irritation constantly with her own nuttiness, you know, and just

(16:21):
need for all kinds of shit. I was like, there
it was probably on well up there. But I also, like, I,
I think I'm kind of being hard on myself. And
I only know that because of what my friends have
said later.

S2 (16:33):
We always like, I feel like at the end of
the day, anything with art you always like your hardest
critic for sure, end up being like my best ass.

S3 (16:41):
And it was hard for me because I was so drunk.
So it's like there's legitimately just a major chunk of
my life that other people remember better than I do.
And I know that's like a weird thing to say,
but Oh yeah, so true.

S2 (16:53):
No, I was right there. I mean, I used to, though.
I told you I used to throw parties. I want
to meet a black Stiffler in college. So it was
a nice wave of time that as I remember, you know,
like black Stiffler.

S3 (17:05):
I know movie. Walter, You do it, I'll help you.
You can tell I'm not putting this English major to
get you. I'm paying off student loans from I You where?
I dropped out technically freshman year when I stopped going,
but I didn't tell my parents, so sophomore. And I
just went to every basketball and football game and zero classes. So, yeah,

(17:26):
comedy is my fourth choice, but I'm not even really
great at it. Everyone that listens to this well, somebody's
going to be like, I hope that girl dies.

S2 (17:34):
Oh, wait.

S3 (17:35):
And the other ones are like, Oh my God, what
else can we see this little boy on?

S2 (17:40):
You're going to be crying. Hello?

S3 (17:41):
Hello? Well. Oh, well, be yourselves fuckers.

S2 (17:44):
I could tell you from the grip.

S3 (17:47):
You're like, Wow, this feels like you've been doing a
tiny act your whole life. Like you needed so much
attention around zero people, you know, tiny town. And I'm like, Oh, yeah.
Is it.

S2 (17:58):
Is that what you saying?

S3 (17:59):
I thought I was hiding it better there, but yeah,
but five years ago I started, but I was also
so at the, the very first Mike though first year
and a half of my comedy is my last year
and a half a drinking.

S2 (18:13):
Got you. And then did it change dramatically once you
start working?

S3 (18:17):
So like I said, even the stuff I was doing
blacked out that first year and a half when I was,
you know, at the kind of doing that little dance
of the end of hopefully, what was this chapter of alcohol?

S2 (18:29):
Yeah, you.

S3 (18:30):
Know, it just coincided with me kind of I'd gotten
out of a relationship with just somebody that like I
find to be extremely hysterical to this day but was
not ill suited for me, you know, just for glorified
babysitter as a fully committed alcoholic typically has to have.
Like someone that's around not just facilitating, but also keeping.

S2 (18:53):
Keeping you keep you in line.

S3 (18:55):
You know, there's just.

S2 (18:56):
Like you ain't going off the rail too far.

S3 (18:59):
So like, bless all of this, but I definitely, like
I got out this relationship and something in me was
just like because I was still drunk, but I was like, Hannah,
you know, you guys. So you're so funny, you know,
I do. So suck it. But other people do, too,
so double suck. I have actual fans.

S2 (19:19):
Of.

S3 (19:20):
I have a lot of friends, but I have actual fans.

S2 (19:22):
I got a lot of friends.

S3 (19:23):
If I just wanted to read 60 Minutes on my DMS,
you guys would laugh harder than any comedy I've ever
fucking done. And those are your psychotic words, not mine.
We I don't listen to a lot of podcasts. One
time I had Tim Dylan on and I heard him
say something that almost made my brain melt out and
he was just like, Here's the thing about having a
fan base. He's like, Sometimes they're terrifying and nothing on

(19:45):
a podcast had ever hit me harder, and I wrote
it down in my calendar where it still is, because
that's how everyone makes me feel so weak. I'm happy
to be doing this with you all, but I mean,
it's been weird from the jump.

S2 (19:58):
IS Yeah, it's interesting. Especially. Do you think I was
gonna ask you about that being a woman in comedy,
that it's twice as many hurdles. Oh, I guess especially
in Indiana. That's what it. You know, I'm saying.

S3 (20:10):
You know, like Indiana is not a.

S2 (20:14):
If you're not a white Christian dude, that.

S3 (20:16):
Springboard to excellence currently right now, like when.

S2 (20:22):
I.

S3 (20:23):
Was gonna win again, I was like, Buddy, enjoy these
last moments freely walking around the farm because you're going
to be one of the first ones hung up over
the State House when The Handmaid's Tale starts some.

S2 (20:36):
Day in.

S3 (20:36):
Your own home state, Walter, I call my pussy the
Hoosier hater. Do you think they're going to let me
You think they're going to let me become one of
the Marthas? No, I'm. I'm going to be put up
over the square as an example with my little Nike
dunks under that red cape and people just like, like
nonbinary bitches looking up. They're like, I wonder what she did?

(20:59):
And people are like, Oh, that's Hannah Rush line a.k.a
hander pump rolls. She's up there for a slew of offenses.
In fact, it was one of the longest no they'd
seen in any of the fucking hangings. But she went
out like a goddamn jig humming Margaritaville.

S2 (21:23):
Because you never, you.

S3 (21:24):
Know, The Dance by Garth Brooks, New York. Who knows?
Depends on my mood, Walter. You can tell, but for sure.
I'm not laughing in that economy. I won't even go.
I get boosted before I'll go home. I'm just like
every single times I've had, like, 150 boosters. Just kidding.

S2 (21:43):
No. Did I want.

S3 (21:45):
To? Every time I go home, people, like, just get
close to me, you know, like, we're so proud of you.
And then they spent a variant in my mouth.

S2 (21:51):
Like, I don't give a fuck.

S3 (21:53):
I don't know why I'm even trying to be. Well,
I might. I mean, I'm going to need the vodka
at one point to burn this shit out of my system.
All your love for me, you fucking idiot.

S2 (22:04):
Yeah. Yeah. Set out to set out to march Nice
ass again. Appreciate you. Um.

S3 (22:11):
We are ready to do this. That's five guys I've
ever been on.

S2 (22:15):
Oh. You like it?

S3 (22:16):
I mean, you know, what did was, you know, Bobby
Kelly podcast. That was like one of those, like, little
moments where it's like a credit for me. You know,
just adding to my comedy, crypto comedy.

S2 (22:26):
And that's the thing, too. We got to get to
that real quick.

S3 (22:29):
Is.

S2 (22:29):
Shout out to farmer and fellow, too. They got to
like that name. Yeah. Farmer The fella, nice man, the
farmer in the family like that.

S3 (22:37):
Out of my own way. Right. Way to go. You
got me. One of you guys got me before I
can get something clever. Farmer in the fell. And that
is so fucking rich.

S2 (22:48):
Is is fire.

S3 (22:49):
I've done jail time, so. And my parents have a
big red barn surrounded by cornfields currently.

S2 (22:55):
Yeah, I don't. It's. I like to be. Yeah, it is.
The billboards are right now farmer and.

S3 (22:59):
And I'm talking to you later and my dad.

S2 (23:03):
So shut out farm I fell into and march and that.

S3 (23:05):
Was great name.

S2 (23:07):
Yeah. Yes. Do you need the milk. Do you like. Yeah, Yeah.

S3 (23:09):
Go for it. Yeah. I was going to give it
another two tugs, you know, I'm going to be separated
from me in an edible, but it was going to
take an embarrassing amount of time and I just know
everyone if anyone's watching this, eventually they're going to be like,
Jesus Christ, that girl's batteries were dying.

S2 (23:24):
You.

S3 (23:25):
We don't know how she didn't run out of steam
with all the words, but wow, we really watched her
power now not being able to open a tiny packet.

S2 (23:33):
She lost that edible.

S3 (23:34):
You know, as a person who's around all kinds of
weed and working around it, it's like, dude, they be
locking edibles up like it's fucking, you know, the Catholic
Church's secrets. I sometimes I'm too high already to even
navigate the packaging with which I just paid a third
in taxes on. And now I'm at home struggling, trying

(23:56):
to like I'm going to rip out my teeth and
shit and I don't even have health insurance. That doesn't
make any sense. You know.

S2 (24:04):
They get.

S3 (24:04):
Stupid.

S2 (24:05):
And they're struggling. Like, why did it?

S3 (24:07):
Why are they doing that? They're not trying to keep
kids out of it. They're keeping adults out. And over
here I'm doing it again. Well, you know, now I
got it.

S2 (24:14):
You know, be careful. I think each square is ten milligrams.

S3 (24:19):
That's where I'm kind of like, yeah, trying to make
sure be safe. I'm kind.

S2 (24:23):
Of peace. And as yours, too, by the way, it
is so hard. Okay. And even if you. Yeah.

S3 (24:27):
I love that you're like, be safe.

S2 (24:29):
Yeah, I know. I told you earlier, like, we're going.

S3 (24:32):
To people on a week to week basis in my
DMS and my friends texting me Walter right now say,
be safe. It's a lot. It's a lot. That's, in fact,
probably one of the top ten things I hear is
I'd remain oh.

S2 (24:48):
So, so.

S3 (24:50):
Safe.

S2 (24:51):
Speaking of here and stuff, have you heard have you
met any comedians that gave you advice that you think
kind of puts you to a next level? You know, yeah,
because because I was working at the Comedy Store for
a minute and just being around certain level of comedians,
you just pick up stuff from watching them, too, you know?

S3 (25:09):
Oh, it's just what I watch. It's watching somebody run
a clinic.

S2 (25:12):
Yeah, Yeah. You know, I just think and back the
other day I say, Yo, he was riffing murder for
20 minutes, riffing murder. And I've seen it before, too,
But I just I've never I've never seen him laugh,
you know? I've heard of them. I have seen them.
I was like, and this.

S3 (25:28):
And that's a crazy thing that, you know, kind of
on a tangent in our in our office where it's
like there's so many good people even identify as comedians.
It's like and when you're starting to do it yourself,
it's like impossible to keep up with everyone. Yeah, there's
like plenty of good comics out here, great comics that
I don't know anything about. Aside from your name. I learned.

S2 (25:47):
That too.

S3 (25:47):
Following people on the internet. But like, I can't be
on the internet all goddamn day. It's already toxic as fuck.
So to just even be watching other things. And sometimes
when I was first starting comedy, which I kind of
still am, it's like I really just didn't want to
watch and have the affectation of other people's styles. Yeah,
So it was kind of like I would, I would
watch the people that I really fucked with, you know,

(26:09):
over time.

S2 (26:09):
Who are those people who name of you?

S3 (26:11):
Well, I mean, all kinds of people from, you know,
Sebastian being a fucking g. He made me laugh. I saw, like,
so long ago where I was like, What the fuck's
happened to? He was talking about, like, bird scooters and
homeless people. And I was.

S2 (26:23):
Like, You seen him live at the store? Yeah.

S3 (26:25):
And it was before it was like right before that Pop.
Or he started posting everything and the whole thing.

S2 (26:30):
Went and he was already doing it. 20, 20, 25
I think maybe something like that.

S3 (26:35):
20 for sure.

S2 (26:36):
You know what I'm saying? And then he got big,
which I was like, That's crazy to think about, you know,
because he's a murderer, like a, you know, killer. And
it still takes that long to, you know, it's a
timing thing almost. You know, I'm saying a little timing,
a little luck or whatever you want to call it,
Chance and my bad. I cut you off. No, no, no. So, Sebastian.

S3 (26:58):
And in the Russian I love I mean, there's so
many people that I'm like, getting turned on to also more.
But I like bestselling. I'm not getting turned on to her.
She turns me on because of how funny.

S2 (27:08):
Yeah, I like. I like.

S3 (27:09):
I like she got that in. Androgynous look or like
you were there. Like, tell us how you identify. We're
not even going to guess. Both of you guys are
wearing overalls and glasses, so that one looks like the
hottest dude at the skate park. So we're going to
you tell us.

S2 (27:24):
Let's do that.

S3 (27:26):
Maria Bamford Oh, I like.

S2 (27:28):
I like Maria, but I see her.

S3 (27:29):
Yeah, me too. In California, I like the Irvine Improv.
She my buddy lives in The O.C..

S2 (27:34):
I love that.

S3 (27:35):
And so she does Her and Jackie, Cassian did it,
and they just had that thing undulating like a wave.
It was like one of those shows where I was like,
You're happy to watch it as a comic, but as
a person who's trying to do this job, seriously, sometimes
those shows are hard to watch because you're like, I
got to going to be this good. There's like, How
do you even fuckin get here? It's like you. Every
bit of self-doubt you've ever had just comes rising to

(27:57):
the surface, like whatever. But then you want.

S2 (27:59):
Them laughing and you laughing at the same time to
be like.

S3 (28:03):
I mean.

S2 (28:03):
You're.

S3 (28:04):
Deeply affected. There's like, people like watching Stavros and some other, like, silly.

S2 (28:09):
I want to.

S3 (28:10):
Soder I'll be in tears. So dude, like, spinning out.

S2 (28:13):
I went to the comedy Get Down, and I felt
that way. It was, um. George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, and.
Eddie Griffin. Wow. And I and I watched all of
them do a theater. Or it was an arena. Scuse me.

(28:34):
I see a yo. I will never I can't even
fathom how they you know what I'm saying? Get to
where I'm where I am to get to where they ate.

S3 (28:44):
But, you know, I'm also going to say I love
that because I love that you took me back a
little bit because it reminded me of kind of like
the fact that I know that I've had a natural
comic in me since childhood, because I can also think
about like you were talking to me about, like the
current comics that I like. You know, I to be honest,
my favorite touring comic right now is Tim Dillon.

S2 (29:05):
Tim Berners-Lee.

S3 (29:06):
I saw Tim Dillon do the Chicago Theatre recently with
Sam Talent, and I have I was laughing so hard
I thought I was going to have an aneurysm. And
this calendar year, I've also, like I said, seen Bamford
seen Schultz on the infamous two hour saw. Like I
have been around in some audiences where I was.

S2 (29:23):
Like, I'm out today.

S3 (29:24):
Done like for sure or yesterday. But yes, fucking rad, dude, I'm.

S2 (29:28):
So.

S3 (29:28):
Cool to see.

S2 (29:29):
Yeah, that's dope. That's dope.

S3 (29:31):
But, you know, I just I just remembered I've been
so busy and high that I don't even know the
stuff that I'm doing. And then now we're having a
conversation and I'm like, Oh, shit, I did go to
all that. Wow, I.

S2 (29:40):
Live in.

S3 (29:40):
Rage Against the Machine last week.

S2 (29:43):
You relive it? Oh, yeah.

S3 (29:44):
What, You're like, taking me back down my own life?
Douglas Shitty reverse highlight reel. And I'm like, Oh, my God,
I did that. Holy fuck.

S2 (29:52):
That's. It was fun.

S3 (29:53):
But truly, you know, it's like how I was even, like,
thinking to myself there that I'm like, bitch you to
the Comedy Cellar two months ago.

S2 (29:59):
Yeah. Yeah. That's like, Oh, boy. Real quick. I don't.
Have you met anybody I know? You said.

S3 (30:04):
Oh, the words of wisdom.

S2 (30:05):
Have. Has anybody. Yeah. Have you anybody that gave you game.

S3 (30:08):
Yeah. And it was someone I was so excited that
it could come from even previous just kind of starting
comedy or when I first started in comedy, you know,
you start following people online kind of based on anything
from recommendations to like sharing a stage with somebody or
already knowing something about them, you know? Yeah, but one
of the people I followed for several years, at least,

(30:28):
the past couple has been a comic actor named Felonious Monk. Okay?
And I've always just, like, looked up to him a
lot because he, like, he's writes for TV and does
some acting in it. And he did some stuff that
was like based on his own time in jail. And
I've spent a handful of days also in jail. I
didn't do like a prison stint like he did, but

(30:48):
I still fuck with people that have points of resignation. Exactly.
So he he also, like, just was one of those
people or I was like, I loved his like a
little bit of social activism in his comedy while also
just still being like, funny first. Yeah, exactly. You know,
like you can be all the other stuff too, but.

S2 (31:05):
You can say whatever you want to. Is that the
unspoken rule? You can say almost anything you want to
for sure.

S3 (31:10):
I've never really had.

S2 (31:10):
Better be.

S3 (31:10):
Kind to comics. Say that for me. Better than that.
I'm like, You're never moving on past this mic level. Yeah.
Two people that are at a level that I don't
know if we'll ever attain. Exactly.

S2 (31:20):
Yeah. And I've heard that from a few people. You know,
I made sure that I was soaking up all the
knowledge I could. The best thing I've ever heard. I
met Barry Katz and I didn't know who he was before.
I mean, I know who he was. Scuse me, but
I didn't understand the magnitude he was like. The grades
are they jump in the store or something like that.

(31:42):
I can't remember what he said. Yeah, but he was like,
Are they seeing something or are they hoping to do?
I was like, Damn, he ain't say shit, but he
said everything at the same time. I appreciate.

S3 (31:55):
It. 100. So I kind of was already following Polonius.
And so last April I got on, I did my
first Spotted the Laugh Factory in Chicago and I got passed.

S2 (32:05):
Congratulations.

S3 (32:06):
Thank you.

S2 (32:06):
It's fire. I know. That was a feeling. Going to
come back to that.

S3 (32:09):
Wow. It was cool. It was definitely one of those
moments where it's like, well, I guess that's what I
bled out all over those cornfields for.

S2 (32:16):
You know, that's the aha moment like that, paying off
bills like, you know, And all.

S3 (32:20):
Of that was all of who I am, which is
all of that shit we're talking about shaken up in
this fucking Indiana.

S2 (32:27):
Come on. But, you know, my body is dangerous as fuck,
so it's not that different.

S3 (32:31):
I mean, there is, like, I just had somebody bring
Gary up to me last night in a San Diego
conversation cause I said I was from Indiana, and they
had a Gary story.

S2 (32:41):
You know.

S3 (32:42):
Everybody got a white guy from me who's now like,
he was in Colorado, He's in college at the time.
But somehow he ended up in Gary for like. And
it really riled wild way because he picked up a
woman who is kind of well-to-do or known in the
streets as Gary named LeTendre with his friend in Chicago.
And his buddy got conned into like taking La Honda

(33:03):
from Chicago to Gary with like three of their family members.
So these two white kids end up in Gary. And like,
the guy was telling me last night, it was like
it was apparent right away, you know, that it's like
this is not the right thing. But but let's.

S2 (33:19):
In a dangerous.

S3 (33:19):
Situation like Honda's name was invoked many times and everyone
was basically like. Fine. So whoever you are all the time,
you kept this gentleman alive enough for me to be
able to talk to him.

S2 (33:32):
I'm dead on.

S3 (33:34):
The street last night in San.

S2 (33:36):
Diego. I met somebody. They was like I was out
there and we were just having fun. And it was
just a shootout right around the country. Just a shootout
right out of nowhere. I was, like, left to right
in the middle. I was like.

S3 (33:46):
I mean, I'm alive. But yesterday in Indianapolis, Greenwood Park Mall,
four people were killed. Oh, yeah. Shooter opened up. I mean,
that's it's crazy. I go to that mall, there's a
Carhartt store there, still a car, I swear to God.
Always going to green while I'll get my nails done
and then go to that Carhartt store. Stock up on
my Spinelli beanies for the season back in. Get ready

(34:09):
to growl around the Midwest and various other ignorant ass areas.

S2 (34:15):
Shout out to the victims of that song and in prayers.

S3 (34:18):
Yeah, no doubt towards that. I mean, we're going to address.
Yeah I mean it's not going to see the gun
law change, so no big deal. It's just going to keep.

S2 (34:26):
Happening especially not in Indiana.

S3 (34:28):
I mean Holcomb show dude, did you see that now
two nights ago or whatever they had to call. He
canceled his show because a gunman, Greg.

S2 (34:37):
Robinson.

S3 (34:37):
Oh, my bad. I just I had Corey Holcomb in
my mind from a flyer. Glad you corrected me. But yes,
Greg Robinson or whatever.

S2 (34:44):
He was, South Carolina, a.

S3 (34:45):
Gunman into a club. Dude, that's a literal job. That
could be any place at any time.

S2 (34:51):
Yeah. They say his girl broke up with him or
something like that, and he was like, Everybody get out
would like that. He you nobody, nobody know.

S3 (34:57):
I'm up there talking about skirt curry and I get
splashed curry with a and even nonfatal injury That's just
not the vibe dude it's going to ruin my new sneakers.
It's going to really fuck things up for me. It'll
be great when I come out of it for I
hope I'm just getting I hope to get mortally wounded Tupac.
If I get mortally wounded by a disgruntled incel at

(35:18):
one of my shows. Oh my God.

S2 (35:21):
Yeah.

S3 (35:21):
Sorry for all the trauma for everyone in the room,
but please let me. I please know in advance I
knew this was coming. I'm telling the kinds of jokes
trying to provoke veterans. Okay. Oh, wow. Gotcha. Dad.

S2 (35:34):
You said it.

S3 (35:35):
Sorry, Carl. Do I look like the girl you raped
Slash loved in Numb?

S2 (35:41):
Oh, we.

S3 (35:44):
Oh, sorry, Walter. That's just what the cornfields did to me.

S2 (35:48):
And all.

S3 (35:48):
The dairy we drank in the olden days.

S2 (35:50):
Oh, the.

S3 (35:50):
Dear. Nobody even drinks dairy now. They'd rather kill themselves
than not have a not milk option. And back then,
they're like, But chug this whole milk at school every day.

S2 (36:00):
And why people love cheese. Oh, no doubt. Cheese.

S3 (36:03):
Inflamed.

S2 (36:04):
Inflamed. That's one thing. Indiana yoga, cheese and some pies.

S3 (36:10):
Whoo! All good fried tenderloins there.

S2 (36:13):
Yeah. I don't even know none about that.

S3 (36:15):
I know Frontier Airlines. We like to fry things up,
like Oreos.

S2 (36:20):
Bear fruit or.

S3 (36:21):
Huge turkey legs. And I'm, like, salivating right now, like
Indiana and is like, Oh, my God, I'm so. Yeah,
I would eat all of that. But this year I
saw on maybe the some Indy Instagram page that the
state fair is going to have a dill pickle pizza buffet.

S2 (36:38):
I know that's some Indiana shit. Real Quaker. Let's go
back to that advice you got, because we we got a.

S3 (36:44):
Felonious.

S2 (36:44):
Felonious monk. And you met.

S3 (36:46):
Him. Yes. So he I remember kind of when I
started to get a little bit of stage time at
the Laugh Factory, which I have been able to do
since I moved over there and got that pass. Um. And,
you know, there's just varying. One of the cool things
about moving to Chicago is just like the caliber of
the lineups. You know, it's nothing against Indiana, but it's like, hey, there's.

S2 (37:06):
The glass ceiling.

S3 (37:07):
There's only there what's there. And if it's a lot
less people, I'm sorry, but this might even scientific standards,
if we assess the data, it's like there's just going
to be less.

S2 (37:18):
It's a glass ceiling. That's why I got out of here.
I was I only did comedy for a year in Indiana,
and I said, Fuck this shit, I'm out. I was like,
I ain't. You know what I'm saying? I got I
write about it.

S3 (37:28):
I stayed in there because, like I was saying, I've
been popular, you know?

S2 (37:32):
You know, of course, I was hoping.

S3 (37:33):
It occurred in person. And I love all people, so I'm.

S2 (37:36):
Like, the manager told me you're supposed to be poppin
and dominate your own scene first and then you.

S3 (37:41):
Well, good, because most people act like it's like, not
the play, but I think it's just because they can't.

S2 (37:46):
Yeah, that's the thing too. You got to say you
dominate where you at and then you move around and
then that's kind of.

S3 (37:51):
Well, that's just a little advice before I get to
what Polonius said to me, but where like even I
was thinking about that the other day, you know, when
I was, you know, we always want to be like, oh,
something to go viral or whatever to get that push
or whatever. But I'm like, Dude, I got like 30
to 50 people that any time will pay to do
to see me do comedy, you know, and all these things.

(38:13):
And that right there in and of itself is sustainable,
you know. So there's like a lot of ways to
skin a cat, you know, and like it's just better
to kind of just get into the office most days
of the week as opposed to try to just find
this little moment of virility. Dude, virility doesn't last. And
I'm not saying like it can't sell tickets. I see

(38:34):
it happen and I am friends with people that are
like Tick tock comics and they're still top notch human
beings and all those things. But like it just kind
of depends on what you're trying to build and who
you want to be as far as like what that
looks like.

S2 (38:47):
I was talking to somebody about that too, and I
feel like people in a weed is weave itself out,
but also at the end of the day. Well, yeah, because.
You can either go about it where you take advantage
of it and you really put the time in with
all the time you're getting. Or like you said, you
just kind of ran away for a minute. But then

(39:08):
people are going to stop buying tickets. You know, I'm
saying eventually, if you're not up to par for sure.

S3 (39:13):
And that's why I go home and go ham. I mean,
some of my best work is legitimately done back home.
But it's kind of like.

S2 (39:20):
You said.

S3 (39:20):
It's a room full of my homies. Yeah. So it's
like they're letting me, like I said, like, throw my
clay up on a potter's wheel. And no matter what
comes out, they're like, We'll take it at least $10 worth,
you know? Good job, Bobby. We love you. Proud of
your sobriety. Keep it up, you know?

S2 (39:36):
I like that.

S3 (39:36):
I also don't want to disappoint them. Walter, if I
was a funny kid. Trust and believe that I. Funny
is not out of me now. So it's like. And
I was the kind of person when I was young,
I wanted to make somebody, like, piss laugh. Like I
want to make. I want to hurt your feelings. You're
laughing so hard. That's just always been my motivation. So, like,
I don't always bring that up to the stage, but

(39:57):
if I. If I want.

S2 (39:59):
I can. It's a switch. You can turn it on.

S3 (40:01):
No, but it's like also, I'm just I'm only started.
We just started comedy, you know? So it's like we're
at least for me for five years. It's like I'm
pretty sure I'm going to take a lot of different shapes.

S2 (40:09):
Oh, of course.

S3 (40:10):
How many reps could I even do in the cornfield?
Do I start open mikes to get reps?

S2 (40:14):
Yeah, I'm still using it. Yeah. And I feel like
I don't. I'm you know, I'm getting some opportunities, but
I'm still feeling like I'm a baby, baby, baby. You know,
I'm saying this as I see my you know, so
at least 20 years before you get to a certain stature,
I feel like, well, I feel like a certain people
there's anomalies.

S3 (40:32):
But certainly.

S2 (40:33):
You know, I'm saying but I mean, even even them, though,
like Eddie Murphy and Dave both started like 14, 15.
So I.

S3 (40:40):
Was just about to say.

S2 (40:41):
The nominee.

S3 (40:41):
Jack Knight's name, repeat.

S2 (40:43):
All right, people.

S3 (40:44):
Because of an anomaly. But he was 19 when he
opened for Dave, you know, so that is we can
use him and like his name in those reverent tones
because like he you know, and the thing is, I
never knew Jack Knight personally, just an awareness, like I said,
of people that are killing it at the off.

S2 (41:01):
He was super killing it for sure.

S3 (41:02):
And he's also beloved. Yeah that's different You're going to
see it in the way everybody at the top right
now is absolutely devastated. Exactly. This kid, you know, But
that's what we're talking about. You know, there's these there's
these different kinds of things as far as that's concerned.
And then, you know, we're all kind of together in
the same in.

S2 (41:20):
This same guild.

S3 (41:21):
Same.

S2 (41:21):
Like. Yeah, it's like a it's like a.

S3 (41:24):
All of us coming in with all these different, like
parts of like where, when, you know, these just build
a bears of humans.

S2 (41:33):
Walking around together.

S3 (41:35):
And some change outfits, some change genders and I support
it all. So look at me not being Indiana all
the way. Oh well, well.

S2 (41:44):
Oh did okay so what it is.

S3 (41:46):
So when I finally got to meet him, we got
to show together at Laugh Factory and we're up in
the balcony and I wasn't even going to try to
be like, Hey, talk to me. But eventually he just
moved down to talk to me and he must've like,
I didn't know he watched my set and he just
basically was like asking me some questions about who I
was as a human and what I kind of want

(42:07):
to do. And, you know, talking to him about some
different things, about doing writing and and things. And I
was like, I am like, these are some of my
first club sets. I'm like, I'm from Indiana. We got
a helium, but we don't get like a lot of
raps on it.

S2 (42:21):
Hardly anything but nobody up on us.

S3 (42:23):
You don't have to explain it to me. I don't
want to go.

S2 (42:25):
Oh, I don't. I don't know nothing about it. I'm
just I'm going off of hearsay.

S3 (42:28):
The thing is that hearsay is the say, Oh.

S2 (42:31):
Yeah, you know.

S3 (42:32):
I do all the right things. Even if you think
I'm a dumb, I should be getting booked at that
home club. And I didn't. But guess what pushed me
to get past the Laugh Factory and end up at
the cellar and stay?

S2 (42:42):
That's what I'm saying. So? So I didn't.

S3 (42:44):
Buy the fuckin coop. If it's not your size anymore,
are you no longer eat eggs? Both Fine.

S2 (42:52):
Get out.

S3 (42:54):
But no, even if you don't get out right away,
it's okay. I just left home. I was 38 years old.
First time ever. Yeah, clearly wanted to get out of there,
but I didn't. And it's okay. But I'm also have
a fan. Everybody there now, like we were talking.

S2 (43:06):
Exactly. Everybody has their own time and everybody has their own.
A way of getting to the same destination. Yeah, I
really believe it. Like, it's not linear at all, especially now.
Like we know with the internet you got to you
can be on internet, you can do just stand up
because I met some people, like you were saying earlier, overworked.
That's what I'm saying. Actor commercial.

S3 (43:25):
Oh my God.

S2 (43:26):
It's endless. Like I'm and I see people that I know.
That's my people. That's like on the app on the phone,
like I'm scrolling me like on the phone on the
app commercial. I say, What the fuck me, I want
a commercial, right? I like this, you know? So this
is different ways to be successful is what I'm.

S3 (43:43):
Yes, but here.

S2 (43:44):
And to get there, he.

S3 (43:45):
Basically just kind of like let you know did some
back and forth some by like I.

S2 (43:49):
Like that.

S3 (43:49):
Background with me about like who I am and I
was able to just like even say to him in
the very early parts of the conversation like, hey, I'm
not just these aren't just words for lip service, but like,
I look up to you a great deal and here's why,
You know, like I'm talking about like me wanting to
write for television. Also, even the thing about being incarcerated

(44:10):
and it's how I like, I was able to have
some like moments with a person as like a fan,
but also knowing that, like, I'm also his peer. Yeah, exactly.
At the end of the day, no matter how you
feel about it or whatever, if you guys are sharing
a stage, your peers.

S2 (44:24):
That's why, that's why.

S3 (44:25):
Peers are like obviously created equal. So me please quit. Like, yeah,
I mean, you'll get canceled anyway soon enough, but like,
just quit if.

S2 (44:35):
You don't save yourself an embarrassment, don't you stop. Don't
Kramer yourself.

S3 (44:38):
Please stop asking me if I listen to Rogen. Please
stop talking about me. Just don't talk to me. If
you have a penis and you don't have money, don't
talk to somebody. If you have a penis and you
also do comedy, don't talk to me. It has to
be noncom fucking.

S2 (44:53):
Okay, so you don't date comics either.

S3 (44:54):
I'm not saying I haven't. Don't. One or two. You know,
I'll feature an open for you, but I'll keep it
very quiet to crack me like The Da Vinci Code there.
And I just like I value loyalty and discretion. You
would think I grew up in a mob family and
not the fuckin cornfields. Tom Tomlin and Loco. Oh, no.

(45:16):
But here we are, my cross to bear. But he
basically was just kind of. He saw this craziness in
me because it's manifest. I know I am this on
stage more and more every day. I wasn't there at
the start because it was only 5 minutes at a
time and I was also drunk. So like, I.

S2 (45:33):
Just it takes time to.

S3 (45:34):
All of it takes, you know, you know, like what
we were saying, even seven years in five years is
like you'll just see someone do something that's like, maybe
you've watched a hundred other people do already. But until
that moment of like a personal click with you and like,
we're like, Oh, okay, that's it. You can't unlock that shit.

S2 (45:53):
This is what I need to be doing. Yeah, exactly.

S3 (45:55):
You know, it's just kind of like, it's like those
steps to mastery. It's like, hey, it's going to only
take a thousand reps to get to what that looks like,
but you can't skip day two through 999, so quit
trying to go around it. You just have to go
through and you'll be so much better if you do.

S2 (46:11):
Exactly.

S3 (46:12):
It anyway, you know, and then you'll be able to
like actually meet the people that you're around and not
just be. So what does everybody want me to do?
What should I say to be funny?

S2 (46:22):
On the end of your body, you be able to
stand on your own merit from your own work. You know,
I'm singing.

S3 (46:28):
Songs of there being wild, you know, I'm sure for
10 minutes at the Live factory. But wherever he saw,
it caused him to kind of just like take also
a moment at the end of this conversation to be like, hey, also,
I heard what you said about not being on many
club stages and this being one of your first reps here.

(46:48):
And he was like, You'll do just fine up there.
But he said, Just fine isn't what you're going to
also be doing. He's like, So understand that sometimes these reps,
you won't get the feeling in the general consensus that
you want. But he's like, Just look at the people
out there that you do have so hard by being

(47:09):
yourself and understand in a slow trickle those people make
you a theater kid. Instead of just doing spots at
the Laugh Factory, he was like, And that, you know, And.

S2 (47:20):
I was like, That's deep. Yeah, that's it.

S3 (47:22):
And I was like, so happy to hear it. You know?
It's like things that we contemplate or don't. But either way,
you know, it's like those things are just like, Dude,
that charge my batteries up for like, two years.

S2 (47:32):
Yeah, that's fire. That's fire. And especially coming from somebody
like that, I felt that way a few times. A
few times. And. And it's crazy because there's certain people. That,
like you said. Can give you a few words that
just activate something in you, you know.

S3 (47:49):
Or that you just, like, have the right amount of
respect for. Yeah, exactly. Or reverence for I like I
respect most people that are around, but like the ones
I actually revere or think are funny or want to
spend my free time, like listening to or buying a
ticket to.

S2 (48:02):
Exactly. That you're spending money that's.

S3 (48:03):
Completely fucking different, dude. I'll give anyone a dap.

S2 (48:07):
Yeah.

S3 (48:08):
You know, probably even Louis with his little jack off hand.

S2 (48:12):
Are you So are you a fan of comedy? Um, big. Like,
you can go. You go watch shows and shit, and
you can.

S3 (48:18):
I'm consuming it. I'm consuming it. You know, COVID kind
of changed a little bit of movement for everyone as
far as, like, how you use your spare time now. Yeah. Like,
tiny bit more sensibly. And I haven't been doing like,
I kind of dropped off a mix I haven't really
been making, but I've gotten more stage time than ever.
So like.

S2 (48:37):
Now we're equals out. Right. Cause you can. Sure.

S3 (48:39):
I'm running proper hour now, so it's like.

S2 (48:42):
I want to get all.

S3 (48:42):
The fuckin time.

S2 (48:43):
I want to get on there before we get. You know,
you're too far. What's. What's your hour called?

S3 (48:48):
Asian American Psycho.

S2 (48:49):
Asian American Psycho. And you just recorded it March 10th.

S3 (48:53):
Yeah.

S2 (48:53):
Of this year. 2022.

S3 (48:55):
Mhm. Congratulations.

S2 (48:56):
Okay.

S3 (48:57):
Yeah, I still have care. I'm still carrying the baby
fat around from birthing that little monster.

S2 (49:05):
How long Real quick, how long did it take you?
Because you. Five years. It. Is that all the material
you've ever written for five years?

S3 (49:11):
No way or no.

S2 (49:13):
How long did it take you, I guess, to to
go from. All right, I got this because. Because I
assume you do it in chunks, right? Or well, pieces or.

S3 (49:22):
You wouldn't.

S2 (49:24):
You would.

S3 (49:24):
Assume I have a different process.

S2 (49:26):
Yeah, as in progress.

S3 (49:26):
My system processor is one of the weirder ones out there. Yeah,
I'm not kidding, though. I mean, you can just see
in here, I'm like.

S2 (49:36):
It's a million different processes. So that's.

S3 (49:38):
Well, yeah, cause if you picture the way I've talked
through this podcast, kind of bobbing and weaving, I can
do the same thing on stage and depending on how
much time I have, you know, like I said, even
if I'm being of absolute shit. Burke talking about JonBenet
Ramsey and HPV, I still, like I said, I have
a very intelligent way with it. Yeah.

S2 (49:56):
Yeah, I like that, too.

S3 (49:57):
It knows how to unpack things on like, multi levels. Like,
I don't I just trust if you see this, don't
think that, like, I'm bragging. Like, all of this is like,
beyond me and I'm thankful to have it. And, and
mostly it's just like your.

S2 (50:09):
Headache is just a gift.

S3 (50:10):
Yeah, go ahead and give it to me. Thinking every
day I'm like, I'm going to jump in front of
the l. I don't. I just say that. Nick in Rosemont,
Illinois And I'm not equipped to do this anymore. I'm
I'm fracturing my chops with my Asian mom in sobriety still,
because I can say hello, country. I'm just it sucks.

S2 (50:29):
So. So which of our. When did you know that
you it was done When did you how did it
so how did you do so you just had a
deadline and you just said fuck it.

S3 (50:37):
Well, for the past three years I would say I
had started. Accessing or coming on stage and then getting
into my stream of consciousness as opposed to like having
anything really set out. But I had always kind of
been doing that, even in the drinking.

S2 (50:56):
When you say that, you talking like you could riff,
you can go up there and riff.

S3 (51:00):
Yeah, but it's like it's also curated though, because like
you or I were.

S2 (51:03):
Saying, you had an outline, but.

S3 (51:05):
Always because like I'm coming from an English majors point
of view. So like writing is not hard for me. Exactly.
Most of the things like.

S2 (51:11):
For me, I was like, I write it.

S3 (51:12):
Yeah. So for me, the act, but I don't often
sit down and write either. I'll just like open my
phone notes and put something in there. So it's.

S2 (51:19):
Not that.

S3 (51:20):
You know. Oh, yeah, I know. I'm like, fortunate. It's
like one of my skills. That exact parent thing that
I like took some time in college to do, but
also it was already quite natural.

S2 (51:30):
Yeah, you.

S3 (51:30):
Naturally. But with that said, I just. I have never
done the same exact set in all five years. So
from the open mic level to one, I even recorded
two straight hours signed to a label. I still ran
to different hours. There was some continuity as far as like, honestly,

(51:51):
kind of like when I listened back to it, I
was like, terrified because I was like, Oh my God,
what the fuck did you just do? Because the thing is,
the whole time leading up to the album from when
I signed the contract to when I recorded it, it
all kind of came out of nowhere. I'd been torn
about recording an album with my buddy from the second
I started comedy, but it's still surprising even when you

(52:12):
kind of draw these blueprints up yourself.

S2 (52:14):
Yeah, I know, right?

S3 (52:15):
It will still get you off guard, and sometimes you're
really just, like, not prepared. And so, like, last year,
you know, this kind of came up. I got past
the life after is just starting to headline says, like
all these things, all these growing pains happening simultaneously. I'm like, Oh, no.
You know, it's like leading up to the album, my
English major, just Sane brain was like, Hey, you got

(52:35):
to kind of get this washed out. Yeah, But I
was like, You got time. I would just kind of
see it. And I've historically, since childhood, I've been a procrastinator.
But historically, I want to take this moment aside, not
note to say I was a nice student. So again,
like my class. I wrote it the worst time. One
single edit. It's usually I'm.

S2 (52:53):
The same way.

S3 (52:54):
I'm de la cram.

S2 (52:54):
I'm the same way.

S3 (52:55):
I don't mind taking jokes till I got final form.
You know, I'm just kind of like, Hey, I'm going
to keep shaping this up there, like I said, and
throw it around a bit and see what sticks. Spaghetti. Spaghetti.
Go fuck yourself. They're just pussy jokes. I'm not making
enough money for this to make sense for you to
be mad at me. I made $35 tonight, Linda.

S2 (53:13):
I'm dead.

S3 (53:14):
Like, I'm sorry. You don't think I should have a
stance on Row V Wade because you're pussy ass bitch.
And I can say that as a pussy having bitch
respectfully suck at Karen's. I'm coming for you for the stage.
Head off. Don't even worry about it. It's open season
on apathetic bitches, men, women and gender less. I'm coming

(53:38):
for you.

S2 (53:40):
You finally said, okay, it's.

S3 (53:42):
Going to get me killed. That's what we were talking about.
John Wilkes Booth. Enjoy. This may be my last podcast.
Who knows if you get splattered at La Hoya Comedy
Store tomorrow night.

S2 (53:52):
Oh, you at La Hoya?

S3 (53:52):
Yeah, I'm doing the little one after right after the potluck.

S2 (53:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if that's ever know. Okay.

S3 (53:58):
Yeah. Hernan, you know, just another little call in the
fire and nonsense.

S2 (54:02):
That's where I was just working it. I know. It's move. Yeah.
So the hour, you got it and you did two
different hours and there was continuity. It was continuity.

S3 (54:13):
So like when I listen back to it, to be honest,
I was like, cause I've had a heavy hand in
the editing because I had to, because of the way
I recorded it. Most of our peers, the smart ones,
the sane ones, when you record an album, you're like, okay,
I got X, Y, Z time before the album. Then
you just figure out exactly what jokes you want to tell,
and then you tell them exactly in that order over

(54:35):
and over and over. Now, what you heard me say was,
since you started, have an open mike level drunk, not
giving a fuck any way about any of your feelings
to where we're at five years later. Same person, just
not drunk, only very high now, but similar vibes, similar writing,
similar rhymes. Just the delivery is different, you know. So.

(54:57):
But with that said, I kind of just was like,
I know I have a smart brain I know how
to like.

S2 (55:01):
And you knew what you were saying? Yeah, you edited yourself,
you got it done.

S3 (55:05):
But my brain kind of did it on its own
because to be honest, the night before the album recording,
I was still learning and tinkering like a Tetris thing.
And I know it's terrifying to say because I was
in it and I was in it and I was terrified.
You know, I already had this like that. Maybe that syndrome,
you know, just like this is happening so fast. What

(55:26):
it's like, I'm not sure. Yeah, yeah. And the way
I do comedy is so it's so just, like, truthful
to me, but also profane, like I was saying. And
I have a pastor dad and an Asian mom who've
never seen me. So like, I knew I was about
to put something on the internet forever and ever. Yeah,
that was really going to hurt people that I loved,
even though I had no intention of doing that.

S2 (55:47):
Yeah, but that that's a sacrifice. That's a trade off
for what we do because I'm a yeah, you know,
jokes about my family and I know that like all
of them.

S3 (55:54):
But I even asked to be what is the.

S2 (55:55):
Truth? Yeah, I feel like it's the truth though.

S3 (55:57):
And you guys have this ranch and soy sauce and
trailer moon came out. So both bucket.

S2 (56:02):
And road to Tractor.

S3 (56:05):
Story, you know. Yeah. I'll buy you a house on
this crazy money. Can you just hush and pray for
me like I of the dad keep giving me $100 handshakes.
I love you. Sorry. I can't be better. Yeah, I will. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
I ran. So basically.

S2 (56:20):
So you got it together. I mean.

S3 (56:22):
It came together, and the thing is, I've listened to it,
and it's been so hard because I'm so critical on myself. Yeah, you.

S2 (56:27):
Got to be.

S3 (56:28):
But there's been parts of it where it's like, it's
not ego at all. It's more just I can understand.
I was like, I was just like, Whoa, dude. Even
not having what felt like this kind of corseted structured. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
I was still saying so many of the same things,
but they were coming out in their different way, you know,

(56:50):
over all. Yeah. So it was like I was like, Hey,
this might not be the sanest or safest approach. You know,
maybe this is the last time I record to this
particular label. I don't know. But I think there's no
reason they shouldn't keep me. I'm an Asian-American female in 2022.
Get your diversity game of the. I'm also. You're rooting
for the underdog. I'm from Motown. You know, like I said,

(57:12):
they call the Mayberry in the Midwest, where they called
me gook and spic. And I'm Filipino and white. So sorry.
But let me sell out a show with 65 people
and you guys shutting the fuck up about.

S2 (57:25):
Exactly. You, you.

S3 (57:27):
I'm not really even that cool. And I've never been trying.
It's clear.

S2 (57:32):
So. Okay, so you got that. Let's get.

S3 (57:35):
So, like, what's.

S2 (57:36):
What's the next album? No.

S3 (57:37):
For me.

S2 (57:38):
Yeah. Are you working on the next album or how
did you want to.

S3 (57:41):
Work on right now?

S2 (57:42):
Truly, for you, what's the next goals?

S3 (57:44):
A personal podcast. We're releasing a merch line and then
working on my what would be my like a one
man show, something that I could take to Edinburgh Fringe
Fest and I can use like multimedia in the background
and like take people through kind of, like I said,
a story because I am a storyteller, English major. So

(58:06):
it's like that's even I mean, I honestly kind of
I don't mean to say this like a sellout, but
I was even told Walter today verse spoken word and
came in here where I'm like, Dude, there's so many
other things that I want to do, but like, I
like comedy and comedy.

S2 (58:19):
Open the Door.

S3 (58:20):
Yes. And comedy mean in my spirit. Like I said,
if I'm making my buddies laugh at a funeral. Yeah,
from childhood. Heard the other day, it's like, sorry, this
is where we're at.

S2 (58:30):
He started with comedy. And is he does he do
everything now? So it's always.

S3 (58:34):
And I could easily just start with comedy and one
of you dumb dudes come up to me at the
stand and be like, Hannah, I'm a multimillionaire and you
don't have to do this anymore. And I'll be like,
Thank you so much. Let's go to Martha's are Oh,
if you show me your black card right now and
six inches girth, I'm over it. Yeah, I know. I'm

(58:55):
going to have to film this special because I'm in
contract for after that, no one will ever see me
again until I'm running the hottest open mike in Barbados.

S2 (59:05):
Barbados?

S3 (59:06):
And people, I'm just flying the stars in a rocking
crash over cocktail hour. I don't want to do this.
It's too hard. You know, like we said, Asian-American female
in comedy is like, That's not without Frogger. Like, obstacle.

S2 (59:20):
Oh, yeah, You got it. You got.

S3 (59:21):
It. But I'm an old ass bitch, you know? And
I want to play those games. I played the Oregon
Trail on Commodore Computer. Sorry, but, like, I can make
it in today.

S2 (59:29):
Yeah. Okay, so before we get out of here, was
some you five years in was something you would tell
some younger comedians that are five years or comedians that
are a little more in that maybe haven't got a
chance to sound a label, do a special. Like what
advice you got for me?

S3 (59:44):
You were the general one. It's the only bit of
advice I even want to give being this this little
of time into it and clearly not taking it serious.
Thank you for everyone who continues to work with me
while watching me act like a jackal and seemingly unprepared.
But I'm really surprising us all, so I'm working on it.

S2 (01:00:03):
Dear. You are leery.

S3 (01:00:07):
Of like, Oh my God, I was like, We're we're even.
What was I talking about? Right before the.

S2 (01:00:11):
We, we, um. What advice would you give you on. Okay.

S3 (01:00:15):
If you haven't started comedy, this is the only advice
I have for you. The only way you can ever
get to where I am or any of the people
that you look up to is to do that first
five minute mike. So if you don't get on stage
that very first time, you're never going to fucking get
to day thousand. Like I was saying on the journey
to Mastery, if you want to be a master, even
if you want to be an unfunny master because they're
out there.

S2 (01:00:35):
They're you jealous.

S3 (01:00:37):
Those white males are getting most of the stage time
that I would work desperately to get and it will
take me management and five fucking extra years, even grinding
a thousand times harder and being way braver on stage
to get a third of the screen time that they get.
That's just if you want, in the synopsis of what
it feels like to be, you know, Maya Fried Egg
Roll in comedy, that's how I feel. So I'm frustrated

(01:00:59):
and I meditating. I'm working on.

S2 (01:01:01):
It, you know?

S3 (01:01:01):
Yeah, But yeah, so like, there's good advice that you
just got to get in there because like, if you
don't have day one, you can't get today too. So that's,
that's it on that level too. When you're in it,
you know, stop being a fucking asshole. You know, I've
gotten booked. I get booked more actually. And I think
a lot of the love that I get in scenes

(01:01:22):
that are not my own are from my offstage behavior
as opposed to anything I've ever said. Funny or not,
on stage.

S2 (01:01:28):
The networking.

S3 (01:01:29):
Networking. Yeah, but you don't even got to look at
it like networking. If I'm going to be.

S2 (01:01:33):
In the.

S3 (01:01:33):
Community and chill. Exactly.

S2 (01:01:35):
Being recognized in.

S3 (01:01:36):
The office, you recognize you're going in there. And even if,
like some of them aren't talking to you yet or
your form doesn't get you on to certain things, you're
still in your community. And so if you don't act
like a person, you know, guess what? Probably the employees
of the month get promoted faster. And how do you
get to that position? Aside from brown nosing, people got
to like you a little bit, homie. Like there doesn't

(01:01:58):
need to be people that give you a human vouch
in comedy. A human vouch will push you so much
further in a slingshot.

S2 (01:02:04):
Talking about any.

S3 (01:02:05):
Stupid credit you can have. I see comics all the
time where I'm like, Oh, they got all these credits
jaffle that I want, you know, things Comedy Central, this,
that and the other. But there's they can't sell any
tickets or do any kind of stuff, which is all fine.
I'm not saying that everyone has to be doing that,
but if you're actually going to make money, you got
to be doing that. So it's like, you know, there's.

S2 (01:02:27):
It's it's a way of doing it, you know. What
I'm saying is, yeah, I know what you're saying. You
got to figure that out. Essentially. You got to figure
that out.

S3 (01:02:33):
And it's a day to day tinkering. Yeah, Go to
the office every day and see what you can play
around with. You know, you do that most days of
the week. You'll have something viable at the end.

S2 (01:02:42):
I like that.

S3 (01:02:43):
Or you'll have camaraderie and some of the best friends
you've ever known and just do something as a hobbyist,
which is perfectly fine too.

S2 (01:02:50):
Yeah, Yeah. But I think, like you said, you get
the hammer on here is just at the end of
the day, you just got to keep showing up. And
I learned the people that even show up the most.
Like you say, you ain't got to be the funniest.
But if you around the most or if you and
if you keep showing up to the barbershop, eventually you'll
get a haircut. Like if you stay around the right

(01:03:10):
person in place. Situation timing. You know something I happen
and and I've met people where it's been on opposite
end and they were they like opened for I mean
they did a good set in front of somebody big
when on tour when they was like six months in
and bombed everywhere and then nobody want to fuck with
them for ten years. So, you know, you got to
make sure you be careful how you.

S3 (01:03:31):
Of the year. Yeah.

S2 (01:03:32):
Make sure you put your work in.

S3 (01:03:34):
Is the greatest advice we give you in a truthful
way at the end of this podcast. Be on the work,
you know, you guys know if you're funny or not,
and I'm not saying, like, your jokes can't get better.
Miner Yeah, if I really start trying to him it up,

(01:03:55):
you fuckers better get out the way. I'm what? I'm
going to get my heart right with Jesus Christ. I'm
going to be turned into a clean comic so my
parents can watch me. I can have like that ease.
I'll just tour around with John Chris selling out stadiums
that are triple the side of size of anything you've
ever seen as the prodigal daughter. Return back to Jesus.
I'm David Ortiz, Pastor's wife on the circuit. You think

(01:04:18):
I'm five years away from that?

S2 (01:04:20):
You are.

S3 (01:04:21):
Let me saying that made me cough because I realize
I'm like, if you could make that happen next year,
your life could change drastically, drastically. And I think you've
got the brain to do it. But I'm just have
the wiring in me is like, fuck the police and
my parents. I'm doing three albums for me, then I'll
get it up. You know, my dad taught me we can,

(01:04:42):
you know, it was okay if somebody got a graveside conversion.
You know, you.

S2 (01:04:46):
Go jail.

S3 (01:04:47):
Side, whatever you're about to fry and die. I'm in there.
I'll turn that beat around. And at seven years old,
net $50 million, dude, which I give away because I'm
a better person than people like pencil addict Elon Musk
and the other people y'all are jerking off to. That's
another pod.

S2 (01:05:05):
Well, thank you for that and we really appreciate it.

S3 (01:05:07):
We got to get in there, fuckers. We're not getting
out alive. Help others.

S2 (01:05:11):
Well, thank you for coming out and I appreciate you.

S3 (01:05:13):
Walter, thanks for listening to the Hilariously Blunt.

S2 (01:05:16):
I know you did. You did a whole set on
this podcast. What does that be? It was killing it.
So that's.

S3 (01:05:23):
My material.

S2 (01:05:24):
I know.

S3 (01:05:24):
I'm just kidding.

S2 (01:05:26):
Maybe, possibly in the future, you might just. Oh.

S3 (01:05:29):
God. Yeah. I just released this podcast as special on
my Patreon. That would be next level. I don't really
see how popular the.

S2 (01:05:36):
NFT is about that.

S3 (01:05:38):
I'm going to wait a little longer.

S2 (01:05:39):
Thank you for coming, Indiana. Yeah, my name is Walter Ford.
This has been a highly Blount podcast. Shout out to
March Nash. You'll be blessed. You're.

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