Unraveling the Complexity of Comedy : Addison Hall

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because it means you're on this like the first
rung of like working right, uh,and you still do open mics and
you'll have these new guys whoare trying.
You can't tell if it's likeCalculate it, where, like
they're purposely sucking up toyou so it's like hopefully they
can get something from you, orlike like they're like oh yeah,
let me stroke his ego and thenmaybe down the line He'll give
me something, but it's like ohyeah, no, do you at different

(00:20):
level tonight.
It's like no, I'm not.
I'm here at the open mic withyou.
I'm, but I'm waiting to do mythree minutes and then I'm gonna
go home like we're not, I'm not.
Like I'm not.
I'm not like, oh yeah, you knowI'm a freaking feature act for
the funny ones.
No, did I do road work?
Is it good road work?
It's like I don't know.
I'm doing a lot of.

(00:40):
I'm doing a lot of motelconference rooms, which is
pretty cool.
So that's that's like the wildthing, this art man.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
This is true art.
We already started, man, but Ineed to say this I know who's
getting into it, but I'm gonnatry something different right
here, man.
Thank you, gentlemen, this isno ID podcast.
Welcome back season nine.
I got here a guy about fouryears ago Great guy.
He used to give me a lot ofstill does give me a lot of

(01:11):
advice on the stage.
He's roll comic.
I've seen him kill a room.
Yeah, I know him as Cal you,yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's Kai.
You thank you very much.
They can't see, because I havemy hat on, because my
girlfriend's a hippie andrefuses to turn the heat on,
despite the fact it's cold inour home.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
The white little bill .

Speaker 1 (01:37):
There we go.
I like that one, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
My friend man, a good brother of mine, addison Hall,
was going on.
Baby oh nothing room.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
How are you, buddy?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm good bro, I'm a little tired, but I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I didn't think about.
It is like it sucks that likelittle bills.
Kind of dark now because he'sconnected to big bill.
He's out now.
Dude, he's good, he beat thecharges.
Now, I didn't know they gotsomething else on his ass do
they for real God that he saw,he looks, he's all blind and

(02:14):
shit.
He's what he has to be close to90.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know what I mean.
I think so.
I think he is at the 90, Ithink he's at those gas pump
numbers.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's been odd one.
That's be a real odd one.
To like you're a judge and youhave to like oh man, I'm
presiding over Bill Cosby.
Oh gosh, shoot, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Man Cosby show the same.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, dude, are this like this like weird, like nice
sweaters, like bright colors?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
He knows crazy.
He is in my top ten.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Isn't that?
Isn't that a bummer?
We're like he's a great, he's agreat comic.
I was thinking about that.
I was.
I was listening to MichaelJackson.
I like a lot of MichaelJackson's early stuff.
You know, I got a lot of shitlike that.
Shit's so catchy, but then it'sjust like, oh oh, he probably
does, he might have done awfulthings, it's a.
It's a.

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It's a very like that Um,separating the art from the
artist thing you know, like Offit's not comedy, but like in
movies like Roman Polanski.
Like Chinatown is a great film,but Roman Polanski is a horrible
human being.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, bro, like I watched Bill Cosby.
We have Bill Cosby show, cosbyMysteries, the Cosby show and
people don't realize this, cuzI'm a big fan of different
variations of comedy was he didCosby Like he had a adult theme
Show on CBS and it came on with.
Everybody loves Raymond.

(03:44):
That's what everybody lovesRaymond, king of Queens.
It's like late 90s late 90s.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I didn't know that I was.
I knew you did some other stuff.
I Personally.
What is the Cosby mysteries?
Was he Scooby doing it up?
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Was.
He had a young most done.
He had like most deaf was upthere, wow oh.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wow, dude, I had such a crush on Alicia Keys.
She was in a film calledsmoking aces and she was so hot,
she was so beautiful, oh dude,but like.
All I can think about if it'sCosby mysteries is us him
framing people for crime.
Yeah, that's the bummer thing,man.

(04:26):
You gotta like separate the artbecause like his art was like
Dude, he was huge, he wasfreaking huge.
Like he started like the 50sMm-hmm, being like a, like an
African-American starting likedoing like mainstream comedy in
the 50s.
That's, that's an achievement,you know, like you put all the
other bad shit aside, that'sthat's pretty freaking

(04:49):
impressive.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
So again, he's got to separate the art from the
artist like sitting down withpsychologists to Produce the
Cosby show so it won't give anynegative stereotypes, but not to
build Cosby show when he waslike a gym teacher, then doing
Cosby and then it's a horrorsource with some Cosby like the

(05:11):
one where he's like a retiredpilot or like, yeah, she was an
airport.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, someone do with the airport?
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
You can't find it on Prime, but you can find a bitch
on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure, like that dude, whoever owns
the rights to the Cosby show ispissed.
They're so pissed.
They have a beloved show andthey're like I can't, no one
wants to buy for me.
It's like, yeah, that dude didstuff.
I have to be a bone.
Imagine all those other actorswhere it's just like they're
missing that check of themselling it like you know what I
mean, like selling it to Netflixand there's like, okay, we just

(05:47):
not.
Can we give Bill's money tolike a charity?
Can we get, can you sell tosomeone please?
Cuz I mean those royalty checks.
Man, I don't know how muchreading you've done on that, but
like you're like freakin.
Jerry Seinfeld was like makinglike a million dollars a month
just from like cuz they wereshowing the site Seinfeld and
some weird country in Asia.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's a go-to man but like I show was like they
still play it.
They play it on like a blockfrom six to eight on TV one and
then early in the morning fromlike seven to nine, but it would
not play Cosby.
They will play the Cosby show,that is it and it's only select

(06:31):
episodes that they play, like Iremember there was did the thing
with.
Elvin was up there and he wasgoing broke.
He's working in Whole Foods.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, he's like man.
The money ain't that good.
Cosby's the same thing you said.
Yeah, they ended up going onpower with fifty-seven.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's what it is.
Oh, good for me.
Got something out of it, man.
Um it's.
You know Jerry Seinfeld.
One of those dudes was like.
He was like a few years ago hedid something for Netflix where
it's like him going through hisold notebooks and as I go I got
a sparring comic that was reallyinteresting to watch.
You just like watching this.
Do work a bit about like coathangers.
He was like hey, what's?
the deal with coat hangers, likeI got that, but it's funny cuz.

(07:14):
Like You're clearly on thecleaner side of comedy.
Like one of my dudes is RichardPryor.
Like I grew up watching, likeWatcher, watching Richard Pryor
specials in his movies.
Like like was it the toy?
And then when he did with theguy who played Willy Wonka were
like they're blind and oh.
It's like see no evil here, noevil.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, like him.
He's a fascinating guy where hecame from, just like the
background he came up in, andthen, like he was trying to do
the clean thing, trying to doyou know what Bill Cosby was
doing, and then he was just like, nah, now I'm gonna do my thing
, I'm gonna do me, and then justjust blew up.
You just and it's funny, cuzlike I've always talked about

(07:56):
the comics in my opinion it'slike you're either a Richard
Pryor guy or your George Carlinguy.
You know what I mean like youwant to either Want to be the
funniest talk, telling all yourwildest stories on stage, or you
want to be a guy trying to makesome like poignant point in the
humorous fashion.
So I'm definitely a RichardPryor guy.
I like being bombastic and loud.
I Silly Billy.

(08:19):
That's my, it's my goal, dudeman yeah, pryor was like.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Pryor took that realism to another level.
That first company special backin, what was it?
7678 you call me on YouTube.
Yeah, it was half hour special.
I can't repeat none of thejokes.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I definitely can't.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was wrong, man.
Yeah, this shit talked aboutfree-basing cocaine like it's.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
That's wild.
He said, I'm so on fire.
He's like isn't this ridiculous?
And I was like, yeah, that'scrazy.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'll be a sin Bravo, how long you been doing counting
my man.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
This year is my fifth year I I started in July, so
like I'm about yeah, so fiveyears in, I'm gonna be rounding
six before too long.
So, damn and Love it.
I I can't a real out of curseon this.
I'm trying to like, yeah, okay,cool, I was.
I was trying to figure out whatI can I can't do.

(09:24):
Now, man, I really do love it.
It's, it's the.
It is the funnest thing I do.
And it's funny because, likeyou'll meet dudes we're like me.
You, I think, mean you're verysimilar personality wise, but
our comic style is verydifferent.
So it's always fun to like, pickyour brand on comedy, like, do,
like some of the bits you work,I'm just like that's clever I'm
.
I'm such a neanderthal Icouldn't write that.

(09:46):
That's what I love about thisstuff, man.
And you'll get guys.
We're like I don't know ifyou've seen Brandon Romero
Ramirez lately, that kid isgetting sharp and he's always
he's been good since he started.
But, man, some of the, some ofthe bits he does and I'm like
that's so funny, that's so good.
Or like my buddy Matt HubbardI'm sure you know I'm out of

(10:06):
Virginia Beach.
Oh, he has this bit about likea water slide and I'm like
that's so good, that's so funny.
That's what I love about it.
Man is like the people who arereally about it.
You can really sit down andreally talk to them about comedy
and their perspectives are sointeresting, because you'll get
guys like like I find JoshGideon like he's a new guy

(10:30):
around here.
I'm sure you've run into him.
The stuff he writes is sofascinating in the way he's
trying to approach it, as youcan see, he's like in that
Crystallizing of what he wantsto present on stage.
We're like you know, like youknow you're four years in, I'm
five, I mean you've donehundreds of shows.
We've been, we've been paid todo this.
We kind of know how we want topresent ourselves on stage.

(10:50):
We kind of know the personawe're going for and you're, I'm
kind of watching this new guy,josh, because he's just, he's
this big, handsome kid, I'msmart and he he's kind of doing
this like a Shy, naive guy thingon stage, but he's talking
about like dark stuff and I it'sreally interesting to watch him
kind of like Figure out how thepiece all that together, and

(11:13):
that's why I like it.
Man, it's like that.
You know, being on shows we'reall doing very Different acts in
a very similar fashion, whichis fun.
You know, like me and you, on ashow is always interesting
because you go up there and youhave these sharp, tight written
bits and I'm up there just likedoing bits, then going at the
crowd for a second, then doingbits, going at the crowd for a
second.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's fun.
I'm some of my crowd work fromyou.
Who's yeah, I think was eitheropen mic or a show we did with
Noel Goodman, evan Winsberg atCape Ola yeah the fire.
It was a fireman in the front,he was oh yeah.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, that was the same one.
Like I found out uh, like I was, I was doing bits and like
found out like half the crowdare farmers.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, that was the same nightand I was like, oh shit, you
guys are all farmers, nice, youguys are doing well for
yourselves here.
This is a nice restaurant.
I know that, I know well, it'sfunny because, like, uh, when

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it's a show run by a friend ofmine and there's friends and
there's my friends on the show,I'm more, I'm way more willing
to take risks, doing crowd workand stuff, because it's like you
guys know I'm funny.
So if this doesn't go well youguys know I'm funny it's not
like well, this guy sucks, um,like at that one, uh, one of the
things I remember the most islike, so the picture of k-bolly
for the listening audience.
We were on like a, like a sidebalcony kind of thing, like a

(12:36):
little patio, um, and they hadthese pillars, so we're kind of
off from the road, and along oneside wall Was like a window and
it was probably like a eightfoot long window and there was
like a.
It was connected to a differentrestaurant, not not capable of
a different restaurant, and thestage was like right next to it.
So I I was having fun.
I would like point at people atthe end of the other restaurant

(12:57):
, like one guy looked like, uh,george rr martin from game of
game of thrones.
I was like, oh, shoot guys,it's george rr martin, which In
retrospect was a bad thing to gowith because, like, the people
in the back of the room couldn'tsee it, but the people up front
loved it because they could seeit.
And then the guys inside likewhy is that weird bald guy
pointing at me?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, he was looking with everybody.
And then I like how, after youfinish getting off, say you
walked up to the fire, and hewas like hey man, it's just
shows, I'm all in.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
That's something I'm really big on, man.
Um, you know, like you talk.
We talk about like this, likefiguring out what you want to do
with this thing.
Right, you want to figure outwhat you want to do with the art
of comedy.
I mean, my goal, ultimately, isto be a guy where it's like you
pay the money to come see meand you get a night where you
forget about Whatever.
Like I'm not gonna, not gonnabring up some Tragedy that

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happened recently, I'm not gonnatry to challenge your
perspective on something.
It's like hey, man, this is mylife, this is some weird stuff
that happened to me.
Let's, let's, let's laugh.
And so when I do crowd work,might, my goal All the time is
to be fun.
It's never to be insulting,because like there's some dudes,
especially a lot of new guys,where it's just like their whole
thing is they insult theaudience, they're just like
shitty to the audience membersand like I just I don't, I don't

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like that.
That's not, that's not why I'mdoing this.
Like I want comedy to be fun.
I don't want someone leavingfeeling like shit and then they
don't want to go to anothercomedy show, that's what.
So that's why I always makesure where like I, if I got
someone for a little bit, Ialways make sure I shake their
hand.
I'm like, hey, man, is thisjokes?
Hey, thank you for being a goodsupport, that kind of thing.
So Because I mean my opinion,that should be the goal.

(14:30):
If you're trying to piss theaudience off, you know me and
you were doing different thingsif you're trying to make the
audience upset, so I'm trying toget the audience to come back
and, yeah, follow me and followme.
Share my podcast with everybody.
If you're on a business, makeit mandatory for your employees

(14:51):
to listen.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man , what's been one of the
greatest things of comedy thatyou you've done, like seen or
are done?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
seen or done in a comedic fashion or Resulted from
me doing comedy both.
Um, honestly, the thing I'mreally grateful for is like we
talked about like I didn't havethe easiest upbringing.
Um, you know, I come from poorwhite folk and we we, we moved a
lot because, you know, moneywas always tight so we're always

(15:25):
like having to move to adifferent house and stuff like
that.
And you know it didn't have alot growing up and I like that I
could do comedy and so, likethat ended up leading me being a
drug addict and like I'm fouryears sober from Oxy.
It was just oh yeah, it's ablessing.
But I like I can impartexperiences I've had with people

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, like I've had talks aftershows where it's just like, oh
yeah, that's how I grew up too,that's cool to see someone else
doing well from that.
Or like I talked to a guy lastSaturday.
I did push comedy theater lastSaturday and a guy walked up to
me afterwards and he's like, hey, man, you don't remember me,
but I saw you at a Fox Hill likesix months ago, which was like
an open mic I was going to for awhile, run by this guy named

(16:07):
Connor Pittman.
In Hampton.
There was a music mic, but likehe was inviting comics and I
was one of the guys he invited.
But like I was like, yeah, man,no, I'm officially two years
sober myself and it was you'rethe reason I decided to start
comedy.
He's like taking the class atpush comedy theater.
I was like, oh wow, man, well,congrats, this is the best thing

(16:28):
, you're going to love it.
This is the best thing.
So that was really cool.
I like that.
I can be like a thing thatconnects people in a way where
it's like, hey, you're not alone, this weird struggle.
And like I do it in a nonserious way.
I'm not like, oh yeah, I was adrug addict.
My life fell apart.
Like no, dude, it was kind ofall right.
You know he's terrible, Ishouldn't have done it but hey,
I like that, that's really cool.

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I, like the group of friends Ihave, I've been very blessed,
like you know you Nick, you knowBrandon Pabone, I've met so
many great dudes and, like Isaid, like every time I see you,
rome, I'm like hell, yeah, like, yes, cool, it's gonna be a fun
night.
It's like Rome's here.
This will be fun If it's not meand Rome.
We look at each other like hey,another terrible one.

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So that's fun.
Like I'm very grateful for that.
That comedy is providing mewith that Because you know what
I mean All of us are sodifferent, from such different
walks of life and temperamentsand stuff like that, and it's
cool.
It's cool getting to know eachother.
Like me and me and our buddy, Imean Wood, we're on a show up in
Richmond, just getting the ridewith him, and it was us.

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We spent the night just hanging, just bullshit, and then that
was fun, it was just cool.
Best comedic wise, I don't know.
I've had a lot of really funmoments.
Man, like I work a bit aboutwork being in the trades and I
this is at Kazi's one night andthe place is packed and there's
this guy in the front row bigguy, big ass, big old catcher,

(17:51):
mitts on him and he's just likehousing this play to nachos and
I was like, hey man, you in thetrades, and when you're in the
trades like you mechanic, and hestarted laughing.
When you're on the mechanic,I'm like I fucking knew it and
the crowd just like blew up.
And this is I.
That was.
That was a really fun one.
Crushing at a sold out showwhere there's like almost 300
people in the crowd, that was.

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That was wild.
You know, like like I workedwith a guy named Matt Bronger.
He's a great comic Fantasticdude out LA and he had it like
he was that Sandman and I wasworking the weekend.
This was like last year, latelast year, and just from top to
bottom I crushed the wholeweekend.

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But like the day before I wentup there I had to take my mom to
the emergency room.
She's like shaking and like thenext day I'm like going and I'm
like, oh yeah, my mom's goingto die.
That sucks.
And then day of my truck died.
So yeah truck to seized up on mein a parking garage in New
Brnoose.
So I took my girlfriend's carup there and I get there and the

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dude's like, hey, man, how youdoing.
And I just want to be like,yeah, great, dude, I'm fucking
awesome, things are great.
And then I just crushed, likethat was, that was fun.
It was fun to be able to like,having spent a lot of time doing
this, a lot of time like reallystudying this art, wanting to
be good at it and wanting to begood back to it.
Do you know what I mean?
Like it's been good to me, so Ishould be good to it.

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That's why, like, I'm reallybig on talking to new guys and
trying to like, hey, youshouldn't do this, this is good,
don't do that, Because I feellike I got rewarded.
Like this thing I've put a lotof time into.
I was able to crush, despitethe fact that I was in a
terrible, terrible placeemotionally and that was cool.
That was a cool thing of this,like, oh, I've been drilling
this thing for so long and I'mfucking great at it now.

(19:40):
Um yeah, it's been a lot ofgreat moments like that man.
A lot of cool stuff comes fromdoing this, so blessings.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
You get to meet a lot of people too, man.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Great people.
Yeah, a lot of great people.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
You get to see a lot of stuff Like I enjoy
conversations after the show.
Those will go over specials andyour face drops.
When I named some of thecomedians that I actually
watched, I was like, yeah, Iwatched John Mulane.
He was like you fucking wouldwatch.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
John Mulane, you would do that.
That sounds like one.
Well, that's what I like, manis.
The beautiful thing aboutcomedy is people who don't do it
.
They hear it and they think, oh, it's comedy.
Where it's like one singularthing, where it's like, oh, it's
, that's country music, it'srock music.
But comedy is like music wherethere's all these different guys
.
It's all these different guysLike like I love a dude named

(20:26):
Dan Cummings and I haven't metmany people who watched him.
He's great, I love anything likehim.
Then like Patrice O'Neill, andthen I like Bernie Mac, and then
I like the blue collar guys.
Like I listen to a Jeff Foxworthy album from like 87.
And it's just this dude in somehonky tonk, just crushing, just

(20:48):
crushing, and this is like hell, yeah and man, that's that's
what I love, man.
And like like Taylor Tomlinson,like that's the perspective of
just like a pretty petite whitegirl.
Like that I don't have.
I don't have a clue about anyof that.
You know what I mean, but shehad a bit about.
Like trying to make a guy weara condom for sex is like trying
to make a kid wear a coat for aHalloween costume, and it's just

(21:09):
like that's so good, so funny,yeah, so funny.
And like I love that becausethat's like me and you are never
going to write that bit, butyou hear that bit and you're
like that's great, that's a goodbit, you know, that's that's
what I love about this art, thisart form.
Man, it's way more broad anddiverse than most people think.
Like, if you, if you're not acomedy fan, if you're just like
watching this because you'relike I don't know Rome's friend

(21:30):
or girl who's obsessed with themor something like that, that's
you should check out comedy.
There's, there's someone foryou, there's someone who's going
to have a perspective or athought you've had and you're
like, holy shit, holy shit, andthat's gonna like blow it up.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Fun fact Cat Williams just opened up for Jeff
Foxworthy.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Fucking for real.
Oh dude.
Oh my God, I would.
I would cut my foot off to seethat show.
That's a wild show, dude.
Oh man, cat Williams is so highenergy though, and, like Jeff
Foxworthy, is so slow.
That's interesting.
Oh, cat, cat Williams isanother dude.
I love Cat Williams, dude, thatguy is fucking so funny, so

(22:11):
funny.
Oh man, he pushes me.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
I think, from just repeat what you like, just going
back on what you said, likejust seeing, in my opinion, like
the best thing that's everhappened to me in comedy One is
getting out the house.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
That's getting out the house too.
Is I get to challenge myself onthat stage because probably
calm.
Well, I used to fucking suckback in the day.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I suck, bro it took you a minute, but when you found
the rhythm, you found therhythm.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
The lockdown was the best thing that's ever happened
to me, bro.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, because you were doing those virtual mics
hard once you all over the placeon virtual.
I hate virtual mics, man,because, like I have, I'm like
the opposite of you, becauseyou're like a smart, clever
writer where me is like I got tofill this crowd, I got to know
what the crowds, you know what Imean.
Like I can't do that in avirtual room.
I did one, I did one show and Idid it because the guy was like
hey, man, come on please.

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And I was like okay, and I didit and I apparently did well,
but I felt like I was bombingthe whole time.
You know what I mean?
You're just in the, you're justin a room like this, me like so
I'm a bald guy.
I started balding young andwhen you start balding young,
it's like guys were goingdevelop personality and then,
like you don't feel anything,you're like I'm bombing, you
just want to like dive out ofthe way of the camera.
I did a lot of people.

(23:29):
Hey, won't you have a virtual?
I've never done one of those,ever, not one time.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I was crushing.
I was crushing Sold out Wi-Fistadium.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh, dude, oh dude.
Yeah, I had so many peoplewatching me.
I was just duttering, dude.
Even the Wi-Fi was laughing.
The Wi-Fi was having to stop tocatch his breath.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I did one called the art of bombing oh that's kind of
sure.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
That makes the comics butthole pucker.
You're like, oh no.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
When do wrong out of guitar.
Another one was a ventriloquistdummy.
Another guy didn't give nofucks.
He was just drinking a monsterdrink and just just rip it.
Hey bro, who are you ripping onthe front porch Like it's
nothing?
Dude, I was like oh shit Crazy.
Yeah, I still do the virtualmic sometimes, yeah, I think

(24:31):
it'd be fun.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
The one I had the most fun with was like I had a
buddy of mine was at like a desk, like how I am, but he had the
camera set back so you can seethe front of the desk and he had
like a microphone like pointedup here so he looks like a news
anchor and like I was out on myfront porch and it was supposed
to be like we were doing setsbut me and my buddy just ended
up dominating the show.
We ended up running a fake newsreport and I was the field

(24:54):
reporter and I was like back tothe studio with Andrew and
Andrew.
So the Chinese are invading, wehave a special reporter on the
ground at it's and hall, take itaway.
And I was like yeah, theChinese are here to collect the
debt that the American peopleowe them and they will get
theirs.
I'm like in my front yard justshouting.
Virtual mics man Virtual mics.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
You do them on zoom still yeah, zoom and uh, forget
the other one man.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
I wonder if someone started like a virtual comedy
club yet Like on Discord, let'sstart a Discord server for the
purpose of doing comedy shows.
Looks like I'm gonna bringpeople in.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
They did them on Twitch.
They was on the one Twitch fora minute.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
They're on Twitch man , that's a, that's a tonight
show thing.
At that point, doing a TV show,I Pitch that.
I pitched that the TyrellTyrell used to have this show
called a Ty water tonight and Iwas like dude you should.
Just, you should bring that back.
It should just be you and youshould sit at a desk and you
should read news reports fromaround the Hampton Rose area and

(26:01):
then, like, write jokes aboutthem.
And you can do it on Twitch,you can do it on Instagram and
YouTube.
It was funny cuz like my.
I was telling my girlfriendabout that.
My girlfriend's, like, why doyou always pitch shows for other
people?
You should be at your own show.
Fair enough, fair enough, I'lldo that.
Yeah, I mean, I think I thinkthere is um, like there's a

(26:22):
reason I have this setup.
I think, um, I'm at a pointwhere I know I'm good.
I'm comp, I'm a competentcomedian, but I want to expand
my audience more.
I want to.
I want to do more stuff.
Like it's it's cool.
It's cool being well knownaround the state and like you
know people going out.
I know this guy's a good comic,but I would like to be able to
do Carolina's.

(26:43):
I like to do they let you.
Pennsylvania, maryland, youknow so.
But like You're not gonna dothat just by doing mics and
Hampton.
So you gotta expand a littlebit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I was always like man.
This is it.
I'm glad when I'm started apodcast, I was that's smart.

(27:03):
I gotta figure out something todo on my own.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I only started a podcast cuz I bomb Real bad.
They cut the lights off on meand then I started.
Oh and I wrote a bit about it.
I was like, oh yeah, I wrote abit.
A thing to be I was talkingabout with the old black ladies
was like I said it was a blackchurch, it was a black church
crowd at a bar, which probablyis funny now that I think about

(27:31):
it.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh, that's hilarious.
What if this is?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
what a spot yeah but yeah, man, that's why I started
a pod, and then I tried to get acouple of comedians out here in
75 and I didn't know who's who.
So then I just like, let mejust dig in my bag.
You really got the first seasonof no idea.
Man, my mom up there, my sister, cousin, I it's the co-worker

(27:55):
from the job, random people it'slearning man.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
That's like you.
That's the thing like what Ilike about you doing the podcast
is like so many dudes aroundhere start a podcast and they'll
do like eight episodes andthey're like, well, I'm not
famous yet, so I'm stoppingdoing this.
It's like I mean, it's gonnatake years to do buildup, like
that first season.
That's the thing like.
Like this takes off, like youdo, to really enjoy your podcast
.
Well, like the first season,cuz it'll be.

(28:19):
You just be like, oh, this isthis him figuring it out, this
is this him trying to put piecestogether and see, like, what
works and what doesn't.
But yeah, man, I think thatthat's a big issue with our area
, where too many people are likethey just want to do one thing
Like I'm doing.
I do Mike's and Portsmouth, I'mgonna become famous.
It's like no, no, have to doother things, you have to figure

(28:40):
stuff out.
You talk about like bombing manand like I think I think you
can get a lot of growth out ofbombing.
Like I still, I did a showcaseonce and it was in this nice
restaurant and like in Norfolk,it was like right across the way
from the scope.
It's like a hockey arena and forpeople not from the area and I
was bombing.
I was bombing really hot, likereally bad, and it this, this

(29:03):
again.
It was a nice restaurant, likecloth napkin in your lap kind of
place like and Dude, there'sthis older black couple and you
tell the dude was a hard-workingguy, you know, and he probably
ran his own business within thetrades of the shipyard or
something.
And you know it's clearly likehey, friday night, hey, baby,
I'm gonna take you out, we'regonna have a nice dinner.
And then it's just me on stagetalking about dating, doing

(29:26):
drugs, and literally there's apart where I was like look, I
was like doing a bit and Ilooked over at him.
He looked up from cutting hissteak, he looked at me, went and
it hurt so bad.
But the thing was, if I mainlywent to another mic after that I
went to Zeke's.
Did you ever do Zeke's, norfolk, fucking Zeke's was great, I

(29:48):
love Zeke's.
So I went there afterwards andI did that whole.
I told that whole story onstage like minutes, like 30
minutes, after that happened andCrushed, just crushed, because
like if you're gonna be a comic,you have to be ready to be
silly, you have to be ready tobe the butt of the joke.
If you're, if you're trying todo cool guy comedy, you're gonna
burn out quick because it'ssilly, it's ridiculous.

(30:11):
You know me and you are dudesin our early 30s and we're gonna
, at some point this year, nextyear, we're gonna do shows for
people who are 80 years old andwe're gonna be like, hey, what's
up, guys, how are we doing?
Tonight?
Everyone's like that's comedy,man, it's ridiculous.
That's what's great about it.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
It is like one minute you could be having like a bad
show at a fancy restaurant andin the next minute you can be at
Zeke's beans and bones fucking,killing it.
Killing it.
One minute you could be openingup and killing in that the
funny bone.
Two weeks later you could bebombing at a bar.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, a dive bar with two people listening.
Yeah, you can open for acomedian and then the like.
Two days later You're at a barand you're bombed and there's
just some drunk.
I'd be like you know how youshould do it.
You should do this.
Let me tell you a joke.
You can take this if you wantit and you're like well, again,
please don't.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
You came up in rough.
That rough.
Virginia comedy era that roughoh.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
That was.
That was the thing like me andNick talked about where it's
just like do.
When I started, do's are soshady than you guys, so shady
the new guy.
I think it was a month and ahalf before I could get people
regularly to talk to me and it'sfunny cuz, like I think, um, I
think dominant personalitiestend to dictate the scene,
politics and like our scene nowis Very nice, we're very nice,

(31:32):
we're very welcoming people, andI think that a lot of that's
just because it do's like you,do's like me, do's like Nick,
where it's just like hey, man,how you doing?
Oh, yeah, I'm even doing this.
Well, welcome, hey, you can dothis, this and this Cuz.
When you come up in that, haveyou ever bombed on an open mic
and then had the hose go up andfucking roast you even more?
Like the bombs sucked enough,but when the guy goes up, it's

(31:53):
like that guy sucked right,everybody there.
He's like sitting in the backnursing a drink.
Never gonna do this again.
It was just stupid.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh, that was rough, so fucking.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
That stuff makes you thankful, man, like when you get
to do something like push,where, like push, always has
these really great, great crowdswho are very, very forgiving
and so much fun.
And it makes you thankful forthat because you did.
You know, you did a freakingclam bar and Chesapeake when
they watch football instead oflisten to you.

(32:31):
You had a microphone and aspeaker and they literally were
basically doing their best toignore you.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, you remember, like your worst bomb you ever
had yeah, yeah, I had one theseto be a mic.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
I'm sure you remember a place called capstan in
Hampton, sure do?
Um, yeah, I dated the beertender there for a little bit
and this is very pretty girl andit was kind of thing.
We're like every other comichad a crush on her and I just
happened to like match with heron a dating app.
So we dated for a little bitand so we broke up on a Sunday

(33:08):
and the mic was that Wednesdayand I was like you know in my
head, like I'm gonna, we'regonna, we're gonna figure this
out, we're gonna get backtogether.
It's gonna be fine, show up tothe mic.
It's just me and Donna Lewis whoran it and and that's a little
small crowd, not bad.
And like I'm sitting at the bartalking to her and we're being
cordial, being nice, I'm like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gonna
work out, we're gonna be fine.
And then, so the place wherethe beer was, like where the the

(33:31):
Taps were, they had like apiece of metal that we've been
polished enough that reflected.
So I was just sitting therehaving my beer and I saw her
open her phone and go to bumbleand she was already texting
somebody and like, literally, asI see that Donna Lewis goes all
right, that's and home.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
And then I go there and I'm like I was a drug addict
.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
My uncle beat the fuck out of me a couple times,
just the saddest.
Just a guy just just trying hisbest to hold it together and it
was just 10 minutes.
This 10 minutes, I'm not asingle laugh, dude, and you're
like in your feelings and youdon't really care, you know,
yeah, that was probably.
That might have been my worstone.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
The lights turning off was not my worst one.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Really.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Nope, I wouldn't even say it was a bomb, I just
forgot my, my goddamn jokes.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh, you just froze up .

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Froze up.
I was supposed to do 10 minutes.
I drove to Petersburg Threehours Chesapeake to Petersburg
and I just forgot my fuckingjokes.
I was so pissed that it waslike coming up to me here, so
funny.
I was like no, the fuck, I'mnot Drip home, I didn't eat
nothing, I just drove home theradio not on, just quiet.

(34:48):
My use.
I guess I'm gonna talk to onthe way home.
They was like you call me.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I like Guys, sit with my feelings for a little bit.
Sorry, forgive me.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, I know you got a little crappy Android over
there.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I do.
We saw this is an iPhone, thisis.
This is proper nice dude.
Look at my.
That's my mom calling me dude.
I show some respect to MissHall dude, not even uh, I, I I
saw the dude once and I won'tsay names and we shouldn't say
names because you might havebeen there.
I Saw a guy freeze up one timeBecause he was like he was not

(35:28):
doing well and he was likealright, I'm gonna, I want to
end on a laugh.
That's literally what he said.
You are, I want to know a laugh.
And he went to try to a bit andthen he blanked and he thinks
he blanked for like eightseconds.
He probably blanked for aminute and a half.
Have you ever seen a guy goinglike and it's like 60 people
watching him?
He's like Hold on, man, thatone that was.

(35:57):
I think about that every oncein a while and it's funny
because, like I, can also goback into like how people think
and how people handle thingsbecause, like that, that being
what happened was so intense forthat guy that he's like I did I
only blame for like 10 secondsand I was like what?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Took a nap.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
You could, you recorded it, we could listen.
You want to listen to a minuteand 30 of silence?
Like we could do that.
Like that's really funny, man.
Like I love that.
I'm sure you run into it.
The guys who are like I Love adude who goes up there doesn't
get a single laugh, but it'sconfident the whole time.
I guess off-stage and like whoo, another one in the books, you
just like what.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, I had like the croc center one time for a show
Shout out.
I was supposed to host, I'llsuppose the host but they said
now we won't ditch, you do sometime.
I said I bet you know, fuck it,I do it.
The host had was literallywalking people out of the room.
So you know, I go, I'm leaving,I'm going to my car.

(36:57):
It was they had three hopes andhe can't bring him or his
homeboys up there.
The host with I'm walking tothe car, he goes.
Man, good job room, we killedit.
I said we, we didn't killnothing, I Killed but I I do.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I do love that.
I got in the other couple timeswhere it's just like we'll be
on a show, I'll be on a showwith someone and I deal well and
, like you know, you're shakinghands, I'm doing a little
conversation, like one of thecops come up to you afterwards
it's just like, yeah, I did,alright, right, and you're just
like you want me to be honestwith you, or Like that's fun

(37:45):
because, like you can see themdo the math in their head and
like, yeah, I mean I did well.
It's like, yeah, okay, I meanthat's what you want to say.
Sure, like you're doing that.
We're like I'm not trying to bean asshole, but it's like I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna cosignthe delusion with you because I
don't think that's gonna helpyou.
Like my favorite one is I did ashow in Fredericksburg and it

(38:06):
was a good lineup.
It was like it was a fun lineupand Lionel was on it and I
always loved doing shows on aline.
L is Lionel's a dude I view aslike a mentor.
That's a guy who, like I thinkhe's, he's funnier in me, he
writes better jokes than me,he's better posed on stage.
Just like I want to suck upwhatever information I can with
him and we did a show and one ofthe guys was a dude who's like
oh yeah, dude, I've been incomedy for 15 years in New York,

(38:30):
all right, yeah, it's liketrying to like big dog, you're
trying to like talk himself upand you just move to the area
and this dude gets up and he wassupposed to do 15, does
literally about three minutes,just has a panic attack on stage
.
First joke, like he comes outhard to the first joke he swings

(38:51):
big old miss and then he's likesitting there trying to do some
jokes and the only part whereyou got to laugh is it was since
it was outdoors.
It was like it was like whenthey were just starting to open
stuff during the pandemic and hegoes this first time I've ever
been bombing so hard I canliterally hear crickets and like
that got a laugh and he left onthat.
And then it was so funnybecause the host looked at me

(39:12):
and said hey, I know, I saidyou're only going to do 15, but
can you do like 20?

Speaker 2 (39:16):
I was like yeah, I can do 20.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
That's because this other person just bombed as hard
as they could.
Yeah, I mean, that's what Ilove about comedy.
There is so many people doingthis and there's dudes who are
all taking it seriously indifferent levels.
But there's dudes like us whoare trying to do it very
honestly, like you're not goingto fucking bomb off stage and

(39:39):
walk up to me like did it again,asin.
But there aren't guys like thatand I find that very
interesting.
I find it very interesting whenyou get these guys who are like
this is my life, man, I lovethis, this is my heart, and I
was like hey, man, you're goingto come to the mic.
I was like I can't football.
Oh, I can't, I'm going to.
I'm actually I have a bowlingteam, so I'm on a bowling team
now, so I can't make it out.

(39:59):
But you know, this is where myheart is and it's like is it?
You seem to do anything you canto avoid doing it, almost
unless it's like a book show,and it's like okay, like I think
that's really interesting andit's like fun because, like I'm
watching a bunch of new guys whoI'm seeing the different places
there, right, because you'llhave a guy who's very like, very
loves the art of it and reallywants to really develop and be

(40:22):
good, not like confident, notbelieving himself, but he
actually wants everyone else.
When he goes up, like thatguy's good.
And you'll have a guy who'sgood, but maybe his ego is
starting to get him a little bitand he will be like oh yeah,
dude, I have 30.
I doubt you have 30, dude, I'veseen you do 10 and your 10 is
like a.
It's like a car that has allthe nuts removed from one tire.

(40:45):
It's real shaky.
It's you know what I mean.
It's real shaky, dude, and likethat's funny to watch because
you'll see how those dudesdevelop and develop differently
because of that, because oftheir attitudes towards it.
Like I'm sure me and you arevery similar, like we're very
self-critical, we're veryself-critical.
I'm sure you've had this showwhere, like you feel like you
bombed and I was like fuck it,whoa, that was amazing.

(41:07):
Like no, I missed, I missedthis punchline.
You didn't see when I trippedover my words and I had to reset
that.
Like a fucking fool, I'm anidiot, I'm a dummy.
And I think that has itsbenefits and has its drawbacks.
Like I had one where, like I dida don't tell for Nick, where I
hosted, and I wanted to do verywell, because there's these
people out of DC and I wanted tolike you know they don't know
me.
I want to show up and impressand I'm doing my jokes and like

(41:33):
I'm a bald guy under this cap,everybody.
So I have some jokes aroundthat and so I have things I say,
things I look like and I do inthe crowd.
When you look at dildo, whichis kind of funny, I thought it
was actually legit kind of funny.
But you know I'm the host.
So I had to like kind of set thetone.
So I started going at this guyand the guy looked like me but
bigger and like way worse off.

(41:54):
So I just kept going at him.
I was like you look at me,crawled out If I crawled out of
a dumpster.
You look at me, if I never getup pills.
I was like I hit him for like 30seconds, like 12 times, like
this boom, boom, boom, boom,boom.
This is set the tone of likehey, dude, I'll burn you alive
in the word game if that's whatyou want to do.
And I think I went at him toohard because I think the crowd

(42:15):
kind of went.
Oh, I can pull back a littlebit and I'm like I did it
because I was, I wanted to dowell, and then the guy stepped
on a punchline so it was likeI'm frustrated.
So it was like, all right, I'mjust going to hit you verbally
as hard as I can, and then therest of myself.
It was good, I got last, but itwas not.
It's not where I'm used tobeing at, especially when I do
my working set Like my workingsets very good, my 15 minutes is

(42:35):
very tight and like I did lastnight, and crushed and it's just
like all right.
So, like I know, I know thelevel the lab should be at and
I'm not, I'm out there.
So I got off stage andeveryone's like oh, yeah, you
did great.
Oh man, yeah, you're great, youshould have the guy.
I'm like no, no, I went toohard at that guy.
The crowd didn't like it andthat was so funny because I was
literally at the bar, likegetting a drink, because the bar

(42:56):
was like behind where the showwas happening, and so I was
talking to a couple of audiencemembers and they're like oh, I
just thought that guy was yourfriend Because you were so quick
.
We just assumed that guy wasyour friend and I was like no,
no, I have no clue who that guyis.
I was just mad, I was just mad.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
So the last critical performance I gave myself, I
gave them the last spin.
I did like five or six SuffolkArt Center, everybody's like you
crashed.
I was like no, the fuck I didand we're musical hall Good set?
No, it wasn't.
And when I did George's withyou I didn't think that was my
best fucking set at all.

(43:36):
I really was like you did verywell.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
You did very, very, very well.
That's not the two.
And they were, and they were atight room.
That was a tight room.
You got to love a tight room,you know, or so it's like ha ha,
Next show.
I was like yo, I was like thisshit you mean saying to catch my

(44:01):
breath.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I was on the stage when I got off.
They was like you did.
So good bro, I missed severalalley, oops.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
I messed up, I missed so many alley oops.
But then, like I did a funnybone with the ugly last year and
I said, damn, that's a good set.
But then I was like it wasn'tgreat, but it was sold out.
I got a standing.
Oh, but I like it wasn'tfucking great, it wasn't fucking
great.

(44:31):
And somebody like you need toget out your hands Like now.
Y'all don't understand.
Like this shit here.
Very critical, like I like youI like when you were at a show.
I like when the line else at ashow because I can pay.
Both of y'all brings Like.
I like I said it prior, I waslike yo you, lionel Rondell,
nick Tory.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Rondell.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah, fuck.
Who else, so I might, if I missy'all, apologize.
I'm like you're working on that.
This is all you gotta do righthere.
Do no, no, no, no.
I was like all right, cool.
You and Lionel was like reallyin Tory, tory gave me the one
that told me to start watchingshit on music.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
And yeah, tory is a, tory is a really it was always a
really smart comic.
He was always he was.
He was this dude who, like Iremember I was writing this joke
with the premise being like youknow how you like you'll go
into like a fast food place or ayou know dollar store or
whatever.
He was like hey, how are youdoing?
Like, oh, I'm good.
Like what if you just answeredhonestly Like, oh, hey, how are

(45:32):
you doing?
It's terrible, Thanks, thanksfor bad.
Things were really bad.
And he had a bit similar tothat and it was like so much
more clever and polished that Ijust dropped mine.
But it was just like that'ssmart.
And Lionel is one of those dudes.
Like, what I love about Lionelis like Lionel will hear a bit
and he'll give you a tag for itand you're like that's such a

(45:53):
good, how did I miss that?
That's such a good tag.
And you know, let's do itcasually Like, hey, man, just
take this.
If you don't want to say fuckyou, lionel, you know you're
better than me, just tell me thetag.
Don't act like you're doing.
Like like oh, I don't know ifthis is good or not, so you know
it's good, just give it to me.
I want it.
Give me your tag, I'll take it.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Sometimes you go in these rooms where it's just not
anything like.
Oh then you do, jam kept badhabits.
We did bad habits one time.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
That was the clan bar I was talking about.
Oh, I don't, so I'm not goingto go shade at that guy.
But when we last time we did it, um, it was apparently supposed
to be a clean show and I gotthere late and I told the host
that, um, and the host was like,hey, you want to go first, I'm

(46:40):
sure.
And I went up and I did.
I did not do a clean set, youknow, because I wasn't told to.
So I got off stage andeveryone's like like I heard
groans and stuff during my setand I got to say, was this
supposed to be clean?
And I was like, yeah, and I wasjust like, as the host, you
should tell me that, like a, youdidn't do time at the top,

(47:00):
which you're supposed to do asthe host.
You're supposed to work, warmthe room up.
That's how it goes.
Yeah, man, it's not like that,where it's just like it's.
That's like one of the reasons,like I try to pick and choose
what mics I go to now, causethis is like I have no issue
with new guys, like new guys aregoing to miss stuff, but
there's like certain stuff oflike, if you're just going to
straight up, just set me up forfailure, cause, like I have a
clean set, I can work clean.

(47:22):
But I seem to be told, cause,like I go to mics I'm developing
different bits, like whateverI'm working on that night, and
if it's a clean room I'll pivotand not work on whatever dirty
joke I may be working on.
Not even that.
I'm particularly a.
You know, some sort of the miccame at me, some sort of vulgar
comic, but I do have sets whereI curse, or you know it's a

(47:45):
sexual joke or whatever it is,but I need to be told and like
just not telling me, and then Ijust go in front of all these
fucking white Riddnecks who justhey, don't want us there.
Let's straight up, don't?
want us to be there.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
So, man man, I didn't read the room cause I think you
left.
I had on my Malcolm X hat.
Well, fucking French t-shirt onit, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Nick's signal.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I'm going to fuck this up.
So I know I'm going to jam, andI was like oh see how jam is.
I came back like the next weekand jam was always tough.
If that man, kevin Hart, cancome out there and perform, they
were not going to no.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
they just be staying in the back playing dominoes,
ignoring them.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Shit, I did tropical delight one time that she was
bad.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Oh, dude, um, talking to jam cafe and bad habits.
Um, patrick Devine you rememberPatrick Devine?
Sure do.
Patrick Devine for those thatdon't know, great comic, he's
just like this one liner guy.
Um, so it was me, rome and himat bad habits and I bombed and I
went to the bad habits I wentto I'm sorry, I went to the jam

(49:04):
cafe to do another set and I'mlike, standing outside as
Patrick shows up and this is howmuch this guy's a dickhead.
It's the funniest thing in theworld.
Um, there I'm talking to peoplehow I bombed and how rough it
was, and blah, blah, blah.
And then Patrick shows up andlike, oh, patrick, how did, how
did bad habits go?
You do well.
And he looked at me and wentyes, he gave me the most pointed

(49:28):
smile of like yes, I diddickhead.
Oh, shout out to Patrick man,that was so funny.
I think about that.
That's like one of the funniestthings in other comics done to
me because, like he knows howbadly I wanted to hear him go.
No, I also bombed.
It was tough.
It's like no, I figured it out.
You're just not good.
I was like dammit, so funny, sofunny.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
I went there the first time and I ain't been.
I ain't go back Then it.
You know they got rid of it.
But when I was walking from thecar, bro, it seemed like a
straight biker Trump rally goingin this business.
I don't.
I think I ranked the wrong turnand it's only like 10 minutes
from my house.
I think I made the wrong turnso I was scared as a bitch.

(50:11):
It was crazy.
It was a black guy that wassitting on the bench.
He was like you, going in there.
I said yeah.
He said whoo.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
No words of warning, just a whoo.
So fucking bad, bro, dude,fucking.
That was one of those placeswhere it's just like there are
people that just don't wantcomedy and that space did not
want comedy because, like before, that host had it Isaac Fields,
our friend Isaac Fields had it.

(50:44):
Did you go do it at all whenIsaac had it?
So he had it for three months,four months, something like that
, and he was like a Saturdayfirst and then it was a Saturday
showcase and he'd do a coupleof people, a lot of people go as
the mic and then he would do aheadliner.
I've seen so many people bombthere, so many dudes.
The only person I ever saw dowell, there, right.

(51:05):
So like I watched, I watched, Iwatched.
Why am I playing on his name?
Dan Old Redneck, dude, theeducated Redneck.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Oh, that was Dan Ellison Dan.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Ellison.
I watched Dan Ellison bombthere, I watched Big Vino bomb
there and then I watched JasonKiprose murder for 30 minutes
just doing his clean comedy,doing his potato jokes, his
total favorite jokes, justmurdering.
And, like I always knew, jasonwas good.
Jason Kiprose has been doingthis for a while and he's very

(51:38):
talented.
I was just watching a guymurder in a room where you've
seen no one else do well, I meanno one else and he's just up
there just casually murderingand his flip flops and his cargo
shorts.
And you're just like damn dude,oh yeah, that was that, that was
that man.
There's some rooms that arejust nightmares and like I think
for newer guys that can bereally beneficial, because I

(51:58):
think it's it's good to, becauseyou learn to read the room, you
learn to like you say a thing,say how they react, see their
body language, try to likefigure it out, because sometimes
it's like sometimes people willbe tight and you can do like
crowd work and open them up alittle bit, like talk to them
and talk to them in like a funway, and other times you try to
talk to them it's like pullingteeth and it's just like they

(52:20):
don't want this at all, theydon't want comedy.
And the weird one is like thepeople who are just like
outwardly mean for no reasontowards the show that was an odd
one where it's just like heyguys, we're going to do comedy
and then they're like, well,that sucks, but I'm ordering
another drink and food andstaying and this is like all
right, cool, yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
That was a weird space for comedy.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Where is space Garage brewery?
I did a showcase with threecomedians from Wilmington.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
You did garage brewery before.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
No, I've heard stories about the garage brewery
.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, I met three comedians.
I saw the ad on Instagram, damn.
The guy said look, I'm inChesapeake, I want to know if I
can get some time.
Blah, blah, blah, yeah, yeah,yeah, I can't pay you.
I said I'm not worried aboutgetting paid.
It's only five minutes up thestreet.
Like I'm good, so I'm going togive you 10 minutes.

(53:21):
I'm going to light you at eight, is it okay?
Hope kills it.
I could kill it, but thefeature in the headliner.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
I love that.
I love those shows, though thisis my favorite.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Killed.
Really good, I killed it andbut the whole sense of he was
talking to me and Like he waslike, yeah, I've been doing it,
this is this, this, and LikeI've been doing it about four
years and I've been reallyworking on my craft and reading
the room, but like the one thingI noticed about him at garage

(53:59):
brewery, he wasn't reallyfocused on the art of comedy, he
was on the art of making money.
No, ain't like you're sellingtickets to a brewery for a
showcase, but if I'm at thebrewery already, I'm just gonna
sit there and just get a fuckingfree show already.

(54:20):
Hmm, I was telling him like youknow, I'm not about making
money.
Like, if you focus on the bread,the money part, the aspect of
comedy, you're not gonna goanywhere.
Yeah, you focus.
If you focus on your penny,your pay, you'll kill it and
it'll come, because comedy isvery like, it's different.

(54:40):
It's one of the most humblestcareers.
Like I drove three hours forfive star.
Was it five star comedy whenhe's on of these the door.
But I don't fight three hoursto do a show on top of a brewery
and I think out of 25 comediansI was probably like number 23.
Yeah, damn.

(55:00):
So you know.
I didn't get paid for.
But I said I went up there anddid what I was supposed to do.
But, like this, one of this isone of the most humbling careers
and when you got one foot onthe stage and one foot doing
something else, you're not gonnago far at all.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I do a garage brewery.
I was like you know what I madeup my mind.

(55:22):
I'm not gonna focus on themoney.
And I also made up my mind thatI'm not gonna focus on one
comedy club as well.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
You can't one common couple.
It's you can't.
Let's one thing sinkers.
I think you man, but I mean Ithink you're a hundred percent
right.
The thing with comedy is, Ithink you can do the thing where
it's like you have a name value, like maybe you're like a guy
who was a reality star orsomething like that, and now
you're gonna try I'm actually acomedian and then you go up and
it's just like it's gonna takeone show they're gonna be

(55:54):
excited to see for five minutesbut when, like, you're eight
minutes in, they haven't laugheda single time.
That crowd's gonna start toturn on you.
And I've done.
I've done shows where it's likeI've done a show where the guy
has been doing comedy relativelya short while but he had a big
enough Pool in like the localarea that he could get a room
together and get a bunch of hisfriends come out.
That dude Want the headline andI was like I was.

(56:19):
You know, I was one of themiddle acts and I crushed and
Literally that dude did 20minutes and it was quiet it's
his friends quiet the whole time.
And Then you have that awkwardmoment where he's sitting at the
bar shell shocked you know whatI mean Cuz he's confident, like
that's thing.
It was all bravado.
But then he hit the reality ofComedy, of like, yeah, you can

(56:41):
have all the bravado in theworld you want, you have all the
confidence in the world youwant, but if you don't have good
bits that you've really honedand gotten good, you're gonna
have shows where you're notgonna get anything and it's
gonna be 20 minutes of youeating a dick and then, like you
didn't, from all your family.
I can't have that.
Have the guy sitting at the barand talking to his friends and
they're like you're so good youshould do right, won't say names

(57:05):
.
There is a show I do, I've donea couple times and it's so.
The owner, the owner of theplace does it with us.
I have had multiple of hisfriends and his family go.
Hey, you should tell him not todo this anymore and just have
you guys do it.
Whoo Dude, yeah, no, comedy is,um, so what?

(57:29):
I think it is Legitly, as Ithink it's an incredibly hard
art form, but with a low, lowbarrier for entry.
All you have to do is bewilling on stage.
But the thing is is you can seethe guys who do it and you see
the guys who don't.
And I think I think comedy, Ithink between like Andrew
Schultz and like Joe Rogan andstuff like that, I think comedy
became cool.

(57:50):
It became like a cool like ohyeah, dude, that's the thing,
like I was talking to some newguys about this.
But it's like you have to beokay with the part-timers.
You have to be okay with theguys who, like, they'll come to
a mic once a month, twice amonth maybe, but they do it
because they like telling theirfriends and their coworkers that
their comics that's like a fun,that's like a fun thing for
them to say it like a cookout ora dinner party or our business

(58:11):
Like a business cocktail thing.
So, yeah, I do comedy, it's nobig deal.
I'm like then I can show thempictures of them on a stage with
a bunch of people watching.
You gotta be okay with thoseguys.
But that's not what me and youwere doing.
Rome, like me and you, like Isaid, we're trying to find funny
, trying to develop a reallygood act.
So when, eventually, we dostart having a following and we
start getting those bigger shows, we can improve it.

(58:32):
Because the thing is, if you,it will show.
I've seen, I've seen shows whereit's like I won't say names
again.
There's young guy whose dad wasa producer For some rather big
Artists, so the kid kind of hadsome cache a and they keep
getting put on shows and a kidkept Bombing and the kid want

(58:55):
and said, instead of going tothe mics, instead of getting
good, that kid wants to be aStep up, want to be pushed ahead
a little bit.
And guess what happened?
He got the shit beat out of him.
And the first time you get theshit beat out of him he was like
it's one time, I'm sure I'llfigure it out in the second time
, third time.
Eventually you're gonna getsick of getting hit.
You don't want to get on stageand all cool.
Another 15 minutes of silenceand like lower back sweat, like

(59:18):
fighting off panic.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
I Did a show on a Saturday with wood and Joe.
There was another guy shoutwhat Joe?
Wouldn't?
Joe Keith to some people woulda to a lot of people would to us
and Joe parlor, we did a showtogether with this guy.
The guy was headlining at hisMexican restaurant.

(59:45):
I.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Know I.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Think I did the show.
He's a second time.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Glad I'm on this show .
You might have.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
This guy had a Dressing room which was the
women's bathroom, yes, and hehad His sister, was his manager,
his PR, she was everything.
Young cat won't know what hehad.
Now I don't know what he'sdoing comedy.

(01:00:15):
He had headshots and wasselling headshots with
autographs.
He gets up there now.
I never hosted before, so Ihosted.
He gets up there.
He made the noise like ski,like, like what the fuck is

(01:00:36):
wrong with him?
I like no, no, no.
So he's promising me and Keithand wood I mean wood and Joe
like a bunch of shit Like you,john, this club.
After this we get to the clubwe couldn't even get in.
We end up having like A male atDenny's and going to fuck home
like the show bad.
He did clash like two weekslater and he didn't clash,

(01:01:01):
didn't win, and we haven't seenhim since the clash with like he
was young in the game, chargepeople headshots on an
autographs of his head.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
That's it I did.
I stand by the fact that, likethe beautiful thing about comedy
right, like I don't know you'reat spiritually, but like comedy
man, I think there's somethingto it where if you're starting
to get an ego, it'll likealright and it'll check you, and
sometimes it checks you prettyhard.
It'll check you pretty freakinhard, dude.
I uh my first start I wasprobably two years in.

(01:01:39):
I started getting very goodbecause I was at the time I
mostly did crowd work and I wascrushing regularly.
And then I had Three months,maybe three months, of this
solid bombs getting up multipletimes a week, just regular bombs
dude just Just drop there, justtrying my hardest, just taking
swings and just not gettinganything.

(01:01:59):
So this is my ego just beingbeat into the dirt man, that's
what I love about comedy, man,it will check you hard.
Um, it's funny cuz.
Like you talk about the Miller,dennis, I think those are.
I think sometimes those are thefunnest man.
Food afterwards, like like weme would, nick, um, anthony,
patrick, logan, uh, a wholebunch of us and park clay, we

(01:02:23):
went and got a food at wafflehouse after that one night show
that Nick did a cause.
These and like all of us were onit and we crushed like like I
probably crushed that's probablythe hardest ever crushed where
I got to do like 30 minutes andI got like two different like
applause breaks and stuff likethat.
Just that post-show hang, justmean wood and a booth talking

(01:02:44):
shit and eating food and justyeah, it was like what a fun
hang man.
And like there's that, there'slike a brotherhood within comedy
because like, if you do thislong enough, you're gonna have
the bomb.
You just, long enough, you'regonna have that show where you
embarrass yourself in front of aheadliner.
You really like, if you do thislong enough, you're gonna bring
a girl out thinking you'regonna press her doing comedy and

(01:03:05):
you're gonna bomb.
You know, it's just that'sworld.
That's why.
That's why I think this likewhen me and you see each other,
we just immediately click into,like yeah, you see this guy, I
can.
We just immediately start beingcatty little girls like you
know this guy, he sucks, youknow, you know he sucks, this
guy sucks.
So we'll do that shit and we'lltalk about like dumb shows we
do, or like we'll talk to, likewe'll talk about a bit we liked

(01:03:25):
that someone does and how we'rejealous that we didn't write
that.
That's.
That's like.
That's what I love about thisart form in, because the dudes
who are really doing it reallyget you.
And then if you get these guyswho are not and like they might
be confident, but they're goodpromoters like that, like
they're okay on stage with theirbetter promoters and like, sure
, there are dudes I have.
I did a show for a guy recentlythat I knew I was better than

(01:03:46):
and he wanted to do a full 30and I was like that's probably
gonna be a mistake but I'll doit with you and he's just a good
Promoter, he's a his his socialmedia game is great, it's so
good, he knows how to do it,he's he's like a good-looking
dude, knows what he's doing andDid the show.
I crushed Couple other anotherone of our friends were on it

(01:04:09):
I'll tell you about latercrushed as well, trying to leave
it vague so people don't knowwho it is.
And that guy got up and did 30minutes dude and he bombed.
It was rough.
It was tough because he had tofollow me and our buddy who are
drilled in tight guys, and he'sup there, you know, barely a
year in trying to figure it outand it's funny cuz afterwards
man, just like literally theowner was talking to him and

(01:04:31):
then I walked up, the ownerpatting me on the shoulder and
pointed I mean would definitelyhave this guy back.
I was like all right sick.
Nice.
That was good.
That's good, nice.
But and that's the fun thingabout the art form because guess
what that guy you know hedidn't do well, he does want to
do this.
He's just better at promoting,he does want to do this and like
he was loose, honest, he wasjust like he looked at me.
I didn't go well and I went.
So that's what I love about.

(01:04:55):
Yeah, comedy is great.
It's the best.
If you're listening this andyou thinking about trying comedy
, you should just try it.
It's.
You're either gonna love it oryou're gonna hate it.
This is, but it's worth tryingbecause it's the best thing in
the world.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
If you're doing comedy while you listen to this,
watch a lot of stand-up andI'll tell my for right, yeah,
stand up watch everybody, watcheverybody.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
You can watch dudes who, like you're not gonna write
bits like like you know, like,say, like that Taylor Tomlinson
girl, there's like watching herlike this, you're just like I'm
not.
I'm not an attractive female,I'm never gonna write bits like
this, but they're well-writtenbits, they're fun to see how
they're structured, it's fun tosee the words she uses.
Are like you can find these,like there's this young Mexican
dude.
He's this heavy set guy with amullet, out of LA and, dude, he

(01:05:36):
has this bit about hisgrandmother having a meth head
who lives in her shed and cutsher grass and it's just like,
yeah, when she dies, that's,he's gonna be my method, he's a
part we like pros, the methodwith a, like a taser to get him
back in the shed.
This is dude.
There is, and that's the thingman like.
And then, like you can look atmy buddy, winston Hodges, like
that, like I watch his Crowdworkstuff and it's so good, it's so

(01:06:00):
funny.
Or I watch Nick, and likewatching Nick, what work these
silly bits about being a dad.
Or you watch like aunt and whatworking these wild bits about
his mom.
Or you know, dude, it's.
It's so interesting to watchyour friends who, like you,
don't feel like you're a lot oflike Comedy-wise, but you're all

(01:06:20):
hitting the same direction,you're all trying to achieve the
same thing and just the bitscoming out like I love I think I
talked to you about this lastTime we saw each other.
I'm loving writing mundane bits.
I love that I have a bit aboutcanned meat.
I have like I have sevenminutes on talking canned meat.
It's just I love doing themundane stuff.
Man.
Like I'm trying to write a bitabout like a Like literally just

(01:06:41):
about having IBS, just becauseI like hot sauce and it's like
it's a nightmare the next dayand just it's a fun one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I just finished a good bit of being lot, tools and
tolerant.
Yeah but you know you reallylike me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
You really have potty humor.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Let me talk about something that's actually
happening.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
I think when I started.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I'm getting to the realism about like my life and
shit.
I was like, okay, this isactually Gonna work.
Mm-hmm like we used, I think westart trimming the fat off and
talk about the realism of yourstuff, like it's okay to
fabricate a story, but don't doit so hard, and like people can
notice when you be, yes, in onthe mic.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Yeah, you want to like massage it, you want him,
you want to stretch it a littlebit, so you give it a little bit
more like highlights and itseems a little bit bigger than
like larger in life, but youwant to keep the core bits.
The core, the core stuff.
That's the thing of like.
If I was honest about when Iwas a drug addict, it's a bummer
, you know what I mean.
It's like I lost two or threeyears being a fucking junkie and

(01:07:47):
this is like that's not fun.
So it's fun.
I just kind of be like a sillyBilly about it.
That's what it should be and itshould be kind of thing where
it's like I'm gonna Show yousomething that sucks, you know.
It's like talking about, likeyou know, talking about mom
being blind or Talking about mydad or the less chill things
about working in the trades.
It's supposed to be give you alittle slice of life, right, and

(01:08:09):
but this I'm not giving thatslice of life to be like oh, oh,
poor me, right?
No, it's like it's hey, look atthis little slice of life.
This kind of sucks, but this issilly, this is funny.
Like like I was talking to adude about it.
Um, when there's a trade, a guyin the trades at a show, and I
do my trade stuff, we alwaystalk afterwards and I was

(01:08:31):
talking to him about it and thething I want to talk about is
like the whole narrative everytime the trade stuff comes up is
either they're crooks ordummies.
Right, that's like the thingand I want to show this as
that's.
That's not the dudes.
I know there are crooks anddummies in the trades for sure.
That's not who I am, it's notwho my dad is, is not who the
guys I work with are.
You know, like we're trying toprovide a good product at a fair

(01:08:51):
price, and that's what I wantto highlight.
Man, that's what I want to do.
I want to.
I want to do something that'slike honest Because, like I just
you know, as a, as a poor whitekid growing up, all the white
comics I saw, we're all outsidethe blue collar guys.
We're always these upper classFucking dorks who go to college

(01:09:12):
and they're their big bit islike my dad didn't, like I was
getting an art degree and I waslike, yeah, what, what job can
you get with an art degree?
Like, yeah, is that a realproblem?
You know like, and, and I wantto because just think, man,
there are a lot of people likeme, like that blue collar
background, that working classpeople, they, they just a
representation, representationtoo, and I like that.

(01:09:38):
I stand out because, like,there's not a lot of dudes, uh,
working in the direction I'mworking.
It's like you watch all theseguys.
They'll go up and they'll havea bit about whatever the new
story of the day is.
Right, this, whatever the newstory of the day is.
And, uh, the shitty thing isthere's a lot of comics who want
to prey on like tragedies.
Like I'm like it's funny I wastalking about last night.

(01:09:58):
Um, because I didn't, I didn'tunderstand why no one went in
this direction.
When Kobe died, everyone had aKobe joke, everyone had a Kobe
joke.
And I didn't want to do a Kobejoke because, like, that dude
died and his daughter died withhim.
That's horrible.
Like, say, like, likeEverything else aside about the
guy.
That's a, that's a tragedy,that's a, that's a sad thing.

(01:10:18):
And you have these people doingthese like bits.
That's like this kind of shitty, this kind of mean.
Um, the bit I wrote, but I neverdid, but I like was like Can
you imagine being a guy whostarted a small helicopter tour
business, then the next day thathappens, just being that guy,
like god damn it, just throwingstuff against the wall?

(01:10:42):
That's the type of helicopter Ihave, too Shit.
Ah, like that, like so that wasthe joke.
And I never did it because it'slike it was, it's sad and like
everyone else is doing.
So why should I do it?
Why would I?
If everyone is, if everyone isselling apples, why would I go
to the farmers market and belike I'm gonna sell apples?
Like it's.
I just don't get that.

(01:11:04):
That's why it's good to draw onthat personal experience like
we were talking about, likedrawing on your personal life,
you know.
I mean like like how manypeople, how many people were
home schooled, have a blind mom,a martial arts father and it
was a drug addict?
That's that's.
That's.
That's not a, it's not a commonbackstory.
So it's like I can draw on that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
So we go out.
What advice do you have to anyAny comedians in the game?
In the game, whether they'relooking to get into it, whether
it's aspiring or they already inthe game already um, you got to
be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
It's really good to be honest, but it's it's going
to be honest, but not tooself-critical, because you can
self-destruct me tooself-critical, um, and you
should.
You're running your own race.
That's a big one.
You're running your own, yourown race, man.
Like, if you get into this andyou really start doing it, like,
really start doing it, you'regonna see people that you think

(01:12:02):
you're better than that.
Like I did a show not too longago, um, in a small area and
there was a local person who wasthe headliner and they did
better in me.
But like, watching their set,you realize like, oh you, you're
gonna only be able to work here.
60% of your material is aboutthis area, it's about

(01:12:23):
hyper-Pacific things about thisarea.
That's people in this area know.
So you'll make them laugh.
That's not gonna work inRichmond, that's not gonna work
in Williamsburg, that's notgonna work in Charlotte, that's
not gonna work in New York,that's not gonna work in Boston.
So you're running your own race.
So when you get into this,you're gonna see your friends
getting stuff.
You're gonna see your friendsdoing stuff.
You're gonna see people youdon't think are good getting
stuff and you gotta not, youcan't let that shake in your

(01:12:46):
head.
Just, you're doing your ownrace.
You're getting better for whenyour time comes.
So that, get up, be honestabout your material, but not too
self-critical and remember thatit's your race, so you're gonna
get there when you get there.
So that would be my advice.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, it's a marathon out of race.
It may not be a race a marathonout of, not a job, right foot
whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
It's a marathon out of sprint.
Thank you, yeah, thank you.
We got it, we figured it out.
Look at that, it's workshoppingdude Riding team.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Riding team.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Roman Addison dude, we'll figure it out.
There we go.
Roman Addison partners.
The riding company we'restarting.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
You broke a barrier, baratula First.
I don't wanna get canceled.
It's your first non-coloredperson I've had on this podcast,
your first Caucasian, firstCaucasian on this podcast man,
you are you really are.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Oh no, I keep being that guy.
This is the second or thirdpodcast I've done where I'm the
first white guy.
Yeah, dude, it's so like lastone.
The dude made me talk to himcause I mentioned casually, like
growing up in a black churchand that ended up being like 15
minutes of a podcast.
Like we were talking about theold ladies in their hats.
Do you remember?
Do you remember when you'd goto church?
Yeah, I just felt like theywere always competing you could

(01:14:02):
have the top.
There was a lady who had like asmall little burden in her hat
at my church.
I think her name was Miss Rose.
But oh man, I just I just viewthis as friends Like we're.
I was like, oh, you're a goodguy.
That's like when I had a cancelon your ass, we got felt bad.
So it's like Rome's a good dude, rome wants me to do something,
I'll do it.
I like that guy.
But I'm glad I could break thebarrier, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
You know you like the Jackie Robbins of my podcast,
right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
I would say, dude, it's like finally good as like
as a white guy getting into someblack spaces, letting people
know, yeah, you guys don't hearenough about white people yet.
So let me tell you a little bitabout me.
Dude, I'm Polish, we're thePoles, we're the people adjacent
to Russia.

(01:14:46):
Our home, our homeland, is mudand snow with a couple of
potatoes.
So it's pretty cool, prettysick.
At home school.
I was home school.
Yeah, shit, shout out to my mom, dude, that sweet blind woman.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Shout out to my pops for making me do comedy and be
consistent with me.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Shout out to Papa Davis, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Yeah, and I do want to shout this out because it was
a good friend of well, goodfriend of both of ours Good guy
Timmy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Yeah, shout out to Tim Maclin man.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Shout out to Tim.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Maclin yeah, man, that was a.
That's one of those thingsthat's been a real growth for me
this year.
It's been really tough Like andI'm still like.
Whatever you follow me onInstagram, you see like
everyone's on all the posts ofPetro because there's something
on about them.
Yeah, that's something if youguys can take away from this.
Check on your friends, man.
You know, just like checking onpeople, I do it with you, I do

(01:15:41):
it with other people, but yeah,check on them with people.
Man.
Like, hey, man, how you doing,I'm here if you need to talk,
yeah, shout out to Timmy man.
Shout out to Timmy man, tim Tim.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Tim, tim Tim was a realist oh yeah, dude, tim was a
realist.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Tim was funny man.
Tim was real good.
Tim was so funny.
I love.
I always loved.
His bit about it was like theylegalized.
They legalized weed in Denver.
And it's like that's the start.
That's the start.
Next thing you know, thosemountains are gonna be in a pawn
shop so they can score a smack.
Yeah, shout out to Tim man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Yeah, great game.
I appreciate you, Addy, comingon here, man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Yeah, buddy, thanks for having me.
This was fun, not a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
You'll be back, just give me some time.
I got some more sex workers, orwhatever you want to call them.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Yeah, that's my favorite thing about following
you on Instagram.
It's just every once in a whileI'll say it's a lady, just a
lady in lingerie.
I'm like man, rhomes is outthere doing it.
Rhomes is, I love that you'realso look, cause you're like one
of the few dudes I know who dochurch shows, so it must be wild
for people who follow you fromchurch shows.
They're following you.
It's like yo, he was so funnyat the fellowship and then it's

(01:16:53):
just like a lady who's like yeah, yeah, I let my fans come on
and fuck me, but I had a lot ofposted on my only fans and
you're like, damn bro, what areyou doing?
Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Man I'd say I need to write out what was written on
it.
But when my pops passed, we hada funeral and they was like, oh
, I saw you do a podcast andthey started scrolling on my
Facebook.
They was like, and what, tripme out.
One of my aunts, like I watchedthe episode with the kink talk,

(01:17:25):
the dominatrix.
I was like what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
I'm at the end of that.
That was what.
Oh, can you give me herinformation?
So I ask questions and she'slike I don't want to have this
conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
It's so bad bro, so fucking bad.
It's the head.
There's no one else with mydating life at all.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
Shout out to the no ID podcast dude.
It's so much oh great, Nobodywas dating me.
I was so happy for you, buddy,this is I, like this.
I think it's because it's itfeels like you Do you know what
I mean?
Like there's so many people,that's like I feel like they're
chasing what they think peoplewant to see and said I feel like
you're doing what you want todo and I fucking respect the
hell out of it, man.
That's that's.
We talk about.

(01:18:06):
The art side of this, right, Ithink, and I'm sorry if I keep
holding you up, if you gotta go.
I think people who do this likereally are really doing this.
There's like a spectrum rightand one side of the spectrum is
the art side and the other sideis the business side, and I
think me and you are like onenotch over on the art side where
we're like I want to like,present me well, I want to do my

(01:18:27):
bit well, but, like I'm a comic, I'm a clean comic, but yeah,
I'm gonna do a podcast where Italk to sex workers Like that's,
I like that Cause.
That's like.
That's clearly like that's theart side of you.
And I'm sure the business sideof you in your head is like what
are you doing?
We're clean, we do church showsand you're like but this is
interesting and I respect thatCause.

(01:18:48):
I'm that way where it's justlike oh, this dude's a year in,
should you feature for him?
It's like I'll feature for him,he's going to pay me, I'll bury
that guy, I don't care.
And this is like cause I justhaving fun with it.
I'm going to have fun at theshow, where the business side of
me should be like no, I'mactually above that now.
So now I'm not above that dude,pay me and drink.
Take us all show up.
I'll make you regret thatpolicy.

(01:19:11):
Comic string for free.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Now I'm snorting.
That was fun man.
It is fun, bro.
When is the next show?
When is the next thing you gotgoing on?

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
So I got a bunch of stuff coming up.
I next weekend, thanksgivingweekend I'm going to be in
Elkton, virginia, a Bruja comedy.
I'm running it for our buddyTyrell, who doesn't want to go
out that way, cause it's likethree hours from us until he has
his kid, probably closer tofour grand, cause he lives in
Virginia Beach.
So I'm going to be running thatOriginally.

(01:19:47):
It's funny.
The first guy I asked when Itook one, like I was given the
show, was wood and wood wasalready books.
So this month it's going to beParker Clay, nathan Carlson and
Zach Carpenter, and so I'm goingto host.
If you guys haven't seen NathanCarlson, he's a killer, he's
great, he's really good and dudeParker is so sharp right now

(01:20:09):
Parker's like fresh back fromDenver and he's sharp as hell.
Next month which I'm waiting forthe confirm that I'm going to
have the show next month.
But next month I'm going tohave wood and I'm going to have
a millhouse have you met him Outof.
He comes with Kossies, he'sreally sharp and he's funny.
I want to put him on some showsand I'm probably going to see
if I can get a couple otherpeople to come with us, as I got

(01:20:30):
in the mill, know where's, andit's a lot of fun.
I also have a I'm doing oh wow,I'm blanking on stuff.
I got a bunch of stuff.
Follow me on Instagram AddisonL Hall.
You just type in Addison, I'llbe the first not hot girl.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
So there yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
But yeah, I got a bunch of stuff coming up and I'm
producing a podcast currentlythat I'm hoping to have out by
the first of the year calledDyson Dudes.
You can kind of you can see mybooks back there.
It's like a role playingpodcast.
It's kind of X files theme withcomics and we joke and have a
lot of fun.
And I got my buddy, kale Moore,and Taylor Edwards on that
Great comics.
You guys haven't seen them.

(01:21:07):
But yeah, man, I got a bunch ofstuff.
Check me out Addison L HallInstagram.
So yeah, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
Check me out Comedienne Roan and NoID Media
TV on Instagram and on Facebookand YouTube Comedienne podcast
to be posting.
We got a new website.
We'll link in the bio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
We upgraded 110%, but I'll tell you this episode that
came out.
You already probably didn't seeme somewhere, shit.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Yeah, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Yeah, yeah, and then next year is gonna be that year
of whatever travel.
Yeah, got some big shit comingup in February.
I can't really speak on itbecause I had signed some
documents.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
Ooh, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Yeah, very cool.
Addie bro, I appreciate yougetting up here.
Man, we're gonna play it.
Stop the podcast, all right.
Yeah, that was fun.

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