Laughing it Out with Spokane Comedian Laura Branning

Welcome back to Leslie's Lowedown on Life! Today, I sit down with Spokane comedian Laura Branning as she discusses her pathway to becoming a comic and what she's learned along the way!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Leslie low Welcome to Leslie's Lowdown on Life.
Welcome everybody to Leslie's Lowdown on Life. I'm already laughing,

(00:21):
so that gives you good heads up on what we're
doing today. We're talking to Laura Brandy, my old friend.
And I'm not saying because you're old old we're both
and her twenty already throwing arrow. Get that quiver away
from me. Oh my gosh, So Laura Branny, we do
go way back, like twenty years yep, twenty years to
another station, another place, another time.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, it was another time. It was another time.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Laura is a real tour and mom by day and
then funny lady by night.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know you've hit that comedy you're always like that's
the twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I think I forgot how funny you were until we
sat down at started talking.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh my gosh, that's right. She is so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
But thank you to know, like, how did you get
into this because when we worked together years ago, your
brand new mom, we were both working in the back
lot of it the day I called back lot.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, right, that's what I felt like all the time.
I'd always had this like itch that I wanted to
be on SNL and even just in the writer's room,
like I wanted to write for SNL, which is great
because that's still the same network.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah that we're on job.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
And I loved that wordsmithing, and I thought it was
always so fun, like what you're using, what you're not using,
the semantics of it, like there's so much science behind it.
And that's why I actually got my PR degree because
I wanted to know more. Like I loved the interaction
and when you're not talking verbal nonverbal, so many different

(01:59):
pieces of it.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, and a lot of science. Yeah, and I know
I was on the science team in high school.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
And you're smart too, funny, she's funny and smart, thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
But it was one of those like, Okay, this wordsmithing part,
I really really like it. And I mean, i'd gone
into advertising sales, I wrote TV commercials, I wrote the
news for a little bit, and I thought, Okay, I
really like doing this. I like writing, but I like
the the one off, the catch, the funny part, the

(02:33):
keeping things light, and I've always coped with humor, so
I thought, okay, And there was a class at the
comedy club and I thought oh, what are they going
to teach me?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
They can't teach me to be funny. So I'll check
it out. Why not?

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I can meet people people meet Okay, why not? And
I'd gone through a divorce, so I thought, this is
my time to go do my own shining. And I
went and started in March of twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I thought that was a special time, that was a
special place. That was a very special time, special time.
A little bug going around and you know whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
And we were supposed to have a graduation performance on
March twenty fourth, and but we were gearing up for this.
We're doing things on stage and I had written my
set and when I did it on stage for the class,
I wasn't present. I wasn't in my disconnected. I was disconnected.

(03:36):
I did my material, but I wasn't interacting with it.
And I thought, huh, well that's how you start great.
You know, I knew my material, but I knew I
wasn't a part of it.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I was just reciting it. Yeah. I thought that it's
not fun.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
And so when the lockdown happened, I would go live
on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I remember that eighty days straight, and I thought, okay, kay,
I would do it for.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
My kids sports. It would make me take a shower.
It was a great accountability for me.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
You know, we all needed a little encouragement to take
a flower during that time, special time of COVID.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, and I like remind people what day it was.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It wasn't like that was always funny, but it was interactive. Yeah,
because I knew my friends would tell me if it
was not okay, like what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Like they would they would keep me in check.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
But I thought, this is a way to become more
present in the performing And then I did open mics
that summer and a little speakeasy and I thought okay,
and I just tredged through open mics. I had my
first show a couple months later up in Stevens County
because it I couldn't do it in Spokane because it
was illegal. And then some stuff in Courtelaine and because

(04:49):
you couldn't even go out to a bar at that time,
a restaurant anything. And yeah, my first performance, I didn't
tell any of my friends because I thought, I want
these strangers to think I'm funny, Like that's going to
be a good gauge.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
And then I ended up knowing people in the sock
was kind of on you.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh yeah, I'm like, okay, well whatever, and but it
was great.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
It was so fun. It was so fun.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And then I mean I even drove other comics to
the show, and I thought, okay, well I know you're
going to be there, then that's that's fine. And then
I've gotten into producing shows and I'm performing tomorrow night
and on Thursday night at the Spokane Comedy Club for
Best of the.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Northwest, which is awesome.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
So I'm like the fun aunt at local comedy. I know,
I'm like the local Jennifer Coolidge. I love that. That's
a good fit for you. And actually that's a good
fit for you. It works out pretty well.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Were you always funny?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Were you always like growing up when you were a kid,
Were you the funny one in the house to drive
your parents' nuts because you were always like, okay.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, no, I was a I was a Jena ex kid,
so when my parents were never home, okay, of course were.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Of course, you were entertaining yourself exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I would always go do things at school, like
if there was some sort of after school activity, I
was there because we had buses.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Then yeah, and didn't have buses now.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
No, not after school buses like after like to get
after school program activities. Yeah, okay, no activity buses, so
which is fine? Half those now I pick up and
drop off my kids every day anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah I was. I was that way too. I know,
wi old kid.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
They have no idea, they have no I have no
idea what it was like to ride the bus and
get home at five thirty at night. Have a key, yeah,
go make yourself something a lot of key, peanut butter
and jelly.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeahah, nachos which chos and chip chips scorched onto a
paper plate?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Exactly. We just rode a quick. We grew up in
the same house. I know my trauma matches your trauma
would be fun.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, that's how I really coped with a lot of
things growing up, And like I dove into school so
much I became president of my high school. These things
should not surprise you at all, Like it's no, that
is a theme in my life.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yep, it does not shock me. Were you ahead cheerleader
and all homecoming queen? Are you varsity soccer case varsity
soccer friends with everybody.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I cheered for you?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Of course they did, and they still are I hope. So,
you know what, just bathe in the tears of my enemies.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's fine, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
What that I hear that so much about comedians, right,
that they use their trauma and their drama and all
of that. Self deprecation is huge. It have to, don't
you have to be self deprecating. I say that for
being not grady. Well, I think it's being so self aware.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes, of course, somebody's gonna tell me, oh, you shouldn't
have worn that too.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I get that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
But there is leniency being in comedy because then it's like, oh,
I get to be the funny girl.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
I to show one of the drag brunches at Northern Quest.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
That had to be a blast.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It was hysterical.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
And then the drag queens were like, well, what gowns
are you wearing? And I said, oh, no, I'm funny.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I don't like, I don't have to dress up. I'm
not gonna get dressed up.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
They're like, you're dressing up and we're gonna help you change,
And I thought, okay. I brought ball gowns at eleven
am to Northern Quest Casino fantastic and it was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
So yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
It was so great, so funny, but yeah, it's just
something I've always loved that funny side. It keeps things
light hearted. I just it's always been a part of me.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I think that it pulls you out of and I
feel like comedy just kind of pulls you out of
those dark times. And I'm saying not just for everybody
who's listening or watching, but for yourself as well, because
it's how you kind of lift yourself back up and
kind of crawl out of whatever deep, darkry hole that
you dug for yourself.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, and it's kind of I'm taking a different perspective
on things, and it's looking at even a normal situation
and finding something unique about it.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's kind of like what you love, what you hate,
what you can rave about, what is weird? And you know,
I've read a bunch of comedy books. I've listened to
a bunch of comedy audio books, like I am a
comedy nerd, like this Has there been a special out
least recently? I probably watched it like that's I absolutely
love it, Like it's so great, and I love watching

(09:30):
live comedy, whether it's friends that are performing. I run
a couple open mics anyway, which is great, yeah and weird.
You know, a little band of misfits comes and we
do our material and you know, because they're working on it.
And I tell all the comics if somebody wanting to
try comedy, an open mic is for the comic shows

(09:53):
or for the audience.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
That makes sense. Yeah, like because you're kind of working
out your material. There's a whole. I mean, there's a
them to it. Oh.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Absolutely, Timing is everything, Caden's probably everything.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
There's so much, and like there will be times I
will watch multiple shows at the comedy club just to
see how a comic changes things up, because it's kind
of an open mic for bigger comics that are coming
through the area.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
So like if they're working out a brand new routine
before they go into a bigger show, yep, okay.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's so fascinating to watch.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
And then their crowd work, if somebody is heckling or
how they're dealing with them, and you just kind of
make these mental notes and make it your own because
it's about having an original material All the time.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was gonna say, how you brought up heckling? How
is that?

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I don't care. You don't care three kids? Well that's true.
We're used to be as parents were used.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
To be here, Like, is that all you got? Like?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Bring it to better? Yeah, I usually I don't mind.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I usually can wrangle somebody pretty quickly or you get
them kicked out.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh well there you go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
And after COVID people were forgetting how to be an
audience member, they would oh, that's make a remark back
or no, like, this is not interactive, it's not a conversation.
This is a performance. And it may seem that I'm
talking to you, but I'm talking to you and three
hundred other people right that are sitting next to you.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh that's fascinating. I would have never thought about that.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh, I mean there's so many times I will just say, oh, sorry,
this is not a conversation.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Shut them down, Just shut them down.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Do you ever, I mean, because we bring up the
kids thing, do you ever just want to look at
them and go, I've been told that I hate you
buy my kids so many times that you bring it
on like like, it's not even that.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, my kids won't say they hate me, not yet,
not yet.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Good job. I hapend A couple of times. Don't kids
don't do that. Don't do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
tell them no, and then you know, you get the
feisty oh teenager.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, and I am a weird parent that I don't
say no. I don't always say yes though that's different, okay,
But I always like provide something like I redirect.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I redirect all the.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Time because we like, I want pop and I'm like, great,
would you like the red cup or the blue cup?
As you're getting water, like, here's that and they we've
talked about that over and over. They're like, we didn't
even realize you did that. Like they can't have apple
juice without watering it down anyway, So you played some
good mind games all the time. Nice all the time.

(12:34):
Nice kids think you're funny. They kind of, yeah, they
kind of think I'm funny. Kind of they're the funny
ones in their friend groups. Though for sure they know
I've set the bar for being funny. Like my for instance,
this is kind of one of the jokes I've told
on stage about more stories that my daughter came into
the kitchen and she was like, my elbow hurts.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
I thought, sorry, like what my elbow hurts?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
And I thought, she because, don't make a joke, thought,
and I'd hold my breath. I thought, I don't know
what to tell you, and she's like mom. I said, well,
do you hit your funny bone? And she did not
appreciate it. She was like eight, And then she said mom,
and just she just surrendered to whatever I was going

(13:22):
to say and just put her shoulders down.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Everything. Mom.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
She was like, mom, I'm hungry. And then from down
the hallway both of her brothers.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Nice to meet you hungry.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
And I didn't even have to say it to be funny.
And that was I won parenting right there. That's like
how you win parenting like you did win parenting. Oh
my goodness, I thought, sorry, your elbow hurts your funny bone?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Did you hear? Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thought, Okay, well we're going to be fine. That'll be
just great, it'll be good. Yeah. But so tell me
about your material. Where do you drop from the kids?
From everything?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I actually don't talk about my answer very much? Okay, no,
not very much at all.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay, so you're not like a Taylor Swift writing a
song about it?

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Okay, no, because it's my kid's dad right right, And
there's no I mean, sure, we have our differences, but
that's like when you're anybody can say hi to me,
but if he does, it makes me mad. Like, so
I'm going to have a different reaction to things than
the rest of the world. So I just don't. Yeah,

(14:32):
you know, yes, I'm a single mom. Like that's kind
of the extent of it. And but it's so much
day to day. If I find myself in a conversation
and I keep telling the same story to different people
and they laugh, and then I when I notice, like
the cadence of the story, and then I'm like, oh,
I'm writing my own material right now. And I do

(14:53):
try to write a lot. I have my joke book with.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Me, do you.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh yeah, well, let's see if we can give you a
couple jokes.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
There will be you know, like a Spartan shirt or
whatever Spartan shirt that one of our producers might be wearing,
but he actually didn't do the Spartan.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
And then about donated shirt. You have to do laundry.
I told you, really, laundry is probably a good call.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
I told him that in the first three minutes of meeting.
You need some clean underwear. I'm sure about that. Don't
you can't turn my side out. You can't do reverse.
That's it back again. Doesn't work for the socks either.
He's literally dumb dying right now.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
You don't get the thumbs up. It's like, shut up,
stop talking to me. This is like my it's dealing
with my kids exactly. I'm like, you can't turn your
underwear inside out. That doesn't clean the other side. It
doesn't mean they're clean.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
You can't turn the socks inside out they're clean.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Nice try, though, I applaud you forgetting it. Nobody a
good try. And that's so.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
And my poor boys are both in high school and
here locally, and I did the grad night for the
Rifle High School this year. Nice and my kids were like, oh,
that's really great for you, and we're cooked and.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Right. So I didn't tell those other kids that were
my kids went to school.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
So you didn't you didn't give it up.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I didn't know, so, but I thought, yeah, quick Google
and you can see this. But you guys don't know Google.
You know TikTok.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
So you'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
You'll never know.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
You'll never ever know Google spelled gund.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Just be like you don't have an encyclopedia goal.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, okay, funniest, funniest story about your kids.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh and I'm sure you have many. I do have many.
Kids provide so much material. They're so fun. Like there,
I didn't know you could like being a parent. I
didn't know this could be fun.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, so that's pretty eye opening, but so much of it,
like just I have a joke that I tell and
it's you know, because kids ask the wildest things. Why
is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why
does my little sister have two butts? That was I
was like, oh, and of course I was sequestered. I
was sitting on the toilet when my son asked me.

(17:22):
He was four and so my daughter was about six months,
so she was getting her diaper change quite a bit.
I was a high traffic area, and but he was like,
what's what's going on here? She didn't have the same
stuff going on. I thought, I was not prepared for
that conversation. This anatomy question. I thought, I can't tell

(17:45):
him the wrong thing because he's going to google it
later in life.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
And I thought, what is it? Like?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Is it a Do I tell him it's a flower?
Do I tell him it's a who ha, what do
I call this?

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I thought, okay, just I'm gonna forget. What if I
tell him something that's not correct, I'm gonna forget.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
And then it'll be hey, mom, what's what about this?
And we'll be in the middle of the store.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And so I just did it's a vagina and I
thought I did. I needed therapy after telling my child
that word. And I thought this is not how I
wanted to spend my day. And he looked at me
and he had follow up questions, I'm sure can I tell, oh, honey,

(18:27):
I I had three C section kids, so you know,
I didn't have to say, that's where you came from,
and this is really good material.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
You won't have this again.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
And I thought, ohky, like I have a stock model, Like,
what are we doing here? My kids on have birthdays,
they release dates.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I'm just trying to get you to spit out your
water over there. That's really all that release dates. Yeah,
they don't have birthdays.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
They were released and I thought okay, and he looked
at me and he goes, is that like pajamas? And
I thought, oh, phonetically, yes, yeah, pajamas uh huh, yes, yep,
that's the same. And he's like, oh okay, and I said,
and you're gonna love Spirit Week okay.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, So that was so.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I had made some merch that said I love pajamas
because it looks like it's an innocuous shirt, no big deal, right,
and then people are just walking around with something that
says I love pajamas, pajamas or that's one of my
favorite stories because yeh.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yes, it was very innocent and it was cute.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, and a lot of great stories come from just
pure innocence.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
They yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
My daughter did tell me that she came home one
day and she said, I started roasting people. And I thought,
oh good, okay, that's great. That's really I have not
had any missed calls on my phone, so that's good.
And she said, yeah, I told people that they look
like they were born on the freeway. And I thought,
what it's happening. She said, yeah, because they looked like

(20:10):
they were in an accident. She was in the second grade.
I had three voicemails. I didn't that was just how
I tell the joke. And I thought, oh my goodness,
like that. But I've had parent teacher conferences with her,
and the teachers are always like, she always gets the jokes.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
First, I think, I'm so proud. I'm so proud.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
How are the grades? But how does she getting the jokes?
I need to know this.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Let's talk about the important things here. First, does she
get the joke?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
To get the joke? Then did she pass the test? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Is she emotionally intelligent? Just tell me that. That's all
I'm hoping for her. So, yeah, it's it's hysterical like it, just.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
So you have a funny house. Yes, always entertaining.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Oh and if somebody stumbles on their words, we stop
that person right away. You immediately get roasted. Like it
just I feel like I've got weird hair over here. No,
you don't have weird hair. No, you're and no Schnoggi's
nothing in your teeth. Hair is perfect, good, you're fabulous.
It was trying to be fit for public consumption today
and he did well. And yeah, I mean we can't

(21:17):
do much without making something into a joke. Like we
had just had our road trip. I took my kids
on and we stayed in these bell tent. You're things
outside of well, Yellowstone, Yellowstone that would have got them,
and the first night there was a group of people
in a tent maybe thirty forty yards away, singing.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Until one in the morning. Oh that's nice, and I thought,
that's always fun. Did you get up and join them?
Or did you in fact did.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Not join them.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
I did get up put on some shoes real quick,
and I didn't realize it was my fifteen year old
size twelve and one of my shoes. So I felt
like I was on Monty Python's holy grail, like I
just needed somebody with the coconuts behind me. And I
went over there and I said, hello, excuse me, pardon me,

(22:08):
it's quiet hours. Hello, And then I saw red and
I was I started cussing, and I don't know if
I said I was going to slash the tent or not.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Alegend Maybe I thought, what is like, shut up because
they were just being dismissive, not apologetic, and I thought, okay,
and I even broke young kids maybe yeah they were
young kids. They were late twenties, so it was yeah, yeah,
like they were traveling, they were having a great time.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah they didn't. Whatever the words of the song were,
it just wasn't hitting.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
And I thought, can I just at least hear the song,
what's the what's the real version?

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
And yeah, I even yelled I'm a single mom of
three kids, and I thought, maybe that's information.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I don't want to be yelling in the middle.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Of the forest, but at that point three kids. Yeah,
but at that point I was the apex predator for sure.
So yeah, I went back to the tent to actually
used the restroom real quick, came back to the tent,
then couldn't find my sleep mask because that's how I
sleep now is I have to completely become like a
sensory deprivation so sleep mask, care bonnet, the whole nine yards.

(23:16):
And I couldn't find those when I got back to
the tent, and I thought, great now I've lost them.
So I woke up my oldest he's seventeen, and I said,
can you please just come help me? And he said, yeah,
he goes who was out there helping you? And I said, well,
what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
He goes, I just.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Heard this really nice lady, and then I heard my mom.
That was both of us all in one, that's all
in one person.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
So yeah, we got a good chuckle out of that.
For most of the trip. So they're like, is that
the nice lady or is that our mom?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Which one is it? Who are we dealing with right now?
Which personality do we?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I thought, I'm not so tired right now. It's just
you're fine. It's the nice lady.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
So did they quiet down? I guess that's the question.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Did they?

Speaker 2 (23:57):
They did?

Speaker 3 (23:58):
They talked for a good like forty five minutes. It's longer,
and I thought, I don't have it in me like this.
Just put on some headsets or something like it. My
kids were fine, so that was fine. But and then
my sleep mask was next to my bed.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I was going to say important question here. Did you
find this sleep mask in the bonnet? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
It was sitting next to my bed.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
And I'm now I'm trying to picture you with the
sleep mask and a bonnet on.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, and it's not even like one of the bonnet bonnets.
It's like a very mixed Scrooge.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
And but it's it's black with satin on the inside,
and my black sleep mask. I'm trying to be chic
if I can as much as it's not so.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
So that just shuts everything out for you. It's so great.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, I throw on sleep noises on my phone doesn't matter.
I'm out to the world. Good because I'm a light sleeper.
I like to listen. And then I heard some study
about dementia. A little bit of the prevention can be
from having more deep sleep. And I'm like, all right,
we're getting it, getting that Get okay, Maybe I need
to work on that.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I know.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm like, gets, I'm just getting that deep sleep. That's
what's happening.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
So if we don't sleep well as women, I don't know,
we're like sleepers for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
And anything through perimenopause. I didn't know about the itchy ears.
Oh I don't know about itchy ears. Tell me about
itchy ear.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
No, No, tell me, you're not even you didn't even
prescribe to that.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
No, what is it. One of my friends had said
it to me. It's a sign of perimenopause. So you're
not going through menopause yet.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh I think I've already been there, down on the chair.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, just these itchy dry skin in your ear and
oh my lord. And I do this Marco Polo with
one of my best friends, and she's a therapist, which
I'm like, oh, I'm kind of cheating and letting you
help me talk about stuff daily. And she was like, oh, yeah,
you're itchy Ears. I heard that's from perimenopause. I'm like,
I'm so sorry you broke up right there. I thought

(25:46):
you just said I was gorgeous. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, we're going to go with that one.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, I thought, yeah. So anyway, it's Ears. It's fine though,
favorite comedian. Oh, that's it. Gotta be a hard one
to lock down.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
It is a hard one to lockdown. I immediately go
to elizas Lessinger. Okay, I think she is so quick
witted and funny. She's gotten a little more political these
last couple of years, which I hey, do what you
need to do, like if that's.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Where she's at.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
But I mean she's had probably four, well five or
six Netflix specials.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
So funny.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
John Mulaney, Oh hilarious. Yes, and he has a whole
Realtor bit. Oh does he Yes? Oh I'm gonna have
to go look that up.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh my kids they're like spot on mom, So is
it real tour or it is real tour?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
It's real tour.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm only laughing because I said realtor like doctor, doctor,
real tour.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Because I wheeze.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
That's good, some little weeze in there, you know.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
So it's yeah, it's And my mom was a realtor
for twenty two years before I got into the business
with my dad.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
But we called him realtors back in ninety I remember
saying real or so, I don't. I don't know when
it changed. It's I must have been a rebrand I
don't know branding. It's a real tour. I well, and
I just got elected to the board of directors.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I saw that. Congratulations make the way they know who
they voted for. I think they do. I think they do.
We're going to keep them on their toes and entertained
all the same. I'm true.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
And actually when I get into that setting, I probably
I hope that I'm a lot more level headed than
maybe they're expecting.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I have.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well see, or I'll be on the news in a
bad way.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
I will tell the story.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, I promise, don't make the news, okay, or making
the news.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
It could be entertaining, it could be could be yeah,
probably not.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
People don't really they're not going to care about the
Board of Directors for Spokene Realtors.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
But that's fine.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
The realtors do, which I've always gravitated towards leadership stuff, so.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
That does not surprise me. Yeah at all.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'm like, hey, I can help, let me help, let
me let me do some stuff like not a big deal,
I'll just I do take on a little too much.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
So that also does not surprise me at all. We
were both interns at the same place. We both worked
in promotions at the same place.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yes, oh, my teeth just got on here.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh yeah, me might want to brush those when you're dead.
I know. Maybe in germor too, who was using Rocking
ninety four and a half to have fun remotes with them.
You have all kinds of things to pull material from.
What are some of your favorite things to pull material from,
aside from your kids.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Daily conversations, people you run into. Is pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh oh, I'm on sabbatical right now, though, So I
didn't know if this was actually a subliminal like you're
trying to get me in here to be on like
a dating show.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well it was like, this is not guys. Could you
go ahead and bring in the yes, No, keep it
behind the screen line.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Because I've joked I'm like, I am happy to be
by my self.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Am I alone?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
No? Oh, you're not like that. When you have children,
you're never alone. No, And as much as you want
to be, sometimes you're not.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Even when they're at their dads, Like we're texting.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Not all the time, but I mean I encourage that
to text their dad when they're with me, like he's
always your dad, right, So, and I'm gonna be at
stuff like that's sorry. They're like, please don't come to
the high school. They have asked me that, and I
still do so, like, oh, no, I'm just helping sell
T shirts or whatever for the boosters.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
You'll never know I'm there, right, You'll never know. Yeah,
I've said that to my children. You won't even know
I'm there. It's okay, But I think I got that
from my mom, who used to drive into that little
you know circle to pick me up from high school.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, and she would honk.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Her horn the whole way in. Oh, the whole way in.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
At least she picked you up. Oh she did.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well. There were moments, Okay, let's let's be very clear.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Indeed, I live very clear.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
There were times I would sit until you know, dark dusk,
and I'd be at the bus stop one the bus
has dropped me off.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
You're supposed to be here. Uh huh, you're not here.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I don't know where to go, so I'm just gonna
sit right here until you decide come pick me up.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Oh yeah. So that was bus days.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
And then if she ever did pick me up from school,
then it was always the loud, obnoxious honk the horn
all the way in. I'd be, Mom, please don't do that.
So what would you do more? You do it more
the next time? Yeah, and I'd be like, please don't
pick me up.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Every once in a while, I'll turn up the music.
Oh there you go, and it's usually to a song
that they've annoyed me with. Oh perfect, So some good
thumpy music.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Maybe I'm at rapper or something. I don't even know
what they are. I don't know. Yeah, I don't either.
I'm like, that's fine, we're gonna do. Is that words?
That's what you want to know? That words?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Nickelback? Right?

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Well now, but my seventeen year old is getting very
excited about retro music, which hurts my heart.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
But just to say it's retro, I really love that.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Okay, that old stuff from the nineties.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Right, I'm actually taking them to the Dave Matthews concert. Nice. Okay,
three days of visit Dave Matthews. You're going for one. Yeah,
we're just going. It's awesome. It's going to love you.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
I love you anyway, but you love nickelback and so
you to be friends forever.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, that was already nack. You didn't know we were
always going to be friends. I did know. I think
I did know. I think I did.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, back when I I told you when I started
this podcast, you were top of my list like that.
I've got to talk to her. I need to find
out what this is all about. Because you were always
funny and you're always fun to work with. And then
I'm like, oh my god, she's doing comedy. She's doing it.
I'm doing it, You're doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
So yeah, especially with that show tomorrow night. I was
on the at the club last night for open mic.
I ran an open mic on Monday out in the
valley at Stockwell, Okay, so you just kind of go, yeah,
a little bit of everywhere. It's probably about forty five
open mics that I'll do. Wow, Like, if you're gonna
do comedy, it's not an open mic at the club

(32:06):
And you get signed someone. I mean it is a grind.
Oh yeah, I've done enough road trips to Richland, Washington.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Fancy.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, it's uh this place called Jokers, which they're great,
but it's also they have a casino and a bowling
alley there. And then you have to get out quick
from the comedy show because there's alci lessons right out.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, I gotta turn the room button itself is a
joke material from that. There's when we do out at
Post Falls.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
It's an open mic and there it's a vape shop
with a bar in it, and then we do comedy
in there. So it's like a turduckenough comedy, Okay, it's
the Draft Zone.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's so great, so much fun.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
And do you get like the regular crowds that come
in or do you find that you're getting new people
every time?

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well, I'm sure you're getting people. It's a lot of
it can be a mix. Sometimes it's just comics. Yeah,
and you're like, Okay, you've heard these jokes a hundred times,
but you know, I'm working on whatever wording of it
or the order of things of your jokes. So it's
fun to also see a comic. Then polish material, have
it in a show and you're like, oh, that's where

(33:14):
you were going with it, okay, or that's where it
ended up, because it's not always where you think it's
going to go. So like, I know, I'm going to
turn it into a joke about my kids saying who
is the nice lady? And then I heard my mom
that's going to end up in something real quick. But yeah,
it'll be interesting to see how the economy of words

(33:35):
gets pulled together for it. So like, I have a
joke where my oldest he was turning fourteen, and he
wanted some Nike. No, he wanted some Air Jordans for
his birthday. And I'm thinking, you're a great Dane puppy
of a person. Your feet are growing every day. But
I do want to be the favorite parent, so yes,
you can have them. And we went to the Nike

(33:56):
store okay, and he went right for the clearance rack,
so proud. And then he became a Disney movie because
he got to shop where all the light touches, all
the light.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
He was like on the you know, Lion King.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
And then I said you can shop where the people
are and he's like little Mermaid, right, I'm like, yes,
thank you. I'm so glad you get the callbacks the thing,
and yeah he found those. And I'm like, when I
was fourteen, I just wanted electricity, but I got booze
and cocaine instead, So anyway, this could have turned out
to be a completely different person. And I just like,
I grew up in a bad after school special is

(34:32):
what it felt like.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
So yeah, yeah, I'm like, this is why we're friends.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I was like, Dad, I don't know think that's right
that your friend is offering me stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Should I be drinking that? I was like, makes that
makes me feel funny?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, like, oh man, I mean I remember the power
being out and I called my mom because you could
still use a phone when because it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Oh yeah, because it wasn't. It was a different it
was all different.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yeah, And she's like, oh yeah, I forgot to pay
the bill and I thought, oh my god. Like I
I was just thinking, it's the summer day, the power's
out something, right, I don't know, you don't think about it.
And she's like, no, go in the fridge and get
a Bartles and James, and I thought, oh, I don't
think that's the right answer.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
I don't think that's the right answer, but I do
like Bartles and James, right, it's.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
The peach flavor that's my favor yet.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
But yeah, oh my goodness, So that joke gets brought
down a whole lot from what it could be.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
You boil it down, Yeah, to the funniest.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Moment, even the pajama joke that one can stretch out longer. Yeah,
no pun intended. Sorry, you guys got it, but I
like to keep it tight.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
This got weird. It's got weird. This got weird. I'm uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
No, I'm not anyway, but you know, even the play
on words for everything.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, so fun.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
So yeah, with dating becomes pretty funny to me.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
We were talking about dating, So bringing it back and
that's a callback call back.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Nice work, thank you.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
But yeah, it's very very interesting because I don't ever
want to use somebody in a joke like that. I
never want someone to feel like they are the butt
of a joke, because I've been told people are like,
I don't want to go on a date with you
because you're going to make me into your joke. Yeah,
I'm going to be your material. I'm like, are you.
Are you that important? Probably not, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Let me think about that for a minute. Don't worry.
I'm not going to use your name. So good exactly.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
So, yeah, it's very it's it's a very intimidating thing
to do to a comic. So and I'll have people
that will be competitive with me, like, oh, I got
to the joke first. I'm not working, i'm not on stage,
i'm not writing right now, but.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, there's a lot of this competitiveness that can come out.
I'm like, oh, no, I think powerful.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Women are intimidating anyway, but if you combine powerful and funny,
that can be intimidating.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
I think.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
I don't know well, and I do part of my jokes.
I'm like, oh, I'm single, mom of three kids. And
then I kind of cut the microphone. I'm like, no way,
she's so pretty, and.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
And then I started last night I was trying to
add to it.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
I'm like, no way, she's so pretty and funny, and
she's funny and she's funny. So that Yeah, I had
done a show one time, and I think I said
it five times.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
No way, she's so pretty, Like one of the comics
was so he's doing a tally marks. They were good.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
So I've seen comics like, yeah, it works, Oh my goodness.
It just it's so much fun. And it's this adrenaline
rush every time every time I do it. Do you
ever get nervous all the time?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
You do?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
I always hear, well, I get nervous all the time too. Still,
after all these years, I still get nervous every time
I go on TV or see an event or do what. Absolutely,
and they say, it's that's your talent trying to get out,
so you own it.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I love it. Yeah, it means you care. Yeah, oh
it does. I definitely care.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
And I can tell if it's new material, like it's
something I'm just trying out, is very I'm extra nervous. Yeah,
And but even if it's material I've done before, I
still get that pump of adrenaline and it's that high.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Like if that's I'll and I tell comics too, if
you do this the very first time, because I'll still
say their comics like, that's fine, you know, because if
you run once, you're a runner, right, that's true. Yeah,
And so they'll go up and I'm like, you're going
to be up until like two and two o'clock in
the morning. I know the show's at seven pm, but

(38:47):
your four minutes will extend that far. Yes, And they're like, no, no,
I'll be fine. Okay, yeah you think that.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Now, what do you think? Are you gonna call me
at too? Let me know you're still up.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
And the next time I see them, it's always, oh,
my gosh, you were right.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
So when you land a joke, I mean you can
feel it.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
You can feel I would imagine you can feel it,
and then probably the feedback you get from the audience, Oh,
just like feeds that a friendline.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Absolutely and well and it's like you're making an inside
joke with three hundred people. Yeah, and that is magic
to me. And what it like watching comedy shows in
person more so, And I just absolutely love it because
you you know, I know there can be a laugh track,
I know there can be enhanced sounds. When I watch TV,
it's still there, but watching it in person is one

(39:39):
of my favorite things. And there's shows all the time
at the comedy club, there's intermittent around. Different venues will
have them too. I actually have performed at Northern Quest
Casino for a few months. So fun, so so fun.
That's going to be a fun venue as well. Yeah,
and it was at the high Ball. I did it, yeah,
October November, December last year and fun. It was great

(40:02):
just getting there and of course being nervous.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I had a green room for the first time. I
was just gonna ask, like, you, did you have your
own special green room?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I know, I was in there for two minutes, and
I mean, if I'm doing have a green room at
a show, it's usually at a bar, and it's usually
in their liquor cabinet.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
I'm like, this is where we're sitting, Okay, okay, that's
where we're going to hang out. Which bottles for me? Yeah? Okay.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
So speaking of that, you always see comedians with their
little glass on a stool or so is it water
or is it a drink?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Or do usually it just mattered? Does it just depend
on the day.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
It probably depends on the day. I don't like to
bring something up because I will spill it.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Spill it, That's what I'm always I watched them go
and you know, they're swinging the mic or moving their hands,
and I'd be I would be the one who would
just knock everything over and trip over the mic cord
and all of that all the time.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, and so I don't bring anything up. And it's
kind of like that. It's part of the instructions actually,
if you're if you're a brand new comic and you're
doing an open mind, like, don't bring anything else on stage,
bring your notes, you know, just get up there.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yes, it's going to be bright.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
You know. I've kind of joked that we could do
a Bingo card for all the new comics, like the
lights are bright, Oh my gosh, it's loud.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, bingo. Oh it's another dick joke.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Okay, another one of those low hanging fruit, no unintended
and and it just it's very interesting.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
It's like, nope, get into your material.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
You and have to, like people ask all the time,
how do I become a better comic?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Well, be funny number one? Yeah, and then do it more.
You have to do it more.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Do you feel like you learn when you don't land
a joke? Because that's got to be like one of
those feelings where you're like, oh, and then what do
you do to recover? Do you just move on quickly?
Do you sit in it for a minute, or does
it depend on where you're at.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, it depends.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
I'm like, I'm living a bunch of it right now,
as you say, I mean, I've never heard of that before.
It can depend like, oh man, I really needed to
reword that that is not how I meant.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
It, or or that didn't land the way.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, And it really speaks to how it's so important
to rehearse it. You know, you say it one hundred
times in the mirror and then bring.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
It to the stage. How do you rehearse for something
like that?

Speaker 1 (42:17):
I mean, I love watching comedians, It's so therapeutic. And
then I'm always so in awe of your timing and
the timing of it how I mean, just the whole
play on the words and how you shift into one
thing and then you bring it back to it where
you started.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
How do you do that well? And so much of
it is the open mics. I mean you're at it's
typically not at the comedy club, like that's our cadillac
of open mics here, and but you're at a bar.
You're dealing with distractions from you know, people sitting at
the bar having conversations or you know, people coming and going,
and it's it's just the additional practice over and over

(42:56):
and over and over. So because something won't make it
to a show for me until I've probably done it
at least twenty times, unless it's a little two or
three liner, or if I'm just bringing starting something on
a show. But otherwise it's stuff that I'm basically bored of. Like,
and I tell that to other comics. Do material you're

(43:18):
bored of, not that you aren't interested in, but stuff
you've done so much that you know it were you
could do it in your sleep.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, that's what you're going to do so much better.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Did you ever have a moment where you were like,
I'm done, I'm not going to do this everyday?

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Really like almost like why am I doing this?

Speaker 3 (43:35):
I don't want to do what I want myself up for? Yeah,
Like why who am I? I mean because there's for one,
there's not many women in comedy, right, That's I mean,
that's a tougher field. I think it's a very interesting dynamic.
You know, most of the comics are thirty year old
white dudes. Yeah, Like, I mean that's what you see

(43:57):
on TV, that's what you see at the comedy club.
I mean it's there. There is some diversification in there,
but there's not much. And you know, it can kind
of be a little bit of a good old boys club,
but I'm like, I also don't care. Sometimes that can
be a sense of security that they just know each
other and they have more flexible schedules, Like there's just

(44:20):
a logistic to it. And I make comedy a priority
in my life. And I mean, it doesn't make me
that much money, so real estate's little more.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
But you know, you gotta find balance, yes, and so
I just go.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
I if I sit by myself, great, If I sit
with other people fine, and then if I'm on stage,
people then feel like they know me, so then I'm
chatting with someone else after the show. So it's very interesting,
like I was meant to be in some sort of spotlight.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Yeah. So, and it's it's very very fun. So you
feel at home. Oh and I love helping people get there.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
So even producing the shows and working with local businesses
and kind of tweaking that what does that look like?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
What are you trying to get out of it?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
And then being in advertising sales before this, it was
like I was made for it right now.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah, you have to be open minded.
You have to be so open minded to everything. Hm,
but understanding where you know the limitations are. I have
a lot of venues that will be like, oh, well,
then the crowd will start to want to tell jokes too,
like they'll come up and do open mic, Like, no,
they won't, and if they do, they're going to tell

(45:40):
a story and it's not going to be funny because
they haven't done this right.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
So don't put the pressure on them.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Like they may think it's funny, but it's going to
be like a ten minute joke and have one punchline. Yeah,
which is fine in a conversation, so not on a stage,
but the microphone in a spotlight.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, it's got to be a little bit quicker than that.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Like I say that I'm I'm a cougar, do you
mean that you are a w Su cougar or do
you that you are? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Because then I go, but I graduated from Eastern which
only works here locally, because I can't really tell that
one like in Richland or something like people are like.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
What they're probably huh No. I instantly went there. I
was like, do you mean Wsu or do you mean well?
Because you have prevager.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
So that's where you have the understanding of who I am.
So I like going out there and starting the jokes
like that because then people can tell that I am
self aware enough to see who I am, right, So
when they feel like we're on the same side of
the joke, then everything seems to go smoother.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Is there a moment that you've had to be on
stage so quick and come back and be self deprecating
to like pick up a stumble so to speak?

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I've never stumbled me either.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
I did not turn around all the way in front
of a national map when I first started.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
I didn't do that.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I didn't have with somebody else.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Oh exactly, I'm like, oh, lesson learned. But yeah, I
like trying to pick something up and knowing that I
have that material that I can rely on, Yeah, because
it might be some new material at the beginning, and
then I have got to keep those arrows in my
quiver like that, because it can be that they want
you to stretch out the show and you're like.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
I told the jokes one, I'm all out of them.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I know, give me my joke book. I can't remember
everything at the moment.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
And we call that tap dancing.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, and I mean I don't mind
riffing and doing I do love crowd work.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Big fan of crowd work. Okay, what's your favorite part
about that?

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Oh, just actually getting it's all. It's kind of a
power move with the audience. You can own the crowd
at that moment. Yeah, they're trying to be funny, but
you're you're facilitating the whole thing. I saw Whitney Cummings
here recently and phenomenal. I mean, she's a phenomenal writer, performer.

(48:06):
I could sing her praises all day. And but part
of the trick of doing crowd work is repeating what
the crowd said. So because not everyone can hear somebody
over here talking about birth control or whatever it is,
so you have to repeat it so then everybody can
be part of the joke. So it's like that creating
that inside joke with however many hundreds or thousands of people.

(48:28):
So it's it's very interesting, like you have to be
you have to be in the moment and self aware,
Like it's.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
What would you tell somebody who is just getting into it.
I'm gonna say, I'm going to give you both sides
of it here just getting into comedy and I mean
watching comedy, being a part of comedy, you know, going
to see these live shows. What would you tell them
about comedians?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Give them a little space. They are just a person,
that's true. Yeah, give them a little space. Yeah, most
comics are introverts. I'm not an introvert. I'm more of
an ambrovert, like I need my time to unplug and
be at home and look like a gremlin. But yeah,

(49:14):
most of them are introverts. They'll talk to a crowd,
but they're not going to be talkative in a crowd.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
In a crowd, so they would prefer to just to
be a little bit more in the back.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Yeah, because when you're on stage, you can't see anyone, yes,
so you know, especially like at a venue like the
Spokane comedy clubs, it's bright lights, so everyone can see
the comic. But the other side of that coin is
the comic doesn't see everybody. They may see the first
couple rows, but that's it. So yeah, it's they're just

(49:47):
people like that's let them do their thing, and whether
it's a meet and greet at the comedy club, like
if you're trying to meet one of the comics or something.
Give whatever their boundaries are, give them their.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Respect absolutely, okay, And then what about the person that's listening.
That's like, I've been thinking about this. I want to
give it a try. I think I've got something here.
What advice do.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
You give them?

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Right, keep writing it, Keep writing it, writing it, try
it with your friends, rehearse it in front of the mirror,
record yourself and listen to yourself.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Do you actually think that's funny? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:25):
And it's a brutal, like it is very much a
stark mirror that's in front of you, and it can
feel terrible like this is why it's one of the
top fears, like ye, skydiving and doing stand up comedy.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Heck, yes, yes. One of my best friends just told me.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
She had this nightmare and she's the therapist, and she
was like, it was terrible. I was on stage doing
stand up comedy and.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Then that was the story. Yeah, she was like, that
was that's it. That's nice.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Like I made myself wake up because I could not
handle it. Your nightmare is my dream.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
It is one of those weird things because you set
yourself up, you're there, Yes, and if you don't land it,
then you got to deal with that well.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
And I told her she had a good childhood that
was why. Oh yeah, then she's she's out of the
mix anyway there in your life, but she's seasoned enough. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
I want to just thank you so much for being
here today, because you really are just one of the
best people I know. You do light up a room
when you walk into you always have, you, always well,
and so I'm not surprised at all that this is
where you're where you've landed.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Thank you. Where do you want to go from here?
What are you hoping for? Oh goodness?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
I like to have the diversity, so I mean obviously
continuing with real estate, but I like the traveling for
comedy because my kids have come so many times with
me to different venues. You know, they think the traveling
for comedy is the coolest thing ever. A comped room
is crap though, really, Oh yeah, cinderblock room and cashmere

(52:03):
that's fine, you know whatever. So we bring our own
blankets and bring our own pillows.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
You can learn to bring your carry on bag if
she fellow cases and totally fine, or if we drive
home or whatever.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
It is a few hours away from home. But that's
kind of I like, it's a slower road for it
because I know there's a lot of comics that are
you know, they're traveling down to Austin, Texas, where Joe
Rogan is and you know, trying to do a lot
in Seattle. And I've done shows in Seattle and Tacoma
and Pualla, you know, all over North Bend. I mean,

(52:39):
I've been all over Standpoint, you know, you name it.
So I think continuing with this, I mean I've headlined
here locally, which is so much fun. To get my
friends to see it, people who know me, which is
an absolute blast. But being so present with my children

(53:00):
is like the number one thing. I mean, I very
June clavor of me. But you know what, You've got
your priorities straight, right. You know that you've got just
a limited time with your kids.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, so you have to take advantage of that, and
then you can always continue to grow this. This is
one of those things that doesn't just get put away
at a certain age.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
You can grow it forever. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
And it's it's funny to keep that muscle working, that
stand up comedy muscle, because if you don't do it
you lose it. Like that's why Eddie Murphy doesn't do
stand up anymore. He doesn't have to, by the way,
but yeah, I mean somebody we would still listen to
him talk, but it's not going to be to the
caliber that he had. And I've heard that a number

(53:45):
of times from different you know, comic enthusiasts too, So
you know, I genuinely love it, and I love it
when people want to do it. I love to see
people succeed in it too. It's so fun. We've got
a great local comedy scene around here too, and really
do well. And people don't quite understand that there's local

(54:05):
shows all the time. So one of the great comics,
Philip Kabsinski, he our kids went to preschool together. Oh
that's fantastic. It's so funny. So yeah, it's just it's
a very small world. It's it's pretty great.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Well, the funny people.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
They could be selling you a house, you know, they
could be the parent next to you in the classroom.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
You never know. My nets are hysterical. I bet they are.
I bet they are.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Okay tomorrow night at to the Comedy Club Downtown Spokane, yep.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Seven o'clock, okay for the best of the Northwest. That's
of the Northwest. How many comics is that?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I believe that there's ten of us owing to be
on so ten minute sets, great comics, like we've got
this all dialed in, so and I'm second to last
on the list, so everybody should be warmed up, and
I'm going to be extra.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Funny for it.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
You got them all coming in priming just for you to.
Oh that's to be perfect. That's great, that's great, Okay,
have fun I need to come see a show you do.
I do. This is crazy. I don't think I'll ever
try to do what you do. Sometimes I think I'm funny,
but I think I'm just funny in my own head.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Well, and it can be you know, conversationally happy too,
So that's all right.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah, I'm funny when I talk to people. Yeah, yeah,
most of the time. Again, I don't mean to be.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
But one I'm cute too. That helps. Okay, I'll take that.
We'll go with that one, right there, perfect, there we go.
All right, Thank you so much, my friend. Thank you.
You'll be back. You'll be back so that you can
fill me in on what's happening next.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
You got it, all right? Everybody. Thanks so much. Go
make the rest of your days the best of your days.