Bought it at Target! Feat. Brian Wells

Come hang out in the lounge with comedian  Brian Wells! We dive into his Target addiction as well as his Instagram!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The whole point is to share on here.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, And there's the out of yourself,
keep the conversations, you.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Know, and.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're doing your friend job on your what's happening, everybody,
Welcome back to JG's Lounge. I'm your host, Jukebox, back
with another episode of stardom and with us. Uh. You
guy that's been following me on Instagram for a while,
We've kind of talked a little bit here and there. Uh,

(00:30):
and we're finally getting you on. Brian Wells man, how
you doing?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm good?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
How are you? I'm fantastic man. Every time I do
a show, every time I hit and go live, I'm
usually in a pretty good mood. If I'm not in
a good mood, I usually rescheduled because it just kind
of runs the show fair totally. So first off, tell
everybody a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's such a tall question. It's such a tall I mean,
I I'm Brian in I'm a Libra and I'm one
of those people that I think it's important, but it's
also you know, I understand that's super annoying as well,
and so I'm not I'm not unaware that that can
be annoying. So but I mean, I do stand up

(01:17):
in the Midwest, and I'm just super happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm happy to have you on. Man, it's funny that
you mentioned libra and that it matters to you, because
to me it makes no difference. But why I have
friends that are all about like astrological signs and kind
of human design. What fascinates you about it?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
You know, It's something I have always really loved and enjoyed.
But I think the thing that's so like that I
make fun of myself is that I, you know, stars exist. Okay, look,
I understand they're in the sky, but I I you know,
people are like, oh, there's the North Star, or there's Jupiter,

(01:59):
there's sad. I'm like, it's lost on me. I cannot
see it. Like I'm just like, yeah, it's another it's
a white one. It's there.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's there.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
But you know, astrology is all based off of where
the stars are in the sky. But here I am like, oh, astrology,
it's so amazing. But I'm like, yeah, I don't know
where these stars are. So I'm like totally dependent on,
you know, other people's information. So it's kind of like
my own blogney right there. And but I have I've
moved from just doing straight up you know, like newspaper

(02:30):
horoscopes or things like that, to you know, deep diving
into like YouTube taro, which is a wild community, crazy competitive.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Sounds like a crazy rabbit hole to get into. Oh yeah,
it's nuts.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Like I have to have rules for myself about YouTube
Taro because it's like you can only do so much.
But yeah, so it's but even then, like you're at
the mercy of you know, what people say, believe and
things like that, so you have to be super, super discerning.
But it's something I've always been interested in and whatever,
and I think I am a little lighter and looser

(03:06):
about it now, even though it's still on my horizon.
Like I enjoy like looking like fight, Like if in
our area we have Coffee News, which is this little
brown one sheet and it's just local businesses that can advertise.
Coffee News has its own like little one line horoscopes.
So that is my like, oh my god, it's coffee

(03:28):
News or bust. You know. It's like if I'm gonna
get like so, if I'm really invested, I'm like gonna
go straight for the clownery with scope anymore.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
So Yeah, so are you Are you also into like
crystals and stuff like that like their energies.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
No, like I I would no. Yeah, it's a it's
a no, it's a no, all right.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I just I know that it seems to kind of
go hand in hand with a lot of people that
are like relate to that.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, I there's there's like ninety eight percent and me
is saying absolutely no, but there's two percent of me
that would love to explore this. But the two percent
that you know, hey, it's like it's an expensive hobby.
It's an expensive hobby to start exploring crystals. And then
you also have to be like I'm a crystal person now,

(04:18):
like I'm literally gonna believe that this rock is going
to do this for me, and I can get away
with a lot of buffoonery. But I don't know if
I can do crystals.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
So like you'd have to be committed enough to like
be able to explain it too, and I think that
could be very annoying and overwhelming.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I don't know if I could do it. So another thing,
I do have a question, because social media is like
such a big deal now, but you only have an Instagram.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Why is that I only have an Instagram. I I
need to be a grown up adult, especially with my comedy,
and have more platforms.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
And it is like it's a twenty twenty, twenty twenty
five goal for me.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So I used to have I mean, I had a
MySpace like a thousand years ago.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
I had a friend like ninety eight, right, Like I mean,
so it's not like I don't know, but it's it's
one of those I've done it, you know, and I've
had you know, I think if you've if you're of
a certain age like me, where you've kind of at
the forefront of social media, like you've had all different
sorts of experiences.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
So when people are like so, it's like, I know,
my MySpace was just a crap show, Like I would
blog about people and it was you know, insane, you know,
just in stuff. So it's stuff that I'm like not
super proud of. Like I don't think it exists anymore.
There's crossed like hand of God.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
I think it does, but I don't think it has
any sort of like credibility.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, so I've done it. It is what it is.
I need to get back on it. I just Facebook
is just so wild. But the more more I speak
with comedians, the more and more they're booking gigs on Facebook.
They're connecting with people on Facebook. Like, so as much
as I want to be like, you know, it's I

(06:10):
don't need it, at the same time kind of do
need it, and I have a pretty yeah, I have
a pretty far reach on Instagram, you know, not to
be not as a brag. It's more of a like,
I feel like I can do a lot with Instagram,
but it's not it's not as far as you can
go so.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Right, And for me it was opposite, like it was backwards.
Like so I did the MySpace thing, and for me
it was a lot of music and like talking about music.
But I also I was never really big in Wow,
but I had friends that were so like MySpace and
Wow were kind of like a big deal at the
same time. But then I got Facebook and when I
started podcasting. I actually hate social media. I think it's

(06:53):
terrible because it's it's like you have to commit in
order to get what, oh, yes, that you want. It's hard,
but you have Yeah, when you have five platforms or whatever,
it's like, oh, well, did I post on here? Did
I post on here? But it's been the biggest reach
for what I do and for this network. So it's
been kind of like a hate love kind of thing
in that order. But I had Facebook, and then I

(07:15):
got an Instagram because I realized that I can actually
reach out to guests more on Instagram than I come
on Facebook, I think, because like you said, Facebook is
so wild and there's just so much going on, so
between I think Facebook and X have been my biggest
platforms for reaching out to guests.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
So yeah, and actually that's instagrams how I got in
touch with you obviously, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, yeah, sorry. I do the Instagram for the Underground
Laugh Lounge, and so that has been like a weird
because I don't do their Facebook, but I do the Instagram, and.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
So especially they're linked together, right, and I think.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's where in the future there'll be some sort of
like handover, you know, because it's You're absolutely right, they
are linked together, and it's a it's a thing.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
So it's easier that way. Though. Then that's what I
did was because like if you post on one, it
automatically posts on the other. Yeah, so it makes it
a lot easier. And actually, so when I promote shows
like this, it's easier for me to promote it as
a story on Instagram because I can link the actual
show in the story. As in Facebook, I can't actually
do the direct link in the Facebook story, but when

(08:23):
it transfers over to Facebook, you can click on it. Yeah,
so it's weird. With that being said, I did some
diving into your Instagram and I found some pictures, So
we're going to be discussing some of your pictures today.
I love it. Does that sound good? All right? Yeah,
here we go. First step. If it'll pop up for me,

(08:45):
we'll see if it works. Hopefully it's not all frozen
on me. That's frozen. Give me a second here, No,
it's okay. What I gotta do is I gotta disconnect
and then reconnect. That's the wonders of having multiple screens. Yeah, so,
how long You've been doing comedy?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Since the end of twenty twenty two, And it's something
I had been thinking about for a long time because
I grew up doing like plays and improv and stuff
like that, and it's just something like, as I just
did more and did my own writing, I was kind
of like, maybe I should really do this. And I

(09:27):
was in the play in twenty thirteen and I was
just like, I need to be doing stand up but
I was twenty thirteen, and then I just didn't do it.
And then COVID happened, and it was like, if you're
really serious about it, like you need to like get
off your button do it. So yeah, and then.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Right, that's why happened. That's that's kind of how it works.
I think you gotta get over that scare, that fear
of it, and then yeah, once you've done it, you're like, Okay,
I got this. Yeah, let's try this again.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Okay, cool, I'm very I'm not nervous, Okay, Yeah, this
is okay, Okay. So this is some yeah little gay
boy shit so great.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I love that. I actually read the little description so
I was like, this is perfect to talk about. Yeah,
and I really, I really do mean it.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
So it's like I, yeah, I was super super interested
in girly stuff as a little boy and growing up
and stuff like that. And I really love the story
of Cinderella. Like I understand where some people might dislike
it or feel threatened or feel weird or whatever, but

(10:45):
I still think there's a lot of hopefulness in it.
And so this is like you know again where people
have all sorts of feelings and beliefs. I got. I
used to collect these glass slippers, and my family enabled
this so as much just you know, like they enabled it.
And this was my absolute favorite and it broke multiple times.
And so that's hot gluing glass slopper.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
What was the term that you used for that said, there's.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's it's yeah, it's a Japanese term. I won't be
able to pronounce that.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I don't believe. I'm looking at my phone right now.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
And it's kin sugi, but it's I want to say
it's kinsugi.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
And that's better than I could.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
If you're yes, I think if you're going to google it,
that'll give you a good place to start. But it's
this practice of like when things are broken, they melt
things together with gold because ultimately, when you bring it
back together, it's stronger because you've brought it back.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Together, and things like this.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
So it's this beautiful metaphor practice of like mending things
that are broken. And so this is something that was
important to me that was broken. It's not gold, it's
like hot glue. But you know, I think it's the
same idea.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah. No, I actually was really intrigued by this, the
description of this, because I had never even really heard
of the term, and then you mentioned like really being
fascinated by Cinderella. For me, it was beating the beast.
I love beating the beast still to this day. I don't.
I don't even I don't even know why. I just do.
And then the reality one that they did was it
just ruined it for me.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's a big thumbs down. I think it's all the CGI, Like,
I don't know why. I think this is when it
would have benefited from actual costumes, like actual making the costume,
I think that would have made it better.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
So I agree one hundred percent. I didn't collect. I
think I collected like knives as a kid. Yeah, but
I also did you remember soby those like soby drinks
they were in class and gars? Yeah, yes, I used
to collect to those when they were glass when I
was a kid. I don't know why, but I had
a wall where I literally had a pyramid of them

(12:52):
that was collecting, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And I have two nephews and they're obsessed with prime energy, and.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
My oldest is too.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, they're collecting the bottles.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
They're like, and I'm like, guy, this is a plastic bottle,
but they are, they're obsessed.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, I don't know why, but you know, it is
what it is. It is what it is. Let's get
let's get on the next one here.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Cool, Yeah, okay, this is Yeah, this is a piece
of art art that was five dollars. Uh and I
bought it a Target. And yeah, I'm a crazy Target person, you.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Know on your Instagram.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah, it's bad. It's really bad. And it's like, we
I should have I could have a reality show about
my love affair with Target, because it's crazy because I
get really wild about They're app like it's I am
the Kristen Wig Target lady like and actually I applied
to work there a thousand years ago and they denied me.

(13:57):
So I'm I'm always like, what did I do on
my Target application to not get a job at Target?

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Like I overnights at Target? I don't. Yeah, it was not.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I'm happy for you, but it's still like I I
think back to that, I'm like, I couldn't get a
job at Target, so but yeah, I just thought this
was such a weird thing that they were selling. Like,
I thought it was bizarre, but I mean I kind
of like it. It's interesting.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I or do you have it hanging right now? Is
it in your house? That was actually that's actually my
cubicle at work.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Okay, Yeah, I thought that was a funny, funny thing.
Like it's just bizarre because you know, people have all
sorts of things in their cube. What's interesting is like,
I don't know if that's still in the comments or
if I just got private messages. Yeah, somebody else? Are
those chips next to it? No, those are cough drops.

(14:58):
I also eat cough drops. They're candy.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
There's sons and someone look like they're from Target too.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
They are Oh yeah, everything's there. Everything there is targed, like.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
That could be in the store.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
That could be in the store in the you know,
the dollar section. You know just as well.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
I like it. We were at Goodwill and we saw
a picture that was the creepiest like three D picture,
and my wife and I were like, we should get
that for your brother because it looked possessed. Yeah, it
was only like four dollars, so he got it and
we gave it to him and he loved it. Why

(15:34):
why Target, Like, of all the stores, why Target?

Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know, I It's just something like I grew up with,
Like it's something that I we would. My mom, like me,
has a diet coke addiction.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
She's recovering.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
I'm not and I but we used to like after
school go to Target, get a large diet coke, a
pretzel and a pickle and just eat that and then
walk around the store, look at my magazines and just
like people watch and shop. So it kind of was
like it's like my ultimate decompressed and like I have
converted some people to be like, you know, we're just
gonna go to Target and have an indoor walk. So

(16:12):
it's like I'm like, I'm not a mall walker. I'm
a Target walker. So it's kind of it's a thing.
It's a thing.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
So that is I mean, I guess the kind of
like the memories of doing it and everything, I guess
would build that. Yeah. And I've actually met a lot
of people who were like, I'm not shopping at Walmart.
I can't shop at Walmart. They're big Target people.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, I'm not anti Walmart at all. Like there's things
Walmart does really well, and yeah, that's a whole avalanche
conversation for me, like because I feel like Walmart gets
a really bad rap, Like I mean, it's not perfect
and wild stuff happens there, but.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's why I like it. But see, that's why I
like Walmart because it makes me feel better about my
life when I see everybody else, right.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
So I mean there's there, there's it's it's there's a
lot to it.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
So yeah, I definitely think that you have a lot
more drama at Walmart than you do a Target.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
You you know, yes, but I think Target is I
think Target is ramping up because you see different like
things on social media and things like that. And I
don't know this. One time during the Christmas season, there
was this manger I think it also is on my Instagram,
but someone's just stole Jesus from the manger. And I

(17:30):
went up to the guests or I'm like, I want
you to see this. Someone stole Jesus in your Target.
And they didn't care. They were just like, Okay, well,
thank you, we'll I'm like, you're gonna get over this. Pa,
like someone we need to find today, Like I'm willing
to help you.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Let's get a crowd, let's go search it. Yeah, did
you ever have you ever seen the show Superstore on
I know of you, I know of it. So there's
a scene where too the employees are arguing about that
setup of Jesus and the manger, and like one of
them is like the supervisor, and they're arguing with the

(18:09):
manager and she's like, you can't have religious stuff on
the display, and he gets all upset about it, and
then she like drop kicks Jesus across. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, all right, let's get onto this next one here. Yes, okay,
so I actually googled it. That's an actual elementary school.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Well, okay, there's there's some layers to this.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
So where I so?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I so right now, I'm in Indiana. I was born
in Tennessee but then raised in Texas and then we
moved to Indiana.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
So where I went to school. I went to a
school ap Boidle.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
And during my fourth and fifth grade years they had
renovate the school because there was asbestos and all this
type of stuff. So like i'd been something to the
school for like five years, breathing in whatever. So it's
like you know, like I know, like it kind of
was like fast forward. You're gonna die of like lung
cancer or whatever. But you know, they did try to
do the right thing to like renovate the school, but

(19:17):
they moved all of the classrooms to this abandoned department store.
And the department store that was abandoned was a Weiener
clothing store.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
And okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
So this is one of those It wasn't like actual
Wiener Elementary, like it actually was my elementary school, but
it was in a Weiener Clothes an abandoned weather clothing store, right,
and so like they had just like cloth dividers for
the classrooms and things like that.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
It was crazy.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, so yeah, Wiener Elementary School.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
So there is a Wiener Elementary school in Arkansas. I
looked at up. Oh it does exist. So there's that.
That's cool too. The other kids actually, the story behind
that is really cool. At a department store elementary school,
that's funny. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Oh yeah, it was crazy and yeah, I don't know kids.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Did other kids do it too?

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Uh oh yeah, yeah, there was like I mean, there
was a class of like I mean, I think there's
like easily three hundred children in these in this abandoned
department store, you know, just going going to school. They
would bust all the kids over there, and yeah, they
didn't think, like I don't know what, like looking back,
like the community had like seven other elementary school so

(20:35):
it's like, I don't know why they didn't try to
like divvy them up into other schools, but they just
kept them all.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
They kept the groups all together. So yeah, okay, I
like that. See when I so when I was like
kind of going into middle school, I remember they were
like moving the schools around, so like they got a
new high school, so they like transitioned us between like
three different schools in one year. I was like, oh
my god, that's ridiculous. Oh yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I've not actually heard anybody else to have. Yeah, because
my experience of life like that. Definitely, I've had a
lot of school transition like that, and that's that's really
why that's what kicked it off.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, do you have any like crazy memories of elementary school,
Like something that happened that like was just so crazy
you can't forget about it and you tell people about it.
Uh well, and like hmmm, I can give you an

(21:38):
example from so for me, when I was in third grade,
there was a kid did you ever like hang upside
down on the monkey bars or walk across the monkey
bars as a kid. Yeah, sure, sure. So one of
the kids was hanging upside down on the monkey bar
and he slipped and fell. He busted his eye open,
like he just he didn't scream or nothing, he just

(21:58):
stood up and all you just is this black ink
running down his face and a bunch of kids like
what is going on right now? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Now, I we had an art teacher that she like,
I don't know why I did this, but I said
she had a brain transplant. Like I don't know why
Little Brian was such a snarky butthole, but he sometimes
that happened, and I was like, yeah, she had a
brain transplant. And I thought I was being super slick

(22:28):
and that she didn't hear me and instead of attack me,
like the friend that I was at this art table with,
he was like, yeah, I heard you had I heard
you had a brain transplant. And she took the kid's
hand put it in her hair and she was like,
do you feel like that's my limbodomy scar? And we

(22:49):
were like so like the fact that she grabbed his
hand and put it in her hair and like like
so she like was totally in on hearing our you know,
you know conversation.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah so they that actually reminds me of a story
where I h I think it was seventh grade science
and one of the special needs kids had like their
their their I don't know who they call them, like
the adult that's with them in the classroom, and uh,
we were talking about NASA and I made a stupid

(23:22):
joke saying that NASA ment needed other seven astronauts and
she got so livid because she said her kid was
actually there training to be an astronaut and I had
no idea obviously, dang. So I got a nice talking
to after that one.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, nice, all right, next up, Okay, let's see here.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
This is interesting.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Okay, yeah, this is a sentimental one. Yeah. So I
you know, like I said, I've been thinking about doing
comedy for a long time. I had done you know,
playing and improv like I've written things like I've written.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
I mean, this isn't a brag.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
This is just life.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think if you're a creative person, like you.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Understand, yes, like you do things and you're like it
can you can do things a lot of things and
it go nowhere and so like I've written two screenplays.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't say that to brag.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
I say that's like I wrote them and like I
submitted them to places and like they went nowhere.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
So I've done a lot in my.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Life to like be an artist and get paid. And
so I you know, did stand up and you know,
you never know what will happen. But like after I
did the class in twenty twenty two and I was
working with the group I work with, the comedy Delli
and stuff, I got on the show and to host,

(24:46):
and so that was my first paid gig ever after
having done things my entire life, like literally since elementary school,
you know, and not received any payment for you know,
the creative work I've done. Like I got ten dollars
from this show, and I don't know, I just thought
it was important to like, you know, remember it and

(25:08):
you know, so that's like that's the actual ten dollars,
and that's the set list that I've performed.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
And yeah, I actually I picked this because I've had
a lot of artists and like comedians that do a
lot of traveling on here, and a lot of them say,
like until you kind of make it, like you don't
only make any money you actually kind of spend money. Yeah,
you're investing in yourself. So like, even to make ten
bucks is huge because it takes a lot of investment

(25:35):
to get to that point.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, and it has been. Yeah, when you start thinking
about it, like it's like it's not like, oh, I
made ten dollars for this. I mean I made ten
dollars for thirty minutes. So someone might be like, wow,
that was like that's a easy ten bucks, but it's like,
really that ten bucks was you know, it took me
X amount of time to write the material, X amount

(25:56):
of time to practice it, X amount of time like
doing un hey the work. So suddenly it's like ten
dollars divided by like, you know, six weeks, so you know,
like actually it's like a penny for a day, you
know or something like.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Right. Yeah, my my very first job was Sonic. I
was a cook at Sonic and I made five dollars
and twenty five cents an hour, and back then I
was like, yes, I'm making some money. Now you can't
survive all of that. Sorry, No, So that's that's big though,

(26:32):
I mean that's that's something that you did and you
profited from. So yeah, now that that settle it was.
Was there anything in that set list that you still
use today? I can try to assume in here I
see it. Thank you though, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
So Twats definitely. Twats is the working adult artist theater
school and so it's about you know, porn act dean
and why it's so bad and like I want to
open up an acting school for porn stars. So Twatt
still gets used. Ursula is a parody song of part

(27:13):
of your World or yeah, yeah, part of your World,
and uh so Ursula gets used. Freeze is a joke
about the police. Our local police department had a career fair,
so I kind of like, do this like act out
about me possibly, you know, going to the career fair

(27:34):
and yeah, so so yeah, some of the stuff is used.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
It's funny that you mentioned the poor acting and porn
because I've actually talked about doing a separate podcast. Uh
of just like the like you know how like a
lot of the role play stuff it's just so bad.
And I was like, we don't even have to show
the porn scenes. You can just do the setups and

(28:00):
talk about it.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, it's just crazy. It's like, yeah, but yeah, I
that's why that's why there's a joke. That's why there's
a that's why, that's why I leaned into it. On
that list, there is this qu of D and that's
Question of the Day. So a lot of my I mean,
as a personal writing practice, I will use Alexa. Hopefully

(28:26):
she doesn't go off right now, so but I'll do
I'll talk to her and do a question of the
day and that will be you know, it gives me
a topic and then I kind of do like a
cloud bubble and it's you know, I kind of brainstorm
off of that topic and so it kind of gives me,
you know, ideas of like things that I would never

(28:46):
think about, you know, to like bring material out. And
that one specifically was the question was, what's a sea
creature that eats garbage on the ocean floor? And it's, uh,
it's a sea cucumber or something like that, and it's
it's super weird. And I was like, I don't know
why they call it sea cucumber. They should call it

(29:08):
mermaid pickle. And well, I'm glad you laughed. I'm glad
you laughed. I don't know, I think when I tell it,
I just maybe there's too much setup or something, but
it's I don't know, maybe it's just exists in like
a little burst like that, but it's something that I
Mermaid Pickle lives.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
With me and I'm glad, I mean glad you enjoyed
it just now.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
But it's it's something that is on that list that
actually does not get brought into rotation because I did
it that day and maybe another time and it just
never really took off.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
So that's fair. I mean, it could be the it
could be the the setup. I don't know, Like you said, yeah,
I thought it was funny, but you kind of abbreviated it.
You were kind of quick about it, so I don't know,
that's why I thought it was flummy.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, A compliment to you and Elise and I have
talked about it, Like you've edited a few reels, and
I work with another writer in our community, Rob, and
Rob is very big about like get on the ramp,
get off the ramp, like get to the funny, And
you have edited a few reels where I'm like, well,
i think I've got it bare bones, but then you

(30:15):
have edited other things out that I'm like, oh my god, Okay,
I guess I could have gotten there faster, So that's
a compliment to you, like I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, no, thank you. And I think the biggest thing
doing what I do and I think I love helping
you know you guys out and at least too and
actually at least I think one competition recently for something
I edited for, so that makes me feel good. I
think that the biggest thing I've noticed out of doing
what I do is removing the extra you know, just
kind of hit hitting the points because people and the algorithms,

(30:48):
which I hate talking about this, but because it's so factual,
if you can't capture the audience within three seconds, they
swipe away the algorithm. Just you're gone. So I think
drag unless you're like a huge celebrity, then somebody watched
ten minutes because they're just a big fan. But it's
just it's the way it is. I mean, I hate it,

(31:08):
but it does. It works, And I think the biggest
like challenge for me when I do it is how
do I still capture what they want but still you
get rid of the extras? So yeah, it's hard.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the thing.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
It's the thing a YouTube.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
And I have like little clips on my YouTube and
like exactly what you're saying, Like it doesn't get a
lot of views, which is okay, I'm I just want
to get stuff up there for other purposes. But it
is like again with a twenty twenty five, like I
gotta get on Facebook, I gotta I've got to create
more reels. And another comedian exactly like what you were saying,

(31:45):
he was like, just create a reel of people laughing, Like,
just create a reel, like it's one of the as
much even if it's incoherent. You know, it's like if
people see people laughing, it's like then it means something.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
So and I do it because I enjoy what I create,
and you know, I don't necessarily care about the views,
but it feels good when you get the views, you
know what I'm saying. So like I might post ten
clips and two of them do pretty well, and I
still I'm still fine with that because I still enjoy
the stuff out I wouldn't put it out there if
I didn't. Yeah, so yeah, on to the next one. Here,

(32:22):
I'm guessing another target picture.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Okay, this is home Goods, and home Goods is moving
into my heart pretty fast, like home Goods is totally
my side bitch, so one percent. And I have a
friend Kelsey, and Kelsey is like she's somebody that I
have converted to being a target enthusiast. But we do

(32:47):
a lot of like we've had a lot of life together.
We've worked two different jobs together. We you know, we
grocery shop together. We do we just were She's one
of my best friends. And so she she also enables
me to do dumb stuff, like and she's a value able,
but she's like she's a good audience member. Like it's

(33:08):
good and bad. Like sometimes I will get a reaction
out of her that is so satisfying and like it's
like Okay, maybe I've got something or maybe whatever, like
so it's yeah, it's an enabler. But then it's like
I know that I can do dumb stuff and Sho'll react.
So it kind of is like it's totally playing with
fire and so not that this is.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Actually yeah, and I kind of picked this one because
I wanted to like a lot of like the short skits,
and I'm sure you've seen some of the ones I do.
They're just dumb. Yeah, I have no problem putting them
out there because I'm confident in what I do, and
I feel like there's some confidence in this picture because
you posted it. Oh and I think the absurdness of
it is is clever because that's I mean, that's that's

(33:51):
why this show is called stardup. I mean people post
ridiculous things nowadays.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, I exactly. I completely agree with you when hundred
percent it's meant to be silly, wacky, dumb fun, just
an effervescence, you know, like just boom done.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I will say.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
The other part of this is like I actually thought
this was a good representation of me, and so like
I with dating profiles and things like that, you know,
other people be like, oh, don't post this, like this
isn't a good picture of you. But in my opinion,
this is like if you don't enjoy this, or if

(34:31):
you don't see something in this, we're not gonna work.
Like we're gonna work, you know. It's I really want
to see, you know, like when you first wake up,
you know, when you're whatever, Like I want to see
those moments because you know that's gonna be life, that's
going to be the every day. But seeing something like
where you have filters, where you have extra eyelashes or

(34:54):
you know, perfect skin tone, like that's not real.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
So well, and that's also I'm glad you brought that up.
That's exactly why this, like a lot of my shows
are live, this one in particular, I always do live
because I like that raw reaction from people. I don't
want that edited, scripted content where you don't get where
you're interviewing somebody with the bullet points and it's just
it's not it's not what I like. So when you

(35:19):
were like, what's the topic going to be, I'm like, well,
I'm not gonna tell you, but you know you'll enjoy it. Yeah,
it's it's because you can't prepare. It's raw. I get
to know you, you bring up stories that you never
thought of, you haven't thought about in a decade, and
it's just it's fun. It's fun for me. And then
then I feel like I'm making another friend, you know. Yeah, agreed,
All right, next up. Okay, this is a ridiculous pizza.

(35:41):
By the way, this looks absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
So okay, I in my whole like again like not
that I'm like, I'm meant to be doing comedy, Like
I'm not trying to talk doub about you know, things
are going on. I love comedy. I'm happy that I've
had a little bit of traction success. I'm grateful. I
don't want to pooh pooh on that. So but again,

(36:07):
the road to get to even where I'm at right
now has been a long road of other turns. So
one of my absurd, absurd like thoughts of my journey
was like I'm going to open up a pizza parlor,
Like I'm going to be a pizza person. And it
started with being like, at one point I was going

(36:28):
to have a YouTube channel of like will it pizza
and like try to recreate these pizzas from like you know,
like there's Pizza Hutton, you know, Japan, and they have
all these absurd flavors. It's like, can we like recreate
that here and like taste it and like you know,
and it's kind of a cool idea, but it's, you know,
it's kind of it's not it's kind of one note.

(36:50):
Even though it seems complicated, it's kind of one note.
So I had this idea of like I'm want to
do pizza, I'm want to do this, I'm going to
do that, And so I started playing with certain things,
and then it was you know, I was at one
point like going to the store and buying like all
these ingredients and you know that can be expensive as
you know, totally ridiculous, and I would just you know,

(37:14):
have all these pizza failures and that really should have
been the chance as pizza failure like that would be
that would be gold. But I so I went from
being super expensive to like suddenly, if I'm going to
make pizza, and even like even ordering deliver, it's like
it's got to be cheap. Like I cannot bring myself

(37:34):
to buy all this. You know the fact that Papa
John's is forty dollars, it's like, no, Papa, I have
no I know you, I have ordered you, I've been loyal,
and now you're forty dollars. Now get out of here,
go home.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well, like you know, like to make one pizza costs
like three or four dollars.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
So I was going from super expensive. So now the
goal it's exactly what you're saying, to be three or
four dollars to be cheap. And so these pizzas right here,
this pizza is one where it's like the crust is.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Just flour and Greek yogurt, so like that Greek yogurt.
So you even made the crust yourself.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah, So the crust is like is you know, less
than a dollar. The tomato sauce is like dice tomatoes
and like some paste and with some like sugar and
seasoning and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
And then it's just shredded cheese.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
So it's like that is like a probably under four
dollar pizza right there.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
How does it taste? Did it taste good? Do you
remember how it tasted?

Speaker 3 (38:36):
I mean, the cheese and the tomatoes are good. The
crust I enjoy.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
I enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
However, if I was like again, I'm gonna open up
a pizza parlor, I'm gonna have no. This is one
of those where I've read like I got the recipe
online and it was one of these, you know, food
bloggers where they were like, oh my god, this is
like a healthy, easy recipe and it does taste like
health food. It is card board, and I tried to

(39:08):
jazz it up with garlic powder and salt and pepper
and other things over the years, and it's it's very
hard to make that the Greek yogurt and just flour
those two together even though it's like, well, you should
be able to manipulate it. I do think it's hard
to make it super flavorful. So it's very, very very plain.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah. And when you mentioned health, you mentioned health. I
mean healthy foods tend to not have a lot of flavor. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, so I mean it wasn't good. Yeah, it was good,
but it was it like I'm gonna change the pizza world.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
No, no, we so we actually like making our pizzas
at home, but we like to get to all these
because you can buy the dough. Yeah, we'll go there,
We'll get three or four dough and then we'll make
our own pizzas. And it is it's a lot, it's
a lot cheaper than going out and buying a large pizza.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Absolutely, and enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah. I want to be the person that will, you know,
bloom the flower, let it rest overnight, all these things,
and I just I don't know, I can't commit to it.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, you gotta have you have to have patience. Like
for me, that's the same way though fried rice. I
love fried rice, but in order to get the best
fried rice, you cook the rice the day before and
let us sit in the fridge. Yeah, and it's a
struggle for me. Yeah, it's hard to right nip. This

(40:37):
one was interesting, Okay, okay, so kind of related to
this conversation.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
This is take that my dad made and he is
like in retirement and he again this is a bigger story.
So again with this comedy journal, my parents are supportive
but cautious there. And at one point, like again, like

(41:08):
probably fifteen years ago, I tried to have a YouTube
channel with a friend and long I made out with
her in a Walmart and it was being it was
just about being dumb. It was dumb and it was
funny and it was comical and whatever. And they totally
were like, you're making porn. You can't do like, you'll

(41:30):
never work again. Like it was just this huge, crazy
family drama about me making out in Walmart on film.
So like so I so get Like with the comedy stuff,
it's been very cautious anyhow.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
So my dad is.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Really into baking. I'm grateful that he like and it's good,
it tastes good. So but he's like, yeah, I think
I want to make a YouTube, Like would you want
to help me with my YouTube? And I'm like, dude,
you guys blew up at me for a YouTube and.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Now you so but okay, so he like made a video.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
It's not on YouTube, but it is very sweet and
it's again somebody that has never done something on stage
or you know, so it's like you can tell it
like he doesn't know what to do with his hands.
He's you know, very trying to just the facts and
very cute, very Injurt. And that's not to like talk
down or make fun of him. It's actually like he's

(42:32):
been so sweet and sincere. But he Yeah, he made
this Frankenstein cake for Halloween. So it's just a yellow
cake and then there's like a jello brain and yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
So what you can see on the Instagram, I just
I didn't want to pick all the pictures, so I
just I picked the finish. But yeah, I thought that
was actually cool with the inside of it being all gelatine.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Yeah. Yeah, so that was something he did and it
was it was cool and I'm happy.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
He did it. I'm glad you posted it too. It
actually looks pretty pretty good. I don't know. I mean,
I think I could probably do that, but it would
take some work.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yeah, I cannot, like you have like an airbrush, like
spraying the you know, the color on the icing and yeah,
going to town.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah yeah, all right, let's get onto this next one here. Yeah,
this is something you did, right, This is a.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Sixth grade art project and I so we were just
doing this, like, you know, a sixth grade art project
for Christmas time, and it was about doing these like
stained glass things. So it was kind of you know,
back then, it was like definitely aimed towards you know,
like church windows. And I didn't go to like a

(43:43):
private religious school, like it was still public school, but
it was about you know, cutting with precision and like
gluing like the tissue paper there in there and things
like that. I got a plus on it. I was
very proud of. It was really good.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Actually yeah and my yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
My grandparents had it in their home for like years
and so it was actually it was it was sweet
that they had it up all that time. So it's cool.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Did it bug you, like? Did it as you got older?
Did it bug you that they had it up? Or
do you still like appreciate that piece.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I really appreciate it, because I mean it was like
they loved me and it was endearing and it was
kind of special and I I remember enjoying making it,
and then I got an A plus on it. And
then there was somebody in the class and she was
like like, oh, what gets an A plus? Like she
was super butt hurt that she got whatever type of grade.

(44:40):
And then she saw mine and she was like, Okay,
that's very good, and I was like, it.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Was very in your face.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
So yeah, I mean, I yeah, I enjoyed it. So
I I liked it.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
I mean, and I think it captures kind of you know,
that Cinderella aspect that you enjoy too.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Yeah, So alright, let's get this next one. We've got
I think we've got one or two more left. Okay,
that's cool. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
To be clear, I don't judge. I evaluate correctly.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Now, is that your handwriting?

Speaker 3 (45:12):
That is my handwriting?

Speaker 1 (45:14):
I write the same way.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
I think that's artistic.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Creative people typically have an interesting handwriting. Yeah, yeah, that's
that's my handwriting. So what's the So go a little
bit more.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Into detail than just what it says.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
I that's I. I think I am a nice person. Well,
actually no, I am a kind person, and I try
to be polite. Being nice sometimes is like too much
or too syropy or like not sincere sometimes like you know,

(45:54):
being nice as not being sincere and being kind is
like you gotta deliver some tough news and things like that,
and that you don't judge people is just.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
A dead lie.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
And everybody judges everybody. And I think with the political
world that we live in, you know, I'm not gonna
get political, but you know, with racism and like things
like that, like I don't think it's weird that you
have you don't understand that maybe you have some sort
of like racist thought that you're unaware of that's unchecked,

(46:30):
and like that's okay, and so now you if you
acknowledge it and you see it, then challenge it and
grow beyond it, Like that's not being racist, that's actually
growing and evolving. And so having some of those like
nuanced conversations, you know, it's it's hard for people because
they're like, well, I'm not racist, or like it's just
too It's like no, it's I'm not even trying to

(46:52):
make you wrong. It's let's talk about it, let's work
through it, let's be aware, and so like this is
you know kind of I don't know, it's kind of
you know, I don't judge people I evaluate correctly. It's yeah, again,
it's not even about racism at all. It's more about
just people in their lives. And you know, it's yeah,
I agree.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I actually I picked this because I actually agree a
lot with it. But I think there's a lot of
like weight behind the statement. Like for me, I know
I'm not racist. However, anybody that like craves attention, it
doesn't matter you're race, or your sexuality or any of that.
If you were craving attention, and as obvious, I probably

(47:33):
just don't want to talk to you. And I'm gonna
be a blunt about it.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
There is there's a lot of people in the health
and fitness space right now, and the bodies it doesn't
matter who you are, gay, straight, man, woman, does not matter.
I mean, you can find whatever you're looking for. You
can find a whatever you're looking for. And I'm you
know what, slow clap to you for your commitment to
your body whatever. But when you're putting it out there, like,

(47:58):
there's definitely some attention seeking and like and I have
done to the point where it's like I do get
lost in the comments, you know, and it's like these
guys that are very masculine, straight presenting. Their comments are
all men, just like a love you bro to like.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
You know, destroy me daddy.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
It swings from both sides, but it's all coming from
It's just it's fascinating. But again, like with those situations,
it's like, what are you really doing?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
It's like you're looking for attention.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Like I understand you're saying that it's this, but it's
like you're looking for the attention, whether it's from these
people or the endorsements or the whatever, like you're doing it.
And like and even with my comedy, it's like, you know, oh,
well you're just attention sinking. Well, a big conversation within
the community is like, oh, so and so is a narcissist.

(48:49):
So and so is a narcissist. I think anybody that
gets up on stage has a there's a thread of
narcissism running through them somewhere, because it's like it takes
some you know, hood spa to get up there and
to do it. You know, even if you're a humble person,
like it still takes something to you know. So it's like,

(49:10):
you know, so if someone's like, well, yeah, you're looking
for something, like yeah, I'm on stage, I'm trying. Yes,
it's about expressing myself. Yes, I want to entertain people
and I love people, but yeah I get something from performing.
Like you're absolutely correct. So if you want to judge
me for that, you're correct.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Well, I mean talk about like making the pizzas. I mean,
so I went to culinary school and people always ask
me like, what did you like? What's your favorite thing
to make? It was never about what I was making.
It was about the presentation, the deliverance, and did the
people enjoy it? But if you're gonna pay to come
see me, you, uh, I'm gonna make sure it's you know,

(49:48):
worth seeing. And if you think that I'm just trying
to get something out of it, you're You're right. I
want you to come back. And if you don't like it,
then fuck off.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Yeah right, yeah it can be yeah, yeah, this was
a This was a good one.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
So no, it's good. I'm glad we discussed that one.
That'll be a good clip. Yeah, all right, this one
right here, this will be the last one.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Okay. So this is my corporate life, or it was
my corporate life. So I there's a couple of threads here.
So at this job, specifically, Yeah, I guess truth be told,
like I probably should have never left this job because

(50:32):
I just I could do whatever I wanted, Like I really, like,
you know, figure like all of the above, Like what
does that mean?

Speaker 1 (50:40):
All of the above.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
So I worked on this team and we had somebody
leave our team and it was just so weird and
it was just so weird. And I told my boss
at the time, I was like, you know what, I'm
gonna sage cleanse their cube before we get a new person.
And she was like, okay, I just put it on
the calendar. And so I literally on this team, I

(51:07):
did three sage cleansing ceremonies of cubes.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
And now do you actually have any knowledge of sage cleansing?

Speaker 3 (51:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Oh no, I just made it up, Like I just
I went in there with a sage stick.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
I couldn't light it because you know, fire, and but
I you know, I, I uh bought this cape and
hat and you know, so again the hat is of it,
like I have I can't wear hats, but I have
crazy hats. But I did this sage cleansing and this
was actually this one was for my boss because she

(51:40):
was going somewhere else, like to like in the company.
So since she was leaving us, I you know, saged
her office and so she was Yeah, it was it
was bittersweet, but yeah, I did this ceremony like I
would do, like read prince lyrics and then we would
you know, chant and I I don't know, it was

(52:01):
just did dumb We just did such dumb stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
And it was it was beautiful. So any is any
of that from Target?

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Uh, the Cape for sure.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
I don't know if the hat is.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
There used to be a costume store in our area
called Fun Effects, and I don't think it was a
I don't know if it was a chain or not.
But Fun Effects just had I mean it had theatrical
makeup costumes. They had a lot of like prop stuff
as well, so it was kind of Halloween, but it

(52:38):
was also very like it was it was still very
theatrical base. So it was pretty unique. And this is
like that's a whole other scandal because like it moved
from different locations and then like it moved to just
a warehouse and then it mysteriously burned down. Like I
there's a lot like the Fun Effects, the fun Yeah,

(53:00):
the Fun Effects story to me is one of those
like self been legends that I'm like that it's worth exploring,
right cape from target effects, the sage stick is probably
like that might be fun effects as well. It could
be fun effects or it could be Michaels. But yeah,

(53:21):
I did a I know I did at least three
Q cleansings there.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
So that's that's funny. That's actually really funny. It kind
of shows your character is again like kind of the
chair with the yeah craziness, you know, just off the wall,
have a good time, you make people feel good.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
You know, try I try.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Yeah, So well, Brian, I mean I really appreciate you
coming on. I mean, you know, we've been in touch
I think for a few months now, well quite a
few months now on and off, and I'm glad I
finally got to have you on. So yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
I'll be happy to come back and whatever.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
So yeah, yeah, of course I'm gonna hope you enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
So it was good. That was funny, it was a
good pictures, so good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Well, I didn't want to pick anything off the wall,
which you really, I mean, none of that was really
I don't think you really posts anything that's just too crazy.
I don't think I do.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
I do think that I, you know, again the bigger
conversation about social media and like also having to move
to more in twenty twenty five, like I have, Like,
I don't think it's been really a huge clean up effort,
but I know that a lot of some of the
things I used to post, like five ten years ago
was very very tumbler esque, you know, like something with

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like a you know, a picture with a mood or
with whatever. Oh I love Sarah Willie. But yeah, it's
just uh yeah, no, I mean, I thank you for that.
I want to take I want to take that as
a compliment.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
So yeah, that's good. I mean, I, like I said,
I did some scroll on. I mean some of those
pictures are backways. So but yeah, I really appreciate you
coming on, and I'd love to have you back on
again and we discuss other topics. We've got multiple shows,
so stick around. Everybody that's uh tuned in. Sarah than
for tuning in, even though it was last minute. You
can watch us whenever you want. This will be on

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all the audio platforms by the end of the day,
so until next time, everybody will see around. Thank you,