May 15, 2024 • 32 mins
Ep. 11 – Talking Yourself Out of Good Ideas - “How to Kinda Succeed in Comedy and Life” – William Lee Martin
In this episode:
o Hey Doc, Where's My Underwear?
o Melanoma Cancer Removal.
o Top 5 Blankety Blanks – Top 5 Things You Don’t Want to Hear from a Surgeon.
o Talking Yourself Out of Good Ideas
o Going for it like your life depends on it.
27-year comedy vet William Lee Martin along with his ensemble of smart, knowledgeable team including tour manager, Lisa Bruce and producer Ron Phillips, dive into life, entertainment, and the world of show business. You don't have to be a comedian to enjoy this podcast! Take us in the car, on a walk or watch on your phone while lying in bed or hiding out in the restroom at work! And William Lee will teach you How to Kinda Succeed in Comedy & Life Podcast!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-funny-life-with-william-lee-martin--5894622/support.
In this episode:
o Hey Doc, Where's My Underwear?
o Melanoma Cancer Removal.
o Top 5 Blankety Blanks – Top 5 Things You Don’t Want to Hear from a Surgeon.
o Talking Yourself Out of Good Ideas
o Going for it like your life depends on it.
27-year comedy vet William Lee Martin along with his ensemble of smart, knowledgeable team including tour manager, Lisa Bruce and producer Ron Phillips, dive into life, entertainment, and the world of show business. You don't have to be a comedian to enjoy this podcast! Take us in the car, on a walk or watch on your phone while lying in bed or hiding out in the restroom at work! And William Lee will teach you How to Kinda Succeed in Comedy & Life Podcast!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-funny-life-with-william-lee-martin--5894622/support.
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On this week's episode, we aregoing to have the topic of talking yourself
out of a good idea, allon how to kind of succeed in comedy
and life and welcome in everybody.I am your host, comedian William Lee
Martin singer not singer, songwriter,book writer, uh, screenwriter Uh,
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and I'm on drugs today. Soyeah, so I uh, I had
a little minor procedure, figure outwhere to put it like that, see
the swelling there. Yeah, souh I had cancer removed melanoma cancer and
uh uh so yeah, I'd liketo welcome in my co host Lisa Bruce
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there hi yoa and uh and thenbehind the controls is the wizard Ron Phillips.
So uh, welcome in everybody.Yeah. So I yesterday I went
and had surgery on on the arm. Is my first surgery, I think
because I asked him, I said, do I get to count this as
surgery? Real deal? This wasreal deal because you know, they said
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yeah, because an antisty geologist camein and and so I was kind of
awake. You said, they didn'tput you completely under, but they did
at first. I guess they putme under. And this is the most
disconcerting part of it. So theysaid I could leave my underwear on,
and then when we finished, myunderwear is around my ankles. I'm not
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lying, I'm not lying. Iwas like, what did they have to
do? It was weird too becausethe nurse and the nurse was real sweet.
But the nurse came in and youknow, it's it's like your nightmare
because she's like, uh, beforeit ever happened, She's like, and
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I was, I felt so greatbecause I could leave my underwear on.
Right. She came in and shegoes, she goes, I know you
from all your TikTok videos, andmy underwear is on, so you're not
gonna actually no me right and thenand then Lisa, I'm doing the surgery
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and they're like, we got topull your underwear out, and I'm like,
it's my army. What what onearth were they working on? Your
arm is a long way from you. Well, well, it's my understanding
is that I got confused to knowthat there can be a lot of blood
with this, and they didn't wantto get blood on your drawers, is
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what I was told. It soundslike sounds like an excuse to me,
but I hope they got eight byten and I was, oh my god.
And the stupidest thing is that it'sso cold in there that how can
a fella even Well, now theyknow you don't Now they do know.
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Okay, maybe they were really checked. I'm not gonna say from your first
visit what you called yourself. Theymaybe were checking. Well they what what
your first visit when you told themthat you were a vagina? Oh?
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Well yeah? So I told him. They said, do you want to
be knocked out for this? AndI completely or just partly. We're going
to knock you out some And Isaid knock me out completely because I am
a big vagina. But you meantI got you. But I didn't say
the P word because I'm fine.I'm a fine Christian man. But apparently
they were checking, That's what I'mthinking. They were checking if he really
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is. But doctor Morris and hisstaff really took great care of me.
And you know the only bad thingis that I put it on social media
that was there and I felt greatlything, the the entire thing, right,
felt just tremendous. Leaving the surgeryand everything else. You know,
I was like, okay, wegot it. You know, and they
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told my wife they got no marginson there, so we're good. And
then I put it on social mediaand people are like, oh, yeah,
my dad had met home. Answerhe had a little dot. He
was dead in four months. Andthen all that suddenly just scared, you
know, scary, but it can'tscare you enough not to go do it.
And that's that's the whole thing,is that if you're fair skinned,
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especially is what I understand. Thesun is not really our friend. The
sun is a blonde hair, blueeyed, all those kind of things.
And I told my neighbor, youknow, I was a little looped up
yesterday. He came to check onme, and I go, you know,
we could have just defeated the Germansif we just waited, just told
them all to stand outside because theycancer. But yeah, so we got
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that taken care of. But Iencourage you to get moles check out if
you got something weird. For me, it wasn't even a mole on there.
It was like this pink dot thatwas on my arm about the size
of what about the less than apenny, you know, just a little
dot on my arm, And turnedout that was melanoma cancer. So they
think they got it, and nowI'm going to dermatologists regularly. Yesist for
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everybody. But because because of thesurgery, I wanted to do the top
five blankety blanks and that inspired thisweek's Top five blankety blanks. So this
is the top five things you don'twant a surgeon to say before surgery.
Number five, I can't find myglasses, but it's okay, they're only
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readers. Number four, you thinkyou're nervous. I screw up one more
time and I'll lose my license.Number three, Sorry for yawning. I
was up all night watching this onYouTube. And number two anesthesia is based
on insurance coverage only. And thenumber one thing you don't want a surgeon
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to say before surgery is don't worry. I stayed at a holiday in express
last night, but don't don't don'tdie. So there's your top five,
and we encourage you to put yourspin on it. So in the comments
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if you have something you don't wanta surgeon to say to you, that's
where you want to put it.Because obviously I think Ron had one because
he was like gosh, and he'slike, oh yeah, I can't say
it right now. No, no, nothing at all. I guess I
was gonna say. I was goingto say, how did the underwear get
involved in that topic? Well,I didn't put it in there because I
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didn't realize how funny it was untilI brought it out. Both Lisa and
I were, so it was prettyfunny. Have been running? Are you
supposed to be working on my arm? That's weird? So yeah, so,
uh, it's weird to to evenfill out the forms, because you
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know, when I fill out theforms, Uh, they asked you all
those questions, are you are youdiabetic? Do you have surgeries? Do
you have plastic parts on you?Especially when you get to be a certain
age apparently, And I feel soblessed because I have none of those checks.
I do you smoke? No?Do you drink not anymore? Do
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you eat sugars? No? Youknow, so I don't know if I'm
living, but I am living becauseof a lot of it. So I'm
alive. I am alive. ButI that's the now. When they said
have you ever had surgery? Ican say, yeah, have you ever
had cancer? And I can sayyeah on that, But other than that,
everything is fine and hunky dory.So I encourage people to go see
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your physician. Yes, and don'tput off stuff. Don't put off if
you feel like there's something weird happeningto your body, then you know,
go get it checked. Don't holdoff, because early detection, especially when
it comes to cancer, is thekey. And that's what it kind of
led us to, this idea oftalking yourself out of a good idea,
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and that not only applies to yourhealth, but it also obviously applies to
comedy in life. In my lifeanyway, you know, when I was
going to be a stand up comedianand this is now going to be my
twenty eighth year as a congratulation,twenty eight years ago. So twenty eight
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years ago, I was literally ina funk of my life. I was
twenty nine years old. I hatedeverything about my life. I was a
single dad. You know, marketingat that time. I was writing advertising
advertising. I hated every stinking minuteof it. Yeah, So I went
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to work for this place called ImageManagement after I left mart Advertising. So
I wrote advertising for a while,but I go to work for Image Management,
and uh we started out as asmall company and just they recruited me
and they first wanted me to cometo work for them, and it was
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a sign already that I quit myjob. And they said we're starting on
in two weeks. So I putin my two week notice at my job
and then they said, oh,we're late. Like ten days later they
said, we're late on the constructionstill, so we won't start for another
three months. So uh. Forthree months, I sold cars, yeah,
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for buzz Posts, and I wasa car salesman. The amazing part
of that is that I learned alot about sales in three months, even
though I sold all kinds of stuff. The sales training program that they had
at the car business really later onpaid for the way. So I go
to work from Mart. I'm miserablethere. You know, I don't know
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anybody. I'm a new guy.We're building something, and I feel like
I just didn't have anything in mylife. I liked it all. And
then I'd already written a book,A Life on the Eon Moon. Now
that she's gone, took the dogwith her. I finished it up right
before I went to work from Martand or for Image and then and then
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suddenly it was stand up. Andyou know, one of the reasons why
I even found stand up is I'dread a book called Live Your Dreams by
Less Brown, and in that he'sgot this greatest quote, how many times
have you had a good idea andyou talked you out of it? You
needed nobody else's involvement. And normallywhat we do is we send stuff up
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a flagpole to take us survey ofeverybody around us. What do you think
about this move in my life?And I want to really encourage you not
to do that. A whole lotin your life. You can ask consultant,
you know, you can consult withyour your parents, or your best
friends or everything else. But tolive the life that you want to live.
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Yeah, sometimes you don't even needother people to talk you out of
it. You talk yourself well.And a lot of times it has to
do with you know, people giveit because it includes emotion when they respond
to you. They're not going tohave the same emotion about it that you
are not at all. No,And like I call my mother. So
I call mom and I said,listen, I've decided I'm going to be
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a stand up comedian. I eventried it. By the way, I
had not even started an open mic. Oh, I was gonna ask that
what made you think you could doto this day, I don't know.
The book Desperation, also turning thirty, I was like, everything about my
life I don't like and there's onlyone way to change it, So Live
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your Dreams by Les Brown literally changedthe direction of my life because I read
this and it was like, howmany times have you talked to yourself out
of something? And I knew Iwanted to be in show business since I
was little. The reason why Iwas writing advertising, I thought that would
be the closest thing I would everget to show business period. Wow.
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So I decided I'm going into Iwanted to be a stand up comic.
I was watching a lot of comedy. You know, we talked about it
last week on our Mount Rushmore.I was watching a lot of shows with
comics and about comedy and everything elsebecause back then there was still Evening at
the Improv that was on the air, and they did a lot of documentaries
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on comedy and Bill Cosby. Ihate to bring up his name again with
everything that we know now, butI was watching Bill and I was like,
man, I could do that,And then Foxworthy and all these others
at bill Ingwall, all these guysthat were huge in the mid nineties,
and I decided I was going tobe a stand up without trying it.
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And I call my mother and Igo, I want to be a stand
up comedian and she goes, really, and she muffles the phone and she
tells my dad. She goes,he wants to be a comedian. I
don't think he's fun. She gotback on the phone like she had never
said anything, and she said,your dad said go for it. And
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it's amazing, though, how manytimes you call somebody and they're just trying.
Sometimes they're trying to protect you.Sometimes here's an idea of folks.
Sometimes they're just trying to give youa lip service to get off the phone.
And you got to live with thatreality, and you know that happens
more times than not. Yeah thatyou think, oh, this is the
biggest decision of my life, andthey're literally watching the prices right and giving
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you the advice. And that's whyyou allow yourself to be talked out of
a good idea, because stand upcomedy turned out to be a pretty good
idea for me. It's a twentyeight year, three decade long career where
I haven't had a boss and Iremember distinctly losing everything. I was losing
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everything the first year of stand up. I was losing my house, I
was losing the truck. I washiding the truck every week. I knew
I was going to have to moveout because I was getting evicted, because
literally I ran out of unemployment beforeI started to stand up. So now
I had no job, I hadno income, and what I had left
in savings was dwindling, and Iwas living off of savings and not paying
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for my truck and not paying forthe thinking maybe I thought maybe I would
hit it pretty big the first yearand be able to catch everything up right.
So I knew I was not doingwell. And a friend of mine
asked me to go to lunch withher, and I was like, I
can't afford lunch, and she said, I'll buy. And I'm really contemplating
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maybe I should go get another jobback and selling something or writing something or
doing any of that kind of stuff. And we go over to the Olive
Garden, which is not my favorite, but it was her choice. But
we're walking in that place and there'stwo people walking out of that and one
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lady had her head down and theother lady was obviously the boss, and
I heard her tell her, Iknow, that's not the evaluation you were
looking for, But everybody at theoffice knows I great harder than the rest
of the regional managers do. Andyou're still getting a three percent raise.
And it spoke to me in volumeslike a god moment, like that is
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going to be the rest of yourlife. And for some people, that's
great, that's what they want outFor me, that's not what I ever
wanted out of life. I neverwanted somebody giving me an evaluation at an
effing giving me a three percent raiseafter a year's worth of dedication, and
you know, the moment that thebusiness starts to slow down or anything else,
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they're just going to fire your ass. So watching those people walk out
of there with that look on theirface, I was like, by God,
I am going to stick to thecommitment of not talking myself out of
this. This can work if Ido it. And that's what happened.
I found ways to make money.I started teaching comedy defensive driving to make
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meet. So I was getting paidlike a hundred and a quarter every time
I taught a class. So Iwas teaching four weeks or four days five
days out of the week, andit's brutal. I mean, you're spending
six hours with people that don't wantto be there, don't want to be
there because they got a ticket toget rid of it. But I found
out though, that if if Igot them to laugh at those jokes in
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that little settings where they didn't wantto be there, and when I did
it on Friday and Saturday, whenI was the opener that had destroyed in
the room, So if I couldget twelve people in a defensive driving class
who didn't want to be there tolaugh at these things, it worked.
And then and then yeah, Sothen I told somebody later, I said,
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then it felt like after a while, I then realized all the things
that I did before the advertising,even the car salesman, all that stuff
ended up paying dividends for what Ireally wanted to do. So what I
found was God had a hold ofme the whole time. I just didn't
realize it. So like advertising,all the stuff that I hated writing about
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advertising now was paying off. Iwas the only comedian that I knew,
that knew how to write a pressrelease, that knew who to send it
to. Who to send it tothe thing. Oh yeah, everybody else
had people for that, but youdidn't have people, or you didn't have
to pay for people. Yeah.I didn't have to pay for people because
I didn't have money to pay forthem. Eye. So within the first
year, you know, I hadI had an entire press release or a
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press packet back then as a presspacket now like an ePK that you could
just email them. Now, backthen you had to wait and mail him
the old fashion, and this wasstill VHS and stuff where you have to
make a thing. The pictures thatI took for my first headshot, I
wish I would have brought it todaybecause I looked just like this, my
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eyes wide open, and a girlfriendthat I was dating at the time,
she's the one that picked out thepicture. To this day, I still
hate that first head shot. Butwe bought the camera. I bought the
camera at Walmart, I developed itat another Walmart, and returned the camera
to a different Walmart. Times weretough. Times were tough, but I
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also learned when I was selling carsthat so I sold my first car and
the guy and I was all excited. Everybody's high fiving and the general manager.
He told me something very important.He goes, okay, so are
you going to sell that guy anothercar? And I said, well,
no, he just bought this.You know, I'm outside. He goes
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exactly, he said, as soonas that sails over, it's over.
You've got to move on to thenext one and the next one. If
you're going to be successful, you'vegot to get these things all rolling in
there. You can't sell one andthen go that was awesome, and now
let's go to the next one andstart the next process. You have to
have the process going and believe itor not, that's how you have to
book a tour on your own,is that? Or you have to keep
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that process going. You have to. So I started making the phone calls.
I knew to make the phone callsto the comedy clubs. And then
it's suddenly you realized what path youwere on. It was like I've acquitted
it too. It's like climbing amountain and you look down and you actually
see the trail that you were on. And the reason why I turned right
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there is that there was going tobe a cliff where you fell over,
or there was going to be abobcat that you were going to run into
things you didn't know existed, thatyou knew that that ended up paying off.
It's like it was like God,mister miyagied me, you know,
wax on wax saw right, Andthen suddenly my life had completely changed.
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Now have y'all ever gone through anylife changing moments, because honestly, twenty
eight years ago, the entire trajectoryof my life and what my life became
changed overnight and an open mic.Have you guys had any of those kind
of things run? Yeah? Ihave. I mean, quite honestly,
for me, it was I hadjust I had just been a new UH
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in the Air Force, and Igot stationed in Grand Forks, North Dakota,
of all places. You know,a guy from Texas moving to the
tundra up there. But I was. I became a skate guard at a
local skating rink, and I hadalways had the dream of becoming a broadcaster
or a DJ read and just sohappens a few weeks later, a local
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radio station came into the skating rinkto do what they called a remote and
I got to talking to the DJthat came in there and was doing it,
and it just so happens that hewas the program director, the guy
who hires the people for the work. And you know, after talking with
him and figuring it out and thentalking to my wife about doing it,
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he called me back one day andsaid, hey, you said you were
interested. I've got an open slot. Would you like to train for it?
And she kept trying to talk meout of it, but I said,
I've got to do this. I'vegot to do this because it's just
one of those things, you know, the bucket list or the dream item,
if you will, And here Iam, you know, forty years
later, still doing radio and broadcasting. Nice. Yeah, I just stuck
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with it, you know, goodjob. Well, that's it's amazing how
many people don't though. There's alot of people that have these great ideas
and then don't go for it becauseyou're afraid that it's not going to work
out. And here's the secret.A lot of times that don't. It
doesn't. Then you got to knowwhen it's not. But there's also those
times where you got to stay init, stay in it to win it.
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You know. There have been threetimes now in stand up comedy,
well, I guess two real timesthat I was close to bankruptcy in the
whole business. Once was in nineteenninety seven, a year after I started,
you know, I almost declared bankruptcy. And the other time was really
two thousand and nine, really waswhere everything the entire business had, the
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economy we'd had in runs, sono corporations were hiring comedians to come and
entertain. The comedy clubs themselves hadchanged the improvs and the funny Bones,
the chain of them, they wereall owned by fourteen of them were owned
by the same group. They hadchanged their philosophy too, so middle aged
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white guys with no followings kind ofgot pushed to the side and they went
with urban acts, household name acts, and hypnotism. I have a question,
though, Bill, I mean,is the fact that everybody was so
desperate during the pandemic that you didn'thave a problem during that time. I
think after years of absolutely knowing thatthat things will change in my life as
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really it's really having that experience knowingknowing that I know what I know about
myself now and what the God thatI follow right knowing that Okay, just
because this is happening now, itdoesn't mean it's always going to be this
way. And I also took thepandemic as an opportunity for God to shake
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up my edges, sketch that here'sthe plan that I have, you know,
here's the path that I'm on.And it was like the Lord just
took mine and just shook it upand goes, now what. And so
I started writing scripts more. Youknow, I dabbled in it, I
dabbled in song riding, and thenI took those things seriously and and and
I take a lot of enjoyment outof them too. And that's the other
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thing that that I My brother andI just had this discussion today, getting
joy out of your life. Youknow, there is going to come a
day that somebody, probably in yourlife, there's a good chance that they're
going to give you some sort ofdiagnosis that you don't want to hear.
And that's going to be the momentthat you're going to say, I wish
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I would have blah blah blah,I wish I would have tried radio at
a roller skating rink. And bythe way, what the hell is a
skating guard? You don't know whata skateguard? Are you serious? Right
now? I had my own whistleI skated around with people, the referee
skate monitor, yes, but Iwas also I was also the DJ at
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the skating rink also, So Ijust kind of worked my way back up
into it. Fallen off clamp,grab a hold of that side and let
me see it. Hell, I'lljust It's not like I don't hold a
microphone all the time. But yeah, the little clampy things, it's gonna
we're improvising right here, are you. Yeah, but you're doing a good
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job of it. I mean,look, you don't think missing I should
make her hold a flashlight while she'sdoing it. No, I'm not getting
tossed out. You talking about tryingto not get you got a hold of
it, all right, So thisis technical difficulties that we've never had before.
And see the Lord's teaching me thatI have another one of these clamps
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and I should put the clamp onthere later. That's what my mother would
say. So I think it's okaynow, No, no, it's not
okay. What's this? Okay,there we go. Now I'm holding it
with my bare arm. But yeah, So that's why I think it is
important though, that you one figureout what you want out of life.
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Sometimes that that really begins with turningoff the phone, turning off the television,
and turning off other people in yourlife for a moment and getting quiet.
You know. I talked about itfor years on stage. My grandmother's
the one that said go home andlook in the mirror and ask yourself,
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are you happy? Start out withjust that. Most of us live lives
a quiet desperation. Forgot who theauthor was that said that, but what
a great quote it is. Thatwe literally live our lives in the idea
that we're going to get tomorrow,that we can put it off, you
know, and then we can workon it later. When I drive by
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an old country house and I seean old car setting out in the driveway
that's still been setting there for years, what I see is somebody that had
a dream and never fulfill it.And at some point you got it.
And I'm not saying change your lifeand change your career and call him tomorrow
and tell him you're quitting and you'regoing to take up a life and stand
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up, because don't forget, youwill lose your house. Okay, that
first year, if you don't havesome sort of plan, you're still going
to struggle through some of this.But if you truly want to do something
that you want to do in yourlife, it doesn't have to be show
business. Obviously, one of mybest friends, he was like, what
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do you think I got to dowith my life? He was working in
a co op energy place, Joesil I'll say his name, he's my
buddy. And Joe said, whatdo you think I got to do with
my life? And I said,I don't know, Joe, what do
you want to do? What doyou want to do? He said,
all I've ever wanted to do wasopen a storage place and develop it and
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uh and make money from it.And I said, go for it.
And you know, I was thebest man at their wife. I don't
know if she appreciated me going gofor it, but he went for it.
And then they developed this great propertyand walks a hatchee, and then
him and his partner were able tosell that property for an amazing amount of
money. And now he's living aretirement and that he never would have gotten
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if he wouldn't have gone through thestruggle, if he wouldn't have gone for
it, if he wouldn't have donethat. And like I said, I'm
not encouraging you to go for itand not go for it. If you're
taking advice off of a podcast,I will say, try to listen to
yourself. Try to get quiet.How many times we don't get quiet in
our life? You know, weallow all the distractions of life to continue
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leading us down a path. Youknow, we talked about it last week
with the phones and the iPad withthe kids in the levails, and these
are opportunities to teach, and theseare opportunities to listen, and these are
opportunities to be part of your children'slives and your grandkid's life, and instead
you're handing them a uh boy,I really want to cuss a darn yeah.
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And that's yeah, that's even nicerthan I was gonna go. But
don't miss those opportunities because you're notpromised tomorrow. And maybe maybe it is
that I'm looped up on some ofthe medicine that they gave me yesterday for
the arm, or maybe the factthat the word cancer popped up, even
if it's melanoma, you know,yes, that's the attitude that I had,
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that's the attitude that I have.It's like, oh, it's just
it's just a little you know,it's a it's it's mold, it's a
pink spot. No, these thesecan be serious. So you're not promised
tomorrow. So just do me afavor, y'all. Yea, even the
Lord. There we go. NowI'm holding it right. I was really
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it was good because I was almostabout to cry. Anyway, All I'm
telling you listen to me. AllI'm telling you, if you listen to
this podcast, you're not promised tomorrow. Okay, make the most out of
your life why you have it,and then die with no regrets, you
know, solid and nice. Soso Bill, let's talk about the tour
that's coming up this weekend. Ohyeah, so this weekend, big,
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big show Arlington, Texas where itall started. The town anyway, the
club where I started was Arlington,the Hyenas. And how fitting that we're
going to Hyenas. Not Hyenas,but Arlington Music Hall. And it's a
big place. It's a theater,so there's a lot of people this week,
a lot of people there. There'salso no two itam minimum in there.
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It's we have the full theater showyou have. We'll have VIP passes
for those on the first three Rows. I'll also do a meet and greet
with everybody at the show. Afterthe show, we're also doing an after
party across the street at the GreaseMonkey Mart and Grill, which we'll have
food and beverages and live music.I called them yesterday in staid. I'm
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going to invite, you know,six hundred of my close friends. But
yeah, so you can get thosetickets at Williamlemartin dot com. But make
sure you go to William Lemartin dotcom to buy your tickets. That way
you know you're not using a thirdparty ticket agency. And then we're also
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behalf of Lisa Bruce y'all. Thereyou go, and Ron Philip. You
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know I'm telling you as long asyou're upright, you're doing all right.
God bless you. I love you. God loves you, and we'll see
you the Next Time Audios on howto kind of succeed in comedy in life,
On this week's episode, we aregoing to have the topic of talking yourself
out of a good idea, allon how to kind of succeed in comedy
and life and welcome in everybody.I am your host, comedian William Lee
Martin singer not singer, songwriter,book writer, uh, screenwriter Uh,
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and I'm on drugs today. Soyeah, so I uh, I had
a little minor procedure, figure outwhere to put it like that, see
the swelling there. Yeah, souh I had cancer removed melanoma cancer and
uh uh so yeah, I'd liketo welcome in my co host Lisa Bruce
(00:47):
there hi yoa and uh and thenbehind the controls is the wizard Ron Phillips.
So uh, welcome in everybody.Yeah. So I yesterday I went
and had surgery on on the arm. Is my first surgery, I think
because I asked him, I said, do I get to count this as
surgery? Real deal? This wasreal deal because you know, they said
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yeah, because an antisty geologist camein and and so I was kind of
awake. You said, they didn'tput you completely under, but they did
at first. I guess they putme under. And this is the most
disconcerting part of it. So theysaid I could leave my underwear on,
and then when we finished, myunderwear is around my ankles. I'm not
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lying, I'm not lying. Iwas like, what did they have to
do? It was weird too becausethe nurse and the nurse was real sweet.
But the nurse came in and youknow, it's it's like your nightmare
because she's like, uh, beforeit ever happened, She's like, and
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I was, I felt so greatbecause I could leave my underwear on.
Right. She came in and shegoes, she goes, I know you
from all your TikTok videos, andmy underwear is on, so you're not
gonna actually no me right and thenand then Lisa, I'm doing the surgery
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and they're like, we got topull your underwear out, and I'm like,
it's my army. What what onearth were they working on? Your
arm is a long way from you. Well, well, it's my understanding
is that I got confused to knowthat there can be a lot of blood
with this, and they didn't wantto get blood on your drawers, is
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what I was told. It soundslike sounds like an excuse to me,
but I hope they got eight byten and I was, oh my god.
And the stupidest thing is that it'sso cold in there that how can
a fella even Well, now theyknow you don't Now they do know.
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Okay, maybe they were really checked. I'm not gonna say from your first
visit what you called yourself. Theymaybe were checking. Well they what what
your first visit when you told themthat you were a vagina? Oh?
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Well yeah? So I told him. They said, do you want to
be knocked out for this? AndI completely or just partly. We're going
to knock you out some And Isaid knock me out completely because I am
a big vagina. But you meantI got you. But I didn't say
the P word because I'm fine.I'm a fine Christian man. But apparently
they were checking, That's what I'mthinking. They were checking if he really
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is. But doctor Morris and hisstaff really took great care of me.
And you know the only bad thingis that I put it on social media
that was there and I felt greatlything, the the entire thing, right,
felt just tremendous. Leaving the surgeryand everything else. You know,
I was like, okay, wegot it. You know, and they
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told my wife they got no marginson there, so we're good. And
then I put it on social mediaand people are like, oh, yeah,
my dad had met home. Answerhe had a little dot. He
was dead in four months. Andthen all that suddenly just scared, you
know, scary, but it can'tscare you enough not to go do it.
And that's that's the whole thing,is that if you're fair skinned,
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especially is what I understand. Thesun is not really our friend. The
sun is a blonde hair, blueeyed, all those kind of things.
And I told my neighbor, youknow, I was a little looped up
yesterday. He came to check onme, and I go, you know,
we could have just defeated the Germansif we just waited, just told
them all to stand outside because theycancer. But yeah, so we got
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that taken care of. But Iencourage you to get moles check out if
you got something weird. For me, it wasn't even a mole on there.
It was like this pink dot thatwas on my arm about the size
of what about the less than apenny, you know, just a little
dot on my arm, And turnedout that was melanoma cancer. So they
think they got it, and nowI'm going to dermatologists regularly. Yesist for
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everybody. But because because of thesurgery, I wanted to do the top
five blankety blanks and that inspired thisweek's Top five blankety blanks. So this
is the top five things you don'twant a surgeon to say before surgery.
Number five, I can't find myglasses, but it's okay, they're only
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readers. Number four, you thinkyou're nervous. I screw up one more
time and I'll lose my license.Number three, Sorry for yawning. I
was up all night watching this onYouTube. And number two anesthesia is based
on insurance coverage only. And thenumber one thing you don't want a surgeon
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to say before surgery is don't worry. I stayed at a holiday in express
last night, but don't don't don'tdie. So there's your top five,
and we encourage you to put yourspin on it. So in the comments
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if you have something you don't wanta surgeon to say to you, that's
where you want to put it.Because obviously I think Ron had one because
he was like gosh, and he'slike, oh yeah, I can't say
it right now. No, no, nothing at all. I guess I
was gonna say. I was goingto say, how did the underwear get
involved in that topic? Well,I didn't put it in there because I
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didn't realize how funny it was untilI brought it out. Both Lisa and
I were, so it was prettyfunny. Have been running? Are you
supposed to be working on my arm? That's weird? So yeah, so,
uh, it's weird to to evenfill out the forms, because you
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know, when I fill out theforms, Uh, they asked you all
those questions, are you are youdiabetic? Do you have surgeries? Do
you have plastic parts on you?Especially when you get to be a certain
age apparently, And I feel soblessed because I have none of those checks.
I do you smoke? No?Do you drink not anymore? Do
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you eat sugars? No? Youknow, so I don't know if I'm
living, but I am living becauseof a lot of it. So I'm
alive. I am alive. ButI that's the now. When they said
have you ever had surgery? Ican say, yeah, have you ever
had cancer? And I can sayyeah on that, But other than that,
everything is fine and hunky dory.So I encourage people to go see
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your physician. Yes, and don'tput off stuff. Don't put off if
you feel like there's something weird happeningto your body, then you know,
go get it checked. Don't holdoff, because early detection, especially when
it comes to cancer, is thekey. And that's what it kind of
led us to, this idea oftalking yourself out of a good idea,
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and that not only applies to yourhealth, but it also obviously applies to
comedy in life. In my lifeanyway, you know, when I was
going to be a stand up comedianand this is now going to be my
twenty eighth year as a congratulation,twenty eight years ago. So twenty eight
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years ago, I was literally ina funk of my life. I was
twenty nine years old. I hatedeverything about my life. I was a
single dad. You know, marketingat that time. I was writing advertising
advertising. I hated every stinking minuteof it. Yeah, So I went
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to work for this place called ImageManagement after I left mart Advertising. So
I wrote advertising for a while,but I go to work for Image Management,
and uh we started out as asmall company and just they recruited me
and they first wanted me to cometo work for them, and it was
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a sign already that I quit myjob. And they said we're starting on
in two weeks. So I putin my two week notice at my job
and then they said, oh,we're late. Like ten days later they
said, we're late on the constructionstill, so we won't start for another
three months. So uh. Forthree months, I sold cars, yeah,
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for buzz Posts, and I wasa car salesman. The amazing part
of that is that I learned alot about sales in three months, even
though I sold all kinds of stuff. The sales training program that they had
at the car business really later onpaid for the way. So I go
to work from Mart. I'm miserablethere. You know, I don't know
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anybody. I'm a new guy.We're building something, and I feel like
I just didn't have anything in mylife. I liked it all. And
then I'd already written a book,A Life on the Eon Moon. Now
that she's gone, took the dogwith her. I finished it up right
before I went to work from Martand or for Image and then and then
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suddenly it was stand up. Andyou know, one of the reasons why
I even found stand up is I'dread a book called Live Your Dreams by
Less Brown, and in that he'sgot this greatest quote, how many times
have you had a good idea andyou talked you out of it? You
needed nobody else's involvement. And normallywhat we do is we send stuff up
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a flagpole to take us survey ofeverybody around us. What do you think
about this move in my life?And I want to really encourage you not
to do that. A whole lotin your life. You can ask consultant,
you know, you can consult withyour your parents, or your best
friends or everything else. But tolive the life that you want to live.
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Yeah, sometimes you don't even needother people to talk you out of
it. You talk yourself well.And a lot of times it has to
do with you know, people giveit because it includes emotion when they respond
to you. They're not going tohave the same emotion about it that you
are not at all. No,And like I call my mother. So
I call mom and I said,listen, I've decided I'm going to be
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a stand up comedian. I eventried it. By the way, I
had not even started an open mic. Oh, I was gonna ask that
what made you think you could doto this day, I don't know.
The book Desperation, also turning thirty, I was like, everything about my
life I don't like and there's onlyone way to change it, So Live
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your Dreams by Les Brown literally changedthe direction of my life because I read
this and it was like, howmany times have you talked to yourself out
of something? And I knew Iwanted to be in show business since I
was little. The reason why Iwas writing advertising, I thought that would
be the closest thing I would everget to show business period. Wow.
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So I decided I'm going into Iwanted to be a stand up comic.
I was watching a lot of comedy. You know, we talked about it
last week on our Mount Rushmore.I was watching a lot of shows with
comics and about comedy and everything elsebecause back then there was still Evening at
the Improv that was on the air, and they did a lot of documentaries
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on comedy and Bill Cosby. Ihate to bring up his name again with
everything that we know now, butI was watching Bill and I was like,
man, I could do that,And then Foxworthy and all these others
at bill Ingwall, all these guysthat were huge in the mid nineties,
and I decided I was going tobe a stand up without trying it.
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And I call my mother and Igo, I want to be a stand
up comedian and she goes, really, and she muffles the phone and she
tells my dad. She goes,he wants to be a comedian. I
don't think he's fun. She gotback on the phone like she had never
said anything, and she said,your dad said go for it. And
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it's amazing, though, how manytimes you call somebody and they're just trying.
Sometimes they're trying to protect you.Sometimes here's an idea of folks.
Sometimes they're just trying to give youa lip service to get off the phone.
And you got to live with thatreality, and you know that happens
more times than not. Yeah thatyou think, oh, this is the
biggest decision of my life, andthey're literally watching the prices right and giving
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you the advice. And that's whyyou allow yourself to be talked out of
a good idea, because stand upcomedy turned out to be a pretty good
idea for me. It's a twentyeight year, three decade long career where
I haven't had a boss and Iremember distinctly losing everything. I was losing
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everything the first year of stand up. I was losing my house, I
was losing the truck. I washiding the truck every week. I knew
I was going to have to moveout because I was getting evicted, because
literally I ran out of unemployment beforeI started to stand up. So now
I had no job, I hadno income, and what I had left
in savings was dwindling, and Iwas living off of savings and not paying
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for my truck and not paying forthe thinking maybe I thought maybe I would
hit it pretty big the first yearand be able to catch everything up right.
So I knew I was not doingwell. And a friend of mine
asked me to go to lunch withher, and I was like, I
can't afford lunch, and she said, I'll buy. And I'm really contemplating
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maybe I should go get another jobback and selling something or writing something or
doing any of that kind of stuff. And we go over to the Olive
Garden, which is not my favorite, but it was her choice. But
we're walking in that place and there'stwo people walking out of that and one
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lady had her head down and theother lady was obviously the boss, and
I heard her tell her, Iknow, that's not the evaluation you were
looking for, But everybody at theoffice knows I great harder than the rest
of the regional managers do. Andyou're still getting a three percent raise.
And it spoke to me in volumeslike a god moment, like that is
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going to be the rest of yourlife. And for some people, that's
great, that's what they want outFor me, that's not what I ever
wanted out of life. I neverwanted somebody giving me an evaluation at an
effing giving me a three percent raiseafter a year's worth of dedication, and
you know, the moment that thebusiness starts to slow down or anything else,
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they're just going to fire your ass. So watching those people walk out
of there with that look on theirface, I was like, by God,
I am going to stick to thecommitment of not talking myself out of
this. This can work if Ido it. And that's what happened.
I found ways to make money.I started teaching comedy defensive driving to make
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meet. So I was getting paidlike a hundred and a quarter every time
I taught a class. So Iwas teaching four weeks or four days five
days out of the week, andit's brutal. I mean, you're spending
six hours with people that don't wantto be there, don't want to be
there because they got a ticket toget rid of it. But I found
out though, that if if Igot them to laugh at those jokes in
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that little settings where they didn't wantto be there, and when I did
it on Friday and Saturday, whenI was the opener that had destroyed in
the room, So if I couldget twelve people in a defensive driving class
who didn't want to be there tolaugh at these things, it worked.
And then and then yeah, Sothen I told somebody later, I said,
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then it felt like after a while, I then realized all the things
that I did before the advertising,even the car salesman, all that stuff
ended up paying dividends for what Ireally wanted to do. So what I
found was God had a hold ofme the whole time. I just didn't
realize it. So like advertising,all the stuff that I hated writing about
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advertising now was paying off. Iwas the only comedian that I knew,
that knew how to write a pressrelease, that knew who to send it
to. Who to send it tothe thing. Oh yeah, everybody else
had people for that, but youdidn't have people, or you didn't have
to pay for people. Yeah.I didn't have to pay for people because
I didn't have money to pay forthem. Eye. So within the first
year, you know, I hadI had an entire press release or a
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press packet back then as a presspacket now like an ePK that you could
just email them. Now, backthen you had to wait and mail him
the old fashion, and this wasstill VHS and stuff where you have to
make a thing. The pictures thatI took for my first headshot, I
wish I would have brought it todaybecause I looked just like this, my
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eyes wide open, and a girlfriendthat I was dating at the time,
she's the one that picked out thepicture. To this day, I still
hate that first head shot. Butwe bought the camera. I bought the
camera at Walmart, I developed itat another Walmart, and returned the camera
to a different Walmart. Times weretough. Times were tough, but I
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also learned when I was selling carsthat so I sold my first car and
the guy and I was all excited. Everybody's high fiving and the general manager.
He told me something very important.He goes, okay, so are
you going to sell that guy anothercar? And I said, well,
no, he just bought this.You know, I'm outside. He goes
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exactly, he said, as soonas that sails over, it's over.
You've got to move on to thenext one and the next one. If
you're going to be successful, you'vegot to get these things all rolling in
there. You can't sell one andthen go that was awesome, and now
let's go to the next one andstart the next process. You have to
have the process going and believe itor not, that's how you have to
book a tour on your own,is that? Or you have to keep
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that process going. You have to. So I started making the phone calls.
I knew to make the phone callsto the comedy clubs. And then
it's suddenly you realized what path youwere on. It was like I've acquitted
it too. It's like climbing amountain and you look down and you actually
see the trail that you were on. And the reason why I turned right
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there is that there was going tobe a cliff where you fell over,
or there was going to be abobcat that you were going to run into
things you didn't know existed, thatyou knew that that ended up paying off.
It's like it was like God,mister miyagied me, you know,
wax on wax saw right, Andthen suddenly my life had completely changed.
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Now have y'all ever gone through anylife changing moments, because honestly, twenty
eight years ago, the entire trajectoryof my life and what my life became
changed overnight and an open mic.Have you guys had any of those kind
of things run? Yeah? Ihave. I mean, quite honestly,
for me, it was I hadjust I had just been a new UH
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in the Air Force, and Igot stationed in Grand Forks, North Dakota,
of all places. You know,a guy from Texas moving to the
tundra up there. But I was. I became a skate guard at a
local skating rink, and I hadalways had the dream of becoming a broadcaster
or a DJ read and just sohappens a few weeks later, a local
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radio station came into the skating rinkto do what they called a remote and
I got to talking to the DJthat came in there and was doing it,
and it just so happens that hewas the program director, the guy
who hires the people for the work. And you know, after talking with
him and figuring it out and thentalking to my wife about doing it,
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he called me back one day andsaid, hey, you said you were
interested. I've got an open slot. Would you like to train for it?
And she kept trying to talk meout of it, but I said,
I've got to do this. I'vegot to do this because it's just
one of those things, you know, the bucket list or the dream item,
if you will, And here Iam, you know, forty years
later, still doing radio and broadcasting. Nice. Yeah, I just stuck
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with it, you know, goodjob. Well, that's it's amazing how
many people don't though. There's alot of people that have these great ideas
and then don't go for it becauseyou're afraid that it's not going to work
out. And here's the secret.A lot of times that don't. It
doesn't. Then you got to knowwhen it's not. But there's also those
times where you got to stay init, stay in it to win it.
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You know. There have been threetimes now in stand up comedy,
well, I guess two real timesthat I was close to bankruptcy in the
whole business. Once was in nineteenninety seven, a year after I started,
you know, I almost declared bankruptcy. And the other time was really
two thousand and nine, really waswhere everything the entire business had, the
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economy we'd had in runs, sono corporations were hiring comedians to come and
entertain. The comedy clubs themselves hadchanged the improvs and the funny Bones,
the chain of them, they wereall owned by fourteen of them were owned
by the same group. They hadchanged their philosophy too, so middle aged
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white guys with no followings kind ofgot pushed to the side and they went
with urban acts, household name acts, and hypnotism. I have a question,
though, Bill, I mean,is the fact that everybody was so
desperate during the pandemic that you didn'thave a problem during that time. I
think after years of absolutely knowing thatthat things will change in my life as
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really it's really having that experience knowingknowing that I know what I know about
myself now and what the God thatI follow right knowing that Okay, just
because this is happening now, itdoesn't mean it's always going to be this
way. And I also took thepandemic as an opportunity for God to shake
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up my edges, sketch that here'sthe plan that I have, you know,
here's the path that I'm on.And it was like the Lord just
took mine and just shook it upand goes, now what. And so
I started writing scripts more. Youknow, I dabbled in it, I
dabbled in song riding, and thenI took those things seriously and and and
I take a lot of enjoyment outof them too. And that's the other
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thing that that I My brother andI just had this discussion today, getting
joy out of your life. Youknow, there is going to come a
day that somebody, probably in yourlife, there's a good chance that they're
going to give you some sort ofdiagnosis that you don't want to hear.
And that's going to be the momentthat you're going to say, I wish
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I would have blah blah blah,I wish I would have tried radio at
a roller skating rink. And bythe way, what the hell is a
skating guard? You don't know whata skateguard? Are you serious? Right
now? I had my own whistleI skated around with people, the referee
skate monitor, yes, but Iwas also I was also the DJ at
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the skating rink also, So Ijust kind of worked my way back up
into it. Fallen off clamp,grab a hold of that side and let
me see it. Hell, I'lljust It's not like I don't hold a
microphone all the time. But yeah, the little clampy things, it's gonna
we're improvising right here, are you. Yeah, but you're doing a good
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job of it. I mean,look, you don't think missing I should
make her hold a flashlight while she'sdoing it. No, I'm not getting
tossed out. You talking about tryingto not get you got a hold of
it, all right, So thisis technical difficulties that we've never had before.
And see the Lord's teaching me thatI have another one of these clamps
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and I should put the clamp onthere later. That's what my mother would
say. So I think it's okaynow, No, no, it's not
okay. What's this? Okay,there we go. Now I'm holding it
with my bare arm. But yeah, So that's why I think it is
important though, that you one figureout what you want out of life.
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Sometimes that that really begins with turningoff the phone, turning off the television,
and turning off other people in yourlife for a moment and getting quiet.
You know. I talked about itfor years on stage. My grandmother's
the one that said go home andlook in the mirror and ask yourself,
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are you happy? Start out withjust that. Most of us live lives
a quiet desperation. Forgot who theauthor was that said that, but what
a great quote it is. Thatwe literally live our lives in the idea
that we're going to get tomorrow,that we can put it off, you
know, and then we can workon it later. When I drive by
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an old country house and I seean old car setting out in the driveway
that's still been setting there for years, what I see is somebody that had
a dream and never fulfill it.And at some point you got it.
And I'm not saying change your lifeand change your career and call him tomorrow
and tell him you're quitting and you'regoing to take up a life and stand
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up, because don't forget, youwill lose your house. Okay, that
first year, if you don't havesome sort of plan, you're still going
to struggle through some of this.But if you truly want to do something
that you want to do in yourlife, it doesn't have to be show
business. Obviously, one of mybest friends, he was like, what
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do you think I got to dowith my life? He was working in
a co op energy place, Joesil I'll say his name, he's my
buddy. And Joe said, whatdo you think I got to do with
my life? And I said,I don't know, Joe, what do
you want to do? What doyou want to do? He said,
all I've ever wanted to do wasopen a storage place and develop it and
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uh and make money from it.And I said, go for it.
And you know, I was thebest man at their wife. I don't
know if she appreciated me going gofor it, but he went for it.
And then they developed this great propertyand walks a hatchee, and then
him and his partner were able tosell that property for an amazing amount of
money. And now he's living aretirement and that he never would have gotten
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if he wouldn't have gone through thestruggle, if he wouldn't have gone for
it, if he wouldn't have donethat. And like I said, I'm
not encouraging you to go for itand not go for it. If you're
taking advice off of a podcast,I will say, try to listen to
yourself. Try to get quiet.How many times we don't get quiet in
our life? You know, weallow all the distractions of life to continue
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leading us down a path. Youknow, we talked about it last week
with the phones and the iPad withthe kids in the levails, and these
are opportunities to teach, and theseare opportunities to listen, and these are
opportunities to be part of your children'slives and your grandkid's life, and instead
you're handing them a uh boy,I really want to cuss a darn yeah.
(29:03):
And that's yeah, that's even nicerthan I was gonna go. But
don't miss those opportunities because you're notpromised tomorrow. And maybe maybe it is
that I'm looped up on some ofthe medicine that they gave me yesterday for
the arm, or maybe the factthat the word cancer popped up, even
if it's melanoma, you know,yes, that's the attitude that I had,
(29:27):
that's the attitude that I have.It's like, oh, it's just
it's just a little you know,it's a it's it's mold, it's a
pink spot. No, these thesecan be serious. So you're not promised
tomorrow. So just do me afavor, y'all. Yea, even the
Lord. There we go. NowI'm holding it right. I was really
(29:52):
it was good because I was almostabout to cry. Anyway, All I'm
telling you listen to me. AllI'm telling you, if you listen to
this podcast, you're not promised tomorrow. Okay, make the most out of
your life why you have it,and then die with no regrets, you
know, solid and nice. Soso Bill, let's talk about the tour
that's coming up this weekend. Ohyeah, so this weekend, big,
(30:15):
big show Arlington, Texas where itall started. The town anyway, the
club where I started was Arlington,the Hyenas. And how fitting that we're
going to Hyenas. Not Hyenas,but Arlington Music Hall. And it's a
big place. It's a theater,so there's a lot of people this week,
a lot of people there. There'salso no two itam minimum in there.
(30:38):
It's we have the full theater showyou have. We'll have VIP passes
for those on the first three Rows. I'll also do a meet and greet
with everybody at the show. Afterthe show, we're also doing an after
party across the street at the GreaseMonkey Mart and Grill, which we'll have
food and beverages and live music.I called them yesterday in staid. I'm
(31:03):
going to invite, you know,six hundred of my close friends. But
yeah, so you can get thosetickets at Williamlemartin dot com. But make
sure you go to William Lemartin dotcom to buy your tickets. That way
you know you're not using a thirdparty ticket agency. And then we're also
all over the social media there,so you can get us on Facebook,
(31:26):
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, andx Marxist spot. So anyway, we
are out of time. The thirtyminutes is up. We're glad you're tuned
in. Make sure you give ita subscribe, make sure you give it
a like, and give it ashare, and hey, you know on
behalf of Lisa Bruce y'all. Thereyou go, and Ron Philip. You
(31:48):
know I'm telling you as long asyou're upright, you're doing all right.
God bless you. I love you. God loves you, and we'll see
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