Ep. 6 – Got Fired by These Comedians - The Funny Life Podcast with William Lee Martin - The Funny Life with William Lee Martin

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This week, how to get firedoff of any tour, plus tips on
being a good hang on the roadand traveling on the road in general,
all on how to kind of succeedin comedy and life. Hi, everybody,
and welcome in. I am yourhost Will and Lee Martin and welcome.

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If you are starting your walk oryour jog or your bike rides,
you now have thirty minutes. Andas we always say, if you're listening
to us while you're sitting on thetoilet, and get up off of it,
because that's a long time. Thirtyminutes. Don't come in yet because
I haven't introduced you yet. Wow. Wow, he's already messed up the
whole plan. We had a plan, everybody, So let's go ahead and

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introduce him since he's already here.There is. That's how you get fired.
That's how you get fired right away. That's one of my best friends
in this entire planet, not onlyin comedy but in life as well.
Alex Ramundo. He is not LisaBruce. Lisa had a kind of a
family thing to go do, soless you want to talk about it,
uh she can later. But uhuh, but Alex is in town,

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who lives and and you can goahead and Louisville. I live in louisvill
Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky, Iknow where you live in Texas. Boy
though, this is my stomping grounds. And and he he, he actually
produces this uh number one tequila.And and today he was like, you
know, I only do podcasts withpeople that drink with me, and uh,

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but he made the exception with mebecause he knows I have a life,
a lot of stuff to do todayand it's, uh, you know,
nine thirty in the morning. Let'ssday Tuesday. So and uh,
let me go ahead and introduce myproducer, who everybody knows now there he
is Ron Phillips, and welcome.So let's jump into first my tour schedule

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that's coming up. And uh,we've got a lot of dates coming up,
including this month is Baton Rouge onFriday, and then Ocean Springs on
April thirteenth, Saturday, and thennext week on Saturday is Concordia, Kansas,
and then we go up to Tennesseeto Columbia, Tennessee, and then
we also do Marion, Virginia onApril twenty seventh. So the twenty sixth

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and twenty seventh will be up tothe Tennessee Valley area and then uh then
we come home and we just addeda date to clean Texas, uh near
fort Hood. But it's no longercalled fort Hood. I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either. No, yeah, it's now called something
else, because that's it. Somethingelse. Yeah, I don't know what
it's called. I grew up asa fort Hood. Uh, but you

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know now it's been changed, butI don't know, not for it's a
Hispanic gentleman's name now, right,Really, yeah, I think that,
I think so. Yeah, Iknow I'm just throwing them out there.
No, I'm just saying now thatwith everything politically correct, I'm pretty sure
it's changed to Santana, you know. No, No, I just figured,

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you know, if somebody would belike, well, you know,
technically they took they won that battleat the Alamo, so maybe it should
be sant Ana. But anyway,yesterday was a big deal. I know
this is gonna air on Wednesday mornings, but you know we tape it on
Tuesdays and yesterday was the the thesolar eclipse, yes, and uh yeah,

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it really was awesome. Uh,you know, I'm amazed how many
people just kind of blow it off, especially in the area, like,
oh, like it's a big deal. It kind of is a big deal.
It's a huge deal, but youalso have to remember the path,
the path of it wasn't for everyonewasn't in that. So we were discussing
it yesterday. I was fortunate tospend it with my mother, her husband

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Jack, who's you know just uhtechnically my fought my second father and uh
and my sister Gabby in the backyardand the sunlight. It was perfect,
the clouds parted, all that kindof stuff. I mean, at one
time we were thinking, we're like, how many people you think are doing
this? Stare at the sky andthere's eight billion people in the planet,

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and I got to believe half ofthe people aren't even in the path,
so there's four and then half ofthe people that are in the path don't
care. So there's two leaves youtoo, And so we were trying to
we're seventy eight people, seventy yeahpeople yesterday. Yeah. No, it's
uh, but think about it thatnot even three hundred years ago, an
event like that would have freaked peopleout to no end. That the world

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was coming to an end, thatthe sun was being blocked even for four
minutes, that no explanation, noprediction of it was something. Well,
we were still freaked. Yesterday.We were teasing because my sister was like,
like, just just two minutes beforethe full eclipse, she goes,
she goes in the house and wewere like, okay, we've been here

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an hour and twenty minutes, andshe vicked it. And it was funny
because before she got there, Isaid, they said, is Gabby coming
out? And I was like,I don't think she think we're gonna find
out she's truly awarewolf if she comesout. And then she left right before
the real thing, and so Ihad a callback. Was she just freaked
out by No, No, shejust she just went to grab something,

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but she came back and saw it. It was odd timing though. Were
you in the path of totality?Yes, yes, we were. We
were in Hurst and uh, andwe saw totality. It was awesome.
Here we had just a slight sliver, so we were just on the edge,
you know, in Wyse County,but it was still cool. We
all went outside and and uh,the doctor's office, all the nurses were

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out there, so we all tooka picture and stuff. Yeah, but
it was, uh, once ina lifetime event, you know what.
I looked that up. I don'tthink it's actually once in a lifetime.
It's I mean in this area,yes, for next time. The next
time that happens in this area istwo hundred and ninety three years right now,
which even with my high level ofincome, I'm probably not gonna be
able to live. That's a callback to Tallade, good Knights technology high

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level income. I figured I probablylived it two o five to ten.
So but I I just thought itwas an amazing thing. It was fun.
And my wife was on the road, so she was in Salt Lake
City missed the whole thing. Anduh and that brings up a great point
that I really want this podcast tobe because you and I collectively have thirty

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sixty years together in show business.Uh so, and we both started at
the same class my whole life.I just turned. I just turned close
enough. But we both started atthe same club. But you started it
when it was a Funny Bone andI started there when it was Hyaenas same
location, same stage, and we'vekind of been intertwined and interconnected uh for

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thirty years now sounds realmnded, Yeah, it does. And I thought that
would be a great jump up pointfor our discussion on this thing, because
how many people do you know thatgo out on the road in any job
and then they come back and theyget the pink slip? You know,
it happens more often than I thinkpeople. I think most of those would
be alcohol related. You think it'salcoholic because you're out of the road and

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you and you kind of you know, your hair goes down a little and
you think, oh, and they'relike, yeah, no, you're still
at work, Yeah, you arestill work. Yeah. I told I
told Bill, I said, yeah, that happens when you go to Vegas,
own business exactly. A lot ofpeople have lost their jobs after a
Vegas trip and they were like whatyeah, yeah, and that's why we

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took you you thought that, yeah, Or sleeping with somebody on the road,
well yeah, a lot of whata lot of ways to there are
many ways. That's that's that's thewhole discussion. Lose that job. But
it's uh, it's yeah, it'sa it's a strange phenomenon when people get
out on the road like you andI have both been an opening act on

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tour, and you and I havealso been uh the headline are on tour
and fat and on what time ofour life? We were talking, yeah,
and and it's funny even if youget big enough, there's still somebody
always bigger than you absolute or ifthere's a band, like I've opened for
bands and stuff like. There arerules that I had no idea when I
got on on tour with a band. One is that you can't poop on

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the bus. You know, Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the kind
of that is a rock and rollunion rule. I think, no pooping
on the bus and and uh andand you got to be careful of what
you say on the bus because you'recan travel on the bus together. One
of the weirdest things that ever happenedto me. I was out on tour
with George Jones and I was havingthis amazing time that the boys and the

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band. I was traveling on theband bus and they had embraced me as
one of the Jones boys. Itraveled with them that much. And uh
that there was a Laurie Morgan songthat came on and me and my brother
used to always joke that that uhLaurie Morgan killed Keith Whitley, right,

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because he drank himself to death andshe was I also thought she ruined Troy
Aikman's career. Is that her Itmight have been, but I just said,
uh, well, you know,she killed Keith Whitley, and you
would think that I took a dumpin the bunch bowlk Yeah, yeah,
punch bowl. Yeah, because silencewent through the entire bus. And uh

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Ron Gaddis, who played the he'snow passed away, but he uh he
played the bass and sang like Georgeand he and I were like best friends
on this City. He's the guythat brought me in the group. He
got up and left. He justwent to the back of the bus and
slammed the door. He pulled aDenzel training day on you. Yeah,
and I was like, what didI do? What did do? And

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they go, uh, that washis ex wife and he still pines over
her, and uh, you couldn'thave said, you couldn't have said anything.
It took three days for them toactually remembrace. No George was on
Georgie. No George, he didn't. George only cares about George. I

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know but had you it was theother guy's wife. No, no,
no, no, Nancy George's wifeis the one that actually bridged that that
whole thing back and brought me intothe group again. And you know,
Bill didn't know and he's sorry andand the whole thing and uh, yeah,
so I almost got fired over justa throwaway line on the bus going

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down the road and uh and wewere in Canada in February, so not
exactly the great ride home. No, uh, Now have you ever been
fired off a tour? Ellen DeGeneresfired me? No, kidd, Yeah,
well yes, Ellen DeGeneres fired meyears ago before she was very popular,

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but before she knew before the worldknew her, you know. And
and she tried to get me firedfrom paula Poundstone show. Wow, how
did you get fired from one?And how did you almost get fired?
I got hired at the at theat the Lemon Improv to open for Ellen
Dejennerson. I got there and shepacks the room and this is this early
nineties or something, and she,you know, I meet her. I

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meet her girlfriend, very attractive younglady. I can't remember her name or
anything. It's just you know,someone's girlfriend. And I go on,
and I do my thing, andI and and back. Now I was
pretty strong, pretty strong, youknow, fifteen minute opener and I get
off the stage. I bring heron, and the Tom Castillo said,
hey, Alex tomorrow just to youknow seven, And I said, okay.

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I figured it's her show. Youknow, she wants more time and
it's hers. So I do whatdo I do? I do seven?
What I really do is I justdouble talk. I talk twice as fast,
so even though I cut some stuff, it becomes even a little stronger.
My seven was stronger. And thenthe next night, it was Friday

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night, and he says, hey, on the second show, why don't
you just say hello and bring heron? And I said, did I
did I do something wrong? Hesaid no, we're just in and I
said, okay. And at thistime, but this time, she's just
being cordial to me. Hi,Hi, Remember the improv. There was
nowhere to stand. There was thatback area where the waitresses were, and

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I was wearing this cool shirt thatI bought. It was like a like
a draping something like a jersey almostbut really cool that had this triangle circle
circle circle, almost like crop circlesthat descended, and at one moment between
shows, Ellen walks up and shesays, hey, cool shirt. And

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be honestly, that's the most dialogueshe'd had with me other than nice to
meet you and blah blah blah.And I said, oh, thanks,
I just got it, isn't it? Kick ass? It's I feared that.
She guess it's a great stage shirt. I said, I thought the
same, and she said, thosethe way the circles descend it, your
eyes fix on it, and beforeyou know it, I'm looking at your
crotch her words. And I said, well, I guess I got you

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looking Ellen, And she goes,would you say? And I said,
I I got you looking And shegoes, what do you mean by that?
And I said, I don't meannothing by it. You said you
fired? That was it? Huh? Tom said, hey, you interned.
It is Saturday, and I waslike, what happened? Then she
called other people and said, oh, work with this guy. And that's

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what happened with That's what happened inHouston a month and a half later.
But you know what, and Inever met Paula Poundstone, never met her.
Was excited. I was excited towork with Ellen and it was fun.
Ellen was great, not very niceoff stage, but I was excited
to work with Paula. But SandyMarcus was at the Lady Name in Houston

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ran the laugh whatever, oh thelast spot last Yeah, wen Lynn Kerns
it was anyway, it was oneof those fabulous ladies. And she says,
hey, and we love you atthe laugh stop and she said,
but we got a problem with thePaula Poundstone date and I said, oh,
tell me, she's not rescheduled.She said no, she just says
she's not coming to Texas with AlexRaymundo in front of her and I went,

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what, I've never even met her, and she said, and we
kind of dug into it first.She said, hey, Alex, I
know you're great. This is Sandy. She said, I know you're great,
and I know you'll do whatever Itell you. You know, you'll
curb it to however I ask you. She said, but how about you
just work under a different name andwell, I'll tell them to you're someone
else. And I went, no, I'm not gonna do that. Why

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would I tell you get people tolike me? And that Anyway, she
did a little investigating found out thatPaula said, oh yeah, Ellen DeGeneres's
management or somebody or Ellen or somebodyw reached out to paul and said,
you don't want that guy in frontof you. But see this is this
is also important that which I thoughtwas shitty now I know, but this
is a young comic. But thisis also But it's a great lesson to

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young comics or people that are outthere that are traveling. Don't tell Ellen
to look at your crotch. No, No. The point is is that
it's such a small community that ifyou do go out now now this time,
I would say, it's not yourfault that anything like that happened.
But it's such a small community thatyou don't realize that. Yeah. Once

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you once somebody doesn't want to workwith you, the work spread their work
and spread a lot. I've traveledwith a lot of these opening acts,
you know, and and uh,when we're doing my own tour and stuff,
and they all say the same thing, you know, I I would
love to be out there, andI'll do any you know, I take
care of the merchandise, and thenI'm here to help the show. Yeah,

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and then you get out there andthey suddenly they get lost, they
get drunk, get they get enamoredby a young lady they've never seen before,
right, and forget the job.And then when people ask, hey,
what about that comic, you go, well, if you if you
enjoy babysitting, yeah, take himout on the road with well you know
what I'm I'm hey. I hadno I had no idea comedy had an

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HR department at the time. AlanEllan uh me to it. Yeah,
my my fire from a tour wasdifferent. But I wouldn't really. I
was only hired for the weekend.So I was hired by Rodney Carrington's folks
to come and open for him.And this was like so many great homes.

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Well it's like two thousand, twothousand and one, and he was
touring with the opening app was BarryMartin. Barry Martin, and Barry Martin's
mother had passed and I was workingfor The Bone ninety three to three of
the Bone, and they had askedme to be in the show and they
were giving me like a thousand bucksto come and do fifteen minutes, and

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plus I knew that they knew thatI would talk about it on the radio
every morning. Yeah. So thenThey called me and said that Barry Martin's
mother had passed and I would couldI carry forty five minutes in front?
And you know, because Barry's doingforty five, I was doing fifteen and
then they do an intermission and thenbring out Rodney that's where the show was

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structured. Could I carry the fortyfive minutes? And I said absolutely?
And they said, well, we'llstart out in Grand Prairie on Friday,
and then Saturday we're going to OklahomaCity and then Sunday we're going I think
to Kansas and I'm like, hell, yes, all year right, And
you know, I was so brokenpoor. I was like, you know,

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that's three thousand dollars and maybe they'llgive me more because I'm not doing
fifteen anymore. I'm doing forty fiveand maybe that'll be all part of it.
But I didn't talk about money withthem at all. You said yes,
I said yes, and I doGrand Prairie. I do forty five
clean in front of Rodney. AndI got a standing ovation that I'll get
you fired. And I got firedthat night night. Wait that got you

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fired because you got to stand hisconcert at his content, you know,
and and uh and I always likesomebody strong in front of me, someone
strong and and and because I wantthem to make me work. I'd rather
work from the platform they leave thansomeone that digs a big hole. I'd
rather work from there. Uh And. So I've been on that receiving end

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where someone in front of you whoyou want to be strong is a little
stronger than you expected, which isgood too. But I've also been on
the other end where I you know, how many shows did I opened for
Ron, you know, hundreds andhad a ball at a bunch of by
the way, those who don't knowRon White and and uh and and you

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know, everyone's there for Tater.But there was one night in Santa Rosa,
California, two shows. I cameoff the stage and the first one
that met me was a promoter.He went, hold, that was incredible.
And when the second person that metme was wrong, and he goes,
I don't need you to be thatgood, And I said, you

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got it, brother. That washe being no. He was we're best
for Ron, and I are.I like you and I we're best of
friends. And so he can bevery honest and direct, and I don't
take it any other way other thanwhere at work and you got it.
I didn't, you know, Idid my time, but I did.
But that's the other thing. That'sthat's the other thing. I was on
time. I didn't go a minuteover. Yeah I might have done that.

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I'm notorious, but I didn't gowell, might have been a minute,
but do you know what I mean. There's a lot of guys that
get out there and they get inthe moment and they don't really easy to
do. It's it's your job isto do if they say seven, if
they say fifteen, if they sayforty five, your job in that opening
slot to do that. And that'llget you fired a lot off the tour,

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being hammered drunk before you walk outthere, that'll get you fired.
Yeah. I've never been that guy. No know that, but we've all
worked with It've been that guy afterthe show, yeah, after after or
like uh So. I used todo a deal where I would bring out
everybody, you know, I'd bringeverybody out and I do the encore together,

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all of us with microphones. AndI had one guy on tour.
I won't even use his name becauseI love the guy, but I when
he left the stage, I wouldcome on to the stage and do my
forty five minutes to an hour,and by the time I brought him out
for the encore, he was sohammered in that hour that we couldn't even
use him out there, you know. And he never got it. He

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never understood that that this is asmuch as he would be you're still clocked
in. Yeah, and uh,and you know what changed all that for
me? Bill Ingvall changed all thatfor me because Bill Bill's is the one
that introduced me on stage. Tothe management of Blue Collar. Bill ing
Vall brought me on stage, butand he and I have talked about it
very openly, but he was sodrunk that he actually met stunp my intro

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and my name, and he apologizedto it. And we've talked about it
on the podcast before and everything else. But he said on Blue Collar they
came up with the rule and Ithink Ron might have had something to do
with it that they didn't have adrink until the last joke was told,
so nobody got to drink any Yeah, but that was because of Bill and
Ron. Yeah, and because I'lltell you and I know I've you know,

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obviously we all know Ron's reputation rightfor having for not being the one
that should be in charge of hisallotment of fun. Let's put it that
way. But I will say thisabout Bill. In the early days of
watching him at the Funny Bone Man, I was inspired by a guy that

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could do eight to fourteen shots oftequila in an hour and twenty minutes and
still speak. He get a littlemore fun in his lang, but he
was still very articulate. And Ibelieve obviously Jeff helped all of those guys.
And I'm saying something I'd say rightin front of those guys, kind
of say, hey, guys,we're doing something productive here. You can

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still have fun. But but Iused to love to watch and that I
was kind of sad when I wasseeing a homogenized version of Billing volume Yeah,
because he was He's still fun.Well, one of the one of
the most animated comics that I liketo watch. But he was so fun
when he was drunk. There somany of those guys, I know a

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lot of people don't get the creditthat they should on that. You know,
I was just talking to another comicand he, oh, I think
they all got a lot of credit. No, I mean from in the
industry, Like people will even saystuff about you know, Larry and stuff.
I said, oh, you meanother comics. It's just jealousy.
That's just that's just a form ofhatred or whatever. And not even hatred,
that's just a form of jealousy.All four of those guys are amazing

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comics. I don't have to bethe one that. It's no secret y'all.
Y'all, y'all know they're all amazing. And they were all amazing when
they just knew each other and weredoing their own thing. They were all
blowing up the world. Yeah,it's it's it's incredible that they could stay
together, you know, h asfour members traveling. You know, that's
hard to do. That's that firsttime I ever did share the mic after

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after the show with anybody was whenyou said, and I said, I
don't know, I want to doit. I loved it. Yeah,
it's it's loved when you get upand you're able to riff on each other
and with each other. Yeah,but it's it's also an amazing thing that
they even kept it together. Youknow, people don't realize how short lived
the Beatles actually toured together. Imean it's less than four years wow,
that they toured together from wasn't itsixty four to like sixty nine and then

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they were broke up, thanks Gokodoing their own thing. But you know
what I mean, it's it becausepeople. He was a great singer,
though, wasn't you. Yeah,if you like cats falling out off a
cliff, what run says? No, no, no, no, okay,
we've in fact checked. But Iwant to bring up the point though,

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you gotta be a good hang too. You gotta be a great hang
and and and don't be an asshole, you know. So there's a lot
of times like when I tour theguys that tour with me, I tell
them, I used to tell them, you know, we'll take care of
the meals. You know, here'syour pay, but we're gonna take care
of the meals. And don't worryabout that. I know what it's like
to be an opening act. Sobut then we'd have people just take advantage

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of it. I had one guywe'd pull up to Sonic in the mornings
and he'd he'd get the biggest burritoand he'd order a second one for a
snack later. Yeah, first ofall, it's gonna stink in the truck
for the three hours that you're gonnahave it there. It's not gonna be
any good, so you're not gonnaeat it. And I just paid an
extra eight bucks for nothing. Anduh, it's those little things that you
gotta be aware of your surrounded Yougot you gotta you gotta pull your way,

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you got it. And if you'regonna order the extra burrito for later,
make sure that later on you doa couple of things that that bill
goes, or that the boss goes, Hey, thanks for doing that,
because then you let that burrito go. Oh yeah. Like like, here's
a little road tip for you.If you're in somebody else's vehicle, everyone's
while, even if you're not payingfor the fuel, simply say, hey,

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why don't you go into the restroomfirst, and I'll pump the gas,
you know it up your trash.You would you would think that you
wouldn't have to you wouldn't have tohave this conversation with grown ass men and
women. But yeah, uh,next time you go in, why don't
you hold up your hand and gocan I get you a coat? Too?
You know, I've had so manyguys get out of that vehicle,
go straight in, not say anything, not not try to wipe off a

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window. You know. Those arethose little things that you go, Now
there's somebody who's in it. Uhto be on the road together. Here,
we're both here. Yeah, yeah, we're in this. We're in
this journey. Yeah. You know. Also just uh, well, Ron
and I spent so much time inthe early days traveling together, and in

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the later days too. But inthe early days it was just a vehicle,
a little Toyota or a Nissan truck. And that's a long time,
you know, six eight twelve hoursin a truck with a person. It's
just stopping for gas. And uh. One thing that Ron and I always
dug about each other is it couldbe quiet for an hour and it wasn't
an uncomfortable quiet because we don't wedidn't feel the need to have to fill

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the air with just hey, wellI got something else to say. We'd
like talk and then we wouldn't.And it was you know, and we
had a rule. We also hada rule that no matter what somebody handed
you to drink, smoke or snort, you had to do it. It
was just a little rule we hadback in the day. And sometimes it
was me doing it and sometimes itwas Ron doing it. But it was

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just something that somebody gave us thenight before, like all right, I
got it. There was no sayingno. So we're all so again,
we're in the same boat. Sowe're in the same Oh yeah yeah,
and with that hair, you're notlast. Yeah, arm strength, very
strong. I went and comes toyou know, war All right, sixty

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everybody? Look at that? Thereyou go? You know what that is?
Tequila? I'm in good shape.What are you talking about. I'm
kidding it. Relax, we all. Bill's in good shape too. Yeah,
I'm kidding. I'm sorry. Youknow, let's not go there.
Hey, that'll get you fired rightthere. We'll get on the scale and
make the scale cry. Yes wewill. So uh No, I think

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it is. It's important that you'reable to travel with somebody, uh and
and have a conversation. I wasjust talking with my sister last night after
the eclipse thing, some of mycousins and different members of our family.
Everyone drops by to see my momsometime and one of my cousins, Gary
and one of I love all mycousins, but I haven't anyway. I
love Gary and but my sister Gabbydoesn't know him that well. She was

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like, and I was like,Gary's awesome, I said, And you
know what it is, He's agreat hang. You can talk to Gary.
It's not complicated, it's easy.It's it's an easy situation. And
that's what you try to be whenyou're traveling with somebody. Yeah, and
and you can find people that it'snot boy all about me. I'm not

(28:10):
comfortable or maybe it's not even somethingyou can you can control. I gotta
pee every eight minutes. Oh boy, Yeah, I do want to tell
this story. If we're telling thesekind of road stories. I was traveling
with this comic and uh, Iwon't I won't call him by name,
but let's just call him Todd.Uh all right, because that was his
name. But I'm traveling with himand we're going out a simple run maybe

(28:33):
to Amarilla. LL tell us hislast name, but what was his last
name? There was? I won'ttell you the last name, but there
was no justice for it. Ohokay, I got you. But we're
traveling and uh, you ever travelwith somebody and every story that you tell,
they've got a sad story to tellthat follows it. I mean,

(28:53):
every story was the saddest thing youcould literally say, I had such a
beautiful day watching the eclipse. Andhe would tell how the sun fill in
my mother's house time, and hewas and he was this go pee about
every eight minutes. And at somepoint I'm like, dude, we're not

(29:14):
going to make it to the gigif we have to stop. And so
he opens for me, and heopens up and he goes, you ever
travel with somebody and you got apee and they just won't stop, right
yeah, And he's talking, youknow, about me, and he gets
a laugh and everything else, butyou know we're going last. We're going
to last. We get the lastword and I go up and this is

(29:34):
exactly what I said. I go, You ever travel with somebody and they
just keep telling their story, sadstory after sad story after sad story,
And at some point you realize youcan get through life if all you think
to yourself, at least I'm nottalking. Well, listen, we told
you thirty minutes and we're out oftime. We are out of time,

(29:56):
or else we're gonna get fired.Yeah, exactly. You know you can
find me on the innerway up there. There's on TikTok. Also got Facebook
and we're at seven hundred and thirteenthousand followers there, Instagram and YouTube,
and thank you to the you know, we did thousands of people that watched
the last episode and hopefully we'll havethat many watching this one. Don't forget.

(30:19):
I do have a tour schedule comingup this weekend April twelfth, Baton
Rouge the thirteenth in Ocean Springs,Mississippi, and then next week on April
twentieth in Concordia, Kansas. Andthen the following week we will be in
Columbia, Tennessee and Marion, Virginiaon the twenty sixth and the twenty seventh.
So on behalf of my very bestfriend Alex Romundo and my newly fired

(30:44):
producer for Color, fat Ron Phillips. I am William Lee Martin, and
you know, we go out thereand you know, try to be kind
of successful in life in comedy se

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