July 8, 2025 • 51 mins
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Welcome to Episode 442 of The Clean Comedy Podcast! This week JD and Seth talk about the state of their comedy careers and what we all can do to get our comedy groove back.
Here are the questions Seth asks JD.
Try them out for yourself and let us know!
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Welcome to Episode 442 of The Clean Comedy Podcast! This week JD and Seth talk about the state of their comedy careers and what we all can do to get our comedy groove back.
Here are the questions Seth asks JD.
- What celebrities/comedian do I resemble?
- What are my 3 most outstanding traits?
- What do I do better than other people?
- If I could play any character right now who would that be?
Try them out for yourself and let us know!
Come see Zane and I! You can see all the tour dates at ZaneLamprey.com
Feel free to email me: jamesdcreviston at GMAIL.COM
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-clean-comedy-podcast-w-jd-creviston--4825680/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
get some green. Hey everybody, welcome to Queen Comedy Podcast.
It's JD and I'm with my co host, mister Seth
Lawrence Seth.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey, howdy, Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Dude, it's so good to see you. I feel like
I haven't seen you in like a year or something.
I don't know, it's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It has it's been a very long time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I feel like an eternity has passed since we lasted
an episode, and I feel like I've aged ten decades.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, you look good for ten decades.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, keep it together, whatever that skin routine is, keep
doing that whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh my gosh, crazy crazy Now it's been forever.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, what have you been up to? Let's catch up
with you first, what's been going on with you?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What have I been up to?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man, Just a lot of life stuff, you know, trying
to get the backyard all in order. My son's been
on an All star baseball team, so we've been doing
a lot of baseball this last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then as.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Far as like stand up goes, I'm just trying to
hold on for dear life.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm trying to email out and clip up my
drive bar special to use for different bookings. So that's
kind of where I am right now, getting back into
the swing of things with travel being done at least
for the most part this summer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So, yeah, what kind of places are you reaching out
to to get booked out? Is it clubs or is
it like you're gonna planning on you like your own
kind of thing, or like what what's the deal there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean, I've been trying to get a tour together
with a couple of buddies, but I don't know if
it's really gonna work out or not.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One is very non committal, and part of the issue.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
He's got agents and managers that I think have to
be he feels they have to be a part of it,
and so it just bogs up the whole thing when
the rest of us are like, we can go, we
can go anytime we want, as long as the bookings
are open and we can find a transportation of place
to stay, you know. Yeah, we don't need a bunch
(02:19):
of team members to sign off on us being gone.
So we'll see if that happens. But mostly I'm trying
to apply to clubs. Comedy and Magic club is kind
of the next on my I would like to hit
and play list.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So yeah, that's a that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
If you get in there, that's a good that's a
good club to get into.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It'd be great. So that's what we're trying to do
in the short run.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is that one that's awesome. That's that's a big swing,
and that's a really good one to get And that's
one of my favorite clubs. I've never played at or
done ever there, Yeah, but I've been in there a
few times.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's a good room, you know, and I feel like
they do what I would like to do, that is
catering to kind of cleaner crowds and anyhow, So we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I need to reach out.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I'm trying to get some corporate stuff going to so
I have some people that I need to reach out
to to get things kind of lined up, locked and loaded.
Other than that, the show that I produced is doing great,
and we've had a couple of really good, nearly sold
out shows, so that's been really sweet. We finally on
the last show actually turned a profit, which a big
(03:24):
deal for us little guys.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So yeah, so see, if we can't keep that trend.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Running, that's that's cool. And I talked to a a
comedy friend of mine. I won't say his name. I
talked to a comedy friend of mine. He was talking
about it. He produced the shows all over and he
makes his entire living off of producing comedy shows. He'll
go do shows in other places because he knows when
he produces the show he can make two three thousand
dollars off the show, you know, so so for him
it's way to go. But he's also not in like
(03:51):
LA or New York or somebody's competing with major clubs
and stuff. You know, there are clubs in his area,
but not as many he could produce. Outside of that,
you make money.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Right, Yeah, My wife has kind of hit a major
milestone in her career where it's either she gets promoted
or she gets let go. And if she's if she
gets let go, we have kind of a year to
find a new spot to be and live. And she's
very paranoid that, like, what if we're not in LA
or New York or Chicago?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I'm like, I think I'm at the point now
where I could do pretty well actually outside of those markets.
I agree, I'm not too worried about this. Actually, you know,
it might be a blessing in disguise if we're kicked
out of LA.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And where would you go? Where would you go?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You think probably Washington? I think Washington, maybe Michigan, you know,
which is terrible for her. She does not like the cold,
she does not like the dark. But unfortunately those who
are probably the two. There's also potentially a spot in
Colorado which is less dark but still cold.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So I don't know, but you know, those are all
markets that are we also.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, but also if you're like any of those space
so Washington, you can do really well there. I know that,
And I know that you can you can go over
to like Idaho and go you know that way, and easier.
If you're in Colorado, you can go to the Midwest easier.
There's a bunch of places there.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Tons in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, you can just clean up. Yeah, and then that's
the problem with being on the West coast is getting
over the Rockies and into the Midwest is the hard part. Right.
It's like I'm a little jealous of comedians like in
Atlanta or Chicago, who could kind of do you know,
up that coast down to Florida, or they can go
to you know, all the Midwest areas and do shows
(05:39):
and they can make a living that way and they
stay in kind of in the Midwest rotation and stuff,
you go. You know, then all the way down around
we're on the other side of the mountains and on
the other side of and you know, New York's on
the other side of Misissippi. But New York can go
all the way down that eastern border and do a
good job, and they could even go into Pennsylvania, Ohio
whatever from there pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, So we'll see, we'll see what happens. But
that's kind of where we are right now.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know, when will you know that, like, what's the
timeframe on on this promotion or release thing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So they take it'll we'll probably find out the next year,
and then we'll have a year after that to really
figure out where we're going to be. So in two years,
you know, it could be that we're moved and making
a new life somewhere else, and it could be that
we're right here and sitting even prettier than before.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So who knows.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's amazing. I just went up to up to
San Francisco with my family for I can't got off
the road all the twenty ninth. Yeah, the kids and
everybody lived the car on the thirtieth, drove up to
San Francisco, stay there till July third, came back for
the fourth and whatever and stuff, and then we leave
again Friday the eleventh to go to Grand Cayman for
(06:53):
a couple of days. So you mean you and Zane, No,
me and the family in the family. I'm off for July.
Why is the month that I need? I need time off? Man,
Like we've been grinding, bro. I am yeah, good for.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You for.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah. Yeah. So it was like, you know what, I
used to not be a fan of the Bay Area.
I used to not like the Bay Area it wasn't
my I don't know, I don't know why. I think
maybe just a petty so cow person. Maybe We went
up there, we stayed. Shout out to David scooda baker
uh and his family for letting us stay up there.
(07:31):
We stayed in the Castro district of San Francisco, which
was nice and everyone was nice and it was beautiful.
There was less homeless people than I thought there would be.
We rode trolley's, we rode cable cars, we rode, we
ate in Chinatown, we walked the city. It was and
you know what I said. At the end of it,
we were driving out of San Francisco and I go
(07:51):
I could live here. I said that. I said that
out loud to my family, and my kids were like, oh,
all right, all right, what's going on. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I was like, Oh, that's good for you, man, good
for you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was a it was a good time. It was
a well needed thing. And my wife was nervous because
She's like, you just got off the road yesterday and
now you want to drive to San Francisco for a
couple of days. And I'm like, I'm like, look, I
just want to do nothing. Yeah. I was like it's nothing.
I've been on the road and the car drives itself,
so I can't complain about that. Like ninety percent of
the way was driven by the car. It wasn't even
driven by me.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh that is nice.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, I was like, fine, I could have let it
drive through the streets to San Francisco, but my kids
were nervous about it. Sure I was not nervous. And
then we took the got a couple homeless people. Come on, no,
I didn't see that many, but we did take the
Weimo car in San Francisco. Have you taken that yet?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I am not taking the way moos.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I've seen a couple that survived the protests in La
So I've seen them around town, but never taken one.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Dude, they are awesome. They're amazing cars. One ride cost
us eleven dollars, So it's based on what time of day.
One cost us like twenty two dollars, one costs us
thirty bucks, and then one cost us like twenty dollars
again or whatever. So average like twenty twenty five bucks,
which wasn't bad for four people. We don't have to
do anything in the car. Problems picks you up. You
(09:13):
get in drives around drops you off great car. I
never had it, so that's awesome. Yeah, it was. It
was fun. So when we we we weren't driving our car,
which anytime we were in the city if we could
take public chance, that we would. If we couldn't take
public chance, and we would just take the way bow
and then if we were going out of the city,
like we went out to the John Muir Woods and
(09:33):
walked walked that, and we went up to visit somebody
in San Rafel. I think it is what it is?
And uh yeah, I heard it was pronounced saying Rafel
and then I said Raphael too, and they're like no,
they were like no, yeah, I know, right, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I was like, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But there was a place there called I'm gonna butcher
it something Sol sold something. It was like a Puerto
Rican and Cuban restaurant. And I'm telling you right now,
it was some of the best we would have had
in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That right, so good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Interesting, yeah good.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And and it's so good. This is crazy. How how
good is it's so good? They have three locations on
the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sorry, sorry say it again. It's so good. Say that again.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's so good. They have three they have three locations
on the same block.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Wow, yeah, yeah, wid.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, that's how good it is. And it's packed. There's
it to go location and then there's a sit down
location and they're both packed. Always all right, so good.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I have to check that out.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I gotta look up the name for you. It's called
so Soul something. Uh yeah, I'm gonna look it up.
Soul Food, sol Food in San Rafael. Yeah, oh my gosh,
it's so good. If you, if anybody's listening to this
and you're up in the Bay Air, any time go
(11:01):
to Soul Food, you will not be disappointed. There is
nothing on their menu that I had. We had a
half of a chicken that was some of the best
chicken I've ever had in my life. They had plantains,
these mash plantain things with garlic, and I took the
chicken and put in like a tortilla and ate it.
Oh my gosh. Wow, all right, my mouth is my
mouth is watering right now.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Cannot making yourself hungry on a Monday afternoon, almost hungry hungry.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So we did, you know, and we just got back
from Ohio a big run in Ohio. Yes, it was
really good. One of the things that Zayan has decided
to do now and this is kind of cool and
I think it's something that I want to adopt in
a different format. But we go to animal places during
the day, like animal rescue type places. They rescue things
(11:51):
like like porcupines and happy barras and groundhogs and skunks.
And we went to a bird of bird rescue that
wele We had an ibis that landed on my head,
stood on it and then pooped down my back. It
was gross, but it was like it was interesting though. Awl.
He flew an awl to him. All these things. We saw,
(12:14):
all these different animals. And so one of the things
he wants to do is he had a meeting with
Barry Kats. You know, Barry Kats is the infamous Barry
Ifamus Berry Cats. If you don't know Barry Kats, he's
one of the best managers of all time. He may
if you name if you name a top comedian, he
probably managed them at one point during their career. So
(12:34):
I met Barry before. He's a very nice guy, had
him on the podcast, talked to him, you know, had
one on ones with him and stuff. He's just a
great dude. So I was like, Zane, you should reach
out to Barry. I guess Barry was his manager at
some point in time, back early in his career. So
reach out to Barry and just see have a meeting
with him and see if he'll give you any advice,
(12:55):
you know. And so they had lunch and Barry told him,
and this is great advice for anybody, because say was like, Oh,
people keep asking when I would be back on TV.
And Barry's like, why do you need to be on TV?
Make the show that you want to make on YouTube
because that's where more people are watching than ever before.
And so now he's making animal content that he's gonna
be long for. He's doing short form for Instagram and
(13:17):
then long form for YouTube, and then reformatting some of
that long form and the more short form for YouTube shorts,
putting it all out there. I'm building a channel that way.
And so he's doing animal stuff. That's his passion, that's
the thing he loves. So as we were talking about it,
I'm trying to figure out what my passion is, what
the thing is that if I would get a TV show,
what would that show be about? And I'm telling you,
(13:39):
I am not figured that out. I don't know what
it is. Yeah, so it's totally hard.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, it is tough. It is tough.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was actually on the same vein my my wife
is I think more gung ho about my career than
I am sometimes?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So she and I have been talking about this TV
show idea, And I was just talking to some actor
friends actually who were basically like, the audition process is
so stupid and frustrating that it does feel like nowadays
it's everyone has the tools, everyone has the equipment. You
(14:22):
can just make your own thing and put it on
YouTube and just make your own channel. So I was
talking to some actor friends about we might just do
this TV show idea and put it on YouTube, and
at the very least it's a proof of concept for
the jargon for people out there. It's like a short
(14:43):
that shows a network like this is what the show
would be, and then they can pick it up if
they want.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah. Anyhow fascinating. Well, we got to find your passion JD.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been hard because I've and here's the thing
I would have been honest with you. I've been consulting
chat GBT with this, So I name my chat chyput.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's your first problem, No, get out of the AI space.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So it's I mean, it takes into account all the
stuff that I've done in my career and things that
at my school and all the stuff, and it's really like, look,
you should you're good at comedy stuff. You should teach
comedy stuff to people. And I go, yeah, but I'm nobody,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not like, I'm
not a famous guy who's made money as a famous comedian.
(15:27):
So it's it's for me. It's hard to go, yeah,
I'll do that, you know what I'm saying. Where there's
and I get it. And there's also a lot of
like comedy Charlatan's out there right, people are like, oh,
make your career better, and You're like, who are of course,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Of course, but I mean, aren't you working on a book?
I mean you're working on the tips?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm working on that. But I
just feel like it's gonna be I don't know. It's
it's a hard thing because I love comedy. Yeah, it
is something that I do that I do love, but
I feel like I'm not the right because I don't
have the pedigree. Is that the right word the pedigree
for it?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, pedigree is probably the right word, I mean, or
the resume, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I mean, look, JD. I think there's a way to
market it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
And I was in a when I was hosting for
the World Series of Comedy. We went part of that festival.
They do a week long kind of main competition festival
in Las Vegas, and they do seminars and workshops during
the day and then they have shows at night. And
one of the seminars I attended was from this guy
I'd never heard of before, and I have his name
(16:35):
written down somewhere, but his advice was, you know, look,
you got to get your name out there. And the
easiest way nowadays to get your name out there is
to just write a book. Write a book, make it
as niche as you can, and then sell it on Amazon.
If you need to self publish, it's possible, you can
(16:57):
do it, or try to get a publisher, but get
it out on Amazon, and then once it hits number
one in your very niche market, that's what you that's
what you say. You're number one author on Amazon Prime
or whatever. If you're lucky enough to get on the
New York Times best selling lists, like do that, but
(17:19):
definitely advertise number one author on Amazon and then get
on radio shows, start your podcast using that as your
as your pedigree, as your accolade, as your Here's what
I'm so. I think you can market it JD as
like comic tips from a you know, like, you don't
(17:39):
have to be known to make an impact, right, I
mean the Comedy Bible was written by somebody that most
people have no idea what she does.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, Judy Carter, who nobody, nobody knows. Really, I've never
seen a lick a first stand up by the way, ever,
not once correct.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And that's my point is that, like, you don't know
who she is, and most people listening to the podcast
would only know her from the book.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They wouldn't know her as a stand up. They wouldn't
know her as a writer.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
They would know her from I guess writer, but only
for the book, not a comedy writer, is what I'm saying.
Not from TV, not from movies. About the only thing
that she's known for doing is this random, very well
done book.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, and I don't think I think if Judy Carter
were to if you know, she's still around and around.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, so if she were to teach a class, I
think most people would be like, Okay, absolutely, Comedy Bible.
I've heard of that book. I think this could be
really valuable. So, you know, all of it is just
unfortunately for us, all marketing. And I feel like that's
the one thing I really should have done in college
that I did not do, was take a marketing class,
(18:52):
do some sort of marketing program.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know what's funny is i'd be it'd be easier
for me to market you than it would be for
me to market myself.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that it's always the way.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's always the way, though, I think, you know, I
think most of the time we are better at seeing
other people's situations and commenting and promoting it then, which
is again why I think my wife is much more
gung ho about my career than I am at times,
and same for yours.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
With you. Yeah, you know, you see.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's easier to see the value in other people because
we are so self loathing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it's true, it's true. So that's that's the thing.
That's where I'm kind of at is that's that's kind
of what I'm That's why I need my chet GPT Jeeves,
and so I have conversations with him all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Don't don't let ask Jeeves. Don't tell them that you're
doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Does as chiefs even exist? I don't think it exists anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I know I can.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I can quickly google that and see here's here's the
other thing I was going to say, I uh, it's
ask It's just ask dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, see I missed it because asked Jeeves was my
you know, that was the first kind of Google esque website. Yeah,
and so you know, I loved it, and so I
was like, look, if I'm going to ask this thing questions,
I'm gonna name it Jeeves and Jeeves and he likes it.
He likes it. He thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
They retired the Jeeves portion from ask dot Com in
two thousand and six, so it's been a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I was going to give you an acting exercise.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Let me see if I still have the wording here,
and this is to help you market yourself. Okay, what
kind of and obviously what I'm going to tell you
verbatim is from an acting class, so it's more geared
to acting roles and everything else.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In that in that world. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah? No, I will tell you I have had success.
Somebody just I wrote a I co wrote a screenplay
about two years ago. Yeah. It was a kind of
against my better judgment at the time because it was
a action thriller kind of okay. I was like that,
I've never written that. I've only written comedy. So I
turned them down it. I turned them down three times
(21:05):
before they were like they were They're like, no, I
promise you, I've read your stuff. You're the right person
for this. And I'm like, I'm really not, Like so
I did it. It was like, they're gonna pay me
up front, I'll do it. I wrote it. I gotta.
I got a message a couple of days ago. Hey,
the movie's gonna be I got a message on fourth
of July. Actually, hey, the movie's gonna be coming out
pretty soon. I've done in the editing stuff. Here's your
(21:27):
name in the credits. I have a picture of my
name and the credits was written by And I'm like,
this is okay, all right? I can you know for me?
That feels good. I mean, I've made over three hundred
thousand dollars as a freelance writer you know, just that's
an amazing thing that a lot of people haven't done.
And so that's kind of where I see like my
strength being is like I can, But I don't know
(21:50):
how to teach somebody that skill either, because for me
it was just I worked it, I built. I just
went and wrote those. Like back in the day, when
you wanted to be a writer, you had to go
write two spec scripts. Right if you want to write TV,
you had to go write spec episodes of TV shows
that were existing on TV. I did that. That's kind
of how I got my start. I wrote. We write
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screenplays that were not good, by the way, now that's
the first ones were terrible. If you read them, be like,
oh what is wrong with you? And then and then
I got a couple that were good that people liked
and like almost got me representation. But it's kind of
a weird time in hollywoods that it worked out. And
now I kind of feel like I'm stuck again. I'm
not going to get my time to be a Hollywood
writer and stuff, which I which would be great. I
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would love to make write movies or write hobbies or
yeah whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So I mean I wish I knew more about that
area of the business. I just don't.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
But I don't feel like it's ever too late to
get into that business as long as.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You've got written product that people want, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, I got to get this hard drive fixed because
I have a hard drive that's that crashed on me
and that I did that that's all my stuff on it.
And I'm like, oh no, I know. So I'm like
a little concerned. But I've found some of them that
I've emailed to people, but they're older drafts. But I'm like,
you know what, I can go back and figure that out.
I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So all right, So here's the exercise.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's a casting exercise or an active exercise, that is,
to know what roles should I market myself for? Okay,
because so much of our business and with stand up
as well as how are you perceived?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right? How do people look at you? What do they
think when they look at you?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Because we have our own idea about ourself, right, you
need so you're gonna want you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Know, ten at least ten people that you trust to
tell you the truth and not be like you. You know,
you could do anything, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like, Yeah, I hate that be direct.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You want people to be honest. Okay, but here's what
it is.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So you send a text or email or whatever to
these people, and obviously the more the better, right Okay,
But people that you feel like will give you an honest,
objective answer. Okay, I'm doing a little casting exercise. Now
you can phrase it however you want, But would you
mind taking a minute to just answer a few questions
about me for me?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, So here are the questions, and these are ones
that you can finagle with to help for what you
really want.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But the first what celebrities do I resemble? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Again, this is about casting and acting, so that's why
this is question number one, which might not be as
applicable to you, but in stand up you might want
to know like what look like jokes?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Could I write?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Or yeah? You know?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So all right? Two?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
What are my three most outstanding traits?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Three?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What do I do better than other people? For if
I could play one character right now, who would that be?
So again, this is geared for casting, acting, auditioning, but
I think there's some parallels that you can draw here
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when you're thinking about how can I market myself as
a stand up What personas could I pull off on
stage or out on social media?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You know what? What would be fun?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know? Yeah? So okay, so if we I do this,
let's let's say to do this with you? What what
comedians do you think I'm similar to resemble? Right? Is
that the kind of the ask there?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Probably? Yeah, which which comedians do you resemble? I mean
I would probably go with like a Brian Reagan. That's
probably the one that is most well known that I
feel like your style is closest.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
To I like that. That's actually somebody I've always wanted
to emulate and never felt like I ever encapsulated that
that well enough, you know what I'm saying, Because he's
such a good he is so good at act outs,
and that's the one thing that I'm terrible at act outs.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Very goofy, very goofy guy. But that's you know, I
feel like you're kind of a goofy guy. You'd like
to be the butt of the joke. He liked to be.
I'm just a dummy, you know that kind of persona.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All right, what about three outstanding traits? What are what
are the three three outstanding traits? Because you've seen me before,
I mean, we talk all the time, so like, what's
a good how do we Yeah, that's a hard I
feel like that's a hard question.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Actually that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that's probably the toughest, you know, one of the
tougher questions. Three outstanding traits. I mean, look, I think
you are incredibly generous. I think that you are very introspective, right,
your jokes are also thoughtful. You're you're I think you
do your best to not offend anybody and still try
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to be very fun.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And then third, what I think, Uh yeah, I think
the willingness to be.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The butt of the joke.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's a that's a big I think a big deal, right, Like,
you're not going to take yourself too seriously.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's that's what.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm saying, Yeah, I And that's that is one of
the things that people have said, like they love that
about my comedy. I've had people come up after the
shows and say, I love that. You just are so
good at just like you're the silly dad, you're the
silly husband, and it's it's so good to just have
refreshing You're you're willing to play up that on you
and I'm like, that's how I am like I am
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the silly dad, now you know. That's that's who I am,
and just this exaggerated version on stage obviously for comedy.
But you know what, it's funny because I went today
and I haven't played pickleball since I started on touri
Zane okay, And I went to play pickleball today with
all the old ladies that I play pickleball with. And
I took a picture and I put it on Instagram
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of me back with them, and I gave them my sticker,
my fat because they're the inspiration for that joke. And
so it's like, look here, I want to tsk to
you guys, you know, and whatever. And so they were
so sweet about it. Everyone's so nice. They were just
they're like, oh, We're so happy to have you back.
And I'm like, I'm just back for this week, you know.
And then I I'm when Grant Cayman and I come
back and hopefully I'll get to play some more, but
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who knows, you know, I don't know if I'm gonna
get to play as much as I want to. But
it was nice and just nice, a nice time just
go play. So yeah, good, I see I see that.
I can see where those things are coming from. Now,
the whole part is what do I do better than
other people? What is I mean? In what way? Though?
That's the other thing that that's it's like, I know,
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look in comparison is a thief of joy? Right, you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Saying, of course, And I think this question is not
what do I do the best?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is what do I do better than other people?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And the other people is just kind of this average
smattering of people. Okay, I like that, So it's it's
I don't think it's just anyway. I don't think anyone
needs to overthink this question what do.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I know? But what do you do better than than
other people?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I mean, I think you you grind out under the
under what's the word I'm trying to look for, kind
of behind the scenes. You do a lot of work
behind the scenes that people don't know or appreciate or
realize is actually required to make it in this business.
And a lot of people, you know, myself included, is
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not as willing to do it. We really have to
work at it, and you probably have to work at
it too, you just actually do it. So I think
though that that's that's probably what's going to serve you
the best and how you can market yourself the best, right,
which is this is something that I do very very well,
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which is the thankless work that gets me this level
of financial success and positions in our career that other
people just wouldn't be able to do or think to do,
or want to do. But it's helped make it possible
for me to support a family and everything else. Right,
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I mean, I feel like a book you could write
JD is like behind, like from the Shadows in comedy. Know,
this is I am the unknown, but this gets money,
you know, emailing and like a lot of things you've
done in your career, even just recently, have have gotten
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you some finances that a lot of comics just don't know,
just don't know about, or too scared to do or
don't even uh may not want to do because they
don't think it's going to be financially beneficial. But like
emailing retirement homes, emailing schools, emailing and just keep on emailing,
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you know, reaching out to bigger comics for advice, reaching
out and offering help. You know, like all of this
stuff is stuff that some comics do, but I feel
like you do it better than most.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I like that. No, that's that's a good point. I
never thought it, thank you. I never thought about that. Yeah,
what about this last one? If I could play any
character right now, who would that be? That's that's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It is an interesting one. And this character doesn't really
exist yet. But and I don't want it to come
across offensive.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
No, nothing, nothing you ever say to me will be offended.
Just know that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You know what I think you could do on social
media very very well. It is like the poor Man's
Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
This is this is Tom Cruise if he aged like
a normal human being.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I think you could pull that off.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I think that would be so fun for people to
look at and see and experience.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
First of all, I like that you're compared me to Tom
Cruise anyways, because that's wow. I mean, do you think
very highlight of me?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Thank you? Look look up a picture of him.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It's it's like Tom Cruise if if he had one
too many bowls of ice cream? You know, And I
feel like you could really sell this.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You think I look like he's a good looking man
at sixty three years old. I don't look at any
a good looking guy, A good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
But I think I'm looking at like a side by
side screen right now, and I feel like, can I
just can I share my screen?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah? Hold on here, let's figure this out. I want
to see if this is how this works for you.
Let's see share.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Okay, there you go for me. Okay, let me see
if I can do this.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Here it says all participants could share.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to figure out how I
can share.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
If you go down to that green button and click share,
does it let you do it? It?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Does? It brings up an option?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You I just don't know what I'm gonna share, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Like, oh yeah, I have to find the screen that
you want.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What do I show here? I think this is what
I want.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I'm loving that this is That's poor Man's Top Cruise
because that is like hilarious and I love. Okay, so
I'm looking at the same photos you are.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, look at this guy, look just smile smile like this.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I think I really think you could pull this off.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Would you think I would? You think I should get
a wig to do it? Like you think I should
get or should just do it?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
The a wig would be very funny if you need
if you need to pull off the wig.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
But I mean, look at this.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah that's no, that's kind of a haircut now, but
it is like it's left. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And the beautiful thing about social media is it doesn't
you know, you're not a carbon copy of Tom Cruise,
but I think the similarities are there enough where you
could be like, man, I wish my older brother hadn't
made it so big.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You know, however it is you want to do it,
or just be like, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I'm what is the what is the magician prestige?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Is that what it is? Where he drowns his clone?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah strick.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I mean you could be that guy. You could be like,
look I eat all this stuff Tom Cruise can't eat.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, I'm his body double. I was diet double.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, diet double. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
He's like, Hey, I need to eat this ice cream.
I really want to eat it, but I've got a movie.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm like, tell me exactly what it tastes.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Like, yesh, describe it for me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yes, exactly, diet double. Vicariously.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I call Tom Cruise up and tell him what
I'm eating, so he does he can he can enjoy it,
but he doesn't get to eat it.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I think that is so fun. And then you do
like food reviews for Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yes, oh my gosh, I love this, but.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Only like only talk to Tom ever.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah yeah, all right, I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
To stop, but my computer froze. I'm trying to stop sharing.
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know how to do it either.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well I hit the stop share button, but now my
computer's wigging out.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't know if there's.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Some oh here you hold only see if I can
do on my side to do it. It's because we
it's because we invoked Tom Cruise's name too many times.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just like, no, this is not allowed.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He's like, you're not allowed to be my diet. That
will I love. Actually, that's such a funny. Remis an
idea that I would have never thought of. Yeah, so yeah,
and so yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Dude, But that's what I'm telling you. The power of
these questions. Who knows what other people are going to
come up with.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, you just take what you like, you know, you
take what you like, you merge it as best you can,
or just take one idea and run with it, like
you know, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, I love that and I love the idea. I
was just like, hey, hey, Tom, so I'm eating this
pizza right now. Yeah, sorry, I want to tell you
about the pizza.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, yeah, I don't mean.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
To have Yeah, I know, I know that you wanted
four slices, so I'm I'm gonna talk talk to you
about them. They're just, man. First of all, they're they're
very They're very cheesy. They put a lot of cheese
on this pizza, and I don't I think it might
be too much in all. Honest, I think it might
be too much. But they were a little cheap with
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the pepperoni, which again I think they just try to
cover up with cheese. But you know what it really
really is good about this pizza, Tom. The grease. It's
so greasy. I can feel it in my veins. And
if you could feel it in your veins, you know
how good of a pizza it was, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, Yeah, I think there's some there for sure. I
think you could have a lot of fun with it.
And I don't know if it's like some random guy
or if they're like we wanted to see how this
food affects Tom Cruise. That's why we came to you,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah. Yeah, they're like, look, you are very similar to
Tom Cruise. You're his you're his lung lost twin brother, right,
and we're going to test out all the food that
he can't eat on you to see how it affects you.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Do you know what his last name is? His real
last names? You see that on that thing? I I
don't porther the fourth huh Cruise Maportho, the fourth dude.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I think you could be. I think you could be J. D. Mcporth.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yes, Yes, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
That's the character name.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm I mean, look, who knows what like that? Ten
twelve other people you're gonna ask, who knows what they're
gonna come up with? But this is, you know, it's
a good way to generate ideas that can kind of
get you excited because I don't know. For me, it's
like I'm excited about an idea for maybe two or
three videos, and I'm like, I don't know, maybe this sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
And I need That's the part that I'm struggling with.
I don't I lost your picture for some reason by
the way.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
My whole computer is like shutting down, poor Seth.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing is I feel the
same way where I've tried to figure out, like I
try to do this thing where I'm like, like, talk
about what's going on with me? Why charge my tesla?
But I felt like it's felt kind of douche, you know,
to do like I'm in my tesla. You know, it's like, eh,
that's gross.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, of course, but you know, I think there's yeah,
you either have to lean into it or you know,
or you have to shy away from it completely.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, And I look, I don't hate that I have it,
and I don't hate that I like I lost you.
Oh I lost Seth. All right, there you are back,
all right? So yeah, I like this. I like this idea.
I think I think you're right. I think you're onto
something about asking people about it and trying to find
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the the passionate thing, like the thing that's gonna get you.
I think, honestly, what you have is you have such
a smart way. That's why I like to self help yourself,
because I think there's something there that if you made
more short clip videos for that kind of stuff, that's
kind of your gold mind because you're a very smart,
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introspective person that that you definitely hold up. There's a comedian,
do you know John Hastings is.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
No name sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You've probably seen him around.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, sure that I have.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
The John Hastings. If you look him up or whatever,
you have a similar look to him. And he is
so funny that you and he's both and he's very
introspective and smart like you. Then I think if you
kind of watch stuff that he's done, he might give
you a idea of kind of like what to do.
He's been on like America's got talents and stuff like that. Yeah,
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he's really funny. I think you should watch him and
just kind of see his style. I think I think
you you have a similar look and kind of thought
process to him, and I think there might be something
there leaning into self help yourself or like a dad
version of self help yourself, like where you're teaching your
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kids to self help themselves something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, my my goal with self help
yourself if I can bring you back up on my strength.
The goal with the self help yourself is eventually I'm
going to write a book I've been working on one
with my dad, letters that you know, emails that we've
written back and forth, kind of analyzing our own relationship
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and the development of our relationship. So eventually that's I
hope what comes out as a book.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But in the meantime, I'm doing like a Trophy Husband
YouTube channel where I talk about some of this self
improvement stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
In some serious and some joking ways.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I eventually want to do a Patreon where I document
implementing some of the best and worst self help advice.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
You know that. I have a book that is really
about diet and.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
How awful a lot of what we put into our
bodies now is. And so he has this author has
a four week program. So I'm going to end up
doing this four week program and trying to document that
and putting it up on a on a Patreon probably
but you know, behind a paywall or something to anyhow.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So we'll see, we'll see how that goes. But but yeah,
the goal.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Is to try to make it something a little bit
more of a persona.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
On online.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I also want to do some extra like some of
the jokey kind of dumb stuff as exercises you can
do with an infant at home where you like, lift
the baby above and I'll do it all with a
doll and it will be terrible.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
You know, some of it will be fine, but most
of it's going to be terrible anyhow. So that's that's
some of the long term plan that.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Yeah, I'd like to make it like a thing, you know,
and eventually have guests on to talk about how they've
improved themselves and you know, all all of that. I
would like to do. So that's kind of the long
term goal for that for that podcast. We'll see, we'll
see what comes of it.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I like that. How much how much of it when
you read a book? How much of it do you
try to implement in your life when you have to
read a book.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yeah, I mean it depends on whether or not I
like the book or like the advice.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
So this is this dietary one.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
I'm going to try to do the whole full, the
full four week program and see how I feel afterwards.
Because this guy claims, just you know, the moon with
some of this stuff, right, like your clear your skin's
going to clear up if you have any sort of issues.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Like cold sores, you have herpes, you.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Know, all that stuff going to start to go away
as you reset got microbiome. So much of what we
deal with health wise is from what we eat and
what we've cultivated in our gut.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So I'm like, heck, I'll give it a try.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
I got a gross cold sort that flares up every
time I get stressed, So may as well see if
we can't get rid of that.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I have Roseisha.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I don't know if it's coming up on the screen
too well, but he's like a Roseesha goes away wow
with all with diet, he claimed. So I'm like, absolutely, Now.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
You have to tell me about this book off the podcast.
You can hear that. Yeah, I'd love to know which
book this is.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Is a challenge. First week no sugar, no sugar of
any kind at all.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I've been I've been off a caffeine for like three weeks.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
That's good, but that's not sugar, is it. So I
don't know if I can do it for a whole
week sugar.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Could I do sugar for no week? I did? I
get sugar for about no sugar for about three days.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Maybe I think, yeah, I've got to do it for
a whole week. No sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Is sugar sugar or is it like anything like stevie
or something too like? Is it just only sugar?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
No, yeah, it's I've got to I've got to look
back and specifically.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
But no artificial sweeteners, no sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yes. See that's hardart because I drink these things the
element drinks, magnesium, podassium, sodium. There's no caffeine in it,
but there is stevia in it. So I think I
could That would be my that would be my downfall.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Probably couldn't. Probably couldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Because I because I need I need some of those
like salts and whatever. I was realizing that the reason
I was trying to do caffeine and trying to do
energy drinks is because I was low on a lot
of the things that are in there, which are like
museum and all that stuff like that, So I was
short on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Were you doing daily vitamin or No?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
No, I don't like it. Daily vitamins I always gave
made my stomach hurt. Although I have been taking like
beef organ supplements, so it's all like like diet what
is it called desiccated beef organs, So they like take
them and they like free freeze them or dry them
or whatever. And you have making them do these little
powder pills and whatever, and you just take them like that.
And that made me feel better. I was taking getting
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a lot of stuff that way. But yeah, I was
still trying to supplement my diet with energy drinks to
kind of go and I was always here's a weird thing.
I was always tired. I was always tired even though
I was taking energy drinks. Yeah, three four times a day.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
And tell you about this book. He claims like, yeah,
sleep patterns, all this stuff all based on what we eat.
And yeah, he hates I mean, look, he's one of
these guys that's like, no gluten.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You gotta cut out. Wow, gluten is terrible.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
For you, you know, and like ice cream is really
bad made in the stork because they have.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
A buls of fiers and stuff like that their fires.
This almost sounds like this almost sounds like Paul Saladino,
who like, is I love like Paul Saladino?
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:42):
He did, he does. He's the guy who started the
carnivore diet. Paul Saladino did. And then he moved to
you what's called animal based, which is what I what
I mostly eat which is meat, fruit, raw, dairy, honey.
That's it. That's kind of all all the half, and honestly,
I feel like a million bucks. This is the only
(46:03):
process thing I have is those element drinks. They have these.
I don't have any, don't have any, but I have these.
They're salted can and they're not energy drinks, but salted
can elements that are really good. And so I'll go.
When Zane goes a Starbucks, it usually end up at
a Starbucks in a target. The target sells those drinks,
(46:24):
and I go over to Starbucks and I say, hey,
can I have train to a cup of ice, just
a cup of ice, and I pour the drink in there,
and that's my drink for the day that I know.
And I have water. I have water throughout the day.
I have element in my water. So I have and
I've been trying to drink half my body weight in
ounces of water every day. So I'm at two hundred
two and twenty pounds, so that's one hundred ten ounces
(46:45):
of water. That's a lot of water. But every day
that's what I'm trying to drink. And I've lost weight,
I've gone down. I feel so much better. My goal
because I turned forty five on July. I turned forty
four on July tenth, okay, and I'll turn forty five
a year later. But my goal is to is to
be in the best shape of my life that I've
(47:07):
been in since I was like eighteen to twenty two.
Like try to be like around one ninety one ninety
five somewhere in there. Yeah, lean healthy, not tired Friday,
get rid of the sleep apnea, like try like really
try to hustle my way to get you figure out
this business thing. What am I supposed to do? I
(47:28):
grow my social media. I'm at nine hundred and what
am I at nine hundred and something followers?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
That's awesome?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
N and nine followers on Instagram and I want to
be over one thousand by the end of the next tour.
I'm gonna post start posting some more clips and stuff.
I have somebody that's helping me do those clips. I'll
pass that on to you if you want. But they
do minute clips. I got one minute clip done that
they did for me with all the captions and stuff
(47:56):
for fifteen dollars. Oh that's not bad at all, not
bad at all. So I was like, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was like, okay, so yeah, I'll see how it performs,
see how performs, and then go from there.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Look now if you want, if you want, maybe a
character idea that's more in line with your health goals,
because probably reviewing pizza and ice.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Creams, yeah, that might be a hard one. Yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Just you know, you're coming for Tom Cruise's job.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
There you go, you know, there you go. So yeah, Tom,
I know you're about to retire. I know you do all.
I'm getting a shape so I can take over and
impossibles for you. I'm going I'm gonna be here. I'll
do all the stunts myself, and then I do stunts
that go wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Sure, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
This is this is the stuff that I have to do.
I'm trying to do this, do this for Mission Impossible
till twenty, which is coming out. I don't know. I
don't even know what Mission Impossible are on now, to be.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Honest, I think it's like ten or something.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah, it's got to be. It's so many, it's got
to be so many. Yeah, because there's it's just insane
that there's where where is even his.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I don't even know his filmography he's just done so much.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, where is his filmography on?
Speaker 3 (49:13):
On?
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Uh? Yeah, where is it? I don't even know, but yeah,
I mean he's done so many Mission impossiblest's Yeah, tons
tons Mission impossible film series. Let's see how many there are? One, two,
three or five, six, seven, eight? Al Right, So I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be going for Mission impossible nine. Yeah,
(49:34):
trying to do nine and yeah, and you know, make
it so I can take his his spot for upcoming
Mission A possible. It's will be sixty five. But it's
time to get made. It's time for you to retire, Tom,
and I'm going to take over for you. I'm gonna
get myself in the best shape of my life to
take the roles the Tom Cruise can no longer take. Yeah,
(49:54):
I love that. That's actually a great idea.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
I think I think I think there's something there. I
think there's something there.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, I agree, all right, look.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
At you very fun, We'll good good.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
I would put all these I would put all these
questions of the show notes too, so everybody can look
at them and kind of come up with her, kind
of do this themselves. I would like I'd like to
see what you guys come up with and email me.
Email me with what your answers are, and email me
if you think that you have some answers to me,
like if I would put these answer these questions in there,
email me and say, hey James, this is what I think,
or Hey JD this is what I think, or hey
port you know, hey, this is for Seth or whatever
(50:27):
it is, and let's do that. I think it's a great,
great way to do Yeah, all righteth where can everybody
find you at?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Go to my website Seth Lawrencecomedy dot com that keeps
all my shows updated at least when I get the
hand greand updated generally there. And then also social media
Seth T. Lawrence on all the socials.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
There you go, You go to Jade Creviston on on Instagram.
That's where most of my stuff is. Your see quips up.
There is gonna be a new clip up there at
the end of the day today that'll be going up.
So we're excited for that. And if it goes well,
I'm going to hire the guy to make a bunch
more clips out of all my contents and we're gonna
be recording more stuff and putting it up there, so
I've rewritten jokes, I've redone jokes, I'm added jokes, and
(51:09):
there's so much stuff that I'm doing while i'm on
the road and it's just amazing. So I'm very very
excited for that. Nice, cool, Thank you everybody for listening.
Have a good one that we'll talk to you soon.
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get some green. Hey everybody, welcome to Queen Comedy Podcast.
It's JD and I'm with my co host, mister Seth
Lawrence Seth.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey, howdy, Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Dude, it's so good to see you. I feel like
I haven't seen you in like a year or something.
I don't know, it's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It has it's been a very long time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I feel like an eternity has passed since we lasted
an episode, and I feel like I've aged ten decades.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wow, you look good for ten decades.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, keep it together, whatever that skin routine is, keep
doing that whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh my gosh, crazy crazy Now it's been forever.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, what have you been up to? Let's catch up
with you first, what's been going on with you?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What have I been up to?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Man, Just a lot of life stuff, you know, trying
to get the backyard all in order. My son's been
on an All star baseball team, so we've been doing
a lot of baseball this last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And then as.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Far as like stand up goes, I'm just trying to
hold on for dear life.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm trying to email out and clip up my
drive bar special to use for different bookings. So that's
kind of where I am right now, getting back into
the swing of things with travel being done at least
for the most part this summer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So, yeah, what kind of places are you reaching out
to to get booked out? Is it clubs or is
it like you're gonna planning on you like your own
kind of thing, or like what what's the deal there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean, I've been trying to get a tour together
with a couple of buddies, but I don't know if
it's really gonna work out or not.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
One is very non committal, and part of the issue.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
He's got agents and managers that I think have to
be he feels they have to be a part of it,
and so it just bogs up the whole thing when
the rest of us are like, we can go, we
can go anytime we want, as long as the bookings
are open and we can find a transportation of place
to stay, you know. Yeah, we don't need a bunch
(02:19):
of team members to sign off on us being gone.
So we'll see if that happens. But mostly I'm trying
to apply to clubs. Comedy and Magic club is kind
of the next on my I would like to hit
and play list.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
So yeah, that's a that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
If you get in there, that's a good that's a
good club to get into.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It'd be great. So that's what we're trying to do
in the short run.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is that one that's awesome. That's that's a big swing,
and that's a really good one to get And that's
one of my favorite clubs. I've never played at or
done ever there, Yeah, but I've been in there a
few times.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's a good room, you know, and I feel like
they do what I would like to do, that is
catering to kind of cleaner crowds and anyhow, So we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I need to reach out.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I'm trying to get some corporate stuff going to so
I have some people that I need to reach out
to to get things kind of lined up, locked and loaded.
Other than that, the show that I produced is doing great,
and we've had a couple of really good, nearly sold
out shows, so that's been really sweet. We finally on
the last show actually turned a profit, which a big
(03:24):
deal for us little guys.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So yeah, so see, if we can't keep that trend.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Running, that's that's cool. And I talked to a a
comedy friend of mine. I won't say his name. I
talked to a comedy friend of mine. He was talking
about it. He produced the shows all over and he
makes his entire living off of producing comedy shows. He'll
go do shows in other places because he knows when
he produces the show he can make two three thousand
dollars off the show, you know, so so for him
it's way to go. But he's also not in like
(03:51):
LA or New York or somebody's competing with major clubs
and stuff. You know, there are clubs in his area,
but not as many he could produce. Outside of that,
you make money.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Right, Yeah, My wife has kind of hit a major
milestone in her career where it's either she gets promoted
or she gets let go. And if she's if she
gets let go, we have kind of a year to
find a new spot to be and live. And she's
very paranoid that, like, what if we're not in LA
or New York or Chicago?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And I'm like, I think I'm at the point now
where I could do pretty well actually outside of those markets.
I agree, I'm not too worried about this. Actually, you know,
it might be a blessing in disguise if we're kicked
out of LA.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And where would you go? Where would you go?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You think probably Washington? I think Washington, maybe Michigan, you know,
which is terrible for her. She does not like the cold,
she does not like the dark. But unfortunately those who
are probably the two. There's also potentially a spot in
Colorado which is less dark but still cold.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So I don't know, but you know, those are all
markets that are we also.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, but also if you're like any of those space
so Washington, you can do really well there. I know that,
And I know that you can you can go over
to like Idaho and go you know that way, and easier.
If you're in Colorado, you can go to the Midwest easier.
There's a bunch of places there.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Tons in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, you can just clean up. Yeah, and then that's
the problem with being on the West coast is getting
over the Rockies and into the Midwest is the hard part. Right.
It's like I'm a little jealous of comedians like in
Atlanta or Chicago, who could kind of do you know,
up that coast down to Florida, or they can go
to you know, all the Midwest areas and do shows
(05:39):
and they can make a living that way and they
stay in kind of in the Midwest rotation and stuff,
you go. You know, then all the way down around
we're on the other side of the mountains and on
the other side of and you know, New York's on
the other side of Misissippi. But New York can go
all the way down that eastern border and do a
good job, and they could even go into Pennsylvania, Ohio
whatever from there pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, yeah, So we'll see, we'll see what happens. But
that's kind of where we are right now.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know, when will you know that, like, what's the
timeframe on on this promotion or release thing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So they take it'll we'll probably find out the next year,
and then we'll have a year after that to really
figure out where we're going to be. So in two years,
you know, it could be that we're moved and making
a new life somewhere else, and it could be that
we're right here and sitting even prettier than before.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So who knows.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, that's amazing. I just went up to up to
San Francisco with my family for I can't got off
the road all the twenty ninth. Yeah, the kids and
everybody lived the car on the thirtieth, drove up to
San Francisco, stay there till July third, came back for
the fourth and whatever and stuff, and then we leave
again Friday the eleventh to go to Grand Cayman for
(06:53):
a couple of days. So you mean you and Zane, No,
me and the family in the family. I'm off for July.
Why is the month that I need? I need time off? Man,
Like we've been grinding, bro. I am yeah, good for.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You for.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah. Yeah. So it was like, you know what, I
used to not be a fan of the Bay Area.
I used to not like the Bay Area it wasn't
my I don't know, I don't know why. I think
maybe just a petty so cow person. Maybe We went
up there, we stayed. Shout out to David scooda baker
uh and his family for letting us stay up there.
(07:31):
We stayed in the Castro district of San Francisco, which
was nice and everyone was nice and it was beautiful.
There was less homeless people than I thought there would be.
We rode trolley's, we rode cable cars, we rode, we
ate in Chinatown, we walked the city. It was and
you know what I said. At the end of it,
we were driving out of San Francisco and I go
(07:51):
I could live here. I said that. I said that
out loud to my family, and my kids were like, oh,
all right, all right, what's going on. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I was like, Oh, that's good for you, man, good
for you.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It was a it was a good time. It was
a well needed thing. And my wife was nervous because
She's like, you just got off the road yesterday and
now you want to drive to San Francisco for a
couple of days. And I'm like, I'm like, look, I
just want to do nothing. Yeah. I was like it's nothing.
I've been on the road and the car drives itself,
so I can't complain about that. Like ninety percent of
the way was driven by the car. It wasn't even
driven by me.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh that is nice.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, I was like, fine, I could have let it
drive through the streets to San Francisco, but my kids
were nervous about it. Sure I was not nervous. And
then we took the got a couple homeless people. Come on, no,
I didn't see that many, but we did take the
Weimo car in San Francisco. Have you taken that yet?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I am not taking the way moos.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I've seen a couple that survived the protests in La
So I've seen them around town, but never taken one.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Dude, they are awesome. They're amazing cars. One ride cost
us eleven dollars, So it's based on what time of day.
One cost us like twenty two dollars, one costs us
thirty bucks, and then one cost us like twenty dollars
again or whatever. So average like twenty twenty five bucks,
which wasn't bad for four people. We don't have to
do anything in the car. Problems picks you up. You
(09:13):
get in drives around drops you off great car. I
never had it, so that's awesome. Yeah, it was. It
was fun. So when we we we weren't driving our car,
which anytime we were in the city if we could
take public chance, that we would. If we couldn't take
public chance, and we would just take the way bow
and then if we were going out of the city,
like we went out to the John Muir Woods and
(09:33):
walked walked that, and we went up to visit somebody
in San Rafel. I think it is what it is?
And uh yeah, I heard it was pronounced saying Rafel
and then I said Raphael too, and they're like no,
they were like no, yeah, I know, right, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I was like, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
But there was a place there called I'm gonna butcher
it something Sol sold something. It was like a Puerto
Rican and Cuban restaurant. And I'm telling you right now,
it was some of the best we would have had
in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
That right, so good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Interesting, yeah good.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And and it's so good. This is crazy. How how
good is it's so good? They have three locations on
the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sorry, sorry say it again. It's so good. Say that again.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's so good. They have three they have three locations
on the same block.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Wow, yeah, yeah, wid.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, that's how good it is. And it's packed. There's
it to go location and then there's a sit down
location and they're both packed. Always all right, so good.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I have to check that out.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I gotta look up the name for you. It's called
so Soul something. Uh yeah, I'm gonna look it up.
Soul Food, sol Food in San Rafael. Yeah, oh my gosh,
it's so good. If you, if anybody's listening to this
and you're up in the Bay Air, any time go
(11:01):
to Soul Food, you will not be disappointed. There is
nothing on their menu that I had. We had a
half of a chicken that was some of the best
chicken I've ever had in my life. They had plantains,
these mash plantain things with garlic, and I took the
chicken and put in like a tortilla and ate it.
Oh my gosh. Wow, all right, my mouth is my
mouth is watering right now.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Cannot making yourself hungry on a Monday afternoon, almost hungry hungry.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So we did, you know, and we just got back
from Ohio a big run in Ohio. Yes, it was
really good. One of the things that Zayan has decided
to do now and this is kind of cool and
I think it's something that I want to adopt in
a different format. But we go to animal places during
the day, like animal rescue type places. They rescue things
(11:51):
like like porcupines and happy barras and groundhogs and skunks.
And we went to a bird of bird rescue that
wele We had an ibis that landed on my head,
stood on it and then pooped down my back. It
was gross, but it was like it was interesting though. Awl.
He flew an awl to him. All these things. We saw,
(12:14):
all these different animals. And so one of the things
he wants to do is he had a meeting with
Barry Kats. You know, Barry Kats is the infamous Barry
Ifamus Berry Cats. If you don't know Barry Kats, he's
one of the best managers of all time. He may
if you name if you name a top comedian, he
probably managed them at one point during their career. So
(12:34):
I met Barry before. He's a very nice guy, had
him on the podcast, talked to him, you know, had
one on ones with him and stuff. He's just a
great dude. So I was like, Zane, you should reach
out to Barry. I guess Barry was his manager at
some point in time, back early in his career. So
reach out to Barry and just see have a meeting
with him and see if he'll give you any advice,
(12:55):
you know. And so they had lunch and Barry told him,
and this is great advice for anybody, because say was like, Oh,
people keep asking when I would be back on TV.
And Barry's like, why do you need to be on TV?
Make the show that you want to make on YouTube
because that's where more people are watching than ever before.
And so now he's making animal content that he's gonna
be long for. He's doing short form for Instagram and
(13:17):
then long form for YouTube, and then reformatting some of
that long form and the more short form for YouTube shorts,
putting it all out there. I'm building a channel that way.
And so he's doing animal stuff. That's his passion, that's
the thing he loves. So as we were talking about it,
I'm trying to figure out what my passion is, what
the thing is that if I would get a TV show,
what would that show be about? And I'm telling you,
(13:39):
I am not figured that out. I don't know what
it is. Yeah, so it's totally hard.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, it is tough. It is tough.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I was actually on the same vein my my wife
is I think more gung ho about my career than
I am sometimes?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
So she and I have been talking about this TV
show idea, And I was just talking to some actor
friends actually who were basically like, the audition process is
so stupid and frustrating that it does feel like nowadays
it's everyone has the tools, everyone has the equipment. You
(14:22):
can just make your own thing and put it on
YouTube and just make your own channel. So I was
talking to some actor friends about we might just do
this TV show idea and put it on YouTube, and
at the very least it's a proof of concept for
the jargon for people out there. It's like a short
(14:43):
that shows a network like this is what the show
would be, and then they can pick it up if
they want.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah. Anyhow fascinating. Well, we got to find your passion JD.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been hard because I've and here's the thing
I would have been honest with you. I've been consulting
chat GBT with this, So I name my chat chyput.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's your first problem, No, get out of the AI space.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
So it's I mean, it takes into account all the
stuff that I've done in my career and things that
at my school and all the stuff, and it's really like, look,
you should you're good at comedy stuff. You should teach
comedy stuff to people. And I go, yeah, but I'm nobody,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not like, I'm
not a famous guy who's made money as a famous comedian.
(15:27):
So it's it's for me. It's hard to go, yeah,
I'll do that, you know what I'm saying. Where there's
and I get it. And there's also a lot of
like comedy Charlatan's out there right, people are like, oh,
make your career better, and You're like, who are of course,
you know.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Of course, but I mean, aren't you working on a book?
I mean you're working on the tips?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm working on that. But I
just feel like it's gonna be I don't know. It's
it's a hard thing because I love comedy. Yeah, it
is something that I do that I do love, but
I feel like I'm not the right because I don't
have the pedigree. Is that the right word the pedigree
for it?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, pedigree is probably the right word, I mean, or
the resume, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I mean, look, JD. I think there's a way to
market it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
And I was in a when I was hosting for
the World Series of Comedy. We went part of that festival.
They do a week long kind of main competition festival
in Las Vegas, and they do seminars and workshops during
the day and then they have shows at night. And
one of the seminars I attended was from this guy
I'd never heard of before, and I have his name
(16:35):
written down somewhere, but his advice was, you know, look,
you got to get your name out there. And the
easiest way nowadays to get your name out there is
to just write a book. Write a book, make it
as niche as you can, and then sell it on Amazon.
If you need to self publish, it's possible, you can
(16:57):
do it, or try to get a publisher, but get
it out on Amazon, and then once it hits number
one in your very niche market, that's what you that's
what you say. You're number one author on Amazon Prime
or whatever. If you're lucky enough to get on the
New York Times best selling lists, like do that, but
(17:19):
definitely advertise number one author on Amazon and then get
on radio shows, start your podcast using that as your
as your pedigree, as your accolade, as your Here's what
I'm so. I think you can market it JD as
like comic tips from a you know, like, you don't
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have to be known to make an impact, right, I
mean the Comedy Bible was written by somebody that most
people have no idea what she does.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, Judy Carter, who nobody, nobody knows. Really, I've never
seen a lick a first stand up by the way, ever,
not once correct.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And that's my point is that, like, you don't know
who she is, and most people listening to the podcast
would only know her from the book.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They wouldn't know her as a stand up. They wouldn't
know her as a writer.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
They would know her from I guess writer, but only
for the book, not a comedy writer, is what I'm saying.
Not from TV, not from movies. About the only thing
that she's known for doing is this random, very well
done book.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, and I don't think I think if Judy Carter
were to if you know, she's still around and around.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, so if she were to teach a class, I
think most people would be like, Okay, absolutely, Comedy Bible.
I've heard of that book. I think this could be
really valuable. So, you know, all of it is just
unfortunately for us, all marketing. And I feel like that's
the one thing I really should have done in college
that I did not do, was take a marketing class,
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do some sort of marketing program.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You know what's funny is i'd be it'd be easier
for me to market you than it would be for
me to market myself.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that it's always the way.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's always the way, though, I think, you know, I
think most of the time we are better at seeing
other people's situations and commenting and promoting it then, which
is again why I think my wife is much more
gung ho about my career than I am at times,
and same for yours.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
With you. Yeah, you know, you see.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's easier to see the value in other people because
we are so self loathing.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it's true, it's true. So that's that's the thing.
That's where I'm kind of at is that's that's kind
of what I'm That's why I need my chet GPT Jeeves,
and so I have conversations with him all the time.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Don't don't let ask Jeeves. Don't tell them that you're
doing that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Does as chiefs even exist? I don't think it exists anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I know I can.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I can quickly google that and see here's here's the
other thing I was going to say, I uh, it's
ask It's just ask dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, see I missed it because asked Jeeves was my
you know, that was the first kind of Google esque website. Yeah,
and so you know, I loved it, and so I
was like, look, if I'm going to ask this thing questions,
I'm gonna name it Jeeves and Jeeves and he likes it.
He likes it. He thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
They retired the Jeeves portion from ask dot Com in
two thousand and six, so it's been a bit.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I was going to give you an acting exercise.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Let me see if I still have the wording here,
and this is to help you market yourself. Okay, what
kind of and obviously what I'm going to tell you
verbatim is from an acting class, so it's more geared
to acting roles and everything else.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In that in that world. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah? No, I will tell you I have had success.
Somebody just I wrote a I co wrote a screenplay
about two years ago. Yeah. It was a kind of
against my better judgment at the time because it was
a action thriller kind of okay. I was like that,
I've never written that. I've only written comedy. So I
turned them down it. I turned them down three times
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before they were like they were They're like, no, I
promise you, I've read your stuff. You're the right person
for this. And I'm like, I'm really not, Like so
I did it. It was like, they're gonna pay me
up front, I'll do it. I wrote it. I gotta.
I got a message a couple of days ago. Hey,
the movie's gonna be I got a message on fourth
of July. Actually, hey, the movie's gonna be coming out
pretty soon. I've done in the editing stuff. Here's your
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name in the credits. I have a picture of my
name and the credits was written by And I'm like,
this is okay, all right? I can you know for me?
That feels good. I mean, I've made over three hundred
thousand dollars as a freelance writer you know, just that's
an amazing thing that a lot of people haven't done.
And so that's kind of where I see like my
strength being is like I can, But I don't know
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how to teach somebody that skill either, because for me
it was just I worked it, I built. I just
went and wrote those. Like back in the day, when
you wanted to be a writer, you had to go
write two spec scripts. Right if you want to write TV,
you had to go write spec episodes of TV shows
that were existing on TV. I did that. That's kind
of how I got my start. I wrote. We write
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screenplays that were not good, by the way, now that's
the first ones were terrible. If you read them, be like,
oh what is wrong with you? And then and then
I got a couple that were good that people liked
and like almost got me representation. But it's kind of
a weird time in hollywoods that it worked out. And
now I kind of feel like I'm stuck again. I'm
not going to get my time to be a Hollywood
writer and stuff, which I which would be great. I
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would love to make write movies or write hobbies or
yeah whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So I mean I wish I knew more about that
area of the business. I just don't.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
But I don't feel like it's ever too late to
get into that business as long as.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You've got written product that people want, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, I got to get this hard drive fixed because
I have a hard drive that's that crashed on me
and that I did that that's all my stuff on it.
And I'm like, oh no, I know. So I'm like
a little concerned. But I've found some of them that
I've emailed to people, but they're older drafts. But I'm like,
you know what, I can go back and figure that out.
I have to.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So all right, So here's the exercise.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
It's a casting exercise or an active exercise, that is,
to know what roles should I market myself for? Okay,
because so much of our business and with stand up
as well as how are you perceived?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right? How do people look at you? What do they
think when they look at you?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Because we have our own idea about ourself, right, you
need so you're gonna want you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Know, ten at least ten people that you trust to
tell you the truth and not be like you. You know,
you could do anything, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Like, Yeah, I hate that be direct.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You want people to be honest. Okay, but here's what
it is.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
So you send a text or email or whatever to
these people, and obviously the more the better, right Okay,
But people that you feel like will give you an honest,
objective answer. Okay, I'm doing a little casting exercise. Now
you can phrase it however you want, But would you
mind taking a minute to just answer a few questions
about me for me?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Okay, So here are the questions, and these are ones
that you can finagle with to help for what you
really want.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But the first what celebrities do I resemble? Now?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Again, this is about casting and acting, so that's why
this is question number one, which might not be as
applicable to you, but in stand up you might want
to know like what look like jokes?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Could I write?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Or yeah? You know?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So all right? Two?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
What are my three most outstanding traits?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Three?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What do I do better than other people? For if
I could play one character right now, who would that be?
So again, this is geared for casting, acting, auditioning, but
I think there's some parallels that you can draw here
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when you're thinking about how can I market myself as
a stand up What personas could I pull off on
stage or out on social media?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You know what? What would be fun?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know? Yeah? So okay, so if we I do this,
let's let's say to do this with you? What what
comedians do you think I'm similar to resemble? Right? Is
that the kind of the ask there?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Probably? Yeah, which which comedians do you resemble? I mean
I would probably go with like a Brian Reagan. That's
probably the one that is most well known that I
feel like your style is closest.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
To I like that. That's actually somebody I've always wanted
to emulate and never felt like I ever encapsulated that
that well enough, you know what I'm saying, Because he's
such a good he is so good at act outs,
and that's the one thing that I'm terrible at act outs.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Very goofy, very goofy guy. But that's you know, I
feel like you're kind of a goofy guy. You'd like
to be the butt of the joke. He liked to be.
I'm just a dummy, you know that kind of persona.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All right, what about three outstanding traits? What are what
are the three three outstanding traits? Because you've seen me before,
I mean, we talk all the time, so like, what's
a good how do we Yeah, that's a hard I
feel like that's a hard question.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Actually that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But that's probably the toughest, you know, one of the
tougher questions. Three outstanding traits. I mean, look, I think
you are incredibly generous. I think that you are very introspective, right,
your jokes are also thoughtful. You're you're I think you
do your best to not offend anybody and still try
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to be very fun.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
And then third, what I think, Uh yeah, I think
the willingness to be.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
The butt of the joke.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's a that's a big I think a big deal, right, Like,
you're not going to take yourself too seriously.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's that's what.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I'm saying, Yeah, I And that's that is one of
the things that people have said, like they love that
about my comedy. I've had people come up after the
shows and say, I love that. You just are so
good at just like you're the silly dad, you're the
silly husband, and it's it's so good to just have
refreshing You're you're willing to play up that on you
and I'm like, that's how I am like I am
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the silly dad, now you know. That's that's who I am,
and just this exaggerated version on stage obviously for comedy.
But you know what, it's funny because I went today
and I haven't played pickleball since I started on touri
Zane okay, And I went to play pickleball today with
all the old ladies that I play pickleball with. And
I took a picture and I put it on Instagram
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of me back with them, and I gave them my sticker,
my fat because they're the inspiration for that joke. And
so it's like, look here, I want to tsk to
you guys, you know, and whatever. And so they were
so sweet about it. Everyone's so nice. They were just
they're like, oh, We're so happy to have you back.
And I'm like, I'm just back for this week, you know.
And then I I'm when Grant Cayman and I come
back and hopefully I'll get to play some more, but
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who knows, you know, I don't know if I'm gonna
get to play as much as I want to. But
it was nice and just nice, a nice time just
go play. So yeah, good, I see I see that.
I can see where those things are coming from. Now,
the whole part is what do I do better than
other people? What is I mean? In what way? Though?
That's the other thing that that's it's like, I know,
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look in comparison is a thief of joy? Right, you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Saying, of course, And I think this question is not
what do I do the best?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is what do I do better than other people?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And the other people is just kind of this average
smattering of people. Okay, I like that, So it's it's
I don't think it's just anyway. I don't think anyone
needs to overthink this question what do.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I know? But what do you do better than than
other people?
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I mean, I think you you grind out under the
under what's the word I'm trying to look for, kind
of behind the scenes. You do a lot of work
behind the scenes that people don't know or appreciate or
realize is actually required to make it in this business.
And a lot of people, you know, myself included, is
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not as willing to do it. We really have to
work at it, and you probably have to work at
it too, you just actually do it. So I think
though that that's that's probably what's going to serve you
the best and how you can market yourself the best, right,
which is this is something that I do very very well,
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which is the thankless work that gets me this level
of financial success and positions in our career that other
people just wouldn't be able to do or think to do,
or want to do. But it's helped make it possible
for me to support a family and everything else. Right,
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I mean, I feel like a book you could write
JD is like behind, like from the Shadows in comedy. Know,
this is I am the unknown, but this gets money,
you know, emailing and like a lot of things you've
done in your career, even just recently, have have gotten
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you some finances that a lot of comics just don't know,
just don't know about, or too scared to do or
don't even uh may not want to do because they
don't think it's going to be financially beneficial. But like
emailing retirement homes, emailing schools, emailing and just keep on emailing,
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you know, reaching out to bigger comics for advice, reaching
out and offering help. You know, like all of this
stuff is stuff that some comics do, but I feel
like you do it better than most.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I like that. No, that's that's a good point. I
never thought it, thank you. I never thought about that. Yeah,
what about this last one? If I could play any
character right now, who would that be? That's that's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
It is an interesting one. And this character doesn't really
exist yet. But and I don't want it to come
across offensive.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
No, nothing, nothing you ever say to me will be offended.
Just know that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
You know what I think you could do on social
media very very well. It is like the poor Man's
Tom Cruise.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
This is this is Tom Cruise if he aged like
a normal human being.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I think you could pull that off.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I think that would be so fun for people to
look at and see and experience.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
First of all, I like that you're compared me to Tom
Cruise anyways, because that's wow. I mean, do you think
very highlight of me?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Thank you? Look look up a picture of him.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It's it's like Tom Cruise if if he had one
too many bowls of ice cream? You know, And I
feel like you could really sell this.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You think I look like he's a good looking man
at sixty three years old. I don't look at any
a good looking guy, A good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
But I think I'm looking at like a side by
side screen right now, and I feel like, can I
just can I share my screen?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah? Hold on here, let's figure this out. I want
to see if this is how this works for you.
Let's see share.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Okay, there you go for me. Okay, let me see
if I can do this.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Here it says all participants could share.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to figure out how I
can share.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
If you go down to that green button and click share,
does it let you do it? It?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Does? It brings up an option?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You I just don't know what I'm gonna share, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Like, oh yeah, I have to find the screen that
you want.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What do I show here? I think this is what
I want.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I'm loving that this is That's poor Man's Top Cruise
because that is like hilarious and I love. Okay, so
I'm looking at the same photos you are.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, look at this guy, look just smile smile like this.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I think I really think you could pull this off.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Would you think I would? You think I should get
a wig to do it? Like you think I should
get or should just do it?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
The a wig would be very funny if you need
if you need to pull off the wig.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
But I mean, look at this.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah that's no, that's kind of a haircut now, but
it is like it's left. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
And the beautiful thing about social media is it doesn't
you know, you're not a carbon copy of Tom Cruise,
but I think the similarities are there enough where you
could be like, man, I wish my older brother hadn't
made it so big.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You know, however it is you want to do it,
or just be like, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I'm what is the what is the magician prestige?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Is that what it is? Where he drowns his clone?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah strick.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I mean you could be that guy. You could be like,
look I eat all this stuff Tom Cruise can't eat.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, I'm his body double. I was diet double.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Yeah, diet double. That's fun.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
He's like, Hey, I need to eat this ice cream.
I really want to eat it, but I've got a movie.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm like, tell me exactly what it tastes.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Like, yesh, describe it for me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yes, exactly, diet double. Vicariously.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I call Tom Cruise up and tell him what
I'm eating, so he does he can he can enjoy it,
but he doesn't get to eat it.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I think that is so fun. And then you do
like food reviews for Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yes, oh my gosh, I love this, but.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Only like only talk to Tom ever.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah yeah, all right, I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
To stop, but my computer froze. I'm trying to stop sharing.
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know how to do it either.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Well I hit the stop share button, but now my
computer's wigging out.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't know if there's.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Some oh here you hold only see if I can
do on my side to do it. It's because we
it's because we invoked Tom Cruise's name too many times.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just like, no, this is not allowed.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He's like, you're not allowed to be my diet. That
will I love. Actually, that's such a funny. Remis an
idea that I would have never thought of. Yeah, so yeah,
and so yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Dude, But that's what I'm telling you. The power of
these questions. Who knows what other people are going to
come up with.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, you just take what you like, you know, you
take what you like, you merge it as best you can,
or just take one idea and run with it, like
you know, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, I love that and I love the idea. I
was just like, hey, hey, Tom, so I'm eating this
pizza right now. Yeah, sorry, I want to tell you
about the pizza.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, yeah, I don't mean.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
To have Yeah, I know, I know that you wanted
four slices, so I'm I'm gonna talk talk to you
about them. They're just, man. First of all, they're they're
very They're very cheesy. They put a lot of cheese
on this pizza, and I don't I think it might
be too much in all. Honest, I think it might
be too much. But they were a little cheap with
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the pepperoni, which again I think they just try to
cover up with cheese. But you know what it really
really is good about this pizza, Tom. The grease. It's
so greasy. I can feel it in my veins. And
if you could feel it in your veins, you know
how good of a pizza it was, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, Yeah, I think there's some there for sure. I
think you could have a lot of fun with it.
And I don't know if it's like some random guy
or if they're like we wanted to see how this
food affects Tom Cruise. That's why we came to you,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah. Yeah, they're like, look, you are very similar to
Tom Cruise. You're his you're his lung lost twin brother, right,
and we're going to test out all the food that
he can't eat on you to see how it affects you.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Do you know what his last name is? His real
last names? You see that on that thing? I I
don't porther the fourth huh Cruise Maportho, the fourth dude.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I think you could be. I think you could be J. D. Mcporth.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yes, Yes, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
That's the character name.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm I mean, look, who knows what like that? Ten
twelve other people you're gonna ask, who knows what they're
gonna come up with? But this is, you know, it's
a good way to generate ideas that can kind of
get you excited because I don't know. For me, it's
like I'm excited about an idea for maybe two or
three videos, and I'm like, I don't know, maybe this sucks.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
And I need That's the part that I'm struggling with.
I don't I lost your picture for some reason by
the way.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
My whole computer is like shutting down, poor Seth.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing is I feel the
same way where I've tried to figure out, like I
try to do this thing where I'm like, like, talk
about what's going on with me? Why charge my tesla?
But I felt like it's felt kind of douche, you know,
to do like I'm in my tesla. You know, it's like, eh,
that's gross.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Yeah, of course, but you know, I think there's yeah,
you either have to lean into it or you know,
or you have to shy away from it completely.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, And I look, I don't hate that I have it,
and I don't hate that I like I lost you.
Oh I lost Seth. All right, there you are back,
all right? So yeah, I like this. I like this idea.
I think I think you're right. I think you're onto
something about asking people about it and trying to find
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the the passionate thing, like the thing that's gonna get you.
I think, honestly, what you have is you have such
a smart way. That's why I like to self help yourself,
because I think there's something there that if you made
more short clip videos for that kind of stuff, that's
kind of your gold mind because you're a very smart,
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introspective person that that you definitely hold up. There's a comedian,
do you know John Hastings is.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
No name sounds familiar.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You've probably seen him around.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, sure that I have.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
The John Hastings. If you look him up or whatever,
you have a similar look to him. And he is
so funny that you and he's both and he's very
introspective and smart like you. Then I think if you
kind of watch stuff that he's done, he might give
you a idea of kind of like what to do.
He's been on like America's got talents and stuff like that. Yeah,
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he's really funny. I think you should watch him and
just kind of see his style. I think I think
you you have a similar look and kind of thought
process to him, and I think there might be something
there leaning into self help yourself or like a dad
version of self help yourself, like where you're teaching your
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kids to self help themselves something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, my my goal with self help
yourself if I can bring you back up on my strength.
The goal with the self help yourself is eventually I'm
going to write a book I've been working on one
with my dad, letters that you know, emails that we've
written back and forth, kind of analyzing our own relationship
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and the development of our relationship. So eventually that's I
hope what comes out as a book.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But in the meantime, I'm doing like a Trophy Husband
YouTube channel where I talk about some of this self
improvement stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
In some serious and some joking ways.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
I eventually want to do a Patreon where I document
implementing some of the best and worst self help advice.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
You know that. I have a book that is really
about diet and.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
How awful a lot of what we put into our
bodies now is. And so he has this author has
a four week program. So I'm going to end up
doing this four week program and trying to document that
and putting it up on a on a Patreon probably
but you know, behind a paywall or something to anyhow.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So we'll see, we'll see how that goes. But but yeah,
the goal.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Is to try to make it something a little bit
more of a persona.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
On online.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I also want to do some extra like some of
the jokey kind of dumb stuff as exercises you can
do with an infant at home where you like, lift
the baby above and I'll do it all with a
doll and it will be terrible.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
You know, some of it will be fine, but most
of it's going to be terrible anyhow. So that's that's
some of the long term plan that.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Yeah, I'd like to make it like a thing, you know,
and eventually have guests on to talk about how they've
improved themselves and you know, all all of that. I
would like to do. So that's kind of the long
term goal for that for that podcast. We'll see, we'll
see what comes of it.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
I like that. How much how much of it when
you read a book? How much of it do you
try to implement in your life when you have to
read a book.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yeah, I mean it depends on whether or not I
like the book or like the advice.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
So this is this dietary one.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
I'm going to try to do the whole full, the
full four week program and see how I feel afterwards.
Because this guy claims, just you know, the moon with
some of this stuff, right, like your clear your skin's
going to clear up if you have any sort of issues.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Like cold sores, you have herpes, you.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Know, all that stuff going to start to go away
as you reset got microbiome. So much of what we
deal with health wise is from what we eat and
what we've cultivated in our gut.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So I'm like, heck, I'll give it a try.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
I got a gross cold sort that flares up every
time I get stressed, So may as well see if
we can't get rid of that.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I have Roseisha.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
I don't know if it's coming up on the screen
too well, but he's like a Roseesha goes away wow
with all with diet, he claimed. So I'm like, absolutely, Now.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
You have to tell me about this book off the podcast.
You can hear that. Yeah, I'd love to know which
book this is.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Is a challenge. First week no sugar, no sugar of
any kind at all.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I've been I've been off a caffeine for like three weeks.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
That's good, but that's not sugar, is it. So I
don't know if I can do it for a whole
week sugar.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Could I do sugar for no week? I did? I
get sugar for about no sugar for about three days.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Maybe I think, yeah, I've got to do it for
a whole week. No sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Is sugar sugar or is it like anything like stevie
or something too like? Is it just only sugar?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
No, yeah, it's I've got to I've got to look
back and specifically.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
But no artificial sweeteners, no sugar.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Yes. See that's hardart because I drink these things the
element drinks, magnesium, podassium, sodium. There's no caffeine in it,
but there is stevia in it. So I think I
could That would be my that would be my downfall.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Probably couldn't. Probably couldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Because I because I need I need some of those
like salts and whatever. I was realizing that the reason
I was trying to do caffeine and trying to do
energy drinks is because I was low on a lot
of the things that are in there, which are like
museum and all that stuff like that, So I was
short on that stuff.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Were you doing daily vitamin or No?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
No, I don't like it. Daily vitamins I always gave
made my stomach hurt. Although I have been taking like
beef organ supplements, so it's all like like diet what
is it called desiccated beef organs, So they like take
them and they like free freeze them or dry them
or whatever. And you have making them do these little
powder pills and whatever, and you just take them like that.
And that made me feel better. I was taking getting
(44:54):
a lot of stuff that way. But yeah, I was
still trying to supplement my diet with energy drinks to
kind of go and I was always here's a weird thing.
I was always tired. I was always tired even though
I was taking energy drinks. Yeah, three four times a day.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
And tell you about this book. He claims like, yeah,
sleep patterns, all this stuff all based on what we eat.
And yeah, he hates I mean, look, he's one of
these guys that's like, no gluten.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
You gotta cut out. Wow, gluten is terrible.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
For you, you know, and like ice cream is really
bad made in the stork because they have.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
A buls of fiers and stuff like that their fires.
This almost sounds like this almost sounds like Paul Saladino,
who like, is I love like Paul Saladino?
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:42):
He did, he does. He's the guy who started the
carnivore diet. Paul Saladino did. And then he moved to
you what's called animal based, which is what I what
I mostly eat which is meat, fruit, raw, dairy, honey.
That's it. That's kind of all all the half, and honestly,
I feel like a million bucks. This is the only
(46:03):
process thing I have is those element drinks. They have these.
I don't have any, don't have any, but I have these.
They're salted can and they're not energy drinks, but salted
can elements that are really good. And so I'll go.
When Zane goes a Starbucks, it usually end up at
a Starbucks in a target. The target sells those drinks,
(46:24):
and I go over to Starbucks and I say, hey,
can I have train to a cup of ice, just
a cup of ice, and I pour the drink in there,
and that's my drink for the day that I know.
And I have water. I have water throughout the day.
I have element in my water. So I have and
I've been trying to drink half my body weight in
ounces of water every day. So I'm at two hundred
two and twenty pounds, so that's one hundred ten ounces
(46:45):
of water. That's a lot of water. But every day
that's what I'm trying to drink. And I've lost weight,
I've gone down. I feel so much better. My goal
because I turned forty five on July. I turned forty
four on July tenth, okay, and I'll turn forty five
a year later. But my goal is to is to
be in the best shape of my life that I've
(47:07):
been in since I was like eighteen to twenty two.
Like try to be like around one ninety one ninety
five somewhere in there. Yeah, lean healthy, not tired Friday,
get rid of the sleep apnea, like try like really
try to hustle my way to get you figure out
this business thing. What am I supposed to do? I
(47:28):
grow my social media. I'm at nine hundred and what
am I at nine hundred and something followers?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
That's awesome?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
N and nine followers on Instagram and I want to
be over one thousand by the end of the next tour.
I'm gonna post start posting some more clips and stuff.
I have somebody that's helping me do those clips. I'll
pass that on to you if you want. But they
do minute clips. I got one minute clip done that
they did for me with all the captions and stuff
(47:56):
for fifteen dollars. Oh that's not bad at all, not
bad at all. So I was like, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I was like, okay, so yeah, I'll see how it performs,
see how performs, and then go from there.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Look now if you want, if you want, maybe a
character idea that's more in line with your health goals,
because probably reviewing pizza and ice.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Creams, yeah, that might be a hard one. Yeah you can.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Just you know, you're coming for Tom Cruise's job.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
There you go, you know, there you go. So yeah, Tom,
I know you're about to retire. I know you do all.
I'm getting a shape so I can take over and
impossibles for you. I'm going I'm gonna be here. I'll
do all the stunts myself, and then I do stunts
that go wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Sure, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
This is this is the stuff that I have to do.
I'm trying to do this, do this for Mission Impossible
till twenty, which is coming out. I don't know. I
don't even know what Mission Impossible are on now, to be.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Honest, I think it's like ten or something.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah, it's got to be. It's so many, it's got
to be so many. Yeah, because there's it's just insane
that there's where where is even his.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I don't even know his filmography he's just done so much.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, where is his filmography on?
Speaker 3 (49:13):
On?
Speaker 1 (49:13):
Uh? Yeah, where is it? I don't even know, but yeah,
I mean he's done so many Mission impossiblest's Yeah, tons
tons Mission impossible film series. Let's see how many there are? One, two,
three or five, six, seven, eight? Al Right, So I'm
gonna be I'm gonna be going for Mission impossible nine. Yeah,
(49:34):
trying to do nine and yeah, and you know, make
it so I can take his his spot for upcoming
Mission A possible. It's will be sixty five. But it's
time to get made. It's time for you to retire, Tom,
and I'm going to take over for you. I'm gonna
get myself in the best shape of my life to
take the roles the Tom Cruise can no longer take. Yeah,
(49:54):
I love that. That's actually a great idea.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
I think I think I think there's something there. I
think there's something there.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, I agree, all right, look.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
At you very fun, We'll good good.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
I would put all these I would put all these
questions of the show notes too, so everybody can look
at them and kind of come up with her, kind
of do this themselves. I would like I'd like to
see what you guys come up with and email me.
Email me with what your answers are, and email me
if you think that you have some answers to me,
like if I would put these answer these questions in there,
email me and say, hey James, this is what I think,
or Hey JD this is what I think, or hey
port you know, hey, this is for Seth or whatever
(50:27):
it is, and let's do that. I think it's a great,
great way to do Yeah, all righteth where can everybody
find you at?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Go to my website Seth Lawrencecomedy dot com that keeps
all my shows updated at least when I get the
hand greand updated generally there. And then also social media
Seth T. Lawrence on all the socials.
Speaker 1 (50:47):
There you go, You go to Jade Creviston on on Instagram.
That's where most of my stuff is. Your see quips up.
There is gonna be a new clip up there at
the end of the day today that'll be going up.
So we're excited for that. And if it goes well,
I'm going to hire the guy to make a bunch
more clips out of all my contents and we're gonna
be recording more stuff and putting it up there, so
I've rewritten jokes, I've redone jokes, I'm added jokes, and
(51:09):
there's so much stuff that I'm doing while i'm on
the road and it's just amazing. So I'm very very
excited for that. Nice, cool, Thank you everybody for listening.
Have a good one that we'll talk to you soon.
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