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September 3, 2025 • 41 mins
🎉 Episode 100!!! Inside Twister’s Comedy Club – Vision, Vibes, and Big Ideas 

For our 100th episode, Daniel sits down with Aaron, the mind behind Twister’s Comedy Club in Edmond, Oklahoma. With the soft opening on the horizon, Aaron shares the inspiration for the club, the story behind its tornado-and-cowboy-hat mascot, and his vision for creating a space where comics, dancers, and creatives can push boundaries and thrive.
This milestone episode takes a few twists of its own, covering:
  • Why Twister’s is designed as both a stage and a community hub
  • The mix of stand-up comedy and dance performances under one roof
  • The importance of creative freedom in live entertainment
  • Tangents on AI, technology, and Oklahoma culture
  • How laughter and art bring people together in unexpected ways
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up everybody? Oh wow, already messing up on episode
one hundred. This is episode one hundred. I made it
five years.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Have you been doing this for five years?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I've been doing this since COVID.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh okay, so.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Five years of different areas, dive bars and uh wonderful garages.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, very classy. Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
And now the gray room slash Green Room of Twister's
Comedy Club, Ladies and gentlemen. I have the owner, the proprietor,
the funny man himself, Aaron White, on my podcast of
Twister's Comedy Club, and I should I should also say

(00:54):
it's Chisholm Event Center, Chishm Creek Event Centers, Right.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I'm sure we'll go through some marketing. Chaine is a
little bit of rebranding where we kind of consolidate some
of this stuff. But it's still the very beginning, and
the club isn't even fully open right now. It's soft open,
so we're working out a lot of kings. But I
would like to consolidate some stuff. I would like for
Twisters and the event center that it exists inside of

(01:20):
to basically be combined and maybe even eventually call it
Twisters Comedy Club. And event center or something to that effect,
and then eventually probably at the same pace BILOKAC the
dance studio that operates out of here, and we do
a lot of salsa, bachada, Cumbia, country, et cetera. I

(01:40):
would like it if maybe we can stylize the fonts
the exact same way, so that way it looks like
we're all united inside of the same building. Yeah, and
there might even be some more stuff too, Like there's
some popular dance socials that I don't know, like this
guy I know, Jaime, who's you know, really responsible for
a lot of the dance socials in the Latin dance scene.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
One of the teachers here or is that?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Who am I not a teacher? He's a DJ?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Who am I thinking of that? Is it Mario?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's one of the Mario's not a teacher either. He's
one of the guys that runs by OKC.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
He's a good looking Latin guy that's always in the back.
That's teaching guy the whole class.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
That might be Oscar, but it could also be Victor.
It could also be Diego, and it could also be Henry.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Are they all good looking Latin? No?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I just started saying a bunch of names. I don't
know why I did that.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, I think I've met I've met the majority of them, so.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it's probably Victor.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I might be Victor.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, Victor's he's been on the panel Rumble and stuff.
We're gonna probably put Victor on a big Rumble panel soon.
I think that'll be a good idea because we're gonna
run a dance social right afterwards and he'll teach. He'll
actually do a free class for everybody that's at the
at the Big Rumble in b between it ending and

(03:01):
the dance social starting. So that'll be a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, Okay, that will be actually really fun. That's cool.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, and that's that's kind of the vision. That's what
we want to do eventually.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Awesome, real quick question. Yeah, how's the soft Open been
for you? What April is? When you did the soft Open?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Think around April? So late April. Honestly, I I really
didn't know what to expect. I still don't know what
to expect. I'm just trying to not feel overly rushed
about the whole thing, especially with this project being highly
community driven. I give the comedians a ton of creative freedom,

(03:43):
like on a level that has never existed at a
comedy club. So I think, I don't know, this is
a This feels like a first, you know, especially reaching
out to people in different cities like this. This feels
like something that this feels like uncharted territory. So I
don't it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
It doesn't feel commercialized. It feels definitely grown.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
If anything, it's in the opposite direction homegrown.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's definitely the inmates run the asylum. I'm sorry to
say it.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
In some sense, in some sense, it really is right,
and I think that.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that's not totally a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think in some sense that's by design. I'm cool
with that. And because of that, that's how we run.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I mean, you mentioned the creative freedom. I mean you
allowed me to do my creative you know freedom here
in this room. And then we've got the small room
and then for bigger events, the big main room. I get.
I don't know what you're called. Are you again to
name these rooms? Eventually?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Kind of like maybe we'll put some little placards above
the rooms or something like that. Yeah, kind of.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Like Joe, what does he have? Little boy and big
boy or something.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
I think it's little Boy in fat Man or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
They're named after the atomic bombs of the dram doom.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah was it?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Fat Boy was the other one? I know little Boy
is one. I didn't know what they man of fat Boy.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, they got mixed up the names, but yeah, shout
out to atomic bombs.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Atomic bombs. Yeah, the do you think any are going
to go off during our lifetime? What dramatic shift to
talk about the comedy club and the atomic bombs?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, I think the first question to ask is how
long are we going to live? And I think that
actually adology today, right, I think that our lifespans could
be dramatically longer than they have been by the time
we aged to that point. And it's really like it's
like can you achieve escape velocity? So how do you

(05:45):
get to like if you can make it to like sixty,
Like some of the shit that's going to exist when
we're sixty, it's gonna be insane, like AI medication analytics
that kill zombie cells. I don't know if any of
this sounds like Gibbers. Don't worry just naming off shit
that's gonna extend our lifespan. You can inject new cartilage

(06:06):
into your joints effectively. Event that's gonna happen. Soon you're
gonna have Well what sucks is like I don't know what.
I don't know what's gonna be covered by insurance too
like that.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
But also what's the long term effects of this stuff?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sure? But at some point, well the long for term
effects matter. That's that's going back to escape velocity, because
you might eventually get your consciousness put into a computer,
like if you make it to ninety like an android
or something, and then biologically like you might be fine,
or we might have nano robots inside of our body

(06:41):
constantly repairing things. You know, So as long as the
pharmaceutical industry doesn't mess with that stuff in a negative
way then which and I mean I get that historically they.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Have that's yeah, No, I get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
But if you could just make it to that point
where like you're brains connected to a computer to some degree,
I don't know, like what it's escaping one technology to
get to the next one. It's gonna that's the game
in our lifetime.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Here's my question if you do escape to it, because
you know, I think we have souls that make each
other unique does the soul come with the conscience, you know, consciousness.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
To that's of right now?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Probably not So technically you're dead then, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
So yes so I but they we might solve that
problem before then, you know, we don't fully know yet.
But so like this is how like quantum mechanics, for example,
I know this is a wild like some of the
directions we're going in, this is kind of weird, but

(07:49):
like quantum mechanics, the way this works is like there's
a superposition for what's called a cubit. So normal bits
in a computer. You have a zero and you have
a one. So the way you get a zero or
one are there are these little You have a CPU
in your computer that is filled with like billions of transistors,

(08:11):
and these transistors are little bitty electrical gates. These gates
basically allow electricity to go through them or they say nope,
fuck you. If they say no, that's a zero. If
they say yes, that's a one. And that's happening in
billions of different combinations on your CPU. That's how a

(08:32):
normal bit is. It's either a state of electrical charge
or it's just not it's just isn't going through So
c bits are basically gonna redesign our way of thinking
as it relates to bits in general, because these bits

(08:53):
can basically be in multiple places at once, called a superposition.
And I'm about to start on them computing through my
master's program. So I'm I'm probably school. I've been in school,
Like I go to master's at at Johns Hopkins University.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well I knew you got your master's at john Hopkins.
I didn't know you were just.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Done with it. Yeah, but we're about to hit maybe
one of the toughest courses that they have there.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
So oh, you're doing online.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, well it's hybrid. So occasionally I will go to Maryland,
but not very often. That's dope, though, you guys won't
even know about it. Like I'll just be going boom boom.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Back back of Washington, Redskins something.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah when they changed. Yeah, I get you, get
you a relic, like get you a piece of it,
gets you a fossil. Okay, so keep it, keep it.
So effectively, it's the way that like the bits are
gonna work these superpositions. Basically, like a bit can teleport

(09:53):
to a different position. But the thing is is like
teleportation if we can figure out teleportation, so.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Instead of using the UH guides, it will just be
able to teleport effectively.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Now the teleportation principle, if that can become more advanced
in our lifetime, I think we can figure out how
to transport the soul. But the problem with teleportation as
it as we relate, as we understand it right now,
is teleportation, such as in quantum mechanics, really just means

(10:30):
recreating a carbon copy, like a a true copy of
whatever that thing is in a different position. So it's
just like, oh, recreated boom. But you think that it moved,
and it did move because it's the exact same thing.
But it's not. It's not transporting like its soul, you
know what I'm saying. Like, if you did that with

(10:51):
the whole human being.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
You're making a copy right now.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
It could be far more complex than that. It could
be some crazy yeah, like it could be Oh well,
technically the soul does go with it, you know. And
I'm sure that's going to be a ton of content
we're all going to be trying to consume. Whenever that
becomes a problem, we're going to try to make sense
of it. Oh, Like, teleportation will kind of help answer
that problem. Once we get there, then I think we'll

(11:17):
kind of.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
If we figure out teleportation in our lifetime, vacations are
just gonna be instant too.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
For us that'd be pretty sick. Yeah, And and to
what degree of distance can we achieve with it? Can
you go to another planet? Can you go to Mars?
Do we even need to like, do we even need
to fly?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Do we need Elon for? You know?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do we even need this man? I think we need
this man.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
But who's the virgin guy that also is sending up
space shuttows?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Richard Bronson? Is he still doing his I think people
like that are trying to you know, I'm not saying
that they're they're not interesting.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Said they're trying to make money.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
But yeah, I think that it is more commercial. I
think one thing that's cool about Elon is and don't
get me wrong, we're all we're all imperfect. And I
think whenever you have a ton of money, when you
have large quantities of money, of course you're going to
be more prone to being more responsible in some different ways,
or you just start to see those characteristics of your

(12:24):
personality money.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'd be dead within three days.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Right, how many people are actually good people once they
reach that level.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
We're lucky that Elan's who he is, because he could.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Be there is some element of purity in what he's trying,
what he is intending to try to solve.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
He's autistic, right, or some type of Osburgers or whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Even if that's true, I think this man is just
so adamant on trying to obtain And by the way,
I don't know who all listens to this, but like
people have wild, you know, wildly different opinions about this man.
But but I do think that he's just so focused
on leaving the planet trying to obtain these humanity milestones

(13:17):
that I think anytime you talked to him about anything else,
like he's just kind of like it just goes in
one ear and out the other. Like I remember watching
an interview with him where he was making some joke
about being on SNL and like whipping his dick out,
and I think that like the concept of humor to
him is just it's just like it's like he discovered
it right right in that moment. He's like, you know,

(13:38):
what's funny A dick joke, you know, and he just
did that. It felt like he discovered fire or like
he was a kid that just figured out how to
make a thing move and stuff, and it was like, oh,
I forget this guy so focused on these tasks that
like he probably doesn't even have like a ton of
time to even like jump into that area, right, So

(13:59):
he got to do that for a minute, and it
was I don't know, like to him, that was probably
like a break.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah. I mean he only sleeps what four to two
to four hours a night.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
If that some people genetically can handle that, I don't
think everybody can. I think that has a lot to
do with.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I think Trump has the same type of sleep schedule,
if he sleeps at all. As president.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, I don't know if I ever saw the Sean
Ryan podcast where basically like the guy like he had
a doctor on that was explaining that most of the
people who go through spec war type programs in the military,
such as like the Rangers or you know, going through
buds for the Navy, et cetera, like most these people

(14:47):
tend they tend to self select people who are able
to get away with little sleep. It's not like and
like some people can be like very gritty individual but
they cannot function on four hours of sleep because their
body genetically cannot handle that, like they don't have a
high heart rate variability, right, which is basically like your

(15:09):
body's ability to basically go into a very destressed sort
of zone. And a lot of that is genetic because
for example, I have a trachea that's like very narrow,
and that's actually part of probably what Like I got
a lot of Division one offers and I walked on
at a Division one college to do sports. I mean
it was just track, but like still and and it

(15:32):
was when I think about the trajectory athletically where I
could have ended up if I hadn't had this genetic
issue and I mean issue genetic imperfection. And it's that
my trachea is pretty narrow.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So is that like for you to run track? Would
it be a breathing issue for effectively?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, And when you have a breathing issue, it compounds
your sleep, so your sleep gets worse because you no
longer have how do I put it, like like when
you since you're gasping for air, your HRV doesn't get
very high, so you don't hit this super destressed period
while sleeping, so now you need more sleep. Effectively, and

(16:11):
then you're basically it's basically just low grade sleep apnea.
But like, the more perfect your sleep is, the better
you will be at sports, the better you will be
at like whatever it is you're achieving, you're going to
be more focused mentally, amongst other things. And a lot
of that, we eat processed foods over the course of
time that ends up, oh yeah, effectively messing with our jaw.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well, we eat what a credit card and a half
per year or something like that.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Insane wild right, and that affects hormones a lot, now.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Mind you. That's just from what I heard from Joe Rogan,
and Joe Rogan lets everyone know he's a fucking moron,
but it was with a doctor that he had on
that he agreed.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I think it doesn't matter what your ideological flavor is.
Most of us are aware that we are ingesting.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, it makes sense that plastic of water.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah. And what's funny though, is like if you were
to consume this from like there's a lot of like metal.
Some people are like metal metal bottle water, Like I
think it's from like South Park or.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
A metal water bottle too.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
But yeah, but like sometimes like consuming drinks from metal
like the there's the what's on the cap itself is
worse than drinking it out of a out of like
a plastic water bottle.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Apparently glass isn't safe now, glass bottle.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's part of the argument. Yes, it's the fact that
like it's I don't know if it's the paint or
whatever on the on the I just.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Thought glass was hot sand, you know, like just blown
sand basically, And if that, if that's not what glass is,
then fuck, you know what I mean, Like damn it.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, I guess I don't really know. I would need
to look more into that. And I mean, I guess
technically everything has a degree of like non safety to it.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
But but you would think sand is a natural thing,
and yes, we I mean when we were kids, we
probably ate it when we were in the sandpits or whatnot. Sure,
And what I've seen about dogs or animals, sometimes they'll
go into sandpits and eat sand to help digestion and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
So I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
It's the same with us. Just from you know, our
ancestors millions of years ago. We're just taking that in,
you know, I think everyone kind of has that primal thing,
like if you ever look at your dogs, like you
just think that was a wolf millions of years ago,
and then humans came and said, let's fuck up the
wolf and make a chihuala. Like you know, ever, it's

(18:35):
hard to believe a chiala genetically was a wolf millions
of years ago. And think about the domesticated cat, like, yeah,
they still hunt. They'll still sit by windows and look
at birds or squirrels and be like I want it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah. It kind of makes you wonder what what fuck
what chickens are thinking of? Since they come from the
t rex or whatever, they're.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Probably looking at us like I was larger than life. Yeah,
I could have fucked you up.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's probably why they like to fight each other or whatever.
Good for it.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
No, we were in the Dominican Republic, and I didn't
realize that cockfighting. Cockfighting is illegal in every state in
the US, but it's not in the Dominican.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Republicans illegal in different countries.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Right, And they had lots of them there, and like they.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is it true they put blades on the like.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Bro, Yeah, I saw chickens with armor on it. There
was one with a knife sticking out of it like
battle bots. No, that was like it was just this
kamikaze like I love like they put on it, Like
are they gonna put you canna quip a chicken with anything?
Like a clock? Just got.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
My oh just the way you described that just robots, Like.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, I actually wrote that down. I was gonna try
to do that at the open mic tonight.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's a good Yeah, I can. I can take that
out if you want to.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Mean, we've we've all seen this before, like we were
children once. Like it's just you know, two dudes HIPing
up these birds, beat the ship out of want to.
We've played this before. It's Pokemon, that's all is. It's
just like it's just Gladiator. But chickens, Yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Gets more gruesome when you start talking about dogs. Like chickens,
it's like we're gonna eat it afterwards.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Right they have a like chickens have like a yeah,
you know, they don't have a good survival rate now they.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Eventually they're gonna be chicken nuggets. But a dog, it's
like oh, Michael Vic, yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, no, I'm not Chinese. I get it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, what are you doing with that dog? Later we're
gonna take it to the Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, that's that was a joke I tried recently. I
was like, eh, there's a Chinese I saw a Chinese
food okay, next to a pet store.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
It was literally just is that what you're saying? No,
where is it off of two thirty five or is
it too you forty that goes by Pinn Square. When
you pass Penn Square, that little urn by like the
living room or all that. On the right side when
you're headed west, there's a vet clinic and then right

(21:12):
next to it is a Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Oh man, yeah, that's perfect. Man.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
My fiance pointed that out one time. I was like,
from farm to table, it didn't connect me. I'm like,
I'm willing to try the Chinese and she's like, it's
probably whether the vets put down that morning. I was like, ooh, there's.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Just a cycle of people euthanizing animals and sending them
to the Chinese feed restaurant. That's gruesome. Yeah, that's wild,
but it is a premise.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, but it is also a real thing. Is whyever,
like New York, like in major big cities.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, yeah, it makes sense where there's like a large, yeah,
subset of Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I wouldn't be surprised that if like I see, have
you seen the videos of the rats in New York City,
Like they're the size of like.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Almost effectively like, yeah, they're I.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Could see the Asian no shade to the Asian population.
You guys are just creative, more creative than what I
could see. I could see them getting creative and you know,
being like, well, the rat's big enough, you know, maybe
not maybe not for a restaurant, but like you know
how in China or in these Asian places they do

(22:22):
whatever they can for food, like they'll have Boa constrictor
in the market in their wet markets, and what you know,
bats and whatnot. Kind of like this, I think, was
it about duck and bat too, wasn't it? Or am
I thinking of a Maybe it was Mark Norman that
had a bat joke. There's a lot of Mark Norman

(22:45):
is yeah, is he gay? Is he not? I don't know.
He talks about his wife, but then I watched his
company and he's like, yeah, he was married. You didn't
know he was married.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, I met his girlfriend and in New York City
a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
It's probably her now, okay? Is she a comedian? Was
she a comedian comedy Okay, then it's probably her.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
I guess I got married. That's cool, that is cool.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
That's actually it's really cool because you got to meet
them before they tied the knot. In my opinion, that's
kind of cool. I mean, the only reason I know
he's married is because of Joe Rogan protect our parks
with Ari Shane and him. They all were like, you're married, now,
when are you doing kids? And like, hey, we're alrighty trying.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, I don't know if you want to talk about
specific things related to the club. So so just basically
just we went on you know, that was perfects of like, I.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Mean, that's what the podcast is. We go on wild tangents.
You did the little Donald Trump weave, you went into
the whole smart thing that went over my head, but
you tied it back because I was wondering, to be honest,
you went into your physics and everything was like I
was like, where is he tying this back in? And
then when uses are star teleportation, I was like, okay,

(24:03):
keep going, and then you're like, do a copy of
the soul? Basically I was like, okay, that's right, we're
talking about the soul. I completely forgot about the soul.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
That's a lot of it's a lot of hoops to
jump through just to like kind of understand whether or
not we're going to be able to.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
You trumped it out? You weaved? Did you what did
you listen to that Joe Rogan episode with Trump? With Trump?
Donald Trump, like he talks about the weave.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Like aout being a whale psychologist. To be really interesting,
that was a weird thing.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
That was That was a weird one.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Somebody made a page and it was just whale psychology
off of that one singular joke, and I remember them
getting hundreds of thousands of followers.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
That was weird. What has been the biggest opstacle so
far that you have like met with the club so far?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Slowly, I'm becoming somebody in the city that I think
people are just coming to with their problems. And I
don't mean that in a bad way. I think it's
kind of I think it's kind of a privilege in
some sense, and it's not just people in comedy. There's
that this is the beginning of what will eventually be

(25:19):
like a political career. Because I know I've mentioned to
several people that I'll eventually run for office in some way,
shape or form. The Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes people
are just they'll come to me like, hey, like I
have beef with this person, or like this is happening
or whatever, And I'm realizing that I have some resources
to solve some of these problems that other people don't.

(25:40):
And it may not it may not be in the
comedy community. It might be in a different community. It
might be in comedy, it might be in dance, it
might be in tech, it might be in something different.
And it's really interesting to see how like some some
some bridges are being made between what was once I
don't know, not always a good scenario between two people.

(26:03):
I know who you're talking about, Well, it's not, it's actually.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Is it not the meeting from Thursday, meeting from Thursday outside.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
With oh no, no, no, no, no, yeah, is it not? No,
I'm I I mean this like, honestly, this is I'm
not referring to anyone individual. I'm actually referring to There's
been probably close to a dozen scenarios where I've had
the kind of broker piece between people and it's not
I would say a third of it is in comedy. Okay,

(26:35):
So I'm interested to see where that kind of like
goes in the future, because like I hope the club
and the just the the event center in general can
kind of expand enough that, like you want to get
buy in from lots of different people in groups and stuff,
and in the process of doing that, you know, you
start to realize like what people what people are really thinking,

(26:59):
and sometimes it's stuff that you would never expect and
you got to hear them out and you got to
help them somehow. And as I'm trying to do that,
I'm like, oh, okay, it's not just me doing this
to help this business. It's like I really do kind
of have to to give myself in some other sense,
like I need to be the person that broker's piece

(27:20):
in a lot of scenarios or helps people get connected
to other people or whatever.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Like I get that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's complex. I just don't know how to explain it entirely.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yet I understand you're becoming the Mitsi of Oklahoma City scene.
Like that's kind of what I see you as you
know who Mitsi it was.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Or was from the Commy store.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
That's kind of how I see you and Raz like
you get like Raz is kind of more of the
dancing side of things and kind of I mean, maybe
I'm wrong, but I mean I see her always kind
of over on that side of things, and then you're
always is intermingling with the comics and my podcast.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
So like she's a good dancer. She's a dancer too, Okay, Yeah,
I I also dance for I would say she's she's
better at it coming from the Dominican Republic, where that's
kind of like a cultural you know. But I'm I
have adapted to it a lot, and I think I'm
getting a lot better. But what kind of dance have

(28:26):
like salsa? Butchada country is country?

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Like the two step and everything too? Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm surprised by how quickly adapted to that one. It
must because I'm white.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't know, is it because you're what?

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeahs it? She does. Really, there's lots of fundamentals that
carry over from each side.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
That makes sense. That makes sense. I just figured are
what stuff is a little slower than.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
What's interesting is justin the teacher here he that stuff
can get really complex. But I don't want to get
too often the weeds. I want to keep more clubs.
I'm streak in case anybody is watching that's you know,
a communitian or whatever. They not You're good.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
But I figured because the reason I bring up the
dancing or the dancing the whole scene is because I mean,
I've had comedians on here and we've talked about the club.
We all love the club. I'm not trying to, for
you know, put shadow on the club either. I just
wanted to bring light that this is also a dance

(29:30):
hall as well. It is, and I feel like kind
of not throwing shade or anything. I just maybe the
maybe because I just am connected with the comedians more
or less. I hear more of the comic side of stuff,
and I just wanted to give you know, the dance
hall and everything shout out as well.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, dance and comedy will start working together more.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'd love to have some of them on the podcast too.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, you're you can definitely reach out to people here.
You'd be like, hey, it'd be cool to have you
on the podcasting get Tonight. I would highly encourage that.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I believe Christilla, she's a comedian, but she's coming on
start branching.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah, I need to be around here if you need
me to, If you just want to pull me aside
and be like, hey, introduce me to some people, you know,
I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
I just hate to. I know you're a busy guy, so.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It doesn't matter. It's better for things to get done.
The trying to think of what's uh So, here's a
little like even though she maybe it may seem like
she's more of the dance side of things, she does
a lot of behind the scenes stuff for comedy. She
is an organizational powerhouse. She's just she's just really good
at making sure that everything's kind of.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Like she's the booker basically. Right.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
No, I wouldn't say that. I think she's just doing
a good job of.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
She does the scheduling or everyone does this scheduling and
she kind.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Of we're figuring out a whole system for that, and
that would.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Take not trying to put a label with it her.
I was just I'm trying to. Yeah, I would just
say that she does her job amazing.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
She does there's a lot of infrastructure based stuff and
I don't know how to define it right now, but
maybe another time. But so anyways, going back to dance
for a second, Even though it may seem that she's
more dance side, Like I'm actually kind of becoming a
figure that is trying to, I don't know, trying to
help out a lot with connecting pieces of the dance

(31:24):
community that have not gotten along previously. Okay, And like
there's an individual that wants to run a festival, but
he's from a different state and he wants you know,
these he wants these studios to work together, but a
couple of the studios are they don't always. I don't
know how to define what their relationship looks like, but

(31:46):
I'll say that it's not great. I do feel like
it's gotten better.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Is there a race relations thing? No, it's not not
at all, because I know like Latin, in the Latin culture,
they all not necessarily get along. So I wasn't sure
if it was like Venezuelans and.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Argentina that plays no factory.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, okay, gotcha, good see no racism.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
That's funny. Why not? No, I'm just kidding, Okay, uh
they Yeah, No, there's some there's some stuff that needs
to be done a little differently in that regard. And
I don't know, like I've I've even given legal like
I don't want to say legal advice because I'm not
an attorney, but I've given like, you know, what I

(32:29):
think is good information legally so that way they can
make good decisions and the two can kind of work
together a little better. Like I don't know, like today
I'm gonna have to have a conversation with somebody I
already know. Like that's like this is a weekly thing.
Like there's a person who reached out that was like, hey,
I'm having problems with this person because and I can't

(32:50):
give a lot of details. And they're actually from a
completely different they're not from comedy, they're not from dance,
but there's a problem and they reached out to me
and they're like, can you do something about it? And
I'm gonna have to talk to somebody in the dance
community today and I have to be like, hey, damn,
I think you should consider the following because they could
use this against you in court, like and and this

(33:13):
is I'm just I'm just learning how to be a
professional individual that helps out people and this is one
of those ways. Yeah, I just it just sucks. I
can't go into more detail about how I'm doing it,
but I don't want to air people's businesses of their
business when they've confided in me. So it's just it's
just a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, I get it, and I'm not trying to pry
anything out of you. I just it's yeah, it's a
whole different kind of behind the scenes look at stuff
because I mean, you're the owner, but you also most people,
when people hear owner, it's like, oh, you're the guy
sipping scotch and smoking cigars and enjoying, you know, the ride.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
I don't even like doing any of that.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's he's working hard, like, but I feel this room
is his hands, like the cowboy hats is his pictures,
like he did he busts his ass and he's busting
his ass even more with this club and the event center.
Like it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, don't be me wrong. I would love to, oh
thank you. Yeah, I would love to smoke cigars and
drink and stuff, but I've croned. So it's just messes
with my stomach a lot.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I had Ashley Watson on and we were talking about
my garage, where like the garage, you you know, you
could smoke and whatnot. I was like, you can't smoke
in here. And then I paused and I was looking.
I saw the fans. It's like maybe a convince Aaron.
We get the duck system to circulate and suck everything out.
I was like, Nah, that's too expensive. Wild ye be

(34:37):
too loud too.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, you got any other thoughts on the club or
just anything.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I love the location. Yeah, it's awesome by the Turnpike
over by Cabella's just so you guys know, a reference.
I love. Honestly. I love that, like when if like
it did like after the mic and everything. It's close
to waffle House too.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know that house is a cheap staple. Yeah, I
think goodness it's here because we're not going to serve food.
We'll only serve drinks, but we will. We thought we
would try to do food, but they're just will.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Also, there's the Chisholm Creek Center across the streets, so
there's that as well.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, shout out to all the businesses there because I've
gone to them quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
But people can stop there, come see a show here.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
We may work out some deals with food trecks and stuff.
You know, we'll see how that goes in the future. Though.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
That's awesome. I have this new segment. It's the last
segment of the show. I give you five dogs, five
breeds of dogs, and you tell me red or blue?

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Red or blue?

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Okay, all right, go.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
And retriever red. Okay, Chihuahua.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I can go either way. Oh it's hispanic, so like green,
it kind of goes as it can go either way,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
We'll go We'll go green dog, Okay, Yeah, pitbull?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Mmm? Probably blue?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Uh Rottweiler.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I don't know. I'll just throw it in blue. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
And last week German shepherd red.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah. Yeah, I was politically assigning.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Who owns the Josh Trillo and I. I did this
whole segment with Josh and he's like, is this what
I think it is? Like? Yeah, when I got to
the pit when I got to the pit bull part,
He's like, it depends on who owns it, what party
is the most irresponsible with them?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
It's okay, that's that's hilarious. Yeah. Breed specific legislation and stuff.
And I've heard a lot of people complain about it.
I don't know. I don't even know what to think
about it. Honestly, I think I don't either. Yeah, last thing.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
When we close up, look straight into the mic or
into the mic, straight into the camera, say something encouragible
or something you'd like to get out there, and we'll
close on that.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
All right, Cool, I have nothing. You're all screwed. I'm
kidding you.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
No thing too hard.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Josh Treuill said Going and Retrievers were gay.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
They are though I murdered him, So yeah, that's funny.
I don't know. Life is rough for a lot of people,
and I feel grateful for the life that I have.
I feel thankful. I feel happy to some extent, even
if it doesn't seem like I do. I do seem

(37:52):
tired just because of this phase in my life and
some some other physical stuff I'm going through. I'm getting
jaw surgery to cure some problems. But I don't know,
Like when I hear people, when I've heard people vent,
and I've heard quiet a few people vent through this
process of creating this club, like like I get it,

(38:12):
Like people need to feel validated for the things they're
going through, Like whenever people say something emotional, like it's
worth listening to them and making them feel heard and
responding with something that makes them genuinely believe that. It's
like oh wow, like that actually is really crappy to
like go through that. That's not fun. Otherwise people gonna

(38:38):
they kind of go on autopilot and they go through conversations. Yeah,
you got to like wake them up mentally.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Slow down, be a good person.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
It's like way too many words to say that.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Who cares? I mean, you did very well.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Thanks man. I feel like he's serious on this one, but.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Hey, sometimes you need to be more serious. And that's okay.
I love that we got to talk about the club.
This place is just of curiosity. Do you when is
like a hard open and stuff?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Probably early next year at some point we need to
get the bar built. That's gonna be so when is
the bar built? In October?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
When's the bar? When the bar is built? And like
the hard open, sorry for cutting you off, Hard Open
is done? Are we talking like comics?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Like the Headliners after that.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Like Brandon and Cam Patterson and like Killton. These are
just examples, not necessarily Cam himself, but like sure, you
know what, okay.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Stuff like that and uh, stuff that's within our budget
in the beginning, so that way we can get things
up and going.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
So Jeff Die, I'm sorry for I'm sorry for Blue
your h d ms up with Jeff Die videos? And
uh is it Brad? Is it Brad that keeps in it? Brad? Uh?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Ohs the I'm blinking too?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
All right, guys, you've heard us long enough. Check Twister's
Comedy Club. Come out to the Events Center, learn how
to dance, meet Aaron. He'll be here every now and then.
I'll be here every Monday, possibly some Thursdays, depends until
next time. Guys, love you, We're out you guys.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Hello, Mark Trotter, how are you?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Hey? I'm good? How are you good?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Welcome to the Healing Cast the Hey Freeman, what's going on?
How do you do it good?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
How are you good? Hello?

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Marty? Oh hey buddy, what's up man? How are you
doing next? How are you doing? What's your real name?
What's your government name? That is my first question. I'm
just gonna go right off the bat and just JJ wood.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
What's up? A long time listener, first time guest. I'm
excited to be here. All have headphones?

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Now? See what got Healey?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
What year were you born? Ninety seven?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Ninety six?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Clrights Technically You're a nineties

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Baby, but you missed half of it.
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