Arriba Dude!

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Hello and welcome back to the Clean Comedy Chat.
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I'm your host, Drew Davis, and this is the podcast where we interview each week a different stand-up comedian who's part of the Clean Comedy Collective, which is a nationwide network of comedians.
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Uh we started here in Nashville uh with just a few people in Middle Tennessee producing shows.
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Now let's get into the interview, let's get into the conversation, let's get into getting to know one of my new friends.
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Our guest today is Daniel Quintero, uh, from Sandy, nope, I almost said San Diego Daniel.
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I don't know, from San Antonio, Texas.
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And uh you might know him as uh Daniel or Quintero, but you definitely, if you've seen him, you know his stage name, Ariba Dude.
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So, Daniel, how's it going?
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How are you, sir?
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Hey Drew, yes, really good.
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I'm so excited to be here.
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This is fun.
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Uh yeah, I'm doing well.
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Ariba.
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Ariba, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So why uh let's get get rolling into this.
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Ariba dude.
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What how I mean I mean, there's the ethical reasons why are not ethical, ethnical reasons of why we yeah, the moral reasons why we call you.
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But like, do you gotta is there any uh origin story behind your name, Ariba dude?
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My R's are never gonna roll, by the way.
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I don't think.
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I think I think this is too much to roll my Rs.
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Yeah, actually, it's been my nickname since middle school, really, that I created for myself.
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And it was with because I wanted to practice rolling my R's.
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I really couldn't growing up.
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And um, and I was like, Arriba, I love that word, and and I just added the dude, and I would just have it and just say it, but I didn't have any comedy to back it up.
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I even um bought the domain like 10 years ago without knowing what to do with it.
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That's hysterical.
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That's so cool.
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I love that that's your middle school name, and now that's part of your comedic identity.
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That's cool.
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So and speaking of comedic idea identity, uh, tell us a little bit about I always like to ask people uh the when did you get into comedy and the why did you get into comedy?
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Because I feel like we all have different answers to that.
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For sure.
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Um, I started in February 2023.
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Yes, so three years and a few months, and I I started because I wanted to challenge myself.
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Um I did public speaking in high school and college and in the workforce, but I was like, I love speaking, but I want to do something that's that's scary on stage.
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And comedy, of course, was like, wow, you gotta make strangers laugh by your words?
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That's wild.
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So I was like, let me do that as a dare.
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So I wrote for like six months to create jokes, and then I went to my first line.
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I like how you put quotes in there.
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Yeah.
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I remember my first joke, it was about the purge, which was already like five years old.
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And my first line was, Congrats everybody, on surviving the purge.
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And I thought that would hit silence.
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Um, but that's how it was.
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Um, I wrote all these jokes.
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I was like, here's a challenge to myself.
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I went, I did it, no one laughed, but I loved it.
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So there it is.
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Okay.
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That's that's that's the crazy part of us comedians, is is a lot of times you go there and your first show or your first couple shows, uh, you do not get a lot of laughs.
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Uh, but then you're like, this was great.
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I want I can't wait to do this again.
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Uh why why are we like that, Daniel?
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Why why are comedians like that?
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I don't know.
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Just a special us.
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Wow, let me speak right.
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A special breed.
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We are so so do you remember the uh your do you remember your first booked show?
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Like the first time someone asked you to go be funny on purpose.
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Uh yeah, I love that.
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That was actually a year after, February 2024.
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And it's just, you know, you never forget that.
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It's at a a bar restaurant.
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It's actually going to be closing this summer, so I always have that memory.
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I know.
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But you know, that first$20 bill that you get for writing jokes and performing them.
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It's yeah.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Did you keep it and like spend it, or did you do what like a lot of comedians do, which is like frame it and put it up somewhere like this is the first time I was paid.
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Oh no, I I spent it probably that night.
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So me too.
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I uh I hear about that now.
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A lot of comedians do that, and I think like I sh that would have been cool, but it didn't when it didn't even cross my mind when I got paid the first time to like, oh, I should hold on to this.
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That's uh that's cool.
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So yeah, I'll just grab a random 20 and and frame it.
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Uh no one will know.
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That's right.
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So this was the first 20 I ever made, and people were like, It's state is and you're like, Don't look.
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I love that.
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So so now you uh you produce one of the shows for the Clean Comedy Collective.
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You uh you have your show, and I think it's a monthly show at Refuge Coffee.
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Uh, tell us a little bit about that one.
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Oh my gosh, yes.
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Um, well, Refuge itself, the owners, Nick and C, they've been really great.
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Um, it's on the northwest side of San Antonio, and that area has grown fast in the last 15 years.
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A lot of farmland to apartments and uh chain restaurants.
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But the owners, they bought that house.
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Um, it used to be a yoga studio, and uh they bought it, converted into a coffee beer hall.
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Uh, and it's like the only real community place on this side of town.
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Really?
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Uh yeah, they still have a farmland, they have goats, chickens, fresh egg market, um, and they do a lot of community events.
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So it was just perfect for me to go there and say, hey, would you like to do a clean comedy show?
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And they love clean comedy, so they like to of course, and uh we um worked together.
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It was a great match, and uh yeah, I've been doing it.
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This will be in July, will be a one-year anniversary of that show.
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Oh, that's that's exciting.
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That's coming up, right?
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That then, yeah.
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So so uh are you doing anything special for the one-year anniversary or yeah?
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I I'm going to um do a longer set, so that's that's fun because I I started the very first show I did a longer headlining set.
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So I'm like, I guess I'll do it again a year later and not host.
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Yeah, maybe you have a couple new jokes, maybe you have different people that come to it.
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That's so cool.
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I love that.
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Um, well, we we had a few, we I mean, I don't as if you for the people listening, it would have been a few episodes ago.
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I don't I don't remember how long it feels like it was like six years ago, but uh a few a while back, we had uh Danny Tran uh come here uh and he uh and and talk and he spoke so highly of your show and how you hosted it and just just the real positive energy that you bring to it that uh made the show super special.
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So um that's cool.
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Um yeah, yeah, we'll let him know.
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Thanks, Danny.
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Well, shout out to him.
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So and if you listeners, if you're like what's he like?
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Well, we have an episode of him a few episodes ago, so check it out.
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So super funny guy.
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Yeah.
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So now do you um do you have like what kind of goals do you have yourself for comedy?
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Why like what what's the do you have a hope or like what this kind of will lead to or why you're doing what you're doing, or uh is it is it ever gonna be enough?
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Do you have like an end game goal or like you know, yeah, what's going on in comedy?
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What's the deal with your stand-up comedy?
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Uh yeah.
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My ultimate goal would be to headline after noon shows across Texas.
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That'd be so nice.
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Noon shows across Texas.
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Yeah, just you know, 50 to 60 people at a 2 p.m.
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show at a coffee shop.
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I I would love that idea.
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That's it.
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Yeah, that's the that's the goal.
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You know, I don't think you have a lot of competition there.
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I think you could make that happen.
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You could you would just book those shows and be like, I am the best afternoon headliner in all of Texas.
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You might even be like through all of the world.
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I don't because I don't know.
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Like, I don't that's that no one's ever told me that.
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So that's cool.
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It's just a fun time, it's early, you'll be done, get to celebrate.
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Yeah, I I would like more afternoon shows and make that a thing.
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Yeah.
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Is that because you just don't like staying out late at night?
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Like, do you just is this your way of getting done and home early before it gets dark?
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I guess so.
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Yeah, that that makes sense.
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Try to live longer, avoid the night, night driving.
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Okay, that's cool.
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That's I had not thought about that.
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That's uh you know what though, it's funny though, because a lot of people, so especially doing uh so I've run a comedy show at a coffee shop for like uh several years.
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Um, and you know, it's usually at 6 p.m.
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is when we do it.
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So like uh a lot of time, especially when we first started, people are like, oh, comedy show during the day.
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Like that, why do people even do that?
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It has to be nighttime for comedy.
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Um, and since then, especially doing clean comedy shows, coffee shops lend themselves and like doing them earlier, kind of family-friendly type, you know, where people can go, uh older people might like going, or and then they then they can drive, you know, in the daytime, or you know, sometimes people bring their families, so they're looking for something so like doing like late night shows for clean comedy sometimes is almost easier to and all that to say is the taboo of it has to be you know dark and nighttime for comedy.
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I've learned is not true.
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Like you can run a freaking awesome show in the daytime, and it's totally fine.
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So okay, great.
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All right, there's a path.
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6 p.m.
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You're getting there, right?
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Getting there there we go.
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Yeah, so yeah, you yeah, I I have faith in you.
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I think you can do it.
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So what would you say if you were to give it like a one piece of advice to new comedians, just all if they were to listen to you and actually heed your words, what would be a good advice for any new comedian out there?
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Um, well, I think in the local scene that you can't have a grudge and you can't compare yourself to anyone else, especially in our scene, in any local comedy scene, because you know, none of us are special.
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You know, none of us have like a big name.
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And so yeah, like you cannot go around and be like this person's getting booked and I'm not getting booked, or this producer's not booking me.
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Um, you just gotta focus on what you can focus on writing, uh doing open mics, but making yourself known to the producers, and uh yeah, just seeing what happens.
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That's my advice.
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I really like that.
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I like the phrase none of us are special.
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Uh it's it's so true, but uh us creatives or us people that the kind of people uh and we're like this, uh, so I don't feel like I'm making fun of other people that aren't me, but the kind of people that like think to themselves, I'm getting in on these people need these strangers need to hear what I have to say.
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Let me get on stage and tell them tell an entire I think they'll everyone here will think this way.
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The kind of people that uh do this kind of work, I feel like every now and again the reminder of none of us are special, you know.
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But I I've I've I've often heard uh critiques for like newer comedians where people are like, you need to remember that nobody owes you anything.
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Like you, like you are like you do not, and um, and I think that's a really uh big reminder.
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Like every opportunity we get is a privilege.
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Uh, and the further you get and the cooler things you get to do, like we should always be thankful for those, you know.
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It's it's um uh because yeah, we're we're all you know, we're all just here.
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So exactly.
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Like last month I was not getting booked anywhere except one uh venue, and I started to become bitter and be like, why am I not getting booked more places?
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But then I was like, wait, that producer still booked me.
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I need to just focus my energy on doing a good show for for that person and the audience.
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Yeah, I feel like it's uh a good self-discipline to not get like bitter, to not get jealous, to not get I think it's a hundred percent easier set for us to say here on this podcast than the next time we scroll scroll on social media and see what who's who's working where, you know.
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Yeah, do you have any tips of how people can like can kind of be on that?
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Because I do I really do think it's a process of as you can train yourself to not get bitter, to not get jealous, to not kind of let that toxic stuff in, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, I just feel like there's enough spots for everybody, you know, in terms of we all bring something different, and um just you know, going back to whatever you can control is how I try to live it.
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Yeah, that's so true.
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There's so much in stand-up that is out of our control, isn't there?
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There's like because at the end of the day, you know, when you're sending the veils out to uh uh to the bookers or whatever, you send it in and then it's totally up to them whether you get booked, you know.
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It's yeah, are are you do do they like do they think you're funny, humorous objective?
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Do they like your look?
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Do they feel you'll fit the room that they have?
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It could be simply as simple as you just remind them of someone they don't like, and they'll be like, I don't want to book this person.
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Like it's the hair, I get it.
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Right, yeah.
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Well, and that would never, I mean, uh, for those of you listening, you gotta you gotta check our YouTube video out because uh Daniel is is looking spick and span.
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Uh he's he's got the cool, he's got the hair, he's got the cool jacket.
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Uh, I just came in here like a slob with a t-shirt, and so uh that's good.
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Don't need it.
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Yeah, I appreciate it.
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So um, so after afternoon comedy shows, that's gonna be your lane.
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I love that.
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So do you have um what is the favor uh do you have like a favorite comedy moment or like favorite show that you've done?
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Um and like some for some reason in the you know, I so uh you said you started in 2023.
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So in the past three years, is there like a show that just stands out to you as like a really cool comedy memory?
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Yeah, you know, I think those best moments are when you're reflecting back and you're like, wow, I got I get to do comedy, you know.
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People know of me, they want to hire me, or they yeah, think of me to perform it in front of people.
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And I one of my most favorite moments was New Year's Eve uh 2024.
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It was a uh show at a church, a church uh New Year's Eve of a party.
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And um they were so kind, uh, so charitable.
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And it felt like an assembly line when I got there because as soon as I got there, they took a picture of us in front of the red carpet and the nice background backdrop, and then they rushed me inside.
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They're like, Are you hungry?
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And then they had a little assembly line of food here, eat.
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And then 20 minutes later, like, okay, come on stage.
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It's 11 p.m.
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You have to finish in 20 minutes.
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So just rushing me on stage and then doing the comedy, and then being like, I had to go to my um sister's house, which was 40 minutes away from that venue, and be there before midnight so we can celebrate New Year's days.
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Oh, wow.
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So as soon as I was done off the stage, I drove, and it was just so cool to be like, I put comedy in my life, and it put me in this situation where I had to rush through, do a set, enjoy it, be back at my sister's house in time for midnight.
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It was it was wild.
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I loved it.
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Did you make it?
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Did you make it before 1158?
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So close.
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Oh man, your sister would have disowned you if it was uh the your her first decision of 2025 would have been like no more, no more brother.
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So yeah, I haven't really yeah, like I haven't had to like put comedy in front of like important days or birthdays.
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So I'm really trying to not do that.
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I know it might be harder if I get uh more popular, but um, that's always my focus, just to have a right balance.
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Well, and we always have to remember, not just in comedy, but in like life, like we pick our schedule, we we accept, you know, like and so and comedy is one of those things the more you do it, the more it'll ask of you, you know, and and and sometimes you gotta have those healthy boundaries.
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Uh, and sometimes I'm actually we're we're uh we're starting July next week.
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And actually, for for July for me, I uh I do not have any traveling gigs in July.
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It kind of happened accidentally, but then I was traveling a lot this month, and I was like, maybe I'll just leave it like that.
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And so um and of course, you know, we nothing's ever set in stone.
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You can always take something if it comes, but I'm actually I'm actually kind of excited about I got I got a few shows that I'm producing next month, and I'm just recovering, building, rebuilding, figure, do getting more bookings, working on you know, working on this podcast, working on other stuff, and uh taking it a little bit easy.
00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:18.160
But uh that's because I'm I control my schedule, so yeah, you're you're wise to know that you have so apart from comedy, what are some other uh priorities and important things in your life uh outside of comedy that you spend your time with?
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Yeah, um karaoke.
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I love that.
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Really?
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Yes.
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I think like you go and do it or do you facilitate it?
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Or you oh no, I just go and do it.
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That's cool.
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I actually I actually am gonna have to start uh with my day job uh every month, uh kind of facilitating a monthly karaoke.
00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:44.960
So do you have any uh this is very random and not at all clean comedy chat related, but do you have any good tips for like like what makes a good karaoke?
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Like what makes like what are things that I should try to make sure happens at the we're doing a at our our our day job, we're doing a sip and sing event for the members, and so I have to kind of run that.
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And I've I've done comedy for a while and done events, but I've never done karaoke.
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I've been to karaoke, but I've never done it really.
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Yeah, I mean, I think it's like open mics where you have to have a list and like make sure people don't bump other people.
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Um, I like when the karaoke DJ has like a little scroll of who's next and what place you are in the line.
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Um, but and then of course a good mic, so yeah, you're gonna do great.
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Yeah, perfect.
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I have I I can I can make a list and I have a good mic.
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So I feel like I'm already qualified to do it.
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That's cool, though.
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So yeah, some weird owl.
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Yes.
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Oh, I I was about to ask, uh, do you have a go-to go-to karaoke song?
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Uh yes, white and nerdy.
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I love that.
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And yo, that's something we have in common is our love for Weird Al.
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Is he is he is he is he among one of your favorite artists, or do you just yeah, I think he inspired me to do comedy too.
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Here's one of my idols in that sense.
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Yeah, I met him at the um at his concerts maybe like five times already.
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Oh wow.
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So does he recognize you when he sees at this point when he sees you for time five or six?
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Does he know who you are?
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He pretends he does, I think.
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So hopefully we're gonna say he does.
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Where because no one can prove otherwise.
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So that's cool.
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You wear the same suit sometimes, so it's kind of cool.
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I love that.
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Yeah, because you do.
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I noticed I you have a very uh polka friendly presence when you're and I and I notice with a lot of the whenever I share your uh refuge coffee nights post, a lot of times it has a kind of a polka song in the background.
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So I like that.
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Uh Weird Owl was um, I think the first two CDs I ever got was I got uh and it they have I got them both like on the same Christmas when I was a kid, and it was uh three doors down, a better life, but then it was also Weird Owl's Eat It.
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And so I I was introduced to them, and uh in in maybe six, some somewhere between sixth and eighth grade for a talent show.
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Um me and my friends uh did the entire Albuquerque song in our for our talent show.
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Yeah, we we memorized all 12 minutes of it and we went for it.
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Is that still on video somewhere?
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I do not think so.
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I think I think think uh praise the Lord it it is not still there.
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So uh but that would be a cool it wouldn't it be cool like yeah, and we're gonna go ahead and throw it on to uh if you're on a Patreon, you can watch the weird owl video in a talent show.
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No, that would be great though.
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So that's fun.
00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:22.400
Um so uh uh uh so you've been pretty so you produce you've had your show for a year now.
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Uh basically you've had your show.
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Do you have any other shows that you produce, or is it just that one?
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Uh no, it's it's just that one.
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I I like producing that show, but um, for me at least it seems too stressful to worry about other shows, but I really want to just focus on the writing and performing, and I know that's a balance that you have to take.
00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.000
For sure.
00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:50.799
But yeah, there's I mean, the producing shows is a way to kind of expand what you do, but it's not the only way, and it's not it's definitely not for everyone.
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Like some I have plenty of friends that you know maybe tried to produce one show one time and are like nope, uh, because it's a it's a it feels like it's a different muscle than like performing and especially writing.
00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.799
So are you more into the joke writing or the joke performing?
00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.039
Oh my gosh, that's a great question.
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I I I think writing, yes, amazing.
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I I feel like I love performing to validate that the writing is working.
00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:21.519
Oh, okay, good point.
00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:27.759
So um and I I love I love the performing because like all I care about to the extent is the validation.
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I don't, you know, I like the experience of telling the jokes and interacting with the people, and uh but you know, but the writing is is important, so I think that's an issue.
00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:40.799
Um go ahead, go ahead.
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Oh, no worries.
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Because, well, it's because um in high school I studied uh debate, I was in debate team, so we wrote a lot of arguments, and then in college I studied philosophy.
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So I feel like my joke writing is very like a logical argument.
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Um, you have like the the premise, which has a setup, and then the conclusion.
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Which is the punchline, and I always try to like write where it's like logical, removing as many words as I can to make it as strong.
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So that's why I see it.
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I see it like a very analytical view of joke writing.
00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:14.319
Yeah, that's really cool.
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That's uh that's important.
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.559
So so is your style more like observation?
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Is it more like do you make fun of yourself?
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Do you what is storytelling?
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What what what kind of what kind of comedian are you?
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For if anyone's wanting to check you out after after they listen to this episode.
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Yeah, um, I started as an open, I mean a one-liner comedian.
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One-liner open life comedian, yeah.
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Tell him um I I just loved like the silly one-liners.
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But what I found out was I felt more confident on stage when I talked about myself.
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And so through a lot of like trial and error and uh getting different feedback from other mentors, I learned that I wanted to do personal life storytelling in my set.
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But I had a little like a lot of like silly jokes and one-liners sprinkled in.
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Um so my whole set now is like a theme of like one theme, and then I explore that theme through different parts of my life, and that's been more fun for me.
00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:10.559
That's fun.
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Yeah, I get that.
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Uh, I definitely one-liners are fun, but it's hard to build a longer than five to ten minute set of just one-line jokes.
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Um, and I've noticed the real real good one-liner joke, uh, excuse me, real good one-liner comedians often learn the right time to kind of turn it off a bit and like go into like a maybe a story or go into a random tangent, or maybe go into crowd work and then go back to their because um, because it's true, like I've booked comedians for 15 minutes who are just one-line comedian one-liners, and it's like it gets old, you know, halfway into their set.
00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:51.759
So there's for one-liners, they have to kind of figure out a way to make it work, and then all but and then stories.
00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:54.559
I I also gravitate to storytelling comedy.
00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:57.519
Um, oddly, a few years ago, it just kind of happened that way.
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I I used to be kind of a setup and punched kind of person, but that was the bulk of my jokes, and then at some point I just became a little bit more long-winded, I guess.
00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:13.039
Um, but it but but I still feel like what even if you're telling stories, you have to you have to include those punchlines.
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You have to include the one-liners or the jokes.
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Uh, you have to, you know, keep people's attentions for the whole story.
00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:20.960
So yeah.
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Exactly.
00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:29.680
Uh that's why I'm really happy that I started as a one-liner comedian because I had to learn the joke structure and how to just make things funny, and then I built through that.
00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.039
Um, I could not write a story the first year of comedy.
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Yeah.
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And you know what?
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Maybe that's okay because some people like go right into storytelling, uh, and they don't there is and they don't realize like, oh, you have to, you have to, especially right at the beginning of your routine, you need a quick laugh to get everyone on your side.
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:53.039
So have you experienced any uh significant challenges in doing stand-up comedy?
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Any anything that's uh you either overcome or you're like, nope, this is still a challenge.
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:11.039
Um well, I think from debate and like performance, there's still a tendency that I have to want to present the joke and be too proud of the joke on stage.
00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:21.519
That's the danger about liking my writing too much, is that um if I really feel like this joke is what is well written, then I'll say it and I'll really communicate this is the punchline.
00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:22.240
Boom.
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Yeah.
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And uh people are like, is it?
00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:26.960
Yeah.
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So then I pause longer.
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I'm like, I guess I didn't get a good response.
00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.359
So then I just and I'm I need to be more in the moment.
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:47.279
Um, you know, when you focus on writing too much, you're just focused on saying everything word by word, and so I'm still focusing on being in the moment, letting the the set come and go ebb and flow in terms of what needs to be said at what time.
00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:56.640
Um absolutely, and that'll come with time because that really does the the more you the more stage time you have, the more comfortable you are up there, and then you can make it.
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:03.279
I like to use the word organic, you can make it more organic because it we're definitely not just doing comedy at the audience, we're kind of doing it with them.
00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.960
So, yeah, exactly.
00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.240
That conversation.
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:12.640
So, and even learning to make it seem like your jokes are conversational, like, yeah, we're just out here saying it.
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:17.599
I'm gonna say this thing casually when you're like, I've said it the same thing for the past five days.
00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:20.400
Exactly.
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.119
So, do you ever do you ever travel when you do comedy?
00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:27.200
Like, I know I know you're the Texas guy, but do you do you ever get out, get out and about?
00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:29.920
Um, yeah, I did more last year.
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.119
Um, I traveled out of the state to Pennsylvania twice.
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:35.359
That is far for y'all, too.
00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:39.200
That's that's like that's far for me, and I'm closer to Pennsylvania than you.
00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:41.119
What was what was in Pennsylvania?
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:44.160
Why there's closer places you can travel to?
00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.759
Um, it was the first time I got accepted to a comedy festival.
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:49.359
So I was like, I'm gonna go.
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:50.000
Yeah.
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:51.920
Which festival did you go to?
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.359
Uh good karma.
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It was the one in Bethlehem.
00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.359
About that one.
00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:58.720
Um, very spiritually sound place.
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:02.720
So tell tell us about your uh good, tell us about your good karma.
00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.640
Just no, tell us about your good karma comedy festival experience, yeah.
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:15.200
Um I I liked it a lot, and I I feel like there's a moment when you're like, I'm doing this, this is so silly.
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:25.920
So, like flying to a random part of the country for me to do eight minutes on a stage inside a um former steel factory, it was wild.
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:27.279
And I was like, this is the life.
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:32.160
So, but I met some good friends, and they're still my friends, we're comedy buddies, we work on jokes together.
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:33.839
And um that's so cool.
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.359
Yeah, I really I really loved it.
00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:44.720
I mean, it it was a small festival, but it was exactly what I needed at that time, and at that point, that was my best set, and so I felt really good about going and um yeah, I liked it.
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:51.440
Yeah, it is interesting because when you tell your non-comedian friends, if they're like, What'd you do last weekend or whatever?
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.920
You're like, I flew to Pennsylvania.
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:57.759
I was I spent all this money to get here to do eight minutes of comedy.
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:00.079
They're like, Is that are you okay?
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:01.039
Do you need help?
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.400
But like to a comedian, we're like, we get it.
00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:11.200
Like, like, I especially when I first started, I would drive from Nashville to Charleston, South Carolina.
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:16.640
That was one of the first big comedy festivals I did, um, or it was a contest uh at theater 99.
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:24.160
So it was my first theater show, and I did like five minutes, but I drove for days to get there to work on my five-minute set.
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:31.039
And like I was I was so excited, and then like when I did it, I was like, This is this is it, you know?
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:41.920
Yeah, and um, I I think it what it's taught just in general, though, what that's taught me is like we should always remember we should just be like life is meant to be enjoyed, you know.
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:48.079
Like, oh yeah, uh, like it's okay if your family doesn't get why you drive so far for five minutes or whatever.
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.599
If you're having a good time, like do it, you know?
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.519
So exactly.
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:59.599
And it's uh I have my corporate job, but I still like to have the mentality of a struggling artist and uh do silly things.
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:06.319
It's good, it's yeah, and the corporate job gives you the financial cushion to go struggle as you do art.
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.680
So that's cool.
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:16.799
Do you find um do you find it easy or bearable to like uh balance your corporate job and your comedy?
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:27.599
Uh yeah, I I find it easy to balance uh because I'm I mean I guess that's one thing about being clean is I don't have to keep uh my comedy away from my work.
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:34.640
And so everybody knows I'm a comedian at work and I I have arriva on my signature still.
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:36.319
It's fine.
00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.200
That's great.
00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:43.519
So I try to, I mean, I feel very authentic about you know my comedy persona as myself, so I I try to live that out.
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:44.559
That's awesome.
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.400
And so you are you are always clean.
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.880
Do you do always you always do clean shows?
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:52.960
And uh do you ever get booked on not clean shows and do you do clean on those shows?
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:54.240
Oh you go.
00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:55.200
I do.
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:59.119
There's not too many clean shows except mine and maybe um one more.
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:00.880
Uh Me Familia, that's the restaurant.
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:03.039
Cleto Rodriguez, he does that show.
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:04.079
And so that's it.
00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:07.279
Only two clean shows that are uh frequent enough in San Antonio.
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:15.920
And so you are cornering the market on clean shows and afternoon shows like you're just trying to be.
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:20.960
But yeah, so of course, like I get on a lot of shows that are just uh clean, blue.
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:24.559
Um I like to go first usually, or they they push.
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:29.920
Right before before it gets too dirty, it's a little bit it is tough to follow a dirty act with a clean act.
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.160
Um, not impossible, but it is tough.
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.359
Yeah, exactly.
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:38.400
I I want to be uh at a point where I only say yes to clean shows.
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:44.480
Um because that's part of the branding that I want to have, and so but I still want to be open to it right now.
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:51.359
But hopefully at a point I'll be like, okay, I feel comfortable that I can attract enough of an audience that I'll only say yes to clean shows.
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.319
I think and I think I think that's another thing that will take time and just doing it because you can.
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:02.240
You can you can build your audience, you can build your following, and then yeah, uh, and then just just do the kinds of shows you want to do.
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:17.519
Um it is it I feel like for me this past year, and it was when I picked up uh the day job where I didn't feel like I had to do every comedy show that came my way um for a paycheck, but it has been nice when things have opportunities have rolled up to me where I can be like, I'm good.
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:19.519
Yeah, I need to do that one.
00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:22.480
I find that that's a very liberating thing.
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:23.839
So you'll get there.
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:24.400
Cool.
00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:24.799
Thank you.
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.079
So yeah, I'm excited.
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:27.440
But I mean, great shows.
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:31.200
Everybody who produces shows, whether it's clean or blue in in our city, they they're really great.
00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:35.039
And um, yeah, it's always a good experience to try to test out my clean stuff.
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:42.240
Yeah, so um tell me about uh the San Antonio comedy scene and like uh talk to us a little bit about what that's like.
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:45.839
You've been in it for three years, or uh yeah, yeah, three years.
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:51.279
Yeah, I mean, I only know my scene, and uh knowing my scene, uh it it feels great.
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:55.440
Uh, we have at least two open mics every every day.
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.359
Um, a lot of shows that are produced in different spots, a lot of bars.
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:10.559
We have like four comedy clubs now that are still like three of them are the smaller ones, regional, but they're uh still great people that uh show up and yeah, a lot of good opportunities here.
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.400
Even though we're close to Austin, it still feels like its very own distinct culture.
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:21.359
Okay, I was wondering that I'm terrible at geography, so I didn't know how close close you are like an hour, an hour and a half away.
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:26.559
Okay, so have you ever have you ever taken your comedy to Austin to see how it does in their scene?
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.400
Uh in only little bar shows.
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.640
I haven't done Sixth Street or anything like that.
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.279
Don't know if I will, but maybe one day.
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.559
It was so funny.
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:36.400
I uh I have been to Austin once.
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:47.359
And I did I did a few like open mics and and showcases while I was there, but like uh the reason I was in Austin was to do a comedy show at like a seminary there, like an Austin Presbyterian seminary.
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:47.839
Oh yeah.
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:51.440
So like so I'm telling my friends here, yeah, yeah, I'm going to Austin to do comedy.
00:32:51.519 --> 00:33:05.440
And Austin kind of has the the the uh the reputation of being like the the gruffer comedy, you know, some you know, you think you know Joe Rogan and Kill Tony, like so so when people see hear like uh oh, you're going to Austin to do comedy, I'm like, yeah, at a seminary.
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:10.240
Like at a at it was a youth pastors event, was what I was performing.
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:11.920
So yeah.
00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:17.440
So uh I you know what though, I um I liked the city of Austin.
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:26.559
Um, I the stereo the stereotypical scene for Austin is is maybe a little bit different than what I'm used to, but um when I was visiting Austin, I was like, oh, this is a cool place.
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:28.559
So but oh yeah, exactly.
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.160
It's a nice I like it too.
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.839
Um, but yeah, it's a good scene here, and uh and then there's you know, Texas, it's so big, so there's close.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.720
We can drive to Austin and then test your jokes out there.
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.720
I've driven up to Dallas many times, and uh that that's a fun scene as well.
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:48.480
Yeah, I've heard I've I've uh well well Danny's from Dallas, but I've talked to a few other comedians from Dallas.
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:56.960
Uh I actually think uh I'm in the very early phases of uh maybe in December planning a trip to come come some places in Texas.
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:02.079
I gotta I gotta know the geography better to know like where where I'm spending the days at.
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:04.480
But like um it you're it's I mean you're right.
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.239
It's everyone who talks about talks about all the different places people can do comedy.
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:19.280
So I think uh I think I'll have several days off close to Christmas and I'll be able to just go and do some shows and and and I haven't ever really spent a lot of time in Texas, so that'd be great.
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:20.639
Yeah, so that that's cool.
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.599
So you can not have a few cities, yeah, close by.
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:24.239
Yeah, that's cool.
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:34.159
Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe I can figure out we can figure out if if it falls on like one of your refuge coffee days, or or we can we can go to some afternoon coffee shops and there we go.
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:35.599
There we go, get our 2 p.m.
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:36.480
show on the ground.
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.000
Yes, gotta get that eye, like it's gotta start somewhere.
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:53.119
So I I I've thought before about on Saturdays if like start I I've never thought I've wanted to start one, but I've kind of wished someone would start one, like a Saturday open mic that's like in the afternoon.
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:59.360
Like I think that would be a I feel like that would be a good role because you get people before they do their evening shows, you know.
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:01.440
A lot of lot of book shows are on weekends.
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:04.000
So we have that actually in San Antonio.
00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:13.360
Um my friend Thomasine, she runs a clean comedy open mic at a mall, like one of those malls that's kind of open, kind of closed.
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:15.599
Oh, that's so cool.
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:16.639
How is it?
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:17.760
It's been good.
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:24.000
Yeah, there's um a good mix of comedians who want to practice their clean stuff, and uh there's a good audience there too.
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:24.800
I love that.
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:43.440
And I uh clean clean open mics are awesome, and it's I always like I always like to see people like I mean it's good if you know you're already working clean and you're working on stuff, but what is really fun is when you see comics who don't normally work clean but are trying to learn how to and stretching themselves, and so they'll they'll go and work on clean stuff at that.
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:44.800
And I I think that's wonderful.
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:51.840
That will I I've run a few clean open mics before where like I tell people like you don't have to even if you stink at being clean, this is where you get better.
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.000
Like, this is like calm and try, you know.
00:35:54.159 --> 00:36:07.920
Um it's like my refuge show in terms of um the rules for being clean, because I follow the clean comedy collective rules, and then I also make sure that I say no innuendos has to be family friendly and clean.
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:12.159
And then I give an example of what is family, what is clean but not family friendly.
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:13.760
I love that.
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:20.239
It helps to it helps a lot, it helps when you're running a clean show right from the beginning and maybe several times.
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.360
Uh, just let people know when I say clean, this is what I mean.
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:32.719
Uh, because the truth is is uh that someone else's show might have completely different rules, and so um it help it it helps the comedians not wonder.
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.119
So yeah, that's that's what they tell me.
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:36.960
They're like, I know exactly what's expected.
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:43.039
Um, they say they had a gig at a church event and they still had to clean it up for my show, and like, yes.
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:44.239
Oh, really?
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:45.199
That's so cool.
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.239
Yeah, your your show is cleaner than church.
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:48.800
Okay.
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.719
At least it's more like specific.
00:36:52.880 --> 00:37:01.599
So yeah, well, but especially having having done it for a year, like you know your audience, you know what they'll be into, what they won't.
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:06.719
And so you're you're really what uh some people are like, oh, there are so many rules to the show.
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:17.039
It's like, well, I like the host or whoever's producing it, they know they want you to win, they want you to be entertaining to their crowd, but they also know like what wouldn't work for the crowd.
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:24.800
So it's it's never in a comedian's best interest to go against what the host says or like what the booker when they say, Hey, follow these rules.
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:29.440
Uh and sometimes comedians are like, Oh, but it's more artistic if I I want to do it this way or whatever.
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:33.119
It's like, okay, you be artistic later, do it like on a different show, you know.
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:51.119
Yeah, and that's where it's hard to be a producer too, to like making sure Yeah, so with clean shows, especially, you gotta you oftentimes you have to be wise with who you book because you know you got you gotta think about you always gotta think about your audience first.
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:52.719
So um for sure.
00:37:53.360 --> 00:38:06.159
I actually last month or maybe the month month before, I started booking a not clean show, and it's actually been really the one of the things I like about it is all the people that I've often thought like I'd love to book you, but you're just not clean enough for the show.
00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:10.000
Now I can like now I have a show that I can ask them to be part of, which has been fun.
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.039
So yeah, so that's great.
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:14.320
How's that show doing?
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:17.280
Oh, it's pretty good, it's it's like a completely different vibe.
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:19.599
It's at an Irish pub, like upstairs.
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:29.039
We're actually actually our next one is uh this Friday, um, which is gonna be a it if anyone's listening to this live, it is a day before when we're currently listening.
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:32.159
So um, but I do different themes every month.
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:38.480
Um, last month, uh, so we have a lot of comedians that moved from Memphis, Tennessee that are that are here in Nashville now.
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:40.480
And I and I I've done both scenes.
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:45.360
And so I did a Memphis in May uh show where uh named after the Barbecue Festival.
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:50.320
Um, and uh so we did Memphis, it was all Memphis comics that are now living in Nashville.
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:59.119
And then uh this week we're doing a uh Father's Day themed show, uh uh just because it's in the month of so it's all dads just performing.
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:07.039
So uh so yeah, so um and next month there isn't really much of a theme, but I have a few people that are on tour that are gonna come and they added our show to their tour.
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:08.159
So yeah, yeah.
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:09.199
It's been it's been fun.
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:16.000
It's it's uh because and and and I'm also I also feel like um I've said this several times in the podcast.
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:22.239
Me and myself, I'm not excited I when I listen to comedy, and honestly, even when I perform, I'm not exclusively clean.
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.880
However, I know to be exclusively clean on clean shows.
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:30.559
Uh to me, it's always been more important to be non-offensive and not to devalue people with my humor.
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.880
And uh, there's just, you know, I always want I never want people to feel less than when they're at their show.
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:40.719
So even in my not clean show, I will tell people like, hey, just a couple ground rules.
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:44.960
Uh, don't be a jerk and don't do comedy in a way that makes women hate being here.
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:59.199
Like that, like is it is a little still a little bit subjective, but in my opinion, uh, and this isn't proven, but in my opinion, um if the women appreciate the comedy show, everyone else will appreciate the comedy show.
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:05.920
If the women feel targeted or you know, hurt or whatever, it's a weird comedy show.
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.000
So I agree.
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:15.760
But yeah, I was gonna say I it it's that that's not necessarily science, it's not a law, but it seems to be what I see.
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:18.159
Yeah, observational proof, yes.
00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:25.039
Yes, so um so um I'm let's enter into the time of uh ask a comedian.
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:34.800
Uh so I've got with me several questions uh that have been uh shared with us from our viewers or listeners or random people that are connected with me on social media.
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:44.880
So if anyone's ever uh following Atra Davis Comedy uh frequently, uh whether it's threads, Facebook, Instagram, uh I'll just I'll just let people know like, hey, what questions should I ask comedians?
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.960
I literally talk to them every week, which is fun.
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:56.480
It can be comedy related or it can be not comedy related, but we call this segment Ask a Comedian because I'm here with a comedian, and now we're gonna ask him some questions.
00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:09.039
Um, so what I need from you, um, Ariba dude, is uh give me three numbers between one and thirty.
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:11.519
My bad.
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:19.039
I I'm I'm doing one of those screen shift things like uh where it splits it where I can see but okay, one and thirty-four, those are the numbers I need.
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:20.719
Okay, I thought about this.
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:22.400
I I played it like the lotto.
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:26.000
Um number eight, it's my favorite number.
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.599
Okay, number sixteen, that's the day in February that I started comedy.
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.519
Oh, okay, February 16.
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.360
Yeah, the 29th, 29th, because that's the day I got married.
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:37.760
Yes.
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:38.559
Oh, okay.
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.000
Well, well, congratulations.
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:41.440
Happy anniversary.
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:42.079
Thanks.
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.960
All right, so we got eight, sixteen, and twenty nine.
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:52.880
So number eight, we have um what's a joke or bit that sends out to you?
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:58.400
Um that what's a joke or bit that has inspired you in some kind of way?
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:00.800
Oh yes.
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:05.280
That's a good oh there's so many great, so many great bits.
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:13.119
Um the state abbreviations bit from what come on, you know who it is.
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:14.320
Gary Goleman.
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:15.280
Yes, that's right.
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.119
Yes, oh, that was so great.
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:24.159
Because it was like you could tell, you can't, I I I can't imagine how long it took him, how many years to like perfect that bit.
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:38.320
And like I'm always curious as to what the original joke was when he started that, and how he just goes through all of the different, like a whole story about how the states got the abbreviations and the committee, and just the little uh looks and crannies of that joke.
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:40.480
Uh that's that's one of the jokes that I really enjoy.
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:42.480
And I was like, this is smart writing.
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:46.239
He's such a good that is really that is really good.
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.800
Um that I I love a good joke where you're like, wow, that was beautifully written.
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:57.920
Like sometimes, and and I feel like I love that more as a comedian now that I've been doing it, where I can really appreciate the jokes.
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:06.000
Um, and I should have said this when I shared the question, but that one came to us from Instagram from Kristen Barzak, who's a comedian here in the national area.
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:10.719
Um okay, uh yeah, number 16.
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:13.920
This one comes from Tiffany D on YouTube.
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:24.000
Um, and it says um what advice do you have regarding bombing uh venues outside of your home state?
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:27.679
Um, is especially if sorry, it's like a long question.
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.639
So give me a second, it got off the it got off on screen.
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:41.760
Um okay, so basically the question is uh what advice do you have when uh when it involves bombing uh at venues?
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:50.000
She says, especially outside of your home states, uh, especially since sometimes bookers want comedians with like large social media following, and you might not have one.
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:59.840
So um I think you can probably edit your answer to that because uh the the same advice for bombing outside of your state can be true about bombing in right there in your city.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:10.559
Um, and it is sometimes it is hard because uh people that book us, what they're really looking for is people with big followings that brings tons of people, but like anyone who starts out in comedy doesn't have that.
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:13.679
So um what do you think, Daniel?
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:23.280
I think I've heard this advice before because you know I'm so new in this comedy world, I'm not trying to be a headliner, and I will never ask to be a headliner right now.
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:30.480
So if they book me, it's because they think I can be a good part of their show, be funny enough to continue the energy in the show.
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:41.760
Um that's that's you know relieves the pressure for me to be like I don't have to have the biggest following, I just have to be a good part of their show enough that they want to add me to it.
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:54.480
And so if I bomb, you know, I feel like to be a great comedian myself, I I can worry about what the audience thinks during the show.
00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:56.480
Like you mentioned having that conversation.
00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:00.320
Hey, sometimes you say something and your friend doesn't respond, they just listen.
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:01.920
Yeah, that's true.
00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.920
Yeah, I mean, these are the best jokes at the at that time that I'm performing them.
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:10.960
Because I'm not gonna do a show and get paid to do jokes that I haven't worked on and I love that.
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:12.719
I feel the I feel the same way.
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:17.039
If if it's a paid show, then I don't feel comfortable being like, well, here's something brand new, you know.
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:17.840
Exactly.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.119
Not right now, at least for me.
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:25.360
So I'm like, you know, I do my best, I provide the best jokes, and I hope that they enjoyed it, even if they're not laughing out loud.
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:34.880
Um, if if I feel like I'm bombing, I'll just say I don't think I'm bombing, and I just continue with the conversation and hopefully acknowledge it enough, right, to relieve the stress.
00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:40.320
Yeah, sometimes sometimes acknowledging it can make it funny and really you're make it easier for everyone.
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:57.679
Um, and I do like I think uh in all things we should we should often show ourselves grace and be like, well, you know, yeah, I did my best or that happened, or maybe it's that wasn't the odd that wasn't my audience, you know, or or they they were in a weird mood, or or sometimes it's even I was in a weird mood, you know.
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:03.280
Like sometimes we um but uh yeah, so I think it's important sometimes to show yourself grace.
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:04.480
Uh bombing's gonna happen.
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:15.360
I think that's something we talked about in a last episode or the episode before, but like uh it's I don't know of any comedian that's good that says I've never bombed or I don't bomb anymore.
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:17.760
Um, I think I I'll be honest with you.
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:21.039
Sometimes you have newer comedians like, Oh, I've never bombed my life and I probably never will.
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:22.800
And it's like, give it time, you know.
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:28.639
Yeah, like they're either they either haven't done it long enough or they're not self-aware enough.
00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.280
You know, that's that's just that's just the truth of it.
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:37.280
So um because they're the because all the ones, all the famous, successful comedians will be like, no bombing's part of it.
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:41.679
So um, yeah, and you just gotta get up and do it again.
00:46:41.920 --> 00:47:07.280
I love it when um I have the opportunity if I bomb at a show or a mic and I have an opportunity, like if I know I'm going somewhere then that like literally after that show to do comedy again, because it's it it's like you get back on that horse, and uh it's so great when like if maybe you didn't have a great set at the first show, but then the second one you have a really good show, and I'm always so grateful for that show because if I ended that night after the first set, I would have been a little let down.
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:11.840
But that second set, it's like, oh no, that was cool, that was a good way, you know, that was a completely different experience.
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:12.800
So exactly.
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:21.599
And I record all my sets, and so sometimes when I feel like I bombed really bad, I force myself to hear my set as soon as I get in the car on the way home.
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.960
That's hard.
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:32.000
But that way I feel like I guess it wasn't that bad, or like I feel like at least I would know immediately, and um not let it linger to the unknown.
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:40.960
You can already, and sometimes you when you listen to it, even the bad, especially the the rough sets, you can kind of catch what was rough about it, and it's a learning experience.
00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:47.440
But and you kind of alluded to this already, sometimes you hear it and you're like, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was, and that's kind of nice too.
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:49.679
So yeah, um all right.
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:59.440
The last question I have for you comes from comedian Shaun T Hughes, who uh is also in the Clean Comedy Collective, he's a good friend of mine, and he started he helped me start the Clean Comedy Collective.
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:03.599
And uh, if anyone's like, wow, he sounds like the best guy ever, uh, he was in our very first episode.
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So if you scroll back a lot of episodes, you can you can hear him.
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Um so uh this is this is an interesting question.
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If you could go back in time and talk to yourself before you did your first open mic, what would you tell yourself?
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Wow, that is hilarious if you had like a non-comedy related answer.
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I tell myself to go turn off the oven or something like that.
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Exactly.
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To drop that purge joke.
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It's uh it's old.
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Oh yeah.
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Um, yeah, I mean I guess I would tell myself to slow down and enjoy the pauses in between your jokes.
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Yeah.
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Um that's where the laughter can really build for an audience.
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And you know, when you're when when I was so new in this, it was so easy to want to be like, oh, I didn't get the laughter that I expected.
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Let me move on quickly to the next joke.
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Um but now that I feel more comfortable in my jokes, I love slowing down and I love having more pauses in between.
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Um yeah, that's good.
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And that that's that's hard for that's been hard for me too.
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It's like I feel like there always needs to be laughter.
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I don't in even in life, I don't do well with silences or awkward silences or whatever.
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I feel like there's always got to be some kind of motion, but there is something in comedy where you can build up your joke with the quietness of it.
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Um and uh uh I and I've learned if I ever have a joke that has a slight, slight laugh, or maybe didn't have the laugh I was hoping for, how you play into that silence can actually get you a laugh.
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Can it can you can turn what could be an awkward experience to like a really fun one?
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Um I don't feel like I'm very good at I don't feel like I'm very good at that yet, but I've been noticing like that's that's a thing you can do.
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So that's awesome.
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That's kind of like uh relieving the tension uh for the audience.
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:07.519
And that was always tricky for me as a clean comedian to be like, how do I create enough tension that I have to help them release and laugh through it?
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Um so that's one way, but yeah, I'm working on that as well.
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Yeah, that's it, that's like advanced comedy tactics right there.
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So and that's the fun part.
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And I feel like this is something probably we both agree on, uh, because you're talking about enjoying writing jokes and stuff like that.
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But like the skill of doing comedy, that's the fun thing.
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Like it's just like any other skill.
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When you start it, you're not gonna have all of all of the you know ins and outs, but like the more you do it, the more you learn.
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Uh, you learn by watching people, you learn by like studying it, and even just you learn through experience.
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Like, oh, that's something I can do.
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So that's cool.
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Exactly.
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The best thing is like when I can watch a video of myself uh doing a set six months ago and be like, okay, I wouldn't do it that way again.
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Absolutely.
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I love I love that too.
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And then that makes it so I can never watch I at some point I'm like, I can't watch that video anymore.
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That like that's not gonna be a video I ever submit again, yeah.
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Yeah, you know, I would I I wish I could tell myself, and it's not even just my after before my first open mic, I feel like it's my first so many years of comedy.
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I don't I don't even know how long, but like I would tell new the new comedian version of myself, just you know, just chill out, just calm down, just and try to enjoy it more because I was always it's always been so important to me like to be the best in the lineup or to like to get a laugh at every single joke, or just like what what is this gonna lead to?
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Like what new opportunity is gonna come from the show.
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I feel like I I feel like I've always put more pressure on myself and stand up than like anyone else actually has.
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Like, if I had a bad set, I'm like, well, I guess I'll never work in this town ever again, or whatever.
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Like, you know, it's like and like I don't think anyone else was thinking that.
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I think I was just putting that on me.
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So I would I I feel like I would just tell myself, dude, just chill out, like calm down, have fun, you know.
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:56.400
But yeah, um well cool Daniel.
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:07.360
So uh first of all, thank you so much for uh being on this podcast and chatting comedy with me, um and uh spending our what are we Wednesday night together here?
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Um I like uh yeah, yeah, this has been fun.
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:12.960
Um where can we find you?
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What can you plug for us?
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Where do you want all the the tens of the listeners of the clean comedy chats?
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:21.119
What would you like them to know uh about you?
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.400
You'll have 11 this weekend with my wife watching this.
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Awesome.
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Thank you, Mrs.
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:27.519
Ariba Dude.
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:29.840
Yes, she's uh Lady Ariba as well.
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:30.079
Yep.
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.880
Oh, Lady Ariba, that sounds way more elegant.
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:35.440
And I I'm uh I I appreciate that.
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:47.679
Yeah, but um, I have a website uh for 10 years, arribadude.com, and that has all my social links um at arriba underscore dude on Instagram, and uh yeah.
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:55.599
Yeah, there we go, and go check out and for anyone listening um or watching on YouTube, uh the links will be in our notes.
00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:01.199
You can go straight to whatever you're hearing us from and uh click on his to check out his website.
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:13.280
And and listen, give him go do the extra work for for these comedians where like you go to their websites when they tell it uh on this podcast, and then you go to their social media and then you add a follow to them.
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:15.440
That makes such a difference for comedians.
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:21.039
And so if you guys don't mind, it's like three clicks for you, but every plus one counts.
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:27.039
Uh, we are living in a world where oftentimes people, the first question they ask about a comedian is not, is he funny?
00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:29.199
The first question is like, How many followers does he have?
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:36.320
So uh, whenever you listen to these episodes, if you like if you like the comedian, uh give them a follow on social media because it makes a big difference.
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:42.079
So, um, and uh our same thing here uh for us, the clean comedycollective.com.
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:46.639
That's where you can uh learn everything you could possibly want to know about the clean comedy collective.
00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:48.880
Uh, and we have new episodes each week.
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Uh, we also have a Patreon where you can become a member and then you can hear the Snyder cuts of each episode, the longer versions, uh, where because we try to keep it under an hour uh for Spotify and Apple Music and all that stuff and on YouTube.
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:07.760
But if you're like, man, I want to hear more from these comedians, a lot of times they have extended interviews and it's all on our Patreon.
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:09.760
So those are things to check out.
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:13.599
And uh thank you, Daniel, again for being our guest this week.
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Uh and we're looking forward to chatting with someone else next week.
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So I hope you all tune in and listen to us then and have a great one.
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All right, bye.
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You're welcome.