Talking with Comic Brent Blakney About What His Dating Profile Looks Like

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He're's Talking with Thompson Square, it's a podcast.
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You've never heard of?
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An event called a double luge? Yeah, if you've never
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seen this one, this is an Olympic event that should
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be on cinemax at like two in the morning.
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That's how uncomfortable this is. You guys, So what it is?
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You're a luge right, like the guy like down the hill? Okay,
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So there's a loop sled, and then a gentleman in.
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A skin tight spandex outfit lays face up on the
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loose sled. Then in another gentleman in a skin tight
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spandex outfit lays on top of him, face up. Nuts
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to bus, you guys, y know, Yeah, chimney two buttthole.
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You have to n a stand for k a nap.
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And then those two generally go down a bumpy hill
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at like one.
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Hundred miles an hour.
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You guys think what I'm saying.
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It is just forty five seconds of nothing.
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But oh my gosh, Shauna today is awesome.
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I think this is gonna be a fun podcast.
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Better be fun, and it better be funny because the
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guy that we have coming up here today is none
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other than Brent Blakeney, which is one of my He
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is one of my favorite comedians. I mean, I met
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this guy at Zany's with John Reed and he was
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touring with him, and it was actually one of my
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I was on the show and I got up and
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did my thing and went out in the audience and
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I listened and this guy had me in stitches. So funny,
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so inappropriate, and I just love him. Y'all please welcome
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Brent Blakeney to the podcast.
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What's happening?
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Are you guys?
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Man? We're good?
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How are you good? Doing?
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All right?
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Still still staying hunker down? How you guys?
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Snow it's finally gone. It rained and it washed it
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all away, so we're able to get out of our
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neighborhood now.
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Yeah, it's the first time in what a week?
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Yeah, almost a week.
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Yeah, it took a while, man, I mean we were
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frozen solid up in here and we couldn't go anywhere.
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We couldn't get up the hill to get out or anything.
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So it was it was pretty bad.
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Oh that's yeah, that's rough.
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So where are you called? Where are you? Where are
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you at right now?
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I'm I'm at home in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it
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is sixty and sunny, so we're gonna go outside later.
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You're gonna go outside and get some some vitamin D today.
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Oh my gosh, I need it. Man, it's been it's
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been all I mean, you guys don't know. I mean
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it is. It's rained here for two weeks, how probably
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not had rained for like one or two days. Podcasts
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are really fun when you just talk about weather, right.
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Yeah, Hey, how's the precipitation there?
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Since you're since you're bringing that up, we thought to
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have fun today. We don't really know you very well.
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We've only been around you what a handful of times,
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So we we thought that we would do almost like
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a little speed dating type situation.
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If you're okay with that, Yeah, we would like to
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date you.
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We would we would like to analyze you to see
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if we would like to.
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Hang out analyzed not analyzed.
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Last, I feel like that's gonna be. That's gonna be
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like the third or fourth speed date. You can't.
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Yeah, and I have a feeling you're going to tell
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a joke about that.
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Now you have you ever done that speed dating?
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Have you ever done what speed dating?
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Okay, I.
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Thought you were talking about analyze whatever that is? Well,
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what would the definition of that?
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But that's not the proper term.
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Yeah, what would the definition of that be? Brand? What
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do you think?
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What?
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An?
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I think that's just I think that's uh, that's the
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street term for that's when you when you have to
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go to Mexico to get a colonoscopy. That's just that's
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the cheap version. That's like the Walmart blood pressure cuff. Yeah,
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that's great value.
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Could you imagine it's bad enough to have a colony anyway?
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I never thought to even I bet I.
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Bet they don't even wash their hands. I bet he
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just I've bet the docked down and just gets in there,
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just gets in there.
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Oh god. It's not even like the proper new medical tools.
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It's like an old Like it's just like a VHS camera.
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It just got off the rails.
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It's got like a it's got like a ah that's
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like a cattle prod with a with a huge mag
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flashlight just duct taped to it. This guy like this
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whole it's like a go pro. It's like the first
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generation of GoPro with a flashlight tape to it.
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My god, Like, yeah, we could talk about.
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This all day. I love laughing.
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Man, were hemorrhaging listeners right now?
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Oh yeah, talk about hemorrhage. You do to go down
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there and you're gonna get You're gonna have some of
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that too, you know. Uh, Man, I really appreciate you
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doing the podcast today because I think you're extremely extremely
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funny and uh but Shaun is right, you know, we
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we just know this, We know the surface, man, So
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we thought maybe we would set this up a little
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bit with a little smooth jazz.
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And seriously, have either one of you ever been on
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a speed date? Have you seen what this is? What
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a speed date is?
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Well, I mean I've never I've never been on one,
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but like it's that kind of like quick fire, like
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you got a minute that you jump to someone new.
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It's so weird, right, it is weird, Like how desperate
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do you have to be?
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Well, don't say that, Sean, because there's some people out
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there probably that oh my gosh, you just.
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They might be on there, they might be listening to
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us on their way to their.
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Then and then they just swerved into an oncoming traffic
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just because they're going to a speed date.
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Right now, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that.
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You just committed So, my gosh, that's terri I mean.
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But that's not even that's not even the weirdest I've
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always I mean, I probably you know, shouldn't really laugh,
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Those old it was like the nineteen eighties, like video dating,
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Like you would go to a studio and there'd be
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like twenty guys and they don't record like a little
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ten second clip and they'd like mail that video tape
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the self. Poor woman. It was like, oh, I got
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it ed like and now you're like you get the
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benefit of just being able to click grouping digitally. You
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got to like fast forwards.
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In your vhs on your VHD vhs.
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So that's kind of like I love connection was right
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on TV. Didn't they have like a little video it's
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been so long?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to have I like to
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walks on the beach and uh and g I Joe
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action figures, Oh my gosh, and.
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Really in the magic.
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And you know they all lied. I mean, no one ever.
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If you put your real stuff on there, you're never
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ever going to get a date.
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So if you were, if you were on a speed date,
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you would lie.
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Yeah, well, yes, it depends on how pretty she was.
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Oh my gosh, really if she was. These are things
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I'm finding out now after twenty something years.
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If she was hideous, I would tell her every truth
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about me. So she's not calling me back. But if
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she's hideous enough, she might be. Okay with that.
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Okay, let's move on to our first questions.
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It would actually be pretty fun to try. Like, let's
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say you go to a speed date event and you know,
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you get twenty dates quote unquote, could you make up
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and sell twenty different personas I could?
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Easy?
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That would be a pretty good challenge.
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That'd be such a fun little like acting improv game.
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We should we should actually do a speed dating like
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an actual speed dating thing, and then and video and
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record all of it and see who could come up
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with the most outlandish personalities on the fly.
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Yeah, that'd be funny.
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That would be so fun.
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Okay, So for our first question, right, hang on, hang on,
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we're getting to know Brent Blakeney intimately.
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Okay, We're going to start out with an easy one here,
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up close and person. What is your favorite color?
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Favorite color? Uh?
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Oh, gosh, because color says a lot about you.
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Some type of blue.
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Oh?
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I think favorite color is like kind of a bluish purple.
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I don't know, I don't know exactly what that'd be called.
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Of course, you're going to make it the color that
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doesn't exist. Yeah, next day, being difficult purple with blue
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and a little bit of red mixed in.
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Okay, let's just let's just read hear what the professionals
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say that that means about you, brand Blakeney.
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Oh so this is like a whole thing we're doing.
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Oh yeah, we're doing this.
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Oh okay, all right, what does that say about me?
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You want to find inner peace an absolute truth, and
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you always make an effort to think of others in
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their needs.
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That's pretty true.
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I go with that, alrighty. You value your close knit
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group of friends and family as far as friendships go.
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You're a loyal perhaps to a fault mm hmm. Recognizing
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and putting the needs of others first works for you.
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You find being of service fulfilling. And there's a whole
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other list. So it sounds like you're a pretty nice guy.
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I'd like to think so it.
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Maybe a little too nice.
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It's apparently nice.
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To a fault exactly, all right, Seana, what's next?
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Well okay, well no, no, no, hang on, this is this
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is a date. Uh what are your guys and wants
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to say about you? Oh?
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See this is our podcast.
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Okay, Well I can tell you black is Keeper's favorite color.
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Black is my favorite color.
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And really yeah, it says this is interesting too because
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I like all the colors, and black is all the colors.
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It says you strive for power and control in life,
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but are often artistic and intuitive and do not share
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things well with others. I don't know about that part.
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The last part is not true.
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You value your inner world, build a that. Yeah, you
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value your inner world. Keep your private life private. Only
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close relatives and friends are privy to your thoughts and feelings.
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Mm hmmm, I don't know about that.
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Yeah, you're articulate.
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I think you have a couple of those album that
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would probably say differently.
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Right right, Oh, this one's true though. You're articulate and
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at times dramatic, but not unrestrained.
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That sounds a little bit like a slam and you
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were a little excited to read that. Here's one here,
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here's here's a negative thing about you. Let me read that.
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Let me just let me take the good parts out
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of this and read everything bad about you.
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All right, what is our next question?
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What's your color?
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We don't have to look mine up.
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I want to look at your up.
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Okay, let me see someone says, let me see, husband
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had my favorite color? Is what's my favorite color?
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Kiefer, Well, it just depends. I would say it's purple,
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because well it was my second guess.
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You're loyal and very frank with others, and you consider
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your reputation a very important part of life.
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Okay, you have a special.
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Connection to nature. It feeds your soul, whether it's spending
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time in the garden or finding creative ways to bring
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in the outdoors. Your favorite activities revolve around all that
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mother nature offers.
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No, no, no, okay, so all of this is more indoors.
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I do like the camp, like, well, I love the water, nature, nature.
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But you're not really the one with nature. I wouldn't think.
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I mean, you're not going to go out and rough
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it in the camp. You're more of an r ve Gal.
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Yeah, I like. I like r v's.
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With the with the creature comforts of of air conditioning
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and such. We went we went camping one time, Brent,
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and it was I mean hot, and uh we went
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and we pitched a tent, I thank you, and built
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a fire and it was so hot. We were literally
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it was mid July and we were taking our clothes off,
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but not for a good reason and just like rubbing
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ice all over us because it was so freaking hot.
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We were trying to create a camping environment with this,
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with the s'mores and the fireplace and all that stuff,
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and it was so freaking hot. At like two in
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the morning, We're like, this is ridiculous. So we packed
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up all our crap and went home.
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You know what I remember most about that camping trip,
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Uh we got Tonight? Yeah, yes, that was playing like
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as we were packing all of our crap up and
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just throwing in the towel, it was Kenny Rogers. We
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got Tonight?
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Yeah we didn't.
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And uh was it Sylvia? Is that who did that
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with him?
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I don't know.
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Okay, all right, next question, hang on that question, Okay, okay,
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what's your favorite type of music?
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Favorite type of what music music? Ooh, if I if
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I had to, if I had to pick.
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One, that's what we're asking. It would definitely be genres together.
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That is, that is what favorite means. Uh. Probably like
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i'd say like a uh like a acoustic like folk
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like American. I'm gonna say Americana that.
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I really never would have.
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That paper and I have talked about it, like my
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I think both one out if not our favorite artist
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is like Bruce Springsteen and just kind of that like
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you know, you got the classic rock field. But and
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then definitely like in the modern times, like more of
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the Americana side of country. M I like a lot.
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What artists do you really dig.
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Currently?
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Yeah?
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What do you listening to?
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You?
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Like, like when you hop in your car? Like, what
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what's your go to?
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Oh? I really like uh Hoosier Yeah, Uh, I mean
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I know he's Irish, but it's still kind of falls
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in that category. American Aquarium is a really great band
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out of Raleigh who have been kind of doing that
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Americana rock for a while. Uh. Tyler Childers is one
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of my favorite.
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Avid Brothers. Do you like the Davit Brothers.
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I like David Brothers.
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They just come out with the I don't know, I
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don't know. I know that are they from North Carolina?
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I feel like there's like some Carolina like something there
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happening in South Carolina, North Carolina.
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Yeah, I feel I feel like, yeah, maybe Greensboro, winstonce Down.
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I could be totally wrong and giving out bad information.
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Yeah, I love that because I never would have really
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guessed that.
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It's just well, I knew that he loves Springsteen because
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we kind of I mean, who.
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Doesn't like Well, it took me. It took me a
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minute to come around to spring Steing. I will admit that.
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A long time too long.
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That's because I growing up, that's all I ever knew
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was like country. I didn't know anything about anything else
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because that's all I ever heard was country. And then
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Keifer kind.
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Of is that? Is that still? Is that? Would you
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consider that your favorite?
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Yes?
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Traditional? Yeah for sure?
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Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, that's a weird question to ask
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the country are no, no, if you're the type of
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music you do your favorite?
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I would probably argue that there's probably some artists out
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there that country is not there will go to, but
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it's where they landed to make money, for sure, because
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they don't.
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Even a lot.
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I wouldn't even know, wouldn't you know the history of
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country music or kind of where it came from and
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and kind of what we all got here. But and
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that's cool too, whatever, you know, all right?
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Favorite comedian.
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Besides men, do not make this awkward? Okay, you can.
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Say since you are a comic and everything, I'd.
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Probably say, Uh, Brian Reagan is probably my all time favorite.
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He is and I mean super consistent over you know, decades.
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Currently I really like like newer people. I mean he's
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not newer. Uh, you know, Tom Segura is great. I
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feel like I I have to say John Reep.
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Uh, you feel like you have to say John.
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If you listen to this, you know I love you.
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I do think John Reap is brilliant. Keever can tell
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Anybody getting laughter at every time?
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Like I kept like, I kept looking at like when
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you guys were there at the show.
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Yeah, she never left anything you said.
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I don't know, but that mostly true. But then there
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was like one or two where I did see her
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lap and I'm like, all right, that's a good one.
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I got not of that.
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No, I just.
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Ere's a show that I've been to with John, Like
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I literally Billy laugh at least at least two three
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times or more.
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I mean, and even if it's the same joke, the
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pool story just kills me every time.
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Yeah, so good, but it's so funny to where like,
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I mean, you know, I don't mean to suck up
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to him aton like right now, but you know I've
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been working with him for a couple of years, and
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you kind of get a little I don't know complacence
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the right word, but you kind of get settled into
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a rhythm. And we were I think we or somewhere
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like before you know, Covid and all that. I just
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watched his show for the first time, and it's just
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this reminder of like how good of a comic he is.
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Mm hmm. Like I think you can get kind of
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so comfortable with someone you forget, you know, why they
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are who they are?
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Right, No, I think totally right. I think that's the
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same way with musicians. You know, if someone doesn't hear
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you on the radio for a while and then they
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hear you again in a different light, or that maybe
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coming to your show for the first time, like, oh
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my crap, I can't I forgot. I didn't realize that
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these guys were that good. And I'm talking about ourselves.
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You know, obviously people just forget, you know, is it
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that's just go ahead?
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Oh no, I'm gonna say. Is that the experience you
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strive for every show, just like we got to remind
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these people who we are.
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I think. I think when we go on stage, it's
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a it's a mission of ours forget to for people
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to talk about the show afterwards, for sure, because that
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live performance, man, it gets people to go and and
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and stream your music, by your music, buy your t
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shirts and talk to and more importantly, talk to other people.
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I think, you know, it's a It's very well documented
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that word of mouth is the absolute best marketing that
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there is on the planet because it spreads like wildfire,
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you know, if you're excited about something and uh, hey,
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I went saw this guy last night. His name is
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Brent Blake and he just killed me. And you got,
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guy's got to go check him out or whatever else.
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And there's been some some other people like you and
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Reap and Dusty Sleigh that I've you know, I promote
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all the time in that space. And uh, you know,
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just because you guys are all good people and and
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and you're all good friends have become good friends of mine,
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and and I just think that's that's the main goal,
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is to get people to talk about you and how
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good you are and and all that stuff. You know,
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if you made an impression, you know, and I think
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gets the I think in that kind of the job
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for all of us in this entertainment business. It's to
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get is to make of mouth, well, to get to
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make an impression on someone so much to where they
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want to go out and talk about it, even if
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they don't buy anything, which I highly you know that
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always helps the arts obviously to buy your product, but
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you know word of mouth. You know you're trying to
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build a podcast. We're trying to build a podcast. We're
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doing all these different things, and your goal is to
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get ten thousand people to watch your show. And and
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you know it's a it's a it's a continual, continual thing.
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One thing. Do you have any other questions for the
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for there?
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That's enough of the silliness.
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Hang on a second.
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I was enjoying that.
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Yeah, yeah, give you one more, give you one more,
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one more?
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What was the one you want to ask this?
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And then we'll do one more and come back to it.
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Let me see if I can find it again. We
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actually pulled these questions from e harmony, which is hilarious.
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Oh no, that's that's basically on seventy five points. I
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think we're going to the three of us are going
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to be in love after that.
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Okay, Keifer, what's the one you wanted to do ask
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I can't remember which one it was.
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Well, there was a couple here, what do you think?
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Just name one? This is we'll do a rap hang
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on a second, rapid fire. It's the rapid fire section
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of getting to know Brent Blakeney. Question one, one of
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three things that you're thankful for? Actually, what's one thing
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you're thankful for?
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One thing I'm thankful for?
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M okay, next question nothing do I have a yeah?
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Maybe I had?
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Hey, I'm thankful for your guys' friendship.
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That's very sweet, very sweet and probably a lie. And uh,
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if if your best friends had to pick a word
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to describe you, what would that word be? Uh?
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Oh, thoughtful?
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I don't know thoughtful? Okay, uh what's the what's one
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thing that you love about your physical appearance?
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My eye?
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Your eyes?
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Now this is getting weird. I don't know. I've I've
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always been complimented. I believe it's very nice. Thought. So
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thank you for asking?
498
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You had a nice you know? Uh? All right, I
499
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:29.319
think that's yeah. I don't want it's going to get
500
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dirty after that, you know. So, let's just goodness, what
501
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:37.240
were you going to ask you? Let's just well, I
502
00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:40.359
really wanted to know Bred Blakeney.
503
00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:44.519
So uh yeah, I suppose that's the that's for the Patreon.
504
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Fans only.
505
00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:49.039
So so that was.
506
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Getting to know thanks for playing.
507
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.640
So what what have you been doing like throughout this
508
00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:00.720
crazy pandemic time. I mean, have you been able to
509
00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:02.640
get out and do any sets or anything?
510
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:09.440
Uh? Yeah, I guess I started back. You know, I'd
511
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:13.559
say like March sixteenth was you know, the last day,
512
00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:20.279
and it was probably July that outdoor shows. You know,
513
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:22.960
people were comfortable being outdoors and stuff like that and
514
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:26.759
gathering in groups outdoors, and you know, I was able
515
00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.759
to you know, do some outdoor shows for pretty much
516
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:38.039
the rest of last year and then yeah, the first
517
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.680
part of December, I booked a road gig in South
518
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.880
Carolina and then you know, of course I was in Nashville.
519
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:47.400
I saw you guys for New Years and have kind
520
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.200
of been working steadily since then.
521
00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.839
But I mean, yeah, there was so much downtime, and
522
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.640
so I mean I have to ask, like for a musician,
523
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:01.519
you know, we can we can sit in here and
524
00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:03.039
we can rehearse, which we never do.
525
00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:08.519
We need to and hone our craft, but as a comic,
526
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.519
you can't do that, like you can't unless you're you're
527
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.279
you're honing your craft when you're out and you're in
528
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.039
front of an audience and you're finding out what's working
529
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.880
and not you know, getting the laughs. Do you write?
530
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:23.720
Is that what you do in your downtime?
531
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:29.079
I mean, uh yeah, I mean it's it's a lot
532
00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:32.799
of writing, and it is kind of finding you know,
533
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:33.839
separate avenue.
534
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:34.880
Uh.
535
00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:40.359
There was definitely the Zoom shows and whatnot and those
536
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.519
and and that's what I actually wanted to go and
537
00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:46.839
ask you guys because you were talking about like live
538
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.200
entertainment and getting people together and people are talking and
539
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:55.039
stuff like that. I mean, personally, I don't think the
540
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:57.880
Internet shows and like the Zoom hangouts and blah blah
541
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.880
blah blah, like ever take the place of that. But
542
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.240
that's also you know, kind of different for me as
543
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:08.960
a comic, Like I absolutely need and feed off like
544
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:13.240
the energy of a live crowd versus you know, you
545
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.319
guys did and they were fantastic, you know, like your
546
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:21.000
your wine Wednesdays and you know, Sunday night cooking. Do
547
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:25.200
you feel music is kind of a different avenue where
548
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:30.400
things will maybe like split fifty fifty with digital and
549
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.039
live or do you think it'll all go back to
550
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:33.359
live eventually.
551
00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:35.079
Well, I hope it's not split fifty to fifty. I
552
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:39.680
think I do think that. As far as like live
553
00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:43.640
shows in our in our house, or or there's venues
554
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.400
now in Nashville that have a stage set up with
555
00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:48.359
production and stuff, and you go in there and you hire,
556
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:50.559
you pay for the you pay for the room and
557
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:52.759
the engineers and stuff, and you do a full on show.
558
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.720
Obviously there's still no there's no no response as far
559
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.759
as applause and that sort of thing, which, by the way,
560
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:01.559
is the same thing we feel about it. I mean,
561
00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:05.279
we feed off of applause. That's the fuel that fuels
562
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:11.640
all entertainers onto the stage, entertainers, and so it's really odd.
563
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:16.200
I honestly think that's the reason why virtual will never know.
564
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:18.319
But I think there's because the crowd you feed off
565
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:20.240
each other, no, you know what I mean, you do.
566
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.680
But I think one thing I've been really proud of
567
00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:27.880
people us included, is we've tried it, you know, and
568
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:31.720
when there was there is no outlet for anything. I
569
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.680
hadn't been for the last you know, twelve thirteen, fourteen
570
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:40.000
months now, but we were attempting to pivot and try
571
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:43.119
to figure out how we can still have fun at shows,
572
00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:45.640
and how we can still have music, and how the
573
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.039
arts can get paid and all those things. So, you know,
574
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we do some zoom show. We did a zoom show
575
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:53.079
the other day and you can see everybody on the
576
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.640
zoom they're clapping and stuff, and you just kind of
577
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.960
have to go with it. Man. It's like, you know,
578
00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.519
no one's laughing. The good thing is no one can
579
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:02.480
do you as a comedian too. I mean, your jokes,
580
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.680
your jokes crush every single time, you know, And but
581
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:08.359
you know, I don't know. I think there's a place
582
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.440
for the for the online stuff, for sure. I think
583
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.000
it's gonna there's a lot of companies who have really
584
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.599
tried to do it at a big level. And the
585
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:16.640
thing of it is, man, is no one can sell tickets.
586
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:20.119
It's been really hard. It's been kind of shocking to
587
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.839
me that the consumer is not willing to pay a
588
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:27.880
very small price a dollar show, five dollars shows. They're
589
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.000
not willing to spend even that to watch your show.
590
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:34.720
And I think it's because of that what we were
591
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.799
talking about with feeling that getting that energy off of
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00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:39.960
each other. It's just not the same. It's not the
593
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:43.160
I just it's the whole experience of going to a concert.
594
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:46.960
It's the smells, it's the air, it's you know, it's
595
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.240
everything about it.
596
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:50.359
I just think it doesn't register with people that, Hey,
597
00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:52.400
I'm going to pay five dollars to go see a
598
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.000
Thompson Square show online when chances are they're going to
599
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:56.440
do a wine on Wednesday and that's going to be free.
600
00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:58.960
It's gonna be the same. It's weird. There's so much
601
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:03.400
stimuli on line. I just don't feel like the content
602
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.680
that you put out from a live standpoint, it's got
603
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:09.400
to be Hey, guys, we're going to do a whole
604
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.440
new set no one's ever heard of. I'm going to
605
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.759
be playing naked. I'm going to be you know, Sean
606
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.480
and I are going to do some heavy petting in
607
00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:24.279
the middle of the set, you know. And I think
608
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:27.359
that would sell tickets. But I think it has to
609
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.079
be extreme in order to sell a lot of tickets,
610
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.559
because I've heard massive artists that have done online shows
611
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.000
and sold maybe one hundred tickets, you know. And I
612
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.279
don't take it personally because I'm thankful for the people
613
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:41.000
who do it, and a lot of the things that
614
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:45.079
we've booked in person shows and online have been for
615
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:48.359
private companies, so they pay you a flat fee and
616
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:51.079
it's not an excellent, necessarily a ticket thing. And we've
617
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:53.680
done combinations of a flat fee and a back end
618
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.599
on tickets, and we run merch specials and all that
619
00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:59.880
kind of stuff, you know. So it's been interesting. And
620
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.319
and uh uh Shauna has decided to build a stage
621
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.920
in our basement.
622
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.160
Well, I'm not going to build it like she No, she's.
623
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:12.559
Not building anything. She's gonna do a lot of pointing
624
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.519
and uh put that there. That's kind of her thing.
625
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.880
But uh, you know, we're gonna. We're gonna because of
626
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:23.359
this and because of the podcast. And I absolutely love podcasting.
627
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:25.920
But I never thought I would look at this much.
628
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:28.440
But I am in love with it. I am enamored.
629
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.480
I'm on Clubhouse all the time learning more about it,
630
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:33.519
and I just this is going to be something that
631
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.039
we do, I think forever as far as I'm concerned.
632
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.400
So, Brent, I'm curious when you did your zoom so,
633
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.519
was everybody like unmuted so that you could actually hear
634
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.079
their laughter?
635
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:49.680
No, I did it the one that I've done and
636
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:54.079
I think this is why I am. I mean, I'm
637
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.759
not anti in the sense of, you know, nobody should
638
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:01.400
do it. I mean, if you like, go ahead for
639
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.319
ever comedy, you know, I know music is definitely different.
640
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.680
But it was just on the Zoom Show and then
641
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.360
they would stream it to Facebook Live or something. I
642
00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:17.880
was essentially talking to myself and that's such a that's
643
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:24.199
just not how stand up works. And it was so
644
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.199
kind of disheartening back when it was. Now I will say,
645
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.719
on the other hand, I did find a It was,
646
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:35.760
you know, a group of people I knew, you know,
647
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:39.079
from around North Carolina, and we kind of banded together
648
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:41.760
and are doing they called we call them chet chat,
649
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:46.400
which are just they're like funny ted talks and we'll
650
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:49.239
usually have a theme and we'll stream that on Facebook.
651
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:53.840
And that is so much more fun and I think
652
00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:57.840
entertaining and better for kind of the comedy environment of
653
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:02.360
the Zoom Call and like online, because that's not it's
654
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:08.280
not trying material or jokes, it's visual. It's it's almost
655
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:11.639
it's more like sketch comedy gotch So it's almost Yeah,
656
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:12.159
it's like.
657
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:16.039
You have people there that you can laugh with me like.
658
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.039
The rest of the group is in the zoom chat
659
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.960
and stuff too. Yeah, right, but it's so much more
660
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:24.239
of a it's more of a like stand up to
661
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:26.559
me has always been a conversation. I mean, it's kind
662
00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:31.920
of a one sided conversation, but you're talking to the audience,
663
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:36.000
whereas like just giving kind of being able to write
664
00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:39.360
the jokes and give a funny presentation online. I mean,
665
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:41.079
I think that works so much better.
666
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:44.840
Yeah, that's a really interesting concept. I'm just sitting here
667
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:48.400
thinking when I I don't consider myself a comedian, but
668
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.920
when when I first tried to do this, I wrote
669
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:53.480
for about a month, for eight minutes, and I had
670
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:55.320
sewn up in the studio and I just did my
671
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.960
whole show just for that one person and see if
672
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:03.639
I get some sort of feedback emotionally or laughing or something.
673
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.920
So I wonder if if by doing these online shows
674
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:11.960
as a comic and getting zero feedback, if that could
675
00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:17.320
in a way make you stronger on stage to fail
676
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.639
and to be able to push through that and like
677
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:23.519
you're doing it for you're not getting a response, So
678
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.280
when you go out there on stage for the first
679
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:29.440
time and there's an audience, it's almost like it feels
680
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.960
like it would be like a tiger on a piece
681
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:34.599
of meat. I mean, just like you would be so
682
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:38.119
much more driven and just really going after and hey,
683
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.639
this joke didn't work. Who cares at least I'm not
684
00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:41.480
on zoom. You know.
685
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:48.360
It's just, yeah, it's a better perspective. And no, I
686
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.039
mean I think you're absolutely right, like there is this
687
00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:54.039
and honestly, I think that's been you know, like a
688
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.199
lot of things in you know, my life. I feel
689
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:02.639
there is kind of this this feeling of Yeah, I
690
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.119
mean you once you know what it feels like to
691
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:09.440
have it taken away, and it's not your fault. Yeah,
692
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:11.679
you never want to you never want to lose it again,
693
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.800
so you're absolutely willing to kind of do whatever it takes.
694
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:18.639
Yeah, Because I mean I haven't done anything comedy wise
695
00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:21.519
for the entire past year, and I feel like, man,
696
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:25.159
I'm gonna have I'll literally be starting over. But I'm
697
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:27.719
really looking forward to to getting back into that, you know.
698
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.360
And I mean we're in the process of recording a
699
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:32.760
new album and all that stuff, but you know, the
700
00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:36.119
comedy stuff. I was really starting to just fall in
701
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.440
love with the whole thing and making friends with all
702
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.360
these new comics and all these new people and getting
703
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.400
inspired and everything from these different people. It was just
704
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:46.400
it was awesome, and I just I really miss it.
705
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:49.679
I have a question, another question for you. Do you
706
00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:53.360
remember your very first time on stage as a comic.
707
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:54.719
I'm sure you do.
708
00:37:55.079 --> 00:38:00.280
Yeah, good bad. Luckily it was it. I've heard other
709
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.159
people say it this way, and I think it's absolutely
710
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:09.239
the truth. You kind of say the universe played a
711
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:14.280
trick on you, because I got some last my first
712
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:16.519
time on stage. I actually I have a video of it.
713
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.199
I mean it was, you know, twenty eleven. We didn't
714
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:22.679
quite have like iPhones, but I had a little kind
715
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:26.280
of handheld camera I took and had a friend record it.
716
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:31.000
And it's I can't watch it. It's too embarrassing for
717
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:35.280
me as a you know. I'll send you a very
718
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:44.960
private YouTube link. I was wearing shorts. It was horrible. Wow,
719
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.239
But yeah, I definitely remember it was.
720
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:49.199
It was.
721
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:55.960
In May of two thousand and eleven. I had just
722
00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:05.679
graduated with my Masters to Grow from Liberty University, and
723
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.079
so I you know, I had this, I had this
724
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:14.119
you know, secondary degree. I was ready to attack the workforce,
725
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.119
and I was working with a guy, and we both
726
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:21.519
loved stand up and we found there was this little
727
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.679
this hotel that ran you know, stand up ship, like
728
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:27.960
in the hotel bar, they'd run stand up shows on
729
00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.800
the weekend and they had an open mic and we
730
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.119
dared each other and yeah, this is two weeks after
731
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:40.519
I graduated, and you know, went up, got a couple
732
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:42.400
of laughs and never looked back.
733
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:43.679
Man.
734
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.159
And then after that, I can't believe that was almost
735
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:47.800
ten years ago.
736
00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:51.920
It's crazy, man, It's weird. Like, so after you got
737
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:55.719
laughs on your first show, and then when there were
738
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:58.360
some times right after that, did you feel like this
739
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:00.960
is going to happen every single time? You know, I'm
740
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:03.239
going to get last time, And then you get on
741
00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:06.320
stage later on in the same exact joke the next
742
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.119
show and it sucks.
743
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:13.159
It's just horrible. It's so the first time, you know,
744
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:15.840
it felt like nothing to feel like when you have
745
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:18.039
kind of a nice response, it felt nothing to fill
746
00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.960
you know, five minutes just an open mic set. And
747
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.039
then the next time, when you're just eating it, you're like,
748
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:28.280
you know, two and a half minutes goes by and
749
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:29.880
you're like, well that's all I've got.
750
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:31.840
So yeah, I'm not doing this and I'm not doing
751
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:32.440
this anymore.
752
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.559
So for you? Was comedy just that? Was it a dare?
753
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:37.199
Or like?
754
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.639
Is it something that you've always wanted to do?
755
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:46.320
It was definitely something I always wanted to always wanted
756
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:51.519
to do. I despite well, if you know, any of
757
00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:54.760
the listeners don't know, I'm I'm kind of a big guy.
758
00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:06.880
You're a hug You're but I am h Yeah, I'm
759
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:11.519
six feet seven inches tall and definitely built.
760
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:13.760
Can you just can you just say that one more time?
761
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:17.599
I am six feet seven inches tall?
762
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:30.239
And I'm sorry? He could hear that?
763
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.239
Did you hear the music?
764
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:33.480
No, couldn't hear it.
765
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:34.440
You'll hear it in the show.
766
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.480
Definitely recorded. It was pretty funny.
767
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.119
Yeah, And I mean, you know, always, I guess people
768
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.159
assumed I do sports and stuff, but I was definitely
769
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:50.119
a theater kid in high school and I always I
770
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:54.159
always love performing. Okay, I always love performing, and I
771
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:59.800
like to do things by myself. So okay, I I.
772
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:03.599
Mean, I what do you let me? I have?
773
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:06.000
I have?
774
00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:10.199
I do have one more question? I follow that question that, Okay,
775
00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:17.280
what else do you like to do by yourself?
776
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:25.400
There's there's smooth jazz playing behind there playing Yes, well,
777
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:28.119
I I I I have so much respect for for
778
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:34.000
you guys and for musicians. I I could not. It's
779
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.880
why comedy works for me because I can just you.
780
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:41.079
I I get to write all my own material. I
781
00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:44.039
kind of live and die by the strength of what
782
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:49.960
I'm doing. I mean, I'm blown away that how bands work,
783
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:54.360
how people can collaborate with you know, I mean there's
784
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.800
you two, and then how many people do you have
785
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:02.719
backing you up right, kind of like a full like
786
00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:03.840
a like three more.
787
00:43:03.639 --> 00:43:07.960
People, well at least you know, usually four, four or five,
788
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:12.440
you know when when kissed me or not hit And
789
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.599
we were on those huge tours, we had five on stage,
790
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:18.639
two buses, an eighteen wheeler. I mean it was a
791
00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:20.400
big and then you have.
792
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:23.719
The collaboration with other songwriters, you know, to write for
793
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:26.159
the record and all that, so which I.
794
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:28.679
Really you know and and and you and I talked
795
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:34.760
about this, but prior to us coming on online, I
796
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:40.000
have found so many similarities in the musician world and
797
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.840
the comic world, and it's it's it's so uncanny to
798
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:49.480
me that it's there's there's so many different similarities and uh,
799
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.719
but yet there's there's so many differences too in the
800
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.159
creation the creation process of a joke. And I was
801
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:03.159
really hoping that collaborate reading with other comedians on bits
802
00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:07.119
and jokes would be as equally it would be equally
803
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:13.840
as effective and efficient as collaborating with other songwriters. And
804
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:15.840
I found that that is not the case at all.
805
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:18.519
And I mean I do a lot of obviously, I
806
00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:20.519
do a lot of music in my comedy because that's
807
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.519
what I do. I'm a songwriter, so right, you know,
808
00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:26.840
I write spoofs or I write original things. And if
809
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:29.519
I have a topic and I think it's funny, I
810
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.000
can write a song about that by myself or with
811
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:34.599
somebody else. But the thing of it is, it's like,
812
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.599
you know, with comedy. You know, I sat down with
813
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:41.039
a couple of different writers, you know, and and it's
814
00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:43.199
weird because it's like, no one's laughing at the bit.
815
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:46.400
So you're going down through this thing and it's like, oh, yeah,
816
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:48.280
that I could see how that would be funny, But
817
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:50.639
in the moment when you're writing it, you're not laughing.
818
00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.639
And it really messes with me because I want to
819
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:55.920
be like writing and go like when you're songwriting and
820
00:44:55.960 --> 00:44:58.039
you and you and you hit on a line and
821
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:01.039
you're like, oh yeah, man, it was awesome. That was awesome,
822
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:03.280
and in a in a in a comic writing session
823
00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:07.079
like uh yeah. And then she takes the apple and
824
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.639
she takes the apple out of her mouth and puts
825
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:11.719
it in the pigs butt and that's gonna be funny.
826
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.559
And you're like, and that's gonna be fun that's gonna
827
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:17.039
get a good laugh right there. They're like that get
828
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:20.000
a good laugh. And then when the pig turns around
829
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.519
and you know, it's just a whole it's weird because
830
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:25.800
you and you can see how it could be funny,
831
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.880
get there until people still try it, yeah, and it's
832
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:32.599
like and then you get out there and you get
833
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:34.079
ready to do it and you're like, man, maybe I
834
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:35.960
shouldn't do this. It's a new bit, you know. And
835
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.719
I think a lot of comics too that I found
836
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:40.719
just watch and do a lot of the same stuff
837
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.960
over and over and over again. And from a creative standpoint,
838
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:46.039
on my end of it, I was like, I have
839
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:48.280
to change my comedy thing. I'll do this show and
840
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:51.079
then I'll completely change the show. And that's not how
841
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:53.400
comedy works at all. Those big jokes that you work
842
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:56.880
in those big jokes we have are your hits, and
843
00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:59.440
it got to play those hits every single show. Like
844
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.000
John John telling the story about his dad in the
845
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.559
swimming pool. You know, he tells that. Every time I've
846
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:05.920
seen him, he done He's done that bit.
847
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:08.719
You know, it works every time.
848
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:12.280
And I've talked to other and people. It's like we
849
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:17.199
went and saw Andrew Dice Clay at Zany's and if
850
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:19.760
he didn't do the nursery rhymes that people, the people
851
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:20.960
would have burned the place down.
852
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:22.679
Yeah, they would riot.
853
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.920
They want to hear Hickory Dickory doc. You know, they've
854
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:26.639
got to hear that.
855
00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:29.400
And so well, what's interesting too on the other side
856
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.639
of that is I think it was the Seinfeld riding
857
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:34.559
in car what's the name of the.
858
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:41.639
Show cars with comedians, comedians and cars and then getting
859
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:43.159
coffee then they have to stop and get gased. I
860
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:44.119
think that's the official name.
861
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:50.199
So Eddie Murphy was talking about, you know, he has
862
00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:52.559
all this pressure on him to be funny with stuff
863
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.480
that's new, but if he goes in and he tries
864
00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:58.920
to work it, he's gonna get just like no slammed,
865
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.079
Like he's going to be rid of and critiques so much.
866
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.119
Well, he's not allowed to work out new materials, he's
867
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:04.880
not allowed.
868
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.079
To be He's got to be funny every time.
869
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:07.440
And that's why he didn't do comedy.
870
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:09.000
And that's so sad to me.
871
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:11.400
I mean, who does delirious and raw and then just
872
00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:13.599
disappears off the stage. I mean, like, this guy is
873
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.519
one of the funniest people that's ever been. He's Richard
874
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:19.760
pryor funny to me, you know, and to just to
875
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:21.639
walk away from that course, you know, he's done, he's
876
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:24.639
done well, and the other other aspects of his life.
877
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:27.400
But still, you know, uh man, that's just a it's
878
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:29.719
a travesty not to see him on stage doing doing
879
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:30.239
stand up.
880
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:35.039
It's just and I think that's it's it's one thing,
881
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:38.880
you know, I don't know. I mean, I think you
882
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:45.000
there's something beautiful about a comedy club like a ziny
883
00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:50.880
or uh you know, any anything on that scale. It's about,
884
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:55.199
you know too, two hundred people. It's close, it's dark,
885
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:58.920
it's that kind of thing, and you you kind of
886
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.320
you get that freedom to fail right in that environment,
887
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.800
whereas like when you hit a certain level and by
888
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.639
no fault of it, I mean, you know, it's not
889
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.280
his faulty games, super famous. He's just that talented. But
890
00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.079
when you get to like theaters and stadiums and you
891
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:20.039
kind of do have that expectation on you, it does
892
00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:23.400
become a lot harder. I completely agree. It becomes a
893
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:28.000
lot harder to work out new material and stuff like that, because, yeah,
894
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.280
like you said, people want to hear the hits mh.
895
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:33.639
But what's interesting, and I think different about comedy too,
896
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:38.079
is like, even if it's the hit, they can still evolve, right,
897
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.079
Like do you do you guys feel that like once
898
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:42.760
you hit, Once you write a song and you're like
899
00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:45.480
and you record it and it goes out and people
900
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:48.719
like it, it's done, and you just kind of have
901
00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:50.800
to well.
902
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.400
Again, I think it goes back to what you were
903
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:56.400
just saying when something is so successful, like are you
904
00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.719
gonna kiss me or not? It was a unicorn, Like
905
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.679
those don't come along very often in the music business,
906
00:49:03.239 --> 00:49:06.079
and it's just it's it's kind of hard to get
907
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:09.079
past that, you know what I mean, Because that's the
908
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:11.400
big one. It's like, what are you going to do
909
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:12.119
now to top that?
910
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:15.280
And everyone expects you to top it. It's like, yeah, guys,
911
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:16.360
you don't top that.
912
00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:25.440
Another example in the comedy world, Jeff Foxworthy like the
913
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:28.000
whole red neck thing. You might be a redneck.
914
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:29.800
Nobody wants to hear anything else but that.
915
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.159
Yeah, it's just I can imagine it'd be really tough
916
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:38.840
to get past that, or building ball with the here's
917
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:39.320
your sign.
918
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.800
Yeah, well that's his big hit, that's what thing is.
919
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.280
They but they hit the point they kind of they
920
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:52.440
even found that really be like the that's like the
921
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:58.440
unicorn and unicorn right right, because it's it's just the tagline.
922
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:04.519
So they can write anything anything, and they can keep
923
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:08.360
writing new material that fits into that box. And you
924
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:14.480
have this never ending it's never ending, never ending, yeah, exactly,
925
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.159
whereas like I mean, you know you talk about kiss
926
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.320
me or not. I mean I would actually really love this.
927
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.320
Uh if all of a sudden, you know, in like
928
00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:25.880
a year, you guys come out and play a show
929
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:27.480
and it's like, oh and we've written this.
930
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:35.159
New verse, right yeah, Like no, it was friends and
931
00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:37.000
love Places, Friends and Love Places.
932
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:39.360
Yeah, no, it's under rolls too.
933
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:42.360
Oh he did he did do that and I forgot
934
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:42.639
about that.
935
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.039
But that but but I mean, but does like I
936
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.360
just think that's kind of a difference. But does that happen.
937
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:57.599
Well, yeah, I mean I think it could happen very rarely.
938
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.639
That's the only two instances that we just made that was.
939
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:02.519
I mean, one thing that we do in our live
940
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:07.880
show is we extend songs. We reimagined the song glass completely,
941
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:11.840
and so we've done some different things like that in
942
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:13.960
the live show. And I think the live show kind
943
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.239
of lends itself to like, Okay, I know how to
944
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:19.159
play the record, so I can I could say if
945
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:20.519
I'm going to a show and I want to hear
946
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:22.079
the records and I want to be I want to
947
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.639
be a little bit different. I want something more out
948
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:27.920
of you than just playing just regurgitating the same songs
949
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:28.559
over and over again.
950
00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:32.559
But a lot of times, a lot of times you'll
951
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:35.280
get Man, I just wanted to hear like the version
952
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:37.559
that I grew up listening to. That'd be like going
953
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:39.000
to see Bruce Springsteen and he.
954
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:41.559
Does reggae version of Brilliant Disguise.
955
00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:42.480
Yeah you know what I mean?
956
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:44.679
So's it could be awesome?
957
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.039
Yeah, yeah, you said that, I'm like, not, actually sounds
958
00:51:49.039 --> 00:51:52.519
pretty good night.
959
00:51:58.760 --> 00:51:59.800
So what you got coming up with?
960
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:03.079
You got to record that that'd be funny. That'd be funny.
961
00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:05.239
What what gigs do you have coming up that we
962
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.920
can get out to everybody? Astoria.
963
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:13.239
Oh, I'm going to be in I'm waiting to hear
964
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.559
on one, so I'm not going to say that. I've
965
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.440
got to show at the end of March in Morrisville,
966
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:27.039
North Carolina at one eight on Maine. Uh and then
967
00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:30.719
I think March third. Next Wednesday, I'm going to be
968
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:33.159
in Durham for a show that I'm headlining. So if
969
00:52:33.159 --> 00:52:34.960
you if you live you're listening, and you live in
970
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.559
Durham and you want to is this going to be
971
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:41.440
out by them? I don't know. Friday, Okay, cool? Yeah,
972
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:44.760
next Wednesday, if you're listening, you live around Durham, come
973
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:49.840
see me. You can check out all that stuff all
974
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:53.920
plut my social media at six seven comedy all spelled
975
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:56.880
out s I X S E V E N C
976
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:01.760
O M E D Y and plug my podcast yes please,
977
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yes please task that I was just yeah, I have this.
978
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I wrote a podcast called the Arts of Murder Arts
979
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:17.280
with an S, and it's not you know, a normal part.
980
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.320
I wrote an old nineteen thirties detective show that's funny
981
00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:25.880
and yeah, I got a lot of my comedian friends
982
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:29.800
to be on it. John Reef was on an episode
983
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.079
as a character, and it's been a lot of fun.
984
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:35.519
So checking that out would be cool.
985
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:40.199
Too, awesome man, and I do, yeah, I And we'll
986
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:42.719
put all these links and stuff in the in the description.
987
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:45.000
There's a couple of things. Yeah, there's a couple other
988
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:46.960
things that I just want to ask you real quick.
989
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:49.960
Shawna and I.
990
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:53.639
Get it's the smooth jazz so on no, no, okay,
991
00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:54.639
all right, right, cool, cool.
992
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:59.079
Cool, cool, I'll ask you that off loading. So she
993
00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:02.239
and Sehawna and I get it. People who hate on
994
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:05.000
us sometimes very rarely, but every once in a while
995
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.719
on social media, someone and we used to have this
996
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.679
thing called thomplin squares hater tweeted the week. And when
997
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:14.559
you do these big, massive arena shows, when you did
998
00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:17.440
these big, massive arena shows, you would have three different
999
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:22.039
artists on stage and three different fan bases together. So
1000
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:24.639
if one of them, I see one artist they hated you,
1001
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:27.880
bring it up. We want to hear Jason Aldean, you
1002
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.840
know what is the what is the and I know
1003
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:34.920
you probably you must know this, but what is the
1004
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:39.000
meanest thing or the most cruel and mean thing that
1005
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.039
that have either an audience member or a tweet or
1006
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.159
anything else. What's the crappiest thing that anyone's ever said
1007
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:45.400
to you?
1008
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:54.920
I certainly posted you know it's funny, Okay, Just the
1009
00:54:55.000 --> 00:55:00.840
general one is, I will you post a stand up
1010
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.400
clip online? I was like, hey, check out this stand
1011
00:55:03.480 --> 00:55:07.519
up comedy and I remember one uh, one person I
1012
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.159
think it was on Reddit just wrote underneath the video
1013
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:14.320
it was just like that's a very loose definition of comedy.
1014
00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:19.000
And I was like, oh, that one's that one's done.
1015
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:24.119
Could I get the thing that hurt? And I don't
1016
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:27.400
know why they hurt the way they do. Whenever I
1017
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.239
post something, uh, and someone just has to be a
1018
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:35.800
contrarian or like an actually butt person, you know, Like
1019
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:37.840
I'll post a picture and I'm like, hey, like look
1020
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:43.280
at this funny thing I'm doing, like on on Instagram.
1021
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:47.599
A couple of days ago, I was listening to an
1022
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:51.679
interview with Dave Grohl and he said they gott in
1023
00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:53.880
this like the Foo Fighters got in this tradition after
1024
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:57.360
a show where they would eat KFC fried chicken and
1025
00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:01.519
drink champagne. I didn't think it would work, right, Yeah, yeah,
1026
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:03.639
so that's where it was from. And I was like,
1027
00:56:03.719 --> 00:56:05.639
I was hanging out, you know, Saturday night. I didn't
1028
00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:07.960
have anything to do. Well, that sounds fun. I'm gonna
1029
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:12.559
try it now. I don't have Dave groll champagne money,
1030
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:15.599
all right, So I just Scott went and got like nice.
1031
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:16.039
You know.
1032
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:18.199
I think it was like a prosecco or something. And
1033
00:56:18.239 --> 00:56:21.239
I posted on Instagram being funny and like a bunch
1034
00:56:21.320 --> 00:56:25.039
of people were like, that's not champagne. And it's like, well,
1035
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:27.599
why do I even truck? Why do I try to
1036
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:29.199
entertain the people.
1037
00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:31.039
Who freaking cares?
1038
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:35.719
Now, why are you taking time out of your day
1039
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.519
to tell me something? I know, Just appreciate the joke.
1040
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.320
It's funny, man. Those are the low lives, and they
1041
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:46.000
are low lives. Those are the people who just they
1042
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.159
don't have anything going on in their life that's special,
1043
00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:51.280
and no one cares about anything they post probably and
1044
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.360
they hate that, yeah, because they don't have the nuts
1045
00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:55.559
to go out and do anything. I can put themselves
1046
00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:57.280
out there, you know what I mean. And those are
1047
00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.960
the people who always I mean, we've had people pound
1048
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:04.159
on Sean, but you don't look country and you're you're
1049
00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:06.760
rude or you're mean or whatever. I'm just all this crazy.
1050
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:09.599
I'm like, man, what are you freaking talking about? But
1051
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:11.159
that's the ones that you remember.
1052
00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:14.719
Man, I can honestly say that I've never just been
1053
00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:19.239
on Facebook or social media and like searched out something
1054
00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:20.960
that I could put down, you know what I mean.
1055
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:24.519
It's like even searching, just coming across something that goes, hey,
1056
00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:27.800
I like Donald Trump or I like Joe Biden and
1057
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:30.840
when and you just go, I'm gonna blast you for that.
1058
00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:33.559
How that's the work.
1059
00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:39.280
How small you must have to be to feel like
1060
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:44.039
your opinion matters on somebody else's profile, like hey, here's
1061
00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:46.800
a my new Maga hat or or here's my new
1062
00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:49.239
Joe Biden mask or whatever it is, whichever side. But
1063
00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:52.719
it's like, and people just I mean, you're going to
1064
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:57.199
hail you racist. I mean, just all this crazy stuff,
1065
00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:00.239
you know, And I'm just like that that just that
1066
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:02.360
just kills me. I want to know something else.
1067
00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:05.559
Well, I was going to say, I respect what you
1068
00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:08.400
guys did. If you guys would find I mean not
1069
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:10.280
that you were looking for him to find them, but
1070
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:14.440
you would take like the Thompson Square or Thompson Lane. Uh,
1071
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:20.599
eight of the week station that man, this entire time.
1072
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:21.599
I would try to remember it.
1073
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:23.119
You were going I know you were going for it.
1074
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.559
You try to It's okay, every joke's not going to work.
1075
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:31.960
Man. Man, Sometimes you forget the punchline. But if you
1076
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:35.599
take that and you blasted out there like you kind
1077
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:37.440
of take the power back from them. And I think
1078
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:38.760
that's that's really cool.
1079
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:42.199
Well, we used to do we did that. We would
1080
00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:45.599
we would post we would take a snapshot a screenshot
1081
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.159
of their profile and the mean tweet, and we would
1082
00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:54.480
post it to three million people and so then so
1083
00:58:54.719 --> 00:58:57.559
then I mean, I mean, our fans would go attack
1084
00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:01.440
those people because they know us as good people, you know.
1085
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:04.760
And there's a few people that shut down their Twitter
1086
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:07.079
accounts they got out of hand.
1087
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.360
What was really interesting that I found interesting was a
1088
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.920
lot of them would apologize after doing it.
1089
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.440
Oh, what didn't mean anything by that? Yeah, you called
1090
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:23.920
my wife a whore? How do you not mean anything
1091
00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:28.199
but all due respect, all due respect? Your wife looks
1092
00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:32.400
like a whore. And then you go, hey, I see
1093
00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:35.840
your message, you butt hole. Oh well, I didn't mean
1094
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:39.079
it in the context that that I said. That's what
1095
00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:41.000
I don't like about social media. You just say something,
1096
00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:44.280
people just they just they misdefine it. I'm like, you
1097
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.559
called her a whore? How do you not there's only
1098
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:48.800
one definition for that.
1099
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:51.239
What's crazy to me, too, is I don't think people.
1100
00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:54.920
I don't I don't think any taken by the way.
1101
00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:58.480
I don't think people take into accounts like the ripple
1102
00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:01.559
effects that that can create with someone.
1103
01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:04.440
Well, I think creatives are sensitive anyway. Yeah, so we
1104
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:06.960
and you you were especially bad at it. But we
1105
01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:08.440
get out the stage and be like, oh, look at
1106
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:10.880
all these tweets. Man, great show today, and Seanna would
1107
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:13.000
just keep searching. I just felt like she was searching
1108
01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:15.559
there's a bad one. I'm going to hang on to
1109
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:18.159
that stop And it was. It made me so mad
1110
01:00:18.199 --> 01:00:22.159
because you have all these great messages and her heart
1111
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:24.440
is so big and she wears it on her sleeve
1112
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.920
and she's so tender hearted and stuff. And when someone
1113
01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:29.360
pounded on her for like doing something good. You know,
1114
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:33.000
we did a thing with Child's Fun International, which we
1115
01:00:33.039 --> 01:00:35.320
went to Honduras and we filmed this video to go
1116
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:37.559
along with Glass. We were raising they were one of
1117
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:39.519
our sponsors. We were raising money for these kids. They
1118
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.559
don't have anything and people were like, way to bring
1119
01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.480
down my show or these kids, these poor cands, and
1120
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.239
I'm like what what what man?
1121
01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:54.159
You know? So anyway, but I definitely was Sean. I
1122
01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:57.360
do understand that because in its own way of the
1123
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:59.760
way I experienced it, Like, people don't really tweet at me.
1124
01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:06.719
I like Twitter, but that's where all my insanity goes. Yeah, yeah,
1125
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:12.199
I like I will write some wild stuff on it anyway. Okay, No,
1126
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:14.280
I was just gonna say, like, if I'm in a show,
1127
01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.599
I can be in a packed out show. Everybody can
1128
01:01:16.639 --> 01:01:18.800
be laughing, but I will always see the one person
1129
01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:22.599
that isn't. It's just it's this we I think it's
1130
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:24.679
a weird thing with creators and entertainers.
1131
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:26.559
No, I agree with that because I do the same
1132
01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:29.519
thing when I'm up on stage singing. Like I've done
1133
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:32.719
this before. We'd be playing a show and somebody would
1134
01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.480
be on their cell phone, like looking at their cell phone,
1135
01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:38.480
and I would go to the edge of the stage
1136
01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:41.440
and just stand there and just stare it right at them,
1137
01:01:41.639 --> 01:01:45.639
and everybody around them would be like, uh, she's watching
1138
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:48.519
you right now, and maybe elbow the person you know,
1139
01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:49.119
and I'm.
1140
01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:51.800
Just like, really, I mean that is awesome.
1141
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:55.960
Yeah, it's just she she gets crazy. She gets mean
1142
01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:58.440
on stage. Sometimes I don't get mean. Well, I'm just
1143
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.880
saying you call people out like that, it's funny. Is
1144
01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:06.440
that calling somebody else? Is that calling somebody? Yes, it's
1145
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.840
calling somebody out? What? What keeps?
1146
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:11.280
What?
1147
01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:14.519
I want to know you? I wish I could talk
1148
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.920
to you for two hours? What is your definition of
1149
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.000
success in as a comic? How do you measure success
1150
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.880
as a comic? Like, I'm a successful comic. You have
1151
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:31.360
thirty seconds.
1152
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:35.480
I want success to me. For me, it's going to
1153
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:40.159
be when I feel like I have said something that mattered.
1154
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:44.719
I mean, I'm not like a preachy comic on stage,
1155
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:49.159
but if I can, if I hit a point where
1156
01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:54.920
I can say something that kind of not only makes
1157
01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:57.639
people laugh but also makes them think. And that's the
1158
01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:01.559
corniest way on earth to say that. No, I get it,
1159
01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:07.199
but it's like to be to be recognized. As you know,
1160
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:10.119
there's there's times for goofy silly fun time, but there's
1161
01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:13.920
also times to where you say something that the matters
1162
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:16.440
and resonates with people right away. And if I can
1163
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.440
get to that point I feel like that, then I've
1164
01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:19.800
done what I set out to do.
1165
01:03:21.960 --> 01:03:23.199
Are you good at anything else?
1166
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:35.440
I'm a really good swimmer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really good.
1167
01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:37.960
I can I can play, I can play a little guitar.
1168
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:40.760
I'm not great at it. I'm not. I don't stay
1169
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:45.760
up and practice. You know, I'm no Keith for Tomico.
1170
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:51.199
There's only one of those. Hey, I can't thank you
1171
01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:52.480
enough for coming on here today.
1172
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.199
And oh no, thank you so much for inviting me.
1173
01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:56.000
This was a blast.
1174
01:03:56.039 --> 01:03:58.199
This has been a great one though. I will put
1175
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:03.960
the links to your u uh in the out and listen.
1176
01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:06.360
If you guys like comedy man and you like to laugh,
1177
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:08.519
this guy is not only a great comic, he's a
1178
01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:11.360
great human being. And that is my highest compliment for anybody.
1179
01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:15.119
And uh, I really appreciate you as a friend and
1180
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:18.559
as a as a co creator. And hopefully we can
1181
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:21.079
get together and uh, next time I come to see you,
1182
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:23.599
I will not be on the Keto diet and I
1183
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:31.800
will have pizza with you. Yes, that that's that really sucked,
1184
01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:35.760
by the way, to not have pizza and sit there
1185
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:37.440
and watch you eat it the whole time.
1186
01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.800
But uh, everybody, that was Brent Blakeney. Thank you so much,
1187
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:43.440
Brent for being with us and we hope we can
1188
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:44.679
do this again soon.
1189
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:46.280
Thanks my man, I'll see you later.
1190
01:04:46.840 --> 01:04:48.000
Bye, you gotta take care.
1191
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:55.719
Hey guys, it's Keep and Shawn here. Thank you so
1192
01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.760
much for tuning in to another exciting episode of Talking
1193
01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:02.760
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