Trascrizione completa di Rumble Reflections: Comedy, Confidence, and Confrontation w/ Kyd Kant Read

00:04:01,072 --> 00:04:01,502 If you're 77 00:04:04,202 --> 00:04:06,912 just like a skinny little polygamous boy walking down the street at night 78 00:04:06,972 --> 00:04:09,112 and all of a sudden, it's a lot. 79 00:04:09,122 --> 00:04:09,452 Right. 80 00:04:09,622 --> 00:04:11,532 So I was raised that way. 81 00:04:11,922 --> 00:04:14,192 Where I thought the world was 6, 000 years old. 82 00:04:14,372 --> 00:04:17,622 I thought that we were the most right and the most righteous people ever. 83 00:04:17,932 --> 00:04:22,652 And the most profound gift that I think I've ever been given in my life is the 84 00:04:22,652 --> 00:04:27,172 real is realizing that that worldview was a hundred percent wrong, right? 85 00:04:27,172 --> 00:04:29,612 That that world, it wasn't just a little bit wrong. 86 00:04:29,842 --> 00:04:31,942 It was a hundred percent wrong. 87 00:04:31,942 --> 00:04:36,982 It was not tied to reality at all, which taught me that I can 88 00:04:36,982 --> 00:04:39,062 be profoundly wrong about things. 89 00:04:39,407 --> 00:04:44,417 Yeah, and then you got to be able to eat the hell like I say all the time please 90 00:04:44,417 --> 00:04:49,862 fuck up if I'm wrong I will throw my hands up and be like hey I thought I was right. 91 00:04:50,572 --> 00:04:50,782 Right. 92 00:04:51,172 --> 00:04:52,462 Like, I'm not gonna die on the hill. 93 00:04:52,462 --> 00:04:53,482 Like if I'm wrong, I'm wrong 94 00:04:53,802 --> 00:04:57,522 because now no way, there's, I will never, I will die on every hill until 95 00:04:57,522 --> 00:05:00,522 it's obvious that I cannot, that that hill is not the right hill. 96 00:05:00,702 --> 00:05:00,912 Yeah. 97 00:05:00,912 --> 00:05:02,682 And then I get off that hill so fast. 98 00:05:02,742 --> 00:05:03,042 Yeah. 99 00:05:03,072 --> 00:05:03,402 Fuck that 100 00:05:03,402 --> 00:05:03,612 hill. 101 00:05:03,612 --> 00:05:06,762 I immediately, I'll flip my views so fast. 102 00:05:07,242 --> 00:05:07,482 ? Yes. 103 00:05:08,022 --> 00:05:11,082 Like the camera could pan over to somebody that I'm arguing with. 104 00:05:11,462 --> 00:05:12,932 Pan back, I'm gone. 105 00:05:13,987 --> 00:05:15,217 I'm standing with them now. 106 00:05:15,217 --> 00:05:15,697 Like that's 107 00:05:15,697 --> 00:05:17,496 right. 108 00:05:17,577 --> 00:05:21,807 And, and I honestly think, I think that that is, I think that's probably 109 00:05:21,807 --> 00:05:26,877 one of the reasons why you and I are drawn to comedy is that I think that 110 00:05:26,887 --> 00:05:29,067 comedy requires you to sort of have. 111 00:05:29,502 --> 00:05:35,692 A light, simultaneously light and firm hold on your opinions, where it's like 112 00:05:35,692 --> 00:05:39,942 you really have to believe strongly in what you're saying, but you also have 113 00:05:39,942 --> 00:05:43,442 to be able to sort of bounce around to a lot of different perspectives. 114 00:05:43,812 --> 00:05:48,702 And, and also I found too, this is one of the things I like doing 115 00:05:48,952 --> 00:05:53,942 on stage is I found that it's really funny to be wrong on stage. 116 00:05:56,057 --> 00:06:00,797 So if I'm publicly wrong and then everyone gets to laugh at me being wrong and 117 00:06:00,797 --> 00:06:04,927 then I get to be like, Oh, you guys, that's a really funny thing to do. 118 00:06:05,267 --> 00:06:10,567 And, and, and I think it's actually one of the ways that I think comedy is pro social 119 00:06:10,797 --> 00:06:12,817 is that we get to see stuff like that. 120 00:06:13,037 --> 00:06:18,327 Act it out in public where it's okay to say the wrong thing and then have that 121 00:06:18,327 --> 00:06:20,777 be funny because obviously I'm wrong. 122 00:06:22,157 --> 00:06:22,507 Like 123 00:06:22,557 --> 00:06:23,007 it's a joke. 124 00:06:23,017 --> 00:06:24,377 Like I tell people, come on. 125 00:06:25,117 --> 00:06:29,307 I'm joking, like, that's my, that's my whole, everything I go out there, 126 00:06:29,307 --> 00:06:31,847 I'm like, what do we, what do we really, what are we really mad about? 127 00:06:31,877 --> 00:06:35,657 Because growing up, right, we weren't allowed to just have an opinion. 128 00:06:36,347 --> 00:06:37,047 We had to prove it. 129 00:06:37,457 --> 00:06:40,377 We had to, if we felt some type of way, we had to say why. 130 00:06:40,637 --> 00:06:45,097 And not even on top of that, we had to sometimes argue against what we believed 131 00:06:45,097 --> 00:06:48,907 in, so that way we can fully understand where somebody else is coming from. 132 00:06:48,907 --> 00:06:51,067 Like, do you understand why they would feel this way? 133 00:06:51,427 --> 00:06:53,217 So I wasn't allowed to have an opinion. 134 00:06:53,577 --> 00:06:55,597 Unless I can argue against it too. 135 00:06:56,077 --> 00:06:59,097 And so now when I'm dealing with people, it's like, 136 00:07:01,327 --> 00:07:06,897 I can be, they can get not flustered or frustrated, but I'm like, Hey, I'm 137 00:07:06,917 --> 00:07:10,657 arguing something that I already know what you're about to come at me with. 138 00:07:10,667 --> 00:07:13,747 So like, it takes, it takes the argument, it takes the air out the argument. 139 00:07:14,157 --> 00:07:14,417 Right. 140 00:07:14,427 --> 00:07:15,986 It's like, Oh, you such a know it all, you think you know it all. 141 00:07:15,987 --> 00:07:18,527 I was like, it's not that I think I know it all, or I know I know it all. 142 00:07:18,917 --> 00:07:24,297 I literally have to, for me, even if I'm by myself, I have to prove myself 143 00:07:24,307 --> 00:07:28,577 right and wrong whenever I think about something like, why do I feel this way? 144 00:07:29,097 --> 00:07:30,857 How can I back up why I feel this way? 145 00:07:30,887 --> 00:07:34,067 And how can somebody think that I shouldn't feel this way too? 146 00:07:34,397 --> 00:07:37,127 So I already know I just, I'm just super prepared. 147 00:07:37,167 --> 00:07:39,027 I'm not, I don't think I'm right. 148

00:07:39,027 --> 00:07:39,967 I'm just really prepared. 149 00:07:39,997 --> 00:07:41,087 And I love to argue too. 150 00:07:41,127 --> 00:07:42,757 I will flip sides just to argue. 151 00:07:44,997 --> 00:07:47,357 And for me, it's really not even about the argument. 152 00:07:47,357 --> 00:07:49,367 It's like, it's about keeping the thing alive. 153 00:07:49,787 --> 00:07:50,067 Right? 154 00:07:50,067 --> 00:07:54,577 Like what argument does, what comedy does is comedy creates kind of like this thing 155 00:07:54,877 --> 00:07:59,387 that we all sort of see and get to be a part of and we're bouncing it around. 156 00:07:59,397 --> 00:07:59,707 Right? 157 00:07:59,847 --> 00:08:04,347 So if I can argue every angle of a thing, I get to, we get to go over here with it. 158 00:08:04,397 --> 00:08:05,237 We get to go over here with it. 159 00:08:06,452 --> 00:08:06,622 Right. 160 00:08:06,622 --> 00:08:09,622 There's all kinds of different ways that we can make it, make it funny. 161 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:13,322 And like, you're such a master of that when just going back and like 162 00:08:13,332 --> 00:08:17,492 looking at the, cause I've been editing clips of the rumble like all week. 163 00:08:17,492 --> 00:08:22,382 And so I've been sort of deep in the weeds and first off your first match 164 00:08:22,392 --> 00:08:28,332 up against Mark, Michael, uh, Marcinio was easily some of the best six 165 00:08:28,332 --> 00:08:29,972 minutes of comedy that I've ever seen. 166 00:08:31,152 --> 00:08:32,322 The crowd was hot. 167 00:08:32,462 --> 00:08:34,502 Michael went up, crushed. 168 00:08:34,862 --> 00:08:35,752 You came out. 169 00:08:35,822 --> 00:08:40,322 Crushed and then we brought you both up there and there was 170 00:08:40,322 --> 00:08:42,242 this like huge energy, right? 171 00:08:42,242 --> 00:08:46,182 This huge energy for both of you and like Michael, it's like, Oh my, I did Michael. 172 00:08:46,182 --> 00:08:48,812 And I'm like, Oh my God, I could, I can't, I cannot imagine 173 00:08:49,112 --> 00:08:50,502 that kid is going to top this. 174 00:08:50,532 --> 00:08:51,312 And then he did. 175 00:08:51,662 --> 00:08:54,822 But one of the things you do in that set that I love is you talk about your 176 00:08:54,822 --> 00:08:59,152 confidence that you could a hundred percent land an airplane, even though 177 00:08:59,152 --> 00:09:02,552 you have never flown an airplane and have no training, but you're just 178 00:09:02,552 --> 00:09:04,052 like, yeah, I could definitely do that. 179 00:09:04,622 --> 00:09:05,262 And when I say 180 00:09:05,292 --> 00:09:08,397 could, I'm not saying I can and I will. 181 00:09:08,907 --> 00:09:12,477 I'm saying there is, there is a chance I could land the plane. 182 00:09:13,137 --> 00:09:15,177 So don't take my, I'm like, I can do it. 183 00:09:15,347 --> 00:09:17,397 Like, yeah, anybody on this plane can do it. 184 00:09:17,397 --> 00:09:20,597 It doesn't mean it's going to be successful, but 185 00:09:20,777 --> 00:09:22,137 I'm strong enough to try. 186 00:09:22,647 --> 00:09:23,077 Right. 187 00:09:23,157 --> 00:09:24,947 I'm strong enough to try. 188 00:09:24,957 --> 00:09:28,327 And I think that really is that to me, I think is the essence of comedy. 189 00:09:28,617 --> 00:09:31,347 And it's just like, like, let's just, let's, let's try it. 190 00:09:31,387 --> 00:09:32,167 Let's see. 191 00:09:32,452 --> 00:09:36,282 And, and then that willingness to see, I think, I think it actually creates 192 00:09:36,282 --> 00:09:42,182 a lot of success because if you boldly go into any situation with the absurd 193 00:09:42,212 --> 00:09:46,612 confidence, really, with the absurd confidence of a white man, you go 194 00:09:46,612 --> 00:09:51,092 into any situation with the absurd, undeserved confidence of a white man. 195 00:09:52,027 --> 00:09:55,837 Generally, and so in some ways, I would just like to maybe say that even though 196 00:09:55,837 --> 00:09:58,757 white men have done terrible things, and I'm sorry for all the terrible 197 00:09:58,767 --> 00:10:04,027 things that we did, I would like to offer as our gift to the world, everyone 198 00:10:04,037 --> 00:10:05,437 should act like straight white men. 199 00:10:06,287 --> 00:10:06,877 Oh yeah! 200 00:10:07,377 --> 00:10:11,087 The absurd confidence of a straight white man that you can do 201 00:10:11,087 --> 00:10:13,027 whatever you think you want to do. 202 00:10:13,957 --> 00:10:14,307 Things 203 00:10:14,307 --> 00:10:18,187 will change when you, like, not even a can't beat em, join em. 204 00:10:18,777 --> 00:10:24,127 Type thing, but if you show white people how white people act by acting like 205 00:10:24,137 --> 00:10:27,317 white people, things will change so fast. 206 00:10:27,817 --> 00:10:28,467 So fast. 207 00:10:28,597 --> 00:10:30,287 They'll be like, we can't have people out here acting like this. 208 00:10:30,287 --> 00:10:31,557 Like, this is what you guys are doing. 209 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:35,887 Like, this is what we're dealing with. 210 00:10:36,197 --> 00:10:38,007 So now, let me do what you do. 211 00:10:38,272 --> 00:10:39,212 But look like me? 212 00:10:39,682 --> 00:10:40,422 Perfect example. 213 00:10:40,602 --> 00:10:41,982 Go a little history lesson, right? 214 00:10:42,172 --> 00:10:44,282 California has some of the strictest gun laws, right? 215 00:10:44,942 --> 00:10:50,212 They used to be very loose on, uh, like open carry rifles, all that. 216 00:10:51,002 --> 00:10:54,812 It wasn't until the Black Panthers started organizing and just walking down the 217 00:10:54,812 --> 00:10:56,322 street with guns that they were like, no. 218 00:10:56,962 --> 00:11:00,172 Rifles need to be, you have to go through all these hoops, doo doo doo doo doo. 219 00:11:00,492 --> 00:11:03,852 The second you start doing what the powers that be are doing, they'll be 220 00:11:03,852 --> 00:11:05,072 like, we can't have them doing that. 221 00:11:05,072 --> 00:11:07,242

They're going to just, they just add another hoop. 222 00:11:07,692 --> 00:11:09,722 And so we just have to keep adding hoops. 223 00:11:10,532 --> 00:11:13,612 And what a brilliant, what a brilliant way out of racism. 224 00:11:13,697 --> 00:11:19,147 Like pretend and fake your way. 225 00:11:19,177 --> 00:11:23,307 Like, and, and I also want to like acknowledge to pretend and 226 00:11:23,307 --> 00:11:27,977 fake, but also there's a, there's a substantial amount of courage 227 00:11:28,157 --> 00:11:30,917 that is required to do that, right. 228 00:11:30,927 --> 00:11:35,297 To show up in those spaces and to say, yo, you guys, we are going to, we're going 229 00:11:35,297 --> 00:11:38,107 to show you the way that you are acting. 230 00:11:38,412 --> 00:11:42,362 Even though we have more power than us and a history of not doing 231 00:11:42,362 --> 00:11:43,712 great things with that power. 232 00:11:43,712 --> 00:11:43,971 Yeah, 233 00:11:44,252 --> 00:11:44,932 yeah, yeah. 234 00:11:45,102 --> 00:11:46,272 We're going to go ahead and do that. 235 00:11:46,582 --> 00:11:50,792 And, and I think that that is one, I think it's obviously needed, right? 236 00:11:50,812 --> 00:11:53,872 Like, like we talked a little bit about this kind of before, 237 00:11:53,912 --> 00:11:57,602 before we started recording, but I'm coming from a background of. 238 00:11:57,952 --> 00:12:04,482 Having fully acknowledged and met with and I think dealt with my white supremacy. 239 00:12:04,742 --> 00:12:09,272 And what I mean by that is I a hundred percent acknowledge and recognize that the 240 00:12:09,382 --> 00:12:14,822 way that my brain was programmed, my brain was programmed to be A white supremacist. 241 00:12:14,842 --> 00:12:16,362 It was said, white is better. 242 00:12:16,362 --> 00:12:17,292 White is best. 243 00:12:17,412 --> 00:12:18,792 Everything else is second best. 244 00:12:19,072 --> 00:12:20,372 Go do white things. 245 00:12:20,522 --> 00:12:24,302 And that I think is absolute horse shit because white And that was from a cult. 246 00:12:25,042 --> 00:12:25,502 From a cult. 247 00:12:25,522 --> 00:12:25,762 Yeah. 248 00:12:25,762 --> 00:12:28,982 So I grew up in like this teeny tiny little white supremacist cult and 249 00:12:28,982 --> 00:12:31,112 they were like, we are white people. 250 00:12:31,122 --> 00:12:32,842 We are the most white people. 251 00:12:33,162 --> 00:12:38,362 We're like white people dipped in bleach and, you know, slathered in flour. 252 00:12:42,237 --> 00:12:44,337 And, and then we're going to go out into the world and we're going 253 00:12:44,337 --> 00:12:45,687 to make the whole world white. 254 00:12:46,097 --> 00:12:48,567 And it didn't take me long. 255 00:12:48,567 --> 00:12:52,177 Like really all it took me was I, a couple of interactions with 256 00:12:52,177 --> 00:12:53,797 people who were Brown, right? 257 00:12:54,157 --> 00:12:58,607 I had a couple of interactions with people who were Brown and, and all, 258

00:12:58,637 --> 00:13:01,707 and it immediately, it was like, It was like a light switch, right? 259 00:13:01,707 --> 00:13:06,197 It was like, oh, obviously none of that, but I still had all of that programming. 260 00:13:06,437 --> 00:13:09,227 And because I still had all that programming, I also saw all the 261 00:13:09,227 --> 00:13:11,617 ways that other white people still had that programming. 262 00:13:11,857 --> 00:13:15,517 And I saw the way that the institutions and the structures 263 00:13:15,517 --> 00:13:17,317 that we've created in America. 264 00:13:17,697 --> 00:13:19,537 Are built that way, right? 265 00:13:19,647 --> 00:13:24,847 Like to say, to say America is a white supremacist nation is not slander, right? 266 00:13:24,847 --> 00:13:26,917 We're not, we're not saying people are bad. 267 00:13:26,997 --> 00:13:32,457 What we're saying is this is a country that was built, the foundations and the 268 00:13:32,457 --> 00:13:37,947 structure of this country were built to make white people better, to empower white 269 00:13:37,947 --> 00:13:39,807 people at the expense of everyone else. 270 00:13:39,997 --> 00:13:43,267 And what's wild to me is I'm not saying anything that you don't know, 271 00:13:43,602 --> 00:13:49,182 You know, you, you've known that the whole time, but, but I think that 272 00:13:49,192 --> 00:13:52,342 white people, because they don't experience it and they think, Oh, 273 00:13:52,342 --> 00:13:54,342 well, I'm not personally racist. 274 00:13:54,672 --> 00:13:58,162 I'm not personally, I don't personally think that I'm better. 275 00:13:58,462 --> 00:14:01,702 We can get sort of get a little defensive rather than I think the 276 00:14:01,702 --> 00:14:04,002 appropriate thing to do, which is to just acknowledge that you're 277 00:14:04,002 --> 00:14:05,772 wrong, acknowledge that you're wrong. 278 00:14:05,782 --> 00:14:07,702 And then hopefully make some kind of joke about it. 279 00:14:07,762 --> 00:14:08,042 Right. 280 00:14:08,082 --> 00:14:11,802 Where, where, where I try to step in and be like, like one of the things 281 00:14:11,812 --> 00:14:13,492 that happened and the rumble is. 282 00:14:14,272 --> 00:14:16,662 You got like, you went up against Jason Paxman. 283 00:14:17,082 --> 00:14:19,172 Jason Paxman had brought a bunch of people. 284 00:14:19,172 --> 00:14:21,472 He was crushing it too, like he was on fire. 285 00:14:21,762 --> 00:14:25,322 You had brought like your family and your mom especially I think was the one. 286 00:14:25,572 --> 00:14:27,742 I think I had to shout down your mom. 287 00:14:28,152 --> 00:14:32,596 And uh, and I needed a microphone to do it. 288 00:14:32,747 --> 00:14:36,977 And, uh, so both, and both of you guys fucking killed, 289 00:14:37,117 --> 00:14:38,617 like both of you guys killed. 290 00:14:39,057 --> 00:14:42,537 And then there's this moment where I try to listen to the audience 291 00:14:42,537 --> 00:14:43,707 and it's the same amount of noise. 292 00:14:43,737 --> 00:14:44,657 I pull out my phone. 293 00:14:44,767 --> 00:14:46,307 You both hit the same decibel. 294 00:14:46,357 --> 00:14:47,787 And so I'm like, okay, let's flip a coin. 295 00:14:48,277 --> 00:14:50,637 And it's a George Washington quarter. 296 00:14:50,937 --> 00:14:54,377 And you're immediately like, no, that, that motherfucker is a racist. 297 00:14:54,387 --> 00:14:56,517 Like we cannot do that. 298 00:14:57,127 --> 00:15:01,217 And, and so that kind of becomes a joke, but it's also true. 299 00:15:01,687 --> 00:15:02,017 Yeah, 300 00:15:02,297 --> 00:15:03,377 it's also true. 301 00:15:04,647 --> 00:15:08,767 No, especially to um, because the crowd had the chance to I I'm not 302 00:15:08,767 --> 00:15:15,257 gonna lie When I went back up and I was like all three black people lost to 303 00:15:15,257 --> 00:15:16,887 different forms of white people, right? 304 00:15:17,197 --> 00:15:21,487 Like essence essence lost to just a white lady, right? 305 00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:22,277 Just really white lady. 306 00:15:22,277 --> 00:15:23,047 All right. 307 00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:28,387 Yeah No, no essence lost to set Essence did lose to Seth. 308 00:15:28,417 --> 00:15:28,687 Yes. 309 00:15:28,867 --> 00:15:29,157 Yeah. 310 00:15:29,257 --> 00:15:29,507 Yeah. 311 00:15:29,507 --> 00:15:34,277 So Seth, gay, white man, who some people, not, not him particularly, but people 312 00:15:34,277 --> 00:15:35,677 would just be like, Oh, gay, white man. 313 00:15:35,707 --> 00:15:37,497 They are caricatures of black women. 314 00:15:37,497 --> 00:15:37,797 Right. 315 00:15:38,157 --> 00:15:40,957 So Seth lost to a gay white man. 316 00:15:40,977 --> 00:15:42,467 It was Mark that lost to the white woman. 317 00:15:42,467 --> 00:15:42,697 Right. 318 00:15:42,737 --> 00:15:43,027 I can't 319 00:15:43,287 --> 00:15:44,687 Mark, Mark lost to Jason. 320 00:15:45,287 --> 00:15:45,457 No, 321 00:15:45,457 --> 00:15:45,587 I 322 00:15:45,587 --> 00:15:45,777 lost 323 00:15:45,787 --> 00:15:46,087 to Jason. 324 00:15:46,667 --> 00:15:48,657 But Mark lost to Jason in round one. 325 00:15:49,167 --> 00:15:50,087 Oh, that's right. 326 00:15:50,177 --> 00:15:50,497 Okay. 327 00:15:51,337 --> 00:15:52,567 Mark loses to Jason. 328 00:15:53,707 --> 00:15:57,737 And then, so, um, And Jason, Jason was on the podcast last week. 329 00:15:57,747 --> 00:16:00,447 Jason looks like a white supremacist. 330 00:16:00,607 --> 00:16:00,967 Yeah. 331 00:16:00,997 --> 00:16:01,767 That's what I was going to say. 332 00:16:01,787 --> 00:16:03,187 The dread head lost to the skinhead. 333 00:16:03,692 --> 00:16:06,932 And then the black woman lost to the gay man, and then the dread, and then the 334 00:16:06,942 --> 00:16:08,782 skinhead just took out the black light. 335 00:16:08,792 --> 00:16:09,692 Took out two of them. 336 00:16:11,012 --> 00:16:12,892 And they were all like, back to back to back. 337 00:16:12,892 --> 00:16:16,812 I tried to remind the crowd, I'm

like, hey, just so you guys know, the past 338 00:16:16,822 --> 00:16:18,992 two comics eliminated looked like me. 339 00:16:19,172 --> 00:16:20,092 So this is your chance. 340 00:16:20,687 --> 00:16:22,637 This is your chance to be on the right side of history. 341 00:16:22,647 --> 00:16:27,067 Somebody somewhere has to stand up and say, and say, okay. 342 00:16:28,837 --> 00:16:32,077 And the timing was even, was even, cause not only was there, that was 343 00:16:32,087 --> 00:16:33,647 such a great moment too, right? 344 00:16:33,647 --> 00:16:38,057 Because, and what I loved about that dude is you were listening, right? 345 00:16:38,067 --> 00:16:38,957 You were listening. 346 00:16:38,977 --> 00:16:40,247 You knew what had happened. 347 00:16:40,947 --> 00:16:45,827 You were aware of, and not only that, you were also aware of, there was, because not 348 00:16:45,827 --> 00:16:49,887 only was that happening in that moment in that room, but also the wider context is 349 00:16:50,127 --> 00:16:54,427 this is November, uh, 15th or 16th, right? 350 00:16:54,597 --> 00:17:02,172 So it's like 10 days after all of America looked at a, Competent black 351 00:17:02,172 --> 00:17:08,872 woman and an orange Cheeto and they were like, you know who we would like? 352 00:17:09,122 --> 00:17:10,882 The orange Cheeto, please. 353 00:17:11,532 --> 00:17:11,842 Yeah. 354 00:17:11,842 --> 00:17:12,202 Yeah. 355 00:17:12,562 --> 00:17:13,362 That had just happened. 356 00:17:13,362 --> 00:17:13,822 Why? 357 00:17:14,642 --> 00:17:16,052 Cause he had the confidence. 358 00:17:16,932 --> 00:17:19,262 Cause he had the, cause he sat there and he was like, 359 00:17:19,272 --> 00:17:21,482 I can fly this motherfucking plane. 360 00:17:21,732 --> 00:17:21,912 Yeah. 361 00:17:22,402 --> 00:17:28,072 He called like, and I'm in no way endorsing, supporting whatever does. 362 00:17:28,152 --> 00:17:31,272 I don't even like getting political, but when you just look at it, what it is, 363 00:17:31,332 --> 00:17:36,702 Since 2016, since 2016, Trump has been like, I'm going to be in the White House. 364 00:17:37,182 --> 00:17:39,742 He goes to a 16, he loses in 20. 365 00:17:39,752 --> 00:17:41,322 He says, I'm coming back. 366 00:17:41,582 --> 00:17:43,872 Not only am I coming back, we're going to try to take it over right now. 367 00:17:44,072 --> 00:17:46,632 And then for the past four years, Trump is everywhere. 368 00:17:46,662 --> 00:17:49,822 Trump has been on the campaign trail for the past four years. 369 00:17:50,092 --> 00:17:51,912 And he's like, I'm going to win. 370 00:17:52,182 --> 00:17:55,892 And then Kamala, she wasn't saying I'm going to win. 371 00:17:55,912 --> 00:17:57,742 She's like, I believe we're going to win. 372 00:17:58,042 --> 00:18:00,332 Uh, I think I have a chance. 373 00:18:00,332 --> 00:18:02,532 Like why we're going to, we're going to beat him. 374 00:18:02,542 --> 00:18:03,382 She wasn't saying we're going to win. 375 00:18:03,382 --> 00:18:04,862 She's like, we can beat Donald Trump. 376 00:18:05,122 --> 00:18:06,252 She wasn't trying to win. 377 00:18:06,512 --> 00:18:07,662 She was trying to beat Donald Trump. 378 00:18:08,212 --> 00:18:11,392 Which that one gave her the dub, but the like, the, the 379 00:18:11,392 --> 00:18:13,082 fine line in between each one. 380 00:18:13,342 --> 00:18:17,662 And so like, when we come in, I, when I do things, I have to be like, I 381 00:18:17,682 --> 00:18:19,012 have to think that I'm going to win. 382 00:18:19,082 --> 00:18:24,862 I have, I already have my celebration, I have my acceptance speech, I have 383 00:18:24,872 --> 00:18:29,642 what like, whatever I like, The future I live in, I've already won. 384 00:18:29,922 --> 00:18:31,152 And so that's how I go up on stage. 385 00:18:31,212 --> 00:18:32,072 I've already won. 386 00:18:32,122 --> 00:18:33,012 I've just got to do it now. 387 00:18:33,342 --> 00:18:36,062 And, and honestly, dude, I think, I think there's something really 388 00:18:36,072 --> 00:18:41,682 powerful about the, the mentality of that, because what humans do, right. 389 00:18:41,702 --> 00:18:45,592 Is we, we live, we're these physical creatures, right. 390 00:18:45,812 --> 00:18:49,752 But we also are these, these mental creatures who have created, because 391 00:18:49,752 --> 00:18:52,522 we can't, we can't directly interact with the world that we live in. 392 00:18:52,932 --> 00:18:53,162 Right. 393 00:18:53,162 --> 00:18:57,002 We have to do it through our senses and through what, like, so literally 394 00:18:57,002 --> 00:19:00,532 what's happening is every human is creating kind of a mental model 395 00:19:00,532 --> 00:19:05,622 of their universe and whatever it is that you think is what you see. 396 00:19:06,072 --> 00:19:09,532 And so if you go into a situation and you think. 397 00:19:09,877 --> 00:19:10,937 I'm going to win. 398 00:19:11,877 --> 00:19:15,727 I will be successful and it's almost, almost to a maddening, like, 399 00:19:15,917 --> 00:19:20,047 like Donald Trump, like, again, don't really want to get political. 400 00:19:20,047 --> 00:19:20,687 I don't want to, 401 00:19:21,477 --> 00:19:21,717 especially 402 00:19:22,017 --> 00:19:24,517 like I do, I don't want to be seen to be endorsing that man. 403 00:19:24,907 --> 00:19:27,117 But what I will say is there are two things. 404 00:19:27,127 --> 00:19:33,127 One is his willingness to just go into absurd confidence and then 405 00:19:33,257 --> 00:19:35,587 act in that absurd confidence. 406 00:19:36,237 --> 00:19:36,747 And me? 407 00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:38,557 And then double down on it. 408 00:19:38,767 --> 00:19:41,567 He doubled down and he doubles down on everything, right? 409 00:19:41,567 --> 00:19:44,537 So let's take that skill and let's give it to people. 410 00:19:44,577 --> 00:19:46,357 Let's, let's give it to all the other people, right? 411 00:19:46,357 --> 00:19:49,777 Let's give that, that energy to the Kamalas of the

future. 412 00:19:49,777 --> 00:19:50,047 Right? 413 00:19:50,197 --> 00:19:54,417 And then the second thing that Donald Trump does really, really well, I think is 414 00:19:54,537 --> 00:19:56,607 Donald Trump is really good at listening. 415 00:19:57,447 --> 00:20:00,117 He goes out to these rallies, which I, he goes out to these rallies 416 00:20:00,127 --> 00:20:02,167 and he just starts saying shit. 417 00:20:02,487 --> 00:20:06,576 And this is what he did in 2016. 418 00:20:06,577 --> 00:20:09,397 And, and like every good comic knows that's what we do. 419 00:20:09,397 --> 00:20:13,477 We just all, the only reason that we're funny, well, we have 420 00:20:13,477 --> 00:20:16,936 a good sense for funny, but we're also constantly saying shit. 421 00:20:17,267 --> 00:20:20,167 and listening to how it lands with other people. 422 00:20:20,327 --> 00:20:25,767 And so Donald Trump got to go in front of thousands of people and run his mouth and 423 00:20:25,777 --> 00:20:31,097 listen to which parts of what he said got traction and then he just doubles down on 424 00:20:31,107 --> 00:20:36,317 them and it doesn't matter if it doesn't matter if Mexico is actually going to 425 00:20:36,317 --> 00:20:41,797 build the wall what matters is there are millions of people in America who love 426 00:20:42,007 --> 00:20:46,407 to hear Donald Trump say I'm gonna build a wall and Mexico's gonna pay for it. 427 00:20:48,272 --> 00:20:48,382 It's a 428 00:20:48,392 --> 00:20:49,132 bit, right? 429 00:20:49,132 --> 00:20:52,482 He's doing a bit and he's doing a bit with such confidence that he's 430 00:20:52,482 --> 00:20:55,402 actually now in, in the White House. 431 00:20:56,192 --> 00:21:00,132 He taught, he confidenced himself into the world leader. 432 00:21:01,057 --> 00:21:01,397 Yeah. 433 00:21:01,867 --> 00:21:02,347 Yeah, he did. 434 00:21:02,507 --> 00:21:07,707 And if Donald Trump can do that, I think that you and I and the rest of the people 435 00:21:07,707 --> 00:21:11,507 who are involved in Comedy Rumble and the rest of all, all, all the comedians of 436 00:21:11,507 --> 00:21:16,937 the world, I think that we can confidence our way into a world that's not racist. 437 00:21:17,557 --> 00:21:21,507 Yeah, that's fair play, that is taken care of, or yeah, or flying airplanes. 438 00:21:24,977 --> 00:21:25,917 Yeah, exactly. 439 00:21:25,997 --> 00:21:26,727 A hundred percent. 440 00:21:26,727 --> 00:21:27,357 I think that. 441 00:21:27,837 --> 00:21:28,367 Oh man. 442 00:21:29,087 --> 00:21:30,227 I feel like we got on the line. 443 00:21:30,227 --> 00:21:32,657 I'm trying to bring us, bring us maybe back to, so there 444 00:21:32,657 --> 00:21:33,947 was, there's this coin toss. 445 00:21:34,057 --> 00:21:37,017 Oh, I wanted to talk about the energy of the room. 446 00:21:37,067 --> 00:21:37,427 Right? 447 00:21:37,427 --> 00:21:41,407 So, so we're, we're in this, we're in this point. 448 00:21:41,887 --> 00:21:46,337 Um, I've watched, I watched the recording so many times and there's this moment 449 00:21:46,367 --> 00:21:49,167 where in fact, maybe do you want to, do you want to watch it with me? 450 00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:50,837 Okay. 451 00:21:51,877 --> 00:21:53,317 Let me, let me see if I can pull it up. 452 00:21:55,437 --> 00:22:01,877 Comedy Rumble, Las Vegas, Rumble 3, Round 2. 453 00:22:04,697 --> 00:22:06,217 Let me see if I can share this. 454 00:22:11,827 --> 00:22:15,707 Cause this dude is really one of the, one of the fun things about the Rumble is 455 00:22:15,707 --> 00:22:23,397 that I get to be on stage and sort of in the energy of other comics and, and also 456 00:22:23,397 --> 00:22:25,807 in the energy of the experience, right? 457 00:22:25,807 --> 00:22:29,107 Cause the experience is such because of the competition that it's so, there's 458 00:22:29,107 --> 00:22:33,357 so much really high energy around the competition, the eliminations. 459 00:22:34,007 --> 00:22:39,327 Um, this particular moment was just so, oh my God. 460 00:22:39,327 --> 00:22:40,907 And you're so fucking funny, dude. 461 00:22:43,307 --> 00:22:43,677 Appreciate that. 462 00:22:44,497 --> 00:22:47,697 Let's just, in fact, I just want to do, because look at, look at what the fuck 463 00:22:47,697 --> 00:22:51,327 you're doing in this, share, share sound. 464 00:23:12,097 --> 00:23:13,127 Your sound went away, brother. 465 00:23:19,307 --> 00:23:20,117 Can you see this? 466 00:23:22,537 --> 00:23:27,147 So I want to just, number one, I want to thank you for getting the, the color memo. 467 00:23:27,187 --> 00:23:30,967 So you were paying attention and everyone was just coordinated that 468 00:23:30,967 --> 00:23:32,157 night because look, we've got. 469 00:23:32,352 --> 00:23:37,702 You in red, or black with like a little red stripe, um, there's, her name's 470 00:23:37,702 --> 00:23:40,632 Alex, I met her after the show, she's sitting on the front row, bright red 471 00:23:40,632 --> 00:23:44,792 hair, you've got a cute little red hat over here, which looks kind of MAGA, 472 00:23:44,812 --> 00:23:47,912 but it wasn't, it was something else, but it is kind of funny that, that 473 00:23:47,912 --> 00:23:51,702 it's red right there, um, but look at, just watching you is such a treat. 474 00:23:51,852 --> 00:23:53,618 And a lot of people be like, I couldn't live with my mom, 475 00:23:53,618 --> 00:23:54,486 bro, that ain't who I am. 476 00:23:54,487 --> 00:23:56,347 I can't do that are me, right? 477 00:23:56,347 --> 00:23:56,647 One. 478 00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:57,652 I know how to communicate. 479 00:23:57,832 --> 00:23:58,807 So I have a microphone. 480 00:23:58,867 --> 00:23:59,587 I know how to talk. 481 00:24:00,457 --> 00:24:02,107 Two, I'm really good at setting boundaries. 482 00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:03,007 Mom, stay in your room. 483 00:24:03,012 --> 00:24:03,692 And I have friends in room 484 00:24:06,517 --> 00:24:08,467 and three, I'm really good at convincing women. 485 00:24:08,707

--> 00:24:09,337 Oh, let's go to your room. 486 00:24:12,427 --> 00:24:14,647 So one, just listening to them, right? 487 00:24:14,647 --> 00:24:15,517 You are. 488 00:24:15,577 --> 00:24:18,217 You are crushing it right now. 489 00:24:19,917 --> 00:24:20,937 It's so fun. 490 00:24:21,207 --> 00:24:23,747 And then we get to you. 491 00:24:23,747 --> 00:24:24,257 Keep going. 492 00:24:24,257 --> 00:24:24,677 You keep going. 493 00:24:24,677 --> 00:24:25,577 You're hilarious. 494 00:24:28,647 --> 00:24:30,927 Then we get to, where is it? 495 00:24:31,707 --> 00:24:32,897 Okay, so then I come up. 496 00:24:34,577 --> 00:24:35,527 And again, Red. 497 00:24:40,537 --> 00:24:41,297 What the hell? 498 00:24:42,877 --> 00:24:43,577 I'm like, get back here! 499 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:47,947 I didn't hear you. 500 00:24:48,267 --> 00:24:49,877 Through all that, I really did not hear you. 501 00:24:51,452 --> 00:24:55,122 I know because your brain was doing something more interesting. 502 00:24:56,692 --> 00:24:59,282 I was already at five and I'm like, I did what I needed to do. 503 00:24:59,622 --> 00:25:00,772 I can go do whatever now. 504 00:25:01,332 --> 00:25:01,632 Yeah. 505 00:25:01,672 --> 00:25:02,052 Yeah. 506 00:25:02,572 --> 00:25:03,442 So then you, you're back. 507 00:25:05,802 --> 00:25:07,062 My brain is your brain. 508 00:25:07,532 --> 00:25:07,972 Okay. 509 00:25:08,402 --> 00:25:09,202 Oh God. 510 00:25:09,562 --> 00:25:12,572 So then, then I, this is great because then this is the moment 511 00:25:12,572 --> 00:25:14,872 when I realize and I'm aware, right? 512 00:25:14,912 --> 00:25:19,722 I'm like, I know I'm the host and I'm white and I'm like, oh my god, 513 00:25:19,722 --> 00:25:24,462 we've already eliminated, eliminated Essence and we've eliminated Mark and 514 00:25:24,462 --> 00:25:27,386 now we have, now this is number three. 515 00:25:28,617 --> 00:25:32,147 And so I primed him up like, I'm like, y'all, like, pay attention. 516 00:25:32,147 --> 00:25:33,391 I'm so glad this 517 00:25:33,391 --> 00:25:34,946 is not my job right 518 00:25:34,946 --> 00:25:35,257 now. 519 00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:36,190 So I just 520 00:25:36,190 --> 00:25:38,678 want y'all to remember what you've already done. 521 00:25:38,678 --> 00:25:39,300 What all 522 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:40,855 of us have already done. 523 00:25:40,855 --> 00:25:41,166 Let's 524 00:25:41,166 --> 00:25:42,409 make it, let's make 525 00:25:42,409 --> 00:25:43,031 it work. 526 00:25:47,142 --> 00:25:49,312 If you would like to see Jason go through 527 00:25:49,312 --> 00:25:50,342 the round three, make some noise. 528 00:26:05,342 --> 00:26:06,501 I love this question. 529 00:26:06,502 --> 00:26:08,472 You're asking, is it how long it goes? 530 00:26:08,782 --> 00:26:12,942 Because that's going to come into play in about, in about 20 seconds. 531 00:26:13,312 --> 00:26:15,342 Who can go into the longest? 532 00:26:17,212 --> 00:26:18,131 Which, number one, is it? 533 00:26:18,432 --> 00:26:20,332 Amazing energy for Jason, right? 534 00:26:20,332 --> 00:26:23,132 And Jason, Jason had come out, Jason had done, he'd killed. 535 00:26:23,242 --> 00:26:24,202 He'd been doing a great. 536 00:26:24,202 --> 00:26:28,992 So he, he, and what I love the most about this rumble is, and we kind of 537 00:26:28,992 --> 00:26:32,972 referenced this earlier, but everyone did their job, like every single 538 00:26:32,972 --> 00:26:36,162 one showed up and did their best. 539 00:26:36,372 --> 00:26:41,872 And because of that, we all collectively got to have a fantastic night, which 540 00:26:41,942 --> 00:26:45,462 I, I was, nobody left, nobody left. 541 00:26:45,682 --> 00:26:46,682 Everyone was there. 542 00:26:46,732 --> 00:26:47,972 Everyone was like in that. 543 00:26:47,992 --> 00:26:52,452 And it was such a magic energy to be in to like, I, it felt like 544 00:26:52,452 --> 00:26:54,842 I, there were so many moments where I felt like I was floating. 545 00:26:56,672 --> 00:26:57,042 Yeah. 546 00:26:58,432 --> 00:27:01,802 Like, uh, like when I was going up there again, this was the biggest 547 00:27:01,802 --> 00:27:02,912 crowd that I'd been in front of. 548 00:27:03,472 --> 00:27:08,192 And to be completely honest, that first round, even like before my round 549 00:27:08,202 --> 00:27:13,542 with Jason, when I was going against Michael, I had so much time to prepare 550 00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:15,682 for that first minute of unused comedy. 551 00:27:15,682 --> 00:27:15,982 Right. 552 00:27:16,332 --> 00:27:17,022 And then. 553 00:27:17,597 --> 00:27:20,217 Like two days before the actual rumble, I finally got 554 00:27:20,217 --> 00:27:22,197 an idea of something I can say. 555 00:27:22,427 --> 00:27:26,007 And so I'm not even really listening to Michael's round as he's 556 00:27:26,017 --> 00:27:27,347 going, like I'm paying attention. 557 00:27:27,697 --> 00:27:29,567 But I'm just sitting there like just going over my joke, 558 00:27:29,597 --> 00:27:30,687 just like going over my joke. 559 00:27:30,687 --> 00:27:34,087 Because the second the lights hit me, I lose like the first 10 seconds of my joke. 560 00:27:34,547 --> 00:27:36,001 And then I just like go from there. 561 00:27:36,742 --> 00:27:39,612 But I was like, okay, I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna say this, I'm 562 00:27:39,612 --> 00:27:40,832 gonna say this, I'm gonna say this. 563 00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:44,242 And then I was listening to Michael and he says something about having 564 00:27:44,242 --> 00:27:45,552 the confidence to do something. 565 00:27:45,932 --> 00:27:48,932 And the whole joke that I prepped for the past three days, I was 566 00:27:48,932 --> 00:27:49,862 like, I'm not doing any of that. 567 00:27:50,632 --> 00:27:52,612 I'm not confident in that joke. 568 00:27:52,612 --> 00:27:57,472 And I went up there, I'm like, what am I confident in? 569 00:27:58,052 --> 00:27:58,832 Yes! 570 00:28:01,112 --> 00:28:03,652 And it's like you say, just

listen, just listen to what they were saying. 571 00:28:04,372 --> 00:28:07,152 Well, and, and not only that, cause I would, maybe we'll jump 572 00:28:07,152 --> 00:28:10,002 back and show that clip too, because what you do there is great. 573 00:28:10,032 --> 00:28:14,032 Cause you come out with this really great joke, but also because you were 574 00:28:14,032 --> 00:28:20,052 listening, you knew that there was a whole crew of white dudes in the front row. 575 00:28:20,387 --> 00:28:21,317 Who were from 576 00:28:21,317 --> 00:28:22,336 and 577 00:28:22,817 --> 00:28:23,827 so we're farmers. 578 00:28:23,857 --> 00:28:27,307 And so who definitely had done something with a tractor at some point. 579 00:28:27,747 --> 00:28:31,217 And so not something you were confident in and you've been 580 00:28:31,227 --> 00:28:33,317 listening to what's been going on. 581 00:28:33,317 --> 00:28:36,037 And so you were able to step in and there's this fantastic, 582 00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:36,707 cause you get in there. 583 00:28:36,857 --> 00:28:37,557 It's funny. 584 00:28:37,717 --> 00:28:40,337 You're talking about airplanes and then you're like, I play tractor 585 00:28:40,337 --> 00:28:43,727 simulator and a tractor can't be that different from an airplane. 586 00:28:44,067 --> 00:28:47,467 And then you go, you guys know something about tractors, right? 587 00:28:47,987 --> 00:28:48,787 Boom. 588 00:28:48,847 --> 00:28:49,267 Right. 589 00:28:49,327 --> 00:28:50,427 Big eruption from them. 590 00:28:50,427 --> 00:28:54,017 And then that got a bigger up because everyone saw them reacting. 591 00:28:54,277 --> 00:28:56,827 And so just masterfully done. 592 00:28:57,067 --> 00:28:57,887 And why? 593 00:28:57,947 --> 00:29:00,997 Because you had confidence and because you were listening, right? 594 00:29:00,997 --> 00:29:03,697 So there's this delicate balance of we got to have both. 595 00:29:03,877 --> 00:29:08,067 If you just go in with confidence and you just barrel over everything that's 596 00:29:08,067 --> 00:29:09,952 happening, You're not going to connect. 597 00:29:10,432 --> 00:29:14,352 And if you just go in with listening, if you go into soft, then you're 598 00:29:14,352 --> 00:29:16,172 not, you're not the commander. 599 00:29:16,202 --> 00:29:22,422 And, and no matter what style of comedy you do, what everyone who sees you, 600 00:29:22,562 --> 00:29:27,152 whatever, what everyone in the audience actually wants is for you to be in charge. 601 00:29:28,502 --> 00:29:29,682 They want you to be in charge. 602 00:29:29,682 --> 00:29:31,362 They want you to take them on a journey. 603 00:29:31,702 --> 00:29:35,292 And, and if you don't do that, then they're going to do something else. 604 00:29:36,382 --> 00:29:40,142 I need to go up there and say, I'm funny, you're gonna laugh, and 605 00:29:40,372 --> 00:29:41,562 you're gonna pay attention too. 606 00:29:41,902 --> 00:29:45,152 Otherwise, the side conversations start, the phones come out, da 607

00:29:45,152 --> 00:29:48,732 da da, it's, it's really, It's really fast to lose the crowd. 608 00:29:48,972 --> 00:29:52,182 And so you have, like, when I come up there, I'm like, it's like 609 00:29:52,192 --> 00:29:53,122 you said, you just got to hit it. 610 00:29:53,132 --> 00:29:55,712 You got to hit it and be paying attention to what you're hitting too. 611 00:29:55,712 --> 00:29:57,752 Otherwise you're just going to push people off. 612 00:29:58,732 --> 00:29:59,082 Yeah. 613 00:29:59,362 --> 00:30:05,322 So, uh, I've, I've now been become aware of the potential, uh, racist 614 00:30:05,332 --> 00:30:06,742 train that we're going to run into. 615 00:30:07,042 --> 00:30:10,192 And I'm like, please, your audience do not do it. 616 00:30:10,212 --> 00:30:13,842 Think about, cause not only, not only had Kamala just happened 617 00:30:14,112 --> 00:30:15,882 literally the night before. 618 00:30:16,277 --> 00:30:19,607 and a crazy thing that I still cannot understand. 619 00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:22,337 Jake Paul somehow beat Mike Tyson. 620 00:30:26,477 --> 00:30:33,437 So we have a, uh, uh, uh, an orange Cheeto man defeating a competent white woman. 621 00:30:33,857 --> 00:30:40,157 And then we have a young, just absurdly overconfident YouTuber, white YouTuber 622 00:30:40,597 --> 00:30:44,087 beat up an accomplished black legend. 623 00:30:44,577 --> 00:30:45,347 So that 624 00:30:45,357 --> 00:30:47,407 is the full That was elder abuse. 625 00:30:47,757 --> 00:30:51,987 We watched, we watched like 10 rounds of just elder abuse. 626 00:30:52,097 --> 00:30:55,347 You're not putting anybody else's 65 year old grandpa in the ring. 627 00:30:55,977 --> 00:30:56,487 No, 628 00:30:58,187 --> 00:30:58,557 we're not. 629 00:30:58,867 --> 00:31:03,837 But it's Mike Tyson, and he's crazy, and so of course we can do it to him, right? 630 00:31:04,377 --> 00:31:05,277 Right, but if you, 631 00:31:05,277 --> 00:31:10,597 even if you watch like recent Mike Tyson videos, he's a lot more chill 632 00:31:10,597 --> 00:31:12,587 now, except for that interview he did with that little girl. 633 00:31:13,142 --> 00:31:16,412 That was so funny when he said that life is meaningless and after you 634 00:31:16,412 --> 00:31:19,562 die, there's nothing else after she's he's been interviewed by like a 14 635 00:31:19,562 --> 00:31:26,962 year old girl besides that crazy Mike Tyson he was he's like look I just I 636 00:31:26,962 --> 00:31:31,762 used to fight I'm calm now Sure, I'll put on a show for you guys and he got 637 00:31:31,782 --> 00:31:34,742 like 28 year old prime of his life fit 638 00:31:37,242 --> 00:31:38,812 Just whooping on the old man, bro. 639 00:31:39,282 --> 00:31:43,222 Full of like all of this unearned white confidence, right? 640 00:31:43,222 --> 00:31:48,182 Just full of like, I have millions of views on YouTube. 641 00:31:48,582 --> 00:31:48,812 And 642 00:31:48,812 --> 00:31:48,992 so 643 00:31:48,992 --> 00:31:51,032 I'm gonna He knows he's

going into the history books. 644 00:31:51,052 --> 00:31:55,197 He's fueled by like At some 50 years from now, they're gonna talk 645 00:31:55,197 --> 00:31:58,797 about Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, which is the crazy thing to say 646 00:31:58,797 --> 00:32:01,067 right now, today, still right. 647 00:32:01,277 --> 00:32:05,747 Especially, especially because if you put 28-year-old Mike Tyson up 648 00:32:05,747 --> 00:32:11,037 against Jake Paul, Jake Paul would be, would, wouldn't exist anymore. 649 00:32:11,307 --> 00:32:12,057 He would be boxing. 650 00:32:12,057 --> 00:32:12,687 They wouldn't sanction 651 00:32:12,687 --> 00:32:12,747 a 652 00:32:12,747 --> 00:32:13,047 fight. 653 00:32:13,857 --> 00:32:14,532 They would not 654 00:32:18,257 --> 00:32:19,157 They're like, he wants to fight. 655 00:32:19,157 --> 00:32:19,397 Who? 656 00:32:19,427 --> 00:32:20,627 No, get away from me. 657 00:32:21,307 --> 00:32:22,297 What are you talking about? 658 00:32:22,297 --> 00:32:22,927 You're crazy. 659 00:32:24,402 --> 00:32:27,332 So that's the context that is going on. 660 00:32:27,852 --> 00:32:33,002 And then that brings us to this moment, which this is, this is arguably one of my 661 00:32:33,012 --> 00:32:38,362 very favorite moments on stage, because I love to me, comedy is all energy, right? 662 00:32:38,362 --> 00:32:42,252 It's all about, it's all about playing with the energy of humans. 663 00:32:42,572 --> 00:32:46,122 And I think it's really a sacred thing that we do because we're, 664 00:32:46,402 --> 00:32:48,582 people are coming to our show. 665 00:32:48,592 --> 00:32:50,162 They're giving us their energy. 666 00:32:50,162 --> 00:32:51,562 And then we get to do. 667 00:32:51,867 --> 00:32:52,917 Something fun with it. 668 00:32:53,067 --> 00:32:57,107 And so, and I love the energy that everyone gives right here and especially 669 00:32:57,107 --> 00:32:58,977 the energy that gets given to you. 670 00:32:58,987 --> 00:33:02,917 Cause some people really show up for you, uh, right here. 671 00:33:21,677 --> 00:33:24,093 I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get it back. 672 00:33:24,093 --> 00:33:27,861 I'm like, okay, well, most of this is done. 673 00:33:37,292 --> 00:33:40,732 I have the microphone. 674 00:33:45,332 --> 00:33:46,692 I am the talking stick. 675 00:33:47,122 --> 00:33:49,442 I am the, I am in charge. 676 00:33:53,712 --> 00:33:54,872 Such a great moment. 677 00:33:54,912 --> 00:33:58,482 And then, so all of that gets out and then, and then I feel all of that. 678 00:33:58,482 --> 00:34:01,902 And so I'm like, I was like, that's really intense. 679 00:34:03,742 --> 00:34:06,972 And then we do the decibel measurer and then we do the coin toss. 680 00:34:07,002 --> 00:34:13,467 But what I, the reason I want to show that is The energy there, right? 681 00:34:13,497 --> 00:34:17,827 And the, the, the gift, I wanted to use that to sort of highlight the 682 00:34:17,837 --> 00:34:22,807 gift of what it is that we do and the opportunity that sort of baked 683 00:34:22,807 --> 00:34:27,977 into what we do, because we have the opportunity to sort of step into a role. 684 00:34:28,152 --> 00:34:31,112 Where everyone kind of channels their energy through us. 685 00:34:31,132 --> 00:34:31,372 Right. 686 00:34:31,372 --> 00:34:36,462 So a whole bunch of people in that audience saw themselves in you and wanted 687 00:34:36,462 --> 00:34:38,622 to like fill you up with that energy. 688 00:34:38,842 --> 00:34:43,332 And that, that was to me a really beautiful thing to watch. 689 00:34:43,592 --> 00:34:47,192 Like it was really, really beautiful to see you on stage. 690 00:34:47,447 --> 00:34:53,067 To see you thriving, to see you stepping in, like to have that 691 00:34:53,107 --> 00:34:57,527 audience throughout the whole show, so generously give you their energy and 692 00:34:57,527 --> 00:35:01,047 then for you to, to deserve it so well. 693 00:35:01,467 --> 00:35:05,237 So I think what I want to say there is I just want to thank you and compliment 694 00:35:05,247 --> 00:35:11,217 you and say, thanks for, thanks for being up to the energetic task of, of 695 00:35:11,217 --> 00:35:13,007 channeling all of that energy for us. 696 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:14,426 And thanks for giving us a lot of energy. 697 00:35:14,737 --> 00:35:16,337 Really, really good show. 698 00:35:16,687 --> 00:35:19,947 Um, and, and throwing all of yourself into what you did that night. 699 00:35:21,397 --> 00:35:22,087 Oh, it was dope. 700 00:35:22,117 --> 00:35:25,917 Um, that night and the experience of it with the crowd, everything that 701 00:35:25,917 --> 00:35:29,947 happened, cause like Jason, I've been doing comedy or that was his 11 time. 702 00:35:29,967 --> 00:35:35,797 I've been doing comedy for about a year, maybe, and have had nothing like that 703 00:35:35,797 --> 00:35:37,587 to, to the point, like to this day. 704 00:35:38,107 --> 00:35:42,237 And so I knew like when I watched comics and like, I watched a lot 705 00:35:42,237 --> 00:35:46,257 of YouTube comedy, like, uh, like the don't tell comedy, the dry bar. 706 00:35:46,702 --> 00:35:49,772 Um, Chocolate Sundaes, Laugh Factory, all that, right? 707 00:35:49,772 --> 00:35:51,882 Like they're always showing clips of just underground comics 708 00:35:51,882 --> 00:35:52,822 of people doing their thing. 709 00:35:53,262 --> 00:35:56,142 And some of them be really rocking the room to the point where 710 00:35:56,142 --> 00:35:59,022 like everything they say is just flowing and going and going. 711 00:35:59,352 --> 00:36:02,072 And I was like, I want like, when I started doing comedy, 712 00:36:02,072 --> 00:36:03,102 I was like, that's my goal. 713 00:36:03,542 --> 00:36:06,612 One of my, my side mission is to be a cool comic, right? 714 00:36:06,642 --> 00:36:07,842 I've always just wanted to go up there. 715 00:36:08,267 --> 00:36:13,567 Hand in pocket and I just talk and it's just killing the crowd, but 716 00:36:13,887 -->

00:36:18,667 that's not who I am really because I need to like, I to do with my hands. 717 00:36:18,827 --> 00:36:19,267 You know what I'm saying? 718 00:36:19,267 --> 00:36:20,547 So like the, I have the drink. 719 00:36:20,827 --> 00:36:21,887 That wasn't even a joke. 720 00:36:21,937 --> 00:36:22,467 That's real. 721 00:36:22,477 --> 00:36:26,167 Like if I'm talking with just with no microphone or like with nothing in my 722 00:36:26,167 --> 00:36:27,892 hand, This hand's all over the place. 723 00:36:28,192 --> 00:36:30,362 When I'm sitting here, this keeps me locked in. 724 00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:33,342 It's almost like a little anchor, a little focus beam. 725 00:36:33,622 --> 00:36:38,602 And so, to go out with the type of comic that I am, like it wasn't the cool comic, 726 00:36:38,632 --> 00:36:42,932 but it was still the energetic hype comic, and then still everything was 727 00:36:42,932 --> 00:36:46,472 hidden on point like it was supposed to, and I could just flow and flow and flow. 728 00:36:46,792 --> 00:36:50,987 That was A really great experience for me as far as like how the rumble goes. 729 00:36:50,987 --> 00:36:55,107 And that's like, I don't know, it's, it's, it's hard to put in words, but like 730 00:36:55,107 --> 00:36:58,917 to want to recreate that and have that type of energy and that type of crowd, 731 00:36:59,387 --> 00:37:01,837 that's what, that's what it was about. 732 00:37:01,847 --> 00:37:03,317 That's what I need, like me losing. 733 00:37:04,307 --> 00:37:04,867 That's whatever. 734 00:37:04,867 --> 00:37:08,637 Losing by a coin toss, I would rather have lost by the coin toss than by 735 00:37:08,657 --> 00:37:10,247 somebody actually being funnier than me. 736 00:37:10,777 --> 00:37:12,907 So, to lose, to say, you know what I mean? 737 00:37:12,907 --> 00:37:14,027 Like, so I was cool with it. 738 00:37:14,057 --> 00:37:16,997 And then, all the attention that I got afterwards, too, 739 00:37:16,997 --> 00:37:18,747 was like, Hey, you were robbed. 740 00:37:18,757 --> 00:37:19,497 It should've been you. 741 00:37:19,507 --> 00:37:20,097 It should've been you. 742 00:37:20,167 --> 00:37:22,987 I got at least 20, it should've been yous. 743 00:37:23,377 --> 00:37:26,887 And even that right there was like, Okay, so tonight was a good night. 744 00:37:26,917 --> 00:37:27,677 Like, I didn't lose. 745 00:37:28,867 --> 00:37:29,247 Excuse me. 746 00:37:30,097 --> 00:37:34,077 I didn't lose, like I didn't win, but like, I, I definitely did not lose that. 747 00:37:34,077 --> 00:37:35,577 And I like, it was, that was a good time. 748 00:37:36,317 --> 00:37:40,297 Dude, there, there are two things that I want to, I want to say in response to 749 00:37:40,297 --> 00:37:44,167 that, cause one is I want to just, I want to thank you for seeing the rumble for 750 00:37:44,167 --> 00:37:47,537 what it is, which is that ability to. 751 00:37:47,912 --> 00:37:49,642 I didn't win, but I didn't lose. 752 00:37:49,682 --> 00:37:49,932 Right. 753 00:37:49,932 --> 00:37:55,172 Because the thing that I think is really cool is that, um, everyone 754 00:37:55,172 --> 00:37:56,942 walked off that stage looking good. 755 00:37:57,122 --> 00:38:05,832 So as sort of a, as sort of a, um, uh, not a hack as sort of a gimmick, we've 756 00:38:05,842 --> 00:38:08,962 created a show that creates competition. 757 00:38:09,512 --> 00:38:09,782 Right. 758 00:38:09,812 --> 00:38:12,772 And that competition creates a sense of movement. 759 00:38:13,072 --> 00:38:15,042 It builds energy in a certain way. 760 00:38:15,342 --> 00:38:19,082 And for whatever reason, humans, we like to see some people win 761 00:38:19,082 --> 00:38:20,532 and some people lose, right? 762 00:38:20,542 --> 00:38:22,552 Like that's, that's a fun thing for us. 763 00:38:22,552 --> 00:38:23,352 We enjoy that. 764 00:38:23,702 --> 00:38:29,232 And so the, the structure is designed to do that, but there's a way to do it 765 00:38:29,252 --> 00:38:35,132 in, in which everyone wins where all of the comics and it really comes down to. 766 00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:38,437 How does every comic show up in that space? 767 00:38:38,497 --> 00:38:43,177 Do they understand that, that everything that happens is in service to the show. 768 00:38:43,447 --> 00:38:47,727 And if we all sort of, if we all lose focus of ourselves and say, it's not 769 00:38:47,727 --> 00:38:53,837 about me, it's about the show and then throw our energy show, then the show 770 00:38:53,857 --> 00:38:59,967 becomes fabulous and when the show is fabulous and we are in the show 771 00:39:00,177 --> 00:39:03,927 doing our best, we also look fabulous. 772 00:39:04,002 --> 00:39:04,371 Yeah, 773 00:39:04,652 --> 00:39:05,442 yeah, yeah. 774 00:39:05,662 --> 00:39:09,572 I think it brought, it brought out the best in everything and everybody too. 775 00:39:09,792 --> 00:39:12,882 Crowd too, like even though the crowd wasn't on stage, the crowd was performing. 776 00:39:13,682 --> 00:39:16,642 And you don't have, you don't have comedy without the crowd. 777 00:39:16,712 --> 00:39:19,082 Otherwise you just have a narcissist with a microphone. 778 00:39:20,922 --> 00:39:26,442 So like, so like everybody, everybody came through to make it what it was. 779 00:39:26,442 --> 00:39:29,772 Cause like what's really dope and kind of hard for me sometimes 780 00:39:29,772 --> 00:39:34,562 watching, like watching my clips that I've been sent, um, is the laugh. 781 00:39:34,907 --> 00:39:39,657 It sounds like a look I was like like And that's a good thing. 782 00:39:40,127 --> 00:39:40,667 You know what I'm saying? 783 00:39:40,687 --> 00:39:44,117 It doesn't sound like a fake laugh like the way when I say a joke and 784 00:39:44,117 --> 00:39:47,607 then the crowd comes in, it sounds like the shit that you see on TV. 785 00:39:47,737 --> 00:39:50,347 And I was like, yo, that's, and I'm like, that's me. 786 00:39:50,397 --> 00:39:52,957 Like, I'm like, I have the laugh

track, but it's not a laugh track. 787 00:39:52,957 --> 00:39:55,987 Like people actually take a shot every time I say laugh track. 788 00:39:55,987 --> 00:39:56,987 It's what's really happening. 789 00:39:57,397 --> 00:39:59,977 You so tuned in to what's going on. 790 00:40:00,287 --> 00:40:01,947 That, that it's your feet. 791 00:40:01,977 --> 00:40:04,537 And I love, I love to your, your attunement, right? 792 00:40:04,807 --> 00:40:06,747 That the audience is performing too. 793 00:40:07,097 --> 00:40:10,247 And that's something that I, I believe that, that, that in fact, that's one 794 00:40:10,247 --> 00:40:13,217 of the, one of the reasons I start the show with breathing and why I 795 00:40:13,227 --> 00:40:17,527 start the show with, with chair cult is I actually want to subtly tell 796 00:40:17,527 --> 00:40:20,487 the audience, this is also on you. 797 00:40:22,722 --> 00:40:28,442 You guys want a good show tonight, then you need to give us your attention 798 00:40:28,462 --> 00:40:32,262 and you need to be open just like, just like if I'm, if I ask someone 799 00:40:32,262 --> 00:40:34,912 on a date and I'm like, look, do you want to go on a date with me? 800 00:40:34,912 --> 00:40:37,312 And do you want to have a fun date or do you want to have a not fun date? 801 00:40:37,692 --> 00:40:38,962 And if you want to have a fun date. 802 00:40:39,517 --> 00:40:40,957 You've got to be open to me. 803 00:40:41,247 --> 00:40:43,137 You've got to be open to what I got to try. 804 00:40:43,637 --> 00:40:44,697 You got to try, right? 805 00:40:44,697 --> 00:40:46,047 You got to kind of make an effort, right? 806 00:40:46,777 --> 00:40:50,237 And if you're, if both people are making an effort, then you have a fun date. 807 00:40:50,567 --> 00:40:54,757 And if the both, if the audience and the comic are both making an effort, 808 00:40:54,967 --> 00:40:55,987 you're going to have a fun show. 809 00:40:57,627 --> 00:40:58,137 Exactly. 810 00:40:58,147 --> 00:40:59,437 Cause I was like, I'll tell you something. 811 00:40:59,467 --> 00:41:00,387 If it's funny, laugh. 812 00:41:00,427 --> 00:41:01,187 It's okay to laugh. 813 00:41:01,197 --> 00:41:04,437 Like, even if you think it's funny and you like, you're not a laughing person. 814 00:41:05,397 --> 00:41:08,777 If you laugh is telling me like, okay, I'm doing something right. 815 00:41:08,877 --> 00:41:11,517 I'm going to keep giving me, it's a semiotic relationship. 816 00:41:11,527 --> 00:41:12,237 I want to tell a joke. 817 00:41:12,237 --> 00:41:12,697 You're going to laugh. 818 00:41:12,737 --> 00:41:13,627 I want the laughter. 819 00:41:13,627 --> 00:41:14,507 You want the jokes. 820 00:41:15,097 --> 00:41:16,617 I got the jokes, the jokes. 821 00:41:16,647 --> 00:41:17,577 I already know. 822 00:41:17,577 --> 00:41:18,087 It's funny. 823 00:41:18,547 --> 00:41:19,467 I want the laughter. 824 00:41:19,467 --> 00:41:21,857 That's how, that's how it comes back in. 825 00:41:21,967 --> 00:41:24,397 So like, for example, I was at the last rumble too. 826 00:41:24,927 --> 00:41:29,097 And, um, How you said it with the, uh, the crowd has to be engaged. 827 00:41:29,107 --> 00:41:32,637 It's not going to be, it's not going to be funny unless like you're willing to be 828 00:41:32,637 --> 00:41:34,777 like, okay, these guys can make me laugh. 829 00:41:34,777 --> 00:41:37,047 Not like you're, you have to make me laugh. 830 00:41:37,427 --> 00:41:37,997 Yeah. 831 00:41:38,177 --> 00:41:39,097 Make, make me laugh. 832 00:41:39,437 --> 00:41:39,627 Right. 833 00:41:39,647 --> 00:41:41,677 Like nobody's making anybody laugh doing that. 834 00:41:42,057 --> 00:41:47,837 You got to put hands on, but with the last, uh, show, I was that. 835 00:41:48,247 --> 00:41:51,757 That moan in the back when you did the breathing exercise, because 836 00:41:51,757 --> 00:41:54,467 I can already tell that the crowd was like teeter tottering, right? 837 00:41:54,817 --> 00:41:56,767 They didn't know, they're like, is this going to be a good show? 838 00:41:56,807 --> 00:41:57,627 It's going to da da da. 839 00:41:57,987 --> 00:42:00,477 And so you said you need a audible exhale. 840 00:42:00,947 --> 00:42:01,527 I was like, 841 00:42:03,347 --> 00:42:04,477 Yeah, 842 00:42:04,727 --> 00:42:07,847 everybody's like, okay, it's okay to be, it's okay to be foolish. 843 00:42:07,857 --> 00:42:09,367 Like, this is a spot for laughs. 844 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:11,637 Stop taking it so serious. 845 00:42:12,502 --> 00:42:13,212 Thank you. 846 00:42:13,482 --> 00:42:17,702 Thank you for doing this because you're so that the last rumble we had. 847 00:42:17,952 --> 00:42:21,132 So the one you were on 112, this one, we had 47. 848 00:42:21,142 --> 00:42:22,272 So it was a smaller audience. 849 00:42:22,452 --> 00:42:25,302 And with a smaller audience, there's always a little bit of a risk. 850 00:42:25,682 --> 00:42:29,892 And, but we were able to get to the same place because everyone opened up. 851 00:42:29,922 --> 00:42:32,572 And, and that, I remember that moment, right? 852 00:42:32,572 --> 00:42:34,172 I get up there and I can feel them. 853 00:42:34,172 --> 00:42:37,462 There's some, there's some chittering, but there's also some reservedness. 854 00:42:37,462 --> 00:42:38,612 And so I'm like, okay, we do this. 855 00:42:38,842 --> 00:42:40,452 And there's you, you do that moan. 856 00:42:40,452 --> 00:42:40,522 Yeah. 857 00:42:40,707 --> 00:42:42,117 And that makes everyone laugh. 858 00:42:42,377 --> 00:42:43,207 And what's great. 859 00:42:43,947 --> 00:42:49,107 I love about that is, is getting, having everyone laugh and having it not be 860 00:42:49,107 --> 00:42:53,417 the person on stage, having it be them first, if they make themselves laugh 861 00:42:53,427 --> 00:42:55,567 first, then it's like, okay, now we're 862 00:42:55,717 --> 00:42:55,917 there, 863 00:42:56,227 --> 00:42:56,447 right? 864 00:42:56,457 --> 00:42:59,317 You're already, you've

already opened yourselves up. 865 00:42:59,347 --> 00:42:59,617 Okay. 866 00:42:59,617 --> 00:43:00,916 Now I can step into it. 867 00:43:00,917 --> 00:43:05,257 And we had, again, we had a fantastic rumble because even though the 868 00:43:05,257 --> 00:43:08,937 audience was small, they did their job and then the comics did their job. 869 00:43:08,937 --> 00:43:09,286 Yeah. 870 00:43:11,867 --> 00:43:12,467 Absolutely, yeah. 871 00:43:12,837 --> 00:43:17,017 You have to show people, not only is it okay to laugh, it's 872 00:43:17,017 --> 00:43:18,357 okay to laugh at yourself, too. 873 00:43:19,307 --> 00:43:23,537 Like, I've been to a few comedy shows, like, uh, like Chico Bean, for 874 00:43:23,537 --> 00:43:28,117 example, from Wildin Out, where, like, you know, buy tickets, it's sold out, 875 00:43:28,297 --> 00:43:31,237 they're in front of, like, two, three, four, five thousand people, whatever. 876 00:43:31,757 --> 00:43:35,917 And the comic will ask the question and I'll answer but I wasn't actually like 877 00:43:35,937 --> 00:43:40,367 listening to like I said something wrong And the comic oh this dumbass nigga It's 878 00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:44,107 like i'm laughing still all the people around a lot of people be embarrassed 879 00:43:44,107 --> 00:43:48,047 or get mad Like, you know how hecklers they get offended when the comic throws 880 00:43:48,047 --> 00:43:52,252 something back at them and it's like no, we're supposed to be talking shit. 881 00:43:52,262 --> 00:43:53,792 We're supposed to be cracking these jokes. 882 00:43:54,142 --> 00:43:57,572 And so even when I interact with like bigger comics and I say something and 883 00:43:57,572 --> 00:44:01,092 I'm wrong and it can be embarrassing and now he goes off on like a three 884 00:44:01,092 --> 00:44:03,002 minute joke where he's roasting me. 885 00:44:03,652 --> 00:44:06,082 I know one, he can't even see me. 886 00:44:06,432 --> 00:44:07,902 Two, he doesn't know who I am. 887 00:44:07,902 --> 00:44:10,062 I'm probably never going to see him again. 888 00:44:10,442 --> 00:44:14,892 And three, all the people who are around me laughing at me, I don't know them. 889 00:44:14,962 --> 00:44:15,952 They don't pay my rent. 890 00:44:16,012 --> 00:44:17,182 I don't give a fuck about these guys. 891 00:44:17,442 --> 00:44:18,772 So they can laugh at me all they want. 892 00:44:19,157 --> 00:44:19,927 I'm about to go home. 893 00:44:20,407 --> 00:44:21,617 Like, at the end of the day, I'm going home. 894 00:44:21,637 --> 00:44:23,167 And I had a good time at the same time. 895 00:44:23,427 --> 00:44:27,967 So, like, people have to realize comedy, comedy is really, really tough. 896 00:44:28,287 --> 00:44:32,137 I used to make music and I've performed, like, I've gone to 897 00:44:32,137 --> 00:44:33,917 different states to do concerts. 898 00:44:33,917 --> 00:44:35,027 I've opened up for people. 899 00:44:35,557 --> 00:44:40,849 Music is, I don't want to say easy, because that's disrespecting a lot of 900 00:44:40,849 --> 00:44:44,437 people and the craft of what they do, but there's a lot more room for error 901 00:44:45,107 --> 00:44:46,997 when you're performing music, right? 902 00:44:47,467 --> 00:44:48,327 And comedy. 903 00:44:48,627 --> 00:44:50,877 You gotta, you have to be so on point. 904 00:44:51,382 --> 00:44:54,622 That you need that crowd to also come through for you. 905 00:44:54,622 --> 00:44:56,292 It's like, okay, I'm doing my part. 906 00:44:56,662 --> 00:44:59,372 I need you guys to come through on here and be like, Hey, this 907 00:44:59,382 --> 00:45:00,182 is going to be a good time. 908 00:45:00,552 --> 00:45:01,872 You guys got to step in too. 909 00:45:02,852 --> 00:45:02,872 Yeah. 910 00:45:03,212 --> 00:45:04,132 Oh, I love that. 911 00:45:04,182 --> 00:45:07,102 That's such a, it's such a sophisticated way to think about the audience. 912 00:45:07,102 --> 00:45:10,422 And I think that's why, why you, that's why you connect so well. 913 00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:13,842 The other thing I want to keep us on track, cause we're, we're about out of 914 00:45:13,842 --> 00:45:18,272 time, but the other thing I wanted to just talk about real, real briefly, um, was. 915 00:45:19,412 --> 00:45:22,082 What kind of what you said about that having been your biggest crowd and sort 916 00:45:22,082 --> 00:45:26,962 of, it was a, it was sort of a new level for you and that is, I love that you said 917 00:45:26,962 --> 00:45:32,162 that because that's literally the reason why I made the rumble is that when I 918 00:45:32,172 --> 00:45:34,092 started comedy, I started doing open mics. 919 00:45:34,642 --> 00:45:38,532 And then I got lucky because I met a guy who coached me and when he coached me, 920 00:45:38,532 --> 00:45:40,662 he was a little more successful comic. 921 00:45:40,662 --> 00:45:43,962 And so he had, he had shows on weekends where he would put me on to open. 922 00:45:44,782 --> 00:45:50,332 So I got the opportunity about three months into my comedy career of opening 923 00:45:50,362 --> 00:45:53,712 for a hot crowd on a Saturday night. 924 00:45:54,992 --> 00:45:55,672 Oh, fire. 925 00:45:56,187 --> 00:46:00,987 That changed me because suddenly it was like, it was like, I'd been kind of 926 00:46:00,997 --> 00:46:04,827 playing down in the foothills and then all of a sudden I was up on the mountaintop 927 00:46:05,027 --> 00:46:10,127 and I could see, I was like, Oh, this, this is the level where it can be at. 928 00:46:10,387 --> 00:46:14,856 And so then when I went down into this other, into this sort of other area where. 929 00:46:15,097 --> 00:46:18,347 It's an open mic crowd is just different than a, than a weekend crowd. 930 00:46:19,097 --> 00:46:20,867 I still had this memory, right? 931 00:46:20,867 --> 00:46:23,817 I knew what that sounded like, so I could sort of play with it and 932 00:46:23,817 --> 00:46:25,027 it helped me kind of move along. 933 00:46:25,387 --> 00:46:30,447 And

what I wanted to do with the rumble is I wanted to give other comics who 934 00:46:30,447 --> 00:46:34,777 were like me, who were starting out, who maybe didn't have the cred or the 935 00:46:34,777 --> 00:46:38,417 relationships or whatever it is to, to be able to get on a weekend stage, 936 00:46:38,627 --> 00:46:41,057 I wanted to say, if you'll come here. 937 00:46:41,317 --> 00:46:44,737 And you will, you'll bust your ass and you'll do work and you'll do, 938 00:46:44,957 --> 00:46:48,067 and you'll, you'll throw your energy into this thing that I've created. 939 00:46:48,357 --> 00:46:54,087 You will get the opportunity to step onto a hot weekend stage and you'll be 940 00:46:54,087 --> 00:46:57,837 able to what that feels and feel what that feels like, and you'll be able to 941 00:46:57,837 --> 00:47:00,026 experience what that does for your craft. 942 00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:02,087 And that's dope. 943 00:47:02,157 --> 00:47:06,497 Uh, the Rumble definitely, it definitely has the opportunity there for people to 944 00:47:06,497 --> 00:47:11,477 do, like, I had to make a new Instagram after the Rumble because people, because 945 00:47:11,477 --> 00:47:13,247 my personal Instagram is set to private. 946 00:47:13,627 --> 00:47:17,107 I really don't like, I like interacting with people, making friends, whatever. 947 00:47:17,397 --> 00:47:22,597 But I've learned that, like, you gotta keep the good stuff to yourself, right? 948 00:47:22,627 --> 00:47:25,911 You, like, this world, there's a lot of people out there who just, you know, 949 00:47:26,332 --> 00:47:31,862 They don't hate you, but they hate that, like, you, they don't have the 950 00:47:31,862 --> 00:47:33,412 happiness, whatever, that you have. 951 00:47:33,452 --> 00:47:35,802 When you're showing things and you're sharing your happiness, 952 00:47:35,892 --> 00:47:37,512 there are people that are trying to take your happiness away. 953 00:47:37,892 --> 00:47:40,612 So I keep my personal profile private, and that's for people 954 00:47:40,612 --> 00:47:42,122 who, like, actually know me. 955 00:47:42,122 --> 00:47:44,071 I want to talk to these people, da da da. 956 00:47:44,152 --> 00:47:48,272 I had ad, I was close to adding, like, 20 or 30 new people. 957 00:47:48,957 --> 00:47:52,487 On my personal page that I'm like, I like, no offense. 958 00:47:52,487 --> 00:47:53,527 I'm glad you guys liked me. 959 00:47:53,527 --> 00:47:54,447 I'm glad you guys want to follow me. 960 00:47:54,447 --> 00:47:55,027 You're my fans. 961 00:47:55,377 --> 00:47:56,887 I don't want you in my personal life. 962 00:47:56,887 --> 00:48:00,627 I just want you to know me as the, yeah, yeah, yeah. 963 00:48:00,647 --> 00:48:01,447 No kid cute. 964 00:48:01,497 --> 00:48:04,787 And so I had to, and so, and that's because of the rumble. 965 00:48:04,827 --> 00:48:09,697 And so what you're doing, I appreciate that because every week you get. 966 00:48:09,962 --> 00:48:12,662 Or not every week, but every Rumble, you get a bunch of comics that 967 00:48:12,762 --> 00:48:15,642 somebody probably hasn't heard of, and there's a lot of talent out there. 968 00:48:15,812 --> 00:48:17,202 It's just the market's so flooded. 969 00:48:17,562 --> 00:48:19,892 There's so much talent out there in the, in the Rumble. 970 00:48:19,892 --> 00:48:24,301 If you do it right, and it's executed right, you put the work in and 971 00:48:24,302 --> 00:48:29,312 the crowd's there, you have a real opportunity to build momentum and, and 972 00:48:29,552 --> 00:48:33,432 you can't dictate where you're going, but you're definitely able to push. 973 00:48:33,812 --> 00:48:36,542 The direction that you want to be in a little, a little bit in 974 00:48:36,542 --> 00:48:37,602 the universe would do the rest. 975 00:48:37,882 --> 00:48:41,502 And what I love about it too, is I'm, I'm sort of coming from, coming at this from 976 00:48:41,502 --> 00:48:50,462 a perspective of if I am, if I am, uh, disciplined and intentional in the way 977 00:48:50,462 --> 00:48:55,292 that I give and create opportunities for other people, that will be good for me. 978 00:48:56,817 --> 00:49:02,367 That, that me giving to other people will sort of create this energetic 979 00:49:02,387 --> 00:49:06,117 movement that will then come back and it will lift me up as well. 980 00:49:06,317 --> 00:49:10,257 And so being able to really focus on that, it's like an energy orgy. 981 00:49:10,287 --> 00:49:11,077 Exactly. 982 00:49:14,597 --> 00:49:18,227 And what's beautiful about that is I have endless energy for giving. 983 00:49:19,147 --> 00:49:23,067 If I believe that my giving just naturally is going to bring me the things 984 00:49:23,067 --> 00:49:27,717 that I need, I, I have endless energy for putting people like you on shows. 985 00:49:27,867 --> 00:49:32,647 I have endless energy for creating opportunities to, cause I agree with you. 986 00:49:32,647 --> 00:49:36,927 I, I go to open mics and I talk to comics and I, I see these people out 987 00:49:36,927 --> 00:49:41,197 here and, and there are, especially in low in the local comedy scenes 988 00:49:41,227 --> 00:49:47,707 that I've seen in Salt Lake and in Las Vegas, there are incredibly talented, 989 00:49:48,017 --> 00:49:53,827 Funny and hardworking comics that some people will never get an opportunity 990 00:49:53,827 --> 00:49:59,037 to see or experience because they're not, because right now they're in this, 991 00:49:59,047 --> 00:50:03,057 they're on this level and they're not like selling out stadiums, but who says 992 00:50:03,057 --> 00:50:07,922 you have to sell out a stadium in order to be Uh, in order to be funny, right? 993 00:50:07,922 --> 00:50:12,242 In order to have a awesome experience, you don't have to go like, sure, fucking 994 00:50:12,242 --> 00:50:15,702 go to a stadium if that's where your favorite comic is, but also recognize that 995 00:50:15,712 --> 00:50:21,452 you could come to a local comedy club and with the

right structure, you could see. 996 00:50:22,267 --> 00:50:24,377 Incredibly funny shit. 997 00:50:24,737 --> 00:50:26,477 Incredibly funny shit. 998 00:50:26,877 --> 00:50:29,477 And it's just people who live in your neighborhood. 999 00:50:29,687 --> 00:50:30,507 It's just people. 1000 00:50:32,397 --> 00:50:33,537 And you never know what you're going to see. 1001 00:50:33,537 --> 00:50:34,577 I went to a mic one time. 1002 00:50:34,617 --> 00:50:35,427 It wasn't the open mic. 1003 00:50:35,957 --> 00:50:40,637 It was a, uh, was it the Dirty at 1230 at South Point. 1004 00:50:41,097 --> 00:50:41,447 Right? 1005 00:50:41,497 --> 00:50:44,597 And I don't know how they find people to go on there. 1006 00:50:44,597 --> 00:50:47,787 So I was just there as a, in the crowd and this French 1007 00:50:48,137 --> 00:50:49,657 frilliquist comes up here, right? 1008 00:50:50,277 --> 00:50:52,637 And And I'm excited. 1009 00:50:52,687 --> 00:50:54,497 So I'm like, all right, this is dope, you know, every, every 1010 00:50:54,507 --> 00:50:55,517 form of comedy is something. 1011 00:50:55,997 --> 00:50:59,177 But the way he's doing it is he's not like not moving his mouth. 1012 00:50:59,287 --> 00:51:00,327 He's just covering his mouth. 1013 00:51:00,777 --> 00:51:04,657 So he has, he has the parrot or whatever the fuck's on his arm. 1014 00:51:04,947 --> 00:51:06,227 He's like, so how's the weather today? 1015 00:51:06,427 --> 00:51:07,027 Oh, I don't know. 1016 00:51:07,027 --> 00:51:08,097 The weather's going pretty nice. 1017 00:51:08,967 --> 00:51:10,457 And I'm like, yo, this isn't real. 1018 00:51:10,497 --> 00:51:14,477 And so like the crowd, like, no, at first, there's a couple of laughs at 1019 00:51:14,477 --> 00:51:17,167 first, cause they think it's part of the bit and then he's going to jump into it. 1020 00:51:17,437 --> 00:51:21,937 His entire 10 minute set was him covered, just having a conversation 1021 00:51:21,937 --> 00:51:23,537 with us and he doesn't slow down. 1022 00:51:23,767 --> 00:51:24,617 He doesn't stop. 1023 00:51:24,637 --> 00:51:26,337 He doesn't ask the crowd's paying attention. 1024 00:51:26,757 --> 00:51:28,557 I'm the only one in the crowd laughing. 1025 00:51:29,012 --> 00:51:32,632 Because you don't have much of a, I don't give a fuck you have to 1026 00:51:32,642 --> 00:51:38,222 have to go up there and do baths and triloquies for 10 minutes. 1027 00:51:38,902 --> 00:51:39,692 That's funny. 1028 00:51:40,292 --> 00:51:43,472 Everybody there was mad because their time, they felt their time's been wasted. 1029 00:51:43,782 --> 00:51:46,612 I'm like, yo, this is, this guy's This is hilarious. 1030 00:51:47,802 --> 00:51:52,002 Even if he did waste their time, wasting someone's time with bad 1031 00:51:52,012 --> 00:51:58,162 ventriloquism at an open mic at 1230 in Las Vegas is a spectacular joke. 1032 00:51:58,802 --> 00:51:59,532 That is spectacular. 1033 00:52:00,572 --> 00:52:03,302 And his ability to just fucking own

it and be like, yeah, this 1034 00:52:03,302 --> 00:52:04,302 is what we're doing, y'all. 1035 00:52:04,962 --> 00:52:05,262 Yeah. 1036 00:52:05,752 --> 00:52:06,132 Oh my God. 1037 00:52:06,132 --> 00:52:06,752 He's like, no, 1038 00:52:06,832 --> 00:52:07,492 I'm talking. 1039 00:52:07,972 --> 00:52:10,462 I'm talking and then I'm also talking. 1040 00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:13,252 Also talking. 1041 00:52:15,732 --> 00:52:16,732 Dude, I've had so much fun. 1042 00:52:16,892 --> 00:52:20,532 I do want to wrap this up and I wrap, I like to wrap up by asking two questions. 1043 00:52:20,632 --> 00:52:22,612 Um, and then I'll have, if there's anything you want to 1044 00:52:22,612 --> 00:52:24,822 pitch, you can pitch it and then we'll, we'll, we'll wrap it up. 1045 00:52:25,132 --> 00:52:28,842 Um, but on the subject of the apocalypse and the end of the world. 1046 00:52:29,227 --> 00:52:34,707 Um, I, I sort of think, like, I look out at where we're at in America, 1047 00:52:34,957 --> 00:52:40,697 and to me, it looks like we are in the final acts of the United States 1048 00:52:40,697 --> 00:52:43,927 of America, season 12 or whatever. 1049 00:52:44,337 --> 00:52:44,667 Okay. 1050 00:52:44,667 --> 00:52:47,827 And like all good seasons, you know, there's going to be something 1051 00:52:47,917 --> 00:52:49,247 cataclysmic, something crazy. 1052 00:52:49,567 --> 00:52:54,657 But I also think that there is a lot of, I think there's a lot of opportunity when 1053 00:52:54,677 --> 00:52:56,607 things get crazy like they are right now. 1054 00:52:57,107 --> 00:52:59,227 And I think that the opportunity is that. 1055 00:53:00,592 --> 00:53:04,142 When, when things sort of get fuzzy, we can kind of remake the world. 1056 00:53:04,892 --> 00:53:09,392 And so what I'm interested in is, do you sort of see the fuzziness in the world? 1057 00:53:09,732 --> 00:53:12,532 And if there was a way where you could, if there's something from the old 1058 00:53:12,542 --> 00:53:15,812 world that you could sort of like let die or be remade into the new world. 1059 00:53:16,187 --> 00:53:19,217 What would, what would you want to, if you could, like, 1060 00:53:19,247 --> 00:53:20,627 you're, you're, you're the king. 1061 00:53:20,627 --> 00:53:23,177 You get to speak it into the microphone and it becomes real. 1062 00:53:23,387 --> 00:53:24,407 What is that thing 1063 00:53:26,417 --> 00:53:27,917 from the old world To the new world? 1064 00:53:27,917 --> 00:53:28,187 Yeah. 1065 00:53:28,247 --> 00:53:31,097 What's, what's the thing called old that, that need, that needs to 1066 00:53:31,097 --> 00:53:33,017 kind of like go into something new? 1067 00:53:35,097 --> 00:53:36,957 I think there needs to be more street fights. 1068 00:53:37,807 --> 00:53:38,527 Yes. 1069 00:53:38,647 --> 00:53:39,247 Tell me more. 1070 00:53:39,247 --> 00:53:44,107 Yeah, I think, I think people getting arrested if it's, if it's 1071 00:53:44,107 --> 00:53:47,657 too consent, like I would even say duals, you know what I mean? 1072 00:53:48,302 --> 00:53:48,602 Yeah. 1073 00:53:48,682 --> 00:53:49,292 One second. 1074 00:53:50,452 --> 00:53:50,702 Oof. 1075 00:53:50,702 --> 00:53:52,502 I'm getting a call and I don't know why. 1076 00:53:53,452 --> 00:53:54,002 Can you hear me still? 1077 00:53:54,002 --> 00:53:55,282 Is everything, like, nothing's interrupted? 1078 00:53:55,932 --> 00:53:56,152 Yeah. 1079 00:53:56,152 --> 00:53:56,682 So you were 1080 00:53:56,782 --> 00:53:56,822 saying, 1081 00:53:57,072 --> 00:53:58,092 bring duels back. 1082 00:53:58,452 --> 00:53:58,842 Yeah. 1083 00:53:59,152 --> 00:54:00,742 Like, let's start with street fights. 1084 00:54:00,832 --> 00:54:01,732 Let's see how that goes. 1085 00:54:01,752 --> 00:54:05,112 Cause it used to be, you know, you go out, you bump into somebody, 1086 00:54:05,122 --> 00:54:09,222 something happens, disagreement, whatever, whatever the case is, right? 1087 00:54:09,752 --> 00:54:10,592 You go out there. 1088 00:54:10,977 --> 00:54:13,287 Street fight and at the end of the day you go home. 1089 00:54:13,357 --> 00:54:13,977 It's all good. 1090 00:54:14,447 --> 00:54:17,207 Now, if you find somebody, you both get arrested, you both go 1091 00:54:17,207 --> 00:54:18,787 to jail, boom, boom, boom, boom. 1092 00:54:19,197 --> 00:54:25,047 If, if there was a threat that you might have to get into a fight, more prevalent, 1093 00:54:25,167 --> 00:54:26,437 I think the world would be a better place. 1094 00:54:27,307 --> 00:54:28,087 I 100 percent agree. 1095 00:54:28,137 --> 00:54:31,587 When everybody had a revolver, when everybody had a revolver on the hip and 1096 00:54:31,597 --> 00:54:35,967 an Indian man, and it can be like, hey, 12, we're going to shoot at each other. 1097 00:54:36,387 --> 00:54:37,357 There was less drama. 1098 00:54:39,747 --> 00:54:40,521 This guy might shoot me. 1099 00:54:40,802 --> 00:54:41,262 You know what I'm saying? 1100 00:54:41,852 --> 00:54:42,562 There should be. 1101 00:54:42,562 --> 00:54:44,572 I think, I think we need less logs. 1102 00:54:45,152 --> 00:54:48,082 I think we have gotten too soft as humans. 1103 00:54:48,102 --> 00:54:50,722 We are too, we are too comfortable. 1104 00:54:50,822 --> 00:54:53,002 We think that it's, we think that death is bad. 1105 00:54:53,292 --> 00:54:56,412 And I do think that, I do think that I don't like it when people die. 1106 00:54:56,622 --> 00:54:58,652 I think that that is a sad thing when people die. 1107 00:54:59,102 --> 00:55:02,262 And I think that people could die and get hurt more. 1108 00:55:02,462 --> 00:55:06,002 If they die, if people died and got hurt, if there were more immediate 1109 00:55:06,002 --> 00:55:11,297 consequences for stupid behavior, it The world would have less stupid people in it. 1110 00:55:11,807 --> 00:55:16,577 And so I think a street fight or a duel is a fantastic, we would have 1111 00:55:16,607 --> 00:55:21,407 fewer dumb racists if, if there was a

consequence for being right. 1112 00:55:21,427 --> 00:55:25,547 Like if, if I'm not walking down the street, I'm not actually racist to a 1113 00:55:25,547 --> 00:55:27,807 couple of, to someone who looks like you. 1114 00:55:27,917 --> 00:55:29,607 Cause you're going to beat the shit out of me. 1115 00:55:30,867 --> 00:55:31,637 You're going to punch somebody in the mouth. 1116 00:55:32,007 --> 00:55:32,847 You're going to punch somebody in the mouth. 1117 00:55:33,847 --> 00:55:35,907 If you think you're going to hit in the mouth, you're not going to say anything. 1118 00:55:36,647 --> 00:55:37,007 Right. 1119 00:55:37,437 --> 00:55:37,797 I love this. 1120 00:55:37,877 --> 00:55:38,407 Okay, great. 1121 00:55:38,687 --> 00:55:39,197 Four seconds. 1122 00:55:47,012 --> 00:55:47,332 I'm sorry, man. 1123 00:55:47,462 --> 00:55:49,442 Can I get like 30 seconds real quick, really? 1124 00:55:50,222 --> 00:55:50,532 Yep. 1125 00:55:53,102 --> 00:55:53,352 Awesome. 1126 00:55:54,782 --> 00:55:55,622 Y'all leaving right now? 1127 00:56:31,072 --> 00:56:32,292 You don't care! 1128 00:56:32,532 --> 00:56:33,762 Yeah, I don't. 1129 00:56:34,192 --> 00:56:34,432 Hey, Preston. 1130 00:56:35,512 --> 00:56:36,692 I don't miss you. 1131 00:56:39,532 --> 00:56:40,322 I don't be here. 1132 00:56:40,612 --> 00:56:41,892 I just get to be with you. 1133 00:56:41,892 --> 00:56:42,462 Love and support. 1134 00:56:42,462 --> 00:56:43,032 Love and support. 1135 00:56:43,032 --> 00:56:43,601 Love and support. 1136 00:57:00,162 --> 00:57:00,782 Sorry about that, brother. 1137 00:57:00,822 --> 00:57:01,672 I got fat leaving. 1138 00:57:03,212 --> 00:57:03,632 No problem. 1139 00:57:04,252 --> 00:57:07,472 I'll just make, I'll make a note of it and we'll, and we're about any wrapped anyway. 1140 00:57:07,472 --> 00:57:08,542 So I want to, I want to let you go. 1141 00:57:08,782 --> 00:57:15,832 So second question is, um, if we, if, if this apocalypse goes south and we have 1142 00:57:15,832 --> 00:57:17,532 to like start surviving in crazy ways. 1143 00:57:17,927 --> 00:57:21,427 What apocalyptic skill do you have that you could teach me? 1144 00:57:24,867 --> 00:57:25,907 That I can teach you? 1145 00:57:26,917 --> 00:57:27,247 Yeah. 1146 00:57:27,717 --> 00:57:30,237 Uh, we can shoot dice. 1147 00:57:30,717 --> 00:57:33,257 I'm a really good, like, dice shooter. 1148 00:57:34,007 --> 00:57:37,877 So if we need to gamble from resources, I'll keep a pair of dice for me. 1149 00:57:38,427 --> 00:57:40,657 And obviously you gotta, cause you gotta throw, you gotta snap. 1150 00:57:41,247 --> 00:57:42,877 There's a snap involved when you're throwing dice. 1151 00:57:43,417 --> 00:57:44,187 And that's just that gamble. 1152 00:57:44,187 --> 00:57:45,377 You gotta, you gotta snap. 1153 00:57:45,377 --> 00:57:46,328 That's the limp wrist. 1154 00:57:46,328 --> 00:57:47,967 It's gotta be tight. 1155 00:57:48,637 --> 00:57:50,997 You can't, don't reference it, it's the whole, yeah. 1156 00:57:51,567 --> 00:57:53,717 It's the You black people! 1157 00:57:53,827 --> 00:57:56,417 Like, like channel your inner quickness. 1158 00:57:57,447 --> 00:57:57,487 Okay, 1159 00:57:57,487 --> 00:57:58,556 mm. 1160 00:57:59,637 --> 00:58:00,017 Okay. 1161 00:58:00,487 --> 00:58:00,557 Mm. 1162 00:58:00,937 --> 00:58:01,257 Throw it. 1163 00:58:01,987 --> 00:58:05,037 After you're Hit it with a snack. 1164 00:58:09,317 --> 00:58:10,757 It's just like, uh huh. 1165 00:58:11,327 --> 00:58:14,867 I got, I got a case of water, I got a case of water, you got a banana. 1166 00:58:15,097 --> 00:58:16,457 Somebody's going home with both. 1167 00:58:16,757 --> 00:58:17,727 I'm going home with both. 1168 00:58:18,147 --> 00:58:18,347 Ah! 1169 00:58:19,027 --> 00:58:19,537 Ah, it's you. 1170 00:58:19,617 --> 00:58:20,127 Uh huh. 1171 00:58:20,547 --> 00:58:20,827 Yeah. 1172 00:58:20,827 --> 00:58:20,891 Uh huh. 1173 00:58:21,672 --> 00:58:22,612 Hopefully this time. 1174 00:58:24,792 --> 00:58:29,332 From now on, from now on you will be, because we will only have non racist, uh, 1175 00:58:29,362 --> 00:58:31,382 chance things involved in Comedy Rumble. 1176 00:58:31,782 --> 00:58:34,792 Dude, it was so fun to have you on the podcast. 1177 00:58:34,962 --> 00:58:35,912 Where can people find you? 1178 00:58:35,912 --> 00:58:37,562 Is there anything that you want to promote coming up? 1179 00:58:37,882 --> 00:58:39,022 Uh, talk about yourself. 1180 00:58:40,352 --> 00:58:42,032 Um, so KQ. 1181 00:58:42,422 --> 00:58:44,342 That's the name, don't wear it out, or do. 1182 00:58:44,832 --> 00:58:49,912 Uh, you can follow me on Instagram, kqcomedy, all one word, k y d q. 1183 00:58:50,712 --> 00:58:55,782 Uh, next week, which is December 10th, there's the hand me down 1184 00:58:55,782 --> 00:58:58,762 mic at Zone Las Vegas, S O H N. 1185 00:58:59,122 --> 00:59:01,042 It's hosted by my good friend, it's George Louisville. 1186 00:59:02,082 --> 00:59:06,602 It's a once a month mic, uh, but it's open for, it's mostly a comic 1187 00:59:06,602 --> 00:59:09,602 mic, but they have it open for poetry as well and spoken word. 1188 00:59:09,602 --> 00:59:14,312 And it's real dope venues in the attic of this like little vintage clothing store. 1189 00:59:14,582 --> 00:59:19,292 You go upstairs, it's a small room, probably 30, 40 people, 1190 00:59:19,652 --> 00:59:21,012 and it sells out every month. 1191 00:59:21,322 --> 00:59:23,642 It gets, it reaches capacity every month, so if you want to 1192 00:59:23,642 --> 00:59:24,772 go, you got to get there quick. 1193 00:59:25,422 --> 00:59:28,472 They do it once a month, December 10th is this month, and then I'm 1194 00:59:28,512 --> 00:59:30,402 co hosting the January event too. 1195 00:59:30,752 --> 00:59:33,752 We don't have a date for it just yet, but if you follow on 1196 00:59:33,762 --> 00:59:35,572 Instagram, it's GeorgeLouisFool. 1197 00:59:35,867 --> 00:59:40,287 And hand me down Mike at hand me down,

Mike, you'll get all the details for it. 1198 00:59:40,307 --> 00:59:44,507 And it's a really dope show, more local artists, familiar faces that you've seen. 1199 00:59:44,837 --> 00:59:48,197 And it's just a good way to push the community forward as far as 1200 00:59:48,197 --> 00:59:49,457 like everybody coming together. 1201 00:59:49,467 --> 00:59:51,067 And again, it sells out every time. 1202 00:59:51,067 --> 00:59:56,087 So if you want to come up and perform in front of 30, 40 people, for sure, 1203 00:59:56,137 --> 00:59:58,197 guaranteed, this is the place to do it. 1204 00:59:59,557 --> 01:00:00,007 Awesome. 1205 01:00:00,047 --> 01:00:00,307 Cool. 1206 01:00:00,337 --> 01:00:03,047 I, and I'll, I'll grab any links that you have from those for those and 1207 01:00:03,047 --> 01:00:04,257 share them in the show notes as well. 1208 01:00:04,507 --> 01:00:05,867 Um, for me coming up this. 1209 01:00:06,272 --> 01:00:08,462 Probably coming out on Friday, December 6th. 1210 01:00:08,472 --> 01:00:11,992 So tonight I've got our comedy rumble in Salt Lake City at the 1211 01:00:11,992 --> 01:00:13,032 Rickles Room at the Wise Guys. 1212 01:00:13,032 --> 01:00:13,992 It's at nine o'clock. 1213 01:00:14,372 --> 01:00:17,122 Um, that's going to be the first one of our winter season. 1214 01:00:17,122 --> 01:00:19,992 So we've already done the fall season and wrapped it for comedy 1215 01:00:19,992 --> 01:00:20,992 rumble up here in Salt Lake. 1216 01:00:21,242 --> 01:00:24,842 We're kicking off the new winter season tomorrow night or tonight. 1217 01:00:24,932 --> 01:00:29,382 Um, cause we're recording Thursday tonight, or December 6th at 9 1218 01:00:29,382 --> 01:00:31,772 PM at Wise Guys in Salt Lake. 1219 01:00:31,962 --> 01:00:33,482 And then next Sunday. 1220 01:00:33,842 --> 01:00:36,742 On the, uh, I think it's the 15th. 1221 01:00:38,182 --> 01:00:38,562 Let's see. 1222 01:00:38,562 --> 01:00:38,742 Yep. 1223 01:00:38,782 --> 01:00:45,512 On December 15th, I'll be back in Vegas for Comedy Rumble 5, uh, at 930, the 1224 01:00:45,512 --> 01:00:47,912 wise guys and in the arts district again. 1225 01:00:47,912 --> 01:00:51,662 So if you want to come out and check out that show, it's going to be super sick. 1226 01:00:52,077 --> 01:00:54,967 And again, you can always follow me at The Fresh King Benjamin on 1227 01:00:54,967 --> 01:00:57,087 Instagram, uh, TikTok, and YouTube. 1228 01:00:57,517 --> 01:00:59,257 And, uh, that's it for us today. 1229 01:00:59,257 --> 01:01:00,557 So, thanks for coming on, man. 1230 01:01:00,557 --> 01:01:01,247 I appreciate you. 1231 01:01:01,447 --> 01:01:01,877 Hey, bro. 1232 01:01:01,877 --> 01:01:02,507 Thank you again. 1233 01:01:02,507 --> 01:01:03,577 Thanks for the opportunity. 1234 01:01:03,837 --> 01:01:05,077 Shout out Comedy Rumble, brother. 1235 01:01:05,157 --> 01:01:11,097 What you're doing is really, you're putting your stamp on whatever. 1236 01:01:11,117 --> 01:01:13,877 There's not much that we can do in this world that we have control over. 1237 01:01:14,137 --> 01:01:16,897 And what you do have control over, you have full control over. 1238 01:01:16,897 --> 01:01:18,407 And it's really dope, brother. 1239 01:01:18,417 --> 01:01:19,267 You're doing a thing. 1240 01:01:19,287 --> 01:01:19,667 Thank you. 1241 01:01:20,307 --> 01:01:20,667 Awesome. 1242 01:01:20,767 --> 01:01:21,037 Thanks. 1243 01:01:21,037 --> 01:01:21,577 I appreciate that. 1244 01:01:21,577 --> 01:01:22,567 I, I feel that. 1245 01:01:22,917 --> 01:01:23,637 Uh, talk soon.