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Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
A highlight from Exploring Art, Laughter and Resilience with Illustrator, Jason Seiler!
"Y en ese hombre, hold another bottle. Look a little closer, cigar and Moscato. An actor in improv coming from Chicago. Auto, make way for Paul Vato. Bravo, and welcome everybody to another episode of Palo Alto Presents. And today my very special guest is Jason Seiler, who, judging by your Instagram, instagram .com slash Seiler pants, you make pants. Oh yeah, yeah, I got mostly made in Wisconsin, yeah. Wisconsin, Wisconsin, China, Jaina, Jaina. No, it's Seiler Paints, Paints. Seiler Paints, I think I got the wrong guy. I need a pair of pants and I thought you could hook me up with a pair of pants, nevermind. Folks, I'm just kidding, of course. I'm not the pants guy. I'm not a pants guy either, now in the time of Zoom calls and COVID and whatnot. No need to wear pants. No. My guest is Jason Seiler, who paints. He's an illustrator, he's an artist. He does caricatures. He's done the cover of Time Magazine various times with people like the Pope. And who was your other cover that you did? I've done Trump and Pelosi and a bunch of other political people, Biden and Kamala, person of the year. I think I've done about 10 covers for Time. That is amazing, congratulations. So I thought I'd spend a few minutes talking to Jason about his art, talking to him about his standup comedy. And we have a connection in the world of standup comedy as well as the Chicago connection. So folks, please give Jason a very warm round of applause. And thank you, Jason, so much for being here. Thank you, thank you. Oh, nothing better than claps and laughter. That must be so different, the fact that you're getting claps and laughter on stage. Sure, that's almost not in fact, but that when you're painting or drawing it's such a solitude thing, that you go from one world to the other where you're very solitary and concentrating. Not that you don't in standup, but you're not getting that immediate reaction until afterwards while standup, you're getting it right away. You're getting the applause, you're getting the laughs and all that. And the groans. Well, a reaction is a reaction. I love it. Have you got any groans for your artwork? Oh yeah, yeah, I was just about to say, I do get reactions pretty quickly when I share work. It's kind of funny, because I have done a lot of political type work, but I can't stand politicians. The left or the right, they're all lunatics as far as I'm concerned. So I have no problem illustrating for anybody, because I don't have a horse in the race really. I don't worship politicians, let's put it that way. Every once in a while I'll paint a certain politician and I'm trying to take care of my family. It's my job, I'm painting to somebody and I will get the nastiest messages from people just angry so that I, how dare you even work for that publication or draw that person or whatever it is. I've gotten pretty serious. One time I painted the president of Iran, this was years ago and I got some serious, nasty messages from people trying to curse my family and writing me crazy things. I actually even got a care package in the mail from Iran. This was like 15 years ago and it freaked me out so much because it was just after I got all these threats. So I gave it to the police and to the FBI in Chicago. I just told my story and they took it and they came and got it, I don't even know what was in it. And then maybe, I don't know, like a month later, I got a call and they told me it was mixed nuts. It was a bag of mixed nuts. I thinking was that there was maybe gonna be like, man, those are some delicious Persian cookies. Yeah. But sorry, you didn't want, but same thing, mixed nuts. But then I found out from someone from Iran that that's actually like a gift of love or whatever, like that's a common thing to be, so it was probably a fan, but it still weird me out. I was like, okay, I don't know. People are saying death to you and your family, here's some nuts, enjoy. Maybe they thought you had a peanut allergy, so maybe it wasn't. He's American, send him some gluten, that'll kill him. Send him some gluten and a shoe. We couldn't throw it at you, but here it is. No, until somebody's paying your mortgage and your rent or your bills, they can't exactly tell you how to do it, but that's the thing, you're not a hypocrite. You're only going like, oh, I'm only drawing Republicans or I'm only drawing Democrats. You're going across the board and all showcasing your beautiful talents and artwork, so you can't let that, of course, stop you, and it hasn't, so that's wonderful. It is a little bit tricky because there's some artists that I know that only will work for the left, and then they criticize me if I do anything for a right -wing publication. But the thing is that I don't illustrate something if I don't, if it's over the line in any way that I don't, otherwise, mostly it's just like, whatever. There's a story about this person and I'm just doing a painting of them. Chill out. I'm recording history, okay? This is something that is happening right now, and whether you like it or not, that person exists, and recording I'm history with my painting. That's basically, and I'm also taking care of my family and doing what I love, so chill out. Yeah, agreed, and that is 100%. You're not doing the political commentary. No. You're just doing a painting for whatever article that is, be it right, left, so no, I don't think that you should ever, of course, need to explain yourself. I know that we're just dialoguing, but no, you can't listen to what other people say. And then, I'm friends with a pretty well -known cartoonist and he's very left -wing. His name's Lalo Alcaraz. He's an award -winning cartoonist, and I co -hosted the show Pocha Hour of Power with him on KPFK in LA, as you know, that's very left -wing radio. And he, you know, he'll go at both sides, but he really, of course, goes after the right, and especially Trump and whatnot, but I think he would appreciate your work because we also know people on both sides of the aisle, and yeah, that's just incredible. You're taking shit from all sides. And even in comedy, too, like I don't really get into politics too much in comedy because it just divides the room right away, but I like to make fun of myself or kind of make fun of both sides at the same time, you know what I mean? Like making fun of Trump and Biden together, you know what I mean? Like that's more fun to me, like if it's a fun joke, but yeah, it's different with the illustration because it's, you know, a client will call me and tell me like someone they want me to paint. They'll tell me the story. If it's a caricature -type editorial illustration where they're like wanting me to draw a situation, if it was something that I didn't agree with, I just wouldn't do it, and I've done that before. I'm like, eh, I don't really want to do that. And that's fine. They'll find someone else. But mostly it's just in the last three years or so with the heightened wokeness thing that's been going on where people are seeing them being a little bit more sensitive about things, that caricature, which is what I've been doing since I was like nine, 10 years old, has not been used as much in editorial work. And I've actually been called out a few times now for doing caricature that I'm a bully, that it's mean, and that they're like, how could you do that to people? And it's just like, it's ridiculous. And it's funny because it really, the caricature illustration and comedy, it's always been like very similar to me. The difference is when I do comedy, people go to the show to see comedy. So I actually feel like I have way more freedom to express myself. And it's like, hey, shut the fuck up. You decided to come to a comedy show. So get over it. But like with the art, it's like you're kind of just putting it out there and then anybody feels like they can say and they know what they want. And now everyone has access to tell you what they think. So it's a - Of course, of course. Yeah, everyone's got a platform. Now you're saying that you're being called a bully or you might be because you're exaggerating features of people's faces? Because I think that's what caricature is, correct? I mean - Oh yeah. There's been people that take it in that way, that like, I've been called a bully basically, which is kind of crazy. Cause it's like, they look at what I'm doing as super mean or that's like insensitive or racist or whatever, just as like, because of how I draw somebody and it's like, no, that's what they look like. It looks more like them than a photo sometimes. A good caricature. It really can capture someone's essence. But I've definitely noticed in the last few years, this shift in this, like people are like walking on eggshells about everything. So - Yeah. We especially notice it in comedy or satire and whatnot, you know, but I hear you. So keep fighting the good fight. Now you mentioned you take commissions. Now, if I wanted you to draw either myself or something for a book, that's a project that you would possibly take on, you would consider? Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm a freelance artist. So if you have monies, I provide the honeys. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Because I was going to offer, you know, I'd love for you to draw me. It'll bring you great exposure. I feel like a lot of people make that offer. Like, oh please, you know, do work for me. And you'll get a good exposure. So sorry, but I can't tell that to my mortgage company or my landlord. Do you charge different rates, say for individuals versus like corporations, like to draw the cover of Time Magazine, do you have a set rate? Is it the same as other artists? And you know, if this is proprietary knowledge, then by all means, you don't have to share it. But I think people would be very interested to know what can an artist make? Obviously you've dedicated what, 20 plus years to your craft? Well, yeah, I mean, it's different how it works. Because basically from magazine to magazine, the way it works usually is they have like a set amount for cover or for spot illustrations, inside the illustrations. And they offer you the job, you either take it or you don't. You know, so that's usually how that works. And a magazine cover can be anywhere from, you know, 1 ,800 to 2 ,800 to 3 ,500. It depends on who it is. And then it varies for different other projects. Like I recently did background paintings for an upcoming Disney movie. And that was different. That was more of, I got paid every two weeks. And so I had a set amount where I was paid. And so it's never the same. Like sometimes I do, sometimes for clients or for private commissions, I'll do a day rate, you know, which is usually I'll charge like 1 ,000 to 1 ,200 for a day rate. And so it just depends on what the project is and also, especially if it's a private commission, I usually, I ask for like half upfront for something like that. And then because I'm also taking on, you know, editorial work while I'm doing that, you know, so it really just depends. That's, it's not, there's not like a set thing. Yeah, I mean, and it's different also for, because when I do my editorial work, I work digitally, but when I do private commissions, well, I also work digitally for that as well, but sometimes I'll do oil paintings, gouache or things like that. Those will cost a lot more because they're traditional and they're huge and they take a long time. So that's, you know, again, it's all over the place. So it depends on what it is. Like if it's an album cover, let's say I've done a few album covers before, that can be a lot more than like a book cover or, but in the industry itself, there's not like a set thing, you know. Wonderful, well, thank you for sharing because I think that we get a lot of listeners that are getting into the arts or enjoy the arts or artists themselves. And I think that's one of the important things is, you know, monetization and can I make a living at this? So thank you for being free with your information and sharing, so much appreciated. And then how did you get into standup comedy? It's kind of crazy, but we kind of have a connection. You mentioned Steve Byrne before, but basically, so I've always wanted to do comedy. Ever since I was a little kid, I know he's not so popular right now, but Bill Cosby was my favorite comedian. When I was a kid, I would watch it over and over and over again. And as I got older, I just, you know, every comedian show I could see, I would watch. Saturday Night Live, anything comedy. And then of course I was really into Mad Magazine and that kind of stuff. So it's always been a huge part of my life. And I've always, I wasn't really like a class clown. I was definitely a weird, quirky artist guy that loved to make people laugh. And I would be silly with my friends and I always wanted to get people to laugh. Like it was, I would, you know, whether I was like walking, I used to sometimes for just for fun, I would walk around my high school like Charlie Chaplin. And I would just do the Chaplin walk for hours. Like I was just weird, I don't know. Like I've always just loved comedy. And then as I got older, I moved to Chicago when I was 18 and I joined, I was in a bunch of punk bands and metal, like hardcore bands really. And so I spent years touring and putting out albums with bands. And then eventually I quit and focused like on my art full time.
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Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
A highlight from Exploring Cultural Identity and Humor with Japanese-American Stand Up Comedian Michelle MALIZAKI!
"Thank you, Mr. Paul Vato. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Paul Vato, and this is Paul Vato Presents. And today, my very special guest is Michelle Malazaki. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. That's such a traditional Japanese name, isn't it? No, it's not. Oh, my goodness. I thought it was. Well, welcome, Michelle. Thank you so much for spending a little bit of time with us today. Michelle is a brilliant stand -up comedian, a musical artist. She has recorded a few other podcasts. I first found out about her through my friend Christina Blackburn, who has a great podcast called Storyworthy. And I was a guest of Christina's as well. So it's a great podcast. It's a lot of fun, a lot of industry people. So Michelle, thank you so much for taking time to be here. We're live on fireside, so welcome. Thank you for having me on your show. 100%. I'm so glad that you were able to do it. I have so many questions to ask, cultural differences, comedy, and all that incredible background. Would you be kind enough to tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, where you live? Maybe not your address, but where you live, and where you've performed, and things like that. OK, I am originally from Japan. But I just found out I'm not a Japanese person anymore because I become an American. And in Japan, there are only two people, two kind of people, two kinds of people, Japanese and non -Japanese. And I am neither, I'm a former Japanese. Interesting. Are they called, is that Gaijin? Is that the right word or no? I'm not Gaijin. I'm just a former Japanese. Interesting. Is that because you became an American citizen, so you're no longer recognized as Japanese? The second I sworn in as different foreign nationality, then my Japanese citizenship just evaporates. I didn't know that. Wow. And this is because of the Japanese government, not the US government? I see. The American government that you have multiple citizenships. That's what I thought. But I think at that, there used to be a time where you could only have, if you were a US citizen, I thought you could only have a US passport. But I know that that's changed because I know people have multiple passports. So I don't know what changed. Yeah. But with Japan, Japanese government, you can't have dual citizenships. So just one. So as soon as I sworn in as American, then no more Japanese. No more Japanese. All my jokes about being Japanese. Oh, no. Now you can't make any more Japanese jokes. They might get offended. Oh, no. What am I going to do? You've got to rewrite your whole act. I know. Maybe you could divorce your present husband and marry a Japanese guy. And then you could make Japanese jokes. I don't know. Like, I'm still lost since I found about this. Because I don't know. I never belonged to any group. I was an outsider. When did this happen? When did you find out that you were no longer Japanese? I just found out recently. But I did not. Yeah, because I become American citizen a while back. Wow. Wow. Now, you recently went to Japan. Is that right? Yeah, I just did. And I had to get a visa. Oh, yeah, because you're not Japanese. Of course, he has a gift. I'm not a Japanese person. I have to apply for a visa. And then they ask for a picture. So I sent my picture in. And then they called me and said, oh, your picture's too old. You have to send a current picture. How do they know that my face hasn't changed? It's the same person. And you look very young. So it doesn't matter when it was taken. It's the filter, I think. It's like an automatic filter thing. Because my room looks nice. Well, mine's not working, I don't think, because I look old. So I don't know what happened. I've never met you in person, so I don't know. I look even better in person, I think. Oh, a lot of people do. Like, you know, you do Zoom shows. And then you never meet those guys, girls, people in person. And then when you meet them, you're like, oh my gosh, they are really nice -looking. You're like, stay off the Zoom. It makes you look ugly. But I mean, I look the same. I look the same. That's my cat. My cat's kind of famous for barging into international virtual shows. Very interesting, I love that. Yeah, but she never talks to me during the day. No? No, it's just when I'm talking on somebody else other than the cat, then she's just, hey, guys. What's your cat's name? Mochi. Mochi? Yeah, like the food, mochi. I also have a dog named Pinan. Like, all my pets are named after food items. I see that. Do you have any fish? I don't eat them. It's just names. We're not gonna go there, I don't think, right? Maybe. You're like, I'm Japanese, not Korean. Uh -oh, don't tell Bobby Lee. Awesome. These people didn't eat beef nor pork till 170 years ago. Was it strictly pescatarian or vegetarian or what? No, I think, I can't remember because Japanese people believe in many different things, but one of the - When did you decide to come to the US? Because I know that you had an affinity, I think, for maybe American television. Yeah, well, I wanted to, well, I came to America because I wanted to, okay, my mom told me, ever since I was in fifth grade, my mom told me to marry a white guy because half white, half Asian kids are cute. That's true. I actually wanted to marry a British person. I guess you can't marry two, so just one. But then America was closer than England, so I came here. Wonderful. And did your dreams come true? Did you end up marrying a white guy? I ended up marrying a white guy from Ohio. That's as white as you can get. No, I think, I didn't know, but Wisconsin is whiter white people. I didn't know. That is true. I grew up in Chicago, well, in the suburbs, in Illinois, which is right by, well, both Ohio and Wisconsin, and you're right. I think Wisconsin, you could have done a little bit better and found a white guy from Wisconsin. Yeah, oh, well, I didn't know. Next time. Next up, next, yeah. Wisconsin, 10 years younger, that's on my list. Yeah, go to a youth group and maybe you can find a future husband. What does your husband think about you doing standup? Were you doing standup when you guys met or how long have you been doing standup? I actually used to do TV production for Japanese TV and I've done like many different shows, like news about like surrogate mothers, like documentaries to sports news. But like, you know, when I tell people that I was on sports news, you know, you might think, oh my gosh, why are you famous? My hand, like holding a microphone like this was famous right here, just here, yeah, not me. Right, right, right, right. Now, is it true? I used to travel with the Yankees because they had a Japanese player and I get to go inside of the locker room after they take showers after the game. That was my job. What a job. I got paid. What a job. Do you miss it? I don't know, like it was fun. I mean, you go there, we used to rotate like two weeks at a time to follow and that was fun. And some baseball stadiums have better food than the others. Like Arizona Diamondbacks, they have good food, but like Dodgers, eh. Maybe that's a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should do a show where we go to different parks and try their food. Yeah, the San Diego Patriots have good food at the concession stand. Yeah. Yeah, and also Boston Red Sox, they have good food. They got chowders. Of course, Boston. Yeah, but it's kind of like baseball season is kind of hot and then you eat chowders, but it's so good. Wonderful. Did you have to pay for your own food or was it a budget? Actually, at the press level, they have press food and you eat some of those and then you go downstairs and eat more food. I would love to do that job except for going into the men's showers, but you seem to enjoy that. Yeah, yeah, of course I do. They're like, you can leave now. You're like, I'm not done yet. I gotta interview more players. I'm not done yet. So how long have you been doing standup comedy? I've been doing it for like five years. Before that, I used to do improv. I had a midlife crisis and I took some improv classes at the Park and Rec. And then that led me to the Second City and I was just taking a class at a time and I ended up finishing the conservatory program. But improv you have, and I had so much fun, but you have to have team to perform. You know, it's easy to form a team, but it's hard to maintain a team. Oh, I know. I studied improv. After a while, people are not excited to practice anymore. I go, I have to pay 40 bucks for the session and I don't know. And so I started to perform by myself. I was singing and stuff and I had no idea about standup comedy. I didn't know at all. It's like, I live here forever in America, but I didn't know standup comedy existed till like five years ago. Wow, because it's not that big in Japan. Is that right? It's becoming like very recently, but it's in Japan comedy style is usually two people doing skits. So it's very different. And standup comedy, I don't know, I just love it. And you're very good at it. I've seen some of your sets there. Yeah, they're wonderful. And I'd love to talk to you about Second City. Was that in Los Angeles where you studied or were you in Chicago? Yes, that one in Hollywood. Hollywood, yeah, of course. Of course, did you ever do anything at Upright Citizens Brigade or improv? Yes, I also took classes at UCB and I did shows at iOS. Yeah. And I also took an improv class before, like way before when I was pregnant, like seven months pregnant. And I'm like at the, gosh, where are the groundings? Yeah, but I was too pregnant. So I'm like, oh, I can't do this. How long ago was this? How old are your kids? My kids are 16 and 12. Do you like improv better or stand -up better? I like improv. I love improv. I really love improvised music, like musicals. But that one is really hard to practice because you have to have somebody who could play piano or keyboard. And then you have to get a group of people who's willing to make fun of themselves. I like musical improv. The most. You had a song go viral, didn't you? Did you have a famous song about napping? Yeah, I had a nap time by Napster. It's a song for the, it's an official song for National Napping Day. When is National Napping Day? That's the day after the daylight saving time starts. You lose an hour the day before. So you get to take a nap the next day. I didn't know that, that's great. And your song is the official song for National Napping Day? Yes, actually, you know what happened? So I found out, I wrote a song called Nap Time by Napster. And then I found out there's a National Napping Day and I tracked down the guy who found it that day and I send him email. I'm like, I have a perfect song for National Napping Day. Can it be an official song? And he's like, sure.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Fresh update on "stand-up" discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"This is your source for breaking news. And what to make of it all. This is the Mike Gallagher Show. Polls show that Joe Biden is really underwater. I mean, he's really facing, I think it's some of the worst polling for an incumbent president since Jimmy Carter. The Bidens had nothing to sell except the brand, which was Joe Biden. Hunter Biden sold the brand well, making the Biden family millions from China and elsewhere. The leader in the clubhouse remains Donald Trump. I actually called him after the debate and I congratulated him because I said, sir, you won the debate. And now, sitting in for Mike today in the ReliefFactor.com studios, here's Carl Jackson. Listen, I love a good debate, but that debate was a disaster. That was a disaster. I am sorry to say it. Sorry to say it. And again, man, I hope that Ford and GM, I hope they come around. I was speaking with Eric Hanson offline here. And what's to say? These people sold out America so quickly at some of these companies. They could move their operations to China. I mean, for God's sakes, I think they can cut up to two thirds of their employees if they wanted to, if they're gonna go all EV. Why didn't they stand up for the American worker? Why didn't they stand up for the American worker? The solution is, you know what I think will stop a lot of this nonsense? It can't be executive orders. We can't just use the podium or the power of the podium. We've got to be willing to use. I know this is hard for conservatives to grasp. We have to use political power. I'm a limited government guy, but we have to use political power when we get in power. There should never ever be any federal subsidies for any car or any car maker. If you make a good product, all right, what do you do? The people in the market love it. If they don't, too bad for you. Guess what you'll do? You'll go out and make a better product. A product that Americans love and enjoy and want to buy. And that was happening. That was happening. We had almost completely forgiven the big three for taking those big bell outs back in the day. Things were going so good, the economy under Trump. We had just kind of forgiven them. People were buying the F-150s and buying the Escalades and all the GM had to offer and Chrysler and stuff like that. I mean, but now, now these people are experiencing losses. Why didn't you guys stand up to the Biden administration? So I'm sorry, when these people lose four and a half billion dollars or $4 billion combined with last year and this year, I don't feel sorry for them. I don't feel sorry for them. And at the same token, I don't want to see any American jobs loss, but spare me if I'm supposed to feel sorry for you when most Americans are suffering like crazy and you're asking for a European style work week and a 45 or 6% pay raise and pensions up the wazoo that we don't get. I'm sorry. Sorry. All right. Anyway, I can't deal with that. I can't deal with that mess. I just got to be real with you. We just played something. I want to play it again. If you guys could get it lined up, audio clip number one. This is CNN's Tapper. Biden is facing some of the worst polling for an incumbent president since Jimmy Carter. Guys, it started. They want to get rid of this guy. The question is whether or not they can do it. The question is whether or not it'll be detrimental for them in 2024. But right now, keeping him on board in 2024 is absolutely detrimental because everything that they've thrown at Trump hasn't worked. And this is what the senile old man is basing everything off of. Well, how does it work with Trump? That's what he's, he wants, Biden wants to run against Trump. And quite frankly, he's probably the only candidate he can remember. So Biden wants to run against Trump. He is convinced that he beat him in 2020. So he's convinced that he beat him in 2020 and he thinks that he can do it again in 2024. The problem is everything, the deep state, all the antics, the latest being this judge. Have you guys seen a picture of that judge? The latest judge, is he in New York, the white guy with the Afro and the yellow teeth? Whenever you see a white guy with an Afro and yellow teeth, you know he's a leftist. You can spot him from a mile away. This guy is saying that Mar-a-Lago is worth $18.7 million or some nonsensical asinine thing like that. AG Letitia James, the same old tire story that she wanted to indict Trump for over a year or more ago. This is all the old stuff that they're bringing up, makes no sense. I think Trump, the purchase price for Mar-a-Lago back in 85 to 86 was $20 million. That's nearly 40 years ago. So to value Mar-a-Lago at 18.7, this is a joke. This is a joke. I'm sorry, I know I'm going a little bit everywhere. By the way, if you wanna call into the PhD, Weight Loss and Nutrition, toll free number, the number to call in 1-800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453 or mikeonline.com. I'll take your calls in just a second, but I do wanna play this audio clip again guys as we get this set up. CNN's Jake Tapper, Biden is facing some of the worst polling for an incumbent president since Jimmy Carter. Audio clip number one, pop up on Eric. And yet Karen, polls show that Joe Biden is really underwater when it comes to approval on the economy, approval on immigration and the border. When it comes to approval in almost every realm. I mean, he's really facing, I think it's some of the worst polling for an incumbent president since Jimmy Carter.
THE EMBC NETWORK
A highlight from Laughs and Business Insights A Conversation with Eli Halpern, the Comedian Entrepreneur Behind The Golden Cricket Brand.
"And that's it. Thanks for watching! You can support MrFudgeMonkeyz on Patreon. See you next time! Thanks for watching! See you next time! Thanks for watching! See you next time! Thanks for watching! So then that's acting as a flashlight. All right, that works. That works for me. Well, so Eli, your story began a long time ago. As a young child, and by the way, this is not something we hear all the time, that someone begins working for themselves at an age as early as 12. I mean, I wanna learn about that. I wanna know more. I know that we'll get some people intrigued here. And there's the other thing. I mean, some people's like, well, how could you possibly be working at 12? We're in the States, and we don't work at that age that early, and so all these questions, let's kind of bust those myths and get them out of the way, and then let's just make it happen. So what got you into it? And I'm sure you went to school with all that stuff, but that's something that's unique about you. Yeah, yeah, so my entrepreneurial spirit has kind of always persisted. It came to me at a younger age than most. I feel like just because I had a larger awareness for humanity and existence and society, based on the fact that I was just very curious, I asked a lot of questions. As long as I can remember, I have always just looked out at the world and been like, what the hell is going on here? We're all, I remember when I was watching kids play kickball at recess when I started school, and I was just like, we're all just like naked people wearing clothes, and we mowed down all these trees to build the school here. Like I was thinking very intensely about every little situation. So it just led me to eventually just realize that everything kind of revolved around money, and that if I can get some money in my possession, essentially I won't have to listen to anyone. And I was always about freedom. And my parents were, they were parents, they're telling me what to do and stuff, and trying to raise me how they saw fit. I had bigger plans. I looked at people around me, parents, teachers, authority figures who were trying to tell me who to be. And I would just look at all of them thinking, I don't want to be anything like any of you guys. So it was easy for me to really see through a lot of BS and realize that people were telling me things not for my own personal wellbeing or for the best of me, but at my deficit, it would work against me to listen to them and to essentially assimilate, throw my dreams away, graduate from a college and work for someone else, which is what I essentially have been rebelling against in my own personal life since the beginning. It didn't start out as like, I want to be an entrepreneur. I want to own a business. It was literally just, I want M &M's. M &M's were my favorite thing at the time, and those cost money. And I just knew that if I had enough M &M's, I'd be happy. And fast forward, fast forward 20 something years, and I can afford so many M &M's now that I don't even want them anymore. Now, I don't even, I try not to eat sugar. There's four other things, that's all. Well, so thank you for that intro. And I want to break some of that stuff down because you've touched on a lot of things that are important to our listeners. And our audiences are diverse. We have parents, we have younger crowds and people that have ambition and vision of their life. But you've touched on a lot of things. First of all, I love the wandering and pondering spirit of yours, whereby you question things. And I think that's something that's lacking in a lot of us. Unfortunately, not everybody has that ability to just question everything and ask why and always try to analyze what's going on. Why is this this way? And when you start asking questions, and technically what you find is like, sometimes answers that don't make sense. And it's the reality of things. I mean, if anybody right now listening to watching starts asking questions about everything that's going on around them, they're going to open their eyes to a point where they'd be like, damn, what the hell do I live? I mean, this is a whole different world that we're in. Because really that's what it is. We have this almost a veil that is upon us. And we are just conditioned to everything that's around us, the way it's been told to us all our lives. And most people will take it for granted. There's no questioning of things. Now, you started that at an early age. And I love the way he's like, why is the school this way? Why people are doing this way? We're all, and you see, asking questions. Now, someone at that age typically doesn't have that in their mind. I mean, and I love what you said about you wanted M &Ms and it revolved around money. Because if you have money, you can buy whatever you want. And at that point, that's what you wanted. And that's a big thing. And by the way, it is a trait that you have that is unique because not everybody has that. And then you said something very interesting that parents, and typically all people around us, listen, I'm a parent, I can tell you. There is a degree of that in all of us where we want our kids to have a certain way of growth and a certain way of future and try to almost guide them. And sometimes to your point, it's not really what they want and not understanding that specifically and not allowing them to be who they were or who they really wanna be, it's a problem, right? But you saw that early on, it didn't make sense that everybody, and I love the concept that everybody has this dynamic that we are almost conditioned to, it's robotic. We are born, you go to school, you're being told that you're gonna finish that school, you're gonna go to the next level, the next level, the next level, go to college, potentially get that master's or at least a bachelor's and hopefully that gets you a good job and then you wanna get more, you need to get more education and so on and so forth. Now we say the word education, I mean, ultimately today, you can have so much knowledge without having to go to school. That's two different things. I mean, being intelligent and intellectual versus being educated in a formal education format, those are two different things, but it's been the system. And then that system is geared towards creating labor employees. And those are the ones that actually do the job. And by the way, any entrepreneur out there somehow uses people to work for them and within their companies, but the concept is there. And everybody, for the most part, is getting that concept from the get -go. That's what you're being told since you're a kid. That's when I was a kid, same thing. My parents were like, you wanna go to school, you wanna do this, you wanna get this, or you can get a good job, and ultimately a good job will result into some money, and then you grew up and stuff. And I kinda bought in that Kool -Aid for a long time. You know what I mean? But you kinda challenged that status quo, and you basically, you were rebellious about it, and you did. And for our people, by the way, there's nothing wrong with going through that system. If that's what you want, if you're okay with it, then that's the system that you gotta go through. I find today, more than ever, people, because of the technology, because the access of knowledge, because of the smartphones and everything that we have available to us, and the platforms and the social and stuff, people can do a lot more things today, differently from what, like 20 years ago, period and out, right? It's just the way it is. So it's creating a whole opportunity for younger folks to do a lot more than, essentially, how it's been traditionally over the last century or so. So I just wanted to clarify that and break that down for our audiences here, because it is a very important piece where someone is already destined to be in the world of business, entrepreneurship, and whether it's a choice or not, how you wanna go about it. I mean, you wanted to go the other route and do stuff. Now, I still am not clear. I mean, did you actually go to school to do the same process, or you actually challenged that whole thing and did it in a different way? I went to college. I was actually trying to major in chemistry. I was pretty much just like, I'm just gonna go here to just say I went to, I like tried it out. And like I knew going in, I was gonna drop out. You went through the motions. I was just like, yeah, yeah. I just, and I started a Amazon store, which is like in the same vein of the eBay. So I've been pretty consistently doing e -commerce type stuff. And ended I up dropping out after like two or three years. And after that, I spent most of my twenties like traveling the world and just trying to understand other perspectives and just see as much as possible and just basically just understand why we're here. And pretty much figured it out. And now I'm just like, all right, I'll just enjoy living while I'm here. Well, hold on, hold on. So you said you figured out why we're here. I mean, that's a big question. I mean, are you able to share with us that enlightenment about why we're here? I mean, at least the way you discovered it, just curious. Cause that's a big question that I think we all are in the search for the answer, right? Like why are we in this world? What's the purpose? And it is a tough question. I mean, it depends what angle you go about it. I mean - Have you heard of the Sumerian tablets? Yes, but I'm not too clear about the details, but yeah. So the Sumerian tablets are the oldest document written on earth. And they essentially tell the creation story of humanity and can be corroborated with other ancient pieces of literature and texts that have been found on like every major continent. And they contain all the major stories in the Bible, like Adam and Eve and like all the old Testament stuff, like the great flood and the tower of Babel. And basically says that humans were created as a slave race for the Anunnaki to mine gold, which kind of is how the world still works today. Like we're all just a bunch of slaves that are trying to collect gold for our higher ups. It's essentially the same thing. Like humanity's just always been like this. It's just, it's a business unlike any other group of living things or animals. Humanity is innately tied to money and an economy and a mathematical algorithm of resources. And I think initially money did represent resources, but now I see money more as representing attention because, well, it can be both for sure. But the amount of money someone has is generally correlated with the amount of attention they have. Like any famous person you see, unless it's their first time going viral for anything ever, there's a good chance that they have at least a million dollars. Like anyone you hear talking, like I don't think this podcast is gonna be getting a hundred thousand plays for this episode, but if it was, we'd both be rich probably. You know what I mean? It's like there's - From your mouth to God's mouth, to Gazys as they say, right? You know, hey, you never know. This is a pretty interesting show. I think it's gonna have its own play. Well, I'm just saying that based on the fact that none of the podcasts I have done have gotten there. sort Not any of explanation for me or you as individuals, but I just think the attention factor translates into money very easily because that's why I'm trying to build up my following and do like branding and stuff. I just had my first clip hit a million views today on Instagram. So that was pretty cool. We need to talk about that, but yeah, we'll catch on that one. Yeah, yeah, that just happened today. So I mean, basically you keep pumping out a million plus views on your clips. That's gonna turn into money somewhere along the way. It's like you create a product or a service, subscribe to my Patreon for my podcast or my business that I'm gonna bring up now. It's called Golden Cricket, where I make cricket protein bars made of actual crickets because crickets are 65 % protein by weight. They contain all nine essential amino acids. They use 2 ,000 times less water to produce than whey protein. They're basically the food of the future. They are high in calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, potassium, and I'm also a standup comedian. So as a comedian, the worst thing you can have in the audience is crickets. So I figure we'll just kill them all and turn them into food. And there's revenge served in every bite. So there's a lot of layers to it. Oh, hold on. I gotta do this. I had to do it. It's crickets, Matty. Sorry. You just had that queued up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead, man. Well, yeah. So like, you know, I build my following enough that I can pivot those sales to my product or not sales, pivot those audience members to my product page and convert that into a sale. Or - It's the right way to do it. Or I'm growing my music catalog and my podcast, like all these things. I'm creating a bunch of things that I can funnel people to once I build the audience. Which is, it's a weird thing to be trying to do, just to be consciously thinking about how can I appeal to the maximum number of people on the internet while maintaining my authenticity and integrity. It's a weird mental gymnastic you gotta do with yourself. And then I end up putting out stuff that I don't even like. That's what happened with this clip specifically. I made a stupid joke about being gay. And I was like, I haven't been putting up content much. I should just put one up. And I ran it past a friend. I was like, should I post this one? And they're like, yeah, it's funny. I'm like, ah, really? I don't really like it that much. I posted it. And I think that was three days ago and it's been gaining traction ever since I posted it. And it just crossed a million views like an hour ago. Instagram. Yeah. Ooh. And I've been posting a bunch of videos on YouTube shorts under Octavius Thunder. So if you like me talking now, then I do more of that on my page. But the YouTube shorts, there's something going on in the algorithm right now where it's just bumping people up. And I do these things where I film me talking to my dog and it has like a vine type of recording where you just hold it down and then it records and you let your thumb up, it stops recording. So I can flip the camera around and like have a conversation with my dog with his just like little face after everything I say. So I can make like these stupid jokes and then it'll be his face looking at me like that was a stupid joke. And I think that blueprint right there has made it for a very attractive piece of content that I can just do whenever. And so I'll put like 10, 15 of those a day out. Like minimal, minimal effort. Like I'll press record without even knowing what I'm gonna say. And I'll just make something up and it doesn't matter. And then they'll blow up and I'll gain like around 30 new subscribers a day. I'm up to like 1 ,637 subscribers right now on YouTube. And I've been doing this for like a couple months. Wow, very nice. So yeah, I've been trying to test out the social media virality algorithm for quite some time. And I just now feel like I'm gaining some success with it. So, but it's very up and down as is any success in life. There's one aspect of you don't wanna get too used to the stuff blowing up cause then it doesn't happen. You're like, oh, I suck. But then also like you shouldn't even care about it at all cause it doesn't mean anything if it doesn't turn into money yet. But also that's not true. You still have to care about it cause it's on the way there. So it just really jumbles up your priorities. Cause you've been taught your whole life to not care about likes and stuff, but then it's like, oh, well now it matters now. These are things like views and stuff. If you're running a media based business or you're measuring your marketing analysis, like these are key performance indicators that you would show to venture capitalists. Like these, it's important data that can affect financing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "stand-up" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Lakefront. Sponsored by Pfizer and BioNTech. As the world keeps changing, so does COVID -19. That's why this season's COVID -19 shots have been updated. They're designed to protect help against recent variants. Learn more and schedule at vaccines .gov. Sponsored by Pfizer and BioNTech. The UAW will expand its strike today. United Auto Workers Union President Sean Fain announced it will happen today. Fain said the strike was the only thing the big seem three to understand. I'm calling on Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant to stand up and go on strike. And I'm calling on GM's Lansing Delta Township to stand up and go out on strike. Fain said the Lansing Regional Stamping Plant will continue working and stressed Automaker Stellantis has been spared because of progress in contract negotiations. As Chicago continues to grapple with a surge in migrants, local officials are calling for more assistance from the state. 11th Ward Alderman Nicole Lee spoke with ABC 7. Not speaking out of turn on behalf of my colleagues who feel like we need a lot more help because right now it feels like it's all been put on the shoulders of the city. Yesterday, Governor JB Pritzker defended his response to crisis. the The city has received not just resources from the state but people personnel and a whole lot of effort over the last year. Pritzker adds the state has given the city close to 330 million dollars with a record number of buses carrying migrants arriving this week. There are now close to 2 ,000 new arrivals at Chicago police stations. Residents gathered at last night's city council meeting in Calumet City as several people continue to deal with damage caused by flooding earlier this month. The heavy rain from the September 17th storm led to flash flooding leaving entire neighborhoods underwater. Mayor Thaddeus Jones issued a disaster declaration which could entitle some residents to relief funds. City spokesperson Sean Howard spoke with ABC 7. There's a process that our can residents go through to start the restoration process inside their homes. This council is afforded 1 million dollars particular effort that effort is underway if it goes beyond 1 million this council will pay for it. City council vowed to get funding from federal agencies into the hands of neighbors while also working to improve the infrastructure system. One of Chicago's iconic fine dining spots is permanently closed. Jonathan Bregman has the story. The owners this of signature room restaurant near the top of the john hancock building posted a message on the restaurant doors yesterday saying economic issues since the covid pandemic started has forced them to close. The signature room has been a popular spot for celebrating engagements, weddings, birthdays and other special occasions for over 30 years. 360 Chicago, one floor below the signature room will remain open. Jonathan Bregman WLS news and the Chicago Bears are still looking for their first win of the season this Sunday. They welcome the Denver Broncos to Soldier Field. The Bears offense looking to rebound against the defense that surrendered 70 points to the Miami Dolphins last week. Well, head coach Matt Eberfluse told reporters that he will handle defensive play calling for the remainder of the season. Bears are three and a half point under dogs to the Broncos. Kickoff is at noon on Sunday. WLS news time 1104. On the
The Officer Tatum Show
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WTOP 24 Hour News
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"Dulles Glass for all your glass mirror and shower door needs visit DullesGlass .com. Dulles Glass, love your glass. Just ahead on WTLP President Biden releases a statement on the passing of California Senator Dianne Feinstein we'll bring that to you it's 1151. local From town councils to Capitol Hill agents who are realtors are standing up for what's right we're here protecting property rights here advocating for the issues that affect our neighborhoods here championing fair and equitable housing for all because we are realtors found by a code of ethics driven to serve our communities we're here for it all here for you realtors are members of the National Association of realtors that's who we are I'm Kareem Abdul -Jabbar I learned about atrial fibrillation the hard way my symptoms would come and go shortness of breath fatigue I kept going then I got so lightheaded I
The Officer Tatum Show
"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"Call ladies and gentlemen, offensive linemen that you pay millions of dollars to to keep him in, say it with me, the pocket. So he can sit back and throw. That was the design of the game. And white dudes can't run like black dudes. Generally speaking, so the white dude that could throw that can't run, hit the quarterback, and the black dude that can throw and can run, he's the white receiver. That's the way football win. What value do you have, especially with all the schemes and the way football ran back in the day? What value do you have at a guy that can run? You got a running back for that. You have a full back. You line up in the power eye. You don't need a quarterback naked run. Those skilled athletes played running back. Wide receiver, tight end, linebacker, defensive end, had nothing to do with race. Even now, like, what are y'all even talking about? Getting on the high horse because they go, well, two black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl. What does that even mean? Every two white quarterbacks in the Super Bowl forever. That make the white people are better than black people. No. You know, like with Eli Manning won the Super Bowl. Man, the brother caught the ball in the middle of the field in the most epic manner. In history, even with Tom Brady came back against the falcons. The little white rye receiver is the one really spectacular ball to get them back in the game. But you know, they also are black. They say, I can't handle it. I can't handle this stupidity of these people. I can't handle this stupidity. Like, just say, how many black people watching football versus white people? That should tell you everything you need to know. How many coaches, how many owners are black? Who do you think drafted these players? These white owners. Who do you think pay black people the most money ever? The white owners. What are y'all even saying? How is racism a thing when these white people are paying black people ungodly amounts of money? And 80% of the team is black players. Majority of the Hall of Fame football players are black. What are y'all even saying? You can't give some of these black people nothing. They're crazy and ungrateful. The fact that you can the fact that you can play in the NFL and still be ungrateful is bizarre to me. Hold a phone, I'll be back at the break. My baby I'll just be. Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies, welcome back to the officer Tatum show. I can not. Quench. My thirst for justice against these crazy lunatic. People. I
Evening News with Art Sanders
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"Dollars the parks would operate on a basic level Utah Governor Spencer Cox says they expect to be reimbursed similar to back pay federal employees get during a shutdown I'm I'm Ed Donohue speaking in Arizona at an event to honor the late Senator John McCain president Joe Biden says former President Donald Trump poses a risk to democracy correspondent Norman Hall has that story speaking at a fundraiser in Arizona President Biden said to make America great again movement is an existential threat to the US political system democracies don't have to die at the end of a rifle they can die when people are silent when they fail to stand up damn the threats to democracy this.
The Officer Tatum Show
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"I'll Tatum show 20 and you'll get 20% off putting Tatum show 20 in a discount section. You get 20% off your entire order. All right, let's move on. A hundred Biden's lawyer controls entity with 10% stake in Chinese state backed investment fund. And if you, if you don't believe that Biden has a sold Biden and all of the Democrats have sold our country out to China. It's very simple. This is very simple. These people got in a position of power and therefore it gave them exposure to world governments and they started doing side deals for themselves while in office. It's really that simple. 10% to the big man, a hundred Biden and Joe Biden's business partner. Nobody's talking about whatever's name. I don't know what his name is. I got to look up his name. Baba topple is bob anopolis or something like that. Bobby linsky, there you go. It's in my mind, Bobby linsky. Those names are kind of the same to me, but bob olinsky, he came out and said, I was a part of these deals. And 10% is Joe Biden. When he was the vice president of the United States of America. So Biden's son was proxy for him doing deals making money, and then when Joe was no longer the president, I mean, the vice president and he was a private citizen for that time period before he ran for president. He capitalized on his proxy dealings through his son. Dad, and then he wondered why our country makes her decisions when it comes to China. You look at Ukraine. Hunter Biden was on the board of burisma. That food don't know how to even speak the language. And he out there with hookers and prostitutes knowing Coke off of the backs of untoward women. You think you think he had a business model? He was actually after doing something. He after making money on his family name. So why do you think we're doing so much weird stuff with Ukraine? Why are we spending billions of dollars in Ukraine? It's not just because they're at war because we care about the people. It's because Joe Biden got something going on with Ukraine. How is Ukraine the center of attention with the scandal? I think with Joe Biden and also with Donald Trump getting impeached. How is that scandal related to Ukraine alone?
The Officer Tatum Show
"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"For. I can't imagine a Democrat, listen, 'cause I'm not, I'm not so red meat that I'm like, no Democrat makes any sense ever, and they all stupid. It's like, there are some Democrats that I think are very intelligent. I just disagree with them. But there are intelligent, they are articulate. They are convincing, they would be a good representation if they had their facts correct and they weren't pushing an agenda. So there's some that I feel like, wow, that person is. Competitive. You know, that's just my thought. That person is competitive. But as a Christian, I can't support things that are not Christ like. Especially when the court premise of your party is anti Christian stuff. I mean, what else do we say about that? You know, Jesus would not be pleased. Let me think about this. I'm like, when I go to sleep at night, and I think to myself, what would Christ think about what I do? Would I represent, how do Democrats get underneath at night and pray knowing that they support something that's completely opposed to what Christ presented? There's nobody under the sound of my voice that think that Jesus Christ, if he was on earth, that he would tell young women to go to an abortion clinic. I just don't, I don't understand where that Jesus wouldn't say, you know what? Go home, go to that abortion clinic. Because that's what the right thing to do is. It's like, what? That's like murder. That's one of the tinker commandments. That should not murder. See, people say kill, but as a difference between killing somebody and murdering somebody. It should have been translated, that's not murder. That means doubts are not kill somebody without cause. You're defending yourself in your family, of course. You may have to offer somebody. When David, see, somebody right now is like, well, we're supposed to be pacifist. Well, David, beheaded Goliath. If in case we forgot, so David was a warrior.
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"I can store a rapping, but I don't want to keep rapping to y'all. But if you want to look up Tupac so many tears. He said, he said, what is it? He said, the drive by is taking lives little kids die. That's the part of the first part of the rap I was saying. He said, I wonder why drive by is taking lives a little kids die. You know, walking through the cemetery, it hurts. That's another song. He said, walk her to the cemetery talking to the dirt. I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward is a ghetto up in heaven in this hours. Black power is what they scream as they dream in a paranoid state in our fate is a lifetime I hate. That dude was poetic, man. And if you listen to it and put it together, you see, you can feel you can almost feel the pain of the black experience and majority of it has nothing to do with white people. And it's more so, you know, why is there so much drama and pain and hurt in the black community? I hear Oprah Winfrey give a statistic. And I hear a lot of black people saying this. Black fathers, a study from CDC says that black fathers are more likely to be in their kid's lives than white fathers. They're more likely to be doing their homework and I'll listen and listen to those statistical talking points and I say, I have to research this statistical marker. Because I know that people can manipulate stats to make whatever argument they want to make. That just doesn't sound reasonable. Now, I don't know how many white fathers and their kids lives. I don't even know where they're measuring and said. But I just know my own personal experience and in one minute I can explain to you very quickly why I think that they don't make sense. It's not even a reality. There's a lot of black fathers that are not there. You know I was watching a guy get drafted in NFL. His woman's there. His dad ain't nowhere to be found. Him and his brother and his mama. And every woman, every black woman that I've dated in my entire life,
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"Continue. Wealth, wealthy people. I appreciate wealthy people who are wealthy because they step on the necks of the little man. I despise. But that still doesn't give the government the right to do any of this. If y'all were spending our money properly, maybe billionaires and $1 million on $1 billion would probably be more willing to forfeit some money to see some change. But y'all, we give y'all money for y'all to do transgender activist surgery protocol training. It's like, what are y'all teaching people about? Shut, stop all that. And use the property tax to teach our kids something that's meaningful. Anyway, I'm not going to go down that path because then I get frustrated again. At least 15 shot Friday into Sunday morning in Lori Lightfoot's Chicago. I wonder why we keep saying Louis life was Chicago. Is that because Brandon, yeah, that's weird. I don't know why articles say Lori Lightfoot though. She's gone. Brandon Johnson is the new dummy in charge. But, you know, 15 people shot, I mean, think about this for a minute. Oh my God, gun violence is out of control. A woman went to a school and she shot two kids and yeah, it's bad. It's crazy. But 15 keep people died in just the weekend right now. And that's not even that they ain't even a lick. It says, the sun times observed that a 165 people were killed in Chicago, January 1st, 2023 through April 29th, a 165 people were killed. Now, I know that there's people getting killed all over the country. But can we diagnose or digest what is happening here? They finish hit a bit of a person getting killed one a day, two a day. I think they're going to hit two at a by the end of the year. And maybe maybe not. They're going to at least get a murderer a day. well, most of these people are minorities. Most of this is done with handguns. Um. Then why are they going after rifles? Um. Why couldn't we make the news when white kids die, but when a black kid is diary weekend, nobody cares. And I'm not saying y'all don't care what I'm saying is that they don't sell. Because black leaders don't care,
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"The most important decision you will ever make in your life is who you marry. There ain't no other decision other than your relationship with God, that you can make. That is as important and consequential as who you marry. A great man marry a bad woman, you will destroy your life and your legacy. Even if you get a divorce, she's going to take you for everything you got and she going to get the kids and everything and you going to be living in hell and today 18 at least. So you marry the wrong woman as a man you have just ruined your life unless God can redeem your life at a later date. And you ain't feeling avoid conflict. For the most part, women, you marry the wrong man, you will never reach your purpose. You will be miserable. You will ruin your life up until the point God decides to redeem your life. So the greatest decision you make is who you marry. And I don't want to hear people being like, I'm single for my rest of my life. Okay. It's probably two people that are happy single until they die. Everybody else really want to be married, but they don't want to do what it takes or they've lost hope. Or they just, you know, they have been lied to their whole life and they really think this is the best version of their life. God has made us to not only be in relationship together, but to reproduce. And that's the no greater feeling than being a father. Our mother, giving birth to another human being. There's almost no parallel to that feeling. But men, when you are dating, date with a purpose. Don't date with the bedroom pillow talk. In your mind, because I'm gonna keep it real on the radio. I don't know who's listening to me. But after a while, you can only do that with so many women before it becomes numb to you.
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"So don't miss out. This is the officer Tatum show. Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies, welcome back to the officer Tatum. Show, hunter, I guess on a Biden is in court for child support for his four year old daughter, you know, I would never mock anybody for child support because she also Ford is terrifying to a father. Not because you have to help your kids is because you never know what judge you're going to get. You can get a judge that want to punish you for being successful or want to punish you for whatever reason, and they will make you pay ungodly amounts of money in child support with no accountability on the other end. I really do think that the child support system in America needs to be revised and monitored properly. Because of her horror stories of dues paying ungodly amounts of child support. And what happens is there's no verification that the mom is using that money towards a child whatsoever. And therefore, it's like, oh, I get to pay day because I had a kid with a guy that happened to be successful. And
The Officer Tatum Show
"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"I wish that we would stand up to this stuff. I wish that people would not be cowardice. The biggest thing that's ruining our country is that they don't even have to physically intimidate you. They can mentally intimidate you out of just letting the whole generation of women get screwed over. You know, one of my media guys just told me he said that the LGBTQ movement of the transgenderism movement is literally tricking the feminist movement into supporting men. Look how stupid let's just say somebody is so true. Let's just say that were just playing. Who's gonna be stupid at the end of this? It ain't gonna be the men. Thank you for that, now I was just playing. We're just trying to do a social experiment. And the women just then gave over all their rights to these men. What happened? Yeah, I think people ain't catching it, man. Transgenderism is saying, me and can do anything a woman can do better. They can look like a woman more. They can be more beautiful than a woman. They can do sports better than a woman. And they can take the lead on a magazine, they get beer contracts, they pretty much say that we can act like we all and do better than y'all. Dillon Mulvaney is probably more popular than just by any woman. And did the Mulvaney is a dude. And he's not even acting like a woman. He's acting like a caricature of a woman. Prancing on a beach, women don't even do that in commercials. How does anybody take Dylan Mulvaney seriously? The dude is galloping on the beach, looking like a crackhead searching for a crack pipes. And he's doing a mustache commercial. For women shaving facial hair, I mean, I got to move on because I'm seeing red, thinking about how they're manipulating women, and mutilating children. I just can't accept it. And there's a pastor that's spoke about this. Like, if you're a Democrat, and you're a Christian,
The Officer Tatum Show
"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies, welcome back to the occupation show. I do not want to spend my whole show talking about this transgender thing, but like, it's bothering me as you can tell. And it's your bother you as well. You know, what are we even talking about? I saw a clip earlier where this girl, these parents. I don't even consider them to be parents. I'm not going to say that I'm trying to avoid saying people don't go to hell. So I'm not saying they're going to go to hell or nothing. And they should burn in hell forever. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that these are lackluster parents. They said that they transition their daughter of their son at two and a half years old. I just, for those of us who have children, what are they, how is this not child abuse and sexual mutilation? How is it my son is two? My youngest. He know nothing about transgenderism. He knows absolutely nothing. You can not Jesus could come down and say Brandon, he's a transgender. I probably wouldn't even believe Jesus. How is two? My son was mad last night because we had another little girl over and she was playing with his toys and he was flipping out. He was playing, he was she was playing with his toys. He was flipping out. And we got to say, we got to say, hey, Bo, you gotta share your toys. He's going, I'm telling my wife, put him in the bed. If you put him in the bed now, 'cause I ain't got time to do some screaming over there. But she like, baby, he's territorial. He's just a little kid. So you're telling me a kid is, don't understand toys and sharing and he's upset and he's crying and then all you
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"The apathy. Hold on, maybe I'm saying it right. I think I'm saying it right. That people are, they won't even, maybe it's not that maybe the lack of apathy. Anyway, these people are not going to stand up for their children and their children's children. I told y'all about the transgender cyclists at the group ride that I was in. Breaking all the female records. All of them. All the Q OMs, which is queen of the mountains. All of them. It wasn't one that this person didn't have. Because the women can't necessarily keep up with the men. But if you are drafting with the men, you're going to get the same time as the men. Women can't hold up with the men. So you got a man that's with the men, but yet categorized as a woman, she didn't broke all the record women ain't never gonna get those records. Women will never. And it's just, it's maddening to me. And I almost think they want us to hate these people. And I'm not going to acquiesce to it. I'm not going to hate anybody. I'm going to hate the actions. I'm not going to hate people. But it's like they want us to be violent. They want us to be mean. They want us to grow hatred towards these people. Because they're doing so much damage to our society, and people are just sitting around with sitting on their hands. We better do something about this before it's too late. From the makers of Graham family films comes a powerful and inspiring true story that will touch your heart and renew your faith.
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"The frustration that I feel from these tranny stuff is just crazy to me. There's transgender people that just want to be left alone. There's transgender people that just they got gender dysphoria and they want to live in their own reality and that's totally fine with me. I couldn't care less. I'm not God. I although I think God wants some better for you, but I ain't got, that's between you and him. I'm only entitled to care about my own Salvation at the end of the day because I ain't gonna be able to take none of y'all with me to the master and say, hey, hey, look, look, but I was messing up, but at least I saved this person and you gotta take, you gotta go by yourself to the throne. So I'm not here to try to be mad at you and worry about you. But when you were doing other people wrong in the process, why is it okay? Like when are we gonna start fighting back? You coward as women who are sitting on the podium with this fool. What are y'all even thinking? Do you want, do you ever want to win a championship again? Y'all should have won. It should have been the lady on the left, the lady on the right, and the other girl that didn't make the podium. 'cause that dude is a dude. That dude probably didn't even cut his mind off. Let me just say this. I have respect for transgender people more so when people go through the surgeries and stuff, 'cause then you're like, man, you serious, bro you really want to be a girl. You willing to cut it off and fold it up and tuck it under. You really want to be a girl. And you going through hormones and all that stuff. I still think you need to tell a person that you a man and that you did all the biological gymnastics, but if you still walking around with male genitalia and you talking about you a girl, you ain't committed.
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"stand-up" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"I mean. I could be eating with my family. You can wave at me, man, hey, I love your stuff. Or whatever, I'll take a picture with you, whatever. Because I appreciate you and I'm thankful every time somebody comes up to me, I'm thankful to God first that he give me the ability to touch somebody's life, okay? Let me talk about this craziness going on in our country. I have no idea why how we are going so far from the Mark. For those of you who know me or know of me, watch me on social media, know my passions. One of my passions in life is professional cycling. I literally watched the Tour de France every year. I'm actually going to Europe and I'm going to watch the Tour de France because it comes through while I'm in Europe. And it's going to be the greatest experience of my life other than marrying my wife, my having my children and other things family related. But it's going to be one of the greatest experiences. I used to ride my bike about 200 miles a week. I thoroughly enjoy cycling. It is my passion, my love, it gives me so much peace. And as dangerous as the son of a gun, because people out here just texting and driving you over and kill you and keep going. But so with the passion that I have for cycling, stories like the one I'm about to read, it literally makes me so upset. Angry, disappointed and infuriated are all terms that I feel amongst many other terms of many other many other descriptive words when I see cheating in cycling. Let me read this to you. Train cycle is picked up overall victory in women's category and tour of the Gila. I'm assuming that's what it is. That's how you say it. It says Austin
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Interview w/ Cody Blaine Plus Some Standup Comedy! Show #89 - burst 01
"Good to be clear this day and age. I used to joke on is used to say on the american army not to say that grown people think hit the army. Go into a bit on that so yeah joined the army. I had a three year commitment. And i knew after about in about six months that it was not for me and i said but i still. I still had been the rest of the time in the army. You know doing army stuff. So i ended up Probably i was actually had gone back to i. I was in germany. I went back to texas and when i was in texas i actually did a i went up onstage. Do what state actually did a Of the talent contest. So i went up into the talent contest and i had one joe written and i thought that like in my life i thought well you know i will just go up. Fell this joke and then funny things will come to me. you know. some people think it's that easy and some people go on state so so Untold it thought me. That's only finish it so i go up on stage my job and my one joe is You know my friends go out and drink beer. And they say that it doesn't affect them but then they ended up going home with ugly when they go out to bars. They drink beer and they go home with eglin right so i thought that will get a laugh. Big got nothing and that's my only joke and so i'm standing there trying to think of another thing. Something like waiting for the way kambas might come and someone the audiences in the silence. Something the audience. Yeah that's why you'll be going on with an ugly woman and that actually gets a little bit of a lap right and so then i said yeah. I'll be going home with your date. And that got it. You can imagine that got this gigantic wave of laughter which is like a like a kind of laughing you know happens in a comedy club worth just like the whole place erupts and that moment is that one laugh. I didn't get any more laugh but that one laugh. I felt like i think i'm having the cereal i knew i knew i had a lot of work but just that
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Halloween Special Repeat of "Walk Like an Egyptian" a discussion with Comedy Club waitresses. Show 8a - burst 01
"We're gonna talk about what it's like being employees to comedy club ladies and gentlemen. Let's hear for patty soule sherry lane stove owner well. That was pretty incredible. Alright so let's get thing kick things off of padding sherri. We already talked to lenin earlier. Podcast she was a hostess kitchen manager house. Mc and being an entertainer in managing so my club so historically very important but the club also wouldn't have had it success without a really tremendous staff that stuck around for many years and part of that staff patti and sheri who were cocktail waitresses back in the day. So patty will start with you. How did you come to work for me. It laughs well first of all. I'd like to say that i was head. Waitress knows what that's all. She earned the title but above where we got that out of the way. Any millennial listening out there. It was okay to say that back. Then i actually got started laps unlimited. Because i was dating your bartender one of your bartenders. There and i came in one night with him. just to see the show and It was a birdcage secret person who this was. This was ben tony. Oh i didn't. I thought you guys met at the club so you guys previously and he brought you in. We had been dating for awhile then. Tony is another a entertainer slash employee that we interviewed in a previous show. So i knew you guys at data for a couple of years. But i didn't know it was. I thought you meant out laugh so it was pretty laugh. So that's interesting so you came in as a guest an audience member. Did you have a good time. I had a great time. I remember it was wonderful. And i just i loved the whole atmosphere of the club itself and they happen to be short a waitress that night and ben. Tony mentioned to you. Lyn was could have been. T- may be or bob bob. Probably you know my girlfriend is out there in the audience. And i know she's had cocktail waitress experience so so i i just kind of went. Sure i'll do it so i was waitress that night night instead of being in the audience. That's hilarious great
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Standup Comedy Barry Neal Interview Headliner & Booking Agent Show #88 - burst 01
"I was not dating anybody in college about relationships. And i'm not gonna talk about politics. That wasn't in politics. So it's just what did i know. I knew sports nine new tv. Stoa figure start there. Will you know that's good advice for anybody listening. That wants to be a comic. You gotta talk about what you know and then have it something that everybody in the audience can relate to so talking about television. Really in sports are a good place to start so you started off in chicago. How did you end up over in europe. i played hockey On a traveling team in oh cool and then. My coach was originally played on the swedish olympic team. Way back when and We were pretty good traveling team and he thought we should take a group of all stars and represent laker the team. Usa and I was selected to be the gold one of the goalies on the team. And so i have my little team. Usa jersey and I got to play with a vicki. No hockey It was a thrill. Because i always played against him in chicago but now he was my was tony granato. Who's an all who is an all-star for the los angeles kings wow kings. Yeah no everyone in hockey knows that name. And that's amazing. Congratulations how cool and and again. I have known you a long time and had no idea. You had a hockey background. And how proud you must have been to represent america overseas if you know what it was kind of cool because it was a time where you read or at olympic the miracle on ice and toast to be over there and has the european crouching. Usa was just it was it was cool. It was something one of the highlights of my life along with having kids and being married but definitely gone over then representing the country was pretty cool. Okay
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"Audience of One" Bruce Baum Bonus Show # 24 - burst 1
"Bruce bruce. Thanks for joining us today. I hear you have a little funny to share with the crowd. Yes i do it by the way you've got the best saudi important world. This happened on hollywood squares match our and at the end of the show they let you pick one of the celebrities and you come out and whatever the the jackpot is up. You try to win. At this point it was thirty thousand dollars. Wow that was a few ten consecutive letters. Like you might start me and then go from c. tearing you'll get one clue and they have to say the word you're trying to get them to say that they get all ten they win thirty thousand well on this particular day. The guys who ended up winning. He's got a beard and he's got a cat. And he's telling steve al and a couple of other stars backstage that he works for the cia and that he monitors foreign stuff out of turkey. And we're like whoo. That's kind of cool but in the back of your mind you're not supposed to carry you there in the
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Standup Comedy "Laughs" TV Show Lineup 1987 Mike Baily, Nicky Shane & Tim O'Rourke Show #87 - burst 1
"I got a chance to go further. John got married. So i had to go back and being his winning and it was kind of a nightmare because they had to do and to get on a plane and flooded dayton ohio and then get into a car with my entire family and drive to missouri and that was heavy. You know i love my parents dearly. My family and i get along real well. It don't travel with them very much. I have a brain in my hand. So i'd say the aug dayton ohio is like a million degrees all eight of us crammed into the oldsmobile. So the first thing we gotta do is ro those windows up. Turn out air conditioner on and smoke cigarettes. Tom smoke a lot. When dad droves got real nervous two blocks down the street. Your mom dad is you. We need is for the cooler sedan would pull the only close seven eleven in val universe responding that way of his his brand is if we can just go home car out of against.
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Standup Comedy Interview & Set with Bob Ettinger of Jeopardy Show #86 - burst 1
"I remember. At that time there was a thing called crashing. Gum in the freshness gum. the gum. That went squirt right right. I remember that had a joke. Any birth control gum. That would keep you from doing his court. So that would my the birth control gum. The gum will let you squirt. That's you know for a young guy that was just on the fringe of show business. That was not a bad i joke. Well let's bet did ever made it to one of your stages. I well it probably better that it didn't but i just think for a young guy just going to Initial comedy classes. That's not a bad start. Obviously you had a talent for writing. I know that the later in this interview that will come up as being an important partner career but so comedy writing and then going to this comedy class with danny more kind of gave you your start.
Political Analytical
"stand-up" Discussed on Political Analytical
"That's just a part of what i gather from what My notes in my bullet points are and everything are lustiest. President told the military that before they left baghram air force base that they were to clean up the graffiti and clean up the air force base to pacify the taliban as they took it over our own military had cleanup for the taliban before they could move in. That's just one thing. And then by ten days later asked his military advisers to extend withdrawal deadline ten days after kabul had fallen and now because we have an air force base. It's not gonna stay empty too long. Eddie china is taking over baghram airforce base and assets as i speak are moving in. Oh and you mentioned the southern border. I just saw part of the show. Gorky morecombe that the southern border is now being overrun by haitian and afghan illegals imagine that and this should be grounds for impeachment. As far as i'm concerned. I cannot utter the amount of disgust and utter hatred. That i have for this administration for what they're doing. What we want was called the united states of america. We are the laughingstock. We are the epitome of insanity at this juncture. And there's nothing nothing that we the people are doing. And i'm not getting eddie. I'm just not fucking getting at why we haven't started at something going on to stop the damn insanity you know rick..
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
"Time Warp Comedy" 3 Decades of Headliners Freisen, Kindler, & Seinfeld Show #85 - burst 1
"How many kids. You guys have to all right good. Did you videotape the birth good. Don't we did and now that tape is just sitting up there on the show. I know it's gonna change a whole father son. Talk daddy come from well if you wanna grab some popcorn and lower the lights and explain to self really well. That's a different team together. We don't normally believe in spanking but your mom very bad that day. Guy that gruner last prenatal visit our nurse told us that are obstetricians. Also magician on the side. I was cracking up. I kept picturing my wife in the birthday. He's pulling out handkerchief behind rear. Is this your baby drinks. The umbilical cord good heared has got a big closer. Congratulations mr freezing. It's boy. well. Thanks but hey. Where is ball's they're under one of these cups expensive raising kids. People always putting pressure on you. They're always saying things. Are you saving it for his college yet. Paid for my college man. One deal at a time here. I know i'm going to have to walk them up to the financial the people i still. No i got a tab going right. Yeah no doubt. I am alive. Yes
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Michael West as "Tree" A Comedy Interview Show #84 - burst 01
"But he's a big guy that has seen a block out the sun. He wore a black leather jacket. Like kind of like you'd picture from the biker movies and black leather chaps and and was kind of an intimidating figure. Well okay you were scary looking guy you would come on stage in everybody in the room would kind of lean back a little bit and what was so interesting was that you had this kind of scary big persona on stage but off stage. A lot of the staff commented on you being one of nicest guys they ever worked with and by the way. Thank you for that When i told several the old staff people that i was going to be interviewing you. They were not only a very excited. That we connected but wanted to share that you're one of their favourite people to work with because you were such a nice guy off state so there's that but then when i would go through the rules at the beginning of my set rule number one was always tip your server would. Yeah we reinforce. The course of the evening because i came from a background of like over thirty years in food and beverage the bartender by cook in my mom's restaurant when i was thirteen. So so food beverages my blood. We'll show you imagine this. Big intimidating guy Laid out in black leather coming out and pointing at the audience. And saying you will tip the waitresses. I learned. I learned to why you say the word server servers. Well there you go but still. It was a great way to start off your set. So let's let's back up a little bit. Because i know what Working with you how. That was it laughs but Share with the audience. How did you kind of fall into. Stand up comedy. It's something that i had. Since i was a kid and i'm probably dating myself but growing up watching the old ed sullivan show and shows variety shows I always loved the when the comedian came again. You like checking green myron cohen You know the old borscht belt comics the first ones and then Involved into you know cosby carlin's Which she prior. Before he turned into richard pryor notice when people were watching. You know family watching it. Everybody was laughing and so everybody was in a good mood. And i always liked
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"Audience of One" Milt Abel Bonus Show #18 - burst 1
"I was playing my cat. No and i let me start this for saying i was meeting. I know i was right. So let's don't more than. I've already judged what i'm saying is we're praying and My cat kind of i. It scratched me. So i i let it know that. I didn't want that to happen. So i gave him a little not cut off. They're just enough. You know to get it to try and bite my thumb which pissed me off for more and so i said okay you wanna rock and all that you know. They wouldn't gotta towel now. This is i. i don't know what i guess. I was upset about driving early in the day. I rolled up the tower. And i snapped up. No and Yeah it was this version. i realized. Now here's the same as as a human being being topped by a camping tent. It's about about and you know. I'm gonna can't understand what lots of charts and diagrams. I'm sure that they were saying. Then you start choking you know So it's years went back. You know and i think when one year goes back i think they're confused and they're just going to catch us when you're right. Yeah
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July 1987 TV Show Starring Carlos Alazraqui, Lynn Stobener, & Al Lubel Show #83 - burst 1
"We have some great comedy coming from a comic impressionist from right here. In sacramento guys. Ready right alex rock last year the winner sisters all the way to number one your yard that crazy old land from the david letterman show is the same. Mr larry but melon ars lowered floor. But just i am about pollution control and i like it there for kind of a rowdy kid. When i was young we got way out. We did some crazy things like my mom would come in. We'd be fooling around. You cut out horsely. How long timmy's nailing metal shoes to my feet. Yeah we were riding my brother that got stoned on the weekends. You know and they made excuses for their lack of behavior. Like ask to do things like fred. Let's go to the part. is it free. La
Talking Junk
"stand-up" Discussed on Talking Junk
"I guess they're easier to influence the more open minded. Everything like absolutely yeah. We'll do this so yeah. I love doing high schools and colleges because those are always the best audiences so now we know you're a busy man and we thank you for coming on but before we Let you get back. what is the wildest cruise ship story you can tell us the wildest ship story you just like from from this something that happened on the on the stage. Yes something that sticks out to you. I don't well. I'll tell you what the wildest story from a hypnosis show was. This was this was from the from the from the crucial because the crew show always family friendly show but i did have a. I did have a venue that i would perform here in salt lake. This was you know. Jesus was like seven or eight years ago when i was just starting. It worked really well because they would have me in once a month to do a show but they were kind of a. They were an interesting group. But you know this. This isn't anything original to me. But it's something that hypnotists have done But you know they call it the orgasm handshake where you shake. Someone's hand or you shake a woman's hand and they wind up having an you know an orgasm on stage so you would tell that to the guys and i don't do this bit anymore. This was like something way back in the day. When i was when i was doing it. But you would shake these people's hand on stage all you know the men and the women and you just watch these reactions. Have you ever did on your wife now. Now i have to be hypnotized for that. So but i had hypnotized my wife but yeah i mean that was the club was they. Were kind of a you know. They were hard core kind of club. They liked it a little little rowdier..
The Endless Honeymoon Podcast
"stand-up" Discussed on The Endless Honeymoon Podcast
"Day one. And i feel like i can trust you a little bit. Natasha's doing this natasha's doing this thing right now. Where she won't give me the and i know you're gonna threesome motion no it's about a foursome. Automatically you're going to pick one of us off not just excuse myself jess. Thanks for calling. Good luck by gone. She gone sling. Who's frozen your best friends with your soulmate. How do you how how. How do you slash solman. Oh my best friend. no is it in like. I'm not going with her. She is my best friend. And i do believe in life. You might meet your soul mate might be someone you go out with or they might be your sister or your mother. Your brother mind my best friend amid at university our souls are like she has a teller wife. she's like. Oh no you're my wife. But my soul majors ashley am not type of relationship. This is my soul mate. He's lucky jammed up. And i was like okay. Don't you think we have a lot of mates for our soul in the life. Yes now an elegant way to put it not a lot of it so you know. Leonardo he painted the soul. And you see the light to come from frisco the fresco it you don't believe in a soul mate you got the primerica tony. It'll make a sauce. This is my soulmate in some way. Natasha who's your soul with a fish bys saying oh always could be. This could be that.
The Autosport Podcast
Dutch GP Qualifying Report
"Stop taking pole position at the dutch grand prix it to the absolute delight of the sea of oranges the grandstands the red bull driver was until form throughout the day showing absolutely blistering pace and he did not let up. When it came to qualifying he will start alongside title rival hamilton. He came close just under four hundreds of max but he couldn't quite take that pole position. Teammate voucher brought us will be starting p. Three tomorrow ahead of goslett who was on fantastic form once again and secured a p four start. Charlotte cloud will lead an ferrari. Thaad right after pipping teammate. By just one hundredth of a second a strong performance from ferrari especially from the team humanity repack hall assigns call after a big shunt in f. p. Three antonucci of nazi was a standout performer of qualifying securing a piece. Seven any six hundred behind la. Mp five after solid showing from the affirmation driver throughout today's session. Meanwhile there was no can be rocketing on track today. Often news break this morning that he tested positive for cave in nineteen as a result wrote cubit place winding up p eighteen equally. The app came in p. a. m. p. nine with daniel ricardo rounding out the top ten on while the was several standup performances. Today that will also some shocks notably the elimination of sergio perez and sebastian vessel in q. One traffic caused issues for both drivers with such a missing the kochav seven hundreds behind sonoda on winding up sixteen. Sebastian vessel found himself stuck behind the house. 'cause of nikki to massive pain and makes you mce forcing best to abort his flying lap. The hospital was summoned to the stuarts. But knife i've action was taken off the stewards deemed. It was not unnecessary. Impeding with vessel reportedly also explaining to the students that were just too many calls in one place. We had to red flags in the session. Both as a result of incidents involving the williams drivers fastly in q. To george russell suffered from snack of either. Stay on the entry into the final corner ending up in the barrios. The red flag was bored out but he was able to get the car back to the pits but with sadly unable to rejoin the session. So ended up eleven.
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Comic Magician "Amazing Johnathan" Interview & Set Show #78 - burst 01
"Wow that's fascinating start but learning on the streets of san francisco. There's a lot of talented jugglers and comics. But and magicians like you mentioned harry anderson who cut their teeth on the streets. I did not know that was your background. How long were you on the street about two years. And then when you start getting really good down the street you're crowds start to get really enormous and I got arrested Every weekend for obstruction because my crowds would go out into the street and as soon as they stepped out on the street the cops were laying and they would arrest me so i had to stop doing that and at the time. Their comedy clubs who are just starting out in their holy city. Zoo in san francisco is open. And and so i moved my show indoors and started doing nightclubs and at that time. It was dana. Carvey robin williams that that was the gang. I came up with doing comedy well and didn't actually do your show at the holy city zoo. Yeah oh yeah oh man. We've told the podcast listeners. In the past that is a famous club it had maybe twenty. Four seats a really teeny stage. There was a balcony that actually held like two or three people. I mean it was one of the smallest rooms in the history of comedy. Entertainment and yet people like robin williams dainik carbonate and apparently right amazing jonathan worked at. That's incredible i. Was there the night robin brought his contract and we got more committee and he brought his contracts and told everybody and we were looking through his contracts. Some five thousand dollars a week. That's incredible heaps money but yeah robin Was there and then dana. Carvey and god everybody at that time. Vallon too generous and and It was a great great eric. Come up doing comedy and you can also boarding house and always area. This there was like probably about twenty rooms within Three hour drive you know. Oh no san francisco was definitely a hub and a birthplace for a lot of the entertainers. Our audiences heard of in Enjoyed on
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Four Teriffic Headliners Kenny, Piper, Bennett, and Mark Schiff Show #77 - burst 1
"I'm in las vegas a lot. I was at the mgm last halloween night. I'm in my room. Knock at the door. A little kid was trick or treating in the hotel. I gave them a towel. Couple ashtrays in the bible. Give a child a bible. You feel good about yourself. Old people driving cars. that's scary. that's gotta stop talking old people in their hundreds. I was in miami last month. I got passed by a cadillac. There was nobody in. It was just these knuckles up on top of the couple. Blue hairs coming going over the top sprite. And i like old people. I'm not knocking people. My grandpa's still alive. He's ninety six. I saw at christmas. He says to me braun. It's a miracle. I get up in the middle night to go. The bathroom and god turns a light on for me. When i'm done. He turns the light off for me. I say grandpa. i think you're in the refrigerator.
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Don Friesen Interview The Only 2 Time Winner of SF Comedy Competition! Show #76 - burst 1
"Little frightened or in trepidation about getting on stage in the only way to beat that is to keep getting on stage and to start that improv troupe. At usc in the fact that it's still going today is quite a tribute to you. I i'm very proud of that. And i don't take responsibility for the continuity. Because i thought when i left it was over i didn't i wasn't the person who like you know continued the legacy or whatever but Somebody in the troop Kept it going. Or because at the time i was founder and director and i was kind of like the Never the biggest talent in the group. But i would definitely the driving force. Yeah the power behind the movement. What's the name of that Improv group it can need interrupts really. That's a great name. Yeah which. I didn't come up with either but we yeah was a great name And they've they've had like they've had famous alums and Several snl alums and Then improve definitely become much more famous than i ever than i ever was starting out so well but still even sure i could if i auditioned for them. I'm nitric getting really good. I don't know about that. But i think that You still get the crown for being the guy that started and perpetuated the entertainment form on a campus. That's business oriented. I mean that's a very serious collagen to get something like that. Going was not only. I'm sure helpful to get you through your last year of school but it's been helpful apparently for the last three decades to other students
Creatively Christian
"stand-up" Discussed on Creatively Christian
"Inspire inform educate and empower creative christians of all types. I'm one of your host brandon hollingsworth on today's episode twins. angela and valencia. Give us practical ideas in standing up for what we believe in especially in the wake recreate. Hello everybody This is brandon hollingsworth coming to you. From the theology. Media's creatively christian podcast and i am super excited. I think this is the first time. I've had to people on the podcasts. With me at once with these wonderful. Ladies that i met at international christian music and film festival. Angela and valencia. Say hello ladies. What's going on my god. Yes tell everybody which one is which 'cause you guys are irish twins. So irish twins. Yes i am. angela. And i'm valencia. Irvine is Siblings of saint parents that are less than a year apart. So you're exactly ten months apart so we're like right. Here is irish guess. July twelfth valencia. All right slow everyone out that needs to send your birthday presents. Right no excess. Here's the po box. Well i. i was Privileged to meet you ladies again at international christian film festival and we had a blast. We and we're playing around and collaborating on some projects that i'm really excited about. But we'll leave that over to the side for now because we want to talk about you ladies so so tell our listeners. A little bit about yourself and what you're all about because many of our listeners might not know you so we are like we said irish twins sisters abandoned in this in this wonderful thing called life for for a while blessing and loving on the lord. We're christians i And we always had a like a a little next to just wanna be in front of people to blessed to help to encourage to inspire to you. Know all these things and we just know. God gave us these talents because he gives all of us gifts and talents every single person listening. Now you have talent. You have a gift us. What guy is giving you So he gave us gifts with singing first of all and we just took that gap..
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
"Triad of Comedy" featuring Don Friesen, Steve Smith, and "Mr. Bullhorm" Glen Super Show #75 - burst 01
"Right now one of the funniest on the road ladies and gentlemen. Here's done freezing talking appliances in the next couple of years ago but talk to your kitchen. Is that gonna help our lives. Life done goofy burke. Microwave say cook you say how hot the blender and the toes we'll keep you up on that was Losing weight and have fridges pissed. Cheer loud he took it wrong. Going to couples. Counseling blender with issues. You know enough cities with your toaster. On the dr phil show. So you're just and he just want to come home. Have your bread all ready to go up. They know understand guys. Never see that coming like Yeah that's pretty much what i do. Who do you think you like a dr phil. Alarm clock heavy great. How can you sleep through that. You need to wake up. You need to wake up. Wake up this news more than twice as war. Were you walk in the jimmy j. christmas. Did i miss a turn off to crazy town here