Ron Taylor Is Funny AF | Your Mom's House Ep. 860

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It's pretty crazy that I can say I was there. Yeah. I was there and if you don't yet follow Ron, follow him on Instagram at comedian Ron T. You can get all information for shows there. It was a, I have to tell you before I get your take. I did an episode early on in the season where I did like the showcase in L.A. You were, you were the L.A. one? Yes. So in L.A. I flew out, I went to the improv. It was like during the day and Kevin and I watched like I don't know like a dozen or so comedians. And it was fun. You know it was like it was a good atmosphere and I was like I was cool and you saw like some people had great sets. People had good sets. People were like, okay, kind of like what you expect. Yeah. And for whatever reason, you know, I just expected kind of like the same sentiment. You know the same kind of energy and everything on the finale. I just, I didn't know what to expect. I was like oh it'll be like that. Right. So we go to this theater in downtown L.A. And I'm just like getting ready to like kind of go to the same thing. And when we we walked out as the like the guest judges, like we weren't really judging, but you know Nikki and I walked out. First I was like oh shit, the energy in here is pretty hot right now. Yeah. Which like you don't always get at taping. Yeah. Sometimes taping is fucking blow. Yeah. And so I'm like fuck okay, this is cool. And then there's four finalists and I'm sitting there on the couch with her and like after every set, I'm like oh my god, like these guys are destroying. It was fucking electric in there. Yeah, it was. And all the crowds, especially once it got to the theater shows. So we had the roasts in the theater, the topical in the theater, the semi finals in the finals. Yeah. And because we were still in production of the show, we didn't really see the warm-up guy go out there and do it. So when we got out there, we kind of were just feeling like god damn, this warm-up guy is amazing. I don't know what he did. I don't know if it was all him or if it was just like you said, the environment, the energy. But something was going on. Like they really wanted to laugh. And it was a bunch of you know, it's theaters. Like all of us at that point had played a theater before. But they didn't come for us. They just happened to be there. That's right. That's right. So it was kind of different when you know because now they're excited to see you guys. Right. Yeah. Right. And I said this, I think I said this to you later that night at the comedy store. But I don't remember because I was telling other people. But when I left there, I feel like whenever you see good stand-up, no matter who it is, if you're a stand-up, it makes you want to do stand-up. Like you feel inspired. Yeah. It was the interviews afterwards. I saw that. Yeah. And I was like, I want to go do stand-up. So I went to the store and did a spot because I was like, I felt so fired up watching you guys. I was like, I got to get on stage. Yeah. I did spot two, but it was like, oh, I got to get to work now. Yeah. It's burnt 30 minutes of little time. I got, you know, either rebuild or replenish. So yeah. Well, it's a good to have that mentality. You know, it's definitely good to have the mentality of like accepting that you, first of all, that you can. Right. Like that some people go like, I'm done. Like I burned it. And you're like, it's not how it works. Yeah. You can, you can keep doing it. But we'll get all into it. I'm just going to play you an opening clip here and then we'll, we'll get into the show. Here's our opening clip of the show. Hey. Get up, get up, get up. We got money to get. Well, get out of the fuck out of it. No, we got money. Fuck out of it. Money to get. No, we got money to get. Hey, bro, you better, you better watch it. Yeah. You don't fuck around and find out. Fuck you, mother fucker. Don't bring anyone loving to this. No, I'm in the fucking stand. Welcome, welcome. With Tom Segura. And Christina Pajitsu. [MUSIC] It's kind of a long intro. Hey, that's all right, man. We hear a hip hop remix. Um, we have a sick kid at the house. So Christina's not here today. Oh, he's got the Haunted virus or whatever it's called. Jesus. Yeah, whatever that. Well, I'm not getting that shit. I was like, you can stay around that. Um, so I got it. So I got to take it first of all. Yeah. That video I feel for that guy. Oh, yeah, right. I have to say, yeah, as a fellow Vandweller. Yeah, you are a Vandweller. That was mean to be woken up. Oh, it's the worst. And you always think it's the police. Yeah, so to see somebody messing around and we got money to get. If I had money to get, would I be in a fucking van? I know. I know. It's it's both upsetting and funny because like you, it's funny to wake someone up and who is clearly not going to be like, we got money to get, but there's nothing worse than being woken up for no reason. Like if somebody just fucks with you to wake you up, it's one of the meanest things you can do. It's, you know, probably right there with disturbing while you're taking it shit because that's also a really fucked up thing to do. I dated a girl who did both of those. She would fuck with you. Yeah. She had no sense of like privacy when it came to the bathroom. That's so she would come in and it's like, I keep you doing anything in here. It's nowhere sacred. And she would wake me up. Not granted. I get this, but this is almost worse because it's like you could wait. She would wake me up and try to fuck. She'd try to suck my dick awake, which is like, it's fine. But the only thing better than a blow job is is sleep. Sleep's amazing. Like fucking just hold your horny horses. I would say you're an evolved man. A lot of people would contest that. Would it be like, she's like, well, I'm up. So let's, let's do this. Is that how it would be? That's how it would be expressed. But if I'm being real with it, I think it's fuck him. I'm going to wake him up and have it be in a way that he can't be mad at me. Oh, right, right. Yeah. Why? I just wanted to suck it. You could have waited. How early would she be doing this to you? You know, when you wake up before you're ready to wake up, you feel like you could sleep another six hours. Yeah. It might only be 30 minutes in real life. Yeah. But it's just like an hour. Yeah. You know, if you see, I'm dead sleep. Yeah, dead. And then like, wake up. I want to do it. If you never about rolled over. Yeah, bitch, I'm dead. Yeah. And you're fucking with stuff. And then when I'm wide awake and I grab you, my head hurt. I was asleep. Yeah. I can't stop you. See, this goes back to my review after seeing you that you are, you have the soul of an older man. Yeah. Because a young man would be like, dick sucks all day. But an older guy goes, you know what? Sleep first. Yeah. I want to sleep first. We need that. Yeah. If I don't sleep at this point, especially in my life, all the drinking and drugs I've done, if I don't sleep, I won't be able to get it up anyway. Right. I need to recharge my body. Give me a break, please. That makes a lot of sense. I like sleep more than anything. Sleep over everything, man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, sleep over food, sleep. Yeah, sleep is, it's the best. There's nothing greater. And also it, fucks, it dictates the day. Yeah. The whole day is dictated by sleep. Your mood, your energy, everything, your mental clarity. Do you have, are you just like a crash guy or do you have like a sleep routine? Like, do you prepare yourself for sleep? At this point in life, I'm trying to, you know, but the only thing I can do is like try to just, just regiment the amount of sleep. That's kind of the only thing I can control at this point. You know, there's times where I'll have a, a spot at the mothership at like 11.50. Yeah. So I can't have a bedtime of 10 o'clock and she's still trying to get up. Yeah. So it's like, hopefully I don't have anything to do in the morning. And then I can like sleep at least at this point. I really want seven, but if I get six, I'm good. That's my cutoff. - Half point two, everyone's different. Six, to me, is I can still have a productive day. Less than six, I feel like absolute shit. And if I can get seven or eight, it's golden. - Yeah, man, it's definitely needed. Like I said, I've kind of beat my body up, so I'm just gonna take some time. - Were you like a big part of your? No, but drinker, yes, drinker. What was your drink of choice? - Whatever's free, free stuff. - I mean, throughout my drinking career, like, let's see if I started drinking at 21, about when I worked at the store, when I became a door guy, so about 24 to about 20. Well, I'll give it, I'll give it 30. Yeah, I'll give it 30, I was going hard. But I didn't know I was going hard, you know? It was like, I mean, I guess I kind of knew, but I didn't know that your body would react like that. You know, it's funny when they say like addiction, I'm thinking like, oh, that just means you can't stop. No, it means if you stop, your body stops working. Yeah, I can stop doing anything, but when you're fucking shaking or whatever the fuck, or you can't wake up. - So you was drinking like that? - Yeah. - Well, I mean, I did a lot of stuff like, that's a whole 'nother store. Like, 2020, you know. - Well, 2020 fucked up a lot of people. - We had fun, but, you know, yeah, I've got to sleep. - Yeah, sleep for sure, number one. - Let me tell you about Lucy for a second. I've been using nicotine pouches for a while, but what got me to go all in on Lucy is the breakers. Each pouch has a little capsule inside that busts open and releases extra flavor. It may sound small, but it's enough to put me over the edge. Lucy breakers are 100% pure nicotine and always tobacco-free. 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Okay, so that makes sense to me why you're so polished. Well, it makes sense. You did it. You also, I couldn't tell if you were like 19 or 38. I can't tell. That's funny. But it's one of those things where like, were you also, 'cause I felt this way from the couch watching you guys, and the finalists were Usama, Yu, Katelyn, and Rich Thomas. Rich, Rich Thomas, yep, yeah. I was fucking honestly man, like I've said it, but like I was blown away. Were you like impressed with how good people were? I don't know about impressed because these are my peers. Yeah. So I can't, personally, knew like what everybody could do. Yeah. I guess I was impressed with all of us, myself included, at how we, especially come the finals, at how we all recognize like the moment. And like, it was, in a way, it was almost easier than some of the other stuff. I just knew it was it. Yeah. When loser draw, this is it. I'm going balls to the walls. There's nothing left for me to hold on to, which strategy of winning a competition, and that's the whole other conversation we could have. But like, it's kinda, when you've got, you know, I don't wanna say limited material, but when you perform in an hour, as you know, like there's some jokes that work because they're here. Yes. Or at least they work really well because they're here. Once you start isolating things, you're from a constructed hour. It's very different. It's different. So, how do you plan, pick and choose what you're gonna do? Did you plan when you're going into this, and as you're progressing, save this if I get that far? Like, a little bit, right? So, quick backstory on that. Long story short, I did a competition years ago, like in Kentucky or somewhere like that. And it kind of was like a place system into the finals. So, you know, the first three, get, get, you know, moved to the next one. And I was getting first place, first place, first place. The last one, first place winner wins it. But all the people who were coming in third and second were saving material for the finals. And then I lost and people were like, what the hell, this guy was great, but it had nothing to do with the last ones. It was about this one. So, I kind of learned from that. I'll hang on, call it a mistake, but from that situation, going into this competition, there were some things where I was like, I think I can get away with not doing this one yet. But. I can't say like, oh, yeah, I know I'm gonna make it. Then I'm gonna do this one. But you had the thought at least of like, you gotta have something super put together solid to perform later on. Right, either that or what you kind of did both, whatever I do, I'm gonna have to beef up like it's a closer. Yeah. Like, you know, sometimes, I guess when you're trying to get, I heard Louisie Kay say this, when he's trying to beef up jokes, like he'll, I forget where he put it. He put it at the front. He'll put it at the front. I heard that too. So I kind of was like doing these jokes that sometimes will go in the middle of my actual act as if they were my big closer. So I kind of beefed them up and you know, you turn it on a little more. You just turn it kind of turn up the volume. So between that and like, saving some in a way, that's what ended up happening. But more than all of that, the biggest thing that happened to me in this competition that I think that helps me win, other than supporting, you know, me working hard and all that stuff. The sets were five minutes. So what you saw in LA, those five minutes. And then in LA, we did the callbacks. That was five minutes. That second five minutes in LA, I just didn't, I'm not used to doing five minutes at it. So I had planned three jokes. I only got to two. I couldn't get to the closer of that five minutes set. Had I known I wouldn't get to the closer, I wouldn't have picked these first two jokes. I did it, but I got through anyway. Now I still got that closing joke. Didn't happen again. Oh, I'm trying to get to this joke. I don't have time and run out of time. I ended up still getting through anyway. I got these two closing jokes that I actually meant to do earlier in the competition. And that's what I ended up closing with. Like the finals in my finals. Wow, yeah, wow. Just poor time management. That's what I noticed this regularly when I'm on tour. So when I'm on tour, I'm doing an hour a night, right? You're doing an hour hour. You just get into this thing of like, I'm doing an hour five, six times a week. Right. And then you come back home and you're like, I'm gonna go do a set. And then you start to go like, wait, how do I do a 15 minute set? Yeah. Like your brain kind of goes like, do you try to do these chunks? And what I found was that it was a lot of times it felt more challenging than going into like the hour. You just go, first of all, you can breathe. Yeah. You can set the table and you can just like get into your thing. But the shorter time makes you really start to do the math of like, how will I start the set? How do I build it? How do I close it? And within this, these parameters. Yeah. And I guess you really gave me an appreciation for the start of a comedy career. My comedy career, a comedy career. Because you start doing small amounts of times. And the small amounts of times are the more, are, you know, it's the important stuff. You get three minutes at the store. You go to open mic, you get five minutes. Like you said, you on the road, you're doing an hour. And I didn't even realize that sometimes I'm like, I'm doing a five minute set up. You know, it'll pay off, but it's like, I forgot. Oh, like, you can make things funnier faster if need be. Like, it's almost like a skill that I just stopped working at because I'm trying to work at the skill of doing an hour. Dude, I just did this. I did an interview in an LA during Netflix as a joke. And they asked me like, what have you, like what is one of the things you've learned from doing specials? And I was like, well, the thing, one of the things that stands out aside from like the, you know, the writing performance thing, I go is I'm better at editing, right? 'Cause editing is essentially what you're talking about. Yeah. like onstage even in the edit. When you sit in the bay and you watch a special, when you're a younger guy, anything that gets a laugh period, you're like, yeah, fucking leave it in, right, you gotta laugh. And what I, what I noticed was that I developed a skill over time to watch the, the, the first cut of a special, this is obviously the longest version and go like, yeah, they got a big laugh, but it doesn't, it doesn't tell you anything, it's not, it's kind of like, it's not the best joke, like just cut it. And sometimes like the editor will be like, cut that. I'm like, yeah, cut it. It's not, it's not helping this hour set. Let's make it as tight as possible in the edit. So every special I've done actually gets shorter. Huh, interesting. Obviously, I have not had that situation. I haven't done a bunch of hours to even think about that, but that's, that's pretty interesting. Well, I also, I also thought that like, I think about that in the specialty, the other thing that I realized in live shows was there's this thing amongst comedians of like almost, like a sense of pride and, and, and like bragging sometimes of like how much time you can do, right? So like, I did it. I did it. I did it. Seven. I did eight. I did an hour and a half. Yeah. And this is what I, I've discovered about live headlining in, in big rooms. You can, if you have an hour and a half, you can do it and, and perform it. The difference is if you cut it down to the tightest 60, like the tight, like it's a tight 60, when you say good night, A, they'll pop out of their seat, like it's a boom. Yeah. Yeah. And they'll leave going like, fuck, that was awesome. I wish that was longer. Yeah. When you see an hour and a half, and I've, I've been in the audience for that as well as on stage for that. When you say good night, they go like this, they stand up and they don't go, God, I wish there was more. Yeah. They're like, that damn, we got to get to the fucking car. That's funny. And I just feel like it's something that I've noticed over time that there's a reason that like, it's called an, like an hour should be, if you can get it there, the polished, tightest version of that set. Anything over, I mean, you know, obviously you can do 62, 65. But once you start getting into like 75, 80, 90, I think it's just gratuit, masturbatory, like, yeah. And there's definitely some of that. And I know, especially in, you know, light comics, we, you know, because I remember hearing that Chris Brock would do two hours. Really? Yeah. Well, Dave would famously do like six. Sometimes I've been there for that. I've never seen Chris Brock do two hours. And I might even have that moment. I remember hearing that. And it's like, you know, it's, I don't know if it's like, hey, hey, look how long I can captivate these people to tension or maybe, and I should probably say like, look, those guys can do whatever the fuck they want. I'm talking about the rest of mortal people. Yeah. Like I feel like you can just tell if you're like dialed in, you're paying attention that people want, can pay attention and laugh, have a good time for about that amount of time. And they start getting antsy and looking at their phones and like kind of wondering when this is wrapping up, if you start going well over that. Yeah, I've found it like when, and again, I think this was for a stroke of her, it's a, like there's a different between like a special and a collection of jokes. And that's what I've been trying to work on like for the last 10 years at this point. It's like, if I just do every joke that I've ever wrote that I remember and that works, I could probably do like two and a half hours. Right. And I'd still be forgetting some stuff. Yeah. And if they're not, you know, if they care at all, they'll probably still laugh even at, you know, two hours, 30 minutes. But that's not special. Yeah. That's not there. There's no cohesive story. Right. There's no points. Like you say, they just play, okay, that was fine. Or maybe even that was good. And then they're ready to go. But trying to make a hour that like almost has an arc, has a story at the, like you said, at the end of that, oh, man, I wish I had more or like, oh, that's what you're, I see it now. Yeah. That is what I understand to be a special and trying to craft that. I don't know. I don't want to say I haven't done it because I don't want to craft on anything I've put out before. But I look forward to mastering it. Oh, yeah. And you will. You have the fucking goods, man. 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So I'm just in school learning about plays and the Stanislavsky method and all this stuff, but I'm just trying to tell jokes. I'm now technically out of school, but I'm hanging around the campus. This guy Mike Green comes to the school. He's doing a show. I get friends and audience and laughing about something or whatever. Looking back on it, now I know they were heckling, but like the comedian Mike Green who's probably just collecting a check who's a great guy. He's like, "Whatever. Hey, what are your kids laughing at?" My friends were like, "He's got a joke. He wants to tell you, pointing at me." That wasn't true. I don't know why they said that. And he said, "Hey, do you think if I need anything to tell a joke?" I didn't say nothing. He said, "You guys want to see him tell a joke?" They're like, "Yeah." And that went up on stage. So that was my first time-- Seriously? Which is just-- But you had nothing planned. No. And so your friends knew you had this comedy aspirate. That's correct. So what'd you do when you kind of stage? I had just told stories that I had told people before that kind of got me into-- That's how people even knew I was funny from just talking stuff. I think I had made something-- I had embellished something about going out on a date and not being able to get it up, pissing in a condom, jerking off on the toilet to shitting and sneezing, just fucking potty. You said all that? Yeah. And wait, how did it go? I don't know. You blacked out. It's completely blacked out. I don't know if they laughed. I don't know if there were people there. Do you remember how Mike responded to you at all? Vagely. I think he just shook my hand and then I came back. Wow. Yeah. And then did you befriend him from this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what you went and talked to him after the show? Yeah. I think so and he told me some different places and I think it was him that told me about-- - Joey's comedy club. - Yeah. - Right, so back then, you know, smartphones weren't as prevalent as they are now, but you know, I had this GPS app, and I just put it in the word comedy in GPS, and everything that came up, I just called or went to. So I went to a bunch of stores that just sold comic books and stuff like that, you know. I had called people. There were people who put their business information in the GPS, so it went directly to comedians. I'm like, hey, you guys are comedy clubs? I said, no, I'm a comedian, are you trying to book me? I said, fuck it, no. - Wow. - So yeah, I went to Joey's, and I took a comedy class, you know. I read all the books in the library about comedy, so those are the first places I went up at. Joey's comedy club, like Mark Ridley's, then I made a white comedian named Jeff Horace, who showed me the black rooms in Detroit. He showed you? - Yeah, I didn't even know they existed. I knew black comedy existed. I was just like, I guess black people don't do comedy in Detroit, 'cause the black comedy rooms weren't clubs. They were bars. - Yeah. - I'm 18, I haven't been in in these bars. I would have even known. - Sure. - Then I go to starters with Tony Roni, and start hanging out around Mike Bonner, you know, Def Jam guys, comment you guys, and then now I'm doing Bakers with Kool-Aids. He's a Detroit legend, got registered so, and I'm just, now I'm doing both. But that's what kept me comfortable in both worlds that technically I started in mainstream clubs. Naturally, you know, I can do black rooms that's kind of what I am. And I think that's helped me progress throughout my career outside of, you know. Unlike some of my good friends and peers, you know, it's a comfortability level. It's not my favorite. - You feel comfortable in both rooms? - Yeah, I feel home in both. It's like, oh, hey, my cousin. Oh, hey, the place I started. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So, yeah, that for sure gets you way further than somebody, 'cause the thing that happens to most comedians, I feel like, especially early on, is they go like, okay, I'm only comfortable here, I'll perform here. And then they hear about, this is a gay show, this is a black show, and they're like, ah, that's not for me. I wanna go over here. - I hate that, man. - Yeah, I know. - I hate that, and I'm, especially now, because of this competition, one of the craziest things about winning, is people do change up, but they change up in such interesting ways. No one's asked me for anything, what do you want to open up for my special? It's not like there was a lottery or prize money, but people now, people I've known forever, are now acting as if the information I have is more valid. So now I asked me a question about comedy, whatever, I was like, well, you didn't care yesterday. The information is not different at all. - Right, I have the same opinions. - But I would, I have people come up to me, and I have been over the last couple of days over the last week, actually like, hey, well, how can I get up? How can I get better? I'm like, you don't, you don't do the store. - Yeah. - You hate the store. You need to crack that nut. Like that, that's your issue. You hate chocolate sundays. Go do that. Like, oh, well, they don't get my stuff. That's the point. Once they get it, once you make them get it, then you can take that and take it elsewhere. Like, there should not be a place in comedy that you cannot make those people laugh. - Well, now they just feel like you're credible, you know? They're like, before you're just another guy, and now they're like, well, he's won this thing, so he's credible now. - Which, I mean, I guess. - I mean, yeah, that's how people think, you know? - Yeah. - Just get up. Like, you can have your favorite places. - Yeah. - Like, I've got rooms that I like over other ones. But if somebody said, hey, go make them laugh, I can do it. I've practiced it. - Yeah, well, that's why you're good, man. - I'll take it. - Yeah, I mean, that's definitely, I gotta say also, the thing that, so I'm on that couch, I'm watching each of you guys, right? And every set, I'm like, this is fucking fantastic. And then we're sitting there, and they get to the voting. - Yeah. - And man, Kevin Milks, that amendment, like a real showman, where it's like, and the tension, I found myself going like, read the fucking envelope, man. Like, he was really building it up to, he eliminated two, and then it was you two, and then he was like, now, let's see. But first, and like, what are you doing? And but it really worked. We're like, this tension built so much. In that moment, when you hear your name called, are you like, oh my God, like is it heart racing? I don't know if it was heart racing. All right, I'll tell you the truth here. I figured it was possible during the semi-finals. - To what to win. - To win. - Okay. - It was feasible. - What made you think that? - So throughout the entire competition, there were fan favorites. If you're just watching it as a show, those favorites were Usama, and not Olivia. Well, she was another one, but Caitlin, right? Both of those people got pushed through in some part immediately. And the audience is watching this as pre-recorded. So you already know that these are the favorites 'cause they're technically, I mean, they're Kevin's favorites. He said, hey, there's no deliberating this next round you're going through. It happened with Usama twice. I'm not sure how many times it happened with Caitlin, but they also were killing. - Yeah. - Usama's getting standard innovations, damn, they're every set. Caitlin is getting standard innovations, damn, they're every set. And everybody else is killing on top of that. - Yeah. - Once we get to the semi-finals, and they're gonna do the first runoff voting or whatever they call that style of voting. I know that it's gonna be, 'cause when they first split us, it was black versus white, that's inside. They had us draw numbers, and it just happened to be like, me, Reg, Usama versus the three white people. - That's it. - So they had to. - That's just good. - Yeah, I'm like, no, keep it that way if that was random. They had to switch it around, and Caitlin was in one group, and Usama was in another group. From both group, one person gets moved on immediately, then you got four people left. And two more, go for it from that four. In my mind, Usama and Caitlin are going, duh, like, they already killed it, and they're the fan favorites. I just got to try to get in to be one of the other two out of the four left. So a lot of explaining to say, when they called my name during the semi-finals, instead of Caitlin, that's when I knew like, oh, this, this might have something to do with these sets right now, nothing else matters. - Right. - So if I have the best set, anybody can have the best set, you know, that night, if, you know, it's anybody's game. If I can have the best set during the finals, I could win. So when they called both of us up, I'm like, I know it's possible, but Usama's got people chanting for. - Chanting. - Like, before he went up, - Yes. - After he went up. - Oh, yeah. - And during the voting, - Yeah. - They're chanting. - Yeah. - The only name I hear is Usama. - Why would I think they're gonna say Ron? I already made it this far. This is crazy. I should have been eliminated after I forgot my jokes. - Yeah, yeah. - So when they said, when they said Ron, I hadn't really thought about winning at that point. - Right. - I knew it was possible, but it never entered my brain, what to think. I would have like prepared some cool moment or something. I was just like, what the fuck is going on? - One of the things that also stood out to me about when especially watching on that finale was I realized, oh, I'd never seen, like at least a big type of competition where it wasn't like clean comedy. - Yeah, we were talking about that. - That was like such a cool thing. I was like, oh, that's part of why I'm enjoying this so much, is that they're just doing the sets they would. This is like club comedy, you know? - Yeah, yeah, afterwards. This is a lot of things that we all realize afterwards. Like, oh yeah, I don't think there's ever been voting immediately for viewers. Like, I've never seen a competition where people were saying the stuff we're saying. Like, I did a dick joke. - Yeah, like extensively. Just yelling about my dick in a competition while wearing a suit dress like Richard Pryor. - Yeah. - I've never seen this before. - No. - So it was intense. Like, was my heart racing? No, not when they called my name, but as it continued, like Kevin Hart's like, what the fuck, he's running around. I get the comics from like LA, they're standing up pointing. I'm seeing people crying. I hear Kevin's voice start to wiggling. I didn't even really know there was like rafters. They're all standing up. I'm like, now it's like build enough. I'm like, yo, what? - It's fucking cool. - I didn't know this was this big. What is going on? - Yeah, yeah. Congratulations, man. - Really. It was really cool to be there and watch that. - And it's fun. - Do you have a plan now? Like, is there a plan for how you want to approach, you know, I mean, obviously it involves touring, but do you have it like a strategic plan for how do you want to do it? - You know, I've had representation for about 10 years now. And you know how that is. They make money from with off you. - Yeah. - I've been, I've been less than helpful at different points throughout the years, right? But now it's like, like, you know, I feel like today with management or even agency versus I don't know when Michael Jackson was coming up or Elvis, you know, managers had a different job. Maybe they created something or whatever, but now it's like, hey, just make content get famous and then we'll manage that. Which is like, well, I mean, then it's just hard to do, right? So I've never really managed, I mean, I've never really created a bunch of content and stuff like that. Yeah. So there was nothing for them to manage. Now there is something for them to manage. Like, there's dates, like, there's a special to do, like, so the plan of attack is being created. Because before I was just doing stand up, right? So like, I've gotten what I want to do. I got my desires and stuff. Well, your focus should stay that way. You shouldn't become, I mean, in my opinion, don't become a content creator guy. You're so good at stand up. Keep focus on that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate it. And I don't want to be that, you know, wagging my finger and whatnot. But the space to create content leisurely is what I would like to do. And if I were to, you know, kind of ramp up the production of leisurely creating content, great. But creating content like a crackhead, like, I'd never wanted to do that. No. And it was funny about production content. I find that like, I've discovered sometimes you can put like real production into something. Then you're surprised that like online, I'm saying. You don't always respond to it as much as, like, just holding your phone and like, saying some shit about like, whatever you have for breakfast, as long as you make it like, you know, deliberate, engaging and funny and like yourself, sometimes like, just talking to the phone is what people, like, you'll see the engagement be like 20 times higher. Yeah. I've seen that somewhat this week, you know, because of kind of like, when we were trying to win the competition, there was kind of a campaigning, you know, you had to say, hey, guys, vote for me. Yeah. Even my last day in LA doing the festival, I had to like announce some upcoming tour dates. And like that video alone, like kind of went crazy as opposed to me doing some funny bit and editing and stuff like that. So. Well, look, here's some content this guy did. This is low five, but it's cool. Right? If you could do something like this, I think you can just sit like that. Yes. I can't imagine this ending well. Please don't tell me he hurts himself. I think he's just showing off. I'm scared for this. I don't think so. Okay. But he's balancing with a like a tree and his ass hole, yeah, I mean, it takes tremendous core strength. Yeah, but what are you, why are you practicing that? I mean, he's clearly practicing a lot. What are you, what are, what is to be gained from that, man? And this will have a million views. Absolutely. You imagine you announcing your dates like that? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Druski, he could do something like that. Oh, yeah. He could create that video. God, those keep getting better. Yeah. And that that is that. That's a skill. Yeah. I think in, in an intimate, you think, I think there's a, because at this point, now he's doing production. Right? Yes. Now that it's evolved, yes. Before, it was just doing something, whether it was funny or not, but I think there's a skill or maybe it's just a lack of fear in being able to just make something, just have it exist. I guess from me crafting jokes, I feel weird, like, just making something. I get what you're saying 100%. And it's like, I want to at least have it decent enough to where I'm like, this is good. Not simply this exists, but it's like this volume, like, approach to things that I've never wanted to do. Well, now Druski is in the place where it seems like it's all quality. You know, volume, but to go past that moment or that time frame of where you're just throwing shit out, I don't know what that exists. But see, if I were analyzing, like, what you're talking about and say it in regard to Druski, one thing that you notice, like that I've noticed, is that he's not just daily going, here's some shit, here's some shit, here's some shit. These releases are quality, he's put time into, like, whatever the bit that he's going to do, the actual execution, and then the edit itself. Everything does have real thoughtfulness. And then when it comes out, it's like an event to watch these things. So he's not, but he's not just overdoing it, you know? Now. Right. Right. And that's the thing. We took the time to just throw shit at the wall. Yeah. Like, to gain a following, it would be, like, you know, black girl drink coffee like this. Then matter how much thought it was, just beyond, like, that surface level. And I think there's a skill in being able to just put stuff up and just, a fearlessness too. A fearlessness, just like, and it's hard to do that for me, man. I look at a video like, this isn't perfect. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. Why would I even put this out when I should be thinking about the next one? You probably should. Yeah. But you have to, there's a balance what you're saying. You should maintain, like, some of your standards, right? Like where you go, yeah, I'm not just going to put out any bullshit that I think of or whatever. Yeah. But you can't get to the point of, like, it's not perfect. So therefore, nothing goes out. It's a balance. Yeah. Yeah. And it's incredible now. No, I mean, he's like a studio at this point. I know. And I always think about too that, like, you know, like endgame, like people are seeing most the endgame. And I'm like, I feel like what he's doing is an endgame. Yeah. I don't, like, there's nobody doing it better than him at what he's doing. This last one I saw when he, you know, was talking about British actors. Yeah. I was like, this is, do a movie. It's so funny. Just do a movie, brother. It's so funny. I know he, you know, when he kind of, like, you even saying it now, do a movie, I'm like, oh, this is the kind of the closest thing we've had to Sasha with, like, Borat and Ali G in years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's really fucking funny, though, man. Yeah. And I'm not big into politics for reasons, but when he did that, Eric. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just seeing people that mad, man, man, it was so great. It was so great to see people so mad. Yeah. What a, what a, what a person. I don't want to call, I don't want to call it unattractive, but Jesus, man, that bit was great, man. He's killing it, dude. Is it, is that offensive to white people? Well, a lot of people that are, like, very far right, I think, postured as if it were offensive. I think if you took, if you go, like, the majority of white people, there's no way they were, like, offended by-- Is white face a thing to you? No. Hmm. No. You know what I think? And I don't want to get cancer by the black community for this take. I think black face is black face. White people playing black people is not black face, right? Like what Robert Downey Jr. did is not black face, obviously. And people like it. Well, you're getting into, like, the nuances of, like, the term, yeah, and like white people. Yeah. Right. So this or anybody else, she's got, like, Ron Taylor here. Or even if, what was the Paul brother? Was it Logan or Jake Paul that said they were going to dress up like Druski? Uh-huh. Wanted to Paul Paul? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they put on makeup to make themselves look like Druski, that is not black face. To me, it's different because, like, to understand, I think you have to understand what black face, the origins of it were, and what-- that it's part of the way that black face evolved was doing it in this kind of careless, um, ridiculous manner. Like, one of the things you're seeing with Robert Downey Jr. here is that this isn't, like, just thrown together, like, where they would literally take, like, shoe polish and be like, "I'm black." Is black face. Right. And that's the only distinction that I make. Yeah. Now, if somebody did what Dave Chapelle did, like, in the last season of Chapelle show, when he was like-- Oh, white guy now. Yeah. He was like the one that-- the season where he wasn't doing, uh, it was just Charlie and-- Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was never-- so he was playing a pixie in black face. That shit is black face. Now, if you did that, if Jake Paul did that, that-- I can imagine how one would get offensive or get offended but if somebody made themselves to to truly look like a black person like he does there Yeah, yeah, then it's like even if they do that and they say something racist Okay, sure you are racist, but to me you didn't do blackface and all of you's not make that distinction is because If that's blackface, what do you call the shoe polish and white lips right that is something that I You know, and essentially you're saying like I think part of what you're saying is that if the effort is made to make it Like believable like if it's high level makeup and there's an attempt to To actually look like a black person like like in this image here, right? Like he's yeah, this isn't like shoe polish and white lips like you're saying this is like a high level makeup artist doing something I'm saying I'm going a little deeper than that. I'm saying this we can call it whatever and you can still be offended Uh-huh beat him up. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah, but this is blackface, right? I said if you want to be offended at both fine like that's blackface the system difference Do you remember when we had R.E. and he was talking about in Estonia? Can you pull that up? We're like in he said like in their singing competition shows or like whatever their variety shows Yeah, they'll just have someone be like I'm James Brown and like they'll do that and he'll perform like I don't know if you can see that guy. Can you make that bigger? Like that Jesus, that's horrible. Yeah, then he's like I'm James Brown. I mean Yeah, no see but see like that's so poorly is poorly done, right? But he's trying to be a black person maybe we should call that brown face brown face. Yeah, you know that That's horrible. It's but no that's not blackface to me. That's not blackface you because what it's not because it's not black I got it like blackface was the red lips white glow menstrual shows menstrual that's blackface. Yes, you do that. We got a problem. You do this. Perhaps you're being insensitive Mm-hmm. Maybe you're making fun of black people. Maybe you are a racist. Yeah But that menstrual show shit is different is wow. There are toys and figurines from that Of blackface. Yes, bamboozled a movie by Spike Lee. Uh-huh. That shit was blackface. Yeah would drink the it That was blackface That is just That's just something that that's just Italian. Yes. Yeah, that's just what it is. Yeah, it's a guy from Sicily man. What do you do? That's crazy though. That's crazy. He's like get on up With that makeup on it's insane. It's fucking insane. Yeah, that's horrible How much would it how much would what it take to get you in blackface in real blackface? I Mean enough where I didn't have to ever work again I'm pretty substantial amount Yeah, enough where I could hide and everything and have a security detail. It'd be a lot a lot, man But I feel like doing what Robert Downey did like in my opinion Like I'm I'm not I'm not black. So I can but I go like oh, that's That's doing like fully committing to a character. Yeah, I didn't I never interpret it as like he's doing I know it's like Even in the movie they're like what are you doing? You know he's I'm in the cave right now Have you ever seen like the deleted scenes? Yeah of him in that character. Yeah, it's it's so skillful Mm-hmm. So masterful that like I mean obviously there's people who wouldn't even know that's not a black dude. Yeah, yeah, like so And still he could be a dirty fucking racist fall. I know but that by itself. I don't think Robert Downey is Yeah, but that by itself is like that's just it's just imitation. He just happens to be good. He's happy to be good at it Yeah, I mean that's the whole thing about when you do any whether it's black Asian Latin what if you're not one of these things and you do them you do the voice or you're you're doing an impression The more skillful you are at it where like that group goes damn that's good the less it's perceived as You being offensive and the more it's a little it's viewed as being skilled and accurate the more accurate you are the more it's celebrated You know what I think we can relate this to like Trans trans people mm-hmm the more you pass the trans women are women. Yeah Blackface people if they if they pass enough, you know what fuck it. You're black. Yeah, now you're you Blackface people are blackface trans women are women. There it is. I'm very progressive now. There you are You want to see we did a game where we recorded It's called Tom or black and I play audio clip and then you guess if it's me or a black person. Okay, do you want to play? Yeah, yeah, all right You don't see how I would not immediately know that if it's you are a black person, but that's the right mentality Okay, okay, you keep score. Okay. Here we go. All right. I'll play it as many times as you want. Okay Okay, blazing in You know I just remember hmm one of your albums the one where you were wearing braids and I think just like Michael Jackson Oh, well, that's like two different albums. There's white girls with cornrows and there's thrilled. Yeah, okay I forgot you can do a very good black guy Why do you think we came up with this man? Okay, play it again one more time So it's either Tom or a black person. All right one more time damn I'm gonna go Tom. Okay I left a wallet there. No, that's Tom. That's Tom Say it again That's that's Tom That's cricket right there. That's that's Tom. You're writing that down. Okay, cry. He can't do it again Cry. He can't do it That's got to be a black guy I hope that's not Tom, but I'm gonna say I'm gonna say a black guy. I hope that's not you Begin I think that's a black guy. That's the only richer prior Pliggin There's a lot of base. That's gonna be a black guy. All right, you did okay, okay I'll tell you I was scared for a minute Josh. Yeah, yeah, so you got So that is Tom that's me. Yeah, okay, I left a wallet there. That's me. Okay, so can't That's you. That's me. All right, that's cricket right there. That's me You said black guy. Yeah, that's me Oh That's a black guy is it was that right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's just a guy from a video Okay, you said black guy. That's me. Wow, and then That's me So you did okay, wow, how many do you get right like five five? Okay, one two three four five six seven Yeah, five out of eight. You know what? I don't know if you've done this already or not But you should do like some voice over work and play some black characters man. That would be a dream come true Yeah, one time we were um, but you know, that's like very Look down upon is it? Oh, yeah, because what happened? Oh what the general Feeling from like industry is When you when you do something like that For any not just for a black if you if you go like I want to especially when it's a A different race they go you should that role should go To somebody of this group and you're you're taking the job that could go to let's say if you're like I'm gonna do an Asian woman I'm gonna do a Latin guy. I'm gonna do a black either like yeah, or you could just hire somebody who could actually who is that to do that job? I heard that and yeah, I get that but if the creation of the joke Comes from you comes from the fact that this person is doing this job Mm-hmm. So then this is a insert person job. This is this character is voiced by a white person is black character is Voice by a white person. That's the joke. That's why this yeah, yeah, cuz What is that American dad? The I think Chris is the character's name and he's be singing all this R&B and it's a it's a white dude who like Be singing art Kelly like I don't want that to be a black dude. Right. It's less funny It's funny because it's a white dude singing like a black guy. Yeah, exactly. No, I mean I'm not opposed to it I always thought it'd be fun to do. Hey, man. I'll support you. Thanks, man. I like to do it. Although I have to be careful about that, you know I I just got some notoriety and now there's a lot of my Black friends and family and colleagues and co-workers and comedians who are looking at me like so you - You down with Tony Henscliff? - Oh no. - I don't want to be. - How do you answer that one? - I don't really, I just like, man, you trippin' in that. - 'Cause it's just happened. - The world's just happened. - The competition just happened. - There was a lot of, at least I saw online. I haven't had a lot of personal conversations, but a lot of blowback online about roast jokes and like it was written by white writers and these things are racist. I didn't have, it wasn't on my radar, but scrolling, I saw a whole bunch of stuff about it. - Yeah, and like, I mean, people get mad at whatever they get mad at. So we as humans, we enjoy being angry and having a righteous fury, so I get it. But, you know, they don't know who wrote each joke. - I know. - Like, David Lucas was on there. Jerome Horton was on there. Which jokes did they come up with? - Yeah. - They don't know. - They don't know. - I don't know, and I know these people. But, I, and I was at the roast. This stuff was racist, of course, and all that stuff. But there kind of was the name of the game. So I don't, I've never understood the idea of like, you know, these people are anything because of their jokes. Even sexes, racists, homophobic, transphobic. Even if that's true, I've never got that because they're joking about this. - That's what they are. - This is what they are. - I feel the same way. I also feel like, like, I'm not a roast expert, but what I do know about roasts is if you've, if you've been around them, if you go to them. You, even like the best roast writers will tell you that you go always to first thought and what is obvious. Like, if you are roasting a black guy, you're gonna have black jokes. If you're roasting a fat guy, you're gonna have fat jokes. You're gonna have, if he's gay, you're gonna have, like that's the name of the game. That's how, that's, that's literally how it's played. So I'm not saying that like something can't be overboard or overdone or thought like it can, but these jokes are going to be a part of who you're roasting, what, what is it about them? And if you're famous, like the day it was, you kinda gotta do your thing somewhat too. So Tony, in order to be Tony Henscliff, has to give you some Tony Henscliff isms. And I think that's where that George Floyd joke came from. Like, it, but like this, there are some jokes that I heard, and this is how I know we just like to be angry at different things. There's some jokes that I heard, and I was there, that I just laughed at or winced at and thought that about. Then I go online, and I hear people repeating these jokes or saying like, how could he say something like that? And I am like, yeah, I can fuck him, I can't say, but it's like you weren't there. - Right, right, it's different in the room. - I'm telling you, if you were there, you wouldn't be, you would not feel that your brain, it's not registering these jokes like that. And if your brain isn't, the person who said it isn't, like, you know, it's just, it's just different. - Yeah, I think the George Floyd thing was, so when we did the roast in our competition, I was thinking about stuff like that. And before it was the roast of Martian Lynch, it was the roast of Kevin Hart. But then Kevin Hart was having an actual roast, so they made the competition roast Martian Lynch. Well, while I was thinking about Kevin Hart, I was thinking about like, 'cause I'm not a roaster, so I had to watch roast and see like what people were doing, and people were talking about death and everything, so I'm thinking about stuff like that to write for Kevin. I didn't do it 'cause I'm like, I don't wanna drag dead people into it, but if it worked, then you pop like Mickey Glazer, then what, you don't know, it's a fucking joke. - Yeah, I totally agree. I gotta take a quick piss break, dude. - Hey, man, and we'll be right back. - I wanna ask you, do you, I'm just curious, from your perspective, do you notice do you feel, as somebody who worked the store, and here, mother ship, doing sets? Do you notice any, like is there a notable difference for you? Like, do you? - Oh yeah. - What do you, what do you, pick up on? Just curious. - The stope, not the store. The mother ship is, and it's not a bad thing necessarily, this is just a thing, it's like a homogenized audience and crowd, they're essentially one organism of it. I feel like that, about Austin Comedy as a whole, to tell you the truth, it's one type of audience. Now, what that type of audience is, that's one can decide, but in LA, I feel like it's a different type of audience that all kind of share a mentality, and that mentality may be, I don't know, progressiveness or whatever, but there's different type of people out here, it's like a cult of, I mean, to be completely honest, it's like a cult of the Rogan sphere, and Kiltoni, which is, part of the Rogan sphere, which is great, but it's almost like some of these people aren't necessarily coming to see comedy. They don't mind comedy, they might even enjoy comedy, but they came to be a part of the fucking shit, and they're excited, and they're appreciative, and they're like, yes, let's eat elk. Let's fucking, let me see some wild shit, and it's great. I mean, I'm still here, I enjoy it, and you need those different sectors of comedy, and you're gonna have that, but Austin is just smaller. - Yeah, we're talking about LA, we're talking about a scene that's existed since standup or whatever, it's not even comparable, the fact that you can have a scene of this quality, this fast is amazing in itself. So yeah, it'll take a while for something to branch off in Austin as big as JRE and Killtoni, but in a completely different sphere, there's no black shows out here. - Right. - You know, so that's a whole sector, I don't know where the gay shows are out there, they might be out here, but yeah, so it's one type of crowd out here, it seems like, and I can be wrong, but it seems like that, but no, it's definitely different. - Yeah, yeah, I wanna show you before we wrap up a couple, these we call horrible or hilarious, and we just show you videos. - Are people gonna get hurt? - I don't know, I haven't seen them. - Cause I mean, I've had a pair of social relationship with you obviously for years, and I'm aware that paying this funny to you. - No, that is not to me. - Okay, I'll tell you how this is done every day. - Okay. - They put a folder together, I have not seen them, and we watch the videos, and we actually genuinely react whether it's funny or not, so I don't know what I'm gonna see, so I can't even tell you if someone's gonna get hurt. - Okay, beautiful. - Okay, he got hurt. - I didn't even see him. - This guy at the bottom, right? The tire just rolled off the highway, and he was like having lunch or something. - Wait, that tire? - Jesus Christ! - Locked him. - I will say this, you laughed. You laughed. - Cause I didn't see the person at first. - I thought it just hit something in the guy standing and was like, oh, but you know what? This is the kind of video where you don't see like a leg break, you know, there's not plenty. - Yeah, it's like, it's grainy, and at, I think he might have a concussion. - I don't know, man. Those tires move, brother. - Yeah, those were really hoes, and that was Jesus Christ. I was trying to be optimistic, he might be dead. - Okay, here's, is he, did he die? - Don't tell me, I don't want to know, man. I hope all these people are alive. - All right, next one, let's see, I'll tell you if I, if I something bad. Oh, okay, this might be good, here we go. Here we go, where is it? - Oh, that's bad. - Oh! (laughing) - You shouldn't do that. - What the fuck? - That was a bad idea. - Why does he have an opossum in a bag trying to kiss it? - 'Cause he was, he was trying to show off. That's why this is what happened. He got that, it was probably, you know, somebody called him, and he grabbed it, and then he had to go get a rabies shot, yeah. Yep. - Oh, God. - Don't show off, especially with wild animals. - Why are all these brown colored people doing this ridiculousness? (laughing) Show me some white people doing some ridiculousness, okay? They're supposed to know better, man. You don't have to know them, no. - Possum in a bag? - Funny to you or not funny? - Not funny. - Not funny, okay. - Rabies is a horrible anybody. (cheering) - Stop. - Oh, shit, oh, he said, "Let's go." (laughing) - Ron liked that one, it's official. (laughing) 'Cause it did, it looked like it hurt, but it got a immediate-- - See, once you see someone recover, you can enjoy it more. - And it's like, the more show offy you are, - Yeah. - It's like more earned. - It's like, what do you even, this is just no part of this that is safe. - Yeah. - So at the possum, it's like, maybe you were trying to show the possum love, and you're just stupid. That is just complete-- - The funery, yeah. - Yeah. - And here's the, he was not okay. He-- - What? (laughing) - What? - Well, he had to go just, I think, seek some medical attention. He didn't die or anything. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's watch it again. 'Cause this is in Thailand, they're all having fun. - Oh, they motherfucker, they were weird. - They told that motherfucker real quick. - Oh, these are so chocolate places. - Let's go. - Jesus. - Oh, shit. - Oh, shit. - Oh, shit. - Oh, shit. - He said, let's go. (laughing) - He landed on his face. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - He probably broke a tooth. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Fuck me, man. - Fuck the wild. One more. Here we go. This one, I have no idea. - It's full, super rare for possum, it's not a problem. - This is so damn, this place is gonna be a fail. - It's having a tire, it's not like a truck. I saw the extended version of this. He actually, he gets up. Yeah. - Now, this is fucked up. You know what makes that funny? - What? - And all that African shit they will say, and I don't know what they will say. But it's just, (laughing) and the fucking. - It sound like a warning. - That's a lot of pressure, man. - You saw his feet. - Yeah. - To the side, both feet in the air, angle. He walked away from that. I should say crawled, but he left the scene. He was not there. - What was he trying to do? - I think this is a, it feels like, it's a protest of sorts against either this company or like this, you know what I mean? - Oh yeah. - Like fuck these guys. - Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, it looks all war torn. - Yeah. - Now what you saying? Oh, I'll take it back, that's not funny. - Just, he already left, he liked it. (laughing) - He liked it. - He liked it. - Damn. - Yeah. - Why did you do all that in sandals? I don't get that. - I don't, and sandals everywhere, man. - You had no Jordans or no Timberlands? - The sense of Timberlands to Africa. - That could be like your charity that you start. Timberlands, who else would be using sandals, working on cars, Indians? - Yeah, yep. - We need boots in India and Africa. That's how we go in it, Vance, as a world. - This will be Ron's version of Meals on Wheels. (laughing) - Tim's to the motherland. (laughing) Well, look dude, this was, I'm so happy for you. - Get the other. - Congratulations, you deserve it, you earned it, you're ready for it. I'm so excited to see what you do with your special, but I hope you, I hope you say for the moments like everything you're going through now, it's so cool to see. And you were amazing on that stage, man. It was really awesome. - Man, I appreciate it, good brother, I thank you. I want to thank all the people that was in the show period, you know, the top four, Red, Katelyn, Usama who were killing it. My bloody Steve Fury was in the top 10, Felicia folks. Everybody, obviously I can't name everybody, but those were comedy store people. So that was a fun time, man, and I'm glad that you were a part of it. - I was thrilled to be there. And there's dates, you can see them, go to @ComedianRonti. I can see that from this drops, you'll be at Liberty Live in Huntsville, Alabama. You'll be at Xanies in Chicago, the improv in Tempe, the funny bone in Albany. So you're out there, you're working, man. It's gonna be a different experience for you now. It's gonna be pretty fucking cool. - Yeah, you know, to have the people come to me, it'll be interesting. - Yeah, I think you're gonna have a lot of fun with it, man. Well, congratulations. And thank you guys for watching. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week. 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