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assistant	And if you put, I said they wanted to find a conservative on the view. I said, let me go in there with the witchen. I'll be the conservative that left.
user	Does any woman even want to do that anymore?
assistant	Nobody wants to do it anymore. Kat Timpf, who was a libertarian on Fox, they were trying to go hard at her, but she's like, I'm on gut felt. I'm on a show people watch. Who cares?
user	They've turned that show into what they've done is they've made it so that all they do is fight, right? All they do is scream and yell. All they do is get upset at people. It's all negative, it's all demeaning, it's all insulting. They've just gotten to this point where the show has just got this feel of it. You only watch to see who they're mad at, right?
assistant	No. It's a horrible, horrible experience for anyone watching or participating in it, truly.
user	This is what's wrong with it. If you got five friends that just wanted to talk about things like that and they didn't have time limits and they didn't have all these constraints that are put on a show like that, hinder the possibility of it being good, for sure, all the people in the audience, that's a problem because you're playing to the audience and then you have the fact that you have a commercial coming up at 45 seconds, you gotta make your point. And then these other bitches are trying to chime in. You gotta talk over them.
assistant	But they can't find a female conservative. No, I think they're gonna have to use that grandma who was yelling at the Sandy Hook parents. I forget her name. The one who was like, prove it, you dumb fuck. But she's a QAnon grandma. I forget her name. Ben knows her name. Yeah. She was this grandma that was in that documentary, and she would go. She would yell at these parents. It was very sad. She'd be like, prove it, you dumb fuck, about their kids. And I think she should be on the view or get Rosie O'Donnell back. Cause she at least questioned 911.
user	Yeah, yeah, she. She questioned tower seven and a lot of other things like this. Those things are, like, real complicated. You can't get those wrong.
assistant	You can't get them wrong. But there's clearly fuckery with that.
user	Yeah.
assistant	If there's fuckery with the vaccine, there's fuckery with that.
user	Well, there's certainly fuckery in the reaction to that because we invaded Iraq. That's all you need to know. Like, I had a whole different at one point.
assistant	Yeah.
user	It's like, if you can look at what happened on September 11, 2001. And then the logical conclusion is we got to invade a country that had nothing to do with it.
assistant	It's crazy. It's crazy.
user	And then they did it and they said, well, there's weapons of mass destructions there, okay? And they caught more than a million lives. And it turns out there were no weapons of mass destruction.
assistant	It's just a weird thing where I go, I'm just like one of those old school guys goes, just show me one video of the plane hitting the Pentagon. And I'm good.
user	See, I think there is a video of the plane hitting the Pentagon. No, there's like a fucking plane. What does that look like?
assistant	It's a trail of smoke. They doctored it. 911. The new Pearl Harbor. 911. The new Pearl harbor is a crazy documentary by this italian guy, Massimo Mizuco. It's 5 hours. Watch it. You people have nothing to do. It's 5 hours.
user	Is it good?
assistant	It's great. I'm telling you right now, it's a five hour documentary on YouTube. You will watch it. Get the fam together, sit them down, popcorn. And I'm telling you right now, because I watched it to debunk it. I watched it to debunk it and went, yeah, you start going into the flight, the phones at 30,000ft. These people are having conversations. It's just not happening.
user	Something's off. You can't have something really off.
assistant	Something's really, really off with that day, but you just can't. Now in these publications that write about me, they describe me as like, 911, truther, Covid, denier. It's like I just get all these.
user	You had Covid. How can you be?
assistant	I've never said Covid was not real. Yeah, you know, I've said I thought it was good.
user	Well, I've had people mad at me because I medicated, cause I took Medicaid.
assistant	People's argument is you're in shape, you eat right, you work out. Why would you take the medication?
user	Because it's better than not taking medications. Of course this stuff works.
assistant	Of course.
user	Listen, I'm not saying you shouldn't take medication. I'm saying.
assistant	You're saying you should take medication.
user	I'm saying you should for sure. Always. But especially if it's proven medication that works. But the point is you shouldn't have a binary solution for things. So it's either this or nothing. It's either one or zero. That's crazy.
assistant	When people pass away, they donate a large chunk of their fortune to like, research and things like that. Do you think you'll donate yours to Robert F. Kennedy Junior or, like, Dana White? Who will you give your money to?
user	Demi Lovato. She's gonna give it to ghosts.
assistant	Hey, man, she used to live in my building. Fun woman. Yeah, it's straight. Do you ever think to yourself, what's the next act? Because you've literally. You're the most successful comedian probably. When you look at all the different things you've done, there's not many people that have, like, what? Do you ever go, I've done it all. And that's a little scary.
user	No, no, because I don't think like that ever. The crazy thing about all the different things that I've done is all I've ever tried to do. Like, I tried to become a professional comedian. I achieved that. And then I started working as a professional comic. And then all the other stuff is just stuff that came up, whether it's acting on news radio. That was just. They just offered me money to ask.
assistant	Do you still keep in touch with Kathy Griffin?
user	No. I would, though.
assistant	No. Yes.
user	I love her. Yeah.
assistant	Was she on that show or.
user	No, no.
assistant	Okay. I thought she was on that show.
user	No, no, no. Kathy Griffin was on just shoot me. Right. We suddenly shoot.
assistant	It was the other one. I forgot.
user	She's nice. Yeah. Vicki Lewis was on news radio. That's who you're thinking of?
assistant	Yeah. Okay. I don't know. I don't know about her.
user	She's redhead, too. She's.
assistant	That's. Maybe I'm getting confused.
user	Always joke around that, like, she was stealing her act.
assistant	And you worked with Phil Hartman, who was, like, one of the funniest people ever.
user	But again, that was just, like, I stumbled into that show. Like, completely stumbled into it. I had no acting experience.
assistant	Right.
user	I mean, I'd done a little bit acting on another terrible sitcom that got canceled. That got canceled. All of a sudden, I'm on news radio working with Dave Foley and Andy Dick and Phil Hartman with no acting experience. Like, what the fuck is happening?
assistant	Yeah, what's going on?
user	And then I go from that to fear factor. I'm like, well, this will get canceled immediately. Meanwhile, it's one of the most successful reality shows ever. It's like six seasons.
assistant	What did you learn from, like, that was it just do everything and don't focus too much on, like. Cause there's. There's. There's. Even though you're saying you're stumbling into them and you are stumbling into them, there's a skill to stumbling right. There's a skill to being. Position yourself in a way that you can kind of get those opportunities.
user	There's that. But there's also being able to handle pressure.
assistant	Okay, there you go.
user	Like, being able to handle auditions pressure. Being able to handle the pressure of speaking live in front of a large audience, whether it's doing the UFC broadcast or doing a comedy show or a podcast, you gotta be able to handle pressure.
assistant	Right.
user	Some people just suck at pressure, you know? And I always put myself in these positions where I have to perform under pressure because opportunities are available there because so many people don't like pressure. So I look at her go, oh, they're scared. People are scared of this. So I'll go do that.
assistant	Right?
user	There's less people doing it, and it's more exciting to me because it's kind of dangerous.
assistant	When you got into it, was your family like, oh, this is cool. Or were they like, no, what are you doing?
user	What are you doing, idiot? Yeah. Go to school. Get a career. Get a real job. Like, you're not funny.
assistant	Right.
user	There was a lot of. When I was fighting, like, you're gonna get hurt. There's, like, everything I've done, like, what are you doing? You know, it's just. It's hard. If you have a child and you want your child to be successful, you don't want your child to take some wild, crazy fucking chance that. What is a million to one chance it's gonna pan out. Probably more than a million to one, right?
assistant	Was your childhood like the show Cobra Kai on Netflix, where you're just fighting people all the time? That's what I imagine it is. You're just. You're in a dojo. You have a sensei. You just fight the other kids at the. At the, you know. Dom.
user	Well, I did fight a lot of people, but I did it mostly in tournaments, but I did fight in dojos a lot. We had. You ever real dojo fights? Not that I know of.
assistant	Okay. Why were you fighting everybody? Were they fighting you?
user	Yeah. Yeah, we, like, guys would come in from other schools and challenge us, and I was often the guy who got thrown in with them.
assistant	Yeah. When you were younger, were you bullied? What motivated you? Yeah.
user	Yeah, I was small, and guys would pick on me, and I moved around a lot. Like, we moved all the time. Like, I lived in San Francisco from New Jersey to age seven, San Francisco age seven to eleven, Florida, eleven to 13, Boston, 1324. So I was fucking moving constantly. So I never really established a great group of friends that I was tight with. I was always the new kid, and I was not big, so I got fucked with.
assistant	Right, so you learned to defend yourself.
user	Well, I had to. When I moved to Newton, I got fucked with, like, by a bunch of kids. It was kind of scary. I didn't know how to defend myself, and I was like, fuck, like, I gotta do something. And so I started taking martial arts, and it changed my life. 180 degrees. Like, turned it around 180 degrees. Then all of a sudden, I wasn't worried about conflict anymore. And then I became obsessed with being like, oh, like, a world champion. I became obsessed with being like, did.
assistant	You have, like, one good teacher where there's a few good teachers that stand out?
user	Yeah, I had quite a few, but I got very lucky that I went to this one school, this Jaehun Kim Taekwondo Institute in Boston. That's, like, one of the most highly respected schools in the country at the time, at least. And it was just dead lucky. Just dead lucky. I just happened to go there one day, and I happened to go there while this guy John Lee was training for the world championships. And I happened to watch him train, like, when he was at his peak of condition, when he was a national champ. And I became obsessed, and I was there every day. So most of my high school, from, like, age 15 all the way until I was 21, was just obsessed with martial arts and competing, traveling all over the country. That's mostly what I did.
assistant	And your friends, I guess, were people in that world?
user	Yes. Yeah, some of them, like my friend Steve Graham, I'm still really tight with.
assistant	Yeah. And how did. What makes you go from that to comedy? Well, it's kind of an interesting transition.
user	Fear of brain damage. There was a little bit of that because I was. I was definitely aware that I was getting hit in the head too much, especially when I started kickboxing. I had three kickboxing fights, and when I was training for kickboxing, which I did for more than a year, there was a lot of getting hit in the head. There was a lot of hard sparring rounds. And then I was also watching a lot of other people that I saw that had brain damage. I was like, this guy's not who he used to be. Like, he's slipping. And then I realized, like, oh, my God, this is happening to me. And there was no money in it. There was no UFC back then. So this is 19, 88, 89 is.
assistant	When I was like, you gotta get out.
user	Yeah, I had to get out, and I had to get out soon before I ruined my brain, you know? And then also, fortunately, my friend Steve that I was talking about earlier, he was one of the people that told me I should be a comedian. Cause I would. We would go on these trips to go to fight in tournaments, right, right. Oftentimes we'd be on a bus or we'd travel by car together, and we'd be bored, and I would be the one who made everybody laughed. And so, like, if we were, like, getting ready to spar, everybody would be super nervous, and I would say the most inappropriate shit and get laughs out of people. And once I knew that I could get laughs, then I would just try to do it. Whenever I knew people were nervous, I would say the inappropriate thing or do impressions of people or impressions of, like, our instructor having sex.
assistant	Right. So you just established yourself as kind of the funny dude.
user	Oh, silly. Yeah, silly and funny. Like, it was gallows. Everyone was so scared. And it was also would alleviate some of the pressure of, like, getting scared before you go to a tournament. We were all scared, right? And so my friend Steve said, you really should be a fucking comedian.
assistant	Yeah.
user	I go, ah, man, you think I'm funny. Cause you like me. I go, other people are gonna think I'm an asshole.
assistant	Right?
user	And he's like, I don't. You should just go and just see an open mic night and try it. And so I did. I went to an open mic night.
assistant	And were you hooked on night one?
user	Yeah, pretty much.
assistant	Yeah.
user	Richard, Jenny had a great point. He goes, horrible. Comedians are amazing in that they inspire people to try it. Because you look at someone who's terrible, and you go, well, I can't be as bad as that guy, right? I'll give it a shot. That's what open mic night was to me. I had thought of stand up like Jerry Seinfeld or Richard Pryor. I thought, like, I can't do that. These guys are too good. But then you go to open mic night, and you go, oh, some of these people are terrible. And they're doing it. And, like, I can kind of do it. Like, they're doing it maybe a little better than them. Maybe. Maybe I could do this. And then on the same night, like, there was, like, Jonathan Katz was the host of the open mic night from.
assistant	Doctor Katz in Boston.
user	Yeah, he was the host of open mic night the first time I ever went on stage. And then on that night, some other real professionals went on, like Teddy Bergeron went on, and I got to see him go on, and I got hooked immediately. So I did my first set, and then I almost chickened out. I got really close to chickening out. Oh, my God. I came that close to pussying out.
assistant	Yeah.
user	And then once I did it, I was hooked. And then I started doing it all the time.
assistant	And you got successful pretty quick.
user	Pretty quick, yeah. I mean, luckily in Boston you could get work pretty quick.

assistant

And if you put, I said they wanted to find a conservative on the view. I said, let me go in there with the witchen. I'll be the conservative that left.

user

Does any woman even want to do that anymore?

assistant

Nobody wants to do it anymore. Kat Timpf, who was a libertarian on Fox, they were trying to go hard at her, but she's like, I'm on gut felt. I'm on a show people watch. Who cares?

user

They've turned that show into what they've done is they've made it so that all they do is fight, right? All they do is scream and yell. All they do is get upset at people. It's all negative, it's all demeaning, it's all insulting. They've just gotten to this point where the show has just got this feel of it. You only watch to see who they're mad at, right?

assistant

No. It's a horrible, horrible experience for anyone watching or participating in it, truly.

user

This is what's wrong with it. If you got five friends that just wanted to talk about things like that and they didn't have time limits and they didn't have all these constraints that are put on a show like that, hinder the possibility of it being good, for sure, all the people in the audience, that's a problem because you're playing to the audience and then you have the fact that you have a commercial coming up at 45 seconds, you gotta make your point. And then these other bitches are trying to chime in. You gotta talk over them.

assistant

But they can't find a female conservative. No, I think they're gonna have to use that grandma who was yelling at the Sandy Hook parents. I forget her name. The one who was like, prove it, you dumb fuck. But she's a QAnon grandma. I forget her name. Ben knows her name. Yeah. She was this grandma that was in that documentary, and she would go. She would yell at these parents. It was very sad. She'd be like, prove it, you dumb fuck, about their kids. And I think she should be on the view or get Rosie O'Donnell back. Cause she at least questioned 911.

user

Yeah, yeah, she. She questioned tower seven and a lot of other things like this. Those things are, like, real complicated. You can't get those wrong.

assistant

You can't get them wrong. But there's clearly fuckery with that.

user

Yeah.

assistant

If there's fuckery with the vaccine, there's fuckery with that.

user

Well, there's certainly fuckery in the reaction to that because we invaded Iraq. That's all you need to know. Like, I had a whole different at one point.

assistant

Yeah.

user

It's like, if you can look at what happened on September 11, 2001. And then the logical conclusion is we got to invade a country that had nothing to do with it.

assistant

It's crazy. It's crazy.

user

And then they did it and they said, well, there's weapons of mass destructions there, okay? And they caught more than a million lives. And it turns out there were no weapons of mass destruction.

assistant

It's just a weird thing where I go, I'm just like one of those old school guys goes, just show me one video of the plane hitting the Pentagon. And I'm good.

user

See, I think there is a video of the plane hitting the Pentagon. No, there's like a fucking plane. What does that look like?

assistant

It's a trail of smoke. They doctored it. 911. The new Pearl Harbor. 911. The new Pearl harbor is a crazy documentary by this italian guy, Massimo Mizuco. It's 5 hours. Watch it. You people have nothing to do. It's 5 hours.

user

Is it good?

assistant

It's great. I'm telling you right now, it's a five hour documentary on YouTube. You will watch it. Get the fam together, sit them down, popcorn. And I'm telling you right now, because I watched it to debunk it. I watched it to debunk it and went, yeah, you start going into the flight, the phones at 30,000ft. These people are having conversations. It's just not happening.

user

Something's off. You can't have something really off.

assistant

Something's really, really off with that day, but you just can't. Now in these publications that write about me, they describe me as like, 911, truther, Covid, denier. It's like I just get all these.

user

You had Covid. How can you be?

assistant

I've never said Covid was not real. Yeah, you know, I've said I thought it was good.

user

Well, I've had people mad at me because I medicated, cause I took Medicaid.

assistant

People's argument is you're in shape, you eat right, you work out. Why would you take the medication?

user

Because it's better than not taking medications. Of course this stuff works.

assistant

Of course.

user

Listen, I'm not saying you shouldn't take medication. I'm saying.

assistant

You're saying you should take medication.

user

I'm saying you should for sure. Always. But especially if it's proven medication that works. But the point is you shouldn't have a binary solution for things. So it's either this or nothing. It's either one or zero. That's crazy.

assistant

When people pass away, they donate a large chunk of their fortune to like, research and things like that. Do you think you'll donate yours to Robert F. Kennedy Junior or, like, Dana White? Who will you give your money to?

user

Demi Lovato. She's gonna give it to ghosts.

assistant

Hey, man, she used to live in my building. Fun woman. Yeah, it's straight. Do you ever think to yourself, what's the next act? Because you've literally. You're the most successful comedian probably. When you look at all the different things you've done, there's not many people that have, like, what? Do you ever go, I've done it all. And that's a little scary.

user

No, no, because I don't think like that ever. The crazy thing about all the different things that I've done is all I've ever tried to do. Like, I tried to become a professional comedian. I achieved that. And then I started working as a professional comic. And then all the other stuff is just stuff that came up, whether it's acting on news radio. That was just. They just offered me money to ask.

assistant

Do you still keep in touch with Kathy Griffin?

user

No. I would, though.

assistant

No. Yes.

user

I love her. Yeah.

assistant

Was she on that show or.

user

No, no.

assistant

Okay. I thought she was on that show.

user

No, no, no. Kathy Griffin was on just shoot me. Right. We suddenly shoot.

assistant

It was the other one. I forgot.

user

She's nice. Yeah. Vicki Lewis was on news radio. That's who you're thinking of?

assistant

Yeah. Okay. I don't know. I don't know about her.

user

She's redhead, too. She's.

assistant

That's. Maybe I'm getting confused.

user

Always joke around that, like, she was stealing her act.

assistant

And you worked with Phil Hartman, who was, like, one of the funniest people ever.

user

But again, that was just, like, I stumbled into that show. Like, completely stumbled into it. I had no acting experience.

assistant

Right.

user

I mean, I'd done a little bit acting on another terrible sitcom that got canceled. That got canceled. All of a sudden, I'm on news radio working with Dave Foley and Andy Dick and Phil Hartman with no acting experience. Like, what the fuck is happening?

assistant

Yeah, what's going on?

user

And then I go from that to fear factor. I'm like, well, this will get canceled immediately. Meanwhile, it's one of the most successful reality shows ever. It's like six seasons.

assistant

What did you learn from, like, that was it just do everything and don't focus too much on, like. Cause there's. There's. There's. Even though you're saying you're stumbling into them and you are stumbling into them, there's a skill to stumbling right. There's a skill to being. Position yourself in a way that you can kind of get those opportunities.

user

There's that. But there's also being able to handle pressure.

assistant

Okay, there you go.

user

Like, being able to handle auditions pressure. Being able to handle the pressure of speaking live in front of a large audience, whether it's doing the UFC broadcast or doing a comedy show or a podcast, you gotta be able to handle pressure.

assistant

Right.

user

Some people just suck at pressure, you know? And I always put myself in these positions where I have to perform under pressure because opportunities are available there because so many people don't like pressure. So I look at her go, oh, they're scared. People are scared of this. So I'll go do that.

assistant

Right?

user

There's less people doing it, and it's more exciting to me because it's kind of dangerous.

assistant

When you got into it, was your family like, oh, this is cool. Or were they like, no, what are you doing?

user

What are you doing, idiot? Yeah. Go to school. Get a career. Get a real job. Like, you're not funny.

assistant

Right.

user

There was a lot of. When I was fighting, like, you're gonna get hurt. There's, like, everything I've done, like, what are you doing? You know, it's just. It's hard. If you have a child and you want your child to be successful, you don't want your child to take some wild, crazy fucking chance that. What is a million to one chance it's gonna pan out. Probably more than a million to one, right?

assistant

Was your childhood like the show Cobra Kai on Netflix, where you're just fighting people all the time? That's what I imagine it is. You're just. You're in a dojo. You have a sensei. You just fight the other kids at the. At the, you know. Dom.

user

Well, I did fight a lot of people, but I did it mostly in tournaments, but I did fight in dojos a lot. We had. You ever real dojo fights? Not that I know of.

assistant

Okay. Why were you fighting everybody? Were they fighting you?

user

Yeah. Yeah, we, like, guys would come in from other schools and challenge us, and I was often the guy who got thrown in with them.

assistant

Yeah. When you were younger, were you bullied? What motivated you? Yeah.

user

Yeah, I was small, and guys would pick on me, and I moved around a lot. Like, we moved all the time. Like, I lived in San Francisco from New Jersey to age seven, San Francisco age seven to eleven, Florida, eleven to 13, Boston, 1324. So I was fucking moving constantly. So I never really established a great group of friends that I was tight with. I was always the new kid, and I was not big, so I got fucked with.

assistant

Right, so you learned to defend yourself.

user

Well, I had to. When I moved to Newton, I got fucked with, like, by a bunch of kids. It was kind of scary. I didn't know how to defend myself, and I was like, fuck, like, I gotta do something. And so I started taking martial arts, and it changed my life. 180 degrees. Like, turned it around 180 degrees. Then all of a sudden, I wasn't worried about conflict anymore. And then I became obsessed with being like, oh, like, a world champion. I became obsessed with being like, did.

assistant

You have, like, one good teacher where there's a few good teachers that stand out?

user

Yeah, I had quite a few, but I got very lucky that I went to this one school, this Jaehun Kim Taekwondo Institute in Boston. That's, like, one of the most highly respected schools in the country at the time, at least. And it was just dead lucky. Just dead lucky. I just happened to go there one day, and I happened to go there while this guy John Lee was training for the world championships. And I happened to watch him train, like, when he was at his peak of condition, when he was a national champ. And I became obsessed, and I was there every day. So most of my high school, from, like, age 15 all the way until I was 21, was just obsessed with martial arts and competing, traveling all over the country. That's mostly what I did.

assistant

And your friends, I guess, were people in that world?

user

Yes. Yeah, some of them, like my friend Steve Graham, I'm still really tight with.

assistant

Yeah. And how did. What makes you go from that to comedy? Well, it's kind of an interesting transition.

user

Fear of brain damage. There was a little bit of that because I was. I was definitely aware that I was getting hit in the head too much, especially when I started kickboxing. I had three kickboxing fights, and when I was training for kickboxing, which I did for more than a year, there was a lot of getting hit in the head. There was a lot of hard sparring rounds. And then I was also watching a lot of other people that I saw that had brain damage. I was like, this guy's not who he used to be. Like, he's slipping. And then I realized, like, oh, my God, this is happening to me. And there was no money in it. There was no UFC back then. So this is 19, 88, 89 is.

assistant

When I was like, you gotta get out.

user

Yeah, I had to get out, and I had to get out soon before I ruined my brain, you know? And then also, fortunately, my friend Steve that I was talking about earlier, he was one of the people that told me I should be a comedian. Cause I would. We would go on these trips to go to fight in tournaments, right, right. Oftentimes we'd be on a bus or we'd travel by car together, and we'd be bored, and I would be the one who made everybody laughed. And so, like, if we were, like, getting ready to spar, everybody would be super nervous, and I would say the most inappropriate shit and get laughs out of people. And once I knew that I could get laughs, then I would just try to do it. Whenever I knew people were nervous, I would say the inappropriate thing or do impressions of people or impressions of, like, our instructor having sex.

assistant

Right. So you just established yourself as kind of the funny dude.

user

Oh, silly. Yeah, silly and funny. Like, it was gallows. Everyone was so scared. And it was also would alleviate some of the pressure of, like, getting scared before you go to a tournament. We were all scared, right? And so my friend Steve said, you really should be a fucking comedian.

assistant

Yeah.

user

I go, ah, man, you think I'm funny. Cause you like me. I go, other people are gonna think I'm an asshole.

assistant

Right?

user

And he's like, I don't. You should just go and just see an open mic night and try it. And so I did. I went to an open mic night.

assistant

And were you hooked on night one?

user

Yeah, pretty much.

assistant

Yeah.

user

Richard, Jenny had a great point. He goes, horrible. Comedians are amazing in that they inspire people to try it. Because you look at someone who's terrible, and you go, well, I can't be as bad as that guy, right? I'll give it a shot. That's what open mic night was to me. I had thought of stand up like Jerry Seinfeld or Richard Pryor. I thought, like, I can't do that. These guys are too good. But then you go to open mic night, and you go, oh, some of these people are terrible. And they're doing it. And, like, I can kind of do it. Like, they're doing it maybe a little better than them. Maybe. Maybe I could do this. And then on the same night, like, there was, like, Jonathan Katz was the host of the open mic night from.

assistant

Doctor Katz in Boston.

user

Yeah, he was the host of open mic night the first time I ever went on stage. And then on that night, some other real professionals went on, like Teddy Bergeron went on, and I got to see him go on, and I got hooked immediately. So I did my first set, and then I almost chickened out. I got really close to chickening out. Oh, my God. I came that close to pussying out.

assistant

Yeah.

user

And then once I did it, I was hooked. And then I started doing it all the time.

assistant

And you got successful pretty quick.

user

Pretty quick, yeah. I mean, luckily in Boston you could get work pretty quick.