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This week,

 I sit down with LaTrez Anderson.. a comedian known for his wild storytelling, chaotic humor, and nonstop energy online. We talk about going viral, crazy real-life experiences, social media culture, stand-up comedy, and the reality behind trying to build a name in entertainment.

From hilarious moments to serious conversations about chasing success, this episode goes all over the place in the best way possible. If you like unfiltered conversations, insane stories, and nonstop laughs… this is one you don’t want to miss.



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SPEAKER_01

Yo yo, it's your boy, it's Phil Wham Bam Benamino, baby, and it's another Wham Bam Wednesday. You know the show about ordinary people who've done extraordinary things. And first, baby, give us some love, man. It takes zero effort. Click the link below. Subscribe, baby. Go ahead, the show's free, and we got amazing guests. Because today's guest, we got somebody who's actually not just hitting the comedy tour, but he's also done a bunch of million types of views online. He's one of the funniest guys here, right from Milledgeville, Georgia. We got Latrez Anderson in the house today. What's up, Letrez? Thank you. Thank you. All right, baby. Thank you for coming.

SPEAKER_00

No, thank you for having me. Listen, guys, I don't know if you know this. We're in a very nice place. I pulled up. I'm like, damn, what the fuck is this? This is great. This is amazing. And it was a long ride. It was worth it. It was worth it. Well, that's a good thing. It was worth it. I was just came in. I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot all about the drive. Fuck it. I forgot about it.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we're excited to have you here, man. You know, let's get right into it. Okay. Let's comedian. Were you always a comic as a kid? Come on, what kind of kid were you when you're growing up?

SPEAKER_00

You know what? I was funny to my friends, but I never thought that I would ever do stand-up comedy. I thought there was some shit. It was so far for me. Stand-up comedy is so hard, man.

SPEAKER_01

You know, it is, it really is. Like so many people get booed off the stage. Yeah. You know what I mean? I've gone to some comedy clubs and shows that uh I didn't want to go back. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. But you've done it or you've seen people. No, I've seen people. I've seen people and stuff. So, you know, we've had uh actually had Matt King was a comedian that was on the show as well, but he does like Trump impersonators and stuff, which was hilarious. Um, you know, so we had a really nice pod, learned a little bit about him, but not everybody has a niche. And sometimes if you don't have a niche, it's really hard to break free. You are very, very creative. You know what I'm saying? Thank you. You know, you have a lot of uh pizzazz, you know, your looks, your facial comedy. I mean, it's just it's just funny. You're just a funny dude, man. I appreciate that. I mean, but you know, what what got you into comedy? Like, what was it that made you that?

SPEAKER_00

Were you a troubled kid? You know, I wasn't. I think I've I figured it out, I want to say, maybe like two years ago, where where it comes from. Because I always knew, like, well, people would say I'm funny, like friends and stuff, we have fun. But two years ago, one of my dad's brothers passed away. And I went back, you know, it's my dad's side of the family. So I and I'm not, we weren't very close. Okay. Um, but I went there, you know, to fellowship with them and everything. And that's when I realized these people are crazy. This is where it comes from. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's what it hit me. Like, and they're dumber than me. Like, it's so crazy. Like, they so stupid. Like, in a good way, you watching this is good. It's good, stupid. But that's why I get it from. So, um, yeah, it was I was it was always, I guess, in me, but I never thought that this would be something I would do.

SPEAKER_01

Were you a class clown in school? No, teachers like you or dislike you?

SPEAKER_00

They liked me, and I wasn't, but I wasn't one of the ones that would get put out of class or like shut up, you're talking too much. Gotcha. It wasn't like that. Yeah. Because, well, my start, I started out acting. I was always acting. Oh, really? Yeah. So there's What type of roles? Oh, well, I um I did a lot of theater. Okay. So I did I played. Did you sing? Oh, hell no. But I had, but one role I had to, but the king.

SPEAKER_01

It wasn't musicals.

SPEAKER_00

Well, no, no, no, no, no. I would never do that. Well, you like the Lion King, the guy in the costume? I could have been. Okay. But as long as anybody who's not singing, but I did have to, uh, it was a role I had to kind of like sing a little bit, but the character wasn't a singer, so it made sense that I couldn't sing. Okay. Um, but that was uh Fences. I played Troy Max and Fences. Was this his name? I think so. Yeah, yeah, that was his name in Fences. So I did that one and maybe like five, six other plays, but that was in college. So gotcha. Where'd you go to college? In Georgia. Uh it's called the college in Barnesburg called Gordon State College. Okay. So I went there and I I did a lot, a lot of theater. So were you going there for acting in theater?

SPEAKER_01

That was so that's the reason why you went there. So that's so that was something that you wanted to pursue.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, act acting is something I wanted to do forever. And I thought what I originally thought was okay, I would be a big success in the acting world, but then it was like the comedy came along and like disrupted.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. You didn't disrupt it, you changed it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01

You know, I think God puts people in the line that they're supposed to be by accident sometimes, you know, but it's really what was meant to be. Yeah, you know, type of thing. So have you enjoyed the comedy? Or enjoy the acting more?

SPEAKER_00

I you know what? I enjoy the comedy. I, you know, I enjoy both. I think with comedy, I get to travel more. And I and I I'm going to places I've never been. Like whenever I'm going, I go out of town like every weekend. Right. Yeah, it's so fun. Like, and to and and I create different experiences with everybody. Like, but I have a couple of people that travel with me and that do the shows with me. So it's just like, I don't know, it's like a different thing every time we go out of town. Like it's fun, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Different vibes, different cities got different vibes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What was it like though, your very first time when you said, you know what? I'm gonna step on stage. The very first audience that you performed for. Who was that and what was when was that?

SPEAKER_00

That was maybe like four years ago, and I drank a lot of Crown Royal.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, my drink.

SPEAKER_00

I drank a lot, I had and I was drinking out the bottle, sitting in the car, like, oh shit, this is scary. I was scared for real. Um, and and you know, I had to to drink that to kind of loosen myself up.

SPEAKER_01

But you had to give yourself a little courage.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I had to give myself a lot of courage. I needed a lot of courage, but you know, I I went there and where was it? It was um, it was it was like at a this warehouse type place that was doing like a it was not an open mic, but it was something like an open mic. Okay, and they invited me to come, and I was nervous. I went and I did it, and it went good. And when I listened to it now, I'm like, oh hell no. Like it was so bad because I was talking too fast. Yeah, and it was because I was nervous. You're trying to get through your jokes. Yeah, I was trying to make sure I don't forget.

SPEAKER_01

You know, let's talk about that because that there is an art to that, and it's really hard. Yeah, I mean, you write all your own jokes, yes, because a lot of times people use a lot of writers these days, yeah, yeah, to write jokes, especially when you're performing as much as you are. It's kind of hard sometimes to have the time to come up with that stuff. So, where do you get your jokes? Where do you get where do you come up with your material?

SPEAKER_00

Um, you know what? It a lot of a lot of of my videos is stuff that's happened to me in real life, like the premise of my videos is stuff that's happened. So you are kind of you might if you hear me on stage, you might kind of think of a video that you've seen that I did. Uh-huh. Um, and it's kind of like that. Like I pull from my real life. Um so yeah, it's it's like that. And stuff that people can relate to, and maybe like maybe some curvy event things in there.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Um, when did you realize, you know what? People actually like me. This might be something I could do for a career.

SPEAKER_00

You know what? I had um my first video that did good to me. I was like, oh my gosh, 12,000 views. This is great. And it was on Facebook. That was my first time getting like a lot of views. Yeah. And I'm like, and it was um, it was a I don't know if you ever seen the players club, but Bernie Mack in the Players Club, he had this one scene, and I did like a voiceover to that scene, and I'm like, oh, the people like this. So I kept doing stuff like that. I'm like, oh, and they're commenting, you're funny. I'm like, really? Okay, you know, okay, and so I'm gonna keep doing funny things. And then I kind of developed into just writing my own stuff, and that's where it kind of started.

SPEAKER_01

Now, I notice you do a lot of reaction videos, yeah, you know, and that's something online that's really kind of taken off. You know, uh, you know, what made you get into the reaction videos of yourself? You look at stupid things and you're like, these people are stupid.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, it was the reaction videos is never something that I I was I was actually originally nervous to post those. Um, but now I do them because a friend of mine, um, well, I do it to promote my shows. Uh-huh because I can't I can't do like three sketches in a day and record it and edit it and stuff. So I kind of space them out. But I'm like, I need a way to promote my shows, and posting a flyer is not gonna do it because you know they kind of like they gotta hear you. Yeah, and they won't the algorithm won't push flyers out to people. That's right. So I'm like, okay, what can I do? So I do a reaction video, and at the end of the reaction video, I'll post my flyer at the end. And then I got that from a friend of mine who's also a comedian. He's like, Did you post your flyer at the end? I was like, Well, I tried that one time and my my video just kind of like flopped. And so when I went back and deleted that part of the video and reposted it, then the video went up.

SPEAKER_01

You know, they do say that. I wonder that as well, because I've heard both parts of that. Like, yeah, you know, sometimes when they see the flyer, like even we're, you know, we will throw up doing our podcast stuff, you know, you you're wondering if they think it's a it's an ad versus an actual real type of thing. So it does change things, but yeah. These algorithms are hard to figure out.

SPEAKER_00

And you know what? And even in that moment, uh I was like, you know what, I'll try it again. When he told me to do that, I'm like, okay, I'll try it again. And so when I tried it, it worked. Like me posting a flyer at the end, it at that point it worked. So, like, if I do a reaction and a million people seen it, then at least half a million made it to the end of the video to see the flyer. Right. So, yeah, and more people saw the flyer on this reaction video that Dan who would have seen the flyer if I just posted a naked flyer.

SPEAKER_01

Right, I gotcha, I gotcha, and put it out there. You know, one of the biggest hot things right now is this whole cruise ship and this virus, man. What's going on with that, dude? What's your feelings on all that?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You know what? Right before I got here, right when I was pulling in, I saw something that said it was another cruise ship, I think it was a Royal Caribbean ship when people had the neurovirus on that one. Um, and I'm just like, why are we still going on cruises? Now, I I my first time going on a cruise was last year. I went twice last year. Did you go to perform? Hell no. And the thing, oh my gosh, I didn't know people actually did stand-up comedy on cruises. Yeah, I did. Some people got their big starts there on cruise shows. I didn't know that. You did a free cruise. Why not? Yeah, I did, yeah. And I didn't know that until I was there, and I saw something that said comedy show. And I was like, oh, I want to go to that. That's what that's all about. So then I went there and I'm like, and it was a real show, like a real, yeah, it was they were good. And the people, it was like a real thing. I was like, and that was that was the time I'm like, you know what? I want to do this. Like I never knew about it before, but then it was like, okay, I want to do stand-up comedy on a cruise. Right. Because you get a free cruise, and then you get to you, like it's not even, it doesn't feel like work. And I've been doing a lot of comedy stuff, but I'm looking to get back into, you know, the acting world. I actually did a film last last year.

SPEAKER_01

I was in Blood Money 2. That's right. I was Vinny the Viper, baby. Really? Yeah, yeah. So I did cameo on Blood Money 1, and uh they liked it, and they ended up bringing me in can uh in Blood Money 2, and I ended up having a sub sub role there. I'm gonna watch that too. Yeah, it's gonna be pretty ex pretty exciting. It's not out yet. They're they're editing as we speak. Okay, they're still editing stuff, but it but it is coming out. But uh shoot, if we do a three, I'm gonna get you in. Oh, please, I'm there. Did you have a good time? Oh, it was awesome. It was a really good great experience. I'll tell you what, you have I have such uh a level of respect for all the people behind the scenes that nobody sees. Yeah, and that's the reality. People don't realize you go to a movie, it's it's ruined me because now I can't watch a movie because I'm sitting there going, that's uh that's an angle, yeah. Oh my god, that person did that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you know when you're when you do movies and stuff, you see everything when you just sit back and watch it. Like I sometimes I see a boom mic, kind of like at the top of the screen. I'm like, I saw that shit. But how didn't I not catch that? Why didn't I ask somebody like, did you see that? They'd be like, No, I didn't see it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

But I see everything, yeah, yeah. So you you know the people you had in the scenes are are awesome and it's amazing. So what goes into it is incredible. Yeah, I know everybody thinks everything's you know just AI generated, and yes, that stuff's helped with a lot of things, but no, the actors are real, yeah. No, act yeah, it's it's really real, yeah. And it really is uh it was a great experience. So I enjoyed it. Well stressful too. How long were you like? It was two weeks I filmed. Well, how long have you been acting? So that was my first one. Really? That was my first one, yeah. Oh but you know what? Like I told them, I act every day. I mean, you know, I've been in sales my whole life. Oh, yeah, you know, school teacher, I coach, you know, and stuff. So I feel like acting is kind of a part of things. Yeah, yeah. Um, you know, I've been around the theater. My my sister actually is a director, you know, she actually owns theater 444 in New York. Really? I've been around, I've been around a few. So I did a few plays growing up as a kid, like Fiddler on the Roof with a little guy in that, you know, different things, Johnny Appleseed. Yeah, you know. So would you do more plays now? You know what? I would act again. Like I really enjoyed it, and I didn't realize there was a place for elder people as well. Yeah, yeah. You don't think about those roles because I'm like, oh, am I too old, you know, for this stuff to start the career? And they're like, nah, man, like there are older people that are, you know. So Tulsa King came around and I got a few calls on that. Well, we'll see. You never know. I might maybe be in a season four or five. Let's hope so. Yeah, yeah, that'll be good. That'd be good, yeah. Yeah, but you know, comedy is a whole different game, okay? Because let's be real, not all shows go well. Now, you talked about going to the crew, you know, show and being there as a guest. Have you ever been to a guest to a show and you're like, that's not so good? Oh, I have. And what is that like for you? Like, do you get angry because you're like, I'm better than that, and I should be up there? Or do you like how do you feel about it when you have other comedians that you're seeing and they're not at the level that you feel that you are, and they're getting more of an opportunity than maybe you.

SPEAKER_00

You know, I um I feel like everybody has their own lane. Like, I I never say somebody's not funny. I just say not funny to me. Because comedy is subjective. Right. And just because I'm not laughing at you, somebody will, you know, but there I have been in a situation where I was at a comedy show and I felt bad for the comedian because it was just not good. I think he had I guess I don't know. It was it was one of those moments where it was like, ooh, why would you say that? It's like it was it was a cre it was too early. Like somebody had just died, and you know, he it was like in the media and he cracked a joke on it, right? And the whole audience was like silent. Nobody said anything. And I was like, ouch.

SPEAKER_01

How's that has that ever happened to you?

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_01

No, oh, no, and I documented.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's what I'm like, I don't, I don't, and I try to not I try not to say the wrong thing. Right, you know, because there's you know, when you when you're doing stand-up, it's easy to kind of like offend somebody. It is, it's so easy. It's so easy to do.

SPEAKER_01

Have you had any hecklers? Any people that you know you offended and they just you know you have it in the audience?

SPEAKER_00

Maybe maybe two times. One time in Greenville, uh, South Carolina, and then one time in Indianapolis.

SPEAKER_01

Tell me about it. Tell me what happened. Let's talk about South Carolina first.

SPEAKER_00

The South Carolina incident, well, it was not even an incident, but I I was talking and I was telling the story, and this lady, I think I was talking about food stamps or something. And this lady, she was she started talking back to me, and she continues to talk. And then I move on and she continues to talk. And I look at the artist like, what the fuck is wrong with her? And then she continues to talk. And then I just kind of like go on, and then I'm like tired of having a back and forth with her, and then the security comes to get her, takes her out, or whatever. Yeah, like if you drinks the tea oven or I don't know what she may, maybe.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. You know what? Why would like here's a good idea for you? I just thought about this. So this is what I would do if I was a comedian and somebody kept talking. I would just walk down and give them the mic. Yeah, be like, look at let me sit in your chair. Come on up there, come on up there. We got a new show, everybody.

SPEAKER_00

Look at her, we got yeah, and what's wonder what that would do. I wish I could have done that on that show, but that particular show, the mic, it was a wired mic. Oh, yeah, and it it was it had a shortage in it. Uh huh. And so I couldn't even walk around the stage with the mic. That was the only show that I had to do the the show for an hour with the mic on the stand. Gotcha. So you're right there. Yes, I'm just moving. I can't do a whole lot of moving. I am. Yeah, you gotta work on the stage. I'm used to, yeah, I'm used to moving around. So to have to just stand here and tell y'all everything just like this. Right. Just like this. It was.

SPEAKER_01

You struggle right now, you need to get up and move around.

SPEAKER_00

Right, but no, I'm fine right here. Yeah, no, I'm good. Um, but it uh Indianapolis, I've you know, I forget what the guy I forget what he said. He was saying something, I don't know. But we was going, we had started going back and forth uh uh in a way, and um at the end he came with me. He's like, I want to apologize. Like, get the fuck out of my face. But I don't want to hear, oh whatever. I want a picture with you. Yeah, yeah, I don't apologize now.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

I do, I do. Um, I need to order more. I'm glad you said that. But yeah, I I sell merch and it it'd be kind of hard sometimes when it's like it's a lot of luggage. Like I have my bags and I have the luggage, and I have a book bag or something, and then to get on the plane and take all this stuff. Sure. So a lot of times I try to save the merch for when I'm driving to a show or something. Well, look at man, I actually, wham bam, I actually thought of you, man.

SPEAKER_01

I brought you a gift. Really? Okay, this is a gift that you can use in all your shows when you have a hackler. Okay. When somebody is getting underneath your skin and you don't know what to do, you just go ahead and you tell them, you got them this just for them.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. You can open it up if you want. I thought you could take that with you on your road. I appreciate it. You can put that in your you know what? That's good. You'll be like, yeah, I got a little something for you. You know what?

SPEAKER_00

I like that. Thank you. I'm gonna use it and I'm gonna let you know when I use it. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

Hopefully, I don't have to, just show you. Somebody's gonna challenge and be like, what is that? What is that? Yeah, okay. Yeah, you gotta do it. It's just for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. Thank you. Of course, of course. So, you know, so obviously, you know, coming up with the jokes and finding the laughters, it's not always about the joke, right? It's always about the delivery. Have you have you ever found it yourself that you know maybe you didn't deliver the joke the way you wanted to and you weren't as happy with it? And although people still laugh, you know, but yeah, you know, do you ever feel like, hey, do you watch yourself like a football player would or an athlete or an actor, and you know, like you start critiquing yourself? Do you watch yourself back at all?

SPEAKER_00

I don't like to listen. I don't know. But but I do think now, I mean, I have heard it, and it's like, okay, I'm growing. And it's like, I'm like, oh every time I listen to something or watch something from like way back when I'm like, oh, I'm I'm way better now. Right, right. Yeah, I'm like, damn, that sucked. And other people are like, oh, that's really good. I'm like, no, it's not.

SPEAKER_01

You know, I was gonna say that on the flip side, is there ever been something you felt like was gonna fail? And then boom, you put it out there and it went, it went viral all the time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I will plan out a video. I'm like, this is gonna get them. This is the one I know it's gonna be. And it gets like uh two likes in 30 minutes. I'm like, damn. But the ones that I'm like, okay, I just need to post something today, because I'm in a rush, post it, oh, 40,000 likes today. It'd be like, now what? What I don't I never understand the math of that.

SPEAKER_01

Right, right. You know what? It's always when you don't expect it, you least expect it. Yeah. The key is consistency, though. Yeah. And the one thing I will say, man, you're consistently funny, you're always in a good mood, which is important. You know what I'm saying? Although you do make fun of some people, which is important too, because some people need to be made fun of. But I think your facial expressions is killer. Like, you know what I mean? Like you go back to who are some of the people that you idolize, you know, throughout comedians.

SPEAKER_00

My favorite comedian was Bernie Mack. Yeah. Because I like how he was able to, he was funny on stage to me, and I like how he was able to go and then have his own TV show where he acted. So it's like you could do both.

SPEAKER_01

And it's that's kind of like a Tyler Perry. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And it's kind of like that's where I'm um, that's where I come from. Like I'm acting and I'm just standing. And you see that more and more with comedians.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, it kind of goes hand in hand, yeah, you know, realistically. I mean, you think about a lot of the comedians, you know, the Kevin Hart's, you know what I'm saying? He's big in acting, like he's you know, Eddie Murphy, obviously, you know, one of my favorites back then. Yeah, Martin Lawrence, huge, you know, and stuff. Um, to even like Howie Mandel. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, look what he's done to his career, and he was a comedian too. So um, you know, comedians can do very well, but it's something that there's a lot of struggle along the ways. Let's talk about that. Let's go back in time. Let's talk about some of the struggles to get there, you know, and what it was like. Well, did you ever want to just give up and say, you know what, maybe this ain't me?

SPEAKER_00

Sometimes. Yeah. And and I mean, it's still now, because this is like, you know, there there'll be times where you know, a video is not like video, like numbers aren't there, or like nobody's reaching out. And it's and those those things like, well, am I am I doing the right thing? Like, I thought it was with me. But maybe it's something else. Right. And so I have I have those thoughts even now, um, a lot of times. But and it's like, okay, just gotta keep going. Just keep going. Like it, but and then I realized it's it's dry patches and like dry seasons. So it's like, okay, you're up and down, you're up and down, you're up and down. And you just hate those down times. And I can't stand them. Right. But it's like, okay, if I'm down right now, I know the up is is coming next. So yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's like anything else, man. In in a job, nobody likes to go to work at times. Right. Have you ever had that situation where you're like, boom, you're getting paid to be on stage, you gotta go there, and you're like, man, I just don't want to be there tonight. Because that's gotta be hard for a comedian because you are the show. Yeah. You know what I mean? Your attitude, your enthusiasm, everything you provide is it. So if you don't really want to be there, it's gonna show.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You know? Well, and and and what I know is people are paying their money to come to this. So I and I never want to shortchange people, right? Right. And then I get paid too, you know. Get a little bit of money. Yeah, this is work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I see the shoes, I see the little, I see what you got going on there. You know, you're doing all right.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So no, I, you know, I um no, I I try to give give people get people their money worth, and and maybe and certain clubs, it it'll make me like, yeah, I'm not coming back here ever again. Oh, okay. I have those, I have maybe like a club and a person that I just won't work with anymore. Really? Yeah. I don't care how much you're paying me. Oh, yeah, no, I won't go back. Because it's like I expect a certain level of professionalism because if I receive it over here and over here and over here, then I should also receive it over here.

SPEAKER_01

That's fair.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and if I'm not, if I don't get that, I mean I'll give you a chance, but if everything is kind of like now you one of them guys that like, yeah, I don't want caviar in the green room, and you know, I don't ask for shit.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00

I don't ask for nothing. Just give me a water. Yeah, you were pretty simple, yeah. And then have my check ready at the end. That's it. That's all, that's all I don't request the fruit platter. I love when they give it to me because that, you know, but I don't request anything.

SPEAKER_01

What's the what's the craziest thing somebody has given you when you showed up? You were like, wow, this is cool. Um oh people besides the gift I just gave you, of course.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now this is great. Um, you know, people, they'll give me okay, one time at the ah damn. Okay, at the place I said I would never go back to. This uh one of the one of the audience members, uh, she was sitting in the front row. And at the end of the show, I had a meet and greet. And her, her mom was, she was with her mom, and they was in the front row. And um I did the show, whatever, and I don't know how I missed this, but when she came up on stage, she kind of like stood back and she pointed to her shirt. I look, and it's like a collage of pictures of me and me online and stuff. And I that was the first time having like that. I never didn't know her and she helped me out like that. Yeah, you and your mom, and then y'all brought me a shirt as well. That was that was like that was really it was that was a good experience. That's that's when you know that okay, I'm being seen for real. Yeah, and then it's crazy because they said they were right there. I'm looking at them the whole time I never saw their shirts. Right. Yeah. Now that's how you know I'm not, I don't go around just talking about people like I don't there's I'm I don't really do that. Yeah, you know, just you know, how you know how some comedians kind of like get on the people that pick on the people. Yeah, I don't I do that a little bit, yeah, but not to the point where I'm like looking at what everybody got on. I should though. I should definitely do that.

SPEAKER_01

There's some shows that's all they do, yeah, right? You know, they just sit there and crowd work. And honestly, that's pretty amazing you can think like that. Yeah, you gotta be quick. You have to be.

SPEAKER_00

You know, to be a comedian, you have to be because somebody can throw something, not physically, physically, but they've done that, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, but yeah, well, yeah, but somebody could give you, like, feed you something in the audience. And if you don't know what you're doing and you don't take it, you miss your opportunity at like something big. Like, I there's been things that happen in certain audiences that only happen in that audience, and only us know about it. Right. Yeah, and it's so it's so cool. Like, I see people or their comments, you know, I they'll comment something, and I'm like, oh, you could only know that because you was at that particular show. So we have that like bind or something, right?

SPEAKER_01

So you're like, I like that person.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So comment, folks, comment on a bunch of you've been to see them and everything. That's what you need. Yeah, you know, have you ever thrown out thrown out a um, you know, a joke that kind of put you in an awkward situation, you didn't realize it until afterwards. You know, was there ever that moment where that's happened? Because in comedian, like I said, sometimes you offend people, yeah. And it's just timing, right? You know, but it's still a like you're trying to be funny, but it's still timing sometimes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I I have been in a situation. So a friend of mine, he and he he's also a comedian, and he invited me to do this comedy roast. So basically, for the people who don't know, yeah, what a comedy roast is basically the person whose birthday it is, they invite different comedians up there to kind of like talk shit. Right, you know, about them. Make fun of them. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. And so it was like five of us that was doing it. And for whatever reason, they left me for to be the last person to do it. So everybody's going up. Last for last, man. Yeah, well, they're saying all this stuff, everybody has their their turn. I'm like, okay, cool. So then it's my turn, and I I thought it was fine, but that's when I realized I can't do this shit because I this is I guess I was just too real. Yeah, it was just like, okay, yeah, you're saying too much real stuff. Like, yeah, this is this is, yeah, you might need to. You're a hater. Yeah, you're a hater. Yeah, and I'm like, you know what? I think this is more offensive than funny. And that was funny to me, right? But I'm like, you know what? And the guy was laughing, but some like, but his family was there. It was like, oh no. Yeah, you know, and I'm like, you know what? That's fine. I would never do this again. They're like unfollowing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not doing this shit no more. I'm not roasting nobody else because I don't do it right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Roasting is funny because that has gotten to become a big thing. Yeah. You know, I'm not never doing it. Yeah. I won't do it. I don't, um no. Never say never, man. Never say never. You're you're a funny guy. So under the right circumstance and the right and maybe with the right money. Okay. Okay. Okay. You might do that. Yeah, I will. I will. Exactly. I will.

SPEAKER_00

I don't want to write out. Like, but give it an opportunity. If the situation and circumstances were right, I would do it.

SPEAKER_01

Where's your favorite place that you've been out performing so far? Which one of your favorite spots?

SPEAKER_00

You know what? I'll say Dallas, Texas. And Dallas is just a good time. Like I've performed there three times. Cowgirls. Yeah. And all the all the like each audience brings the same energy. And what I don't think a lot of people realize is whether you're at a stand-up comedy show or whether you're at the at a play, the performers feed off the energy of the crowd. Right. So if the energy is here, we feel that. But if y'all's energy is here, we're here with you, and the show is even greater. And that's why I tell like the people, like, you guys make the show. Like the we as comedians, or if we're acting or whatever we're doing, we know this material works. We've used it before. We used it time and time again. Right. Or we're we're in a play. We've set this script, this same script, these same lines over and over again. So we know that this is funny or this is, we know what what it is about. Right, what hits. Yeah, we know what hits. And it's up to you as an audience to it's that the show is really up to y'all whether it's gonna be here or here. But I'm gonna give you this every time, right? But the show is always up to y'all. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

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SPEAKER_00

Have I opened for anybody? No, not really.

SPEAKER_01

So who's on your bucket list? Who's one of the persons you'd love to do?

SPEAKER_00

I have opened for somebody. Her name is, I don't know if you know my cousin Tierra. Okay. Yeah, that's her uh her her name, her stage name is cousin Tierra. She's crazy. Yeah, and she's she's really good. Um, but yeah, I I opened for her one time in uh Chicago uh actually last year. So yeah, yeah. Nice.

SPEAKER_01

Now, who would you want to open for? If you could open one dream, who who would it be?

SPEAKER_00

Dead or live?

SPEAKER_01

Dead or live.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, I think I already told you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we better better go live.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay, okay, we'll do it live.

SPEAKER_01

We'll go live.

SPEAKER_00

Um even current, like right now. I would, you know, it's there's there's a few people that I that I wouldn't mind opening. I would, I would open for. I would pretty, I don't that's a tough question.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we'll be cool. Like you're like, okay, oh my god, Lawrence Martin wants me to open up for him. Like, that would be cool. That's dope.

SPEAKER_00

You know what I mean? Like Martin, because I grew up watching Martin. Right. Like, and I still watch Martin. And to be able to even be in the same room. Like, if we in the we're talking in the dream room, but what if I don't open up for you? I just have a conversation. It's that's big.

SPEAKER_01

Even his girls are comedian. She's she's got a show out there. She's traveling now doing wait, who is it? Damn, Rachel, you know, is uh who was on Martin. Oh, Tisha uh Tisha Campbell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tisha Campbell. Yeah, Tisha, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Tisha Campbell. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

She We might actually saw her live. She was hysterical.

SPEAKER_00

Is she? Yeah, she was hysterical. Wait, but she was up here in Atlanta. Yeah. I remember I didn't get a chance to go, but I do remember that. Yeah. Um, so she was good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she was good. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, well, that's good. But because you know how sometimes you can't see certain, you see certain people in the how you meet them. Right. You can't see them in a different way. Correct. And um, so I was I you just kind of never know. But yeah, I believe that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Who's Letrez when you're not comedian? Like, what are you like after uh you know off the camera?

SPEAKER_00

I'm I'm I'm the same. Yeah. Yeah, I'm really the what you see is advertised. Yeah, I'm the same through and through. Like what you I'm one of those person, like people, what you see, what you get. Like, I'm not, I'm not like, oh, when the cameras go off, he's just like different. I'm not. But there are people, I was it's crazy. I was I was just getting into like diving into uh Diana Ross last night because I keep seeing like it's certain videos and people like say certain stuff about her, and I'm like, people don't like Diana Ross. I'm like, why not? So I literally typed that in TikTok, why don't people like her? And and I see she's done, she's I can see a reaction video coming off of this one too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I can see it in your eyes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, she would do like apparently backhanded stuff, like like when shows and stuff with Aretha Franklin, she would go and kind of like, oh, she was she had so much power back then to where she can just come in and tell people like, okay, I want to do this. I I to hell with them, let me perform. And then they would let her do it. And it's she has a lot of those stories about and taking stuff from other people, right? But like you see her interviews or you just see her singing, you don't see that part about her. But that made me think of that. But I'm I'm the same all the way around. What you see here is is what you'll see when the cameras and the lights and the microphone.

SPEAKER_01

What about when the fame gets really outrageous? You know, when you get to that that level where you can't go nowhere without being noticed, you know, where you can't sit down and grab a grab a meal without having somebody wanting a picture. Yeah. Like, have you ever thought about those days and what those days would be like? And you know, are you are you worried about that? Is that something you embrace or is that something you would be a little bit worried about? Because everything comes with a price, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. You know, I don't I I don't think I would want to even go out because even now, sometimes I have times where, oh my gosh, if I go in a grocery store on Thanksgiving, like the day before or something on Thanksgiving, if I'm looking for something, like recently, oh my gosh, I had so many people like stopping me. Like you imagine how many people are in Walmart on the day before Thanksgiving trying to get stuff. And it's like people stopping and talking and want to take pictures, and and I'm literally coming in here for fucking celery, and I can't even leave. It it gets to be a lot. So I'm like, I'm knowing that it's already happening. Yeah. So if when I become like even bigger, right, just imagine what's I'm gonna have to just Instacart everything. Because that's it, it gets to be too much. Like, I don't, you know, I don't, I just want to go and with jogger pants on a t-shirt and just look crazy. Because I I used to be able to do that. Like go in the store and just I don't care. Yeah, do rag and you know, um glasses. I probably didn't wash my damn face. And I'm in the store. And I was able to do that until uh it was one time somebody like, can we take a picture? I'm like, oh shit. I mean, we can we take a picture, sure. You're like TMZ. Yeah, let me, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

They're gonna take this picture and blow me up.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And that's what I'm like, yeah, we're we could from now on, I just go out with that.

SPEAKER_01

Think about that. When you wake up in the morning, you're like, man, I no matter where I go, I better. I don't have to go presentable. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I used to, I used to have to do that, but it was like well, now it's just habit. Like I know I I can't just just go how I like it's good get out of bed and like go fucking let's just go to the store right quick. I can't do that. Right. Yeah, that's funny. I would like to be able to do that, but it's like at any moment somebody can ask for a picture, and I don't I don't like to turn people down. Like, yeah, we can take a picture, why not?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's absolutely fan.

SPEAKER_00

Like, you need that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no one's paying for you to get larger and to grow and uh to make your bread.

SPEAKER_00

And that's my thank you for supporting me, right? You know, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Now it's gotta be it's gotta feel great, you know what I'm saying? To be able to make an impression on somebody that's powerful and positive. Yeah, that's the key. You know what I'm saying? Like at the end of the day, you know, and I say this and kind of one of our big things is you know, stay positive, you know, because there's so much negativity out there, there's so much garbage going on, and so many haters, and people jump in the DMs and they'll say they want to get their comments, they want to hate. But you know, I say they're just on, you know, they're just uneducated fans. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? That's just what they are, you know.

SPEAKER_00

And so, and a lot of times I don't even pay people much attention. Yeah, but there are sometimes I might like post a reaction video and then I look at the comments. Most of the comments are good, but there are people like, oh, you're fat shame. And I'm like, No, I'm not. I'm really not fat shame. I was fat too. Like, I'm not, I would never, like, I know I'm not gonna do that. Talk about that.

SPEAKER_01

You said you were fat. Now, you did some surgeries.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. You did a little light bulb, you did some little light bulbs. I did, I did, I did. What was that like? I'm curious because sometimes I feel like just carve some of this shit out of me and I'll feel better. I should have got it. But I'm nervous. Well tell me.

SPEAKER_00

You should be. Yeah. You should definitely be nervous because the process after the surgery, like the surgery is one thing, but it's like the recovery, it is painful. Like I had like sharp like pains and like felt like stuff was sticking me, and you have to wear this garment. How big were you? Because you're in good shape. Well, I I was I was 240 pounds. Uh-huh. But but the the I went to get surgery because I had gynecomastia, and that's the overdevelopment development of male breast tissue. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And so that's not something you can do push-ups and it go away, or something you can bench press. I can bench press forever and still have them. Because it's a tissue. You can't work it away. Uh, so I had to get it surgically removed. So that, and I'm like, okay, well shit, why you here? You can just, while I'm asleep, you can just go ahead and take some of this. Oh, yeah, get a little of that too. Yeah, so yeah. Throwing the booty, like that girl would do. I didn't do that part. I didn't go there. That's okay. I don't need all of that. But but um, so I had after that I had to wear a garment for a year. Um, like, and then I had to, it was, it was, it was a process. And then you get to the point where like you're very itchy and you can't scratch it. I don't forget what they call it, like a ghost itch or something. It's just like itchy, but like you can't get to it. Because you got the the and even if but even if like you can feel it, like I don't know, I don't know, it's weird. Did it work? What did what work? A fat? Whoa, gone. For the most part, okay, enough a little residual fat in there, but for the most part, it was it was it was gone. Would you go back and do it again? No, no, I I don't I don't it's the recovery. I don't I don't like the didn't having to wear the garment in the I'm in all of my clothes and sitting up like this because this thing is making me sit straight. I'm just I don't I don't really care for it. But because my main thing was this like since I was 12, I wanted to get the surgery done. But yeah, they said they the insurance wouldn't cover it because they weren't big enough or whatever. But yeah. How would you go get that done? Was that local or did you go to Mexico or somewhere like that? Oh no, I so I went to Atlanta, it was a place in Atlanta, uh Nip and Tuck in uh in it's somewhere in Atlanta. Okay. That's where I went. Yeah. And but I did go to Columbia uh and I went there to get my teeth done there.

SPEAKER_01

Get your teeth done too? Yeah, look at that smile. That's why that smile's so good. Yeah, I guess I gotta go to Columbia.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you know, you don't have to because you're way richer, I think. Uh so you get paid here. Because out of but though, out of the country is uh, you know, a lot of stuff is cheaper. I have a hair transplant set up in Turkey next month. And I'm not gonna go. I got some connections over there for people.

SPEAKER_01

Uh you better make sure there's a good one, though.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I I don't think I'm gonna go. Uh I think I'm gonna cancel that.

SPEAKER_01

Nah, man, you'll be all right. You'll be all right. I I don't I didn't when you start messing with your actual face and the way you look, yeah, to me, I don't know, man. That's scary.

SPEAKER_00

So I wouldn't really, I wouldn't really touch my face, but I mean I feel like I've done everything I kind of want. The only thing I did to my face, of course, which is nothing that altered the it was just my skin. Yeah. So I did got laser hair removal, but that's normal. So you, you know, but yeah, I wouldn't know. It's a lot, certain stuff I wouldn't do, and certain stuff I would. But I I I encourage plastic surgery. If there's something you're interested in, something you want to do, yeah, I'm not this type of person, like, oh yeah, you don't need to do that.

SPEAKER_01

You must not watch botch. I watch too much of the botch.

SPEAKER_00

I I watch it, I've seen it, but at the same time, it's like maybe just do your research. Because maybe you went to the wrong person.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and I'll do the old red light and all that stuff, like, you know, but the the the natural thing. It's like going there and just saying, perform surgery, make me look like Brad Pitt. Yeah, wake up and I'm Brad Pitt.

SPEAKER_00

Well, some people get the abs done. I won't do that either. Like they do ab etching. I could have got, I'm not doing all that shit.

SPEAKER_01

You should have done it when they're in there. Like, go ahead and etch them.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I but that costs extra. No, just do the main stuff. I don't want to do all of that. But yeah. Um I I just I just think that if it's something that you're you're not comf confident with and you want to kind of change it, fine. I just I don't like when people go overboard and they end up doing too much and then they can't reverse it. Right. So that's that's tough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You know, being a comedian, um, having to create these sets. Do you have one set that you like better than another? You know?

SPEAKER_00

I always like the newer one. What because I'll I'll use one for so long, and then I'll slowly come up with another one. Um and it's like the the next one is always better than the last one. And I don't know if it's like that because I'm just tired of saying it, I'm tired of hearing it. But it's like, I don't know, the new one is fresh.

SPEAKER_01

It's how many times would you say you do a set the exact same way? How many places, how many shows? Typically, how does that work? I don't think viewers really would understand that. Like it's a lot.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, like I've I've I've been basically touring for like I'm out of town every weekend for the most part. Um for the since not last year, but November 2025. So November this year would be two years. And I the first set I had, I I kind of toured that for close, maybe close to that first seven months or something. And then but here and there I like tweak stuff, change stuff, take that out, add that in, or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Or forget things.

SPEAKER_00

You ever forget things? Oh yeah. Um yeah, but when you forget, it's like, okay, you kind of just I I like as I'm training theater, so it's like a keep going. Like, and then when once you're live and you're doing stand-up, it's like, okay, I forgot something. What's your name? What do you do for work? You know, like I can just start talking to the people, and then I might kind of go back and like, okay, got it, you know. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's it's it it could be tough.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, you know, preparation when it comes to making your jokes, what do you do? Like you write things down, you chat GPT in them now with AI and everything.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I would say it out, okay. So I have an idea, and then I just start talking and saying it out loud. And then once it gets funny, I'm like, oh shit, let me write that down. And so then I write it, and then after I write that part that was funny, I kind of write around it. And then I'll then I'll say it again out loud. And then over time, that joke just develops and it gets funny. Maybe I say it somewhere and somebody says something, and then I'll say something back and it's just funny, and then I just kind of like, how can I add that little part in to this joke and I'll just say that from here on out? So some jokes just develop over time. A lot of jokes develop over time.

SPEAKER_01

You know, you know, I'm trying to compare it a little bit to music. So let me ask you a question because this is with music and stuff, a lot of people, you know, they they create beats and stuff, and they get paid on beats based on music and all that. Um, some people do lines and verses and those things. In comedy, is there a place where people can actually do that as well? Where I can actually, I mean, I got a bunch of jokes. I like, I just don't want to get up and perform. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't have that courage, I don't have that. Like, is there a place or a platform where people can actually put their jokes in and somebody can say, yeah, I'm gonna take that joke and purchase it for 10 bucks or whatever?

SPEAKER_00

I I you know you probably should start that. We need to do that. We need to do that. I've never heard no, I well, if you know what, if there is, I am not privy to it. Like, I I have never heard of that.

SPEAKER_01

Because to me, it'd be like, you know, there's a lot of people that you know throughout their days shit happens and it's funny. But yeah, it's like, man, that would be that would be a stereotype. But they're not performers, but I'm not performer, right? Exactly. You know what I'm saying? So, but in the hands of a guy like him, it'd be like, oh, this he would he would this would be great for him, yeah, you know, type of thing. And then pull from those people that's there's your set, you got a whole new set. Yeah, you know what I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Based on that, and and like you said earlier, it you know, traveling a lot, it makes it traveling and then I'm busy. So, like if I'm not traveling, I'm doing something to the point where it's like kind of it's kind of hard to try to come up with new stuff, like a new set every time because I'm not like doing a show, go home, not doing nothing until I can do another show. Right. Like I'm doing a show, go home, content all week. I'm trying to do this over here and do that. And it's just like, okay, show again. Right. And it's so it's like I didn't I haven't had time to make a new make a new joke. Um, but yeah, it's and and so that would be a thing, you know. The having some jokes, like somebody else having jokes that you could pay for. That that yeah, that would be, I think that's a good idea. Yeah, maybe we gotta shit. We gotta pass that stuff, man. We gotta put that out there and create an app and do that. That would be good for sure.

SPEAKER_01

You know, because I'm sure there's some funny shit out there. Yeah. Yeah. People want to say but can't, but don't know how to. So don't know how to have a platform, you know, which is which is important as well. Yeah, which is cool. All right, man. Well, listen, this is part of the show where I do a rapid fire questions. Okay. So I'm gonna fire some questions off at you. Let's do it. Let's just see what uh what you got to say about it. All right, funniest creator alive. Outside of me. Ah, I love it. Yes, he threw himself in there first.

SPEAKER_00

I like it. Um my gosh. Oh, so many, and I hate the answers. B Lynn, her name is Brittany Lynn. She's so funny to me. And there's a lot of cousins here. She's funny. Okay, you said one. Okay. Here we go. Hardest app to grow on. You uh YouTube. The hardest, I don't care what nobody says. Most toxic comment ever made towards you. Oh. You I'm fat shaming.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

I would never do that.

SPEAKER_01

Biggest celebrity that follows you.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe Octavia Spencer. I don't know. Okay. Worst skit you ever posted. You um, you know, whatever it is, I took the shit down already, so I don't remember it. I don't know. What was it?

SPEAKER_01

Come on, tell the viewers.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know. No, I don't. Because it's it's not all the time, but it's like sometimes something can I can post something, and then I'm like, oh, this is actually kind of bad, huh?

SPEAKER_01

You gotta send the thing to me, man. I want to know which one it is.

SPEAKER_00

I figure it out and I can send it to you.

SPEAKER_01

Uh one thing fans misunderstand about you.

SPEAKER_00

I don't, I think they're pretty much I don't, I'm I haven't been in that situation where it's like, I'm well, I'm I guess I'm not one of those people to where I'm I come off, I might come off a way sometimes. Yeah. He just got it. He just got that. Yeah, I I probably I probably I might come off. I might come off a certain way to certain people sometimes. Um, but that's that's not who I am. And I don't mean like I never mean to offend people. Like I'm like the least offensive person in the world. I try to be at least. I'm not offensive. I can only do rapid fire and be this long with questions with a comedian.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. All right, a couple more.

SPEAKER_00

Famer peace. Oh, peace. I would if if I could just oh see, see, if I could just have the money, if I could just have the money and and nobody knew me and I just live, I'm cool. Would you still would you still perform? If I like performing. That's why I'm asking. So I would I would I wouldn't even perform for the money.

SPEAKER_01

I perform for fun, but the money's. If you had the money, if you had the money, would you still perform or would you retire yourself? If you go to the place that you were happy and peaceful.

SPEAKER_00

You know, I would love to just be on a boat or like a resort and just stay there. And so I think I would rather just maybe not perform.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, I'm gonna tell you, you're being selfish right now. Really? And I'm gonna tell you why. God has given you a talent. And that's why you Okay, no, no, he's giving you a talent. And if you made a ton of money from that talent, yeah, don't enjoy your money, be peaceful, but still share that talent.

SPEAKER_00

No, I you know, I still perform. I still perform. I just don't know if I will be making videos.

SPEAKER_01

You just perform once a year instead of every weekend.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01

Give us once a year, man. Okay. Come out there and give us that, right?

SPEAKER_00

I would do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Stand up or social media.

SPEAKER_00

Mmm. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_01

Come on, I got a few here, man. Let's go. Um, stand up. Stand up? Yeah. You know what? But social media is so easy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You could stay and do it from home. It is.

SPEAKER_00

You don't have to go nowhere, you don't have to travel nowhere, you don't have to do anything. They're both different and in hard and different aspects in their, you know, in their own way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You like to travel, you like to enjoy the people.

SPEAKER_00

I do, I do. And I and I like to feel the energy. Right. And and like I I love being on stage. That's true. So you can't feel that in social media. No.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you can't see it through the likes.

SPEAKER_00

You can't comment. With the likes. You can't.

SPEAKER_01

Give them hearts, give them comments, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

If I posted this 10 minutes ago and it got like 15,000 likes, oh yeah, we're in it now. I feel what I feel on stage. Yeah. Love it.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Netflix, Netflix special or a Hollywood movie. Oh, wow. Uh, you know what? I have to go Hollywood movie. There you go. You won't be a movie star. See, I knew down deep inside, you really still want to be a movie star.

SPEAKER_00

I would I would definitely do the special. Yeah. But I, I, I, I would love that movie.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's great. That's great. I love it. Um, you know, younger people that are out there chasing, wanting to be a comedian, people that are, you know, looking into it, or some people have told them, hey man, you're funny. You should find uh uh an open mic, you know, situation. What would you tell the people today?

SPEAKER_00

I would tell them to build their platform on social media because even if you're not funny in person, if you if you can garner an audience, if you can garner people to buy tickets, you then get to headline. Like I I and the reason the reason why a lot of comedians who have been doing comedy for 20, 30 years, the reason they don't like people like me is because they feel like, oh, you had it easy. But at the same time, because because what they have to do is what they had to do is go to open mic after open mic, like tons of open mics before anybody ever seen them or before they got an opportunity. And when they see that, oh, I have a show, it's like, well, how are how you have a show and you didn't put in the work that we did. But at the same time, it's like, I've been working. Like, I and it started from plays. Like, I start like everybody's interest to something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody's interesting to something is different. And I was acting even before college, right? But it's just like I've I was I'm on stage, I'm I'm acting, so it's just like I'm I'm perfecting my stage presence, right? I'm working on that. And then when I get online years later, I'm I'm I'm writing stuff now. I'm I'm I'm acting on on camera and I'm being funny now, and I'm I'm working on the comedy side. And so then I get to a point later on years after that where I kind of piece those together and start a stand-up. But all they saw was, oh, you have followers, and you know, you you have a show now, and they just feel like, oh yeah, you didn't do it the right way. But it's kind of no right way. Nah, there's no way there's a way. This is yeah, it's it's like everybody has their, like I said, their own entrance into a thing, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, and you know what? Sometimes people use comedy to get in acting, sometimes people use acting to get in comedy. But yeah, you know, like I'm like I'm saying, like you just don't know. Yeah, but things open up when when stuff happens. Um, so which which which is extremely important. Has anybody ever really um you know said that you you remind them of somebody? If somebody had to choose a comedian stuff, what what have you heard that, hey, you remind me of somebody? Any names that were ever thrown out?

SPEAKER_00

Every blue moon is very rare. Uh uh, I have maybe I have I probably had like three people in total be like, yeah, you remind me of Bernie Mack. Yeah, I'm like, oh yeah, I like that. That's some good shit. All right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

What about Preacher Lawson? Have you ever heard of Preacher?

SPEAKER_00

I have heard of who that name sounds very funny.

SPEAKER_01

So he won the show. You went on, he went on like Merrick's got talent, whatever, won one of those you know shows that way. I think he finished second. I don't even think he won. But uh he won because he he ended up hitting it big. But he's actually from Atlanta as well.

SPEAKER_00

Really?

SPEAKER_01

That name is I know that person, and it's all about it's all about the delivery, it's about his eyes and his motion, and you have a lot of that. Yeah, you have a lot of yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I use that. It's like once you if you have that, you kind of whatever you have, you just use it. Right. And and yeah, and so that's what I do.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I use it. Whatever, whatever if it's a facial expression, and I know like people, you know, people are like, oh, yeah, it's a facial expression. Oh, okay, well shit. I'm it's what I'm gonna do. That's why I clean my face up.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's why, yeah. There you go. I don't want you to see those little those little hair particles coming out of me. There you go. Yeah, so well, that's awesome. Anything else you want to tell the viewers, man? Tell us a little bit. Where can where can they find you? Where can they look you up?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I am on social media uh at Latrez Anderson. Uh you'll find me. It's a lot of fake pages out there though. Um, but just kind of just use your discernment, I guess. I don't know. It's just type in Latrez Anderson. You'll find me. If it looks fake, it's probably not me. Um, but yeah, and I also have stand-up comedy shows coming up. Um they come in in Atlanta. I've done like eight shows in Atlanta so far. Yeah um maybe in later in the year. I'm trying to get to Vegas. I've been trying to get there for a little minute now.

SPEAKER_01

I met you in Vegas. I got a studio in Vegas too. Yeah. So we wanna I want to come support you, but I gotta come see you in live. Yeah. Yeah, I yeah, you should. We have a good time.

SPEAKER_00

We have a good time.

SPEAKER_01

Um I'll be the huckler. You'll be giving me back my gift.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, but here you go. It's funny. Now tell the story how I got it. Yeah. Um, but no, I haven't been to Vegas yet. I wanna I want to perform. Well, if people asked me to come there, yeah. So, and I asked my manager uh months ago about Vegas. Yeah, we're we're in talks, and I haven't heard anything until you just said that. I'm like, okay, let me remind him. Let me remind him. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

There you go.

SPEAKER_00

Um, but yeah, um, yeah, just shows. I just came out with an ebook. My I I just people wanted to know, like, what's your skincare routine? So I'm like, all right, got it. And then they ask me that all the time. I'm like, put in the e-book. Here you go. There you go. Um, so I just put that out and uh just work, just working on different things, but come to the comedy shows. Come to the comedy shows, there you go.

SPEAKER_01

Ten years from now, people talk about Letres Anderson. What do you want them to say about you?

SPEAKER_00

I love that movie. Yeah. I want them to say that like he that was a good movie. You did good in that movie. That's what I want them to do. In 10 years, be saying that. Because like I said, I I stopped going to acting class. I stopped really submitting myself and doing all these.

SPEAKER_01

You didn't stop because you're acting every day.

SPEAKER_00

Well, yeah, but I wasn't doing going to class anymore. I hear you. And and I stopped submitting myself for roles and stuff, and and I kind of just kind of like stopped. And then I'm like, well, my social media is kind of like blowing up, so let me focus on this. And now it's like I want to get back. Like, that's like the root of me. Like, it's is acting. Like, I love stand-up and I love comedy and stuff, but it's like at I'm an actor at heart, so like I really want to get back today. Oh, we gotta get you back on the screen. Yeah, that's fun.

SPEAKER_01

I got a feel, I got a feeling that's where you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well Lou Traz, man. Been a pleasure having you here. Love to getting to know you a little bit. Thank you. Last words for the viewers out there. Anything you want to say though?

SPEAKER_00

Um, we are currently on Lake Lanier right now. You don't know what the fuck that is, go look it up. I'm about to get the fuck up out of here. Can I cuss? I'm sorry, it's too late now. I'm I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna speed out of here to get away from Lake Lanier. And thank you for having me. Thank y'all for having me. It's been great. Thank you. Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

And there you have it, folks. Man, go follow this guy. You know, if you want to go ahead and put a smile on your face, you're having a bad day, click on his freaking videos. Go to his IG, look at some of his clips, you will die laughing. I promise you that. Don't die. Don't die. Okay, but laugh. Till next Wednesday, baby. Stay positive and keep testing negative.