Episode #3.5 - Comedy with a Family

Dave talks about doing comedy while not wanting to get divorced or have his kids hate him as they grow up!

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What's up everyone? Welcome back to the comedy podcast where comedy meets yourslash my commute. I'm your host, Dave Thompson. This is episode 3.5. If you've never listened before, thank you so much for listening, you guys. Huge announcement. 58 listeners on my last episode. Thank you so much, you guys, for listening to the podcast. I record this podcast audio only while I'm in the car because I do DoorDash for a living and I drive places to do comedy. And so it just makes sense that I don't have time to do a regular sit-down video podcast, but I do have time to record in the car, and I have thoughts I want to get out. So thank you so much for listening. Almost 60 listeners is absolutely insane. You guys are going crazy. Some people are sharing. Thank you guys so much for sharing. Ed, Dan, multiple people have shared. Thank you so much for sharing the podcast. You're freaking awesome. I love you guys. You're wonderful. You're amazing. Beautiful. All right, let's get to it. Parenting. Parenting. Parenting is hard. I have three children. Comment how many kids you have. Whether you're on Spotify, you're on Apple. Message me, DM me. How many kids you got? Is parenting hard? Yes or no? Of course, yes. Let's talk about it. Let's discuss. You guys, I was I was talking about this recently because it is difficult sometimes to do comedy when you have kids. Because there's a time commitment from you where you have to go out and you go to clubs and you're working out material at mics and you're on shows and you're traveling. It's hard when you have younger kids. You know, I have a my nine-year-old boy, I have a seven-year-old girl, and I have a one-year-old girl. So I got a lot. And I also have a smoking sizzling hot wife at home. You know what I'm saying? Like, do I ever really bomb? I bomb on stage. But you know, you know how much easier it is to bomb on stage? And how much easier of a pill it is to swallow to bomb on stage, and then you go home and your wife is just a smoking hot bomb. Just a freaking smoke show. Oh, wow! It makes it so much easier. And and you go home and you have kids that are excited to see you that love you, and you have a smoking hot wife who like has dinner made for you. It's like, yo, babe, check it out. I made you some chicken nuggets and some corn and some green beans and some buttery home-style garlic mashed potatoes. Would you like sauce with that? Uh yeah, I would like you to get saucy with that. Okay. Um, yeah, so bombing on stage uh makes it easier. Uh, you know, when you have a wonderful family. But I wanted to talk about this because maybe some of you have families and you guys are doing comedy. Find the balance. Find the balance. When I first started, I was absolutely killing myself uh doing comedy. I was doing 40 or 50 mics a week. Yes, that is very possible and very easy actually, once you get to know where the mics are and and and kind of plan a route for yourself. The most mics I've ever done in one day is 11. I've done 11 mics in one day. Um, but yeah, I was just kind of killing myself with the amount that I was doing it because I really hate sucking at stuff. Do you guys hate sucking? Okay, that sounds weird. Do you guys just hate being terrible at something? I hate being terrible at something. And when you start comedy, even when you're just like when you're getting in it, like you're freaking terrible. Like, you might have a couple pops and you're like, yo, I gotta laugh. You know what I'm saying? That's how I looked at it. I don't know everyone's gifted or talented in their different ways, but for me, I was like, yo, I gotta laugh. And I was like, Woo! I gotta laugh. They people said I was interesting after. That's pretty good, right? People said I was interesting. That's cool. Yeah, I mean that's cool, but like I want to really be funny, you know what I'm saying? Now I'm like, I'm trying to get six laughs a minute. Not six laughs every five minutes. You know what I'm saying? It's different, it's different now. But yeah, I would say find the balance with your family, find the balance with your with your spouse, with your partner. Do you have a do you have a partner in life? Or maybe you're a you're a single dingle? Okay, whether you're a single dingle or you got a partner, whatever it is that you got, right? Figure it out, make it work. If it's something that you want, make it work. Let them know about it, get them involved. How? Maybe run some bits by them once in a while. I run bits by my wife, and she hates it. She absolutely hates it. She does not like listening to the bits, and I get it. Okay, she first of all, she doesn't even really think I'm that funny. She's never come to see me in person. The first time she comes to see me in person, I want to be absolutely on fire. I need to be like at the ice house, sold-out show, legendary room, and and she uh just has to see me murder because if not, she's gonna be like, This is what you are leaving us for. You're leaving us to go bomb in another city? What? No, but for real, definitely talk with your partner. Partner! Talk with your person about comedy, work it out, freaking talk to your kids about it. I talk to my kids about it too, and you know, I do shows at home. I don't know, people don't think you could do a sh do a show at home. Oh that's weird. I did 40 minutes at home. 40 minutes of material at home. I put a spotlight on myself, I turned off all the lights, I had my kids sit down and I entertained them for 40 minutes. Even if I got one line out of that, that was still worth it, and they're gonna remember that forever. You know what I'm saying? Get some stage time at home. Don't be a freaking slacker. Get some stage time at home. Get some stage time at work. Okay? Write a couple of jokes that you could say at work. We're talking TV approved, not talking about somebody's booty, not talking about somebody's cootie, and not talking about your ding-a-thing. You know what I'm saying? Maybe make some jokes that are a little bit more kid-friendly, a little bit more, I don't know, TV freaking approved, whatever you want to say, and get some stage time in life. You know, for me, sometimes I run bits by the cashiers as I'm checking out with the order. Sometimes I'll run a bit by the cashier at the restaurant, sometimes I'll run a bit with the customers. I'm scanning their ID because they're ordering an alcoholic beverage because they're a drunk. Not that they are drunk because that's illegal to deliver alcoholic beverages to drunk people. I was referring to a hypothetical situation where they maybe are alcoholics and or get drunk. It's just a bit, I'm a comedian, we move on. All right. But that being said, yes, uh try and get some stage time where you can. Um, doing a podcast like this for me helps me get thoughts out and helps me get ideas and lines out. Uh, also, a writing group would be great. I've been trying to start a writing group for a while. I know I discussed it on a previous podcast that there was a person that I tried to start a writing group with that was very cruel and very mean to me. The wonderful Johnny Gold reached out and he said, Name that person, name that person immediately. We are going to put them at the stake and we are going to kill them. No, I'm just kidding. He did not say that. Uh, first of all, shout out Johnny Gold. Guy's amazing. Got a roast battle coming up this weekend. If you guys are in the area, definitely want to check out. I think it's in Claire Montmont Clair, whatever. Follow Johnny Gold. Johnny Gold's a freaking I.e. legend. The guy's amazing. Follow Johnny Gold. We love Johnny Gold. We love Johnny Gold. He's amazing, Johnny Gold. Um, but no, I don't want to name that person. But you know what I do like doing? I do like writing bits. And I feel like if I maybe understand your voice or I listen to your comedy enough that I could maybe add a tag or or be helpful. And I'm always down to like help if I'm able to or if I have the energy. You know what I'm saying? I'm always down to help. So if you ever hit me up, you'd be like, hey, I'm thinking about this, you know, what what are your thoughts? Uh, I'd be more than happy to give you my thoughts if I have time to do so. And yeah, that's just it. And then you'd be like, Well, why would I do that for you? Why would I do that for you? Why would I do that? Why would I why would I reach out to you? What do you have to offer me? Well, you don't have to, but I do get laughs, and people do think I'm funny. So I don't know. You know, let the let the people speak for itself, you know what I mean? If we're trying to make the same people laugh, you know, I'm at shows, you're at shows, I'm at mics, you're at mics. Alright, well, yeah, it's just, you know, it is what it is. All of us are open micers that are probably listening. You're probably not listening to this if you're like Chris Rock. You know, you're not listening to the Carmedy podcast, Chris Rock. If Chris Rock ever listened to the Carmody podcast, I would eat my shoe. Soul if Chris Rock was listening to the pod. My soul could not take that. So, yes, I would eat the soul first. Um, by the way, if you guys are hearing little blips in the podcast, it's because I keep having to click resume recording because for some reason it's stopping because it's stupid. So I'm so sorry if the if there's the little pop on the audio. That's my fault. That's my bad. It's my freaking stupid phone, stupid apples, stupid iPhone, stupid sorry, they're listening. I love you. I love you. Don't get mad at me. I love you, Apple. Love you, little kisses. Um, yeah, but getting back to the stuff about family, um, being a parent, being a parent's crazy. I do think there's there's a lot of um gosh, there's just so many for me, like having a dad that was not great. That yeah, I mean he was around, but he wasn't like around, you know, and he was also like a big freaking jerkhead. And like seeing what that's like up close just makes it so much easier to just like love your kids, you know what I mean? And and so I feel like I I can just do the opposite of whatever he did, and then I could be a pretty good dad, and then going above and beyond that, I really try and recognize my kids' emotions and what it what what they're feeling, and and really try and you know and invest in them some wisdom, you know. Sometimes you just gotta tell people how it is, and straight up so that they aren't stupid. I don't want to raise stupid that my biggest fear is raising stupid kids. Because when your kid is stupid, and I don't mean when your kid does something stupid necessarily, because I've seen kids that have great parents that have other kids that were raised well, and maybe they were just abusing this kid, and maybe he wasn't he wasn't loved by them. Maybe, maybe there's always that chance, right? Maybe, but I'm talking like I've seen parents have kids that have every opportunity to be smart and they're loved and they're taken care of and they're well off financially, and they still do the stupidest, dumbest stuff. I'm not saying that I my biggest fear is my kid doing something stupid even though I'm giving him the things he needs, I'm saying just the kid being dumb because I'm not teaching him something. That's my biggest fear. Like, my kid doesn't know how to put a straw in a capri son because I never showed him how. Like, I'm gonna show my kid how to put a straw in a capri son. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna show him how. I'm not gonna be 30 years from now, be in my in my 60s and be like, you know what, my kids aren't doing well at all, and they're super socially awkward, and and nobody loves them because they didn't know how to drink a Capri Sun in front of other kids. You know, I I couldn't handle that. So I just I'm making sure I gotta do my part. You gotta do your part. You gotta do your part. Uh, I've been working out some I've been working out some bits. Uh openers for me, honestly, have always been the hardest thing doing an opener. And I have this new opener that I've been using where I say, My name is Dave Thompson. I know with that name you're expecting a white guy. Which is obvious. I mean, Dave Thompson does not sound like the name of Mexican. I say, you know, I know you're expecting a white guy. That is my name. No, I did not steal anyone's identity, I only stole his wallet. Which is silly, it's kind of funny, it's kind of whatever. And then I also talk about uh how people so many people, especially the guy who runs the open mic in American Comedy Co.

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in San Diego, people call me Dave Thomas, or like, hey, isn't your name close to that guy who owns Wendy's?

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I don't know why it sounded like that, but uh yeah, yeah, my name is the same as the guy who or similar to the guy who owns Wendy's. That that's Dave Thomas. Dave Thomas is the billionaire CEO of Wendy's, and so I'll I say something about you know, I if I was Dave Thomas, I wouldn't be in an open mic, I would be at Epstein's Island, you know. It's just silly, it's just silly. Just silly stuff. I'm gonna work on it though. Uh, I definitely need to get a uh freaking what do you call it? A good opener. I I think I think the openers definitely depend on the room and and where you're at and what you're working on, but I definitely wanna get some good openers that really make me feel comfortable to jump into the rest of my set. Thank you guys so much for listening. This has been episode 3.5. Uh, I'm really excited about episode four. Episode four, I have a special guest, Marco Trinidad, joins me on the Carmody Podcast for episode four. So that's super fun. I gotta do a delivery right now, so you guys freaking stay safe. Once again, my name is Dave Thompson. Please follow me on social media platforms at Carmedy Podcast at Dave Thompson Comedy. And thank you so much. Drive safe, be wonderful, and I love you guys. Love you so much. Goodbye. Goodbye.