BMP (Buffalo Music Players) Episode 42: The Rev

The Rev, local comedian @revgotjokes on Instagram, came on the pod to talk about his life as a law student (surprised?) and his observations of the Buffalo comic scene.

For a lot of laughs and an insight into what makes Buffalo special, listen to this episode of the BMP podcast.

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SPEAKER_07 1:57

Good morning, good evening, good night, listeners of BMP. This is Benjamin Joe. And I am Max. And with us today, we've got.

SPEAKER_05 2:18

Hi. Uh I'm Kendall, Kendall Burno. My my my stage name is Rev. You know, Rev got jokes on all platforms. Uh and I'm just happy to be here with y'all. It's really excited. I do comedy around Rochester. I did a stint in Ithaca, New York, did a lot of jokes there, and now I'm uh I'm over here in Buffalo. Wow. Why Buffalo?

SPEAKER_07 2:38

Why why you want to go the other way?

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Uh school. I'll do it. Yeah, yeah. Uh, you know, uh the flagship of New York, it's it's relatively cheap. Um uh right now I'm in school, I'm studying legal studies, kind of joke. Legal studies. Legal studies, yeah. Uh I have a I used to have a joke where it was like, oh, like I do stand-up comedy and I want to be a lawyer, so in short, I'm like, I'm just a court jester. You know? Yeah. Yeah, it's a bad joke. That's why I don't do it anymore. But it's uh, yeah, it's uh it's it's fun. Buffalo, I really enjoy the city out of all the upstate places I've been. I I I put it, I think, number one. Really? Really?

SPEAKER_07 3:19

Where do you mess around with? Do you go to like a lot of the local venues or anything like that? Like, where do you use your jokes?

SPEAKER_05 3:23

I uh I do a lot of jokes right now. We're doing a lot of improv uh at the Buffalo Improv House, which I really like. But I know the Marine Arrow Buffalo Improv House. Awesome, awesome people over there. Um, super funny. I also love the Buffalo Comedy Collective. Shout out the comedy collective literally sick. Um I go to a lot of open mics, of course, like Nietzsche's, Shout out Nietzsche's, um just just a just a really fun comedy scene, I think. Which you know sounds, you know, like sort of weird saying that. That like, oh, the other ones aren't, but like some aren't. How's the Rochester comedy scene? Um it's fun. I mean it's kind of fun. It's uh it's cool.

SPEAKER_02 4:04

It's uh it went from hard to cool really fast. I'm just saying. It's uh put some ice cubes in there real quick.

SPEAKER_05 4:12

I just want to be I think that there's a lot of funny stand-up comics in Rochester, but I think the the degree in which they take stand-up comedy, it's sometimes it's not it's not fun, if that makes sense, you know? Like there's people who go to like go to these who go to open mics in Rochester and they think that Lauren Michaels is gonna be there. Uh and they're gonna get this uh they gonna be put on SNL. Like, no. It's a Thursday night, you're in a bar right now. Yeah, we don't like to burst bubbles here. Just here with the pins just poking. It's just it's just for me, like I do it because I think it's fun. I think a lot of people should also do it because it's fun, man. I don't get that, I don't get it a lot of that. Also, like just some some of the open mind comedians there, you know, it's you know, and they're all great people. It's just that something gotta remember that it's a fun thing we're doing, you know. Yeah, you feel like the ego kind of gets in front sometimes and a little bit, a little bit, especially when it comes in certain act retrospects like collaboration. I feel like at times in Rochester, it's like some people don't want to work with this person, or some people don't want to work with that person. And if you work with this person, then you're now, you know, you black a listener from working with that, right? And I don't really like that. Once again, for me, I really just enjoy it for saying of comedy because I think it's a fun way to like let out what's going on with you and stuff, and I think it's a fun environment to be.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

How'd you get into it? Because it seems like the way you're talking about it's like an outlet for you.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

Yeah, I uh for me, um I I probably had the most cornball way of getting into it. I was I was a freshman in college. Um and going into going into my freshman year of college, uh, before that I did speech and debate in high school. Uh how speech and debate works, there's like debate events and then there's like speech events. And I was I did a lot of speech speech events and stuff, so I did a lot of like dramatic readings and I did a lot of dramatic acting stuff. And so going to my freshman year of college, I wanted to do that again. Like I because I really loved it. I I think that if you're in high school or whatever, you should definitely do it. Like I I had a horrible speech impediment. I couldn't talk to save my life, it helped me a lot, so I want to continue it into college. Gotcha. But that was when COVID was finally coming back. And so like there was like zero clubs. Like that that club essentially would bankrupt. They fired the coach of everyone dispersed, and so I was like, damn, what am I gonna do? So I was going around the the event fair, and I saw this one club called Stand Up Club and it at the college, and I went there just to like get a snack or something, because they have little snacks on the table.

SPEAKER_07 6:45

Yeah, I'll do it. That's where they got me. Exactly. It's like like a little carrot, like the little carrot in the city. Whoever you're talking about, that's how they got me.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

That's how they get you. But uh I went there, I was picking small tips, like, oh, I might try out, and they're like, well, uh, or so I might like try and join. And they're like, well, actually, it's um it's actually very uh hard to get in. You expect to audition for this club, and you know, a lot of people don't make it until there's their junior or senior year. And you're like, no, I'm a master orator, and you don't know me. I am Mr. Bertha. As I took that person, I was like, who do you think you are? It was like I'm looking at it, I was like, you're not funny. So um that person done becoming one of my close friends. They really shut up, man. But um, and then she was like, Yeah, like it's really tough to get into, so like I don't know, but like come to our other club where it is an audition based, we can just train. And I took that personally, you know, shout out Jordan. And so I took that personally, and I went to my roommate, and uh, I just like tried to I walked on to stand up comedy and just banged out the set. Like I just wrote for like I think it was like a month about the stuff that I thought was funny. Yeah. And then I went to auditions, I performed it, and to my shock and all I actually got it. I it was very lucky for my freshman year, and uh I've been doing it ever since then, and that's sort of become my new one of my new outlets.

SPEAKER_03 8:11

So you were all like, fuck you, I'm gonna do this, and then you were surprised that you did it. I'm a spite-filled person. Like, I I have a lot of anger. Yeah, but it seems like your spite just like goes down as like the process goes. Like you finally did, and you were like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

Okay, like it was for me, for me, it was just a shock because like for me, I was um it was just weird because for me, I I thought like, uh, I never thought of myself as a comedian. Like I said before, I got into a stand-up comedy. I was a can I cursed and I said, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a serious ass nigga. I was a serious ass nigga. I was I would um I did a bunch of dramatics. Uh I went to a predominantly like a white Catholic school. Uh-huh. So, like, you know, if you're a funny girl. Exactly. Like you go there, you go there if you're too funny on white people, they think they can test you. That's the thing. They think they can be like, oh, just get a funny, get a something like you're like Sambo or something. I didn't like that. And so I'd be mean and angry and violent. I'd be mean and angry and violent and hurtful and but you have to be a stereotype just to survive. I'd be a stereotype just like a stereotype. It's a layer. You know, it's like, you know, I'm walking around. I'm walking around. I mean, I was cool with like the other people of color there, you know, like that's the thing. Like, what's your when you're in predominantly white space, like all the people of color, they comment, not even just all the black people. Like, there's like, I think there's more like Asian and and like South Asian people at the school than black people, but like, they're we're all niggas, you know? Yeah. And so like with them I'd be cool, I'd be funny and stuff like that. But like to everyone else, I was just sort of like mad. Like, I don't mess with Berna. I'm like the old mess. Don't mess with me, I'll I'll hurt you. All the time I'm a teddy bear, I don't hurt you. I'm I'm I'm soft as baby shit. I got it.

SPEAKER_07 10:02

I do have to go into it's hard for me to imagine a mean well, I guess I guess like a younger, meaner I don't know. Smaller, I guess. I mean you're pretty tall, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 10:12

So it's back then, that's another thing. Everything has sort of evened out a little bit for me as I became funny. Like before, um, in high school, all throughout I was one of the I was slightly taller than a lot of kids until I hit like high school, then I just petered out at five nine, which was upsetting. Yeah, five nine, that's a that's a tough idea to be a tough number, yeah. It's like I'm not I'm not short enough to be a short king, but I'm not tall enough to like make people like want me. I'm just in this in between space, I'm just in between space. But uh when I was coming out of high school, I was uh I was I was just a different person. I was a lot more focused on social justice. I'm still focused on it. Um uh but Well, you're gonna be a lawyer, I guess. Exactly. Yeah, hopefully one of the good ones, right? Well you can hope. See if that money changes check completely different. Went straight to Lockheed Martin. No, but um Carlitos were I uh but uh coming out of high school, I was actually recruited for the under 18 national rugby team. Okay. Um I got recruited to play football around the western New York and New York area, so I was just a lot I like not bigger in like height, but just like bigger in size, you know, and a lot more cut. And um that's why I went to Ithaca originally was to play football. But then like I was like, this comedy stuff is actually pretty fun. And I I stopped doing that, and then immediately I gained like 30 pounds. That's how it works. You start you start doing comedy. It wasn't the freshman uh what was it 15?

SPEAKER_02 11:43

Yeah, the freshman 15, you gained 30, the comedy 30.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

The comedy 30. That's like that's what they would have hit my soul for you because my freshman year I didn't eat real. I was just working out because like even though it's that's another thing. If we're gonna be a division three program, they treat you like it's a job. It's so it's so insanely messed up. Like they had us playing like deaf teams. Like, this is not a bit. We used to play, we played a deaf team called Godet, beat our ass. And they still expect us to come in the next day and do a 6 a.m. lift or like or come to practice and go to meetings. That's I don't know, it was just so weird to me. Like, you're ain't nobody getting no one's getting any money. No one's no one's getting no money, no one's going to the league. We were in we were in the league. I'm sure why do you want to go? No, no, they had the biggest they were bragging, I think, like two years ago because a nigga made the bench of the C of the CFL. Like the Canadian Football League made the bench. I was like, Jesus Christ. Like, I'm glad I left. I'm glad I don't know. And this is another spectrum to play D football. I did it. I did it. I make great friends, I still know guys, would not do it again. I would not do it again. But um, yeah, I don't know. It was I don't know how I'm on this tangent, but yeah, essentially I was just a different person before I got into comedy.

SPEAKER_07 12:58

I got it. I gotta I I it seems like you also had a lot of material that was building up into you into your into your uh into your mind, you know. You know, as soon as you realized that life was worth being happy about, that that um, you know, like it was just c did it just come out or was it a lot of like mine like like mining in the brain?

SPEAKER_05 13:21

It was uh I think it's uh it's a little bit of both. Like when I first started out, it was like it really did feel like it was like a faucet, you know. And not uh all of them like usable. Like I said, like stuff in my notes app from like years ago where it's like, yeah, that's never being brought out to the day. The day ever. Make sure you erase it before you die. That's what I'm gonna leave my kids. I'm a stand-up comic, they're not getting money. They're getting really jokes. Really bad jokes. They're getting really bad jokes that shouldn't have been thrown out. But like at first it was like a false, it's like, oh, this is happening, this is happening, this. But uh, you know, as time goes on, you know, that's when you really I feel like start like sort of mining for stuff, you know. Uh and really just start looking for like comedy in like the to the day in the day-to-day, you know, and the little things.

SPEAKER_07 14:06

I love your I love your skit about the uh about the well not as good, but your your your routine about Instagram handles, we don't I was like, that's smart. It also made me wonder, I was like, how can you actually change your your Instagram handle? But like we went through that earlier in the day.

SPEAKER_05 14:21

It's more so like you the niggas just don't think ahead of time, I feel like. I got this idea. Shout out, shout out to my man Vinny. Um, because his Instagram handle is like Sir Mooks a lot. So it was like you're gonna get married one day. You're gonna have a wife, you could have kids.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

You don't know that. You don't know that. Don't put that on the man. Don't put that on him. He's gonna do it. He doesn't, you don't know that. You don't even know what's gonna happen five seconds from now. It could be the fact that Vinny gets married.

SPEAKER_07 14:54

Into the world, Jesus comes down there. Like one thing is uh before we do the cop buffs, Vinny come forward.

SPEAKER_05 15:00

Vinny, you we think it's woman and uh you know I should put a bet on Khalichi. Um I really feel like he's going to get I don't know about Nick Vinny. He's gonna get he gonna marry somebody. If you lose, you gotta give me like half of the profit. Half the profit? Half the profit. You know, we can do a bet right. I'll put a I'll put a hundred bucks right now, long-term.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

We'll add interest 100 bucks, 20 years, 5%. I don't have a job. Why do you think I'm doing this? I don't got a job like that.

SPEAKER_05 15:27

I'm trying to get an easy look right now. It's my 401k. I have a question.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

You said that growing up you had a lift, right? Not a lift, I had a better life. Yeah, I started with.

SPEAKER_05 15:43

Uh yeah. As an old white man, you know, I'm a child looking up to him and being like, Mr. Biden, I love you.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

He got over his speech and kind of.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

Kind of kind of no, yeah, just looking at Joe Biden, I was like, yeah, like if he can do it, you know, so can I? He came from nothing. I'm just saying. All he had going for him was his race, his money, his his his establish his father, uh, the coal mines and uh the NPA. That's all he We're the same person, essentially.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Who knows what binds us in the Great Capital Street approach?

SPEAKER_05 16:27

You know, you know, the the president of Canada support but the person of Canada I really support is uh I always support him was Vernon Supreme. You guys you guys know about him? Vernon Supreme, if anyone's listening, look him up. He's uh he's a bearded old man who walked around with a boot on his hat, a big old uh uh leather boot. And I think he's run, he ran he didn't run this past election, but he's run for every election since like I think since like 2000. Yeah. It never never was won. His establishment points are like he wants to give every American a pony. And he wants to like, oh my god, it's like he but uh some of his points I really stand behind. It's stuff like, oh, if you're over 60, we execute you or something. You're down with that? I'm down with that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

I feel like older, and you know I've I'm 22. Well you only got you know, you only got so much time, man. No, listen, I'm behind it.

SPEAKER_05 17:22

I feel like I hit 66. Uh, what do I gotta add now? I I I I gotta be mad at boomers.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

I hit 66, I'm gonna be angry at the world again. Yeah, but when you turn 66, you're gonna have like cool stuff like cybernetics and shit. You don't want cybernetics and shit? I don't want cybernetics. I didn't think about that.

SPEAKER_05 17:38

Well, I don't I don't know. That's a good I think it should be killed though because like blades in your hands and stuff. You can make like a frappuccino with your fingers. Uh I'm not making Frappuccinos. No. Have you seen Cyberpunk? I'm gonna make some some cyberpunk shell. Let me get old and have them give me some cybernetics. I'm gonna be a terror on my community. With coffee. With coffee with copy. I'm I'm throwing it at him as long as that's that spite right there. That's that's the spite coming through. Like I said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, this isn't who I am. I said I was I was happy now. Let me let me at 66 and they give me cybernetics. I'm tossing coffee on niggas. I'm turning into robots and not doing anything of notes, probably still doing state of college. I'm just a robot now. I'll just I'll just uh rob.

SPEAKER_07 18:30

So uh what now I'm wondering, like, well just to go and get some context here. Yeah, yeah. Could you tell me like a joke that you used today, and then tell me a joke that you used way back when?

SPEAKER_05 18:44

Oh, okay. Um a joke that I did back then, it's always tough when people ask me to do jokes, is like as a comic, it's always weird. It's like I guess you could just explain it the whole thing, but it's gonna be something more like an explanation a little bit. But my uh one of the jokes I did uh when I first like this was my first ever set. I did a joke about how my friends are like assholes. And one of my what happened was my first time ever having sex, um, which is once again, that's a really rookie comic mistake. If you talk about sex as a comic, I don't think you're that great of a comic. It's not because that's what everyone does, and it's not oftentimes not funny. But it was my first time, so give me a break. I was uh doing a set. Uh the the joke was like all my friends are assholes. Like if I when I lost my virginity, I I had uh I think we like snuck out and had sex in like the the we had sex like at their house or like in their in a car or something. And we had sex, but I didn't know how to use the condom, and so I just you know I just went in raw. And I had gone into my head so much about it afterwards, I was like, oh my god, like this is horrible, like I definitely got her pregnant, like this is stupid. And so I called my friends thinking that like hey, like they're gonna calm me down. Like they would be like, oh, it's okay, like nothing happened. But I called my friend, and he was like, nigga, that's gonna be an ugly baby. And that baby's gonna be chopped as hell, like that's nigga, you're gonna be a horrible dad, too. It was just like a then he called in my other friends, and it was just under a 10-minute road session about how bad of a dad I'd be. Damn. And so that was like one of my first jokes I did, and it was like more like story-based and anecdotal, and talked is kind of like blue and raunchy, but now like a lot of my comedy is like I don't know, it's it's a lot more like bitty, you know, like I have a like it's or like observational, like I have a bit now about like how I don't like uh apps that have like a wrapped function. And like uh like I just like Uber has uh has a thing called Uber where it gives you a rapt for the year, like which we did with Uber. I I didn't need to know that I'm in the top 1% of people who eat Arby's. I don't like it's like it was in February too. That's that seems anti-black.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Yeah, Arby's is just fast food struggle meals. That's that's pretty much all that is.

SPEAKER_05 21:07

Like, who cares if it's uh who cares if it's 2 a.m. and I want a roast beef sandwich? Why are you staying in the place? Uber why are you recording that? That's why I don't need to know the the amount of times I threw up in my Uber this year. That's what that's horrible. That's fucked up, you know? I paid the I paid my service fees every single time I came out of my beating. That seems rude and disrespectful. And so like now my comedy is like less about stories and just more about like those stupid things.

SPEAKER_07 21:36

Um That's cool though. I mean, like, and yet I mean yeah, I don't think I could think of a bunch of stupid things enough to go and like put into a time segment. I mean, how long did your your act usually go? Like, I actually don't even know how much an ordinary like act usually goes.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

It's like fifteen, twenty ten, fifteen minutes.

SPEAKER_05 21:53

It's it's like a for a lot of um.

SPEAKER_07 21:56

I think it's your long special.

SPEAKER_05 21:58

Then no one can touch it. I'm gonna switch up. I'm gonna kill Tony. Don't kill Tony, start grifting him. That's the dream. That's the dream being. I think I don't know where it came from and just start grifting. Just grift. I don't think that should be a but yeah, it's um I'm sorry, I just forgot the question completely.

SPEAKER_07 22:20

Uh oh, I I I guess like, yeah, how long is this? Like, can Bale's going fill up how much how much how long is each joke? Like, do you have like a time minute? I'm just wondering about like when that's the book. It's kind of like how the sausage is being made, because I'm not a funny guy. Like, I wish I would I did more jokes.

SPEAKER_05 22:36

It's uh so like just the stand-up comedy works usually for a lot of stand-up comedy is um it goes like you start off doing stand-up comedy and you hit like the the open mic circuit. Um in a lot of upstate New York, it's like uh you get like three to five minutes. Um there's a few mics that will give you like some maybe seven to ten, depending on there. Um in the upstate New York area, it's like the average like five to six minutes. But if you go down to like like the city or like LA or other places, like it gets down to like you know like two minutes. They have like an oversaturation of an oversaturation of comics, but like you go to like a New York City or not even Austin or LA or any Chicago. That's for the real comedy new fucking comedy action. I'm sorry. Oh fucking uh Rochester Avenue. I ain't going there. Um but it looks like New York, it's like two to three minutes, and you have to actually pay to go to an open mic. It's like minimum, or like what three to five dollars like performance time. Um but uh up to New York, like it's not like that in most places. But yeah, so like usually like you start format, or at least how I always want about it, I would write a set, and then after I write a set that's probably like 10-15 minutes, I'll sort of chop it up, and then I'll go to like if there's like five open mics in a week, uh, each open mic, I'll do like this chunk of the set, and then at the next open, this chunk of the set, this chunk of the set, right?

SPEAKER_07 24:18

That's okay.

SPEAKER_05 24:19

And then, you know, yeah, uh, but for most comics you make your bones do an open mic. Um, and then after you do good at a bunch of open mics, you get invited to a showcase from someone who runs an open mic. They're like, hey, you're one of the funny ones here. Is that what happened with you and uh Gion? Uh yeah, that's um That's what happened with me and Gion, he he put me on, shout out him. Sorry, Gion. My my first time ever being put on the showcase though was in uh in Rochester um at uh what's it called? At the Rock City, at the Rock City open mic. Or not Rock City, Rock Cinema. Um shout out Shane. Um and uh the what is the vlog called, The Sleeping Man? Um it's some vlog. Uh oh my gosh, the Interloop the Interloop. Um he hosted an open mic uh weekly, and you'd uh vote to see who was the funniest, and if you're the funniest, you go to the showcase where you can get paid. That was my first time getting like ever a paid gig. I felt like I got $50. It was like a lot. No, it was a lot for me. I'm a pro college student. That's that's at least like 30 packs of ramen. That's uh money for me. You know? Uh that's that's that's like going to the bar like 10 times for me. You know? Wow. Um but yeah, that was my first time. Um one of the funny things though for me, I'm gonna go on the chance again, I'm so sorry. But I uh for me it was a bit different because I started doing comedy in college, and so I did a lot of college shows at my college. I performed at Cornell for their college students. Oh but it wasn't my face, it was just like all like students helping out students and their whatever. And so like college students, because I was in college, they thought I was funny that that was hilarious. But like one of for me, one of the biggest learning curves was now hitting that open night scene in in like cities. Yeah. Because for them, it's like they I remember like I remember coming this summer, coming home that summer and being like, oh, I'm funny. Oh, I'm gonna kill it by these. I don't know. Nothing like a joke in the bomb. Five open five bombs. Oh my god. It's not like a single joke funny at so for me, um That's a good learning experience, though. Great learning experience for me. And it's like, yeah, like if I wanna being funny, it's it's so much more than being funny for your being so much more about being funny for not everybody, but for that room. For that room moment. Exactly. And so for me, that was I was like, oh, okay, like I I can't go to this 40-year-old mom on a Thursday night and just want to drink and like see what's going on and start talking about like you know, Fredbird's in college, or like oh my virginity, or oh it's you know, like that they don't want to hear that bullshit at all. Yeah. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:11

But you seem to amaze it, like having a show. Actually, before we get into that, um one rule that we have on this uh podcast is that we talk a little bit about music in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 27:22

Awesome.

SPEAKER_07 27:22

And I was wondering, uh, you know, all the local people, who who did you think would be a good uh good person to highlight?

SPEAKER_05 27:29

Uh I'm gonna say shout out, uh I'll say shout out Amiri. Amiri. I think he's really I think he's really cool. I think he's with uh I think his music was good. I heard him performed live at Amy's place where he said the song was like fuck the KKK. Fuck the KKK. That shit was so tough to me. I heard the first time. Um That's awesome.

SPEAKER_07 27:53

It really resonated with you.

SPEAKER_05 27:55

No, yeah, it's like I don't know, it's a song that's I just just saying fuck Fuck the KKK. Like, oh my god, so I love the I love NWA, so I just I don't know. I just also just hate white people. I don't hate white people I can't say that. That's give me give me work one day, please white man. It's your time. You can burn it hard. But no, I think I think it maybe is a I think it's really good to talented. There's there's another um artist who's leaving my name who I also saw at Amy's place. Um like uh tall blonde hair, bumble. Yeah, bumble. He's really extremely talented. Um every time I see him, and like he also got that shit on too. Like he's always uh Bumble is very bumble. He's very bunny. I feel like he got the music, he's got the clothing. I really think that. So which one would you want us to uh you put that bumble? Okay, pull that bumblebee.

SPEAKER_07 28:49

Put a bumble.

SPEAKER_05 28:50

Alright. Put him on.

SPEAKER_07 28:52

Here's Bumble.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

This just then, a double scoop of bad news. Man, life just isn't letting up. I feel like the walls are closing in, and I don't have a way to stop it. I wish there was somewhere I could go. Some place where I could just get away from everything. And just be creative.

SPEAKER_04 29:19

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Wow, that sounds great. I'll check it out.

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SPEAKER_07 30:37

And that was Bumble.

SPEAKER_05 30:40

Great musician, great guy. Can't wait to see him blow, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, to get big and be like uh this guy called me a slur back in 20. No, he didn't do that. I'm just gonna catch you on this man.

SPEAKER_07 30:55

But um You got something coming up of your own shelf, though.

SPEAKER_05 30:59

Yep, I got a I got a show happening at uh area 51 slash Amy's place.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

Area 54.

SPEAKER_05 31:05

Area 54, that's what it is. It's alright. It's alright. It's uh it's a little bit of a performance art piece almost. I'm gonna try and do 50 minutes of comedy. Wow. Um, and also drink half a gallon of milk and a pound of cookie and eat a pound of cookie.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

Lactose and tolerant.

SPEAKER_05 31:22

Lactose and tolerant.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Now my question is, why?

SPEAKER_05 31:26

Why uh I cannot give it a I mean the comedian part will kind of already give it away, but it's a little bit extra. So why why? Um I saw uh my main inspiration was I saw a stand up comic do a show on drop out TV, and the whole show was surrounding him doing a backflip, which he had never done before. Until that point. Uh oh my god, I'm forgetting his name, but I thought it was like the funniest thing ever. He had a lot of like little like it was just gonna come at little like like live sketch portions of it, which was really funny.

SPEAKER_06 32:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:06

And at the end of the show, sure enough, he he he tried to do a flip. Um supposed to expect. Yeah, he looked the floor. Yeah, he but um I I really liked that. I I really liked that sort of gag he did in it. I liked the little performance art pieces, but also during the uh his show, he had like a he had a really big like thesis part of it where like for him was doing the flip and stuff like that. He brought the point where like his first time ever doing the show, um, he did the flip and he ate shit. And he for him, when he got up, it was like for him he got up and his first thought was like, am I okay? Like his first thought was I have to keep on performing. You know, and he didn't care there was the experience of the black man with how in this country feels like you have to perform. I that really resonated with me. And so I said I want to do something like that, where it's like a fun portion of it. I'm doing comedy, but it's a big piece of it. I don't wanna, you know, I I don't wanna spoil the pieces so like if that's not interesting to come out, come out to the show 7 p.m. April 9th, uh uh and and see if I I I I really like how the ride.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

So you'll either like die or say something very profound. Hopefully they don't die.

SPEAKER_05 33:27

I get the profound bit out. That's that's I hope so too.

SPEAKER_07 33:34

I'm I'm looking forward to that. All right, BMP listeners, thanks for tuning in today. Um, I will see you you hopefully we'll see us all at the um at the show in April. And um just shout out to all those comedians out there trying to go and hope it's more hoping back to the next.

SPEAKER_05 33:52

Yeah, but it's grueling. It's a grueling thing, and uh all I ask is that if I'm in the audience, maybe maybe don't talk about your therapist for so long, you know, or talk about how much you hate your wife. That's more of a personal request.

SPEAKER_07 34:08

That's just me then towards the Reverend right there.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

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