00:00:04 ◼ ► hello a John Merlin how's it going get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/4">TS</a>]
00:00:14 ◼ ► wow you sound good voice little i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/14">TS</a>]
00:00:17 ◼ ► yeah I haven't eaten here using your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/17">TS</a>]
00:00:20 ◼ ► scott simpson voice oh well that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/20">TS</a>]
00:00:26 ◼ ► exciting i'm glad i'm not that we found [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/26">TS</a>]
00:00:29 ◼ ► yes yes i am to you been busy you had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/29">TS</a>]
00:00:34 ◼ ► I put on a show I hear good things i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/34">TS</a>]
00:00:38 ◼ ► wish every time I walk out the door [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/38">TS</a>]
00:00:45 ◼ ► feathered headdress the world is just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/45">TS</a>]
00:00:48 ◼ ► big percentage of them that you that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/48">TS</a>]
00:00:51 ◼ ► just enter and exit at your leisure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/51">TS</a>]
00:00:53 ◼ ► yeah I stand out at the front arms arms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/53">TS</a>]
00:00:56 ◼ ► spread wide in Jesus Christ pose ffi I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/56">TS</a>]
00:01:00 ◼ ► say I'm a golden God already does that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/60">TS</a>]
00:01:04 ◼ ► mm she had your shot at the at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/64">TS</a>]
00:01:08 ◼ ► rendezvous how to go at the rendezvous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/68">TS</a>]
00:01:13 ◼ ► experience for me a growing experience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/73">TS</a>]
00:01:15 ◼ ► learning and growing the you know the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/75">TS</a>]
00:01:23 ◼ ► here's what I don't know i do not know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/83">TS</a>]
00:01:27 ◼ ► how to use three-by-five cards and I and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/87">TS</a>]
00:01:35 ◼ ► I know that might sound strange to you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/95">TS</a>]
00:01:37 ◼ ► given how well you utilize three-by-five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/97">TS</a>]
00:01:39 ◼ ► cards i hear them there but I never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/99">TS</a>]
00:01:43 ◼ ► learned to use them I remember a in what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/103">TS</a>]
00:01:47 ◼ ► would have been in general maybe fifth [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/107">TS</a>]
00:01:50 ◼ ► grade is where they first say now you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/110">TS</a>]
00:01:53 ◼ ► going to make a topic statement and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/113">TS</a>]
00:01:57 ◼ ► nope yeah and i add in junior high they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/117">TS</a>]
00:01:59 ◼ ► really really focused on it and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/119">TS</a>]
00:02:02 ◼ ► remember sitting on the floor surrounded [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/122">TS</a>]
00:02:05 ◼ ► by three-by-five cards and I had done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/125">TS</a>]
00:02:09 ◼ ► everything I could number them in order [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/129">TS</a>]
00:02:12 ◼ ► them and they just always got mixed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/132">TS</a>]
00:02:14 ◼ ► up you know I'd start flipping through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/134">TS</a>]
00:02:16 ◼ ► them and pretty soon they're all mixed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/136">TS</a>]
00:02:17 ◼ ► up in the been crazy order and never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/137">TS</a>]
00:02:20 ◼ ► made any sense to me my mom was a three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/140">TS</a>]
00:02:22 ◼ ► by five card user or at least she knew [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/142">TS</a>]
00:02:24 ◼ ► how to do it but three-by-five cards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/144">TS</a>]
00:02:27 ◼ ► have always baffled me I've never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/147">TS</a>]
00:02:30 ◼ ► learned how to employ them the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/150">TS</a>]
00:02:33 ◼ ► that I end up riding on three-by-five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/153">TS</a>]
00:02:35 ◼ ► cards are always just random and useless [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/155">TS</a>]
00:02:39 ◼ ► when I'm standing in front of a crowd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/159">TS</a>]
00:02:40 ◼ ► and look at what you don't know what it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/160">TS</a>]
00:02:42 ◼ ► yeah I look at it it's just like it says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/162">TS</a>]
00:02:45 ◼ ► ballpoint pen and it's like that's that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/165">TS</a>]
00:02:47 ◼ ► I i'm not referring to that in my speech [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/167">TS</a>]
00:02:49 ◼ ► i don't know what i'm talking about why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/169">TS</a>]
00:02:51 ◼ ► don't you write that down and now you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/171">TS</a>]
00:02:52 ◼ ► off your game because you're thinking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/172">TS</a>]
00:02:54 ◼ ► yeah well so so that's the problem i i i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/174">TS</a>]
00:02:58 ◼ ► i had i needed some notes I wrote some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/178">TS</a>]
00:03:02 ◼ ► notes and then the notes were a constant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/182">TS</a>]
00:03:04 ◼ ► distraction to me because i would look [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/184">TS</a>]
00:03:07 ◼ ► at periodically would look over to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/187">TS</a>]
00:03:09 ◼ ► lectern at my list of notes and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/189">TS</a>]
00:03:12 ◼ ► were and it was just like I couldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/192">TS</a>]
00:03:14 ◼ ► read my own handwriting and also I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/194">TS</a>]
00:03:16 ◼ ► didn't know what I meant by the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/196">TS</a>]
00:03:18 ◼ ► that written down so that's very that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/198">TS</a>]
00:03:22 ◼ ► so that's something I need to learn how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/202">TS</a>]
00:03:24 ◼ ► bullet-point a presentation and then use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/204">TS</a>]
00:03:29 ◼ ► those bullet points to effectively jog [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/209">TS</a>]
00:03:33 ◼ ► the speech in my mind can we circle back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/213">TS</a>]
00:03:39 ◼ ► to index cards I i want to hear about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/219">TS</a>]
00:03:41 ◼ ► your show but I actually i think what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/221">TS</a>]
00:03:44 ◼ ► you just described a phenomenon that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/224">TS</a>]
00:03:47 ◼ ► really damaging to a lot of people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/227">TS</a>]
00:03:49 ◼ ► could be very creative and I'd like to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/229">TS</a>]
00:03:51 ◼ ► circle back to that but I've like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/231">TS</a>]
00:03:53 ◼ ► because I don't take off the game with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/233">TS</a>]
00:03:54 ◼ ► your show but I got to say about what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/234">TS</a>]
00:03:57 ◼ ► yeah well I'm hope i see i'm hoping to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/237">TS</a>]
00:03:59 ◼ ► get your your insight and your wisdom [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/239">TS</a>]
00:04:01 ◼ ► because i know that you do i know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/241">TS</a>]
00:04:03 ◼ ► you see this is the thing to get up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/243">TS</a>]
00:04:06 ◼ ► give an hour-long presentation where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/246">TS</a>]
00:04:10 ◼ ► have no there is no like you're not a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/250">TS</a>]
00:04:13 ◼ ► guest on somebody else's show you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/253">TS</a>]
00:04:19 ◼ ► you're not be you are not an opener for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/259">TS</a>]
00:04:22 ◼ ► something you are not there is no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/262">TS</a>]
00:04:24 ◼ ► context other than i am here during a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/264">TS</a>]
00:04:26 ◼ ► show i'm walking out onstage America [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/266">TS</a>]
00:04:28 ◼ ► I'm an hour-long show this is something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/268">TS</a>]
00:04:31 ◼ ► I know you've done and for me I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/271">TS</a>]
00:04:35 ◼ ► always had a guitar or have been part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/275">TS</a>]
00:04:41 ◼ ► mhm and to get up and say like I'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/281">TS</a>]
00:04:44 ◼ ► to entertain you with nothing else other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/284">TS</a>]
00:04:49 ◼ ► it requires a little bit of organization [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/289">TS</a>]
00:04:51 ◼ ► but like do you make a set list for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/291">TS</a>]
00:04:56 ◼ ► terrific example of I'm gonna I'm gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/296">TS</a>]
00:04:58 ◼ ► rhian circle back because i think this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/298">TS</a>]
00:05:00 ◼ ► is not talking about and jumping jumping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/300">TS</a>]
00:05:02 ◼ ► any point with the show okay i so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/302">TS</a>]
00:05:06 ◼ ► know right tool for the job is what it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/306">TS</a>]
00:05:08 ◼ ► there's a bigger pattern here but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/308">TS</a>]
00:05:10 ◼ ► little pattern is that you discover [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/310">TS</a>]
00:05:11 ◼ ► which tools work for you I think so as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/311">TS</a>]
00:05:13 ◼ ► set list is has been for years has been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/313">TS</a>]
00:05:16 ◼ ► a classic for a simple reason I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/316">TS</a>]
00:05:18 ◼ ► it's really everybody understands what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/318">TS</a>]
00:05:20 ◼ ► it's for you understand what order the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/320">TS</a>]
00:05:22 ◼ ► songs are in unless you're the drummer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/322">TS</a>]
00:05:23 ◼ ► you might need some special explanation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/323">TS</a>]
00:05:25 ◼ ► something that's all you need little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/325">TS</a>]
00:05:29 ◼ ► hey John these real names of our songs i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/329">TS</a>]
00:05:32 ◼ ► no see the little number by that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/332">TS</a>]
00:05:34 ◼ ► that means you use sticks on this one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/334">TS</a>]
00:05:37 ◼ ► so I i think that that's a really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/337">TS</a>]
00:05:41 ◼ ► example because what do you really need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/341">TS</a>]
00:05:43 ◼ ► to know like so you know how your songs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/343">TS</a>]
00:05:44 ◼ ► go you you know how they start an end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/344">TS</a>]
00:05:47 ◼ ► the thing that you need is the like like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/347">TS</a>]
00:05:51 ◼ ► my get the job my dad used to having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/351">TS</a>]
00:05:53 ◼ ► radio is called traffic which is not how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/353">TS</a>]
00:05:55 ◼ ► cars are moving it was basically how you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/355">TS</a>]
00:05:57 ◼ ► fill time and so my dad like a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/357">TS</a>]
00:05:59 ◼ ► people in broadcasting at the very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/359">TS</a>]
00:06:02 ◼ ► stopwatch and figure out exactly how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/362">TS</a>]
00:06:04 ◼ ► many seconds each thing took and did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/364">TS</a>]
00:06:05 ◼ ► they read the announcements this time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/365">TS</a>]
00:06:06 ◼ ► and all that kind of stuff like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/366">TS</a>]
00:06:08 ◼ ► David Letterman you speak booth in an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/368">TS</a>]
00:06:09 ◼ ► announcer at a TV station same job super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/369">TS</a>]
00:06:11 ◼ ► boring but it's really it's kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/371">TS</a>]
00:06:13 ◼ ► about transitions in some ways and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/373">TS</a>]
00:06:15 ◼ ► think in some ways you could think of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/375">TS</a>]
00:06:17 ◼ ► set list is that yes a list of the songs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/377">TS</a>]
00:06:18 ◼ ► are going to play that's what people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/378">TS</a>]
00:06:19 ◼ ► want to take home and put on the dorm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/379">TS</a>]
00:06:21 ◼ ► wall and stuff but to you it's just it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/381">TS</a>]
00:06:23 ◼ ► a queue of what the next thing is and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/383">TS</a>]
00:06:25 ◼ ► then you don't have to think about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/385">TS</a>]
00:06:26 ◼ ► again until that songs are just about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/386">TS</a>]
00:06:28 ◼ ► over and you look out of the corner of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/388">TS</a>]
00:06:29 ◼ ► your eye and even have to read full name [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/389">TS</a>]
00:06:32 ◼ ► of the song down because you know how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/392">TS</a>]
00:06:33 ◼ ► you know if you just wrote down medicine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/393">TS</a>]
00:06:38 ◼ ► right bc i'm saying though I can I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/398">TS</a>]
00:06:42 ◼ ► you may be a quote-unquote index card [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/402">TS</a>]
00:06:44 ◼ ► person already it's just that you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/404">TS</a>]
00:06:46 ◼ ► been probably poisoned by the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/406">TS</a>]
00:06:49 ◼ ► system that i was poisoned by which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/409">TS</a>]
00:06:51 ◼ ► you know I don't know I think there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/411">TS</a>]
00:06:54 ◼ ► some people who think in very different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/414">TS</a>]
00:06:56 ◼ ► ways there are many books about this and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/416">TS</a>]
00:06:58 ◼ ► some people are analysts some people are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/418">TS</a>]
00:07:00 ◼ ► synthesist some people can do both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/420">TS</a>]
00:07:03 ◼ ► there's some people though who like to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/423">TS</a>]
00:07:04 ◼ ► see the whole problem finished and know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/424">TS</a>]
00:07:07 ◼ ► what it looks like and are able to like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/427">TS</a>]
00:07:10 ◼ ► make a thing without having to analyze [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/430">TS</a>]
00:07:12 ◼ ► it like they know what the whole thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/432">TS</a>]
00:07:14 ◼ ► is so I'd I was really embarrassed at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/434">TS</a>]
00:07:16 ◼ ► the time fifth sixth seventh grade will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/436">TS</a>]
00:07:19 ◼ ► really just in general but but I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/439">TS</a>]
00:07:21 ◼ ► really embarrassed because I i thought i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/441">TS</a>]
00:07:22 ◼ ► was the only person in the world who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/442">TS</a>]
00:07:24 ◼ ► wrote the essay first and then made an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/444">TS</a>]
00:07:26 ◼ ► outline after they wrote an essay and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/446">TS</a>]
00:07:29 ◼ ► then reverse engineer the index cards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/449">TS</a>]
00:07:31 ◼ ► from the outline because that's what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/451">TS</a>]
00:07:33 ◼ ► had to hand and they want to see you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/453">TS</a>]
00:07:34 ◼ ► show your work right I think that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/454">TS</a>]
00:07:36 ◼ ► really stifling to some people if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/456">TS</a>]
00:07:38 ◼ ► somebody can write an essay let me write [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/458">TS</a>]
00:07:41 ◼ ► okay you know you can get so obsessed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/461">TS</a>]
00:07:42 ◼ ► with teaching that person this one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/462">TS</a>]
00:07:44 ◼ ► little unit on how to use index cards to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/464">TS</a>]
00:07:46 ◼ ► write a report that you really end up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/466">TS</a>]
00:07:48 ◼ ► scratching their their creativity by not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/468">TS</a>]
00:07:51 ◼ ► letting them make things the way they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/471">TS</a>]
00:07:52 ◼ ► don't even realize they already know how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/472">TS</a>]
00:07:54 ◼ ► to make it so now you make them think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/474">TS</a>]
00:07:55 ◼ ► that they're a dumbass because they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/475">TS</a>]
00:07:57 ◼ ► don't know how to use index cards i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/477">TS</a>]
00:07:58 ◼ ► think that happens a whole a lot in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/478">TS</a>]
00:08:00 ◼ ► I completely forgot why they even made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/480">TS</a>]
00:08:04 ◼ ► us use index cards and now you've just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/484">TS</a>]
00:08:06 ◼ ► reminded me yes of course they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/486">TS</a>]
00:08:07 ◼ ► trying to get us to use index cards to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/487">TS</a>]
00:08:09 ◼ ► organize our thoughts to write a paper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/489">TS</a>]
00:08:11 ◼ ► yeah and I was exactly like you of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/491">TS</a>]
00:08:14 ◼ ► course i know what i want to say i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/494">TS</a>]
00:08:15 ◼ ► just going to write it's not like I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/495">TS</a>]
00:08:17 ◼ ► let it sit down and write an essay i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/497">TS</a>]
00:08:19 ◼ ► didn't have to organize my thoughts on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/499">TS</a>]
00:08:20 ◼ ► index cards and then I had to like dummy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/500">TS</a>]
00:08:23 ◼ ► up to gin up these index cards to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/503">TS</a>]
00:08:26 ◼ ► pretend like i had used them he had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/506">TS</a>]
00:08:30 ◼ ► yeah but that's actually what so this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/510">TS</a>]
00:08:33 ◼ ► so this is my preparation for my show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/513">TS</a>]
00:08:36 ◼ ► was i sat down and I wrote 2,500 word [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/516">TS</a>]
00:08:41 ◼ ► humorous SI and then i read it and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/521">TS</a>]
00:08:45 ◼ ► don't quite weak and lakes yeah that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/525">TS</a>]
00:08:48 ◼ ► exactly right 2500 word universal well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/528">TS</a>]
00:08:52 ◼ ► and that indicate the theme of it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/532">TS</a>]
00:08:55 ◼ ► two kinds of people in this world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/535">TS</a>]
00:08:57 ◼ ► winner's lose just and so then I i read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/537">TS</a>]
00:09:06 ◼ ► it and i liked it and I honed it as i do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/546">TS</a>]
00:09:09 ◼ ► until it I until I really liked it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/549">TS</a>]
00:09:11 ◼ ► then I read it and I was like oh but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/551">TS</a>]
00:09:14 ◼ ► can't memorize this 2,500 work si like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/554">TS</a>]
00:09:17 ◼ ► if I was doing if I was coming up with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/557">TS</a>]
00:09:19 ◼ ► the show that I was gonna do like a rock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/559">TS</a>]
00:09:22 ◼ ► band set list where i was going to do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/562">TS</a>]
00:09:24 ◼ ► 30 times i was going to take this show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/564">TS</a>]
00:09:27 ◼ ► on the road now is going to do it 30 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/567">TS</a>]
00:09:28 ◼ ► times then yeah I would sit and spend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/568">TS</a>]
00:09:34 ◼ ► presentation and then i would go out in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/574">TS</a>]
00:09:36 ◼ ► the first couple of nights would be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/576">TS</a>]
00:09:37 ◼ ► little bit rough and I be looking at my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/577">TS</a>]
00:09:39 ◼ ► my cue cards but then i would get the i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/579">TS</a>]
00:09:41 ◼ ► would i would get my show and then I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/581">TS</a>]
00:09:43 ◼ ► would do it 30 times but what I am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/583">TS</a>]
00:09:46 ◼ ► trying to do is do a show a week and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/586">TS</a>]
00:09:50 ◼ ► don't and and memorizing an essay isn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/590">TS</a>]
00:09:54 ◼ ► my forte and so then I was like maybe I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/594">TS</a>]
00:09:58 ◼ ► should just maybe the show should be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/598">TS</a>]
00:10:00 ◼ ► that I just sit on a stool and read my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/600">TS</a>]
00:10:02 ◼ ► dramatic SI and I thought about that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/602">TS</a>]
00:10:05 ◼ ► read it out loud a couple of times and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/605">TS</a>]
00:10:07 ◼ ► was like well no first of all i I'm I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/607">TS</a>]
00:10:10 ◼ ► bad at reading essays aloud like I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/610">TS</a>]
00:10:13 ◼ ► but it's not fun i don't like it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/613">TS</a>]
00:10:17 ◼ ► entertaining sit was watching guys sit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/617">TS</a>]
00:10:19 ◼ ► on a stool and with it reads SI so the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/619">TS</a>]
00:10:21 ◼ ► TBS right now so i was like no no what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/621">TS</a>]
00:10:24 ◼ ► wrote the essay to get my thoughts going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/624">TS</a>]
00:10:27 ◼ ► and now i'm just going to get up onstage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/627">TS</a>]
00:10:29 ◼ ► I'm going to extemporize based on having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/629">TS</a>]
00:10:31 ◼ ► written this essay I thought about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/631">TS</a>]
00:10:33 ◼ ► for another day or two and then I sat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/633">TS</a>]
00:10:35 ◼ ► down and I wrote a second 2500 word [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/635">TS</a>]
00:10:38 ◼ ► essay because when i read the first one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/638">TS</a>]
00:10:41 ◼ ► allowed it only took it only lasted 15 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/641">TS</a>]
00:10:43 ◼ ► minutes I was like oh I guess I need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/643">TS</a>]
00:10:48 ◼ ► so wrote a second essay which I also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/648">TS</a>]
00:10:51 ◼ ► liked which i also did not intend to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/651">TS</a>]
00:10:55 ◼ ► memorize and then when I got up on stage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/655">TS</a>]
00:10:58 ◼ ► I basically got up there and spend an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/658">TS</a>]
00:11:04 ◼ ► hour tried to recall the two essays I'd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/664">TS</a>]
00:11:06 ◼ ► written and signed up so I be talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/666">TS</a>]
00:11:13 ◼ ► about be like and then blahblah and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/673">TS</a>]
00:11:15 ◼ ► in my mind voice would say you had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/675">TS</a>]
00:11:19 ◼ ► really really funny way of putting this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/679">TS</a>]
00:11:21 ◼ ► in your essay and I'm talking I'm still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/681">TS</a>]
00:11:26 ◼ ► attention is devoted to trying to recall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/686">TS</a>]
00:11:29 ◼ ► the funny way that I had of saying the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/689">TS</a>]
00:11:32 ◼ ► next thing I'm about to say range of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/692">TS</a>]
00:11:34 ◼ ► course i could not recall I couldn't lay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/694">TS</a>]
00:11:37 ◼ ► my hands on the funny turn of phrase so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/697">TS</a>]
00:11:40 ◼ ► when I got to the place in the story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/700">TS</a>]
00:11:43 ◼ ► where I where I was trying to recall the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/703">TS</a>]
00:11:45 ◼ ► I you know I I bumbled through it like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/705">TS</a>]
00:11:48 ◼ ► guy trying to walk up a muddy road like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/708">TS</a>]
00:11:51 ◼ ► you know I jump over onto this rock and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/711">TS</a>]
00:11:53 ◼ ► then I see like oh there's a rock over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/713">TS</a>]
00:11:55 ◼ ► there and I jump but i miss alright it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/715">TS</a>]
00:11:57 ◼ ► not a rock it's a puddle and so the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/717">TS</a>]
00:12:01 ◼ ► I'm feeling this step I'm doing this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/721">TS</a>]
00:12:04 ◼ ► state of a of handicap itude where I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/724">TS</a>]
00:12:11 ◼ ► have on my computer sitting feet away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/731">TS</a>]
00:12:14 ◼ ► from me in a bag to very humorous essays [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/734">TS</a>]
00:12:19 ◼ ► it's like it's like a headache you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/739">TS</a>]
00:12:22 ◼ ► just holding two aspirin against your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/742">TS</a>]
00:12:24 ◼ ► head nothing's happened it and now I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/744">TS</a>]
00:12:27 ◼ ► trying to basically in part the gist of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/747">TS</a>]
00:12:30 ◼ ► these two humans essays to a roomful of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/750">TS</a>]
00:12:35 ◼ ► entertain them and so when I walked off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/755">TS</a>]
00:12:38 ◼ ► the stage I was like okay good learning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/758">TS</a>]
00:12:41 ◼ ► experience first lesson you cannot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/761">TS</a>]
00:12:45 ◼ ► recall your essays when you're onstage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/765">TS</a>]
00:12:49 ◼ ► and knowing that you've written them and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/769">TS</a>]
00:12:51 ◼ ► having them in the briefcase next to you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/771">TS</a>]
00:12:53 ◼ ► there is no as Moses that gets the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/773">TS</a>]
00:12:56 ◼ ► funniness of them to you and also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/776">TS</a>]
00:12:59 ◼ ► they're just a distraction like I'm up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/779">TS</a>]
00:13:02 ◼ ► if I'd been standing on the stage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/782">TS</a>]
00:13:03 ◼ ► totally cold and your voice from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/783">TS</a>]
00:13:06 ◼ ► back of the room had said bananas i will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/786">TS</a>]
00:13:12 ◼ ► I know you could attend three hours [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/792">TS</a>]
00:13:13 ◼ ► yeah I've got a funny story about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/793">TS</a>]
00:13:14 ◼ ► bananas and then I would have had no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/794">TS</a>]
00:13:17 ◼ ► there would have been no effort but in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/797">TS</a>]
00:13:18 ◼ ► it instead I had prepared just enough to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/798">TS</a>]
00:13:23 ◼ ► to hobble myself because I because part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/803">TS</a>]
00:13:28 ◼ ► of me part of my brain was tied to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/808">TS</a>]
00:13:30 ◼ ► idea that i had already done this better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/810">TS</a>]
00:13:33 ◼ ► somewhere and that's entertaining to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/813">TS</a>]
00:13:38 ◼ ► well mhm and I don't think the crowd i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/818">TS</a>]
00:13:42 ◼ ► don't think the audience would have have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/822">TS</a>]
00:13:44 ◼ ► noticed or I mean you know my mom was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/824">TS</a>]
00:13:45 ◼ ► like at one point I could see you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/825">TS</a>]
00:13:47 ◼ ► visibly tried to recall something on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/827">TS</a>]
00:13:51 ◼ ► entertainment but i I've had a slice of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/831">TS</a>]
00:13:55 ◼ ► pie one little pie was it let me let me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/835">TS</a>]
00:13:59 ◼ ► just stand up here and try to recall a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/839">TS</a>]
00:14:02 ◼ ► funny anecdote was that uncle Morris Oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/842">TS</a>]
00:14:05 ◼ ► uncle Wesley Morris don't know I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/845">TS</a>]
00:14:07 ◼ ► get it right and and I feel like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/847">TS</a>]
00:14:10 ◼ ► know I feel like after a little bit of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/850">TS</a>]
00:14:12 ◼ ► rough start I did a surrender to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/852">TS</a>]
00:14:14 ◼ ► idea that I was just get it was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/854">TS</a>]
00:14:16 ◼ ► going to try and re i was gonna try and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/856">TS</a>]
00:14:19 ◼ ► we capture the fun of telling these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/859">TS</a>]
00:14:22 ◼ ► stories in in real time and I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/862">TS</a>]
00:14:26 ◼ ► think I I don't think I traumatize the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/866">TS</a>]
00:14:28 ◼ ► audience and in fact you know the great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/868">TS</a>]
00:14:31 ◼ ► had a great like hack of this show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/871">TS</a>]
00:14:37 ◼ ► there are a few hacks first attack is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/877">TS</a>]
00:14:40 ◼ ► that the room has 75 person capacity so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/880">TS</a>]
00:14:49 ◼ ► environment although when I walked out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/889">TS</a>]
00:14:51 ◼ ► on stage it was not as intimate as I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/891">TS</a>]
00:14:53 ◼ ► thought it was there how much distance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/893">TS</a>]
00:14:55 ◼ ► is their first highest stage and how far [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/895">TS</a>]
00:14:59 ◼ ► the stage is three feet high and it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/899">TS</a>]
00:15:02 ◼ ► one and a half feet from the first seat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/902">TS</a>]
00:15:06 ◼ ► that's intimate so but there were 80 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/906">TS</a>]
00:15:10 ◼ ► people in the room rate and so that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/910">TS</a>]
00:15:15 ◼ ► you know that the people toward the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/915">TS</a>]
00:15:17 ◼ ► middle of the of the hall start to fade [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/917">TS</a>]
00:15:20 ◼ ► into the mist like there are a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/920">TS</a>]
00:15:21 ◼ ► there are enough people here that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/921">TS</a>]
00:15:22 ◼ ► can't just I can't just look down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/922">TS</a>]
00:15:25 ◼ ► address everybody by name but that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/925">TS</a>]
00:15:28 ◼ ► the double hack of this was what was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/928">TS</a>]
00:15:32 ◼ ► an idea that i cribbed from Hodgman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/932">TS</a>]
00:15:35 ◼ ► which is at the end of the night I said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/935">TS</a>]
00:15:37 ◼ ► I'm going to read out the URL i'm going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/937">TS</a>]
00:15:39 ◼ ► to do a dramatic reading of the URL [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/939">TS</a>]
00:15:42 ◼ ► bi t dot ly / and I read out the URL for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/942">TS</a>]
00:15:48 ◼ ► the ticket link for them it's for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/948">TS</a>]
00:15:50 ◼ ► next show and I said for for the next 24 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/950">TS</a>]
00:15:54 ◼ ► this link is only open to people in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/954">TS</a>]
00:15:59 ◼ ► here's the code word here's the piers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/959">TS</a>]
00:16:01 ◼ ► the password and so for 24 hours only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/961">TS</a>]
00:16:04 ◼ ► people here have the ability to buy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/964">TS</a>]
00:16:07 ◼ ► tickets to the next show like your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/967">TS</a>]
00:16:09 ◼ ► grandfather again that's right so if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/969">TS</a>]
00:16:12 ◼ ► were here at the first show and you want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/972">TS</a>]
00:16:14 ◼ ► to keep going to the next to the show's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/974">TS</a>]
00:16:16 ◼ ► then you are you know you have first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/976">TS</a>]
00:16:18 ◼ ► right of refusal on that psychology is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/978">TS</a>]
00:16:22 ◼ ► it creates a sense of false scarcity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/982">TS</a>]
00:16:24 ◼ ► that's so important today it really is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/984">TS</a>]
00:16:27 ◼ ► people like a little bit of scarcity and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/987">TS</a>]
00:16:29 ◼ ► sleep all this even if they know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/989">TS</a>]
00:16:31 ◼ ► false but I gotta get going to get it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/991">TS</a>]
00:16:33 ◼ ► I got to get the fucking ticket but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/993">TS</a>]
00:16:36 ◼ ► woke up the next morning and the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/996">TS</a>]
00:16:38 ◼ ► had sold out the next shows already sold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/998">TS</a>]
00:16:40 ◼ ► it sold out before the tickets were went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1000">TS</a>]
00:16:44 ◼ ► god bless John Hodgman isn't that a nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1004">TS</a>]
00:16:48 ◼ ► it's a very good trick and so that this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1008">TS</a>]
00:16:51 ◼ ► this this mention of it here on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1011">TS</a>]
00:16:54 ◼ ► podcast is the last time all I will ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1014">TS</a>]
00:16:56 ◼ ► credit John Hodgman for the idea and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1016">TS</a>]
00:16:59 ◼ ► going to get a lot of credit for things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1019">TS</a>]
00:17:00 ◼ ► as it really does and he probably stole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1020">TS</a>]
00:17:02 ◼ ► it from somebody I don't know maybe he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1022">TS</a>]
00:17:04 ◼ ► thought into Canada a pretty smart guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1024">TS</a>]
00:17:05 ◼ ► but I'm I'm not crediting him anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1025">TS</a>]
00:17:08 ◼ ► end and I hope when the wikipedia entry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1028">TS</a>]
00:17:11 ◼ ► that written in 2025 reading deadly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1031">TS</a>]
00:17:15 ◼ ► lakes a lot more dramatic bit ly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1035">TS</a>]
00:17:19 ◼ ► uh-huh innovation John Roderick's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1039">TS</a>]
00:17:22 ◼ ► primary contribution to Western culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1042">TS</a>]
00:17:25 ◼ ► was this idea that he stole from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1045">TS</a>]
00:17:27 ◼ ► somebody who's name is lost to history [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1047">TS</a>]
00:17:33 ◼ ► notwithstanding John would frequently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1053">TS</a>]
00:17:35 ◼ ► just repeat one word as the course for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1055">TS</a>]
00:17:39 ◼ ► he's known firm for more than 11 culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1059">TS</a>]
00:17:42 ◼ ► culture additive you know we do we get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1062">TS</a>]
00:17:46 ◼ ► that's the yes yes I was in my own way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1066">TS</a>]
00:17:49 ◼ ► yep it was like I was onstage and and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1069">TS</a>]
00:17:52 ◼ ► kept standing in front of me and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1072">TS</a>]
00:17:54 ◼ ► there was a third me that was trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1074">TS</a>]
00:18:00 ◼ ► interesting people on stage is let's be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1080">TS</a>]
00:18:02 ◼ ► honest john hodgman innovation haha he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1082">TS</a>]
00:18:06 ◼ ► very good at you can email because you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1086">TS</a>]
00:18:11 ◼ ► no he doesn't listen to our podcast good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1091">TS</a>]
00:18:13 ◼ ► no I think he does actually that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1093">TS</a>]
00:18:18 ◼ ► well so so so as I thought about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1098">TS</a>]
00:18:21 ◼ ► show I was like the thing is I like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1101">TS</a>]
00:18:23 ◼ ► writing the 2500 word essay I that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1103">TS</a>]
00:18:26 ◼ ► enjoy that and not only do i enjoy but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1106">TS</a>]
00:18:30 ◼ ► when i'm done i have a 2500 word essay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1110">TS</a>]
00:18:34 ◼ ► yeah which gives me a feeling of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1114">TS</a>]
00:18:35 ◼ ► accomplishment and so I write it and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1115">TS</a>]
00:18:39 ◼ ► enjoy the process of like what that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1119">TS</a>]
00:18:41 ◼ ► word isn't quite funny enough like how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1121">TS</a>]
00:18:43 ◼ ► do i how do I punched that up oh right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1123">TS</a>]
00:18:45 ◼ ► and then I find the funnier way of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1125">TS</a>]
00:18:50 ◼ ► but there's not enough time every week [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1130">TS</a>]
00:18:52 ◼ ► to to memorize all the funny turns of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1132">TS</a>]
00:18:58 ◼ ► phrase and and having written it out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1138">TS</a>]
00:19:02 ◼ ► made it funny i have i have kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1142">TS</a>]
00:19:05 ◼ ► removed it from the realm of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1145">TS</a>]
00:19:10 ◼ ► extemporaneous story that I'm just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1150">TS</a>]
00:19:11 ◼ ► coming up with and you're very colorful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1151">TS</a>]
00:19:14 ◼ ► speaker just listening to you talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1154">TS</a>]
00:19:16 ◼ ► about your experience with united [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1156">TS</a>]
00:19:18 ◼ ► airlines at seatac I've listened to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1158">TS</a>]
00:19:19 ◼ ► episode that especially that first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1159">TS</a>]
00:19:21 ◼ ► episode of thank you for calling i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1161">TS</a>]
00:19:23 ◼ ► listen to that twice just for how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1163">TS</a>]
00:19:24 ◼ ► articulate you are at telling this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1164">TS</a>]
00:19:26 ◼ ► particular miserable story and your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1166">TS</a>]
00:19:29 ◼ ► turns of phrase are fantastic you didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1169">TS</a>]
00:19:30 ◼ ► write that out what you might have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1170">TS</a>]
00:19:31 ◼ ► written it out i don't know what but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1171">TS</a>]
00:19:34 ◼ ► are awfully you're awfully good at that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1174">TS</a>]
00:19:35 ◼ ► it's a one reason people i think enjoy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1175">TS</a>]
00:19:37 ◼ ► this program is is you are a wonderful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1177">TS</a>]
00:19:39 ◼ ► extemporaneous storyteller and anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1179">TS</a>]
00:19:43 ◼ ► that would get between you and getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1183">TS</a>]
00:19:45 ◼ ► to the point where speaking comfortably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1185">TS</a>]
00:19:46 ◼ ► you know I mean I think it's because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1186">TS</a>]
00:19:49 ◼ ► this is what I want to learn and this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1189">TS</a>]
00:19:51 ◼ ► the learning and growing part yeah like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1191">TS</a>]
00:19:53 ◼ ► I know that I can get up in front of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1193">TS</a>]
00:19:55 ◼ ► room of people and say and basically you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1195">TS</a>]
00:19:59 ◼ ► know say to give me an animal a cat give [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1199">TS</a>]
00:20:06 ◼ ► alright let me tell you a story about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1206">TS</a>]
00:20:09 ◼ ► you know i got i know what you decide [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1209">TS</a>]
00:20:12 ◼ ► which one but yeah exactly how many how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1212">TS</a>]
00:20:15 ◼ ► many cats stories of from st. Louis time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1215">TS</a>]
00:20:18 ◼ ► let's see well let's just limited to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1218">TS</a>]
00:20:21 ◼ ► eighties but what I want to do is I want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1221">TS</a>]
00:20:24 ◼ ► to develop my I want to develop into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1224">TS</a>]
00:20:28 ◼ ► like the whole point of doing this show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1228">TS</a>]
00:20:30 ◼ ► is to develop a new skill and what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1230">TS</a>]
00:20:33 ◼ ► would what I want that skill to be what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1233">TS</a>]
00:20:36 ◼ ► my goal is is that i do some preparation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1236">TS</a>]
00:20:39 ◼ ► period like I do some preparation and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1239">TS</a>]
00:20:47 ◼ ► I go into it with a little bit of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1247">TS</a>]
00:20:53 ◼ ► so do you you want to get your own way a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1253">TS</a>]
00:20:56 ◼ ► little bit and I grow you have to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1256">TS</a>]
00:20:58 ◼ ► something more and it's something that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1258">TS</a>]
00:21:00 ◼ ► everybody falls into like you know god [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1260">TS</a>]
00:21:02 ◼ ► bless Bob Dylan if he hadn't started [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1262">TS</a>]
00:21:04 ◼ ► annoying Pete sticker with electric [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1264">TS</a>]
00:21:05 ◼ ► music we would have a real different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1265">TS</a>]
00:21:06 ◼ ► idea yeah and that morning meal we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1266">TS</a>]
00:21:12 ◼ ► good see except ring is hilarious and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1272">TS</a>]
00:21:18 ◼ ► what you're working your way just enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1278">TS</a>]
00:21:19 ◼ ► to be able to you you're trying to put a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1279">TS</a>]
00:21:21 ◼ ► little sand into generate a little pearl [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1281">TS</a>]
00:21:24 ◼ ► exactly well a couple years ago paul f [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1284">TS</a>]
00:21:26 ◼ ► tompkins I saw a couple of politicking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1286">TS</a>]
00:21:30 ◼ ► shows we may have talked about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1290">TS</a>]
00:21:32 ◼ ► before i saw a couple of politicking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1292">TS</a>]
00:21:36 ◼ ► shows where he had evolved he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1296">TS</a>]
00:21:38 ◼ ► evolving his act away from straight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1298">TS</a>]
00:21:41 ◼ ► stand up and he was going into this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1301">TS</a>]
00:21:43 ◼ ► long-form storytelling where he started [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1303">TS</a>]
00:21:46 ◼ ► out any he did an hour-long show and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1306">TS</a>]
00:21:51 ◼ ► entire show was basically the story of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1311">TS</a>]
00:21:55 ◼ ► his his job history before he became a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1315">TS</a>]
00:22:00 ◼ ► comic like all of the shit jobs that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1320">TS</a>]
00:22:04 ◼ ► had when he was a teenager in his early [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1324">TS</a>]
00:22:07 ◼ ► place and so that is like basically any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1327">TS</a>]
00:22:13 ◼ ► rock on the line episode and any night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1333">TS</a>]
00:22:17 ◼ ► at a cocktail party with either you or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1337">TS</a>]
00:22:19 ◼ ► right like oh you wanted you want two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1339">TS</a>]
00:22:22 ◼ ► hour-long like disquisition you might [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1342">TS</a>]
00:22:25 ◼ ► want to get a couple drinks and graphs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1345">TS</a>]
00:22:27 ◼ ► eat it because let me tell you about my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1347">TS</a>]
00:22:30 ◼ ► first five jobs or whatever but what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1350">TS</a>]
00:22:38 ◼ ► yeah how many people in the room ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1358">TS</a>]
00:22:39 ◼ ► worked at a glance real quick um but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1359">TS</a>]
00:22:44 ◼ ► watching Paul do his show it was evident [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1364">TS</a>]
00:22:48 ◼ ► that his 20 years of stand-up comedy had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1368">TS</a>]
00:22:55 ◼ ► storytelling his his comic time in was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1375">TS</a>]
00:23:01 ◼ ► you know not just impeccable but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1381">TS</a>]
00:23:07 ◼ ► were not what you that it wasn't built [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1387">TS</a>]
00:23:11 ◼ ► around like here comes the story here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1391">TS</a>]
00:23:13 ◼ ► comes the story and it's coming up to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1393">TS</a>]
00:23:14 ◼ ► the end and the end is going to be funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1394">TS</a>]
00:23:17 ◼ ► and then there's the blue the end haha [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1397">TS</a>]
00:23:20 ◼ ► it was much more like he's telling the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1400">TS</a>]
00:23:22 ◼ ► story and then there would be a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1402">TS</a>]
00:23:24 ◼ ► detail and it would be that it would be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1404">TS</a>]
00:23:26 ◼ ► the biggest laugh line of the night but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1406">TS</a>]
00:23:28 ◼ ► it wasn't the laugh lines were all kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1408">TS</a>]
00:23:30 ◼ ► of like these polyps and the threat of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1410">TS</a>]
00:23:34 ◼ ► the story continued underneath and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1414">TS</a>]
00:23:36 ◼ ► know the end of the story and like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1416">TS</a>]
00:23:37 ◼ ► were saying the transitions between this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1417">TS</a>]
00:23:40 ◼ ► story and the next story work were these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1420">TS</a>]
00:23:43 ◼ ► seamless kind of you know he didn't it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1423">TS</a>]
00:23:46 ◼ ► wasn't a case where he just said well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1426">TS</a>]
00:23:47 ◼ ► then two years later I got another job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1427">TS</a>]
00:23:49 ◼ ► like it it all it all wove together it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1429">TS</a>]
00:23:53 ◼ ► so much harder to do than it looks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1433">TS</a>]
00:23:55 ◼ ► incredibly hard to do and so I'm sitting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1435">TS</a>]
00:23:57 ◼ ► in the audience of these shows i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1437">TS</a>]
00:23:59 ◼ ► watching him work and I'm like okay he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1439">TS</a>]
00:24:03 ◼ ► has gone full circle from years and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1443">TS</a>]
00:24:07 ◼ ► years of standing up and saying you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1447">TS</a>]
00:24:10 ◼ ► what's the deal with rutabagas and like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1450">TS</a>]
00:24:15 ◼ ► doing stand-up he's evolved and found [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1455">TS</a>]
00:24:19 ◼ ► this long-form storytelling that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1459">TS</a>]
00:24:22 ◼ ► that's really like a thing that I that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1462">TS</a>]
00:24:27 ◼ ► do and have been doing my whole life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1467">TS</a>]
00:24:29 ◼ ► long form humorous storytelling taking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1469">TS</a>]
00:24:32 ◼ ► over a corner of a of a party and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1472">TS</a>]
00:24:36 ◼ ► know and going on these sort of long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1476">TS</a>]
00:24:38 ◼ ► humorous digressions but he has but all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1478">TS</a>]
00:24:42 ◼ ► of the work he's done in comedy and all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1482">TS</a>]
00:24:45 ◼ ► his stage time and obviously the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1485">TS</a>]
00:24:48 ◼ ► preparation that's gone into making this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1488">TS</a>]
00:24:50 ◼ ► one show like it gives it allows him to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1490">TS</a>]
00:24:57 ◼ ► extemporaneously telling a story but he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1497">TS</a>]
00:24:59 ◼ ► knows every note of it and you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1499">TS</a>]
00:25:05 ◼ ► so he still allows for the opportunity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1505">TS</a>]
00:25:09 ◼ ► of chance right he can still he can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1509">TS</a>]
00:25:12 ◼ ► still respond to somebody in the crowd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1512">TS</a>]
00:25:13 ◼ ► he can still go off on a tangent but he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1513">TS</a>]
00:25:16 ◼ ► knows where all the lily pads are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1516">TS</a>]
00:25:19 ◼ ► and so watching it I was more than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1519">TS</a>]
00:25:24 ◼ ► anything I was like that is so outside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1524">TS</a>]
00:25:26 ◼ ► of my skill that here that is so above [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1526">TS</a>]
00:25:30 ◼ ► my skill level what he's doing but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1530">TS</a>]
00:25:33 ◼ ► recognize the framework and I mean this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1533">TS</a>]
00:25:35 ◼ ► is the danger that people have when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1535">TS</a>]
00:25:37 ◼ ► watch a stand-up comic they're like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1537">TS</a>]
00:25:39 ◼ ► could do that but like I could see the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1539">TS</a>]
00:25:41 ◼ ► architecture of it and I saw how much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1541">TS</a>]
00:25:45 ◼ ► how far I had to go how much I had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1545">TS</a>]
00:25:47 ◼ ► learn and so for the last year I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1547">TS</a>]
00:25:51 ◼ ► tried I've had multiple opportunities to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1551">TS</a>]
00:25:55 ◼ ► storytelling and I've i have probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1555">TS</a>]
00:25:58 ◼ ► done it now a dozen times where I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1558">TS</a>]
00:26:01 ◼ ► gotten up and told a half-hour story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1561">TS</a>]
00:26:02 ◼ ► that I was making up off the top of my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1562">TS</a>]
00:26:04 ◼ ► head not the not the stories of course [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1564">TS</a>]
00:26:07 ◼ ► they're all one hundred percent true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1567">TS</a>]
00:26:09 ◼ ► yes but the storytelling and now i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1569">TS</a>]
00:26:13 ◼ ► wanted i wanted to switch gears Merlin I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1573">TS</a>]
00:26:16 ◼ ► want to I want to I want to get better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1576">TS</a>]
00:26:19 ◼ ► at a thing where I am where I'm from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1579">TS</a>]
00:26:23 ◼ ► crafting a thing but I don't know how I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1583">TS</a>]
00:26:29 ◼ ► don't know what to do next and when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1589">TS</a>]
00:26:30 ◼ ► try to ask paul f tompkins about it it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1590">TS</a>]
00:26:32 ◼ ► like you know it's like asking a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1592">TS</a>]
00:26:34 ◼ ► magician to show you how to cut a lady [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1594">TS</a>]
00:26:36 ◼ ► he's like haha yes storytelling is funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1596">TS</a>]
00:26:39 ◼ ► anyway I think it's something well first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1599">TS</a>]
00:26:42 ◼ ► of all I mean it's I i think it's high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1602">TS</a>]
00:26:45 ◼ ► I'm glad you're doing this it's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1605">TS</a>]
00:26:47 ◼ ► i-i've been an advocate for a long time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1607">TS</a>]
00:26:49 ◼ ► for you realizing how talented new and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1609">TS</a>]
00:26:51 ◼ ► potentially gifted as horrible as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1611">TS</a>]
00:26:53 ◼ ► human being is your that you are really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1613">TS</a>]
00:26:55 ◼ ► so awfully talented these things it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1615">TS</a>]
00:26:56 ◼ ► nice to see you giving yourself the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1616">TS</a>]
00:26:58 ◼ ► chance to do that as nice to see we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1618">TS</a>]
00:27:00 ◼ ► appear onstage by yourself certain you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1620">TS</a>]
00:27:03 ◼ ► know if you're up there with a band and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1623">TS</a>]
00:27:05 ◼ ► rocking out if one is up there with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1625">TS</a>]
00:27:07 ◼ ► band and rocking out that's one thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1627">TS</a>]
00:27:08 ◼ ► and you know you could modulate your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1628">TS</a>]
00:27:10 ◼ ► performance for like how the sound in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1630">TS</a>]
00:27:13 ◼ ► the room is but you're not really i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1633">TS</a>]
00:27:15 ◼ ► don't know i feel like when I've done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1635">TS</a>]
00:27:18 ◼ ► I'm not changing that much based on like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1638">TS</a>]
00:27:20 ◼ ► how people's faces look on how they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1640">TS</a>]
00:27:22 ◼ ► responding is not that much that I can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1642">TS</a>]
00:27:26 ◼ ► it's so much changes when you're looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1646">TS</a>]
00:27:30 ◼ ► at that audience we did our show we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1650">TS</a>]
00:27:31 ◼ ► talking about this with these two shows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1651">TS</a>]
00:27:33 ◼ ► and just the chance to do this with you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1653">TS</a>]
00:27:35 ◼ ► in front of people I immediately [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1655">TS</a>]
00:27:36 ◼ ► realized stuff we had to change the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1656">TS</a>]
00:27:38 ◼ ► second night not you know it's like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1658">TS</a>]
00:27:42 ◼ ► there's a bunch of people in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1662">TS</a>]
00:27:43 ◼ ► audience right and and like they're part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1663">TS</a>]
00:27:47 ◼ ► yeah and we pretending they're not there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1667">TS</a>]
00:27:51 ◼ ► no they won't go away they're still here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1671">TS</a>]
00:27:54 ◼ ► but that's I mean that's so silly but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1674">TS</a>]
00:27:56 ◼ ► takes a certain amount of empathy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1676">TS</a>]
00:27:58 ◼ ► the ability to open yourself up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1678">TS</a>]
00:28:00 ◼ ► eventually I guess you open yourself up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1680">TS</a>]
00:28:02 ◼ ► in very selective ways when you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1682">TS</a>]
00:28:04 ◼ ► really good once you get good at crafts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1684">TS</a>]
00:28:06 ◼ ► but it's it does take it certainly a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1686">TS</a>]
00:28:09 ◼ ► very different skill to call it just the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1689">TS</a>]
00:28:11 ◼ ► same kind of performing is was really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1691">TS</a>]
00:28:14 ◼ ► it's a very different kind of much more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1694">TS</a>]
00:28:15 ◼ ► personal thing to be up there by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1695">TS</a>]
00:28:17 ◼ ► yourself having to carry the whole room [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1697">TS</a>]
00:28:20 ◼ ► well and and and what was funny is about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1700">TS</a>]
00:28:24 ◼ ► halfway through the show I recognized [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1704">TS</a>]
00:28:26 ◼ ► that I was adopting a kind of Todd Barry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1706">TS</a>]
00:28:30 ◼ ► like deadpan that that just to take Todd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1710">TS</a>]
00:28:36 ◼ ► Barry and paul f tompkins two examples [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1716">TS</a>]
00:28:38 ◼ ► like Todd uses this this super low a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1718">TS</a>]
00:28:43 ◼ ► fact as a as a great sort of comedic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1723">TS</a>]
00:28:48 ◼ ► wedge and he becomes I i think i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1728">TS</a>]
00:28:55 ◼ ► what i was seeing is that every comedian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1735">TS</a>]
00:28:57 ◼ ► I know every performer that gets up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1737">TS</a>]
00:29:00 ◼ ► does a one-person show like they they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1740">TS</a>]
00:29:03 ◼ ► find a way to make their character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1743">TS</a>]
00:29:06 ◼ ► sympathetic make their make the person [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1746">TS</a>]
00:29:10 ◼ ► onstage a person that everyone in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1750">TS</a>]
00:29:13 ◼ ► audience can empathize with and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1753">TS</a>]
00:29:16 ◼ ► somehow Todd Barry makes this like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1756">TS</a>]
00:29:19 ◼ ► really low a fact disagreeable uh you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1759">TS</a>]
00:29:26 ◼ ► a status conscious character that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1766">TS</a>]
00:29:29 ◼ ► presents like you your ear on his side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1769">TS</a>]
00:29:33 ◼ ► right and and polished Tompkins is very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1773">TS</a>]
00:29:37 ◼ ► animated and friendly he appears to be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1777">TS</a>]
00:29:40 ◼ ► guy that you would want to know and be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1780">TS</a>]
00:29:42 ◼ ► friends with who you're onstage want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1782">TS</a>]
00:29:46 ◼ ► put them on a keychain you so cute he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1786">TS</a>]
00:29:49 ◼ ► you're onstage thing when you give your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1789">TS</a>]
00:29:51 ◼ ► presentations at a you know I hear your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1791">TS</a>]
00:29:54 ◼ ► inbox zero presentations around in your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1794">TS</a>]
00:29:56 ◼ ► yeah when you get up on stage and do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1796">TS</a>]
00:30:00 ◼ ► your character is like the guy that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1800">TS</a>]
00:30:03 ◼ ► everybody in the room who you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1803">TS</a>]
00:30:05 ◼ ► wishes would come into their office and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1805">TS</a>]
00:30:08 ◼ ► and be there with them for an hour you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1808">TS</a>]
00:30:11 ◼ ► know like you are the one you're the guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1811">TS</a>]
00:30:12 ◼ ► that they all want to be right and my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1812">TS</a>]
00:30:17 ◼ ► thing standing onstage with the rock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1817">TS</a>]
00:30:19 ◼ ► band like I the guitar and the song was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1819">TS</a>]
00:30:26 ◼ ► was so active and so there was so much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1826">TS</a>]
00:30:30 ◼ ► life in the music that then I could be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1830">TS</a>]
00:30:35 ◼ ► this kind of rye voice in between songs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1835">TS</a>]
00:30:38 ◼ ► where I would just you know I kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1838">TS</a>]
00:30:40 ◼ ► talk to the audience like this and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1840">TS</a>]
00:30:41 ◼ ► voice just say oh you think that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1841">TS</a>]
00:30:44 ◼ ► we'll look you don't you fucking shut up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1844">TS</a>]
00:30:47 ◼ ► for a second but and then go back into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1847">TS</a>]
00:30:51 ◼ ► the song was like yeah i am and the and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1851">TS</a>]
00:30:54 ◼ ► the attention and the contrast was was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1854">TS</a>]
00:30:57 ◼ ► exciting and it's part of why that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1857">TS</a>]
00:30:59 ◼ ► character worked but as I was doing this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1859">TS</a>]
00:31:01 ◼ ► our like I heard myself and and and was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1861">TS</a>]
00:31:06 ◼ ► conscious of this this persona where I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1866">TS</a>]
00:31:12 ◼ ► you know I'm kind of talking to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1872">TS</a>]
00:31:13 ◼ ► audience like this for an hour and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1873">TS</a>]
00:31:18 ◼ ► and it raised all these questions of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1878">TS</a>]
00:31:21 ◼ ► like well who is this guy like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1881">TS</a>]
00:31:24 ◼ ► isn't this isn't how I'm this isn't how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1884">TS</a>]
00:31:30 ◼ ► and this isn't you know and if I'm if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1890">TS</a>]
00:31:34 ◼ ► I'm standing somewhere and trying to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1894">TS</a>]
00:31:36 ◼ ► a bunch of people's attention like I can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1896">TS</a>]
00:31:38 ◼ ► tell a very animated story but because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1898">TS</a>]
00:31:41 ◼ ► have everyone's attention already in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1901">TS</a>]
00:31:43 ◼ ► this room and it's quiet room and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1903">TS</a>]
00:31:45 ◼ ► nobody's talking about me I'm you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1905">TS</a>]
00:31:47 ◼ ► I'm all the way down here at this sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1907">TS</a>]
00:31:49 ◼ ► of like and then so that anywhere then i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1909">TS</a>]
00:31:51 ◼ ► said this and then I said that and I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1911">TS</a>]
00:31:52 ◼ ► like how do i need to divide it to turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1912">TS</a>]
00:31:55 ◼ ► them turn the energy up a little bit on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1915">TS</a>]
00:31:58 ◼ ► me like be a little bit more excited [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1918">TS</a>]
00:32:03 ◼ ► I don't know that's another thing i need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1923">TS</a>]
00:32:06 ◼ ► two things I cannot bear to listen or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1926">TS</a>]
00:32:10 ◼ ► watch myself perform i should i should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1930">TS</a>]
00:32:17 ◼ ► yeah I should be watching these shows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1937">TS</a>]
00:32:19 ◼ ► and saying like oh that's that's the one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1939">TS</a>]
00:32:22 ◼ ► thing in mind I i really i can listen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1942">TS</a>]
00:32:24 ◼ ► podcasts I've been on i can listen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1944">TS</a>]
00:32:26 ◼ ► music I've done but I don't like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1946">TS</a>]
00:32:27 ◼ ► watching myself alone on stage doing a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1947">TS</a>]
00:32:30 ◼ ► thing and it's not embarrassing to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1950">TS</a>]
00:32:32 ◼ ► but it does it makes me self-conscious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1952">TS</a>]
00:32:35 ◼ ► in a way that I'm not sure is good and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1955">TS</a>]
00:32:40 ◼ ► mean it's I to me is how it feels in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1960">TS</a>]
00:32:42 ◼ ► room you know it needs to feel a certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1962">TS</a>]
00:32:44 ◼ ► way in the room and which means yes it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1964">TS</a>]
00:32:46 ◼ ► means that I need to feel a certain way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1966">TS</a>]
00:32:48 ◼ ► in the room but i think especially in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1968">TS</a>]
00:32:49 ◼ ► comedy quote-unquote comedy one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1969">TS</a>]
00:32:52 ◼ ► problems is that I don't know how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1972">TS</a>]
00:32:54 ◼ ► describe this it's almost like people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1974">TS</a>]
00:32:55 ◼ ► think that they can win the room over by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1975">TS</a>]
00:32:58 ◼ ► controlling the temperature of the room [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1978">TS</a>]
00:33:00 ◼ ► and making it hotter and colder right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1980">TS</a>]
00:33:02 ◼ ► she kind of also have to have these much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1982">TS</a>]
00:33:04 ◼ ► more subtle and ineffable qualities of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1984">TS</a>]
00:33:06 ◼ ► controlling the humidity and barometric [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1986">TS</a>]
00:33:07 ◼ ► pressure there's this ability to like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1987">TS</a>]
00:33:10 ◼ ► it's like kegeling or something you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1990">TS</a>]
00:33:12 ◼ ► discover this mostly didn't even know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1992">TS</a>]
00:33:14 ◼ ► you had I tried killing and i discovered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1994">TS</a>]
00:33:17 ◼ ► i didn't have that most I think you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1997">TS</a>]
00:33:18 ◼ ► to act like you're stopping or you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/1998">TS</a>]
00:33:22 ◼ ► I do that all the time i got like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2002">TS</a>]
00:33:23 ◼ ► stopping people just act like I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2003">TS</a>]
00:33:27 ◼ ► I keep eating sure you're not a Buddhist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2007">TS</a>]
00:33:29 ◼ ► haha what I can join the humidity there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2009">TS</a>]
00:33:33 ◼ ► what I what I do is I go into men's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2013">TS</a>]
00:33:35 ◼ ► rooms and I act like I'm stopping peeing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2015">TS</a>]
00:33:37 ◼ ► all of all the guys who have been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2017">TS</a>]
00:33:38 ◼ ► carrying a ladder and a bell and just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2018">TS</a>]
00:33:40 ◼ ► stand in the back and I'm like but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2020">TS</a>]
00:33:47 ◼ ► it's super interesting to me how you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2027">TS</a>]
00:33:49 ◼ ► know it's it's what makes me want to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2029">TS</a>]
00:33:51 ◼ ► lots more live stuff because i know i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2031">TS</a>]
00:33:53 ◼ ► think i know what you're saying is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2033">TS</a>]
00:33:54 ◼ ► you discover this this person emerging [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2034">TS</a>]
00:33:56 ◼ ► through these little my new trial and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2036">TS</a>]
00:33:58 ◼ ► error things and I can only imagine how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2038">TS</a>]
00:34:00 ◼ ► much more I would learn if I did that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2040">TS</a>]
00:34:02 ◼ ► every week or every two weeks or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2042">TS</a>]
00:34:03 ◼ ► whatever you know where I feel like by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2043">TS</a>]
00:34:05 ◼ ► the time I'm ready to get off stage at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2045">TS</a>]
00:34:07 ◼ ► some kind of a live performance i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2047">TS</a>]
00:34:08 ◼ ► im just barely starting to understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2048">TS</a>]
00:34:11 ◼ ► I'm I'm loosening up that warming up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2051">TS</a>]
00:34:14 ◼ ► I'm getting out of my own way and I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2054">TS</a>]
00:34:16 ◼ ► letting silence float when it needs to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2056">TS</a>]
00:34:18 ◼ ► float I'm knowing when to run out and do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2058">TS</a>]
00:34:20 ◼ ► something goofy but I but suddenly it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2060">TS</a>]
00:34:23 ◼ ► takes awhile for me because I don't do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2063">TS</a>]
00:34:25 ◼ ► it all the time where somebody like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2065">TS</a>]
00:34:26 ◼ ► politics or whomever can just walk out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2066">TS</a>]
00:34:28 ◼ ► and you know immediately they the energy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2068">TS</a>]
00:34:31 ◼ ► in the room changes when they come out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2071">TS</a>]
00:34:33 ◼ ► because there are presents they know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2073">TS</a>]
00:34:34 ◼ ► they are empathetic I don't have another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2074">TS</a>]
00:34:36 ◼ ► better word than that empathetic and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2076">TS</a>]
00:34:38 ◼ ► they can see themselves in the audience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2078">TS</a>]
00:34:40 ◼ ► watching it and knowing what they should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2080">TS</a>]
00:34:42 ◼ ► be doing and you know part of it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2082">TS</a>]
00:34:44 ◼ ► probably that you can explain that to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2084">TS</a>]
00:34:46 ◼ ► somebody just got to go and do it a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2086">TS</a>]
00:34:48 ◼ ► it's like that one Saturday morning when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2088">TS</a>]
00:34:50 ◼ ► you wake up and can suddenly play bar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2090">TS</a>]
00:34:51 ◼ ► chords you can tell somebody put your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2091">TS</a>]
00:34:53 ◼ ► fingers here and then they can do a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2093">TS</a>]
00:34:55 ◼ ► whole bunch and eventually gets less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2095">TS</a>]
00:34:56 ◼ ► heart but honestly one day I could do a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2096">TS</a>]
00:34:59 ◼ ► barre chord the day before I couldn't i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2099">TS</a>]
00:35:00 ◼ ► don't know why but it was just I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2100">TS</a>]
00:35:02 ◼ ► know why was that Saturday rather than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2102">TS</a>]
00:35:04 ◼ ► the one before the one after but that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2104">TS</a>]
00:35:05 ◼ ► was the difference because you know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2105">TS</a>]
00:35:07 ◼ ► was the Grays out the the guys with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2107">TS</a>]
00:35:11 ◼ ► alien guys have a great came into your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2111">TS</a>]
00:35:13 ◼ ► they said he's ready and they said let's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2113">TS</a>]
00:35:15 ◼ ► see let's upload the the matrix program [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2115">TS</a>]
00:35:20 ◼ ► well apart though right well and so so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2120">TS</a>]
00:35:24 ◼ ► like a kurt braunohler do you know this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2124">TS</a>]
00:35:27 ◼ ► comedian he's a very funny comedian i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2127">TS</a>]
00:35:31 ◼ ► did a couple of shows with him in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2131">TS</a>]
00:35:33 ◼ ► fall where he got up in like cold in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2133">TS</a>]
00:35:36 ◼ ► front of a room that was it was one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2136">TS</a>]
00:35:40 ◼ ► sighs it was the wesley space the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2140">TS</a>]
00:35:42 ◼ ► cabinet of Wonders right it's like all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2142">TS</a>]
00:35:45 ◼ ► a british guys gonna get up and play to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2145">TS</a>]
00:35:47 ◼ ► folk songs and then there's going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2147">TS</a>]
00:35:49 ◼ ► a you know a guy who's playing wine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2149">TS</a>]
00:35:52 ◼ ► glasses and then there's gonna be an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2152">TS</a>]
00:35:55 ◼ ► emoji then the juggler and Men the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2155">TS</a>]
00:35:58 ◼ ► comedian gets five minutes and he walks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2158">TS</a>]
00:36:01 ◼ ► out and he you know ease in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2161">TS</a>]
00:36:04 ◼ ► incredible position of trying to present [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2164">TS</a>]
00:36:08 ◼ ► to the room like this casual comedian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2168">TS</a>]
00:36:14 ◼ ► effect where right away you're gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2174">TS</a>]
00:36:18 ◼ ► you're gonna be on board listening to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2178">TS</a>]
00:36:19 ◼ ► him tell his story and he also was doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2179">TS</a>]
00:36:24 ◼ ► this what i can only think is like a new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2184">TS</a>]
00:36:28 ◼ ► movement in comedy which is like a funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2188">TS</a>]
00:36:30 ◼ ► thing happened to me on the way over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2190">TS</a>]
00:36:31 ◼ ► here and told the story you know 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2191">TS</a>]
00:36:35 ◼ ► minute long story that was that again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2195">TS</a>]
00:36:38 ◼ ► had all these elements of of joke making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2198">TS</a>]
00:36:42 ◼ ► that that was ever that showed 10 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2202">TS</a>]
00:36:46 ◼ ► in the comedy trenches or longer of kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2206">TS</a>]
00:36:49 ◼ ► of nowhere jokes and annoying how jokes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2209">TS</a>]
00:36:51 ◼ ► live but the framework of it was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2211">TS</a>]
00:36:57 ◼ ► the anecdotal story telling and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2217">TS</a>]
00:37:03 ◼ ► there's all this there's all this work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2223">TS</a>]
00:37:06 ◼ ► that's ever that's obviously gone into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2226">TS</a>]
00:37:08 ◼ ► this art form that they done the work so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2228">TS</a>]
00:37:12 ◼ ► now they can forget it and I have done a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2232">TS</a>]
00:37:16 ◼ ► lot of that work but it's it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2236">TS</a>]
00:37:20 ◼ ► patchwork quilt and so these shows the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2240">TS</a>]
00:37:24 ◼ ► this last show that I did and then my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2244">TS</a>]
00:37:26 ◼ ► goal for the shows for the next six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2246">TS</a>]
00:37:28 ◼ ► months is to is to get up there and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2248">TS</a>]
00:37:33 ◼ ► really you know like I a lot of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2253">TS</a>]
00:37:35 ◼ ► congratulating me after the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2255">TS</a>]
00:37:37 ◼ ► everybody was very happy obviously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2257">TS</a>]
00:37:38 ◼ ► everybody that was there bought a ticket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2258">TS</a>]
00:37:40 ◼ ► to the next one or more they they call [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2260">TS</a>]
00:37:44 ◼ ► their friends and said I can't go but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2264">TS</a>]
00:37:45 ◼ ► you should or whatever like it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2265">TS</a>]
00:37:48 ◼ ► selling tickets isn't isn't something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2268">TS</a>]
00:37:50 ◼ ► I'm worried about at least for now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2270">TS</a>]
00:37:53 ◼ ► so I have the opportunity to get up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2273">TS</a>]
00:37:55 ◼ ► there and failed but my god getting up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2275">TS</a>]
00:37:57 ◼ ► and failing is not fun even if you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2277">TS</a>]
00:38:00 ◼ ► everybody in the room is like doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2280">TS</a>]
00:38:02 ◼ ► matter to us go for it and that was that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2282">TS</a>]
00:38:05 ◼ ► was just good let me get that you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2285">TS</a>]
00:38:09 ◼ ► oh yeah that was good that was good i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2289">TS</a>]
00:38:11 ◼ ► mean you know there were a couple like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2291">TS</a>]
00:38:12 ◼ ► yeah that that story went a little long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2292">TS</a>]
00:38:15 ◼ ► but you know it was really good like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2295">TS</a>]
00:38:18 ◼ ► but-but-but I expected it you know and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2298">TS</a>]
00:38:22 ◼ ► even even the guy from the guy from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2302">TS</a>]
00:38:24 ◼ ► robber who runs the AV the dude up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2304">TS</a>]
00:38:28 ◼ ► I mean there's one microphone right so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2308">TS</a>]
00:38:29 ◼ ► he's up there is just got his hand on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2309">TS</a>]
00:38:30 ◼ ► the fader through the whole show one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2310">TS</a>]
00:38:32 ◼ ► fader but like he came back right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2312">TS</a>]
00:38:35 ◼ ► afterwards i'm sitting in the backstage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2315">TS</a>]
00:38:37 ◼ ► area he came back to sharpen his pencil [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2317">TS</a>]
00:38:40 ◼ ► or something and and i'm looking at this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2320">TS</a>]
00:38:45 ◼ ► guy for some kind of validation like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2325">TS</a>]
00:38:47 ◼ ► well well you know I don't know your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2327">TS</a>]
00:38:50 ◼ ► name but tell me how i did and he's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2330">TS</a>]
00:38:53 ◼ ► he's just one around back there like me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2333">TS</a>]
00:38:54 ◼ ► anything right and it needed anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2334">TS</a>]
00:38:57 ◼ ► and I'm like no I'm going to me is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2337">TS</a>]
00:38:58 ◼ ► okay and he walks out I'm like fuck the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2338">TS</a>]
00:39:03 ◼ ► fuck i didn't win that guy like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2343">TS</a>]
00:39:06 ◼ ► changed my life over funny to me that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2346">TS</a>]
00:39:08 ◼ ► you would feel that way that's so funny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2348">TS</a>]
00:39:10 ◼ ► you know it's terrible but but but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2350">TS</a>]
00:39:12 ◼ ► i'm also i'm also monitoring myself a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2352">TS</a>]
00:39:16 ◼ ► through the whole process run like okay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2356">TS</a>]
00:39:18 ◼ ► calm calm down now Richard Pryor like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2358">TS</a>]
00:39:23 ◼ ► you just did one show rate and the AV [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2363">TS</a>]
00:39:26 ◼ ► guy didn't put a Hawaiian lei around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2366">TS</a>]
00:39:32 ◼ ► I got upset and so philosophical of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2372">TS</a>]
00:39:35 ◼ ► about this i mean you did your daughter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2375">TS</a>]
00:39:39 ◼ ► oh she likes to walk so yeah it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2379">TS</a>]
00:39:41 ◼ ► actually see if Walker goes from here to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2381">TS</a>]
00:39:43 ◼ ► there but you know the first time that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2383">TS</a>]
00:39:45 ◼ ► child this is the ultimate obvious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2385">TS</a>]
00:39:47 ◼ ► on-the-nose analogy because that's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2387">TS</a>]
00:39:50 ◼ ► even an analogy but the first time you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2390">TS</a>]
00:39:52 ◼ ► know kid tries to walk for a really long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2392">TS</a>]
00:39:53 ◼ ► time and falls down and you applaud them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2393">TS</a>]
00:39:55 ◼ ► for for trying to walk and eventually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2395">TS</a>]
00:39:57 ◼ ► one day another good-looking get up your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2397">TS</a>]
00:40:03 ◼ ► get up look at this chart but you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2403">TS</a>]
00:40:06 ◼ ► where you don't want to live buddy 48 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2406">TS</a>]
00:40:08 ◼ ► percentile that is no place to live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2408">TS</a>]
00:40:11 ◼ ► my mom wrote down the the day that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2411">TS</a>]
00:40:13 ◼ ► first walked and you are two percent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2413">TS</a>]
00:40:19 ◼ ► but you know eventually one day the kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2419">TS</a>]
00:40:21 ◼ ► the kid walks for a while and you free [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2421">TS</a>]
00:40:23 ◼ ► cuz you're like oh my god this is great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2423">TS</a>]
00:40:24 ◼ ► it's great it's great and then for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2424">TS</a>]
00:40:26 ◼ ► the kid doesn't walk very well but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2426">TS</a>]
00:40:28 ◼ ► kid walks and then eventually the kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2428">TS</a>]
00:40:30 ◼ ► walks and so on and so forth and I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2430">TS</a>]
00:40:32 ◼ ► that's kind of how i feel about a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2432">TS</a>]
00:40:35 ◼ ► performance where I used to really I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2435">TS</a>]
00:40:38 ◼ ► don't know it's not even superstition I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2438">TS</a>]
00:40:39 ◼ ► kind of don't like talking to people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2439">TS</a>]
00:40:40 ◼ ► about what i just did it feels it feels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2440">TS</a>]
00:40:43 ◼ ► undignified I i like it when people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2443">TS</a>]
00:40:46 ◼ ► complicated like it makes me feel good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2446">TS</a>]
00:40:47 ◼ ► but I don't want to parse it I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2447">TS</a>]
00:40:49 ◼ ► it's just it's done it's done now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2449">TS</a>]
00:40:51 ◼ ► like for me it's just a matter of doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2451">TS</a>]
00:40:53 ◼ ► that over and over and over and I got to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2453">TS</a>]
00:40:55 ◼ ► a point where like you know I didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2455">TS</a>]
00:40:57 ◼ ► worry about what the sound guy thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2457">TS</a>]
00:40:58 ◼ ► and when doing like you know talks and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2458">TS</a>]
00:41:00 ◼ ► stuff and it made me it made me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2460">TS</a>]
00:41:02 ◼ ► happier person I would it also made me I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2462">TS</a>]
00:41:04 ◼ ► think a little bit better at kind of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2464">TS</a>]
00:41:08 ◼ ► trend that I mean obviously you're way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2468">TS</a>]
00:41:11 ◼ ► but at the same time like there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2471">TS</a>]
00:41:12 ◼ ► something nice about getting the point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2472">TS</a>]
00:41:14 ◼ ► where you go thanks I'm glad you enjoyed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2474">TS</a>]
00:41:15 ◼ ► it and then you you know going to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2475">TS</a>]
00:41:16 ◼ ► next thing but for me like I kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2476">TS</a>]
00:41:20 ◼ ► felt like that person who can I can walk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2480">TS</a>]
00:41:22 ◼ ► and I can walk pretty well and make it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2482">TS</a>]
00:41:24 ◼ ► can walk a little bit fancy sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2484">TS</a>]
00:41:25 ◼ ► but it's just a matter of doing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2485">TS</a>]
00:41:27 ◼ ► walking every day just doing that every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2487">TS</a>]
00:41:29 ◼ ► every every every day and eventually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2489">TS</a>]
00:41:31 ◼ ► like I'll know what I'm good it won't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2491">TS</a>]
00:41:33 ◼ ► matter i'm glad you liked it but what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2493">TS</a>]
00:41:35 ◼ ► matters is whether i think it's good and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2495">TS</a>]
00:41:37 ◼ ► when I know it's good it won't matter if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2497">TS</a>]
00:41:40 ◼ ► that's to me that's kind of that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2500">TS</a>]
00:41:42 ◼ ► the good place to be not to be arrogant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2502">TS</a>]
00:41:44 ◼ ► but you know same thing again just we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2504">TS</a>]
00:41:46 ◼ ► back the whole check your privilege [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2506">TS</a>]
00:41:47 ◼ ► thing like if you actually are good at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2507">TS</a>]
00:41:48 ◼ ► something it's it's it's like Harrison [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2508">TS</a>]
00:41:53 ◼ ► Bergeron you know like nobody's allowed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2513">TS</a>]
00:41:57 ◼ ► Walker you certainly aren't aware you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2517">TS</a>]
00:41:59 ◼ ► sure are a lot to be aware if you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2519">TS</a>]
00:42:01 ◼ ► good but if you get to a point where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2521">TS</a>]
00:42:02 ◼ ► like don't need to glance across [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2522">TS</a>]
00:42:04 ◼ ► everybody in the room to find out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2524">TS</a>]
00:42:05 ◼ ► whether you're happy with how you did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2525">TS</a>]
00:42:07 ◼ ► what you did because it's what you do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2527">TS</a>]
00:42:09 ◼ ► and you just keep going out and doing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2529">TS</a>]
00:42:10 ◼ ► it's you know it makes me really want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2530">TS</a>]
00:42:13 ◼ ► do that stuff more to get to where I it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2533">TS</a>]
00:42:16 ◼ ► really is about you know the crafters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2536">TS</a>]
00:42:18 ◼ ► and there's always going to be another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2538">TS</a>]
00:42:19 ◼ ► one that's the thing you're always going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2539">TS</a>]
00:42:21 ◼ ► to do more of these right well and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2541">TS</a>]
00:42:23 ◼ ► was the thing that I mean watching Paul [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2543">TS</a>]
00:42:26 ◼ ► Tompkins tell them tell his do is show a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2546">TS</a>]
00:42:28 ◼ ► couple years ago I was very very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2548">TS</a>]
00:42:31 ◼ ► conscious that the the apparent ease and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2551">TS</a>]
00:42:39 ◼ ► surely every night invites 5 to 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2559">TS</a>]
00:42:43 ◼ ► people to come up to him in the bar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2563">TS</a>]
00:42:45 ◼ ► afterwards and talk to him about their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2565">TS</a>]
00:42:47 ◼ ► storytelling talents you know I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2567">TS</a>]
00:42:50 ◼ ► like it seems so easy and so so people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2570">TS</a>]
00:42:57 ◼ ► are duped into thinking it's easy and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2577">TS</a>]
00:43:04 ◼ ► and the problem was it's impossible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2584">TS</a>]
00:43:05 ◼ ► because I'm standing there with Paul [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2585">TS</a>]
00:43:07 ◼ ► afterwards and I want to tell him about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2587">TS</a>]
00:43:09 ◼ ► how i like to tell stories and how the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2589">TS</a>]
00:43:11 ◼ ► how inspirational this was I recognize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2591">TS</a>]
00:43:14 ◼ ► that that that he hears it all the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2594">TS</a>]
00:43:18 ◼ ► and unlike guitar playing and rock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2598">TS</a>]
00:43:20 ◼ ► banding like you get off the stage at a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2600">TS</a>]
00:43:22 ◼ ► at a rock concert yeah they're going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2602">TS</a>]
00:43:24 ◼ ► be five or six guys that come up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2604">TS</a>]
00:43:25 ◼ ► talk to you about their band but there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2605">TS</a>]
00:43:28 ◼ ► are so many things you have to do before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2608">TS</a>]
00:43:31 ◼ ► your band is headlining a show that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2611">TS</a>]
00:43:34 ◼ ► can listen to a guy talk about his band [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2614">TS</a>]
00:43:36 ◼ ► his guitar playing and all the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2616">TS</a>]
00:43:37 ◼ ► that all his aspirations and then at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2617">TS</a>]
00:43:40 ◼ ► end you can kind of just you know pat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2620">TS</a>]
00:43:41 ◼ ► him on the shoulder and go well good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2621">TS</a>]
00:43:43 ◼ ► luck buddy i hope good things happen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2623">TS</a>]
00:43:45 ◼ ► your band but with storytelling that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2625">TS</a>]
00:43:50 ◼ ► Eugene Mirman anecdote about you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2630">TS</a>]
00:43:53 ◼ ► that was really good now good for 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2633">TS</a>]
00:43:55 ◼ ► years exactly go do it for 10 years and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2635">TS</a>]
00:43:58 ◼ ► of entry to get up in front of a crowd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2638">TS</a>]
00:44:00 ◼ ► and hold the microphone in your hand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2640">TS</a>]
00:44:01 ◼ ► there is none like anybody can do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2641">TS</a>]
00:44:04 ◼ ► anybody can stand take that first step [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2644">TS</a>]
00:44:06 ◼ ► onto the stage holding a microphone and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2646">TS</a>]
00:44:08 ◼ ► the question is do does the audience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2648">TS</a>]
00:44:10 ◼ ► leave an hour later entertained so so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2650">TS</a>]
00:44:16 ◼ ► when I walked off the stage at the other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2656">TS</a>]
00:44:19 ◼ ► night and people wanted to talk to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2659">TS</a>]
00:44:25 ◼ ► about it as much as I as much as I in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2665">TS</a>]
00:44:32 ◼ ► wanted feedback I didn't need any ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2672">TS</a>]
00:44:35 ◼ ► and what I kept playing in my own head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2675">TS</a>]
00:44:39 ◼ ► what other what I kept going back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2679">TS</a>]
00:44:42 ◼ ► because you know i wanted i want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2682">TS</a>]
00:44:43 ◼ ► criticize my own show and turn it into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2683">TS</a>]
00:44:49 ◼ ► that's my instinct like to go through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2689">TS</a>]
00:44:51 ◼ ► each moment of the show and be like when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2691">TS</a>]
00:44:54 ◼ ► ashes or wet ashes who went ashes what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2694">TS</a>]
00:45:01 ◼ ► you know what I kept saying to myself as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2701">TS</a>]
00:45:03 ◼ ► I'm sitting backstage was a year ago you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2703">TS</a>]
00:45:08 ◼ ► were superior like massively depressed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2708">TS</a>]
00:45:12 ◼ ► you were 40 pounds overweight and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2712">TS</a>]
00:45:17 ◼ ► prospect of actually getting up onstage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2717">TS</a>]
00:45:20 ◼ ► actually booking a show and following [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2720">TS</a>]
00:45:22 ◼ ► through on it was like an insurmountable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2722">TS</a>]
00:45:26 ◼ ► obstacle you couldn't imagine doing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2726">TS</a>]
00:45:29 ◼ ► and four months ago you said you set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2729">TS</a>]
00:45:36 ◼ ► some some goal and in a way like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2736">TS</a>]
00:45:39 ◼ ► first time I ever first time in a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2739">TS</a>]
00:45:41 ◼ ► long time actually wrote a goal down on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2741">TS</a>]
00:45:43 ◼ ► a piece of paper and it was a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2743">TS</a>]
00:45:46 ◼ ► handful of of goals that all that all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2746">TS</a>]
00:45:50 ◼ ► dovetailed with each other like find an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2750">TS</a>]
00:45:52 ◼ ► assistant renting office space book a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2752">TS</a>]
00:45:56 ◼ ► weekly show and in the in the tension [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2756">TS</a>]
00:46:02 ◼ ► and the anxiety leading up to this first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2762">TS</a>]
00:46:04 ◼ ► show it was very difficult to to take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2764">TS</a>]
00:46:08 ◼ ► pride in having taken any of those steps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2768">TS</a>]
00:46:11 ◼ ► because it seemed like oh sure you got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2771">TS</a>]
00:46:14 ◼ ► an office but the but they put some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2774">TS</a>]
00:46:16 ◼ ► chemical sealant on the floor and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2776">TS</a>]
00:46:17 ◼ ► can't be in there because it gives you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2777">TS</a>]
00:46:18 ◼ ► allergies and you know yeah you said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2778">TS</a>]
00:46:21 ◼ ► about trying to find an assistant but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2781">TS</a>]
00:46:22 ◼ ► now now you have for assistance and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2782">TS</a>]
00:46:25 ◼ ► and and like three times the anxiety and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2785">TS</a>]
00:46:30 ◼ ► oh you book to show sure but but between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2790">TS</a>]
00:46:35 ◼ ► maybe your pants are going to catch on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2795">TS</a>]
00:46:36 ◼ ► fire or maybe the world is going to come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2796">TS</a>]
00:46:38 ◼ ► to an end and sitting backstage what I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2798">TS</a>]
00:46:41 ◼ ► was a lot what I was allowing myself was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2801">TS</a>]
00:46:44 ◼ ► in fact you have you have accomplished [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2804">TS</a>]
00:46:46 ◼ ► the goals that you set out to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2806">TS</a>]
00:46:49 ◼ ► well you have to give yourself that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2809">TS</a>]
00:46:53 ◼ ► allow yourself in that moment I was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2813">TS</a>]
00:46:55 ◼ ► do not do not turn the show that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2815">TS</a>]
00:46:58 ◼ ► just did it too wet ashes now is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2818">TS</a>]
00:47:00 ◼ ► time to reflect on the fact that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2820">TS</a>]
00:47:02 ◼ ► have an office you have you have an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2822">TS</a>]
00:47:11 ◼ ► assistants maybe maybe more i'm a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2831">TS</a>]
00:47:13 ◼ ► manager or two of the assistants I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2833">TS</a>]
00:47:17 ◼ ► I've definitely met two of my assistant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2837">TS</a>]
00:47:20 ◼ ► and most importantly you have you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2840">TS</a>]
00:47:25 ◼ ► you booked a weekly show and you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2845">TS</a>]
00:47:27 ◼ ► now done the first one so no matter what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2847">TS</a>]
00:47:30 ◼ ► happened if I it if you know and and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2850">TS</a>]
00:47:34 ◼ ► fact is like not only did the show but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2854">TS</a>]
00:47:36 ◼ ► like succeeded at it if I'd gotten up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2856">TS</a>]
00:47:40 ◼ ► there and just stuttered for an hour I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2860">TS</a>]
00:47:44 ◼ ► could be proud of having taken all those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2864">TS</a>]
00:47:47 ◼ ► steps and in fact I got up and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2867">TS</a>]
00:47:48 ◼ ► entertained the crowd and everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2868">TS</a>]
00:47:49 ◼ ► laughed and sold out the next one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2869">TS</a>]
00:47:53 ◼ ► well and so that was before I knew that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2873">TS</a>]
00:47:54 ◼ ► right and so I was sitting there and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2874">TS</a>]
00:47:57 ◼ ► was like listen maybe you're gonna sell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2877">TS</a>]
00:47:58 ◼ ► 20 tickets to the next show in advance [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2878">TS</a>]
00:48:00 ◼ ► and then you're going to have to promote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2880">TS</a>]
00:48:03 ◼ ► it and get you know put 50 more people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2883">TS</a>]
00:48:05 ◼ ► in there but that's not going to be hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2885">TS</a>]
00:48:06 ◼ ► to do and over time this will build and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2886">TS</a>]
00:48:10 ◼ ► at some point there will be a long five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2890">TS</a>]
00:48:12 ◼ ► months from now and you'll only see and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2892">TS</a>]
00:48:14 ◼ ► nobody will come but you just keep doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2894">TS</a>]
00:48:18 ◼ ► this is the this is the trail and a year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2898">TS</a>]
00:48:23 ◼ ► from now you will know a year from now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2903">TS</a>]
00:48:26 ◼ ► something will have revealed itself and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2906">TS</a>]
00:48:30 ◼ ► so I allowed myself that and and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2910">TS</a>]
00:48:33 ◼ ► everytime everytime the voice came into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2913">TS</a>]
00:48:35 ◼ ► my head that was like you know that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2915">TS</a>]
00:48:37 ◼ ► butchered the show last night and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2917">TS</a>]
00:48:39 ◼ ► everyone in the room that used to be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2919">TS</a>]
00:48:41 ◼ ► fan of yours now realizes that you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2921">TS</a>]
00:48:43 ◼ ► charlatans every time that happened that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2923">TS</a>]
00:48:47 ◼ ► voice speaks with a lot of battery am at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2927">TS</a>]
00:48:49 ◼ ► my house every day it's very hard for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2929">TS</a>]
00:48:51 ◼ ► to to to describe that that character [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2931">TS</a>]
00:48:54 ◼ ► because he speaks Welsh but yea right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2934">TS</a>]
00:48:58 ◼ ► that is the that every time that voice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2938">TS</a>]
00:49:00 ◼ ► came into my head I just repeated that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2940">TS</a>]
00:49:01 ◼ ► little like I a year ago we had hoped [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2941">TS</a>]
00:49:06 ◼ ► Bob Hope and steve jobs and johnny cash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2946">TS</a>]
00:49:14 ◼ ► basically a group of assistance unusable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2954">TS</a>]
00:49:18 ◼ ► office space but you have done this show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2958">TS</a>]
00:49:20 ◼ ► will you use the gold first of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2960">TS</a>]
00:49:22 ◼ ► congratulations i don't make it about my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2962">TS</a>]
00:49:24 ◼ ► congratulations and but also that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2964">TS</a>]
00:49:25 ◼ ► thing about a goal is and three girls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2965">TS</a>]
00:49:27 ◼ ► are stupid is that most times people let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2967">TS</a>]
00:49:30 ◼ ► the goal becomes the goal the goal is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2970">TS</a>]
00:49:32 ◼ ► this thing that they basically carven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2972">TS</a>]
00:49:34 ◼ ► stone sometimes having absolutely no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2974">TS</a>]
00:49:37 ◼ ► reason and no credibility to make that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2977">TS</a>]
00:49:39 ◼ ► goal that I probably most people i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2979">TS</a>]
00:49:41 ◼ ► is people are all into these goals and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2981">TS</a>]
00:49:43 ◼ ► think the real productive if they got a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2983">TS</a>]
00:49:44 ◼ ► goal my goal is to corner of the solar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2984">TS</a>]
00:49:47 ◼ ► yeah yeah within three months but it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2987">TS</a>]
00:49:49 ◼ ► the same but like I'm just biting my lip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2989">TS</a>]
00:49:52 ◼ ► to not going to put on my merlin hat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2992">TS</a>]
00:49:54 ◼ ► because there's so much about this that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2994">TS</a>]
00:49:55 ◼ ► is why people beat up on themselves and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2995">TS</a>]
00:49:57 ◼ ► end up not not not even not succeeding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2997">TS</a>]
00:49:59 ◼ ► that even trying like thinking it's easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/2999">TS</a>]
00:50:01 ◼ ► well yeah it's just the only people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3001">TS</a>]
00:50:02 ◼ ► think something is easy or people who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3002">TS</a>]
00:50:05 ◼ ► anybody who's actually done anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3005">TS</a>]
00:50:06 ◼ ► knows that nothing is easy it's only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3006">TS</a>]
00:50:08 ◼ ► easy after it stopped being hard and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3008">TS</a>]
00:50:11 ◼ ► it's not you know you and the thing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3011">TS</a>]
00:50:12 ◼ ► nobody there is a new thing that's hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3012">TS</a>]
00:50:14 ◼ ► absolutely there will be five new things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3014">TS</a>]
00:50:16 ◼ ► that are hard that's called growth and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3016">TS</a>]
00:50:17 ◼ ► the thing is sitting in a bar and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3017">TS</a>]
00:50:19 ◼ ► talking about this thing that's easy we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3019">TS</a>]
00:50:20 ◼ ► do you been doing that for 15 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3020">TS</a>]
00:50:23 ◼ ► like somebody's they're all this is easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3023">TS</a>]
00:50:25 ◼ ► ok then why you sit around a bar talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3025">TS</a>]
00:50:27 ◼ ► about how easy it is like what have you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3027">TS</a>]
00:50:29 ◼ ► done and that's and so the problem with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3029">TS</a>]
00:50:32 ◼ ► disconnect between where you think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3032">TS</a>]
00:50:34 ◼ ► should be where you actually are and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3034">TS</a>]
00:50:36 ◼ ► where you can reasonably expect to be in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3036">TS</a>]
00:50:37 ◼ ► some amount of time so having a goal is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3037">TS</a>]
00:50:39 ◼ ► is so I think it's so valuable if it's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3039">TS</a>]
00:50:42 ◼ ► goal that you're also allowing to have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3042">TS</a>]
00:50:45 ◼ ► little air to it so I mean first of all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3045">TS</a>]
00:50:47 ◼ ► congratulations that you got this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3047">TS</a>]
00:50:48 ◼ ► bizarre that's pretty locked feat given [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3048">TS</a>]
00:50:50 ◼ ► where you have been that's pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3050">TS</a>]
00:50:52 ◼ ► amazing with you in the troll that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3052">TS</a>]
00:50:53 ◼ ► can get that far but also it's important [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3053">TS</a>]
00:50:55 ◼ ► just always remember that a goal is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3055">TS</a>]
00:50:56 ◼ ► useful in as much as it keeps you moving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3056">TS</a>]
00:50:58 ◼ ► forward if the goal ever stops making [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3058">TS</a>]
00:51:03 ◼ ► you've missed the point of the goal the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3063">TS</a>]
00:51:04 ◼ ► goal is to make you show up every day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3064">TS</a>]
00:51:06 ◼ ► and to work really hard into the right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3066">TS</a>]
00:51:08 ◼ ► thing it doesn't mean now you become [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3068">TS</a>]
00:51:09 ◼ ► some dumbass you stop taking a new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3069">TS</a>]
00:51:11 ◼ ► information or stops realizing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3071">TS</a>]
00:51:13 ◼ ► you're trying to corner a non-existent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3073">TS</a>]
00:51:15 ◼ ► yeah that's the beauty part it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3075">TS</a>]
00:51:17 ◼ ► whatever if that's the thing about a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3077">TS</a>]
00:51:18 ◼ ► hack that's the thing that gets you off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3078">TS</a>]
00:51:20 ◼ ► your ass and make sure you go out there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3080">TS</a>]
00:51:22 ◼ ► and do it every day until you understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3082">TS</a>]
00:51:24 ◼ ► that enough to have a reasonable goal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3084">TS</a>]
00:51:25 ◼ ► that's why people don't get anywhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3085">TS</a>]
00:51:27 ◼ ► right is they sit there they sit there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3087">TS</a>]
00:51:29 ◼ ► in their little pile of shit and talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3089">TS</a>]
00:51:31 ◼ ► about how easy this should be and never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3091">TS</a>]
00:51:33 ◼ ► do anything to try and reconcile all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3093">TS</a>]
00:51:35 ◼ ► these possibilities they've introduced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3095">TS</a>]
00:51:37 ◼ ► into their life and they think the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3097">TS</a>]
00:51:39 ◼ ► out of that is to come up with more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3099">TS</a>]
00:51:41 ◼ ► everybody because they didn't work out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3101">TS</a>]
00:51:43 ◼ ► quite well and and and and reflecting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3103">TS</a>]
00:51:48 ◼ ► back on how difficult it was like my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3108">TS</a>]
00:51:52 ◼ ► process since since we started talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3112">TS</a>]
00:51:57 ◼ ► not very many months ago I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3117">TS</a>]
00:51:59 ◼ ► remember what where when the debut of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3119">TS</a>]
00:52:01 ◼ ► the idea that i needed an assistant was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3121">TS</a>]
00:52:04 ◼ ► but it wasn't that blog now problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3124">TS</a>]
00:52:06 ◼ ► could be much earlier than like holidays [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3126">TS</a>]
00:52:09 ◼ ► and the idea of asking for help was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3129">TS</a>]
00:52:14 ◼ ► was an incredible obstacle to overcome [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3134">TS</a>]
00:52:16 ◼ ► like I didn't know even who to ask for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3136">TS</a>]
00:52:20 ◼ ► help I didn't know how to ask for help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3140">TS</a>]
00:52:22 ◼ ► and having asked for it and then getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3142">TS</a>]
00:52:25 ◼ ► a response from people and in and in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3145">TS</a>]
00:52:27 ◼ ► fact you know i don't know if i told you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3147">TS</a>]
00:52:30 ◼ ► that the the the way the assistant sign [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3150">TS</a>]
00:52:35 ◼ ► had like a medical assistant for a while [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3155">TS</a>]
00:52:38 ◼ ► that's why i said i have phrased that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3158">TS</a>]
00:52:40 ◼ ► poorly but you had an assistant manager [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3160">TS</a>]
00:52:41 ◼ ► meaning you had someone who wanted to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3161">TS</a>]
00:52:43 ◼ ► a manager of people who might be your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3163">TS</a>]
00:52:45 ◼ ► assistant right well so so so I I the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3165">TS</a>]
00:52:49 ◼ ► first thing i did was i called a my and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3169">TS</a>]
00:52:51 ◼ ► your good friend Adam practica who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3171">TS</a>]
00:52:55 ◼ ► been working at he's a model of of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3175">TS</a>]
00:52:58 ◼ ► task completion he's been working on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3178">TS</a>]
00:53:00 ◼ ► long winters documentary for 15 years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3180">TS</a>]
00:53:02 ◼ ► hiya that said Adam like you know a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3182">TS</a>]
00:53:07 ◼ ► of people who are who are you know fans [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3187">TS</a>]
00:53:11 ◼ ► of the long winters and sort of enemies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3191">TS</a>]
00:53:14 ◼ ► he is one dimension kind of away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3194">TS</a>]
00:53:19 ◼ ► he's one dimension away from me because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3199">TS</a>]
00:53:21 ◼ ► he's not me and he knows a lot of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3201">TS</a>]
00:53:23 ◼ ► and I said who you know I need some help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3203">TS</a>]
00:53:26 ◼ ► finding an assistant can you think of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3206">TS</a>]
00:53:28 ◼ ► anybody and he recommended a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3208">TS</a>]
00:53:30 ◼ ► people and I was thinking about like how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3210">TS</a>]
00:53:32 ◼ ► do I don't like all these people that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3212">TS</a>]
00:53:34 ◼ ► know not very well and ask if they want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3214">TS</a>]
00:53:37 ◼ ► to work for me it's like you can't find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3217">TS</a>]
00:53:39 ◼ ► the number to call the optometrist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3219">TS</a>]
00:53:41 ◼ ► because you don't have glasses exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3221">TS</a>]
00:53:43 ◼ ► and so I called another friend of of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3223">TS</a>]
00:53:47 ◼ ► mine and of atoms Victoria Victoria van [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3227">TS</a>]
00:53:51 ◼ ► bruna see who is an office manager for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3231">TS</a>]
00:53:53 ◼ ► non-profit a very very capable like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3233">TS</a>]
00:53:58 ◼ ► active sort of person and a and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3238">TS</a>]
00:54:02 ◼ ► go-getter like a like get things done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3242">TS</a>]
00:54:05 ◼ ► kind of person she's the one who took [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3245">TS</a>]
00:54:07 ◼ ► she's a photographer but she also kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3247">TS</a>]
00:54:09 ◼ ► of put together how show that i played [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3249">TS</a>]
00:54:12 ◼ ► here that that Adam film that's online [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3252">TS</a>]
00:54:14 ◼ ► you a victorious somebody when she gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3254">TS</a>]
00:54:17 ◼ ► an idea that sweet a little story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3257">TS</a>]
00:54:19 ◼ ► sing the song exactly i was really good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3259">TS</a>]
00:54:21 ◼ ► yeah and that was victorious kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3261">TS</a>]
00:54:23 ◼ ► brain child and it happened at her house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3263">TS</a>]
00:54:25 ◼ ► and so I called Victoria and I was like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3265">TS</a>]
00:54:28 ◼ ► Adam gave me the names of a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3268">TS</a>]
00:54:30 ◼ ► people that I think should be my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3270">TS</a>]
00:54:33 ◼ ► what do you think of these people and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3273">TS</a>]
00:54:35 ◼ ► Victoria said well I that girl would be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3275">TS</a>]
00:54:38 ◼ ► good except she's really busy and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3278">TS</a>]
00:54:41 ◼ ► other person I don't think that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3281">TS</a>]
00:54:44 ◼ ► would be very good because of some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3284">TS</a>]
00:54:46 ◼ ► I was like oh ok she said that she's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3286">TS</a>]
00:54:49 ◼ ► gonna dick cheney you she said said I'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3289">TS</a>]
00:54:53 ◼ ► find your vice president 05 you a vice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3293">TS</a>]
00:54:55 ◼ ► president is what she said and so she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3295">TS</a>]
00:54:58 ◼ ► started to do the thing that I that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3298">TS</a>]
00:55:01 ◼ ► always desperately need the thing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3301">TS</a>]
00:55:03 ◼ ► my dad's executive secretary used to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3303">TS</a>]
00:55:06 ◼ ► which is she would call me or send me an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3306">TS</a>]
00:55:08 ◼ ► email or text me and say well why don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3308">TS</a>]
00:55:11 ◼ ► you just tell me the five things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3311">TS</a>]
00:55:12 ◼ ► you need and so I would kind of i would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3312">TS</a>]
00:55:15 ◼ ► reply and it took me sometimes two weeks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3315">TS</a>]
00:55:19 ◼ ► to reply but she never got impatient you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3319">TS</a>]
00:55:24 ◼ ► know she just said yeah justjust you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3324">TS</a>]
00:55:27 ◼ ► know i'm just reminding you you need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3327">TS</a>]
00:55:29 ◼ ► tell me the five things that you need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3329">TS</a>]
00:55:30 ◼ ► and through this process she came up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3330">TS</a>]
00:55:33 ◼ ► with an ad i talked about it on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3333">TS</a>]
00:55:35 ◼ ► podcast a dozen or more people applied [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3335">TS</a>]
00:55:38 ◼ ► for the job of my assistant Victoria [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3338">TS</a>]
00:55:43 ◼ ► vetted all the applications she cheap [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3343">TS</a>]
00:55:46 ◼ ► hopefully communicated with all dozen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3346">TS</a>]
00:55:48 ◼ ► people may be multiple times and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3348">TS</a>]
00:55:54 ◼ ► she said I think the best candidate is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3354">TS</a>]
00:55:58 ◼ ► me she literally dick cheney that and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3358">TS</a>]
00:56:04 ◼ ► said oh alright uh you have a office job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3364">TS</a>]
00:56:10 ◼ ► you are all you already have too much to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3370">TS</a>]
00:56:12 ◼ ► do and she said well this is the thing I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3372">TS</a>]
00:56:13 ◼ ► think the best candidate is me to find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3373">TS</a>]
00:56:18 ◼ ► you a better candidate one day or maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3378">TS</a>]
00:56:24 ◼ ► to evolve this job into a job that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3384">TS</a>]
00:56:27 ◼ ► enables me to one day do this job so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3387">TS</a>]
00:56:34 ◼ ► assistant until I am either your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3394">TS</a>]
00:56:38 ◼ ► assistant or until i have grown an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3398">TS</a>]
00:56:42 ◼ ► assistant from mud that I take from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3402">TS</a>]
00:56:45 ◼ ► beach of life or until I am your I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3405">TS</a>]
00:56:49 ◼ ► know I and it's and the thing is at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3409">TS</a>]
00:56:53 ◼ ► every step of the way my instinct to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3413">TS</a>]
00:56:55 ◼ ► micromanage the process I resisted it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3415">TS</a>]
00:56:59 ◼ ► are you that's the whole point that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3419">TS</a>]
00:57:01 ◼ ► the idea what that is step one step [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3421">TS</a>]
00:57:03 ◼ ► you're moving up the Buddhist assistant [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3423">TS</a>]
00:57:05 ◼ ► ladder because Victoria was doing a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3425">TS</a>]
00:57:07 ◼ ► of great stuff and so I was just like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3427">TS</a>]
00:57:11 ◼ ► am going to be quiet now and i am not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3431">TS</a>]
00:57:16 ◼ ► going to i'm not going to jump in here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3436">TS</a>]
00:57:18 ◼ ► i'm not going to tell Victoria that she [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3438">TS</a>]
00:57:20 ◼ ► can't do the thing that she's trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3440">TS</a>]
00:57:22 ◼ ► do I'm going to allow her to find her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3442">TS</a>]
00:57:25 ◼ ► own course here and so she found sochi [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3445">TS</a>]
00:57:29 ◼ ► of all the assistance that she had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3449">TS</a>]
00:57:31 ◼ ► interviewed there was one who lived in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3451">TS</a>]
00:57:33 ◼ ► denver whose name was Bailey McCann and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3453">TS</a>]
00:57:36 ◼ ► then we can manage the chain of coffee [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3456">TS</a>]
00:57:38 ◼ ► shops in Denver but did not want to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3458">TS</a>]
00:57:40 ◼ ► that anymore and wanted to live in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3460">TS</a>]
00:57:43 ◼ ► Seattle and she and Victoria struck up a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3463">TS</a>]
00:57:46 ◼ ► friendship online and I was like this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3466">TS</a>]
00:57:50 ◼ ► an unusual interview process because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3470">TS</a>]
00:57:54 ◼ ► seems like you guys are staying up all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3474">TS</a>]
00:57:56 ◼ ► night talking on the phone and giggling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3476">TS</a>]
00:57:59 ◼ ► but again I am stepping out I'm stepping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3479">TS</a>]
00:58:02 ◼ ► away not out just stepping back now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3482">TS</a>]
00:58:05 ◼ ► bailey has moved to Seattle she has quit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3485">TS</a>]
00:58:08 ◼ ► her job jobs in denver has moved here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3488">TS</a>]
00:58:12 ◼ ► and is sleeping on Victorious couch and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3492">TS</a>]
00:58:17 ◼ ► this sounds like something something on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3497">TS</a>]
00:58:20 ◼ ► this well as I said the other day worst [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3500">TS</a>]
00:58:22 ◼ ► porn ever it is it's called it's called [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3502">TS</a>]
00:58:29 ◼ ► yeah assistant search that org but let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3509">TS</a>]
00:58:35 ◼ ► me just say this show that I did last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3515">TS</a>]
00:58:39 ◼ ► week I could not have done without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3519">TS</a>]
00:58:41 ◼ ► victoria and then the Bailey hit the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3521">TS</a>]
00:58:47 ◼ ► she's here in and she was like seriously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3527">TS</a>]
00:58:51 ◼ ► I had a at not just taking care of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3531">TS</a>]
00:58:53 ◼ ► all the business where i was like i need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3533">TS</a>]
00:58:55 ◼ ► a paperclip boom there's a paperclip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3535">TS</a>]
00:58:57 ◼ ► might need a three by five card I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3537">TS</a>]
00:58:59 ◼ ► know how to use she was like boom here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3539">TS</a>]
00:59:01 ◼ ► a three by five card and here's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3541">TS</a>]
00:59:03 ◼ ► thing i downloaded from the internet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3543">TS</a>]
00:59:05 ◼ ► I was like huh not only that but like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3545">TS</a>]
00:59:07 ◼ ► she showed up to a meeting I had with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3547">TS</a>]
00:59:10 ◼ ► of the rendezvous and she brought two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3550">TS</a>]
00:59:12 ◼ ► coffees one for me and one for her I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3552">TS</a>]
00:59:17 ◼ ► like what's yes that's a French service [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3557">TS</a>]
00:59:20 ◼ ► like know what you need before you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3560">TS</a>]
00:59:22 ◼ ► you need it right so so I'm standing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3562">TS</a>]
00:59:24 ◼ ► backstage and I'm also saying at a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3564">TS</a>]
00:59:28 ◼ ► of different ways along the path to hear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3568">TS</a>]
00:59:30 ◼ ► i could have jumped into this Victoria [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3570">TS</a>]
00:59:32 ◼ ► Bailey love triangle I could have made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3572">TS</a>]
00:59:36 ◼ ► myself the third pode but instead I did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3576">TS</a>]
00:59:41 ◼ ► what I basically was asking them to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3581">TS</a>]
00:59:44 ◼ ► allow me to do which is just think about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3584">TS</a>]
00:59:46 ◼ ► what i'm trying to do and in fact they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3586">TS</a>]
00:59:50 ◼ ► both did all of the stuff that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3590">TS</a>]
00:59:52 ◼ ► everything I could have asked for and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3592">TS</a>]
00:59:54 ◼ ► more and they and so I was like this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3594">TS</a>]
01:00:00 ◼ ► Alton come foo of just not not getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3600">TS</a>]
01:00:06 ◼ ► another not stepping on other people's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3606">TS</a>]
01:00:07 ◼ ► toes not getting in the way of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3607">TS</a>]
01:00:10 ◼ ► who are trying to help you and so that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3610">TS</a>]
01:00:13 ◼ ► was a that that is an ongoing mystery [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3613">TS</a>]
01:00:17 ◼ ► and lesson to me that that the best [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3617">TS</a>]
01:00:21 ◼ ► thing I can do is shut up and accept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3621">TS</a>]
01:00:23 ◼ ► other people's work neck once again not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3623">TS</a>]
01:00:29 ◼ ► as easy as it sounds so hard for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3629">TS</a>]
01:00:33 ◼ ► especially three o'clock in the morning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3633">TS</a>]
01:00:35 ◼ ► i want to send everybody a five-page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3635">TS</a>]
01:00:37 ◼ ► email 2500 word essay had taught him all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3637">TS</a>]
01:00:39 ◼ ► what's wrong with that what they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3639">TS</a>]
01:00:40 ◼ ► doing and and it and in this case just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3640">TS</a>]
01:00:45 ◼ ► letting it letting it go letting it be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3645">TS</a>]
01:00:50 ◼ ► press produced tremendous results so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3650">TS</a>]
01:00:54 ◼ ► that is the story of my assistant search [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3654">TS</a>]
01:00:56 ◼ ► and it has you know where we're in a we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3656">TS</a>]
01:01:02 ◼ ► professional organization now Victoria [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3662">TS</a>]
01:01:04 ◼ ► and Bailey are calling themselves the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3664">TS</a>]
01:01:07 ◼ ► come on Wow get out of here right is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3667">TS</a>]
01:01:12 ◼ ► I all I feel like making business cards [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3672">TS</a>]
01:01:13 ◼ ► for everybody it's it this this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3673">TS</a>]
01:01:17 ◼ ► yeah so now I just have to do it again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3677">TS</a>]
01:01:23 ◼ ► and again and this is so also when when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3683">TS</a>]
01:01:26 ◼ ► the shows when we heard the following [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3686">TS</a>]
01:01:28 ◼ ► day that the show sold out the upcoming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3688">TS</a>]
01:01:31 ◼ ► show sold out you would be amazed at how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3691">TS</a>]
01:01:35 ◼ ► quickly my think tank and i don't mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3695">TS</a>]
01:01:39 ◼ ► Victoria Bailey but like my mom my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3699">TS</a>]
01:01:41 ◼ ► friend Ben London like I've got a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3701">TS</a>]
01:01:43 ◼ ► constellation of of people who are all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3703">TS</a>]
01:01:48 ◼ ► blue-ribbon panel and everybody was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3708">TS</a>]
01:01:50 ◼ ► everybody's instinct and my own instinct [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3710">TS</a>]
01:01:53 ◼ ► to was like well we need to find a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3713">TS</a>]
01:01:58 ◼ ► weddings are charging more for tickets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3718">TS</a>]
01:02:00 ◼ ► yeah we need to get ready to scale this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3720">TS</a>]
01:02:02 ◼ ► up to the I disagree we need to take we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3722">TS</a>]
01:02:05 ◼ ► need to start to remember that video [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3725">TS</a>]
01:02:07 ◼ ► where share is on an aircraft carrier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3727">TS</a>]
01:02:11 ◼ ► that's what we need to be thinking you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3731">TS</a>]
01:02:13 ◼ ► think chaps how do we get your you in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3733">TS</a>]
01:02:17 ◼ ► assless pants and then they're crushing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3737">TS</a>]
01:02:21 ◼ ► the bunny don't want to crush the bunny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3741">TS</a>]
01:02:22 ◼ ► well that's the thing and I don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3742">TS</a>]
01:02:23 ◼ ► they don't think any of them work we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3743">TS</a>]
01:02:25 ◼ ► pushing that too hard it was just the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3745">TS</a>]
01:02:27 ◼ ► first instinct and it was my own first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3747">TS</a>]
01:02:29 ◼ ► question of course it is is that this I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3749">TS</a>]
01:02:31 ◼ ► i somehow managed to stand up without [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3751">TS</a>]
01:02:33 ◼ ► falling down i guess it's time to pull [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3753">TS</a>]
01:02:35 ◼ ► yeah exactly it's time it's time now to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3755">TS</a>]
01:02:41 ◼ ► now is the time to six months at that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3761">TS</a>]
01:02:44 ◼ ► plump side some career advice just six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3764">TS</a>]
01:02:46 ◼ ► months at that place gets fucking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3766">TS</a>]
01:02:47 ◼ ► awesome at it and then think about that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3767">TS</a>]
01:02:48 ◼ ► think about adding another show maybe a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3768">TS</a>]
01:02:52 ◼ ► different show where you can grow some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3772">TS</a>]
01:02:54 ◼ ► more but you you know you're building [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3774">TS</a>]
01:02:56 ◼ ► yep so it only time I think I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3776">TS</a>]
01:03:00 ◼ ► credit to everybody in this organization [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3780">TS</a>]
01:03:03 ◼ ► like it only took 20 minutes for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3783">TS</a>]
01:03:07 ◼ ► everybody to come to that understanding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3787">TS</a>]
01:03:09 ◼ ► themselves like wait a minute wait a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3789">TS</a>]
01:03:10 ◼ ► minute where maybe maybe instead of six [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3790">TS</a>]
01:03:15 ◼ ► dollars we charged seven but that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3795">TS</a>]
01:03:18 ◼ ► that's the extent of how much we should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3798">TS</a>]
01:03:21 ◼ ► push this this is a this is an incubator [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3801">TS</a>]
01:03:24 ◼ ► it is a yeah it's just it's a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3804">TS</a>]
01:03:26 ◼ ► world the real you know the real benefit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3806">TS</a>]
01:03:31 ◼ ► of this is going to be in a year when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3811">TS</a>]
01:03:34 ◼ ► understand when I understand what I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3814">TS</a>]
01:03:37 ◼ ► trying to make the benefit of it is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3817">TS</a>]
01:03:40 ◼ ► that not that I made four hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3820">TS</a>]
01:03:43 ◼ ► dollars right and I need to make seven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3823">TS</a>]
01:03:46 ◼ ► hundred dollars but and so like I saw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3826">TS</a>]
01:03:51 ◼ ► anyway I believe in this little team of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3831">TS</a>]
01:03:54 ◼ ► people and I believe in this little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3834">TS</a>]
01:03:56 ◼ ► operation and I believe that I can well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3836">TS</a>]
01:04:00 ◼ ► that i can try again next week and try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3840">TS</a>]
01:04:08 ◼ ► my biggest fear right now is that you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3848">TS</a>]
01:04:10 ◼ ► becoming saying and I don't want you to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3850">TS</a>]
01:04:14 ◼ ► don't get too okay stay inej a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3854">TS</a>]
01:04:18 ◼ ► oh I want to become too like well that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3858">TS</a>]
01:04:21 ◼ ► seems like a question with a very simple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3861">TS</a>]
01:04:24 ◼ ► three-point plan 2,500 words how well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BmEO2k24E/3864">TS</a>]
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