The Secret To Lachlan Patterson’s Hilarious Success: It’s All About Delivery

 you're listening to the ride cast a top 25 worldwide business podcast if it's
 radical we cover it here's your host Ryan Alfred hey guys what's up this is
 Ryan off of your host it's the rad cast and man we say if it's radical we cover
 it and I just glad I get to name my number these days you know I'm going on the
 Graham scrolling through I don't ever know what's gonna hit my feed I got you
 know babies over here I got this over there people trying to ask me for money
 over here and then this funny as hell comedian hits my radar damn
 Lockland Patterson what's up Lockland hey buddy just just hanging out man thanks
 for having me on your show hey man you know I get to name my number now I get to
 go who do I want and hopefully that look they got a respond it's a
 reciprocation which luckily you did your hilarious man you just I am a connoisseur
 of comedy you know and you're funny man really funny thanks thanks dude I just
 I want to have you on the show if nothing else to go Lockland Patterson is fucking
 talented and he needs to know that Ryan Alfred thinks that it may mean nothing
 but you know I saw I checked that box right here I'm honored thank you I had
 always feels good I don't ever get tired of that thank you skills your craft
 like that's what you do for a living and then I think people maybe take don't
 quite realize like entertainers like this is the job like they're doing it but
 like it's a profession it's a skill like they enjoy the obviously for like
 cheers but knowing that other people appreciate what you do and that see the
 value of that in the world we live in it's so serious and so God we need more
 Lockland Patterson to the world thanks man you know I it's funny it sucks that
 it I need like like like I could have a a YouTube video and then under the
 comments it has all these comments that are like keep going thank you you're so
 funny and then one guy's like this guy looks like Nickelback and then and I'm
 just miserable I'm like let it melted to the floor first of all there's
 Nickelback's not a guy either no so they didn't even take the time but what I
 try to do is I you know I'm I'm probably of similar ages where I just try to
 keep keep a level head about everything don't get too excited by all the
 excitement and also don't get too down about the Nickelback comments well
 one wise mentor told me you haven't officially made it until someone cares
 enough to criticize you so like it like literally it's easy to criticize but at
 the same time most people just it's kind of if they're not stopping it all that
 time Dick I had kind of like they need to put you down then then you've
 officially know that you're doing something right so it probably isn't always
 come across that way because we're all human beings and we're like oh damn see
 right I thought I was everyone else said it was good this guy says bad
 maybe it's really bad well listen to him Lockland you're funny and I had I've
 shown you now to like 20 people and every one of them was like yeah like dying
 so it's thanks man yeah man I mean it's it's good shit I mean you're what
 Canadian I mean I know I'm jumping right in I'm like giving you all these
 accolades but I know everybody's gonna be able to find you and read and listen and
 go damn we heard Lockland on the radcast and he is funny as shit so I will
 take pride in anyone that comes through that channel but let's let's set the
 table for everybody Lockland and tell a little bit about your story and let's
 talk a little bit about the business of comedy yeah let's do it let's set the
 table how should I set it yeah works yeah what made you so funny I think I
 just was like I was an awkward kid for sure I didn't you know I yeah I had
 trouble making friends and comedy seemed to be the way I fit in I would I
 would I was a Joker I was always trying to make people laugh and I wasn't good
 at it obviously to start so it would often get me in trouble you know the the
 dig on comedians is often that they don't take things seriously which is great
 when it's that time but you know just like a kid who just isn't funny it becomes
 annoying so I was annoying for a long long time and then because because people
 didn't get it is it because you were kind of dry and it was like it went
 over their head or something I don't think I even got it like for the first they
 say they say about comedy is you don't really find your persona or whatever it
 is for the first 10 years and I agree with that there was just me just like
 writing all these things that I thought was funny but they just they just weren't
 it just I didn't understand what I wanted now after 10 years I I think of a
 joke and I can imagine how it would go and it's a it's a lot clearer to me
 even still today I I mean I'm trying to work on a bit of this bit about the
 half sandwich and soup menu item and how ridiculous it is to me and just like
 like just the idea of a half sandwich it's like the only thing on the menu
 that's half of something and that that some chef was like what do you think
 about a half sandwich and owners like what that's what tell me more well what I
 do is I make a sandwich and then I cut it in half and I get rid of half of
 the sandwich and we just still have the sandwich and so I can't quite make it
 funny but it's crazy to me it's so funny to me that this is an item and I don't
 know I'm trying to come up with a conspiracy theories on why they do it my
 lady thinks it's because they want you to buy the full sandwich so because the
 other thing about the half sandwiches see now here we go I'm getting it not like
 it the half half half sandwiches usually only like a couple of bucks cheaper than
 the full sandwich so it's not even like a deal it's not like half price so it's
 like you wouldn't do half a steak usually right or chicken cordon blue that's not
 flying right right right I would think that you that you ate half of it before
 you gave it to them that's the other conspiracy is where's the other half of my
 sandwich like tell me how this happened the guy started eating half of
 everything just like dishwasher they keep the staff fed with the other half of
 your life yeah dude yeah like I'll be in your writers room and like you had it
 right there dude that's exactly what I was thinking is some I don't want to
 order this until you tell me where the fuck the other half of my sandwiches
 exactly I it has nothing to do with this joke but I always think back to Chris
 Farley and doing an SNL skit where they did the sir we secretly replaced your
 coffee with a taste your choice and because usually they do that there's an
 old commercial where they do that they go wow I didn't know you know but he gets
 mad like throws the table white you stupid bitch yeah what did you do with that
 oh my god yeah it's so much better at it than me oh whatever has to rest in
 peace Chris Farley different huh man yeah the energy that was so my whole
 career you know I was a young handsome comedian which was unusual and so I had
 agents throw me into I even had I had a my agent was a modeling agency and they
 would submit me for stuff commercials I was doing auditions for commercials and
 I never booked anything 400 times minimum I walked into a audition you know
 god already you know read the part get all dressed up in the part I would go
 drive to through Hollywood and park and go in and sit and wait 400 or more
 times and you know if any direction was given to me it was more energy let's
 try that again more energy and that was just it wasn't I wasn't able to do that
 I was never able to do that but you are that is part of what makes your comedy
 good I think is kind of the understated it's like you don't know what's
 coming because you're so understated like some people are so heavy handed in
 the delivery it's like right I feel the sledgehammer coming before you even
 swing it it would you it's like everything's right here and so and then it's
 like and then it's I think it make for me it makes it that much more funny
 because then I think that's what makes it to live it hard for me is because
 it's like you don't ever change like the monitor like you know but you're like
 but then you're dying laugh it because the the subject matters hilarious thank
 you I want I want the audience to enjoy trying to sniff out where the joke is I
 don't want to a lot of comedies also will use their hands to deliver or their
 head they'll not I watch Chris rocks entire last comedy special on Netflix and
 I don't know if you'd next time you watch it if anyone watches him most when he
 tells the joke he goes like this every punchline is not it is coming I don't
 even think he knows he's doing it but I try to just tell the joke and let the
 audience figure out if they like it or not on their own yeah and I think a lot
 of people are smart like it and but I see that and there's something about you
 this like I don't know self-deprecation is right I don't know if that's part of
 it but sort of like I'm up here to tell you these things and I'm not gonna make
 it funny to you it's either gonna be funny or not I'm just gonna say it and like
 but it is funny it's like that's that's part of what it makes it the whole
 stick whether it's a stick or it's having you sitting here talking with me
 people and people to listen to this they didn't go watch your stuff you are
 kind of that guy so it's like it's not even an act okay no I don't even think I'm
 sure you turn it on like on that you're you're a entertainer like I mean
 others like buttons you push and do all that but like it feels natural I I see
 the only way I know how I do turn it up I turn it up for interviews stand up
 and when I have guests over but it's it's just yeah I I tried I got I burned all
 the footage but when I first started I tried every different style of comedy I
 tried to mimic all of my heroes in comedy and and just did not did feel right
 and this just this feels this is how I'm gonna do it thank you I this is the only
 way I feel comfortable telling jokes I think the thing that I do that makes it
 funnier is I the language I use oh yeah I definitely try to use language that
 people can relate to for sure yeah I know and I read about your background and
 stuff like the the journey into the business you were you were set up and
 groomed for a lot of different things comedy not being one of them yeah I love
 yeah talk a little bit about that love my dad but and my dad I had a I had a
 dad I don't know if you're a dad of this variety but he he was a high school
 counselor he's a retired high school counselor and so you know for a living he
 he got kids jobs and got them in school and and figured out their careers and
 so at an early age my dad was figuring out my career path and he was also my my
 dad was my baseball coach for my baseball team he was my he was my if he wasn't
 the coach if he couldn't get the job as coach he would stand right next to
 the coach and eventually become the assistant coach by just virtue of being
 there every day next to him and my dad had the keys to the field the park and to
 the to the to the big shed in every park usually it has a shed with all the
 baseball equipment oh yeah yeah so my dad had all the batting this the pitching
 machine and all the gear so every weekend my dad would take me to play baseball
 at the park and teach me soccer and and across and hockey and you know I was I
 was groomed for hockey I played I remember I I never got my kids my friends were
 all playing hockey and I wanted to play hockey and my dad goes okay let's play
 hockey and he immediately put me in training camps and I was in training camp
 for so long that when I finally actually got into hockey the first time I
 ever played a hockey game I didn't know it was going on who are these guys who are
 these adults in black and white striped shirts getting in my way while I'm
 trying to do my circles and you know like it was so I was just groomed a lot by
 my father he raised me very closely and so and then I remember one day I said
 I want to do comedy and he just didn't want to hear it you know he didn't even
 hear he just changed the subject he didn't even acknowledge that I said it and this
 went on for years because he you know he had put in all this work on me you know
 my dad picked all my college courses right I brought home my calendar for
 college and he and I woke up next morning he had filled it all out he's like here
 you go go take this to your school and and enjoy college do you think it was
 because in a way that was his career what he was good at and he was directing
 kids so he wanted to make sure he did that for his son or was it like the product
 of him not maybe getting or doing what he wanted to do not having that in his
 life or was it just purely like his way I think it's a bit of both I think my
 dad's father was for a wartime kid my dad my dad was a wartime kid but he was
 born during the war I guess war war two but that was a time after World War
 Two where people were you know they were having to ration everything and be
 very careful and save and be cautious and so my dad's a very cautious guy and
 standard comedy is most it's irresponsible it's wild it's it's especially you
 know I think it was 1993 or something when I decided I wanted to do comedy so it
 wasn't really I wasn't a lot of now that anyone could be a comedian but back
 then it was just just wasn't a good career choice so definitely because that's
 he's like I'm an expert this is what I do for a living so that's definitely part
 of it but I think also because he wanted me to have job security he wanted me to have
 be safe yeah he loved me he loved me very much and he wanted what's best for me but I just saw
 it as being close-minded and so I ignored him and ran away ran away to Los Angeles
 I'm sure that upset the apple card a little bit or was it like did he love you through it or
 is it like it was it like a little bit of disowning yeah there was love but there was it was all
 you know I wasn't doing well that didn't help you know yeah so you didn't really
 hey look what I did yeah no it was it was a lot of it was it was a lot of just not talking to him
 because I I didn't have anything to report and he would always you know remind me that if I ever
 want to come back I you know as a guy in the plumbers union and you know you can get started
 right away or we can go we can get you back in school and I got you I got you covered son
 just come up here and I'll take care of you I appreciate you're old dad but I'm kind of I'm
 you know and I can't speak for your you know but I'm glad you're a comedian you know
 we need more look any more comedy you know like not everybody can deliver it so I'm glad you
 didn't go back to plumbing plumbing bro I'm six five yeah be two that's a that's a first that's
 first time the exact even can you imagine can you imagine being a plumber excuse me I'm a sneeze
 can you imagine being a plumber at our size no
 no even inside I cover my nose yes bless you um yeah I'm too big for plumbing
 um so thank you yeah I uh
 uh man I just couldn't I knew that if I went back I just would be miserable you know so
 kept going get little feedback I will every once in a while uh just you know I feel like
 that's in life too if you keep going every once in a while when you think it's over and you're
 just gonna quit you know a comedian would say you're funny and sometimes it was comedian of
 of notoriety and that was just like you know like I remember Bob Sagitt was at an open mic when I
 first started and he said that's a really funny joke you did about that and I said thank you I was
 so honored or flattered and he goes I'm where he goes if you just you could just add like
 and then like uh and then I fucked her in the ass at the end of it I think that would
 uh I was like did it have anything the joke was it just totally like what he was saying like
 if you had that anything it becomes funny it was it's just Bob Sagitt's take on it and I don't
 know if anyone's ever seen Bob before it rests in peace Bob uh he was a very filthy comedian
 and so he gave his version of that joke to me as a gift and I thought that was so nice
 and I but I had no intention of saying it or using it he was the irony of him being so filthy is
 you know doing America's funny some videos which the you know like the most I don't know
 neutered show of all time as far as like family friendly and everything else and yeah
 yeah I think it's full house yeah full house oh yeah everything on TV was so
 family oriented and then his stand up is filthy yes yeah I don't know if you in today's age if
 you could get away with those two sides everybody's so damn woken like if you were that on if you
 were that on social media or it stand up you couldn't possibly have you know little house on the
 prairie or what a you know like any wholesome TV show yeah comedy is that once
 business that um it it doesn't withstand the test of time like music it it constantly has to
 adapt to society yeah right that's right we can't so like when you watch old comedy like I have
 I have I have old comedy in my garage so whenever I'm working in the garage I play like
 kinesan and stuff yeah and this stuff yeah the stuff he says you
 not saying no but that makes it even funnier to me it's like oh my god like we said this we
 like people are laughing so it's not just that he said it but everyone agreed yes
 and thinking like the old TV shows like blazing saddles and like like even
 samford and son go watch samford and son and like you know like right I made television yeah that's
 right the show type thing and watching uh I don't know old Chevy chase movies and yeah he's like one of my
 oh yeah and old Chevy chase old Richard prior yeah old Richard prior oh god so so many movies would
 not get made today and most of them are comedy yeah that's right um yeah I mean yeah
 what's it been like I try coming through yeah go ahead to the media world I mean you you
 your career is kind of blossomed you know in this world of it was all stand I mean I
 93 94 like late in 2000s I mean you've you've kind of covered the gamut here of like the channels
 for distribution of comedy like what's that evolution bid like for you well I think it started
 with my space uh that that was probably my first experience in social media and that was
 dang cuck dang cuck blew up my space right haven't tia tequila um they showed it as not a social
 space but as a marketing platform uh to comedians so we all started as young comedians we all
 started building our my space profile to showcase that says comedians and not as just regular everyday
 people um I've now I now have a Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube a website tiktok tiktok cameo
 um I look at my phone and I'll see you out here um Twitter I said I say Twitter I got
 hey I got like 12 platforms like everybody right try to keep up ways I got ways do you follow me on
 ways no I'd be I'd be scary if you follow me on ways
 yeah I'd say leave me alone you're in the car with me I'm right behind you yeah there's no big fan
 and I'm right behind you there's a big dude on the side coming up on the right yes
 we're all big fans we leave me alone jesus um how's that changed your the business of comedy for you
 like I know it's a lot to keep up with but I mean is that right evolution or bad evolution from uh
 okay the only one the only one the way he went sees or hears locklands jokes is in person so there's
 huge onus on in person stuff versus yeah the digital medium yes it's I find it to be complete so far
 it's been completely separate so it's been great social media has been awesome in that uh
 man I I get so much wonderful warm feedback you know people touch their screen twice that's
 what I get from them or they send me a picture of a face with two tears out the side it's very
 nice I appreciate it but it doesn't at all replace the faces in the audience and meeting people
 in person like that's what I really love and and so I give a lot to social media to because I
 it's it's a very giving thing but I feel like the the the give and take is much more equal when I
 when I have a live show and yeah I get to see them laughing as opposed to a picture of a circle
 with two little drops of water like I just I'm gonna give you some rockets or something like
 something just different like let me go rockets do yeah at least use the moji I'm giving it to you
 I'm gonna like put that on every feed going forward so you're gonna know it's me you're you're
 gonna see my name and my blue check mark I had before I could buy it and you'll know with that a
 rocket emoji I also know there's people out there that just like everything that I do too and
 that is tough too because I'm I'm also doing R&D here on these things right I'm when I send these
 clips out I want to find out if they're working or not and if you just like everything
 got them killing myself with this comment but then I don't gauge whether or not it's I get it
 but you know which one's like more than others and that should tell you if you get true
 100 likes on average and something you put out there gets 900 likes but then something else gets
 150 that's kind of even if all 150 were positive emojis it it tells you that it landed a little flat
 you're right you're absolutely right or you just get it with myself a number when this ends you're
 gonna just start texting me I can I'll give you the real feedback I'll give you a we'll have
 like a scale of you know whatever that might want to take sure stars let's do the star system
 I'll take it yeah um I love the star system um so I dude I I went from at the beginning of this
 year I had eight thousand followers on Instagram for example and now it's at like 40 40 something
 thousand yep and and it's because I hired these guys I hired these kids who reached out to me
 and they're like let me do it for you and I said sure and so I send them the clips and they cut
 them and put and send them back to me and then I look at them and if I like them I post them
 and it's been a big help because it takes me to make a clip because I have the editing software
 but it was taking me um you know I would say I three hours for a clip of course I could go any
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 I think I'm more happy that you've realized that you didn't need to like spend three hours
 yourself on you know editing stuff well that step was a huge that they posted one clip or I posted
 a clip they kept for me that this clip particular has been you know I've been telling this joke
 and I like the joke but I didn't realize on social media that it would garner like that much
 positive feedback yeah I don't know the algorithms or anything but you know I post a clip
 every day and I'm like I'm oh I like everything I posted it's coming for me so I'm trusting that I
 this this has my certified guaranteed I like it on it so when the when in one goes viral I'm like
 great what about all the other ones but this one clip is about I don't know if you've seen it's
 it's about how like I love shrimp anyway it started a argument online between people it's it's
 it's what's that called it's um it's definitely polarized people and they're arguing on my feet
 like over this debate and it's fun it's it's become fun for me to read these people I don't
 protect at all because I'm done my work is done you guys can do it enough you know what I call that
 you know it's the best kind of performing content that a lot of people shy away from and you
 may not have even intended it agitational content yeah okay that's secret sauce right there that's a
 freebie the others thank you are you calling at least tell me a joke it made me laugh then I'll
 give you anything you want you know you may be agitational free thank you but yeah agitational content
 agitational you know and it polarizing is definitely what it causes but on but it's like if you
 agitate you've usually break through and so yeah see I'm not I'm not agitating anybody with the
 half sandwich bit no like other than the guy who came up with it nobody is nobody is every once
 someone will be like I like the half sandwich and you know what they say to me Ryan they go you
 know sometimes I'm not that hungry and I'm like well don't fucking eat yeah don't why are you
 going to have a cup of tea yeah but no they have to have the sandwich I want a couplet
 loop not a bowl I got to have a cup and half a sandwich yeah give me a hot dog but take a bite
 out of it first yeah I don't want to eat the whole thing so just give it to me and that's a
 part of it be more visual joke you know like yeah but the uh but socials uh but have you seen a
 correlation with social media and crowds or people like coming to shows or anything like that
 or is it just totally separate that's a good question you're very smart man by the way I like
 when people say to me good question to me I no longer need to hear the answer like that I'm full
 but oh I'm glad you asked me to lock it I still need it I haven't but I just started adding
 my a show button at the end of the clips yeah and I'm hoping but no I haven't seen anything
 no correlation yet but oh no man like you need to call to action every video you should have a
 call to action you should add I mean hey this is marketing a business show so we'll get into
 one of two things you need to have a news a way to capture everybody's emails you need to turn
 followers into people the way you turn them into people as you get their email or the phone number
 and you phone numbers are still kind of weird you know even if there's texting now I get
 it's a little weird you want people going oh they won't my phone number but if they're email
 address captured like it it's your web address so that then at every every show you have you send
 out a very simple email telling them where the show is and where it is and you never know
 yeah some might be in Timbuk 2 Arizona and some might be in Virginia and your shows in Minnesota
 but you never know when they're traveling or if they know people there so you should always you're
 called to action on every video should be I've got a live special going on YouTube it's $10
 or if you're selling something or you should at least go sign up for you know if you're
 enjoy this I'd love to put you on my list for VIP jokes and experiences okay see the list the
 Lockland VIP list secret list yeah secrets where I tell you my secret I got all the tricks man
 whoa whoa whoa whoa we'll take this offline the uh thanks man yeah but you do yeah you can start
 tying it to it and I now you got the audience you've been 44,000 you're starting to get you know
 scale so you can activate that and I think you I don't know what you're following is on TikTok
 you got it you should start that's just start popping for you if you're doing the right content
 I haven't looked at your stuff over there I just you're always on my feed on Instagram I can do
 better on TikTok the TikTok's angrier at me like they'll I find that the they'll they're more
 critical the critical critical they're more critical of like like like censoring your jokes
 I just caught I think I did a post posted something about like how fentanyl I have
 that I'll talk about that on the I told the Cameron and Sawyer I was like literally
 told I told your joke you know if I can tell your joke and like they're chuckling a little bit
 you know it's a good joke because they didn't even have to hear you hear it say it but like
 it's friggin hilarious because it's so true right so I get more audience let's I'm not making it up
 you don't have to get into character here but but I'm going to you to to share the bit a little bit
 every time I hear a warning about fentanyl uh and the dangers it always it sounds like they want
 me to try fentanyl it'll guide come on the news and we like can't stop fentanyl it's so dangerous
 it's 50 times more powerful than heroin and it's cheaper than crack cocaine and you can buy it
 anywhere now in america so don't do it I'm like that sounds like parky glon salesman don't do it
 it's the most popular drug on the streets and you taste just like chocolate don't do it
 pairs well with a shardonnay so apparently there is a scene and I had to even go watch it
 there's three different comments from tiktok where this guy's stealing from a movie with John
 C. Riley where it's kind of like a takeoff oh walkhard walkhard is at it so and there's a scene
 in walkhard which is very funny kin meadows is smoking weed and uh to see where
 at least character wants some and he's like don't you don't want this and he's like why is it will
 it kill me and he goes no it's it won't kill you and then he's like was is it addictive and he's
 like no it won't make you like you know what I mean like it was it's very it's parallels this bit
 sure and and um they thought you know when you do when you do stuff like that they don't realize
 that first of all you know they're totally different this is and also it's not like I'm making
 this bit up watch a new slip on fat money is exactly what the news people say yeah I'm only taking
 it from the like they'll interview a police officer's like I can't we can't seem to stop fentanyl
 it it it is the most popular drug on the streets somehow and we can't stop it and people don't
 understand that it's 50 times well maybe stop bragging about it like maybe maybe you guys are the
 problem why like maybe they need some you know like the center for drug what is it the drug American
 drug anti drug foundation whoever makes the ad counsel commercials yeah maybe one of the maybe
 one of the team that comes up with these warnings should actually be an addict yeah you know
 maybe you should run it by some addicts first and see if it's working exactly see if it's
 turning you off or turning you on yeah it's a hundred times more powerful powerful than
 what's it called it's the one you get in the hospital they always no one in the hospital they go
 it's a hundred times more morphine it's 100 times more powerful than morphine yeah if I'm an
 addict that sounds great yeah exactly so they uh and the only people that are always sensitive
 probably and I get it but at the same time a lot of people are being impacted by certain negative
 things and it's like and so that you can always I'm sure as a comedian and not just that joke but
 any joke it's like if someone wants to be offended or wants to take it to the you know the other side
 of any subject matter that you're talking about that could have had a negative you know like
 that's probably never ending I'm sure and TikTok too is like a it's just like this crazy chick you know
 there's this side chick I got my Instagram girl she's supportive and she's consistent
 and then I go on TikTok and it's like right away I don't even follow anyone and I got
 tits in my face and and it's loud and it's just crazy and so I don't put as much effort into
 that one for sure oh it's definitely a rabbit hole of all sorts of things it's so like what
 what happened where where are you I you getting the vortex you do I have few drinks I'm on my couch
 20 more I'm in my bedroom I'm starting more it's the next day yeah I'm vortex if you get it if you
 real I don't I when I first was on there that what happened I'd be like wait I'd look at my
 clock and it's like we're that 40 minutes ago and now I just don't really get on there as much
 anymore because I don't have 40 I don't want to lose 40 minutes to my life and it's gotten kind
 of random like you said but but a lot of you were all there TikTok also Instagram when you open
 it the volume's off TikTok when you open it the volume's cranked yeah right I can't open the door
 and have someone just talking to me right away right I need I need a minute to just yeah let me
 just let me see the video with the volume off first yeah you need the doctor to show you the
 finger then put the glove yeah and then put the Vaseline you need to you need a little like warm
 up before they use is that fist by the way the finger we still checking cancer with fingers
 can we get a computer we find some technology with the prostate exam what's uh what's one of your
 like favorite shows I mean like I know you got the special and you know certainly talk about that
 but like maybe what your best or most memorable live performance oh yeah the perfect set
 you know I had one at a place called whiskey bar I think it was called a whiskey bar it was just
 it was just a set but Pat Naswell was he went on before me and I mean it was like Bill Burr and Tiffany
 Haddish and Pat Naswell so it was exciting and the crowd was incredible and I remember after
 my set like it's like online too where I just I post what I like and I don't know what's
 gonna happen so I just did my set like normal and Pat Naswell came up and he grabbed he corners
 me and everyone standing around wondering wanting to hear what he's saying but only I got to hear
 it and he said I um who are you and how have I never heard of you and he went and broke down one of
 my jokes and said this is what's so wonderful about that joke and he just loved me for that minute
 and it was just a really and I grew up watching Pat Naswell um I remember being a young comedian
 and and having this the DVD of comedians of comedy and and watching him and Sarah Silverman
 Bryant-Passain Zach Galfanakis I just loved him and to to have that love given back to me
 and just not saying a word to just keeping my mouth shut and just listening it that to me was a great
 experience and I had a great set too so I felt I didn't feel like it was uh it wasn't real
 I mean I don't have to tell you this I mean like as your quasi unofficial non agent um I'm gonna tell you
 like you're drawing that at any time you feel like yeah do I belong in my head in the right path
 I got this troll telling me that he thinks this isn't funny I mean you have one of your you know
 icons like that sat down and like broke down your joke like you should draw on that and they know
 like you know you belong thanks man yeah um I don't know do you have a voice in your head that
 that you you go to at times or a few yeah two or three what what kind of voices it is it like a
 two or three right me two no I mean it's you know I have the the I'm not an emotional person but
 I have the little one that's like right you know that tone it down you need to understand how this
 is impacting people you need to and then I have to go like right you know you pussy you go go go
 you know like I mean you know it's always driving me like you got one life to live damn it
 what are you doing and it's you know he's probably not that much of a drill sergeant but it's just you
 know the drill sergeant the voice is a man's it says it's maybe I don't know if it's all men's but
 it's definitely a straight man's inner voice that we I use yeah I like that voice I a lot of people
 would say that's okay good yeah a lot of people would say it's an unhealthy voice I know and it's
 not the ego voice that I think that'd be the third one that it's more that I feel like that's the
 healthy one that's like keeping me on the straight narrow and like keeping me good father good dad
 good business person like go go go you've got every opportunity don't let anything go and it's more
 I'm but then there's the ego voice of like for the wrong reasons are like getting caught up in the
 oh you know this is what Johnny would think about that and you know that you really should you
 know if you really want to look the best or do the best or how you know like there's that
 ego voice that I try to like I've gotten better that's that comes a wisdom at time like when I was
 25 that voice like dominated you know not boy I've pushed that voice way back you know but
 it happens life pushed that voice way back that too you know I have that voice it goes it used to go
 this is the big this is it buddy this is the big moment this is everything this is gonna you're
 going to be get ready you're gonna be catapulted to start them right here this is everything is
 about to happen for you and now it's it's the it's the right voice it's the chill this isn't about
 that this is just about having fun it's not a state present yeah everything's flattering you know
 I mean the journey man I that's the thing you know the more people I talk to at all different levels
 in all different fields and like the highs of the highs and lows and lows like the journey like
 as soon as you get there you're not happy anyway so you need to keep the journey going you know
 right you look on everybody's got to eat and you want to hey if it was a car nice car whatever your
 thing is like something you know like we all want like but you know as soon as everybody loves you
 then somebody it just means that there's gonna be that many more you know negative Johnny voices too
 you know like so there's always going to be something but it just you gotta enjoy the journey
 is kind of that I think that what I hear from more people and like appreciate every moment and
 some of this stuff sounds cliche and like bullshit but like but there's truth to it you know like
 if you get you if you what fun is it if you if you're just landing somewhere and never going
 anywhere else like you got to you know enjoy every step of the journey the journey yeah I've
 been saying it's all practice a lot everything's just practice and so I I um when I fail I can say
 it's practice and when I succeed I gotta remind myself it's still just practice what's I mean
 what's making it now for you like you're obviously have crossed some roads you know like you're doing
 some specials you're out there doing they got 50,000 followers roughly on Instagram you're getting
 popularity some things but like what are the goals for you and what does really getting over
 mean to Lockland like what what is that like going on a late night show like I got what is good you
 know yeah it would make you happy I mean it's funny like I force that you brought up the late show
 and in the late late shows and the tonight shows I I pounded on those doors and they just never
 opened for me for the most part um so I've had to kind of and that's part of finding my voice too
 um but for me uh so you know it'd be nice to perform uh to to have sold out shows to me that
 would be great that would be uh incredible to because I've been performing a lot and I go to
 these clubs and they take a risk on me because they think I'm funny and they have to sit there in
 the back and cut three waitresses on the and and give me some stupid excuse like oh it's tax time
 so people aren't really going out this time of year or something you know it's St. Paddy's day
 next week so people are you know they'll get they'll just bullshit for me but it'd be not you
 to me making it would be every every seat in the house is full you know you well you didn't
 we're gonna teach you how to do that the uh and it's not it's not because you you got the comedy
 already and now it's like but you got to bring them with you that's where the social and everything
 else like you got to turn those followers into craving fans and like getting them in the circle
 and keeping giving you know you got to have like the lot of the nights you know like whatever it is
 like but you have to nurture it and then they'll fill it up for you and then they because the reality
 is a lot of those places don't have the marketing arm like they'll throw your one video that may
 or they may or may not have been thoughtful about which one they grabbed on their Instagram feed
 locklin patterns and we'll be here this weekend we're so excited they're they're marketing sucks
 and then you know you're staying in there and like you're like well why didn't they bring
 to me that why you know am I not funny or whatever nobody want to come and you like they're
 giving the excuses but when you can start commanding and bringing your own tribe and it's not you
 know it doesn't mean that you're gonna bring them alone to every show like you can fill out
 five thousand seats wherever anytime but hell if you had if you could if you could count on 20
 percent of them you know are gonna show up or be there or tell people and work for you with you
 that's when you get powerful okay well I you nailed it with regards to the fact that
 they're marketing it's often the issue yeah and I rely so heavily on their marketing and I would
 love to not yeah I love that to not even be important just send people my marketing for me well
 exactly but you can get there I mean so selling out shows what's like is there like a theaters or
 like a man the holy grill I mean theaters would be incredible I I get the joy and I'm the I'm so
 grateful that I get to open every once in a while for some of my favorites I just got to open
 for Daniel Tosh down by you in Florida and Atlanta and in Tennessee and theaters he's
 performed in these massive theaters and I'm gonna get to open for Nate or but Margotty up in
 Pennsylvania next month but so yeah I want I want bigger audiences I'd love theaters I'm trying
 to take a step by step you got I got to fill the bars that I'm in right now first yeah where I
 start doing that but that's always I mean I've had the goal of theaters for 10 years I've been
 writing that in my journal and so I mean I got with I was in the last comic standing a while back
 and I made it to the top five finalists so we toured across the country doing theaters the top five
 finalists and so we did like 60 theaters and I just was hooked ever since then I I love I love how
 they look I love how they smell I just love walking out on a massive stage and seeing that empty
 room and being like it's just so hard it feels it feels so good when they're all sad and then
 you know have you uh do you why don't that seems like a pretty big accomplishment like why
 is there a reason that you step like edit that's not in your bio like you don't have that like
 anywhere is it purposeful that you don't like attach to that at all last kind of standing yeah
 yeah I think it's in my bio I mean that's the other thing uh what what's what do I want well I'd
 like a bigger credit than that that's my biggest credit yeah so I'm searching for something bigger than
 that but right now that is the biggest thing that I've done and it was you know it's coming up on
 probably nine years ago you were top five in that how many people like was the potential you know
 number well they start they start they start with a thousand or they said thousands
 when I arrived okay so I was a I was walking dogs I was just like I had stopped doing the road
 because I couldn't I couldn't it wasn't paying enough yeah um and I was making money dog walking
 and just doing shows in LA and being home and I was excited to be home and doing
 local shows and so I stopped doing and then they asked me to come audition for last time
 standing and I told you my audition and track record I didn't want to do it so I ignored it
 and then my agent called and said you're gonna go to this audition I said nah and he goes can I
 ask you this and I said sure and he goes what are you doing what else are you doing and I said that's
 a good point I'll go so I went and I was in a room they put me in a room with a hundred
 comedians in a giant room and they just had cameras all over the room and they just watched us and
 filmed it and it was uh uh it did felt horrible like I look around there's so many comedians and
 all seemed very confident that they were going to win this show and I didn't I didn't feel that way
 I felt like my comedy career was you know not that good like I said I had submitted to all the late
 shows and no one got back to me and so I had all these I had put it all this effort into this
 business and given up on it and now it was dragging me back in with all these young confident
 comedians and and I went in the audition and it was it was so hard it was three it was three people
 or four people in the audience it was the producers producers and they were in their books just
 looking like this and each comedian would go one of I went up there and do their bits and
 it was like every pardon me every fucking show I had been doing in LA so it was easy yeah it was
 like oh I'm just doing a shitty show okay well that's what I do anyway so I was in my I was in my
 element it was very comfortable yeah so it was like perfect if they're drinking glasses and like
 you know a blender a blender and you know an obnoxious girl or guy talking louder than they should
 be you'd been really at home yeah and so they asked me to come back and they just kept every
 week they just kept asking me to come back and that went on for I mean the budget on that thing
 was incredible I met I mean they had every week they had a celebrity yes so I met I got I got
 to be mentored by man I got to be mentored by Howie Mendel Jeff Ross JB smooth was the host I
 loved JB smooth chick from Kerb your enthusiasm and I got to forget my name unfortunately
 you like Larry David like that kind of stuff yeah that's my kind of humor that he writes like me
 yeah yeah yeah I have the same I have various many of the same
 uh extra complaints about society as he does for sure most of them don't get outside the house
 thankfully yeah he he has an opportunity to the vehicle to share these things safely but a lot of
 my opinions about things have to stay behind these four walls yeah well yeah maybe that's a problem
 yeah yeah yeah yeah agitational content thank you I definitely have some written so I don't know
 you can text them to me I'll tell y'all be honest with y'all be like okay not quite that agitational
 whoa or yes I can I'll send you clips before I post them yeah sure thank you it's um
 I put still lap you know top five of last comic standing I mean top top three I got to see the
 yeah they did have fine the final episode they just picked one of three okay so I've made
 it to last episode that's how I put it did I know that I imagine being a professional you know
 the like okay that's all the footnote I mean it's still big fucking deal though you know it was awesome
 I people were shouting at me as walking down the street and in the airport I remember having
 our issue with my bank and I called and the guy goes is this locklin Patterson from last comic
 standing and I'm like yeah he goes don't worry I'll take care of it I probably got that celebrity
 treatment yeah it was awesome I want that I want that again I want to fact because it faded right
 because it wasn't my audience it was NBC last comic standing's audience and so I understand that
 with time there you know next season's coming they have a new season a fresh new set of
 comedians that audience needs to move on because they're really their fans of the show
 yeah I've been arguing with you though it's called borrowed it's all scared leverage
 there's uh you carry that with you it never goes away and any time that that shows on you should
 be maximizing and it and you might go oh I'm just I'm using old accolade to what no it's like
 it doesn't go away you know do you think that uh do you think Michael Jackson with you know like
 he would throw away one of his hits because it was 30 years later you know like or anybody or let's say
 vanilla ice do you think he's a half-era person that he had that one hit you know like
 hey so it never diminishes the
 the impact or what it took for that to happen no matter how much time passes but you can either
 choose to leverage it or not and so right yeah you're in leverage two is gratitude and I think they
 go hand in hand so yeah it uh it's on my bio you know it's the number one thing still
 yeah so I it's on there I loved dude I met I met so many great people
 I feel like we could talk for hours man I think we've uh we have I know we've talked for exactly
 an hour I think I've got you over the time limit and uh kid what's um tell tell everybody
 it's listening we'll have all this in the show notes you know yeah all the places that can keep
 it with you your website and all those things sure yeah lock on Patterson.com for all my show dates
 where are you gonna be people I post a video come to Texas I'll be like dude I was just in Texas
 last week um come to yeah people say come to Vancouver I doesn't make it for a month doing shows
 come to South Carolina please I would love to I would love to you have uh what's this what's
 the comedy club there I'm gonna actually the comedy zone is green bill the comedy zone green bill
 I perform there and I want to come back so I am gonna do that I'm gonna make that effort today
 I've done that for people when they say I've had so show here I got this you know social house we'll
 have a special show and we've had comedians here we'll have a one night only Lockham Patterson
 we'll fill this mug out I'd love that I would love that I will come for that if you want to do that
 or or I'll reach out to the comedy zone I'll get your number and we let's talk yeah we'll talk
 about all that I really appreciate your brother I know uh people are gonna go follow you and go take
 it out they're gonna make the world a better place because they're gonna be smiling thanks man
 thank you for all your positive feedback and and help them lift me up for because I gotta go carry
 a bunch of shit around the house right now there you go hey guys you don't want to find us the
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