Talking with Comic Brent Blakney About What His Dating Profile Looks Like

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<v Speaker 3>You've never heard of?
<v Speaker 4>An event called a double luge? Yeah, if you've never
<v Speaker 4>seen this one, this is an Olympic event that should
<v Speaker 4>be on cinemax at like two in the morning.
<v Speaker 5>That's how uncomfortable this is. You guys, So what it is?
<v Speaker 5>You're a luge right, like the guy like down the hill? Okay,
<v Speaker 5>So there's a loop sled, and then a gentleman in.
<v Speaker 4>A skin tight spandex outfit lays face up on the
<v Speaker 4>loose sled. Then in another gentleman in a skin tight
<v Speaker 4>spandex outfit lays on top of him, face up. Nuts
<v Speaker 4>to bus, you guys, y know, Yeah, chimney two buttthole.
<v Speaker 5>You have to n a stand for k a nap.
<v Speaker 4>And then those two generally go down a bumpy hill
<v Speaker 4>at like one.
<v Speaker 5>Hundred miles an hour.
<v Speaker 4>You guys think what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 5>It is just forty five seconds of nothing.
<v Speaker 1>But oh my gosh, Shauna today is awesome.
<v Speaker 2>I think this is gonna be a fun podcast.
<v Speaker 1>Better be fun, and it better be funny because the
<v Speaker 1>guy that we have coming up here today is none
<v Speaker 1>other than Brent Blakeney, which is one of my He
<v Speaker 1>is one of my favorite comedians. I mean, I met
<v Speaker 1>this guy at Zany's with John Reed and he was
<v Speaker 1>touring with him, and it was actually one of my
<v Speaker 1>I was on the show and I got up and
<v Speaker 1>did my thing and went out in the audience and
<v Speaker 1>I listened and this guy had me in stitches. So funny,
<v Speaker 1>so inappropriate, and I just love him. Y'all please welcome
<v Speaker 1>Brent Blakeney to the podcast.
<v Speaker 2>What's happening?
<v Speaker 3>Are you guys?
<v Speaker 1>Man? We're good?
<v Speaker 3>How are you good? Doing?
<v Speaker 1>All right?
<v Speaker 3>Still still staying hunker down? How you guys?
<v Speaker 2>Snow it's finally gone. It rained and it washed it
<v Speaker 2>all away, so we're able to get out of our
<v Speaker 2>neighborhood now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's the first time in what a week?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, almost a week.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it took a while, man, I mean we were
<v Speaker 1>frozen solid up in here and we couldn't go anywhere.
<v Speaker 1>We couldn't get up the hill to get out or anything.
<v Speaker 1>So it was it was pretty bad.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's yeah, that's rough.
<v Speaker 1>So where are you called? Where are you? Where are
<v Speaker 1>you at right now?
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm at home in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it
<v Speaker 3>is sixty and sunny, so we're gonna go outside later.
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna go outside and get some some vitamin D today.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, I need it. Man, it's been it's
<v Speaker 3>been all I mean, you guys don't know. I mean
<v Speaker 3>it is. It's rained here for two weeks, how probably
<v Speaker 3>not had rained for like one or two days. Podcasts
<v Speaker 3>are really fun when you just talk about weather, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Hey, how's the precipitation there?
<v Speaker 2>Since you're since you're bringing that up, we thought to
<v Speaker 2>have fun today. We don't really know you very well.
<v Speaker 2>We've only been around you what a handful of times,
<v Speaker 2>So we we thought that we would do almost like
<v Speaker 2>a little speed dating type situation.
<v Speaker 1>If you're okay with that, Yeah, we would like to
<v Speaker 1>date you.
<v Speaker 2>We would we would like to analyze you to see
<v Speaker 2>if we would like to.
<v Speaker 1>Hang out analyzed not analyzed.
<v Speaker 3>Last, I feel like that's gonna be. That's gonna be
<v Speaker 3>like the third or fourth speed date. You can't.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I have a feeling you're going to tell
<v Speaker 1>a joke about that.
<v Speaker 2>Now you have you ever done that speed dating?
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever done what speed dating?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I.
<v Speaker 1>Thought you were talking about analyze whatever that is? Well,
<v Speaker 1>what would the definition of that?
<v Speaker 3>But that's not the proper term.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what would the definition of that be? Brand? What
<v Speaker 1>do you think?
<v Speaker 6>What?
<v Speaker 1>An?
<v Speaker 3>I think that's just I think that's uh, that's the
<v Speaker 3>street term for that's when you when you have to
<v Speaker 3>go to Mexico to get a colonoscopy. That's just that's
<v Speaker 3>the cheap version. That's like the Walmart blood pressure cuff. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's great value.
<v Speaker 1>Could you imagine it's bad enough to have a colony anyway?
<v Speaker 3>I never thought to even I bet I.
<v Speaker 1>Bet they don't even wash their hands. I bet he
<v Speaker 1>just I've bet the docked down and just gets in there,
<v Speaker 1>just gets in there.
<v Speaker 3>Oh god. It's not even like the proper new medical tools.
<v Speaker 3>It's like an old Like it's just like a VHS camera.
<v Speaker 3>It just got off the rails.
<v Speaker 1>It's got like a it's got like a ah that's
<v Speaker 1>like a cattle prod with a with a huge mag
<v Speaker 1>flashlight just duct taped to it. This guy like this
<v Speaker 1>whole it's like a go pro. It's like the first
<v Speaker 1>generation of GoPro with a flashlight tape to it.
<v Speaker 3>My god, Like, yeah, we could talk about.
<v Speaker 1>This all day. I love laughing.
<v Speaker 3>Man, were hemorrhaging listeners right now?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, talk about hemorrhage. You do to go down
<v Speaker 1>there and you're gonna get You're gonna have some of
<v Speaker 1>that too, you know. Uh, Man, I really appreciate you
<v Speaker 1>doing the podcast today because I think you're extremely extremely
<v Speaker 1>funny and uh but Shaun is right, you know, we
<v Speaker 1>we just know this, We know the surface, man, So
<v Speaker 1>we thought maybe we would set this up a little
<v Speaker 1>bit with a little smooth jazz.
<v Speaker 2>And seriously, have either one of you ever been on
<v Speaker 2>a speed date? Have you seen what this is? What
<v Speaker 2>a speed date is?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I mean I've never I've never been on one,
<v Speaker 3>but like it's that kind of like quick fire, like
<v Speaker 3>you got a minute that you jump to someone new.
<v Speaker 2>It's so weird, right, it is weird, Like how desperate
<v Speaker 2>do you have to be?
<v Speaker 1>Well, don't say that, Sean, because there's some people out
<v Speaker 1>there probably that oh my gosh, you just.
<v Speaker 3>They might be on there, they might be listening to
<v Speaker 3>us on their way to their.
<v Speaker 1>Then and then they just swerved into an oncoming traffic
<v Speaker 1>just because they're going to a speed date.
<v Speaker 2>Right now, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that.
<v Speaker 1>You just committed So, my gosh, that's terri I mean.
<v Speaker 3>But that's not even that's not even the weirdest I've
<v Speaker 3>always I mean, I probably you know, shouldn't really laugh,
<v Speaker 3>but I always uh found humor.
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<v Speaker 3>Those old it was like the nineteen eighties, like video dating,
<v Speaker 3>Like you would go to a studio and there'd be
<v Speaker 3>like twenty guys and they don't record like a little
<v Speaker 3>ten second clip and they'd like mail that video tape
<v Speaker 3>the self. Poor woman. It was like, oh, I got
<v Speaker 3>it ed like and now you're like you get the
<v Speaker 3>benefit of just being able to click grouping digitally. You
<v Speaker 3>got to like fast forwards.
<v Speaker 1>In your vhs on your VHD vhs.
<v Speaker 2>So that's kind of like I love connection was right
<v Speaker 2>on TV. Didn't they have like a little video it's
<v Speaker 2>been so long?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to have I like to
<v Speaker 1>walks on the beach and uh and g I Joe
<v Speaker 1>action figures, Oh my gosh, and.
<v Speaker 3>Really in the magic.
<v Speaker 1>And you know they all lied. I mean, no one ever.
<v Speaker 1>If you put your real stuff on there, you're never
<v Speaker 1>ever going to get a date.
<v Speaker 2>So if you were, if you were on a speed date,
<v Speaker 2>you would lie.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, yes, it depends on how pretty she was.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, really if she was. These are things
<v Speaker 2>I'm finding out now after twenty something years.
<v Speaker 1>If she was hideous, I would tell her every truth
<v Speaker 1>about me. So she's not calling me back. But if
<v Speaker 1>she's hideous enough, she might be. Okay with that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's move on to our first questions.
<v Speaker 3>It would actually be pretty fun to try. Like, let's
<v Speaker 3>say you go to a speed date event and you know,
<v Speaker 3>you get twenty dates quote unquote, could you make up
<v Speaker 3>and sell twenty different personas I could?
<v Speaker 1>Easy?
<v Speaker 2>That would be a pretty good challenge.
<v Speaker 3>That'd be such a fun little like acting improv game.
<v Speaker 1>We should we should actually do a speed dating like
<v Speaker 1>an actual speed dating thing, and then and video and
<v Speaker 1>record all of it and see who could come up
<v Speaker 1>with the most outlandish personalities on the fly.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that'd be funny.
<v Speaker 3>That would be so fun.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So for our first question, right, hang on, hang on,
<v Speaker 1>we're getting to know Brent Blakeney intimately.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, We're going to start out with an easy one here,
<v Speaker 2>up close and person. What is your favorite color?
<v Speaker 3>Favorite color? Uh?
<v Speaker 6>Oh, gosh, because color says a lot about you.
<v Speaker 3>Some type of blue.
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>I think favorite color is like kind of a bluish purple.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, I don't know exactly what that'd be called.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, you're going to make it the color that
<v Speaker 1>doesn't exist. Yeah, next day, being difficult purple with blue
<v Speaker 1>and a little bit of red mixed in.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's just let's just read hear what the professionals
<v Speaker 2>say that that means about you, brand Blakeney.
<v Speaker 3>Oh so this is like a whole thing we're doing.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, we're doing this.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, all right, what does that say about me?
<v Speaker 2>You want to find inner peace an absolute truth, and
<v Speaker 2>you always make an effort to think of others in
<v Speaker 2>their needs.
<v Speaker 3>That's pretty true.
<v Speaker 2>I go with that, alrighty. You value your close knit
<v Speaker 2>group of friends and family as far as friendships go.
<v Speaker 2>You're a loyal perhaps to a fault mm hmm. Recognizing
<v Speaker 2>and putting the needs of others first works for you.
<v Speaker 2>You find being of service fulfilling. And there's a whole
<v Speaker 2>other list. So it sounds like you're a pretty nice guy.
<v Speaker 3>I'd like to think so it.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe a little too nice.
<v Speaker 3>It's apparently nice.
<v Speaker 1>To a fault exactly, all right, Seana, what's next?
<v Speaker 3>Well okay, well no, no, no, hang on, this is this
<v Speaker 3>is a date. Uh what are your guys and wants
<v Speaker 3>to say about you? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>See this is our podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Well I can tell you black is Keeper's favorite color.
<v Speaker 1>Black is my favorite color.
<v Speaker 2>And really yeah, it says this is interesting too because
<v Speaker 2>I like all the colors, and black is all the colors.
<v Speaker 2>It says you strive for power and control in life,
<v Speaker 2>but are often artistic and intuitive and do not share
<v Speaker 2>things well with others. I don't know about that part.
<v Speaker 1>The last part is not true.
<v Speaker 2>You value your inner world, build a that. Yeah, you
<v Speaker 2>value your inner world. Keep your private life private. Only
<v Speaker 2>close relatives and friends are privy to your thoughts and feelings.
<v Speaker 2>Mm hmmm, I don't know about that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're articulate.
<v Speaker 3>I think you have a couple of those album that
<v Speaker 3>would probably say differently.
<v Speaker 2>Right right, Oh, this one's true though. You're articulate and
<v Speaker 2>at times dramatic, but not unrestrained.
<v Speaker 1>That sounds a little bit like a slam and you
<v Speaker 1>were a little excited to read that. Here's one here,
<v Speaker 1>here's here's a negative thing about you. Let me read that.
<v Speaker 1>Let me just let me take the good parts out
<v Speaker 1>of this and read everything bad about you.
<v Speaker 2>All right, what is our next question?
<v Speaker 1>What's your color?
<v Speaker 2>We don't have to look mine up.
<v Speaker 1>I want to look at your up.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let me see someone says, let me see, husband
<v Speaker 2>had my favorite color? Is what's my favorite color?
<v Speaker 1>Kiefer, Well, it just depends. I would say it's purple,
<v Speaker 1>because well it was my second guess.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>You're loyal and very frank with others, and you consider
<v Speaker 2>your reputation a very important part of life.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you have a special.
<v Speaker 2>Connection to nature. It feeds your soul, whether it's spending
<v Speaker 2>time in the garden or finding creative ways to bring
<v Speaker 2>in the outdoors. Your favorite activities revolve around all that
<v Speaker 2>mother nature offers.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, okay, so all of this is more indoors.
<v Speaker 2>I do like the camp, like, well, I love the water, nature, nature.
<v Speaker 1>But you're not really the one with nature. I wouldn't think.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you're not going to go out and rough
<v Speaker 1>it in the camp. You're more of an r ve Gal.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I like. I like r v's.
<v Speaker 1>With the with the creature comforts of of air conditioning
<v Speaker 1>and such. We went we went camping one time, Brent,
<v Speaker 1>and it was I mean hot, and uh we went
<v Speaker 1>and we pitched a tent, I thank you, and built
<v Speaker 1>a fire and it was so hot. We were literally
<v Speaker 1>it was mid July and we were taking our clothes off,
<v Speaker 1>but not for a good reason and just like rubbing
<v Speaker 1>ice all over us because it was so freaking hot.
<v Speaker 1>We were trying to create a camping environment with this,
<v Speaker 1>with the s'mores and the fireplace and all that stuff,
<v Speaker 1>and it was so freaking hot. At like two in
<v Speaker 1>the morning, We're like, this is ridiculous. So we packed
<v Speaker 1>up all our crap and went home.
<v Speaker 2>You know what I remember most about that camping trip,
<v Speaker 2>Uh we got Tonight? Yeah, yes, that was playing like
<v Speaker 2>as we were packing all of our crap up and
<v Speaker 2>just throwing in the towel, it was Kenny Rogers. We
<v Speaker 2>got Tonight?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah we didn't.
<v Speaker 2>And uh was it Sylvia? Is that who did that
<v Speaker 2>with him?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, next question, hang on that question, Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>what's your favorite type of music?
<v Speaker 3>Favorite type of what music music? Ooh, if I if
<v Speaker 3>I had to, if I had to pick.
<v Speaker 1>One, that's what we're asking. It would definitely be genres together.
<v Speaker 3>That is, that is what favorite means. Uh. Probably like
<v Speaker 3>i'd say like a uh like a acoustic like folk
<v Speaker 3>like American. I'm gonna say Americana that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I really never would have.
<v Speaker 3>That paper and I have talked about it, like my
<v Speaker 3>I think both one out if not our favorite artist
<v Speaker 3>is like Bruce Springsteen and just kind of that like
<v Speaker 3>you know, you got the classic rock field. But and
<v Speaker 3>then definitely like in the modern times, like more of
<v Speaker 3>the Americana side of country. M I like a lot.
<v Speaker 1>What artists do you really dig.
<v Speaker 3>Currently?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>What do you listening to?
<v Speaker 3>You?
<v Speaker 2>Like, like when you hop in your car? Like, what
<v Speaker 2>what's your go to?
<v Speaker 3>Oh? I really like uh Hoosier Yeah, Uh, I mean
<v Speaker 3>I know he's Irish, but it's still kind of falls
<v Speaker 3>in that category. American Aquarium is a really great band
<v Speaker 3>out of Raleigh who have been kind of doing that
<v Speaker 3>Americana rock for a while. Uh. Tyler Childers is one
<v Speaker 3>of my favorite.
<v Speaker 2>Avid Brothers. Do you like the Davit Brothers.
<v Speaker 3>I like David Brothers.
<v Speaker 2>They just come out with the I don't know, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I know that are they from North Carolina?
<v Speaker 2>I feel like there's like some Carolina like something there
<v Speaker 2>happening in South Carolina, North Carolina.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I feel I feel like, yeah, maybe Greensboro, winstonce Down.
<v Speaker 3>I could be totally wrong and giving out bad information.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I love that because I never would have really
<v Speaker 2>guessed that.
<v Speaker 1>It's just well, I knew that he loves Springsteen because
<v Speaker 1>we kind of I mean, who.
<v Speaker 2>Doesn't like Well, it took me. It took me a
<v Speaker 2>minute to come around to spring Steing. I will admit that.
<v Speaker 1>A long time too long.
<v Speaker 2>That's because I growing up, that's all I ever knew
<v Speaker 2>was like country. I didn't know anything about anything else
<v Speaker 2>because that's all I ever heard was country. And then
<v Speaker 2>Keifer kind.
<v Speaker 3>Of is that? Is that still? Is that? Would you
<v Speaker 3>consider that your favorite?
<v Speaker 6>Yes?
<v Speaker 2>Traditional? Yeah for sure?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, that's a weird question to ask
<v Speaker 3>the country are no, no, if you're the type of
<v Speaker 3>music you do your favorite?
<v Speaker 1>I would probably argue that there's probably some artists out
<v Speaker 1>there that country is not there will go to, but
<v Speaker 1>it's where they landed to make money, for sure, because
<v Speaker 1>they don't.
<v Speaker 3>Even a lot.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't even know, wouldn't you know the history of
<v Speaker 1>country music or kind of where it came from and
<v Speaker 1>and kind of what we all got here. But and
<v Speaker 1>that's cool too, whatever, you know, all right?
<v Speaker 2>Favorite comedian.
<v Speaker 1>Besides men, do not make this awkward? Okay, you can.
<v Speaker 2>Say since you are a comic and everything, I'd.
<v Speaker 3>Probably say, Uh, Brian Reagan is probably my all time favorite.
<v Speaker 3>He is and I mean super consistent over you know, decades.
<v Speaker 3>Currently I really like like newer people. I mean he's
<v Speaker 3>not newer. Uh, you know, Tom Segura is great. I
<v Speaker 3>feel like I I have to say John Reep.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, you feel like you have to say John.
<v Speaker 3>If you listen to this, you know I love you.
<v Speaker 2>I do think John Reap is brilliant. Keever can tell
<v Speaker 2>you I'm pretty pretty tough when it comes to laughter.
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<v Speaker 3>Like I kept like, I kept looking at like when
<v Speaker 3>you guys were there at the show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she never left anything you said.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, but that mostly true. But then there
<v Speaker 3>was like one or two where I did see her
<v Speaker 3>lap and I'm like, all right, that's a good one.
<v Speaker 3>I got not of that.
<v Speaker 1>No, I just.
<v Speaker 2>Ere's a show that I've been to with John, Like
<v Speaker 2>I literally Billy laugh at least at least two three
<v Speaker 2>times or more.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, and even if it's the same joke, the
<v Speaker 1>pool story just kills me every time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so good, but it's so funny to where like,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you know, I don't mean to suck up
<v Speaker 3>to him aton like right now, but you know I've
<v Speaker 3>been working with him for a couple of years, and
<v Speaker 3>you kind of get a little I don't know complacence
<v Speaker 3>the right word, but you kind of get settled into
<v Speaker 3>a rhythm. And we were I think we or somewhere
<v Speaker 3>like before you know, Covid and all that. I just
<v Speaker 3>watched his show for the first time, and it's just
<v Speaker 3>this reminder of like how good of a comic he is.
<v Speaker 3>Mm hmm. Like I think you can get kind of
<v Speaker 3>so comfortable with someone you forget, you know, why they
<v Speaker 3>are who they are?
<v Speaker 1>Right, No, I think totally right. I think that's the
<v Speaker 1>same way with musicians. You know, if someone doesn't hear
<v Speaker 1>you on the radio for a while and then they
<v Speaker 1>hear you again in a different light, or that maybe
<v Speaker 1>coming to your show for the first time, like, oh
<v Speaker 1>my crap, I can't I forgot. I didn't realize that
<v Speaker 1>these guys were that good. And I'm talking about ourselves.
<v Speaker 1>You know, obviously people just forget, you know, is it
<v Speaker 1>that's just go ahead?
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, I'm gonna say. Is that the experience you
<v Speaker 3>strive for every show, just like we got to remind
<v Speaker 3>these people who we are.
<v Speaker 1>I think. I think when we go on stage, it's
<v Speaker 1>a it's a mission of ours forget to for people
<v Speaker 1>to talk about the show afterwards, for sure, because that
<v Speaker 1>live performance, man, it gets people to go and and
<v Speaker 1>and stream your music, by your music, buy your t
<v Speaker 1>shirts and talk to and more importantly, talk to other people.
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, it's a It's very well documented
<v Speaker 1>that word of mouth is the absolute best marketing that
<v Speaker 1>there is on the planet because it spreads like wildfire,
<v Speaker 1>you know, if you're excited about something and uh, hey,
<v Speaker 1>I went saw this guy last night. His name is
<v Speaker 1>Brent Blake and he just killed me. And you got,
<v Speaker 1>guy's got to go check him out or whatever else.
<v Speaker 1>And there's been some some other people like you and
<v Speaker 1>Reap and Dusty Sleigh that I've you know, I promote
<v Speaker 1>all the time in that space. And uh, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just because you guys are all good people and and
<v Speaker 1>and you're all good friends have become good friends of mine,
<v Speaker 1>and and I just think that's that's the main goal,
<v Speaker 1>is to get people to talk about you and how
<v Speaker 1>good you are and and all that stuff. You know,
<v Speaker 1>if you made an impression, you know, and I think
<v Speaker 1>gets the I think in that kind of the job
<v Speaker 1>for all of us in this entertainment business. It's to
<v Speaker 1>get is to make of mouth, well, to get to
<v Speaker 1>make an impression on someone so much to where they
<v Speaker 1>want to go out and talk about it, even if
<v Speaker 1>they don't buy anything, which I highly you know that
<v Speaker 1>always helps the arts obviously to buy your product, but
<v Speaker 1>you know word of mouth. You know you're trying to
<v Speaker 1>build a podcast. We're trying to build a podcast. We're
<v Speaker 1>doing all these different things, and your goal is to
<v Speaker 1>get ten thousand people to watch your show. And and
<v Speaker 1>you know it's a it's a it's a continual, continual thing.
<v Speaker 1>One thing. Do you have any other questions for the
<v Speaker 1>for there?
<v Speaker 2>That's enough of the silliness.
<v Speaker 1>Hang on a second.
<v Speaker 3>I was enjoying that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, give you one more, give you one more,
<v Speaker 1>one more?
<v Speaker 2>What was the one you want to ask this?
<v Speaker 3>And then we'll do one more and come back to it.
<v Speaker 2>Let me see if I can find it again. We
<v Speaker 2>actually pulled these questions from e harmony, which is hilarious.
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, that's that's basically on seventy five points. I
<v Speaker 3>think we're going to the three of us are going
<v Speaker 3>to be in love after that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Keifer, what's the one you wanted to do ask
<v Speaker 2>I can't remember which one it was.
<v Speaker 1>Well, there was a couple here, what do you think?
<v Speaker 1>Just name one? This is we'll do a rap hang
<v Speaker 1>on a second, rapid fire. It's the rapid fire section
<v Speaker 1>of getting to know Brent Blakeney. Question one, one of
<v Speaker 1>three things that you're thankful for? Actually, what's one thing
<v Speaker 1>you're thankful for?
<v Speaker 3>One thing I'm thankful for?
<v Speaker 1>M okay, next question nothing do I have a yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I had?
<v Speaker 3>Hey, I'm thankful for your guys' friendship.
<v Speaker 1>That's very sweet, very sweet and probably a lie. And uh,
<v Speaker 1>if if your best friends had to pick a word
<v Speaker 1>to describe you, what would that word be? Uh?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, thoughtful?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know thoughtful? Okay, uh what's the what's one
<v Speaker 1>thing that you love about your physical appearance?
<v Speaker 3>My eye?
<v Speaker 1>Your eyes?
<v Speaker 3>Now this is getting weird. I don't know. I've I've
<v Speaker 3>always been complimented. I believe it's very nice. Thought. So
<v Speaker 3>thank you for asking?
<v Speaker 1>You had a nice you know? Uh? All right, I
<v Speaker 1>think that's yeah. I don't want it's going to get
<v Speaker 1>dirty after that, you know. So, let's just goodness, what
<v Speaker 1>were you going to ask you? Let's just well, I
<v Speaker 1>really wanted to know Bred Blakeney.
<v Speaker 3>So uh yeah, I suppose that's the that's for the Patreon.
<v Speaker 1>Fans only.
<v Speaker 2>So so that was.
<v Speaker 1>Getting to know thanks for playing.
<v Speaker 2>So what what have you been doing like throughout this
<v Speaker 2>crazy pandemic time. I mean, have you been able to
<v Speaker 2>get out and do any sets or anything?
<v Speaker 3>Uh? Yeah, I guess I started back. You know, I'd
<v Speaker 3>say like March sixteenth was you know, the last day,
<v Speaker 3>and it was probably July that outdoor shows. You know,
<v Speaker 3>people were comfortable being outdoors and stuff like that and
<v Speaker 3>gathering in groups outdoors, and you know, I was able
<v Speaker 3>to you know, do some outdoor shows for pretty much
<v Speaker 3>the rest of last year and then yeah, the first
<v Speaker 3>part of December, I booked a road gig in South
<v Speaker 3>Carolina and then you know, of course I was in Nashville.
<v Speaker 3>I saw you guys for New Years and have kind
<v Speaker 3>of been working steadily since then.
<v Speaker 6>But I mean, yeah, there was so much downtime, and
<v Speaker 6>so I mean I have to ask, like for a musician,
<v Speaker 6>you know, we can we can sit in here and
<v Speaker 6>we can rehearse, which we never do.
<v Speaker 2>We need to and hone our craft, but as a comic,
<v Speaker 2>you can't do that, like you can't unless you're you're
<v Speaker 2>you're honing your craft when you're out and you're in
<v Speaker 2>front of an audience and you're finding out what's working
<v Speaker 2>and not you know, getting the laughs. Do you write?
<v Speaker 2>Is that what you do in your downtime?
<v Speaker 3>I mean, uh yeah, I mean it's it's a lot
<v Speaker 3>of writing, and it is kind of finding you know,
<v Speaker 3>separate avenue.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>There was definitely the Zoom shows and whatnot and those
<v Speaker 3>and and that's what I actually wanted to go and
<v Speaker 3>ask you guys because you were talking about like live
<v Speaker 3>entertainment and getting people together and people are talking and
<v Speaker 3>stuff like that. I mean, personally, I don't think the
<v Speaker 3>Internet shows and like the Zoom hangouts and blah blah
<v Speaker 3>blah blah, like ever take the place of that. But
<v Speaker 3>that's also you know, kind of different for me as
<v Speaker 3>a comic, Like I absolutely need and feed off like
<v Speaker 3>the energy of a live crowd versus you know, you
<v Speaker 3>guys did and they were fantastic, you know, like your
<v Speaker 3>your wine Wednesdays and you know, Sunday night cooking. Do
<v Speaker 3>you feel music is kind of a different avenue where
<v Speaker 3>things will maybe like split fifty fifty with digital and
<v Speaker 3>live or do you think it'll all go back to
<v Speaker 3>live eventually.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I hope it's not split fifty to fifty. I
<v Speaker 1>think I do think that. As far as like live
<v Speaker 1>shows in our in our house, or or there's venues
<v Speaker 1>now in Nashville that have a stage set up with
<v Speaker 1>production and stuff, and you go in there and you hire,
<v Speaker 1>you pay for the you pay for the room and
<v Speaker 1>the engineers and stuff, and you do a full on show.
<v Speaker 1>Obviously there's still no there's no no response as far
<v Speaker 1>as applause and that sort of thing, which, by the way,
<v Speaker 1>is the same thing we feel about it. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>we feed off of applause. That's the fuel that fuels
<v Speaker 1>all entertainers onto the stage, entertainers, and so it's really odd.
<v Speaker 2>I honestly think that's the reason why virtual will never know.
<v Speaker 2>But I think there's because the crowd you feed off
<v Speaker 2>each other, no, you know what I mean, you do.
<v Speaker 1>But I think one thing I've been really proud of
<v Speaker 1>people us included, is we've tried it, you know, and
<v Speaker 1>when there was there is no outlet for anything. I
<v Speaker 1>hadn't been for the last you know, twelve thirteen, fourteen
<v Speaker 1>months now, but we were attempting to pivot and try
<v Speaker 1>to figure out how we can still have fun at shows,
<v Speaker 1>and how we can still have music, and how the
<v Speaker 1>arts can get paid and all those things. So, you know,
<v Speaker 1>we do some zoom show. We did a zoom show
<v Speaker 1>the other day and you can see everybody on the
<v Speaker 1>zoom they're clapping and stuff, and you just kind of
<v Speaker 1>have to go with it. Man. It's like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>no one's laughing. The good thing is no one can
<v Speaker 1>do you as a comedian too. I mean, your jokes,
<v Speaker 1>your jokes crush every single time, you know, And but
<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't know. I think there's a place
<v Speaker 1>for the for the online stuff, for sure. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna there's a lot of companies who have really
<v Speaker 1>tried to do it at a big level. And the
<v Speaker 1>thing of it is, man, is no one can sell tickets.
<v Speaker 1>It's been really hard. It's been kind of shocking to
<v Speaker 1>me that the consumer is not willing to pay a
<v Speaker 1>very small price a dollar show, five dollars shows. They're
<v Speaker 1>not willing to spend even that to watch your show.
<v Speaker 2>And I think it's because of that what we were
<v Speaker 2>talking about with feeling that getting that energy off of
<v Speaker 2>each other. It's just not the same. It's not the
<v Speaker 2>I just it's the whole experience of going to a concert.
<v Speaker 2>It's the smells, it's the air, it's you know, it's
<v Speaker 2>everything about it.
<v Speaker 1>I just think it doesn't register with people that, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to pay five dollars to go see a
<v Speaker 1>Thompson Square show online when chances are they're going to
<v Speaker 1>do a wine on Wednesday and that's going to be free.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be the same. It's weird. There's so much
<v Speaker 1>stimuli on line. I just don't feel like the content
<v Speaker 1>that you put out from a live standpoint, it's got
<v Speaker 1>to be Hey, guys, we're going to do a whole
<v Speaker 1>new set no one's ever heard of. I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>be playing naked. I'm going to be you know, Sean
<v Speaker 1>and I are going to do some heavy petting in
<v Speaker 1>the middle of the set, you know. And I think
<v Speaker 1>that would sell tickets. But I think it has to
<v Speaker 1>be extreme in order to sell a lot of tickets,
<v Speaker 1>because I've heard massive artists that have done online shows
<v Speaker 1>and sold maybe one hundred tickets, you know. And I
<v Speaker 1>don't take it personally because I'm thankful for the people
<v Speaker 1>who do it, and a lot of the things that
<v Speaker 1>we've booked in person shows and online have been for
<v Speaker 1>private companies, so they pay you a flat fee and
<v Speaker 1>it's not an excellent, necessarily a ticket thing. And we've
<v Speaker 1>done combinations of a flat fee and a back end
<v Speaker 1>on tickets, and we run merch specials and all that
<v Speaker 1>kind of stuff, you know. So it's been interesting. And
<v Speaker 1>and uh uh Shauna has decided to build a stage
<v Speaker 1>in our basement.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm not going to build it like she No, she's.
<v Speaker 1>Not building anything. She's gonna do a lot of pointing
<v Speaker 1>and uh put that there. That's kind of her thing.
<v Speaker 1>But uh, you know, we're gonna. We're gonna because of
<v Speaker 1>this and because of the podcast. And I absolutely love podcasting.
<v Speaker 1>But I never thought I would look at this much.
<v Speaker 1>But I am in love with it. I am enamored.
<v Speaker 1>I'm on Clubhouse all the time learning more about it,
<v Speaker 1>and I just this is going to be something that
<v Speaker 1>we do, I think forever as far as I'm concerned.
<v Speaker 2>So, Brent, I'm curious when you did your zoom so,
<v Speaker 2>was everybody like unmuted so that you could actually hear
<v Speaker 2>their laughter?
<v Speaker 3>No, I did it the one that I've done and
<v Speaker 3>I think this is why I am. I mean, I'm
<v Speaker 3>not anti in the sense of, you know, nobody should
<v Speaker 3>do it. I mean, if you like, go ahead for
<v Speaker 3>ever comedy, you know, I know music is definitely different.
<v Speaker 3>But it was just on the Zoom Show and then
<v Speaker 3>they would stream it to Facebook Live or something. I
<v Speaker 3>was essentially talking to myself and that's such a that's
<v Speaker 3>just not how stand up works. And it was so
<v Speaker 3>kind of disheartening back when it was. Now I will say,
<v Speaker 3>on the other hand, I did find a It was,
<v Speaker 3>you know, a group of people I knew, you know,
<v Speaker 3>from around North Carolina, and we kind of banded together
<v Speaker 3>and are doing they called we call them chet chat,
<v Speaker 3>which are just they're like funny ted talks and we'll
<v Speaker 3>usually have a theme and we'll stream that on Facebook.
<v Speaker 3>And that is so much more fun and I think
<v Speaker 3>entertaining and better for kind of the comedy environment of
<v Speaker 3>the Zoom Call and like online, because that's not it's
<v Speaker 3>not trying material or jokes, it's visual. It's it's almost
<v Speaker 3>it's more like sketch comedy gotch So it's almost Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's like.
<v Speaker 1>You have people there that you can laugh with me like.
<v Speaker 3>The rest of the group is in the zoom chat
<v Speaker 3>and stuff too. Yeah, right, but it's so much more
<v Speaker 3>of a it's more of a like stand up to
<v Speaker 3>me has always been a conversation. I mean, it's kind
<v Speaker 3>of a one sided conversation, but you're talking to the audience,
<v Speaker 3>whereas like just giving kind of being able to write
<v Speaker 3>the jokes and give a funny presentation online. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I think that works so much better.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a really interesting concept. I'm just sitting here
<v Speaker 1>thinking when I I don't consider myself a comedian, but
<v Speaker 1>when when I first tried to do this, I wrote
<v Speaker 1>for about a month, for eight minutes, and I had
<v Speaker 1>sewn up in the studio and I just did my
<v Speaker 1>whole show just for that one person and see if
<v Speaker 1>I get some sort of feedback emotionally or laughing or something.
<v Speaker 1>So I wonder if if by doing these online shows
<v Speaker 1>as a comic and getting zero feedback, if that could
<v Speaker 1>in a way make you stronger on stage to fail
<v Speaker 1>and to be able to push through that and like
<v Speaker 1>you're doing it for you're not getting a response, So
<v Speaker 1>when you go out there on stage for the first
<v Speaker 1>time and there's an audience, it's almost like it feels
<v Speaker 1>like it would be like a tiger on a piece
<v Speaker 1>of meat. I mean, just like you would be so
<v Speaker 1>much more driven and just really going after and hey,
<v Speaker 1>this joke didn't work. Who cares at least I'm not
<v Speaker 1>on zoom. You know.
<v Speaker 3>It's just, yeah, it's a better perspective. And no, I
<v Speaker 3>mean I think you're absolutely right, like there is this
<v Speaker 3>and honestly, I think that's been you know, like a
<v Speaker 3>lot of things in you know, my life. I feel
<v Speaker 3>there is kind of this this feeling of Yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>mean you once you know what it feels like to
<v Speaker 3>have it taken away, and it's not your fault. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you never want to you never want to lose it again,
<v Speaker 3>so you're absolutely willing to kind of do whatever it takes.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Because I mean I haven't done anything comedy wise
<v Speaker 1>for the entire past year, and I feel like, man,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna have I'll literally be starting over. But I'm
<v Speaker 1>really looking forward to to getting back into that, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And I mean we're in the process of recording a
<v Speaker 1>new album and all that stuff, but you know, the
<v Speaker 1>comedy stuff. I was really starting to just fall in
<v Speaker 1>love with the whole thing and making friends with all
<v Speaker 1>these new comics and all these new people and getting
<v Speaker 1>inspired and everything from these different people. It was just
<v Speaker 1>it was awesome, and I just I really miss it.
<v Speaker 2>I have a question, another question for you. Do you
<v Speaker 2>remember your very first time on stage as a comic.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure you do.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, good bad. Luckily it was it. I've heard other
<v Speaker 3>people say it this way, and I think it's absolutely
<v Speaker 3>the truth. You kind of say the universe played a
<v Speaker 3>trick on you, because I got some last my first
<v Speaker 3>time on stage. I actually I have a video of it.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it was, you know, twenty eleven. We didn't
<v Speaker 3>quite have like iPhones, but I had a little kind
<v Speaker 3>of handheld camera I took and had a friend record it.
<v Speaker 3>And it's I can't watch it. It's too embarrassing for
<v Speaker 3>me as a you know. I'll send you a very
<v Speaker 3>private YouTube link. I was wearing shorts. It was horrible. Wow,
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I definitely remember it was.
<v Speaker 6>It was.
<v Speaker 3>In May of two thousand and eleven. I had just
<v Speaker 3>graduated with my Masters to Grow from Liberty University, and
<v Speaker 3>so I you know, I had this, I had this
<v Speaker 3>you know, secondary degree. I was ready to attack the workforce,
<v Speaker 3>and I was working with a guy, and we both
<v Speaker 3>loved stand up and we found there was this little
<v Speaker 3>this hotel that ran you know, stand up ship, like
<v Speaker 3>in the hotel bar, they'd run stand up shows on
<v Speaker 3>the weekend and they had an open mic and we
<v Speaker 3>dared each other and yeah, this is two weeks after
<v Speaker 3>I graduated, and you know, went up, got a couple
<v Speaker 3>of laughs and never looked back.
<v Speaker 1>Man.
<v Speaker 3>And then after that, I can't believe that was almost
<v Speaker 3>ten years ago.
<v Speaker 1>It's crazy, man, It's weird. Like, so after you got
<v Speaker 1>laughs on your first show, and then when there were
<v Speaker 1>some times right after that, did you feel like this
<v Speaker 1>is going to happen every single time? You know, I'm
<v Speaker 1>going to get last time, And then you get on
<v Speaker 1>stage later on in the same exact joke the next
<v Speaker 1>show and it sucks.
<v Speaker 3>It's just horrible. It's so the first time, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it felt like nothing to feel like when you have
<v Speaker 3>kind of a nice response, it felt nothing to fill
<v Speaker 3>you know, five minutes just an open mic set. And
<v Speaker 3>then the next time, when you're just eating it, you're like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, two and a half minutes goes by and
<v Speaker 3>you're like, well that's all I've got.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I'm not doing this and I'm not doing
<v Speaker 1>this anymore.
<v Speaker 2>So for you? Was comedy just that? Was it a dare?
<v Speaker 1>Or like?
<v Speaker 2>Is it something that you've always wanted to do?
<v Speaker 3>It was definitely something I always wanted to always wanted
<v Speaker 3>to do. I despite well, if you know, any of
<v Speaker 3>the listeners don't know, I'm I'm kind of a big guy.
<v Speaker 3>You're a hug You're but I am h Yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 3>six feet seven inches tall and definitely built.
<v Speaker 1>Can you just can you just say that one more time?
<v Speaker 3>I am six feet seven inches tall?
<v Speaker 1>And I'm sorry? He could hear that?
<v Speaker 2>Did you hear the music?
<v Speaker 3>No, couldn't hear it.
<v Speaker 1>You'll hear it in the show.
<v Speaker 2>Definitely recorded. It was pretty funny.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I mean, you know, always, I guess people
<v Speaker 3>assumed I do sports and stuff, but I was definitely
<v Speaker 3>a theater kid in high school and I always I
<v Speaker 3>always love performing. Okay, I always love performing, and I
<v Speaker 3>like to do things by myself. So okay, I I.
<v Speaker 1>Mean, I what do you let me? I have?
<v Speaker 3>I have?
<v Speaker 1>I do have one more question? I follow that question that, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>what else do you like to do by yourself?
<v Speaker 3>There's there's smooth jazz playing behind there playing Yes, well,
<v Speaker 3>I I I I have so much respect for for
<v Speaker 3>you guys and for musicians. I I could not. It's
<v Speaker 3>why comedy works for me because I can just you.
<v Speaker 3>I I get to write all my own material. I
<v Speaker 3>kind of live and die by the strength of what
<v Speaker 3>I'm doing. I mean, I'm blown away that how bands work,
<v Speaker 3>how people can collaborate with you know, I mean there's
<v Speaker 3>you two, and then how many people do you have
<v Speaker 3>backing you up right, kind of like a full like
<v Speaker 3>a like three more.
<v Speaker 1>People, well at least you know, usually four, four or five,
<v Speaker 1>you know when when kissed me or not hit And
<v Speaker 1>we were on those huge tours, we had five on stage,
<v Speaker 1>two buses, an eighteen wheeler. I mean it was a
<v Speaker 1>big and then you have.
<v Speaker 2>The collaboration with other songwriters, you know, to write for
<v Speaker 2>the record and all that, so which I.
<v Speaker 1>Really you know and and and you and I talked
<v Speaker 1>about this, but prior to us coming on online, I
<v Speaker 1>have found so many similarities in the musician world and
<v Speaker 1>the comic world, and it's it's it's so uncanny to
<v Speaker 1>me that it's there's there's so many different similarities and uh,
<v Speaker 1>but yet there's there's so many differences too in the
<v Speaker 1>creation the creation process of a joke. And I was
<v Speaker 1>really hoping that collaborate reading with other comedians on bits
<v Speaker 1>and jokes would be as equally it would be equally
<v Speaker 1>as effective and efficient as collaborating with other songwriters. And
<v Speaker 1>I found that that is not the case at all.
<v Speaker 1>And I mean I do a lot of obviously, I
<v Speaker 1>do a lot of music in my comedy because that's
<v Speaker 1>what I do. I'm a songwriter, so right, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I write spoofs or I write original things. And if
<v Speaker 1>I have a topic and I think it's funny, I
<v Speaker 1>can write a song about that by myself or with
<v Speaker 1>somebody else. But the thing of it is, it's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, with comedy. You know, I sat down with
<v Speaker 1>a couple of different writers, you know, and and it's
<v Speaker 1>weird because it's like, no one's laughing at the bit.
<v Speaker 1>So you're going down through this thing and it's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that I could see how that would be funny, But
<v Speaker 1>in the moment when you're writing it, you're not laughing.
<v Speaker 1>And it really messes with me because I want to
<v Speaker 1>be like writing and go like when you're songwriting and
<v Speaker 1>you and you and you hit on a line and
<v Speaker 1>you're like, oh yeah, man, it was awesome. That was awesome,
<v Speaker 1>and in a in a in a comic writing session
<v Speaker 1>like uh yeah. And then she takes the apple and
<v Speaker 1>she takes the apple out of her mouth and puts
<v Speaker 1>it in the pigs butt and that's gonna be funny.
<v Speaker 1>And you're like, and that's gonna be fun that's gonna
<v Speaker 1>get a good laugh right there. They're like that get
<v Speaker 1>a good laugh. And then when the pig turns around
<v Speaker 1>and you know, it's just a whole it's weird because
<v Speaker 1>you and you can see how it could be funny,
<v Speaker 1>get there until people still try it, yeah, and it's
<v Speaker 1>like and then you get out there and you get
<v Speaker 1>ready to do it and you're like, man, maybe I
<v Speaker 1>shouldn't do this. It's a new bit, you know. And
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of comics too that I found
<v Speaker 1>just watch and do a lot of the same stuff
<v Speaker 1>over and over and over again. And from a creative standpoint,
<v Speaker 1>on my end of it, I was like, I have
<v Speaker 1>to change my comedy thing. I'll do this show and
<v Speaker 1>then I'll completely change the show. And that's not how
<v Speaker 1>comedy works at all. Those big jokes that you work
<v Speaker 1>in those big jokes we have are your hits, and
<v Speaker 1>it got to play those hits every single show. Like
<v Speaker 1>John John telling the story about his dad in the
<v Speaker 1>swimming pool. You know, he tells that. Every time I've
<v Speaker 1>seen him, he done He's done that bit.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it works every time.
<v Speaker 1>And I've talked to other and people. It's like we
<v Speaker 1>went and saw Andrew Dice Clay at Zany's and if
<v Speaker 1>he didn't do the nursery rhymes that people, the people
<v Speaker 1>would have burned the place down.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they would riot.
<v Speaker 1>They want to hear Hickory Dickory doc. You know, they've
<v Speaker 1>got to hear that.
<v Speaker 2>And so well, what's interesting too on the other side
<v Speaker 2>of that is I think it was the Seinfeld riding
<v Speaker 2>in car what's the name of the.
<v Speaker 1>Show cars with comedians, comedians and cars and then getting
<v Speaker 1>coffee then they have to stop and get gased. I
<v Speaker 1>think that's the official name.
<v Speaker 2>So Eddie Murphy was talking about, you know, he has
<v Speaker 2>all this pressure on him to be funny with stuff
<v Speaker 2>that's new, but if he goes in and he tries
<v Speaker 2>to work it, he's gonna get just like no slammed,
<v Speaker 2>Like he's going to be rid of and critiques so much.
<v Speaker 1>Well, he's not allowed to work out new materials, he's
<v Speaker 1>not allowed.
<v Speaker 2>To be He's got to be funny every time.
<v Speaker 1>And that's why he didn't do comedy.
<v Speaker 2>And that's so sad to me.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, who does delirious and raw and then just
<v Speaker 1>disappears off the stage. I mean, like, this guy is
<v Speaker 1>one of the funniest people that's ever been. He's Richard
<v Speaker 1>pryor funny to me, you know, and to just to
<v Speaker 1>walk away from that course, you know, he's done, he's
<v Speaker 1>done well, and the other other aspects of his life.
<v Speaker 1>But still, you know, uh man, that's just a it's
<v Speaker 1>a travesty not to see him on stage doing doing
<v Speaker 1>stand up.
<v Speaker 3>It's just and I think that's it's it's one thing,
<v Speaker 3>you know, I don't know. I mean, I think you
<v Speaker 3>there's something beautiful about a comedy club like a ziny
<v Speaker 3>or uh you know, any anything on that scale. It's about,
<v Speaker 3>you know too, two hundred people. It's close, it's dark,
<v Speaker 3>it's that kind of thing, and you you kind of
<v Speaker 3>you get that freedom to fail right in that environment,
<v Speaker 3>whereas like when you hit a certain level and by
<v Speaker 3>no fault of it, I mean, you know, it's not
<v Speaker 3>his faulty games, super famous. He's just that talented. But
<v Speaker 3>when you get to like theaters and stadiums and you
<v Speaker 3>kind of do have that expectation on you, it does
<v Speaker 3>become a lot harder. I completely agree. It becomes a
<v Speaker 3>lot harder to work out new material and stuff like that, because, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>like you said, people want to hear the hits mh.
<v Speaker 3>But what's interesting, and I think different about comedy too,
<v Speaker 3>is like, even if it's the hit, they can still evolve, right,
<v Speaker 3>Like do you do you guys feel that like once
<v Speaker 3>you hit, Once you write a song and you're like
<v Speaker 3>and you record it and it goes out and people
<v Speaker 3>like it, it's done, and you just kind of have
<v Speaker 3>to well.
<v Speaker 2>Again, I think it goes back to what you were
<v Speaker 2>just saying when something is so successful, like are you
<v Speaker 2>gonna kiss me or not? It was a unicorn, Like
<v Speaker 2>those don't come along very often in the music business,
<v Speaker 2>and it's just it's it's kind of hard to get
<v Speaker 2>past that, you know what I mean, Because that's the
<v Speaker 2>big one. It's like, what are you going to do
<v Speaker 2>now to top that?
<v Speaker 1>And everyone expects you to top it. It's like, yeah, guys,
<v Speaker 1>you don't top that.
<v Speaker 2>Another example in the comedy world, Jeff Foxworthy like the
<v Speaker 2>whole red neck thing. You might be a redneck.
<v Speaker 1>Nobody wants to hear anything else but that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's just I can imagine it'd be really tough
<v Speaker 2>to get past that, or building ball with the here's
<v Speaker 2>your sign.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well that's his big hit, that's what thing is.
<v Speaker 3>They but they hit the point they kind of they
<v Speaker 3>even found that really be like the that's like the
<v Speaker 3>unicorn and unicorn right right, because it's it's just the tagline.
<v Speaker 3>So they can write anything anything, and they can keep
<v Speaker 3>writing new material that fits into that box. And you
<v Speaker 3>have this never ending it's never ending, never ending, yeah, exactly,
<v Speaker 3>whereas like I mean, you know you talk about kiss
<v Speaker 3>me or not. I mean I would actually really love this.
<v Speaker 3>Uh if all of a sudden, you know, in like
<v Speaker 3>a year, you guys come out and play a show
<v Speaker 3>and it's like, oh and we've written this.
<v Speaker 2>New verse, right yeah, Like no, it was friends and
<v Speaker 2>love Places, Friends and Love Places.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no, it's under rolls too.
<v Speaker 2>Oh he did he did do that and I forgot
<v Speaker 2>about that.
<v Speaker 3>But that but but I mean, but does like I
<v Speaker 3>just think that's kind of a difference. But does that happen.
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, I mean I think it could happen very rarely.
<v Speaker 1>That's the only two instances that we just made that was.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, one thing that we do in our live
<v Speaker 1>show is we extend songs. We reimagined the song glass completely,
<v Speaker 1>and so we've done some different things like that in
<v Speaker 1>the live show. And I think the live show kind
<v Speaker 1>of lends itself to like, Okay, I know how to
<v Speaker 1>play the record, so I can I could say if
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to a show and I want to hear
<v Speaker 1>the records and I want to be I want to
<v Speaker 1>be a little bit different. I want something more out
<v Speaker 1>of you than just playing just regurgitating the same songs
<v Speaker 1>over and over again.
<v Speaker 2>But a lot of times, a lot of times you'll
<v Speaker 2>get Man, I just wanted to hear like the version
<v Speaker 2>that I grew up listening to. That'd be like going
<v Speaker 2>to see Bruce Springsteen and he.
<v Speaker 1>Does reggae version of Brilliant Disguise.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah you know what I mean?
<v Speaker 1>So's it could be awesome?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, you said that, I'm like, not, actually sounds
<v Speaker 3>pretty good night.
<v Speaker 2>So what you got coming up with?
<v Speaker 1>You got to record that that'd be funny. That'd be funny.
<v Speaker 2>What what gigs do you have coming up that we
<v Speaker 2>can get out to everybody? Astoria.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I'm going to be in I'm waiting to hear
<v Speaker 3>on one, so I'm not going to say that. I've
<v Speaker 3>got to show at the end of March in Morrisville,
<v Speaker 3>North Carolina at one eight on Maine. Uh and then
<v Speaker 3>I think March third. Next Wednesday, I'm going to be
<v Speaker 3>in Durham for a show that I'm headlining. So if
<v Speaker 3>you if you live you're listening, and you live in
<v Speaker 3>Durham and you want to is this going to be
<v Speaker 3>out by them? I don't know. Friday, Okay, cool? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>next Wednesday, if you're listening, you live around Durham, come
<v Speaker 3>see me. You can check out all that stuff all
<v Speaker 3>plut my social media at six seven comedy all spelled
<v Speaker 3>out s I X S E V E N C
<v Speaker 3>O M E D Y and plug my podcast yes please,
<v Speaker 3>yes please task that I was just yeah, I have this.
<v Speaker 3>I wrote a podcast called the Arts of Murder Arts
<v Speaker 3>with an S, and it's not you know, a normal part.
<v Speaker 3>I wrote an old nineteen thirties detective show that's funny
<v Speaker 3>and yeah, I got a lot of my comedian friends
<v Speaker 3>to be on it. John Reef was on an episode
<v Speaker 3>as a character, and it's been a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>So checking that out would be cool.
<v Speaker 1>Too, awesome man, and I do, yeah, I And we'll
<v Speaker 1>put all these links and stuff in the in the description.
<v Speaker 1>There's a couple of things. Yeah, there's a couple other
<v Speaker 1>things that I just want to ask you real quick.
<v Speaker 1>Shawna and I.
<v Speaker 3>Get it's the smooth jazz so on no, no, okay,
<v Speaker 3>all right, right, cool, cool.
<v Speaker 1>Cool, cool, I'll ask you that off loading. So she
<v Speaker 1>and Sehawna and I get it. People who hate on
<v Speaker 1>us sometimes very rarely, but every once in a while
<v Speaker 1>on social media, someone and we used to have this
<v Speaker 1>thing called thomplin squares hater tweeted the week. And when
<v Speaker 1>you do these big, massive arena shows, when you did
<v Speaker 1>these big, massive arena shows, you would have three different
<v Speaker 1>artists on stage and three different fan bases together. So
<v Speaker 1>if one of them, I see one artist they hated you,
<v Speaker 1>bring it up. We want to hear Jason Aldean, you
<v Speaker 1>know what is the what is the and I know
<v Speaker 1>you probably you must know this, but what is the
<v Speaker 1>meanest thing or the most cruel and mean thing that
<v Speaker 1>that have either an audience member or a tweet or
<v Speaker 1>anything else. What's the crappiest thing that anyone's ever said
<v Speaker 1>to you?
<v Speaker 3>I certainly posted you know it's funny, Okay, Just the
<v Speaker 3>general one is, I will you post a stand up
<v Speaker 3>clip online? I was like, hey, check out this stand
<v Speaker 3>up comedy and I remember one uh, one person I
<v Speaker 3>think it was on Reddit just wrote underneath the video
<v Speaker 3>it was just like that's a very loose definition of comedy.
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, oh, that one's that one's done.
<v Speaker 3>Could I get the thing that hurt? And I don't
<v Speaker 3>know why they hurt the way they do. Whenever I
<v Speaker 3>post something, uh, and someone just has to be a
<v Speaker 3>contrarian or like an actually butt person, you know, Like
<v Speaker 3>I'll post a picture and I'm like, hey, like look
<v Speaker 3>at this funny thing I'm doing, like on on Instagram.
<v Speaker 3>A couple of days ago, I was listening to an
<v Speaker 3>interview with Dave Grohl and he said they gott in
<v Speaker 3>this like the Foo Fighters got in this tradition after
<v Speaker 3>a show where they would eat KFC fried chicken and
<v Speaker 3>drink champagne. I didn't think it would work, right, Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so that's where it was from. And I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I was hanging out, you know, Saturday night. I didn't
<v Speaker 3>have anything to do. Well, that sounds fun. I'm gonna
<v Speaker 3>try it now. I don't have Dave groll champagne money,
<v Speaker 3>all right, So I just Scott went and got like nice.
<v Speaker 6>You know.
<v Speaker 3>I think it was like a prosecco or something. And
<v Speaker 3>I posted on Instagram being funny and like a bunch
<v Speaker 3>of people were like, that's not champagne. And it's like, well,
<v Speaker 3>why do I even truck? Why do I try to
<v Speaker 3>entertain the people.
<v Speaker 1>Who freaking cares?
<v Speaker 3>Now, why are you taking time out of your day
<v Speaker 3>to tell me something? I know, Just appreciate the joke.
<v Speaker 1>It's funny, man. Those are the low lives, and they
<v Speaker 1>are low lives. Those are the people who just they
<v Speaker 1>don't have anything going on in their life that's special,
<v Speaker 1>and no one cares about anything they post probably and
<v Speaker 1>they hate that, yeah, because they don't have the nuts
<v Speaker 1>to go out and do anything. I can put themselves
<v Speaker 1>out there, you know what I mean. And those are
<v Speaker 1>the people who always I mean, we've had people pound
<v Speaker 1>on Sean, but you don't look country and you're you're
<v Speaker 1>rude or you're mean or whatever. I'm just all this crazy.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, man, what are you freaking talking about? But
<v Speaker 1>that's the ones that you remember.
<v Speaker 2>Man, I can honestly say that I've never just been
<v Speaker 2>on Facebook or social media and like searched out something
<v Speaker 2>that I could put down, you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 1>It's like even searching, just coming across something that goes, hey,
<v Speaker 1>I like Donald Trump or I like Joe Biden and
<v Speaker 1>when and you just go, I'm gonna blast you for that.
<v Speaker 3>How that's the work.
<v Speaker 1>How small you must have to be to feel like
<v Speaker 1>your opinion matters on somebody else's profile, like hey, here's
<v Speaker 1>a my new Maga hat or or here's my new
<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden mask or whatever it is, whichever side. But
<v Speaker 1>it's like, and people just I mean, you're going to
<v Speaker 1>hail you racist. I mean, just all this crazy stuff,
<v Speaker 1>you know, And I'm just like that that just that
<v Speaker 1>just kills me. I want to know something else.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I was going to say, I respect what you
<v Speaker 3>guys did. If you guys would find I mean not
<v Speaker 3>that you were looking for him to find them, but
<v Speaker 3>you would take like the Thompson Square or Thompson Lane. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>eight of the week station that man, this entire time.
<v Speaker 3>I would try to remember it.
<v Speaker 1>You were going I know you were going for it.
<v Speaker 1>You try to It's okay, every joke's not going to work.
<v Speaker 3>Man. Man, Sometimes you forget the punchline. But if you
<v Speaker 3>take that and you blasted out there like you kind
<v Speaker 3>of take the power back from them. And I think
<v Speaker 3>that's that's really cool.
<v Speaker 1>Well, we used to do we did that. We would
<v Speaker 1>we would post we would take a snapshot a screenshot
<v Speaker 1>of their profile and the mean tweet, and we would
<v Speaker 1>post it to three million people and so then so
<v Speaker 1>then I mean, I mean, our fans would go attack
<v Speaker 1>those people because they know us as good people, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And there's a few people that shut down their Twitter
<v Speaker 1>accounts they got out of hand.
<v Speaker 2>What was really interesting that I found interesting was a
<v Speaker 2>lot of them would apologize after doing it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, what didn't mean anything by that? Yeah, you called
<v Speaker 1>my wife a whore? How do you not mean anything
<v Speaker 1>but all due respect, all due respect? Your wife looks
<v Speaker 1>like a whore. And then you go, hey, I see
<v Speaker 1>your message, you butt hole. Oh well, I didn't mean
<v Speaker 1>it in the context that that I said. That's what
<v Speaker 1>I don't like about social media. You just say something,
<v Speaker 1>people just they just they misdefine it. I'm like, you
<v Speaker 1>called her a whore? How do you not there's only
<v Speaker 1>one definition for that.
<v Speaker 2>What's crazy to me, too, is I don't think people.
<v Speaker 1>I don't I don't think any taken by the way.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think people take into accounts like the ripple
<v Speaker 2>effects that that can create with someone.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I think creatives are sensitive anyway. Yeah, so we
<v Speaker 1>and you you were especially bad at it. But we
<v Speaker 1>get out the stage and be like, oh, look at
<v Speaker 1>all these tweets. Man, great show today, and Seanna would
<v Speaker 1>just keep searching. I just felt like she was searching
<v Speaker 1>there's a bad one. I'm going to hang on to
<v Speaker 1>that stop And it was. It made me so mad
<v Speaker 1>because you have all these great messages and her heart
<v Speaker 1>is so big and she wears it on her sleeve
<v Speaker 1>and she's so tender hearted and stuff. And when someone
<v Speaker 1>pounded on her for like doing something good. You know,
<v Speaker 1>we did a thing with Child's Fun International, which we
<v Speaker 1>went to Honduras and we filmed this video to go
<v Speaker 1>along with Glass. We were raising they were one of
<v Speaker 1>our sponsors. We were raising money for these kids. They
<v Speaker 1>don't have anything and people were like, way to bring
<v Speaker 1>down my show or these kids, these poor cands, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm like what what what man?
<v Speaker 3>You know? So anyway, but I definitely was Sean. I
<v Speaker 3>do understand that because in its own way of the
<v Speaker 3>way I experienced it, Like, people don't really tweet at me.
<v Speaker 3>I like Twitter, but that's where all my insanity goes. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I like I will write some wild stuff on it anyway. Okay, No,
<v Speaker 3>I was just gonna say, like, if I'm in a show,
<v Speaker 3>I can be in a packed out show. Everybody can
<v Speaker 3>be laughing, but I will always see the one person
<v Speaker 3>that isn't. It's just it's this we I think it's
<v Speaker 3>a weird thing with creators and entertainers.
<v Speaker 2>No, I agree with that because I do the same
<v Speaker 2>thing when I'm up on stage singing. Like I've done
<v Speaker 2>this before. We'd be playing a show and somebody would
<v Speaker 2>be on their cell phone, like looking at their cell phone,
<v Speaker 2>and I would go to the edge of the stage
<v Speaker 2>and just stand there and just stare it right at them,
<v Speaker 2>and everybody around them would be like, uh, she's watching
<v Speaker 2>you right now, and maybe elbow the person you know,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm.
<v Speaker 6>Just like, really, I mean that is awesome.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just she she gets crazy. She gets mean
<v Speaker 1>on stage. Sometimes I don't get mean. Well, I'm just
<v Speaker 1>saying you call people out like that, it's funny. Is
<v Speaker 1>that calling somebody else? Is that calling somebody? Yes, it's
<v Speaker 1>calling somebody out? What? What keeps?
<v Speaker 6>What?
<v Speaker 1>I want to know you? I wish I could talk
<v Speaker 1>to you for two hours? What is your definition of
<v Speaker 1>success in as a comic? How do you measure success
<v Speaker 1>as a comic? Like, I'm a successful comic. You have
<v Speaker 1>thirty seconds.
<v Speaker 3>I want success to me. For me, it's going to
<v Speaker 3>be when I feel like I have said something that mattered.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I'm not like a preachy comic on stage,
<v Speaker 3>but if I can, if I hit a point where
<v Speaker 3>I can say something that kind of not only makes
<v Speaker 3>people laugh but also makes them think. And that's the
<v Speaker 3>corniest way on earth to say that. No, I get it,
<v Speaker 3>but it's like to be to be recognized. As you know,
<v Speaker 3>there's there's times for goofy silly fun time, but there's
<v Speaker 3>also times to where you say something that the matters
<v Speaker 3>and resonates with people right away. And if I can
<v Speaker 3>get to that point I feel like that, then I've
<v Speaker 3>done what I set out to do.
<v Speaker 1>Are you good at anything else?
<v Speaker 3>I'm a really good swimmer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really good.
<v Speaker 3>I can I can play, I can play a little guitar.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not great at it. I'm not. I don't stay
<v Speaker 3>up and practice. You know, I'm no Keith for Tomico.
<v Speaker 1>There's only one of those. Hey, I can't thank you
<v Speaker 1>enough for coming on here today.
<v Speaker 3>And oh no, thank you so much for inviting me.
<v Speaker 3>This was a blast.
<v Speaker 1>This has been a great one though. I will put
<v Speaker 1>the links to your u uh in the out and listen.
<v Speaker 1>If you guys like comedy man and you like to laugh,
<v Speaker 1>this guy is not only a great comic, he's a
<v Speaker 1>great human being. And that is my highest compliment for anybody.
<v Speaker 1>And uh, I really appreciate you as a friend and
<v Speaker 1>as a as a co creator. And hopefully we can
<v Speaker 1>get together and uh, next time I come to see you,
<v Speaker 1>I will not be on the Keto diet and I
<v Speaker 1>will have pizza with you. Yes, that that's that really sucked,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, to not have pizza and sit there
<v Speaker 1>and watch you eat it the whole time.
<v Speaker 2>But uh, everybody, that was Brent Blakeney. Thank you so much,
<v Speaker 2>Brent for being with us and we hope we can
<v Speaker 2>do this again soon.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks my man, I'll see you later.
<v Speaker 3>Bye, you gotta take care.
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