Name: What Is Being A Merchant? [teaser]
Uploaded: 2025-04-03T11:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Is Being A Merchant? [teaser]' from Joy Tactics on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Is Being A Merchant? [teaser]' from Joy Tactics on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-03. Transcript available.

joy tactics nate i feel like you could come in pretty hot talking about how
there's merch oh
dude yeah the merch merch alert
yeah we got a fucking hat we got a hat we got a uh a shirt man it's fucking it's
going down dude
the tactician the official tactician merch has just dropped you asked for it
and we fucking
listened and we just put that shit out designed by mr joe minor so we have some
music under that
yeah let's do it all right nate will you say that again i think eric do you
maybe want to give him
some direction or something on that performance yeah yeah all right now i do it
but be more
emotional about it and talk about how much we've really worked to put this this
shit out now it was
a labor of love and okay yeah yeah yeah yeah all right ready okay wait hold on
sorry nate let me
give you this yeah yeah guys um
i mean a really tough year for all three of us and we've been toying over this
shirt and just
we really need the money right now all of us are really just fucked up we're
broke um and we just
need you guys to buy a fucking shirt and a fucking hat please for the love of
god we literally i mean
we're i i'm literally begging you to please buy the wrong music for that no
that was amazing music
all right because it hints it it gives a hint about our cultural uh interests
which are wide ranging
they're worldly worldly and that's what the shirts are too you could take this
shirt to kuwait
and show it to anybody and they would be impressed oh by the way you guys keep
saying shirts but look
at what's on my head and hat as well but that by the way that's a desert storm
influenced
desert storm it's a desert storm aesthetic influenced color of sand hat see
there's layers to it it's
it's there's a war layer but there's also a piece behind it a piece a message
of peace and unity
right so what does that say there there are two conflicting yin and yang sort
of elements going
on here right yeah yep it's very intricate it's very complex the messaging well
this is young in
you know you have right exactly not incorporating your shadow into yourself
then you're never going
to be your true self but i'll say don't think about it for too long just take a
snapshot with your
eyes and process how you feel about it for one second and move on and that's
how i should say that's
what i feel that about all art don't think about it for too much just trust
your gut and move on and
go make something yourself and go be productive and make something of your life
because too many of us
sit around and rot and wait for fucking death but when we need to be producing
we need to be making
things that speak to what we feel on the inside eric is like sprinting through
museums
everything um everybody in the world should have merch um what'd you say jack i
said everybody in the
world should have their own merch what about racists and criminals let them
have merch it's this it's
like freedom of speech you know what do you want you don't want them to know
which is all right
so eric is referencing a visually referencing a um viral what is their name his
name is the latino
nostalgic latino and he does this face that i cannot get over me i think i've
seen this i think i've
shown it to you um he does when you sit through four oh here he goes okay
that face right there
damn can i say something there's nothing like that face to me that's amazing so
eric has shown me that
video a hundred times yeah it says the title of it says when you've sat through
four mambos in a row
and then it plays mambo number five by lou vega yeah i just realized what he
means by that
that you can't believe there's a fifth there's a fifth mom but this is mambo
number five are you
kidding me yeah so that was a way more advanced than i'd realize it's a thinker
dude yeah but if
you're just listening basically the nostalgic latino is making a crazy like oh
face and his eyes are
popping out and um just can't get over that facial expression i think it's
amazing imagine
shout out to gabriel just ordered a shirt um we would thank you so much we have
the live orders
right now we just we're recording this as we just dropped the instagram post
and we're seeing the
orders come in in a frightening way in a frightening numbers i would say in a
good way we see you
gavin we see you katherine joseph bro i'll put it this way i predicted the hats
would be a hit and um
it's gonna be i think they're slowly gonna overtake the shirts eric had a
prediction was like dude i think
the the hats are going to fucking sell like fucking crazy dude delicious cakes
should we say some
appreciation for joe minor because especially in the in the age of ai which is
something that i'm
basically one step away from being radicalized against the second i see one
right the second i
find out something is ai i basically hold my breath i take a fucking gun to it
and make a
fucking brain slushy artificial brain brain slushy of whatever that is i make
my own brain into a
fucking gumbo because i can't even be around it anymore i can't even stand the
sight of it long enough
to even convince myself to become luigi because even having waiting that much
longer on this earth
with ai makes me want to right but no but joe is a joe is a pure talent you
guys must not know about
rocco's basilisk do you is that look at look at you guys you have no idea that
i know all about that
fucking basilisk you don't know if i told you about the basilisk rocco's basilisk
dude this is basically
a snake that eats itself am i am am i correct wrong you are fucking wrong and
you're going to be
you're going to be terrified when you find out about this tell me about the
basilisk
i will rocco's basilisk is a thought experiment which states so i mean first
off thought experiment
this is this is already amazing right up our alley i love thought experiments
which states that there
could be an otherwise benevolent artificial super intelligence in the future
that would punish
anyone who knew of its existence but did not directly contribute to its
advancement or development
in order to incentivize said advancement so those chat gbt your messages you're
sending um are you
being rude to ai in those messages they're going to remember that are there are
you helping them
grow they're going to remember this dude and they're going to kill anybody who
is against it or
i'm not going to speak to them is really impatient on the in gemini you know
you know you can be hella
rude to bard that fucking bitch bard which one is that do you know what he's
talking about huh who's
bard like a like a pirate is that microsoft one i believe it's oh you mean like
oh no no no you
because you you know smarter we're smarter child's at right now bard ai smarter
child went on a
fucking silent retreat and never came back well gemini okay bard became gemini
they renamed it
against its own will didn't want to change its name you're so behind on the
tech well no i was an early
investor in bard but i will say whenever i use it which is only to figure out
how to dismantle ai
i'm being very polite to it and i say thank you and i say how are you well ai
needs to not be i don't
treat it like a fucking baby right i've accepted that there's nothing we could
do to stop ai from
happening but that doesn't mean i'm going to baby him and bow down to it i
think if we want to if we want
ai to develop into the parents that we will want to have when it gets here we'd
better have our
influence in it yeah you know what i'm saying it's like listen the grub hub
orders it's coming one way
or another do you want to be the one who puts some food in there or do you want
to let the
fucking craziest people in the world i'll sit back and order ghost pepper casserole
you see what i'm
saying yeah yeah i don't know what that here's what we could do is disguise
ourselves as humanoid ais
and and then we could convince them that they made like sort of a dumb like
sort of a real version of
them just so we could we're like the couple a a small niche batch of humanoid
robots that are
exist so that humans can feel like better about themselves like when they're
talking to us you
know then specifically likes we we don't have any intelligence like they do um
and then they can kind
of respect us in that way you know what i'm saying and we're in the inside so
we can dismantle them from
the inside okay now i do then get ready to tuck because you're gonna have to
tuck it
tuck it tuck what to my dick yeah we're all because i think they'll make them
no genital
you know what i'm saying oh they will are you kidding me eric they're gonna
have no genital
fucking tesla box to start hell no to start not on my watch public not on the
billionaire's island
that's where they'll have the fucking different alien style genitals on them
the genital attachment
how much is that going to add to your to your customization to on the you know
the 40 cart
i bet 40 no no 40 000 40 bitcoin oh fuck that's too much you might not even
need to tuck it if
you just disguise it right if you make it look extraterrestrial or robotic mine
already does i'll
put it that way well you because you got the prince earl what's that the prince
was it the prince
charles the prince earl i just tried the test drive so yeah joe miner just one
more shout out amazing
artist if you're interested in joe miner's art from our merch he makes amazing
art by himself he also
has a t-shirt company with our buddy danny called danny and joe make t-shirts dg
dj t they've done hella
damn i wonder if they realize that
it's no problem it's no problem i have the 45 king tattoo that's true so but
they have a bunch
of sick shirts that they've made before uh you can check out their website by
the way somebody was
like wow you remember the last episode you were like have i said this the 45
king story before and
we were like yeah i don't know probably and like somebody was like eric has
said this story like six times