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What is the origin story of Louis C.K.?
Take us back.
Mine is the origin story.
You moved here when you were seven, right?
To what?
To America.
You mean America.
You mean America.
Yeah.
Not to Antony's.
What country do you think this is?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was seven about when we moved to America.
You're seven, you moved in, and you're up in Boston.
Take it from there.
I grew up in Boston, a suburb in Boston.
Okay.
I never went to college, but during high school, I started doing open mics.
Okay.
In high school?
Yeah, I was like a senior, though, but yeah, that's when I first did it, in
Boston comedy
clubs, and then all my friends went to college, and I was just working in a car
garage and
other shitty jobs, and doing stand-up at night.
Fixing cars?
Yeah.
Really?
You know how to do that?
I wasn't like a ... I mean, I worked at a garage where they let me do brake
jobs and change
the radiator out, stuff like that.
Imagine that.
That's pretty good.
But I couldn't ...
We see K. has changed someone's brakes in Boston.
I have done many brake jobs.
I've inhaled a lot of asbestos, too, because it used to be you spray the spray
on the brakes,
and all the asbestos dust, because that's what brake pads are made of.
Sure.
It just goes in your face.
Oh, jeez.
And you inhale it.
So that'll be what I die of eventually.
It takes a long time.
You might have a class action lawsuit coming up.
A little meso-meso-meso-level.
I'm on 1-800-whatever.
Yeah.
You got to get C. Rowling Barnes on the phone.
But yeah, I was a car mechanic, and then I was a fucking bike messenger, all
kinds of
stuff.
Yeah.
The continents.
What was the childhood like?
Digging trenches, whatever.
Were you like ... Was parents together?
What did the parents do?
Divorced when I was 10.
Okay.
I got divorced when I was 10.
Guys making moves.
Yeah.
I don't have time for this.
I got brake pads to fix.
You pulling out on your big wheel?
That's right.
I'm still paying her, too.
I got two kids.
Said you're running out for cigarettes.
That's the last time we saw them.
That's right.
Ran out for crayons.
Candy cigarettes.
So yeah, no, my parents were divorced when I was a kid and three sisters, and I
don't
know what else to tell you.
Did a lot of drugs?
Did a lot of drugs?
Did a lot of drugs?
I did.
When I was a kid, I did a lot of shit, a ton of drugs.
At what age did you start?
Like 12.
Yeah, that's like a real divorced kid thing.
Yeah, I mean, I started smoking cigarettes like pack a day when I was like 11.
11?
Well, that answers the question.
All right, guys, thanks for tuning in.
Check out the movie.
Smoked a shit ton of pot, did acid.
Did your parents smoke?
Is that how you started?
My dad did, but not when I knew him because he had a piece of his lung.
He almost died when I was being born because he had a piece of his lung taken
out.
I think he was in the emergency room while I was being born.
That's trashy.
Have your parents ever been in the same hospital as you when you were being
born?
Did you ever roll him up in your sleeve?
Oh, did I ever?
Cigarettes?
Yeah.
I tried it a couple times, but I couldn't carry it.
It didn't stick.
I wanted to.
I wanted to.
It wasn't the 50s.
He's not the Fox.
No, but there was like Matthew, what's his name?
Fuck, Matt Dillon.
River Phoenix?
Matt Dillon was in this movie, Little Darlings, and he rolled it up.
Everybody did that.
It was cool.
I wanted to do that.
He was a looker when he was young.
He was a good-looking young man.
I'll tell you right now.
The Outsider is Hachi-Machi.
Yummy, yummy, yummy.
Everybody's going to got it.
Oh, yeah.
Fucking smoking.
That movie's good for a few shots.
I said the other day yesterday in a backyard hang that Tom Cruise in Top Gun is
the hottest
I've ever seen a man, and everyone just made fun of me.
You're crazy.
I just asked my – it was on TV yesterday.
I was at my mom's house, and I asked my girlfriend and my mom.
I'm like, he's hot, right?
And they're like, oh.
I'm like, him or Val Kilmer?
They were like, him all the way.
Oh, yeah.
You got to.
He puts the aviators on, the smile.
Oh, freak.
Yeah, man.
Val Kilmer was pretty hot, too.
Val Kilmer was smoking.
I got to tell you, in the new one, Tom Cruise playing the football on the beach
with his
shirt off, fucking hangs in with those young kids.
It's crazy.
He looks good.
He keeps it fucking tight.
That's crazy.
How old is he?
He's something to that Scientology.
I don't know.
He's 50.
He's in his 50s, right?
He's got to be 50.
He has to be.
Late 50s.
Late 50s?
No.
It's got to be.
No.
Yes, of course.
1986 was 36 years ago.
Late 50s.
59.
Whoa.
Shit.
No, I'm still overruling the football.
How old are you?
I think he's younger or older.
No, I thought he was younger.
All the Right Moves is 83.
Leah Thompson's tits.
Leah Thompson's tits.
All the Right Moves was all right.
Yeah, it was great.
That spoke to me directly.
Yeah, but the end is, I think the end was reshot and tacked on, because the end
doesn't
make any sense.
The very last scene, the movie's really good.
It's like a good movie.
It's like you guys, Pennsylvania movie.
Yeah, 100%.
And he just, he has his dream.
It doesn't work out, because it's some bullshit.
And he goes into the fucking dirty steel mill, and it's over.
That's the ending.
Yeah.
But then, I swear this is what happened.
I mean, I'm imagining, they turned that in, and the studio was like, are you
out of your
mind?
It's got to be more light hearted.
So, they went and got, they got, what's his name?
Greg T. Nelson?
Greg T. Nelson and, and.
Sean Penn?
No, the woman.
Chris Penn?
Chris Penn.
Leah Thompson?
No, but it was Leah Thompson and Greg T. Nelson and Tom Cruise.
The last scene is the three of them, and it doesn't make any sense.
He's at work, and she comes and says, hey, the coach is here.
And the coach says, hey, I'm working at this university.
Oh, yeah.
And you're going to get to be the football guy there.
Isn't that great?
And he goes, yeah, but he looks at her and goes, what about you?
Then I won't see you.
And she goes, I don't, I love you.
The end.
Yeah.
It makes no sense.
And they don't look in character.
It's like they check, they put the clothes back on, like, I can't believe I'm
doing this
again.
One guy's got a mustache.
Yeah.
They look a little tan.
That guy really died in the middle.
Yeah.
Like, he was already making Top Gun, and he was like, are you serious?
Can I reshoot that?
So, he looks a little off.
I'm in Miramar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What kind of work did your mom do?
She is a computer software engineer.
She wrote code.
Jeez, whoa.
Back then?
To be specific, she wrote code for a fourth generation language, which is like
really heavy
industrial.
Yeah.
She wrote the code.
She talked to the binary.
Where did she go?
She went to college.
Yes, she did.
She was a very bright person.
She was extremely, she worked at computers when there were punch cards, like,
way back
when.
Like, I grew up with computers, like, in the house, because she was very good
at what she
did.
So, she would take home terminals with this cradle for the phone.
You'd call the computer at work.
And it would go, and she'd put it in the, anyway, and she was, yeah, she was
very good
at her job.
Is that where you think you got your knack for, you know, tinkering and stuff?
Yeah.
Well, her father, I mean, her brother, my uncle Jack, who's still alive, my mom's
passed
away, but Jack was an engineer in the Navy, he was a CB, he went to Annapolis.
And they were dirt farm, dirt poor farm kids from Michigan.
Your mom's generation.
My mom and her brother, but they just thought they were smart.
Uh-huh.
They educationed themselves out of there.
Okay.
But my mom raised us alone.
My dad was a Mexican economist.
Okay.
And so, that's not a huge industry.
We're tanking down here.
Yeah, yeah.
Sounds like a cartel member, to be honest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, so, my dad, but they met, they were both, like, in college when they met.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, he was over here going to college.
Where'd your mom go to college again?
She went to, well, she was in Michigan, but she went to Michigan, but she went.
University of?
Yeah.
Damn, that's pretty good.
Then she went to Ohio State, though.
She went to the two rivals.
Jesus.
Because she had a boyfriend in Ohio State, and she thought they were going to
get married,
but he just got, he was just drinking and having a good time, and she liked
serious people.
So, she moved to, she went to Harvard, like, summer school.
Summer school.
Like, she just went there to take some courses, and my dad was there going to
business school.
Damn.
My dad came from a very high-pressure family in Mexico.
Okay.
His father put, he had nine kids, and they all got doctorates.
Like, they were all about education.
So.
So, they get divorced, that's it, you don't see your dad.
No, my dad was around, but not a big problem.
My mom raised us.
Right.
My dad didn't have an income, really, ever.
He just didn't, didn't work out for him.
And my mom raised a single mom, working every day.
In a house or an apartment?
Where were you?
In a little half a house.
Rented half of a house.
There was little people upstairs.
We were downstairs.
Like one of those three-decker johns?
Yeah, like that.
It was two-decker, but it was like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Was the owner upstairs, or was it another tenant?
No, upstairs was another tenant.
Yeah, I used to, when we first moved there, it was the owner.
Nice guy, Mr. John Panagako.
That's his name.
Mr. Belawakwa.
Mr. Belawakwa.
Mr. Tomasilo.
But, yeah, so they, and we lived like a block from the mass turnpike, was
behind, the hiss
of the turnpike I grew up with, and there was a freight train all the time.
I used to actually like that.
Yeah, it puts you to sleep at night.
It does.
At night, when a freight train goes by, and the whole house, like, settles and
shakes.
Well, that's comforting.
You got some issues, because that's crazy.
That's nuts.
I liked it.
I liked it.
That's Jackson Brown.
Instead of putting on rain, you put, like, sound of traffic.
But then we'd go to Mexico, so I mean, I lived there until, I was born in D.C.,
but, because
my dad was working there, and then we moved there when I was less than one.
Okay.
And I lived there until I was seven.
Came here without any English.
I spoke Spanish first.
You can speak Spanish fluently now?
Not great.
Really?
I dropped it hard in order to adapt, because I loved America.
Because, I mean, I remember, my memory is coming to America.
That's crazy.
They weren't inviting in Boston for diversity at the time?
Well, look at me.
I don't look.
That's also true.
I did all right.
I did all right.
Everybody thought you were a cop.
All of a sudden, you start speaking Spanish.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But, no.
So, I liked my life.
And then, in high school, I started hearing local radio in Boston, a lot of
comedy.
Comedy was big, and it was the 80s.
I graduated high school in 85, and there was this huge peak of stand-up at the
time in
Boston.
Of course, it was the heyday of it.
Thriving local scene, and you'd hear them on the radio.
They had this 5 o'clock funnies show on the radio.
And so, I started hearing.
And I heard, Stephen Wright was the first guy I heard that they said he's from
Boston.
And I thought, wow, there's comedy here.
Because I always thought of comedy as this Hollywood thing.
Sure.
Of course.
But there's comedy in Boston.
And I loved Stephen Wright.
I still do.
He's my friend now.
And so, I got into the idea of going on.
And then, I heard one day on 5 o'clock funnies, hey, you want to drop by?
You can do five minutes.
And so, I tried an open mic.
That's key for you to realize that it is in Boston.
Yeah.
Hearing that there's a place.
Yeah, exactly.
There's people like me doing that.
You can just go do it.
Well, I thought I would be like the new kid.
I had this whole other idea.
Like, it's all going to be these professional comics and I'll be the one new
kid.
Sure.
I did not know there would be like 38 people lining up.
Two off things.
Six spots.
Yeah.
You thought you'd walk around in like Henry Hill, huh?
Yeah.
But you did get on.
When I started, started, you could get on by showing up.
It was actually not that many new guys.
Uh-huh.
So, and the open mics were very popular in Boston.
So, they were packed.
Yeah.
And you could definitely get on.
You just had to sign up.
Uh-huh.
Were you good when you started?
Like, were you like, did you take off pretty good?
I was so bad.
Really?
I got through two and a half of my five minutes.
And I, to silence.
Just like, what?
I did that last week.
Like, that kind of silence where it's not just like, eh.
It's like, what is he doing?
Deafening silence, yeah.
Like, they're like, a little shocked.
Did you hear the ice?
Yeah, terrible.
Oh, man.
You hear someone slurp the drink?
And then I walked off and I was just so ashamed.
And the host made fun of how I didn't do a lot of time.
Oh, that's awesome.
And then I went on one more time and it went as badly.
And I thought, I can't do this.
Wow.
But then, like, a year later, like, right after I graduated high school,
there was a place in Cambridge called Off the Wall Cinema.
It was a weird cinema with weird movies.
And they'd sell, you'd get coffee and carrot cake and watch a movie.
So I used to go there to watch weird movies and foreign movies.
And they had assigned comedy Saturday at midnight.
And there was this weird guy named Ron Lynch, who's still my friend.
Yeah.
And Ron did a show called Comedy Clubhouse.
And it was all just offbeat.
Wacky.
Just fucked up comedians that didn't, you know, some of them were just so
strange.
And I was in love.
I was like, I have to do this.
So I asked to go on.
And he let me.
And my first set at that place was like, boom.
Cooked a little bit.
I was like, oh, I think I can.
I think maybe I can do this.
And all the comedians that I had.
I'd been coming already for a month watching every Saturday.
And all these comedians who I knew their acts by heart.
They all came up to me after my set and said, shit, that was really good.
You were really funny.
And I mean, that feeling was probably better than anything I've felt since.
Nothing's been that clean.
I know that.
Chasing the dragon since.
That's right.
Chasing the dragon.
It's never as good as the first one.
Never that good.
I know that.

Smoking At 11 Years Old w/ Louis CK | Are You Garbage

What is the origin story of Louis C.K.?
Take us back.
Mine is the origin story.
You moved here when you were seven, right?
To what?
To America.
You mean America.
You mean America.
Yeah.
Not to Antony's.
What country do you think this is?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was seven about when we moved to America.
You're seven, you moved in, and you're up in Boston.
Take it from there.
I grew up in Boston, a suburb in Boston.
Okay.
I never went to college, but during high school, I started doing open mics.
Okay.
In high school?
Yeah, I was like a senior, though, but yeah, that's when I first did it, in
Boston comedy
clubs, and then all my friends went to college, and I was just working in a car
garage and
other shitty jobs, and doing stand-up at night.
Fixing cars?
Yeah.
Really?
You know how to do that?
I wasn't like a ... I mean, I worked at a garage where they let me do brake
jobs and change
the radiator out, stuff like that.
Imagine that.
That's pretty good.
But I couldn't ...
We see K. has changed someone's brakes in Boston.
I have done many brake jobs.
I've inhaled a lot of asbestos, too, because it used to be you spray the spray
on the brakes,
and all the asbestos dust, because that's what brake pads are made of.
Sure.
It just goes in your face.
Oh, jeez.
And you inhale it.
So that'll be what I die of eventually.
It takes a long time.
You might have a class action lawsuit coming up.
A little meso-meso-meso-level.
I'm on 1-800-whatever.
Yeah.
You got to get C. Rowling Barnes on the phone.
But yeah, I was a car mechanic, and then I was a fucking bike messenger, all
kinds of
stuff.
Yeah.
The continents.
What was the childhood like?
Digging trenches, whatever.
Were you like ... Was parents together?
What did the parents do?
Divorced when I was 10.
Okay.
I got divorced when I was 10.
Guys making moves.
Yeah.
I don't have time for this.
I got brake pads to fix.
You pulling out on your big wheel?
That's right.
I'm still paying her, too.
I got two kids.
Said you're running out for cigarettes.
That's the last time we saw them.
That's right.
Ran out for crayons.
Candy cigarettes.
So yeah, no, my parents were divorced when I was a kid and three sisters, and I
don't
know what else to tell you.
Did a lot of drugs?
Did a lot of drugs?
Did a lot of drugs?
I did.
When I was a kid, I did a lot of shit, a ton of drugs.
At what age did you start?
Like 12.
Yeah, that's like a real divorced kid thing.
Yeah, I mean, I started smoking cigarettes like pack a day when I was like 11.
11?
Well, that answers the question.
All right, guys, thanks for tuning in.
Check out the movie.
Smoked a shit ton of pot, did acid.
Did your parents smoke?
Is that how you started?
My dad did, but not when I knew him because he had a piece of his lung.
He almost died when I was being born because he had a piece of his lung taken
out.
I think he was in the emergency room while I was being born.
That's trashy.
Have your parents ever been in the same hospital as you when you were being
born?
Did you ever roll him up in your sleeve?
Oh, did I ever?
Cigarettes?
Yeah.
I tried it a couple times, but I couldn't carry it.
It didn't stick.
I wanted to.
I wanted to.
It wasn't the 50s.
He's not the Fox.
No, but there was like Matthew, what's his name?
Fuck, Matt Dillon.
River Phoenix?
Matt Dillon was in this movie, Little Darlings, and he rolled it up.
Everybody did that.
It was cool.
I wanted to do that.
He was a looker when he was young.
He was a good-looking young man.
I'll tell you right now.
The Outsider is Hachi-Machi.
Yummy, yummy, yummy.
Everybody's going to got it.
Oh, yeah.
Fucking smoking.
That movie's good for a few shots.
I said the other day yesterday in a backyard hang that Tom Cruise in Top Gun is
the hottest
I've ever seen a man, and everyone just made fun of me.
You're crazy.
I just asked my – it was on TV yesterday.
I was at my mom's house, and I asked my girlfriend and my mom.
I'm like, he's hot, right?
And they're like, oh.
I'm like, him or Val Kilmer?
They were like, him all the way.
Oh, yeah.
You got to.
He puts the aviators on, the smile.
Oh, freak.
Yeah, man.
Val Kilmer was pretty hot, too.
Val Kilmer was smoking.
I got to tell you, in the new one, Tom Cruise playing the football on the beach
with his
shirt off, fucking hangs in with those young kids.
It's crazy.
He looks good.
He keeps it fucking tight.
That's crazy.
How old is he?
He's something to that Scientology.
I don't know.
He's 50.
He's in his 50s, right?
He's got to be 50.
He has to be.
Late 50s.
Late 50s?
No.
It's got to be.
No.
Yes, of course.
1986 was 36 years ago.
Late 50s.
59.
Whoa.
Shit.
No, I'm still overruling the football.
How old are you?
I think he's younger or older.
No, I thought he was younger.
All the Right Moves is 83.
Leah Thompson's tits.
Leah Thompson's tits.
All the Right Moves was all right.
Yeah, it was great.
That spoke to me directly.
Yeah, but the end is, I think the end was reshot and tacked on, because the end
doesn't
make any sense.
The very last scene, the movie's really good.
It's like a good movie.
It's like you guys, Pennsylvania movie.
Yeah, 100%.
And he just, he has his dream.
It doesn't work out, because it's some bullshit.
And he goes into the fucking dirty steel mill, and it's over.
That's the ending.
Yeah.
But then, I swear this is what happened.
I mean, I'm imagining, they turned that in, and the studio was like, are you
out of your
mind?
It's got to be more light hearted.
So, they went and got, they got, what's his name?
Greg T. Nelson?
Greg T. Nelson and, and.
Sean Penn?
No, the woman.
Chris Penn?
Chris Penn.
Leah Thompson?
No, but it was Leah Thompson and Greg T. Nelson and Tom Cruise.
The last scene is the three of them, and it doesn't make any sense.
He's at work, and she comes and says, hey, the coach is here.
And the coach says, hey, I'm working at this university.
Oh, yeah.
And you're going to get to be the football guy there.
Isn't that great?
And he goes, yeah, but he looks at her and goes, what about you?
Then I won't see you.
And she goes, I don't, I love you.
The end.
Yeah.
It makes no sense.
And they don't look in character.
It's like they check, they put the clothes back on, like, I can't believe I'm
doing this
again.
One guy's got a mustache.
Yeah.
They look a little tan.
That guy really died in the middle.
Yeah.
Like, he was already making Top Gun, and he was like, are you serious?
Can I reshoot that?
So, he looks a little off.
I'm in Miramar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What kind of work did your mom do?
She is a computer software engineer.
She wrote code.
Jeez, whoa.
Back then?
To be specific, she wrote code for a fourth generation language, which is like
really heavy
industrial.
Yeah.
She wrote the code.
She talked to the binary.
Where did she go?
She went to college.
Yes, she did.
She was a very bright person.
She was extremely, she worked at computers when there were punch cards, like,
way back
when.
Like, I grew up with computers, like, in the house, because she was very good
at what she
did.
So, she would take home terminals with this cradle for the phone.
You'd call the computer at work.
And it would go, and she'd put it in the, anyway, and she was, yeah, she was
very good
at her job.
Is that where you think you got your knack for, you know, tinkering and stuff?
Yeah.
Well, her father, I mean, her brother, my uncle Jack, who's still alive, my mom's
passed
away, but Jack was an engineer in the Navy, he was a CB, he went to Annapolis.
And they were dirt farm, dirt poor farm kids from Michigan.
Your mom's generation.
My mom and her brother, but they just thought they were smart.
Uh-huh.
They educationed themselves out of there.
Okay.
But my mom raised us alone.
My dad was a Mexican economist.
Okay.
And so, that's not a huge industry.
We're tanking down here.
Yeah, yeah.
Sounds like a cartel member, to be honest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, so, my dad, but they met, they were both, like, in college when they met.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, he was over here going to college.
Where'd your mom go to college again?
She went to, well, she was in Michigan, but she went to Michigan, but she went.
University of?
Yeah.
Damn, that's pretty good.
Then she went to Ohio State, though.
She went to the two rivals.
Jesus.
Because she had a boyfriend in Ohio State, and she thought they were going to
get married,
but he just got, he was just drinking and having a good time, and she liked
serious people.
So, she moved to, she went to Harvard, like, summer school.
Summer school.
Like, she just went there to take some courses, and my dad was there going to
business school.
Damn.
My dad came from a very high-pressure family in Mexico.
Okay.
His father put, he had nine kids, and they all got doctorates.
Like, they were all about education.
So.
So, they get divorced, that's it, you don't see your dad.
No, my dad was around, but not a big problem.
My mom raised us.
Right.
My dad didn't have an income, really, ever.
He just didn't, didn't work out for him.
And my mom raised a single mom, working every day.
In a house or an apartment?
Where were you?
In a little half a house.
Rented half of a house.
There was little people upstairs.
We were downstairs.
Like one of those three-decker johns?
Yeah, like that.
It was two-decker, but it was like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Was the owner upstairs, or was it another tenant?
No, upstairs was another tenant.
Yeah, I used to, when we first moved there, it was the owner.
Nice guy, Mr. John Panagako.
That's his name.
Mr. Belawakwa.
Mr. Belawakwa.
Mr. Tomasilo.
But, yeah, so they, and we lived like a block from the mass turnpike, was
behind, the hiss
of the turnpike I grew up with, and there was a freight train all the time.
I used to actually like that.
Yeah, it puts you to sleep at night.
It does.
At night, when a freight train goes by, and the whole house, like, settles and
shakes.
Well, that's comforting.
You got some issues, because that's crazy.
That's nuts.
I liked it.
I liked it.
That's Jackson Brown.
Instead of putting on rain, you put, like, sound of traffic.
But then we'd go to Mexico, so I mean, I lived there until, I was born in D.C.,
but, because
my dad was working there, and then we moved there when I was less than one.
Okay.
And I lived there until I was seven.
Came here without any English.
I spoke Spanish first.
You can speak Spanish fluently now?
Not great.
Really?
I dropped it hard in order to adapt, because I loved America.
Because, I mean, I remember, my memory is coming to America.
That's crazy.
They weren't inviting in Boston for diversity at the time?
Well, look at me.
I don't look.
That's also true.
I did all right.
I did all right.
Everybody thought you were a cop.
All of a sudden, you start speaking Spanish.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But, no.
So, I liked my life.
And then, in high school, I started hearing local radio in Boston, a lot of
comedy.
Comedy was big, and it was the 80s.
I graduated high school in 85, and there was this huge peak of stand-up at the
time in
Boston.
Of course, it was the heyday of it.
Thriving local scene, and you'd hear them on the radio.
They had this 5 o'clock funnies show on the radio.
And so, I started hearing.
And I heard, Stephen Wright was the first guy I heard that they said he's from
Boston.
And I thought, wow, there's comedy here.
Because I always thought of comedy as this Hollywood thing.
Sure.
Of course.
But there's comedy in Boston.
And I loved Stephen Wright.
I still do.
He's my friend now.
And so, I got into the idea of going on.
And then, I heard one day on 5 o'clock funnies, hey, you want to drop by?
You can do five minutes.
And so, I tried an open mic.
That's key for you to realize that it is in Boston.
Yeah.
Hearing that there's a place.
Yeah, exactly.
There's people like me doing that.
You can just go do it.
Well, I thought I would be like the new kid.
I had this whole other idea.
Like, it's all going to be these professional comics and I'll be the one new
kid.
Sure.
I did not know there would be like 38 people lining up.
Two off things.
Six spots.
Yeah.
You tho