The first block you have is people who would not book you in their venue. Were there people who would not book you? What do you mean by that?

I mean that... Yeah. And it's a... They wouldn't book me. And the strangest thing is they were all my friends that were booked at this club in Atlanta. And it was a huge club. And it was the A-list club from Fox with it to everybody. And then I'd have friends like, oh, the amazing Jonathan friends of mine. Everyone worked the club. And I knew the owner. And there was a big Christmas party. So I went to him and I said, you know, I would like to play the club, you know? And everyone and my friends are already playing. And I'm already playing every club. And at the time, A-clubs. And he just said, yeah, it's almost like the Carson thing. In a sense was that, eh, just, you know, not our kind of our cup of tea. And I was like, well, you... I'm not following... You're booking a bunch. You're booking a bunch. And then all these guys... Simpler, comedy, magic. And I'm like, what's different than that? And he just said, I just, you know, but he loved me. We'd sit here at the Christmas and have a toast. And it's so weird. All the comics. And he just said, don't take it personally. But... And I'm like, well, I kind of did take it personally. What should I take

it? How should I take it? You know what I mean? Like, that's my... My... Whenever it says, well, people always say, don't take bad stuff personally. But the good stuff. Oh, right. That was all you. And it's like, all right, well, there's a huge... Yeah, yeah. It's here. And also, they would have sold the show up.

Yeah, it just made no sense. And so then what did I do? You know, I said, I'll book the other club. So I booked the other club in Atlanta. And of course, we did great. I was, again, at my peak of it. It was, you know... And I was doing all the radio in Atlanta. And I was, you know, promoting and... And then I think on the radio, I said, you know, something... To the effect of, you know, I wanted to... I think I might have said, I wanted to play the... Whatever the club was called. And then, but I'm playing here. And then that guy got wind of it. And he says, why would you say that? And I said, well, you know, the truth of matters. That's, you know, the truth. Then the other club's like, why would you say anything about that club? This is not a... It's not a hurt people hurting people. Like, you're trying to pass it. And I was still doing... I was, you know, I was headlining the other club and we were... It was great. It couldn't have been better. And personally, we're still mad that I couldn't play that. So what happened was, and this is one of those things that... I think was... Is a great moment in anyone's career. Because I'm not a kind of guy that's going to revengeful kind of guy. I just don't have it in me. I'll give you a couple examples later on when we talk about, I think, the other one. So... Your other venue. Yeah. Well, the other... So I got... I remember the venue was in downtown Atlanta. It's the Fox Theater. Now, this is a big venue. So it's like, you know, 5 to 8,000 people. And other clubs at the time were 300, 400 people. So it was 8,000 people on a Wednesday in Atlanta. And I don't know why you booked it. I brought... I remember some of the widespread panic, this band that I've known for years that live in Atlanta. They came. I had some other celebrity people come. And instead of, you know, getting mad at... I just invited Ron, you know, the guy. Yep. I said, come check out the show. And it was one of those kind of feel-good moments where, you know, he wouldn't book me in this club that held 300 people. But I was sold out on a Wednesday at the Fox Theater. It was kind of a cool thing. And of course, he didn't come. But it was, you know, you invite him and you just... Just to kind of let him say, you know, that was the way, just to say, look, you know, I would have done fun. It never would

have been fun. It would have been fun. It never... It never... It never

heals the wound, though. No, no, no, it didn't. You know what I mean? You're still like... I just fucking needed to just acknowledge that I'm great. And we're well into something. It would have been... And I'm not... It's in. Again, I wouldn't have, like, rubbing in his nose like a puppy. But I just thought, you know, I'll invite him and just let it... So he said, of course, he knew about the booking and knew about the gig. But it was more of a personal, again, like, man. But... Yeah. Here's

my question. So a lot of these things are about personal rejection, not feeling like you belong, not feeling supported. And I said to you when we sat down, which I said before we started rolling, was, I'm on your side. Yeah, yeah. Right? I've always been a fan legitimately. And then we were talking about feeling support. And I was like, no one feels supported. I don't think anyone in Showbiz thinks it's going all that well. I think people think it's going like, well, for now. Right. Even Tom Cruise is worried about like, why do I have to keep doing these sequels? Right. You know what I mean? Like, certain... Like, DiCaprio's had a pretty unblemished... I like that you said going good for now. Yes. DiCaprio's unblemished. He's never done a sequel. Denzel's only done one sequel. You know what I mean? Like, there's certain guys. No one thinks it's going especially well. You know, any peak is temporary. Right, sure. So that's my first point. My second point is when you got into comedy, what did you think it was going to be like? And then how did it

end up? That's interesting

question. What do you think it was going to be like? Because I, in a similar boat where I thought I came from high school to work in the door to Club in New York. I was like, yeah, we're all going to be high school friends. Right. And slowly but surely I realized like, oh, we're adults and this is millions of dollars for its take. Yeah. And there's a lot of weird antagonisms and not exactly friendship. So when

I'm wondering about what is your experience? Great. It's a great question, which I've never been asked. I think that's really cool. We got into comedy. We probably really... We got into comedy to get into what you think it would be like and then wanted it to turn out to be like what you thought. Weird. And I was just, I was enthralled with just the idea of I love comedy and study George Carlin, you know, Eddie, all these comics and admired it. The process was fun. The idea was fun, but I was never, you know, not show business and family. I have no deal. I still have no business being in

it.