He was cold. Cold. That was an even he was cold. Mine,
what's going on up there? Could be the most important event in history?
Now, I am cold? That destroy our worlds? I said.
I hope this is close to Hell's all ever again. M Hello and welcome
to the Tales from the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Bob. You're
with my co host Brittany. Hey, guys, what's up. Brittany?
It's Friday. How are you doing. I'm doing good. How are you?
Oh, I'm doing well. The United Strangest episode was very well received.
I'm glad that everyone enjoyed it. We are, We're glad to bring
it back. Yeah, yeah, we definitely are. And I was very
surprised by all the outpour and outcry to have it come back. Yeah,
and were in the midst of this. We are getting some requests and I
was actually gonna wait to tell you this on the show, to bring back
another little known series called for Legal Reasons. Oh my god, So I
wanted to see is that something that you're willing to bring back in the next
week or two. You're really just putting me on the spot here. I
don't have a choice if I don't do it this way. Then we don't
get new series. This is how this works. That's not how that works.
Now we have the guilt Britie into things with the giver baked goods,
and you know, there's some goating that needs to be done. But yeah,
yeah, I definitely think that that can be possible. Just make sure
that if you guys want to hear us cover any wild conspiracy theories, that
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over at patreon dot com slash Tales from the Dark Gun. I said it
better myself. Well good because I said it. But with that being said,
are you ready to give mister Jerry Pauly a call? I am all
right, let's give him a call, all right, miss Brittany. So
very much like David Letterman, our next guest needs no introduction. Jerry Polly,
how you doing, sir, I wouldn't know where I didn't need an
introduction, but I appreciate that I'm doing well. Hey, there's a handful
of people in the pair of community that I look up to, and you're
one of them. And we've had this discussion on and off the air.
You've helped the show more than you could ever understand, so we definitely appreciate
it. We appreciate you taking the time tonight to sit down with us,
and I hope you're doing well. I appreciate that. Usually I need an
introduction at my family reunions. So that's all I was gonna say. Fair
enough. So for those three people who don't know Jerry, Jerry is the
one of the hosts the extremely popular podcast Hillbilly Horror Stories. Everyone's like,
Bob, we know who this guy is. Stop it right now. You're
embarrassing yourself. But Jerry is also a podcast guru. Usually if I have
an issue, if I'm kind of concerned about an episode, or if I
need advice, Jerry's always the first one I reach out to and he gets
back to me. The response time of Jerry is absolutely ridiculous. Let's just
be honest. I usually it's like three to four business days for other podcast
hosts. Jerry will message you back before you put your phone back down and
like most occurrences, so we definitely appreciate the help on the support. Jerry,
I want to dive right in. So you have a second podcast that's
not Hillbily Horror Stories. Can you tell us about this other show? Yeah,
it's actually at one point in time, I had a podcast called Warning
You Will Be Offended. It was a little more adult, which was a
comedy podcast, which is the kind of comedy that I did when I was
doing stand up and Hillbilly Horror Stories is definitely more family oriented. Uh you
know if your families in the you know, killings and ghosts and back histories
of hundred houses. But some people's families are so who am I to criticize.
But as far as the other show, we did it for a while.
I actually signed on with another podcast platform and signed a contract, and
they wouldn't allow me to do the other podcast. They were afraid that that
reputation from that show might leak over and their vested interest was in Hillbilly Horror
Stories. When that contract ran out, we decided that we wanted to start
up another one. The young lady's name is Amanda Dacross. She lives up
in the Massachusetts Erry and she has that thick Boston accent, so you can
imagine how that goes perfect with my Southern accent. But she's absolutely hilarious.
I wanted to jump on and do something else with her. We decided to
make this show a little more PG. Thirteen and it's called it's called Wickedly
Weird with Jerry and Amanda. We basically put on an episode every two weeks.
It's about a thirty forty five minute episode, and every one of the
stories have just crazy endings or surprises along the way, twist turns, but
they could be any genre. We've talked about the UFO abduction that was up
in Berkshire in Massachusetts. We've talked about a time slipped from nineteen seventy nine.
We've talked about several crimes that were solved, and just a bunch of
you know, I don't know what's going on, mystery type stuff. So
we've we just put out We just recorded our eleventh episode. I think there's
eight of them outs or we're a little bit at ahead. Of the game,
but people seem to really enjoy it, So I think I feel like
a little bit of comedy. She doesn't know the story that I tell so
when I tell her the story that's got the surprise, she's guessing all the
way through it and gasping and you know how that goes. And she's just
got a funny personality. So it's entertaining. And like I said, we've
not had a single negative review since we started doing this back about three months
ago. Well, first off, congratulations, that's in the podcast game.
Negative reviews, they're the bread to your butter. Let's be honest. Everyone
has an opinion, and unfortunately, when it comes to podcast, they're not
afraid to share it. But now, so I NA said, every every
other week, is it a certain day that you have it as what's the
schedule for these releases or is it just every other week? Whenever we released
on Wednesdays, it's like the one today's Wednesday. We had a new episode
come out today, So I think this will be air in a couple of
days after that one was released, to be a couple of weeks before the
newest one comes out. Awesome, Where can people listen? Is it.
Is it everywhere that podcasts are founder, is it on your platform? Everywhere
everywhere that you can hear your show or all the other favorites that you listened
to, We're on all the platforms. Well, Jerry, that's awesome.
Now can I ask what is the drive for the second show? Because hib
were stories massive success because of a great audience, what's the drive to do
more past Hibbly Horror Stories? Well? I think the original back when,
back about three years ago, it was two, thy was twenty nineteen.
Amanda was a listener of the of the show. She loved it, and
she would write me stuff and I'm like, this person cannot be real with
some of the stuff she's writing. And I got to talk to her on
the phone and she was even more awesome in person. So I said,
you know what, why don't you come on for a segment of Hibbily Horror
Stories and we'll call it Amanda's I think everybody will love it. Now,
keep in mind, my idea of comedy is you know, Dave Chappelle,
Andrew Dyce, Clay, Eddie Murphy. Back in the day, Richard Pryor,
that was my idea of comedy, not really what we've built on hillbilly
horror story, even though that's how we started up me and Ricky who started
to show. The first eight episodes were one percent like that, but we're
family friendly now, have been for seven years. At this time, about
four years, and I put on this little segment of me and her,
and I had people that absolutely loved it, and I had people that absolutely
hated it, and so I said, you know what, let's just start
our own podcasts, and that's how we started warning you will be offended.
It was mainly because I really enjoyed doing adult comedy and haven't been doing stand
up for years now since we started the podcast, and I thought this would
be a fun way to still be able to put out some some fun stuff.
And the goal was to be like upro Ohio, just more of that
type of of content. And I think we did good. I mean,
don't get me wrong. We did one hundred and twenty three thousand downloads and
you know, less than a year, so people enjoyed it. But I
thought we could reach a bigger audience this time and still keep some of the
humor with keeping it a little more PG. Thirteen. So it's just because
I think I wanted to do something with her, and I wanted to do
something that was more I had a little more comedy to it than what I
can and take a few more liberties than what I can with Hillbilly Horror Story.
So for more creativity reasons than anything. Well, I mean fair enough.
Now this is the question that I really want to know. How the
fuck do you have time for another podcast? Jerry? I'm on your website
here, Hillbilly Horror Stories dot com. I go over to live events Louisville,
Kentucky sold out, in Middle Tune, Ohio, sold out, Lebanon,
Indiana, sold out, Buffalo, New York sold out. It keeps
going and going and going. Don't we have an upcoming event here Saturday twenty
or thirtieth? I'm sorry, it's you in the Confessionals podcast doing another live
event. With all you're traveling, all everything you're doing on social media.
This guy is the is the only person who comes close to you on social
media is Alan Greenfield. You were so active consistently, You're always talking to
your audience. You have this beautiful community. First off, I want you
to tell me about the live show coming up, and also where do you
get your energy from and can I have some, because like I struggle to
do the YouTube plus the Tailsman our podcast and have enough energy to do anything
apart from like walk around the block. So kind of walk us through this
year because it's kind of insane. Well, it's funny you bring that up,
because let's let's let's first talk about the live show, the Lave Show.
We're already on our third venue because we sold out the previous two and
we'll probably end up selling this one out too, and it's like we added
another fifty seats to it, so it's going to be a blast. It's
in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and we're excited about it because we're actually going to
be doing the show on Tracy and my wedding anniversary, so September thirtieth,
our anniversary, we'll use the opportunity to come down there. Tony from the
Confessional, he just lives about forty five minutes away. That's why we chose
Gatlinburg. And like I said, it's been ticket sales have been crazy on
that since the time we announced it because Tony's got a huge audience and now
that we've got even more room, well, this will end up being the
biggest show that we've ever done, and we've done about fifty of them,
so audience wise, we're already over one hundred tickets sold, and we sell
the majority of our tickets for live events the three weeks before the show,
so it's just now kicking in. We've had a couple of shows. Actually,
we did two shows in the same day with Tony back in two thousand
and nineteen in Houston, Texas, US, and we sold both of those
shows out. They were one hundred tickets apiece, and we sold both of
those out and did a matinee in an evening show in the same location.
So this will be the third show we've had over one hundred tickets sold,
because we're at one hundred and three right now, and all of them have
been US and the Confessionals together. Oh wow. So what you're saying is
people have to get their tickets like right now, like yesterday. If they're
selling out like three weeks ahead of time, where can people get tickets already?
I'm sure that if they're part of the Facebook group, they already know,
but where can folks go to buy tickets that they wanted to write?
Like this sitting the podcast they want to go buy them, just go to
our website Hellbilly Horror Stories dot com and you'll see live events. That's the
same place you were at and they can click right there and get more information
and buy tickets. And they can also check out the cruise that we get
going on next September, leaving out of Galveston, Texas and going to Mexico.
We'll be doing that with Brohile. Okay, where did the cruise come
from? Because that just came out of field when Nick sent me a little
blurb, I think this is the second one you've got. You guys have
done? Is that correct? Yes? Yes, So he sent me a
little blurb and he's like, Hey, we're doing a fucking cruise And I'm
like, what do you What do you mean? You're doing a cruise?
Who does a Who does a cruise? So, because that's that's that's an
insane thing to say, especially for two self made podcasts. It's not like
you guys are industry plants or you guys have this huge advertiser industry budget that's
pushing your shows. Do you guys are self made? So how do you
guys go, especially bro Ohio with their background. How do you guys go
together and say, you know what, put them all on a boat in
the middle of the water in the ocean, international waters. No one can
prosecute. Let's see what happens. Where does that come from? Well,
years ago, when I was doing comedy, I had a friend approached me.
Now we're talking probably fifteen years ago, and I had a friend approached
me that was in the business tourism business, and he said, hey,
have you ever thought about doing a cruise for your comedy? And the way
we approached it back then it was a lot smaller situation, but he was
like, if you can get I think six or eight cabins rented out through
your podcast, they they'll block off like sixteen cabins, and if you can
get for every eight of them that you block off, they'll actually pay you
like three hundred bucks or something whatever the whatever the cost of what one person's
cruise would be, because those things are done like double but so double occupancy.
So let's say let's say it was seven hundred dollars for me and Tracy
back then, every time that you would have eight cabins books with two people
in each cabin, obviously they would give you the cost of one of those,
and so, you know, back then, we didn't expect to get
all of our money back. We were just looking to get some of it,
and you end up with, you know, doing okay, well we
had he ended up booking that cruise and Tracy had to have emergency heart surgery
two weeks before that, so we couldn't go. Everybody else went my sister
cousins and it was primarily friends and family that win, a couple of you
know of people that were comedy fans, but we ended up not being able
to going to cruise. So the same guy kind of popped in my head
because I heard Jim Harrold talking about he was doing a cruise, but the
cruise he was doing was different. It was more of a paranormal convention type
cruise. Somebody else set it up. He was going to be one of
the guests, and I thought, you know what, I kind of remembered
how this works. Let me call the guy that we had to set up
with fifteen years ago, and he's actually one of the biggest cruise bookers in
the country, and he just so happened. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Where I was from, and he gave me the ins and outs on
what we could do. We set it up last year with us b Ohio,
Justin Rule from Mysterious Circumstances and Shane Waters foul Play podcast, and so
we had four shows on there, and we just decided, you know,
we're not gonna get anybody else involved. It's just going to be us four.
We'll do a live show on there, we'll do a meet and greet
on a different night, and we'll do a champagne party. And then they
set it up so anybody who booked would be able to sit with us at
the dining same section of the dining area. So it really was, you
know, like our own little special thing. And I think we had two
hundred people signed up the first forty five days, and we ended up with
a hundred that went on the cruise. But that was enough for us to
say, hey, let's do it again. We booked it every two years
so people have time to get it paid for, and like right now,
if somebody went and signed up for it, you can get two people in
one of the cabins for like nine hundred bucks, and of course that covers
all of your food and everything but alcohol and soft drinks the whole trip under
it's five day crews in September of next year, and it's going, like
I said, from Galveston to two stops in Mexico and then back to Galveston.
But to get all your food and everything for nine hundred bucks basically for
two people, and you can start making payments on it. Now they only
take like one hundred dollars deposit, and then you can make payments all the
way up to July. So in most of these cases one hundred bucks a
month. You can have it paid for by the time it gets there,
or paid off with your taxes or something like that. But that's how that
came to me, and we're expecting probably about two hundred people this time.
That's that's insanity. And like like I was saying, when those was first
announced, I didn't I had no idea the reach that these show has had
and how I guess attached your communities were to you and Tracy specifically, because
there's one thing about Your Guys A Show and this is kind of not related
to the cruise that then I absolutely love, and it's the positive impact that
Your Guy's A Show has had on your community. I know recently you posted
some reviews, but one of one of my favorite things to do, and
this is one thing I did very early on I'm not even sure I've ever
talked about this on the show, but I went through some of o Ohio's
reviews and then you know, just as happened, and your name popped up
at the bottom of Apple podcast. So I click on your show and I'm
like, man, if our show can just get reviews that are half as
heartfelt as this, We're doing something right and so it definitely gave us something
to aspire to when it comes to, you know, the significant other podcasts.
That's something that it's not often done well. It's often imitated, but
very rarely replicated, and it's something that Brittany and I have talked about me
really do try and to make sure that we're doing it justice. So you
know, podcasts like your own aren't just the only one out there, if
that makes sense. Basically, what I'm saying, we're trying to steal your
thunder Brittany's dyeing or hair as we speak, to be the new Tracy.
That's all. That's all I am saying. Oh my gosh, no,
But I do want to talk about your book because I think the last time
we had Jue, we didn't have a chance. We had to talk.
We have to talk your stand up before we leave. Don't let me forget
because the amount of people who reached out to me about your stand up,
it's like, hey, he's given you a softball about this stand up comedy.
You didn't even you didn't even take a swing, Bob, you gotta
you know we want to hear about this. But tell me about your book.
Where did it come from? And I see it on the website?
Is it still available for purchase or how does that work? Yeah, it's
it's on Amazon. We've gotten about eighty eighty three eighty four reviews on Amazon.
It's got like. There was one one star review and it was the
very first review we got because that person didn't know how to read the description
of the book. He thought it was all going to be folklore and stuff
and it wasn't. It's actually, you know a mixture of some of my
stuff and the podcast and all that. So I got a one star because
he didn't know how to read, and it wouldn't when he thought it was
going to be and honestly, everything else I think has been five stars.
I don't think we've had so it was like eighty two five star comments on
there. But you can get it there. It's fifteen bucks, and then
if you go to the website, you can get an autograph copy, and
then I don't just throw I hate when authors just throw their name on an
autograph copy. I always write something and include some stickers and some other little
goodies when I send it out. But it's twenty bucks and that covers your
shipping and everything, and I'll personalize it. But that's the easiest way to
get a personalized copy unless you're coming to one of our live events or conventions
or something we're at. So what was the inspiration for the book? I
know it's very heartfelt book. The titles Demons, Depression and Redemption? Where
does that come from? If you're comfortable talking about it? Naturally, what
folks to go by the book? But can you got us kind of walk
us through where the author side of good with it? I mean, I'm
literally an open book, so it really doesn't matter that it's in paper too.
I wrote the book to try to help others. We've had people to
asking us for you know, the first two or three years the podcast,
Hey why don't you write a book? But I'm like, I really don't
want to rehash a bunch of the stories we've already told. I mean,
there's authors out there that are legit authors that can do the stories way better
than what I do them as far as a book, so there's no sense
of me you writing that same story that's been done a thousand times. But
somebody had, somebody had sent us a message about something we said kept them
from committing suicide, and they made a comment to me personally about how great
of a person I was, and it got me thinking, first of all,
I am leaps and bounds better than what I was years ago. I've
never felt myself to be a good person. I was a horrible person in
my eyes for the longest time, and it caused the divorce. It caused
me to lose my kids, it caused me to lose my house, it
financially ruined me, and it was pretty much all my fault. I didn't
see it at the time, but I eventually did find you figure out,
you know what, You're kind of a douchebag, and that's why you're in
a situation you're in And I've spent the rest of my life trying to change
who I am as a person, and it's not always perfect. And I
went through years of depression and I thought, you know what, maybe everybody
should know that you can be a horrible person at some point in time,
but you can change if you really want to. So that's really where the
idea came from. So the book is in three parts. The first part
of the book is about me growing up in a haunted house and everything that
I encountered there. The second part of the book covers of my divorce,
everything that caused the divorce, my depression, I felt suicide attempt back in
two thousand and one, and how I've dealt with depression over the years.
And then the third part of the book is how we started hell Billy horror
stories and how we use the paranormal to get this giant blanket of a listener
base that we can then talk about, you know, mental health and being
okay to not be okay, and spreading the word about the suicide hotline.
So that's really what the book is. The book You're gonna get some paranormal,
You're gonna get some emotion. You're gonna get some tips on how to
deal with depression. I always say, if you've got a friend or a
relative dealing with depression, get them the book. Help if you can't afford
it. I put the book out. I did an audio version and put
it up on the podcast for free. You know, or send me a
message, I'll send you a book for free. I wrote it for the
to help people, not to make money off of If you make money off
of it, that's a bonus. But you know, I've given it out
the library, so I've given it out to anybody who's who calls me up
and says, hey, I'm really struggling, and I have conversations with them,
as Tracy and I often do. I will send them a copy of
the book because it might help, it might not, but whatever it's going
to take. But that's that's how the book. I finally, once people
said, you know, write a book, write a book. I thought,
you know what, this is a book I can write because it's it's
the only it's a story that only I can tell, because it's my story,
and it's got a lot of good, feel good stuff. I include
twenty five I think in the end of the book twenty five emails or messages
that people sent us with their permission of how the show somehow changed their life
through them getting medical help, or reaching out to somebody, or just turning
their life around. So that was the if that was the attention of the
book. You know, you don't I took a risk because people saw me
in a certain light. They didn't see that version of me, and I
opened it up to let them know, you know what, this person you
see that you think is so great, this used to be me. And
if that's you, you can change too. That was the purpose of the
book, that you're human. I mean, that's that's an amazing, amazing
story, and I really appreciate you sharing that with us and sharing it with
the world, because coincidentally enough, we just had a conversation talking about paranormal
covering mental hospitals and mental institutions and the horrible, horrible things that they used
to do for people who just needed to help, who needed proper medical care,
and how mental health has been taken seriously only in recent history, and
mean very recent history. So I definitely think people like you out there who
are willing to tell your story and have something that people can can relate to,
and says seeing you know, just a podcaster, you know, a
very big podcaster, but just a podcast host. They can they can see
the community behind you and see why you do the things you do. So
I think that's amazing. Thank you. No, I absolutely agree, Jerry,
and I do applaud you because you're right. There's there's this self image
that your your audience has a few and a lot of times it's of this,
you know, this humorous or this intelligent person who does no wrong when
an actuality. You know, we're normal people. We have our own internal
battles, and it is difficult and kind of lowering that guard and allowing people
to see, you know, the true Jerry for for lack of a better
term here, that's that's astounding, and it's one of those things that I
wish we would see more in the podcast community and more people, less characters.
I think it's my favorite thing to say, especially as I've gotten more
ingrained in the YouTube communities and gotten more involved on the YouTube side. Is
I think that there's there's a big missing part in in content creation and entertainment
in general, is people are playing this character. They want to be perceived
as a certain way, someone who has all their stuff together and they know
what's right. End of discussion. When an actuality, there's this unspoken benefit
that people can have by just having a discussion, lowering those walls and like
you said, responding to the emails, that alone can mean more to one
person than than I could ever put into words. And you know that firsthand,
so I definitely applaud you on that, Jerry. Now I do want
to kind of change gears a little bit, something a bit more happy.
First off, is there any remaining videos out there that people can go see
of your stand up comedy? Because you mentioned, you know, the the
Eddie Murphy that Richard Pryors. I was more of a Charlie Murphy fan personally,
but you know, to each their own. Where can people, if
it even exists, find your stand up comedy? Well, it's hidden.
You can find it. You got to look for it. If you go
to YouTube and you look up my stage name, the rent Daddy, all
three words the rent Daddy, and you put up you might want to throw
Louisville in there. You'll find it. Or you can go and this will
probably be getting changed before too long. If you go to the Hillbilly Horror
Stories YouTube page and you dig way down, you'll find a bunch of stuff
down there. I stuff was at the Improv and Comedy Caravan and Louisville in
a bunch of the places. There's probably ten or twelve videos out there that
you can check out. I got a whole DVD that I did. Wasn't
happy with it, so I didn't release its long story on that, but
it should have been perfect and it wasn't, and so I kind of cut
it up so nobody knows it's there. It doesn't have a whole lot of
views because nobody knows it's there, but it's it's it is on our Hillbilly
Horror Stories page. But you gotta dig down at the very bottom. Well
fair enough, And that's kind of makes perfect sense now, you know,
you as a podcast host, because there's one thing that I've been enamored with
recently, and that's the lifestyle of comedians. And you know, I dive
deep into the injury shoul. It's the Tim Dillon's, the Joe Rogans.
Don't get me started on Tim Dillon. That's my current obsession. Obsession is
like a very loose term, but right now we all need more fake business
in our life. Lets you are you are flabbergasted by him, right Jerry.
I'm gonna send you a video after the show, just Tim Dillon fake
business. It'll change everything for you, to promise. But no, it's
it's an incredible thing because there's not There's not like much more you could say
about, like really putting yourself out there to a crowd because you have no
idea what the crowd response is going to be. So I'm going to ask
you when you were doing stand up, did you ever really bomb? And
how does Jerry Pauli handle Heckler's and did that also carry over into the podcast
world? I bombed one time. I was very lucky. My very first
time ever on stage, there was an HBO rep in the audience and they
called me over. She said, I can tell you're raw, but I
love your stage presence. I love the command that you have over the audience,
that you had tons of confidence. And she gave me a couple of
tips on some things to do and not do. But she actually set up
my first website for me, And that was my first time ever at an
open mic at comedy Caravan. There was some pretty well known comedians that were
out there that night. Tom maybe was a good friend of ours, was
actually out there that night. A fluteman. Greg people of Greg Warren.
People hear him on Bob and Tom and stuff. He was actually out there
that night doing a guest appearance. Tim Northern, who was on Star Search,
was out there that night. At a lot of well known people out
there. And you know I was the one that got called over to talk
to the HBO talent rep. But you asked about bombing. Yeah, so
let me tell you there's this There's a comedian who since passed away, great
guy, Jay Scott Holman, very funny guy. We were doing I was
local in Louisville and he was coming in the headline a show. They decided,
you know what we're gonna have. There was a website in town that
everybody was on. It was like Facebook before Facebook, called Louisville Mojo,
and I had built up a little bit of a following on air. They'd
come to the open mics, they'd have up last and everybody had a good
time. Well, this particular night, the comedy club decided, you know
what, we're gonna have our regular show, but then after that show,
we're gonna have Louisville Mojo Night. Well, there's a scene in a comedy
business that I didn't know then, and I found out about it this night.
I went on. I was actually the headliner of that, and I
keep in mind people have already at two hours for the regular comedy show.
Now they've set for about another hour and something from another show. Three hours
is a long time to sit at a comedy show. People get laughed out,
believe it or not. And my stuff just did not go over.
Well. Well, Jay Scott finished up, you know, he stuck around
for it. He came over afterwards and he said, look, I'm gonna
tell you something. Your stuff is really funny. The crowd's reaction was not
indicative of your set. They're tired, they're ready to go home. He
said, I'll let you in on a little tip. When the show is
over. The show is over, And that's apparently a pretty well known thing
in a comedy business. After about two hours, people are tired of laughing,
so they usually don't schedule more than two hours. If you go to
a comedy show right now, it will never last more than two two and
a half hours period. You go to a concert, you can sit all
day and listen to music and go to these festivals. Can't do that in
comedy. So usually you'll have the headliner usually does thirty to forty five minutes.
At a comedy club, you'll have somebody do twenty to thirty minutes before
him, and in an opener do fifteen minutes. But it always equals up
to about two hours. And that's why. So that was the only time
I ever really bombed. And he made me feel better about it by saying
that it wasn't the material, it was just the fact that that show had
been on, you know, going on for over three hours. I completely
understand that, because I can barely sit in a movie theater for two and
a half hours before I'm anson and and wanting to leave, and that whoa
three and a half hours before you headline. I would be as supportive as
I could be, But oh my gosh, that's a long time. There's
only so many laughs I have in a day, and that's uh yeah,
I'd say about hour and a half, two hours, and I'm pretty much
I'm pretty much laughed out. I'm like that with concerts. I mean,
I can go see a band that I absolutely love, and after about two
two and a half hours, I'm like, like Brittany said, I've got
kind of got the jitters, and like, Okay, I'm kind of ready
to go. Now. You know, I've heard all the hits and I
know they got a couple more. But you know, there comes a time
where you just are ready. No, I completely understand that. So I
know we're coming up on our time here, Jerry, but I wanted to
ask one last question and then we're going to kind of put it all,
put it all together in a neat little box. If someone wanted to sort
a podcast, and this is something I'm trying to ask all of our podcast
host friends, what advice would you give them in twenty twenty three, because,
as we both know, in the past twenty four months, the podcast
landscape has changed dramatically. So what advice would you have someone who maybe doesn't
doesn't have an entertainment background. They listen to podcasts, but that's about it.
What advice would you have someone sorting, you know, ground zero day
one. First of all, get you some decent equipment. That doesn't mean
you got to go out and spend you know, a thousand dollars on podcast
equipment. But you know, if you're going to have more than one guest,
get you at least an eighty nine hundred microphone that's got great reviews.
Get you a dynamic microphone because it won't pick up everything around you. And
if you're going to have more than one host, get you some kind of
inexpensive mixer that you can get for about one hundred bucks. If you've already
got a laptop or some type of computer, you literally can get ac a
mixer and a stand for two hundred and fifty bucks. Now that's a lot
of money for some people, but I can tell you this, if you
do not have good sound quality, it doesn't matter what your topics are or
how entertaining you are. There are sound snobs and you will lose them.
And when you're starting off a podcast, you can't afford to lose anybody.
So that's my first thing is definitely have great sound equipment. Uh, like
I said, doesn't have to be the Joe Rogan, you know, eight
hundred dollars microphone or something like it. Just it just don't. But it's
got to be decent, you know, and and I think that's the that's
the first step. I would say that the other thing is maybe stay away
from politics and religion, because you know what you're in the beginning. You
need every listener you can possibly get, and that means don't divide your audience.
You know, I learned a long time ago. We did a show
back during the twenty sixteen election. We did a show. I made a
Trump joke and I made a Hillary joke in the same show, and I
got hate from both peep sides of it. And my thought was, being
a comedian, if I make a joke about both of them, it doesn't
show bias. It just shows if nothing else, we're you know, we're
trying to just make fun of everybody, and trust me, that does not
work like that. I've done shows. The one show that we put up
best of shows and the one show that I've never rerained was the one we
did on the Freemasons because I gave out my opinions on some freemasons and I've
never had so many people disagrees wholeheartedly as what that episode was and I'm not
about to put it back up again. And that was like episode like twenty
four or something that was way back seven years ago. So I would say,
don't divide your audience, get your good sound equipment. The rest of
it. You'll be able to figure out. That's phenomenal advice, and I
want to I want to double up on the good sound. If I learned
anything, especially when it comes to videography, people will watch seven twenty p
video, they will click off if your microphone sounds like you're talking to a
ten can. We were guilty of that in our early early stages, and
thankfully we had guides are like, hey, maybe go to zounds and get
this instead. So I definitely agree. So before we go, Jerry,
let's remind everybody where can they find Hillbilly Horror Stories, the new show,
the cruise tickets, the live event tickets, all this. Where can I
send folks to find more? Jerry Hillbilly Horror Stories dot com. That's how
they can found anything we got going on live and anything that we've got.
The cruise has its own special tabs, so you can find out everything about
it, probably seen and everything is on there and who you would need to
call. You can buy tickets or find out more by going to the events
page on there and as far as the podcast, you can listen to it
anywhere, absolutely anywhere, and that includes the new podcast which is wickedly weird
with Jerry and Amanda, and I appreciate people given that one a shot.
I think you'll really like that show if you listen to it. Well,
absolutely, Jerry, and again I appreciate the time, sir. It's always
a pleasure. We're gonna have to do this again here in the next couple
of months, so have a good day. Thank you, Jerry, Thank
you well, Britney. It's always fun to talk to other podcasts and kind
of see how the other half lives. Yeah, the magic. Yeah,
And that's the cool thing about podcasting in general is even though we do have
like some crossover with our audience and even our subject matter, the way that
other people approach these topics and they add their own little twists and stuff,
it's always fun to get to dive into that specifically. No, I completely
agree. Yeah. So with that being said, Mispertty, the only thing
I want to remind everybody about is uh go if you're if you haven't subscribed
already tells the dark Over on YouTube. I plan to try and do weekly
uploads if I can. I've got one one out last week does a really
cool, like semi local story to us that I had never heard before until
we covered it. So if you're into like kind of darker history, I
think you're gonna like the next couple of videos where you putting now I agree.
Well that being said, misperty, unless there's something else that you'd like
to add, I think we're not have to add this episode of Our Strange
World with Jerry Polly to our never ending but are always growing Tales from the
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