WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:12.000 Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. 2 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:16.120 My guest today is Emily Catalano. Her debut album is out That is called 3 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:20.120 Hey, and we'll find out why it's called that. That outum out on 4 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:25.359 Blonde Medicine. You can also get it in limited edition vinyl with a gorgeous 5 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.440 mets finish. Here's my conversation with Emily. Is it weird to put everything 6 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:34.600 down as a recording by letting that material behind it? Is it's a strange 7 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.759 feeling because you're saying goodbye to it, but it also feels really good to 8 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.719 get rid of it at the same time, interesting phrasing and getting rid of 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.679 it or you just you've been doing it for a long time, so it's 10 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.240 like sometimes it's nice to go back to it, but like at the same 11 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:54.960 time, like you don't like the part of what's fun about comedy is like 12 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:59.119 the brand new stuff and like growing out of the comedian, So going back 13 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:03.200 to the old stuff like a little bit of a crutch. So it does 14 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:04.959 feel good to be like, okay, and now I'm onto the new chapter. 15 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.560 Did you approach it from the standpoint of okay? That hour is done, 16 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:12.000 I'm putting it to bed. Or have you been trying out five ten 17 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:18.120 minute chunks along the way so you have a new set. Yeah, I'm 18 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.319 figuring it out along the way. I'm not really sure because a lot of 19 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:26.079 this stuff from the album I've already posted as clips on Instagram or TikTok or 20 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.439 whatever, So a lot of it was like I stopped doing anyways. But 21 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.799 then there was like a new chunk that like I saved for the album that 22 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.959 then I recorded as like a video after that, and now I'm feel like 23 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.040 I'm done with that and now I'm like starting fresh. I've been talking to 24 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.840 a lot of comics who the topic of crowd work keeps coming up, and 25 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.640 because of the need to feed the beast, do you find yourself doing I 26 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.599 don't mean this is a dig, but CrowdWork for crowdwork's sake, just so 27 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.879 you have something to feed TikTok or whatnot a little bit. I've always really 28 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:04.079 enjoyed crowd work before even that was a thing I found TikTok just I think 29 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.560 it makes a live experience a little bit better for the people there. But 30 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.800 I try not to rely on it, like I'll do my material, and 31 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.280 then I'll do a little chunk of crowd work just to make the people who 32 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:21.000 like came to the show feel special, And sometimes that turns into something really 33 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.840 funny. But I'm like, yeah, why wouldn't I post this? This 34 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:25.599 is really funny? Yeah, good, crowd work is great. It's I 35 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:30.560 think I struggle with the set up crowd work. I'm gonna just be like, 36 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.439 your hat is stupid, just so you can slam me, because you 37 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.800 know how you have. There's so many fake clips now and maybe I'm too 38 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.240 close to it that I can just tell yeah, no, I get it. 39 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.560 Like it's really tough when it when people post something that's it doesn't go 40 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.639 anywhere. But I'm like really particular about what I post, Like I have 41 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.639 to be really happy with it if I'm posting it. So I hope that 42 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:55.639 people who follow me understand this is gonna be worth your time, This is 43 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.960 gonna be worth your thirty seconds. It's gonna go somewhere. Are you post 44 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.520 everything yourself? Is there a secret media team of eighty five people? No, 45 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:07.879 just I have a background in editing, so I'm like, yeah, 46 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.039 I don't really trust that many people that do it for me. No, 47 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.520 I hear you on that talk to me about editing. Oh, it's just 48 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.680 I was just always interested in like filmmaking, and so, like I think 49 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:23.680 in high school, I just started like making little like sketches or whatever. 50 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.520 And I actually taught myself how to edit before I had a computer or anything. 51 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:32.080 So I just had like my dad's camcorder and a VCR player, and 52 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:38.360 I would like edit that way like I would record onto VHS tape, So 53 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.960 just bringing it down a generation basically, that's the hard way. I'm antioned. 54 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.080 I learned how a razor blade back me. Wow, yeah, I 55 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.120 would have loved that, but I didn't have It was fun. You have 56 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.879 razor blade a grease pencil, and then you got quick enough that you didn't 57 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.280 need the grease pencil anymore. You kind of had muscle memory with your thumb 58 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:58.560 on where you grab the tape. You make a slice, let's go for 59 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.759 it. But you had to keep track of all the little pieces of tape. 60 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.719 You'd take out a chunk and put the tape around your neck so in 61 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.280 case the edit was poor and you could put the tape back in and if 62 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:10.360 you lost the piece you had taken out. Once these computers came in. 63 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.719 These kids today, You guys have no idea what it was like back in 64 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.879 the day. I know it was fun, though I would have loved to 65 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:21.079 try the film stuff, but yeah, I had was a VHS on the 66 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:27.959 crowd work. Are you finding people coming trying to be annoying participants in your 67 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.000 show, like I'm gonna go and I'll say something funny, so Emily could 68 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.199 be even more funny. I haven't gotten a lot of that. I've gotten 69 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:38.439 more like people are scared, like they don't want to be the butt of 70 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.680 the joke, so they if I'm just trying to be nice or just trying 71 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.199 to have a conversation, people will be like, I'm not talking to you, 72 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.160 and that's really annoying. That's more annoying than someone like trying to get 73 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.120 a good clip. I've heard audiences are increasingly filling up from the back and 74 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.680 not taking the thrush. Oh yeah, yeah, it's tough. Are you 75 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.519 in LA today? I am? How's the scene out there? I'm a 76 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.079 little rough. I don't think I've I know, I haven't done a comedy 77 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.279 show in LA since the pandemic. How's the scene? What are the good 78 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:12.000 rooms? The good rooms? It took a while to come back from the 79 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:17.360 pandemic. Everything just came back really slowly. So independent shows got wiped out 80 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:21.879 and they're like slowly starting to come back, but all the clubs seem to 81 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:27.519 be back. Like anytime you do a club show, that's good. I've 82 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.759 been lucky enough to be able to do shows at Largo, which I don't 83 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.959 know if you've ever been there, but yeah, definitely, every show I've 84 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:40.360 done there has been great, So it's yeah, it's good. I don't 85 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:45.000 know. Did you find for yourself doing some research, you had a conan 86 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.519 appearance and then the pesky pandemic came along. Did you feel like kind of 87 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.319 put things on pause or we're all in this together, so everybody was on 88 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.920 pause. What's the difference or did you feel like that hit your momentum a 89 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:58.000 little bit? Oh yeah, I think it definitely took a hit. But 90 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.959 I think it came at a time where maybe I was like a little burnt 91 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.839 out where I needed a break anyways, so it was like a good reminder 92 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:12.240 that, oh I should rest, I shouldn't be out every night. I 93 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.199 don't know, just I should take some time just to be by myself and 94 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.959 write. So I think that's what it did for me, and now I 95 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.480 just I love being home and I love writing. It like really got me 96 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.759 into that groove. I think the entire world liked, you know, in 97 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.639 a weird way. The six months off of we just all got sick a 98 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:30.519 stake from watched Netflix. Right, it was just as much as it was 99 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.000 horrible, it was cool. Everyone admits four years later it was great. 100 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.800 I was really excited about it, actually, like it was scary, but 101 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.199 I was also like, oh, I'm so glad that everybody is just stopping. 102 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.199 I don't have to keep up with anybody. Did you resort to zoom 103 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.120 shows? I did. Yeah. I lived with a couple of other comics, 104 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.199 so we did a monthly or weekly zoom show together, which was fun 105 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.519 because we were all in the same room, or the three of us were. 106 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.199 And then we got pretty good following every week, and it was just 107 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:08.560 something to keep our minds occupied and still writing jokes and interacting with people. 108 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.279 Some weeks were like really rough and really, why are we doing this? 109 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.480 That was terrible, But then some weeks it was really fun, and we'd 110 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.639 do this thing where people could bend mels and we'd take a shot if we 111 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:24.680 were like during our set, someone ben mode and then they said this is 112 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:29.319 for Emily or whatever. Then someone would hand me a shot and we just 113 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.879 started doing water by the end because they were like, we can't do this 114 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.199 anymore. This was a give makes, but we need some great money doing 115 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:40.639 that. As a civilian, I enjoyed the zoomshells. They were product their 116 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.160 time, and I understand why people don't want to do them, but they 117 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:46.120 were pretty cool. Out here. There was a guy he had a restaurant 118 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:51.480 and he started doing cooking classes. So I remember every Thursday at four o'clock, 119 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.000 you would throw him a hundred bucks, go to shop where I'd pick 120 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.959 up a box, come home, and he would do a live cooking class. 121 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.759 But the food was credible. And then it all of a sudden stopped 122 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.959 when the world came back and I was like, oh I liked the cooking 123 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.680 class. Yeah, stuff was fun. I know. Yeah, there's definitely 124 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:15.040 some good moments, and I think people really appreciated it, which that helped 125 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.759 a lot. When people were like, this is I look forward to this 126 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.959 every week, I'm like, Okay, at least somebody is enjoying it and 127 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.480 we're not doing it for nobody. But yeah, it was tough. When 128 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.759 you do comedy in front of a live audience, there's no other feeling in 129 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.279 the world, and so to go from that to you don't hear anybody laughing, 130 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.799 and you sometimes can't even see their faces, like if they're smiling, 131 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.440 so you have no feedback whatsoever. So it's really tough to do Zoom shows 132 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.320 and so I'm glad I don't have to do them anymore. I hadn't really 133 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.480 thought of that, right, because you can't keep the crowd mics on because 134 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.000 then you'll have vidiots talking in your ears. Oh wow, we would keep 135 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.240 it on. But the way I guess Zoom works is like, if you're 136 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.159 talking, it's gonna mute. Everybody else have to like pause and hope that 137 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.320 someone laughs so there's not an awkward pause. But yeah, live comedy is 138 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:11.320 just a million times better. More with Emily after the break. I love 139 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:15.360 your style, I love your writing, A lot of misdirection in it. 140 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.320 Who are your influences? I started doing some research and I came across an 141 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.559 article that I'm convinced was written by AI. It just had a lot of 142 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.159 that AI phrasing. Are your influences? Amy? Schumer and Louis C. 143 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.279 K Oh Interesting, I've never seen that before. Yeah, never, Probably 144 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:37.759 when I started comedy, they were probably the most famous comedians at the time, 145 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:43.120 So definitely I definitely am influenced by other comedians. But yeah, I 146 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:50.080 would say more Sarah Silverman and like Nay Bargatzi is tak Nataro, like people 147 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.360 like that. I could see that in the style and the approach to writing 148 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:58.000 all great comics there. Your album is called Hey, which I love. 149 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.840 Is there a secret meaning behind Hey? Or is just Hey? That's how 150 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.519 I start every set. I just go up and say Hey. Then, 151 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:11.679 so it became like just a fun way to start my set, and for 152 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.240 some reason people laugh when I say Hey. I know, if people laugh 153 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.200 when I say Hey, it's going to be a good show. But if 154 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.679 nobody laughs, and I know, I got to put in a little bit 155 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.240 more work. Do you have a chunk that you know works when you pull 156 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.080 something up from later in the set, or go back to some greatest hits 157 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.759 type material just to win the room. Yeah, I have a catalog of 158 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.159 greatest hits, and sometimes those don't even work. So you're just kind of 159 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.320 like, all right, I just got to power through this. But yeah, 160 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.240 I definitely I'll just go back to stuff that I know works more than 161 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:45.519 other stuff. As somebody who programs comedy radio stations. I appreciate that you 162 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.120 named your tracks. Nate drives me nuts. He doesn't name his tracks. 163 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:54.360 They're all eight is twelve tracks tell a story like the guy went to the 164 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.399 bathroom. I wonder if he is mad, And it drives me nuts because 165 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.559 I'll be like, oh, I'm looking for a bit about I don't know 166 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.919 airports, and I have no idea what his material is unless I play it. 167 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.799 So thank you for labeling your cuts. How much did you work at 168 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.519 that or are they just things that were in your mind? Like this segment 169 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.120 is called this or did you sit there and go I'm going to name track 170 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.639 for this. No, I'll always bring like a list up with me because 171 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.600 I have a really bad memory, so i'll forget the order of my jokes. 172 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.639 So I kind of name sections of my material anyways. So it was 173 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:31.480 just oh yeah, divorced, married, baseball, like just the one word 174 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.360 things that just drogged my memory to let me know where I'm at. So 175 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.519 it's pretty easy to just be like, oh, this section is that, 176 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.120 But I do. I wanted every joke to be its own track, but 177 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.399 you can't really do that with I think for like radio or whatever, they 178 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.720 have to be like at least two minutes or something. I had to like 179 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:54.120 group a bunch of jokes together sometimes and then I just called it like whatever 180 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.919 the first joke was or something. Yeah, I'll tell you the secret behind 181 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.919 that. As a programmer, you had like a five minute clip, you 182 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:03.600 can play twelve of them in an hour. So if you start handing in 183 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.240 forty nine second clips, because they mess up my scheduling, So that four 184 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:13.840 or five minute thing from the radio person's perspective is the sweet spot, and 185 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.519 then you, as the artist wants the radio station to play it so you 186 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:22.960 get some of those sweet royalties. So it's my advice to all comedians if 187 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:26.519 your goal is to get streaming royalties, don't have a twenty five second play 188 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:30.559 yeah clip, go for five five minutes, just perfect. Yeah, that's 189 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:31.759 that's what the label told me. I was like, yeah, this is 190 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.480 the only plant I'm donas was to get the radio spins. When we started 191 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.080 back in two thousand and four, the artists or the comedians were like, 192 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.240 you're stealing our material, I hate you, and then the Royalty checks showed 193 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.919 up and I'll name names. I ran into Ron White and Nashville and boy 194 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.320 did he shake my funny how it flipped it. And then all of a 195 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.440 sudden every comedian was like, why are you not playing my album? Was 196 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:56.480 like, all right, six months ago you hated us. Yeah, but 197 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.759 yeah, Sirius has been like a game changer. I actually have hope that 198 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.240 we can make money as comedians. Yeah. Sure, it's great for awareness. 199 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.399 I know a lot of people who bought into it and would come up 200 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.480 and do guest spots and it definitely moved tickets for them. It's anything else, 201 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.840 it's awareness. Yeah. So your album is also out on vinyl. 202 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.279 Talk to me about that. I didn't know that was a thing, And 203 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.480 I don't mean that as a Weisenheimer. I know Chappelle would sometimes put things 204 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.039 out on vinyl that I cynically think was to make sure it qualified as an 205 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.159 album for the Grammys, that it was an actual album, not a Netflix 206 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.120 special. But you put this one out on vinyl, which is neat. 207 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.960 Yeah. I just like the idea of vinyl. I have a record player, 208 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.360 and it really like whenever I put an album on the player. I 209 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.440 really just sit there and listen to it. Where if I'm like just listening 210 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.240 on my phone or something, I'm like doing other things and not really paying 211 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.360 attention. But I like the idea of someone just sitting down and listening to 212 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.799 comedy because that's it feels maybe more like you're at the show in that way. 213 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.759 Also, I just love the vinyl artwork, and it's having a physical 214 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.480 piece of art in your home and like being able to display that or just 215 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.720 look at it sometimes and it just feels it feels more cool than just like 216 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:18.320 a digital thing. Yeah, everything old is new again. Vinyl is super 217 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.840 cool. It's like you said, Hey, here's my digital release. It's 218 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.840 we talk about this with the kids at the holidays. There's nothing to give 219 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.159 anyone anymore. Hey, in the day, even if it was just a 220 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.919 gift for gifts sake, I could give you a video game or a DVD 221 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.000 or an album. Now it's here's ten dollars, go on in Apple and 222 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.879 buy something. It's there's no there there anymore exactly. Yeah, just to 223 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.919 hold something is unique these days. So yeah, and then I can just 224 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.559 bring them and give them to people or sell them at shows. Just something 225 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.080 to have or sign even it's always good. Oh I didn't think that. 226 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:56.480 Yeah that's neat. Yeah i'd like posters I was doing, but I don't 227 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.200 know. Posters are cool, but not everybody wants a poster. But everybody 228 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.440 can stash away YL even if they don't have a fit record player. They're 229 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.519 cool to free. Yeah, they are cool. Are you touring right now? 230 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.320 Is on your website? I saw one date from memory. I think 231 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.879 it's in Seattle, and I just thought it was quirky that there's one date 232 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:15.759 on there and it's only in Seattle and why Seattle? And I just had 233 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.840 a million questions. Well, yeah, I'm planning a new tour starting in 234 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.679 September, but Seattle is the only one who's put up their tickets yet, 235 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.200 so that's why I just love it there. But yeah, I'll be going 236 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.559 out, but I'm just waiting for everybody to post the tickets before I start 237 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.480 promoting it. But this will be more like I'm gonna just try a bunch 238 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:39.840 new material tour and try to work on a new hour and I'll probably yeah, 239 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.600 do crowd work too, just just to have some fun. But I 240 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:50.879 won't be it won't be forced I think new material tours are cool. Kevin 241 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.879 Hart just did a little one a similar thing. A few years ago. 242 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.000 Weird Awl went out and it was like Deep Cuts, only if you want 243 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.639 to hear eat it, do not come. You're just going to be disappointed 244 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.399 the diehards. I love that kind of show that just is all right, 245 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.679 we're just having fun here tonight. Yeah. I like it too. It 246 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.600 makes me feel like I'm actually, like, yeah, working on my craft. 247 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.759 But I understand if a tourists is like coming to a comedy club or 248 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.679 a show and they don't really know who I am, they probably wouldn't care 249 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.440 about it, or maybe they wouldn't have a good time. But I think 250 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:25.559 for people who know me and know me from my clips and stuff, I 251 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:30.799 think that would be really cool for them to see the process, see behind 252 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.919 the scenes of like how I come up with my stuff. And different shows, 253 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.360 different venues, different days of the week, different timeslots, different expectations. 254 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.720 Tuesday night, you show up at ten forty five unannounced, a lot 255 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.480 different than your name being on the marque at a theater, right, yeah, 256 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.559 yeah, But I don't know. I think that if people are coming 257 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.799 to see me, it's my headlining show. They probably have listened to my 258 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.240 album or seen my reels and stuff. I don't know if they want to 259 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:02.519 see those again. So to me, I'm like to just like try new 260 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.839 things and work it out with them. But I don't know if other people 261 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:10.160 like that, or if I just liked how timely or topical do you like 262 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:14.400 to get You like to dive into particular current events, which I'm not going 263 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:15.920 to get into. You stay away from all that. I like to stay 264 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:21.440 away from it. I think we get enough of that and people, Yeah, 265 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:26.319 that's all the late night talk shows are, so it's going to be 266 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.039 done, all the topical stuff, so I focus on other things. I 267 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.480 do like to al write jokes. If I'm in a a new city, 268 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.680 I'll write jokes about that city or observations or whatever. But that's the only 269 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.160 really topical thing I'll do. So is that just walking around and taking it 270 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.359 in by osmosis or is that asking a local for a topical joke or yeah, 271 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:51.200 just walking around or even reading about the city before I go, because 272 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:53.720 I'm going into cities that I've never been in and I don't know anything about, 273 00:17:53.960 --> 00:18:00.400 so it is I think interesting just to see my observations from one who's 274 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.039 never been there before, in the vibe of the city or the vibe of 275 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:04.839 the people that I've met. And that's why I do crowd work too, 276 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.039 because everybody is different in every city, so I got to get to know 277 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:12.119 what they're all about. What do you do when you're not doing comedy? 278 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.960 What do your other things? I love movies, like I'll just go watch 279 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:22.400 movies below. Just being outside, like I love camping and rock climbing and 280 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.559 just hanging out with family. I don't know, I'm pretty boring, just 281 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.960 boring, that's awesome. I tried doing indoor and I discovered I have this 282 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:33.880 terrible fear of heights. I was like, I did it exactly once. 283 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.720 I'm hitting the rope and I'm like, did you, And all of a 284 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:40.400 sudden, I had that innate response, Oh my god, I'm forty feet 285 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:41.759 up, bah get me out of here. I never knew I had this 286 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.799 fear. It is. It's scary, even like when you're used to it, 287 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.079 the heights are still scary because it's a if something goes wrong, it's 288 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:53.240 over. But I think that's why it's exciting too. It's like that adrenaline 289 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:57.519 rush I guess it's similar to comedy that makes your heart beat a little bit 290 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.039 faster. So how does one do it? Do you need an organized crew? 291 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:03.359 I assume you need at least a buddy, right, you're not going 292 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.279 out there yourself and climbing or Yeah, you have buddies. Climbing buddies, 293 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.839 they're pretty easy to find. It got like really popular, so now the 294 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.920 gyms are like way too crowded in LA especially. Do you have any other 295 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.880 projects coming up that we should know about other than the album? After the 296 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:26.039 album, I filmed a special which has some of the chunks from the album, 297 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.880 but a lot of new stuff too. I'm editing that now with the 298 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.400 director and I'm not sure when it'll be out, but that's something that's coming 299 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.960 up. And I'm filming another I don't tell taping next week, so that'll 300 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.920 be coming out too at some point. So I have, yeah, a 301 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:48.440 lot of content coming out which hopefully people like. I'm scrolling through my notes 302 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:51.920 here and one thing that cracked me up when I was doing the prep. 303 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.640 I don't know how often you google yourself or not. Are you familiar with 304 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.440 this other Emily in Pittsburgh that reviews food? Yeah, actually, I'm working 305 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.160 on a joke about that. See, I was going to commentate with you 306 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.119 could wreck her life if you wanted to, just by posting videos. But 307 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.720 oh that's hilarious, right, I won't. I don't want to ruin your 308 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.720 joke. I feel like she probably has heard of me, but I don't 309 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.640 know because I get a lot of messages from There are a lot of Emily 310 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.160 Catalanos out there, so I'll get message of the dms like hey, nice 311 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.440 name or something like that. But yeah, she's the one who I'm the 312 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.000 most familiar with it because I set up like a Google alert for my name. 313 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.559 Sure, and it's only her. I don't get any press. It's 314 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:37.480 always her. So that's what I'm start doing a killer ten minutes about it's 315 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:40.720 her. I'm sure even ben to pitt alert. But I would like to 316 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:44.519 get a great city and then I'll invite her. She can fantastic me two 317 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.400 her favorite food spots. Thank you for your time today, best of luck 318 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.519 with the album, and looking forward to the upcoming special. Oh yeah, 319 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:53.880 thanks. If you would like this program commercial free. In the show notes, 320 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:56.759 it says Klaroga dot supportingcast dot FM. You're going to go to that 321 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.680 ur L for four ninety nine, if you'll get this program ad free, 322 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.839 and a bunch of the others on the network also ad free. So do 323 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.920 that and I'll be back tomorrow with a normal episode. See then.