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Glick's Comedy Lounge: Susan Horne
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Tonight the laughs are loaded and the mic is hot on Glick's Comedy Lounge Comedian Susan Horne stops by the Lounge to hangout, crack jokes, and dive into the chaos that is stand-up comedy No scripts. No filters. Just real talk, big laughs and whatever Nonsense happens when the cameras roll. Pull up a chair...it's comedy time
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We'll be right back.
Introduction to Comedy Lounge
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stories, things we shouldn't say we're gonna laugh about them anyway Hey, welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge Where the jokes go wild and the laughs get loud
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pull up a seat, stay all night long
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guests on the couch with wild tale to tell from the road the stage or a barroom hell
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The crowds get loud and the stories get strange.
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No scripts here, just the truth and the laughs. And maybe a roast if you cross Glick's path. Hey, welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge. Where the jokes go wild and the laughs get loud.
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Pull up seat, stay all night long Tell a crazy story, sing along to the song
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Late nights, lose mics, stories all around.
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to Glick's Comedy Line.
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Pull up a seat, stay all night long. Tell crazy story, sing along to the song.
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What's going on everybody?
Susan Horn's Comedy Journey
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Welcome in to Glick's Comedy Lounge right here on the Nonsensical Network, the place where the drinks are imaginary and the laughs are very real.
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And each and every week I am hanging out. I'm getting lucky enough to hang out with some very funny and Super talented comedians. So if you like what you see here give us a follow give us a like and give us a share bio that link slash nonsensical Network All them links is there. Give us follow.
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Give us a like give us a share Like I said shout out to the chatter's box real quick. I don't want to forget about you guys while he's in there hitting that smash here and like James Ottawa in the building and of course Scorpio's in there as always appreciate you guys. Anyways, enough about you guys and enough about me.
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we have a very funny up-and-coming comedian, and I promised her that we will behave tonight. That goes for you guys in the chatterbox as well.
00:05:21
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So, you guys welcome in Miss Susan Horn. Hi. Hello. We are officially live now. clean comedy, but with my last name, it's questionable.
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How many times has it been mispronounced? And I hope I pronounce it. I know. I mean, sometimes I hate when people mispronounce it, but hello, yeah. It happened. Welcome to the... Yeah, right? Welcome to the lounge. I appreciate you taking some time out of your evening and hanging out with me on my new adventure here on the network with this show.
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So hopefully everything will go well and You won't go, man, that guy's an idiot. Or you can. wouldn't think that. um We were talking a little bit backstage, right out the gate. a know You are relatively new to the stand-up world.
00:06:22
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I've had some lucky breaks. and I'm new. ive I haven't done comedy very long, but I have had four theater shows. And my first theater show, well, actually my second theater show, I took i took a comedy school.
00:06:40
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And I did that because, and my story is, I got into comedy because almost died in December 2023. And i went back to teach. I was driving for a visually impaired teacher at the time.
00:06:54
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Went back to teach and my body couldn't handle the germs of 600 kids. And the second day I got there, I got the flu and it went into my bloodstream. It went into pneumonia. I had went to doctor like different hospitals. They kept sending me home. Finally, the third hospital went to they're like.
00:07:14
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We might have to intubate. And they put me in ICU. They pulled out four and a half liters of fluid on my right side. I was chest tube, sit home on oxygen. i was in the hospital for 11 days. I mean, everything you could have done to you. So I'm like, here I am 50.
00:07:30
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I'm 50. What else haven't I done that I've wanted to do And i was a class male in high school. And one of my good friends has been doing comedy for over 20 years in New York.
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and he's been on the Late Late Show and on Conan. And I'm like, we graduated together and I was a class clown. I was like, come on, I can do this too. So I took a comedy class after I got better enough and the teachers had never sold out a show there the little theaters, 158 people.
00:08:04
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We sold that show out and and I only did my first 10 minutes and everybody's like, right. Where are you next? Where are you next? And I liked it. and It was kind of like, I have a story and I call it what I do is body positivity comedy. So then i got contacted like three days later by a big theater here in our area.
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And they said, can you do a show for us? And I was like, oh, wow. I mean, I'm going to be on stage for 10 minutes. I don't know, but I know somebody that might come help me.
00:08:36
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You know, because typically you have an opener and a headliner in the theater. show yeah So I called my friend Tony Dayo. Have you heard of Tony? That name sounds familiar.
00:08:49
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He's my friend from high school. And I said, Tony, will you help me? And he's like, sure, I'll help you. And he came down and we did a show in January. I opened for him. My show is called that. And I do different things, but the show that I've been doing in theaters is called Fat Lives Matter.
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but And it's just about being a chunky chick my whole life and being from the 80s. I call it the fat shaming era. You know, we're not going to be big except for your hair. Yeah. I do the show. It's about a 35 to 40 minute show. And I've been trying to get into some more theaters, but um I've been to New Jersey with it.
00:09:32
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um I've been here Virginia doing it and a couple of different places. But yes. So but our first our show in January was a sellout at 385 people.
00:09:46
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wow So the first time I did the full 35, 40 minute show, it was in front of 385 people. You really got thrown right into the fire. I got thrown into the pot. And I loved it. And it's like, if you're a comedian and anybody out there that's listening to comedian, totally going to relate. It's like our drug. Like you go out there, you do it. It's like, that's your hit. And you're like, I got to get, go get another. Like I got to find some more shows.
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So then after that, you're just doing the comedy hustle. Like, okay, who's going give me 10 minutes? Who will give me five minutes? Like, do you have a guest spot? You know, I say, you don't do it for the money, but you do want to pay for your gas. Like I said, so. Yeah, exactly.
00:10:31
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I just got to have enough gas to get there and back. Well, it depends on where it is too. Like I was offered a possible guest spot in Nashville and I'm like, a guest spot means you don't get paid usually, but I'm like Nashville. if If I can go, then I'll do it. If the, you know, if the show has enough seats sold and it's worth it, then I'll go. But it's just, you've got to just decide.
00:10:55
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You know, what what's your balance? Will you go or not? what What will you go for? Because when you're new, nobody knows you. And until you're like Leah Morgan or Nate Burgoski or whatever, nobody knows who you are. and You don't get out there unless you just push yourself.
00:11:13
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Yeah, i mean, yeah you can you can stay local and kind of hope for a lucky break. Or, yeah you get out there and yeah you put yourself wherever you can. yeah at the At the end of the day, I guess that's, you know, where the most important thing is just getting out there and taking those, you know, the chances that you can take and the shots that you can without – you know, putting yourself in too much of a hole or too much in debt or anything like that. You know, nobody wants to be a starving artist anymore that you used to hear about back in the day.
The Hustle and Clean Comedy
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Well, luckily I'll say my husband's my financial backer. So I don't know about that because he'll say, Susan, you're not going to go spend that much money to go for like do a five minute And I'm like, well, hell you know, yeah i have a website and i have shirts and everything i have merch for my show because i have things that i say in my show like there's fat lives matter shirts that people wear and i love it when a really super skinny chick or you know she has on fat lives matter shirt and the guys were all saying at the last couple shows like where's your guy shirts yeah fat lives matter shirt but
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I'm working on something like I'm with a thick chick or I love my thick chick something like that. But ma I have thick thighs and blue eyes.
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If you think that's in pretty eyes because the non blue white girls wanted a shirt. And then I have if you can't turn it, you just tan it.
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That's what Scorpio said in the chat. He said, I like tan fat. its It looks so much better. It's so true. I say we all know one thing that tan fat looks way better than white fat. It shrivels up like bacon in the summer. I mean, it just shrivels right up.
00:13:06
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Yeah. And who doesn't like bacon? yeah it's the my my girlfriend slash producer in the chat and beside me over here as she's sitting over here laughing along listening to you your social media in the chat for everybody so you guys can give her give susan a follow and and check out her stuff as well um my website check it out yeah everything's there um Yeah, um so, you know, from from being a schoolteacher and then getting on stage, was there a big difference for you? or I mean, obviously you're doing different things, but essentially you're standing up in front of people that, I mean, I was a student once before, once upon a time, many, many moons ago, and, you know, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to my teacher, but, you know, I wasn't paying to go there either, so. Right.
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How big of a difference was that from going from the classroom to the stage? oh yeah yeah so how big was how big of a difference was that from going from the teeth from the classroom to the stage Well, there's lots of days that I wanted to tell the kids to sit their asses down and be quiet. So it's really, I refrain from, i have refrained from using profanity in the teaching world. So now just, forfa ah yeah, I don't use profanity in the comedy world either. So i refrain from it there. or So that's been kind of the same.
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yeah i You know, my dad is like I said, my dad's a pastor. He's 89. Yeah. and he came to my theater show he's so cute and i'm like you know i wouldn't feel comfortable saying this stuff in front my dad so i don't say anything i wouldn't feel comfortable saying in front of my kids because my kids i actually homeschooled my house now And the kids at home school, the two little girls I have, actually I have three girls, but the two that I have the most will say, put me in your comedy act, Miss Susan. And they want to be in. So I have some teacher stories that, like you said, that they're in, you know, they love it. They like it. But I wouldn't want, you know, I wouldn't want to tarnish that reputation. And it's like parents come in here. They're not going to bring their kids to me if I'm out there.
00:15:29
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throwing the F-bomb everywhere, you know? not Exactly. up Do you find do you do you um find it hard? I don't i mean, looking at your your social media and stuff, it doesn't seem like it, but do you find it hard at all being a clean stand-up comedian?
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No, not really. Because the stuff that's funny to me are the stories from my real life. Mm-hmm. And that's kind of authentically who I am. Like, I mean, I'm not saying that I don't ever cuss or do the wrong thing. I mean, we're all just walking around here in our flesh, right? None of us are Jesus.
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But I just, you know, I don't find it too hard because it's just stories from my life really or whatever. Yeah. Oh, no, exactly. but And, you know, life sometimes is some of the best stories come out of life. And I heard, I think it was Burt Kreischer not too long ago talking about, you know, he still does some clean sets from time to time. You know, like he'll get hired in like corporate events and stuff like that. and they're like, you know, don't, we want you to be Burt Kreischer, but, you know, we we got to obviously keep, and he was saying that he actually enjoys doing things.
00:16:46
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the clean sets a little bit more than, you know, his, his normal run of the run of mill. It's kind of a nice, nice break. So to say. Yeah. I mean, I would find it hard if I was a, not a clean comedian to flip back.
00:17:02
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Yeah. Cause it's easy to let some of those cuss words out, you know, like once you're doing it, it's just easy. So I think that's why it's not hard for me not to, because like,
00:17:14
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When I was teaching, i never, I don't think I may have let a word slip here or That gave me the the refrain from doing it because I knew I couldn't lose my job.
00:17:27
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Yeah. I can't say the same for some of the teachers I had in high school. but I mean, how many teachers want to tell those kids to sit down and shut the hell up sometime? you know Every teacher can relate to that. Yeah. guy I had some teachers that was didn't care and just said whatever was – a lot of, like, football coaches and stuff like that, but my football coach was insane. Yeah.
00:17:55
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But, no, it's just something that is just more like like you said, you know, you needed to find something. You wanted to find something that hadn't done yet. Do you want to turn this into a new career, or is you just having fun with it?
00:18:12
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ah what What comedian one went to? Yes, I'd love to. Well, you know, since I've done four theater shows, I'm like, I just, and you find your lane in comedy because I go to different places and I don't feel as comfortable doing bars because I feel like they do want you to be dirty and that's fun and and there's a place for that and here I come little Susie Q homemaker and they don't laugh. They don't think I'm funny and I'm like,
00:18:42
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what's wrong you know they thought that was funny at the church show they thought that was funny at the theater and everybody's just kind of looking at me like at the bar like when are you going to say something funnier yeah you know it's like you find your lane and so I really like doing theater shows I love working with other comedians and I'll do some local things here. I do a brewery here when I get asked to, and we're starting and we're starting to try to get some more open mics. I'm here in Virginia in the Shandell Valley.
00:19:15
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I'm right. I'm located. Good news though. I'm located right beside a national treasure. do you know what it is that we just got? What's that? A Buc-ee's.
00:19:28
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Oh, Lord, don't even get me. i i can't I can't buy into the hype. I can't, and I won't. i didn't know if you guys know. like Some places don't know what Buc-ee's are.
00:19:39
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Yeah, we're actually here in Ohio. we are I'm excited for Wawa. and I've had Wawa down in down in Florida, and i think they got great great great sandwiches and stuff like that.
00:19:55
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um And we just got Sheetz not too long. I don't know if you're familiar with Sheetz. It's Pennsylvania. It's everywhere, yes. And I had no idea what Sheetz was. They just started putting them in a few years back. And I was like, this place is fantastic. It's twenty four seven They got food twenty four seven You know, this is awesome.
00:20:12
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But ah I can't buy into the hype. I call it boosies just to irritate the people who love it. I can't buy into the hype. I've got a friend that lives out in Texas and he swears by it. But I'm like, dude.
00:20:24
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you get gas, you go buy food, and you buy a bunch of other unnecessary stuff. $200 in there. That's crazy. My last theater show was like two, three minutes from the new Buc-ee's. I had like a whole five minutes about Buc-ee's. I say it's the Disney World of convenience stores because there's a character in there you take a picture with. It's people watching like Key Hall and all the food. And then I always throw my thick chicken there. i was like, all the food. It's a thick chick's dream in there, you know? But then I say, and this is so true, if you don't leave yourself a trail of beaver nuggets, you're not going to find your way back. Nice.
00:21:11
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I probably will break down and and and i and and at least, I love me barbecue and my buddy out in Texas swears by their brisket. Yep. Probably try me a little sampling of it eventually one day, but I'm not going to, not going to get too overly excited for it.
Storytelling and Inspirations
00:21:29
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Well, you know, you say, well, where's your comedy come from?
00:21:32
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Well, let me tell you where it comes from. This is funny. I, like I said, I have a 19 year old and a 23 year old. A couple years ago, my 19 year old, he was like 18 at the time, I guess, went with his girlfriend to Hilton Head over Mother's Day. And I,
00:21:48
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Your present mom is I'm going to be gone for mother's day. I said, Oh, okay. And then, um, uh, when he got home, he gave me, he had come through a Buc-ee's and he bought me a variety sample pack of fudge.
00:22:03
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And when I opened it, he had sampled every single piece of no no he took it. Literally I'm like, Oh, thanks son.
00:22:14
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Sherry is Sherry. So I had to put that in the Bucky set because it's it's true. And when I sometimes I'll do stories on stage because I'm more of a storytelling comedian and I'll tell stories on stage. And then later people are like, was that true? I'm like, yeah, yeah, all stuffs it's pretty true.
00:22:34
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I love comedians that are great storytellers. I mean, you know, the the the jokes and the one-liners and stuff like that, that's that's a cool, fun little warm-up. But when you can tell a story, and you can tell a story good, especially you're animated or whatever, i love that in comedians, and especially when it comes from real life. Yes.
00:22:55
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Well, and that's kind of what I do. It's just like I tell stories because, i don't know, I'm not really good at the little one-liners like, You know, they talk about when you're a comedian, your laughs per minute and try to get your laughs. And it's harder to get them in when you're telling stories. But, um yeah, the Bucky set, I think everybody liked it because also I talked about, like, how that beaver's on everything. Yeah. He's on the shirt he's on shirts, hats, beach towels.
00:23:24
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They even got him on a bikini. wow yeah. ever appropriate to be walking around with a bikini with a baby girl. See, I skirt the line just a little bit.
00:23:39
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You tiptoe the line. I like it. um yeah yeah And the the girl that helps me sometimes, she's like 22, that helps me with my tutoring business and in the afternoons. She said, yeah, let's leave that beaver in the bikini.
00:23:54
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Yeah, I didn't put that in the show, but that's it. Yeah, that's funny. That was awesome. Yeah, I like that. as as ah As a habitual line crosser myself, I can appreciate somebody that sometimes dances with that line. because Yeah, well, like I said, I'm one of eight kids. There was no rule following.
00:24:16
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It was survival. When you're one of eight kids, you don't follow rules. I got to ask you, one of eight kids, where did you fall in that lineup? I am fifth.
00:24:27
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I'm the oldest of the youngest four. so yeah There's four older, and then there's a five-year gap and four younger. But get this, there's seven girls and one boy. That poor guy.
00:24:42
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That's what they say. That's what everybody says. no trust He's great. He could be a comedian himself. We love him. And he's so funny. He loves comedians. He's like, I'll go and stay with him sometime because he can cook and I'll stay and spend the night. He just got married a couple of years ago to a girl from Brazil.
00:25:02
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And the American woman couldn't put up with him. so but And so we'll stay over there and he'll stay up for hours showing me clips of different comedians and, I'm like, Joe, you could be a comedian. He's like, Susan, you're brave. I couldn't get up there and do it.
00:25:19
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that's right thank he was all He's been worried about me. He's like, Susan, I i know. I'm just worried that somebody's going to heckle you. And he knows I'm soft hearted and like it's going hurt your feelings. And like i'll I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. But I haven't been heckled. I'm waiting for somebody to yell out something like, yeah, you are fat or something because, you know, worried about it.
00:25:43
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i'm not worried about it No, exactly. but I feel for your brother. i mean, i am i am one of, i i have four sisters and I was the only boy. Wow.
00:25:54
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Yeah, so I totally understand, like, but you're being in the middle of eight kids. You were in constant fight mode and fight and survival mode. Oh, my God. It was just, that's why I think, yeah, maybe that's what made me funny is because I was always fight or flight, and my parents divorced when I was, like, 10, so you kind of grow up really fast, and had mother the the younger ones and learn how to just make food on barely any money, any budget we had and make meals out of that. But we survived.
00:26:30
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So. I totally get that too. I mean, that's what, you know, I get teased a lot because I'm, I'm very much domesticated. I cook, I clean, i hate you know, I, I do laundry and all that stuff.
00:26:45
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And, uh, You know, and then I get called a Sasquatch too by people about all my, so they, you know, but it's like, yeah, I mean, I grew up that way. I came from a broken home. You know, the one thing that, that mom taught me growing up was,
00:26:58
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if you learn anything in life, you better be able to cook at least for yourself. if not yeah That was one thing that I'm grateful my mom taught me to do is cook. And I love being in the kitchen.
00:27:09
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So it's like, i appreciate it it yeah, water. So, um,
00:27:18
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like they they'll burn water
00:27:24
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so um yeah i can't I can't imagine. you know I've watched some of your clips. I've seen some of your videos. I can't imagine you getting heckled. Really?
00:27:35
Speaker
Yeah, you like I think Scorpio said it in the chat. yeah Yeah, you just come across way too wholesome, just like this sweet little Susan up there. I got some jokes to tell y'all. And we know iset and I'm actually doing a another class to get better at the Funny Bone in Richmond, Virginia, which is about an hour and a half from me.
00:27:58
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And so the first night of class, we get up there and my husband's actually doing it too. He decided he wanted to try comedy too. I want him I want him like, first I was like, don't do this. This is my thing. Like, come on, get off of it.
00:28:14
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And so, but I'm like, yeah, maybe he'll have a new appreciation for it after he gets there and tries it. But the teacher said, the teacher is a comedian too. And he has a special on Amazon, Tim Lulai's.
00:28:28
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yeah animal And he said, everybody says the same thing about me when I've been critiqued. They're like, okay, you have a stage presence. Well, I probably gained more and more of that as I've done theater.
00:28:42
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But he's like, you just have something about you. It's real likable. we get up there You're just, you know, you're rooting for you you. just want, you're likable. And I think the audience decides in the first two or three minutes, whether they like you or not.
00:28:58
Speaker
Oh yeah. So that's important. Yeah. You definitely got to win the crowd. Especially doing what you do. And I mean, I think when you're in comedy, you're always questioning yourself. Like, am I funny enough to do this? And, but I've been to a lot of comedy now and everybody has a different sense of humor and everybody's humor. Like you said, like some people want the dirty, some people like the clean, um I've been getting hit up a lot for senior living and assistant living homes. That way in wholesome girl coming there.
00:29:37
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When I'm taking those jobs, I guess like, yeah, it's kind of a job. Like I'm excited to go in and i feel like, like I said, God's guiding this path and he's putting me where he wants me to be. So I'm here tonight because he wants me to be here, you know? in front of people so anyway just bring joy and light to somebody else is is enough no i and gas money and gas gas money absolutely we definitely need that with uh i'm sure we've all seen the gold prices lately so
00:30:12
Speaker
i i don't even look i'm like it's a necessity i have to have it i don't care what it is no i i tell you what i i work in that environment with um assisted living, nursing home, retirement village.
00:30:27
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And, you know, it's, we get musicians that come in there and I think they do have a comedian lined up and ah the residents there, they eat that stuff up. They love it.
00:30:39
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And, and, you know, from what I've seen so far that some of the people stay and chat afterwards and they just, they, I mean, they're like i like teenagers again. They get all excited because they got a concert down in the community hall. They're going to go see somebody perform and they get all dressed up. And I'm like, oh school you know, being in that environment, I never, I've never been around it before. I didn't know that they did so much and and they in the retirement villages, so to say.
00:31:06
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um But it's like a big deal for them. we got a comedian coming this afternoon. like in that I'm to go and I think I'm going to tell him, listen, y'all think I'm a comedian. I'm undercover.
00:31:20
Speaker
Don't tell my husband. I'm just here to find a sugar daddy. I'll probably have a lot of them lined up afterwards. Why don't we sign up? There's a sign up sheet in the back. We'll be holding interviews later. yes I'll take a couple that. What's your bank account look like? I need a beach house. Yeah. Oh, man.
00:31:45
Speaker
You're speaking my language now. A beach house. I just got back from the beach. So I just got back Sunday night. Yeah. we We leave next Friday morning for a Florida trip, and I i can't wait.
00:31:59
Speaker
I can't wait to... What beach is... What beach do you like in Florida? Florida. what beach do you like in florida Um, I've only been to Fort Myers. Okay.
00:32:14
Speaker
Um, where, what's, what's the beach that's over by us? We're going to Cape Coral. There's a few of them. Ah, there, there's there's one down. We're going down to Cape Coral. But, um, yeah, I've only, I've only been the Fort Myers Beach. It was nice.
00:32:29
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Um, I lived down in Charleston, South Carolina for about 10 years and I loved our beaches there. Yeah. Um, and uh hilton head's got a nice beach i snuck down yeah i snuck down to get to as many beaches as possible so yes any producers out there that want barbie to come
00:32:59
Speaker
No, that's what I told you. I can't wait to get back down south. I can't wait to live on the coast as i I told you. I was seven years left on my sentence, and I think I might have freaked you out a little bit. Like, oh, God, this guy's doing a podcast for a person. I seriously said to my husband, I said, hey, do they let prisoners do podcasts? I was like, I don't know this guy.
00:33:28
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why a minute i just Just Ohio. It feels like prison sometimes, but it's just Ohio. but I'm blind. I believe that.
00:33:39
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it object Well, you know, Ohio for some reason has a big comedy hub.
Networking & Creative Process
00:33:46
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It's starting to really come up. ah The Cincinnati, Cleveland scene at Columbus has always had the funny bone.
00:33:52
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um I love going to the funny bone down in Columbus. When I get a chance to um But, ah yeah, I've noticed in the last couple few years, like, more and more comedians are coming through Columbus. I know um one of the big ones right now is Matt Reif.
00:34:09
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He's from Columbus. He was born and raised in Columbus. oh um So, yeah, it's and I ain't mad at it because I love comedy, and, you know if I can get out and see more of it, I'm all for it Have you ever heard of the comedian comedian Adam Minnick?
00:34:26
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. I think I've, I think I've come across him on YouTube. So I'm working with him a little bit, maybe this summer. So he would be a headliner. I'll be an opener or feature for him. Possibly we're working on some stuff.
00:34:40
Speaker
So he's from Cincinnati area. um I got connected into one of the best things I've done since I've gotten started. Well, there's a couple of things that I've done. You know, when you're, you're new, you're like, you don't know how to get going.
00:34:55
Speaker
how to propel. So I've got that, the sellout show really helped me a lot. And then had, I went with Tony and I opened for him in New Jersey and that was pretty cool to go somewhere totally different in a theater up there where no one knew me.
00:35:12
Speaker
And that show went pretty well. um But i did a logo and a website. And from there and then I started because I wanted to do merch. Like early on, I was like, I'm going to do shirts like thick thighs and blue eyes and yeah all this sort of stuff.
00:35:29
Speaker
so I did my logo. i did merch. I did a website. But um then also like, so I kind lost my, my son came out. lost my train thought, but that, that helped me. But the other thing that helped me so much is after I did my website and put my electronic press kit in my website, I applied to the clean comedy collective.
00:35:54
Speaker
don't know if you've heard of that. It's a group out of Nashville hu and they um drew Davis and he has another, founder with him. They started this group of clean kind comedians all over the U S and you have to meet certain criteria to get into it. And so I got accepted. And so I've made some really good connections because other comedians will help you or they'll put you on a show or they'll say, will you come with me to do this show? And so I've had some people I've talked to through the clean comedy collective that clean comedians are harder to find.
00:36:33
Speaker
e And when you have that seal, you have to put, once you get into the group, you have to put the little um emblem or their logo in your embedded into your website. So people will know that you're a clean comedian. And what I heard after that is clean as green.
00:36:52
Speaker
If you're clean, you you get more work, which I don't know if that's true or not, but you can get more like corporate jobs and theater jobs and things like that.
00:37:03
Speaker
Yeah, it really kind of locks in your targeted area. It sounds like, you know, where you you know where where you can perform and whatnot, where you would prefer to perform and stuff like that. um these your and And for those places, you know, a lot of those, you know, big companies and stuff, if they want to get in a comedian, and it's, oh, I can just go to this website right here, and here's a list of all the clean comedians, and I don't have to really that much work. yeah
00:37:34
Speaker
Well, the girl that found me today, she booked me for her senior living community. She said, I just i just asked ChatGPT. And I was like, great.
00:37:47
Speaker
ChatGPT, now it's like my therapist, my lawyer, my dietician, my plastic surgeon. it's my booking agent. love it.
00:37:58
Speaker
i love it ah Chat beat, chat GP. I'm sorry, chat GPT. I got to give you a name because I just disrespect you all day. I can never get its name right. Has become my, but has become my best friend. I know.
00:38:12
Speaker
All my logos, thumbnails, everything for shows, um random conversation that I want to have. Yeah.
00:38:23
Speaker
And and it's it's crazy because, you know, being AI, the chat GPT kind of gets to know your personality. It does. And, you know, me and my chat GPT have a tendency to talk smack back and forth to each other from time to time. It's so weird how it knows you. And, like, well, today the the lady at the living, senior living, she said, well, what can I want to make a flyer.
00:38:49
Speaker
you want me to put fat lives matter? And I said, no, because I'm not going to go do the whole fat lives matter. I'm going to do some other stuff. I'll do like, I've got a lot of, to be new, I've got a lot of material.
00:39:01
Speaker
um Now I could do my marriage stuff, my boy, mom stuff, my teacher stuff. You know, I've got a story, a but true story about after I lost 80 pounds one time, I was asked to go on a horseback riding trail with one of my students. And I did.
00:39:18
Speaker
And I'm in the middle of the pack and the horse falls down with me on it. Oh no. only time. And I'm like, Oh, I'm 80. I lost 80 pounds. I won't kill this horse.
00:39:30
Speaker
And I said, you ladies, that's the goal. Not to run a marathon, not to get into that beaver bikini, just not to just not to be a livestock liability. And sure enough, I was a livestock liability.
00:39:46
Speaker
But I might do that sort of anyway. I told her, I said, um no. So I asked chat GPT. It's like, what's a good show name? That's different than fat lives matter. And kept giving me names until I found, you know, what I wanted. It's like, so we named it um clean curvy comedy.
00:40:05
Speaker
like I like that too. I like that too. That might be, but I kid my sisters and I say, guys, I got three tours set up. I've got fat lives matter matter, thick thighs and blue eyes and skinny ain't worth it. Those are my three tours.
00:40:21
Speaker
ah there's a There's a theme there. I can't quite put my finger on it. Well, everybody's trying to get skinny with the GLP one shots. Yeah. And i talk I make fun of the GLP shots because I've done them.
00:40:36
Speaker
And I know how dang miserable you are when you're shooting up. You're miserable. Yeah. but well no thatt i i' I just, I'm just much like yourself. I've just, I've always been a big guy I've just, ah look, this is how it's going to be. You know, i I've been that guy where you know, I spent six days for two or three hours a day in the gym and yeah I lost weight, but I was still a big guy. What the hell? So yeah, I get that. I love that you just kind of embraced it and owned it. And now you've,
00:41:11
Speaker
you're You're kind of beginning a new career with it. and now People say to me, Susan, if you lose weight, what will you do with your comedy? I'm like, I've got other stuff too, guys. but i was goingnna ask you But I will tell you, i would love for some more. People need to hear the whole Fat Lives Matter show. And I would love to get into some more theaters.
00:41:36
Speaker
If anybody's listening, I can do 35 to 40 minutes on stage and it's so relatable. And like people will come up to me and tell me what they liked about it. Like, oh, that is so true. Like I talk about like how you go to the restaurant, you have to stuff yourself in the booth and you're so worried like in the booth, you're like, if you just called and asked if the booths would budge a little bit, you know, would be jammed in here with your fat friends. You would ask your skinny friends to come along. You know, cause you could can't move the booth if you're both big people here. and um
00:42:10
Speaker
then I talk about how your bra is your doggy bag for the night. and you If you had known your bra was going to be the doggy bag, you'd have worn the one with the bigger cubs. And so anyway, people are like, that's so true, like different things. And it's really relatable.
00:42:24
Speaker
And so what I would love for some more people to hear it because it's funny because it's real. It's real life. Mm hmm. No, and I think, so like I said earlier, that's sometimes that's the best comedy is is real life.
00:42:39
Speaker
And i was goingnna I was going to ask you, but you kind of you kind of just already answered that right off the right out the gate, you know, about writing and if it's hard. But, I mean, you did one 10-minute thing and then, bang, here here's almost an hour's worth for you. Yeah, really, I know. um Well, in this new class I'm doing at the Funny Bone, because we think, you know, you hear the Funny Bone and you're like, wow.
00:43:03
Speaker
And yeah, I'm paying for the class, but I get a show at the end. So I've got a website. I'm like, Hey, I get to put on my website. I'm at the funny bone, you know, so at this class, I told the guy, I was transparent, the teacher. I'm like, listen, I've done some comedy. Cause everybody else has not done comedy.
00:43:20
Speaker
And I'm like, I've done comedy. and you know, I've got a website. I got a logo, like all this stuff. I said, but I want to get better. i mean, if you're, if you're real and you're dedicated and you love it, you just want to try to get better. And they say getting up and doing reps and being on stage is the best way to get better.
00:43:39
Speaker
So he told me, he said, okay, that's fine that you've done comedy, but you can't use any of your other material you've used before. though he's stretching me to write and it's good because each week he gives us like five topics and we pick three to write on. And so far I've been able to come up with It's all real life, you know.
00:44:02
Speaker
Yeah. and and And, you know, that keeps you from getting ah the quote unquote blinders on. Like, okay, I've got this. I've got these three sets and they work. So I'm not going to change them, you know. And then.
00:44:13
Speaker
That way you you're able to go back to some of these places and you know people want to come back and they want to see something different. They know't they don't want to see the... eye Especially if you're a local comedian. Like my show that was 385 and then I had a show last Friday or two Fridays ago, March the 6th. It was only like maybe 30 minutes away from the last show.
00:44:35
Speaker
And I didn't have as many people come out. We still had over a hundred people, I think at the theater, but I think it's because people saw me in January, they're thinking, oh, I saw that.
Crafting and Performing Comedy
00:44:47
Speaker
yeah I saw her show and i'm like, no, but every, like, there's a piece of Fat Lives Matter in most of my stuff. but And that's what the the household names do, too. I mean, you'll hear their stuff like embedded, and you're like, oh, i love... But you know you think you're like, oh people are like, oh, they've heard this. But now you like you you jab your friend or whoever you're with, like, oh, this is good. I've heard this one. yeah you i You want to hear it again.
00:45:13
Speaker
yeah and and and all the big name ones, they have their... It's it's like going to see... you know if if If I go see you know the Eagles, of course you want to hear the hits.
00:45:24
Speaker
But... They're like, oh, hey, you know, by the way, we just bought out a new album last year. Well, i want to hear the new stuff, but give me the classic stuff as well, you know? Right. yeah I'm not here for just the new stuff.
00:45:37
Speaker
So I'm always like trying to get new stuff and there's, there's things that I haven't done. Like I say, I'm always like, is this too edgy to do? Because I'll have private parties and I'll do a little bit of edgy at a private party or something.
00:45:52
Speaker
So I did my friend's private party ah back when I first started and I wrote a set about going to have a breast lift consultation and that's got some stuff that would be edgy for like a church or maybe even a theater.
00:46:07
Speaker
But it would probably work in a bar or it would work in all women's comedy club. Like there's a group of women that they're doing a all women's show that I may be able to help, you know, get on the set that would work with a ladies laugh lounge type thing.
00:46:23
Speaker
So there's stuff that I still haven't done that I would love to try. And sometimes then they're like, well, you've got to try material before you put it out on stage.
00:46:33
Speaker
Sometimes you just throw something out there and see how it lands. You know, I am a, I am a big fan of, ah let's just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. yeah am ah I am a very big fan of that. That's how I spend most of my life. Yeah. Just go with the flow.
00:46:52
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I, you know, ripped from Yellowstone. he had that line. was like, effortff yeah, there's like, e really?
00:47:04
Speaker
He's like, yep. and i that Well, I was always so planned and prepared. I think one more because of my teacher background and everything and a mom being a mom.
00:47:16
Speaker
But once I almost died, it changes your perspective of life and like, you know, live, go for it, go do it, go have, you know, you don't know how much time we have left here.
00:47:28
Speaker
Just go do it. So that's what I'm kind of like, people are like, wow, do you get nervous? Like that's one of the number one questions I'll get like coming off a stage and I'll talk to people in the lobby they'll say, how do you do that? Do you get nervous? And I'm like, yeah, I get nervous, but it's not going stop me from doing it.
00:47:48
Speaker
Exactly. you it's If you're doing something you really enjoy and something you love, you know you'll push back the nerve. I mean, I've been doing this stuff for the last few years now, and ah especially shows where I have guests on, I still get nervous every show. I sit here with my legs going 100 miles an hour under my desk. Yeah.
00:48:09
Speaker
But, you know, i' I've been very fortunate and very lucky in the guests that I've had that I haven't had a bad guest yet. You know, it was like, I kind of want one at one point just so I can have the experience. But at the same time, I'm like, you know, i don't think many people in my situation could say what I've seen, you know, say to that.
00:48:30
Speaker
Right. You don't want that. I know. the Yeah, the nerves are the nerves are good. They're good nerves at the end of the day. and and you know like you said about you know You want to do a good job.
00:48:42
Speaker
And like you said, you had that near-death experience. you know That absolutely 100% changes your mindset because it's like does all the things I want to do i could have never done. Now, sp screw it. I'm doing it.
00:48:58
Speaker
I wish I could change my husband's mindset. I don't know how we could give him and he's had near death too like he almost died from covet but i'm like let's lose of the pocket buckle it let loose of the money yeah come on come on up in the he said i'm gonna stop taking you to the beach because every time we go you start looking at beach houses in different places like why can't we get a beach condo i'm like i'm not selfish i just want a beach condo and i didn't even take one-bedroom condo i mean
00:49:30
Speaker
Yeah, the kids are grown. You don't need a lot of room now, you know. And I'll share. I'll rent it out to other people. Yeah. Then I'll s flip it and get a bigger one. That's my dream, you know.
00:49:41
Speaker
I tease my kids all the time. You know, once once my son turns 18 and I go back down south, I'm getting a one-bedroom apartment or a shanty on the beach, and that way you guys can't come stay. I don't have room. You can't come back home. You can come visit, but you got to get a hotel. Oh, yeah.
00:50:02
Speaker
They're like, shut up, dad. You know that's not going to happen. I'm like, well, in the summer, i don't come out of the sun. I don't think God would have given me this kind of skin if I wasn't supposed to be at the beach or living at the beach. Because I've got really good skin. I get really tan really quick.
00:50:17
Speaker
I'm really lucky because if I had all this and it was pasty white, I'd be so depressed. but okay Right? Scorpio, at least if it's tan, it's prettier.
00:50:29
Speaker
yeah said Yeah. So I just think that I was supposed to be at the beach because God gave me the skin. Either a beach or on a yacht is a trophy white. One of the two.
00:50:43
Speaker
Yeah, I've often thought about being a trophy husband before. husband says that I am a trophy wife. I'm just participation trophy. He thinks he's funny too. That's why he wants to do comedy.
00:51:03
Speaker
But he's only funny because he picks on me. You've got to have a starting point, you know? yeah ah oops My girlfriend tells everybody that she has a Squatch. So she was moving in a couple weeks ago and I'm just out there picking up couches by myself and swinging them around. And she was like, Hey, that's my Squatch. He has it. ah at least something And you can cook.
00:51:33
Speaker
Yeah. to stay in Yeah. I can cook and move things. No, no, now Um, we, you kind of mentioned earlier, like the open mics and stuff. Do you enjoy going to open mics? No,
00:51:48
Speaker
but you are the first comedian that are going to open mics because that's where you, you know, that's where you try your new material. And what I just, I have a group of comedians here that I go, we have a group in one of their houses and they call it basement comics.
00:52:08
Speaker
That I don't mind because we're all comedians, but I need to go. We're starting another open mic here where we are because it's not like New York or New Jersey or Boston where you have like place after place. like One of my friends is a comedian in New York and she's always like, oh, you should come up. She goes to open mics all the time and she has those opportunities.
00:52:30
Speaker
We don't have those opportunities. so I'm going to push myself to go more And it's really usually, there is one here in town, but it's usually a really dirty, like it's really dirty comedy.
00:52:45
Speaker
e And so when I get up there again, that's probably why I don't like it. Cause when I get up there, i look like Susie Q homemaker and everybody thinks I'm funny.
00:52:57
Speaker
Yeah. You're the, ah you're definitely the odd ball out. You know, somebody up there doing some kind of raunchy joke and, And then you come up and you're just like, do, do, do, you know?
00:53:08
Speaker
What is it what does this lady doing? What are you talking about? Yeah. I mean, they they laugh at some of my stuff. They do laugh, but I always feel like they're not going to like me. So I get in my own head.
00:53:21
Speaker
yeah you know If you get in your own head, you ruin yourself. yeah yeah yep We are our own worst enemies and our own worst critics. yeah i had to I had to stop watching ah replays of the shows because I watch and I'm like, oh, why did I say that? Oh, why didn't I say it And then the next show, all that's in my head.
00:53:44
Speaker
And then I find myself, you know, getting derailed or fumbling or stumbling around and just making it even worse. I was like, nope. I want to, it's a live show.
00:53:55
Speaker
Whatever happens, happens at the end of the day. If people are watching it and they enjoy it, that's all that matters. And that's how comedy is. It's live. You're up there live. And if you forget, like right before every time I go on the stage, I'm like, well, what if I forget what comes next? Like, I know my set, I know my material. And when you know it, you don't get as nervous, but I always start psyching myself out. Like, what if I forget something? But the only person that knows your material really is you.
00:54:22
Speaker
And so, yeah. And that is hard, too, to watch yourself back. Like, it's a necessary evil. You have to. you have to watch yourself back to get better and be like, okay, i wish.
00:54:34
Speaker
But that's hard for me. I don't like watching myself back. Yeah, exactly. that's that's that That's one of the great things about the opportunities for the open mics for you guys. And I mean, as a as a fan of comedy, I'm not a comedian in no way, shape, or form. um You know, you get to see you guys in almost your realest, rawest form if you go to those shows because you're some some are out there still learning their stage presence, trying to figure out who they are, where they're going as a comedian. I think we all are. I think we all are, like,
00:55:07
Speaker
you will change. Even the greats like change. they you know You change your your style or a joke. or you know you're You're always doing something different.
00:55:19
Speaker
That's how I feel. Yeah, exactly. um yeah i've I've got a very good friend of mine down in Florida. has become like the new like Tampa has become like the new New York and California comedy.
00:55:33
Speaker
And it seems like every night they've got an open mic somewhere in that Tampa area. right and and And he's like, I love it because he's a little bit of a loose cannon anyways.
00:55:47
Speaker
And he he says some of the most crazy stuff. But he's like, I love it because I can go be crazy. And if I find a couple of folks that land, then I can save them. And if they don't, then, oh, well, there's like 10 people there that I may never see again. Right. Exactly. True.
00:56:04
Speaker
It's like if you take your best jokes, like that's how you find out if it's funny, but truly sometime you'll think something's really good and it'll work somewhere and then it won't work somewhere. so so yeah It depends on your audience every time.
00:56:18
Speaker
the It really does. Yeah. Just, you know, that comes down to the, everybody's, everybody's different. You know what I might find funny, you know,
00:56:30
Speaker
My girlfriend might not find funny, you know, vice versa. So yeah, it's kind of finding that happy medium of knowing what works and and even areas. I mean, you could kill in Virginia and then you,
00:56:42
Speaker
go to Iowa and they're like, oh yeah, we get it. You're fat. oh yeah tired like yourself like Okay, do something else. you Yeah, everybody's corn fed out there. they like Yeah, we're all fat here in Iowa. We get it.
00:56:57
Speaker
That's how I was really worried about New Jersey because it's like, they might not understand me. And like, so... When i I open, like when I do a theater, if I'm somewhere totally different, I open differently with what I say. And I say, you guys might not think we're very woke in the South, but we are because we say y'all and y'all covers all the pronouns. It covers he, she, him, her, they, me, it. Whoever you want to be today, tomorrow, next Friday, we got you covered. and Exactly. Not going to hurt anybody's feelings with that one. so far
00:57:36
Speaker
So far, fingers crossed. well yeah they i was like, oh they like that. but and I was like, are they going to understand me? Because I'm so Southern. and i said, we say bless your heart. We say it a lot. you know I had to do a little bit of interpretation before I started my set.
00:57:54
Speaker
of things I'll say, but you know, that they don't say up there. so yeah ah but ah when I left, I left the theater and we went to a restaurant there. The restaurant was near the theater and there were some people that were at the show. And when I was leaving the restaurant, they started clapping and they're like, yay. And they're like, wait, you did so good. And these women were talking to me and they're like,
00:58:19
Speaker
Oh, we loved it. Like women really relate. They really like it. And um they say, well, you're brave to get up there and talk about the stuff that a lot of people wouldn't talk about, like not being able to click your seatbelt on the airplane.
00:58:33
Speaker
That's really bad. And so they're like, you've got to keep doing it. And I said, okay, I hear you. You know, because sometimes I'm getting ready for a show I'm like, I'm 52, I'm 53 now, turned 53. why am I running around all over the place doing this? I could be sitting on my couch, watching Netflix. And, you know, again, like I said, feel like the Lord gave me a platform. And I do like when I leave the stage, I say, I'd like to give God the glory for this tonight. Cause Jesus saved my life two years ago. Jesus saved me twice. And that's how I walk off the stage.
00:59:07
Speaker
And they kind of asked me about that. And it gives me away. These are two people I wouldn't have been able to share with if I had sat on my couch that night. No, no and and I love the fact that, you know,
00:59:23
Speaker
any more, and I won't say all women in comedy, but you see a lot of women in comedy that are almost trying too hard and they try to keep up with a man or men or whatever, which, and sometimes they're unnecessarily too vulgar.
00:59:42
Speaker
Yes. i And it and it it loses that, like, you know ah you know, being vulgar is one thing, but when you just are just really getting after it, it's not funny anymore. It's just kind of gross.
00:59:55
Speaker
And it's also kind of sad because there are some women in comedy that I think are freaking hilarious. But then you go see them at live or something. It's just like, oh, this is this is terrible.
01:00:07
Speaker
but Like, why did I just spend my money? but ah like Okay, so like and that's the case. like I went to see Leanne Morgan and you never think she's bad. and she's clean She's always funny because she's just funny. it's just her person She's just being who she is.
01:00:26
Speaker
She's not trying too hard. and so When you're new at this, people will say to you, oh Susan, you sound too rehearsed or you sound too you're you're doing too much theatrical or Then I'd have somebody say, you've got to be more theatrical. and I'm like, wait a minute. This person's telling me this. This person's telling me that. I'm like, you know what, Susan? Just go be you.
01:00:48
Speaker
yeah Don't listen to all the voices because I'm going to be who I am. And what I've heard is Susan, you're really likable. So that's what I'm going to keep doing, you know? Absolutely.
01:01:02
Speaker
i think I think when people are true to themselves on stage, it adds an extra element and and and it adds an extra, you know, it's going to want you it's goingnna make you want to go back and see them again.
01:01:14
Speaker
Yes. You know, when they're real or they're genuine, you can almost tell when somebody's trying too hard or not being themselves.
Authenticity and Positivity
01:01:22
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And I was going to add, are you very animated on stage? Are you very, like, at all? are I think I'm somewhere in the middle. Like,
01:01:31
Speaker
And like even our new, our teacher at the funny bone, he said, you don't have to get up there. Like he was talking to somebody else. He said, you don't have to get up there and do all that dancing, and sing around. And I'll sing, like I'll sing a lyric or so in a song and some, some of my stuff, because I just do, I'll sing and dance a little bit, but I'm like somewhere in the middle. I'm not,
01:01:53
Speaker
I think in my normal day conversation, people tell me, Susan, you're pretty animated because have one of my, one of my friends does facials and she's an aesthetics. And i said, man, I like a little Botox up here and around my eyes.
01:02:08
Speaker
Well, you can probably do a little bit, but don't do too much because you're, you're animated. And you want to take that animation away when you're talking. But I'm like, okay, i could do a little bit. That's why I would say to ChatGPG, hey, show me what I'd look like with a little bit of Botox. And I'm really? And I'll say, really, would I look that good?
01:02:36
Speaker
ChatGPG would never lie to you. And my husband's so against it. He gets so mad when I was like, so I'm like, look, look what I'd look like. He's like, I'm not even going to look at it.
01:02:50
Speaker
He's only against it because it costs money. Right. Yeah. I i always, i you know, I should try that with chat GPT. What would I look like if I was all muscle? And yeah but I always argue with it because it's like,
01:03:06
Speaker
My beard's not long enough. It doesn't have enough gray in it. They don't look like me. Do it right, ChatGPT. Oh, this is crazy. I mean, ChatGPT, people will say, su's light if I get bored at night, houses and I hate because I don't pay for it. I'm not going to pay. the And they'll say, you've met your limit. You cannot do any more images until tomorrow at whatever. And then it comes back in and it says, it gives me a notification. Okay, we can do more. ChatGPT. But um I'm thinking if they had chat GPT 24, 25 years ago. Okay. When I was pregnant with my oldest son, my face was paralyzed on one side. I had Bell's palsy.
01:03:49
Speaker
I'm like, I could have said, he's on my nerves since before he was born. But like I could have saved myself the trouble of pregnancy, Bell's palsy, stretch marks if I don't have chat GPT. Because I said, we don't have any girls. So i said to it I took a picture of me and my husband together and I said, what would our teenage daughter look like? Isn't that creepy? And so it showed me and I'm like, oh, I could have just said we had a baby, like put pictures of myself out pregnant, walked around with a fake pregnancy belly on, had this fake baby and oh, I can't bring her. She's sick.
01:04:26
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Oh, I sent her away to boarding school. oh You know, i could have had this whole child that didn't exist if I had chat GPT. for whole nother life. A whole nother life. that yeah another lie good see chest v t you could You could have your beach life right now. you know at least really everybody would think you had this big beach house.
01:04:50
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Much as she puts on Facebook. You don't know what's real on Facebook anymore. you just know you don't. No, that's that's the thing, man. People's lives on Facebook are so much better than what they really are. yeah so It's so funny this winter. Well, this summer, when I first started comedy, one of my good friends is a photographer and she's like, OK, Susan, we're going to go do a photo shoot because I needed headshots and stuff.
01:05:16
Speaker
So i was like, okay, we did this hot. My colors are like the hot pink or whatever that I keep doing. And so we did it, did the pictures. And then she's like, we're going to do it in your bathing suit. Cause I have the whole, I name all my sets and the ones called, if you can't tone it, you just tan it.
01:05:33
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And so the whole pool set about coming out in your bathing suit on the, on the pool deck. And so she said, you're to take a picture in your, I've got these pictures in my hot pink bathing suit.
01:05:45
Speaker
i don't know there's a couple that i've put out there like of me in the float yeah with the flamingo float but and so then this winter i did um a picture on a ah of me laying in the snow on my stomach and like flannel pajamas well everybody thought it was real it really did look like me but everybody's like when did you because we had just had snow yeah when did you go get pictures like they think because i did the summer layout yeah they layout i was like that's not real she's big time celebrity everybody that was sitting under the comments like oh that looks so good oh those are so good oh susan you're so pretty i'm like thanks thanks you them
01:06:35
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Yeah, I've been, I really got to try that now. I've never once thought about like, hey, chat GPT, what would I look like? I'm going to post that on social media be like, yeah, I've been working out. That's night tonight, go and chat GPT. What would I look like? No, it's so bad because I'll say, okay, what would I look like if I lost 40 pounds? I'm like, not getting crazy I'm like, 40 pounds? It'll show me a picture. like, that's not 40 pounds. That's like 80 pounds. I said, we get, we get some cold weather here Virginia. said, we should do that. Like we should put ourselves out there like in October of our like really good chat GPT photo where we look like we've lost like 50 pounds.
01:07:17
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And then we come out, like when we come out and like in April or May, like, man, it was a hard winter. Yeah.
01:07:27
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yeah I had to put my insulation back on. It was cold. i got that's my Girl Scout cookies didn't work this year. yeah They weren't making me thinner. Right. Exactly. What's up, truck? Yeah, no. Um,
01:07:43
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We were talking a little bit, and I seen on your on your social media, you've kind of become a little bit of ah a local ah um that yeah a local celebrity in your area.
01:07:55
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I'm trying. I'm trying. I had two appearances on the news. But it was like the news did a really good job. They spun it as, and it was true. Like lady take, she, she goes, dives into life after she almost died and try something new. And so that was really, you know, how they, it's, it's really about getting my story behind I'm starting comedy out there so late, you know, ever too late. Just try something new. It's not. Yeah.
01:08:25
Speaker
Yeah, and exactly. It's one of them feel-good pieces. One of those... It was Feel Good Friday. That's what it was. Nice. That's awesome. That's that's awesome. No, I mean, you know, like with what you... The sets that you do and stuff, and like you said earlier, you know, it god women got to lose their mind for for that, to see somebody that's real. You know, you're you're you're older, so it's like you're not trying to be... You know, you're not...
01:08:56
Speaker
You're just like, oh, screw it. This is me. yeah I won't say a cuss word. It feels so damn good not to be like oh funny mouth but not to be like, oh, you know, in their days, like my husband will tell you, I'm not like this all the time. Like, oh, I wish I was skinnier. You know, still do that to myself. Oh, I wish I was prettier. You know, I think we do that to ourselves. Men don't do that. Like, I don't think they do.
01:09:22
Speaker
But women, you'd be surprised. You'd be surprised. Some of us do. Yeah. But also, but also yeah we get over it real quick because we could just throw on a pair sweatpants and a T-shirt and i and a backwards ball cap and walk out of the house and go, are you doing good today?
01:09:40
Speaker
That's right. But it does feel good just to be like authentically who I am, you know? And and and they can they can relate to that. and they can and and And in some ways, look up to you and go, hey, she's doing her thing.
01:09:53
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don't got to kill myself in the gym or shoot myself up. and you know Like you said, it was epic and you know whatever else. you know these These medicines were designed for a purpose and it wasn't to lose weight. No. What are we doing? Nobody knows what we're doing to ourselves.
01:10:10
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No. Stop shooting up if you don't have to. You know?
01:10:16
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Yeah, no, just yeah try to go ahead try try to live right. Try to eat right. You don't have to be 85 pounds to be, I mean, that's not healthy at all in my opinion, but you know, what do I know?
01:10:30
Speaker
Well, that's what I say too in my set, like in the eighties, like it it was so bad. Like you, I mean, that's why we, the women today have this in their brain because of the eighties, it was so bad. Like,
01:10:44
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Oh, you're fat if you're not 110 pounds. And so we get that in our head as we grow up. We put these lies. We tell these lies to ourself and we keep going through life. But that's what I always tell my girlfriends. I'm like, listen, at some point it changed. And I realized it changed when I started driving for the gal who was visually impaired. She's absolutely, she's one of my best friends now. and love her. She's just,
01:11:14
Speaker
um she's twenty She was 25 when I started working with her, but she is so wise beyond her years because she grew up with this disability. but she still has a master's degree. Her mom died when she was eight months old. So she just really helped me a lot. Although she was so much younger than me. Like, Suze, do you know how great you are? Do you know how beautiful you are? Like she just fed that into me after I had been living in an all boy house. Oh my God. had been beating down.
01:11:46
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And she kept me up. but she she was not a, you know, she's not a stick skinny girl, but she's gorgeous. She owned it.
01:11:57
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And she would walk out in her little tight jeans with her crop top and go out. And she was just, I mean, and I would tell you, she was visually impaired. So she didn't know when i would be like her wing woman um before she was married. I was like, girl,
01:12:13
Speaker
all these men are looking at you and they and you know like hey guys like thick chicks yeah yeah great news we really do yes ladies we really do they don't let them lie to you so i say that in my set i say well in the 80s it was called fat And that was mean. And then it went to full figured. It's like what we started, we called it and then we called it plus, but plus what? Plus an extra plate of the all you can eat buffet. And then I say, and I don't know a few years ago or who I have to thank for this, whether it was Sir Mix-a-Lot who wrote, don't like Big Bucks. That's why say it.
01:12:58
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Or it was Kardashians or perhaps it was Meghan Trainor who fled the fat camp. But before she did, she sang, it's all about that bass. Because I loved her because she was owning it.
01:13:10
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And then she left. And then I said, I woke up a few years ago and they started calling all of this thick and curvy. And I was like, that just sounds so sexy. So that's why i like, you know, put the shirts, all of my shirts have the thick and curvy girl on it.
01:13:28
Speaker
so yeah well i' ah you know Being a big guy, I've always been a fan of the thick and curvy, I guess you could say. hey Because i like I like to eat, damn it. I don't want to go out with somebody who's afraid to eat. like don You don't want to be with a girl who's hungry and grumpy and really bitchy. I mean, you just don't. believe yeah exactly Where's the fun in that? you always You're always hangry. What's wrong with you? Oh, yeah.
01:13:59
Speaker
Eat a cheeseburger. Always hungry. I'm like, eat, honey. I went to the beach with a couple of years ago with my two of my sisters. One just never ate. And the other one, would drink. The one would drink protein shake shakes and never eat. The other one would just constantly run. I'm like, I'm with the wrong sisters. I'm mad and I'm hungry.
01:14:20
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Yeah.
01:14:23
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You guys go do whatever you're doing. I'm going to be at the... I'm going to be... i made Good thing I made my chicken salad and brought my wheat beans and I was eating that. I was like... Like I say, skinny ain't worth it. It's not worth it.
01:14:40
Speaker
It's too much of a hassle. Who wants to go through life? angry and and i like to say Like some women look like, i didn't know like women are like Susan, you're brave, but there is, we have a pool in our neighborhood. And when I got out of the hospital, one of my best friends in the neighborhood brought me a shirt that said, you're going to be at the pool this summer. Don't worry, you're getting better. And she brought me a shirt that said the mayor of poolsville because I'm always down there. And um so that, that year, the or like there's the same people that come that I know from the neighborhood,
01:15:12
Speaker
And then this year, one of the girls came up to me and she's a thick chick too. And she said, you know, you always wear your bathing suits without the skirt on them.
01:15:22
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And I thought, you know what? Susan looks good in those bathing suits. I'm going to wear a normal bathing suit too. and like yeah And she's come to like almost all my shows and bought the shirts. And I'm like, who cares?
01:15:37
Speaker
Wear whatever bathing suit you want. Yeah, absolutely. And just to be comfortable in your own skin. Own it. Like you said, just own it. it You think everybody's looking at you? No, they don't care.
01:15:49
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Exactly, they got their own problems. ah i let's remember I was so brave to wear a bathing suit with the middle cut out a little bit.
01:16:01
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And so I said, I say like, I have all the bathing suits and I say, I even have one with a tummy cut out, just like Winnie the Pooh. reach for honeys And everybody always laughs at that. But then I say, but unlike Winnie y'all, I do wear my bottoms.
01:16:20
Speaker
Yeah. okay Because all the cartoon characters that we have our kids looking up to, if you think about it, they don't wear pants.
01:16:32
Speaker
there's ah There's a whole thing called and called Porky Pigging, and that's where you wear just a t-shirt and no pants. I mean, whether you have boxers or underwear or whatever underneath it or nothing at all, whatever your choice is.
01:16:44
Speaker
But if you just have the t-shirt on, that's that's a saying that, you know, ah you're Porky Pigging. Oh, I know that. That's great. I have to use that. we we joke We joke all the time about I don't wear pants when I do this show. I do wear pants, I promise you. but But we joke that I'm like, yeah, I do this show pantless. Every show I do, I have no pants on. I said to you today, was like, hey, can you you're going to be able to see me because I got to put some makeup on. Because when I work, I teach here at my house. And yeah honestly, since we got home from the beach Sunday, like i have not been out of this house since Sunday even. Wow.
01:17:21
Speaker
i got to go tell you I wanted to tell you, don't worry about it. you You'll be beside me. You don't have to worry about anything. um But then i was like, i better not do that because she already thinks I'm in prison. so but yeah Waiting for my cellmate to stick his head over here on the camera. What's up?
01:17:41
Speaker
Are you sure? Wait a minute. I promise I'm in my own house. Trust me, I've seen enough TV and movies that of have steered me clear of prison.
01:17:52
Speaker
yeah I'm far too pretty for prison. I know. You wouldn't survive. I wouldn't survive. I don't look good at orange at all. So I would not survive. Can I get a pink jumpsuit, please?
01:18:08
Speaker
Well, you know, i I have raised two boys and there were some days that two hots and a cot might have been better than what I was going through. You know what? Kids in general. Yeah, I got three of them myself. but Trust me. yeah I have woken up some days and been, man.
01:18:24
Speaker
Even just for the weekend, what can I do to go spend the weekend in county? you know It's not too bad. It's probably pretty easy to to do a weekend just to just to get away or Baker Act myself or something just so I can get a little mini vacation. Well, they do bring you food. I mean, that's better than what i got. Nobody's bringing me food.
01:18:45
Speaker
right Meals. It might not might not be that bad. Yeah, exactly. Might not be a bad gig at all. Well, um my husband, somebody asked us one time, how what was our secret? Because we've been together for 36 years because we were high school sweethearts, but we've been married for 26 years.
01:19:07
Speaker
And somebody said, what's your secret? And he said, there's no secret. We're both just terrified of the death penalty in the state of Virginia. Right. You can have that one. I have a marriage set and I don't have it in there. I was like, you can have that one.
Comedy and Marriage Dynamics
01:19:28
Speaker
Speaking of your husband, if he does decide to pursue the comedy, if it's something that he enjoys, would that be something that you guys would try to do together and sell it as a husband and wife thing? Or were you be like, no, you do your own shows. as my But that's what the teacher told us in class. It's fine that y'all are both doing this, but I don't want anybody to know y'all are married. Of course, that's stupid because a lot of our friends will be there.
01:19:54
Speaker
But when you do it, you know, don't. But there's a group, the people I took the class under, they're a husband and wife team and he'll host a lot of times. He said, well, i wanted to i want to do a host thing for you. So he's like, if we rent a theater, I could host it.
01:20:10
Speaker
We know enough comedians. We could do our own show. And I'm like, no when I'm on the stage, I don't want i don't want you out on stage. Okay, maybe. We'll see. We'll see how he does in class.
01:20:21
Speaker
yeah But I will say that like I'm always working on my material and I'm like, have you done any of your work yet? Are you working? like, no, Susan. i am I've got other things. ive got I've got a real job and I get so mad. I'm like, I've got a real job too, but I love writing comedy so much that I'm always like, oh, I'll just start writing stuff down. But that's how you have to do it. When you think of something, you can't not write it down on as it comes to you because you'll think remember, but you won't.
01:20:53
Speaker
Oh, yeah. that is That is so true. I've got literally, and I'm um i'm old school, so every once in while i remember, oh, I can put notes in my phone. I have two notebooks sitting beside me on my desk. I have two notebooks, too.
01:21:09
Speaker
Things will pop up during the show or guest or something will say, oh, you should check out this person or have you like you did. And I'm over here scribbling away before I forget. Yeah. as My best friend, he's he's in the chat. Pierce, he does a couple shows here on the network as well.
01:21:25
Speaker
That when when I die, his number one job before anybody else can get here, he has to come burn these notebooks. not because there's anything bad in them it's just going to make me look like a lunatic because it's just shorthand ramblings of a madman that will make no sense to anybody and my family's going to what in the world was wrong with him there's there's worse things that somebody needs to hide from me so yeah it's done yeah
01:21:58
Speaker
No, i like there's nothing. now There might be a couple bad things in there, but there's nothing too terrible. It just makes me look crazy. Well, I did think you were in prison, so. there's i guess i should I guess I should try to reword things. I was like, I don't know this guy. Maybe he is in jail. I haven't looked him up. Yeah.
01:22:24
Speaker
ah You know, ah jails have changed a lot since, you know, we we get a lot of, it's like a, you know, it's like a ah a nice five-star hotel around here. Yeah. Really?
01:22:37
Speaker
No. Nope, just stuck in Ohio. You mentioned earlier the all-women comedy ensemble. Yes. really That sounds really cool. Are
Ladies Laugh Lounge and Gender Challenges
01:22:49
Speaker
you guys...
01:22:50
Speaker
Are you guys all clean? Is there something that you are already and actively participating in? Are you trying Not yet. I'm hoping. they're The lady who, the comedian who does this, she's been doing a show in Cary, North Carolina called the Ladies Laugh Lounge.
01:23:07
Speaker
And it's been selling out there. And she's actually taking it to Nashville at the end of March. That's why she said, well, if we got enough tickets sold, you're welcome to come to a guest spot.
01:23:18
Speaker
but that would have to be enough tickets for me to say, Hey, it's worth me right now. and tickets jumped up so much because it's like a nine hour trip for me. I would want to fly, but um we're hoping to get the ladies laugh lounge here in Virginia and be able to do that show. It's all clean comedians.
01:23:39
Speaker
And we, you know, the marketing for the show is it's a woman related show. so And I think it ladies like to come with their girlfriends and do a night out. And so we're hoping that she's hoping to get it into some more theaters and more places as well.
01:23:57
Speaker
She, um like I said, she's in Nashville and she's got, think she's got another one at a theater in North Carolina this summer. So i'm hoping to work with her. I've just been trying to, you know, find some net, you know, a big part of this business is networking.
01:24:12
Speaker
oh yeah. that that would be That would be so cool. i I have a very good friend of mine. She's a musician. and they do They're out in LA. They've done the last two years Women Rock LA.
01:24:24
Speaker
and It's all ah female musicians. They have female DJs and comedy acts. and you know like In between musicians and stuff like that. The crazy thing about it is I've actually got to help promote it the last couple of years, which is wild. I'll be like,
01:24:44
Speaker
I love it. the The ladies are amazing. They're great musicians. um But I like seeing that, you know, that kind of we're going to, you know, you're in a you're in a field in entertainment that is male dominant.
01:24:59
Speaker
It is. To see a group of funny women get together and do a show together. It's awesome. I hope it works out. it and a hands I it ah Hopefully, but it is such a male dominated industry.
01:25:19
Speaker
I did not realize until I got into it how male dominated. And I don't know why that is. like One of my friends that is a female comedian in New York told me it's a it's a belief that women aren't funny. I said, I don't i've never heard that.
01:25:35
Speaker
I think women are just as funny as men are, you know, and I don't know why is such a male dominated, maybe it it takes, it does take a lot of courage and there's not that women aren't brave to do it, but it does take a lot of guts. And I think we feel like we get in our heads so much more than men do. Like we start feeling like we're judging,
01:26:03
Speaker
And that's what I want to be able to do is if I ever get farther in this career is be able to lift other women up and be like, hey, you're funny. The one thing that I don't, I will not do, and it's really hard, is I'm not going to pull somebody along that's not meant to be on the stage.
01:26:22
Speaker
yeah That's not funny. But then again, like we've talked about, there's different senses of humor, but you do see some people out there like, none them. funny.
01:26:34
Speaker
so I mean, not saying that it can't get better. And I'm not saying I'm all that hilarious myself, but not saying that you can't improve as you go with as any job or any hobby or career.
01:26:50
Speaker
i think I think a lot of times it boils down to, you know, some people They think they're funny and they think they can do comedy and they don't want to put any work into it. They don't want to grow. They don't want to adapt or or or try to be better. I mean, that's personally not on the comedy aspect, but doing podcasting, I mean, i I've had people on this network that I've had to make the tough decision as much as I like them.
01:27:15
Speaker
Like it's not it's not working out because you're not doing anything. you're just right you're you know You're not growing, you're not adapting, you're not getting better. And it sucks, but I mean, it's if you're going to do it, do it and do it right at the end of the day. I totally understand that. um You know, there there are some very funny female comedians out there. I think i think one of the other bigger big big problems that they run into being a female ah comedian is some of them are definitely sexualized.
01:27:47
Speaker
way. of them Some of them jump into it. Others, not so much. But I think that might be another fear that yeah you know just there's some other friends of mine that are ah female comedians, ah they're like, I'm i'm not... you know Or musicians even. you know like This is who I am. I'm not ah a sex symbol or something. like I don't want people... i want people to like me for my craft, my art, what I do. So...
01:28:13
Speaker
ah so but you unfortunately. run Yeah. And you know, what I've learned too is like people, it's different being funny with your friends as it is to be up on a stage.
01:28:28
Speaker
And a lot of people would be like, Oh, you're funny. You should do stand up. People have told me that for a long time. And then i was like, no, I'm not good enough. I can't do stand up. And I'm like, well, then I tried it and I thought, well, people really liked it and they laughed and they thought it was funny. And I'm gonna keep going, but um I think there's two.
01:28:48
Speaker
You have to have some natural ability move and you it's a craft and you have to marry the two together. You have to have the natural ability and you have to perfect and learn the craft.
01:29:03
Speaker
The craft part is what you can always continue to improve in. Absolutely. absolutely I mean, I'm funny. but I ain't going to want to stage and tell no jokes. Cause I ain't that kind of money. I know my role. My role is right here. And my role is to pay the money and come see people like you. And you can make me laugh. me is like I know that, you know, I, I don't prepare anything. I'm not going to write anything down. I'll do my homework for a guest, just enough homework. So I know, because part of doing these shows is getting to know you along with the audience. and i
01:29:40
Speaker
um But yeah, like, I've had people go, yeah, Blake, you should try. I actually, a very good friend of mine who was on this show, he's like, you should do it. I'm like, no, I have no desire. And there's lot of people that are coming out up, like, you're like, I didn't realize how many comedians are out there and how um competitive they're It's so competitive.
01:30:05
Speaker
And I was talking to my friend who is the comedian that from New York, and he's like, there's a lot more comedians than when I started 20 some years ago. and we were talking about, well, why that is. And I think it's because there's so many of these comedy classes and schools popping up that people are like, well, I'm going to try it. and they do. Either they stay in it or...
01:30:30
Speaker
there's a lot of comedians that step back and become producers too. they produce shows and some people are better at producing than they are on the stage. I would probably not be good producer. I mean, I'm fairly organized, but I just, there's a lot of little details into producing a show.
01:30:50
Speaker
Yeah. Don't want to deal with all the, all the, all the bs no and i i think you know that kind of leads me into where i want to go next with you you know with with with social media tiktok and stuff like that you see so many people get a couple viral clips on on tiktok or instagram or whatever and then all of sudden they they think they're a stand-up comedian but the crazy thing is is that they're selling out these massive theaters or know these comedy places and they're I mean, i'm I'm not the expert. I'm not the end-all be-all. This is just my personal opinion.
01:31:27
Speaker
and they're They're not funny on stage. Keep that back on your TikTok and your reels. That's where you're funny. you're not You're not built to be on stage, but I think that's where you're also starting to see that influx of comedians.
01:31:40
Speaker
as well That's true. I didn't think about that. but Yeah, that's right.
Social Media's Impact on Comedy
01:31:45
Speaker
Sometimes they might just have one thing and then there's people that come out that do these characters. They dress up and then they act these little reels that they do and they're hilarious but can't you do that on the stage? Will that work on the stage? You have to think about all of it together.
01:32:09
Speaker
Will it all work out together on the stage? But yeah I think about that and, you know, social media is such a big part of it and it's so much to keep up with. what I am not like, I'm so proud of myself. ah Well, I've got a pretty decent following on Facebook. I started my page in August and I have like close to 660 followers.
01:32:32
Speaker
on my page on Facebook. But then I started Instagram later because I didn't have Instagram. So don't have near the followers that I have on Instagram. And then TikTok, I'm barely getting on there. They're all different and you all you have to learn how to do all of them differently. Mm-hmm.
01:32:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's ah unfortunately and the entertainment world, no matter what you're doing, whether it's comedy, music, podcasting, whatever, it's a necessary evil. I personally am not a fan of it, but I realize how important it is for what I do here, what you do. um And then sometimes I forget about it and I'm like, oh.
01:33:14
Speaker
have all these shows saved where I want to get clips from them and I'm not getting clips when I get the clips and then I forget to put them up and it's like, oh. So it's like. very Like when I get My husband right now, we're we've got to get a better camera, but he, his phone's pretty good. And he's been, finally like get close up enough that I can get a good clip and he'll video me. And I've had a few good clips because when you submit to comedy festivals and I submitted to, and I didn't realize how that competitive that was either. So when I first like got out, I said, okay, well I'll go submit to some comedy festivals.
01:33:53
Speaker
Oh my gosh. I submitted to one out in California. Dumb. i can There was like 700 and so so many people that submitted and they took like 40 spots or something crazy. i'm like, well, that was a waste of my money. And so I've submitted to a couple and it's just, it's competitive. It's hard to get into them.
01:34:16
Speaker
I would never, I would never say it's a waste of your money because you know, the old saying you miss well literally you miss miss a hundred percent of the shots you don't take. Exactly. it's one of those things you never know when that show or when that spot or in appearance on the news or radio or some random guy in prison in Ohio's podcast, you know, where the right eyes or ears are going to hear you and go,
01:34:43
Speaker
oh man, we want her. ah you know We want to get in contact and we want to fly her out. to i can leave or get money I can open for you. Here I
Breaking into Comedy Clubs
01:34:52
Speaker
am. right just know i say like i will email theaters and just say, I have a show. It's called Fat Lives Matter. I'd love to come to your theater. like I've done some of that, a little bit of it.
01:35:06
Speaker
What I realized is like if I get with another headliner who's got more experience, like let him maybe try to or her take care of that. um But you don't get what you don't ask for.
01:35:18
Speaker
why not just i ask? we have ah We have a very beautiful historical theater right here in Newark, Ohio, where I live. It's called the Midland Theater.
01:35:29
Speaker
It's a few hundred people if you ever want to come to Ohio. I'm really good in theaters like 400 and under right now. right And i think the title of my lot of people don't really know me yet, maybe. yeah They don't know me yet. if i get i've already I've been watching my phone and you know since I've been on here. I've been getting followers.
01:35:50
Speaker
nice i'm sure it's probably people that are out there listening like okay let me look her up so um yeah i would like to get like i think the the show the title itself sells some tickets there's a couple things you have to do to be to make it in comedy you have to get the laughs and you have to get the butts in the seats yes sell tickets But so people, every time I say I have a show called Fat Lives Matter, they're like, where is it? I'm trying to get it out there more, but Fat Lives Matter does sell some tickets.
01:36:27
Speaker
Mm-hmm. yes it it It grabs people's attention. it It gets their little antennas up and it perks their curiosity. What is this? Yeah, and yeah we yeah I try to do stuff like that all the time. But yeah, yeah unfortunately, this is that's the world we live in.
01:36:46
Speaker
You know, a lot of people have that 15 to 30 second, you know, window that you got to grab them. And with a catchy name for a show or something like that, they're I'll probably check that out. with Like Susan, you're so smart that you market it like this. Like, I'm like, i didn't know that I was being smart. This is me sitting around the pool with all my girlfriends saying girls coming in there in my hot pink bag and say, Hey girls, I don't care if that life's better. Like I've been seeing stuff like that for a long time. And things like, if you can't lose it, you just use it. It's all the things I've always said.
01:37:27
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Yeah. And it's like, okay, well, I want to do Fat Lives Matter in a show. And then I've got other ideas for shows, but let's get some shirts that people can wear. and so like at my shirt, if the big theater and um shows, people will buy the shirts and I have a big sign up. And that's funny. I make fun of that because my husband bought me this big, you know, when you go to see like a really famous person and in the lobby, they have the big banner banner. Oh, yeah. yeah
01:37:59
Speaker
Well, he OK. So one day I was here and I was getting ready for a show that night. He's like, hey, Susan, come here. I want show you something. i was like, what? And I came downstairs and he had the big banner picture and I call it the supersized Susan.
01:38:15
Speaker
why did you do that i'm like what woman in her 50s wants to see herself magnified but mean i know you love big girls but this is ridiculous why is you going to make bigger than i already am but does it work does it draw people into the merch table at our merch table like but i have to be careful you can only put it up if you have to ask if you can put it up So at the big theater show that I did here, everybody knew me.
01:38:48
Speaker
And so I made fun of Super Size Susan. I wanted to put her up on the stage and like talk to her and say, you got you understand what talking about? Like, you know, get me, Susan. But my husband's like, that's too hard to move up there. I'm like, okay. Yeah.
01:39:03
Speaker
He's better the He's better with just bossing him around. And I refer to in Fat Lives Matter, like one of my idols is Miss Piggy. I mean, she could just boss Kermie around. That's what his job is. For me to boss him around.
01:39:22
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When I can karate chop him across the theater.
01:39:30
Speaker
That's awesome. Hey, as long as he as obviously he knows his role and and he and he's supportive at the end of the day, that's all that matters. I do say in the show, I say, you know, y'all may be thinking what I did for a while, that Kermie, he's just in it for the bacon. am Nice.
01:39:50
Speaker
But yeah, so I'll do some Miss Piggy references here and there because I say I look a little like Miss Piggy. So...
01:39:59
Speaker
Yeah, so anyway, if he just needs to stay off the stage so I can tell him what I need him to do. you exactly. You stay back there. Don't think that you can do comedy. Don't my shirts. Promote me out there, and I'll do my job up there,
01:40:16
Speaker
Yeah, that might pan out for him one day. You know, you make it big. yeah He says it's his retirement plan, and it's his fault because he won't pay for new boobs or the beach house. I mean, it's his fault.
01:40:28
Speaker
ah Now, you know, you'll get big and famous and you can just buy that stuff for yourself. And he becomes the trophy husband. Yes. Now, then he will be the particular trophy. I think he's a lot smarter than you give him credit for. He knows what he's doing. Yeah, he is smart. but He's like, I'll have a boat. We'll live on the ocean. Yeah, she'll go make the funnies. That's fine to me.
01:40:56
Speaker
Yeah, no, I dig it. I dig it. So um do you got anything coming up here soon? Anything you're going to be doing that you want to promote and get out there or anything? Oh, the Funny Bone show. I'm excited about doing that. April 15th, Tax Day. It's in Richmond, Virginia, which is about an hour and a half for me. um What else do I have coming up? I have...
01:41:23
Speaker
a Mother's Day show at a church in May. I have some assistant living home things, senior communities I'm doing. i have some private parties this spring, but I am hopefully waiting. I've got a lot of feelers out there um lot of things I'm working on. i know I'll have a theater show in August.
01:41:46
Speaker
I just can't give the details yet because we're still in the contract phase yeah of that. um So yeah, I've got some things coming out hopefully, but just keep, I keep my schedule really updated as soon as I get something.
01:42:03
Speaker
I've got a great web designer and he will do ryan has if anybody needs a web designer, he's from, he will do it virtually and he's in Virginia, but it's His company's called Mosaic Ridge, and he's been my website. If you look at it, he made me look way better than I am.
01:42:24
Speaker
Great guy. Love him. So, yeah. And we'll just see what God brings me, like I say. no that's and and like you said earlier, that that funny bone, no matter the fact that you're getting to perform there, that is a...
01:42:41
Speaker
That is a nice little checkmark on your resume. yeah um yeah That really is. a You know, it's so hard to get into comedy clubs.
01:42:52
Speaker
Comedy clubs are really tough, I guess, because there's so many comedians and I will just be. did email these people and say, like, here's my website.
01:43:03
Speaker
I'll do a guest spot if it's close. um There's some, and some people don't ever get back you. I really appreciate the people that even take the time that they'll say, hey, I'm full right now. I've got my schedule up you. So I'm going out to Indiana in June to a Christian comedian conference out there. So I emailed a couple comedy clubs on the way said, hey, going to be out your way.
01:43:30
Speaker
There was one in Ohio, actually, Go Bananas or Gone Bananas. set Is that familiar to you? caution good i look that one They got back to me and said, hey, I'm full, but if you come and tell me when you're coming, I will work you in, which I thought that was really nice.
01:43:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah, it's down in Cincinnati. Okay. So there's one that said, and then um In Michigan, the Underground Laugh Lounge said that there's somebody I know from the Clean Comedy Collective that will be there when I'm out and when I'm finished up in Indiana. And they're like, well, you can come to a guest spot.
01:44:13
Speaker
So I may stay out there for a little bit longer and try to get into that comedy club just, you know, for exposure and to get myself out there. Because you never know, like one show, one spot can lead to something else.
01:44:29
Speaker
Yeah. Well, yeah, you that's absolutely. You never, ah you know, you don't want to miss an opportunity because you never know who could who could be there. you know, there could be somebody there recording it and they are friends with, you know, some some big name and they're just like, hey, goes this lady's hilarious. Next thing you know, you're getting the phone call and you're opening up for, you know, Kreischer or something else. Kreischer Jeff Dunham or something like that. You don't know. and um
01:45:03
Speaker
well, and with God, all things are possible. And I believe that he's definitely put me. The things that have happened to me are not accidental that I've come out. I mean, like. you don't come out and in like a couple weeks get a theater show like I got, that's not yeah an accident.
01:45:20
Speaker
So I had a really cool thing happen to me when I was at the beach. um i'm sick I was six hours away from home. We went shopping one day. i was in the dressing room talking to this lady who was had gastric bypass and she was complaining about how she gained some of the weight back and stuff. And I told her a little bit about my show.
01:45:40
Speaker
and i left and i couldn't find what i wanted but then i went back into the dressing room she was still in there and i was telling her some of the things like the the bra joke how your bra was going to your doggy bag when you went out to eat so she was laughing with me and then they left the dressing room and i didn't know anybody else was in there and this lady tapped on my door i peeked out about it half dressed And I was like, she's like, hey, um I know who you are.
01:46:08
Speaker
a friend of mine sent me your clip and I've been following you on your Facebook page and on Instagram. I'm like, what? and four And I was like, that's how people get famous, right? They just start sharing. Yeah, absolutely.
01:46:28
Speaker
yeah absolutely No, absolutely.
Recognition and Fame
01:46:30
Speaker
That's that's awesome. yeah you know outside of your you know Outside of your hometown and where you're at, you know getting recognized, like what is what is that like?
01:46:41
Speaker
that's That's got to be a crazy feeling, especially being so cool. It's so surreal. like You're like deja vu. Am I in a dream? like No way. like Somebody really knew who I was? there No way. that That's the first time it's really happened to me because I am so new. Yeah.
01:46:57
Speaker
you know, I'm not going to be in an airport and somebody like, oh, that's that's Susan Horn. She does comedy. you know, i'm not there yet, but if you maybe one day I will. still get, I mean, it hasn't happened a lot, but it's happened a couple of times just here locally if somebody will recognize me. like, oh, wow, people are really watching what i what I do here. Like, and it's always, it's always, you sound or you look like, they don't recognize, they don't know it's me. You look like a guy from a podcast I watch on YouTube. Oh, really? What's it called?
01:47:30
Speaker
That's a handsome guy, isn't he? But, ah no, that's going to be like kind of a nice. There's so many people out there that are not friendly, like you're super friendly and like, You're really personable. You've got the personality to do this. And I think that kind of, that shines through. And I think, you know, people know, like you said, people know authentic, genuine people.
01:47:54
Speaker
And that's the main thing. oh yeah. and that's I tell people all the time and I, and I believe that you're the same way. What you see here is what you're going to get in real life. I am. um Full of ADHD.
01:48:09
Speaker
think well i I get hyper for no reason sometimes. it did i have a ton of squirrel moments. I know. and yeah you know what' What you see on here, what you're getting at. I'm tired during the day and I think, I can't wait to go to bed.
01:48:25
Speaker
and Then I'm laying there like and then I get this burst of energy. I'm like, where did that come from? i need to get to sleep. I think that's an ADHD thing too, don't you? Yeah, I think it is. Well, that but my my poor girlfriend's seen it all the time because, like, the idea to start two new shows, and then that turned into a third show because her and I do a show together, and I just got locked in because one side of my brain is usually calm, cool, and collected. The other one, 100 miles an hour in 70 different directions, 24. And it's just like, I get an idea and I run with it. And sometimes they work. And sometimes it's like, Ooh, what was I thinking? and Why didn't somebody stop me? Well, and too, I think we're like that. We're programmed like that now because of our phones and all the instant gratification we get. and we're constantly looking at three different social media sites, right? Like let me from Instagram to Facebook, to we do it to ourselves. And sometimes you just got to disconnect from it all.
01:49:27
Speaker
no the is that There's no stopping me. and And the sad part about it is is I really neglect social media unless I'm looking for guests. I'm like, oh, I should really post something on here while I'm here talking to people. And then and I forget because I start talking to 16 different people at once. That's...
01:49:49
Speaker
Just last, ah probably just a few months ago, I realized that I can use my calendar on my phone so I can keep this stuff. And i was like, this is kind of a good thing. feel so with it.
01:50:02
Speaker
I put all my stuff in my phone. If it's not in my phone, I don't know about it. Forget it. Yeah, my calendar now that I've learned how to use it has become much like ChatGPT, one of my new best friends because it's just like I can't keep track of anything. It's a blessing and a curse. I mean, if I had ChatGPT, I would have never had to get married or anything. I would just feel like somebody talked to.
01:50:30
Speaker
This is the best relationship ever. i know. mo me I'm pretty if I'm hungry suggest all the best food you know I had the Weight Watcher app on my phone I'm like I'm just gonna stop paying for that because I'll just tell chat GPT what I mean and she's like oh you're almost there you did so good if you had just not eaten that one-third cup of brown rice and two thin mint cookies today I'm like who knew You couldn't eat brown rice and thin mint cookies on the same day. it's very encouraging. Weight Watcher app does not encourage me like that.
01:51:09
Speaker
Yeah. So close. a Nice try. You're still fat. Like, damn. You're really going to look like that picture I sent you soon. Yeah. That's awesome.
01:51:25
Speaker
Yeah. No, I... i may I am so happy that we met. i don't want to talk too much longer. um But you are absolutely hysterical. I always get worried. I always get nervous with guests because I don't know how the show is going to go um and And I'm looking forward to you getting out on the road and getting more shows. And, know, if you get close. I'm ever close enough. I will definitely have.
01:51:55
Speaker
Yeah, you got a fan over here. I was like, I think we'll... Will she say her name so she can look me up on Facebook, Susan Horn Comedy? Yep, she's got it right there. Kayla in the chat. ands She's got your Susan Horn Comedy right there at.com. Thank you. yeah She's already following you. I'm on Instagram and Facebook too, so that's great. I would love to Hey, if you know anybody that will put me in that nice theater out there, go talk to them. I've got a headliner, too. we can i don't know if he's been to that theater. What's the name of the theater out there?
01:52:34
Speaker
It's called Midland Theater. Midland. Yep, it's in Newark. How do you spell Tony's last name? It's D-E-Y-O. He's a great guy.
01:52:46
Speaker
Great guy.
01:52:49
Speaker
know I know Adeo. That's why it sounded familiar. do you know who he is? I don't think I know him. i have a I have a very good friend of mine that lives down in Tampa. He's Adeo. was um Tony just not too long ago did a podcast with Larry the Cable Guy.
01:53:05
Speaker
Oh, nice. He's been, yeah. He and also, this is a really cool, like I said, Tony's such a cool guy. He's been so nice. And so I've been so appreciative of him. Like he didn't have to help me out. He didn't have to help me get started. But so he goes out every winter with Chevy Chase and does the tour, like the National Lampoon's Vacation Christmas.
01:53:30
Speaker
movies go it in theaters. And then after the showing of the movie, Chevy comes out with his wife and Tony is their moderator. And Tony like asking the questions from the audience and everything.
01:53:45
Speaker
So it was, we were actually doing our Christmas the Sunday after Christmas this year. and I was opening my presents and I got a text from Tony. He, we got tickets to the Richmond show. It had been canceled because Chevy had pneumonia, but they bumped it back till after Christmas.
01:54:03
Speaker
He said, Hey Susan, when you come to the show, go by will call. I've got backstage passes for you. Oh, nice. So he got to come backstage and take a picture with Chevy Chase.
01:54:15
Speaker
So how cool did that look on my comedy page? Yeah, right? Throw that up there. Another resume boost. What's going on, Stan? He got out with Chevy Chase. so That's awesome.
01:54:30
Speaker
He was actually in the documentary they did on um CNN documentary, did a Chevy Chase documentary. Did you see that by chance? I haven't watched it yet, but I heard about it. One of the radio news stations that I listened to, they were talking about it and said they did a really good job with it.
01:54:49
Speaker
Yes. And Tony was in that little, he's in there for a few, like a minute or two. Oh, wow. Nice. he's Yeah. He's been doing it. He's been doing a lot of things for, for a while.
01:55:01
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. He's yeah. I look him up and, um, Adam Minnick, like I said, he's in your area too. i'm gonna I wrote both of them. I'm writing Adam's name down. I'm looking both of those guys up. I will definitely reach out to them as well and see ah about having them on the show. I'll name drop them.
01:55:25
Speaker
Now you're like a big time. yeah appreciate this so much and I wish your podcast the best and when i the right before i open for leanne morgan i will come back yeah there you go and tell you how that experience was absolutely i i will i will say you are welcome back anytime thank you anything we can do um to help promote shows or if you got you send me a clip and say hey
01:55:57
Speaker
Will share that for me? Well, absolutely do that. I love, it's part of the thing that with with doing these shows. Obviously, I want to help where we can help and and get you guys out there as much as we can as well. And I didn't even get to finish the statement. If you're, i have a three hour rule, which I think is going to get bumped to four hours. If any of our guests, any of my former guests are within that three to four hour window,
01:56:23
Speaker
we take a road trip and I didn't even get to say that I would like to see you. And Kayla was over there going, yeah, yeah, I like her. Thank you. Thank you. That means so much being new. You think, you should I still, you know, like I said, I questioned myself, like, should I be out there doing this? But one of my friends says, Susan, you're the funniest person in the room. Keep doing it. Okay.
01:56:46
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, no, absolutely. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm looking forward to watching your journey and watching you grow. And, you know, anything we can do in that process, feel free to let us know. And and we absolutely will.
01:57:02
Speaker
Thank you. i appreciate you having me on. This is fun. I said, how could we do two hours? But we did it. I told you. I told you. i'm I'm very good at what I do. I don't like to brag. so I will say that I could talk the wallpaper down off the wall. I can talk. Yeah, you and I both. i think We get in the same room together. We might be in trouble.
01:57:25
Speaker
I know. Well, that way that might give me some more material. Yeah, there we go. If you think of a guy's shirt for me, a lot of guys are like, you got to get a guy's shirt to put in your line of shirts. So,
01:57:37
Speaker
you're gonna have one wea I love a thing. She got one. Kayla said, you'll have one by tomorrow. but but but oh I'll rock the hot pink fat lives matter. I don't care. One of my friends, boyfriends, he comes and to all my theater shows he spent, he'll sit right on the front row in his hot pink tennis shoes. I see him right there. And he wants a hot pink Susan Horn comedy because I have just plain shirts that say Susan Horn comedy and he ordered a sweatshirt to wear. her So I thought that was cool.
01:58:11
Speaker
He keeps telling me he's got a friend that's in comedy in Tampa. And I was like, okay, well, hook me up. I'll do it. I'm going to send my buddy your information. He's he's down in Tampa. eight and And, you know, even worst case scenario, maybe he can link you up with some some other comedian. There's a lady that I got to reach out to.
01:58:33
Speaker
um Maybe we can get you down into the Florida area. Oh, ah anywhere I can be on a beach and I can justify being on the beach, I will be there. Just tell your husband, honey, I have shows and they're going to pay me. And he's if they only pay you that
01:58:55
Speaker
I'm getting paid though. I'm a professional comedian. i am a paid. and I'm working. Take time off. so I have a real job. perception that Comedians make a lot of money until you break it big. You really don't. say but No, that's what I joke around. You know, my goal is I would love to quit my nine to five job um and do this full time and make enough money. But I've been doing it now for, I'll say I've been doing it the last two years and trying to not just be a bonehead on the internet, but I've been doing it for,
01:59:30
Speaker
over a decade now. Most of that time has just been... yeah It's so professional. I really didn't know you were in jail, and it looks great. We've got a lot of amenities here in this in this jail. it's Your girlfriend gets conjugal visits every day. Yeah, she gets to come and hang out. traded my cellmate in for her. They're like, is she coming? Yeah, whatever. Do whatever you want.
01:59:56
Speaker
That can be your joke. One of my guests thought I was in jail. I was like, are you in jail? yeah I promise I'm not. i can I can wave my camera around. This would be a really fancy cell, though.
02:00:12
Speaker
What's what's that? I said, thank you so much. No, thank you. i really do appreciate this. i you know um Being kind of in the same boat, you know being new and trying and to find my, find my lane, which apparently I'm in a lot of lanes, but I, I love it. um and And, you know, you guys give me an opportunity just as much as you think I'm giving y'all an opportunity. I mean, thank you. i will give you, I'll send you some more comedian names of people, my friend in New York and some people that might love to be on the podcast. And I'll, if you have a link, I can share what we did today.
02:00:51
Speaker
Oh yeah. I can absolutely send you the, right. andright Yeah, it'll be on our YouTube channel, and I have all the shows separated into playlists. They're super easy to find. I can also, once I get it up onto to Spotify, I can send you the Spotify link as well.
02:01:07
Speaker
Okay, great. That'll be up there hopefully by tomorrow. Wait. Tomorrow or Friday. Those are the two days of the week I'm not doing a show, and then I'm doing show-related work. Great. Thank you so much. This was fun. I enjoyed it.
02:01:22
Speaker
I had an absolute blast. Thank you so much. i Thank you guys. Nice to meet you. See, if I come up there, I promise I'll message you. Yeah. If you get it anywhere, anywhere in Ohio, let me know and we'll come see you. Cause we're right in the middle of Ohio. So everything is two hours for me. don't matter can i go Well, we might stop up there in June and maybe we can have dinner together or something. say well Yeah, that would be nice. That'd be awesome.
02:01:48
Speaker
Thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. Have a great night. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye.
02:02:00
Speaker
Miss Susan Horn. got her webpage right there. SusanHortonComedy.com. Give her a follow. Give her a like. Give her a share. She was awesome. that Man, I'm having way too much fun doing these shows. The different interviews.
02:02:18
Speaker
uh you know getting to play in different uh avenues of entertainment and the comedy one is is awesome you know because you never know what going to get with a comedian or or anybody in that matter but i'm having a lot of fun doing these guys i hope you guys are enjoying them um i hope you guys are enjoying the guests so far i know you guys love the music show um I will say last night, unfortunately, um a little bit of an issue, a little bit of a hang up. Shout out to Zay Grassley and his family.
02:02:53
Speaker
Hope all is well. There was an emergency. So he didn't just stand me up. Hope all is well. Sending good vibes and good thoughts and all that good stuff to you guys. And we will be rescheduling. Zay will be back. I promise you guys. We'll get Zay on.
02:03:09
Speaker
um But shout out to Susan. Make sure you guys are giving her a follow. Check out her comedy. She's got stuff on YouTube. She's got stuff on her Facebook page. And, you know, keep an eye on her schedule.
02:03:20
Speaker
She may be very soon coming to a town near you. Go check her out. Enjoy the layouts. But with that being said, Wally, what are you doing tomorrow night, man? Appreciate you.
02:03:33
Speaker
Chattersbox, you guys were awesome. Appreciate you guys as always. I know this was a little bit different. We behaved ourselves tonight, but that's okay. Sometimes we can grow up and and and behave ourselves. i It's not hard for me to do. It's hard for you guys to do sometimes. Cold-blooded conversations tomorrow night. Talking to animals, to dinosaurs, and the other critters.
02:04:01
Speaker
with him and With Wally and Janet Bounds. And then Friday? You got anything Friday? What are you doing Friday? Anything? Look, I'm the boss around here, and I have no idea what my minions are doing.
02:04:19
Speaker
um So, yeah, tune in tomorrow night for Cold-Blooded Conversations. I will be working behind the scenes, getting shows up for them this week. And oh, nice. Wally's Motorsports is ah Friday night. Wally and the guys in the garage talking shop.
02:04:38
Speaker
All you gear heads and garage monkeys and stuff like that. Get in there and talk to the guys, man. You guys tried talking cars with me a couple Saturdays ago. And um I'm not that guy.
02:04:49
Speaker
That guy's Wally. and then, of course, Saturday, Cassius Corner will be back. We'll be talking wrestling. WrestleMania is right around the corner. It's Saturday night. Nonsensical nonsense. You guys know the drill. It's Saturday night. We kick the doors open. And I've been kicking them open early because why not? We just hang out shoot shit and have a good time and and have fun.
02:05:11
Speaker
And then I think this Sunday maybe Rick and I will be back for unnecessary roughness. We've been gone the last couple weeks, but March Madness is kicking off.
02:05:26
Speaker
Hockey is doing their thing, and there's been a lot of off-season shit going on in the NFL and whatnot, so I'm sure we'll be talking about some stuff. ah Last Sunday, there was no Beyond the Veil.
02:05:39
Speaker
Unfortunately, we we were living in the Stone Age and had no interwebs for like four days and didn't have power for a day, so we couldn't do our homework and our research. So hopefully not this Sunday, but next Sunday,
02:05:53
Speaker
unless we decided to do it this Sunday, but hopefully next Sunday we'll be back. We're not doing it this Sunday. Oh, we won't be here next Sunday. I'm lying. It'll be a while before beyond the veil comes back.
02:06:08
Speaker
Nevermind. I forgot. Well, only got to do three shows next week. and Suck it. Wally's got to do all the shows. I have not dude. I've been so busy and then didn't have any interwebs. Um,
02:06:23
Speaker
I may try to reach out to him tomorrow and see if he might be possibly available Saturday. Now, I'll
02:06:31
Speaker
ah have to try to remember that and do it tomorrow. Unfortunately, busy, busy. um But, yeah, so, anywho, check out the shows. um Monday, I'm sure Wally has a guest.
02:06:45
Speaker
don't know what Wally's schedule is like. Monday, i got a guest. Who is coming up Monday? Monday, I got Chandler.
02:06:56
Speaker
Chandler, all good. He's a young cat just getting into acting. Does some independent stuff. And then Tuesday next week, hopefully, hopefully I'm going to reach out to him. ah Brooks Herring will be coming back on a reschedule.
02:07:12
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And then next Wednesday, I have Chad Smith coming on the show. And then I'm gone for a week because we leave for Florida next Friday.
02:07:24
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So, yeah. Wally's going to be running the network, so. ah Monday, I will. Monday, Talon will be on the show. Okay, cool, cool.
02:07:41
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Talon will be on the show Monday. There you go. So you got back-to-back shows on Monday with... ah Chandler, all good on Glick's driving. And Talon on Speedway Stories.
02:07:55
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Oh, Lord. What's going on, Chris Technician? You're late. But anyways, huge shout out huge thank you to Miss Susan. She was awesome. She was fucking hysterical.
02:08:06
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Sorry. i would like i i did a good job of being clean. ah Wish her nothing but the best. and And hopefully we'll be seeing her on theater signs all over the place here before long.
02:08:22
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That being said, thanks for watching. Thanks for hanging out.
02:08:27
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You and Rocky will hold it down. I'll be gone for two Saturdays. So you guys got you guys can captain the ship. Thanks for watching. Thanks for hanging out. Appreciate y'all. Make sure you like, share, and subscribe. bio.link slash nonsensicalnetworks. Got all of our links there. Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok.
02:08:46
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A couple, one or two new videos on TikTok. um And then if Wally would send me stuff, I could put stuff up for his shows to promote his guests, but Wally don't never send me nothing.
02:09:04
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But, um, yeah, check out the Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, uh, Uh, and then listen to us on those podcasting platforms, wherever you guys listen to podcasts out now. And I'll say it again, man, I'm going to keep saying it until we get knocked out.
02:09:18
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Shout out to, uh, everybody listening here in Ohio. Who knew? ah Since July, we're still in the top 10. I think last I looked, I think we're sitting at sixth ah out of the top 100 podcasts in all of Ohio.
02:09:33
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It's pretty fucking dope. ah but So I'll see you guys this weekend. Wally's going to be in charge the next two nights. Don't blame me.
02:09:44
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I can't. I have no control over him. He's like a chihuahua. He just does what he wants when he wants. Show. We are going to wrap up the show with a little Zay Grassley, one of his new songs, Whiskey and Wi-Fi.
02:10:04
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Digging this song. I will see y'all when I see y'all. Be good or be good at it, baby.
02:10:13
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Stay in the studio.
02:10:28
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Whiskey and Wi-Fi is how I survive Working these late nights just trying to stay alive Dreams in my notebook, prayers in the sky I hustle through the pain when it all gets mine Got crack screen phone and a bottle half full But the wifi's strong so the hustle still pull I'm a Carolina boy with a back row soul Put the paint in the mic, let the reel unfold I'm posting content like I'm working the fields Sun go down but the grind don't yield Mud on my boots but the vision so clear I'm a hood belly, baby ain't no fear around here Tryna turn this trailer to a million dollar spot Upload after upload to the whole world wide Sip that whiskey when the pressure get hot But the wifi stay connected And so do my shot, go to my shot So do my shot, yeah
02:11:23
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Dreams in my notebook, prayers in the sky, pushing through the pain with a love in mine. I done slept in cars in a cold night's bike, tryna edit on a hot spot on the one porch light.
02:11:35
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Broke as hell, but my dreams stay bright. Had to fight my demons every long damn night. Wasn't nobody with me when my world fell flat. Had to learn to bounce back with nothing but rap. Country boy bones with a hood boy check. And the Wi-Fi slow, but I still upload that.
02:11:47
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Bottle on the counter, got me dealing with pain. Trying to post under trauma like a runaway train But this signal in my chest never lost that flame Whiskey and Wi-Fi, that's how do it
02:12:17
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Whiskey and Wi-Fi is how I survive. Working these late nights just trying to stay alive. Drinks in my notebook, prayers in the sky.
02:12:28
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Hustle through the pain with a log in mind.