#342: How To Live An Evening As Pedro Lima w/ Comedian Pedro Lima
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pedro fucking orlando fuck podcast people dude hear tampa talk dad running minutes paid big good shit full back put money
SPEAKERS
Law (62%), Speaker 2 (23%), Speaker 3 (8%)
Law Smith
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sweat equity podcast and streaming show the number one comedy business podcast in the world. We'll do it live. Yeah. Bill O'Reilly. I hear you son. Fucking Thanks, sir. Hey, we're pretty good. We're pragmatic. We're pragmatic entrepreneurial advice real raw dog doc. Thanks to the manager from Major League in there. Yes, we all know we got Pedro Lima the Rican gorilla stand up comedian host. Nah, dude podcast. New episodes every Thursday with fellow comedians Kermit Gonzalez and Eddie Davenport produced by the obligatory Podcast Network. We talk a little bit about life. He does some he pitches in the schedule. One of the best headliner friends we've got. Were 2020 best small medium enterprise business advisory podcasts, United States and we won 2021 Yes. Put it in, wiggle it around. Make it feel in new Tommy. We're 2021 Best podcasting streaming. Entertainment studio eastern United States media innovator awards. 2021 hosted by corporate vision magazine. Listen to us on iTunes apple pie, where you send me Spotify. Give us a rating write a review. It can be a silly thing. Any sentence will do any words you want to put on there. And then share this if you like this podcast, sharing it is the best thing you can do. The second best thing you can do is get into our sponsor, a new sponsor. Via mo vo give me money. Bi o m e you get a hookup with the link in the description. What's VIOME it's a gut biome test I've been wanting to do this for a while. I think you got poop in a jar send it to them. They're gonna tell you the flora and fauna of
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Speaker 2
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you're looking for stuff to decorate the studio and stop the Family Dollar. I didn't know that place was poppin bro. Yeah,
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you got some stuff?
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Speaker 2
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That Family Dollar is like for the in laws you don't give a shit about here.
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Speaker 3
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Look, here's 900 nice plastic plate. Us. Thanks. Thankful is a hummingbird watering dish. Yeah, that's good. That's a good business tip. We should talk about that.
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Speaker 2
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Hey, Jack. Hey, are we recording?
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Yeah, we've been recording for like five minutes so hit this Yeah.
Law Smith
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Yeah, keep it all in I like I like all the banter. Thanks for Thanks for scheduling this in during your drive around Orlando. Oh, thanks for canceling
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three times. Okay.
Law Smith
3:39
We don't have to go tit for tat and
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talk shit law. Busy Man.
Law Smith
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Pedro's better shit talker than both of us combined. I
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know what are you doing? Right off the bat?
Law Smith
3:49
Are you stupid? It's because he lives in Orlando. And when you live there you hate it so much that you just hate all the time.
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Speaker 2
3:56
And we we love Orlando we do. Well, the only thing Orlando has. And it's weird man cuz I click what you fucking back. I can curse on this right? Yeah, try not
Law Smith
4:08
her logo. Is it tied? That's a dick. Yeah, you can cuss on this. Okay. You can say whatever you want free speech.
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Speaker 2
4:15
Here's the weirdest thing of Oh, fuck that. I missed my check noise. Um, sucks. Orlando has some weird beef with Tampa. And I click I feel like more more welcoming with tempo motherfucker. Did I have it with that you guys have always been cool with me since day one.
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Speaker 3
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We're more of a Tampa sort of guy Isaac. Yeah. You're bringing race into it?
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Speaker 2
4:48
I feel I feel more tense than than Orlando to be honest. Yeah, for sure. Even though I'm in Orlando 99.9% of the time.
Law Smith
4:59
Well for those outside of the area, there's like a, you know, there's I four which is a 90 mile stretch of the devil's fucking taint of a highway. Yes.
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Between fuck lakelyn fugly.
Law Smith
5:12
Don't let Ray Lewis hear that. But other than that, yeah, yeah, cuz he'll stab you. He went to Kathleen Lewis I just know all football allegedly. Yeah. Well, you know, he's got he's got the resources to get you stabbed. How about that
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he died. You see with a limo.
Law Smith
5:33
So I don't fuck with him. But But what people don't understand is like, you know what's interesting? I find that people when they talk, they don't. When they talk about they've talked about Florida as a state and not really as the cities individually. Unless it's Miami, right? So it's like, when people refer they're like, you live in Florida. Like yeah, I live in Tampa. You know, like, the tape
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Speaker 3
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has been a punch line for a minute. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like, oh, I'm gonna go vacation in Tampa. Just kidding. Pedro's
Law Smith
6:02
one of the good imports from out of state that moved here. And you know, is it taxpaying citizen? You know, gainfully employed, has a family all that stuff has a house all those things
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Speaker 3
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bar is offensively low, but I'm saying like Well, look
Law Smith
6:19
it's a second chance state there's a lot of fucked up stuff. And it's it's usually the people that moved here because they fucked up in another state. And then they've This is from 30 Rock. This is America's Australia. And so back to Tampa Orlando. We get like grouped in around the country don't you like the magic Orlando Magic? I'm like Fuck no, not
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Speaker 3
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a magic word. You do well when they had Penny random city, you could probably check Dude, that was awesome.
Law Smith
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That was awesome Nick but you could be a casual fan and be cool with
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Speaker 3
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Nick Anderson Dennis Scott come on horse ran four free throws in a row and then never makes another free throw
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Speaker 2
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that people like the magic yeah the only time
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Speaker 3
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No they're still around oh there's they're still playing that
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around they play in the
Law Smith
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Amway center which is the fucking like biggest like they should make it a pyramid ml Yeah, it should. Yeah, that's a good call for real it should be like the luck sore. And you should have to like have garage inventory to buy a ticket
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Speaker 3
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you gotta sell for tickets to get to the club level. You get Yeah,
Law Smith
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and yeah, you can keep moving up the rankings like you started 100 section and then you find you get more people.
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Then zone is mine to get this luxury box.
Law Smith
7:45
So I have more routes to Miami. At least my mom's from Miami like that's I've got so I'm like I was agnostic for a while. When I lived in LA I was like maybe I'll be a clippers fan because I hate Lakers fans. Just because they're just they win too much. They're obnoxious. They don't really care. And then the lasers when you when you pop, the Rams by pops played for the LA Rams in from 69 to 74 in the Washington Redskins and 75 followed Hall of Fame. Georgia, you didn't get to see none of that shit. No, no, no, I was an oops baby. Dude, I was way way later when he was an attorney. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he I like to tell this story because I had to have it. Yeah, I got my mom's genetics he's six four. Why no 220
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Speaker 2
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Wait, why don't waste of a dad right you didn't get you didn't even get to enjoy the fucking image of him being an athlete, a pro athlete even though he was getting paid like $1,200 a week but still
Law Smith
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know what he they had offseason jobs like he had to go to Tiger land boot camp one one summer or one like offseason which like was around the Vietnam time, but he got out at me. What does that you know, like they got paid but not nearly like they did now. Like he had a Porsche 911
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What's Tiger land boot camp?
Law Smith
9:11
I never heard that. That's like a that's like one of those boot camps. That's like, notoriously, like, fucking tough.
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Yeah, you do boot.
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You boot camp. Something robot.
Law Smith
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Yeah. You fade
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it out with tigers. You didn't hear about that during
Law Smith
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boot camp with Tiger. It's in Louisa. It's in the deep south of Louisiana.
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That makes sense.
Law Smith
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There's a movie about it's really good. I think calling ferals in it from like 20 years ago. It's really good. Anyway, like he he did his MBA in the offseason started that like you had to have an offseason thing he had to have something going on time but he had enough scratch to put together he's the eighth overall pick 19 69/3 running back. And he does but he doesn't talk about any of it. Except like
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Speaker 2
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see, remember Again, remember that he remember?
Law Smith
10:03
No. He said, You know what, I'm very blessed that he actually I had to quit playing football 20 years ago because of concussions. I could have been I could have been a walk on d3 and basically paid college and paid to play football. But yeah, he's actually really lucid and sharp. All things considered because I go to a game he played for the Gators in college. There's a thing called Silver 60s where all the players from the 60s meet up for like, a weekend. So over the years, I've been friends with all the kids of the players too. They're not so good. Some of the other guys you played with like, they're mentally they're met. Yeah, they're missing. The kids.
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They got the kids there. They're moving on.
Law Smith
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They're missing a step. How about I'll put it that people like your dad. Yeah, your dad is a an anomaly. My dad was an attorney for 35 years. Like big for running back. He's Eddie George that time yeah, he's six four to 25
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Speaker 2
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He shot pictures. I've seen pictures of your dad. I was like a backup fullback. linebacker. He was a running back. He's
Law Smith
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a tailback. He's 225 Six for Eddie George style. So Eddie George was like fat as fast as him any wide receiver. And apparently my dad could have played wide receiver but they're like you're you're better
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Speaker 2
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okay. What's the what's the difference between a tailback and a running back? Well, running back could
Law Smith
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be tailback and fullback but a tailback is definitely the like this guy is gonna get the one
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in the way back.
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away. Okay, so,
Law Smith
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Mike all start was
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fullbacks and tailbacks are types of running back. So
Law Smith
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yeah. Like Mike all start usually he's messing with us. Well, my goal is that you skin the Pro Bowl as a fullback all the time, but he he couldn't block her shit. He was listed as a fullback, but he's like, Yeah, you're
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the best fullback remember? 1000 Yeah,
Law Smith
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you're right. He's really a halfback tailback kind of running back.
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What else you want to turn
Law Smith
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away? I'll tell you, I'll tell you a story. I'll tell you more stuff about my dad. So someone in my family over Christmas will come up to me butcher what we said on this, and then tell the whole family the wrong thing. And then I'll get in trouble. Even though I mean
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Speaker 3
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for the record off, we started talking about NBA teams and then started talking about your dad and then said he has an MBA. And I thought at that moment, man, somebody's just popping in or is not really paying attention there. So you can
Law Smith
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get it with context, I think. I don't know. Back to Orlando. It's a fake city. It's Anaheim. I don't know how you do it.
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Speaker 2
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Orlando. Hey, man. Hey. Hey, buddy. Not the fucking Orlando pumping the money bro.
Law Smith
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I'll say this though. I'll say this. I do have a good time every time I do stand up over in Orlando. So for take that for what it's worth. I do like the comic community y'all have there? It it definitely there's definitely like I remember a riff a while back like Tampa has the better writers were Orlando has all the performer kind of guys. And I'm like, and I don't think any of us are really that good. You know, the every city
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Speaker 2
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every city had that because I remember Miami was beefing with Orlando. I'm like, What? What are we doing here? Dude, this is not a fucking team sports fucking thing, which is what
Law Smith
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we were talking about on this show. If you don't have a villain or like a direct competitor, sometimes it's a good thing to make that up. So it kind of gives you that inertia. You know,
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Speaker 3
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you need something to push against to keep you going. Orlando they seem to do that with everybody. And I didn't even know about this rivalry. Did you
Law Smith
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what the war night for?
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Speaker 2
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Like, I follow Lando city. Orlando City's my soccer team. I love that team. And for some reason they beat with the Tampa Bay rowdies. We're not even on the MLS but it's like one of the historic soccer teams in the state. Right? Yeah.
Law Smith
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I was gonna say we're we don't have an MLS team since the mutiny. Carlos Valderrama.
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Nice. Oh, that Colombian drug lord Yeah,
Law Smith
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he's perfect for our city. Yeah, great. But we I mean, I think the real thing we have a problem with is like have to have a lot of people that have to go to Orlando from anywhere else in the state be gradually have to go I just talked to a friend of mine who went to Universal and Disney World to be super dad and I was like, God Damn, dude. That's like speaker head injury my goddamn nightmare.
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Speaker 2
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God and it well, it is and I'll tell you what it is. It's pretty much it's it's the Atlantic City of family. If you look
Law Smith
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at a state or city in America what I think
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Speaker 2
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you lose a bit. chunk of money, just trying to make your kid happy. So you're dealing with other grown adults that hate being at the same spot that you're at. So then when the night is over, you're trying to get that trolley back to the parking lot. That's why you see a lot of fights happening in Disney property is when you're going to the parking spot. Mm hmm.
Law Smith
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You're already thinking about it. Dads are pissed because they spent so much money and then the moms are stressed because they want them to have a good time, buddy. How Orlando 90% of attendees are obese so they hate walking around. And that's probably really the fight. They need rascals from the parking lot over
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Speaker 3
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conveyor belt. Let them plop down go on you know how they already have the roller coaster technology right yeah, we're about to step back
Law Smith
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yeah. What what happened to walking solving all
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the problems the
Law Smith
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moving sidewalks at airports we're going to be everywhere. Orlando should have been the leader in that you know how many
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miles that we need for moving sidewalks Okay,
Law Smith
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ma'am way hook Busch Gardens you buy you buy a sideline that person buys a sidewalk underneath you and then they buy more sidewalks boom. Busch Gardens someone was there one thing what's that we talked over? Yeah. Because we're
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a train that goes from Orlando to Tampa.
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I agree. Yeah, I've
Law Smith
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been saying mass transit onstage we don't go Tampa Orlando Miami. Fuck northern Florida. We don't need any of that they the Georgia Alabama content right
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straight to New Orleans. Maybe? That'd be cool. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
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I never heard somebody willing to say Hey, I can't wait to go to Jacksonville.
Law Smith
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Do all except for
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Speaker 3
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that train only goes one way out of town. Well, Urban Meyer
Law Smith
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wise. Yeah. And fuck that guy rules. That guy gets hit on by chicks and gets wasted at his own. Oh, you don't know. Me? He kicks kickers Fuck, yeah.
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Speaker 2
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Okay, that's kind of finger popping. He saw his own bar, right? Like he I see nothing wrong with the man, man. And he's loyal, bro. Like you're cheating on your wife. He got your back. You said something racist. Yo, man. I'll give me a second chance.
Law Smith
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And I think he tries to get T bone involved in whatever he can just to kind of like he won't even meet them. I know. But he's loyal. He uses them now. out the average of him being kind of a degenerate. He's like, Well,
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I got to stand on the other shoulder to balance it out.
Law Smith
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Right? Well, tell me about not dude. Your Podcast. Oh,
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Speaker 2
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yeah, dude, we've been doing a podcast boy earring chain
Law Smith
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with Kermit Gonzalez. Danny Davenport, on the pilliga Tory Podcast Network.
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You guys hear me? Yeah, you just
Law Smith
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you just went dad. Zoom and go on us big time. If anybody's watching video,
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Speaker 3
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video does his own podcast
Law Smith
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pagers doing it from the chin up kind of thing. You know, it's kind of like when you driving, but I just got home man. I know. You squeezes it. Let me let you call it he got better. Yeah, I don't know how it worked. Oh, man. But oh, is this like this is like a POV interview
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Speaker 3
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watching Pedro walk into his house. This is like a 90s
Law Smith
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music video.
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On my little kid. Yeah. Man.
Law Smith
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We're getting nicknamed raccoons, right. Somebody that the cricket?
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Cricket right click the oldest thing. Okay. Thank
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God one of them,
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though. Yeah, dude been doing our podcast?
Law Smith
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Permit. Angle, dude. It's good. What are you talking about? I love it. No, he's leaning into it. He was always
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Speaker 3
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saying that and I'm like, no, no, no.
Law Smith
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No, I went all chamber. I went mostly chin in the frame. There we go. Yeah, the perfect his shoulders looking like they're hunched up. Yeah, Mm hmm. That's a one. Now we can just make him do whatever now.
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Speaker 2
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I like doing this one. Yeah. Oh,
Law Smith
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yeah. That's dad's on Zoom. Pretty much. Yeah. How does this work? And then you turn into a kitty cat. Oh, you guys. So what we only talk to you we only like to randomly FaceTime This is a calculated No. We only hit you up FaceTime wise when we're like, giggly messed up. You're in the room. So I don't want to say anything to to lecherous, but we like incriminating. We get giggly when we're messed up and we should call Pedro. FaceTime.
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Speaker 3
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For anybody who doesn't know I oftentimes will mouth the answers to these things into the camera to encourage people to watch it on video. Yeah, very,
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Speaker 2
20:02
very sad the first time you guys call me. Both of you were shirtless.
Law Smith
20:08
That's about right. It's on brand.
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Speaker 2
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And, and I'm like, oh, it's December. What's going on Drake to then put pieces together and then it became like, anytime there was a holiday, you know random FaceTime kind of thing.
Law Smith
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You could expect more of that. I'll see you on Christmas. Yeah, buddy. Who is this guy talking to a big Puerto Rican guy.
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Pedro Shut up. We're not sure my family's
Law Smith
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gonna be like just loan money. This guy what's going on?
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Speaker 3
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I want you to face your kids Christmas morning.
Law Smith
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Only on guy.
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Speaker 2
20:46
Now, you guys you guys are off the fucking chain and Dan. Question a message. Huh? Dude, I got it. I'm always on the move. Bam. So
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Speaker 3
20:57
no kidding. He's outside walking around. I'll throw a plug a drones going over to his neighbor's house if you want to get in the packages up their front door
Law Smith
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if you want to hear the reeking gorilla running away? Likely not dude in a H dod.com. They got a Patreon. 4k. 4k. Are you saying 4k?
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Speaker 3
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Like yeah, that's Spanish foot. 4k. We can do 4k. What that is don't feel like it.
Law Smith
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I'm glad you're doing. I heard you're not doing stand up as much anymore. I'm glad you're doing the podcast. You know, he's a fucking monster. He's a headliner monster on stage. Yeah, man. Hard to follow. For sure.
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Speaker 2
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I appreciate that. You don't know how awkward that makes me feel when I hear it.
Law Smith
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I'll just keep reading compliment.
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camera angle is?
Law Smith
21:55
Oh, well, you are you are great. You're if there's grades in comedy your upper classmen when I came in, and so you and like Ken Miller always kind of looked at you guys like I'm not there yet. But I need to figure out how to kill like these guys kind of thing.
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I see when I see you. i It's like
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Speaker 3
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it's weird people. How can you not they not think you're funny? One way I've never seen you do any I have a bad moment on on stage ever. Like it's always been like, dude, the guy. And I it's not the same. But I heard the same thing about Sinbad that I believe that he was like, I've never had a bad set. Well, I've never bombed he's and I could see that about Pedro. I know. You're gonna say yes.
Law Smith
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Kind of nuts, though. Right? But I'm saying like, I do see Pedro lives in reality go
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Speaker 3
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in and you be funny. You know how to be funny every time. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna say it's a compliment. Compliment.
Law Smith
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No, no. I thought it was adding to it. You're you're not you're naturally funny. Whether you want to be or not. Yes, you can't help. That's what I wanted.
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Speaker 2
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And as far as bad moments, and I know, it's the same size for Brian, since he took over, he would have me come over and hey, do a show. And I read it. Let's do it. I will get open for you do it. I'll promote the book we get into I would get into arguments with him. Why? Because I'm like, I don't want to do this. Why you? I'm like a fighter was
Law Smith
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was that how you were? The whole time you're doing it when you're doing it all the time. You just you never want to get up. You're nervous.
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Speaker 2
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I'm like, I fucking I'm not nervous. It's just something in effect. I don't want to do this. I don't know why you want me to. Brian, let me do 35 minutes. Pedro, you heard learning just just give me 40. I'll do 35 Let me do 35. And give me the light at 35. And I'll see how long
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later, I take that shit.
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Speaker 2
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I will. I will get off on stage and he'll be like, you were there for 62 minutes. Right.
Law Smith
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And you probably didn't even use all your setlist that you wrote down beforehand. Like, it's weird. It's
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Speaker 3
24:00
like, honestly, your show flies by faster than any I mean, I've been to somewhere it's like, how long have you been going? I'm about over it. You know, with you. I'm like, he's not gonna do and you did an hour and 25 Yeah.
Law Smith
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throw money on us now.
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On his own phone,
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I got to do a show.
Law Smith
24:20
No, I love it. I think this is interesting. This is the most
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major interview. He's doing stuff around his house.
Law Smith
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If anybody watches on video, I mean, look, this is wildly interesting, because he's just going through his demote dad motions. Don't put money in, like a change jar because or cussing jar or something. But alright, so I took two things from that. One. You never really saw that as your creative process. Like, like there's a lot like you say you're a fighter, right? They say like Mike Tyson would have to fuck like eight hours before or whatever, right before he got the Amazon like, and he knew that was like, he's just like, I got to do it. I have to Dude that's in like, that's part of his routine, right? A lot of comics have that thing where they're like, God, I suck. I don't want to do this. I mean, it's not. It's like, I don't know, probably 20% of the ones I know are like, nervous in that energy, whether they explicitly put it out there or not. But that energy is palpable. When they're like, I look, I went up a couple nights ago, I felt rusty, I found unprepared. I was like pacing. I haven't
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Speaker 3
25:27
done that in a while. You went out and beat a dog like you usually do and you kill.
Law Smith
25:31
Yeah, that's one of the best sets of had years, or at least one of the most fun sets. And I asked the other thing I was gonna say is, VT is a good kind of nautical beacon for you. Because he's the good coach. That's like, I know you can do this. He's affirming it for you. Ironically, stand ups need affirmation, but we need it from people like him that he's been doing it 20 years as a GM then owner. So you see everybody, I got an attaboy for a moment. I was like,
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Speaker 2
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here's how I always felt when it came to that whenever he would give be, like affirmation, like you said, it'd be like, Hey, you should do this. You should do. But why don't you do this? Like he always tried me to progress. And it's a trust issue for me, because you know, you do comedy, you come across a lot of fake motherfuckers. And it takes me a while for me to figure them out. People be like, Nah, he's genuine. It's like, I'll listen to him and stuff like that. BT has been real for me from from day one when he was bartending.
Law Smith
26:35
So you got to like, I always think about those moments and those kind of people in your life, and I'm trying to be more proactive to gravitate towards them for advice, or like notes or, you know, any anything they tell me about me that I'm not seeing, because they'd been right previously. Got to really take that in and go maybe that is reality, and I'm not seeing myself the way you know it. I think it is kind of thing. And that's what that sounds like he's reflecting to you that you are good. No matter how much shit you talk to yourself.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah. But then I also be like, Man, this Muhfucka wants me to do a gig and I don't want to do it. I don't wanna, I don't wanna break his heart and tell him no, and stuff like that. But I started learning how to say no to things like I had to tell the guys I got offered a ridiculous amount of money to do a private gauge for a country singer. And, and I said, No. Well, you're gonna Yeah, you know, it'd
Law Smith
27:37
be the first time you'd ever bomb you always talked my ear off about Clint Black. And Robert Wilkie? You
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Speaker 2
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know, get it. Done. Yeah. It's a younger it's a younger guy. What the fuck was his name? Dirks Bentley to Brian.
Law Smith
27:57
Wow. Okay. And who's here?
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Speaker 2
27:59
My buddy. My my buddy does like corporate gigs. Things he was looking for complex. So he gave me the call to do his Christmas. Like, like, holiday fucking get together his arm or whatever the fuck it is. And I'm like, Yeah, man. The money sounds great. How much was it?
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How much money Oh, matters in this scenario. Tell us it doesn't matter. Nobody fucking listens is dumb show
Law Smith
28:26
to $2,000 2000 For how many minutes?
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Speaker 2
28:30
1030 minutes? Cool. A cold 30
Law Smith
28:35
going up at a party where people don't know
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in Orlando. Yeah. How was the No,
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no, no, I had to. I had to go to Georgia.
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That doesn't make a difference.
Law Smith
28:45
Like to me. I'd be like, I probably do it. Even if I didn't need the cash just to go. I know this will be experience. I know. It'll be painful. You know, when you get those gigs where you're filling in. Right? And then like,
2
Speaker 2
28:57
do I know right? I did those gigs. I did those games with you. To me? You Me and JB did this bar somewhere in the middle? Oh,
Law Smith
29:08
I was thinking about that today. Yeah, cuz I was like, Man, I don't I actually don't know your origin story. Really? Like, I know, I know. bits and pieces, but I know we've hung out and that car ride that was like, three or four hours to get to a bar in the middle of like, this is scary. This is Texas Chainsaw Massacre looking little town.
2
Speaker 2
29:34
It was you meet JB and I forget what the other kid's name was.
Law Smith
29:41
Oh, no, no, it
3
Speaker 3
29:41
is it's the job to a joke. That's for sure. Jonas.
Law Smith
29:45
My name is Jonas.
29:46
Yes, Jonas.
Law Smith
29:50
and I were scared. I was scared and I was white. You know that they were frightened. Big time. Nothing Yeah, okay. That bombed um, but
3
Speaker 3
30:01
I already pointed out that the racial yes that all the different
Law Smith
30:05
well yeah, it was like oh man I'm gonna get in trouble for just hanging out with non whites that's that kind of city we were in it was a no no no I'm just driving no big deal
2
Speaker 2
30:17
but it was it but it was like a biker bar type vibe come in that place because we in JP were outside JP yeah they told us you can come in
30:28
rod is inside. Yeah. I would assume also.
Law Smith
30:32
Well then water fountain was outside. So you know, as a greenroom. There
2
Speaker 2
30:37
you go. And there's always it's always great when JB is asking questions to somebody and the guy goes, I, I can answer that. But you promised not to hit me. Oh, yeah, I was like,
Law Smith
30:50
What was the question of cash on him or something? No, something like that. I have my memory
2
Speaker 2
30:59
of it. Those gigs. I remember those. Those are the fun games. But I remember having to top the rooftop gig was was a blast. I missed the windows.
Law Smith
31:08
Were there coming back. I just talked to John J. Murray about that. The other night, we used to have an apartment complex, one of those huge 5000 apartments kind of place that had a parking garage,
31:19
like sounds like a high estimate.
Law Smith
31:21
I don't know. A lot of foul. Okay, let's say 1000 apartments in the whole complex, big enough to
31:28
be real. Let's be realistic, like 500 appointments. So my guy doesn't matter,
Law Smith
31:32
guys.
31:34
He's gonna look up and not tell. I
Law Smith
31:36
didn't know you guys were autistic. All of a sudden, it was. It was on the sixth floor of a parking garage. It's big enough to have six, four parking garage. How about that? Okay. And we did it on the rooftop. And if there's anything with this show, that's comedy, business, business, comedy, whatever. You know, we just try to make our own shit happen as best we could. Everybody's an individual performer. But we try to group together and do these kinds of fun things like that. Like we had a holiday show. Like a a Christmas show, run by Jewish comic, Robbie slowik. Every year, one of my favorite shows of the year outside when the weather's good like this. And those things are I think, you know, COVID, the mulligan era of COVID the Purgatory we're kind of in like, kind of killed some of those like, unique things for a while. Kind of sucks. Yeah, I think it killed you getting on stage for whatever reason.
2
Speaker 2
32:32
They did the last time I was on stage was 2019. What? Whoa.
Law Smith
32:37
What? Let's do a show. Let's do show come. We'll do on it. side splitters. I'll have
2
Speaker 2
32:44
those Yeah, I'll go get it I gotta get on stage first. Yeah, I gotta I gotta do
Law Smith
32:50
that no, Matt Fernandez and I are working on something together to like CO headline something there. You can come in and just do rip 10 minutes. Redline. Hmm, and then Matt can Matt can follow you and I don't have to. You'll go live but you'll go on first. Right well, if you go headline someone's got to go on. Yeah. Yeah. But you can come in and do warm up side of
33:11
disrespectful to Matt.
Law Smith
33:12
I just, I'm putting it together. Yeah, I'm doing it. I'm doing it too. I can record 30 minute special put it on YouTube or something?
2
Speaker 2
33:21
Why are you blind? Why are we rushing to do specials on YouTube?
Law Smith
33:25
I didn't do I don't have any asset. I don't have any things like I don't I
2
Speaker 2
33:30
don't put don't put anything. It's all on its own stuff.
Law Smith
33:34
No. Pre COVID I was trying to work on that set to do the same thing. Just put it on YouTube. Put it out there. If I actually know the nerd tricks to maybe put money behind it to get it seen, you know, with a No. Enough views.
33:52
Oh, there's no, there's no tricks on that ship.
33:54
You wouldn't understand. Yeah,
2
Speaker 2
33:56
I got it. No, wait, what? Here's the part that drives us crazy, dude. Kermit Kermit goes on production. On a production kick. He he'll cut clips, he puts them out. He puts them on every social media fucking thing. No hits, or it doesn't get any traction. Some idiot cries on fucking on tick tock and puts it Venmo 11 point 3 million. They say what the fuck? What are we doing wrong?
Law Smith
34:24
Well, it's tough. We live in that world to this show. And it's kind of like one of those things where we're working on kind of up in our game. He's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. And it's got to be consistently in order to
34:37
break is the point. Right? Well, I
Law Smith
34:39
mean, like, at some point, if you can't do it organically, you're gonna have to pay for it online. You know, with ads? Yeah. And that's doable. And that's it. Yeah, I
2
Speaker 2
34:50
don't want to pay for it. I don't want to pay for it. It's to me, it's not that serious. Um, I don't know, man. It's just it just feels is it all feel like the equivalent of the comic that pays the Booker?
35:04
No, it's like hiring a hooker.
Law Smith
35:05
No, that's not the same metaphor
35:09
dirty like a hooker, it feels
Law Smith
35:10
dirty, but you feel great.
35:12
You pay for it, but you got that release
35:14
a hook or the hookah one yet,
Law Smith
35:16
and then you keep doing
35:18
what else rhymes?
Law Smith
35:19
And then you'll do it around your family. I'm still at work, I'm still at work. But I'm saying like, that's not the same metaphor. Because no, the online world like you don't realize how much stuff is paid for that is supposed to be organic, that blows up. There's a lot of shit out there. Right? I
35:37
have to start there, right? This person, then the dirty shit is was doing.
Law Smith
35:42
Oh, and yeah, in what what I fuck up for this show is not consistently putting out marketing stuff for the people that keep saying like, hey, I really liked the show, when I run into him and stuff and you're like, shit, that's kind of an indicator to me, if I get enough people to say that, Hey, I see my feet and see my feet. You know, it's all about little tweaks just like, it's more like joke riding. It's like you got to set. It's okay. You know, it can be better. You can, but you got to really actually spend some effort into it. Like, you know, if you really want to do it organically. Best thing to do, honestly, group together email lists, group them together, consistently put out the email list, and remind people you're around. There's so many just, there's so many options. What do we say 200,000 podcasts that are active, meaning that they put a show an episode out the last three months. And like, there's like 6 million technically, but yeah, really active ones. There's 200,000. And that's just podcasting. So you're trying to get their time there. So you really have to have some kind of value. I do feel like this show. As silly as it is. We will try to interject like, something we've learned from someone else smarter than us. Or some kind of here's a website or app we heard about. Check that out. At least you get something out of it a value
37:02
and then we tell them that so so let me
37:04
ask you this. No disrespect what
Law Smith
37:06
a gay man. No, do you think you're on a conference call with us?
2
Speaker 2
37:12
No, shut up. Let me ask the question. God dammit. This cuz I know blah, blah. It's always been into the marketing kick and aspect of business and stuff like that. From from Eric, all I know, is that yeah, he wanted to do the fucking the the win half fucking treatment to everybody he saw. Yeah. At one point.
Law Smith
37:34
That's it. That was actually the bridge to get him on the show as a guest. Yeah. And then. Yeah, he came on. He came on talking about the first time because I was like, that adds value to the show. I'm interested. You get rid of your allergies. Yeah, which is every white person tells me about their allergies. And I'm like, I know. It's like old dad bods with back pain.
3
Speaker 3
37:58
I couldn't we all have it. I know. But I also don't want to work out. Okay, well, yeah, I'm doing. I don't want to change my diet. Yeah. So what do you ask? What's the question, Pedro?
2
Speaker 2
38:07
This podcast is about what what's the like? Sweat equity when I thought about it, that was like a business kind of podcast. But then you have very, like, There's no way that's always
Law Smith
38:19
he knows he like he worked with me. The agency I had a really we do
38:26
the same exact job now. Right? He
Law Smith
38:28
knows like, Yo, bro, my Batman, but no, but he doesn't. He doesn't self promote. Like you're grossly like I do. Like, I'm a big on LinkedIn. That's what I like to tell chicks. Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying like, Yeah, but it's relaxing. You're more
38:43
you're more,
38:45
more confident my knowledge.
Law Smith
38:47
But this show your
38:48
introvert and he's
3
Speaker 3
38:49
excellent. That in this scenario, absolutely. Sure.
Law Smith
38:53
But we're complementary, working wise and on the show in a good way that that gives a positive result. But also like, Look, I've been into entrepreneurship. That was my major in college. Like, I've written business plans and stuff. Like, I always kind of kept this comedy world in the business world separate. And then I was like, why am I doing that? Like, these things are good together. And if I'm really talking about like future plans for the show, you're seeing more of these segmented kind of mashup genres or our thing was like, there's no real talk podcast. There's no one that's really taught like, my thing is like, Hey, here's some stuff I fucked up and learn from or here's we interview someone that knows something more something we don't that can give advice out there. Or the first time you get a hemorrhoid I've never had one right what's it like?
3
Speaker 3
39:45
It was horrible I talked about it on episode whatever the fuck just saying
Law Smith
39:49
we talked about the SEC to me. I was nervous about getting a second me talk
39:53
all that stuff. You know, y'all Yeah,
39:55
both of you got a vasectomy
Law Smith
39:58
same time Groupon dude. Yeah. We had all
2
Speaker 2
40:01
I wanted I wanted one. I wanted one. And I was told no it rules.
40:06
Were told no. Who told you your dough? Wow, that's
2
Speaker 2
40:10
my special. My wife told me know why she wanted another kid. I get it. No, she she, I guess she's with another one of activities. Correct. He wanted that as a case of evidence for some reason. That's pretty rad. Huh? It's fucking crazy.
Law Smith
40:29
Like relax. Yeah, it usually takes even if they can't have kids still want you to do
3
Speaker 3
40:33
it thinking steps ahead. I don't even know what she's up to. Yeah,
Law Smith
40:37
you know to not have that shot. What would that what to not have that shot clock in my head? Oh, you're well I'm given that two minutes of love is awesome. All right, you're we're almost done. We got one more question. And then you got family stuff.
2
Speaker 2
40:54
I'm getting your that. I know. Work. Work Life. Correct. I like to cure a cup and in the Curie.
41:01
Fuckin at it.
Law Smith
41:02
How dare you? I know. You know,
41:04
your fucking mind.
Law Smith
41:05
That means you don't mean much to her? Does it means your your feelings are more important. I'm sorry, sir. How dare you do that thing that everybody? How dare you do that? 99% of cure goes do?
41:19
I'll get it the next time. I should know better.
Law Smith
41:22
Right? Because it'll ruin the cure. Oh, wait, it won't. Um, if you leave it in there. It'll do nothing. All right, we'll let you go. But like work life balance. It's another thing we talked about a lot like entrepreneurship being we like talking to comics, because comics are trying to figure out the entrepreneurial route, right? Because whether they want to admit to it or not, they are entrepreneurs like they're their own business.
2
Speaker 2
41:48
It's weird law because I enjoy comedy up until it turned into a business. Yeah, look, I that's that's when I hated
Law Smith
41:59
it. I hated it when I did it only and that was my only income. I was like, I don't think I think I have to. And plus, I thought I had a good acumen for kind of the professional world too. Why can't I do both? That's what I was always kind of thinking. So yeah, I don't want to be an actor. I don't want to do any of that stuff. I like I like both sides of the coin. I have, you know? Yeah, but I don't want to get yelled at by your wife. Like, I don't want to get a FaceTime from her when she's fucked up. on us. Like, be like, How dare you talk shit about it. Talk to you like that, Pedro. I gotta go. But I love him. And I like that. I love him and his wife. Last time I saw them both, I think was my wedding. That is now Yeah, yeah. But we always ask this is your first time on the show. We ask everybody the first time. What is this? How we'll end it? What advice would you give your 13 year old self?
42:58
Oh, damn,
Law Smith
42:59
yeah, hit you hard. You thought this show is all dicto Cha.
43:03
Yeah, I thought so. Bro.
Law Smith
43:06
Matrix your brain. Those listening he pulled back his great hairline is like Damn, that's a good question.
3
Speaker 3
43:14
It is solid. It's a good it's a solid going anywhere. It's quick. It's all right, bro.
Law Smith
43:20
Yeah, you're stalling, bro. Let
2
Speaker 2
43:21
me take a 13 year old self. Uh, hey, man.
43:27
How are you? Hey,
2
Speaker 2
43:29
hey, hey, stupid. Hi. You from the future? Um, you did good. But listen, we're gonna do a do over. Um Don't take things personal. And stay on track.
Law Smith
43:44
I like it. Yeah, that's good. It's a constant theme we hear for everybody get rid of that radio noise
2
Speaker 2
43:52
Yeah, so like I said a lot of things that that shaped me when I was little that made me stop doing things right
Law Smith
43:58
what is that? I want to tease that for the next time you come on and then yeah, I want to hear about
2
Speaker 2
44:04
your do I want to do it? I know honestly next time we fucking come to Tampa let's do one live
Law Smith
44:09
comm to book a gig together dude Come on. Let's get you back up there to good
44:15
live I'm doing the Bill O'Reilly
Law Smith
44:17
fucking do live Yeah, well,
44:20
I'll do the wind I'll do the wind half I'll do the wind.
44:23
Yeah, fucking we might need a bigger we're gonna
Law Smith
44:26
take this clip send it back to you when you don't come out here so we're gonna No no,
44:30
I'll be out there. I'll be out. Do your little talk we're you're
Law Smith
44:34
always welcome with us. But thanks for coming on. Thanks, dude.
44:39
Thank you guys love you peasy.
