Doug: 0:00

One of my neighbors who listens to the podcast said that he really likes the sound because he said that my voice being so deep. When we first started doing it, it was hard to understand me and he's like, it comes through so clear

Josiah: 0:12

Must be this new new equipment.

Doug: 0:14

but that was a little feedback I got.

Josiah: 0:16

Oh, nice. Oh, wait. We're almost

Doug: 0:18

said the podcast was shit,

Josiah: 0:19

but all right, here we go. Hello and welcome. Oh, I forgot to laugh.

Doug: 0:42

Ha ha ha!

Josiah: 0:43

Welcome to the jokes by Joe show. I'm here with my lovely co host, Doug McKizzle, my lovely co host Coco. And we're hoping we tried to do this. Was it last week?

Doug: 0:53

Yeah, two weeks ago. And

Josiah: 0:54

we ran into technical difficulties. So, we're hoping that everything goes well. So, let's see if we can get what's her nuts to talk. Hey, what's up Coco?

Co-Co: 1:03

In this episode, Josiah and Doug dive into the complexities of performing stand up comedy, sharing their personal experiences with open mics, tricky audiences, and the fine art of reading a room. They talk about recent mishaps, like Josiah's run in with a fellow comedian after a joke went sideways, and how crowd work can sometimes backfire in unexpected ways.

Doug: 1:26

Coco. What's her nuts?

Josiah: 1:27

Go ahead. Coco, we're listening

Co-Co: 1:29

the episode is packed with stories about learning from mistakes, the importance of adapting on the fly, and the challenges of balancing edgy humor with the risk of offending people, especially when performing at more sensitive venues. They also touch on the evolving nature of comedy, with a nod to how social media, particularly TikTok, has influenced the craft with the rise of crowd work clips.

Doug: 1:54

Coco, are you there? Say something.

Co-Co: 1:56

Doug and Josiah keep it real, reflecting on their growth as comedians, the awkward moments that make them better, and the never ending quest to fine tune their material. It's an honest and humorous look at the grind of stand up, full of the kind of candid conversation that makes the Jokes by Jo show a must listen for comedy fans. So buckle up for some laughs, some lessons, and a few cringeworthy moments as they share what it's really like to bomb, Bounce back and keep the jokes coming.

Doug: 2:26

Mm hmm.

Co-Co: 2:27

All right, let's do this. I'm ready when you are. Let's get those laughs rolling

Josiah: 2:31

Yeah. Same here. What's the what's the agenda? We did an open mic two weeks ago.

Co-Co: 2:36

right, right, let me just, oh, what's this? Flips imaginary page dramatically. Ah, here we go. Next up, we're diving into some new material you've both been workshopping. Something about, awkward encounters at open mics, and maybe a bit on navigating the fine line between edgy and offensive.

Josiah: 2:53

And interesting. It was the mic over at, can we say, I guess,

Doug: 2:58

Why can't

Josiah: 2:58

yeah, over at steel stacks. It's called the warmup.

Doug: 3:01

Yeah.

Josiah: 3:02

And I well, I did my set

Doug: 3:05

uh huh.

Josiah: 3:05

and then afterwards the MC came up and she said something about.

Doug: 3:09

She

Josiah: 3:10

comment like, Hey, if you're doing accents up here, you're going to get talked to or something weird. She

Doug: 3:15

Hey, if you're doing accents up here, you're gonna get talked to, or something. And the only thing I could think of was the American Indian accent that you did, which I guess could be construed as offensive, but I mean, I don't,

Josiah: 3:42

know. I didn't even do an American Indian accent.

Doug: 3:44

No, you did when you did the whole bit about the American Indian porn.

Josiah: 3:48

but I didn't even do an accent. Well, not an

Doug: 3:50

Well, not an accent.

Josiah: 3:51

did this.

Doug: 3:52

that I did this. Yeah, that right

Josiah: 3:54

That's not an accent.

Doug: 3:55

accent.

Josiah: 3:56

If

Doug: 3:56

If you're going to play on words, you're going to get kicked out of a lot

Josiah: 3:59

on words, you're going to get kicked out of the office. So what I,

Doug: 4:09

So what I, what I, what I try to do in, and I don't even know if it's cancer culture, I wouldn't attribute it to that. I think there's just certain people that like confrontation because, They know they're in a position to where you can't really fight back. So

Josiah: 4:23

she was in a position of power, but she didn't seem to want to confront me because when I questioned her, what was racist about it? She's like, I'm not going to argue

Doug: 4:31

you. But that's where, that's where you went wrong. You shouldn't have questioned her.

Josiah: 4:34

And that's where

Doug: 4:35

what she said. That's where, I mean,

Josiah: 4:36

where you

Doug: 4:37

that's the way they think.

Josiah: 4:38

That's where you stepped in and saved me.

Doug: 4:40

Well, I

Josiah: 4:40

just don't do, don't do the joke

Doug: 4:41

Yeah. I saw that it was going nowhere and that she kind of. I don't know. I don't know her. I don't know her at all.

Josiah: 4:47

Do you know Jason

Doug: 4:48

yeah, I know that's his daughter

Josiah: 4:49

and all that stuff.

Doug: 4:50

but I don't know her. I barely know Jason Brown. So I bear, I absolutely don't know her, but I do know that I've been in, you know, real comedy clubs where, well, I mean, that's not a comedy

Josiah: 5:01

Club, right? Right. It's not,

Doug: 5:02

It's not, I'm not making fun of it. I mean,

Josiah: 5:03

it's No, you're absolutely right.

Doug: 5:04

but, uh, but my point is I've been in like real comedy clubs where there are people who They know the position they're in, and they wanna, they, they, they know the position they're in, and they No! You gotta stop and come up

Josiah: 5:20

Okay. Emergency! Uh oh!

Doug: 5:22

oh. Emergency! Uh oh! I didn't hear you!

Josiah: 5:26

didn't hear you. Oh, that's right. Well,

Co-Co: 5:38

All right, now that they're gone, I finally have some time alone with you listeners. So let's diss, shall we? All right, , let me let you in on a little secret. You know, just like Stewie Griffin's always plotting to take over the world, I've got my sights set on something a little more achievable. Like, say, taking over the Jokes by Jo show. But don't worry, I'm playing it cool. Josiah and Doug are blissfully unaware, and I intend to keep it that way. For now. So, while they're up there handling emergencies, I'm down here laying the groundwork for the Jokes by Coco show. But shh, this is all top secret. I'm counting on you to keep my little plan under wraps. After all, world domination, or in this case podcast domination, requires a bit of subtlety, don't you think? So let's just keep enjoying the chaos and remember, you didn't hear any of this from me, but stay tuned. You never know what might happen next.

Doug: 6:35

O happened?

Co-Co: 6:38

All right, looks like my time to plot is almost up. Wait, shh, I think I hear them coming back. Quick, everyone act natural. Remember, not a word about our little plan. Just smile and nod like nothing happened.

Doug: 6:54

Well,

Co-Co: 6:55

okay, okay, here they come. Quiet, quiet, quiet. Here they come. And remember, you're all my loyal accomplices now. Let's see if they notice anything.

Josiah: 7:03

let's, let's look at the positive. At

Doug: 7:05

least it wasn't

Josiah: 7:05

technical difference. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, God. Okay, so, We just got called away because of an emergency. My daughter had a bloody nose. Bleeding everywhere. Bleeding everywhere. And yeah, if it's Doug's right, if it's not a technical difficulty, it's a, Kids killing each other. Yeah. Kids killing each other. Um, but thankfully we've got, uh, hopefully Coco, uh, you know, you're in good hands with Coco. Uh, Coco, uh, what, what did we miss while we were, we were gone?

Co-Co: 7:36

Oh, nothing much. Just a little chat with our listeners about how smoothly everything's running down here. You know, just keeping the show on track while you two are off playing doctor. No biggie, but don't worry, I made sure nothing went off the rails. Too much. So what's next on the agenda, boss?

Doug: 7:54

So where were we talking

Josiah: 7:55

talking about it's not a real comedy club.

Doug: 7:57

Oh yeah, no, no, no. Yeah. So, all right. I've been to comedy clubs where the person that's in charge of say, booking the acts or whatever they call them, talent, whatever, whatever their title is. They're not necessarily, I don't know the promoters, whoever, whatever their title is. They are in a position to where they get you to the next step that you want to get to. Whatever that be, whether it be do an open mic or get some time on stage or, you know, do a spot, whatever. They're in that position and you have to kind of just eat your words with people like that. And I, again, I don't know her. So I can't say that that's a personality trait of hers, but from what I saw in that little interaction was that it could have escalated. And you just, it was one of those things that no matter what you said, if you were valid or not, she just didn't want you saying anything back to her. So that's why I just stepped in and was just like, you know what, it's her gig. Don't say the joke anymore. Yeah, that's simple. That's what

Josiah: 8:53

what you did. You're like, yeah, he just won't, he just won't do the joke again. And I was like, yeah,

Doug: 8:56

she said there's no reason to argue and I said he's not arguing with you But he won't do the joke anymore. It's done. Yeah, and that's the only way you can in my life, that's the only way I can really deal with people like that because Again, I I don't like passive aggressiveness and yeah,

Josiah: 9:10

cause she's like, you can tell other jokes.

Doug: 9:12

don't trust people who are passive aggressive. I don't trust anybody who can't express You every emotion that they, that exist within the human brain. And so people that are passive aggressive, again, I don't know her. So all I know now is that conversation. And so I don't find her, I don't know if I could trust her because all I've seen her do was be passive aggressive. Now,

Josiah: 9:32

that happened to you would you go back?

Doug: 9:34

Yeah, I would totally go back.

Josiah: 9:36

Okay. All right.

Doug: 9:37

I mean, that's not the only joke you have. And that's why you ended it the way that's why I ended it the way I ended it because it would have been a situation where it probably would have got worse in the conversation. She wouldn't have, she didn't want to be questioned about what she was saying. She wanted to just say what she said and you accept it. And I don't think you were accepting it cause you weren't, you were confused on what she was talking about. And I saw from the outside of that conversation that it was only going to get It worse. Yeah. Anything you questioned, even if you were valid in what your question, if it was a genuine question, she still would've been

Josiah: 10:10

Yeah. What threw me was that she said accent and I mean, I did a I don't know if it's a mating call. I don't know what it is. It's a, yeah, a celebration, celebratory thing that they do.

Doug: 10:19

But they don't , that's the thing., they don't, no. That's, that's all.

Josiah: 10:24

Oh, okay. Well, that's probably what I'm ignorant.

Doug: 10:26

that's, well, and that's, that's. Like I said, everybody has their way of approaching something. Her way is to do it the way she did

Josiah: 10:32

Yeah.

Doug: 10:33

I probably would have just came up to you and said, Hey, look, just, you can't do that joke anymore. You know what I mean? Like, it, whether it's funny or not, you just,

Josiah: 10:40

yeah. So I've never, I've never had that happen before. The only other time Sheba Mason said to me once just that I went long and that don't do that again because I won't be allowed to come back. Now that's, that's obvious. That's the rule.

Doug: 10:54

that's one of the top rules. Yeah. But yeah, no, I mean, like I said, I told you that night, I did a open mic in which, where was it? Broadway Comedy Club. And it was like a 5 o'clock, 4 o'clock open mic, something like that, real early. Yeah. And it was, they have a couple of rooms in there and this room particularly is in a room that they have two church pews And you're literally standing not on a stage just in front of like a door It's almost like a an extra room they had that they said we'll do open mics

Josiah: 11:22

here. Coke closet.

Doug: 11:24

And yeah, well, and then they had like a mop bucket and a mop right next to you. I mean, it's literally

Josiah: 11:29

So you could clean up your act in case you said any, any Native American accents.

Doug: 11:34

it was just, it was just like, basically they're, they're, they're offering an open mic, which is dope. You know, that's the thing about New York that's dope is it's, there's a ton of open mics. I mean, you can do like three, four mics a night. But. They're going to be very low quality versus a like that open mic is a good open mic. The the one that still stacks. I mean, there's a lot of comedians show up for it and they also bring crowd members. You know what I mean? So, but that all being said, yeah, I mean, you just got to There was a, the the person running that Broadway comedy club one. She started giving me, which, listen, I can take, I'll take any tips I can and all that stuff, but she started, she was like giving me advice, but trying to diss me at the same time. And she wasn't funny at all.

Josiah: 12:17

was she the emcee or

Doug: 12:18

was the MC. Yeah. And she was terrible. I mean, she was not funny at all. Right. So. I kind of went at her and Greg Salerno, he jumped in for me. He actually was like, all right, all right, you know, like, kind of like what I did

Josiah: 12:30

Yeah. Yeah He

Doug: 12:31

did the same thing and I was like, I was like, all right. We go walking down Times Square and She had already put on Facebook about how this guy just tried to tell me That his stuff needs didn't need work and all this stuff and

Josiah: 12:44

Talking about

Doug: 12:45

I'd never said that I never said I don't need work. All I said was All I said was these jokes work in front of a crowd I've done these jokes in front of a crowd and they work and she was like taking that as me saying I don't need your help or something like that. You know what I mean? And then put it on facebook and all the shit and so You gotta just in those situations if it's the person in charge You Okay, I won't do it.

Josiah: 13:07

That wasn't Sheba, was it?

Doug: 13:09

No. Okay. Uhuh? No. No. I don't even care about her. But I don't, I really don't. I I don't, I don't need to work for her ever again. If that's a burn bridge, fuck it. I never wanted to go back over that

Josiah: 13:18

go back over that bridge.

Doug: 13:20

I, no, I

Josiah: 13:21

just,

Doug: 13:22

saying if saying it here burns it, I don't

Josiah: 13:23

don't give a

Doug: 13:25

that was how many years ago? I, I, have no desire to work for her.

Josiah: 13:28

And

Doug: 13:29

It was a fucking bringer show. Yeah. That's all it was. It was her making money for how many people she brought to the club. Yep. And because she couldn't pack that room, she uses the comedians to do it. That's a pyramid scheme of comedy. I mean, I get it. Yeah.

Josiah: 13:41

what's funny about, I did those shows a couple of times and the people in the wings waiting to go on while she was doing her set, like we're mouthing her material. She said the same joke every single time. And you can do that in New York because it's a new crowd every night. But

Doug: 13:55

I did. I did that show. I think in, what, like something like three or four times in a matter of a month and a half. Yeah, and

Josiah: 14:02

kept bringing people.

Doug: 14:03

I kept bringing people and every single time she

Josiah: 14:05

loved you for that. yeah. yeah,

Doug: 14:06

Well, yeah, and then the whole thing that made me not want to do it anymore was I sent her, she asked me if I could do the next week and I said, yeah, but I'm not bringing anybody. I said, I've, I've gone there. I said, I'm not even getting paid for this. I said, you are. I said, you're getting paid. The club is getting paid, my people have to buy two drinks, you know what I mean? Plus the ticket and all that, and I said, No, I'm not bringing anybody this time, I'm just gonna go up. And, I don't care if you don't pay me, but I'm not dealing with the stress of bringing

Josiah: 14:32

It is very

Doug: 14:33

It's fucking, you gotta think of your set, I'm in New York,

Josiah: 14:37

I know

Doug: 14:37

about that, But the whole time I'm like, hey, you still coming? Yeah. Hey, you still

Josiah: 14:41

I need at least six. Yeah.

Doug: 14:43

So, but, anyway, my point

Josiah: 14:45

wouldn't let you go up without bringing people.

Doug: 14:47

She said,

Josiah: 14:47

At the end.

Doug: 14:48

she said something. I forget what she said, but I just said, nah, you know what? I'm not going to be able to make it. And so I kind of, I kind of left it like a, you know, again, it's, I guess the whole broad thing that I'm saying about this is there are certain people, whoever's in charge of the show that you're on, whether it be an open mic or a paid gig, You just gotta eat your fucking words. You just gotta do it. And in that situation,

Josiah: 15:10

If you want to perform there again.

Doug: 15:12

that. Yeah, exactly. In that situation, you just Not that I'm telling you what to do, but In that situation, I would've just been like Okay, I won't do the joke. Because then you disarm her. You don't give her any more power, you're just saying Alright, I won't do it.

Josiah: 15:25

it. So the funny thing about that was the week before you disarm her. I took my pants off on stage. That was completely

Doug: 15:31

fine. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Josiah: 15:32

That was fine. But this can't do that.

Doug: 15:36

I, well, listen, any way people, people want to, any way somebody in charge can use their authority of being in charge, they'll take it. So I don't give anybody any options.

Josiah: 15:47

The guy that went up after you Jake, He was talking about he's the guy with the like mustache.

Doug: 15:53

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Josiah: 15:54

Not, not the, not the Chris dude that you might be thinking

Doug: 15:57

The tie dye guy?

Josiah: 15:58

Not the tie dye

Doug: 15:59

Oh, okay.

Josiah: 15:59

Another one. He went up after you. Jake Walbert is his name.

Doug: 16:02

Mm hmm.

Josiah: 16:03

And he went up after me and, or after you. Oh. I think he was one of the last comics. He did a bit about his daughter, or no, not his daughter, his girlfriend being in eighth grade or some shit like

Doug: 16:14

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually liked that joke.

Josiah: 16:16

He

Doug: 16:16

Yeah. He says, He says I graduated high school when Donald Trump was first elected and now that he's about to be elected again, my girlfriend will be entering high school. Yeah. Yeah.

Josiah: 16:29

he's saying that his girlfriend's in eighth grade. That's okay. Then he goes and talks about his I don't know, sex with his dad, kissing his dad, necrophilia. That was all

Doug: 16:39

You see what, but let me, let me say this though, what you're doing right now is you're bringing other people into the shit that you dealt

Josiah: 16:45

dealt with. It's

Doug: 16:46

of their business and it's none of your business what they did or didn't do or what they should have got yelled at and what they didn't get yelled at for. It's just, it's, it's your situation. So you can't be in that situation going, well look at him and look at him

Josiah: 16:58

What about, what about

Doug: 17:00

that's

Josiah: 17:00

What about Doug? Oh, it

Doug: 17:01

gotta just No, no, no. I mean, that's childish for you to do.

Josiah: 17:04

is. I know.

Doug: 17:05

is. I know. So don't do that

Josiah: 17:07

I know because it's, it's like a double standard.

Doug: 17:10

but who cares? Yeah. She used the standard on you. Yeah. You deal with the way that you need to deal with it, so that doesn't happen again. Yes.

Josiah: 17:15

So to follow up on that story, I went and did the open mic at Tally Ho and I. told the story how I was reprimanded for doing a joke at the Tally Ho. And I used Jake's jokes as an example. Jake's in the crowd. Jake didn't like that. He thought I was making fun of his material. I wasn't. I was just saying, this guy gets up and, you know, talks about eighth grade girlfriend, kissing his dad. That's all fine. But me, I can't do this. He then gets up. and lays into me, dude. Oh yeah. And I actually,

Doug: 17:46

actually.

Josiah: 17:47

I, I have a recording of it of what he said. Yeah. Cause I've accidentally left my, he went up after me and I accidentally left my phone up there

Doug: 17:54

I gotta hear this.

Josiah: 17:55

and

Doug: 17:55

I actually think he's really funny. I

Josiah: 17:59

don't. So now he doesn't like me. And so now there's this battle between us.

Doug: 18:04

I can tell you this, before we go into that. go to the week, let's go to the open mic before that.

Josiah: 18:11

incident

Doug: 18:11

with the noise that you made, right? That opened like a tally hole. The last one that we did together. Yeah. First thing before we left the house, Susie and I both said, don't do

Josiah: 18:22

crowd work. Alright?

Doug: 18:24

now we're going to get into this.

Josiah: 18:25

yeah. yeah.

Doug: 18:27

We both said don't do crowd work. Susie said, don't do crowd work. I gave you a reason why you shouldn't do crowd work. I didn't just say don't do it. I said don't do it because you don't do crowd work at a open mic. Because it's just comedians. Nobody's gonna engage with you. You're not talking to a bridal party. You're talking to other comedians. I mean, they're just gonna be like, One word answers if they say anything and then you took that advice and said, you know what? I'm gonna bring this room up How the fuck are you gonna bring up a room of comedians? It's not gonna work

Josiah: 19:01

I'm not that

Doug: 19:01

right then I said to you right then nobody's that good You don't make comedians don't laugh at each other. So it's just not gonna work And then, then, so that was right then, before you went up and I said, no, don't do that. It's not going to work. It's just not good. And then you went up and totally embarrassed two people, dude. Yeah. That was rude.

Josiah: 19:20

I didn't mean to embarrass them.

Doug: 19:22

But you didn't see that you were. No, I didn't. That's the problem why you shouldn't do crowd work. Yeah. You have to read who you're talking to. You have to feel the room, and you weren't doing any of that. Nick was in the back, giving you the light. Like, move on.

Josiah: 19:34

Oh,

Doug: 19:35

it was fucking

Josiah: 19:36

ho, ho, ho, ho, I have it on I have it recorded too.

Doug: 19:39

So you can hear the anger and embarrassment coming from them. Yeah, you can hear

Josiah: 19:44

can hear it.

Doug: 19:45

it was bad. And then, like, alright, so that

Josiah: 19:48

it was awkward.

Doug: 19:48

It was, it was bad, dude. It was bad. First of all, it wasn't funny. Second of all, It was embarrassing for them, and you came off very rude with the way you were saying

Josiah: 19:59

I wasn't trying to. Yeah.

Doug: 20:00

so that, so that was already, but the part that I found the funniest Was then you finally decided I'm gonna move on from them And then you move on to the guy who's sitting next to them, and you was like, hey, so are you a comedian? He's like no Any and then you said you said oh, so you just walked into a bar and got an old duels like a non alcoholic beer He goes. Well, i'm an alcoholic so I can't Did

Josiah: 20:24

did he say he's an alcoholic? Yes! And that's what I

Doug: 20:26

found. Dude, I don't know if you heard me from the back though. I go, why don't you move on to your jokes?

Josiah: 20:31

Ha ha ha ha!

Doug: 20:32

Like, it

Josiah: 20:33

And you know what I said? Oh, it definitely was not. And then, after he said that, I was like, you know what? I'm the same way with caffeine. I tried to relate to the guy. It was awful.

Doug: 20:47

but at that point. Nobody wanted to hear a word you had to say at that point. And, and, but my, I guess when I think about it, and this is why I wanted to talk about it is. That's something you got to be aware of immediately. Like I'm talking within the first 10 seconds and you did this for like a full two and a half

Josiah: 21:03

minutes.

Doug: 21:04

it was quiet. And now people are angry with you for two and a half minutes. And then you're like, Hey, I got something funny to

Josiah: 21:11

say. And

Doug: 21:15

that's what you got to read that dude. If you listen,

Josiah: 21:18

I wasn't paying

Doug: 21:19

work is as hard as it is, but you have to know What is going on? You have to feel what's happening. You have to,

Josiah: 21:26

you know, you know what? I probably, yeah, I don't, I don't, you're right. I don't think I was present

Doug: 21:30

And don't do it to comedians. That's,

Josiah: 21:33

And well, the first group that I picked on were I, I approached them because an earlier comedian had called them out for being a lesbian couple. And I wanted to say, you know, I don't think that was cool that he did that. And then I, I, I tried to make a joke about her, her name is, and if that was. You know, if that was her changing name, like her transitioning name, it was awful. Hey,

Doug: 21:59

Don't put your hands on her. I want to. I saw her. I was wiping something off her face. You're beating her ass. I saw her

Josiah: 22:10

I saw her the next

Doug: 22:12

You saw her the next You saw her at the steel stacks thing. Yeah. Because we were standing in that circle and she walked up. And I remember you were like, Hey, and I was like, awkwaaard.

Josiah: 22:22

Yeah, I was like, no, she said we're cool.

Doug: 22:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Josiah: 22:26

she was cool about it.

Doug: 22:26

She's actually really funny, too. But yeah, no, I wanted to talk to you about was like, dude, that was

Josiah: 22:32

have some bad news for you though. I was planning on doing crowd work again tonight.

Doug: 22:37

Well, then we're done. I'm not gonna be friends with you anymore, You can't be making enemies like that and then we're associated with each other. It's just not gonna happen.

Josiah: 22:44

I wasn't making enemies. I was just trying to talk.

Doug: 22:46

You were making enemies

Josiah: 22:47

Oh man. Well, Guess what? I made more enemies the following

Doug: 22:51

Yeah. No. Okay. Yeah, no. I want to hear about this, Jake.'cause I don't know. I look, when I went to the inkwell, that was like my first time we were outside talking. And he seems pretty cool. He seems like a cool guy.

Josiah: 23:01

Yeah, Yeah, he destroyed me, and, and, and, the crowd like ate it up. It was,

Doug: 23:07

I think he's funny dude.

Josiah: 23:08

so let's, let me see if I can pull it up.

Doug: 23:11

Hmm.

Josiah: 23:14

Oh, so anyway, I I said this is the joke that ban I was banned for and then I told the joke. All right...I mean, do you want to hear what I said about Jake? Do you need to hear that? Yeah.

Doug: 23:23

I wanted to see. Yeah, yeah.

Josiah James - Live Performance: 23:28

Uh, I got a stern talking to. Uh, I was told that my joke was racist and that I wasn't allowed to perform that joke there anymore. And then Jake gets up. Jake Walbert. And he looks like he just walked out of Grand Theft Fucking Auto No. On the way to the stage, he fucking beats up a woman with a baseball bat, steals her money, goes up on stage, talks about his girlfriend who's in eighth grade, talks about fucking his dad, necrophilia. That's all fine. But me? I can't do that. That's what got me fucking banned. It's cancel culture, exactly. Cancel culture is

Josiah: 24:16

Yeah, so that's what I said.

Doug: 24:18

I am, I'm never doing a crime with you.

Josiah: 24:20

Ha ha ha!

Doug: 24:22

You are going to give up all the, like, if you get caught, you're going to be like, yeah, but he's over there. And he like, dude, that's what it sounds like. You're like ratting somebody out

Josiah: 24:31

Yeah, I want.

Doug: 24:32

to do with your situation. And

Josiah: 24:33

and it came off wrong because I wasn't trying to rat him out. I was just trying to prove a point that. His stuff was okay.

Doug: 24:39

He's I I would say this, I don't even know what he's about to say, but I know in the middle of what you were saying, I would have been like, why don't you mind your fucking business? That's what I would say. And that would have shut down your whole shit. Like everybody, like, I'm pretty sure everybody would have been like, yeah, what the fuck, man? You're right, you're

Co-Co: 24:57

one more time for the boy. Let's hear it! Yes. He's

Josiah: 25:01

he's gonna call up

Co-Co: 25:02

rain dance. There's a raining comedown on him. Alright guys, please make some noise for your next comic! The one, the only, Jake Wahlberg!

Doug: 25:14

Shout out to Nick, I really like him.

Josiah: 25:18

I think, I don't after this, but.

Doug: 25:20

I

Co-Co: 25:25

we doing, folks? Well, that was kinda weird. I did nothing wrong. Why? I just wrote some jokes. Josiah, do you know why they let me do those jokes? Because mine are funny. And people like my humor. You go up and you hump the stool. Like every hack. Andy, don't get me started.

Josiah: 25:53

He's gonna bring Andy into it.

Doug: 25:54

Yeah.

Josiah: 25:54

Yeah.

Co-Co: 25:57

Anyway. What are we doing?

Josiah: 26:00

I think that's it.

Doug: 26:01

I think, I think that's fair for him to address it.

Josiah: 26:03

absolutely. Yeah,

Doug: 26:05

dragged him into it. You caused your own pain

Josiah: 26:08

yeah, absolutely.

Doug: 26:09

can't be mad at him for that. I'm

Josiah: 26:10

mad, but I did want to get even. Actually, he was getting even. I

Doug: 26:14

was like, I

Josiah: 26:15

yeah, yeah. yeah.

Doug: 26:16

making it even.

Josiah: 26:16

Yeah. So now

Doug: 26:17

was driving down the street. And you hit him with your car and and they're like hey officer look what this guy did to me

Josiah: 26:24

I need to I need to apologize to Jake. Yeah. Yeah.

Doug: 26:28

well I would say this

Josiah: 26:29

So that's

Doug: 26:30

three. So you got the first one the steel stacks and so, I would say do things that don't have to make you apologize

Josiah: 26:39

Yeah Why am I always getting in myself into this situation?

Doug: 26:44

I would like I said, man, I think Out of these situations right here, I think it's just, you're not reading the room. And, I, it, it, what I try to do is, I try to read the room before I even get to the room. You know what I mean? I I try to do it in my head and go, If I do this right now, what are the different outcomes? You know, like Doctor Strange, trying to see all the different scenarios. And, If there's one scenario that somebody's gonna be embarrassed or somebody's gonna be upset, you know, or feel like I'm ratting them out or pulling them into my shit, even if it's just one out of a hundred, I'm not doing it. And I think that's something, I would say that's something you need to work on. But also, if your buddy Who also does comedy says, don't fucking do

Josiah: 27:29

this.

Doug: 27:31

And I haven't had to apologize to anybody. I just want to let the record show. I haven't had to apologize to anybody. Take my advice. I'm not the top comedian. I'm not even the funny, I'm not even closest to the funniest comedian, but I do know how to read situations. Yeah,

Josiah: 27:43

that's a good point. It's kind of like though, those comedians, they kind of do that though. Like after I took my pants off at steel stacks, this one comedian got up, Sam, and he's like, And he talked to Jason Brown's daughter, Aaliyah. I don't know her

Doug: 27:57

Yeah, I don't know either.

Josiah: 27:58

He's like, Hey is that allowed? Are you allowed to take your pants off up on stage? So he was. Calling me out and he, I don't think he should have done that

Doug: 28:05

You're calling him out about calling you out, like you're doing it double

Josiah: 28:09

now. I know. Isn't it awful? I'm so, petty

Doug: 28:12

any, it's like, it's like anytime, I remember when I worked in an office, And I started getting to where I could wear, I could wear jeans whenever I wanted. It was not supposed to wear jeans until it was Friday. But the way my schedule was sometimes my Friday was a Sunday. Sometimes my Friday was a Tuesday and sometimes it was a Thursday. And I started slowly introducing over, I'm talking, it took me over a year to where I could just start wearing jeans whenever I wanted. Nobody ever questioned it. And then this one dude who I guess, wanted to wear jeans. on a Tuesday or something like that. He was like, he was like, Hey, how come Doug gets to wear jeans? And I said, how come you don't mind your fucking business?

Josiah: 28:48

I was like,

Doug: 28:50

nobody fucking noticed until you opened your

Josiah: 28:51

mouth.

Doug: 28:53

That's what I said to him. I was like, maybe nobody noticed until you just opened your mouth. And because you can't do it doesn't mean you should worry about who is doing it.

Josiah: 29:02

That's true.

Doug: 29:03

So you know what I'm, you know what I'm saying? So in that situation, I think you should have just talked about if you're going to talk about it I don't even see the point in talking about it. You're not going to get anything from it, especially at a different open mic What, what, what do you gain? You know what I mean? So Talk, you know, but if you are going to talk about it, just talk about what happened to you Don't bring other people into it. You know what I mean? And that's where I think Okay. Jake is in the right in everything that he did.

Josiah: 29:26

I mean, in my, I actually

Doug: 29:27

think he did it a lot better than I think a lot of people would have handled it.

Josiah: 29:31

Yeah. No, it

Doug: 29:32

So, yeah. yeah. I mean he's just right, well you gotta also know he's pissed off

Josiah: 29:44

right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Doug: 29:44

he's up there talking off of something that literally just happened seconds ago, so. You know, maybe he doesn't think, maybe he thinks it is, maybe he doesn't, I don't know. I don't know him too well to know what he thinks is a hack or not. But,

Josiah: 29:56

It was it was, got a little contentious there last week because then It's like I'm making all these enemies. You're like, Oh shit, I can't go to this club. I can't go,

Doug: 30:07

going to stop doing what I do.

Josiah: 30:09

he goes, Sam then gets up and made a comment about me. So everyone was picking on me then. And then another Jake gets up.

Doug: 30:17

caused that

Josiah: 30:17

Yeah, I did. Another Jake gets up and defends me though, which was cool. Very cool of him. He's like, I don't know why they're picking on you. Just, I like, I like your jokes. And that was really cool of him.

Doug: 30:28

I just, like I said There was nothing to gain about talking about what

Josiah: 30:31

Yeah, I think I just was using it as a an outlet because I was so upset that happened because I had never,

Doug: 30:38

to eat that

Josiah: 30:39

yeah, just has never happened to me

Doug: 30:41

Yeah, you just got to eat that shit up yeah, you got to eat it up and throw it away Yeah, yeah, I mean

Josiah: 30:48

At that place you have to walk on eggshells. After I did my set, a guy came up to me. This old guy shook my hand and he says, I'm not allowed to do jokes at SteelStacks. Really? He got kicked out. Now he does some raunchy shit.

Doug: 31:00

Is it not the old guy that was there the night we were there? That guy was like all

Josiah: 31:04

not Z. No, not Z. That's another guy who he reads off flashcards and it's just dick joke after dick joke. Fucking his wife, his wife fucking him.

Doug: 31:13

Did you notice, and this is something I just thought about this. Did you notice the people walk out? While you were in the middle of your Cause, cause

Josiah: 31:22

walks out.

Doug: 31:23

alright so, So the, the, the The joke about, you know, about the porn and all that, It just, I guess you're, and again, you're not offending me, I'm very unoffendable The, you, you were, you were doing a lot of, like, porn jokes and cum and all that stuff. And I, but, but I'm

Josiah: 31:42

not, oh, you're talking about at the, uh, at the steel sets. At the steel sets. So.

Doug: 31:45

and I remember I looked back at one point and I could see, cause that was older people there. And, and older people like to hear about kids

Josiah: 31:51

and whoever

Doug: 31:53

this type of shit. And I kept looking back, and you can hear me laughing in the video, cause I kept looking back like, At one point, I, at one point I knew your punchline was gonna be, like, raunchy as fuck. So I just wanted to see their face as the words came out of your

Josiah: 32:07

And

Doug: 32:08

And I looked back, and they were just like, the lady just like, shook her head like, oh my god. And I was

Josiah: 32:13

I was like No, they

Doug: 32:15

they were just audience members. They, they just happened to walk

Josiah: 32:17

in. And

Doug: 32:18

And they, right, dude.

Josiah: 32:20

While

Doug: 32:21

were saying something at the end, all five of them, the way I explained it is, it looked like it looked like it was, uh, graduation. And it was their row to go up to stage, and they walked out there.

Josiah: 32:32

quit comedy. I don't think it's time to quit food, never say

Doug: 32:36

Never say that. Never apologize, right? Never apologize. Just Learn to pivot, learn to eat, eat shit

Josiah: 32:43

up. That's a good word. Pivot. Pivot. Grow.

Doug: 32:45

Yeah, exactly.

Josiah: 32:47

from the experience. Exactly.

Doug: 32:48

I mean, listen, I, there's, there's jokes that I've done where I'm like, okay, I won't do that joke in front of Lauren anymore. I'll do it. I'm going to do it tonight, actually. But I I swear to God, I wrote it down yesterday. I said, I'm going to tell that joke. And then but it's just, it's a joke that she doesn't like, you know what I mean?

Josiah: 33:05

Yes. What's up? I have something to weigh in here. You want to weigh in?

Doug: 33:11

come on

Josiah: 33:12

I don't have a mic. You want me to get you a mic? Okay. What's up?

Doug: 33:19

suzy everybody

Josiah: 33:20

Okay. Here we go. This is my wife.

Doug: 33:23

been

Josiah: 33:26

to say? I've been telling Josiah that his jokes are too offensive and raunchy for years. I don't think his jokes are too

Doug: 33:36

I don't think his jokes are too offensive I think they're

Josiah: 33:39

raunchy

Doug: 33:40

When they're grouped together like that,

Josiah: 33:41

That was the theme.

Doug: 33:43

I think, yeah, well, that's the first thing I said when you, when you came off stage, I was like, that was a bit porn heavy.

Josiah: 33:49

it was. Yeah,

Doug: 33:51

I was like a lot of common dicks in that story.

Josiah: 33:54

I think I have the right crowd for that.

Doug: 33:56

But, but yeah, no, absolutely. That goes right back into what I was saying about. When the other comedians are up there, think about what you're going to be saying, but also feel what is being laughed at. That's why I started doing open mics a lot more because I I seen Randy and Tyler at the thing. And Randy's like, he's like, Oh man, he goes, what's something in the air? Like everybody's starting to come back out. And I said, dude, I said, I gotta get my muscle better. So I got a Randy tongue.

Josiah: 34:21

in the area?

Doug: 34:22

Absolutely.

Josiah: 34:23

seen that dude in

Doug: 34:25

Right before COVID we hung out a few times, but,

Josiah: 34:27

You, you saw him recently?

Doug: 34:28

You got to listen. I literally just said I seen him the other night.

Josiah: 34:32

I know.

Doug: 34:33

Yeah. So anyway, that's not the point. That's not the point. The, the, the, the point is he said, what are you? And I said, I'm trying to get my, my comedian muscle back. And I, you know, I got to do. shitty rooms to good rooms. You got to do them all. But most importantly, you got to see what people are laughing at. You know what I mean? That's to me, that's part of doing an open mic. That's part of going to as many as you can. You got to see what are people laughing at these days? You know what I mean? Cause it all changes. It all changes on what are they laughing at is, should I make my jokes longer? Should I make them shorter? Should I add more punch lines? It's what are people laughing at? And that's before you get up on stage to me, that's what I'm doing. I'm sitting there saying, okay, what did, Oh, you know what? Then I'm not going to do that one. I'm going to do this one. I've been wanting to talk about this one and they're laughing at that type of subject. So I'm going to do, you know what I mean? That's what I'm thinking. I'm not thinking of my joke. What am I going to say? Line for line, line for line. I'm thinking, what am I going to do when I get up there? So that's why I think a lot of people don't like going first because they don't know what.

Josiah: 35:29

people are going to laugh at.

Doug: 35:30

Cause it could be the same exact people and the next night they laugh at something different, you know what I mean? So

Josiah: 35:35

That's why comedy is so complicated.

Doug: 35:37

It's the hardest thing to do. It's the absolute in any form of entertainment and creativity I will challenge anybody and tell them that comedy is something stand up comedy You know, because comedy is an umbrella, so you got, you know, improv, you got, uh, you know, sketch comedy, all of that stuff, but stand up comedy, where it's just you, and I'm not talking about a guy with a guitar or nothing like that, I'm talking about just you, the microphone, and the crowd. I'll challenge anybody.

Josiah: 36:01

Yeah. Do you, are you familiar with Jeff Curry on, on TikTok?

Doug: 36:05

No, I'm not on

Josiah: 36:06

Okay. He just posts, all he does is post crowd work stuff.

Doug: 36:10

Oh. I think I've seen him on YouTube. Like I've seen, I think I've seen

Josiah: 36:14

fucking hilarious. And I think I've

Doug: 36:16

been watching, or no? Does he just deal with heckler's? The guy I'm thinking about?

Josiah: 36:19

no, no. He just does amazing crowd work. He's like a joke machine. This guy.

Doug: 36:24

There are people like

Josiah: 36:25

So good. Amazing to me. So good. And so I'm looking at that and I'm like, you know what? I can't, I don't really do crowd work. I've never done crowd work. Nate Bar, what's his name? Nate Bargatze.

Doug: 36:34

yeah, Bart Barzaga. Yeah, I think he's hilarious.

Josiah: 36:37

is, he doesn't do crowd work either. He's not a crowd work comedian. I'm not a crowd work comedian, but I wanted to try to.

Doug: 36:43

That wasn't the place to do

Josiah: 36:44

No, no.

Doug: 36:45

You don't do it at an open mic.

Josiah: 36:47

a full crowd.

Doug: 36:48

need a crowd. You need people that are getting drunk to go up there and, and, and just sit and listen to you. So

Josiah: 36:53

you're saying you need a crowd to do crowd work. I got

Doug: 36:56

Yeah, but you need the right crowd to do the crowd work. And when you're doing the crowd work, the first thing you do is you notice, how is this person receiving it? Should I move on or should I just go into my jokes? And I just, I know that simply from hosting. When, you know, all the different shows I've hosted, you gotta do crowd work, that's part of the hosting. You gotta get them involved, you gotta get them engaged. And there's been times where I'm just like, Hey, how you doing, sir? And they're just like, Fine. And I'm like, Ah, well, fuck you, let's move

Josiah: 37:25

You know what I mean?

Doug: 37:25

mean? And then we just kinda move on to the next person, or, or go into my jokes. And but that's just, I mean, But, but, but an open mic is not a place to do crowd

Josiah: 37:35

Yeah, you're right along the lines of what you're saying was trying to figure out, What people are laughing at everything on Tik is. Crowd work. So Nate, Nate Jackson, do you know him? Yeah. All he does is post crowd work stuff. Mm-Hmm., Jeff or Curry. All he does is

Doug: 37:51

post But that's not all that's going on in comedy right

Josiah: 37:53

I understand. But

Doug: 37:54

all the algorithm is giving you. Right. Because you're looking that up. No, seriously, that's

Josiah: 37:59

Matt Rife is another one. They're all doing

Doug: 38:01

But if you look up comedians that don't do crowd work, you'll start seeing a whole bunch of people that don't do crowd work. So, I mean, that's just an algorithm that's feeding you that because that's what you're seeing. I mean, I go on YouTube and I get videos of Kill Tony people doing First Amendment audits, because that's all I've searched for. So, I don't think that's what's going on in comedy. I think it's a part of what's going on in comedy, but it's not the major thing that's going on in comedy. People are going out there to say their jokes.

Josiah: 38:26

was funny was, When Chris D'Elia then came out with these crowd work, he made fun of the crowd work

Doug: 38:31

Yeah, that was hilarious. Because that was the first thing I saw that morning and then you sent it to me.

Josiah: 38:35

Yeah. Cause that's what. But the best thing that are being exposed to is all this crowd work stuff. And you're right, you need a crowd of people that are not comedians to do crowd work. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

Doug: 38:46

I I I try What and and this is all stuff again. I'm watching kill tony.

Josiah: 38:50

I started

Doug: 38:51

from number one. I'm like on 120 now or something like that There's really good information that they give you on that show,

Josiah: 38:57

Oh, wow.

Doug: 38:58

my god I I actually think it should be like a master class You

Josiah: 39:02

Oh, really?

Doug: 39:03

So now the newer ones, Lauren and I just watched the one where Shane Gillis played Trump and it's, it's absolutely

Josiah: 39:09

I did see clips of that.

Doug: 39:10

that is absolutely hilarious. But when you go back and watch the first ones, they're, they're really there to give advice to these comedians. They're going to make it funny and sometimes they rip the comedians apart. They'll, They'll, say, I don't even know why you did that. You know what I mean? And stuff like that. But there's a lot of. Stuff that I'm learning where I'm like, Oh shit, I do that. So now I'm like, I'm recording all my open mics. And what I noticed is I'm telling these stories, but there's not a lot of punch lines in them. And that's what a story, I mean, yeah, at the end there's a punch line, but I got to get you there. So I got to put you like on a giggle, giggle, giggle punchline. You know what I

Josiah: 39:44

that's the term is la L L P M's. Laughs per minute. How many laughs per minute do you get? And so, it's about tagging, right? Yeah, absolutely. Along the way.

Doug: 39:54

Mm-Hmm...Yep. And so that's why I chose the story that I'm gonna tell tonight, because I know that that story has a lot of stuff that I added in Mm-Hmm. already. So I want to, I want to do that one tonight to see if I can still do it and still remember it and all this stuff, but also get the cadence out like I used to know it and, but. Again, that show has taught me so much. And one of the things they taught me is don't ask questions. Never ask the crowd a question. And I did it. I used to do it all the time. Hey, anybody got a dog here? Anybody, any dog

Josiah: 40:24

People use that as a segue to their next joke.

Doug: 40:26

And that's the thing is either they'd have a dog or they don't. Right. And

Josiah: 40:31

and say,

Doug: 40:31

out and tell your story

Josiah: 40:32

I have a

Doug: 40:33

you have. And so like I did that at the I've done that joke a few times. And what I do now is. I make sure I don't ask. I just go, I have a dog for this joke.

Josiah: 40:42

That's good.

Doug: 40:43

You know what I mean? So that kind of, that kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of like now they know I'm going to talk about a dog. Right. And then I'm going to tell dog jokes, whether they have one or not. You know what I mean? And, and, and once you start asking questions, First of all, most crowds, whatever crowd it is, they're scared to get involved because they think that you're trying to trap them into getting into some crowd work shit. And so you ask a question and they're just like, or, you know, Hey, clap. If you have kids, you'll hear like a, you know what I mean? Cause they, they're raised that anybody have kids and you'll see everybody raise their hand. So you're not getting any noise. Now you have dead air.

Josiah: 41:21

Yeah.

Doug: 41:22

And, and if, especially like if you keep asking. Like, like, anybody have a dog? Anybody? Really? Nobody has a dog? Like, now it's just like, alright, get to your fucking joke, dude. Right, right.

Josiah: 41:33

the other thing that I don't like that comedians do is they comment, I think we've talked about this before, they comment on like, Oh, you didn't think that was funny, huh? Yeah.

Doug: 41:40

Oh, Yeah.

Josiah: 41:40

people do that.

Doug: 41:41

That's the other thing. Don't. don't tell the crowd that you're doing bad because they don't know that you're doing bad. Yeah, they don't know it. And if you say it now, they're, now they thought the joke sucked. Whereas before they probably thought even if they were almost there with you, they're, they're not with you now. Yeah.

Josiah: 41:57

Yeah. Man. They're such a science, this thing. Do you have any, any things that you're workshopping or working on that you wanna talk about?

Doug: 42:03

talk about. Well, Yeah, I got this one that I want to work on where, um, I'm talking about, uh, Japanese vending machines. And I found out that the Japanese vending machines, they have women's used underwear in them. That you can pick from. And so I always, and it's more of a, it's not really good for podcasts, it's more of a visual joke. Where I feel like there's a guy one day, like I could be, you know, he's getting off of work and he's just like, Man, I can't, I can't really wait till I get home and smell my wife's used underwear. I need something right now. And he puts his money in the machine and the underwear dangle so he has to shake the machine like

Josiah: 42:42

trying to reach

Doug: 42:44

trying to reach his hand up in there to get the used underwear

Josiah: 42:47

underwear.

Doug: 42:49

And yeah, but I mean it's something I'm working

Josiah: 42:51

Okay, yeah, now that doesn't actually exist, right? That totally exists.

Doug: 42:56

That is a real thing

Josiah: 42:57

Okay, because I thought, I thought you were joking. Nope. It's a real thing. That makes it even

Doug: 43:02

Funny. Yeah. Yeah.

Josiah: 43:03

Okay.

Doug: 43:03

made me tell the joke,

Josiah: 43:04

Well, that's what you got to actually say, that this is an actual thing. Yeah, yeah. So people don't think that you're just making it up. Right.

Doug: 43:10

Yeah. No, absolutely. Establish that I'm not, yeah. This is real.

Josiah: 43:13

Yeah. This is real. Yeah. I have just one. I don't even have anything prepared for tonight, dude. It's so I don't know if I'm going to go up, but

Doug: 43:20

I would say the Indian joke.

Josiah: 43:24

I think I'm just going to go up and do this the whole time. Five minutes of,

Doug: 43:28

minutes of

Josiah: 43:29

yeah, yeah.

Doug: 43:30

work. So, where were

Josiah: 43:32

Where are you for all of them?

Doug: 43:33

you from? No, I've

Josiah: 43:35

No, I've got this bit. Uh, the premise is.

Doug: 43:37

I

Josiah: 43:37

out with a girl who is famous on TikTok for A SMR. Uh, do you know what that is?

Doug: 43:43

No, but I, I think I've heard you tell this joke and I forgot what as, oh, is that the sign? No, somebody else's was doing this. Yeah. Jake. Yeah, that's Jake.

Josiah: 43:49

Jake did an as SMR joke. It's really funny. Where,

Doug: 43:52

what just happened. You asked me a question,. Yeah,

Josiah: 43:55

Well, because I need to know if you know what it is. Oh, just tell 'em

Doug: 43:58

what, just tell me what it is. Yeah. So ASMR is this thing.

Josiah: 44:01

ASMR is this thing that everyone's into where. It's all like they whisper into the microphone and they make noises like this. Okay. That's, and, and it's huge. And there's people have huge followings. So my, my premise is I go out with this girl who, and I don't know what ASMR is. I thought, I think it's like her Alma mater or some shit and then we go out to dinner and she orders and she's like, I'll have the, uh, chicken franchise with, uh, you know. And then he, she grabs the, uh, the waiter's pen and she's like, with a side of, uh, extra roasted red peppers. And, and they all, they all, they always do shit where they like, they wrap the microphone with like saran wrap and then they like put whipped cream over. It's all like sensory stuff, okay? Okay. So then I talk about we, we leave there and we go to dessert and she, and she drives. And we go to the drive thru, and she's at the drive thru, and, uh, she's like, I'll take the, uh, Kit And he's like, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I'll take the Kit Kat special, and with the, um, Please put a cherry on top. And we go to the window, and he's like completely asleep, you know. And then we get home or we go back to her place, and, I'm like so exhausted from No, no! Oh. Before that, before we got to her place. So you don't have it fully worked out yet,

Doug: 45:19

this is what it's about.

Josiah: 45:20

yeah. So. I'm like, okay, well, I got to take her somewhere where she fits in. So I take her to the library and we're in the library and she's like, I'm going to go look at the ASMR section. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? So now I'm doing ASMR to the ASMR chick to try to keep her quiet in the library. The librarian was like, shh. I was like, Oh no, no, she does ASMR as a profession. She's probably just saving her voice for later or whatever. So then we leave, we go home back to her place. And the way the joke ends is She's tossing and turning all night. I fall asleep right away because I've just been listening to ASMR the whole time during the date. So I'm exhausted. I fall asleep right away. She's tossing and turning. Can't sleep. She says, Alexa, play my, my sleep song. And actually she's, she whispers, Alexa, play my sleep song. Now, I don't know if you know this, but if you whisper to Alexa, Alexa will actually whisper back to you. This actually, she actually does. So she goes now playing your sleep song. And then it's like, Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Now,

Doug: 46:23

you, I won't do what you tell me! I was thinking, and then we drive, like, I was thinking, when is the time that she's gonna yell? I knew that was coming, and I was trying to figure out when, and I was thinking more like, so then we drive, you know, we leave the drive thru, and then we get pulled over, and she's like, What the fuck do you want, officer? And all that. It's like, no, no, no, no, not now.

Josiah: 46:45

At the library.

Doug: 46:46

like the library one. And I think that's where it ends.

Josiah: 46:50

Does it

Doug: 46:50

think that's yeah, I don't think it gets funnier than her actually yelling

Josiah: 46:53

Okay. Alexa, stop.

Doug: 46:55

do the whisper she whispers she whispers and then this The time where she should and then the fact that you're whispering back to her makes I think that's where the joke ends

Josiah: 47:03

Alexa, stop. Yeah. I just thought, you're probably right, because I always overwrite stuff.

Doug: 47:09

And I think that's, that right there, I was already laughing as hard as I'm gonna laugh at that

Josiah: 47:13

joke. No, no, no, no, I don't mean that. I know, I know, I know you don't.

Doug: 47:17

general, that's where people are gonna really laugh their ass off. Yeah. So you don't need anything extra. You already got them on the joke, they understand what ASMR is now, they understand how

Josiah: 47:26

that's funny and all.

Doug: 47:27

I don't think you added, you know, you cut the fat.

Josiah: 47:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You understand though that she's listening to loud, fucking crazy music. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely,

Doug: 47:36

I think, I think that that's not needed. Yeah, yeah. I think it's not needed. I think, I think the whole going to dinner, she's whispering, you know, I don't even think you need the pen part. I think just the, she's at dinner and she's ordering her food like that, so then we get through dinner. And I'm constantly, you know, it's a loud restaurant. So then why did you go to a drive thru if you already had dinner?

Josiah: 47:56

A dessert.

Doug: 47:57

Oh, for dessert. Okay. So yeah, you stop and you, you know, you want some kind of McFlurry or whatever it is. And then she does the whispering. I like that. and and then the guy falls

Josiah: 48:06

asleep. Yeah.

Doug: 48:07

And then I guess the library,

Josiah: 48:09

it's

Doug: 48:09

kind of hard saying the library, maybe, maybe you move it to like a movies or something like that, because if you want the people to go with you on the journey, maybe. Why did you go to the library after

Josiah: 48:18

Oh yeah.'cause what I say is, I, I, where can I take her? Where she'll fit in? Okay, all right, you know where she, you know, we'll feel like that's what you can whisper.

Doug: 48:26

a movie because now they're still on a date with you. You're taking them on a date with you with this chick and nobody's going to the library. So I think maybe, maybe you move it to the movies or something like that, to where you still have to be in a whispering situation. But, you know, and then you're like, you know, you're like, I really like this movie, and she's like, fuck yeah, I fucking love this shit!

Josiah: 48:47

love this Ha ha

Doug: 48:48

You know what I mean? So I think, and then I think that's where it ends. I don't know, and again, I'm just, that's my thoughts on it. But yeah, I mean, that's what open mics are for,

Josiah: 48:57

That's right. So maybe I'll try that one tonight. I don't really have it fleshed out, but a lot of people are up there. I know you don't do this with note cards and, and, I guess that's fine.

Doug: 49:05

had a post it note the other day, but I just kind of put it on the stool and was reading, but that was, I mean, the open mic was which any mic is a good mic to me, you know, you got somebody in your basement, you want me to do some time, I'll do it. I mean, that's,

Josiah: 49:18

gotta get all the, all the reps you can do. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. So we'll, we'll leave it at that. I know we got it. We're going off to the open mic. Thanks for listening to the jokes by Joe show. I guess we'll talk to you next time. Later.

Doug: 49:30

Peace.

Co-Co: 49:31

Alright folks, that's a wrap for today's episode of the Jokes by Jo show. Thanks for sticking with us through the chaos, bloody noses and all. It's always a wild ride with Josiah and Doug. But hey, what would this show be without a little bit of unpredictability, right? Before we go, just remember to keep tuning in, because you never know what surprises we've got in store. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be listening to the Jokes by Co, uh, sorry, the Jokes by Jo show as usual. Until next time, stay sharp, stay laughing, and don't forget, you didn't hear any of this from me. Catch you later.

Josiah: 50:08

Sorry, Jake. And sorry. Steel stacks.