305 - Is Humor Your Missing Link?

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Good morning, podcasters.
It's Thursday, May 15th, 2025,

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and today we're talking about
how you can fit some humor into

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your business podcast.
Did I just hear people gasp and

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clutch their pearls?
You bet I did.

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And now, if you're listening via
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And as always, thanks for being

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here.
Hello, everyone.

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Thanks for joining us in the
room.

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And if you're listening on
replay, thanks for joining.

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Joining the replay, we have a
little bit of a little bit of a

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technical snafu, which is our
version of being funny.

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So today we have Amanda Yoa in
the room and she's going to lead

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us off with talking about
putting comedy into your

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podcast.
And even if you have a business

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podcast, I mean, why not?
I put in the Empowered Podcaster

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Facebook group.
You know, the only commercials I

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remember from my childhood are
all the funny ones.

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You know, where's the beef?
All the ones that have humor,

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those are the only ones that I
remember.

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So that's got to mean something,
right?

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So we have an icebreaker today
and the icebreaker is Jonathan.

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Do you have the icebreaker
question?

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If your podcast had a sitcom
character, who would it be and

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what's their catch phrases?
So brand mascot.

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So if your podcast was a
character, a sitcom character,

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who would it be and what would
the catch phrase be?

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Does anyone want to take that?
I've been, I've been thinking

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about it because, you know, I'm
a producer.

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I don't have a podcast yet.
I guess if I did have a podcast

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now this is going to take you
back.

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Do you remember horse shack and
welcome back hotter.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that
would be me and trying to get my

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podcast off the ground.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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I'm I'm not sure what my catch
phrase would be.

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I'm doing it.
I'm getting there, I'm getting

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there.
Sid, help me out.

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What was yours be?
Good morning everybody.

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I don't have a catch phrase, but
when I saw this question my

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first response was it would be
Ross Geller from Friends.

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Damn it.
Oh, that's who?

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You chose something.
I was thinking that one.

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Not as a Why'd you choose Ross?
So it's that awkward funny and

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Ross Keller is that awkward
funny.

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I mean, I could also go with
Karen Walker.

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Who's the outrageous funny SO1
or the other?

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She's hysterical.
Yeah.

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Yeah, she's hysterical.
I've quoted her a few times on

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the podcast SO.
Amanda, have you thought of 1

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yet?
So now throw the age out of the

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difference of age out of here,
but run with me here.

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Punky Brewster and Chris would
be like Henry.

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I would be Punky because Henry
would always go Punky, you know?

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And I feel like sometimes when I
give ratings on some of the

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songs, he's like Amanda, you
know?

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And it's just I'm, I'm that
Punky booster who just sees

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things different.
Chris is that very stable Henry

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character.
So yeah, like, but instead of it

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being punky, it's Amanda.
Awesome.

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Amanda Yoa, do you have one?
I do have one.

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Good morning, everybody.
So my mascot, if you don't

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follow me on Instagram, what are
you doing?

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Amanda yoa dot official.
If you do, you will know that

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your girl already has a mascot.
Her name is Pam from Port

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Richmond and she's your no
filter talent.

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How it is gal from Philly.
So I use her in a lot of my

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skits that I do on Instagram and
she's been really driving in,

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you know, the following and and
engagement.

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So that is my mascot and from
Port Richmond.

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Awesome, Dan, how about you?
So I'm at a disadvantage here

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because I don't.
I haven't watched TV since like

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circa 2017.
OK.

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I don't keep up with characters
on television shows and I'm

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sitting here racking my brain.
I wished I'd have looked at

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y'all's notes beforehand.
That's why.

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I had to go back to the 80s.
Dan, I'm with you.

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There, that's where I went
because of my welcome back

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Cotter reference.
OK, let me first introduce

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Amanda Yella.
She is basically what this topic

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is kind of built around.
She is a stand up comedian.

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She has a podcast.
But the question is, even if you

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have a business podcast, why not
put a little humor into that

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business podcast?
All right, what are you afraid

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of?
Are you afraid of hurting the

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brand?
Are you afraid of insulting

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people?
What?

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What are you afraid of?
But Amanda, I want you to give

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us your journey, please.
Absolutely.

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Well, good morning everybody.
For those of you who don't know

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me, as Dr. said, my name is
Amanda Yoa.

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I'm a mom, a comedian, a podcast
host of the six time

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award-winning show on zip with
Amanda Yoa.

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I'm also a business owner.
I'm kind of like a Jack of all

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trades.
Honestly, I don't know how I do

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it but so my journey started out
quite unique.

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I came on to the social media
space wanting to make an impact

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back in like 2019 and at that
time I was still going through

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my own journey of self discovery
and healing and what have you.

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I was invested in life coaches
and that really inspired me to

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wanting to make an impact
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I quickly got caught up in the
razzle dazzle of the social

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media space.
All of those 6-7 figure coaches

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show up like this.
Use this font, slap this hat on

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your head and you're going to be
successful.

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And I got caught up in that.
I bought into it and I quickly

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started showing up in the social
media space in that manner.

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And I quickly found out that was
not my lean.

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For me, it was an evolution of
finding myself again because

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that version of me was always
there.

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I was always told I was a funny
person, but it's kind of like

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one of those things where, you
know, your magic was there all

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along, you know, And it's kind
of like that aha moment, like,

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oh, this was there all along.
Why didn't I just invest in

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that?
Why?

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Because I was too busy investing
and everything else that I was

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not thinking that's who I had to
be in order to be successful in

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order to make an impact.
So when I finally, you know, got

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tired of my MBSI said, you know
what?

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Why don't we just try showing up
as ourselves and see what

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happens?
And let me tell you, showing up

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became a lot easier.
I started having fun again.

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I was able to quickly create
content effortlessly, you know,

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So what I've found to be
passionate and then quickly got

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burnt out and then was like,
wait a minute, Amanda, I thought

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we found our thing here.
I quickly then again found

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myself by investing in myself
and bringing all of who I am to

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what I do, which is I'm funny
gal.

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And I have to say recently I've
been really diving into the

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stand up comedy.
That's a more recent venture for

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me and I've just been lit up by
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Evolution of my podcast.
I started out, it was empowered

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hype house.
Then we evolved to staying

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inspired.
I was really, you know, still in

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that round peg trying to fit
myself into the square hole era,

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you know, trying to be this I'm
going to inspire you type of

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gal.
And then, you know, once I was

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really all in with me, I pivoted
to unzip with Amanda Yoa

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springing all of me to the
table.

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And let me tell you, I've been
having a ball.

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I've been having a blast.
I've been really seeing, you

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know, what's showing up
authentically can do for you,

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whether it's in your life and
your business.

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So I've been having a grand old
time and I'll pass it back to

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you R.
That is great.

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So when you pivoted to
podcasting, so the humor was

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already there, it's already
within you.

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So are you, are you selling
something?

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Are you selling like a book or a
course or tickets to your show,

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or are you selling anything?
Or are you like an affiliate for

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any products or do you have any
sponsors?

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So yeah, my sponsorships kind of
like they come and go, I try to

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do for the local small
businesses in Philadelphia and a

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lot of those have a small
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So I work with them and we'll do
like clusters of of episodes.

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So you know, they come and go.
I'm actually collaborating with

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the Spot magazine, which is a
magazine in Philadelphia.

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So I'll be doing a lot of like
Amanda on the street content in

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the summertime now that the
weather is nice and we can get

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out there and do things outside.
I'm also doing some live podcast

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episodes from other businesses.
I've been collaborating with

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other businesses and, and doing
that thing along the way.

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That's been like a building
process too.

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And I think it attributed to
just, you know, coming out of my

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shell and just being more of
myself and, and gaining that

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following on Instagram and, and
people like it, it's fun.

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But I have to say, you know,
when I first started out, there

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was that part of me that wanted
to shine through, but I thought,

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no, I can't be that because I
have to be this.

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I'm wearing this hat right now.
So I can't wear this hat and be,

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you know, funny, Amanda, because
then that's not going to hit

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off.
When in reality, that's probably

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what I should have been doing
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You know what I mean?
Yeah, so can humor live in a

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business or a Wellness podcast
without being cringy?

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That's a great question and I'm
going to answer it, but I would

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love to hear everybody else's
opinion on that too, because I

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think that it can in some way,
shape or form.

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Now you may be shaking your head
and saying no, it can, Amanda,

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not my pockets.
I don't know what you're talking

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about.
It can.

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It's, you know, those witty
moments.

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It's those moments where, you
know, you may have a side

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comment to something that was
said or a moment like this

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morning when we were having
those technical difficulties,

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you know, where you would
usually be like, we're going to

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cut this entire part out.
Leave it in there.

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You know, I think people truly
love to get that true

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personality of who it is.
If you're showing up as an as an

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inspirational influencer or
podcaster or whatever it is that

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you're doing, you know, people
love that little out-of-the-box

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glimpse of, of who you are
outside of that.

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And if that's integrating a
little comedy or a ha ha into

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your episode, I think that's
great.

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I think that's hitting it off.
And I, I put myself into the

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consumer.
You know, I put my consumer hat

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on and I think of all the
podcasts that I listen to and

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you know, there are moments
where Mel Robbins will crack a

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joke.
I appreciate that.

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I realize girlfriend has a sense
of humor while also improving my

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life on the daily.
Thank you, Mama Mel, you know,

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so I think it's really
beneficial when you can show up

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and integrate those moments of
hey, you know what, I'm this

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everyday, but I also got a
little ha ha for you or I got a

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little glimpse of your my
personality that I love to shine

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through.
It's that know like and trust

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and your audience getting to
know you at a deeper level.

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So that's my take.
I would love if you want to open

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the floor and ask everybody
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Let's get the conversation
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Up to you.
So I'm going to say kind of like

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what I talked about last week,
your personality has to show

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through your podcast in order
for you really to get seen.

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And I think absolutely humor is
a great way to do it.

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Humor is one of those little
hooks that gets in people's

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brains and allows them to
actually connect with you.

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So I think that having humor in
your podcast is a great, great

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way to connect with people.
And even if you have a serious

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podcast, start out your podcast
with a little bit of, you know,

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back and forth.
If you have a Co host or talk

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about something that happened in
your day, just make it real.

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And that's going to help you
just get some of that humor,

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some of that personality, and
some of that signature style in.

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OK, So what about all the people
that say, well, all the people,

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all the podcasting gurus that
say, you know, stop with the

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kibitz, Everyone is not.
Everyone's tuning in to hear the

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meat of the subject, you know?
So then be funny in the meat of

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the sub, the subject if that's
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Also, I don't listen to experts
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Well, there's that exactly.
Go ahead, Amanda.

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Thank you.
So I'm not really a funny

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person.
Like if I'm funny, it's totally

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accidental.
I'm not gifted like Amanda is.

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But I will say like I agree with
the conversation of letting your

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little bit of personality or all
of your personality get within

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your content.
And I will say I've learned

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something so much this year that
I mean, we all I love to skate,

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but I kept that skating more on
my personal stuff as opposed to

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like my professional business
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And while it's not a podcast
that I started skating more of

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my content for the store.
And I was so hesitant to do that

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because I'm a 43 year old on
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And I was just like, oh, my mom
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So much of what I think is like,
what would my mom think?

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It's silly, I'm way too old to
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what I do.
And so I just started doing it

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more this year and it's been
something that I had no idea my

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customers would love so much.
And it was so funny.

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My mom was at the store just
this last week and every

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customer that came to the store
referenced something from social

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media.
Every single one, whether it be

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on my skates or a live that I
did unboxing stuff.

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When my mom got to see like
first hand how effective me

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putting personality into my
marketing, putting me in front

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of the camera.
My personality in front of the

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camera was bringing people into
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And I think it caused her.
So if she had any thoughts about

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me being on skates where she
might have used to roll her

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eyes, in all honesty, because
it's just not my mom's style,

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she was almost flabbergasted and
just was shocked to the point of

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like, wow, that works.
And it was so fun to have her

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see the effectiveness.
So I was proud that I've kind of

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put on my skates this season,
laced them up and have used that

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for a strategy for the store and
has been life changing for my

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business.
So I think if you just show up

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in everything you're doing in
the way that you originally are,

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it's going to be life changing
for anything that you're doing.

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Amanda, I absolutely love that
because that is exactly what I

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talked about.
Is having that signature

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something and you know, you're,
you're nailing it on all points

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because you're, you're out there
and you're doing what you got to

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do and it's working.
That's the amazing part because

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it does work.
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And it is, it is working, Jeff,
and it is fun that people are

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actually, I know when you're
podcasting, you had a lot of

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listeners behind the screen.
Not everyone's saying it to your

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face that they're loving that
joke that you told or that

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personality.
We don't get to get in front of

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our listeners as much as I get
to get in front of my customers.

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So I do get those immediate wins
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So I think if people are
listening, don't hesitate to

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leave a little note for whoever
your favorite creator is and say

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that you love those things about
it because I think that'll be so

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helpful to them.
When if I leave a comment on,

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you know, Amanda Yoa's a video
that I just love.

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I love what she's doing or I
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Keep up the good work.
I think those things just go so

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far with creators.
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And I, you know, personally love
Amanda, Yoa's Pam from Richmond.

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She'll have to do something with
one of my characters one of

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these days.
But yes.

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Does anybody else have anything?
Are they in?

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Are you putting humor into your
podcast or any other thing

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that's entertaining and has your
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Dominic and then Sid.
Good morning everybody.

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Hope everybody is well.
I think comedy can be not just a

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nice tool for levity, but also a
nice teaching tool as well.

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I've definitely used comedic
bits and definitely in Black as

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America for sure, and definitely
looking to have those moments of

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levity in mental health
rewritten.

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Because I think especially in
mental health, I think we often

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only think about the negative
part of it.

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But mental health is a 360 kind
of thing, right?

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There are positive moments and
positive things in mental health

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you can talk about, like being
happy and joy is also part of

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mental health as well.
It's not just like some type of

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disorder or something like that,
but also in black as America,

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one of the thing I don't like
are racist.

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And so I absolutely use comedy
to make fun of people who have

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done, you know, racist things or
done things towards, you know,

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people of color and stuff like
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So comedy is definitely
something that is used to have

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those moments of levity for
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Absolutely.
And yeah, So I'm going to say

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that if Dominic can use humor,
everybody on this stage can.

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So Sid, you had your you waved
your hand before.

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So good morning everybody.
So here's comedy for you.

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I just packed for a five day
trip in 10 minutes and I 100%

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over packed.
I can tell you that.

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That's the other thing is what
I'm saying is I don't

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intentionally infuse comedy into
my show, but I do when something

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happens, it's funny.
I do kind of land on it, and I

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certainly make fun of myself,
right?

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If I do something silly or
stupid, I have no problem at

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laughing at myself out loud.
Well I know we would laugh at

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you too Sid.
And how did you over pack in 5

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minutes?
Dude, I just grabbed, I just

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grabbed beak and put it in the
suitcase because I said last

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night I'm not going to pack
tonight.

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And so I passed it.
So I just grabbed shorts and

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pants and shirts and yeah, so
that's it.

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I'm packed.
It's just a reminder said that

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that's great content.
And I think the last time you

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did a video about packing, it
did really well.

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So just a gentle little nudge.
It's too late for that because

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I've already packed and my last
content that did really well was

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related to me planning a trip
and like taking pictures of what

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I was going to wear each day and
I wasn't prepared.

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But you know what?
This is the this is the comedy

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factor of like, there's that Sid
and then there's the this Sid.

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And this Sid is very real life
Sid I love.

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It I'm a hot mess right now.
I'm sweating like crazy trying

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to find Jackson.
Say goodbye to the mother.

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That's the shit showing here.
But he said that's what's great.

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It's the fact that it wasn't
intentional.

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And I think sometimes when you
show up and you try to think too

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much or overthink it, that then
you end up not being funnier and

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ends up not going the way that
you you would want it to go.

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You know, a lot of times when
I'm doing my podcast, I don't

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have a script per SE.
I have bullet points of things

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that I want to rant and rave
about, but I kind of just go off

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the cuff because I know if I
over rehearse it or write it

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out, it's not going to hit the
way that it would if I would

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just do it off the cuff and then
go from there.

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You know, it's kind of like I'm
writing the joke in real time.

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So having that moment where it's
just like, hey, this is real

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life ish going on right now.
This really happened.

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You know, that's going to hit
versus overthinking it and

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getting too much, you know,
thought process into it.

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I think with comedy, it's just
kind of just letting it flow and

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just being yourself and whatever
version of comedy you bring to

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the table is yours, right?
Like it doesn't have to look

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like me or it doesn't have to
look like how this person does

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their podcast.
It's people get to know your

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personality and what you find to
be funny.

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Alexandra, you had your hand up.
Go ahead.

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Well, first of all, Sid, if my
dad was still here and you and

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he would get along well because
he would have a story for you.

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So I'm going to tell it in his
honor.

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The one and only time this man
packed for himself, it was

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actually really funny.
I didn't realize I was going on

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at the time because I was I was
a self absorbed teenager.

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But when my mom's best friend
from childhood was getting

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married, that was the time that
my dad decided that he he could

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pack his own bag.
He didn't need my mom to pack it

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for him.
This man forgot his his suit

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pants.
And so the day of the wedding he

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discovers that he forgot his
suit pants and so.

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And this man is 6 foot 4, has a
crazy long end seam and so like

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they're scrambling.
My mom is pissed obviously

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because she's already at the
venue getting ready with the

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rest of the bridal party and has
to leave in her bridesmaids

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dress to meet my dad at Men's
Wearhouse to try and find suit

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pants that match the jacket that
he has.

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Because he's not just a guest or
the husband of one of the

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bridesmaids.
He's Co officiating with the

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bride's father 'cause my dad was
a minister.

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So after that, my dad, my dad,
no, my dad after that just let

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my mom pack for for him because
he's like, I'm not doing this

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again.
But see, I personally don't

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think I'm funny because people
always tell me like, you're so

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funny, why don't you write
comedy?

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I'm like, because it's one thing
when I'm just being, I'm being

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my normally MC Cobbs sarcastic.
So for I'm telling stories about

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my family.
It's another thing to try to be

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funny on purpose.
So usually if I'm trying to be

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trying to be funny or I'm trying
to relate to people, I will make

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fun of my family because it's
because they do funny stuff all

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the time and I have so many
funny stories from them.

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And I also have some stories
about me that I always start

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with.
Legend has it because while I

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was there, I don't remember.
But what I have learned though,

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is to just go with it like
Amanda was saying.

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Right, exactly.
Just just go with it the same

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way that we opened up the show
today.

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Sid, in the comments, Michael
did say that you should unpack

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and then record yourself
repacking.

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That's hysterical.
Unfortunately, there's no time.

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We have to leave in 15 minutes
because where we live we have no

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idea how long it's going to take
us to.

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Get well, that would make it
even funnier.

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Take us two hours.
I know, right?

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That's for sure.
And I'm just going to tell

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y'all, Teresa is never going to
pack my clothes.

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Ever.
She will let me go without

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anything before she packs my
clothes.

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I'm just saying.
Oh, love that Dr. You had a

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question for me, I do.
So when someone is starting

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their podcast or starting their
life as a influencer, a social

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influencer, and they would like
to bring a little bit of

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themselves into it and they're
naturally a funny person, but

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for some reason, once that
camera is on, they kind of clam

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up a little bit.
Is there?

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What's the first step?
Is there a formula in order to

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help them kind of step into
themselves?

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Do you know what I'm?
Saying so, I actually have a

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course where I teach people how
to show up on video without

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showing up on video.
And it's really just practicing

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in the mirror, practicing in
your car, practicing your

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shower, then turning on the
camera and actually practicing

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on camera and the reason that
you just need to get the reps

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in.
But the other thing is, like

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Alexandra was saying, she's
situationally funny.

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I'm situationally hilarious
personally, I believe.

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But it's in those situations
where you find the the humor and

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you just have to let yourself
get into whatever situation is

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going to be just talking to
people or, you know, creating

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and stuff like that.
That's going to allow you to

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really connect with how you want
to show up and just be more.

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You just got to practice getting
relaxed on camera or relaxed on

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your microphone so that things
will just flow better.

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And that's how I usually how I
usually recommend people do it.

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I mean, I've got the whole
course for them to show up on

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camera without showing up on
camera, but yeah.

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Awesome, awesome.
Amanda, I see your hand up.

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Yeah, I had a question for
Amanda.

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Amanda, I think we've probably
even did this as a ice breaker

447
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,080
question in the past, but I
think it would be important to

448
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:43,160
ask you if you had to go back to
your younger self and give her

449
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,120
some advice about like the
funniness.

450
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:46,760
Because you were telling me
about your, you know, you're

451
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,360
telling all of us about your
journey and how I feel like if

452
00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:51,600
you could do things over, you
probably would do them over a

453
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,640
little bit differently.
So like, what would you, what

454
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,960
would be that impact sentenced
to your younger, like very

455
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,240
younger self that you think
would have maybe caused you not

456
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,440
to stray from who you actually
are and where your zone of the

457
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,800
genius is?
I took a good question because I

458
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,520
don't see, I'm not one to say
rewrite, you know, I'm always

459
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,120
one to say, you know, that
version of me is still me.

460
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,800
There will be times where people
will say I'm not that person

461
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,640
anymore.
I bring all the chapters because

462
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,040
I feel I would be remiss in in,
in going back and telling her to

463
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,400
do things differently because
she wouldn't have the wisdom

464
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:35,240
that she has today, right?
Like, I don't, I don't regret

465
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,680
all of any of my life decisions.
I don't regret any of the

466
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,240
lessons that I had to learn
because they've molded and

467
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,440
sculpt me into the the version
that I am today at going to be

468
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,600
40 years old in January.
If I were to go back and tell

469
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,600
that that little version of me,
anything who mind you, was in

470
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,400
her living room watching the
making of Thriller with her

471
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,840
microphone, with all her stuffed
animals lined up and they're

472
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,240
putting on a performance for
them, I would tell her to just

473
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:09,200
keep shining despite the moments
where you don't see the

474
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,720
sunshine, keeping that sunshine
for yourself.

475
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,840
You know, life is going to throw
those things at you, but keep

476
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,240
moving forward.
I wouldn't tell her to change

477
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,240
anything or do or be anything
different because like I said,

478
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,880
my lessons are mine.
I have that wisdom in my tool

479
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,200
belt now.
That's that's me.

480
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,240
That's what makes me.
But yeah, that's what I would

481
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,720
tell her.
And yes, I know I removed from

482
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,400
the making of Thriller.
I love that and I love that you

483
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,160
wouldn't change anything yet.
You would just tell her to keep

484
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,520
going because that's all we can
really do at the end of the day.

485
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,840
Love that.
I love it too.

486
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,320
I love it too.
So if someone wanted to start

487
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,240
putting some humor in their
existing podcast, where would

488
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,200
you say that they should begin?
Should they put it in the intro?

489
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,200
Should they put it in the outro?
Should they put it where?

490
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:05,680
Maybe maybe they do, you know,
mid role for maybe an affiliate

491
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,680
or something.
Should they put it in there?

492
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,720
So where is the best place to
put start putting humor?

493
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,920
So I've mentioned many times
that I'm going to redo my show,

494
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,960
update my show for next year.
And part of what I'm adding is a

495
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760
section at the end called rapid
fire.

496
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,920
And I'm, I don't know that
that's what I'm going to call

497
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,840
it, but it's going to be
basically be rapid fire

498
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,840
questions.
And I hope that those questions

499
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:36,440
lead to more real personal
insights, but also a little bit

500
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,640
of laughter and a little bit of
fun from the guest, right, where

501
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,360
they're sharing something about
themselves that might be

502
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,840
comical.
So that I'm hoping that I can

503
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,800
get some comedy, if you will,
into the end of my show in my

504
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,240
rapid fire.
Awesome.

505
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,600
Amanda.
I saw Amanda.

506
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,800
Yo, I saw your hand go up.
Yeah, I'm going to say don't

507
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,320
overthink it.
Get it in where you can fit it

508
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,600
in.
If it can't, like just let it

509
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,240
flow naturally again.
I, I feel like if, if you're

510
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,760
going to be like, OK, I'm going
to put it into the intro today

511
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,080
or OK, I'm going to put it in
the middle, you know, like

512
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,760
that's, that's overthinking.
And, and you know, there may be

513
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,240
an episode where you're like,
Dang, I didn't say anything

514
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,800
funny today.
Oh, well, we'll try again next

515
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,480
week.
You know, it it don't put your

516
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,600
expectations too high, Just
allow yourself to show up as

517
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,800
yourself week after week after
week.

518
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,120
And I think that's what I did.
And you can see it through the

519
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,160
evolution of my podcast as they
went from, you know, from show

520
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,080
to show.
And yes, I am rebranding after

521
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,880
this season.
It's just the evolution.

522
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,400
But I just my episode and
episode and episode, I allowed

523
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,120
myself to come more out of my
show.

524
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,720
I left.
I allow my personality to shine

525
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,600
through in the things that I was
talking about.

526
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,160
So it's about bringing a little
bit more of who you are to what

527
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,800
you do each and every episode.
And I think when you leave the

528
00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,360
expectation there, you can open
that space to allow yourself to

529
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,840
do that with ease.
I think if you overcomplicate it

530
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,400
and you you plan it out too
much.

531
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,200
And I know everyone in here is a
planner myself include on very

532
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,680
type A.
But if you plan it out in that

533
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,200
way to infuse humor, I don't
think it might not hit off the

534
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,000
way that you would expect it
versus just allowing things to

535
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,960
flow down conversation to
happen.

536
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,160
If it happens, it happens.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.

537
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,560
You know, you try again next
week.

538
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,480
So I would say one of the things
that would be the worst thing to

539
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,760
do is be like, OK, at a minute
and 47 seconds, I'm going to say

540
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,840
this joke.
And this joke is that I have to,

541
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,120
it's like, OK, knock, knock.
Who's there?

542
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,440
Like you're going to be nervous
leading into that minute and 42

543
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,120
seconds.
You're going to feel weird

544
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,520
coming out of that because it
didn't really flow well.

545
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,800
And that's just going to mess up
your podcast.

546
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,000
If you just feel if you go into
your podcast and be like, all

547
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,880
right, I'm good.
I'm myself, I can do this and

548
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,520
record.
Something will come out that's

549
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,560
funny, even if it's unintended
and even if it's in like a

550
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,360
little, you know, blooper reel.
You can add the bloopers and I,

551
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,000
I have so many blooper reels for
our Oh my God, if I played the

552
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,120
blooper reels for our episodes,
people would be dying.

553
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,240
But yeah, I just let it happen.
Blooper reels I think is great

554
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,560
content.
I mean, I, I hear sometimes

555
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:24,200
people will play a blooper reel
like at the end of their show.

556
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,520
I think that's actually pretty
good content.

557
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,120
But Amanda, I wanted to ask you
about your rebate brand.

558
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,320
What are you rebranding too?
Oh, for my podcast.

559
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:40,160
So I am rebranding to something
I I honestly have not really

560
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,960
thought it through all the way.
I have a few things in mind, but

561
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,240
I'm keeping it short and sweet
and simple and just doing Amanda

562
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,000
yo and keeping it across the
board.

563
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,120
You know, I just building 1
cohesive brand of who I am when

564
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,120
I show up on the social media
space.

565
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,680
If you want my podcast, you can
come see it's Amanda Yoa.

566
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,600
I'm also across the street on
the other social audio app and

567
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,040
you can find me under there
under it's Amanda Yoa.

568
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,120
So just keeping that
cohesiveness as I build my brand

569
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,400
because you mentioned something
earlier, Dr. about what I'm

570
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,360
selling and I'm not a coach any
longer, although I do post

571
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,960
inspirational things for people
to pick up and put down as they

572
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,120
please.
But I'm not getting paid for any

573
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,120
of that.
You know what I mean?

574
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,240
I don't have a coaching program.
I don't have a, you know, get

575
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,800
into my funnel system.
I'm, I'm, I'm selling my brand.

576
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,480
So if I can simplify that by
having one cohesive brand across

577
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,160
the board, to me that's a win
win.

578
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,440
So we are rebranding in season
6, which I can't even believe

579
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,560
I'm saying that, but Season 6
it's going to be it's Amanda Yoa

580
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,920
or the Amanda Yoa Show.
Excellent.

581
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,920
Are you going for like new cover
art and and everything?

582
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,200
Yeah, I actually have a photo
shoot.

583
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,680
We're doing a like very
neighborhood, trying to hit some

584
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,960
of the landmarks, but I wanted
to kind of shine a light on my

585
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,880
neighborhood in Philly where I
grew up, rather than the, you

586
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,480
know, City Hall and Rocky statue
and all of those stereotypical

587
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,080
Philly things.
I'm doing it a little different

588
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,680
going to the places where I grew
up, having some border rice and

589
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,440
pretzels and just all the things
that make Philly Philly.

590
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,240
That's actually been rescheduled
for the third time this month

591
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,400
because of the rain, so.
Hopefully we'll get in there

592
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,400
hell.
I know so as soon as that

593
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,800
happens and I can get working on
my cover art.

594
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,160
But yes I am.
Long story long, I am having a

595
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,720
cup cover art change.
Mother Nature got her months

596
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,200
fixed up 'cause it's supposed to
be April.

597
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,140
Showers bring me flowers.
That's mm.

598
00:33:39,140 --> 00:33:42,160
Hmm.
So I yelled.

599
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,560
I yelled in the middle of the
show.

600
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,080
Dr. Because Amanda was supposed
to actually sit down on the

601
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,040
other app across the street and
for an interview with me today,

602
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,640
but she had her branding shoot
rescheduled.

603
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,680
Is that chatter?
Are we talking about chatter?

604
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,240
OK, because some listeners might
be saying what are they talking

605
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,320
about?
So yes, there is another audio

606
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,400
program called Chatter.
We've talked about it before

607
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,679
here on this show.
So I want to ask about I want to

608
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:19,080
ask the room this question when
it comes to humor, Who do you

609
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,080
who do you listen to when it
comes to humor podcast?

610
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:25,880
Do you listen to anyone?
Do I see any hands up?

611
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,920
I can tell you who I my first
one is Conan O'Brien.

612
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,000
I listen to Conan O'Brien and
especially when he starts

613
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:40,199
selling from his bag of sponsors
that he has, he gets going on

614
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,280
just one single item and it's
self deprecating.

615
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,440
It's at times you go, Oh my God,
are they going to like that?

616
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,080
He's talking about it that way.
But they love it because he's

617
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,480
Conan and he and his team are so
good at it.

618
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,240
So, Amanda, I saw your hand up
first.

619
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,400
So I should not surprise anybody
by this answer, but I do not

620
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,640
like follow anyone who does
comedy like that.

621
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,400
Like you just described.
Sometimes skits are funny to me,

622
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,160
but it's usually because the
actions that they're doing all

623
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,680
within the skit itself.
Like the entire picture seems

624
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,360
funny to me.
But I do not get a lot of humor.

625
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,640
Like when Amanda throws on her
character that makes me giggle

626
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,480
and smile.
But if you're just straight up

627
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,680
telling jokes, most of them, 90%
of them like fly right over my

628
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,400
head.
Like I they're on to the next

629
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,160
one because they're so fast.
They're on to the next joke

630
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,840
before I've even processed the
last one.

631
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,520
So I'm like the worst person to
go to a comedy show.

632
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,520
There's different kinds of
humor.

633
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:49,760
There's the setup and the punch,
and there's also just

634
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,640
situational humor where you just
talk about the situation, which

635
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,520
is what Conan O'Brien does when
he starts to sell some of the

636
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:03,200
stuff that as he's getting
sponsored by, he just goes for a

637
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:08,200
long time on one product.
So yeah, it's not like, you

638
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,640
know, the old days.
Bob Newhart, I'm sorry, Bob Hope

639
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,040
and Milton Berle, where they do
joke, joke, joke, joke, joke.

640
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,800
It's a little bit more
situation, a little bit more

641
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,360
storytelling that happens to be
funny.

642
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,920
Who else's hand did I see up
when I started talking about?

643
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,120
Situationally, I could make fun
of that in exchange between you

644
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,600
and Amanda 'cause it was a
little bit awkward.

645
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:38,040
Dr. Situationally, I could make
fun of myself because my ADHDI

646
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:44,520
was in the chat and I can't.
But I listened to Unzipped with

647
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,080
Amanda.
Yoa, there you go.

648
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,640
There you go.
I actually don't listen to that

649
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,840
many podcasts, but I do listen
to the to Amanda's that time, so

650
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,280
that's what I listen to.
That's funny.

651
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,560
Awesome Alexandra, I see your
hand up.

652
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,400
But so I'm with Amanda.
I don't really listen to a lot

653
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,360
of podcasts.
I'll be of us.

654
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,720
They're like y'all's podcasts.
But I'm still trying to catch up

655
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,840
with all the past episodes of
Just Say.

656
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,640
I don't like the new format of
sitcoms.

657
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:19,280
I miss like the multicam laugh
track sitcoms for like the 90s

658
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:24,120
and early 2000s.
But now if you were to scroll my

659
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,720
Tiktok, you'd see one of four,
four things.

660
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:31,680
For the most part, it's either
medians that I that are like my

661
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,400
age, 'cause they're funny.
I follow a lot of couples

662
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,960
because sometimes I just say to
remind myself that love is out

663
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,320
there.
Dogs and dogs are like animal

664
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,840
content and then book talk.
The book talk is actually pretty

665
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,240
funny.
It's in itself cause some of the

666
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,480
videos these people do to
promote their favorite authors,

667
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,440
it's top tier.
But the the comedians that I

668
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,760
learned that I really enjoy
listening to are the ones that

669
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,000
post their crowd work because
one of them actually explained

670
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:09,320
he's like, we all have our sets.
We all have our regular jokes

671
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,120
that we have planned for each
show.

672
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,520
But if we just kept posting a
show saying the same old jokes,

673
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,760
nobody would ever watch our
videos or cups in our shows.

674
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,600
So all we post is the crowd
work.

675
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,200
Because people who get, they go
on their feet like that, I envy

676
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,600
them.
I do 'cause I'm just like, how

677
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,800
do you come up with this stuff
on the fly?

678
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:36,240
Like ow somebody teach me your
teach me your ways because I

679
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:37,240
really want to know how to do
this.

680
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:42,240
Well, someone who's making a
splash with that kind of crowd

681
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,800
work is not.
Yes, he is one of the people

682
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,440
that I I thought he is.
Right.

683
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,960
But you know, I think that when
you become so famous for

684
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,720
something that after a while it
kind of feels kind of sets up

685
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,080
ish.
You know, people when when you

686
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,640
get ready to go to a comedy
show, someone says, oh, I'm I'm

687
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,960
going to yell something out
because I'm going to get on his

688
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,320
social.
I know I'm going to get on his

689
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:12,120
social if I yell something out.
So it kind of feels kind of

690
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,880
challenging kind of setup ish,
something like that.

691
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,600
Amanda, Yoa, can you talk about
this a little bit?

692
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,760
Do you do any crowd work in your
show?

693
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,680
Oh.
My gosh.

694
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:28,920
So I have to say I've only done
social audio stand up.

695
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,160
So on Chatter, we have monthly a
stand up comedy night where we

696
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,960
have a slew of comedians that
come in, take the stage over

697
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,080
there.
You can Cam up and be on camera.

698
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:43,840
So I recently did a bit with
Pam.

699
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,680
I brought my character instead
of just doing me and she was a

700
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,200
little more interactive with the
crowd, you know, pointing people

701
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,880
out in the crowd, bringing
things up that you know about

702
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,920
them.
I made a light hearted joke

703
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,440
about all the verified people
over there and, you know, just

704
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,560
kind of like did a little bit of
that.

705
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:11,000
I would have to say a crowd work
will be a venture for me because

706
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,200
I know in those situations, the
true feeling of me will come out

707
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,000
if somebody were to say
something, if I have a Heckler,

708
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,720
you know, if if, if we're
talking about hecklers.

709
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,040
So that's something that I'm
still learning.

710
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,120
To crowd work and in those
situations, what do you do?

711
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,160
Because for the most part, you
know, my comedy people are very

712
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,520
respectful.
So I never really have instances

713
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,400
like that unless it's planned on
my part.

714
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,960
OK.
And I wanted to ask you when you

715
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,440
because you have sponsors and so
do you do mid rolls?

716
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:51,040
Usually I will insert it at my
producers, you know where, where

717
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,880
they feel it fits.
It's usually pre recorded.

718
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Yeah, this actually this season
I did it more off the cuff

719
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,000
organically, but she would kind
of tell me where to put it in.

720
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,040
So sometimes it's in the
beginning, sometimes it's in the

721
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,240
middle.
It's depending on, you know, the

722
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,160
the person that I'm I'm linking
up with per SE.

723
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,560
Yeah.
So tell me about how that felt

724
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,400
when you did it organically
versus when you did it scripted

725
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,960
and pre taped.
Basically, which one did you

726
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,880
enjoy the most?
I have to say I feel like

727
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,720
retention wise, doing it
organically works better.

728
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,520
I feel it's easier if you
haven't recorded because now

729
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:42,640
I've noticed myself where I can
in my head anticipate the pivot

730
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,880
of the next seg.
So my episodes are very

731
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,040
segmental.
I usually talk about 3 or 4

732
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:53,440
topics and episode so when I'm
promoting my my sponsor I can in

733
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,000
my head anticipate the next
segment and say something at the

734
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,240
end that I know will tie into
like Speaking of blah blah blah.

735
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,560
Yeah, like a call back.
Right.

736
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:08,480
So, you know, pivoting into that
next segment with ease and flow,

737
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:12,320
that takes practice.
And I don't know if I would have

738
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,960
been able to do that gracefully
a few episodes or a few seasons

739
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,120
ago rather.
So that's why my sponsors were

740
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,320
recorded back then versus now.
I can just throw it in, talk

741
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,040
about it and then we pivot into
the next segment.

742
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,560
Well, I'm going to suggest that
if if you want to put humor in

743
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,520
your mid roll or into anything
that you're trying to sell, and

744
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,960
this goes for the entire room, I
would suggest listening to of

745
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,240
course, to Conan, but also fly
on the wall.

746
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,440
Fly on the wall does a pretty
good job as well.

747
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,880
And I got to say, I think it's
probably a little bit easier,

748
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:53,000
maybe a lot easier if if it's,
you know, if there's a team, if

749
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,360
you're talking with someone
versus just talking to a mic all

750
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:02,720
by yourself solo, that I can see
would be a little bit more

751
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:07,780
difficult.
But if you got a Co star or a Co

752
00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:10,600
host or someone that you can
commit Kibbetz back and forth

753
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,640
with, this seems to be probably
a lot easier.

754
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:20,640
But fly on the wall with Dana
Carvey and David Spade are

755
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,280
really good at this as well.
So if you need to kind of

756
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,200
dissect what they're doing, I
would I would suggest you do

757
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,480
that.
Is there anyone, Amanda, is

758
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,640
there anyone that you have heard
that you would say, you know,

759
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,720
they do a great job selling?
So I don't know if you guys have

760
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:44,440
Netflix, Most of us do kill Tony
as a show on Netflix.

761
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,200
I really love that show.
It's a stand up.

762
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,800
He hosts a space, which is it's
now a live podcast where

763
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,200
comedians come up.
He picks them out of a bucket

764
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,760
and they have one minute, they
don't know they're being picked.

765
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,560
So hundreds of people wait
across the street to boot, have

766
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,320
their name called at random.
So they come in, they do a

767
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,800
minute bit and it could end up
being something that changes

768
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,680
their life.
There's a panel of judges.

769
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,920
You get roasted afterwards in a
conversation with Tony.

770
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,920
And in between he will do
sponsors and it's him and his

771
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,240
sidekick.
And he's kind of just sometimes

772
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:27,160
he's very robotic or like he'll
throw like a weird way of the

773
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:31,080
way that he's saying things and
it's hilarious, but you're still

774
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,360
gaining, you're still
understanding what it is that

775
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,040
he's pitching.
So I think it works great for

776
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,160
him the way that he does that.
And again, that's Kill Tony.

777
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,280
I love that show.
If you haven't seen it, you got

778
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,400
to check it out.
I had no idea that Kill Tony was

779
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,240
on Netflix.
That's great.

780
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,840
I will definitely check that
out.

781
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,680
Amanda, I see your hand up.
Yeah, I just when Amanda said

782
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,520
they have like one minute to do
their thing and it could be life

783
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,080
changing.
I just want to remind everyone

784
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,880
in this room that they with
their own social media, have one

785
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:09,080
minute and less options to put
stuff out there to have your

786
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,440
life be changed.
So just keep creating the

787
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,440
content because you don't need
what was it kill Tony to

788
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,600
necessarily.
Yes, that would maybe expedite

789
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,960
it and make it faster.
But I mean, we have daily

790
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,760
opportunities to do that too.
So just create.

791
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,920
Just create.
Exactly, Jonathan, I saw your

792
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,320
hand up.
Yeah.

793
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,560
And I actually have a question
for the stage, just for those

794
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:36,000
that are concerned about adding
humor into their business

795
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,240
podcast.
Have you ever listened to a

796
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:41,040
podcast and somebody's cracked
joke and you've immediately

797
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,160
turned it off and never listened
to it again?

798
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,280
I don't think that that has ever
happened to me.

799
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,680
Has it happened to you?
No, because.

800
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:53,960
Amanda, I see your hand up.
Yeah, I'll say for me, yes.

801
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,240
But typically is if the joke
goes like a way that I was like,

802
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,800
oh, if you're going to say a
joke like that, that you're not

803
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,320
my type, type of personality
person that I want to be like

804
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,880
learning from.
So there is sometimes the joke

805
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,320
just goes a little too far to
the other side of what I want.

806
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,440
And then so yeah, I do turn it
like I don't really listen

807
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,680
anymore after that point.
It has to be pretty like vulgar

808
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,360
though, you know?
You see, those are the ones that

809
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:17,720
I love.
OK.

810
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,880
But anyway for everybody.
And I wouldn't recommend going

811
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:27,120
vulgar in your business podcast,
but you know, to each his own.

812
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,200
Well, it could depending on what
your who your sponsor is.

813
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,280
I mean there is, you know what,
there is a podcast called The

814
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,640
Vagina Podcast and she talks
about.

815
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,200
I think she talks about.
Something called muff, something

816
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,240
called muff something, I don't
know, but it's a it's a product.

817
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,760
So, you know, you got to go with
what you got to go with.

818
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,200
And Alex just joined us.
Alex.

819
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,560
That's a good time, Alex.
It is Alex.

820
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,640
That's what happens when I leave
everything.

821
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,680
Look who showed up.
Yeah, well, but late to never.

822
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,560
So, Alex, we are.
That was.

823
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,840
Comedy.
There you go.

824
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:15,440
We are talking about humor in
your podcast and maybe using

825
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,320
humor to sell, you know whoever
is sponsoring you, maybe just

826
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,760
sell your own product.
Have you, have you done this?

827
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,840
Have you tried this?
Oh, we are filled with humor in

828
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,240
our podcast.
We like to do a lot of site gags

829
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,480
because it really translates
well on an audio podcast,

830
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,360
similar to the whole, you know,
good morning, Vietnam thing.

831
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,720
You know, we'd like to do a lot
of tripping and falling, of

832
00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:44,880
course, because that really that
really kind of projects.

833
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:49,520
Well, I mean, no, I mean in
terms of comedy, you know, or in

834
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,280
terms of jokes, you got to kind
of keep it light.

835
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,040
We try to keep it as light as we
can.

836
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,200
One of the things that I like to
do with my daughter's podcast is

837
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,040
I always like try to trip her up
a little and she's such a good

838
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,160
podcast partner.
She doesn't even flinch a lot of

839
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,040
times.
She usually kind of goes with it

840
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:08,800
because she knows her dad's an
idiot.

841
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,240
And with the other podcast, I
got to tell you, for those of

842
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:18,200
you that don't do lives, doing a
live like this versus doing

843
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:22,840
something that's pre recorded,
it's a different beast because

844
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,520
you really have to be on your
feet.

845
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:29,520
You kind of have to go with the
flow and you kind of when things

846
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,440
do happen because they're going
to happen.

847
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:35,200
I mean, we prove that every day.
I know Amanda has to deal with

848
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,640
that every Monday is you just
kind of have to go with it.

849
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:43,160
Some days nothing works and
other days it sort of works.

850
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,040
And hopefully the days that it
sort of works that way, the days

851
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,560
that it doesn't work, you have
to have a congruence thought

852
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,080
with it.
And also, you know, with our

853
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,720
podcast and I know with with
Amanda's podcast and everybody

854
00:48:55,720 --> 00:49:00,440
else's, you know, you have
certain things that you say that

855
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,760
are inside jokes to your
listeners.

856
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,040
And I think that's a real big
important thing to have that

857
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:10,280
kind of secret, you know, not
secret, but like your own little

858
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,800
language.
I know Amanda Yoa has that with

859
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,080
hers and Jonathan has it with
his.

860
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,320
And I think that that that's
that's what's even better like

861
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,280
for our for the what is from
cast, the it's not really

862
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,160
comedy, but you know, they call
all the people that watch from

863
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,520
Affrummally and not that we
didn't coin the phrase, but

864
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,000
that's just what they do.
That's what the the show has

865
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,920
done.
So I mean, that's kind of one of

866
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,640
the things that we do.
And I think you can get a lot of

867
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:43,640
traction with the holidays and
kind of we do a lot with that,

868
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,800
like with Mother's Day.
And you know, I know there's

869
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,520
that always that, that great
Mother's Day meme of mommy

870
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,560
dearest holding the hanger, you
know, Happy Mother's Day.

871
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,440
And also seriously from Game of
Thrones.

872
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,120
It's like, you know, you have to
have fun with it or you won't

873
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:03,800
actually, what's the point?
So that's my minute or so right

874
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,400
before the room closes because
the class that I'm teaching,

875
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,240
they all left me because they
had a, a call like an emergency

876
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:12,040
call.
So I'm just.

877
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:13,440
Serious.
You know, Alex, that's just what

878
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:14,440
they told you.
Honey, I'm.

879
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,800
Saying, well, pretty, you know
what, I'm kind of hoping that's

880
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,040
what it was.
Either way, I'm getting paid, so

881
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,000
I really don't care.
So, you know, I had to be up at

882
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,640
5 O clock in the morning.
Talk about comedy.

883
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,760
I had to be up at 5 O clock in
the morning to be here at 7:00

884
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,760
so that they could so that they
could leave at, you know, 7:15,

885
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,560
so whatever.
You go, they'll say that one of

886
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:39,480
the funniest things that I have
ever heard was, and this is back

887
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,920
on radio.
So there was no visual to it.

888
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,680
It was just radio.
My friend Peter Tilden, he's a

889
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:50,320
good friend of mine and he he
had, he was interviewing Carrot

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Top.
Carrot Top is a prop comedian,

891
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prop comedian.
And so every time Peter would

892
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,320
make a joke, and he's a comedy
writer, so he makes a lot of

893
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,000
jokes.
And every time he made a joke,

894
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you know, a prop comedian will
do something with their props.

895
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:12,200
And so you what you heard was
you should see this.

896
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,560
Oh, he's got a helmet on with
with hands and he's pulling on

897
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,760
some strings and the hands are
clapping on top of his hell.

898
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:21,080
Oh, it's great.
The whole interview was was

899
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,120
Peter explaining what Carrot Top
was doing with all his props.

900
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It was great.
It was great.

901
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:30,960
And just a note to Ashley.
Ashley, you might want to take

902
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,720
out my vagina stuff.
You know that?

903
00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:34,000
The stuff that I was talking
about.

904
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,880
Oh, see.
I, I wanted to hear that on the

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00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,120
replay because, you know, we
just don't get enough vaginas

906
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,120
and.
I definitely not enough of that

907
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,720
on the morning chat.
I mean, I don't know if it's a

908
00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:52,600
little too much for the morning
chat, but you know, we used to

909
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,400
talk about that on the Friday
evening chat.

910
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,040
I mean, you know, you get Paula
with a couple of Budweisers.

911
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,120
And God, wait a minute, are you
talking about my vagina on your

912
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,280
lifetime chat?
No, no, I think.

913
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,600
Anybody's vagina.
I'm a married man.

914
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,040
I don't.
Really and everybody, thank you

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00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,480
for joining us today.
So look.

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00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:16,200
At this.
The podcasting morning chat has

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been cancelled.
Won't be the first thing that's

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00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,600
got cancelled on this place.
Everyone, thank you so much for

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00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,080
joining us today.
I want you to have a great day.

920
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:32,600
Thank you so much for joining us
and we will see you tomorrow.