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Jerry Corley: There we go. Look!

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Jerry Corley: It's the same old group.

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Cliff Spenger: That's just…

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Jerry Corley: Waiting for more people to join us.

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Kaz Okamoto: We're loyalists.

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Jerry Corley: Yes.

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Cliff Spenger: You wait a list.

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Jerry Corley: to see you. Yeah, it's good to be back. We took a long break this time, that was good. But…

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Cliff Spenger: A few more.

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Jerry Corley: People coming in.

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Cliff Spenger: Unmute myself. That wasn't me, that was the workers.

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Jerry Corley: What's happening, Cliff? How are you?

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Jerry Corley: Well, I just say, how are you, as he mutes himself.

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Cliff Spenger: My work was outside, so I'm gonna mute myself, but I turned 75 on Saturday.

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Jerry Corley: Wow, congratulations!

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Cliff Spenger: 75!

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Jerry Corley: That's.

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Cliff Spenger: That wasn't me.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, and we got a few more people joining here, I know that. We got 11 people, signed up for this, so they should have gotten their links.

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Jerry Corley: You guys got your links.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Yeah, there we go. Well, if it's just us, it's just up. There's 11 people registered for this course. Maybe they're doing the, they'll look at it later sort of thing. But, we're gonna talk about Theo Von here today, and, so that'll be a lot of fun.

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Jerry Corley: So, has anybody seen Theo Von at all? Have you watched stuff? Yeah. Yeah. He's an interesting guy. He's a bit racist.

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Jerry Corley: You know, sometimes. And I find that's fine… that's what I think, I was like, why was I resisting covering him? And,

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Jerry Corley: Oh, it's like Jack Raine saying, I did not get the link. It's in your email, Jack Raine.

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Jerry Corley: Hey yay, yay, right? Some people. Some people.

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Kaz Okamoto: You know, same person! There's a difference.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like, same person.

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Jerry Corley: Jack, but it's like, some people do that, right? It's like, you send it to them, they're like, oh, I didn't check my email, you usually, you know, text me, or something like that.

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Jerry Corley: Hold on, let me get him a link.

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Kaz Okamoto: I've only heard Theo Von on, like, Comedy Station, Sirius FM. I've never seen him in person. I don't even know if he's black or white, or yellow or green.

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Jerry Corley: Really?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: He'd been around long enough.

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Kaz Okamoto: I know, but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of him or anything, just heard his comedy.

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Cliff Spenger: Think mullet. Think mullet. Mullet.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, mullet, yeah, definitely, think of a mullet.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: That's good. That was, like,

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Jerry Corley: There we go, that was, now Jack's joining, good, he's here now.

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Cliff Spenger: So, by the way, you… I got two emails from you. You sent the, Bert Kreischer as well as this one, and, maybe he was just going down and he saw that one. Because I thought for a moment that that was it until I saw it said 18.2 instead of 18.1.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, yeah, yeah, so that was a glitch in the matrix, that's what the automation system.

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Cliff Spenger: hurt.

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Jerry Corley: It was tagging… it was tagging… it was tagging Bert Kreischer, because I failed to click…

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Jerry Corley: the right, you know, connect it to the right one in the checkout. So, it's like the technology.

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Jerry Corley: It's,

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Kaz Okamoto: You know, that's okay, I thought maybe you were getting us excited for next week.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, there we go, Bert Kreischer is next week, so…

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Cliff Spenger: the link, we're ready to go.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, exactly. And that'll be going… I'll be sending that out extra as well. Well, what I'm trying to do is automate it so that when, you know, people sign up for something, they automatically get the link. Then I was thinking it through, going, wait a second, if they get the link a week in advance.

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Jerry Corley: They're gonna lose the link.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: I'm gonna need to resend it again, so I think I'll schedule to do that. Give them the link at first, then send them a link again, like, the day before, or something, you know?

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Jerry Corley: So that'll be good to do. Let me make sure that I don't have any other texts.

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Kaz Okamoto: I like it that when it comes out the morning of.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, the morning of, you like the morning of?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, because I get a lot of emails, and so it gets buried.

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Jerry Corley: Cliff.

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Kaz Okamoto: Chef.

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Jerry Corley: Netflixed it the night before.

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Cliff Spenger: Well, you could set up the email tour in,

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Jack Rain: I like the night before as well, or the day before.

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Cliff Spenger: late in the morning. Like, it could be sent at 6 AM your time, and it would get here at 9am.

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Cliff Spenger: Instead of waiting till, like, about noon here.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna send it out

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Jerry Corley: The night before, and then send it out a reminder the morning of.

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Jerry Corley: That'll probably be good. Nobody would mind getting it twice as a reminder sort of thing, right? So I think that'll be good, too.

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Cliff Spenger: Think Jack Green, and you'll…

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Jerry Corley: I'm gonna think, yes, definitely think Jack Raine, and that will help with that. Let me double-check, make sure nobody else is, like, wondering where it is.

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Jerry Corley: And a lot of these, also a lot of these apps now, they're all using AI.

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Jerry Corley: And, I've had some screw-ups because of AI doing something. I go, what? How did that happen? And then I go look it up, and I look it up in a log, and it says, oh, AI

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Jerry Corley: Did the auto… you know, and you're like, okay, that's, that explains it, and that's been… and it's all happening at once, too, because they're all implementing it at the same time.

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Jerry Corley: And so what they don't realize is those… the guys who run those, those companies, is that AI is… is…

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Jerry Corley: is jacked. AI doesn't know what it's doing. And they all believe, they've all bought into the hype.

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Jerry Corley: that AI is magic, and and it was like, I was just watching some videos of this guy, he's a Chinese professor, MIT guy type of thing, and he was talking, breaking down the why…

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Jerry Corley: Why people believe AI is magic, and what AI is really doing. And it's exactly what we talked about. It scrapes the most popular answers on things on the internet, and feeds that to us.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, and if Reddit… if a Reddit prank story is the most popular answer, you're gonna get prank information.

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Jerry Corley: So, that's the key. So that'd be one thing to talk about, too, is like, how do you describe that?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: I thought it was interesting, my daughter said, oh, you should ask ChatGPT, and I said, are you insane?

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Kaz Okamoto: She goes, what do you mean? I go, you… ugh.

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Kaz Okamoto: I go, oh my god, you're so smart, you're so stupid, I just couldn't believe that she's telling me to ask ChatGPT about an answer for something. And the thing that everyone believes, whatever they're reading or getting feedback on, the internet is true.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: That's where…

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Jerry Corley: Oh my god, that's where we are right now.

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Kaz Okamoto: Diagnosis for everything.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, Neil deGrasse Tyson was talking about the complete, Just sort of, like.

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Jerry Corley: Sort of, like, destruction of facts.

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Jerry Corley: And he was just saying, because of all this stuff that's out there, and we're being fed this nonsense from ChatGPT, and it's like,

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Jerry Corley: And it's wrong 60% of the time. That's his stat, 60% of the time. So I'm thinking about, wow, every time you hear something on ChatGPT, odds are it's gonna be wrong. You know, it's sort of like being in a marriage.

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Jerry Corley: You know… no matter what you say, your wife says you're gonna be wrong, right? So…

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Stephen Berger: More than 60%.

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Jerry Corley: Is it more than 60%? Am I off on that data? Yeah, it's… I don't know, I haven't been married for a year.

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Kaz Okamoto: Steve, good to see you!

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Jerry Corley: Great to see Steve, right?

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Stephen Berger: What's that going for you?

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Jerry Corley: Let's get on to this, let's get onto this course. This is, I had a fun time. I'll really build… trying to build this whole thing out so that, all the landing pages match, and, everything is, like, as you guys have been seeing, we're putting the courses on a site, right, on a landing page.

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Jerry Corley: so people can organize it, always access it, never have to worry about filling up their hard drive with the stuff. But still, I'm gonna make the videos.

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Jerry Corley: downloadable.

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Jerry Corley: from the, like, if you land on a page, like, it would be sort of like a page that will have the video. You've seen it, right? And how it's laid out, and with the downloads of the worksheets and all that, all on one sort of website. And then, you can also download the video and keep it on your hard drive, because my whole thing is, like, if you buy something, you should be able to own it.

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Jerry Corley: And sometimes I feel like if it stays just on the website and you have to go on the site to get it, you're kind of leasing it.

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Jerry Corley: You know, and I want anybody to feel like they buy something, they have it, you know what I'm saying? Sort of like the book, too. You know, it's like, get the book, they want that hard copy of it. And especially the Gen Zers these days, they're getting really upset about, you know, feeling like they lease everything. They want to have, like, with their games, they want a solid piece of…

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Jerry Corley: product to hold. Alright, so, one thing I do like about Theo Von, once you get past the racism.

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Jerry Corley: Because it just comes out, man. I think it's just, like, he's got…

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Jerry Corley: You know, maybe it's that Southern thing, maybe it's that Louisiana type of Southern thing that he has, like, and he's more layered than just being racist, because, you know, he'll pick on, Jewish people, he'll pick on, you know, Mexicans, he'll pick on… and one thing he… we found out, that his dad is Guatemalan.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So he goes, he didn't know, because he died… his dad died when he was 16.

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Jerry Corley: So, like, his dad had him in his 60s, and died when he was 16, so he didn't, you know, was raised without, mostly without his dad there. But, you know, he went to college, he went to LSU, right? So, he's not a complete idiot.

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Jerry Corley: But he's a… he's also, you know, so it does say… it says a lot about him, but you could hear a lot of the vibes that come out through what he talks about. And, you know, so for me, unlike,

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Jerry Corley: you know, I did some… so the wiki on Theo is… first of all, look at that. I like the quote. This sort of says how he writes. Life is like… life's like soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man.

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Jerry Corley: it's such a nice… it's very poetic, right? It's like, life's like soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man. And it's like, that is almost like, who talks like that? I think,

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Jerry Corley: That is sort of like a Leslie Nielsen type of phrase, too, because he used to do those misconnected phrases, and which made his interesting, it made his… made him so quirky as a comedian. So life's like soup, I'm just a fork out here, man. And it's like, if you said life's like soup, nobody…

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Jerry Corley: Would jump to, you know, what they think the analogy is.

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Jerry Corley: So one of the things I want you to think about, and this is why I use this as a quote.

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Jerry Corley: We know what analogies are, we work with those a lot, right? We take two dissimilar ideas, we force them together, saying, this is like this, and makes the audience go, huh? How? And they have to mentally now participate in the joke, right? They have to mentally participate in the solution of life's like soup.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, but even if you got more specific, life's like… Tomato soup.

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Jerry Corley: Life's like chicken noodle soup.

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Jerry Corley: That would even force them to think there is even more substantial connection happening. Like, if I said, life's like tomato soup.

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Jerry Corley: And I'm just a fork out here, man. You can't eat tomato soup with a fork!

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Jerry Corley: It's almost like you can't participate in life, and that's a fun way of saying that. And so, it's like you don't feel like you're participating in life. And so I think every time you have something that's kind of specific.

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Jerry Corley: Ask yourself as a comedian, how can I get more specific? And what's interesting about this, this morning, Jack Raine texted me a snapshot from, I think it was at, the Comic Toolbox.

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Jerry Corley: Right, so by John Voorhaus, I think it's, right? And so, and what I liked about John, I met John when I was at the… when I was doing warm-up for a Murphy Brown show, and, John was,

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Jerry Corley: when he talked to him, he was oddly specific, and his writing, when he writes.

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Jerry Corley: You show… he showed some writing, and he said, what if we said this? And it got really specific.

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Jerry Corley: And I was, like, reading it, I go, that's quirky specific, what a coincidence, because today we're covering Theo Von, who's also quirky and weirdly specific in his writing, and he talks about stuff that, you know, it's just colloquial. One of the things, he's kind of like a Nate Berghazi.

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Jerry Corley: meets… kind of… maybe I would say, like, Steven Wright, Patrice O'Neill, Mitch Hedberg.

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Jerry Corley: But he does the analogies, right? He comes in a lot of analogies. So, I want you to think about specificity. How can life like soup, and we're just adding that one little extra descriptor, life's like tomato soup. There are no chunks in tomato soup.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So it's like a consummate. So it's like, life's like… life's like tomato soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man. And it's just like, you can't seem to participate, you're not fitting in.

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Jerry Corley: And so it's like, I think that's such a great way, instead of saying, I don't know where I fit.

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Jerry Corley: I don't know how to fit in. Life's like tomato soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, that's… if you even said that at first, and said, I don't know where… how I fit in, you know, I'm a little odd duck, I don't know how I fit in. Everybody kind of feels that way to a certain extent, right? At some level. Jack Raine, I know, does. And it's like, I… I don't really know where I fit in. It's like, I'm just a, you know, life's like tomato soup, and I'm kind of just a fork.

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Jerry Corley: You know, there's no way I can get in there. There's no way I can get in there. Right? And it's like, and I'm talking kind of like Theo talks, because he's got that southern type of Louisiana thing. Kaz, you have your hand up.

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: I mean, Jack.

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Kaz Okamoto: how, like, if you were to say life's like cream of tomato soup, and get more descriptive, right? So you have the visual, more of a visual for the audience to see.

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Jerry Corley: So, it's like…

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Kaz Okamoto: Thicker, but it's creamed, so it gives you a bigger description of the soup.

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Jerry Corley: Do they have cream at tomato? I think tomato soap is cream at tomato.

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Kaz Okamoto: No, it's not.

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Jerry Corley: It's not? No. I didn't know that. There's a cream of tomato?

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Stephen Berger: Ask ChatGPT.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, because I…

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Jack Rain: What is that guy at the farmer's market selling me?

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Jerry Corley: Cream of potato, right?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, yeah, but you could say cream of tomato.

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Kaz Okamoto: Tomato soup, you can make it just with water or broth, but if you add cream or milk, it becomes cream of tomato.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, wow, okay, I did not know that.

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Kaz Okamoto: Compared to tomato bisque, I mean, you could go into this whole thing.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

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Kaz Okamoto: tomato soup.

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Jerry Corley: That would be fun, that would be a fun drill down into, like, you're just trying to express yourself. I'm like… I'm like… I'm like a… I'm like… I'm like, you know, life's like tomato soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man. Like, life's… life's like cream of tomato soup, you know? You know, if you take tomato soup and you add cream in it.

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Jerry Corley: It becomes cream at tomato soup, and it's like, we can talk about tomato bisque, like, and now you just start talking about tomato bisque and all these different types of weird soups. Sort of out of the blue, the audience is gonna chuckle at the weird quirkiness that you just went down this rabbit hole with.

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Jerry Corley: So…

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Kaz Okamoto: You could do all that, but not give the… and I'm just a fork out here, man, and then call it back later.

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Jerry Corley: Yes, absolutely.

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Kaz Okamoto: Right? And then saying, well, life's like cream of tomato soup after you went through the soul's litany of different types of tomato soup.

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Jerry Corley: Absolutely, yeah.

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Jerry Corley: Plus, when you say man, it really humanizes you. Like, you're like… it gives your 60s vibe, you know, 1960s, 70s vibe. Yeah, I'm just a… I'm just a single chopstick out here, man.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, that's funny. That's really funny, because you're just like… like the ramen, and you've got only one chopstick. That's hysterical. That's like… and, you know, if you're really high, you'll find a way to eat that.

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Jerry Corley: So, one of the things I wanted to sort of, like, talk about, because, you know, we can save the wiki for later, right? So, one of the things I want you to notice about the wiki, just sort of give… I like to give a background, and as I've said before, as most of you have heard me say before, when you're studying a comic.

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Jerry Corley: Right? He's not in LA, he's not in New York, he's not in San Francisco, Seattle, he's not in the cities that are known for their comedy. He's in Covington, Louisiana, and he found a way to make it into comedy.

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Jerry Corley: That's… to me, if somebody from Covington, Louisiana can get into comedy and can become famous for that, anybody can do it. Now, you of course need the hair. That was helpful.

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Jerry Corley: Because he started on MTV, right? And that was… he was… he fit right in with that vibe, right? So Jack Raine's got the hair, right? He just needs to get dumb like Louisiana, and then he could be, like, really… that could really add to it. But, and he went to college, he went to LSU,

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Jerry Corley: And so, one of the things that would put him on the map, like, you know, Chappelle, Burr, like, Chappelle had his, he had his HBO special, that first HBO special that crushed, and people were surprised. But I don't know if you saw Chappelle before. Chappelle, when he was on, I think it was, Farm Aid.

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Jerry Corley: Was that, was that Farm Aid? What was the one that, the homeless thing that was done by Robin Williams and, Whoopi Goldberg?

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Jack Rain: Hey, Crystal.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, what was that? Was that, that was, well, does anybody remember that?

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Jack Rain: It's like an HBO thing.

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Jerry Corley: Did 5 different years of that one. Comic Relief.

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Jerry Corley: And, he was still very funny, but he was, he was young, and he was doing more jokes. And of course, now he's evolved to philosopher type of ideas and stories, but he's still got the funny in there. Getting your fundamentals of jokes first is the key. So, Bill Burr became super famous through the viral rant. He was already known.

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Jerry Corley: But what got him super famous was a social media, viral social media video of him doing that, rant in Philadelphia.

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Jerry Corley: He did a 10-minute rant, just eviscerating this audience, who was rude to a couple of legendary comedians who were up there on stage, and then he, and they were booing him.

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Jerry Corley: Close, yes, so that's part of it. In storytelling, we root for somebody because they are clearly the protagonist, or…

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Jerry Corley: Right? But we liked them, for one, first, they're making jokes, Royale with cheese sort of thing, if you remember that. And the other thing was, their enemy.

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Jerry Corley: And so they had, so, shit, we're gonna be fucked up if so-and-so finds out about this, right? And so, we're rooting for them not to get caught, because we like them, because they crack jokes, despite the fact they just blew a guy's head off and don't really care.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, man, now we gotta get so-and-so out here to clean us up, right? And so, they're not… why'd you shoot him? And there's no panic, no worry. So, really, in reality, we've been going like, these guys are bad guys, they're not good guys.

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Jerry Corley: But, since they're… they had a nemesis that was worse, a common enemy that is worse, a boss, right, we can relate to that. That's now gonna kill them, you know, we're not gonna be killed, we could be fired.

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Jerry Corley: Right? We might not find her body, right? They didn't. She's hiding on Zoom, right? Still hasn't been located, right? So it's like, so… so when we know that with that common enemy, so what Bill Burr did, so clever, I don't know if he knew he was doing this, I don't think so, I think it just happened.

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Jerry Corley: Right? I would love to talk to him about that, because that would be something key. He's doing a countdown. He keeps reminding you on this, 9 more minutes, I'm staying for the whole thing. I don't give a fuck, you motherfuckers. And he keeps going out after these guys, and he goes, 8 minutes, right? I'm staying, right? And he keeps going, 7 minutes. Every minute, he'd be like, you know, when he hits minute number, like, 3 minutes left.

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Jerry Corley: They start cheering, Because the common enemy is time.

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Jerry Corley: So that's their common… I was, like, so… it's… it's very meta, in a way, but holy shit, they hated him, and he turns them to cheering him, because time is our common enemy, and we want to beat time, too.

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Jerry Corley: So it's just… I just… when you listen to that, you go, holy shit, that's so cool! To know that that's something you could use as a story writing mechanism yourself.

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Kaz Okamoto: Well, did he, he had X amount of minutes left, and he said, screw all you guys, fuck you, I'm taking every second that I have on stage, and I have X amount of minutes left.

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Jerry Corley: Yes, yeah, and he… what he… he… even at the beginning, I think he was counting down from, like, 10 to 9. I have to go back and listen, but I remember that listening to that countdown, and he'd go, 7 minutes, I'm staying, fuck you, right? And it's like, then they started laughing at his, just, irreverence up there on stage, not really caring that he's getting booed by all of Philadelphia right now.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So, and he didn't care. And they… they are the same way.

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Jerry Corley: Meaning, you know, fuck you guys, we're Philly, you know? And it's like, they meet somebody who's, like, just as Philly, but he's Boston, and he's, like, eviscerating them. And Cliff, you also had something to say, and then we got.

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Cliff Spenger: I'm just gonna say.

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Cliff Spenger: They could… they could have been clapping for the time going by, or also that, oh, it's closer to you being off. I'm just saying…

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, exactly. That's a good… that's a good note, too, without a doubt. So, and this is good, because now, like, you guys are thinking about it, and adding your own, thoughts means you're participating in what's going on, rather than the data just hitting you. You're thinking it through, which is important for learning, right? So, Jack Ryan, you had your hand up.

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Jack Rain: Yeah, a lot of times passed, so I don't know if the joke's gonna hit, but, I was trying to be polite, and then deep down, my, my, the devil on the shoulder's like, you know what? Fuck these guys, you just, you should just interrupt them, like, no, no, no, don't. So give us some context. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the, you know…

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Jack Rain: Life is like pea soup.

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Jack Rain: Oh, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on, unless you need to make a couple hundred bucks for your month's rent.

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Jerry Corley: Good, I like that, like pea soup.

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Jerry Corley: That's when you… because it's better to be peed on than peed off… pissed on than pissed off.

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Jerry Corley: You know, and like, I better have been pissed off than pissed on, unless you're trying to make your rent. Then… then the latter… then the latter can be valuable, right? Something like that. That's good, I like that. That's a funny line. Pissed off… better you pissed off than pissed on, unless…

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Jerry Corley: And just let it sit, that would be funny. Just say that, like, put that up on… better to be pissed off, because isn't pissed off… better to be pissed off than pissed on a common phrase? We've normalized it, we've heard it. You know, it's like, living the dream, it's like, sorry, better to be pissed off than pissed on. Like, I don't know.

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Jack Rain: It depends. So, if I did go with… life is like pea soup, so everyone…

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Jerry Corley: And a pea soup.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, you know, because it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. I don't know.

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Jack Rain: soup, and then I would throw in, better be pissed off than pissed on, so people would then go, oh, he's talking about piss!

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Jerry Corley: One is a reframe.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, and each one, so, pea soup, you know. Yeah, I don't know what pea soup you're thinking of, but I'm thinking of the pea soup, like, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Well…

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's very funny, I like it, that's good, that's a good walkthrough on that joke, because you're doing reframes each step of the way, and you're using…

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Jerry Corley: You're using, you know, you're using very visual language with the pea soup. Good. Nice, Jack. It turned out it worked out, see? And we got some good value out of that. So, it's like, in this case, we got, look at his name. This is what… Theo Von's original name is, Theodore Capitani Von Kernikowsky III.

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Jerry Corley: Wow, Kurtatowski III, what a name. Now…

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Jerry Corley: You know, it didn't… he got kind of lost, but then still, look where he… look where he went with his stuff, right? He went to LSU, went to college, and then next thing you know, from 2000 to 2006, he was on MTV for 6 years.

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Jerry Corley: At 19 years old. Look at this guy right here. Look at this little guy right here. Look how young he is right there. So he was on MTV, and then he was on…

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Kaz Okamoto: What did you do on MTV?

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Jerry Corley: Yep. So, no good question, because it meant you were certainly, you're on the hook, so you asked the question. He became a familiar face on MTV, appearing multiple seasons, Road Rules, The Challenge, the other network specials, but as a real TV personality, not a stand-up comedian, right? So he was just a regular, he probably submitted to it, got in. Now, the thing, he did Last Comic Standing.

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Jerry Corley: He won the fan favorite competition, part of what, you know, he's such an authentic, kind of, like, easy-going type of guy, so that had his first credibility. But his real blow-up, came when he, you know, he did, of course, Comedy Central Presents, he did his first half hour there. It, and the way it started, this is where I thought, when I saw this, I was like, he's kind of racist.

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Jerry Corley: to be that, you know, that racist. But he works his way through it, you know? And I think that's something… he wanted to say something, he worked his way through it, then you find out that his dad's Guatemalan, doesn't mean he can't be racist.

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Jerry Corley: It just means, like, he's drawing these stereotypes, these very common, silly stereotypes, and I was like, dude, you're from Louisiana, and you have no right to pick on anybody, bro.

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Jerry Corley: You know, you're the dumbest of the dumb, right? And that sort of thing. And he doesn't really do that, he picks on everybody else. So that's one of the things I noticed, but the thing I want you to really notice here, we've talked about this and talked about this, 2016, just 10 years old, just 10 years ago.

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Jerry Corley: The past… this past weekend is the name of his podcast. So, the biggest career leap… for him.

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Jerry Corley: is just starting to say it and tell some stories. Every week, you think of… and one way to do it, some people are like, I don't even know what to talk about. Do you have a box of pictures?

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Jerry Corley: And you pull… you're trying to take these boxes down, they have pictures in them, and you find yourself going through these pictures. You'll spend, like, 3 hours going through the pictures. First of all, because you don't want to pack, right? Nobody likes to pack, right? So you wind up going through pictures for 3 hours, and reminiscing on all this old shit that you did.

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Jerry Corley: So, go through some old pictures. Pick, like, 5 of the pictures and tell a story that day about that time, what was going on. And maybe you can take the highlights and just tell the story, and use the… and then work on your technique of getting… weirdly specific.

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Jerry Corley: like Theo Von. That quirky specificity, you know? So, so, I want you to really think about that. I think that's something… now.

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Jerry Corley: That's how he started for the first year or so. And they would upload it to Podbean, which was a pod… a podcast host… hosting service at the time. I think they're still around. And then he just… it expanded from there. It's the consistency.

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Jerry Corley: on YouTube, so GaryVee's putting out a lot of content. This guy puts out so much content. I mean, he was talking about the thing that's gonna… the thing that makes the difference between you and everybody else is the amount of content you're putting out. He puts out, like, a, you know, I think he said, you know how much content I put out today? 327 clips.

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Jerry Corley: That's good, too. Also, what the, Jack, that might be interesting for you to hear what GaryVee is talking about lately, because I know you went to the VidCon, and you're studying this, too. So in, what GaryVee's talking about, he says, starting a new channel now. You could start a new channel now, just a new channel, just on your passion.

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Jerry Corley: And it's different from your regular channel, because he has, like, a whole bunch of different channels now he's working with. He said, in that one video.

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Jerry Corley: Everyone out here has a chance, that one video could go totally viral and change your life, get a million views overnight, because it's your first video. And, YouTube seems to be pushing out, or social media in itself is pushing out brand new content.

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Jerry Corley: On YouTube. Then, he did… it was called Hot Pocket Monster. He would basically be talking about Pokemon cards, and they would open… do an unboxing and open cards, and see what they got, sort of thing. And it was a longer, video. Then, what he did is he decided to do Short Pocket Monster and make all of the unboxing videos, the shorts.

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Jerry Corley: these, Pokemon cards. So, you can do that with, I'm thinking about doing a joke a day type of thing, and putting that out there, meaning, you know, you put out a theme, here's the theme, you have, 10, you know, basically, see what you can come up with, and then, you know, basically it goes through some music, and it comes back, here's what I came up with, drum roll, and then you say the, say the joke.

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Jack Rain: YouTube channel, because it's, like, just a passion of me, a filmmaker. But when I get back up and rolling, which it is going… I'm gonna be putting… diverting some of my time and energy to a stand-up comedy channel, which I'll be uploading, like, 3-4 minute long sketches, maybe… I mean, not sketches, segments.

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Jack Rain: For a weekly theme, and then, once that's going, I will create a shorts channel that's taking, like, 10, 15 seconds of how many within the 3-4 minute video, right there.

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Jerry Corley: put out your… he said, put out your passions, put out your… I'm just starting this, and I'm learning it. You know? He said, people will love those videos, because that lets them know they can do that, too.

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Jerry Corley: And then they see that. I'm just like… so he's putting out stuff that he's just learning now, and so, you know, I just… I'm kind of new at this, I'm trying to learn this, and he's GaryVee, right? So…

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Jerry Corley: That's good. Alright, good. That's good motivation. Now, what you need to do… yeah, so I want you… everybody to think about that, because I think, not… you know, even if you're not publishing.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And it's like, so you know that 15 minutes, if you had 3 bullet point ideas that you wanted to talk about, like, if you went through the pictures, and did the pictures, and, you know, showed a picture, and then if you showed the picture at first, then you want to superimpose it onto your screen, and so that people can see the picture, and then you talk about the story.

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Jerry Corley: You know, that's gonna be super interesting. That's the way they tell documentary stories, that's the way they tell murder mystery stories, is through… driven through still images a lot, and telling the… telling the stories. So I think you have something there. I want each of you, to think about

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Jerry Corley: how… what you can contribute. You know, focus on what am I… what am I giving them that they can use as a takeaway that might give them information, help them open up their… their, understanding of this particular passion, this, specificity, this…

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Jerry Corley: this particular, say, job I did, this endeavor I'm involved in, whether it's sailing, whether it's mortgage brokering, whether it's, you know, it's like, what is that? A lot of people don't even know what that is, right? And it's like, and now you could actually… how many people are thinking about buying a house, or wish they could buy a house, and don't think it's possible, and all of a sudden you're out there telling these stories about

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Jerry Corley: these people you helped broker a mortgage and be able to get into a house, and all of a sudden they're like, oh shit, man, I can do that.

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Jerry Corley: You know? You know, it'll take me 3 years to save up that kind of a down payment. Man, this guy's amazing, I'm gonna come subscribe, right? And next thing you know, you're telling a story, and you're dropping in humor as you do it. That could be a whole different thing. Now, there are guys I've seen that just do murder mystery stuff. They talk about stuff that's already occurred, right? These stories are already out there, and they do their version of it, tell the story.

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Jerry Corley: And they have so many followers, and now they're booking live tours where they go out and selling out theaters, right? And think about if you do that and blend your comedy in there, boom, you've got people paying tickets to come see you live.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And it's like, and then the career can easily segue into your stand-up. Alright, so let's take a look at some of this, Theo Von, and listen to these, like, weirdly, his weird talking. I mean, it's just, he's got these odd things he talks about, and that's what I kind of dig about what he, what he does. But, again, I had to get past… I had to say, I had to get past kind of the racism earlier on.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: My town's most famous… My town's most famous, Lee Harvey Osborne.

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Jerry Corley: Hang on, you guys can't hear that, can ya?

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Jerry Corley: Did you hear it?

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Jerry Corley: Hey, Lina joined us. Hi, Lina. I know I saw you on here, but I didn't… the camera wasn't on, so… and Pappy's here! And look at that! Jack Day is here! Good to see you guys!

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Jerry Corley: Now, let's get into watching, watching a little bit of Theo Von. Again, listen for the quirky kind of weirdness he applies to it, in… and we'll come back and talk about that, too, and we'll start writing some of that ourselves.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: My town's most famous, Lee Harvey Oswald went to our middle school. Yeah. True story. Basketball player Pistol Pete Maravich lived and died in our town, so…

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: From downtown, both of them, tulane University, that's a famous college, university, yeah. It's a center for higher learning. They had their primate testing facility in our town, right? The Monkeys Center. And that's where most people were employed at, by the Monkeys Center. And in 1994, 70 infected monkeys got out, and they let us out of YMCA summer camp to help the police look

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So, what have you done with your life, okay? Until you and six kids you barely know, in wet bathing suits, have surrounded 9 chimpanzees outside of a Wendy's.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Yeah, man, I'm from a small town, dude. They just busted a man in my town with a 30-pound bag of hamster bones on him.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Yup, they got him. How many hamsters do you think that is, Brother Berger?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: 30 hamsters, dude? Wow, y'all supposed to be good at math, Cat Daddy. Strike one for Asians tonight.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Yeah, I used to sell hamsters, man.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Yeah? I used to be in the hemp game. True story, dude, my first job selling hamsters and G-pigs, guinea pigs. Yeah.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Oh, guinea pigs are beautiful, okay? If you haven't seen them recently, you're missing out.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Don't blame it on them, okay? Go to the pet shop. Take a sandwich you can eat by the cages. They're beautiful animals, dude. They're the Clydesdales of small ground game.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: But I used to sell hamsters and G-pigs growing up outside of concerts and raves. Yeah.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I'm not joking, it's my first job, man. Because people leaving concerts, what are they on, sir? They're on drugs! Yeah. Drugs, liquor, weed, uppers, downers, rounders, bruh, side splitters, Daddy!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Ecstasy pills. Ecstasy pills! And you approach them with that ham? That warm, furry, living, lively little eclair of the Lord.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: They buy that thing for $20 every time! The first time Green Day came through town, we made almost $400 selling hamsters and G-Pigs to people on ecstasy.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: What else?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Oh, my cousin got bit by a gay guy.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: So, we'll see. I'm Theo Von, y'all be good!

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so… there we go.

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Jack Rain: P, people are… that last line right there, he was talking about, animals, and then he went to… my cousin was bit, and so they would immediately think.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, he bridged from one to another, one to another. Like, I don't know where you get hamster gay guy, I don't know where that's coming from.

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Jerry Corley: You know, because you didn't… you didn't have… you didn't have Richard Gere there anyway.

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Jerry Corley: So, in this case, but yeah, I want you to also think about that, though. That's clever thinking as far as the writing, is like, what can the bridge to the bridge to the bridge, right? It's like… and each one can provide a form of escalation, so when we write, we like to escalate the intensity, the tension, the friction, the danger.

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Jerry Corley: And then there's a lot of times when we hit that note at the end, it gets an applause, because people didn't expect it, they just did… they didn't see it coming, it just showed up.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So, and that sort of thing, it's like, not just writing one joke, turn the joke into a bit.

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Jerry Corley: Right? It's like, how can I push the bit further? You're gonna see, we're gonna go through this with a little Theo Von there, talking about… right at the beginning, he had mentioned, something, that was,

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Jerry Corley: what was that? Right at the beginning, he mentioned something, I was like, I was gonna say… hold on, I gotta go back and remind myself, I didn't take the notes. But he says right at the beginning here…

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Jerry Corley: Most famous, Lee Harvey Oswald went to our middle school. Oh, yeah. I was right there, I was thinking, like, Lina, because he… look at the quirkiness, he just said, he's the most famous. Lee Harvey Oswald went to our middle school. What do you have that's famous about your middle school?

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Kaz Okamoto: Is it a real question, or is it rhetorical?

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Jerry Corley: This is, like, a real question. This is for lina, in particular.

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lina alva: planted under my middle school the entire time I was there.

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Jerry Corley: They stored World War II ammunition underneath the middle school.

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Jerry Corley: Where you went to middle school.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, and on top of that, what about… what is the irony there, the hypocrisy there? We love to say the Taliban uses children to shield them.

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Jerry Corley: And it's like, wait a second, we hid… Ammunition underneath middle schools.

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Jerry Corley: Holy shit! That's wild. I wonder if my school had World War II, had ammunition underneath it, too. That's wild. And why would they pick Florida school? Because Florida's appendix is the appendix of the United States. It don't matter if it goes.

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lina alva: cares about Central Florida.

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Jerry Corley: So there you have… that's what it reminded me of. A lot of times we think about, what can I write about? That's super interesting.

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Jerry Corley: When you talk about that, and plus, it's like, you had mentioned that Florida's like an appendix, and it's like, yeah, that's funny, because it doesn't matter if it goes. Like, it doesn't matter if it stays, like, you can just take it out, right? They take him out all the time. And again, I'm thinking, like, Theo Von, that kind of angle, he gets quirky and weird, and sometimes playing a character or pretending you're high or something like that,

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Jerry Corley: is a fun way to come up with quirky material. It's like you put yourself in the state of mind of the writer.

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Jerry Corley: And that's, like, when I write character, I'll do the voices of the character as I'm writing the character, their dialogue, so it kind of sounds like that guy. So it's funny, when you want to watch a Theo Von, it's easy to fall into that kind of, like, that rhythm he has.

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Jerry Corley: So it was like, I just thought it was, like, super interesting to take that… take that note from… from watching him and see how we just evolved that piece, through there. The hamster thing, right? He said, what a…

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Jerry Corley: What a quirky story. Now, we talk about relatability. One of the keys is when you're writing a topic and a joke, the topic has to be relatable. And some people… somebody says… could say to me, well, selling hamsters isn't relatable. Well, do you know what a hamster is?

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Jerry Corley: Yep. Do you know what a G-Pig is? A guinea pig? And when he said G-pig, guinea pig, I just thought it was funny, his style of talking is unique, right? It separates him from everybody else, right? He's like, G-pigs, we were out there rolling with the G-pigs, guinea pigs, right? And the people are laughing at that.

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Jerry Corley: That story. But we know what guinea pigs are, we know what hamsters are, so we can relate to it, and he was selling them after raves and parties and concerts, because people are high. You know what they, you know what they want when they're on ecstasy and all that stuff? It's like, you know, we made $400 one night selling out, selling hamsters.

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Jerry Corley: I thought that was just really kind of funny, right? And it's like, but he never got back to the story about the guy with the bones.

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Jerry Corley: Like, what happened to the guy that had the hamster bones? Maybe that's a guy that had a supply, and he was like, but he didn't sell any, he didn't have a lot of big sales that night, and he just kind of left the supply out in the sun.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And then, like, the… and so they all just kind of died. They got hamster bones now in his… in his bag. Or maybe, you know, if he's down in Louisiana, definitely that's, that's witchcraft, black magic type of shit going on. You know, they're selling those bones and, you know, kinda… that could be a fun little angle to take it down to. Alright, so, let's… that's one piece of… who… anybody else notice something about him that,

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Jerry Corley: That you wouldn't want to share, that you got away just that little 3-minute video.

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Cliff Spenger: Was he saying?

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Jack Rain: Craig nicknames.

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Jerry Corley: Go ahead, Cliff.

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Cliff Spenger: Chinese people are supposed to be good at math at one point there.

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Jerry Corley: Yes. Asians.

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Cliff Spenger: Asians… Asians were… is that what he was saying? Yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: The joke?

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Cliff Spenger: That was… so that was racist, okay, gotcha.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, so.

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Kaz Okamoto: Funny.

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Jerry Corley: It was funny, because it's a compliment…

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Jerry Corley: And it's a stereotype, right? And it's like, these types, like… but, like, I remember my friend, she was at a gallery function with her husband, and, it's, you know, in the high-end, Beverly Hills type of gallery type of thing, and there was this Italian, furniture designer there, and, she had a… struck up a conversation with him and said, oh, Italians are great at designing furniture.

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Jerry Corley: And her husband said, that's racist.

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Jerry Corley: I said, if it's a compliment, is it racist? Like, and he kind of says, like, you know, but I think it was kind of fun and playful, the way he said it. It wasn't, like, mean.

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Jerry Corley: But when he was… he was not punching down at, necessarily, Asians, he was like, I thought you guys were supposed to be good at math, that's 0 for 1.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Like, and he was, like, kind of making it playful, like it was… he was treating him like his best friend sort of thing. When he talks about the Mexicans, he was talking about Mexicans, about how they sneak in into the country, they're coming in by the millions, and I'm like, where, dude? Where?

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Jerry Corley: by the millions, like, over at the same time. It's like, I mean, I think in one year, there was, like, a hundred… there was, like, 300,000, right? So it's like, it would take several years to hit a million, but we do know that the border was, like, you know, there was a sieve coming through. So, but he really kind of pokes at it kind of hard, and it was like, they could be under here right now, they're under here right now, all the Mexicans.

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Jerry Corley: And I was like, it sounds like just, like, talking points from that, from the

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Jerry Corley: You know, and it kind of… that kind of bothers me a little bit. It's like, be more creative

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Jerry Corley: In that sort of sense. He's talking about being with a Mexican woman, and how they just want to have babies, and how aggressive they are at wanting to have babies. It's like, I think they're… I think their Fujitas are, and he calls them Fujitas, I think their Fujitas are, are microwaves. They can make a baby in, like, 3 minutes.

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Jerry Corley: You know? And I was like, which is kind of funny, but at the same time, you know, if he was Mexican saying that.

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Jerry Corley: that might not be as harsh, right? So, it's… it's kind of that… that line. It's like, it reminds me a little bit of a Tony Hinchcliffe, I mean, Hinchcliffe.

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Jerry Corley: Tony… Tony Hinchcliffe, he,

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Jerry Corley: That was your nickname for him, I think, lina. You said that one class, and so it just… it's stuck in my head, that's just a funny line. So, Tony Hinchcliffe, if you watched his special, he's very racist, right? And it's like, geez, this guy doesn't let up. Can you get more creative, please?

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Jerry Corley: You know? And it's like, so I think that's my thing, but he's got a whole bunch of people that watch him, right? So it's like, in that respect, you know, you can, you can take it or leave it. So, Kaz, what did you take away?

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Kaz Okamoto: I thought it was interesting…

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Kaz Okamoto: that he's always fucking with his hair. Like, he's more concerned about his look, like, he's always doing this, like, every… I don't know if it's, for him to regroup, or think, or…

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Kaz Okamoto: you know… Because it wasn't… It was almost the pausing in his… Cadence was…

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Kaz Okamoto: Like, he was thinking about what to say next, even though he probably knew what he was gonna say next. Does that make sense?

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, I just…

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Kaz Okamoto: Coming out off the top of his head.

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Jerry Corley: It's interesting that you noticed that, because I think that's part of the… it could be part of his naturalism, the way he's trying to be more natural and authentic. He's not like… he's not acting like he's on stage.

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Jerry Corley: he's acting like he's just, like, chilling with you, sort of thing, you know? Because I know I'm always running my fingers through my hair. I don't know about you guys, but constantly, every day, I'm like, you know what I miss? I miss getting out of the pool and just going…

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Cliff Spenger: Can't do that.

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Jerry Corley: You know what, I don't mind waking up.

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Jerry Corley: And not having to worry about anything, right? I don't care about that at all. My neighbor, my neighbor, he's Armenian, you know, they're proud of their hair. He shaved his dome.

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Jerry Corley: I was like, bro, did you shave your dome? And I said, like, next thing you know, he's gonna grow a goatee?

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Jerry Corley: I know, I know what's happening, I know what's going down. This guy's trying to mirror me.

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Stephen Berger: Right?

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Cliff Spenger: I bet.

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Jerry Corley: He sees my life, and he's like.

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Jerry Corley: He don't even have a wife over there anymore. Shit. I gotta… I gotta… I need freedom, too. So it's like, but, Steve, you also had to comment.

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Stephen Berger: Oh, I… I forgot, sorry.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, damn, it was right there. We'll get to it.

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Stephen Berger: You got a good head for no hair, so…

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Jerry Corley: I appreciate that, thank you very much.

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Stephen Berger: Could have done worse.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Have those wrinkles in the back of the head, like some guys do, right? So, you know, in fact, my kids said, they see pictures of me with hair, they said, Dad, you look better bald.

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Jerry Corley: You know? Although, I put up a quick meme of my dad… a scene of Murphy Brown, my dad, and Candace Bergen, and I come in, and I had hair, and I say a line or two.

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Stephen Berger: I saw my show once.

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Jerry Corley: Were ya?

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Stephen Berger: Oh yeah, long time ago.

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Jerry Corley: Oh, wow, that's very cool!

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Stephen Berger: No, you need to… maybe I'll call you there.

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Jerry Corley: Maybe I was doing a warm-up during that time, that's pretty amazing. Small world.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Alright, so let's take another look. I want you to really think about what you notice in some of the, the presentations of what, you know, what he, how Theo works, and then we're gonna get on to writing, like, what I've isolated he does, and I'll see if we can't get on to writing kind of what he does,

445
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Jerry Corley: What I think he… how he approaches his own comedy here.

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Jerry Corley: Let's go to this one.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, let me share with you.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Y'all got Denny's here?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Fuck Denny's, bruh. Fuck Denny's, man.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: I wish people would quit shooting up movie theaters and shoot up a fucking Denny's, okay? Because if you get gunned up at a Denny's, that's on you, Playboy. Have some respect and take your family to IHOP like a real man.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Denny's suck… everything at Denny's tastes like eggs and onions. Everything. The air, the pie. Even the silverware, if you just run in there and lick them. Place a shithole. And what do they clean the tables with? Syrup?

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: But once you sit down, you can't even get up. Guess we're staying for lunch! I'm trapped! And all the waitresses look like shit at every location. How do they do it? Do they even have a job application, or do they just have, like, a special mirror, and if you look like shit…

453
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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Then you're on staff, Cynthia. But you gotta wear a hat, cause nothing looks better than shit in a hat!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Put on your hat, shit, it waffle up! Okay, hey, Denny's, bruh. And half the waitresses got whiskers.

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Would you save your ladies, didn't it? Saved your ladies before you put them on the dance floor. Lady look like a damn cat. Meow from the dentist!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: Sorry for the bad service. I just gave birth to a bunch of babies in a cardboard box in the kitchen. And we was all out of milk. I hate Denny's, bro. I hate Denny's, and I keep going back there! I keep going back!

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Audio shared by Jerry Corley: This me, every time I leave Denny's, man, fuck this place, man. A week later, yes ma'am, table for one, please, yeah. By the window? Yes, ma'am, thank you, yeah, in case there's a drive-by, I go down with this shithole.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so that's another short clip there, and it, like, and you notice that I'm sharing just kind of short clips.

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Jerry Corley: One of the reasons is, is when you're studying a comedian, that's the way to do it, is you get the short clips, so you can transcribe and take line by line sometimes and see how he's going about telling these stories. And it's like, there was a little bit of a different vibe in this performance than the previous one, where he's a little more laid back. This one, he seemed to be a little more wired. Of course, Theo

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Jerry Corley: Von as a notorious drug user, or at least was. I think he's, I think he's, I think he's, sober now, I'm not sure. But, sometimes you could actually see it in his performance. And he just went.

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Jerry Corley: what he does, he does these wild associations with Denny's. He doesn't just… like, a waitress is like a cat, and I just… I had some babies in a cardboard box in the kitchen. Like, he makes that association, then does the act out. So think about that. He says.

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Jerry Corley: He said, no, man, they're waitresses, man, they shave their whiskers.

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Jerry Corley: Right? He's like, shave your… shave your ladies, Denny's, shave them before you put them out there on the dance floor. Right? And it's like, we know he's talking about Denny's, we know we're talking about on the, waiting tables being on the floor, but the way he says it, put them out there on the dance floor.

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Jerry Corley: It's a very colloquial, interesting way to say that. We still understood what he meant. So even though that sort of act-out was a little bit…

465
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Jerry Corley: outside the linear. It was still… we understood what he meant.

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Jerry Corley: But shave them before you put them on the dance floor. And it was like…

467
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Jerry Corley: on the floor waiting tables. We know what he's saying.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So it's just to use a metaphor, a lot of metaphor in there.

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Jerry Corley: And then he goes like, yeah, and then they're like, you know, they're like cats, meow meow, meow, meow, you know, sorry, I'm sorry, it's for the poor service. I just had a litter of cats. I just had, like, 6 babies. They're in a little cardboard box in the kitchen.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And it was like, what a bizarre act-out, but it was still funny.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And it's like, and how much did he escalate how much he hated Denny's? Instead of shooting up movie theaters, we gotta shoot up a Denny's! And they almost applauded that.

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Jerry Corley: Holy shit! People hate Denny's that much, they want to applaud shooting up a Denny's?

473
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Jerry Corley: I said, he almost did. If he would have paused, they would have applauded. You could feel that, couldn't you?

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Jerry Corley: They, like, it's like… it's like, cause that, because if you get shot up on a… at a Denny's, if you're at a Denny's and you get shot up, it's on you, Playboy!

475
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Jerry Corley: And that's just funny that it's your fault if you're at a Denny's.

476
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Jerry Corley: Like, you deserve… he doesn't say you deserve to be shot if you're at a Denny's. He says it in a different way. Like, if you're in a Denny's and it gets shot up, that's on you, Playboy!

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Jerry Corley: So he allows all of that colloquial, sort of, like, Louisiana speak that he uses in his delivery, and it stays in his comedy, so he's uniquely him. Like, people say he doesn't have a persona.

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Jerry Corley: then you're not watching. He certainly does have a persona, and it's like, instead of… because we all tried… when I started in comedy, I emulated Jerry Seinfeld.

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Jerry Corley: You know, then I was like, really? I thought I was more kind of like George Carlin, you know, because especially when I talked about the shit that made me, sort of drove me crazy, right? The, you know, the hypocrisy out there and all that stuff, it's like, that's what I like to talk about, when Carlin said, take that shit and make it funny.

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Jerry Corley: That kind of opened up, and I felt like it was me.

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Jerry Corley: So when you find that authentic self that's you, and then, like, how do you speak? How do you write? How do you approach your stuff? Can you use simile and metaphor to, you know, to explain yourself, rather than just linear, everyday sayings? And so we're gonna work on some of that Kaz.

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Kaz Okamoto: No, what he… he says, you know,

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Kaz Okamoto: That's on you, Playboy! You should be taking him to an IHOP! I almost peed my pants.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah.

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Kaz Okamoto: My half is, like, so much better than Denny's.

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Kaz Okamoto: But I just thought that was hysterical. But what I want… I raised my hand because the part when he says, you know, before you put him on a dance floor, all I could think about was, you know,

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Kaz Okamoto: Dima Dance, back, way back when, in the 30s and 40s. Not so much now, so, you know.

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Kaz Okamoto: you would have your prettiest girls out there to… and men would pay for a dime to dance with them, right? So that's what I thought about, and not, like, get on the dance floor nowadays kind of thing.

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Jerry Corley: Now you gotta make it rain when they dance for you, right?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

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Jerry Corley: Now, to really get up to dance for it, you gotta go into the VIP room. I mean, well, that's what the Diamond Dance was leading towards anyway, but they just didn't want to say it. Like, it's like, I guess they promoted…

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Jerry Corley: date… that was their way of promoting dating, or people hooking up, that pro-creation, right? It's like… it's like, now we've got… now we're…

493
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Kaz Okamoto: companionship.

494
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Jerry Corley: You know? Yeah, yeah, sure, everybody needs… That's a whole idea. Yeah, now we have Tinder.

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Kaz Okamoto: Some do.

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Jerry Corley: Right? So think about… so, like, that's the… that's the comparison today. I like the social… now we're going into a… I just read this study, social study, that said that the Gen Alphas, the Gen Z Gen Alpha generation, are now wanting to unplug and go do things physically, get out and meet people, go to places, and now that might be coming back a little bit.

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Jerry Corley: Which'll be good, because so many people are just homebodies anymore. It's like getting people to come out to see a show is like pulling teeth.

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Jerry Corley: You know? So, that's where we're at. So let's take… let's take a… let's take a second and look at some, a writing approach, with that, and, like, how we use this kind of weird, specific writing. Then we'll come back and look at, some of this other stuff, the Theo Von Full stand-up special in a bit. And so I, let me share the page with y'all.

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Jerry Corley: See, I'm gonna talk like him now.

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Jerry Corley: Alright, so, what did you notice about his style? We answered some of those questions. So, I think about, what if you wrote your comedy like you were always high on ecstasy and barbiturates at the same time?

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Jerry Corley: Right? You think about that, so you have energy, but you're also, fuck, dude, well, you know, opioids. Maybe, instead of barbiturates, maybe I go… I like the word barbiturates rid of opioid… let's say opioids.

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Jerry Corley: That could be good, because opioids are such a popular word now.

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Stephen Berger: Speed… Would that have been Speed, or Black Beauties, or…

504
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Jerry Corley: Pitchowitzer downers.

505
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Stephen Berger: Oh, okay.

506
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Jerry Corley: Right? And amphetamines were uppers, so Speed, Black Beauties, Crosstops, those are all, like, uppers. Crosstops, by the way, the way I remember that is because of, like, Danny,

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Jerry Corley: what's his name, Danny Thomas, on the Danny Thomas Show, the way he was able to shoot those shows all the time. He was in the shows, if you listen to the shows, like, you go to, like, TV Time, or whatever that show, that, you know, that, channel is, and the classic TV, Danny Thomas talks about doing crosstops on the show.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Speed was a big deal. It was part of the culture, right? Nobody mind talking about it. It's like Coca-Cola had cocaine in it, and Dr. Pepper used to have you pepper up at 10, 2, and 4, you know, because they also had some,

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Jerry Corley: Cocaine in there. So, but if you wrote your comedy like you were always high on ecstasy and opioids at the same time, you could write some really interesting comedy, because it would open up your imagination. You're like, no, dude, imagine… whoa, like, what if everybody had their own son?

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Jerry Corley: I mean, like, you know, the sun, but it's your own, and you have it in your house. You know, like in the kitchen, where you have that one light, and that's the sun, and you know, in the morning, you just flip it on, man. And it's like, you have sun all day. It's your own sun.

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Jerry Corley: You know, and it's like, that's bizarre, right? I don't know where I'm going with that, but it's a way of sort of using your imagination to come up with really weird, connected ideas. So, like, you don't have to be on our barbiturates at the same time, but you can play act like you are. So, because, like, Theo Von doesn't do jokes, he does stories, and remembers the things in the stories that nobody would remember.

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Jerry Corley: What are the nuances? What are the details? The better the imagery, the better the laugh. He'll say things, some of the quotes I got from him, he uses three descriptors a lot. He'll be like, he'll compare someone like a raccoon that somehow got promoted to assistant manager at a fireworks store.

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Jerry Corley: You know? And it's like, that's what he does, he adds that extra descriptor. Most people describe things in twos. A raccoon.

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Jerry Corley: You know, this guy's like a raccoon, you know, a raccoon that's high. And it's very simple, like, a raccoon that got promoted to assistant manager, where? At a fireworks store. So, 3 descriptors, right?

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Jerry Corley: So in that case, that vivid imagery

516
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Jerry Corley: just the rhythm of the vivid imagery gets the laugh, right? So vivid imagery tends to get a laugh because of the rhythm. Like, but nobody's ever seen a raccoon that got promoted to assistant manager at a fireworks store. But we kind of can get it if we know somebody. Like, I heard him say one time, he's the kind of guy who would buy one cigarette.

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Jerry Corley: That, Jack, is like that, kind of like the quirky specifics that John Voorhaus is talking about in the comic toolbox, right? You just say that he's the kind of guy who would buy one cigarette, and where do you see this… when I say that, what do you see?

518
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Jerry Corley: What is that guy wearing?

519
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Jerry Corley: He's the kind of guy that would buy one cigarette. What's he wearing? What kind of shirt does he have on?

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Pappy: almost like…

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Jerry Corley: Homeless-like?

522
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Jerry Corley: I kind of see him in, like, a wife-beater.

523
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Jack Rain: I think it would have been better if he had,

524
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Jack Rain: instead of one cigarette, he would go with Marburg, whatever that brand is,

525
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Jerry Corley: He might do that later, but I heard him say this, that he's the kind of guy who would buy one cigarette.

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Jerry Corley: Right? Like, you used to be able to do that, go into a store and say, I just want to buy one cigarette.

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Jerry Corley: And now you can't do that, right? But you used to be able to do that, right? And, they would give you whatever cigarette was on the… was open in the pack, right? I was like, but you're right, if you want… what if you got into detail, right? He's the kind of guy that would buy… would go into a store and buy one Paul Mall.

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Jerry Corley: Right? You know, give me… or he's the kind of guy who'd buy one cigarette. He'd go in there and go, you know, y'all, y'all got, can you give me just one…

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Jerry Corley: one Viceroy? You know, like, what are the cigarettes anymore? I don't even know. Like, I was gonna say Shell, but no, that's an oil company. But it's like, but it's the kind of guy that'll buy one cigarette. Doral. Remember that? Doral? Who has, like, it's like, and, they used to have, like, you know, they used that Fred Flintstone.

530
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Jerry Corley: Fred Flintstone used to do commercials for cigarettes. Did you know this?

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Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, on the cartoon.

532
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Jerry Corley: Yeah. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should! Alfred!

533
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Kaz Okamoto: It's funny.

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Jerry Corley: Yeah, so that would… that's like a, that's a funny concept that, that, cartoons used to sell cigarettes, right? So you can, like… but it was like, so I knew, but I knew when he said, the kind of guy who would buy one cigarette, and I saw this guy, he reminded me of what's his name, who played on 3… not Three's Company, was it Three's Company? Not 3's Company, but the one with,

535
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Jerry Corley: What's her name? And her sister, who was, like, what's, like, the hell? With, Bonnie,

536
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Kaz Okamoto: Oh, fact… Franklin.

537
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Jerry Corley: Bonnie Frank Facts of… what's Facts of Life? Bonnie Franklin?

538
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Kaz Okamoto: What's it?

539
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Jerry Corley: were the Snyder. Snyder, the Super.

540
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Kaz Okamoto: Come on, I need to have the same.

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Jerry Corley: cigarettes in his t-shirt. That's the kind of guy it reminded me of, right? That guy or a guy in a wife-beater t-shirt.

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Kaz Okamoto: Now, one day at a time.

543
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Jerry Corley: One day at a time, thank you, one day at a time.

544
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Stephen Berger: deli, right?

545
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Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Valerie Bertinelli, yes.

546
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Stephen Berger: No, I'm…

547
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Kaz Okamoto: And, what's your face?

548
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Stephen Berger: Phillips. Phillips.

549
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Jerry Corley: Yes, Mackenzie Phillips.

550
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Kaz Okamoto: Yes.

551
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Jerry Corley: See how we collectively can regenerate our brains in real time? That's amazing.

552
01:12:05.730 --> 01:12:07.149
Stephen Berger: Three minds to get one.

553
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Jerry Corley: One reference, that's funny. So, it's built on absurd associations that feel strangely true, meaning they're plausible, right? These absurd associations he comes up with, and it's like, and it's like, strangely and weirdly specific, hence the title of this course. So his brain constantly asks, what's the weirdest possible comparison that is still plausible? What's the weirdest possible comparison that is still plausible?

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Jerry Corley: Don't look for obvious connections. That's what most comedians do. You're going… you're going deeper. You gotta push yourself, push your brain to get more clever. Look for the one, line that no other person would think about. Like, it's like, if I was to think of, like, one assessment to the way he approaches it, I would say his core approach is weirdly accurate associations. Like, it's like, I've never thought that, but somehow.

555
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Jerry Corley: Now, it's exactly right. So…

556
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Jerry Corley: what I want you to do is come up with an unexpected connection. So start with an ordinary observation.

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Jerry Corley: Let's take a person, a memory, a place, a smell, an uncle, a gas station, a haircut, the guy that always wore… the guy that always wore a light blue gas station attendant shirt, but never worked at a gas station. There was a guy in college, his name,

558
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Jerry Corley: was what we… we used to call him, I forget what… what the hell's his name? But we used to call him,

559
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Jerry Corley: Uro, or something like that, and he always had this light blue.

560
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Jerry Corley: Mobile Oil Gas Station shirt on, and his name, it said Earl on his name, but his name wasn't Earl. I'm like, where'd he get this shirt? You know, maybe it was his dad's shirts or something like that, but he would always wear it. He'd be at this beer bar where he used to play foosball in college, and he was just this quirky, weird guy.

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Jerry Corley: And, I found out more and more about this guy, but he, you know, anyway, so the guy that always wore a light blue gas station attendant shirt, you know, but never worked at a gas station, you know that guy? And it's like, so here's a description exercise.

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Jerry Corley: Take a common state of mind from the left column, and then apply Theo Von type of exaggeration in the right column. So here I go, I walk through the steps. He looked tired. He looked like somebody unplugged him on Tuesday.

563
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Jerry Corley: He looked like he'd been crying inside a Bass Pro Shop, because if I wanted to go more like Theo Von Louisiana fishing, outdoorsman type of thing, Bass Pro Shop is a funny word, is a funny saying, it's also a brand, it's memorable, and it's visual. So, he looked like he'd been crying inside a Bass Pro Shop.

564
01:14:42.100 --> 01:15:01.499
Jerry Corley: That's just a puffy-faced kind of dude, right? It's like, so I went… he looked tired. What happens when you're tired? Your eyes are puffy. Like, where… when else do your eyes get puffy? When you're crying, right? So… so he looked like somebody unplugged him on Tuesday, is one way to say it. Then take it further, he looked like he'd been crying inside a Bass Pro Shop.

565
01:15:01.980 --> 01:15:08.949
Jerry Corley: That's another way to describe it. So, I want you to take 3 or 4 of these

566
01:15:08.950 --> 01:15:25.370
Jerry Corley: lines. He looked… she was mad. He looked nervous. He looked homeless. He looked bored. He looked drunk. He looked jealous. She looked disappointed. He looked ashamed, he looked desperate, she looked relieved. So, pick a few out of that one.

567
01:15:25.530 --> 01:15:28.100
Jerry Corley: And then I want you to,

568
01:15:28.290 --> 01:15:30.479
Jerry Corley: Let's say I'll shrink this up a little bit.

569
01:15:30.770 --> 01:15:41.779
Jerry Corley: So that you can see all of them. It's harder to read, I know, but, in this case, let's see if I can make… take it with this, and maybe zip in a little bit. There we go.

570
01:15:41.900 --> 01:15:43.629
Jerry Corley: Without losing it.

571
01:15:45.110 --> 01:15:59.790
Jerry Corley: So, so he looked tired, she looked relieved, there we have them all on the screen, and I want you to take it and go, exaggeration. Like, how can I say this without saying it? So, what is it when we say something without saying it? Cliff.

572
01:16:04.590 --> 01:16:06.230
Jerry Corley: I can tell we're all rusty.

573
01:16:07.440 --> 01:16:10.790
Jerry Corley: Usually, you usually nail this one, that's why I told you, I asked you.

574
01:16:13.730 --> 01:16:14.850
Jerry Corley: You're muted.

575
01:16:22.030 --> 01:16:24.940
Cliff Spenger: I've installed to give me time to think.

576
01:16:25.870 --> 01:16:26.490
Jerry Corley: Exactly.

577
01:16:26.490 --> 01:16:27.880
Cliff Spenger: Nut.

578
01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:29.150
Jerry Corley: Oh, Jack Rain.

579
01:16:31.540 --> 01:16:34.210
Jack Rain: I'm going with the tired spot.

580
01:16:34.700 --> 01:16:44.059
Jerry Corley: Wait, wait, we're not there, we're not there yet. Hold on, I asked the question, the question was, what do we call it when you say it without saying it? What's… you're saying… we're gonna say it without saying it. What's that called?

581
01:16:44.390 --> 01:16:45.470
Cliff Spenger: Kemetic irony?

582
01:16:45.470 --> 01:16:58.410
Jerry Corley: Comedic irony, yes! I knew you'd get it, Cliff! Like, comedic irony. So, a lot of times, if you say it without saying it, Dad, you don't look old, you look like Father Time did karate on your face.

583
01:16:59.010 --> 01:17:06.340
Jerry Corley: Right? So it's like, that's saying it without saying it. Whenever we find a new way to say something, but the audience still gets what we mean.

584
01:17:06.950 --> 01:17:14.030
Jerry Corley: They're gonna laugh at that description. That's exactly what Theo Von works on. It's all comedic irony descriptors.

585
01:17:14.040 --> 01:17:29.570
Jerry Corley: sort of saying it without saying it in a different way that's unique than a way they never thought about saying it, which was what makes him interesting. And so, I want you to take a few, minutes, take 3 of these. I'm gonna check out for just a second.

586
01:17:29.570 --> 01:17:38.979
Jerry Corley: And then we're gonna come back, and I'm gonna hear what you came up with. Even if you want to go further, right? Push it, heighten it, you know? Jack, you came in too early to have it.

587
01:17:39.450 --> 01:17:48.840
Jerry Corley: Right? I want you to go deeper. Who knows, you might be brilliant. I don't know. So let me check out here for a minute, for just about 4 minutes, and I'll check back in with you and see what you got.

588
01:24:07.960 --> 01:24:12.089
Jerry Corley: Alright, let's see what we got. Let's have Jack Raines got his hand up there?

589
01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:15.289
Jerry Corley: Go ahead, Jack Rand, what do you got?

590
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:27.370
Jack Rain: Alright. For the… I just got one real quick one for the tired… spot,

591
01:24:28.110 --> 01:24:33.260
Jack Rain: You could throw a wig on him and call him Puffy the Tired Sleeper.

592
01:24:34.910 --> 01:24:44.310
Jack Rain: Number 2, nervous. That's a play on words for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was trying to rhyme vampire, so I was, like, tired?

593
01:24:44.310 --> 01:24:51.909
Jerry Corley: Well, the idea is, remember, if we're saying he looks tired, that's a word you don't want to appear in your description.

594
01:24:51.910 --> 01:24:53.100
Jack Rain: Oh, right, right, right.

595
01:24:53.100 --> 01:24:55.869
Jerry Corley: I want it to be a wildly exaggerated.

596
01:24:55.870 --> 01:24:58.020
Jack Rain: I'm undead sleeper.

597
01:24:58.270 --> 01:25:00.459
Jerry Corley: Then don't eat… not even sleep her.

598
01:25:01.300 --> 01:25:02.830
Jack Rain: Okay, Undead Walker.

599
01:25:02.830 --> 01:25:04.680
Jerry Corley: He looked like he unplugged himself.

600
01:25:04.830 --> 01:25:07.940
Jerry Corley: you know, last Tuesday, he looked like…

601
01:25:07.940 --> 01:25:08.560
Jack Rain: the undead.

602
01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:14.839
Jerry Corley: inside, yeah, he looked like he was, he was like the walking undead.

603
01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:22.760
Jack Rain: For the nervous, he could come apart like a LEGO set.

604
01:25:22.980 --> 01:25:33.199
Jack Rain: Only a matter of time before… redundant, before time, Eroded that flimsy sandcastle.

605
01:25:33.620 --> 01:25:39.520
Jerry Corley: Dude, you jumped on like you had something real creative right away. You didn't take your time in digging.

606
01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:40.620
Jack Rain: The first one.

607
01:25:40.620 --> 01:25:42.700
Jerry Corley: You need to dig, right?

608
01:25:43.090 --> 01:25:46.950
Jerry Corley: In one of the later examples, I'm going to say, Write 20,

609
01:25:47.080 --> 01:25:51.349
Jerry Corley: Oh, write 10, and I want you to keep 7 and 8.

610
01:25:51.760 --> 01:26:12.069
Jerry Corley: Right? And it's, like, usually, sometimes when we get through a bunch of the… you're trying to say the same thing in different ways. So, one of the things I learned when writing, like, listening technique and doing associations and all that stuff is, like, a lot of times in the… and I start generating these jokes, and somewhere around joke 18 was the best joke.

611
01:26:12.290 --> 01:26:30.940
Jerry Corley: I was like, oh man, now it really popped. So sometimes, like, you gotta really dig, dig, dig, get deeper, ask yourself, what else, what else, what else? And it's like, what's even more imaginative? What's even more bizarre? What's even more, like, disconnected, but still sounds like it could explain it? So it's like, that…

612
01:26:30.940 --> 01:26:34.950
Jack Rain: I've got two more that gets a little… a little better.

613
01:26:35.100 --> 01:26:42.649
Jack Rain: For the homeless one, he would give Oscar the Grouch a run for his money. He makes that trash puppet look like he lives in a 3-bedroom apartment.

614
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:50.190
Jerry Corley: What about that makes that trash puppet that looks like he lives in… A 5 bedroom.

615
01:26:50.360 --> 01:26:54.250
Jack Rain: 5… oh, I was gonna go for a mansion, but yeah, 5 bedroom.

616
01:26:55.030 --> 01:26:56.470
Jerry Corley: Inn in Palos Verdes.

617
01:26:56.470 --> 01:27:05.169
Jack Rain: Or 6… haha, there we go, yeah, in Palos Verdes. For the drunk one,

618
01:27:06.870 --> 01:27:11.720
Jack Rain: He ended up ordering whiskey shots in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese.

619
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.320
Jack Rain: When the cops gave him a ticket, he tried to claim a top prize.

620
01:27:15.950 --> 01:27:19.730
Jerry Corley: This guy looks like he was drinking whiskey shots in the ball pit of Chuck E. Cheese.

621
01:27:19.730 --> 01:27:20.810
Jack Rain: Ordering, ordering.

622
01:27:20.810 --> 01:27:23.700
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah. Oh, good, okay, good.

623
01:27:23.700 --> 01:27:27.280
Jack Rain: And then when the cops tried to give him a ticket, he was trying to claim the prize.

624
01:27:27.610 --> 01:27:39.129
Jerry Corley: Yeah. He's got tickets. When the cops gave him a ticket, he actually went back to Chuck E. Trees and tried to claim a prize, right? That's funny. I like it. Good job. Good job, Jack. That's good.

625
01:27:39.130 --> 01:27:41.029
Jack Rain: It gets better when you write more and more out.

626
01:27:41.030 --> 01:27:44.279
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, you keep bouncing that out there, keep trying new ideas.

627
01:27:44.280 --> 01:28:01.599
Jerry Corley: Right? It's like, and then you're like, okay, you know, sometimes if you include a brand, as we heard Theo Vonnie, you include a restaurant brand, Denny's or IHOP, sometimes if you include a Waffle House. So, like, you went to, you know, like, like, in Chuck E. Cheese, Chuck E. Cheese is just funny.

628
01:28:01.630 --> 01:28:03.950
Jerry Corley: Right? So,

629
01:28:04.240 --> 01:28:14.369
Jerry Corley: So, it's like, so, you know, when you go, when you, when you go comedian to juggler, that's like, you know, it's the, you know, that's like, you know, it's only a matter of time. Then it's mime.

630
01:28:14.580 --> 01:28:29.960
Jerry Corley: Then it's Saturdays… Saturday afternoons, drunk in a rat suit at Chuck E. Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater, right? And it's like, that's, you know, that's your job. Now you're playing a character, a mascot, at Chuck E. Cheese, and you're drunk.

631
01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:42.420
Jerry Corley: Right? So, it's like, it's like, you know, I remember my dad, one time we went out to dinner with the kids, and we got thrown out of the restaurant because he kept insisting that the wine was of poor quality.

632
01:28:42.420 --> 01:28:44.389
Jerry Corley: And that is the last time.

633
01:28:44.420 --> 01:28:46.080
Jerry Corley: We were at Chuck E. Cheese.

634
01:28:47.670 --> 01:28:49.109
Jerry Corley: So it's like,

635
01:28:49.820 --> 01:29:00.839
Jerry Corley: So, it's like, I was just writing that… I remember my dad, it's like, he used to complain, you know, about things, and we were like, yeah, get him, Dad, right? And they're usually valid things.

636
01:29:01.470 --> 01:29:07.499
Jerry Corley: I was thinking, what would be the most bizarre thing to complain about? The quality of the wine at Chuck E. Cheese.

637
01:29:07.670 --> 01:29:14.699
Jerry Corley: So, so I saved that for the end, you know? I could see him complaining about the wine at dinner.

638
01:29:14.700 --> 01:29:38.719
Jerry Corley: And so, again, I'm thinking about what were one of those things in the past, like, I was just trying to think, you know, I was actually using the facilities, on the break, you know, got a glass of water, and, you know, you're drinking coffee, drinking water, you gotta need a bathroom break. So I go there, do a bathroom break, I go, I gotta get some shorts, I gotta get some new shorts. I don't know, how do I ask them? You know, as I've gotten older, I need some,

639
01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:44.249
Jerry Corley: I need some shorts that have a little more room, you know, for my, for my,

640
01:29:44.340 --> 01:30:07.110
Jerry Corley: For, you know, for the, for the marble sack, you know what I'm saying? It's like, like, what else, how else can I say that? Like, what is that, you know, so I need, I need some shorts that give me a little more room for my, for my, Crown Royal sack, if you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying? It's like, how do you say that? You remember Crown Royal? They'd give you the velvet-purple sack?

641
01:30:07.110 --> 01:30:08.670
Jerry Corley: You know? And it'd be like.

642
01:30:08.670 --> 01:30:13.260
Jack Rain: I need some more room, I need some shirts that'll give me some more room in my ball pit.

643
01:30:13.470 --> 01:30:29.970
Jerry Corley: Yeah, so I need some shorts that give me some more room in the ball pit, you know what I'm saying? Right? You could say that. That would be clever and funny to say. Yeah, sure. Definitely, if you're asking somebody. And again, like, how would Theo Von say it, you say it a little differently, you know? So, Janet, you have your hand up, what do you got?

644
01:30:30.370 --> 01:30:35.629
Janet Rapala: I've got 3 quick ones, I'm not sure how they are. She was mad.

645
01:30:35.940 --> 01:30:41.169
Janet Rapala: It was like she showed up on Friday for the Wednesday 50% off sale at Goodwill.

646
01:30:41.380 --> 01:30:43.710
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, she was… yeah, she was mad.

647
01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:49.500
Janet Rapala: He looked ashamed, like he was wearing white pants during a rectal blowout.

648
01:30:52.950 --> 01:30:54.950
Jerry Corley: That's a good one, I like that one.

649
01:30:55.800 --> 01:31:00.929
Janet Rapala: He looked nervous, like he was waiting for his credit card to clear at the dollar store.

650
01:31:01.110 --> 01:31:25.660
Jerry Corley: Oh, yeah, very nice. That was… those good… that was a good incongruity, too, the dichotomy, ready for his credit card to clear at the dollar store. Because you had me, because I saw him at a regular retailer, and then all of a sudden he's at the dollar store, and you surprised me with the location. That was a really nice… that was a really nice 3Descriptor, because the three descriptor even had a surprise at the end.

651
01:31:25.660 --> 01:31:27.320
Jack Rain: Would that be counted as a reverse?

652
01:31:27.320 --> 01:31:41.420
Jerry Corley: Yes, definitely. Reverse as… written as a 3-descriptor line. So, I want you to write that down. So, one of the exercises for you to do on your spare time is to write a 3-descriptor line that actually

653
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:49.549
Jerry Corley: pulls the rug out, and misdirectson has a reveal at the end, has a nice surprise at the end. Like, Jan… you could use Janet's joke as a template.

654
01:31:49.760 --> 01:32:11.559
Jerry Corley: Like, you know, he looked like he was, like, he felt desperate, like he was waiting for his credit card to clear at the dollar store. Like, that's just really good, because I didn't see dollar store, I saw it as either a retailer, like, you know, say, the mall, Nordstrom, like he was waiting for his credit card to clear.

655
01:32:11.560 --> 01:32:24.369
Jerry Corley: or restaurant, you know, at the dollar store. Oh, shit, man. That really says you're desperate. That's definitely, you know, that's good. So, think about that. You see how that has a 3-descriptor rhythm to it?

656
01:32:24.370 --> 01:32:39.109
Jerry Corley: And then, yet, that last thing, that dollar store, was the surprise. So, remember, the two things, the two primary things we can surprise with when we paint a picture, we say a line, the first thing the audience is seeing, who is there, and where are they?

657
01:32:39.640 --> 01:33:02.300
Jerry Corley: So it's like character and setting. Character, theme, setting, plot, conflict, the five elements of story. So we say character and setting are the two key things we lock into as somebody's telling a story. We see the person and where they are. So those are the two things you can mess around with. And then the third one is, like, you could say age range, what's that descriptor? I'm trying to teach my daughter how to tie her shoes. Where are we?

658
01:33:02.300 --> 01:33:10.329
Jerry Corley: In the foyer of the house, or in maybe her bedroom, or I'm trying to teach my daughter how to tie her shoes. How old is she?

659
01:33:10.330 --> 01:33:20.240
Jerry Corley: We're probably thinking about 5, 4, or 5 years old. So now that we have that locked in, I didn't say any of that, all I said, I'm trying to teach my daughter how to tie her shoes, which is weird, because she's 22.

660
01:33:20.300 --> 01:33:34.679
Jerry Corley: Right? And it's like, she's always like, I can't, Dad, I can't. How many times have I told you not to use that word? I am not your dad. So it's like, you could have lots of different ways you could play that, but that last one you had there was so good, Janet, that was really good.

661
01:33:35.370 --> 01:33:38.289
Jerry Corley: Cliff, what do you got?

662
01:33:39.330 --> 01:33:46.529
Cliff Spenger: Sure, I have several, some better than others, I imagine. He looked tired, his, giddy-up had got up and left.

663
01:33:47.500 --> 01:33:54.580
Jerry Corley: He looked… Well, his giddy-up has got up and left, and barely.

664
01:33:54.850 --> 01:34:02.630
Cliff Spenger: Yeah. He looked mad. He was so mad, we lit our marble cigarettes off the fire coming out of his ass.

665
01:34:02.630 --> 01:34:04.900
Jerry Corley: You could!

666
01:34:05.050 --> 01:34:09.980
Jerry Corley: You could light your cigarettes, because implausible to actually light your cigarettes at a.

667
01:34:09.980 --> 01:34:11.620
Cliff Spenger: Okay, we could, we could have.

668
01:34:12.020 --> 01:34:15.100
Cliff Spenger: He couldn't have let our cigarettes off the fire come out of his ass.

669
01:34:15.100 --> 01:34:16.860
Jerry Corley: Yes, he was late in his farts.

670
01:34:16.860 --> 01:34:18.130
Cliff Spenger: Right. Right?

671
01:34:18.420 --> 01:34:22.410
Jerry Corley: And anybody who's lit and farts, you know that flame comes out blue.

672
01:34:22.430 --> 01:34:23.750
Cliff Spenger: That's method.

673
01:34:23.750 --> 01:34:24.670
Jerry Corley: Spain, people.

674
01:34:24.830 --> 01:34:29.199
Cliff Spenger: He was so nervous, he had a shimmy in his Chevy Hemi.

675
01:34:29.390 --> 01:34:33.440
Jerry Corley: There you go. Well, it couldn't be a Hemi if it's a Dodge.

676
01:34:33.440 --> 01:34:41.529
Cliff Spenger: Oh, oh, in his Dodge Hemi, sorry. Yeah. He was homeless. Somebody had recycled his Amazon cardboard box.

677
01:34:42.020 --> 01:34:44.679
Jerry Corley: I started adding…

678
01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:46.760
Cliff Spenger: Yeah, I… Labels on these.

679
01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:47.480
Jerry Corley: That's good.

680
01:34:47.480 --> 01:34:47.850
Cliff Spenger: hook.

681
01:34:47.850 --> 01:34:48.290
Jerry Corley: Jeez!

682
01:34:48.290 --> 01:34:55.219
Cliff Spenger: She looked bored, like her Cheerios had… like she'd let her Cheerios get soggy.

683
01:34:55.390 --> 01:35:08.699
Jerry Corley: So if you were telling that story to the man, and he was an angry homeless guy, too, it was like somebody, like, Amazon, or like somebody had recycled his Amazon box, you know? It was like, or, his Amazon… how'd you say that? Amazon…

684
01:35:08.700 --> 01:35:15.549
Cliff Spenger: He's homeless, he's homeless, and he got that way because somebody had recycled his Amazon cardboard box.

685
01:35:15.550 --> 01:35:31.329
Jerry Corley: Yeah, so it's like, so he's like, he was an angry homeless man. Like, like, it's like somebody had recycled his, his, his Amazon cardboard box. And I love the fact you added Amazon, not just cardboard box, Amazon cardboard box. How many people saw the logo on the box?

686
01:35:31.330 --> 01:35:38.820
Jerry Corley: With a blue thing in there? Oh, yep, that did it. Once we see the picture, the better the imagery, the better the laugh, and it's like.

687
01:35:38.820 --> 01:35:44.130
Cliff Spenger: I just went through the stuff that I'd written and started adding, corporate names to it.

688
01:35:44.130 --> 01:35:46.230
Jerry Corley: Nice, good job, good job.

689
01:35:46.230 --> 01:35:47.150
Cliff Spenger: I have a couple more.

690
01:35:47.150 --> 01:35:48.900
Jerry Corley: structure. Keep going, Cliff.

691
01:35:48.970 --> 01:35:53.369
Cliff Spenger: He looked so drunk, his nose was as red as his neck.

692
01:35:57.630 --> 01:36:00.670
Jerry Corley: If he keeps going, his nose is gonna be redder than his neck.

693
01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:05.629
Cliff Spenger: He was as jealous as a puppy who was one teat short.

694
01:36:05.630 --> 01:36:11.519
Jerry Corley: Oh, that's one… that's… yeah, that was jealous as a puppy who was one teat short. You know, the puppy that can't get in there going.

695
01:36:11.520 --> 01:36:11.840
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

696
01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:13.430
Jerry Corley: There's no room for me.

697
01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:16.240
Cliff Spenger: Yep. That was… that was it for me.

698
01:36:16.240 --> 01:36:20.100
Jerry Corley: Nice. Yeah, that's good. Yes, good, good job. That was, like.

699
01:36:20.100 --> 01:36:21.260
Cliff Spenger: Fun exercise.

700
01:36:21.260 --> 01:36:38.389
Jerry Corley: One teat short. How many people see the mama… mama dog laying out there and, like, you know, trying to be cool while they're nursing? When you see that, that's the imagery. If we're locked into the imagery, we're locked into the story, it's funnier visual. Nice job, Cliff. Kaz Okamoto, what do you got?

701
01:36:39.850 --> 01:36:40.430
Cliff Spenger: Got it.

702
01:36:40.430 --> 01:36:49.110
Kaz Okamoto: Headache, man, this… I didn't really like this exercise. It's a hard one for me, I don't know why I said… Okay, so,

703
01:36:49.420 --> 01:37:05.010
Kaz Okamoto: I'm assuming you give the little descriptor, like, she was mad, and then I'm supposed to say one thing, and then elevate it up to a second thing, right? Okay, so she was mad. She looked like a steam engine shooting

704
01:37:05.110 --> 01:37:09.449
Kaz Okamoto: She looked like a steam engine was shooting out of her ears.

705
01:37:11.260 --> 01:37:12.580
Kaz Okamoto: I don't…

706
01:37:13.240 --> 01:37:21.560
Jerry Corley: We're getting closer. No, it's good, it's good. Like, you know, she looked like if she was a steam engine, steam would be coming out those ears.

707
01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:28.290
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah… Weird. Okay,

708
01:37:28.740 --> 01:37:34.240
Kaz Okamoto: She was as red, hot, and cooked as a lobster coming out of a steaming pot.

709
01:37:34.730 --> 01:37:36.750
Jerry Corley: Good? Getting better? Gettin' better?

710
01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:40.770
Kaz Okamoto: Okay, so that was that one. The other one I did, he looked drunk.

711
01:37:41.090 --> 01:37:50.279
Kaz Okamoto: He, I thought he… sorry, I apologize ahead of time. I thought he had cerebral palsy, but I was mistaken.

712
01:37:51.670 --> 01:37:53.830
Cliff Spenger: You know.

713
01:37:53.830 --> 01:37:58.270
Jerry Corley: Like, he was drunk, but I could have sworn the way he was walking, he had cerebral palsy.

714
01:37:58.270 --> 01:38:02.060
Kaz Okamoto: Well, are you supposed to say the first line? He… he looked drunk, but…

715
01:38:02.460 --> 01:38:14.740
Jerry Corley: You can, right? Like, it's like, I mean, this guy, you know, this guy walked out, this guy, this guy was, like, 3 sheets to the wind, right? You know, like, when he walked out that bar, I could swear it was a man with cerebral palsy.

716
01:38:14.970 --> 01:38:15.810
Jerry Corley: Right?

717
01:38:15.810 --> 01:38:21.110
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah, because I thought we were supposed to say he looked drunk without saying he looked drunk, right?

718
01:38:21.110 --> 01:38:24.870
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You could say, I'm not saying he looked drunk, but…

719
01:38:26.460 --> 01:38:27.280
Kaz Okamoto: Right?

720
01:38:27.280 --> 01:38:43.319
Jerry Corley: Sometimes the context might be necessary to heighten the reason you're saying cerebral palsy, because if you just said cerebral palsy, the people might feel like you're punching down. This guy walked out at the bar, I swear he had cerebral palsy. Turned out he was just inebriated.

721
01:38:44.940 --> 01:38:49.090
Cliff Spenger: Or it turns out he was drunk and he had cerebral palsy.

722
01:38:50.680 --> 01:38:52.699
Kaz Okamoto: Well, then he would have been walking straight. Okay.

723
01:38:52.700 --> 01:38:54.710
Cliff Spenger: So anyway, what,

724
01:38:54.950 --> 01:39:05.220
Kaz Okamoto: The other part that I wrote was, he walked into the club as cool as a cucumber, and in a few hours left totally pickled.

725
01:39:05.220 --> 01:39:06.519
Jerry Corley: There you go, alright.

726
01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:09.530
Jerry Corley: That's.

727
01:39:09.530 --> 01:39:12.210
Kaz Okamoto: So Obi-Wan, I thought that was pretty close to what…

728
01:39:12.210 --> 01:39:15.569
Jerry Corley: I like that, I like that cut. Cool as a cucumber.

729
01:39:16.300 --> 01:39:27.219
Jerry Corley: It's like, you know what's a good, it's a good day at the bar when you're, like, totally cool as a cucumber, and you walk out totally pickled? That's really great, Shaq. You gotta fix that, camera.

730
01:39:27.360 --> 01:39:34.300
Jerry Corley: So it's not on Find Your Face. Because right now, it found the face of… looks like,

731
01:39:34.470 --> 01:39:36.950
Jerry Corley: Who is this woman right here? She said…

732
01:39:36.950 --> 01:39:37.760
Kaz Okamoto: Damn it!

733
01:39:38.430 --> 01:39:39.509
Jerry Corley: Is that who?

734
01:39:39.510 --> 01:39:41.120
Kaz Okamoto: That's Janet's camera.

735
01:39:41.910 --> 01:39:44.799
Jerry Corley: Oh, Janet, oh, Janet's camera, yeah.

736
01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:45.530
Kaz Okamoto: Yeah.

737
01:39:45.530 --> 01:39:53.319
Jerry Corley: So it's like, Jack Day, you've had your manual hand up, and I want to make sure and acknowledge that. What do you got there, Jack?

738
01:39:55.200 --> 01:39:56.540
Jerry Corley: Need to unmute?

739
01:40:01.630 --> 01:40:03.170
Jerry Corley: You're still muted, sir.

740
01:40:06.350 --> 01:40:06.870
Jack Day: Bye.

741
01:40:07.320 --> 01:40:08.130
Jerry Corley: There you go.

742
01:40:08.320 --> 01:40:13.849
Jack Day: All right. He was road rage ready to happen.

743
01:40:14.910 --> 01:40:25.259
Jerry Corley: Road… I like that, you know, road rage ready to happen, yes, that's like… I was like, this guy's ready to start a fight, is road rage ready to happen? That's a fun way of saying that.

744
01:40:26.330 --> 01:40:27.490
Jerry Corley: What else you got?

745
01:40:28.180 --> 01:40:35.470
Jack Day: Felicity, Disappointing.

746
01:40:36.170 --> 01:40:39.210
Jack Day: I actually had lost her dream date.

747
01:40:45.050 --> 01:40:49.430
Jerry Corley: That's a fun… that's a… if we take that, like, it's like she had a dream and lost.

748
01:40:49.780 --> 01:40:50.350
Jack Day: Yeah.

749
01:40:50.350 --> 01:40:56.170
Jerry Corley: And it's just like, we don't even know what it is she lost, but it sounded like she lost all her dreams in that one dream.

750
01:40:56.170 --> 01:41:14.370
Jerry Corley: Right? That's kind of like, looks like she had a dream and lost. Right? That's funny, a funny way of saying that. Like, if I was reading that, I'd go, yeah, tell me more about this, right? So good, that's good. You're getting creative, like, pushing yourself to… how can I say this in a different way? And that's good. Very visual, I like it.

751
01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:15.830
Jerry Corley: You got more?

752
01:41:16.660 --> 01:41:17.310
Jack Day: Oh.

753
01:41:19.130 --> 01:41:23.390
Jack Day: Bored? Like a high school kid looking out the window.

754
01:41:23.960 --> 01:41:28.580
Jerry Corley: Yeah, like a high school kid looking out the window. Like a high school kid…

755
01:41:30.100 --> 01:41:34.899
Jerry Corley: Like a high school kid, I guess, like, a board, like a high school kid.

756
01:41:35.260 --> 01:41:36.939
Jerry Corley: Like, what would a kid hate?

757
01:41:36.940 --> 01:41:38.489
Cliff Spenger: A dead cell phone.

758
01:41:38.490 --> 01:41:51.519
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's like a… it's like a high school kid with a dead… with a cell phone that would… that battery… that was… which… a cell phone that had… that cell phone's battery died. You know, a dead battery in his… who had a dead battery and a cell phone.

759
01:41:51.760 --> 01:41:57.100
Jerry Corley: This kid looks bored, like a kid, like a… like his… like a cell phone battery died.

760
01:41:57.320 --> 01:41:58.980
Jerry Corley: What am I gonna do?

761
01:41:59.710 --> 01:42:05.919
Jerry Corley: It's just such annoyance, too, like, you'd see these kids, like, oh man, what am I gonna do? No cell phone.

762
01:42:06.060 --> 01:42:08.280
Pappy: And doesn't know how to use a pencil.

763
01:42:08.470 --> 01:42:12.410
Jerry Corley: Yeah. And never figured out. I was never taught.

764
01:42:12.410 --> 01:42:13.350
Kaz Okamoto: Crystal!

765
01:42:13.350 --> 01:42:18.259
Jerry Corley: never taught how to use a pencil. You know, they talk about all these schools, they have the laptops now in the schools.

766
01:42:18.470 --> 01:42:31.220
Jerry Corley: It's like, well, these four kids are not even gonna know how to use a pencil. You're gonna say, grab a number 2, you know, grab a number 2 Ticonderoga, and they're gonna be like, what?

767
01:42:31.450 --> 01:42:35.920
Jerry Corley: What? What is that? The one with the green stripe on the eraser. What's an eraser?

768
01:42:36.880 --> 01:42:41.010
Jerry Corley: Right? You're gonna have… that's gonna be… you see that going on. What do you got there, Pappy?

769
01:42:42.110 --> 01:42:45.330
Pappy: Let's see, nervous.

770
01:42:45.790 --> 01:42:50.420
Pappy: He looked like he just ate the dad's last Chips Ahoy.

771
01:42:50.760 --> 01:42:51.780
Jerry Corley: Mmm…

772
01:42:53.000 --> 01:42:56.230
Pappy: Didn't have any extra for that one. Then, Jealous.

773
01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:02.590
Pappy: Looked like he ended up picking the ugly puppy of the litter.

774
01:43:04.570 --> 01:43:13.209
Pappy: And, looked like me at the 8th grade dance, watching Cynthia Ramos and the math teacher.

775
01:43:15.710 --> 01:43:18.550
Pappy: Let's see… disappointed.

776
01:43:18.670 --> 01:43:23.259
Pappy: Looks like she had her wedding hairdo done at great clips.

777
01:43:26.930 --> 01:43:30.260
Pappy: Looks like she shot her husband!

778
01:43:30.990 --> 01:43:32.180
Pappy: But missed.

779
01:43:32.930 --> 01:43:43.359
Jerry Corley: Oh, yeah, that's good, that's a fun one, that's a good one. It's like, it looked like she… she was disappointed, like she had shot her husband, and missed. That's a fun storytelling idea, that's… I like that one.

780
01:43:43.690 --> 01:43:47.519
Pappy: that, tried to commit suicide with a Nerf gun.

781
01:43:49.820 --> 01:43:50.150
Pappy: That's it.

782
01:43:50.150 --> 01:43:52.819
Jerry Corley: He didn't… he didn't even have a bruise!

783
01:43:53.400 --> 01:44:01.669
Jerry Corley: Like, that's good. Like, commit suicide with a Nerf gun. Like, you could even say, commit suicide with it by putting the gun to his head.

784
01:44:02.280 --> 01:44:03.730
Jerry Corley: It was a Nerf gun.

785
01:44:04.240 --> 01:44:18.749
Jerry Corley: Right, that could be a fun way if we see a regular, like, 9mm pressed against somebody's temple, and it's like, that's kind of, like, scary and dark, and it's like it was a Nerf gun. You know, that's just… now it's, like, funny. That's good.

786
01:44:18.750 --> 01:44:38.490
Jerry Corley: Anybody else have something like that? That was good. See, it's an exercise, and again, you only had 4 minutes or so to do it, and it's like, especially if your brain is not used to creating these associations, and writing, how can I say this in a different way? Like, just learning, when you learn creative writing, when they teach you simile and metaphor, that by itself.

787
01:44:38.670 --> 01:44:40.269
Jerry Corley: Takes our brain and

788
01:44:40.270 --> 01:45:05.239
Jerry Corley: trying to get our brain to do things it doesn't want to do. Brains, like, brains are very efficient, they're also very lazy, right? It just wants, what's the simplest way to say this? And I'm going to tell it very linearly, and that's how most people talk. Comedians, we try to find an association to give it a little bit of a different connection. How can I find a parallel idea that can communicate the same thing, but it's more visual?

789
01:45:05.240 --> 01:45:19.819
Jerry Corley: how can they see that? And once they see it, now they're locked into the story, they can feel the energy of it, it changes the emotion, gives you a chance to really play around with the words. does anybody else have one they want to share? Did you share yours, Steve Berger?

790
01:45:24.110 --> 01:45:25.420
Stephen Berger: I've got…

791
01:45:35.080 --> 01:45:40.479
Stephen Berger: She looked bored like she was watching Wicked Tuna reruns all day.

792
01:45:41.340 --> 01:45:42.689
Jerry Corley: What reruns?

793
01:45:43.040 --> 01:45:44.549
Stephen Berger: Wicked Tuna Fishing.

794
01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:45.710
Jerry Corley: What's that?

795
01:45:45.900 --> 01:45:47.650
Stephen Berger: Fishing.

796
01:45:47.650 --> 01:45:49.910
Jerry Corley: Oh, fishing! The land!

797
01:45:49.910 --> 01:45:50.670
Kaz Okamoto: show.

798
01:45:50.670 --> 01:45:55.709
Jerry Corley: Yeah, wicked tuna reruns all day. That's funny. Yeah, fishing.

799
01:45:59.480 --> 01:46:05.460
Jerry Corley: What would be something else? Like, the, like, bowling? Like, what is that…

800
01:46:05.460 --> 01:46:06.470
Stephen Berger: In bowling, too.

801
01:46:06.470 --> 01:46:07.300
Jerry Corley: Yeah, if you think about…

802
01:46:07.300 --> 01:46:08.510
Stephen Berger: Everybody likes bowling!

803
01:46:08.510 --> 01:46:14.289
Jerry Corley: Like, what's the thing you're, when going through the channels, and the only time you land on it, you immediately change the channel?

804
01:46:14.590 --> 01:46:16.019
Stephen Berger: Oh, right,

805
01:46:16.610 --> 01:46:17.390
Jerry Corley: you know…

806
01:46:17.750 --> 01:46:33.020
Jerry Corley: Like, what are some of those things? I remember one time, when I think about that, I was at a hotel, and I was changing the channels, and I, you know, I'm just kind of going through the channels, and I landed on one channel, so it was NHRA Drag Racing.

807
01:46:33.130 --> 01:46:51.410
Jerry Corley: And it was right as the lights were going yellow, yellow, green. And, then these rails just, like, bolted out of there, and I was like, I was ready to change the channel again, and then just before I did, the one guy who's in the lead broke apart.

808
01:46:51.410 --> 01:47:00.959
Jerry Corley: slammed in a wall, and the thing exploded, and it was fatally killing the driver, and I thought to myself, man, if I would have changed that channel, I would have missed some really good TV.

809
01:47:00.980 --> 01:47:20.159
Jerry Corley: Right? So, in that… in that sort of sense, it's like, that's kind of where, like, how can we take it to something exact… some really bizarre level? Normally, I would never think that way, but cometically, I'm gonna allow myself to think that in that exaggeration. But it's like… plus, I think we've all, like, scrolled the channel and gone, wait, what?

810
01:47:20.160 --> 01:47:26.049
Jerry Corley: You know, whoa, wait, what, you know, so imagine, what would be that thing on Wicked…

811
01:47:26.140 --> 01:47:32.480
Jerry Corley: On the Wicked Fishing channel, That would make you go, oh, shit.

812
01:47:34.460 --> 01:47:35.830
Stephen Berger: I, nothing.

813
01:47:35.830 --> 01:47:40.270
Jerry Corley: Jerry, that's why I was associating with being bored.

814
01:47:40.890 --> 01:47:42.169
Jerry Corley: So, it's like…

815
01:47:42.170 --> 01:47:45.049
Stephen Berger: That's how we scroll through the show, so I see it.

816
01:47:45.050 --> 01:47:52.240
Jerry Corley: So, it's like, this guy, it reminded me of watching, like, Deadliest Catch when nothing happens.

817
01:47:52.240 --> 01:47:53.220
Stephen Berger: Right.

818
01:47:53.220 --> 01:47:58.960
Jerry Corley: Right? Because they only show us the highlights of what's happening, what's really, like, conflict, and what's dramatic.

819
01:47:58.960 --> 01:48:01.119
Stephen Berger: All the hours that it took to get those…

820
01:48:01.120 --> 01:48:20.710
Jerry Corley: Yeah. They… you know, it was like… I watched, I watched, I was watching entire day's episodes of Deadliest Catch, but only the parts where they show the boats going out to the water, going out to… going… going and riding out to where they're going fishing. Just that part. There was nothing happening, just…

821
01:48:21.000 --> 01:48:23.310
Stephen Berger: Imagine being the editor on those.

822
01:48:23.310 --> 01:48:28.050
Jerry Corley: That's all you do, man. You fast-forward to the heightened… no, fast forward to the excitement.

823
01:48:28.710 --> 01:48:41.069
Jerry Corley: Like, so yeah, that's good. It's like, and a man goes overboard, you're like, fuck yeah! Right? So… so that's where they get excited. So that would be… that's like, what's that describe… what's that…

824
01:48:41.130 --> 01:48:59.560
Jerry Corley: when we watch a show, they only show us the parts that are interesting. You don't show us the build-up to it. Like they say in writing movies, you never show the beginnings of scenes. You always show the middle to the ends of scenes, right? Like, what's… what… where's the conflict? You know, so it's like, in that sort of thing, if we could take something,

825
01:48:59.560 --> 01:49:04.199
Jerry Corley: It's like, what, or, remember, they used to do,

826
01:49:06.100 --> 01:49:16.659
Jerry Corley: life, right? They used to have… they experimented with this, a social experiment was a sort of a plate glass window, like a storefront, and it was basically a family just living their life.

827
01:49:17.220 --> 01:49:28.629
Jerry Corley: And they're like, at first, people were like, oh, that's interesting. And they were like, no, it's boring as hell, there's nothing going on. And they… they didn't show, like, the fights, they didn't show any kind, it's just, like, people going through…

828
01:49:28.680 --> 01:49:47.960
Jerry Corley: normal life, and they're like, you know, nobody cares because there's nothing happening. So, if we can just take those slices where something's happening, you know, where are those moments where nothing's happening? You know, like, Stephen Wright used to drill down to that moment. He goes, you ever lean back in a chair in school, and right when it's about to fall over, you catch yourself

829
01:49:48.410 --> 01:49:53.680
Jerry Corley: It's like, I feel like that all the time, right? What are those little tiny moments of…

830
01:49:54.020 --> 01:50:01.070
Jerry Corley: You know, where we could take and find those little quirky moments, and go into the bank, like, what's the…

831
01:50:01.470 --> 01:50:03.209
Jerry Corley: What's the moment of…

832
01:50:03.940 --> 01:50:08.529
Jerry Corley: You know, he looked like a… he looked like… he looked like he was like,

833
01:50:09.630 --> 01:50:15.010
Jerry Corley: He went to an ATM and spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to put his card in.

834
01:50:16.270 --> 01:50:24.960
Jerry Corley: You know, that kind of thing, like, what is the… you know, ask… he spent 20 minutes arguing over why an drive-through ATM would have braille.

835
01:50:26.220 --> 01:50:33.609
Jerry Corley: You know, or something. What is that? Find those nuances. He had the personality of… of dashboard dust.

836
01:50:35.320 --> 01:50:44.689
Jerry Corley: You know? Like, that's kind of like, how could you say that? I was trying to think of what's the… in a car. And it's like, getting that… when your dashboard actually gets dusty.

837
01:50:44.690 --> 01:50:45.510
Cliff Spenger: You're like.

838
01:50:45.510 --> 01:50:55.780
Jerry Corley: You know, that's like, yeah, that's that… that grit on there. Like, she had the grit… she have a, she had a grit of an unclean Denny's count… well, you know, Denny's counter.

839
01:50:55.880 --> 01:50:59.650
Jerry Corley: countertop, or something like that. It's like, that kind of, like…

840
01:51:00.590 --> 01:51:08.739
Jerry Corley: You can imagine that gets in your food. Lena, were you there? Did you want… did you have anything? You just kind of disappeared for a second. I didn't want to miss you if you had something ready.

841
01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:10.760
Cliff Spenger: You're good.

842
01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:11.430
Jerry Corley: Good.

843
01:51:11.910 --> 01:51:13.780
lina alva: No, there… this was hard for me.

844
01:51:14.880 --> 01:51:39.089
Jerry Corley: You take your time with it. It's one of those things, if you took your time, how could I say, she looked annoyed, she looked ashamed, he looked determined, he looked uncomfortable. And this is like, he's taking these normal things we go through, and how we take that and escalate it to describe it in a way that makes it compelling and interesting. And it's usually just in a three-descriptor way of saying it, and it's just kind of like, you can almost

845
01:51:39.090 --> 01:51:43.450
Jerry Corley: feel it or taste it when you do it that way, you know? Cliff?

846
01:51:43.590 --> 01:51:49.240
Cliff Spenger: He looked worried. He looked like he woke up in a hot tub and thought he had peed himself.

847
01:51:50.620 --> 01:51:55.350
Jack Rain: He looked worried, he thought… he looked like he was spotted on Epstein Island.

848
01:51:55.660 --> 01:51:56.509
Jerry Corley: What do you got?

849
01:51:56.780 --> 01:51:58.129
lina alva: That wasn't finished.

850
01:51:58.500 --> 01:52:00.020
Jerry Corley: Sorry, sorry, sorry.

851
01:52:00.740 --> 01:52:12.299
lina alva: No, it's okay, it's okay. I had one from earlier, because I wasn't… I missed. So, when he said life was like soup, and I'm just a fork out here, man, so I wrote my own.

852
01:52:12.410 --> 01:52:17.800
lina alva: Gotta put some salt in it.

853
01:52:18.040 --> 01:52:19.610
Jerry Corley: Wait, you broke up a little bit, say it again?

854
01:52:20.260 --> 01:52:27.899
lina alva: Life is like gumbo soup. You better put some soul in it, or else it's not good. And soul can be your soul or a fish.

855
01:52:27.900 --> 01:52:33.069
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's good, that's good. What a double entendre there. A life of, like, gumbo soup.

856
01:52:33.110 --> 01:52:50.630
Jerry Corley: You gotta put your… you gotta put some soul into it, into it, otherwise it's not good. I like that, it's just not good. That's true. So, soul could be your soul, soul could be the fish, right? So good, I like that, because I like the fact that the… the layer.

857
01:52:50.630 --> 01:53:04.389
Jerry Corley: of coincidence is added, Derek, a soul as a double entendre now. That makes it more interesting. You see, that's, rather than just your soul, it could be the fish soul and your soul at the same time, which, of course.

858
01:53:04.660 --> 01:53:18.179
Jerry Corley: How can two things be the same, two dissimilar things, soul and soul, be the same at the same time? And they are, in this case, and that's a paradox. So that causes the brain to do a little…

859
01:53:18.180 --> 01:53:28.700
Jerry Corley: misfiring, because it doesn't… it needs 5 different regions of the brain to solve a paradox, and you never solve a paradox, so it releases the tension.

860
01:53:28.700 --> 01:53:42.839
Jerry Corley: in laughter. So, it's like, I don't know if you know that's the science behind using Paradox. Why do they call it a boxing ring when it's square? Huh? You know, that sort of thing. So, you know, so it's like,

861
01:53:43.060 --> 01:53:44.750
Jerry Corley: So,

862
01:53:45.130 --> 01:54:05.069
Jerry Corley: I was just trying to think of, you know, she had parakeets, and one died, and it's like, it's like, that was the day she flipped the bird, you know, that kind of thing, and it's like, you're saying, flip the bird, and flip the bird, the bird's upside down now, or something like that, or a fish is upside down, I don't know, right? So, it's like, how do you do that?

863
01:54:05.070 --> 01:54:06.489
Kaz Okamoto: That was one key.

864
01:54:06.890 --> 01:54:21.799
Jerry Corley: Parakeetes? She had, so now she just had… if she had two parakeets, one died. Does that mean she just has a key? That could be funny. That's a funny way of saying that. Alright, let's take a quick, 10-minute break here.

865
01:54:21.800 --> 01:54:27.330
Jerry Corley: Let's screen break, and get away from the screen for a second, we'll come back and we'll do some more exercises.

866
01:54:29.390 --> 01:54:30.240
Jack Day: Hmm.

867
02:03:30.080 --> 02:03:32.760
Janet Rapala: Jack Wayne, your hair looks good today.

868
02:03:33.870 --> 02:03:35.869
Janet Rapala: Did you get it styled?

869
02:03:37.770 --> 02:03:39.869
Jack Rain: I actually…

870
02:03:41.260 --> 02:03:43.880
Janet Rapala: Just fluffed it up. It looks good.

871
02:10:24.410 --> 02:10:27.109
Kaz Okamoto: Did Jerry come back yet from the break?

872
02:10:28.000 --> 02:10:30.859
Kaz Okamoto: No? Janet, how are you feeling? You look good.

873
02:10:34.720 --> 02:10:49.450
Janet Rapala: Feeling a little better. Chemo is wiping me out, but I'm licking… I'm kicking ass as far as the tumor goes. Yeah. Recent blood draws showed zero evidence of tumor found on the DNA markers, and my

874
02:10:49.990 --> 02:11:00.930
Janet Rapala: Third PET scan showed really nothing. I mean, the tumor is virtually gone. I see the doctor Wednesday, so I'm gonna verify that. But I'm having some swelling, and…

875
02:11:00.930 --> 02:11:10.170
Janet Rapala: It said I had ascites and anisarca. Anisarca means swelling all over, but I really just have swelling in my lower legs, ankles, and feet.

876
02:11:10.280 --> 02:11:27.859
Janet Rapala: I'm not having any shortness of breath, and the ascites in my belly, I'm not sure what that's from. It worries me a little bit. So when I look up on Dr. Google, malignant ascites has a life expectancy of 5 years. I'm like, oh no, no, no, we're not doing this, nuh- so I…

877
02:11:28.020 --> 02:11:34.780
Janet Rapala: they asked me if I wanted to get tapped, and the volume isn't sufficient to require a tap, and I was worried about a tap.

878
02:11:35.120 --> 02:11:54.330
Janet Rapala: So I asked one of the docs at work last week, I said, what about this tap idea? He goes, well, they could do an ultrasound-guided one, just find a little pocket of fluid and send it for cytology, and then you can find out if it's actually malignancy fluid, because that would not be a good thing. I think it's reactive from the chemo and stress.

879
02:11:57.010 --> 02:11:58.449
Kaz Okamoto: Good answer!

880
02:11:58.450 --> 02:11:59.070
Janet Rapala: Yeah.

881
02:11:59.850 --> 02:12:00.740
Jerry Corley: Sounds like you're killing it.

882
02:12:00.740 --> 02:12:18.929
Janet Rapala: TMI. Yeah, I'm killing it, but it's making me really, really tired. And I was complimenting Jack's hair during break, because his hair looks nice today. And he said he woke up like that. Well, I'm so jealous, because I'm starting to look like a Franciscan monk, so if I start chanting in Latin, please stop me.

883
02:12:18.930 --> 02:12:22.070
Jerry Corley: He looks like Alan Thicke fucked Mel Gibson.

884
02:12:23.990 --> 02:12:25.269
Janet Rapala: Right, back in the back of the…

885
02:12:25.270 --> 02:12:25.790
Jerry Corley: Back in the 80s.

886
02:12:25.870 --> 02:12:31.719
Janet Rapala: I'm envious of good hair right now, because I'm losing all mine, but… It looks good.

887
02:12:32.340 --> 02:12:34.429
Jerry Corley: Well, just keep, you know, it'll come back.

888
02:12:35.270 --> 02:13:00.240
Jerry Corley: Alright, so, let's get, let's get back. We're gonna watch a little quick video, and we're gonna do some, more writing. What I wanted to do real fast is go over, sort of like, what he kind of, like, wanted to, sort of, like, the step process, and you'll, you'll get this in the, in the download, to be able to review, too, and apply it towards your writing, which is kind of the fun part when you get to do it on your own. I was sort of dabbling

889
02:13:00.240 --> 02:13:01.300
Jerry Corley: myself.

890
02:13:01.300 --> 02:13:20.330
Jerry Corley: During the break, and saying, you know, how could I escalate this? And it's like, one of the things I do is take a couple of his lines that I heard before, and it's like, how could you, you know, escalate that? You know, and you practice escalating. Sometimes finding the idea itself is the block. So sometimes if you find an idea that's already there.

891
02:13:20.330 --> 02:13:35.150
Jerry Corley: then you can take it and continue to escalate it. Now you're getting the brain used to writing that type of thing, right? So, it's like the brain is a pattern machine, right? It does patterns. And if you haven't done these patterns.

892
02:13:35.150 --> 02:13:45.680
Jerry Corley: you're now trying to teach it to do something it's not used to doing. And it's like, that's where the practice comes in. The more you practice it, it's just like learning how to play an instrument or anything like that, or learning how to speak fluent

893
02:13:45.680 --> 02:14:10.609
Jerry Corley: foreign language, unless you're doing it, saying it out loud, you're never gonna be able to do it. Same thing with this type of writing. So, one of the things, if we go through and after we talked about, like, he looked jealous, he looked disappointed, he looked ashamed, she looked desperate, she looked relieved. So, you look, lock in on, like, extreme specificity. We talked about that earlier. Extreme specificity.

894
02:14:10.690 --> 02:14:20.169
Jerry Corley: And I tried to get the little oil painting type of, like, thing here, so you can paint little pictures, but it doesn't really show up in the icon.

895
02:14:20.710 --> 02:14:29.809
Jerry Corley: This is the key, most comics would say, he looked boring. That's most comics. He was so boring. This guy was, he looked boring. Like, how can you say that?

896
02:14:29.830 --> 02:14:53.190
Jerry Corley: Theo Von does that real well. He comes up with these, like, colloquialisms, like, he looked like the guy that would water miniature golf courses, right? So, and I said, that's… that's a funny line. And I have a guy in my class, he's a greenskeeper, right, at a golf course, and I thought, he looked like a green… he looked like the greenskeeper for miniature golf courses. You have nothing to do. Like, boring. Talk about, you don't…

897
02:14:53.190 --> 02:14:55.039
Jerry Corley: No, that grass is fake.

898
02:14:55.040 --> 02:15:06.319
Jerry Corley: It's like carpet, right? So it's like, it looked like the greenskeeper for a miniature golf course. There's no… there's no real grass there. A greenskeeper at a big golf course, that's a guy that stays busy.

899
02:15:06.410 --> 02:15:16.039
Jerry Corley: But when you've got a green screeper at a miniature golf course, it's not gonna work, right? So, you get more specific, more believable. The more specific you get, the more believable it can be.

900
02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:23.440
Jerry Corley: Sometimes it's implausible, That's why we use the… used the term, he looked like.

901
02:15:23.750 --> 02:15:33.870
Jerry Corley: Because you're not saying he is, because if that's not, you know, something that's really plausible, you want to give it… put it in imagination, like he looked like.

902
02:15:33.870 --> 02:15:45.980
Jerry Corley: In comedy, so, specificity kind of really, once we get the image, makes it feel real. Like, and then he builds… you build the world, and you build the world by asking questions, who, what, where, why, when, how.

903
02:15:45.980 --> 02:15:55.749
Jerry Corley: Who lives there? What happens there, who's working there? What's the smell? What's the weather? That's something rarely do we take on when we're writing, is what's the smell?

904
02:15:55.810 --> 02:16:09.220
Jerry Corley: What are the colors, the smells, the textures, and how can I put that into words so people can feel that, smell it, taste it, sink? That's why they say, man, that writing, I can really sink my teeth into it. Jack Rayden, you have your hand up.

905
02:16:10.850 --> 02:16:13.070
Jack Rain: Re-read the chat.

906
02:16:13.470 --> 02:16:14.840
Jerry Corley: Oh, it's in the chat?

907
02:16:15.010 --> 02:16:15.710
Jerry Corley: Alright, I'll take a look.

908
02:16:15.900 --> 02:16:17.270
Jack Rain: I hearted it.

909
02:16:17.270 --> 02:16:26.099
Jerry Corley: Oh, Mel Gibson getting, oh, okay, Jack Green said, I'd prefer if it was Mel Gibson doing the fucking. I'd consider that a compliment.

910
02:16:26.330 --> 02:16:41.199
Jerry Corley: That's funny. Gamel Gibson getting fucked context. I… I don't want to imagine that Outback man getting taken out back. Imagine getting fucked in his out… getting fucked in his outback. Gettin' taken out back, getting fucked in his outback.

911
02:16:41.410 --> 02:16:50.570
Jerry Corley: Imagine that Outback man getting taken out back and fucked in his Outback. That's funny. Funny way of saying that. Now you have, like, using that word repeatedly, but it means different things.

912
02:16:50.570 --> 02:17:09.780
Jerry Corley: it's a bit paradoxical, and it's saying Jerry Seinfeld loves to do that sort of thing, but he won't… he doesn't say fucked, but you know what I'm saying. So it's like, this guy looks like he rented confusion, they rented confidence by the hour, right? He's like, who is the guy that, where's that, where's that, you know.

913
02:17:09.980 --> 02:17:20.459
Jerry Corley: How can we say that better? Who owns that business? How much is the confidence? Is there a late fee? Like, keep digging, keep digging. Like, who, what, where, why, when, how.

914
02:17:20.660 --> 02:17:37.459
Jerry Corley: And a lot of times when I'm doing the writing, I can really get into it, and it feels like a puzzle, like I'm solving a puzzle while I'm writing, and it makes it… that's what makes it fun and interesting. The final laugh isn't the comparison, the final laugh is the visual, right? So, like, the tiny detail nobody else expected.

915
02:17:37.530 --> 02:17:43.230
Jerry Corley: Right, so instead of, like, he looked poor, he looked like somebody whose phone still says roaming.

916
02:17:43.480 --> 02:17:51.879
Jerry Corley: Right? Which is saying a phone… we haven't had a phone that says roaming in forever, right? So it's like, this guy's got an old phone. Cliff

917
02:17:55.219 --> 02:17:56.270
Jerry Corley: You're muted.

918
02:17:56.709 --> 02:17:57.479
Cliff Spenger: I'm muted.

919
02:17:57.780 --> 02:17:58.150
Jerry Corley: Nope.

920
02:17:58.150 --> 02:18:04.479
Cliff Spenger: Just a couple quick ones. He's useless, like a golf pro at a miniature golf course.

921
02:18:06.270 --> 02:18:09.400
Cliff Spenger: So it's like a sommelier at a Chuck E. Cheese.

922
02:18:09.920 --> 02:18:13.199
Jerry Corley: Oh, that's really good, I like that, yeah, yeah, nice.

923
02:18:14.410 --> 02:18:15.829
Jerry Corley: Good, good.

924
02:18:15.830 --> 02:18:16.200
Cliff Spenger: That's all.

925
02:18:16.200 --> 02:18:31.480
Jerry Corley: Those are good. That's good. I like where you're going with that. See, now your brain's already working towards that, that method, that technique. Like, and it's like, there's… I think, I don't know if I ever shared with you, the,

926
02:18:31.900 --> 02:18:36.240
Jerry Corley: Leslie Nielsen's. Have I ever shared that with you? I think I did once, right?

927
02:18:38.180 --> 02:18:40.049
Kaz Okamoto: No. Not that I know of.

928
02:18:40.059 --> 02:18:41.829
Cliff Spenger: In one of your classes you did, yeah.

929
02:18:41.830 --> 02:18:42.440
Jack Rain: Yes.

930
02:18:42.440 --> 02:18:47.910
Jerry Corley: So, like, the Leslie Nielsens, it's another way to be weirdly specific. Can you see that?

931
02:18:48.330 --> 02:18:48.850
Cliff Spenger: Yeah.

932
02:18:48.850 --> 02:19:04.399
Jerry Corley: Leslie Nielsen's juxtapositions, paradoxical elements. So he used to say things like, I'm not the… I'm not the only one doing the Macarena in the men's room. So you… so it's very visual. I'm not the only one doing the Macarena in the men's room, right?

933
02:19:04.400 --> 02:19:07.830
Cliff Spenger: I thought that said macrame, which is also funny.

934
02:19:07.830 --> 02:19:17.450
Jerry Corley: Absolutely, I'm not the only one doing macrame in the men's room. That would be funny, definitely, right? I just had sex with a neighbor's wife. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's gone fishing in the community pool.

935
02:19:19.100 --> 02:19:27.619
Jerry Corley: Right? That's a fun way of saying that. It's kind of like what Theo Von does in a different way, right? So it's like, you know…

936
02:19:28.530 --> 02:19:41.700
Jerry Corley: Yeah, saying it without saying it. Jimmy Kimmel uses a version of the Leslie Nielsensons when he talks about it, when he does his stuff. Trump's not the only candidate creaming… Not the only candidate cremating democracy on the campaign trail.

937
02:19:41.700 --> 02:19:51.009
Jerry Corley: So that's a fun way of saying, like, cremating democracy on the campaign trail. That's funny. Biden's not the only one walking comatose at a campaign stop.

938
02:19:51.060 --> 02:19:59.639
Jerry Corley: You know, so you can have, like, you're talking about how Biden was old, right? So, you're looking at me like I'm wearing fingerless gloves while performing a pap smear.

939
02:20:00.590 --> 02:20:02.689
Jerry Corley: That's, like, that's one of my favorites.

940
02:20:03.960 --> 02:20:05.059
Kaz Okamoto: That is pretty funny.

941
02:20:05.060 --> 02:20:08.110
Jerry Corley: Wearing fingerless gloves while performing a pap smear.

942
02:20:08.110 --> 02:20:12.680
Kaz Okamoto: Because it's, like, a softer, kinder way of doing a jab.

943
02:20:13.430 --> 02:20:14.059
Kaz Okamoto: You won't…

944
02:20:14.060 --> 02:20:15.340
Jerry Corley: But, yeah, it is kind of one.

945
02:20:15.340 --> 02:20:20.540
Kaz Okamoto: See, it's not so in-your-face, blatant…

946
02:20:20.540 --> 02:20:25.930
Jerry Corley: Yes, yeah. And it's like, a pap smear with fingerless gloves is.

947
02:20:25.930 --> 02:20:28.980
Janet Rapala: Yeah, it's a creepy way of being perverted.

948
02:20:29.230 --> 02:20:34.600
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's a naughty thing at the same time without really… because you're looking at me as if…

949
02:20:34.770 --> 02:20:53.329
Jerry Corley: You know? You're looking at me like I'm wearing fingerless gloves while performing a pap smear. If you just said that to an audience, they're gonna laugh at that visual. But you see, it's like taking these, practicing those, these, the Leslie Nielsons is, and by the way, what I'll do is I'll, I'll include this

950
02:20:53.330 --> 02:20:56.169
Jerry Corley: along with this course as a PDF download.

951
02:20:56.170 --> 02:21:06.189
Jerry Corley: Yay! So you guys can work both of those. You might have lost this one if you were in this class as well, but it's, like, gives you an example of how to sort of, like, approach that.

952
02:21:06.190 --> 02:21:07.200
Jerry Corley: So…

953
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:31.910
Jerry Corley: So, weird specificity, this is, like, this is what he does, weird specificity, unexpected analogies, he has, well, chains of associations. So, hyper-detailed imagery, we've talked about that, false memories, character creation, emotional logic, listing technique he uses, he does reframing, as, Jack was talking about earlier, and he does an act of

954
02:21:31.910 --> 02:21:36.419
Jerry Corley: doubt through dis- through the description. So,

955
02:21:36.420 --> 02:21:53.310
Jerry Corley: So, a guy at the gym. This dude was huge, right? If you take it, it's not funny yet. So, he's writing. This is part of the writing process. This dude was huge, not funny yet. And how can we say he was huge? So, weird association. He looked like he was raised entirely by vending machines.

956
02:21:53.550 --> 02:21:59.420
Jerry Corley: That's a big square guy, right? So, like, if two cruise ships could fuck, he'd be the baby.

957
02:21:59.910 --> 02:22:12.540
Jerry Corley: Like, that's the… so that's my addition to that, right? So it's like, so if we're, like, if you had a dude with… you're trying to tell a story, and you're at the gym, you're like, man, this dude was huge.

958
02:22:15.060 --> 02:22:21.149
Jerry Corley: Now, weird, go to the weird association. Write the weird association. How could you say he was huge?

959
02:22:21.150 --> 02:22:21.470
Kaz Okamoto: Okay.

960
02:22:21.470 --> 02:22:25.510
Cliff Spenger: He looked like none of his… he looked like none of his parts came out.

961
02:22:26.190 --> 02:22:40.469
Jerry Corley: That's… so he's so puffy, right? Because he's so still… he's like he's being… he's… he's… he's basically inflated, right? Because none of his… this guy looks like it's been 4 years since any farts came out.

962
02:22:41.500 --> 02:22:54.679
Jerry Corley: So I took your line and made it even more specific with time, right? It's been 4 years since any farts came out. This guy was like, you know, it looks like it's been 4 years since any farts came out. Looks like no farts came out since he was in puberty.

963
02:22:55.490 --> 02:23:05.669
Cliff Spenger: Or you could say, he's been eating at Chipotri for 4 years. Chipotle? Chipotle for 4 years, and none of his parts have come out.

964
02:23:05.670 --> 02:23:18.080
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's funny. He's been eating at Chipotle for 4 years straight, and none of his farts have come out. That's funny. Good. Nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, good. He looked like Christopher Nolan wanted to screen his next movie on his back.

965
02:23:18.470 --> 02:23:21.830
Jerry Corley: Good, Jack. That's… like, that's good, that's good.

966
02:23:22.180 --> 02:23:25.980
Jerry Corley: You're still tuned in to the back from the previous joke.

967
02:23:26.690 --> 02:23:27.870
Jerry Corley: Maybe you've got a little…

968
02:23:27.870 --> 02:23:31.520
Cliff Spenger: I interrupted… I think I interrupted Kaz when I said that joke.

969
02:23:31.520 --> 02:23:32.410
Jerry Corley: Go ahead, Kaz.

970
02:23:32.720 --> 02:23:49.209
Kaz Okamoto: That's a… the question is, this… this dude was huge, so I first thought, is he huge like he has a lot of muscle? Is he huge like he's overweight? Or is he huge like he has a huge cock? Okay, so those are the 3 things I thought of.

971
02:23:49.210 --> 02:23:50.269
Jerry Corley: Big cock again, Kaz.

972
02:23:50.270 --> 02:23:52.899
Cliff Spenger: Cock. Cock.

973
02:23:53.290 --> 02:23:53.980
Kaz Okamoto: cock.

974
02:23:53.980 --> 02:23:55.960
Jerry Corley: Big, huge.

975
02:23:55.960 --> 02:23:57.140
Kaz Okamoto: Huge cock.

976
02:23:57.140 --> 02:23:58.669
Jerry Corley: So it's funny.

977
02:23:58.670 --> 02:23:59.120
Kaz Okamoto: Yay!

978
02:23:59.120 --> 02:24:01.479
Jerry Corley: That's why I know you're not talking about me.

979
02:24:02.110 --> 02:24:03.500
Kaz Okamoto: I wasn't. But anyway.

980
02:24:03.500 --> 02:24:04.050
Jerry Corley: I'm so…

981
02:24:05.770 --> 02:24:07.070
Cliff Spenger: Thank you, Kaz, I appreciate that.

982
02:24:07.070 --> 02:24:07.690
Kaz Okamoto: You're welcome.

983
02:24:07.690 --> 02:24:13.270
Jerry Corley: So, that's where the context is, the guy at the gym, this dude was huge, so… Yeah, so that's…

984
02:24:13.270 --> 02:24:24.350
Kaz Okamoto: But I'm saying, we don't know if he's, you know, at the gym in the locker room, we don't know if he's at the gym watching him lift free weights, or he's on whatever.

985
02:24:24.350 --> 02:24:28.499
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's good, because you're seeing the reverse now, the reverse possibility in there.

986
02:24:29.100 --> 02:24:29.620
Kaz Okamoto: Right.

987
02:24:29.620 --> 02:24:49.490
Jerry Corley: Right? Because, like, because the first thing, when he says the guy at the gym, and he said, this dude was huge, we're imagining he's muscular, right? So it's like, but he didn't say that, he just said, this dude was huge, and I'm just talking about his dick, right? That could be a funny, just a quick joke right there. It's like, it's like, and it was like, oh, he also had big muscles.

988
02:24:49.490 --> 02:25:00.830
Jerry Corley: He was also, you know, Ori's also, like… he was also, like, you know, roided out, man. He looked like he was… then he could do the… it looked like he'd been eating at Chipotle for 4 years, and he never farted.

989
02:25:01.490 --> 02:25:08.630
Jerry Corley: That's funny. Couldn't get… couldn't let any farts out. That could be funny, too. That's good, that's good, Kaz.

990
02:25:08.830 --> 02:25:10.880
Jerry Corley: It's like, what do you got, Jack Green?

991
02:25:12.560 --> 02:25:14.049
Jack Rain: I read the trap.

992
02:25:15.580 --> 02:25:21.179
Jerry Corley: Oh, cocka what? No, Cock-a- what the fuck is that? That's good.

993
02:25:21.180 --> 02:25:22.690
Jack Rain: Right, right above it.

994
02:25:22.690 --> 02:25:29.830
Jerry Corley: Yeah, at the gym, he swole like the, like the balloon artist… like a balloon artist quit before shaping limbs.

995
02:25:29.830 --> 02:25:30.680
Jack Rain: Above that.

996
02:25:31.170 --> 02:25:56.069
Jerry Corley: oh, he's so huge, they gave the roosters a run for the… he's so huge… oh, man. And I'm talking about his… now, this would be… definitely, you would need to clarify what we're talking about, because right there, it's too vague to be a reverse on its own. Like, if you said he's huge, and I'm just talking about his dick, then you could say, like, you know, and I'm just talking about his, you know, I'm just talking about his, you could even say, keep it clean.

997
02:25:56.070 --> 02:26:02.290
Jerry Corley: I was like, and I'm just talking about his junk, right? It's like, like, he gave the roosters a run for their money.

998
02:26:03.150 --> 02:26:04.610
Jerry Corley: Right? That's good.

999
02:26:04.610 --> 02:26:06.569
Jack Rain: I would say, look at the…

1000
02:26:06.570 --> 02:26:07.609
Jerry Corley: Keep going down?

1001
02:26:08.170 --> 02:26:14.580
Jerry Corley: At the gym, he's so swole, the balloon artist quit before shaping limbs? Kaka, what the fuck is that?

1002
02:26:15.200 --> 02:26:17.970
Jerry Corley: Oh, I see, so if you say the rooster thing.

1003
02:26:18.720 --> 02:26:24.230
Jerry Corley: Like, he gave roosters a run for the money. Like, Kaka, what the fuck is that?

1004
02:26:24.660 --> 02:26:32.160
Jerry Corley: Cockatoo… yeah, cockatoo, what the fuck is that? Roosters are even going, cockatoo! What the fuck is that? That's good.

1005
02:26:32.570 --> 02:26:33.160
Jerry Corley: Good, nice.

1006
02:26:33.160 --> 02:26:39.770
Kaz Okamoto: Even if you said he had a hu… do you see that guy? He's got a huge cock. And you'd go, I don't see any rooster.

1007
02:26:40.020 --> 02:26:40.500
Kaz Okamoto: Beautiful.

1008
02:26:40.500 --> 02:26:46.879
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's like, I… it's like, no wonder why everybody woke up early.

1009
02:26:47.730 --> 02:27:07.330
Jerry Corley: So that's good. So, like, so keep, keep digging. Like, I don't even think he had parents. I think two GNC employees just wished really hard, GNC being the nutritional center. Like, now we've created, you create a mythology behind it, too. That's another thing you'll notice with,

1010
02:27:07.520 --> 02:27:31.810
Jerry Corley: with Theo Von, he creates sort of a fictional story, like when he did the cats, the cat, the lady is a kind of, like, she goes, shave, you know, shave your women, shave, shave the, like, she comes up there, she's like a cat, meow, sorry, it was late, you know, it's like, and having, you know, 8 babies in a cardboard box in the kitchen. So, he takes us into a mythological situation.

1011
02:27:31.810 --> 02:27:38.990
Jerry Corley: So we like to do that, too. How can we go into fiction… farther into fiction and make us imagine? So,

1012
02:27:38.990 --> 02:27:54.139
Jerry Corley: He smelled like creatine and child support. He's unexpectedly specific. If testosterone could get a DUI, that's what he looked like, a mental camera, right? So he uses that, too. He gets that image going in your head.

1013
02:27:55.180 --> 02:28:01.649
Jerry Corley: It looked like a truck that had attended 3 divorces. It looked like somebody microwaved sadness.

1014
02:28:01.730 --> 02:28:08.689
Jerry Corley: That's a way to define a bad apartment. And it's like, it's like I had,

1015
02:28:08.740 --> 02:28:26.659
Jerry Corley: my friend had, you know, every time I went over to his house, it was always a disaster, and I would be like, dude, dude, gotta clean it up, bro. Right? It's like a… and it was like… looked like somebody microwaved sadness. That's a funny way to express that. Instead of ugly dog, it looked like it apologized when it barked.

1016
02:28:26.840 --> 02:28:45.200
Jerry Corley: It was like, that's a funny way to say that. How could you define a cat that way? So, it's all comedic. So, let's take the, like, the, let's pick an ordinary thing, a dentist, a gym, a neighbor, a dog, a Walmart, a DMV, a teacher. Describe them by asking, what's the weirdest thing this reminds me of?

1017
02:28:45.600 --> 02:28:59.779
Jerry Corley: What's the weirdest thing this reminds me of? It, like, I had a teacher, Mr. Kelly, in 5th grade in New York at Reed Middle School, and this guy,

1018
02:29:00.700 --> 02:29:12.660
Jerry Corley: Looked like he was picked last at gym class all his life. And he had that goofy, awkward body that looked like it, you know, even diabetes was afraid of it.

1019
02:29:12.790 --> 02:29:17.230
Jerry Corley: It was… he, and he always had these puffy pants.

1020
02:29:17.680 --> 02:29:21.079
Jerry Corley: And he wore these very puffy.

1021
02:29:21.080 --> 02:29:38.029
Jerry Corley: pants, and they were regular pants, man's pants, but they were just always puffy. And so we used to, you know, he looked like he, like, we used to always tease, like, it looked like he made his pants out of parachutes, and so then we gave him a nickname we called Mr. Kelly Parachute Pants.

1022
02:29:38.030 --> 02:29:46.019
Jerry Corley: And, we're in 5th grade, so it's like, what's the weirdest thing this reminds me of? Parachute pants, this guy looks like…

1023
02:29:47.010 --> 02:29:54.530
Jerry Corley: This guy looks like, you know, they could make a temporary casino out of his pants.

1024
02:29:54.700 --> 02:30:11.229
Jerry Corley: So it's like that kind of, like, how can we take that further when I talk about parachute pants? So, what's the thing that reminds me of parachute pants? How can I take that further? So that's how you step it out, right? It doesn't always just all come out at once. You take an idea, who is…

1025
02:30:11.230 --> 02:30:18.090
Jerry Corley: a person in my life that was weird, Mr. Kelly, right? And Mr. Kelly didn't come. If I sat down to write.

1026
02:30:18.090 --> 02:30:23.159
Jerry Corley: and I wasn't doing this process, Mr. Kelly would never have come to my mind.

1027
02:30:24.310 --> 02:30:44.090
Jerry Corley: Where's a person, and what's the weirdest thing that reminds me of? This teacher? Because teacher's the last thing right here, that's what I hit on, teacher. What's one of my weird teachers? I would say Mr. Kelly, right? And say, what's that, there was another… I had another gym teacher, Mr. Norton. He used to go, shut the face, gentlemen, shut the face!

1028
02:30:44.560 --> 02:30:45.150
Cliff Spenger: I hate it.

1029
02:30:45.480 --> 02:30:51.760
Jerry Corley: So Mr. Norton, he was always angry. It was like, what is, like, you know, oh, it was like,

1030
02:30:53.190 --> 02:31:13.030
Jerry Corley: Now, how could you describe that? So I want you to take that, ask them, what's the weirdest thing this reminds me of? So finding a wild association, and then start to keep digging it, keep digging it. And it's like, I want to say write 10 comparisons, and then keep 8, or 8 through 10, right? So,

1031
02:31:13.450 --> 02:31:19.770
Jerry Corley: In this case, write 5 comparisons, just for the sake of time. So, I want you to basically think of…

1032
02:31:19.820 --> 02:31:36.589
Jerry Corley: in your life, an example could be a dentist at a gym, a neighbor, a Walmart, a DMV, a teacher, anything. Like, when I hit teacher, I thought of somebody in my life, a teacher, I got a visual, Mr. Kelly, and so I focused only on Mr. Kelly. And then I went to Mr. Norton.

1033
02:31:37.030 --> 02:31:40.420
Jerry Corley: You know? And then, Mr. Norton, shut the face, gentlemen.

1034
02:31:40.630 --> 02:31:41.939
Jerry Corley: Shut the face.

1035
02:31:42.820 --> 02:32:01.950
Jerry Corley: And then I sort of explained, he looked like he was angry, he looked like, and I was like, how can I know I'm gonna take the angry thing? He was angry at everything, man, this guy. He was like, why do they become gym teachers? So they can beat the shit out of middle schoolers? I think that's their job. You know, that's what they do, that's how they… they don't go to therapy, they just hit kids.

1036
02:32:02.010 --> 02:32:04.039
Jerry Corley: Right? So,

1037
02:32:04.510 --> 02:32:14.549
Jerry Corley: All of that has some humor in there, because I think people can relate to that. But I want you to take that, take that idea and come up with, like, 4 comparisons, 4 to 5 comparisons. Jack, you have your hand up.

1038
02:32:15.790 --> 02:32:16.530
Jack Rain: Chat.

1039
02:32:17.460 --> 02:32:18.220
Jerry Corley: Chat.

1040
02:32:19.200 --> 02:32:29.390
Jerry Corley: But, you know, even the, even the co… get more clever with that. Find it in a different way. Even the cockroaches, even the cockroaches, called U-Haul.

1041
02:32:31.620 --> 02:32:33.819
Janet Rapala: And they took the good china with them.

1042
02:32:33.820 --> 02:32:39.330
Jerry Corley: And those bastards took the good china. So yeah, that's good. That's good.

1043
02:32:39.600 --> 02:32:45.220
Jerry Corley: Even the cockroaches moved out. Even the cockroaches called the U-Haul, and they took the good China with them.

1044
02:32:45.650 --> 02:33:02.509
Jerry Corley: That's good, yeah, yeah, that's a… that's a very poetic way of saying that. Alright, so now, pick something. Fine, dentist, Jim, somebody in your life that you, like… I had this dentist one time, I saw him once, he had hair growing out of his ears.

1045
02:33:02.940 --> 02:33:07.870
Jerry Corley: And his nose. And it's like, this guy had nose hair. I was like, if this dude can't…

1046
02:33:10.870 --> 02:33:15.569
Jerry Corley: do personal hygiene. I don't want them working on my teeth, do you know what I'm saying?

1047
02:33:15.800 --> 02:33:31.379
Jerry Corley: So it's like, what would that be like? So that would be a fun one for me to work on. Alright, so give you… I'll give you 5, 7 minutes to work on that. Take that and step that out. Pick somebody, describe them by asking, what's the weirdest thing this reminds me of?

1048
02:33:31.870 --> 02:33:38.360
Jerry Corley: And then, keep digging, and see what you can come up with. I'll check back with you in 7 minutes.

1049
02:42:08.880 --> 02:42:15.490
Jerry Corley: Okay, alright, so this is like, you know, even while we were on break, I think about these things all the time, like, you know when…

1050
02:42:15.580 --> 02:42:25.750
Jerry Corley: like, when we're… like, I'm learning Spanish, or I'm trying to learn Spanish using the Duolingo app, you know? And, so a lot of times I think of a phrase, and I'm like, well, how would I say that in Spanish?

1051
02:42:25.750 --> 02:42:37.509
Jerry Corley: Like, in this case, I was like, my iPhone is going… it has been working really slowly. I'm like, ever since this last upload, man, this… I don't know what's going on. This iPhone is, like, slowing down. And,

1052
02:42:37.610 --> 02:42:49.510
Jerry Corley: So, I was like, now you have a line. A lot of people can relate to their phone slowing down after an update, so now it's like, now you could say, like, how… how could I say that's slowing down

1053
02:42:49.510 --> 02:42:53.440
Jerry Corley: How can I… how can I build that out and use a weird association?

1054
02:42:53.440 --> 02:43:15.190
Jerry Corley: a bizarre, extreme association, and try to get really vivid with the imagery to explain that. I haven't come up with anything, because I just thought about it, but it's one of those things where you could… if you're going to say it, like, talk about it on stage, then you could actually practice your writing getting better by finding a different way to say it. So, getting your brain used to prompting that sort of thing. So, who has, who got something?

1055
02:43:15.190 --> 02:43:16.130
Jerry Corley: Anybody?

1056
02:43:16.770 --> 02:43:17.640
Cliff Spenger: I do.

1057
02:43:17.640 --> 02:43:18.940
Jerry Corley: What do you got, Cliff?

1058
02:43:19.450 --> 02:43:24.139
Cliff Spenger: These are just the weirdest thing I came up with with each thing.

1059
02:43:24.290 --> 02:43:32.579
Cliff Spenger: My 8th grade Spanish teacher flunked the whole class, gave us all an F. We told him.

1060
02:43:33.470 --> 02:43:35.569
Cliff Spenger: That means fuck you in Spanish, though.

1061
02:43:35.740 --> 02:43:40.390
Cliff Spenger: The gym at our junior high smelled like teen anxiety.

1062
02:43:41.610 --> 02:43:43.099
Cliff Spenger: a local Walmart.

1063
02:43:43.100 --> 02:43:48.719
Jerry Corley: The gym smelled like teen anxiety, that's good.

1064
02:43:49.950 --> 02:43:53.419
Cliff Spenger: Local Walmart now offers extra-wide aisles.

1065
02:43:54.590 --> 02:43:56.200
Jerry Corley: Why is that?

1066
02:43:57.100 --> 02:43:58.390
Cliff Spenger: Because people are fat and.

1067
02:43:58.390 --> 02:44:14.379
Jerry Corley: There you go, yeah, it's like, you know, every… it's like the… they say the United States has the fattest population in the world. I don't know if that's true, I think there's other populations that are fatter, but… but it's like, in fact, it's gotten so bad that the Walmarts have extra-wide aisles.

1068
02:44:15.280 --> 02:44:20.289
Cliff Spenger: They're, they're, they're offering them this new special Extra Wild.

1069
02:44:22.180 --> 02:44:23.610
Cliff Spenger: It's a new feature.

1070
02:44:24.150 --> 02:44:35.090
Cliff Spenger: Let's see, one more, I think. Oh, the post office hired the DMV… the excess DMV employees, so now my vehicle registration gets to be expired.

1071
02:44:38.250 --> 02:44:41.899
Cliff Spenger: And my neighbors mowed part of my grass, so I smoked some of his.

1072
02:44:42.430 --> 02:44:47.190
Jerry Corley: Nice, very good. Neighbors moved my grass, so I smoked some of it.

1073
02:44:47.430 --> 02:44:48.299
Jerry Corley: There you go.

1074
02:44:48.300 --> 02:44:50.460
Cliff Spenger: I smoked mine, so I smoked snow.

1075
02:44:50.460 --> 02:44:54.340
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's good. Nice. Pappy, what do you got?

1076
02:44:58.280 --> 02:45:08.790
Pappy: Well, I don't know why, but I thought of this kid, Jamie, in 8th grade gym class. Jamie in 8th grade gym class had so much ass hair.

1077
02:45:09.170 --> 02:45:11.089
Jerry Corley: When he was high.

1078
02:45:11.090 --> 02:45:12.870
Pappy: Viking, he covered his own tracks.

1079
02:45:13.130 --> 02:45:14.679
Jerry Corley: That's funny, that's…

1080
02:45:16.760 --> 02:45:24.450
Pappy: Jamie had so much asshair, he made wigs for colon cancer patients.

1081
02:45:24.450 --> 02:45:36.439
Jerry Corley: Oh, nice, col… that would be great colon cancer patients, because, like, and then you have to get… he made… he made wigs for colon cancer patients. That's a specialized wig right there.

1082
02:45:36.440 --> 02:45:41.530
Pappy: And, so much ass hair.

1083
02:45:46.010 --> 02:45:48.739
Pappy: There's a Jane Goodall documentary about him.

1084
02:45:48.740 --> 02:46:03.819
Jerry Corley: Yeah, I remember those, yeah, definitely, right? It's like, that'd be funny if, like, we can go Gene Goodall, who else does those, like, Wild Adventure, what's the one guy, Orb Arson, what was his name who did the,

1085
02:46:05.430 --> 02:46:08.989
Jerry Corley: Does anybody remember the, like, the adventure videos?

1086
02:46:08.990 --> 02:46:10.090
Cliff Spenger: Well, Kingdom.

1087
02:46:10.090 --> 02:46:12.629
Jerry Corley: Wild Kingdom. Who did the Wild Kingdom videos?

1088
02:46:13.050 --> 02:46:14.469
Pappy: I don't remember the name.

1089
02:46:14.690 --> 02:46:20.550
Cliff Spenger: Well, you know, the reference, already us older guys can't remember it, and anyone younger won't know who that is either.

1090
02:46:20.550 --> 02:46:24.039
Jerry Corley: I know, right? So, it's like, let's see, well, who hosts.

1091
02:46:24.040 --> 02:46:29.500
Cliff Spenger: What about the guy who got stabbed by the manta ray? Steve Irwin?

1092
02:46:29.500 --> 02:46:30.669
Jerry Corley: Steve Irwin.

1093
02:46:30.860 --> 02:46:32.470
Cliff Spenger: Would people remember him?

1094
02:46:32.470 --> 02:46:35.160
Jerry Corley: That's a good question. Yeah, it's gotten so bad, right?

1095
02:46:35.160 --> 02:46:44.560
Cliff Spenger: And that's how… that's… and he's… that hasn't even been that long, but he's the latest of those wild people, and we can't even… people… he's not on the lips of the generation.

1096
02:46:44.560 --> 02:46:48.719
Jerry Corley: No kidding, like, the, other guy… so, Marlon Perkins.

1097
02:46:48.720 --> 02:46:49.599
Cliff Spenger: Marlon Perkins, yeah.

1098
02:46:49.600 --> 02:46:50.360
Jerry Corley: Yeah. She…

1099
02:46:50.360 --> 02:46:55.169
Cliff Spenger: even… even me and… and this other old guy from there who's Steve or whatever…

1100
02:46:55.170 --> 02:46:55.959
Jerry Corley: Yeah, we did.

1101
02:46:55.960 --> 02:46:57.340
Cliff Spenger: We didn't know.

1102
02:46:57.480 --> 02:46:58.420
Jerry Corley: We don't know, like.

1103
02:46:58.420 --> 02:47:00.589
Cliff Spenger: Marlon Perkins. Yeah, Marlon Perkins.

1104
02:47:00.590 --> 02:47:10.529
Jerry Corley: now I guess you could say it's like, you know, what's his name who does, like, the, Find a Predator, or whatever, whatever, what's his name?

1105
02:47:12.390 --> 02:47:15.750
Cliff Spenger: You mean the… the… the human predators?

1106
02:47:15.750 --> 02:47:30.710
Jerry Corley: Yeah, yeah. Chris Hansen? Chris Hansen. That's a name people could remember, but it's like, you know, it's like if Chris Hansen was hosting Wild Kingdom, right? So, you know, in context.

1107
02:47:30.860 --> 02:47:32.020
Jerry Corley: We don't…

1108
02:47:32.290 --> 02:47:50.679
Jerry Corley: you know, the kids might not know Wild Kingdom as a show, but they get the reference, Wild Kingdom being a show about wilderness, right? And again, it'd be like, like, you know, it'd be, like, narrated by Chris Hansen. It was like, Chris Hansen did Wild Kingdom. It's like the hairy asshole, you know? It's like.

1109
02:47:51.180 --> 02:48:03.519
Jerry Corley: It's like, the forces of nature could not hold back the flow from the hairy asshole, you know, or something like that. You can almost hear the voice saying that, you know, speaking in that way. That could be fun.

1110
02:48:05.190 --> 02:48:06.279
Cliff Spenger: It's like…

1111
02:48:06.280 --> 02:48:07.519
Pappy: I got one more.

1112
02:48:07.520 --> 02:48:07.990
Jerry Corley: What do you got?

1113
02:48:08.350 --> 02:48:15.359
Pappy: his ass was so hairy, he looked like he was giving birth to Kim Kardashian.

1114
02:48:15.360 --> 02:48:34.899
Jerry Corley: That's good, Kim Kardashian, yeah, like, giving, Kim, yeah, giving birth to Kim Kardashian… ass was so hairy, it looked like it was giving birth to Kim Kardashian. She's, she's got some hair on her. Like, who else is, like, really hairy as a human? It was, like, who is, like, who's got, like.

1115
02:48:37.110 --> 02:48:43.300
Jerry Corley: we've seen… let's see… who is… who else is, like… Mel Gibson was known for being hairy.

1116
02:48:43.480 --> 02:48:44.260
Jerry Corley: Rub and roll.

1117
02:48:44.260 --> 02:48:45.029
Cliff Spenger: Williams was known.

1118
02:48:45.030 --> 02:48:47.170
Jerry Corley: Robin Williams was very hairy.

1119
02:48:48.410 --> 02:48:49.360
Pappy: Don King…

1120
02:48:49.360 --> 02:48:50.660
Cliff Spenger: And to talk about it.

1121
02:48:50.970 --> 02:48:51.630
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

1122
02:48:53.940 --> 02:48:58.260
Jerry Corley: It's like, so yeah, definitely Robin Williams, he was a hairy guy.

1123
02:48:58.580 --> 02:49:05.210
Jerry Corley: Anybody else, like, celebrity famous for excessive body hair.

1124
02:49:05.210 --> 02:49:07.989
Pappy: Don King, but it wasn't body here.

1125
02:49:07.990 --> 02:49:10.510
Jerry Corley: It's like, yeah, he's, yeah, it's like,

1126
02:49:10.750 --> 02:49:17.600
Jerry Corley: Yeah, nobody, like, I'm looking up some people here known for excessive body hair. Nope,

1127
02:49:18.550 --> 02:49:23.129
Jerry Corley: Well, you know, Larry Gomez, often called the Wolfman, but nobody remembers that guy.

1128
02:49:23.500 --> 02:49:24.210
Jerry Corley: Yeah.

1129
02:49:24.210 --> 02:49:27.729
Cliff Spenger: Most of them you can't remember, like the husband of,

1130
02:49:28.010 --> 02:49:34.729
Cliff Spenger: What's the name of the lady who worked on Cheers and her cat, her husband in the cast?

1131
02:49:34.960 --> 02:49:38.899
Cliff Spenger: He had black… anyway, he was known as a hairy guy.

1132
02:49:39.160 --> 02:49:44.350
Cliff Spenger: Yeah. They had a lot of jokes about him being hairy, but they don't come along that often, hairy guys.

1133
02:49:44.350 --> 02:49:46.579
Jerry Corley: Andre the Giant, I think, what's the name?

1134
02:49:47.240 --> 02:49:52.930
Jerry Corley: cold with that condition where you got excessive hair? Is it hypertrichosis or something like that?

1135
02:49:54.090 --> 02:49:58.170
Jerry Corley: Like, maybe we could say Andre the Giant, I mean, people remember that guy.

1136
02:50:02.210 --> 02:50:04.960
Cliff Spenger: You want a celebrity, though, I can… I can see that.

1137
02:50:04.960 --> 02:50:08.709
Jerry Corley: Yeah, it's somebody that's just a name that's recognizable.

1138
02:50:08.710 --> 02:50:09.320
lina alva: basketball.

1139
02:50:09.680 --> 02:50:11.230
Jerry Corley: You can Sasquatch.

1140
02:50:11.780 --> 02:50:17.340
Cliff Spenger: You know, Jack Black is pretty hairy, because you just see his head, and his head is very hairy.

1141
02:50:17.710 --> 02:50:24.200
Jerry Corley: Jack Black would be a good one, because we've seen, just by Zach Galifianakis, they look like they're hairy.

1142
02:50:24.200 --> 02:50:25.579
Cliff Spenger: They're very hairy, yeah.

1143
02:50:25.580 --> 02:50:39.609
Jerry Corley: Yeah, like, it's like, this guy's like, you know, he looked like he was giving birth to Zach Galifianakis, and that's just a funny way to end that. That would be a good way to say that. His asshole was so hairy, when he laid down, it looked like he was giving birth to Zach Galifianakis.

1144
02:50:40.410 --> 02:50:42.800
Cliff Spenger: Because that's a great name to end on.

1145
02:50:42.800 --> 02:50:46.190
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's a funny… Galifianakis, what a fun name.

1146
02:50:46.190 --> 02:51:10.289
Jerry Corley: So that's a good one. Nice, good. Alright, I like that. That was the ass is so hairy. That's a funny line. Especially talking about 8th grade, because automatically we reminisce being in that locker room. I remember being in the locker rooms in middle school that were so, like, I never liked them. You know, I was always, like, always felt weird being in one of the locker rooms, you know? And I, you know, as an athlete, I spent a lot of time in the locker room.

1147
02:51:10.290 --> 02:51:20.560
Jerry Corley: But still, you know, all those, like, wedgy times in 8th grade, it's like, being in a locker room was traumatizing. I just couldn't wait to get out on the field.

1148
02:51:20.690 --> 02:51:21.480
Jerry Corley: Right?

1149
02:51:22.230 --> 02:51:26.049
Jerry Corley: It's like, and when I scored a goal, I go, nobody look at my dick!

1150
02:51:26.650 --> 02:51:43.930
Jerry Corley: You know, after we get… you're in there, like, you can… you're the MVP, so you can yell shit, right? And, like, so and that kind of thing, but you could… you have some confidence, at least, right? So I think maybe that's why I over-excelled playing soccer, because I always felt so nervous in the locker room.

1151
02:51:44.760 --> 02:51:49.750
Jerry Corley: As a young man. So that was a good one, I really liked it, because I got…

1152
02:51:49.790 --> 02:52:06.940
Jerry Corley: I was feeling all that, being in middle school, and gym class, and how awkward that felt. And it's like, we had one guy who was, like, the hairiest asshole. That just made me laugh, and then you start adding more to it, and it's embarrassing, too, right? It creates, you know, it's a good one. Anybody else?

1153
02:52:08.320 --> 02:52:09.300
Jerry Corley: Janet, anything?

1154
02:52:09.300 --> 02:52:09.910
Cliff Spenger: wig?

1155
02:52:11.790 --> 02:52:13.950
Janet Rapala: Oh, Cliff, go ahead, and then I'll go.

1156
02:52:14.280 --> 02:52:18.860
Cliff Spenger: I was just gonna refer his, clothing wigs, and I said, see this wig?

1157
02:52:21.390 --> 02:52:25.880
Janet Rapala: I've got a couple, but they're really more like stories, I don't think, than the whole story.

1158
02:52:25.880 --> 02:52:27.480
Jerry Corley: Alright, let's hear it, let's hear it out.

1159
02:52:27.480 --> 02:52:35.250
Janet Rapala: My childhood dentist was an alcoholic. I never smelled alcohol in his breath, but he overdosed me on numbing medicine, and I almost passed out.

1160
02:52:35.940 --> 02:52:58.250
Janet Rapala: And the other one was, my mom was fearful of sickness or physical trauma, and my youngest sister at age 2 fell and knocked a tooth out. Mom got us to the doctor, it was an easy fix, he just plopped a tooth back in, but mom absolutely lost it after the visit, and was damn near passed out and vomiting at the curb before going home. I told her she had to get it together to take us home, because I was only 10 and couldn't drive us.

1161
02:53:00.330 --> 02:53:17.979
Jerry Corley: So, you did well where we're just getting the bones of the stories out, right? So, but that was good. I like the, both of those. I like that idea, like, I wanted to explore that dentist more. And one of the reasons is, is, you know, does anybody get anxiety when they go to the dentist?

1162
02:53:18.270 --> 02:53:23.120
Jerry Corley: It's… it's definitely, you know, you know your bloods are gonna… your gums are gonna bleed.

1163
02:53:23.120 --> 02:53:38.999
Jerry Corley: And you know it's gonna feel some discomfort, some pain, no matter what. You know, they're doing x-rays, and they just can't get the seam of that plastic x-ray thing in the right place. It's gonna cut the inside of your mouth. You know, all of that stuff that comes with that, the smell of a dentist.

1164
02:53:39.000 --> 02:53:43.710
Janet Rapala: Yeah, you've got to practically deep throat that x-ray thing, and it takes forever.

1165
02:53:43.710 --> 02:53:51.549
Jerry Corley: Deep throat, that x-ray chip, right? That's funny. Well, what do you got, Jack Ray? Jack Day?

1166
02:53:51.760 --> 02:54:04.059
Jack Day: on a gym. He looked like he worked at the front desk of the gym instead of working out in the gym. And then another, he had chicken legs, put a bull upper body.

1167
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Jerry Corley: Say that one again?

1168
02:54:07.160 --> 02:54:09.880
Jack Day: Kicking legs, but a bull upper body.

1169
02:54:09.880 --> 02:54:28.260
Jerry Corley: Oh, that's funny. He had chicken, he's like a bull, he had, you know, he had the body of a bull with chicken legs. That's good. I like that, because how many guys do… I remember in high school, these guys that would sit there on the bench, you know, they'd work out the bench, but they had no legs. We always called them popsicle stick legs.

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Jerry Corley: You know, because we were soccer players, right? We had strong legs, and the football players were all upper body, no legs. That was fun. We used to laugh at that. That was good. That's… that's good. How else can we define that? Popsicle stick legs, chicken legs? Like, he had the legs of… he had the legs of…

1171
02:54:44.910 --> 02:54:53.349
Jerry Corley: You know, he had the legs that made fish sticks look jealous, made fish sticks jealous. Like, he had the legs that,

1172
02:54:53.350 --> 02:55:00.149
Jerry Corley: Let's see, he had the legs that were, you know,

1173
02:55:01.270 --> 02:55:10.809
Jerry Corley: Hockey stick legs. That could be hockey stick legs, you know, or a stickball, right? It's like, you could play… you could play stickball with his left leg.

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Jerry Corley: That could be good, too. That's good. I like that. Some good… forces you to think differently, right? Get the brain working to find those associations. Anything, Steve Berger?

1175
02:55:25.150 --> 02:55:29.039
Stephen Berger: We had a guy that, I'm still traumatized by

1176
02:55:30.910 --> 02:55:36.810
Stephen Berger: Ran the park district after school, and he monitored the park

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02:55:37.130 --> 02:55:53.619
Stephen Berger: I mean, the park was huge, but the guy was just extremely fast, and when he would see people ride on their bicycles across the park in the grass, he would fly like a bat out of hell with his whip, with his lanyard, and he would… he would crack.

1178
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Stephen Berger: I mean, you'd get whipped, and it was… I mean, those were the days when you could whip anybody. Any teacher could pretty much do that.

1179
02:56:01.790 --> 02:56:04.640
Stephen Berger: So, I said, his name was Rich Frewworth.

1180
02:56:05.110 --> 02:56:17.440
Stephen Berger: He was a bald guy, but lightning speed, and, carried that whip and whistle. And he ran the park district like a cheetah, chasing down a gazelle.

1181
02:56:18.260 --> 02:56:22.629
Stephen Berger: We ran the park district like the Gestapo, searching for Anne Frank.

1182
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Jerry Corley: You know, and it was like, he was always looking for people who were riding their bike on the sidewalk, or something like that, right? It's like, and you weren't allowed to ride the bike on the sidewalk because some kids had been hit, or something like that, so he used to enforce that. And man, this guy, you know, he was like, he missed his calling. He could have been a wide receiver, you know, and be like, he ran, like…

1183
02:56:44.760 --> 02:56:49.499
Jerry Corley: You know, he ran, like, he ran like Jesse Owens on Crank.

1184
02:56:49.500 --> 02:56:55.919
Jerry Corley: You know? So you could be, like, and there's, like, You know, it's like,

1185
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Jerry Corley: Yeah, so I could almost see this guy when you explained him, launch, right? He was just like, launch after you, and they, you know, and it was like, like he was…

1186
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Jerry Corley: like, just coming full speed at you, and you're trying to get that bike going, you know, and before you know it, WHAP! You'd be hit by these keys on these… at the end of this lanyard, you know, and he would snap you, man, and that guy… oh, that's a great story now, so the visual there.

1187
02:57:21.540 --> 02:57:31.170
Jerry Corley: It was like, always, I think I was always hit by the… the skeleton key or something, that, like, that one key that… I still have a scar, right? It's like…

1188
02:57:31.380 --> 02:57:37.269
Jerry Corley: This guy, but it was like… and you always, like… he always had that bald head that was, like…

1189
02:57:37.370 --> 02:57:38.950
Jerry Corley: Olive-skinned.

1190
02:57:39.290 --> 02:57:53.010
Jerry Corley: Right? It's like, it wasn't, like, you have, like, white guys, like me and Jack Day and Pappy, we're pink, right? It's like, you get a guy like that, he had that sort of, like, olive skin, bald, and those guys you gotta watch out for, because you know they're…

1191
02:57:53.320 --> 02:57:59.229
Jerry Corley: They're still pissed off. They don't know what they are. You know, am I Sicilian? Am I Italian? I don't know.

1192
02:57:59.260 --> 02:58:08.589
Jerry Corley: But I heard there was a lot of, like, there was a lot of raping and pillaging going on from the Moors, well, back in the day, so I'm still angry about that, and he's taken that out on everybody.

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Jerry Corley: Right? That's the guy, so now see how we're getting… I'm creating a scenario. I don't even know the guy, but I see him. How do I explain this guy? Like, and it looked like… you know how you, like, you know, a lot of bald people, they get… you could always see the, like, the little… when the hair starts coming in barely, but this guy never. It always looked like it was purely… it was just…

1194
02:58:27.660 --> 02:58:32.269
Jerry Corley: Perfectly skinned. Like, this guy, like, he lasered his scalp.

1195
02:58:32.700 --> 02:58:40.070
Jerry Corley: Yeah, now you're getting, like, he was, like, Mr. Clean, but… Culturally ambiguous.

1196
02:58:41.120 --> 02:58:43.820
Stephen Berger: And he had an identical twin, so you didn't know which was which.

1197
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Jerry Corley: So you'd think you'd see him over at the tennis courts, you'd get on your bike, and he'd come whipping around the bathrooms, right? Oh, that was his twin! Run! You know? That's hysterical, dude. That's funny. I like the visual there, and I could feel that…

1198
02:59:01.080 --> 02:59:07.759
Jerry Corley: That adrenaline hit you get when you know he's coming, and you're trying to get out of there, right? Yes, that was good.

1199
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Stephen Berger: He could be 100 yards away, he would catch you. Wow. I should catch you.

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Jerry Corley: It's like, that's how he got his thrills, though. When he'd, like, when he'd be able to just, like, burst out there and just, like, you see the speed just get faster, and that's where he would get his, like…

1201
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Jerry Corley: He always felt like he's getting his workout, he's getting a thrill, like, the sprinting, you know? And it's like, I always wanted to go back there when he was, like, 80, and it's like, chase me now, bitch, right? And just, like, watch him fall over on his walker, right? So, that would…

1202
02:59:38.330 --> 02:59:48.819
Jerry Corley: Just to get back at the guy who used to run the park and rec district. Like, what would he do? Like, where would he take that skill set later in life?

1203
02:59:50.720 --> 03:00:03.529
Jerry Corley: Like, that had to be a temp job, right? That wasn't a job he said, this is my career, I'm the park guy, right? Or maybe it was, maybe those were careers, like, back then, you could actually get a career as being the park supervisor.

1204
03:00:04.130 --> 03:00:07.279
Stephen Berger: He ran the office, like, after school, so…

1205
03:00:07.280 --> 03:00:12.610
Jerry Corley: Yeah, so maybe it was a good job or something, or maybe it was a job on the way to something else.

1206
03:00:13.630 --> 03:00:18.780
Jerry Corley: I'm thinking, what would he do? Like, what would he, you know… Certainly.

1207
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Cliff Spenger: Dining androids to do that now.

1208
03:00:21.000 --> 03:00:34.399
Jerry Corley: Now, yeah, now it's like a little… little… imagine if there is robots later on, and they start… all these… the robot comes out of the dark and starts chasing down kids. It's gonna happen one day. You're gonna have an accident, a robot kills a kid.

1209
03:00:35.160 --> 03:00:39.600
Jerry Corley: You know? And the people are gonna go, AI is great!

1210
03:00:40.340 --> 03:00:48.379
Jerry Corley: Yeah, that's wild. I like that. That was good. That was a fun… that was a fun example. Like, I see the guy. Who was, like, there's an actor…

1211
03:00:48.610 --> 03:00:53.270
Jerry Corley: who's out there, just, I see this, I can't remember the actor, but he's this bald guy, and he's like…

1212
03:00:53.710 --> 03:00:59.079
Jerry Corley: Not, what is he? Shit.

1213
03:00:59.470 --> 03:01:03.350
Jerry Corley: Some bald actors who work. That one guy, I see him.

1214
03:01:04.500 --> 03:01:07.400
Jerry Corley: he… I think he played a referee or something.

1215
03:01:10.740 --> 03:01:14.380
Jerry Corley: Let's see, see if I can get a picture of some bald actors here.

1216
03:01:17.560 --> 03:01:24.489
Jerry Corley: No, no, that's not it. He's more as a character actor. They call, like, you know, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel.

1217
03:01:24.790 --> 03:01:31.060
Jerry Corley: Terry Crews, maybe it's Terry Crews, I don't know.

1218
03:01:31.800 --> 03:01:34.869
Jerry Corley: Michael, not Michael Chickless, he doesn't… he could run after you.

1219
03:01:36.870 --> 03:01:43.220
Jerry Corley: Maybe Corley stole… Yeah, that could be him. Yeah, Corley Stoll could do it.

1220
03:01:43.630 --> 03:01:50.769
Jerry Corley: But he was even more feisty than that. I've seen this guy, and it's like, once you… like, you've said it, I saw the guy, it was like, we can find…

1221
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Jerry Corley: what, like, it's like Stanley Tucci on steroids.

1222
03:01:55.400 --> 03:02:01.360
Jerry Corley: You know? And it's like, with… who's a… who was a… who was basically an Olympic sprinter.

1223
03:02:01.840 --> 03:02:02.680
Jerry Corley: You know?

1224
03:02:02.860 --> 03:02:20.620
Jerry Corley: So, like, the Jamaicans are always top in Olympics in running, in sprinting, you know, except for this guy. Except for Stanley Tucci, right? And you even call… you can even say we called him Stanley Tucci, right? And it's because it's somebody famous.

1225
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Jerry Corley: Or, that's bald, and, like, him coming at you. It'd be like if Ed Harris was bald back in the day, and it was always, he was a feisty young guy, you know, you'll see him as an android, like…

1226
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Jerry Corley: Yeah, but there's one character actor, I can't remember who it is, but you could see him being very fast.

1227
03:02:38.470 --> 03:02:43.639
Jerry Corley: It's just bursting out of nowhere and coming at you, and you're like, oh man, this is… I gotta get out of here.

1228
03:02:44.180 --> 03:02:47.740
Jerry Corley: That was fun. So the…

1229
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Jerry Corley: In… as I normally do with these PDFs, I over… sort of, like, over-prepared it, and so there's a lot more exercises on there to work with and build out in your writing. If you find the time, you find yourself wanting to write something, you take these ideas and say, how can I describe that? How can I find an association that builds that out even more? And you keep doing it, keep getting more exaggerated, more specific, so… and then you could add the three descriptions.

1230
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Jerry Corley: idea to it. And, like, take ordinary, like, ordinary descriptions, like, you know, happy, scared, poor, rich, lazy, you know, and so instead of describing them.

1231
03:03:25.930 --> 03:03:33.070
Jerry Corley: invent an oddly specific picture, you know? That's like when, with the guy who was sprinting.

1232
03:03:33.170 --> 03:03:36.540
Jerry Corley: I was like, he was like, he was like Stanley Tucci on…

1233
03:03:36.850 --> 03:03:42.240
Jerry Corley: acid, you know? Like, he looked like…

1234
03:03:42.640 --> 03:03:47.830
Jerry Corley: somebody, like, scared, looked like somebody hiding from a Canadian goose.

1235
03:03:48.110 --> 03:03:51.730
Jerry Corley: Because those, those, those things are evil, I don't know if you've run into those.

1236
03:03:51.940 --> 03:03:57.620
Jerry Corley: He looked like his socks had accountants, you know? That's kind of like a… how could you say somebody was rich?

1237
03:03:58.120 --> 03:04:16.029
Jerry Corley: He looked like his cockroaches had chauffeurs, you know? And it's like, that sort of thing. What else can you put in there? So it's a way to… you're pushing the brain to go outside its normal process of thinking when you're writing. It's just one way of really just expanding it. And the more you push it.

1238
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Jerry Corley: the more it will start getting used to taking that, taking that approach. Right now, it's… it's almost a foreign concept to your brain. Like Kaz was saying, I was like, this is hard for me, because you're not used to doing that. And now, once you get in there and start doing it, it'll get better.

1239
03:04:30.420 --> 03:04:33.000
Jerry Corley: Anybody have any questions before we take off today?

1240
03:04:34.420 --> 03:04:35.830
Jerry Corley: Did you enjoy this?

1241
03:04:36.210 --> 03:04:37.220
Stephen Berger: Yes.

1242
03:04:37.220 --> 03:04:44.849
Jerry Corley: Good, good, I'm glad you got it. So, so practice those exercises. Remember, the brain works in patterns. Unless you practice them, they won't be in there.

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Jerry Corley: Right? And so it's like, it's one of those things. And I'll send the Leslie Nielsensons along with this worksheet, too, so you have those to work on. It's nice spending time with you, as always. We'll see you guys again soon. Take care, everybody!