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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q And you get 50 bucks a seat? 20 bucks a seat?
A No, not even. You get a flat rate. You get two grand to do the weekend or something like that. And a lot of these times The comedy clubs would just like call people and say, Hey, do you want to see this guy and give away the tickets for free? It was really the old model was basically, it's like a bar. So you just get the people in and they sell the drinks. So the weekend would sell out, then another one would sell out, and I was like, holy, maybe, maybe there's something, there's a conversion rate that I didn't see, and I kept putting stuff out on YouTube. I would do a new clip every week for a year on YouTube, and then I put these, a special on YouTube instead, and then I learned very quickly that there was this huge, like, white space in the market. Like, the comedy on TV was corny, and people didn't really like it, and nobody was putting out, like, the quote, unquote, like, real comedy. There's different versions of comedy, but I'm being very simplistic. And the more edgy stuff I put on YouTube and it just exploded. And, um, yeah, my career kind of really took off from there. And then COVID came around and there was, uh, I was able to be a little bit more honest because I wasn't tied to a network and worried about maybe losing my job at the network.
AI assessment note: “No, not even. You get a flat rate. You get two grand”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q What about you, Shelton? When did you buy your first equity?
A I was probably. 35. Oh, think about it. So, so my, my, I mean, my, how old are you? I'm 41. So I would maybe even a little bit later. Now I might've like owned stock without even realizing it type of thing where like I had like a business manager who set up some retirement fund or something like that, but not me actively choosing a stock and buying it. Um, my, my wife's father-in-law is a very, uh, successful businessman and, uh, he's, he's, he's, I don't want to say like predicted the markets really well, but he has, I mean, he was in NVIDIA, like super early, early, early, early, early, and, uh, a bunch of others. And we were like sitting down and like Aspen somewhere. And he like said, Hey, listen, what do you mean? You don't own anything. He goes, Hey, can you take a, you know, I don't know if we said 10 grand or a hundred grand or something like that. He goes, can you just put it in these different stocks? I go, okay, sure. I open up this like E-Trade account or whatever it was. But an interesting thing right there is like, you guys were so young. It was 18, 22, 14. And to me, I think, like, the education of this is really important. Like, my parents did really well, but they're financially illiterate. Like, there was no passing on this, like, knowledge of, like, investing when, what it means to invest. Like, they made their money by, like, working every single day for it.…
AI assessment note: “I was probably. 35. Oh, think about it. So, so my, my, I mean”
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D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q And you were on fire because you were saying stuff nobody else was saying, and I thought, how does he even dare to pull this shit off? And so was there, was there a moment that where you broke or you tipped or not?
A So I, you kind of like, it's interesting. You kind of break and then you go away. Like, so I, so I broke on like some MTV shows and I was, you know, doing all these things on MTV at my own shows and all that kind of stuff. And then I kind of, you know, the MTV thing kind of dried up and then I kind of went away, but I was luckily doing this podcast with Charlemagne and the The podcast was very popular, and that was, like, providing for me, and then I was doing some shows on the road, and, you know, people would come out from the podcast, but, um, and then I really couldn't get any traction in the stand-up world, so when I was doing, like, comedy stuff with MTV, it wasn't really in the stand-up world, and that's because my stand-up maybe wasn't of the ilk of what was, like, popular at the time, and I have a lot of empathy, by the way, for, like, the people who are just working at a Network. They're producing these shows. Like they, they're kids in private school. I want to tell a crazy joke about women or gays or whatever the f*** it is. And they're like, I'm not trying to get fired. And like, I'm just trying to, my kids in private school, we just got them into Dalton. I don't want to rock the boat. Like, you know what I mean?
AI assessment note: “so I broke on like some MTV shows and I was, you know, doing”
