Arriba Dude!

Daniel Qunitero, aka ARRIBA DUDE! is a standup comedian based out of San Antonio, TX.  In this interview, the dudes chat about Daniel's standup journey and philosophy, as well as Weird Al!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Hello and welcome back to the Clean Comedy Chat. I'm your host, Drew Davis, and this is the podcast where we interview each week a different stand-up comedian who's part of the Clean Comedy Collective, which is a nationwide network of comedians. Uh we started here in Nashville uh with just a few people in Middle Tennessee producing shows. And then about a year ago, we went uh viral, we went national, and now we have about 240 comedians from about 39 different states. So each week we meet a different one and we talk to them, uh, get to know them, get to talk comedy. Uh, chances are if you're listening to this podcast, you probably already knew that. But if this is your first time, because maybe you saw who our guest is, and you're like, Oh my gosh, I want to get in on this podcast. Just thought I'd let you know. Uh, so uh if you have any clean comedy collective related questions, we have a website, www.cleancomedy collective.com, and that's where you can check out who is in our collective. You can check out what shows we have going on, you can donate and just give us all your money. You can check out previous podcast episodes, and I don't know, you can just go there and all your dreams will come true. So that's my friendly clean comedy collective plug. Now let's get into the interview, let's get into the conversation, let's get into getting to know one of my new friends. Our guest today is Daniel Quintero, uh, from Sandy, nope, I almost said San Diego Daniel. I don't know, from San Antonio, Texas. And uh you might know him as uh Daniel or Quintero, but you definitely, if you've seen him, you know his stage name, Ariba Dude. So, Daniel, how's it going? How are you, sir?

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Hey Drew, yes, really good. I'm so excited to be here. This is fun. Uh yeah, I'm doing well. Ariba.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Ariba, yeah. Yeah. So why uh let's get get rolling into this. Ariba dude. What how I mean I mean, there's the ethical reasons why are not ethical, ethnical reasons of why we yeah, the moral reasons why we call you. But like, do you gotta is there any uh origin story behind your name, Ariba dude? My R's are never gonna roll, by the way. I don't think.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

I think I think this is too much to roll my Rs.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Yeah, actually, it's been my nickname since middle school, really, that I created for myself. And it was with because I wanted to practice rolling my R's. I really couldn't growing up. And um, and I was like, Arriba, I love that word, and and I just added the dude, and I would just have it and just say it, but I didn't have any comedy to back it up. I even um bought the domain like 10 years ago without knowing what to do with it.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

That's hysterical. That's so cool. I love that that's your middle school name, and now that's part of your comedic identity. That's cool. So and speaking of comedic idea identity, uh, tell us a little bit about I always like to ask people uh the when did you get into comedy and the why did you get into comedy? Because I feel like we all have different answers to that.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

For sure. Um, I started in February 2023. Yes, so three years and a few months, and I I started because I wanted to challenge myself. Um I did public speaking in high school and college and in the workforce, but I was like, I love speaking, but I want to do something that's that's scary on stage. And comedy, of course, was like, wow, you gotta make strangers laugh by your words? That's wild. So I was like, let me do that as a dare. So I wrote for like six months to create jokes, and then I went to my first line.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

I like how you put quotes in there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

I remember my first joke, it was about the purge, which was already like five years old. And my first line was, Congrats everybody, on surviving the purge. And I thought that would hit silence. Um, but that's how it was. Um, I wrote all these jokes. I was like, here's a challenge to myself. I went, I did it, no one laughed, but I loved it. So there it is.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Okay. That's that's that's the crazy part of us comedians, is is a lot of times you go there and your first show or your first couple shows, uh, you do not get a lot of laughs. Uh, but then you're like, this was great. I want I can't wait to do this again. Uh why why are we like that, Daniel? Why why are comedians like that?

SPEAKER_02 4:20

I don't know. Just a special us. Wow, let me speak right. A special breed.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

We are so so do you remember the uh your do you remember your first booked show? Like the first time someone asked you to go be funny on purpose.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Uh yeah, I love that. That was actually a year after, February 2024. And it's just, you know, you never forget that. It's at a a bar restaurant. It's actually going to be closing this summer, so I always have that memory. I know. But you know, that first $20 bill that you get for writing jokes and performing them.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

It's yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Did you keep it and like spend it, or did you do what like a lot of comedians do, which is like frame it and put it up somewhere like this is the first time I was paid.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Oh no, I I spent it probably that night.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

So me too. I uh I hear about that now. A lot of comedians do that, and I think like I sh that would have been cool, but it didn't when it didn't even cross my mind when I got paid the first time to like, oh, I should hold on to this. That's uh that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

So yeah, I'll just grab a random 20 and and frame it. Uh no one will know.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

That's right. So this was the first 20 I ever made, and people were like, It's state is and you're like, Don't look. I love that. So so now you uh you produce one of the shows for the Clean Comedy Collective. You uh you have your show, and I think it's a monthly show at Refuge Coffee. Uh, tell us a little bit about that one.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Oh my gosh, yes. Um, well, Refuge itself, the owners, Nick and C, they've been really great. Um, it's on the northwest side of San Antonio, and that area has grown fast in the last 15 years. A lot of farmland to apartments and uh chain restaurants. But the owners, they bought that house. Um, it used to be a yoga studio, and uh they bought it, converted into a coffee beer hall. Uh, and it's like the only real community place on this side of town.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Really?

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Uh yeah, they still have a farmland, they have goats, chickens, fresh egg market, um, and they do a lot of community events. So it was just perfect for me to go there and say, hey, would you like to do a clean comedy show? And they love clean comedy, so they like to of course, and uh we um worked together. It was a great match, and uh yeah, I've been doing it. This will be in July, will be a one-year anniversary of that show.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

Oh, that's that's exciting. That's coming up, right? That then, yeah. So so uh are you doing anything special for the one-year anniversary or yeah?

SPEAKER_02 6:44

I I'm going to um do a longer set, so that's that's fun because I I started the very first show I did a longer headlining set. So I'm like, I guess I'll do it again a year later and not host.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Yeah, maybe you have a couple new jokes, maybe you have different people that come to it. That's so cool. I love that. Um, well, we we had a few, we I mean, I don't as if you for the people listening, it would have been a few episodes ago. I don't I don't remember how long it feels like it was like six years ago, but uh a few a while back, we had uh Danny Tran uh come here uh and he uh and and talk and he spoke so highly of your show and how you hosted it and just just the real positive energy that you bring to it that uh made the show super special. So um that's cool. Um yeah, yeah, we'll let him know. Thanks, Danny. Well, shout out to him. So and if you listeners, if you're like what's he like? Well, we have an episode of him a few episodes ago, so check it out. So super funny guy.

unknown 7:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

So now do you um do you have like what kind of goals do you have yourself for comedy? Why like what what's the do you have a hope or like what this kind of will lead to or why you're doing what you're doing, or uh is it is it ever gonna be enough? Do you have like an end game goal or like you know, yeah, what's going on in comedy? What's the deal with your stand-up comedy?

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Uh yeah. My ultimate goal would be to headline after noon shows across Texas. That'd be so nice.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Noon shows across Texas.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

Yeah, just you know, 50 to 60 people at a 2 p.m. show at a coffee shop. I I would love that idea.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

That's it. Yeah, that's the that's the goal. You know, I don't think you have a lot of competition there. I think you could make that happen. You could you would just book those shows and be like, I am the best afternoon headliner in all of Texas. You might even be like through all of the world. I don't because I don't know. Like, I don't that's that no one's ever told me that. So that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

It's just a fun time, it's early, you'll be done, get to celebrate. Yeah, I I would like more afternoon shows and make that a thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yeah. Is that because you just don't like staying out late at night? Like, do you just is this your way of getting done and home early before it gets dark?

SPEAKER_02 8:55

I guess so. Yeah, that that makes sense. Try to live longer, avoid the night, night driving.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Okay, that's cool. That's I had not thought about that. That's uh you know what though, it's funny though, because a lot of people, so especially doing uh so I've run a comedy show at a coffee shop for like uh several years. Um, and you know, it's usually at 6 p.m. is when we do it. So like uh a lot of time, especially when we first started, people are like, oh, comedy show during the day. Like that, why do people even do that? It has to be nighttime for comedy. Um, and since then, especially doing clean comedy shows, coffee shops lend themselves and like doing them earlier, kind of family-friendly type, you know, where people can go, uh older people might like going, or and then they then they can drive, you know, in the daytime, or you know, sometimes people bring their families, so they're looking for something so like doing like late night shows for clean comedy sometimes is almost easier to and all that to say is the taboo of it has to be you know dark and nighttime for comedy. I've learned is not true. Like you can run a freaking awesome show in the daytime, and it's totally fine.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

So okay, great. All right, there's a path. 6 p.m. You're getting there, right? Getting there there we go.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

Yeah, so yeah, you yeah, I I have faith in you. I think you can do it. So what would you say if you were to give it like a one piece of advice to new comedians, just all if they were to listen to you and actually heed your words, what would be a good advice for any new comedian out there?

SPEAKER_02 10:20

Um, well, I think in the local scene that you can't have a grudge and you can't compare yourself to anyone else, especially in our scene, in any local comedy scene, because you know, none of us are special. You know, none of us have like a big name. And so yeah, like you cannot go around and be like this person's getting booked and I'm not getting booked, or this producer's not booking me. Um, you just gotta focus on what you can focus on writing, uh doing open mics, but making yourself known to the producers, and uh yeah, just seeing what happens. That's my advice.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

I really like that. I like the phrase none of us are special. Uh it's it's so true, but uh us creatives or us people that the kind of people uh and we're like this, uh, so I don't feel like I'm making fun of other people that aren't me, but the kind of people that like think to themselves, I'm getting in on these people need these strangers need to hear what I have to say. Let me get on stage and tell them tell an entire I think they'll everyone here will think this way. The kind of people that uh do this kind of work, I feel like every now and again the reminder of none of us are special, you know. But I I've I've I've often heard uh critiques for like newer comedians where people are like, you need to remember that nobody owes you anything. Like you, like you are like you do not, and um, and I think that's a really uh big reminder. Like every opportunity we get is a privilege. Uh, and the further you get and the cooler things you get to do, like we should always be thankful for those, you know. It's it's um uh because yeah, we're we're all you know, we're all just here.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

So exactly. Like last month I was not getting booked anywhere except one uh venue, and I started to become bitter and be like, why am I not getting booked more places? But then I was like, wait, that producer still booked me. I need to just focus my energy on doing a good show for for that person and the audience.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Yeah, I feel like it's uh a good self-discipline to not get like bitter, to not get jealous, to not get I think it's a hundred percent easier set for us to say here on this podcast than the next time we scroll scroll on social media and see what who's who's working where, you know. Yeah, do you have any tips of how people can like can kind of be on that? Because I do I really do think it's a process of as you can train yourself to not get bitter, to not get jealous, to not kind of let that toxic stuff in, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Yeah, I mean, I just feel like there's enough spots for everybody, you know, in terms of we all bring something different, and um just you know, going back to whatever you can control is how I try to live it.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Yeah, that's so true. There's so much in stand-up that is out of our control, isn't there? There's like because at the end of the day, you know, when you're sending the veils out to uh uh to the bookers or whatever, you send it in and then it's totally up to them whether you get booked, you know. It's yeah, are are you do do they like do they think you're funny, humorous objective? Do they like your look? Do they feel you'll fit the room that they have? It could be simply as simple as you just remind them of someone they don't like, and they'll be like, I don't want to book this person.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Like it's the hair, I get it. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Well, and that would never, I mean, uh, for those of you listening, you gotta you gotta check our YouTube video out because uh Daniel is is looking spick and span. Uh he's he's got the cool, he's got the hair, he's got the cool jacket. Uh, I just came in here like a slob with a t-shirt, and so uh that's good.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Don't need it.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Yeah, I appreciate it. So um, so after afternoon comedy shows, that's gonna be your lane. I love that. So do you have um what is the favor uh do you have like a favorite comedy moment or like favorite show that you've done? Um and like some for some reason in the you know, I so uh you said you started in 2023. So in the past three years, is there like a show that just stands out to you as like a really cool comedy memory?

SPEAKER_02 14:18

Yeah, you know, I think those best moments are when you're reflecting back and you're like, wow, I got I get to do comedy, you know. People know of me, they want to hire me, or they yeah, think of me to perform it in front of people. And I one of my most favorite moments was New Year's Eve uh 2024. It was a uh show at a church, a church uh New Year's Eve of a party. And um they were so kind, uh, so charitable. And it felt like an assembly line when I got there because as soon as I got there, they took a picture of us in front of the red carpet and the nice background backdrop, and then they rushed me inside. They're like, Are you hungry? And then they had a little assembly line of food here, eat. And then 20 minutes later, like, okay, come on stage. It's 11 p.m. You have to finish in 20 minutes. So just rushing me on stage and then doing the comedy, and then being like, I had to go to my um sister's house, which was 40 minutes away from that venue, and be there before midnight so we can celebrate New Year's days.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

So as soon as I was done off the stage, I drove, and it was just so cool to be like, I put comedy in my life, and it put me in this situation where I had to rush through, do a set, enjoy it, be back at my sister's house in time for midnight. It was it was wild. I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Did you make it?

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Did you make it before 1158?

SPEAKER_00 15:45

So close. Oh man, your sister would have disowned you if it was uh the your her first decision of 2025 would have been like no more, no more brother.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

So yeah, I haven't really yeah, like I haven't had to like put comedy in front of like important days or birthdays. So I'm really trying to not do that. I know it might be harder if I get uh more popular, but um, that's always my focus, just to have a right balance.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Well, and we always have to remember, not just in comedy, but in like life, like we pick our schedule, we we accept, you know, like and so and comedy is one of those things the more you do it, the more it'll ask of you, you know, and and and sometimes you gotta have those healthy boundaries. Uh, and sometimes I'm actually we're we're uh we're starting July next week. And actually, for for July for me, I uh I do not have any traveling gigs in July. It kind of happened accidentally, but then I was traveling a lot this month, and I was like, maybe I'll just leave it like that. And so um and of course, you know, we nothing's ever set in stone. You can always take something if it comes, but I'm actually I'm actually kind of excited about I got I got a few shows that I'm producing next month, and I'm just recovering, building, rebuilding, figure, do getting more bookings, working on you know, working on this podcast, working on other stuff, and uh taking it a little bit easy. But uh that's because I'm I control my schedule, so yeah, you're you're wise to know that you have so apart from comedy, what are some other uh priorities and important things in your life uh outside of comedy that you spend your time with?

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Yeah, um karaoke. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Really?

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

I think like you go and do it or do you facilitate it?

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Or you oh no, I just go and do it.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

That's cool. I actually I actually am gonna have to start uh with my day job uh every month, uh kind of facilitating a monthly karaoke. So do you have any uh this is very random and not at all clean comedy chat related, but do you have any good tips for like like what makes a good karaoke? Like what makes like what are things that I should try to make sure happens at the we're doing a at our our our day job, we're doing a sip and sing event for the members, and so I have to kind of run that. And I've I've done comedy for a while and done events, but I've never done karaoke. I've been to karaoke, but I've never done it really.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Yeah, I mean, I think it's like open mics where you have to have a list and like make sure people don't bump other people. Um, I like when the karaoke DJ has like a little scroll of who's next and what place you are in the line. Um, but and then of course a good mic, so yeah, you're gonna do great.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Yeah, perfect. I have I I can I can make a list and I have a good mic. So I feel like I'm already qualified to do it. That's cool, though. So yeah, some weird owl. Yes. Oh, I I was about to ask, uh, do you have a go-to go-to karaoke song?

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Uh yes, white and nerdy.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

I love that. And yo, that's something we have in common is our love for Weird Al. Is he is he is he is he among one of your favorite artists, or do you just yeah, I think he inspired me to do comedy too.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

Here's one of my idols in that sense. Yeah, I met him at the um at his concerts maybe like five times already.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

Oh wow. So does he recognize you when he sees at this point when he sees you for time five or six? Does he know who you are?

SPEAKER_02 19:02

He pretends he does, I think.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

So hopefully we're gonna say he does.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Where because no one can prove otherwise.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

So that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

You wear the same suit sometimes, so it's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

I love that. Yeah, because you do. I noticed I you have a very uh polka friendly presence when you're and I and I notice with a lot of the whenever I share your uh refuge coffee nights post, a lot of times it has a kind of a polka song in the background. So I like that. Uh Weird Owl was um, I think the first two CDs I ever got was I got uh and it they have I got them both like on the same Christmas when I was a kid, and it was uh three doors down, a better life, but then it was also Weird Owl's Eat It. And so I I was introduced to them, and uh in in maybe six, some somewhere between sixth and eighth grade for a talent show. Um me and my friends uh did the entire Albuquerque song in our for our talent show. Yeah, we we memorized all 12 minutes of it and we went for it.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

Is that still on video somewhere?

SPEAKER_00 19:59

I do not think so. I think I think think uh praise the Lord it it is not still there. So uh but that would be a cool it wouldn't it be cool like yeah, and we're gonna go ahead and throw it on to uh if you're on a Patreon, you can watch the weird owl video in a talent show. No, that would be great though. So that's fun. Um so uh uh uh so you've been pretty so you produce you've had your show for a year now. Uh basically you've had your show. Do you have any other shows that you produce, or is it just that one?

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Uh no, it's it's just that one. I I like producing that show, but um, for me at least it seems too stressful to worry about other shows, but I really want to just focus on the writing and performing, and I know that's a balance that you have to take.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

For sure. But yeah, there's I mean, the producing shows is a way to kind of expand what you do, but it's not the only way, and it's not it's definitely not for everyone. Like some I have plenty of friends that you know maybe tried to produce one show one time and are like nope, uh, because it's a it's a it feels like it's a different muscle than like performing and especially writing. So are you more into the joke writing or the joke performing?

SPEAKER_02 21:05

Oh my gosh, that's a great question. I I I think writing, yes, amazing. I I feel like I love performing to validate that the writing is working.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Oh, okay, good point. So um and I I love I love the performing because like all I care about to the extent is the validation. I don't, you know, I like the experience of telling the jokes and interacting with the people, and uh but you know, but the writing is is important, so I think that's an issue.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Um go ahead, go ahead. Oh, no worries. Because, well, it's because um in high school I studied uh debate, I was in debate team, so we wrote a lot of arguments, and then in college I studied philosophy. So I feel like my joke writing is very like a logical argument. Um, you have like the the premise, which has a setup, and then the conclusion. Which is the punchline, and I always try to like write where it's like logical, removing as many words as I can to make it as strong. So that's why I see it. I see it like a very analytical view of joke writing.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Yeah, that's really cool. That's uh that's important. So so is your style more like observation? Is it more like do you make fun of yourself? Do you what is storytelling? What what what kind of what kind of comedian are you? For if anyone's wanting to check you out after after they listen to this episode.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Yeah, um, I started as an open, I mean a one-liner comedian. One-liner open life comedian, yeah. Tell him um I I just loved like the silly one-liners. But what I found out was I felt more confident on stage when I talked about myself. And so through a lot of like trial and error and uh getting different feedback from other mentors, I learned that I wanted to do personal life storytelling in my set. But I had a little like a lot of like silly jokes and one-liners sprinkled in. Um so my whole set now is like a theme of like one theme, and then I explore that theme through different parts of my life, and that's been more fun for me.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

That's fun. Yeah, I get that. Uh, I definitely one-liners are fun, but it's hard to build a longer than five to ten minute set of just one-line jokes. Um, and I've noticed the real real good one-liner joke, uh, excuse me, real good one-liner comedians often learn the right time to kind of turn it off a bit and like go into like a maybe a story or go into a random tangent, or maybe go into crowd work and then go back to their because um, because it's true, like I've booked comedians for 15 minutes who are just one-line comedian one-liners, and it's like it gets old, you know, halfway into their set. So there's for one-liners, they have to kind of figure out a way to make it work, and then all but and then stories. I I also gravitate to storytelling comedy. Um, oddly, a few years ago, it just kind of happened that way. I I used to be kind of a setup and punched kind of person, but that was the bulk of my jokes, and then at some point I just became a little bit more long-winded, I guess. Um, but it but but I still feel like what even if you're telling stories, you have to you have to include those punchlines. You have to include the one-liners or the jokes. Uh, you have to, you know, keep people's attentions for the whole story. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

Exactly. Uh that's why I'm really happy that I started as a one-liner comedian because I had to learn the joke structure and how to just make things funny, and then I built through that. Um, I could not write a story the first year of comedy.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Yeah. And you know what? Maybe that's okay because some people like go right into storytelling, uh, and they don't there is and they don't realize like, oh, you have to, you have to, especially right at the beginning of your routine, you need a quick laugh to get everyone on your side. So have you experienced any uh significant challenges in doing stand-up comedy? Any anything that's uh you either overcome or you're like, nope, this is still a challenge.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Um well, I think from debate and like performance, there's still a tendency that I have to want to present the joke and be too proud of the joke on stage. That's the danger about liking my writing too much, is that um if I really feel like this joke is what is well written, then I'll say it and I'll really communicate this is the punchline. Boom.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

And uh people are like, is it? Yeah. So then I pause longer. I'm like, I guess I didn't get a good response. So then I just and I'm I need to be more in the moment. Um, you know, when you focus on writing too much, you're just focused on saying everything word by word, and so I'm still focusing on being in the moment, letting the the set come and go ebb and flow in terms of what needs to be said at what time.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Um absolutely, and that'll come with time because that really does the the more you the more stage time you have, the more comfortable you are up there, and then you can make it. I like to use the word organic, you can make it more organic because it we're definitely not just doing comedy at the audience, we're kind of doing it with them.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

So, yeah, exactly. That conversation.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

So, and even learning to make it seem like your jokes are conversational, like, yeah, we're just out here saying it. I'm gonna say this thing casually when you're like, I've said it the same thing for the past five days.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

So, do you ever do you ever travel when you do comedy? Like, I know I know you're the Texas guy, but do you do you ever get out, get out and about?

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Um, yeah, I did more last year. Um, I traveled out of the state to Pennsylvania twice.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

That is far for y'all, too. That's that's like that's far for me, and I'm closer to Pennsylvania than you. What was what was in Pennsylvania? Why there's closer places you can travel to?

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Um, it was the first time I got accepted to a comedy festival. So I was like, I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Yeah. Which festival did you go to?

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Uh good karma. It was the one in Bethlehem. About that one.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Um, very spiritually sound place. So tell tell us about your uh good, tell us about your good karma. Just no, tell us about your good karma comedy festival experience, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Um I I liked it a lot, and I I feel like there's a moment when you're like, I'm doing this, this is so silly. So, like flying to a random part of the country for me to do eight minutes on a stage inside a um former steel factory, it was wild. And I was like, this is the life. So, but I met some good friends, and they're still my friends, we're comedy buddies, we work on jokes together. And um that's so cool. Yeah, I really I really loved it. I mean, it it was a small festival, but it was exactly what I needed at that time, and at that point, that was my best set, and so I felt really good about going and um yeah, I liked it.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Yeah, it is interesting because when you tell your non-comedian friends, if they're like, What'd you do last weekend or whatever? You're like, I flew to Pennsylvania. I was I spent all this money to get here to do eight minutes of comedy. They're like, Is that are you okay? Do you need help? But like to a comedian, we're like, we get it. Like, like, I especially when I first started, I would drive from Nashville to Charleston, South Carolina. That was one of the first big comedy festivals I did, um, or it was a contest uh at theater 99. So it was my first theater show, and I did like five minutes, but I drove for days to get there to work on my five-minute set. And like I was I was so excited, and then like when I did it, I was like, This is this is it, you know? Yeah, and um, I I think it what it's taught just in general, though, what that's taught me is like we should always remember we should just be like life is meant to be enjoyed, you know. Like, oh yeah, uh, like it's okay if your family doesn't get why you drive so far for five minutes or whatever. If you're having a good time, like do it, you know?

SPEAKER_02 28:51

So exactly. And it's uh I have my corporate job, but I still like to have the mentality of a struggling artist and uh do silly things.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

It's good, it's yeah, and the corporate job gives you the financial cushion to go struggle as you do art. So that's cool. Do you find um do you find it easy or bearable to like uh balance your corporate job and your comedy?

SPEAKER_02 29:18

Uh yeah, I I find it easy to balance uh because I'm I mean I guess that's one thing about being clean is I don't have to keep uh my comedy away from my work. And so everybody knows I'm a comedian at work and I I have arriva on my signature still.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

It's fine. That's great.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

So I try to, I mean, I feel very authentic about you know my comedy persona as myself, so I I try to live that out. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

And so you are you are always clean. Do you do always you always do clean shows? And uh do you ever get booked on not clean shows and do you do clean on those shows?

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Oh you go. I do. There's not too many clean shows except mine and maybe um one more. Uh Me Familia, that's the restaurant. Cleto Rodriguez, he does that show. And so that's it. Only two clean shows that are uh frequent enough in San Antonio.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

And so you are cornering the market on clean shows and afternoon shows like you're just trying to be.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

But yeah, so of course, like I get on a lot of shows that are just uh clean, blue. Um I like to go first usually, or they they push.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Right before before it gets too dirty, it's a little bit it is tough to follow a dirty act with a clean act. Um, not impossible, but it is tough.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Yeah, exactly. I I want to be uh at a point where I only say yes to clean shows. Um because that's part of the branding that I want to have, and so but I still want to be open to it right now. But hopefully at a point I'll be like, okay, I feel comfortable that I can attract enough of an audience that I'll only say yes to clean shows.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

I think and I think I think that's another thing that will take time and just doing it because you can. You can you can build your audience, you can build your following, and then yeah, uh, and then just just do the kinds of shows you want to do. Um it is it I feel like for me this past year, and it was when I picked up uh the day job where I didn't feel like I had to do every comedy show that came my way um for a paycheck, but it has been nice when things have opportunities have rolled up to me where I can be like, I'm good. Yeah, I need to do that one. I find that that's a very liberating thing. So you'll get there.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

Cool. Thank you. So yeah, I'm excited. But I mean, great shows. Everybody who produces shows, whether it's clean or blue in in our city, they they're really great. And um, yeah, it's always a good experience to try to test out my clean stuff.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yeah, so um tell me about uh the San Antonio comedy scene and like uh talk to us a little bit about what that's like. You've been in it for three years, or uh yeah, yeah, three years.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

Yeah, I mean, I only know my scene, and uh knowing my scene, uh it it feels great. Uh, we have at least two open mics every every day. Um, a lot of shows that are produced in different spots, a lot of bars. We have like four comedy clubs now that are still like three of them are the smaller ones, regional, but they're uh still great people that uh show up and yeah, a lot of good opportunities here. Even though we're close to Austin, it still feels like its very own distinct culture.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Okay, I was wondering that I'm terrible at geography, so I didn't know how close close you are like an hour, an hour and a half away. Okay, so have you ever have you ever taken your comedy to Austin to see how it does in their scene?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Uh in only little bar shows. I haven't done Sixth Street or anything like that. Don't know if I will, but maybe one day.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

It was so funny. I uh I have been to Austin once. And I did I did a few like open mics and and showcases while I was there, but like uh the reason I was in Austin was to do a comedy show at like a seminary there, like an Austin Presbyterian seminary.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

So like so I'm telling my friends here, yeah, yeah, I'm going to Austin to do comedy. And Austin kind of has the the the uh the reputation of being like the the gruffer comedy, you know, some you know, you think you know Joe Rogan and Kill Tony, like so so when people see hear like uh oh, you're going to Austin to do comedy, I'm like, yeah, at a seminary. Like at a at it was a youth pastors event, was what I was performing. So yeah. So uh I you know what though, I um I liked the city of Austin. Um, I the stereo the stereotypical scene for Austin is is maybe a little bit different than what I'm used to, but um when I was visiting Austin, I was like, oh, this is a cool place.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

So but oh yeah, exactly. It's a nice I like it too. Um, but yeah, it's a good scene here, and uh and then there's you know, Texas, it's so big, so there's close. We can drive to Austin and then test your jokes out there. I've driven up to Dallas many times, and uh that that's a fun scene as well.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Yeah, I've heard I've I've uh well well Danny's from Dallas, but I've talked to a few other comedians from Dallas. Uh I actually think uh I'm in the very early phases of uh maybe in December planning a trip to come come some places in Texas. I gotta I gotta know the geography better to know like where where I'm spending the days at. But like um it you're it's I mean you're right. It's everyone who talks about talks about all the different places people can do comedy. So I think uh I think I'll have several days off close to Christmas and I'll be able to just go and do some shows and and and I haven't ever really spent a lot of time in Texas, so that'd be great. Yeah, so that that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

So you can not have a few cities, yeah, close by.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe I can figure out we can figure out if if it falls on like one of your refuge coffee days, or or we can we can go to some afternoon coffee shops and there we go.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

There we go, get our 2 p.m. show on the ground.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Yes, gotta get that eye, like it's gotta start somewhere. So I I I've thought before about on Saturdays if like start I I've never thought I've wanted to start one, but I've kind of wished someone would start one, like a Saturday open mic that's like in the afternoon. Like I think that would be a I feel like that would be a good role because you get people before they do their evening shows, you know. A lot of lot of book shows are on weekends.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

So we have that actually in San Antonio. Um my friend Thomasine, she runs a clean comedy open mic at a mall, like one of those malls that's kind of open, kind of closed.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Oh, that's so cool. How is it?

SPEAKER_02 35:16

It's been good. Yeah, there's um a good mix of comedians who want to practice their clean stuff, and uh there's a good audience there too.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

I love that. And I uh clean clean open mics are awesome, and it's I always like I always like to see people like I mean it's good if you know you're already working clean and you're working on stuff, but what is really fun is when you see comics who don't normally work clean but are trying to learn how to and stretching themselves, and so they'll they'll go and work on clean stuff at that. And I I think that's wonderful. That will I I've run a few clean open mics before where like I tell people like you don't have to even if you stink at being clean, this is where you get better. Like, this is like calm and try, you know.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Um it's like my refuge show in terms of um the rules for being clean, because I follow the clean comedy collective rules, and then I also make sure that I say no innuendos has to be family friendly and clean. And then I give an example of what is family, what is clean but not family friendly.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

I love that. It helps to it helps a lot, it helps when you're running a clean show right from the beginning and maybe several times. Uh, just let people know when I say clean, this is what I mean. Uh, because the truth is is uh that someone else's show might have completely different rules, and so um it help it it helps the comedians not wonder.

SPEAKER_02 36:32

So yeah, that's that's what they tell me. They're like, I know exactly what's expected. Um, they say they had a gig at a church event and they still had to clean it up for my show, and like, yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Oh, really? That's so cool. Yeah, your your show is cleaner than church. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

At least it's more like specific.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

So yeah, well, but especially having having done it for a year, like you know your audience, you know what they'll be into, what they won't. And so you're you're really what uh some people are like, oh, there are so many rules to the show. It's like, well, I like the host or whoever's producing it, they know they want you to win, they want you to be entertaining to their crowd, but they also know like what wouldn't work for the crowd. So it's it's never in a comedian's best interest to go against what the host says or like what the booker when they say, Hey, follow these rules. Uh and sometimes comedians are like, Oh, but it's more artistic if I I want to do it this way or whatever. It's like, okay, you be artistic later, do it like on a different show, you know. Yeah, and that's where it's hard to be a producer too, to like making sure Yeah, so with clean shows, especially, you gotta you oftentimes you have to be wise with who you book because you know you got you gotta think about you always gotta think about your audience first. So um for sure. I actually last month or maybe the month month before, I started booking a not clean show, and it's actually been really the one of the things I like about it is all the people that I've often thought like I'd love to book you, but you're just not clean enough for the show. Now I can like now I have a show that I can ask them to be part of, which has been fun. So yeah, so that's great.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

How's that show doing?

SPEAKER_00 38:14

Oh, it's pretty good, it's it's like a completely different vibe. It's at an Irish pub, like upstairs. We're actually actually our next one is uh this Friday, um, which is gonna be a it if anyone's listening to this live, it is a day before when we're currently listening. So um, but I do different themes every month. Um, last month, uh, so we have a lot of comedians that moved from Memphis, Tennessee that are that are here in Nashville now. And I and I I've done both scenes. And so I did a Memphis in May uh show where uh named after the Barbecue Festival. Um, and uh so we did Memphis, it was all Memphis comics that are now living in Nashville. And then uh this week we're doing a uh Father's Day themed show, uh uh just because it's in the month of so it's all dads just performing. So uh so yeah, so um and next month there isn't really much of a theme, but I have a few people that are on tour that are gonna come and they added our show to their tour.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

It's been it's been fun. It's it's uh because and and and I'm also I also feel like um I've said this several times in the podcast. Me and myself, I'm not excited I when I listen to comedy, and honestly, even when I perform, I'm not exclusively clean. However, I know to be exclusively clean on clean shows. Uh to me, it's always been more important to be non-offensive and not to devalue people with my humor. And uh, there's just, you know, I always want I never want people to feel less than when they're at their show. So even in my not clean show, I will tell people like, hey, just a couple ground rules. Uh, don't be a jerk and don't do comedy in a way that makes women hate being here. Like that, like is it is a little still a little bit subjective, but in my opinion, uh, and this isn't proven, but in my opinion, um if the women appreciate the comedy show, everyone else will appreciate the comedy show. If the women feel targeted or you know, hurt or whatever, it's a weird comedy show. So I agree. But yeah, I was gonna say I it it's that that's not necessarily science, it's not a law, but it seems to be what I see.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

Yeah, observational proof, yes.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

Yes, so um so um I'm let's enter into the time of uh ask a comedian. Uh so I've got with me several questions uh that have been uh shared with us from our viewers or listeners or random people that are connected with me on social media. So if anyone's ever uh following Atra Davis Comedy uh frequently, uh whether it's threads, Facebook, Instagram, uh I'll just I'll just let people know like, hey, what questions should I ask comedians? I literally talk to them every week, which is fun. It can be comedy related or it can be not comedy related, but we call this segment Ask a Comedian because I'm here with a comedian, and now we're gonna ask him some questions. Um, so what I need from you, um, Ariba dude, is uh give me three numbers between one and thirty. My bad. I I'm I'm doing one of those screen shift things like uh where it splits it where I can see but okay, one and thirty-four, those are the numbers I need.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

Okay, I thought about this. I I played it like the lotto. Um number eight, it's my favorite number. Okay, number sixteen, that's the day in February that I started comedy.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Oh, okay, February 16.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

Yeah, the 29th, 29th, because that's the day I got married. Yes. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

Well, well, congratulations. Happy anniversary.

SPEAKER_02 41:41

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

All right, so we got eight, sixteen, and twenty nine. So number eight, we have um what's a joke or bit that sends out to you? Um that what's a joke or bit that has inspired you in some kind of way?

SPEAKER_02 41:59

Oh yes. That's a good oh there's so many great, so many great bits. Um the state abbreviations bit from what come on, you know who it is. Gary Goleman. Yes, that's right. Yes, oh, that was so great. Because it was like you could tell, you can't, I I I can't imagine how long it took him, how many years to like perfect that bit. And like I'm always curious as to what the original joke was when he started that, and how he just goes through all of the different, like a whole story about how the states got the abbreviations and the committee, and just the little uh looks and crannies of that joke. Uh that's that's one of the jokes that I really enjoy. And I was like, this is smart writing.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

He's such a good that is really that is really good. Um that I I love a good joke where you're like, wow, that was beautifully written. Like sometimes, and and I feel like I love that more as a comedian now that I've been doing it, where I can really appreciate the jokes. Um, and I should have said this when I shared the question, but that one came to us from Instagram from Kristen Barzak, who's a comedian here in the national area. Um okay, uh yeah, number 16. This one comes from Tiffany D on YouTube. Um, and it says um what advice do you have regarding bombing uh venues outside of your home state? Um, is especially if sorry, it's like a long question. So give me a second, it got off the it got off on screen. Um okay, so basically the question is uh what advice do you have when uh when it involves bombing uh at venues? She says, especially outside of your home states, uh, especially since sometimes bookers want comedians with like large social media following, and you might not have one. So um I think you can probably edit your answer to that because uh the the same advice for bombing outside of your state can be true about bombing in right there in your city. Um, and it is sometimes it is hard because uh people that book us, what they're really looking for is people with big followings that brings tons of people, but like anyone who starts out in comedy doesn't have that. So um what do you think, Daniel?

SPEAKER_02 44:14

I think I've heard this advice before because you know I'm so new in this comedy world, I'm not trying to be a headliner, and I will never ask to be a headliner right now. So if they book me, it's because they think I can be a good part of their show, be funny enough to continue the energy in the show. Um that's that's you know relieves the pressure for me to be like I don't have to have the biggest following, I just have to be a good part of their show enough that they want to add me to it. And so if I bomb, you know, I feel like to be a great comedian myself, I I can worry about what the audience thinks during the show. Like you mentioned having that conversation. Hey, sometimes you say something and your friend doesn't respond, they just listen.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

Yeah, I mean, these are the best jokes at the at that time that I'm performing them. Because I'm not gonna do a show and get paid to do jokes that I haven't worked on and I love that.

SPEAKER_00 45:11

I feel the I feel the same way. If if it's a paid show, then I don't feel comfortable being like, well, here's something brand new, you know.

SPEAKER_02 45:17

Exactly. Not right now, at least for me. So I'm like, you know, I do my best, I provide the best jokes, and I hope that they enjoyed it, even if they're not laughing out loud. Um, if if I feel like I'm bombing, I'll just say I don't think I'm bombing, and I just continue with the conversation and hopefully acknowledge it enough, right, to relieve the stress.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Yeah, sometimes sometimes acknowledging it can make it funny and really you're make it easier for everyone. Um, and I do like I think uh in all things we should we should often show ourselves grace and be like, well, you know, yeah, I did my best or that happened, or maybe it's that wasn't the odd that wasn't my audience, you know, or or they they were in a weird mood, or or sometimes it's even I was in a weird mood, you know. Like sometimes we um but uh yeah, so I think it's important sometimes to show yourself grace. Uh bombing's gonna happen. I think that's something we talked about in a last episode or the episode before, but like uh it's I don't know of any comedian that's good that says I've never bombed or I don't bomb anymore. Um, I think I I'll be honest with you. Sometimes you have newer comedians like, Oh, I've never bombed my life and I probably never will. And it's like, give it time, you know. Yeah, like they're either they either haven't done it long enough or they're not self-aware enough. You know, that's that's just that's just the truth of it. So um because they're the because all the ones, all the famous, successful comedians will be like, no bombing's part of it. So um, yeah, and you just gotta get up and do it again. I love it when um I have the opportunity if I bomb at a show or a mic and I have an opportunity, like if I know I'm going somewhere then that like literally after that show to do comedy again, because it's it it's like you get back on that horse, and uh it's so great when like if maybe you didn't have a great set at the first show, but then the second one you have a really good show, and I'm always so grateful for that show because if I ended that night after the first set, I would have been a little let down. But that second set, it's like, oh no, that was cool, that was a good way, you know, that was a completely different experience.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

So exactly. And I record all my sets, and so sometimes when I feel like I bombed really bad, I force myself to hear my set as soon as I get in the car on the way home. That's hard. But that way I feel like I guess it wasn't that bad, or like I feel like at least I would know immediately, and um not let it linger to the unknown.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

You can already, and sometimes you when you listen to it, even the bad, especially the the rough sets, you can kind of catch what was rough about it, and it's a learning experience. But and you kind of alluded to this already, sometimes you hear it and you're like, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was, and that's kind of nice too. So yeah, um all right. The last question I have for you comes from comedian Shaun T Hughes, who uh is also in the Clean Comedy Collective, he's a good friend of mine, and he started he helped me start the Clean Comedy Collective. And uh, if anyone's like, wow, he sounds like the best guy ever, uh, he was in our very first episode. So if you scroll back a lot of episodes, you can you can hear him. Um so uh this is this is an interesting question. If you could go back in time and talk to yourself before you did your first open mic, what would you tell yourself? Wow, that is hilarious if you had like a non-comedy related answer. I tell myself to go turn off the oven or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

Exactly. To drop that purge joke. It's uh it's old.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:33

Um, yeah, I mean I guess I would tell myself to slow down and enjoy the pauses in between your jokes.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

Um that's where the laughter can really build for an audience. And you know, when you're when when I was so new in this, it was so easy to want to be like, oh, I didn't get the laughter that I expected. Let me move on quickly to the next joke. Um but now that I feel more comfortable in my jokes, I love slowing down and I love having more pauses in between. Um yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

And that that's that's hard for that's been hard for me too. It's like I feel like there always needs to be laughter. I don't in even in life, I don't do well with silences or awkward silences or whatever. I feel like there's always got to be some kind of motion, but there is something in comedy where you can build up your joke with the quietness of it. Um and uh uh I and I've learned if I ever have a joke that has a slight, slight laugh, or maybe didn't have the laugh I was hoping for, how you play into that silence can actually get you a laugh. Can it can you can turn what could be an awkward experience to like a really fun one? Um I don't feel like I'm very good at I don't feel like I'm very good at that yet, but I've been noticing like that's that's a thing you can do.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

So that's awesome. That's kind of like uh relieving the tension uh for the audience. And that was always tricky for me as a clean comedian to be like, how do I create enough tension that I have to help them release and laugh through it? Um so that's one way, but yeah, I'm working on that as well.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

Yeah, that's it, that's like advanced comedy tactics right there. So and that's the fun part. And I feel like this is something probably we both agree on, uh, because you're talking about enjoying writing jokes and stuff like that. But like the skill of doing comedy, that's the fun thing. Like it's just like any other skill. When you start it, you're not gonna have all of all of the you know ins and outs, but like the more you do it, the more you learn. Uh, you learn by watching people, you learn by like studying it, and even just you learn through experience. Like, oh, that's something I can do. So that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 50:41

Exactly. The best thing is like when I can watch a video of myself uh doing a set six months ago and be like, okay, I wouldn't do it that way again.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

Absolutely. I love I love that too. And then that makes it so I can never watch I at some point I'm like, I can't watch that video anymore.

SPEAKER_02 50:54

That like that's not gonna be a video I ever submit again, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

Yeah, you know, I would I I wish I could tell myself, and it's not even just my after before my first open mic, I feel like it's my first so many years of comedy. I don't I don't even know how long, but like I would tell new the new comedian version of myself, just you know, just chill out, just calm down, just and try to enjoy it more because I was always it's always been so important to me like to be the best in the lineup or to like to get a laugh at every single joke, or just like what what is this gonna lead to? Like what new opportunity is gonna come from the show. I feel like I I feel like I've always put more pressure on myself and stand up than like anyone else actually has. Like, if I had a bad set, I'm like, well, I guess I'll never work in this town ever again, or whatever. Like, you know, it's like and like I don't think anyone else was thinking that. I think I was just putting that on me. So I would I I feel like I would just tell myself, dude, just chill out, like calm down, have fun, you know. But yeah, um well cool Daniel. So uh first of all, thank you so much for uh being on this podcast and chatting comedy with me, um and uh spending our what are we Wednesday night together here? Um I like uh yeah, yeah, this has been fun. Um where can we find you? What can you plug for us? Where do you want all the the tens of the listeners of the clean comedy chats? What would you like them to know uh about you?

SPEAKER_02 52:21

You'll have 11 this weekend with my wife watching this. Awesome.

SPEAKER_00 52:25

Thank you, Mrs. Ariba Dude.

SPEAKER_02 52:27

Yes, she's uh Lady Ariba as well. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Oh, Lady Ariba, that sounds way more elegant. And I I'm uh I I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 52:35

Yeah, but um, I have a website uh for 10 years, arribadude.com, and that has all my social links um at arriba underscore dude on Instagram, and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

Yeah, there we go, and go check out and for anyone listening um or watching on YouTube, uh the links will be in our notes. You can go straight to whatever you're hearing us from and uh click on his to check out his website. And and listen, give him go do the extra work for for these comedians where like you go to their websites when they tell it uh on this podcast, and then you go to their social media and then you add a follow to them. That makes such a difference for comedians. And so if you guys don't mind, it's like three clicks for you, but every plus one counts. Uh, we are living in a world where oftentimes people, the first question they ask about a comedian is not, is he funny? The first question is like, How many followers does he have? So uh, whenever you listen to these episodes, if you like if you like the comedian, uh give them a follow on social media because it makes a big difference. So, um, and uh our same thing here uh for us, the clean comedycollective.com. That's where you can uh learn everything you could possibly want to know about the clean comedy collective. Uh, and we have new episodes each week. Uh, we also have a Patreon where you can become a member and then you can hear the Snyder cuts of each episode, the longer versions, uh, where because we try to keep it under an hour uh for Spotify and Apple Music and all that stuff and on YouTube. But if you're like, man, I want to hear more from these comedians, a lot of times they have extended interviews and it's all on our Patreon. So those are things to check out. And uh thank you, Daniel, again for being our guest this week. Uh and we're looking forward to chatting with someone else next week. So I hope you all tune in and listen to us then and have a great one. All right, bye.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

You're welcome.