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The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
From Stand-up to Supernatural: The Unpredictable Journey of Comedian Dick WyBrow
What happens when you put a Midwestern stand-up comedian into the exotic landscapes of New Zealand? You get the hilarious, unpredictable, and insightful journey of our special guest, Dick WyBrow. His unique blend of humor, buffoonery, and outright stupidity has not only made him a success on stage, but also transformed him into a popular author and radio personality. Join us as we traverse his journey, from his first nervous gig in Minneapolis to his recent television show.
"Kane: The Infected Man," Dick WyBrow's latest book, expertly combines humor with action, offering an entertaining ride as the protagonist battles his transformation into a wolf. We'll dive into how Dick's comedy is rooted in relatability as he brings out the humor in everyday life. But don't be fooled, amidst the laughter, there's a creative genius at work. Dick gives us a glimpse into his process, revealing how his series "Moon Fangs" was birthed, and how a writer can turn sleep disorders into creative gold.
However, the road to success is rarely smooth. We brush on the challenges of writing, the grueling process of building a dedicated fan base, and the importance of perseverance and passion. Do you think you have the tenacity to juggle writing three books while working a full-time job? Dick did, and he shares his story with us. So, pull up a chair, grab your favorite snack, and prepare to laugh, learn, and maybe even be inspired. This is one episode you don't want to miss!
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Yo, what up, what up y'all? This is your boy, monsoons the Rock, and you are now tuned in to the shit's podcast where we are either shooting the shit, starting some shit or picking up a shit left off. Yo, this week, y'all, like I always tell y'all, we always have special guests to the podcast and it's no exception this week. This week we got a very special guest to the podcast. But hold on, before I even go there, I gotta say this one thing Shout outs to the ownership club. You can check this out every Sunday, 9 pm to 11 pm on Soul106.3 FM, and after you check us out from 9 to 11, head over to the Hadaway that is located at 1245 Burnham Avenue and that's in Calumet City, illinois.
Speaker 1:Also, for all my adults out there that's doing adult things, y'all, make sure you all check out Club Infamous at iceloungenet. So back to what I was saying. Sorry about that. Our very special guest to the podcast this week is a best-selling author, comedian and radio personality. So, with no further ado, I want you all to make some noise and show some love for the one and I love this man name, I love it the one, the only dick. Why brap Monsoon?
Speaker 2:How are you man, and welcome from sunny, summery Auckland, new Zealand, which you gotta be jealous of. Chicago and winter man, that's next level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, but you know what, though? You know what, though? Honestly, and I don't want to jinx anything, the winter so far has not been that bad.
Speaker 2:You have jinxed it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:So it's going to be cold, there's snow coming in sleet. All tomorrow's happening because Monsoon jinx it for everybody.
Speaker 1:I always do so. You said you're in New Zealand right now.
Speaker 2:Auckland, new Zealand. Right, is that Other side of the world and in the future when you are right now. I'm in the future but I'm not. I'm sort of secrecy, I'm not allowed to tell you what's going to happen. But it's pretty good, except for one thing. But everything else is really good, except that one thing, except that one thing. I can't tell you what it is, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, is that where you from?
Speaker 2:No, I was born in Canada.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I was born in the year of the cancer. I was born in the year of the cancer.
Speaker 1:The cancer goes nine and then moved to the United States and I spent a bunch of decades there. Then we moved here about 11 years ago. So yeah, I'm living in New Zealand now. Man, how great is that? Yeah, it sounds awesome. Just the name sounds awesome. So you said so. I was reading up on you.
Speaker 2:You said you were a former stand up comedian or you still do stand up comedy. Yeah, I've got some stand up comedian friends because I just wrapped up a television show here. We just did seven years of this. It was a comedy news TV show and sometimes news is comedy all on its own. But we actually did comedy news so I had comedians working with me and working for me and so they were like you got to get up, you got to get up. But I mean I did stand up comedy through the Midwest, a bit Just outside of Chicago, Minneapolis, up north of it, down in Iowa and Wisconsin, and comedy in the US is different. In fact, one of the comedians told me here and this is why maybe I haven't gotten up on stage here he said the New Zealand crowds, when you go to perform in front of them, when you start it, start out there like this.
Speaker 2:So you got the arms crossed. Now, if they really like you, they're like this. That's Chicago. They're dropping. Yeah, that's. I tell you what man that does not inspire me? Yeah, it could happen to you 10 minutes of people staring at me.
Speaker 1:Hey, listen, d, and it's crazy Because any of the person that I was saying that to it would have been an insult. But this is actually just us talking. Um, I tell anybody to do comedy. You have to be one of the bravest people in the world, because, especially in Chicago, because we don't laugh for shit. You know, like, like it has to be like. If you make Chicagoans laugh, you made it, you are definitely funny.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, it's either brave or just oblivious. I tell you what. You can go a long way on being stupid. I've made three different careers out of it.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm thinking you can do something and you have no business doing it. Getting up on stage as a stand-up comedian, doing radio, even television. I went in thinking I can do this. I didn't know what I was doing. But, then my stupidity is contagious, Because then people see me and goes well, he looks like he knows what he can do this.
Speaker 1:You sell it, you sell it, and as long as that person thinks so.
Speaker 2:then it becomes ironic and away, because as long as that person now thinks well, he looks like he can do it. They're confident that I can do it. Now I have confidence because they think I can do it and there's no basis whatsoever of my ability, but now I've got the confidence to think I can pull this off and somehow it works out. I don't know how that is.
Speaker 1:That's so far, so good. You just sold it. You sold it, the energy, you sold it and went around the room, came right back to you. Yeah, you sold it. Can you remember the first venue that you, that you killed at like you really like, destroyed it? A hell of a job.
Speaker 2:I remember my very first gig. I remember my first gig was in Minneapolis and it was in this dive bar, a place called the Valley in Dinkitao, minneapolis, and it was an open mic night. And when they say open mic, it was like comedy, slash music. Well, it was all it was. It before I got up was just slash music, there's no comedy. And so when I got up, I interrupted this slash music flow and so we have a comedian coming up, and so they had to raise the microphone, they had to move the hippies out of the way for me, move the chair out of the stool, out of the way, all the tears, everything. And I got up and I did my time. I went up and you know this Monsoon, I tell you about five minutes. There's a time dilation that goes on it goes so much slower.
Speaker 1:You're sharing it with a bunch of people so much slower.
Speaker 2:That five minutes is a long, long time, but I had one bit that worked. I got one laugh out of it, and so it's like so many things in life Cut away all the stuff that doesn't work, hold on to the stuff that does, and I kept that one bit and I expanded from there and there and there and I took that out of five minutes 20 seconds. It worked and I expanded from there and then Minneapolis ended up doing pretty good for myself and yeah, I remember that when you started really making it work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome, you're getting that flow.
Speaker 2:And it's the greatest feeling in the world, man, when you start owning them room. And they're all there and they want you to make them laugh, and that's the greatest feeling. It's fantastic, all that love coming back at you. That's what it is. Just laugh, that's love, man, and so, yeah, that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 1:It has to, like I thought about it, like it has to be like an extreme rush to have a room full of people laughing at you when you want them to laugh at you, compared to when you don't want them to laugh at you. You know what I'm saying, so it has to be an awesome feeling.
Speaker 2:When you don't want them to laugh at you. Usually that's at my job or at home, you know.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that, but usually that's just one person. That's one person laughing at you. All of you laughing is two, but that's all another story. So the venue, the first venue that you performed at and you killed at, is that the same venue that you ever bombed at?
Speaker 2:No, no, you know, the first venue that I really did well at was I think it was oh, it was in, it might have been the St Paul Club, the old comedy gallery Scott Hansen used to own. Tom used to book it, and it was what made it so great, was the room was really good, right, Because there's some where you get up and you feel like you're on a high school stage or something, Like you got to kick away all the set design and everything. You just lift it up and from you to the first audience member, it's like they're like another time zone away.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But this club was built and it was just tight, everything was just smashed in. It was like being almost like in a compact Roman Coliseum. And so and the people kind of like were like, gradually came up around you, like you're in a bowl.
Speaker 2:And it was phenomenal man and you just fed off that energy and I remember doing really well and just that flow and it's just like it's fun, because then you all become like this one organism. You know it's everything you do. It's just you're sort of just leading this pack and it's fun. It's you hate getting off stage at that point. But yeah, I remember really. I remember those times doing really really well and just the rush of that and having everybody sort of liking that same vibe at the same time is the newest thing in the world.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. That's awesome. I envy you. I envy you. What's your definition? Well, what's your difference? If there is a difference between comedy and buffoonery.
Speaker 2:Comedy and buffoonery. I think you can get humor out of buffoonery. I think the best comedy for the most part is stuff that we can all sort of identify with. You know what I mean. So if I'm gonna go on and say something, and, like I said, it's been I've been here for a decade, so I don't do material here in country, but the stuff that always worked was sort of the stuff where you're sort of taking a look at life at my different angle and that's what I do in my writing. Now, you know I kind of look at it through a different lens.
Speaker 2:But buffoonery is, you know, pratt Falls, it's some of the stuff you see in YouTube videos and that and there's humor in that. You know where you can do pranks and stuff like that and that's humor. But with comedy constructed comedy that's usually about culture or interpersonal relationships or how you're viewing the world, but it's always about I always feel it's always about people. When I was growing up and it's not a fashion to say but Bill Cosby was my hero, I mean it's difficult to say, it's hard to say that nowadays, but all of his stuff and storytelling was about his wife or his son or his brother or his dad.
Speaker 2:That's where the comedy is. It's the relationships around us. Okay cuz anything. I'm telling you that that it sounds like, because you might be experiencing this and you think you're only one is no, no, no, everybody has the same crap. They gotta do as much as you do, right, and so there's a, there's a, there's a. There's a connection Between you and the audience, and that's a beautiful thing when you can pull that off and you can find those nuggets and shine them up.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, give me one second. It's one second. I got a pause real quick. One second we are back. That's a good break, real quick. Thank you for answering that question. You broke it down eloquently. So I see from the posters on the back the book came. Can you keep? Can you? Can you speak to us more about the book? Because I was. I was reading the breakdown of it and it sounds hilarious. It sounds Like, but I prefer for you to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's, it's, arguably it's pretty nuts. So in a nutshell, kane is. Kane is a six foot seven French Canadian, but just one year ago he was a wolf. So he was a wolf in Canada running around as its infected man bit him and the infection got into him. The next day he wakes up and he's a teenage boy, human, and he's raised over the next year by this French Canadian couple and in that year's time he grows ten years and but now he's older and he is gonna go find out how he can. He needs to find the guy who bit him because he wants to become a wolf again. So he's trying to find the secret of why he changed. He wants to reverse it because he misses the days. I've run a naked and free out in the Canadian wilderness. I mean he could do that as a human, but right, that will lead to incarceration and probably a bit of frostbite.
Speaker 1:Real, unfortunate it depends on what state. Depends on what state?
Speaker 2:So he hooks up with the one thing about wolves as you know, they can't drive and so where he learns to speak French and then he speaks English and he's learning about the human condition and how people interact in all of this. He never quite get a hang of driving. So he hooks up with this young woman named Emelda and she is a part-time criminal, but if a getaway driver, so she becomes his driver because he can't work out driving. And so as the story progresses, progresses, she starts to get more and more involved in his, his Hunt for this secret, and so they they band together and they got a battle. They got a battle, this organization that has put it, trying to create super soldiers, which is the guy that hit him, and then also this idea that this sort of virus has gotten out and so it's created these monsters, and so these two characters are have to battle some of these monsters as well.
Speaker 2:But basically it's for as much as it sounds like a big monster book. I actually haven't read a ton of monster books myself. I really haven't, and I didn't really come out to say one right at monster book. I wanted to write a story about two people, two very different people. They don't get much more different than this.
Speaker 1:No, not at all.
Speaker 2:Marginalize in some ways, and so they come together and to get that they make it work.
Speaker 1:So let me say this first yeah the whole thing sounds like a Netflix series.
Speaker 2:I'm hoping.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm putting it out there. They do it. Damn, I shouldn't. This sounds so fun. You said so, put it out there, okay. Um, it sounds like a Netflix series and I said it because it sounds so different. Just for the simple fact that the man wants to go back to being a wolf, and then you incorporate the getaway, was the criminal, the driver, because wolves can't drive. Um, even though Jojo, come in for a minute, joey, I'm sorry, joey, come here. Come here, ask this, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:No, no, dude, Go get Jojo.
Speaker 1:Tell him, ask him what, ask him what he need. Okay, it's already on bit get an Amazon delivery.
Speaker 2:You need to go grab.
Speaker 1:No man, that's. It should be on, joey, it's talk to him. Oh my god, call him right back. Call him right back. It's my son, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that's cool. Oh great Ham, come here, let's meet your son, oh you know he's on camera.
Speaker 1:He's on the phone. Call him back, Give it here. Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:No, don't be sorry oh.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh goodness, I'm right back to just ask me to call him on the. Okay, this is real.
Speaker 2:We were talking about humor, so so I'm writing this book, right, right, in this cane book and, as you see behind me this beautiful selection here, this is. My wife did all this, she made it all look pretty Okay. Do you know where I am right now? I'm in my garage, because in New Zealand, this is the thing they do in New Zealand they carpet their garages. Nobody, nobody parks in the garages, they carpet carpet in here. So I'm in a two car garage right now. Quarter of that, well, that's my world. I have one quarter of a two car garage, because the rest of the house, all that is hers. That stuff in there, that's her place. This is my place, right here in this two car garage.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, so I ended up creating the story. We're talking about humor and I'm going to go, and so one of the things I want to do with the story was like, I don't want to wait 28 days or 29 days to where the moon becomes full, because what happens is, when the moon comes out, cain does turn into a type of werewolf. I call it the wolf wear, since it's a reverse werewolf, right so, but Cain is normally a six foot seven French, canadian guy walking around, big dude, human walking around, but when the full moon comes out he does turn into this sort of wolf wear character. But my thought was I don't want to wait in my writing 28, 29 days for then now that's going to come out. I know what about. I want more opportunities to have some fun with that.
Speaker 2:So I got thinking why is it just the full moon where he turns into this big monster? Why, why couldn't? Why couldn't be a quarter moon? Why couldn't be a sliver? Why couldn't be a half moon? So my thought was let's say that when it's like a sliver of a moon or half moon or three quarter moon that he becomes, you know this moonlight, so he turns into a less of a wolf and that's, that's a dog, and so if it's a little sliver of a moon, he turns into a little lap dog. If it's a half moon, he turns into a pug, which is very popular. The breeders all seem to love the bug. Three quarter moon he turned into a rock wireless. So throughout the story, as the moon fangs, grows and grows and grows, he gets into a larger and larger dog until he does become the wolf where and there's been a lot of fun with that- I had a lot of fun with that, and that's a thing.
Speaker 2:If you're having fun doing what you're doing. I learned this in stand-up comedy. If you're up there, like you doing your show monsoons, if you're having fun, the audience is having fun, and so I had fun putting that sort of storyline together. I have fun, there's interactions, have fun having the this little dog be the hero sometimes, and if I'm having fun, a lot of people can have fun reading it do you just explaining that to me, especially about how to dog break down, like how he breaks down to which kind of dog.
Speaker 1:That's fun within itself. That's why I say it sounds so much like it should be on the on the on the screen man on the screen like a dude. Congratulations to you for putting that together, because that takes a lot of creativity, a lot of imagination. I don't know how much alcohol, other substances, substances were involved with coming up with that, but I think I was.
Speaker 2:I can tell you where it came from a lot of it where you know where it came from. I don't drink anymore. I haven't. No, they all bill Hicks. I haven't had a drink today. No, I haven't anything to drink for a couple of years. That's just more. I try to clean it all up.
Speaker 2:But where a lot of this stems from is I have narcolepsy and you can't tell because I got to learn how to focus. But narcolepsy for people that don't know it's when you're tired all the time, and some people have narcolepsy so bad that they pass right out right in the middle stuff. So I've been lucky, because for me, narcolepsy and if, if you don't want narcolepsy, as somebody described it to me once is saying like, stay up for 30 hours, now go to work. Then when you don't come work, come home, make dinner and I'll talk to your spouse and I'll watch some tea. That's what narcolepsy feels like. I I don't, I just know what my experience is like. But even now, when I'm speaking with you, I got to focus myself because otherwise my brain starts to go off.
Speaker 2:Because for me and for many other people, narcolepsy kind of feels like, you know, when you're falling asleep at night.
Speaker 2:You're lying there in bed and you're just about to fall asleep and you get some of these amazing ideas that come in, these really good, and then and then you're thinking, man, I should write all that down and then and then you fall asleep and you wake up the next day and you can't remember it and you didn't write it down and you don't remember it anymore. Yeah, that hazy state that you're in before you fall asleep. I'm there 80 to 85 percent of the day and so I get these nuts, so ideas coming in at me left and right all the time. It's like just these, these sort of gifts coming into me all the time and I got a sort of pick and choose and what the those ones might be. But for as tireous narcolepsy it is and it is, it can get frustrating. I have to really think. It's really at the heart of a lot of my creativity, because I'm in that sleepy haze even now. I'm in that sleepy haze state all the time do okay.
Speaker 1:So I kind of I can't totally empathize on how you feel I can say this much. I've been in that. I've been in that state where my brother always said like as soon as I sit down I just fall right to sleep. You know, I'm saying and like. And then my wife said like, anytime we watch a movie, especially at night. That's why I got stopped picking movies to watch at night. I fall right asleep.
Speaker 2:You know I'm saying, however, if I seen that Netflix series became and I watch, I'm pretty sure I could stay up for that and I'm excited because, just like how, tomorrow there's going to be this hard freeze and rain and punishing snow, because you mentioned that earlier. I really did, I really did well, go ahead though but when, when monsoon says it puts it out in the universe, it's coming back. So I am, I'm waiting. I'm waiting for that email from Netflix. It's coming today, brother.
Speaker 1:I can't wait hey man, hey, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta see it, you gotta see it.
Speaker 2:I have had a number of people mentioned the idea they'd love to see into a series and it'd be great. I think it'd be fantastic, and I've actually got a version of that happening. Man, I can't tell you how excited monsoon. I can't tell you how excited about this. I'm sincere when I say this. So I wrote this, as I said, in my tiny piece of the house. The rest of that that's all hers, always we always get a small piece.
Speaker 2:We always get a small piece so then I wrote Kane three books so far, one of the people behind me. So I wrote Kane in this tiny little two car garage 4 am in in Auckland, new Zealand. And now, in just a couple of weeks or so, coming up on January 16th, the very first audiobook produced by podium audio. So professional audio group has hired these two Hollywood actors, these two li actors, and they're going to do the audiobook, which means a version what you're talking about. You know this idea of like acting it out. It's going to be like this blockbuster movie for the mind and I'm stoked about it. It's going to be so cool to hear what these two actors bring into this. I can't wait. It's going to be so neat, man you have.
Speaker 1:I feel like and I'm not trying to be rude you, I feel like you should be extremely excited, just for the simple fact because it's something that you took from your mind, put it to paper and it's just, it's, it's blowing up like that and it's not just in my opinion, it's not just anything like that's very creative, like the spin that you have on it. I, I like that. You know, I'm saying like the small dog. It might be a pug. Speaking of dogs, do you have a?
Speaker 2:dog. Do you have a dog? I do, we've got. My wife had a horse for a couple of years because we're in New Zealand's people, what people do, right. So she had a horse and then, and then the horse bit her finger off it. It too it it was a. It was a jerk, the horse was a jerk, and so the horse clamped on her finger and she pulled her hand out.
Speaker 2:It took the tip of her finger off oh, I'm sorry yeah, we had to sell the horse because, you know, once a horse gets the taste, taste for human flesh and that's no good because are you are?
Speaker 1:you are you there for real? Because I don't know because I was.
Speaker 2:But who knows, it might, might keep an eye out for him if you hear this run, run, run, run, because you never know that was about to change my whole perspective on horses.
Speaker 1:Man, like it was about to change my whole perspective on horses, you know, like it was okay so we so we saw the horse and she got this, this dog.
Speaker 2:Uh, king Charles Cavalier okay so it's. It's supposed to be smaller. It's quite big so I think there was some hanky panky going on. There's supposed to be some sort of bred dogs, but it's a. It's a larger sort of animal, but he's fine, he's good, he eats a lot of. He goes out. So we buy him sort of nice food and in the morning I mix it all up, right. You know, I don't know if you got a dog, but yeah we mix it all up and nice he goes out.
Speaker 2:He eats dog turds dried up dog turds. You know, the law really wasn't like the face.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay. So look, I feel you on that one. Okay, because as a dog owner and I must add this, as a dog lover, I've watched my dog eat things outside that it shouldn't eat, right, here's the worst part. Here's the worst part. I've seen my dog clean himself, like literally clean himself, and then he come lick me in the face and I'm gonna be honest with you, bro, I didn't, I don't be having the problem with it, you know, really, I'm sorry, I can't get there.
Speaker 2:I can't get to where I can't get to where that tongue gets out of my face. I just it's too. I can't. I haven't had a dog since I was a kid, so maybe I'll grow into that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I also guess.
Speaker 2:Like I said, you know he eats everything, anything, anything, except for the, the noily expensive food we got. Yeah, that dog eat a quarter and he'd crap out two times in a nickel.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's my dog, that's my dog. Now, the one thing is, I won't. I won't let him lick me in the mouth, but like, like I let him lick like on the face and like on the neck and stuff like that. Then I'll be thinking about, like he just got done cleaning himself and it's like it's it's, but it's dog stuff, anyway, um, where was the? Where was the craziest place that you've ever fallen asleep that you can remember?
Speaker 2:in the car driving oh wow, yeah, I used to live in just north of Atlanta and I was working at C None of the time as a television producer and I used to have to drive. It was an Acworth which is Acworth is is way northwest of north of Atlanta, about 45 minutes or so, depending on traffic. So anyways, and there was. But it was cool because I have to come to Kennesaw Forest and so it's a nice sort of like after all the busy day and the chaos of a 16 lane highway or interstate on the way home and I'd have a nice drive through basic Kennesaw Forest, you know. So two lane highway through there, but that was so relaxing. Sometimes I get to the light of the end of it would take a little while to change and on two or three occasions, oh man, I got broken up like car horns.
Speaker 1:I've been there before. I've been there before man, like it's been some nights that I will come home from like recording or from an event and honestly, dick, I will wake up and I would. I would just thank God that I'm home, but I would not remember how. I would not remember how I got home. You know, I'm saying, and then it has been times where it has been times that like I'm half on the sleep at like a stoplight, like the worst for me was probably find this farm asleep at a stop sign compared to stoplight, so I definitely wait yeah yeah, but I was also under influence.
Speaker 1:Are there any like daily proactive steps that you take to deal with narcolepsy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's part of why, excuse me, I'm tired and so I constantly my throat. I apologize for that. Yeah, so I got to watch my caffeine intake because it seems like a good idea to do caffeine, but the crash on the other side is mind blowing. That's part of why I cut out the, the alcohol, because is a nervous system depressant. So but you know, some on the more positive side of it, like surprisingly, does really well, because I only sleep because I got.
Speaker 2:I got a double bang with this, because my mind's a little bit nuts all the time. So I only sleep about six hours a night and it wouldn't matter if I slept six hours, 18 hours. I feel exactly the same because, narcolepsy, you don't get what's called recuperative sleep, so it doesn't really matter. I'm also wake up anyhow, get some stuff done, like write a book series. But but going outside in the light, you know your, your body's circadian rhythms. It works in such a way where when they get to get darker, your body, you know, after hundreds of thousands years of evolution of humans, you know, we know that when it's getting darker means we need to go to sleep, because when the ones that didn't go to sleep when it's dark outside, went out, did stuff and get eight. So so the ones, that ones that are left, we learned dark outside, go sleep, but also when the time comes up that tells us to wake up, and so that's where we have the blue light and stuff like that, the blue a bloggers on our phones.
Speaker 2:So they start telling our brand. So if you're trying to wake up the morning, go outside. If you got a bit of sun you can get lights to help you wake up. But I exercise four or five days a week. That helps.
Speaker 1:Good job, good job.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's just, and so I get, like you know, especially during the pandemic, I had like a like a mention stuff at home. You got to go out, I mean. So I take, I drive him, I ride a motorcycle, so I take it up down the road here just a few minutes because I live in kind of a tiny town outside of Auckland. But as long as I'm there now, you're like, well hell, I'm here now, I'm out to do something, and some you don't be yourself up about it. You know, some days you're going to do quite a bit, and some days you're going to kind of not, and it's fine. Either way You're doing something. You do more than most people, and so I do whatever I feel like doing that day and I don't put any pressure on it and I know it's making me healthier.
Speaker 1:That's good. So I always feel like I just ask questions. This is what I do, but sometimes I feel like I have to ask the hard questions. So this one right here is probably be a hard question. So first of all, how long have you and your wife been been together?
Speaker 2:We've been together 11 years 11 years but I've known her since 2000. So I've known her longer than that.
Speaker 1:Just 2000. Okay, so here's the hard question. Here we go. So you love her, she's the apple of your eye and everything under the sun, right? Could you still be in a serious relationship with her If she would always be musty? No matter what she did, no matter how many showers she took, no matter what kind of deodorant she took, she would always be musty, like horrendously musty.
Speaker 2:One part of me wants to make a joke there, like, like you mean, how's that different from now? I could joke like that, but I also live with this woman.
Speaker 1:Right, and you're also in the garage, so I got you.
Speaker 2:And my quarter of a garage will go down to an eighth.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly, exactly, oh so okay.
Speaker 2:so let's just say this I'll do what she's great for me, man, she's great, she's she is. She's the one person who her opinion can hurt. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, no, that's serious, I totally get that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because what I do for a living and I like, I, like I said I've done I did radio before standup comedy you get to the point where you're kind of Teflon, you're kind of bulletproof. Okay, so if I were to get a bad review of my book, I don't know who you are, you don't know who I am, it doesn't matter. Yeah, and even deal on the television world, because there's a lot of holes in the world of TV, mostly made up of jerks, to be honest. But again, same thing. Just come right off. But all she's got to do is go like I don't like that shirt and that shirt comes off.
Speaker 1:I mean, but that I mean, that's how it's supposed to be, you know. So, with that being said, let me ask you this yeah, is it harder? Is it hard? Is it harder for you writing books or writing jokes?
Speaker 2:The time that goes into writing books is in enormous pain and enormous joy, you know. And so you can write a joke that let's say you might insert somewhere into a book, maybe if it feels right. I've never been one to let me force this in there, and I learned that through radio for the most part. And there's actually an old saying from years ago called kill your darlings. It's like if you've got that bit in there just because it's a funny joke, but it doesn't have the story out, doesn't have the character out, then it's got to go. It'll be able to fit somewhere else. You know the delete, it just doesn't fit in this thing.
Speaker 2:But writing books is hard, but it should be hard because it's important.
Speaker 2:You know I mean when, when, if you're going to put together 90,000 words of any particular book, that's going to take you a lot. And so I think I mentioned a bit ago I just wrapped up a television show that I've been doing for seven years. That was a 60 hour a week job to do that, and so I wrote three books over the last year and the only way to do that is to be honest, in some ways with an artgalepsy. It was up at 345, four o'clock in the morning, some of those mornings heading to the gym for half an hour, 45 minutes, coming back and writing for three hours before my day job, and so but, but that's a thing you can do, that I think you can do. You can do the hard work if you've got that thing inside of you, if you've got that passion to do it, if you love music, you know you're going to keep hammering away, hammering away, hammering away, hammering away. Like with standup comedy, the ones that really made it are the ones who slogged through the years.
Speaker 1:The ones that kept at it kept at it.
Speaker 2:And if you're, if you're writing books because you think this is a way to make money, you ain't going to make it. That's not going to happen Because you've got to, you've got to put in the hard yards and you've got to do what might be years, even decades, to be able to get somewhere. And who knows, you might not ever get there. So, yeah, it is really hard and I'm glad it's hard Because I think I think books are some of the greatest things in the world and audio books are some of the greatest things in the world, so it should be hard to make those.
Speaker 1:And you know what, dude, I would say this man, you're like, you're becoming my mentor right now, because a lot of it like seriously like a lot of stuff that you have going on are things that I experienced, Like I get up early.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I don't. I mean like I go to, I go to bed late and get up early, but I don't write books. I get up, I'll do laundry and shit like that, because it kind of like it, kind of like it's like my peaceful moment, you know. But also, I love the fact that you have that passion for writing and also that passion for reading, man, because I think that with the increase of social media don't get me wrong, I know especially for what we do on social media, it really helps. However, I do feel like reading has kind of taken the backseat. And so when I just heard about the book and then the breakdown of the book, I'm like that's the kind of stuff that makes people want to read, because just the description of it's like it, just it paints that picture. You know what I'm saying? It's like I'm glad that people are still being that creative, especially with your situation and everything that you have going on. That's fucking awesome, bro.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, and I tell you what there is that negative side to social media. I'll give you a positive side. So I have the great privilege to. Every now and then I'll have a reader group reach out to me and say, hey, listen, we'd love to speak to you about the book, right. And so I've got people, like every now and then in Canada, the United States and in the UK, like a group of folks will read it and if they contact me I can zoom in like I'm speaking to you right now and they can ask questions and we can talk about the book. So a little while ago I was just starting book three on the end, right, that one there, that one comes out at the end of December, right. And it was just starting the book and I was called the Discovery writer or a pancer and that's somebody who gets your characters in there and you sort of wait for that inspiration to happen and it was slow going. I had the start of it but I didn't really have something. I needed something, something to come core of the book, and so so I took a break from it and I you know that was I'd spend the morning doing some of that.
Speaker 2:I'm speaking to this readers group in the United Kingdom, in England, and there was a woman who has asked me a question and I always say that she's from New Brighton. I don't know if she was from New Brighton, but I think that sounds neat, so I'll say New Brighton. She might have said it at some point and so she said to me. She said I'm really fascinated by Kane and the interaction. I really love how he is with Imelda and I can't wait to find out more about when he was growing up that year that he spent on the farm with his human mother and father. And I was like it's funny, you say that that's exactly what I'm doing in book three. You totally called it and that that sort of inspiration. And I've told her since. I said, hey, thank you so much, and I've. I chatted with her about it but it was.
Speaker 2:It was that through social media that connection, that she inspired that and that you know that conversation across 12, 15,000 miles, you know, far apart from each other and those two, and she was just saying what she felt. And she was saying, as a reader, a hurry spear is she can't wait to hear about this. And as an author, I was like let me fill that gap and put that in and with the greatest thing, and I think there are moments you got to be open to inspiration.
Speaker 2:And that's one of the things as I get older, the rather than saying no, no, my thing. You know that I've got to let these little sort of influences come in and you decide which ones you pick and which ones you don't. But the moment she said that, I felt it and I was like she's got it, that's it, that's what I need to be doing, and it was a gift.
Speaker 2:And I took that gift and ran with it and it's, and that book comes out here in a couple of weeks. I can't wait because she's a big part of that.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. That's awesome. Well, you spoke about her being inspiring. I think you're inspiring, man. Like, really, I'm just just your story man and I wish I had more time, but I know you got things you got to do. Man, Thank you so much for just you know giving your time, because I always tell people time is way more important than money. You get money back, can't get time back. Sometimes you get money back it depends on who. You take with you One letter. People know where they can find you at, where they can find the book. Hopefully we'll be seeing it on the screen. Let them know.
Speaker 2:You said it, Bonzi. It's going to happen that in the rainstorm and the snow and the and the and the bulldozers, All that's happening, All of it. But the cool thing is, when that happens, you can sit inside and watch it when Netflix puts it on TV Exactly.
Speaker 1:Only thing I ask for is that's a small line at the bottom that says I don't know media consultant. I don't know, whatever, I'll take whatever man.
Speaker 2:You watch man Name like Monsoon. Don't write that down. That might be a name they never used in book four. I'm starting that book coming up here this next week. You might be in that one.
Speaker 1:I would appreciate that. I would appreciate it. Don't, don't make me a musty character. Okay, no, no, no. What can people find a book at?
Speaker 2:It's on Amazon, easy to find. You can also find the audio book. As I mentioned, there's a pre-order. It comes out in January. Or just go to the website. It's justmynamecom and all the information's there.
Speaker 1:Okay, Thank you so much for your time, Dick. It's just been so long, like you're saying it. It's just good I want to say I got to get used to it. But anyway, thank you so much for your time, man. Thank you, Much success to you in the future and I hope to be here from you soon, man, and I'm going to pick up the book myself and it's going to be a good read. I will not read it while I'm driving. I might wait until I get to the stop sign and then read it.
Speaker 2:Do the audiobook Coming up here in January. Do the audiobook you can drive and listen to the audiobook. It's fine.
Speaker 1:There we go, there we go. Thanks once again for your time. Have a great day, man, and much success to you in the future.
Speaker 2:YouTube brother, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:No problem, peace, yo. Hey, y'all heard it here Ownership's podcast. Y'all make sure y'all get their books. Called Kane. You can find it on Amazon. It's from my man, dick Whitebrow. You heard him describe the book. Sounds hilarious. I'm about to get it myself. I'm going to get the hard copy because when I'm chilling, sipping on my teeth like three books, you know what I'm saying. So, with that being said, you know how we do it around here Moving on and just grooving on. We have to get into some Hold on, all right, so I'm going to go ahead and read it so y'all hear that sound.
Speaker 1:So for those of you who are off me with this podcast, when you hear that music right there, that means it's time, for I Don't Know Need to Hit it. So I Don't Know Need to Hit it. But nigga, you ain't got conscience. So stop fumbling through the papers and oil change receipts in your glove compartment when the police pulled your ass over and just admit you don't have conscience. The more you sit there and fiddle with all them papers and magnums and old napkins talking about you looking for it, it's just irritating the police officer. Be upfront. Hopefully they be lenient with you and they let you on your way. That way you can go home or whatever, go to the curses exchange, be responsible and get you some auto insurance, but stop wasting people's time, y'all All right. So, like I always tell y'all you don't have, just because you not listening does not mean it's not being said.
Speaker 1:And that is this week's segment of I Don't Know Need to Hit it, yeah, and on that note we are. It's about that time y'all. Y'all hit it music. About the time for me to get up out of here. I got to give a man shout outs to my man, dick Whitebrow. Y'all. Make sure y'all get his book Payne. So Amazon, y'all get a house to everyone in the ownership club there's Tucson Shabless, rich Renee, Mali, peay, campos, community DJ Gidem, dj Stakes. Man, oh man. Hopefully I'm not forgetting to be Hendrix. If I forgot you, please forgive me. It's a lot of stuff going on.
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Speaker 1:And man, I'm going to leave out with this. Makefans, nowfollowers, followers that get you clout. The fans that get you work. Be patient, be passionate, be purposeful. Do something that gets you out the bed in the morning. Trust the process. Realize that everything takes time and the only thing that happens overnight is dreaming lovin' and them babies. And on that note, y'all, I will holler at y'all later. Thanks for tuning in. Make sure y'all go get that book for me, dick White Brown called Kane. And y'all make sure y'all continue to check out the Just Podcast, y'all. Hey, check me out on every Sunday on So1 to 6.3 FM with the Armorship Club and check out my segment Possible Posts from the Past. On that note, y'all, I'm out. It's the Sheets.