#237: How To Eventually Make A Big Comeback Despite Tearing Your Hip Like Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Bay w/ Comedian Adrienne Airhart
Law Smith
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You gotta get a little hottie. Tawny could fire it up. Right Adrian, what do you think about the Hotty Toddy?
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That's for football, right?
Eric Readinger
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Yeah, anything. This anything but this
Law Smith
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I wanted a old school radio lead in you know a lot of guys had their whatever their their kind of Hello. I always liked that. So I was trying to think of one and I just copied one that already existed in another way. Not that they got me to buy. I don't know there's something about screaming Hotty Toddy gets a little fired up.
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Sure. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Is that a drink to Hotty Toddy,
Law Smith
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yes. Yeah, it can be. Uh huh. Yeah. Now you're getting it Now. Now. It's all since it's only cool stuff, right, Tony?
Eric Readinger
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Yeah.
Law Smith
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Eric hates it. So he's, he's happy when I forget to do it. But let's do professional stuff and bring you in as our guest, Adrian Earhart, comedian, buddy of mine. We've only met I think, in person once I believe but have been internet friends. What I Just like saying that I like say internet friends, internet friend and then any girl a worldwide web if I do get a girlfriend one day, say call her my lady friend that'd be very Florida and then I'm gonna have a ponytail and that's how I roll the rest of my life but stand up comedian. You are I do like the cut of your jib because you're in a similar way like I was or am is like your professional life and you do comedy at night there's just not a lot of stand ups a lot Not a lot of people I met in the stand up world that actually have a real day job like a real career not waiting tables yeah something mindless or something just to get by it seems like you don't wait tables Do you? Notice I got nothing wrong with that. But I'm saying like you're entrepreneurial, but in a professional way from what I can gather, you know, over the years and stuff so what what are you doing In the cannabis world, any of that talk about or now,
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you can tell nothing is off limits. Okay.
Law Smith
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I want to make sure to know, I should have pre interviewed, but I didn't. Yeah,
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you're good. Everything's good.
Law Smith
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So what what are you doing in the cannabis community? I see a lot of stuff you're posting looks interesting. I'm always interested in that sector. Because I've said like, CBD is the new CrossFit basis of, you know, business juiciness. And I'm wondering, there's just got to be so many drones in that world now. And for someone like you, that's probably analytical, you probably have a lot of thoughts in your head about what they did.
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Jim Ronis was just so triggering. I feel so East Coast right now. Um,
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Speaker 2
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yeah, I've been in cannabis for a long time now, since my arrest in Florida before I left to come to LA and right now I'm the director of marketing and operations at a shop That also has a distribution center and an event space. So there's a lot that's like a lot to that job. A good gateway drug?
Law Smith
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Well, I looked, I looked at wanting to get breweries when I had my, my agency running, you know, full steam ahead. And I really want to breweries because I thought, okay, they have to spend a certain amount. But then I really looked at that model, they all follow the same one and you, vit you really become an event space, unless you do. Distributing, you know, for beer, at least for your own beer. If you're not making your own beer and doing the distribution correctly. Yeah, you're just a bar you're basically a bar that makes its own shit. And so like, but they don't get that a lot of space. And so I'm curious in event space for what's going on in there. Like a lot of hacky sack tournaments or what
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Speaker 2
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Wait, wait a stereotype the community man
Law Smith
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Oh, you haven't seen my stand up in a while. hack you forget I'm a hacker.
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I'm the new face of cannabis. Someone like me who gets up at six and does yoga and works a full time job and then has programs that are ready for self help. And as she was cryotherapy
Law Smith
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she wears a robe
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crawled out of bed.
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I just got out of the shower or though after a full day of doing shit.
Law Smith
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No, no, we're just kidding. It just anybody that's watching this would be like, What?
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I'm successful.
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Speaker 2
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Um, yeah, so it's a it's a full time heavy job. And the event space I was actually in it last night I threw an event for my staff, a sound bath with like weird hippie music. And we had a tarot card reader and a head of tattooer and a massage therapist because it's LA and that's what you do.
Law Smith
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Spirit. It was great, not religious and spiritual.
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Speaker 2
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I can't take any credit for the event. My assistant threw it in Did everything I just gave her the ideas and said yes or no on paper things. But the space is supposed to be neutral so that you can come to any event there. But the hope is that when they start releasing consumption licenses in LA outside of West Hollywood where the little cafes that will be first in line for a consumption cafe.
Law Smith
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Oh, nice. Yeah, I lived in West Hollywood once upon a time, you know, that's like the gamble brag. You know, that's like the gays. I know. Oh, yeah. Boystown was right in the middle of it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2
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yeah. Well, my the guy I'm dating lives there too, so it's not
Law Smith
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okay. Whoo. Yeah, I've got I've got questions about arrest the guy you're dating. There's a lot of going on. There's a lot of what was the rest? I didn't I don't I don't know about that. What happened?
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What happened was it was outside the funky Buddha. Have you been to Boca and perform there?
Law Smith
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Um, I've heard of it. I've just seen it through knowing the South Florida comics like y'all. Yeah. Are you a former South Florida comic, but I don't know. I've never been there. Now.
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Speaker 2
10:00
Well, it's in Boca, it's on federal highway near FSU. I used to go there when I was in college. And I was out back on my first date with my now ex husband smoking weed in my car and I got popped. And it's just the cop happened to be training a rookie. So I was actually like, arrested that time because you're from Florida to I've been thrown in tough times and never been arrested, but
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made an example of
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Yeah, they had to do it that night.
Law Smith
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And I was prerequisite Floridian thing like, I've never really I've never been put in handcuffs. But, you know, I got lucky.
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I'm like, well, you're from the from the west coast of Florida is different. Oh, no, I didn't know. I didn't know that. That was different out there. Yeah, everything was a little slower. Everything's a little more calm.
Law Smith
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Yeah, over Boca Raton. Yeah, for sure.
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Yeah, but this fast place compared
Law Smith
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Buicks go up to 30 and 30 No, that's you've so you've been handcuffed to a bunch of not arrested, rested, rested, rested.
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Right, right. Right. Right. It talked my way out of out of most things.
Law Smith
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white privilege. Yeah.
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Jewish privilege. I don't know. Just talking. I think it's probably less white privilege and more pretty girl privilege. I'm not gonna lie. So.
Law Smith
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So you're you're a pretty girl that knows you're a pretty girl.
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Speaker 2
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I've been told so much in the last six months that I have to like stop saying that I don't think I am because people are getting actively angry at me. So I'm trying to lean into it. But trust I do not think that I'm a pretty cool. just accepting I can relate.
Law Smith
11:40
No, but yeah, the only guy The only people that tell me this are other male comics that I know. And I'm like, Oh, I don't know. It's not anything outside world but they're like you're a good looking guy and I like that, but they'll tell me that witch who? A lot of dude a lot of a lot of guy comics. I don't know. Look I'm going to turn go to another school yeah you know no matter what camp but no there are a lot of straight guy comics I'm gonna turn them gay I'm gonna turn them around but I'm saying like I'm always fascinated with the self awareness of that to be able to weaponize it in a way that's good for you. And the hot chick sector not not straight guy.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah, I'd never thought I was hot and then during my divorce my husband said so many horrible things to me that I really just did not believe that I was attracted. And it's taken the full six months and dating several people including some comedians for me to to believe it and like it's been in the last few weeks saying things on stage about like not feeling attractive, or like talking to conversation and people get like very angry with me because they're like, you're a hot girl you need to shut the fuck up right now. And then like they get it because a visceral reaction so I either just don't mention my local or I just accept that that's part of it. And I know that getting out of many arrests was definitely that was definitely part of it.
Law Smith
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Yeah, yeah. Being on hot chick is a superpower for sure. Yeah, not knowing it. But having a personality and being a hot chick and not knowing you're a hot chick until, whatever, six months ago or the last six months or whatever, it's pretty funny to me, but that is like, that's what you I think a lot of guys look for. I don't know, I always I was always I'm always trying to do the female comic because there have that personality. And it's just much harder if they're funny and you can kind of charm their way out of shit.
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Speaker 2
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Some people like it, some people don't. I'm very damaged. I have a lot of baggage and in my head, I'm still you know, the 14 year old flat chested, big nose Jewish girl who played the tuba and danced ballet, and like that's how I that's how I feel like I am inside.
Eric Readinger
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I think that's a lot of people still feel like there's a 14 year old like before puberty fully hits, sort of thing.
Law Smith
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Yeah, it's like a theory,
Eric Readinger
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a psychological theory of some kind of
Law Smith
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like if we're talking this is a business in pot and kind of comedy podcasts of sorts. And it's like Both those worlds it's just a lot of people either kind of stoicism kind of philosophy going through that like trying to work through that insecurity, you know, by their work or faking the funk. And being like that performer comment that's like super clean. It does dancing on stage and then is the fucking biggest dirt ball. Yeah, they do carriage gigs, and then the fucking grossest people you hang out with? And that's like, I don't know, I feel like in the business world, there's plenty of people faking the funk. Like any realtor is like that, you know? Yeah. Just that there's mountains of security insecurity going on. With every realtor I've ever met at, like,
Eric Readinger
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any business function, the ratio of like, motivational. You can do it people compared to the actual people doing things is absurd. It's like 5050 where it's like, I'm just a little Mental leadership. Like what is that?
Law Smith
15:02
Yeah. What did you do to get there? Right? How did you lead someone? Well, I
Eric Readinger
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just am into leadership. I'm the leader, right?
Law Smith
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I paid five grand for Tony Robbins and right I got this. Yeah.
Eric Readinger
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It's pretty cool. I paid the money. So
Law Smith
15:15
So do you find How about this? Have you found out here's something you may not a discovered that took me a while I still struggle with this is to be able to use a lot of the skills you have with comedy. And it does bleed into the business world. You can use it to kind of your advantage, like I found when I met with clients that didn't really know me that well, I would tell them, I try to tell them in the first couple of minutes that I do stand up at night. You know, this is you know, kind of my part time moonlighting career for the last 12 years or so. Semi professional because I I feel like I don't call yourself a professional comic. You should just be paying the bills with that. So there's that insecurity where I already knocked down myself telling these people What happens though is I found that I always preface the meeting with that. I was like, because if I give a weird kind of example, or metaphor, it's just kind of my way of trying to figure out how to communicate something that's a little bit hard. But that's kind of what stand up is. And then what happens is, instead of having to have three or four meetings with this person, we end up at one or two, right? Because they let their guard down. And they want to tell you stuff because, you know, and a lot of consulting stuff, they don't have anybody to talk to for the most part. So you're kind of doing it. But everybody like they let their guard down. They know you're vulnerable. Well, no, they open to be evil, whatever. I don't know what they think of comedians, I go, whatever your favorite comedian is. I'm not that I'm probably not that person. That's probably not as funny as that. Notice. I don't have that style. Whatever it is, it's usually not there. Like I love Seinfeld. I'm like, you won't like my ass. Like, can you? You don't want to see me trying to riff conversationally onstage. I don't know if you found Any kind of leveraging what you've done in the stand up world, to your professional world, any of that?
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Speaker 2
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Um, for sure, I think you and I have very different experiences as a man and a woman, okay. In the in the industry. I mean, comedy alone is a male dominated industry. Yeah. cannabis is still incredibly male dominated. And in my professional life as a computer programmer, also very male dominated. So I'm constantly having to prove myself and not feel like an imposter. And I usually nowadays don't let people especially my Lyft drivers know that I'm a comedian, because it just, it ruins everything. It ruins my day. It ruins my life. I don't want to I don't want to hear their suggestions for bits.
Law Smith
17:51
Yeah, I'm out. Okay,
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Speaker 2
17:54
no, I don't and that's in business settings to LA is much more casual place than the East Coast. Everything runs slower. When you're talking to somebody in a meeting, and someone mentions that you're a comedian, then it's like, Where can I come watch you perform? Are you really a comedian? How long have you been doing it? What kind of jokes do you do? Do you like Amy Schumer? Are you like Amy Schumer? Do you like Roseanne? And then it's just like on incessant questioning and it's just it changes the dynamic of the meaning. I prefer to keep that out of my professional life if I can.
Law Smith
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Yeah, I guess you have a backdrop of that, you know, of Hollywood kind of around. So everybody's kind of tangentially, like, interested in that, you know, in that world, even if they're not in it at all that you know, you're three people way from someone that does something interesting like that. So it's like, hey, yeah, I remember living out there and out there for five, six years, and it was like, it is very casual like that. And it is like, well, let's play the name game. Have you noticed this? The weird thing about la? Okay, second biggest city land size. Like land county wise. I ended Okay, just follow me. Jacksonville is number one. I was gonna say, county went up. Who's a nerd this guy? You got like 20 million people in LA. But like Curb Your Enthusiasm where you're like, you would never run into the same person twice just randomly, right one area of La it's like, actually happens a lot because like, basically Hollywood West Hollywood, you know, getting over to West Westwood to Brentwood Santa Monica, we get to geography Palisades, like down to the
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local bits, man.
Law Smith
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But I mean like it's just like, just this little area of La where a lot of people just kind of stay in that area. And then you've got 11 million people that live in like Riverside doing that like you have like, that's East East East LA. So it's like, it is one of those things where you can get in this weird bucket of people that kind of live in this like these certain parts of La Yeah. Oh,
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Speaker 2
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yeah, for sure. I don't know anybody in the west side anymore. If you move to the west side by forever. I mean, you're only 11 miles away, but it takes an hour to get there and I have to go over the hill and I might lose service. I'm good. Thank you. Nice to meet you.
Law Smith
20:12
Yeah, but I mean, it's still like, you know, I would run into people. Like, when I was living in West Hollywood, I'd run into people that I knew, you know, that lived in Brentwood or whatever, and you're like, it's just weird. Okay. Yeah. Well, okay, this is like literally pretty, like you can still drive by anything. But yes,
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you can. Yeah. Why would they close the street down?
Law Smith
20:36
I mean, he's not guilty guys. So yeah, yeah. I saw the documentary is done. So what so in your professional life, going against the grain Do you find you've got that FSU thing I'll prove it? Is it is the gender part. A little is it way does it weigh on you a lot. Oh, Yeah, it does. Oh yeah, I don't know I'm not I'm not trying to like run a bit I'm maybe I'm just very naive. I don't know like I I don't know how prevalent that actually is in the working world for a lot of women.
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Incredibly prevalent.
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Okay, incredibly very dramatic. Yeah, that
Law Smith
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was I was like, Did we lose her Sally's
Eric Readinger
21:24
gonna stab us over the inner listening
Law Smith
21:26
to this on audio she just just gave her own close up to get the room. What? So any example you want to talk about or can talk about?
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Um, I mean today, or like this week or yesterday, like it's daily
Eric Readinger
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really
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brought it Oh, man. I'm sorry. I mean,
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it's better.
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Speaker 2
21:48
Especially in LA because of the me to movement. And I feel like a lot of comics will mention the me to movement, right after saying something like a big a big headline or the other day was at the store of the Comedy Store. And he saw me in the hallway he goes look like Heather Locklear when she was young. God damn. God damn it. No, it was not him. But the guy, Danny opens for him.
Law Smith
22:12
It wasn't him. He's our friend of the program. He's good buddy.
22:16
It was somebody bigger than that. And, like,
Law Smith
22:22
even bigger since you're gonna go talk to you by Sam Tripoli. Hey, what you're saying about me? Yeah, that's my same truthfully. I think
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Speaker 2
22:28
if I said the name he would know. Like, yeah, he's bigger. Yeah, um, but it was like, uh, you know, I came to the store, my friend, my roommate, nicolini, Schreiber was had recorded lights out with David Spade. So we went to the store to go watch her there with all her friends and everything. And I was just in a hoodie, no makeup on just chillin. And then he turns around and says that, to me, looks like Heather Locklear. And all of a sudden, I'm not a fellow comic anymore. I'm like, a pretty girl amongst a bunch of men. And it just completely changed. The whole dynamic, and I wasn't able to have a normal conversation about comedy, or what gigs are coming up, or you know, my roommate or anything, then it was all just like, all the dudes were just like thinking about sex.
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Speaker 3
23:11
Yeah, you get bucketed. Right? Like, it's, was it the way he said it was it was obviously not a compliment. Like, he wasn't trying to be nice.
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It was a compliment.
23:23
But I'm just curious, like, if
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Speaker 2
23:25
you think of a lovely way, or like, he's a guy who says stuff like that all the time, and I was like, Cool. Thank you so much. And he's like, Where are you from? And I'm like, Florida, and he's like, are you Jewish? And I was like, I'm half Jewish. And he goes, Okay, you're beautiful. And it was, it was just, it was jarring, because I've seen him. I've guessed before, I'm not gonna say anything. Yeah, I'm not gonna say the name. No, no. It totally changed the whole atmosphere and it's already the community is already so predatory towards women. And everyone knows I'm single now. So that's like really, really stressful for me. I feel like I was protected by the guise of a relationship and then a marriage for a long time. And everyone knows now that I'm single, so it's like, I don't know if I'm getting booked on things because they think I'm funny or because they think that if I come, maybe we'll hang out after something. So it's like, I'm feeling empathy for women. Because I've never been single in the company industry. Like I started doing comedy when I started dating my ex husband following or you know, hanging out with him at Mike's and then eventually doing it myself. Now he doesn't even do stand up anymore. And I do stand up because it's my thing. And it's it's a weird dynamic for me right now. So I'm a special case because the community is small and everybody hears everything very quickly. So everybody knows right now. So ask me again in six months and
Law Smith
24:50
it'll be different so gossipy. Yeah.
24:53
Okay, cool.
Law Smith
24:54
Well, we're talking about insecurity, right? That's, if there's a through line for this kind of, you know, coming on and talking about this stuff. That's all that stuff reeks of insecurity, right? So that guy talking to you. Here's how I see it. The guy talking to you, in my head. He's gotten to a certain level, but he's still the insecure guy. So it's almost like I think what Eric was trying to lead to maybe was it's almost like an attack compliment. It's like, it's like you, you look like this. Instead of saying something genuinely just nice.
Eric Readinger
25:27
Well, yeah, there's just nothing. There's just like an obvious tone to things that when you retell a story, it might not be obvious, but you're living it and it's like, you're definitely being a dick creep weirdos.
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Speaker 2
25:38
I wasn't offended. It was a nice compliment. He was very nice to me. And if I see him again, he'll remember me now because he's, you know, he thinks.
25:50
Yeah, which I don't see at all. But
Law Smith
25:53
sometimes, but I was I caught bucketing like you sometimes you get introduced to someone and they reference you as a This person, I get it round here in Tampa Bay, because my family's kind of been here forever. And they're very social in the area. And it's like, oh, this is his little brother or her little brother or whatever, and it's like, then you're just kind of that forever. And it might well, no, I've fucking crush it in the professional world doing this, you know, doing this, this and this and like helping businesses grow from here to here and all this stuff, consulted for hundred businesses, but you can get bucketed as you know, dipshit little brother sometimes and then you can ever get to that professional meeting that you wanted to talk to that person about,
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Speaker 2
26:39
or someone's wife. I've been known as someone's wife for a while now.
Law Smith
26:42
Yeah, yeah, that that that would be tough.
Eric Readinger
26:46
Do you think if he had picked a more accurate celebrity that you look like, would have been less offensive? You know, what should we listen
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Speaker 2
26:53
to? The rest of the point? It was it was not offensive. She's gorgeous. And like, I look like her No, I don't think my hairs big he thinks I have big. I don't know. I don't know what it was. I told the guy in dating and he was like no accurate. Yeah, he was like Heather Locklear. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna accept that. I wasn't offended. I wasn't offended that he called me Heather Locklear. If he had done it quietly when no one else could hear it would have been awesome. Yeah, it was just that it got so there you
Law Smith
27:22
go. You're right. He's putting it out there. And I'm sure it sounds like if I'm guessing it sounds like it was not like a green room or something or something. It was like a weird conversation. Or Yeah, it's like,
Eric Readinger
27:37
or have a show of Yeah, around,
Law Smith
27:40
say this almost openly, and not really think about who this person might actually be. Yeah, because it doesn't matter if you make a bunch of money successful in comedy or business. There's still guys that are just they have that like they'll never lose that right? It's still insecurity, right. It'll keep them it'll Don't in one way can keep that inertia going. Right? I mean, just today I was I forget the kind of
Eric Readinger
28:09
comic on Joey Diaz. His podcast talking about Chelsea Skidmore. Yes. Yeah, her Harvey Harvey Weinstein it's just like Yeah, he's Yeah. Oh my god like this poor girl like, really? A week? Yeah, a week into getting to LA and like she thinks is awesome stuff is happening and it's like, it's like literally just jerks off in forever.
Law Smith
28:30
Oh my god, man. And she's I thought it was very good because she was super honest about like, like a lot of people say they they, you know, would run away at that moment. It's like you're in shock. You don't even know what's going on.
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Speaker 3
28:42
You don't want to blow your big chance. You know, like, you know, like, Well
Law Smith
28:46
yeah, that's that's like in your all I have to do is I don't
28:49
actually have to touch the guy. Okay.
Eric Readinger
28:53
Just this once. I don't know like, I
Law Smith
28:55
won't blow your chance if you let him blow his load. That's everyone knows on the rug. On the carpets a good through what she didn't do anything in this interview she talks about she's like I didn't do anything you just start working on yeah and then finished in front of her is like on the floor and she's like I gotta go I mean and it's like in the way he was bringing her up was very sneaky gross like no no no not this like getting things I'm not gonna be something yeah I'm not gonna be creepy this time and then be gonna be later yeah I know some guys like that I can't hang out with them I don't want to talk to them it's just bad people to hang around just in general but
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Speaker 2
29:32
nice for you to have that luxury to choose who you hang out with and those shows you do
Law Smith
29:38
not no no no i'm not saying shows I'm just saying people in general I look i don't i don't have ultimate autonomy. I'm not saying like, I can do it like a guest who board for everybody. I'm saying like, I've really tried it. And I'm probably thinking I'm thinking a lot like you maybe a little bit over analytical sometimes, right? It's probably what makes you good. At what you do for marketing, right you're because you're thinking out every scenario contingency plans. You've got an assistant which means you're like, how many assistants fucking awesome like I wanted assistant so bad I want a hairless little gay guy I want
Eric Readinger
30:16
Yeah, mm hmm Sure. I want to I want you to share him with me. Yeah, yeah. I don't need my business. Give me your
Law Smith
30:22
business. Yeah. No, but I want because my gay buddies are very organized and i'm not i'm not clerical administrative, like
30:31
all the gay ones. All my guys. Yeah,
Law Smith
30:33
all my gay mafia friends in this area. At least.
30:36
I know a couple of very disorganized gay guys. I don't want
Law Smith
30:39
a I don't think there's a lot there's a lot. It's definitely I'm definitely like just generalizing, but I'm saying like, it's one of those things where I just really tried to look at a lot of stuff going through divorce at the moment, similar like, Alright, I just need to kind of cut some shit out of nothing. I need to kind of work on For things not 13 that was one big thing some someone else told me, and I was like, Okay, that was a good call. And then part. The other part was, I don't need to hang around. Why am I forcing hanging around people? I don't want to, I don't think it's any benefit to me growing as a person. Mm hmm. You know, you can hang out after a comedy show. But, you know, there's sometimes it's awesome. But most of the time, you should just be going home to go right. You know, and I've been trying to do that, like that little thing, right?
Eric Readinger
31:30
literally five minutes before the podcast you're like, I need to put myself out there more just get out there and mingle more. Yes.
Law Smith
31:36
No, I need to do that. But, but Okay, so even hang out,
31:39
but even then hang out on
Law Smith
31:40
a business level that was focused, that's measured. I'm looking at things that are talking to socially. Yeah, but it'd be like community while I'm, I try to think about like community wise, I like doing voluntary effort, because I feel something good back now because I'm a good human. It just feels good to do. Volunteer work. To meet so selfie, hey, the end result works whatever the end
32:04
I don't have time to volunteer. I'm working on myself. So well that takes a lot of time. There's another thing
Law Smith
32:10
I had to figure out too is like the the oxygen mask for the baby on the flight and emergency situation. First, I always thought it was weird to give it to yourself first and like that's like it's selfish. But you can't give it to the fucking baby If you don't give it to yourself. Yep, ship you off oxygen. And so that's like the perfect metaphor of like, you can't go do a lot of shit unless you get like your core shit done. It makes sense.
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Speaker 2
32:38
Totally. It's, I'm hyper productive right now. This is actually my second divorce. So the trauma is real. And it's a uproot a lot of stuff. And I'm in, I'm in a lot of therapy, and working on myself. And then because I was running every day to try to stop the demons from chasing me, I ended up tearing my hip, which is probably from the time 20 years of belay that I did, but running did not help with that. And I just I just been non stop like, the from the minute he decided he didn't want to be with me anymore. And then I found out about all the affairs. I just had been like, I moved out I froze my eggs I you know, filed for a divorce. So it's been quite the wild ride good for you took action.
Law Smith
33:23
You know, it doesn't sound like you, although you kind of
33:29
look and I spent two weeks in bed.
Law Smith
33:31
Yeah, that that's a lot less than I think most people. I was in the shitter for a long time, for sure. Like going but
33:39
you also have kids.
Law Smith
33:41
Yeah, yeah, forever that is that there's a lot of variables and for sure.
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Speaker 2
33:46
And it's easier when you can hate them because I didn't know about the cheating for two weeks. So I hated myself. And then the minute I found out about the affair, so I was like, oh, okay, you get out and my life moves on now.
Law Smith
34:00
How are you using that inertia? Like? Are you using that to get going now? It looks like from what I can see you're getting on stage a lot more regardless of this. Because you're single I, I'm betting it's because you're more driven.
Eric Readinger
34:15
swayed energy
