Joe Santagato

I always felt like I'll be fine.

Even if I wasn't going to be, I was perfectly okay with not really being fine, like financially, like not being fine.

And I literally just wanted to do this sort of thing.

That's all I wanted to do was to have this job and entertain people.

It wasn't about how much money.

It was literally like, I want to do it and I kind of want to do it on my own terms.

And I want to stand out and I want to be as authentic as possible.

So that's kind of what my goal was.

That's what drives me is to... I don't want to veer too far off from the person I was when I first started doing all this, if that makes sense.

Because...

The mindset that I was just talking about, that hasn't changed at all, the way that I sort of view it.

I think I can do it, so I have to do it my way sort of thing.

And part of that is because I'm very realistic with myself, I love criticism that resonates especially.

If people are just hating and it doesn't really hit you at all...

That whatever, it doesn't matter.

But when someone criticizes you or they have advice for you and they say something and you're like, oh, like, I love that.

I love those moments.

Part of the reason why me and Greg work together is because years ago I like wrote a script and I was like showing like my friends and family and shit.

They're like, oh my God, this is so funny.

Sent it to him.