Matt McCusker

Like, my brothers are funny.

Like, they, you know, they're just funny.

Like, it was, uh... But I remember, like, a distinct moment when I was outside just, like, smoking weed with my friends, and, like, I was just talking, and they were laughing.

Like, it was just, it kept happening.

And then I was in college, and I was, like...

I'm going to try stand-up, actually, because it was, like, in the back of my mind somewhere, but I didn't have, like, a con... I didn't know.

I was, like, you know, I was going to school to be a psychologist, and I was like, I'm going to be a businessman.

And then I was just like, let me try that.

So it was almost like a weird, like, urge that was finally like, yeah, I think I'm going to do this.

And I did it, and I just liked it and was like... But I would do it...

I would stop, I would do it and stop, I would, you know, I would do like three months, I'd stop for three months, I'd do it for nine months, stop for a year, and I just would go back and forth while trying to be like, you know what, I'm gonna live a normal life, I'm not gonna do this, and it would just, that would blow up and I would just stand up again.

...plan?

No, not at all.

It was really more so centered around avoiding a job that I hated.

I mean, avoidance is a direction.

It really is.

I've been propelled away.

I've taken great, you know, great pains to avoid.

Sort of, in a way.

I have a little more direction now, but I remember as a kid, I was like, I want to wear, my big goals for myself were I want to wear sweatpants every day and I don't want to wake up to an alarm clock.