Nico Carney

Oh my god, these folks, they are just coming out of every nook and cranny of the Ivy Leagues.

But anyway, it's always so funny to me because it's like these, I don't know, it is a lot of like theory and just like this, I don't know, really...

esoteric ideas about these things but it feels like so far removed from I don't know real life or just real people that when you go actually like out to these places and talk to people and I always really enjoy talking to people after the show is like again like I really like seeing like trans guys that come out to my shows and like just like asking what their life is like in these other places that like I just like in my I don't know I could feel fearful of living in or whatever and it's just always really like cool to be like these are just like cool living their life it just gives I don't know it gives me I don't know some reprieve from some of the

headier nonsense that comes with like living in a coastal place.

That's, you know, very uppity about its own sense of self, I guess.

Get over it.

That is like what I'm literally like this week, for some reason I've been so in my head about stuff and just like, I keep having this thought pattern where I'm like,

Literally think about anything but yourself.

Think about anything but yourself right now.

Like, think of anything else right now.

Oh, it's so god awful.

And then I'll just, like, somehow it'll, like, creep back in.

I'm like, why are we doing that again?

Why are we doing that again?

It's horrible.

It's hard.

I mean, I don't know how you feel about this, but, like, just, like, working in this industry, in this career, like, especially as a stand-up, I don't know, like, because so much of my material is anecdotal or it's about my life.

Like, there's, like, an element to my work that requires some, like, introspection and, like, thinking about myself.

But then it gets so dangerous when you start to think about like the stuff you can't control or just like it starts to creep into like career stuff.

And I find myself finding like trying to take a balance of being like smart and planning for things or being industrious in a certain way with like career, but like not overly worrying about crap like I just like can't control.