Robby Hoffman

But just in more subtle ways, I was always, you know, yeah, trying to get some help financially and doing what I could to say, by the way, I'm also like I'm doing what I can.

Like I'm doing, you know, I'm I'm going to I'm not just like trying to take money and not do anything like I'm trying to get you back, you know, so I don't know.

I, you know, in the beginning of doing it, when I heard about stand up,

He was like a whisper.

Like I kind of, I was living in Montreal.

I was in university and they had the festival there.

And I was living kind of a keeping up with the Joneses.

Like I wanted to be like other kids who went to university, got educations and this sort of thing.

But most of those kids had their parents bankrolling it and doing everything.

So I was working 35 hours, just sometimes 30 hours.

to 35 hours, almost full-time.

I was working almost full-time always and also doing full-time school.

But I felt like I had to do that to compete because if I did school slower, if I took only three classes and not five or something, then it would look like I was poor.

Like, oh, why did you take five years to finish or

You know what I mean?

So I felt like to compete, I have to like look the part.

And thank God I'm white and everything else because there's a whole other slew of issues in the country that I don't deal with.

So a lot of inherited good stuff too or stuff that made it easier a little bit or a bunch.

But I do remember when I started getting paid, when I started like working –

and getting paid every two weeks, I was like, kind of, you know, making it.