Ron Funches

We didn't get along for a while until she did come to a show and she saw me perform and saw how the staff treated me and how they treated her.

And then she pulled me aside and was just like, you know, I get it.

This is who you are.

This is what you're meant to do.

And just getting that type of reinforcement for her really helped me.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

It just, you know, it makes you feel like a little kid again and just having the approval or someone seeing you.

Yeah, it made me want to cry for sure.

Yeah, no, every time.

I wish there was just a button you could press where I didn't have to go like, well, why do you feel like you're a burden?

I mean, I don't think there really is anything that ever feels like you make it.

That's one of the premises of my own podcast that I do.

The first time I did have that feeling was when I did my first set on Conan O'Brien.

Because it was another expectation where I said, hey...

When I'm on Conan, I can say I'm a national comedian, that I really did it.

And I went and I did it and I crushed it and I made him laugh really hard.

But I also brought my son and my ex-wife with me and I spent all the money that they gave me for the show before I even got there.

And then I had to go back to Portland and do open mics and nobody had saw me on Conan.

And so I had to learn very quickly that like, you can just take those as markers, you know, to, in case people try to knock you down, you can go, no, I did this.

But overall, I just try to like do things that are fun for me and that are interesting for me.