Roy Wood Jr.

Like, it's like, oh, OK, well, that's the stuff I want to talk about.

That's interesting to me.

Whereas before, when you're a young comic, you're doing the material that you know is going to get you chosen for TV and the material that you know is going to get you rebooked at a venue.

And if your shit lines up with those two sensibilities, fantastic.

But when it starts conflicting, you start losing a piece of yourself as you get older until you find an audience that wants to hear exactly what you are talking about.

And that's where I am now.

But you're trying to build something new.

that you've never built before, that your instincts are telling you are the right thing to build, that no one associated with the construction of that project can see and very few have confidence in.

And that includes your agents and managers.

That includes the network.

That includes other people you might need to help you write it.

So you really have to have blind faith.

And so that's that's what I'm learning.

And that's what I'm that's the muscle that I've been stepping into because I haven't had to work the blind faith muscle for a long time.

Really didn't have to work it at all, because when I started, all I needed was three hundred and sixty five dollars.

So I wasn't really betting shit.

I was just doing something different for shits and giggles because I didn't want to go do an internship at a TV station and run a prompter for some drunk anchor.

I didn't want to do that.

I definitely bust my ass.

And so now but now I guess the penalties for being wrong are greater.