Ryan Long

Oh, legit.

Well, it makes sense.

Yeah, yeah.

The comedy scene, so people would say that New York's kind of like –

it's right now it's New York, LA, Austin's kind of like the third contender is like the part of the comedy scene.

Like it used to be, you had to move to New York or LA and probably a lot of things were like this for finance.

You had to be in New York and it feels like that's decentralizing, you know, a little bit where a lot of people you can move, you can make it work in new Austin.

And then also there's kind of a theory that a lot of people talk about where kind of like new scenes and energy happen in places where people have low rent.

So if everything gets interesting,

Like if you think of, uh, like, I mean, even in music that happens where people's parents can afford a garage, so a band can actually have drums, you know?

So in a city like New York, you know, if you go there and you're 20 years old, like it's pretty hard to make it work.

So if you go to somewhere where you can kind of live with a bunch of people and it's super cheap, you can spend all your time on, you know, doing whatever art you're up to for the next six years while no one's paying attention.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Incubator is the perfect word because it's kind of like you almost need to have like low stakes making mistakes with no one paying attention to make good things.

Right.

So these scenes kind of always like pop up in different places.

But all the best comedians in comedy clubs technically are in New York.

So that's kind of like the Silicon Valley of comedy, I'd say.

It's kind of like same as Broadway, the live performance part of it.