Tom Segura

Portland always stood out to me because I was like, oh, Portland will be like super crazy, like extreme lefties.

They won't like what I'm gonna say, even though I'm not doing like political stuff.

But then you do the show and the show was bonkers.

And that's part of the lesson too of like, you can't go into it predicting

how the audience's reputation as a city will affect the show.

It's who's at the show, you know?

Seattle was that we broke an attendance record.

So that was like the energy of just walking out there was so nuts.

Those are like things that just stand out in your head.

Do you do anything in the way of fear, performance anxiety, or have you been able to conquer that with reps?

Some of it dissipates with the fact that you just do it all the time, but you learn that you should have some nerves.

It's a bad sign if you're like,

Nothing.

Like if you just have nothing before the show, I don't think that's going to be a good show.

The thing is, you don't have panic, but you have some anxiety.

And that little bit of anxiety is good because you're going to perform.

You're not going to go there and take a nap like you're going to perform.

You should take a little bit of what's inside and enjoy.

you know, making you feel a little fear that you can use that in your performance.

And some of it goes away after the first lap.