Walker Ward
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170 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Walker Ward’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the full-time job. So my HR department sort of caught onto it and they were like, Oh, this is kind of funny. Morale at work is kind of low. People are bored. They're cooped up in their homes. Will you do some like kind of virtual standup for us at work?
You're fired. No, don't worry. I didn't get fired until a couple of years later. Um, but I, they were like, yeah, like, will you do some, do some standup for us? So I basically had this series where I recreated our company, our sales team, zoom calls where like I was each person in the frame.
Cause like, you know, like when you work with people, people have the same mannerisms and like, you know, one guy always, you know, like does one thing and one girl's always doing this. So I was each person.
Square. So that really COVID, 2020 was when I kind of got a little bit of a bug for the content. And then, you know, a year goes by and we're kind of going back into the office and I couldn't really do it anymore. You know, all the time where you had to look busy at your desk, you could film stuff, you could eat hot dogs.
My mind was elsewhere. And then so I went back to the office and I kind of went back into the grind. I did do this like little martini tour, this teeny Tuesday tour where I'd wear a tuxedo and walk into different restaurants in New York and review martinis and food. But really it was last summer when I was officially – when I officially left my company and That was when it started full time.
For sure. Yeah. No, definitely. And I think I didn't even really realize that I... I always knew that I was, I don't know, a relatively creative person.
Yeah, well, sometimes. Depends who I'm talking to. But I just... I didn't realize that I was... that I needed to be creative, not to be kind of dramatic, but like until I was removed from an environment, because I feel like you and I, Kim, have had sort of a unique... we sort of hit life at a unique time because we grew up and everything was kind of just societally.
It was still kind of like the textbook. You go to college, get a degree, get a job, et cetera. And then really COVID, you know, flipped everything upside down and people started going remote and people started being influencers and content creators. And like, what does that even mean? And, um, we kind of, uh, you know, at least I sort of had exposure to both worlds.
And so I really loved, I didn't realize until I left the, what I thought I was supposed to be doing, supposed to be doing, that I really like being creative and entertaining. I love to entertain people. Right. That's my thing.
In person or on the phone.
Yeah, that's a good question. So, and I guess I should add on top of that. when I left my job last, not this past July, but July, 2023, you know, I didn't have any money. I wasn't, didn't have any consistent income. So I had to sublet my apartment to, luckily I sublet it to a friend. So I didn't have to like move a bunch of stuff out.
It wasn't like a whole thing, but I moved back into like my childhood bedroom. To the basement. Exactly. Exactly. And so I'm, my parents, my, My parents were very supportive. My whole family was very supportive. I think something that people will tell you, like sometimes I'll be with friends and people will ask like, you know, was Walker always like this? Like kind of what's the deal?
And like, I'm not being any different than like what I, than who I am naturally. It's not like I'm one person on camera and someone different. Obviously I'll play characters.
I'll be Chad, like deleting Chicken Tenny Towers and like crushing Whispering A. Yeah. Or I'll be like Palm Beach Dad dropping the kids at PB Day and like complaining about a flat tire on my, you know, super fancy car. But it's still me. I've always been this way. I've always done this kind of thing. So my parents, I think I had that, Sort of in my corner. That was like mom and dad.
I'm like, they, they believed in me because they knew that maybe I could do it, but they definitely were.
Exactly. And that's the thing. They were just cautious. They're like, Walker, look, do it. We believe in you. We support you. But like, you know, you gotta make some money. You gotta pay your rent. You gotta, you don't have healthcare anymore. You gotta, good old Cobra, you know, all that stuff. So, they believed in me.
They were supportive, but they were like, you know, they were checking in on me. They were like, Walker, how's it going? Like,
Yeah. I mean, definitely now that we're kind of a year and change into the process, I'll call it, trust the process. It probably took seven or eight months for me to actually like make a dollar.
Like there was one guy on Nantucket. So when I left my job July, 2023, I My girlfriend actually was the one, because I had coworkers who were like, oh, Walker, like, because I was let go very like out of the blue, out of nowhere. It wasn't expected. Right. And so my coworkers were like, Walker, we'll help get you other interviews at competitors and that kind of thing.
I was like, I don't know you guys. Like, I'm not... This wasn't like feeding the soul or whatever, but it allowed me to live in New York and earn a nice living and whatever, which is great. So my girlfriend was like, Walker, why don't you just like start making content? Like you've always loved acting.
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