Hello everyone, I'm Jeff Bakolino and I thought I would do a first podcast audio

only streaming on Spotify and other platforms and I wanted to do it so I thought

this would give me a good opportunity to introduce myself though it's certain

most of you know me personally already you're probably even a blood

relative potentially though I will say a lot of my friends don't know sober me

very well so why am I doing this? I'm old-ish you know why am I starting a

podcast I'm not famous who would want to hear from me but that's not and none of

those things are make a difference to me so since COVID happened I've I've

worked on writing a couple of screenplays and I'm working on a pilot sit

com pilot as well I enjoy writing these things now I should probably focus on

one at a time I've kind of jumped from one to the other back and forth as my

mood strikes me but that's besides the point so early on in COVID I got a

chance to talk to a comedy hero of mine and he said two things that stuck with

me one was to finish what I started even if it sucked because I'd regret it if I

didn't and the other thing he said was to branch out so he and he gave me two

very easy suggestions he said it's good you're writing start a podcast go do

stand-up comedy so well here's the podcast and I'm also going to be up on the

stage at some open mics on occasion at least that's definitely the most

strenuous one of the of the three but his point was was that a lot of people

who are comedy writers or or were stand-ups at some point and a lot of people

meet other people through things like podcasts or learn their personalities and

hire them based on podcasts funny people find funny people now I'll say very

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