365 - Ramon Rivas II
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and go-getter Ramon Rivas lives in abundance as an artist, despite his lack of financial privilege. Interviewed in his hometown of Lorain, Ohio, we talk about his realisation that audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 were perceiving him as white, and explore what that culture shock meant for how he views himself.
We discuss how hustle can get you noticed as well as hold you back; how to seek connection with an audience without seeking distance from yourself; and why road dogs can die in alt clubs.
35 minutes of extra content available exclusively to members of the Insiders Club includes Ramon on some of his outre tactics for making comedy pay, including an exploded diagram of his Distrokid strategy, and this podcast’s first foray into “Weed Comedy”…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
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| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I am speaking to Ramon Rivas the second |
| 0:51.2 | Who I believe is the first the second we've had on the show. Hello Ramon Ramon is a comedian in Lorraine Ohio |
| 0:59.2 | Who lives in abundance as an artist despite his lack of financial privilege? |
| 1:03.9 | I'm quite pleased with that as I said to this we're gonna get on to what all of that stuff means quite soon |
| 1:08.2 | And I described him in the show notes as a comedian and go get her |
| 1:11.2 | What I really wanted to describe him as was a hustler |
| 1:13.6 | But I think unless you hear the nuance of someone's voices they deliver that it could probably be misinterpreted |
| 1:19.7 | But Ramon is someone who I think I feel a certain kinship with in our shared excitement about |
| 1:27.8 | Not just |
| 1:29.0 | Grafting to make your way in comedy, but grafting in a sort of I don't know |
| 1:34.6 | I can't find the right word that says hustler without there being any negative connotations |
| 1:38.4 | I remember I was it some the LA podcast festival a few of them a good few years ago now and |
| 1:44.3 | I think I was the first English person that had been there and I was working the line |
| 1:48.2 | I'd kind of overnight printed out a bunch of flyers to try and get some of the the podcast attack who who in the room the super fans |
| 1:54.9 | In that convention center the Beverly Hills hotel I think it was and |
| 1:59.6 | To try and encourage them along to get into my room to come and see my life podcast up against as it was |
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