What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Justine with Justin Marndale. I am Justin

Marndale and today's guest we have comedian writer. He has a podcast called Nice To Be Nice

coming out soon. You also have a podcast called Basket of Cats. It's comedian Benton

Ray everyone. Hi. This is so fun. It is fun. Welcome to this is the new studio. We

this is your like our second guest in here. So I'm glad you were like, Hey, I'm

available. Let's do this. Yeah, I would love to do it. I was before we get started

this one and say, I don't know. You probably talked about this in the podcast before, but your

story of how you got past the comedy store is like very just I think it's it's it's her

street. It's really part of your history. It is so interesting and unique and like pool

inspiring. I loved it. I think Kevin Christie told it to me. Yeah, that is so cool. And

I don't know if everybody knows that or not, but it's very interesting. It was I think I think

it's mentioned a lot on all I do a lot of podcasts and a lot of people wanted to know and a lot

about it. Hey, it's part of my journey and I love it. But yes, it was one of those things

where lightning struck and happened to be at the right place at the right time and the

right lady saw me and oh, I was hated. So yeah, I'm going to say, do you get asked about

it because people are like in your story? Oh, where the fuck did you come from? I've been

doing this for 29 years and you just show up and get passed. I'm like, sorry, bye. And you're

gay. I know you said my struggle is a different timeline, different timeline, different reward.

Yeah, sorry about it. But thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm pretty sweet. But right off

the bat, it is almost December, which means the holidays are here. And I have a promo

code. I wanted to say at the top of my podcast this week, cozy earth, my God, get into it.

They are doing a holiday jamboree using promo code 40 Justin, 40 Justin. You're going

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