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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#45: Damien Lemon

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcomed stand-up comedian, Guy Code personality, and host of the In The Conversation podcast, Damien Lemon! We talked about living across the hall from DJ Drama in college, watching the Young Buck fight at the Vibe Awards, and doing stand-up gigs with Hannibal Buress. Damien shared stories about growing up in Ossining, NY, going to Freaknik while at Clark Atlanta University, being laid off at Vibe Magazine, and how he built a comedy career in New York City. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jeff.

0:00.5

Hey, Eric.

0:00.8

How are you?

0:01.3

I'm pretty good.

0:02.0

How are you?

0:02.5

I'm doing great because I'm not serving on a jury.

0:05.1

I'm not serving on a jury this week.

0:06.6

I'm not serving on a jury next week. I'm not serving on a jury for the next six years because I was relieved of my jury duty this week. Well, let me be the first to congratulate you. Thank you very much. It was two days of, look, I know it's not jail, but it was me being held against my will in a giant jury pool, downtown Manhattan.

0:27.3

And let me just say for the record, had I been picked, I would have served and served proudly.

0:31.9

Right. You are an American.

0:33.2

It was my civic duty, but I chose to let them know that I'm a podcaster. And they did not want a podcaster? Not on that jury. Not on either of the juries. There was a three-week case, and there was a three-to-five-day case, and I was not selected on either of those. But they did ask a lot of questions about what podcasting is. Were you able to explain it? Well, you know, I have a lot of experience going down to Thanksgiving and being like, this is what I do for a living. And a lot of blank stares coming back. Yeah. So this was just, you know, from two more lawyers. Did you tell them to rate, subscribe, comment, go on iTunes, go on SoundCloud I available for streaming I hope

1:11.9

download it I hope they're listening right now because I will tell them listen go to

1:16.4

iTunes subscribe to wasted time with it's the real and comment on iTunes you can

1:21.0

comment on sound cloud you can even tell us on Twitter Facebook snapchat we're

1:24.7

available it's the real ITS T H-H-E R-A-L I did say that by the way in the first case I said It's the real. I T-S-T-H-E-R-Y-A-L. I did say that, by the way.

1:28.6

In the first case, I said,

1:30.3

it's the real, it's one word, no apostrophe, no spaces. I got out of jury duty. I ran outside, the sun was shining, and I caught up with the most important thing I'd been missing out on, Leor Cohen's Snap. Yes, Leor.com.

1:40.8

One of my favorite things about Leor's Snap is the fact that he's still at this point.

1:45.1

And this is like a couple months in, has no idea how quickly Snapchat comes and goes.

1:50.2

Right.

1:50.7

So if he's filming himself, he'll be like, I'm going into the office in about an hour and that's when shit's about to hit the...

1:57.6

And it just cuts off.

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