479 - Jackie Martling: Life as The Joke Man & Why Passion Isn't Enough
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.4 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:12.5 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.4 | Art is such an odd thing because how much you love something and how much you put into |
| 0:20.8 | it doesn't have any relevance to how well you're doing. |
| 0:26.6 | I mean I was in a great guns body and soul. |
| 0:30.4 | I loved my songs, I loved my music, I was into it. |
| 0:34.8 | I stung but who cared? |
| 0:36.4 | I was so, so into it. |
| 0:39.0 | And it's just such a love. |
| 0:40.5 | And when I realize, wait a minute, if I ever want to eat, I'm making $80 a week on a |
| 0:46.0 | good week and I'm 31 years old. |
| 0:48.6 | And I said, well look, I know all these jokes. |
| 0:51.1 | Let me try telling these jokes on stage. |
| 0:53.2 | And they laughed and I told more and they laughed some more. |
| 0:55.6 | And they made an album and I went like this. |
| 0:58.8 | I mean I was crawling and crawling and then I sent my albums to Howard and he called me |
| 1:03.5 | up and I went in and sat in on the show and I said, you're a lot of fun. |
| 1:07.7 | Come back next week. |
| 1:09.2 | And I worked there once a week for free for three years. |
| 1:12.5 | I mean I'd put a paid my dues. |
| 1:15.2 | And it was so, it was gradual, gradual, gradual and eventually all of a sudden I'm rich. |
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