All right, here we are. This is a special episode today. It is a Friday episode,

something I never do, but it happens to fall on the exact day, December 6th, that I

started comedy ten years ago today. Ten years ago today, I stepped on the stage

for the very first time, tried stand-up comedy, and then that was it. I'd never

stopped doing it. And now here we are, ten years. It feels like, seriously, it feels

like about five years, and I don't know where the rest of it went. A lot of it was

a blur from just pounding the ground and grinding, and I can remember a lot of the

gigs, and I can't remember a lot of the gigs. It's just been non-stop work for

ten years, and here we are. And I want to do drop-in episode today because

something very, very bizarre happened recently, and I think that, like I always say,

things happen for a reason. But the day I started comedy, 2009, December 6th, I

walked into the Ha Ha Comedy Club. It was a, actually, 2009, December 6th. I did my first set

at the Hollywood improv. It was like this, so you want to do comedy, this LA stand-ups,

a friend of mine now, who's been a friend for ten years, put on this show, and I did it.

But the next day, which would be like the seventh, I went to the Ha Ha Cafe Open Mic,

and sat next to this guy, and we started to talk. We found out that we both had a lot

of things in common. He was 47, I was 44. We were both trying to do comedy. People were

looking at us like we were out of our minds. Like a couple cavemen had rolled in, some sunset

strip tumbleweeds, as I would call it. And we met, and we bonded over rock and roll, and thank

God this man was here because you need a friend when you're starting comedy, because it's so weird.

And eventually, over that year, first year, I made some great, great friends, and that really

helped me to keep going. Guys like Steve Henry, Sean Carrigan, and my guest today, John J. C. Morgan.

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