Eight years ago, I found myself at Temple University taking a class called Comedy Workshop.

The class fell within my broadcast telecommunications degree, and in the class, we were to make

sketch comedy videos. Yes, this is the same degree that ended up costing me six figures over the

course of four years. I never claimed to make the best decisions in life.

In that class, I'd meet another student named Nathan Giala.

We became really good friends.

He encouraged me to do stand-up comedy.

We hatched plans to make sketch comedy videos.

He was even the subject of my very first documentary, a 15 to 20 minute film

about stand-up comedy in Philly. From that point, he took a very unconventional path, and he made the

9,000 mile journey from Philadelphia to Cambodia and later Vietnam. He started out teaching English to students

there, but eventually found himself drawn back into comedy and doing stand-up comedy for a very

different audience in those two countries. We talk about some of those early days in this episode.

We talk about some of the struggles that he's overcome over those years.

It's a really fun conversation.

I had a really great time catching up with Nate.

I think you're going to like it.

This is episode 17 of The Ground Up Show.

I know. up show.

This is great.

This is good to have one of the founders of the name of the show on the podcast. The founders of the name.

Yeah.

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