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You talked about earlier about putting worth on yourself

because when you first started out and you made $5 for gas money,

I was making $15 to $20 and

making 400 mile round trips when I was living in Tennessee

when I went down there to the USWA.

So I'm not asking for dollar signs.

I don't want to know anything now.

How did you start, you know, you come out to to LA you don't make it you go back to

New York you write your ass off you get some gigs things are starting to spin up I

always tell all the guys you get in the business pro wrestling You've got to learn the business part of the business, not just the stuff in the ring.

Oh yeah, absolutely. That's the ring, that's the entertainment part of it.

And it comes the business aspect of it. So as a comedian and dude, all of a sudden, you get into some demand you hit a lull you get come on and because you get a break from open Anthony and Jim Norton

the HBO thing how do you determine hey this is what is what it's going to cost you?

You can't negotiate your own thing.

You got to get a good agent.

And what I did is I got with a guy who was,

he was like me.

We started working together in like 2001, Mike Berkowitz and he was trying to make a name for himself and I was trying to make a name and we were right at the exact same like place and as I've gone up you know the stand up ladder he's gone up the

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