Before most of us experienced a heavy degree of censorship, they already had locked down certain areas of entertainment, certain areas of especially comedy.

Comedy was so crucial for the establishment to go after to shut down because, of course, free speech and freely mocking things is a very powerful weapon.

And you can't have that in a top down totalitarian control system.

And one of the first entities out there to really experience this on a pretty, I would say, heavy-handed level is the famous

sketch troop, a million dollar extreme, three of whom you probably have heard of, Sam, Nick and Charles. Now we've had Sam on here

a couple of years ago. It was a really popular interview. One of the first, really popular

fourth hour interviews that I did, got a lot of views. So I thought it would be appropriate

to bring on another person who's part of that troop, Nick Rochefort, who's also now blowing

up. In fact, he's blowing up like a jihadi

in September. I click on one YouTube video of Nick and basically all I see for the next six

months is Nick videos. Nick recently did a tour. I got to see them live. They hosted me on

their podcast, Perfect Guy Life. But Nick also does a bunch of other

topics and shows on his own. He does stand up. He does scuffed realtor. So we're going to

talk to Nick if we can. I want to start out with asking him some questions about his experience

back when they first blew up as a million-dollar stream.

Tell me how you guys came together, what sparked this.

Then we'll kind of get into the phase of the success of the show,

and then you guys getting pretty much locked down.

How did you guys meet?

We met through my cousin, Brian Rochefort, who was a fellow student with Sam at

RISD. And he was like, you got to meet this guy. I was doing poor stand-up comedy. I was

doing like 20-year-old stand-up comedy in 2004 before I did anything. And I was running like a landscaping company.

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