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I'm back. Of course, I'm your host,

Rickada Vendis. Also, no, is Ricky Fran. It's in a great episode for you today. My apologies for such a hiatus since the last episode. Sometimes life does get a little chaotic. And even though it doesn't look like it, I do struggle sometimes to balance everything, find the energy and time to do all the things I need to do and want to do. Of course, if this show was my full-time gig, it'd be much easier,

but the balance, all the things, and my full-time job, it is difficult. But like, I always remind

you guys, if a small percent of people who listen to the Ripple Effect podcast donated as little

as a dollar a month, I could easily do this job full-time, which is the goal. And speaking of the goal of doing

something you love and enjoy, today I have a guest that's on his journey to doing that. His real

name is Anthony, but if you're a fan of Kill Tony, you might know him as a stage name Tony Pepperoni.

In the past, I've had a lot of comedians on the Amazing Jonathan, Ian Bags, Jimmy Dore, Jim Florentine, Jim Brewer. So as you know, I'm a huge fan of stand-up. And besides hanging out with Sam Tripoli on the Union of the Unwanted, I haven't had a stand-up comedian on in a long time. And when I saw Tony Pepperoni on Kill Tony, I thought he was hilarious. was was so over-the-top silly, which is some of my

favorite comedy and really hard to do. So I figured, why not reach this guy before he blows up?

And let's talk to him about his journey, his writing style, and everything in between. So I had

Anthony on to talk about his journey from open mics to blowing up on

Instagram after Kill Tony and the whole journey on how he got on the show, everything that

happened before during and after. So it's a fun discussion. We also talk a little bit about

freedom of speech and censorship.

And I'll put links in the show description to his act on Kill Tony if you guys want to look it up.

And before we get into this amazing conversation,

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