For the mind.

I think you're going to like him a lot.

Make some noise for the one.

The only wild animals.

Everybody uses.

I think a lot of people look at all these, Well, you could be in a theater and like you could be killing, but like, facial expressions mean a lot.

So, like, I've had some show over, like you say, an edgy joke, and you don't know how it went over because you don't see the stink face.

So you don't see the, like, confused face in a small club, you know, everybody's opinion on every joke you're telling.

So I know what joke to back this joke with.

Like if I tell this joke and we all got touchy and I can see your face now, I can make the decision if I want to double down or if I want to make a shift.

A more family friendly stuff.

My my cousin, my little cousin just got arrested recently.

He's been going in and out of the system and it's been over a little petty stuff.

And I've been recently like, really?

And you never know when it gets too far, you know?

I mean, there's always a line with, Oh, we actually have a real problem here.

And I my cousin called me up to pick him up from the police station.

He was right at the police station.

This is when I realized he had a real problem.

Right.

Like, sort of like dude is getting out of hand.

He's like, Dude, I don't have a hollow man.

Take a left right here.

I know Sorcha.

I started comedy seriously when I was like 14.

I watched Dave Chappelle's special Sticks and Stones and my dad told me, like, you should do this.

So he just started sneaking me into bars and stuff and started there.

Kind of started the snowball rolling before when I first started, like my first year, I had like, like 500 sets of the like three sets.

And every single night I was always out.

Now I'm kind of only out if I have brand new stuff because like, I don't know, I get robotic if I keep on trying the same thing over and over again.

So like, I, I can't or I can, but I don't sit down and be like, okay, I have to write a joke now.

I'll just be walking or like doing something and it'll hit me and then I kind of write it.

So it's kind of, I don't know, it's more response.

It kind of just happens more than I don't make it happen.

It just does happen.

You know what I mean?

When I do get the material, I kind of write down a little rough outline of it, and then I have to try it on stage, like so like I got I write on stage, so I just talk it out on stage and just ramble.

One thing that helps is making my videos, To be honest, I'll record and then just spill everything in my head and then editing kind of shows me what's really not funny when I clip everything out.

I use that to kind of okay those on the set, on stage, and then just figure it out from there.

To be honest, I like to keep it separate.

One reason I like to do my social media in my stage comedy separate is because I don't like when people come to my shows and oh, I've heard that online.

I don't like that one.

And then too, I feel like like if you bought tickets to a show, you deserve something that you can't find for free online.

This is a message to my mama.

Mama, when are you going understand that just because you lose something don't mean that we stole it.

My mama lost her charger the other day and she hates the group chat.

What?

Death?

My charger adapter out there together somewhere in this house.

If they're under your possession, please return.

You can leave by my door and walk away slowly.

What kind of John Wick hostage message is this online?

I could just be like, Oh, yeah, Don't you hate when bam, bam, bam happens?

Or my.

Oh, yeah, I do hate that on stage.

I can't just say that I got to have some smart writing backed up behind me.

My parents are out of the country and I'm stuck at home babysittin Now y'all might be thinking, Elijah, don't you got four younger siblings?

Yeah, well, I lost one.

Okay, but don't worry, I still got three left.

That 75% a passing grade mean I miss high school.

I do.

Because, like, my high school was kind of ghetto.

Like every single year at my high school, a teacher would get pregnant.

Yeah, and I was homeschooled, so I'm like, Mom, you got to chill, bro.

Anybody could be watching anything.

The amount of people that just big names that just drop in like open Mike, like, especially out placement work you have.

We had to show Chris Rock to walk in.

He was sad or somebody could just walk in.

They said, Oh, look, my little brother is calling me the one I'm talking about.

I bet you he's asking to use my peers work.

I pick up.

I pick up was like brothers work.

All right, Decide what you want.

I'm at a show right now.

What do you want?

Say what you want right now.

I at All right.

Bye.

My stuff is just more.

I just write clean just because that's just what I what ends up coming out on the pen.

But chart shows are weird.

I've done some for my grandpa's church.

Yeah, Yeah, they're.

They're very fun.

But everybody, the first 5 minutes is like crossing their arms, just waiting for you to mess up.

I did one for my grandpa's church, and my uncle came on stage before I even started and whispered to me like, Oh, I don't want to hear none of that mess.

Now I'm writing about y'all and y'all invited me here doing the Tribe.

I feel like older comics kind of resents it.

Like I just was working with this one comic a little bit ago and she was like, You know, you're doing so great, dude.

But like, you kids got it so much easier than we did.

I'm like, You have social media to do so that you can have it just too easy right now if you got on there.

So I'd recommend unless you want the hard way.

You want the hard way.

By all means, my guy.

Leave it to me.

I'm good.

But my mom, she would get worried about you.

She came up to me and she told me to say.

Elijah, what you got in common?

You don't work out.

So you don't need a plan B?

You know plan B, it is crazy hearing it coming from her.

Like you can have a million followers and then only 100,000 fans.

Yeah, I mean, I'm like, if you have the guy with a hundred thousand followers and they're all fans that want to buy a ticket, I'd rather that the more than 3 million followers that are just going to like a video, you know, so they, they all bring different things.

It kind of goes back and forth.

Like right now Instagram is working great for a lot of people.

YouTube just helps because it's long form.

So like if you post a comment especially that goes viral on YouTube, if somebody was in their house watching you for an hour, I'm sure they'll buy a ticket to watching for an hour just because somebody can stand you for 30 seconds on Tik Tok doesn't mean they're going to be able to buy a ticket to watch the.

So, you know.