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- 1:54Speaker 1: a very long time. She's a native of San Francisco.
- 1:57Speaker 1: She graduated from Dart MUC College with agree in government
- 2:01Speaker 1: and environmental policy. Well you think politics right, No, No, no, no,
- 2:07Speaker 1: not even close. She's an award winning director, actress, stand
- 2:10Speaker 1: up comedian, Best selling author, podcaster and activists Every Tuesday
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- 2:23Speaker 1: Please walk on the money Making Conversation, Asha Tyler, Oh, hi,
- 2:29Speaker 1: hi you sound? How are you? You know something when
- 2:31Speaker 1: you when you when you have a career like yours,
- 2:33Speaker 1: are still at a young age that you are. You
- 2:35Speaker 1: know that I gotta put this many of those uh
- 2:37Speaker 1: those adjectives of the success, and I gotta put in
- 2:40Speaker 1: my intro as possible, and you're doing a lot of
- 2:41Speaker 1: my friend, congratulations, very kind, thank you, very much, thank you.
- 2:47Speaker 1: You know, of all the things you've done, you've been
- 2:48Speaker 1: to talk show hosts, a podcast or stand up comedian. Author.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Let's let's just start breaking it down because a lot
- 2:54Speaker 1: of people may be familiar with your work. You know,
- 2:57Speaker 1: you're the first official black character on France Ends and
- 3:00Speaker 1: Criminal Minds, so you you know sitcom, drama, talk show host.
- 3:05Speaker 1: Let's go to talk show host because you know, you
- 3:09Speaker 1: know as a standout, you know you're on stage by
- 3:11Speaker 1: yourself a phone stand up, so I know the discipline
- 3:14Speaker 1: and you know, it's the microphone and the crowd and
- 3:16Speaker 1: this you you know, you can't run behind the curtain.
- 3:19Speaker 1: If it goes bad, it's going bad on you. Now
- 3:23Speaker 1: you're sharing information, you know what I'm saying. You know,
- 3:25Speaker 1: when the when we all have had that show as well,
- 3:28Speaker 1: you know, yeah, we have mu multiple shows they make
- 3:34Speaker 1: you know it develop sure, Well, I don't know if
- 3:38Speaker 1: it's senacaty because you know, I've been on stage and
- 3:40Speaker 1: and and and the amount of payment that I was
- 3:42Speaker 1: getting was really not matching the suffering I was dealing
- 3:46Speaker 1: with on the stage as to why these jokes are
- 3:48Speaker 1: to I agree, not commence it at all, and and
- 3:53Speaker 1: and the worst thing, And I don't know if you've
- 3:55Speaker 1: done those multiple show nights, you know, like I've done,
- 3:58Speaker 1: like the multiple nights with your seven o'clock show or
- 4:01Speaker 1: nine thirty show and then the midnight show. And here's
- 4:03Speaker 1: the problem. You have showed like that people somewhere along
- 4:07Speaker 1: the line, you just you're just doing comedy, and you
- 4:10Speaker 1: will start questioning did you do that joke in the
- 4:13Speaker 1: set that you Absolutely every comedian I've had that conversation
- 4:18Speaker 1: with so many of my beers where by the midnight
- 4:20Speaker 1: show you'll start, you'll start a joke and in your
- 4:23Speaker 1: head saying, oh, no, I already told this joke to
- 4:25Speaker 1: this crowd, and you stop, and they're staring at you,
- 4:28Speaker 1: and you're staring at them, and you're trying to run
- 4:30Speaker 1: through your head like did I do this already? And
- 4:32Speaker 1: then by there you are you completely be railed. Or
- 4:34Speaker 1: the other thing where you have a call back at
- 4:36Speaker 1: the end of the set and you realize right when
- 4:38Speaker 1: you're about to do the callback joke that you never
- 4:40Speaker 1: did this set up earlier. I forgot about. Yeah, I'll
- 4:47Speaker 1: tell you something. Those are as a stand up. Now,
- 4:50Speaker 1: now let's let's there's the bad part about when you
- 4:52Speaker 1: lose confidence in your material from the standpoint did you
- 4:55Speaker 1: say the joke already? Because if you're a headliner and
- 5:00Speaker 1: the headline is like four or five minutes to an hour,
- 5:02Speaker 1: if you're like five to ten minutes into your set
- 5:05Speaker 1: and you start questioning your jokes, so the whole set,
- 5:11Speaker 1: you're tipping through the whole set with no layer of confidence.
- 5:15Speaker 1: And so if you're not giving one you noticed for
- 5:19Speaker 1: a fact, then the crowd's not going to give it
- 5:21Speaker 1: back to you. And then it just be because there's
- 5:23Speaker 1: like this inestible right because this other layers of the
- 5:26Speaker 1: material that's not just your performance, not just the material.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Like you said, that confidence that energy that you connect
- 5:32Speaker 1: with an audience. And if you don't connect with them
- 5:34Speaker 1: early on and they you lose confidence yourself, they lose
- 5:37Speaker 1: confidence in you, and then that set is just wash.
- 5:39Speaker 1: She might as well go home. Yeah, I am, I
- 5:41Speaker 1: know exactly, And then she said the incomparable callback line.
- 5:46Speaker 1: A callback, it's something you set up a joke. You know.
- 5:49Speaker 1: David Arnold, he's on a Netflix. He has a great
- 5:52Speaker 1: special on Netflix right now. He does a lot of
- 5:54Speaker 1: call back in his comedy set. And I complimented them.
- 5:57Speaker 1: I call that old school comedy right when you when
- 6:00Speaker 1: when you set up you know what I'm saying. You
- 6:02Speaker 1: set up your joe, then you put a little line
- 6:04Speaker 1: in there, and then by fifteen man as you call
- 6:06Speaker 1: it back, what gets quit? If you don't set up
- 6:08Speaker 1: that joke that just you're gonna get that call back on,
- 6:12Speaker 1: then you look really stupid at that moment because you
- 6:14Speaker 1: ain't for people to laugh, because you know, because if
- 6:17Speaker 1: the callback is a given that you wouldn't use it
- 6:19Speaker 1: if it wasn't funny, but it's no good if you
- 6:22Speaker 1: haven't set up the joke. And so as a stand
- 6:24Speaker 1: up and being a female stand up comedian, you know,
- 6:27Speaker 1: the challenges always whenever I get a female stand up
- 6:30Speaker 1: on my show, because I know it's a male stand
- 6:32Speaker 1: up and that there's a black mail stand up, there's
- 6:34Speaker 1: there's there has been a journey for me dealing with
- 6:37Speaker 1: you know, restrictions on stage. And that's a female comedian.
- 6:40Speaker 1: You don't have to deal with sexism. You know you're attractive,
- 6:43Speaker 1: so you have to deal with that, Ayesha. So just
- 6:46Speaker 1: talking about the journey of you know, of being a
- 6:50Speaker 1: stand up, breaking into the game and then started being
- 6:52Speaker 1: respected by the play by your peers. Sure well, I
- 6:57Speaker 1: mean I think and I'm sure that you know this.
- 7:00Speaker 1: You know, when you're when you're a young comedian, you
- 7:03Speaker 1: know you're kind of your ambition and your desire is
- 7:05Speaker 1: typically way ahead of your ability. And that's that's you know,
- 7:09Speaker 1: comedian to like athletes, you know, how how naturally sounded
- 7:12Speaker 1: you are, you have to train and it just takes time.
- 7:15Speaker 1: And you know, I think for me, I always loved
- 7:19Speaker 1: then I did it to the very first set that
- 7:20Speaker 1: I did it, But It just takes a long time
- 7:23Speaker 1: to get to a place where you're performing at the
- 7:25Speaker 1: level that you want to, the level that you envisioned
- 7:27Speaker 1: for yourself, and you have a lot of shows that
- 7:29Speaker 1: really don't go very well. I always laugh when people say,
- 7:31Speaker 1: have you ever had a bad set? I'm like, I've
- 7:33Speaker 1: had a thousand bad sets? No working No, no successful
- 7:36Speaker 1: working comedian hasn't had thousands of bad sets. Like, that's
- 7:40Speaker 1: what makes you, That's what makes you strong. That's what
- 7:43Speaker 1: makes you a good comic is knowing how to tolerate
- 7:46Speaker 1: a quiet crowd, knowing how to turn them around, have
- 7:48Speaker 1: the confidence in yourself even when you know the night's
- 7:50Speaker 1: gone poorly. And and I just think that, you know what,
- 7:55Speaker 1: the only secret to success for me, you know, other
- 7:57Speaker 1: than being relentless, was, you know, kind relentlessly pursuing excellence
- 8:01Speaker 1: in myself, constantly working to be funnier. It was just
- 8:03Speaker 1: not clinic, you know what I mean. Like, it's just
- 8:05Speaker 1: it's that old Malcolm Gladwell ten thousand hours rule. You
- 8:09Speaker 1: have to be up on stage for those ten thousand
- 8:11Speaker 1: hours for it to really start to feel like second nature.
- 8:14Speaker 1: But you know, like you said, it doesn't pay you
- 8:16Speaker 1: know there years where you're not making any money and
- 8:17Speaker 1: you're up there suffering and you know you're just like,
- 8:20Speaker 1: this is not enough money for me to go studios again,
- 8:23Speaker 1: forget it. But but you know I loved it and
- 8:26Speaker 1: I and I stuck with it in I had every
- 8:28Speaker 1: kind of adversity that you've heard of, you know, comedy
- 8:30Speaker 1: club owners telling me I wasn't gonna make it. You know,
- 8:32Speaker 1: girls aren't funny, all that stuff, and it's you know
- 8:35Speaker 1: it exists and uh, and you know you just let it.
- 8:38Speaker 1: You let it slide off your back if you can,
- 8:40Speaker 1: you're able to. But you know they're really were people.
- 8:43Speaker 1: You could relate to this because you've been successful in
- 8:45Speaker 1: so many different layers as because you're a successful comedian. Okay,
- 8:49Speaker 1: there are people out there who say there commit to media,
- 8:51Speaker 1: but you know, we had that conversation like that and so,
- 8:54Speaker 1: but it allows you to have a Uh, public speaking
- 8:59Speaker 1: is no big deal. Your improm skills on because you
- 9:02Speaker 1: can be in the middle of a set and somebody started,
- 9:04Speaker 1: somebody start interrupting yourself. You better be ready to deal
- 9:06Speaker 1: with that person or they will destroy you. And so
- 9:09Speaker 1: and so. Then you've taken these talents and then you know,
- 9:13Speaker 1: and used it to host a very popular in up show.
- 9:16Speaker 1: You've taken these talents to be able to be a
- 9:18Speaker 1: co host a very talented UH talk show. So how
- 9:22Speaker 1: how has been a stand up? I'm gonna ride that
- 9:25Speaker 1: stand up through everything, even as a getting into the
- 9:27Speaker 1: mixing of the drinks, because because I know the power
- 9:30Speaker 1: of being a stand up, because of the fact that
- 9:32Speaker 1: how has helped me, whether I've been in because you
- 9:36Speaker 1: know I used to be and you don't know me,
- 9:38Speaker 1: but my degree was in mathematics. I worked for IBM,
- 9:40Speaker 1: and I used to get meetings and because I had
- 9:43Speaker 1: a stand up background, I could just tell how people
- 9:45Speaker 1: looked at me and go, he looks so comfortable, it
- 9:47Speaker 1: looks so comfortable, and so but that that's comfortable, that
- 9:51Speaker 1: that zone of comfortableness, or whether you're directing a criminal
- 9:55Speaker 1: mind or whether you are acting in a comedic role,
- 9:58Speaker 1: let's let's show the assets of a being that stand
- 10:01Speaker 1: up being at having a stand up caper has done
- 10:02Speaker 1: for your brand. It's it's it's just really you're it's
- 10:07Speaker 1: really well put and you know, I'm not surprised that
- 10:09Speaker 1: you have a degree in mathematics and you went to
- 10:11Speaker 1: stand up to standards are typically incredibly intelligent. They're able
- 10:15Speaker 1: to think on their feet, They're able to think in
- 10:17Speaker 1: complex ways, Like I can totally see how those two
- 10:19Speaker 1: things share a relationship. That you were a scientist and
- 10:22Speaker 1: also a stand up comedian. Um, and I think you
- 10:25Speaker 1: know it's it's the tenacity that you get with comedy
- 10:28Speaker 1: where you have to be up on stage, you have
- 10:30Speaker 1: to hold an audience. You can't duck to the exits
- 10:32Speaker 1: if it doesn't go your way. And like you said,
- 10:35Speaker 1: the comfort level that you get not just one thing
- 10:37Speaker 1: that are going well, but one things are going poorly,
- 10:40Speaker 1: to know in your head, I can turn this background
- 10:42Speaker 1: and that and you know, I know you felt that
- 10:44Speaker 1: as a stand up where you've lost an audience and
- 10:46Speaker 1: you have done it long a us that you know, okay,
- 10:48Speaker 1: I I know I can get them back and get
- 10:51Speaker 1: them back. It's that confidence. And I think you know,
- 10:54Speaker 1: luckily that that skill set that I got from stand
- 10:56Speaker 1: up and helped me, like you said, in every single
- 10:57Speaker 1: thing I've done, because it's the ability to think, I'm
- 11:00Speaker 1: of feet. It's the ability to take disparate you know,
- 11:02Speaker 1: sets of information, disparate data and synthesize it into new ideas.
- 11:06Speaker 1: It's the ability to pivot. It's the ability not to
- 11:08Speaker 1: feelings just in front of a crowd. Uh, It's it's
- 11:11Speaker 1: the bravery of standing up in front of strangers and
- 11:14Speaker 1: communicating big ideas. And you know that you can use
- 11:17Speaker 1: that in any field at any time. You know, great
- 11:19Speaker 1: and the comedy that you love. Great comedy. There's lots
- 11:21Speaker 1: of funny guys out there, you know, guys who are
- 11:23Speaker 1: physical comics, guys who are joke comics. But the great
- 11:26Speaker 1: comics are the guys that are talking about big socio
- 11:30Speaker 1: cultural and personal ideas. You know, the guys that devastate,
- 11:33Speaker 1: the guys that say something that makes you think, you
- 11:35Speaker 1: know mak her a month or a year down the line.
- 11:37Speaker 1: And so, you know, great comedy involves a lot of
- 11:40Speaker 1: sophisticated thinking and also being able to be nimble on
- 11:43Speaker 1: your feet. And I think that's those are probably the
- 11:45Speaker 1: two things that I've taken away from comedy that have
- 11:48Speaker 1: been the most useful in my other jobs. Is the
- 11:50Speaker 1: ability to be comfortable and and and and the dynamic
- 11:53Speaker 1: setting and to improvise and to be confident in communicating
- 11:57Speaker 1: big ideas to other people. And being persuasive. Wow, you
- 12:01Speaker 1: know I couldn't you know, I know what you're saying,
- 12:03Speaker 1: and I know that that undeniable fear. You have to
- 12:07Speaker 1: be fearless when you go on stage. You have to
- 12:10Speaker 1: I mean different cities. I always tell people, you don't
- 12:12Speaker 1: know if somebody having a bad day, you know, the
- 12:15Speaker 1: person sitting next to they're not a happy couple, you know,
- 12:18Speaker 1: if if they're angry when they walk in there, or
- 12:20Speaker 1: they drawnk. You don't know. You're walking on stage in
- 12:24Speaker 1: San Francisco or New York or Chicago or Dallas or
- 12:27Speaker 1: Houston or wherever. And once you able, once you're able
- 12:31Speaker 1: to make them laugh, and all those different planes, and
- 12:34Speaker 1: I'm talking at different cities at different time zone. That's
- 12:36Speaker 1: when you go, I can do this for a little
- 12:39Speaker 1: and I can do anything. Really, like said, the fearless
- 12:43Speaker 1: sense that you have that you can do anything. You
- 12:46Speaker 1: know what you can do anything? You know, It's it's
- 12:48Speaker 1: beautiful talking to y'all. I'm glad we finally got you
- 12:51Speaker 1: know when you look at somebody on stone. I was
- 12:53Speaker 1: talking to my wife and uh many years ago, and
- 12:56Speaker 1: I probably probably remember this. I remember we were introduced
- 12:59Speaker 1: to you other and uh, I was an inspiring young writer.
- 13:03Speaker 1: And I see them and and they said, uh, we
- 13:07Speaker 1: want you to meet somebody. And we sat down. Of
- 13:09Speaker 1: course she was I was very young and you were
- 13:11Speaker 1: very young. You were younger. And they told me that
- 13:16Speaker 1: this is this young lady here has gifted she's gonna
- 13:18Speaker 1: make it. That's what your representatives saying. And just sit back.
- 13:21Speaker 1: And I've been able to watch your career and just
- 13:24Speaker 1: see it. I had no impact in it, I had
- 13:27Speaker 1: no play, no role in it. But the fact that
- 13:29Speaker 1: I met you at that early stage and to see
- 13:32Speaker 1: that you you stuck at it because they're no guarantees.
- 13:35Speaker 1: They're no guarantees that have this conversation I'm having with you,
- 13:38Speaker 1: and to see that you're not only We're gonna talk
- 13:42Speaker 1: about a lot of the other diverse things that you're
- 13:44Speaker 1: doing your life, especially when we talk about the bartending,
- 13:47Speaker 1: because that's gonna be the fun part. We're gonna close
- 13:49Speaker 1: the show out in the next break. But the fact
- 13:51Speaker 1: that you're not afraid, aisha, and and that is what
- 13:56Speaker 1: I have to compliment you on. And I know this
- 13:58Speaker 1: business as a stand up you are attractive. I know
- 14:01Speaker 1: what they do and how they treat people. It's just
- 14:05Speaker 1: the mindless business that we can call that we call
- 14:08Speaker 1: Hollywood can beat you down. And you have stood with respect,
- 14:13Speaker 1: you have stood with accomplishment. You've been honored. And my friend,
- 14:17Speaker 1: thank you. I want to close his first thank you. Okay,
- 14:21Speaker 1: thank you, that's lovely. Thanks for something. We'll be right
- 14:23Speaker 1: back with more. And my friend, the talented Aisha Tyler,
- 14:26Speaker 1: she's a bartender, she's a mixologist, she's uh, she's a
- 14:30Speaker 1: distillery owner. She's a director, so she might be directed
- 14:34Speaker 1: drunk sometimes, but we're gonna be right back. We're more
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- 16:51Speaker 1: guest award winning director, actress, stand up comedian, best selling author,
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- 18:02Speaker 1: out seam and then so the happy hours, it is
- 18:05Speaker 1: an opportunity for people to interact and like with me.
- 18:08Speaker 1: And then also every single happy hour, I've spocused on
- 18:11Speaker 1: the different COVID focused charity, So I highlight a different
- 18:14Speaker 1: charity that's doing COVID release. I encourage people to find
- 18:17Speaker 1: out more about them, to donate if they can. I
- 18:20Speaker 1: also give people resources to get assistance if they need assistance,
- 18:24Speaker 1: and then I and then I make a donation to
- 18:26Speaker 1: the to each to that charity at the end of
- 18:28Speaker 1: the hour. So it's just an opportunity to to connect
- 18:31Speaker 1: with people. And also for a lot of us, you know,
- 18:34Speaker 1: you want to do something, but you don't really know
- 18:36Speaker 1: what it is. You know, people can feel a little powerless,
- 18:38Speaker 1: uh in a in a crisis like this, So I
- 18:41Speaker 1: do some of the work to that these charities make
- 18:43Speaker 1: sure that they have a really strong rating on Charity Navigator,
- 18:46Speaker 1: so you know that they're efficient with the money. And
- 18:48Speaker 1: that's the money you donate is going to go to
- 18:50Speaker 1: the people that they help and uh. And also just
- 18:52Speaker 1: to teach people about charities they may never have heard
- 18:54Speaker 1: of and uh. And that's a good experience for me
- 18:56Speaker 1: because UM a highlight of some charities that I know
- 18:59Speaker 1: very well and that I've learned of some new ones
- 19:00Speaker 1: that have been really exciting to learn more about it
- 19:03Speaker 1: to support. Okay, let's talk about this, you know, we
- 19:07Speaker 1: got we gotta we gotta talk about the serious side,
- 19:09Speaker 1: because I would tell you some one thing. You know,
- 19:12Speaker 1: she she's straight business, she's straight activists, and she's in
- 19:17Speaker 1: the middle of entertainer Okay, so I just don't think
- 19:19Speaker 1: she's just an entertainer. So but we gotta get back
- 19:22Speaker 1: to the entertaining side of this conversation with this with
- 19:25Speaker 1: these mixologist skills. Now, to my understanding, they sent me
- 19:29Speaker 1: your bio over They said, Uh, you have a business
- 19:32Speaker 1: party of distillery in Brooklyn. Yeah. So, um, I have
- 19:37Speaker 1: a slip cocktail called Courage and Stone. Um there we
- 19:41Speaker 1: just we launched uh very like the beginning of this year. Uh,
- 19:45Speaker 1: and our distilleries in Brooklyn, and they're ready to drink cocktails.
- 19:49Speaker 1: So essentially, you know, you get home on a Wednesday
- 19:52Speaker 1: night and you want you don't want to You don't
- 19:54Speaker 1: want a bunch of drinks. You want just one great drink.
- 19:57Speaker 1: And for most of us, we don't know how to
- 19:58Speaker 1: make them at home. We don't have the ingredients, you
- 20:00Speaker 1: don't have the expertise. So you buy the drink. It's
- 20:03Speaker 1: ready to drink, keep board over ice, It's a ready
- 20:05Speaker 1: made cocktail, no mixing, no auditions, no masks, and you
- 20:09Speaker 1: have a perfect old fashioned right right away whenever you
- 20:12Speaker 1: want one. Okay, give us some brands. Are you are
- 20:14Speaker 1: You're talking about Longlan nice tea tight drinks are you
- 20:16Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, no, so we so we launched with
- 20:18Speaker 1: two classics, classic very very venerable American style cocktails, Old Fashioned,
- 20:23Speaker 1: the Lisquit Old Fashion and the Manhattan. Coming out with
- 20:27Speaker 1: a third flavor this summer. Yeah, the General Fashion. And
- 20:29Speaker 1: people know, people probably know the Old Fashion is probably
- 20:32Speaker 1: the most popular constitution in America. People know from watching
- 20:36Speaker 1: Madman or from watching you know, Crazy Stupid Love, all
- 20:39Speaker 1: these movies where people make a great Old Fashion, um
- 20:42Speaker 1: and so. And then the Manhattan, which is a beautiful classic, yeah,
- 20:47Speaker 1: very sexy, very romatic, great elegant. Yes, it's exactly. And
- 20:50Speaker 1: then we're having we're coming up with a third flavor
- 20:52Speaker 1: of General Fashion this summer, which is a bright, uh
- 20:55Speaker 1: kind of citrusy, good afternoon drink. Um. And then we're
- 20:58Speaker 1: gonna be coming at more flavor. These are cocktails that
- 21:01Speaker 1: are very spirit forward. They don't have any juice in them,
- 21:04Speaker 1: because you know, you don't you don't really want a
- 21:07Speaker 1: cocktail that where the juice can sit on a shelf
- 21:10Speaker 1: all day and night, that's got a real fresh that's
- 21:12Speaker 1: so these are spirit forward costs. You know. Um, they're
- 21:15Speaker 1: eight peru, same as a straight poll of the Liskey
- 21:17Speaker 1: so they're strong, so if you pour them over ice,
- 21:20Speaker 1: they're not gonna get watery and uh and kind of
- 21:23Speaker 1: start to taste bad. You know what I mean. They
- 21:24Speaker 1: really made to be savored over time. That's really awesome.
- 21:27Speaker 1: Now let's let's let's just talk about I want to
- 21:29Speaker 1: slow this down because that's that's that's an entrepreneur side
- 21:31Speaker 1: of you that I wasn't aware over when the book
- 21:34Speaker 1: and then you know, well, start reading your bio or
- 21:35Speaker 1: go what I didn't go. Yeah, so I'd say that
- 21:39Speaker 1: just like that what I talk the girl about this?
- 21:47Speaker 1: So and so you know when you so what can
- 21:50Speaker 1: go online? Go go on like what were they go
- 21:53Speaker 1: online to purchase it? Courage and Stone dot com that
- 21:56Speaker 1: currente like liquid Courage and the Stone dot Com. You
- 22:00Speaker 1: in order these cocktails directly to your home. Uh, and
- 22:03Speaker 1: that's been very meaningful for people now because they can't
- 22:05Speaker 1: go out to bars restaurants, so it's delivered directly to
- 22:09Speaker 1: your house. Um, and you don't have to do anything.
- 22:12Speaker 1: They're they're not mixers. You don't have to add anything.
- 22:14Speaker 1: You just orb over. I used to keep in the fridge,
- 22:16Speaker 1: you know, they're just they're on hand if friends come over. Uh,
- 22:19Speaker 1: they're beautiful. The bottles are beautiful. And right now, of
- 22:22Speaker 1: everything that we're making online, we are donating to the
- 22:25Speaker 1: US Bartenders Guild because you know, I want the bartender
- 22:28Speaker 1: in college. I owe so much of development of this
- 22:31Speaker 1: product to people in that in that business, and unlike restaurants,
- 22:35Speaker 1: bartenders haven't really been able to pivot take out and delivery,
- 22:39Speaker 1: so they're just not working right now. I mean when
- 22:41Speaker 1: I was a bartender, I was making a dollar ninety
- 22:43Speaker 1: an hour, so I lived on tips. That's how I
- 22:45Speaker 1: made a living. And for so many bartenders now have
- 22:47Speaker 1: no income. We just wanted to to to show that,
- 22:50Speaker 1: to show that part of our our economy a little
- 22:53Speaker 1: bit of love and support because you know, you're throw
- 22:58Speaker 1: out a little hands and about your ability. I was
- 23:00Speaker 1: a bartending college, so we'll let's says no, you know
- 23:03Speaker 1: that something that somebody just tapped you and shoulder and
- 23:05Speaker 1: say you want to make a little money on the side,
- 23:07Speaker 1: and this tyler, you said, look, I got skill set
- 23:09Speaker 1: to do this. So are Tom Cruise did the movie
- 23:12Speaker 1: Cocktails where he was spending bottles and flipping him and
- 23:15Speaker 1: bottle landing in his back pocket and all that good
- 23:18Speaker 1: stuff when he's fipping up in the air. Now, are
- 23:20Speaker 1: you're putting on a show? Are you? Are you just
- 23:22Speaker 1: making drinks. I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
- 23:24Speaker 1: I'm not trying of a I'm more of a classic bartender.
- 23:28Speaker 1: I'm more about the quality of the drink and the
- 23:30Speaker 1: experience with the drinker. And I think I love people
- 23:35Speaker 1: when I do it. It's a conversation because I teach
- 23:37Speaker 1: everybody at home out of do it. So I'm throwing
- 23:39Speaker 1: stuff in the air. I don't want to hit you.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I don't take your kid in the head of the
- 23:42Speaker 1: bottle of our freedom here in your living room. Um.
- 23:46Speaker 1: But it's also like a little bit of the history
- 23:48Speaker 1: of the cocktail, of the history in America. You know,
- 23:50Speaker 1: there are a very few women in this space. There
- 23:53Speaker 1: are almost no women of color in this space, absolutely, um.
- 23:56Speaker 1: And so it's also important for me to expand the
- 23:59Speaker 1: scope of how Peo'll see not bartending in the spirit category,
- 24:03Speaker 1: but also to know that we have we actually have
- 24:05Speaker 1: a long history in the sperious category. A black man
- 24:07Speaker 1: taught Jack Daniels, how did this still whiskey? This is
- 24:10Speaker 1: out part of our history. We've always been a part
- 24:12Speaker 1: of it. And I want to be able to tell
- 24:14Speaker 1: these stories again and also too um to let everybody
- 24:18Speaker 1: know that just because you're a woman doesn't mean you
- 24:19Speaker 1: want to drink some drink with an umbrella sticking out
- 24:21Speaker 1: of it, you know what I mean? I might to
- 24:22Speaker 1: drink serious drinks as well, you know, So I want to.
- 24:25Speaker 1: I want to. I want to. I want to bring
- 24:26Speaker 1: that out. And do you want to hit somebody to
- 24:29Speaker 1: cht with your drink? Sometimes just just no, no, no, no,
- 24:32Speaker 1: let's don't. Don't still the nectar, you know what I'm saying.
- 24:36Speaker 1: You're funny, you know. So it's every Friday is your
- 24:40Speaker 1: happy Did you have a name hap Friday night? Do
- 24:42Speaker 1: you have a name to call the Liquid Courage? Yeah,
- 24:44Speaker 1: it's called the Liquid Courage Happy hourage every Tuesday and
- 24:48Speaker 1: Friday at five o'clock on the West Coast of eight
- 24:50Speaker 1: o'clock on the East coast on YouTube. And I typically
- 24:54Speaker 1: post the ingredients and the information online a little bit
- 24:58Speaker 1: beforehand so people can get the ingredient together and meet
- 25:01Speaker 1: me on Facebook and YouTube at five o'clock UM or
- 25:05Speaker 1: eight o'clock on the East coast and we'll all make
- 25:06Speaker 1: your drink together and then people can ask me questions.
- 25:09Speaker 1: I tell them, if you want to ask you a question,
- 25:10Speaker 1: you can put tweet me or put it in the
- 25:12Speaker 1: YouTube in the YouTube feed. And I asked you answer
- 25:15Speaker 1: people questions about anything they want to know about Criminal Line,
- 25:18Speaker 1: to talk whose line, friends Archer, about filmmaking, about whatever
- 25:22Speaker 1: they want to know. And I answered some questions at
- 25:24Speaker 1: the end of the happy hour. So it's a conversation
- 25:26Speaker 1: with any bartender. It's a nice way to connect. I
- 25:28Speaker 1: love that. I love that thing. So you you mentioned
- 25:30Speaker 1: the show that I want to bring up about that.
- 25:31Speaker 1: You know that you're directed some episodes called Criminal Mind,
- 25:35Speaker 1: and I talked about you know, I was are very
- 25:37Speaker 1: talented stand up comic, if I do say so much.
- 25:40Speaker 1: But my gift to my my blessings was I I
- 25:44Speaker 1: wanted to be behind the camera. I love writing, I
- 25:47Speaker 1: love producing, I love managing. And that that's where I
- 25:50Speaker 1: feel now I'm back in my back on the microphone. Yes,
- 25:53Speaker 1: life is like that. There there are always people paying
- 25:55Speaker 1: for change. That's what I love about your career. Life
- 25:58Speaker 1: was dynamic. Your career is a test to me, somebody
- 26:01Speaker 1: throw you a quality option. You're gonna pivot go what what? What?
- 26:04Speaker 1: What what what? And I want to and I want
- 26:07Speaker 1: to say that to you by because a lot of
- 26:09Speaker 1: people when I talk about this show, you know, they
- 26:12Speaker 1: are you know, it's about making change. And I always
- 26:14Speaker 1: tell people when you make change, you're not always happy
- 26:17Speaker 1: or comfortable with that change. You know, you're always happy
- 26:19Speaker 1: or comfortable with the opportunity, but you can't let that
- 26:21Speaker 1: fear or that doubt stop you. And when I look
- 26:24Speaker 1: at your resume, now, look at your resume. Every title
- 26:27Speaker 1: I throw out about you, or winning director, that's a
- 26:30Speaker 1: real deal for you. Actress, that's a real deal for you.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Stand up comedian that's a real deal. Best selling author, podcast,
- 26:39Speaker 1: the activists, all these things I'm saying about her and
- 26:43Speaker 1: is not just throw away credits or credits that she's
- 26:46Speaker 1: done in the past. She's actively participating and functioning and
- 26:51Speaker 1: all these very diverse opportunities right now. How do you
- 26:54Speaker 1: keep that hat on your head with all those options
- 26:57Speaker 1: just floating around and then maintaining a balance life, Are
- 27:01Speaker 1: you sure? Well? First of all, I think you've been
- 27:05Speaker 1: You've been saying it's so elegantly this entire time that
- 27:08Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be uncomfortable. You know, that.
- 27:11Speaker 1: I think a lot of times people don't make changes
- 27:13Speaker 1: or pursue the things that they want because they're afraid
- 27:15Speaker 1: of failure or they're afraid of discomfort. And that's a
- 27:18Speaker 1: natural human instinct, just to avoid discomfort or to avoid failure.
- 27:21Speaker 1: But you really can't you can't make forward motion. You
- 27:25Speaker 1: can't make change without a being willing to fail and
- 27:28Speaker 1: being willing to learn from your failures and keep going
- 27:31Speaker 1: and be to accept that at some point you're not
- 27:33Speaker 1: going to be good at what you want to do,
- 27:34Speaker 1: and to really be open to learning and and and
- 27:37Speaker 1: to growing. And I think, UM, I never want to
- 27:41Speaker 1: be I never want to be complacent. I always want
- 27:43Speaker 1: to be learning about myself. I always want to be
- 27:45Speaker 1: challenging myself. I'm willing to do something and say, well,
- 27:48Speaker 1: that didn't go my way, but here's what I learned
- 27:50Speaker 1: about myself or what I learned about that skill set
- 27:53Speaker 1: and UM. And I always want to drive and push
- 27:56Speaker 1: myself to be the best that I can be. UM,
- 28:00Speaker 1: which sometimes can be very frightening, but I think it's important.
- 28:02Speaker 1: I know there were people who came before me who
- 28:05Speaker 1: pushed themselves to create a space for women might be
- 28:08Speaker 1: to be able to have more opportunities, and I want
- 28:11Speaker 1: to be able to create that space for other people
- 28:13Speaker 1: of color and for other women to challenge themselves and
- 28:16Speaker 1: to grow. And so I also that's the part of
- 28:18Speaker 1: what pushed to be forward is is something I do
- 28:21Speaker 1: inspire somebody else to be brave about their own pursuits,
- 28:24Speaker 1: then it's been worth it. But I just don't want
- 28:27Speaker 1: to be at the end of my life and feel
- 28:28Speaker 1: like I didn't give it everything I had and feel
- 28:31Speaker 1: and you not that would not be in your unity.
- 28:33Speaker 1: You know that she time door, That will not be
- 28:36Speaker 1: in your unity. You know, I'm just saying I did
- 28:39Speaker 1: it all, and that'd be on your grades. No, I
- 28:40Speaker 1: did it all and maybe some moth, maybe some That
- 28:45Speaker 1: is definitely yeah, that's for sure for sure. You know,
- 28:48Speaker 1: you gotta get out of these streets, right there's nothing,
- 28:51Speaker 1: nothing is guaranteed, and you got the one life. You
- 28:53Speaker 1: gotta go for it as hard as you possibly can.
- 28:55Speaker 1: And before before we go, I want to just talk
- 28:57Speaker 1: about your directing. That's another area where females don't participate
- 29:01Speaker 1: as much. You know, we we've seen a lot of
- 29:03Speaker 1: been high profile film projects. The movie production deals are
- 29:07Speaker 1: being starting to come out now. But to be behind
- 29:10Speaker 1: the camera and directing as a female. Let's talk walcous
- 29:13Speaker 1: through that step and walk us through the steps and
- 29:15Speaker 1: getting an opportunity to do that on a hot, hot
- 29:18Speaker 1: profile projects, not independent project that you thought of you
- 29:21Speaker 1: getting your friends, though, I'm talking about network approved show.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Let's talk about that right. Well. I think the reason
- 29:27Speaker 1: I got the networker proved shows is because of the
- 29:29Speaker 1: independent projects, because in the beginning, no one would give
- 29:32Speaker 1: me a shot. So I started making my own stuff
- 29:35Speaker 1: to demonstrate my skills that show what I could do.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Is that way it came down to have a bigger opportunity.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I had a calling card, I had something I could
- 29:42Speaker 1: show people, and really, you know, by the time I
- 29:45Speaker 1: directed my first episode of Criminal Minds, I already directed
- 29:47Speaker 1: seven short films and an independent feature and that was
- 29:50Speaker 1: really what unlocked the door to those bigger projects. And
- 29:53Speaker 1: so I always tell people, you know, start wherever you
- 29:56Speaker 1: can and push yourself to be as excellent as you
- 29:59Speaker 1: can be so that when the big opportunity comes along,
- 30:02Speaker 1: you're ready and you're confident and you know you can
- 30:04Speaker 1: do it. And that's that's really how that came about.
- 30:07Speaker 1: When I finally wanted to direct on television. I had
- 30:09Speaker 1: already directed a feature film, so they couldn't very well
- 30:12Speaker 1: say I didn't have the experience, you know, because I did.
- 30:15Speaker 1: My friend Every Tuesday and Friday, five pm Pacific a
- 30:19Speaker 1: p m YouTube, Facebook. She gonna put she's gonna put
- 30:23Speaker 1: the menu of the drinks. She's gonna do online pride
- 30:25Speaker 1: to the show. I'm I'm gonna tune in tonight. I'm
- 30:28Speaker 1: a tune in tonight to watch. You've already told me.
- 30:31Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna be spinning bottles and doing
- 30:33Speaker 1: magic tricks. No, just go have a conversation intimate. Yeah,
- 30:37Speaker 1: you know you're like the Jade's Ball. I feel like
- 30:41Speaker 1: I'll be watching the James Bond type of cool, cool
- 30:44Speaker 1: person on the oh YouTube mixing drinks and talking, swab
- 30:48Speaker 1: move and all that good stuff. You're fantacting. Thank you
- 30:54Speaker 1: so much for sun. I really appreciate appreciate it. I
- 30:56Speaker 1: will be promoting your brain and I'll definitely be pushing
- 30:58Speaker 1: and you you'll see me pop up bow YouTube and Facebook. Okay,
- 31:03Speaker 1: be strong now, thank you for doing the show. I
- 31:06Speaker 1: appreciate you alright. If you won't hear more money making
- 31:09Speaker 1: conversation and if you just going to money Making Conversation
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