July 13, 2023 • 37 mins
Amy's guest is the guy that every girl we know follows on socials, Trey Kennedy!! Trey is a comedian, singer, actor, influencer and he is funny, cool, nice...all the things!!
THINGS DISCUSSED:
- How Trey got his start (as a comedian / influencer)
- 4 Things Gratitude (Trey shared 4 things he's thankful for)
- Growing up in the church (evolving from fundamentalist roots)
- Is Trey funny because of hard times he faced as a child?
- Being a new dad (he just had his first baby!)
- Amy pitched a skit idea for Trey's "teenage" character!
- Knowing your value (a reminder to not undervalue your work!)
- Getting older (Trey gets vulnerable with his hair loss)
- Trying something new (which might mean sacrificing comfort)
- @abby.anderson1_ from the Bobby Bones Show also joins in on the chat too!
- And more!!
If you love to laugh (which who doesn't?) and you're not already following Trey...you should be...his handle is @treynkennedy. He first got attention on Vine back in the day and now has a huge presence on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. You will love his content (p.s. it's family friendly!!) and if you have a chance to see him live (he's currently on tour) you totally should!
HOST: Amy Brown // @RadioAmy // RadioAmy.com
GUEST: Trey Kennedy // @treynkennedy // TreyKennedy.com
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cass up little food for you. So, oh it's pretty bad.
It's pretty beautiful, beautiful. That for a little more exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
City. Your kick with with Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Brown, Happy Thursday, Four Things Amy here, and my guest
today is Trey Kennedy, comedian.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Sure, yeah, you can call me that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Comedian, influencer, influencer, fashion influencer a little.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Bit m hm. So I first found you on Instagram
during the pandemic. Is that when a lot of.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You I hear I've been doing it a while, so
it's coming waves, Like I started going viral ten years
ago and then but I hear a lot of people
like you got me through the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pandemic because you know, sweet mom energy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But we just made a bunch of videos because another
better to do, and they took off.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was like a great time to make content because
everyone was having a very shared experience.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well and I also think we wanted to laugh. Yeah, yeah,
and you were providing a way for that to happen.
Phone girl Abby from the Bobby Boncho sitting in here
with us, and she discovered you on vine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so you back in the day was.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
When did you know that this could make money and
you could do this for a living.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was just making videos for fun and then it
went viral and then you start making money and then
you then vine went away and I was graduating college.
I stayed in college to get an MBA because I
was just like, I don't want to leave here yet,
and I just kept making videos so very very much
like what is where's this going? And then kind of
(01:50):
I was doing it before influencer was even a term,
and then I'm an influencer, okay. And then I started
to be told I could sell tickets and I was like,
I don't to, but it was back in the day.
We're like, just you could do a little Q and
A or something. You could kind of come out, maybe
a costume and do it. I was like, oh, that
sounds very embarrassing. So I was like, let me try it.
I did some stand up sets and horrifying went okay,
(02:14):
but I got enough going where I was like, all right,
let's let's try to do some shows. So I was
like four years ago, So I went to your show.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Let's see in Nashville, oh, a year and a half ago?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It was I feel very lucky for COVID because I
was thrown into it so quick. I was going on
tour within like a year of doing stand up and
then COVID paused it for like nine months, and that
was like huge for my growth to like do all
those COVID shows with masks and half full and it's like, oh,
this sounds different than an easy sold out crowd.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's what does this make possible? Attitude during COVID, I
mean you found something to be thankful for during a
very difficult time, which I was actually thinking that a
way to get to know you a little better would
be to have you do four things gratitude as an icebreaker,
And it's really easy. All you have to do is
share four things that you're currently grateful.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
For, currently grateful for.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, first thing.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
First thing was the bidet in your bath?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh that was for my dad?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh is it okay? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I was like, wow, so I don't know. I was like,
I guess you're excedent and what that? You got to
keep that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Two side notes real quick, I definitely need to remove
that bid day. I mean, my dad passed away two
years ago. It's not even plugged in so I don't
even know why it's down there and haven't removed it yet.
And then yes, your joke, X take half joke. My
house is half empty because that's what happens with divorce.
(03:48):
You divide things up. So I just wanted to clarify
that and you can carry on. Second thing you're thankful for.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't know what's coming out, but today is I'm
a Nashville for my show with the Ryman sold out.
I think there's a five tickets left or something. So
very thankful for that. Yes, that's crazy, and so thankful
for that. Thankful for my crew and my friends and family.
I have two of my best friends coming to night.
My wife and my son will be there. But you're
(04:16):
a new dad, yeah, four month old grandparents are coming,
so Katie, my wife is going to get to, like,
you know, have a night out with all of us.
So grateful for that. The family. Great for in loss. Yeah,
because they're going to watch the baby and so avoid us.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Is that why you've now got baby content on your
Now you know what it's like, So you become a baby.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? Yeah, how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well? I adopted them?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh cool?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Only been a mom for five years, but sixteen and twelve.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh so you haven't done the newborn thing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No, I have no idea. That's where my newborn content
comes from.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You Okay, yeah, that's uh. I think people resonate with that.
That's just I was. I was cocky. I was like this.
I have friends they're very dramatic. This this can't be
and it is that bad.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
My friend that I was with last night, I was like, oh,
do you know, I think I think you got one
new follower. Okay, wow, because yeah, she was not yet
following you, and so I was like, no, no, no, look
at these videos. And that's when I realized, like some
of the baby ones and we were cracking up at
you being the baby from the baby's perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, that's good. She was enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Do you ever show people videos and they're just like,
I'm not I'm just not saying what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
She left, Yeah, well she and I don't think she
would work close enough to where she'd be like, eh, okay,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
She left.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So all the people, the things is that you're.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
For or you have one more but day Ryman family,
my crew. I've tried to do in laws as for
I need it force now.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No, you're good in laws is forth?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't have crazy in laws, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's what I mean. That's a really I didn't either,
which now I'm not sure what to call my in
laws because they're not my in laws anymore, but I'm
always going to love them and my mother in law
and I still text most days. So I mean, it's
just definitely an interesting season, you know, navigating a hard
change like this, and you know, speaking of hard things,
(06:16):
some people end up really funny because of adversity that
they have faced, oftentimes when they were younger. Is that
the case for you?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I really don't have anything traumatic.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I have a pretty peachy life, so it's not like
I would my parents locked me in a cage. So
now I'm hilarious. It was just my kind of way
to be cool. I wasn't that impressive in other areas,
so that was my thing. And the show, the tour,
I'm on it to grow Up tour, It's just my
first tour was very very much the introduction, just trying
to be funny, and this.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Is that the one I saw?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so this is the are you for real?
I was just kind of making fun of everyone. And
this is a little more, a little more personal vibe
to it. How I grew up life as a new
dad and you know, I haven't gone through too much.
But I talked about this in the show a little bit.
But our son had like a kind of a medical scare.
We had to go to the er and all this,
and like it was fine, But that was like a
(07:10):
life alterraining moment where I was like, oh, yeah, I
guess I've really become an adult here, because sometimes I
feel like what am I am I doing for a living?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm likely in my living room like twirling about.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Do you share your age? Do you minufes?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Thirty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Thirty?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, just turned thirty third, I'm like thirty and a half.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, some people they don't. They're like, no, I
don't want to share my age.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh okay, cool? Do you usual? What hell? Are you?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Forty two?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay? How I was turning forty.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm actually excited about my forties.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
When I turned thirty, I was like I'm getting botox, like,
and now then forty, I'm kind of like, okay, I
don't have to have it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
At the rush to an hair transplant doctor. I was like,
what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Did you really Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
He said, you're fine, just calm down.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But that's just it was like my first aging thing
of like, oh, someone took a photo me like behind me,
and was like.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
What, no one's told me this. That's good.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's disappearing and it's just a weird feeling to get
for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know, I'm a dude too.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know you women deal with way more, but like,
dudes don't think about how they look and tell they're thirty.
I feel like I'm like, well, wait, should I have
done something about this?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well? Also being online and on stage and do you
get criticized for like yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Think joke, I've make it a whole bit, just this.
I've been doing a whole bit. This past week, I
wore some shirt on stage. Some woman emailed Katie, my wife,
and was like, what what was that shirt Tray was
wearing on stage?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You bought him?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I would like to buy it for my husband. So
I had to go straight to my I buy my
own shirts. Okay, I have style, I have cool And
then there's mixed reviews on the shirt, but it's a
people love to tease.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I was just talking to my.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Instagram followers today and I'm getting dms. They're like, what
do you end up your balding? What are you gonna
do about it? And they just keep me humble and yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So different.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ray who is a producer on our show. He does
this thing where he gets like blood droned on and
then implanted into his forehead or something and it's just to.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Grow some regenerative what it's called.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Wow, but he has seen success. I can get the
exact situation.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, please lay up there, and I know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't know if he sits under some light after
the blood's injected.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
John Samos, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He says it's working for him, So that's something that
he uses, which I think for a guy, it's interesting
to hear. Yeah that y'all do have insecurities.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, and it definitely heightened because I am I have
a you know, very front facing job where a lot
of people are looking at my face and stuff. So
I don't know. I think a lot of dudes still
don't care. But it's just turning thirty. It's like my
twenties were like checking out women around me. My thirties,
I'm just like looking at guy's hair, it's like you
have so much it's unreal.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What is it like for you when it comes to
the content creation, because we're obviously seeing the final product,
the final video, and I'm just imagining you like one take, like, oh,
the nailed it. But you know who are those guys,
the trick shot guys? Oh? Can't I think of them?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Perfect?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Perfect? Yes, they're on tour.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That yeah, you should awesome. Are your kids into it
a little old?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
My son sort of? My daughter? Oh yeah, but my
son sort of it. But my nephews are they love
dude perfect? Why it's based on their name, but you know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Perfect nephews. But flax As, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, you see the one them doing nailing the shot,
but you don't see the hundred other times exactly didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Trick shots I've heard is a real grind because yeah,
you I don't know if you probably put it on video.
Recently they've made some shot from a thousand feet up
or something and they it took them three days, thousands
of tries. Definitely got it down to a science a
little bit where I've a small team and we kind
of running gun and a lot of it is one take,
and half of it's kind of written out and fleshed out,
(11:04):
but a lot of it's on the fly.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And is there any particular video where you kind of
thought like, hmmm, I don't know how this is going
to do, and then it's the one that like goes
the most viral or is there one that you're like, oh,
this is going to be amazing, people are gonna love it,
and then it totally both happen.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think as you do it with anything comedy, you
start to get a better sense, but things still surprise you.
The middle schooler character which so many moms have like
become a fan of mine because of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I have an idea for that too, to pitch you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh okay, okay, hold that thought. I was still a
one man's show when I first did that, So before Jake,
when you put the braces on, the first time I
ever did the character, there were no braces. It was
just acting like it back in the day when I
was a one man show. I would trypod myself and
do it. And you talk about a sad day to
day to picture that I remember. I remember, forget meeting
a girl at a bar and we're just She's like,
are you trying?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We're talking.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm thinking like, yeah, what's up girl, And she's like,
do you like who films?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'm like, I do it all myself. Not to brag.
She's like, so you just like set up a try
upon and I.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Was just like, oh my gosh, I need to hire
someone just but I that was one where I was like,
I don't just see, I don't should even post this.
This is kind of weird, Like thirty million views. I'm
just unbelievable and became this character I've you know, done
for years. So that was one, and then there's others, Yeah,
where I'll hire actors and we'll do this higher production
(12:25):
and spend a whole day, and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
it'll just kind of be like that's what's tough about
this game because middle schooler character took me thirty minutes
to make and it made thirty million views. And there's
other videos we spend two weeks on all in with
the edits and it gets no views. And you're so
that's a constant battle too, what's your pitch?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Okay, so my son is twelve, he'll be thirteen in August. Yeah,
and a lot of church camps this summer there were
I whatever, well listen, you're just trying to whatever. I'll
take any camp, you know, Like, of course we appreciate
that there church camps. But it's like now and like
(13:04):
he gets in the car and Stashira, my daughter, and
I were in there and we've kind of got it
on the pop station and you know, and we'll pick
Stevens up. He'll get in the car and he'll be like,
can y'all put it on the Christian station please? And
so she's like I was listening to this song and
he's like, y'all don't like Christian music anymore, you.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Know, or like, oh, oh great, my mom, she's a
heathen now, yes.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's the that's that's the word. That was my thing
of like all of a sudden, now we're all heathens
because and it doesn't it's not just the radio station.
It's like I had a bottle of wine on the
counter and it I mean it was open, but there
was like three inches like gone, like it was that goes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I didn't drink the whole bottle.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Or inches like you don't you drinking ounces? I don't know.
So it's like a three ounce core I was missing,
and he'll be like, Mom, are you going to get drunk?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I'm like, I can't drive yet. No, sister can't drive.
She's torquing everywhere. Listen to Lizzo.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yes, but I feel like you're yes. Maybe your teenage
character could be like a fresh back from a mission
trip or and I'd be like, I'm donating all my clothes.
I can't have any of this stuff, and like we
cannot watch this TV show because they are not married.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Good.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, there's I have a great story where you raise
your kid's good and sheltered and then backfire.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Or my parents so sheltered.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I didn't even know what bad words were anything, and
my mom said crap one day when I was like nine.
I didn't even know what bad words were anything, and
my mom said crap one day when I was like nine,
(14:53):
and I nearly ran away from home. I was just
I ran outside like screaming, like, oh what this is?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Who's my This is an imposter? I thought my mom
loved the Lord.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, and she I remember, she didn't know what to do,
Like you said crap, I can't.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I'll never look at you the same.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What do your parents think about you? Being in this
line of work.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, they love it now.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I always say because I did the video stuff before
influencer before before it was cool. Like I had a
lot of people kind of like, what was this guy doingod?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This guy okay?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And my dad was he's funny, so I think he
gets a kick out of it, and like I think
he's always you know, in the back of his mind,
wanted to be a comedian too, like like many dads.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But he is funny and he uh.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But he didn't like Tiger Woods or he's like making
you do comedy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, No, he's a great dad. He we were all
sports dad. I was very dedicated to basketball, he was,
you know, and I was very shy and stuff. So
I don't no one thought I would do anything like this,
but kind of one thing led to another. And my
mom is very classic mom. Obviously she said crap, and
I was a Paul So she's on it. You make
good grades, all a's where we doing. And so there's
(16:03):
a lot of like, you better, you're doing a lot
of these little vines.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You better, We'll focus on your school work.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And I was like, well, Amazon's fly me out to
the final four to do snapchats I'm gonna skip class
and she'd be like, she'd be furious.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I mean that's cool that things like that were happening. Yeah,
because again, I only know you from my Instagram twenty twenty.
So like to have big companies like that reaching out.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
There was like a year there where Vine was hot
and the big brands were finally on board doing like
brand deals, and then it disappeared and then kind of
had to build back up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But when it was so early, like, how did you
know what your value was?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh? I mean I was way underpaid.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
By the end of it, they're like, let's hire that
tray guy.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, we just offered him nothing and he was like yeah,
I you and I would learn and you talk to people,
and by the end of it, I was getting a
little bit more of my value. But yeah, I mean
I would if you know anything about social media brand deals,
I would I do a branded Vine that would get
eight million views and they pay me like nine hundred dollars,
So I mean I've made it took me three months
(17:05):
to make nine hundred dollars. Their lifeguardings like this, this
is sick.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So did you end up getting a mentor of sorts,
or you know, just someone even in the same space
that was willing to share with you what they were
getting paid, so that you, you know, didn't undervalue your work.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I grew up in Oklahoma very conservative, were I think
our generation a little bit too, is hey, you go
make your salary, don't tell a soul what it is, right,
And there's still that where I've never have I still
feel comfortable, but you're seeing more influencers be open, and
it would be helpful if you're like, hey, I have
I have this many followers and this brand, pay me this,
And there's probably a lot of young kids who'd be like,
(17:43):
oh wow, well they they offered me way less and
I was pumped about it, so I didn't know I could.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm not saying that has to be like you know,
one of your stories like girls, what I just got paid?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But this makes me think about a book that I'm
reading that says that you should always know a number,
like always know because they don't want to hear uncertainty
or you know, oh, you know, whatever you can pay me.
They don't want to hear that. They want to hear
you say an exact number. That you have in mind.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Most of the time, no one's like if you offer
some number, they're like, can we get all the phones
so they can chew you out for being a jerk.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They're just like, no, how about this?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And it's yeah, I say that for anybody, like right now,
maybe that's going through an evaluation or interviewing for a
new job. Like go in there and know what you
want and know what you're worth and go for it.
I mean, what's the worst thing they can say is, hey,
actually we can do this number. But they're going to
like appreciate the fact that you knew what you wanted
(18:42):
when you walked in there, right, Yeah, okay, this might
be random, but not random because she's a comedian. But
have you ever met Heather McMahon.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She's so funny.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Have you had her on? No?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I would like to. I went to her show not
too long ago. I can't. I feel like the last
three years, who knows, somewhere around the time that I
saw you ish and it was so funny, very different,
very different content sure than you like yours is very
clean and like kids can be there, but it's for adults.
You know, kids cannot be right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
She came through Kansas City, which where I'm based, and
my wife went with some friends. She was like, I
really wanted to go. She's like, I'm going and I
had to watch our sons. So I hit her up
and we exchanged notes and I was trying to maybe
have her on the podcast or.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Something, but she was, you know, to her life. She
was in and out and busy. But I was bumm.
Didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But as Katie said, it was fun and just a
while to I mean, she says, it's like my shows
we joke about like a lot of women, but you know,
they bring their husbands or there's some guys there. She
was like, her show is ninety nine point nine percent
white girls.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I was like, I'm sure it's a riot.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I laughed a lot at her show. And I'm not
just saying this because you're here. And again I did
see y'all shows around at the same time, ish and
I laughed or at yours. Oh thanks, Not that it
really matters. She's hilarious, like, but I remember having that thought.
I was like, huh, yours was more. You know, when
you're laughing so hard, like your eyes like that's how
(20:12):
I gauged it how many times?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But yeah, and you fit the niche pretty good of
like my core fans too. Yeah, so I think, are
you coming tonight?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are you busy?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I'm not. I have my kids. Oh okay, yeah, I
get them back today.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
M got to hang with them. Maybe they want to
see a show the Probably.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I haven't seen them in a week, but I actually
still do see them because they their dad's house is
like half a mile.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you see them? Like from Afar?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
The grocery store actually should happen. I was at the
grocery store and my son was there with his dad,
and I walk over. It was so it was so awkward.
I didn't know. I didn't know what to do. It's
the first time it ever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean, I know there's probably a lot of people
have gone through this listening like I bet that is.
I've never you never really think about those little things
divorced experience.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I never thought that this was going to happen to me.
I never thought that it would be my part of
my story, which also shows I think that you know,
we can evolve, we can grow, like we can realize it.
Because when I got married, I mean my stance loud
and proud on the radio.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Was like.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Bobby's like they knew I was just divorce is never
an option. And so of course the guys on the
show they like to challenge everything, and Lunchbox would be like.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right, I forgive them, I forgive them. What else?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yes, I'd say, well, I guess I would go visit
him in jail, Like that's.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How I would.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I would drown someone else's kids so I could be
and let's sell next to them.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's how hard I was. So anyway, never thought I'd
be at the grocery store last week and have to
process what do I do now that my son's over
there with him and that's their week. I obviously go
over and say hi, but I think even my son
was like, Mom.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Mom, have you been did you have two inches of wine?
And I'm like, being weird, this.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Is our grocery story.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Hey I still eat food?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Right. But all that to say too just being okay
with evolving and knowing like, hey it actually we have
grown different directions and we still can be amazing co
parents and very proactive and did a lot of co
parenting therapy and our priority is the kids. So that
way we know how to be normal when we run
intoto each other.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah that's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, it sounds like we grew up very similar, because yeah,
you always hear that divorce is not an option, not
an option. And I grew up in the church, and
you I remember my youth pastor loudly, like loud and proudy,
proudly saying, and I'm sure you've heard this, he'd be
like my wife. My wife loves me so much and
she believes so much in our marriage. And and it's.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Not an option.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
She straight up told me, if you ever cheat, I'll
never leave you. Really something, it was meant to be
this powerful, like forgiven it that. And Haiti who's a
Christian and grew up Christian, but she didn't grow up
as intensely churched as me or some of like I
was like fundamentalist, like oh, you were like all the
way and I wasn't all the way. But I didn't
have anything crazy, but it was I was very in
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the whole thing. Nothing nothing traumatic or weird, but very churched.
And Katie wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I was.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This never came up brilliant. I don't know how this
came up, but more or less. She's like, oh, yeah,
if if you cheat, I'm gone. I just remember kind
of being shocked by that, but I was like, yo,
that's a good Yeah, that's probably good. I don't need
it in the back of my head being like, I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Mean she's not I can do whatever I want, you know,
So I.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Was like, yeah, that's probably Like there's so many things
I could do around you you'll forgive me for but
that's probably yeah. But that makes sense so right. People
are like, how does come come up? I was like please.
It was just funny because then that growing up like that,
I was like, that's not what you're supposed to say, Like, oh,
that's probably good.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'd be like, that's how heathen of you?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Do you even so? I mean I think that it's
it's beautiful when you can when you get older and
you do start to think for yourself. I remember being
shook when I went to college and I went to
Texas A and m like where it's still conservative oh
ish right, but I met people that like voted Democrat
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and I was like what.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And you think you're a Christian.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And you go to church, like you must be Catholic?
Like it was thoughts like that.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We've got to save you from Catholicism, right.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'm thankful to have evolved all that to say, it
took a long time to shake this like deep rooted
stuff that was like living in my subconscious too, because
I didn't realize how judgmental I was, because I would
have said I'm not a judgmental person, but then I
would instantly have certain thoughts about people if I heard
they were acting or doing X y Z, which, let
me tell you, we're the most judgmental people live online.
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Let me tell you we're the most judgmental people live online.
I think it's over on Facebook. I mean, do you
post all of your things on Facebook? Too?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I have five million followers on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Nice. I mean I follow you on Instagram, where I
know you have two point eight million followers. I know
you've got a few million on TikTok, but gosh, five
million on Facebook. I mean, do you feel a lot
of responsibility with so many followers? Were? Actually, I guess
my question would be, do you feel a lot of
responsibility now that you have a team of people working
with you for all this content and they may be
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dependent on your success? Like it's not just you and
a tripod anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, it is a little Hiring videographers is always a
little less stressful because they're like individual contractors most of
the time and so like they have other stuff going on.
And you know, I've hired on some where I am
a majority of their income for sure, which can feel overwhelmed.
And I just hired a full time assistant, which I
put off for so long because again I was nervous.
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It's like, I don't, yeah, what pressure to like, I'm
your whole life and not only just like what, I
don't want you to be bored, but I also don't
want to do too much.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And she's great shout out Hannah.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Does she have to be? When you're interviewing, you're like,
are you funny? Do you do you have any ideas?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Honestly, I wasn't super looking for that. I just wanted
someone who was like, you know, fun, cool to be around.
But she helps us obviously with the shoots and doing stuff,
and she's goods as humor.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Katie helps sometimes and.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's nice to have a female in the room when
we're creating because sometimes us dudes is the arts tend
to be guys and there'll be a group three four
of us dudes making this video clearly pretty positioned towards women.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's like, yeah, we need a woman's perspective here. Yeah,
so she'll help.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Have you ever thought you've ever done something you're like, God,
this is so funny, but it's just like, can't we can't.
It's not gonna go. Is there like an archive of
that stuff that one day it'll be like the Lost
Tapes or something.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, maybe I definitely have my vine offers could probably
cancel me. It was like, let's take that out or
you know, some joke. We don't fully shoot things. I know,
we won't post. There's certain just in the moment improv
jokes I'll say that we'll review and I'll be like, yeah,
that's so funny, but that's just not what we're trying
to do here. And being comedians and hang out with
other comedians will riff and stuff, and we'll come up
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with like what I think is a super funny bit,
but it's just like ol rated, Like that's just not me.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I'm not I don't have a strong desire to do
that type of material.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's all like I'm like, gosh, I want to say
horrible stuff, but you know, you're a guy, and every
now and then you have something hilarious come up with
your buddies. I'm like, if I was a different comedian,
this would be funny, but yeah, half my audience would
leave if I did this.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Woul Do you have any advice for anyone that might
be wanting to do what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
The only thing I know to say is to get
out of your comfort zone, because I don't think I
have some miracle advice of like how to get views
or how to make people laugh. But I know I
didn't want to do if you For years you told
me to do stand up. I'm like, why would I
ever do that? That's horrifying, and I something with me.
I was like, I gotta try it. I gat It
was like the scariest eight minutes of my life. But
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you know, I got off stage, I was like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I'm alive. That wasn't totally humiliating.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I did have humillion moments later, But and making videos,
there was a time where that was the scariest thing
I've ever done. It's like, I'm going to post this
and people I know personally are going to see this,
and I have to see them in real life knowing
they saw this. Well.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yeah, I mean I think when you're trying anything new,
or you've got a goal, or you're trying to achieve
something that you've never done before, I mean, you have
to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice for it,
Like is it worth giving up your comfort because a
lot of times comfort is what you are sacrificing. Which
I'm looking at phone girl Abby over here, and she
is the queen of going outside of her comfort zone
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to shoot or shot with celebrities, artists, whatever for interviews
and she's how you are actually here today? And I
want to give her the mic now, So Abby's stepping
up to the mic.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Abby, we're old friends. We met. We met in a
ranger's teather in Kansas City. I'm not gonna lie I was.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I definitely didn't not believe you. But Abby answer, She's like, oh,
it's gonna meet you. I'm actually worked for Bobby Bones
and came on like you should come on again, and
I just was like, I'm pretty sure that was true.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I gotta say you were like, okay, can I get
a picture real quick? Which I hate asking. I'm sorry some.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
People feel bad. I enjoy meeting people and interaction like
that are great. I mean every now and then people
come up and they are a nightmare, but.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'd made it short and sweet, right, I mean when
I say.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
A nightmare, they were they just picture like the craziest
behavior poorly years ago. But now I just kind of
like just stop, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Stop? Like let's take a photo.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
You do a few of those classic like all right,
all right, is good to meet you.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I hope they leave. Yeah, okay, question real quick.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
So I remember you from like one of your first
ones when you were cleaning doing laundry to one remember
like that's the one I remember like how did you
come up with that?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And did you think it would blow up like that?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So I had like fifteen thousand followers when I made
that one. So I slowly had a couple and there
was it's just crazy to look back on then because
we're like, oh my gosh, I have fifteen thousand following.
This is before kids were making followings. Really, it was like,
this doesn't make sense. And I made the vine the
wop you see what what I was like, I'm gonna
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I don't know how I thought of this.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Not the wop now, yeah, not wop?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah wop? Okay, hey why easy? I don't know if
Amy's son is listening. I don't do that type of whop.
So I was like, I'm gonna wop while I clean.
I don't even remember how, but I had buddies helping me,
and they just tossed me different cleaning products as I
caught it, and like wopped and danced. I mean, thirty
million plus views, it was trending on Twitter. Literally woke
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up to one hundred thousand followers a month later, had
a million followers like that.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So see that's insane, Like, I bet it was genius.
I just remember that was like, how did he even
come up with this?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So then I wopped and did various things wopping because
this is what the people wanted. I wopped and laundried,
I wopped and broomed, you name it. I nanate and dusted.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
That is thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, I remember that too.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Funny, but it's.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Crazy because that I guess it was just a feel
good fun I think part of it too, is is
I always think this too. I'm I don't think this
is for me, but you see some of these people's
content are so only ten percent of the world speaks English,
so like that's the only people I can reach.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But video like that everyone in the world can enjoy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Oh that's so true, right.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So there was a compilation of me just doing different dances,
doing different chores, and that got one hundred million views
on Facebook. I think it's because you're like, well, a
hundred percent people can enjoy this. My other video is
only America and Australia can walp. So yeah, yeah, American women. Yeah,
mom's American women grew up.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
One of the most okay, last one In your live shows,
if someone kind of throws something out or starts yelling,
does it throw you off with like where your thoughts
were going?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Or well.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I don't like it, don't do it. It's like it's
fun and sometimes it's a moment. But and you see
this weird trend right now on socials of this crowd
work clips being really successful and there's a lot I'm
talking to comedian friends of mine. It's like it's just
it's a kind of a slippery slope because if you
get successful posting crowd work clips, now people come to
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your shows and they're just going to scream at you
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well wait that rifle.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, that's the one that I see where they're always
yelling at him.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, I mean I would love you one of his shows.
You won't.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You can't find a ticket. I mean that he's a
whole nother discussion. That's we've never seen before what he's doing.
But yeah, I'm sure his shows are just chaos and
people screaming stuff, and maybe he maybe he loves that
that's what he wants to do, and so if so,
that is then perfect. I know I don't want to
do that. I just I'm not a crowd work comedian.
I'm not trying to be. I just want to do
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my material, and of course you kind of have to be.
I want to include the crowd some and I talked
to them and yes, that's the show I was at you.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Just some yelled at some guy like what do you do?
I don't know? And then it ended up being funny.
But I'm like, is that a plan?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Thank you? No, it's not thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So I can't assure you because it is when you
when you haven't done it before. I was comedian. I
remember growing up like watching whose line is it?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You're like, there's no way, right, they're writing this, they're
triggering it. And then you become a comedian and you're like, well, no,
you can practice and you can get good at that.
So after years of doing it, you get confident you
can handle I had a girl rushed the stage last week,
and yeah, I mean when I first started out, I
would have I would have struggled to handle that. I'd
be like, oh uhh, And now you just roast the
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heck out of her and they kick her out and
it's like a funny moment. You go back to your
material and so yeah, well, I don't want to create
a culture where people are screaming every few minutes. And
there's times you have to some white girl, wasted girl
is disturbing people. You have to shut her down, and
you try to shut her down in a funny way,
and sometimes that doesn't work, so they eventually kick her out.
But yeah, I can assure you nine round percent of
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comedians are they're really that funny and they're really on
the fly handling it. And that's a big key I
think to being a good comedian is I think being
funny is one thing. But that was the trick for
me to to get better at my presence up there
and handling those moments, like.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You know a lot of guys get up there.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You just say your jokes, but it's like, how do
you How can you handle when someone's just ruining the
show for half the audience?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And how do you correct that and control the crowd?
Is what I'm trying to get better at.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It just comes with time. But yeah, awesome, well good question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, so you're sure you come to the show. I'll
handle it. Jocelyn Sacramento if you know, you know, she
rushed the stage. It was quite an event. The security
did their job, they got her. I did another show
of security didn't care. And a girl just I looked
at my left and there's a girl on stage and
I really like the secure already.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
And the guy was like, did they at least wait
till the end of the show because they.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Just miss it.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It was a comedy club.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So when you get in that more into an atosphere,
I think people start acting a fool and there's like,
I mean, of course you make it funny, but I'm like, definitely,
don't keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
But I have a very I have a very great audience.
Who are well behaved, but you never.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Know, did you say you're filming something or you're not saying.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You ever do?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Like a special.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I self produced my first tour special I just put
on my YouTube and so this tour will definitely eventually
tape a special. So that'll that'll probably come next.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Year and we'll So where would you send people to
watch like I or what is your all? Your handles
the same for everything.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
My name's Tray Kennedy. Should have no trouble finding me
on pretty much every platform. And uh, if you're curious
about the comedy, my my first comedy specials on my YouTube,
traking his YouTube, check it out. And then I'm just
I'm posting content all the time on Instagram and tastes,
Facebook and TikTok.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Okay, but isn't your your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Is like tray in trade in Kennedy. Yeah, I don't
know who the Trey Kennedy. He's out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Couldn't get that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Couldn't get it for a while.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I tried, and there's like rules where especially back in
the day when I knew really new people at Twitter Instagram,
they'd be like if they're inactive for a couple of
years you can have it.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
And there's like this guy, I mean, he just posts
like every year or two just to keep it.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Ah. Yeah, But at this point I think I think
it would do me more harm than good because there's
so many backlogs of Trey in Kennedy that so Trey
in Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Do you have a view?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Warn people think my foreign people who don't really know
any English think my name is Train.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Which is cool?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Train? Do you have fake fake a yeah all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, it'll be like train with two y's Kennedy spelled
within the three e's, And people be like, I just
want to double check. But I think you're offering me
ten thousand dollars if I tell you my social Security
And I would used to be like, no, don't, and
now I'm like, you know what, you deserve it, Okay.
If it feels Bady Kennedy is giving you thousand dollars
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you need.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You have a lot to learn about life.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
So well, I feel like you know you've made it.
When people are faking to be on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
People are ruining people's life, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well, thank you, Tray. So much like your show tonight
and the rest of your tour which you added.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
More breaking dot com SLST tour.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Get your tickets. I can val the country that you
will laugh so hard you will have tears.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Thank you so much, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Bye peace,
Cass up little food for you. So, oh it's pretty bad.
It's pretty beautiful, beautiful. That for a little more exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
City. Your kick with with Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Brown, Happy Thursday, Four Things Amy here, and my guest
today is Trey Kennedy, comedian.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Sure, yeah, you can call me that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Comedian, influencer, influencer, fashion influencer a little.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Bit m hm. So I first found you on Instagram
during the pandemic. Is that when a lot of.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You I hear I've been doing it a while, so
it's coming waves, Like I started going viral ten years
ago and then but I hear a lot of people
like you got me through the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Pandemic because you know, sweet mom energy.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
But we just made a bunch of videos because another
better to do, and they took off.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It was like a great time to make content because
everyone was having a very shared experience.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well and I also think we wanted to laugh. Yeah, yeah,
and you were providing a way for that to happen.
Phone girl Abby from the Bobby Boncho sitting in here
with us, and she discovered you on vine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so you back in the day was.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
When did you know that this could make money and
you could do this for a living.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was just making videos for fun and then it
went viral and then you start making money and then
you then vine went away and I was graduating college.
I stayed in college to get an MBA because I
was just like, I don't want to leave here yet,
and I just kept making videos so very very much
like what is where's this going? And then kind of
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I was doing it before influencer was even a term,
and then I'm an influencer, okay. And then I started
to be told I could sell tickets and I was like,
I don't to, but it was back in the day.
We're like, just you could do a little Q and
A or something. You could kind of come out, maybe
a costume and do it. I was like, oh, that
sounds very embarrassing. So I was like, let me try it.
I did some stand up sets and horrifying went okay,
(02:14):
but I got enough going where I was like, all right,
let's let's try to do some shows. So I was
like four years ago, So I went to your show.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Let's see in Nashville, oh, a year and a half ago?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It was I feel very lucky for COVID because I
was thrown into it so quick. I was going on
tour within like a year of doing stand up and
then COVID paused it for like nine months, and that
was like huge for my growth to like do all
those COVID shows with masks and half full and it's like, oh,
this sounds different than an easy sold out crowd.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
That's what does this make possible? Attitude during COVID, I
mean you found something to be thankful for during a
very difficult time, which I was actually thinking that a
way to get to know you a little better would
be to have you do four things gratitude as an icebreaker,
And it's really easy. All you have to do is
share four things that you're currently grateful.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
For, currently grateful for.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, first thing.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
First thing was the bidet in your bath?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh that was for my dad?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh is it okay? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I was like, wow, so I don't know. I was like,
I guess you're excedent and what that? You got to
keep that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Two side notes real quick, I definitely need to remove
that bid day. I mean, my dad passed away two
years ago. It's not even plugged in so I don't
even know why it's down there and haven't removed it yet.
And then yes, your joke, X take half joke. My
house is half empty because that's what happens with divorce.
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You divide things up. So I just wanted to clarify
that and you can carry on. Second thing you're thankful for.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't know what's coming out, but today is I'm
a Nashville for my show with the Ryman sold out.
I think there's a five tickets left or something. So
very thankful for that. Yes, that's crazy, and so thankful
for that. Thankful for my crew and my friends and family.
I have two of my best friends coming to night.
My wife and my son will be there. But you're
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a new dad, yeah, four month old grandparents are coming,
so Katie, my wife is going to get to, like,
you know, have a night out with all of us.
So grateful for that. The family. Great for in loss. Yeah,
because they're going to watch the baby and so avoid us.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Is that why you've now got baby content on your
Now you know what it's like, So you become a baby.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? Yeah, how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Well? I adopted them?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh cool?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Only been a mom for five years, but sixteen and twelve.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh so you haven't done the newborn thing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No, I have no idea. That's where my newborn content
comes from.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You Okay, yeah, that's uh. I think people resonate with that.
That's just I was. I was cocky. I was like this.
I have friends they're very dramatic. This this can't be
and it is that bad.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
My friend that I was with last night, I was like, oh,
do you know, I think I think you got one
new follower. Okay, wow, because yeah, she was not yet
following you, and so I was like, no, no, no, look
at these videos. And that's when I realized, like some
of the baby ones and we were cracking up at
you being the baby from the baby's perspective.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, that's good. She was enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Do you ever show people videos and they're just like,
I'm not I'm just not saying what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
She left, Yeah, well she and I don't think she
would work close enough to where she'd be like, eh, okay,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
She left.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So all the people, the things is that you're.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
For or you have one more but day Ryman family,
my crew. I've tried to do in laws as for
I need it force now.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
No, you're good in laws is forth?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't have crazy in laws, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That's what I mean. That's a really I didn't either,
which now I'm not sure what to call my in
laws because they're not my in laws anymore, but I'm
always going to love them and my mother in law
and I still text most days. So I mean, it's
just definitely an interesting season, you know, navigating a hard
change like this, and you know, speaking of hard things,
(06:16):
some people end up really funny because of adversity that
they have faced, oftentimes when they were younger. Is that
the case for you?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I really don't have anything traumatic.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I have a pretty peachy life, so it's not like
I would my parents locked me in a cage. So
now I'm hilarious. It was just my kind of way
to be cool. I wasn't that impressive in other areas,
so that was my thing. And the show, the tour,
I'm on it to grow Up tour, It's just my
first tour was very very much the introduction, just trying
to be funny, and this.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Is that the one I saw?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so this is the are you for real?
I was just kind of making fun of everyone. And
this is a little more, a little more personal vibe
to it. How I grew up life as a new
dad and you know, I haven't gone through too much.
But I talked about this in the show a little bit.
But our son had like a kind of a medical scare.
We had to go to the er and all this,
and like it was fine, But that was like a
(07:10):
life alterraining moment where I was like, oh, yeah, I
guess I've really become an adult here, because sometimes I
feel like what am I am I doing for a living?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm likely in my living room like twirling about.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Do you share your age? Do you minufes?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Thirty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Thirty?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, just turned thirty third, I'm like thirty and a half.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know, some people they don't. They're like, no, I
don't want to share my age.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh okay, cool? Do you usual? What hell? Are you?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Forty two?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay? How I was turning forty.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm actually excited about my forties.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
When I turned thirty, I was like I'm getting botox, like,
and now then forty, I'm kind of like, okay, I
don't have to have it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
At the rush to an hair transplant doctor. I was like,
what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Did you really Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
He said, you're fine, just calm down.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But that's just it was like my first aging thing
of like, oh, someone took a photo me like behind me,
and was like.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
What, no one's told me this. That's good.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's disappearing and it's just a weird feeling to get
for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You know, I'm a dude too.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I know you women deal with way more, but like,
dudes don't think about how they look and tell they're thirty.
I feel like I'm like, well, wait, should I have
done something about this?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well? Also being online and on stage and do you
get criticized for like yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Think joke, I've make it a whole bit, just this.
I've been doing a whole bit. This past week, I
wore some shirt on stage. Some woman emailed Katie, my wife,
and was like, what what was that shirt Tray was
wearing on stage?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You bought him?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I would like to buy it for my husband. So
I had to go straight to my I buy my
own shirts. Okay, I have style, I have cool And
then there's mixed reviews on the shirt, but it's a
people love to tease.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I was just talking to my.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Instagram followers today and I'm getting dms. They're like, what
do you end up your balding? What are you gonna
do about it? And they just keep me humble and yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So different.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ray who is a producer on our show. He does
this thing where he gets like blood droned on and
then implanted into his forehead or something and it's just to.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Grow some regenerative what it's called.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Wow, but he has seen success. I can get the
exact situation.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, please lay up there, and I know.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't know if he sits under some light after
the blood's injected.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
John Samos, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He says it's working for him, So that's something that
he uses, which I think for a guy, it's interesting
to hear. Yeah that y'all do have insecurities.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, and it definitely heightened because I am I have
a you know, very front facing job where a lot
of people are looking at my face and stuff. So
I don't know. I think a lot of dudes still
don't care. But it's just turning thirty. It's like my
twenties were like checking out women around me. My thirties,
I'm just like looking at guy's hair, it's like you
have so much it's unreal.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What is it like for you when it comes to
the content creation, because we're obviously seeing the final product,
the final video, and I'm just imagining you like one take, like, oh,
the nailed it. But you know who are those guys,
the trick shot guys? Oh? Can't I think of them?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Perfect?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Perfect? Yes, they're on tour.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That yeah, you should awesome. Are your kids into it
a little old?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
My son sort of? My daughter? Oh yeah, but my
son sort of it. But my nephews are they love
dude perfect? Why it's based on their name, but you know.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Perfect nephews. But flax As, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, you see the one them doing nailing the shot,
but you don't see the hundred other times exactly didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Trick shots I've heard is a real grind because yeah,
you I don't know if you probably put it on video.
Recently they've made some shot from a thousand feet up
or something and they it took them three days, thousands
of tries. Definitely got it down to a science a
little bit where I've a small team and we kind
of running gun and a lot of it is one take,
and half of it's kind of written out and fleshed out,
(11:04):
but a lot of it's on the fly.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And is there any particular video where you kind of
thought like, hmmm, I don't know how this is going
to do, and then it's the one that like goes
the most viral or is there one that you're like, oh,
this is going to be amazing, people are gonna love it,
and then it totally both happen.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I think as you do it with anything comedy, you
start to get a better sense, but things still surprise you.
The middle schooler character which so many moms have like
become a fan of mine because of.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I have an idea for that too, to pitch you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh okay, okay, hold that thought. I was still a
one man's show when I first did that, So before Jake,
when you put the braces on, the first time I
ever did the character, there were no braces. It was
just acting like it back in the day when I
was a one man show. I would trypod myself and
do it. And you talk about a sad day to
day to picture that I remember. I remember, forget meeting
a girl at a bar and we're just She's like,
are you trying?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We're talking.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm thinking like, yeah, what's up girl, And she's like,
do you like who films?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'm like, I do it all myself. Not to brag.
She's like, so you just like set up a try
upon and I.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Was just like, oh my gosh, I need to hire
someone just but I that was one where I was like,
I don't just see, I don't should even post this.
This is kind of weird, Like thirty million views. I'm
just unbelievable and became this character I've you know, done
for years. So that was one, and then there's others, Yeah,
where I'll hire actors and we'll do this higher production
(12:25):
and spend a whole day, and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
it'll just kind of be like that's what's tough about
this game because middle schooler character took me thirty minutes
to make and it made thirty million views. And there's
other videos we spend two weeks on all in with
the edits and it gets no views. And you're so
that's a constant battle too, what's your pitch?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Okay, so my son is twelve, he'll be thirteen in August. Yeah,
and a lot of church camps this summer there were
I whatever, well listen, you're just trying to whatever. I'll
take any camp, you know, Like, of course we appreciate
that there church camps. But it's like now and like
(13:04):
he gets in the car and Stashira, my daughter, and
I were in there and we've kind of got it
on the pop station and you know, and we'll pick
Stevens up. He'll get in the car and he'll be like,
can y'all put it on the Christian station please? And
so she's like I was listening to this song and
he's like, y'all don't like Christian music anymore, you.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Know, or like, oh, oh great, my mom, she's a
heathen now, yes.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's the that's that's the word. That was my thing
of like all of a sudden, now we're all heathens
because and it doesn't it's not just the radio station.
It's like I had a bottle of wine on the
counter and it I mean it was open, but there
was like three inches like gone, like it was that goes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I didn't drink the whole bottle.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Or inches like you don't you drinking ounces? I don't know.
So it's like a three ounce core I was missing,
and he'll be like, Mom, are you going to get drunk?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I'm like, I can't drive yet. No, sister can't drive.
She's torquing everywhere. Listen to Lizzo.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yes, but I feel like you're yes. Maybe your teenage
character could be like a fresh back from a mission
trip or and I'd be like, I'm donating all my clothes.
I can't have any of this stuff, and like we
cannot watch this TV show because they are not married.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Good.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, there's I have a great story where you raise
your kid's good and sheltered and then backfire.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Or my parents so sheltered.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I didn't even know what bad words were anything, and
my mom said crap one day when I was like nine.
I didn't even know what bad words were anything, and
my mom said crap one day when I was like nine,
(14:53):
and I nearly ran away from home. I was just
I ran outside like screaming, like, oh what this is?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Who's my This is an imposter? I thought my mom
loved the Lord.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, and she I remember, she didn't know what to do,
Like you said crap, I can't.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I'll never look at you the same.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What do your parents think about you? Being in this
line of work.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, they love it now.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I always say because I did the video stuff before
influencer before before it was cool. Like I had a
lot of people kind of like, what was this guy doingod?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
This guy okay?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And my dad was he's funny, so I think he
gets a kick out of it, and like I think
he's always you know, in the back of his mind,
wanted to be a comedian too, like like many dads.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But he is funny and he uh.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
But he didn't like Tiger Woods or he's like making
you do comedy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, No, he's a great dad. He we were all
sports dad. I was very dedicated to basketball, he was,
you know, and I was very shy and stuff. So
I don't no one thought I would do anything like this,
but kind of one thing led to another. And my
mom is very classic mom. Obviously she said crap, and
I was a Paul So she's on it. You make
good grades, all a's where we doing. And so there's
(16:03):
a lot of like, you better, you're doing a lot
of these little vines.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You better, We'll focus on your school work.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And I was like, well, Amazon's fly me out to
the final four to do snapchats I'm gonna skip class
and she'd be like, she'd be furious.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I mean that's cool that things like that were happening. Yeah,
because again, I only know you from my Instagram twenty twenty.
So like to have big companies like that reaching out.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
There was like a year there where Vine was hot
and the big brands were finally on board doing like
brand deals, and then it disappeared and then kind of
had to build back up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But when it was so early, like, how did you
know what your value was?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh? I mean I was way underpaid.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
By the end of it, they're like, let's hire that
tray guy.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, we just offered him nothing and he was like yeah,
I you and I would learn and you talk to people,
and by the end of it, I was getting a
little bit more of my value. But yeah, I mean
I would if you know anything about social media brand deals,
I would I do a branded Vine that would get
eight million views and they pay me like nine hundred dollars,
So I mean I've made it took me three months
(17:05):
to make nine hundred dollars. Their lifeguardings like this, this
is sick.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So did you end up getting a mentor of sorts,
or you know, just someone even in the same space
that was willing to share with you what they were
getting paid, so that you, you know, didn't undervalue your work.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I grew up in Oklahoma very conservative, were I think
our generation a little bit too, is hey, you go
make your salary, don't tell a soul what it is, right,
And there's still that where I've never have I still
feel comfortable, but you're seeing more influencers be open, and
it would be helpful if you're like, hey, I have
I have this many followers and this brand, pay me this,
And there's probably a lot of young kids who'd be like,
(17:43):
oh wow, well they they offered me way less and
I was pumped about it, so I didn't know I could.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm not saying that has to be like you know,
one of your stories like girls, what I just got paid?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But this makes me think about a book that I'm
reading that says that you should always know a number,
like always know because they don't want to hear uncertainty
or you know, oh, you know, whatever you can pay me.
They don't want to hear that. They want to hear
you say an exact number. That you have in mind.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Most of the time, no one's like if you offer
some number, they're like, can we get all the phones
so they can chew you out for being a jerk.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
They're just like, no, how about this?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And it's yeah, I say that for anybody, like right now,
maybe that's going through an evaluation or interviewing for a
new job. Like go in there and know what you
want and know what you're worth and go for it.
I mean, what's the worst thing they can say is, hey,
actually we can do this number. But they're going to
like appreciate the fact that you knew what you wanted
(18:42):
when you walked in there, right, Yeah, okay, this might
be random, but not random because she's a comedian. But
have you ever met Heather McMahon.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She's so funny.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Have you had her on? No?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I would like to. I went to her show not
too long ago. I can't. I feel like the last
three years, who knows, somewhere around the time that I
saw you ish and it was so funny, very different,
very different content sure than you like yours is very
clean and like kids can be there, but it's for adults.
You know, kids cannot be right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
She came through Kansas City, which where I'm based, and
my wife went with some friends. She was like, I
really wanted to go. She's like, I'm going and I
had to watch our sons. So I hit her up
and we exchanged notes and I was trying to maybe
have her on the podcast or.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Something, but she was, you know, to her life. She
was in and out and busy. But I was bumm.
Didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But as Katie said, it was fun and just a
while to I mean, she says, it's like my shows
we joke about like a lot of women, but you know,
they bring their husbands or there's some guys there. She
was like, her show is ninety nine point nine percent
white girls.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I was like, I'm sure it's a riot.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I laughed a lot at her show. And I'm not
just saying this because you're here. And again I did
see y'all shows around at the same time, ish and
I laughed or at yours. Oh thanks, Not that it
really matters. She's hilarious, like, but I remember having that thought.
I was like, huh, yours was more. You know, when
you're laughing so hard, like your eyes like that's how
(20:12):
I gauged it how many times?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But yeah, and you fit the niche pretty good of
like my core fans too. Yeah, so I think, are
you coming tonight?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are you busy?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I'm not. I have my kids. Oh okay, yeah, I
get them back today.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
M got to hang with them. Maybe they want to
see a show the Probably.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I haven't seen them in a week, but I actually
still do see them because they their dad's house is
like half a mile.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you see them? Like from Afar?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
The grocery store actually should happen. I was at the
grocery store and my son was there with his dad,
and I walk over. It was so it was so awkward.
I didn't know. I didn't know what to do. It's
the first time it ever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean, I know there's probably a lot of people
have gone through this listening like I bet that is.
I've never you never really think about those little things
divorced experience.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I never thought that this was going to happen to me.
I never thought that it would be my part of
my story, which also shows I think that you know,
we can evolve, we can grow, like we can realize it.
Because when I got married, I mean my stance loud
and proud on the radio.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Was like.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Bobby's like they knew I was just divorce is never
an option. And so of course the guys on the
show they like to challenge everything, and Lunchbox would be like.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right, I forgive them, I forgive them. What else?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yes, I'd say, well, I guess I would go visit
him in jail, Like that's.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How I would.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I would drown someone else's kids so I could be
and let's sell next to them.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's how hard I was. So anyway, never thought I'd
be at the grocery store last week and have to
process what do I do now that my son's over
there with him and that's their week. I obviously go
over and say hi, but I think even my son
was like, Mom.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Mom, have you been did you have two inches of wine?
And I'm like, being weird, this.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Is our grocery story.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Hey I still eat food?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Right. But all that to say too just being okay
with evolving and knowing like, hey it actually we have
grown different directions and we still can be amazing co
parents and very proactive and did a lot of co
parenting therapy and our priority is the kids. So that
way we know how to be normal when we run
intoto each other.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah that's wild.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, it sounds like we grew up very similar, because yeah,
you always hear that divorce is not an option, not
an option. And I grew up in the church, and
you I remember my youth pastor loudly, like loud and proudy,
proudly saying, and I'm sure you've heard this, he'd be
like my wife. My wife loves me so much and
she believes so much in our marriage. And and it's.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Not an option.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
She straight up told me, if you ever cheat, I'll
never leave you. Really something, it was meant to be
this powerful, like forgiven it that. And Haiti who's a
Christian and grew up Christian, but she didn't grow up
as intensely churched as me or some of like I
was like fundamentalist, like oh, you were like all the
way and I wasn't all the way. But I didn't
have anything crazy, but it was I was very in
(23:15):
the whole thing. Nothing nothing traumatic or weird, but very churched.
And Katie wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I was.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This never came up brilliant. I don't know how this
came up, but more or less. She's like, oh, yeah,
if if you cheat, I'm gone. I just remember kind
of being shocked by that, but I was like, yo,
that's a good Yeah, that's probably good. I don't need
it in the back of my head being like, I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Mean she's not I can do whatever I want, you know,
So I.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Was like, yeah, that's probably Like there's so many things
I could do around you you'll forgive me for but
that's probably yeah. But that makes sense so right. People
are like, how does come come up? I was like please.
It was just funny because then that growing up like that,
I was like, that's not what you're supposed to say, Like, oh,
that's probably good.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'd be like, that's how heathen of you?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Do you even so? I mean I think that it's
it's beautiful when you can when you get older and
you do start to think for yourself. I remember being
shook when I went to college and I went to
Texas A and m like where it's still conservative oh
ish right, but I met people that like voted Democrat
(24:22):
and I was like what.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And you think you're a Christian.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
And you go to church, like you must be Catholic?
Like it was thoughts like that.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We've got to save you from Catholicism, right.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'm thankful to have evolved all that to say, it
took a long time to shake this like deep rooted
stuff that was like living in my subconscious too, because
I didn't realize how judgmental I was, because I would
have said I'm not a judgmental person, but then I
would instantly have certain thoughts about people if I heard
they were acting or doing X y Z, which, let
me tell you, we're the most judgmental people live online.
(25:07):
Let me tell you we're the most judgmental people live online.
I think it's over on Facebook. I mean, do you
post all of your things on Facebook? Too?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I have five million followers on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Nice. I mean I follow you on Instagram, where I
know you have two point eight million followers. I know
you've got a few million on TikTok, but gosh, five
million on Facebook. I mean, do you feel a lot
of responsibility with so many followers? Were? Actually, I guess
my question would be, do you feel a lot of
responsibility now that you have a team of people working
with you for all this content and they may be
(25:42):
dependent on your success? Like it's not just you and
a tripod anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, it is a little Hiring videographers is always a
little less stressful because they're like individual contractors most of
the time and so like they have other stuff going on.
And you know, I've hired on some where I am
a majority of their income for sure, which can feel overwhelmed.
And I just hired a full time assistant, which I
put off for so long because again I was nervous.
(26:07):
It's like, I don't, yeah, what pressure to like, I'm
your whole life and not only just like what, I
don't want you to be bored, but I also don't
want to do too much.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And she's great shout out Hannah.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Does she have to be? When you're interviewing, you're like,
are you funny? Do you do you have any ideas?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Honestly, I wasn't super looking for that. I just wanted
someone who was like, you know, fun, cool to be around.
But she helps us obviously with the shoots and doing stuff,
and she's goods as humor.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Katie helps sometimes and.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's nice to have a female in the room when
we're creating because sometimes us dudes is the arts tend
to be guys and there'll be a group three four
of us dudes making this video clearly pretty positioned towards women.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's like, yeah, we need a woman's perspective here. Yeah,
so she'll help.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Have you ever thought you've ever done something you're like, God,
this is so funny, but it's just like, can't we can't.
It's not gonna go. Is there like an archive of
that stuff that one day it'll be like the Lost
Tapes or something.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, maybe I definitely have my vine offers could probably
cancel me. It was like, let's take that out or
you know, some joke. We don't fully shoot things. I know,
we won't post. There's certain just in the moment improv
jokes I'll say that we'll review and I'll be like, yeah,
that's so funny, but that's just not what we're trying
to do here. And being comedians and hang out with
other comedians will riff and stuff, and we'll come up
(27:25):
with like what I think is a super funny bit,
but it's just like ol rated, Like that's just not me.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I'm not I don't have a strong desire to do
that type of material.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's all like I'm like, gosh, I want to say
horrible stuff, but you know, you're a guy, and every
now and then you have something hilarious come up with
your buddies. I'm like, if I was a different comedian,
this would be funny, but yeah, half my audience would
leave if I did this.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Woul Do you have any advice for anyone that might
be wanting to do what you do?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
The only thing I know to say is to get
out of your comfort zone, because I don't think I
have some miracle advice of like how to get views
or how to make people laugh. But I know I
didn't want to do if you For years you told
me to do stand up. I'm like, why would I
ever do that? That's horrifying, and I something with me.
I was like, I gotta try it. I gat It
was like the scariest eight minutes of my life. But
(28:10):
you know, I got off stage, I was like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I'm alive. That wasn't totally humiliating.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I did have humillion moments later, But and making videos,
there was a time where that was the scariest thing
I've ever done. It's like, I'm going to post this
and people I know personally are going to see this,
and I have to see them in real life knowing
they saw this. Well.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yeah, I mean I think when you're trying anything new,
or you've got a goal, or you're trying to achieve
something that you've never done before, I mean, you have
to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice for it,
Like is it worth giving up your comfort because a
lot of times comfort is what you are sacrificing. Which
I'm looking at phone girl Abby over here, and she
is the queen of going outside of her comfort zone
(28:51):
to shoot or shot with celebrities, artists, whatever for interviews
and she's how you are actually here today? And I
want to give her the mic now, So Abby's stepping
up to the mic.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Abby, we're old friends. We met. We met in a
ranger's teather in Kansas City. I'm not gonna lie I was.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I definitely didn't not believe you. But Abby answer, She's like, oh,
it's gonna meet you. I'm actually worked for Bobby Bones
and came on like you should come on again, and
I just was like, I'm pretty sure that was true.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I gotta say you were like, okay, can I get
a picture real quick? Which I hate asking. I'm sorry some.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
People feel bad. I enjoy meeting people and interaction like
that are great. I mean every now and then people
come up and they are a nightmare, but.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I'd made it short and sweet, right, I mean when
I say.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
A nightmare, they were they just picture like the craziest
behavior poorly years ago. But now I just kind of
like just stop, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Stop? Like let's take a photo.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
You do a few of those classic like all right,
all right, is good to meet you.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I hope they leave. Yeah, okay, question real quick.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
So I remember you from like one of your first
ones when you were cleaning doing laundry to one remember
like that's the one I remember like how did you
come up with that?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And did you think it would blow up like that?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So I had like fifteen thousand followers when I made
that one. So I slowly had a couple and there
was it's just crazy to look back on then because
we're like, oh my gosh, I have fifteen thousand following.
This is before kids were making followings. Really, it was like,
this doesn't make sense. And I made the vine the
wop you see what what I was like, I'm gonna
(30:34):
I don't know how I thought of this.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Not the wop now, yeah, not wop?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah wop? Okay, hey why easy? I don't know if
Amy's son is listening. I don't do that type of whop.
So I was like, I'm gonna wop while I clean.
I don't even remember how, but I had buddies helping me,
and they just tossed me different cleaning products as I
caught it, and like wopped and danced. I mean, thirty
million plus views, it was trending on Twitter. Literally woke
(31:02):
up to one hundred thousand followers a month later, had
a million followers like that.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So see that's insane, Like, I bet it was genius.
I just remember that was like, how did he even
come up with this?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So then I wopped and did various things wopping because
this is what the people wanted. I wopped and laundried,
I wopped and broomed, you name it. I nanate and dusted.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
That is thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, I remember that too.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Funny, but it's.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Crazy because that I guess it was just a feel
good fun I think part of it too, is is
I always think this too. I'm I don't think this
is for me, but you see some of these people's
content are so only ten percent of the world speaks English,
so like that's the only people I can reach.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
But video like that everyone in the world can enjoy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Oh that's so true, right.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So there was a compilation of me just doing different dances,
doing different chores, and that got one hundred million views
on Facebook. I think it's because you're like, well, a
hundred percent people can enjoy this. My other video is
only America and Australia can walp. So yeah, yeah, American women. Yeah,
mom's American women grew up.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
One of the most okay, last one In your live shows,
if someone kind of throws something out or starts yelling,
does it throw you off with like where your thoughts
were going?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Or well.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I don't like it, don't do it. It's like it's
fun and sometimes it's a moment. But and you see
this weird trend right now on socials of this crowd
work clips being really successful and there's a lot I'm
talking to comedian friends of mine. It's like it's just
it's a kind of a slippery slope because if you
get successful posting crowd work clips, now people come to
(32:38):
your shows and they're just going to scream at you
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well wait that rifle.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, that's the one that I see where they're always
yelling at him.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, I mean I would love you one of his shows.
You won't.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You can't find a ticket. I mean that he's a
whole nother discussion. That's we've never seen before what he's doing.
But yeah, I'm sure his shows are just chaos and
people screaming stuff, and maybe he maybe he loves that
that's what he wants to do, and so if so,
that is then perfect. I know I don't want to
do that. I just I'm not a crowd work comedian.
I'm not trying to be. I just want to do
(33:08):
my material, and of course you kind of have to be.
I want to include the crowd some and I talked
to them and yes, that's the show I was at you.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Just some yelled at some guy like what do you do?
I don't know? And then it ended up being funny.
But I'm like, is that a plan?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Thank you? No, it's not thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So I can't assure you because it is when you
when you haven't done it before. I was comedian. I
remember growing up like watching whose line is it?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You're like, there's no way, right, they're writing this, they're
triggering it. And then you become a comedian and you're like, well, no,
you can practice and you can get good at that.
So after years of doing it, you get confident you
can handle I had a girl rushed the stage last week,
and yeah, I mean when I first started out, I
would have I would have struggled to handle that. I'd
be like, oh uhh, And now you just roast the
(33:53):
heck out of her and they kick her out and
it's like a funny moment. You go back to your
material and so yeah, well, I don't want to create
a culture where people are screaming every few minutes. And
there's times you have to some white girl, wasted girl
is disturbing people. You have to shut her down, and
you try to shut her down in a funny way,
and sometimes that doesn't work, so they eventually kick her out.
But yeah, I can assure you nine round percent of
(34:13):
comedians are they're really that funny and they're really on
the fly handling it. And that's a big key I
think to being a good comedian is I think being
funny is one thing. But that was the trick for
me to to get better at my presence up there
and handling those moments, like.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You know a lot of guys get up there.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You just say your jokes, but it's like, how do
you How can you handle when someone's just ruining the
show for half the audience?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And how do you correct that and control the crowd?
Is what I'm trying to get better at.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
It just comes with time. But yeah, awesome, well good question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, so you're sure you come to the show. I'll
handle it. Jocelyn Sacramento if you know, you know, she
rushed the stage. It was quite an event. The security
did their job, they got her. I did another show
of security didn't care. And a girl just I looked
at my left and there's a girl on stage and
I really like the secure already.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
And the guy was like, did they at least wait
till the end of the show because they.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Just miss it.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It was a comedy club.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So when you get in that more into an atosphere,
I think people start acting a fool and there's like,
I mean, of course you make it funny, but I'm like, definitely,
don't keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
But I have a very I have a very great audience.
Who are well behaved, but you never.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Know, did you say you're filming something or you're not saying.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You ever do?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Like a special.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
I self produced my first tour special I just put
on my YouTube and so this tour will definitely eventually
tape a special. So that'll that'll probably come next.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Year and we'll So where would you send people to
watch like I or what is your all? Your handles
the same for everything.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
My name's Tray Kennedy. Should have no trouble finding me
on pretty much every platform. And uh, if you're curious
about the comedy, my my first comedy specials on my YouTube,
traking his YouTube, check it out. And then I'm just
I'm posting content all the time on Instagram and tastes,
Facebook and TikTok.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Okay, but isn't your your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Is like tray in trade in Kennedy. Yeah, I don't
know who the Trey Kennedy. He's out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Couldn't get that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Couldn't get it for a while.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I tried, and there's like rules where especially back in
the day when I knew really new people at Twitter Instagram,
they'd be like if they're inactive for a couple of
years you can have it.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
And there's like this guy, I mean, he just posts
like every year or two just to keep it.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Ah. Yeah, But at this point I think I think
it would do me more harm than good because there's
so many backlogs of Trey in Kennedy that so Trey
in Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Do you have a view?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Warn people think my foreign people who don't really know
any English think my name is Train.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Which is cool?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Train? Do you have fake fake a yeah all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, it'll be like train with two y's Kennedy spelled
within the three e's, And people be like, I just
want to double check. But I think you're offering me
ten thousand dollars if I tell you my social Security
And I would used to be like, no, don't, and
now I'm like, you know what, you deserve it, Okay.
If it feels Bady Kennedy is giving you thousand dollars
(37:04):
you need.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You have a lot to learn about life.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
So well, I feel like you know you've made it.
When people are faking to be on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
People are ruining people's life, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well, thank you, Tray. So much like your show tonight
and the rest of your tour which you added.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
More breaking dot com SLST tour.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Get your tickets. I can val the country that you
will laugh so hard you will have tears.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Thank you so much, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Bye peace,
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