Yeah, yeah, yeah check it check it check it man. It's a unique husband. It's your boy. He's CEO and I'm here with the official Miss Jamaica, how's it going today? And we back at it again man. Say man. Hey, I got a guy today, man He been ripping through the internet waves man. I'm gonna be honest. I see him on Instagram That's why you really be getting busy for me because everybody got the little platform that they like to go on and And when I see this guy man, hey, man, I can't stop laughing. I ain't gonna lie man Hey, I got my boy man. Jesse McDonald a comedian Baby, yes, I'm here man. I'm glad you made it man. I'm glad I'm here too.  I used to go by Lil Jay. Okay, but Ricky Smiley told me how long you're gonna be little He said eventually you got to grow up and if I look up Lil Jay, how many Lil Jay is gonna pop up He said start going by your real name So I googled comedian Jesse McDonald. Nobody pulled up. So I start going by my real name Wow, I'm originally from Ariana, Arkansas And the comedy it was always in me cuz people used to always talk about me cuz the way I walk on the way I was just talked about me So I learned how to talk about myself and learn how to laugh at myself So when I learned how to laugh at myself then when other people talk about me it don't hurt me So the thing that you say about me I know I already said about myself and I would already came up with a comeback line So from there if you try to talk about me I knew how to come back off your comeback line and turn it turn the joke on you. That's what y'all do Yeah, y'all bad boys. I a man Could have been in the comedy if I just practice it ain't it ain't easy cuz people think now you got to write it down Oh, I'm funny everybody say I'm funny There's a difference between neighborhood funny and stage funny stage funny. You got to have material Neighborhood funny you could talk about a little e or you could talk about a little quarrel there with the with the Busted ties and you know why it's ties got busted cuz baby mama bust them out and it's funny to them But stage funny you you got to be to bring that a whole different way Well, the thing I can say is Jesse the comedian Jesse McDonald cuz that's the one that don't nobody know about the comedian. Yes, Jesse McDonald What go ahead when I when I see your comedy man, like I said anything to keep a smile on people face I mean, it's just automatically go to it. I like to smile anybody would anybody that has a Attitude to where it it makes you feel like you can't have a good time. I can't be around them people anyway No negative energy brings negative energy. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta stay positive even when it's negative. Definitely but what I loved about what you said about turning People talking bad about your or making fun of you into a comedic way I love that I wish a lot of people today would do that because you talk about bullying a lot of kids are Affected by bullying and not trying to turn it into a positive way so that it won't affect their lives because there's so many kids out Here whether commit suicide or you know and being a bully themselves. I Love the way how you handled it. Yeah, I'm bullying well back in the day We didn't we didn't call it bullion.  What about a I think it was D Ray I see you on I see you with a lot of different comedians. Yes D Ray D Ray. That's my boy. I The I traveled all the way I met him in little rock I traveled to LA just to go to one of his shows and now everywhere. He looked he seen me Okay, so we was in LA and this guy named spike was like man you funny, but you ain't gonna get on my stage I like, okay D Ray see me. He said hey you perform here. I said not I said no He said we'll get ready up and to put you up. He'd say you better kill it He put me up there and I murdered it. Oh Mike came back. He said man I like you you funny. You found a way to get your ugly. It's on up And ever since then I just toured and just followed D Ray and all of a sudden He put gave me a chance one time in Memphis to perform and I did the show and I killed it And once I killed it. He was like I said when the next show he say it hard for Connecticut I say why I want to go.  Just tell me. I'm on it I'm near you. That's a long way. I like I'm near He told me to show up and ever since then I've been going that was 24 hours driving Wow So did dedication what showed him? Hey look, you know Hey look this guy really trying to do it and that he proved to me He proved to me that he wanted to get there even if he had to get there by a cell Wow, that's crazy because I know I remember hearing stories on Eddie Griffith How he went up to LA and was sleeping on on the benches and everything else trying to get in the game When when he first and then he tried to act like he was his own like, you know When they have the assistance or somebody else in the phone Yeah, he had to play that role too just to get into certain places because he didn't have all the things that it took to build up The you know the infrastructure won't talk to you unless you got Representation it don't matter how good you is So something and it's crazy because you could be real good now and day and they name all about how funny you is Or how good you is in music. It's all about how many followers you got. Yeah The amount of followers then, you know, you could be you could be the best But you ain't got that many amount of followers then they're not gonna mess with you. Wow So it's really setting the standard. Mm-hmm. You can have a million followers and be garbage. I know a lot of them like that name That may be garbage right now, but they made but they're still working on a craft and they haven't gave up So everybody that at one point was because I was at one point was garbage But people constantly telling me hey look that's garbage It made me get better because that criticism made me want to do better and be like look I got to go prove to this person that hey look I'm better than what they think I am But everybody sends a humor is totally different because like we've been to comedy shows and or even at home when Yeah, my daughter and Elvis showing me something funny and I'm looking at it like Yeah, we don't even have the same type of funny My daughter we rock out but her she don't get it She don't think it's fun. No totally different. So like I love Eddie Griffin. I love Monique So I'll go to them to right there. They say whatever the only my mind But you see what I really loved about him was not only the jokes But the fact that he gave me history I know that you're doing your research not just telling them jokes, but about Whether politics or society or where we came from he started giving us knowledge and I like that about his shows It's not just about a joke, but really just to educate people as well. So to me. I like that What about Dick Gregory? I've never if you like Eddie Griffin then you will love Dick Gregory is any educational He's straight funny. He's not gonna sugarcoat.  Like I got to go on the stage after him and you was kind of like Don't give me that don't give it that Give me a big name that you went in after that you was like it's nothing that but I would probably be like whoa Oh Man, I didn't work with so many people. Give me a name. It's hard to say No matter who you put me behind.  I'm ready No, I heard other boy like like even Kevin. What's the name? Let's show Kevin Kevin Hart Kevin Hart and and and and Chris Rock I've heard them say they was even intimidated by Chappelle you don't the thing is when you know what God put you on earth to do It your talent is your talent you got to be you you got this if you feel nervous going behind somebody then that mean You should feel nervous going behind just anybody that put you they put you behind So just because this person got a bigger name doesn't mean they're not as funny as you or as great as you You can still go up there behind that comedian and give the same energy But you got to have it in your heart and in your mind that hey look, I'm confident where I'm at I know what I'm finna do. Mm-hmm. What what about day? What was that boy named Mike? Yeah, Mike else my boy. You were you work with him you you've been when you did shows with him I didn't work with Mike Mike Mike is real cool He told me hey just keep doing what you're doing because people always say hey What would you what would the advice would you give people today to to make it to where you made it is? My best advice is keep doing what you're doing But what you're doing got you here to meet me and if it got you here to meet me What you're doing gonna continue to grow to help you meet other people because what I did may not work for you I got disability some people probably felt sorry for me and be like hey look we're gonna We're gonna we're gonna help this handicapped guy at the same time. I didn't see no disability I just say hey look I seen people that I'm finna meet. I'm gonna take this number. You just step and stone and I'm gonna keep grinding So have you ever ran out of? jokes yeah You can't run out of jokes because I can never stop talking about me or do you ever find that because okay a lot When I'm gonna go watch a comedy show I'm looking them up on YouTube listening to their jokes a lot of that and then sometimes when I go and watch them It's the same jokes. They bring back but the thing is sometimes well just the way they went You have to have a set if you don't have a set you'll be rambling what I mean by set like Sometimes you get up there.  You cannot bring him here without hearing signify a monkey Yeah, so you got certain jokes no matter how many sets you change people want to hear that joke I know matter if you've been to that and you didn't hurt your time plenty of time You can say the joke with them and it still be funny So so do you think that? Okay, so when you you just went to I know you said you was in Triport, then you went to Alabama then you went to Atlanta. I went to Atlanta and you just got back up this way You already got shows booked out. We got shows booked out carpet Dm We said we've been we've been busy. I've been trying with curl and clay born and thanks to him and Tim Bay and all the other people that been giving me a chance to get out here and open up for them and build my platform and She nags my errand my cousin so with me building my platform is able is Abling me to now be able to go out and start my own Comedy tour so that's what we're working on. So so you how was it transitioning from like the the Being just on the road and going and going to the shows and be it You know just by word of mouth to transitioning over into this internet phase. How was that? How was that transition and how did you adapt? Is it better on this side or was it better on that side? Well, you appreciate the grind from back in the day That's that's what I do you you you hand in hand you grinding. It's not like oh hit enter now I'm famous It's like hey, look, I drove to these spots 14 hours 22 hours Slept in my car at nighttime because sometimes you didn't want to spend that money to buy a room Because you know you had to pay for gas to get back here But one thing I learned always here are merchandise if you don't have merchandise once you get off stage and you're fun That's good. People don't know who you is and good example this weekend I went to Chicago okay, I go the guy there got my luggage and the crazy thing is I thought a luggage was mine I grabbed it a lady grab my luggage But in my luggage all I had was all t-shirts and I didn't know that I had a luggage and on my t-shirts I got all my social media. Yeah, all my social media has my number So they went in there and they pulled me up and they commented say hey look you got our suitcase I'm like, huh? She's like, yeah, you got our suitcase. We've got choice. I'm like I'm looking like how you find me then I thought about it all my t-shirts got that on it And I was able to go back and switch shirts and take it and I mean what sweet suit how fast did it happen pretty quick Probably a couple hours Yeah, you didn't realize you just roll the question thing good cuz I was in Chicago I wait on the other comedians to get there so we can go do a show in Wisconsin Okay, so I just had a friend to pick me up and drop me off at the hotel They met me at the hotel with swap suitcases Wow, and then when she didn't even really know who I was and she followed me and she said That's what's up, man So so so where where where are you performing at next next where this weekend? I'm in Where we're in Jacksonville, Florida. Okay Jacksonville, Florida after Jacksonville when you come back Dallas I'm in Dallas all the time.  Is it somewhere? We can see you here in Dallas It's basically it's on the tour. Okay, right now. I'm working with the tour and Just having nobody really call me from that I'm waiting on you to come back to Dallas cuz if you be right here, but then you have to you live in Dallas So I live in Dallas, but you travel a lot cuz you're not even performing here You booked out of town.  I think I go to Arkansas Do you go to Arkansas? I go to Arkansas to go see my kid. No No, no, I don't Probably without honor in his own country. I didn't have I didn't have a chance to where I Asked the guy I said, hey look you got a comedy club in in Little Rock and I say um When you gonna book me to do a comedy show here. He told me never.  I said guess what next time I come to your show I mean your your comedy club somebody gonna be paying me to perform. Exactly. He said we'll see The next month I came and I headlined And I was getting paid see and he told me he said man When you gonna stop playing to come on do a show for me. I say when that money, right? Exactly. See he had the opportunity to recognize you. That's why a lot of times, you know We're in Dallas We always try to recognize people who are here people who don't get the recognition that they should get because like Why are we gonna try to look for people who are out of Dallas out of Texas to have them whether? Virtually come on our show or ask them to fly in to come on our show. It doesn't make sense There's a lot of talent here Yeah, he know me though, and he didn't even try to book you before. Mm-hmm. You see that's a shame and I have no I have no hard feelings or some, you know I mean because I mean at the same time it's a business But same time my job is to make sure I do my work so good to where you have no other choice But to pay me right and everything happens for a reason and in its due time. That's how I look on life That's what a lot of people don't understand You know people be a error every year people some people say this is my year. It's my year But the thing I learned with this being your year It may not be your year to blow up But it could be your year to help somebody else blow up and once that person blow up they can bring you exactly Some people like oh, I'm not helping them because if I help them that's gonna get them on and I'm not gonna be on Well, if I help you and you get on if I help you get on you may not be the person to help me get on It may be the person that I introduce you to be like, well, how you meet him? Well, this little guy over here with the crutch tall cup holder That's the guy that introduced me like hey look, I need to meet him.  I like him Oh So many because everybody different but I did I looked at a lot of comedy Comedy and I watched all of them. I watched I watched a lot of the comic views So what's the um the other one where they used to get raunchy? Um, it was before comedy Um, I cannot think I don't know why I'm trying to think It's gonna it's gonna come of you death jail death jail when you watch death jam You start learning everybody got their own style of comedy like people like well How can you compare? Mike epps to the kevin heart. Well kevin heart tells stories about his family Mike epps do hood hood comedy. Yeah, but at the same time it's still jokes about the family Then you got the ricky smiley's in the in the um, what's his name? Steve harby They do church church material at the same time They still got a little hood side that they where they can throw it in there to where it can bring So it breaks up the soul So We'll say some people be like churchy churchy, right breaks it up to where you know what I'm saying You're like, oh, okay. He doing this doing that. You know, I've been inspired by by like Steve Harvey and uh ricky smiley You know, they get over I think they tap into they tapped into a place where it was okay to It was okay to love god, but still be funny. Yes, and I know that That that's what helped me a lot when I when I would watch ricky smiley or steve I I already love god sometime. I would be too too, you know, I'd be too uh Yeah, I'm too too spiritual, you know, I was you know, I'm for the you know I I mean love god to a point where I don't need to be I mean you can't talk because you ain't trying to get yourself together But when I see those guys they kind of you know level it out to where you can be it's okay I did I'll be doing churches And I did oh, yeah, it was like it was back in the day type of church And I was like I got to wake them up to a different side And I told the I was like look can y'all patch my tablet and they were like a tablet I thought you're doing jokes. I said, yeah, I got music And say wait a minute. What kind of music? I say just trust me. I got good music And I came out on frankie bevel and maize. All right, man. Oh, they was looking at me like I know he ain't playing Wait a minute. Oh, look, I'll say see y'all looking at me y'all judging me I like let me tell y'all y'all got y'all we're talking to god I got my own way of talking to god. Everybody can't talk to god the same way you do I say you don't believe me watch this Sing the words of this song whether it's first start off. You make me happy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah This you can tell And like jesus when nobody else was there, guess what you're doing right beside you I think I do throw jesus in there. You got it. There you go. So it's all about a mind site a mind set, right Once I brung them there It's like dates start singing the song wow the energy, you know i'm saying came and I just brung brung my material From there and they be like, how do you take your hood jokes to church? Because you got to know how to clean it up one thing I learned if you can't do clean material you can't go nowhere Yeah clean material you can go anywhere Some people can't do clean material So when you can't do clean material it blocks your money it blocks out the things that you can go do One time I did a show and I was cursing right in the beginning and I heard somebody in the crowd say You can't curse I split my whole set right just I was listening to them And went straight clean and they were like wow I never seen nobody that can do that because I'd not already prepared myself to say look any situation You got to be prepared because you vibe off your audience.  Yeah, I know what did they call it What did you do at that time? They call it the thing is with that you still keep your same energy You don't drop the thing is you hate to get a silent crowd A silent crowd could say look you're killing yourself Or at the same time a silent crowd could mean they're really paying attention to what you're saying Yeah, because I didn't do the crowd and they really didn't laugh But they came up to me at the end and said man, you you killed it man.  What's just about to ask you That's what I was talking like when you just told it just it didn't happen. Yes. I didn't got booed I was doing a show here at hyenas And I didn't know this my first time in Dallas doing comedy I started talking about it was a gay girl said something to me and I started talking about the gays And they say boo you ain't funny. He was on turtle.  I ain't need no comedian. I come here to rap It's crazy because the guy that that's supposed to be managed me.  He got the face shot. I'm gonna put him on the spot because he always put me What's the name? Oh there Graham. Oh there Graham. What's up, baby shot? Oh, they'll finna take off and leave me You said did that how you gonna leave me but see I'm talented and I'm good at what I do. I say, you know what? I didn't come to do no comedy I came to rap I started rapping and I did the song called I ain't drunk. I just walked this way Give me a little bit of it Born with a limb but I know it's a pencil. Tell me why you're hating it when I step up in the club I got you scared to show me love know what's going through your mind see what your friend's gonna say I'll be going through the same thing like every single day now. I'm the same as you but with the arch in my back Don't be asking now my drunk because you know, it ain't like that handicap But I'm still making needs on the D. Lo you heard in my last song money be my stelo I didn't gain the fame but now I got to get the cheese a lot of brothers I ain't going on the corner stacking jeez. Remember back in the day when the spare was straight broke So I started rapping because they bring me cheese But now I got some chicken heads falling to them And to all you ones that will never give me the time of day Quit looking my way and trying to get me for my pain because I ain't drunk. I just walked this way I hear you baby. Yeah And and how long ago did you write that in 95?  I said, look, let me go and get y'all my testimony Yeah, I got a gospel. I got a gospel comedy set. Okay, it's like it's a testimony But I started doing jokes in there Brought them right up and they jumped right back into me and I hear them and I got up out of state I said, that's my time. Thank y'all Yeah, baby microphone. Oh, yeah, I got him. But when I dropped the microphone I feel too didn't have nobody else to help me get up because I was here and left me I don't know what I'm saying. I was there. He didn't he did it for real No, he came back when the crowd got back with me. He said, that's my artist. That's my artist That's my ball You don't be that way. Have you been back there to perform again after that? Yes. I didn't I didn't I didn't did pretty much All the a A club can't comedy clubs. You got to a list. You got to be listen. You got to see this a listen like improv Spunny bones So I did all the major ones pretty much from From the east coast to the west coast. Wow Midwest to the south. What would you say was your what state was your hardest state? Texas I haven't had no hearts because you make it good everywhere you go Because people the first thing people see that little crutch come up on the stage They were like at any point in time. He's gonna throw that thing down. They don't know I'm not throwing this thing down I dropped this crutch. You might want to say shoot me if there's a younger cat a young kid that uh He coming up, you know young like you was when you first got in the game And he want to get into Being a comedian. He loved to make people laugh That's what he wanted to do. What would you suggest? How would he start? Believe in yourself first You got to believe in yourself because if you don't believe in you, how could the next person believe in you? Invest into yourself when you invest into yourself you work harder when it's your own time When I say invest in yourself it don't necessarily mean money We invest your own time into crediting your craft Then it works go support the ones that you like Go the more you go support the more you go to learn it the more you're around The more people go to noticing you sometimes you don't think they notice but they're watching they're like sky at every one of my shows Who is it and eventually they'll say something to you and they'll kind of motivate you to be like Oh, they noticed me they're watching me Now when they get ready to give you a chance to get on stage have your material ready It don't take no long people like oh, I need 30 minutes. I need 20 minutes I'll only take it to the good three to five minutes three to five minutes on stage is a long time It's a long time. It's even longer when you're not funny So a good three to five minutes of good material And please make sure you watch the material you're using make sure you're not using nobody else material Because they will call you out if you have somebody using somebody else material People people are fighting over jokes I know I've heard people say that somebody stole their joke and they're using it and they took their joke But some people tell other people jokes better than what they was telling it exactly but at the same time People are like no, there's not there's not their joke But sometimes don't you think that like I could sit down here and write a joke And not realize that somebody actually told that joke because people think alike and that's true But it all it's all on the delivery in the setup of the joke Like you may y'all made the joke may be the same But the setup may be different delivery may be different So that's what you want to be aware of your setup your delivery of the joke So I mean Because I ain't gonna lie. I think I thought I had a little something back in the day You probably had it. You just didn't I didn't pursue it If you didn't pursue it, didn't you know, I mean, I could make a I could I had a crowd of people like you always put me on spot Let me get a joke. I don't have That'll make me nervous. I don't write it. I'd have to it's organic. You have to happen when we are just hanging out Everybody you sound like mr. Brown.   Yeah, I hear Really any time looking for cora to walk through that dog See, he knows jokes. He's on the spot with it I see you telling jokes ranking on people. That's yeah. Oh, I'll be right around. Yes. That's what I do Okay, I talk about people got mr. Brown and cora right Wow, we got him right here. See, he know how to do it. He put it together quick You gotta watch this guy. So Um, you and you said uh, you and ricky smile. How did you meet ricky? How did y'all end up meeting? You came there to show well, we had a competition in little rock Okay, whoever won the competition get to open up for ricky. Oh, I came through I murdered it I really won but Me being me Wasn't being selfish the girl that they said once she had a bigger crowd in me So they say we're gonna give her one night. We're gonna give you one night. I said, that's cool Long as I get the chance to perform it It wasn't all about trying to get all the stage time So she got one night and I got the second night the second when ricky seen me He'd say he told that he told the radio station. He says it's this guy. Y'all keep saying Lud J is funny Soon he seen me. He just looked at me and just started laughing. He said you gotta be him I did my show when I did my show I was so funny that when he starts off his set his first 15 to 20 minutes was talking about me Wow He had to go back and regroup and come back out and he took me on the road Me, him, Doug Williams went to Nashville. That was my first big page Really? I didn't my first big page show was $500. That's what I'm talking about, baby. I was like, oh I was like, this this is good. He'll so that's what's up, man I mean, so you you actually went out and kicked it with ricky like that I went out and I just started going out to support him. He's real humble I went when he did tv one his tv show What is with the ricky smelly show? They did a premiere when it first came out He didn't know I was coming. I showed up and when I showed up His manager them knew I was coming and when he finally seen me said when you get here I like I'm here. He's like a guy here today. He said wow. He said when you leave and I say when this over He said when it's over. He said let me pay for your hotel room. I said no He said let me pay for your gas. I said no He said come on. I gotta pay for your rental car or something. I said no I came here to support you. It's all about you. I like I had enough gas and money and everything to get here Really, I didn't but I didn't want to you know saying right it was about him and I just told him I just came to support you and me not taking that money Made him go on the radio the next day and he talked about from about 20 30 minutes Telling people how humble I was and how he offered to do all these things and I never would take it That I would just like hey look, you know I came to support you and he said a lot of a lot of celebrities don't get that love to where they say Hey, look, I just come to support you when you go to support in that artist in that artist got a chance to Reach back and pull you But if every time you reach reaching out to him you got your hands out now they go to looking like Man here they come they want something Well, I wanted to show you how genuine you are because it's hard to find genuine people Especially when you have reached somewhere in your life as an artist and you have that money and stuff like that Just like what you said people are always having their hand out You don't find genuine people who you can really rely on or trust and know that they truly just like me As an artist, you know what I mean when I brought up Ricky smiley It was because remember we had young bleed On here where he had him on the show on boss talk And uh, he was saying that you know Ricky when he played at how you do that there That's his song and he said he always liked it because Ricky always let his part play You know because everybody made that song kind of about masterpiece But really it was his it was a remix Yeah, and young bleed was like he just loved the fact of how Ricky shined a light on him and was respectful and how he done it Yeah, I did D Ray like that. He was his birthday the other day and um, I asked to do doubt this with him He said well, we really are really full But he'd say he always said you show up. I got you But I didn't end up showing up. I ended up doing other shows But I sent the bottle of Don Julio back to him also and When they when they gave it to him they FaceTime me and they gave it to him. He said just Thank you man. Just man. Just they just made my day And it's not to just say hey look I did this it's just to say look I appreciate the the love that you give to me because anytime you didn't got out to the point to where you can go on You can just show up at people's shows and they give you a chance to go on stage and shine Then, you know, that's a blessing.  Oh, man. I love D Ray man. I man. That's my dog You know, I mean I'm glad I'm grateful that the guy that I've been working with um I made him over 10 years ago and he used to bring me in the shows I like man, I need you to manage me and over the time We were trying to figure out to where he can manage me and it would make sense And I started going on the road with them with curl went in the first time curl and clayborn And I would tell them man. Look, you ain't even got to pay me. Just let me come on stage I sell my merchandise. I know what I was capable of for selling merchandise So he gave me a chance and then I just started continued to work hard Not just coming up on the on the show to be a comedian. I learned how to make myself Ask to um a helper to the team. I learned everybody music I learned how to DJ everybody music during the show. I would go in there before the show I would do a sound check. I know certain people voices. Hey, look, you need to pull bass out of it His voice is too deep to have this much bass And once I did that and he's saying that I was a help to the team He turned around and he started managing me. So big shots out to Elton Pope with carpet dm So we think that well, I thought that you know when you're a comedian it's all about just telling jokes But now you're you know, let me know there's a lot more than just just doing that. Yeah Yes, you can and it is crazy because I was I was standing outside At one show and people were walking in they didn't know who I was. I'm like, hey, how you doing this? No, I'm sorry.  I came up on stage. He looked at me. He's like, oh Oh my I said, don't worry about it.  Jesse mcdonald the Comedian extraordinaire Love the way I love your instagram man. I'll be tripping off of you man. You something else, man What made you what made you start doing those skits like that? I don't know. I just I was I don't know I'll just start doing working with different people and the thing is what happened was when They say kovic Yeah, they call it kovic when it hit I noticed a lot of comedians were sitting at home They was working but it wasn't working So I said, you know what? I want to work with this person this person and this person So I said, you know what? I'm gonna drive to their city And I drove to their city and we just start doing Doing comedy doing jokes and they respected the fact that I would I would get up and I would drive To them and be like let's let's do it and we started doing videos and I found out. Hey, look, I'm a professional fouler I am That that that guy that for every time I see certain people they feel like oh, let's do a video You got the fall But if the fall don't make sense. It's not no good at falling. That's right So, you know, and you got you got people in Dallas that I ran into that I loved it. I've been wanting to work with for the longest and I reached out.  I like yeah, he said well, his manager my partner. I said man, I want to work with him Yeah, yeah, yeah He made the phone call and I hit bubble dub. He said man, look when you get to Dallas, man, let's work Oh, that's that's love. We we've been we've been working to rock it out We've been to bust the internet open and I'm open to work with anybody I don't care, you know, I'm saying I'm I'm willing to work with anybody because you never know Who that person is that you're trying to work with sometimes and sometimes I learn Well, I ain't gonna say sometimes I learn the people that got the most money in the game Is the one that probably got about 200 followers on instagram already Some people that got millions of followers that that's pretty much all they got some of them So what you're saying is money don't equate to followers it don't My followers don't equate to money Yeah, because of because of the business people business people or they got a couple of followers And sometimes they'll hit you in your inbox and you'd be like, hi This person they got that many followers ain't gonna reach out to them and go hit them back Because I reached a person who hit me in my inbox. He didn't have many followers But he was so constant Hit me and I was already responding. I liked this conversation And when I hit him, he said man, come to Atlanta. I'm put you in the studio I drove the streetport Come to find out and had our show because me and my girl were gonna go She went down the streetport with me and come to find out. We got that date early Okay I had to turn around come back and bring her back home because she had to go to work Turn around drove back the streetport did the two shows left there went to Alabama After I did the show in Alabama went straight to Atlanta. He said, I'm gonna let you sleep tonight We get up in the morning and hit it. I said no, I'm here now And I dropped two songs that night and I didn't realize how big the studio was And come to find out neo record was there us to record that there james moran Some of the biggest names record there and they like my energy and it was like It's like anytime you're in Atlanta, you're welcome to come by here Man, that's a blessing because you never know what, you know, you just don't I'm a god feel person And you never know what god is doing.   It's coming off next week in texan Greg Abbott said it's coming off in texan. I look at whatever god got for me.  So, you know how People always talk about like it's an example of hairstylist.  They don't always so my question to you is When you're at home, are you always cutting up telling jokes and is that you all the time?  So me and my girlfriend we do we do a couple tiktoks. Oh, yeah. Yeah I'm gonna be looking that up. You did a couple tiktok. What's your tiktok handle? Uh, it's it's my name. Everything's still the same. Okay. Okay. Comedian jesson mcdonough. Exactly. All right Yeah, we gonna see y'all on there see how your girl get down with her But me and the kids man, we have they like it to where because I I tell them all the time like look You've got to continue to do it. You want to you really want to grow and her daughter she was like She's like, I got I got 8 000 followers. She's like, I got to get to ting it. She's like, I'm stuck So every time she says she's stuck. We'll do a video. She's like, you got to fall Yeah, that's good We did that one video and it took off and I like it because you never know who you're expiring You know saying to to to do things and is to be able to work with them and they show me how to work and then One of her daughters, I dress up She must not see I think I was dressed good today because normally she'll tell me uh, you can't wear that That's that that ain't in style. That's And she didn't say nothing yet. She didn't say no. I guess I'm dressed good today.  That don't work So so yeah, that's I've got three that I made and I got three steps. I made Three that I made three steps. How old are they? Um, let's start with 14 seven No, she finna be 14 seven and one Wow One. Yeah, I'm done One one one is it that's it. That was it Amen it boys and girls Good mix one boy two girls Beautiful, man. Yeah, but I told dr. Cut the whole sack off now. Yeah, don't play with it. Don't uh-uh Don't want one like 10 or something like 10 kids We got six now That's enough eight is enough. You need four more for what? We're trying to enjoy ourselves. We're trying to enjoy life. Wow Because you be gone all the time anyway, right? Like I'm gonna say we can you be gone I had that now that's the only part about the the industry that I don't like that much is that I'm gone on the weekends And that's the time that you really get with your family and you go out have a good time and you go do things and I guess by By my girl working sometimes just be like quit Come on the road with me. Yeah. Yeah, you know, they're gonna pay for the room in a way in the travel Yeah, so we can go do what we're gonna do and I'll be in this through the daytime and play and let me go do my shows at night time But she want to work. So this is all good. She don't want to work. I told she can go on quit I'm gonna work hard because I'm because I'm one of the man that like I I believe in taking care of mine already I do too put our in your camp and give her a role so she'll be working but working for you I'm working with you don't never say that. Yeah, sorry working with you. Yeah. Yeah, you can't you can't say that You see what you said what you said? I done down Working with you So I work for you now Let me ask you a question man, uh, this is something I do and and and I heard you say frankie beveling maize while ago and um I do this thing called a top three artists of all times I want to know dead or live Your top three artists and music of all time and then I'm gonna ask you about comedians too because I want to know Top three because I did that with somebody else that came on that did a certain something else to segue. I'm preaching remember Okay, so I want to do the top three artists of all times dead or live I don't know who's seen the song I love the song.  So that's number one. That's number one because it all started with me happiness And if I if I can make me happy Then i'm cool with that that surface man. Yes. So surface is number one um I would have to go with um dead or live dead or live I would have to go with um What's his name? I listen to him. That's the first surface. We got anytime. I'm on the road. I listen to him He from arkansas If I wasn't trying to think of his name, what does he what does he sing gospel? It's crazy. I rap. I rap but I listen to a lot of gospel music Can you sing your song? I can't even think of it right now. Oh, it ain't marvin sap. Is it? No, it ain't marvin. Fred Hammond's is he from arkansas He's from um, he's from blivell blivell You met this guy. I never met him, but i'm going to oh, you're gonna meet him.  He's a big artist.  Um number three We'll have to be Who would be number three dead or live? dead or lie Oh, no, because i'm into oh germane debris germane debris.  That's my they kind of favor So you you ever met germane? No, i met his mama and i'm gonna tell you how i met her I was in atlanta and i always i wanted to meet germane debris. I'm meeting for my birthday. It's right before covid hit so i Google the address i went there Say i'm going over to that boy house. I google the address once i google the address This is a real comedian. He said he's gonna pull up on him Yeah, i google the address and when i google the address i went up to the address to the studio When i went to the studio the lady say Um, we're not open. This is not a public studio So i was like, okay I said, well, look, I just got a package. I want to drop off. She said package. I said, yeah, I have a t-shirt I want to leave here. You know i'm saying That I want to give to him. She said, okay. Well, wait one minute So i was i was going to really i was ringing the doorbell. She nobody came to the doorbell They heard the doorbell, but they didn't come i started walking to my car and i called And when i called back she answered the phone. I said, yeah, i'm outside She said, so you the one at the little black car. I said, so you looking at me I like yeah, but i got i got a t-shirt I want to drop off and after i gave her the t-shirt she said come on in She invited me into the studio. I got a chance to see a lot of the plaques Whatever she was like, yes I was like and i told her who i was and how much her son Expired me but she didn't know i knew there was there was her son at first Okay, so after so long she went on told me and I still so you knew it already I already knew who she was because I was a big fan. So you already seen her pictures. Yeah, so Even to this day, I would call just to see how she's doing. I was like, I just called see how you're doing I don't even ask her about you remember you I don't need no she remember you remember me. I don't even ask about jamae She said so many people be trying to talk to him But see my thing was build a relationship with the people around it So them people would talk positive and good about me. So when they do run into me Ask them people. Hey, look, do you know such a certain? I got a little bit like that. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, so i'm gonna i'm gonna meet jamae in the pre i believe you did you ever get that number two? No, I didn't get his number. No. No i'm saying the number two No, I thought it was number two tim rogers tim rogers I never heard I got to look him up. What's what he's saying tim rogers got he got a lot of hits I'm tell you i'm walking south. He's from arkansas Tim rogers. So it's surface tim rogers and jamae de pri I got my three That one thing about it when you're on the road, you think about you're traveling you listen to rap music Eventually, all of it goes to sound the same. Yeah. Yeah, you go there. You follow you get getting sleepy Yeah, you know, now I've got certain rap music I can't listen to and I can buy but I can't buy no seven hours with it Yeah, yeah, yeah, rogers and the fellas and lee williams. Yeah, man. I'll be on that highway I'm rolling and don't let me go back to that to that old that old school r&b And all he goes down. I just play half of it Half of it.   Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah You'll take off on my room. Everybody be asking me why I keep running away on my skits We're gonna tell y'all, but I'm not gonna tell you right now There's a reason why I keep running away and when I go when when we tell y'all it's gonna inspire so many people You know what? I'm gonna go and tell y'all because y'all the first one with a nice interview set up Hey, man boss talk 101 got me looking good Got you looking real good never said did an interview in a hot chair But um doing that man this this um This running away. I'm running away to success already. I'm trying to be successful So that's why I keep running away. We finna eventually start bringing that up to why they were like people like why you keep running away? um I got a goal And I'm trying to show people no matter how many times people try to stop you No matter how no matter how many times you fall I still get up and every situation is different So now we're gonna start bringing in the celebrities to where You see me going to try to kick to these people and I'm trying to tell them who I am And eventually when I do blow up and I get to that point I ran and ran into a boom You ran into success I ran to success. Hey, man, that's great, man. That's a great concept. Yeah, it is. Yes, it is So, um, what's your instagram, uh, where can they find you just one more time so we can get that on here? Yeah, comedian jesse mcdonald on any social media comedian jesse with ie And that's the is there a website they can go on for is where you're performing to try to keep tag into that Tap into where you're gonna be next. I post a lot of it on my own. It'd be on instagram. That's what's up That's why I see a lot of my page. Yes. Yeah, man.  Yeah, man Yeah, we boss talk 101 Yep, and if you look for me on, uh, what's that, uh, christin mingle?  Jesse mcdonald man, we thank you for coming on the show comedian jesse mcdonald, man Now y'all gotta do no you said i'm sorry you said you wanted to tell you the top three comedian Bam, that's good because you the first comedian we had i need your top three comedian dead or alive Dead or like because that's really that's your passion too. Now.  I'm gonna tell you why they my top three. Okay Ricky smiley would be first Ricky smiley. I already knew that he made number one Ricky smiley Ricky number one because ricky the first person that seen me and said you need to be seen and I'm gonna take you on the road You and he did exactly what he said and you were around Ricky a lot He took me yes, he took me on the road He he Ricky was sitting on side of the stage with a notebook And he would write down everything that I was doing wrong And he would give it to me at the end of the show and say here Go fix this Ricky don't don't we write the one show Ricky came I guess my DJ messed my music up But I was so on point that nobody knew but Ricky knew and he went off on the DJ and he went off on me because he said he's supposed to have it stuck together and From there it just taught me he said always be at your show an hour or two hours ahead of time We can do soundcheck you can get there sit up your merchandise app right before people start going and do another sound check So a person that that big that takes the time out to sit on side of the stage and watch me And make notes of what I need to fix You got to get number one. Got to get number one. That's that's love Because people don't tip people don't help you get down how to ricky smiley man I loved it when he was on the radio here in Dallas, man. I love I he was he did his thing, man I always loved the way Ricky do things better when he talked do a little skit about the the the dead talking to the dead people Whatever the Korra all this dude. Oh, yeah, he's hilarious. But maybe one day we get him on the show I met him once a long time ago. He came over to a business. Remember what he used to go around to do? Yeah, yeah, and he was over here in Pleasant Grove And I saw him over there and but he was pretty humble I like him. Oh, he definitely love his people man. I do see him fight back when he had to dress Yeah, he would fight for justice and all type of stuff He he definitely loved the culture and a lot of respect and love for him. Who's your number two? D Ray D Ray Is it cause y'all be hanging out too is another hangout story It's because the the energy that that they give me and D Ray did something that Some people would get mad at and I took it as a stepping stone After I rocked three years on the road with D Ray He said I'm gonna have to let you go. Wow And I didn't understand why And the reason why is because he told me he's saying You didn't grew on my platform He said now it's time for you to find another platform to grow on He's saying don't think it's the end, you know saying we'll continue to grow The we was asking the top three and you said ricky smiley And he said D Ray and you was into that D Ray story, wasn't he? So so D Ray was one that that you said he was pretty much A very much inspiration and after three years he just decided, okay I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go. You can't be here with us. No more. Did he tell you why? He said we're gonna switch up. He said What it is you didn't grew on my platform And he said I see bigger things for you and I want to see you grow Bigger than what you are So I'm gonna let you go and let you get on somebody else platform When you get on somebody else platform, it opens you up to a bigger platform And from that platform it had to go to my next comedian Curl when clayborn curled when clayborn now. I ain't never heard of curled How you gonna bring up curled when clayborn? I ain't never heard of I thought you're gonna say Richard prior Martin Lawrence and uh, uh, uh, Chris rock, but no you went, uh, uh, uh, You went ricky smiley a D Ray and and what's this last guy named curled when clayborn curled when clayborn Let's see the reason don't don't get me wrong the ones that you name. I love them to them Okay, but the reason I picked the ones that I picked because they Because they they gave me uh, they gave you a chance. Uh, uh, yeah, they gave you opportunity Yes, and curled curled when clayborn Like like they say in this thing called comedy There's a thing called being too funny and not funny enough. Okay You can go out with some comedians and you could be too funny and they would like nope Don't put him on the show. Okay. You can go out and not be funny enough and they were like, oh You got to come off the show But curled was gay gave me a chance to come out Well, that's when I I ran back into elton my manager gave me a chance to come out on on On the tour and perform now when I first came out I'm not gonna lie. I was too strong for him So pope was like look you got to ease back just a little bit So I ease back a little bit and once I ease back a little bit then at salon curl and say no Let that man do him. He said let him let him go He said because it makes the whole show funny when you like the whole show funny Then people like it.  He's like, man. Why you didn't do that joke? You got to do it Or whatever and sometimes my time be up like this weekend my time was up and I didn't do a certain joke He said, oh no, he said, uh, he he got to give away something to the birthday girl He got to get And he let me come back and and do my joke and they they inspired me to say hey look Keep doing what you're doing and he and he always saying you're gonna have your own show You're gonna you're gonna be doing your own tour He said just keep going and keep grinding and getting these followers He said come on followers every time I get on on live. They always say, where's Jesse? I got to get I got I got to look him up. I guess I'm weak in the fact. I don't know What's the name? Claiborne, Claiborne, Claiborne, Claiborne, Claiborne. He does the voiceovers Oh, he does the voiceovers. He does the voiceovers Okay, I'm gonna be I'm definitely and I can find him or IG right IG the real curl and Claiborne. I got you What's your most popular joke my most popular joke? I don't know. I got a lot of a lot of you love it Because when you be doing when you be doing jokes, it's like I know once I get over Now my beginning jokes like I've been working new jokes. I know once I go through these couple of jokes Then I know when I get to this hump right here Is it's straight uphill and it's none stop. I got this alter ego. It's called heat stroke Heat stroke. That's what yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah He stroke came to Tampa not too long ago and I did heat stroke And he stroke was so strong a girl made it rain A thousand dollars worth of 20s on me. Wow He stroke must be a bad boy. He's stroke. He's stroke. Give me one of the heat stroke strokes. Let me hear I can't do he's I can't do it. He's stroke. Uh-oh. Look at you. She shouldn't give you permission.   That's that's all right, man.  He loved And and I I like I like what you do. He said man I got a I got a partner that got this team this talk show called boss talk I said, I need to be on there because I'm a boss and I like That is baby made that call and here I am man. I look for the the um Well, what would you start me sending me the address? I did you just send it that day? No, not that day. No, I didn't send it that day. I didn't send it that day I was like, he'll be back in town later. I get him But so many people been coming at me about the show that I just I she know I get overwhelmed like it's like people just now I don't know what it is But right now people been hitting us up so much man and it's a blessing from god You know, but but I hadn't forgot about you but black, you know, he gonna call me because we were doing this way For my girl called me say I say look we doing something together Saturday I was really I was gonna leave Chicago and go to Atlanta Okay, but then I thought I can't do that because I got an interview. Yeah I gotta keep my word and then thank you so much Then I tell my girl I said we doing some Sunday when I get back Well, really we're gonna be Saturday But yeah what happened was I miss I miss my flight. So it happens I ain't I ain't a pushing back. So I say, you know what I'm still gonna set it up We're still gonna do we're gonna do tomorrow.  He ain't ain't takes me to address I did say what time the first day one I said we were saying one from the jump I thought it was seven o'clock. No, it was one from the very beginning But I didn't call you back because I got overwhelmed.  I'd usually give her the uh I did tell you about it, didn't uh, yes, but you didn't give me the information I didn't give you the information. It's on me. That's on me man. I apologize You made it happen one thing about it. I know whenever you in Dallas and you doing a project and all way up If you in houston, you hit us up a way up if you somewhere even tree port because we got a house down there Where we go down there as well. I'll come to your show and you all um Y'all make sure y'all tap into boss talk man because one thing I do like they embrace me They say they're gonna treat you regular. They didn't have no handicap ramp. Nowhere Is the handicap ramp the handicap parking was in another parking lot You about to have to go all the way to the end to get to the end I was doing the name. They trying to get up that one step just to get up in this But y'all miss you y'all stop by man. Thank you so much for coming man. Appreciate you man We wish you much love and success man. We a your kids man We wish you all the success in the world, right? Yes, and real quick people if you got uh Kid that's disabled Don't treat them like they disabled because that grows into their mind into their mind that they're disabled That's good. Treat them like they regular treat them went treat them the way You know I'm saying you want the world to treat them that way when they go out there in the world Then the world won't hurt them. That's good because I have kids. I was walking in the airport and the little girl saying Mom why he walked with the crutch? She that don't ask him that I say no let her ask that way she know How to deal with handicap people when it comes across and I told the little girl I say I have several palsy Yeah, and she said well, what is several palsy? I'm gonna say stop asking me the question. I said no let her ask because she needs to know I say well, what it is. I don't have feeling in my hand or in the bottom of my feet I have it but it's it's rough. Yeah, it's hard for me to feel She said you can't feel nothing. I say I walk hard so I can feel the pressure Going down and the lady was like thank you. She said nobody never never got a chance to explain I say that's the ring kids growing up being bullies. Well, I don't call it bully That's when people grow up talking about people because they don't know they don't understand it lack of knowledge but it's so crazy because um, I'm older and People it was always a sensitive Subject when you see someone who might be disabled you don't want to pry in their business because you don't know how a person might handle it So you're scared to even ask everybody ain't got tough skin like you Well, the thing is that's the ring. I'm here. That's the ring. I That's when I have my platform to show people look if he can get out there and do it They can get out there and do it too because a lot of people don't know I used to be a cheerleader What? I was a cheerleader high school through junior.   Okay. I want to end up more I was out there with the people the more I got Got comfortable with being me. Wow. That's good stuff And I and I was the water boy for the for the um basketball team too So I got to give a shout out to them to the chimps mariana trojans. Okay. Okay number one in the regional Okay, number one in the district in arkansas number one Texas with that man Arkansas it don't matter where we at. We number one. Okay. Okay. So so if you in texas, you Don't bring that over here man. You're number one in Texas.  Are we still number one? Okay, so only in texas though, right? No If I'm only in arkansas, that's a little different. That's a little different right there Country people wanted a little bit better than some city people. That's real talk So so I was going to ask you when you because we were about to go off there But I was going to ask you about Even if they're like a kid that's going through that has cerebral palsy or if he's handicapped or something They can look at you as an inspiration. You're so true. Dude. Is there any way that there's an outlet Is there outreach some kind of way can reach you? I mean, I think that would be great for kids who don't have that tough skin Social media. Yeah. Yeah, I know social media is there. You know what you can call me You see what I'm saying? I think that would be great for somebody My daughter has it too. So yeah, you can reach you can reach out and call me my number is on my social media Don't call me out the hours because you call me out the hours and make it look like you know I'm saying you're trying to make a booty call And I ain't got time to be sleeping on the couch because you want to call just say hey look I like what you're doing keep doing what you're doing No, no, not that part right, but the kids though They really can look at you and be inspired because you're right, you know They don't have that that person that they can depend on that. I know of you may know of somebody That's right. I like to do I like to do bullying and talk You know saying the bullying in month because you can go talk about people I mean talk to people be like look I got bullied through high school But then when you when you leave they see a normal person walking Yeah, when I first walk in the building you already know He done called it. Oh, look oh look at that. You are That he done called it.  And at the same time You don't know who I am Then when I get up there and I talk and I tell you what I've been through in my story and Everything that you know saying that I that I've overcome that you overcame too. Now you look at me different Yeah, you don't look at me the same not at all Do you go to a lot of schools and and talk to the kids? Not yet. Because uh, everybody ain't got handicapped ramps But I'm I'm trying to but that'd be great. It's hard getting in. Um, I've been reaching out to a lot a lot of them But once they let me in they're gonna see are you gonna kick the dough down? I bring Message I bring comedy. I bring laughter and I bring music that would help you hear so much You know what? I know a couple people in the school district I'm gonna reach out to them and see if I can help make that happen Yes, and I have a couple of high school helclers that are try me, you know I'm saying try to throw a joke out there.  Do I have you read you right? I don't want to talk about that. I could have said You talk about helping um young kids, but you know, you have a lot of older older people Yeah Yeah Who are handicapped now because of circumstances in their life and you know how when we're older It's harder for us to handle certain things rather than a kid Growing up.  We used to Been able to walk but now I can't walk. I can't especially for men Being a provider and now they feel like I can't provide because I'm stuck in this chair or I'm stuck You know not being the person I used to can be that's the reason I work so hard now So when it comes down to that point to where I can't work I didn't work hard enough to where I got residuals coming in No residuals going to take care of my family. That's right. And I and people see me sometimes. They were like, oh, let me help you No, I got it. I didn't been on stage with yin yin twins and I failed in the middle of the In the middle of the performance and when I fell off stage, nobody knew where I was but they still heard me rapping I was still rapping But they they you could tell they was trying to figure out where I was at and I crawled from up under the Stage and came back up on stage and went back in and I was still going so it's like, you know The thing is you just got to continue to grind at no matter what no matter what happened I love your spirit. I know ricky smile had a hell of a good time with you I already know he had a good time with you. I wish I could have been around to see that That would have been something to see Yes, you just got them you got to continue to like I say motivate people But I love I love where we're at right now because as I said, you know Growing up and seeing a lot of people who are disabled They weren't pushing to create a path for, you know, other people before them They were just sitting down and with a collective disability or not trying to do something with their lives But I have friends are no other people who are we got a lot of friends And they're on social media selling stuff doing different things and you know doing something It's a lot of deal with a lot of it deal with the parents The parents you got to find that talent that you're that your child into and you got to push them and you got to motivate them I had nobody The my mama like she knew what I did in the music, but she was like I ain't into all that rap You can do it But I would like my thing was I wanted my family to come out to see me They really wouldn't come in to see me But my thing was I took it as at first. I was like they're not supporting me Then I had to start thinking man. Let me look at it a different way They're they're supporting me in a tougher way But the thing is the people that you want to support from there You're getting tough to love from them So even the first thing you say they're not supporting me Well, they're supporting you in a way that you don't see it You may not be around and they be talking about you, but they may not come to your show The thing is I learned how to work so hard at my show to where I was so good at what I do People started going back and telling oh It was a little handicapped dude on the show man He was funny I don't know what he had a crutch and my sister there the whole time like that's my brother They were like that's your brother shoot. They were like man. He killed the show He was funnier than such and such.  I was funnier than that person But we all set to show up to for the next person Correct The one person come out funny He's set it up for this person this person bring out the funny to the next level for the next person so we all set it up to For everybody to be funny is nobody's better than the next person On the tours that I've been on and that's one reason I picked my top three like that Hey, man Did your family eventually ever come out to see you? Yeah, they start coming. Well, see if I had to be smart My mama really ain't gonna come to my comedy shows because you know, I curse. Yeah, so I say, how can I get her? I start going to churches I stop Down in my mama be in the cross stand. I be doing a joke and she be I be looking at she be on the edge like Oh, I hope you don't Yeah, and I start I start going in into churches because my granddad and is r.r.p to him, but it's like He wouldn't he always tell me keep going doing what you're gonna do and for, you know, my grandpa Every time I would show up to do a comedy show at a church He'd always be talking my grandson. He's good. He's good and I did the lee wiilliams farewell tour Um and my granddad was there. He got a chance to see me perform and I I did comedy when he passed away I was about to make I I got my shows mixed up the day of the funeral and the day he passed away I had a show an hour right before they told me and I still went on stage and did the show But for the funeral since I didn't make it I recorded myself doing the video And I sent the video in nobody knew I was doing it, but I knew the preacher I said, look you got to play this video for my family And I I did a comedy set on my iPhone and I sent it and they played it at the funeral and Wow man, that's a touching story. We definitely man. Like I said, whenever you in Dallas whenever you Doing your thing, man We definitely need you to come back through here for there's any new projects that you have come out If you want a movie or because anything could happen for jesse mcdonald comedian jesse mcdonald He could do be anywhere doing anything and I know the capability of god god can put you in places where man can't So I definitely appreciate you for coming on the show man There's been another great segment of boss talk 101. Y'all gotta support me and get the I ain't drunk I just walked this way t-shirt. Come on. I gotta bring. I'm in a different car when I bring I got the t-shirts.  Well, why you ain't had it with you? Because it's date night. It's date day Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah I'd be on the road.   It's a unique hustle


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The signal oil program the whistler is your signal for the signal oil program the whistler and the whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I Know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends. It's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated by independent research the most popular program on the west coast Remember let every traffic signal remind you with new signal gasoline you do go farther than ever Look for the familiar big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those popular signal service stations in seven western states from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story The thin line It's a thin line that separates infatuation from hate So thin and fragile that one can change into the other in a split second Mark Naylor would agree now that the line is a thin one If Mark were alive But he didn't discover it until too late. That was the trouble with Mark He always discovered things too late when he discovered that marrying an old woman for her money doesn't lead to happiness It was too late when he discovered he was in love with artist male her pretty companion. It was too late Too late mark.  I said it's too late She's taken a lease on this place for six months and she's going to stay here Why did you agree in the first place? Did I know it was going to be like this? You really fell for the travel folders, didn't you hear a romantic mining town the essence of the old west? That's a laugh. Why didn't you say something? Well, you're the head of the family darling. I only work here Sand everywhere you look sand sand in your eyes and your ears in your teeth.  Ah, but you love her. Ah, but I don't Don't needle me. I've had all I can take I'm sorry. You're sorry There's one consolation. She can't last forever and neither can you I'll bet she hits 90 Is that par for the course with women like Emma it is I? Thought I was being smart when I married her.  Doesn't that mean anything? I know what that does mean a lot. Well Well, what what are you going to do about it? What can I do? Sometimes you disappoint me why oh skip it. Oh now look artist. Why do you keep complaining about it mark? That's all you've done for the past six months, and it won't do you any good I'm open to suggestions. Well, it's time you started thinking for yourself. Maybe I'm not so bright All I know is she wants to live here And when I think of her bank account, I Don't feel like arguing.  I've got to go into town and get a prescription. Oh, I'll go with you No, why not? It doesn't look right. I don't see why such a thing is being discreet. I'll go alone Oh great the old brush don't be stupid now just relax and think It'll be a new experience Artists has given you something to think about hasn't she Mark That's the way artists is always suggesting never coming right out with a flat statement And there's something about it that makes you listen Maybe it's the way she handles those foreign-looking eyes Maybe it's the way she walks the graceful capable way.  Maybe that's it. She's such a complete opposite of Emma your wife That you mark yeah, that's me. Where have you been? Not writing alone. Well, who would I be with? Oh, you've been writing a lot lately mark What else can you do in this blasted country? Oh? Why do you talk like that?  Well, that could be years You know what it's doing to me. Don't you mark? I'd give in to you if I could But I can't stand living along the coast. You know that I wonder you wonder why I wonder if your asthma is the real reason we left, California There's no community property law in this How can you be so unfair? I'm I am too.  Oh, I didn't say that but you think it Don't you mark. Oh, what are you trying to do put words in my mouth mark? Well, we were married.  There's more to it than that. Oh now what? You said you were out riding alone this afternoon You weren't telling me the truth mark You were riding with artists.  Look, I don't want to talk you've got to talk about it Our marriage was a bargain mark You owe me something too dear in return for a promise of security a promise that when I go You'll have everything. I'm not kicking about our marriage. I'm it's just living here. That's driving me crazy. I doubt it You were conscious of her why we were living in California I've been hoping that it was one of those affairs that would die out But it hasn't and I've lost your companionship You've made me feel miserable and undignified You made me feel as though I don't want to go. Oh now don't go into hysterics Just take it easy It'll make you any happier. I'll stop riding with artists. It's going to take more than that mark There's only one way to straighten out this situation I'm going to let artists go can't do that It's the only way to settle it and nothing is going to change my mind think what you're doing artists is oh What's the matter? Don't you trust me? Can't you take my word? No mark? I don't trust you I'm doing this for my own peace of mind. Well, I won't hold still for them. It isn't fair to artists. Oh Why can't you be sensible? Why can't you? It's no use mark? I'm letting artists go And if you don't like it You can go to all right, I will mark don't mean I'm in love with artists. I may as well admit it if she goes I go How can you be such a stubborn old fool?  There's no need for that now At least you're free There'll be an efficient Nevada divorce then you and artists can forget it Yes mark. You're still on the same side of that thin line, aren't you? There's nothing in the world now Except artists That's all she said. Yeah, get out period. Well, what are you going to do? Get out. What do you think?  Why not? You don't know her Listen mark. She'll hang around your neck until the day she dies. Wait a minute artist. Don't argue with me mark I know her like a book. Look if you're talking about the money. I don't care. Well, I do You know mark Emma's a very unhappy woman She suffers a lot and well in a way. It would be a blessing if Well, if if what?  I said there's a way mark She's old in fern.  Listen Murders one thing. Oh, you listen now. You can take your choice Emma can have a nice respectable automobile accident on her way to town or I Leave tonight alone I was never more serious in my life We never get away with it.  You don't know what you're talking about There was one last year and I know the exact place All right, what is it mark that Emma or me? Well? artist I Give me time to think there's no time to think but killing her All right Goodbye mark. Wait a minute artist. I well with the prologue of tonight's story the thin line The signal oil company is bringing you another strange story by the whistler But now what's the latest information about that new car you've been waiting for? Well due to various reconversion problems instead of the 500,000 new cars manufacturers had expected to produce by now only 75,000 were actually made You know what that means that old car will no doubt be with us much longer than we counted on It's going to take much better care than cars ever needed before if parts that have already gone so far must stand up under still more mileage Just lubrication won't be enough It'll take expert lubrication by a man who knows cars and is conscientious about getting every part giving it its full share of the exact lubricant it needs and never missing a single one and Where can you find such a man?   You forgot about the money in the desert nothing seemed important except Artists and you found yourself agreeing before you knew what was happening But you're beginning to waver now with the desert wind wailing outside the window as you stand over Emma's bed with artists It's over listen to her heart She's alive still beating let's get her out of here before she comes to wait a minute artist Now we're not going to get away with this. They'll catch up with us.  Do you hear me come on now? All right, is this the place wait a minute. Yes. Yes. It's a hundred foot drop over that bank. Come on get out I'll take her feet. No.  Sorry now what fingerprints give me your handkerchief Takes care of the steering wheel Now clamp her hands on the wheel in the driving position So it'll be her fingerprints in case anyone should get snoopy and put it in gear start it rolling and jump look Are you sure everything's of course? I'm sure hurry up All right Okay, here goes that ought to do it. Come on What do you mean? We're going down to check up a very thorough girl Isn't she mark the car is deep in the couch the one light still burning shows that and you scramble down to it The wreckage is quite satisfying isn't it? And inside it is Emma nailer How about it? She's dead. All right it's Quiet down here, isn't it? Don't have that blasted wind whipping around. Let's go back Where to the house to phone into town and inquire about Emma. She's been gone a long time and we're worried about her Then we come back here and we find her we find her Why not let them find her with the ground full of our footprints up on the road and all around the car Oh, no mark we do the finding Never thought about that Guess I better let you run things that night. That's a good idea When mark, yeah, I'll be staying at the hotel for the sake of appearances. Well, but when can that's going to take time Mark, there'll be an autopsy an inquest and then Maybe in six months or so. Yeah Look artist. I'm sorry. I busted up on you. I guess you you're right after all What's tough at that? You're all set aren't you mark you've decided all your nervousness was imagination You can hardly wait now to get away from the desert and start your new life with artists Even the sheriff is cooperative He seems to feel genuinely sympathetic and he's very quick to explain that the questions are merely for the record You know how it is. Mr. Naylor just routine sure I know I'll tell you everything I possibly can how old was mrs. Naylor 57 I believe you said she came here for her health. That's right How long had you and mrs. Naylor been married? Oh 11 months Did you know her very long before that about a year year? How'd you happen to meet mrs. Naylor? Well, I was selling burial plots and she was one of my prospects You didn't continue with that line of business. Did you mr. Naylor? Well, no after we were married my wife wanted me to devote all my time to her. I see Now miss Mayo, how long were you in mrs. Naylor's employed? Must have been about five months You were working for her before she came here then. Yes Have you always done this line of work mrs. Naylor? I've done it for quite a while How many other people did you work for before you were employed by mrs. Naylor? Oh, there were several Are you married mrs. Mayo? No. No, I'm not have you ever been married. Yes. I'm a widow Well, I guess that'll do for now folks.  You know how it is. Oh, sure. We know how it is Better be getting back town. I'll see you later. Bye. Oh, you've been married never occurred to me to tell you I thought I knew everything about you. This is a new slide.  I sold burial plots What an intriguing way for Emma to meet her future widower. Don't kid about it. I'm in no mood for jokes. Oh, stop fretting mark Everything is going beautifully She's right isn't she mark not a hitch so far except for an unexplained delay in the inquest You wait in the house you and Emma had shared on the edge of town kept indoors by the heat and the desert wind There are long hours to kill all by yourself with nothing to do but smoke cigarettes and think Artists is almost a stranger now. She won't see you because of appearances and on the rare occasions when you are together There's no feeling of relief at all Just a kind of nervousness that makes you jump at each other's throat mark.  I tell you everything's all right. Well, then why the delay this keeps up. I'm gonna start talking to myself Only been a few days. It's been a week They're holding it up on purpose. I tell you they got some all they haven't got a thing I don't care. I can't stand this much. You've got to look Why couldn't I tell them I've got to run back to the coast on business told the sheriff you've given up your business Well, you could explain don't be it out. It's it's out. Oh Listen mark. We're almost in now. Let's not start wrangling think about where we're going when we get the money Lorda Miami Beach, I don't like you'll get over you've never seen anything like Miami in the winter I said I don't like Florida may as well learn right now that you're not going to get anywhere taking that tone with me I don't care what you think I'm going back to the coast sure you are the Atlantic coast Miami Beach, you know You know someday you're not going to get by with that what that smug irritating attitude of yours You think you know all the answers, don't you depends on who's asking the question now What do you mean by that? You answer that one Yes mark the line that divides infatuation from hatred is a fine one And you don't realize you just crossed That the groundwork is all prepared for your discovery a few days later of an entry in one of Emma's diaries January 18th Today, I finally decided to take artist's advice to go to the desert I know mark won't approve, but artists is right after all my health does come first Don't knock the door down just a minute What's the matter with you? I told you not to come close the door now wait a minute close the door I'm gonna sit down. I want to talk to you. Why are you looking at me like that?  How about this one?  That's everything to do with it Means you had the whole works planned before we left California you figured me for a sucker, didn't you artist?  It's all there in Emma's diary What do you mean it's in her diary? I mean there's enough foundation for some pretty solid guessing you even had the community property law figured out Didn't you yeah back there?  Don't you why so you can take care of me like you did Emma that's it Isn't it you don't keep quiet nothing You're not running away from me any longer. Keep away. I'll show you who's doing the thinking from now on I said keep away from me. I just want to get my hands on that lily-white neck of yours. I'm warning you You put down that gun. Get away from me Let me hear you argue now Big baboon So it didn't work out did it mark the thing got a little too complicated for you You were never cut out for murder. You knew it from the first and now that it's over Even the sheriff is convinced that you'd be the last person in the world who'd ever think of killing anyone I'm telling you the truth. Sheriff. I shot him in self-defense. Yes He came into my room in a rage and he tried to kill now.   Oh, you don't know what it was, but you sure he had one. I Guess that'll be all miss Mayo, but yeah, that'll be all You can save the rest for your trial in court. I'm holding you for the murder of mark nailer The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story Meantime, let me ask you a question Why do you suppose it is that the new? 1946 cars are putting so much emphasis on more miles per gallon of gasoline Is it because folks today are interested in making dollars go farther? Yes, but even more they're interested in the reasons back of that mileage the improved engineering the higher compression and better Carburetion that make the new cars go farther on each gallon and There you also have the reason why signal oil company is so proud to announce that you now go farther than ever With new signal gasoline You see that increased mileage is the result of power amazing new power The same power that gives new signal gasoline quicker starting faster pickup and quieter higher anti knock That's why we say look to your speedometer for the final measure of gasoline quality You'll find that the super powered gasoline that gives you peak performance is also the gasoline that now helps you go farther than ever new signal gasoline and now Back to the whistler Yes mark you crossed the thin line and once across it everything fell to pieces We didn't realize until the last moment until the instant between the blinding flash of the gun in a plunge into blackness How much you hated artists? How far to the other side of the line the murder of Emma Nailer had thrust you and It was all so unnecessary mark if you'd only read further in Emma's diary Particularly the last entry Mr. Coroner, I don't understand how a woman and Mrs. Nailer's condition could go riding in an automobile Frankly sheriff. I think she was capable of almost anything There's no arguing with the results of the autopsy and of course the entry in her diary is conclusive Well, that's good enough for me into the verdict in the record clerk Death by suicide from a self-administered dose of Aminol Taken in a fit of despondency after being deserted by Mark Nailer her husband Yeah, that's all the case of the death of Emma Nailer is closed Next Monday at nine o'clock the whistler will bring you another strange tale The whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality Automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer This program directed by George W. Allen with tonight's story by Buckley Angel music by Wilbur Hatch is transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service That whistle is your signal for the signal oil program the whistler This is Marvin Miller speaking Reminding you to look for those familiar yellow and black circle signs that identify those popular signal oil stations in Seven Western states from Canada to Mexico. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System


The Google Earth Engine, GEE, portal offers enhanced opportunities for Earth observation studies by providing access to satellite and ancillary data, cloud computing, and algorithms for processing large amounts of data with relative ease. However, the uptake and usage of this opportunity remain varied and unclear. This study aimed to investigate the usage patterns of the GEE platform and weather researchers in developing countries were making use of the opportunity. The analysis of published literature showed that a total of 300 journal papers were published between 2011 and June 2017 that used GEE in their research spread across 158 journals. The highest number of papers were in the journal Remote Sensing, followed by Remote Sensing of Environment. Landsat was the most widely used dataset. It is the biggest component of the GEE data portal, with data from the first to the current Landsat series available for use and download. Examination of data also showed that the usage was dominated by institutions based in developed nations, with study sites mainly in developed nations. There were very few studies originating from institutions based in less developed nations, and those that targeted less developed nations, particularly in the African continent.


I'm Eric Johnson, I'm the CTO at GitLab and I'm excited to be here at commit where this year's theme is innovate together. And with that, I want to welcome a special guest and partner, Rick Carey, the group CTO at UBS. So UBS is one of the world's largest financial firms and they provide advice and solutions to clients worldwide. And we announced our collaboration on DevOps about a year ago. And Rick, I thought you could start by talking about your initial goals for this collaboration when we set out together. Thanks, Eric. We want technology to be a differentiator for us at UBS and for that to be able to engineer solutions that offer a truly seamless client experience. To do that, we thought last year about how to actually change that experience for the engineers and developers and been giving them the best platforms and tools. So we created DevCloud. So DevCloud revolutionized the way UBS builds and engineers and develops with a single DevOps platform and allows a cloud-based service-oriented development lifecycle. Now, GitLab is a fundamental part of DevCloud. Out of it, we wouldn't be able to have that seamless experience. And it allowed us to pull ahead of many of our competitors and break down the barriers between coding, testing, and deployment. And we have an expression about at UBS that all developers wait at the same speed. And anything we can do to reduce where they are waiting for something is value added. And GitLab allows us to have that integrated experience where they're not waiting for what they have next, what goes on, previous things, next things, and so on and so forth. So they build cloud-native applications on a cloud-native platform and having a best-in-class developer experience. That was our goal and you couldn't have been better partner to us as we started to go forward with that. Great, this sounds like it was very much in line with how we view our differentiators where a single application for the whole DevOps lifecycle and of course we're open source and so it's not just GitLab developing our product, it's our community and it's our users and customers as well. And we typically see companies benefit from the faster cycle time, reduced admin and maintenance overhead and better quality and security as an output. And the end users benefit as well. So we see engineers talking about being more effective, how easy it is to collaborate on a single platform and how they're able to identify security risks much earlier in their process. So maybe you could take us through some of the details about us, the setup of that production environment. Well, the plan was pretty ambitious. We felt that doing this over a long period of time wouldn't really meet the ethos of what DevOps and being cloud-native and really what you offered to us. So we did a lot of work to get it up and running into a user format and then we did what we kind of called a soft launch and we did that at our hackathon. And if you remember the hackathon last year was in the right and smack in the middle of COVID. So your traditional hackathon where you're locking people in the same room and you have them all there and you have a very regional-centric approach, we knew we couldn't do that. And we wanted to have truly global development yet still have that seamless team experience. So that soft launch of DevCloud was our hackathon and boy, was it amazing. The output of there, it was hard to pick a winner because nearly every program, every team built something absolutely incredible in such a short amount of time and they got so much done that even they as they were channeling and chatting with each other saying, I can't believe how easy it is to get this done. It was tremendously hard to pick a winner and that's something we're really proud about. And then once the hackathon was successful, we knew that we were gonna be able to migrate the rest of our engineers to DevCloud. Yeah, collaboration is one of the GitLab's core values and it seemed key to this project. We set common goals, we're in constant communication and we were always working together to move those roadblocks. And I wanna highlight that again, that this was an all remote globally distributed project team required no in-person collaboration for the life cycle of this GitHub project. And it was completed as I understand this past winter, late 2021. And I must say, it's uncommon in my experience to see such a large organization let alone one in such a compliance driven industry as finance to take on such a large project and deliver it all in time. In my understanding it was not just source control management but also CI, which is incredibly impressive. What we made it possible was, and we have a little joke, whenever we give a DevCloud update, we say, we're far from perfect today, but we're improving. And I think as we looked and worked together, you know, in a kind of an open source model was every time there was a gap or an issue or something we just needed your help with, we could reach out to you and say, can we work on this together as the way to improve this? And that's the value. And that's one of the reasons we went with GitLab is your open source mantra allows the benefit for what we contribute, what you contribute, what others contribute and to build that fantastic experience. And it never, you will never have a perfect fit for purpose product day one for anybody. Every company is gonna be different. But what we found was when we worked with you together when we had a gap or an issue or something that needed to be improved upon, we found a really easy path to do that. We improved, we engaged and everybody benefited from that. And the teams are really proud of that. The teams are proud of that. They were able to do that work themselves sometimes, work with your engineers to get it done. And it was a fantastic experience because there's no one size fits all. You're gonna have to fit into a company that's complex financial services, a lot of complexity in that, but other industries as well. And what that is important is to be able to collaborate, work together and then when we improve the product for one and improve for all. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we've seen a number of benefits from our open source model. As a board member of the Linux Foundation, I'll take the opportunity to quote Linus's law, which is with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. We've certainly found that to be true. But I think more importantly, you view what most companies consider traditional product development as really a process of co-invention with our users and customers. And I think that was definitely realized in this case. We see UBS team members contributing to our forms, which is fantastic. And at a higher level, we're both meaning UBS and GitLab members of the Finos, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, as well as the CNCF, right? Yeah, I think they're both usually important for both of us and being able to set those standards and to understand what it is, especially being cloud native and having GitLab being a cloud native platform. And I wanna point out for a lot of people out there, is that just because we say dev cloud and it's cloud native and it doesn't, it doesn't mean we can't develop for non-cloud native or traditional applications. We do development for both our cloud native applications and our traditional applications on-prem, all on dev cloud, all through GitLab. And that contribution and being able to, as we create our journey to being cloud native and the cloud native computing foundation is a fantastic partner. It doesn't mean you have to make that big day one, right? You can have that kind of incremental journey to be able to have a cloud native experience for the engineers day one, even when they're building not cloud native applications. But you get encouraged to do that. What we find is they really love it and they wanna continue to be in that world and they continue to make that journey. And there are a number of examples of that cone mention I mentioned. I think most prominently the auto-scaled shared runners that the UBS contributed, that was great to see. I know there was some UBS specific self-paced training that we launched and the hackathon you mentioned, I wanna say there was something like 40 or so tier one applications that were launched in that single hackathon period, which is incredible. And it was bidirectional. I mean, from the GitLab side, we learned a tremendous amount about the compliance and risk processes that are unique to the financial sector. And we benefited from that and our community will benefit from that as well. So with that, that kind of brings us up to current day I'm curious to Rick, where you think we'll go from here? Well, we have over 12,000 people on DevCloud now and more to come. The best feedback we've gotten so far, I had a business person in the call and he wanted to actually do some development and he was complaining about all the ways that he was told that he had to do development. And then I said, well, then you should use DevCloud. And he said, oh, you, that's DevCloud. I love DevCloud. It's the other tools that I can't stand. Everything's great on DevCloud. So, and this was a business person. So not just our engineers, not just the hardcore developers, we look and expanding out DevCloud to anyone who's doing an engineering experience. And they rave about it when they get there. There's a little bit of a transition cost. Don't get me wrong, it's not free. You got to do the work to get there. But the payback is immediate to get there and you're more productive, you're faster. We never talk about the costs of doing things like this. We talk about the productivity, because that's what sells, right? We ran our hackathon, by the way. We never actually, we didn't make this an objective, but our hackathon this year was one seventh the cost from an infrastructure perspective from the year before because we ran on DevCloud. And so we'd like to see more templates in there. We've got things going on in the SRE space. There are more personas that we'd like to see be able to engage DevCloud and get the benefits of that type of integrated experience. And I understand, I've heard a rumor that you're getting into the machine learning space, which I'm very, very interested in. So I'd like to see where that roadmap takes us there. That's right, yeah. In June, we announced that we acquired a product called Unreview. And what this is gonna do is use machine learning, as you said, to identify the appropriate code reviewers for new merge requests entering a code base, which is exciting. And it's a chance for us to do applied ML and it's going to effectively balance review workloads across your team to make the team more efficient and more resistant to vacations and other things that are important to developers. There's some other things orthogonal to this project that I think UBS will be eventually benefiting from. I know there's gonna be some more workshops that UBS will be able to take part in. We're rolling out this so-called door four metrics. And so, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service, a standard set of metrics that are becoming kind of a way to measure the health and the productivity and efficiency of any development organization. We'll be able to get that natively from GitLab. And that's just a piece of what we're broadly calling value stream analytics. And so, a benefit of the single application is you've got your issues, your merge requests, all the other sort of primitives or artifacts along that journey from taking an idea to production and because those all live in the single application we can extract intelligence about that life cycle and point you towards bottlenecks where there may be opportunities to improve. Now, I think the metrics and being in that one single ecosystem, Eric, is absolutely crucial and it gives us opportunities. We had over a million successful builds in the first six months of DevCloud and that's the difference. When you can see what's going on there in that entire experience and start to stream that was value stream and get them all aligned in that space, the insights that you can start to gain are tremendous and then using the machine learning on top of that to be able to start to not only report about the past, but to predict about the future, that's really exciting so that we can actually start to say, we'll have this delivered for you based on the complexity that we see in these sorts of time frames. Unbelievable, Eric, I can't wait for that. And I just think the more that we see the more that we work together, the better that these products become for us and for you as well. It's just fantastic experience. And when you talk about Agile and DevOps, it's a great concept until you get down to how do you actually implement it? And that DevCloud is, it's an implementation of all the great ideas, but in such a way, a fantastic experience for everybody involved. Good, as important as people are and that's primary for us, I always say you can't measure and it seems like you're now well on your way. It's living that role, which is fantastic. Well, Rick, I just wanna thank you again for the conversation today. It was a pleasure to see the teams collaborating with one another. We were very impressed by UBS's development culture. It was very complimentary to our own and I look forward to our continued partnership. And do I, Eric? I think that that complimentary nature allowed us to do something really spectacular and a really short amount of time, faster than a lot of people thought was possible and you couldn't have been a better partner to us and we look forward to continuing that.