Transcript of TCB Infomercial: Morgan Jay

What's your name? Dawn. You said it was Dawn? It's Dawn. Hey, hold up. Bro, this is my show. Why don't you chill a little bit? Chill with the immaculate vocals, goddamn. Darn, who are you here with? I'm here with my sweet darling. ) That's enough of you, bro. That's enough.

On this episode of The Commercial Break. Justin Timberland explaining the same night, so we'll have to check our schedule. I don't know what he feels.

Oh, you like a little JT?

No.

The World Tour, dude. The World Tour.

The World Tour.

This is going to ruin the tour. This is going to ruin the tour. The World Tour.

The World Tour. What tour? I bet you've sold more tickets than he has.

No, I'm sure he's selling a lot. Definitely more than JLo, though.

The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. It's 30 in the morning. Oh, yeah, cats and kittons, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is the coon of my coo-coo. Chris and Joy, hostly. Best to you. Best to you, Brian. The best to you out there in the podcast universe. Coo-coo, Coo-coo, Mrs. Robinson. Jesus loves you more than you will know. Ho, ho, ho, ho. We were just talking about the Lemonhead and how brilliant the star shone for about 30 seconds with that remake of Mrs. Robinson. Evan Dando. Evan Dando was the lead singer to that. Oh, wow. You pulled that out. I pulled that right out of my ass. I just checked. They are on tour right now, currently. They just played Atlanta a week ago. Oh, shit. We missed them. How could I have missed it? They had that one song, and then they had that other song. It was like, Fall into your arms or something. Fall into you, fall into your arms. I was this close to buying the CD. Fall into your arms. Yeah, Fall into your arms. Trust, fall into my arms. It's a team building exercise.

The Leventend. It's a TCB infomercial Tuesday, and today we have that That guy, that dude that you know, I think he'll even readily admit this as the autotune comedy guy, Morgan Jay. Yes, Morgan Jay. He's a internet viral sensation selling out everywhere that he goes. I mean, I look this guy's fall really into summer of next year. Sold out. Sold the fuck out. All the tickets are sold out. I mean, there's some cities where there's a few tickets available, but he's hot. He is a hot one. Yeah. We're excited to have Morgan Jay on, the autotune comedy guy. If you don't know Morgan, go to his socials. Just type in Morgan on any of the social media platforms, and Morgan J will come up. I think he was like five and a half million TikTok followers and a couple of million Instagram followers. It's funny stuff. Yeah, morganjay. Com. You can get tickets if they're available to tour, you can also check out his new special. It's not new. It's been out for a while, but I watched it. I thought it was very funny. It's called Live From The Village. Yeah, he's got a shtick, and he does it, and he does it well.

You'll know what I'm talking about when you go see it. I'm not going to try and give the whole thing away here. I'm sure Christina played a clip at the beginning of the show. Morgan's going to join us just here in a few minutes. But yeah, Christie and I, right before we got on, we're talking about one-hit wonders. Where did some of these one-hit wonders let's go. I pulled out of my brain, somewhere out of my brain, the Lemonheads. The Lemonheads were, I think they actually formed in the '80s because Evan Dando was like 42 when Mrs. Robinson came out. He's got to be in his '70s now. I mean, right? I think. I don't know. I just love that name, Evan Dando. That's a good name. When I was in 33 Penis, which is also a great name. When I was in 33, Willy, I remember Evan Dando. It was right when Evan Dando and the Lemonheads were a thing. They were a thing for a minute because they redid a classic Simon and Garfunkel song called Mrs. Robinson. It's just Garfunkel or was it- Simon and Garfunkel. Yeah, no. But they did it for the movie The Graduate, right?

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson, but Jesus loves you more than you will know. Yeah, you know the song. Or you don't know the song because you were born this millennia. And so for like 30 seconds the Lemonheads were the hottest things since Sliced Bread, and this is right as grunge was coming about. But I think they had actually formed the band in like the earlier mid '80s. And I was thinking to myself, I remember in my brain being at a CD store, like Wax & Fax or something here in Atlanta and seeing that Lemonheads. Turtles. Turtles music, that's right. The song, the CD with Mrs Robinson on it, I remember debating with myself and Blue, whether or not I should buy the Lemonheads CD. But then I was like, Let me see if they get another song. It was such a different world back then. You were banned on the radio and you'd be like, Oh, that's a good song. But it's not a reason to spend $20. On the whole CD. On the whole CD. It's not like now where you just- Because you'd been burned before because it did happen where you would go and that was a hot song.

You'd go buy the whole CD and the rest of it was bad. It happened all the fucking time. You didn't have Apple Music. One song for five pennies. Yes. What a terrible thing for the music industry in general, but a wonderful thing for the consumer that now you could just go get a song. Back when iTunes was a thing, you buy one song for 99 cents or whatever it was. But back then, you had to make a decision. That'd be a split-second decision. You were going through a lot of CDs at that Turtles, and you had to make a split-second decision. Do I, in fact, want to invest $20 and 2 hours of my life into this CD? Not until I hear a second good song. Yeah, you had to be sure. That's why the CD swap places became very popular. Oh, yeah, the CD. You would buy CDs and then not like the rest of the whole thing. Before the iPhone. The iPhone came out, I think the year that you and I started at Clear channel, if I'm not mistaken, 2007 or 2008. Before the iPhone, iPod, but not everybody had iPod, so CDs were still a thing, right?

So I remember- You could rip your CDs and then put that onto your iPod. You could do that. You could like, dump it into your iPad, you put it into your computer and then dump it into your iPad. It was a whole situation. Supercomputer. Supercomputer. The orange apple that I have sitting on my desk, you can see right through it. It's amazing. I can watch how the computer works. Thank you, Apple Macintosh. I remember that I had been lugging around from apartment to apartment, couch to couch, house to house, as I moved every two and a half months, probably because I didn't pay rent or something. I remember I was lugging around hundreds of CDs. So when I met Julia, my ex-wife, and she said, Let's go get a place to get... Come move in with me. Come and move with me. Like a old puppy. I was like a puppy. I remember I couldn't- You could live with me. I was living with Julia, but my roommate at the time said, Hey, man, you're never here. Why are you even paying rent? There's another dude I know that can pay rent, and if you're not here, just go.

I was like, Yeah, but I don't really have anywhere to store my shit. And he's like, Give me 50 bucks a month. You put it in the garage. I'll never forget that one day, Julie and I was like, Okay, time to get the stuff and we'll figure it out. And there's that box of CDs. I mean, just useless crap. Hundreds and hundreds of CDs I collected over the years from promotional, all kinds of different crap. I had to purge those a little while back. I went to one of those buy, sell, trade CDs here. And this is the age of the iPod, but just the brand new age of the iPod. I went to that place, and I have never been more disappointed in my life as the guy told me, Yeah, I could probably give you 10 bucks. I was like, Yeah, a piece? Shit, man, that's like a thousand dollars. That's crazy. He's like, No, for the box. For all of them. I go, $10 for the box? There's like 250 CDs in here. He's like, Yeah, look around. I was like, Okay, what? He's like, I probably have every one of those CDs, and these are used.

You don't have half the jewel cases. I'm sure most of them are scratch. And no one wants your shitty opinion on music. No one likes this shit anymore. What? Pearl Jam 10. Everyone's got it. They're not going to come here to buy it. Allison Shaines, congratulations. You bought it like every other knuckle head out there. Do you have the Lemon heads or any Evan Dando? That I'll pay for. Oh, fuck. That is so true. Another investment strategy by Brian going belly up. That shit. Damn. Anyway, that has nothing to do with our guest today, Morgan J. Morganj. Com. Go check him out. It's fun. He is funny, and he has so much fun with this crowd. I'll tell him this, but there are parts where Morgan will stick a microphone in somebody's face and he'll autotune them, like singing their name or what they're doing or how they fell in love with their girlfriend. He'll ask them a question, but then they'll sing it and it's going through an autotune box, so it sounds really good. There's someone always playing piano with them or keyboard or whatever it is. Sometimes Morgan gets emotional about it.

He's like, someone will hit that note, he'll be like, Oh, it sounds so good. I love it. It's a different form of entertainment. I don't think there's anybody else doing this out there. I'm sure that there are other people who are doing it. They're just not in my algorithm. But he's really good at what he does, and we're excited to have him. We've been waiting a long time for Mr. Morgan Jay to come on the show, and so here he is today. Why don't we do this, Chrissy? Yes. I'll give you an idea. About what we can do. Awkward transition for this. I can take a break, and then during that break, I'll bring Morgan on here, live via telepodcasting, and then we can have a conversation with him. Ask him all the questions, get down to all the nitty-gritty, get his opinion on everything that's going on in the world. Get down to business. That's right. I want to know who he's voting for. I want to know what his blood type is. I want to know if he's saving his semen for future children. I want to know if he's going to cryogenically freeze himself when he's dead.

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Thanks, Morgan, for spending some time with Hi, Morgan.

Hey, what's going on? How are you?

We're good. Do you have autotune on?

I don't. I can put it on.

I don't want you to do anything you're uncomfortable with.

No, no, no. But give me a second. I will have to...

Don't worry about it for right now. Let me talk to you for a second as Morgan, and then I'd love to hear any auto tunes because I actually think... They're hilarious. Actually, you're like a magical musical mad It doesn't matter. I know you probably don't want to be labeled, but let's just play a little game. If someone in my audience has no fucking clue who Morgan Jay is, how do you describe what exactly you do on stage?

I just tell them to Google the autotune comedy guy. I've embraced it. I feel like I've been doing this 17 years, and I did stand-up, I did guitar, comedy, and then Sometime around the pandemic, I started toying with the autotune, and that's become my claim to Fame, which, if we're being honest, I'm just really asking people their name in autotune and having a good time. I'm not going to pretend like I'm out here doing a Bill Bur type of material, edginess. But I'm clearly tapping into something that audiences is want and like, and I'll just keep doing that until they're not into it anymore. And obviously, there's people who are like, Yeah, he only does this one thing. I'm like, Yeah, maybe that is true. But I don't know, people seem to like it, and I have fun doing it. Why would I stop?

You shouldn't stop. Listen, if I can do one thing that people remember me for in my entire life, I think I consider myself lucky. There is something that I notice in the audience. There is something almost mystical about you singing, then allowing them to sing in a way that hits a beat. When you do this thing, when you ask people their name while you're here, you're going to have fun. There's one reel where you hand the microphone to a guy, you stick it in his face, and he hits a note. He hits a note. It's beautiful. Do you know what reel I'm talking about?

I mean, there's literally three or four. His name is Ryan. Yeah, there's three or four. There's Ryan, there's Dawn, there's Ethan, and those are the three guys that have helped me sell all my tickets.

When Ryan says his name, the audience goes beserk, but then you have a reaction. To me, that almost seems emotional. It's almost like You got chills. I don't know.

When you hear a song and you get that chill in your back. I get filled with joy to see people to go out of their comfort zone. You know what I mean? It makes me so happy. For me, I'm just like, Yeah, I let it I think ultimately, a lot of adults lose this childlike wonder, this ability to play, this ability to embarrass themselves. I feel like I'm creating a space where they can come to my show and not feel any judgment or anything like that. That's how it is.

When you were a kid, was music a part of the fabric of you growing up? Did you learn how to play music early on?

Yeah, I started at piano at around six. I had a love-hate relationship with it because I just wanted to play video games growing up. And ultimately, it was my demise. My piano teacher was one of these teachers who wasn't in it for the money. Oh, no. And they were in it for- Which is the worst kind because they actually make you practice. They were like... So eventually, he was this guy from Russia. He was in the Philharmonic. He was just a classically trained pianist who played in the orchestra in Russia and was just like, You're wasting my time and your time and your mom's money. I'm just not going to do this anymore. He didn't sound like that, obviously, but it felt like some telenovela where... He literally walked out in the middle of the lesson and I was like, What? Okay. But then I picked up the guitar and took about two months of and I just would play for myself for the most part.

You were learning by ear?

A little bit. I learned some cords, and it's good to have a couple of lessons. So you hit a benchmark and have an assignment you have to get through energy. You know what I mean? So That's what it was for me.

So when you... You grew up in LA, is that right?

I grew up in Jersey.

You grew up in Jersey.

But I've been living here for about twelve and a half years.

Oh, yeah. When you are growing up in Jersey, how do you then make that transit? What gets you into comedy? What gets you standing up there?

I was always watching... I was always watching comedy shows. I was watching Premium blend. I was watching Comedy Central presents. I mean, look, I'm 37, so I was really watching-Are you old, bro? Well, at least to my fan base, for them to find out how old I am, they're always pretty surprised and shocked by it.

You don't look 37 years old. I know that that's a judgment, but I don't think-No, I take it.

I feel like I'm going to take it. I feel like I'm in my... I feel like I'm probably... I feel like I'm 30, maybe late 20s. Where were we going? Oh, yeah. Wait, what was the question?

The question was, how did you get into stand-up?

Oh, yeah. So ultimately, my first week of college, they had these welcome events, the Welcome Week events, and I just, I signed up for the open mic, and that was my first. I just jumped in It was five minutes. Because it was Welcome Week, and it's a big university, it was at NYU, I thought the open mic was going to be 20 people, but 400 people showed up. No, fucking way. And luckily, I signed up to go in the first half, the first five or six people, because 400 people signed up to do this open mic, and it just took forever. Not all 400 signed up, but it was a lot of people. But I got in, I got out. It was exciting. And then every year I did it. And then my sophomore year, towards the end of my sophomore year, is when I really started. I did it once a month, then I did it once a week. And then after college, it was every day, and then it was a couple of times a day. And then we just kept building that tolerance thing.

So you've been hustling this for almost 20 years. You've been doing some version of-I mean, look, I guess it's almost 20 years since the first time I stepped on stage.

But I say 2007 is when I really buckled down because I graduated 2009 from university. I mean, we could say right after college is when I really started because I was doing it every day. Also, that would make me seem more impressive if I was like, Oh, I haven't been doing it that long. But yeah, no, that's what it was. So But then about six years in is when I transitioned to music because I just hit walls creatively. I didn't really like what I was doing. Objectively, people were laughing, but it's like, I need to be having fun up there as well. That's where I started to make some decisions and try some other things out.

Did you feel like you were just phoning in at the end? I got this 40 minutes of material. I can do it backwards and forwards. It doesn't feel fun to me anymore. More?

A little bit of that, but it also wasn't murdering on stage. It was doing well. My batting average was pretty good. I was very charismatic. I wasn't clever like some of the other comics are, but I was getting by. But also it's like I had to be honest with myself, and I say this in all the podcasts. I say, I, at that time, probably wouldn't have bought a ticket see me, right? If that makes sense.

That's a pretty self-aware admission.

And I think a lot of comics, if they really ask themselves, would you sit through an hour of your own show? I think most of them would say no. I mean, if they're really honest with themselves, is your show worth the price of admission? I feel like a lot of people aren't asking, Would you listen to your song? Would you buy your clothes that you design? Would you go to a museum? It's like as an artist, you have to be really ruthless and self-critical. Yes. Obviously not to a point where it's like you don't put anything out. You don't want to do that either because-Critical can become destructive, and it's hard That's a hard balance.

I think you have to be super aware of, and that line is very gray, but you have to be aware of where that line is because then you're right, then you become insular, and you don't want to do anything, and you feel like everything you do creatively is wrong. Your instincts are wrong. It's so hard to be creative because there is no right or wrong. There is no yes or no. But you know, I guess, you feel inside of your gut at this moment, six years in, you're like, Yeah, I'm doing it, but is this like, am I getting the reaction that I really want?

Well, also with comedy, it's the only art form that has a defined outcome. So it's like the audience, I say something and you laugh. With music, you might wonder, Oasis is going to play Wonderwall. You might cry, you might smile. When you look at a painting, it's like you're not supposed to expect it to laugh or expect it to do this. Although it would be fun if there was a dedicated genre of art that you look at that was comedy-oriented, that was funny. I feel like people feel like they think it lessens it by making it funny. But I don't know. I think it's...

I don't know. I've seen some of those performance artists out there, and they're doing some stuff that I believe could get any reaction whatsoever.

Oh, yeah. Some of this conceptual performing of art is a little bit tough to swallow in a sense. I don't know how... I think for me, it's like the artist is taking it so insanely serious that it makes me dislike them. Because art and being creative is such a fun thing that... I don't know. Obviously, there is political messages in art. That's great, and it's good to educate. But I don't know, sometimes it's like you're slapping me in the face with it and it's like, Can we just calm down?

There's a gentleman on inside. I don't want to call him out. I don't even know his name, but I see his reels every once in a while. He takes a snare drum, and he sits in the middle of... It's a performance art. And he sits in the middle of a group of people, and then he beats the snare drum to death, throwing it against the walls, standing on it, stomping on it, putting his head through it, No, banging it. This goes on for like 30 or 40 minutes. I'm upset. And the audience seems captivated by this. And I'm like, what exactly is going on here? I mean, I'm sure there's something going on there. Maybe I'm just missing the point.

They're all standing there just thinking about like, God, do I got to do my laundry tonight or tomorrow? How are we going to... I got to bring my kid to work tomorrow, but I also have a meeting at 7:00. How am I going to do that?

They're probably thinking, Did I really just spend 27 50 to see this guy destroy another snare drum?

Yeah, it's a little bit annoying for sure.

I agree. But listen, it's not for me to say what art is at the end of the day. If you enjoy watching a guy destroy a snare drum for 40 minutes, I can't say that.

There is a genre of art that's going around on TikTok where people just put paint in a bucket and then swing it on a rope. Oh, I've seen this. And then it just hits the canvas in some pattern or something, which, like Like, truly, I could do that. Truly. Do you see this painting over here behind me? Yeah. I made that.

Okay. Nice. Show a little bit more of it. Oh, there you go. Oh, wow.

So I made that. Now, I only bring that up because that is a style from an artist who... He made me a piece of work in a style like that. And I was like, I think I can give this a shot. You know? And so I did it and it turned out like...

Just as good as the other one.

I think it turned out really great. So I'm not saying it's easy to be an artist. I'm saying it's like... I don't know what I'm really saying about it, but I'm just saying like... What I am saying is if you are somebody who's nervous about jumping into the deep end about being creative, I think you shouldn't really judge yourself that much and just have some fun with it.

Yeah, I know it. We do so many of these episodes here, and if we were to be critical about every hour... First of all, we can't afford to be critical about every hour. You just got to get the next one out. There's lots of episodes where I couldn't sit there an hour.

When I was watching podcasts, and when I was doing one for about a year, I found that some guests were not that good. Some guests are great because they talk a lot. They have the gift of gab. Some guests, you feel like you're prying answers out of. I hope I'm somewhere in the middle, you know what I mean? Because sometimes I ramble too much, and so I'm just like, Let me shut the fuck up.

You're doing great. I actually think you're pretty easy to talk to because we have had guests on this show where it is terribly difficult to get that. It's like pulling teeth. You ask a question, they give a one-word answer, and then you're like, Really? Do you want me to lead you down the road? Then we've had the opposite, too, where they talk the entire time. We gave one comic a word, and he went off for an hour. We didn't get one word in. It was crazy.

I think it depends, because you have comics at the top of the game who will do interview after interview after interview, and they're probably used to answering the same questions. Absolutely. They get tired of it. But in my of mine, it's like, well, every time you do a podcast or an interview, they have a different audience. It's like their own audience, and they don't know who you are, right? You just talk to the new audience and the new audience because it's all a potential new fans, in my opinion.

I just keep trying to-If we're being honest, podcast is... I don't think it's the new late night because late night is its own thing, and it's here or there, whether you think it's dead or alive or whatever. But it's a necessary evil of getting out there, selling tickets, selling albums. You're right about this, is that it must be torturous to go on a million commercial breaks and have to answer the same questions to two new people. But then at the same time, you're right, our audience may not know who are we, so we're introducing. I'm chilling. Now, if we could only get tickets to your fucking show, that's it.

Because you're in Atlanta, right?

We're in Atlanta. Sold out.

I'll see how many tickets they set aside. I don't know if they did, but the thing is, because it's sold out so far in advance that there's always, and especially for a venue that size, there's going to be 20 to 50 empty seats. Almost, I mean, 99% guaranteed because it's happened every show. I don't think I've done one show where every single person showed up.

No. Well, listen, first of all, we'd love to come see the show, and I don't expect that you're going to send us tickets. But if you do, we will be there. Justin Timberlakes playing the same night, so we'll have to check our schedule. I don't know what he wants.

You like a little JT?

No.

The World Tour, dude. The World Tour.

The World Tour.

This is going to ruin the tour. This is going to ruin the tour. The World Tour.

The World Tour. What tour? I bet you've sold more tickets than he has.

No, I'm sure he's selling a lot. Definitely more than JLo, though.

Oh, yeah. Well, she canceled the tour. That's part of the live industry 2024. So many festivals and concerts getting canceled because people can't sell tickets because the prices are crazy.

Yeah. And that's what I think it is. I don't think it's that they can't sell tickets. I think that audiences now are so squeezed for money. The price of things have gone up so much, and my audience is pretty young. So I feel like I do my best to keep my tickets low on the low-end. My reps are always pushing me to sell them for more. I think my most expensive ticket is 60 or 70, plus a VIP if you want that. Sure. But even with the VIP meet, the VIP meet and greet for the theaters, I try to offer real value for that, and I don't want it to be like, you just show up and I get a photo with you. I give you a piece of merch, we take a photo, I do a little crowd work with a group of people there. We hang out. It's very kumbaya, you know what I'm saying?

It's very much worth the 60. $60 to me seems relatively reasonable to go see a comic that I really enjoy to have a night of fun. $60, you couldn't go to a restaurant and take someone on the date for less than $60, right?

The other thing I'll say about the ticket prices, though, is that a lot of audience members, they'll just Google your name and then the city that you're in. And literally, the first Everything that comes up are resellers. Oh, I know. And so it's unfortunate because they think that... I get DMs like, Why are your tickets $500? I'm like, Well, did you go to the link on my website or did you just go? It's almost every time they get scammed and they don't go to my website.

But let me ask you this, Morgan, because you've been doing this for a long time. Let me ask you a question that you might have a better answer to. We're doing live shows, and we also just ran into this a couple of nights ago, like two nights ago, a link to, I'm not going to name the ticket broker, to a ticket broker who's selling our tickets. Our tickets are like a cup of coffee, cheap. They're selling them for 10X the price on these ticket brokers when I can guarantee you tickets are still available. But I sense that maybe is the venue in cajoots with the ticket brokers? Is it the promoter? How do those brokers get a hold of those tickets? The venues just don't care. Yeah, they just don't give a shit.

I don't know. My My reps and I are very aware of that stuff, and we try to put a kibosh on that type of thing.

You just tell people where to go to the right place.

I just go to my man. For For example, with the spring 2025 tour, for the last year, I've been trying to funnel all of my followers into a mailing list. Brilliant. I think I have 25,000 people on the mailing list, something like that. When pre When the pre-sale went on sale, I didn't even post the presale codes on my social media. I just did it. It was only for people on the mailing list. My New York show, for example, at town hall, it's 1400 seats, and we sold that out in an hour, and that was only through the mailing list. Fantastic. It's very clear that I have a really strong audience base who are fans of mine. As far as people who wait too long, it's like, I don't know. Like I said, right now, the demand super high, and I'm going to keep capitalizing on that.

People want it. You're right. It may not last forever. It may not last forever. Do it now.

At the very least, I'll be able to perform at like, Comedy Clubs that house 200, 300 people for the rest of my career.

You're going to be doing this for another 30. I guarantee you're going to be doing this for another 30 years. You have such a rabid audience. They have so much fun. You can tell. Just go to any of Morgan's socials and you can watch any of the reels, and you can tell that the audience eats this up. It's interactive. They love it, and it's really good. And it's funny.

I think also it's like young people who, because my audience is pretty young, who were trapped inside during the pandemic, who have been taught to communicate by their smartphone, lose a huge sense of this huge thing of growing up, where you get to interact with people and have fun with other people and goof off with other people. So my show is offering them a human experience that I think that they miss out on.

That's an interesting take. Yeah, you're right.

Because when I was between the ages of 11 and 18, I went outside, I rode my bike, sat outside of 711, and we just talk shit with each other. And that might It will happen, but I also think they're just on their phone also. They just send each other memes and things.It's really hard.That might be the draw.

Yeah, it's really hard to be a kid these days. A guy who has kids. I did the same thing as you. My parents would literally open the front door when I got home from school, be home by dark. I had a 10-speed Schwinn, and I would ride to the 711 just like you and get a slurpy and gobstoppers or whatever the hell I was doing. Then I'd be back by dark.And if they only knew.

They only knew how close to death we came so many times. Do you ever think about that? There's things we did.

I do.

I remember my brother and I rode our bike to this construction site, and he climbed this scaffolding, very high up. Yeah. Like dangerous Lehigh. I don't know. This shit was crazy. She only knew this type of stuff we got into.

It was wild, but it also allowed us to interact with the world in person. One-on-one in person. There's a certain amount of perspective that you get and a worldview and a maturity that comes with that.

100%.

It sucks that my kids will miss out on that, not because I don't want them to have that, but because there's no one else in my neighborhood that's doing that with their children. If I tell my kid to go out, to go back in dark, they're not going to play with anybody. They're going to be by themselves.

Yeah. And if you tried to tell other parents like, Oh, yeah, let's just let the kids out, they probably would judge you and be like, What the... Which is crazy to me Because the amount of technology you have to monitor your friends and family and kids nowadays, you know where they are. It's not like you don't know where they are. As long as they have a phone on them or an Apple Watch or some smart device. A tile. A tile. Literally, you know what I'm saying?

Tile sewn into their clothing. You're going to know where they are. There's lots of parents that do that. Yeah.

Which is why I'm like, Well, I don't plan to have kids. The thing is also now we're inundated with bad news. So all you hear about are bad things happening to people on the news. But you're only here, that's probably like half a % of the population of the Earth where that stuff is happening. But for the most part, things are all good.

Yeah, I agree with you. Well, we have more ways to receive bad news. Also, I don't think it's like the crime rates. I don't think the crime rates aren't up. They're down. But we hear about it more because there are a million different platforms sending us bad news because bad news sells. Exactly. People like the drama. They eat it up. True crime is like, it's-Yeah, they love it. Everybody goes to sleep watching.

They love it.

They love day nine. Let me ask you a question about your live show. A big part of, at least I've watched your special. I've been following you for a while now, and you love interacting, or it seems like you like interacting with couples or people who appear to be couples inside of the audience. It's a natural fit. What's your name? Are you here with him? Are you married to him? Have there ever been any drama regarding you?

Yeah, there was one incident that I can remember was I was working on this new song called What Are We? And it's a song about defining your relationship with someone. And it was literally the first time I was doing it. And there was a couple in the crowd who... I mean, it's a conversation between two people, and I guess they hadn't really done that. And then they left the party immediately after the song, and I think I struck a nerve with them. I don't know if they ended up breaking up or getting together, but I don't know.

Well, I imagine you're taking a chance every time you talk to a couple, and sometimes Morgan will say, Are you making love tonight?

That's also a thing, right? I want to encourage people to hook up and embrace their relationship. Maybe there's a couple that's been together. I'm there to break the ice. Maybe they haven't had that conversation, so this was the date night that did it. Or it's the camel that broke the straws back. Like, Yeah, honey, we don't have any sex anymore, and maybe this isn't the thing. I don't know. I don't know.

You're a provocateur in a sense that you're maybe it's like-I just want people to stay horny. Stay horny, stay fuck.

Embrace the spiceier part of their relationship and get freaky deaky because I be getting freaky deaky. It's a lot of fun. And especially you go to these Midwest places that are a little bit more reserved. Nobody even calls somebody Daddy or some shit. That's like entry-level That's entry-level type stuff.

That's as vanilla as it gets.

Yeah.

My favorite thing that you do is suspicious as fuck. I was telling Christie this before you got on. Months ago, I heard you do this bit where you sing suspicious as fuck. You say something is suspicious as fuck, and you sing it, it goes suspicious as fuck. You do it better than I do. It got stuck in my head because it's a little jam. It's a little ear nugget, right?

Yeah, ear worm.

Now I find myself saying this to myself a lot. The other day, I'm at Walgreens. I'm checking out, getting a prescription. There's a lady in front of me, and she is dimed out. Coach bag, Mercedes keys, talking on the phone, plastic surgery. And in her basket is two steel wool, like steel wool, like the kind you put in a crack pipe, steel wool, two butane lighters, and a box of condoms. I almost said out loud, I was singing to myself behind her, suspicious as fuck.

Yeah, because that is suspicious.

That is suspicious as fuck. Yeah. That is suspicious. What are you doing with the steel wool?

What are you doing?

But I guess what else are you going to buy? And she's picking up a prescription, which makes it twice as dangerous.

Yeah, that's very suspicious.

What is the crowd favorite song that you do?

What's the- Well, this is what I've been grappling with to think about for my live shows, because the truth is, I'm getting new fans every day, new followers every day. And so, for example, I'm going to Ohio. I was in Ohio less than a year ago in October. Now, when I did Ohio last year, there was 200 people maybe in the crowd. This time going to Ohio, I've sold the room out four times, which is 350 people. So we're going to have about 1400, 1500 people altogether, right? Yeah. Now, what if a couple of people from last year's show come to the show? Do I try to do a bunch of new stuff, or do I do the L-O-L Ha Ha Ha, which people are going to want to see, Suspicious as Fuck, which people are going to want to see, Friends Own, which sometimes people want to see. There might even be some deep cuts. It's like I was listening to an interview with John Mayer, and he was talking about how much new songs he should do and how many of the hits he should Because I do music, I'm in this unique space where it's like, I could I could replay songs and people want to sing along and vibe out to the thing that they...

Because I saw Mark Rebeye, for example. He's the loop daddy. He's the looper, right? Yep. And he obviously did new stuff, but people were really excited to see the couple of hits that he had. Sure. They got hyped for that. So I'm going to try to do a mix of both and keep adding some new stuff. And I I think that's the goal. I think ultimately, what John Mayer said in that interview, he was like, Look, your crowd is there to see you. They're fans of you. You just have to trust that they know what they're doing with their time.

Ah, very interesting.

So if somebody gets up in the middle of an old song to go to the bathroom, that means they might just want to see the new stuff. And then there's people who don't care about the new stuff and are just like, Where is it? Because I remember I saw... I go to a lot of concerts now, and I'm like, When I go to the concert, I'm like, Oh, man, I hope they play this. I hope they play this. Most of the time, that's my sentiment, and I think everybody else feels that way, too. I saw James Taylor, and he waits till the second half of his show to do all of the A-sides. You've Got A Friend, Fire and Rain. What's another one he did? Shower the People You Love with Love. Carolina, in my mind, North Carolina. Is that what it is? Going to Carolina in my mind. But everybody, that second half of the show, everybody sing every song together. So you know that they want to do it. So I think it's very clear to me what I got to do a little bit of both.

So everybody from Neil Brennan to Margaret Tro, Heather McMahon, all the comics that we've had on say have said something very similar. I'd say 90% of the comics had said something very similar about comedy, which is in comedy, when you do that special, that's it. People do not come to hear the greatest hits. You already heard it. I already saw you do that joke. I don't want to see you do that joke. Again, I want new material. But you straddle this strange world where people actually probably do want to hear the hits. In some way, I think that's really cool. If I went to Morgan Jay's show and I did not see Suspicious as Fuck, I would be rather upset. I'll probably be singing that song in my head for the rest of my natural bar.

Well, the other thing that I always forget, which is reminding me having this conversation with you, is that the majority of my audience only knows me for my autotune clips. Based on how many followers I have and actually how many hard views my two specials have, the majority of them do not know my discography. So I could pepper in an old song from a special, and they wouldn't even know about it.

They would have. They'd think it'd be new material.

They'd be like, Oh, my God, I didn't know this. That's a great song. Also, my audience is so young, they don't really know what a comedy show is. A lot of people, for my younger crowds, they say that I'm their first comedy show they've ever been to. That's very interesting. That's their reference point, which I'm glad I am the first one because I'd hate for them to go to a live a comedy show and have it meet the expectations of what they saw online. Because when you see a clip of a comedian doing a joke online and it goes really well, it's like 60 seconds to a minute, 60 seconds to a minute and a half, right? But they have this brain rot thing going on where they can't focus for that long. How do you expand this 90-second experience they had on their phone to an hour? Because I see them check. It's so hard to keep them engaged, which is why if you see my live show, I jump around so much and the interaction is so intense with the crowd.

Yeah, that's true. I went and saw Pete Davidson a couple of months back, and I didn't know what to expect. I had no idea because all I see of Pete is tabloid news and/or SNL two-minute clips. I didn't know Pete as a stand-up, and I was open to whatever happened. He did such a great job of weaving basically one story into an hour and a half of really engaging comedy that was really funny, self-effacing, self-aware. I thought he did a very excellent job. But it was the first comic that I had ever seen where I had no experience with anything they had ever done before on stage. You write about that. If it's your first comedy show and you go up and then you're like, Wait, that's not what I saw in 60 seconds. Maybe it turns them in general, to the art.

Theo Vaughn is another one, right? I see clips and reposts of his clips over and over again of some of the same clips of his podcast. I never see any clips of his comedy specials online. Never?

Never. I've not once seen a Theo Vaughn comedy clip.

I only ever see clips of his podcast. So when you go to his show as an audience member, I wonder what their expectations are for him. Yeah.

Well, that's interesting. I don't want to go down a rabbit hole here. I'm just pointing it out. Most people know Joe Rogan from his four-hour long podcast, four or five, however many days a week.

I didn't watch the special. Not out of I didn't want to watch it. I just was like, I don't know. I don't have it in me to watch. I have the brain rot, too, dude. I'm trying to think of the last special I watched from start to finish.

Do you know what the last special I watched from start to finish was?Was it mine?Live at the Village?

Live at the Village? No, the last special I watched, Start to Finish with Adam Sandler special.

Yeah, that one is out.

I thought it was great. I look up to the dude. I think he's incredible. I think, I mean, to be fair, I know he does have some writers that help him work on his shows now, which is fine. I don't think that's... But I think the way he delivers material and his presence on stage, it's interesting because I literally told my reps, my next special, I wanted to be even more chaotic, more loosey-goosy. I don't care if things go wrong. I want the camera to be shaky. And then, lo and behold, his special was so... Clearly, there was accidents that were planned. I'm not going to go into it.

Yeah, I know what you're saying. I've seen some... Yeah, go ahead.

But it was very clear to me like, Oh... But those types of things that happen psychologically create this... It brings the show down to Earth.

Yes.

It gives it... Even the accidents make it feel like we're all in this together. Like, Oh, we saw the accident happen together, and things like that. You know what I mean?

I think that's what's interesting about some of your stuff, too, is that a lot of it feels very organic because it is organic. You don't know what people are going to say. You don't know if they're going to sing the right note, the wrong note. When it comes out, when it hits right, it's fantastic. When it hits wrong, it's organic. That's just the way it was. I think it's an art form to then keep the show popping along, which I'm sure after thousands of these interactions, you probably just are really good at that right now.

Yeah, and look, there are some shows where I'm tapped out, and I even say it on stage. I think, guys, I think I'm running dry with my crowd work right now. Which also gets a laugh, which also gets a laugh, too. I think they understand.

Morgan, you're doing something really cool with comedy. I have enjoyed watching you over the last year or so, and I wish you all the success. Oh, thank you so much.My friend. I don't think I need to wish you all the success. He's selling out everywhere. So let us know if you get those tickets to Atlanta. I will.

See you in a standing room only. I'll text the... But JT is performing that night, huh?

Well, listen, I'll come see you, and I'll tell JT I'll have to see him another time. He can find me on that. Listen, he ruined the world tour, basically.

The world tour, dude. Let's hope I don't get pulled over myself.

Yeah, don't drive. Yeah, honestly. I have to say, in some sense, Come on, man. You have people that can drive you. I know you do.

Broke just got a driver, dude.

I know. He's got seven drivers. He's got seven drivers. He's got 12 bodyguards. He's got a manager and a PR person. They're all hanging around him waiting for him to call. He could have just said, I need a ride two miles down the street.

That's so funny.

But on the other hand, to be that famous and to have every fucking move just scrutinized to the hill, it's probably not an easy position to be in. We all fuck up. I'm not apologizing for drunk driving. I'm just saying... I'm not apologizing I've been there. Been there, done that.

So there you go. I forgot what comedian had this joke. It might have been Ron White. I don't know who it was. He was like, The problem with drunk driving is that people don't know how to drive drunk. If they just practice a little bit, they would get better at it.

That is definitely a Ron White joke. I think so, yeah. Ron is so good at that. What happened to Ron? He's still out there, isn't he?

He's in Austin performing all the time at the mothership, I think.

Oh, he is? Oh, nice. It's good to see that still around. He was really funny. Back in the Comedy Central days, Ron White would roll clip after clip after clip, and he was just so fucking punchy with that glass of whiskey and cigar in his hand. Morganj. Com. If you can find tickets, though, He's on a very large tour, The Endless Tour, I call it. Morganj. Com. Go watch his special, which is available on his website, or you can go to YouTube. And his Twitch. Live at the Village. Twitch channel? Twitch. Tell us a little bit about Twitch.

Yeah. So everything is sold out, But I am doing more live streaming. I just feel like the future of live streaming is going to be huge. It already is huge, and I feel like my demographic is on that platform. And so we stream every Tuesday. I mean, not we, I stream every Tuesday, 6:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. We play video games, we do AMAs, we do music. Sometimes I do little concerts right here in my room with a full band. We just did one on Sunday. And we're going to also be doing the IRL streams. That's in real life streams, essentially. So When I go to Ohio this weekend, you'll get a sense of me getting to the venue all the way up to the sound check, to the meet and greets, all that stuff. That's really cool, like a behind-the-scenes look.

Yeah.

Yeah. You'll get a live stream of an inside look of me meeting fans and interacting with people and something like that. Yeah, that's what we're going to be doing. Also, you get a direct line of communication with me. It's literally me right here talking to you. I love it. I say maybe it makes me too normal. I don't know.

I think that's what people crave these days.I think so.They want all they can get of someone that they really enjoy. They want to really know who you are. I think you could do a good job of that on stage anyway, but this is just an extra layer. I think this is a good move doing the switch.

Look, it's something I'm excited about and I'm having fun doing. So that's all I could really ask for. And as long as I have the freedom to do that, we're chilling.

You are a really fucking nice guy. I just have to say that. I thought I'd share that with you.

I I'd like to think so.

I think so. Is that Brad Williams behind you?

No, that's me.

Oh, that's you? Okay. It's a little fuzzy, but I thought for a second that was Brad. Oh, that is Morgan. That's me.

That's why it's cut out Yeah.

Well, morganj. Com for tickets tours. Go to watch his Twitch. Morgan, thank you for spending some time with us. Yeah, thanks, Morgan.

Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, I'll catch up with you guys later.

Thank you very much. We appreciate it. All right, guys.

Take care. All right. Thank you.

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What a nice guy. There it is. Morgan J. I know. There he is. There it is. We see it all. He saw something in himself, and he had some self-awareness that, yeah... I'm talking about his early story, six, seven years doing stand-up comedy, and he knew enough about himself and about the crowd around him and about the things in his own creativity limitations that he wasn't getting out of it what he wanted to. And he made a switch, and it worked out. Amazeballs. Love it. I wish we could do that. Someday it'll happen to us, too. Maybe our live shows will be the moment when we go, Yeah, we should do this, or, We should go back to Clear channel. I'm sure they're hiring. They're doing regular I'm sure they're hiring. Oh, I'm sure they are. They're always hiring. It's churning butter over there. It's like churning butter. I really enjoyed Morgan. Morganjay. Com. Find tickets if they're available. And by the way, a lot of people have said, We'll get you tickets to the show, which you don't see, and this is obvious to anyone. I'm breaking the fourth wall, but there really should be no wall here.

You should understand that we actually talk to the guest for just a few minutes before we start recording, and then we talk to them usually after. Yeah, we got to get an audio set Yeah, we got an audio and just say hello and get out all the giggles before we actually start. He's one of the few people who I actually am convinced he may try to get us tickets to his sold-out shows here in Atlanta, of which he's doing four. That guy is amazing I did a little math in my head. That guy's making bank. He's making bank. A lot more than we are, Christie. Best to him. I wanted to ask him, Can we open for you? But then I'm sure he's probably said, No, I'd like the crowd to stick around. If that's okay. I'm on a roll. I'm on a roll. I can't mess it up. What are you going to do? You can't win them all, Christie. All right. Morganjay. Com. That's all you need to know. You can find all the stuff there, all his shits. And on the socials, Morgan Jay. He's verified. And his Twitch. Blue checkmark. And his Twitch.

Oh, his new Twitch. What was that? Wednesdays and Sunday? Tuesdays. Tuesdays and Sunday? When he's around, when he can do it. So go join him on Twitch and get to a show and watch his new special Live at the Village. Really good. It's an hour and 57 minutes. You will not lose, I promise you. And you can find him on Spotify, too. I actually now follow him on Spotify. He's got a couple of albums out there. He's got a body of work. So please go check our new friend, Morgan Jay, out. We certainly would appreciate it. I know he would also. All right, here's the deal. Chrissy and I are just a few short days away from being in Dania Beach at the Dania Improv and Orlando at the Bone, the 24th and the 25th. That's a funny note. That makes me laugh every time. Yeah, I know. It has come to our attention that there are unscrupulous ticket resellers selling our tickets for crazy amounts of money. It is insane. Some of these tickets are going for $250, $300 a piece. Don't think that that's us. No, you do not have to pay $250 for any ticket.

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