June 16, 2025

The Jobbaloon Show: Comedy, Candid Pranks, and Viral Content

The Jobbaloon Show: Comedy, Candid Pranks, and Viral Content

Shoot me a message! Josh (aka Jobbaloon) shares the unexpected journey from obscurity to viral comedy sensation through his street pranks and the challenges of content creation without monetization. His hilarious approach of asking strangers to pretend they're fans of his show before revealing unexpected twists creates genuine reactions that have garnered millions of views. • Started the Jobbaloon Show after working with Insane Clown Posse and discovering streaming platforms • First viral vi...

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Season 3

Shoot me a message!

Josh (aka Jobbaloon) shares the unexpected journey from obscurity to viral comedy sensation through his street pranks and the challenges of content creation without monetization. His hilarious approach of asking strangers to pretend they're fans of his show before revealing unexpected twists creates genuine reactions that have garnered millions of views.

• Started the Jobbaloon Show after working with Insane Clown Posse and discovering streaming platforms
• First viral video featured the "Hell No Guy" who reacted to the revelation the show was about "hot naked guys"
• Despite social anxiety, pushes himself to approach strangers for content
• Receives no monetization from platforms - Instagram alerts "can't monetize" while TikTok shadow bans
• Always reveals it's a prank afterward, maintaining ethical standards unlike other prank creators
• Faced legal challenges including court appearances after pranks were misunderstood
• Achieved black belt in karate as an adult, showing perseverance in both martial arts and comedy
• Plans to expand into stand-up comedy and possibly create live "Jobbaloon" events
• Maintains the Jabbaloon Show community through Twitch streams and Discord

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00:00 - Introduction to Job Balloon Show

05:40 - The Birth of the "Hell No" Guy

17:12 - Content Creation Without Monetization

30:56 - Filming Pranks: Risks and Challenges

43:03 - Comedy Evolution and Future Plans

54:56 - Mental Health and Personal Growth

01:01:10 - Final Thoughts and Community Building

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Welcome to the Morning Formation interviews and hilarious skits.

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He's the creative force behind the job balloon show, so I want to dive in the world of his viral content and his concepts behind comedy, because he definitely caught my attention to the point where I was just binge watching all of his content uh, all in one evening, and I I love it.

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Whenever you have something new uh, job balloon it is I'm instantly on it, like I have my notification set, like you posted and you're uploaded, man, because it's just so hilarious and I love how you catch people off guard.

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Thank you, bro.

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What an intro.

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I'm flattered, I'm honored.

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This is awesome.

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Uh, yeah, you're killing it, dude.

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I'm excited to be here you know, I I caught up with you when you're on your live and I just threw it out there like yeah, like I just said, hey man, like I love your content, would you come interview?

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And I was absolutely shocked when you were like yeah, I'd love to.

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I I've been wanting to do a podcast, no one's asked me, I'm small time bro.

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I'm just getting going, so going.

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So I'm at 20K and not that it's all about the numbers.

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But yeah, I started this page only like maybe like a year and a half ago, so it was just over a year ago that like one little video went viral, not to jump right in, but and that kind of took off from there.

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So, yeah, I'm still at the beginning stage.

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So, doing a podcast, I feel like a fucking celeb.

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Can I use the F-bomb?

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Yeah, man.

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Okay, no man.

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I guess we all kind of are humble and we all feel small time, but I would imagine you are getting like thousands and thousands of eyes like on your stuff.

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Man, um, what would you say was probably your most viral piece of content that you've had so far?

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oh man.

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So basically, god I could, I could make this show so much longer than we anticipate, so much to get into.

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But uh, I basically got into streaming through a weird roundabout way.

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Man, I'm turning this into a long answer, but I briefly worked with Shaggy Too Dope from Insane Clown Posse, oh yeah, and because we were both in Michigan, I was pursuing music and I'm like, okay, I was a fan of them as a kid and I'm like I'll reach out to them and they had a podcast going and I'm like, you know, maybe musically something can happen from networking with them, worked with them for a little while and, you know, never really went anywhere.

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They didn't really have the budget to be paying anybody.

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So eventually I was able to hop on one of their streams, though like their live stream on Twitch, and I was like dude.

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One of their streams, though, like their live stream on Twitch, and I was like dude, this is such a fun outlet, like I just I don't know, it was just like letting out my crazy side, just getting to be totally out there, you know, cause people are eating it up and I'm like this is said, there's like no way, I'm not gonna not pursue this.

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Um, started streaming, had like I don't know six regular people watching, like nobody you know, for maybe a half a year.

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And I'm like, oh, I'll start a little instagram just to promote the stream and I'll do little promo videos.

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Just doing promo videos, I'm like why don't I just make some original content?

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And I'm like, what, what do you know?

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Just to entertain the few people that were watching.

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And then it just kind of evolved, developed, like I'm like, what can I do?

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And eventually I'm like screw it, I'm just going out with a cam and just going to talk to people.

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So on the drive over, one little insight I got was like shut off the music, like let's just have a blank slate, you know, leave some space for ideas to come up.

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And I was like let's uh, I know this isn't what you asked, but uh, so I'll get to it.

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Um, I was like what if I was gonna call Jabaloon Show already, because that was my nickname, that's what I was using for the name of my music, and it was just an idea that had been kicking around forever to do something, do like comedy sketches called Jabaloon Show, probably in my back pocket for like 10 years anyway.

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So I went out there and I'm like what if I just ask people like to pretend to be fans of the show, like that's where it started from?

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I'm like what if I just go, I ask people to say you know, to uh pretend like they know the show and just see if they'd go along with it, you know, and just make it kind of awkward and put them on the spot, obviously letting the audience know that they don't really know, you know, and um, and then I'm like, oh yeah, and then then what if I say reveal that the show's something like really off-putting that they wouldn't want to be associated with.

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So immediately it was like I'll go up to presumably straight dudes and say it's about hot, naked dudes, you know like, and see the reaction.

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So it came from there.

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Also, I was like white supremacist.

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I could say it's a white supremacist show.

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I could say it's satanic show.

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So I, you've seen all the stuff.

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So I, you know, I've done all those things and always trying to think up of new offensive, off-putting things and um, so the first one go ahead, something, something completely off the wall, yeah yeah, yeah, something that would just throw them off

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a little elicited reaction.

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Yep and um man, I went out to the third ward in Milwaukee, this little walking area which somehow always has foot traffic, no matter how blistering cold it is.

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It was like I don't know, it was probably like 15 degrees or something.

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It was really cold and I'm just like, let me give it a try, let me just go to people.

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I was so nervous.

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I'm like I can't believe I'm just going to approach people.

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This sucks, you know, which is still basically how I, how I feel when I go out.

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But, um, yeah.

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So I saw this dude walking by and, uh, I'm like, okay, ask him, ask him.

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And I, I backed out, um, I chickened out.

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And then, um, you know, asked a couple other people.

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They mostly just laughed, they got it was a prank and it was like, okay, maybe I can use that.

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And uh, then I saw that same guy again.

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I don't know why I was singling him, maybe I just had a vibe or something, I don't know.

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He was just like 30 something year old black dude, tall guy, was like I don't know, um, so I saw him walk by again.

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I'm like, go for it, you never know what, if this could be the one that uh takes off and you miss it.

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You know.

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I'm like what?

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What if this is?

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You know, I don't know.

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I just had that thought that maybe you know like I could be passing up a huge opportunity if I don't just like nut up and do it.

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So anyway, I asked him like I still refer to him as the hell, no guy, you know, and it was the first time like some of these lines just came out spontaneously.

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So I think they came out so genuine because they were just off the cuff and uh just ran through the basic format.

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If people haven't seen it.

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I was like hey, bro, would you mind saying you're watching the job balloon show?

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He he's like what's that?

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I'm like it's my show.

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He's like you're watching the job balloon show.

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I'm like oh, do you like the joboon show?

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He's like I've never seen it.

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I'm like well, just if you can just kind of pretend.

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And he's like uh, yeah, yeah, I'm like you love the jabaloon show.

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I remember it all by heart.

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He's like yeah, I love the jabaloon show.

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I'm like all right, and I'm stumbling on my words.

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I'm like for some reason I'm throwing an amen.

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I'm like instead of hell.

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Yeah, like I say, now I'm like, instead of hell, yeah, like I say now I'm like amen.

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So I don't even know where it came from.

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I do have some religious background as a youth, but you know, I'm like super nervous, which apparently you said doesn't come across, which is good.

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But he says, anyway, I'm like we'll be right back with plenty more hot guys right after our messages.

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And he's like, oh, hell, no, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh yeah, that that's the show.

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He's like naked guys.

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And I was like, um god, I'm doing, I'm doing black accent, I'm gonna get canceled.

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But, um, he's like naked guys.

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I was like, yeah, that's the show it's.

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I was like it's not porn.

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He goes it's not porn, I'm like no.

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And then I don't know where it came from.

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Just, I was like it's just solo guys, like I don't know.

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Because I thought it would be funny to say, you know, because it's almost like, if you have to tell someone it's not porn, that's a sign that it probably is something like porn.

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You know what I mean?

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like if you're saying it's just solo guys, like I'm trying to make it more mild, but it's almost sounding worse, you know.

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So I'm like, uh, yeah, it's just solo guys on webcam.

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And he's like, oh hell, nah.

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And then I just that's how I cut the clip, just for it to end right on there.

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Bad audio, bad production.

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I'm just using a selfie stick.

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I didn't have an external mic and for whatever reason, threw it up there for my little group of like maybe a dozen people, where I think I had like 100 followers, but they weren't like watching it and somehow I don't remember how quick it happened, but it just started blowing up Like people just love that clip, and it just started just Like people just love that clip.

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And it just started just.

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So I think within like a week I hit like 6,000 followers, which was huge for me because I'd been pursuing music, and so you can tell I've never been on a podcast because I'm like got to tell my whole story, but I'd been pursuing my music and my art for years, couldn't get any traction.

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And then I'm like this dumb little, you know dude joke, it's like what blows up.

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So it hit like 3.6 million views andi got the 6 000 followers, and so that's kind of the original quintessential video and that was the first one I threw up, but that whole prank, um, you know yeah, that's.

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That's amazing how you just kind of tripped and fell and then you fell on some success.

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Man, yeah, for folks out there that haven't gone viral before, though, I mean, everyone has like this, this idea that you go viral.

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Now you're making all this money Like, do the platforms really pay that much for going viral and like having followers?

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I mean, have you seen a lot of growth from, like, other other companies coming in and wanting to work with you?

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What would you say about that?

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I, I'm absolutely deeply in to the hole with this stuff.

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Like no, zero money, um, every everything I've done.

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I'm like just funneling money into it and just hoping it'll pay off one day.

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But, um, up until recently I think.

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I mean I've had shirts since I was doing music, probably six years ago I sold maybe two and then just the other day I sold two more because I finally started advertising it on my new stuff and um, and so it's all just been like I have merch, but it's just giveaway.

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I've mailed out like hundreds of stickers for free and giveaway.

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I have, like I had all this merch before I even had any success for some reason.

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So I coasters and, uh, my cd buttons, all that.

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Um, no, instagram alerts me every time you can't monetize this video.

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They don't let me monetize any of my videos.

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Tiktok constantly shadow bans them and turns the sound off, even for words like genitalia.

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I gotta censor out genitalia.

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Today it was sound was off.

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I had to censor out the word penis.

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I'm like these are medical terms, right, and so they don't let me monetize on Instagram.

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You know, like how in the world do these guys that do these?

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Because the thing I love about what you do is that you at least, at the end of your prank, tell them it's a prank, that you at least, at the end of your prank, tell them it's a prank.

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I mean, I've seen other videos where folks are doing pranks and they're very questionable pranks that can be possibly dangerous or violent, yeah, and then at the end of it all, they're not telling anyone that oh, by the way, this is just a prank, right, like, how are those guys making it?

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I, I don't know, dude.

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I I see some people's stuff and I'm like not to sound cocky, but I'm like man, the production level is pretty low, like not that one's great, but I'm like they're not getting much of a reaction and somehow maybe they just put in more time, you know, but um I mean, some of it I just don't think is creative, like going to to lowe's or home depot and picking a fight with an old guy, right, like that's not a, that's not a creative thing to do, like what you're doing.

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In my opinion, is is unique and it's funny because, like people all the time are mindlessly doing things, right, you know, putting in a sponsor for someone and they don't even know what they're doing, and then and then you come in and introduce at the end what it is and they're like whoa, that just look on their face.

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To me that's, that's comedy art.

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And so these other guys are just doing stupid shit, like grabbing people's carts and slinging it across the island right right, dude, that's that's gonna lead to like assault, like you know.

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I mean so, I mean so I don't.

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I don't know how these guys are making it, man like I.

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That's why I love your.

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You're like what you're doing, because it's it's all a little bit more innovatively creative.

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So I I just had to ask about that part with it, with the viral and content content creation stuff, and would you say that, uh, would you say that your, your, your future plan is to stick with content creation, or are you going to kind of do music and that both?

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I'm trying to like poach some of the job alone, show followers to be interested in the music, like I've done a couple of collab posts with my music page.

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I think I wanted to be a musician my whole life.

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It was my dream and you know, I spent like three.

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I spent a long time trying to do it, but three designated years where I wasn't working another job I was like spending all my savings.

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I was paying my buddy like 10 bucks an hour to help me Huge shout out to my boy, justin, and couldn't have done it without him.

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But yeah, we'd spend, you know, three hours making a beat, you know, making a song, spend another couple hours making a cool psychedelic visual to go with it, post it on Instagram, get like six likes.

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I mean just couldn't make any traction.

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Put together this crazy live show with visual effects and lights and strobe and smoke and a confetti cannon, couldn't just I don't know.

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Music business is hard to break into and finally, within like the past two years, I'm like I don't know if I want to do that.

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Like I always want to play music and I do it on my stream a lot and I love it.

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But you know, I don't know doing the comedy stuff.

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But you know I don't know doing the comedy stuff.

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It's been fun.

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And to what you said before, I know some of these pranksters are so mean and it's such a like a militia.

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It's like punch you in the face, just kidding you know like yeah, I've seen these guys.

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I've seen these guys like square up on people before and I'm like, wow, when it gets to that point, like that's no longer to me.

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That's not funny.

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Like that's, that could be my dad, that could be my grandpa, exactly, that's not cool.

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Like so I don't, I don't get it, I don't know if those guys are.

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That's why I asked about the, about the money part, because, right to me, it's got to be worth it to do something that vile to another person.

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Man, yeah.

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Side note, I would love a sponsor, though it would be awesome.

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I don't know how to go about doing it.

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I'm just learning as I go.

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Lots of trial and error, but the mean stuff.

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To be honest, in the beginning I wasn't telling people it was a prank, you know, and I was letting them leave Like the Hell Nah guy.

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To be honest, in the beginning I wasn't telling people it was a prank, you know, and I was letting them leave.

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Think, like the hell no guy.

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He left saying if you post this, I'm going to sue you, I don't want to be on any gay website whatever.

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And I never told him because I just thought there was more like integrity.

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I don't know what I was thinking.

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And then at some point I'm like this feels mean and I realize like people also really like to see them the reveal and see people laugh, laugh it off.

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I'd say one in 30 people get real upset, which I do feel bad about.

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But I kind of go to like you want to make an omelet, got to crack some eggs, like I know it's going to piss off the occasional person, but for the laughter and I feel like the community of the job alone show like is so positive, like it's a positive vibe All the.

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It seems to attract a lot of positive people.

00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:51.366
So, yeah, I'm happy to keep it more positive.

00:16:52.471 --> 00:17:01.033
Yeah, man and uh, and you kind of brushed over it earlier, but you talked about working with Insane Clown Posse.

00:17:01.033 --> 00:17:07.011
There's huge up where you're at in the Detroit area, right, right, how did you meet them?

00:17:11.146 --> 00:17:12.289
Yeah, well, I God.

00:17:12.289 --> 00:17:13.613
Another little bit of background.

00:17:13.613 --> 00:17:14.940
My parents have a pie business.

00:17:14.940 --> 00:17:26.401
They started when I was eight, so they've been in the pie business like three plus decades Out of Metro Detroit.

00:17:26.401 --> 00:17:36.887
I try not to connect it too much to my stuff so I won't go into too many details, but just since you know, don't necessarily want that association for their sake, but they I sent them a pie.

00:17:36.887 --> 00:17:40.193
I was like, I reached out to them and I go hey, do you guys want a?

00:17:40.193 --> 00:17:42.003
Um, can I send you some pie?

00:17:42.003 --> 00:17:43.767
Just like.

00:17:43.767 --> 00:17:44.528
I don't know.

00:17:44.528 --> 00:17:46.232
It's been a good foot in the door.

00:17:46.232 --> 00:17:54.265
Like you know, my parents gave away a ton of free pie getting their foot in the door and even though it's not related to food, like you know, I'm like um.

00:17:54.404 --> 00:17:55.385
So we did some pies.

00:17:55.385 --> 00:18:03.555
We decorated them up with like their face, you know, with ICP clown makeup and with chocolate and made little you know, shaped it all out.

00:18:03.555 --> 00:18:11.032
They looked pretty cool and their producer was like hey, actually do you think we could film something at the pie shop?

00:18:11.032 --> 00:18:13.608
You know, just kind of do like a pie baking tutorial.

00:18:13.608 --> 00:18:16.465
So they came on to do it.

00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.910
Shaggy Toot Open his partner at the time it wasn't the other guy from ICP, but it was his like comedy partner that they were doing a podcast and vlogs.

00:18:27.910 --> 00:18:28.932
And I was like, man, this is our chance.

00:18:28.932 --> 00:18:49.487
So me and my boy, justin, were like let's just go all out, like we had again funneling money into it, hoping it'll pay off, like you know, know Baker's style old fashioned hat that said Shaggy, and the other one with the other guy's name and, uh, made this like by hand, concocted this pie slingshot Cause they're just into like wacky stuff.

00:18:49.487 --> 00:18:54.412
I'm like they can shoot each other with pies, just like made a real elaborate day.

00:18:54.412 --> 00:18:57.549
And they, they were like, um, real impressed by it.

00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.307
And they're like, wow, you also edit video.

00:18:59.307 --> 00:19:01.709
Do you want to come work for us for free?

00:19:01.709 --> 00:19:10.830
And so I was like, yeah, like I'll eventually need to get paid, but for now I'm like man, shaggy Chewbacca was like childhood hero, you know.

00:19:10.830 --> 00:19:14.570
So I'm like who knows where it will go?

00:19:14.570 --> 00:19:19.528
And indirectly it led to all this other stuff.

00:19:19.528 --> 00:19:25.289
If I hadn't done that, it wouldn't have got to the uh job balloon show, you know what I?

00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:31.145
I remember when I was in high school in ohio there was a lot of guys that loved icp.

00:19:31.145 --> 00:19:32.871
Yeah, I mean, they were they.

00:19:32.871 --> 00:19:39.750
That was back when we had the big one speaker shoved into our trunks, yeah, you know, and a lot, all that bass and everything.

00:19:39.750 --> 00:19:41.586
So that's fascinating, man, because I know that they're.

00:19:41.746 --> 00:20:03.056
They're huge celebrities, um, in in the midwest specifically, I mean all over, but right, mainly in the midwest, for sure, definitely michigan ohio so, aside from music, do you do any other type of art um, or what I would call art like creative processing, or not not really music, comedy stuff.

00:20:03.280 --> 00:20:05.288
I'm thinking about dipping my toe into standup.

00:20:05.288 --> 00:20:05.910
I'm 40.

00:20:05.910 --> 00:20:16.189
I know I'm too old to really get anywhere with it, but I'm like I kind of just want the challenge and I think it would be fun and I'd like to develop the skillset, like what if we can throw a job of Palooza one day?

00:20:17.661 --> 00:20:19.067
I was honestly thinking that too.

00:20:19.067 --> 00:20:22.766
Man, I think you have a knack for comedy.

00:20:23.186 --> 00:20:24.609
Oh, thanks, thank you.

00:20:25.231 --> 00:20:27.567
I really do, and you mentioned earlier about the anxiety.

00:20:27.567 --> 00:20:33.310
I mean, I'm shocked to hear that you have anxiety when you're walking up to strangers on the street.

00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:34.031
Yeah.

00:20:34.712 --> 00:20:35.173
Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:20:35.819 --> 00:20:36.099
Man.

00:20:36.099 --> 00:20:40.844
Even, like yesterday or two days ago, I went out still after doing it so much.

00:20:40.844 --> 00:20:45.067
I'm like in my car I'm like, oh fuck, this sucks, like it's the one part.

00:20:45.067 --> 00:20:51.050
I'll be honest, I don't really really like doing that part, but the payoff is so big so I just forced myself into it.

00:20:51.050 --> 00:21:04.401
Now I've been live streaming it and that does help because it encourages, like encourages me to like push it further because there's people watching and it takes the anxiety off, because normally it's like I'm going up to someone I'm like, okay, okay, just say it, just say it.

00:21:04.401 --> 00:21:06.405
And then I say it, do the thing.

00:21:07.367 --> 00:21:09.192
Usually while I'm in it I'm not too nervous.

00:21:09.192 --> 00:21:16.163
You know, once I'm immersed in the interaction but then afterward, even if it goes good, I'm walking away like what did I just do?

00:21:16.163 --> 00:21:21.865
But if I know I got footage, it's like a total rush and a high, and then I'm editing it.

00:21:21.865 --> 00:21:23.505
I'm so excited for everybody to see it.

00:21:23.505 --> 00:21:24.869
So it pays off.

00:21:24.869 --> 00:21:30.732
But yeah, going out there, I'm like I'm walking away from each interaction, especially the ones where they get upset.

00:21:30.732 --> 00:21:35.531
You know, I'm just walking away, just, you know, festering with anxiety.

00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:42.182
Yeah, I'm during this podcast because I recorded this on video too, I'm gonna throw up.

00:21:42.182 --> 00:21:52.836
I I downloaded one of your most recent uh content, uh, that where you're on the street and you're talking to a guy and he, he says, yeah, watch the jabaloon show.

00:21:52.836 --> 00:21:56.590
And then you mentioned, uh, the number one show for stds in milwaukee.

00:21:56.590 --> 00:21:58.156
And he just like, he's like what?

00:21:58.156 --> 00:22:00.163
And he goes you got something on your eye or whatever.

00:22:00.163 --> 00:22:01.047
That's so, so funny.

00:22:01.047 --> 00:22:08.621
So I'm going to make sure throw that one up on the screen here for folks to just get a reference for Nice.

00:22:08.621 --> 00:22:16.241
How do you think you, you, you handle the, the anxiety, though, like, how, like, what's, what's your best method?

00:22:16.241 --> 00:22:18.807
Like, do you do any type of CBD?

00:22:18.807 --> 00:22:20.592
Do you like meditate?

00:22:20.592 --> 00:22:21.413
Do you breathe?

00:22:21.413 --> 00:22:22.865
Like, what do you do to get through that?

00:22:22.865 --> 00:22:26.910
Sure, sure, because a lot of people are stage fright.

00:22:26.910 --> 00:22:31.169
You know, even getting on a camera like this is really difficult, even for me.

00:22:31.711 --> 00:22:37.369
Yeah, yeah, man, I wish I had a great answer.

00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:39.566
You're still trying to figure that out, huh?

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:42.549
Yeah, I think a lot of it is just forcing myself to do it.

00:22:42.549 --> 00:22:53.695
I'm just letting my will override my emotions and be like I'm going into this, diving in the deep end of the pool, and just kind of push myself to do it.

00:22:53.695 --> 00:22:57.287
Yeah, I don't really have better advice than that.

00:22:57.287 --> 00:23:28.068
I am on some head meds, but it doesn't really help, while I'm sure to some extent you have like your natural coping mechanisms to get yourself to the edge and then take that jump right Sure.

00:23:29.260 --> 00:23:37.709
I've always liked performing and stuff I think I would for like my family and things, and I did some plays in high school Like I liked getting up on stage and doing that.

00:23:37.709 --> 00:23:41.744
Like evoking a laugh from audience is obviously like a huge high.

00:23:42.365 --> 00:24:23.892
But yeah, I really think you gotta just it probably sounds corny but like um, you gotta force yourself to take those risks and to push yourself, you know, and test your limits and go for it and, um, you know, bigger risk and the potential for reward yeah, I mean, as cliche as that sounds, you're right, I mean even for me doing this podcast, I know that friends, co-workers, are gonna see me, they're gonna laugh, they're gonna make stupid whatever, but you just kind of have to not not care, like, because those same people become fans, fans at some point, or at least they're watching your stuff and they're they're like, how I wish I could do that too, right?

00:24:23.991 --> 00:24:33.894
so, um, no, yeah well, you being in the military I'm sure it was you know being sent off to iraq or even signing up.

00:24:33.894 --> 00:24:38.028
I mean tons of pushing yourself to the limits yeah, I mean.

00:24:38.388 --> 00:24:57.664
Yeah, the first time when I was a young adult I had to stand in front of like a platoon or an entire company like a platoon is around 30 to 40 soldiers standing in front of them and like talking and or standing in front of 300 soldiers talking is that's tough?

00:24:57.664 --> 00:25:06.365
Yeah, really tough, especially when you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground and you're like 22 years old, right, you don't know anything, but you're pretending you do so.

00:25:06.365 --> 00:25:10.619
Yeah, I mean, but you always have that in the back your mind of being judged.

00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:14.728
I don't think that ever goes away right uh, that's that.

00:25:14.949 --> 00:25:19.426
That's definitely a big challenge, but, um, how are you planning on transitioning into comedy?

00:25:19.426 --> 00:25:22.104
Have you looked into any local comedy?

00:25:22.183 --> 00:25:27.153
are you gonna do stand-up or yeah, I I did one open mic.

00:25:27.153 --> 00:25:49.323
Um, the main thing I'm proud of myself of is I wasn't that nervous I I honestly think it's from doing all the street stuff that uh, like I I think I have I don't know numb or callous probably isn't the right word, but like just sort of let go a lot of that social anxiety.

00:25:49.323 --> 00:25:52.921
Like going up on stage wasn't probably as hard as going up to a stranger, you know.

00:25:52.921 --> 00:25:57.131
So I think it sort of you know where it worked in a little bit.

00:25:57.131 --> 00:26:07.266
Um, and so I did an open mic and I was proud of myself that I didn't do very well, but I didn't like beat myself up afterward, which is really easy to say, oh, you know, feel like a failure or something.

00:26:09.011 --> 00:26:31.990
And then somebody asked me to judge a roast battle, so I got to do that and be on the mic a little bit and I think, yeah, then the Jabba Palooza thing was like it's like a half joke because I don't expect any kind of festival, but I'm like, hey, maybe once I hit 100K followers, if I do, like could rent out a bar, get a dozen people there, and like we could have a talent show.

00:26:31.990 --> 00:26:39.526
We could have male strippers walking around in Speedos with hors d'oeuvres, like I don't know, just picturing, like making like a really wacky party.

00:26:39.526 --> 00:26:58.541
Um, and I'm like I want to have that skill set of being able to be up in front of people and you know, like I do on stream and kind of let out my, just to get to be free and let out my silly side and um, so, yeah, I, I'm trying to get to another open mic, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make myself do it here eventually.

00:26:59.584 --> 00:27:01.887
Yeah, I definitely think it's all about growth.

00:27:01.887 --> 00:27:03.371
It's all about growth.

00:27:03.371 --> 00:27:14.721
You know, whether man, as morbid as it sounds, whether you're going through a divorce, like I have a buddy going through divorce right now and I simply told him, I said, look, as long as you come out the other side, a better man, that's all that matters.

00:27:14.721 --> 00:27:26.761
And it's the same thing with, like, this podcasting thing I'm doing, with what you're doing with content creation, pushing the limits, um, and coming out every single week just a little bit better man.

00:27:26.761 --> 00:27:38.462
And it sounds like your anxiety and your your I don't know if you call it street fright or stage fright right, uh, is sort of surpassing going away, man, and I definitely think you have a knack for comedy.

00:27:38.462 --> 00:27:47.644
I was going to mention something to you about the whole stand-up comedy thing, sure, um, which brings me to your childhood nickname, um, job balloon.

00:27:47.644 --> 00:27:49.690
Yeah, that's what you go by, right, job balloon.

00:27:49.690 --> 00:27:51.342
That'd probably be your your comedy bit.

00:27:51.342 --> 00:27:53.305
How did that get started?

00:27:54.426 --> 00:27:54.907
yeah.

00:27:54.907 --> 00:28:03.948
So I don't know where my mom came up with it, she's just when I was like a baby, you know like one or something, she just started calling me Jabaloon.

00:28:03.948 --> 00:28:07.406
She'd say Jabaloon, but I think I was just a fat roly-poly baby.

00:28:07.406 --> 00:28:08.210
My name's Josh.

00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:11.961
Somehow just the little affectionate nickname Jabaloon worked out.

00:28:11.961 --> 00:28:22.666
So, yeah, I mean mostly I go by Josh on a normal day to day, but like my family would be like oh, hey, job, or you know, uh, job balloon on a Christmas present or something.

00:28:22.666 --> 00:28:23.630
So they've always used it.

00:28:23.630 --> 00:28:30.402
So when I needed a name for my music, I was like, just any name I came up with sounded so contrived and whatever.

00:28:30.402 --> 00:28:34.372
And I'm like, well, let's just call it job balloon because it's original.

00:28:34.372 --> 00:28:36.482
I already identify with it.

00:28:36.482 --> 00:28:56.605
Um, it's not like making up a name for myself, like the edge or something no offense to them, but to YouTube, but uh, you know so, yeah, so this kind of just became the overarching name for all my content you have a separate YouTube channel with your music on it yeah, well, my YouTube.

00:28:56.766 --> 00:28:57.788
I have it all on there.

00:28:57.788 --> 00:29:12.258
It's the job balloon show on youtube and then job balloon music on instagram, and tiktok is my music if people want to check it out okay yeah, I definitely put that down in the show notes, um, and in the show description, um, the.

00:29:12.479 --> 00:29:18.692
The content that you do, though I wanted to know is it spur of the moment or is it scripted?

00:29:18.692 --> 00:29:20.982
Do you know what questions you're going to ask that day?

00:29:20.982 --> 00:29:26.703
Do you know, like, where to where to go, and like what places do you go to specifically to to go?

00:29:26.703 --> 00:29:27.464
Do this sort of thing?

00:29:27.625 --> 00:29:40.244
Yeah, well, I moved to Milwaukee like two years ago from Detroit and, uh, just through trying it out, have kind of found a few little areas that seem to have foot traffic consistently, you know.

00:29:40.244 --> 00:29:44.794
So if there's an event at Pfizer Forum, the big arena, I'll go there.

00:29:44.794 --> 00:29:46.463
You know, basketball game or something.

00:29:46.463 --> 00:29:48.789
Downtown there's always people.

00:29:48.789 --> 00:29:57.584
In the third ward, the historic third ward, there's always people and mostly, yeah, I try to take notes now because getting out there I'm like, wait, what am I going to say?

00:29:57.584 --> 00:29:58.204
Which one am I going to?

00:29:58.204 --> 00:29:58.885
And I forget.

00:29:58.905 --> 00:30:03.314
I revert back to the naked dudes, which is like I want to expand beyond that.

00:30:03.314 --> 00:30:06.846
So occasionally I'll jot it down.

00:30:06.846 --> 00:30:16.011
Since I'm using my phone to stream, I'll jot down like Satanism, white supremacy, stds, you know, just so I can like remember it.

00:30:16.011 --> 00:30:24.837
And then when I go up, you know it depends, you know, with women I don't do anything like sexual related Just seems inappropriate.

00:30:24.837 --> 00:30:29.051
You know I only feel comfortable doing that to dudes and maybe I shouldn't, yeah, even to dudes.

00:30:29.051 --> 00:30:39.571
But you know, yeah, some of them, the white supremacy one is hard to say People seem to like it online but it's so dark, I mean, I'm so the opposite of white supremacy one is hard to say.

00:30:39.571 --> 00:30:42.608
People seem to like it online, but it's so dark, I mean, I'm so the opposite of white supremacy.

00:30:42.628 --> 00:30:49.999
Yeah, and you know that if they're, you know, like 9.5 times out of 10, they're not going to want to be associated with that at all.

00:30:50.118 --> 00:30:50.359
Right.

00:30:50.721 --> 00:30:50.980
You know.

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.182
And so what have you?

00:30:52.182 --> 00:31:07.827
I've seen a few of your videos where you had folks get really really like pissed off, where you had folks get really really like pissed off and like I think one time you had a real old lady on there and she was walking across the street and she got, she got pretty angry about it and even when you said it was a prank, she still was mad about it.

00:31:07.827 --> 00:31:09.300
Right, she's like oh, that's not funny.

00:31:09.300 --> 00:31:10.623
And do you remember?

00:31:10.623 --> 00:31:13.428
Well, maybe she was older, I guess, maybe she.

00:31:13.648 --> 00:31:23.634
Yeah, yeah, really yeah yeah, so I, I, I don't know if you saw that you ask yeah, mostly I asked beforehand.

00:31:23.634 --> 00:31:25.247
I'm like, is this okay to use for social media?

00:31:25.247 --> 00:31:27.920
Or I just say, do you want to say this for my youtube?

00:31:28.541 --> 00:31:37.980
and I pretty much take that as like a you know they're giving their consent and that's nice, see, and that's why I like you, man, because a lot of people have the glasses on now and they're just recording people.

00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:38.740
They don't know it.

00:31:39.101 --> 00:31:40.000
Right Posting them.

00:31:40.182 --> 00:31:43.804
Yeah, but you're you're nice enough to say, hey, can I use this?

00:31:44.084 --> 00:31:53.469
Right, wow, and usually, and if they say no afterward it sucks, because sometimes I get such a good thing and it's like catching a huge fish and throwing it back.

00:31:53.469 --> 00:31:57.810
You know, and they somebody just the other day it was the Satanism one, it wasn't even a big deal.

00:31:57.810 --> 00:32:00.653
She laughed it off, but then she messaged me and asked me not to post it.

00:32:00.653 --> 00:32:01.432
I was so bummed.

00:32:01.432 --> 00:32:02.314
It was already edited.

00:32:02.314 --> 00:32:03.013
What?

00:32:03.034 --> 00:32:05.215
if you just post it though, that's just not you.

00:32:05.655 --> 00:32:06.316
I'm too afraid.

00:32:06.316 --> 00:32:09.817
Well, for one I wouldn't do it just out of respect to her.

00:32:09.817 --> 00:32:15.281
But I posted something that someone.

00:32:15.281 --> 00:32:15.863
It was a miscommunication.

00:32:15.863 --> 00:32:20.873
I thought they were fine with it because after I revealed they laughed, but before they knew it was a prank they said you better not post it.

00:32:20.873 --> 00:32:23.729
That's how the cop interaction happened.

00:32:23.729 --> 00:32:26.645
Did you see the cop one?

00:32:26.645 --> 00:32:28.384
The body cam?

00:32:28.384 --> 00:32:39.183
Yeah, I requested the body cam footage because my footage, even though I filmed the whole interaction yeah, on University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's campus, I think I did see that one.

00:32:39.183 --> 00:32:50.590
Yeah, that basically I had to go to court twice and this was like early on, before you know, I don't know, this was like a year, over a year ago and I had to go to court.

00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:51.744
I do remember that one.

00:32:51.744 --> 00:33:04.432
Yes, I do remember where somebody, somebody went and told on you and claimed that you were asking like terrible questions, like sexual, whatever questions or whatever, right, right, it was a guy that.

00:33:04.432 --> 00:33:06.484
It was a guy that that that told on you.

00:33:06.645 --> 00:33:13.944
Yeah, yeah, oh so I I have had the cops called which was a lie well, no, it was true.

00:33:14.005 --> 00:33:16.191
They were like oh, you asked him about doing gay porn.

00:33:16.191 --> 00:33:20.335
Even though the kid knew it was a prank, he didn't mention that it was a prank to the cops.

00:33:20.335 --> 00:33:24.492
He's like he's asking people to do gay porn because at the end sometimes they throw in.

00:33:24.492 --> 00:33:25.980
You know, have you ever thought about modeling?

00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:30.929
Um and uh is just as part of the bit.

00:33:30.929 --> 00:33:35.102
And basically in front of the judge, though, the judge was like I.

00:33:35.102 --> 00:33:36.763
I was like I took the video down.

00:33:36.763 --> 00:33:42.272
You know it was a miscommunication and he dismissed it.

00:33:42.272 --> 00:33:44.421
But he was like you better not end up in front of me again.

00:33:44.421 --> 00:34:03.358
He's like I'm not gonna go light on you, you better make sure you have permission, even though it's like you know right, it was a soliciting charge, like job soliciting on campus and um yeah, that the kid was claiming that, that you were soliciting or something like that, and you were soliciting like just as a prank, like a job well yeah, but I mean, it wasn't yeah, soliciting or something like that, and you were soliciting like just as a prank, like a job.

00:34:03.378 --> 00:34:07.474
Well, yeah, but I mean it wasn't, yeah, soliciting prostitution, soliciting it was okay.

00:34:07.474 --> 00:34:08.822
Yeah, it was really offended.

00:34:08.822 --> 00:34:17.728
That's really strange and uh that that sounds like one of your worst uh encounters that you've had there's two others, bro.

00:34:18.048 --> 00:34:22.188
There's two others that stand out two, two technical assaults.

00:34:22.188 --> 00:34:29.851
Nothing bad, nothing, nothing, nothing bad, but the first punches I ever had to throw in my life for one of them.

00:34:30.659 --> 00:34:32.588
Did someone try to like smash your camera or what?

00:34:32.739 --> 00:34:37.833
Yeah Well, the first time a dude before before I was telling people it was a prank.

00:34:37.833 --> 00:34:46.054
So he walked away from the whole situation, thinking he ended up on some gay porn website, you know which is my bad, you know.

00:34:46.054 --> 00:34:52.532
And so he saw me like a month later and I'm streaming and I saw I'm like oh, it's this guy.

00:34:52.532 --> 00:34:54.063
He's walking up, remember me.

00:34:54.063 --> 00:34:55.929
He's like I'm gonna fuck you up, bro.

00:34:55.929 --> 00:34:56.771
I'm gonna fuck you up.

00:34:56.771 --> 00:34:57.860
I'm like, bro, don't hit me.

00:34:57.860 --> 00:34:59.663
That was my first reaction.

00:34:59.663 --> 00:35:01.565
I'm like don't hit me, bro, you're on camera.

00:35:01.565 --> 00:35:03.206
He's like take that fucking camera off.

00:35:03.206 --> 00:35:04.489
And I'm like not if you're going to hit me bro.

00:35:04.489 --> 00:35:08.793
Anyway, I think since the camera's on, he just sort of grabbed me and shoved me real hard.

00:35:08.793 --> 00:35:17.760
You know no big deal, I uh.

00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:19.264
And then I went off just verbally on him.

00:35:19.264 --> 00:35:20.509
You know like you privileged white homophobic bitch.

00:35:20.509 --> 00:35:22.817
But anyway, I ended up like going into his work.

00:35:22.817 --> 00:35:23.840
I'm like, yeah, it was, it was bad.

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:29.126
He ended up coming back and he apologized and immediately do that Apology totally diffused me.

00:35:29.126 --> 00:35:30.585
I'm like listen, I'm sorry too.

00:35:30.585 --> 00:35:33.349
He's like I just been getting anger and anger every day about it.

00:35:33.349 --> 00:35:36.648
I thought I was on that website and like, no, it's a prank man.

00:35:36.648 --> 00:35:38.806
I'm like I'm sorry and I went back into his work.

00:35:38.806 --> 00:35:48.181
I'm like, no, it was my fault and that was the one another.

00:35:48.202 --> 00:35:49.244
The other time this kid I didn't even prank him.

00:35:49.244 --> 00:35:50.646
I asked them if they wanted to be on my show.

00:35:50.646 --> 00:35:57.275
He just sniffed me out and thought I was a troll which I kind of am, I guess, and try to be a nice one.

00:35:57.275 --> 00:35:59.023
But he, he was like.

00:35:59.023 --> 00:36:01.748
He came over.

00:36:01.748 --> 00:36:04.092
I said oh yeah, just say you're watching the Jabloon show.

00:36:04.092 --> 00:36:05.054
He didn't even say anything.

00:36:05.054 --> 00:36:08.789
He grabbed my phone and just threw it into the cement as hard as he could.

00:36:08.829 --> 00:36:09.692
I'm like, what the fuck?

00:36:09.692 --> 00:36:11.625
So I pick up my phone.

00:36:11.625 --> 00:36:12.047
I'm like what?

00:36:12.047 --> 00:36:17.170
And I already was like, don't go down the road of just like picking a fight.

00:36:17.170 --> 00:36:19.525
Call the cops, go by the law.

00:36:19.525 --> 00:36:25.867
You'd already been to court over, so I called 9-1-1.

00:36:25.867 --> 00:36:26.329
Somehow they go.

00:36:26.329 --> 00:36:27.875
You've called the non-emergency line, please hold, type thing.

00:36:27.875 --> 00:36:29.440
So I'm on hold the whole time I go up to him.

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.307
I'm like, bro, you think it's okay just to throw people's property?

00:36:32.307 --> 00:36:34.800
And he's like get the fuck away from me, troll.

00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:41.869
And he takes off his pop and he's splashes it on me, his uh lid of his like big gulp or something.

00:36:42.851 --> 00:36:48.842
and uh, I think he was really drunk and, um, he basically just grabbed a hold of me.

00:36:48.842 --> 00:36:53.251
Uh, you know, was like what do you call that?

00:36:53.251 --> 00:36:57.784
Uh, bear hugging me and I'm like freeze up.

00:36:57.784 --> 00:37:12.309
You know, I got like bullied and stuff, and in school it was always like a pacifist, never fought back, even though I have some karate background, and I was like, went into panic mode, like, oh yeah, just kind of going to get your ass kicked.

00:37:12.309 --> 00:37:16.291
I'm like wait a second, don't get your head together, don't panic, like you can do something.

00:37:16.291 --> 00:37:23.391
And yeah, I mean he did it first, so I don't think it would count as assault on my part.

00:37:23.391 --> 00:37:24.222
It was self-defense.

00:37:24.222 --> 00:37:29.985
But then I just cracked him in the back of the head a couple of times with a punch, which is so unlike me I've never thrown a punch in my life.

00:37:29.985 --> 00:37:41.289
But I think, beside the point, but when you take that bullying and stuff as a youth and don't do anything back, maybe it comes out when you're 40.

00:37:41.289 --> 00:37:41.750
I don't know.

00:37:42.150 --> 00:37:43.072
You know what, though, man?

00:37:43.072 --> 00:37:53.630
I mean, what you're doing is pretty randomly dangerous, because you could be on the street passing out lollipops, right, and then you just encounter those people.

00:37:53.630 --> 00:37:57.586
Yeah, I mean, you could just do nothing wrong except interact.

00:37:57.887 --> 00:37:58.148
Yeah.

00:37:59.090 --> 00:38:01.021
And you just don't know where people are at Sure.

00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:01.521
Sure.

00:38:01.521 --> 00:38:04.226
Now I, I'm like dude, I can't risk getting hurt.

00:38:04.226 --> 00:38:05.108
I got a family.

00:38:05.108 --> 00:38:07.293
I'm like newly married stepkid.

00:38:07.293 --> 00:38:09.677
I'm like I got to be safe for their sake.

00:38:09.677 --> 00:38:11.681
Like God forbid, I, you know, I've had people.

00:38:11.681 --> 00:38:17.385
Somebody said like a couple of people threatened like oh, I, you know, I would have shot you back in the day.

00:38:17.385 --> 00:38:19.567
I would have shot you twice in the arm, once in the leg.

00:38:19.567 --> 00:38:25.211
I'm like Jesus, you know so now I'm like de-escalate, carry my pepper spray.

00:38:25.891 --> 00:38:28.733
You got to be careful, so a lot of times when you're out there you're by yourself.

00:38:28.733 --> 00:38:31.717
I mean, sometimes I see you have people, someone holding a camera.

00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:41.688
Yeah, very rarely I get somebody to come out and hold it for me, but I don't have that many, you know, any networking here in Milwaukee, so usually it's with the selfie stick.

00:38:41.688 --> 00:38:55.742
But, um, yeah, a lot of the especially old clips I I was paying somebody to to film it, but yeah, it usually is just by myself yeah and um the uh.

00:38:55.782 --> 00:38:56.945
The other comedy bit that you do is you do the surveys.

00:38:56.945 --> 00:38:57.525
Right, Right, Right.

00:38:57.525 --> 00:39:06.746
And then I noticed you were also holding up signs Like what other type of comedy uh bits do you do besides the the job balloon show sponsor?

00:39:06.746 --> 00:39:10.764
And then right, and then what, like what else do you have or do you have coming over the horizon?

00:39:11.105 --> 00:39:15.721
man, I, I just I want to keep expanding and pushing it and doing new stuff.

00:39:15.721 --> 00:39:20.409
People keep I get the best reaction from that same type of bit.

00:39:20.409 --> 00:39:24.074
So so I do kind of lean on that like stick to the foundation.

00:39:24.074 --> 00:39:35.090
But yeah, I did like panhandling, asking for money for genital enhancement surgery, you know had a couple of lines like, oh, I got a baby carrot, blah, blah, blah.

00:39:35.090 --> 00:39:39.686
You know, asking the survey.

00:39:39.686 --> 00:39:42.853
The survey where you're asking, oh, it's just a health survey.

00:39:42.853 --> 00:39:44.443
You know how many hours of sleep do you get a night?

00:39:44.443 --> 00:39:47.661
How many uh, vegetables, fruits and vegetables do you eat a week?

00:39:47.661 --> 00:39:49.927
How often do you masturbate, how you know?

00:39:49.927 --> 00:39:52.081
And then slipping in stuff that you slip?

00:39:52.141 --> 00:39:53.505
in it and then you slip back out of it.

00:39:53.505 --> 00:39:55.811
And it's like did he just ask me that question?

00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:04.422
Right, right, just to try to get that reaction.

00:40:04.422 --> 00:40:05.184
But, man, I got so many other ideas.

00:40:05.184 --> 00:40:05.766
I got a whole other project.

00:40:05.766 --> 00:40:06.307
It's Church of Pastor Roy.

00:40:06.307 --> 00:40:06.668
It's like a crazy.

00:40:06.668 --> 00:40:11.786
I started this with my boy, justin, years ago, also never went anywhere Trying to slip it, been trying to slip it in.

00:40:11.786 --> 00:40:27.786
But he's just like a crazy Southern character who's, like you know, ultra religiously conservative and always, just like you know, preaching hellfire and brimstone and telling people they're going to go to hell.

00:40:27.786 --> 00:40:30.112
And so that's Church of Pastor Roy.

00:40:30.112 --> 00:40:32.306
If anybody wants to look that up, I'm proud of them.

00:40:32.306 --> 00:40:36.445
I think they're maybe funnier than Job Balloon Show, but it hasn't picked up yet.

00:40:37.347 --> 00:40:38.690
I'm going to check it out for sure.

00:40:38.690 --> 00:40:48.094
You know, I don't know if you figured it out yet, but you know, as a comedy content creator you know folks that do that sort of thing often walk a fine line.

00:40:48.094 --> 00:40:57.193
Have you figured out how to stay funny without burning yourself out or constantly trying to feel like you're outdoing your last video?

00:40:57.193 --> 00:41:00.300
Right, that's a challenge right.

00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.911
Yeah, that is a challenge, because I'm like what do I got to keep pushing it further.

00:41:03.911 --> 00:41:06.369
Like now I got this cop video up.

00:41:06.369 --> 00:41:11.291
Like there was a little part of me that was like should I prank the judge?

00:41:11.291 --> 00:41:13.746
I'm like no, no, no, can't, don't go that far.

00:41:13.746 --> 00:41:16.289
Like should I keep the bit going while I'm in court?

00:41:16.289 --> 00:41:23.025
Because I kept it up with the cops, never told them it was a prank, you know, kept and then asked them if they wanted, were interested in modeling.

00:41:23.025 --> 00:41:29.452
So, yeah, I don't know, I'm hoping just by keeping expanding.

00:41:29.452 --> 00:41:31.313
I definitely want to keep streaming.

00:41:31.313 --> 00:41:32.135
I love doing that.

00:41:32.135 --> 00:41:33.597
That's like my favorite outlet.

00:41:33.597 --> 00:41:43.259
Um, I just have a blast with the community, you know, like getting to interact and stuff.

00:41:43.259 --> 00:41:49.192
Um, but yeah, I, I had just have a whole list of like notes and me and Justin still get together like once a week and he, we just feed off each other's inspiration.

00:41:49.192 --> 00:41:55.092
Like I just, I don't know, I just got like endless job balloon show notes of stuff.

00:41:55.132 --> 00:41:55.612
I want to do.

00:41:55.612 --> 00:41:56.922
That's awesome.

00:41:56.922 --> 00:41:58.105
I do the same thing too, man.

00:41:58.105 --> 00:42:04.943
I sit there and some of the things I never, I never unpack or I never put into action, but it's just throughout the day.

00:42:04.943 --> 00:42:09.184
I'm thinking about this, thinking about that, and that's kind of what I've been doing the last couple of years.

00:42:09.184 --> 00:42:13.885
Like, after starting this, everyone's starting a podcast now, it seems like you're killing it though, bro.

00:42:13.967 --> 00:42:16.701
I mean you're a pro, I'm not a pro dude.

00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:18.483
I am so unorganized.

00:42:18.583 --> 00:42:20.005
No, this is an awesome interview.

00:42:21.548 --> 00:42:34.070
I appreciate you being flexible, even with the scheduling and everything, man, and really this is kind of out of bounds with what I normally do, but lately I've been interested in interviewing people that I want to interview.

00:42:34.592 --> 00:42:42.644
That I find interesting and this is like a military podcast, but I'm the military side of it the people that I talk to.

00:42:43.166 --> 00:42:53.023
A lot of times there's, um, there's themes to their life, their character, that are, in part, to what I've learned when I was in the military.

00:42:53.023 --> 00:43:29.340
So adapt and overcome, which is what I'm going to ask you about here in a minute, cause I know that you've you've had a lot of hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, times where you just wanted to fucking just sell it all and just quit, because I know I have before I felt that way where I was like, well, I just I could just quit and just go play video games and then, right, everything would be great, right so, um, so yeah, I mean it's, it's a struggle all around to do this sort of thing, especially, you know, when anyone can go to best buy and purchase a microphone or a camera, um, but overall you you mentioned a few different skits that you've done.

00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:38.585
Is there a particular skit or a post that you're uh, especially proud of, even if it didn't go viral yeah, I don't.

00:43:38.625 --> 00:43:39.867
This one always comes to mind.

00:43:39.867 --> 00:43:41.791
It wasn't even really the typical thing.

00:43:41.791 --> 00:43:45.050
The guy just asked like what, what is your show?

00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:51.750
And I'm like you know, went in an explanation and I'm like subtly kind of like it's not porn.

00:43:51.750 --> 00:43:52.291
It's not porn.

00:43:52.291 --> 00:43:54.927
I was like how does gay black dudes?

00:43:54.927 --> 00:43:56.304
But I'm like, oh, it's not porn, you know.

00:43:56.304 --> 00:43:57.969
And he's like it's not porn.

00:43:57.969 --> 00:44:06.663
I'm like, yeah, it's just solo dudes, you know.

00:44:06.663 --> 00:44:07.505
And I'm like referencing, making gestures.

00:44:07.525 --> 00:44:15.710
Anyway, his girlfriend is cracking up so hard the whole time and it's just like it warms me just to think about it, because she's just laughing her ass off that her boyfriend's getting asked to do gay porn and like, I don't know, it was this awesome black couple.

00:44:15.710 --> 00:44:22.625
They were so funny and chill and I did tell him it was a prank afterward and he was real cool about it and shouted out job balloon show at the end.

00:44:22.625 --> 00:44:26.708
And yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I can send it to you.

00:44:26.708 --> 00:44:28.831
It's that one always stands out to me.

00:44:28.831 --> 00:44:31.675
I always thought it was funny but yeah, didn't really get a lot, it wasn't popular.

00:44:31.675 --> 00:44:36.483
The big guy, right, the big guy, yeah, yeah.

00:44:36.623 --> 00:44:38.065
I saw that it was.

00:44:38.065 --> 00:44:39.668
Yeah, that was definitely funny man.

00:44:39.668 --> 00:44:44.255
So, josh, what would you say besides comedy?

00:44:44.255 --> 00:44:47.746
What's something people would never guess that you're actually really good at?

00:44:49.641 --> 00:44:52.829
Well, I did karate as a kid.

00:44:52.829 --> 00:44:55.666
Me and my dad did it together.

00:44:55.666 --> 00:44:57.306
We almost got to our black belts.

00:44:57.306 --> 00:45:06.844
Stopped when I was 12 because I got busy with the pie company and man, I just it was under my skin the whole time Like I want to do this again.

00:45:06.844 --> 00:45:08.550
I want to go back and get that black belt.

00:45:08.550 --> 00:45:09.902
I want to achieve that, you know.

00:45:09.902 --> 00:45:25.273
And so during COVID so 2020, I ended up going back to my old school and just worked my ass off for a few years, amazingly, doing it as a kid.

00:45:25.273 --> 00:45:27.264
That stuff sticks in your muscle memory, you know.

00:45:27.264 --> 00:45:33.989
So it came back so quick, learning all the forms, the katas and stuff, and within a few years, I ended up.

00:45:33.989 --> 00:45:41.090
So I got my belt back, eventually tested for the next one my red stripe and tested for my black belt.

00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:43.081
And it was, you know, just being hyper-focused Like my now wife.

00:45:43.081 --> 00:45:44.856
My girlfriend at the tested for my black belt and it was, you know, just being hyper-focused Like my now wife.

00:45:44.856 --> 00:46:09.284
My girlfriend at the time moved to Milwaukee and I was like six months away from testing and I'm like I stayed back in Michigan, stayed with my parents and just, you know, worked my ass off, pushed myself and uh got my black belt and yeah, I think people probably wouldn't expect that no, yeah, that's badass, man thanks, thanks, you know same kind

00:46:09.304 --> 00:46:18.309
of principles that we're saying about pushing yourself and like not being afraid to be vulnerable, exposing yourself, you know.

00:46:18.309 --> 00:46:22.804
Perseverance, um, yeah, you know, definitely that was all you know.

00:46:22.804 --> 00:46:24.387
Karate taught me a lot of that, I think.

00:46:25.130 --> 00:46:25.952
That's really cool, man.

00:46:25.952 --> 00:46:28.186
I would have never guessed that you're a black belt in karate.

00:46:28.186 --> 00:46:32.824
Yeah yeah, so let that be a warning to anyone out there that tries to smash your phone.

00:46:33.485 --> 00:46:37.722
Yeah, true, Unless they know jujitsu, because I don't know that might trump my karate.

00:46:37.722 --> 00:46:41.108
But I'm trying to get into jujitsu now, though that's my next.

00:46:41.730 --> 00:46:44.764
I've been training for over a decade now.

00:46:44.764 --> 00:46:45.987
I'm a brown belt yeah.

00:46:46.228 --> 00:46:48.393
Oh hell yeah, bro, that's so dope.

00:46:49.195 --> 00:46:49.858
Yeah, it's.

00:46:49.858 --> 00:46:53.266
It's funny because when I was younger I didn't care for the promotions.

00:46:53.266 --> 00:46:55.512
I didn't, I didn't like seek it out.

00:46:55.512 --> 00:46:56.840
I almost didn't want it.

00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:02.288
I almost didn't want promotions because I felt like there was more pressure when you, when you went to the next level.

00:47:02.288 --> 00:47:09.706
And I used to walk into a lot of gyms because I traveled a lot and then also I moved a lot.

00:47:09.706 --> 00:47:20.586
So walking into a new gym can be very unnerving because first thing they see is that belt and they're thinking, oh, this guy's purple belt, let's see what he's made of, Right.

00:47:20.586 --> 00:47:23.702
And so you've got everyone in there just dive bombing you and I didn't like that.

00:47:23.702 --> 00:47:32.793
Um, but I've been very blessed over the years to have really good training partners, really good gyms that have just pushed me to get promoted.

00:47:32.793 --> 00:47:36.128
A lot of my friends now have been black belts for a while.

00:47:36.128 --> 00:47:39.407
So I'm I'm just a brown belt, but no, that's a big achievement.

00:47:39.528 --> 00:47:40.936
It takes a lot longer to get a black belt jujitsu than karate.

00:47:40.936 --> 00:47:41.500
No, that's a big achievement.

00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:43.844
It takes a lot longer to get into black belt jujitsu than karate.

00:47:43.844 --> 00:47:45.289
Hopefully, in a couple of years I can do it.

00:47:45.289 --> 00:47:53.554
I've trained a lot of different gyms too, so being consistent, staying at the same gym under the same, you know it all matters.

00:47:53.554 --> 00:47:55.427
So no man, I love martial arts.

00:47:55.427 --> 00:47:56.764
I think it's a great outlet.

00:47:56.764 --> 00:48:03.233
It teaches you a lot of things with discipline and following through and achievement.

00:48:03.233 --> 00:48:07.010
So, with that being said, like over the horizon man.

00:48:07.010 --> 00:48:08.302
So what's next for the job?

00:48:08.322 --> 00:48:11.248
balloon show job balloon show podcast.

00:48:11.248 --> 00:48:15.128
Did the first shot, the first episode of it, a couple of weeks ago.

00:48:15.128 --> 00:48:17.088
I'm thinking about shooting the next one today.

00:48:17.088 --> 00:48:18.585
That's, I'd love to do it.

00:48:18.585 --> 00:48:22.989
It's it's not as interactive as the streaming, but I think I would really love it.

00:48:22.989 --> 00:48:29.353
Like you said, everybody's podcasting but, you know, bring my own little unique brand of humor to it.

00:48:29.353 --> 00:48:34.831
And, yeah, essentially it's just like treating it like hanging out with me.

00:48:34.831 --> 00:48:43.233
You know, watch some YouTube videos, do some reacting and just get silly and let that, let that side of myself out.

00:48:43.233 --> 00:48:50.195
So that's, that's a big one I'm trying to go for well, just like icp, they had uh their own.

00:48:50.958 --> 00:48:54.746
Um what record label juggalos or what right right.

00:48:54.746 --> 00:48:56.110
What was their, what was their community?

00:48:56.110 --> 00:48:59.422
Juggalos yeah juggalos right, they had their own army of juggalos.

00:49:00.505 --> 00:49:30.244
I mean, you could have your own army of jabaloons well, somebody came up with the term lunatic, so it takes yeah, yeah, so that's jabaloonatics it sounds cocky to have your own name, but I do think it's funny to you know that's very icp-ish right right yeah, true, your um, your content often turns uh, every day, just average living walking to and from into laughter.

00:49:30.867 --> 00:49:34.260
So can you share a moment in your life when you had to adapt and overcome?

00:49:34.260 --> 00:49:42.213
Perhaps that was when a video flopped or life somehow threw you a curveball or you had to pivot creatively.

00:49:42.673 --> 00:49:50.387
Right man Stick into creative stuff mostly, whatever sticks out in your mind.

00:49:51.931 --> 00:50:11.239
You know, I had some real mental health challenges, especially like 10 years ago, living in Detroit, bought a cheap house when the housing market was low, living reclusively, not working, smoking pot all day, and that was a real challenge.

00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:19.318
It was eventually kind of really hitting my low point, going through a breakup around that time and I was like dude, I don't know.

00:50:19.318 --> 00:50:33.442
I think when you're desperate, you know, forces you to take action, you know, and I'm like dude, I'm getting into therapy, I'm going to see if I need some meds and then just really working on myself, and then it's been a slow work.

00:50:33.442 --> 00:50:46.778
But again, same thing happened once I got my current relationship with my now wife was like I was still dealing with a lot of that stuff, um, and it was just like no, I, I gotta be better for her.

00:50:46.898 --> 00:51:00.818
You know I, I can't put her through my issues and um, other than that, it was really just you, on a lighter note, grinding with the music just and getting nowhere, no positive feedback, you know just.

00:51:00.818 --> 00:51:03.135
And I thought it was good.

00:51:03.135 --> 00:51:06.956
You know, I still think it's good, like I wouldn't put it out if I didn't think it was good.

00:51:06.956 --> 00:51:09.623
At least by my taste, I like it.

00:51:10.309 --> 00:51:14.398
And that's an incredible amount of accountability that you have.

00:51:14.398 --> 00:51:16.282
Thanks, thanks, man.

00:51:16.282 --> 00:51:17.110
I mean, it really is.

00:51:17.110 --> 00:51:32.583
I mean, a lot of times military veterans suffer from mental health issues and a lot of times I give the advice of telling our veterans to meet people in the middle, instead of always thinking that it's the civilian's job to come to your side of the pasture.

00:51:32.583 --> 00:51:34.103
How about you meet them in the middle somewhere?

00:51:34.103 --> 00:51:36.425
How about you try to understand where they're coming from?

00:51:36.425 --> 00:51:38.126
Yeah, and then maybe that'll help.

00:51:38.686 --> 00:51:49.742
You know, take some accountability yeah yeah, like in yourself, I can't expect anyone to understand what it's like that, what I've been through, right, but I can try to understand what they might know or might not know.

00:51:49.742 --> 00:52:00.378
Yeah, and I think that helps bring the like like your, your mental, your mental status a little bit more of an understanding perspective.

00:52:00.378 --> 00:52:07.393
Sure, so you talking about that and taking the accountability is huge man, and maybe karate played a role in that.

00:52:07.393 --> 00:52:11.793
You know and and growing up you know, and your parents raising you the way they raised you and everything.

00:52:11.793 --> 00:52:13.617
Maybe that that was super helpful.

00:52:13.838 --> 00:52:15.543
Yeah, thank you, thanks so much.

00:52:15.543 --> 00:52:22.411
I um, yeah, I, I do think, and when I did get back into karate it was a that was a huge help on the mental health too.

00:52:22.411 --> 00:52:24.577
You know, was such a go there.

00:52:24.577 --> 00:52:37.619
You're forced to be so present, kind of you know what I mean, especially if you're sparring or something you're so in the moment you're not, you know, you're not in your head, so it was go get out of my head and the discipline, the respect, everything that you know.

00:52:37.619 --> 00:52:47.422
Big shout out to Patty Troy and Andy Troy, who now passed my master's and, you know, professor of jujitsu there.

00:52:47.422 --> 00:52:48.443
They also did jujitsu.

00:52:49.971 --> 00:53:09.023
Yeah, man, I mean, it's tiring out that body, man, I know anytime I've gone through a hard part of my life I've leaned on brazilian jiu-jitsu and I've been so grateful because even when I was at the lowest points of my life, I had an opportunity where I worked with a uh, former marine, uh, cardo urso.

00:53:09.023 --> 00:53:15.231
He just threw me the keys to the gym and said, hey, anytime you can go to the gym and just work yourself out and he goes.

00:53:15.231 --> 00:53:18.835
I know you're going through some stuff, that's awesome five days a week.

00:53:18.876 --> 00:53:28.916
Man, I was in there nice, my ass off, because I know man when you come to those forks in the road and you have choices go to the bar, drink or right do, or go to the gym.

00:53:28.916 --> 00:53:32.262
I mean, you try to be I've always tried to be self-aware.

00:53:32.262 --> 00:53:36.931
Yeah, push, push myself in a more positive direction, you know so it's.

00:53:37.030 --> 00:53:42.463
It can be the harder choice to make, but it's usually has the better payoff oh, in the long run.

00:53:42.510 --> 00:53:48.311
No doubt, man right, you know you you've made a lot of really self-aware, accountable decisions for your families.

00:53:48.311 --> 00:53:50.557
What do they think about all this?

00:53:50.557 --> 00:53:52.911
What do they think about your internet comedy career?

00:53:52.911 --> 00:53:57.693
Are they supportive, confused or constantly bracing to end up in one of your videos?

00:53:58.173 --> 00:54:00.940
my wife is so supportive, she's such an angel.

00:54:00.940 --> 00:54:06.003
She lets me do this stuff where I'm like I'm not bringing in much money.

00:54:06.003 --> 00:54:16.840
You know I'm doing this like mostly full-time, part-time, remotely working for my parents, but um, you know, and she works her ass off at her job and she's just like, lets me pursue my dream.

00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:18.514
It's great At the same time.

00:54:18.514 --> 00:54:20.938
Yeah, she can hardly watch the videos.

00:54:20.938 --> 00:54:21.940
She just is.

00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:23.672
It just cringes her out.

00:54:23.672 --> 00:54:24.634
You know, it's just too.

00:54:24.634 --> 00:54:34.543
She, she hates that awkward vibe and the potential of confrontation and, uh, so occasionally I make her watch one that you know I want her to see.

00:54:34.543 --> 00:54:37.552
But yeah, she's on that side of it.

00:54:37.552 --> 00:54:41.342
She, she can't really get into it, but she's so supportive, yeah, I'm grateful.

00:54:42.550 --> 00:54:46.219
I just love how spontaneous it is, man, I love it, it's just I love it.

00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:48.534
I'm just thinking, god, I would get caught up in some shit like that.

00:54:48.534 --> 00:55:03.994
We're like somebody's just asking me, I'm, my mind is here, and then someone's asking me to like sponsor their show and I'll just do it, and then next thing you know like saying some off ball weird stuff, man.

00:55:03.994 --> 00:55:04.967
So, and I I know that that can attract some critics.

00:55:04.967 --> 00:55:06.699
Like comedy, content creation can attract critics.

00:55:06.699 --> 00:55:09.980
How do you handle the negative comments or people who, just, who, just don't get it?

00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:16.460
I'm so thankful that there's barely been any and I'm sure if my stuff keeps growing they'll come in more.

00:55:16.460 --> 00:55:18.112
There has not been that much.

00:55:18.112 --> 00:55:28.943
I mean a couple of people when I did the police one and I said, you know, for record, I do support the police, and a couple of people took issue with that.

00:55:28.943 --> 00:55:33.313
You know, and you know I dealt with it.

00:55:33.313 --> 00:55:39.557
Criticism is hard for me, though I do think you know the couple of negative ones that have come in.

00:55:39.557 --> 00:55:43.380
I'm like you know what you have to choose right now.

00:55:43.380 --> 00:55:45.583
Well, it's small, don't focus on that.

00:55:45.583 --> 00:55:46.923
There's so much good coming in.

00:55:46.923 --> 00:55:47.884
Don't focus on that.

00:55:47.884 --> 00:55:50.505
One little negative thing Got to let it roll off your shoulders.

00:55:50.505 --> 00:55:56.530
So, like I'm trying to put that into practice right from the get, I'm trying to put that into practice right from the get.

00:55:56.590 --> 00:55:57.152
You know what, man?

00:55:57.152 --> 00:56:01.735
I honestly think you're not getting a lot of negative comments because you have some level of respect.

00:56:01.735 --> 00:56:05.139
I mean, early on it sounds like you ran into some issues.

00:56:05.139 --> 00:56:17.572
But the fact that you're telling people that it's a prank, you're not shoving somebody's property off into the other side of the grocery store, you're not squaring up on people, right?

00:56:17.572 --> 00:56:18.858
I mean, that's man.

00:56:18.858 --> 00:56:22.211
We've had so many bad pranksters over the years that have just gotten in huge.

00:56:22.211 --> 00:56:26.751
I mean vitality just got arrested in the philippines and he's he's looking at 24 years in prison.

00:56:26.751 --> 00:56:28.614
Really, I actually don't know him.

00:56:28.614 --> 00:56:38.969
So vitality was one of the early, uh, youtube pranksters okay and uh, he kept pushing the content, pushing the content.

00:56:39.009 --> 00:56:45.894
We started doing the content overseas and when you're in another country, they don't, they don't play those games, like they don't.

00:56:45.894 --> 00:56:51.092
Like they will arrest you for things that, like you would not get arrested for here in the united states.

00:56:51.092 --> 00:56:55.824
And uh, he, yeah, he's uh currently waiting trial in the philippines right now.

00:56:55.824 --> 00:56:57.007
Wow, um.

00:56:57.007 --> 00:57:02.679
So I mean, yeah, you, you got to be careful, man, and there's been, you know, for a while.

00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:06.594
The whole prank show thing kind of went away and it's kind of coming back again.

00:57:06.594 --> 00:57:11.695
So I mean, like I said, man, yours caught my eye, cracks me up every time.

00:57:11.695 --> 00:57:23.601
And if you could collaborate with any other creator, celebrity or fictional character, who would it be besides me and what kind of chaos would you unleash together?

00:57:24.242 --> 00:57:26.713
man, once I get that sponsorship, we'll be do.

00:57:26.713 --> 00:57:30.641
Jabaloon learns jujitsu from wait kp.

00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:31.362
I was gonna say kt.

00:57:31.422 --> 00:57:35.619
I was gonna say kc, but I uh, what were you gonna say?

00:57:36.521 --> 00:57:41.423
so what, uh, if you could collaborate with the other creators, celebrity or fictional character out there, who would it be?

00:57:41.746 --> 00:57:43.791
I, I'm a huge tim heidecker fan.

00:57:43.791 --> 00:57:48.380
I just think what he's his brand of comedy so funny.

00:57:48.380 --> 00:57:50.710
He's like top tier level to me from tim and eric.

00:57:50.710 --> 00:57:53.554
Um, I love tim heidecker, his ant.

00:57:53.554 --> 00:58:02.505
You know it would be a dream to have him like, hey, let's produce this show in our studio.

00:58:02.505 --> 00:58:10.690
You know we'll funnel some money into it, give me some expenses to travel and to, you know, broaden and hire some people to help edit.

00:58:10.690 --> 00:58:12.873
You know I'm like doing all the editing, subtitling the captions manually.

00:58:12.873 --> 00:58:16.277
I'm like doing all the editing, subtitling the captions by by manually.

00:58:16.277 --> 00:58:24.777
And um other than that, obviously, like, sasha Baron Cohen is the goat you know of this kind of stuff, love all his stuff.

00:58:24.777 --> 00:58:29.179
You know I got my couple of musical heroes Maynard Eminem, trent Reznor.

00:58:29.179 --> 00:58:34.137
Um, on that front of things, All the guys are Midwest guys.

00:58:34.329 --> 00:58:36.456
Maynard resner, who else did you say m&m?

00:58:36.456 --> 00:58:36.757
Yeah?

00:58:36.797 --> 00:58:39.853
yeah, they're all midwest ohio and michigan.

00:58:39.853 --> 00:58:41.996
Yeah, that's true funny.

00:58:41.996 --> 00:58:45.971
But yeah, tim heidecker, I'm sure he's watching right now.

00:58:45.971 --> 00:58:53.579
Tim, please, we need that sponsorship, tim heidecker, let's manifest it bro.

00:58:55.001 --> 00:58:55.523
Do it, man.

00:58:55.523 --> 00:58:58.326
I'm in your corner, man.

00:58:58.326 --> 00:59:00.994
I'm a big fan of yours.

00:59:00.994 --> 00:59:02.739
This has been an absolute honor.

00:59:02.739 --> 00:59:07.996
Before we wrap things up, man, was there anything that I didn't mention that you'd like to mention before we finish off the show?

00:59:08.309 --> 00:59:08.652
Man?

00:59:08.652 --> 00:59:09.996
I don't think so.

00:59:09.996 --> 00:59:17.083
Man, you're watching the Jabaloon Show and I'm replaced with the freaking best podcaster interviewer out there.

00:59:17.083 --> 00:59:19.675
Dude, I love this, this was such a blast.

00:59:19.675 --> 00:59:30.911
And uh, man, you're killing it, bro, and you're you're like a gentle giant because you're so sweet and kind, even though I'm outside, you're intimidating me.

00:59:30.911 --> 00:59:34.059
Well, look at those muscles and those hawaiian.

00:59:34.398 --> 00:59:38.135
Dude, it's so funny I hear that sometimes Like, oh, you look very intimidating.

00:59:38.135 --> 00:59:49.721
I'm like you know, this is the thing too, I think when you do things like jiu-jitsu or any type of martial art, you're sort of the last guy to want to get into any kind of altercations.

00:59:49.721 --> 00:59:53.000
You're like the guy trying to de-escalate, trying to get away from it.

00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:57.490
It's not something.

00:59:57.510 --> 00:59:58.233
Uh, there's no machismo in that stuff.

00:59:58.233 --> 01:00:00.963
If you're a true martial artist, absolutely that's the principle.

01:00:02.128 --> 01:00:03.132
Yeah, no doubt, man.

01:00:03.132 --> 01:00:04.760
No, this has been an absolute honor, man.

01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:11.965
I I knew this was going to be a great conversation because I was looking forward to this interview and I love your content.

01:00:11.965 --> 01:00:16.920
Man, make sure, if you're listening out there, to follow the job balloon show.

01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:17.972
You're on Tik TOK.

01:00:17.972 --> 01:00:18.976
You're on Instagram.

01:00:18.976 --> 01:00:20.179
What else are you on?

01:00:20.581 --> 01:00:21.251
Yep, tik TOK.

01:00:21.251 --> 01:00:22.092
Instagram.

01:00:22.092 --> 01:00:26.443
Youtube, the Tik TOK and Instagram are job balloon.

01:00:26.443 --> 01:00:28.096
Youtube is the job balloon show.

01:00:28.096 --> 01:00:30.378
Unfortunately, the job balloon was taken for some reason.

01:00:30.378 --> 01:00:33.916
And then if people want to come hang on Twitch, we have our it's a job balloon.

01:00:33.916 --> 01:00:36.061
On Twitch, we have our little, uh, twitch community.

01:00:36.061 --> 01:00:37.182
It's, we have a blast.

01:00:37.182 --> 01:00:55.436
You know, that's where I really just get to be myself and chill out and it's uh, I don't know, we're always laughing, playing music, being stupid, I don't know how to use Twitch.

01:00:55.456 --> 01:00:57.458
I need to understand how it works.

01:00:57.458 --> 01:00:59.639
I've got it downloaded, but I don't understand how it works.

01:00:59.780 --> 01:01:02.001
I'm there too If you want to join up our Discord community.

01:01:02.001 --> 01:01:04.523
That's also a little tight-knit, that's more.

01:01:04.523 --> 01:01:08.445
It's not even people just kind of chat and vent their problems.

01:01:08.445 --> 01:01:10.507
It's a cool little community.

01:01:13.530 --> 01:01:23.217
Yeah, it's awesome, man, that you can bring folks together and uh, hopefully, man, you can create the uh job balloon lunatic army and uh, start, start that podcast, man, and you know, get, get things going.

01:01:23.217 --> 01:01:31.302
I, I really appreciate you giving me your time today, josh, um and um, I'm looking forward to seeing your growth here in the next, uh, next few years.

01:01:31.302 --> 01:01:34.384
Man, I want to see, I want to see where you take this thing thank you, brother.

01:01:34.443 --> 01:01:35.284
That means so much.

01:01:35.284 --> 01:01:37.826
I appreciate you, dude, you're rocking this.

01:01:37.826 --> 01:01:47.931
Honestly, this was such a freaking blast like this was awesome, so I I'm like, I'm elated, so um, and it was awesome to connect on the martial arts stuff.

01:01:47.951 --> 01:01:55.012
Who would have thought that would be one of our topics but uh well, I know that you have hidden superpowers, so I'm glad to know that now.

01:01:55.012 --> 01:01:56.373
I know that you have hidden superpowers, so I'm glad to know that.

01:01:56.373 --> 01:01:58.596
Now I know that you have that black belt in karate.

01:01:58.596 --> 01:02:00.838
So if I'm ever around you, man, I got to watch out.

01:02:01.018 --> 01:02:03.161
Dude, we got to hit the mats together one day.

01:02:03.181 --> 01:02:05.965
Yeah, it'd be badass man, Definitely.

01:02:05.965 --> 01:02:07.425
I wanted to ask you too before round off.

01:02:09.811 --> 01:02:11.670
Do you have any plans on going to any other cities?

01:02:11.670 --> 01:02:11.929
I hope so.

01:02:11.929 --> 01:02:23.927
I would just need funding, but I am going to be back in Detroit, so I'm I'm trying to collab with this crazy ass prankster out there, cause I'll be back home, so I'm thinking of doing their Chicago's only a couple hours away.

01:02:23.947 --> 01:02:24.409
Yeah.

01:02:25.231 --> 01:02:26.476
I'm going to be in New York in May.

01:02:26.476 --> 01:02:31.518
I'm thinking, if I get a little time, maybe pursue it in New York or get some interesting footage.

01:02:31.518 --> 01:02:40.516
Other than that, once I get a, if I get a sponsor, you know, hopefully they could fund some of the travel expenses.

01:02:40.536 --> 01:02:41.018
Yeah, man.

01:02:41.018 --> 01:02:43.751
Well, hey, man, it's been a pleasure and an honor to be part of your journey.

01:02:43.751 --> 01:02:45.456
I hope that I can help your growth as well.

01:02:45.456 --> 01:02:49.893
For folks out there, make sure you follow the job balloon show man and like his stuff.

01:02:49.893 --> 01:02:53.159
It's freaking hilarious, it's respectable at the same time, but it's funny.

01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:56.764
You'll love it, trust me All right, thank you, no, man.

01:02:56.764 --> 01:03:06.784
All my it's all my pleasure, all my honor and for everyone else out there, as always, I want you to stay tuned, stay focused and stay motivated.

01:03:06.784 --> 01:03:08.836
Warriors fall out.