Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone | Self Expression Night in North Port

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yeah all right tell some jokes these

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have never been heard before okay Comics

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do five minutes by the way okay I'll

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give you one of these give me the light

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I'll give you one of

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these

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okay already missing my guitar yeah

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so wrote some of these jokes I'm just

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going to read them off my phone if

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that's okay you know sure no rules here

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so a little uh little comedy instead of

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music tonight feels a little bit like

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entrepreneurship you see a gap in the

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market and then give people something

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they never

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wanted as an entrepreneur I teach people

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how to use artificial intelligence

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that's my job you know AI or at least

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for now until the robots take over my

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job's probably first to

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go what else we got uh I've been coming

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to Northport here since I was two years

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old so I don't remember that part but uh

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certainly has changed a lot over the

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years my parents have a house here about

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two blocks away so there's no reason I'm

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late for

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these uh you know they say uh Northport

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is um or Florida I should say is where

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people come to retire I think

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Northport is where the retired come to

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retire even uh it's so peaceful that

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even the mosquitoes seem to move a

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little

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slower so as you know I usually play

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music at these open mics and uh I do

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like a good joke you know something

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about a good

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joke really it's uh it's a lot like

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music you know you hit the right note

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and people smile and if you don't it's

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more like

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jazz I do miss my guitar I love to play

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and sing and uh this is hard for me too

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okay all

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right uh growing up coming here uh we've

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had some family traditions like we would

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go down to the beach and my dad would

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teach us a bit about uh you know

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geography be like look there's the Gulf

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of

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Mexico and uh I would say you know it's

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just the water he's like that's right go

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playing it and don't talk to me for 3

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hours little peace and

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quiet and uh a little bit about the the

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Northport Wildlife that's something to

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see it's a little bit like uh retirees

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version of the zoo you know the the old

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alligators are snapping and uh you know

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stay out of my property kind of thing

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and uh the birds you know they remind me

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of musicians and uh keep time a little

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bit better than some uh at least some

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that I know uh in the

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end uh coming here telling jokes instead

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of playing music is a little bit like

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playing pickle ball with a tennis racket

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uh it does get the job done but um

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unfortunately uh you're just kind of

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happy to be

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there when it comes to the pace of life

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here um I've traveled quite a bit

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and it's a little different I do love

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these open mics I love the variety the

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talent it's always so much fun and uh

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it's like this town is having a

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leisurely stroll you know everything is

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uh moving a little slower yeah and I

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love

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that

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um these are all written today by the

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way so I'm gonna skip to

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a couple okay let's talk a little bit

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about death you know yeah that's funny

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yeah that's

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hilarious death might not uh seem so bad

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um the the dying part seems mildly

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inconvenient but uh being dead oh that's

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you know no bills to pay there you go

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you don't have to worry about that like

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bills what Bill oh Bill I'm going to go

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haunt him on the golf course that's uh

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that's all I have planned for

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today imagine living forever oh that

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would that would be the worst right that

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that 300th

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reunion oh Sally you're still

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alive yeah they figured that out kill me

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now ever stop to wonder why we're here

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tonight a little uh little

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self-expression a little fun this still

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is the coolest place to be on a

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Wednesday night in Northport and uh I

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would like that bumper

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sticker you know I'm uh I'm often maybe

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like you your own worst critic after you

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finish a performance you're like ah you

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know that that part was good uh that

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part was bad and uh

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so in your in my head it's kind of like

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you know I'm on America's Got Talent and

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uh Simon cowl there is uh you know being

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my own judge so you know for yourselves

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don't take things too seriously and part

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of the reason I did this tonight was to

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uh challenge myself to step out of my

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comfort zone I did standup comedy got to

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be over a decade and on that show I

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bombed miserably I was not prepared I

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thought I knew everything and uh I

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wanted to take a little bit different

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approach today and just have some fun so

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I appreciate your ears I appreciate you

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guys listening and I'm just going to

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finish off with saying

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that life's a lot like jazz it's best

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when you improvise yeah thank you thank

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you thank you Mark great

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