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4 days ago

"You've got to do it yourself. No one's going to come ask me to be in whatever thing I want to be in."

Episode 142: Viv Ford - The World Favors Movement

@vivford is a writer, comedian, and producer, based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I learned that most people are really good."

"You really forget when you are living in this country how much this country has infiltrated other countries, especially culturally."

"I think we were lucky to kind of be forced into creativity because we were just not allowed to watch screens or play on screens."

"I think improv is the greatest art form of all time, but it'll never make anyone any money."

"If you show up with an ego, you are going to not only screw over yourself, but every single one of your teammates on that stage."

"If you have a good improv scene, you have mastered the ability to be so human in front of people."

"When subculture becomes mainstream, what happens to the thing?"

"Crypto is a classic tale in the tech world of just like, when money gets involved, this thing gets soured."

"Money doesn't change you. You are who you already are; money helps bring it out."

"We're so good at adapting to our circumstance."

"You take your role as it's given to you in this life. And if you don't accept it, that's, I think, where just anger, angst comes through."

"If you want to take down the big guys, you make it yourself."

"You've got to do it yourself. No one's going to come ask me to be in whatever thing I want to be in."

"You lose if you go to them; you win if they come to you."

"The first thing is the mindset of nothing will ever come to me. So if nothing ever comes to me, I must do it all myself."

"Don't talk about it until you've actually done it, and then start sharing it."

"The moment that stops being fun, we don't do it anymore. Not when it starts being hard—it will be hard soon. But if it stops being fun, that's when we stop."

"There is no success. There's no defining moment of success there." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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7 days ago

"Home is about not settling down somewhere, but settling into yourself..."

Episode 141: Emily Jeanne Brown - Settling Into Yourself

@emilyjeannebrown is a musician and an actress, based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I think my parents did a really good job at…teaching me curiosity and imagination and empathy. And I think those are…at the heart of a healthy creative practice."

"I had this experience of having costumes made for me and coming into rehearsal and having it be treated by the people around me as work, as a serious practice."

"You sometimes appreciate the things you had in a different way later."

"I always think about creative work as sort of interpretive, which is more the acting side of things, like interpreting a writer's work, versus generative, like something from nothing that I've created myself."

“I just was going to auditions and…flailing and…throwing spaghetti at the wall."

“The communal aspect of theater and the collaborative aspect…was very appealing for me."

"The things that I wanted, I would get close to and then not quite get.”

“The music was feeding me creatively."

"I am really a storyteller at heart, and I enjoy there being a framing for the work that I put out."

“The album is a body of work that has a through line and…has a story to tell.”

"Being in physical space with people and finding ways to connect to our humanity and our aliveness and the messiness of our experience here and the questioning that we all have feels like a scarce commodity."

"It just makes me dig even deeper into…what art made by humans can elicit."

"My definition (of success) used to be making a living from my art, and I think I've really deconstructed that as I've gotten older."

"Art is valuable because it's art." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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11 days ago

"I achieved all of my comedy dreams, and I realized afterwards I didn't dream big enough."

Episode 140: Robby Slowick - Still Making It

@robbyslowik is a stand-up comic, TV writer, and podcast host based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I wish I had gotten here sooner."

"Well, just fucking do it then."

"You need to have a level of delusion. You have to believe you're better than you are, because if you understand how bad you are at first, you may never continue."

"You have to believe that this is a viable thing and that you are worthy of people paying money to see just you."

"I've spent so much of my career as a guy looking out and never in. And now I try to make an effort to look more inward."

"Part of a career in comedy is...you have to take criticism. Some people are going to shut you down. You can't burn those bridges."

"This hurts, but I'm going to listen to what you're saying."

“(Having kids has) unlocked this whole type of love I didn't know existed in the world. My life is so much better for it."

"It was a four-year process of IVF, and it was a nightmare, and it was financially draining and took a toll on the relationship."

"It was, emotionally, the best decision we could have made and, financially, the dumbest thing I've ever done."

"I have accomplished everything a non-ticket-selling comedian can accomplish."

"Until you've earned that, you'll never have a real career in stand-up. You'll have a subsistence career."

"For my comedy, (having kids has) actually been fantastic, but for my productivity, it's been terrible."

"You start to just see the world for what it is when you bring in fresh eyes to it."

"I would love to work on something or create my own thing that has some type of staying power." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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14 days ago

"It's amazing what can be achieved with a little bit of wonder."

Episode 139: Julie Roland - Magic Meets Mission

@jyrola is a magician, storyteller, and stand-up based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I grew up wanting to serve, and believing in government and believing in the country as a force for good."

"There are actually infinite ways to serve your country."

"Being a good neighbor, being a good parent, these are ways to serve."

"Every day when I'm serving here, what is my mission? How am I serving my country?"

"Wonder is connected to curiosity, but it's somewhere between curiosity and awe."

"For a moment when I do a magic trick, that divide is broken. I'm a magician and you're amazed."

"You have to keep it a secret in order to preserve the wonder."

"For someone who's clearly trying to share that wonder and bring it to other people, I'll always teach them one trick."

"We pass it along. You pay it forward."

"I totally believe in magic. I think there's so much more than meets the eye."

"Why not just live in a world where the things that we can't answer get to remain question marks?"

"I hope to never stop consuming magic. I find it inspiring. It gives me ideas. It keeps me creative."

"I really like saying yes to magic acts for people who wouldn't otherwise get to afford to pay for magic."

"I want to be the most useful I can be to help the most people on the biggest scale I can."

"The more I can be good and help other people, the more successful I'll feel."

"If I'm able to have fun, that means I'm succeeding." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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18 days ago

"All we can control is continuing to create."

Episode 138: Dan Perlman - Permission to Be Bad

@danjperlman is a writer, director, and stand-up, based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I wanted permission to be bad."

"I hold myself to a very high standard. I beat myself up a lot. And, to an extent, it's like, okay, that's how some of the stuff gets good."

"It's so much easier to say, 'I'm doing this thing,' than it is to say, 'I'm thinking about doing this.'"

"I had this want, goal, desire, but I did…keep it close and protect it until I had the courage to go do it."

"I was hell-bent on being good at this thing."

"You just pick up these little ingredients here and there, and then just get comfortable doing it and trying and figuring out what works for you."

"I'm big with routine, and I'm big with finding what works and running it into the ground until it doesn't anymore."

"Once you're comfortable standing up there, you can veer."

"To be a good writer, you have to be okay being a bad writer, and a slightly less bad writer, and a slightly less bad writer."

"When you're running a thing, you're just managing personalities."

"It was pure joy, and it was just so nice to make something that is just pure joy."

"I really just want to keep making shit independently because that's the thing you can control, and that's where you can keep growing."

"Can I make the next thing, and then can I hopefully make the next one? That's the goal." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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21 days ago

"When you start to follow those crumbs, as I call them, the path just becomes clearer when you're moving towards your purpose."

Episode 137: Jon Lampley - Follow The Crumbs

@jonlampleymusic is a trumpeter and former member of the @colbertlateshow band, the @greatbigjoymachine.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I always have...paid attention to where my attention and effort naturally would fall."

"I feel like I was just born into a family where...if you're going to do something, greatness is the standard."

"You are meant to give your life to music and to performing and to utilizing that to connect people."

"A lot of times when you're getting better, when you're really improving yourself, it doesn't feel like it."

"That type of boring practice where it doesn't really feel like you're improving at all is where I've found I have made the most strides."

"You are experiencing the pinnacle of this work. And to get there, that person has done so much boring stuff, but that's where the real meat of improvement is."

"It's (about) coming to love the unsexy, not-fun parts of that process. Because essentially what you're coming to love is how to improve yourself."

"I can't move forward without pursuing this thing. It almost felt like it wasn't an option."

"I very much believe that God puts us all here to do very specific things. I think that what I'm doing in my life is why I'm here."

"I don't know what the path is. I don't know what the plan is. But I know that this is the road that I'm supposed to be on."

"Pay attention to the people that come into your life. Pay attention to where the opportunities are and follow that."

"There are trade-offs. And I think that that's kind of the other piece of this life, pursuing creativity for a living."

"I intentionally invest in the things that I really care about."

"I don't tie any of that to a dollar amount or a number of subscribers on YouTube or Spotify or Instagram."

"Being supported by a partner, a family, friends, in a way that that network is real because you invest in it is as crucial as creating the time to create and to practice." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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25 days ago

"I've been planning on coming to New York my whole life.”

Episode 136: Marito Lopez - The Extraordinary Alien

@maritolopezthagod is a standup comedian, based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I always know in my soul that there's more. I'm capable of more."

"My dad was a journalist. My mom was a lawyer…(T)hey were cleaners for the rest of their lives in Canada."

"Especially since my mom passed, I feel like freedom to (my dad) now just means being together."

"I was always the class clown. I would always get out of fights for being funny."

"That was just my defense mechanism. It wasn't a skill. It was just like a life hack. It was just surviving."

"There's something about me that just doesn't give up."

"I feel like I'm ready for the next chapter. The evolution. American Marito. New York Marito."

"Even if I fail at the stand-up shit or acting, I'm going to die here."

"My new approach is talking about my life, talking about my mother, talking about hard shit, immigration, addiction, shit that I used to do in the streets."

"I love telling stories on stage that shouldn't work. Jokes that shouldn't work. But for whatever reason, I'm good enough to do it."

"For me, (success is) being able to tell my story without any fear." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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a month ago

"I didn't get found, but I found my people."

Episode 135: Adam Wade - The Courage to Try

@adamwadestoryteller is a storyteller and 20-time SLAM winner @mothstories, based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I really couldn't play the guitar. I really can't sing, but it was more about the connection."

"Just be yourself and just work on the stories. Just work on the stories."

"I'm going to work my ass off, and I'm not going to take this for granted."

"You have no control over the votes. What's in your control? Prepare. Get there early. Do your thing."

"For me, it was very personal, but it became universal."

"If you just get to The Moth, it's a win. If you put your name in the hat, it's a win. If you get picked, it's a win."

"For me, it’s…the kindness and empathy and giving, not just taking."

"Maybe that's the next phase of my life: giving back and helping."

"Through kindness and compassion, they're able to get on stage, and they shine. They really, really shine."

"I think the main thing is talking about something that you're passionate about and (having) details."

"I think being honest and authentic is the best thing you can do."

"When you love something, you find time."

"It's a process, not an event."

"At the end of the day, I think it's just creating good work and trying."

"I just want to keep creating. I get up every day. I'm kind of happy. I get to write, get to swim. Call my mom. Life is good. Life is - that's success to me." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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a month ago

"I knew that I was destined to do something with music..."

Episode 133: Stephen Rodes Chen - More Important Than Money

@stststephen is a songwriter and saxophonist based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"New York was one of many options of where they could have gone. Whereas I think for me and possibly for many people from this area, they just see it as kind of inevitable."

"Having something that I felt like I was good at and kind of made me stand out was something that made me feel good."

"I don't think that I really viewed it as a career at that time, though. When I was in high school, I think I viewed it as sort of like a way for me to discover my identity."

"We're going to become the next…The Strokes. That's our plan. We're going to become the next Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band."

"I got my hands really dirty with making music opportunities happen, just on my own, without pleading upwards to the institution."

"My academic path was…the ambient noise around what I was doing with music."

"It felt like the band was becoming a vehicle for something else."

"For most of that time, I was pretty broke.”

"The necessity actually was a very good driver of my behavior."

"It was such a spiritual suck to have my most productive hours of my day not available to me."

"In a certain way, I almost feel like it's not a choice for me to have picked music. I kind of had to."

"My purpose is aligned with my actual time right now. And that feels more important than money."

"I have a very interesting life. And I have a ton of interesting experiences, and I'm always doing something interesting."

"I think I'm experiencing right now a desire to coalesce around one thing, which unfortunately means culling the other stuff."

"It's extremely easy to measure a salary because there's a number there. It's much harder to put some sort of metric on…living an interesting life."

"I'm pretty much my best self while on tour, sleeping in a different bed every single night."

"To me, success is earning the respect and curiosity of artists or intellectuals that I respect and I'm curious about." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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a month ago

"I was never aiming for actual success. I was aiming just to keep doing this."

Episode 133: Nore Davis - No Finish Line

@noredavis is a standup comedian based in New York City.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I think stand-up fulfilled my risk-taking. I can bomb and crash and not die."

"I still don't know if I have talent. I just know I like doing this, and this is fun."

"You've got to know how to shift with your profession, because this is what you love no matter what it does."

"It was all about getting a manager where they have the connections to a club or the road."

"My art really reflects the times of whatever's happening there."

"It's like science, where you just keep finding the angles and you just keep bringing people on the ride."

"I'm more into depth, into emotions—my emotions, my feelings in therapy, and figuring out trauma."

"I'm a working New York City comedian. Like the ones I used to come up and see."

"These past six years have been slowing me the fuck down, being present, enjoying everything."

"Now I can look back, and I'm just proud of myself."

"I always look at the hours like Jenga pieces. Each joke is a Jenga piece."

"I feel like writing an hour is my thesis paper on stage."

"I want to be one of the greats. But I also want to do myself some service of being present and having fun."

"You only get better by time and experience."

"The greats are the ones that bring the audience to them."

"I love New York for the consistency of multiple spots a night."

"Success is happiness. Being able to afford things and do a profession that you love." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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2 months ago

"I wanted to tell stories through photography…(and) to focus on stories that had meaning and impact beyond the photographs themselves."

Episode 132: Nancy Borowick - Pictures, Parents, Passage

@nancyborowick is a photographer, author, teacher and speaker based in New York City and St John in the USVI.

Link to listen in bio @aonypod.

"I always loved photography. I just loved taking pictures and meeting people."

"I saw an injustice. I wanted to help fix it."

"Photography can have that kind of an impact. I was hooked."

"I've found that when I seek out stories, seek out projects that I'm interested in, there's a lot of stop and go and often it doesn't come to fruition. Sometimes I just have to be interested in something and let it come together. I can't force it."

"Photography is therapeutic, and the camera can be a great tool when you're processing something difficult."

"So much of our life, so much of what we were experiencing, it wasn't really about dying. It was about living."

"She had this wonderful perspective on how to keep living while dying."

"Often people will say to me, 'How are you so positive? How can you talk about this? How can you remember it in this way?'"

"If I'm open, if I put myself out there…things will happen."

"Projects will always be there. Having kids, if you want to make it work, you make it work. It's a season."

"Maybe this is just another chapter."

"There's usually the story that you think you're telling, but the more time you spend with it, the more the heart of the story appears."

"If I can help people find the words, if I can help share their stories, maybe it'll help somebody out there." taken in New York City by @aonypod

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2 months ago