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00:00What's going on? What's going on Zynostation? Yeah, so Christine and I are going to talk to Columbia now. Yeah,
00:06we're going to talk to Columbia College. Yeah, my alma mater. And we were going to talk about Christine was
00:11encouraging me. Yeah, I'm in my mind. Christine is encouraging me. Yeah. It's always fun to imagine a woman encouraging
00:18you. Paul, Paul, Paul. Yeah, like that.
00:26And anyway, yeah, so I was going to say that. Right. When I was when I discovered Columbia, I was
00:34I was doing my job. I was doing my job. I was like dragging tree branches and stuff for my
00:40dad.
00:40And I had dropped out of I dropped out of community college because I was really I really sucked at
00:47math and so on and so forth.
00:50And I what I really wanted to be since I was a kid was a comedian. And I looked up
00:53schools for comedy. I was like browsing the Internet schools for comedy.
00:56Yeah, I fucking write. Now I saw Columbia College Chicago had a comedy writing performance bachelor's degree. I was like,
01:01no fucking way.
01:02And I was like, I told my dad, I think I'm going to apply to that school. And my dad
01:06said, I don't know, like, he didn't really think so.
01:09But maybe I should just push back a little bit. So I said, no, I really want to do this.
01:12And my mom told my dad, my dad said later that she said, if you don't support your son, then
01:16you're going to lose your son because your son wants to do this that badly.
01:19I was like, I don't know if it was that extreme, but maybe I did want to do it that
01:21bad. I don't know.
01:22Maybe I would have said, fuck you, dad. Fuck you. I'm never going to talk to you again.
01:25But anyway, we anyway, I applied to Columbia and lo and behold, I got in and less than one percent
01:30of kids get into Columbia with the GPA that I had, which was one point eight.
01:35Yeah, one point eight. And I did have a pretty good ACT. I had like 26 on the ACT. I
01:40had really good reading scores.
01:41I had like 34 on the reading and 18 on the math, which they don't do ACT anymore.
01:45They do SATs everywhere, I think nowadays. And anyway, I anyway.
01:55So what is it? So what is that? Eight, 34 out of 36. Yeah. So that's really high.
01:58That's high enough. That's really high for just in one subset of, in one sub score, I got high.
02:04I got high. I got like 31 in the English and 34 in the, in the reading or something, or
02:1229 in the English or there was like 31 in the English or something.
02:14Yeah, anyway. And, and so I got into the school and I got into, I got in with the international
02:23community right away.
02:23But international community right away. I met my friends, Matt, Matt Bradstone, Carrie, Kari, Kari, yeah, Kari and Kari.
02:37I can't remember her last name because she goes by Watkin now and XL, Kaylisa, Tiffany.
02:41I met Tiffany's friends at Miracle who later, who later passed away from Crohn's and, and really meeting the people
02:47is what it was all about to me.
02:48Yeah. I met so many cool people and I couldn't really afford to continue going there, but, but the experience
02:54of going to those facilities, I never lived somewhere so nice.
02:57I lived in kind of a, you can see, I lived somewhere kind of like where I live now. Yeah.
03:01And, and yeah, I could see it was just kind of, kind of dirty, kind of maybe some bugs and
03:07stuff.
03:08And I never lived such a nice clean place. Like, like your sinuses are always clean because the air is
03:12so nice and crispy and stuff.
03:14And the, and there's buffets in the cafeteria, they have free food and, you know, pool tables and stuff and
03:20exercise room.
03:22And you can ride your bike around Chicago and they have like feeders with like nice acoustics and you can
03:27go to recording studios and you can take free lessons, I think, for music and, and everything.
03:32And, and for me, it was, it was right. And my dream was to continue going there and go to
03:38second city.
03:39Yeah. I always wanted to go to second city. And even before I said, I wanted to go to Columbia,
03:43my improv teacher at Grand Rapids Community College said, you should think about going to second city.
03:48And because he just thought I, I had, I had, I had a lot of talent for, for comedy and,
03:54and, and I wanted to do that.
03:57When you're, when you want to be a comedian, being complimented about being, being good at it, it means a
04:01lot to you.
04:02Like, yeah, you want to be where you are. Right. So it meant a lot to me to be complimented
04:06on that.
04:06And, and so I would say that, what would I say? What would I say? It's always good to have
04:10something to say.
04:11Yeah. Something to say. I would like to have something wise to say. And I would like to say that,
04:15that you should try.
04:16Yeah. Yeah. You should always just try. Yeah. And you should always stick with your faith as well.
04:20You should stick with your faith and you should try. Yeah. And I would encourage you to become Catholic.
04:23You know, one thing you can do if you're, if you're just don't see any way, uh, any way to
04:29do those things,
04:30go to college and you're watching my video, go look at your local Catholic church and go to, go through
04:34OCIA.
04:35Cause some of the coolest people I've met in my life, I met at OCIA. Yeah. McKenzie.
04:39And she's the only person I can remember because I think that, I think the Lord, yeah, I think she
04:43really loves me.
04:44Yeah. I think she really loves me. Greg McKenzie, father, Michael, and yeah. And Bishop will call we act.
04:50Yeah. And, and faith is the most important thing in the world. Yeah. Your faith is the most important thing.
04:57I was always, I always had faith and always stuck with my faith and my faith has only become stronger
05:02over the years. Don't ask. And it's really true. What Garrison said, and I was writing about it last
05:07night. Garrison said in his opening to good poems for hard times, the Lord hears the prayers of the
05:12righteous and he answers them. It is really true. And one of my prayers was to have an outlet for
05:18my
05:18desire to be a comedian. And the Lord gave that to me and he gave me something even more fulfilling,
05:23which was the opportunity to support my family through hard work by learning to become an arborist.
05:28And I became an arborist and supported my dad and my sisters. And all my sisters went to college and
05:33graduated and have their bachelors. There's one sister left who has to go yet, Lizzie, and she's going to
05:39college next year. And my youngest brother, Isaac, I have, so four of my sisters have done that,
05:44have gotten their bachelors. And my one sister, Anna, has a master's. And so Isaac still has to
05:49go through high school. He's becoming, he's going to be a freshman this year. I'm 18 years older than
05:52him. But one of the things I'm most proud of is working for my dad, helping him get his tree
05:58lift
05:58and, and helping grow his customer base so that he was able to support all my sisters so they could
06:03go
06:03to liberal arts colleges. And, and now my mom has a large insurance, insurance settlement. So she
06:09doesn't, you know, I don't need to do anything like that anymore. And so anyway, right. So I'm going to
06:19say, and, and if you want to be, and if you are, there's a lot to say about being a
06:24comedian. Six
06:24minutes is really long enough, right? Is it not really? But one, one thing I'll add, one of the most
06:28important things is you don't have to be funny if you don't want to be funny, man. Sometimes, sometimes you
06:32feel like you have to always prove yourself, even to yourself. Like I'm really hard on myself. Like,
06:37oh man, if I, what, if I can't think of something funny right this second, then, then I'm really
06:41not a comedian. Nah, but it's not always the time to say something funny, right? Maybe it'll be time
06:45to say something funny later, man. Maybe it'll be time to say something fucking funny later, man. Yeah.
06:53Yeah. Is there anything you wanted to say, Christine? Uh, yeah, maybe I just wanted to encourage all
07:00you actresses and actors who are in the acting program at Columbia to know that you're going
07:06to the best school in the entire goddamn universe.
07:08Now stop trash, bitch.