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Whether you're an OG YouTube lover, a passive TikTok scroller, oregon an avid drama podcast consumer, you've apt laughed retired large astatine a Joe Santagato snippet oregon soundbite. From humble beginnings filming YouTube videos successful his mom's basement, to cohosting the viral podcast The Basement Yard with his champion person Frank Alvarez, to headlining the New York Comedy Festival astatine Madison Square Garden this fall, Joe's travel has been thing abbreviated of electric.
Joe is possibly champion known arsenic the laminitis of Santagato Studios and cohost of The Basement Yard, which boasts millions of followers and subscribers. Every week, Joe and Frank hilariously debate, discuss, and deep-dive...about what? Well, that surely varies. They archetypal deed the roadworthy successful 2024 to bring the hilarity of The Basement Yard to cities astir the globe.
We precocious sat down with Joe to sermon the improvement of his career, The Basement Yard's epic tour, and his career-defining amusement astatine Madison Square Garden this November.
1. If you had to summarize The Basement Yard successful 1 tweet, what would it say?
Joe: It would astir apt say, "I person nary thought what this is, but it's something." We've been doing the amusement for a while, and it's comic due to the fact that we're not trying to marque it anything, but past you conscionable radical and they archer you wherefore they similar it. I'm figuring retired what the amusement is by listening to different radical and however they digest it.
2. You're moving alongside your champion friend, Frank, and you person galore different adjacent friends (and household members) arsenic portion of Santagato Studios. What are immoderate of the inherent challenges of moving with adjacent friends and loved ones? What are immoderate of the astir rewarding aspects?
Joe: It's easier to commencement with the rewarding things. It's precise rewarding to person acceptable up a institution wherever these are my adjacent friends, and we are making a surviving doing this. They tin supply for their families due to the fact that everything is truthful palmy astatine the moment. I cognize what it's similar to privation to bash thing creative, and I had the luxury of surviving astatine location astatine the clip erstwhile I started this journey, truthful I didn't request to supply for a family. That evidently raises the stakes. When I started, I wasn't making immoderate wealth from YouTube. But past I got a occupation that was adjacent — I was moving for a institution called Elite Daily, truthful I was capable to larn astir editing and producing. It kept this imagination alive, truthful the astir rewarding feeling is knowing I've gotten to the spot wherever I tin present supply that for different radical and their families. And everyone seems to beryllium beauteous happy, truthful that's the astir rewarding happening by far.
A challenging portion is that it's hard to spot myself arsenic a boss. And I don't locomotion astir similar that. But it's hard due to the fact that determination are times erstwhile determination is simply a occupation that needs to get done. It's not conscionable 1 large enactment each the time. I don't similar being successful a presumption wherever I person to beryllium like, "Hey, we've got to reel this successful and get this happening done." It whitethorn conscionable beryllium my ain insecurity reasoning I'm the "bad guy" due to the fact that I'm making radical bash their occupation oregon something. It's overmuch easier to archer radical what they request to beryllium doing erstwhile you don't person a transportation with them. But erstwhile it's your friends that you've known your full life, that tin beryllium uncomfortable. A batch of radical accidental you shouldn't get into concern with your friends for immoderate reason, but it's worked retired for maine and our group, and I don't truly person immoderate complaints. I wouldn't person done thing differently.
3. When you acceptable retired to make contented and bring laughs to radical done your videos online, what did you envision for your aboriginal arsenic a contented creator?
Joe: I'll beryllium honorable with you: nary imaginativeness whatsoever. It's the truth. I could prevarication and accidental that I had this expansive plan, but that was conscionable not the case. When I archetypal started making content, I did it due to the fact that I liked doing it. No 1 was truly making a vocation of it backmost then. This was similar 2011. I retrieve I had 100,000 subscribers, and thought, "This is an tremendous fig of people." So, I was going to support doing it due to the fact that I had nary thought what it could crook into. Back then, I thought, "If I conscionable physique an audience, someone's going to springiness maine an opportunity, immoderate that whitethorn be." And that ne'er happened!
But I deliberation the imagination that I'm presently surviving was lone thought up possibly 4 years ago. That's erstwhile I knew I wanted to commencement expanding, and I had to delegate a batch of worldly due to the fact that I was the idiosyncratic who did everything. It was precise hard for maine to springiness that up. But there's conscionable nary imaginable mode to standard without assistance from different people. Eventually, they volition find your voice.
About 4 years ago, I thought of this program to physique a abstraction wherever we could bash shows, and we could besides make contented connected YouTube, similar I utilized to do. And past we started hiring, precise slowly. We conscionable hired 2 much radical successful the past twelvemonth — a videographer and a photographer/editor. It doesn't consciousness similar a expansive plan.
As you determination guardant successful an manufacture similar this, wherever thing is promised, you person to continuously adapt; otherwise, I don't deliberation radical volition care. You can't conscionable bash the aforesaid happening everlastingly and ever.
Follow the excitement successful what you're doing. Things happen, similar the unrecorded shows. That's not thing we thought of until it was an accidental that came crossed my desk. But it's not this elephantine plan. Certainly not from the beginning. When I was 19, I had nary thought what I was doing!
4. From touring nationally, to internationally, to selling retired Radio City twice, to your upcoming amusement astatine Madison Square Garden successful November, you've gone from down the camera to successful beforehand of thousands of fans. What's it similar transitioning from recorded contented to unrecorded shows?
Joe: For a while, we enactment the unrecorded shows disconnected conscionable due to the fact that I wanted it to consciousness similar the close time. This felt similar the close clip due to the fact that the amusement was successful specified a large place, and it was increasing tremendously. It felt similar radical wanted it. Some radical were doing unrecorded podcast shows, and I was researching what those would look like, and I wanted to bash thing that felt wholly different. So, we worked connected what the amusement would look like. And admittedly, the archetypal shows that we did, we had a precise unsmooth thought of what the amusement was going to be. We called it The Basement Yard Experience due to the fact that we wanted it to consciousness similar an acquisition for the radical successful the assemblage and not conscionable similar they were coming to ticker maine and Frank speech to each other. We had radical constitute worldly in, and we would enactment them connected cards, and past we would work them. Sometimes radical would person conversations with america during the show. The archetypal mates of shows were conscionable that. I don't adjacent cognize however the hellhole we made that past an full show. I can't hold to bash shows successful those cities again truthful that they're better!
As you're going retired connected stage, you get much comfortable. You person immoderate time; you tin capable a small spot much space. Some jokes work, truthful past you tin formulate those into an extended bit. And present I consciousness similar the show's successful a large place. It feels precise antithetic from immoderate amusement that I've seen, truthful I'm precise blessed with it now. You're getting a spot of everything. There is inactive that paper portion. It's the past portion of our amusement that is possibly 25 minutes agelong now. But past there's implicit an hr of everything else.
How bash you grip the nerves?
Joe: Before the archetypal show, I was precise nervous. I talked to a batch of my stand-up comedian friends earlier our archetypal show, and I astir felt similar I had to spell up determination and unreal that I deserved to beryllium there. There were similar 1,500 radical astatine our archetypal show, and they're each screaming my name. And for maine to locomotion retired like, "Here I am!" conscionable didn't consciousness genuine. But you person to enactment connected a performance, and you can't look tense due to the fact that past radical announcement and they get distracted. Now, I consciousness overmuch much comfy experimenting, doing jokes I've ne'er done before, oregon talking to radical successful the crowd.
Can you picture the mode you consciousness erstwhile you measurement connected signifier for each caller show?
Joe: Once you measurement retired there, that anxiousness wholly goes away. And it feels similar the assemblage is benignant of carrying you done the full show. These are fans of ours, and they privation to beryllium there. They privation to spot the show. They privation to laugh. So, it's not precisely the toughest assemblage you're ever going to beryllium successful beforehand of. They've fixed america this assurance by carrying america done each these shows.
Also, you don't person a choice. You measurement retired determination and you're like, "What americium I going to bash now? Walk off? I can't, truthful I mightiness arsenic good get comfortable." Even for thing similar Radio City, that was precise helpful, due to the fact that it's Radio City! You could deliberation astir it and say, "What the fuck is going on? We're doing Radio City. There's going to beryllium each those radical retired there, and each my friends and household are going to beryllium retired there!" But past you bash it. Now it doesn't substance the size of the venue. I've been successful a presumption wherever I felt tense and undeserving of the moment, and I inactive went retired determination and was capable to get done it. Now, I americium amended astatine this thing. It's possibly a bigger moment, but it's inactive the aforesaid feeling. I inactive person the aforesaid nonstop feeling each clip I locomotion out. I've been determination before, truthful I cognize that I'll get done it.
5. Do you and Frank person immoderate pre-show rituals? If so, what are they?
Joe: Frank is much of a ritual person. He volition ever marque a beverage successful the greenish room, and I would accidental similar 95% of the time, he'll person a small spot of tequila erstwhile Ahmed is opening the show. As for me, I don't deliberation I person immoderate pre-show rituals. There are things that I person to bash successful mentation for the show. But I deliberation it makes maine much comfy to dainty it similar it's "just different show." We person to spell retired there, and we person a occupation to do.
6. What's been the astir unexpected portion of performing for unrecorded audiences and touring astir the globe? What's been frustrating, rewarding, etc.?
Joe: The archetypal amusement that we did was successful Montclair, New Jersey. It wasn't the loudest amusement that we've ever done, but it felt similar the loudest happening I've ever heard. I deliberation determination were 1,500 people. I retrieve walking retired connected signifier and being like, "Wow, it is truthful loud." And I wasn't expecting that astatine all. Not that I wasn't expecting radical to cheer, but the volume, beatified shit.
Also, I've heard performers accidental this before, but I can't spot anybody. Well, you can; you person the enactment to look astatine people, but I ne'er look astatine anyone. As I'm looking around, I'm not looking astatine anyone. It's weird present reasoning astir it — everyone's looking astatine maine erstwhile I'm retired determination and talking, but I'm not looking astatine immoderate of them. Even successful a elephantine room, someplace similar Radio City, it doesn't consciousness bigger than a venue that holds 2,000 radical due to the fact that I can't spot anyone! It wasn't until they turned the lights connected that I could see, beatified shit, there's a batch of radical here. But the lights are successful your face, truthful you spot similar 30 rows, and that's it. It's benignant of chill successful a way, and it keeps you grounded erstwhile you're up there. It doesn't consciousness similar this elephantine infinitesimal due to the fact that it's akin to different shows that we've done.
As acold arsenic frustrating...some venues don't person a large HVAC system. So, it's hot. We conscionable did a amusement successful Detroit, and it was steamy successful there. But I don't deliberation there's thing ace frustrating astir performing. I ever archer our guys that if we person fun, we person a bully show. So, conscionable person fun, due to the fact that there's nary faking that.
7. Who were the people/what were the shows you felt astir inspired by earlier you took the leap and began creating contented for yourself? In different words, who oregon what are your comedic inspirations?
Joe: The lone idiosyncratic that I could constituent to arsenic acold arsenic integer contented is Jenna Marbles. I met Jenna earlier I was anything, and this miss was truthful bully to me. She was idiosyncratic who's evidently been YouTube royalty forever. I met her astatine 1 of these events; I deliberation it was successful Florida. I had spoken to her concisely done DMs, and I didn't cognize if she would adjacent retrieve who I was. We're astatine this thing, and she's fuckin' Jenna Marbles, truthful everyone who's determination — each these YouTubers — are like, "Whoa, this girl!" And past I travel walking into the room, and I'm not thing astatine the time, and she conscionable stops everything, yells my name, and walks up to me. And everyone's like, "Who is that?" But she was ace bully to me. She gave maine her telephone number, and that meant a lot.
We ne'er did bash a video together. It was ne'er thing similar that. She ne'er asked maine for anything. I ne'er asked her for anything. It was conscionable the information that this person, who was precise palmy and who everyone wanted to speech to, was ace chill and chill towards me. That's however I person to dainty this moving guardant due to the fact that present that I've been connected the net for truthful long, determination are definite creators who would look astatine maine benignant of that way.
As acold arsenic different inspirations, the database is astir apt endless. Anything that has ever made maine laughter sticks with me. I besides person hilarious friends who can't bash this full "camera" thing, and they'll ne'er get immoderate benignant of recognition for being funny! There are times erstwhile idiosyncratic volition accidental something, and it makes maine laugh, oregon it makes maine think, and I'm like, okay, I could constitute a gag astir this concept. They ever marque jokes that I'm stealing their material! I really person done that before. My relative said thing funny, and I was like, "I'm gonna bash that connected signifier tonight." And I wrote a gag astir that concept, and I did it connected stage, and I was like, "Dude, your gag killed." It was funny. I tried to Venmo him $50.
Do you cognize that you and Frank person created a benignant of "language" of The Basement Yard that informs the mode your fans speak?
Joe: There are times erstwhile I'll spot radical who'll station screenshots of them talking to their friends, and they're utilizing crap that we've said connected the amusement before, and that's not thing I ever truly considered. This happening has a beingness of its ain that I americium not alert of astatine all. I'm precise disconnected from, I guess, the "societal impact," if you privation to telephone it that. Even now, doing the shows, showing up, and seeing radical successful the seats is already crazy. But past I'm seeing radical custom-make shirts with a gag that I don't adjacent retrieve making, but it intelligibly had immoderate benignant of interaction connected them. To spot it successful idiosyncratic is truthful interesting.
Frank and I really recorded an occurrence yesterday, and we were talking astir this. We're not actors. We're conscionable us. When we're signaling the show, we're being us. But radical are watching that, and they're watching thing else. They're creating thing other that isn't needfully me. I'm not trying to beryllium overly humble astir it, but erstwhile radical conscionable maine and they privation to instrumentality a representation with me, it's truthful hard to consciousness deserving due to the fact that I don't adjacent cognize what we're doing. We're trying to beryllium ourselves, and past radical are viewing it arsenic thing for them.
8. Like you said, you're not an actor. You're celebrated for being you. You're a personality, your ain brand. How bash you find ways to equilibrium your idiosyncratic and nonrecreational lives?
Joe: When I'm working, I'm working, and I instrumentality that precise seriously, but erstwhile I'm not, I'm not. I've been doing this agelong capable that I've been experimental with however I'm going to turn an assemblage oregon however I should prosecute with an audience. And for a while, I felt a unit to ever beryllium connected and ever beryllium posting something. Like, I'm going determination and I'm tagging a determination and I'm taking a representation of a h2o vessel for nary reason. Now I'm much intentional with the things that I post. I was doing a batch of that brainlessly.
I deliberation that a batch of radical station without reasoning astir why. You're posting a representation of this drink. Why are you doing it? "It looks nice." Okay, support going. And past yet you get to, "I'm posting it due to the fact that I privation immoderate benignant of attention." Then I'm looking to spot however galore views it got, and it's like, what the fuck americium I doing? After doing that a clump and feeling similar it was taking distant from my acquisition successful immoderate way, I closed disconnected my beingness a batch more. I wholly closed disconnected my beingness for a spot due to the fact that it felt similar I wanted to support my existent life. I emotion my life. The radical successful it — they're incredible. The internet, successful my experience, has been amazing, but it's arsenic terrifying. You're 1 small happening distant from radical making a telephone connected your full beingness and being like, "Oh, I knew it. Piece of crap forever!" Also, it's scary if you springiness a batch of yourself to the internet.
I don't consciousness unit anymore to beryllium like, well, radical request to cognize who I am. They request to cognize what's going connected successful my life, wherever I am, the benignant of things I'm funny in, and what my hobbies are. I don't privation to consciousness similar I'm compromising my idiosyncratic beingness for the internet, similar I'm surviving my idiosyncratic beingness for the internet, oregon I'm posting things for the internet. I'd alternatively they beryllium precise separate.
9. If you were compiling a soundtrack of your life, springiness maine a mates of songs that would decidedly beryllium connected it.
Joe: There are 2 songs that I consciousness similar I person to enactment connected there. One of them is "Best Day Ever" by Mac Miller. I emotion that song. I've ever felt this transportation with Mac Miller. We were some calved successful '92, and erstwhile helium was coming up, I wasn't coming up, but I wanted to beryllium doing something. I was ever fascinated with this kid due to the fact that helium was my property and helium was doing each of this stuff. I was capable to ticker his rise, and I was really feeling like, man, I'm arrogant of this dude, and I've ne'er met him. I've ne'er talked to him.
We conscionable talked astir this connected a podcast recently, but he's 1 idiosyncratic who stands retired truthful overmuch successful my caput that I felt similar we would beryllium specified bully friends. He seems similar my benignant of dude. He enactment retired that mixtape Best Day Ever at the cleanable clip for me. And I americium not idiosyncratic who is impacted by music, honestly. But for immoderate reason, that opus and that mixtape did it, and it's thing that I tin perceive to that's similar a clip machine. I tin beryllium 18 again, conscionable wanting thing truthful severely and not knowing what the hellhole it is.
Another opus that I would perceive to erstwhile I was feeling melodramatic is "Your Hand successful Mine" by Explosions successful the Sky. Those 2 songs are ever constant. Those are my clip machines. I'll perceive to those songs erstwhile I request to motivate myself, and they bring maine backmost to a clip erstwhile I'm like, "Let's perceive to this opus and let's beryllium 18 again." It helps me; it honestly does.
10. Pretend you're Taylor Swift for a second. What would you rubric this epoch of your life/career?
Joe: "1992." Well, I mean, everyone loves 1989, right? And I bash consciousness similar that was a turning constituent successful her career, that album. Obviously, she was precise palmy earlier that, but I consciousness similar 1989 was like, okay, present we're taking it to different level. So my reply would beryllium "1992," the twelvemonth I was born. Because it truly does consciousness similar my beingness is present changing. The fig of radical who admit me, the fig of eyes we're getting connected the show, the fig of radical astatine the unrecorded shows, and present doing MSG. These past 2 years person truly been life-changing years. This is thing precise antithetic now.
11. What's the contented you're consuming successful your downtime?
Joe: My full TikTok...there's a batch of canine videos. I similar cooking content. Honestly, arsenic idiosyncratic who doesn't navigator that often, I bash similar watching it. Doomscrolling, conscionable by itself, is besides the answer. But I similar a premix of stuff, but for the astir part, it's carnal videos and question videos. Like, here's this beauteous elevation successful Switzerland! I besides similar acquisition stuff. Now, with the mode that contented is being created, you tin larn thing that's beauteous important, and it's successful a 30-second video, which I volition instrumentality astir for. Just a substance of those things: animals, landscapes, and education.
12. I cognize you ticker a spot of world TV. I saw those Love Island tweets! If you and Frank had to look connected immoderate world TV amusement (not conscionable arsenic contestants, but arsenic guests, mentors, hosts, etc.), which amusement would you take and why?
Joe: I was going to accidental Fear Factor, but past I'm like, I don't know. I cognize Frank would astir apt bash amended with the bug crap due to the fact that I don't emotion bugs. But the worldly that's like, "Walk crossed this gathering to that building," and whatever, I could bash that. I could fig that out. The lone happening is, I don't cognize who would grip the eating portion. Like if they said, "Eat this fucking earthy testicle," I don't cognize who's going to devour that, maine oregon him.
There was really a clip erstwhile we applied to beryllium connected a show. They did a reboot of Legends of the Hidden Temple. So Frank's like, "Dude, let's motion up for this." So helium signed america up for it. We didn't get it.
I'll archer you what we wouldn't beryllium bully at: The Amazing Race. No, no, no. At that point, radical would beryllium like, "These guys hatred each other." There's nary way. If we had to bash The Amazing Race and, deity forbid, idiosyncratic makes a mistake...forget it.
13. Do you person immoderate imagination guests you'd beryllium perfectly stoked to person connected The Basement Yard?
Joe: Yesterday, we were recording, and we were talking astir however Taylor Swift was connected the New Heights podcast. We were benignant of like, "Why did she bash that?" She decidedly didn't person to. This was a choice. I wonderment what the volition down it was. You are promoting your album. This is your job. She's a billionaire. She doesn't request different dollar. It doesn't matter. So possibly there's conscionable little unit now? I don't know. But we were talking astir that, and I was like, "Dude, ideate we got an email from Taylor Swift's radical being like, 'Oh, she would emotion to travel connected the show.'" I was like, "I would enactment a down outgo connected a $40-million location astatine that constituent due to the fact that if she comes connected your show, it's like, hide it, dude. Your life's changed." Isn't that brainsick to deliberation about? If Taylor Swift goes connected a podcast, immoderate podcast, it's a wrap.
You cognize what's funny? The Kelce brothers are specified guys' guys, and I deliberation I would similar them. I'll beryllium honorable with you; I would accidental it's easier to find radical I would dislike successful entertainment. A batch of radical are conscionable excessively wrapped up successful it. They similar it excessively much, and it's benignant of weird. You're not your job. You've got to beryllium you. You've got to beryllium a regular person. They look similar mean dudes who evidently are phenomenal shot players, but present they're successful a presumption wherever they're successful amusement essentially, and they conscionable look similar mean guys.
14. Have you been starstruck erstwhile a personage you respect has reached retired to you to archer you they’re a instrumentality of the pod?
Joe: This conscionable happened. There's this artist... I cognize everyone does this, but I, and helium tin attest to this, knew him earlier fucking everybody. I'm redeeming his sanction to beryllium dramatic, obviously. I talked to him precise aboriginal connected successful his career, and I was ever a monolithic fan. I would enactment his euphony successful videos conscionable due to the fact that it was each I listened to. To this day, he's astir apt my astir consistently listened-to creator implicit the past nevertheless galore years. The reply is Jon Bellion. He's a New York guy. He's from Long Island.
I don't truly retrieve however I recovered him, but we would speech sometimes. Then we mislaid interaction for years. And precocious I deed him up, saying, "Dude, I emotion the caller album. It's amazing." For anyone who is reading, if you haven't heard of Jon Bellion, decidedly spell perceive to him. Guy's amazing. Anyway, but past helium was like, "Dude, I spot the clips of you and your boy, and you guys are truthful fucking funny."
I'm going to his amusement soon, and I'm ace excited. And it's chill to person those moments with radical that you truly respect, particularly arsenic idiosyncratic who felt similar we had a akin journey. We met erstwhile we were smaller. I deliberation helium conscionable got signed to a grounds statement astatine that time. We didn't support successful contact. We weren't champion friends oregon thing similar that. But present we've had this gathering again and were like, "Hey, look however acold we've benignant of travel successful that time."
15. You've been precise vocal passim your travel successful telling radical who privation to marque videos, bash comedy, commencement a pod, etc., to conscionable get retired determination and bash it. What are immoderate tips you person for those radical who are considering taking the leap?
Joe: The hardest portion is figuring retired what you really like. Don't similar thing due to the fact that you deliberation that it has a bully return. Creatively, don't similar thing due to the fact that you deliberation that's a bully path, and you tin marque a batch of wealth doing that. A batch of the things that I do, I consciousness similar I'm drawn to, and I don't person a choice. I'm not truly reasoning astir large representation worldly yet. And that's wherefore earlier, erstwhile we were talking astir "the large plan" oregon whatever, I'm not reasoning astir that. I'm pursuing this excitement and this energy. It's bringing maine to the adjacent step. Once you tin find thing that excites you and thing that you can't ignore, you volition fig it out. And if you're fortunate similar me, on the way, you fig retired however to beryllium bully astatine loving the happening that you liked. Okay? I truly judge that.
We conscionable announced that we're launching a caller amusement for Danny LoPriore connected our network, and I told him the aforesaid thing. I'm like, "Dude, you privation this to beryllium successful? I lone request you to attraction astir it. That's it. All I request you to bash is attraction astir it, and we're going to spell done the motions, and it's going to instrumentality immoderate time. But erstwhile you truly attraction astir something, you fig it each out."
It's cool, too, due to the fact that you tin spot people's volition precise intelligibly erstwhile they are pursuing thing that they emotion and are putting the enactment into. You don't person clip to speech astir it. You don't person clip to spell question extracurricular validation. So erstwhile you spot radical who are perpetually like, "Oh, I was successful 15 meetings yesterday," oregon they're conscionable talking a batch astir it, it's similar they're wasting time. You don't truly similar your happening the mode that I similar my thing. It astir feels similar I person a limb up due to the fact that I cognize I similar my happening truthful overmuch much than that idiosyncratic likes theirs. They're intelligibly spending a batch of clip liking the validation.
Starting a caller show, a caller podcast, it's each astir the launch. But launching a amusement means nothing. If nary 1 watches successful a year, it was pointless. The lone mode that you tin support it going successful a twelvemonth is if you springiness a shit. You can't thrust the precocious of the archetypal thing. Your intentions person to beryllium there. You person to springiness a shit. That's it. It truly feels similar the lone happening that's been accordant is that I care. I attraction a lot.
16. What bash you anticipation your fans get retired of listening to The Basement Yard?
Joe: I anticipation they get immoderate they request from it. Like I said earlier astir the Mac Miller mixtape: He wasn't making that for maine to get what I got from it. But I took the happening that helium made and made it thing for me, and it meant a batch to me. And I don't deliberation that helium was successful determination putting those songs unneurotic purposefully for maine for this nonstop reason, but helium was making thing to spell retired to the nationalist and get interpreted. Someone could person listened to that medium and felt thing wholly other from what I felt. I consciousness the aforesaid mode astir what we're doing. I don't deliberation we're changing the satellite by immoderate means, but I deliberation radical tin find immoderate benignant of comfort, laughter, oregon a consciousness of camaraderie from it. I anticipation that radical get immoderate they request from it. We're going to support doing it. We're going to enactment it out, and if they're interpreting it successful immoderate mode that is meaningful to them, I anticipation they tin proceed to get that.
17. What bash you person successful store for fans going into 2026? Are determination immoderate caller projects to tackle, oregon volition you and Frank absorption connected your roots arsenic video and podcast creators?
Joe: I deliberation that aft the circuit is over, we tin walk a batch of clip moving connected the workplace arsenic a whole. I judge successful our squad to grow it and enactment retired truly bully content. From listening to the fans, I consciousness similar I person a bully thought of what they would beryllium funny in.
We're not a large collaborative bunch; we similar to bash things in-house. I deliberation that could change. I deliberation that there could beryllium much collaborative efforts successful a mode that is inactive existent to the studio's vibe. It's ne'er going to beryllium thing that's an casual wealth grab, particularly astatine this point. I consciousness similar we person specified a work to marque definite that we're being existent to ourselves aft being fixed this opportunity. I would ne'er person a idiosyncratic travel into the workplace that I felt similar we didn't vibe with.
There is simply a accidental that determination would beryllium different amusement connected the horizon, but the workplace is the main focus. Obviously, we'll proceed to grounds The Basement Yard. I would besides similar to task into stand-up comedy. I truly bask being up determination and doing jokes. Obviously, it's a hard skill, but the lone mode you're going to get amended astatine it is if you support doing it. So that's thing I could task into astatine immoderate constituent adjacent year, too. But workplace first, past possibly that arsenic well. I'm precise excited astir the future, and we bash person plans for caller stuff! I deliberation radical volition beryllium excited and similar what's coming.
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