Yeah. Brands are getting sneaky, man. They're they're paying my they're paying my friends to advertise, I don't know, whatever Logan Paul's stupid drink is. Yeah. I'm sorry.

What was the question?

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to opinion party. I'm your host, Laura Jones.

I'm Jason Gajkowski.

And this is the podcast that dispels the most pervasive myths in modern marketing through the cold, cruel lens of data.

So I can't wait to get into this with, with our our guest today, an actual comedian with a BAV background. I think this is gonna be a fantastic conversation.

Fumi Abe, welcome to Opinion Party. Great to have you.

Hello. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. Hey. When you guys were talking about, like, power goods and stuff, that really brought me back to, like, 2014.

So thank you for that. That was really nice. Like, if it's not shareable, it cannot go viral. And so, like, relevance is so important, and it doesn't even have to be an original idea. Right?

Like, what is a trend? You just do somebody else's joke, and then it goes viral because you're wearing a different outfit. Like but that's how people get famous.

You know? What's more painful to watch? A brand trying to be funny or a comedian bombing?

Everybody bombs. You know? And so to me, when I watch a comedian bomb, like, I know people are uncomfortable, but, a, I think it's kinda funny because I know what that feels like. But, also, there's something very beautiful about it because, you know, there's just something so beautiful and funny about how, like, these people are, like, trying so hard to, like, connect with the audience and, like, chase this thing. So this guy or whatever, like, this this whoever this comedian person is just trying so hard to connect, and it's just it's just not working at all for ten minutes.

It's just silence. And so to me, there's something so beautiful about this pursuit. So I I like it. I like watching comedians bomb. You know?

It's, like, nice and refreshing.

But I just went off on that little bit of a rant, but I

do No. AI AI is dark. AI AI AI AI is dark. It might help you write, like, a pawn or, like, if you wanna write, like, a very corporate Instagram caption. It's very good at that.

Very, like, soulless. You know?

Where can everyone find you out in the world if they wanna know more about Fumi?

Yes. Please follow me on all the socials. I post a lot of stand up videos on there. You can follow me on Instagram and TikTok at the Fumi Abe. That's spelled t h e f u m I a b e.

I'm also on tour. So if you live in a city in America, I'll probably be coming to your city. So please go to FumiAbe.com, and you can see my tour dates.

With that, I think we've all sufficiently insulted one another, and, it's time to go.