The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Chase Million Interview

Episode Date: June 25, 2022

Chase Million Interview Casemillioncomedy.com

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He's got a few links we'll be talking about. Welcome to the show, Chase. How are you? I'm doing really great, Chris. Thanks for having me on. How are you? Thanks for coming on. It's great to have you, man. So give us some of your dot-coms, your plugs, where you want people to find you on the interwebs. You can find me on SoundCloud, Chase Million, and then also on YouTube, Chase Million. If you just type in Chase Million Comedy, you'll find me. My website's under construction, will be launched live on Wednesday.

Yep, those are a few places. There you go. And I think we got a little weak on the audio. Is there any way to get close to the mic? Or is there a mic thing? Is that better? That is definitely better. That is way better.

Sorry about that. I had my fan on. Oh, that's what it was. It was blowing up the thing. Yeah, my bad. That sounded a little Darth Vader. It wasn't too bad. We can fix him post.

So you do a lot of things. What's the top of mind thing that you want to talk about and promote first that you do? Well, first of all, for my day job, as you mentioned, sub two. If anybody's looking to learn about real estate investing, house flipping, several different strategies we teach you over at sub two. And I can drop also like a referral link after the show, but there's that. And then, you know, and I did serve in the military for a little bit, had some challenges getting out, but you know, I, I feel since I've, I've been doing, doing great through, you know, with this job and, and comedy and stuff, it's really helped me

help me, you know, get over some things there but yeah there you go thank you for your service and you've got a lot of stuff going on online for yourself you've got the youtube channel what do you want to see talk about on the youtube channel well i only have one thing on the youtube channel is actually brand new it's just it's my very first stand-up show i did at wise guys last week, and I'm waiting on a response. They get back to you by late tonight, so I don't know if I'm going up next week, but I just have that there. And then I used to have a music video up as well,

but I was with a record label, like Defunct or something, and I didn't pay their Vivo dues, so I don't have the music video anymore. But that's what's on my YouTube channel for now. I'm going to start uploading more content soon but just that just that three minutes of material there from wise guys and as long as it's south jordan or west jordan there's three of them or south or something there's three of them the one that i was at was the one where they do open mic on wednesdays and tuesdays that one was in salt lake at the wow. And then there's one in Ogden. There's one in South Jordan, like you mentioned.

And then there's also one in Las Vegas. Oh, wow. I remember going to those back in the day. I used to take dates there. They used to have a lot of great comedians come through. Now, you have an upcoming event you'll probably be putting on YouTube. Tell us about that. So, yeah, I'm pretty stoked about that. That's upcoming next month in july i'm doing a

um a course with american comedy institute and the final the final class is a performance at the gotham comedy club so you know just for that i'm pretty pretty stoked for that never been to new york so i'm just going in for one day and then flying back here to Utah. Nice. That should be fun. The Gotham Comedy Club, that is a really high profile comedy club. I see all the great comedians there. I think we were talking before the show, Artie Lang, I've seen like a million of his shows. For some reason, he plays a lot. That or they're the only ones who put out videos. I don't think Caroline's or some of the other ones put out videos, but Gotham always has videos for some reason. I don't know.

Maybe that's their thing. But that'll be awesome. That's a great high-profile show. Yeah, there's that, and then they do on Sunday. It's a virtual one, so I'm going to be doing both. What made you want to get into comedy? You know, to be completely frank with you, it's – You can be frank. You can be Chase. you can be frank you can be chase you can be

whoever you want if you want to be frank you can be completely right with me i'll be just don't call me shirley just don't call me shirley that's from airplane right yeah yeah yeah that's a good one that's a classic i used to watch that growing up that's one of my favorite jokes liam neeson or no, not Liam Neeson. Whatever his name was. But the old guy that was always old. I think you. Oh, yeah.

Liam Neeson's the other guy. The Batman guy, huh? Yeah. I know you. It's Nelson? Is it Jackie Glee? No, that's not Jackie Glee. I don't know.

I don't know. But anyway, why did you get into comedy? I got into comedy because it's, you know me just you know talking about some personal issues and you know i'm exploring some stuff you know from the military and just personal you know it's kind of therapeutic i've gone you know had to go to some therapy when i got out of the military and that didn't necessarily work for me so i feel like this might help a little bit more and you know i just i think i feel like laughing i always enjoyed making people laugh and and felt that maybe i might be able to do it professionally so there you go uh and you've got a website too for your comedy give us that dot com again and that's chase million comedy dot com yeah so what do you hope to do in your comedy career so i just want to be able to you know put

together you know a half hour or so and maybe maybe like something eventually on netflix or or what was streamed or one of the streaming things like anywhere from a half hour to hour is my my objective i don't know how long they make those it's usually i think most of like well the bigger people that have the specials i think they make those it's usually i think most like well the bigger people that have the specials i think they're longer but i just want to do like a half hour to an hour yeah a good show that people can see and and and all that good stuff you know it just takes time i've got a lot of comedian friends and it's just something where it takes time you've got to build it you got to get your chops down and now you've done some acting in

your past too was that the thing that segued you maybe into comedy or did you kind of want to do yeah kind of well so the acting that i did it kind of i kind of got into it out of a fluke it was called the first thing i ever did was called fear level and it actually won a couple local awards well it like won in la and then there in utah county where you're at the but it was more it was like a horror slash drama and then i didn't know what i was doing and because i had done music and i had reached out to the guy that was directing it his name was jd allen and called me up out of the blue one sunday and said we need someone for this part the guy didn't show up so i i showed up and i didn't know what i was doing um like because i hadn't read the script or anything so i improvised a little bit but like my scene was you know and i was i was like you know my scene was like a bunch of and i talk about it my act the one that's on youtube but it was about

me and you know a couple other white people jumping a black guy who thought was trying to hurt a white girl so pretty heavy subject matter but like you know i kind of brought like tried to bring some comedic relief to it and stuff like that. So that's kind of what Segway made, because everyone thought it was funny. Yeah. Even though it was heavy subject matter, I was able to turn around and kind of make a joke out of it. Well, that's sometimes what people do. They use comedy to teach and everything else.

Sometimes making people laugh. A lot of comedians, you know, they have their personal issues. And making people laugh is a healer for them. It's kind of like a drug. You hear that laughter and it kind of fires you up. I mean, it's something that, you know, when I hear people laugh or entertain people, it fires me up. I'm just like, yeah. It's like crack.

And, you know, there's something inside of us that, I don't know, sometimes it helps. I think a lot of it, what it is, is, and when you give to people, when you're suffering sometimes, or something's bugging you or something, when you give to people, that's the best time to show gratitude and, and, and to share. And sometimes by giving first, you, you, it helps you deal with what you're doing because you're being selfless. You're giving of yourself. And so for a lot of people, that's really a healing thing, a very important thing for them. Yeah. I love the way you put that. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I know it because I suffer from it. Do you? Well, a lot of comedians do. A lot of

comedians have, you know, childhood issues, you know, different things they've gone through or a lot of stuff maybe they haven't resolved. I mean, Bill Cosby for a lot of years, he used to always talk about how he never sees a psychiatrist because he might, the psychiatrist might figure him out and turn him unfunny. Turns out he was talking about other stuff from the psychiatrist, but that's another thing. He probably didn't want to admit anything to the psychiatrist. But, you know, I mean, a lot of comedians, you know, they'll tell you, right, they're not straight in the head sometimes.

They're working through their thing. And comedy is a great way to, you know, keep off the tortured mind and tortured fence. And a lot of great comedians are tortured and they go through a lot. But it's good medicine, I think. And it's a good service that you give to other people and you make other people laugh. I know in some of my darkest moments of my life and other people's lives,

when I remember one time my father was in the hospital, he called me up and I could hear fear in his voice and he was very afraid. And he'd had his umpteenth heart attack or stroke, lost count after a while. And he was really worried this time because he'd gone in and been totally gray and they were really having to bring him back from the, from the dead. And he was really worried. He was really afraid of dying. And he called me and I could hear fear in his voice. And so I started telling him jokes because I was just as afraid. I was just as scared, but that's how I deal with stuff,

I turn it into comedy, because that's all you can do, I mean, you can either live with the fear, or you can turn it into something that's funny, and so I started telling him jokes, because I didn't want him to suffer, I didn't want him to be in pain, I could feel it, and within a, you know, couple jokes, I had him starting to laugh, starting to giggle And within a, you know, a couple of jokes, I had him starting to laugh, starting to giggle. I said, you know, have you, have you, uh, you know, hit on the nurse? Is your nurse hot? And I did all the, I did all the routine stuff. And pretty soon I had him laughing. And when I had him laughing, I had him get in, change his mindset to perspective of, of where, you know, it's not so bad it's not so dark you

know he lived for a short while after that and his that was his last hospital stop but it helped him get kind of in a better frame of mind so i think we do that as comedy but partially part of that was it was healing to me and so i think that's kind of what comedians are doing they're healing themselves and helping other people yeah that's that kind of reminds me of someone my grandma died i was a pallbearer me and my cousins and i had you know i it probably wasn't the best time to make a joke but i had made a joke like while we were carrying the casket but you know probably wasn't the best time to do it but you know i mean it's it's one of those things where comedians stretch the line and they try and

sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't I mean I've been certainly I've been certainly yeah like in real life situations though like I've gotten beat up before on saying some in real life like for doing comedian stuff that I probably shouldn't have done and I learned really fast in my 20s that um you know I'm not you know, saying funny stuff or thinking you're tough. It wasn't working. So anyway, yeah, that's my story about comedic stuff in real life that got me beat up. Well, you know, you've got to pick your battles. Sometimes you win and lose.

And the one thing about a comedian is a comedian sometimes tends to stretch it. And when they do, sometimes they can stretch it just a little too far. So that's good. So what do you do in the real estate business? So let's talk a little bit about that. So right now I'm a director of enrollment for a company called Sub2. We teach people creative real estate investing, raising private capital, different types of creative entrance and exit strategies, whether it be a Sub2, seller finance, raising private capital, different types of creative entrance and exit strategies, whether it be a sub two, seller finance, wholesale, you know, a bunch of different type of ways you can make money. But he's also got a TV show on A&E called Triple Digit Flip.

It's Pace Morby and Jamil Danji. They have one season out right now. They're filming the second season. But yeah, that's what i do you know monday through friday even on the weekend sometimes i'm taking texts and calls and stuff like that but mainly just texts on the weekends but i'm taking appointments like four or five appointments a day monday through friday doing that there you go and that's got to be pretty good business right now it's real estate right yeah and it's really good and why i love what we do it's you know because the real it is you know real estate's a great market right now to be's real estate, right? Yeah. And it's really good. And why I love what we do, it's because real estate's a great market right now to be in, whether you're in retail or... And I don't have a real estate license. I actually went through all of the 120 hours last year here in Utah, but I didn't go through it. But yeah, that's one thing I like about what we do. It's

with creative financing. It does take money to make money with real estate, as we all know, but we like to show you how to get it creatively. There you go. I mean, being able to raise capital is definitely something that's a skill. Exactly. How do you see the current challenges right now? I mean, right now we're having the Fed do some adjustments and interest rates are going up. How do you see that impacting the business here in the future? That's going to probably impact the retail market more than what I do. That's going to, you know, with mortgages and, you know,

and think interest rates, that's going to, you know, with sub two, like we can offer people, you know, with sub two type of deals, you can offer people higher than, you know, asking or seller finance. So it doesn't really affect whether the market's up or down. With short sales, that's going to be affecting the market. I feel short sales are going to be a big thing here coming up pretty soon as well. There's going to be a lot of defaults going on. Yeah, I think we're in for a huge correction, and then it'll correct pretty hard.

I got someone calling in right now. I'm going gonna have to say you know what you guys can call me back later come on there you go sorry about that so you've also got a soundcloud and imdb tell us about that for those to explain what the imdb is so imdb is just you know shows credits you credits you've done in the film industry, whether it be cast or crew. I have just a couple credits there as far as acting. One of them that didn't make it to post-production or that didn't really make it to past, you know, much. But then the Fear Level one was the one that won a couple awards here.

One in Utah and then one in the LA Film Awards. So there's that and then i was working on some you know getting back into i want to eventually get into some like executive producing and stuff like that but that's more down the road when you know we talk about raising private capital i know how to do that through real estate i need to learn how to make if i don't want to use you know my own money doing that with film as well. That's one thing I want to learn. Yeah, that's always important to learn. Raising money with film is, oh, babe, that's something else.

If you can find a good investor or something, like a Chinese billionaire preferably. Yeah, but then you find one of those guys, and they want to be all up in the script and stuff like that. Yeah, you've got to deal with all that too. Then it's like, who is that guy that had to apologize to china was it not channing tatum it was the wrestler dude john cena john do you see that oh yeah yeah i remember that that was yeah you can take you can get the chinese billionaires but then you end up you know bowing down to him ultimately that's very true it's It's something where, you know, you've got to deal with all the ins and outs and all the things that go that way.

Do you see yourself doing more acting and stuff in the future? A lot of comedians do that. Yeah, I want to, but I want to make my stuff just more, like, as far as limited, I want to do more of, like, the executive producing and, like, financing and and have my i see in the long run having my own studio and not doing a ton of acting like if i could get like a job that could make me good money and like set me up and you know in the industry yeah but i

want to do more of like the you know because i've done some crew stuff too like a little bit of you know a little bit of producing like with locations and and stuff. But I did some stuff that no one likes to do is the holding the boom. Oh, yeah. That's not something I want to do. But, yeah, I see myself probably five to ten years down the road having a production company like that. Yeah, a production company would be good, especially a lot of them go union. At least in, I don't think they have unions here in Utah,

but I know in california they do yeah not here it's a right or a right to work state or whatever they call it yeah they're really for a long time when i had an acting and modeling agency up here in utah they were um there were a lot of the stuff was coming here because they're being filmed touch my angel was being filmed at the time. The big thing was they'd had a big union strike in California, and so everyone was coming here and doing business here. There's still lots of movies that are made here. The South is

that Southwestern look. It's still great for videos and music videos and movies. George is awesome. It's crazy the amount of filming that gets done there. But Lenny, this has been a great conversation. Anything else you want to touch on or tease out for you?

Not really. Not really. I think we've touched on about everything. There you go. There you go. So give us a.com. It's the best places to find you on the interwebs. Okay, so we got ch million comedy.com that's under

construction i'll be live here in just a few days and then we have chase million comedy if you just google that you'll see my youtube as well so so yeah and then chase million at soundcloud as well yeah what sort of music do you do at the soundcloud so it's kind of a mix. That's like some older stuff, but like it was like rock infused hip hop. And then it was, it was a lot of hip hop type of stuff, but I'm not doing as much music now as I I've been, you know, I barely got, like, as you can see, I have this guitar that I've been playing. I don't, you know, I don't plan on playing a ton live, but that's just, you know, what I've done in the past. But you know, if an opportunity to come, I might get back into music, but that's more old, old you know like i do see myself pivoting further

into you know comedy moving forward there you go there you go well making people laugh is something everyone needs it's definitely important thank you very much chase for coming on the show we really appreciate it yeah thanks for having me i appreciate you reaching out to me and i definitely look forward to, you know, watching some other of your, listening to some other of your shows in the future and checking out that book that you have as well. There you go. There you go.

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See you, man.