So here we are, you've done the rehearsals hopefully a bunch of times by now maybe you picked up your own microphone mic stands mess around with, you've listened back to your recording, you've walked around the block weirding people out as you talk out loud your jokes in a very strange and slow way with built in pauses. Anyway, that's all great because you're going to take that on stage with you and you're going to kick a ton of blood for five minutes. What I want you to do now is to go think about how to cut your material down to five minutes. So when you're speaking slowly, when you're going through your act, and you're speaking slowly, and you get up to about six minutes of time, that's about where you want to be for five minutes. So when you go to an open mic, you're going to be able to go through your material, you're going to be going more quickly than you did previously, but people are going to be laughing and they're going to be laughing, they're going to cause they're going to applaud maybe it's going to cause you to have more pauses and hate take more time between jokes so it actually works out to being a similar type of time.

So if you record yourself doing it slowly up to six minutes and cut your material down to being that many jokes, which I said before, it's going to be about depending on how long your jokes are between five and probably 10 jokes. This is going to take up all of that time. So now what I want you to do is confront the reality that you are going to get on stage and you are going to make it happen. And the way that you do that is by going to the computer and googling a local open mic around you. I want you to place this for far enough out in the future that you still have time to rehearse. You have time to refine your material, you have time to cut it down to the time it needs to be, but close enough that it should scare you a little bit you should be like oh my god, I'm actually going to do this.

I would challenge you at this point. If you've actually been rehearsing your material, just go up and do it tonight. Just go straight out. Just go do it tonight. Go find an open mic if you have one call ahead email message on Facebook, whatever you need to do, maybe it's a show up and go up. Maybe it's a lottery.

You can show up in just doing your material if that's if you do not if that scares you too much. If you like No, I need more time. That's totally fine. This is about you and the pace that you have, but you need to get on stage and do this. That's the culmination of this course. So here we are.

I'm going to dive into the computer and show you a little bit about how to do that. Then we're going to talk about a handful of more things in terms of lifestyle and philosophy to prepare you mentally for getting on stage.