It's a place where you can go
and be yourself, no matter how weird yourself is. So how did you get into this? I grew up in a circus I so my
dad, when I was a kid was working with Big Apple Circus.
And we left the circus when I was six, and started doing
renaissance fairs around the country. My dad eventually
started his own show did school assembly programs, theater
programs, so I had that taste of the life all through my
childhood. And at the same time, my mother was a college
professor, she's
now retired in Florida. And so I still got a
normal education on top of it. Looking back was that kind
of an interesting life is definitely an interesting life. Being the
circus kid is really cool when you're six, and it stops being
cool around 12. Up until I would say, like college. So like that
whole stretch of like middle school, high school. Not a fun
time. We all have those teenage
experiences, like I don't want to be my parents, but then how
do you how did you find yourself back in it? So
that's, that's a really easy
question. I was actually I was working for an ice cream shop,
and I was making 625 an hour. My dad called me he was like, I
need you to I need some help with this show. I will pay you I
think it was the equivalent of $50 an hour. And I was like, oh,
oh, okay. All right. You can you can make a living with this. And
much better than, you know, the minimum wage at the time. And so
I was I think it was 16 then, and I hadn't done anything with
him for about five, six year
s. And suddenly, I was like, oh,
okay, well, let's let's start relearning some of these skills,
learning skills that I never had in the first place. And then
when I went off to college, it was like, Alright, I can go back
to scooping ice cream, or I can just, you know, go out on the
streets of Boston and just street perform and see if I can
make some money that way. And it turned out that just by street
performing in like September, October, and then again, in
April, May when it was warm enough,
I could make enough to
kind of like have spending money throughout the year. I wouldn't say necessarily
lucrative, but that's the first word that jumps into my mind.
Like you can do this full time and be good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So my dad
has been a full time circus performer his entire,
essentially his entire adult life, he worked when he was
very, very young, kind of worked in the factory, drove cab just
to kind of like pay the bills. But since I would say about 30
years old, he has been a f
ull time circus or Renaissance, fair
performer, no side, hustle, nothing, nothing like that. And
he, he let's put it this way. He's put multiple children
through college. With that. It is I think there's this image of
circus people and Ren Faire people have, you know, they're
there because they don't have anywhere else to go. But if you
have the right skills, it can be a very good career. There are a lot of people that
have those right skills. So like you can do this, but you got to
be really go
od. I think where you get it the most
is sort of in my line of work where you're the variety act,
you're not, let's say a member of the cast at the renaissance
fair. You're not working at a booth or something like that. So
when you have a variety act, whether it's myself, someone
like Paulo garbanzo, the juggler, you're an Arizona so
like Adam, when rich at the Arizona renaissance fair, those
are people who can make a solid living in and support themselves
off of that. Now, when you do like kind
of
the variety show for people who aren't familiar, I know that
you're known mainly for the whipping. But what all kind of
what's the show? What do you do all that kind of stuff? Well, so just a comeback track
of variety show is sort of anything that's not let's say
doing Shakespeare, so just variety circus tricks. So my big
thing that I do that you see on tick tock Instagram, all that is
the musical whipping. So I'll take two whips, use them to make
a beat. And then I will improvise lyrics as
best I can
on the fly with what the audience gives me and that's
what gets posted to social media because that's all improv I kind
of related to it's like a stand up comedians crowd work, it's
because it's different every show. I'm fine putting that up
there. But then after that, I have, I would say about 45
minutes of completely, you know, scripted material, that is a mix
of stand up and circus tricks. So whether it's target cutting
with the whip, lighting, a whip on fire, fancy whip cracking,
there's there's a whole other set of the show that does not
get posted because that's scripted material, and you have
to come see the show in person to see that. But why did you gravitate
towards the whip? So when I was a kid, my dad did
whip cracking and Indiana Jones so I think those two things I
basically when I was a kid, it seemed cool. And I had easy
access to it. So you know the whip that I first learned on was
one of my dad's old Whips that was made by the guy who made the
whips for the
original Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones.
So that was the whip that thing is worth like $2,000 today, and
that was the whip he handed to a seven year old To learn how to
use, which is not a good idea, I do not advise teaching seven
year olds to crack whips. Yeah, that's kind of a more
dangerous thing, right? Like, I don't know if you can do that
today, like here three years ago, not as dangerous as people think
it's, it's dangerous, but it's if you're taking the right
precautions, which is
wear long, long pants, sleeves, wear eye
protection, that's the big thing. It's not too bad. I also
say if you got someone young, give them your protection too,
just because those things are loud. And I do have mild to
moderate hearing loss. And, you know, you can avoid that. If you
just give your child some some earplugs while they're cracking,
cracking their first whip babies first whip, you can they're that loud, or you
just done it so much that like it's a combination of it. So
most of the
time, I actually try to not be too loud with the
whips because it's, it's louder for someone on the on the other
end who's watching me because the whip it when it cracks is,
you know, 678 feet away from me. And if I'm on a small stage,
that means it's like two feet away from the audience. So it's
right in their face when it cracks. But there are a few
cracks a few Whips that I have, where it's just right next to my
right ear, and it is loud. So it's if I've taken hearing
tests, the hearing in my
right ear is so much worse than my
left ear because I'm right handed, most of the cracking is
on my right side. How do you crack it? I've never
been like I had a whip when I was a little kid. But I couldn't
do anything with it. Like how do you do it. So the first thing you do is
don't try to do what everyone tries to do, which is they take
the whip at like on the ground, they just kind of flick it up
and down real quick. That's a really good way to hit yourself
in the eye hit yourself on the ar
m. The trick is usually it's
kind of like and I've never fly fished. But I've been told that
it's the exact same motion, it is the way that you would fly
fish, which is you bring it back behind you let it get fully
extended, and then bring it forward. It's kind of like kind
of like casting a fishing line. Not perfectly the same. But it's
it's it's a process. And then over time, you just kind of
develop the muscle memory I learned so long ago. I have
actually I have trouble teaching people now be
cause I'm like,
just just do this. It's that simple. Just do this. And
they're like, I don't know what I do. I have two children like explain
to them how to run. I don't know, you just you just just do
it, do it. And as a person who fly fishers like that's exactly
how you fly fish, right? You let it go all the way back. And then
you just kind of snap your wrist a little bit do exactly. Um,
what do you think makes you good at it? I think so what what I had the
fortunate, I had the good fortune of
a couple of things.
One, I grew up in the world, so of circus. So I've, I've kind of
learned a lot just through osmosis. When I first started
really, really practicing whips. I found that I knew how to do a
lot of the tricks just by watching having watched my dad
do it so many times. But then the other thing was, I've been
doing this show 15 1617 years now. So I'm in my mid 30s. I
started performing solo when I was 18 in college. And so I had
essentially 1314 years where no one knew who I was,
I was I was
getting work, but not a ton of work. And so I had all that time
to polish my show, figure out how to do this figure out okay,
what makes people laugh, what doesn't make people laugh, and
go from there. So I had a lot of time to fail off camera. And
then you know, this social media blow up didn't happen for me
until October of 2021. By then, I think I was in my 13th 14th
season. So I had a lot of time to kind of figure it out. What was that like doing
something for so long? And then a
ll of a sudden, boom. It was it was weird. I mean, so
the the initial videos that went viral actually, were not my
videos, they were videos of me that a fan took and put on tick
tock, and suddenly these videos are gone. My wife texted me
while I was at work. At my real job. I was working at a radio
station. And she goes, my friend just sent me this asking if this
is you. And so I was like alright, well, I guess there's a
demand for this after I think the second video went viral. So
I was like, w
ell, let's let's make a tic tock account. We've
got some old show footage. Let's just put it on the internet and
see what happens. And it was very quick within 10 days. I was
like okay, all right, there's there's a demand for this. And
then as it continued to roll, it was sort of like okay, well,
let's see if we can make this a career. And it's i i think in a
lot of ways going back to being able to fail off camera, you
know, the having the time that I did, working both, you know, at
renaissance
fairs, and then also my work at working in radio I
got a chance like sort of a taste of what it's like to be in
the public eye without Being a celebrity. And that kind of, I
feel like I came into it. Not surprised. Not not surprised,
but I sort of knew is like, Okay, this is what we do. This
is how we manage expectations. This is how we manage, you know,
making sure that I take time for myself make sure I have things
that are outside the public eye. Doing that was was huge. And
having that oppor
tunity before this all happened was huge. knew how to handle it. Like
there was the groundwork was laid essential. Yeah, yeah. And I've said, you know,
had this happen when I was 22, I would not have been able to deal
with I would not have been ready to deal with it, I would have
turned insufferable. Yeah, I think you see that
happen to a lot of people on social media, too. What was that
like kind of being in the public eye doing the radio stuff? And
then like, hey, what do you do on the side li
ke, Well, I do I. So I tried to not always
publicly say it, and be super forthcoming about it. It was not
information that I would regularly volunteer. But
certainly plenty of people that I interacted with knew I
remember, it was very funny. I was doing a show one time I saw
Boston City Councilor who I had covered in my crowd one day, he
was a terrible audience member, he was talking to his wife or
his girlfriend the whole time. But no, I think I think early
on, there was this sense of, I think,
people were kind of
confused, they would give you this quizzical look, they're
like, wait, what? What do you do on the side? But I think after a
few years, everyone kind of knew, and if they didn't know,
they were just kind of like, alright, it's, it's always I,
you either get this reaction of people are just shocked. Or more
more frequently, it's kind of just that people are like, Oh,
okay, that's cool. That's interesting. And then they move
on, when did you start kind of in
including the sing
ing in it like that spot thing. So let's
get to though we have things again. That came out of out of just an
improvised bit, I was working with another whip cracker, and I
was just standing there, we both had one whip. And so I'm
standing there and I was going. And then he happened to crack
just in time that we made the beat for We Will Rock huge boom.
And I'm like, Well, wait, keep that going. Keep that going. And
suddenly, we started saying, we will rock you. And I was like,
wait a minute, you
can probably do this with a bunch of stuff.
So I tried to start trying out different beats. And I had taken
a ton of improv classes when I was younger, when I thought, you
know, maybe I want to be an actor or something like that.
And making up lyrics to songs had always been something I was,
I don't know about good at, but at least you know, that age
proficient at and I had done high school musicals, high
school theater. So my singing voice is not, you know, no one's
gonna confuse me for a prof
essional singer. But I can
carry a tune decently. And so from there, it sort of became
this idea of like, okay, well, let's, let's try putting this in
the show as what we call the pre show, which is the pre show is
not your good material, the pre show is something that's good
enough, that's loud to get people to come to the show,
because renaissance fairs, you know, you have show times, but
you don't have a set crowd. So you the first five minutes,
you're essentially trying to get more people to
come and see your
show. And so what I realized is musical whipping, being loud
singing songs, this is a great way to get people to stop by and
watch the show. And so I made that kind of the permanent
fixture of the first five minutes of my show, and that was
probably starting around 2012, I would say was when that
happened. Are you surprised that it was
like, Wait, this, this is the thing? No, because I mean, I mean, you
look at the popularity of people like weird L. And you know,
there's a dem
and for it. It's not everyone's thing, like, I
see my comments every now and then where people are like,
really people find this entertaining. And I'm like,
Listen, I don't know, I don't get it. Yeah, right. Like, what are you? What
are you mad at me for? Whatever works, man? How does that work? Then you get
paid by the Renaissance Fair, or people have to pay to come into
the show or is it? It's a combination. So the most
fairs are a combination of they will pay you. And then you also
get tips f
rom the audience. And the tips are where you make most
of your money. Usually, now what are you always you can
pronounce it better than I am zipper. Jaaxy whip, right? Yeah. So
early on was my father and I essentially helped create,
create this this act when I first moved to renaissance fairs
when I was 20, I think. And they're kind of three pillars of
what makes a good, Renaissance Fair show. And you ideally
should have a mix of all three. But you can get by with two of
the three if those two a
re really high and that's comedy,
skill and character. And when I started my skills were Yeah, so
we had to lean more on the comedy, and especially on the
character and renaissance fairs. Most people are English, Irish,
Scottish, you get the straight German, every now and then very
few French people. And so I was like, alright, well, let's let's
be French. I took I took five years, six years of French
classes I can, I can kind of fake it a little bit. And it
kind of worked. And then I remember t
he last day of my
first weekend doing the character, I drew on the
mustache, and that seemed to make it click for everyone,
which is that, oh, this is dumb. This is this is a skill show.
This is dangerous show. But this is still dumb. This is comedy,
and we're here to have have a good laugh. And nowadays, I'm so
glad I made that decision, because it allows people to
understand that they should not be intimidated by by a man
holding a whip. And that this is this for laughs This is to have
a good
time. What is it about renaissance
fairs because it's something that I haven't personally been
to, but it's in my experience that people who are into it,
they are into it. I think Renaissance Fair is it's a
place where you can go and be yourself, no matter how weird
yourself is. So for a long time, it was a safe space for to put
it bluntly, the freaks and geeks of our world and I, you know, I
put myself in that category. But I think over the last, I would
say 10 years between Game of Thrones, wh
ich are the Lord of
the Rings, being a nerd has become more acceptable, and of
course, Marvel as well. And so we've had this influx, I think
of young professionals, you know, people in their mid to
late 20s, they're finally making good money, they don't yet have
kids, they have a lot of disposable income. And they have
been coming to the Renaissance Fair in droves. I noticed it
around 2014 2015, where I was like hanging on. Everyone who's
here at this show. Looks like me, it looks like they're a
t the
exact same stage of life, as I know, except for like that
family there and that old guy there. So I think there's been a
big jump in that clientele so that renaissance fairs have
grown. And then on top of that, in the years after COVID, it was
an outdoor safe space, it was an outdoor space, you could go and
have fun, and not necessarily need to worry about being
indoors with 500 other people to go see some kind of
entertainment. So maybe I'm missing out. Do you
think that continues though?
Is it a flash in the pan? Or like
No, no, I think we've set a benchmark. They've been around for 50 years. Going back
to the early one. I think it started in the 60s, in
California. And you know, a lot of the festivals I work are in
there. You know, they're 30 plus years old. They're 40 plus years
old. So I don't know that they're going anywhere in the
immediate future. I don't think you're going to see yours like
you did in 2021 was just an extraordinary year, all around.
But I think yeah, I t
hink I think they're here for I think
they're here for a good long while. Are you ready for some harder
slash listener submitted questions, go for it. Hardest
type of whip to crack stock whips. So there are
essentially three kinds of whips. You have a leather
bullwhip, which is like an Indiana Jones whip. You have
performance hybrid whips, which are a combination of a bullwhip
and a stock whip. And those are what you see me cracking and
most of my videos I use, I call them my musical whips. And
then
stock whips. They come from Australia, used for driving
stock driving cattle, and they had this weird hinge on them
where you go from the stiff handle into the braid of the
whip. It's got this hinge on it, and I cannot figure out how to
work those and it's probably just because I didn't grow up,
cracking those I grew up cracking my dad's bull whips. So
I actually have a pair on their way to me now that I'm gonna try
and figure out and see if I can get better with them. But that's
that's eas
ily it. And that and the chain whip just because the
chain whip is you know you're cracking a chain, it's heavy,
it's floppy is a really good chance you hit yourself and hurt
yourself. But that's that's I put that in a whole separate
category. That leads us into this question,
right? Like, what's the worst injury that you've had? Like?
How often do you get hurt? Not very often. I think people think
whips are a lot more dangerous than they are. Whips will leave
a welt at the most they'll leave yo
u know kind of a shallow cut.
And that's if you really really mess up. The worst I ever did
was in college when I was 20 or that was 20 or 2221. And I went
to go do a side crack and as the whip came forward, it caught the
back of my neck and I thought it was just a welt and then I
learned that the next day in class that I had not left a welt
I had left a long cut across the back of my neck. Someone in
class leans over to like, Jack, what did you do to your neck?
And I just look at them I gave th
e whip crack motion. They're
like, Oh, okay, all right, we're not interested anymore. Crack myself with a whip I go,
yeah. Okay, you know, we've all been there. All
right, um, what's your favorite song to
perform? So I would I always like or
songs that are a little bit slower or that have different
rhyming schemes. So if it's just, you know, rhyme A, B, B,
that's harder, because your, your brain has to move faster.
What I really like are songs that are slower, and it's an A
B, a type of rhymes.
So you have two lines before you have to
come back and do the rhyme. So a good example of this is sound of
silence. Sound of Silence is nice and slow. Everyone knows
it, and you have tons of time to think up what the rhyme is going
to be. So I had done some sound of silence a bajillion times. It
is never the same rhymes because every single time I'm adapting
it to the situation because I have enough time to do it.
Something like Eminem is Rap God where he's making a rhyme every
half second, not
my favorite to do. Those are a lot of those are
a lot harder to do. How do you feel about Indiana
Jones? I'm a fan of Indiana Jones. I
was not a fan of Indiana Jones for I thought Indiana Jones five
was fine. I am very much very much looking forward to the
video game that's coming out at some point this year. Who is your favorite fictional
character with a whip? Besides if it's if it is Indiana Jones? I think right now it's Richter
Belmont. Trevor from the Castlevania series, the Netflix
series.
I so I watched both both Castlevania series they have I
really liked Trevor Belmont. And the original of just being just
a dumb himbo who's really good at fighting vampires, which I
enjoyed a lot. I thought they gave Richter a little bit more
depth. And I like his costume a lot more. So I think right now
it's, I'm leaning towards Richter at the moment, can you really swing from a tree
or from anything on a whip, you can swing from a tree on a
whip, it is not advisable. And it is not something t
hat you
should rely on. So it's easy to tie the whip around the tree, it
is much harder to get the whip untied around the tree. You
know, I don't know that my whip would actually survive doing
that more than two or three times. Is there an aspect of kind of
like circus performance necessarily that do whip seem to
do better than not something else say that if you're juggling
or throwing knives or anything like that? Is there kind of a
hierarchy like you want to make it you get the whip? Well, so
I think my dad actually told
me about this and talked to me about this when I was very, very
young. When I was sick, I was like, oh, I should learn how to
juggle. And my dad said here's the thing. Everyone can juggle
everyone in the circus can juggle everyone who goes to the
circus has seen a person juggle before. And so if you want to be
a standout juggler, you really need to be extraordinary at it
or you need to be so funny that you essentially don't need the
juggling anyway. And even then, ev
en if you do all of that,
there, you know there are 10 Other jugglers who are almost as
good or just as good as you who could also do that, that act
whereas, you know, I look at the Renaissance Fair circuit, there
are three people who do a primarily whip based show myself
Adam when rich Aaron bonk. So starting just from there, the
level of competition is much lower. And that was you know,
when he'd mentioned that to me, I was like, oh, okay, you're,
you're telling me that I can get more work for
less, less amount
of practice? Yes, this sounds like a great idea. So I
gravitated towards whip cracking. For that reason. I
also tried dice throwing, I have a knife throwing show that I
don't do very often. I have some other kind of miscellaneous
circus skills, plate spinning, balancing, both, you know
whether it's on a tight surface or something, let's say on my
chin. Lots of other skills that I can kind of pull out but
they're not really you know, the reaction that you get from
spinning a pl
ate is much less than what you get from cracking
the whip. I have never understood the
knife throwing aspect. Is it the knife? Is it the technique? Do
you have to get the distance down? Like how do you get it all of the above. So what you
want is you want knives that are weighted in such a way that
they'll fly truer, heavier knives are better because
there's less variation on how much they rotate. You want to
spin the knife as little as possible. And then for me so I
know that 10 nine and three
quarters steps away from the
knife board is where I want to be. When I'm when I'm throwing
knives. The way that I throw them the knife will rotate and
it'll stick the same way every single time as long as I can
find that distance. But if somebody gave you like a
random distance, okay, I want you to do 13 and a half steps.
Could you hit it or like No, it has to be this distance. I couldn't consistently do it. I
was amazed. So I'm sharing a stage with a guy named sai the
sword swallower in Colorad
o, and he doesn't like throwing show
and I was watching him and I was like, sigh I'm looking at the
stage because normally you tape where your mark is where you
need to stand your tape where the board needs to be and where
you need to be. And I'm looking at like, sigh where, where are
your marks? How are you? How are you figuring this out? And he
goes, Oh, and he walks up to the board, starts throwing knives
and stepping back, you know, about a foot each time and every
single one of those knives
stuck. And I was like, what? How
do you how do you do that? It goes, I don't know, I practice a
lot. Jesus man, that doesn't seem to really go
along with like the laws of physics. I don't know if it's
physics, but I would think like no, you it's not going to rotate
again that fast. He just he's he's that good
where he can he can just eyeball the distance and change how much
the knife is rotating. Okay, so we're looking at a
video. Most bullwhip, let me make sure the audio is off. Yeah, this was
when I think I
did 287 cracks. So this is actually not the current record,
because I broke this record in 2020. But this is me swinging
the whip back and forth. 287 tight, well, 290 times, but I
missed a few cracks in it. And this was this was a record that
I spent most recently, I spent about two years training six
hours a day working our six days a week working out three days on
one day off three days on one day off, spent two years doing
that put on 15 pounds of muscle to do this record, and
then
promptly had shoulder surgery for unrelated reasons and lost
all that muscle. I went from looking like Captain America to
looking like my normal self, which was sad. You need that much muscle to do
that. At the point that we had put it,
you did, because I had been going back and forth with Adam
when rich for a few few years. And I wanted to just finally put
it way out of reach. So I in COVID, I decided you know what?
Screw it. I don't have anything else going on. I'm just going to
work out
as much as I can put on as much muscle as I can. And
see, you know how high I can put this mark? I think that's the thing with like
whips, though. It's one of those things where like, you look at
it like I could do that. It's Is it a lot harder than people
think that it is? I mean, cracking a whip in an in
and of itself is not difficult. The record is difficult because
I was one of those guys where I looked at the record. I'm like,
I can do that. And then I tried it. I was like, oh, oh, that's
a
lot harder than I realized. And so, you know, I think I think
getting to where I am as a whip cracker. Someone could probably
do in six months to a year if they were dedicated. And I've
been cracking whips for like I said, you know, 20, almost 30
years. But then getting the record, it has to be basically
your sole focus at this point for for a year plus, at where
Adam and I have said it. Here's knife throwing. It's not actual
knife throwing this is this I just posted this morning. Oh,
okay, me
showing off all those other tricks that I that I
learned and that I don't actually do in the show anymore,
because no one cares about them. Is that there is magic play that there's a little bit
of magic. It's not good magic. Why is plates spinning in the
Renaissance? Fair? Is that an old timey thing? No, it's just a circus thing. So my
dad's show was called the super scientific circus still is
called the super scientific circus where you teach science
through circus tricks. And so one of those
was plate spinning
because it teaches about centripetal and centrifugal
force. And I had a lot of days backstage where just just sat
there spinning plates because it was the only thing to do. Oh,
there you go. Indiana Jones in with my dad. Hey, go. So this is
where we tried all the things that Indiana Jones does in the
movies with one of my dad's old whips made by the guy who made
the whips for Indiana Jones who's dead now. And so you know
that whip is worth more than I am all of those whips are
worth
more than I am. But he had these whips and and the new Indiana
Jones movie was coming out this past summer last summer. And I
was like well let's let's try and do some Indiana Jones tricks
with with the whips like there's a flash that he does in the
Raiders movie. That's actually harder than that it looks
disarming an armed attacker. So I had them hold out a bat pulled
the bat out. It worked far better than I expected it to.
And then trying to swing from a tree branch. So for this, we did
not use one of those whips because I didn't want to break
it but we use an eight foot whip caught around it perfectly and I
don't I don't have it here. But it took me about three minutes
to untie it from the tree. I haven't I have it in the
bloopers reel that i think i i posted later. Because it's
really hard to actually untie a whip. Once you've taught you
know you spent so much of your life trying to not get your
whips tangled or like tie them into knots because they they
will do that sometim
es. And then trying to do it intentionally is
really hard. That's cool. So there's
different ways to crack it. Yeah. So front crack back crack over the
head crack side crack, these are not the official terms. And then
I say we will not be demonstrating the butt crack.
Obviously not that kind of show. You can see that show somewhere
else, but not with me. But there are all sorts of different
techniques that you can use for whip cracking. I think the the
one that's most common, you know, that fron
t crack is called
either the circus crack or the Kettlemans crack because it was
how cattlemen would would crack whips. There's another one
called the coachman's crack, where you don't want it to crack
out front, because then you're going to be whipping, you know,
the oxen or the horses that are pulling your carriage. And so
what you do is you kind of put out this stutter into your hand,
so that it cracks right next to your right ear and makes you
lose hearing for a few seconds. I don't like tha
t crack. This is what I always wonder about
people who do circus performance in any kind of thing where they
have to like, how many copies of that outfit do you have? Are you
just wearing the same one time? I have three different set. I
have three vests? I have four shirts. I have three of those
sashes. The pants right now I have four but I'm having four
brand new pair or No, I have three because I sent one of them
off to a woman who's making me four more pair of pants and then
the socks. I have
probably like seven or eight pair of socks,
and then the shoes I have five or six pair of those. He and now Wait. Does anybody
just wear the same one every day? Like, Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it
gets gross. So for a while I only had two, which was usually
fine, because I'm performing, you know, on weekends. But then
you would have that stray that rogue three day weekend, let's
say around like Memorial Day weekend or Labor Day weekend.
And that Labor Day Monday. Oh, boy, what I smell bad. B
ecause
it's also you know, it's late August, early September. It's
still warm. It's you know, even if you're in the Northeast in
Boston, which is where I usually was it's still it's hot and it's
humid, and it's muggy. I mean, like not like what you get in
Arizona, but humid humidity helps or doesn't help, I should
say. So how hard was this to do? So these whips are so freakin
heavy. And I have I have my shoulders are Swiss cheese, as I
always like to say they've got lots of lots of damage with
t
hem. So I start with a five pound chain whip, which is
heavy, but it's crackable. I can do most of what I want. But this
this other one is a 10 pound chain whip. And the whole time
I'm swinging this being like, Oh God, just don't dislocate your
shoulder trying to crack this thing because you can feel it
pulling on you the weight is there. I mean, you say it's only
10 pounds, but it's also eight feet long. And just you know the
central riff. The goal for us I always have to remember is that
centr
ipetal or centrifugal? The centrifugal force is just
pulling on your arm so much that I have to just like tuck
everything in there to make sure nothing comes out. That's pretty much all the questions
that I got. Is there anything that you think that we missed?
And what's kind of coming up next for you? Where can people
find you? The best way to find me is so I'm
going on tour in just just a few days. Busy 2024 ahead. The full
schedule. The easiest way to find it is Jack the ripper.com
or Shaka Z
i wipro.com or Jack lip ers.com. No one knows how to
spell any of my names. So I got all three domain names, and they
will all take you to my website which has my full schedule.
Otherwise, give me a follow Tiktok Instagram, YouTube,
Facebook, I'm on all the platforms and just about all the
platforms get all the same content. I think Renaissance
Fair is it's a place where you can go and be yourself no matter
how weird yourself is.
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Was he on kill tony?