Tiempo Muerto — Lost Time (Raw Story)

This is what this lost time is, as my wife talked about, of lost time. The concept of lost time. And I can do a whole joke on that. The concept of lost time. The concept of lost time and management consulting equals anything that a customer wouldn’t pay for. Anything that is not value-added. It’s lost time. You want to remove the fat, right? That’s why a Formula One pit stop can be done in less than three seconds, because you remove everything that doesn’t need to be done right there at that time. My wife said that this whole, my whole comedy career, this whole comedy course was tiempo muerto, which think about the translation. Lost time is something that was lost, right? It’s wasted. It’s wasted time. So you’re removing the waste. When we—I did a project. That’s how I met her. I did a project in Mexico, and the company that I worked for really focused on that, identifying the lost time in the operations. You know, kind of the doge type of bullshit, but really realistic, centered in reality. So you’re looking, hey, you know, these machines are positioned in the wrong way, so let’s move them a little closer because, you know, it makes sense from a flow. If you’re an event planner, you know that, you know. It’s whatever. But when you go to Mexico, you have to translate all these fundamentals and go to whatever country. You know, we were in the Philippines. You also had to translate some things, although they also speak English. But you try to—and for them, that time was the biggest translation. So when she found out that this was a comedy course, that I was engaged in comedy in any way, shape, or form, and it was the comedy course, she said, Oh, entonces es mas tiempo muerto, right? Which makes it for just such a funny thing. Because I am concerned. What I am concerned about really, you know, say, Hey, why are you nervous about this? Yes, but probably not for the reasons that you guys think, you know. But if you’re reading this, it’s because you clicked on the QR code, because this is not going to make it to the show, I don’t think. But the thing is, my main concern is not whether I’m gonna bomb on the set. My main concern is that I’m gonna become so famous, or, you know, famous enough that people that I know want to find me find me, you know, like debt collectors, but not famous enough that I have so much money that I can just pay everybody off. So that’s the concern. But I don’t think this is lost time. I think that any time that you are, whatever age you are, that you want to learn a new skill, a new hobby, whatever it is, if it is playing or working with your creative juices, your ability to communicate, or your ability to build, you know, arts and crafts, etc. I think that there’s nothing dead about it, there is nothing lost about it. I am happy I’m doing. I’m happy I’m playing around with technology to be able to, in like a day or two, put together this sort of more or less interactive type of approach to jokes. And I appreciate you guys reading it.