Wild 'N Out Audition and Humiliation

• 🎯 Jeremiah Watkins recounts his disastrous audition for MTV's "Wild 'N Out," which involved a highly aggressive casting process and a controversial freestyle rap battle.
• 💡 The audition process included a "boot camp weekend" in Atlanta, where participants were subjected to intense psychological pressure and public eliminations.
• 🎤 During a "wild style" freestyle rap battle, Watkins delivered a provocative line about a trans cast member, which deeply unsettled the producers and audience, leading to his immediate rejection.
• 💔 Despite a strong performance on the first day, the incident overshadowed his potential, and a writer friend later confirmed Watkins was cut because of that single joke.

Encounters with Andy Dick

• 🎭 The podcast delves into a bizarre and uncomfortable night in 2010 where Watkins met comedian Andy Dick at Second City.
• 🍻 Dick, heavily intoxicated, exhibited erratic behavior, including inappropriate touching, aggressive advances, and public intoxication, while distributing PBR to fans.
• 🤢 A particularly disturbing moment involved Dick putting his fingers, which had been in a girl's vagina and his own anus, into a friend's nose, calling it "bussy."
• 🤢 Dick also projectile vomited on a stranger in the street, who surprisingly laughed it off upon recognizing him.
• 🚶‍♂️ The night concluded with the group leaving Dick at a hostel, highlighting his apparent loneliness and the exploitative nature of celebrity interactions.

Journal Entries and New Year's Resolutions

• 📝 Watkins shares a journal entry from New Year's Eve 2009, detailing his profound homesickness, depression, and feelings of isolation while working at Starbucks in Los Angeles.
• 🌟 His New Year's resolutions for 2010 included quitting Starbucks, becoming famous in comedy, getting paid for his work, appearing in a TV commercial, getting an agent, and sending money to his mother.
• ✅ Remarkably, within two years, he achieved most of these goals, including landing a national commercial for the Chevy Volt, which helped him leave Starbucks.
• 🎷 He also discusses his mother's intuition about using the saxophone in his comedy, which later proved to be a valuable asset.

First Vagina and Childhood Comforts

• 💡 A journal entry from February 2011 details Watkins's first time seeing his now-wife Maya's vagina, noting it was "pretty cool" and he was "starting to see what the fuss is all about."
• 🧸 He also reflects on sleeping with a childhood teddy bear or a Spider-Man doll for comfort into his early twenties, a habit he kept hidden from partners.
• 🧸 These childhood comfort items are now in his son's room, symbolizing a full-circle moment.