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Showbiz My Life As A Middle Aged Man From Comedian Now Author Murray Hill · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: enjoy your exploration hello and good morning how are you
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  Speaker 1: doing today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god you how much coffee did you have today.
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  Speaker 1: No no no it's it's all about looking out this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful window at this forest and and we've got deer
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  Speaker 1: like they're they're out there getting all ready for that
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  Speaker 1: little thing that they're going to be doing later on
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  Speaker 1: making those deer babies.
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  Speaker 2: Oh where are you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean i'm in carolina so where are you at
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  Speaker 1: today Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking out my window and I see four
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  Speaker 2: construction trucks, horns blowing up. And, you know, it smells
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  Speaker 2: like a pile of trash. But anyway, good morning from Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: You of all people, you can find comedy in everything
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  Speaker 1: that you breathe. And I find that so inspiring about you.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like there's no reason to get mad. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just create a joke. Let's all laugh together. Can we
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  Speaker 1: just do that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's basically my whole shtick. And that's S-C-H-T. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't say the other word. Yeah, because you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Things are rough enough as it is. Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're all living in this world at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: It's not, it's rough. So, you know, let's make a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have, you know, let's have some laughs. And I
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  Speaker 2: always say this, pal, you know, if you're laughing, you
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  Speaker 2: can't be hating at the same time. So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to choose the laughing.
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  Speaker 1: That is so true. Boy, those are, you need to
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  Speaker 1: put that on a t-shirt. I would market that in
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  Speaker 1: a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I'm going to sell it for $ 15.
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  Speaker 1: Can we go for $ 15.
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  Speaker 2: 50?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that people then feel that they have
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  Speaker 1: a value in that then. They'll go, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: I paid $ 15. 50 for this.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I got to get one, too. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I probably could upsell it because if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 2: the administration is sending us some more checks so we
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  Speaker 2: can spend money on Murray Hill merch.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you love that? See in radio, I call that
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  Speaker 1: infotainment and my program directors would never understand how I
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  Speaker 1: would take a modern day thing and just laugh about it.
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  Speaker 1: And people would look at me going, you just need
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  Speaker 1: to shut up people. And I'm going, no, we need
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  Speaker 1: to laugh more about what's going on around us.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, you know, it's, it's going to take us down.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It is. So we, yeah, we got to
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  Speaker 2: laugh and you know, not to get too, you know, Medical. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I get all my medical advice from Instagram. Yeah. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, laughing actually chemically makes you feel better. So
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's great to share a laugh with somebody.
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  Speaker 2: But you actually feel better. Well, I was up for
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  Speaker 2: some deep science.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've always believed that you should you guys should
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  Speaker 1: be a tax write off because it is great medicine.
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  Speaker 1: And if we're getting a tax break anyway for for medicine,
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  Speaker 1: when we go to the pharmacy, then every time we
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  Speaker 1: go to a comedy show, we should be getting a
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  Speaker 1: tax write off.
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  Speaker 2: I love this idea. And it's good for comedians because
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  Speaker 2: everything that we do in life, we write off on taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have to go see him coming to find me,
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in those green rooms. I've been at those
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  Speaker 1: comedy clubs. I don't know how you can turn it
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  Speaker 1: on and turn it off. And because, I mean, the ups,
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  Speaker 1: the downs, the twists, the spins, the ins, the outs.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you're on that stage and
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  Speaker 1: people are reacting to you in the most positive way.
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  Speaker 1: And I just sit back there going, I am watching
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  Speaker 1: a magic trick right here before my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: It is magic. You know, there's been many times in
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  Speaker 2: the book I write about, like there's, there's the lows
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  Speaker 2: are lows and the highs are highs. You know, there
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  Speaker 2: was one time I had, I had like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I won't get into it too much, but I had
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  Speaker 2: a tooth about to fall out of my goddamn mouth.
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  Speaker 2: And then I had, because I chipped it and then
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  Speaker 2: I had a huge gig, like, 10 seconds after it happened.
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  Speaker 2: So what did I do? Took 15 Advil. got up
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  Speaker 2: on stage, and I didn't even pay attention that there
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  Speaker 2: was a big gap in my tooth, and I just
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  Speaker 2: did the show anyway. Because you got to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're right about that, because I had a program director,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Damon, that told me one time, he goes, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be on my radio station, if your
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  Speaker 1: mom is near her deathbed, you still have a show
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  Speaker 1: to do tonight. You better show up. And that has
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  Speaker 1: always been with me for 47 years. And no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's raining outside. It's showtime.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the definition of showbiz. Yep. The show
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  Speaker 2: must go on. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you find this book being what I call a
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  Speaker 1: dear future reader moment? In other words, I believe that
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  Speaker 1: this book will be found in 20 to 25 years
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  Speaker 1: by just somebody who was sifting around And it's going
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  Speaker 1: to change their life forever. And you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: all the damn credit because you're writing this book in
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  Speaker 1: the way where it feels like you're sitting right here
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  Speaker 1: with me. That's a talent.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I wanted to keep it real. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm from Brooklyn. So, you know, showbiz and.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to people the way that I
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  Speaker 2: talk to people when I'm out with them. So that
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  Speaker 2: when they open that book, they feel like I'm sitting
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  Speaker 2: with them and reading it. And they're getting to know
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about life and showbiz and about me.
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  Speaker 2: This is an old reference, pal, but... I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how old you are. I can't tell. Maybe 75? Not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. Not yet.
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  Speaker 2: 40 years to go?
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. No, maybe a decade.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing great. You sound young and healthy. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I used to watch Johnny Carson as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: He had such an easy way about him and he
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  Speaker 2: was so likable and he didn't feel like he was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, better than you or judging you. He felt
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  Speaker 2: like your friend. And then so when I would watch him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in my house late at night on a
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  Speaker 2: TV that you actually had to get up and turn
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  Speaker 2: the channel. That's some crazy shit I'm saying. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he felt familiar and safe. And you could laugh at anything.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted it to have that kind of feeling
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  Speaker 2: of when I was a kid watching Carson of people
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  Speaker 2: reading the book. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I watch Carson every night. He's on antenna TV at
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  Speaker 1: 11 o'clock every fricking night. And the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: watch it too. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's for every reason that you just explained. He's
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  Speaker 1: so natural. And when he makes a mistake, the show
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  Speaker 1: must go on. I mean, I mean, I can see
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  Speaker 1: Carson in you then when you speak like this, because
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  Speaker 1: you write the show must go on, no matter what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, play along and believe in it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. And, you know, and that actually takes the
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  Speaker 2: stress and tension away from the audience and from him
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  Speaker 2: as a performer.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Because I had somebody say, you know, a director, a
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  Speaker 2: director in all my 30 years in show business, only
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  Speaker 2: one gave me a good note. And they said, you know, Murray,
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  Speaker 2: when things fall apart on stage, which they always do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with either a light breaking and blowing up
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  Speaker 2: or an audience starts heckling you, whatever it is. Never
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  Speaker 2: break character and always react as Murray. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: no problems. It's material. Because then you're in the room
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  Speaker 2: with everybody else in real time, reacting in real time.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than be like, oh, shit, my mic just went out.
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  Speaker 2: Or there's a blackout on stage all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just like Carsey, be like, he would read
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  Speaker 2: a bad joke. He'd be like, oh, that was a stinker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 1: That is so true. And I think my wake up
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  Speaker 1: call was when I made a horrible mistake on the
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  Speaker 1: air and listeners were going, I didn't hear anything. And
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  Speaker 1: you're going, are you listening to the same show that
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  Speaker 1: I'm performing? I didn't hear anything, dude. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden that changed the entire planet for me because
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I'm just being a human being.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The voices in our head are much worse than
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  Speaker 2: what other people hear.
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  Speaker 1: Dang it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why they lock us up sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the book is Showbiz, My Life as
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  Speaker 1: a Middle-Aged Man. We'll be right back with Murray Hill. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming back to our conversation
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  Speaker 1: with comedian and now author Murray Hill. How do you
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  Speaker 1: deal with those voices? Because I must have nine or
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  Speaker 1: ten different journals that I have to write in every
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  Speaker 1: day just so I can get control of those damn voices.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you won't be able to tell this
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  Speaker 2: by looking at me, but, you know, I love sports.
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  Speaker 2: I played sports when I was younger. I still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I still play a little baseball and basketball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pickleball now that I'm a senior. But, you know, something
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  Speaker 2: that Derek Jeter, Derek Jeter, you know, was New York
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  Speaker 2: for his entire career. This guy was the face of
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees, the face of New York. And he always
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  Speaker 2: talked about, you know, after a really bad loss and
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  Speaker 2: after an amazing win, he would stop thinking about that
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  Speaker 2: game at the last inning, at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and then immediately would focus on the next game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't look back. And I think in comedy,
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  Speaker 2: I feel the same way. And with the voices and
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff, it's like once you start thinking about Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I just messed up that joke, or I just did this,
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  Speaker 2: or there's nobody in the audience. That takes you out
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  Speaker 2: of the present. And then you're going to enter into
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  Speaker 2: bomb city. So I really think of it as sports.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you got to think about that next point
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  Speaker 2: right away. You can't linger. You can't think about, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this worked in this city, so it's going to work tonight. Nope.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be in there, present, read the room,
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  Speaker 2: and keep moving forward. Otherwise, you're a deep hit.
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  Speaker 1: So then how do you deal with those moments when
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  Speaker 1: you want to write the story before it happens? And
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  Speaker 1: you know what that means? That means, yes, that thing
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  Speaker 1: could fall from the ceiling. That microphone might not work.
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  Speaker 1: I might trip after they introduce me. You're writing every
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  Speaker 1: single scenario before it even happens, and then it never happens.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think that's the beauty of showbiz
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  Speaker 2: and comedy, because when actually everything goes right... which it
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  Speaker 2: rarely does, where you have all the technical stuff, the
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  Speaker 2: house is sold out, you're feeling the energy, you're vibing,
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  Speaker 2: it just feels like electricity for your entire set. That's
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  Speaker 2: what you always try to go for. But it's like
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  Speaker 2: a carrot in a way. I've done hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of shows. Maybe 2% of them have reached that pure
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  Speaker 2: magic state. so it's like so you always like keep
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  Speaker 2: going for it yep keep trying to get.
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  Speaker 1: That yep I'm going to be an average listener, average
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  Speaker 1: reader now. And I'm going to take a guess only
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  Speaker 1: because we never get to see this side of the book.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, we do see it, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: get to see the picture. I'm thinking that Nikki Fitz
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  Speaker 1: and Gus. OK, Nikki is probably a Maltese puppy. Fitz
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  Speaker 1: is probably like a bulldog that you rescued that came
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  Speaker 1: from a really cruel family. But you've given Fitz all
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  Speaker 1: this love and energy. And Gus is your pet frog
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  Speaker 1: or turtle. Which one is it? Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 2: They are my three nephews. No. And the one that
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  Speaker 2: you called the frog is, you know, he's really cute.
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  Speaker 2: we'll get a kick out of that i.
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  Speaker 1: Love dedications because it's it's almost like you're saying okay
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  Speaker 1: you get to be engaged in this book i'm going
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  Speaker 1: to share with you that these people are are so
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  Speaker 1: important to me i'm going to probably read about them
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the book but right now as we start
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  Speaker 1: this book and like once again it's a dear future
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  Speaker 1: reader thing you're setting me up as a reader to
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  Speaker 1: go have fun with this book just in fact you
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  Speaker 1: do have fun you say if you made it this
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  Speaker 1: far in the book i've freaking laugh so damn hard
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  Speaker 1: when i read that i'm going i'm gonna love this book.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you know once you get through the table of
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  Speaker 2: contents the dedications it's like oh jesus are we dead
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  Speaker 2: yet is it over i gotta tell you something funny
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  Speaker 2: about the dedication so fitz is eight years old oh
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  Speaker 2: he's so cute and i gave him the book the
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  Speaker 2: other day i had an advanced copy and he i
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  Speaker 2: showed him his name So imagine an eight-year-old, he's going,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this book is to the loves of my life, Fitz, Gus,
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  Speaker 2: and Nikki. And then I heard him say, and to
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  Speaker 2: all the psychiatrists and therapists. And I just started cracking up.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'll tell you in 20 years, kid. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God.
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  Speaker 1: So did any of those professionals in the mental health
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  Speaker 1: world ever look at you? Because this is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I went to it over and over and over again
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  Speaker 1: for years. And then the dude looks at me and says, well,
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  Speaker 1: your problem is you're addicted to excitement. And I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: I paid all that money just for you to say that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, did you run into anything like that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know she's not going to be listening because
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  Speaker 2: she's in an island in the Bahamas with all the
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  Speaker 2: money I gave her. So sometimes my shrink says, And
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  Speaker 2: it pisses me off. I'm just saying this now. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you ready for this? I am. Okay. $ 250 an hour.
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  Speaker 2: She says, just breathe. So true. Just breathe, Mary. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell do you think I've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: whole time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what I mean? I do know
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  Speaker 1: what you mean because I work at a grocery store
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  Speaker 1: because I like being with live people and it has
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  Speaker 1: to be an improv or an ad lib moment. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: I just won't work there. And so because to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's a live stage being at a grocery store and
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  Speaker 1: I will do that with more people that bring me
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  Speaker 1: their damn drama. I'll sit there and say, just breathe,
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  Speaker 1: just breathe. So I'm going, oh my God, your psychiatrist
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're not charging. You're not charging, you know,
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  Speaker 2: upselling the groceries to hear that. No.
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  Speaker 1: We have something in common. Oh, almost, almost, but very
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  Speaker 1: much in common. Your stage debut was on a farm.
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  Speaker 1: I had my guitar on haystacks in Ranchester, Wyoming, pretending
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  Speaker 1: that I was in front of 400,000 people performing. So
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  Speaker 1: to figure out that you were debuting on a farm,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, Oh my God, Marie and I could hang.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we could hang.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's go to a cornfield and, you know, smoke weed.
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  Speaker 1: You know that we could do it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you there'd be some group of crows that would
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  Speaker 1: come by and they would be laughing and having the
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  Speaker 1: time of their life because there's a language that you speak, Marie,
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  Speaker 1: that is just so beyond the human being.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you and I would improv each other's death. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There'd be two dead bodies in the middle. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: who said the last line?
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: How do you react to improv and how do you
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  Speaker 1: get yourself to be better in that? Because I call
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  Speaker 1: it stream thinking and I have a show on iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: that puts a lot of focus on that where you've
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  Speaker 1: got to learn to trust what is in your present
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  Speaker 1: place of right now. What has that been like for
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  Speaker 1: you to trust right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a skill that needs developing. It's like working out.
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  Speaker 2: You have to work out that muscle constantly. Yep. Because improv, too,
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  Speaker 2: it's like if you ever, like it's just like it's
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  Speaker 2: a matter of hairline seconds. When you're improvving, if you
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  Speaker 2: ever think about like the night before, a line that
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  Speaker 2: worked on somebody else to the person that you're talking
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  Speaker 2: to now, it's over.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So improv is, at least for me, is the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: surrender technique. to be present in the room. So when
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  Speaker 2: I'm on stage, I'm like a sponge. I see everything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm reacting to everything. But if my mind's somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: forget it. That's going to be a stink bomb performance.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's when I call out my real name. And
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  Speaker 1: if you ever hear me call, if you sit there
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  Speaker 1: and hear me say, Clarence, all of a sudden, that's
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: my way of saying, get your butt back into that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: performance and get it out of your head.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I need a name. What should Mike Clarence's name be?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: See, well, okay, if we're going to judge a book
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: by the cover, and we've got your picture and everything
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: like that, I think that your instant get-back-to-that-moment thing should
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: be even an Ivan. Or maybe my wife's father's name
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: was Harold. Or you just sit there and say, Harold!
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden you'll know, okay, I'm
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: out of focus. Get back into the focus game. It's
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: got to be something that's got to be sharp that
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: you know that your mother or somebody with sharp vocal
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: tones could cut through and make it happen.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I already hear enough of my mother's voice. Did you
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: read the book? Yes, I did.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: That's why I brought it up.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Harold. Let's stick with Harold, okay?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Harold!
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call him right now. Harold! He's talking
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: about my mother. Harold!
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, my dad would look at this book cover
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and because, you know, you have to be forgiving to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the man because he fought in World War II and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he's a veteran. He came from the silent generation. But
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: he would always say, get that smart ass look off
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: your face. And I saw your book cover and I went,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: my dad would love this cover. Oh, my God. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: can hear him now.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you're actually the first person that has commented on
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the look in my eye in that photo. So it
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: was very intentional and, you know, no one's noticed it
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: but you. So thank you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: That's my dad. My dad will never leave my heart.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And he's always sitting there saying, Clarence, get the hell
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: out of this conversation. Make sure that this guy knows
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: what he's doing and get this story going forward. I mean,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: he was just always so blunt. And I'm going, no,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I just want to hang out with Murray all day.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I just want to laugh all day about everything that
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: everybody's all grumbly about.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Because we need to do that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Because eventually, you know, we're going to run out of Xanax.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: You're not going to be able to afford the prescriptions.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So we've had to naturally get this high.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: It is a high, isn't it? I mean, but they
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: can't package it. And Red Bull can't figure out how
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to put it in a can. What is it that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: this high is all about that we've got to literally
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: live it naturally?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I think that the high for me is, you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: when everything's working, you know, everything's going smooth. It's the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: connection with other people. Yeah. And like in a positive way.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: life is tough. You can't rent. Everything is expensive. You know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the climate. It's just one thing after another. But when
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you're laughing and you're laughing in a room and you're
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: connecting with somebody, all that stuff kind of just goes away. Yep.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yep. And I'll tell you, I've seen the videos and
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I've read the book and I know one thing you are.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I love about you. It's not
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that you're shooting for us to be very happy to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: see you. You know that you're that we're happy because
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you recognize us and in your performances and in this book,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I feel like that you see me and that's why
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: there's a connection.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: You got it. You figured it out.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: From you, from you. I mean, because if you didn't
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: teach us in this great almighty book, which should be
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: in the third book of the Bible. I mean, come on,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: this is it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: So pissed.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Gotta wrap.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: All right, man, we gotta.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: He's telling me to wrap up.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: They're cutting us off already. What did I tell you?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: We're gonna improv to death.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Be brilliant and please come back to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: this show anytime.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: All right. Hey, I'll see you at the comedy club tonight.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You have fun today.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Showbiz.