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DVDs, Meeting Your Heroes, and Ragamuffins · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Today, I'm talking about that John can't find
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  Speaker 1: the remote until he finds his glasses and defends his
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  Speaker 1: love of McDonald's. Meanwhile, I feel old after a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with a young comedian and tell you the story of
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  Speaker 1: the time Winnie the Pooh went on trial for assault
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  Speaker 1: in the eighties. Plus a conversation about the late great
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  Speaker 1: author and theologian Brennan Manning and what it means to
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  Speaker 1: be a ragamuffin. Today's episode is not sponsored by Black
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  Speaker 1: licorice for people who love candy but hate themselves. The
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  Speaker 1: first a word from our actual sponsor, Johnny. The Long
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  Speaker 1: Dark Night of the Soul is over. We're back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was a long week off. Yeah, two weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: guess for the person who listens all the time, we
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  Speaker 1: had people reach out and be like, what the heck,
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  Speaker 1: Well one episode, that's what I mean. But it's two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a week off, so it's been two weeks
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  Speaker 1: since they've so to them.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Dark Knight of the Soul. Not to
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  Speaker 2: be dramatic, but.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little self aggrandizing sick.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was Saint John of the Cross. It's
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  Speaker 2: like the fifteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got new frames. I just noticed it. I've
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  Speaker 1: had a little blue on black action.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find glasses the other day, which is a
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  Speaker 2: very common.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, daily do you ever look on your head? Do
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  Speaker 1: you do that yet? No?
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  Speaker 2: Because things won't stay on my head.
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  Speaker 1: It's bald. Oh really Yeah, it's not got any encription
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  Speaker 1: or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Cryption up there.
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  Speaker 1: But no, but I can't. I don't know if you're
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  Speaker 1: frustrated by this, probably, but like I just.
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  Speaker 2: Want to see things, okay, And without reading glasses anything
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  Speaker 2: like within three feet, I can't really see anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Can you can still see up close to the rider?
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  Speaker 1: Are you far away? I can see far away? Gress?
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  Speaker 1: Oh your fai visions, can see my fagi visions. What's bad?
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  Speaker 2: So if I want to find the remote control, right,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta have glasses. Really, if it's in the covers
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  Speaker 2: or something, you know what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just frustrated. So then I gotta find glasses to find
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  Speaker 2: to find something. And I'm like I got to like, hey, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I sent you something. I'm like, oh, I gotta get
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  Speaker 2: up and go find glasses because.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have glasses nearby?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's I'm trying. That's the point of the story.
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  Speaker 2: I now try to keep glass. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the pairs I found to just stick all over the house.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't listen. I don't even care if
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  Speaker 2: that sounds like an old man story. That's just what
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. Man, I'm staring at computing. It's a
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  Speaker 1: blind man's story. That's not You can be young and
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  Speaker 1: still need.
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  Speaker 2: Glasses, well, but reading glasses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, but yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I had perfect eyesight till like age forty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just when month started going downtown, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even I didn't know what was happening. I
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  Speaker 1: was with Evan, who would travel with me, who's young,
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  Speaker 1: he's got young eyes, and he would be my little
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  Speaker 1: navigator sometimes and where I noticed it like he would
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  Speaker 1: be like this is the exit, and I go, well,
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  Speaker 1: hang on a minute, and then about you know, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards later, I'd be like, yeah, that's the exit.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally when da Alecto around, I go, are
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  Speaker 1: you seeing He goes yeah, and I realized, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm blond.
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  Speaker 2: Arounds me of that Seinfeld where he's.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh, Costanza's conveys that he's seeing raccoons. Yeah, those
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  Speaker 1: aren't raccoons.
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  Speaker 2: Those are mailbox as, you idiot.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have the heart to tell you I was
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  Speaker 1: spotting those raccoons a perfect vision. Oh George, do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's squint down to twenty ten?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what he said?
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  Speaker 1: I can squint down to twenty ten, dude. I So,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of feeling old, I had a moment the other night.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to out the comedian because it's not
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  Speaker 1: her fault. It's my fault for being old. And when
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  Speaker 1: I tell this story, it's going to sound like I'm
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  Speaker 1: shaming the young generation for not being whatever and being
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  Speaker 1: in touch with their history. Well, we could do both.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a comedian in the in the Nashville scene
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  Speaker 1: who's blowing up, and I'm very proud of her. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: she's doing well. Her name is Amber Autry and she
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  Speaker 1: just did the Bees You. She filmed at the Bees
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  Speaker 1: You in Knoxville are are where you went to school
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  Speaker 1: and where she went to school as well, and it's
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  Speaker 1: my hometown. She did three sold out shows at the
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  Speaker 1: BESU to do her recording, so she's really blown up.
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  Speaker 1: She's had a little Netflix introducing kind of special where
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  Speaker 1: it's like an eight minute thing, and she got that
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  Speaker 1: last year. So we're talking in the green room and
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  Speaker 1: she's probably she can't even be thirty yet, she's twenty
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  Speaker 1: mid twenties, just full of energy, just full of hope.
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  Speaker 1: And we're and it's all these other comedians in the
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  Speaker 1: thing because it's for the Nashville Comedy Festival week, right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's me I walk in, It's me Greg Warren,
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  Speaker 1: some other older comics, and then Amber's over there, and
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  Speaker 1: then we got there's a few middle age comics, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of like just young guns you know,
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  Speaker 1: in there, and I'm like, all right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's fun that it's fun to kind of
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  Speaker 1: talk because you have this in common with them, and
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  Speaker 1: you go, well, we can all talk comedy. But then
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  Speaker 1: you just realize, like, oh, even with comedy, there are
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  Speaker 1: some things that she just does not, like she did
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  Speaker 1: not know who Albert Brooks was. Somebody says, well, Albert
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  Speaker 1: Brooks is here, and that's the only one that I
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  Speaker 1: really want to go secause they're talking about what show
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  Speaker 1: would you go see as a comic because it's a
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  Speaker 1: comedy festival Nashville Comedy Festival. You don't know about it.
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  Speaker 1: There's fifty five shows in town this week at different menus.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable time and gigantics shows, and so you kind
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  Speaker 1: of have to pick and choose. And I'm out of
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  Speaker 1: town a lot of it. But I was home for
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  Speaker 1: to do a show this week, and I'm coming to
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  Speaker 1: the Albert Brooks show because he's a hero of mine.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up loving his movies and just I have
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  Speaker 1: such respects that Belmont. It's at the Fisher Center. And
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  Speaker 1: so somebody says, oh, Albert Brooks and she goes, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who that is. And he goes, okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's moderating it's a guy named Kevin Pollack.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, I don't and she goes. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: he was in a movie called A Few Good Men.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember a Few good Men? She goes, I know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a classic. I don't. And I'm like, man, we're
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  Speaker 1: just bat in one thousand on old. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: just sound so old. Yeah, And then I start talking
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  Speaker 1: to her about her special I you filmed at the BSU.
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  Speaker 1: I said, were you happy with it? I said, that's
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  Speaker 1: amazing that you sold dow three times first of all
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  Speaker 1: young comic. You're killing it on the road. We're so
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  Speaker 1: proud of you. And she goes, thanks, it's really been fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited. And she goes, I'm really happy with it.
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  Speaker 1: Because I asked her if she got the footage back.
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  Speaker 1: And then I go, that's cool. I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I did you self funded because I had a feeling
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  Speaker 1: she had a bunch of money outside money involved, because
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  Speaker 1: she's really getting big now. She goes, no, I self
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  Speaker 1: funded it, and I go, oh, man, that's that took
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guts. I go, I self funded my
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  Speaker 1: first special back in twenty fifteen. We recorded it and
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  Speaker 1: released it in twenty sixteen years of the Franklin Theater.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, oh, whatever, let's go, and she was
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  Speaker 1: all excited for me. And then I go, we made
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  Speaker 1: the DVD, and I go, I was able to make
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  Speaker 1: my money back because I was selling DVDs. I was
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  Speaker 1: touring with another comedian, m Tim Hawkins, who would do
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  Speaker 1: these big venues and he would let me sell my
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  Speaker 1: product there and I could sell DVDs. And she looked
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  Speaker 1: at me.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, DVDs no way.
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  Speaker 1: She knew what a DVD was. But she goes, so,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, your special was on the DVD. I go, yeah, Amber,
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  Speaker 1: that's how people put their specials out. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: you would have I go, you would have nothing. I
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  Speaker 1: mean she has like I mean, she probablys T shirts
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  Speaker 1: and whatever. People don't sell DVDs anymore. No, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just kidding. But I'm saying, like, she's so
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  Speaker 1: young at comedy that she does not remember the DVD
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  Speaker 1: era of specials. Now, there were people who even in
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  Speaker 1: the DVD era, like Nate. When Nate was blowing up,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of almost jealous of me. He would say, like,
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  Speaker 1: so you sell your special at your table because everything
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  Speaker 1: he had was like property of Comedy Central or property
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  Speaker 1: of and so you don't even own you can't go
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  Speaker 1: sell DVDs of it because it's it's there. You're beholden
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  Speaker 1: to what they do with it. So I get that
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  Speaker 1: there were people like that, but most people were like,
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  Speaker 1: here's my special.
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  Speaker 2: Here's poor Nate.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I know, if he keeps working, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to go full time one of these days. But
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  Speaker 1: nobody's interesting, Like just hearing her and having to explain,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt so ancient. Yeah, and I was like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know, the crazy thing is like
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  Speaker 1: I got out of the right moment. I had DVDs,
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  Speaker 1: but then I knew that it was ending. I knew
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  Speaker 1: that the pandemic was going to finish it off, like
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  Speaker 1: everybody's going to be stuck in their house streaming everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I sold the last of my DVDs just in time.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't like, I go, I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of comedians they got a warehouse ful, they have a
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  Speaker 1: garage of DVD and she goes, whoa, and I go
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  Speaker 1: worse than that. I know comedians with a garage full
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  Speaker 1: of vhs. Oh, they didn't even get out of vhs
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  Speaker 1: before it went to DVDs. And she was like, yikes,
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  Speaker 1: and we were just talking about it. I just thought,
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  Speaker 1: what a weird thing, like we have this huge thing
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  Speaker 1: in common, and yet generationally she was looking at me
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  Speaker 1: like I had three heads. Yeah, because I had my
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  Speaker 1: special on a DVD. I think she was almost jealous
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  Speaker 1: of it too, and was like and again I can't
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  Speaker 1: speak for Amberg, but she was almost like, oh, that
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  Speaker 1: would be a cool like side money, and it was
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  Speaker 1: for the time. It really was. And honestly, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to do this. There's a thing next year doing
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  Speaker 1: called Praise Fest or something. It's one of these Southern
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  Speaker 1: gospel things at Silver Dollar City and Branson. Okay, and
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  Speaker 1: guess what, I'm pressing some CDs. Absolutely, I'm taking them
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  Speaker 1: with him because they still buy physical media. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: still that kind of demographic. So they still want like
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  Speaker 1: a tactile thing to hey, can he sign my DVD?
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  Speaker 1: Can he whatever? They have DVD players in their house,
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  Speaker 1: whereas everybody else is just like, I want to hit
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  Speaker 1: a couple buttons and be watching whatever I want to want?
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  Speaker 2: Do you still have a DVD player?
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  Speaker 1: It's in my garage. I never unpacked it. We moved
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and that was the last time.
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  Speaker 2: I think I just threw mine away in my bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: It was just underneath the clock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just a thing, isn't it funny? Man? It's
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  Speaker 1: just wild out things. Just to keep moving, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: it'll be I don't know what'll be the next thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just they zap stuff into our head when they
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  Speaker 1: even need our heads. The cloud, how it affects my
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  Speaker 1: head's in the clouds musical artists. Man, there was a
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  Speaker 1: day and time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they made so much more money because they were
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  Speaker 2: selling albums, right, and not just streaming singles.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now that's why they have to tour three
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  Speaker 1: hundred days a year to try to make a living. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they try to their table.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe to buy a product, but it's a product you've
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  Speaker 2: already heard a million times.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, And even now, I don't know physical physical media
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  Speaker 1: now it's almost a nostalgia. You buy like a vinyl, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you want that thing. It's like a throwback thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Books are still going, yeah, the physical books.
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  Speaker 1: You know there were audio books didn't kill books.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it would have been ebooks that killed books, but
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  Speaker 2: there was. They took over for a while. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember a couple of years back, my agent or someone saying,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like half and half. They came back.
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  Speaker 2: People still like I still prefer I don't really read
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  Speaker 2: e books hardly. Ever, my wife does.
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  Speaker 1: She has it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's you either do or you don't. I want
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  Speaker 2: the book. I want to put it on my shelf.
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  Speaker 2: I want to you know pages, right, I interact with it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't talk to it or anything.
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  Speaker 1: When interact. I don't mean that, but I mean I just.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my agent used to always say Robert Walgemuth,
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  Speaker 2: who I've talked about it lately and who passed away
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  Speaker 2: earlier this year. And he used to always say it
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  Speaker 2: was he was so great. He was so brilliant, he
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  Speaker 2: would say, because he used to travel so much for
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  Speaker 2: book meetings and everything, and he was the president Thomas
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  Speaker 2: Nelson at one point, and he was just all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. And he said on his bookshelf in his office,
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  Speaker 2: he can pull books off and he can find boarding
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  Speaker 2: passes in like the first ten pages was like his
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  Speaker 2: talk to you about making sure that you catch them
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  Speaker 2: out of the gate. Yeah, He's like, if I see
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  Speaker 2: a boarding pass in the book, that I know they
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  Speaker 2: didn't they didn't get me. That's where I put the
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  Speaker 2: boarding pass and closed the book.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow. And he would also say, did you say
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  Speaker 1: about your book, but John, your book, but you there's
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  Speaker 1: not a boarding pass in there. Well, he was so
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  Speaker 1: kind to me.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was kind to me that I was.
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  Speaker 1: He would always tell me he was. If he told
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  Speaker 1: you that story, then he's not going to be And
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  Speaker 1: your boarding passes on page two and you, sir. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he I didn't get past the table of contents.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing he would say was always so fascinating
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  Speaker 2: and it goes back. I want to say, interact with
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  Speaker 2: books and maybe me think of this is he would say.
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  Speaker 1: When you're writing proposals, don't ever write in like a
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  Speaker 1: plural form.
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  Speaker 2: Always write in to a person, to one you don't say.
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  Speaker 2: Readers will find this because a book is not an
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  Speaker 2: experience between you and people. It's an experience between you
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  Speaker 2: and a person. So when a person is sitting in
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  Speaker 2: a cafe reading your book, it's you and them talking
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  Speaker 2: one on one.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: You get to talk to that one person through your books,
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  Speaker 2: So talk to one person. So never write to people
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  Speaker 2: right to a person, which I always saw. So it
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  Speaker 2: really makes it made it so cool for me, like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when a person reads that, you know there.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we feel about our listeners or listener or
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we feel like, how would you listen to the
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  Speaker 1: show John if you wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you would go to talk about that podcast dot com.
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  Speaker 1: You can find all of our archived episodes there and
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  Speaker 1: send us a note. I think we're going to read
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  Speaker 1: an email later because we got an email from somebody
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  Speaker 1: that wanted you to come along to a show. They
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  Speaker 1: had a special request. Did you find that? I saw
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  Speaker 1: the request. See if you can find it, and then
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll read it later.
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  Speaker 2: When is that show? By the way, it's coming up, John,
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  Speaker 2: Because what I'm going to do is is I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to send that request through you to the show. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. It's not the same though. They want you
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  Speaker 1: want your presence on it. I don't want just the present, John,
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  Speaker 1: They want your PRIs I don't want that preach.
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  Speaker 2: Some of y'all out there just want the presence for
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  Speaker 2: What you don't want is the press.
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  Speaker 1: You just being so transacting, you don't don't speaking of transaction.
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  Speaker 1: We got people here that help us keep the lights on.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate them. Let's hear a few words.
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  Speaker 1: Back, Johnny. I do want to take a moment. Johnny,
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  Speaker 1: brought me a gift today and you could have showed
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  Speaker 1: it to the camera. But now you've got your headphones on,
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  Speaker 1: can you you can take a minute and go ground.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to show it to this Is that
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  Speaker 1: all there? He is in to watch on video. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get it. I can't hear you. People go
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  Speaker 1: to our YouTube channel and you can see what what
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: he's holding up here.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna take me a second to get my This
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  Speaker 2: was a disaster. So anyway, Johnny, last time we were
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  Speaker 2: on the show, I believe sorry, hold on wrong here,
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  Speaker 2: Last time we were on the show.
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  Speaker 1: There it goes.
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  Speaker 2: I was invited by Johnny, Yeah, to the Grand Ole
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  Speaker 2: Opry to perform.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I turned it down, and they brought in Stephen
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Chapman. But no, this is Johnny. Brought me a
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: picture of me and Johnny was Stephen Curts Chapman. Yeah,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: you can see it right now on the YouTube video
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: if you like.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: But that's us. It was great.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, he wouldn't really talk.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: To me, you know, like a hulking figure next to
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Stephen Curtis. He is short. Yeah, in a good way. Though. Well,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: maybe you could have said like, well, I'm six too,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: so what's I mean? I guess he's he's normal size,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: you know I'm saying that. You could have said like, oh,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sixty. You could have been like, well he's John
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: A cuff does that a lot because Johnny Cuff is
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: pretty short, and so whenever he stands next to like
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: a normal hype person, he looks really little and he goes, man,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: they must have been seven foot tall. He always makes
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: a big joke of it. By the way, he was
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: so nice. Yeah, so he couldn't have been couldn't have
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: been nicer. And you went to your seat because I
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna get us a moment with
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: us altogether. He was His call time was a little later.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: The show had already started when his call time was,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, man, because you guys got
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: there early. And I was like, well, we'll get to
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: meet Stephen Curs before the show, and then we didn't.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: And then when he came in, you guys were already
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: in your seats, and so I just kind of walked
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: over and I was like hey, and you know, anyway,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: he was so nice. He came in to meet my
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: wife and our friend Mary Beth, and he was talking
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: to he talked, He talked to us for like ten
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: minutes about the opry and I told him that, I said,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Curry goes. You know, Johnny has saying I will be
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: here at so many weddings, including our wedding and he goes,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: oh boy, He goes, I hear from guys all the time.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I tell you, I tell you this. But he goes,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I hear from guys all the time. He goes, they're
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: mad at me about that song. I go. Why, he goes,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: because it's so many words to remember, because every chorus
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: is different. It is, and you're at the most nervous
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: day of your life. He goes, I wrote this song,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: but the choruses keep changing, and so it's a lot
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: of a lot of room for error in that song.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: And he goes, that's my bad. And so he was
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: just so funny and so just like a super humble
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: guy and everything you would want. Yeah, it's one of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: those like don't meet your heroes kind of you proves
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: it wrong because every now and again you meet one
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: of your heroes and you're like, all right.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Man, yeah and again he well, we had a mutual
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: friend who passed away that I'd written for, and uh
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: we talked about him a little bit and uh and
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: he was like, oh my gosh, I remember him talking
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: about you.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So that was kind of cool. Yeah, it was like, uh,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: he hated you. It was like, yeah, that's a weird
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: thing to hear for a photo op. Yeah, no, but
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: he was he was great. Yeah, that was a fun one.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for that, and thanks for the picture.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: That was a really yeah, we're welcome by I got
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: one from me from me at my house too. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: got so like I had two printed. Yeah, and uh,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I thought you I thought maybe you could hang on
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the wall on the set.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: But this this wall is about to be filled with pictures.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Get ready. I believe it was get ready. Although I
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: really enjoyed the clean space in here. I think I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: work pretty well in it. But I don't know.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: So I'm in a manuscript. Have you seen the video
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: of the thing where the guy goes, uh, he's watching it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I can't remember. It says like, remember why you do it?
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: He's looking at his computer and it's like a backwards
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: of a photo and it's like, remember why you do
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: what you do? And he's like he picks up the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: photo and he looks at it and then it pans
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: around to show what the photo is and it just says,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: irs on He's just like a big internal revenue service LEGO.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: That's great, that's great. Yeah, I love it. Hey, John,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I thin it's about that time. Oh okay, good, it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: my segment.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: We call it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: They talked about that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You know what.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Today, I picked up a book recently that's one of
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: my favorites and started reading it again because I don't
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: know if you could read this book too many times.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: It's a ragamuffin gospel. Yeah, Brendan Manning, Brendon Manning, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: You told me that it was printed originally in nineteen ninety,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: which surprised me because I remember it became real prevalent
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: in like two thousand ish. Yeah, right after Rich Mullins.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I think they really It has three follows pasted and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: he was a big Brenda Manning disciple. He's on the cover. Yeah,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: so that they kind of were like, once Rich Mullins
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: became a Brendan Manning guy, a lot of people started
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: becoming way more aware of his writings. And I think
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: so when they did the re release of the book
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and then it became like a runaway bestseller. Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: It has three copyright dates nineteen ninety, two thousand, two
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: thousand and five, so interesting. But I'm just gonna read.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: He has a little pre a little preface called a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: word before. I'm just telling you. I know this is
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: a little longer normal quote, but it is just worth it. Okay,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: it's so good. The Ragamuffin Gospel was written with a
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: specific reading audience in mind. This book is not for
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the super spiritual. It is not for muscular Christians who
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: have made John Wayne and not Jesus their hero. It
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: is not for academics who would imprison Jesus in the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: ivory Tower of exe Jesus. It is not for noisy,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: feel good folks who manipulate Christianity into a naked appeal
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to emotion. It is not for hooded mystics who want
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: magic in their religion. It is not for Allelujah Christians
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: who live only on the mountaintop and have never visited
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the valley of desolation. It is not for the fearless
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and tearless. It is not for red hot zealots who
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: boasts with the rich young ruler of the Gospels all
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: these commandments I've kept from my youth. It is not
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: for the complaisant, who hoist over their shoulders a tote
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: bag of honors, diplomas, and good works, actually believing they
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: have made it. It is not for legalists who would
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: rather surrender control of their souls to rules than run
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the risk of living in union with Jesus. If anyone
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: is still reading along, the ragamuff And Gospel was written
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: for the bedraggled, beat up, and burnt out. It is
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: for the sorely burdened who are still shifting the heavy
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: suitcase from one hand to the other. It is for
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: the wobbly in weak need who don't know they have
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: it all together, who know they don't have it all together,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and are too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It is for inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: off their cracker. It is for poor, weak, sinful men
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: and women with hereditary faults and limited talent ones. It
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: is for earthen vessels who shuffle along on feet of clay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It is for the bent and the Brews who feel
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: that their lives are a grave disappointment to God. It
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: is for smart people who know they are stupid, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: honest disciples who admit they are scallowags. The Rag and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Muffin Gospel is a book I wrote for myself and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: anyone who has grown weary and discouraged along the way
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and Manning it's one of those like I can't just
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: put I couldn't pull one little part of that. But
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's he talks about how in
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the first chapter just the word grace, how it's been commercialized,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: used twisted, and how it doesn't land in any sort
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of way in the American Gospel and the way that
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: our ancestors would have heard it, especially you know, coming
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: into the Enlightenment, you know, and he goes into what
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Martin Luther be goes. I believe the Enlightenment began when
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Martin Luther made this specific revelation that he writes about
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: in terms of what grace was and the righteousness of
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: God is. And I just you know, I got to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: speak Sunday to the church, and it was on low Sunday,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: and low Sunday is you know that week between the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: resurrection or the week immediately following the resurrection, so much happens.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: You got the road to Mais, you got doubting Thomas.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I spoke about doubting Thomas on Sunday.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You know, you have all these these things.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: That are posts the greatest hope of all mankind, of
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: all the universe. And yet there's still so much confusion
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: that the disciples are still hiding out. They're still worried
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: about being arrested, they're still doubting, they're still questioning. Jesus
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: is still not predictable. He's not with them all the time.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: He just shows up randomly in rooms and other things.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: He's still not like you would think if he's resurrected. Okay,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: that's it, man, the game's over, you know, Like now
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: now the king has resided, everyone knows, and he doesn't
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: do that. He appears to a lot of people, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: not for the purpose of taking power like they wanted to,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: ending the suffering of the world in particular for them,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: the Roman rule and all those things. And I just
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I think about how it was in that state that
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: he was going to send them to receive the Holy
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Spirit and then go straight out to do the work.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: There wasn't like now take three years and meditate and
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: all the things I've said, you know, like he sent
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: them out broken, like as Brenda Manning just described, he
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: sent out men and women like that. They weren't qualified.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And when I was younger, I talked about this a
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: little bit. There are just things you cannot learn through knowledge.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: You can only learn through time and experience. And you
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: came there are just questions you can't even ask before experiences.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And it's not wrong, it's not bad, it's not It
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just means that's
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the nature of it. Life is meant to be filled
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: with experiences that teach you, you know. And it's only
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: now when I feel I mean, man, the reason I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: read that is is I feel very much in alignment
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: with the descriptions, and it hurts. It's not the good
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: feeling that when you're young and you think, man, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: hope I get to, you know, grow in humility, or
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I get to grow in my reliance and dependence upon Jesus. Yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I've yet to, I think breakthrough sometimes to the joy
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of that. But the Lord, I think deals with me
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of the awareness of yes, that is happening. You actually
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: are so desperate you rely upon me way more than
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you ever used to. You also, I mean, I also
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: have no sense of confidence in anything related to myself.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's one I didn't see coming. I didn't know how
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: that would feel, right. But I just encourage anybody listening
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: that the more that we're I love that last line.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Who are smart enough to know that they're stupid?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I mean real emotional or spiritual I think inside intelligence, maturity.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you want to call it, but
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you know it can only come. And I forget which
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: theologian wrote about this. I think it was maybe John Calvin,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and we talked about no, no humble person can ever
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: truly be aware of it. For the moment they were
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: aware of it, it would now be something they could
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: boast about to themselves. So I'm not claiming. I don't
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: feel like I've arrived at any sort of humility even
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: like at this point, it just feels like chaos a
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: lot around. And there's a prayer that was inscribed in
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a cave they found from like the second century in
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the desert, from the Desert Fathers and Mothers that just
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: says three times, the Lord Jesus, Son of God, have
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: mercy on me. And that's the prayer I find myself
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: praying the most legitimately sometimes in tears, just have mercy,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you know, through life and through where I am. And
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I just did not expect to be late forties being there,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm finding I think that I need to be
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: grateful for that. Yeah, you know, because I think you're
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: closer to the real thing whenever you're there.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: When you get to your fifties like me, you'll see oh,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you'll just yeah, like now I got it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: There's a point that was easy.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Point I used to be where you are, John, Oh,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I know, I know exactly what you mean. No, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: love that line about wearily uh moving the suitcase from
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hand to hand, Like that's a really interesting way to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: talk about like the burden. It's really fascinating. Bent over,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the cheese is falling off your cracker. There's so many
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: great word pictures there.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I am also legitimately jealous of his ability to write.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, they're like, dude, what the heck man? Save something
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: for the rest of it. I'm so smart. But it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: so accessible at the same time, that's what's really interesting
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: about it. It doesn't feel high falutin. It's very like
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that's the whole point of that book, which is I mean,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: it's a must read. It's a must read if you're
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: going to read that. Also, then, in relation to Rich Mullens,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: go read An Arrow Pointing toward Heaven, which is kind
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of a biography about Rich Mullends by one of his friends.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: It's very word It's worth reading. It's a fascinating character
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: study on Rich in his belief system. I was talking
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: with a friend who toured with us, a new friend
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: who was presenting on Bath of Compassion. He's a Christian artist.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: We were talking about Rich Mullins and his legacy in
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the Christian music industry and what he would think of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: today and all of those things. Yeah, political and otherwise.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But those were fascinating conversations. I was grateful to have
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: those with him. And we were just talking about Rich
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and who basically took a valve poverty with some friends.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So his ministry, his musical royalties, is still supporting endeavors
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that he started when he set up when he was alive,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: because he basically gave himself like a thirty thousand dollars
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a year salary along with some other friends and did
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: not make any more money than that the last like
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: ten years of.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: His life, and all of this stuff blew up.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so everything. When everything was happening, he knew like, oh,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: this will be toxic to my soul if I don't
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: set this up, and so he did. So there's still
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Indian reservations, and there's still I mean, amazing things that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: are happening because of Rich Mullin's life. So anyway, lascinating, John,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Let's move forward with my segments. Let's do old jokes.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: We tall it, we call it, we call it, joke
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: about that, We tall it. We'll get there, John. We're
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a tough day. Listen, we had, we took a week off.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: What do you want from us? John. A guy goes
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to the doctor and says, Doc, I can't get that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: song She's a Lady out of my head. It keeps
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: repeating and repeating, and it just won't go away. The
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: doctor says, I think this sounds like a case of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Tom Jones syndrome. The guy says, I never heard of that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Is it rare? The doctor says, it's not unusual. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: can't believe he didn't see that coming. Okay, it's not unusual.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: That's a kind of a dated joke. It's an old
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: joke that makes us feel it, but I don't care.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: It made me laugh. It made me laugh, yeah, John.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: A man's looking for organic vegetables for his mother in law.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: He looks in the protocyle we can't find and he
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: asked the stock boy, these veggies are from my mother
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in law. Have they been sprayed with poisonous chemicals? This
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: talk boy says no, you'll have to do that yourself.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And finally, John, I did see that, since we're headed
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: down a dark path. A man who has just died
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: is brought to the mortuary wearing an expensive, beautifully tailored
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: black suit. By the way, this came from one of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: our listeners, Paul Joseph, who follows us and used to
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: play with myle lefever. He came to my show and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: he sends notes many times. It's great Grammy Award winning
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: keyboard player. Wow. And he sent me this and said
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: this may be a little too dark, but he sent anyway,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and I said, I'm reading it on the show. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: so he gets credit for this one. It's not his joke,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but he gets credit for the presenting of it. A
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: man who's just died is brought to the mortuary wearing
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: an expensive, beautifully tailored black suit. The mortician asked the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: widow how she'd like her husband dressed for the viewing.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: He mentions that he already looks quite nice in the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: black suit. The widows says, no, he always looked best
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in blue. She hands the mortician a blank check and says,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I don't care how much it costs, but just please
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: have my husband in a blue suit for the viewing.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The next day she returns for the wake, and it's
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: stunned to find him in a beautiful blue suit with
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a subtle stripe for the viewing, perfectly fitted. She says,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: this is incredible. You did an excellent job. How much
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: did it cost? The mortician hands back the blank check.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Nothing at all. What do you mean nothing? She has,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I insist on paying you. He smiles and says, well,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: another gentleman of your husband's size was brought in shortly
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: after you left, and he happen to be wearing a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: very nice blue suit. I asked his wife if she
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: minded him going to his grave wearing a black suit instead,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and she said it made no difference as long as
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he looked nice. So at that point, he says, it
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: was really just a matter of switching the heads.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, wow, it is dark.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had no idea where that was going. That's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: called the old switcher root in punchline, and the old
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: head switcher root. Anyway, not my Joe everybody send your
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: cards letters to John at John. I'm just kidding, John,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: let's do let's close with this week in history. We
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: call it talk about then just a matter of switching
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the heads. See guys, it's yeah John. This week we
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: celebrate income tax Day. I don't know if we celebrated,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: but IRIS Appreciation Day, if you will. The first US
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: income tax was signed into the law as a three
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: percent tax on incomes over eight hundred dollars, effective January first,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty one. It was repealed and replaced with another
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: income tax on eighteen sixty two. So this wasn't like
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they were repealed it and was like we got to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: get rid of this, it's corrupt. They were like, hey,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: let's raise let's go ahead and keep it going, keep
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that energy going. But I thought it was in So
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: this is obviously tax week for a lot of people,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: most people. If you're American, hopefully you're not hope you're filing. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: go ahead and file. Yeah, don't listen. Even if you're
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes, they'll throw you in jail.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta fight. They don't miss around, they.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Don't mess around there. But anyway, ye, three percent tax
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: on incomes, and as we know, it stayed that level.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: We've kept it under control. The government has shown a remarkable,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you know, some temperance in that area, and they've not
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: gone overboard at all. And I think they're to be
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: commended for that. Thank you federal government. John this week. Oh,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: by the way, I love what they've chosen to spend
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: all the money on, don't you think. I mean it's
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: really Yeah, it's exactly what I would have wanted. Yeah, listen,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: healthcare would be great, but Lois could let's get some
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: missiles in this thing. Let's get some more missiles. You
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: can't have another of those. John. This week. Nineteen fifty five,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's franchise franchise in De Plaine, Illinois.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Is it desk planes? The plane? I it looks like
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: desk planes. The plane looks like des moines. But with
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the plane. His first day sales were three hundred and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: sixty six dollars and twelve cents. This is nineteen fifty five.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: It was the ninth restaurant in the chain started in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty by the brothers Dick McDonald and Maurice mack
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: McDonald in San Berneo, California. Kroc had met the McDonald's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: brothers while trying to sell them multi mixers, I guess
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: for their sheiks. After seeing their operation, he decided to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: open one of his own, and eventually bought out the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: brothers and built McDonald's into the hamburger Empire. It is
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: now you've seen the founder write with Michael Keaton. Interesting movie,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: fascinating movie, kind of weird, like an anti hero kind
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of a presentation of that history. Yeah, so's it's not
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: all it's not all shiny, which I find interesting when
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you did see these biographies biopics. The McDonald brothers introduced
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the Speedy Service system in nineteen forty eight. The original
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: McDonald's mascot was a chef hat on top of a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: hamburger called Speedy. Speedy was replaced in nineteen sixty two
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: by the Golden Arches. The clown Ronald McDonald was then
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: introduced in nineteen sixty five. So the clown was not
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the original. Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm it's kind
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of creepy. I think we find clowns a different thing
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for clowns.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I think back then clowns were like a clown.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Let's get kids involved. Yeah, let's get our kids out here,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: like happy meals and stuff. This clown, Yeah, get this
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: clown out of here. John This Week, nineteen twelve, what's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: your favorite fast food place? By the way, do you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: still do you do McDonald's Ever you had McDonald's draft through.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: When's the last time you've been to McDonald's with with
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: say game, I was on a McDonald's kick for breakfast
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a few weeks back. What you're saying is that what
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: it is not a mcgriddel.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I like a mcgriddl. I think a bas.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Syrup choice dots of syrup in there.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I hate the hash brown anyway, like like an animal.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: No, I like McDonald's, but I'm not ashamed. Yeah to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: say that it's okay, I don't. I don't go get it.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Very often terms.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: A shame associated with like being a part of it,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: like a corporation that's made it to that level, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you go, oh, they're a soulless whatever. But then sometimes
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you go, yeah, but I mean like people act like
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: they're ashamed to be ever seen in Walmart, and you're like, dude,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: just go to Walmart. What's you need? To get something one.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Quarter pound of cheese. Yeah, that's a good burgner. Yeah, no,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Five guys?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Good?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: They're just two different things. You're having two different experiences.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope neither one of those are sponsors
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: because we're having an Although five guys, I guess because
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: we just gave them a glowing review, they just dump
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: those fries out. You have a small fry, and they
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: go here, you go, here's a thousand fries. I know.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's wow. That's where it gets me. So yeah, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: have them.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: It's too many. They give you so much, you go.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I guess I have to finish these to do this
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: in order my specific civic duty. John. This week nineteen twelve, unfortunately,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the sinking of the Titanic, and there were some facts
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: about the Titanic in here that I don't think I
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: realized even though we've seen you know, you've seen the documentaries,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you've seen the seen the movie with Leo DiCaprio, which
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: is all you know, factually, company f actually correct at
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: two twenty am the unsinkable quote RMS Titanic sinks killing
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: do you know how many people died of the twenty
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty eight people, John, do you want
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to take a guest? Fifteen hundred, fifteen hundred and seventeen,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: good call. I didn't know. I knew there was people
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that survived, but I didn't realize fifteen hundred of the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: two thousand, So he had seven hundred or so of survivors.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: The Titanic had struck an iceberg, of course, in the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: North Atlantic, shortly before midnight, while on her maiden voyage
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: from You don't want to know where it was from.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the voyage? Liverpool, Southampton, Okay two New York,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: New York City. This is the part that and the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: reason why it makes the list. I don't know if
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I realized this. His name was Masabuomi a Sona. He
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: was the only Japanese passenger and he survived. He was
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the only Japanese passenger board and he survived. But he
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: was ostracized the rest of his life in Japan as
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: dishonorable and a coward for not going down with the ship.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: This was like he was the captain. I get, if
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you're the captain, you go down with the ship. That's
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: kind of the weird misnomer. But this is just a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: dude and his cult. Like I get honor culture to
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a degree, but wow, you survive and you get home
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and they go, you should be dead. Yeah, did someone
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: else not survive? Who should have? Because we need more
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: information women. It did not sound like it in this sentence.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: But maybe there's more to the story where he jumped
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: on a lifeboat and shouldn't have been.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: If he took some little kid's seat right and they died,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: then I can understand to some extent.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I need to know more. I'm gonna we're gonna find out,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna we're gonna touch base about it. Next week.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna send somebody's gonna send five emails about it. Actually, yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: that's good.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: We like those emails.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: We do like them, and please send those to Hello
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I talk about that podcast dot com. But what a
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: weird thing to survive and then be, like you said,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: if there was nothing else to the story, If it's
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: just like I survived, I happen to be Japanese and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: now I get to be this guy like, oh, you survive,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: well you shouldn't have, Like what a bummer that would
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: be anyway.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Story yesterday that they're still exploring the Titanic wreckage and
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: the technology keeps getting greater and greater. Where they found
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: recently there was this I think it was a brass,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: gold copper, some sort of really important statue that was
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: a part of the ship. Sure, and it's they saw
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: it on some video in like nineteen eighty three or
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: something for a minute, and then it's been lost since
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the eighties. And they found it again in the wreckage,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: so they haven't pulled it up.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They're going down with the drones or
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: something like that. Robots a robot, but they know a
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: seed drone. I don't know what you call those submersible Yeah, John.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: This week, seventeen seventy, the first rubber eraser was used.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: English chemist Joseph Priestley referred to rubber referring to rubber,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: described it in a footnote, I have seen a substance
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: mark of black lead pencil, thus discovering the use of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: rubber as an eraser. Prior to that eraser, bread crumbs
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: were generally used as erasers. Did you know this from
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: your search? Of you're a writer, you should know everything
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: that's been used as erasers over the bread crumbs.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I don't write with pencils right now, so.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I guess they used quills too, but I mean I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: guess the reason lead pencils And they're like, how can
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: we I need to redo? Yeah, and then they go,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: how about some bread? Yeah, rub some bread on it,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Rub some bread on it, you guys. Yeah, And then
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: they discovered that. Later that year, English engineer Edward Nahirn
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: developed the first widely used marketed rubber eraser. So and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I get we still use them. So that's like one
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of those like seventeen seventy we've kind of yeah we've
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: not really you nailed it. You nailed it, but most
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: people use computers now in pens, we use pencils, and
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: there's even erasable pens. Remember the first erasable pens eraser? Mate?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Not only do I but yes, yeah, yeah that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Wasn't now that technology. Yeah, I don't know, I don't
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: know how it works. It's just really crappy ink probably
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: probably phades really easy. It's just awfu link it was
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: going to erase itself anyway. Hope you didn't write anything
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you wanted to refer back to, that was my will. Nope, nope,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: not anymore, eraser, mate, John. This week, nineteen sixty four,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the Ford Mustang, the new sports car. The Mustang officially
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: went on sale.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Technically it would have been the nineteen sixty four and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: a half Mustang.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I guess that's what they call it. Yeah, at a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: base price of if you.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Want to guess, Mustang is sixty four and a half, Yeah,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: six thousand dollars, two three hundred and sixty eight dollars.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And I looked it up, so we'll we'll go over
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: there in a minute. We'll go there in a minute.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: But it sold on it. It sold an industry record
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: of four hundred and seventeen thousand units its first year.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: It was originally intended to be a mid engine two
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: cedar roadster, but that changed when the sales of the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Thunderbird increased after adding a back seat, so they quickly
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: kind of remodified and added made it a back seat,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: you know, more of that. So because they wanted pay
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: and this could be a family are if we really
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: in two thousand, three hundred and sixty eight dollars in
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, I looked it up. Is equivalent in
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: purchasing power to approximately John, you want to guess what
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: that car would be today, sixteen thousand, twenty four thousand,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: almost twenty five thousand, twenty four thousand, nine hundred sixty
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: two dollars, So it's a twenty five. But again, if
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: there was a car, there is a Mustang now, but
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: it's whatever the baky or whatever the Mustang is now.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Most cars now are like forty thousand dollars. Like, it's
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: hard to find a twenty five thousand dollars minimum. That's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Twenty five thousand dollars car for a Mustang. Yeah,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it'd be a pretty pretty good deal. Yeah, number one,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: big Mustang guy. Yeah, that's why it made me. I'd
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: brother had a sixty seven.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: You know, when my car broke down, he let me
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: drive that must senior year a Candy Apple read sixty
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: seven Mustang he drove, and you know what, And I've
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: done a lot of old cars.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: It looked great.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Also, it might run out of gas on quart of
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: a tank. You know, old cars do weird stuff. You're
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: pushing it up a hill. It had some bottom out
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: on speed bumps.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: But it's older by then, so it has it was
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: thirty years old by that it looked amazing.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: No, my brother now has one ook a sixty six.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I think always has.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Like okay, Christine, Like I went his garage over Easter
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and looked at it again. I go look at every time.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: My brother in law has a mid sixties early sixties Corvette.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, and it's like perfect. Yeah. I think he's
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: never washed it. That's how wow. Like he wipes it
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: with a cloth diaper and it's that. It's that keeps
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: it under a thing. And he drives it twice a
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: year and parades and stuff and goes to car shows
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: with it. But that's it.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: My brother is like, you know they're empty nesting now yeah,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, now we take the top. It's
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: a convertible.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Oh and they actually go we'll go drive out school,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: go out driving in town and get some together and
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: then you get asking, we got ice cream all over? Yeah?
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Oh well John this week. Uh. Fourteen fifty two, Leonardo
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: DaVinci was born. He was an Italian artist.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: His works include the Last Supper in the Mona Lisa.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: But he made the list because he's also the discover
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: of capillary action in fourteen ninety and the inventor of
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: roller bearings in fourteen ninety six. Now listen, it's a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: renaissance guy. Yeah, I knew that. Like, wasn't there some
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: drawings of da Vinci that helped with like flight human
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: flight too, and like that's crazy. Yeah, there's crazy stuff
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: that he did.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, by glider.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: But he discovered that capillary action I think is the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: action of blood climbing up a like a straw, Like
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: it will move. I think that's what capillary action is.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: It's not just the movement within the vein. I think
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it's outside. I think that's what capilary action is. Like
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: when they take blood from you and they put those
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: little straws against the wound, that it climbs up. I
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: think that's what capillary action is. I could be wrong,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: but anyway, he's discovering a lot of stuff. Yeah, and go, well,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I'll think I'll paint the last supper in the Mona
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Lisa too.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And didn't he paint the ceiling of the Systeine Chapel?
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: That was No, that was uh Michaelangelo. Oh sorry, who
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: are we talking about DaVinci My bad.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, I knew that, guys.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also starred in The DaVinci Code, which was a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: great Tom Hanks movie. She's just merging culture into amalcalm.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: It's a mess. We apologize, John finally, in a more
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and more whimsical tone. This week nineteen eighty, Winnie the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Pooh went on trial nineteen eighty You ready for this one?
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: A Disneyland character a character actor appeared in court wearing
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: a Winnie the Pooh costume. A family claim that the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: actor had purposely struck their daughter while in the park,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: causing bruising and headaches that lasted for months. The actor
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: claimed the girl had been acting out and running to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: attack him when he accidentally hit her with his ear.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: The actor appeared to court the Winnie the Pooh here
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: ye his real ear, his Winny the Pooh ear, and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: that's why he appeared in court wearing his costume and
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: remained in character while testifying, which had to be amazing.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: This is pre court TV. But I mean, is he
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: trying to preserve the kids? He had to do the voice.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: He remained in character while testifying, Oh my, only responding
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: to questions with gestures and dancing. It was demonstrated that
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: it would be impossible to do with the family claimed
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: while wearing the costume, and the actor was found not guilty. Wow,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: that's like some Perry Mason stuff. That's like some Johnny
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: cockran if the pet fits? Yeah? Anyway, he man, that's amazing.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: He wore the costume and with gestures and dancing, stating
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: character the whole time, and then the lawyers were able
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to kind of wrangle kind of a not guilty verdict.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: I can tell you something. You know, what's going to
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: save America. We need to keep our character. Had a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: little more gestures and dancing.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Well, that's all we need. Dancing. Won't that rehab the gestures?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Right now we got too many gests. Itsnail the esterj
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: We need some happiness. We need what we need. I mean, gosh,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: there's a great aa melon as Winnie the Pooh quote
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that I thought of, and I think of it now.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: You know. We took out, We took Adam Bush out
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: on the road with us this past week, you know.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: And I don't take a lot of openers out. It's
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: just not been the thing that I've been able to do.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: But now I'm starting to do it more. And I
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: think about the community that I found in comedy as well.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: You know what did to open Mic and or good
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: twinin did this show? And run into Greg Warren and
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: you run into all these people, and you hang out
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: with Amber Autry, who's an up and coming star, and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: you just go And I was thinking about this. Winnie
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the Pooh a quote and you've probably seen this graphic.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: It's Winny the Poo and Piglet, and Winnie the Pooh says,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: or maybe when Piglet says, twenty the Pooh, what, what
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: do you think is more important? The journey or the destination?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And Piglet says that to Pooh, and Pooh says the company. Wow,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: isn't that great? Yeah? So that and that's the thing.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: We live in a country that's so driven to like
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: hustle culture has just taken everything and so even when
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: we achieve something, we're looking to the next achievement and
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: so literally that's that's the the false duality we're presented with.
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  Speaker 1: Is is it the journey or the destination and the achievement?
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: And the truth is it is neither. Because at the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: end of your life, you're going to think about the
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: people around you. You're going to think about who did
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I surround myself with while I was chasing these dumb things.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And so I'm telling you, man that that hits me.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of those like that's good that
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you could build a whole philosophy on that.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Literally just rewrote an old book I wrote in my
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: head whenever you said that.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'm sorry because I probably probably need some
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: revisions ever released it. Yeah, okay, there's still time. There
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: is still time, John, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: glad to have you in my company. John. Not to
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: get so sentimental on you. I don't want to. Let's
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: not try to make anybody weep. No, it's fine. Hey,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: friends are supposed to love each other. The friends are
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: friends forever, the Bible friends a friend. I think Stephen
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: kurtsch Chapman said friends are friend Wait that was Michael W. Smith.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Saddle up your horses, that's what That's some old school
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Stephen Curtis, Yeah, buddy, that was what you know. We
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: got a trailer blaze.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would love to sit with him and
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: talk about how do you feel about the old songs?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I think Kryle. I mean he'd probably
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: be like, you see this house we're sitting in, feel
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: feel pretty good? Now. I think he would say, you
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: saw these kids are helping get adopted. That's why I
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: think he's he seems like somebody it's pretty at peace
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: with his legacy. Yeah, as a performer and a man.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: So find I just put out a book like ro after
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I met him. Yeah, and you didn't write that book twice.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Now you got listen though, now now you've met though,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the fuse has been lit, buddy. Hey, when the third
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: one comes out and a weird guy at the opry,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: let's have him write the next one. Search the internet
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: and scrub the pictures. Yeah, it's fine.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, Johnny, if they want to learn more about
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: the show or find more episodes, what do they do?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Talk about that podcast dot com. You find all the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: archived episodes, and we appreciate that. There's even a link
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: where you can just go to your favorite streamer and subscribe.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: There all the audio episodes. If you want to find
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: video episodes, you can watch them there on the show.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Go to our YouTube channel, subscribe there. We love hearing
• 48:20
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• 48:22
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• 48:25
  Speaker 1: much for everything you do. And that's how you get
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: ad free content if you want ad free shows.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys should also check out Johnny W, j
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: O n n i EW dot com. Tour dates coming
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: all over the country.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're near Little Rock, We're near Jonesboro, Arkansas. We're
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: going to cleborand Texas near Dallas, and we're going to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Crosby which is near Houston. That's coming up next week.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Those tickets are still available a JOHNNYW dot com. Those
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: shows are going to be great. They've been so fun.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Adam Bush is on those shows with us. Yeah, and
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Christian McCartney, who's a big YouTube and TikTok sensation, six
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: or seven million followers of this guy. Amazing. Anyway, he's
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: on those shows. Come. They have been such a blast
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to perform with. So come to those shows. And that's
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: coming up April twenty third through twenty sixth. Yeah, tickets
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: at Johnny W dot com.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Check it out, guys. It's a lot of fun, guys.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the time he gave us today. It's going
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: to be back in the saddle with you, guys. We'll
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: do it for real next week here I talk about
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: that