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Tom Segura's Intrusive Thoughts · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: So it wouldn't be a mister Bawlin episode if I
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Speaker 1: didn't tell you a story.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this story isn't really on the internet.
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Speaker 1: You have to write them a letter to get access
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Speaker 1: to this story.
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Speaker 3: You set up like a Bond story.
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Speaker 4: I had to like request access through headquarters, dude, to
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Speaker 4: hear a story.
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Speaker 3: I don't know where this's going to go. It's good,
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Speaker 3: but I'm in dude.
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Speaker 1: Those stories become fully realized in bad thoughts. But it
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Speaker 1: seems like you at least had some concepts early.
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Speaker 3: So some of them have been sent with me for
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Speaker 3: a while. In part two where he's like, we need
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Speaker 3: to sit on that toilet together, the reason that that
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Speaker 3: even exists is I've always loved upsetting my mother, right,
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Speaker 3: and I know there's things that she doesn't want to
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Speaker 3: ever talk about.
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Speaker 2: Right. It's so good.
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Speaker 1: He wakes up in the cockpit, has no idea how
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Speaker 1: long he's been asleep for.
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Speaker 2: Could have been a.
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Speaker 1: Second, could have been days, but he's immediately shocked that,
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Speaker 1: holy cow, I did not crash the plane.
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Speaker 3: That's a great story, all right.
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Speaker 1: Today is a very special episode. I'm actually trying out
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Speaker 1: a brand new format. But don't worry, it is not
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Speaker 1: an replace of core Mister Ballin content. This is in
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Speaker 1: addition to so we're calling it Storytime with Mister Ballin,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to be interviewing a guest. I've never
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Speaker 1: done that before on any of my shows. This is
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Speaker 1: the first of its kind, and it's going to be
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Speaker 1: really good. We're going to look at the art of storytelling,
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Speaker 1: how my guest employees storytelling. We're going to tell some stories,
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Speaker 1: because of course it wouldn't be a Mister Ballin production
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Speaker 1: if there wasn't actual storytelling. And in fact, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to be telling a story that I've never shared anywhere.
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Speaker 1: It's a really good story. So that's going to happen
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Speaker 1: today too. And our guest is incredible. He's got movies
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Speaker 1: coming out, he's doing stand up specials left and right.
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Speaker 1: He also happens to be a fan of the strange,
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Speaker 1: dark and mysterious, and I'm really excited to talk to
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Speaker 1: him about the art of storytelling, swapping some stories and
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Speaker 1: just seeing.
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Speaker 2: What he's all about.
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Speaker 1: So, without further ado, let's get into today's stories.
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Speaker 3: This is Storytime with mister Balin. I'm Tom Segura.
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Speaker 2: Tom.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Storytime with mister Balin, thank you, thank you
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Speaker 1: for being on the show. And for those who somehow
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Speaker 1: don't know who Tom Sgurr is, you are arguably one
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Speaker 1: of the hottest comedians both physically and career wise in
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Speaker 1: the game. Yep, you are acting, producing, directing. You are
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Speaker 1: seriously everywhere right now.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that.
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Speaker 1: I noticed about your sort of performance across mediums is
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Speaker 1: that you really are like a remarkably good storyteller.
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Speaker 3: Oh thanks man.
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Speaker 1: You really have like nailed the art of storytelling, even
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Speaker 1: though oftentimes when you tell stories it's sort of it
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Speaker 1: seems sort of effortless.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, is that were you.
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Speaker 1: Ever sort of intentional about like threading being a storyteller
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Speaker 1: into your work.
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Speaker 3: I love storytelling. I've always loved storytelling. I've always been
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Speaker 3: like very hyper observant of good storytellers.
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Speaker 2: Ye.
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Speaker 3: My mom is like an amazing natural storyteller, Like she
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Speaker 3: has all all the gifts that you need for great storytelling.
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Speaker 3: And my dad was as bad as you can get
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Speaker 3: at telling a story, like the single worst storyteller. A
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Speaker 3: toddler tells better stories. And so, like you, I think
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Speaker 3: it actually helped to be like, oh shit, that's really
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Speaker 3: good and like, god, that was so bad. He would
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Speaker 3: be like it was in the store, and then the
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Speaker 3: guy he punched the guy, so cops are there and
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Speaker 3: you're like, wait, where what happened? And like her version
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Speaker 3: of that story would be like there was one hundred
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Speaker 3: people in line, which you know is an exaggeration, but
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Speaker 3: like that's part of storytelling, right, where to punch something up.
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Speaker 3: And she's like, and it was hot, and this man
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Speaker 3: walked in and he looked dirty. His head was hanging,
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Speaker 3: so she's like painting a picture and you're like yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then the other guy he said move and you're
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Speaker 3: telling to my dad, You're like, what about Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: that guy. You're like, that's that's the main guy of
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Speaker 3: the story. Missed you. You don't have any think about
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Speaker 3: oh yeah yeah, and then he can all right, he's dirty.
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Speaker 3: It's like just none of it, like none of the information,
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Speaker 3: leaving out all the key information. Whereas she was like
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Speaker 3: a naturally dramatic storyteller, heightening parts of the story, drawing
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Speaker 3: you in telling like adding color right, and then like
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Speaker 3: knowing when to pull the pin on the whole, like
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Speaker 3: just like natural. What you realize is like when you're
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Speaker 3: a like beginning as a comic telling stories is actually
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Speaker 3: it's kind of advanced to get people to come along
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Speaker 3: on a story. It's it's it you don't see like
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Speaker 3: year one, year two comics like oh he's a great storyteller.
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Speaker 3: It's it's short for him. It's like because you're also
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Speaker 3: you're just not. You can't manufacture being a comfortable comic.
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Speaker 3: It ha That is because you've done it thousands of
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Speaker 3: times and you have to have a level of comfortability
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Speaker 3: to be like, I'm gonna tell you stories.
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Speaker 1: So do you have like either a favorite or a
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Speaker 1: go to story that you would use on stage it's
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Speaker 1: a joke, but like a story that you love to tell.
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Speaker 3: Probably the lost wallet story, because that's a true story.
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Speaker 3: It's about a guy named Justin Right, a guy who
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Speaker 3: lost his wallet in a cab. And the story is
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Speaker 3: that I'm sharing the cab with a woman and she
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Speaker 3: finds the wallet in between us asks of its mine.
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Speaker 3: I say it's not, and she's gonna give it to
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Speaker 3: the driver, and I go, no, give it to me,
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Speaker 3: I'll give it back to its rightful owner. And all
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Speaker 3: this happened. I mean, this was in Adams Morgan and
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Speaker 3: DC and then I took it upon myself that I'm
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Speaker 3: going to return this wallet to its owner, like this
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Speaker 3: righteous kind of feel good, do the right thing path
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Speaker 3: that I'm gonna and I announced it. So now I
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Speaker 3: feel even more obligated. And I went through a number
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Speaker 3: like I put a lot of time into getting this
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Speaker 3: wallet back to this guy. I do call a bunch
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Speaker 3: of places. I use all the information I can find
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Speaker 3: in it. The only person I get ahold of is
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Speaker 3: this guy's father, Justin's dad. And when I tell him
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Speaker 3: I have the wallet, he's just like he's not gonna
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Speaker 3: amount to anything like what He's like, he's a piece
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Speaker 3: of shit. And I go, okay, can I give you
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Speaker 3: the wall? And he hung up the phone. And so
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Speaker 3: that was like this kind of crazy, you know, closure
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Speaker 3: to this of like the guy's being like, my son sucks.
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Speaker 3: And then a long while later, I'm at I mean,
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Speaker 3: I still remember it quite vividly. I'm at a lunch
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Speaker 3: place on M Street in Georgetown and I'm with my
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Speaker 3: cousin and we sat down and we're just looking over
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Speaker 3: the menu, catching up, and the waiter walks up and
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Speaker 3: I go Justin, He's like, how do you know my name?
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Speaker 3: And I go, dude, I have your wallet, and he's like,
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Speaker 3: do you have it on you? I go, I don't
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Speaker 3: walk around with your fucking wallet. No, I have my wall,
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Speaker 3: but I actually have your wallet. And he was like, oh, cool,
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Speaker 3: you wanted something to drink. And I'm like, that's all
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Speaker 3: you're gonna say about this, dude, like like I found
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Speaker 3: your wallet in a cab in Washington, DC. Like it
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Speaker 3: makes me crazy when somebody's reaction to something is like it.
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Speaker 3: And so I ended up telling him to come meet me,
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Speaker 3: and he came to the door and I was like expecting,
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Speaker 3: like now we're gonna connect. I gave him the wallet
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Speaker 3: and he was like cool, thanks, and then he turned
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Speaker 3: around and walked away, and I was like, you're a
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Speaker 3: dad's right, Like you're a piece of shit, and I
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Speaker 3: shut the door.
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Speaker 1: It's funny, Like so even just now, like the way
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Speaker 1: you tell a story is you understand that there are
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Speaker 1: aspects of the story that I need to appreciate the context, yes,
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Speaker 1: so that the story matters, and so like that you
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Speaker 1: just you turned it into.
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Speaker 3: Like context is like the biggest thing of joke telling too.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes like you watch I watch comedians that you go like, man,
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Speaker 3: that's really funny. Why isn't that working? Like, why doesn't
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Speaker 3: it work? Because not that it's not funny? And you
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Speaker 3: go like, oh, you haven't. You need to convey more
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Speaker 3: information at the top, at the setup for that observation
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Speaker 3: and joke to work, Like they don't understand what the
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Speaker 3: joke is about. Yet the only reason you don't know
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Speaker 3: the joke is about is because you haven't set it
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Speaker 3: up clearly, like you need context for it to be funny.
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Speaker 1: I got to ask you, dude, like how are you
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Speaker 1: able to do all of these things? I mean right
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Speaker 1: now you're doing stand up specials on Netflix, Like I
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Speaker 1: have a thousand of those. You have your amazing new
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Speaker 1: show Bad Thoughts. It's this incredible sketch comedy show on Netflix.
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Speaker 1: And the way I would describe it is like it
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Speaker 1: starts one way, each of these sketches, Yeah, and it's
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Speaker 1: beautiful cinematography, and you have a sense of where it's
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Speaker 1: going to go, right, and then it just takes the
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Speaker 1: most ridiculous detour into just just crazy territory. And it
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Speaker 1: reminds me of there's this story by Edgar Allan Poe
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Speaker 1: called The Imp of the Perverse, and I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to get into it, but the gist of the story
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Speaker 1: is like he writes about this guy who he commits murder.
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Speaker 2: It's a fictional story.
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Speaker 1: It's this guy he commits murder and he gets away
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Speaker 1: with it, and he can't believe he's gotten away with murder,
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Speaker 1: and so he becomes obsessed with this idea that like
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Speaker 1: he got away with it, to the point where he's like,
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Speaker 1: I got to tell someone I got away with murder.
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Speaker 1: And he begins talking about it and he eventually gets
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Speaker 1: himself caught and he gets executed. And it's like this
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Speaker 1: notion from that story that we all have these like
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Speaker 1: thoughts that are self destructive, that like, you're standing on
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Speaker 1: the edge of a building and your fear is not
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Speaker 1: that you'll fall, it's that you might jump. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like your show bad thoughts. It sort of encapsulates
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Speaker 1: like the worst intrusive bad thought that somebody in that
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Speaker 1: scene could act on, and they do, and it just
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Speaker 1: chase it to this extreme level, like how are you
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Speaker 1: coming up with these stories?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thank you very much much for that. I
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Speaker 3: do appreciate it. I've always felt this thing, and I
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Speaker 3: think it's part of the release that you feel in
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Speaker 3: comedy right when you go to it. A lot of
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Speaker 3: times you go to a show and the big thing
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Speaker 3: is people go, well, what is it about. It's like, well,
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Speaker 3: he says the thing that we all want to say, right,
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Speaker 3: like or the comedian does in some way, and that's
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Speaker 3: like such a release for an audience that like they're
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Speaker 3: saying it, they're saying the thoughts. And I've always felt
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Speaker 3: like that thing that I know, I feel that human
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Speaker 3: beings we all have dark thoughts, bad thoughts, right, And
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Speaker 3: part of it is like on an individual basis, part
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Speaker 3: of a societal norms where you just you have your thought,
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Speaker 3: but you don't act on it, right, I mean, and
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Speaker 3: then you just try to like process and then you know,
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Speaker 3: social media, I think is this great example of like, oh,
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Speaker 3: these are things that nobody will say to your face, right,
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Speaker 3: but it's like this permission to like and let it.
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Speaker 3: And it's probably it's a release for people to be
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Speaker 3: able to be like I fuck hate you like cool,
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Speaker 3: it's really cool because they'll never say it to you, right.
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Speaker 3: And so in like in coming up with these stories,
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Speaker 3: it's like, you know, the coffee shop one, yeah, was
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Speaker 3: one of the was the first thing we shot a
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Speaker 3: few years back. I actually filmed a few of the
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Speaker 3: stories a few years That's how I got the show.
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Speaker 3: And so coffee shop one was one of the original
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Speaker 3: ones we filmed before we had a series. And so,
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Speaker 3: but that is like an example of it's like wish
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Speaker 3: everyone has had a bad retail experience right where you're like,
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Speaker 3: I want kill this person. And then it was like, well,
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Speaker 3: why don't we just make that Like yeah, why don't
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Speaker 3: we have the person deserve you know, backlash in some
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Speaker 3: way and just take over the top. So we just
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Speaker 3: like went to an extreme place, and it's the one
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Speaker 3: that got the by far, I think the biggest reaction
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Speaker 3: when people were like writing things to be like yo,
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Speaker 3: they deserved and like like cool, yeah they did. They
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Speaker 3: deserve to die for the bad coffee order. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's a fun, you know kind of way to exercise
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Speaker 3: the thoughts is like what if we think of the
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Speaker 3: thing we've always wanted to say or do or the
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Speaker 3: impulse in that moment and actually act naked. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, actually I saw in one of your earliest stand
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Speaker 1: up specials it was completely normal that some of these
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Speaker 1: ideas that popped up in bad thoughts, like the Steven
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Speaker 1: sagal bit, yeah, and the barista one that the two
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Speaker 1: headed girl. It's like those stories become fully realized in
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Speaker 1: bad thoughts, But it seems like you at least had
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Speaker 1: some concepts early.
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Speaker 3: Oh some of them been sent with me for a while. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: where or even like the origin the nugget of the
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Speaker 3: thing that became something else, Like there's a the whole
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Speaker 3: reason the storyline of the you know, the the virtual reality.
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Speaker 5: Guy, it's so good, and that's the second episode, right, yeah,
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Speaker 5: because it's a it's a three part story, right, So
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Speaker 5: there's the there's the office where he gets like disrespected,
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Speaker 5: then he creates the video game, then you reveal that
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Speaker 5: it's a game, and then.
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Speaker 3: There's the the part three words like he's become the
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Speaker 3: successful guy. Well in part two where he's like we
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Speaker 3: need to sit on that toilet together. The origin, like
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Speaker 3: the whole reason, Like what makes me laugh is that
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Speaker 3: the origin of that, The reason that that even exists
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Speaker 3: is I've always loved upsetting my mother, right, and I
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Speaker 3: know there's things that she doesn't want to ever talk about,
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Speaker 3: and one of them is going to the bathroom, right,
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Speaker 3: she just doesn't want to, So I try to say
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Speaker 3: it as much as possible.
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Speaker 2: That's good.
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Speaker 3: And few years, like several years ago, I would do
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Speaker 3: father son trips with my dad's like where I was
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Speaker 3: working adult, but I was like, he was like, you know,
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Speaker 3: let's plan something. We'd go spend like two three days
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Speaker 3: in Portland, Maine or something, you know, and then I
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Speaker 3: go back to LA. But we've been doing those trips
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Speaker 3: for years, and like even twenty five thirty years ago,
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Speaker 3: I was a teenager or whatever. I would go on
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Speaker 3: a trip like with my dad. I get back and
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Speaker 3: my mom was like, how was the weekend? And I
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Speaker 3: would go, well, you know, it was great, and I go,
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Speaker 3: you know this one day, I go, you know, Dad
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Speaker 3: was taking a shit and she'd go, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to hear this. And I go, no, no, no, this is
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Speaker 3: this is actually. She goes, I don't want to hear this.
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Speaker 3: I go, it's not what you think. She's like, okay what.
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Speaker 3: I would go, So Dad was taking a shit and
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Speaker 3: she'd be like, wow, okay, and I going, you know
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Speaker 3: how when you sit on a toilet there's like a
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Speaker 3: gap between your legs and she'd go, yeah, I go,
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Speaker 3: so I had to go and so I sat in
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Speaker 3: that gap and we went at the same time, and
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Speaker 3: she'd be like, what the hell is going And so
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Speaker 3: I would do that to her, like every couple of years,
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Speaker 3: I would tell her the same thing. She would never
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Speaker 3: remember that I'd already told her that, oh, you've used this,
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Speaker 3: I would use that exact thing that we went to
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Speaker 3: the bathroom with this same She was like, this is
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Speaker 3: the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. And I basically
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Speaker 3: wrote a story where I was like, how can I
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Speaker 3: incorporate going to the bath So the bathroom and that's
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Speaker 3: where we created the portal World. But it's all based
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Speaker 3: on that.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any concepts material that you do come
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Speaker 1: back to that you think about that that could work,
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Speaker 1: but you don't you haven't employed it in a public
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Speaker 1: way yet.
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Speaker 3: There is this thing where sometimes you go, you know,
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Speaker 3: you I've tried things and abandoned them, and then you
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Speaker 3: find that, like five or ten years later, you go, oh,
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Speaker 3: there was that joke. You're like, I'm gonna try. Ten
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Speaker 3: years have gone by, so I'm naturally going to have
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Speaker 3: a like some difference in my approach to saying it
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Speaker 3: or telling it. And and it's one of those things
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Speaker 3: where sometimes you go like, holy shit, that works now,
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Speaker 3: like it needed to marinate for a decade, but it is.
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Speaker 3: I think you you learn to listen as you listen
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Speaker 3: to yourself, right It's like it's kind of like you're
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Speaker 3: you're guiding voice internally, right of Like it's it's the
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Speaker 3: equivalent to like, don't walk down that hallway, you know,
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Speaker 3: Like I think the thing you have to work like,
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Speaker 3: work on if you're doing this is learning how to
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Speaker 3: listen to that listen to yourself, like, hey man, don't
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Speaker 3: ignore those thoughts. Like I used to think that laziness
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Speaker 3: meant not getting up on stage, But what I learned
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Speaker 3: is that laziness in in comedy, like in stand up,
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Speaker 3: is about all the times you're not on stage. You
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Speaker 3: can get on stage every night and still be a
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Speaker 3: lazy comic. You know, you're lazy if you don't spend
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Speaker 3: some time kind of exploring your own thoughts, jotting down
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Speaker 3: that thing, thinking about like that, think that's the work.
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Speaker 3: You know, the work is in those all that time
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Speaker 3: before you get on stage, and so it's it's it
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Speaker 3: kind of surprises you. Someone could be like, you're not lazy,
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Speaker 3: You're you're doing spots all the time you're like, no,
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Speaker 3: you're still lazy because you're not doing anything off stage.
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Speaker 3: I mean, one thing it's very clear is you see
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Speaker 3: comedians who are stuck, you know, like they're like, I'm
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Speaker 3: I feel stuck here. I'm not evolving. I would bet
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Speaker 3: almost everything that a lot of the people saying that
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Speaker 3: are the ones who are not trying things, not not
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Speaker 3: it's like not doing that. You always need like new,
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Speaker 3: something new, new is what makes it exciting and moving,
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Speaker 3: and so it's very easy to fall into that. Like
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Speaker 3: you figure out twenty minutes that work or whatever yep,
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Speaker 3: and you go, I'm just gonna do that because it works,
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Speaker 3: because you get fear of like what if I leave
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Speaker 3: that and I try to come up with new stuff
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Speaker 3: and the new stuff doesn't hit like that. But then
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Speaker 3: the worst thing happens, which is that that twenty minutes
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Speaker 3: that works just starts to weigh on you because it's
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Speaker 3: not exciting or new in any way, and then you
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Speaker 3: slowly kind of die inside. That's why you kind of
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Speaker 3: always want to turn things over, Like I feel like
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Speaker 3: you shoot something or you record a special and then
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Speaker 3: you just go, I'm done with it and need I
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Speaker 3: need to come up with more, and then your brain
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Speaker 3: just kind of you know, beco you generate more because
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Speaker 3: of the necessity.
18:48
Speaker 1: The idea of like working on material, like going up
18:50
Speaker 1: on stage to a live audience, yeah, and not even
18:53
Speaker 1: telling them you're doing this, but like trying a new
18:55
Speaker 1: minute or whatever.
18:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that something that you do?
18:58
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, yeah, that's I mean, that's the that's
19:02
Speaker 3: the part you get addicted to. Really, the whole drive
19:05
Speaker 3: of doing stand up. It's thinking of something and going
19:10
Speaker 3: I'm going to try this on stage, and then the
19:15
Speaker 3: build of anxiety of will this work or won't this work?
19:21
Speaker 3: The absolute the euphoria that you feel when it does
19:26
Speaker 3: work is like unlike any other feeling, which is why
19:31
Speaker 3: I think comedians will do it into their nineties if
19:34
Speaker 3: they live. And then the absolute gutting depression you feel
19:38
Speaker 3: when it doesn't is like so it's so powerful that
19:43
Speaker 3: you realize the only way to overcome that feeling is
19:46
Speaker 3: to try something again and hopefully get the other reaction. Wow.
19:51
Speaker 1: So I can only speak to my limited I'm not
19:54
Speaker 1: stand up comedy, but I've done stand up storytelling.
19:56
Speaker 3: If you yeah, if you have you spoke in front
19:58
Speaker 3: of an audience, Yeah, yeah, but.
20:00
Speaker 1: So in my world, I already know the conclusion of
20:02
Speaker 1: all the stories. I know exactly where it's going to go.
20:04
Speaker 1: I remember I had one show that I did and
20:06
Speaker 1: the audience was literally like so respectful. It was difficult
20:10
Speaker 1: for me to like get into the story because it's
20:11
Speaker 1: like so proper, so nice, so quiet. The other crowds
20:15
Speaker 1: were like really reacting to stuff, and it made it
20:17
Speaker 1: so difficult to do the same stories I had rehearsed.
20:20
Speaker 2: I can't imagine.
20:22
Speaker 1: Having the blow of them being like dude, what was that,
20:25
Speaker 1: and then getting up and doing it again.
20:26
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. And the thing is there are audiences even
20:30
Speaker 3: sometimes in stand up shows like you don't expect it,
20:32
Speaker 3: but you get It's not like every crowd is the same.
20:35
Speaker 3: Sometimes you get these very reserved crowds. Yeah, where you're
20:40
Speaker 3: like used to people with like a lot of energy
20:43
Speaker 3: and they're just like like clapping at the end hm
20:47
Speaker 3: hmmm the bit and you're like Jesus. The thing you
20:50
Speaker 3: learn over time is when an audience isn't like super
20:55
Speaker 3: high energy or you go like, this audience sucks. Essentially,
21:00
Speaker 3: I don't go hey, like when you're starting out, you're like,
21:02
Speaker 3: why do you guys suck because you don't realize that
21:05
Speaker 3: sometimes and this is this is true, that audience that
21:09
Speaker 3: was just like they weren't high energy. They had a
21:12
Speaker 3: great time, Like you don't. You don't realize it until
21:15
Speaker 3: you've done this a while that like you'll finish that
21:17
Speaker 3: show and you go, what the fuck was that? And
21:20
Speaker 3: then you run into people and they're like that I
21:21
Speaker 3: had the best time at that, and you're like, wow, really,
21:24
Speaker 3: because what happens is an audience for the most part,
21:30
Speaker 3: they don't they're not referencing this show to thousands of
21:34
Speaker 3: other shows. You are, like, you know that they're down
21:38
Speaker 3: here on the list of audiences. They don't know that
21:41
Speaker 3: that's true. They're just like like this might be the
21:43
Speaker 3: first show they've gone to in like three years, and
21:46
Speaker 3: they're like, this was a great time. Wow, you're and
21:50
Speaker 3: they'll become aware if you tell them. So you're like,
21:52
Speaker 3: just so you know, you suck, and they're like, I
21:56
Speaker 3: thought we were having a good time. They just don't
21:58
Speaker 3: have that like level of ener Now the next night
22:01
Speaker 3: you could be in a venue where it is just
22:04
Speaker 3: like fireworks. Yeah, and those ones you almost want to
22:08
Speaker 3: tell them you guys are unbelievable, like they don't. I
22:12
Speaker 3: don't know if you know this, but you're insanely good.
22:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that you are a consumer of the strange,
22:20
Speaker 1: dark and mysterious. Yes, So it wouldn't be a Mister
22:22
Speaker 1: Ballin episode if I didn't tell you a story. Yes,
22:25
Speaker 1: And so we actually looked for a story that would
22:28
Speaker 1: specifically resonate with you, and I'm so excited about and
22:32
Speaker 1: I also we even the way we got the story,
22:34
Speaker 1: this is the context part. This story isn't really on
22:38
Speaker 1: the internet, like we heard references to it, and we
22:41
Speaker 1: tried to find the source material for it, but we couldn't,
22:43
Speaker 1: Like we literally looked, we couldn't find it.
22:45
Speaker 2: It's a story out of Mexico.
22:47
Speaker 1: And so we finally had our Spanish language research or
22:50
Speaker 1: track down this library in.
22:52
Speaker 2: Mexico that had a copy of this story.
22:55
Speaker 1: There was a very unique recording and transcript and it's
22:59
Speaker 1: being like locally at this library in Mexico. And so
23:04
Speaker 1: the way to access the story is you can't just
23:06
Speaker 1: like contact the library. You have to write them a
23:10
Speaker 1: letter to get access to this story, to hear a story,
23:14
Speaker 1: to just read the transfer, read a transcript in the
23:16
Speaker 1: story it's the story without the transcript not really a
23:19
Speaker 1: good story. You need the transcript, you'll see. So we
23:22
Speaker 1: followed their steps. We contact the library and we get
23:26
Speaker 1: access to the story and they're like very weary of
23:28
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do with it, but they're like, okay,
23:31
Speaker 1: be careful with this one, right because it's like a
23:33
Speaker 1: sensitive story for Mexico.
23:34
Speaker 3: Okay.
23:35
Speaker 2: So that's a setup.
23:36
Speaker 3: So this is, by the way, let's just up. Great setup,
23:39
Speaker 3: great set. I mean, I don't know where this's going
23:41
Speaker 3: to go. It's good, but I'm fucking in dude. I mean,
23:44
Speaker 3: you just you set up like a Bond story. I
23:47
Speaker 3: had to like.
23:48
Speaker 4: Request access through fucking headquarters to hear a story.
23:53
Speaker 3: Okay.
23:54
Speaker 1: So in June of nineteen seventy six, there's this twenty
23:57
Speaker 1: three year old kid named Rafael Perez. He's training to
24:00
Speaker 1: be a pilot and he's flying. He flies his training missions,
24:04
Speaker 1: if you will. He's a civilian, so he flies his
24:06
Speaker 1: training flights out of this airport and a Chimalacan, Mexico.
24:10
Speaker 1: It's about three hours inland from Acopoco. And this kid
24:14
Speaker 1: he's flown many times, but always with another pilot, so
24:17
Speaker 1: he's learning how to fly a small plane in a Sessna,
24:19
Speaker 1: and on this day in June, he's going to fly
24:22
Speaker 1: on his own for the first time.
24:23
Speaker 2: The flight profile is very simple. You're going to take
24:26
Speaker 2: off like you.
24:26
Speaker 1: Always have, fly in a loop, come back and land,
24:29
Speaker 1: nothing more to it. You're basically demonstrating you can do
24:32
Speaker 1: it without panicking on your own right. And keep in mind,
24:34
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, the controls, the instruments inside of
24:38
Speaker 1: the aircraft's were pretty rudimentary, like they didn't have GPS systems.
24:42
Speaker 1: It was sort of like you had like your compass
24:45
Speaker 1: and you had your altimeter. But honestly, a lot of
24:47
Speaker 1: flying was literally dead reckoning, like looking out the window
24:51
Speaker 1: and just seeing where you were right. So he takes
24:54
Speaker 1: off at nine to fifteen am. It's June twenty third
24:56
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy six.
24:58
Speaker 3: He takes off right away.
25:00
Speaker 1: He notices that it's very foggy like, and this is
25:03
Speaker 1: something he knew on the ground, but from a dead
25:05
Speaker 1: reckoning perspective looking out the window, he's got limited access
25:09
Speaker 1: to reference points on the ground, so he really has
25:11
Speaker 1: not really a good sense to where he is.
25:13
Speaker 2: He's using his instruments and he's sort of guessing when
25:16
Speaker 2: he's supposed.
25:16
Speaker 1: To make this turn to bank around to come in
25:18
Speaker 1: and land. But on his approach back to the airport
25:21
Speaker 1: he's successfully done this flight.
25:23
Speaker 2: He can't quite find.
25:25
Speaker 1: The airport, like he's struggling to see it. But at
25:27
Speaker 1: a certain point, based on his instruments, he realizes.
25:30
Speaker 2: He's off course.
25:31
Speaker 1: He's lost, and so he tries calling in with the
25:34
Speaker 1: radio back to the control tower to be like, I'm lost,
25:36
Speaker 1: Like I'm letting you know it's going to take me
25:37
Speaker 1: a minute. He doesn't really hear back from them. It's
25:39
Speaker 1: sort of garbled static. And then he realizes, oh, I
25:43
Speaker 1: need to fly back left.
25:44
Speaker 2: I need to go left.
25:45
Speaker 1: So he takes the yoke the steering wheel and he
25:48
Speaker 1: tries to bank the airplane left.
25:50
Speaker 2: But the airplane doesn't go left.
25:52
Speaker 1: It just continues flying level at seven thousand feet in
25:55
Speaker 1: a straight line. And he's thinking, okay, there's clearly some
25:58
Speaker 1: sort of issue here. It's okay, he's not panicking. He
26:01
Speaker 1: hops in the radio and he says, hey, I'm having
26:03
Speaker 1: some issues. I can't go left. He tried going right.
26:05
Speaker 1: Nothing's affecting the plane. It's flying straight at seven thousand feet.
26:09
Speaker 2: He hops in the radio. He starts talking like, what
26:11
Speaker 2: do I do here?
26:12
Speaker 1: I can't do anything to my plane, And as he's
26:15
Speaker 1: trying to get a hold of anybody, who's not getting
26:17
Speaker 1: back in touch for him, but we have his voice
26:19
Speaker 1: being recorded into this radio, the plane actually begins to climb,
26:23
Speaker 1: and he's not pulling back on the yoke.
26:25
Speaker 2: He's not making the plane climb.
26:26
Speaker 1: The plane is climbing on its own, and so it
26:29
Speaker 1: begins to climb. And the way the fog and mist
26:32
Speaker 1: was is there was like this big, huge cloud that
26:35
Speaker 1: he was basically flying into. So he's ascending up to
26:38
Speaker 1: like eight nine, ten thousand feet. He can't go left,
26:40
Speaker 1: can't go right, He's just going straight up into this cloud,
26:43
Speaker 1: and so he can't see anything. He's like in a void.
26:45
Speaker 1: He's totally panicked. Now he can't get a hold of anybody.
26:48
Speaker 2: In the radio. About the time he's totally.
26:50
Speaker 1: Obscured in the clouds, he feels this overwhelming tiredness come
26:54
Speaker 1: over him and he passes out, passes out in the cockpit.
26:58
Speaker 1: He wakes up in the cockpit, has no idea how
27:01
Speaker 1: long he's been asleep for. Could have been a second,
27:02
Speaker 1: could have been days, but He's immediately shocked that, holy cow,
27:05
Speaker 1: I did not crash the plane like I know. I
27:08
Speaker 1: just fell asleep in the plane. But a couple things
27:10
Speaker 1: immediately become clear to him. First of all, his plane
27:12
Speaker 1: still flying, He's still in the air, he's still coasting
27:15
Speaker 1: along right, but he's back down to seven thousand feet.
27:18
Speaker 1: He was climbing before. Now he's back down to seven
27:20
Speaker 1: thousand feet. He also looks out the window and there's
27:22
Speaker 1: no more mist or fog or anything like that. It's
27:25
Speaker 1: actually just the open ocean underneath him. And immediately he
27:29
Speaker 1: thinks to himself, I took off from this airport. That's
27:33
Speaker 1: three hours inland from the coast if I went in
27:36
Speaker 1: a straight line. And he looks at his clock and
27:38
Speaker 1: it says eleven thirty. He took up at nine point
27:40
Speaker 1: fifteen ten fifteen eleven fifteen six, two hours and fifteen
27:44
Speaker 1: minutes from the time he took off.
27:45
Speaker 2: I'm doing the math right, it's below three hours. What
27:48
Speaker 2: body of water am I over?
27:50
Speaker 1: The amount of time that has transpired that apparently I
27:52
Speaker 1: was asleep for is not enough time for me to
27:55
Speaker 1: arrive over any body of water, Let's flashes through his mind.
27:59
Speaker 2: In addition, to that.
28:00
Speaker 1: He looks at his gas gauge and it's at three
28:02
Speaker 1: quarters tank, and he knew that not only is that
28:04
Speaker 1: way too high, but he wouldn't have had Even if
28:07
Speaker 1: he had three hours, he wouldn't have had enough gas
28:10
Speaker 1: to reach any water body.
28:12
Speaker 2: So wouldn't have had.
28:13
Speaker 1: Enough gas, but have three quarter tank of gas. Also, again,
28:16
Speaker 1: how did I get here? I have no idea how
28:17
Speaker 1: I got here, has no idea where he is. And
28:20
Speaker 1: as he's like coming to like what's happening here, somebody
28:23
Speaker 1: chimes in over the radio and goes, hey, hey, are
28:25
Speaker 1: you there? And he grabs this radio and he's like
28:28
Speaker 1: he's totally frantic. He's like, hey, I fell asleep in
28:31
Speaker 1: my plane. I don't know where I am. And there's
28:33
Speaker 1: a pause, and this is all recorded. There's a pause,
28:36
Speaker 1: and the guy on the other end, he introduces himself
28:39
Speaker 1: sort of cautiously. He's like, hey, this is Carlos. Are
28:43
Speaker 1: you alone in your airplane? And raphaela slip of course,
28:47
Speaker 1: I'm alone, Like where am I?
28:49
Speaker 3: What?
28:49
Speaker 2: I think? I fell asleep? I don't know what's going on,
28:51
Speaker 2: and Carlos.
28:52
Speaker 1: His reaction is just sort of okay, well, listen, here's
28:55
Speaker 1: what we're going to do. You're just off the coast
28:57
Speaker 1: of Bacca Poco and for the last hour you've been
29:00
Speaker 1: flying out over the water. He just kind of showed
29:03
Speaker 1: up right and by the way, going back to the timeline,
29:05
Speaker 1: he arrived off the coast of Acapoco now an hour earlier,
29:08
Speaker 1: that was ten thirty in the morning, took off at
29:10
Speaker 1: nine point fifteen. Takes three hours to get there. He
29:12
Speaker 1: apparently did it about an hour and fifteen minutes. So
29:14
Speaker 1: he's circling over the water and Carlos is like, hey,
29:17
Speaker 1: just come into the airport where I am. I'm gonna
29:20
Speaker 1: gets you in there. You're going to land and we'll
29:21
Speaker 1: talk to you then, and so Raphael is just happy
29:23
Speaker 1: to be alive at this point. He comes in. He
29:26
Speaker 1: lands at the airport in Acapoco, and as soon as
29:29
Speaker 1: he gets off, there's these people in suits that are
29:31
Speaker 1: there to meet him and they immediately take him. They
29:33
Speaker 1: detain him, put him in like a black car. He's
29:36
Speaker 1: asking what's going on. Nobody knows or they don't tell him,
29:38
Speaker 1: and they drive him to a hospital and he's the
29:40
Speaker 1: whole time saying, I'm so sorry about the craft. Please
29:43
Speaker 1: tell like the where I flew out of that. I'm
29:45
Speaker 1: sorry about the craft. I hope it's not damaged. They
29:47
Speaker 1: bring him to the hospital. They drug test him right away.
29:50
Speaker 1: He's not on drugs, he's sober, and they also have
29:53
Speaker 1: a psychologist come in and they give him a profile,
29:56
Speaker 1: make sure he's sane, and she determines that he is.
29:59
Speaker 1: And so the whole time Rafael has no idea what's happening.
30:01
Speaker 1: He doesn't know what they're doing. He doesn't understand any
30:03
Speaker 1: of this, and so finally they say, okay, we're going
30:05
Speaker 1: to tell you what happened.
30:07
Speaker 2: So, when you showed.
30:09
Speaker 1: Up off the coast to Baca Poco at about ten
30:11
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, which no one understands how you
30:14
Speaker 1: got there, it's not possible. You showed up on the
30:16
Speaker 1: radar screen of who you were talking to, Carlos, the
30:19
Speaker 1: air traffic control guy, and he talked to you for
30:22
Speaker 1: an hour while you were out over the water. That
30:24
Speaker 1: whole time you were circling, you were talking to him,
30:26
Speaker 1: and it was recorded.
30:28
Speaker 2: And I'm going to read to.
30:29
Speaker 1: You the first thing that Rafael said to Carlos, and
30:33
Speaker 1: you're going to see in a minute. Why Carlos's first
30:35
Speaker 1: question when Rafael came to was is there somebody else
30:38
Speaker 1: in the plane? He said in a very deep, almost
30:42
Speaker 1: robotic voice. When Carlos saw this blip on his radar
30:44
Speaker 1: at ten thirty, said hey, who is this. You're flying
30:46
Speaker 1: over Acapocos Coast. What's going on here? The voice came
30:50
Speaker 1: back and said, the pilot is speaking, but not of
30:53
Speaker 1: his own free will. We are using him as a microphone.
30:56
Speaker 1: Your equipment is too primitive. It is not important to
31:00
Speaker 1: who we are or where we come from, only that
31:02
Speaker 1: we are inhabitants of the same universe. For the next
31:06
Speaker 1: thirty to forty five minutes, the voice being projected through
31:10
Speaker 1: Rafael talked about humanity is the only intelligent species in
31:14
Speaker 1: the entire universe that uses warfare and conducts violence on
31:18
Speaker 1: each other, and you are poised for a nuclear holocaust
31:21
Speaker 1: and you may be exterminated if this continues. And then
31:25
Speaker 1: at about eleven thirty, Rafael wakes up and his voice
31:29
Speaker 1: changed completely and he said, oh.
31:30
Speaker 3: What's going on?
31:31
Speaker 1: I think I fell asleep at the wheel, and that's
31:34
Speaker 1: why Carlos is like, wait a minute, I've been talking
31:35
Speaker 1: to you for an hour, and he's like, ause, somebody
31:37
Speaker 1: else in the craft with you, right. No one has
31:40
Speaker 1: any idea how Rafael wound up over the coast. They
31:46
Speaker 1: examined his plane. Nothing wrong with this plane. It really
31:48
Speaker 1: was three quarter tanks of gas. Didn't make sense how
31:51
Speaker 1: it got there. Nobody knows. Rafael has no idea how
31:53
Speaker 1: he got there. And the Mexican government quickly took this story,
31:57
Speaker 1: buried it, and now I can only access it in
31:59
Speaker 1: this obscure library in Mexico.
32:03
Speaker 3: That's a great story.
32:04
Speaker 2: So what's your take on what happened?
32:07
Speaker 3: First of all, great job telling the story you. I mean,
32:13
Speaker 3: there is only one summary you could get. You know,
32:16
Speaker 3: either of this is like a I guess it's too
32:19
Speaker 3: it's either a bipolar or schizophrenic who is having a
32:23
Speaker 3: pretty crazy episode, or there's another being involved, which is
32:30
Speaker 3: more exciting and more entertaining, because we're in the era
32:34
Speaker 3: now of the government being like, yeah, we have we
32:39
Speaker 3: have stuff, and we have aliens and they've been here
32:43
Speaker 3: and other places have them too, and most people just go,
32:48
Speaker 3: oh cool, like the thing that we used to make
32:51
Speaker 3: a movie about as being like, can you imagine if
32:53
Speaker 3: there were aliens? And everybody would go like that would
32:55
Speaker 3: be fucking wild? And then now we're like, yeah, we
32:58
Speaker 3: have them, and everyone's like yeah, it's very strange, right,
33:02
Speaker 3: like that there's like congressional testimony I know about aliens.
33:08
Speaker 3: Nobody's heart even skipped a beat. I thought we would
33:11
Speaker 3: all stop and be like, no way, nobody cares.
33:15
Speaker 1: I know some of the footage that's been released that
33:18
Speaker 1: some of the videos of these apparent UFOs. Yeah, I mean,
33:22
Speaker 1: either it's an incredible cgi, which is entirely possible, but
33:25
Speaker 1: I think the idea that there's just like widespread conspiracy
33:29
Speaker 1: by the government, like dupe us into believing that maybe
33:32
Speaker 1: they are, that these aren't real or something.
33:33
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense to me.
33:34
Speaker 3: No, doesn't.
33:36
Speaker 2: Do you believe in aliens, I mean extraterrestrials life outside
33:39
Speaker 2: of humans.
33:40
Speaker 3: So for me, it was always like when you have
33:44
Speaker 3: and I don't even have the full comprehension of it,
33:47
Speaker 3: but when you have some grasp of the idea of
33:52
Speaker 3: the size of our galaxies in the universe, it becomes
33:56
Speaker 3: For me, it just always felt like too arrogant to
33:59
Speaker 3: be like, it's just us.
34:00
Speaker 2: Yes, I stand with you firmly on that point.
34:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then like I think the natural thing is
34:06
Speaker 3: that used to become naturally more curious. You know, my
34:08
Speaker 3: wife is a huge like dude, it's all day. She's like,
34:12
Speaker 3: you know what this guy just said about UAPs. I'm like,
34:15
Speaker 3: I don't know, and she gives me like like the
34:17
Speaker 3: She'll read back the transcript from like the Senator and
34:20
Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, that's pretty wild, that's pretty good. But honestly,
34:23
Speaker 3: it's made me realize that it is a more exciting
34:27
Speaker 3: thing to like think about and talk about. And then,
34:32
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the natural thing is like it
34:34
Speaker 3: feels like it's almost like being crumbed out for us.
34:37
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, but where's the where's the next thing?
34:40
Speaker 2: Right?
34:40
Speaker 3: Like when are we gonna see or hear from something?
34:45
Speaker 3: You know, like you just want more.
34:47
Speaker 1: That point exactly. I think it was Neil de Cross
34:50
Speaker 1: Tyson who gave this example. I don't know if it
34:52
Speaker 1: was him, the astrophysicist guy.
34:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like, humans think that if there were
34:57
Speaker 2: alien life.
34:58
Speaker 1: Extra trustrial life on Earth that effectively we believe we
35:03
Speaker 1: could just simply identify it, that you would view it
35:06
Speaker 1: as like a three dimensional being, let's say.
35:08
Speaker 2: But he was like, think of it this way. What
35:11
Speaker 2: are the odds?
35:12
Speaker 1: Or should say When you walk down the street and
35:15
Speaker 1: there is an ant on the ground, are you like,
35:18
Speaker 1: I want to get down there and talk to that ant. No,
35:21
Speaker 1: you might step on the aend, you might not even
35:23
Speaker 1: notice the ant go even lower than that to like algae,
35:27
Speaker 1: Are you looking to communicate with algae? No, what's to
35:31
Speaker 1: say that we are not equivalent to an ant or
35:34
Speaker 1: algae to other beings? Suggesting if there were higher beings
35:40
Speaker 1: on this planet, it's very arrogant to say we would
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Speaker 1: simply one they'd be interested in us.
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Speaker 2: Are you interested in algae?
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Speaker 1: Or two that we could even recognize them as anything
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Speaker 1: close to what we are. Algae and humans couldn't be
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Speaker 1: more different in terms of their makeup, and so it's
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Speaker 1: like they could absolutely be here, but they're four dimensional.
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Speaker 3: Imagine the aliens watching like they're just like trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out and they just pull up this clip and
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Speaker 3: they're just like, look, these two fucking ants like talking
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Speaker 3: about the dumbest shits too. We want to waste our
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Speaker 3: time with these morons. Also, there's also the theory that
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Speaker 3: it becomes you know, it feels like fantasy, but I
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Speaker 3: don't know. You can let your mind kind of embrace
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Speaker 3: the idea that certain humans. You're like, that's a reptilian
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Speaker 3: like you know what I mean, Like, that's a like
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Speaker 3: these evil like these like innately evil seeming people. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and I don't know that they're already here. You're like,
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Speaker 3: it's kind of fun to to play with that idea.
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Speaker 2: I like to believe.
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Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, it did fun. It's fun.
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Speaker 1: So for you, I mean, I I you've been successful
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Speaker 1: in so many different mediums. You know, you just got
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Speaker 1: renewed for season two of Bad Thoughts.
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Speaker 2: It is amazing you've sort of done like.
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Speaker 3: All of it.
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Speaker 2: What's the next chapter? Like you described evolving, I mean,
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Speaker 2: you've done a lot of that.
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Speaker 3: What's next? Honestly, it's I mean, I keep doing as
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Speaker 3: many of those things as you can. And then it's
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Speaker 3: I have a movie this summer. I'm really excited to do.
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Speaker 3: I've always loved movies, Like, I'm a huge fan of cinema,
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Speaker 3: and so for me, it's like I feel like I
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Speaker 3: won the lottery where I get to, like I get
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Speaker 3: to do a movie. This is so awesome. I'm so
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Speaker 3: excited to do it.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell us anything about the movie?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a cartel comedy. I get to
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Speaker 3: play more than one character. I gets play two characters,
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Speaker 3: which is like it just feels insane that they're allowing
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Speaker 3: me to do this. And it's really really funny script.
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Speaker 3: It's so ridiculous and it's a it's an R rated comedy.
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Speaker 3: It's wild, it's wild, it's fun. But it also has
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Speaker 3: like a lot to me, like the thing that I
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Speaker 3: loved about great comedies growing up, especially like R rated comedies, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: was like you almost take the comedies for granted, that
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Speaker 3: the comedic parts of it. It's like you have to
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Speaker 3: have great story supporting the comedy. Like it's almost like
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Speaker 3: you go, like, I know this is gonna be funny,
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Speaker 3: but is the story a good story? And I think
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Speaker 3: this is a really good story that has like great dynamics,
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Speaker 3: great characters, and it's outrageously funny, but you still care
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Speaker 3: for this main character. And I mean, I'm talking to
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Speaker 3: you about six weeks before we shoot.
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Speaker 4: If they'll definitely cut this up and plate if we
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Speaker 4: make a piece of so good.
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Speaker 3: But I'm very excited to do it. I'm so excited.
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Speaker 3: So that's to me, like the most exciting thing about
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Speaker 3: like what's next. I'm like, I'm so stoked to do this.
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Speaker 3: I've always been. I moved to LA when I was
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Speaker 3: twenty two, thinking that, like, I'm gonna have a movie
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Speaker 3: career forty six, I'm gonna do a movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do Congratulations and seriously, you need to check
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Speaker 1: out Bad Thoughts.
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Speaker 3: Thank you Flicks.
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Speaker 2: Season two is very exciting. I look forward to your
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Speaker 2: movie You're the Man, dude.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sure man love, thank you, thank you.