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Episode 29: That's a Spicy Spaceball with Aaron Aryanpur · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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All right, welcome into the tree house. I am Dan O'Malley along with
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Trey Trenholm, and joining us in the tree house today is a friend,
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a very talented actor, voice actor, comedian, artist, graphic artist,
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basically a renaissance man, Aaron Arian Poor, Hello, sir, Hey,
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how are you? It's so, it really is. It's so good to
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see you. It's so good to be back on the air with you.
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It's good too. It's good to be seen and it's always good to be
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heard. And uh, it's it's been a minute since since we've talked to
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you last. Yeah, it's been a long time. And there's a lot
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that I want to get into with you. But in sort of treehouse fashion
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from the from the previous host, main host of this show, I learned
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a lot, and that is don't ever lead with the guest. You lead
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with yourself. So if you see me then the doing that a lot today
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with my tongue looking my lips like looking like my great grandmother did at the
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at the Thanksgiving Day table. It's because I just had a very unexpectedly hot
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halopeno or a snack with hallopenial on it, and it was not supposed to
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be that damn hot. And I am fresh off of eating about half of
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a tub of Greek yogurt, and I was so desperate to kill the heat
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on this that I didn't even put anything in the Greek yogurt to make it
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even taste good. It just it looked like me and a really really you
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know, add still image of something on pornhub. You just need to spackle
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the insides. You just needed to coat everything is That's that's kind of what
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I was doing. But the problem was, I guess, so it got
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on my tongue, and then of course you lick your lips, so then
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it was on the edges of my lips and it would not and it still
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is not done burning. So you're having that many problems from a hallopenia.
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Yes that you've gotten soft. No, I am not soft. Tree trend
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hump, you have gotten soft. You take that back. I will not
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this. The treehouse is supposed to be a fun place, free of ridiculous
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accusations, plenty of judgment, though right judgment still allow. The judgment still
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just overflows out of every crack at orifice. Okay, well then I'm good.
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I mean, not even a serrano or a hovignero halopenio. Dude,
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I know I like spice. I can handle some spice. I'm not,
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you know, barely not. Did you shut up? Trey? I can,
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I swear to God I can. I will send you one of these
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halapanios. Okay, I will mail you one of these halapanios. I think
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that's legal. And you have to eat one of these and then and then
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you tell me if you're such a big man, Okay, that's fine,
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Dan, bring one. And when you when you come to town in July
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for the road show and everything else, bring a halapeno. I'll go over
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to the Rio Grand, the Mexican supermarket. I'll get some hallapenos. We'll
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compare. Challenge accepted, trindhome a right. Look. One segment of that
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two hour event at Daddy Rabbits Pub in Louisville on Friday, July seventh,
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from five to seven pm is gonna be uh, you and me eating green
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stuff, all right. And if you see me with a syringe injecting yours
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with mystery substances beforehand, just turn away. Nothing to see. And the
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biggest tubs of Greek yogurt you'll ever ever see right there on the table.
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Just off to the side. Yeah, oh really is It's embarrassing, man.
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So it was well Tara had made so our neighbor gave us these halopenios
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that that she had she had grown herself. And because she's growing them inside,
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they don't grow as large as like the hallopenios you see in the grocery
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store, right, And I do know that in my knowledge. I don't
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know the most about peppers than anybody, but I know a fair amount about
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peppers. I know that typically the smaller the pepper, the hotter they are.
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And because she grows these inside, they're on the smaller side. So
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I expected them to be a little bit hotter, and I'm okay with that.
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And I can tolerate heat. I don't care what you say, Trey.
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Hallapenios really not that spicy. I love a good Serrano pepper. Hab
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narrows depending on how they're prepared. That's where I might start to draw the
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line a little bit. Just depends on, you know, if it If
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it searches to get crazy spicy, then I'm like, ah, I'm probably
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out, but you're not erect me like it just did. I'll be done
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with. How do you do with Indian food. I usually I usually request
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I usually request a white guy mild and well, I mean I'd like to
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experiment a little bit. But I'll be honest, Aaron, Indian food scares
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me. Indian and then Thai food too. It's the only times where I
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can feel the sweat coming out of the crown of my skull. Like I
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like, I'm used to sweating, you know, growing up in Texas.
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But that's a spot like on the top of my head. But I'm like,
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this is a new sensation. I don't know what this is. It's
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tingly and it's hot, and I feel like a like a like a fountain.
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Is it shooting out the top of my head? Uh? Yeah?
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I was like, maybe my brain is telling me something. Right, it
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got up there and it's it's doing its job. Yeah, it very well,
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maybe that, but I just it was man. So what So what
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Tara made was it was a have you seen? Have you seen in the
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grocery store they'll do it's like a cheese, like a grated cheese cracker.
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It's just all it is. You just say grated cheese. A lot of
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times in the stores they'll have it with parmesan. It's like a parmesan crisp.
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Yeah, Tara did it, I think with Colby Jack. So it's
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shredded cheese. You just you put it on some parchment paper, you throw
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it in the oven for a bit. It gets golden and wonderful, and
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you pull it out of the and then you eat it. So she she
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had taken some of these halapanos. I think half of the slice, half
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of one slice of a halapanio on one cracker, and it still burns.
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So so as I'm digging through the tub of Greek yogurt with nothing that tastes
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good in it, I'm googling with my thumbs does cooking of pepper make it
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hotter? Because I didn't think it did. And then, of course it's
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the Internet, so I get conflicting information, and I see one post it
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says no, it mellows the flavor, and then another post goes, yeah,
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it intensifies the flavor. It's like, well, great, now,
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I just don't know. That's a seeds in seeds out conundrum because if you
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typically, if you cook him with the seeds in, they're gonna get hotter.
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I take the seeds out, but prior than it will mellow them out.
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That was my understanding on what my cooks would tell me, because I
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made the mistake one time of my cook Emilio, had had made this salsa
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and he thought it was really hot, and I taunted him and said,
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dah, it's mild. I think this would be a good moment to briefly
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point out that Trey is talking about his time as a general manager of a
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very successful bar in Dallas, not that he is so wealthy. He has
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multiple cooks that will cook from whenever he wants. That's different clarification because it's
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been a minute with me, and I was like, whoa, I'm all
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right, yea, chef, thank you for the thank you for the clarification.
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Yeah. So yeah, he came back with it also needed a clarification
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because I didn't want Aaron thinking that you're torturing your cooks by making them eat
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hot things. Oh no, they he made a salsa that it's like,
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I don't get heartburn, and he made one that was so hot that I
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was almost immediately had heartburn and was sweating profusely. And he still would never
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tell me exactly what he put in it. But do you have his uh,
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you have his number because I'd like to get his recipe, because that's
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what I'll have him. I'll have him whip up a batch for our for
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the road show. I think that sounds like a good idea, and I
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want to get that syringe in there and then start, you know, juicing
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up your halapeno. You said that, um, your wife made these,
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right, yeah, and that not to get into any kind of whatever,
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gender roles that we are supposed to are not supposed to whatever. But was
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she slamming them back while you were there, like nursing your one with a
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half a slice of halopino on it? Well? Yeah, so what she
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did she made She made four of these cheese crackers, right, Okay,
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okay, two of them have the hall Opinion on it and two do not.
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Tara does not do spicies, so she ate the two without there you
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go, okay, never mind. So maybe what happened is maybe I wasn't
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paying attention and she had a syringe when I and she's injecting these hall opinions
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with something. Because she removed the seeds, and I think she removed the
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ribs, you know, the white rib that lines it, because those are
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the two things that make peppers hot. I don't know, man, it's
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just it's freaky. Well, this leads into another conversation of what did you
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get her for her birthday? I got her nice things, tray. She's
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not trying to poison me. I don't think this is birthday, you know,
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poor birthday gift giving? Revenge? Is it? She just looked at
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me and smiled. It's very troubling to me that she didn't immediately say no,
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of course not. Do you have an anniversary recently too, like just
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a couple of weeks ago, So aniversary, we did have an anniversary.
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Thank you for remembering that, happy anniversary? And did you mess up that
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gift? No? No, Alpha. Might you might want to take over
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some of the cooking duties for a little bit. I think I'm gonna have
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to because it might be it might be too dangerous around here. It's been
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my experience. I guess from a lot of the television that I've watched,
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in the podcasts that I've listened to, that if your spouse prepares a food
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that only you eat that she is not also eating or he is also eating,
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it may be a red flag. I'm gonna have to It's solid.
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Yeah. So wisdom. Yeah, yeah, I made all of this,
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but it's just for you, no, thank you. I actually think there
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was a story similar to that recently, and it was the wife was poisoning
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her husband through the through the food. Yeah yeah, not that that's That's
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not what I'm claiming. I'm just saying I like those, you know,
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TV shows. So you're looking forward to that next episode that's about my death.
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You know, it's like, I'm gonna cry in the middle of it
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because I knew him and stuff. But it's really in her, you know,
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it's it's oh my god, the Spicy Cracker Killer. I love this
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episode. Oh god. So anyway, yeah, I just it's it's a
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it was a it's a hit to my ego. I'm starting I'm actually starting
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to wonder what the neighbor actually like. Was she growing it next to lava
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or something. I just trying to find a way. How was it this
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little Hallabaniel? Was it that damn hot? I mean, is she doing
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like hydroponic peppers? Actually? I think she might be doing hydroponic There you
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go, more concentrated. You know, today's halopinos are a very different brand
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than you know, the jalopenos you grew up with. You know, you
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just gotta be careful. We need air quotes around halloeeno. If all you
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could do air quotes in inn audio, I think if you just take a
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little bit ofove pause and then you know, you go. So, her
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green produce is a very more It's a potent. It's more potent than it
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was, you know, than the green produce that you would have found,
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you know, behind the high school back in the nineties. Yeah, see,
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Trey, that was perfect. Aaron nailed it. That's a guy that
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does the voice over acting for a living. He knows exactly how to do
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the verbal quotations without saying quote. He just nailed that was very good,
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Aaron. I appreciate it. Thank you for the positive feedback everyone. Not
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enough people do that these days. I've I've had some I've had some shows
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where, um, like in a stand up sense, people who shout stuff
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out. It's not always a heckle, and sometimes instead of a laugh or
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clapping, you'll hear you hear somebody from the just the darkness go that's good.
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You're like, well, thank you, individual notes. I appreciate that
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as well. Yeah, I've I've I've heard I've I've been to enough shows
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before where i've I've I've experienced that. Uh it's someone's like that's funny like
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that, Yeah, and you or whoever this comedian is on stage, it's
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kind of pauses and like thank you, Yeah, welcome, welcome to the
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show. That was the point. Did you know you you walked into a
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comedy club? Right? Why are you surprised? Yes, exactly. Speaking
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of that, let's since you brought that up, let's make sure we mentioned
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your upcoming show. Uh it is. Make sure I got this correct because
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I looked it up before we got started here today. If you have never
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seen Aaron ry Import on stage, do yourself a favor and buy your tickets
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now. Aaron will be at Hyena's Dallas Saturday, June twenty fourth, two
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shows, right, Aaron, Two shows at seven o'clock and at nine thirty,
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and they're both going to be awesome. Saturday nights are awesome. That's
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outstanding. So you can catch our friend and comedian and actor and graphic designer
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and artist Aaron ry Import at Hyena's Dallas Saturday, June twenty fourth. For
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ticket infoe Hyena's Comedy Nightclub dot com two shows seven and nine thirty. Can
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I ask a question please for the the stand up comedian. What was the
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whole brew haha about Matt Rife tickets. I don't know, I mean,
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and let me set the stage if you weren't on social media anything else.
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I think it started Friday that I mean, my feed was flooded with different
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comments. It's about Evidently there were some like everyone, there was a run
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on Matt Rife tickets that he had just announced shows. And I've seen clips
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of him. He's funny, but it's not like I didn't I don't understand
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what the uproar was about. So I think there was a lot of uproar
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because there was a lot of attention on this tour and like, full disclosure,
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I don't I don't know this guy. This is the first time I've
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heard of his name. But I'm also Facebook friends, you know, on
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social media, you just you also have a whole bunch of other stand up
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comedians. There was there was It was laughable to a lot of people because
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they didn't know who this guy was. And now all of a sudden,
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this announced tour was sounding like Taylor Swift tickets. Yeah, and and um,
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you know, there were people who were knocking him. There were people
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making fun of other people knocking him, Like I don't I don't know the
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dude. I have too many people I know personally who I'm jealous of,
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Like I don't have time, Like I don't have the energy to jealous of
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people I don't know. But it's just jealousy to be honest, Like I'm
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like I said, I'm not familiar with this guy, but he's found a
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way. He's got a team behind him. They marketed at people clearly want
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to see him, and I know that personally for me, it could be
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really hard to get the word out about your shows, and it could be
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really hard to get bookings, and it can be really hard to even get
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those bookings and then show up, you know, drive drive, drive and
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show up and you know, fifty people show up. And so everybody wants,
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you know, to sell out wherever they go, and not everybody can.
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Not everybody does. And so when you see somebody that you just didn't
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know and all of a sudden it seems like that's what they can do,
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there's a huge question mark over your head, like where did this guy come
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from? What was his strategy, what did he do? And then also
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the immediate thing is to dismiss it all by oh he's a pretty boy.
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That was the main thing. His tour image was him with his shirt off.
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You know, it looked like a UFC poster, you know, or
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you know, like I don't know what it looked like, but so much
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jealousy, and like I said, I don't I don't have time for I
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don't have time. I don't have time for extra bitterness. I was just
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curious. I mean, like I said, I've seen his clips. He's
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funny. He does more audience interaction, taking on you know, either hecklers
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or just stuff like that, but I like not to the point where I
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would think, you know, it's causing a frenzy that he's going on tour.
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There are some comedians who I absolutely love to see um interact with an
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audience. Like when I was growing up, Paula Poundstone had special after special
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where she could just retain information she worked off the audience and it was it
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was it was a magic trick. It was amazing. And then even if
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you've had a chance to go see Ian Bag, like he's somebody who risks
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with the audience, and it's no show of his is going to ever be
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the exact same. There was something with social media over the last few years
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where people want to post their clips online because you're hoping something goes viral.
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You hope you gained some action. But there's also a fear from a number
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of people that they don't want to quote unquote sorry, they don't want to
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burn material, and so they don't want to do a minute of crafted stuff.
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But if this organic thing happened on stage and I got this huge laugh,
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I'm going to share that, and I'm going to share that, And
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some people have just been posting, you know, audience interactions. That's fine.
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I think that there's an art to it, but I also think that
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it's kind of I mean, so many things have changed in the way audiences
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come out to shows, and I think a lot of other comedians, myself
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included, get worried that you're training an audience who sees clips like that like,
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oh, that's the show. We got to come and yell stuff out
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because the comedian is going to have to deal with it, and if they
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don't deal with it, then they're not worth anything. That kind of thing,
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you know, what I mean show to a degree, it can make
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your job a little harder, especially if you've got stuff prepared, stuff that
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you really want to work on. Like it's a different type of art,
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you know what I mean, It's just a different aaron That actually makes perfect
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sense because what you put out there on social media as an entertainer, especially
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as a comedian, you're showing your audience a what you do and be,
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what to expect, and expectations are dangerous. So if you're only posting clips
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of those things, then that's what you're going to get. It's it's kind
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of like, um, there's there's there's a really good example of this,
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but I can't quite grasp it. It's on the tip of my tongue.
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But I can't quite grasp it because it's still you know, my tongue is
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still burning. Um. But I know that there's been situations before where someone
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was sort of really famous or well known for a certain slapstick type bit.
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Let's just let's just say for the sake of what I'm saying now, that
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it's getting slapped in the face. That's what everyone knew this person for.
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They thought it was hysterical. It was in everything that would that they had
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ever seen. So then when this person would then meet the public, guess
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what they wanted to do Slap them in the face. Um. So that's
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that's a very generic example based on a specific example that I can't exactly pull
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from the deep dark reaches of my brain. But at least you understand what
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I'm saying. Hey, man, do you mind if I take a selfie
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of me slapping you in the face? Yes? Yeah, you mind if
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we do a quick TikTok and me kicking you in the ball, since that's
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everything that I've ever seen you posed? No, no, no, no
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it slapping the face is fine. I draw the line of my crotch um.
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And maybe maybe there's a certain degree of that with someone like like a
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Chris Farley, maybe where he was always so loud and full of energy,
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partly because of the cocaine, but then he was also daring some of the
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skits on Saturday Night Live's He's throwing himself on furniture, on coffee tables,
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some of which weren't exactly the breakaway kind. He just broke them. And
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so if that's what you're known for, that's what people want to see and
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that's what they want to hear. It's like um um. It's like if
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you have a signature bit as a comedian and Jeff fox Or there's a good
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example of this this U you might be a redneck if you're gonna go to
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one of his shows and people are gonna, you know, he's gonna do
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his normal material, and then the people that showed up, they don't want
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the normal material. They want the you might be a redneck jokes. You
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better give me fifteen minutes of that at the end. You know, I'm
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going to give you a bad YELP. Did I tell you that I've worked
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with him? I believe Yeah, I think I think we. I think
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we had you on to promote it, either beforehand or we had you on
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afterwards to talk about it. My favorite thing about that is I got asked
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to open the theater show for him, So I worked with Jeff Foxworthy who
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had never met before, and then less than a month later, I did
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a private party in a Muslim family's home, and so it's so it's like
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to me, I'm just saying, it's like, I don't know if I'm
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funny, but I've got range, you know, at both shows. No
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one slapped you in the face, did they? No? No, that
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wasn't my thing yet. Maybe that's something I'll bring in. I don't know,
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but but I may have brought this up with before. But the trippiest
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part is, you know, you and I we've gone way back, and
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I've brought up stories about doing art for people. I mean, it's how
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I kind of made my way to you guys via Russ you know, way
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back when and doing caricatures and stuff like that. And I hadn't done one
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in a long time. And Jeff Foxworthy was one of those guys where whether
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you you know, love him, hate him, whatever, he I was
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honored to be asked. And he's an icon, you know, He's somebody
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who's established himself in stand up comedy and a number of other venues. So
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I did a caricature of them, and after the show, I wanted to
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share it with him, maybe get his autograph. And then he pulls out
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his phone and starts showing me all of his drawings. I'm like, wait
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what, and he goes, yeah, man, I've been drawn for a
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while. And I out on the farm. He starts drawing chickens and all
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these details cows and it's like good stuff he's showing me on his phone.
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We start talking about pens, We start talking about ink and hatching. Him
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like, am I really having this conversation with the You might be a redneck
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guy right now? This is the craziest thing about using which specific style of
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like uniball or big pen is going to get the right. I like your
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hatching and then the cross hatching and how evenly spaced. I'm like, God,
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wow, this is the weirdest thing. You might not be a redneck
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if you might be a renaissance man. Jeff Jeeves, I don't. I
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don't know if everyone that shows up to his shows is going to appreciate the
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renaissance humor. No, probably not. I don't know why. I was
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surprised. As a comedian, you want to tape as many shows as possible,
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especially if it's a big show. You might be able to get a
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clip from it. You might be able to use it for booking purposes or
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an audition or something like that. And it wasn't ideal. My camera was
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set up in the way back of the theater and I didn't want to check
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it. That's the other thing too, I'll take a lot of shows.
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I'm not immediately going to go and watch it, you know. I finally
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pull up the footage and there's this giant cowboy hat literally in front of the
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camera, blocking the entire stage. And I used to get mad at stuff
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like that, and now I'm just like, what what what? What?
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What did you expect, dummy? What did you think you were gonna get?
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Oh you're saying that to yourself, Yeah, but to myself, to
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myself, yeah exactly, Yeah, you're not saying that to the guy the
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cowboy hat. I didn't see that guy from upstage, but my camera didn't,
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and he was immediately His hat was the star of your set's ten gallant
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in widescreen format. Thanks Budd. But it was nice of him to make
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sure because he knew he was going to wear his special, really really really
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big hat, so he made sure to buy tickets in the back of the
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theater so it wouldn't block any actual audience member's view. It just happened to
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be right in front of your camera. How considered is that guy? All
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Right, Well, I appreciate you can come so far in your life and
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your career that you weren't mad at the guy for it. You were just
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dude, at this point, if I if I threw a fit for everything
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that you know used to just like set me off, I'd have had a
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it took me, no, no sorry, no disrespect. Oh no,
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in a second we're getting I'm getting hearing us back. I'm hearing myself back.
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What changed? Nothing changed on my end? Let's see Aaron. Maybe
30:07
try mute yourself real quick and then unmute. Check one two, check one
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two. All right, now unmute check one two, check one two.
30:18
Yeah, it's coming through your set somehow mine? Yeah, uh yeah,
30:26
I'm wondering if it's coming through your earbud somehow. I'm wondering. Does this
30:30
microphone work at all? Yeah? Shouldn't when I have oh god bless it
30:34
shouldn't be working when I have this set up. Maybe that's where it's coming
30:38
from. So if I move this out of the way around, plug it,
30:41
Should I just use this microphone? Will I work fine? Or is
30:45
it? To check one? I think that was it. I think that
30:48
was where we were getting the extra stuff. So uh, drop that down
30:52
to its normal spot where it is, and now just give me a quick
30:56
level check okay, check one two, check one too. Yeah, you
31:00
go ahead, yeah, so just ka, yeah, we'll just stay with
31:03
that. Let me unplug the other one. Okay, okay, okay,
31:07
unplugged, all right, let me just double check that. No, I
31:12
heard it a little bit there now I don't check. It wasn't doing the
31:21
whole No, it was just No. The only times that we heard it
31:25
were earlier before we started and then and then just now okayaphone, all right,
31:32
h we'll just start this back over, I guess um or I'll just
31:33
pick it right back from from where we left off. All right, Are
31:41
you good to go? Aaron, Yeah, it's unplugged. I just put
31:45
it off to the side. Okay, sorry, that's all right. Okay.
31:52
Um. So I saw recently, Aaron, that you were invited to
31:57
do a commencement speech. Um. It wasn't just any commencement speech. I
32:00
mean, I mean, hell, you have elementary schools that now do like,
32:05
you know, graduations and things, and I think middle school does going
32:07
into high school. So not all invitations for commencement speeches are equal, but
32:15
you actually got a really really special one. I was approached by my old
32:23
university and I went to University of Texas at Dallas, and I feel like
32:30
my whole life there's been disclaimers with anything that I said. So it's like,
32:35
what school did you go to? I went to a really great school.
32:37
I went to University of Texas, you know, at Dallas, but
32:42
I decided to kind of make that the theme of the speech is to stop
32:46
giving qualifiers to to things like that you know where you went to school.
32:52
The fact that I was even asked. They asked me back in February,
32:55
and it was an incredible honor. And I don't know how to explain this
33:01
because it spoiler alert. It turned out well, I said yes, they
33:06
agreed, and I showed up and I got positive feedback. But I don't
33:10
know if anybody, if you're like me, at all I got. I
33:15
was asked, and my immediate reaction was to get mad, like at the
33:19
email, like like why you know, Like what am I going to say?
33:24
And it freaked me out so much. I thought that it was something
33:29
that I had to do. I went there several years ago, graduated in
33:35
two thousand. One of the things that I guess was, I don't know.
33:44
A highlight of that was that it was such a young school at the
33:50
time that they didn't have a lot of athletic programs and YadA, YadA,
33:53
YadA, and they had a mascot, but they didn't have like a character,
33:58
like a costumed character. Scott. It's a science and tech schools.
34:01
They were the Comets, but they didn't have like, um, a character
34:07
that could be in a costume like at a game. You know, It's
34:10
not like they had like a Corey the Comet type commet looking thing running around
34:15
being silly or exactly equations they had they had. They had a a championship
34:22
chess team. They don't have football, so the need to have this kind
34:29
of character didn't exist. And then there was a flyer on my way to
34:31
class that said, hey, you know, submit, you know what does
34:36
our mascot look like? I ended up winning that thing and helped creating this
34:42
character that I've come to find out like over the last twenty twenty five years,
34:46
like there's a whole market around him, and the bookstore is filled with
34:50
like chotchkes and toys and pillows and and bobbleheads and and this character has kind
34:57
of had a life on TikTok, and it was just it was really really
35:00
trippy. Over the years, I'd heard positive and negative feedback. A lot
35:06
of negative people just love to hate, I guess on their mascots. And
35:10
so when they invited me and they said, hey, we'd like to hear
35:15
a comedian's point of view, we'd like to hear an artist's point of view,
35:16
and we think it's cool that you did our mascot um. I honestly
35:22
told my brother it almost felt like a setup, like like I was almost
35:27
I was almost expecting like a Carrie's Pig blood bucket kind of scenario. It's
35:32
like, I, do they really like this character that put me on Jesus
35:37
you but your therapist must have fun with you. Oh my gosh, you
35:39
have no idea? So so is the is the character you created? Is
35:44
it? Is it timmock or a tea mock? It's it's tea mock.
35:47
It was. It was a different name they gave him. Originally I called
35:52
him Blaze because he looks like a comment, you know, his head is
35:55
a ball of you know, ice ball whatever. Yeah, and then he's
36:00
got this fiery tale that trails behind him, and I thought, oh,
36:02
we'll call him Blaze. That's cool. Instead, someone decided to change it
36:07
to Timok, which is just comet backwards. It's comet backwards, which is
36:12
the most utd thing they could have done, which makes me love it even
36:16
more, you know what I mean. Yeah, he's here on Wikipedia.
36:21
Teemok is the official mascot of the University of Texas at Dallas. While the
36:24
student body is known collectively as the Comets, he is an anthropomorphic astronomical being
36:30
created to represent a comet in human form. Yeah, how about that.
36:37
So I wasn't really in any kind of place to tell graduates how to be
36:44
hopeful for the future, if that makes sense. You know, I'm glad
36:50
that you took that approach, because no one's ever going to ask me to
36:54
do this, at least not at the college level because I didn't graduate college
36:59
so UTA, where I went for all of a year and a half,
37:02
They're not going to call me in to do a commencement speech because I didn't
37:06
even graduate from there, so they might never say never ill h I definitely
37:17
do not expect that to happen. I feel like there's way more better known
37:21
UTA people than me. But anyway, uh, if they were to take
37:24
that, if they were to ask me, I would take a very realistic
37:28
approach and stand in front of a bunch of people and be honest with them.
37:30
They're like, look, some of you are just not going to make
37:34
it right. You could be full of all the hope in the world,
37:37
and you can you can have dreams and all these aspirations and things, but
37:42
at some point there's going to be someone that thinks you suck and they're gonna
37:45
do everything they can to keep you in your life down. Or it might
37:50
be you. You might be your own worst enemy, or you might get
37:52
hit by a truck on the way home after graduation. Some of these things
37:55
are going to happen, and that's the unfortunate reality. And if you're one
38:00
of those people that those things don't happen to, you're one of the lucky.
38:02
If you enjoy it, make all the money you can and have a
38:05
nice life. You've you've you've seen my speech. No I haven't. I'm
38:10
not. I'm just saying you're just pretty much quoted. I I I sympathize
38:19
and I worry, and I like. I knew that I wanted it to
38:22
come from the heart, and I knew that I wanted it to be funny,
38:25
but not like a stand up routine. You know. It didn't need
38:29
to have a laugh like three laughs five laughs a minute, you know,
38:34
but I wanted to come from an honest place. My oldest son is graduating
38:37
high school on his way out to college now, and we were joking and
38:42
we were talking about elementary Thank you, I'm here too, you know,
38:47
And then we were talking about elementary school. Earlier, I went to my
38:50
son's fifth grade, my other son's fifth grade end of the year ceremony when
38:53
I dragged that on them. The high school graduation ceremony was shorter than the
39:00
fifth graders. So, but it meant that I had a lot in me
39:06
that I wanted to say, not just to the graduates, but also to
39:10
my sons and to myself. And like it was heavy, you know,
39:17
I took the responsibility like I didn't take it lightly. I worry about a
39:24
generation that may not see as many opportunities out there. Do you mind if
39:29
I play a little bit of a little bit of your commencement speech? Yeah,
39:31
if you want to. No, I really do want to make sure
39:35
you're not going to feel awkward about it. Oh I'll feel awkward, but
39:37
you know I'll roll with it, Okay, that I appreciate that. It's
39:45
trippy. Hi, everybody, how are you? Thank you Doctor Benson,
39:49
Graduates, loved ones, and distinguished faculty members. It is an honor to
39:52
be with you here today. So you've got the black robe obviously, for
39:58
the graduation, but then they gave you an orange sash. Sorry is this
40:00
it's graduation as stole stole? Yeah, what's that? What's that symbolize?
40:06
It was one day made up. Uh. It's so funny to me because
40:09
when you're a kid and you look at all of these like floppy hats from
40:13
the professors and you see all these chords and things like that, it was
40:15
like, oh, well, clearly this stuff means something important to every university.
40:21
And then you find out no, you know, we'll just a stolen
40:23
valor as much as we want to, and I'll buy I'll buy chords from
40:29
the fabric store and just drape myself, you know, or whatever it is.
40:31
But this one because of the mascot. They had embroidered a little version
40:36
of the comet and you can't see it because it's behind the podium, but
40:39
it's a special thing just because of the mascot. No, that's pretty cool.
40:45
Yeah. I'm so grateful to the University of Texas at Dallas, my
40:47
alma mater, for the privilege of being your keynote speaker. When I was
40:52
first invited to speak, I was beyond humbold and a little confused. Why
40:59
would you need me to write a commencement speech? Don't you all have a
41:00
chat? GPT. There had to be other former students who would be more
41:06
qualified CEO's astronauts, folks with a valid Costco membership, accomplished professionals who have
41:14
a concrete idea of what success means. You're stuck with an artist and a
41:20
comedian. I know there's a lot going on today, Lots of feelings to
41:23
manage. We're outside, there's the parking, getting in here on time,
41:28
where we're gonna eat after this? Lots of little things to potentially stress out
41:30
your day. Please take a moment to breathe, recognize how special this moment
41:37
is. Own this. You've worked hard for this, and in case you
41:43
haven't heard it yet, today I am proud of you. Yea, when
41:51
you wash your body, do you use the damn you two bads? They
41:57
invade everything. They're the worst possible timing. Oh that's hysterical, all right,
42:04
hang on while showing up to educate themselves to get here today. That
42:14
is success. Count it as a win. I am proud of you.
42:19
There are some of you who know exactly who you are, what you want
42:22
to do? How are you going to make your mark. Yeah, I've
42:28
got nothing for you. You'll be fine. Congratulations. But if you arrived
42:32
at this point, even here today, with any self doubt, I may
42:36
have some thoughts I hope might help. I'm a husband, a father,
42:40
a brother, and a son. Professionally, I identify as a frustrated creative,
42:47
wanting to bring my imagination, my skills, my passion into existence and
42:51
somehow make a positive impact, and never quite knowing if I do. There's
42:57
opportunities around every corner corner and several roadblocks, many of which I've constructed myself.
43:05
That's the point that you didn't pursue the visual album. Yeah, oh
43:09
you'll like this line. You'll like this line. Sorry, Hi, so
43:12
or stand up comedy to get rich, and so far that's been working out.
43:17
But I have earned a living since before graduation creating logos, cartoons and
43:22
packaging designs. And to any concerned parents out there, yes, those silly
43:25
drawings and the funny stories have paid for groceries and a mortgage. Regarding stand
43:32
up, I had humble goals, you know, to see my name on
43:37
the club's marquee, to record a comedy album, to maybe get on TV,
43:42
to hear my last name pronounced correctly. Going back to the very beginning,
43:46
my goals were even grander. Find the courage to even get up on
43:51
stage. Starting is always the hardest part. Other goals seem oddly specific.
43:58
I don't know how many other comedian dream of this, but I always wanted
44:00
to do something noteworthy, noteworthy enough to be interviewed on MPR by Terry Gross.
44:07
And I always thought it would be amazing to be invited to my old
44:10
university to give this very speech. Yeah yeah, and that's where YouTube decided
44:22
to crap the bed. Also something that people need to remember in life that
44:28
sometimes not everything works the way you want it to. Oh sorry, just
44:32
one last part, I think if you want, oh yeah, absolutely,
44:36
and a good place to stop it, I think. Okay, I sincerely
44:40
thank you all for this opportunity. In my fantasies. It also came with
44:45
an honorary doctorate. No harmon, ask nicely, yes, yes, well
44:58
done, sir? Thank you. Do you remember do you remember the commencement
45:01
speech that that happened when you graduated UTD or even high school? I remember
45:08
my high school one, and they didn't get I don't know how many high
45:15
schools do. They used our resource officer, Officer Parker, and he gave
45:22
a speech and I just remember being delighted, and he was amazing and sincere.
45:27
He was somebody who like, it's weird to feel like you have a
45:30
relationship with your you know, your resource officer when you're in high school.
45:35
He was one of the many people I did a caricature of and it turned
45:37
into um, like a nice relationship instead of me getting in trouble, you
45:43
know. So but as far as college goes, I think I mentioned this
45:47
earlier. The school is still so new, you know, as far as
45:52
university time goes, that this is only the second year they've had like a
45:55
full university commencement. Yeah, so I'm the second one to ever give a
46:00
speech like this. I don't remember who is first. There was another alum.
46:05
I don't quite remember his name, but he's a CEO. And so
46:08
the opening line I have is like they asked me to do it. They
46:12
send me a link to their alumni page and there literally are like astronauts and
46:17
doctors and surgeons and like all these people and I'm like, oh my god,
46:22
Well, I mean, if you think about it, if you think
46:24
about it, all those people are so successful that they're actually actively doing those
46:29
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46:31
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like if you had a keynote speaker or maybe valedictorian or something at high school,
50:37
or because you actually finished college because you finished at at Real ut Yeah,
50:44
because Aaron you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I graduated UTD
50:46
gave the UT light, yeah, and I went I went to UT even
50:51
lighter because I went to UT Arlington for a year and a half, but
50:55
trade real Longhorn here. I don't remember who high school was. I know
51:00
I didn't go to college because it's just too big. I know Dan Rather
51:05
was the keynote speaker, but I know I didn't go. You didn't go
51:07
to graduation at all. M I mean it's it's thousands of people at the
51:15
time. The graduation ceremonies there lasted I want to like six hours. What
51:21
Yeah, I mean there, I mean when I mean, you're talking about
51:22
thousands of people? Was that when? So when you graduated UT was that
51:28
when I guess they were doing the like the entire university graduation. They didn't
51:31
break it up by like the College of you know, Journalism and engineer.
51:36
Well no, well it was it was Liberal Arts, the College of Liberal
51:38
Arts. But that's still you're talking about thousands of people. Yeah, I
51:42
mean you're talking about I think typically it's UT total as you know, eight
51:47
nine thousand a year that graduate and then but Liberal Arts is by far the
51:52
biggest school, and so it's just it's a it's the main one. God,
51:57
I don't blame it. There's no Wayne, Hell, I would have
51:59
gone to that. Yeah. One of the things that UTD did that was
52:01
awesome was they had each ahead of those schools, the School of Business,
52:07
School of everything, they give up and give their speech, and then all
52:10
the graduates would just stand up and the light would shine on them, and
52:15
then they sat down and then they went on to the next school. I
52:19
mean, we zipped right through and it was I was. I marveled at
52:25
how well you know, they got through that thing. Otherwise, Yeah,
52:29
we would have been sitting through hours and hours of people crossing a stage.
52:31
Yeah. And then in so many cases like in the one that you did,
52:35
a utd ear, and a lot of these are are done outside and
52:37
obviously they're they're done at a time it's usually hot as hell, So I
52:42
want nothing to do with that. And you're wearing clothes, and on top
52:45
of the clothes, you're wearing the graduation gown that is in no way breathable.
52:50
And in the hundreds of years that they've been wearing them, I doubt
52:53
that they've ever decided to use that nice new moisture wicking material that we all
53:00
where all the time now because it's so awesome and breathable, especially when it's
53:02
hot as hell in Texas. Have they have they have? They have?
53:06
Any universities bothered to contact under Armor for the new material of graduation robe because
53:12
they need to. That would be awesome. And then maybe just get all
53:16
of the other sporting companies involved and get like some Oregon like decorations and fluorescence
53:24
and stuff like that. Well, but I like that idea. I'm surprised
53:28
that the well, you know, I know why that those I know why
53:30
the Nikes and the under Armers haven't done. This is because most of the
53:35
commencement speeches are not on TV with millions of people watching them because we all
53:39
know that they typically suck. But I wish that they would. Maybe that's
53:44
what you need to do. What you need to do is you need to
53:45
graduate. You need to invite Slash pay the Rock to come do the commencement
53:50
speech and then everyone just gets like Project Rock graduation robes and they'll all be
53:55
nice and breathable. I do remember remember my because I didn't graduate college.
54:01
I remember my high school valedictorian speech. Not me. I didn't do it.
54:06
I wouldn't know I was that was. It was done by a girl.
54:10
So she was our valedictorian. Obviously very very smart, brilliant, brilliant
54:15
young woman and extremely book smart. And like a lot of high school kids
54:22
that were very book smart, she wasn't the most you know, socially capable.
54:28
Yet I like to think maybe she grew into it. But here's someone
54:32
that pretty much aced her, you know, every AP exam or sat act,
54:38
whatever it is. And then when it came time for her to do
54:40
the valedictorian speech, she compared life to different layers of a cheeseburger exactly,
54:52
Trey. You know, that's one of those go ahead tray, you know
54:55
what. It sounds stupid, but you remember it. I remember it being
55:02
about a cheeseburger, and I remember it being ridiculous, and I'm sure,
55:07
see, I don't remember the content of it because it's so long, because
55:10
if she had made a case, then you know, I could see how
55:14
they make a case. Yeah. In my mind, I might be doing
55:16
a little bit of revisionist history where I'm like, Okay, well, I
55:20
don't remember exactly what she said about the different layers of the of the hamburger,
55:23
but I would imagine they probably went something like, you know, the
55:27
meat that's the stuff, you know. That's that's where all the all the
55:30
good stuff is. That's why you're that's where you That's what life is,
55:31
all the meat. It's all the toppings and stuff that change the taste of
55:35
life, you know, because maybe you get some pickles on there, Well,
55:37
it means life's going to be sour at times. But that's okay because
55:39
maybe you've got some of the maybe you got some of the secret sauce that
55:44
McDonald's puts on, you know, the big Mac, to make things a
55:46
little bit sweeter. And it's all about balance and one, you know,
55:50
a nice bite. I don't remember if that was ever mentioned in her speech
55:53
or not. That's just me thinking, well, I guess that would make
55:55
sense. I just remember the cheeseburger. I was just everybody else going great.
56:01
I was hungry before we sat down. Yea. At that point,
56:07
had she somehow managed to get McDonald's to sponsor the commencement and have big Max
56:15
handed out to everyone while she's talking about the cheeseburger is life metaphor, then
56:21
we would have all been on board and would have been the best valedictorian speech
56:23
ever. I was just picturing a Hey, everybody, check under your seats.
56:28
How gross? Gross that every two days ago. It really wouldn't be
56:34
gross though, because it's it's it's a highly processed food product. I've seen
56:38
before in classes multiple times or on television where they will show a cheeseburger that
56:45
it looks the same as it did like three years prior when it was first
56:51
purchased. So it's possible. Anyways, Congratulations Aaron, I'm being named a
56:55
keynote speaker for your university. And Trey for not even going to his graduation.
57:00
God love you, Trey. I don't blame you. I don't think
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I would have either. That's a that's a good move. I do remember,
57:07
though, Trey, you were telling me the other day speaking of astronauts.
57:10
Obviously UTD has had astronauts over the years, and Trey you sent the
57:20
story the other day was NASA wanted to use spaceballs to save astronauts who returned
57:25
to Earth. Well, if there was a catastrophic malfunction on the Shuttle or
57:36
space station, that they had this bizarre plan of two or three of them
57:42
would get in these space balls and tiny like you would have to, like
57:51
the way I read it, like, you would have to get into the
57:52
fetal position and and get in one of these and that was going to be
57:59
like your lifeboat. And otherwise, and then there were two other people or
58:02
whoever that had to put their space suit on and hope someone came pretty quick
58:07
because it only gave them like three hours of oxygen to live. I found
58:12
the story from the link that you had said for most of us, this
58:14
would be a nightmare. Imagine being curled up inside a ninety centimeter for those
58:17
that don't know a metric system, that's thirty six inches, So a thirty
58:23
six inch fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling
58:29
from the canadarm. I think that's the arm of the Space Shuttle. As
58:36
your tiny sphere shifts, you'd see Earth out your tiny window. When the
58:39
Space Shuttle damaged by some accident or other that caused you to need rescuing,
58:45
then Earth again. Panic would set in pretty quickly. But that's where Space
58:49
Shuttle astronauts and an emergency could have found themselves if NASA's personal Rescueing closure had
58:53
been put into practice. They developed the pre simultaneously with the Space Shuttle program.
59:00
It's called a rescue ball, and it was meant to transport a single
59:05
astronaut. Oh good, so at least at least they weren't going to make
59:07
you sit in there with three astronauts, and that means you get one foot
59:10
of space each. It was meant to transport a single astronaut from a damaged
59:15
shuttle to a rescue shuttle. NASA produced a prototype, but it never went
59:20
on any mission. So yeah, I get it now. So you're you're
59:22
dangling in this little spaceball in the middle of space, and you're just hoping
59:29
and waiting for your rescuers three hours of air. Yeah, so they have
59:37
to move pretty quick if wherever you happen to be, because you're just floating
59:40
there waiting. Yeah right, yeah, Well, I mean they said you're
59:45
in a perfect scenario. You're going to be attached to the arm that is
59:47
attached to the shuttle. Actually, the spaceballs had scrubbers on them, so
59:54
for it gave you longer than the three hours that the rest of the crew
59:59
had um but still not a whole not a whole long time. And I
1:00:06
don't know how long you'd want to stay there literally curled up in the fetal
1:00:09
position. Correct me if I'm wrong, But aren't the little paddles in um
1:00:15
uh in pinball? Aren't those called scrubbers? So you're waiting for NASA to
1:00:25
come and bounce you around in your ball home or use the shuttle arm right
1:00:35
like, there's gotta be a button down at the ground control that there's just
1:00:37
like powel and then you just like fly back. Yeah. Then at that
1:00:40
point you just get swatted back down the pinball game of Earth to where you
1:00:47
eventually just get pushed back into the Earth's atmosphere and you fall, you free
1:00:52
fall in your tiny spaceball into the ocean, tiny fabric sphere. It looks
1:00:58
it looks like a hammer osterball. It looks it looks like the most uncomfortable
1:01:02
I mean already being in space. But that looks insane and I I'm sorry,
1:01:07
but yeah, the space balls. It's like the whole time you're saying
1:01:14
there, well you're just you're but you're going to be really worried when when
1:01:27
when Houston comes back at you and says space show at Lanches, you seem
1:01:30
to have been jammed. This is the problem. This is what happens when
1:01:39
I guess if you you work for NASA or you work for JPL or something
1:01:44
like that, and you start watching TV and movies about space and you actually
1:01:49
become inspired. Well, think about this also, that if you're curled up
1:01:55
in one of these balls, Yeah, not only you. I clearly said
1:02:00
the catastrophic has happened that puts you in this place, but that your only
1:02:04
hope of being saved is that NASA has some rush job launch that they can
1:02:12
just pull off in a couple hours. So you know, you're basically getting
1:02:15
you know, some astronaut with his head hanging out the window going we're coming,
1:02:19
buddy, and that's that's your hope. Otherwise your last minutes are going
1:02:23
to be curled up in a fetal position, miserable. You know what.
1:02:28
I think at that point you just just just stay on the damn shuttle,
1:02:30
just trying to make just trying to make the best of it. Maybe maybe
1:02:34
you'll get lucky and maybe from you know, NASA graduation, they'll send up
1:02:37
a nice commencement speech for you to just to tide you over until your imminent
1:02:40
demise. For your last few minutes in this realm, maybe you have some
1:02:46
inspiration. Here you go and the one line from Aaron's commencement where he tells
1:02:52
you how you know. Not all of you are going to be successful.
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