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Fiona Cauley _ This Past Weekend w_ Theo Von _634(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Today's guest is a comedian and a podcaster. You may
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  Speaker 1: know her from her appearances on Kill Tony. She has
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  Speaker 1: her own podcast called Ramping Up, and I'm thankful that
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  Speaker 1: she's here today. Today's guest is Miss Fiona Cawley.
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  Speaker 2: Shine on me, and I will find a song I
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  Speaker 2: will sing.
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  Speaker 3: Your house is beautiful, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thanks. Yeah, I feel lucky to have a place
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  Speaker 1: to live. I got to get, I think, a new
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  Speaker 1: couch or something. How many times after you sit on
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  Speaker 1: a couch do you have to get a new one?
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  Speaker 1: That's a thing. They should put like a little counter
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  Speaker 1: on the side that kind of goes down.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. It's like the lollipop question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like how many sits does it take to.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, you're out, and then catapults you out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. The springs just activate at a certain point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that. No nonsense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we need now. It's like, yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: many sits does it take to get to the center
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  Speaker 1: of your sofa?
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  Speaker 3: I would be screwed. Really? Because all I do is sit.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's true, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You're here. You're what some people would consider a heavy sitter, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm professional.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all ain't got a shit on me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: For some of our listeners that don't know, so you
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  Speaker 1: live with an ailment. Do people call it a disease,
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  Speaker 1: an ailment, just because you're already talking about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a disease, a disability. It's called Friedreich's ataxia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it? Is it okay to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. So it's like a really rare neurological disease,
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  Speaker 3: and it's progressive. And there are like 5,000 people in
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. that have it. And I'm one of them.
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  Speaker 3: And the only difference between us, the reason you can
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  Speaker 3: walk and I can't, is I don't make enough of
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  Speaker 3: a protein called frataxin. And that's kind of it. Like
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  Speaker 3: both my parents were carriers, didn't know. And then they
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  Speaker 3: had kids and we're screwed.
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  Speaker 1: And are you the only child that has it?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: So if two parents have it and they have a child,
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  Speaker 1: any child they have can have it?
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  Speaker 3: Can, yeah. But also they might not, some of them.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm one of three. I'm the middle male. I
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  Speaker 3: got diagnosed first, so they can suck it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that twin that's born later.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel like they were copying off you at
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  Speaker 1: any point?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm the middle child, so it's like
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  Speaker 3: I can't have anything to myself. My sister is even
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  Speaker 3: in the same wheelchair as me now. Rude.
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  Speaker 1: No, same brand?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I know.
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  Speaker 1: But is she the younger sister? Older. Oh, that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Because I noticed my nephews at Thanksgiving were dressing the
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  Speaker 1: same as each other, but they're like two years apart.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, it kind of makes sense
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  Speaker 1: the younger one is dressing like the older one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, imagine if your siblings got the same car
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  Speaker 3: as you. Yeah. It's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to have a cane? No, you have
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  Speaker 1: a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good question. I mean, it's progressive, so I used
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  Speaker 3: to be an athlete before I knew. And then I
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  Speaker 3: walked weird, kind of like I'm drunk. I spoke, still
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  Speaker 3: do speak that way because your tongue's a muscle. And
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  Speaker 3: then I went into a cane phase when I was
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  Speaker 3: 21 because they wouldn't serve me at bars. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I got to find a way to, like,
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  Speaker 3: show them. It's like, I'm not drunk. I was drunk,
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  Speaker 3: but I was, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Did a lot of brothers hit on you when you.
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  Speaker 3: Had that cane? Honestly, I would go to bars, not
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  Speaker 3: bring the cane. And if a guy hit on me,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that's a bad person. Because I look
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  Speaker 3: like the drunkest person in this place, right? It was
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  Speaker 3: a litmus test.
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  Speaker 1: You're just reporting people. At one point, did you and
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  Speaker 1: your sisters have canes? Because that's almost like a black prom,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, if you guys had that.
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  Speaker 3: I did have, like, 14 to match every outfit.
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  Speaker 1: Nuh-uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's kind of hot.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah. I had one that was, like, a
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  Speaker 3: sword cane. You unscrew the top and a sword came out. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the one you definitely needed, probably an Irish bar.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I took it on every date just in case,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I don't fuck with pepper spray, just sword gains.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's dude. That's the British pepper spray. The sword cane.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what they're. That's exactly the wildest thing there is.
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  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Um, uh, Fiona Colley, thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. Um, We got
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  Speaker 1: to do a show together not long ago that was
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  Speaker 1: at the Lab, and that was really awesome. And I
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  Speaker 1: saw you were going to be on the Kill Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Are you on the Kill Tony, the live from Texas?
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  Speaker 1: What's it called?
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  Speaker 3: Once Upon a Time in Texas, yeah. The one that
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  Speaker 3: just came on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: That's you right there, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. How crazy is that to see yourself on my
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, Because stuff like this, I think, is
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  Speaker 1: kind of, it's not monumental, but it's interesting in a
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  Speaker 1: comic's career when they see themselves on, like, a Netflix poster.
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  Speaker 1: Something that gives us some semblance of what we deem as,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us deem as success. Was that interesting
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I'm grateful it put me on the poster,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? But, yeah. I mean, being
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  Speaker 3: on Netflix, this is actually the second time with Gil
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  Speaker 3: Tony I've been on the Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the other one was at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, that's wild. And they hid your legs, too.
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  Speaker 3: Which was nice in them. It grosses people out. They
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  Speaker 3: don't want to see this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I bet a lot of dudes. I know some
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  Speaker 1: dudes who would. For sure. And also, you think they
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  Speaker 1: could have had you sitting on his shoulder or something.
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  Speaker 3: That would have been way funnier. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So you've been doing comedy for....
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  Speaker 3: About five years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And did Kill Tony feel like a big break
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  Speaker 1: for you? Like, what does that feel like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say so. I was, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: live in Nashville, so I was really just working zanies.
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  Speaker 3: And I was starting to feature and whatever, and then
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  Speaker 3: I heard about Kill Tony and people were like, you
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  Speaker 3: should go on that. And I was like, okay. It
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  Speaker 3: changed my life overnight.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Like, fully. You know, from like 30,000 followers and now
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  Speaker 3: I have like more than half a million. Are you
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  Speaker 3: kidding me? Yeah. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Kudos to Tony and Red Band just for making that
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  Speaker 1: thing stick and thrive in the years they went through
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  Speaker 1: it at the comedy store where there were times when
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  Speaker 1: it was big and times where it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like in between buildings and like they were switching it around.
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  Speaker 1: Even when they got to Austin, I think they went
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  Speaker 1: to three different places and they kept that thing alive.
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  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Was your first time there? What's it like
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  Speaker 1: when your first time there? Did you know you were
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  Speaker 1: going to get up or was it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So he basically what happened was I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: what Kildoni was. I heard about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you're already, you know, You're already having health problems.
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  Speaker 1: Kill Tony sounds.
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  Speaker 3: Right. I'm like, I'll stay away from that word, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, I'm not seeing another surgeon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what's next, kill Fiona? No, I, my uncle.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, am I joking too much or no?
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  Speaker 3: No, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I thought you did. That's the only reason why
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  Speaker 1: I'm joking.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'll take it too far. You and me now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So you go there, and for people that don't know,
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  Speaker 1: most of our listeners know, but Kill Tony, it's a
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  Speaker 1: show that's run by Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redband, and
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  Speaker 1: they basically bring in kind of newcomers. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the new Tonight Show in a lot of ways, and
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  Speaker 1: they have regular guests on there, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people go on there and get their first minute. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of their first minute that's in front of the
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  Speaker 1: Kill Tony crowd, and sometimes those minutes are amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes those minutes are very nerve-wracking. I think they're probably
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  Speaker 1: nerve-wracking no matter what, But yeah, take me through that minute.
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  Speaker 1: What's that first minute on Kill Tony? What is that like?
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  Speaker 1: Especially for somebody that's had five years in comedy. Some
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  Speaker 1: of these people, it's their first time ever getting on stage.
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  Speaker 1: And some people are just hiding from their wives. Some
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  Speaker 1: people are just hiding from ice for a minute. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: this is one minute away from ice, right? They won't
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  Speaker 1: find me here. But yeah, can you kind of take
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  Speaker 1: us through that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's very... It's stressful because it's not... You
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  Speaker 3: realize it's not just the room you're in that's going
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  Speaker 3: to see it. It's not just the 300 people. The
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  Speaker 3: platform is so big. So you're like everything I do
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  Speaker 3: right now is going to be seen by millions of people.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're stressed, you know. And also the whole thing
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  Speaker 3: is like the panel gets to be mean to you
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  Speaker 3: and the crowd loves that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very Roman Coliseum, huh?
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  Speaker 3: The arena shows for Kill Tony feel so Roman. I
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  Speaker 3: say that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And every time I go out on an arena show
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  Speaker 3: with them, I swear the person right before me gets
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  Speaker 3: booed by the entire arena. And then I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of nice because then if somebody else has
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  Speaker 1: taken that L, then you're like.
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  Speaker 3: Could have been me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But it was them.
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  Speaker 3: I've been through enough.
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  Speaker 1: Before you went on the first time, are you like
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  Speaker 1: waiting in the wings? What's the setup?
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 3: I have, because I'm in a wheelchair, I have to, like,
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  Speaker 3: go around the building and get carried up these stairs.
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  Speaker 1: Can we buy the dumpsters and stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It smells real bad. But it reminds you
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  Speaker 3: you're alive, you know? Oh, yeah. So, like, I'm grateful. Perfect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they have you waiting back there. You smell like trash.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at Heidi, the best looking woman I've ever
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  Speaker 3: seen in real life.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, does she work on Kill Tony?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know the beautiful blonde Heidi member? She's very nice. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Look at her. Are you joking?
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm not joking. Oh, wow. She looks like
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  Speaker 1: Geena Davis. And she's got strong cheekbones. She looks like
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  Speaker 1: Gene Davis, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Who used to play catcher for us when I was
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  Speaker 1: growing up, actually. Great kid, Italian, good guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: No, she's stunning. I'm just joking. I'm sure she's on
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  Speaker 1: Kill Tony. She can take a couple of jokes. Do
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  Speaker 1: they joke about her a lot, too?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. She's very funny, takes jokes very well, very smart.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to go back on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because of Heidi.
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  Speaker 1: No, well, it is funny that, yeah, you show a
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  Speaker 1: cute girl.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, God, I've got to get there. I've got
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 1: Back out there. It's like you could show a picture
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  Speaker 1: of the North Pole and guys are like, that looks cold.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't doing that shit. And then you show a
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  Speaker 1: guy and you show just like a silhouette of some
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  Speaker 1: tits on the edge of a glacier and some guy's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: we got to get back.
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  Speaker 3: I got to get back out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to warm up the old ice pick, bubba.
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  Speaker 3: Warm.
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  Speaker 1: And so as you're going along, like, dude, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: imagine how overwhelming that feels. It reminds me of... I
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  Speaker 1: did a late night set one time for Craig, Craig Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it never aired because I think it was too
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  Speaker 1: edgy or something they said. And I was heartbroken, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I'd worked so hard and put
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  Speaker 1: the set together. Um, but that was nerve wracking. That
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  Speaker 1: was like one of the most nerve wracking moments. Cause
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  Speaker 1: you kind of know what you want to do, but
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been in this instance where For me, there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of heat would build up around my neck,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to make sure your words get out clearly.
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  Speaker 1: That was super frustrating for me. I know you did
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  Speaker 1: a late night set. Did you do Fallon?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which one? Congratulations, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any different feeling between those two things, or
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  Speaker 1: did one feel easier?
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  Speaker 3: I think Fallon felt easier because he's not there to
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  Speaker 3: be mean to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Yeah, he's not hiding your wheelchair
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  Speaker 1: while you're up there like Red Band will sell it
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  Speaker 1: on Etsy.
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  Speaker 3: Red Band just sell my seat cushion on Etsy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, dude.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's hilarious. And he would, too. That guy. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: shout out Red Band who people are like, well, what
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  Speaker 1: does he look like? You're like, let's say sniff a
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  Speaker 1: seat cushion.
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  Speaker 3: Is that it?
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  Speaker 1: But very successful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sniffs sea cushions for fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. For fun. I don't think he would
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  Speaker 1: maybe do it for profit.
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  Speaker 3: No, he doesn't need to.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Yeah. He's making good money. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: there you are right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And they let me plug the foundation to raise
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  Speaker 3: money for my disease, and that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: What do you notice the differences between doing a set
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  Speaker 1: on Kill Tony and a set on Fallon? Because that's...
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot of people have probably had that exact experience.
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  Speaker 3: Like, for me, or the way it exists in the world?
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  Speaker 1: Just kind of the way it exists in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think Fallon impressed my, like, grandparents, which finally
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  Speaker 3: they're like, oh, she is a comedian. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So that was, like, something my mom can send
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  Speaker 3: to people and be like, look at my daughter. But
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  Speaker 3: with Gil, Tony... They definitely have a bigger reach now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, late night is not the same.
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  Speaker 1: I think, as it used to be. Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 1: think less people have cable. People are more tuned into
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  Speaker 1: their phones.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Kill Tony is definitely more divisive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know? And so people make a lot of assumptions
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  Speaker 3: about me through that. There was, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more divisive. He almost sunk Puerto Rico. Remember that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That was crazy, dude. And then they probably would have
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  Speaker 1: got sued. They would have lost the show. They would
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  Speaker 1: have changed the name to Kill Puerto Rico, probably. Which
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  Speaker 1: would have been a lot, I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people can't spell Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: But there is this thing, though, where it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you do a certain thing, and people can see that,
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  Speaker 1: and that appeases them. That's kind of an interesting thing
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  Speaker 1: as a comedian. I think it's kind of an interesting
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  Speaker 1: thing almost in anybody's walk of life with work, because...
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, if I do this, then my dad,
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  Speaker 1: he'll understand that. That to him equals success. Or to
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  Speaker 1: my grandparents, that to them equals success.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and it's different for everyone, but it's like this.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like part of being a comedian is being like,
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  Speaker 3: but there's always going to be that one person that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't believe I'm doing anything real, and I have to
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  Speaker 3: prove it. That's just me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if there's always like somebody in the
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  Speaker 1: back of a comedian's head that like fuels them.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, one day I'll get that person. I bet
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  Speaker 1: there probably is. I bet there probably is for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I bet it would be pretty fascinating to learn like
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  Speaker 1: what really fuels like some of the ways that we
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  Speaker 1: operate and the choices that we make. Because it could
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  Speaker 1: be like one or two people that said something when
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  Speaker 1: you were young or one person's look that gave you
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  Speaker 1: a certain feeling and you're like, And it just ignited
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  Speaker 1: this thing inside of you.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: The worst is when you hold on to those two
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: words that looked and they're like, I don't remember that.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: You're like, that dictated my future. Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: You're like, I'd still be, I would have kept walking.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I stopped walking because of that. Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Um, Oh, dude, did you see that? What
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: did I see the other day? Oh, they have an
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: autistic Barbie now. Did you see that?
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I did see that.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Dude, people send a lot of that stuff to you like, hey.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Wheelchair Barbie.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Or just like, what do we think of this? Like
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: if there's some sort of like.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, like I'm like the voice of reason for any disability.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like the, what's that? You're like the show
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: where the chairs turn around. What is that?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: The voice?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like the voice for disabilities and stuff.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: I am not pushing my button.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, autistic Barbie? That bitch ain't getting shit.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you put headphones on her? Cool.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: But those aren't headphones. I think those are just noise-canceling earmuffs.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I think those are just those things that help autistic
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: people kind of operate. They used to do earmuffs, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: now they kind of made them fancy or something.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, made them fashions.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Mattel is introducing an autistic Barbie as the newest member
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: of its line intended to celebrate diversity developed in partnership
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: better media representation of people with autism.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I think I find that kind of weird, though, because
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: autism isn't visible. Generally, it's like how you it's how
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you function. And it's a Barbie. So couldn't any Barbie
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: be autistic?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: First of all, I've met a lot of Barbies in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the world and these bitches are missing something.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: That's true. Okay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: A lot of these bitches are picking up odd signals.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times from like a Hermes
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: or something. They're like, oh, I just got a update
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: from an Hermes somewhere or something, which is like a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: fancy shot.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I show up on Amazon. I'm sorry. Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: That was maybe a bad reference.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Um, Why is she Hispanic-looking?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And is there Hispanic autism? Look it up. Who's got
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the most autism?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Feels like a white people sport. Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Well, white people will create any new sport to try and, like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: keep away from having to compete against black folks, I think.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, anything we can do.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, ugh.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: My disease is only white people.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Your disease is only white people? Mm-hmm. Let's go. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: like that shit. And we barely landed that fist bump.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But let's go.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, it doesn't matter.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, sorry, Barbie. Yeah, they should have. Dude, you
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: should have a Barbie. That'd be so great. Fiona Barbie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Based on the most recent data from the Centers for
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Disease Control and Prevention, published in April 2025, Asian Pacific
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Islander children and American Indian Alaskan Native children had the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: highest reported prevalence of autism. So Asians, but they were
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: going to have it, dude. Like a lot of Asians
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: that I knew and that have been known over the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: years by people, it seems like a lot more is
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: going on inside than outside. And I feel like if
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you get you put too much traffic on those inner
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: streets you're going to end up bumper to bumper in
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: there and that's I feel like where autism really shows
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: up and that's not a scientific definition of autism but
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of Asian people you just want to go
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: up to them and be like what are you doing
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in there you know especially in my generation because they
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: were very quiet You would rarely get a word out
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of an Asian guy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: How many Asian people did you know growing up?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: We had one. We didn't have, well, we almost had one.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: We had, yeah. Dude, there was a rumor that there
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: was an Asian guy. Well, here's what happened. There was
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a rumor that there was an Asian guy in this
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: town near us called Slidell, Louisiana, and it was like
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: 17 miles away. So me and my buddy Scotty and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: some other guys we cut grass for like three weeks
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and saved up money to go see this guy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Because dude, we don't know when we're getting, yeah, we
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: don't know when we're getting another one, dude. And so
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we get over there and here's what had happened. A
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: pizza hut. Remember they had those unique rooftops had burned
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: down to the ground and people had started saying that
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: an Asian person was living in there. It was like
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just a myth or whatever. Bring up that pizza roof,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bring up pizza, pizza, red roof, that one. So imagine
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that completely down on the ground. Now imagine you don't
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: know a lot of information. Now imagine somebody tells you
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: there's an Asian living in there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You got me. I'm with you.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And that's what happened. That word traveled to us and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we went over there and all it was was a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: burnt down pizza hut. But that's something that happened. It's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like you never know what can happen if there's fire,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: if there's foul play.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: What did you think was going to happen if you
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: found an Asian person in the hut?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We didn't know there would be a hut. We thought
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it would be like a place of living. We thought
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it would be a, I don't know, a lean-to, whatever.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: We had no idea what an Asian lives in or whatever,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: an egg. You know what I'm saying? We had no
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: idea of what it could be. We just knew if
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we get there, we'll see them. And we didn't. Fool's gold.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Or fool's yellow. Oh, my God. So that's too much.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: That's too much.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: No, I love that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: But, dude, I wonder what the Barbies, like, I wonder
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: if the Barbies are low-key like the Simpsons where over
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the years they've slowly been predicting the future, like, because
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: they had, like.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: They definitely have wheelchair Barbie.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: They did?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone sends me that. But I want electrical.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Everyone sends you that? Yeah. And what do they say?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Do you want this for Christmas or whatever? That's crazy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's been going on since before I was
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: a comedian. Like, random people would send me.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Just thinking of you or something.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, thank you. Thank you. My hands don't work.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I can't look at them. Oh, they have Down syndrome, Barbie?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I guess you could, I mean, look at the, I mean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: look at the group up there. And the black girl
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: does her hair like that to keep it out of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the wheels or whatever. It's like, this is great, right?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It's great stuff. But some of this stuff, I just wonder,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: are they, I guess it's just all about inclusion. There
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are facing different like
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: disabilities or Or handicaps. Do you say handicaps? What's kind
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of the preference?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: So I actually recently learned it's person by person. All
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: people feel different. But for me, I prefer like disability, disabled.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I think handicap is like a thing. Like a handicap
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: parking spot or stall, you know.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or handicap placard, like that thing that people hang.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Like it's like an item, but I'm a person with
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a disability.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Do you use handicap parking?
• 23:56
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  Speaker 1: an affliction that people kind of take for granted that's
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  Speaker 1: are kind of nice about it? Because I was at
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, God, if I were in a wheelchair,
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  Speaker 1: I could sit down right now. And I totally thought
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of that because I've been standing for like four hours
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh. And my friend lost his
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: dog at a parade. And dude, this is the worst thing.
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  Speaker 1: He lost it and it ran into like a gay
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: section of the parade, right? Like along the parade route.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So we're walking up and I'm like, oh, man. Like
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I love gay people, you know, but I love them
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: at a, you know, I don't want to be in
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: there loving them or whatever, end up getting coked out
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: or whatever. So. But when that dog ran into there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, we cannot go. Like most of the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: people were shirtless and just like be like everybody's on ecstasy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm with my buddy. He's like, dude, we have
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to fucking find him. He's like he's fucking lost in here.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And his dog's name is the worst part is in Benjamin. Right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: So he's like is Benjamin. He's just yelling Benjamin in
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: this gay rave, dude. And my buddy's kind of like
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: a handsome guy, dude.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: And he's like whistling. Benjamin.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And even sometimes, even just the men part, some people
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: wouldn't turn at the Benja, but at the men, they
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: would just flip around. Oh, that was a nightmare, bro.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And he lost his dog for like a week, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: then somebody brought it back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. That was a blessing. The dog came
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: back gay.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: What?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The dog's like, he hit his bone, he hit like
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: half of it poking out of his butt. He's like,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you'll never guess where I hit that thing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: That's very funny.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Dogs can absolutely show same-sex sexual and bonding behaviors, but
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: scientists are cautious about calling that being gay in the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: human identity scene. I think that makes sense. Some dogs
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: will mildly hump another dog, but it's almost just like
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: two guys at the gym that keep high-fiving because they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: don't know how to express themselves verbally.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: That's kind of how I look at that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I thought it was just a dominance thing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: The sex part?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: The humping.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I could see that. Because I guess it's dominant between
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: male and female. It's like a man will, like at
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: one point.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Men hate when you hump them.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, you can have Celsius? Oh, hell yeah. But does
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: that make, like, have you ever had so much you're
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: just like, I'm out of here?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I like Kool-Aid man myself, too.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Sorry. She said, I like Kool-Aid man myself out of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the room. They're great or whatever. Why did all those
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: cartoons just break down walls and furniture? That was fucking crazy.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Fucking handyman watching that like not again.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Dude, the guy's had one cup of Kool-Aid and he
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: just ruined mom's kitchen.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: He's like, what is in this? Oh, man.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: What were some of the first signs whenever Friedrich's Ataxia
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: came along? What were some of the early signs, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: did you misplace it for something else?
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is good. So when I was 15, I
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: started walking weird. I was a volleyball player, and I
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: couldn't do the practices. We would do suicides. You know
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: what I mean?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And I would start, like, falling a little bit, just
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: getting clumsy. My coach was like, you're, you know, not
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: taking this seriously. He thought I was high.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Did they bench you?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so I— Which.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Is where you were going to end up anyway, which
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: is insane.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: They were just getting me prepared for my future. They
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: were like, sit down. You should be real good at this. Oh, man.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: That's so good.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And did your parents pick up on it pretty quick?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, how did that kind of go?
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: It's going to make you so mad.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It is?
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe. Why?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Were your parents drinking and stuff? Were they having a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: tough time?
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. But no, so 15, I was like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: something's wrong. My principal was like, smell my breath, because
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: she thought I was drunk. I would spill everything, drop everything,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: or talk to her. I get it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And the red hair, too, probably.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. That's, like, number one indicator.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're St. Patrick's daughter in here.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Something was wrong, yeah. And then I went to my mom,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: and I was like, I think I need to go
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: to the doctor. I don't know what, but something. And
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: my older sister had health issues that weren't this bad.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: But like different stuff. And so my mom was like.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Like what, like acne or whatever?
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah. But like scoliosis and stuff.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, God, I'm sorry.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow. I'm just kidding.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And that's so, dude, and I'm very sorry. God. And
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that shows what like, that shows what like somebody who
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to deal with a common ailment thinks of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: as like issues.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually so real. No, I love it. But
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: she was like, you're copying your sister. Because my sister
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: walked away, but we blamed it on other stuff, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I had nothing wrong with me. And then I kind
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: of got in trouble for faking it by my family
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: a lot, and yada, yada. Then once I turned 18,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: it was my senior year of high school.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: She had to go that long dealing with it? And
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: would it always be there, or is it just kind
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: of every now and then?
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: It was getting worse. Yeah, it was always all the time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I didn't know why. Like, I used to get in trouble.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: There was, like, an elevator in the school for, like,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: people that broke their legs or whatever, and I would
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: use it, and I got detention all the time because
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I would fall down the stairs all the time, and
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I didn't know why.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not laughing. There's something wrong with my face and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: voice box. That's insane.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And did you.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Was part of you still unsure, too? Because I'm sure
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: if a lot of your surroundings are like, no, you're
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: just not figuring this out correctly. Was part of you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: still kind of unsure, too?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I was gaslit like crazy. I fully thought I
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: had a mental issue. And I was making this all up. Like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I really... I just wanted an answer. I fully believed
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: it was something I could get fixed before I went
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: to college. Like, I did not think it would be
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: this serious.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: So at 18, I took myself to a neurologist. I
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: eventually ended up at a neurologist, but I had to
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: involve my mom in that. And she was like, fine, but, like,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: this has to be the end of the road. Like,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: they were so sick of me. Being like, something's wrong,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: you know? And then I was right. And then they
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, my God, what's wrong with your sister?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And they got her tested, same shit. And my little brother,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: a year and a half ago, got tested, and he
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: has it too big and still walks.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So you cracked the code, really?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I ruined our family.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: It's another way of saying that, yeah.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you never figure it out, you're just a
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: bunch of people who like... You're just a bunch of
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: people who just break out into the electric slide every
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: now and then.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: That's insane, dude. You're just doing the Cupid shuffle. Your
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: mom's like, stop Cupid shuffling.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And so was that like was that almost was that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: like a real breakthrough moment for your family? Like, oh,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: my God, this is what's been going on. And your
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: sisters as well.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. My mom felt so bad, like cried. And, you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: she had been telling me I was wrong and I
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: was just excited to be right. So I didn't even
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: hear or understand. I was 18. I didn't get the
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: seriousness of it. And I was like, fuck you, fuck you,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: fuck you. I'm celebrating that she was wrong and I
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: was right.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You're just like, get fucked. I'm a vape.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm a vape.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude. Did they think, was that ever part of it? Like, oh,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you're just vaping too much or whatever?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I smoked a lot of weed in high school, too.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: What?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I partied a lot. And then I got diagnosed and
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I partied even more. Did you? Because I was like,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: what's the point of all this?
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, wait.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Did you go through a point where you were, like,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: depressed about life and stuff?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, for six, seven years.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: No way. Yeah. Oh.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: It was hard to, like, find a reason.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I was like, why am I in college now? Like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I don't have a future.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Right, like, am I going to be a farmer, like
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a pharmacist? But I guess you could still think, I mean,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: do you think looking back on that that there was
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: different ways you could have gone with that thought process
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: or just kind of that's just where you were? Because
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: it's tough for somebody to just imagine what they would
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: be like in that scenario.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to go through that. That's hectic.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, it builds character if you make it out. You know?
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: And I'm grateful for that. I wouldn't be who I
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: am today. I have more perspective now than I think
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: most 29-year-olds do, probably. I don't know. I think it's
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: important when you're given something that's serious and kind of
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: life-altering to, like, allow yourself to mourn. Because I'm mourning
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: what I thought I had, right? Ugh. And I'm trying to, like,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: get accustomed to what I know I'm going to have
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: or not have in the future, you know. And humans,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: we adapt. I'm fine. People feel bad for me, and
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you bought tickets to my show. I'm doing
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: all right, you know. Yeah. I'm happy.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've never felt bad for you. I mean,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I guess some people probably could get in a space
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: where they feel bad. I feel bad that you felt
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: that way. I feel bad that's such a– that's heart-wrenching
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: for somebody to, I think, have something that occurs in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: their life and then feel like maybe– when you look
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: back on that feeling, are you able to think like–
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: did you feel like you didn't have like a lot
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: of hope or did you feel like– was it like
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: woe is me? And all those things are normal. I
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: could imagine it would be very normal to feel.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I think hope, because before that I was pretty religious
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: for a while. I believe in God and all that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Not religious, but I was like spiritual. I believe in
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a higher power, and that happened, and it kind of
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: took the air out of all of it for me.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: And I was like, what do I do? I haven't
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: even had time to get the karma for this kind
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: of information, you know? I'm sorry. What was the question?
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I really forgot where I was going.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I think just thinking about like what it's like, like
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to have like a prognosis like that. And then to
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: think about like, or yeah, what it's like to have
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: something come into your life that's big and that affects
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: you in such a way. Um, and then to look
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: back and think like, um, yeah, what was I thinking
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: at that moment? Was I like depressed? Uh, was I, um,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: hopeless or did I doubt hope? Um, I thought it
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was interesting that you said like we mourn things. I
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: know that's something that I don't do well these days
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: in my life is um, take time to mourn things. Like,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: even if it's just kind of like, um, something heavy happens,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like, I'll just get back on my
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: phone or I'll find something to distract me. And when
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I'm distracted myself, even just my eyes and my, my, my, uh, focus,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm distracted my ability to process through, through, through some
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of those things, you know? Um, But yeah, to mourn
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: something is like that. It's almost like driving by an
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: old house or something. Or driving by a place you
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: used to live at. Or like even a snake when
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: he sheds his skin. I bet he probably looks back
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: at least once and is like... Damn, I.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Used to be that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: There's the old Buick.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: That was cool. Just like that. So I look at
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: old wheelchairs that don't work anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he looks back. He's like, oh, I
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: can't believe I used to wear Skechers.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: He just keeps moving along.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: When you would have, and are we talking too much
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: about your ailment stuff?
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: I don't care.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. Because I think it's fascinating to me. I know
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that you had a series that was called, or that
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: has a series on YouTube and it's called Capable.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Right. How have you been able to grab comedy out
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: of some of these different moments and things that you see?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Because you probably have such a unique perspective on the
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: world that that's probably something that's honestly kind of amazing
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: is like your perspective on society and the way that
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: we operate has got to be super interesting.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: It is weird. That's funny. I did capable before comedy.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: And so like writing that and like, It wasn't even
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: writing it. I just feel like this happened the other day.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: I want to reenact it. Like, all of it's true. Like,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: in my comedy, it's all true, too. Like, I don't
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: have to make stuff up. But, like, it's hard because
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: you don't want all your jokes to be like wheelchair, wheelchair.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: But it's like I experience everything from this vantage point,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: you know. You talk about, like, I walked into the room.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Stop talking about walking.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you're right. No, you're right. Well, I think
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it's also, it is a fascinating vantage point, though, because
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: it's a vantage point that a lot of people don't get,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't experience, or probably until
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: they get older. Yeah. Or certain, or some, most people
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: probably don't. Yeah, has there ever been, like, an Uber that, like,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: they see you and they kind of shake you off,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: like a pitcher, like a pitcher that gets, like, a
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: pitch called in from the catcher or whatever, and you
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: just kind of, like... We're not doing it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: I've had so many Uber drivers. Now I'll hide and
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: have my able-bodied friends go to the car and open
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: the door. And they'll be like, hi. Because they'll just
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: drive off. That happens so much. One time I had
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: to Uber. Oh, wait. This is crazy. I forgot about this. Okay.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: There used to be a show, or maybe it still exists,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: called Stone Cold Sober, and it's like teams of three
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: comics against each other, and one of you is drunk,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: one's stoned, one's sober, right? So I'm on that show,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: and it's like four years ago.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And which one are you on it?
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I'm the drunk one.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Okay. I'm pretty good at that. But because I knew
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I was drinking and they don't give you free drinks,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: so I drank at my house before I Ubered there.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: I get the lady Uber driver. Her trunk is full,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: so we have to put my chair in her back seat.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: My neighbor has to come do it because she won't
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: do it. She's, like, whacked out.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: She's an autistic Barbie.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: That's what we call her. Worse. So much worse. I
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: don't know. She was, like, on drugs I could not
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: recognize kind of thing.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's always kind of fun.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like trying to Google a smell. It's real hard.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: You're like Googling bath salts.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like....
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: You're holding JPEGs up to her.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: So I had to send the passengers to Frenzy. She's crazy.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Car smells weird. She's swerving. It's not good. And I'm
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: like stressed out. And she's ranting. I'm kind of just like...
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Pushed up against the side of the car trying to
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: ignore her.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: What, something was wrong with her vagina, you think?
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: She was talking about how Jesus sent her to Nashville
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: from California to save all of us from the liberals.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so thankful for her.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: No, I'm glad she's here.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad, I'm glad, uh, fucking, uh. Christopher Columba. Yeah, fuck,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I was going to try to make a joke, but
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: my brain doesn't work good anymore. Anyway.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I'm rubbing off on you. It's not good.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Dude, if I catch this.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I'll be so bad.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: No, take us through this story, though, because that is unbelievable.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: When you get in a thing, you're like, oh, my God.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Now I'm at the whims of it. If this lady.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: sees one person dressed up in a Civil War outfit,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: she's going to hit him with a vehicle.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: You know? And, okay, so she's ranting about this. She's swerving.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're still in my neighborhood, and she's almost
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: hitting parked cars. I'm like, hey, girl, please look at
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: the road. You know, she's yelling at me.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: You're trying to use female associative terms. Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, girlfriend.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: What you doing?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Hey, queen. There's a car. Hey, queen. Red light. No,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: she's talking about how the liberals are trying to take
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: her guns.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Well, that could be true. But not the time to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: discuss it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: I think everyone's trying to take your guns.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's true. I agree. That's a great point.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: That's a great point. Everybody's trying to take it these days.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: But then I'm not, I'm literally just like, you know,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: and we're on the interstate and she is ranting about
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: the gun thing, opens the glove box in front of me,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: pulls the gun out.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Sorry, this is so crazy.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: And again, remember, I am drunk. I'm drunk. And this woman, swerving....
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: She's like a LiAngelo Ball fan or something.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: But, like, she's not, like, threatening to shoot me. It's
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: more like, see, they can't take it, like, making a point.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Right, they'll never find it here.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: In this glove box, which is probably just an extension
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: of her.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Right. Whatever. No, and then I'm, like, not looking at
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: her because I'm crying a little bit. You know, it's
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: just girl stuff.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, are you on your period? And
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you're like, no, I'm not on my period. There's an
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: insane person.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: She was like, oh, my God, we're synced up.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I know. She's like, 11-11, make a wish. Did you
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: wish for more ovulation? This is getting insane.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm being said to Scorpio. Oh, man. But I'm
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: not looking at her because I don't want her to
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: see I'm panicking. And so she pokes me in the
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: arm with the cup.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: No. Oh, my God. Did she know that you couldn't
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: feel it if she poked you in the legs?
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: She wanted to make sure I could.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: She wanted to make sure you could feel it?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: And then... So I'm like.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: What is happening?
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: I haven't told that story in so long.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Do you tell this on stage?
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: No, I told it on stage once.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: You've got to tell this on stage. This is one
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of the best stories ever to me. But go on. Sorry.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Okay. So I'm panicking. She's got the gun.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: And she's still driving?
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And she's just kind.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Of waving around. Hey, look at me. Hey. Again, not
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: threatening to shoot me.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Just right.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Got it.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Got it, yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: That mommy's strapped and she got that Draco on her.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: And are you, and what are y'all listening to?
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: It's quiet.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just listening to her rant. I hadn't even
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: thought about that. It was totally quiet.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: That's the best. When people play too much music or,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and this is an all call, this is from me
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: and it's just my thoughts. These are my thoughts. If
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: you're an Uber driver or somebody that works in like a,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Operating like transportation, that sort of thing. If you keep
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: that thing on that's like right turn in seven seconds,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I will never tip somebody if they have that on.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Turn that thing off. Just look at the drawing.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: The worst is when they ask what music you want
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: to do. Turn it on and then that interrupts every
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: 20 seconds and you're like.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: The music does?
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: No, the.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, they interrupted the talk?
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: The sound.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: It's all... Anyway, I ruined your story. Let's go. So
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you guys are rolling together.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: So I'm trying to be chill because I don't want
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: to freak her out.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know? For sure.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: She has a gun. Yeah. Yeah.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: She has a gun and she's driving you somewhere. Yeah,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you don't want to freak out your uh captor.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: I guess that's exactly what you so i'm there's like
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: a group text for the show i'm headed to and
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: so i'm like But I'm scared. And when at the venue,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: my Uber driver has a gun, I'm like live texting
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: all the guys. They're like, sorry, not there. I don't
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: think anyone believed me. And then there was one girl
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: in the group text that I didn't know at that time.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: And she was like, oh, my God, I'm hurrying to
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: the venue. I'll try to meet you there. And I
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: was like, please, please, please. We're three minutes away, two minutes,
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are no ones there. I am so panicked.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: And again, my wheelchair is in the backseat and I'm
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: wearing shoes like these with heels.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make that sound. I meant, yes,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: those are nice. Sorry. I was insane. Your husband's in here.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: And I think my body just didn't know what sound
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to do. Those are nice.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: Carry on.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Here you go.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. My body didn't know.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I think you just picked the wrong sound. It's
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: been a tough year, okay? It's only January 11th. Okay. Okay.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Tell us what happens.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: So we pull up. No one's there. I'm freaking out.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody's there. So now she thinks, oh, this bitch got
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: me running around in circles around here.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: I'm so full of adrenaline. I jump out of the
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: car and pull my own wheelchair out. Wow. So like
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: gun to my head, I can walk.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: You can make it happen.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Gosh, that's a lot. That's crazy she pulled that Draco
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: out that glove box.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, really insane. That scared me. Then I got weirder, though.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: You have weirder stories than that?
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Same night.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Nuh-uh.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Well. Do you want to go there?
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Carry on.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. So, all right. I do. I show up at
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: the venue. I'm like hyperventilating, crying, you know, like I'm inside.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: I'm safe, but I'm panicking.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Very scary.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And everyone's like, oh, my God. And I go
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: to the bar because that sobered me up. And I'm
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I was like, I'm going to get drunk.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what else to do. I'm a human.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: Right. I'm freaking out. I'm alone. I was single at
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: the time, so I didn't have anyone to be like,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: please come get me. And so I go to the
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: bar at Third Ghost, and this married couple who I
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: had met at the airport in Las Vegas a couple
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: months back were there because I had posted online.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: That Oh, and they came to the show. Oh, that's
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: pretty cool.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: And they were like, I told them because they were
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: the only ones I knew, kind of. And they were like, oh,
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: my God, and they're buying me a bunch of drinks.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: So I do this show. I bomb.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you had freaking Stockholm Syndrome. What do you
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: mean you bombed? You were basically the Elizabeth Smart of
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: comedy that night. Yeah. You didn't bomb. You did your best,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: I tried.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: After being held hostage. And what kind of car was it?
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Do you remember?
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit. Like a Nissan Altima. Oh, dude.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Nissan Altimas. People have given birth in those more than
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: any other vehicle in the past 10 years in this country.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: I almost was given death in one.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a white one. Yep.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: That is the purgatory of existence, dude. If you're in
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: a Nissan Altima, things are headed up or down.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: You're not doing great.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: You're at a confluence in your life. You're at a
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: fork in the road. You're at a fork in the road, dude.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, so a couple's buying you shots. They're from Vegas.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: So I do this show afterwards because I had told
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: them about that. I was scared to Uber, you know?
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: And so they were like, we'll drive you home. And
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, thank you. And they get me
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: in their car, but, you know, and they go, hey,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: before we take you home, we want you to come
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: to this bar with us first. And I was like, okay.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: And so we go to some bar. I'm pretty drunk, okay? Okay.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: And I get carried upstairs to a VIP area by
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: some security guy.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: It sounds almost like Cinderella.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, Rapunzel.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All of them. Well, you might have to rappel down, too,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: so who knows?
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Rappel is just falling for me. Rappel is a nice
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: way to... No, and then... I don't know. I'm just
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: sitting in my wheelchair, not approaching anyone, just kind of drinking, like, quietly.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I'm freaked out. It's a private party. I don't know
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: who anyone is. They all have face tattoos. Like, it
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: looks like a biker gang, maybe. Like, I didn't care, though.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: It might have been Jelly Roll doing one of those
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: booty boot camp classes or whatever. He does some of
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: those halfway house booty boot camp classes, I think. But
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: go on. Oh, my God. Sorry, I'm ruining your story.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: No. And, you know, someone's just giving me a new
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: drink every time mine's gone. It's the Kennedy treatment, you know?
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Kennedy treatment?
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: And I realize there's one guy everyone's, like, trying to
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: talk to, so I'm like, it must be his party.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: You know, and he comes up to me at, Like
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: 2 a.m. And he's like, hey, we're having an after
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: party at my apartment or whatever. If you want to come,
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: what's your name? I was like, I'm Fiona. What's yours?
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: And he was like, you can call me Michael. And
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, okay. And so Michael.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Biblical name.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Good sign. Michael has.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Michael Myers.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: Was he wearing a mask? Is that Michael Myers? Yeah.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah. I get stuff. He has the security carry
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: me down. And we're all, it's like his posse and
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: me and Michael. He goes on Instagram story. I'm in
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: the video. And the married couple's being weird to me.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: And the wife keeps trying to get on my lap.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: And Michael didn't like that. And so we had a
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: security kick them out. And so we get to his apartment.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: The elevator opens to his apartment. Ooh, that's rich. It's
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: like money. I had never seen that kind of money.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: That's rich.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: There was like motorcycles inside. It's huge. And he has
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: like a chef and a bartender.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Is it Michael Strahan?
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Mm-mm. Huh. Carry on. So I'm in there.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I have two more guesses. Okay.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: I'm in there. I'm in there. And there is one
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: guy that was at the third ghost show that was
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: tagging along for some reason. He was like a ballerina.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: He's a cock, it sounds like. But let's go on. Sorry.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I know your husband's in here. Hope everybody's with God.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: He's a ballerina. He's a male ballerina.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I used to live with a guy. He wasn't a ballerina.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: What was he? Like one of those frozen ballerinas. He
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: was an ice skater.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Frozen ballerina.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: This dude was a mixed dude, too.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Wait, this guy was Mexican.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Your guy was Mexican?
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: My guy was mixed. Black and white. Oh, God. Or
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: white and something. Okay. Yeah, but every now and then
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: he would have a couple drinks and he would take
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: us outside. He never wanted us to see his craft
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: or whatever. That's what he would say all the time.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't invite us to any of his performances or whatever. Yeah.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Every now and then he'd get drunk and he'd take
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: us outside and he would jump sideways over a car.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: And it was pretty amazing to watch him do it. Anyway,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: carry on. That's just some mixed guy that I shared
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: an apartment with for a month. Let's go. Sorry, not
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: let's go. I'm enjoying the story. So you're there. It's nice.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: There's like fancy stuff, outdoor stuff that should be inside.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: That's when somebody's rich, when they have like a car
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: in the living room or they have motorcycles.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: I'm like, how'd this get up here when they make
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: you think about it?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And all the girls, they're very good looking. I
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: was like, why the fuck am I here? Like blonde, big,
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: big boobs, like everyone beautiful covered in tattoos.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: And this is in Nashville?
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, I still don't know where I am.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: And Michael's feeding me drinks, too. But he was like,
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: are you hungry? And he had someone make me pasta
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: and pizza. And there was like a video of him
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: feeding it to me.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: And then he put his number in my phone. And
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: then I had the ballerina drive me home. And then
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: the next morning, I wake up to, like, 60 missed
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: phone calls from my friends being like, are you alive?
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: Because apparently I was all over this guy's Instagram story
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: and stuff. Do you know who, uh... who Yellow Wolf is?
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: It was him.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He like saved me that night.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: He saved you from the swingers?
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, that was sweet of him.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: And he like made sure it was okay. It was
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: very nice. I have not seen him since then.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Wow. I Saw him. We hung out one night in
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I got to check in with him. I
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: haven't talked to him in a while. We kind of...
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: I think he lives in Nashville, or he did. Yeah.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: At that time.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: He's having great songs over the years.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: We used to jam his shit heavy. We used to definitely... Oh, dude,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: being white and being like, fuck them, and then just replace...
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Just anybody could be them, you know?
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Dude, we would fucking listen to his shit a lot, dude.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Mostly it was against like rich people or whatever.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck them.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never really liked the rich, really.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Because we had a ditch in our yard, right? And
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: it wasn't our yard or whatever. I think the government
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: owned it. Somebody owned it, whatever. We didn't. But in
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: our neighborhood, people would burn trash. That's how they got
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: rid of trash, you know? So people would just burn
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: trash in the ditch. Because a lot of times people
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: would forget to get it out to the curb or
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes people didn't have the cans or whatever. People would
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: always be burning trash in the ditch. And we'd be
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: running and jumping through the soot all the time, right?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: So from 50 feet away, we looked like a group
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: of young African-American children or blacks.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: And anyway, that's not even part of the story. That's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: just something that happened a lot. But what happened was
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: rich people– there was a rich guy who was a
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: veterinarian or whatever, and he would drive to our neighborhood.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: And he would take, like, dead animals and stuff out
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: of the trunk, and he would throw their bodies out
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: in our, like, ditch. And, like, just, like, getting rid
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: of them on the way to, like, some other rich
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: area or whatever.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Because our street was, like, a pass-through between a couple
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: rich areas, kind of. And so they would just, like,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: so it always made me angry at rich people because
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: it would be like these.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: What type of dead animals?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Dogs. Things that had died, I think, of just, that
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: had been put.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: Dogs?
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Ann, that's the worst one to say.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, I could have said any other one. And
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: hold on. He wasn't, he wasn't like some dogster or whatever, like,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: or like a Dexter. I mean, sorry, but he, he wasn't,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: he was a youth and he was a veterinarian. And
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I think he was having to put these animals to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: sleep and some of them they would. dispose of you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: know this wasn't a time when people would keep their
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: dog this was a time when a lot of dogs
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: weren't in inside.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: I feel like you're lying to me like i'm a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: little good because you're like no you know what they're
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: they're at the farm oh no yeah they're safe they're
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: all alive.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Now actually they're in a special area but he would
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: get rid of some of the carcasses and stuff in
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: our neighborhood and i think when i was a kid
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: that was like a rich guy because it was a
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: nice car so i think i associated like oh rich
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: people are like that like they just throw out the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: junk for poor people to deal with you know and
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: we're out here fucking and then we ended up throwing
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: bones at each other and shit after it would like decay.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Or whatever so it's so gross well we didn't know
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: we didn't We didn't have it. Nobody in our neighborhood
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: had a dog. We didn't have a dog. We had, like,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of dangerous dogs that would travel around the
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: neighborhood and attack people for no reason.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, so you didn't like dogs.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Well, we didn't have any, like, semblance of them. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: none of my friends had dogs. You had a dangerous Doberman.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Nobody I knew had a cat growing up. There were
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: some cats that lived outside.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: And were up to very bad things. Okay? And obviously
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: worked for the Satan.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. There's no denying that they work for the Satan.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Yeah.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, people were not– nobody was anti-Animalia in our area,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: but that wasn't something that people had on a regular basis.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: I remember the first time I went to my friend's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: house and they had an indoor dog, and it was
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: a golden retriever, which, first of all, how nice that
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: you have so much gold you can have an animal
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: just go get some of it for you. Yeah. Like
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: that blew my mind when they told me what it was.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is unbelievable. Like we can't even
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: go in our apartment two days a week because some
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: of the gas issues and these people have an animal
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: that will just run off and grab a mouthful of
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: bouillon whenever you need it. And I remember seeing it's
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: just long, beautiful hair and it looked like a beautiful
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: woman to me. I remember like that thing is beautiful.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: It was better looking than most of the women in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: our area. It looked like Suzanne Somers. Bring up Suzanne Somers.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: Let's get a gander at her. This is one of
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: the funniest times I've had on a podcast in probably
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: two years. Don't you think, Trevin? This is great. Thank
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: you so much.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I'm having a blast.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: That's her when she came in right there. When I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: saw that gold retriever.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: A gold retriever for sure.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: That was her. She was like the icon.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: Threw some teal earrings on that dog.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Put some teal earrings. Is that what you said?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, dude, yeah. That's perfect. That thing could have worked,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: volunteered to work in the nurse's office at our school.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I would have been so happy.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Been real mean to you for being a little late
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: to class. I was burping orders, man.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Let's go into a new section. I'm going to take
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: a break for one second. Do you have to pee
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: or anything?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: No, I'm good.
• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:51
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• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: Sometimes, I mean... I know a lot of people that just, like,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: do research and, like, let the morality of stuff go.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, that can all be true. But, like,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: imagine that was your sister, brother, whatever. Yeah.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: And we're talking about the Rene Good shooting. Let's put
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: the ice shooting that happened. And this is one clip
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: of it. We'll show this clip. I know there's different
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: angles of clips. I'm not going to get into, like,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of the, like, angular stuff, that sort of thing.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: But I do want to cover this a little bit
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: because we haven't talked about it on here.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: And this is.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: A lady and her girlfriend who are out and.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: They're protesting these ICE agents.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Rene Goode was involved with an activist group called Minnesota
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Ice Watch, acting as a legal observer, documenting what's going on, etc. Okay,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: play it up.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Get out of the car.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Get out of the fucking car.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: Get out of the car.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: And then there's three shots, and the woman's deceased, right?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is just baffling. What are some of
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: your first thoughts? Do you even want to talk about this?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think it's important. Well, okay. So I
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: found out that the defense I keep hearing for this
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: ICE agent is that he, six months ago or so,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: was dragged 200 feet or something by a vehicle. And
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: I'm like, He shouldn't have been working.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: That's PTSD.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: It says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: was dragged by a car in the line of duty
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: last summer, according to court records. So there was documentation
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: that that happened to him. Ross needed more than 50
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: stitches and had abrasions on his knee, elbow, and face,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: according to court papers. So obviously he has PTSD in
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: this situation. I don't think there's any way that you couldn't, right?
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like he's going to be trigger-happy. If you're telling
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: me he has trauma related to vehicles.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: For sure, this is the last place that he should be.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: My thoughts on it, I think nobody deserves to lose
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: their life in an instance like this, right? Like, the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: guy shouldn't have shot the woman. that he could have
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: shot the vehicle. Yes. Or let the vehicle go and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: deal with it later and find a way to deal
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: with it later on. Those are some of my first thoughts.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I have a couple of others. Um, you know, I
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: think as far as like the agitators go, which I
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: think is what, what's it's safe to call them. Like
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: at a certain point you have to recognize that, uh,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: that people are just people, right? So if someone's a doctor,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: they're wearing a doctor's coat. If they're wearing a police uniform,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: a fire uniform, a principal, they're just people. So they're
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: still like flawed, right? They're still just a regular person
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: like you and I. And we know what it's like
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: to be a person. It's hectic. And it's hectic more
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: than ever. I know you want to have an effect,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: but this just felt like.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just there are so many other ways to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: go about it.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: I doubt she had ever been face-to-face with someone that
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: had a gun like that because I'd be scared, right?
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'd be super scared. I'd be super scared. Because
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: if an officer pulls his weapon out, they don't usually
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: pull it out unless they're going to use it.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Or unless they're probably, they fear the threat of death.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: I think that's supposed to be why they pull it out.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: When is an officer supposed to pull their weapon out?
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Can you look that up for me, Trevin? That's kind
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: of interesting.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: Because I feel like I watch a ton of police
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: spotting him, but they always pull out their taser first.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, well, I don't think anything should have been
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: pulled out here. It's like, I just don't know if
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: this had happened six other times down this street where
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: this woman is moving their car and then blocking in
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: front of them. You know what I'm saying? I'm not
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: saying anything justifies it. I'm just saying at a certain point,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: it's a bad idea to mill around somebody that has
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: a gun and be doing anything. Like, I'm the kind
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: of guy, when people show up with guns.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: I'm out.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: I'm out of the room. I'm out of the room.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: I'm out of the house. If somebody, like, I'm at
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: a party, somebody wants to show somebody a gun, I'm
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: out of here. If I'm at a hunting camp and
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: somebody pulls out a gun, I'm out of here, dude.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here. A police officer's reasonable belief of threat.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: The primary justification is the officer's reasonable belief that there
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: to themselves or other persons. From my look of view
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: and from the videos I've seen, it seemed to me
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't going to get run over.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: But when you factor in the fact that that had
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: happened to him, I'm not surprised that he would.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: He believed it was reasonable.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: That he would overreact. Ugh. It's a stupid situation that
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: really felt like it didn't have to happen.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Well, also, the scary part about that is this is, like,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: someone that's, like, a government person, and so her being,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: you know, annoying or aggravating or whatever, I mean, they're, like,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: in the U.S., I think there's, like, a certain level,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: maybe not anymore, but there was, like, of a belief that, like, Oh,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm safe and I'm an American. Like I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: can talk or, you know.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I can express my beliefs, that sort of thing.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: And if this goes unchecked, it scares me for what
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: that means. What is reasonable after this?
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that for sure. It's hard to know
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: if this had been going on for two hours before
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: this or if this had just all happened in like
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: 30 seconds. That's a tough thing to know. But what
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: it's– what– to your point is we're going to get
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: into a place where there's a lot more I feel
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: like this like vigilante journalism type of thing where even
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: with like the guy Nick Shirley who went and– Oh, yeah.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: And tracked down the like– Somalian. The Somalian healthcare fraud.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: You're going to have more of that. And are you
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: going to have more people out here who want to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: go out and contest the police?
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: It's– overall in the end for me, it gets weirder
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: and weirder that we're just getting to these more comfortable places.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: Like you and I are able to sit here and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: watch a video where somebody got killed. Like we don't
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: see the, the bullets hit them and stuff like that,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: but we know what happened. And we're in a place now.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Where like, we're just like, yeah, let's talk about it.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: Like it's not, yeah, that's terrifying.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: It's pretty scary. Um, one of the things that's happened
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: that's caused a lot of this is they let so
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: many people into the country without proper, uh, without proper
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: documentation and without proper checking in. Like we had some
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: border patrol agents on where they would, when people were
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: coming across the border, they would have to meet later
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: with an agent at a certain point, like because they
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: were so overwhelmed. They'd be like, okay, you have to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: meet with an agent at this point. And so many
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: people were not making those appointments. And so people were
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: just in America undocumented, right? And I just believe that
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: everybody should have documentation. I believe there's fair ways to
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: be in the country. I believe that we need a
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: proper immigration in and out I'm a huge believer in that. Um,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Pew research center reported 14 million undocumented immigrants in 2023,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: a record high that likely peaked further before declining in
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: 2025 under stricter enforcement. But what I'm saying is this
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: is one of the reasons why there's so much of
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: this ice stuff, why there's so much ice going on
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: because there's so many people that are, that are up
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: to no good that don't want to have any laws
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: that want to hide from documentation that want to hide
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: from being here legally. Um, And then what's wilder from
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: there is the process of becoming an ICE agent. Have
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: you seen some of this?
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: So U.S. citizenship is required. What's required, Trevin? Are you on, Mike?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: So U.S.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: Citizenship is required. No felony convictions or misdemeanor, domestic violence
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: offenses are allowed. You have to pass drug tests, medical exams,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: background checks. It says here for entry-level positions, you typically
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: need a bachelor's degree, but some– There was reports of
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: some recent ICE recruitments stating that undergraduate degrees are not
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: always needed. So it's kind of like a gray area
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: as far as that goes.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Go back up. What's the age restrictions on it? Didn't
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: they change that recently? Let me see. Applicants must generally
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: be referred for selection before age 40. The recent policy
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: changes under Secretary Noem have removed strict age limits to
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: attract more candidates with waivers available for veterans and prior
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: federal law enforcement. So you can be getting a lot
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: of different types. What were some of the, like, did
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: you see some of the posters, though, and some of
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the campaigns? Can you show some of that? See if
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: you have some of that.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: So it's like.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: Why is he trying to, like, that's like a thirst trap.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: An old man thirst trap.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Well, for sure, because I think they opened up the
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: age restrictions. In an effort to hire more ICE agents,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: the federal government has lowered the age limit. This poster
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: is part of the Department of Homeland Security's push to
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: hire 10,000 ICE agents. Previously, agents had to be under
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: the age of 40. Now that has changed. This is like, yeah,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: you want this ICE baby girl?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: And he looks like he's not wearing pants. Yeah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: And he wants you to know.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You want this warm ICE? You know who he
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: looks a little bit like is Josh Duhamel a little bit.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Can you see that a little?
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: A little bit, yeah.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: Josh, and he might be upset that I said that,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: but no.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: He's a good looking motherfucker Dude Oh my god.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: I honestly I know him some.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: Is he hot in real life?
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Dude He's so handsome And he knows He doesn't honestly
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: He doesn't act like he's like He doesn't act like
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: he's the most handsomest guy around Really? No not around
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: me I'm a man But he might in other circumstances. But, dude,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: he's so handsome.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Dude, he's so handsome.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: I'm married. Take him off the screen.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Please, God. The woman's already dealing with a lot.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: You're keeping that up there. He's so handsome. Sometimes I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: don't even want to go back home after I– it's
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: like– I can't keep living like this. Like, what visual
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: squalor are the rest of us living in if this
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: man gets to operate like that?
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: Imagine how I feel. I'm in a fucking wheelchair and
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: he gets to look like that?
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're still, you're hot, though.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: For now.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: I'm a pumpkin, brother.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: But that's just because of the hair, I think. You
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: can change that. You can change that with a box
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: of VO5, honey. But no, that's one of the posters, Trevin?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, posted by DHS.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: It almost has like a baseball, like the baseball umpire.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: You could umpire whether somebody should be in the country
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: or not.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: The type of people this is for are not the
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: people that should be doing this job. They're like, hey,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: does no one respect you at home? come on out
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: here and like well I bet you.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: Do get some of that energy where people that's the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: thing it's like in the end the people who are
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: officers police anything they're just people like they're taking those
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: feelings of whatever's happening to them at home whatever's in
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of their life whatever else has occurred and
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: they're taking them out there and we also expect like
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: guys to also be um I mean I think this
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: poster is kind of crazy I do think that They
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: like just kind of expanded to try and just get
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: more people in. This feels like it's like, Oh, you're
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the umpire and you're calling safe. You know, you're calling
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: safe and out. You can decide who's safe and out
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: of America. You know, I think that's the kind of
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: energy I get from this poster a little bit. Um, but, but,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: but yeah, everybody takes whatever it is into the world
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: with them, you know? And it's like, even though we
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: put on certain uniforms or certain like costumes or certain
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: name tags, like whether you're the principal or a teacher,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: like it's still just a person. And that's why I
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: feel like to be out there like just taunting a person,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: whether the person's a police, anybody, it's like.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: That's the danger.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: Especially these days. It feels dangerous to like engage in
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: stuff in public. It feels like. But this poster does
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: say ICE hiring 10,000 agents with a $ 50, 000 hiring bonus.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: That's wild. Now that makes me want to dust off
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: the old vampire uniform. Look at this. Somebody caught this.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: An ice agent was caught slipping on ice. And you
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: know what's the craziest thing these days? We don't even
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: know if this is a real ice agent. There's so
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: many people out there that are just cosplaying and getting
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: involved in shit. It's like you just don't even know
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: what's real anymore. And the government could create or the
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: government or different entities could create videos like this just
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: to get us agitated. It's a wild time.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the AI of it all.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: That could totally have been AI. We'd have no idea.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: It's getting really scary. I will say there have been
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: a couple of AI videos of me, but they can't
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: make even AI me walk. And I find that disheartening.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: You would think, huh?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: Just one more protein.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: I'm like, come on.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Was it prolactin? Is that what you said it was called?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: Protaxin. You have a good memory. I do?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Has there been, like.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Like, was there ever times where you tried, like, alternative
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: methods of medicine? Like, did you ever go to, like,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Honolulu or something?
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: Like, was there stuff like that? I've never been to Honolulu.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: They never took you to, like, an exotic place to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: get a new medicine?
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: No, they took me to New Jersey. During COVID. And
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: they locked me in a hospital for a month because
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: we weren't... Normally... Okay.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: That's unf... Usually people get to go... You go to, like,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: New Zealand or you're going to... You know, somewhere in
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: the Amazonia. And you got New Jersey. What part?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: What's that one?
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Not Trenton, huh?
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: It's like 45 minutes from New York. Newark. Yes.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: During the winter. Nightmare. Yeah. And you think walking in
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: snow is hard?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: Try just having your husband drag you through it.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and every two seconds I'm like, are you mad.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: At me? What therapies did you try or what was
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: something that you tried that was kind of novel or new?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: The thing that, the reason I'm like emotionally okay now,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: I do have a lot of faith that medicine will
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: catch up. Um, like the one I did out there
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: was a for tax and replacement therapy. Um, so they're
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to get it back in
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: your body. And then at that point it would be
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: me relearning how to walk. They do believe they'll cure
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: me in my, like, but then the next 10, five
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: or 10 years, you're not going to like me as
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: much when I can walk.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Whoa, that's going to be crazy. So was there a
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: time when you felt like there would be no cure?
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, when I got diagnosed, I was like, all right,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: now we know. So what do I do? And they
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: were like, eh, there's nothing. And they were like, well,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: your life expectancy is 40. What? Yeah. And I was like, fuck.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: And they were like, you're going to lose the ability
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: to walk, talk, see, hear, like all of it. So
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: I'm Helen Keller, right? Wow. And, yeah, it was pretty
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: fucking dark, but now I am on a med called Skyclaris,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: which is the only treatment out there for FA what
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: I have. And, I mean, it hasn't been around long
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: enough to, like, have, like, long-term research done.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of being a guinea pig
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: in it.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my whole life has been elaborate. Wow. Yeah, and
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with it, you know. But it's just three
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: pills every day, and it's supposed to, like, pause the progression,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: which I am a-okay with. Like, if I can stay
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: this way and not turn into Stephen Hawking, you know,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: that's my... He did get to go to cool places, though.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: Did he have this same thing?
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: No, he had ALS, which is way worse.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is?
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: And are you guys ever at odds with that kind
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: of stuff? Or is it probably a very similar type
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: of experience?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's worse because it's quicker and you're definitely
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: going to... He lived for a long time. But he
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: was also kind of a bad guy. His posture wasn't
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: that good? No. Kind of a dick.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Was he?
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He was on Epstein's Fly Log. Did you see that?
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: But some people deserve to go over there.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: He was cheating on his fucking wife.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: You can't cheat without help. That's crazy.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point. Wow. So somebody else is deaf.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: Someone grabbed his hand. Those teeth are crazy. He looks
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: like a mean little dog.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, dude.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to go to hell for– Yeah. No, but
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: it definitely– yeah, it reminds me of my stepdad had
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: a dog. I don't know if he was my stepdad
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: or not, but he had a dog named Muffy. And
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: at the end, it was just blind or whatever, but
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: it had these teeth. And he would always brush them
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: in front of us. And I was like, what are
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: we doing? What are we doing, you know? He'd brush
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: them like five times. 40 times a day he would
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: brush that dog's teeth. I think he felt like because
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: it couldn't see.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: Was he mouth kissing it? What the hell?
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: He probably was, dude. And the dog had like kind
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: of those brown like marks around his mouth. You know,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of them get those kind of. The tire burns,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: like those little white poodle dogs.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a kid with the Gatorade.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a kid with the Gatorade. Yeah, it's
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: like brown all around their mouth and stuff. They get that.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, that actually looks cute.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: That makes me sad.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Muffy. Muffy was all right, I think. I don't know.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: My mom knew her a little bit better. I didn't
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: know her. I didn't even know she was a female.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: Sounds like she had better bread than me. 40 times
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: a day.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, he would brush that dog's teeth. God, he would
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: brush them bitches till they were just fucking shining. I mean,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: just fucking, just like, just look like a belt buckle
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: right out there, hanging out the front of his mouth.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. Anyway, what are we talking about? So
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: that has to be totally wild. So there was a
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: time in your life when you went, you were like, wow,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: so my life is only going to be so much longer.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: And then there's a time now where you feel like
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: it will be different.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's weird being given sort of a death sentence, like,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you do some things you were like, I'm
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: going to treat myself some crazy ways?
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like there's no reason for me to care about anything.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: And now I'm like, fuck, I'm going to be here longer.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: Like I was a slut for a long time because
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: I was like.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: Once I'm in a wheelchair, it's over. You know what
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: I mean? So I'm like.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's a good point, dude.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm going to fuck everyone I can
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: while I can walk into it. That's insane, man. Sorry,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: too much. I'll pull back. Okay. Edit that out.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: No, no, that's fine. I just, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: people get out there. You got to. Did you feel
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: like you would ever find love? Was that a fearful thing?
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: I fully, well, it's the scariest part is like people
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: meet you while you're walking with the gang. And then
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: you have to explain to them it's going to get worse,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: so signing up for this is a bad idea. And
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: so I would try to avoid that conversation and avoid
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: telling them the name of what I have, and that
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: wasn't fair.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: So would you just try to play it off or whatever?
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: Not a big deal. Yeah, I'm just clumsy. I call
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: myself clinically clumsy.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: You came up with that?
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, at least it gives you your own ownership
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: over it, too.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: But, you know, I mean, Matt and I got together
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: before Matt is saying give him around. So he signed
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: up for me thinking I'd look like Steven.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: But also he signed up thinking if he gets 10
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: more years of, I mean, you are a beautiful lady.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: If he gets 10 years of this beautiful lady, that's
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: a good deal. I feel like was that what he
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: was thinking or? Was it, was it hard for you
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: to get, to believe that he was in like, what
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: was that like? Was it hard for you to believe?
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Like really at some point, did you ever realize for yourself?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: Because I think at some point, all of us, it's
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: hard for us to believe that somebody would love us.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: A lot of people, especially probably comedians.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: But you being a comedian and having having this ailment,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: do you feel like like that? Was that was there
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: ever like an about face? You're like, wow, I just
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: I have to believe this.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think in the beginning it was hard because he, like,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: my husband is a really good person. So I.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: And Matt's a comedian as well.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: So that's how you guys met.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we met at an open mic here. But he's
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 3: a good guy. Oh, yeah.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: That's. Oh.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. He sat down.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: Look at Matt taking it easy. Fucking lazy, dude.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. That's a long winner.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's beautiful, huh?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's awesome. You always got a chair with me.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: Who are you dancing with there, Matt?
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: Mom.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice. What does your mom do, Matt? She's
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: a psychologist. Oh, wow. That's cool.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very sweet. He proposed to me outside
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: of Zany's. He had the marquee say, will you marry me?
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you know?
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: This motherfucker. I guess like I had to have known
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: because we actually booked the venue before we were engaged.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you guys were hoping it could happen. Oh, really? Really? Dude,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: that's so cool. I didn't even know that. And what
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: did he propose, right out there in the front?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he took me to dinner at a place
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: I did not like.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: And the name of it is called Bad Idea.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: So I.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: Was like, there's... So good husband, bad dater.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: Bad dinner guy.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: And then I get a call from the booker at Zany's,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: and they're like, someone's here, they want to meet you, like,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: hurry up, it's a big deal. And I'm like, what?
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: And so we close out our tab, and we are
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: driving over to Zaney's. He's being nervous, and I think
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: he's nervous because I'm nervous.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: He pulls a gun out of the glove box. He's
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: poking you in the arm with it.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: Oh man and then I he was like maybe it's
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: Nikki Glaser and I was like because I had never
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: met her at that point and I was like oh
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: my god so I'm rolling real quick, top speed, around
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 3: the corner. And then Matt goes, wait, come back. And
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: I was like, Matt, we got to go. And I
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: look up, and he got on my knee. And I
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: don't think I even said yes. I think I just
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 3: kept saying, I'm going to throw up on you.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: But that's an Irish yes.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a beautiful story, actually. It makes me think
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: so much differently of this place now when I'm there.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that people were falling in love right
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: outside of there and planning their futures.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. They let us have our, we had like
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: an after party after the wedding and reception. Aw. Yeah,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: it was very sweet.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: Aw, that's cool. Wow, so that must have been, yeah,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: because I guess, like, yeah, I guess, yeah, were there feelings, like,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: do you feel like, like, because I think comics in
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: general have a tough time finding love and figuring that
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff out, you know?
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the lifestyle of being a comedian, it's really
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: hard to negotiate with love, right? So, I mean, I
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: feel lucky that we're both, we travel, and now we're
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: starting to, Travel together, Matt features for me a lot
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: on the road, which is, like, you know, a dream
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 3: come true. We're starting to do where he's headlining this Sunday,
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: and I'm doing Friday and Saturday.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: Dude, that's awesome, bro. Congratulations. Just the ability to be
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: able to do that together, that's pretty cool.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is cool. I'm lucky.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Is there points where you, like— Has it felt weird
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: having this ailment that you're not even going to have
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: that much longer, which is going to be really fucking weird?
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: When you're just back or whatever?
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: Everyone's going to be like, that dumb bitch was faking it,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: and I don't know what to do.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: I want to do a special now called Before, and
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: then I'll do one called After.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea. Was there a part, like...
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah. What's that relationship like with comedy and
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: with– obviously people have to joke about what they know
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: the most, right? And I think people are– a lot
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: of times they're– I think they look at people– I
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: think sometimes people look at people that have an ailment
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: or something either as like a good luck omen or
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: like as like something that they're almost fearful of, right?
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: Because they don't want to imagine it. You know, they
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: don't want to think like, oh, that could be me
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: or I could be in that situation.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: That's the weird part about like the sympathy. Some of
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: it truly is just simple sympathy. But a lot of
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: the times I can tell when people feel bad for
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: themselves because they've created a whole story of like how
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 3: terrible their life would be if they were me. And
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: I don't like that. You know, because like we all
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: have shitty things. I'm lucky for a lot of reasons.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? I'm luckier than most people.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. I think it's interesting to think like, yeah,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: like how we relate to people sometimes. And in the end,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: it's a reflection of something about us or some way
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: we view ourselves or some way that we're afraid to
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: imagine ourselves. Or there's like an ego in that or
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: a selfishness in it. It's hard to kind of figure
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: out exactly what that is, but that's really fascinating.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I've been now diagnosed disabled for
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: 11 years, and you figure it out. The worst part
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: is people doing shitty things, and everyone doesn't want to
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: call it shitty. They are like, hey, they had good intentions.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 3: It is not my job to figure out what your
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 3: intention was. You know what I mean?
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: Like you mean people saying mean stuff?
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: Do people say mean stuff to you a lot?
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Really? And is it just Kill Tony fans trying to
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: show affection?
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: Probably. Oh, my God. The Kill Tony fans. They are crazy.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: Not all of them, but a lot.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: What are they like?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: The DMs I get would blow your mind. Like, I
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: get this a lot. It's people, men asking if I'll
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 3: roll over their dick.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, with the wheelchair.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Or like, show us your boobs before you die.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: I get that a lot. Yeah, it's fun. I'm having
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: a good time.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, I bet it's added a lot of like
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: color just to your life. I think things like that
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: are just, I mean, yeah, some of that stuff's insane.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: Is there ever stuff that does kind of ping you
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit? That's like, are you able to just
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: kind of.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: There's yeah. You know, it's whenever someone touches on your
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: real insecurity and you're like, for me, it's my voice.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 3: Cause I let go of the fact that my body
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: is not functioning a long time ago. But my voice
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: is all I have. So I recognize I speak slow
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: is because I'm trying to pronunciate, you know, or enunciate.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: Did you used to be like louder and have a
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: different voice at all?
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: It was more annoying. It was more valley girl.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Bro, thank God you got rid of that.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: Now it's kind of deep.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, damn. Really deep valley girl. Oh, now you're saying
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: now it's kind of deep. Now it just seems like–
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: it just– I don't know. I feel like you want
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: everybody– I kind of always feel like you're like a
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: kindergarten teacher. You want everybody to sit on the rug
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: and listen to a story kind of.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 3: Like, it's okay. It's almost nap time. Everyone sit down. Wow.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: Are you ever like– do you have moments where you're
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: also envious of the fact that you get to have
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: such a perspective of life? Because you like– not many
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: of us have this thing where there's a possible– timeline
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: on our lives, you know, and you know what that's like,
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: but also are able to have a voice like you have,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: like able to be a comedian whose job it is
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: to articulate things and to share thoughts and feelings. Is
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: there ever moments you're like, wow, this has been, you know,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: if I don't get to do life again, or if
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: we do get to do it a hundred more times,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: this has been a pretty special experience.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel very fortunate because I, Before the diagnosis,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: the things I cared about did not matter. And no
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: one could tell me they didn't matter. It just took them.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: Once things are taken away, it kind of strips down
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: to the truth and the core of what is important.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: I was very vapid, very whatever. I didn't care about
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 3: my relationships that much. But all you have is connection.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: So the more you can connect with people, the bigger
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: the impact you leave. You know what I mean? And
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: all I want to do now, which I never first
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 3: saw any of this, is like, yeah, give a voice
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: to the voiceless a little bit. And with them telling
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: me my voice was going, it feels so ironic that
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: I'm doing that. But it feels good.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: That would be the scariest thing.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: It's like all we have, especially like I think if
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: you work in a comedian or someplace where you speak
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: or someplace you have to like communicate with others regularly
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: or probably just for anybody. It's just like, man, my voice,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how I feel.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: You've done, you were doing public speaking. Do you still
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: do that some?
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: So I did. I think you're talking about the TED talk.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: I did like a TEDx talk. Yeah, a while ago.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 3: I'm still waiting for it to come out. But yeah,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: that was really crazy because that was the first time
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: I publicly spoke and it wasn't comedy. And not like
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: getting laughs because I wasn't being funny was really stressful.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: That's cute, huh? I'm so happy that you guys have
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: each other. It's nice to have somebody, is it? Oh, yeah.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: It's really nice. I went a long time without it.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: I also didn't think I'd ever get married. I wasn't
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: someone that was seeking that. All my friends were kind
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: of falling into that. And I was like, cool, I
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: can't imagine that. And when I met him, I was like, oh, fuck.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: He's fucking honky.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: He got me. Yeah. Honking from Alabama.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's from Alabama? Yeah.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I know. It's fucked.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: You were already.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: I've been through a lot. I told you.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: You were already dealing with an ailment.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Now you're marrying. Wow. And shout out Alabama, dude. That's
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: all people say is, yeah, shout out Alabama. What part, though?
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: Tuscaloosa. Oh, yeah.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: Dude, that's a great part. You're a Bama fan? Oh,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: it's so cool.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: Real tad. I know. Yeah.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: We got the red hair. They're ready for you.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the wheels that roll.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That's hilarious. You seem to be on
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: your period when you show up over there. They should
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: have a roll-tied section. It's just women on their period
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: for the game.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 3: In wheelchairs. I love that. That's great. Red Band will
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 3: be sniffing all those things.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Red Band will judge a seat sniffing competition after.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 3: That's where he got the red part of his name. Wow.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: So all the people who throughout this episode were like,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: Theo's doing too many jokes, just know that that's where
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: we're at here. That's the level that we're at here.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: I heard you talk about Nikki Glaser. How great is she?
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: She is a queen.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: She's the best. She just did the, she hosted the
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: Golden Globes. Let's see some of that. Do you have
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: any of that, Trevin? And congratulations to her. She's fought
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: so hard, you know, she was an opener for Amy
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Schumer for a long time where Amy was like, you know,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing in the world. And, uh, and here
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: she is as just like the absolute queen.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. She's crushing.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: The golden globe for best editing goes to the justice department.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: Facts of that.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: And the award for most editing goes to CBS News.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: CBS News, America's newest place to see BS News.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: She's awesome.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: She's so good.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: She actually, I had never had anyone take me on
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: the road. And I understood pretty quickly that probably was
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: not going to be part of my comedic journey because
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: taking me on the road, you got to account for
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: a chair and blah, blah, blah. I DM'd her out
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: of nowhere because I saw she was coming to the Ryman.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: I was like, I'm a local comedian. I'd love to
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: You know, do a guest spot if you have room.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: And she replied within, like, a couple hours and was, like,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: absolutely loved and had me on both her shows and
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: then took me on the road.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's the only person that's taken me on
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: the road.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: That's incredible.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: And she, like, paid for an extra ticket for Matt
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 3: because she wanted me to have someone there.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. That's sweet.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: She's the best. She's so funny. I'd love to have
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: her back on again. Every time we sit and chat,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: we have a great time. Dude, imagine that you're sitting
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: there and you get to joke with Leonardo DiCaprio. That's
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: got to be crazy.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Talking shit to Leo. You've worked with
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 3: every great director. You've won three Golden Globes, an Oscar.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: And the most impressive thing is.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: That you were able to accomplish all of that before
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: your girlfriend turned 30.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just insane.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Leo.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry I made that joke. It's cheap. You know what?
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: I tried not to, but, like, we don't know anything
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: else about you, man.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: Like, there's nothing else. Like, open up. That's a good point.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: He's starting to look like Jack Nicholson a little bit.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: Go back to him right there.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: You're totally correct.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Pull up Jack Nicholson at his age.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: We did it. We cracked the code. A little bit.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: The hairline.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: The hairline's better on... You don't.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 3: Think Leonardo had any hair implants or anything?
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. I think he has a great hairline,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: but I bet he also could have easily had that done.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: It wasn't available in Jack's time.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're only dating young girls, you gotta.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: You gotta keep it fresh. And you gotta keep it
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: until you get a wife. I've had hair put in here.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, hell yeah.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know if I needed it. I was
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: just dealing with a ton of stress.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, he's bald. He ain't got a wife.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: Type shit. I got to change my attitude.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: I just can't see the top of his head. That's it.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: Dude, that's a great point. You're like, yeah, what do
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: you care? What are, like, some of the toughest things
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: about having this disability that people do not realize, you think?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: Are there some little things that are kind of interesting?
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: I think there's a general assumption that, like, I am
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 3: mentally disabled because of how I speak. Oh, my God.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: I do have a joke about this, but it's like
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 3: a real story. Do you remember the bar Kung Fu?
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: It was in Nashville?
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: It shut down.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: It was on Broadway. Yeah, I've heard about it.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 3: So I went there with some friends a couple years ago,
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: and we rented one out. It was a friend's birthday.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 3: It was like six girls, you know, drinking, whatever. And
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: long story short, I watched my friend get roofied. But again,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: nothing bad has happened to any of my friends. So
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: they just take drinks from people and, you know, whatever.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: So my friend is getting real sick and starting to
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 3: pass out. It's been like 45 minutes. My able-bodied friends
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: all go to the bathroom together. Dude I saw give
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 3: her the drink. tries to come in. She's passed out.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 3: And he's like, hey, that's my friend. She asked me
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 3: to take her home. And I was like, no. And
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: I just rolled over and put my foot on the
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: door to close it. And then he shouldered it open.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: And I kicked him in the wiener. And I started
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: yelling for help because he's fighting me. And I can't
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: do much. And finally security comes over. And the guy goes,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: Hey guys, I'm so sorry. That's my girlfriend, my friend Bessa,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: and this is her mentally retarded friend that doesn't remember me.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: And I had to convince these security guards that I
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 3: was not mentally disabled. And I couldn't do it. It
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: is so much harder than it sounds.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you even... It's like trying.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 3: To convince someone you're from the future. You can't do it.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, that's hilarious.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, trying to get away from the accusations. I can't
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 3: beat those guys.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 3: No, we got kicked out, but that guy didn't get
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 3: my friends, so that's a win.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you had such a plan, too. That's
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: the crazy part, that he would say that.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: It wasn't his first time, yeah. I was like, oh
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: my God, kind of genius, kind of funny.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: Just crazy there's sick people out there like that, too.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: What would you say to people, other people that have,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't have the same ailment, right?
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: You said it's so few.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they have stuff similar, and it's cool. At
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: my shows, a lot of disabled people come, which is
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 3: bad success to me. I would love one day just
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: like for the club to have to take out every
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 3: chair because everyone has their own. Yeah. I think that'd
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: be sick.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: BYOC, huh?
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: That's great. And were there people that had ailments that
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: you looked up to at certain points, or did you find, like,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: people just look up to?
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 3: There's one that comes up, and I know there are more, but, like,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 3: kind of the, like, godmother of disability, her name, she's
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 3: dead now, but her name was Judy Human, and she
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 3: helped pass the ADA test. like actor or whatever. Yeah,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 3: Judy Heumann. She rocked basically, yeah, the Black Panthers helped
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 3: get the ADA passed.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: Wow, Judy Heumann, born in Philadelphia, was an American disability
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: rights activist and is a mother of the disability rights movement.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: She was recognized internationally as a leader in the disability movement.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: In 1970, Human was denied her New York teaching license
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: because the board did not believe she could get herself
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: or her students out of the building in case of
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: a fire. She sued the Board of Education. Local newspapers
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: were in the headline, You can be president, not teacher,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: with polio. The case settled with a trial.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: Human received much mail from disabled people around the country
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: due to press coverage of her lawsuit. Many wrote about
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: the experience of discrimination because of their disabilities based on
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: the outpouring of support and letters. In 1970, Human and
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: several friends founded the Disabled in Action, an organization focused
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: on securing the protection of people with disabilities under civil
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: rights laws through political protest. Wow. Do you think there
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: is a common energy where people feel like you can't
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: do something?
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think people think Matt is my caregiver and
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 3: not my husband.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: Which makes me very mad.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, my caregiver keeps taking advantage of me.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 3: My caregiver keeps grabbing my boobs.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess there's part of you, I think, as
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: someone that doesn't have an ailment like this right now,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: that you feel like you want to be helpful and
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: you don't know how to do that really.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 3: That is a question people always are like, well, how
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 3: do I know when you need help? And if it's, like,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: an innocent question, I understand that. But, like, I'm an adult.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 3: I know how to ask. You know what I mean? So, like,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 3: unless I'm like, hey, can you do this for me?
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: I'm fine.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 3: You know, I... Learning how to ask for help was
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 3: one of the toughest parts about, like, I wasn't disabled,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: and now I am. Oh, wow. You know? I was
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 3: very independent.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, that would be so hard. I hate asking for help.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a nightmare. But, like, there is so much
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 3: power in being able to. And I know disabled people
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 3: that are bad at it. And they hurt themselves not
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 3: asking for help and they'd rather that. And I'm like,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: what good are you to yourself or others if you're
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 3: hurting yourself?
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: You know? Yeah.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you'll sit there forever and be in pain
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: because you're just don't want to speak up. I think
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: it goes back to even sometimes it's like how, how
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: even like some, how like those law officers feel. I
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: think there's a code of human where it's like, I
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: want to be able to take care of myself. I
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: should be able to, I don't want somebody to know
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: I'm having a tough time. I don't want to, feel
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: like i can't do this yeah i think a lot
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: of that probably comes to surface um what is something
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: that you see like walkies or i don't know what
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: you call like people that are day walkers day walkers
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: yeah what is something you see uh day walkers do
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: that just blows your mind is there anything like comes
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: up like.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 3: That um i think able-bodied men are dumb as fuck
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 3: because I see them do the dumbest shit. Like, I'm like,
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 3: your body can break. What are you doing?
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, this crazy shit they do?
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, the jackass stuff. I'm like, y'all are so lucky. But, like,
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 3: anything bad can happen to anyone. Like, the disabled minority
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 3: is the most inclusive minority.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: That's a good point, huh? Anybody can show up here.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you feel bad for me today, but you
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 3: could be sitting next to me tomorrow.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll save you a seat.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that a lot. It feels like a threat.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: Is there... Yeah. Is there... Are there like AA meetings
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: for people that have different types of ailments or like
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: that have like mobility ailments?
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 3: I know there are disability support groups. I've never... been
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 3: to one, which is probably not good. I'm sure there's
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: something in Nashville. But it's hard also because I feel disability,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 3: it looks like so many different things.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: That's true. You don't want to get in there with
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: somebody who just has a neck brace on or something.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 3: You're like, look at this they're like I have ADD
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just like you I hear that a lot yeah
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 3: dead ass.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: See that's another place we've gotten with these autistic Barbies
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: it's like making everybody believe that there's something that.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 3: They have and it's like it might be true but
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 3: like you're fine.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah well we're all so blessed I mean I think
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: there's like you just don't even realize the blessings that
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: we have every day I was just this morning I
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: woke up with a good I'm out of gratitude for
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: the first time. I haven't had that in a while
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: and it felt pretty good. What was I seeing in
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: the news? Something else. We'll finish up in a few minutes. Oh,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: did you see in Iran that they cut off or Iran?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: People call it different stuff. But did you see that
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: they cut off all the Internet and the phones over there?
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: Nationwide unrest in Iran right now is being driven mainly
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: by a severe economic crisis that has quickly turned into
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: a broader anti-government movement. What caused it? Iran's currency has
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: plunged to record lows with the rial. That's what they use.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: Losing a large share of its value and pushing up
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: prices for food, fuel, and other essential items. The initial
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: economic anger morphed into political slogans like death to the
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: dictator and calls for the end of the current system. So,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: inflation above 40% in years of sanctions, mismanagement, and corruption
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: have left many Iranians unable to cover basic living costs,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: prompting shopkeepers, workers, and students to launch strikes and street protests.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: Is there any video from that? I mean, it's unbelievable. Like,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: the internet, imagine if they shut the internet down here.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: Look at this. That's wild. There's just... And this is
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: in the capital of Tehran. There's this protest against the
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: regime there. I think at a certain point you see
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: when things get bad enough that people will take action.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Which I guess is still nice to see that people,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 3: Work together.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: To make something different. Because it starts to feel like
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: in America sometimes like.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 3: We're all for ourselves, yeah.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: And as long as somebody's mailing me some Tostitos or something.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: and a can of government dip that I'll be, you
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like, I think, I just think
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: we've gotten very comfortable here, you know?
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, what would happen in America if the government
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: was down? We'd have to write letters to each other.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 3: I can't even write anymore. I'd have to get a
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 3: typewriter or some shit.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be unbelievable.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 3: My chair would stop working.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: Your chair would stop working too, huh?
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 3: Probably.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: You'd be stranded.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 3: I'd be screwed.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be like one of those Waymos that just went
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  Speaker 1: in a circle or whatever when it got commandeered. Do
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: we have anything from just somebody like boots on the
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: ground over there? I know they're having... Oh, what's this?
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: This is Masi Alinijad. This says, please help us. The
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: situation here is horrific. It is a full scale war.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: The regime's forces show no mercy. They shot protesters in
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: the head and heart and even finish off those already
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: wounded on the streets and hospitals and wounded are being
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: kidnapped and killed.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: This is Nikki Haley says at least 12,000 Iranians fighting
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: for freedom have been murdered by the regime. Wow. Is
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: that true? Possibly thousands more.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: The death toll and growing protests in Iran is believed
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: to be in the thousands with an Iranian official putting
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: the figure at 2000, but human rights groups estimating those
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: numbers could be far higher.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: Um, have been killed in protests of Iran. Now in
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: their third week, Iranian officials have called the protesters terrorists
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: and accused them of rioting. I mean, it's interesting to
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: see how quickly a Republic will call someone a terrorist. Um,
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: Iran International, a London-based Persian-language news channel, wrote in an
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: editorial on Tuesday that it believes 12,000 people have been killed.
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  Speaker 1: They called it the largest killing in Iran's contemporary history,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: taking place over two nights between January 8th and January 9th. Wow.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a revolution. This is a revolution.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: Demonstrations began in late December over economic hardships. but have
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: grown into widespread anger against the regime of the Islamic Republic. Yeah,
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: prayers for the people in Iran that are dealing with that,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: that are dealing with just like, I can't even imagine
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: what it's like not to be able to have a
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: voice to feel like you don't anyway. It just goes
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: to show like in the old days when they didn't
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: have the internet and they didn't have cell phones, you
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: still had a voice, right? But I think this is almost,
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: this is feels like proof to me that those things
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: create what a voice is nowadays, right? Cause some of those,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: some of those companies will be like, well, it doesn't
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: matter how we act or how we behave or what
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: like rules we allow or don't allow on our platforms.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Because if you don't have this, you still have a voice,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: but you really kind of don't, you know, it's like,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: it's hard to know what's going on somewhere.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 3: Um, Yeah. Well, it's like we became so reliant on
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 3: technology and stuff that we don't know how to have
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 3: a voice without it. And that was by design because
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 3: it's something that can be taken very easily.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: Right? A hundred percent. I didn't know we can go
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: down those roads. We'll have to go down those roads. No,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: it's good. No, I think the same way. It's like, oh, well,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: here's a voice, but it's for lease really. Right.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. It's like a voice you are no longer
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 3: allowed to own.
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting. And what's the president saying about this? Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: Iranian patriots, keep protesting. Take over your institutions. Save the
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  Speaker 1: names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: big price. I have canceled all meetings with the Iranian
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops. Help is
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: on its way. Make Iran great again. President Donald J.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 3: Trump.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: That's insane. Effective immediately, any country doing business with the
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25%
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: on any and all business being done with the United
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: States of America.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: So they're not playing around. They're trying to– or who
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: knows if they are. I mean half the stuff they
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: say is– means nothing. But they're definitely sticking their heads out. Man,
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: it sucks so much that people, the regular people, have
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: to suffer the whims of their politicians. But then also
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: it's brave that people are willing to get out and
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: protest and speak up for things that need to happen
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: in their community. If your government is just ruining the
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: value of your currency and you're sitting there, you can't
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: afford to feed. I've read some of the price of
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: eggs over there going up like seven times. And that
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: they have oil and then they reframe the prices of
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: gasoline over there to make it more expensive. At a
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: certain point, you have to stand up for yourselves. You know?
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 3: Which can be hard for some people.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it can. See if you have one video of
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: Iran in the 1970s before the.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 3: They were getting it.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: They were getting it. They were putting lotion on?
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 3: Outside? Oh, hell yeah.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: Another motorized person.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 3: You know I like that.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: Calling wheels, huh? Yeah. I mean, it's just wild.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: It's crazy to think to live in a, grow up
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: in a place where you're not free. You know what
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying?
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: You just are a soul put on an earth. You're
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: supposed to be free here. Like, if anything, you're supposed
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: to be free. Like, whether you're supposed to just live
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: in the woods or whatever we're supposed to actually be.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 3: It's weird that just by happenstance, you're either free or
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 3: you're not, just depending on where you were born. You know? And, like,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 3: not to, like, make it all about disability, but, like,
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 3: being disabled in a country that's not free. Whew. I mean,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 3: even here before Judy Heumann did her thing, there were
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 3: signs like in the 90s on like windows of like
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 3: private businesses and some of them wouldn't let disabled people
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 3: in because it made their other customers uncomfortable.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Disabled people have been left behind for decades.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 5: Ever.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 3: Like, even now, I think as a minority, even though
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 3: we are the largest minority, we have the least amount
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 3: of progress. It's because all we're asking is for accessibility
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 3: and no one wants to spend money. Wow. And when
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 3: money is involved, you're going to see change real slow. Like,
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 3: I can't even afford to really make where I live
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 3: completely accessible. You know what I mean?
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, people don't even think about that. It's really expensive.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't ever even think about that a
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: lot of times. Like, is this place accessible? Could somebody
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: live here? What would this be like?
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't think about it before I was disabled.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 3: You know? I never thought this is all I would
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 3: think about. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: And, like, think about New York. Like, you can't even, like,
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: Half of the living, more than half of the living,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: probably doesn't even apply to you because you can't get it.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to a disabled person that lives
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 3: in New York and be like, how? What are you doing?
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 3: I've been a few times now, but not for more
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 3: than two days because getting around is a nightmare. So
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 3: many restaurants are just stairs. And so I'll wait on
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 3: the sidewalk and Matt will go in and send me
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 3: a picture of the menu.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: Dude, that's why. You don't even think how many comedians
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: who are disabled comedians probably haven't even had a chance
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: to shine because of how just because of maybe what
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: a place like New York is. Just the fact that
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: it is stairs to get in a lot of places.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 3: Even the name of the cellar? Come on. Come on.
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 3: Let's think about it, guys. I haven't been able. I've
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 3: been able to get in that side room. They have
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 3: a little elevator, but not the main one. Like, there
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 3: are so many clubs. I remember when I started comedy,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 3: I had never seen. I've seen, like, Josh Blue. He
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 3: was a big inspiration.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when I was starting out with Josh Blue.
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: He was so great. So funny.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 3: I met him once before, way before I was a comic.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 3: I paid money to go to a show with Zayn.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 3: I got shit-faced. I embarrassed myself in front of him.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: Are you sure that's what happened to you? It sounds
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: like you were just an alcoholic. You sure you didn't
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: get in a drunk driving accident?
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: You went to see Josh?
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was doing a little meet and greet.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I remember. And he was like, okay.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, really embarrassing. I tried to jump a curb in
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 3: my wheelchair that night. Nuh-uh. Fell out and gave myself
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 3: a black eye.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah, they just put some speed bumps in
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: our neighborhood. And it's a nightmare sometimes. I mean, it's different.
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 3: Trying to keep the disabled out. It's like a moat
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 3: in my world.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, every now and then I'll see a disabled person
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: just stalled out of there at the speed bump. And
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: you're like.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 3: Well, they didn't ask for help, so I'm not helping.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: Um, any other news? Was there anything else?
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 4: Um, about the new Drewski skit where he rips on
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 4: mega church pastors.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: Let's take a peek at it. I love Drewski. I
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a while. Let's see. Let's see
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: what Drewski says here. Let's watch it and we'll get
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: out of here.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have Wanda stand up here.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: Wanda, please.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: Wanda told us earlier this month that she could not
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 4: have a baby.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 3: So I impregnated her with the word of God.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to impregnate everyone with the word of God.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: You're going to get pregnant with the word of God.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: You're going to get pregnant with the word of God.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: You're going to get pregnant with the word of God.
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 4: Oh my God, he can do that?
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: I know he can slip and slide.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 3: That's just me trying to do stand-up.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: That worm?
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 3: No, with the.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, with those? Dude, why don't you get those?
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 3: We gotta talk to the club.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: You're like, look, if they're not putting a ramp in,
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: they're certainly not putting in two cables that I can
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: hang from the ceiling from.
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanna be puppeteered.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: That'd be so crazy if you had a whole musical
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: and it was people that are in wheelchairs and they're
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: all being puppeteered, though, and they have them as if
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: they're not.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 3: I love it. It would feel great. I can't walk,
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 3: but I can fly. I love it.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: Fiona, thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate it.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 3: And thank you for having me.
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: I know you and Matt have a podcast called Ramping Up.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: And is it out every week?
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Every Monday at 4.30 Central.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, great. That's beautiful. How long have you guys been
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: doing it? Christina was on?
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's the best.
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she rocks.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: She's my favorite.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 3: Do you know Derek Stroop?
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know him. I've heard of him.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's unreal. He's maybe the funniest working comic I've seen.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 3: in a long time.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: He's from Nashville?
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 3: He's in New York, but he's from Alabama.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: I've got to touch base. Maybe I do know him.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: I bet I've met him here. I don't know. I
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: think I had an aneurysm last year, but we'll see.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: I'll probably see you.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 3: I'm saving you a seat don't.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: Worry there you go that's gonna be a new merch
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: saving you a seat Fiona Cawley you can see her
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  Speaker 1: live coming up in Chandler Arizona San Antonio Texas Nashville
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  Speaker 1: January 21st that's this week next week next week next
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  Speaker 1: Monday right or Sunday Sunday out in LA January 27th
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: that might be out there that's gonna be cool San
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Diego Comedy Works Denver, have you been there?
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 3: No, it's my first time.
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: Dude, it's so cool you're getting to go to all
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: these places.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 3: It is very cool. I'm nervous because I assume it's
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 3: snowing in Denver right now. Yeah, and I think.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: There's one downtown and there's one that's on the- South
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever?
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 3: I'm doing that one.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: The south one?
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: South one's good. It's got a good, there's like good
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: places to eat right around there. Oh, and the room
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: is super cool. I've actually never done the downtown one.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: I've only done the south one.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 3: I think downtown is new and it's more like events
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: is what I heard. I'm not sure. Wait, you're going
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 3: to be in LA? Yeah. At the same time?
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: Well- I'll have to come watch.
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 3: I have a show at the Belly Room.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: You do? Mm-hmm. If I'm there at the same time,
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: I'll do it. You didn't invite me to do it.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 3: No, I want you to do it. That's where I
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 3: was going. I talk real slow. Oh, sorry.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, God, this is getting really... She's having
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: a flare-up.
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 3: It is nap time. Holy shit.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: Do you get a nap time?
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 3: If Matt lets me.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: That pervert. He doesn't let anybody.
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 3: He just watches.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: Well, Matt was in the background here, so... Matt, thanks
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: so much for being here. Taylor, that's your last name? Yeah.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Fiona Cawley, thanks so much for coming in
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: and hanging out today. I'm glad we got to chat
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: and just laugh and think about some stuff together. And
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: best of luck. And you guys go see her, check
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: her out wherever she is. It's great. It's really, really great.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: This is one of the funniest episodes I've had in,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, probably two years, probably some of the most
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: I laughed. So thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone Oh,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: of mind I found I can feel it in my
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: bones