This Past Weekend - Perspective Gadget | This Past Weekend #272

Episode Date: April 6, 2020

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They said an animal has it they said an animal has it Could you imagine you're on Noah's Ark and they got in this and this animal shows up. Oh Yeah, you heard a little Perry the pigeon. He's got it And he's oh, he's trying he's trying the pigeon just kind of wandering around Try not to see anybody, you know, try not to let anybody notice him sneezing into his um little pigeon arm This thing who know where is it?

It's like hide-and-go-seek with the devil, huh? That rona boy That rona I'm just sitting on your front porch wondering how could I be so far from my home And my mind is somewhere else, but when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been Come on now, let's go On the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be Cornerstone come on. No time to feel bad today. Baby. Let's go. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind

I found I can feel it in my bones. Come on But it's gonna take a little time For me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you a story Shine on me And I will find a song. I'll sing it just for you

Oh I've been moving way too fast I've been moving way too fast that is shined by bishop gun And that is a beautiful band and group of men And rarely a lot of time if you see a man get together is for uh You know, it's for it can be for sex. It could be for music And then this instance is for music and that's beautiful man Ptl, baby, praise the lord. That's bishop gun was shined right there

And um, and we are alive baby, we're alive We are alive Check it. What look to put two fingers on your on your damn neck pipe, bro Yeah, and feel that pumpity, huh? You know what I'm saying? That's that that's that living giving, bro. That's your heart Shootin just Dude, a heart will just shoot blood out all day A heart is baby. Just basically just a machine gun of blood. You just

That thing is savage, bro. I mean you think about it Probably one of the top three organs. I think overall Good to be here with you guys. It is April it is 2020 2020 And it's getting clear man, it's getting clear People out there is getting wicked People anything get just squirrely out there You don't even know what animal has it, bro

You see a falcon go by he might have it You see a little wall Um, you see a labradoodle sneak over and he's trying to lick your arm or something to lick your navel You know, sometimes I used to put a little meat paste in my navel, bro And my neighbors had a little while It was like a miniature, um Little, uh, I don't know what it was Pomeran, bro, a little miniature pomeran, and I put a little meat paste in my navel

And his name was Barker, bro, and I'd let him Suck that, you know, not suck it, but kind of lick it out And it's you know, that's human animal relations, brother And I was you know, I was happy to be part of that as a You know when I was young, but now can you even can you trust an animal? Who can you trust? Welcome to hide and go seek 2020 That's what's going on Is getting real

Home is getting wicked. We caught up Thank you guys for being here, uh Yeah, and I hope I hope you guys I hope people's holding it together keeping their heads together You know, you gotta you gotta really gotta be a warrior right now Because some people keep saying oh, I can't get it. Oh, I ain't getting it You know, you hear a lot of rumors. Oh gay men can't get it Oh, we can't get it. Yes, you can Alan. All right, y'all can get it Everybody can get it

Oh, my you know, my cousin's in the military, man. I can't get it Yes, you can Samuel you can get it Everybody can get it Just a lot of bad rumors a lot of bad intel out there A lot of bad mental hearsay Oh, uh, you know, oh black black women. I we can't get it. Yeah, you can Keisha Everybody can get it It's just it's a disease man. It's a virus and everybody can get it

And it's so sneaky Like I want if you if the coronavirus was a person it's so it would have like a mustache It would have like it would have regular glasses and sunglasses It's so like oh It's it's like it would probably talk like this I don't speak English it would say shit like that. I don't speak. I don't know well not from your The coronavirus is sneaky E

Because what when I was young they had more less sneaky diseases Remember that Dude remember when we were kids that the diseases were real they had uh chicken pox Because somebody had hugged the chicken for too long and if you do that You break out because These spots come out of your body because god wants other people to know hey This is the type of person that will hug a chicken for much longer than they should And so you you know what I'm saying is you get chicken pox

But they were obvious diseases You know, you knew so you saw somebody with chicken pox. Oh, they got a chicken pox You know, you saw somebody with a um mustache. Oh, they got a mustache Things were obvious But now it's getting covert. It's getting risque as they call it But yeah, what what what would coronavirus be wearing? Probably like a turtleneck like a sleeveless turtleneck Yeah, oh, I don't know uh, I'm not from around here. It would be so sneaky

It's a sneaky disease, man, we've had a lot of calls that came in a lot of people hitting us up just seeing what's going on What's up with me right now? Um You know, there's there's not a ton to say I've been doing You know, I watched the Comedy gives back. I watched as much of that as I could if you got to see it Uh, I think they raised like oh, I want to say like I don't even know how much they finished raising But I I can imagine is up near probably seven hundred thousand dollar

for uh comedians, um To you know, tour, you know people that are you know in the comedy community that are struggling and that are out of work And so that was really beautiful and it was a damn basket fire Dude if you freaking had a cousin made out of gasoline and you fucking fed him matches for his birthday, that's what this shit was It was just audio difficulties this and that It was like remember when you got one of those shitty, uh, those sprint phones those next tells or whatever But you could only You could call people but then you could just talk to also you could talk to one person

So you could call anybody you wanted but then you'd be in the middle of a call like yeah, everything's going good But every and then uh, some your cut your cousin or somebody fire department whoever the only other person that had to walk your girlfriend Chuck we need some fucking milk You like and you like honey, hold on hold on hold on buddy Remember that thing that next tell We need some fucking milk rando Oh, you like oh, oh, fuck. Oh, hold on Damian. Oh

Must be lines must be crossed up And then you Slick sneak uh click over Psalms. Hey, I'm sorry. I'll be right there Uh, uh, there's a long line There ain't no fucking line you're lying Oh, I'm sorry, man. I gotta go bro. Remember that fucking next tell that bitch was bright orange, dude It looked like it looked like you they had it colored because it looked like you were gonna need to be rescued

Like anytime you get that bright colored shit, bro. That's fucking A lot of real poor like sale racks have like real colorful bright shit like oh look at this Uh, don't you want this hot orange and that shit is hot orange? Like the hottest orange you could get is three dollars three dollars and four 40 cents for this seven XL And it's like a fucking v-neck v-neck in the front turtleneck in the back you're like

What? And it's hot hot orange, bro, and it's always usually a it's only a black dude could wear it Let's be honest, bro only a black dude could wear it And they'll look good in it, man It'll be triple line. That's the color you'll see on the thing. It'll be bright bright green the kind of shit like you can't The guy like if you drive past it on the interstate, it's obviously the definite manager of the guy who is doing the construction It's that it's like triple lime In its size 14 double medium, bro

And that bitch got two arms in the front. It's got an arm out the back for exhaust like heat exhaust this shit is I don't know what we're talking about bright colors. They got bright colored shit And it's mostly it's predominantly a lot of times for the urban community. Let's be honest, bro. Because they look good in it You know if white people wear really bright color shit, it looked like they need to be rescued For real talking look black people wear something. Oh, that's triple lime Oh, Ernie got that triple lime hitter on. Oh, oh, he must be getting married. You know Oh, he got that triple lime fucking overcoat With that double vanilla cummerbund, bro. Oh, he must be he must be doing a wedding

But if a white dude goes with that bright shit, they look it's definitely rescue only You know that shit was rescue only Let's take a call that came in as always the hotline Nine eight five six six four nine five zero three Gang gang. What's up, man? This is Dusty from Leesburg, Georgia. What's up Dusty over there in Leesburg, huh? and Leesburg, Georgia and that is um Man, that sound like a small place

That's something kind of place where everybody kind of you know where the water fountain is, you know It's sound like you could definitely could find a wish and well over there. Beautiful. Oh more brother I just want to call in with some thoughts on the corona virus. I'm uh Kind of sick of this half apocalypse everything shut down half still going to work paying my bills, which I am appreciative of because I understand there's a lot of people out there without work not able to pay the bills but uh I mean, yeah, I'm just thinking fledgling in the middle here. We need to choose the side either everything just needs to Go back to how it was and we figure this shit out that way

Or we go full fucking apocalypse And we get a couple of doom buggies and a couple of sets of shoulder pads start shaving our heads in the mohawk Speaking simple languages. You know what I'm saying? Hey, man. I look There's that Ellen everybody. That's what I'm saying where everybody's a lesbian You know, I'm saying you fold your way your nuts into something And then you next thing you know, you got some vejuts down there and everybody's a Everybody's a lesbian do mohawks on everybody. You know what I'm saying ladies trim your tits down

Guys sharpen up your lower ribs And expose them bra and less fucking go toe to toe I'm look There's something to be said. There's a there's there's I think that seed is that that seed lives in a lot of us somewhere that element of anarchy You know what I'm saying? We got that fucking violent onion Smelling up our insides, you know, that thing is in there And that there's a lot of people who are who are kind of like

Society shma society They don't feel that the you know the ronda jam or the You know the this this human gumbo that we have going on is the best Is the best for It's not the it's not the it doesn't really fulfill their appetite But I feel there's this middle ground thing Like okay, like okay, like I don't have my windows tinted on my uh on my truck, right? So I'm at that point where I'm like, okay, do I need to can I go get them tinted or can I break them all out?

And hire a couple of straight up beautiful ass fucking lean Lean with it rock with it vets to hang out the back And shoot with slingshots as I as I go as I drive Like that's where I'm at Like what things do I need to do and what things can I not like Like where am I at? Like okay, can I still go to the grocery or is it okay to just turn my living room into a damn garden? Okay, because I got enough room for three rows of sweet potatoes

right in front of the damn ottoman and right before you get to that um dual deck cd uh 10 disker you know I there's It's it's just kind of everything's in the middle Like what do I I got two sides of my sink in my kitchen? Like do I still need to just do the dishes at night? Or do I need to plug both of those bitches up and start raising farm fresh salmon in one half of it?

And shrimp any other you feel me? You know I was gonna have some shrimp So yeah, there's that middle ground there It's like okay, um Or you know am I still married to my wife like how weird does shit have to get before I'm just Like how long does the courthouse have to be closed down before I can just kind of walk on off You know but before the merit certificate, there's nowhere to even go cash that thing in it It's interesting It's interesting because society it's just like kind of a stack of things that happen

You know man gets a little property he gets a wife and then they have a family and then You know enough families needed uh We're teaching their kids and say well, okay, let's You know, uh, we got too many kids Let's hire just one person to teach them all and so then Then one person was the best the best teacher in the neighborhood became the teacher And the kids all went to her and that's how a school started then you got a school And you say this man over here, okay, I'm good at making uh boots. I'll make all the boots

All right, cool donnie You do the boots now buck yellow you to boot man donnie And everybody gets their thing and it builds But then man, it's definitely there's a little bit of janga in the air. It's like, okay, we've been There's a lot has been this thing's been this thing's starting to sway in the wind a little You know these step kids are they how you know They're not even really mine at this point. Shit's hitting the fan. They're not doing shit. They in there They on the tablets all day

They every time an orange comes off our orange tree they get out there and sneak it You know I'm saying daddy don't have any vitamin C my spine's getting all fucking bent out Because I don't have the proper vits in me what's going on You know, it's do I still have to be a step parent like that, you know things it's gonna get interesting man But I feel you I wish they would just shut the news down and say hey look It's every man for himself But then also that's just a little part of me that wants that the other part of me is like hey, man, let's get shit back organized Because uh, you know because people have things that they need it, you know people are missing regular things

People are missing their birthdays. They're missing this And I was thinking what imagine some kids miss prom this year Imagine that imagine you're in senior year of high school And they don't have it That wouldn't that have sucked my senior year This was it man This was you were gonna get off and everything was gonna happen He was gonna maybe get a little teddy or something

From your girl Veronica or whatever Whatever, you know, tarantula, whatever your girl's name was Kisha. Whoever Whoever copy, you know, whoever's letting loose that evening tit That little baby milk jug that was gonna let you touch, you know what I'm saying people had plans Okay, I'm gonna get it, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna do well on basketball. I'm gonna get my scholarship people had plans What about prom think of all the high school seniors are not getting to go to prom this year? No Why

Dude prom was it Prom was never prom man. Now you can't how you're gonna do what are you even gonna do? You're gonna order a prom you can do amazon prom You're gonna get you're gonna do an amazon prom and they're gonna bring you a little it's just a little box And they got a you know They got a bunch of liquor in there and you and you have to drink it real early and then listen to some music that you don't remember And then they just they also in there. There's a picture of you just and it's just you got a vomit in your buddy's car And they already put the picture a picture together of you just passed out

And your girlfriend's driving you home because you passed out in the back Because your boy Lance gave you a couple hits of bad acid, bro A couple bootleg shitty his cousin made man that little fucking paper mache You know kaleidoscope starter It's just I don't know just a man, but yeah, it's like think about all the things you were that could be affected and that are being affected There's a you know, there's just it's so interesting. I mean All the different down to the minutiae of things the little things

Somebody had a trip planned to to uh engage themselves To get engaged to someone asking to marry To do family start family, you know, and now that's been postponed. Okay our trip. I don't know do I still And now we're fighting and now what did they And now we you know, I not even be together. What the hell What the hell Charlize?

We were supposed if this was going to be something we was going to Barbados You know, we had two first-class tickets to Barbados and we was going to be lovers, you know, and now we fucking fighting So it's just it's interesting, man It's interesting And also it's interesting how many things we expected, you know, how much I expected I Expected things to be the same Oh, I didn't realize I was living in in this system

of like um Of needs and wants I was you know, this human created cosmo of society and now it's Mother nature plate. You ever played uno and mother nature just plays that uh, what is that called skip bow? Yeah, I think let me see what it's called skip bow Yeah, remember that skip bow

I think it was like uno or something and but then somebody played skip bow and the whole shit changed whatever plans you had I'm gonna do three of a con seven of a con I'm gonna touch somebody's ass when the power goes out and then steal a couple cards and cheat People had plans but then and then somebody played skip bow or it was in the deck Now what now what? And you find out somebody's been touching your ass Now what And that's what we're doing mother nature said hey

Hey, you didn't see I got this card You didn't see that I had that there's You living out here on my teddy on my belly Y'all been out here doing this and doing NASCAR and doing uh You know hedge funds and fucking three sums and all of that Y'all doing that on my ass on my back side on my front side on my side side And suddenly man there's some realism. Hmm. Okay. There's somebody else playing ball here There's something else at work. That's nature man. It's fascinating really

But the levels the levels of people that people are dealing with this at And the different things and And how people are handling it. It's all pretty fascinating. I think it's really fascinating honestly Um I think it's very fascinating Let's take another call right here that came in but first I want to let you know that bespoke post Just sent me a beautiful traveling bag

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East, Missouri man, and I ended up out there in lake of the azerks and uh I was supposed to be doing comedy and they didn't tell the motel we were staying at And they had rented the thing out to a damn, um Um, you know that little touching festival swingers Bunch of real thick swingers, bro. A bunch of damn people just sunburn victims, bro Bunch of real fucking gristle brothers and sisters You know kind of people that'll just kind of sip this

You know just really just sip the uh The kind of people that after a bacon plate is empty They'll take one of them will take the plate off and just kind of sip sip off of whatever's left in the base of that plate You know You know some real bacon seppers anyway onward brother gang I just want to let you know that i'm watching this past weekend tonight monday march 24th Uh, you asked for our opinion on the coronavirus and i wanted to let you know that

It has affected my life some because work has slowed down a lot people are worried about getting laid off But at the same time people are worried about getting laid too. Damn I'll tell you coronaviruses locked up all of the hua se and ween air That there ever was man jc, bro jc to the max dog. Jesus Christ

onward But were you talking about brother? I'm not scared because I have you on this past weekend I'm sorry, man. I'm gonna go back on your call because I interrupted it kind of would be in um perverse really Honestly, man, so let's go again first and I want to let you know that It has affected my life some because work has slowed down a lot people are worried about getting laid off

But at the same time i'm not scared because I have you on this past weekend and king of the sting and everything's been going good as far as I can know because My kids are gonna be taken care of and everything's just Good, I mean I'm gonna interrupt you man, but because this you know

When you say your kids are going to be taken care of that's I This is something that a lot of people aren't saying You know, I see a lot of people right now blaming the government Oh the government We don't have enough masks We don't have enough masks boy. Bye What are you Nobody knew this was gonna happen people say well, they knew and this and that and here's the thing

If you have children If you have yourself That's your responsibility The government it's not the government the government is just people It's our responsibility to take care of ourselves The government is just a little is just a An intricate stack of systems. That's all it is run by people human beings

Well, you don't have your kid doesn't have a mask. You don't have enough food stuff at the house. That's your fault I don't have bottled water. I don't have uh Kool-Aid powder You know what I'm saying? I don't have a sack of almonds or a sack of um uh hazelnuts That's my fault Oh, there's not gonna be masks for our kids. There's not that if you're a parent. That's your fault It's not the government's responsibility to take care of you

You had children You need to have shit at the house in case they're hungry I just this bullet like it's just People share all of this this man. You don't oh they like they ain't even got the damn uh my boy little uh Little Derek. Yeah, and he ain't even had a biscuit in a month. We'll fucking get him a biscuit then You know, I know that there are like um, I know that like, you know people run out of money I'm not trying to be insensitive to that

I know that um, you know, uh, that people don't have unlimited um That people don't have unlimited. Uh, what is it called when you hit things like a group of things? um People don't have any resources I know that but If we're not

We have to be prepared for life. I think that's we're I think we're really lucky right now A lot of us are getting a learning lesson Like I don't you know, I don't have children in this and that but If I don't if I'm not prepared That's my fault You know, I just get just the finger pointing to me gets really And and the news channels too, you know, I don't watch a lot of the news

I see some of it on my phone and I'll put the apps on and take them off but um And on twitter just it's like wow the If you're the second you start expecting the government to take care of you You've already lost cat daddy So yeah, it's just like what i'm saying is and I need to be more constructive here even for myself It's our responsibility if you have a child and your child doesn't you know, something goes down and you can't You you don't have something for your kid. What are you gonna look in your kids eyes?

Your kid's like dad. I don't dad. I don't Dad, what about dad and you're gonna tell your kid all the government the government man? No You're you're the government for your child. You're your child's government So you were a you Abe Lincoln in your house So you got to tighten up You know and sorry, I didn't mean to jump on but that shit got me fired That ship just man that boils my that boils my beef, bro It just boils my beef man

When everybody they you know, they should have people should they why didn't we we should have done this? Well, i'm telling you wait to do it now It's our as a human I'm not gonna lay there on my death bed and be like oh man the government didn't they didn't have enough Mass for this or that they didn't have enough Oh, they didn't I didn't get that bag of oatmeal from them. Well, well, bro Get your oatmeal

This is a practice run for everybody if shit got really really wild If the interstate turns into a damn water slide It could get wild man, so i'm just saying this is You're your kid's government. It's our responsibility man. I'm rambling, but you know what you feel what i'm saying I just don't like that extra blame shit, man. I just don't like it And I know that That i'm not saying people don't need to be subsidized and it's not helpful and this is a great time to help each other but You know just that that man brought it up that

You know, he's fortunately just feeling okay And you know his kids are okay And we have to be our own governments as well You know, this is teaching me I have to prepare I have to have the things in place that I need And i'm grateful that there's this grace period Of time when things are comfortable enough that got the the The there's still enough money where there's still enough of a government can give people money

And we're really fortunate right now You know, I don't know if this is happening in every country around the world But I know that in America right now that the government is saying hey, we're gonna mail you some money Man i'm pretty fortunate. I need to work on my gratitude man. Yeah, I didn't mean to get all just shit got me bent up man Um, but anybody could get it Okay. Oh, I can roller skate, you know, my dad used to roller skate. I can't get it But you could get it wheels All right, you could get it out there

And who the fuck is still roller skating, bro You could get it Man, I'll tell you this something i've been doing at the house is uh Dude, how crazy is it that just being at home suddenly? I'm like a chef I'm doing dude. I got julienne uh carrots over here I got half of a fucking Filipino backstrap over there grilling on the um on the broiler plate

I got i'm making caramel sauce. I'm doing this. I'm looking up recipes. I got monk fruit sugars I'm doing everything. I don't even know what was going on Dude, the the only recipe I've even had for the past couple years that Almond butter right out the jar Into the old front hole brother That was my one of my fancier recipes But now I'm doing it all. I got a couple. I got a little bit of a um You know, I got a steak a steak shank and I'll shank that bitch up

You know what I'm saying? I got one of those kind of kill it yourself kits where they send you to meet and you Get to stab it a few more times and then it shows you how to uh defer it and grill it You know, they got all kind of ways you can get your stuff now But if you want to do this, they got you know what I'm saying? I'm over here slicing up garlic I'm over here. I got half a thing of coping hagging In the skillet and another in a quarter of a zen in my job and I'm doing different stuff, you know Suddenly I'm fucking chef boy are damn, bro. He's good. So All right, let's take another call here that came in

Here we go Hey, what up CEO in the whole this past weekend gang. This is Matt from Fort Worth and what's up Matt from Fort Worth Thank you for calling brother onward I was calling because in your podcast I just heard you were asking how we're doing in the rest of the month You were asking how we're doing in the rest of america throughout all this virus shenanigan and I just wanted to say It's really not that bad like I work and metal recycling

Serving the public all day. I'm handling people's driver's license. I'm shooting the shit with them on the loading dock and You know, all they do is run around junkyard to junkyard buying stuff. I take it from or you know buy from them I'll take it from Anyways, the whole thing is I've been in direct contact with people non-stop strangers all the time for weeks and months ever since It started And I'm not sick. I got a little baby who's five months old at home. I have it transmitted any disease to her Okay, there you go right there metal matt and he's working over there at the aluminum factory And I used to do man and I remember your kind matt

I've been around you guys because I used to ride my bike on the weekends And I would go get cans and anything metal You know, I used to try a wagon up behind my bike me and my boy summer all bra and he had some um You know r.i.p. Bro. He's not dead, but he's You know, he never really was like a hundred percent alive even when I met him as a as a As a child but he um, we used to tie a wheelbarrow the two back You know the prongs of a wheelbarrow we would tie each one to the back of our bike

So the wheelbarrow was facing the other way and we would double we would both bike And we'd go all around stacking cans getting getting cans from in the woods everywhere any type of metal can Oh anything that was metal fucking half a baby crib, bro You know what I'm saying cut off the bottom Leave the baby sitting there and the wheels and shit the metal parts take that You know anything that was metal do we get over about a school? And sometimes at the bottom of the doors at school they'd have these metal plates on the door and you could pry those off Um, and we throw those in there and we'd roll over to the aluminum. It would take us three days

Have a stack of cans man all kinds of metals in there You know all kind of anything that was metal, you know little statues of little bullshit You know they'd have a little statue of a fucking uh Sherwin-Williams or a little statue of um You know uh Harry conic jr. You know of uh One that was made out of Pure metal

And we'd take that bitch and roll it over there And we roll up dude. We were so tired. We could barely move that bike man Barely just my thighs were just pumping just sexy Just god damn, bro Looked like just two beautiful fucking turkey legs that a king would eat And we'd get that bike over there to the aluminum and it was just so basically a van like somebody had a van and they said we buy metal And had a scale out there And we put that shit on a scale and they would give us about man damn probably 45 cents

Almost killed myself dude trying to get all that shit. So I know you're kind man But yeah, you guys are good people and and I'm glad y'all are doing well, man. I'm glad you guys are doing well Yes, so it's this that's what I'm saying. This is that hiding go seek disease man And some people are getting it and some people are not man So it's definitely been interesting. I do want to call a guy You know and I was thinking about this the other day and and um and a lot of uh, little people

And a lot of uh, listeners reached out Sorry, I got to relax a little getting kind of excited My boy trick long mickey and you know, everybody knows mickey man. He got those new air sacks He got those o2 sip hitters You know them inner tits, bro Those wet markets, bro. You know what I'm talking about lungs Those fucking rib cage wet markets and he got um And he had a rare disorder and he's been a part of this program for

Maybe a year and a half two years now But I wanted to check in with mickey and see how he's doing in this time and I think that that could give us all a little bit of insight into uh What some people's lives are like So Again, let me call him right now Hello mickey See you. How are you doing man? What's up, man? Thank you for uh, thanks for answering the phone man. How are you?

Man, I've been doing good dude. I've been doing good. I've uh been kind of on the road actually from my house for the past three weeks and uh, actually today was first back home uh first back day home because The mom was actually out my cruise about four weeks ago So I had to I had to bed in here and I tell it out before I if she had corona, man. Oh your mother was on a cruise ship Yeah, about four weeks ago when this all happened and you know, that was during like while she was on the cruise ship That's when it actually got registered as an actual pandemic and I was like

All those ships were being shut up at port and so it was not a good time to be around when she got back and she knew and understood that So she she was okay with that, you know Wow, man. Yeah, I know we were texting just the other day about uh about jumping on the phone and um, yeah I didn't know that so so when she came home. Were you able to just like Easily spend time with her or how how uh, how rare is this for you because You know just catching up some of our listeners. Uh, you know, you had a lung transplant So do do your doctors tell you like you have to be more careful like what is sort of the um the suggestions that you get Yeah, absolutely, man. Um

basically it's kind of weird like it's that back then about three four weeks ago was really conclusive is just general boilerplate and it's like You know always wear a mask We are this mask that I was wearing You know be washing your hands trying not to touch your face, you know, don't don't be in large Large groups of people, you know and in this case though is kind of like, you know, if my mom has it then I can't even live with her and so to be

As diligent as possible. I basically have been staying through these past three weeks Airbnb's hotels Yeah, saw on your instagram. There was a picture or it might have been I think it was instagram Yeah, there's a picture of you like or a video is you just getting to a place or leaving a place um So you just been on the run because you had to stay away from your mom just in case she was exposed Yeah, that's right, man. And I know that a lot of people would think like man, you know, why don't you kick a

friend or something And what's really interesting about that and this is nothing against my friends, but I think you can understand this feel with your sister It's like a lot of people in general are just not very health conscious and that's not their fault But if I live with anybody, it means that they then inherently have to take on My same living habits, you know for them, it might be okay that they go to the grocery store But for me, it's not right now. Wow Wow

Yeah, that it is really wild. Um, yeah, so it's like you have to live with somebody Or everyone really does like has to live with somebody who their behaviors are gonna Exactly what your behaviors are or at least our behaviors that you are comfortable with I think so. Yeah and being I think that elderly especially and and I mean definitely immuno suppressed and For sure with a long issue It's just the fact that man, like I haven't there were there were days when I was in these B and Bs And I didn't even see a person, you know, I would just I'd go walk in a park or something But I didn't I wouldn't even see people just extreme isolation

And you're a real social guy, man. I mean that but do you feel like that was kind of bumming you out socially like outside of like, um You know like, uh, you know having to be probably more health conscious than the rest of us Just, you know, because of your immune system Were you were you feeling like a social depression at all? Oh, absolutely, man. Yeah, I mean Yesterday or yeah, yeah It was yesterday when I got back to my house and I was driving and literally listened to my own music The sun was out and I was already getting Just feeling so good man just to even be out

Yeah, out of the house and stuff. So, um, absolutely it but you know what it gives me I don't mean to be cliche, but it really gives me a lot of perspective again Where I'm like, man, I I get to go back home and I was just really excited about that and You know, the amount of perspective that I feel like it gives and I think it gives all of us After this is all done, you know, I think that we will at least for a time the first few times first couple weeks Yeah, be like, man, we've made it through and now I get to be with my friends and you know, it sounds weird But it's like I get to work. Oh, yeah It's something that people don't want to do typically or you know, we got to break

You know, we got to make money to get bread and everything but You know, now it's going to be like I actually get to be able to do that Because there's just so many people out there. That's really They're really suffering. Yeah, man. That's man. That's a great point, dude Yeah, a lot of people it's like I think yeah, I think it if If we look at it the right way Then it's really a great opportunity to say man. I get to do these things. I get to see my mom You know, I get to

You know, go fishing with my friend. I get to go to work today You know, I get to go and even if my job isn't my favorite job like I get to go do it Yeah, oh, absolutely, man. And you know, I have I have a friend who uh, he was in disneyland when This all happened, right and you got it got canceled and you know, he posted on a gay guy or not a lot because I'm just saying I got all my gay friends. No joke, dude. They fucking all been talking about disneyland. It's all they It's like constantly. I'm like, dude, y'all need to fucking chill, bro That's hilarious, man. But yeah, so he was over there and you know, and I saw him make this facebook post Where he was like, man, if it's another gonna be another two two months of this or something

I'm gonna drive driven crazy. And I just told him I was like, man, you know Just try to think for a second like boredom. Is it the least of your concerns right now? If you really think about it again, like have some perspective, man, it's you were in disneyland, bro Like that's as good as it gets, you know, like you you're crazy. What are you talking about? But you and you said that over text yesterday, you're like, dude, imagine if you you've been on a transplant list for Years or months or whatever and you're finally at the opportunity and then this happens and It's secondary to to to the national crisis. That's god. It's so it would seem so abysmal, right? And at the same time again, it's just to

I don't want to sound cliche as always, but man, I call my dad every day, you know, my dad's elderly He's he's 80. You know, I'm like, I just hope and hoping things don't take him. I call him every day I try to try to call my loved ones and tell him I love him man. I got a friend right now He went into the ER. He lives in Detroit. You met him briefly. My best friend Sammy. Oh, yeah, I met him when you guys at the comedy club Yeah, yeah, that's right, man. And so anyways, he uh, you know, he went in for a cascan today They think that he might have miles COVID. It's like this is hitting a lot of people man. You just gotta tell me love them Yeah Yeah, man. Well, you've always been really like a kind of like a perspective gadget, bro. If you were like a cartoon character

I think it would be Perspective gadget, dude. Mickey man. Thanks so much for being supportive and everything and we got to get you in here next time you're in town and uh, and sit and chat and and uh Again, man, thank you so much, dude and be safe and and let's stay in touch I love that tea. All right, man. Much love dude. All right gang, bro. All right Wow interesting You know, he had because he and Mickey had cystic fibrosis in his lungs

And that's when you have just bad lungs and this You know, really You don't even you know, his lungs if you look back at some of our old episodes and stuff He really had a tough go of it But he you know, he was on the transplant list and he got them bags and and he really got tightened up and So, uh, you know, he really is a beacon of perspective um Because he's been at literally

literally loitering at death's doorstep before You know, he's been remember them people that come to your house to sell magazines or something. Hey, we got these magazines You need outdoor life. You need uh fishing only You know what i'm saying? You need fucking star wars magazine monthly Get it while it's hot And um

He was like he was like met the magazine man on death's doorstep Just milling around out there. So Um And so we're grateful that uh that he answered our call I'd give you some tour dates, but I don't have any And it's because nobody has any that's why You know, we had that uh, uh that show in which McCall had it got canceled and that was in Nashville And we'll figure it out in the future

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And you know, I just got some some life advice questions right now, you know, um Right now I'm working at dominoes as a delivery driver. Oh, yeah, and I do enjoy the dominoes. Um They're uh thin crust more and uh, I feel like an absolute bum I'm 19 years old and I feel like I'm not doing anything with my life. You know, I tried to go to college for performing arts

Honestly, I didn't get my thoughts together before I tried to leave this message. I'm gonna call back and try again later Well, that's okay, man. You know what man? I don't think any call has ever reminded me more Of myself man than this one You know, you call you don't have a plan and you get there and you realize you don't have a plan and You just you didn't give up though. You said I'll call again Um You know And all and not just that this stuff too, you know, mickey just touched on it

Trick long mickey with those fucking new inner hitters got he got verbal on this daddy He said that You know, it's a perspective time now you get to do something Now before if you did magic everybody's like, oh look at this bitch, you know with that little bit of hand hide and go seek He's doing this dude's really just a burglar, bro. He's stealing shit But the truth is he does magic But before people talking shit, but now Maybe the now the magician says hey, I get to I do magic

You know, now people are gonna come out of this roaring out of the cave You know, we were all at a purr before. Oh, I don't really care about my I don't know what I do. There's no now We're with a purr puss. You feel me? Oh, that worked out well. Well, you know what I'm saying? We come out with a roar So, yeah, you a delivery guy man. You running hot pie You running hot pie brother Not anybody could do that Don't don't don't think you're not special Because you over there slanging hps, bro

People want you always around Do you the total opposite of the police, bro? People always welcome you With that 12 inch that's 16 inch, bro With that, you know the side thing of cinnamon tots, daddy You know, you have you you but you but you're also no matter what you do when you show up you If you show up with that purpose Be that bad be a performing artist pie guy

Show up with that pie and deliver the wrap Be a little slice, bro dirty slice You know what I'm saying a little sauce Be fucking a little uh You know a little nastier a little anchovy or medium, bro be medium But I'm saying is you you know what I'm saying you you show up and and if you get like a you get a side skill or something ready for yourself Say you learn a rat learn a riddle knock knock who's there, bro? Damn dog

Meat lovers son You know what I'm saying punch. You know what I'm saying fill your fill your hand with sausage and punch yourself in the fucking face, bro What I'm saying is have a plan Yeah, you just delivering pie, but it's still you showing up Yeah, you're behind the pizza. You might deliver something to damn whoever You might you're over there in Atlanta. You might deliver some shit to freaking um Uh, vander hollyfield You might deliver some shit to little um

little uh You know little califa or whatever and he might say oh, I love this guy You know may sure it's just the pie, but you you're showing up with I don't care what it is You know we got to remember that Yeah, I bring humor sometimes and and fucking kind of Kleenex as well a lot of other times But still it's me the person that shows up with whatever I'm bringing You know it's the you know, yeah, the waitress brings your food But a lot of times the food's only going to get me so far

There's a human on the other end of that arm on the other end of that hand that just dropped that plate off at my table And that person I might there there could be a lifelong relationship or connection there Whereas the the relationship I'm going to have with this food is going to be brief Um, I'm not preaching at you man. I'm just saying You know, you don't know sometimes where the path that you're on is going to lead you And you also don't notice like I remember I quit comedy I didn't quit but I just

I kind of just well, I was in love with the girl back at home and I went home I wasn't I mean I was in love, but I also was just in I was afraid that she was banging other people and I got scared And I went back there to Louisiana and I was tending bar at a Mexican restaurant And I broke a damn margarita machine. I only worked three shifts or actually I probably worked about 30 shifts And I broke a fucking margarita machine that probably cost about 1800 dollars And I still feel bad about that, but um And I think I probably lied about I didn't lie about it, but I put all the parts back in there

And just kind of pretended like they like it still worked was okay or something, but But what I'm what I'm trying to say is man And You know it took something, you know I worked there it was fine And they had stages in New Orleans and I got up on stages in New Orleans And I didn't think I was going to keep doing comedy, but I kept doing it and and eventually you know I ended up back out here in Los Angeles and it was only for about six months that I was there, but

But I didn't know exactly at the time So you got into performing arts you weren't sure Right now you you know you performing pies You slanging circle fucking snacks, man. You're fine. You're gonna be okay But you don't know if in the future you next you know what I'm saying you might start a business With the performing pie guys Where you the each pie comes with a performance Dude, I would love that

I would love to know that whoever's bringing my pie for an extra 10 dollars I'm about to get that that audio fucking that dance concept hitter You know you might be that and what I'm saying is it takes these elements it takes these things You know it takes the world to set these These things on your scale like okay, you could you know, I need you to be doing pies I need you to you know try school performing arts, but that doesn't work and I need this and And then eventually you see what the world has put on your plate and you say oh, okay I'm gonna put these things together and this is gonna be what I'm gonna serve, you know

And plus right now postmates they the hottest people in the land People want to talk about the front lines of surgeons and something somebody carving into somebody's ass to get a damn Ghiblet or something But the real hitters out there Are postmates people You got a guy You know what I'm saying elbow crawling up to your front door

risking his lung life Just so you could have a damn um You know three inch a lot is with no cheese on them You got a little urban girl out there a little sharkette And she got you know what I'm saying she's fucking down there. She wearing a football helmet To to fight the virus and she's out there and she rolling up in the um dodge You know what I'm saying and she's fucking humming a couple of damn uh

You know cinnamon hotcakes out of her car out that side window bruh Just trying to make eleven dollars trying to make six dollars Risk in her life So you could have a little a morning snack I mean these are the real front liners people doing food delivery You got a guy over here. He don't even he wrapped his whole car in visqueen. He can't even read he don't even have a driver's license And he's over here and he and he's uh Uh, he's grilling chile chiles in the back seat and he sets he sets it on the hood of his car

And then he drives the car right up to your half front door And you reach out there And leave him, you know what seven dollars on the front On the hood. Hey put it under the hood I'll get it later. All right You know, you got a dude. He don't even have a car. He works for postmates bruh He worked for post maybe this dude. You don't even know if he's gonna fucking show up. You ever got that dude? You know what i'm saying? It's fucking 9 15 p.m

He tells you a little anthony. He tells you he's on his way Next thing you know, this dude's on a damn fucking bird scooter or something He's on that fucking nine speed bruh And he he got a damn uh You know, he got a half a cup of soup under his arm Trying to get it to you Trying to serve up a little ministrone for you because he cares about you I mean, these are the frontline workers people

We got to take care of each other. That's all i'm saying um What else do we have man? What else do we have? um Let me take a call here that came in nine eight five six six four nine five zero three What's up, justin calling from tennessee, man. Thank you for calling an r.i.p. Pat summit You know what i'm saying? One of the fucking most gangsta Lesbians in the game bruh won two thousand straight games was banging out them winstons

Freakin died right after she quit playing bruh retired bruh gang shit onward brother I'm a uh, i'm a ups driver and uh man, you asked uh You know how we were feeling about this this corona deal on uh on your last podcast and uh Man, I think i'm kind of like you man. I just ain't really worried about it. You know, I got a I got a two-year-old and Uh, I got another little baby girl coming in. Ah, you know, and it is where it is

But Uh, you know, I feel like a damn superhero out here, man. I'm just down you know Ninja chopping this shit out of the sky Everybody looked at me so everybody shut down in my hometown. You know, they were like, man, who is this? Damn tape crusader and all brown coming out here delivering my stuff Yeah, I mean, I don't know It makes me feel good. You know, I ain't gonna let it beat me. I'll tell you that much right now. You feel me?

I ain't gonna let it hold me down Yeah, it's cool, man. You know everything's all good gotta say positive. We're gonna come out that little child over so Gang bruh, I love that man. I love your attitude Yeah, I'm not gonna let it beat me You know, that's the decision you can make easily People want to lay down people want to blame to point this fan for dude Are you how are you prepared? Are you gonna let it beat you? That's the thing

Because if you're gonna let it if you've already decided that you that that's an option for it to beat you Then it'll find then something will find a way If it ain't if it ain't corona, it's something something else will get find a way to get you You've already decided in your head I love it, man. You guys are cave crusaders dude. I'm not joking. I saw the ups guy yesterday I'll dude. He was blasting some fucking uh, Travis Scott. He was living it And I was like dang man. This dude is a legend

This dude is out here like book of Eli out here This guy's like fival goes west They out here man So gang man, you stay brave man and stay out there and um And thank you for calling man. Thank you for calling brother. Um, let's take a call right here. They came in nine eight five six six four nine five zero three

Hey, this is joey From Colorado. I just wanted to give you a call. Love the five gas So I wanted to give you, you know, ask you a little question During this time of the rona you're trapped inside not going out too much And I know usually you get your inspiration from everyday events I was wondering how you're getting the inspiration out and if you're all writing during your time of solitude And uh, how difficult is it for you to actually get that inspiration and come up with ideas?

I know I know that shit can be difficult to pop and stuff out your head, you know, so gang brother. Yeah, I agree man. It can be difficult and um Where's my inspiration coming from? You know, I'm feeling right now. I'm not really trying to think of funny jokes. I'm just trying to take care of myself You know, I am uh I'm trying to take care of myself I'm 35 days off of cigarettes

So thank god for that right now So I'm feeling grateful for that um You know, I've been doing yoga. I started seeing a chiropractic Uh, and I'm just trying to relax man. I'm trying to get some perspective back in my life I'm trying to get some gratitude You know, I need those things And I really had lost them the past six nine months

Uh I just had lost a lot of them. I didn't mean to I just was so busy. I didn't have any It was hard to grasp my own life You know, and and here I was living my dreams and it was just hard to grasp it So I'm grateful to have this time for a little bit of reflection Um, I'm grateful right now that I can put food on my table and I can uh, you know, I know I can pay my rent next month um You know, I'm grateful that I have I know there's people that love me and I know I can care about them and I can reach out and

That's the only things I'm thinking about right now. I've been doing some yoga by myself You know, it's been a good time for me to find things to put back on my own plate Like I used to love going to the gym for myself. I wasn't doing it to like You know really look us up. I was just doing it because I loved it And I think overall with a lot of things I was burnt out You know, I haven't even felt like getting on stage. I haven't felt like being on stage for a while I haven't been up to the comedy store even before I'd only been there about two or three nights In about three months before it was closed

um Because I was working out of town so much and and I just was tired so You know, I'm I'm trying to I'm doing meditation. I'm doing 15. I'm almost I'm almost up to 15 minutes of meditation per day so um And I'm working the strong growing trying to focus more on my AA program and that's what I'm doing I've been rolling my body out, bro. That's been a new thing

Using that foam roller like everywhere, bro. I'm talking rolling the front of my arms the side like things that hurt Rolling my chest out. I mean I can put my arm almost kind of straight So those have been things that I've been doing man to stay busy and stay, uh Just kind of stay That like my inspiration will come if I take care of myself And I hadn't felt like I've been taking care of myself for a while So, um, yeah, I'm just trying to find the joys in this the little joys Uh

All right Let's uh, let's take another call that came on here gang brother. See you. This is your boy D you know from Grand Rapids Oh, you're gonna catch a lot of flak for that. What's up D? Let's hear baby gang onward. I just wanted to say I really appreciate the way you've been stepping up your game Uh with the podcast over these hard times man, it's always good to hear your voice Oh, thanks, man That's nice you to say that man, you know, I'm trying to feel good and I'm trying and I and I love it when uh

You know, I get these voicemails and people calling and we get to see what's going on and you know I do feel a sense of connection man, and I really Man, I'm glad I'm glad you said that because I needed to hear that. I'm grateful for that onward But I got a question for you Uh, what are people doing to stay connected? Uh to their support groups during these hard times and stresses off and We're out here fighting to stay sober And man, I got a call last week and they said that all of my meetings were canceled. So

Uh, I'm a leader at Celebrate Recovery and I was like, well, we can't have that so I I got some of the guys together over a phone call and we had a meeting And it turned out really well, but uh, just wondering what other people are doing to stay connected Thanks for the question man. I was fixing my hair there as well while I was listening, but I was listening. Um You know, a lot of recovery groups seem to be doing zoom meetings right now And zoom is really really taking off people are using that as a form to come to connect for everything Talking to family, uh, you know and specifically for recovery Um, you know, I've gotten a lot of messages and DMs from people that are struggling and and thank you for those and I'm

You know, I'm trying to share my just my experience and I'm trying to stay sober myself and you know, we do what we can and uh But you know, it's easy for me to say all the zoom meetings are dumb or they're not the same and that's fine It's easy for me to say anything is dumb But um But I believe that if you if you were if you want something to work for you, it will work for you So a lot of it again is just going down a perspective. And so that's all I'm doing man is going to some zoom meetings keeping in touch with other guys

And trying to stay out of the headspace of oh this these programs don't work. This stuff doesn't work. Oh, here's an excuse, sir um And it's hard man It's been hard, dude. You know, I struggled recently with just looking at escorts and pornography that kind of that stuff really snuck back into me about maybe a couple weeks ago and uh And so uh, that's one thing it's been tough because um, it's just so much idle time so much time by yourself and So, you know, I'm hoping to start you maybe go to some uh new type of meetings and stuff or uh, I got to get a new blocker on my phone

Because pornography I noticed for me is the biggest Catalyst for other other things Once I start looking at porn, then I'll start it just makes me want to do all kind of trouble You know, I mean want to break into building or do a cocaine or something You know, we're do uh You know or see somebody's ass or something that I don't know So that's you know, I noticed really that it's such a catalyst for other things So that's something I got to make sure I nip out of my bud

Um bud nip out of my bud immediately What the f bro Man, I'm happy to be here today Oh and one other thing I want to say uh One cool thing about zoom meetings with recovery right now is you can go to ones in different cities and states So if you live in new orleans, you could go to a meeting in you could go to the bread and roses meeting on saturday at 10 30 a.m in los angeles Which is a really popular and famous and interesting meeting you could go to a fan an atlantic group meeting in um

in new york city So there's really some you know, if you are in a small place or something and you don't know about recovery suddenly Or you haven't been in big recovery meetings or something you can suddenly be in a In a meeting um with that may have different speakers And real fancy, you know polished well speakers in them So that's amazing And that's that's that's one of the gifts of right now is the zoom boom gang

All right, we're gonna do a patreon question that came in and we changed patreon this week. You can check it out Uh, if you want you can go to the patreon and check it out. Um, I don't want to thank all of our supporters And uh one of the questions that came in this is from um Deany, what's up theo? Pass over is coming up this week. I wanted to know if you ever attended a pass over satyr or had any jewish friends gang gang from israel Oh, thank you. Deany, and I've never been to israel, but um Arisrael, but I've always wanted to go. I've heard really interesting things about it um

Yeah, I oh, yeah my one of my best friends lives upstairs from me and he is Jewish I think he's 100 jewish and um And so his family that has long invited me over Over the past few years within the past decade even for different type of uh yiddish feasts and uh get-togethers and you know, um reading of religious texts and stuff like that and

uh great company good times some of the worst food but uh But I love a lot of the tradition um And or just like more simple. I'm from louisiana. So I'm from louisiana. I'm from louisiana louisiana um

So yeah, some of the food you're just like damn this ain't a food, you know, that's a damn pickle, bro You know, you got you know, you got 19 people, you know, divvying up a pickle as an appetizer like come on, bro This ain't even um But yeah, a lot of good times man some really really fun times Yeah, I have a it's it's crazy. Especially living out in Los Angeles. You meet a lot of jays, bro You get jade up, you know, you get a lot of jewish friends and so um

Yeah, it's crazy because a lot of my really best friends out here are jewish So I've been to some feasts over the years um And it's always been a blast. Sometimes you got the little hat that little the little hair wallet and uh And yeah, so I've gotten to see some of the the environment in the in the um

in um Different Passover and Seder feasts and the applesauce and the reasons for the different foods, you know, oh, they got these carrots because you know, uh Larry, you know Felderberg or whatever You know, he almost died, but they had you know, he and his cousin split a carrot or something or they had, you know Seven days of oil, but they made it last for 40 days Um

So obviously some of the stuff i'm regurgitating is hit or miss here, but Yeah, I've had a lot of nice times, man. They got and they have a lot of good holidays throughout the year So the jews will throw up some really good holidays here and there um So go enjoy one of those if somebody invites you over to a Seder and it's a really nice thing if they do that It's like with them welcoming you over for like a christmas meal If you are in the uh of the christian dialect um

So thank you for that question deanie if I ever come to uh israel you're gonna have to uh show me around You're gonna have to show me uh some of what it's like over there I would love to To learn more, um What else What else what else What is a piece of advice this is from joe t and this is on uh patreon What is a piece of advice someone gave you that you remember almost every day?

Um You know my father told me when I was real little he told me that I was a survivor That was one of the only things I really remember him telling me You know he would always uh Say you're a survivor, you know and And I thought that that was nice to hear I think because Well, I don't know if he knew that I was gonna have a tough time

Being a child or whatever You know and I and sometimes we have a tough time sometimes our environment's tough and sometimes just the way we interact with our environment is tough Um But he told me I'll be a survivor and I think about that a lot. I thought it was a neat thing to say because It leaves it vague enough where I can apply it to a lot of different things and You could fuck up and still be a survivor So I thought that that was pretty neat

You know, I think a lot of things like I remember from that movie the patriot aim small miss small I think about that a lot that pops in my head all the time Um, the first time Because because aim small miss small it's like if I can't do something real big, what can I do on a lift? What can I do on a level that's realistic? Uh And that's something that I think really applies to right now too. What can I do? What can I do on a level that's realistic?

You know, yeah, I can't do like maybe I can't do some huge fundraiser to do something like this to save the world like bill gates or something or You know, like the patriots own a robert craft. They sent their plane to China and bought a million cases of masks and flew them back, you know They can do that But what could I you know, and sometimes it's just something small it's helping out somebody It's like just doing what can I do something small that I know is going to be effective Because something small

That's effective to if it's just to one person. It's huge to them Um So I think that the aim small miss small is something that uh that I remember a lot And that's not really a vice. I heard that in a movie You know, my best friend scott his dad when I was growing up his dad told me, um Well, his dad told me to move to california and and and and try my dreams out because He said well You can always move back. He goes and if you look back down the road, you might regret if you don't

And I remembered that That's a good question. I'm gonna have to think about what are some things that maybe have been told to me over the years Uh, I watched also the louis ck special and I should watch at this afternoon uh It it it's it's it's hilarious. I mean I laughed He surprised me so many times And some people like most people I think enjoy louis ck as a comedian, you know, the man is a pervert But he also is a comedy man

And he can beat those two things You know, there's not a rule. You can only be one thing A lot of the news they like to make you think oh, you can only be one thing, buddy. What are you? You a milkman or you a um You know, are you somebody that whispers a lot? Bitch, I could do both I got that yogurt, baby You know, I'm saying you could Bill Cosby

Is he a pervert rapist? Seems like that is the case He's also very entertaining man You could be both things Uh, louis ck the special was hilarious, man. It was hilarious You know, I've never known louis across paths with him twice. He always seemed like a bit of like a real cocky kind of dude to me but

He is there's it's just at a different level man his his is I mean, it's fucking good, bro It's fucking good And if I were to add good at comedy dude, I would be cocky. I think I mean it is Um, it's just fun. It's also in some parts. It's so dark, bro. It is dark Like it is damn, bro. I'm surprised if you looked in there's like a day I mean, it is they could have filmed black panther during part of it. It's dark, bro

is dark um But it's It almost forever. He reminds me of a this It's almost like this dirty Shakespeare almost He definitely has is in such contact with a certain point of view in his head that it's I mean, it's just baffling And you can never tell if he thinks that he's because he's always commenting on himself

And I can never tell if he Is amused by himself Repulsed or proud And it's fascinating to not be able to know that and to listen to him At the same time you can just you get this there's this ambience from him. That's just It's so precisely Humanly Vulgar almost in a way or but not just vulgar. Um

It's fat. It's it's it's it's hilarious There's gonna be some dark stuff if you go in there like I'm gonna you know if he soon as he says native american I'm shutting it off. I'm shutting it off Fuck You know, if you go in there if use an antifa or something you probably won't like this You know, if you spend if you were like a lifetime CNN watcher kind of or you know If you buy that go on a CNN sweatshirt, you probably won't like it It's just but it's very

Honest I felt like It's very honest to a part of our brain or something that we Want to Close Or that society wants to close now And I just thought it was hilarious. Does that mean that anything else from me? Doesn't mean anything else from me. It means that I'm a viewer of his comedy and that the shit was fucking really funny, bro And you may have different takes on it. And that's I hope that you do. I hope you have your own take on it

Um, and I would even have to think about it more. I just watched it but uh But if you're looking for a watch and it's available on his website and I you know, you know, we're not doing any ads for them or anything or whatever but Um But the man is You know any he talks about is, you know, some of the stuff that happened and stuff Some of the stuff that happened and stuff

It's interesting. It's certainly It's worth the eight dollars. That's for dang sure, bro And outside of that Ozark is Ozark just the same episode over and over again I feel like every episode these people just can't fucking figure it out and the sun keeps getting a little bit older Literally the the the the the boy they have is like watching the I mean he just every episode I feel like he gets about about two months older, which is pretty fascinating Um, but that's my thoughts on the Louis CK special. Sincerely. It's called and uh, and And go check it out. Let me know what you think

I think it's probably going to be the future where comedians are going to put their specials out specifically in one locale on their on their own Um But it was interesting, man. It was god. There were some parts. What up with the best part is you're like, man, I do not I don't it's not that you don't want he'll get into a topic. You're like, oh, this is something I shouldn't be laughing about And then you're like, damn, I'm fucking really laughing about this So then you start to realize that there's this other thing and there's this other person inside of you this other Different entity than the facade that we put on sometimes and that that entity just likes to laugh And then it's not as judgmental and it just is taking things for the value of humor that's in them

And in this special, there's a lot of that It's dark though. Dog is dark. Don't come at me If you then that's it if you don't like it then you don't like it That's fine Nobody else needs to that don't mean everybody else don't need to like it. That means you don't like it So gang shit All right, I think we get through everything or as much as I can even remember right now at the moment But thank you guys for for for for being a part of the this past weekend

Support the sponsors if you can do something if you if you got the room to do it in your world, you know Do it be supportive You know, thank you guys so much for supporting the podcast I'm happy to be able to be here this weekend to be able to share some stuff I'm feeling a little bit better and hope to slowly be feeling even better. I got some blood work done. I got that back You know, the guy said I had a couple of things that were way off And that was interesting man like the like lysine levels a couple of different proteins and stuff

So it was real interesting I'm grateful to be able to got that blood work because you don't know what's in your body. What's in your soup? You know, I'm saying you running around. You don't know if you got vegetables. You got beef if you freaking If you freaking bull your base or if you've been stroking off you feel me Brian so I hope you're doing well, man. I love you and And uh, you know, we're pretty lucky. We're pretty lucky

Aren't we pretty lucky man to be we get to be alive. This is it You know, we get to just What are we even doing? I don't know, but we get to do it And this is it You know, and this is it we get to see things and experience And that is life man. This is it You know, this is it

And we're making it man and uh Thank you guys for being here today and I'll see you guys next week. I'm trying to get Nick Swartzen to Do a zoom episode with me this week So if you guys will hit him up on ig and send him messages and tell him To get on board we could definitely do that So Hit him up. Oh, you guys be good to yourselves, man, and we just keep making it. You know that

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