1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Hey, welcome to my home, my apartment, my couch. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,900 It's Wednesday night. 3 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:07,900 It's Book Bub. 4 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:08,960 It's Wednesday Night Book Bub. 5 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,720 I'm your host, Andy Rice. 6 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,720 This is my home. 7 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:12,720 You're here. 8 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,480 We're going to talk about books, but with me, who's not here every time, this is a rare 9 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,880 treat, but I love it. 10 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,020 It's my good friend, Austin Farrell. 11 00:00:20,020 --> 00:00:21,020 Check me out in the Bible. 12 00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:22,020 I love it. 13 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:23,020 You better. 14 00:00:23,020 --> 00:00:25,020 I'm going to do religious books for this one. 15 00:00:25,020 --> 00:00:26,020 Perfect. 16 00:00:26,020 --> 00:00:27,020 Perfect. 17 00:00:27,020 --> 00:00:28,020 There's so many. 18 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:35,680 So, this week we are covering the, I guess, I don't know what category to put this in, 19 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,000 but it's called Running the Light by Sam Talent. 20 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:46,160 It came out in 2020, and it is about a standup comic who is over the hill and past giving 21 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:52,220 a fuck, a road comic who's just living alcohol and drug to alcohol and drugs, traveling city 22 00:00:52,220 --> 00:00:53,420 to city. 23 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:58,080 His apartment is just a place that he sleeps occasionally. 24 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,680 He lives on the road. 25 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,040 He's kind of a piece of shit. 26 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:06,040 He did something questionable when he was younger and sort of threw his whole career 27 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,040 away. 28 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,040 He was an up and coming guy. 29 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,040 Could have made it big. 30 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,040 Didn't. 31 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,040 It's sad life. 32 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:16,640 We see a week of this dude's life, and his name is Billy Ray Schaefer. 33 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,680 Austin, what was your thoughts on this? 34 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,120 Because you're a standup comic like myself. 35 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,280 We are on a team called Mojave Comedy. 36 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:30,200 We perform all over the place, and we're both, I think we're both competent comedians. 37 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,520 We write material, our jokes land, people laugh, we know what we're doing. 38 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,440 We're not well known, right? 39 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:43,760 But I've been reached out to for a show, Just Me, by myself, which is very flattering. 40 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,200 And I'm like, oh, you guys are dumb. 41 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,480 I need at least a host and an opener. 42 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,920 I need like three other guys to make money, not just me. 43 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:57,640 I'm like, oh, we can get one seventh of them and only have to pay them one seventh of the 44 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:58,640 pay. 45 00:01:58,640 --> 00:01:59,800 Oh, is it a pay issue? 46 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,280 We do shit for free a lot of the time. 47 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,280 We do canned food runs. 48 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,840 I know we're so great. 49 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:07,840 Have you ever met us? 50 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:08,840 We're great. 51 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,840 Yeah, we're the best. 52 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:18,760 But this book, it felt good to read a book about someone who is a standup written by 53 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,680 someone who is a great standup. 54 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,400 Sometimes so fucking funny. 55 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,520 His special The Toad's Morale, which I have hilarious. 56 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,520 Haven't watched it. 57 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,880 I've only seen him from Kill Tony and he's my favorite Kill Tony guest. 58 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:31,880 Yeah, he's great. 59 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:37,880 He knows when to fucking pipe in and he knows when not to. 60 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,960 And his jokes are so fucking funny. 61 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,720 His retorts is on the spot, like timing. 62 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:43,720 Everything's great. 63 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:44,720 He's so great. 64 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,080 This is also the first novel he's ever written. 65 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:53,760 And it's it I would say it's very well written. 66 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:59,000 And it has a lot of references and like things that you as a comedian would understand and 67 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,980 feel and like relate to the character in a sense. 68 00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:06,920 Like in the beginning, I think it's like Monday or Tuesday. 69 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:11,680 He's doing the show at the VFW, kind of like how we did over like halfway to Kingman over 70 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,680 here and it's like the wood paneling on the walls and like he's describing everything 71 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,800 and you're like, holy shit, you're like, yeah, this is exactly the mood. 72 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,680 It really sets the mood like you feel like you're there and you're doing the show. 73 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,360 And Billy Ray is just a vessel that you're in, kind of minus the divorce and the minus 74 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,000 canceled. 75 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,400 Also minus the completely negative outlook on things like I know that you and I are heavy 76 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,160 drug users and we're not drinking ourselves into fucking oblivion. 77 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,960 I used to show. 78 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:42,240 But I mean, sure. 79 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,040 But this guy is way older than us and he's still doing it. 80 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,360 You know, like he never hit that point of I used to. 81 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,360 He's still doing it. 82 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,600 He's still going hard. 83 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,920 So I don't think that he's a very good protagonist as far as like, oh, he's not a great guy at 84 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:54,920 all. 85 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:55,920 Not a great guy. 86 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,560 I'm not a fan of him as as who he is. 87 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,560 He's very funny. 88 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,400 One of the best jokes in this entire book was also I got to put that I made a point 89 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,760 to you and I didn't mean to hurt your feelings about it, but you said you hate spoilers and 90 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,800 I pointed out that like, well, your whole book club is just spoiling the book for people 91 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:19,160 who didn't read it, but for that case, if you have not read this book, go read it and 92 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,960 then come back and watch this with us because it's an amazing book. 93 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:23,960 You won't want to miss it. 94 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:30,800 I just got to put that out there because I fucking love this book and just Billy Billy 95 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,800 Ray. 96 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,720 The fact that there's it's it's a fictional story, but it is set in our real world that 97 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:37,720 we live in. 98 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,200 He just kind of etches out this little history for Billy Ray in it. 99 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,820 There's like comedians, names, real comedians, stories. 100 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:47,800 There's like a whole section where he talks about other comedians talking about him, like 101 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,080 the real quotes from real interviews. 102 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,120 And that's because Sam Talent knows all these people and had a bunch of comedians contributed 103 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,120 to this. 104 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,120 So that's where. 105 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:57,640 OK, so this is where we differ. 106 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,080 You read the book. 107 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:00,080 I read it. 108 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,160 I listened to the audiobook. 109 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,320 Now the audiobook is narrated by a lot of people. 110 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,840 Bert Kreischer, Cockney, all these people. 111 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:12,640 And you made me really when you described it to me, you made me really glad that I just 112 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:13,640 read it. 113 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,480 Yeah, because here's the thing. 114 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:26,140 I would argue that of the let's say that there's 12 or 15 narrators in total, maybe maybe it's 115 00:05:26,140 --> 00:05:27,920 just eight or nine or 10. 116 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:35,100 But of them, 30 percent, 40 percent of the time, 50 percent of the time, maybe it sounds 117 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:37,040 like a legit audiobook. 118 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:41,360 The other times it's a comedian that shouldn't be reading audiobooks, reading an audiobook, 119 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,280 just not doing a great job like Bert Kreischer. 120 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:44,920 I don't think did a very great job. 121 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,120 It's like I wouldn't want to listen to him do a whole book. 122 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,520 I wouldn't want to listen to Ari Shaffir do a whole book. 123 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:57,040 And I for fucking sure would not want whoever the chick was at the last chapter who recorded 124 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,640 in her fucking bathroom with a snowball mic while her fan was on. 125 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:06,120 Like just the worst quality fucking audio I've ever heard that audibles ever put out 126 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,120 for an audiobook. 127 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,400 I fucking was so disappointed. 128 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,640 You got to think that maybe that was intentional for some kind of reason. 129 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,400 No, I think it's he reached out to a comedian chick and she literally didn't think it was 130 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,760 worth her fucking time to buy a proper mic. 131 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,040 And she went into her bathroom when she wanted to get away from her kids, turn the fan on 132 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,320 and started talking into her. 133 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,200 Probably her phone speaker is what it sounded like and then just recorded that. 134 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,040 It wasn't even like good quality. 135 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,240 I'm telling you, the last chapter is fucking god awful. 136 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,640 I'll play you a sample on my. 137 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,640 All right, maybe you'll change my mind. 138 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:41,640 It's the same thing. 139 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:42,640 I don't mean to reference another book. 140 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,440 Here's a tangent in the book club. 141 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,320 But I read Nick Offerman's book, Where the Deer and Antelope Play. 142 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,320 Okay. 143 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,440 Because it was him talking about going into nature and I read the back and I was just 144 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,440 really into it. 145 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:54,440 Cool. 146 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:55,440 Is it going to be a bunch of him? 147 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:01,320 And it was that in the first half or the first third of it, then two thirds in, it just cuts 148 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:07,880 off and it starts this whole political covid like talking about all this, like all this 149 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,880 stuff. 150 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:14,480 And then the third part of it is like it goes back into that and reading it in the moment, 151 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,760 I was like, I fucking why? 152 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:16,760 This is not why I'm here. 153 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,760 I don't fucking. 154 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,320 And then later I was thinking about it more and I was like, oh, that's because that stuff 155 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,720 is like stressful and you don't want to think about it. 156 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,720 And the nature kind of brings you back into it. 157 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,360 So he's kind of, you know what I mean? 158 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,360 He's putting you. 159 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,840 I want to go back into the nature where the deer and antelope play kind of thing is inserted 160 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:34,840 all that in the middle. 161 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:35,840 And it made me mad. 162 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,400 But then I was like, oh, OK, that was really starts off nice and peaceful and outdoorsy. 163 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,600 So I want to hit you with the fucking real life bullshit that sucks. 164 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,600 And you want to go back and it goes back. 165 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,680 And he's like, this is where it all makes sense. 166 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,480 And that's that's what I maybe that's maybe you're right. 167 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,880 But maybe that's what the whole girl recorded in the audiobook of running the light at the 168 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,000 very end. 169 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,480 Maybe there was some kind of thing like that. 170 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:57,820 But maybe maybe you're right. 171 00:07:57,820 --> 00:07:59,520 Maybe it sounds fucking awful. 172 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:00,520 It's awful. 173 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:01,520 I don't know. 174 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:02,520 I don't. 175 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,760 I mean, if look, everyone in the fucking audiobook in the audible comments of the reviews, I 176 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,360 guess, a lot of them called out that last chapter. 177 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,280 I think that's what's keeping it from getting like a more high score is it's it's breaking 178 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,280 it like a four out of five right now as opposed to like a four and a half or five. 179 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,960 But I will say this. 180 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,440 Sam talent is great as far as first first novels go. 181 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,720 This is one of this is a top first novel. 182 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,080 But it's it's definitely a first novel. 183 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:37,360 And you could tell a lot of his imagery, you know, like it sounds it almost sounds like 184 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,640 almost too much. 185 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,520 You know, it's like I get you're trying to paint a picture, but like not everything has 186 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:44,640 to be a poem. 187 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,720 Not every sentence has to be a poem to describe a scene. 188 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,120 And he did a lot of that, a lot of prose, a lot of love, you know, like and I just for 189 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:58,000 me, he could have I like a book I like good I like descriptions. 190 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,840 His I guess it was just a little there's not it's his first novel, though. 191 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,920 I mean, you got to give him you got to say, yeah, that's what I'm saying. 192 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,400 As far as first novels go. 193 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:12,360 Like if you look at the first novel of the butcher, the Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, 194 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:18,880 which is a book about a private eye wizard in modern day, sort of like an adult rated 195 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,240 are Harry Potter. 196 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,600 It's pretty great. 197 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,160 And the first book, though, is fucking awful. 198 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,280 I read it. 199 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,160 I enjoyed it when I read it. 200 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,960 And then I read the rest of the books that he wrote. 201 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,480 I was just like, oh, I ever reread the series. 202 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:34,840 I will not reread. 203 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,160 It's like he took a limitless pill for the rest of it. 204 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,160 Yes, it is like that. 205 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,240 So maybe if he writes another one, I mean, I would definitely I'm definitely going to 206 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,240 pick up another book. 207 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:43,240 I will, too. 208 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:44,240 Yeah. 209 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,120 Maybe he'll look at all the reviews and like, OK, I'll continue that and the other Billy 210 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,520 Ray Schafer story, though. 211 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,600 No, you can't. 212 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:53,600 No, no. 213 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,400 Unfortunately, I warned you about the spoilers were nine minutes in. 214 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:57,600 I already told everyone. 215 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:03,000 But yeah, he he kind of gets redeemed or he makes everyone else good. 216 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,320 And his life still sucks. 217 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,320 And then he dies. 218 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:06,320 I don't think there's any redemption. 219 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:07,320 Really? 220 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,120 He reaches out to his son and he gets sort of a half. 221 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,120 He hangs out with his son. 222 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,680 But then he finds out he thought his other son hates him all the time. 223 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,400 But he's like, oh, yeah, you know, he still sends me clips of yours, like good clips of 224 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,400 yours and stuff. 225 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,520 And then the whole thing, you got to hang out with the son, hug him, say goodbye and 226 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,520 everything. 227 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,720 And then he cries in his car and then he leaves. 228 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:31,480 He goes meets sees his ex wife and he lets her just completely unload all the years of 229 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,840 stress and everything onto him. 230 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:34,840 And then he leaves and died. 231 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,960 So like he kind of made good with everyone. 232 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,760 As far as his life goes, it's not a bad way to end the fucking ended. 233 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,000 And he had a big crazy show, two pages of his set, his whole set where he just goes 234 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,200 off the last show he does with Norm MacDonald. 235 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,800 Yeah, that was great. 236 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,040 It filled to like I think two and a half pages of just him fucking going off. 237 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,880 I love there's a few jokes. 238 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,560 There's one that stuck out with me that I think is just a funny, well written joke, 239 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:06,440 but there's two gay guys having sex and the house catches on fire. 240 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:11,320 Who gets out first, the top or the bottom, the bottom because the shit's already packed. 241 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:18,080 That was one of the best, just a well written fucking joke, dude. 242 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,080 So yeah, it's very funny. 243 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:25,040 His like jokes that he put into this book as jokes for for Billy Ray to say, Sam Talent 244 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:29,240 still writes fucking bangers like like some of his set were great. 245 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,920 I feel like whatever he puts himself like into, like he's doing this travel show now 246 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,760 where like him and his buddies go around the world. 247 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,160 I think he said they're going to like China, Japan or maybe Indonesia. 248 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:43,160 I'm not sure. 249 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,600 I got to go watch it, but he's been talking about it and it sounds that sounds like it's 250 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,440 going to be a fun deal. 251 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,160 I feel like I'm just plugging all the shit for him, but he deserves it. 252 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Why not? 253 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:03,440 Yeah, I wonder if it's a if it's an American version of Travelman because Travelman is 254 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:09,680 a successful British show about a comedian who a comedian who takes his friends to different 255 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:14,120 countries to like go see what they're all about and shit. 256 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,120 Is that not? 257 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:19,640 I think it's just I think they're just I don't know what they're doing exactly, but yeah, 258 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,640 your Sam Talent travel show worldwide or wide world. 259 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:24,640 There it is. 260 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,640 OK, cool. 261 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:26,640 Tokyo, Tokyo Ritz. 262 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,240 Oh, yeah, maybe they are going and doing comedy everywhere. 263 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,280 Yeah, it looks that looks like fun. 264 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:33,600 I'm going to watch that. 265 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,600 That looks cool. 266 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,600 Here's a here's here's what the audiobook sounds like, by the way. 267 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,200 Oh, God, here we go. 268 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,520 The final person doesn't do justice that it's recorded on a phone being played off of a 269 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:44,520 phone. 270 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,520 It's a listen. 271 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:55,520 It's not even that bad or it's not even a it's trust me, that doesn't make it worse. 272 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:56,520 That sounds great. 273 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:02,200 Here, let's get to here's Bert Kreischer. 274 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,200 Hold on. 275 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,200 Let me take it off. 276 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,200 Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. 277 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,200 Jesus Christ. 278 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:11,200 Well, listen to how slow it is for crush. 279 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:22,080 OK, so yeah, they worked with Bert. 280 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:23,400 He had some good editing there. 281 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,400 You could tell where they they clipped it after a sentence or two. 282 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:34,240 Who the hell is that? 283 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,200 Oh yeah, that sounds as they say who it is. 284 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,000 And he saw that she had been crying. 285 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,120 Nora Linton streaks down her dusty cheeks. 286 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:47,120 I love you. 287 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,120 I love you. 288 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,120 God, you can hear that. 289 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,120 You see what I'm talking about? 290 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,120 She's fucking here on her phone. 291 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,120 You're a cat meowing in the background. 292 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,120 That's just awful. 293 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:54,120 I was not. 294 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,120 I was not. 295 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,120 I was not. 296 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,880 So that's that you kind of read it the hard way. 297 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:03,440 I did for the first time ever. 298 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,040 I slow it down for that one. 299 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,560 No, I kept it at full speed. 300 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,640 I wanted to get through her chapter as quick as possible. 301 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:09,640 But fuck, dude. 302 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:10,640 Yeah. 303 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,440 So, I mean, I would say audiobook wise, this is one of the lower ranked audiobooks for 304 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,440 me. 305 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,640 But as far as story wise go, I think it's great, especially if you're fucking comic. 306 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,240 Let's talk about the whole Norm McDonald's thing. 307 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,040 I believe he wrote this after he passed. 308 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:25,040 Oh, I think so. 309 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:30,680 And he said in an interview that he studied everything Norman's ever written or done or 310 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,040 been in featured in whatever and then just made a character. 311 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,640 So it's almost like a human made AI version of Mark. 312 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,280 It felt like a real did I say Mark Norman? 313 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:41,280 No, no, no, no. 314 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,280 I think you said Norm McDonald. 315 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,440 I think you might have just fucked up once. 316 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,440 Norm McDonald. 317 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:46,720 Yeah, it felt like an AI version of him. 318 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,040 It felt like a good like real lived in version of Norm McDonald. 319 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:57,320 And also, if you love Norm McDonald, it's it almost it's like you get to like live being 320 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,680 his buddy or something. 321 00:14:58,680 --> 00:14:59,680 Yeah. 322 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,160 Mentor in the story. 323 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,720 Billy Ray was Norm's mentor. 324 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:08,640 So Norm looks out for Billy Ray when Billy Ray comes in to do a set at this club that 325 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,080 his ex wife runs. 326 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,080 Right. 327 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:16,200 Doesn't know it's it's a oh, so the whole thing with the lady at the club does not like 328 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:23,320 him because back in his wilder days, he sold her brother some coke and he relapsed like 329 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,320 badly. 330 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,480 So she's always like hated him. 331 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,640 And then what Billy Ray did, which was really bad, is he did he fuck some underage girl? 332 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:36,440 Yeah, he was in a show in Florida, fucked a waitress that worked there, then found out 333 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,480 later she was all he didn't know that she was 16. 334 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,400 He moved on with his life and then she was pregnant, got an abortion, but she needed her 335 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,400 parents permission. 336 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,040 Her parents were like super Catholic. 337 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,240 So they got it. 338 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:48,540 They called her. 339 00:15:48,540 --> 00:15:49,540 They called his wife. 340 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:50,540 Yeah. 341 00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:53,280 And then the whole thing blew open and he was canceled after that. 342 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Yeah. 343 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,280 Big time. 344 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:59,320 We're talking what's his face from Seinfeld? 345 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,320 Michael Richardson. 346 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,120 You remember what he did, right? 347 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Yeah. 348 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,080 He said the N word a lot on stage. 349 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,080 Not just once. 350 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,800 I mean, he didn't just say the N word. 351 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,040 He screamed the N word about 40 times at his black audience. 352 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,040 Oh, no. 353 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,680 He's like, you think it's a big deal that I say the N word? 354 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,240 And he just started screaming it, dude. 355 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,120 It's fucking bad. 356 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,560 Like that was that was that was cancelable for sure. 357 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,880 But I still he could probably make a comeback now. 358 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:32,480 I mean, Michael or Mel Gibson's allowed to make movies and he had that anti-Jewish fucking 359 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,480 rant. 360 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,120 You know, as a kid, I thought it was Jerry Seinfeld that said a bunch of horrible things. 361 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,200 And for the longest time, like, how do you get away with that? 362 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,600 No, he says the B movie. 363 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,320 What the fuck? 364 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,920 This guy, the guy that said 20 N words on stage, he's in the B movie. 365 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,280 He's made it good for him. 366 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:53,880 Maybe Michael Richardson doesn't need to do anything. 367 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,440 He's got all that Seinfeld money. 368 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:56,440 Yeah. 369 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:57,440 I mean, he does. 370 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Like, he really doesn't have to do anything. 371 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,120 But I bet he wanted to continue his career after Seinfeld as a stand up comic, as a movie 372 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:05,120 actor, probably. 373 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:06,520 Maybe he's lucky he got out early. 374 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:07,520 He doesn't have to. 375 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:08,520 He's just a normal guy. 376 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:14,940 I mean, he's perfectly normal, but he's a good guy. 377 00:17:14,940 --> 00:17:15,940 He's a good guy. 378 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:20,120 So that's probably why we're going to keep seeing him in something like, what would he 379 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:21,120 have been? 380 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:22,120 Back to the future? 381 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:23,120 Yeah, I was kind of thinking like a new doc. 382 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:24,120 He could have been a great new doc if they rebooted it. 383 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:28,080 Maybe he could go back in time and stop himself from saying the N words so many times. 384 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,200 Anyways, Duck Shit Bingo. 385 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,280 Duck Shit Bingo. 386 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:33,280 That was great. 387 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,840 Following Duck Shit Bingo. 388 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,040 This is where a duck walks in, they overfeed them, 389 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,840 they don't let them shit and then they bring them out 390 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,920 and wherever he shits, whoever's money is in that box 391 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,700 gets to win, it's so great. 392 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:48,600 It made more money than Billy Ray did 393 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,720 on his night of performing, which was fucking great. 394 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,240 He stole that dude's cocaine, he fucked off into the night. 395 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:55,640 Let his duck go. 396 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:56,480 Let his duck. 397 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,200 Free his duck and fucked off. 398 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,120 So great, Billy Ray is such a piece of shit. 399 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,040 It was hard to relate with him. 400 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,120 This is a tough read because a lot of it is just 401 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,280 really fucking rough and depressing and shit. 402 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,720 So. 403 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:09,960 He's not a hero by any means. 404 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,120 He's not a hero by any means. 405 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:12,640 Nothing really goes well for him. 406 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,640 Oh and the whole thing where he finds those people 407 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,200 with an open relationship and he goes, 408 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,480 he fucks the chick and then he wakes up the next morning 409 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,640 and he looks in his boot for his money clip and it's gone. 410 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,880 He goes back there, beats the shit out of this guy. 411 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,640 And then some naked chick. 412 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,440 Naked chick with a gun is like, fuck it, stop, 413 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,280 you left it here by accident. 414 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,920 Holy shit, that was so great. 415 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,280 And then he kept thinking about going back to her house 416 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:38,920 and letting her finish the job. 417 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,120 Yeah, dark. 418 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:40,960 Dark. 419 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,640 Also he's like, I'm turned on right now by her, 420 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,040 naked with a gun pointed at me. 421 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:45,880 I would be too. 422 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,240 Naked chick with a gun, you're about to die. 423 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:49,080 Fuck yeah. 424 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:50,400 Also everything that he describes, 425 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,160 all the scenery and what Billy Ray's going through, 426 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:54,960 it feels like you're suffering with him. 427 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:55,800 Yeah, it really does. 428 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,640 God damn this sucks. 429 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,680 That's what I'm saying, this is a tough read. 430 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,240 If you read this, you're gonna feel what Billy Ray feels. 431 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,720 You're gonna feel what the people around him feel. 432 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,880 You're gonna feel gross. 433 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,520 It's a gross feeling book. 434 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,960 None of this, it feels great. 435 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,080 It feels like you're watching the protagonist 436 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:16,080 of the dumpster trying to get out of his trash life 437 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,760 and it doesn't work. 438 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,040 And that's what it feels like. 439 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,680 It's just a hard read. 440 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,160 The whole part in between, 441 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,520 when he gets off stage for the last time with Norm, 442 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,720 and then you can kind of visualize that, 443 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,280 he has that whole conversation with Norm 444 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:36,480 and he's like, I'm leaving. 445 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,360 And then Norm goes on stage, 446 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,720 not realizing that, or kind of realizing 447 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:41,560 that this is the last time 448 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,480 he's gonna see his friend alive, very sad. 449 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,240 And then he goes on this whole journey, 450 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,560 just going through the night, partying. 451 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,120 I think he fucking smashed some guy's windshield 452 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,960 or something, someone honked at him. 453 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,080 And he fucking flipped out. 454 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,080 Then he goes to, he wants a score now, 455 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,240 so he's going to his old neighborhood, 456 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,800 it's all gentrified now. 457 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,120 He goes to the bar. 458 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,760 He gets in a taxi and he's like, 459 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,080 take me to this neighborhood, right? 460 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,040 To go buy drugs, 461 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,320 because he knew that's where he was supposed to be. 462 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,240 And then he walks up to a black dude. 463 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,840 Yeah, thinking he's a drug dealer. 464 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,160 He's like, the fuck you mean? 465 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:11,320 And the guy's like, what the fuck? 466 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,160 I ain't no drug dealer. 467 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,680 And he runs after him, trying to beat his ass. 468 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:15,520 And he's fat. 469 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:16,880 And then he goes into that bar. 470 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:19,320 What happens after he goes into that bar? 471 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,440 He goes, he gets so fucking wasted. 472 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:22,400 He talks to the girl 473 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,080 and has like a nice conversation with her. 474 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,040 And then he's trying to get Coke from the bartender. 475 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,120 Like, where do I get Coke at? 476 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,960 And he's like, you gotta fucking leave. 477 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,120 And then he's running around. 478 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:35,800 And then he runs into this crackhead, like tweaker dude, 479 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,640 and fucking gets bashed on the head. 480 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,480 Wakes up, everything's gone. 481 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,440 He walks back to his car. 482 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,760 He has to buy Listerine so he can keep drinking. 483 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,560 Takes a bath in a fucking ravine 484 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:48,640 and some kids make fun of him. 485 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,960 They're like, what the fuck did he, 486 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,080 what did the kids say to him? 487 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:54,240 He had like a good retort. 488 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,600 He's like, fucking, I don't know. 489 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,480 It was really, I fucking, I gotta go. 490 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,240 I'm gonna reread this book eventually, 491 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,080 but he's like something, your mother's cunt 492 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,440 or something to these little kids. 493 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,680 Your mother's cunt, yeah, yeah, it was something brutal. 494 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,640 It was something that like would make a little kid go, 495 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,080 oh, cry, you know? 496 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,000 So, yeah, dude, this was a... 497 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,320 Yeah, that ending, fucking. 498 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,080 Yeah, him, him, crashing. 499 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,800 I did not see that coming. 500 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,760 There was like a few pages left, 501 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:24,640 but I think there were blanks, 502 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:25,800 so I thought there was more to it. 503 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,240 And you just don't see it coming 504 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,720 until like the last paragraph 505 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,480 where he talks about like dropping a cigarette, 506 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,920 swerving, and then the very last two words, he laughed. 507 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,920 Yeah, I had to rewind 30 seconds or whatever 508 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,280 because I was like, wait, what? 509 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,040 What did you say over that bathroom fan? 510 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,360 Yeah, what did he, then he died? 511 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:49,280 Yeah, exactly. 512 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,480 That's how my final moments was delivered. 513 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,920 It's like, and then he, you know, he laughed. 514 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,360 I was like, oh, fuck, thanks for 515 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,800 not doing a good audio quality. 516 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,800 But yeah, well, let's rate this thing on... 517 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,120 How many days out of seven? 518 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:09,960 I don't know. 519 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,800 The chapter. 520 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,320 Let's do a seven day rating system 521 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,280 on seven being the highest that you can go, 522 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,960 which is Norm MacDonald in this fictional. 523 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,120 Fictional AI, Norm MacDonald is a seven out of seven. 524 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:28,920 And a one out of seven would be a Billy Ray Shaper. 525 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,040 As people? 526 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,000 On Saturday night, as people. 527 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,080 So that's your rating system. 528 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,080 And then in between would be like Roseanne Barr in this book. 529 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,200 Who I guess, was it? 530 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,040 I'd say Billy Ray's kid, the one he hangs out with, 531 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,000 because he's just kind of mid. 532 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,400 He's like, yeah, he's in the middle of the road. 533 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,200 So I'm going to give this, if we're going out of seven, 534 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,200 I was going to give it like a 3.9, 3.8, 535 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,600 like close to a four. 536 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,240 So I'll go with a five. 537 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,840 I'm going full Norm MacDonald. 538 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,760 This is a great book. 539 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,080 I hate to disagree with you, 540 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,560 but the way you read it brings it down 541 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:07,720 and that's understandable. 542 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,560 It's not even that. 543 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:09,720 It's also the content. 544 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,640 It's as much as an interesting, 545 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,240 as far as my kind of book goes, 546 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,760 it's not normally something that I would read. 547 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,480 Like it's just a little too, 548 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,880 it's a little too dark and grim in the sense that like, 549 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,800 there's no point to any of it. 550 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,440 It's just kind of like a week in the life of that comedian 551 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:29,880 that everyone knows. 552 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,040 Everyone knows at least one of them or has been him. 553 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,040 If you're a comedian, if you're in that world, 554 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,640 if you're just a regular person in the world then, 555 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:40,960 and you don't do stand-up comedy, 556 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,600 then this book might not hold a lot of, 557 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,080 like you might not relate to it as much, right? 558 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,080 If you're a hardcore comedy fan, then maybe. 559 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:50,640 But just a normal person, 560 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,000 you're not gonna put down John Grisham for this. 561 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,720 You're gonna keep reading your mom books. 562 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,960 This was your mom books, look. 563 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,960 At least I took Stephen King out of the mom book. 564 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:02,800 Which I appreciate. 565 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,360 I've gone by Goodwill and all I see 566 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,320 are just a million copies of James Patterson books 567 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,600 and John Grisham, but hard to find Stephen King in there. 568 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,000 Cause everyone buys them up, right when they drop. 569 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,240 I know Grisham, 570 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,520 he's known for dog stuff. 571 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,200 Like he- 572 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,040 Oh, whoa. 573 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:23,880 Yeah, I know. 574 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:24,720 Please clarify. 575 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,480 Yeah, he writes books that have dogs in it. 576 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,880 He has a book series that I think stars 577 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,760 a fictionalized version of his dog 578 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,560 with like maybe superpowers. 579 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,240 And all of the proceeds that he gets from that book 580 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,640 go towards like animal charities. 581 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,480 That's nice. 582 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,880 So like he writes an entire series 583 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,240 that just makes money for charities. 584 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,920 And he, there's one book called, 585 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,160 I think The Watcher or Watchers. 586 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,920 And it's somewhat next, relatively soon 587 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,640 on my list of things to read. 588 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,760 And it's about like a dog with powers. 589 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,400 And I remember maybe 20 years ago, 590 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,240 my mom handing me a copy and being like, 591 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,400 this is one of her favorite things that she's read. 592 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,120 And my mom, she reads, you know, a book a day. 593 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,000 You know, she like, she'll just pick up a book 594 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,160 and she gets through it in a day. 595 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,480 She'll just start in the morning, in the afternoon. 596 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,760 She's not just fast reader. 597 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,880 And she reads her, we had to build her an entire 598 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,600 like room of shelves for her books. 599 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,440 And yeah, I'm getting started on mine pretty much. 600 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,600 But I still think, look, I love the feel of a classic book, 601 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,720 but Kindle, if you've got Kindle, 602 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,680 you can literally put all the books in the world 603 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,800 on fucking Kindle. 604 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,680 I just don't like doing the audio book thing. 605 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,200 I don't want, I like reading. 606 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,720 I like reading it myself 607 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,800 and visualizing the voice and everything. 608 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,280 Yeah, but I'm talking about Kindle's reading it 609 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,240 on your own. 610 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:48,080 Okay, that's good. 611 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:48,920 That's like a book reader. 612 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,120 It's like a, you know, it's the size of a book, 613 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:51,960 but it's digital. 614 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,440 And what's cool about that is people go like, 615 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,000 oh, but I don't know if I want to just read black ink 616 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,600 on a white screen for the whole time. 617 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,760 They have options. 618 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,280 They have like a sepia tone 619 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,560 to make it kind of look like paper, you know? 620 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,000 You can adjust the font. 621 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,640 So it's actually a little easier to read 622 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,640 for a lot of people because let's face it, 623 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,680 the book size of the font is the only size you have. 624 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,160 You'd have to get like a magnifying glass 625 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,240 to make a figure of glasses, right? 626 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,360 It's digital. 627 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:19,320 I'm a big fan of Kindle. 628 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,440 I do have like 20 books I gotta read 629 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,920 that I've just been buying like crazy. 630 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,360 Why not get a library card and save the money? 631 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,920 I like having a physical copy. 632 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,920 That's what the library has, a ton of them. 633 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,360 To keep on a shelf is like a conquest, you know? 634 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,600 Oh. 635 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,760 I romanticize book reading newly. 636 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:40,600 Yeah, no. 637 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:41,880 Advancing that bookmark, closing it, 638 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,560 and you're like, fuck, I made it that far? 639 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,920 Hey, I've got some hot takes here. 640 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,200 I'm talking about Kindle versus regular books, 641 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,040 and I prefer Kindle, 642 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,320 and I listen to audiobooks all the time. 643 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,640 Trust me, I'm not the one people are rooting for 644 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,480 in this conversation. 645 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,000 They're all for you and your love for the feel of a book. 646 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,240 I listen to a lot of music. 647 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,880 I listen to a lot of podcasts. 648 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,720 And so adding audiobooks onto that, 649 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,040 that's a lot of different audio I'm consuming. 650 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:04,880 Fair enough. 651 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:05,960 So I'd like a nice physical. 652 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,720 Maybe your ears will break. 653 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:08,920 Well, let's rate this thing. 654 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:09,760 Oh, we already did. 655 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,480 So I did a five, you did a seven. 656 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,320 So perfect. 657 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,080 It's gonna get a six, six out of seven. 658 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,760 Six out of seven days. 659 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,160 Days, six out of seven days. 660 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,000 Great. 661 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,820 Business week. 662 00:27:20,820 --> 00:27:21,660 And then next week, 663 00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:24,560 I'm not sure what the book is gonna be just yet. 664 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,360 It could be The Fellowship of the Ring. 665 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:28,200 Because I'm- 666 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,600 You know, we could do a Scanner Darkly. 667 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,440 It could be. 668 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,280 If you want. 669 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,480 Oh wait, did you read it yet? 670 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,320 No, not yet. 671 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,140 Oh, okay, so. 672 00:27:34,140 --> 00:27:34,980 No, not yet. 673 00:27:34,980 --> 00:27:37,320 We'll see what next week is. 674 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,160 It could be anything. 675 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:38,980 Keep your eyes peeled. 676 00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:40,000 It could be Fellowship of the Ring. 677 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,360 Could be Scanner Darkly. 678 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:46,360 It could be some sort of a sci-fi book. 679 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,560 Is that sort of what I've been typing into Audible 680 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:49,600 to see what to read? 681 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,560 I haven't got any suggestions from our voicemail yet. 682 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,200 So go check out friedrisepodcast.com 683 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,880 and go to our voicemail and give us a call 684 00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,720 and tell me what book to read. 685 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,540 And I will. 686 00:28:00,540 --> 00:28:02,040 Austin, thank you so much for joining me. 687 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,880 In my apartment. 688 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,520 This Wednesday Night Book Club. 689 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:05,360 I'm Andy Rice. 690 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:06,600 This has been Austin Farrell. 691 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,560 The book was, what did we read? 692 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,920 Running the Light by Sam Talent. 693 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,240 Go to Sam Talent's website. 694 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,400 Go see his shows. 695 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,360 Watch his show, Wide World. 696 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:16,600 What's his special called again? 697 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,440 The Toad's Morale. 698 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,260 Perfect. 699 00:28:18,260 --> 00:28:19,200 Check him out on Kill Tony as well. 700 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,560 He's really funny. 701 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:35,560 All right everyone, have a great night.