Hey everybody, welcome to Jon D podcast.
I'm your host, Jon D Miller.
Welcome to episode number 57 everybody.
Number 57 numero cinquenta y siete in the old Espanol language.
That's right.
Mm hmm.
981 going on 982 days as I begin to record this.
Days of no booze.
No booze.
Yeah, no booze.
How are yees?
How are yous?
How are y'alls?
You know, do people like that intro?
Do y'all like it?
Huh?
I was talking to executive producer, THOM HANCUFF.
That's his voicemail when you call him.
And I would say it to him about, because we used to do stand up together.
I talked to him about stand up all the time.
I love that dude like family, but that's how I met him.
But I was saying to him, I was like, man, I'm thinking about doing this thing in my
act, in my stand up act there.
And he said, yeah, but if you do that, you might get stuck having to do it like all the
time.
You know, are those type things?
And I thought, hmm, that's probably the smartest thing you've ever said to me, Tom.
But he was right.
And so now, but that's like my intro, right?
I mean, some of you people might be new, but people who've listened before, that's my intro.
You're like, oh, here I am, right?
Here comes this dude.
So I don't know.
But one thing that you did probably notice if you listened to the podcast before, which,
by the way, everybody, thank you, listened to episode 56, one of my most popular ones
in a while.
Fantastic.
You might've noticed on the way in though, that there was no what they call programmatic
ad.
You know, people try to make money out of stuff they do, podcasters, musicians, comedians,
you sell stuff, you whatever.
And so I was doing that to, you know, try to make a make a little bit of scratch out
of this thing.
And but I just the feedback I got and stuff like that.
And some things behind the scenes have changed as far as what's going on with us.
So yeah, so that changed.
And yeah, I'm not saying you won't hear advertising, of course, blendjet.com, John D. pod one
to a checkout for 12% off and free shipping, you're still going to hear that.
But you won't hear the online casino and stuff like that type things, you know, you won't
hear those.
I'm not saying they'll never come back for now.
They're, they're not here.
Okay.
And we also have some segment, as sponsors and stuff like that.
We'll solve all that stuff.
I'm just saying those those other ones, what you know, what thing about those that I and
I know how technology works.
And I know how IP addresses work and blah, blah, blah.
I don't I don't need a update.
I don't need a anything like that.
But one of the things is how do they know where you are?
Because those ads supposed to be reasonable for you.
So wherever you were, especially in the United States, or in Europe, if wherever you were,
you're supposed to hear ads that were from your local area, as well as some that are,
you know, like they are my casino shit.
But how do you know where you are?
Are they watching you man?
Are they watching you?
But anyways, so you know, things change.
Progress happens, right?
Okay.
So I don't even know where to go with this episode because of just everything that's
been going on in the world in the last since the last time, which by the way, yeah, thank
you everybody 56.
That was amazing.
But yeah, I don't even know where to start with this one.
I guess I'm going to start you with this.
I'm going to just tell you that admit that I shaved off half of my right eyebrow the other
day.
Yeah, I figured that, you know, I'll start off with a funny little little story.
So okay, this is what happened.
I was dealing with the kid.
I said, I'm going to go get cleaned up a little bit because I had some professional things
that I had coming up and still have that I need to look a little more professional for.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So I was getting ready to go do that and I had my my trimmer, my beard trimmer and I
my old one had like this one, those dial things, right?
This went up and down, but that thing got old and got worn out.
My lovely wife, Liz got me a new one a while back and it's but it's got the attachments
on it and it's been fine.
Except I've had a couple of incidences where at one point I actually messed up my beard.
I had to take that off mostly pretty much because yeah, I screwed it up.
So yeah, that was fun.
And then this thing with the eyebrow, which is, you know, I have these attachments, but
I know which ones are which and I didn't really shave it off.
I got some I got some hair up there on that thing on that ridge with my eyebrow.
I got something on there.
But so there's like art.
So one one attachment is like one of them is like light gray.
The other one is dark gray.
And the one I needed was the dark gray, I believe, and but I had put the light gray
on because I was talking to a kid and I was like, all right, let me do this real quick.
And then, you know, whatever, we'll go do stuff.
And I was I was moving the trimmer towards my eyebrow and right.
Like as the things like about to get it's probably like maybe a half an inch away from
my eyebrow.
And I looked and I noticed that it was the wrong one.
Right.
It's the wrong one.
And but it was weird.
I mean, I think a lot of things out of like a like a movie or whatever or a bounty paper
towel commercial, you know, where they go, no, which those are all stupid except the
one where the people have that they knocked the dumpling thing and it goes sliding across
table and people go, no.
And the dog is at the bottom.
Go, yes, it's the best one.
Best one.
But it was like one of those moments.
But I was me doing it and I still I couldn't stop myself.
It was like, you know, and I got about halfway.
And yeah, it was one of those moments where you just like, I really am.
How am I 49 years old?
I don't.
That's literally what I thought.
How are you an adult?
I mean, I know I'm a big kid on the inside.
I fully admit it.
I'm not going to ever tell.
Yeah, I'm the most mature person you will ever meet.
Bullshit.
No.
And I'm OK with it.
I'm just saying.
But it was me.
It was.
Yeah.
So I still got some fuzz on it.
Because like at one point, Liz was like, well, you could just draw the thing.
You could just draw it back.
I'm like, I'm not doing that.
You know, the women do and they draw.
Yeah, I'm not doing that.
But you know what I found?
I don't know why I was like I said, I don't know what made it stand out to me.
I didn't know this.
But apparently for a long time in Greek and Roman, the Greek and Roman era back at the
height of their what they did, which was a lot, that the unibrow was actually considered
a sign of beauty and wisdom for women.
Yeah, the unibrow and that women would sometimes use this.
What caught it was it was a charcoal like pencil to create the look.
Or this is what really got me about it.
Women as far as gluing goat hair or mouse hair to their arches.
How would they do that?
Would they use was a honey?
What do they use?
You know, they didn't have they have gorilla glue back then.
You know, you go and you watch a movie like like the fall of the Roman Empire or Ben Hur
or even gladiator.
Did any of them have any of those women have a unibrow and then I don't think so.
I don't think they did.
Wait, did history of the world?
Oh, that makes me wonder.
Also my thing, though, is about that.
Did the men in Rome and Greece have anything to say about this happening?
You know, like, honey, look, I glued some goat hair onto my face.
Yeah, I'm going to join the legion.
All right, I'll be back.
And however long it takes me to get to Bavaria and back, if I come back at all, I assume
that the men actually probably were into it to some extent.
Women could be powerful, but they had to be in certain situations to be that way.
So I would imagine that if if if the men were like, hey, I glued some mouse hair on my face,
you should have removed the mouse first.
OK.
This is one of the things I think is interesting that I saw recently.
It was where this guy in a Florida man, which how many stories start with that?
A Florida man, this guy named Elijah Mills, he's 27 years old and lives in Maitland, Florida,
which is in Polk County.
I scored four touchdowns with Polk County, something like Hank Hill.
Who was it?
Who scored four to oh, was married with children.
Where the hell that guy's name was?
Ed O'Neill is the actor.
Why am I spacing out his name?
Doesn't matter.
Point being, this guy named Elijah Mills, 27 of Maitland, Florida, was put in a jail
on Wednesday in charges of grand theft motor vehicle and driving with that, what they suspended
or revoked license is what it said.
So here's what this here's what this work of art did.
He had rented a vehicle from someplace like a Hertz or a enterprise.
You know, the ones that got their stuff together, not the type of places that, you know, the
side of the road type joints.
You know, like this is not even going to get me around the corner, much less.
Yeah.
So one of those type places.
So he rented the vehicle and then he just stopped making payments on it.
The rental of the car.
OK, so enterprise and Hertz, if you stop making, you're not making payments on the vehicle,
they will.
They have a thing in the vehicle.
They can shut the engine off where it won't restart.
Like once it turns off, it will not start again unless they obviously unless they unlock
it.
Right.
So this guy, he was what he was doing.
He was going on.
He was doing Uber rides to people in the car, just taking it around, just picking people
up and doing Uber rides because of the device or whatever they have to the setup.
He couldn't let the car shut off because he wouldn't be able to restart it.
He left the car running for three days straight.
That's what I said.
Whatever you said to yourself, that's what I just said.
Do you think the neighbors ever?
Hey, man, your car's been running for like two days.
I mean, I don't know where he lived, but I'm obviously didn't in some crowded apartment
complex, right?
How would you also wouldn't that eat into your profit margin a little bit?
Because you got to sleep at some point in that three days.
I assume there are ways and means to not sleep much in three days.
How would he?
Yeah, wouldn't that eat into your profit?
I mean, gas has gotten cheaper, but it's not that much cheaper.
This will leave it running for three days.
Like, what's the point of that?
So this is so back this past week, this past Tuesday, he was giving an Uber ride to a couple
from the United Kingdom, UK.
These people must have been, you know, if we don't have a bad enough reputation around
the world, people do people in other countries in Europe and places like that think that
America is one of the most wildest places you could ever do.
Not all of it.
But I've met people that have never been here before.
This is when I've traveled to other other places or maybe they've just been here and
only seen certain parts or, you know, whatever.
I'll ask about what's California like or whatever.
But they think that some.
Yeah.
But there's people who never will come here.
They only believe what they see on TV, which nobody should.
And they think that we're just a fucking wild west man.
That's what he was doing.
So he's giving these people from the UK Uber ride and they were their wedding.
They were having their wedding wherever, wherever they were going somewhere in Florida, but
they're from UK.
OK.
So on the highway, these debuts pulled up alongside the car.
It was a Chevy Equinox, right?
Mills is driving that guy.
Elijah Mills is driving these people in the bag.
Hey, could you take us over to having a wedding?
Bloody hell.
You know, probably or something.
All of a sudden, the vehicle gets boxed in by a bunch of debuts, sheriff's debuts, licensed
sirens, box in the vehicle and stop them.
And they pull them out and they had found the vehicle because they I guess they got
tracking in those things.
They just talk about how they can shut the engine off.
They can still track it.
So I guess they finally caught up to him.
I just couldn't get it.
I just could not get around that keeping the screw it.
I'll just leave it running and I'll sleep for like four hours.
I'll come out.
I'll drive for four hours.
I'll sleep for something.
What is the tactical plan in that?
This is the only thing I saw.
So this other guy has gone viral.
I don't have the guy's name.
It was something that sounded kind of.
I don't know.
He sounded kind of douchey.
Anyways, that's yeah.
I said it.
Yeah.
You seem like one of those people that you know, you just wouldn't want to talk to him
for more than like three minutes because you'd be like, shut up.
Right.
This guy's gone viral though on Tik Tok and some of the other bit, but just look it up
where this guy he talks about how he's upset and he's kind of like, it's weird if you watch
the video, the guy is upset because he is from LA and he was in New York, right?
New York.
I mean to go the difference between Los Angeles and New York city is it's a, it's a pretty,
pretty big difference.
And I've been to both and they are, they are a huge difference.
Just for so many reasons.
One of them being this.
Okay.
This guy got upset while he was upset with New York city, much less a bagel shop that
he went to where the, he went in there because in apparently in Los Angeles and I've been
there, I've never asked for this to be done.
This is the thing.
Everybody thinks that that people in LA and I haven't been there in years, but when I
had been there, yes, you do see the people that you're like, wow, that's a typical, you
know, that's the stereotype of LA.
And you see that gambit of the whole, you know, all of them to the Cal from the California
server all the way to the, the fake lady with the whatever.
And the people who drink liquefied kale and whatever gluten free, which is what this guy
was going for.
Apparently in Los Angeles, if you go into a bagel shop and you say, Hey, I want a gluten
free bagel.
Okay.
I mean, what the, what is that about gluten free bagel?
You know what?
Just don't, I'm tired of the gluten shit.
Oh, is that, is there gluten in it?
I don't know.
Once you figure out what comes in food, you ever thought about that?
You know, my wife is allergic to onions.
I get it.
We go out, we don't, you know, we don't have, we have to be careful about that.
And we do.
But if you're going to sit there and just question everything, it's gluten.
Allergic to gluten.
Like people don't even know.
I had a woman one time I was working in the kitchen at a place.
I was the kitchen manager at the time.
And she came in and she wanted a piece of chicken that was grilled.
Nothing green.
She wanted nothing green on her plate.
She was allergic to green stuff.
That's what the lady told us.
Yeah.
So my thing is if you're going to go and get a gluten free bagel, you're already in the
wrong direction is what I'm trying to tell you.
Okay.
You're already in the wrong direction.
So this guy apparently can go into this place in Los Angeles and he can say, I'm going to
get a gluten free bagel with the scoop.
You get to get to scoop and they scoop it out.
Now I have done this with bagels before because I have actually gone, Hey, come on fatty.
Maybe scoop some of that out before you slather the cream cheese.
And I must admit sometimes some ham on top of that, especially with green olives.
Whoa.
So good anyways.
Yeah.
But apparently he can do this in Los Angeles.
This guy on Tik Tok that I saw.
And like I said, he's kind of like, he's like, ha ha ha joking about it, but he's really
not joking about it.
You know, the people.
And so he, uh, he's like, yeah, so I go in this place, they go in this place and the
deal was okay.
Could I get a gluten free bagel with a scoop?
And then the guy was like, I'm not doing that shit.
Get the fuck out of here.
Yeah.
And he's like, Oh, I couldn't get that.
Really?
Why couldn't I just get that?
Because you're not in Los Angeles.
Stop going other places and expecting it to be exactly the same.
It's not.
That's what makes traveling fun.
And if you're going to get a bagel, this gluten free just shut up.
Yeah.
I got a low fat gluten free bagel.
You don't want a bagel.
Nonsense.
So, yeah, I'm just saying that's one of the things you just like, Oh my God, how, how,
how, how?
And at the end of the video, he just is like, okay, well, so that's the way it is, I guess
in New York on to the next one.
Just to stop, just stop, man.
Where am I at?
All right.
I gotta take a break.
Yeah, I gotta take a break.
Don't forget.
You can follow me Twitter.
I still call it Twitter because on, because Elon Musk can't make it fix it on my computer,
on my Mac.
It still says Twitter.
It's the X logo, but it still says Twitter.
And I just go to Elon Musk.
But for right now, I'm still on there.
John D comedy, John D comedy podcast, John D podcom on Instagram, Johnny podcast on Facebook.
You can email the show, johndpodcom at gmail.com on and on threads, johnny.com.
But coming up after the break, we're going to have, I asked and people I know you're
out there and you did it.
I asked for somebody to email.
I got two of them.
One too.
Yep.
I got them.
And it's fantastic.
I, uh, so we're going to read an email, one from Tyler and one from Kelly.
When we get back from the break.
And then we got some other stuff to talk about, including summer lighthearted, summer not.
All right.
But I want you to hear it.
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How was your break everybody?
How was it?
Huh?
Did you have a good time?
Mine was just literally a matter of a few minutes.
That's all it was.
I know you hear me rustling papers around because I'm I got my notes everywhere.
All right.
As I was saying before the break that we got had some emails.
I did Johnny pod com at gmail.com.
I said, Hey, can you guys send me some emails?
I haven't had any while and a couple people answered.
This first one is from Tyler.
Dear John D. How's it going?
Pretty good.
I just want to drop a line to express how much I'm enjoying your show.
And you asked for people to email.
You're right.
I didn't I wasn't sitting here going, Oh, what the hell does this guy want?
No, I figured that part out.
He says, I think your insights on the NHL are pretty on point.
And I couldn't agree more with your recent commentary on the exorbitant charges by streaming
services like Hulu.
Yeah, I know.
That's what I'm saying.
He says it is getting a little out of hand, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
It's getting out of hand and they're all going up.
I was just reading what Apple TV just announced that they're going to go up.
You know, look, you're going to put the stuff out there.
Keep it at a reasonable cost.
Come on.
It's you know, it is it's supply and demand.
That's what it is.
Because it's popular now.
Everybody's doing it.
So they're like, fuck, raise the shit up.
That's what they do.
Now, I've already read this email.
So I know it's coming.
And I gotta I gotta tell you something, Tyler, you're gonna you're gonna hit me in the fields
here in a second.
He says in your last episode, was it the last one?
No, this is before.
Yeah.
Anyways, he says in your last episode, you mentioned your distaste for Jimmy Buffett's
music.
While I respect your opinion, I have to admit I'm on the other end of this spectrum there.
Oh, boy.
And then you say this.
He says my dad was a huge Buffett fan.
So when I listen to his tunes, it's almost like I'm back in the old living room sharing
a beer with my pops.
Ah, you got me right in the fields, man.
You got me right in the fields, Tyler.
Look, I'm not saying that you can't enjoy them.
People can enjoy you know, music is in the eye or the ear of the beholder of the beauty
and anything art is, you know, music is art.
And that beauty lies in the eye or the ear of the beholder.
And you know, I wasn't saying anything bad about him.
You know, there's certain music people like and you know what?
If it brings back memories to listen to Buffett, then you do it all day, man.
You do it.
Okay.
That's a good memory to have.
You know, if you like them, if your dad liked them, you know, executive producer, Tom Higg,
that's his voicemail when you call him.
He had to do it all the time.
He he was saying he's like, hey, man, I like Buffett.
And I said, I know, I know, I wasn't ripping on you, man, or him.
So you know, if you like them, dude, do it up.
You know, I'm sure there's music that I like that you might be like, that's stuff's garbage
or you don't see the big deal about it.
You know, all anything in between.
So it's okay.
I get where you're coming from on that.
And I think what it was honestly with that, hold on, let's go back to that for a second,
Tyler.
One of the things I think about that also was the fact that this woman, if you caught
the beginning of the story and if anybody did and if Tom did, when he was giving me
grief, well, you're bust on the guy and then you're like, but I'm saying, you know, hey,
he's not that bad.
Which I was just trying to leave that open ended.
But I did.
I was kind of like offended or whatever or astonished or I'm not even sure the term I'm
looking for.
But I really was kind of like because she was so like, oh my God, how could you not
care?
No, it's not that I didn't care.
I'm sure he was a nice enough guy.
I just, I just didn't, you know, the guy hadn't, what was the last time he'd written a new
song?
I don't know.
But he sure had a lot of old ones that people sure loved to hear him play.
And that's great.
You got classics.
That's awesome.
But I didn't like the stuff.
And she just seemed like I was like I was being a dick.
I was sad in the fact that a person died.
Okay.
That's, that's what it was.
I think that was, that was a part of the, that was a big part of the reason I told the
story and to begin with was because the lady in the Wawa was like, maybe I didn't explain
it well enough.
Maybe I didn't.
I've definitely done that in the past here on here.
So sorry about that.
And then he says, by the way, if you ever make it down to Cincinnati for a standup
gig down to stand up in Cincinnati, I like that.
He says, count me in.
But yeah, that'd be awesome.
I actually did.
What was it?
One time I did the funny bone.
I guess it's in Kentucky.
The funny was that on the levy on the levy thing, it was years ago and I used to drink
a lot.
But yeah, that was, I went there one time and, uh, but I, not Cincinnati.
I don't think I had like Cincinnati proper.
Uh, but I would if I ever, if I ever get back, man, if I ever get back into it to the point
where I'm doing stuff like that, hell yeah, dude.
Um, and I'll let you know if I'm doing that, right?
Like you specifically, I will let you know if I'm, uh, and I always email people back,
um, try to, uh, but I usually do it after the episode has, has been published.
So that way I'm not, you know, I don't want to be giving anything away before you actually
just get to hear it.
I'll sell a email you if I ever get back to Cincinnati, the chances of that happening
anytime soon are probably not that great, but you never, you never know.
Bill bangles and best regards, Tyler.
All right, man.
Hey, thank you, dude.
You're not the only person that's ever I've ever talked to from that area.
Um, email wise, I don't remember what it was.
It wasn't you.
So thanks for writing in, man.
I'll let you know.
And, oh, and you were asking about NHL stuff.
I haven't done that really yet.
There's some good teams out there.
Buffalo, Detroit, these young teams.
I love watching these young teams come up.
I'm afraid my caps are getting too old, but I don't know.
We're gonna, we're gonna see.
I do need to do some NHL on here though.
Um, and I need to get back to doing some, I did NFL, uh, what week five, I covered that
and then, but I know I haven't really done a lot of the sports lately, but you know,
but I will, I will be very, very soon.
I hope.
All right.
I gotta go, Tyler.
Leave me alone.
Thanks, dude.
All right.
This next email is interesting in the fact that this person has known me for a very
long time, but they're not like a friend or a family, which I think is pretty cool.
This one comes from Kelly and she says, my name is Kelly and I'm writing to you as a
long time fan of your work.
I think she's being facetious, but here's what she says.
Back in the early 2000s, I used to catch your shows at Wise Acres Comedy Club in Tyson's
Corner, Virginia.
Wise Acres Comedy Club in Tyson's Corner, which up in Fairfax, if you don't know that,
it's the DC area for anybody, you know, that's where I started out.
A lot of great comics I met in that place.
Locals as well as ones that would come through and work the weekends.
Fantastic.
I miss that place.
She says they at Wise Acres Comedy Club in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, always after a
rambunctious happy hour with my dental school pals.
And I remember there was a group, there was a group that would come in, they would come
in on Friday nights.
It was one on show on Friday, two on Saturday, and they would come in Friday night show after
happy hour across the street, which why do I always forget the name of that bar we used
to go, Mr. Henry's.
I think, yeah, why do I always forget that?
This is where if Tom was on the show, he would just say it and I go, yeah, that's the one.
Because he always remember it and I don't, but I used to drink a lot.
So I've been a listener of your podcast since around episode 20.
That's going back a little ways because I do have some breaks in there where I'm not always
right on it.
But yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good, that's a long time.
And she says, and I must say the way you've transitioned into this medium is truly remarkable.
Always reminds me of those good old days at Wise Acres.
Okay.
I don't know how.
I mean, you know, if I could, if I could go back and do Wise Acres all over again, geez,
like just that growing phase.
But I was, it was also me as a person.
That's one reason I guess why I, why I always miss it so much.
You know, you miss things because not just necessarily what you were doing at the time,
but also like you'll miss things sometimes like, oh, I miss being in that place.
I miss doing that.
And you miss it not just because you were doing it, but also where you were at a time
in your life.
And with some points it was awful, but at the same time it was also just, just times
and things you just never will forget and things that you were, that you learned.
But here we go.
She says on a side note, I recall Tom handcuff, your executive producer.
I didn't, I didn't, I said it normal.
Your executive producer from the Wise Acres days.
He was an absolute riot.
Yeah.
There you go.
Tommy boy.
Huh?
That should make you feel good.
You y'all are a rowdy bunch too.
I remember, you know, his things I remembered.
You had this one dude in that group who was like, geez, he had, okay, here's one of the
things I thought was funny.
He was a, he was a pretty good size dude, right?
Nice dude, very nice guy.
And he was in the group and he was about what?
Six, two, six, three.
And he had the buddy had these big hands.
I remember just being like, geez, you're going to try to put your hand inside somebody's
mouth.
I don't, you think that's a really a good idea?
Do you think that's a really, he was like, Nope, that's what I'm doing.
Obviously there's no Wise Acres anymore.
It's gone.
The whole hotel is kaput's.
I didn't even know what's in that place anymore.
But I mean, the place was kind of old to begin with anyways, but yeah.
All the best, Kelly.
All the best.
I liked that.
Those are good.
I liked those.
I like, I mean, kind of regards are nice, but all the best.
I think all the best is the good one.
Cool.
Awesome.
Thank you for writing in Kelly and Tyler.
That was really cool.
That, you know, and I think Tom will get a huge shout out.
I'm not going to tell him ahead of time.
He was funny.
Tom was a fricking good standup.
He doesn't do any more.
He's other life things.
You know, Tom was a, Tom was a funny dude.
He still is a funny dude.
He just, I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to tell his jokes, but yeah, that's
pretty cool.
That's pretty cool that she remembers.
And thank you to you both for doing that.
If I ever get any like a t-shirt or something, I'll, I'll mail it to people.
I'll send you one.
Like I'll, you're already on back order.
I should get something to send people.
Well, you know what?
You can always donate to the show.
Now, if I ever get the budget for that, I definitely send something.
Well, thanks for writing in.
And I, you know what?
I'm not even going to get to everything I want to talk about because I've just been talking
about other things and I just ramble on.
That's what I do.
That's, I stopped even doing the whole, not going to be a long episode.
Then it took it.
It took it.
It took.
Yeah.
I'd have to do it all the time if I, if I did that.
Right.
But let's do our charities.
Okay.
Let's do those.
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from school.
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Some of them have wounds that are external or internal that they might need help with
or even just accessible housing.
Wounded Warrior Project.
Okay.
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drink.
And we're going to be doing that for the rest of the show.
So, we're going to be doing that for the rest of the show.
It's making a difference by helping homeless dogs and cats and shelters be adopted faster
and in more numbers.
Their goal is to have the entire country, no kill shelters by the year 2025.
And after all that charity, if you've got time for a little cher-a-me, you can support
the show on Venmo, John D Podcom, J-O-N-D-P-O-D-C-O-M on Venmo.
I'm going to throw a couple bucks in.
That's cool.
That'd be awesome.
Are you required to?
No.
And this is the thing.
This is the thing about this episode.
I actually have been trying to work on this for several days, actually.
That's why I say a lot of times at the beginning, I'm like, you know, as I begin to record this,
because it could be a couple days of recording here and there.
It could be a couple days of editing here and there.
And so with this episode, I know I hate to be, and I don't want it to be like this, but
I have to address it.
This is supposed to be sort of a comedy podcast.
It has its moments, right?
I do want to talk about this.
And that is the fact that Mr. Matthew Perry died.
We've had quite a few deaths.
Miss Suzanne Summers, that was obviously.
Great history behind her and what she did.
I mean, she was an icon.
She really was.
You can't take it away from her.
She really was.
Mr. Bert Young, we all know as Paulie from the Rocky movies.
I always really liked him as a as a chauffeur and back to school.
Although that was a great, that was great.
Yeah, just the typical goony type of guy.
You know, Richard Mall from Night Court.
I always loved the one line.
This one line he had in Night Court where he was barring Dan, the perverted prosecuting
lawyer.
He he was borrowing money from Bull, Richard Mall's character, because he had some he had
some sort of a hot tip on something to make money.
He needed the money to go to go do the better, something like that.
And so he's getting the money from Bull and Bull says to him, he's like, OK, I'm going
to get this money back because if I don't, I'm going to take off.
I'm going to rip off your head.
I'm going to empty it.
And then I'm going to use it for a planter.
It was just and it was just funny.
He just said it like this is fact.
This is what's going to happen.
But it was hilarious.
And then Dan takes the money.
He runs to get on the elevator and this guy mugs him.
Classic show.
Night Court.
Yeah, Richard Mall.
And then, of course, and then, of course, you know, Matthew Perry, which, you know,
I watch Friends.
It made me really sad.
You know, I I I watched Friends.
I liked Friends.
You know, I like the show.
I watched it.
I like Chandler.
The character was I thought Matthew Perry was was a very there's a good actor.
I thought he did a lot of great work and not just Friends.
But I mean, obviously, that's an iconic role.
That was an iconic show.
The show was seen in around the world.
I remember one time there was a this is one thing I think it was from like Turkey.
I want to say it was from Turkey and it was it was a person.
It was a person that was, you know, like an American, but they were over there on some
sort of a trip and they had a they had a picture of the TV.
And on the TV was a picture of Joey and Chandler from Friends.
You know, it was probably an old one.
But yeah, it was on there.
Why it really made me really sad was because, you know, I've I've struggled with my own
addiction with alcohol.
And when I first decided that I was going to quit, like I have to I got to do something.
You know, I'm I'm you know, I'm feeling it like I'm feeling like this is I'm good.
Something bad's going to happen if I keep doing this, if I keep going the way I am,
I need out.
But I knew it was going to be very hard.
But I wanted to be able to break the addiction.
But I also knew that, you know, the physical addiction is one thing.
The mental and emotional addiction is another.
And so when I first quit, the first day I woke up, for some reason, I don't know, I
was kind of half asleep, to be honest.
And they give me this medication to take for the first few days.
Linkin Park's What I've Done was was a song that I became like my anthem for a little
bit there.
And it's a good tune.
And another thing that I also really kind of bonded to and glammed onto or whatever
the word you want to call it.
Was reading about Matthew Perry and some of the stuff in the interviews and stuff like
that and hearing some of the stories about what he had gone through.
This is back in February of 18th.
I quit drinking February 18th, 2021.
And that's when all this started.
But hearing about everything he had been through, you know, the pills and everything else and
thinking one, I don't have it that bad.
But also, if somebody who has that much can be in a situation that I were there feeling
the way I'm feeling, and they can do what they can what they've done.
It just gave me a good bit of hope.
So yeah, so it really bummed me out.
I know it bummed a lot of people out.
I'm not the only one.
But that was one of those like, you know, he really inspired me in a lot of ways to
really get away from alcohol permanently for good.
And in a couple weeks, I'll be at a thousand days.
So he was one of the reasons why, you know, even after I quit drinking and I continued
to read on about what was, you know, what was going on with Matthew Perry and what he'd
been through.
He was expressing to people about how he really wanted to help people who had also been fighting
addiction.
And that was really man.
And it had inspired me to be the same as well.
It really had.
You know, it really inspired me to say to myself, you know, you're going to do this
and you're going to help other people do this.
And I really am.
I really do.
Anybody who ever hears this, whoever wants any sort of direction or anything, I'm not
sure what I can do, but I'm always willing to help.
And that's one of the things that Matthew Perry said, you know, you're always willing
to help other people.
That's what you should be in life.
It's one of the things that I've really tried to practice and do, and it's one of the things
is, and I say it all the time, empower the people around you and your life will be better
and theirs will be better and help the people around you.
You know, I'm not saying you go too far out of your way, but you know, there's things
you could do.
And his way of helping was by trying to help people understand that addiction is it doesn't
have to rule you.
It doesn't have to rule your life.
And I'm not saying that I have everything under control in my life, but I do have alcohol
under control and I think I'm doing great with it.
I'm proud of myself and I want to just give at least partial credit to Matthew Perry for
helping me do that.
It really was one of those situations where I said, Hey, I like that guy.
He seems like a cool guy.
He fell into the pits of addiction as well, but he's fighting it.
I could probably fight it too.
Yeah, I could do it.
So for that, thank you, Matthew Perry and may he rest in peace.
I feel like that's good.
I feel like we need to stop for today.
Executive producers for John D podcast are Tom Hancoff and Liz Miller.
Thanks to them each for helping to make this happen in their own ways.
This episode was recorded and produced by yours truly John D Miller in the Amber tree
media studio.
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