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Hey everybody, welcome to Jon D Podcast. I'm your host Jon D Miller. Welcome to

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episode number 71 numero setenta y uno in the old espanol language. That's right.

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Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. That's how I should say it. 1383 going on 1384. Is it 83 or is it 84?

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Is it 84, 85? Shit. No, I think that's it's 183 going on 184. Yeah, because it's after

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midnight when I am recording this. So that's what that technically is. But I

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don't know if I wanted to cheat a little bit I could say 84 going on 85 because it's

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been so long since I've been here and you know I don't know when it's gonna

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come out so maybe if it's a day or two then I might have an issue. You know

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because then I'm behind I don't think I've done that much in my and all my

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time of doing Jon D Podcast. I don't think I've done that. I don't

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think I have. Anyways, how are ye's, how are you's, how are y'all's? It's got three

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years, nine months, and 15 days. Is that what it was? Is that what it is? Oh my

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gosh. You know if you had told me three years, nine months, and 15 days ago, hey

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Jon or maybe a little before that so but if you said hey Jon you know in

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this amount of time almost four years you're gonna be at not having having

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drinking that long and I've probably been like shut up and give me my shot.

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That's probably what I said. Shut up. Quit lying faker. I think pretty much by this

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point when I was well when I was at this point when I started quitting three

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years, nine months, and 15 days ago I was ready to be done so that's why I

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that's why I was saying you gotta back it up a little bit. I think it's always

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funny when people talk about if you told me such and such amount of time like

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well but at the time you weren't ready to be done or you were getting to a

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point where it was you know go back a little further and then I was telling my

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lovely wife Liz you know that's the thing you go back like go back ten years and

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then talk to me you know if you had said hey John in ten years from now to this

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day next December here in 2014 in ten years from now in 2024 you will have

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been almost four years with no booze I'd said uh-huh and then what else happened

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and then you would have told me all the other crazy shit that was happening in

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the world and I've been like okay well I would have thought that with all of that

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I would have continued drinking and I did for almost four years which

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coincides with a lot of stuff a lot of stuff that's going on right now and I

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don't know am I gonna have to start drinking again that's what the fuck I

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want to know I I don't know if I don't even want to go into it I have told

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myself I had everybody I you know I'm like look I want this to be a bastion of

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where everybody can come together not necessarily I don't want to lie and say

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that if you support certain things and certain people I don't want you to

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listen to this podcast but if you're a nice kind person that likes to laugh at

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dumb shit and listen to myself then yeah come on in hang out let's have a good

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time because we are better than that we're gonna do what we can and we're

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gonna we're gonna deal with it and you know on both sides of this wherever you

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might lie as far as political parties go there are allies to each other in both

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there are allies to each other so remember that and I don't know maybe we

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have some new new movement I just hope that we as a country don't take a giant

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movement and and become total total garbage time will tell but our own

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fortitude and the way we handle it and when we do things with each other is

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gonna be key okay so that's what I'll say about that at least for now okay but I

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think that was good all right but yeah thanks to everybody thanks for listening

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to episode 70 I know it has been two months since I was here a little over

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two months and I am very sorry but I have been busy which has been very cool

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but I do want to say thank you to everybody who listened to episode 70

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that was by myself and you people I don't know what it is you show up it's

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not always the same amount of numbers we go was if it's always the same every

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time well then he's probably bots and all that I fucking I know how that I

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know how it works okay I'm not an idiot okay at least I'd not in the sense of I

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know how podcast that statistics work say that again jerk anyways like I get

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all that but you guys keep showing up for me and then you know and then I get

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the residual every once in a while somebody might find it and everything

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else but thanks everybody who listened to it it was really cool and a non

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explicit episode a couple people is this is this what you're gonna do all the

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time no I am not as you've already heard this one's not gonna be a non explicit

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episode but anyways thank you to everybody you keep turning up for me and

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I love it and I hopefully you turn up for this one because I know it has been

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a long time oh real quick I want to do this big shout out real quick to to mr.

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Patrick Logan for having me on his show again at another round bar and grill and

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man that was awesome it's fun it was weird it once again it's weird going to

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a place that I grew up going to that was a Greek it was called the celebrity room

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it's just I don't know I did like 12 or 14 I did it you know okay here's why I

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mentioned it is because I've been working on new material I know I'd have

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been been doing the stand-up that much as I'd like to be but other things have

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been going on got it I but here's the thing I have been working on material

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and that my set was it was a showcase set but whatever but you know what I

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really liked was there were segments I'm starting to put together segments of

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jokes of routines okay this joke's gonna go here or and this this is gonna go in

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this spot and then this is gonna and that's how comics build acts and I

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went there last night with that in mind with that intention they were a little

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uptight I'm not gonna lie they're a little tight and I was in his polish I

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was like to have been but a lot of my material wasn't because it was new but I

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think that I was I dug it I was digging it I first I was I got off stage I was

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like man and that's every comic like you know you'll get people that say to you

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oh great set man great set you know like that sucked that was not and not

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necessarily that it sucks but you know as a comic that it could have been

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better right as a comic you always want to do your best I don't think there's

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any comics that go out and they're like yeah all right I'm gonna kind of like

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halfway I'm gonna half-ass this you know as a comic you always want to do well

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and so I think it's really if you're worth your salt and you're trying

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mentally I think then physically you're gonna do all you can in your own

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particular style to make it as good as you want it to and I mean by like

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delivery cadence your timing making sure your words are set correct like right

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that that's what it is so I wasn't happy with this set and but I was happy

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listening to it later on with the segments that were going into it I think

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I think that was huge and I really liked it I had some nice little strings that

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were a good minute or two and you might go that's it yeah but these are the you

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know when you get any when you grow a plant you know you know I'm saying any

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kind of plant just any any any kind of plant not one particular plant type or

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anything but when you grow a plant and you first get those sprouts and they're

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coming up and you got a few leaves on it and you can make out the shape of the

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leaf and you can tell what kind of leaf it is but my point is that that's what

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these are that's what these are becoming and not that any of my jokes have ever

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been more than a couple minutes I mean whether they be a little bit longer some

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jokes when you write them you write them out they become longer they just kind of

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string them together or you write one joke and then a month later you write

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the other one it's one reason why like when my buddy Darrell Purvis was on when

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he was on a while back he was saying how like the more you work the more you

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write and I feel like if I was doing more gigs I feel like I would have

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written more by now had I had more gigs but I haven't and but I'm happy with what

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it was I was happy what it was so a little bit of insight there I'm the

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pieces are coming together well my one old joke that I made into a new joke is

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still doing very good yeah all right so here's what's going on I know last

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episode no sponsor and also a couple people are like did that commercial you

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on rolling I want to talk about NHL maybe a little NFL real quick before we

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get to the email from RJ I want to give it up from my Washington Capitals for

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starting the season as I'm recording this they are 17 6 and 1 and have been

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without the great Alex Ovechkin for the last few games because he broke his

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fibula which sounds like something you is in space doesn't it now that's I know

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nebula but I'm just saying if somebody if you were talking to somebody in a bar

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and you were hammered they're like yeah you know the horse said fibula and you

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wouldn't probably know that's a nebula I'm not saying you'd be talking about

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like that in a bar if you I'm just saying I've had some dumb conversations

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in bars you never know what could happen I'm just saying if somebody said

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fibula and you were hammered yeah I'm not sure you would you would catch it

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that's my point but yeah he fact fractured but yeah he fractured his

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fibula Ovechkin did and he's been out four to six weeks apparently he's

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skating now but I'm just saying the team has responded they are playing very well

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I really got it I gotta say I'm we're a quarter into the season little over they

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look good I've been watching those caps since 86 I'm telling you I'm saying I've

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watched a lot of hockey in my day we I've talked about it before but I like

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this team I like them I like their additions I didn't like losing some of

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the people we lost I didn't like losing Nick Jensen but the pickup of Chikrin

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who's been doing has been awesome so shout out to them I love it I love it I

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love it and when Ove comes back he's got 27 to break the record he would have

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done it by Christmas probably but now no I don't know we'll see what happens you

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know to two lockouts and then now an injury I mean he would he should already

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be done by now I'm not necessarily playing but as far as getting this

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record he should already be done with it it should be done so that that kind of

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sucks and I felt feel bad for that guy because he was tearing up man he was

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tearing up the team's still doing it without him which you know when your AHL

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team such as the Hershey Bears did the last two years winning the American

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Hockey League Championship you got some talent in the system so it's I'm glad to

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see it coming to fruition keep doing it caps I want to get to this now because

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one it's long overdue because I got this email I don't know a month ago and my

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I've already communicated with the author of the email is that what it is

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I've been working on too many literary podcasts lately no this guy this guy

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wrote to me after episode 70 where I do it you can do it too okay if you take

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the minute mark of the episode title you put it in an email to me with the

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episode title where it appears at the minute mark of the episode and you're

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the first one to do it am I doing 30 of these freaking things or well it'd be a

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lot more than that if everybody did it but it's the first one it's the first

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one to do it okay don't be like hey I sent you an email where is my gift card

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because that's not gonna happen okay that's just not gonna happen all right

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oh the old where's Mike Diesel when I need him all right so I got this email

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and this guy like I said he wrote it to me and you could do it too with the

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minute mark title the episode right to John D podcom at gmail.com make sure you

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have it be something that I'm gonna recognize like say like episode 71 and

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you can even say the title of the episode in the email subject or whatever

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and then just whatever I'm just saying make sure it gets my attention okay

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because I've gotten emails from people and they didn't put anything that was

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very like descriptive of what the email was in the subject line so I either

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glanced over it or you know I do check spam and stuff every once in a while but

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I'm just saying I just make sure I see it okay this was from RJ and he wrote in

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to to get the Amazon gift card ten dollar Amazon gift card if you're the

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first person to do this I mean it's a quick email just if you're listening

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make a mental note write it down and then send it to me I'll send you any of

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the first one I'll send you an Amazon gift card all right so this is from RJ

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spelled a RJ a Y not RJ I know I've known an RJ the pet this is RJ did I did I get

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an RJ did I get it on chain up that's gonna be weird if I did did I hmm I'm

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have to go back and check or maybe it was one that I got and I didn't I didn't

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read the email I don't know Oh memories all right so this is from RJ and the

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subject episode this is what he said he said episode 70 title and a couple of

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questions because he does have a couple of questions which is the reason why

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this emails very cool all right he says hi John this is RJ saying hello from Reno

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Nevada yeah I you know and this is the thing I told RJ I when I emailed him and

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if he's hearing this he'll hopefully he hopefully he's still a listener and yeah

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I do see Reno pop up on my on my little thing because in pockets you get a map

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and you can see where people listen to you it's kind of cool but it's not

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always that accurate because sometimes the places are what they call them so

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the scent like central location data centers and stuff like that so but I do

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see Reno pop up and that so that's pretty cool he says I've got the last

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episode title for episode 70 lightning bug down lightning bug Dow well he put

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Dow which you mentioned at the 1458 mark and I emailed him I said Dow he said no

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I meant down I was typo I said all right cool so he says hopefully I'm the first

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to get it to you and can snag that Amazon gift card and yeah you were you

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were the first one we'll just leave it at that all right so yeah it's out there

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man and I know there's I know those people who listen I don't know why don't

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get listens a few more I have gotten on other ones other episodes I've gotten

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more than just what I got for this one but anyways RJ very yeah

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congratulations you got the the $10 Amazon gift card very good and I said

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also this this is well also one of the things I liked about this email is

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because I do like talking about comedy and I want to sort of keep this podcast

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focused on comedy as much as I can among some other things but it's one of the

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big topics I want to be a part of this podcast when does a comic know they've

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transitioned to being a working comic I thought that was an interesting coin of

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phrase the way it was said because people say all the time oh a pro comic

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well a pro comic like I'm not talking about what you got your first gig and I

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made $20 I made $20 and I'm a I'm a pro comic now ha ha okay yeah do that joke

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it's fine joke around like that but you're not a working so a working car

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and I had to think about this and RJ I didn't email with you the answer I'd but

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this so here it is when you're a working comic I that's when it's when you pay

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your bills with it and I don't mean just paying your bills like yeah I work this

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place or I work funny I work the clubs you know I work the funny bones in the

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comedy zones and I do stuff like that and that's great but and those are fun

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most of them not not all of them are to me when you're really a working comic is

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when you take a gig that you know is probably gonna suck either because

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you've heard it's gonna suck or because you've been there before and you know it

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sucks and so what you do and it's it it could be either looped into another you

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know a bunch of other nights but it and it sucks but it's part of the package

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or or it could be the type of situation where you know you take the gig you know

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because you know on the flip side of it even though it's gonna suck there's

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money involved and you have overpriced one bedroom or loft apartment or

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whatever the heck those things are that you know you're like shit I gotta I gotta

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pay for that thing maybe bought a car when you had a decent paying job or

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working a lot more and now you got to pay for the car you got bills and you

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know on the flip side of this of this gig there is money involved and so that

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you do the gig also as an add-on to that I would say that you're a working comic

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when you take a gig you know you go to the gig and you're like and this is

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also in the money factor but you get there let's say you know the scene on

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your mind like working for the Booker you don't even know him that well and

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maybe it's not that far a drive and I guess the shows going like the MC's on

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or maybe the feature acts on depending on your position is in the show at the

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time and you're like this is sucking like this is this is terrible and you're

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like I could just leave I could literally just leave and and not even do

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this show and just leave and nobody would even you know you might get a

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phone call from the Booker for whatever I'm a what the hell happened to you and

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what do you like whatever dude bye which is not a good thing to do you don't want

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to burn bridges and anything because word does get around but I'm just saying

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you're there and you're like man I don't want I don't want to do this but once

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again it is a simple factor of you gotta pay your bills with it that is when

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you're a working comic when you do shows that you don't really want to do because

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do you know what there is money involved and you know that you can go up there

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and tell some jokes and whether you sit there and talk to the lights for 30

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minutes or 40 minutes or whatever you know I gotta admit I was pretty

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I was pretty fortunate in a lot of my with headlining gigs I didn't end up or

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do them either by choice or just by happenstance where I was in a terrible

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situation where I was gonna have to do 45 minutes to just crickets like just and

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I was there done it I mean when I was I've seen it so many times being on the

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run my one time was in Michigan and it was like it was like a run you did in

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Michigan and it was this one night you go to and it was literally it was this big

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giant room and there was six people there and everybody sat in the back

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where you couldn't see them it was awful like they a couple people laughed and

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the owner was like hey you're expected to do 30 minutes all right okay he's like

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the guys last week it was sort of it was like this but I'm trying to build it up

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he probably never did but they cut early and then after the show the guy you know

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wanted to sit there and argue with me about getting paid for it and I'm paying

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you to do 30 minutes I want you to 30 minutes okay that's what I'm gonna do so

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you literally just you know I don't know it's kind of funny when you I had

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sometimes where you like you didn't even tell jokes you literally just sat there

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like I remember one time I was so bored telling these jokes and just nobody was

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listening and it looked like the place I was that looked like somebody taking a

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Bennegan's and made it into like a you know local watering hole it just nobody

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was paying attention and I just sat there one point I just started talking

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about the weather literally talking about the weather and yeah but I stayed

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up there I did my time because I needed the money and that RJ is is when as when

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you know you're a working comic yeah and I asked you in the email my email back

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to you a couple of emails but if you are a comic or you or want to be a comic I

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don't know but I haven't gotten a response to you on that but I don't know

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that's what I would say all right so just just keep that in mind if you know

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somebody is a comic and they say they're a working comic that's the other thing

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you're working comic if you get more than like I don't know four gigs a month

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that are paid if you make $500 a month I consider you a working comic and I'm I

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know it's not gonna pay a lot of a lot of bills but that's gonna pay some of

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your bills I mean that's a working comic a pro comic I don't know is there a

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distinction I don't know I guess a pro would be somebody I guess who does

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nothing but because I definitely over the years have done things that were

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comedy and other things that were not comedy including bringing people food

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in various different settings making the food kicking people out of places where

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they go to get drunk you know a lot of that and then some other stuff too over

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there over time yeah you know you know do what you got to do to survive all

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right now on to his second question which is any chance we'll be seeing some

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of your new stand-up yeah once the jokes get to that point I mean most of what I

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have on YouTube or anything else like that is shitty is like shitty club

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recordings where you can hear me but you can't hear the audience or you hear too

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much of the audience or you know there's not a lot of middle ground in between

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for it so everything I do now I don't record my sets video wise I just record

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audio and I could put the audio out but this the new stuff is it's not ready yet

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it's getting there as I was saying before you know there are some bits and

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pieces to what I'm doing that I really do like so and he says I really enjoy the

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podcast and appreciate what you're doing looking forward to hearing back RJ well

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thanks man thanks for writing it that was a fun thing to have that was

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definitely you know I appreciate and you got a $10 gift card out of it like I

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said for Amazon but no I appreciate that and you know hopefully I answered your

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questions and I will try to have some video out not that a lot of people ask

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but people do or have been asking well when are we gonna see the proof you know

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and not my wife not my wife she not that she doesn't care or want to see it she

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just you know I'm saying like she trusts me when I say I'm going out to do comedy

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I'm not doing other stuff at least I hope so I would think so I don't know we

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got that phone tracker thing she can look she can see where it is at least I

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hope she does all right well we need to start wrapping this up don't we yes we

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do I you know what I forgot to do it earlier and I wanted to give a shout out

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to I did a little private event show in my local area here back in October end

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of October we'll leave it that it's for a local group nothing nothing nefarious

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everything's legal but it was Judd Howard well minor Kenny Winkle and Apple

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Brown Betty all came and did awesome sets on the show and the people it was a

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small show like 50 people but it was in a nice little little venue it was so no

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it's not a jail yeah we were entertaining the inmates no it was it was a good time

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and they all did really well and I want to thank them if you ever see them see

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their names Judd Howard Will Minor Kenny Winkle Apple Brown Betty go go see them

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because they are all fantastic in their own rights in each respective Lee and I

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really appreciate them being out and I don't know if they'll hear that but tell

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you it was such a good time it was such a good show it worked out so perfectly

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like each one of them had their own sort of way that they were and it's yeah

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their own style that was cool but I will be back to have you know maybe at least

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talk to you for a little bit before Christmas if that's okay with you

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whether I'm alone or not I you know I might get the wife she was talking about

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it the other day she what not the other day a couple weeks ago something like

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that I don't know it's been a while since the last episode damn it that's

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what I'm saying she said what will we talk about if I was on there again I

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don't know probably had to be better than what it was before because before

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she when she was on we were drinking which good for her she hasn't been

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drinking last couple months herself so good job baby love you all right let's

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let's get going on this it is the holiday season right we do know that is

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the season of giving right so let's get to our charities okay but please before

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I do make sure you like subscribe download tell your friends leave a

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media Jon D podcast on Facebook Jon D podcom on Instagram and threads and also

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Jon D podcom on that that blue sky thing I don't know I don't know how to

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do it I don't even know but I feel like I don't do anything and no I'm not I'm

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still on Twitter yeah I said it suck it Elon I don't know how long it's gonna how

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much longer it's gonna be on there and I kind of just use it now more to just

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sort of look around ah you can follow me on there if you want Jon D comedy Jon

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D podcast but I might be done I think I think the podcast is done if you want to

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follow me my Jon D comedy then did I then maybe I'll do that but it seems

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like it's just a bunch of bullshit on there now so I don't know like the blue

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sky thing maybe it'll work now all of that said back to the charities all

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right no kid hungry okay a lot of the kids in school school-aged kids their

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best meal of day comes from when they're in school they don't get a lot of food

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when they're out of school no kid hungry helps get the kids food when they're not

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there when they're not in school when they're away from it like weekends

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holidays holiday breaks Christmas breaks yeah I know we're all like hey it's

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holidays we're eating cookies well there's a lot of kids out there who

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aren't okay no kid hungry would it wore your project all right especially in

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this holiday season the brave men and women deserve the best care we can give

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them after they return home especially during the holiday season taking care

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of shown some holiday cheer but also having getting treated for wounds that

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are external and or internal that they might need help with or even just

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accessible housing wouldn't wear a project best friends org making a

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difference helping dogs and cats be adopted faster and more numbers their

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goal is to have the entire country no kill shelters by the year 2025 all right

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check out those charities if you can and support them and if all that charity

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you've got time for a little cheer me you can support the show through our

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official listener support at Venmo at JonDpodcom if you find it on there

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you'll see a picture of me on stage at the Hollywood improv in 1999 or 2000

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something like that wearing a flowery shirt and a rock and a goatee you got to

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see it you got to see it it'll cost you a dollar or five bucks five bucks five

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dollars all right you can go look for free but you donation it's like when you

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go to the museum they're like well you don't have to pay to get in but it you

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know it's a done it's a what do they recommended donation then what they call

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it I remember going to the New York Met the Met Museum of Art I was up there one

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time hanging out with I think was saying out with Darrell Purvis actually he was

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like really the art museum you want to go okay whatever so we went and they

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were like it's a suggested donation but I don't like $20 or something I said I'll

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give you I 15 and then when that's a person like there's two of us I said I

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know I think I said I'll give you 20 for the both of us they said okay I said

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all right thanks good negotiating all right so anyways check out those

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charities and then like I said if you want to support the show Venmo Jon D

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go look at my little pitiful YouTube thing I know I need to put some new

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stand-up on there make sure you're following the correct one because there

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is more than one it should redirect you but maybe I screwed it up so in that

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instance try to find it John D podcom executive producers for the show Tom

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Hancuff and Liz Miller they do what they do to help make this happen on in their

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own ways this was recorded by me yours truly John D Miller in the Faraday

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might be able to hear a little bit but it's a lot quieter I got it last year

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things going I'm gonna name my studio just for free Faraday just because of

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this one you got me is awesome not like it and don't forget the blend jet Jon

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D pod one two for your code and for 12% off and free shipping I know Christmas

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around our corner oh one of the other charities my other ones I know around

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where I live it's called Puritan cleaners they like they're cleaners they

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only take your stuff and then you know dry cleaning and all that type stuff and

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the ones right here are called Puritan that's a chain of them I know but there's

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probably ones around when you live depending where you live we listen to it

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I know I have people around the country and even the world not in Australia I

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know it's summertime there so when I'm we're excluding you but hey when your

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winter comes back when it's July here you could do it I'm sure they got coat

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collections anyways point being if you're in the northern hemisphere right

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is it yeah if you're in the northern hemisphere and there's probably some

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sort of a coat drive to help get some some kids out there and people there's

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also ones that just to do it for adults as well I don't know there it's

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important thing a good coat is important because what we human beings damn it so

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alright and that's what I want everybody remember I know we're all doing holiday

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stuff and getting everything rolling and that's great let's keep enjoying that

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and let's try to stay civil and sane and I should hopefully be back to talk to

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you before Christmas but enjoy the preparations enjoy the hot the part of

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it that is some of the best part of really I mean when you're a kid I think

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I think you enjoy the length of the season more as an adult and then as a

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course of it as a kid it's the anticipation and the build-up to the big

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day and a god just wanted to be here it's fun to be out of school but come on

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now we're all just waiting it's a big day it's a big big day but enjoy the

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prep that's what that's what more as adults we do right we enjoy that part

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wife was putting out some stuff tonight listened to she loves the what

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hippopotamus for Christmas she loves that which is it's fine it's fine the

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92nd time you hear it, it gets a little but it's okay so enjoy the

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prep stay focused stay humble stay honest right and especially this time of year

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but really all year round make sure you take care of yourselves take care of

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each other and until next time later for you