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What's up, everybody? I'm Matt Major from Growth

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Mode Content. I'm Mike Brindisi. We're here with

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Good News Yark. We're back with some really fun

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adventures. Yeah. Live from the great Empire

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State. Yeah, it's Wednesday. We got a guest coming

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in today. Yeah. Brian Anke, maybe. Brian Anke,

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I think I'm saying it correctly. I should know

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this. He's a comedian shooting a special in Syracuse.

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So we're going to talk to him about that. I did

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a couple shows with him in the past through Homebrewed

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Comedy. Circuit that's Mike Peters gig. He runs

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a hell of a show. Yeah, Mike's a funny guy. Mike's

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a funny guy. He's man. He's a hustler Yeah, he

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started homebrewed comedy with I don't know 10

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15 of us and now he's got a hundred guys on the

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roster and he just is he Pop up comedy shows

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and you've been to a couple doesn't make breweries.

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He doesn't Bars. Yeah, I came to one at a VF

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W's where they held the show in the actual room

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around the tank I was on that show with Phil

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Probably the hottest and most uncomfortable room

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you could ever hold in a venue. It was so humid

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and smelled like yeasty beer. Whose idea was

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that? I know. It was so humid and it smelled

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like a rugby team had just got done celebrating

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in there. It was just a yeasty fucking hell.

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I don't know. Whatever. Anyway. But that's in

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the past. Let's talk about today. You want to

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hear something wild? Yeah. Yeah. I got this letter

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in the mail. Oh, okay. In the mail. Oh, that's

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what that is. Not handwritten. Typed, I guess.

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Printed. Sure. This is wild. Jesus. Now you got

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me. This is not typically the thing that we'd

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go into on this show, but I found it so amusing

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that I just talked about it. We just have to

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address it? The fact that anyone sends you a

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letter in the mail should be concerning. Sure.

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I feel like the postal service... If they see

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someone other than Christmas time, mailing a

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large number of letters to local residents, some

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sort of alarm should go off. Look into this dude.

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So there's a local guy mailing letters to local

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residents. Red flag one. A fella who I don't

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know and I've never met, never heard of. And

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the return address is his apartment in Syracuse.

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And he sent me this three page... Fun little

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letter and it's wild Okay, you've talked this

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up. I'm you've got me hooked apparently Parts

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of our government. Oh boy are embarking on a

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global revolution That's intended to the result

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in a planetary dictatorship known as the New

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World Order order The NWOs coming back are yes,

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Hogan Xbox all the guys Bro, what if this was

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just a huge wrestling work? Is this real? What

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if that... but... I think this gentleman is concerned

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about the other NWO. Dude, wait a minute. What

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if it was? Let's just make it a work. Fuck it.

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Bring back the whole... Bring back the whole...

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to Syracuse. Unfortunately, it's not. That would

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be way too much fun. I'm not gonna read you this

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whole letter. It's bat shit. This is crazy, dude.

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I don't like to make fun of folks that clearly

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have issues, but I'm gonna today. That's great.

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Through influence mapping, the CIA identifies

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intellectuals, teachers, artists, social workers.

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I guess we're safe. Other members of society

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capable of mobilizing public opinion in ways

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that might threaten their evil system. Oh my

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God. Why are we here? We gotta hunker down, bruh.

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Is this what Infowars has been reduced to? Infowars.

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They had a powerful network, and they went out

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of business, and now we got people sending letters.

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This is what happens when you legalize marijuana.

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This is the downside. I tried to find downsides

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to legalizing drugs. This is what happens when

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you don't use marijuana. That's true. This fella

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goes on... I can't even read all this nonsense.

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But the best part, in my opinion, is page two.

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Okay. We have more than one page. Oh my God.

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Page two is a survey. Oh my goodness. Yeah. And

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we'll take the survey together here, Mike. Yes.

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But I got to give you the background. Okay. He

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defines two terms that are important to understanding

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this survey. The first one is called psychic

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harassment. This is wild. Psychic harassment

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occurs when someone uses psychic processes to

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experience, observe, control, or punish. someone

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by trespassing on that person's body, brain,

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or aura. Aura. Isn't that called? There's more.

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The R word? There's a second term called gang

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stalking. Whoa. That sounds dangerous. Sexy too.

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Gang stalking occurs when a group of two or more

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persons invade another person's life relentlessly

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24 -7. Using electronic or psychic means to including

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voice to skull transmissions. Oh, we're skipping

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earpieces. We're going right to the skull. Directed

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energy weapons. Oh. And lies, rumors, or slander,

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with the goal of destroying a person's quality

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of life over time. For the purpose of this survey,

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I'll label psychic harassment and gang stalking

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both as psychic harassment. So all those times

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you and Danny interrupted me taking a dump with

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a remote control car and a super soaker That

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was gang stalking my friend. No, that was just

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typical hazing. Oh, all right. This requires

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a directed energy so now Hold on, you got to

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hit the, you know what? I will read you the survey

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mic. I was going to say. You answer the survey.

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I love surveys. By the way, I have this thing,

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my family thinks I'm weird. I love taking surveys.

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Like when someone's in, if you could stay on

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the line after the call and take a survey, I

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don't know why. I love surveys. This is a great

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one because it's all yes or no questions with

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no option for comment or any nuance whatsoever.

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Question one. Do you think America has a problem

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with psychic harassment? Yes or no? Sure. Yeah,

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of course. Do you think Syracuse, apparently

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not part of America, has a problem with psychic

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harassment? Syracuse is in America, so just stay

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consistent. I'm gonna go with, yeah, yeah. Do

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you have a problem with psychic harassment? I

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don't. I don't mind it. I feel like it's harmless.

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Fair. Yeah. Do you know anyone who has a problem

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with psychic harassment? I gotta call a few friends.

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I would say probably the author of this letter,

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Michael. The author of the letter would be...

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Clearly someone who is a strong candidate unless

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he's for it. Maybe I didn't maybe I haven't understood

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the letter I don't know didn't actually read

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at all. Would you like the mayor to be made aware

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of this problem? Absolutely Not unless it's gonna

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be televised if it's gonna be like in a board

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meeting. They're like, all right We're gonna

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fix the potholes on Salina Street. But first

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we got a letter from John F crazy. All right.

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Here's the final question now this one They did

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give us a third option. Okay for this question

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Your option is yes, no, or undecided. Okay. You

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can think about this one. They really don't want

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you to hard no on this one. Okay. I'm very excited.

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If a group of citizens dedicated to ending this

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evil system were formed, would you join it? I

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would. Oh, wow. I'm in. Sign me up. If yes, put

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your first name and telephone number on this

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page. Easy there, pal. I'm not writing any of

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that. So how do I get the results? Hold on. There's

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one more, a couple more notes on this survey.

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The next sentence, which seems misplaced in this

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whole document, but it says, I've sent 7 ,000

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of these letters to random addresses. I will

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not be contacting you again. Now, if this was

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me, that would be the opening line, but - Wow.

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End of page two. And then the last line on this

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survey page here, please slip this page into

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an envelope and mail it to this guy at his apartment

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in Syracuse. No. The results of this survey will

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be forwarded to the mayor. I'm sure he's gonna

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love this. Should we book the mayor and see if

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he believes that psychic harassment and directed

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energy weapons are hurting his aura? Let's book

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the mayor and blindside him with it. Don't give

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him anywhere. He sits down, he thinks we're gonna

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talk about all the things, and we're gonna be

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like, we're here to talk about, he must know.

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I bet he's actually probably got a secret commission

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directed at protecting your aura. I'm assuming

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he's going... I don't know if there's a secret

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office under City Hall. Uh -huh. Where they're

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protected from directed energy weapons. Yeah.

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And they can meet in safety. It's amazing. And

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discover... You know, I'm more amazed that this

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guy... Weapons. ...was able to talk to people

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in the CIA to confirm that this was going on.

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Because I'm sure the CIA, they're very open to

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talking about this stuff. You better be looking

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for him. I bet this is a fake name. It's actually

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a... What is going on? I don't know. Who knows?

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There's another page that I'm not even getting

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into. Okay. Because it goes on to a completely

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different topic. What's the topic? Witchcraft.

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Yes! Let's hit it all. Alright, fuck it. Page

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three. Witchcraft is as native to America as

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Americans are. This guy must be from Salem. I

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was gonna say... Ever since America has been

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a nation, the military, the government, the police,

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and private citizens have used witchcraft. That's

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true. To punish or control their peers. Yep.

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How come I didn't? Nobody taught me that. I do

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have a Tom Brady voodoo doll. I still have. This

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is what I think of this guy. This is, come on.

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To be fair, I did use witchcraft to incant Danny

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to come work for us. It worked. We love you.

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I've got a question. Are you still? Go ahead.

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Go ahead. It's just sheer math. So if he sent

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seven thousand letters out. OK. And you said

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these weren't hand delivered. These were mail.

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How much do stamps go for these days? That means

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he invested in this. And it is postmarked from

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Syracuse. So this is those things where it's

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like somebody in Arizona sent a scam out to.

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This person's address is legitimately the address

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that this shit came from, which makes it more

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crazy. Yeah. And honestly, I almost respect the

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guy that he believes in this so much that he

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was willing to spend that kind of money to mail

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out $7 ,000. It's really putting your money where

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you're... So how much is a stamp? Danny, do you

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know how much is a stamp these days? Or, Matt,

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do you? No idea. What did he use? I don't even

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know. He used one of these Forever stamps, so

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technically you can say they were cheaper, but...

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Seven thousand times let me do the math not let's

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say let's say they're five cent stamps aren't

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they way more than that now They're they're like

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50 cents. Okay, all right As of January 2025

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the cost of a forever stamp is 73 cents. Oh,

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yeah. Hold on big money here Why can't I find

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the clear button? Okay, here we go. So seven

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thousand times point seven three There's no fuck

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how much five thousand five thousand dollars

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plus printing costs because he had to buy his

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ink and toner I Mean if it's true, then again,

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I feel like the chances of me randomly getting

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one Lead us to believe that it could be true

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this guy send that many should we call this?

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No, no the closing paragraph of this letter here

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after you've read this letter you might say to

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yourself I believe what this guy is saying. What

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can I do about it? That's exactly what we said.

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He nailed it. Yeah, absolutely what we're saying.

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This has a watchdog committee to overwatch the

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people who invent people control. You can write

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two brief letters, one to Jack Reed, chairman

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of the U .S. Senate Armed Services Committee.

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He's doing the work. Gives his address in D .C.

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Write him a brief note appraising him of your

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fears. Oh, man, I bet. Yeah. The staffers in

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some of those congressional offices. Oh, those

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poor bastards. They have to do this every day.

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This is their regular job, what we're doing.

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Ask somebody else, who else are we supposed to

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write to here? The guy's done the work. Keep

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an eye on these organizations while they're developing

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people control technology. I'm sending 10 ,000

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of these letters to the Syracuse community. The

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other page, you said 7 ,000. There's another,

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no, that's on top of the 7th. So now he's going

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to invest another... He's in, he's in for over

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10 grand at this point. This guy's dedicated.

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Ten thousand letters to these folks might persuade

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them to do the Overwatch on these research and

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development organizations. Thank you for your

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time. Okul Nutjab. Buddy, I don't know where

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to f - Part of me really wants to give him credit

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for having the conviction. Yeah, dude. In doing

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the work. Yes, like I said. This is beyond Wacko

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who just posts on Facebook all day long. That's

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true. At the same time, the fact that you're

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willing to put that much effort into this is

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concerning. It is concerning. Because you're

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sending thousands of people in your community

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letters about witchcraft. Yeah, you're also putting

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yourself on the map as a fucking sicko. I'm gonna

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go out on a limb and say that anybody who knows

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him probably had a good idea before this letter.

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Yeah. I wanna know what his apartment looks like.

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I don't. Dude... My favorite part of that letter

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is... I know. You're probably sitting there thinking,

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oh, God, what are we going to do? Right. Nailed

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it. The sad part is there's probably an elderly

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man or woman that's reading that and going through

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unnecessary strife over this, you know, that

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maybe believe this. But then again, who's to

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say this guy isn't wrong? And we look like assholes

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right now. Right. You know what I mean? I think

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it's all up to the mayor to save us now. Listen.

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I really hope that he acts on the results. This

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guy better get with it, Mr. Mayor. We're talking

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to you. Hold up. Do you have a problem? I love

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it. I know. So what happens if you say no? Like,

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I don't have a... I'm fine. Cool, man. Yeah,

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all the surveys come back and nobody gives a

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shit. Yeah. That's the key. Well, hey, democratically,

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I guess we shouldn't care. So he's, oh, this

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is unbelievable. All 7 ,000 letters are coming...

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They don't care. They don't care. Nobody cares.

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Good news, folks. We're all on board. Good news.

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There it is. There's the tie -in. Good news,

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everybody. No one cares. I think we're going

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to be all right. Let's get our skulls. Favorite

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part of the survey is the fact that if you do

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intend to return it, that's on your own dime.

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That's right. There's no self -addressed state

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envelope. No website that you could easily submit

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your results to. No text me with your answers.

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You literally also have to be psychotic enough

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to put this person's address on a letter and

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walk it down to the post office. How did he get

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your address in public? That's a great fucking

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question. Was it your name? My name. Oh, cool.

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I don't know if I like that. Not my wife. It

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does have the plus four, which leads me to believe

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there's a million databases you can buy. Any

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marketing company, if you want to do mailers,

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you could buy that. This guy's got cash. The

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fact that he has all that also alludes to the

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fact that he may have bought one of those marketing

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lists for additional money. This guy's got capital.

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It's Jeff. Or it is all just witchcraft. Maybe

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the witches made the letters appear at the post

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office. Dude, I don't know. This is how we've

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gotten to where we are, right? Just lots of conspiracies.

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And look. It would be ignorant or reckless for

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me to sit here and say all conspiracies are fake.

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Because just like a conspiracy, how can I prove

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that all conspiracies are fake? This one's deep.

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It's on paper. It's detailed. It is on paper.

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In writings. I just like to know what he's doing

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with the cert. What are the two choices based

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on the survey? Like, alright if I get 70 % that...

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that they all say this. He's gonna share the

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results with the mayor. Oh, that's gonna be a

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riveting meeting. The mayor must save our auras.

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Yeah, my aura has been fucked for weeks. And

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you know what? I know he doesn't have much time

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left in office. Ben Walsh, if there was ever

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a man for the job to save our auras, he could

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do it. Save our auras. Let's get t -shirts made.

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Yeah. Unbelievable. Dude, I'll be honest. When

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you were like, I got this crazy letter. We're

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on the air. I'm like, okay, he's talking it up.

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That is legit crazy. Sorry. I wonder if there's

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any sort of protective headgear we could wear

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to protect us from these skull weapons or the

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directed energy weapons. Do you think they have

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oral blockers on Amazon? I bet something with

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foil might work. Foil. Tin foil, like a hat.

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Yeah. That might work. That might be the way

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to go. Tin foil hat. Directed energy weapons.

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Some other hats. Friggin' laser beams. Friggin'

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laser beams. Oh, man. That's amazing. Good times.

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Is your wife scared? You never know what you're

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going to find on Good News York. Was Kristen

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like, ah? No, all she said is, do you want me

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to throw that in the trash? No, I have to bring

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this to the office, honey. Yeah. This is breaking

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news. This is actually material. That everyone

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needs to hear. That guy's great. He is. Look.

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Pure entertainment. You want to talk about an

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industrious New York entrepreneur? This fella

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is doing it, man. And? You always say, what's

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the key of entrepreneurship? One of the keys

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is stop saying, yes, but stop saying and do it

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instead of sitting there and talking about it,

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do something. This guy took action. It's an entrepreneurial

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mindset. Maybe he's actually a fan. Maybe I should

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be worried. Oh, maybe you have a stalker, a psycholot

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or a gang stalker. Luckily we got - If there's

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more than one of them, if it's him and another

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person, it's a gang stalker. I'm gonna have to

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get security like Glenn Beck, aren't I? Oh, nice.

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That'd be cool, man, if you walked around with

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security. I was thinking about that. That'd be

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sick. Well, we have Abel, who works for us. He's

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built like a brick shithouse. He really could

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do some damage. He's a big boy. Every time we

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have a guy, Abel, that works here, and anytime

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we have a guest on and he walks in, they're always

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like, whoa, who called the bouncer? So we have

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a kind of an in -house. It's true. But we don't

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know how good he is at aura blocking. Yeah, that's...

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He's from Cuba. I wonder if there's an aura meter.

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Is there some sort of device? Like Egon Spangler

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used to have on the EKG meter? He's got these

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directed energy. You gotta be able to detect

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that, right? Can we put some sort of energy weapon

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alarm system? You bring up a good point. Because

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if someone's gonna hack your aura or whatever

00:19:07.670 --> 00:19:09.950
he claimed they could, right? You have to be

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able to find the aura and have a meter, so there

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must be something. They gotta find the meter.

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You gotta find the aura to attack it, yeah. We

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need to get Senator Schumer on this and direct

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the military immediately. Let's go. Put together.

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Mobilize. Or he actually might be in on it, though.

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I think that might be what this fella claims.

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I'm not gonna say the guy's name on the air.

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Maybe we shouldn't reach out to the senator.

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I wish I could say his name on the air, because

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he just sounds like a psycho. Right? That's a

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name I haven't heard in a movie. It's like a

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shady figure from history sort of name. It is,

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and it would be so funny, but we're not gonna

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share it, because we're good people, and let's

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not. open that can of worms. We're into promoting

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things, but maybe not that. We gotta draw the

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line. Good news, York. What are we doing? It

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is, man. In other good news, our good friend,

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a number of our good friends have been coming

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into the studio recording more of the episodes

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of their podcast. Yeah. Here at Growth Mode Content,

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incredible local businesses. Yeah. One of the

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things that... I feel like we continue. I mean,

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we've said it from the beginning is the second

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we started working with these people, but the

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more that we record with these people, the more

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that we do, we keep saying it over and over again

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is so many of these folks are without insulting

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them, surprisingly interesting, surprising. And

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I don't, and that's not a reflection on the person.

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It's really more of their industry. They're in

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these very kind of common everyday industries

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that you see and you go about and you're like,

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Oh, why would anybody sit around and hear about

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that? And then they start talking about their

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expertise and their industry and their business

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and everything that's happening. And we're all

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just enthralled. It's crazy. And it's such a

00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:53.099
cool thing. And they're seeing it work. That's

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the best part. That is the best part. From a

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business standpoint, in business, return on investment,

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sometimes it takes months, years, depending on

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what you're involved in. We all knew the potential

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that this had and we knew, okay, we'll see results

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at some point. We were like a week or two in

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and one of our clients wrote us an email showing

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us a message from someone who she did business

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with a pretty big deal. And it was because this

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person saw her podcast and we're like, this is

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what we wanted. And it's just, it's amazing.

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And when you say surprisingly interesting to

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piggyback off that, you know, as the producer,

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As one of the producers, you know, my job is

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to, if I feel like the ship is sinking or maybe

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they're like, the content's not there, I've got

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to help provide... As they're recording. Yeah,

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as they're recording and get them... I haven't

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had to do that. Yeah. Because, as you said...

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You haven't had to jump in and save anybody.

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No, I haven't had to jump in and save anybody

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because... And this is what we sold in the beginning,

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which was, okay, you own a pest business, you

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own a soda business. And a lot of their questions,

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well, how are we going to make that interesting?

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And then during the meeting, as we're talking

00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:02.539
about their podcast, they're telling these stories.

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And we're like, that, just talk about that. And

00:22:05.819 --> 00:22:08.279
it's been great, man. Yeah. Kudos to you for

00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:09.940
this. You thought of this. It's really cool.

00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:12.059
Growth mode content has become an incredible

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resource. It's growing rapidly. Yeah. We're investing

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in new equipment and more studios. Every day.

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And constantly honing our craft. For sure. Adding

00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:25.539
more people to the team. We've got some incredible.

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videographer talent joining us and we'll bring

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her in person. I don't want to... Yeah, yeah.

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She's awesome. I want you to meet her in person

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rather than just me talk about her. And she writes

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really great letters. Great letter writer, I

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will say. But long story short, we've got so

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many cool things happening and we're literally

00:22:45.849 --> 00:22:49.230
only getting started. The long -term plans are

00:22:49.230 --> 00:22:53.369
huge and it's so much fun because we get to help.

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.660
these incredible local businesses and great people

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tell their story and just grow what they're already

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doing, which is awesome. What's crazy about it

00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:09.000
is I knew them succeeding would make us feel

00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.740
good, but I guess I just didn't know how good.

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After that first email we got, and then you come

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in every day and you're like, holy cow, so -and

00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.740
-so has 10 ,000 views on this social media. I

00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:22.539
find myself like genuinely feeling like it happened

00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:25.000
to me because we're all well people don't understand

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It's like you're not coming in and we're like,

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how you doing sit down and we hit record This

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is a pre -production meeting and it's a team

00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:34.279
effort. So it's hard to make this stuff Yeah,

00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.000
and so when they get results we get results and

00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.460
no, I agree It's like Vidal Sassoon if you don't

00:23:40.460 --> 00:23:42.980
look good. We don't look good. I do remember

00:23:42.980 --> 00:23:45.819
that But yeah, I'm super pumped about that man.

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:48.700
And that the only other thing is too you got

00:23:49.779 --> 00:23:51.940
We have some of these people who they come in

00:23:51.940 --> 00:23:53.940
there. We've never done a podcast. I'm a little

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:56.900
nervous We started recording. They're actually

00:23:56.900 --> 00:24:00.140
very natural We had a client come back for us

00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:02.259
in a second And then we had a that same person

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:04.700
come back for a second episode that they shot

00:24:04.700 --> 00:24:07.880
yesterday They were even better. Yeah, and I

00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.079
was like what? How did you I thought you this

00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.210
wasn't something you were good at? It's been

00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:18.109
great. It's so much fun and I come from a long

00:24:18.109 --> 00:24:21.509
history in the technology field and our customers

00:24:21.509 --> 00:24:24.829
are always appreciative of what we do and how

00:24:24.829 --> 00:24:27.809
we help them. But it's a necessity, right? You

00:24:27.809 --> 00:24:29.769
saved them out of trouble they wish they didn't

00:24:29.769 --> 00:24:31.990
have to begin with, or sometimes you prevented

00:24:31.990 --> 00:24:33.849
them from that trouble to begin with and they're

00:24:33.849 --> 00:24:36.589
appreciative for that. But it's a whole different

00:24:36.589 --> 00:24:39.759
feeling and it's a whole different. type of appreciation.

00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:42.019
That's a good point. When these folks come to

00:24:42.019 --> 00:24:44.240
us and talk about how we're actually making them

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.619
more money and how we're helping them genuinely

00:24:46.619 --> 00:24:48.400
grow their business in these different ways,

00:24:48.740 --> 00:24:50.619
which is something I've never experienced. Yeah.

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And I'll tell you what, it's cool and it's fun.

00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:55.599
Like I said, we've always been able to demonstrate

00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.430
our benefit. But it's always been operational.

00:24:58.670 --> 00:25:00.970
We keep you running with this content business.

00:25:01.150 --> 00:25:03.809
We're helping people genuinely make more money

00:25:03.809 --> 00:25:06.589
and get more clients and get more exposure and

00:25:06.589 --> 00:25:09.109
they're understandably more excited about it.

00:25:09.450 --> 00:25:12.230
And it's just such a cool thing. You just hit

00:25:12.230 --> 00:25:14.089
on something that I never thought of from your

00:25:14.089 --> 00:25:17.730
lens. Like you said, you've always dealt with

00:25:17.730 --> 00:25:20.549
people are calling you unhappy. They have problems

00:25:20.549 --> 00:25:22.650
and you're going to fix that, which is obviously

00:25:22.650 --> 00:25:25.910
rewarding. This is a rare service and a rare

00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:28.390
occurrence for you. Where these people are coming

00:25:28.390 --> 00:25:31.109
to you, they don't have a problem. They just

00:25:31.109 --> 00:25:33.450
want to expand on what's good. They got something

00:25:33.450 --> 00:25:34.990
good and they want to throw some gas on the fire.

00:25:35.230 --> 00:25:38.970
That is cool angle. It's a fun thing as an entrepreneur

00:25:38.970 --> 00:25:41.029
and I've been involved in different businesses.

00:25:41.289 --> 00:25:43.589
I will no doubt be involved in many other businesses.

00:25:44.869 --> 00:25:48.240
OnlyFans. Link in the comments. But it's just

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.720
fun to experience these different things and

00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:51.740
learn these different things about these different

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:53.119
types of businesses because it certainly hasn't

00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:54.900
been easy. Yeah. We've been working like crazy

00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:57.839
to iron out the kinks and effectively launch

00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.799
what has really become a startup. Yeah. And even

00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.299
though it's a division of a well -established

00:26:02.299 --> 00:26:04.779
company. Growthmodecontent .com by the way. That's

00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:07.380
it. Yeah, that is another part of it that I thought

00:26:07.380 --> 00:26:10.000
of yesterday. We were recording a client and

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.799
I remember sitting there thinking, I'm getting

00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.599
paid for this, but I'm also getting an education.

00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:16.579
Yeah. And I'm not even kidding you. I've learned

00:26:16.579 --> 00:26:20.400
so much about pest control, the housing market,

00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:22.539
in the commercial sector. You should write to

00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:24.359
them and tell them they owe you a refund. Yeah,

00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:26.640
right? That's the part of the job I never thought

00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.740
of. Yeah. That I was like, I'm gonna learn shit

00:26:28.740 --> 00:26:31.680
that I would never learn or think to learn. So

00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:36.400
like now, hell, I could be a realtor who can

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:41.099
kill cockroaches and make good soda. I feel like

00:26:41.099 --> 00:26:43.440
those would all be great skills to combine. Exactly.

00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:47.490
See? It's like a Voltron. A Voltron of skills.

00:26:48.190 --> 00:26:50.990
Anyway, we have a guest coming on. Brian is here.

00:26:51.069 --> 00:26:52.950
Let's take a quick break and we will bring in

00:26:52.950 --> 00:26:54.430
the guest. I was like, I've done shows with him.

00:26:54.450 --> 00:26:56.849
He's a great guy. I think his name is Brian Anke.

00:26:57.769 --> 00:27:00.210
We'll be right back with Brian Anke coming up

00:27:00.210 --> 00:27:05.509
next. Okay, welcome back to Good News York. Mike

00:27:05.509 --> 00:27:08.390
Bernisi here with a friend of mine, Brian Anke,

00:27:08.569 --> 00:27:11.049
comedian extraordinaire. We've done shows together.

00:27:11.289 --> 00:27:13.829
Matt had the dip out, he had a doctor's appointment.

00:27:13.990 --> 00:27:16.289
I could've told him, you got rashy thighs, bro.

00:27:16.490 --> 00:27:18.710
That's what it is, you don't need a doctor. But

00:27:18.710 --> 00:27:22.750
anyway, Brian is here, who is obviously a stand

00:27:22.750 --> 00:27:26.670
-up comedian, but also recording your first special?

00:27:26.789 --> 00:27:30.930
Second. Second special in Syracuse, April 12th,

00:27:30.950 --> 00:27:32.150
at the, make sure I'm saying this right, the

00:27:32.150 --> 00:27:34.369
McCarthy Mercantile. McCarthy Mercantile. McCarthy

00:27:34.369 --> 00:27:36.930
Mercantile, April 12th, Brian Ankt shooting.

00:27:37.750 --> 00:27:39.950
I'm so glad you're here, buddy. Thanks for having

00:27:39.950 --> 00:27:42.730
me. I'm so glad you made it here. I know. I got

00:27:42.730 --> 00:27:45.529
the schedule wrong and rushed over here, got

00:27:45.529 --> 00:27:48.710
here when you messaged me. I was in bed and then

00:27:48.710 --> 00:27:50.769
got here 25 minutes later. Dude, let me tell

00:27:50.769 --> 00:27:53.009
you something. You picked the right show to be

00:27:53.009 --> 00:27:55.950
late for because I have ADHD, so I have terrible

00:27:55.950 --> 00:27:59.029
time management. I'm also a comedian, so I get

00:27:59.029 --> 00:28:02.369
it. Look, it... You're here, and that's all that

00:28:02.369 --> 00:28:03.690
matters. What's funny, because I have three,

00:28:03.690 --> 00:28:05.210
and my wife makes fun of me all the time, I have

00:28:05.210 --> 00:28:09.369
three planners, because I try to organize, and

00:28:09.369 --> 00:28:12.769
I just put you in wrong. I know. And I would

00:28:12.769 --> 00:28:15.789
have had it right. But recently, ADHD, I just

00:28:15.789 --> 00:28:18.670
got back on, are you a medicated ADHD? Yes, I

00:28:18.670 --> 00:28:22.109
am. Ritalin. I recently got back on medication

00:28:22.109 --> 00:28:23.809
when I was younger, because we're about the same

00:28:23.809 --> 00:28:27.470
age. They were like, he's crazy, just give him

00:28:27.470 --> 00:28:30.079
a pile of pills. That's right. And we were just

00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.880
zombies through high school. And so I was so

00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:34.000
turned off from it and I was like, I shouldn't

00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.119
do this again. And then they were like, we can

00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:39.420
control the dosage and make it smaller. Oh, the

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:41.759
control thing. Yeah. So we have been back on

00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.339
that, but in the past like month, my meds have

00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:47.240
been like, I get it. So I booked a client yesterday.

00:28:47.299 --> 00:28:50.039
You'll get this. So I don't, for some reason,

00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:52.119
when March and April come around the three and

00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:55.250
four really get me. So I was booking our clients,

00:28:55.430 --> 00:28:57.250
they were supposed to be booked in March, and

00:28:57.250 --> 00:28:59.250
I was booking them in April on the calendar.

00:28:59.609 --> 00:29:02.509
And I had to sheepishly write them back and be

00:29:02.509 --> 00:29:04.650
like, so I screwed up and booked you in April.

00:29:04.769 --> 00:29:07.289
It's super embarrassing. Oh, it's super, and

00:29:07.289 --> 00:29:09.430
the other hard thing too is I think there is

00:29:09.430 --> 00:29:11.990
a, everything lives on a spectrum now, so there

00:29:11.990 --> 00:29:14.410
are people who have organizational issues and

00:29:14.410 --> 00:29:17.210
all that stuff, but they also become the people

00:29:17.210 --> 00:29:20.369
who are like, I was a jerk to you because of

00:29:20.369 --> 00:29:23.549
my ADHD. Like, no, some of us are really... And

00:29:23.549 --> 00:29:25.109
so that's why, like, the name of the special

00:29:25.109 --> 00:29:28.430
is called Letters Are Hard, because I'm so wildly

00:29:28.430 --> 00:29:33.430
dyslexic that it, like, to the point where I

00:29:33.430 --> 00:29:35.269
was doing a show with a buddy of mine, I'm a

00:29:35.269 --> 00:29:36.930
New York, from Rochester originally, but they

00:29:36.930 --> 00:29:38.769
got my chops in New York City. I was hanging

00:29:38.769 --> 00:29:40.650
out with a buddy of mine, Mikey Mays. We were

00:29:40.650 --> 00:29:42.920
doing a show and we were starving. And i was

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.539
like oh let's go get something to eat and i look

00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:46.119
up and there's a neon light and i go oh they

00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:49.380
got burgers there sure and he goes. What and

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:54.079
then I look back and it says drugs No, I know

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.500
the wires cross and it's it's very funny. Yeah,

00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:59.059
it definitely affects scheduling it affects Everything

00:29:59.059 --> 00:30:02.099
it's so much and it's to the point task paralysis

00:30:02.099 --> 00:30:04.500
task paralysis But as well as like when you're

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:06.779
having a conversation This is gonna be a wonderful

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:10.079
episode because it's two two men who really just

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:11.779
want to get out what they said Yes, so bad so

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:13.279
they don't forget it. We're so nervous. We're

00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:15.099
gonna forget it I know literally write stuff

00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:18.720
down and like Look at us! I'll even be talking

00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:20.519
with my wife and she's like, what are you doing?

00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:22.180
And I'm like, I got something I gotta mention

00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:25.059
to you in a second. Dude, if I lose my phone,

00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:26.819
it has nothing to do with phone numbers. Like,

00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:29.579
I follow this calendar every day, and my wife

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:31.680
makes fun of me because it's like, clip toenails,

00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:35.640
breathe. Like, I have to see it, and I even have

00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:37.819
another calendar, we call the ADHD calendar,

00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:40.539
on the side of the fridge, and that's because,

00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:43.039
and see if you understand this, oh, I feel like

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.900
I have a brother in here. I know. So when I get

00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:49.099
to the... So let's say you book a show on, I

00:30:49.099 --> 00:30:52.480
don't know, we'll just say April 12th. Look at

00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.380
that. So you get to the end of March, right?

00:30:55.380 --> 00:30:57.380
And you're like, I've got three weeks till my

00:30:57.380 --> 00:30:59.759
show. And then you realize when the calendar

00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.900
turns, oh my god, I have one week. So I have

00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:04.619
to have the calendar to see like you're getting

00:31:04.619 --> 00:31:06.299
near the end of the month. And look, April's

00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:08.900
right there. And I feel so embarrassed. No, this

00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:10.920
was a very good, the show itself was a very good

00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:12.519
experiment. And actually, we were going to do

00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:16.430
it at the end of March. And I remember saying,

00:31:17.430 --> 00:31:21.910
Hey, can we do April? Because I know that I need

00:31:21.910 --> 00:31:23.849
an extra two weeks. I know that this is, it's

00:31:23.849 --> 00:31:25.210
going to take me two weeks to really get in the

00:31:25.210 --> 00:31:27.190
gears here and all this stuff. And that's a big

00:31:27.190 --> 00:31:30.730
part of it. If you at home have mental struggles,

00:31:30.869 --> 00:31:34.009
it's okay to ask for the worst comes to worst.

00:31:34.190 --> 00:31:36.289
They go, Hey, we can't do that. But in my situation

00:31:36.289 --> 00:31:38.529
and so many other situations, They go, yeah,

00:31:38.589 --> 00:31:40.609
that works. Yes. Meanwhile, you were like, if

00:31:40.609 --> 00:31:43.250
I ask for it, they're going to hate me. Set my

00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:45.809
house on fire. They're going to kill me. And

00:31:45.809 --> 00:31:47.349
yeah, and just give you myself. But this has

00:31:47.349 --> 00:31:52.049
definitely been a structure. OK, we have the

00:31:52.049 --> 00:31:55.250
podcast on not Thursday, Wednesday, and we will

00:31:55.250 --> 00:31:57.690
have I have the next promo thing that we're doing

00:31:57.690 --> 00:32:00.529
next week and just really structuring it all

00:32:00.529 --> 00:32:03.130
out, putting it all in front of me. And then

00:32:03.130 --> 00:32:05.470
at my desk, there's a whiteboard and it has clip

00:32:05.470 --> 00:32:07.740
your toenails talking about And then there's

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:10.900
the weekly one, and then the daily one. And so

00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:13.200
I just walk around with, and people are like,

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.759
are you getting your doctorate? Are you studying?

00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.519
I'm like, me just getting through the day. No,

00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:20.440
this is me living, trying to make it to 5 PM.

00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.259
The fact that I'm here right now all made it

00:32:23.259 --> 00:32:26.859
happen. That's right. Dude, I went back to college,

00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.599
and the only hit me, my first class started,

00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:33.660
and I went, oh, I have to write papers? I literally,

00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:38.329
I can't. I can. But how do I talk texted all

00:32:38.329 --> 00:32:41.150
of my papers and then what I would do is email

00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:44.450
it to myself, put it into Microsoft Word, fix

00:32:44.450 --> 00:32:46.549
all the things and then submit it. And I remember

00:32:46.549 --> 00:32:47.970
it was like a couple of weeks in and I had this

00:32:47.970 --> 00:32:50.269
tremendous guilt like I was cheating. And I told

00:32:50.269 --> 00:32:52.009
my professor, I was like, listen, I've been talk

00:32:52.009 --> 00:32:54.210
texting and she's, that's brilliant. So you're

00:32:54.210 --> 00:32:57.069
managing your ADHD. Are those your thoughts?

00:32:57.190 --> 00:32:59.190
I'm like, yeah, a lot of them. Let's just talk

00:32:59.190 --> 00:33:03.009
to tech Stephen Hawking. You're fine. If it's

00:33:03.009 --> 00:33:04.809
working. If it's working. So it was unnecessary

00:33:04.809 --> 00:33:07.470
pressure. Have you ever, I put a piece of pizza

00:33:07.470 --> 00:33:10.690
in the junk drawer once. So I was eating a piece

00:33:10.690 --> 00:33:13.769
of pizza and I had to get a screwdriver and I

00:33:13.769 --> 00:33:16.170
went out and I handed the screw, and when I came

00:33:16.170 --> 00:33:19.269
back, something happened to where I put the pizza

00:33:19.269 --> 00:33:21.849
in the drawer and then walked away with the screwdriver

00:33:21.849 --> 00:33:23.630
and when I was about to bite the screwdriver,

00:33:23.710 --> 00:33:26.299
and that is not a joke. That's it when people

00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:28.599
are like oh, sorry. I didn't reply to your email

00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.700
ADHD, and I'm like that's fucking not ADHD That's

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:34.819
the thing that I hate it, but I'm it's I think

00:33:34.819 --> 00:33:36.839
you know I'm sure people who have depression

00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:39.119
there, and they feel similar like yes, I'm in

00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:41.819
such a bad mood depression Everything's going

00:33:41.819 --> 00:33:44.319
great for me, and I still have a sadness blanket

00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:49.809
on me. That's it That's it! Sorry, I was being

00:33:49.809 --> 00:33:52.710
crazy. Bipolar? No. There are people who are

00:33:52.710 --> 00:33:54.930
bipolar like, I was holding my baby and thought

00:33:54.930 --> 00:33:59.190
maybe it's the seed of the devil. Exactly. You

00:33:59.190 --> 00:34:02.009
got upset on a Tuesday and things went wrong.

00:34:02.630 --> 00:34:05.849
People do that. I can't stand it. But you get

00:34:05.849 --> 00:34:08.829
it too. I don't want to downplay your misery.

00:34:08.949 --> 00:34:10.849
I'm sure it is tough, but let's call it what

00:34:10.849 --> 00:34:12.929
it is. You ever been on a roller coaster and

00:34:12.929 --> 00:34:16.079
just not... felt anything. Oh, yeah. You know

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:17.920
what I mean? That's what depression and anxiety

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.119
is, like you said. I think people can co -op

00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.179
the mental stuff because you can't see it as

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:25.840
clearly. Yeah. And so it wouldn't be like, like

00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:27.699
for me late today, I would be like, sorry, I'm

00:34:27.699 --> 00:34:32.199
late today. Missing legs. Your physical thing

00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:35.099
that's so weird if that's what I just haired

00:34:35.099 --> 00:34:38.099
my slowness to. That's insane. But I think because

00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:42.340
the mental thing, it's such a blurb of things.

00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.340
You just understand you can pull pieces from

00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:48.099
it and say hey, that's what's caused my my issue

00:34:48.099 --> 00:34:51.159
today or whatever Yeah, yeah, no, this is this

00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:52.800
has been therapeutic. I was about to say this

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.340
is nice I've been we'll start recording soon.

00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:57.599
Yeah, sure I the one thing I've been working

00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.599
on which I may have actually been doing horribly

00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.019
So far is the thing I've really now that I'm

00:35:02.019 --> 00:35:05.860
aware of it is I really work on not interrupting

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:09.230
and listening That's the hardest People are always

00:35:09.230 --> 00:35:11.409
like, oh, yes, you get distracted easy. I'm like,

00:35:11.630 --> 00:35:13.469
yes, yeah, I get distracted easy. I'm like, there's

00:35:13.469 --> 00:35:16.769
so much more to it. I take things harder. I interrupt

00:35:16.769 --> 00:35:19.230
all the time and expect you to like, like the

00:35:19.230 --> 00:35:21.150
other night I was talking to my wife, like out

00:35:21.150 --> 00:35:23.170
of nowhere in the kitchen, I was like, oh, yeah,

00:35:23.329 --> 00:35:25.090
it turned out he was seven feet tall. And she

00:35:25.090 --> 00:35:27.849
said, what, who? We just had, we had that conversation

00:35:27.849 --> 00:35:29.670
four days ago and I was like, all right, you

00:35:29.670 --> 00:35:32.630
can't just jump in on it. It's, and the admiration

00:35:32.630 --> 00:35:34.880
that the people that are really... I've always

00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:39.159
been drawn to, in film or in real life, the very

00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.400
stoic, slow -talking person, because there's

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.639
such an envy to that of like, how are you doing

00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.880
this without having to shoot it out like a shotgun?

00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:50.840
How are these monks that, when they ask, they'll

00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:53.059
come and ask them basic questions, and they really

00:35:53.059 --> 00:35:56.159
take their time, think about it, and go, there's

00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:58.239
that great scene in Man on the Moon, which I

00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.849
just watched. Love that movie. So good. And when

00:36:00.849 --> 00:36:03.510
he goes, what's the secret to comedy? And the

00:36:03.510 --> 00:36:08.030
guy pauses and he goes, silence. And then it

00:36:08.030 --> 00:36:10.690
was just a beautiful moment of a really well

00:36:10.690 --> 00:36:13.230
thought out question. And I do try to do it more

00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:16.369
and more, but you have to, while trying to process

00:36:16.369 --> 00:36:19.369
what the question was, you also have to tell

00:36:19.369 --> 00:36:21.469
yourself, hey, really take time with this. You

00:36:21.469 --> 00:36:23.789
don't need to shoot out your first answer. Or

00:36:23.789 --> 00:36:25.329
again, it's okay to say, you know what, let me

00:36:25.329 --> 00:36:27.730
think about that. I can get back to you. Yes.

00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:30.940
All that good stuff. You are the real deal. Brian,

00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.480
I know. See, again, ADHD, I saw your eye go to

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.239
it, because mine did, too. No, honestly, dude,

00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:40.699
I love this because you're the first person that

00:36:40.699 --> 00:36:44.039
I've actually talked to that genuinely has the

00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.760
same exact symptoms as I do. Which does bring

00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.519
people to comedy, because other people would

00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.219
go, there's an appropriate thing to say here.

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.099
There's a well -timed -out, slower thing to say.

00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.619
Again, comics I really admire. I really like

00:36:56.619 --> 00:37:00.250
the... Alternative, obviously I like the greats

00:37:00.250 --> 00:37:02.849
like Richard Pryor. Of course. But I always liked

00:37:02.849 --> 00:37:05.449
Can't Do It, but I love Maria Bamford, Patton

00:37:05.449 --> 00:37:08.489
Oswalt. Love Patton Oswalt. The things that they

00:37:08.489 --> 00:37:10.110
build are these beautiful, and then I remember

00:37:10.110 --> 00:37:12.469
for a while I was trying to do that comedy. It's

00:37:12.469 --> 00:37:15.289
not your style. It's not. I did the same thing.

00:37:15.909 --> 00:37:19.630
I, as a comedian myself, I appreciate comedians

00:37:19.630 --> 00:37:22.909
that are more long form. Or all of a sudden they'll

00:37:22.909 --> 00:37:25.500
tell... Like, the way that you can start a joke

00:37:25.500 --> 00:37:27.380
and it's hilarious, and they go off on this side

00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:29.980
thing, and it's hilarious, and then they come

00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:32.639
back to it, and they're in the middle of that

00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:34.719
story again, and I'm like, oh, and I, too, was

00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:36.139
like, I need to start doing that more, and I

00:37:36.139 --> 00:37:39.400
realized I just, that's not, I'm - If our acts

00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:42.480
were walls, the people we admire are bricklayers

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.000
and we're drywall. God damn. We gotta get it

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.599
up quick, we gotta get it, ah, just like that,

00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:49.579
and you can do a lot with drywall, you can hang

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:53.170
paintings on it, you can do fun stuff. Can you

00:37:53.170 --> 00:37:56.829
hang paintings on bricks? I'm sure you can. Yeah,

00:37:56.969 --> 00:37:59.409
there's brick screws, I'm sure. We are going

00:37:59.409 --> 00:38:02.409
to talk about comedy, but just to wrap this ADHD

00:38:02.409 --> 00:38:05.630
thing up, you were talking about people that

00:38:05.630 --> 00:38:08.289
are stoic. And not only do I envy those people,

00:38:08.329 --> 00:38:10.769
but I hate those people because I don't understand.

00:38:11.150 --> 00:38:13.289
I have friends, too, that are just like, oh,

00:38:13.469 --> 00:38:16.150
yeah, I just got divorced because I cheated and

00:38:16.150 --> 00:38:20.050
gambled too much. Oh, my God. It is what it is.

00:38:20.190 --> 00:38:22.190
And it's like, how are you? It is what it is.

00:38:22.590 --> 00:38:24.449
You know what I mean? Like, they just handle

00:38:24.449 --> 00:38:25.650
it so, and they're like, oh, there's nothing

00:38:25.650 --> 00:38:27.969
I can do about it. And I'm like, I want to feel

00:38:27.969 --> 00:38:30.690
that. No, I think you and I are people who are

00:38:30.690 --> 00:38:33.989
people like us are very good in a crisis. Very

00:38:33.989 --> 00:38:36.329
good. Very good in a crisis. The day to day is

00:38:36.329 --> 00:38:40.150
more of a challenge. So when my wife and I, my

00:38:40.150 --> 00:38:42.070
wife's family's from South India. So we go to

00:38:42.070 --> 00:38:44.809
India once a year. And traveling is such a crazy

00:38:44.809 --> 00:38:47.530
thing. Oh, packing. Especially that far. And

00:38:47.530 --> 00:38:50.269
so things will go wrong throughout the thing.

00:38:50.449 --> 00:38:53.929
Or my wife, beautiful, wonderful woman, she sometimes

00:38:53.929 --> 00:38:55.969
can get anxious. She's, what if it goes wrong?

00:38:56.329 --> 00:39:00.010
And we don't have as much anxiety. Ours is, well,

00:39:00.050 --> 00:39:02.329
you know what? My whole life it's been going

00:39:02.329 --> 00:39:04.150
not wrong. But you know what? No, no, no, no.

00:39:04.530 --> 00:39:06.969
Today was wrong. Challenge. I came on the wrong

00:39:06.969 --> 00:39:09.250
day. I didn't know what was going on. And I'm

00:39:09.250 --> 00:39:11.969
here. Yes. So there's a bit of, hey, if it goes

00:39:11.969 --> 00:39:13.949
wrong, we'll deal with that. I love that Bill

00:39:13.949 --> 00:39:17.670
Burr line. And Bill Burr. My favorite. he would,

00:39:18.030 --> 00:39:20.889
if he ever heard, not like I know him, but I'm

00:39:20.889 --> 00:39:22.550
sure it's gonna start coming, there's gonna be

00:39:22.550 --> 00:39:24.349
a Bilbo Renaissance, and he was gonna be like,

00:39:24.650 --> 00:39:27.050
yeah, that's what it is, Renaissance, I can't,

00:39:27.369 --> 00:39:29.869
I look so bad. No, it was good, I got it, I got

00:39:29.869 --> 00:39:31.449
it, he went for it, it's fine, we'll edit it

00:39:31.449 --> 00:39:35.409
out. But he is someone who his act was so angry

00:39:35.409 --> 00:39:38.809
for a while, and it was very, and then you clearly

00:39:38.809 --> 00:39:44.130
saw. marriage and therapy be something that he...

00:39:44.130 --> 00:39:46.269
And so now you see him in these interviews, and

00:39:46.269 --> 00:39:47.949
he's the one that I really love, is he goes,

00:39:48.389 --> 00:39:51.469
why... And it's easy to say to someone with anxiety,

00:39:51.590 --> 00:39:53.050
they're like, yeah, I'll just flip that switch.

00:39:53.110 --> 00:39:55.869
I won't do it. I'm not saying that. But I like

00:39:55.869 --> 00:39:58.570
the way he phrased it of, why be anxious about

00:39:58.570 --> 00:40:01.309
something that could go wrong? If it goes wrong,

00:40:01.329 --> 00:40:03.809
you'll deal with it then. But all the time beforehand,

00:40:04.329 --> 00:40:06.449
you're ruining what could have been a nice moment.

00:40:07.050 --> 00:40:09.670
And when it does go wrong, you'll handle it.

00:40:09.789 --> 00:40:11.789
You'll have it. And again, that's like someone

00:40:11.789 --> 00:40:15.710
saying to us, why can't you just focus? I know

00:40:15.710 --> 00:40:18.230
it's not switches in our brain that we can flip,

00:40:18.289 --> 00:40:20.809
but sometimes those mantras are good. So I think

00:40:20.809 --> 00:40:23.349
we do well in a crisis because there is a little

00:40:23.349 --> 00:40:27.469
bit of, if it goes wrong, we'll handle it. Yeah.

00:40:27.469 --> 00:40:30.289
Figure it out. You're so right for two reasons.

00:40:30.809 --> 00:40:33.869
One, you're right. I remember being on a flight

00:40:33.869 --> 00:40:36.230
with my two kids and my wife and she's a mess

00:40:36.230 --> 00:40:38.750
and she needs a Xanax and she doesn't take that

00:40:38.750 --> 00:40:41.389
kind of stuff regularly but flying scares her

00:40:41.389 --> 00:40:43.429
and I'm always very, hey it's okay we're gonna

00:40:43.429 --> 00:40:46.349
be but then like we get off the plane and the

00:40:46.349 --> 00:40:48.710
place is closed that I wanted my coffee from

00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:50.650
and I'm freaking out over that and it's it's

00:40:50.650 --> 00:40:53.949
a hard balance but the Bill Berline reminds me

00:40:53.949 --> 00:40:56.389
of one of my favorite quotes from I think I guess

00:40:56.389 --> 00:40:58.170
it's not a quote if I don't remember how it went

00:40:58.170 --> 00:41:00.030
but I think it was like the Dalai Lama where

00:41:00.030 --> 00:41:03.119
it was the same thing where it was like If there's

00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:05.760
a problem and there's no solution, there's no

00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.360
sense in worrying about it. And if there's a

00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:10.559
problem but there's a solution, why worry about

00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:12.139
it? You're gonna figure it out at some point.

00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:14.420
And it's the same mantra. But enough about that.

00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:16.539
I am so sorry. People are like, this guy's a

00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:18.360
comedian. What the fuck are we talking about

00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:22.420
here? This is a show for doctors. Brian Anke.

00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:26.300
You're shooting a special at the McCarthy Mercantile

00:41:26.300 --> 00:41:29.400
here in Syracuse. Beautiful building. It used

00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:32.960
to be a legal building on South Salinas there.

00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:36.460
And then there was this huge open, I don't want

00:41:36.460 --> 00:41:38.739
to say basement space, but it's the lower ground

00:41:38.739 --> 00:41:42.320
floor. And the team that's worked around this

00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.219
has just done an amazing job of, and I know you

00:41:45.219 --> 00:41:47.260
work with a lot of businesses. They just took

00:41:47.260 --> 00:41:49.360
this huge space and go, Hey, you're a tattoo

00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:51.699
artist. You don't need a full structure building

00:41:51.699 --> 00:41:53.519
to do what you're doing. Why don't you rent one

00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.260
of our smaller spaces? So there's like businesses

00:41:57.260 --> 00:42:02.019
that sometimes rotate or are there for the year

00:42:02.019 --> 00:42:04.139
while their building is getting renovated or

00:42:04.139 --> 00:42:07.699
whatever. And it's very cool. And I had been

00:42:07.699 --> 00:42:09.599
there for a festival once. And I remember when

00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:11.420
we were looking at thinking of spaces, I was

00:42:11.420 --> 00:42:14.480
like, man, that place was really cool. I wonder

00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.500
if they would do event spaces or would they do

00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:20.230
events and they do, and they on the ad. or on

00:42:20.230 --> 00:42:22.610
the dock for it, the guy Michael runs the place,

00:42:22.610 --> 00:42:26.150
he's amazing. It says, no weddings, no seriously,

00:42:26.329 --> 00:42:29.710
no wedding. And then I love, he's got his email

00:42:29.710 --> 00:42:31.269
thing. I just sent him an email about how much

00:42:31.269 --> 00:42:34.409
time we need. And it says, if the subject heading

00:42:34.409 --> 00:42:37.289
is, can I pick your brain? I will ignore it.

00:42:37.809 --> 00:42:40.349
Which is such a great way to say, hey, we're

00:42:40.349 --> 00:42:43.329
either talking or we're not talking. Because

00:42:43.329 --> 00:42:46.070
this whole, hey, do you mind if I take up your

00:42:46.070 --> 00:42:50.369
time and your focus and your energy for. no payback

00:42:50.369 --> 00:42:53.070
on my end, you're like, I don't know, he can't

00:42:53.070 --> 00:42:55.829
do that. So it's this amazing space and I'm so

00:42:55.829 --> 00:42:58.510
excited to shoot there. Mike Abbott, who I think

00:42:58.510 --> 00:43:01.349
you know. Mike Abbott, I'm bad with names. No,

00:43:01.349 --> 00:43:03.449
but he's worked in the space before, he's worked

00:43:03.449 --> 00:43:05.289
through you guys. Okay. When I mentioned I was

00:43:05.289 --> 00:43:06.489
going to be on, he's, oh yeah, I know those guys.

00:43:06.809 --> 00:43:09.449
He's directing and producing it. I met him through

00:43:09.449 --> 00:43:11.789
the comedy world. He's a big comedy fan. We got

00:43:11.789 --> 00:43:13.889
three cameras we're shooting with. I'd say if

00:43:13.889 --> 00:43:16.610
you, even if you're not a... April 12th, cameras

00:43:16.610 --> 00:43:18.570
mine, April 12th, if you got nothing going on.

00:43:18.769 --> 00:43:21.230
No, but if you've never been to a recording,

00:43:21.429 --> 00:43:23.789
it's very fun. The show, it's going to be a standup

00:43:23.789 --> 00:43:26.190
show. It's not that different, but it is fun

00:43:26.190 --> 00:43:29.349
to every once in a while see these cameras zipping

00:43:29.349 --> 00:43:34.110
around. And then, um, it's really set up to be

00:43:34.110 --> 00:43:38.030
a performance and a big time show. So I'm really

00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:40.469
excited about this. And yeah, this will be my

00:43:40.469 --> 00:43:43.369
second one. We're doing two shows at a 7pm show.

00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:47.179
and a 9 p .m. show and that is happening because

00:43:47.179 --> 00:43:49.800
Inside Baseball for Everyone, my first one I

00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:55.139
recorded I did in one show and we lost two jokes

00:43:55.139 --> 00:43:59.920
that were really good because an audience interaction

00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:02.239
that ruined the flow of it, not even that person's

00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:04.840
fault. I was talking about something, they agreed.

00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.619
That happens. And you know the worst heckler.

00:44:07.820 --> 00:44:11.480
is the nice, agreeing heckler. They're the...

00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:14.119
You got nothing to go off of. Can't yell at them.

00:44:14.219 --> 00:44:16.860
Yes. They are nice like everyone's grandma. And

00:44:16.860 --> 00:44:19.599
you're like, okay. Like... Give me something.

00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.860
My boyfriend also likes soup. And you're like...

00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:26.280
Like great. Not even talking. So we're doing

00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:28.820
two takes just in case someone's boyfriend likes

00:44:28.820 --> 00:44:31.559
soup. Yep. And we can... It just helps. That's

00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:34.079
how all specials are shot and that kind of stuff.

00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.579
Famously, Richard Pryor had a special, his last

00:44:36.579 --> 00:44:38.860
really good one, I forget the live, the one where

00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:40.539
he's in the red suit. Yes, that's the famous

00:44:40.539 --> 00:44:45.519
one. Wow. But that's such a great special. The

00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:47.340
people who were working on it were like, yeah,

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:50.519
we cut between three shows of that because he

00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.699
was just coming back from being set on fire.

00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:55.440
Everyone was so excited to see him. And so they

00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.519
lost a lot of takes because he'd be in the middle

00:44:57.519 --> 00:44:59.480
of a joke and they'd be like, I love you, Richard.

00:44:59.659 --> 00:45:02.050
And he's OK. That one's not going to work. So

00:45:02.050 --> 00:45:03.969
we're doing, and it just gives the opportunity

00:45:03.969 --> 00:45:07.210
for more shows. So it's two shows, 7 p .m., 9

00:45:07.210 --> 00:45:11.070
p .m., Adul Hadi is the feature. Ah, yes, I love

00:45:11.070 --> 00:45:12.949
him. Fantastic. He's done shows with him, yeah.

00:45:13.030 --> 00:45:15.449
He's one of my favorites. And then Katie Arroyo,

00:45:15.710 --> 00:45:17.070
I'm always gonna name her. Katie, I'm sorry,

00:45:17.130 --> 00:45:19.190
I love you. You are fantastic, but I always get

00:45:19.190 --> 00:45:21.710
your last name wrong. You can introduce my name,

00:45:21.889 --> 00:45:23.110
and actually you're hosting, you have to say

00:45:23.110 --> 00:45:26.489
my name right. She's awesome, and she's gonna

00:45:26.489 --> 00:45:28.710
be our host for the evening. I'm so glad we were

00:45:28.710 --> 00:45:31.940
able to get her. And yeah, so it'll be a great

00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:34.579
show. I'm so excited. We're going to be there.

00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:37.900
April 12th, Brian Ink, McCarthy Mercantile. And

00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:40.199
we're going to give away tickets to that, by

00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:42.239
the way. We are going to give away tickets right

00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:44.880
here on Good News York. Look for that. And especially

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.420
because we're giving away tickets, especially

00:45:46.420 --> 00:45:48.219
if you are someone who wins those tickets, go

00:45:48.219 --> 00:45:50.699
to the Eventbrite anyway because you can also

00:45:50.699 --> 00:45:52.480
donate. The other fun thing that we're doing

00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:58.090
is the show itself. is a fundraiser for a foundation

00:45:58.090 --> 00:46:00.190
that would literally just started. One of my

00:46:00.190 --> 00:46:02.829
best friends who's no longer with us, his boyfriend

00:46:02.829 --> 00:46:05.449
and I put together this idea called the Patty

00:46:05.449 --> 00:46:08.389
Foundation, and it's to help take care of LGBTQ

00:46:08.389 --> 00:46:10.849
kids who are displaced because they're gay, trans,

00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:14.409
and so all the money is gonna go towards that.

00:46:14.530 --> 00:46:17.269
So it's our first fundraiser for this foundation,

00:46:17.449 --> 00:46:20.010
and it was something my buddy Pat really believed

00:46:20.010 --> 00:46:22.070
very firmly in, and he always wanted to take

00:46:22.070 --> 00:46:25.639
care of. We're going to raise money in his name.

00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:27.840
We started this foundation. And yeah, if you

00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:29.840
get a free ticket, you can send $5 to the event.

00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:31.519
Your name goes on the credits. If you want to

00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:33.199
buy one of the dumb t -shirts that comes with

00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:35.539
it, that money goes to it also. All the money,

00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:38.059
all the proceeds go to the foundation. Yeah.

00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.199
That's fantastic. If you get free tickets, buy

00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:43.659
some credits. I absolutely love that. When you're

00:46:43.659 --> 00:46:46.539
trying to plan a special, right? I have not shot

00:46:46.539 --> 00:46:48.260
a special. I'm not special enough for that yet.

00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.159
No, we were talking. You're plenty special. Oh,

00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:53.079
yeah. I'm special, all right. There's a certain

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:55.820
way that comedians, all comedians have a process.

00:46:56.260 --> 00:46:58.139
There's some things that we all do that are the

00:46:58.139 --> 00:47:00.260
same. There's a lot of things that everybody

00:47:00.260 --> 00:47:02.800
has their own way of doing things. What's the

00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:04.739
difference in preparation other than the obvious

00:47:04.739 --> 00:47:07.059
of, OK, I got to write a longer set? What's different

00:47:07.059 --> 00:47:09.360
in your preparation for a special than just like

00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:11.139
a normal show? I'm going to show you right now.

00:47:11.300 --> 00:47:12.760
Oh, we're getting a demonstration. Yeah, if you

00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:15.139
get the cut to me. And this would be good for

00:47:15.139 --> 00:47:17.219
the brains that we have and stuff like that.

00:47:17.289 --> 00:47:21.829
In my office at home, I have a whiteboard to

00:47:21.829 --> 00:47:24.849
web chart all the jokes. Okay. And then, so it'll

00:47:24.849 --> 00:47:27.289
have the title of the joke and then we'll have

00:47:27.289 --> 00:47:29.949
all the offshoots of places it can go. And then

00:47:29.949 --> 00:47:33.230
when it's done, it gets a name on it. I have

00:47:33.230 --> 00:47:36.210
the joke that letters are hard that comes from

00:47:36.210 --> 00:47:38.710
my wife's is, like I said, her family's from

00:47:38.710 --> 00:47:41.610
South India. And I was not what they had in mind

00:47:41.610 --> 00:47:43.110
when they were thinking about marrying her. My

00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:46.010
wife's family preferred if she married an Indian

00:47:46.010 --> 00:47:49.389
doctor. who was like a spelling bee winner. And

00:47:49.389 --> 00:47:52.869
they got a white college dropout who's severely

00:47:52.869 --> 00:47:56.349
dyslexic. Holy college I've gone to. His dyslexia

00:47:56.349 --> 00:47:58.929
or novicity where letters are hard. So if the

00:47:58.929 --> 00:48:01.070
letters are hard joke is there, just the way

00:48:01.070 --> 00:48:03.010
you structure it, because it's a longer set.

00:48:03.170 --> 00:48:06.190
It's gonna be a 45 minute set. So what you do

00:48:06.190 --> 00:48:09.670
is you take the jokes and then move it around

00:48:09.670 --> 00:48:11.230
here. But then you realize, oh, I got to talk

00:48:11.230 --> 00:48:13.630
about marriage before I can get into the letters

00:48:13.630 --> 00:48:18.190
as hard joke. But. I also got to do in a racial

00:48:18.190 --> 00:48:20.809
marriage so you guys can sympathize with that

00:48:20.809 --> 00:48:23.590
joke. There you go. So you literally nice you

00:48:23.590 --> 00:48:26.210
structure what it can be. And then so for the

00:48:26.210 --> 00:48:28.610
past couple months, it has been playing around

00:48:28.610 --> 00:48:31.789
with what if I save that for the end? What if

00:48:31.789 --> 00:48:35.519
I put it there? So besides all the promo stuff

00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:38.559
you got to do and getting the camera crew together

00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:40.900
and then realizing, Oh, we got to run sound on

00:48:40.900 --> 00:48:44.000
this and all that other stuff. It's definitely

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:48.039
just bigger. Whereas stand up, you just show

00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:51.300
up. Like I was doing a show in North Pennsylvania

00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:55.909
and I literally, I didn't have pants. I didn't

00:48:55.909 --> 00:48:58.289
have a pant. Like, I swear, I was driving and...

00:48:58.289 --> 00:49:00.409
Sorry I'm late. I've got no pants. Well, now

00:49:00.409 --> 00:49:01.829
I'm starting to see a pattern. Yeah. I think

00:49:01.829 --> 00:49:03.250
people at home are gonna be like, I think this

00:49:03.250 --> 00:49:06.190
guy's just... Yeah, I just don't think he knows

00:49:06.190 --> 00:49:07.889
how to live. No, I'm not the only one that does

00:49:07.889 --> 00:49:09.789
this. If you have an hour and a half drive, you're

00:49:09.789 --> 00:49:12.730
not gonna wear... I get it. You wear your sweatpants.

00:49:12.750 --> 00:49:14.809
You bring the pants with you that you're gonna

00:49:14.809 --> 00:49:18.010
wear. 100%. Been there. So I didn't bring the

00:49:18.010 --> 00:49:20.210
pants. And so I'm talking to my wife and I was

00:49:20.210 --> 00:49:21.670
like, hey, I don't have my pants. She's like,

00:49:21.670 --> 00:49:24.329
what's on your leg? And I was like, my sweatpants.

00:49:24.409 --> 00:49:26.230
She's like, you're fine. Get in there. And it

00:49:26.230 --> 00:49:29.010
was fine, but literally didn't have the pants,

00:49:29.150 --> 00:49:31.949
got there 10, 15 minutes late. Cause I was outside

00:49:31.949 --> 00:49:35.289
looking for pants. And you just go up and do

00:49:35.289 --> 00:49:37.389
time. I didn't even know where I was in the lineup.

00:49:37.469 --> 00:49:39.769
As soon as I got there, they needed time. So

00:49:39.769 --> 00:49:42.929
there's just a lot more work that goes into,

00:49:43.050 --> 00:49:46.309
it's very much like your first day at your job.

00:49:46.570 --> 00:49:48.309
You get there early and you're figuring stuff

00:49:48.309 --> 00:49:50.590
out versus anyone else. You're like, it's Wednesday.

00:49:50.849 --> 00:49:54.679
I can zip right in, drop at my desk. Yeah, when

00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:57.380
I I bounced back and forth between stand up and

00:49:57.380 --> 00:49:59.900
I had a band for 10 years Stupidly, I should

00:49:59.900 --> 00:50:02.380
just I was in a but anyway, so I remember putting

00:50:02.380 --> 00:50:04.760
shows together and what went into that So I do

00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:06.679
first of all, I appreciate you actually showing

00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:08.739
us your process that that's fascinating to me

00:50:08.739 --> 00:50:11.940
But from a production standpoint, did you did

00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:13.460
you go as far as to be like? Alright, I want

00:50:13.460 --> 00:50:15.820
I want three cameras and I want to do this How

00:50:15.820 --> 00:50:18.739
involved with you? Are you with the are you gonna

00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:20.539
let them do their thing or do you have a certain

00:50:20.539 --> 00:50:23.170
direction for that? What about the set? I'm going

00:50:23.170 --> 00:50:25.829
to let Mike do what stand -up so much. You shouldn't

00:50:25.829 --> 00:50:28.110
have done a band because stand -up is just easier.

00:50:28.469 --> 00:50:31.789
Getting four people together to do anything is

00:50:31.789 --> 00:50:33.889
insane. That's a hundred percent. That's so crazy.

00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:36.110
You just said that. Stand -up is so much easier.

00:50:36.309 --> 00:50:41.869
Stand -up is low budget. It is beloved. It is,

00:50:41.949 --> 00:50:44.090
it's also fun because it's always evolving. Like

00:50:44.090 --> 00:50:46.670
right now it's mostly crowd work stuff because

00:50:46.670 --> 00:50:50.550
people like, I did a show in Utica and at Utica

00:50:50.550 --> 00:50:53.099
college. And I remember thinking before I go

00:50:53.099 --> 00:50:55.099
on stage, I shouldn't do any jokes. I should

00:50:55.099 --> 00:50:57.260
just do crowd work, because these are TikTok

00:50:57.260 --> 00:51:00.619
kids. And TikTok stand -up right now is just

00:51:00.619 --> 00:51:03.099
crowd work. And I did it. It went well. And I

00:51:03.099 --> 00:51:05.179
remember after the show, there's a kid who goes

00:51:05.179 --> 00:51:08.079
there who I know through life. And I go, you

00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:10.119
guys think stand -up is crowd work, right? And

00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:12.380
he goes, yeah, I guess it's true. And not in

00:51:12.380 --> 00:51:14.179
a bad way. There was a time where people thought

00:51:14.179 --> 00:51:17.380
stand -up was take my wife, please. So it's always

00:51:17.380 --> 00:51:21.809
evolving, which is fun as well. Stand Up is simple,

00:51:22.210 --> 00:51:27.909
it is always evolving, and it is also immediate

00:51:27.909 --> 00:51:30.949
reward for your work. That's correct. So like,

00:51:31.150 --> 00:51:33.090
we're working on this right now, is it gonna

00:51:33.090 --> 00:51:36.150
get views? Is it gonna get comments? Is it gonna

00:51:36.150 --> 00:51:38.929
get liked? April 12th, 7 p .m., 9 p .m. show.

00:51:39.429 --> 00:51:41.590
Is it, like, that's the worst, I'm waiting to

00:51:41.590 --> 00:51:43.690
see if tickets are gonna get sold. The waiting,

00:51:44.010 --> 00:51:48.050
yeah. Whereas... I do a joke, I know right then

00:51:48.050 --> 00:51:50.550
and there if it works or not. I know why it works

00:51:50.550 --> 00:51:53.130
or doesn't work, which is great. And especially

00:51:53.130 --> 00:51:54.570
if you've been doing this long enough, like I've

00:51:54.570 --> 00:51:59.489
been doing this, I think 12 years now, I've been

00:51:59.489 --> 00:52:01.349
doing standup. And so yeah, you start realizing

00:52:01.349 --> 00:52:03.150
why things are working, why it's not working.

00:52:03.789 --> 00:52:06.289
And so when it comes to the, definitely second

00:52:06.289 --> 00:52:08.289
one is easier, just like anything else, whether

00:52:08.289 --> 00:52:11.610
it's a kid or an orgy, doing it the second time.

00:52:11.739 --> 00:52:14.360
Or kids at an orgy. Yeah, that's how the kids

00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.980
come to be. Everyone's a little forgetful about

00:52:16.980 --> 00:52:19.760
things when there's an orgy involved. And then

00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:21.440
that's where they, oh God, can you imagine being

00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:25.639
a kid? Oh boy. How did, how did, where was I

00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:27.980
conceived? Funny story. The factory had been

00:52:27.980 --> 00:52:30.000
closed for two months and we thought that was

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:31.960
a good place to put a bunch of couches. That's

00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:34.860
right. And so. Your mother and I were bored.

00:52:35.619 --> 00:52:38.610
We hadn't met yet, actually. I like her Zorro

00:52:38.610 --> 00:52:41.110
mask. And so we, you know, I'm going to let Mike

00:52:41.110 --> 00:52:42.389
do everything with the shots. We've got three

00:52:42.389 --> 00:52:45.210
cameras, but we learn a lot from the first one.

00:52:45.369 --> 00:52:49.090
And it's going to be just framing shots. Mike's

00:52:49.090 --> 00:52:51.289
going to come with me to a show that I'm doing

00:52:51.289 --> 00:52:53.730
in Binghamton. If you're in the Binghamton area,

00:52:53.849 --> 00:52:56.050
oh God, I'll, I'll, I'll plug in a second, but,

00:52:56.610 --> 00:52:58.929
and we're going to, I'm going to run the special.

00:52:59.050 --> 00:53:00.909
And so he'll be able, he's going to have a notepad

00:53:00.909 --> 00:53:04.059
for shots that he thinks would be good. And stand

00:53:04.059 --> 00:53:07.340
-up's also not hard to shoot. It's just a person.

00:53:07.539 --> 00:53:10.420
But some jokes are better close up. Some are

00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:12.539
a little bit better further. Some are better

00:53:12.539 --> 00:53:15.500
on a dolly. And so he's gonna do stuff like that.

00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:17.579
So I'm gonna put it in his hands. All I gotta

00:53:17.579 --> 00:53:21.280
do is show up and do the act. Are you gonna have

00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:23.260
a hand in the editing process, post -production?

00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:28.659
Yes and no. It's gonna be mostly just... Like

00:53:28.659 --> 00:53:30.380
so many things, I think it'd be great to go,

00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:32.659
hey, can we try this six different ways and let's

00:53:32.659 --> 00:53:35.579
find out which one we like best? But again, I

00:53:35.579 --> 00:53:38.519
trust Mike, I trust, and again, it's not super

00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:42.679
hard to do when it's standup, because it's just

00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:46.239
one thing. Really, it's the words and maybe some

00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:49.320
of the facial mannerisms. But for the most part,

00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:52.480
it's let's just shoot this and have it look half

00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.519
decent. Absolutely. Yeah. It's funny, you're

00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:57.139
talking about the difference between music and

00:53:57.139 --> 00:53:59.579
comedy and it's, you can't, when you hear about

00:53:59.579 --> 00:54:01.159
the way to get better at stand -up, you hear

00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.019
a lot of comedians say you just gotta go do it.

00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:06.340
And it's so true, because more than music, you

00:54:06.340 --> 00:54:08.760
can practice at home, right? And you can get

00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:11.699
better as a band, but once, and then you get

00:54:11.699 --> 00:54:13.639
out there and you know ahead of time, this sounds

00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:16.599
good. In comedy, yeah, you can practice at home

00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:18.719
to your stuffed animals or to family. The only

00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:21.530
way to really know, is do I kill this joke? Do

00:54:21.530 --> 00:54:24.289
I have to change the delivery or the setup? It's

00:54:24.289 --> 00:54:26.710
to just do it, right? Yeah, I was just talking

00:54:26.710 --> 00:54:28.590
about this with the owner at Legacy Lounge in

00:54:28.590 --> 00:54:30.590
Waverly, which is another great comedy room.

00:54:30.789 --> 00:54:32.809
I don't know how they made it. It's like a perfect

00:54:32.809 --> 00:54:35.349
little comedy club. And we were talking about

00:54:35.349 --> 00:54:37.389
it, and he's got kids. Because we were talking

00:54:37.389 --> 00:54:39.309
about some comics who are working it out for

00:54:39.309 --> 00:54:40.690
the first time, working on material, working

00:54:40.690 --> 00:54:42.190
out stand -up as a whole. He's like, sometimes

00:54:42.190 --> 00:54:47.000
it's tough to watch. I go, I know. Only way you

00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:49.360
can practice standup is in front of people and

00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:51.000
he's got kids and I go to have any kids learning

00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.820
an instrument. And he said, yeah, I go, it's

00:54:52.820 --> 00:54:54.679
painful to listen to at first, isn't it? And

00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:56.800
he goes, yeah. He goes, but you get to do that

00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:59.679
at home and get stronger and get better. Standup

00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:03.280
has to be done in front of people. And so it

00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:08.179
really is a painful process to go through. Some

00:55:08.179 --> 00:55:11.280
people, hopefully it'll click in early. You have

00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:14.500
your jokes that you start realizing work really

00:55:14.500 --> 00:55:18.190
well. and then you sandwich again, you got a

00:55:18.190 --> 00:55:20.969
joke that works really well, you got your intro

00:55:20.969 --> 00:55:23.570
joke that does really well, risky joke, and then

00:55:23.570 --> 00:55:25.409
we are going to sandwich it with a better joke.

00:55:25.429 --> 00:55:27.369
And that's how most comics, in my experience,

00:55:27.750 --> 00:55:30.010
work out new material. Absolutely. Put it in

00:55:30.010 --> 00:55:32.849
between stuff that we know works. We want it

00:55:32.849 --> 00:55:34.710
to enter at a good wavelength, and we want to

00:55:34.710 --> 00:55:36.989
do a good job for you. If you're paid to talk

00:55:36.989 --> 00:55:39.869
in front of people, you better do it well. Should

00:55:39.869 --> 00:55:43.369
talk and do it well. Yeah. I was talking about

00:55:43.369 --> 00:55:46.039
this. At some point, I think on Good News York,

00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:48.719
and I feel like you'll understand this, one of

00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:51.639
my biggest pet peeves with stand -up is there

00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:55.320
was a time I was managing a music venue, and

00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:59.219
the owner did the age -old, we should do like

00:55:59.219 --> 00:56:01.880
a comedy night. Yeah, okay. For Rodney Danger.

00:56:01.980 --> 00:56:03.900
Yeah, well, I get no respect. I gotta do some

00:56:03.900 --> 00:56:07.599
fucking comedy. That's hilarious. No, I honestly

00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:08.980
think we'll do it during happy hour. We always

00:56:08.980 --> 00:56:11.039
have a crowd here. We'll just throw a mic up

00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:14.690
there. I was like, I was like, Comedy is a mindset.

00:56:14.969 --> 00:56:18.110
I was like, you can't just have people drinking

00:56:18.110 --> 00:56:20.769
and then the secondary is a guy gets up there

00:56:20.769 --> 00:56:23.590
and starts talking. It doesn't work for the comic

00:56:23.590 --> 00:56:27.010
or the crowd. You have to have seats. Because

00:56:27.010 --> 00:56:29.389
people don't realize that when you're on your

00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:31.289
way to a comedy show, whether you know it or

00:56:31.289 --> 00:56:34.409
not, you're already ready to laugh. If you're

00:56:34.409 --> 00:56:36.690
at a happy hour with friends, even if the comedian

00:56:36.690 --> 00:56:38.769
up there just says something fucking hilarious.

00:56:39.269 --> 00:56:41.150
You're not going to have an immediate reaction.

00:56:41.289 --> 00:56:42.909
You know what I'm saying? There's so much more

00:56:42.909 --> 00:56:44.949
to it. Then I should have waited until you were

00:56:44.949 --> 00:56:47.269
done sipping. I shouldn't have sipped while you

00:56:47.269 --> 00:56:48.590
were finishing what you were saying. Damn it.

00:56:48.789 --> 00:56:52.369
Our timing. What's comedy about? What's one rule

00:56:52.369 --> 00:56:56.630
of comedy? Timing. Timing. Sorry. I was also

00:56:56.630 --> 00:56:58.469
sipping. That's why you're messing it up. You

00:56:58.469 --> 00:57:00.710
need focus for comedy. That's the hard thing

00:57:00.710 --> 00:57:02.750
when people, if you have a room and you want

00:57:02.750 --> 00:57:06.039
to put comedy in there, that's great. The rules

00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:08.480
are, let's put it out there, because there's

00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:11.719
- Do it, lay the rules out. The rules for standup

00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:14.320
comedy, if you want to put standup in your venue.

00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:18.619
One, promote it as a comedy show, not a variety

00:57:18.619 --> 00:57:21.219
show, though I do think variety open mics are

00:57:21.219 --> 00:57:23.739
super fun. If you do an open mic, you could definitely

00:57:23.739 --> 00:57:26.179
do that. But make it just be standup, not because

00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:27.539
standup is the most important thing in the world,

00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:30.820
but because you're changing the gears of what

00:57:30.820 --> 00:57:33.699
the audience is doing. It'd be like putting -

00:57:34.010 --> 00:57:36.929
an action movie with a romantic comedy with a

00:57:36.929 --> 00:57:38.710
horror movie. Perfectly put. And every single

00:57:38.710 --> 00:57:42.110
thing because you're changing gears in the audiences.

00:57:42.329 --> 00:57:45.130
I've done shows where it's an improv team and

00:57:45.130 --> 00:57:47.989
then a standup and an improv team. And even that

00:57:47.989 --> 00:57:50.250
doesn't work because... Two different... Building

00:57:50.250 --> 00:57:52.550
a fourth wall, you're tearing it down. That's

00:57:52.550 --> 00:57:54.690
right. Building a fourth wall and the audience

00:57:54.690 --> 00:57:57.369
is getting fatigued. Do the show. You just gotta

00:57:57.369 --> 00:58:01.170
have seats. You gotta have focus. And you gotta

00:58:01.170 --> 00:58:03.840
know that at some point... You really want to

00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:06.659
dedicate a room. Take notes. You want to dedicate

00:58:06.659 --> 00:58:10.300
a room to be able to just do it. Whereas music

00:58:10.300 --> 00:58:13.780
is, you can have active listeners and passive

00:58:13.780 --> 00:58:16.639
listeners stand up. It has to be active listeners

00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:18.900
only. So that's, I think that's the only con

00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:20.579
we're talking about how easy it is to do stand

00:58:20.579 --> 00:58:24.639
up. Music and bands are really great to run a

00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:27.159
three hour set because God bless you. I don't

00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.019
know how you guys do that. Three hour set because

00:58:30.019 --> 00:58:33.329
some people can be. actively listening. I love

00:58:33.329 --> 00:58:35.449
this track. And they go, anyway, so yes, Steve

00:58:35.449 --> 00:58:37.989
left me. And then you come back and then whatever

00:58:37.989 --> 00:58:40.570
it is. And so you just make sure that the people

00:58:40.570 --> 00:58:44.389
have focused. Focus and then. I'm sorry, Steve

00:58:44.389 --> 00:58:46.409
left you by the way. Thank you. I do apologize.

00:58:46.699 --> 00:58:49.179
I'm glad you laid out the ground rules. I do

00:58:49.179 --> 00:58:51.920
want to talk about, you mentioned Mike earlier.

00:58:52.099 --> 00:58:54.079
The reason Brian and I know each other is, and

00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:55.440
I've talked about Mike before, I want to give

00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:57.320
him a proper, that's how he actually got on here.

00:58:57.340 --> 00:58:59.199
If you want to do a show, ask Mike Peters how

00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:01.699
to do it, because he does the best shows. Mike

00:59:01.699 --> 00:59:04.679
Peters, I don't know how I got in touch with

00:59:04.679 --> 00:59:07.539
him years ago, but he runs a circuit called Homebrewed

00:59:07.539 --> 00:59:10.559
Comedy. And I would say technically it's out

00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:13.219
of the Binghamton area, but he goes up to Syracuse,

00:59:13.340 --> 00:59:16.179
Utica, all over New York State. He started with

00:59:16.179 --> 00:59:18.519
a small roster of comedians. He's built it to

00:59:18.519 --> 00:59:21.039
a roster of a hundred of us, which is how I met

00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.860
Brian and vice versa. And he'll just do these

00:59:23.860 --> 00:59:27.460
pop -up homebrewed comedy shows in bars, restaurants,

00:59:27.780 --> 00:59:31.360
VFWs. But what we were just talking about, he

00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:34.780
knows how to set it up properly. He doesn't pull

00:59:34.780 --> 00:59:37.699
any punches with the owners. Everybody wins.

00:59:38.179 --> 00:59:40.199
And he puts on incredible shows. And I've met

00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:41.679
some of the best people, including yourself,

00:59:41.800 --> 00:59:44.019
through that. Shout out to Mike Peters in Homebrewed

00:59:44.019 --> 00:59:46.019
Comedy. You have a show coming up with him, too?

00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:50.000
Yeah, I think it's after the special. That's

00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:52.139
good. Yeah, I'm trying to remember, which is

00:59:52.139 --> 00:59:56.219
April 12th. April 12th at McCarthy, Mercantile,

00:59:56.440 --> 00:59:59.280
Brian Inc. Or if you go on any of my social media,

00:59:59.579 --> 01:00:01.360
there'll be links for that as well. But Mike

01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.099
Peters does these amazing Homebrewed shows. That's

01:00:04.099 --> 01:00:06.239
definitely a channel to follow as well. He'll

01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:08.880
do these shows out in the sticks, and respectfully,

01:00:09.300 --> 01:00:10.820
in some places, you're like, I'm like, this is

01:00:10.820 --> 01:00:13.159
the Hills Have I. If you have racist jokes, do

01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.260
a Mike Peters show. That's my whole act. Yeah,

01:00:16.300 --> 01:00:19.500
they won't. You're good. But then you get there,

01:00:19.500 --> 01:00:20.739
and there's 50 people in the room. I'm like,

01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:23.079
how did you do this? So he brings people. It's

01:00:23.079 --> 01:00:24.800
great. The comics are great. Everybody has a

01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:27.639
good time. And yeah, I don't know. When I moved

01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.099
up here from New York City, my biggest fear was

01:00:30.099 --> 01:00:32.360
I'm not going to be able to get on stage. I'm

01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:33.400
not going to be able to get on stage as much

01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:35.949
as I'd like to. And it was the complete opposite.

01:00:36.110 --> 01:00:38.349
It was a lot of times, instead of fighting for

01:00:38.349 --> 01:00:40.650
these 15 -minute spots for comedy clubs over

01:00:40.650 --> 01:00:42.750
in New York City, Mike's been letting me feature

01:00:42.750 --> 01:00:44.969
and headline and really... There's no way I could

01:00:44.969 --> 01:00:47.750
have done this special as quickly as I was able

01:00:47.750 --> 01:00:52.010
to do it without having regular 45 -minute spots

01:00:52.010 --> 01:00:55.010
to work out material. And it just honestly ties

01:00:55.010 --> 01:00:57.010
right back into what we were talking about, the

01:00:57.010 --> 01:00:59.750
unwritten rules of comedy. He also does it right.

01:01:00.050 --> 01:01:02.420
He knows without having to say anything... He

01:01:02.420 --> 01:01:04.400
knows when someone's ready to feature. He knows

01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.260
when someone's ready to headline. And he also

01:01:07.260 --> 01:01:09.039
knows that just because you've headlined here

01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:11.119
doesn't mean you're gonna headline here. He knows

01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:13.320
your style and where it's gonna work and who

01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:15.159
it's gonna work with. Mike Peters, Homebrewed

01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:17.280
Comedy, shout out to that. You have a show coming

01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:20.179
up with him. I have a show coming up March 22nd

01:01:20.179 --> 01:01:22.679
in Dryden, New York with him. Which, what a dick

01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:24.480
I am, I'm plugging my show during your interview.

01:01:24.980 --> 01:01:26.800
But we're here to talk about April 12th, your

01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:29.780
special in Syracuse. Yep, once again, all the

01:01:29.780 --> 01:01:31.860
proceeds go to the Patty Foundation, taking care

01:01:31.860 --> 01:01:36.079
of LGBT youths, and yeah, definitely get tickets.

01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:38.179
And I know we've been going on, I could talk

01:01:38.179 --> 01:01:39.699
to you forever. They're like $8 tickets. Yeah,

01:01:39.900 --> 01:01:43.079
seriously. It's not a lot. Think about what you

01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:45.000
could do. You can't even go to McDonald's for

01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.599
that now. You can't even go to McDonald's. You

01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:49.699
can't even go to McDonald's. What is with all

01:01:49.699 --> 01:01:52.320
these sites? It's so old. I know. So real quick

01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:53.920
though, I want to do a little background. We'll

01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:56.099
edit this down because two ADHD people, we could

01:01:56.099 --> 01:01:57.699
do a four hour interview. I know, and I was with

01:01:57.699 --> 01:02:00.500
two ADHD people and I go, oh, when you show up

01:02:00.500 --> 01:02:01.679
to the show and there'll be plenty of stuff to

01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:03.460
do that. But the entrance that everyone's going

01:02:03.460 --> 01:02:05.239
to do is because it's this beautiful space. But

01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:07.179
because we have two shows, we need to keep people

01:02:07.179 --> 01:02:09.639
before they come down. Jamaica Queues, which

01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:11.360
is a great restaurant right there. Yes. They

01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:13.460
are going to be our entrance. They're going to

01:02:13.460 --> 01:02:16.590
be our little... Oh, sick. Uh, rooms. So they

01:02:16.590 --> 01:02:18.250
are, that's where you're going to go grab drinks.

01:02:18.469 --> 01:02:19.730
That's where you're going to hang out before

01:02:19.730 --> 01:02:22.170
the show happens. The address is South Salina

01:02:22.170 --> 01:02:25.469
for Mercantile, but you're entering through Jamaica

01:02:25.469 --> 01:02:27.489
queues. So do you want to hear my Jamaica joke?

01:02:27.690 --> 01:02:30.130
Of course I do. I was, I worked for a public

01:02:30.130 --> 01:02:32.670
access television show in Brooklyn and we got

01:02:32.670 --> 01:02:35.630
a new president and she, her family's from Jamaica.

01:02:35.869 --> 01:02:38.829
a proud Jamaican woman and we're there and I

01:02:38.829 --> 01:02:41.389
am a nobody. I think I just left being a PA.

01:02:41.650 --> 01:02:43.789
So there is very important people and investors

01:02:43.789 --> 01:02:45.250
and stuff like that. She comes and she goes,

01:02:45.269 --> 01:02:47.769
I understand you do comedy. And I go, yes. Tell

01:02:47.769 --> 01:02:50.510
me a joke. And I go, I have a great Jamaica joke

01:02:50.510 --> 01:02:52.070
if you want to hear it. And the room's like,

01:02:52.190 --> 01:02:57.289
we got to fill this position. And she goes, sure,

01:02:57.329 --> 01:02:59.789
I'd love to hear it. And I go, I love Jamaican

01:02:59.789 --> 01:03:02.230
food. It's so good. I love those beef patties.

01:03:02.230 --> 01:03:04.150
But if I have too many, I might get a blood clot.

01:03:05.099 --> 01:03:08.619
And it goes silent, and then she starts an acclimate.

01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:10.440
Thank God. I was like, what did you guys think

01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:12.940
I was? Yeah. Hey, put on dreads and be like,

01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:15.880
hold on. Yeah, hold up. And that's my Jamaica

01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.119
joke. I love that joke. And I love it. I'm so

01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:20.219
happy. I eat at Jamaica Q's a lot. So I'm glad

01:03:20.219 --> 01:03:22.380
that they're going to be our front door before

01:03:22.380 --> 01:03:24.500
the show. Hey, I used to, at that same music

01:03:24.500 --> 01:03:27.320
venue, we used to have reggae nights. And the

01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:29.739
guy that booked the bands would book these reggae

01:03:29.739 --> 01:03:31.659
bands. And they were awesome. And a lot of times

01:03:31.659 --> 01:03:35.130
they'd get up there and they're like. You know,

01:03:36.030 --> 01:03:38.309
the whole thing. And they're good. And they're

01:03:38.309 --> 01:03:39.989
white, which is fine. But they're, you know,

01:03:40.070 --> 01:03:41.309
they're doing the thing. And then, like, they

01:03:41.309 --> 01:03:43.090
would get off the stage and come up to the bar.

01:03:43.190 --> 01:03:45.989
And the same guy that was like, and he'd be like,

01:03:46.090 --> 01:03:48.369
hey, man, can I get an Ithaca Green Trail IPA?

01:03:48.469 --> 01:03:51.019
And I'm like, what? What happened to your? I

01:03:51.019 --> 01:03:52.500
used to have a joke in my set that was like,

01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:54.000
that's like me coming up here and being like,

01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:56.739
what's up everybody? I'm from Liverpool, New

01:03:56.739 --> 01:03:59.739
York. You know what I mean? I can't do the put

01:03:59.739 --> 01:04:03.840
on accent. I don't know if you can sing reggae

01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:05.900
music without the accent. That's the thing, right?

01:04:05.940 --> 01:04:08.380
It's like country with twang, right? Oh, very

01:04:08.380 --> 01:04:10.219
good. You know what I mean? So there's the...

01:04:10.300 --> 01:04:13.059
Are they wrong? Because it's not really, it doesn't

01:04:13.059 --> 01:04:14.239
sound like reggae without it. That would be a

01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:17.400
funny genre of doing country music and all the

01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:21.079
lyrics, but doing it with a Rasta accent. That's

01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:22.840
fucking brilliant. She a good boy, or I don't

01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:25.480
know what it is. Listen to country music. I was

01:04:25.480 --> 01:04:27.340
trying to do the whole thing. It's always about

01:04:27.340 --> 01:04:30.519
a girl in a dirt road. Yeah. Not in this town.

01:04:30.539 --> 01:04:32.739
I can't do a Jamaican accent, so I would have

01:04:32.739 --> 01:04:36.690
to do reggae music with a twang. Yeah, that'd

01:04:36.690 --> 01:04:40.070
be funny. In my house, there's a picture on the

01:04:40.070 --> 01:04:42.949
wall, Rastafari, I don't know. We're all here

01:04:42.949 --> 01:04:46.789
for good vibration. Good vibration. But anyway.

01:04:47.130 --> 01:04:48.969
Let's come up with a country band that covers

01:04:48.969 --> 01:04:51.250
Bob Marley music. That would be the best thing.

01:04:51.250 --> 01:04:54.210
Dude, there's, this is, fuck, this is. Hank Marley.

01:04:54.469 --> 01:04:59.130
Google it. Junior, Hank Marley Jr. Hank Marley

01:04:59.130 --> 01:05:03.010
Jr. You're taking the three little birds by my

01:05:03.010 --> 01:05:05.750
window. Yeah, three little birds right next to

01:05:05.750 --> 01:05:09.130
my bourbon, three little bourbons. There is a

01:05:09.130 --> 01:05:11.389
band, you can Google if you don't believe me,

01:05:11.690 --> 01:05:14.750
called Dread Zeppelin, okay? First off, that's

01:05:14.750 --> 01:05:16.289
your, okay, just keep going, but that's your

01:05:16.289 --> 01:05:18.130
joke to do on stage. I don't have the music background.

01:05:18.449 --> 01:05:21.150
Doug. We're getting laughs. Okay, I hear him.

01:05:21.230 --> 01:05:23.510
Country Bob Marley covers a very funny joke.

01:05:23.510 --> 01:05:25.590
That is a funny - That's 100 % yours. Thank you.

01:05:25.829 --> 01:05:28.010
You heard it, he gave it to me. No, this is how,

01:05:28.210 --> 01:05:30.409
and I work with new comics all the time, and

01:05:30.409 --> 01:05:32.710
we'll talk notes, and we'll talk jokes, and punch

01:05:32.710 --> 01:05:34.150
jokes. Yeah. They're like, I can't do it, you

01:05:34.150 --> 01:05:36.190
wrote it. I go, no, no, no. The room wrote it,

01:05:36.269 --> 01:05:37.570
we're part of that process. I love you. When

01:05:37.570 --> 01:05:39.730
you get into a writer's room, you realize it's

01:05:39.730 --> 01:05:41.469
an echo chamber. That's right. And however it

01:05:41.469 --> 01:05:43.769
got there, it's gotta go - That's 100 % true.

01:05:43.789 --> 01:05:47.199
It doesn't matter. You built, literally, an electrician,

01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:49.039
they built a house together. An electrician's

01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:50.559
house, it's not the guy who did the drywall,

01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:52.000
it's not the guy who did the floor, it's not

01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:54.780
the girl who did the windows, see how I - I did,

01:05:54.780 --> 01:05:58.739
I did, yeah, yeah. It's not, but it's the house

01:05:58.739 --> 01:06:02.480
that got built by everybody, so this is the comic.

01:06:02.480 --> 01:06:04.780
I'm so glad you know that, not everybody knows

01:06:04.780 --> 01:06:06.699
that, they think it's either your joke or your

01:06:06.699 --> 01:06:09.239
joke, no. And if you're really a good comic,

01:06:09.380 --> 01:06:10.840
you just want the best joke to be out there.

01:06:11.340 --> 01:06:15.389
100%. I've never, no, well I'm talking about

01:06:15.389 --> 01:06:19.070
Dread Zeppelin is a band that plays Led Zeppelin

01:06:19.070 --> 01:06:24.349
covers, but the singer, it's done in reggae style,

01:06:24.829 --> 01:06:28.570
and the singer sings it like Elvis. Try to rap,

01:06:28.690 --> 01:06:32.090
I know, try to do the mental gymnastics. So it's

01:06:32.090 --> 01:06:35.550
Led Zeppelin songs, okay, in the style of reggae,

01:06:36.070 --> 01:06:40.159
with a... What is it Elvis Presley? He sings

01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:44.840
it like it's too much Zeppelin always said They

01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:50.599
were a byproduct of the southern blues World

01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:53.639
so it makes sense that Elvis who and I will go

01:06:53.639 --> 01:06:57.599
to the grave with this already stole black music

01:06:57.929 --> 01:07:01.289
That movie wasn't even that good. Dude. His career

01:07:01.289 --> 01:07:04.329
is not... I don't ca... April 12th? Come talk

01:07:04.329 --> 01:07:06.050
to me. April 12th. You want to talk about Elvis?

01:07:06.289 --> 01:07:08.630
9pm show. After the show, I'll talk to you that

01:07:08.630 --> 01:07:11.610
Elvis is not that good. Anything that was good

01:07:11.610 --> 01:07:14.510
about him, he stole from Chuck Berry. Dude. And

01:07:14.510 --> 01:07:16.909
you need to stop putting this man on a pedestal.

01:07:17.210 --> 01:07:19.670
He was hooking up with a 14 -year -old. Stop

01:07:19.670 --> 01:07:23.989
it! Dude, I love you. So was Chuck Berry. So

01:07:23.989 --> 01:07:26.630
he even took that from him. Yeah, the only thing

01:07:26.630 --> 01:07:28.269
he didn't take from Chuck Berry is Chuck Berry

01:07:28.269 --> 01:07:31.869
peed on women. Elvis didn't. Towards the end,

01:07:32.030 --> 01:07:34.809
he was probably very... He controls better. Prostate.

01:07:35.090 --> 01:07:38.789
But, dude, that's a whole other episode. I like

01:07:38.789 --> 01:07:41.010
the idea of arriving right now, cutting in between

01:07:41.010 --> 01:07:43.030
listening to Elvis, listening to this episode

01:07:43.030 --> 01:07:45.190
and be like, where is this recorded? I need to

01:07:45.190 --> 01:07:47.010
find it. Yeah, these sons of bitches. You'll

01:07:47.010 --> 01:07:50.389
never find us. No, I've been on that. soapbox

01:07:50.389 --> 01:07:52.949
for decades and I keep it quiet because I'm afraid.

01:07:53.150 --> 01:07:55.269
And finally, I'm going to piggyback off of what

01:07:55.269 --> 01:07:57.489
you said. I've thought the exact same thing about

01:07:57.489 --> 01:08:01.010
Elvis, completely overrated, but it's fine. Real

01:08:01.010 --> 01:08:04.550
quick, before we go, I just give me just let's

01:08:04.550 --> 01:08:07.010
talk about how you started out. What got you

01:08:07.010 --> 01:08:10.030
into comedy? What got you into comedy? Where

01:08:10.030 --> 01:08:12.230
did you start? How did you start? I think it's

01:08:12.230 --> 01:08:15.000
important. I talk about. I've answered this question

01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:16.880
before, but I also realized that there's a part

01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:18.779
of this that I haven't talked about, and so I

01:08:18.779 --> 01:08:22.800
can tell you about it here. So I got into stand

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:25.760
-up, like a lot of people do, where you see,

01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:28.920
like I saw Martin Lawrence in movies, and then

01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:30.899
they were like, you know, he does stand -up,

01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:32.579
right? And then I'm like, oh, that guy that I

01:08:32.579 --> 01:08:34.319
liked in the movie, I didn't know. And then you

01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:36.939
start discovering stand -up, and then you realize,

01:08:37.180 --> 01:08:40.319
like, people, again, it's movies. It wasn't stand

01:08:40.319 --> 01:08:44.270
-up into movies. I saw movies, and then... saw,

01:08:44.489 --> 01:08:46.170
hear no evil, see no evil. I'm like, I like that

01:08:46.170 --> 01:08:48.109
kind of like Richard Pryor is a comedian or I

01:08:48.109 --> 01:08:49.569
would see Annie Hall and they go Woody Allen

01:08:49.569 --> 01:08:53.149
originally a comedian. And so it was movies that

01:08:53.149 --> 01:08:56.350
then brought me into standup. And then I, I was,

01:08:56.369 --> 01:08:58.989
I graduated what high school in oh eight. So

01:08:58.989 --> 01:09:02.289
at whatever that age is. So I was catching comics

01:09:02.289 --> 01:09:05.750
that there was the blue collar thing. I knew

01:09:05.750 --> 01:09:07.979
that they were funny. Same way I feel about like

01:09:07.979 --> 01:09:10.060
Metallica. Like I saw the talent, but it wasn't

01:09:10.060 --> 01:09:12.140
for me. It just not, it wasn't something that

01:09:12.140 --> 01:09:14.640
connected on my wavelength. And so I'm more of

01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:17.680
a dreads up one kind of guy. And, and then Dane

01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:21.539
Cook was a popular one. And then vicious circles.

01:09:21.680 --> 01:09:24.319
One of my favorites. But then this one guy comes

01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:29.359
in named Dave Chappelle and I go, Oh, that's,

01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:30.840
and at the time my parents had gotten divorced.

01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:32.720
And so I was living in Rochester and so I was

01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:35.619
a suburb kid with my mom. I was a project kid

01:09:35.619 --> 01:09:38.770
with my dad. And technically the neighborhood

01:09:38.770 --> 01:09:40.850
wasn't, I don't think it's classified as a project,

01:09:41.189 --> 01:09:43.270
but every park or playground was named after

01:09:43.270 --> 01:09:46.829
someone who died in that location. So it had

01:09:46.829 --> 01:09:50.420
all the. accent of a project. And so we were...

01:09:50.420 --> 01:09:53.460
Gene Wilson Park. Yeah, exactly. He got stabbed

01:09:53.460 --> 01:09:55.539
here by the merry -go -round. Now there's a monkey

01:09:55.539 --> 01:09:59.500
bar. And so the other joke was the pool, the

01:09:59.500 --> 01:10:01.340
public pool that was there was used as a dog

01:10:01.340 --> 01:10:03.380
fighting ring in the winter. So in the summer,

01:10:03.460 --> 01:10:05.659
instead of diving for rings, we go for collars.

01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:09.859
And that joke never works. It's so dark and I'm

01:10:09.859 --> 01:10:12.140
so... How? I don't... I wish it worked. It's

01:10:12.140 --> 01:10:14.779
such a... It works here! Thank you. I loved it.

01:10:14.939 --> 01:10:17.399
But so I got a stand -up and what I realized

01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:19.619
was between the Chappelle show and his stand

01:10:19.619 --> 01:10:23.079
-up, I was able to bridge a gap. The suburb kids

01:10:23.079 --> 01:10:24.899
wanted to understand the black jokes and they

01:10:24.899 --> 01:10:26.619
hadn't understand them and I had just learned

01:10:26.619 --> 01:10:28.359
them from my friends in my new neighborhood.

01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:30.960
And then my friends in the new neighborhood loved

01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:34.119
that I would do the white voice for them with

01:10:34.119 --> 01:10:36.760
the, which is normally just my voice. Right.

01:10:36.979 --> 01:10:39.659
Add a little like they do. Hello. Hey, they're

01:10:39.659 --> 01:10:41.800
all guys. Want to go play baseball? Jimny Crickets.

01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:44.659
You guys really like basketball? Golly gee whiz.

01:10:45.390 --> 01:10:48.189
And so I loved that moment in time was such a

01:10:48.189 --> 01:10:49.930
great point because I was like, oh, and you talk

01:10:49.930 --> 01:10:52.430
about different audiences. I loved the idea of

01:10:52.430 --> 01:10:55.250
I saw someone be funny for different audiences.

01:10:55.270 --> 01:10:56.869
And I was like, I like that. I want to chase

01:10:56.869 --> 01:10:59.670
that. And so I remember being like in sixth grade

01:10:59.670 --> 01:11:01.149
maybe or something like that. I was having a

01:11:01.149 --> 01:11:05.659
sleepover at my house. This is at my house, my

01:11:05.659 --> 01:11:08.300
sleepover. I had a yellow legal pad, a big one,

01:11:08.420 --> 01:11:11.720
and I had jokes written out on it. And I was

01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:13.180
about, it was like I was coming out of the closet.

01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:14.779
I was gonna tell my friends, hey guys, I'm a

01:11:14.779 --> 01:11:18.140
comedian. And so we're watching standup. I go,

01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:20.800
hey. I wanna be a comedian. And they were all

01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:24.359
like, you're not funny. And like a slow motion

01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:26.979
made for lifetime movie, I just tucked the legal

01:11:26.979 --> 01:11:30.840
pad under my sleeping bag. I guess I just don't

01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:34.800
do this. Until I got to college and thank God,

01:11:34.819 --> 01:11:37.439
actually this is where I met my best friend who

01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:39.260
passed away. He was working in the theater program.

01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:42.500
I got to jump into the theater world and that's

01:11:42.500 --> 01:11:44.220
how we became friends. And then that theater

01:11:44.220 --> 01:11:46.420
thing brought me into, I can do standup now.

01:11:46.619 --> 01:11:49.340
I started doing stand -up. God bless my dad drove

01:11:49.340 --> 01:11:52.300
from Rochester to the college to pick me up to

01:11:52.300 --> 01:11:55.199
have me do a crappy five minutes at an open mic

01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:58.000
to then drive me back. And then got good enough

01:11:58.000 --> 01:11:59.840
at the theater thing and the stand -up thing

01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:03.060
that my director there said, hey, you could go

01:12:03.060 --> 01:12:04.680
to film school. Why don't you go to film school

01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:06.380
and then do the stand -up and do that. So I went

01:12:06.380 --> 01:12:08.720
to New York Film Academy. They let anybody in

01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:11.340
if you're interested in applying. And they weren't

01:12:11.340 --> 01:12:14.460
going to ask me back as an alumni. and then just

01:12:14.460 --> 01:12:16.619
started doing stand -up in New York City. And

01:12:16.619 --> 01:12:19.399
then the other kind of fun thing, and I know

01:12:19.399 --> 01:12:21.119
we got to go, but the other fun thing too was,

01:12:21.300 --> 01:12:23.260
especially for any new comics, something that's

01:12:23.260 --> 01:12:27.000
been coming up recently a lot is they're not

01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:29.220
sure what advice to take. And I think this could

01:12:29.220 --> 01:12:32.060
go with any type of art. I think you should listen

01:12:32.060 --> 01:12:36.840
to everything, but not take anything too seriously

01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:40.760
or... So I started in the clubs and I rose pretty

01:12:40.760 --> 01:12:43.800
quick and I knew how to do the jokes. I knew

01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.859
how to host. I knew how to get a crowd back.

01:12:46.979 --> 01:12:49.079
I knew how to do all these things. And then at

01:12:49.079 --> 01:12:51.439
the time, again, I really liked the alt comedy

01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:54.020
scene and the alt comedy scene is a little bit

01:12:54.020 --> 01:12:56.640
more. Yeah. It's building the brick. Sometimes

01:12:56.640 --> 01:12:58.220
they talk about things like depression, or they

01:12:58.220 --> 01:13:00.100
talk about things like anxiety, or they're a

01:13:00.100 --> 01:13:02.199
little bit more obscure references. And I love

01:13:02.199 --> 01:13:04.670
that world. And so I would go to those shows

01:13:04.670 --> 01:13:06.850
to try to, and I didn't, it didn't, my act didn't

01:13:06.850 --> 01:13:08.289
work there. And I remember there was a couple

01:13:08.289 --> 01:13:12.210
of comics that I got shit from because I was

01:13:12.210 --> 01:13:14.430
doing what would be considered like club jokes.

01:13:15.470 --> 01:13:18.270
And instead of thinking these guys, every time

01:13:18.270 --> 01:13:22.630
they get on stage, it's silence. I get laughs.

01:13:22.850 --> 01:13:24.449
So they're pissed. I'm going to take their advice.

01:13:24.510 --> 01:13:26.069
And I remember there's so many things I changed

01:13:26.069 --> 01:13:29.350
about my act for a while. And then God bless

01:13:29.350 --> 01:13:31.409
him. My buddy, Nico White, who's an amazing comic,

01:13:31.569 --> 01:13:34.300
looked him up also. He was like, hey, why don't

01:13:34.300 --> 01:13:36.859
we go up to Harlem? Why don't we go and do, why

01:13:36.859 --> 01:13:38.880
don't you start doing black rooms? And I go,

01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:42.500
okay. That's a ballsy move back then. And that's

01:13:42.500 --> 01:13:45.039
what I did, and I started working black rooms,

01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.619
and I stand by... If you can make it in a black

01:13:48.619 --> 01:13:51.039
room, dude, no matter what race you are, you

01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:53.319
can pretty much make it anywhere. And here's

01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:55.739
the thing about the black rooms is, A, they don't

01:13:55.739 --> 01:13:59.359
care genuinely. They don't care who you are.

01:13:59.460 --> 01:14:01.159
That's why, like, the Apollo, they'll boo people

01:14:01.159 --> 01:14:04.420
up. Oh, yeah. They don't care who you are. You

01:14:04.420 --> 01:14:08.479
gotta be good. And if there is any bad part of

01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:10.100
you, they'll let you know. And you have, and

01:14:10.100 --> 01:14:12.600
you have a, what, like a 30 second window. I

01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:15.359
feel like more than any other, God, I hope this

01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:16.960
doesn't come across racist, but I feel like it's

01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:20.000
almost a, like in a, in a, in a black room, right?

01:14:20.020 --> 01:14:22.460
In a room full of black people watching you do

01:14:22.460 --> 01:14:25.000
stand up, you have about 30 seconds. We don't

01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:28.180
have time for your maybe bullshit act. Yeah.

01:14:28.220 --> 01:14:30.600
And so you're on strike two. We're pitching the

01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:33.710
third pitch right now. And so I would go up and

01:14:33.710 --> 01:14:35.210
I would go, I'm actually not a comic. I'm just

01:14:35.210 --> 01:14:36.890
the landlord. I want you guys to keep it down.

01:14:38.130 --> 01:14:40.729
And boom. And then they were cool with me. And

01:14:40.729 --> 01:14:43.569
so I realized, and God bless those rooms, I realized

01:14:43.569 --> 01:14:46.329
I fell in love with comedy again. Because the

01:14:46.329 --> 01:14:48.250
alt thing, they were like, talk about your depression.

01:14:48.329 --> 01:14:50.310
I'm like, I don't have depression. They were

01:14:50.310 --> 01:14:52.109
like hipsters. They were the hipsters. Yeah,

01:14:52.250 --> 01:14:54.810
yeah, yeah. Too mainstream, bro. Yeah. And so

01:14:54.810 --> 01:14:56.750
I just fell back in love with standup. I loved

01:14:56.750 --> 01:15:00.170
talking about I was always in a interracial relationship.

01:15:00.329 --> 01:15:02.010
So I was talking about interracial relationships.

01:15:02.050 --> 01:15:04.510
I was talking about those things. And honestly,

01:15:04.970 --> 01:15:07.670
I think those rooms were the easiest ones to

01:15:07.670 --> 01:15:10.609
talk about race in because everything was understood

01:15:10.609 --> 01:15:13.329
and there wasn't a disclaimer I had to do beforehand.

01:15:13.710 --> 01:15:16.050
And so those are fun. That was a challenge coming

01:15:16.050 --> 01:15:18.670
up here was if I wanted to do a weave joke, I

01:15:18.670 --> 01:15:21.409
had to explain what weaves are, which also could

01:15:21.409 --> 01:15:23.390
be funny. And that's how I got here sitting with

01:15:23.390 --> 01:15:26.289
you guys now. I've been very fortunate. All the

01:15:26.289 --> 01:15:28.229
people that I've worked with have been so supportive

01:15:28.229 --> 01:15:30.899
and so great. From Mike Peters to the old Brick

01:15:30.899 --> 01:15:33.340
TV that I used to work for, they were great.

01:15:33.420 --> 01:15:35.359
And all the clubs that have me, the Funny Bones

01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:38.039
here are great, and they give me so much time

01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:41.380
to work. And the audiences that come out, yeah,

01:15:41.380 --> 01:15:43.399
I'm very fortunate to be at this place in my

01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:45.600
career. You're an amazing comedian. Like I said,

01:15:45.659 --> 01:15:47.720
I met you through the Homebrewed comedy shows.

01:15:48.300 --> 01:15:53.079
And it's funny, we were talking about doing those

01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:55.279
rooms, and I commend you for that, because that

01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:58.399
is a... It's a big jump. It's a tough crowd and

01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:00.060
there's a lot of cultural differences and they

01:16:00.060 --> 01:16:02.720
can eat you alive. I've always said that when

01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:05.939
it comes to, I don't want to say racist jokes.

01:16:06.220 --> 01:16:09.340
When it comes to telling jokes about race, I

01:16:09.340 --> 01:16:13.140
think what people miss is that it's okay to celebrate

01:16:13.140 --> 01:16:14.939
our differences. There are clear differences

01:16:14.939 --> 01:16:17.479
between cultures and races and ethnicities and

01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:20.079
religions, and it's okay to make light of those

01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:22.500
differences. But when you just get up there or

01:16:22.500 --> 01:16:25.479
when you're just spewing hate speech or just

01:16:26.260 --> 01:16:28.439
pointing out things that are racist, that's not

01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:31.220
funny. There's a tact to it. And you gotta figure

01:16:31.220 --> 01:16:33.880
out that line. It's tough. I always liken it

01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:36.060
to, it's like the analogy with the guy from Legacy

01:16:36.060 --> 01:16:37.659
Lounge of your kids are learning an instrument,

01:16:37.699 --> 01:16:39.439
it's painful to hear it at first. That's right.

01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:42.760
Everybody has a trumpet. I would say if your

01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:44.619
voice is your trumpet, everybody has a trumpet.

01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:47.060
And so I have comics, sometimes who go, because

01:16:47.060 --> 01:16:49.760
I talk about lots of stuff, and it works. And

01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:51.659
they go, why are you able to get away with this?

01:16:51.699 --> 01:16:54.300
Why are you able to do it? And without being...

01:16:54.109 --> 01:16:56.430
cocky or whatever, or what I say is I, I worked,

01:16:56.750 --> 01:17:00.569
I practiced my trumpet for 12 years. So when

01:17:00.569 --> 01:17:04.569
someone in the office does a, you know, has a

01:17:04.569 --> 01:17:08.390
black coworker and goes, happy Kwanzaa. It doesn't

01:17:08.390 --> 01:17:11.369
really work because you're bad at your trumpet.

01:17:11.949 --> 01:17:14.329
But if there's a joke where I literally have

01:17:14.329 --> 01:17:16.409
a, I used to do a thing where I was talking about

01:17:16.409 --> 01:17:18.430
the different holidays over the stuff. And anytime

01:17:18.430 --> 01:17:20.810
I saw a black audience member, I would talk about

01:17:20.810 --> 01:17:22.789
Hanukkah. I would talk about Christmas and I

01:17:22.789 --> 01:17:25.840
would go, I'm going to get to Kwanzaa. And that

01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:28.899
worked, and it was just because I've been practicing

01:17:28.899 --> 01:17:30.680
this trumpet for a while. There's a tact, yeah.

01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:32.600
So yeah, I think you're definitely right. I think

01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.159
that there's all topics can, I've heard this

01:17:35.159 --> 01:17:37.460
before, all topics can be joked about, but not

01:17:37.460 --> 01:17:40.039
all people can joke about all topics. Nailed

01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:42.640
it. And if there's something that, I've never

01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:45.460
had someone from the community come and argue

01:17:45.460 --> 01:17:47.279
with me about the joke. That's good. Whether

01:17:47.279 --> 01:17:51.960
it be a trans, gay, conservative. or racial joke,

01:17:52.180 --> 01:17:54.960
it's always someone else on behalf. It doesn't

01:17:54.960 --> 01:17:57.180
happen often, but it happened. Like my favorite

01:17:57.180 --> 01:17:59.060
one was I was talking about interracial relationships.

01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:01.039
I was dating a black woman at the time and I

01:18:01.039 --> 01:18:02.600
was talking about, was it like being in a racial

01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:04.060
relationship? My sneakers have gotten better,

01:18:04.100 --> 01:18:05.920
but that's about it. And stuff like that. And

01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:09.220
so I would have jokes like that. And I had this

01:18:09.220 --> 01:18:10.819
white girl come up to me and she was like, you

01:18:10.819 --> 01:18:13.140
think because you have a black girlfriend, you

01:18:13.140 --> 01:18:16.039
can say whatever you want. And then at that moment,

01:18:16.319 --> 01:18:18.789
like God sent them. A black man, white woman,

01:18:18.970 --> 01:18:20.750
interracial couple came in and said, sorry to

01:18:20.750 --> 01:18:22.590
interrupt, we loved those interracial jokes.

01:18:22.869 --> 01:18:25.270
Bam. Nobody ever talks about that. It was so

01:18:25.270 --> 01:18:26.569
funny. Anyway, I'll leave you to it. I was like,

01:18:26.630 --> 01:18:29.170
no, let me come with you. Yeah. And then mean,

01:18:29.250 --> 01:18:31.470
and then the craziest part is that conversation

01:18:31.470 --> 01:18:33.430
continues. That's their opinion. I was like,

01:18:33.449 --> 01:18:35.149
this is your opinion. And I remember she goes,

01:18:35.970 --> 01:18:38.970
and out of nowhere she goes, what you don't understand

01:18:38.970 --> 01:18:42.729
is subconsciously you want to own her. Oh. Because

01:18:42.729 --> 01:18:44.609
she's black and you're white. And I loved that

01:18:44.609 --> 01:18:49.750
I got to. Black woman. You know what she just

01:18:49.750 --> 01:18:53.029
said is wild bullshit because there is no part

01:18:53.029 --> 01:18:55.270
of a man who owns you at any point in your life.

01:18:55.630 --> 01:18:57.229
And I was like, you've obviously never met a

01:18:57.229 --> 01:18:59.970
black or brown woman because it is our apartment,

01:18:59.970 --> 01:19:01.630
but it's her place. You know what I mean? Like,

01:19:01.670 --> 01:19:04.649
there's no part of me that owns this woman. Wild,

01:19:05.189 --> 01:19:08.109
uninformed person. God bless you. Yeah, you're

01:19:08.109 --> 01:19:09.689
trying to do this. Listen, what we do in the

01:19:09.689 --> 01:19:11.069
bedroom is none of your business. That's right.

01:19:11.890 --> 01:19:14.770
No, our relationship is not anyone. No, same

01:19:14.770 --> 01:19:17.359
thing with my marriage. It is... It's our house,

01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:22.079
her name is on the mortgage. Dude, I could talk

01:19:22.079 --> 01:19:23.899
to you. We've gone so long, and I apologize.

01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:26.779
Will you have me back sometime? Absolutely. I

01:19:26.779 --> 01:19:29.060
apologize it's been so long, but it's been so

01:19:29.060 --> 01:19:29.920
fun to talk to you. I apologize I was a half

01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:32.600
hour late. You should be. Listen, all I ask for,

01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:36.420
let me do this. Brian Anke, April 12th, 7 p .m.,

01:19:36.420 --> 01:19:40.500
9 p .m., two shows at the McCarthy Mercantile

01:19:40.500 --> 01:19:43.060
in Salina Street, right here in Syracuse. It's

01:19:43.060 --> 01:19:45.680
his special, Brian Anke. April 12th. And tune

01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:47.260
back in. I'll give you guys like 10 tickets.

01:19:47.739 --> 01:19:50.300
And we will give away tickets. Proceeds, you're

01:19:50.300 --> 01:19:52.180
going to build a park for Patty, right? Because

01:19:52.180 --> 01:19:57.319
he died. Don't you think that's what you should

01:19:57.319 --> 01:19:58.939
do? We're going to build a park. We're going

01:19:58.939 --> 01:20:00.800
to build a park for Patty in your old neighborhood.

01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:03.680
Yeah. Right where he died. We'll put a little

01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:06.420
jungle. Just a little jungle, Jim. So goddamn

01:20:06.420 --> 01:20:09.079
funny. Thank you. So we're going to build a park

01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:11.979
for Patty with this. No, Ryan Anke, I absolutely

01:20:11.979 --> 01:20:13.640
love you. I could talk to you for another hour.

01:20:13.760 --> 01:20:17.760
Brian Enk, April 12th, Mercantile in Syracuse.

01:20:18.060 --> 01:20:20.819
Go there, two shows. I love you. I love you.

01:20:20.819 --> 01:20:22.979
Go through Jamaica Cuse, Reggae Zeppelin will

01:20:22.979 --> 01:20:25.319
be there. Yes, Dred Zeppelin will be there. Thank

01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:26.920
you for tuning in to Good News York. It's been

01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:28.560
one hell of an episode, and we'll see you tomorrow.