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Hi everyone, and thanks for joining us on history. In fact,
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it's about today, today's April the twenty fourth. Now I
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have a really funny comedian as my co host today.
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I know that sounds redundant, but not all comedians are funny,
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but my co host sure is. We have to go
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ahead and introduce yourself.
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Hi, Jeff, my name is Ziggy Sesser and I spelled
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ziggy z Ygy, so it's a little weird already and stuff,
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but that's me.
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So it got you on stage for the very first time.
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The first time I got on stage, like, I reached tired.
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I had worked for Social Security for like thirty five years,
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and I always wanted to be a common kind of so,
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like we even have Christmas parties in the DA parties
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at work, and I would write jokes to these parties
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for the last twenty years and people laughed, you know,
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my co workers. And I wanted to see if normal
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people would laugh at me as people I worked with.
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And so I took a comedy class after I retired,
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and we had like five classes and then a graduation
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show at a real comedy club and I got laughs
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and wow, I mean, I mean it was a high
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like I never had before, lasted days and I was hooked.
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And that was like at the age of sixty six
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and ever since then. You know, I do comedy every
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now and then, and I keep looking for that high,
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and every now and then I get it. Every now
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and then there are like these perfect shows where everything's
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in sync, my humor, the audience, everything's working. So I
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love hearing people laugh. It's beautiful.
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That is great, And it just finally hit me. That's
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got you got a fund funny premise. You actually retired
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from Social Security?
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Right right, that's good fight. I didn't even think of that.
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I like that.
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Can I use that? You bet? You?
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All right?
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All right, listeners, Now this isn't Ziggy's fault. This is
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my fault. I didn't look ahead. But today, on April
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twenty fourth, I.
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Love pigs in blank it, but I always feel bad
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about myself imagining myself eating a cute little piggin that's
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wrapped up in a nice little blanket. But I always
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get over it because tiggs in a leak it tastes
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so good. I say, here, pig here, pig Piggy.
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Today is National Pigs in a Blanket Day. But for
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all those who don't like pork, we're gonna you can
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actually substitute the sausage or the hot dog in there
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and put something in kosher or just beef today.
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Right, my house was Frank's and jackets, that's what we quoted.
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Well, they're pretty simple. They just a biscuit with Frank
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and met around it. I'd be your jacket or a
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sausage or something like that, and you bake them. The
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Golden Perfection nineteen fifty seven, Betty Crocker, she put the
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first recipe for pigs in a Blanket and her cook
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but cooking cooking for kids. Yeah, Betty Crocker was actually
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a real woman. Yeah, they're really easy to make and
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fun to make with kids. But if you're like me, yeah,
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you'll just have them already pre made to stick them
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in the ovens and the joy of that. So I
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enjoyed some of your pigs in a blanket. So what
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do you like talking about when you're on stage?
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You know, when I started, I would just tell jokes,
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you know, and jokes from everywhere whatever, mostly having to
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do with retirement and everything. As they get older, it's
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harder to remember the jokes. So I moved over to storytelling,
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kind of funny stories. So I tell true stories, like
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I have a story about how I met my wife.
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I mean, they're full of jokes. I still do them
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at comedy clubs, but you know, this way, it's easy
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to remember because they're based on truth. Story about my bird.
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I have a lot of stories about my bird, my
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wife actually stepping on them and make to bring to
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the ask mean's okay, but you know I have a
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whole story about that and him signing a medical release
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form whatever. So you know, I like stories and based
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on truth. It's easy to remember and I could put
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myself into it. So that's the kind of stuff I'm
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doing these days.
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Does your wife ever tell you, hey, don't take that
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on stage.
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It's funny to mention my wife. First of all, she
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hates my comedy. She doesn't think I'm funny at all.
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I get a whole audience lamping. She does not think
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I'm funny. She's the worst of my worst audience. And
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she says, don't talk about me. You know, I don't
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want you to talk about me. I've cheated a bit,
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and I have talked about it, not in the way
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you thought cheating but you know, I have to talk
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a little about her, I think in a good way.
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But she does, you know, does not want to shet anyway.
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But you know, so she stays home do the show
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and I'll meet her after and stuff like that.
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I'm sure the bird doesn't mind if we talk about
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him though.
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No, no, uh, you know it's funny. During COVID, you know,
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we were doing a lot of zoom shows and when
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I'm home, he's always flying around and he would land
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on my shoulder and sometimes he would Sure he might
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show up right now, he's a few feet away from me.
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But but he would show up, and people got used
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to seeing him. His name is Charlie. He's like a
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small parrot, really a green cheek Kanye they call him.
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And and he would be on my shoulder while I'm
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telling the jokes and uh, and people would miss, hey,
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where's Charlie. So it was very cute. He's he's good.
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I get a lot of material from him. He writes
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some of my jokes to some of my best jokes. No,
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he's a good guy. And he talks a little. He
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talks a little too, and and and and I know
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this is going to sound weird, but I'm somewhat toilet
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training him, like like like when when I can tell
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he's about poop, like he starts walking backwards, like I
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put my finger in his Oh yeah, I put him
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on the talk of a little garbage pail and hopefully
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if he's putting the right way, it goes in. But basically,
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it's a crap shoot.
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And you're retired, so you have time, right, say that again.
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And you're retired, so you have time.
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Yeah, exactly, I'm retired and I'm lucky. My wife still works,
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so you know, I'm home below and everything, and and
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you know, I you know, I try to write, you know,
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the comedy and stuff like that, and it's good. I
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enjoy I enjoy I enjoy being retired. You know, I'm
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making a hole in my couch. But whatever, I like it.
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Well, that's awesome, all right, let's just going on entertainment.
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On April twenty fourth, Let's Got Your two thousand and five.
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The number one album was a Massacre about fifty cent
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fifty cent Olivia. They had the number one song Wet
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Candy Shops, The candy Shop and.
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Stops to stop and go into.
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Kenny Chasney had the number one country song with anything
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but Mine.
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Even MACI Back to Cleveland so Loud? Are You Good?
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Anything but.
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The top book was True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. Top
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movie was The Interpreter at the United Nations. A US
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Secret Service agent, he investigates an interpreter who overhears an
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assassination plot stars Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, and Catherine Keenan.
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What kind of movies do you like?
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I'd like, you know, the Star Wars movies, like like
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comedies like dr I like all kinds as long as
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as long as they're good documentary, I like. I like
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them all. I like them all.
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So when you were younger, what kind of comedians did
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you like to watch and listen to.
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I used to watch like the X Sullivan Show, and
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all these comics would come on there, and I like
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them all. I mean, I you know, I can go
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way back, you know, and Henny Youngman and Ellen King
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and and uh Joan Rivers and everybody you know. And
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of course I like the Three Stooges and Jack Benny
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and and and modern you know, current comics too, you know,
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I like them with Richard pryor everybody, Eddie Murphy h
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Gary Goleman. Uh, you know, I like comedy in general.
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So when you're backstays at the comedy club getting ready
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to do said, is that pretty good commod camaraderie or
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whatever between the comedians is their backstage.
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Comics are pretty nice. I found them to be pretty nice.
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And yeah, this this camaraderie. I mean, if you don't
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know somebody, you know, you introduce yourself, you know, you
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could talk to them, and you know, if I find
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comics to be nice in general, they're nice. A lot
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of some comics, like you know, some big ones, like
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they do one show after another, so like they come in,
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do their set and then leave to go to another
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club and do another set. So it's not like they're
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hanging out that long to talk to. But other ones,
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you know, do hang out and you could talk and
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exchange information and stuff like that.
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That's cool. Let's see what happened on April the twenty fourth,
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eleven eighty four BC. The Greeks they'd been enable to
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conquer the city of Troy, so they offered them a
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piece they're offering. Yeah, it was a large wooden horse.
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It was twenty five feet tall, ten feet wide. And
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eight feet long. Now the Troe. They were so happy
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that they brought it inside the city gates and they
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had a big old party. Man, they celebrated. They couldn't
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believe that the Greeks actually wanted to have peace with them. Well,
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when they finally went to sleep or passed out, forty
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Greek soldiers who were hiding inside the horse, Yeah, they
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got out and opened the city gates. Let basically the
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whole entire Greek army in Yeah, didn't turn out well
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for Troy, that's for sure. Now, the Troy, it was
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kind of a thought, is kind of like an old
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wives tale throughout history. And finally, and back in eighteen
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seventy one, that's when they discovered Troy and it was buried.
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Eighteen thirty three, Jacob Evertt and George Doltrie they invented
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the soda fountain New York City. In nineteen thirteen, the
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World Words Building opened up seven hundred ninety two feet tall,
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the world's largest tilling in the world until nineteen thirty. Yeah,
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that's when the Empire State Building passed it up. Now
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the World Worth Building. It only cost thirteen point five
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million dollars to build. Back then, now it's still open
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today and the top half is all condos, in the
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bottom half is all office space. Now, if you want
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to buy one of those condos that costs between three
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point two two and nine million dollars penthouse, it's sold
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for thirty million. Nineteen eighty the United States, they launt
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a rescue mission for the Americans being held hostage in
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Iran and the Iranian hostage crisis. Yeah, it was a
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complete disaster. Never even came close to get into the hostages.
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A helipap doctor at crashed into a transport plane. Eight
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American servicemen were killed five were injured.
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In twenty thirteen, in world history, the deadliest structural failure
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that caused a building to collapse happened in Bangladesh. A
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clothing factory collapsed killed one thousand, one hundred and thirty
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four workers. Two thousand, five hundred were injured. They were
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almost all women and children. It reminds me a little.
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In New York we had this famous triangle shirtwaist factory fire,
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where like I think it was like a one hundred
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and forty eight something like that. I forget the number.
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Young women died and stuff like that were burned. It
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was horrible. I think it was nineteen eleven nineteen, not
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on this date, but in nineteen eleven, and a lot
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of laws were changed after that, so it was a
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terrible thing. It led to some good things, but it
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was a terrible thing that all these mostly immigrant women died.
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In twenty twenty three, India passed China for having the
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most people. Indias has about one thousand, four hundred and
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twenty five billion people, surpassed China by about thirty million,
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and the gap is still growing. I have two kids
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competition with any of these countries. But I have two
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great kids. And I have a son who was married
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and lives in North Carolina and he has two kids.
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I have two beautiful granddaughters. We're going to be visiting
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them soon in a few weeks. And we have a
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daughter living in Chicago. She was with her partner. And
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we're very proud of both our kids. The great kids.
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They have jobs and you know, self supporting, and they're
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just really nice kids, really nice kids. And my kids
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like that I do comedy. Yeah, I think they're a
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little proud of me. Like, you know, you know how
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many parents, you know how many how many kids have
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parents who who can say their comics or whatever right.
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So I'm happy that my kids are proud of me,
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and even someday has helped me with jokes, like I'll
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you know, I'll be working on a joke and I'll
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run it by one of one of my kids or whatnot.