Aug. 10, 2025

Aug 11-Hop Hop, Popsicles, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Joe Jackson, Viola Davis, Joe Rogan, Michael Halcomb

Aug 11-Hop Hop, Popsicles, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Joe Jackson, Viola Davis, Joe Rogan, Michael Halcomb
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Today's Co-Host is awesome comedian Michael Halcomb, check out his website  https://www.michaelhalcomb.live/     His podcast is a must listen, read his daily musings.  He has a joke writing course, The joke writers lab, you diffinatly want to hit that up.  You can find him on all social media.  Today we talked about - National Hip Hop day.  Entertainment from 1999.  Watts Riots began, Alcatraz opened for federal prisoners, First roller skating rink opened,Todays birthdays - Frank Epperson, Mike Douglas, John Conlee, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Joe Jackson, Viola Davis, Joe Rogan, Chris Hemsworth.  Robin Williams died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran     https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Rappers delight - Sugarhill gang
(Everything I do) I do it for you - Bryan Adams
You know me better than that - George Strait
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent    https://www.50cent.com/
The man in my little girls life - Mike Douglas
Common man - John Conlee
Bad to the bone - The Wresting Boot Band
Is she really going out with him - Joe Jackson
Exit - Three words away - Wes Ryan      https://wesryan.pro/
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Hello everyone. I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor.

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It's about today, man, you guys are in for a

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treat today. I got another hilarious comedian out there, Michael.

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Why don't you go and induce yourself?

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How's it everybody? Michael? How come? It's great to be here.

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Jeff looking forward to getting into this with you.

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Cool. I always asked all the comedians, so what got

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you on stage that first time?

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Yeah, dude, it was a bucket list thing for me.

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For years. I've been saying I'm gonna do this before

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I die. I finally got up in twenty twenty four.

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I did it, and I was part of the showcase

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of like six seven other comedians, and I was like,

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I did the best, you know. And so I had

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some friends come and watch and stuff like that, and

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they confirmed that too without me asking. So I was like,

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if I can do better than these people who are

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coming to open mics and whatnot shows regularly to perform,

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I should just keep doing it. So uh, yeah, man,

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that's how I got into it. But been watching comedy

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my whole life like most people, and yeah, so that's

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that's kind of where it started.

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Dude, And I've heard from a lot, well pretty much

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every comedian, and they said that once you have to

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do it, after your horrified and all that kind of stuff.

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It's one of the biggest rushes you could actually have.

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Yeah, it's totally true. Comedians often say that there's nothing

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like it or it's hard to explain. It's totally true.

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But I have like decades of public speak. I've done

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like a Ted talk. I've you know, I've been a pastor,

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so I preached weekly for years, of professor educators, so

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up in front of people pretty much every day, and

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so I've got a lot of public speaking. But cons

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stand up comedy is just a different ballgame, dude. It's

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really really fun and uh, super challenging. So nothing like it.

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Well that's the I think it's the hardest thing in

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any kind of in moment, maybe the ones ever, because

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I mean, like when you were talking to a pastor

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and as an educator and all that kind of stuff,

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you're getting up point across, but you're not trying to Hey,

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make me laugh.

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Dude, it's right exactly.

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Yeah, all right, Hey, do you know what we're going

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to celebrate today?

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Yeah? I saw you send some things like it's National

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hip Hop Day.

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Yes right, I said, hit.

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You don't stop the rhythm to the band, man, but

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you say just to the rhythm of the beat. Now

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what you hear is not a testim rabbit to the beat,

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and me, the crew and a friends are gonna.

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Try to do your feet.

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You see, I am to say hello.

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That's right, it as National hip Hop Day. It was

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nineteen seventy three today in a wreck room and an

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apartment building in the Bronx, New York. Now was at

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his sister's birthday party at Jamaican DJ. His name was

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cool herk Now. He had borrowed some music from Jamaica

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and then he mixed it with some New York City

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street music. He practiced it for over a year and

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he was just waiting for the right party to bust

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it out on. So this was the day. It was

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her birthday party. So he would talk over the songs.

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He had two turntables going. He would switch back and forth.

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Then he would stretch out the percussion parts of the songs.

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And that's when he noticed that everybody would dance the most.

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And so he called him his b boys and bee girls,

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break boys and break girls. So yeah, that's how the

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Olympics work break Dancing got his name Breakdancing, But word

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just exploded all over New York City. That basically it

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wasn't called hip hop until nineteen seventy nine though, when

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some of the like sugar Hill Ging and them kind

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of came out. So were you ever into hip hop

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as a youngster, Dude?

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I grew up on hip hop. I think like that

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is what got me into a love for words and language.

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Like I listened to a lot of Bone Thugs in

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Harmony out of Cleveland Masters at like wrapping really fast,

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twisting words, manipulating syllables, and I loved I still love

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how they play with language and so that that's kind

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of a lot of what got me into it. Listened

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to a lot of Tupac as well. So, yeah, dude,

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National hip Hop Day my sixteen year old ass for

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the day off school.

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So there you go, time the break out, the sweat

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pants and the spin cap and the sneakers.

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Dude, I'm a freestyle the rest of the interview. So

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there we go.

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One thing I can't figure out, maybe you can. You

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can figure it out from doing all your public speaking.

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I know, it's just from like doing the show and stuff.

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I don't understand how they can breathe, because I mean

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breathing that's so hard to do with. You're told when

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you're peaking, speaking and published to slow down so you

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can catch your breath. Right, they just go one hundred

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miles an hour.

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Yeah, dude, it's you just learn it. You just you know,

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it comes from practice. And if you watch, like, if

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you watch these performers, dude, like a behind the scenes

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of the tour or something, you'll see too that they

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they really work on their cardio and they're like in

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the like dance studio often with their dancers and stuff

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moving around. So it takes a lot of you know,

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a lot to build up that stamina.

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So yeah, especially the ones who dance, trying to do

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this and dance, that's gonna pretty impressive. Yeah, all right,

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let's he was going on entertainment today in August eleven

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goes back to you in nineteen ninety one. Do you

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remember what you were doing in ninety one?

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Let's see, I was in uh, probably fifth or sixth

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grade something like that.

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Well you're a little young yet, but Unforgettable with Love

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by Natalie Cole was the number one album. Brian Adams

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had the number one song with Everything I Do I

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Can do it for you?

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Oh yeah, true.

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Everything?

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Dude.

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You were too young to see it. But you know

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what movie that was in? Kevin coxnerflick Ah.

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Dude, I don't know the movie, but I definitely know

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that song. I could sing that. I could built that

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song out. What's what's the movie?

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Robinhood Prince of Thieves? Ah, all right, George Straight he

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had the number one country song with you know Me

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better than that?

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Did you sing so my charms?

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You know I was raised don't fall? Oh she tells

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her friends I'm perfect and then I love her.

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Cat but you know me better than that?

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Well, if you're listening to Bone Thugs and Harmony, probably

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weren't listening to George Adam.

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Dude, I listened. It was a little bit eclectic. Oh.

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My first CD that I bought was the Greatest Hits

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of Creeden's Clearwater Revival. So I loved some Credence. I

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love Garth Brooks, and I liked Randy Travis a lot,

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believe it or not. My first cassette tape that I

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bought was Brooks and Dun You know the boots and Boogie. Yeah,

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they were huge.

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Well I guess you did say you grew up in Kentucky, right, Yeah, yep,

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so yeah, that's been like a lot of listening to

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country down there, right.

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Definitely.

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The number one book was The Kitchen God's Wife by

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Amy Town. The top movie was hot Shots. It's a

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parody a Top Gun. We're an unstable pilot. He has

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to come to grips with his father's ghosts, and he

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has to save a mission that's been sabotaged by greedy

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weapons makers. Stars Charlie Sheen, carry El's Valerie galliniro Lloyd Bridges.

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You said coming out with another top Gun movie or

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not Top Gun Naked Gun movie.

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I saw that, Yeah, yep, I did see that. Looking

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forward to it. It's gonna be interesting. I wonder if

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it's gonna spoof, you know, a more modern in film,

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or if it's just gonna kind of I don't know.

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I wonder what direction they're gonna go.

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I just signed ad for it the other day, and

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I guess Liam Neeson he's going to be playing the

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Frank Drummond one.

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Yep.

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Well, since we're doing this isn't brilliant you actually do

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I'm gonna say entertainment, but it's actually pretty uh, I

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don't know, educational. But you have a really great broadcast.

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Oh thank you, bro, I appreciate that.

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Man.

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Yeah. I run a couple though they're both comedy based.

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Actually run three. So one is a Bible and theology

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based that's on YouTube. It's through my publishing house called

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glossa house that's got that's grown really fast. I haven't

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touched in a couple months. I really took a break

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through the summer, but that's got a pretty big following.

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And then I got a comedy one called Messed Up

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to Setups, and the premise of that is pretty much

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everything around us is messed up, and we can use

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it as a setup, you know, for our comedy or

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to write setups for our punchlines. So well, yeah, I

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have a lot of comedians come on there. But then

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I also do a lot of like joke writing tutorials.

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And then the other podcast, the third one that I

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run is called the Pro Laugh Podcast. That with my

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broody buddy Brandon and obviously a play on the words

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pro life. So we're starting the pro laugh movement where

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we think, you know, we should be able to laugh

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at anything, find the funny and everything. So, uh yeah,

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I just appreciate that man kind words.

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Thank you sure bring that laugh back, man. I missed

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those days when you could laugh about everything and everybody

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went so easily offended, right right, And it seems like

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when people are offended, their offended for somebody.

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Else exactly exactly. It gets old, bro, it does.

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All right, Let's see what happened in the world on

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August eleventh. Well, in theology, you do you remember the

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whole Mayan calendar thing that was going on in twenty

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twelve when this world was supposed to end it.

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I do remember the Mayan came old enough to remember that, dude,

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and uh what were they? You know, it was the

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start of their back to school sales or what you know.

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Well, according to that Mane calendar, it was August eleventh,

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thirty one, fourteen BC that the world began. That's when

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the calendar starts. And if you remember in twenty twelve,

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that's when the calendar ended. So that's when the world

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was supposed to end. Well, obviously, well how are you

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going to spend that? They said, Well, it's not a

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big deal. It's just like when your car dometer turns over,

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it just starts over again.

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And this whole time, I thought they were counting down

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to Labor Day or couldn't wear white afterward? Right on?

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Yeah, In eighteen sixty six, the world's first roller skating

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rink opened up, and he guesses where in the world

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the first roller skating rink would open?

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Wow? Was it New York?

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Oh you're pretty close, Newport Rhode Island.

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All right, interesting, So the first roller rink opened on

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August eleventh. Nice. The occasion was marked by dads everywhere

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making fools of themselves. Shortly after.

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Yeah, yeah, well I don't are they an even roller

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rinks still around?

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Dude? They seemed like a dinosaur, like they seem extinct

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to me. He'll find one every now and then somewhere.

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But yeah, I don't know, because.

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I remember, like in middle school going to him. They'd

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have like the school would have a thing. And it

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was cool because you skate around the ring holding the

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girl's hand on a slow song, right, and you were

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really good. If you got a girl who could skate backwards,

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now you were styling.

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Then I was the dude holding the wall the whole time,

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not a girl's hand.

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So now in eighteen ninety six. Now, even though he

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was the second to do it, Thomas Edison, he still

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gets credit for inventing the light bulb. But see, actually

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a British guy actually beat him to it. But honestly,

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what good is the light bulb? Honestly? But this dude,

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Harvey Hubble, now he was the man he actually invented

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the light. Bull sock it in the pool chain to

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turn it on and off.

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Right, you know who I think was even better the

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person who invented the lamp shade afterwards.

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That's true, So you're not being interrogated every time, all right.

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It was around in eighteen sixty eight off of San

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Francisco that Alcatraz Island. They started using it as a

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military prison. Well over the years they made some imprisoned

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improvements to it, and today they actually turned it into

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a federal prison. In nineteen thirty four they started putting

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their first federal convicts there, believed to be inscapable. That's

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where the worst of the worst was to be haund

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because they couldn't get away.

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Since Gavin's been in office, that's where San Franciscan's go

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to feel safe, I think have to.

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Oh Man nineteen sixty five, the Watts riots broke out

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out there in the southeast Los Angeles. A twenty one

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year old Marquette Fry He was pulled over by the

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police and watched just a couple of blocks from his house.

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They pulled them over for reckless driving. When he got out,

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he failed this field sobriety test. That was seven pm

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at night. Now his brother was riding in the car

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with him, So the police told his brother, you know

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you're close, just go ahead and go home. So his

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brother walked to their house, told her mom what was

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going on. Well, she went out to check on Marquette.

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She wanted to see what was going on with her baby. Well,

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when she got there, some words were exchanged. He was

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just sitting in his car waiting to be transported. You

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didn't like that. Mom ended up attacking the police officer.

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So once it all kind of went down, the mom,

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the brother, and Mark sez they were all sitting on

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the curb and handcuffs. So of course our crowd's going

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to form. Now the rumors started flying. The crowd got bigger,

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The rumors got bigger. Now the big one going around

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circulating was that the mom was attacked by the police,

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and the two boys jumped into sabr Then the crowd

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got bigger. Then it turned out that they were all

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protecting a woman who'd gotten a pregnant woman who'd gotten

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kicked in the stomach. Well, they just started getting worse

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and worre. Finally just exploded into a riot. Now the

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riot lasted six days. It took fourteen thousand National Guardsmen

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to come help the two thousand Los Angeles police stop

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the whole thing. Thirty four people were killed, one thousand

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and thirty two people were injured, three thousand and four

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and thirty eight people were arrested. And you will probably

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went whatever happened to Marquett Well, he was convicted of

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drunk driving. He hitd it in ninety days in the

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county jail for the drunk driving and for fighting with

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police when his mom was arrested. His mom got a

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two hundred and fifty dollars fine. But word has started

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to get around Watson who started the whole dang thing.

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So all those Fries they switched over, and for the

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rest of their lives they used the last name Price,

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that was her maiden name, just to make their lives

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a little bit easier.

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Wow. Wow, I didn't know all that.

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Wow it was a comedian. You're like, oh, you like

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Ronald Reagan.

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I think political jokes are funny. I don't do a

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lot of political comedy, but I think it's hilarious. I

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grew up watching you know, Letterman every night pretty much

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and loved his opening monologues, Reid crack jokes on politicians

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and whatnot. And I like watching Bill Maher and he

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just shreds politicians and politics. So yeah, I think political

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jokes are funny. Reg Old Reagan ain't heard about him

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in a while.

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We'll see. In nineteen eighty four, Reagan he was getting

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ready to give a weekly radio address that he gave

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to the country every Saturday morning. Well, he didn't know

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they were on the air. He thought they were still off.

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He didn't know they turned anything on you. So he

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jokingly said, I have just signed a bill outlaw in

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Russia forever, and I'm gonna start bombing five minutes will

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Somebody in the booth realized that they were live, so

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I hit the button, so all anybody heard was what

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Reagan said, and then dead air. That included the Soviet Union.

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That's what they heard. So the Soviet military they went

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into a full alert. Took him over a half hour

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before they realized Reagan was joking and they'd called the

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standdown order bombing in five minutes.

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That's what I'm thinking. BeForever he opened mic man, good night.

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Wow, So you got some shows coming up? You want

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to let everybody know?

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Yeah, I got some shows coming up. I am at

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the Russell Theater in Lebanon, Virginia. Let's see. That would

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be on the twenty second. I'm in Greenwood, South Carolina.

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Had good times brewing. On the twenty first. I got

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a show at an annual church picnic kind of thing

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coming up in early September. I've been a part of

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a comedy contest in Asheville, North Carolina area on the

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eighteenth of August. So yeah, I got that's what's in

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the immediate future.

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Do you like as a claim comic? You have a

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lot more options you can do. You ever do cruises

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or corporate gigs?

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I haven't done any cruises. I just kind of did

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a corporate thing for a conference at Southern Baptist Theological

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Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. A couple of weekends ago, and

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that was really fun man. And uh, you know that

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theologians and linguists and Bible scholars aren't your typical comedy crowd,

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but that was really fun. I just just roasted for

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a while, you know, it's just roasted people and things,

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and it was good. So I enjoy that.

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Well, I think I don't know, but I would think

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kind of the theological crowd and all that. I think

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they they're sophisticated if where they know, if it's you

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can kind of like make fun of themselves a little bit.

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Yeah, yeah, some of them. But no, they were a

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great crowd and a couple hundred people probably and it worked.

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So I was a little, you know, skeptical going into

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it because I'd never done on a conference or something

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quite like that, just doing stand up comedy. I'd actually

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given an academic lecture there an hour before, so it

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was it was fun to shift from that to stand up.

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Yeah, it's all your years of lecturing and education and

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all that kind of stuff. Were you have funny lecture

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or were you more just I'll leave that from when

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I do stand it.

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Yeah, I try to, like I'm very self deprecating, tons

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of humor, my My kind of biggest fear when I'm

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in the classroom is I'm gonna make some joke off

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the cuff that's gonna cost me my livelihood, you know.

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So it's I was always joking and uh yeah, it's fun.

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I enjoyed a lot cool.

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All right, let's see it was Hey, let's go do

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some hip hop and see who was born?

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Joke joke, joke, this Shumar, We're gonna sit. He was

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like this shibirsdake. And you don't give.

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You like popsicles?

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Love popsicles, dude.

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Frank Keeperson he was born in Willows, California, in eighteen

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ninety four. Grew up in San Francisco. One winter night

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before bed, eleven year old Frank he had made a

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drink of powdered soda mix and water. He stirred up

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with a wooden stick, left the stick in the glass

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and put it on his window sill and went to sleep.

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Next morning he woke up, it was frozen solid. Frank

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had invented the popsicle. That was his lifelong dream. After that, well,

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it worked, but when he started selling me called him

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the epicicle. He made a lot of money and he

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married him and his wife. They had one son. He

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died in eighteen ninety three at eighty nine years old.

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Now he didn't do it, but wouldn't you think it'd

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be kind of cool if he'd requested to be frozen?

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I was gonna say he died years later from brain freeze,

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but yeah, that was an interesting Uh be frozen? Yeah?

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Loo man in My Little Girls, Oh man in My

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Little Girls.

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That was Mike Douglas. Yeah, he was waving for my

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time too. He was part in Chicago in nineteen twenty.

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Start out as a big band singer. In that nineteen

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fifties the movie The Cinderella. He's the one who did

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all the singing for Prince Charming. But he had The

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Mike Douglas Show. Now it's one of the biggest daytime

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talk shows in TV history. Ran from sixty one to

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eighty one. Now, he had If You Were Picture, If

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you were anybody who went on the Mike Douglas Show.

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One of his guests was this two year old little boy.

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He was showing off golf skills at two years old,

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little boy named Tiger Woods. Uh so it's the Oprah

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top that who did she discover Mike Mike. He married

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nineteen forty three. They had three daughters. He died in

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two thousand and six on his eighty sixth birthday. Hey,

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he died because he was dehydrated from playing golf.

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Wow, I'm just a common man. Com My dog gotta

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pat my shade that way. I'm brown people, sanity, A

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common man is what I mean.

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That's country singer John Lee John Conley. He's seventy nine.

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He was born in for Sales, Kentucky, in nineteen forty six.

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When he was ten years old, he was already playing

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the guitar and singing tenor in a barbershot quartet. He's

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actually out on tour right now. He released a new album.

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It's got to promote it.

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It's seventy nine. Yeah. Wow.

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Some of his hits are Lady laid Down. As long

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as I'm rocking with you, I'm only in it for

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the love. They got married in nineteen eighty two and

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they have two daughters and one son. Now, on your website,

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you say that basically anything's fair game if it's if

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it's weird, so is your mind always working then?

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Yeah, dude, all the time. Yeah, I think kind of

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like in theology but really, I think like in Joe folks,

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like everything, everything is a potential joke. It's it's it's

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hard to explain, but that's how my brain works all

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the time. Yeah.

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Always are you able to start it? You need to

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have a pen and pencil way through and write it down.

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Yeah, dude, the phone has kind of become a lifesaver.

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I have a whole like database that I've created, and

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you know, I'm updating that pretty much daily, just like

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hundreds or thousands of joke premises, all my jokes, that

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kind of thing. So uh yeah, always always taking notes.

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I'll stop a conversation and put in a note. So

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the brain's always you know, that's the thing. You's got

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to be like open to everything around you, dude, like

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seeing it, hearing it, and everything is a potential joke.

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You know.

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I would do something like that, except like if I

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didn't get back to it, like for two weeks, I'd

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look at what no world was that trying to stay here.

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Well, sometimes that'll happen if I don't put in detailed

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enough jokes. But you know, it's kind of a truism

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that if you don't put it in the you know,

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the phone or write it down or in the store,

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it somewhere, it'll leave you and you'll never remember it.

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So yeah, that's a good habit, I mean, and basically

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a joke writer. But pretty much anybody, I mean, in

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business or anything like that, do you never know what

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idea is gonna bloom?

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Right yep.

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Now, when most people think of Apple Computers, they think

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of Steve Jobs. Well, he had a partner with him.

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He co founded it. When he co founded Apple, Steve

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Wo's Niak Steve seventy five. Today, most people learned about

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him when he was on Dancing with the Stars. That

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he was born in San Jose, California, in nineteen fifty

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nineteen sixty nine. He was here in Colorado. He's a

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freshman at the University of Colorado Open Boulder. He got

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kicked out the people up there and Boulder got a

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little upset when he acted into the computers or the

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school's computer system. So he went back home to California,

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hooked up with Jobs. They started Apple Computer now Woe's niak.

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He was actually the brains behind the whole design thing

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that Steve was more of the vision where Wosnak was

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more of the h that's in both kind of guy

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wos Nyack his second wife. She was an Olympic gold

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medal canoeist. They had three kids together. Married his fourth

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wife in two thousand and eight. So you use your

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phone out, you use an Apple.

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I use a I use a Google Pixel. Nah. I've

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never gotten into the Apple side of things, dude. Mac. Nah,

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never never went down that road.

468
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I don't either. And it sounds like it sounds like

469
00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:28.599
the NAC people are pretty loyal, and it sounds like

470
00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:30.039
you're not Mac. You don't want to go there.

471
00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.480
Yeah, yeah, I just I've like, you know, messed around

472
00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:39.079
with the like computer. It just is completely unintuitive to me,

473
00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:42.880
which will infuriate all Mac users. But you know, I've tried,

474
00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:46.279
like a couple of times. But nah, just not for me.

475
00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:48.039
See, that's one of those things you didn't want to

476
00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:50.279
say in front of your class to try and get

477
00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:50.880
your class off.

478
00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:54.400
Fired it well initially initially due like when I was

479
00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:59.920
in college and seminary, there were certain software like program

480
00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.119
ms that I used daily that you could use on

481
00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.359
Windows but didn't have a Mac version exactly. So going

482
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:10.359
to Mac wasn't worth it for me because I needed

483
00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:15.279
these particular programs. So that was the initial impetus to

484
00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:17.920
not go that direction, and then when I tried it,

485
00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.039
it's like, nah, this is unintuitive.

486
00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:42.240
To me wholeheartedly. Now, obviously that was the wrestling boot band.

487
00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:44.000
Do you remember who their lead singer was?

488
00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:46.319
Nah, I don't, Oh.

489
00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.480
Cogan that was that was the Hopes there.

490
00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:49.640
Wow.

491
00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.240
Yeah, he had him and a couple of wrestlers and

492
00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:54.720
his first wife are all on that Bandy was born.

493
00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:57.599
The only released the one album though, so that's kind

494
00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:01.200
of a bumber. So he actually his first music video

495
00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.319
was with Dolly Parton back in nineteen eighty three or

496
00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.160
something like that, him and Dolly Man.

497
00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:07.680
Could you tell him apart.

498
00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:11.119
Well probably not from like mid section.

499
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:11.400
Uh.

500
00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:18.799
He was born Terry Belea out there in Augusta, Georgia,

501
00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.119
in nineteen fifty three. I don't know, I think why

502
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:23.960
I'm older than you, but I think he was definitely

503
00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:26.000
the most popular wrestler in the nineteen eighties and early

504
00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:28.079
nineteen nineties. I don't know, he might be the most

505
00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:30.400
popular of all time, but Rock might be up there too.

506
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:35.400
Yeah. I grew up watching Saturday morning wrestling every Saturday,

507
00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:42.720
didn't miss Yeah, so I loved the Hawkster and you know, yeah,

508
00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:46.119
just a staple. I remember him and Andre the Giants

509
00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:50.160
and dude that the eighties, the early eighties, late or

510
00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:53.200
late eighties, early nineties. I mean, just a great time

511
00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:56.319
for wrestling. If you were growing up at that, you

512
00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:01.920
know that time. But yeah, was born today on August.

513
00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:03.559
Eleventh, nineteen fifty three.

514
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.400
Yeah, as he emerged, was there ripping sound?

515
00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.240
Oh he fe sorry for his mom. Man, But you

516
00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:13.720
think about Hulk was six seven, three hundred and two pounds.

517
00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:16.119
But if you look at those old footages of him

518
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.599
and like Andre the Giant, just realized how huge Andre was. Man,

519
00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:20.960
he right to hope looks small.

520
00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:21.640
Yep.

521
00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.480
He went pro in nineteen seventy seven. I think he

522
00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:27.279
did his last match. I think it was in twenty ten,

523
00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:29.200
but I'm not sure if he really wrestled in the

524
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.559
two thousands or not. Though, So he only released that

525
00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:35.480
one biggest TV or biggest movie had to be uh,

526
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.839
I guess it would be what was it Rocky three?

527
00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:39.480
Was that the one?

528
00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:42.920
Ah? Yeah, that slipped my mind. I think you're right.

529
00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:44.960
Then he has one. I don't know if that's a

530
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:47.839
Christmas staple yet or not, but it's called Santa in Muscles.

531
00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:53.359
Terrible title. Oh man, I just.

532
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:55.480
Kind of reader, What the heck is he talking about? Well,

533
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:58.000
for him and his plate friends are running from the police,

534
00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.400
so he runs into a mall and puts on the

535
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.279
Santa suit and he ends up becoming Santa Claus.

536
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:05.319
Oh goodness, what a terrible plot. Dude. Oh my gosh.

537
00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.680
Did you watch Jgan Knows Best on TV with him

538
00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:09.960
and his first wife and his kids?

539
00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.799
Oh? Yeah, I never watched any of that, dude. No,

540
00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:13.880
I never watched that.

541
00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.599
He's married to that first wife twenty six years, they

542
00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:19.440
had that daughter and son, married his second wife eleven years,

543
00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:21.839
and he just married his third wife in twenty twenty three.

544
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:22.480
Now.

545
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:24.880
He just died July twenty fourth. He was seventy one

546
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:28.599
years old. Now, they say officially on his death certificate

547
00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:30.480
it has him dying of a heart attack. But I

548
00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:32.720
guess he hadn't been doing well since early June when

549
00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:34.880
he had some kind of surgery or something like that,

550
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.440
and they said he never really cut out of it.

551
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:55.240
Known to seem of this something going roller around here.

552
00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:58.680
That's Joe Jackson. He's seventy one today. He was want

553
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.400
to burn upon Trent in nineteen fifty four, stepping out,

554
00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:05.680
You can't get what you want. It's different for girls.

555
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:07.440
Is she really going out with him? Those are big

556
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:10.359
Joe Jackson songs. Now, he was actually married to a woman,

557
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.759
Ruth for two years now. He said it was a

558
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.759
total disaster and he'd never re public come out and

559
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.880
explained why his marriage to Ruth was a disaster and Ruth,

560
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:21.200
God bless her, she never spoke about it. And now,

561
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.039
I'm not an expert, but I think the reason they

562
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:25.079
had so much trouble is the fact that he's gay. See,

563
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:26.839
once he moved in with his boyfriend, him and Ruth

564
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.240
became pretty good friends. Joe. He actually lived in New

565
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:31.960
York City for a long time, a lot of years.

566
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:33.960
He's kind of a staple. He moved, Yep, he moved

567
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.039
to Berlin, Germany, and that's where he's at now. He's

568
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.559
gotten hired because of New York City's anti smoking laws.

569
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:43.920
Dude, I'm so thankful for the smoking laws. Man. You know,

570
00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:47.079
when I was a kid, you could smoke anywhere, you know,

571
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:51.519
inside the store, inside the restaurant. I'm so thankful can't

572
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:52.240
do that anymore.

573
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.440
Well, it's kind of because you'd go to the bar

574
00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:57.000
and if you weren't a smoker, boy, everybody knew where

575
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:01.279
you were your clothes.

576
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.160
Dude. I was just We were in Italy a couple

577
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:07.359
of years ago, me and my wife, and uh yeah,

578
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.000
I mean everywhere you go there it's this, it's the same.

579
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.880
There's smoking. We went into a gelato shop, you know,

580
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:16.119
and standing in line to get some gelato and uh,

581
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:18.880
you know, people just puffing smoke in your face and

582
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.519
we turned around and walked out. Man, it's just oh,

583
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:22.279
it's terrible.

584
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.160
I spoiled Americans. We can't even help you.

585
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:32.640
Smoke. I'm thankful that those laws exist. You know.

586
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:35.519
I don't I like it too. I like leno go

587
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:37.559
into the place and not having smoke everywhere and all that.

588
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.440
I just the only thing I have. I trouble demanding

589
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.079
that a restaurant. I think they are a bar. I

590
00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:43.880
think they should be able to choose for themselves. If

591
00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:46.440
they want to be smoking or not smoking, then you

592
00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:46.960
can choose.

593
00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:49.519
But I would go to the I'm thankful, dude, as

594
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.200
a comedian, that people aren't able to smoke in the

595
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.720
club and in the bar, like you know that they

596
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.799
can mess up your throat and you're breathing. As we

597
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.920
were talking about earlier. I'm grateful for that. Yeah.

598
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.480
Well, and it's I mean, you look at like I

599
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.880
don't know who, say, Richard Pryor or like Red Fox

600
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.640
or any of those. If you watch those old videos,

601
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:11.640
they're up there on stage and you just see these

602
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:14.359
whiffs of smoke fighting all around them and everything. Right,

603
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.000
So yeah, that they would have probably like non smoking

604
00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.160
things too. Now, the triple crowd of acting it is

605
00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:23.319
winning an Oscar, an Emmy, and an Tony Well. Actress

606
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:27.759
Olivia Davis or Viola Davis. I'm sorry, Viola, she's done that.

607
00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:31.000
She's born in Saint Matthew, South Carolina, in nineteen sixty five,

608
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.640
sixty years all the day now, she won two Tony's

609
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.559
on Broadway. She won an Emmy for How to get

610
00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:38.160
Away with Murder. She won her Oscar for the movie Fences.

611
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:40.519
So now, if you're throwing a Grammy, now you've got

612
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:42.680
the e goot and only twenty one people have ever

613
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.799
won the egot. Now, Viola, she got that a couple

614
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:48.519
of years ago. She won a Grammy for basically narrating

615
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:51.079
the best audiobook you've done audiobooks?

616
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.759
Yeah, I think audiobooks are interesting. Although it's funny that

617
00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.519
you bring this up because I just canceled my subscription

618
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:01.839
to auto last night, So there you go.

619
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:06.400
Now, she got married in two thousand and three and

620
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.519
they have a daughter together, and then she's up and

621
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:10.759
raise her two step daughters. You listen to Rogan?

622
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.160
Uh yeah, you know, like it it comes and goes.

623
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.640
Like when there's somebody I find interesting on there, I'll

624
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.920
listen or watch, but I'm not a consistent subscriber or

625
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:23.640
anything like that.

626
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.839
It's Joe Rogan's birthday. He's born in nineteen sixty seven

627
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.559
in Newark, New Jersey. He's fifty eight years old. Now.

628
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.960
He grew up totally big into Mark Show arts and kickboxing, taekwondo,

629
00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.079
all that kind of stuff. He wanted to go pro

630
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:39.240
another so, like pretty much all comedians, Yeah, you start

631
00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:40.319
off doing martial arts, right.

632
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:44.119
You know, I've actually been doing muay Thai the last

633
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.279
couple of years, but I actually I have not been

634
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.079
doing it for the last few months, but it was

635
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.920
into it there for a while. So but uh, yeah,

636
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.839
it's interesting. You know, Joe Rogan, he's a fascinating dude.

637
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:05.359
And he was born today and after his mom released him,

638
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.920
he came out and released the podcast. I guess so

639
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:12.640
the first was he came out like Jamie pull up

640
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:13.440
that ultrasound.

641
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.920
Yeah anyways, yeah, well if you remember, he had on

642
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:20.559
the Sitcom News Radio first and then Fear Factor.

643
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.279
Right, that's right. Yeah.

644
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.079
I always thought I could do all the stunts on

645
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:25.799
Fear Factor, but I couldn't eat the stuff that they

646
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:26.240
had to eat.

647
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.680
That was always I could never eat that stuff. Dude. Ever, Yeah,

648
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.960
that's the thing on like the challenge or survivor Fear

649
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:35.839
Factor that would do me in. Dude, I couldn't do that.

650
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:38.920
I couldn't either my gag reffects. We don't need the

651
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.559
money that bad.

652
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:40.319
Yep.

653
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:42.880
He actually started that Joe Rogan experience in two thousand

654
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.279
and nine. You have to wonder, I think there are

655
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.599
any other podcasts that are still around since two thousand

656
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:47.960
and nine.

657
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:50.759
Wow almost twenty years dude. Wow.

658
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.359
Yeah, married in two thousand and nine. Yeah, so you've

659
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:55.480
got put on the podcast and got married. Probably needed

660
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.720
someplace to vent his marriage thing. Yeah, man, this ishill

661
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.519
I got to talk about this now. Him and his wife,

662
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.400
they have two daughters. Then he adopted his wife's daughter.

663
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.359
That she had had from earlier on after Chris Hemsworth.

664
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:12.920
He's forty two. He's born in Melbourne, Australia in nineteen

665
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.319
eighty three. Now he was on a soap opera star

666
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.559
out there in Australia, came to the United States, just

667
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.119
done pretty well. It's been in like eleven movies where

668
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.759
he played Thor. He's also in Cabin in the Woods,

669
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.799
a couple of the Huntsman movies, Ben in Black International.

670
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:28.000
He got married in twenty ten and they have a

671
00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.680
daughter and twin sons. Can we talked? We kind of

672
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.680
teased about you're gonna be doing some shows and your

673
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:35.000
podcast and all that kind of stuff. We'll put it

674
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.440
on the show notes too, But what's the best way

675
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:38.240
for people to follow you?

676
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.240
Yeah, I'm on social Most of my handles are just

677
00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:46.079
at Michael halcom Live, so you can go follow me

678
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.960
on Insta and you know, for me on Facebook, and

679
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.680
I'm on Twitter and stuff like that. Michael Helcom dot

680
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.799
live is the website all kinds of stuff. There are

681
00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:57.680
all the links to the social there. But I do

682
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:01.400
like a daily post on that web site through my blog,

683
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:04.519
whether it's sharing my podcast or you know, I write

684
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:08.840
short stories that are funny from my life and then

685
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.320
also write a lot of tips about just performing in general,

686
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:16.360
doing stand up in particular. So go check that out.

687
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:19.760
That stuff's free. I guess I should mention here I

688
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.400
have a I have a joke writing course, an online

689
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.000
joke writing course that you can get on you to me.

690
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.639
You can find it on Michael Holcome do live. The

691
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.920
link there is called the Joke Writer's Lab, and it's

692
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:33.360
about four and a half hours of just here's how

693
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:35.639
you do. Here's how you do stand up comedy, from

694
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:39.840
joke writing to performing. And I got a private Facebook

695
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:42.639
group where if you're a joke writer a comedian, it's

696
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.480
also called the Joke Writer's Lab, and you can request

697
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:47.880
to join that and share jokes. And a bunch of

698
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:51.360
comedians on there. We workshop each other's jokes and whatnot.

699
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:54.760
So some good stuff on there. Yeah, welcome that live.

700
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.760
Yeah, that'd be fun to turn into just just to

701
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.000
listen to you guys, all right, talk about writing jokes.

702
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.000
That'd be funny enough. Don't have to actually write your

703
00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:03.480
own joke.

704
00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:04.719
But no, that's good.

705
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.719
Yeah, like you're talking about it. I wouldn't call it

706
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.679
a blog like, Yeah, if you want to get a

707
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.440
just go on there and his daily musings. I guess

708
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:15.000
you'd call it, yeah, exactly. They're really fun and interesting.

709
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I think you guys all like that. All right, Michael,

710
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:19.119
thank you very much for coming on. Man, you've been

711
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:19.639
a blast.

712
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:23.239
Yeah, this has been fun man, creative show. Appreciate the invite.

713
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:25.719
Sure, okay. Quote of the day it's gonna come from

714
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Robin Williams. He died a day in twenty fourteen, sixty

715
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.320
three years old. Robin says, never pick a fight with

716
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.239
an ugly person. They have nothing to lose. So thank

717
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you all for listening today. We should follow us on

718
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.400
whoever you listen to us on. We actually have an

719
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:42.880
underground radio station that plays country music across country underground radio,

720
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:44.760
and we let so many one of the fans pick

721
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.760
the song every day. This one comes from her Robin

722
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:50.079
and Hawaii. She picked res Wyan Ryan and his song

723
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.480
three Words Away. You guys all have an awesome day

724
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.239
and we'll talk tomorrow.

725
00:35:53.840 --> 00:36:00.519
We've been dancing around it. Something we both know hand.

726
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:05.079
Fits mine just ray like a sunset on a back road,

727
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.719
or I don't want to scare the moment, say too much,

728
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:10.559
too soon?

729
00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:15.840
But I can't help think about saying this to you.

730
00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:21.760
Every smile, every it's up, just pulling me closer to there.

731
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:23.960
I'm just three.

732
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:30.440
Words away from falling all the ways there and every hobey.

733
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:34.960
I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been

734
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:40.119
holding back the baby. I don't want to play it safe.

735
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:46.760
I'm just three words, three words away.