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Why are you still speaking?
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That thought should not have made it to the rest
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of us.
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This is Inside Thoughts with Nick Jordan.
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Check, check, check. One, two, three.
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Welcome back to Inside Thoughts. It's been a minute. I
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appreciate you pressing play. I basically took the whole summer off.
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And now falls here, and I just felt like coming back.
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No, what happened was I quit my job, and I
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was doing my podcast on the company computer, and I
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needed to get an actual computer.
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So, yeah, it took me a minute, but what's going on?
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Hope you're good.
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I got a cool interview for you at the end
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of the podcast with comedian actress Steph Tolev.
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She was in Indie.
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A little bit ago and she's also in season three
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of tires, which is hilarious. So hopefully you enjoy that
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at the end of the podcast, but yeah, man, hope,
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hope you've been good.
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Um, I quit radio. That's that's, uh, that happened. It
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was fun. Radio is fun.
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You know, thinking back at it, no, just thinking back
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on it, like took me to a bunch of places
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that I would never have gone. Had I not had
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a job there, I met, aims, met friends. I got
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my cats, pig and beans. It even gave me the
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confidence and the excuse to try standup. I remember I
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moved out to Texas and, uh, I didn't know anybody.
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And I was always like, yeah, I want to, I
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want to try standup. But if I do stand up
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and people that I know see it and I suck,
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I'm going to have to hear about that for the
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rest of my life. But it was out in Texas
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and I was like, yeah, let me go sit in
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an open mic. And See how good these people are.
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And they sucked because if you go to an open mic,
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you suck. So I still suck now. I just have
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the confidence to go suck in front of a bunch
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of people, man. By the way, I got some shows
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coming up. I think like eight shows coming up this Thursday.
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I'm going to be at Helium opening for Bill Squire
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and Marty Malloy. That'll be a fun show. And then
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I'm going to be bopping back and forth from Indeed,
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different places in Ohio in the month of October. You
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can go get tickets at nickjordancomedy.com.
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But, yeah, like, radio, it was cool, man.
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A lot of good things in my life up to
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this point I can say thank you to radio for.
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But it gets tiring, man.
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Like, kids, if you're listening to this, first of all,
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but why the fuck are your parents letting you listen
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to this, okay? This is not something you should be
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listening to.
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Go read a book.
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Be listening to podcasts you fucking idiot but you can
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either have a job that's fun or a job that
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makes money those are the two options well.
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They say if you do something you love you never
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work a day in.
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Your life yeah that could be true but also you're
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probably not getting paid to do it for the rest
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of your life so the job was fun like i
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didn't make a shit ton of money but it was
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fun i was like dude i don't have a real
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job and it was nice but then you know the
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job stopped being fun And I got to be honest,
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it's because of a lot of the people that work
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in radio. I'm sure you guys have met a radio
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personality before. I hope they were cool to you. But
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a lot of people on radio, I don't know what
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it is.
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Like they.
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Just never let go of wanting to be cool at
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a time when they wanted to be cool. And, you know,
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they got snubbed. So now they're like, well, I'm on
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the radio. Nobody gives a fuck, dude.
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Like they think they're famous. They really do. Talk to them. Like, bro,
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you're a radio host in Indianapolis, Indiana, and you're not
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Bob and Tom. Nobody gives a fuck about you.
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Well, a lot of people wake up early and listen
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to me on W who gives a fuck.
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First of all, I know you don't talk like that
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to your mom. Stop talking like that to me.
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But second of all, like it just, it gets tiring
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having to deal with those kinds of people. Cause you
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end up having to like, physically tell your brain to
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not let the phrase shut the fuck up, leave your mouth.
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Cause you're like, I want to keep this job. It's
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still fun, but it ended up, you know, that, that
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happened too many times during the day where I was like,
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I'm going to, I'm going to tell this person to
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shut the fuck up and I'm not going to be
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able to work here anymore.
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Or even worse, don't let me keep my job. Cause
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I was pretty good at it, but now I got
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to go through an HR training. And the person I
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told to shut the fuck up to is going to
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do their best to make the rest of my.
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Career working there, a pain in the ass. I was like,
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you know what? It's just time to go. But I
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do appreciate radio, and if you are in radio right now,
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don't be a cunt, okay? It's not a real job.
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Be happy that you can do it, but stop acting
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like you're, you know, bigger than you actually are.
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You know what I mean? You've met those people.
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Well, you know, I'm super important.
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No, you're not. Stop, okay?
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You're talking to people on the way to their jobs
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that they don't like. You're supposed to make them laugh.
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Every once in a while you tell them about.
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Oh, there's actually a sale on hamburgers down at the
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hamburger corner in your town today.
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Why don't you go down there and do that?
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That's what we're doing, okay? It's not a serious job.
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Stop taking yourself seriously. So now I'm in the process
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of looking for a new job, and the job market
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is super fun.
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A lot of fun stuff going on there.
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But in the meantime, I was like, I'll just get
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like a part-time job at like a brunch spot because
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that way, you know, I make some money during the day.
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I can still go do stand-up at night. Me and
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Ames aren't like flipping our schedules, not seeing each other ever.
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So I went to this place like in walking distance
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of our apartment. It's called Cafe Patichou. It's in Fishers, Indiana.
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Walk in there and I haven't worked at a restaurant
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in like, I don't know, 10 plus years. But back
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in the day, when you wanted to work at a restaurant,
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you walk in there, you know, you ask for the manager.
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You go, hey, can I work here? Here are the
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places I've worked at before. And they go, yeah, we'll
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start you out like bus and tables or, you know, whatever.
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You can work your way up to be a certain,
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whatever the case.
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Also, not a serious thing working at a restaurant. You're
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there to make some extra money and be nice to
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people that come in.
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So I go to this place, Cafe Patichou.
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And I was like, hey, you know, I'm just here
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to see if you guys have any job openings. There's
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a manager here, and, you know, the girl at the
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front was like, yeah, let me go get the manager.
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And the manager comes out, and he's another one of
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these guys.
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We were like, hi, how's it going? I hear you
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want to work here. He was like, yeah, can I just,
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you know, like fill out a job application?
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And he goes, well, you have to go on our website, okay,
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because we don't always have job openings, and a lot
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of people– want to work here so we have an opening.
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Right now go to the website and fill it out.
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And i was like okay you need to tone it
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down a little bit this is a place people eat
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pancakes and eggs benedict okay relax so what did i
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do smile said.
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Oh thank you very much i'm gonna walk out of
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here i'm gonna go fill that job application out what
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was your name again uh-huh redacted i'm gonna put that
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in the referred by section you do that okay bye-bye
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just walking out being a fake piece of shit So
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I literally, you know, fill out the job application. It
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takes two seconds because it's a restaurant job application. It is,
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do you have reliable transportation? Can you lift at least
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40 pounds?
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Have you killed anybody before?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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No.
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Okay. Come on. Here's your apron. I literally, I, I
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did it. And I want to say three hours later,
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I got rejected.
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We had a lot of people, uh, Interview for this position.
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We're not going to be able to get you this
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job at this time. Come back and check Patachou again.
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Fuck that place, dude. You guys sell pancakes.
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So, didn't get that job. Ended up Helium Comedy Club.
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Downtown was nice enough. Management down there was like, yeah,
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come on. You can seat people, run food. I was like,
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this is cool, man. I actually forgot how fun it
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was to work in a restaurant, though. I know a
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comedy club's not a restaurant, but Basically, it's the same thing.
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You know, you walk in the back, people in the
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kitchen are saying the funniest, most ridiculous shit you've ever
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heard in your life. And then you walk outside and
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bring some food to somebody and there's a.
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Comedy show going on. It's fun.
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But outside of that, still looking for the full-time job.
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And if it doesn't happen anytime soon, I'm not mad
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about it.
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You want to know why?
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Because Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out in November and
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you fuckers have jobs. I get to sit around and
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play that game forever until my girlfriend leaves me. But
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I already kind of gave her the heads up. I
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was like, Ames, I love you so much. I've been
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waiting for this game to come out for like 15 years.
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Okay, look how real it looks.
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Okay.
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She's not going to understand. She's going to leave me.
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It's all right, though.
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We'll see how long I can get away playing that
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before it becomes a problem. But, yeah, man, it's been
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a fun summer. I've been traveling around, going to different places.
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and got to see my little cousin get married at
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her wedding back in Ohio. It was a super nice wedding,
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and my little sister, who you hear on the intro
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of the podcast, she just had a kid a little
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bit ago, and she brought him up got to see
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my nephew he's you know funny baby he's just like
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he's figuring out like how to make noises and when
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he figures out that he can make noises he like
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laughs he's like oh.
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I did that.
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But man, I'll tell you what, the thing about weddings
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is every time I go to a wedding, I become
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an environmentalist. Every single time, dude. Because you'll be sitting
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in a church just sweating your balls off in a
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full suit. And I'll start thinking climate change has to
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be real, right? There's no way that people were wearing
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full suits everywhere back in the 20s and 30s and 40s.
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You know what I mean?
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You're telling me people were wearing full suits at a
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baseball game and they weren't passing out from fucking heat stroke?
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There was no air conditioning back then. But now, you know,
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they have air conditioning in this church. I'm still fucking sweating.
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So I think the planet is getting hotter. It's probably
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going to get hotter. We're going to have a warm
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fall and winter because I saw some oil pipeline just, hey, beans,
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can you not eat that, please? Saw some oil pipeline
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in the Middle East got blown up, so I'm sure
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that'll be good. Bro, gas has gotten too high. Best
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military the world's ever seen, my asshole, dude.
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Like, we had a deal. We're the bad guys, okay?
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We invade countries with oil, but gas is cheap so
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we don't have to think about it, okay? And now
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we're the bad guys and I'm poor. Uh-uh.
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Pick one, all right?
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Either get this war over with quick, bring us the
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gas back, Or let's.
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Tell BB we can't do it. BB, I'm so sorry.
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Gas is too high. I can't do it. My people
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are getting angry. That's not what's going to happen, though, right?
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We're going to be in this war for fucking ever anyway.
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It kind of gave you some perspective when the 9-11
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25th anniversary rolled around.
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You're like, oh, man. It hasn't changed at all. Actually,
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that was the jump-off point. Life got worse from there.
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That's what started all this. Oh, no, it's weird, man.
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We went from 9-11 happening to the Patriot Act to
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social media, now to AI, and it's just like, oh, okay, 9-11,
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that was the last of the old world. Because now
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it's just weird, dude. Like, AI is out of control.
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They want to summon the ancient demon. That's what, like,
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I'm saying that kind of joking, but that's also what, like,
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half of those AI, the seven AI CEOs think. It's
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like they create this super intelligence that's so smart it
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ends up becoming God, but it's the opposite of God,
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so it's the ancient demon. Anyway, even if you don't
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believe in God, humor me, bro, because Peter Thiel thinks
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the Antichrist comes back through AI. So if you don't
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believe in God, humor me.
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If you do.
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it doesn't matter which religion they're all about the same.
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So God is like omnipresent, all knowing free will. So
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how do you make that in tangible form? Phones, internet,
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it's always with you. It knows everything you have free will.
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You can go to whatever dirty ass website you want
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to go to.
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I don't know. It's weird, dude. Like they're, they're trying
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to do weird shit.
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Like it doesn't seem to be, uh, uh, Hey, we're
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making this thing and, It's just going to help out humanity.
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It's going to make life easier. Everybody can take vacations
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because your personal AI chatbot or robot is going to
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work for you and make you money.
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So you can do whatever you want. You can have
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a nice, happy life. Woohoo, we did it. We conquered it.
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That's not what they're going to do, right?
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Because we live in a world where a few people
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are just too fucking greedy and we need to get
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rid of them.
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But, you know, that's not going to happen. Anyway.
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The weird thing is a lot of the top AI
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CEOs just came out and said that we need to
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slow down, uh, AI research, which was weird because it
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means they either saw something really bad happen. Like there
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was a guy that got on TV at a mustache
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looked like Leonardo DiCaprio from, uh, look up that movie
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came on. He was like, Oh yeah, there's actually, uh,
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Like a 10% chance that AI kills all of us
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in the next.
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10 years, within the decade possibly? And everybody's like, oh, well,
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don't do that then. If there's a non-zero chance, what
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are we doing? Well, we have to keep going forward.
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Progress is always good. Not necessarily, bro.
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But I think Sam Altman, the Anthropic CEO, and one more.
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I forget which one, came out and said, yeah, hey,
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let's slow this down. Let's get some guidelines in effect
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so this doesn't kill us. So they either saw something
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bad happen. Maybe they're starting to realize that they're terrible people.
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Or all this AI shit is just hype and it's
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getting too expensive to keep expanding and people don't like it.
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So they need an excuse for why their Q3 numbers
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are going to look like shit.
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It's because we're being good people. We're slowing it down.
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It was going to kill you, but we hit the
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off button. Well, we hit the pause button because we
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still want it, but we tried, right?
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I don't know, but fuck those guys regardless. You know
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what I mean? It would be cool if AI was
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supposed to be a good thing.
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You know what I mean?
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Like aside from taking away everybody's critical thinking skills, because.
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I can hit a button and it gives me the answer.
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Like that aside, if everybody got, you know, like if
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you can prove that you work or something, or I
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wouldn't get one, but if you can prove that you're
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like a functional member of society, then you get awarded
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an AI chat bot from, you get sorted into, you know, whatever,
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the houses are like it's Harry Potter. Like you can
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get sorted into the open AI house, the anthropic house,
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the fucking name another one.
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Oh man, I don't want Microsoft co-pilot.
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Yeah, we don't talk to Microsoft co-pilot houses. That would
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be like the Hufflepuffs. Well, you get sorted into one
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of those houses. They give you an AI chat bot
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or like a robot that they can put the AI
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chat bot in. It goes and does your job for
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you or It works remotely on your shit, on your computer.
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And you can just fuck off and collect money. And
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you can go hang out with your friends. You can
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go visit places you've never visited before because you're making
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money and not having to do anything.
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People would be happier. Maybe we'd have time to sit
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around and read books.
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Huh?
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Maybe you'd have time to just go sit around and
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chill and we could take naps and stuff like that.
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But that's not what's going to happen, is it?
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No.
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They're like, all right, well, me and the thousand of
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my friends that I like that already have billions of dollars,
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we're going to make more money and take the rest
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from you guys. Is that okay? Most everybody's like, yeah,
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that's fine.
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You guys aren't going to get mad and try to
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kill us, are you? Because now we have cameras. We
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can see where you are, what you're doing, what you're thinking. So, yeah,
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you actually can't kill us. Because you don't know where
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our houses are, and we have lasers protecting our houses.
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Is that okay? Yeah, I guess. Like, I don't know.
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From that aspect, it's kind of over. But what are
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you going to do? It was a fun run. You
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know what I mean?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to come out, so
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it'll be fine after that.
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That's all I'm going to worry about. What is that?
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November 19th? November 29th?
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I forget exactly, but it's a... It's going to be
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a good week. That's all you've got to worry about
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is just playing Grand Theft Auto and watching football. All right,
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let's get to your headline of the week. This is
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a headline I'm making up in my head because who cares?
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Kansas City Chiefs whooped up on the Denver Broncos on
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Monday Night Football last night, and it just made me
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realize– the evil empire of the NFL is back.
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Because if you look.
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At the final score, you're going to be like, Oh,
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that game wasn't even close, but I'll tell you what
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early in the game, there's, there's a couple of points
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that game could have flipped because it could have been
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a close game. I'm not saying that Kansas city's not
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better than the Broncos. I'm not saying that what's his name,
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Davis Webb, the offensive coordinator for the Broncos was calling
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a shit game, but the, Two out of the three
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times that the Broncos had momentum in that first half
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in that game yesterday, the refs called a bullshit– they
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threw a bullshit flag. And it just– it was one
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of those things where I'm like, oh, my God, we're
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doing this again. Because they didn't do it last year.
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They let the Chiefs play, and the Chiefs were bad.
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And then Mahomes got hurt, and they were done. But
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the refs weren't cheating for them last year. They didn't
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win– this– I think, I swear to God, it lasted
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two drives.
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No, no, no.
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It was three drives into the season because first drive,
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Bo Nix throws the interception. Second drive, Kenneth Walker just
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runs all the way down the field and then Pat
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Mahomes gets.
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In the end zone.
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All right, guys, my man's fine.
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And then third drive.
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As soon as the Broncos started getting going and like,
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all right, we're going to make this a back-and-forth game. Whoop,
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bullshit flag on what's the receiver's name?
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Pat Bryant. Even Troy Aikman was like, yeah, I don't know.
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That's a whole lot of nothing right there. It was
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just one of those realizations where it's like, we're going
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to have to deal with this again, dude.
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Come on, man. Got to deal with it again. The
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Chiefs are back. So....
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You know, bet accordingly. Or, hey, are you filming me? Yeah,
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bet accordingly. Amy just walked in. She's working, actually doing
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her job and paying bills.
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I love you. And I'm sitting here podcasting. What did
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you say?
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Let me finish this up real quick. Anyway, the Chiefs
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are back. The refs are cheating for them. We're ending
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on a high note. But let's get to this interview
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with comedian Steph Tollef.
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Steph, what's going on?
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Thanks for pronouncing my last name properly. I'm good.
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I had a 50-50 shot there. I'm glad I guessed right, man.
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You guessed right. It's exactly how it's spelled.
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That's what's up.
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Well, we're super excited for you to come here. You've
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got five shows at Helium, one tonight, two tomorrow, one Sunday.
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For people who may have not seen you live before
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but have seen you in shows or on Netflix, what
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is a Steph Tolove show like?
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Well, if you don't want me to talk to you,
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do not sit in the front row. If you want
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me to make fun of somebody, do sit in the
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front row. I guess that's how we put that. I'm
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not mean, but some people want to be roasted. It's
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kind of a sick thing people enjoy now. They purposely...
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come up front and say bizarre things so I come
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at them. And then if I don't, they get mad.
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So you can't win either way, really.
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Right.
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Have you ever had a situation where somebody did bring
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somebody to the front row to your show and kind
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of didn't prepare them for what was going to happen?
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Literally last week, a girl brought her first date and
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they left in separate cars.
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Apparently, he.
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Was not thrilled with my line of questioning and he
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was very mad at her, but she said that she
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was happy because it wasn't going well anyway. It could help,
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but also, you know, some women DM me and say,
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make fun of my husband. That's literally what I'll get.
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And I'm like, I'm not doing that.
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You can do that.
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Bro, that is such an interesting, you're just like a
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truth teller to people that don't have the courage to
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do it yet.
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So that's what.
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Exactly it yeah.
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That's awesome well you've been killing it uh the past
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few years i know you've been murdering for a long
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time but you're finally getting like some recognition and some
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spotlight you put out uh your netflix special last year
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filth queen what was the process of one i know
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shooting a special takes a long time but Pitching it
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to Netflix, finally getting it, and then seeing it do
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very well once it came out.
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Was that kind of like a relief? Or were you like, oh, well,
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now I've got to do this again? What was that
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whole situation?
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It's actually a combo of the same both things. I
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was super nervous for it. And then I was very
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happy with how it came out. And now I'm like, well,
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now it's time for another special because it's, you know,
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you can never feed social media enough. I thought this
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special was going to make me go, okay, I don't
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have to post anymore. And I'm like, oh, I'm posting
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more than I've ever posted in my life. So it was,
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I was very, if you've seen the special, my favorite
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part was the opening. I got to be super goofy
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and I threw a dummy over the green monster. So
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I was very, I was, they let me do exactly
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what I wanted to do.
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That's what's up.
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Yeah, like getting creative control is always awesome. But yeah,
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it's tough. Now that you hit that point, you're like, oh,
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I don't have posts anymore. No, now you are in
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the machine. You got to keep doing it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I am the machine.
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It never ends.
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You are the machine. But I mean, you kill it
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with crowd work.
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So that's a good way of doing it without like
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having to burn material. And you're just like, yeah, okay,
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here you go. Come see me.
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Yeah. That's also, but people don't get that. They're like,
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I didn't want to watch your, your clips online. I'm like,
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those are the power clips. I do a full hour
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of actual jokes at my shows. And then you can't win.
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It doesn't matter what you post. Someone's getting mad at you.
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A hundred percent. Yeah.
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Cause you got stuff that you've been working on for
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a long time.
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You've crafted it. You got that.
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And then you got the social media stuff where it's just,
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you know, passing out candy basically.
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But, Exactly. You are super prolific putting out content.
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You also have a podcast, the Steph Infection Podcast, which
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is a hilariously gross name for a podcast.
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Yes, it is.
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Give people a little insight of what you talk about
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on that. Are you going to get a little itchy
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after listening to it?
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Yes.
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I mean, sometimes the reason I wanted to have a
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body podcast is like every single person, including yourself, probably
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has a story of some weird body thing you've had.
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And I was just sick and tired of hearing every
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comedy podcast talk about the same thing.
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Like, when did you start?
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Who are your influences? I'm like, we've heard the conversation
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48 times. So like, This is actually a way to,
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you know, hear an interesting story, especially from like bigger comics.
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Like Mark Maron just did it and told a pretty
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interesting story about his pee-pee, which I've never heard him,
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I don't know what to say on radio, which I've
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never heard him talk about before. So it's like, it's
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nice also to see some comics be a little more
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vulnerable than normally.
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Right.
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And also some people have been diagnosed from things that
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people have mentioned in my podcast. People have got checked
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because they thought they had maybe cancer or tumor lump
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and got it checked to make sure they were fine.
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Other people realized they had this specific like eczema they had.
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It's very interesting.
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That's nuts.
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All right.
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So if you go to a Steph Tollef comedy show,
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you can. hear some truth about you, what your partner
533
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wants you to hear. And then if you listen to
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your podcast, the Steph infection, you might get a diagnosis.
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You didn't know you had. Yes, exactly.
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Either way you're entertained. We'll just say that.
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A hundred percent, man. All right.
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I got one more question. I'll let you get out
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of here. Cause I know you're busy. You're going to
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be a helium comedy club all this weekend. Go get tickets.
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But Steph, you've gotten to do some super cool stuff.
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Like obviously the Netflix special, you've been in tires, which
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you're hilarious.
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Chasing Stavros down. Old Dads.
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Also, I'll be in Season 3. Comes out August 13th.
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Barb is back.
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Barb is back in.
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A big way.
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Barb is terrifying, dude. Was that a fun character to play?
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Yeah, it was just literally me picturing my fiancee. That's
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all it was. That wasn't acting. You nailed it. That
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was literally me picturing myself, yeah.
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Well, that's what's up, man.
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Has there been like a moment in your career where
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you kind of looked around and you're like, this is
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the coolest thing I've ever done.
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I can't believe I get to do this.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I opened for Bill Burr in my hometown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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at the Air Canada Center, which is the biggest stadium
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in Canada. And I walked on stage to, I think
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it was 12... people, maybe more. I think it was,
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I think it's like 15,000, something insane. And I just
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looked around and went, this is my life. And I
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looked over and I saw Bill watching and then my
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dad and my sister crying. I'm like, what is happening
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right now? So that was by far the coolest moment
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of my entire career.
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Yeah, you can't beat that.
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I think about it often.
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You're going to be chasing that high for a long time,
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but you are super talented.
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You're hilarious.
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You're going to get something bigger and better. And then
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that'll be like, oh yeah, I forgot that I did that.
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That's crazy, man.
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I hope I don't forget it. I love that memory.
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Right.
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Well, hey, Steph, go murder this weekend.
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You can see Steph Tolev at Helium tonight, tomorrow, or Sunday.
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Go get tickets. You're not going to have a bad time.
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Is there anything else you want to promote before I
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let you get out of here?
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No, that's it. Follow me on Instagram to watch all
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the videos. And, yeah, support live comedy, please. We love this.
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That's what's up, man.
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All right.
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I appreciate you taking the time, Steph. Thank you. See you.
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Why are you still speaking?
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That thought should not have made it to the rest
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of us.
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This is Inside Thoughts with Nick Jordan.
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Check, check, check. One, two, three.
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Welcome back to Inside Thoughts. It's been a minute. I
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appreciate you pressing play. I basically took the whole summer off.
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And now falls here, and I just felt like coming back.
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No, what happened was I quit my job, and I
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was doing my podcast on the company computer, and I
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needed to get an actual computer.
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So, yeah, it took me a minute, but what's going on?
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Hope you're good.
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I got a cool interview for you at the end
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of the podcast with comedian actress Steph Tolev.
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She was in Indie.
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A little bit ago and she's also in season three
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of tires, which is hilarious. So hopefully you enjoy that
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at the end of the podcast, but yeah, man, hope,
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hope you've been good.
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Um, I quit radio. That's that's, uh, that happened. It
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was fun. Radio is fun.
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You know, thinking back at it, no, just thinking back
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on it, like took me to a bunch of places
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that I would never have gone. Had I not had
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a job there, I met, aims, met friends. I got
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my cats, pig and beans. It even gave me the
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confidence and the excuse to try standup. I remember I
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moved out to Texas and, uh, I didn't know anybody.
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And I was always like, yeah, I want to, I
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want to try standup. But if I do stand up
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and people that I know see it and I suck,
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I'm going to have to hear about that for the
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rest of my life. But it was out in Texas
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and I was like, yeah, let me go sit in
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an open mic. And See how good these people are.
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And they sucked because if you go to an open mic,
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you suck. So I still suck now. I just have
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the confidence to go suck in front of a bunch
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of people, man. By the way, I got some shows
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coming up. I think like eight shows coming up this Thursday.
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I'm going to be at Helium opening for Bill Squire
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and Marty Malloy. That'll be a fun show. And then
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I'm going to be bopping back and forth from Indeed,
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different places in Ohio in the month of October. You
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can go get tickets at nickjordancomedy.com.
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But, yeah, like, radio, it was cool, man.
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A lot of good things in my life up to
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this point I can say thank you to radio for.
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But it gets tiring, man.
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Like, kids, if you're listening to this, first of all,
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but why the fuck are your parents letting you listen
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to this, okay? This is not something you should be
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listening to.
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Go read a book.
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Be listening to podcasts you fucking idiot but you can
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either have a job that's fun or a job that
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makes money those are the two options well.
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They say if you do something you love you never
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work a day in.
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Your life yeah that could be true but also you're
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probably not getting paid to do it for the rest
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of your life so the job was fun like i
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didn't make a shit ton of money but it was
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fun i was like dude i don't have a real
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job and it was nice but then you know the
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job stopped being fun And I got to be honest,
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it's because of a lot of the people that work
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in radio. I'm sure you guys have met a radio
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personality before. I hope they were cool to you. But
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a lot of people on radio, I don't know what
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it is.
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Like they.
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Just never let go of wanting to be cool at
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a time when they wanted to be cool. And, you know,
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they got snubbed. So now they're like, well, I'm on
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the radio. Nobody gives a fuck, dude.
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Like they think they're famous. They really do. Talk to them. Like, bro,
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you're a radio host in Indianapolis, Indiana, and you're not
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Bob and Tom. Nobody gives a fuck about you.
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Well, a lot of people wake up early and listen
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to me on W who gives a fuck.
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First of all, I know you don't talk like that
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to your mom. Stop talking like that to me.
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But second of all, like it just, it gets tiring
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having to deal with those kinds of people. Cause you
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end up having to like, physically tell your brain to
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not let the phrase shut the fuck up, leave your mouth.
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Cause you're like, I want to keep this job. It's
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still fun, but it ended up, you know, that, that
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happened too many times during the day where I was like,
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I'm going to, I'm going to tell this person to
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shut the fuck up and I'm not going to be
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able to work here anymore.
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Or even worse, don't let me keep my job. Cause
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I was pretty good at it, but now I got
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to go through an HR training. And the person I
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told to shut the fuck up to is going to
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do their best to make the rest of my.
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Career working there, a pain in the ass. I was like,
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you know what? It's just time to go. But I
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do appreciate radio, and if you are in radio right now,
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don't be a cunt, okay? It's not a real job.
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Be happy that you can do it, but stop acting
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like you're, you know, bigger than you actually are.
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You know what I mean? You've met those people.
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Well, you know, I'm super important.
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No, you're not. Stop, okay?
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You're talking to people on the way to their jobs
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that they don't like. You're supposed to make them laugh.
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Every once in a while you tell them about.
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Oh, there's actually a sale on hamburgers down at the
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hamburger corner in your town today.
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Why don't you go down there and do that?
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That's what we're doing, okay? It's not a serious job.
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Stop taking yourself seriously. So now I'm in the process
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of looking for a new job, and the job market
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is super fun.
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A lot of fun stuff going on there.
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But in the meantime, I was like, I'll just get
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like a part-time job at like a brunch spot because
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that way, you know, I make some money during the day.
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I can still go do stand-up at night. Me and
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Ames aren't like flipping our schedules, not seeing each other ever.
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So I went to this place like in walking distance
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of our apartment. It's called Cafe Patichou. It's in Fishers, Indiana.
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Walk in there and I haven't worked at a restaurant
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in like, I don't know, 10 plus years. But back
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in the day, when you wanted to work at a restaurant,
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you walk in there, you know, you ask for the manager.
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You go, hey, can I work here? Here are the
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places I've worked at before. And they go, yeah, we'll
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start you out like bus and tables or, you know, whatever.
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You can work your way up to be a certain,
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whatever the case.
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Also, not a serious thing working at a restaurant. You're
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there to make some extra money and be nice to
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people that come in.
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So I go to this place, Cafe Patichou.
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And I was like, hey, you know, I'm just here
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to see if you guys have any job openings. There's
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a manager here, and, you know, the girl at the
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front was like, yeah, let me go get the manager.
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And the manager comes out, and he's another one of
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We were like, hi, how's it going? I hear you
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want to work here. He was like, yeah, can I just,
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you know, like fill out a job application?
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because we don't always have job openings, and a lot
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of people– want to work here so we have an opening.
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Right now go to the website and fill it out.
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And i was like okay you need to tone it
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down a little bit this is a place people eat
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pancakes and eggs benedict okay relax so what did i
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do smile said.
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Oh thank you very much i'm gonna walk out of
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here i'm gonna go fill that job application out what
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was your name again uh-huh redacted i'm gonna put that
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in the referred by section you do that okay bye-bye
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just walking out being a fake piece of shit So
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I literally, you know, fill out the job application. It
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takes two seconds because it's a restaurant job application. It is,
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do you have reliable transportation? Can you lift at least
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40 pounds?
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Have you killed anybody before?
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Okay. Come on. Here's your apron. I literally, I, I
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did it. And I want to say three hours later,
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I got rejected.
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We had a lot of people, uh, Interview for this position.
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We're not going to be able to get you this
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job at this time. Come back and check Patachou again.
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Fuck that place, dude. You guys sell pancakes.
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So, didn't get that job. Ended up Helium Comedy Club.
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Downtown was nice enough. Management down there was like, yeah,
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come on. You can seat people, run food. I was like,
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this is cool, man. I actually forgot how fun it
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was to work in a restaurant, though. I know a
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comedy club's not a restaurant, but Basically, it's the same thing.
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You know, you walk in the back, people in the
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kitchen are saying the funniest, most ridiculous shit you've ever
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heard in your life. And then you walk outside and
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bring some food to somebody and there's a.
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Comedy show going on. It's fun.
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But outside of that, still looking for the full-time job.
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And if it doesn't happen anytime soon, I'm not mad
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about it.
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You want to know why?
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Because Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out in November and
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you fuckers have jobs. I get to sit around and
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play that game forever until my girlfriend leaves me. But
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I already kind of gave her the heads up. I
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was like, Ames, I love you so much. I've been
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waiting for this game to come out for like 15 years.
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Okay, look how real it looks.
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Okay.
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She's not going to understand. She's going to leave me.
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It's all right, though.
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We'll see how long I can get away playing that
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before it becomes a problem. But, yeah, man, it's been
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a fun summer. I've been traveling around, going to different places.
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and got to see my little cousin get married at
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her wedding back in Ohio. It was a super nice wedding,
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and my little sister, who you hear on the intro
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of the podcast, she just had a kid a little
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bit ago, and she brought him up got to see
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my nephew he's you know funny baby he's just like
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he's figuring out like how to make noises and when
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he figures out that he can make noises he like
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laughs he's like oh.
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I did that.
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But man, I'll tell you what, the thing about weddings
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is every time I go to a wedding, I become
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an environmentalist. Every single time, dude. Because you'll be sitting
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in a church just sweating your balls off in a
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full suit. And I'll start thinking climate change has to
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be real, right? There's no way that people were wearing
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full suits everywhere back in the 20s and 30s and 40s.
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You know what I mean?
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You're telling me people were wearing full suits at a
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baseball game and they weren't passing out from fucking heat stroke?
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There was no air conditioning back then. But now, you know,
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they have air conditioning in this church. I'm still fucking sweating.
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So I think the planet is getting hotter. It's probably
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going to get hotter. We're going to have a warm
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fall and winter because I saw some oil pipeline just, hey, beans,
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can you not eat that, please? Saw some oil pipeline
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in the Middle East got blown up, so I'm sure
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that'll be good. Bro, gas has gotten too high. Best
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military the world's ever seen, my asshole, dude.
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Like, we had a deal. We're the bad guys, okay?
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We invade countries with oil, but gas is cheap so
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we don't have to think about it, okay? And now
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we're the bad guys and I'm poor. Uh-uh.
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Pick one, all right?
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Either get this war over with quick, bring us the
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gas back, Or let's.
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Tell BB we can't do it. BB, I'm so sorry.
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Gas is too high. I can't do it. My people
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are getting angry. That's not what's going to happen, though, right?
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We're going to be in this war for fucking ever anyway.
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It kind of gave you some perspective when the 9-11
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25th anniversary rolled around.
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You're like, oh, man. It hasn't changed at all. Actually,
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that was the jump-off point. Life got worse from there.
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That's what started all this. Oh, no, it's weird, man.
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We went from 9-11 happening to the Patriot Act to
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social media, now to AI, and it's just like, oh, okay, 9-11,
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that was the last of the old world. Because now
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it's just weird, dude. Like, AI is out of control.
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They want to summon the ancient demon. That's what, like,
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I'm saying that kind of joking, but that's also what, like,
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half of those AI, the seven AI CEOs think. It's
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like they create this super intelligence that's so smart it
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ends up becoming God, but it's the opposite of God,
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so it's the ancient demon. Anyway, even if you don't
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believe in God, humor me, bro, because Peter Thiel thinks
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the Antichrist comes back through AI. So if you don't
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believe in God, humor me.
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If you do.
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it doesn't matter which religion they're all about the same.
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So God is like omnipresent, all knowing free will. So
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how do you make that in tangible form? Phones, internet,
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it's always with you. It knows everything you have free will.
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You can go to whatever dirty ass website you want
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to go to.
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I don't know. It's weird, dude. Like they're, they're trying
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to do weird shit.
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Like it doesn't seem to be, uh, uh, Hey, we're
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making this thing and, It's just going to help out humanity.
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It's going to make life easier. Everybody can take vacations
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because your personal AI chatbot or robot is going to
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work for you and make you money.
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So you can do whatever you want. You can have
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a nice, happy life. Woohoo, we did it. We conquered it.
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That's not what they're going to do, right?
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Because we live in a world where a few people
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are just too fucking greedy and we need to get
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rid of them.
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But, you know, that's not going to happen. Anyway.
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The weird thing is a lot of the top AI
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CEOs just came out and said that we need to
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slow down, uh, AI research, which was weird because it
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means they either saw something really bad happen. Like there
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was a guy that got on TV at a mustache
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looked like Leonardo DiCaprio from, uh, look up that movie
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came on. He was like, Oh yeah, there's actually, uh,
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Like a 10% chance that AI kills all of us
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in the next.
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10 years, within the decade possibly? And everybody's like, oh, well,
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don't do that then. If there's a non-zero chance, what
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are we doing? Well, we have to keep going forward.
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Progress is always good. Not necessarily, bro.
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But I think Sam Altman, the Anthropic CEO, and one more.
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I forget which one, came out and said, yeah, hey,
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let's slow this down. Let's get some guidelines in effect
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so this doesn't kill us. So they either saw something
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bad happen. Maybe they're starting to realize that they're terrible people.
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Or all this AI shit is just hype and it's
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getting too expensive to keep expanding and people don't like it.
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So they need an excuse for why their Q3 numbers
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are going to look like shit.
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It's because we're being good people. We're slowing it down.
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It was going to kill you, but we hit the
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off button. Well, we hit the pause button because we
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still want it, but we tried, right?
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I don't know, but fuck those guys regardless. You know
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what I mean? It would be cool if AI was
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supposed to be a good thing.
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You know what I mean?
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Like aside from taking away everybody's critical thinking skills, because.
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I can hit a button and it gives me the answer.
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Like that aside, if everybody got, you know, like if
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you can prove that you work or something, or I
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wouldn't get one, but if you can prove that you're
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like a functional member of society, then you get awarded
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an AI chat bot from, you get sorted into, you know, whatever,
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the houses are like it's Harry Potter. Like you can
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get sorted into the open AI house, the anthropic house,
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the fucking name another one.
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Oh man, I don't want Microsoft co-pilot.
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Yeah, we don't talk to Microsoft co-pilot houses. That would
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be like the Hufflepuffs. Well, you get sorted into one
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of those houses. They give you an AI chat bot
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or like a robot that they can put the AI
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chat bot in. It goes and does your job for
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you or It works remotely on your shit, on your computer.
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And you can just fuck off and collect money. And
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you can go hang out with your friends. You can
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go visit places you've never visited before because you're making
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money and not having to do anything.
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People would be happier. Maybe we'd have time to sit
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around and read books.
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Huh?
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Maybe you'd have time to just go sit around and
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chill and we could take naps and stuff like that.
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But that's not what's going to happen, is it?
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No.
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They're like, all right, well, me and the thousand of
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my friends that I like that already have billions of dollars,
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we're going to make more money and take the rest
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from you guys. Is that okay? Most everybody's like, yeah,
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that's fine.
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You guys aren't going to get mad and try to
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kill us, are you? Because now we have cameras. We
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can see where you are, what you're doing, what you're thinking. So, yeah,
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you actually can't kill us. Because you don't know where
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our houses are, and we have lasers protecting our houses.
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Is that okay? Yeah, I guess. Like, I don't know.
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From that aspect, it's kind of over. But what are
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you going to do? It was a fun run. You
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know what I mean?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to come out, so
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it'll be fine after that.
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That's all I'm going to worry about. What is that?
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November 19th? November 29th?
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I forget exactly, but it's a... It's going to be
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a good week. That's all you've got to worry about
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is just playing Grand Theft Auto and watching football. All right,
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let's get to your headline of the week. This is
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a headline I'm making up in my head because who cares?
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Kansas City Chiefs whooped up on the Denver Broncos on
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Monday Night Football last night, and it just made me
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realize– the evil empire of the NFL is back.
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Because if you look.
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At the final score, you're going to be like, Oh,
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that game wasn't even close, but I'll tell you what
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early in the game, there's, there's a couple of points
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that game could have flipped because it could have been
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a close game. I'm not saying that Kansas city's not
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better than the Broncos. I'm not saying that what's his name,
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Davis Webb, the offensive coordinator for the Broncos was calling
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a shit game, but the, Two out of the three
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times that the Broncos had momentum in that first half
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in that game yesterday, the refs called a bullshit– they
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threw a bullshit flag. And it just– it was one
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of those things where I'm like, oh, my God, we're
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doing this again. Because they didn't do it last year.
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They let the Chiefs play, and the Chiefs were bad.
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And then Mahomes got hurt, and they were done. But
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the refs weren't cheating for them last year. They didn't
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win– this– I think, I swear to God, it lasted
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two drives.
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No, no, no.
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It was three drives into the season because first drive,
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Bo Nix throws the interception. Second drive, Kenneth Walker just
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runs all the way down the field and then Pat
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Mahomes gets.
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In the end zone.
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All right, guys, my man's fine.
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And then third drive.
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As soon as the Broncos started getting going and like,
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all right, we're going to make this a back-and-forth game. Whoop,
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bullshit flag on what's the receiver's name?
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Pat Bryant. Even Troy Aikman was like, yeah, I don't know.
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That's a whole lot of nothing right there. It was
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just one of those realizations where it's like, we're going
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to have to deal with this again, dude.
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Come on, man. Got to deal with it again. The
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Chiefs are back. So....
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You know, bet accordingly. Or, hey, are you filming me? Yeah,
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bet accordingly. Amy just walked in. She's working, actually doing
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her job and paying bills.
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I love you. And I'm sitting here podcasting. What did
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you say?
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Let me finish this up real quick. Anyway, the Chiefs
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are back. The refs are cheating for them. We're ending
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on a high note. But let's get to this interview
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with comedian Steph Tollef.
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Steph, what's going on?
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Thanks for pronouncing my last name properly. I'm good.
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I had a 50-50 shot there. I'm glad I guessed right, man.
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You guessed right. It's exactly how it's spelled.
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That's what's up.
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Well, we're super excited for you to come here. You've
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got five shows at Helium, one tonight, two tomorrow, one Sunday.
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For people who may have not seen you live before
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but have seen you in shows or on Netflix, what
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is a Steph Tolove show like?
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Well, if you don't want me to talk to you,
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do not sit in the front row. If you want
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me to make fun of somebody, do sit in the
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front row. I guess that's how we put that. I'm
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not mean, but some people want to be roasted. It's
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kind of a sick thing people enjoy now. They purposely...
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come up front and say bizarre things so I come
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at them. And then if I don't, they get mad.
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So you can't win either way, really.
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Right.
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Have you ever had a situation where somebody did bring
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somebody to the front row to your show and kind
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of didn't prepare them for what was going to happen?
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Literally last week, a girl brought her first date and
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they left in separate cars.
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Apparently, he.
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Was not thrilled with my line of questioning and he
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was very mad at her, but she said that she
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was happy because it wasn't going well anyway. It could help,
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but also, you know, some women DM me and say,
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make fun of my husband. That's literally what I'll get.
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And I'm like, I'm not doing that.
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You can do that.
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Bro, that is such an interesting, you're just like a
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truth teller to people that don't have the courage to
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do it yet.
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So that's what.
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Exactly it yeah.
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That's awesome well you've been killing it uh the past
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few years i know you've been murdering for a long
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time but you're finally getting like some recognition and some
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spotlight you put out uh your netflix special last year
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filth queen what was the process of one i know
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shooting a special takes a long time but Pitching it
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to Netflix, finally getting it, and then seeing it do
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very well once it came out.
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Was that kind of like a relief? Or were you like, oh, well,
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now I've got to do this again? What was that
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whole situation?
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It's actually a combo of the same both things. I
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was super nervous for it. And then I was very
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happy with how it came out. And now I'm like, well,
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now it's time for another special because it's, you know,
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you can never feed social media enough. I thought this
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special was going to make me go, okay, I don't
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have to post anymore. And I'm like, oh, I'm posting
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more than I've ever posted in my life. So it was,
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I was very, if you've seen the special, my favorite
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part was the opening. I got to be super goofy
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and I threw a dummy over the green monster. So
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I was very, I was, they let me do exactly
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what I wanted to do.
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That's what's up.
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Yeah, like getting creative control is always awesome. But yeah,
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it's tough. Now that you hit that point, you're like, oh,
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I don't have posts anymore. No, now you are in
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the machine. You got to keep doing it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I am the machine.
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It never ends.
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You are the machine. But I mean, you kill it
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with crowd work.
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So that's a good way of doing it without like
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having to burn material. And you're just like, yeah, okay,
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here you go. Come see me.
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Yeah. That's also, but people don't get that. They're like,
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I didn't want to watch your, your clips online. I'm like,
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those are the power clips. I do a full hour
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of actual jokes at my shows. And then you can't win.
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It doesn't matter what you post. Someone's getting mad at you.
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A hundred percent. Yeah.
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Cause you got stuff that you've been working on for
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a long time.
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You've crafted it. You got that.
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And then you got the social media stuff where it's just,
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you know, passing out candy basically.
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But, Exactly. You are super prolific putting out content.
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You also have a podcast, the Steph Infection Podcast, which
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is a hilariously gross name for a podcast.
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Yes, it is.
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Give people a little insight of what you talk about
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on that. Are you going to get a little itchy
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after listening to it?
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Yes.
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I mean, sometimes the reason I wanted to have a
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body podcast is like every single person, including yourself, probably
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has a story of some weird body thing you've had.
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And I was just sick and tired of hearing every
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comedy podcast talk about the same thing.
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Like, when did you start?
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Who are your influences? I'm like, we've heard the conversation
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48 times. So like, This is actually a way to,
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you know, hear an interesting story, especially from like bigger comics.
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Like Mark Maron just did it and told a pretty
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interesting story about his pee-pee, which I've never heard him,
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I don't know what to say on radio, which I've
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never heard him talk about before. So it's like, it's
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nice also to see some comics be a little more
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vulnerable than normally.
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Right.
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And also some people have been diagnosed from things that
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people have mentioned in my podcast. People have got checked
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because they thought they had maybe cancer or tumor lump
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and got it checked to make sure they were fine.
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Other people realized they had this specific like eczema they had.
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It's very interesting.
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That's nuts.
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All right.
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So if you go to a Steph Tollef comedy show,
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you can. hear some truth about you, what your partner
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wants you to hear. And then if you listen to
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your podcast, the Steph infection, you might get a diagnosis.
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00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:59.819
You didn't know you had. Yes, exactly.
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Either way you're entertained. We'll just say that.
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A hundred percent, man. All right.
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I got one more question. I'll let you get out
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of here. Cause I know you're busy. You're going to
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be a helium comedy club all this weekend. Go get tickets.
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00:26:09.819 --> 00:26:12.339
But Steph, you've gotten to do some super cool stuff.
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Like obviously the Netflix special, you've been in tires, which
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you're hilarious.
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Chasing Stavros down. Old Dads.
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Also, I'll be in Season 3. Comes out August 13th.
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Barb is back.
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Barb is back in.
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A big way.
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Barb is terrifying, dude. Was that a fun character to play?
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Yeah, it was just literally me picturing my fiancee. That's
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00:26:37.710 --> 00:26:39.849
all it was. That wasn't acting. You nailed it. That
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was literally me picturing myself, yeah.
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00:26:41.849 --> 00:26:43.349
Well, that's what's up, man.
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Has there been like a moment in your career where
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you kind of looked around and you're like, this is
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the coolest thing I've ever done.
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I can't believe I get to do this.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I opened for Bill Burr in my hometown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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at the Air Canada Center, which is the biggest stadium
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in Canada. And I walked on stage to, I think
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it was 12... people, maybe more. I think it was,
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I think it's like 15,000, something insane. And I just
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looked around and went, this is my life. And I
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looked over and I saw Bill watching and then my
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dad and my sister crying. I'm like, what is happening
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00:27:16.509 --> 00:27:20.279
right now? So that was by far the coolest moment
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of my entire career.
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Yeah, you can't beat that.
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I think about it often.
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You're going to be chasing that high for a long time,
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but you are super talented.
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You're hilarious.
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You're going to get something bigger and better. And then
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that'll be like, oh yeah, I forgot that I did that.
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That's crazy, man.
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I hope I don't forget it. I love that memory.
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Right.
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00:27:37.369 --> 00:27:39.509
Well, hey, Steph, go murder this weekend.
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You can see Steph Tolev at Helium tonight, tomorrow, or Sunday.
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Go get tickets. You're not going to have a bad time.
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Is there anything else you want to promote before I
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let you get out of here?
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No, that's it. Follow me on Instagram to watch all
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the videos. And, yeah, support live comedy, please. We love this.
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That's what's up, man.
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All right.
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I appreciate you taking the time, Steph. Thank you. See you.
