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You're listening to Comedy Central now firing Twitter last week? Man,
look every week with Twitter. It's some new ship. They're
saying that. Ellen Musk sent out a letter to everybody, going, look,
y'all gotta work long hours. If y'all about this life,
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get three months servants. At five pm, employees started resigning
left and right to take the severance. So Ellen has, now,
it is being reported, has locked out hundreds of employees
because they're not sure which ones are the ones to quit,
and we don't want you coming in here on Monday
morning sucking up all the computer ship. This is ridiculous,
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the wildest, bro, It's the wildest. Remember, Ralph, remember when
I told you my radio fantasy when I quit radio
is to take a sweet teath specifically from Chick fil
A because it's extra sweet, and just throw it on
all of the electronics in the room that controls everything.
That's what they're scared it though, So they have Ellen
right now has hundreds of sweet teas on his hands
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at his company. Hey man, a man, I wonder how
many private toilets are in the Twitter building. There ain't
enough turts if you like, there are enough turts. But
if they move as a group, if they move as
a group, they can get this done. These people are
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resigning in record numbers. I don't think they're gonna do
anything like that. I don't know. Ain't nothing wrong with
the little third on the Walllet eon know how you
feel about this ship. Gonna be to check it. My
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name Roy, this is my job. Fair. Wednesday is the
most beautiful day of the week. It is um do
you still call this Thanksgiving? What do we call with this?
Jack win? The day before Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving? Eaty the festiveness
of it all? You know, thanks Giving, sir? You know,
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you know why I feel like Thanksgiving doesn't get the
same love as other holidays. You don't get ship on Thanksgiving.
That Valentine's Day you get a gift. Halloween you get
a gift. Christmas you get a gift. Your Birthday you
get a gift. Mothers Day, bothers me secretary. Thanksgiving, just
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sit around the table and and just talk about how
lucky you are that where's my gift at your house?
Eating this trash assmcarni, why don't you eat somebody's trash
macro because you'll be trying to be polite for them,
because if you standing Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, it that that's when
the holidays is where my make weird ship. And then
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they stare at you while you tried. Like when a
rapper play your demo players demo for you, he'll be
waiting for you to nod your head. That's because you're polite.
The rappers playing the demo while you're at things Giving
right after the prayer, that that's when it's bad. That's
when it's bad. But I don't know, man, I gotta
I gotta actually outside with j G on this when
the faces she's making everything right about not Look, man,
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we all southern. I don't play about things giving. I
ain't going to when nobody random house to eat at
things Giving. I'm too old for that. I can't be
introduced to new potato salads and people trying turkeys for
the first time and all kind of crap. I need
to know where the hell I'm eating, bro, I just
can't eat nowhere. That's like when you got dredged. Just
don't let nobody touch your hair. I don't eat things
Giving dinner anywhere. If you are a Gray Perry more,
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you know what you're responsible for in our house. Bring
what your responsive before, don't make it differently. I don't
care what you learned somewhere else where you taste is
something else, none of that mess. Don't put pineapples and
the banana pudding. What is wrong with you who put
pineapples in the banana push? She knows, she knows. Mhmm,
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you are. That's like I thought you were just talking
in general, but that's a specifically got real specific di fast.
You know. J G is the foodie, so you know
she takes food serious. So she don't like people disrespecting
the food. I understand and respect that you got a
great show. I don't want you to say nothing else
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is gonna ruin your holidays, Jacqueline, because right now, but
you all done on it, so you probably got that
thing on your right now. You probably want to She
is too. It's gonna go down some pineapples and some
banana pudding. Bro, that's what I'm talking about. Everybody knows
that Poladin's banana pudding is the best banana pudding. I
don't want to hear anything else. Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham on
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the program today, we're gonna talk about his Comedy Central
special that uh is premier and after Thanksgiving. If you're
hearing us after that, go back on the Paramount plus
app and dig it up um. I opened for Jeff
Dunham one time. Third was this was this was back
and this is when he still played regular comedy clubs,
like you know, he's arena like he don't do less
than ten thousand seats, does big spots. He does big, big,
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big spots. But like, oh two Motherfucker's in Chattanooga on Thursday.
I got to like that. Last to the ticket, Now
I'm not I'm not hating. The tickets was like fifty dollars.
It was a fifty dollar ticket on a Thursday night
in Chatta, Newman. So I got I got to open
for him. It was a really kind, really cool dude.
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I'm excited to talk to him about the special. And
if it's anybody that we need to talk to about
woke culture, maybe it's Jeff, because you know, I feel like,
because everything well because with the Ventral, I don't even
know what to call him. Can we still call him dummies?
That disrespectful? Are they people? What's the new word? Ventriloquist?
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Partners partner Walter Seen Partners, the fact that he makes
jokes that are sometimes rooted in a stereotype. It started
at a stereotype because I'm not gonna says his human
is not lazy. But if he's a white dude doing
a Mexican accent on stage pretending to be a hall opinion,
is the fact that he's doing this through ventriloquism that's
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not a word it is today? Is that why he's
able to get away with it? You know, because his
comedy transcends, you know, every age. So I'm excited to
talk with him and j G understand Um a couple
of emails, let's go ahead and check their is job
Fair at gmail dot com. We have so much good
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news in the inbox and some things that made my
eyes water as well, but I'll just stay We got
no more Haydana's Native Americans. Are you happy now? Ran
the episode yesterday? We ran the episode this week in
the job Fair feet there well be so mean to
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I don't know when I'm about to tell you that.
Thomas McClure, a former guest. We talked with him about
woodland firefighting and working at an urban Indian Health Organization,
Episode thirty, The Art of the Residonation September. If you
want to dig into Craton now, well, good news. He's
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been promoted from a health promotion specialist to the director
of health Promotion. Congrats, that's what did it? Yes, and boy,
he wants you to know that there are several vacancies
that they are hiring for and he wants people to
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come apply at All Nations dot health slash careers. Congratulations, Thomas,
let it go. Good for your brother, Thomas, Good for
you got the promotion. Don't suck it up. Make sure
you steal ship because sooner or later they're gonna try
and come in. Just hit me with the greasy friebred bro,
that's all I asked, the greasy friar need that need that.
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We also have things that bring Danielle k joy. They
are Bob's burger, playing a bass guitar, serial a lizard,
and listening to Roy's job. Fair. She wanted you to
know that those things are all in one group. Wow,
that was diverse. Thank you, daniel Okay, we appreciate you.
You're next to a lizard. I'll take that. Lizards are
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pretty cool. And then Daniel c enjoyed hearing Rhonda talk
about her peloton on the episode My Wife's Boys, How
are you doing on your peloton? Rondo? Alright, real quick,
Cody's most Outstanding Employee of the Week, Memphis, Tennessee, shot
out to Shelby County right there on the wonderful, wonderful
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Mississippi River um Fox thirteen. The news crew at Fox
thirteen was out there in the stop for lunch stop
somewhere one one reason or another, And when it came
back to the old Fox thirteen news van, all the
goddamn cameras was gone. And of course you choked that
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up to insurance and the average reporter, which is head
back to the station, get a new camera from the
stock room and keep it moving. Jeremy Pierre, who was
a proud employee of Fox thirteen, woke up one morning
and check his Facebook and he had a message from
a man named Richard Okay. The message to the Fox
thirteen employee was, hey, Jeremy, how do you work the
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record button on this camera? Oh my gosh, son. Underneath
that comment, it's a picture of the man who stole
the camera taking a picture with the camera, so that
Jeremy can help him learn how to use this super
complicated news camera. What young gentleman by the name of Mookie,
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probably a Mookie. You look at him, be looks like
a Mookie's got the little braids. Wow, I love it.
If you're if you're about to make Mookie, if you're
about to make Mookie the CMO. Not only do I
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like this, I love this roy both of them. I
would argue that a lot of crimes are crimes of
necessity because poverty begets the choice to be criminalists in
a lot of instances. Okay, so you have Richie, you
have Mookie. These two young brothers go damn, I really
want to make TV and movies. How do we do
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it with the camera? We cannot afford the camera. Look,
the Fox thirteen news van is right there, and they
took that camera and rather than pawn it, rather than
sell it, rather than just let it collect us, they've
decided that they are going to use it. And what
better way to use your newfound camera than to mention
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someone who you know, knows how to use it. Mookie
and Richie are simply trying to better themselves. Not agree
with the methods, but I love the motivation. I love
the tenacity and for that. Yes, in the name of
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young Dolf, give it to him. You are most outstanding
employee of the week, brought to you by sackleson State
motherfucking Community College. You don't know what to do with
that either, dude. You come join our a V club.
You two young industrious there's a space for you with Sackles.
Don't you come in this direction. I am disappointed in them.
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If you're gonna take it, don't tell people stuff. How
is it gonna learn to use the cameras? I'll tell
you this much. When I go to Memphis to do
a show, I'm calling Muthie. I know you better not
that kid gonna work hard for you. Roy, he go
hit you back on Twitter like how do I use this?
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What if I harm? And then the motherfucker's still my
microphone or your cell phone? We have to run after
your cell phone? Worst and first time, Oh my gosh.
And it's a pleasure to have this person on the show.
They have a wonderful wonderful comedy specialists coming up, Phone
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Comedy Central, IM, Paramount Plus and all of the wonderful
wonderful streaming sites. J G. Who do we have on
the line. We have Jeff done him. But you said
he's alone. It doesn't look like he's alone. He's got Walter. Wonderful. Thanks,
good to see. I don't know Iff actually get part
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of this because I heard what you were going to
talk about. Ye'll be fine, Okay, good, I don't care.
Award winning and nationally globally touring comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Donham,
welcome to the job. There open for you. Man. It's
like O two comedy catch. This is and this is
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how you know I'm telling the truth. These the early
years of you selling the Walter Dolls, and you sold
out second show Friday night, and you still had two
more nights in town. It was like I didn't know
that they were going to biologies. I just brought a
couple to see how I would go. People. What was it?
Where was it? This was Chattanooga, the comedy catch. Shout
out Michael Alfano. Man, Wow, that was a long time ago.
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You remembers with a hundred seats anymore? Okay. So when
I was headlining, they would always give me the nicer hotel.
There's no nicer hotel. Before we get into your early
days in Ventriloquism. Let's talk for a second first about
the special Me the People November Comedy Central. If you're
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hearing this after November's on the Paramount plus, app to
Comedy Central app to me. Ventriloquism is interesting in that
you're essentially writing a two person show, but you have
multiple what is the word I don't want to get
canceled up? When you were creating this act, how difficult
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is it to keep coming up with basically an ensemble
conversation that's constantly happening on stage right. And by the way,
this is the eleventh special, so uh, I don't know,
I don't know how many you know. I've looked back
and and um uh. The only record albums that my
mom would let me have when I was a kid
was Bill Cosby because he was clean. And so that's
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the only that's the only exposure I had to stand
up comedy until whatever age. And I know that he
had a just I think he was number one with
the number of comedy albums of any comedian, number one.
And so I've still been trying to get my people
to figure out who has the most stand up specials.
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So anyway, Um, I think I'm getting there. I'm not.
That's that's a belt I think you could get. I
know Carlin had HBOS. Oh he did. When Carlin died,
they sold a box set of all of its HBO specials.
Run is fun enough for me, real quick? Because that
one you're close, Roy, you know what, that's funny. All
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these people that I pay all these percentages to, nobody
could come up with that answer. Oh my god, So
take us then, you know, this is the part of
show we talked about worst jobs and first jobs. I'm
putting wolver down here. Why a second? I just this
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is way a much more interesting conversation than I usually have. Okay,
the relationship, but I'll tell you a story and then
you explain to me your process. So I opened for
ventriloquists early on in my career, and this is in
the days as a road comedian, where as an opener,
generally your jobs to drive around the headliner because we're
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doing four cities in five days. And this particular ventriloquist,
as I know, I did not have a driver's license.
I don't know why he didn't have it. Whatever it was,
he needed me to pick him up and drive him everywhere,
and he had his wouldn't have trying to. He had
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is petrified American in the front. And we stopped in Wisconsin.
We're headed up to Appleton to play Skyline, and we're
doing a run up there, and we stopped to eat
and when we go in, he goes to the trunk
of my car and pulls out the dummy and brings
it into the restaurant with us and asks for a
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table for three and not to And I have to
sit with this ventriloquist across from his dummy. And I'm
just an opener and this guy could have me fired.
So I can't say ship about this. I just gotta
let the ship roll. The waitress is looking at us weird.
But what he explained to me was I have to
have a relationship with him at all times so that
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on stage becomes second nature. What is your process? Jeff
Dunham still alive. Yes, he is divorced. He drinks a
lot more skill touring. I'm not here to talk about
him and his brand, but that was a lot for
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a young twenty year old to take in a Wednesday
in Wisconsin. How do you build a relationship Because I
know also that you build all of your all of
your dumb as you build them, you have a full
shop you invested in basically birthing all of these. I've
been building them for years, so you know, it is
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something that the acting is a lot of a lot
of this. And I love what I do more than
straight monology because I can create tension and conflict, the
two most important ingredients in comedy. Because the character and
I can have a you know, an argument, or we
can have a difference, or we can have you know,
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we can discuss topics that are tough to discuss or
talk tough to talk about as a straight monologist without
giving opinions or you know. So um That's what I
love about what I do is that it is a discussion.
It's a little sitcomm and on itself sitting there on stage.
So I think that's the reason this cancel culture that
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we have. I'm able to um uh talk about those
subjects because if there's one side of it that I
give the dumb, you'll give the other and vice versa.
Um And let me let me say my little speech here.
This cancel business is just I think it's just garbage.
And I we all we've all learned a lot. We
know what we can and can't joke about. Um uh.
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But I also think that this country is a lot,
people in it are a lot have a better sense
of humor than what the media is saying that we do.
I think people have learned to. I think that people
can tell a joke and take a joke and um.
When it comes to politics, I think the mistake that
a lot of guys are making is that they pick
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a side and then they hammer the other side and
called them both sides do it and call the other
side idiots and morons. And that's not comedy to pep rally.
So um, I try and go back to the days
of Will Roger, Bob Hope, Carson Leno, and you never
knew which side they were actually on. And they made
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fun of the guy that was at the top, the
guy on the pedestals, and one that's gonna get hit
with the tomatoes the most. So that's who they made
fun of. And that's what I try to do. When
Trump was in office, I had a hell of a
lot of fun with that, And now Biden's in office.
In this special, you know, he dressed up his Trump
and in my other in much of my YouTube videos,
and now in this special he's dressed up like Biden
and we have fun with that. But I think people
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from both sides of the aisle can come to the
show and have fun because it's not mean spirited. It's
just making making fun of some of the goofy stuff
that's going on right now. What I find interesting about
your acting some of the puppets that you have is
that they covered the gamut of stuff. Like I wonder
if the fact that what you're saying is also through
a puppet, through a dummy that gets that takes the
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edge off of that. Takes the edge off of it
a little bit, because if you, Jeff Dunn, did an
impression of a black pimp, people would wait, do you
know what you're talking about there? But you bring out
sweet Daddy d Okay, I'm making sure, But let me
can I tell you the story I had that game happen. Okay,
So when um, I was wanting to make fun of prejudice,
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and this was back in I guess my first special
was yeah, yeah, arguing with myself. Oh five was five,
I think, and I was wanting to make fun of
prejudice and I thought to me, it would be really
funny if I had a black character that was above
me somehow. So we start out in the right place.
So I made it dynamic manager, right, and so then
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I thought, okay, what is what? What is he though?
And I honestly I researched this as much as I could,
and somehow I looked at I'm so out of my
lane here talking about this with you guys. But I
hope you understand you're in the right lane. Bro, come
on you right, Maybe it's the wrong vehicle in the
right lane. I don't know, no, believe it or not.
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This is actually something um if I couldn't be honest Roy,
and you know does usually stop me. But this is
something we actually talked about before you came on, because
this is something that we were concerned about how you managed.
So I'm all the way in and you gotta talking
hall openo. You have all that stuff. The fact that
you've brought that up early to me, it's beautiful. I
want to hear this well, the acmment, the terry, that's
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the whole diferent thing. I could talk about that all
day long. But with sweet Daddy d what I was
trying to do was trying to, you know, uh, create
a character that I could use on stage that could
make fun of me being this is I'm as white
as it can possibly be. I'm not this color. I'm
this color I've been doing to TV all morning, right,
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So um. I then and this still confounds me, confuses me.
I looked to a bunch of different uh uh celebrities,
Black celebrities, architantial Snoop Dogg was was one of them,
and everybody kept talking about the pimp and how revered
the pimp was. And again the reasons came out of
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my lad because I don't know what I'm talking about, right,
But oh five, that's Bishop Magic don Juan, and that's
the documentaries all came out that year. It was a
lot of stuff that guy standpoint. I can see where
that was. Yeah, okay, so that's what everybody told me.
And then I found a couple of black stand ups
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and I said, please help me with these jokes. Well,
tell me, what are the jokes about white people that
you don't tell when we're not around? And I could not.
I couldn't squeeze blood out of a turn up. Nobody
they wouldn't. I don't know what it was nobody would
tell me a white joke. You know, it's not a
white joke. White joke. Just look, man, I'm gonna do
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you a favor and let you know right now, if
you ever ever ever have that question again, find me brother.
So you all the white people jokes I have that
I'd say with no white people around me at all.
But please continue. I just want to please tell me
the best one. Please just tell me that. I don't care,
and let's see. But the thing about the thing about
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it is, at the end of the day, most of
the black most of the time that we make fun
of white folks. Why all around is very basic things
like dancing, very easy to jump on that when there's
no words that need to be said. A lot of times,
a lot of times, you know, you could just look
at me like, okay, that that one right there he
needs out by the way, when I sculpted him. This
is a funny story. So what's the guy's name, the
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black actor that was in all the I'm so horrible
with names. Uh, the crazy guy, the skinny one, Chris Tucker,
Chris Tucker Tucker. So um, he lived like six houses
down for me when I was creating Sweet Daddy d
I got all eight by tens of all my favorite
of faces I do with every character of all the
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favorite black actors that I loved or comedians, and I
created eight by tens of all of them were like
Tim Eyes, and I put him all across my work
bench and in my work bench was in my garage.
I had my garage door over and Chris Tucker comes
down on his uh segue, he got a new segue
and he comes up my driveway. I see him coming.
I'm like, oh, ship, there's no explain So I exactly
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I shut the garage door, like, hey, I'm just in
here looking at black people. That's it's fine, Chris, don't
you worry about it. Exactly right. So anyway, so that
was that was into that. But I I love having
this conversation because it's bothered me for a long long
time that I could not make that work. I'll tell
you that was the reason didn't work for me. It's
the same reason the female character would won't work for me.
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It's because when it would come to add libbing, you know,
carry on a conversation, I couldn't get it right. I
can think like a white trash guy, Bubba J. I
can think like Peanut, that little crazy purple guy. I
can think like most of the other characters. Even a
dead terrorist. I get it because he's just angry of
the world. But when it came to being a woman
or a black person, I had no clue. Given instance,
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if somebody asked the character a question, I wouldn't know
what to say as a or a black guy. So
it's like, this is not fun for me. I can't
do it. I respect that. Before we go to break,
I want to just talk real quick, because you're interested
in that. You chose your career very early on, like elementary,
early on, you knew I think it was third or
fourth grade, that this is what you wanted to do.
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For parents out there who have a child in that
same age range, how were your parents supportive or were
they against you during ventriloquism, because I told my mom
about stand Up when I was nineteen, and she was like,
you third fourth grade told your parents what you wanted
to do. How did your parents pour into you to
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help make your job? The first kind of is that
I was adopted and uh an only child, so that
sent me apart a little bit from most the other kids.
The other thing was I I was I was terrible
at sports. I was not popular with the girls, I
was not popular with other kids. I didn't have anything
going for me. It was no good, no sports, forget.
So I got this dummy for Christmas one year and
I started learning how to do ventriloquism. I did my
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first little book report in the third grade and then
I made fun of my classmates a little bit and
it was like, wow, I got some laughs. This is
fun and that's it. Yeah, that was the drug I
couldn't let go. Well, after the break, we'll let j
G flirt with Walter and I want to hear that
I wanted to scams as well, and the homing right away,
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k Rod for sure to come on like he always
does a drive show off the rails. It's a job fair.
We'll be right back, job fair, Jeff dunh. I'm standing
by for scam of a week. But before we do
all of that, it's time to slow it down. And
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this is the part of the show that that I love.
And surprisingly, the Legal Apartment doesn't really seem to have
a problem with fans. Very shocked, but nonetheless it is
a central part of the program. If you're new to
the show, we called this segment breaking the Ice, where
we give you the job, fair listener, a couple of
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topics to bring up at the job. But motherfucker's you
king stand and you're tired of talking to They've told
you every little mundane detail about their life, and it's
about that time of year where they're showing you pictures
of their dog and stupid holiday sweaters. See that ship.
I do give you a couple of topics to characters,
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help them to get him the funk up off you
to help us do that, we call in and Gentleman
was an international man of leisure. And here's the author
of the New York Times bestseller How to Bring Your
Jewish Boom to Your Quans, Undefeated, and Pregnancy Scares with
the record of forty three oh and two. He is
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the uncredited inventor of the Hobo fruit salad, peach whiskey,
and was it Cherry Cooke's MoMA named Murado. We call
them ride for a short rode. I guess we can
officially say happy Holidays to you. Is the flood gates
have opened. Christmas season and Thanksgiving season and all of
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that good ship. Are you a Black Friday shopper? Are
you one of those people? You don't strike me as
a fall in line with commerce, And I don't like crowds,
so I don't really like being out there and all
that kind of ship, but not even online, Like you're
not one of them people looking for the next deal
or do you just like nah, here's a question Rode
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for the fellas, and we could save this for relationship
fairing a couple of weeks Sidebar Royce job fair at
gmail dot com. If you've got some workplace drama involving
romance that you want us to help sort out or
that you've seen, please reach out to the show so
we can get you on and get you on the right.
Before we get into your segment, what advice would you have?
Two men that are trying to get women to buy
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them expensive gifts? How do we go about doing that?
That's really only one way to do that, and that's
to not be a lame nigger. Um, if you lame,
if your whack heads nigger, you ain't gonna get no
expensive gifts. That's just how it is. You want expensive
gifts for a woman? Uh, you gotta be something special.
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If you're not getting expensive gifts, then that should let
you know how much of a regular assnagga you are. Also,
I would like to come down on the side of
pineapple in banana puttings. Fine, fine, I love I love
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that you've had that sounded like a freestyle. This is
something that really happens to banana putting. Yeah, I've never
ever heard. I've never heard of banana pudding being freestyled
like girl in banana. I've heard of strawberries in banana.
It's getting but it's like dressing, like cheesecake, like on top,
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not like it sounds right because it's super good. This
lady at my dad's job did it the first time,
a white lady name Susan. I remember her, and I
was like, why Susan, why was up? And then my
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cousin went in. Did that because I got turned onto
the new ship. That doesn't seem right. But it also
goes against Jacqueline's rule, right, But she said, if you'reen
making it the same way, but last year, you gotta
make it the same way every year. You can't come
and throw some new ship in the mixture because you
watched you know what I'm saying, Kelly Clarkson, do it. Yeah,
you gotta bring it to the table. You know what
I'm saying. She ain't about that life. It's kind of
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like when you have ham in the car, whole slices
of pineapple in there. It's like menistry. It's like it's
almost blended in. It's just the most just a little
gets a little like everybody has like like two strands,
like a hair strand or sucking found up and that's good.
Now it's nuts. I'm not talking to you. We bring
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right on this program, begin topics to break the ice ride.
Turn it over to you, good sir, Black people. This
holiday season, we've got something great going on. We might
want to get Draymond Grid and Jordan Pool to check
this out. Uh. In nineteen seven, Mike Tyson was in
a boxing match with the Vander holy Field and he
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bit his ear twice. The Tyson been a part of
holy Field's here off and UH it was disqualified. It's
pretty much effectively at the end of Mike Tyson's boxing career.
But five years later, Mike Tyson, who was a big
time cannabis user and he has his own company, he
ain't invod the holy Field a partnering to release Holy Ears.
(33:10):
We've got me shaped like Ears is brilliant. These brothers
have come back to the table and they've become good friends,
and now they could both laugh at it all these
years later. If you remember that fight, check it out
on YouTube. Was something only laughing when this ship happened
twenty five years ago. He was not laughing at all
(33:32):
when it happened. That was as far as sports beasts, God,
that was one of the more serious ones. It was
one of the craziest things I ever seen in sports,
like those two coming together. Oh my god, I'm looking
at the picture. Thank you, Rhonda. Wait, right, you didn't
say that the gummy was shaped like Holy Fields. You
(33:54):
just said ear shaped. I thought just an ear, but no,
there's a distinct like the mold to make this gun.
Yeah here, Oh yeah, it was brilliant and right and
my wrong brother? Or did it? Did Tyson say something
like if he would have been on cannabis, he wouldn't
have been off the ear, And he said something if
he was on cannabis, he wouldn't have been off like
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he said several times. If he was doing much rooms
and things like that. Back then, like he is now
net com. That was a marketing talking point. Okay, yeah, whatever, No,
he's head in a while. Yeah yeah. He talks about
therapy and meditation, and you know, Tyson is a very
cerebral Later he's been smoking weed, going to therapy, doing
(34:38):
much rooms and ship. The dude has got himself together. Man,
it's a beautiful He beat Jacqueline. Mike Tyson be crying
on camera at least three times a year, and some
interview he cried. I loved his podcast because he cries
hot boxing, and it's always after like saying, some of
the weirdest ship on the face of the planet. You
(35:00):
go off on a deep hand, just be wild, like
talking about fruit or something that, like, yeah I like peaches,
Yeah I don't really like peaches. I like plums. And
then Mike Typsons are just busted, like what if what
if peaches and plums taste so sour to you sometimes
because we're all unworthy of the love of God. And
then you'll just start you will just take a left turn.
(35:27):
And it's his podcast. You ain't gonna tell him up
up anyway. It's Mike Tyson. Want to say stone or sober?
Say what you want to say, Mike, all right, let's
flip it up for the on the other side, for
white people. This is another call back to stuff that
we talked about before. Several times. We keep trying to
get Roy these different jobs hosted shows, and I really
(35:51):
wish they would have let you host Jeopardy because maybe
this wouldn't have happened. Recently, on an episode of Celebrity
did Efferty there was a clue given and it was
one of those classics. I don't know how this made
it through, you know, all the avenues they had to
go through, but everybody involved should be fired. The answer
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to this clue was what are alligators? The question was
what in one hugely if Brian Laundry ended his days
in Florida's Maya Catchy Creek area home to these long
and toothie critters, what how that Brian Laundry who is
(36:36):
infamous for committing suicide in that creek after him and
his girlfriend gave me petito with on the Inquest trip
in the summer twitter twenty one, and he murdered that
girl and Jeff This was the man's a clue to
get a motherfucker to say alligators? You know, what I
felt about Jeopardy for a long time is that the
(36:57):
questions have caught up to present day. I remember up
watching Jeopardy and every answer was from the eighteen fifties
or earlier. Yeah, yeah, I watched Jeofardy. Now I'd be like,
should I might go win this bit? I didn't get
question watching that. What do you mean why are we watching?
We're not watching Jeopardy because they didn't have LeVar Burden
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that they didn't hire Roy Wood Jr. I'm not They
told you in the email they wasn't hiring no comedian.
They said as a genre. That's what they told my agent.
They said comedians would drive the show away from I
don't remember I've read it. So they said comedians will
drive the show away from the intellectual side. And then
(37:43):
they let Blossom go and this motherfu thank you killer
who commit No, no, no, there's Jeffardy time TMZ brother
for the questions. You know what I'm saying, We're not
gonna put that on me. By leak, she rather she ain't.
She ain't looking at them questions before she go out
(38:04):
there anymore. To Steve Harvey, know what happened? Intellectual She
is definitely looking at how that made it through y'all crazy. Yeah,
the channels, the chain of command, but they should have
been shut that out immediately. This one that is insane.
I know that Jeopardy has to remain fresh and young,
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and I think that quiz shows are only as good
as the viewer thinks that they could win. That's why
Willtle Fortune is still on the air. Because you sit
at home and I'm smarter than their mother. I should
be on the show. So you need that element of
I know, what the hell? But I think in some
regards maybe Jeopardy is skewed a little too current. But
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adding crime to the mixture, I don't think that's it.
That both Gabo and Brian Lodger's family said this ship
was outrageous, I don't understand that's work so many ways
to get haligators. What the hell were they thinking? New
England patriots Tighty and Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd in
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this hamlet just outside the capital of Rhode Island. What
it is? Providence? It's insane and so ends like they
could have just said, what the fun is the capital
of Rhode Island? Everybody in their head to be on
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cocaine for that question. To make it to the name
show it, MoMA named Rodo. We called him Rod for short.
The podcast is Uncle Rod's Story Corner. Rod. We bat
you a happy holidays and we will leave you to
your banana pudding with blueberries inside of kind. But I'm
(39:51):
telling you check it out before you dis is, and
I promise you you're gonna go. That's the only way
you're either from that. Stop moving people in a bad
direct in their lives. You said again, I'm gonna say
exactly what I'm thinking right now. Thank you. As always, Rod,
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I think uh scam of a week time. We welcome
Jeff Dunham back to the program. Jeff, do you like
pineapples and your banapples? Oh my gosh, what, Jeff, have
you heard of this? You're from Texas? Yeah? What about it? Pineapples?
And apparently at Jacquelin's Thanksgiving get together, she has family
(40:32):
members who hate her and they put pineapples and what
bananas with pineapples in a sound? Jeff, let it go
in pudding in putting pineapples, okay, bananas, okay, pineapples in putting.
(40:55):
That's not right. Thank you. We welcome back on the program.
Jeff Dunham. His comedy special premiers November twenty five. Jeff
Dunham me the people on Comedy Central after that, or
to be on the Paramount Plus app also with Jeff
Now the homie Walter. I'm sorry I had to come
back to this story about the the screw to the
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comedy club. J G. Do you have any questions for
Walter real quick? Before we get into this, I knew,
I'm just curious, Walter, could Jeff really build me out
like a shelf, because he's obviously good at building things.
Could you build a shelf? Yeah? Yeah, that The weird
part is it would talk. Okay, So let me tell
(41:43):
you this story real quick. Yeah, yeah, okay. So there's
a comedy club that the show Go Nameless. But it
was in Boston, and uh, it was on top of
Faniel Hall. You know what I'm talking about, the food hall. Yeah,
down to yeah, Vannel Hall. And this place seated um
easily five people. And I know that because we were
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selling out and every night, and I went to the
owner and I said, so, how many were getting here
in here every night? And he goes, we have three
fifty you're selling out. I'm like, okay, there's there's more
than five three fifty seats in here. I think there's
about five hundred seats and he goes, oh, no, no,
he goes, well, no, there's not that many. I said, okay.
Then the next day I went back and I went
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I counted the seats. There's five hundred seats in here,
and he goes, you did. I go, yeah, it's five
almost exactly sat. And he goes, well, we don't. You know,
you can't put you know, you got a three people
come in and you got a four top. There's no
way we we sell all those seats. I'm like, I
don't see an empty seat in the house. You're ripping
me off. He goes, no, there's no way. And this
is like the fifth time I've been there. So I'm
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on stage on Saturday night, you know, first show, completely
sold out, and I get through my you know, supposed
to do an hour. I get through fifty five minutes.
I said, folks, we've had a great time or not?
And yeah, I want you to do me a favor.
We have a little discrepancy of how many people are
here tonight. I want you to be honest about this.
We're gonna count off one at a time. Only say
one number. Only say one number, one at a time.
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I'm just curious of how many of you are in here.
Will you help me out? So that room number one
at a time. The owner in the back of the club,
I think at he's a good friend of mine. He goes,
what is he doing? He goes, and and Gary goes,
he's counting off the room. So we got to four
hundred and ninety eight. Oh yeah. And so he's like,
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you can't tell anybody this because then all the other
communities are gonna know. I'm like, you know, and so
he wanted to pay me. I don't know, but I
was honest. I had to go back and tell my agents,
and yeah, he hated me for many years after that.
Club owners will do slitch it two. They'll say it
sold out, then they'll bring in club. I'll say this openly.
It's a club in San Diego where once you get
on stage, they bring empty chairs and from the bar
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to put in the room to make it look like
you didn't sell out. Oh. I used it got to
where I was taken. When digital cameras came out, I
would go into the top of the balcony and take
pictures of the room and then start counting off like
on a piece of paper, and I would get in
screaming arguments. Oh on Sundays it was just hopefully this
nice guy I was not nice when up right and left.
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I'll tell you one but one club did. They said, okay, okay, okay, okay,
look here's the computer print out. I go, which a lie?
He goes, They the computer can't lying. I go, you're lying.
He goes, okay, okay, we have two sets of numbers.
And then they would pay me the one check for
what was on the computer and then give me cash
for what was off the books, cooking the books, running game.
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I know you have to go, brother Dunham. I have
a final question for you with regards to the respect
for your craft within the scope of performance and stand
up comedy. You are to me like, there's there's this
thing where ventriloquism is always treated as this annex of
stand up for a while, kind of like the way
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they try to do piano acts or i'd say Penn
and Teller. Early early on, we're like, oh, you're in
the magician wing or you're over there. But I feel
like you transcended that into this bigger, just straight up comedian.
When people talk about stand up comedy, your name is
associated with stand up comedy, not vitriloquism. How much disrespect
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that you deal with early on? And did that ever
change and do you think that has changed for young
ventriloquist I've met a couple on the road when I'm
at doing stuff with the Daily Show, I meet young
kids and you know, they bring you up. They bring
up Willie Tyler and Lester who have we mentioned on
this show before. Like, what was the respect like early
(45:45):
on for you? What what is it now for them?
Do they say that they don't get disrespector is it
still there? It seems like the younger womens have a
harder time getting stage time because the clubs don't respect them.
They look at it as a stick but instead of
looking at it. I think that Ventrolak was much like
magicians and people who do hybrid forms with stand up,
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they have to find their own spaces to create and
grow and then migrate back there was it was. It
was really tough. I mean, even when I was the
headlining act, you know, I'd find epitaphs written on the wall,
like I got Stand Up Comedy the Year in ninety seven,
and man did people hate that. But there were club owners.
That was club owners voting on the comics, and whoever
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was selling tickets is who they nominate. But no, yeah,
it was it was tough, especially moved out to Los
Angeles and and uh, you know, I'd be up on
stage and you know, I was always the middle act
and and forget about Melrose man, that's a tough house
for somebody like me to play. Um uh the improv.
But uh, yeah, it was tough. And and I still
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have letters, rejection letters from comedy. Now you won't be
our headliner. We can make them our middle act and
pay them, you know, two and fifty bucks for the week. Okay,
So it was a while it and it took a
long time. And I appreciate very much what you said,
roy I. I don't take any of this for granted
at all. Um. Uh, just some great audiences and some
good people along the way that have been at the
(47:11):
right place at the right time and help me out.
So um, you know, uh, it was tough. And now
it's it's it's more fun, but it is. I think
it's a little bit more difficult now because you come
out with one album and you got to come out
with your next album and it better be as good
as your last one. Uh, you know, with all those specials,
that's a boatload of material and uh it's uh, you know,
(47:34):
it's good and it's good and bad, but it's great.
Of all the people that travel with you, how much
do they weigh collectively? And how much does Walter weigh?
For Walter a grandmother who's single. Thank you, that's great.
I have no idea what their weight is. You know,
I have no idea. You bad, Yeah, you know. I
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don't like commercial. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. There's
a there's a good reason for that. There's no way
that we could do the schedule that we do and
the dates that we play if if I flew commercial,
because all the dummies and all the crap. I mean,
I have trunks and everything, but our production is pretty vague.
(48:26):
I mean, we have we have to eighteen wheelers. We
have two tour bucks for the crew, and it's a
rock and roll show, so we carry all our own
lights and sound and video and audio and all that stuff.
So but you know what I want to call this
the New Inflation Tour because we've kept my tickets down
in price so everybody can enjoy it. I don't understand
the Taylor Swift thing. She's worth and worth what a
(48:47):
half a billion dollars? Why charging eight hundred and fifty
bucks a ticket? You can't have my sings you. So
we've kept my tickets at fifties, sixties, sixty five bucks,
seventy bucks, and a lot of other comics are within
play and raising them up and raising them up. But
I'm just I just believe in the McDonald's approach. You
keep it inexpensive and you'll get more people, and you'll
make it up in volume. This is the eleventh special,
(49:10):
premier November twenty five, and meet the people. We look
forward to Special twelve, thirteen, fifteen through eighteen and Special
number twenty five. Thank you, sir. I'm going to Hell.
I'm good to Carlin's collection very soon to see what
I see. How many numbers I gotta go to. I
know it's more than eleven, but I think it's more
than thirteen or fourteen. I think I'm pretty sure you're
(49:36):
in carlin territory, brother, and I love you, and I
appreciate everything you've been doing. Thank you very much, Jeff
Donald for thank you. Guys' learning learning about to ask him,
does Walter to have some meat? Do you make way
invited to Thanksgiving? Danil walt to I'm just saying, I
(49:56):
just want to hear some white jokes at some point, please,
oh man. Yeah, we refuse to some episodes that you
can listen to it. We definitely have some white people jokes.
That'd be great. I would love that. You know, we
do our white people allergies. We all did you do
on the ride? No, we don't have time. Three, thank you.
(50:20):
Right after the break, we are going to talk with
a wonderful, wonderful brother. You know those jokes. But let's
get into a little bit of danger. A guy who
you see all the reporters that be out there in
the war torn areas getting shot at. He's the liaison
who gets him there. We're gonna let Brian after the break.
It's the job Fair. We'll be right back. Job Fair
(50:49):
round and third hit it for Home. You know, by
the government isn't seen as a sexy job. It's because
like you haven't met somebody work for the government, Like
they're just so chill like nobody's yeah. But the people
who have good government jobs, they don't say ship because
they don't want you to know about them, because they're
trying to keep all the good jobs to themselves. It's
an interesting job because you know, as you said earlier,
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j G, once you work for the government, it's very
hard to get fun. Absolutely, you got to really be
fucking up, Like you gotta store a lot of cocaine
on your desk in the office. You could be sleep
at your desk. Sleep. As long as you get worked on,
they're not gonna firing. Uh. So, let's go on down
the Mississippi and meet somebody down there in Mississippi. I
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think it's only second person we've had from Mississippi on
the show. Well, dead Buddy Sue. Yeah, dead Boddy Sue
through Mississippi. So who do we have on the line?
J G. We welcome Silhol Servant Brian to the show.
Brian is based in Long Beach, Mississippi, and works as
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a public affairs officer for the Department of Defense. Today,
he's going to talk to you Roy about what it's
like to be a communications liaison between the government and
the general public, including his experience dealing with the media
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hello, Brian, Hello, Hello, Hey, I'm
(52:19):
glad to be calling into you from Mississippi. But I
really hate the fact that the only other person from
Mississippi that you've ever talked to was what a dead body? Sue?
Is that wonderful? It's a scary name represented Mississippi pretty well.
She didn't name herself that we called she. She works
(52:41):
around dead bodies and her name is Sue. So we
just combined the ship. Okay, still a little scary. But
before we do anything else, man, tell us about your work.
Tell us about your job, podcast work. So I understand
you started a podcast. Yeah, so, I mean it's a
little little personal side project that I do after hours. Um,
(53:03):
kind of have to say that so the government doesn't say, hey,
what's he doing on that? You really do work for
the government. Delig the government, folks, I'm used to right there, right, Yeah,
I gotta gotta give my disclaimer in there. Yeah, it's
called it's called work Sucks. You can find it on
all of the major podcast platforms um that are out
there and basically just interview somebody every so often. Um,
(53:25):
you know, whether it's a bad boss, bad co workers,
dealing with Karen's, dealing with workplace safety violations, all that
kind of stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Public affairs officer, your job is to make sure that
ship is suite between the government and the public and
disseminating the message from the government to the people in
a way that's palpable and understandable and easy to communicate
(53:45):
only with the public but also with other media outlets. Yeah,
that's that's a pretty good way to say that. So
my job on a daily basis is I guess it's
more like three to four parts, is uh, the media
relations and outreach side. So um, there are a lot
of public affairs officers that are that. You can either
be proactive or reactive. I happen to be a proactive one.
(54:07):
I like to reach out to our media outlets and
and just I don't just let them know what's going on,
be transparent, let them know that we're being good stewards
of taxpayers dollars, that we're not hiding things from them.
I just try to try to get the media on
the base as much as possible. Actually, I work at
the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport right now, Gulfport, Mississippi.
So it's a it's a pretty good environment. But but
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the second part of my job, besides the media relations,
the second part of my job is more like a
community relations. We do tours, We do speaking engagements from
anything from like civic organizations to like schools, will go
out to classrooms, all that kind of stuff. So then
it's not only about delivering a message for that that
the Navy wants delivered to the public, but also you know,
(54:49):
piping down any confusion that may have that may have
come from you know, misinformation. What is it like doing
this job from a war zone or from an area
where that because you know isis is always round the corner, right, Yeah.
I did a U. S O tour ine and we
literally third we could see the fire. This is six
(55:10):
months before they took Magnet read an Apache helicopter base
doing jokes and you could see the smoking ship coming
up after like, dude, motherfucker's is on the way. So
when you're working over that, when I think about the jokes,
I told those jokes weren't even worth getting shot at
four These jokes I got no these jokes is worth.
(55:36):
I apologize to that Apache Helicopter Italian. You know what, though,
you know what, Roy, I've been on the receiving end
of having a comedian come out when I was in
like the middle of just the worst possible situation I
could think of. And then we have like a singer
or a comedian. I don't care if that singer couldn't
hold a tune in a bucket, I still appreciated so
(55:59):
much because for for that five minutes they sang that song,
I got to think about something else besides what was
outside my gate. I had to escort Meta out in
the battlefield several times, and it got harry a few times,
and uh yeah, but but you know the worst one
was Jamee's defense weekly. This this little tiny, little wispy
kind of British lady, uh you know, not even a
(56:20):
hundred pounds, so can whip. And we got into a
big firefight and she got down in the floorboard of
our humby and and just just screamed and cried the
whole time. And we I kept her safe and we
got out of there. Now we didn't. We lost some people,
but we we we got her out of there. My
job was to get the media out of there, and
I got I got her out of there safe, and
I'm pretty sure she she went home within a week
(56:44):
and quit being a journalist. Side that didn't want to
be a core foreign correspondent anymore because it was so
traumatic for her. But she but she got an amazing
story out of it. She still told the story. She's
got an amazing story and said, no, my family is
too important. I can't risk it anymore. There's a lot
of corresponding that are losing their lives right now, especially
when we talk about what's happening with Russian and Ukraine. Yeah,
(57:04):
that's definitely foreign journalists covering active conflict. It's another level
of balls. It's a it's a rough life. There was.
There was many times where we had journalists I got,
if not killed, injured severely where they're going back without
all their limbs. Yeah no, yeah, no. I was at
a certain point at a in an earlier career at
a radio place I mentioned where they basically were like, Uh,
(57:28):
if you want to move ahead in your career, we're
gonna have to embed you for a desert storm. And
I was like, yeah, no, it's not you know, like
they don't play about when you do certain levels of
of of journalism, they have to embed you, they have
to put you in, um, but they tell you off
the top, we can't guarantee you're gonna come back. I'm
reporting a story, sir, I'm not dying from a country.
(57:50):
I can't do it. That's a lot, you know what
I'm saying. That's a heavy job. Man Sebastian Younger was
you know the author. Um he's written several big, big books,
perfect Storm is one of them. But he's also a
journalist and a very talented journalist and writer and everything.
And he went out there with one of his photographers
and um uh, the photographer kind of wandered off to
(58:13):
get a shot into a active mindfield and stepped on
the mind. And it's it's that kind of thing. It's
not always hostile fire, it's just sometimes things happen. In Iraq.
We had a guy that was out covering a story.
Wasn't even any hostiles nearby, and he uh, the heat
and having the extra body armor and stuff on. It's
(58:34):
just the lifestyle. He wasn't prepared for it. And he
jumped off of a tank and was doing like this
walk up to camera type thing and just fell over
dead because of a heart attack. And it's it's there's
a there's a lot of things that can happen to journalists,
and so it's my job when I'm escorting them is
to make sure that those things don't happen. At least
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I can try to mitigate it as much as possible,
you know, Brian, I gotta tell you, my man, but
be flat out with you. But man, I'm black, all right,
And my big fear was that I was gonna go
over there and getting better and they were gonna kidnap
my black ass, And there was will be nobody negotiating
getting me the hell up out on kidnap. They will
kidnap you. They will kidnapped the journalists. They definitely would
(59:14):
have gave my ass back. I ain't friend. I'm hoping
that it looked like us because I ain't nobody coming.
How much you make, Brian? How much do I make? Now?
So I'm a just twelve and I've been a just
twelve for quite some time. I'm a step five. So
with the locality pay and all that stuff in this area,
I'm right, I guess I average about don't money out
there and if the salary starting is Jack, what's so rude?
(59:42):
Shelly looked him. You saw that right now. If they
looked him like, Hey, I'm a government employee. It's it's
public record. So I average about ninety grand. But Brian,
I'm leaving. I'm leaving Mississippi pretty soon, uh to go
in about two weeks. I'm leaving Mississippi to go to Okinawa, Japan. Oh.
I found out that, Uh, it's very lucrative to to
(01:00:04):
be a government simlion overseas because they pay your rent
and your your utilities and then pay your salary. On
top of that, Man, you can turn Uncle Sam into
a sugar daddy. I like this. Bryan. Thank you so
much for everything that you're doing, and thank you for
delivering the messages to the media to get the word
out on what's going on in that world. Thank you.
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The podcast is Work Sucks. You can download it wherever
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Jack Whenough said this before you are a woman of layers.
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What do you mean I didn't need to know that
you wanted to have sex with a puppet whatever? Since
winning whatever, you all wouldn't talk to Walter, and that
was rude. Somewhere of his age expects to be talked
to you as well. Listen, now we're not fitting coat.
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Was freaking me out. I'm gonna talk to him, not
the whole man, the whole as Jeff done on the show.
Jeff done him, so it's interesting. Sounds like Jeff Donham
need to make you a second Walter. Let me would
do a Wooden's sex Doll episode. I'm not gonna I'm
thinking I got terrible out of my head. Oh so
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many splinters in that place exactly. I think that's a
good place to stop. No clue what to say. This
has been a Comedy Central podcast