#48 - What A View! - (Richie Aflleje) - #NotAboutUpod

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321 here we go ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your
screens Yes. This is not a green screen that
my Co hosts are standing behind or sitting behind for that
matter. They are actually on a cruise
and this is I believe this is the first time we guys are doing
a recording on a cruise right? Is this it?

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Yeah, they're in a better place than me and our this.
Is the first time ever. Yeah, as you can see, they're in
a much better place than me and our host, our I say host our
guest today, Richie FJ. Hi, Richie.
Very funny comic. Haley, welcome.

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To paradise with us. Tacoma, WA comedian Richie FJ
Welcome to the show Sir. Thanks for having me, glad to be
here. So just to let you guys know.
We're in. We were in Tahiti yesterday and
this is or run, which is a island just next to Tahiti.

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So if you've ever won, yeah, it,it, it's kind of like before.
It's a little bit something. But if you've ever wanted to
know what paradise looks like, this is it.
Today we we went out on an an excursion.
The Islanders. We didn't go through the cruise
ship. We went, you know, because a lot
of times you go through an excursion with the cruise ship.

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Well, this one we booked out in town for the local villagers and
it was fifth dollars they each and they took us to a private
part of an, an island their own,you know, beach where on the way
we got to see sea turtles. And then, yeah, I, I think I see

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dolphins when they were there. And then when we got to the
actual island, I went out and because Romeo is definitely
allergic to fish, but I went outand I swam with black tip
sharks. There was four of them that came
right up to us. And then the three Stingrays,

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like literally, I had a Stingray.
I was sitting, I was sitting in the water and the Stingray came
up behind me. Literally she came all the way
up my back and I felt her like, I don't know, what do you call
them wings, you know, on my shoulders, like she was right.
She came all the way up my back and but two of the, the

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Stingrays were females and they were both pregnant.
So we I got to feel them and I can feel the little babies
inside of them and it was incredible.
And that's her like the this incredible price of like $50
huge. They had all you could drink
from punch so and water and juice so so Romeo drinks maybe

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one time a year. Where'd you drink, Romeo?
He had two of the rough punches today, so he was and he was lit
so he couldn't go in the water because of all the fish.
I mean, there was like little fish and there were, yeah, but

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like they were right there coming all the way up to us.
But he he didn't get her dare get closer to the Stingrays
because they would have touched him.
I mean, literally, they they would.
You could sit right down and petthem.
You sat down in the water. And like I said, the one I sat
down and I was petting them on, I cut several of them.
And then she just came out of nowhere and swam up behind me,
climbed my back and I was just like, I think somebody.

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And I had given my phone to somebody to take pictures of me
with the sprays and with the thesharks like I've never in my
life thought I would ever swim with.
Sharks. And here I was out there with
four of them. And I mean, they were like,
yeah, they were probably only about 5 feet long, 5-6 feet
long. But there was.

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He did. What time is it over there?
This isn't our. Time we have our own it.

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Looks, it looks. Dope.
Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah.

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So this is. I've never been in a more
beautiful place in my life. The water is crystal clear.

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Like crystal clear. So and, and then the sea
turtles, you know, because they're, they're protected
species, all the sea turtles arein Hawaii and in here.
But the sea turtles, they were swimming and you can just see
them and they pop their head up and look around, kind of look at
you like out. And then they just kind of pop
down and and go swim away. And so we got some, we were very

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fortunate to get some videos of that.
So we are just yesterday we wentto Tahiti, We took a an
excursion that the through the cruise language we went to Yeah,
we could have done the same thing for half the price with

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the local, but you, you it depends on what country you're
in. They also this is a French
Polynesian eye. They speak French, they speak
English and they speak well. They have their, I think they do

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have a little bit of Polynesian that they still speak.
But yeah, first it's. French.
It's a Polynesian Highlander onethat they still speak.
But yeah, so you never know whenyou go out for your first time,

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if you don't speak the language and you don't have any Internet,
it's not like you can just flip out your phone and pull up
Google to translate because you don't have anything like that.
You don't. You're not connected unless you
get ahead of time, and then it'slike $20 a day through your cell
phone provider to have anything.So it is, you know, a lot of

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times you're, you want to stay with the group.
So we did, we went with the group and we went to it's Point
Venus and it's the black sand beach.
And it was just phenomenal. And then we went and saw this
gorgeous waterfall that, so it had rained all the last week.
So when we got there, the water was coming down hard.
I mean, like you stood what, about 200 feet away from the

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falls and you were dredged because it was spraying so hard.
But it was just, it was so yeah,we, we were like kind of like
Jello right now that we're day 14 to the 22 day cruise.
And then we still have another island to go to New Caledonia.
And then we ended up in Sydney, Australia.

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And in Sydney, Australia. We, we, we've got, we got a trip
to go to the, to the Australian Zoo, Sydney Zoo, where we get to
seed Kangaroos and then we got to get pictures with koala
bears. So, so here's, here's basically

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what I'm trying to tell you not to don't be jealous.
Here's what I'm saying. When you're old like us, this is
what happens in life. This is called that mid life
reawakening. I would take this over my 20s
like hell right now. I'm taking popping freaking
ibuprofen like it was Tic Tacs, but it's worth every ounce of

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pain we do have. We have our mobility scooters.
We know we're, we're those old people.
We have our because Richie can't.
I know, by the way, how is Rachel?
Because let me tell you something now.
I watched her eat dirt on stage and I was like Oh my God, that
poor thing. And then that wasn't good.
Enough for her? No, no, that wasn't good enough.

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Oh, she doubled down. Yeah.
She fell on the stairs at home. Was it home?
Yeah, I was at home both. Her knee.
Yeah, and she's. Out for a month.
Like, yeah, the first one was funny, second one memos and.
Then she's carrying in some memos late at night and then
tripped and fell knee first intothe concrete steps and they had

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to use wire to put the kneecap back together.
Yeah. Oh, so wait, the kneecap was
what dislocated? She's down for how long?
2 like 6 weeks. So wait, how many pieces?
She broke. Broke.
Like I think at least three, like they had to use wire to put
it back together and then they just like had to, they had to

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like anchor that into her quadricep too so she can't bend
her knee for like 4 to 7 weeks, I think they said so.
Oh. My God, how is she getting in
and out of the house? Crutches and help.
Oh, you OK? You're the help.

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OK. Yeah, I Oh my.
God taking off work just. So I can stay home with her and
stuff so. Oh, thank you.
Oh, that's so good. Are you on?
Oh, sorry. I'm like now all of a sudden you
put me in worker mode. You guys are both on worker in
the short term disability, right?
Yeah, yeah, the FMLA. Yeah, you and, but you're also

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doing it through the state too, right where you get the short
term. Oh, see, so blessed and thankful
that we have that in our state. Yeah, yeah.
The situation just like this. Oh.
God, that poor thing. It's got to be.
Well, yeah, 'cause it's not evenlike you can go.

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OK babe, I put you down for a bench and I'm going to go do
some. Yeah, it's, she's gotten a lot.
She's she's getting up and 'cause she's been posted up on
the on the couch and so, like she can, she can get up and get

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to the bathroom, which is the only place she really can or
needs to go right now in the house.
So she can do that without me. But it's a lot easier when I'm
there, yeah. Wow, you're such a good husband
app, Jay, that that that's, you know, for better, for worse, for

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sickness and in health. I know, I mean, I know you're
gonna you're gonna you're definitely gonna do right by
her. I'm sure she's very happy when
you you know. Do they have her on the good,
good drugs? They got her on the good, good
drugs, right? Yeah, she's she's alternating
between or not alternating because I guess that they go

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through two different pathways, but Tylenol and oxy, so.
Oh yeah. Oh.
Good, good. Yeah, and like I had.
To I had to go. Pick up a a refill and because
it's oxy, like I had to well, yeah, the first time I tried to
go in, they wouldn't give it to me because they said that I had

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to wait till the next day because like it was a cause like
they're addictive or whatever and they don't want to.
Be addictive. Yeah, and but then I waited a
day and went back in. No, I waited 2 days and went
back in to try and she wasn't quite out of the one she already
had. But then the next time they said

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the same thing, you have to waittill tomorrow because it's so
and so days or days worth of doses in here.
So we got to wait another day. So that was frustrating but
other than that it's from my end.
It's been pretty chill. I'm not the one with a broken
kneecap, you know. Oh God, that's just so
incredibly painful. And you like, you have a young

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one that you guys are. How old is she?
She's like in 3rd grade, 4th grade.
She just turned 10. She's in 4th grade.
Yeah. 4th grade. Oh yeah.
So. She's only been ours since 2nd
grade though, so. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Yeah, it's it's a wild ass ride for sure.

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Like Instant family. Yeah.
Yeah, But, you know, I think that the good thing is that, you
know, if you're going to look atthe overall picture and the good
thing of it is a city, you got her in second grade so that, you
know, you guys will have a good bond by the time she's a crazy
ass teenager. Yeah.

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She's she will not even let us call her a kid anymore.
She says I'm a preteen. Like, all right, here we go.
Oh my God. She's Ted.
Yeah. He's 10.
Oh, my God. Our grand, our oldest grandson.
He's 10. Well, our oldest grandchild, our
only grandson, he's 10. Yeah, they are.

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That's like trying to say, yeah,right.
Aren't you like 11 or 12? You're not a preteen at 10.
Yeah. Yeah, you're not.
I I guess double digits now is that I don't know what it's.
Oh, that's where they classifiedit.
OK, OK. She's also just got an got the

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sassiness from her grandma that she was raised by for the first
seven years of her life. So.
I was gonna say I was gonna, I was gonna ask you.
So her personality are are, do you think that when you go into
teenage years, is it gonna be easier or is it gonna be
insanely crazy? I think.

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I think we've built a foundationthe past few years where it it's
going to be more like happy and joking around and stuff.
But there are, I know there are still going to be at least some
moments where it's like, what the fuck is going on?
'Cause he. Yeah.

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Who's the Who's the cooler parent?
Do you feel like you're the cooler parent or?
Hold on, hold on. Let me answer.
I would have to bet if there wasgoing to be the cooler parent,
it's going to be Richie is a cooler parent and Rachel is more
of the disciplinarian or a little bit more of the hardiest.
Other way around. Really.

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'Cause she like, Rachel's her like #1 safe adult, right?
So a lot of times, and you know,Rachel works with kids, she has
that extra context of like. With kids.
Emotionally and, and all that and you know, I grew up in an
ethnic household, so I'm very new to the idea that kids are

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allowed to express their emotions in the 1st place.
So, and so like having to navigate that seeing and like
knowing now that like all the research points to like, you
know, like not being completely soft, but you know, letting them
have their own agency and their own thoughts and, and stuff like

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that's a lot better than just ruling with an iron fist.
So I'm and not, I wasn't raised like too much like that.
My dad definitely was, but he even like let up a little bit
from what I hear my grandpa did.And so I'm trying to like, take
the good like disciplinary stuffthat my parents did, but like, I

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guess adapt it to New Times. And also, this kid has been
through a lot more than I have and I'm 33 and she's only 10.
So like, I still have both of myparents.
They still live in the same house I grew up in.
So, you know, and it's I one of the things that I've noticed
about the generation like your, I hate to say your generation,

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but we're old parts. I mean, we're old enough to be
your parents. Like seriously, our kids, our
kids are literally your, your guy's an inch.
And so yeah, he's 30. And well, the other ones are 33.
So. But you know, well, Keisha and

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Lisa is both 32 anyways, whatever.
It's what surprises me the most is how much different the
parenting style is just even in this one generation where you
guys have you parent intentionally, you don't just

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parent, you parent intentionally.
And it's a very different landscape than it was when we
were parents. And it's, it's amazing to me
when I see like the the different ways like you guys do
give the kids a lot the like freedom to express themselves,
to be themselves to, to, to findout who they are, but with safe
boundary. And that's something.

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Oh hell no. Not no.
I mean, I, I, I think being that, you know, whenever I spend
time with my niece, I let her express herself accordingly.
I let her say whatever she wantsand I keep telling her sometimes
when, when we have like the heart to hearts, sometimes I

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tell, you know what? I can't wait till you start
cursing because that's when we're going to get to like.
Real. Discussion about feelings.
But The thing is, you know, I kind of feel like back in the
day, it's almost like if a childexpressed how they felt, it's
like, no, you don't feel that way.
I'm going to tell you how you should feel.
And I and that's kind of. And that's.

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Kind of messed up because that'snot how in my opinion, that's
not a way you should of course raise your child.
You should allow your kid to be able to express themselves.
Because whenever I see my niece,first of all, she's excited to
see me. I'm excited to see her.
But anytime she has a secret, she shares it with me.

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It's almost like it's not even. It's almost like, OK,
girlfriend, let me tell you something kind of a thing.
You know, she, she doesn't have any siblings and she does have,
you know, her cousins or whatever.
And whenever she goes to Seattlewith my mom and my and her other
uncle, you know, my brother Sakai, you know, she, she

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expresses herself. She's and I told my brother I'm
like, look, just allow her to beher.
She's going to be a lot cooler that way.
She's going to share more with you and she'll appreciate us
more. I mean, not that she doesn't
already, but she knows 8 I got 2uncles that will, that will
murder for me. And as long as she knows that
going to school, I'm like, you could never be any more safe.

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She has my phone number, so I'm like, text me.
Even if I'm at work, call me. Even if I'm at work.
So it's just like and and and like, I'm sure you know.
You. Your main concern, of course, is
the safety of the child. It's always going to be bad
because these kids, they look upto us, they rely on us.

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For food. Clothing, all that stuff that
they can do, yet they rely on us.
So as protectors of children as you are, as Marianne and Romeo
are to their children, we have to make sure that we do that.
So that way whenever there's a situation, whenever there's any
kind of like a serious situation.

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They know. They could come to you and not
hide something or be embarrassedabout something.
You know what I mean? The differences, though, is that
you and I and Romeo are in a bitof a different situation than
Richie because we're a simple, asimple side prom like the

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parents have a different role. But now as as his grandparents
and you as an uncle, we get to have a much different
relationship with these these young people than the parents
do. And that's why oftentimes kids
are like, who the hell are you? And where do you send my mom?
Because this is not how my mom would you raise me and you, this
isn't how you treated me. And and you're like, no, I

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didn't. You know why?
Because I was there 24/7. I was 100% responsible for you
all the time. I'm now as a grandparent, I give
you a break. This little human being gets to
come with us and they get to share with us things that like
their secrets and stories and they tell us things and they
have conversations with us. And maybe they're not

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comfortable with having with their own parents, but they get
to have conversations with us and we build that trust from
that early age. And we were able to give them
that. Like, especially when they do
get to be like teenagers and when they start having those
troubles of, of just being at school, being at home and, and

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being in. Yeah, but they can come over
here and share a different relationship with us.
And they don't have that same stress and pressure that they
get from their parents, from us.They get a different perspective
and they get to kind of let their hair down.
They get to express themselves in a different way.
But what I also think, you know,I was thinking earlier too, this
is, I think what's different is,is that I don't think that we

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didn't allow our kids to have expression and, and feelings and
express their feelings. We didn't know enough ourselves
about how to explain to them what they were feeling, what the
name was for that film. And that's something that's also
changed a lot. Like there's you have that

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anger, happy, sad, but there's so many different other
feelings. And I've seen like a lot of
different charts now that I wished I'd have seen when my
kids were little, that I could have showed to them and say, OK,
quite cute. There's a lot more like
resources now for parents. Yeah.
Like. Maybe the?

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Feeling is huge. And then like, yeah.
Here in New York, here in New York, there is a, a hotline
where kids from a certain age can speak to somebody for free
if they're, if they're, if they're feeling depressed or
what have you. And I thought I was like, oh,
that's a good idea. It's free.

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It's free to the kids. My, my niece the other day,
actually, my, my when if her father can't take her to school,
he'll bring her here and my dad takes her.
Last week, actually, I was, thiswas a Tuesday morning.
I was hungover. I woke up and I came out the

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bathroom and she was there. Like she just came in and she
started. I was dressed and, and I just
grab stuff in the middle of the like, it was dark.
I just grabbed pants, threw it on a shirt, threw it on.
I, I, I look, I guess you know, and my niece, she was like.
Good morning, Uncle. How are you?
I'm like, I'm doing fine. She's like, are you going to

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work today? And I'm like, yeah, I go to, I
go to work every day. And she was like, why do you
look? Like a janitor.
And I was in my, in the back of my mind, I was very, very upset
at that. I was, I'm not going to, I was
fucking pissed. Like I was like this bitch.

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And then but, but, but I'm walking, I'm walking to the like
I'm, I'm taking my 20 minute walk to the train.
And as I'm walking, I thought about it and I just started
laughing. I started busting out laughing.
I was like, you know, that shit was kind of funny.
I'm looking at myself. I have like the Michael Myers
like cargo pants thing going on and I'm wearing a Seattle.

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I was wearing like a Seattle, this shirt, actually, this was
the shirt that I was wearing. It was like a Seattle beer fetch
shirt, you know, from like, fromactually 2012, mind you.
And. And I come out the bathroom and
I I just have this shirt and I grab my bag and she.
Asked like I'm like, yeah, I do.Look like a fucking Jack.
I was like, that's great and she's 11 and she wants to be a

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comedian, so why? And and I was so mad.
I'm like, wow, like it's too early in the morning for your
fucking jokes, but I'm like, youknow what She's she's going to
be. OK, It's going to be all right,
you know. And, and, and I think about it
even now, I'm like, yeah, you know what?
She saw something, she was able to.
I, I, I didn't even. And The thing is, I didn't even

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respond to it. I was just kind of like, look,
you don't even want me to say something this early in the
morning. No cotton pre coffee pre, you
know, sunlight to the world. She said that shit.
And I'm just like, you know what?
Yeah, I'm standing at the at theintersection and I'm just
happened to just look at myself and I'm just laughing like a

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crazy person. I was like, yeah, that that was
funny. I should have just laughed and
been like, that was funny. Like let her have it, you know
what I'm saying? But.
Yeah, you know what? But again, it it comes with the
letter, express yourself. Let her.
I don't get usually bent out of shape like that.
But I was hungover. I was very, you know, Tuesday

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morning. It's.
Not a moment to go. You.
You. It's not too late to go back and
tell her. You know what, when I got to
work, on my way to work, I really thought about what you
said and I all I could do is bust out laughing about how
funny it was. You know, that was very comedic
and I'm going to use that. I want her to know that, you

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know, I want her to know, hey, that that was good.
You, you saw something. The fact that she could, the
fact that she could come up witha joke that early in the fucking
morning, that's impressive. I'm not going to.
Lie. Pretty impressive.
No. I I can't even do that, you
know, I'll be. Having 2 seconds of.
Seeing you, That's crazy. That's because she wasn't

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hungover. She wasn't hungover.
You were. Like oh that uncle, go use one
of Dad's Cologne, you smell likea fucking brewery.
But the The thing is, it was like.
I'll be on the train with my notepad trying to come up with
the joke, and here she is just instantaneously roasting me like
we're in a green room at a comedy club or something.

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I don't know. It's kind of, it's kind of.
Embarrassing. It's kind of embarrassing on my
part and. And you should be proud of that.
You should like nurture that. I'm telling you, that's amazing
it. Is it it it it?
Man. Yeah, it is.
She's going to. She's going to do well.
She's going to. She's never going to want for
anything in the comedy world. So Speaking of comedy, Speaking

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of comedy, would you like, and you were saying that we were
there's and I've heard a little bit about this too, the the
Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival. Yeah, so and I think it's going
on. I've not even heard anything
about her. We've been out of touch for 12
days. OK.

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So Saudi Arabia, the, the government of Saudi Arabia has
invited, has put out invites fora bunch of comics to come out
and perform for them over there in Saudi Arabia.
And I, I know Marc Maron had said, Oh my God, he had a, he
had a brilliant bit about the whole thing and whatnot.

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And, you know, they're offering,you know, to pay comics to go to
Saudi Arabia to do this Comedy Festival.
After. You've heard you've heard of
this, correct? Yeah.
Yeah. And a lot of comics are slamming
other comics for participating in doing this.
Other comics are poking fine at the whole situation.

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And you know, because it's a, it's Saudi Arabia, you know, the
people allegedly responsible. And I just throw in allegedly,
because I'm not trying to allegedly responsible for 911
cutting the heads off of American reporters.
Just a. Lot of stuff and you know it's

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people a lot of comics are frowning upon that because
they're like this is a country that did certain things to us
and we're going over there. Well, not we, but, you know,
they've selected a handful of comedians, which includes Marc
Maron, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, just a lot of comments, even MM

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Estefano, Not Mike Estefano, Chris Estefano, whose fiance
actually urged him to do it because, you know, there's
apparently there's a lot of money involved.
They're paying people from $150,000 to $1.6 million to
perform in this festival. Now, of course you're going to
Saudi Arabia. There's some rules.

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You can't disrespect their government.
You can't disrespect their way of life.
You can't disrespect their religion.
So of course there's a caveat tothat.
It's so that's the thing that, that, that that's one of like
the, the thing that's going on in our neck of the woods.
Well, not our neck of the woods,but in the Saudi Arabia neck of

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the woods, our. World, Yeah.
Yeah, in our comedy world, that.They're left up the desert.
You know, but that's a I'm sorry, my, my thoughts on.
I mean, I don't really have likea huge thing on it because I'm
just like, OK, they're they're paying, they're taking care of

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you. I'm sure you know any comedy
show that you're doing, there's always going to be a set of
rules like, hey, don't talk about this, don't talk about
that. I guess the only difference is
I've never done a comedy show with a comedy club or a comedy
enterprise where they were slaughtering people.
You know what I'm saying? Or using women as second time

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citizens for that matter. So.
OK. So them as a.
As a whole. Are despicable, you know, in, in
those when it comes to that, OK,but I would have to say that I

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would be hard pressed to turn down that opportunity.
You know, it's, it's like so thecomedians here on the cruise
ship we have right now, I think 3 different comedian.
And at the first of the like thefirst show, the first two shows
are clean shows. OK, so they got to be clean.

(31:54):
And then the evening shows are 18 and older and people are told
right there from the jump. If you are somebody who's easily
offended, if you're under 1717 or under or you're easily
offended, now's the time to leave.
Now's the time to leave. And they told them that straight

(32:17):
up from the beginning. If you want to see a comedy, but
you want to see a clean comedy, you need to be here for the
early show, the early 5/15, 5:30show, 630 show.
Those are both clean shows and the people that you know, when
they come to those, you expect it to be clean.
I'm not saying it's necessarily good, but it's clean.

(32:39):
And, and I say that I say that only because I've seen quite a
few shows. This is our fifth cruise and
we've seen a lot of comedy showshere on the cruise ship and
we've seen both the clean shows and the the adult shows.
And it's interesting because we've seen comedians who are not

(33:05):
clean comedian do a clean show and they end up not doing any
jokes. They literally spend half an
hour drifting. Off the crop.
And make it shoot up as they go.And then they say their jokes
for the not clean show. But we've also seen a vice versa
where there was a dry Bart comedy.
He was known for being a dry Bart comedy.
But then he was able to do, you know, he did the adult show

(33:28):
later and he was dropping F bombs in places it wasn't even
necessary. In fact, it was really awkward
to hear him try and do an adult show.
It's very awkward. He was not being authentic.
And I was like, dude, just be yourself.
You don't have to be dirty just because it's an adult show and
you can be dirty. You don't have to be authentic.

(33:49):
Be yourself. And if you're going to be doing
a clean show and they're paying you to be here, like literally
these comics came on board in Seattle.
And then we SWAT and we got to Honolulu on Day 7 and all of
those comics got off the cruise and new comics came in.

(34:11):
One of the comics that came in, they flew him from Florida to
Honolulu to get on this cruise. And then I think he actually got
off in Tahiti. He got off in Tahiti to fly back
to Florida and they brought on new comics in Tahiti.
So this is what I'm saying is that, yeah, they swapped and

(34:32):
these comics, they're going to take them all the way to
Australia and then fly them homefrom Australia.
Plus they get paid to be here. Plus they get all the same food
that we do. In fact, the very first.
Night when we first got on the cruise.

(34:58):
They actually had a comedic magician.
He was amazing. He was very good.
Glenn Foster and we just happened when we first got on in
the cruise, we'd been up since 5:30 in the morning and we
hadn't eaten all day. And it was like 1:30 in the
afternoon when we got on the cruise And we were like, take me
straight to the buffet and I'm sitting down and grabbing
whatever food, the first food I see, I'm eating because I'm

(35:19):
starving. And we just happened to sit next
to him and we had a great conversation.
We were explaining that we were comics and and so we were, we
were able to to like really havea conversation with him.
And then it was, it was funny because when we actually went to
his show the next day, he went to go pull people out of the
audience and he walked right up and grabbed Romeo and took Romeo

(35:39):
on stage. Without that, I was like, of
course he did. You know, we weren't even on the
cruise for 24 hours before Romeowas getting.
On. Stage, but it was hilarious.
He was funny, but but the my point is, is that you know what
you are getting into when you'resigning up.
And we don't always know the audience.

(36:01):
Like let's be honest, as as performers, as entertainers, we
don't always know who's on the audience.
Who are we to know that there's a maybe, if we were going to
really base on it a little bit, I'm sure there's probably a
rapist out there. There's probably a pedophile up
there. There's probably like a lot of
different. But does that take away from the
fact that as entertainers, we whore are funny for money?

(36:29):
So are we going to say, OK, I'm going just just because it's
this specific audience, like what is it exactly Are are you I
I would have to say what exactlyis it that you are trying to
wake up? What are these individual
people? Do you know who is that exactly?
Who's in the audience and were they the ones who participated

(36:52):
in this or are they, they're people that maybe they are just
going through some some tough times too and they just want
some laughter. And it's amazing that you you
would even get picked to do that.
That's, that's my opinion. That's my opinion.
I don't know. What do you think, Richie?
I mean, you might have a different opinion.

(37:14):
I mean, I, I, I also am of the mindset like, if they're going
to pay me to do comedy, I'm, I'mthere.
I've also never like, I, I thinkas far as like who, who was in
the audience goes. Like I think really good
comedians can take what they want to talk about and make it

(37:38):
funny to almost to virtually anyone, right.
So and like falling within whatever guidelines are given
and, and you know, like sometimes I've fallen short of
that before, but you know, we all do.
It's a learning experience. And I've also never been been

(37:59):
paid 6 figures for one gig before, so you know. 47 figures.
I don't. Yeah, I don't know if I've even
made six figures cumulatively incomedy yet, so.
Yeah, I don't think I have either, you know, but, and and
that's just it though, is just that I think that if you could,

(38:20):
you could still have if if you felt like it was political, like
you wouldn't I, I wouldn't thinkyou would want Jimmy Kimmel or
oh God, who used to be The DailyShow host.
Stewart. You know, Jon Stewart, no.

(38:41):
Or Jon Stewart. But even who is the other Trump?
Or Noah. Trevor Noah, You wouldn't
necessarily want them because their background and what they
did was to call out things in a political nature, right?
Those are political comedians. That's not who you're going to

(39:03):
invite. If you don't want them to come
to your table and make fun of you, you might not want to
invite them, right? Because that's what they're
known for. But if you invited people who
don't do political humor, I think that it's well within
reason to say, my expectations are that you don't do political

(39:25):
jokes or something that would offend our culture because
that's not you as who you, That's not who we hire, because
that's not who you are already. So why would you come to our
table after we've paid you your way, set you up real nice and
pretty and then shit on us when that's not anything we've you've
never had that in your, your nature before that we've ever

(39:48):
seen. That's not been your repertoire.
And now all of a sudden you're going to come because you took
this opportunity. So all of a sudden, you know,
take a stand and say something. This is not the the right time
to do it. Wait till you go there, get all
the dirt, then come home and do a whole bit about it.
Then you can shit on them after you cash the check.

(40:10):
Exactly. Make sure those checks.
Clear. And if I, if I may, if I may
actually confess, not for nothing, the real reason I
actually have FJ on this podcastwas because I thought he had
like political ties to Saudi Arabia and he could invite one
of us. Oh my God, that was brilliant

(40:30):
thinking there, Jamal. Just be like, hey, Jamal, my
cousin over in, you know, Saudi Arabia has got this Comedy
Festival thing going. Like you would think that he,
you know, we have him on our calendar.
He has us on his, you know, I figured a handshake deal or
something, but. No.
We got to talk about. It.

(40:51):
With him, you know, but look, no, look at look at Richard.
Does he look like he could just pick up the phone and make one
phone call and we could be over there like tomorrow you.
Don't look too far off either with the with the beard to Jamal
but. You're closer though.
You're closer, man. It's, it's just, you know, I'm

(41:13):
like, I'm just sitting. My hands are down by my knees,
fingers crossed. I'm like, he's going to ask.
He's going to ask. He hasn't asked him.
He's talking about a damn kid. All right, Maybe we just need a
shift gear sometime. So when is?
So when is this Saudi Arabia comedy?
I think it's going on right now,actually.

(41:36):
I think I I read that it was September 26th to October 9th or
something like that. Oh, wow.
Wow. OK.
So they're kind of just the start of it.
Yeah, I saw like a TikTok video of Dave Chappelle coming out of
a limousine and just him gettingthe royal treatment.

(41:58):
I'm like, oh, I'm looking at this and I'm like as.
Soon. As this video shuts off, they're
going to blow him like they're just because they can't show it,
but they're. He's going to have like. 6
mouths on his loins and it was just I was like good, good for
you Dave, good for you. Oh wow.

(42:20):
That's cool. Yeah.
It's. Been a long day for Papa over
here. Grandpa over here is had a long
day in case you haven't noticed him dozing off every once in a
while. Now hold on, hold on.
If all of a sudden his head shoots somebody goes well what
happened? What happened?
Would you would you say? What happened?
What happened? He was definitely asleep, Yeah.

(42:47):
I mean, I don't know at this point, are you guys sure you
even want to come back? I mean, to this show of America,
do you, do you even want to likecome here?
Do I need to re show you paradise behind me Jamal right
now you're like how fast can I get there to join you?
I'm telling you. And you're ending up in

(43:08):
Australia too. You might as well just stay
there when you get there. Dude I'm a I'm a sucker for the
Aussie accent. Shit, I might even go to New
Zealand even and fuck around with the Kiwis.
Over there, Oh my God, we have so many Australians that we've
met on this cruise. So we there's on this cruise
total there's what 222,000 230 people approximately of that 400

(43:34):
are Australians. They all went to Seattle to
catch this cruise. It's called a journey cruise.
So I don't know if you saw earlier, we couple of days ago
we actually crossed the equator and when you're on a cruise
ship, that's a huge thing. And when you're on any kind of
ship, not just a cruise ship, it's a huge thing.
When you're on a ship, you actually they Kate, Polly Watts,

(43:59):
people who've never crossed the equator before.
The crew that was working here, they did a a ceremony with them
that involved them getting dumped.
With. Food.
Like soups and noodles. And it's you.
Yeah. And, and but it's, it's the,
it's the Neptune's crossing and you crossover the equator.

(44:21):
So. And then in a couple of days
from now, we're actually going to cross over the International
Date line. And then we don't.
We won't know what day it is, for God's sake.
We won't even know because today.

(44:46):
So we will leave the airport in Sydney on at 9:00 AM October
13th or No 10 AM October 13th. We'll leave at 10 AM October
13th. We will get home to Seattle on
October 13th at 9:00 AM. OK, Yeah, it's a 17 hour flight

(45:12):
and that's the short flight. Most of the other flights are 22
hours. I was able to find one that was
17 hours and it was very inexpensive.
Why? Because Canada Air went on
strike and they actually, they actually stranded like 2000 of
passengers in two days. But hey, that was last month.

(45:34):
That was like in in, or actuallyit was in August.
So now they're on their best asbestos behavior.
Will it be really good? They're really good.
Wow, I did not know they were onstrike.
They. Did go home, I remember.
Concerned about that? Very intensive.

(45:59):
Wait, well, I'm sorry, change. What was that?
Make changes OK. I still can't hear you, Romeo.
Oh yeah. Keep going I.
Could I could hear you, Marianne.
Really. I wonder why?
OK, so. My computer is not prejudice.

(46:23):
OK, listen. To differ.
Hey, it's not prejudice, says the only white person in the
group. Right.
So, so with us, with them being on strike, they're not charging

(46:48):
anybody for changing their flight date.
OK, that's that's fair. Our flight's already paid.
And and we did not know we did not know what we booked this
cruise. So first of all, let let me just
kind of like in case everybody'sgoing them boozy ass, rich ass.

(47:12):
No, we're not Here's we're just lucky, OK, very lucky.
We booked this cruise 2 1/2 weeks before it left.
OK 2 1/2 weeks for a cabin inside the the the cruise ship
is what they call an interior cabin for 22 days.

(47:33):
And keep in mind you get all thefood you can eat.
There's free entertainment all day long every day.
And then there's also like you get free water, juice, coffee,
tea, room service, room service every day.
But if you don't get alcohol or soda that you have to pay
separately. This this cruise cost, it was

(47:59):
$700.00 for both of us for 22 days total.
Yeah, for 22 days. I can't even go on a vacation
for 22 days and pay $700.00 and eat 3 meals out plus all my

(48:19):
drinks. So yeah, all day.
There's constantly moving there and there's always something
open that's feeding you all day.The other thing is, is that, but
we did upgrade. We decided we wanted to upgrade
and the only thing that was available was a cabin with a
view at the time. And that was another that was
like what, 1200, something like that.

(48:40):
So we ended up paying like 1200 for that.
But then the day before our cruise, the lady that we work
with who had it's also an agent.She's like, I got you a balcony
at 3:00 this morning. We've been holding it for you.
And it was like an extra 200 bucks.
So $1400 for a 22 day cruise to Australia and with four stops.

(49:05):
I mean, it's, it's unreal. I mean, we were able to book
this, you know, at the last minute.
And so this was something that Imean, we, we well.
We're both retired, pretty much,yeah.
I retired, I retired. I realized she retired, right.
OK, say that you. You got to be careful what you

(49:28):
say. I'm not I'm I'm joking.
I'm I'm semi retired. I'm actually, you know, but
anyways, so we just, we were in a place that we were able to, we
were able to take advantage of it and, and at this particular
time in our life, you want to talk about that?
Oh. OK.
Sure. Yeah, I think that.

(49:51):
You know. A couple weeks there's well we
no we so we got some bad news sowe found out about a month ago
that Romeo has cancer he has prostate cancer and we did not

(50:12):
know how serious it was we knew we knew that he had prostate
cancer and that was one of the reasons why we took this time in
our lives to get on this cruise,you know but.
Oh. Don't worry about it.
Answer is live with you if it's.Slow.

(50:35):
Growing slow growing. Never have nothing to worry
about. You'll outlive it before
potassium, but we need to get ACT scan and the bone scan
because you're very high. Yeah, my PSA's was very high, so

(50:59):
and we're going to get this done.
We, we did get it done after we'd booked this cruise, right?
We'd already, you know, we were like, you know what?
We're, we're going to live our best life.
That's what we're doing. And when he found out that he
had the cancer, we went in our cruise ship left on a Thursday.

(51:20):
We went in on Tuesday. He'd had the, all the, the scans
done on Friday. We're waiting.
Well, we didn't even, I mean, wewent, this is, we were very,
very blessed and thankful. Truly, we are very blessed and
thankful because he went to the VA to go get medication to make
sure we had enough of this cruise.

(51:42):
And when we got there, I was like, you know, hey, you
initially had your, the, your, your urologist is right
upstairs. Why don't we pop in and see if
they have the results? Because the doctor had told us
that as long as it hadn't gone outside of his prostate, that we
could do what was called an active survey.

(52:02):
You don't have to do anything. Just keep an eye on it so that
it doesn't go out of it. So we got upstairs and the the
receptionist said, hey, you're in luck.
He just had a cancellation. Would you like to?
He has an appointment at 8:30 available.
Would you like to take it? It was 828.

(52:24):
And we were like, well, yes, we would.
And so we went in there and it was with the actual, the, the RN
who he, he was the one who wouldactually, yeah, the science of
it and got us in there to get ittested and.

(52:54):
What do you mean what's my plan Plan for?
What? I live with it.

(53:24):
There's a book. Can you stand up?
He's like, the doctor didn't give you a book.
Yeah. He was like, wow, OK, you need

(53:49):
to have a plate. Really.
What? What do you?
Mean, I mean, when you have something as serious as cancer,
yes, you definitely do have to have a plan You I think I

(54:09):
believe that timing is a factor because I looked at it.
Hold on, Jamal. I looked at it this way.
I thought maybe it was the same thing.
Like, you know, I have. I've had cancer twice in last
year and this year, the end of last year and the beginning of
this year, I had cancer removed twice.
And mine was the the stoners of cancer, basal cell carcinoma.

(54:31):
So I just figured, oh, maybe it's the same kind of thing.
Maybe, you know, 'cause there's like there's so many different
kinds of cancer and even with breast cancer, there's multiple
different kinds. It's not just because he he was
like, and you can live your whole life with you without

(54:54):
doing anything. You'll outlive this cancer ever
leaving your prostate. So we're like, sweet, let's go,
you know, and honest to God, it wasn't until it wasn't until
this happened that I even knew what a prostate was.
I've heard, you know, I know youguys have them.
I don't know what they do. I don't know what they're for
any more than can you tell me what ovaries do and what you

(55:17):
know with the uterus other than the fact that it holds a baby.
But can you tell me what any of those things do?
Probably not because unless you had a woman who has had a lot
like complications with that with her, her internal org, you
probably never even really givenit a second thought.
And I know I sure hasn't when itwhen it came to prostate, other

(55:39):
than I do know, I do know that you black men have a higher risk
of prostate cancer. But men also have they don't
usually really have a run a riskof having prostate cancer until
they're about and they're around65.
OK, So somebody who was 55, he'shad this.
They said he's had this for a long time.

(56:02):
He's probably had it for probably 3-4 years.
We don't know. We don't know.
He goes, we probably have it. He goes you.
Need to have. It because it gives us 2

(56:23):
opportunities. You can't step back, he goes,
because it get radiation treatment right away.
He goes. This is why they do it and the
cancer should come back. They will not be able to remove
the prostate after it. He said that the process of

(56:44):
getting radiated literally turnsto tissue like cardboard, and
the minute they would touch it, it would turn to soup.
And so they won't ever. And so if you haven't removed
first, at least they're able to go in and pull all the nerve
endings back and then remove, say, and then put you back

(57:05):
together. And, but there's, you know, we
still are in the process of, of figuring out what.
And, and I don't think, you know, like, I don't know if you
guys noticed it's we and us and not him.
I mean, this is an us thing. This is, you know, we are in
this together. This is absolutely 100%.
Both of us are impacted, you know, And yeah, even though

(57:27):
people say, oh, well, prostate cancer, well, why are you so
upset? Prostate cancer is easily.
It's one of the most curable cancers.
Yeah, so. So this is what I found out.
Hey, could be 0.07 opera. He's 29.

(57:53):
He's huge. He was like.
Oh my. God and.
Yeah. And so I know I'm, I'm we're
educating the 30, we're educating the 33 year old on
what to do in case of prostate cancer.

(58:14):
But The thing is, is that even like they said, well, you have a
small prostate and we're like, that's good, right?
He goes, no, no, it's not. Because in this situation in
being that those high PSA levelsmean that you have a higher
concentration of that cancer in this in, in the tissue that you
have. So it's actually not a good
thing. So, I mean, and Richie, let me

(58:34):
ask you, do you even know what aprostate does?
I just I've heard that it's a male G spot, that's all.
Oh, I read. So I read.
And so you've read. You've read that if you put a
man, if somebody, if somebody slips a finger into your butt

(58:56):
and and melts the prostate, thenit's an incredible orgasm.
So I've read actually. Hopefully that was fingernails
like Jamal's. Yeah.
But you know, they got to go more than a knuckle to get it,
you know, to look at it. Which?
Is half right about that actually.

(59:19):
You got to go more than just a knuckle to get it.
And so, and I know that there's been plenty of, you know, they
can put a finger in there, but only to the first knuckle.
You know you. Can't go put your hand in but.
So, so I'm fine. It's the this information out
two days, yeah. Chris yeah, two days it's.
Going to be. Come on and I've I've never gone

(59:45):
I'm wanting and before I I did make plans about my and set up
and I have things to meet with surgeon and radiation treatment
as soon. As I get back anyways, I'm going

(01:00:07):
to, I'm going to educate you real quick.
I'll give you the abridged version here, Richie, on what a
prostate does because a lot of people don't know.
I didn't know. I, I was 55 years old, which was
only a couple weeks ago. I just turned 56.
I was 55 years old when I found out what a prostate did.
And it's very interesting actually, because the prostate

(01:00:27):
is, is an organ that only you guys have.
And it basically the prostate it's OK have oh, you should have
never drink a prostate actually wraps around the urethra.
It goes around the urethra. It actually is involved and it

(01:00:48):
helps make, it does help make semen.
But it also what happens is, is that during sex, prostate closes
off the urethra so that you don't like urinate when you have
an orgasm. And it it only allows semen to
come out when you have an orgasm.

(01:01:09):
OK, who knew? Who knew it?
But it is part of what creates that, that ability to have, you
know, to be able to have sex without peeing.
Because I didn't know. Oh, that's what it does.
It goes around the urethra. It cuts up.
But So what? I was like, So what happens if

(01:01:30):
you remove the prostate and they're like, well, you could
have incontinence and you can have erectile dysfunction.
And I was like, well, he's not going to do that.
He'll radiate that bad boy. Let it go to soup as long as he
can still wake up with him, you know?
Good morning, young soldier. You know, that's all he cares
about. Well.
That's why it's that's why it's a US thing, not just him.

(01:01:54):
I mean, I don't. I don't know the.
I mean, in in the heat of passion, the prostate feels kind
of, it almost sounds kind of useless because I've with the
girls that like being peed on. So it's like, to them, it's
like, oh, you know, oh. Yeah.
I have a. Prostate, yeah, it's like.
I know, right? We don't think.
We don't think. Mark them in the background.

(01:02:19):
Here's what I said. You must.
You must have a. Prostate.
That's why you can't pee in the heat of passion right now.
You know, you lucky prostate having motherfucker.
OK, so here's what I'm going to say and this is goes out to all
women out there who may have thesame maybe going in in this same
boat that I'm in. Here's the first thing.
I looked at the doctor and I looked at my husband.

(01:02:40):
It was the the nurse that was telling all of this.
And I said, I said even without getting an erection, he can
still have an orgasm. And the doctor was like, of
course you're still a man. Like he was getting really upset
about like mad at me for asking that question.
He's like, of course, yes, he's still a man, I said.
Oh. Boo Hoo, looks like more blowies
in your future. Oh, I'm.

(01:03:02):
Sorry. I need you to have a little bit
of happy time. So I'm going to have to give you
a you know, it doesn't matter. I can, you can suck off a
thought, but you can't suck off,you know, you can't.
Right. OK.
We might have neighbors over here that are like, what is she
talking about over there? I'll.
Be getting security knocking on the door man you're.

(01:03:23):
Being censored, I think if I waswith somebody and I had prostate
cancer, I figure if my significant other is not asking
questions then she doesn't give a fuck.
I want her to be able to ask questions like can he still get?
Hard. Can he still have, can I still
have an orgasm if he has this disease?
Like there's, I mean, these are important questions.

(01:03:45):
I want her to be as concerned aspossible.
Because it only goes to show that.
If I have prostate cancer I can still fuck and that's all I care
about no matter what cancer it is.
Penile lung cancer. I want to know because that's my
first question. Like when I was diagnosed with
colon cancer. The first thing I asked my.

(01:04:07):
Doctor is like, how does this affect my libido?
Like can I still can I still go to pound town or and it was
like, well, yes, because it's your, you know, it's inside of
you and it's growing. It's not going to affect your
sex drive, but once we get it corrected, nothing changes

(01:04:28):
sexually. And I'm like, God, that's all I
want to hear because I don't know what.
Disease I have. Unless it's like, you know,
sexually transmitted, then it's like roll the dice on that.
But if it's something like cancer or something like that,
the the first question I'm goingto ask is can I fuck doctor and
notice how I put in doctor at the end of that sentence because

(01:04:49):
he did go to school for eight years to answer these dumb
questions and I deserved all theanswers.
We just want an honest answer. Look, not only did they go to
can I fuck doctor, he would not only did they go to school to
answer these questions, they're they're supposed to be able to

(01:05:13):
deal with awkward, horrible questions, life or death
questions, right? Like a question that I would ask
is, OK, you've just diagnosed mewith this disease.
If I jizz all over my girl's face, will she catch that?
Like I need to, I need to know what is I don't want to get her
sick. But if I just you know, if if

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it's just an avalanche of what you know if you.
If you would ask if she tells you.
It all depends on her skill level, right?
If you ask Michael Douglas now, Catherine Zeta Jones gave him
throat cancer. You guys know this, right?
Oh yeah, I. Remember this?

(01:05:56):
Yeah, yes, he swears that because he performed coalingus
on Catherine Zeta Jones. That's why he has throat cancer.
And so I was like, OK, all the women and half the women in the
world were like, we need to go whoop his ass for saying
something so stupid because now they just gives men another
excuse. Oh, sorry, baby.
I would love to go down, but yeah, no.

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If Catherine Zeta Jones's pussy can give a man cancer, what
would yours do You? Know.
I mean, not for nothing, what I've learned from that is a
Michael Douglas gets down. So it's like, I, I see you,
Michael Douglas, but there's just some things you just keep
to yourself, bro. Like I would.

(01:06:40):
Never tell. Like first of all, like even in
a green room full of comics, I would never say yo this thing on
my tongue. I think I got this from going
down on my girl. Can you take a look at?
I would never even. I would never mention.
That never do that, not even. No, I don't.
I don't. You could never pay me enough,

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went on to a. News outlet?
That's crazy. Thank you.
Right. Thank you.
Well. I think he's a little.
Bit old and senile. But on top of that, it's like,
how does that conversation? Even come up like like Michael
Douglas had to have like involuntarily just been like,
oh, by the way, I was going downon my girl and oh, you got you

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guys aren't recording this, are you?
And I think I got a lump on the back of my throat.
I think it's because I went downon her and she gave that to me.
I'm like, no, just, you know, blame it on a rotten meet you
ate at a fucking restaurant or something.
Don't fucking blame them, you know, and.
You know what? I'm.

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Not going to lie when he when I heard that story.
I kind of. Felt like going down on
Catherine Zita Jones. I'm like, you know what?
Maybe you didn't do it right, Mr. Douglas.
Maybe you didn't go counterclockwise instead of
clockwise. You know, it just bugs me.
No, because first of all, I knowhere's first of all, I'm, I'll

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be the first. I'm not even going to.
I'm not even ashamed to say it. I, I go down like I go down no
problem on questions asked. I kind of wish I would have did
it when I was younger, but even as an adult, I'm like this shit.
It's fun, but it's like when people kind of like shame you
for for doing this. It's it is just like really
like. And you wonder why you're single

(01:08:30):
or why you wonder, you know, youhear these guys bitch about, oh,
well, she was the problem. I was like, did you go down on
her? Because there's no girl I've
ever gone down on where it endedup being like, she was the
problem. Like, Oh no, she just like that
the relationship lasted and she knew that, oh, the one guy that
could go down and clean my clock, if you know what I mean.

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And I don't do it because I'm trying to keep a bitch.
That's not why I'm trying to do it.
I'm doing it because it's more for me than it is for you.
But luckily you get a, you know,it makes you feel good.
So it's like, hey. You know what?
It's like a it's, it's almost like a maid being very happy at
a job of cleaning the house, even though it's more for the

(01:09:19):
people that she's cleaning it for.
I'm the fucking maid. That's what I am, OK?
I'd like my job because it keepsme nearby.
And you pick up the check at therestaurant every once in a while
and you feel good while I'm doing it.
Win, fucking win. You got the maid outfit and.

(01:09:41):
Everything right? Those are the best.
You have a little French maid outfit.
Do you think you have like a little French maid, A little
French tick toler? I have a bib.
With a crab. OK, I have a bib with a crab on
it and my feather duster. By the way, is this right here?
That's my feather. Duster.

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My goddamn. Feather duster it.
It it picks up hairs? You mean it picks up hairs?
OK. This is like a sham.
Wow, I can't. Wow.
It clean? It cleans landing strips.
No, like I I don't know man. That's that's a fun game we

(01:10:29):
play. Whose hair is in my mouth?
In some cases I got to be like. It was cat hair I.
Was like wow your Irish shutter hair got in my mouth.

(01:10:50):
No, it's. Just I I just I just I just.
Feel like like. Kurt Metzger has this joke.
It's one of my favorite jokes hedoes where he was like, you
know, he's like, you know, like,and, and he's right because
there's Jamaicans, he's like, yeah, there's Jamaicans that
don't eat pussy. You you know, that there's
Jamaicans that don't eat pussy. And he's like, they came up back
up to me after a show. They're like, you don't eat
pussy like you really. Eat pussy and.

(01:11:11):
He's like, he's like, I don't eat pussy.
I eat head butt pussy, OK, I, I,I at least interact with it.
And he was like, and, and he waslike, you know, Jamaicans, you
know, they don't eat pussy, but they eat like cow foot soup, you
know what I'm saying? And.
He's like. Oh, would you like to eat some
pussy? But no, I, I got to finish this

(01:11:32):
donkey ball soup or whatever. But but he and and he's what?
Because of my culture, you know,well, Jamaican zombies, you
know, they eat like, you know, cow heel.
Or or. Cow foot soup.
But they don't. I'm like the things that you
guys eat is way worse than, you know, going down girl.
But they some, some, some of them are ashamed of it.

(01:11:53):
Me, I'm not. I love talking about it around
them because it makes them so uncomfortable.
And it's just like, I'm able to do it and I have no kids.
You don't do it and you have a litter of children.
That's why my family is so fucking big because I have all
these fucking cousins. But you're, you couldn't take a
break to not come inside of a girl but instead stick your

(01:12:15):
tongue down there at least and you know, be a gentleman.
But OK, maybe I'm the crazy one.What we did?
I heard somebody say if you don't eat it, you can't keep it.
Chris Rock says if you don't eatit, it's like you'll lose her
like a thinner keys. OK, and you know what, he's he's

(01:12:39):
fucking right about that becauseI remember I was having a
conversation with this girl withan X actually, and hopefully
she's not listening to this, butwe were actually so we were
talking and this was in my younger days.
We were talking about like dating in the past and.

(01:13:00):
And she said, you know what? There is this one thing about
you that really rubbed me the wrong way.
And I've always wanted to tell you, but in our time together,
you never once went down on me. And I was like, yeah, I, I guess

(01:13:20):
and, and but it was almost like,yeah, I'm not that person
anymore. If you came over right now,
that's the first thing that I would do, you know what I'm
saying? And she was.
Like. Kind of like, Oh yeah, you sound
like those girls who brag about blowjobs and turns out they
can't get good blowjobs. I'm like, I have learned how to

(01:13:41):
give the best laughing. Thanks.
To. Videos and one-on-one.
Thanks to videos. Thank you.
Thanks. To you too, Jamal is.
Like Kitty Kitty? But The thing is the way.
When she mentioned it, I could feel it in her soul that it was

(01:14:05):
like. Yeah, if you would have done
that. Maybe it would have, you know,
it would have taken a positive turn on our relationship and it
was almost like, well, OK, note to self, that's the one that I
let get away. Well, you could.
You could have followed up with,well, you know.
If you don't believe me, I'm more than happy to demonstrate.

(01:14:27):
Yeah, again. Oh yeah.
You're that one chick at the pod.
That's like, I could suck your Dick for an hour and then take a
make a sandwich and then do it again for another hour.
That's how great my head is. Just like, I don't want to sound
like that person. I'm like, Oh yeah, I do it now.
So, you know, if we ever get back together, just look forward
to that in your future. I'm just saying that that's an

(01:14:50):
opening if you wanted to get back with.
I'm just saying. Even.
Literally and figuratively. Hey, yo, OK, I'm reading half of
your shirt Richie. I have it says I have big and
considering what we're talking about, I just need to jump with
the Russia. It's it's Monica Nevi's old
merch. I have big stepdad energy.

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And then on the back it says just ask your mom.
Oh, that's awesome. Wow.
Leave it to Monica to have a short lifetime.
Yep, Monica. She's awesome.
Awesome. That's awesome she officiated
our wedding. Oh, she did.
Oh. Wonderful, yeah.

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I felt so bad like I did, you know, you threw that out there.
And I want to mention that I remember you guys are very you
have a very active social media presence.
And so there's a lot of us that that like creep and watch these
things. And I remember I felt we were

(01:15:53):
talking about this during COVID.You guys were actually supposed
to get married and then COVID here.
Well, you still got married, butyou were supposed to have an
actual big wedding. And so I do want to ask, like, I
remember seeing that and, and just, I was so sad for you guys
because of everything that, you know, COVID impacted so many

(01:16:14):
people on so many different levels and just the things that
we, they got taken from us, you know, opportunities that got
taken from us that would never come back.
And that was one of the ones I, you know, because you guys have
had a, you know, you've had a very rocky like, which in the

(01:16:34):
real life, in real life is very sad.
But as comedians, you're like, eh, that's why we do comedy.
That's what makes us do what we do.
So, and I don't know, we're frozen.
So I don't even know if they canhear of anything we're saying.
No, I don't think so. Good.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if you guys heard
this because I know you guys arekind of froze.
But I mean, it's, it's human tragedy, but it's also something

(01:16:59):
that builds good comedy. Yeah, I mean.
We both have jokes about it and like, I, I think we both lean on
the fact that we, we chose the right person.
And so like, even even though like the, we didn't have the,
the wedding we expected and thenlike with the, with the

(01:17:20):
fertility issues that followed that up to like we're still with
the person we're supposed to be with.
And so. Like.
And like having we, I joke aboutit on stage, like we had our
honeymoon set for Hawaii, but wehad to settle for a Hawaii
background on Zoom, like, and soyeah, like having basically our

(01:17:45):
honeymoon being quarantined together, it was like real
sinker swim. And we, we swam pretty well.
So yeah. And then I kind of just set, set
the the standard for like how wewould deal with all the other
difficult stuff that life is thrown at us.
So I'm just just taking it all in stride and, you know, lean on

(01:18:11):
the fact that we're the right person for each other.
And so like, no matter what lifethrows at us, it's just, it's
just our life. So be sad about it for a little
bit, but then we're forever. So yeah.
I think that COVID was and all relationships.

(01:18:37):
Oh, they're definitely going. On with your relationships
because right before three months before COVID.
Yeah, we met in November and then COVID hit February and then

(01:18:58):
the world shut down about a March.
But you, you and Rachel, like I remember you guys when you guys
both single and then, but you guys have been together for how
many years now? Like 6-7.
Yeah, we we started dating in 2017, so we're coming up on 8
years together now. Yeah.
OK, so I remember you guys started dating and it's so crazy

(01:19:22):
because in in in a way, I have to say thank you guys to you,
both of you guys, because seeingyou guys as comedians in getting
together and and being able to make it work was one of the
reasons why I was actually willing to take a chance with
this guy because I actually met him when we were doing stand up

(01:19:43):
he. Didn't have a choice.
She. Didn't have a choice.
He was mad because he knew it. I let everybody know, too.
She's mad. He didn't know it that he did
tell people that and they didn'ttell me he said that.
But you know, I mean, and it wasone of those things that I was
able to like use you guys, because a lot of times that's

(01:20:04):
not something that works very well in comedy relation to being
happy at all. And comedy doesn't work well,
right. Like you see the comics that all
the think of, all the comics you've known over the years that
they were happy. As soon as they got happy, they
stopped doing comedy. They're like, what do?
I don't have anything to pitch or complain about.
I don't have anything to write jokes about.

(01:20:24):
You know, it's not until they become, you know, like, have
some kind of adversity or something that they're like, oh,
OK, now we can get back on stage.
I can't do when I'm happy. Yeah.
Yeah, luckily we we've had a good balance of stuff to be
happy about and adversity I. Guess Oh yeah, Oh yeah, you guys

(01:20:47):
have had a lot. And that was something else that
that I really again, like mad respect for both of you guys
because you were able to take something that was such a very
traumatic experience because noteverybody, you know, not
everybody has that experience of, of going through like either

(01:21:08):
fertility issues or worse, like losing a child.
And, and I can tell you, I know what it's like.
I've lost a child and I know what it's like to lose a child.
And it's something that is so traumatic, but for you guys to
be able to use it, take that as an opportunity to heal from
that. And you guys were able to find

(01:21:30):
ways to to write jokes and make it come out as have people laugh
with you to help with that Healing was so admirable and and
that vulnerability that you bothcould you both.
I've seen both of you tell jokesthat were completely and totally
your own and unique to your perspective to the situation and

(01:21:52):
be able to to write jokes about that and to be able to share
that on stage was was so amazing.
That vulnerability was I was so impressed with both of you guys.
Thanks. Thanks.
For saying that I I do have a question for you, Reggie, and
that's the question that I have asked, like Delilah, I've asked

(01:22:14):
from the PO, even Dwayne Gold comics who are married, but in
your case, you're married to another comedian.
And my question would be like, you know, the whole stereotype
of comics not liking to date each other for the most part,
for whatever reasons. How do you feel like?
What would be your advice if, and you guys are a young couple,
mind you, what would be your advice for actually not even

(01:22:39):
advice? How do you make it work?
You know you're doing shows. She's doing shows.
She's got her job. You got your job.
Now you guys have a kid in the mix.
How do you guys make it work? Where do you find the balance?
Yeah, so I think it's, you know,like getting shows in general.
You know, you can be like peaks and valleys.

(01:22:59):
And so sometimes she's or most of the time lately she's getting
booked more than I am. So like I will hold down the
Fort at home. And then if, and then if we both
have shows a certain night and someone has to watch the kid, we
can scramble to make that work. And it's like we, we do have, we

(01:23:21):
do lean on community a lot. Like she has a lot of family
that will help us out in a pinch.
And then I'd have my parents, I can help out in the pinch too.
And then we, you know, we just lean on that community when we
need it. And, and I, I think that's,
that's something that, you know,I think we need to get back to

(01:23:42):
and, and comedy in general, like, like community and, and,
you know, like knowing that there's enough out there for,
for all of us to, to get ours instead of like, I don't, it can
feel like kind of clicky sometimes, but like.
All the time. It feels very, yeah.
It's a leaning on our people, I think is the, you know, the

(01:24:06):
foundation of making things work.
And you know, like life's about seasons and you know, like
there's going to be like right now where Rachel's going to need
me to to hold down the Fort. She has a broken kneecap.
I'm like, I'm holding it down. And I still did a, a weekend at,
at Nate's club this weekend. And, and so, and you know, like

(01:24:31):
it's it, it's community and, andplanning and having a schedule
that, and like a calendar that everyone sticks to, you know,
and like, so like knowing where,like what's coming up and
planning ahead. And, and sometimes we fall short

(01:24:53):
on that and have to scramble to get child care at last minute.
But you know, like we just communication community.
And and that's, that's pretty much, that's what everything
boils out to this communication and community.
Really it? Makes me wonder too, like you

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guys ever have, because I think that it would be normal for
entertainers in Guinea kind of industry, but I think even more
so with with comedians because we're individual performers.
We do not share the stage with anybody with the time.
It's just us up there telling our jokes.

(01:25:37):
And, and I know that I've been doing this kind of even if we've
been doing this for over 20 years and I've seen a lot of
different comics kind of go. But the one thing that always
stays, no matter what generationit is coming through is that
there is always that clickiness.There's always those that the
so-called like high school, the in crowd or they think that

(01:25:58):
they're the in crowd. And you know that I think that
every single comic, especially you see somebody from the first
time they get on stage, they're like, yeah, I'm ready to go on
fountain where where's my contract?
You know, I'm ready to go on TheTonight Show.
And so I think that there's there's also a lot of that
clickiness also, but there's also I and I hear this one all

(01:26:20):
the time from especially depending on the comics.
Well, I don't see why they got put to do that because I'm
funnier than they are. Don't you think I'm funnier than
they are? Right.
And so I would think, you know, like, how is it that you guys
are able to balance, you know, without having to deal with with
with. I would almost think it would be
a natural have some kind of envyor jealousy of one person

(01:26:44):
getting booked more than the other or getting different shows
that, you know, you're like, damn, I wish I could, but you
know, I'm just as funny as you are.
Why can't I can't do that? Yeah.
I think, I mean, I, I'm definitely the one that gets
booked less. So I think like keeping the ego

(01:27:06):
in check. Is it just in general is
essential in comedy because likewhen you when your head gets too
big, like that's when disaster happens.
And also like keeping the perspective of like, you know,
we're, we're married. So like, her wins are my wins,
my wins are her wins. And at the end of the day, we

(01:27:26):
have a joint bank account. So like all the money from all
of our games, you know? You know what, I wish a lot of
people thought like that. You know, it's just no.
That's the first time I've actually.
Heard. You know somebody say that
because again, I've been saying this to like.

(01:27:47):
You know, like, you know, whenever I hear a.
Call, I can't, I can't get another comic because of this.
This. I'm like, yeah, but it's like,
I've actually had a comic told me that she was like a jealous
comic where she was like, I don't know how I feel.
Like I don't know how I would feel if my man got books more
than me. And it's like, you're not,
that's you're looking at yourself and not the big
picture. You know, first of all, if a

(01:28:10):
woman could make me laugh, you're already in like that.
That's. That's.
It already like you've OK, you've you've broken down the
walls now. If.
You know, if she gets booked more than me or whatever, I, I
would be so happy for her because I'm like, all right,
she's going to pick up the checkevery once in a while, you know
what I'm saying? So it's like, I'm fine by it,

(01:28:31):
but like you say, if, if she wins or if you win you the whole
household wins. And I think that.
I don't and I don't think. Too many comics.
Look at it that way, you know? It's like, well, I don't want
him to write jokes about me. That's why I don't want to date
other comics. Really.
That's your fucking then. Like what?

(01:28:52):
What are we doing? Yeah, it's like.
You know, I, I think that if, if, if you're upset about
somebody writing a joke about you, that's really petty because
first of all, you're thinking that they're going to write a
joke that makes you look in a really bad light.
And the reality is, is that, youknow, if you're telling a really

(01:29:15):
good joke, if that person loves you, they're going to write a
joke that is in that's not goingto to like make you look really
bad. And that just made me think, OK,
I have to throw this out here because this was something that
we experienced yesterday. And I understand it because I
was always one of those people that said I would never date a
cop. I said, I also said when people

(01:29:38):
would ask me, when do you get married again?
And I would say, let me check mycalendar because health,
health's going to freeze over when, because that's when I'm
getting married again. And now look at me.
Here I am with my absolute the most amazing person in the
world. To me, he's the best partner.
In the world for me, Romeo what?About Romeo.

(01:30:00):
Yeah, that's your name. Oh yeah, there are.
Well, I say that all the fuckingtime.
Let me just start out. What about?
Let me tell you something, when the fuck is Romeo going to get
hissed? Because let me tell you what
happened yesterday. Was yesterday, anyway.
Yesterday. OK, I'm going to say that I've

(01:30:21):
been on this cruise for 13 days,so it's everything I've eaten.
It's just stuck with me for 13 days.
OK, It's not. It's made its way in, but it
hasn't made its way out yet. So somebody mentioned prunes.
You should eat some prunes. And I was like, OK, I'm going to
eat some prunes. I feel like an old fucking lady.
Let me tell you something. I ate 3 prunes.

(01:30:42):
I ate 3 prunes. I felt like an old fucking lady.
Look over to Romeo and I was like, we're upstairs on the 9th
floor and our our cabin is on the 8th floor and I go, I need
to go to the bathroom now. And he goes, well, there's the
bathroom. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
no. We need to go back to our own
room to choose. I need to go back to the privacy

(01:31:02):
of my own realm. Now we have mobility scooters
because again, we're old and beat up.
But I go in front of him. I'm zipping to go to the nearest
elevator to catch an elevator and he's Belloween very loudly
behind me. Romeo.

(01:31:32):
And people are like, she and I'mlike I said, and to quote
Darrell Lennox, those prunes hitmy back door like they had a
warrant. I'm just telling you, I was
praying for this bathroom. Oh my God.
The thing is, is that This is why I say he's not perfect, but

(01:31:52):
he's perfect for me. Because if any other person, if
that had been somebody who didn't have the sense of like,
first of all, they would have been like, they would have
shriveled up and died, right? There.
And they would never go out in public with him.
But you know, and you got something that's OK.
I'm going to pick at him. So I'm sorry, I'm like

(01:32:15):
distracted. I don't know, there's something
white on his face. But anyways, and it's not just
me, but so but you know, you have to be able to have that
that that comfort in your relationship.
You know, it has to be something.
And that's why like a lot of times we actually have been

(01:32:35):
thinking about and we've talked about this, we've been thinking
about actually being a duo on. Stage.
Because he's funny, I'm funny. But when we're together, it's
it's a fully different level. Yeah.
And yeah. And so one of the things we were
talking about, we were, we were actually talking.

(01:32:57):
I was, there was a comic on state or that was here on the
cruise that he does. He's he's handicapped like his
left arm doesn't work. His left leg doesn't really
work. But he also does.
He's an inspirational speaker and he works his sister.
He does the inspirational speaking and she has downsizing.
So I was like, you know, I was telling him, I said I'd be

(01:33:17):
really interested in picking your something.
And he looked at me and he goes,Oh no, that's not going to work
for you too. He goes because one person has
to be the straight person and one person has to be the funny
person. And I can tell right now that
neither one of you are willing to be just the street.
And I looked at him, I said, well, I would challenge that.

(01:33:39):
And he's like, well, look, in history, it's always been like
Burns and Allen and he Smothers brought all these people, these
famous duos. And I'm like, again, I will
challenge that because I don't think just because that's the
way it's always been doesn't mean it has to always be that
way. It doesn't mean that that's the
recipe. That's the only recipe that
works, right. And so I think that what makes

(01:34:02):
us even more unique is the fact that we can do it together and
both be funny and be equals and take turns being the straight
person. You want to be the straight
person. But you know, I say it's OK for
you. OK, OK, But anyways, so OK, so.

(01:34:26):
And that's about me. I know I feel like that.
So what about we have been out of like 13?
What's going on in the comedy world?
What's going on in the world? What's happening that we need to
know about? Well, Jimmy Kimmel is Jimmy

(01:34:49):
Kimmel is back on TV. That's awesome.
That's awesome, by the way, that.
That that's a big thing for, youknow, those who like comedy,
those who aren't offended by jokes, those who are like.
Oh. That's a good joke.
Yeah, we those people who like jokes and and whatnot.
Yeah. Jimmy Kimmel is back.

(01:35:10):
I I saw. His.
I'm going to put through air quotes on his heartfelt apology
about the joke that he did and that for nothing if you heard
the joke. It did not.
You didn't even do. That.
It wasn't it wasn't even offensive at all in my opinion.
I was like, that's a funny joke.Where's where is the the outrage

(01:35:34):
is so fake and dumb and stupid. It's like people, I mean not.
First of all, if you're going to.
Flat out tell me that Jimmy Kimmel isn't funny.
Whether you like him or not, it's.
Almost. It's almost like it's it's the
same people that. Bitch and moan about the Super
Bowl halftime show who say well I don't watch football since the

(01:35:57):
kneeling, I'm not going to watchthe halftime show.
OK bitch, you aren't watching itanyway.
Calm the fuck down. Nobody cares.
This is not an airport where youget to announce your departure
from the NFL. Nobody gives a shit.
I don't give a shit. The. 60 million people.
That actually watch that including.
The halftime show don't give a shit.

(01:36:18):
I've watched every single halftime show since I I was able
to watch halftime show but therewas a lot of bad ones.
There were a. Ton of good ones.
This Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show.
I'm not going to lie, I cannot name 1 Bad Bunny song.
I cannot sing a lick of a lyric of a Bad Bunny song.

(01:36:41):
But you know what? The the fact that he is going to
draw a ton of Puerto Ricans to watch the halftime show, at
least I'm pretty sure it's goingto be great.
I don't know any Bad Bunny songs, but you know what?
I do respect his global impact, his global stardom.

(01:37:02):
Bunny, he's the one who's the the halftime for this year.
He's doing the halftime show this year.
He was. Chosen to do the.
Halftime show also, and I don't know if I said this about the
the Kendrick Lamar or or the ones before that.
Just so people know, these performers do not get paid to do

(01:37:22):
the halftime show. They don't get paid.
They may get their flights takencare of and maybe the hotel
accommodations taken care of, maybe a stipend, I don't know.
But they don't collect the checkat the end of the performance at
all. Why is that?
Why is that? Here's what I don't understand.
Here's what I don't understand. Look, how the hell can the NFL

(01:37:47):
be a nonprofit organization whenthey make build?
How is that pop? I mean, well, here's the.
Thing, though, they're not profiting off the this halftime
show. You know that that they're not
all all all they're getting. The thing is, they they do.

(01:38:07):
Profit off of what? The commercials, the the $5
billion for a 30 minute, 30 second commercial, I mean the
whole. Thing is for profit though, the
whole NFL is for profit. Yeah.
But I mean, but be that as it may, I I don't think that takes
away from the fact whether it's profit or not.
I mean, they're going to make their money.

(01:38:28):
We go to the games, they're they're going to, these players
are going to collect their checks.
These owners are going to collect their their, their,
their money because why we attend.
They're even going to add. Another week next.
I don't know if it's next year or the year after that.
It's going to be a much longer season, you know, so that's
another thing to look forward to, more injuries.

(01:38:51):
And I don't know if it could. Be a longer season.
I don't know if they're going toadd another bye week, which I
think that's what they should do, is either cut the preseason
games to two preseason games andthen just add a bye week.
So have every team have two bye weeks.
You get rest. That would be nice.
I think that would be a better amuch better idea.

(01:39:11):
So it would keep the players healthier.
I think that it would definitelykeep them healthier and it would
be a better for because if you have a healthier team, you have
healthier, healthier games whichare more fun to watch.
By the way. Jamal yes, ma'am.
How has Russell Wilson been doing for you?
I well. He's he did, he played three

(01:39:34):
games for us and then he got Ben.
He got benched out of the Hall of Fame.
That's basically what's happening with his career now.
He is playing. He is playing himself out of the
Football Hall of Fame, so I don't think he'll be first
ballot. Sorry.
I don't even think he'll make second ballot.

(01:39:54):
I'll be. I mean, he might make it five
years out. He might make the 5th ballot, if
he even makes it. But I thought that's nothing.
I watched him play the second game of the season and I thought
he balled out. He looked like the Russell
Wilson that I was used to seeingin Seattle.
But then that's what. I heard.

(01:40:16):
Yeah, he, he, he did very well. He made one mistake in overtime
and we lost the game. And I'm like, OK, but I don't
know. I don't know what's what's.
I mean, it's like, OK, you went to Denver, that didn't work.
You went to Pittsburgh, that kind of helped you a little bit.
And then you came to New York, which is like a very distracted
market and. They.

(01:40:40):
But at the end of the day, we dohave a first round quarterback
that they drafted and I think this was one of those, OK, we
need him to play now so he couldsave some of our jobs.
That's what I think. I think if it was me, I would
have stabbed him for a year. Let Russell, we're not going to
the playoffs with Russell anyway.
Let him play us down to another high draft pick.

(01:41:01):
We get another like a good offensive lineman that's not
going to get hurt or that could block or whatever.
But yeah, Russell Wilson is still has the sea on his Giants
jersey. So he's going to be the captain
sitting on the bench for the rest of the for the rest of his
life as a Giant, at least. How did the Seahawks do?

(01:41:24):
Did you? Three in one or yeah, so wow.
Wow. Lost the first, lost the first
week to the Niners and then thenI've been.
Winning that. Yeah, but that was.
The last game I heard about was against the 40 winers.
And of course, that was. The opening game.
Yeah, Then beat the Steelers, beat the Saints, stomp the

(01:41:47):
Saints. That was crazy shit.
Out of them, thanks for weakening them for us because we
got them next in New Orleans. So we we need us because we
don't have neighbors. So we need as much help as you
guys as we can get. Yeah, I I think it like special
teams and defense scored more than the offense did, I think
which in that game and then thenbeat the Cardinals on on last

(01:42:14):
Thursday, so. Watch.
That game, too. And it's funny because like that
Thursday night game, I was walking.
I was actually on my way home. There's a lot of Seahawks fans
here with their jerseys on and, you know, looking for the bar
where they could watch the game at.
And I was like, I thought it waspretty cool, man.
I was like, oh, look, a nice little Jim Zorn jersey.

(01:42:36):
Something something you don't see in New York every day.
But. You know, I saw like this group
of Seahawks fans and I'm like, where are you guys going to
watch the game at? And they're like, oh, we're
good. There's a there's actually one
bar here in New York and it's like a Seahawk themed bar.
So New York. Yeah.
And I'll, and you know, I've been there a couple of times,

(01:42:58):
but yeah, very nice people. Very, you know, fans that used
to live in Seattle, that live out here now that's the bar that
they go to. That's what's up.
You know, so it I mean it it it's almost like, I mean it has
Seahawks everything, like not even storm anything.

(01:43:18):
It's just this is from Seahawks.Nice.
All right. What else do we have on our
agenda? I'm over here looking at my
battery life to make sure because we're out here on the
the deck. I don't want to well.
I mean where are? We.
At no. What were we saying, Romeo?

(01:43:40):
Binge watching. No.
Yeah, I was going to, that's what we were going to.
I was going to pivot to that. So for those usually at around
this time before we end the show, we of course talk about
what we have been binge watching.
And so basically it's what showshave you been watching?
What would shows you would recommend and what have you.

(01:44:03):
And I think this time, if you guys don't mind, I will start
because I've been binge watchinga handful of shows.
I I just actually finished season 2 of Mom and it's a yeah,
it's I watched. Season 8.
Oh really? So yesterday, which was Monday,

(01:44:25):
I, no, I'm sorry, Tuesday I watched 15 episodes.
But when I came home, I was up till about morning.
Yeah, like I went, I took a shower, came out and then I just
started playing it. And luckily there's no
commercials, so you can watch like 3 in an hour.
So I, I, I spent, I spent all evening well into the morning

(01:44:51):
watching all but two episodes ofwell, actually all but 4
episodes of season 2. And then this morning on the
train, I had downloaded four of the episodes that I have left.
And then I just watched them today.
And then I just watched before we, I got on the show.
I started on Season 3 and you know.

(01:45:15):
I like they. Like about the show is the
things that they touch on, they touch on addiction, they touch
on family values or lack thereof.
Allison Janney, I don't care what anybody says, she is
magnificent in anything she does.
I just watched this movie 10 Things I Hate About You and
she's she's in it for a little while, but she's also funny in

(01:45:36):
that too. So Allison Janney is just is an
amazing actress, I think. She plays Allison Jenning plays
no Bonnie Plunkett, the the the the the oldest mom.
Yeah, she she plays Christie's mom.

(01:45:57):
Yes, because Anna Faris is also a mom in Mom, Yeah, but she
plays the job. Yeah, but I'm talking about Anna
Faris's mom on the show, AllisonJanney.
And she, she is just, I mean, West Wing, everything that she
does, she's just amazing. Yeah, she's American Beauty.

(01:46:19):
She's an American Beauty. And it's just like, I love it
when I see her name in a credit because I'm like, whatever it
is, her part's going to be awesome.
And it's probably going to make the movie a little bit better.
But I love that Allison Janney, another show that I've been
watching. I've been watching 30 Rock.
Of course I've watched 30 Rock. I've watched season 4 of Better

(01:46:40):
Things. Which guys you guys got to get
on that? That show was too.
That show was, too. Good, it goes from.
As the season goes on, it goes from like super funny to like,
it changes like the mood of the show, but it's just, it's the
more you watch it, the more relatable the show is.

(01:47:01):
So especially for women with like three children who are
single, it's just. Very relatable.
You know, and, and I don't even consider it like a situational
comedy. I'm like, that shit is life.
That's just life right there. You know what I'm saying?
Because life is a comedy. And whenever you watch like past
season 3, it gets like really serious.

(01:47:22):
The girls are growing up, so youhave to deal with those growing
pains and all that. That's what I mean.
The show is great and it kind ofhelps me.
Because I'm like, Oh yeah, one day my niece.
Is going to go through somethinglike this hopefully she'll never
say I hate you mom but if she ever does she always she could
always come to her uncle and be like I hate your sister and I'm
like OK tell me why and then we could talk about if you're right

(01:47:44):
or not I always. Told my kids if they told when
my kids said I hate you mom, I was like, good.
It means I'm doing my job right.I'm not here to be your friend.
I'm your parent. So I think that that's, you
know, it's, it's a healthy, I think all kids say I hate you
mom at some point. Yeah, yeah, I would.
I would hate for that. And I've also started a season 1

(01:48:05):
of Sons of Anarchy addicted have.
You seen him before? No, never.
Never. Seen him before?
And now I get the hype. I, I, I, I get the hype and I'm
like, OK. And I'm also, and I know I'm
late to the party for this one. I'm watching True Blood.

(01:48:29):
Yeah, True Blood used on it. It used to be on HBO.
Vampires and stuff, right? Yeah, it's a, it's a it's a
vampire show that I think when Ithink seven or eight years.
On. HBO, I think and thinking of
more HBO shows. I'm watching the Larry Sanders
show. Love it.

(01:48:51):
I'm linked to the party on that by a very.
He's not even alive anymore, Garry Shandling.
And I'm watching this show. But yeah, it's very, very funny.
I love the behind the curtain scenes of like what goes on on
late night television. And Speaking of True Blood and,
you know, Southern stuff. I'm now watching.

(01:49:14):
I just finished season 4 Justified.
I've been watching a lot of yeah, I've been just binge
watching a lot of shit these days because yeah, and all the
shows that I've just mentioned, if you haven't watched it, it's
all streaming, of course, but True Blood and Justifies,
sometimes I go back-to-back and I'm like.

(01:49:34):
I can't get rid of the whole southern.
Drawl kind of thing, but it's yeah, you don't want, you don't
want to watch justified and TrueBlood.
You want to put like something in the middle.
So I, I would watch Justified Sons of Anarchy, then True Blood
or vice versa, just to get, you know, I, I need to get my brain
whitewashed from that. Whole southern accent.

(01:49:55):
But Walton Dawkins is amazing, so you know, what are you going
to do? So that's what I've been binge
watching. How about?
You, Richie, what have you been binge watching?
I just want to mention like the southern drawl thing, like I can
relate to that because I remember when I was a kid, we
visited family in Boston, in theBoston area, and I had a Boston

(01:50:18):
accident for like 2 weeks after we got back.
Go put it in the car, yeah. Fucking retard, sorry.
Nose retarded. But yeah, what watching the

(01:50:43):
paper the the new Peacock show spin off of the Office.
OK. Very good.
It just so happens that we personally know a guy that's on
that show, Nate Jackson. So that that's that's cool to
like like he like this this guy has given me notes on my jokes

(01:51:04):
and like he as a bit, he like will kiss me on the cheek in
front of my wife just to make her mad and jealous.
And now he's on our TV. That's that's cool.
And so yeah, basically that. And then I also am a wee bit
heart. So I've been binging some some

(01:51:25):
animes and and then there's a few that are like releasing
weekly that I stay up on but. Which ones?
Which ones? Because he's an anime person
too, and so. Yeah, well, the one that I'm
keeping up on the most is Kaiju #8 that's it's, it's kind of, it

(01:51:47):
kind of follows the format of like a, a shonen, like just
fighting and power systems and all that.
But he starts out as like just adude who cleans up big monster
messes and then he and then he gets and implanted, I don't

(01:52:08):
know, this bug crawls into his mouth and then he becomes a
monster himself, a Kaiju himself.
So that's one of my favorites right now.
You watching that too, Romeo? Yeah, that's why we were like, I
was saying which what animes because both Jamal and Romeo
like they're. Yeah.
And then hold. On.

(01:52:32):
Hold on, let him finish. Oh, sorry.
There's there's another new one.I think it's called like Bachi
Akuta or something. It's like the their power system
is like whatever items that theytake care of.
Like because the whole universe is it's based on like how
wasteful society is and like just taking care of items that

(01:52:55):
other people would deem are trash.
Like that's where the power comes from.
So that's been an interesting one too.
And then I also just want this. It wasn't a binge, but I went to
watch the Demon Slayer movie in in at the theater with my buddy,
which was very good. Who's in that?

(01:53:19):
I I don't. I haven't even heard of the
Demon Slayer, who's in that? Channing Tatum does a voice for
one of them for one of the characters in the in the movie.
I forget which one, but yeah, I I don't, I'm not familiar with a
lot of oh. It's an anime, OK?

(01:53:40):
Yeah. OK.
It's it OK? But yeah, as far as the the
paper goes, Nate is in it. And then Oscar was who was
originally in the office. He's in it.
So I think that's the the only like character from the Office
that made the good. Question.

(01:54:02):
Made it over. To the on the I've never seen
the office before is the papers.Do you have to see the office to
be able to understand the paper or?
I wouldn't say so like there, there are some like little
things in there that that refer to it.
Yeah, but I wouldn't like I you can follow everything that and

(01:54:24):
like they there's a little blur,but the in the first episode
that kind of like sets the precedent, like this documentary
crew follow the office. Now they're with this newspaper
in Toledo, OH or whatever. And then they just get into it
and it's not, it's not like a whole big thing.
It's just. But yeah, you can definitely
follow the paper if you haven't watched The Office.

(01:54:48):
What? What streaming services?
Or is that just on regular TV? Peacock on NBNBC and Peacock,
yeah. OK, Peacock, I think
everything's on streaming services nowadays, yeah.
Right now we're we've been been watching mom, we got our laptop

(01:55:10):
so and we got our yeah, so. We're we're able to watch
Netflix and Hulu. We haven't watched.
Any of Hulu, but we just watch Mom.
He's a. He's this.
Assassin who's who's a badass and then he's like a super

(01:55:41):
badass and he ends up falling inlove, getting married, having a
kid and get stabbed and right, except he's still a badass.
Then nobody realized, nobody recognized.
You know what all these people try to kill him and he's just

(01:56:03):
wiping their head. Nothing.
And then oh, this is called DaveSasamoto.
It's badass. I freaking love you.
But the only thing that I've been.
Having a problem with is. So when I first started watching
it, it was 16 episodes, right? And I'm like OK so I watched all
16. Something.

(01:56:29):
So I watched it. Just like. 24 episodes and I'm
already full and I'm waiting to see if they're going to bring
any who ends up. Getting near and getting.

(01:56:52):
Fat and he runs for the restaurant or something and and
he comes on killers they. Want to kill?
And but. We.

(01:57:19):
Actually, you know, because herein the on the on this particular
cruise ship, because they're allof them are different.
Each of them are different. This one here is ones that they
play complimentary movies. So we only it's been the same
freaking. 5. Movies for like the last 13
days. So we've seen Kung Fu Panda

(01:57:39):
three probably 8 times and we'veseen you know, like the same
movies like a thing like a what is it?
Act like a lady thinks like a man who's seen that what?
And we've seen all these old movies or these old apps.
Laughing. I mean they.
Probably do that so you could spend more time out of your room

(01:58:00):
than in your room. Yeah, that's a good point.
Want to leave your room we'll have to show you what it looks
like when we're when we're out in the middle of the ocean and
there's literally nothing but ocean 360.
All you see is ocean. If they look at our.
If they look at our paintings. Right now, yeah, you'll see that

(01:58:22):
there's nothing going on. So we've been doing a lot of
binge watching of the ocean. We've been trying to see some
dolphins. We did, you know he woke me up 1
morning that there was dolphins jumping right outside our door
and I was able to jump out of bed, throw in some clothes and

(01:58:42):
run to the balcony in time just to see one of them like.
Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.
But it's, it's been, it's, yeah,it's, it's been.
It's going to be really, really hard to go back to reality.

(01:59:05):
Yeah, I'm Australian. Yeah, I think you're too, too
light skinned to do to flip in with the aboriginals.

(01:59:25):
Yeah. But but you know what?
I may be that may be the case, but where it counts, they ain't
got nothing to worry about. You're stupid.
That's all good. They'll be like, what is this?
What what tribe is he from? I got West Indian tribe yo

(01:59:51):
Trinidad tribe, the Trinidad Tobago TNT tribe.
So funny. That's so funny.
Yeah, it's been, it's been a lotof fun.
So, but we have been able to like the one thing that is is
really nice is by having the Internet we are able to and this

(02:00:12):
is the first time I've ever beenon a cruise where I paid for the
Internet because it's thought often expensive like it was
almost more expensive for the ITcost $600.00 for me to have
Internet. For this whole.
Yeah, for 22 days, $600.00. But it's also being this far

(02:00:32):
away and this long. I, I really want to be able to
stay in touch. And I also got the highest level
of the of Internet that because it was like 25 bucks a day.
Yeah, it was insane. It was very insane.
But it's still been really cool.It's it's been nice that, you
know, again, because it is such a long cruise, it's nice to be

(02:00:55):
able to log into Netflix and loginto Hulu and to be able to
have, yeah, where we can talk toour family with FaceTime.
Well, you don't have any serviceout here in the show anyways.

(02:01:19):
Wow. I don't know if I'd want to talk
to my family if I had a view like that.
I'd be like, look, I'll see you when I get back stateside.
You. Know.
Just let me know if. They all guys.
Don't be all. About.
That, but it's. Actually perfect timing for us
to to to part company because you're actually getting ready to

(02:01:39):
leave port. And we're going to go out on
deck and see if we can go see any of the whales out here
because they have what was the blue whales are right out here
in the in the Bay and they were they were seeing them earlier.
But we got to get out of this little Yeah.
So we're going to go up onto the10th floor so that we have a

(02:02:01):
360° view and we see if we see any of them jump out.
They got the waves are. Coming in.
These. Are yeah, those two?

(02:02:28):
By the way, Richie, here's what I'm going to tell you.
Especially I wish somebody wouldhave told me this when I was
your. Age.
Cruises are literally the only vacation you can put on layaway.
If you ever think of where you want to go.
And let's say you want to go like on this 22 day cruise, you
know that your wife gets summersoff.

(02:02:50):
You could actually pick a cruise.
It's 2025. Well it's 226.
Say you picked it for 2028, you put $100 deposit down and pay it
off a few months before the cruise.
Couple months. Before the cruise.
Yeah. Oh yeah, you can even, Yeah, you
can, as long as it's paid off and, and a lot of cruises, a lot

(02:03:14):
of cruises will even let you putin the airfare because we have
to fly home from Australia. So you could also bundle all of
that into your what you're putting on layaway and paying it
off. You could have the the absolute
truth of a vacation of a lifetime.
It doesn't have to be 22 days. You could pick ones that are as

(02:03:35):
days to, you know, like. Oh, there's and they also have
amazing stuff for kids too. They have a look.
Do we lose them? Yeah, we did.

(02:03:57):
Oh, shit. Yeah, we lost them.
Yeah, they're they're OK. So gosh, I usually close out
with them on there. But nonetheless, we just, we
just lost Marianne and Romeo. Hopefully it's not one of those.
I hope you're not being attackedby, you know, aliens or anything
like that. Hopefully it's just because of

(02:04:18):
the the, you know, got, you knowwhat, you would think for as
much as they paid for Internet that it would still be up and
running. Yeah, I think we.
Mentioned that her laptop was starting to die though.
Yeah, that's probably what that is.
But hey, it's weird that that happens so at a time it couldn't
be perfect. Ladies and gentlemen, that has

(02:04:39):
been our show with me. I know since we were kind of
winding down anyhow, Richie app today.
Thank you for being on the show and just be such a good fucking
sport. Richie, before we let you go
right now, today is actually letme see here.
It is 1140 Eastern, which means when it's 8:00 over there, 8:40

(02:05:06):
so and it's Tuesday. What upcoming shows you have
going on? What would you like to promote?
Any upcoming shows or anything that you care about?
Yeah, I mean. Well, where can we catch Rachel?
No, I'm kidding. I mean.
Honestly, right now it's more where you can catch Rachel, but
we we help run the open mic at asuper funny comedy club every

(02:05:30):
Tuesday. So that's where I am on on
Tuesdays and then as far as likebooked shows, I don't think I
have anything on my calendar right now.
So I'm at Richie last name on social media because my last
name, as you know, is hard to spell.
So I just took the words last name and it was open.

(02:05:53):
So you know. But I think we're friends on
Instagram and I saw that and I was like, I know we're I have
to, I'm very picky on who I let in my Instagram world, but I'm
like, why didn't? And I and I and I figured it was
you because, you know, we've, we've kind of been talking a
little bit. So I'm like, maybe it's.
Him, you know, and, and. And now that you've said it, I'm

(02:06:16):
like, oh, OK, that makes sense. OK.
Thanks for clearing that mysteryin my head.
Yeah. It because it used to be just
Richie JFFJ because I have two middle names too, along with the
hard to spell last name. And so I was like, let me see if
let me see if this is open. And then it it was available.
So I I snagged it. Wonderful.

(02:06:41):
Yeah. Well, that was.
Easier for people to find me on social media.
Well, please, please give our best to to Rachel.
We we do wish her a speedy recovery.
And again, all the best to you and your endeavors.
Thank you for being on the show.Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
for listening. Like you can catch us on
Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, youknow, and that is it.

(02:07:08):
So usually, I usually say something like a smart ass thing
to say, but oh, here's 1. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are
a dude who doesn't like going out on girls and you're offended
by what I said about that, Please remember it is not about
you. And we'll sign off on that.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening.

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