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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody,
welcome to episode 39 of
Starting Stand-Up with DavidWalton.
I missed you.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I've missed you.
It's been a whole week sincewe've last gotten together.
So much has happened that Idon't remember, but I am
thrilled to be talking with you.
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We've had a great day.
We've got some fun ideas aboutwhat to do.
Tonight it's 9.17 pm.
I've had an excellent summerday.
I'm struggling with a littlething called plantar fasciitis
and this is something that mostpeople now that I have it and
I'm telling people about itseems that a lot of people have
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experienced with this horriblesituation where, basically, the
tightness of your calves, thatfascial muscle tissue, extends
down your calf, through yourAchilles heel, around your heel
and through the arch of yourfoot, and what's happening is,
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whether I have tight calves orwhatever may be, I'm in a
tremendous amount of pain.
Two days ago I crawled in themiddle of the night to go to the
bathroom, which isn't like Icould have hobbled to the
bathroom.
But what happens is as yousleep, your plantar fasciitis
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gets worse because basically, asyou sleep, as you've noticed,
your foot kind of hangs, youknow, and plantar fasciitis
likes tension on the arch.
But when it hangs, when yourfoot, your toes, kind of curl
lower, it starts to tighten.
And so when you step in themiddle of the night to do your
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middle-aged pee-pee, it is atremendous beautiful searing
pain.
And so the other night Idecided to crawl and what was
interesting about that is sortof that mid-sleep crawl where
you kind of don't even realizeyou're crawling, but then you're
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sort of in a half-dream statebut you're like I'm crawling to
the bathroom.
Now, in my experience it'scrawling to the toilet has
always come when you have beenover served.
Now, if you want to know, mysituation is that I vomited from
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alcohol consumption a number oftimes in my adult life.
In my adult life, now obviouslycollege, whatever we forgive
and we forget.
But there's something veryspecial about puking when you
have kids, you know, and pukingjust vomiting so hard when you
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have tremendous responsibility,when you have tremendous
responsibility.
When you have tremendousresponsibilities, you know,
because while you're vomiting onyour living room floor and
you're feeling like the coldnessof the wood floor, you're,
you're dying for the coldness ofthe floor just to help you
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ground yourself while the worldspins above you While you vom.
You're also conscious enough tothink if my kids saw me now,
what sort of horrificrepercussions would happen from
this.
How would this change theirlife?
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And I remember vomiting.
So I had a night a couplesummers ago.
What happens to me is this I'llbe keeping it clean.
You know what I mean.
I'll be right there witheverybody.
You know you have a fewcocktails before dinner.
You have a nice dinner.
You know it's fun.
Few cocktails before dinner.
You have a nice dinner.
You know it's fun.
It's a fun dinner.
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So people are laughing,everyone's having a good time.
And then maybe you'll, maybeyou'll say let's get a little
more wine going.
And then, and then what?
What ends up happening is Istart pushing.
I want everyone to getextremely inebriated, just so
you know, maybe I can feelbetter with myself, or maybe
it's because I just wanteveryone to do something that's
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noteworthy, that makes thisnight a little more special.
The why doesn't really matter.
All I know is that I like topush people to do things they
wouldn't normally do.
I like to peer pressure peopleand I like to make adults do
really stupid things.
But what ends up happening isthat I'll pour a little cocky
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poo, I'll pour a little wine forpeople and we'll get it going.
And then, inevitably, someonebusts out some sort of cannabis
situation.
Maybe it's an edible edible,maybe it's a joint, maybe it's.
This is all summertime, andbecause I'm just feeling the
flow and I'm feeling that energyof like, let's just go.
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Um, I'll end up, you know, atlike midnight ingesting, uh, an
edible that I know better.
Like I, I'm a sensitive guy.
Now I can't have more than twomilligrams of cannabis without
feeling a little out out over myskis.
And so in this particular night, someone handed me like a five
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milligram thing.
I just chowed it and then maybeI nibbled on another one and it
was great for a while.
But by the time I got home, thewhole world was spinning.
I mean, it was whatever thesurface of the earth is as it
rotates.
I felt like I was going 365,000miles per hour, and so I puked
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everywhere.
I just vombed all over thehardwood floor, hardwood floor.
And I just remember, in thatstate of wretched, wretched pain
, where, where, where, the thepain is so deep that you're
vomiting and it's only becausethe marijuana has taken control
of your brain.
Like I haven't vombed on justalcohol since, probably in my
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20s.
It's just when you combine itwith that mysterious cannabis
plant.
That's when the vom and thespins happen.
So, anyway, what was I talkingabout?
Anyway, welcome to StartingStand Up.
It's going to be a great show.
It's going to be loose, as youcan tell, and I really
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appreciate you being here.
Oh man, that's rubbish.
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That's rubbish.
Yeah, so I realized.
What I was saying is thatcrawling from the plantar
fasciitis was bringing me back.
It's very interesting beingsober and crawling on the floor
First time I've ever done it.
But again, you know you'resmelling the floor.
As you get around the toilet youstart to smell a little bit
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more clearly.
You know the fact that urine,urine, urine escapes if you're a
man, and I'm going to digresshere for a second.
But if you're a man and youurinate standing up, I just want
to make something very clearurine shrapnel, urine is, I
would say, hundreds of particlesof urine-soaked water are
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splashing out of the toilet.
The fact that women toleratethis is one of the great
mysteries of earth.
If you are married, if you're awoman listening right now, you
have my full support ofdemanding unless you have a
urinal at home, which youprobably don't demanding that
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your husband and your children,who are male piss.
Sitting down, it is ano-brainer.
First of all, in the middle ofthe night you don't have to turn
the lights on and fuck up yourcircadian rhythms, so you should
sit down.
But watching the shrapnel ofurine escape the toilet and then
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crawling with your plantarfasciitis and smelling around
the toilet every single humanbeing listening to this show's
toilets if your man is standingup pissing within two to three
feet of the toilet is literallyurine-soaked tile.
And this isn't an exaggeration,guys.
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So this is one of those things.
Like you know how everyone'sjust like what the fuck?
We didn't put wheels on luggageuntil like 1991 or like maybe
the late 80s.
I could get the year wrong, butlike wheels on luggage all of
human history.
And it wasn't until like thelate 80s that it became a thing
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I remember.
Growing up I came from a bigfamily.
We would have on our familytrips checking into a plane.
I'm one of seven kids, I'm notfucking with you.
You'd pull up into LoganAirport.
Old man Walton would hand theluggage guy a 20 for 25 bags, 25
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duffels, no wheels, and hewould throw it on the cart and
we would go.
The fact that there are, thatthere were no wheels in the mid
80s is shocking, and that is howI think about urinating
standing up in a home.
Now I think in 30 years peopleare going to be like dad, you
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did what.
You stood there at six footfour or five foot nine, I mean
not even.
I mean if you're five one, goahead, go ahead and piss in the
toilet.
But if you're a little bittaller than that, I will tell
you right now, the amount ofurine shrapnel is unconscionable
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and should not be tolerated bythe female sex.
I've said it, I've said mypiece, you understand me and I
do hope you'll change.
Another thing, if we're going tostick on toilets, that I really
want to talk about is thewiping front to back or the
wiping back to front.
This has been covered on a lotof podcasts.
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One podcast I listened tocompletely changed the game and
I think in the next episode I'llget into it.
But I just want everyone tojust to make a small note.
When you go number two, whenyou go number two, do you stand
up to wipe?
Do you lift your cheek and wipe, grundle to back, you know
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going backwards or do you stayon the toilet and wipe towards
your ball sack, and these arethe three options as far as I'm
concerned, and you'll be shockedto know that there's a lot of
disagreement about this.
I'm not going to weigh in rightnow.
I have made a huge shift in mylife.
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I'm doing something that Inever thought I would do.
The jury's still out, but Ijust want you to know that I'm
46 and I'm still open to newideas about how to keep a clean
asshole, and so that's one thing.
So one of the things that Icare very deeply about is
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helping underappreciated groups,people who have been forgotten
by society, people who have beenwritten off, people who absorb
a tremendous amount of hatredand loathing and aversion, and I
think one of the biggestpurposes of my life is to lend a
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hand to these groups, andthat's why I have written and am
performing and am sharing thismeditation for high net worth
individuals.
Okay, everybody, just take yourseat, find a position that is
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comfortable but alert, closeyour eyes and take a deep
cleansing breath and, as youinhale, feel the rarefied air of
your position in the top 0.001%and, as you exhale, release the
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weight of your offshore counts,the weight of your offshore
accounts.
Let your awareness settle onyour breath, just as your lawyer
settles your tax affairs.
There is no past, no future,only this moment in your
diversified portfolio.
Notice any tension you'reholding in your body.
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Perhaps it's in your shouldersfrom carrying the burden of
everyone's expectations.
Maybe it's in your jaw fromforcing smiles at Charity Gallus
, or maybe it's in your clickingfinger from declining Venmo
requests.
Whatever tension you find, justobserve it without judgment.
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Like you, observe the help.
Now bring your attention anythoughts arising.
Let's watch them float by likezeros in your bank account.
And if you find yourselfdwelling on that hedge fund
manager who made 2% more thanyou last quarter, simply label
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it thinking, thinking, thinking.
And return to your breath.
And as we deepen into stillness, scan your body for any
residual anxiety.
Maybe it's the fear that yourchildren will become entitled
trust fund babies or the gnawingsuspicion that your new friends
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only laugh at your jokesbecause of your NetJets
membership.
Remember these are justthoughts.
They have no more reality thanthe story you tell the IRS about
your primary residence.
Now visualize yourself as avast ocean of abundance.
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The waves of market volatilitymay come and go on the surface,
but in your depths there is onlycalm and several shell
companies.
And take another deep breathand feel the pure peace that
comes from knowing that, even ifyou lose 99% of your wealth,
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you'll still be richer thaneveryone you went to high school
with.
Now, as we prepare to end thispractice, set an intention for
your day.
Maybe it's to finally learn thenames of your household staff,
or perhaps it's to stop checkingyour net worth every 15 minutes
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.
Whatever arises, hold it withgentle awareness and, when
you're ready, slowly open youreyes, returning to your 48,000
square foot present momentNamaste, and remember
enlightenment, like everythingelse, is just an Amazon purchase
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away.
Wow, that was fun.
Now, look, I think I'vestumbled onto something.
Well, I know I've stumbled ontosomething.
I am going to continue to dothese kinds of things.
We're going to combine woo-woowith irreverence and you're
going to either tune in or tuneout, but this is what I'm doing
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because it's so fun.
It's so fun for me.
I really, really want to makesomething very clear to all of
you, sincerely, from the bottomof my heart.
If you are listening, if youhave made it to the end of this
episode, I cannot tell you howhappy that makes me that you
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would spend your precious timeon earth listening to this
nonsense means the world to me.
I thank you for being here andI genuinely wish you this week,
this beautiful third week ofJuly, so much joy, so much fun.
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It's summer.
This is the time.
Make horrible decisions.
Forget about your health,forget about your habits, forget
about all the things that youshould be doing and just go.
Go with what you enjoy, whatyou love.
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Stop listening to that voice inyour head that tells you to
stop drinking and tells you notto ingest the 10-milli cannabis
edible at 1 in the morning.
I promise you no one's going tosee the VOM.
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You're going to clean it upbefore your kids wake up, but
you're going to have a story Ilove you.
Go, take what's yours and I'llsee you next week.
Thank you.