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Speaker 1: I have a severe case of gas guitar acquisitions. That

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Speaker 1: what that was, because I was wondering, Yeah, guitar acquisition syndrome.

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Speaker 2: It's comedian musician, military veteran and advocate Tom Tran on

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Speaker 2: comedy saved me.

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Speaker 3: I spent a career in the Army and spent you know,

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Speaker 3: a combat deployment in Iraq, suffering some of the worst

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Speaker 3: tragedies a soldier can and I came home and I

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Speaker 3: wanted music to.

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Speaker 1: Be the thing that saved me.

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Speaker 3: But as much as I love it, the business part

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Speaker 3: of music and having to deal with other band members, producers, right, well,

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Speaker 3: things like that. When comedy became a viable option in

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Speaker 3: my life as a tool for therapy but also as

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Speaker 3: a career, that's when I went, Okay, I don't have

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Speaker 3: to spend the thousands of dollars I have spent on

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Speaker 3: guitar equipment and pedals and apps.

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Speaker 1: Comedy saved me.

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Speaker 4: A buzz Night Media Productions podcast about the power of comedy,

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Speaker 4: available wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 3: You know, next week it will be about my cat

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Speaker 3: that just cost me six thousand dollars for basically he

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Speaker 3: ate too much cheese and you just, oh, he just

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Speaker 3: had gas, that's all it was. It cost me a

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Speaker 3: lot of money to find out that he just he's

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Speaker 3: a fat and he loves cheese, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Stumped