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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Michael Costa. We have
Speaker 1: a great show for you tonight. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Michigan's commitment issues. The Supreme Court debates how much gun
Speaker 1: is too much gun, and the worst thing to happen
Speaker 1: to Willie Wonka since Johnny Depp. So let's get into
Speaker 1: the headlines. Let's get things off of the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: where the nine justices sat down today and after Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas put out his tip jar, they heard arguments on
Speaker 1: whether it should be legal to essentially turn ordinary guns
Speaker 1: into machine guns.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on bump stocks, the
Speaker 3: attachments functionally turned semi automatic rifles into automatic weapons. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump banned them in twenty seventeen after the massacre at
Speaker 3: a Las Vegas music festival, where a shooter aiming from
Speaker 3: a hotel room fired eleven hundred rounds in just eleven minutes.
Speaker 4: Everyone agrees that machine guns can be banned, and the
Speaker 4: arguments here hinge in part on the very technical issue
Speaker 4: of exactly how bumpstocks work and whether their mechanism fits
Speaker 4: the definition.
Speaker 1: Of a machine gun under the law.
Speaker 4: The justices really grappled with that today, and what we
Speaker 4: heard was broad agreement that preventing guns from firing hundreds
Speaker 4: of rounds per minute made a lot of sense, but
Speaker 4: there was disagreement about whether the ban was justified by
Speaker 4: that machine gun.
Speaker 1: Law hold on. The Supreme Court is trying to decide
Speaker 1: if that gun is a machine gun. I'm not a
Speaker 1: machine gun expert, but if a gun makes you go,
Speaker 1: that's a machine gun. The Court spent all day thrown
Speaker 1: around very technical questions about trigger functions versus trigger polls
Speaker 1: to determine what a machine gun is. But I'd like
Speaker 1: to suggest we approach this case with my new legal theory.
Speaker 1: It's called looking at something with your freaking eyes. For instance,
Speaker 1: if a gun can fire, yeah, if a gun can
Speaker 1: fire five thousand rounds a second, you can debate firing mechanisms,
Speaker 1: or you can look with your freaking eyes and see
Speaker 1: that it's a machine gun. Are the shells flying out
Speaker 1: of the gun at a machine gun rate? Look with
Speaker 1: your freaking eyes, it's a machine gun. And this doesn't
Speaker 1: just stop with guns. My legal theory can be applied
Speaker 1: to all of issues like IVF. Okay, you could debate
Speaker 1: viability or conception, or you could just look with your
Speaker 1: fucking eyes and see if this is a cluster of
Speaker 1: cells in a petrie dish, not a person. Okay, do
Speaker 1: I have to take Do I have to take this
Speaker 1: petrie dish to the playground and give it snacks all day?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Then it's not a person. I've seen sourdough starters more
Speaker 1: alive than that. But no, but no, the conservatives are
Speaker 1: saying it's not about how it looks. There's a very
Speaker 1: specific trigger mechanism. Blah blah blah. They have the same
Speaker 1: approach to guns that snobby liberals do to wine. Unless
Speaker 1: it comes from the machine gun region of France, it's
Speaker 1: only a sparkling rifle. Look. I don't even blame gun nuts.
Speaker 1: I blame the forefathers. They should have been clearer. The
Speaker 1: Second Amendment is only twenty seven words. You think they
Speaker 1: put a bit more detail into the amendment that gives
Speaker 1: killing power to everybody, didn't they just But no, they
Speaker 1: just did twenty seven words. Even the amendment that gives
Speaker 1: women the right to vote is thirty nine words. Okay,
Speaker 1: that could have been three women be voting. Done right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, let's move on to a country that doesn't
Speaker 1: have gun problems Scotland. Don't get me wrong, they have
Speaker 1: equally big problems of their own.
Speaker 3: Now A furious parents in Scotland who thought they had
Speaker 3: scored a golden ticket to an amazing Willy Wonka experience,
Speaker 3: but instead wound up with something closer to the fire Festival.
Speaker 5: A new event in Glasgow Willie's Chocolate Experience, AI generated
Speaker 5: images promising a whimsical day for kids with an enchanting garden,
Speaker 5: live performances and character appearances including Oopa Lumpus, all for
Speaker 5: about forty five bucks. Instead, a near empty warehouse, a
Speaker 5: bouncy castle with wooden tables set up, some jankie props
Speaker 5: of candy, reports of kids crying.
Speaker 1: You paid money down minutes, there's children here.
Speaker 5: Actor who played Willy Wonka and described the event as
Speaker 5: a police where dreams went to die.
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but if you're an actor
Speaker 1: who's playing Willy Wonka in a warehouse, your dream's probably
Speaker 1: already died a while ago. Look, I don't know why
Speaker 1: everyone is so upset that the kids were traumatized. Have
Speaker 1: you seen the movie Traumatizing Kids is the authentic Wonka experience.
Speaker 1: They should just be thankful they didn't have to get
Speaker 1: rolled out. Oh I'm sorry you had to drink a
Speaker 1: plastic cup of lemonade. Violet Beauregard has to buy three
Speaker 1: airplane seats from now on. People are comparing this thing
Speaker 1: to the fire Festival. Come on, guys, it's not the
Speaker 1: fire Festival. For one thing, none of the parents offered
Speaker 1: to suck in oop a lumpus for a bottle of water.
Speaker 1: But I do get why the parents are upset. They
Speaker 1: marketed this thing with these incredible AI pictures. I mean,
Speaker 1: it looks nice unless you look at the AI written words,
Speaker 1: and maybe that should have tipped the parents off. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the actual text on the website. Cat cagotting,
Speaker 1: carcie tons, exascer dre lollipops, a pasa dice of sweet teats.
Speaker 1: Who reads that and thinks, oh this this seems legit.
Speaker 1: I mean, on the other hand, in Scotland, that's just
Speaker 1: what English sounds like.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 1: Finally, let's move on to the political news in our
Speaker 1: ongoing coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. Yesterday, my home
Speaker 1: state of Michigan held primary elections, but the big story
Speaker 1: was who Democrats didn't vote for.
Speaker 6: This morning, President Biden and former President Trump coming off
Speaker 6: huge wins in Michigan. But it's these voters who shook
Speaker 6: up the Democratic primary.
Speaker 7: If he doesn't get it together and change what he's doing,
Speaker 7: we will vote for him.
Speaker 6: In November, overnight, an extremely unusual watch party for voters
Speaker 6: who cast their ballots not for a candidate but for
Speaker 6: uncommitted in protest of President Biden's handling of the Israel
Speaker 6: Hamas war. The efforts organizers had set their goal at
Speaker 6: ten thousand votes. They got more than ten times that.
Speaker 1: Wow, one hundred thousand people went outside in Michigan in
Speaker 1: February to say they don't like you. That is a
Speaker 1: lot of commitment to uncommitment. Reminds me of my single years.
Speaker 1: How anyways, that's horrible what's happening in the Middle East
Speaker 1: and ceasefire supporters are sending Joe Biden a strong message
Speaker 1: that if he doesn't push for an end to the war,
Speaker 1: they won't vote for him. And I'm glad. I'm glad
Speaker 1: they're making their voices heard. This is how you get
Speaker 1: attention of politicians. You threaten to kick them out of
Speaker 1: office if they don't listen to you. Of course, in
Speaker 1: this particular situation, the guy who would take his place
Speaker 1: is Trump. Not only is he not sympathetic to your cause,
Speaker 1: he said he's going to add gosins to the Muslim band.
Speaker 1: It's like convincing your sister to break up with that
Speaker 1: guy who's no good for her, and then the next
Speaker 1: Christmas she shows up with Pennywise.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: He's got kids in the sewer. That's a rat. It's
Speaker 1: a red flag sis. For more on the Michigan primary,
Speaker 1: let's go live to the state Capitol with our own
Speaker 1: Jordan Klepper. Jordan, Jordan, what's your take? What's your take here?
Speaker 8: Well, Michael, I can speak to the feeling over here
Speaker 8: because I'm actually a Michigan native myself, Michigander, if you will.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, same here. Where are you on the hand.
Speaker 8: Over here on the western pole?
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, I'm just a little southeast of the thumb.
Speaker 8: Oh both stupid thumb folk. I had no idea. Must
Speaker 8: have been wild cutting class to snort car grease and
Speaker 8: that abandoned Pontiac factory.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like you guys had it so good in the
Speaker 1: West selling tulet bulb so you could buy tickets to
Speaker 1: minor league West Michigan White Cap games.
Speaker 8: You take the name of the West Michigan White Camps.
Speaker 8: O your mouth, thumb boy.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, let's let's look look, Jorge, let's put our
Speaker 1: obviously universal Michigan references aside for the moment and focus
Speaker 1: in on the primary. It seems like a lot of
Speaker 1: Democrats expressed dissatisfaction yesterday.
Speaker 8: True, Michael, but that embodies the beauty of our democracy.
Speaker 8: No matter who you are or where you come from
Speaker 8: in our country, you will be heard as long as
Speaker 8: you live in a swing state.
Speaker 1: But just the swing states. That's only like ten states,
Speaker 1: not at all.
Speaker 8: Five masts Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, sometimes Arizona. Everything else
Speaker 8: might as well be can.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, what about people who live in New York.
Speaker 8: They can shut the fuck up. Oh, No, one gives
Speaker 8: a shit what those people think.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I see what you're saying. So, really, we
Speaker 1: Michiganders hold a lot of power, whether we come from
Speaker 1: the East or the vastly inferior, dim witted, pee brained West.
Speaker 8: Yes, even you, the bizarro Eastern Michigan Jordan Klepper with
Speaker 8: worse hair and a strangely smaller foreheads has power. The
Speaker 8: point is we've got the Democrats by the balls, and
Speaker 8: we need to squeeze them like sweet Michigan cherries for
Speaker 8: everything we want.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, like peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 8: Yeah, sure that can be part of it. But also
Speaker 8: we need to build a wall on the Ohio border
Speaker 8: keep the Buckeyes out.
Speaker 1: I love this. We could put eminem on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 8: Yes, We'll need like a federal holiday for Jeff Daniel's
Speaker 8: birthday and retroactively make the Lions this year's Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8: Oh Biden does that, but that's his problem, not ours.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: We could declare lakes are better than oceans, and.
Speaker 8: Lake Michigan is obviously the best lake.
Speaker 1: I think you mean Lake Huron.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't be caught dead in that pill infested sledge
Speaker 8: pool you call a lake. Lake Michigan is clearly superior.
Speaker 1: Lake superior, is superior.
Speaker 8: You moron.
Speaker 1: You're as useless as Ohio State's defensive line.
Speaker 8: You're not wrong about that.
Speaker 1: The bucket Ys absolutely buck guys, Jordan Clipper, everybody go getta.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll take a look inside our
Speaker 1: leader's brains.
Speaker 9: Don't go away. Welcome back to their show.
Speaker 1: Some big news today, one week after turning eighty two,
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Senate leader in US history,
Speaker 1: unfroze long enough to make a big announcement.
Speaker 3: We have some breaking news from Capitol Hill to tell
Speaker 3: you about. Senator Mitch McConnell says he will step down
Speaker 3: from his position as Republican leader come November.
Speaker 1: McConnell is the longest serving Senate leader in history.
Speaker 8: One of life's most underappreciated college.
Speaker 2: Is to know one of tom to move on to
Speaker 2: life's next chapter.
Speaker 1: Next chapter. I don't think there's that much left in
Speaker 1: the book, my friend. I think you're looking at the
Speaker 1: acknowledgments page right now. But yes, this is the end
Speaker 1: of Mitch's reign in the Senate, and in honor of
Speaker 1: all that he's done to stop mass shootings, there will
Speaker 1: be a twenty one gun salute at an Elements entry
Speaker 1: school later this month. But this does raise a question,
Speaker 1: how do aging politicians know whether they still have it
Speaker 1: together enough to keep doing their jobs. Well, we found
Speaker 1: the doctor who lets them all know.
Speaker 5: Take a look Chuck Grassley turned ninety years old.
Speaker 7: America's ruling class is composed mostly of old people that
Speaker 7: work tirelessly to ensure our country is running at full speed.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Sunday morning.
Speaker 7: But despite them passing a full yearly medical exam, some
Speaker 7: people wonder who is the doctor evaluating the mental fitness
Speaker 7: of America's top leaders.
Speaker 8: Let's put it this way. He has two thumbs.
Speaker 7: My name is doctor Dennis lowry Stein, and I am
Speaker 7: the US government's chief neurologist. It's my job to evaluate
Speaker 7: our leader's brains, and the good news is they're all pervinked.
Speaker 7: Let's take a look at President Biden.
Speaker 9: America is a nation that can be defined in a
Speaker 9: single word, gonnot.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, foos of the Himalas with shijingping.
Speaker 8: That's amazing.
Speaker 7: His brain is switching languages mid sentence. That is MOI
Speaker 7: bueno or should I say moid BRAINO. As someone who
Speaker 7: suffered from multiple brain injuries myself, I know just how
Speaker 7: important mental health is. And I know that because I've
Speaker 7: suffered from many brain injuries myself.
Speaker 6: Okay, it from my leg.
Speaker 7: Okay, Senator McConnell, I'm just going to ask you a
Speaker 7: few questions to check the old noggin. Okay, what is
Speaker 7: this a picture of?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I guess it does kind of make you think good insight, Senator,
Speaker 7: I'm going to clear you for another six years.
Speaker 8: I check every part of the brain.
Speaker 7: Port side than the Zuza Einstein's taint and the Lisa.
Speaker 8: Lowe the back.
Speaker 1: How did I get this job? Well, I'm Nancy Pelosi's nephew.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm not, but she thinks I am. So.
Speaker 7: I haven't personally met all my patients.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to.
Speaker 7: Neurology is something you can just kind of eyeball five.
Speaker 1: Minutes later and they should go back to that quote.
Speaker 11: They don't tell you this, go back to that question
Speaker 11: and repeat them.
Speaker 4: Can you do it?
Speaker 7: And you go?
Speaker 8: Persian woman man Camera TV.
Speaker 7: More words than I know. The best part of my
Speaker 7: job is reassuring the public that their leaders are Okay, no, wait,
Speaker 7: the best part is writing my own prescriptions. But after that,
Speaker 7: reassuring the public. I know, I know a lot of
Speaker 7: you have expressed concerns for the senator's well being. But
Speaker 7: I have his test results right here.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 7: That's what he said when I asked him what year
Speaker 7: it was, And you know what, to me, that's close enough.
Speaker 7: Bottom line. If you were worried about the mental faculties
Speaker 7: of our highest ranking officials, just remember you've got a
Speaker 7: professional making sure everything is okay. Yes, night, I just
Speaker 7: wanted to inform Senator Feinstein that her brain is cleared
Speaker 7: for another term. Oh she did. No, No, that doesn't
Speaker 7: change my diagnosis at all.
Speaker 6: You have a good day.
Speaker 9: Welcome back slows positively joining me on the show.
Speaker 12: Don't go away, Welcome back to very show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is the best selling author whose new
Speaker 1: book is called There's Four People. Please welcome Sloan Crosley.
Speaker 1: All right, Love, how are you feeling?
Speaker 10: I feel really great. How do you feel?
Speaker 1: I feel great. I'm excited to talk with you. This
Speaker 1: book is beautiful and wonderful. You write before this book
Speaker 1: a lot of essays involving humor. This is a memoir
Speaker 1: involving loss and grief with a lot of humor in it.
Speaker 1: I laugh. But how do you strike that balance between
Speaker 1: grief and laughing?
Speaker 10: I know believe I'm here talking about the Sad Book.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 11: No, I think that the sort of topography of grief
Speaker 11: that everyone experiences. The people you miss you miss because
Speaker 11: they're so specific, and in this case, the person I
Speaker 11: miss was very dark and very funny, and so you
Speaker 11: have both my cylinder of humor going and his going
Speaker 11: at the same time.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Russell. But really, when you start this book,
Speaker 1: it's about being burglarized.
Speaker 10: I know, so many bad things, so.
Speaker 1: Many bad things happen. Again, there's a lot of laughing.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of laughing for real, for real,
Speaker 1: I mean. But one of the most interesting parts of
Speaker 1: the book is how it turns and tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about you know, how you approach that from
Speaker 1: being robbed to then this next bad thing that happened.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So basically, in June June twenty seventh of twenty nineteen,
Speaker 11: I left my apartment for one hour to get a
Speaker 11: hand X ray. So I took all my rings off, right,
Speaker 11: what are you going to do? And came home to
Speaker 11: find all my jewelry gone, burglarized and not particularly flashy,
Speaker 11: just gone.
Speaker 10: And then a month.
Speaker 11: Later, my dearest friend unfortunately died by aside so that
Speaker 11: first loss obviously became the sort of more minor precursor
Speaker 11: to the second loss. But I, as a human being,
Speaker 11: I am deeply unlucky. But as in this case, I am.
Speaker 11: But as a writer of this book, I knew this
Speaker 11: is a suspenseful story about grief, and it's a funny
Speaker 11: story about grief, and I don't think you get a
Speaker 11: lot of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's easy to grieve at first for these items.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean, if you have, it sucked, it sucks.
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, we had some winter coats stolen,
Speaker 1: and I'm almost embarrassed we have winter coats stolen. I'm
Speaker 1: almost sorry, exactly exactly. It is humorous in a way,
Speaker 1: but also you feel violated, you feel mad, and then
Speaker 1: as soon as anything real happens, you go that's the
Speaker 1: important thing.
Speaker 11: Yes, Well, it's also the only commonality that these two
Speaker 11: losses have is the sudden nature them. It just felt
Speaker 11: like a real demarcation of before and after, which you
Speaker 11: don't always get with grief.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Russell, you tell a lot of the.
Speaker 11: Book a national television Please share like anyone would about
Speaker 11: their friend. So I used to work in book publishing,
Speaker 11: he hired me. I worked for him for ten years.
Speaker 11: He was a wildly generous, funny, brilliant, brilliant publicist, and
Speaker 11: deeply inappropriate. I'm really hesitant to repeat some of the
Speaker 11: lines in the book, but you know, he fits sort
Speaker 11: of less and less I think in the world that
Speaker 11: he had helped built in a way. And part of
Speaker 11: the challenges challenge of this book was how to memorialize
Speaker 11: and pay tribute to someone like that without sounding like
Speaker 11: a frustrated septagenarian white man who's like, it's just not
Speaker 11: the same.
Speaker 1: Right, right, You know, world has changed, the world has changed.
Speaker 11: But he was just just a wonderful, well read human
Speaker 11: being who really was almost like, you know, he's my.
Speaker 10: Partner in crime.
Speaker 11: I felt like that people have that with work relationships
Speaker 11: and trends.
Speaker 1: I love when you talk about some of his quote
Speaker 1: unquote offensive whatever they were, remarks actions. I mean, he
Speaker 1: sent you an email once as your cats or something
Speaker 1: that was your account, the whole account.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would say, like, Mommy, why are you wearing
Speaker 11: the same thing you wore yesterday?
Speaker 10: Mommy, wann't you come home last night?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 10: This is my boss?
Speaker 1: Just so that's so awesome.
Speaker 10: I mean also like my dear wonderful friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And what HR doesn't get is won't kill them right, Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's when someone is gone. It's these hilarious sometimes
Speaker 1: they cross the line moments that we think about and
Speaker 1: we laugh about.
Speaker 11: Yes, and now, having said that, I'm not trying to
Speaker 11: be permissive over some of the behavior that he exhibited it.
Speaker 11: But also it didn't come those things that we're talking about, didn't.
Speaker 11: They weren't attached to, you know, sort of abuses of power,
Speaker 11: lording sex over people or anything like that.
Speaker 10: He fought for everyone's raises.
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about lack of self help books
Speaker 1: or grieving groups for loss of a friend. Yes, why
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 11: Well, I would say, it's not like anyone was trying
Speaker 11: to take my grief away from me. You know, nobody
Speaker 11: was like, well, you don't get to grieve too bad,
Speaker 11: just a friend to sit in the corner. No, But
Speaker 11: it just felt like the structure of life, of the
Speaker 11: self help books of the internet is very much loss
Speaker 11: of a spouse, loss of a child, God forbid, you know,
Speaker 11: loss of a parent. And so, in addition to being
Speaker 11: so confused and hurt by his death, I had the
Speaker 11: sort of extra patina of thinking, do I ever write
Speaker 11: to this, how much I'm trying to get purchase on it?
Speaker 11: How much of it is mine? And it turns out
Speaker 11: about two hundred pages worth is mine.
Speaker 1: It can feel very serious, But there's humor, And are
Speaker 1: you looking for the humor?
Speaker 2: Or?
Speaker 1: Are you a person who writes your truth? The world
Speaker 1: you're in a Humor's there this whole thing?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll thing?
Speaker 11: No, I mean it is, the truth is axiety. I'm fascinating.
Speaker 1: Not for them, because I'm curious, because it's like, do
Speaker 1: you try to be funny? Yeah? Not for them? Do
Speaker 1: you try to be funny in this serious situation?
Speaker 10: No, no, I don't.
Speaker 11: I think that what I have and what I imagine
Speaker 11: you have as well, in replace of poetry, maybe our
Speaker 11: analogies and observations and sort of this abject exasperation at
Speaker 11: the world, and that's how I see and describe the world.
Speaker 11: So the humor, you know, in my more traditional humor essays,
Speaker 11: there's a better sort of alignment I suppose between the
Speaker 11: topic and how I'm telling the story. With a grief book,
Speaker 11: I think it hopefully gives the book more texture and
Speaker 11: or will offend massive amounts of people.
Speaker 1: No, well it's not. It's an excellent read. Why are
Speaker 1: why are we afraid to say grief? Why are we
Speaker 1: afraid to talk about it? I find talking about death,
Speaker 1: especially North American culture, it's I keep it down. Why
Speaker 1: tell me the answer to this existential question?
Speaker 10: Oh that that's why you're hearing specifically.
Speaker 1: But you have a good input on you have a
Speaker 1: good thought on.
Speaker 10: How to speak to people who are.
Speaker 1: Grieving or so I why sorry? On why it is
Speaker 1: that we talk about it so little? Why is there
Speaker 1: a little bit of an air right now mission? Because
Speaker 1: there's grief and there's sate.
Speaker 11: Well, especially the kind of the kind of death this
Speaker 11: is is very scary when we say, we don't necessarily
Speaker 11: say your cancer a cancer? Would you say a suicide
Speaker 11: or your suicide?
Speaker 10: His suicide. It's like we give it.
Speaker 11: It's like hot coal, and we give it back to
Speaker 11: the dead person as fast as we possibly can.
Speaker 10: And I think because we're frightened for ourselves, as we
Speaker 10: will should be.
Speaker 11: But I think the only way around that is to
Speaker 11: discuss it more and to talk about it and to
Speaker 11: be asked questions about it. You know, the way of
Speaker 11: Russell's death people would often say, did you know, which
Speaker 11: I personally don't have the best reaction to you, because
Speaker 11: I don't know if it's for me or for him, but.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about it. What should you say?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, first of all, you should say whatever
Speaker 10: the hell you.
Speaker 11: Want to say, as long as it's I'm not trying
Speaker 11: to police people's reaction to grief, as long as it's
Speaker 11: authentic and it's sincere and not just sort of rubber
Speaker 11: necking in a horror story and using your grief for this,
Speaker 11: I think you should just go with declarative statements. You
Speaker 11: did well sort of where you said, you know, you said,
Speaker 11: tell me about him.
Speaker 10: I wish I knew him.
Speaker 11: You must have been wonderful. What a big life. That's
Speaker 11: more than this one moment.
Speaker 1: That's that's beautiful. I've heard you say part of grief
Speaker 1: is becoming on the side of the living. Once again,
Speaker 1: explain that to me.
Speaker 11: Well, if you've ever grieved someone, you know that, especially
Speaker 11: right away. There's this sort of almost embarrassing thing I felt,
Speaker 11: which is I was receiving all of these wonderful condolences,
Speaker 11: and I felt like I was ill equipped or did
Speaker 11: not have the shelving to accept them because everybody had
Speaker 11: committed the sin of not being able to bring my
Speaker 11: friend back, and I just wanted to do whatever he
Speaker 11: wanted to do. So we had a memorial service. I
Speaker 11: turned into what I call in the book a funeral zilla,
Speaker 11: where I was just like, is it hard to shut
Speaker 11: down Fifth Avenue for an hour? Maybe we should? Why
Speaker 11: are these programs not bound with ribbon? Where is the
Speaker 11: gold lead?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 11: And I'm like, Okay, somebody needed to sort of pull
Speaker 11: me aside and say, you know, he's not going to
Speaker 11: be going to the memorial service, And honestly, at that moment, no,
Speaker 11: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: So is it like changing that focus to back to
Speaker 1: present tense?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yes, and also change into what he would want, do
Speaker 11: you know? Because again, even and especially with someone who
Speaker 11: dies by suicide, they are more than their last act
Speaker 11: of free will. And we had an entire friendship and
Speaker 11: entire life together where I know that he wanted more
Speaker 11: from me than to just focus on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a beautiful book. You will laugh, you will think,
Speaker 1: I promise you, But it's also a tribute to your
Speaker 1: friend Russell. Thank you for chatting with us very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Grief is Grief is for people, is
Speaker 1: available now, Sloan Crosley, everybody, and we're gonna take us
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