WEBVTT - Comedy Saved Me with Craig Shoemaker-How Laughter Heals

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<v Speaker 1>Comedy Saved Me.

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<v Speaker 2>Comedy subjective. Some people object to some things that we say.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a saying stop global whining. Let's shut up

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<v Speaker 2>and stop global whining. As oh my, I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>Yoda a friend, did you are a crap? I do

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<v Speaker 2>not care.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Lyn Hoffmann, host of the Comedy Save Me podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you like this podcast, thank you. I'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to recommend another podcast I host, which is called Music

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<v Speaker 1>Saved Me, a podcast that explores the healing power of music.

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<v Speaker 1>On Comedy Saved Me, we delve into the lives of

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<v Speaker 1>comedians and explore how laughter has transformed their journeys. And

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<v Speaker 1>today I'm so excited because we have an incredible guest.

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<v Speaker 1>Dare I call him the Godfather of comedy. He's been

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<v Speaker 1>making us laugh for decades. Craig Shoemaker is here. He

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<v Speaker 1>is a legendary comedian, an actor, and author, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>also been a pioneer in using comedy as a tool

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<v Speaker 1>for healing and growth. Right up my alley. He also

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<v Speaker 1>has some very cool projects that he's working on right now,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's also been doing for many years that we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to discuss. Welcome Craig Shoemaker to comedy saved me.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just excited to talk to you again. We used

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<v Speaker 2>to hang out in Boston when you were you were

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<v Speaker 2>the big cheese on the radio in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, so John Lander brought you into my life many

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<v Speaker 1>years ago. And then subsequently, every Friday that you would

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<v Speaker 1>perform at the Comedy Connection, you would come to the

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<v Speaker 1>studio and inevitably I would end up on the floor

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<v Speaker 1>in tears laughing, and I couldn't even have to go

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<v Speaker 1>to a commercial break.

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<v Speaker 2>I just love that. I had it happen. The other

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<v Speaker 2>day I did TV in Vegas and she was crying.

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<v Speaker 2>So my face hurts. And that's one of my favorite

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<v Speaker 2>things is to hurt people in that way. I do

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<v Speaker 2>a ninety minute show and they say, I have Bell's palsy.

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<v Speaker 2>If I give you Bell's palsy by the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the show, I know I've done my job.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that is for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, you laugh, it's a release, it's a

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<v Speaker 2>pain relief, and and it's wonderful to see that. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't understand if laughter is the best medicine, why is

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<v Speaker 2>it not being deployed as such?

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<v Speaker 1>Exactly?

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<v Speaker 2>Why do we see these commercials constantly? You don't see

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<v Speaker 2>any comedy commercials. It's all about some drug. It's like

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<v Speaker 2>they give you the fear, they get you scared, and

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<v Speaker 2>then they have a commercial that handles the fear that

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<v Speaker 2>they just gave you the anxiety. We got a pill for.

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<v Speaker 2>What we just sold you was some anxiety, some stressor,

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<v Speaker 2>And now here's the pill for. It's something you can't pronounce.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all the stuff you can't pronounce either. You don't

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<v Speaker 2>even know what you're putting in you.

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<v Speaker 1>It comes up with the names for those things to

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<v Speaker 1>begin with.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they get stone too. How about zimbalfin. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, sounds too much like a dolphin. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>You gotta wonder, you gotta wonder, but they should know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how they come up with these things,

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<v Speaker 2>but they don't sound very you know, I started my

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<v Speaker 2>work and laughter heels and a cancer facil and I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if you knew this. It can't what they

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<v Speaker 2>put in them, Like timo, they call it the red death. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>what kind of a thing is that? Yeah, you just

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<v Speaker 2>went ooh. I mean now you're trying to live right

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<v Speaker 2>with this cancer and trying to survive and heal and

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<v Speaker 2>you're putting something in you called the red death. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>why don't they call it Santa Claus come on something

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<v Speaker 2>or bashful? Yeah, something in your body. We feel like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh wow, this is a positive energy. It's a positive vibration.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's what laughter is. It's a positive vibration.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, that's exactly why I'm so excited to have you here,

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<v Speaker 1>because you know, like you just said, wouldn't it be

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<v Speaker 1>great if a commercial came on TV and said, hey, laughter,

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<v Speaker 1>we figured out a way to put laughter in this patch.

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<v Speaker 1>Just slap it on your face and you'll laugh all

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<v Speaker 1>day long, you know, the laugh patch, the laugh patch.

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<v Speaker 2>I've always said that they should have you know, they

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<v Speaker 2>have a fit bit. How about laugh bit count your laughs?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my godness, that's a great idea.

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<v Speaker 2>That'd be great. And then have Well, we actually have

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<v Speaker 2>a business. We're pitching it today. You should come to

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<v Speaker 2>our pitch meeting. We have laughter Works. We go to

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<v Speaker 2>companies and corporations and give wellness a sense of humor.

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<v Speaker 2>Corporate wellness certainly needs that. Oh yeah, and I teach

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<v Speaker 2>something called guided laffitation and chuckle chatter.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, guided laffitation.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, instead of meditating I'm not a great meditator, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'll bet you're not either. You have add it's like

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<v Speaker 2>I do right exactly, I know you even though it's

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<v Speaker 2>been twenty years. I know you're not a great meditator

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm not either. Because we had something going on,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be going, oh, I forgot to put the Washington dryer.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, whatever it is, it's oh my god, the kids.

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<v Speaker 2>So I just I came up with this laffitation. It's

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<v Speaker 2>something we all love to do. It's really great for

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<v Speaker 2>you to laugh. So there's no jokes. You don't need jokes.

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<v Speaker 2>The whole premise for me is in all my study.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been studying this for years. I have the nonprofit

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<v Speaker 2>All Laughter Heels, and I worked in a cancer facility

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<v Speaker 2>to develop this program. And I I just laughter is

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<v Speaker 2>a choice. It's not like you need a joke. Just

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<v Speaker 2>like you, you don't know if you're on a staremaster

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<v Speaker 2>or on a hill. Your body does not know the difference.

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<v Speaker 2>It's getting the benefits of whatever that workout is. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to have something that even you don't even

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<v Speaker 2>need a trainer necessarily. I'm not saying anything against your

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<v Speaker 2>trainers out there but working out is working out, and

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<v Speaker 2>so is so now you're just doing silly squads or

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<v Speaker 2>laugh lunges, you know, whatever it is, it's a choice.

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<v Speaker 2>And then the thing is about comedy. I know yours

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<v Speaker 2>is called comedy, but comedy is subjective. Some people object

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<v Speaker 2>to some things that we say a lot these days.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, everyone's complaining. I have a saying, stop

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<v Speaker 2>global whining. Let's shut up and stop global whining.

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<v Speaker 1>I love that.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, I feel like Yoda offended. You are

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<v Speaker 2>a crap. I do not give. I mean, I'm so

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<v Speaker 2>sick of everybody's a victim. Now let's take charge of

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<v Speaker 2>our lives and start laughing more and stop looking for

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<v Speaker 2>people to effect you and it hurt you because they're

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<v Speaker 2>not really hurting you. You're just putting it on them.

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<v Speaker 2>That's on you. So it's the same thing with laughter,

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<v Speaker 2>is a comedy is subjective. You remember Patch Adams, Remember

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<v Speaker 2>that movie Oh.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, with Robin Williams.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, remember that was a true story about Patch Adams.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he works out of Baltimore. He would go

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<v Speaker 2>to hospital rooms dress as a clown to make kids laugh,

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<v Speaker 2>make people laugh. That's subjective. If a clown shows up

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<v Speaker 2>in my hospital room. I'm pulling the tune. I might

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<v Speaker 2>pull the plaga heard the clown in my room and

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<v Speaker 2>a clown it'd been shoes in my room. Come run

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<v Speaker 2>take this rath car. That's what I would be doing,

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<v Speaker 2>because it's not funny to me. As a matter of fact,

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<v Speaker 2>it's quite sad. This guy's got shoes that are too

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<v Speaker 2>big and he thinks it's funny. Now there's nothing against him.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's the moment where I went. That was my haha,

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<v Speaker 2>one of my haha moments. So I said, what if

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<v Speaker 2>we do laugh atation where it's a choice, just like meditating,

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<v Speaker 2>you breathe, laughter about breathing, breathing, so good for you

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<v Speaker 2>and all of that. And so it's been working. It's awesome.

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<v Speaker 2>I take people through these guys, the laffetation retreats and

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<v Speaker 2>things like that.

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<v Speaker 1>It must be so, I don't know, fulfilling when you

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<v Speaker 1>know that you're helping someone heal with with laughter just

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<v Speaker 1>by being yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you want to you want to do a little

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<v Speaker 2>little meditation lafittation right now?

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<v Speaker 1>I do. All right, that's that's a great idea. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>do it. But I don't have any tissues, and I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like I'm soon going to look like a big

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<v Speaker 1>mess on this.

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<v Speaker 2>But whatever you you're going to cry? Is that what

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<v Speaker 2>you mean? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>I cry when I laughed. Do you remember when you

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<v Speaker 1>used to make lander and I laughed so hard? We

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<v Speaker 1>were both crying and you thought we were crying, but

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<v Speaker 1>we were.

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<v Speaker 2>He was another one. He had big tear dunts. It's

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<v Speaker 2>both of you.

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<v Speaker 1>I never met anyone like that. It was we had

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<v Speaker 1>to have tissues in the room whenever you showed up.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, we'll do a short one that so you don't

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<v Speaker 2>get into full tears. But just as this is really

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<v Speaker 2>great for work. When we're at work, it relieves stress. Ready,

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<v Speaker 2>just take a big breath through. Everybody do this along

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<v Speaker 2>with I was just.

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<v Speaker 1>Gonna say, can everyone at home do this too?

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone do this? Ready, take a breath for your nose

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<v Speaker 2>and let out a hob. Listen to the hob, the

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<v Speaker 2>sound and the resonance from the ha. It's a very

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<v Speaker 2>spiritual word. It's cleansing. Allow it to cleanse you. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>in Church's Hallelujah is aloha. In Hawaii's a ha is

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<v Speaker 2>a beautiful word. Anyway, here we go, breathe in ah,

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<v Speaker 2>is gonna feel better already you let out that ha.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a hat sound. Let's do one more. Breathe into

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<v Speaker 2>your nose and a hah. Good. Now we're gonna giggle

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<v Speaker 2>at the end and giggle until the gas runs out

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<v Speaker 2>in the car. Ready and do it with me. It's contagious.

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<v Speaker 2>Here we go, look at it. Here we go.

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<v Speaker 1>Killing me.

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<v Speaker 2>See that's a really short version of guided laftation. And

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<v Speaker 2>when you're ready, towards the end of the interview, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to take you upper level to chuckle chatter.

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<v Speaker 1>I love that.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way. How are you feeling right now? A

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<v Speaker 2>little stress less stress right, no pressure.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel less stressed. But to be honest with you,

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<v Speaker 1>I was so excited to see you again after all

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<v Speaker 1>these years. I'm a little nervous because I want to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that I do everything right by you, because

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<v Speaker 1>you know you're my people.

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<v Speaker 2>But laughter does that though. It takes you out of that,

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<v Speaker 2>out of your and puts you more into presence awareness.

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<v Speaker 2>It's mindful to laugh. We rewire, we rewire the brain

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<v Speaker 2>when we do this, and it's amazing the results that

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<v Speaker 2>have happened. Your oxygenating, your body, healing and endorphins are released.

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<v Speaker 2>Stress is being relieved, which is a huge, huge cause

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<v Speaker 2>of illness. So people don't realize this. That really is

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<v Speaker 2>the best medicine. Here's the way to deploy it is

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<v Speaker 2>the laftation. And we'll get to the chuckle chatter later.

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<v Speaker 2>But even if you are nervous, it takes away to nerves.

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<v Speaker 1>Need to be a professor at a college and teach

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<v Speaker 1>this as well.

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<v Speaker 2>But what you're saying it don't make enough money with me.

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<v Speaker 2>I got to make a lot of money.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I have a few ex wives. By the way,

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<v Speaker 2>all my shows, my comedy shows, are benefit shows and

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<v Speaker 2>all proceeds go to my ex wives. I just thought

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<v Speaker 2>I'll let you know that if you pay a cover

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<v Speaker 2>for my show, it goes to botox and pilates class.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, the client and the cult.

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<v Speaker 2>Of my ex wife join. She's in a cult, so

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<v Speaker 2>it all goes to the cults.

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully it's a good cult.

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<v Speaker 2>But I got to laugh about that.

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<v Speaker 1>You have to. I love the One of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that you do is you're like, well, first, let me

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<v Speaker 1>just say this laughter. It does have what you just

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<v Speaker 1>did that exercise When I was looking at you and

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<v Speaker 1>we were doing that together. I can imagine being in

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<v Speaker 1>a business place and everyone looking at everyone and just

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<v Speaker 1>bursting out laughing, and stages when Lander and I would

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<v Speaker 1>do something with you on the show and we'd start laughing,

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<v Speaker 1>and then he'd have to go go to break, go

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<v Speaker 1>to commercial because we can't even talk. No one could

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<v Speaker 1>even talk. People would call us in their car, have

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<v Speaker 1>to pull the car over on the highway and say,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even know why you're laughing, but I had

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<v Speaker 1>to pull over because it made me laugh too.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it right there. You got the that's the magic,

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<v Speaker 2>that's the secret. Yeah, it's so contagious. We're so busy

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<v Speaker 2>being angry with one another, projecting our resentments and going

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<v Speaker 2>in our fear. Everybody's afraid and know how to deal

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<v Speaker 2>with their fears. Laugh through it, and then you'll be

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<v Speaker 2>You'll become a better person. Wouldn't we want to spread

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<v Speaker 2>spread that contagion around is laughter and joy and be

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<v Speaker 2>in joy?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you have to laugh at yourself?

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I do all the time. And you're you

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<v Speaker 2>know the title of your program, that's I've had to

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<v Speaker 2>do that my entire life. My dad left when I.

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<v Speaker 1>Was born, right away gone, oh yeah, gone.

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<v Speaker 2>Gone, yeah, and then he became a cult leader. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's a long story, but geez, I've had a really

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<v Speaker 2>really difficult time in life and the only thing that

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<v Speaker 2>saved me was laughter. We would get we would watch

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<v Speaker 2>television together. It's the only time we bonded. My mom

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<v Speaker 2>was always working, trying to make a living in a

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<v Speaker 2>secretary's whether she's a secretary or a law firm. And

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<v Speaker 2>I was alone alone a lot, and I was, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>really tiny, so I was picked on and beaten. I

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<v Speaker 2>was kidnapped when I was thirteen by a serial pedophile.

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<v Speaker 2>What yeah, what. I'm not going to be a victim

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<v Speaker 2>to that, though. This is where I learned resilience is

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<v Speaker 2>really really important in life, not to be a victim.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody's like a hashtag this and ribbon this, like we're

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<v Speaker 2>supposed to get on to your whatever you think you're

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<v Speaker 2>a victim of, and a lot of times they're not

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<v Speaker 2>even a victim of it. They're choosing who else is

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<v Speaker 2>the victim. He's treading as a victim. I say that

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<v Speaker 2>none of us are. None of us are. We need

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<v Speaker 2>to really really own our lives, have take ownership of

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<v Speaker 2>our lives and The one way you can do this

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<v Speaker 2>is look more to laughter and not to the news,

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<v Speaker 2>which is all negative, and they keep you in that condition.

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<v Speaker 2>It's an addiction. So you know, I'm a long time

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<v Speaker 2>sober now. And all of those things happen because of

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<v Speaker 2>those difficult circumstance, says, I learned how to live, and

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of it had to do with laughter. We

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<v Speaker 2>my my mom. I wanted my mom married so bad.

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<v Speaker 2>And I thought my dad's name was doesn't pay the

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<v Speaker 2>child support. I thought that was his name because he

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<v Speaker 2>didn't pay any child He would pop around every few

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<v Speaker 2>years and I would try to fix my mom up

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<v Speaker 2>with with comedians on television. There's a show called Hollywood Squares. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so Center screening Paul Lynde. Right, he was Uncle Arthur

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<v Speaker 2>and bewitched.

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<v Speaker 1>He set mom up with Paul land I did.

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<v Speaker 2>I wrote him letters, Dear Paul Lynde, you should meet

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<v Speaker 2>my mother because I read an article he was saying.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know why he was saying. I thought he

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<v Speaker 2>was happy Oho, I love oh wow, right, And my

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<v Speaker 2>mom would laugh at her. She goes, he's adorable. My

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<v Speaker 2>mom would say he's and he's handsome. And my mom

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<v Speaker 2>never got who was gay. She didn't. She thought Liberaci

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<v Speaker 2>is just flamboyant. My mom could never admit that anyone was.

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<v Speaker 2>Like the word gay wasn't even used back in her time,

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<v Speaker 2>right right, And it's like a woman who was a

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<v Speaker 2>lesbian was a spinster or whatever she would call it

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<v Speaker 2>would never be. Oh they were together like sexually, Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, God forbid. But my mom loved Paul Linz.

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<v Speaker 2>I wrote them letters. I said, you should meet my mother.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's a picture in a belly dancing outfit. That's a

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<v Speaker 2>true story too. And he never wrote me back. But

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<v Speaker 2>my goal in life Lynn, honest to God, when I

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<v Speaker 2>was a kid is how innocent I was. I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to be. I wanted him to adopt me and marry

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<v Speaker 2>my mother, and we would be the first father and

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<v Speaker 2>son team on the Hollywood Squares. What like they would

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<v Speaker 2>go be in the box together, you know, like Waylon

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<v Speaker 2>and Madam always had their own box. I was picturing

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<v Speaker 2>them going, I'd like Craig and Paul Lynn for the wind, please,

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<v Speaker 2>and we'd be in the box. Don't take it signed,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a sports questions there. We'd wear double asscots. So

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<v Speaker 2>that that was my visual of life. I really wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to be guess what Lynn the law of attraction? I

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<v Speaker 2>ended up on Hollywood Square seventy five episodes seventy five.

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<v Speaker 1>How did I miss those episodes? Was that when Whoopee

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<v Speaker 1>was producing was hosted.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly, And but the only problem is I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>at big celebrities. I was always Craig shoemak Shoemaker to block.

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<v Speaker 1>They used only to block.

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<v Speaker 2>They only used me as a block, but they would

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<v Speaker 2>never pick me first. I was always Whoopy or some

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<v Speaker 2>big star. Like one time I'm looking at a monitor,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, the only way to go she goes. I'll

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<v Speaker 2>take Antonio benderis for the loss. They try to pronounced Shoemaker,

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<v Speaker 2>but everybody goes to be Shoemaker.

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<v Speaker 1>That's anyway. I was on the Hollywood Squares too, by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, just say you know wow, I was. I

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<v Speaker 1>played the game and then I had to cover behind

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<v Speaker 1>the scenes for Channel four in Boston. Oh okay, so

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<v Speaker 1>I got to go in the chair in the center

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<v Speaker 1>square where you wanted to go with Paul.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh you were doing you were doing a piece?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was doing. I was doing a piece for

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<v Speaker 1>the local news.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, but they let you sit in the square.

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<v Speaker 1>So they let me tour all around and then I

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<v Speaker 1>did my whole intro. But you know what they had

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<v Speaker 1>to do. They tape five shows and five shows like

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<v Speaker 1>Saturday and Sunday as you remember, or at least ten

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<v Speaker 1>shows on weekends, like right in a row. So they

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<v Speaker 1>kept the audience in there, and they're like, okay, Lynn,

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<v Speaker 1>get Lynn, it's time for her to work. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>you mean, I have to do this thing for Boston

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<v Speaker 1>in front of the entire audience waiting for me to

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<v Speaker 1>finish so they can get back to tape another episode

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<v Speaker 1>of Hollywood Squares. I thought I was going to poop

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<v Speaker 1>my pants. I really, I don't know how I did it.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even remember what I said. But those boxes

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<v Speaker 1>are really uncomfortable and cramped, and they are not luxurious

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<v Speaker 1>at all on the inside.

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<v Speaker 2>No luxury. They have new Hollywood Squares. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if they do have luxury anymore, but or if they

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<v Speaker 2>made that fix. But they call it the Linn Hoffman

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<v Speaker 2>chair as a matter of fact, that yeah, they have

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<v Speaker 2>plush chairs now they call it the Lynn Hoffman chair.

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<v Speaker 1>So I had an effect that's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>Inspire you inspired the Hollywood squares that shift a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit so with they're production designed by Lynn Hoffman. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean my life was all about this. Really is

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<v Speaker 2>difficult for me to deal with being beaten or whatever

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<v Speaker 2>it is, or kidnapped. What am I going to do

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<v Speaker 2>about it? You got a lot, you got a few choices,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm not up for the other choices of being

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<v Speaker 2>a victim. I'm not up for being felt sorry for

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<v Speaker 2>any of that kind of stuff. I'm up for Let's

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<v Speaker 2>make a difference with each other with a vibration of love,

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<v Speaker 2>light and laughter. Let's bring that and we and the

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<v Speaker 2>rising tide floats all the boats.

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<v Speaker 1>It does. If we lift each other up, everybody wins.

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<v Speaker 1>You're you're a pioneer using laughter as healing. As we're discussing,

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<v Speaker 1>you've also had an incredible career in movies and television.

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<v Speaker 1>You had roles in Parks and Recreation, one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite shows, and Matt Locke. Last time I saw you

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<v Speaker 1>were going to work on a movie with Pharah Foss.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, yeah, wow, that's a long time ago. That's

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<v Speaker 2>not the last time I saw you. That movie was done.

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<v Speaker 2>It was fair Foster did my movie The Love Master.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, my character the love Master.

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<v Speaker 3>Obviously, right, that's right, baby, Yeah, yeah, you see naked

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<v Speaker 3>and afraid I get naked, you'll be afraid baby. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>the love Master. Baby.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't even going to bring it up, but here

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<v Speaker 1>it is.

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<v Speaker 3>I put my pants, thought it looks like a giraffe

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<v Speaker 3>getting in a Mini Cooper.

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<v Speaker 1>The doorb the doorbells.

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<v Speaker 2>That was the scene with Sarah Pharah was doing the

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<v Speaker 2>movie they call The Love Master, directed by my friend

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<v Speaker 2>who were going to get to Michael Goldberg. She was.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't believe it. She was doing my movie for

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<v Speaker 2>like one hundred dollars. So we're in a car rehearsing together,

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<v Speaker 2>just alone. I was. I think they called her miss Fawcett, like,

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<v Speaker 2>thanks for doing my movie, Miss Fawcett, and she goes, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>shut up, I'm here, but I just want to know

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<v Speaker 2>if that love Master is real. She reaches over and

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<v Speaker 2>there was there was no horne in my crotch. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not Cara Top, but anyway, you get the idea. She

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<v Speaker 2>reaches over for my junk. Really now, oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Full on, Fara Fawcet groped you.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, and I was not gonna sue. I was gonna

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<v Speaker 2>actually ask for what's the opposite restraining order? I was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna ask her to I was gonna ask her to

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<v Speaker 2>stalk me.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, ma'am. Can I have another exactly?

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<v Speaker 2>Unfortunately I wasn't ready for my close up though, so

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<v Speaker 2>I had an inny, it's my regret in life that

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<v Speaker 2>I go, Okay, I'm ready now because I was. I

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<v Speaker 2>had like a soprano voice talking. She just grabbed me. No,

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<v Speaker 2>I was not ready. Now ready, baby?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, you might need two hands to handle the

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<v Speaker 3>whopper baby.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, but she was so sweet and yes, the

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<v Speaker 2>doorbell was in the scene she asks for the love Master. Actually,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe she was getting in the character. She asked to

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<v Speaker 2>we on a date, and you know, allegedly in the

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<v Speaker 2>scene and I said, oh, thanks, because I'm always like

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<v Speaker 2>a nice guy and stuff. And she goes, oh shut up,

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<v Speaker 2>and where's the love master' Oh that's this character my act.

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<v Speaker 2>And she goes, she hangs, she shuts the door in

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<v Speaker 2>my face, her door, and then her doorbell rings and

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<v Speaker 2>she answers that, yes.

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<v Speaker 3>That wasn't my hand that rang the door bill. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>And then she goes, come on in.

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<v Speaker 2>Because that's what the women the women. That's why the

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<v Speaker 2>love Master came about. Because the girls in high school

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<v Speaker 2>would all use the F word with me, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the F word.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh, fun friend.

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<v Speaker 2>I was always doing a good friend. I was so

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<v Speaker 2>tired of being the friend. I was really tiny and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm six to two now, but I was like five

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<v Speaker 2>to one in high school and really tiny, high voice,

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<v Speaker 2>and uh, they would go to the bathroom together, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>girls go to the posse p. Yeah, they took me

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<v Speaker 2>with them. That's what a geek I was that took

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<v Speaker 2>me with them on the posse p. Come on, Craig,

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<v Speaker 2>let's go.

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<v Speaker 1>What did you do while they were using doing the

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<v Speaker 1>makeup and the I just.

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<v Speaker 2>Sit on the tub. You know, everybody's smoking cigarettes back

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<v Speaker 2>then and everything. Oh then they go Tommy's hot, George's hot,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm going, yeah, I'll fix you up. I know

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<v Speaker 2>those guys. Yeah, yeah, because they were always bad guys.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's when I'm there.

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<v Speaker 1>You were a professional wingman when you were a kid.

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<v Speaker 2>I was a wingman before there were wings on my side.

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<v Speaker 1>No wonder you went into comedy.

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<v Speaker 2>That's exactly why. Another thing that again, that was a

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<v Speaker 2>pain point for me. You know, I wanted girls and

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<v Speaker 2>they didn't want me. I asked thirteen girls to go

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<v Speaker 2>to the prom. I actually had a funny thing happen. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>these are a law of attraction things I want to

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<v Speaker 2>tell people. Just be patient with your life, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, it will unfold the way it's supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to unfold. So I'm on I was on a TV

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<v Speaker 2>show with Cindy Crawford to be That's great advice.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, what you just said really great advice.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean just wait, you know, be patient. Grand

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<v Speaker 2>Canyon is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, but

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<v Speaker 2>it was not created in three days. Sometimes these creations

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<v Speaker 2>need to take their time, you know, in the pace

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<v Speaker 2>of a higher source, not our own pace with our

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<v Speaker 2>own fears. So I'm on this NBC show with the

0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:50.679
<v Speaker 2>Cindy Crawford she got They gave her a week on

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<v Speaker 2>NBC to have her own show, late night show, and

0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.280
<v Speaker 2>I was one of her guests. She was that she

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<v Speaker 2>went to the premiere and she's talking to me. She goes, Craig,

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<v Speaker 2>you must have had a lot of girls because you're

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<v Speaker 2>the love master. I go, oh, no, Cindy. As a

0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.399
<v Speaker 2>matter of fact, I asked thirteen girls of the prom

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<v Speaker 2>and the one who went with me, Linda Scott, she

0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.440
<v Speaker 2>made out with Ricky aldemer in the corner, even though

0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.639
<v Speaker 2>I paid for her corsage and all that, and I

0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.880
<v Speaker 2>looked in the cant of I go, well, Linda, I'm

0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.080
<v Speaker 2>sitting here with Cindy Crawford suit card out. So then

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<v Speaker 2>it turns out he was watching, and so is Ricky

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<v Speaker 2>Aldemayer's wife. The emailed me. I got a little revenge

0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.920
<v Speaker 2>for that. She was the thirteenth one I asked out

0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:30.920
<v Speaker 2>because she would look good for the photos. I didn't

0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.320
<v Speaker 2>wasn't dating or anything, but yeah, she made it up

0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.919
<v Speaker 2>with Ricky Aldemier. He was there with someone else and

0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.720
<v Speaker 2>I saw them in the corner. But you know, those

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<v Speaker 2>things will cause comedy, and comedy is truth. If you

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<v Speaker 2>can tell the truth out there, that makes for the

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<v Speaker 2>best comedians. And the truth is we all have pain,

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<v Speaker 2>but sufferings the choice I choose not to suffer.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's for sure, and you share that with people,

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<v Speaker 1>which is like the best part of all. How do

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<v Speaker 1>you navigate though the challenging landscape, if you will, of comedy,

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<v Speaker 1>especially with the way society has sort of evolved in

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<v Speaker 1>the last I don't know. Decade. It's a really interesting time.

0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.440
<v Speaker 2>It's funny. It's what do you use that where it's devolve? Yeah,

0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.520
<v Speaker 2>this is evolving. It really is. When you're playing the

0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:23.040
<v Speaker 2>victim role and finger pointing and taking somebody's words of

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<v Speaker 2>like maybe two hundred and eighty characters and make that

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<v Speaker 2>their entire character and attack them for that, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>amazing to me. This is another paradigm I'd like to

0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:38.560
<v Speaker 2>switch is let's embrace the comedians. Let's lift the comedians,

0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:40.720
<v Speaker 2>and let us have that voice that is going to

0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:44.560
<v Speaker 2>expose the people that are corrupt. We are the curtain polers.

0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:46.720
<v Speaker 2>We have no money behind us. You know, there's no union.

0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:47.080
<v Speaker 1>No.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a friend who did comedy for years. My

0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:52.680
<v Speaker 2>opening act with Godfather my son. He's almost homeless because

0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.040
<v Speaker 2>he can't work. He has no residuals. We have nobody

0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.960
<v Speaker 2>to support us. I'm not playing a victim either, But

0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:02.720
<v Speaker 2>that's just the fact. Comedians are out there literally giving

0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.840
<v Speaker 2>you your medicine, literally making you happy. That's our goal,

0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:08.800
<v Speaker 2>it's our only goal. Yes, we're going to make some money,

0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.240
<v Speaker 2>but there's not that many multimillionaire comedians. Definitely not very

0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:16.960
<v Speaker 2>few billionaire comedians. But the billionaires get away with everything

0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:21.080
<v Speaker 2>because the lemmings that follow them do their bidding for them.

0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:23.600
<v Speaker 2>But what part of the bidding is, I'm going to

0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.840
<v Speaker 2>attack the messenger, the comedian who's trying to expose these

0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:30.239
<v Speaker 2>things in a funny way. That's what's really odd to

0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:33.000
<v Speaker 2>me is how many people are attacking and canceling comedians.

0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:37.520
<v Speaker 2>Go cancel a congressman. You can cancel a lawmaker, Cancel

0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:43.440
<v Speaker 2>a lobbyist. Cancel somebody poison poisoning your crops. Cancel somebody

0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.560
<v Speaker 2>who's making drugs that are really really bad, they're fentanyl

0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:50.080
<v Speaker 2>and stuff to go, cancel them. Not a comedian who

0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:53.400
<v Speaker 2>for one joke. If you don't like the joke, I say,

0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:55.240
<v Speaker 2>move on to the next one. There's another one common

0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:55.960
<v Speaker 2>that you're gonna like.

0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.160
<v Speaker 1>It's like New England weather just wait a minute, yeah.

0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.480
<v Speaker 2>Or New England clam Or you might not like the potatoes.

0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.840
<v Speaker 2>I don't like the potatoes. I love the clamps.

0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:06.480
<v Speaker 1>Well, it's just so easy if you're laughing, because that

0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.560
<v Speaker 1>coming through your nose is not and it will with me.

0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:12.399
<v Speaker 1>I tell people all the time, Craig, I live in

0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:18.119
<v Speaker 1>this world of television commercials, advertising, and things, And I

0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:20.159
<v Speaker 1>try to tell the close people in my world that

0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:23.680
<v Speaker 1>I speak to being victimy that you talk about, it's

0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:28.679
<v Speaker 1>sort of just being lazy. And also, if there's so

0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.920
<v Speaker 1>much thing like you said, if they can keep you scared,

0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:34.440
<v Speaker 1>they can control what you do, and there's no use

0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:37.920
<v Speaker 1>in arguing about it. It's more like, you know, you're

0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:40.720
<v Speaker 1>just willing to follow the pack as opposed to kind

0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:43.240
<v Speaker 1>of blaze your own trail. And that's not easy for

0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:45.400
<v Speaker 1>people at all to understand.

0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:48.560
<v Speaker 2>I've always liked you, and now I'm realizing why you

0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:50.680
<v Speaker 2>have a wisdom about you that you even had when

0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:53.560
<v Speaker 2>you were twenty two years old. That is absolutely so wise.

0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:54.359
<v Speaker 2>What you just said.

0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:55.240
<v Speaker 1>What did I say?

0:25:55.320 --> 0:25:57.120
<v Speaker 2>Want to you know what I said?

0:25:57.160 --> 0:25:58.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know what I said.

0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.080
<v Speaker 2>You're onto the formula that get you in fear, and

0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.320
<v Speaker 2>then the masses follow and so on. That's paraphrasing what

0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:07.800
<v Speaker 2>you were saying. But that's that's exactly what It is obvious.

0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:10.520
<v Speaker 2>But we just fall for it.

0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.879
<v Speaker 1>If you But people don't believe me. And I'm I'm embedded,

0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 1>like I'm here, I do imaging and marketing and commercials

0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:22.680
<v Speaker 1>and things, and so I understand how they're and now

0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:25.520
<v Speaker 1>it's really scary Craig because it's literally like one to

0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.000
<v Speaker 1>one advertising, Like you say something, your phone hears it,

0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.960
<v Speaker 1>and you turn on the TV. Bam, there's a commercial

0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.800
<v Speaker 1>specifically for you, not the next door neighbor.

0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:35.359
<v Speaker 2>I know.

0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:37.840
<v Speaker 1>So it's gone to the days like did you see

0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:39.280
<v Speaker 1>that hilarious spot on TV?

0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:39.640
<v Speaker 2>No?

0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.199
<v Speaker 1>No, I didn't see it because I was watching the

0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:43.439
<v Speaker 1>same channel. But something else came up for me.

0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:48.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm hoping that it comes up. You want a billion dollars.

0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:51.080
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking that's going to come up on my screen sometime.

0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.159
<v Speaker 2>You one a billion dollars. It's amazing to me. I

0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:57.720
<v Speaker 2>actually said, Ioner, if my hair is being lost here

0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:03.000
<v Speaker 2>and then boom every day, yep, here's transplants coming across

0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:04.919
<v Speaker 2>my phone. It's insane. I'm trying to figure out.

0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.800
<v Speaker 1>I think I work on my house. He's I got

0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:09.240
<v Speaker 1>to go. So why are you gotta go?

0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:09.440
<v Speaker 2>Oh?

0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:12.159
<v Speaker 1>My dad called me and he told me, did you

0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.560
<v Speaker 1>see that commercial for shingles? You better go right now?

0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:19.560
<v Speaker 1>And and I was like what what? What?

0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:22.240
<v Speaker 2>And here like you're working on my house? No, I

0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:26.560
<v Speaker 2>met the shingles on my roof. But yeah, start hammering it.

0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Was so weird. But but I but I saw that

0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:31.840
<v Speaker 1>that fear in his eyes, Like, well, if I see

0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:33.600
<v Speaker 1>it and they're and they're scaring me, it's easy to

0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.360
<v Speaker 1>control when people are scared. It's easy to control what

0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:38.640
<v Speaker 1>you do, what you buy, all of it.

0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:42.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm just amazed how people aren't listening to their true sense.

0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:45.800
<v Speaker 2>But I speak, and when I I, you know, I coach. Now,

0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:47.760
<v Speaker 2>I do a lot of coaching, executive coaching.

0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:49.640
<v Speaker 1>That's why I wanted you to come on here, because

0:27:49.640 --> 0:27:52.480
<v Speaker 1>I know you're an expert at laughter and healing. And yeah,

0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:54.240
<v Speaker 1>I love.

0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:56.479
<v Speaker 2>I love some of the work that I've done to

0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:59.479
<v Speaker 2>have people have personal transformations. And none of it happened

0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.240
<v Speaker 2>from pop and a pill. It all happened from some

0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:06.240
<v Speaker 2>changes and shifts that they needed to make, some mindset shifts.

0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:10.400
<v Speaker 2>And it's amazing to watch how they transmute this paint

0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:15.160
<v Speaker 2>into pleasure and happiness and joys. And it's an easy choice,

0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:18.560
<v Speaker 2>but it's amazing how we don't make it because all

0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:20.800
<v Speaker 2>they're doing is feeding us that crap. And now they're

0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:23.680
<v Speaker 2>literally feeding us crap. We are the most obese country

0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:27.520
<v Speaker 2>in the world. We're the first world country, but we

0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:31.920
<v Speaker 2>have these third world problems of diabetes and heart issues

0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:34.600
<v Speaker 2>and everything else. And then they get mad at somebody

0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:37.720
<v Speaker 2>for saying you're fat shaming or whatever it is. Well,

0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:40.280
<v Speaker 2>how about trying your do your own inventory on this,

0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:43.120
<v Speaker 2>watch what you're eating, and really be conscious about what

0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:46.240
<v Speaker 2>you're eating. But not only that, be conscious about protesting

0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:49.120
<v Speaker 2>comedians as opposed to protest to people that are making

0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.560
<v Speaker 2>this crap that you're addicted to. It's so people whose

0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:56.640
<v Speaker 2>processed foods. Of course, it's hard. Everything is hard. It

0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.520
<v Speaker 2>was really hard for me to deal with no support

0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:01.960
<v Speaker 2>when I was kidnapped and I came back from being kidnapped,

0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:05.640
<v Speaker 2>I was thirteen, really really hard. I was suicidal, by

0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:09.240
<v Speaker 2>the way, talk about laughter. So my mom raises by herself,

0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:11.080
<v Speaker 2>and you know, and I told my mom what happened,

0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:13.120
<v Speaker 2>and she said, ever telling you of this again, which

0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.160
<v Speaker 2>I would never do to my children. You cannot keep

0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:18.240
<v Speaker 2>secrets like that, Oh no, because that's a point of shame,

0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:20.440
<v Speaker 2>and you know you're gonna shame. And I started drinking

0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:23.360
<v Speaker 2>at thirteen and stuff like that. Well, then I suicide.

0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:25.760
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to kill myself. I had no reason to live.

0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:28.200
<v Speaker 2>And this was a guy I empowered to be like

0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.040
<v Speaker 2>a father figure, and he took me away, and it

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.400
<v Speaker 2>is a really bad situation, my god. But so I

0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:36.200
<v Speaker 2>put these neckties. I tied these neckties together, and I

0:29:36.280 --> 0:29:38.280
<v Speaker 2>threw them over the closet door, and I tied them

0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:41.400
<v Speaker 2>on the doorknob, and I made a news that I

0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:45.200
<v Speaker 2>learned in boy Scouts, and I started dangling and choking,

0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.160
<v Speaker 2>and my mom comes in, just, oh, my god, what

0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:50.719
<v Speaker 2>are you doing? She goes, that was her new neckties.

0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:58.920
<v Speaker 1>Get up, Only you would turn that into a comedy situation.

0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:05.000
<v Speaker 2>He did say that, wow, And I could get up

0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:06.360
<v Speaker 2>by the way I was on my knees. I just

0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:08.720
<v Speaker 2>got up, you know. I mean, I wasn't really doing it,

0:30:08.800 --> 0:30:10.719
<v Speaker 2>but there was some part of me that wanted to

0:30:10.800 --> 0:30:14.480
<v Speaker 2>be checked out instead of now and check in all

0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:17.600
<v Speaker 2>the time and just you know, be who we truly are.

0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.840
<v Speaker 2>We're meant to be love, light and laughter. It's what

0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:22.480
<v Speaker 2>we're meant to be. You know, let's do a laugh bit.

0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:24.960
<v Speaker 2>You know, children laugh three hundred times a day and

0:30:25.000 --> 0:30:27.040
<v Speaker 2>adults laugh twenty We need to you know, catch the

0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:29.400
<v Speaker 2>kids here, you know what I mean. Like, that's why

0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:31.280
<v Speaker 2>we need a laugh bit. We need we need to

0:30:31.360 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 2>laugh that much where instinctually, it's I call it the

0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:36.280
<v Speaker 2>seventh sense, our sense of humor.

0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:39.680
<v Speaker 1>Ooh, I've never heard of that before. That's awesome.

0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:43.920
<v Speaker 2>You're so right. It's the seventh sense. We all know

0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:46.360
<v Speaker 2>the sixth senses, intuition and things like that. We all

0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:49.640
<v Speaker 2>know the five senses, our seventh sense, which we ignore that.

0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:51.360
<v Speaker 2>We don't even call it that. I'm starting to call

0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:54.440
<v Speaker 2>it that with my business. It's something we ignore. But

0:30:54.520 --> 0:30:56.840
<v Speaker 2>we need to have that sense of self, our sense

0:30:56.880 --> 0:31:01.120
<v Speaker 2>of humor, because it goes away. We're born laughing, right,

0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:04.880
<v Speaker 2>Peek a boo makes you laugh. Yeah, it's simplest thing

0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:09.600
<v Speaker 2>in the world. We don't analyze them all that stupid stuff.

0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:17.160
<v Speaker 2>I three stooges, honey, it's you're just laughing. It's the

0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:21.120
<v Speaker 2>silliest crap ever. There's no punchlines or anything. But it's

0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:25.440
<v Speaker 2>so simple. Then we make it complex because we indoctrinate

0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:32.120
<v Speaker 2>children to believe you must follow and regurgitate. You regurgitate

0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:33.960
<v Speaker 2>the information we give you. I can still tell you

0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:36.120
<v Speaker 2>fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus Saale, the Ocean Blue,

0:31:36.200 --> 0:31:38.080
<v Speaker 2>Nina Penta Sentamury I can live right.

0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:39.760
<v Speaker 1>Wow, Yeah, that was good.

0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:41.640
<v Speaker 2>What purpose does that serve me?

0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:42.160
<v Speaker 1>Right?

0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.320
<v Speaker 2>And it turns out he wasn't such a great guy either,

0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:49.600
<v Speaker 2>like took the holiday away. We grew up a Columbus,

0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:54.160
<v Speaker 2>Columbu this Italian day. Now they're going, who wha, whoa, whoa, whoa.

0:31:54.440 --> 0:31:58.360
<v Speaker 2>He annihilated entire cultures. I mean literally.

0:31:58.160 --> 0:31:59.840
<v Speaker 1>Anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm.

0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:01.840
<v Speaker 2>Not gonna to get into the politics. People get upset.

0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:04.240
<v Speaker 2>To My point is, I'm just regurgitating what they tell

0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:06.880
<v Speaker 2>me to learn. And that's what school is, yep. And

0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:09.600
<v Speaker 2>for your compliance, you get an award, an award, whatever

0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:11.160
<v Speaker 2>it is. Even if you go to war, you get

0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:13.040
<v Speaker 2>a little metal, get a little metal. Here, do your job.

0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:15.080
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna tell you who to hate, We're gonna tell

0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:18.480
<v Speaker 2>you who your enemy is. You're gonna go fight for us.

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:22.320
<v Speaker 2>And that's how the world operates. I'm saying, listen to

0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:24.560
<v Speaker 2>your true sense of self, and if wants none of that,

0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:27.080
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't want violence, it doesn't want to fight or

0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:30.400
<v Speaker 2>be angry or raging or hate. That's not what your

0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:32.800
<v Speaker 2>true self wants. But we've been taught that. So I

0:32:32.840 --> 0:32:37.240
<v Speaker 2>have a program literally when I coach groups individuals to

0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:41.160
<v Speaker 2>recondition to be who we really are reprogram through a

0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:45.320
<v Speaker 2>programming that I've developed and including what you did earlier.

0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:47.360
<v Speaker 2>Just a little bit bit of it is shifting your

0:32:47.440 --> 0:32:49.120
<v Speaker 2>vibration through the power of laughter.

0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:54.200
<v Speaker 1>There's something about vibration that is scientific. Like you would

0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:55.120
<v Speaker 1>mention upfront.

0:32:54.800 --> 0:32:56.960
<v Speaker 2>The other thing you're wise about. That's exactly right. We

0:32:57.000 --> 0:33:00.160
<v Speaker 2>are all energy. Yeah, yeah, that's what we are.

0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.640
<v Speaker 1>We are electricity in us, Like we don't plug into

0:33:03.640 --> 0:33:05.480
<v Speaker 1>a wall. That's always baffled me.

0:33:05.960 --> 0:33:10.080
<v Speaker 2>And now we have false electricity guiding us. These smartphones

0:33:10.080 --> 0:33:10.880
<v Speaker 2>that make it idiots.

0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:12.400
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, dumb phones.

0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:14.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's making it's it's making me into an idiot.

0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:19.000
<v Speaker 2>You know what's happening is, yeah, I scroll. I'm guilty.

0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.360
<v Speaker 2>I scroll, okay, and I late night scroll, which is

0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:23.760
<v Speaker 2>not good. That's bad for it, Like give the insomnia.

0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.560
<v Speaker 2>I mean I boom. Now what's happening is my hard

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:29.040
<v Speaker 2>drive in my head only has so much space, right,

0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:32.960
<v Speaker 2>we only have someone space, so valuables have. Stuff has

0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.760
<v Speaker 2>to leave my brain, so crap like what you have

0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:39.160
<v Speaker 2>for dessert on Instagram goes in. That's what is everybody

0:33:39.200 --> 0:33:41.000
<v Speaker 2>so self obsessed? Oh, let me show you what I

0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:43.600
<v Speaker 2>have my life, how beautiful. It is so now it's

0:33:43.640 --> 0:33:47.200
<v Speaker 2>like now that's being programmed into me. So now everybody.

0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:49.520
<v Speaker 2>So there's a new custom probably the last twenty years.

0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:51.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm in the restaurant. It comes up. He goes, my

0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:54.240
<v Speaker 2>name is Kad, I'll be your weight. I go, do

0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:55.560
<v Speaker 2>I have to memorize your name?

0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Is there gonna be a talent?

0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:00.960
<v Speaker 2>You just you just replaced myself. This is a security number.

0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:04.760
<v Speaker 2>Don't don't give me the specials. I'll lose my Gmail password.

0:34:05.760 --> 0:34:08.400
<v Speaker 2>Gmail password pisses me off, by the way. It's always

0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:12.279
<v Speaker 2>fighting with me talking about fighting. It's not strong enough.

0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:14.920
<v Speaker 2>They're called me a wuss over here. They're arguing, that's

0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:18.040
<v Speaker 2>my password, and they go, try a symbol, try a number,

0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:24.680
<v Speaker 2>Try how's this pound pound pound jackass? But yeah, everywhere, Yeah,

0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:27.120
<v Speaker 2>that one gets right through. Yeah, of course I all

0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:28.200
<v Speaker 2>know my Gmail password.

0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:32.160
<v Speaker 1>Is this the classes that you're teaching? Is that part

0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:35.320
<v Speaker 1>of Laughter Heels the Laughter Heels foundation that you started

0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:36.240
<v Speaker 1>that a while back?

0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:39.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And that was inspired because I will tell you

0:34:39.680 --> 0:34:42.520
<v Speaker 2>positive and I don't want to call anything negative, but

0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:47.080
<v Speaker 2>you know I was. I've been doing comedy for years

0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:49.400
<v Speaker 2>and all these people come up to me, especially Detroit.

0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:51.120
<v Speaker 2>That was the first time it happened. I'll never forget

0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:53.400
<v Speaker 2>Kim and say, hey, thank you so much. I just

0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.239
<v Speaker 2>thought they were saying thanks for the laughs that night,

0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:57.520
<v Speaker 2>and I said, no, really, we were told we couldn't

0:34:57.560 --> 0:35:00.279
<v Speaker 2>have a child. We tried in vitro every then we

0:35:00.360 --> 0:35:04.400
<v Speaker 2>gave up. We saw your show, went home. My husband

0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:08.040
<v Speaker 2>pretended he was a love master. I had a wonderful time,

0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:11.359
<v Speaker 2>and we had a baby girl nine months later, right,

0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.640
<v Speaker 2>And that's when I thought to himse, wow, that laughter

0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:17.960
<v Speaker 2>is good medicine. And I thought, wow, you're not trying

0:35:18.080 --> 0:35:21.600
<v Speaker 2>to have a child, You're just allowing. You're creating space,

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:24.600
<v Speaker 2>a laughter space and all that. So then I had

0:35:24.640 --> 0:35:26.880
<v Speaker 2>all these other people set up, like one, I have

0:35:26.920 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 2>a photo. I should show it to you, conceived in

0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:33.000
<v Speaker 2>the parking lot of the Brave Improv minutes after my show.

0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:34.640
<v Speaker 2>They couldn't even wait till they got home. And there's

0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:36.760
<v Speaker 2>this little girl who came out laughing. It's the funniest

0:35:36.760 --> 0:35:37.960
<v Speaker 2>little picture that they sent me.

0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:41.480
<v Speaker 1>How does that make you feel when that happens?

0:35:42.080 --> 0:35:45.200
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I just love it. I love it. I embrace

0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:47.960
<v Speaker 2>it because I'm saying it's not an ego thing. I go, oh,

0:35:48.080 --> 0:35:51.120
<v Speaker 2>laughter works, not Craig works. Now I happen to be

0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:54.400
<v Speaker 2>the messenger of the laughs. That's great, But I always

0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:56.760
<v Speaker 2>tell people go wherever he needs. You might think I stink.

0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:59.080
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't matter to me. Just go somewhere else and

0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:01.919
<v Speaker 2>go get the laughs or do a guided laffittation. It's

0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:06.960
<v Speaker 2>your choice. So and then my my child, Jared, was

0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:11.239
<v Speaker 2>adopted and no breast milk. Guess where his breast milk

0:36:11.280 --> 0:36:14.080
<v Speaker 2>came from? Breton. Mindy couldn't conceive. I said, come to

0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:16.200
<v Speaker 2>my show. They did. They had sex and they had

0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:19.080
<v Speaker 2>baby Cooper, who was born one week different from Jared. Yes,

0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:22.840
<v Speaker 2>one week. So we would go to the farmers farmers

0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:25.719
<v Speaker 2>market and get Mindy's breast milk like a drug deal.

0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:29.759
<v Speaker 1>Did she ever fridge all stocked up?

0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:32.359
<v Speaker 2>She's frozen for us.

0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:33.120
<v Speaker 1>This is Jared.

0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:37.200
<v Speaker 2>This is oh yeah, because I gave them life and

0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:40.920
<v Speaker 2>they give they give Jared life of you know this, uh,

0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:44.280
<v Speaker 2>and it's this twenty years ago. I mean, so anyway,

0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:47.200
<v Speaker 2>all to get to the story of Michael Goldberg, he

0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:49.200
<v Speaker 2>wrote Cool Running His Little Giants. One of my best

0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:52.239
<v Speaker 2>friends from Philly with Eagles parties everywhere. I mean, we

0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:55.880
<v Speaker 2>just were bonded. He directed the Love Master movie with

0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:58.640
<v Speaker 2>Farah Faws and we're in Arizona filming some of it

0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:01.600
<v Speaker 2>and his wife they wanted to have a baby, Karen,

0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:04.080
<v Speaker 2>who actually was my blind date at first. He married

0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:09.319
<v Speaker 2>her and so Karen says, I'm ovulating. We're in a

0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:12.439
<v Speaker 2>condo about to watch our eagles actually, and I said, hey, man,

0:37:12.520 --> 0:37:14.640
<v Speaker 2>do the Love Master. It works for a lot of people.

0:37:14.800 --> 0:37:17.239
<v Speaker 2>It's a fertility clinic over here. They said, yeah, it's

0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:19.320
<v Speaker 2>a great idea. So I said, I'll go get sandwiches.

0:37:19.320 --> 0:37:21.560
<v Speaker 2>And I went and got sandwiches, came back. They were

0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:25.560
<v Speaker 2>already done. I guess Love Master did his job.

0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:26.160
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:31.400
<v Speaker 2>Baby Kayla was born nine months later. What yeah, So how.

0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.560
<v Speaker 1>Many kids is this? How many kids is this? Now?

0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I can't well? I five? I count five for sure.

0:37:38.200 --> 0:37:38.799
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:41.600
<v Speaker 2>Conceived by guys doing the Love Master.

0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:42.719
<v Speaker 1>Do you keep in touch with them?

0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.680
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'll tell you the story with Golds. His name's Golds.

0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:52.000
<v Speaker 2>Michael Goldberg. Oh again, a comedy guy. Really funny dude.

0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:54.640
<v Speaker 2>We bonded through laughter, which is another thing we bond

0:37:54.680 --> 0:37:56.440
<v Speaker 2>with our kids. I talked about this when I coaches it.

0:37:57.239 --> 0:37:59.319
<v Speaker 2>Who do you bond with from your childhood people you

0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:02.160
<v Speaker 2>laugh with, right, you share laughter together. That's the You

0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:04.520
<v Speaker 2>don't want to hang out with some miserable gloom and

0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:08.960
<v Speaker 2>doom person, right, Yeah, although misery loves company sometimes. But anyway,

0:38:09.880 --> 0:38:12.359
<v Speaker 2>a year and a half after Kayla was born, he

0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:15.160
<v Speaker 2>was diagnosed with brain cancer. In the game three Months

0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:20.200
<v Speaker 2>to Live. That was my moment why I'm on your show,

0:38:20.719 --> 0:38:23.680
<v Speaker 2>because that was the moment I went, ah, if laughter

0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:27.960
<v Speaker 2>is the best medicine, let's prove it. And I started

0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:30.520
<v Speaker 2>this program in a cancer facility in the valley. He

0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:32.239
<v Speaker 2>showed up for all of it. I just was making

0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:33.600
<v Speaker 2>it up as I went along. I did a lot

0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:36.040
<v Speaker 2>of research. There's a lot of science that backs this up.

0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.040
<v Speaker 2>On my new business of Laughter Works, we actually have

0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:44.200
<v Speaker 2>the top neuroscience from Harvard. He's on our board now

0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:47.120
<v Speaker 2>and this is all backed up. This is this serious.

0:38:47.200 --> 0:38:49.960
<v Speaker 2>Take laughter seriously. I mean, it really is what it

0:38:50.000 --> 0:38:53.120
<v Speaker 2>does to you for your healing process, and if anything

0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:54.960
<v Speaker 2>it does, it gives you a will to live. The

0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:57.640
<v Speaker 2>more you want to laugh. He took all my prescriptions.

0:38:57.680 --> 0:39:00.439
<v Speaker 2>I said, hey, let's all exchange our favorite common movies,

0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:02.480
<v Speaker 2>even saying the name of the movie is funny. And

0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:06.600
<v Speaker 2>fun or a quote from the movie if I say

0:39:06.640 --> 0:39:11.839
<v Speaker 2>those aren't pillows, planes, trains, automobiles, and then people laugh

0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:14.200
<v Speaker 2>just at the thought of that scene. If those aren't pillows,

0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:22.160
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh. Anyway, how about the Bears game housekeeping? See

0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:23.920
<v Speaker 2>what I mean? So you're laughing just at the thought.

0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:27.040
<v Speaker 2>That's the vibration that's being exchanged between us right now.

0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:29.880
<v Speaker 2>He shows up for all of it, does all the prescriptions.

0:39:29.880 --> 0:39:31.759
<v Speaker 2>I say, go to comedy shows. He was so many

0:39:31.760 --> 0:39:33.840
<v Speaker 2>of my shows. He came three months to live. He

0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:37.480
<v Speaker 2>lived fifteen years past that product. Fifteen years.

0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:40.359
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, Craig, I'm gonna cry and I don't

0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:43.600
<v Speaker 1>have any tissues. Now you're making me cry. Holy crap.

0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:46.120
<v Speaker 2>And he had a team of about five of us

0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.400
<v Speaker 2>would like you know, look, he went through the chemos

0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:50.759
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that as well. But he had his

0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:54.480
<v Speaker 2>will to live. You can't coach he really did, and

0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:57.520
<v Speaker 2>he showed up for all of it. And then, if

0:39:57.520 --> 0:40:00.359
<v Speaker 2>I may get a little people can tune away if

0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:02.759
<v Speaker 2>you don't want to hear a semi crude story. But

0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:05.920
<v Speaker 2>it is funny. Okay, it's a little risque. But how

0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:08.719
<v Speaker 2>about you just take those things out of what you

0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:10.920
<v Speaker 2>think is riskue, and just listen to this story for

0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:14.160
<v Speaker 2>what it is, the true story. He was in hospice

0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.239
<v Speaker 2>and it was the end. Who's actually living in an

0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:19.760
<v Speaker 2>old folks home at fifty years old? That's so sad,

0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.319
<v Speaker 2>you know, to go in there. By the way, if ever,

0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:25.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm in need of a self esteem boost, I can

0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:29.200
<v Speaker 2>get laid in these old people's homes. I'm a studying there.

0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.760
<v Speaker 2>They would just walk up and go, I'm taking a closet.

0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:36.799
<v Speaker 2>I have no teeth, I'm perfect for you. It was unbelievable.

0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:39.800
<v Speaker 2>I will I never felt like such a stud I

0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:42.920
<v Speaker 2>mean wow. So anyway, that's rightly you say.

0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:46.879
<v Speaker 1>Venereal diseases are up in retirement homes and old age

0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:49.840
<v Speaker 1>homes and stuff, so that is true.

0:40:50.640 --> 0:40:53.480
<v Speaker 2>Let him have fun. What the hell exactly? What else

0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:55.600
<v Speaker 2>are you gonna judge them? They don't even judge anymore.

0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:58.840
<v Speaker 2>Who cares anymore? At that point? While I go in

0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:00.640
<v Speaker 2>there and we film this actually for a movie called

0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.799
<v Speaker 2>Laughter Heels. I have a nonprofit called Laughter Heels, which

0:41:03.800 --> 0:41:07.520
<v Speaker 2>I formed for him, and we go to hospitals, after

0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:11.760
<v Speaker 2>care facilities, wounded warriors, first responders. We help people find

0:41:11.840 --> 0:41:14.719
<v Speaker 2>this joy and this laughter in their lives because they're

0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:18.080
<v Speaker 2>dealing with difficult circumstances and this will shift them in

0:41:18.120 --> 0:41:21.960
<v Speaker 2>no other way, no better way. So he shows up

0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:23.600
<v Speaker 2>off it and then he ends up in a coma.

0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:25.879
<v Speaker 2>He's literally in a coma we have where we filmed it,

0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:27.600
<v Speaker 2>and I said, well can I I said, old, what

0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:30.760
<v Speaker 2>can we do for you? He's just staring, literally staring

0:41:30.840 --> 0:41:32.799
<v Speaker 2>in this. I was like waving my hand in front

0:41:32.800 --> 0:41:35.880
<v Speaker 2>of him. What could I do? Man? What can I

0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:39.399
<v Speaker 2>do to help you? I leaned in, I said, want

0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:43.280
<v Speaker 2>me to give you a handy. I never done anybody

0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.040
<v Speaker 2>but my own. I'm really good with my own. I'll

0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:48.600
<v Speaker 2>give you a handy. He came out of a coma

0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:52.920
<v Speaker 2>and he goes and he laughed, shut up. I told

0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:54.080
<v Speaker 2>him I was going to whack them off.

0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:57.800
<v Speaker 1>I believe that's called no. I shouldn't say it. Sorry,

0:41:58.280 --> 0:41:58.920
<v Speaker 1>I'll say it.

0:41:59.000 --> 0:41:59.319
<v Speaker 2>Say it.

0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:03.560
<v Speaker 1>I think that's called handj He left off the j

0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:06.400
<v Speaker 1>for my crew comedy friends.

0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:08.799
<v Speaker 2>And I didn't know that. From now on, when I

0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:10.680
<v Speaker 2>tell the story, I'll make it up that I didn't

0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:13.000
<v Speaker 2>say Jay. I actually said, I'll tell you what I said.

0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:14.520
<v Speaker 2>I said, you want me to jerk you off? Because

0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:17.279
<v Speaker 2>that's a photo. It it got put off. That's that's

0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:19.560
<v Speaker 2>the big They'll call you a jayo with the accent.

0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:22.439
<v Speaker 2>You're a jay o. It's the worst thing.

0:42:22.719 --> 0:42:25.920
<v Speaker 1>But he woke up. He woke up and laught, laughed,

0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.839
<v Speaker 1>he laughed. Were there's doctors in the room that saw

0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:29.440
<v Speaker 1>this happen?

0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:32.080
<v Speaker 2>Well, it was definitely one of our friends was in

0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:35.000
<v Speaker 2>the room because he was filming it. And whoa Mark

0:42:35.040 --> 0:42:38.000
<v Speaker 2>Ben He was a director and he yeah, he was there,

0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:39.920
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, I think there's a there was a nurse

0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:42.279
<v Speaker 2>there that saw this. He was just a wave in

0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:45.120
<v Speaker 2>my hand. There was no way he was. And he

0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:47.040
<v Speaker 2>he had been in a coma before. I remember, like

0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:49.680
<v Speaker 2>years before, and when he came out of a coma,

0:42:49.960 --> 0:42:52.239
<v Speaker 2>I actually said, you could hear us, couldn't you. He goes, yeah,

0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:55.359
<v Speaker 2>I can hear you in a coma that they act

0:42:55.400 --> 0:42:57.640
<v Speaker 2>like they can't or they don't or whatever the case is.

0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.239
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, he heard me and he laughed because you

0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 2>knew that was And he died two days later. But

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:04.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm happy and proud that it made him laugh. Oh

0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:08.800
<v Speaker 2>my gosh, you know, And that's a great legacy. I'll

0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:10.759
<v Speaker 2>take that one all day long. And by the way,

0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:12.720
<v Speaker 2>I didn't go through with it. I didn't.

0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.160
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't even going to ask that, but thanks for

0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:16.719
<v Speaker 1>letting us know, because I know.

0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:21.360
<v Speaker 2>Your mind, your promise, you maker, no no Jayo.

0:43:23.760 --> 0:43:25.880
<v Speaker 1>Well you know, it's interesting that you bring that up

0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:28.560
<v Speaker 1>because this was leading me to my next question.

0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:31.880
<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine where Jao goes to your next question.

0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:36.400
<v Speaker 1>Don't you love that this is called the Jao segue?

0:43:37.120 --> 0:43:39.280
<v Speaker 2>Is a first? I guarantee it's a first.

0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:42.800
<v Speaker 1>How can Lynn take that and roll it into.

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<v Speaker 2>Something I'm waiting, I'm sitting back. Where's Lynn going with?

0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.520
<v Speaker 2>I know she's a genius on the microphone. Let's see

0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:49.520
<v Speaker 2>where this is going. Go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>Well I wouldn't go that far, but thank you, I'll

0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:53.480
<v Speaker 1>take it. Looking back on your career, which has been

0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:55.880
<v Speaker 1>long and less curious because I don't even know if

0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:59.359
<v Speaker 1>that's a word less curious, but I found stuff from

0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.799
<v Speaker 1>you from like the early eighties and stuff. So you've

0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.399
<v Speaker 1>been at this a long time. And if you look

0:44:04.440 --> 0:44:06.839
<v Speaker 1>back on your whole career, especially with everything that you've

0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:08.880
<v Speaker 1>been through, we didn't even touch on your relationship with

0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:11.080
<v Speaker 1>your dad when he came back into your life. I

0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:15.200
<v Speaker 1>do believe. Yeah, yeah, there was a But what do

0:44:15.239 --> 0:44:19.040
<v Speaker 1>you hope for, especially with all of these foundations, What

0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:21.799
<v Speaker 1>do you hope that your legacy will be? And how

0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:24.239
<v Speaker 1>do you want to be remembered in the world of comedy.

0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:27.960
<v Speaker 2>It's funny us to say that there's a difference between

0:44:27.960 --> 0:44:32.719
<v Speaker 2>comedy and laughter, and that's something I feel like me

0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:36.320
<v Speaker 2>finding that difference is important for the world to understand

0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:40.839
<v Speaker 2>because we're divided on what makes us laugh. We're not

0:44:40.960 --> 0:44:44.399
<v Speaker 2>divided when we are laughing. That's a good quote, isn't it.

0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:46.359
<v Speaker 1>That is You should put that on a T shirt.

0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:48.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, write that down right.

0:44:49.239 --> 0:44:50.120
<v Speaker 1>I only have a sharpie.

0:44:50.160 --> 0:44:51.719
<v Speaker 2>It's not going to come up with all these quotes.

0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:53.320
<v Speaker 2>The other day it came up with seven cents.

0:44:53.360 --> 0:44:56.920
<v Speaker 1>Actually, I love it. But we're recording this so it's

0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:57.440
<v Speaker 1>in there.

0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:01.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I want my lega see to be For instance,

0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:03.799
<v Speaker 2>I have a legacy business. Now laughter works. We're we're

0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:07.239
<v Speaker 2>going to change corporate wellness and turn it on its head.

0:45:07.280 --> 0:45:12.600
<v Speaker 2>And it's a huge business. And look, I've found out

0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:15.279
<v Speaker 2>in life that's not about awards and rewards. I was

0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:18.000
<v Speaker 2>a community or at American Comedy Awards. It's like the

0:45:18.000 --> 0:45:20.480
<v Speaker 2>big it's the Oscar of Comedy. It's on ABC. It

0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:23.920
<v Speaker 2>was presented by Lily Tomlin. You know, do you know

0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:27.320
<v Speaker 2>it was the loneliest night of my life? Really yeah,

0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:30.839
<v Speaker 2>because I got there and I'm going, wow, first, there's

0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:34.680
<v Speaker 2>no there there. Then I see people backstage. My contemporaries

0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.799
<v Speaker 2>are shining me off. You know that night they did.

0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:39.799
<v Speaker 2>I was driving around in a limo with my big

0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:46.760
<v Speaker 2>award and you get imposter syndrome. And it was a really,

0:45:46.800 --> 0:45:50.439
<v Speaker 2>really lonely night. But it also became a point where

0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:52.920
<v Speaker 2>I could go, Okay, what is this about? Is this

0:45:52.960 --> 0:45:56.520
<v Speaker 2>about my ego? So what's the legacy? The legacy is

0:45:56.520 --> 0:46:00.560
<v Speaker 2>if I can teach people and guide people into a

0:46:00.600 --> 0:46:04.680
<v Speaker 2>new realm of possibility with the power of laughter, then

0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:07.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing my job. It's not about me being rewarded.

0:46:08.040 --> 0:46:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Like I know, I have a trophy next to you.

0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:12.480
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to brag, but I do. I want

0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.440
<v Speaker 2>to brag about let's see it. So I've got a

0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.680
<v Speaker 2>couple of EM's back here, and I've got the Comedian

0:46:16.760 --> 0:46:19.040
<v Speaker 2>or American Comedy Awards Supporting Actor and all this kind

0:46:19.040 --> 0:46:21.960
<v Speaker 2>of stuff. But here this award right here, keep it

0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.759
<v Speaker 2>next to me. I won the horses ass Award and

0:46:24.800 --> 0:46:26.280
<v Speaker 2>I actually reunion.

0:46:27.440 --> 0:46:30.800
<v Speaker 1>That's an ass of a horse made into an award.

0:46:30.880 --> 0:46:31.439
<v Speaker 1>Holy mode.

0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.439
<v Speaker 2>I won this trophy the horses asked of my ex

0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:38.480
<v Speaker 2>wife's family reunion from by the way your area, Massachusetts.

0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:42.680
<v Speaker 2>I won that award and I deserve and I deserved

0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:44.360
<v Speaker 2>and earned that reward an award.

0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:46.440
<v Speaker 1>Wow, are you still friends with your exes?

0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:51.320
<v Speaker 2>No, on one of them, for sure.

0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:51.520
<v Speaker 1>No.

0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:55.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't know that that could ever be repaired unless

0:46:55.480 --> 0:46:59.160
<v Speaker 2>something happened with her like a lightning bolt, understood, wake

0:46:59.200 --> 0:47:04.560
<v Speaker 2>her up into I've done my job with both. I

0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:08.840
<v Speaker 2>have done my job literally, all the forgiveness, all of

0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:10.959
<v Speaker 2>the amends, everything that I need to do to clean

0:47:11.040 --> 0:47:15.040
<v Speaker 2>up my side. Some people I don't think are capable.

0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:18.360
<v Speaker 2>You know. I used to say to to my son's

0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:21.759
<v Speaker 2>I say, she puts her head to the pillow. Does

0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:24.120
<v Speaker 2>she really believe those things? Because she would accuse me

0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:25.839
<v Speaker 2>of these things like a lot of women are doing.

0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.080
<v Speaker 2>This is very sad. Whether they work the court system

0:47:28.120 --> 0:47:30.319
<v Speaker 2>and they don't get punished for bringing up false things,

0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:33.520
<v Speaker 2>they do not get punished whatsoever. And that stuff sticks

0:47:33.680 --> 0:47:35.520
<v Speaker 2>to a guy when you hear the stuff that she

0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:38.920
<v Speaker 2>would say about me costs me like a million dollars

0:47:39.280 --> 0:47:42.040
<v Speaker 2>to prove my innocence. That would have gone to my children.

0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:44.319
<v Speaker 2>That's all everything I do ever do in life, call

0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:48.879
<v Speaker 2>goes to kids, my kids, and that yet wives are

0:47:48.880 --> 0:47:51.280
<v Speaker 2>preventing that from taking place because they take it through

0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:53.960
<v Speaker 2>in this revenge system that we're in, in the family

0:47:54.000 --> 0:47:57.879
<v Speaker 2>court system. It's not built for the man because we're

0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:00.880
<v Speaker 2>still paying for the you know, for the nineteen fifties

0:48:00.920 --> 0:48:05.279
<v Speaker 2>fathers said get my slippers, bitch of co'se. Still they

0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:09.080
<v Speaker 2>think that we're still that guy. Yeah, and so if

0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:12.840
<v Speaker 2>you get something attached to you, your bully, abuse her

0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:15.879
<v Speaker 2>and oh it's done. You know, that's it. I believe her.

0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:19.680
<v Speaker 2>It is literally a statement you'll hear out there. Well,

0:48:20.600 --> 0:48:22.839
<v Speaker 2>it's a bad situation to be in. So I can

0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:26.480
<v Speaker 2>only bring my kids who I truly am. So if

0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:29.120
<v Speaker 2>you say I the one, I definitely don't speak to

0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:33.200
<v Speaker 2>the other one. She joined a cult, and so.

0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:35.879
<v Speaker 1>Are you serious when you say that, like, oh yeah, yeah,

0:48:35.880 --> 0:48:36.880
<v Speaker 1>a literal cult.

0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:40.480
<v Speaker 2>She was literally just completely brainwashed. My kids say it too,

0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:43.000
<v Speaker 2>they spoke to the police about it. Yeah, she's completely

0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:46.920
<v Speaker 2>enamored with this cult leader. This woman, she just follows

0:48:46.960 --> 0:48:49.799
<v Speaker 2>everything that she does. She has a podcast. It's just

0:48:49.960 --> 0:48:54.000
<v Speaker 2>it's really it's heartbreaking though, to see somebody with this

0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:57.439
<v Speaker 2>kind of you know, it's mental health, which again that's

0:48:57.440 --> 0:48:59.759
<v Speaker 2>what I'm helping people with his mental health. Her mental

0:48:59.760 --> 0:49:03.319
<v Speaker 2>health is so far compromised by giving all of her

0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:05.719
<v Speaker 2>power over to somebody where I'm saying, you have the

0:49:05.760 --> 0:49:09.880
<v Speaker 2>power within you. It tap into that potency, that potency

0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:13.880
<v Speaker 2>which is filled with joy and laughter, happiness, gratitude, grace.

0:49:14.400 --> 0:49:17.480
<v Speaker 2>That's who we really are. And she went down this

0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:20.799
<v Speaker 2>other path of greed and selfishness and you know, blew

0:49:20.840 --> 0:49:24.960
<v Speaker 2>the whole family up for no reason. But in that case,

0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:28.440
<v Speaker 2>there's a much better chance because first we have two

0:49:28.520 --> 0:49:32.040
<v Speaker 2>young children. It was really close. And during the fires,

0:49:33.040 --> 0:49:37.239
<v Speaker 2>again my highest source and highest good, we evacuated. I

0:49:37.320 --> 0:49:40.080
<v Speaker 2>invited her to the beach house that I rented, and

0:49:40.120 --> 0:49:43.600
<v Speaker 2>she moved into the beach house. So there we were,

0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:48.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, still divorced and still you know, in alleged battle,

0:49:49.000 --> 0:49:52.719
<v Speaker 2>and we walk in the beach together and laughing and

0:49:52.760 --> 0:49:55.239
<v Speaker 2>going on dunes and cartwheels and making fun of me.

0:49:55.320 --> 0:49:57.560
<v Speaker 2>Of course, that's always.

0:49:57.239 --> 0:49:58.720
<v Speaker 1>Part of a that's part.

0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:03.799
<v Speaker 2>Always as Dad's always the brunt of the joke. It's

0:50:03.840 --> 0:50:05.920
<v Speaker 2>great about comedies. I can think of reverse that on

0:50:06.000 --> 0:50:09.160
<v Speaker 2>a stage with a microphone. But it was really beautiful

0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:12.440
<v Speaker 2>and in the moment, not to say it stayed, you

0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:15.560
<v Speaker 2>know there's But that's where I'm going to keep returning to.

0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:18.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to keep returning to that true essence that

0:50:18.800 --> 0:50:22.200
<v Speaker 2>I really am. My true seventh sense is my sense

0:50:22.239 --> 0:50:24.799
<v Speaker 2>of humor. I'm going to keep returning to it. And

0:50:24.840 --> 0:50:28.200
<v Speaker 2>with sense of humor comes love and light. And that's

0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:31.920
<v Speaker 2>that's where I hope that we could all get to obvious.

0:50:32.000 --> 0:50:34.760
<v Speaker 2>All is never going to happen, but more people if

0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:38.560
<v Speaker 2>we do follow this indoctrination, if you will, we're indoctrinated

0:50:38.600 --> 0:50:42.279
<v Speaker 2>to be in fear. Why not be indoctrinated to look

0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:46.080
<v Speaker 2>for more joy, look for more laughter, keep your laugh bit,

0:50:46.520 --> 0:50:48.480
<v Speaker 2>pay attention to whoa look at how many times I

0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:50.399
<v Speaker 2>laugh today. I guarantee you're gonna feel better, right.

0:50:51.000 --> 0:50:53.439
<v Speaker 1>I think that we need to call Apple immediately after

0:50:53.480 --> 0:50:55.680
<v Speaker 1>this call and pitch them on the idea, because I

0:50:55.680 --> 0:50:58.520
<v Speaker 1>think that is genius. I also think that you're genius

0:50:58.560 --> 0:51:01.719
<v Speaker 1>because of what you're doing with your craft, because it

0:51:01.840 --> 0:51:05.759
<v Speaker 1>helps so many people. And the question I have for

0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:09.320
<v Speaker 1>you is you know, you're giving of yourself and people

0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:12.480
<v Speaker 1>want to get what you're giving and have it work.

0:51:12.880 --> 0:51:14.680
<v Speaker 1>And I've had so many people tell me through my

0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:16.480
<v Speaker 1>life when when I would say to them, you know,

0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:21.719
<v Speaker 1>happiness is a choice, and you have to force yourself

0:51:21.800 --> 0:51:25.560
<v Speaker 1>and teach yourself. You have to learn behavior. And if

0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:28.440
<v Speaker 1>you learn a different behavior and you've been doing it

0:51:28.480 --> 0:51:31.840
<v Speaker 1>for so long, yeah it's hard, but you can't. The

0:51:31.880 --> 0:51:34.280
<v Speaker 1>old saying people don't change is I think it's bullshit.

0:51:34.440 --> 0:51:37.200
<v Speaker 1>I think people agree with you hard on something.

0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:40.200
<v Speaker 2>And here we can hang out more. For God's sake,

0:51:40.239 --> 0:51:43.520
<v Speaker 2>we need to hang out more. You're in complete alignment. Actually,

0:51:43.600 --> 0:51:45.280
<v Speaker 2>one of my books is called Get Out of Line

0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:46.200
<v Speaker 2>and Into Alignment.

0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:48.520
<v Speaker 1>Well, that's a chiropractor, you know.

0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:53.400
<v Speaker 2>This is alignment with your true self. You're out of

0:51:53.440 --> 0:51:57.400
<v Speaker 2>these people's lines, right, And that's so important. Even the

0:51:57.480 --> 0:52:00.120
<v Speaker 2>topics of your podcast, it's out of line. That's I'm

0:52:00.160 --> 0:52:02.400
<v Speaker 2>not in line with them telling you to pop a

0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:06.520
<v Speaker 2>drug for your answer, right, or eat something bad for you.

0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:09.439
<v Speaker 2>That's you're in alignment with yourself, your true self, which

0:52:09.480 --> 0:52:11.839
<v Speaker 2>is probably why you still look twenty two years old

0:52:12.360 --> 0:52:14.680
<v Speaker 2>and you're not twenty two anymore, I know it. I

0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:15.879
<v Speaker 2>googled Craig.

0:52:15.920 --> 0:52:18.520
<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for being on Comedy Save Me, and

0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:22.400
<v Speaker 1>thank you for the joy of laughter and the therapy

0:52:22.480 --> 0:52:26.239
<v Speaker 1>that you continue to spread and give everyone. Because I

0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:28.640
<v Speaker 1>think you should be a doctor of laughter.

0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:32.120
<v Speaker 2>Life has changed, but you and I haven't. Can't wait

0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:33.839
<v Speaker 2>to hang with you when I come back east. There

0:52:33.880 --> 0:52:35.479
<v Speaker 2>you come out west, all right, Greig.

0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:41.280
<v Speaker 1>Thank you