1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air Friday. Alsmont was 3 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 1: made that Dion Sanders would be holding a press conference 4 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: following day with doctors to reveal some medical news. Dion 5 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: Sanders the coach of the University of Colorado. His son 6 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: went in the fifth round to Cleveland. Nobody could believe it, 7 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: even after Dylan Gabriel. He may not even make the team. 8 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: He's number four on the depth chart. At least he 9 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: started camp at that. Deon Sanders arguably the greatest two 10 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: way NFL player of all time if you consider his 11 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: body of work because Bo Jackson's bone came out of 12 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: his hip. Bo Jackson two sport player, not two way player. 13 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: Deon Sanders certainly, in the conversation an absolute legend and 14 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: a guy that was also a two sport athlete that 15 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: played professional football games and baseball playoff games on the 16 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: same day. He is a master, absolute master at drawing 17 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: attention to himself. And you've probably seen him in a 18 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: number of commercials, even if you never saw him play 19 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: the aflet commercial with Nick Saban. Nike a longtime sponsor 20 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Chevrolet well, he's been in the news 21 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: because he took a bad University of Colorado team, and 22 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: while they didn't make a bowl game, they beat the 23 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: defending or the former participants in the National Championship Game 24 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: the year before TCU, and that was a big deal. 25 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: He had a two way player himself in Travis Hunter, 26 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: who has the potential to shake up the NFL. Incredible player, 27 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: and Dion's like a father to him. Dion has become 28 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: a major part of college football and the media landscape 29 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to football altogether. Most people really like Dion. 30 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump loves Deon Sanders. They go way back. So 31 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: the news was announced on Sunday. I assumed because he's 32 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 1: been very public about losing several of his toes due 33 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: to a blood condition, I assumed that maybe they were 34 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: going to announce that they were going to have to 35 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: take the foot off, that he would be be walking 36 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: with the prosthetic foot. It's unfortunate that this guy has 37 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: all these medical problems because he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke. 38 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: He takes pretty good care of himself, you'd think, but 39 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: some people it's genetics. For a lot of people, it's genetics. 40 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: So he's to have the press conference to highlight what 41 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: has happened with his health. And he has the press 42 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: conference and he says that he has bladder cancer. And 43 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: his doctor is there and she talks about the procedure 44 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: they have undertaken, and I don't even begin to understand 45 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: how that works. I'm not much of an expert on 46 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: the bladder. I've studied the bladder a lot less than 47 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: I have the kidneys and the liver. I've known some 48 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: folks to have bladder problems, to have bladder cancer. I have. 49 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 2: I have. 50 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: Our webmaster, Brian Hackel, has an ostomy bag, but not 51 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: because of his bladder, but because of his digestive system. 52 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: And he's been on the show. He has a company 53 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: called Sturmagear that that makes the components so that your 54 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: colostomy bag doesn't rub blisters on your belly, which was 55 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: something an invention that he came up with out of necessity. 56 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: In fact, he makes a couple of hundred thousand dollars 57 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: a year off of this invention. He fashioned and created 58 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: a website. By day, he is an engineer and technical guy, 59 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: but he created this thing because in his late twenties 60 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: he had to poop in a bag, and it turns 61 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: out that bag, when it rubs against your belly, creates blisters, 62 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: and so we've had him on the show. I became 63 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: mildly obsessed with the whole ostomy system, whether it's internal 64 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: or external. A number of people have to have that 65 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: when your internals fail, and it's relatively common, especially as 66 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,119 Speaker 1: you get older, and most of my friends are older 67 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: than me. It's the sort of thing you talk about 68 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: a lot. Went to Vegas with some friends a few 69 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: weeks ago, and a friend of ours that we know 70 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: that's in his early eighties, but as spry as a 71 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: fifty five year old had just had prostate cancer and 72 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: he had to self cap for six months prior to 73 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: the surgery while his body was being prepared for that. 74 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: And that means to stick a tube up as willy 75 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: every day when he peed five times. Pretty miserable thing. 76 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: And it was all we talked about on the trip, 77 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: because I'm fascinated by medical stuff, and so we were 78 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: making jokes, led by my joke making, and it was 79 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: all a rollicking good time. And that's how we old 80 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: our friend that we love him and that he has 81 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: he has our support as he goes through this. So 82 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: I didn't watch the press conference, but Dion apparently said 83 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: I have bladder cancer, I can't control my pe and 84 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: I depend on Depends. Well, my wife happened to watch 85 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: the press conference. So we go for a walk late 86 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,559 Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon and she says, and you see what happened 87 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: with Dion Sanders. She's not a pop culture person. Saw 88 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: surprise you even knew? And I said no. And she says, 89 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: he has bladder cancer. And I said, oh, it's unfortunate. 90 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: He's had a run go rough go, and she said, 91 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 1: but I love the way he handled it. He said, 92 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: I depend on Depends and he said that my I 93 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: guess his grandchild and he compete for who can fill 94 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: up the diaper the most. And she said, you know what, 95 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: He's going to end up being the spokesman for Depends, 96 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: and he's going to make incontinence and everything for men 97 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: and women something that you feel comfortable talking about, because 98 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: Dion opened the door to it, and he's going to 99 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: get a lot of money from Depends on this, because 100 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: if you think about it, who's the better spokesman to 101 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: make that conversation something you open with? And I said, 102 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. So last night we go for 103 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: a while and we're talking about it, and how brilliant 104 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: is that he's going to get paid a lot of 105 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: money and he's going to actually do some good because 106 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: it is true. Incontinence is common as you get older, 107 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: prostate cancer, bladder issues, all of this, And so I 108 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: posed not to be funny, although there'd be nothing wrong 109 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: if I did. I said, Dion Sanders about to get 110 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: paid paid all caps with a lot of eyes. But 111 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:01,679 Speaker 1: it depends. It turns out I wake up this morning 112 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: to find out that he does now have an endorsement 113 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: deal with depas depend this the company. But the thing 114 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: I want to talk about is why I got scolded 115 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: by so many people say that's not funny, that's not funny. 116 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: First of all, it wasn't meant to be funny. To 117 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: be okay, if it did it turns out to be true. 118 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: You can go to my Facebook page and apologize if 119 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: you'd like. My wife and I had a long discussion 120 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: about how you deal with bad news. Forgive me for 121 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: repeating this story. It's still relatively fresh. My mom died 122 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: September nineteenth, and if you've lost your mom, you know 123 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: that's you only get one mom so it still hangs 124 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: heavy in the air. The last conversation I had before that, well, 125 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: on the last conversation, but at the moment where she 126 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: decided that she wanted to go home and die, she 127 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: had had a very painful procedure that day. The doctors 128 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: had told me I wouldn't want this for my mother, 129 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: and the diagnosis had been very clear, and she'd been 130 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: suffering for a very long time, and she never really 131 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: recovered well, she never recovered at all from my brother's 132 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: sudden death January twenty fifth, a couple of years before, 133 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: and my dad's health was failing, and I think she's 134 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: seventy nine, the weight of the world. She saw nothing 135 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: good to come, and her race was run. Everything was good, 136 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: her grand my brother's kids or adults, they're doing well. 137 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: I think she felt like her race was run. And 138 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: so we go over, my wife and I and we 139 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: sit with her for several hours late into the night, 140 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: where she says I want to go home, and my 141 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: wife dutifully the next morning shows up early and they 142 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: put her in the ambulance and we take her to 143 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: the house. And I've rushed to Orange that morning and 144 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: to be the the hospice care provider to have beds there, 145 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: to have the bed there so that it's and I 146 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: have to prepare my dad pretty tough conversation, you know. 147 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: You imagine you hear me tell that story of what 148 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: I had to be rough. We laughed, actually laughed the 149 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: whole time. 150 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: We laughed. 151 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: My wife quotes my mom's commentary that night constantly because 152 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: she had some really, really funny things to say. And 153 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: laughter is one way that some people deal with a 154 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: lot of things in life. Do you notice how many 155 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: jokes there are about that. Men will tell about coming 156 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: home and their wife's in bed with another man, or 157 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: their wife running away on them, or the wife not 158 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: loving them for them, or when they're dead happy their 159 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: wife will be. That's not their dream or their fantasy. 160 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: It's your worst fear. But you make jokes about things 161 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: because when you can laugh, it's something you can own something. 162 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons we've lost young people 163 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: for so many years. Trump has brought this back is 164 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: that our people don't laugh. Our people are miserable. How 165 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: long can you be mad? You don't catch many bees 166 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: with that brand of honey. I'll tell you that you'll 167 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: learn to laugh. Well, I let it make me madder 168 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: than I should have not, because I care some woman 169 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 1: sitting out in somewhere, a real somewhere of ill America 170 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: scolding me. That's not funny, Michael. We have bladder cancer. 171 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: Hope you don't get it. Well, if I do, I laugh, 172 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: just so you know I'll make jokes. I make jokes. 173 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: What I did. It's how I cope. You don't because 174 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: you are humor less. You have no sense of humor, 175 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: and that's your problem. That's sad because laughter is a 176 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: very important tool God gave us to make life more joyful, 177 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: even in the midst of sadness and misery. It's true. 178 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: So I read the emails and I scolded every person 179 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: who was scolding me. I hate a scold. It made 180 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: me realize and I thought this for a while. One 181 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: of the reasons so many people need therapy in this country, 182 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: and so many people are on prescription drugs, and so 183 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: many people are so miserable and self medicating and sad 184 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: all the time is because we've allowed the left to 185 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: make us a bunch of scolds, a bunch of wet blankets, 186 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of people running around waiting for someone to 187 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: say something that is impolite, imperfect in some way insensitive 188 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: and says you did that. It's like the kids who 189 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: showed up on Saint Patrick's Day waiting to pinch somebody, 190 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: just hoping somebody wasn't wearing greens so they could pinch them. 191 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: Or the kids in the far back on a long 192 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: drive waiting for a car that had only one light 193 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: or whatever else because that was the game and you 194 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: get to slap the other person. It's like people are 195 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: running around all over social media waiting for the moment 196 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: that someone says something imperfect. Everything must be serious and 197 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 1: sad and downer. What a miserable way to go through life? 198 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: What a sad existence? And all the while, all the while, 199 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: they didn't realize that Dion had made the point about depends. 200 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: Was it was his joke I was making I actually 201 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: wasn't making a joke. I don't know how much Depend 202 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: apparently the brand doesn't have an s. I don't know 203 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: how much Depend paid him. But you stop and think 204 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: about this. You sell adult Dike It kind of things 205 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: people don't feel comfortable talking about. Kind of thing. It's hard. 206 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: What do you do do you show a commercial like 207 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: the late night infomercial, Hi, I'm Bob. I can't control 208 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: my p anymore, but I wear depends depends keep me 209 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: from pissing all over the floor, because it would be 210 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: odd for spanking the dog for peeing all over the 211 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: floor and smearing her face in it so she doesn't 212 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: do it again. Maybe they would have done that to me, 213 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: but not now, not with depends. It's weird, right, And 214 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: then you got Dion Sanders. So imagine how this is 215 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: going to go. Your Grandpa's watching the football game with you. 216 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: Ballgame brings everybody together. You're watching the game, there comes Den, 217 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: Hey Deon, is it true you wear it depends? Well, 218 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: it depends. No, Seriously, guys, bladder cancer's real. Not everybody 219 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: can control. We're all getting older. Take this approach. Don't 220 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: be ashamed. Dion does how many depends? Are they gonna 221 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: sell a trillion? Right? And now you've taken a subject 222 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: that's awkward, a subject that's off the fence, a subject that, 223 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: in your twenties is nothing but funny. It's funny, funny, 224 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: funny because partly funny because you know one day you're 225 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: going to be there. We all are. But I go 226 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: back to the idea of how many people have followed 227 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: me for twenty years, and immediately felt the need to say, 228 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: that's not nice, Michael, my brother's got past take cancer. 229 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: That's not nice, Michael. Cancer's not funny. But that's just it. 230 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: It is funny. The things you think are most impossible 231 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: to laugh about are the things you must most laugh about, 232 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: because when you laugh at something, that's when you own it. 233 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: I get so mad at people who get angry over 234 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: the left, and I say, it's not until you can 235 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: laugh at them, that's what will hurt them the most. 236 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: Leon Sanders is a man's man. Any given Sunday, he 237 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: was the fastest man on the field. He was certainly 238 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: the most athletic. If you ever watched Dion play, particularly 239 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: defensive back those years in Atlanta particularly, I know Dallas 240 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: loved him, but those years in Atlanta, to watch his 241 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: timing and to watch him step in front of a 242 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: pass and take it to distance and dance as he 243 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: got down there, it was truly a thing of beautiful beauty, 244 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: It really was. It was glorious to watch not just 245 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: his speed, but his savoa fare, his style of a doll. 246 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: Now you could argue that that Dion is a precursor 247 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: to the style over substance, the celebrating being more important 248 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: than the scoring, the terrell Owens and the me me me, 249 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: and yes that all is absolutely true, but one can't 250 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: deny it was athleticism and skill, talent prowess on full display. 251 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: And that's how he's known more than anything else. That's 252 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: how he's known. Kind of a Donald Trump with the 253 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: football field bravado, but he delivered. So for him to 254 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: have to lose toes too young. If you ever watched 255 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 1: any of the documentaries and things on the Colorado team, 256 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: and you see the woman that comes in that massages 257 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: his feet, and you see how bad his feet look. 258 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: They're mangled and gnarled, and I mean they can't feel good. 259 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: He's having to lose toe after toe, and that alone 260 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: has to be exhausting. He's entered Uncle jerry realm, where 261 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: Uncle Jerry wakes up from a surgery that he's put 262 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: off for five years, much to my nagging and his 263 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: wife's nagging. But finally he did it and he wakes 264 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: up and Renee, his wife. I'm texting back and forth 265 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: to get the news on how we're doing with the thing, 266 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: and it went well. All the doctors said they feel 267 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: like they've restructured his foot now hopefully won't have this again. 268 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: Hopefully within a couple of months, he'll be walking. Uncle 269 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: Jerry's supposed to come on our trip in late October, 270 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: the Palm Beach three trip, and she said he was 271 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: determined that he's going to be on that trip, and 272 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: so that's what he's working towards. It's good to have 273 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: a goal. And ten texts in she says, oh he 274 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: by the way, they had to cut off his pinky toe. 275 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: I said, Renee, you can't tell me ten messages in 276 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 1: they cut his pinky toe off. And she said, you 277 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: know what, I wasn't even worried about it, Michael. I 278 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,719 Speaker 1: was just so happy that everything turned out well. And 279 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: I said, and I got to figure out a way 280 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: we can have some phone with this, and she said 281 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: he would love that. I'm sure that will make him 282 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: feel better. So I'm literally riding my bike. I called 283 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: Chance mclan which is a bad idea because I've had 284 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: a bad crash and blew my eye out. But I'm 285 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: on the phone with one hand and writing with the other, 286 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: and I'm calling Chance McLain and I tell him what's happened, 287 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: and for an hour we're on the phone spitballing ideas 288 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: as to Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. We got to make 289 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: a joke about this, right, We got to remind Jerry, 290 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: don't get too serious about this. Let's have some fun 291 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: with it. And you heard the song yesterday. I don't 292 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: think I figured the whole world out, but if I 293 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: can help people with one thing, it stopped taking everything 294 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: so seriously. I've had conversations with blacks who'll get so 295 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: upset when the N word is mentioned. They're so upset 296 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: over the N word being mentioned. You don't understand. I 297 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: understand that words can be hurtful, but I also understand 298 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: that no matter what the word is, you choose whether 299 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: the word is hurtful. I understand that you choose your 300 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,719 Speaker 1: reaction life. I do understand that, and that many people 301 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: have chosen to be very set. You know, a friend 302 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,719 Speaker 1: of mine's daughter is in college at University of Texas, 303 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: which is also where my son goes. And I asked 304 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: my friend how his daughter's experience is going with the 305 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: University of Texas, and she's going back for her junior 306 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: or senior year and are you ready for this? She 307 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,719 Speaker 1: had the four girls in an apartment. In each one 308 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: of they have these little rooms and they have the 309 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: room in the middle, and two of the four girls, 310 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: not his daughter, but two of the other four girls 311 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: have emotional support dogs. You're twenty years old. What do 312 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: you need an emotional support dog? Four? What trauma are 313 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: you working through? You're twenty. We have allowed the left 314 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: to make us a miserable people. And yes, on our 315 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: side too, we have allowed the left. I get emails 316 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: every day. I just can't Jasmine Crockett as a TV 317 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: and she must be president. And you know, while they 318 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: ain't putting them in jail yet, and then the hunter's 319 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: over there, and who's Michael? 320 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 2: Who's on? 321 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 1: What are you doing? We're winning? We are winning. It 322 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: hasn't been this good for us in decades. I know, well, what, yes, 323 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: what's it got? 324 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: Well? 325 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: I don't put them in What are they gonna put 326 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,120 Speaker 1: them in prison? I don't know. But if you think 327 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: them putting them in prison is gonna make you happy, 328 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: you are in desperate search for a drug that's not 329 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: fulfilling your needs. You need a fix that you can't get. 330 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:52,479 Speaker 1: They have so hyped you in to frustration. You probably 331 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: spent three hours yesterday. But you're shooting Manhattan. Yeah, shooting Manhattan. Okay, 332 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: the CNN said it this white guy. He ain't why 333 00:21:59,480 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: look at you? 334 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 2: Look at me? 335 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: No? Why he and they're just breathless all day. I 336 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: don't know how people get anything done. I really don't. 337 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: It's shooting, it's black. This seems why you know what 338 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: you think it's why? Yeah, it's CNN. Are you really 339 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: that upset? And then somebody posts a picture of a 340 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: black suburban and they said, this is a white suburban. 341 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: Per se and in Okay, at least somebody can laugh, 342 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: a little deon can laugh. He's the one that's got cancer. 343 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,719 Speaker 1: Listen to this. This is Dion Sanders yesterday. 344 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 2: I'm thankful. It's been a tremendous journey. It's been tough. 345 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: I think I dropped twenty five pounds. I was like 346 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 2: a Atlanta valcant Prime at one point. No, and just 347 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 2: dealing with the cafe. They're dealing with all the stuff 348 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 2: that I had to deal with. And right now I'm 349 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: still dealing with going to the bathroom like it's a 350 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 2: whole life change, Like I can't and I'm gonna be transparent. 351 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: I can't pee like I used to pee. It's totally different. 352 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 2: And uh, she not only is a blessing, but she 353 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 2: provided other persons that have gone through what I've gone 354 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 2: through so that I could talk to them and get 355 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 2: some solace and understand like what I'm facing not just 356 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 2: from a doctor but from another individual. And to have 357 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 2: to have been told like it's a totally different life. 358 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 2: I mean, thank God, I'm now I'm dee. I depend 359 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,479 Speaker 2: on depend you know, if you know what I mean. 360 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 2: I truly depend on depend Like I cannot control my bladder, 361 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 2: so I get up to go to the bathroom already 362 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 2: four or five times a night. But then I'm sitting 363 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 2: up there waking up, you know, like grandson, We're in 364 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 2: the same thing. We got the same problem right now, 365 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 2: we're going through the same trials and tribulations. We kind 366 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 2: of see who has the heaviest bag at the end 367 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 2: of the night. Like it's ridiculous. 368 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: Ritch Michael Berry shaken from us far too soon. I 369 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: heard Richard Pryor doing an interview later in his career. 370 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: And in case you don't remember, didn't follow comedy, aren't 371 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: old enough to know there was a period of time 372 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: for not quite five years, that Richard Pryor was the 373 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: funniest man in America, and that wasn't really open for dispute. 374 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: He was the undisputed champion of comedy. His stuff was 375 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: so raw, so new, so groundbreaking, that it was changing comedy. 376 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: And he talked about how he had morphed as a 377 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: comedian and how it changed his comedy. And he talked 378 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: about how when he was a little kid in a 379 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: young man and he got on the stage to tell stories, 380 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: he didn't have any life experiences. He'd never been betrayed, 381 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: he'd never been swindled, he'd never been mugged, he'd never 382 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: had a physical problem, never gone through a divorce, never 383 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: had an addiction. All the things that would plague him 384 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: in later life that he would cope with through humor. 385 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: And he said he would tell jokes about looking in 386 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: the toilet at the pooh that he'd put there, and 387 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: what it was shaped like and how it would leave, 388 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: and he said, it's all I had, that's all I knew. 389 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: So I talked about what I knew, and I made 390 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: people laugh because everybody'd been to the toilet. It's interesting 391 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: at fifty four how different our show is than when 392 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: we started and I was thirty four, because I hadn't 393 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: really lost anybody close to me. You know, the world 394 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: is your oyster. Everything's perfect, it's always going to be great. 395 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: There's never going to be sadness or illness or failure, 396 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: scandal or controversy or betrayal. And so that's really all 397 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: you know to talk about. But as you get older 398 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: and things happen, it changes you. Iron sharp sharpens iron, 399 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: and you become a bit wizened, and you become a 400 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: bit wiser. And it's interesting because the things I want 401 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: to talk about today come from a very different perspective 402 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: than they did before. And a lot of you have 403 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: grown up with me, and many of you who are 404 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: my age or a few years more, have nursed your 405 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: elderly parents and then buried your elderly parents, and some 406 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: of you have done that, and now you are the 407 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: elderly parent. And I love that. I love that we 408 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 1: have so many listeners eighty plus. Michael Petru loves it 409 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: because they all call him and want to get off 410 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: that tennis ball walker thing. They want to get back 411 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: up standing tall. I mean a lot of our listeners 412 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 1: say man You've got more folks post eighty that are 413 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: in great shape who are calling us for whatever our 414 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: particular person does. It's incredible and I love that reading 415 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: emails during the break from people who the laughs they've 416 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: enjoyed with their parents or their spouses, depending on if 417 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: they're in their fifties and sixties or seventies and eighties, 418 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: as they go through cancer and different horrible conditions. I 419 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: don't know. I like to think that makes the whole 420 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: process just a little bit better for them. So if 421 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: you would like to tell that story and how laughter 422 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,479 Speaker 1: was a part of all that, feel free to call 423 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: seven one three nine nine one thousand seven to one 424 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: to three nine nine nine one thousand. Amy writes, my 425 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: mother fussed at anyone who messed up the house, left 426 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: out dirty dishes, shoes all over the floor. She had 427 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 1: post polio syndrome and used those metal crutches. We were visiting, 428 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: and my husband shouted, who left their crutches in the 429 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:19,120 Speaker 1: middle of the floor. I still laugh about that joke. 430 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: Julianne writes, I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer 431 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: at forty three, just before Christmas. I had a double 432 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: mistectomy on January third, two thousand and seven, my daughter's 433 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: made boob cupcakes and brought them to the hospital for 434 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: all the nurses and doctors and staff. We all laughed 435 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: and laughed. We made so many friends. It was basically 436 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: a party and a happy one in and outside the room. 437 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: It made a hard thing so much easier and better. 438 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: I think people have forgotten we can laugh and have 439 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: fun in the midst of pain. Anyone who tells you 440 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: that you can't laugh at this or that because they 441 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: have a child with cancer, out of cancer, or you 442 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: don't know I have a health condition, that's a person 443 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: who doesn't know how to laugh. And by the way, 444 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: do you say to yourself when I make jokes about 445 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: some black guy who claims that white people invented the 446 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: computer because a black guy in Africa played the bongo, 447 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: and we make jokes and we play the mm hm woman, 448 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: and you just laugh and laugh. Do you know there's 449 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: somebody out there going, that's not funny. I'm black. Most 450 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: people are going, now, that's funny. I'm black. That's funny, 451 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: right there, funny. That was a ridiculous statement, and he's 452 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: making a joke to prove the absurdity of it. If 453 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: you don't understand the point of laughter. You're never going 454 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: to get laughter. Laughter is not insult. Laughter is not minimizing, dehumanizing, 455 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: and humiliating unless you choose for it to be. Perspective 456 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: is everything. I've seen more happy people working in the 457 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: kitchen in the steam and the heat, with scars up 458 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: and down their forearms, who are whistling while they work 459 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: and loving what they do. I've seen other people who 460 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: are trust fund babies and rich as they can be, 461 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: and just miserable all the time. It is all your perspective. 462 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: What is and isn't funny isn't in some book. There's 463 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: no lists, there's no rule. Not funny, Michael, not funny. 464 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: People have cancer, my friend has cancer. Okay, then learn 465 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: to laugh about it. Tell a joke about it. Yeah, 466 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: that's how you deal with things. That's how you own things. 467 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: You never truly truly own a condition until you laugh 468 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: about it. Just try this sometimes when you hear when 469 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: you meet one of these wet blanket democratics says, yeah, 470 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: well you just think that because of white privilege. Make 471 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: a joke about it as well. You just feel that 472 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: way because you didn't get anything. You just feel that way. 473 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: Because you have a miserable life. You just feel that 474 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: way because you are humorless, you're no sense. That's the 475 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: worst thing you can do to the way. That's what 476 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: they want you to do. If you have, you laugh 477 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: at them, destroys them.