WEBVTT - "Misery" w/ Morgan Bassichis 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:20.439 Hi. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.159 Quick announcement before the episode gets started, and that is 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.000 that George and I's incredible, amazing stand up tour continues 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.960 this weekend. We're going to San Francisco, then Seattle, where 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.599 we've added a second date because the first one's sold out, 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.520 and then Portland, where we've added a late show because 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.720 the first one's sold out, and then Los Angeles, California, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.159 where we'll be finishing our stand up tour. So please 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.639 get tickets there in our bio and we are so 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:49.040 excited to finish strong and get this. 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That's true. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:26.560 That's true. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.760 I actually was I was cutting your cutting off your 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.200 wings because I was I was hearing you you. I 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.119 was like, you're about to be a superstar on Mike. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.960 I can't have you overshadow me. So I'm gonna cut 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.600 in and say I'm feeling rigid. That is wild. I 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.120 can't believe you would do that. Tell me more about 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.959 your rigidity. Do you know when you have those days 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.160 where you're not moving in a in a flow based 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.559 way and you're moving more in a kind of action 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.200 figure based right angle way. Yeah, I and and now 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.880 I'm aware of it, and I'm and it's only making 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.480 me move more in a Barbie hands feet permanently in 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.440 heels kind of way. And this started like when you 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.920 woke up this morning. Yeah, I you know this studio 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.799 I'm lucky enough to say is approximately thirteen minute walk 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.440 from my apartment. I woke up, I started walking. I said, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.640 uh oh, I'm not really runway walking right now. I'm 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:16.160 more so kind of like. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.040 A pr girl with a clipboard. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.440 You know. It's like everyone else is a celebrity and 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:23.440 I'm the one ugly one. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.480 Sorry, sorry, I have to say I've seen you walk 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.240 stif flee before What the hell? I know what it 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:29.600 looks like when you're not in your flow state. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.760 Yeah, what but you have also seen in my flow stage. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.080 Of course it's you you glide on the sidewalks, but 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.200 when you when you go g I Joe mode, and. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.920 It's no, it's crazy because it's also like, at this point, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.080 shouldn't I be able to fike it? 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.840 So also should I be able to know? 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.280 Like this is just my default state of walking? 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.160 But when you think about what is my default state 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:51.200 of walking, you've already lost. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.560 How are you feeling? I have to say the complete opposite. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.880 I mean, yes, don't get me wrong. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.840 I was seven minutes late to arriving, but that's because 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.560 I'm lost in the building. Yeah, but up until then 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.600 everything was working so perfectly. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:04.840 Well. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.920 You biked here, I city biked. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.720 I took the e bike option, which is just a room, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.120 delightful room room, and like you know, I go to 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:14.480 the station. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.119 There's only one e bike left. That's perfect. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.359 Yeah, I'm riding the time. It says I'm going to 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.600 get here at ten twenty eight. That's perfect. That's enough 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.120 time to be lost in the building for a moment, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.240 and then I get to the City Bike station right outside, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.440 just just one spot to park it. I was like, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.160 this is insane. This city provides this is a big 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:33.880 city bank. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:35.040 Thank you. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.640 Thank you to our partners at City Bank for providing 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.120 a space for me two bike. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.520 Thank you to City Bank for providing the space. Have 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.360 I told you about that? One time? Someone I know 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.200 posted Levi's spon con and said, thank you Levi's for 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:54.520 making the space. It's actually one of the most amazing things. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.120 But the most amazing series of words I've ever seen 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.680 is strung together in a sentence, thank you Levi's for 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.560 making It's so amazing to imagine Levi's making the space. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:03.640 I have to be honest. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.080 Was it sort of a coffe situation where they were 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.160 just like, didn't finish but hits No. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.480 I think it was like that was the copying me this. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.000 I think even worse, it was not suggestive copy. I 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.080 think this person was like, I got it, thank you 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:21.440 Levi's for making the space. Wow. Yeah, So to go 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.839 back to City Bank, thank you for making the space. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.640 Thank you for making the space. And you know, we 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.560 had an amazing night last night. We did have an 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.040 amazing Oh well, I mean I didn't have an amazing night. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.960 Uh oh what happened? Well, you know why I left 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.920 the event? What I was promised that I would see 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:44.159 share perform. Oh and she didn't. And she and I 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:45.359 didn't get into the event. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.600 Oh, you didn't get into the event. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:51.359 So we I get a text. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.200 I am old enough that I should know not to 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.120 trust things like this. But I get a text. It 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.080 says I'm at an event. The rumor is that Share 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.840 is going to perform. I could probably get a plus one. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.960 I said, okay, but like sounds difficult. Are you sure 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.440 you want me to? You know, are you sure I 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.840 should come take an uber to Midtown on the off 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.599 chance that I will get in and see share perform. 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.440 They're like, you're on the list. I come, Like the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.039 door is a little chaotic, but like you're on the 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.840 list and you'll get in. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.120 I get there, they have fully closed the doors. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.960 It's like it's like paparazzi that are so it's almost 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:29.039 like grotesque caricatures of paparazzi you would see in like 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.240 a Michael Bay movie, Like they're all look like deformed 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.919 faces and they're like representing the black heart of American society. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.640 Yeah, and it's like, can't you see that she's hurting? 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.919 And all you do is yell at her? Yeah exactly. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:47.359 And then I get in I immediately feel just completely invisible. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.560 Just it's like everyone else is a human and I'm 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.240 sub human. Yeah, and then I leave and I go 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.480 home and I order Chinese foods. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.640 Well, I have to say, it's you know, you did 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.440 leave an event to go to this event, which I 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.919 do think you're out, and you even said sort of 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.800 a I have to go, and then until you were like, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.320 I just have to leave, and I was like, Okay, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:10.839 you're just gonna go home. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:12.720 You were gonna let me believe you were just gonna 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.920 go home, and I didn't want to set up yes, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.360 But then, of course what I wanted to avoid is 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:17.719 what's happening now, which is that I told you I 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.320 was going to see Share and then I ended up 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.960 literally just spending one hundred dollars on Uber says coming home. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.200 I wanted to sort of have it be a surprise 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.320 the next day, you'll never believe I saw last night. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.719 Sure that would have been a nice surprise, but it 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:33.240 did feel like dishonesty. I also got, well, was asking 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.599 you to give me the space. Yeah, anyway, so I 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:36.960 just want to say, you know, the event responds by 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.760 Valentino Beauty, and I want to say they did not 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.760 create the space. They did not create the same in 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.400 the form of closing the door. He on, an LGBTQ 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:45.240 plus creator, no. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.640 Less so messed up. And just when we were starting 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.960 to feel respected, I know. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.480 And speaking of LGBTQ plus creators, we have such an 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.560 amazing guest tonight. I we are doing this amazing thing 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.719 where we're booking them actually right before or their show ends, 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.159 so they actually can't even there's simply no way to 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.560 There's no way to promote the show unless you are 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.560 going Hermione Granger mode, going back in time and buying 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.400 tickets or potentially waiting in the standby line to see 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.720 their show. Can I be frank which is now closed? 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.920 Quite frankly, yeah, I have to say I really loved 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.320 it and I highly recommend it if again, like at 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.320 some point it returns, maybe next year. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.120 I really hope you can see it. I know you 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.360 were in LA you know I. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.560 Would, and it just really I could not recommend it 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.800 more highly, and I really I'm sorry that none of 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.240 you are going to have the chance to see it. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.160 And so, without further ado, please welcome Morgan Bassacus. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:39.480 Hi. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.200 Oh wow, well I used to be here with you 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.560 and the ultimate power move to recommend something that is 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.400 absolutely over Well, I actually it is the ultimate power yeah, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.640 because there's something you know, when someone could recommend like 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.560 something exclusive. Yes, this is sort of exclusive in that way, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:02.040 in that like it is temporally biased. It's like it's 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.800 only for people who are in the past over there, exactly, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:11.280 Like I'm actually marginalizing presence oriented people and idis identify 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.880 people and I'm privileging past identified People's like, my recommendation 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.600 is only for people in the past, and it's like, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.080 I'm sorry you couldn't get into the past. You can't 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.640 get into the show exactly. This is the share community. Yeah, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.400 I know, I know. I've got an experience of rejection 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.520 to you wanted to have an experience of inclusion, and 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.760 I know I know that's how it works. We want 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.040 to feel like we're in somewhere. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.720 And yetimes, it's so nice to feel like you're out. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.959 Wait say more, Well, it's like. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.280 When you can want, when you can be, like, when 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.120 you can want, It's that's amazing Ive your next song. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.400 All I ever want is to want to be honest. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.000 That's actually like, yeah, no, that's such a I was 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:56.680 recently wanting, wanting, Yes, I was recently wanted. I was 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.840 recently wanton, and okay, I was recently. I found myself 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.040 in the single biggest and most expensive apartment I will 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.400 ever be in my life. Love that happened, like we're talking, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.480 like it was out of a out of a movie 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.079 that wasn't even and just like that, it was out 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.360 of it, just like that, Oh my god. And I 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.600 looked around and I said, there's no love in this house. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.760 But if we just ended there, we just. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.040 Ended here, I was like. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.600 And and to add on top of that, can there 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.400 be this house is not definitionally, this is not a home. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.200 And can any house that is like this be a home? 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:42.000 Right? 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.400 Oh it's so austere. Yeah, yes exactly. And it's like 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.920 it is there a way where once you're no longer wanting, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.640 you can no longer experience love, Like the person that 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.840 lived in that apartment isn't wanting. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.240 Oh my gosh, that hurts, you know what I mean? 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.920 Not one is like it is a great fear. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.840 Yeah, because then it's like it's like sometimes I'm like 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.880 I sometimes I wish I weren't horny, Like I'd be like, God, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.800 it'd be amazing for that cloud to go away all 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:10.320 the time. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.720 But then I'm like, but what would my compass be? 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:13.240 Like? 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.040 Where would I know? 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.880 And wanting is kind of similar where it's like you're 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.720 just if you're always wanting. If you stop wanting, then 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.800 you like, well, I guess I just sit here still 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.320 like one hundred percent, not doing anything one hundred percent. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.520 It's confusing, It's crazy all that. I mean, think about 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.480 all that. Remember that joke Margaret Chow used to have 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.120 years ago where she would be like, all that time 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.920 I was thinking about hating my body, I could have 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.280 taken a pottery class. I just think about that. Like 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.520 the number of hours I have spent searching for sex 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.280 is crazy. Yeah, oh my god, I could have learned 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.800 anything I could have learned, I could have I could 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:47.480 have been a person. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:47.800 You know what. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.000 Funny as this is how I feel about. On the 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.360 opposite end of the spectrum, I feel about the hours 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.880 I spent on Instagram, I'm like, I could have been 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.959 having sex, right, Like, I'm like, well, at least if 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.320 I could have been doing the dead eyed looking at 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.960 a screen thing. But I could have led somewhere instead 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.920 of me literally looking at photos from an event. I 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 know that I wasn't at, nor did I want to 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.960 be at, or like, why am I doing? 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.840 Right? Is that one I've been looking at? 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.720 You gotta be looking at three dicks? Yeah, but that's 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.320 and that's what I'm literally like, even I'm behind you, 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.080 guys like you guys are at the You're looking at dicks, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.800 and you're like, God, I could have taken a pottery class. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.800 I'm looking at a photo of Kristen Davis. I don't 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.520 know which one's better. To be honest with you, it's 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:38.360 always do you think, generally speaking, okay, a gay guy? 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:39.040 Okay? 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.920 Do you think a gay guy if he were to 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.520 be shown we're doing a study. He has to be 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.400 shown a variety of photos of Kristin Davis, like christ 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.080 Davis when she was young, Davis now like red carpet, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.840 no makeup, interview with Kim Krau, and then another guy, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.120 gay guy has just shown a bunch of dicks. Yes, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:02.800 At the end of the experiment, who's happier? Whoa It's 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.400 like the most political thing I've ever heard. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.559 WHOA, I'm serious. It's like wait, wait, wait wait, let's 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:09.480 how long does it last? 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.760 It lasts? Let's just say it lasts. Here's the thing. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.319 If you're that example, I feel that the Christen Davis 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.200 person is happier. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:16.720 Yeah. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.560 I could think so too, because there's. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.760 Like more depth, there's more beauty, there's like something to 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.360 be explored. You're you're thinking about time. You're thinking about 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.839 like you know, presentation and when and how you do it, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.800 whereas like dis you're just like it's just animal and 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.520 you're just like okay. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.439 And then there's the after. Well, then there's a conversation 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.880 after which you've totally forgotten about all the dicks. You're 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.480 just like recommending self help books. Do you know what 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.880 I mean? Like, I feel like that's that's like it's 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.040 got taken away. Where is the Christen Davis. There's no after, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.520 there's no hangover. Yes, there's there's no hangover. You also 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.920 take yourself out of it when you're thinking about Kristen Davis. Yes, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.640 you are actually thinking about someone else. When you're thinking 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.680 about the dicks, you're thinking what would they look like 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.520 with me in the frame you're thinking, you're thinking, what 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.120 would it look like if I grabbed one, if I 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.559 grab if one of them sort of slapped me across 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.520 these dick see me? Yeah, you're not. The dicks are 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.600 a mirror, whereas Christy Davis is a portal. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.920 Whoa Jesus. So the rigidity era is over. I know, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.280 it's unbelievable. You're really cooking. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:26.959 Yeah, you're totally fluid. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:32.280 Wow wow wow wow supple. I am currently in my 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.360 where I live in La Get this. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.720 It's hard to have sex there? Well, it's impossible. For foremost, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.800 nobody commits that. No one has had sex and no 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.199 one has sext there. Like the studios, there's a population issue. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.880 There's a huge population. That's why you can get a 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:50.160 house if you want, exactly. But I think it's so 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.439 so like wanting versus having right because like so I have, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.680 like I have a pool that I share with my landlord. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.520 Oh my, which is extremely luxurious. I'm like, how happened 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.280 in my life where I have access to a pool 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.800 as a child that was like my full fantasy was 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.600 like one day a pool and then you go in 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.480 the pool alone and you're like now what right, Like 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.840 you're sort of like, okay, that of this pool? Yeah, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.520 and I'm sort of like, where are all the people? Like, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.240 where's the where's the like? 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.960 And furthermore, why am I not being filmed? 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:27.760 And furthermore, where are the dicks? And now literally I'm repulsive. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:29.920 Okay. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.360 It's just weird because you really think like this will 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.920 be everything and then you're like, okay, I know, like 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:36.920 that's it. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.600 Yeah, I don't want pool. I want community. Can kind 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.520 that community? You're like, I hate these people. I didn't 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.680 choose you. This is so this is honestly one of 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.480 the themes of your show, and we won't talk about 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:47.200 it too much because I know. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:48.400 Sam, because of his. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.600 Geographical identity, is LA identifying, right, he wasn't unable to 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.120 see it, right, But one of the big themes is 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:02.320 like the connection between being community oriented and being a 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.240 complete narcissist. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.520 Wouldn't you say that? 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.520 I'm like that to me was one of the most 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.600 radical things about what you were saying. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.760 And I'm wondering if. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.680 You could talk a little bit about that and how 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.480 you landed on that being one of the themes. Oh, Mike, well, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.520 that I mean, when you're a narcisst that's going to 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.920 be the theme of You're gonna be the theme. Well, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.680 it's almost the ultimate and I don't mean this as 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.680 a as a read, it's almost the ultimate form of 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.280 narcisism to be like, it's actually pro social that I'm 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.480 a narcissist and that there's a kind of narcist called 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.160 that called the called what are they called the communal narcissism? Yeah, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.240 is it the sort of like I'm thinking of someone 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.960 who makes a lot of public statements about current events, Like, 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.040 is that the kind of thing we're talking about? I 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.920 think the show, you know, the show is about this 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.400 this comedian, and I get that this is annoying. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.720 It's annoying at all. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.840 And also I listened to your Exploration Live where you kind. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:58.400 Of talk to talk about it. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.000 So yeah, you've got the idea, I know roughly, but 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.480 I feel like we're all thinking about ourselves and we're 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.120 trying to pretend like we're not. We're disavowing our own 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.600 self involvement, which is where it gets dangerous with the 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.000 disavowal because then you're like, I'm not like that, and 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.200 then you're like, but where's it going to It's gonna 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.240 come out somewhere, and so I feel like the show, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.920 and the show is also about the kind of like 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.800 the like hole in the soul, like endless. It's never enough, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.920 it's about wanting, it's about it. This is never enough. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.840 Is never enough praise, never enough attention, you know, And 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.240 that's like kind of the lineage of the gay comedian. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.520 Is this disease of never enough? 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:40.360 Yeah, it's complicated. I've been trying to approach things a 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.320 little differently of being like what if, Like I feel 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.160 like when I was here, I was really like, go bigger, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.200 go big, like, try harder, make it, make it bigger, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.560 bigger venue, blah blah blah, you can do it. Yeah, 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.760 And now I'm sort of like feeling very opposite where 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.280 I'm like, I don't want to like I want to 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.320 be comfortable where I am, like in any like even 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.840 like be like less than what I am. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:01.280 Like, I'm like, I. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.440 Actually don't want to push your downsizing. I'm downsizing, which 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.000 I think is approaching and of your life. Am I am? I? 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.919 I don't know, am. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.879 Maybe there's something I know like instinctually, like when a 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:20.679 dog walk, Yeah, you're like selling your possessions. Yeah, there 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.120 is something where I'm like because I when I see 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.640 people in our community, especially like one, I love when 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.640 they shoot big and do a big thing, and I'm 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:30.000 always like. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.200 Go off, Diva. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.240 But also I love when they're like, I'm just sort 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.679 of doing this yeah for a little to see, like 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.920 and being like very calm about it. Yeah, And I'm 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.560 not gonna overextend. I'm not going to freak out and 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.240 I'm just being like, this is pretty much what I'm doing. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.480 But I think it goes somewhere else, even if it 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.920 just migrates to a different part like this, this sort 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.159 of the more the like the disease of more, the 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.159 want ye want yes, and the feeling of like not enoughness, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.480 and then it goes into almost it can flit. The 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.200 opposite can be the same thing, you know what I mean, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.840 Like where it's like then I'm gonna I'm wanting a 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.240 certain kind of humility or something. It's like, you know, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.600 that's like fuck, you know, so I think ambitious about humility. 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.639 You're scary the most. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.520 I'm orn on for you guys, Like literally, you brought 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:18.000 a Jewish person, okay, and I'm glad, Damn, let's talk 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.320 about it. You're braid, Yeah, I'm like the little braid 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.080 top and braid, So what happened? So what happened there? 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:27.440 God? 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:28.200 I love her? 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:28.960 I love her. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.399 I recently heard a celebrity lesbian couple sees her. Uh oh, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.840 you've told me this. Yeah, we can't say it because 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.600 it's hip. We can't say, but we're going to be 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.879 literally someone's going to enter with an AK forty seven 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:43.600 and shoot us. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.760 Sorry, but relevantly. But to be bare in this country, 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.080 it's always timely, so. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.200