Episode 29: That's a Spicy Spaceball with Aaron Aryanpur

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All right, welcome into the tree
house. I am Dan O'Malley along with

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Trey Trenholm, and joining us in
the tree house today is a friend,

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a very talented actor, voice actor, comedian, artist, graphic artist,

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basically a renaissance man, Aaron Arian
Poor, Hello, sir, Hey,

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how are you? It's so,
it really is. It's so good to

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see you. It's so good to
be back on the air with you.

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It's good too. It's good to
be seen and it's always good to be

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heard. And uh, it's it's
been a minute since since we've talked to

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you last. Yeah, it's been
a long time. And there's a lot

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that I want to get into with
you. But in sort of treehouse fashion

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from the from the previous host,
main host of this show, I learned

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a lot, and that is don't
ever lead with the guest. You lead

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with yourself. So if you see
me then the doing that a lot today

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with my tongue looking my lips like
looking like my great grandmother did at the

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at the Thanksgiving Day table. It's
because I just had a very unexpectedly hot

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halopeno or a snack with hallopenial on
it, and it was not supposed to

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be that damn hot. And I
am fresh off of eating about half of

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a tub of Greek yogurt, and
I was so desperate to kill the heat

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on this that I didn't even put
anything in the Greek yogurt to make it

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even taste good. It just it
looked like me and a really really you

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know, add still image of something
on pornhub. You just need to spackle

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the insides. You just needed to
coat everything is That's that's kind of what

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I was doing. But the problem
was, I guess, so it got

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on my tongue, and then of
course you lick your lips, so then

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it was on the edges of my
lips and it would not and it still

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is not done burning. So you're
having that many problems from a hallopenia.

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Yes that you've gotten soft. No, I am not soft. Tree trend

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hump, you have gotten soft.
You take that back. I will not

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this. The treehouse is supposed to
be a fun place, free of ridiculous

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accusations, plenty of judgment, though
right judgment still allow. The judgment still

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just overflows out of every crack at
orifice. Okay, well then I'm good.

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I mean, not even a serrano
or a hovignero halopenio. Dude,

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I know I like spice. I
can handle some spice. I'm not,

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you know, barely not. Did
you shut up? Trey? I can,

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I swear to God I can.
I will send you one of these

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halapanios. Okay, I will mail
you one of these halapanios. I think

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that's legal. And you have to
eat one of these and then and then

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you tell me if you're such a
big man, Okay, that's fine,

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Dan, bring one. And when
you when you come to town in July

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for the road show and everything else, bring a halapeno. I'll go over

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to the Rio Grand, the Mexican
supermarket. I'll get some hallapenos. We'll

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compare. Challenge accepted, trindhome a
right. Look. One segment of that

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two hour event at Daddy Rabbits Pub
in Louisville on Friday, July seventh,

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from five to seven pm is gonna
be uh, you and me eating green

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stuff, all right. And if
you see me with a syringe injecting yours

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with mystery substances beforehand, just turn
away. Nothing to see. And the

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biggest tubs of Greek yogurt you'll ever
ever see right there on the table.

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Just off to the side. Yeah, oh really is It's embarrassing, man.

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So it was well Tara had made
so our neighbor gave us these halopenios

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that that she had she had grown
herself. And because she's growing them inside,

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they don't grow as large as like
the hallopenios you see in the grocery

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store, right, And I do
know that in my knowledge. I don't

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know the most about peppers than anybody, but I know a fair amount about

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peppers. I know that typically the
smaller the pepper, the hotter they are.

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And because she grows these inside,
they're on the smaller side. So

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I expected them to be a little
bit hotter, and I'm okay with that.

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And I can tolerate heat. I
don't care what you say, Trey.

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Hallapenios really not that spicy. I
love a good Serrano pepper. Hab

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narrows depending on how they're prepared.
That's where I might start to draw the

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line a little bit. Just depends
on, you know, if it If

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it searches to get crazy spicy,
then I'm like, ah, I'm probably

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out, but you're not erect me
like it just did. I'll be done

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with. How do you do with
Indian food. I usually I usually request

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I usually request a white guy mild
and well, I mean I'd like to

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experiment a little bit. But I'll
be honest, Aaron, Indian food scares

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me. Indian and then Thai food
too. It's the only times where I

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can feel the sweat coming out of
the crown of my skull. Like I

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like, I'm used to sweating,
you know, growing up in Texas.

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But that's a spot like on the
top of my head. But I'm like,

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this is a new sensation. I
don't know what this is. It's

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tingly and it's hot, and I
feel like a like a like a fountain.

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Is it shooting out the top of
my head? Uh? Yeah?

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I was like, maybe my brain
is telling me something. Right, it

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got up there and it's it's doing
its job. Yeah, it very well,

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maybe that, but I just it
was man. So what So what

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Tara made was it was a have
you seen? Have you seen in the

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grocery store they'll do it's like a
cheese, like a grated cheese cracker.

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It's just all it is. You
just say grated cheese. A lot of

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times in the stores they'll have it
with parmesan. It's like a parmesan crisp.

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Yeah, Tara did it, I
think with Colby Jack. So it's

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shredded cheese. You just you put
it on some parchment paper, you throw

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it in the oven for a bit. It gets golden and wonderful, and

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you pull it out of the and
then you eat it. So she she

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had taken some of these halapanos.
I think half of the slice, half

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of one slice of a halapanio on
one cracker, and it still burns.

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So so as I'm digging through the
tub of Greek yogurt with nothing that tastes

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good in it, I'm googling with
my thumbs does cooking of pepper make it

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hotter? Because I didn't think it
did. And then, of course it's

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the Internet, so I get conflicting
information, and I see one post it

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says no, it mellows the flavor, and then another post goes, yeah,

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it intensifies the flavor. It's like, well, great, now,

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I just don't know. That's a
seeds in seeds out conundrum because if you

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typically, if you cook him with
the seeds in, they're gonna get hotter.

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I take the seeds out, but
prior than it will mellow them out.

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That was my understanding on what my
cooks would tell me, because I

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made the mistake one time of my
cook Emilio, had had made this salsa

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and he thought it was really hot, and I taunted him and said,

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dah, it's mild. I think
this would be a good moment to briefly

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point out that Trey is talking about
his time as a general manager of a

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very successful bar in Dallas, not
that he is so wealthy. He has

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multiple cooks that will cook from whenever
he wants. That's different clarification because it's

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been a minute with me, and
I was like, whoa, I'm all

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right, yea, chef, thank
you for the thank you for the clarification.

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Yeah. So yeah, he came
back with it also needed a clarification

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because I didn't want Aaron thinking that
you're torturing your cooks by making them eat

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hot things. Oh no, they
he made a salsa that it's like,

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I don't get heartburn, and he
made one that was so hot that I

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was almost immediately had heartburn and was
sweating profusely. And he still would never

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tell me exactly what he put in
it. But do you have his uh,

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you have his number because I'd like
to get his recipe, because that's

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what I'll have him. I'll have
him whip up a batch for our for

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the road show. I think that
sounds like a good idea, and I

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want to get that syringe in there
and then start, you know, juicing

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up your halapeno. You said that, um, your wife made these,

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right, yeah, and that not
to get into any kind of whatever,

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gender roles that we are supposed to
are not supposed to whatever. But was

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she slamming them back while you were
there, like nursing your one with a

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half a slice of halopino on it? Well? Yeah, so what she

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did she made She made four of
these cheese crackers, right, Okay,

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okay, two of them have the
hall Opinion on it and two do not.

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Tara does not do spicies, so
she ate the two without there you

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go, okay, never mind.
So maybe what happened is maybe I wasn't

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paying attention and she had a syringe
when I and she's injecting these hall opinions

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with something. Because she removed the
seeds, and I think she removed the

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ribs, you know, the white
rib that lines it, because those are

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the two things that make peppers hot. I don't know, man, it's

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just it's freaky. Well, this
leads into another conversation of what did you

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get her for her birthday? I
got her nice things, tray. She's

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not trying to poison me. I
don't think this is birthday, you know,

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poor birthday gift giving? Revenge?
Is it? She just looked at

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me and smiled. It's very troubling
to me that she didn't immediately say no,

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of course not. Do you have
an anniversary recently too, like just

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a couple of weeks ago, So
aniversary, we did have an anniversary.

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Thank you for remembering that, happy
anniversary? And did you mess up that

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gift? No? No, Alpha. Might you might want to take over

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some of the cooking duties for a
little bit. I think I'm gonna have

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to because it might be it might
be too dangerous around here. It's been

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my experience. I guess from a
lot of the television that I've watched,

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in the podcasts that I've listened to, that if your spouse prepares a food

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that only you eat that she is
not also eating or he is also eating,

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it may be a red flag.
I'm gonna have to It's solid.

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Yeah. So wisdom. Yeah,
yeah, I made all of this,

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but it's just for you, no, thank you. I actually think there

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was a story similar to that recently, and it was the wife was poisoning

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her husband through the through the food. Yeah yeah, not that that's That's

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not what I'm claiming. I'm just
saying I like those, you know,

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TV shows. So you're looking forward
to that next episode that's about my death.

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You know, it's like, I'm
gonna cry in the middle of it

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because I knew him and stuff.
But it's really in her, you know,

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it's it's oh my god, the
Spicy Cracker Killer. I love this

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episode. Oh god. So anyway, yeah, I just it's it's a

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it was a it's a hit to
my ego. I'm starting I'm actually starting

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to wonder what the neighbor actually like. Was she growing it next to lava

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or something. I just trying to
find a way. How was it this

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little Hallabaniel? Was it that damn
hot? I mean, is she doing

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like hydroponic peppers? Actually? I
think she might be doing hydroponic There you

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go, more concentrated. You know, today's halopinos are a very different brand

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than you know, the jalopenos you
grew up with. You know, you

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just gotta be careful. We need
air quotes around halloeeno. If all you

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could do air quotes in inn audio, I think if you just take a

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little bit ofove pause and then you
know, you go. So, her

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green produce is a very more It's
a potent. It's more potent than it

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was, you know, than the
green produce that you would have found,

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you know, behind the high school
back in the nineties. Yeah, see,

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Trey, that was perfect. Aaron
nailed it. That's a guy that

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does the voice over acting for a
living. He knows exactly how to do

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the verbal quotations without saying quote.
He just nailed that was very good,

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Aaron. I appreciate it. Thank
you for the positive feedback everyone. Not

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enough people do that these days.
I've I've had some I've had some shows

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where, um, like in a
stand up sense, people who shout stuff

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out. It's not always a heckle, and sometimes instead of a laugh or

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clapping, you'll hear you hear somebody
from the just the darkness go that's good.

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You're like, well, thank you, individual notes. I appreciate that

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as well. Yeah, I've I've
I've heard I've I've been to enough shows

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before where i've I've I've experienced that. Uh it's someone's like that's funny like

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that, Yeah, and you or
whoever this comedian is on stage, it's

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kind of pauses and like thank you, Yeah, welcome, welcome to the

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show. That was the point.
Did you know you you walked into a

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comedy club? Right? Why are
you surprised? Yes, exactly. Speaking

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of that, let's since you brought
that up, let's make sure we mentioned

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your upcoming show. Uh it is. Make sure I got this correct because

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I looked it up before we got
started here today. If you have never

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seen Aaron ry Import on stage,
do yourself a favor and buy your tickets

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now. Aaron will be at Hyena's
Dallas Saturday, June twenty fourth, two

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shows, right, Aaron, Two
shows at seven o'clock and at nine thirty,

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and they're both going to be awesome. Saturday nights are awesome. That's

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outstanding. So you can catch our
friend and comedian and actor and graphic designer

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and artist Aaron ry Import at Hyena's
Dallas Saturday, June twenty fourth. For

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ticket infoe Hyena's Comedy Nightclub dot com
two shows seven and nine thirty. Can

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I ask a question please for the
the stand up comedian. What was the

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whole brew haha about Matt Rife tickets. I don't know, I mean,

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and let me set the stage if
you weren't on social media anything else.

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I think it started Friday that I
mean, my feed was flooded with different

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comments. It's about Evidently there were
some like everyone, there was a run

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on Matt Rife tickets that he had
just announced shows. And I've seen clips

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of him. He's funny, but
it's not like I didn't I don't understand

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what the uproar was about. So
I think there was a lot of uproar

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because there was a lot of attention
on this tour and like, full disclosure,

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I don't I don't know this guy. This is the first time I've

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heard of his name. But I'm
also Facebook friends, you know, on

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social media, you just you also
have a whole bunch of other stand up

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comedians. There was there was It
was laughable to a lot of people because

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they didn't know who this guy was. And now all of a sudden,

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this announced tour was sounding like Taylor
Swift tickets. Yeah, and and um,

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you know, there were people who
were knocking him. There were people

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making fun of other people knocking him, Like I don't I don't know the

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dude. I have too many people
I know personally who I'm jealous of,

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Like I don't have time, Like
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people I don't know. But it's
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like I said, I'm not familiar
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way. He's got a team behind
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to see him, and I know
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really hard to get the word out
about your shows, and it could be

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really hard to get bookings, and
it can be really hard to even get

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those bookings and then show up,
you know, drive drive, drive and

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show up and you know, fifty
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you know, to sell out wherever
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Not everybody does. And so when
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know and all of a sudden it
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there's a huge question mark over your
head, like where did this guy come

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from? What was his strategy,
what did he do? And then also

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the immediate thing is to dismiss it
all by oh he's a pretty boy.

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tour image was him with his shirt off.

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UFC poster, you know, or

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you know, like I don't know
what it looked like, but so much

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jealousy, and like I said,
I don't I don't have time for I

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don't have time. I don't have
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curious. I mean, like I
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or just stuff like that, but
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would think, you know, it's
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audience. Like when I was growing
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where she could just retain information she
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was it was a magic trick.
It was amazing. And then even if

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you've had a chance to go see
Ian Bag, like he's somebody who risks

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with the audience, and it's no
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the exact same. There was something
with social media over the last few years

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where people want to post their clips
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You hope you gained some action.
But there's also a fear from a number

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of people that they don't want to
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burn material, and so they don't
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I'm going to share that, and
I'm going to share that, And

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some people have just been posting,
you know, audience interactions. That's fine.

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I think that there's an art to
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it's kind of I mean, so
many things have changed in the way audiences

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come out to shows, and I
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included, get worried that you're training
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oh, that's the show. We
got to come and yell stuff out

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because the comedian is going to have
to deal with it, and if they

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don't deal with it, then they're
not worth anything. That kind of thing,

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you know, what I mean show
to a degree, it can make

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your job a little harder, especially
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you really want to work on.
Like it's a different type of art,

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you know what I mean, It's
just a different aaron That actually makes perfect

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sense because what you put out there
on social media as an entertainer, especially

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as a comedian, you're showing your
audience a what you do and be,

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what to expect, and expectations are
dangerous. So if you're only posting clips

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of those things, then that's what
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of like, um, there's there's
there's a really good example of this,

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but I can't quite grasp it.
It's on the tip of my tongue.

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But I can't quite grasp it because
it's still you know, my tongue is

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still burning. Um. But I
know that there's been situations before where someone

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was sort of really famous or well
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Let's just let's just say for the
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it's getting slapped in the face.
That's what everyone knew this person for.

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They thought it was hysterical. It
was in everything that would that they had

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ever seen. So then when this
person would then meet the public, guess

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what they wanted to do Slap them
in the face. Um. So that's

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that's a very generic example based on
a specific example that I can't exactly pull

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from the deep dark reaches of my
brain. But at least you understand what

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I'm saying. Hey, man,
do you mind if I take a selfie

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of me slapping you in the face? Yes? Yeah, you mind if

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we do a quick TikTok and me
kicking you in the ball, since that's

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everything that I've ever seen you posed? No, no, no, no

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it slapping the face is fine.
I draw the line of my crotch um.

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Chris Farley, maybe where he was
always so loud and full of energy,

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partly because of the cocaine, but
then he was also daring some of the

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skits on Saturday Night Live's He's throwing
himself on furniture, on coffee tables,

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some of which weren't exactly the breakaway
kind. He just broke them. And

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so if that's what you're known for, that's what people want to see and

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that's what they want to hear.
It's like um um. It's like if

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you have a signature bit as a
comedian and Jeff fox Or there's a good

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example of this this U you might
be a redneck if you're gonna go to

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one of his shows and people are
gonna, you know, he's gonna do

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his normal material, and then the
people that showed up, they don't want

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the normal material. They want the
you might be a redneck jokes. You

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better give me fifteen minutes of that
at the end. You know, I'm

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going to give you a bad YELP. Did I tell you that I've worked

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with him? I believe Yeah,
I think I think we. I think

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we had you on to promote it, either beforehand or we had you on

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afterwards to talk about it. My
favorite thing about that is I got asked

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to open the theater show for him, So I worked with Jeff Foxworthy who

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had never met before, and then
less than a month later, I did

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a private party in a Muslim family's
home, and so it's so it's like

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to me, I'm just saying,
it's like, I don't know if I'm

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funny, but I've got range,
you know, at both shows. No

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one slapped you in the face,
did they? No? No, that

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wasn't my thing yet. Maybe that's
something I'll bring in. I don't know,

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but but I may have brought this
up with before. But the trippiest

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part is, you know, you
and I we've gone way back, and

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I've brought up stories about doing art
for people. I mean, it's how

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I kind of made my way to
you guys via Russ you know, way

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back when and doing caricatures and stuff
like that. And I hadn't done one

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in a long time. And Jeff
Foxworthy was one of those guys where whether

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you you know, love him,
hate him, whatever, he I was

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honored to be asked. And he's
an icon, you know, He's somebody

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who's established himself in stand up comedy
and a number of other venues. So

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I did a caricature of them,
and after the show, I wanted to

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share it with him, maybe get
his autograph. And then he pulls out

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his phone and starts showing me all
of his drawings. I'm like, wait

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what, and he goes, yeah, man, I've been drawn for a

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while. And I out on the
farm. He starts drawing chickens and all

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these details cows and it's like good
stuff he's showing me on his phone.

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We start talking about pens, We
start talking about ink and hatching. Him

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like, am I really having this
conversation with the You might be a redneck

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guy right now? This is the
craziest thing about using which specific style of

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like uniball or big pen is going
to get the right. I like your

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hatching and then the cross hatching and
how evenly spaced. I'm like, God,

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wow, this is the weirdest thing. You might not be a redneck

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if you might be a renaissance man. Jeff Jeeves, I don't. I

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don't know if everyone that shows up
to his shows is going to appreciate the

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renaissance humor. No, probably not. I don't know why. I was

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surprised. As a comedian, you
want to tape as many shows as possible,

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especially if it's a big show.
You might be able to get a

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clip from it. You might be
able to use it for booking purposes or

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an audition or something like that.
And it wasn't ideal. My camera was

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set up in the way back of
the theater and I didn't want to check

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it. That's the other thing too, I'll take a lot of shows.

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I'm not immediately going to go and
watch it, you know. I finally

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pull up the footage and there's this
giant cowboy hat literally in front of the

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camera, blocking the entire stage.
And I used to get mad at stuff

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like that, and now I'm just
like, what what what? What?

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What did you expect, dummy?
What did you think you were gonna get?

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Oh you're saying that to yourself,
Yeah, but to myself, to

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myself, yeah exactly, Yeah,
you're not saying that to the guy the

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cowboy hat. I didn't see that
guy from upstage, but my camera didn't,

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and he was immediately His hat was
the star of your set's ten gallant

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in widescreen format. Thanks Budd.
But it was nice of him to make

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sure because he knew he was going
to wear his special, really really really

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big hat, so he made sure
to buy tickets in the back of the

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theater so it wouldn't block any actual
audience member's view. It just happened to

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be right in front of your camera. How considered is that guy? All

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Right, Well, I appreciate you
can come so far in your life and

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your career that you weren't mad at
the guy for it. You were just

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kind of throw your hands up and
go, well, all right then,

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dude, at this point, if
I if I threw a fit for everything

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that you know used to just like
set me off, I'd have had a

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heart attack ten years ago. You
know, it's just you learned to pace

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yourself. That's a chuckle from Trey
full of knowing and understanding. Yeah,

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it took me, no, no
sorry, no disrespect. Oh no,

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it it took me to you know, forty two and sobriety to figure that

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one out because my level of fit
and my BAC had a direct correlation,

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and I've I've been there to witness
it. Well, let's mentioned it again.

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So you've got the show Saturday,
June twenty fourth, two shows seven

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to nine thirty at the Hyenas in
Dallas. For ticket infoe go to Hyena's

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Comedy Nightclub dot com. And coming
up next, we're gonna go from one

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of your highs as far as being
able to open up for Jeff Foxworthy and

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share art stories to you know,
a month later, you're you're saying you're

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you were doing a show inside of
a Muslim family's home. Let's let's let's

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let's kind of fall somewhere in between. I want to talk about the commencement

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speech you gave recently. Awesome that's
coming up. Stay there, you're in

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the treehouse. Visit us online at
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Anderson into the Treehouse for some great
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fifty two hundred information that we all
need right now the website Rodney Anderson dot

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com. So, Rodney, I
was curious if you're seeing people doing a

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lot of cash out refinances right now
for business investments, because I've heard that

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banks, the big banks aren't really
doing them. Yeah, you know,

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here's what's going on right now,
Dan, We're seeing a lot of cash

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out rEFInd finances from business owners because
they went to their banks for commercial loans

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or other business loans, and the
banks aren't offer him right now. They've

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tightened him up tremendously. Fact Ross
pro Junior, who has Hillwood Development locally

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in the DFW area, he was
being interviewed on CNBC the other day and

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said banks need to start lending on
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a cash out refinance of your home
to get some money. We had a

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client called the other day. He
owned a million dollar home, owned it

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free and clear, went to his
bank for five hundred thousand dollars to do

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for his business to expand it.
They turned him down. They said,

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we're not lending anymore. And this
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So he turned to us for a
cash out refinance a five hundred thousand dollars

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on his primary residence. So when
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money like crazy to people looking to
do cash out refis. And one example

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is for business ventures. Semi random
question for you, riding for you?

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Let you go. So I saw
a woman. You're a beach guy like

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I am. So I saw a
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the beach taking her photos for Instagram, and it made me think of you.

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I was curious, do you take
your Instagram photo session photos immediately before

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you get into the water or do
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the day? Oh? I you
know what social media is not me,

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So I'm keeping all those photos private. I don't know. Oh out there

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on the internet. That means those
are some good photos. Rodney, All

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right, give Rodney and his team
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409
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in a second we're getting I'm getting
hearing us back. I'm hearing myself back.

410
00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:07.640
What changed? Nothing changed on my
end? Let's see Aaron. Maybe

411
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.000
try mute yourself real quick and then
unmute. Check one two, check one

412
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:18.319
two. All right, now unmute
check one two, check one two.

413
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:26.000
Yeah, it's coming through your set
somehow mine? Yeah, uh yeah,

414
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.480
I'm wondering if it's coming through your
earbud somehow. I'm wondering. Does this

415
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:34.160
microphone work at all? Yeah?
Shouldn't when I have oh god bless it

416
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:38.359
shouldn't be working when I have this
set up. Maybe that's where it's coming

417
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.279
from. So if I move this
out of the way around, plug it,

418
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.079
Should I just use this microphone?
Will I work fine? Or is

419
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.559
it? To check one? I
think that was it. I think that

420
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.559
was where we were getting the extra
stuff. So uh, drop that down

421
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.400
to its normal spot where it is, and now just give me a quick

422
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.599
level check okay, check one two, check one too. Yeah, you

423
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.119
go ahead, yeah, so just
ka, yeah, we'll just stay with

424
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.839
that. Let me unplug the other
one. Okay, okay, okay,

425
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:12.240
unplugged, all right, let me
just double check that. No, I

426
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:21.839
heard it a little bit there now
I don't check. It wasn't doing the

427
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:25.599
whole No, it was just No. The only times that we heard it

428
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:30.680
were earlier before we started and then
and then just now okayaphone, all right,

429
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.960
h we'll just start this back over, I guess um or I'll just

430
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:41.119
pick it right back from from where
we left off. All right, Are

431
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.640
you good to go? Aaron,
Yeah, it's unplugged. I just put

432
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:52.160
it off to the side. Okay, sorry, that's all right. Okay.

433
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:57.000
Um. So I saw recently,
Aaron, that you were invited to

434
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.839
do a commencement speech. Um.
It wasn't just any commencement speech. I

435
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.240
mean, I mean, hell,
you have elementary schools that now do like,

436
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.839
you know, graduations and things,
and I think middle school does going

437
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:15.759
into high school. So not all
invitations for commencement speeches are equal, but

438
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:23.000
you actually got a really really special
one. I was approached by my old

439
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:30.160
university and I went to University of
Texas at Dallas, and I feel like

440
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.240
my whole life there's been disclaimers with
anything that I said. So it's like,

441
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.079
what school did you go to?
I went to a really great school.

442
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:42.079
I went to University of Texas,
you know, at Dallas, but

443
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.880
I decided to kind of make that
the theme of the speech is to stop

444
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:52.200
giving qualifiers to to things like that
you know where you went to school.

445
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.880
The fact that I was even asked. They asked me back in February,

446
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:01.480
and it was an incredible honor.
And I don't know how to explain this

447
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:06.920
because it spoiler alert. It turned
out well, I said yes, they

448
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.960
agreed, and I showed up and
I got positive feedback. But I don't

449
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.359
know if anybody, if you're like
me, at all I got. I

450
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.599
was asked, and my immediate reaction
was to get mad, like at the

451
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:24.519
email, like like why you know, Like what am I going to say?

452
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.799
And it freaked me out so much. I thought that it was something

453
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:35.359
that I had to do. I
went there several years ago, graduated in

454
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:44.000
two thousand. One of the things
that I guess was, I don't know.

455
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:50.039
A highlight of that was that it
was such a young school at the

456
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.079
time that they didn't have a lot
of athletic programs and YadA, YadA,

457
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:58.519
YadA, and they had a mascot, but they didn't have like a character,

458
00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:01.720
like a costumed character. Scott.
It's a science and tech schools.

459
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.039
They were the Comets, but they
didn't have like, um, a character

460
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.840
that could be in a costume like
at a game. You know, It's

461
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.119
not like they had like a Corey
the Comet type commet looking thing running around

462
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:22.719
being silly or exactly equations they had
they had. They had a a championship

463
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:29.239
chess team. They don't have football, so the need to have this kind

464
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.599
of character didn't exist. And then
there was a flyer on my way to

465
00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:36.360
class that said, hey, you
know, submit, you know what does

466
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:42.199
our mascot look like? I ended
up winning that thing and helped creating this

467
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.920
character that I've come to find out
like over the last twenty twenty five years,

468
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:50.880
like there's a whole market around him, and the bookstore is filled with

469
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:57.159
like chotchkes and toys and pillows and
and bobbleheads and and this character has kind

470
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.840
of had a life on TikTok,
and it was just it was really really

471
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:06.480
trippy. Over the years, I'd
heard positive and negative feedback. A lot

472
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:10.400
of negative people just love to hate, I guess on their mascots. And

473
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:14.119
so when they invited me and they
said, hey, we'd like to hear

474
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:16.840
a comedian's point of view, we'd
like to hear an artist's point of view,

475
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:22.199
and we think it's cool that you
did our mascot um. I honestly

476
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.199
told my brother it almost felt like
a setup, like like I was almost

477
00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:32.119
I was almost expecting like a Carrie's
Pig blood bucket kind of scenario. It's

478
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.000
like, I, do they really
like this character that put me on Jesus

479
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.719
you but your therapist must have fun
with you. Oh my gosh, you

480
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:44.840
have no idea? So so is
the is the character you created? Is

481
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:47.199
it? Is it timmock or a
tea mock? It's it's tea mock.

482
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.039
It was. It was a different
name they gave him. Originally I called

483
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.360
him Blaze because he looks like a
comment, you know, his head is

484
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:59.920
a ball of you know, ice
ball whatever. Yeah, and then he's

485
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.559
got this fiery tale that trails behind
him, and I thought, oh,

486
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.320
we'll call him Blaze. That's cool. Instead, someone decided to change it

487
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:12.480
to Timok, which is just comet
backwards. It's comet backwards, which is

488
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:16.280
the most utd thing they could have
done, which makes me love it even

489
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:21.000
more, you know what I mean. Yeah, he's here on Wikipedia.

490
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.000
Teemok is the official mascot of the
University of Texas at Dallas. While the

491
00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:30.400
student body is known collectively as the
Comets, he is an anthropomorphic astronomical being

492
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:36.039
created to represent a comet in human
form. Yeah, how about that.

493
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:44.519
So I wasn't really in any kind
of place to tell graduates how to be

494
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:50.880
hopeful for the future, if that
makes sense. You know, I'm glad

495
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.960
that you took that approach, because
no one's ever going to ask me to

496
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.760
do this, at least not at
the college level because I didn't graduate college

497
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.639
so UTA, where I went for
all of a year and a half,

498
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:06.519
They're not going to call me in
to do a commencement speech because I didn't

499
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:17.159
even graduate from there, so they
might never say never ill h I definitely

500
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:21.280
do not expect that to happen.
I feel like there's way more better known

501
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.400
UTA people than me. But anyway, uh, if they were to take

502
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:28.159
that, if they were to ask
me, I would take a very realistic

503
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.719
approach and stand in front of a
bunch of people and be honest with them.

504
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.960
They're like, look, some of
you are just not going to make

505
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.880
it right. You could be full
of all the hope in the world,

506
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:42.760
and you can you can have dreams
and all these aspirations and things, but

507
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.639
at some point there's going to be
someone that thinks you suck and they're gonna

508
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.760
do everything they can to keep you
in your life down. Or it might

509
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:52.760
be you. You might be your
own worst enemy, or you might get

510
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.920
hit by a truck on the way
home after graduation. Some of these things

511
00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:00.400
are going to happen, and that's
the unfortunate reality. And if you're one

512
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.119
of those people that those things don't
happen to, you're one of the lucky.

513
00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:05.480
If you enjoy it, make all
the money you can and have a

514
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:10.159
nice life. You've you've you've seen
my speech. No I haven't. I'm

515
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:19.360
not. I'm just saying you're just
pretty much quoted. I I I sympathize

516
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:22.400
and I worry, and I like. I knew that I wanted it to

517
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.960
come from the heart, and I
knew that I wanted it to be funny,

518
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:29.599
but not like a stand up routine. You know. It didn't need

519
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.840
to have a laugh like three laughs
five laughs a minute, you know,

520
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.440
but I wanted to come from an
honest place. My oldest son is graduating

521
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:42.280
high school on his way out to
college now, and we were joking and

522
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.119
we were talking about elementary Thank you, I'm here too, you know,

523
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.360
And then we were talking about elementary
school. Earlier, I went to my

524
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.679
son's fifth grade, my other son's
fifth grade end of the year ceremony when

525
00:38:53.800 --> 00:39:00.840
I dragged that on them. The
high school graduation ceremony was shorter than the

526
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:06.360
fifth graders. So, but it
meant that I had a lot in me

527
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:10.679
that I wanted to say, not
just to the graduates, but also to

528
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:16.840
my sons and to myself. And
like it was heavy, you know,

529
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:24.039
I took the responsibility like I didn't
take it lightly. I worry about a

530
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:29.639
generation that may not see as many
opportunities out there. Do you mind if

531
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.800
I play a little bit of a
little bit of your commencement speech? Yeah,

532
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:35.239
if you want to. No,
I really do want to make sure

533
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.880
you're not going to feel awkward about
it. Oh I'll feel awkward, but

534
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:45.000
you know I'll roll with it,
Okay, that I appreciate that. It's

535
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:47.719
trippy. Hi, everybody, how
are you? Thank you Doctor Benson,

536
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.599
Graduates, loved ones, and distinguished
faculty members. It is an honor to

537
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:57.960
be with you here today. So
you've got the black robe obviously, for

538
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.280
the graduation, but then they gave
you an orange sash. Sorry is this

539
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:05.840
it's graduation as stole stole? Yeah, what's that? What's that symbolize?

540
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:09.599
It was one day made up.
Uh. It's so funny to me because

541
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.920
when you're a kid and you look
at all of these like floppy hats from

542
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:15.360
the professors and you see all these
chords and things like that, it was

543
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.960
like, oh, well, clearly
this stuff means something important to every university.

544
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.599
And then you find out no,
you know, we'll just a stolen

545
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:29.559
valor as much as we want to, and I'll buy I'll buy chords from

546
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.480
the fabric store and just drape myself, you know, or whatever it is.

547
00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:36.559
But this one because of the mascot. They had embroidered a little version

548
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.000
of the comet and you can't see
it because it's behind the podium, but

549
00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:44.559
it's a special thing just because of
the mascot. No, that's pretty cool.

550
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:47.679
Yeah. I'm so grateful to the
University of Texas at Dallas, my

551
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.400
alma mater, for the privilege of
being your keynote speaker. When I was

552
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:59.480
first invited to speak, I was
beyond humbold and a little confused. Why

553
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:00.840
would you need me to write a
commencement speech? Don't you all have a

554
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.679
chat? GPT. There had to
be other former students who would be more

555
00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:14.360
qualified CEO's astronauts, folks with a
valid Costco membership, accomplished professionals who have

556
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:19.920
a concrete idea of what success means. You're stuck with an artist and a

557
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:23.800
comedian. I know there's a lot
going on today, Lots of feelings to

558
00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:28.079
manage. We're outside, there's the
parking, getting in here on time,

559
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.679
where we're gonna eat after this?
Lots of little things to potentially stress out

560
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:37.320
your day. Please take a moment
to breathe, recognize how special this moment

561
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:43.800
is. Own this. You've worked
hard for this, and in case you

562
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:51.719
haven't heard it yet, today I
am proud of you. Yea, when

563
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:57.079
you wash your body, do you
use the damn you two bads? They

564
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:04.119
invade everything. They're the worst possible
timing. Oh that's hysterical, all right,

565
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:14.679
hang on while showing up to educate
themselves to get here today. That

566
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.559
is success. Count it as a
win. I am proud of you.

567
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.880
There are some of you who know
exactly who you are, what you want

568
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:28.480
to do? How are you going
to make your mark. Yeah, I've

569
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.360
got nothing for you. You'll be
fine. Congratulations. But if you arrived

570
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:36.159
at this point, even here today, with any self doubt, I may

571
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.760
have some thoughts I hope might help. I'm a husband, a father,

572
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:46.320
a brother, and a son.
Professionally, I identify as a frustrated creative,

573
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:51.360
wanting to bring my imagination, my
skills, my passion into existence and

574
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:57.000
somehow make a positive impact, and
never quite knowing if I do. There's

575
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:04.880
opportunities around every corner corner and several
roadblocks, many of which I've constructed myself.

576
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:09.039
That's the point that you didn't pursue
the visual album. Yeah, oh

577
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.199
you'll like this line. You'll like
this line. Sorry, Hi, so

578
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.320
or stand up comedy to get rich, and so far that's been working out.

579
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:22.400
But I have earned a living since
before graduation creating logos, cartoons and

580
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.559
packaging designs. And to any concerned
parents out there, yes, those silly

581
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:32.360
drawings and the funny stories have paid
for groceries and a mortgage. Regarding stand

582
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:37.000
up, I had humble goals,
you know, to see my name on

583
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.880
the club's marquee, to record a
comedy album, to maybe get on TV,

584
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:46.239
to hear my last name pronounced correctly. Going back to the very beginning,

585
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:51.360
my goals were even grander. Find
the courage to even get up on

586
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:58.760
stage. Starting is always the hardest
part. Other goals seem oddly specific.

587
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:00.480
I don't know how many other comedian
dream of this, but I always wanted

588
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.440
to do something noteworthy, noteworthy enough
to be interviewed on MPR by Terry Gross.

589
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.480
And I always thought it would be
amazing to be invited to my old

590
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:22.519
university to give this very speech.
Yeah yeah, and that's where YouTube decided

591
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:28.119
to crap the bed. Also something
that people need to remember in life that

592
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:32.360
sometimes not everything works the way you
want it to. Oh sorry, just

593
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.880
one last part, I think if
you want, oh yeah, absolutely,

594
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:40.360
and a good place to stop it, I think. Okay, I sincerely

595
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.800
thank you all for this opportunity.
In my fantasies. It also came with

596
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:57.880
an honorary doctorate. No harmon,
ask nicely, yes, yes, well

597
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:01.880
done, sir? Thank you.
Do you remember do you remember the commencement

598
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:08.199
speech that that happened when you graduated
UTD or even high school? I remember

599
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:15.199
my high school one, and they
didn't get I don't know how many high

600
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:22.679
schools do. They used our resource
officer, Officer Parker, and he gave

601
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.599
a speech and I just remember being
delighted, and he was amazing and sincere.

602
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:30.480
He was somebody who like, it's
weird to feel like you have a

603
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:34.400
relationship with your you know, your
resource officer when you're in high school.

604
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:37.480
He was one of the many people
I did a caricature of and it turned

605
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:43.239
into um, like a nice relationship
instead of me getting in trouble, you

606
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.960
know. So but as far as
college goes, I think I mentioned this

607
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.480
earlier. The school is still so
new, you know, as far as

608
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:55.480
university time goes, that this is
only the second year they've had like a

609
00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.480
full university commencement. Yeah, so
I'm the second one to ever give a

610
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.800
speech like this. I don't remember
who is first. There was another alum.

611
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:07.920
I don't quite remember his name,
but he's a CEO. And so

612
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.960
the opening line I have is like
they asked me to do it. They

613
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.800
send me a link to their alumni
page and there literally are like astronauts and

614
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:22.440
doctors and surgeons and like all these
people and I'm like, oh my god,

615
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:24.719
Well, I mean, if you
think about it, if you think

616
00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:29.599
about it, all those people are
so successful that they're actually actively doing those

617
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.800
things, so they're too busy to
go do it. To busy, they

618
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looked at my schedule and they go, you know what, he's got that

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of you are plumbing needs. Have
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you and says, well, I
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fix it? I see this all
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lot of times when the homeowner wants
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but we know how to get it
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do you remember You're like, I don't

671
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:37.000
like if you had a keynote speaker
or maybe valedictorian or something at high school,

672
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:44.480
or because you actually finished college because
you finished at at Real ut Yeah,

673
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:46.079
because Aaron you know, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I graduated UTD

674
00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:51.880
gave the UT light, yeah,
and I went I went to UT even

675
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:55.559
lighter because I went to UT Arlington
for a year and a half, but

676
00:50:55.639 --> 00:51:00.639
trade real Longhorn here. I don't
remember who high school was. I know

677
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:05.199
I didn't go to college because it's
just too big. I know Dan Rather

678
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:07.559
was the keynote speaker, but I
know I didn't go. You didn't go

679
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:15.639
to graduation at all. M I
mean it's it's thousands of people at the

680
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:20.639
time. The graduation ceremonies there lasted
I want to like six hours. What

681
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:22.679
Yeah, I mean there, I
mean when I mean, you're talking about

682
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:28.239
thousands of people? Was that when? So when you graduated UT was that

683
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:31.559
when I guess they were doing the
like the entire university graduation. They didn't

684
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:36.519
break it up by like the College
of you know, Journalism and engineer.

685
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:38.679
Well no, well it was it
was Liberal Arts, the College of Liberal

686
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:42.440
Arts. But that's still you're talking
about thousands of people. Yeah, I

687
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:47.639
mean you're talking about I think typically
it's UT total as you know, eight

688
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.760
nine thousand a year that graduate and
then but Liberal Arts is by far the

689
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.440
biggest school, and so it's just
it's a it's the main one. God,

690
00:51:57.480 --> 00:51:58.960
I don't blame it. There's no
Wayne, Hell, I would have

691
00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.360
gone to that. Yeah. One
of the things that UTD did that was

692
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:07.280
awesome was they had each ahead of
those schools, the School of Business,

693
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.719
School of everything, they give up
and give their speech, and then all

694
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.480
the graduates would just stand up and
the light would shine on them, and

695
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:19.679
then they sat down and then they
went on to the next school. I

696
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:25.159
mean, we zipped right through and
it was I was. I marveled at

697
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:29.119
how well you know, they got
through that thing. Otherwise, Yeah,

698
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:31.119
we would have been sitting through hours
and hours of people crossing a stage.

699
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:35.480
Yeah. And then in so many
cases like in the one that you did,

700
00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:37.840
a utd ear, and a lot
of these are are done outside and

701
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.239
obviously they're they're done at a time
it's usually hot as hell, So I

702
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.320
want nothing to do with that.
And you're wearing clothes, and on top

703
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:50.679
of the clothes, you're wearing the
graduation gown that is in no way breathable.

704
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:53.000
And in the hundreds of years that
they've been wearing them, I doubt

705
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:59.880
that they've ever decided to use that
nice new moisture wicking material that we all

706
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:02.280
where all the time now because it's
so awesome and breathable, especially when it's

707
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:06.360
hot as hell in Texas. Have
they have they have? They have?

708
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:12.039
Any universities bothered to contact under Armor
for the new material of graduation robe because

709
00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:16.599
they need to. That would be
awesome. And then maybe just get all

710
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:24.400
of the other sporting companies involved and
get like some Oregon like decorations and fluorescence

711
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.880
and stuff like that. Well,
but I like that idea. I'm surprised

712
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:30.679
that the well, you know,
I know why that those I know why

713
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:35.440
the Nikes and the under Armers haven't
done. This is because most of the

714
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:39.400
commencement speeches are not on TV with
millions of people watching them because we all

715
00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:44.079
know that they typically suck. But
I wish that they would. Maybe that's

716
00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:45.239
what you need to do. What
you need to do is you need to

717
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:50.719
graduate. You need to invite Slash
pay the Rock to come do the commencement

718
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:55.199
speech and then everyone just gets like
Project Rock graduation robes and they'll all be

719
00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:01.840
nice and breathable. I do remember
remember my because I didn't graduate college.

720
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:06.719
I remember my high school valedictorian speech. Not me. I didn't do it.

721
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:10.119
I wouldn't know I was that was. It was done by a girl.

722
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:15.360
So she was our valedictorian. Obviously
very very smart, brilliant, brilliant

723
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:22.679
young woman and extremely book smart.
And like a lot of high school kids

724
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:28.079
that were very book smart, she
wasn't the most you know, socially capable.

725
00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:32.440
Yet I like to think maybe she
grew into it. But here's someone

726
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:38.320
that pretty much aced her, you
know, every AP exam or sat act,

727
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:40.760
whatever it is. And then when
it came time for her to do

728
00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:52.119
the valedictorian speech, she compared life
to different layers of a cheeseburger exactly,

729
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.440
Trey. You know, that's one
of those go ahead tray, you know

730
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:02.880
what. It sounds stupid, but
you remember it. I remember it being

731
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:07.280
about a cheeseburger, and I remember
it being ridiculous, and I'm sure,

732
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.039
see, I don't remember the content
of it because it's so long, because

733
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:14.639
if she had made a case,
then you know, I could see how

734
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:16.559
they make a case. Yeah.
In my mind, I might be doing

735
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:20.440
a little bit of revisionist history where
I'm like, Okay, well, I

736
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:23.400
don't remember exactly what she said about
the different layers of the of the hamburger,

737
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:27.920
but I would imagine they probably went
something like, you know, the

738
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:30.159
meat that's the stuff, you know. That's that's where all the all the

739
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:31.559
good stuff is. That's why you're
that's where you That's what life is,

740
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:35.440
all the meat. It's all the
toppings and stuff that change the taste of

741
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:37.039
life, you know, because maybe
you get some pickles on there, Well,

742
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:39.719
it means life's going to be sour
at times. But that's okay because

743
00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:44.320
maybe you've got some of the maybe
you got some of the secret sauce that

744
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:46.599
McDonald's puts on, you know,
the big Mac, to make things a

745
00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:50.679
little bit sweeter. And it's all
about balance and one, you know,

746
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.800
a nice bite. I don't remember
if that was ever mentioned in her speech

747
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:55.880
or not. That's just me thinking, well, I guess that would make

748
00:55:55.920 --> 00:56:01.119
sense. I just remember the cheeseburger. I was just everybody else going great.

749
00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:07.360
I was hungry before we sat down. Yea. At that point,

750
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:15.079
had she somehow managed to get McDonald's
to sponsor the commencement and have big Max

751
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:20.880
handed out to everyone while she's talking
about the cheeseburger is life metaphor, then

752
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:23.199
we would have all been on board
and would have been the best valedictorian speech

753
00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:27.800
ever. I was just picturing a
Hey, everybody, check under your seats.

754
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:34.440
How gross? Gross that every two
days ago. It really wouldn't be

755
00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:38.599
gross though, because it's it's it's
a highly processed food product. I've seen

756
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:45.840
before in classes multiple times or on
television where they will show a cheeseburger that

757
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:51.519
it looks the same as it did
like three years prior when it was first

758
00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:55.800
purchased. So it's possible. Anyways, Congratulations Aaron, I'm being named a

759
00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:00.079
keynote speaker for your university. And
Trey for not even going to his graduation.

760
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:02.079
God love you, Trey. I
don't blame you. I don't think

761
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:07.599
I would have either. That's a
that's a good move. I do remember,

762
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.800
though, Trey, you were telling
me the other day speaking of astronauts.

763
00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:20.360
Obviously UTD has had astronauts over the
years, and Trey you sent the

764
00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:25.599
story the other day was NASA wanted
to use spaceballs to save astronauts who returned

765
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:35.920
to Earth. Well, if there
was a catastrophic malfunction on the Shuttle or

766
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:42.559
space station, that they had this
bizarre plan of two or three of them

767
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:51.079
would get in these space balls and
tiny like you would have to, like

768
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:52.760
the way I read it, like, you would have to get into the

769
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:59.079
fetal position and and get in one
of these and that was going to be

770
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:02.360
like your lifeboat. And otherwise,
and then there were two other people or

771
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:07.880
whoever that had to put their space
suit on and hope someone came pretty quick

772
00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:12.400
because it only gave them like three
hours of oxygen to live. I found

773
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:14.840
the story from the link that you
had said for most of us, this

774
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.840
would be a nightmare. Imagine being
curled up inside a ninety centimeter for those

775
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:23.000
that don't know a metric system,
that's thirty six inches, So a thirty

776
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:29.360
six inch fabric sphere with a small
window and a small air tank while dangling

777
00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:36.519
from the canadarm. I think that's
the arm of the Space Shuttle. As

778
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.079
your tiny sphere shifts, you'd see
Earth out your tiny window. When the

779
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:45.400
Space Shuttle damaged by some accident or
other that caused you to need rescuing,

780
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:49.440
then Earth again. Panic would set
in pretty quickly. But that's where Space

781
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.440
Shuttle astronauts and an emergency could have
found themselves if NASA's personal Rescueing closure had

782
00:58:53.480 --> 00:59:00.239
been put into practice. They developed
the pre simultaneously with the Space Shuttle program.

783
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:05.320
It's called a rescue ball, and
it was meant to transport a single

784
00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:07.840
astronaut. Oh good, so at
least at least they weren't going to make

785
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:10.800
you sit in there with three astronauts, and that means you get one foot

786
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:15.599
of space each. It was meant
to transport a single astronaut from a damaged

787
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:20.320
shuttle to a rescue shuttle. NASA
produced a prototype, but it never went

788
00:59:20.360 --> 00:59:22.480
on any mission. So yeah,
I get it now. So you're you're

789
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:29.960
dangling in this little spaceball in the
middle of space, and you're just hoping

790
00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:37.480
and waiting for your rescuers three hours
of air. Yeah, so they have

791
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:40.880
to move pretty quick if wherever you
happen to be, because you're just floating

792
00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:44.599
there waiting. Yeah right, yeah, Well, I mean they said you're

793
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.800
in a perfect scenario. You're going
to be attached to the arm that is

794
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:53.159
attached to the shuttle. Actually,
the spaceballs had scrubbers on them, so

795
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:59.480
for it gave you longer than the
three hours that the rest of the crew

796
00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:06.800
had um but still not a whole
not a whole long time. And I

797
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:09.679
don't know how long you'd want to
stay there literally curled up in the fetal

798
01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:15.000
position. Correct me if I'm wrong, But aren't the little paddles in um

799
01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:25.639
uh in pinball? Aren't those called
scrubbers? So you're waiting for NASA to

800
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:34.960
come and bounce you around in your
ball home or use the shuttle arm right

801
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:37.719
like, there's gotta be a button
down at the ground control that there's just

802
01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:40.840
like powel and then you just like
fly back. Yeah. Then at that

803
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:47.159
point you just get swatted back down
the pinball game of Earth to where you

804
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:52.719
eventually just get pushed back into the
Earth's atmosphere and you fall, you free

805
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:58.599
fall in your tiny spaceball into the
ocean, tiny fabric sphere. It looks

806
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.920
it looks like a hammer osterball.
It looks it looks like the most uncomfortable

807
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I mean already being in space.
But that looks insane and I I'm sorry,

808
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but yeah, the space balls.
It's like the whole time you're saying

809
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there, well you're just you're but
you're going to be really worried when when

810
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when Houston comes back at you and
says space show at Lanches, you seem

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to have been jammed. This is
the problem. This is what happens when

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01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:44.400
I guess if you you work for
NASA or you work for JPL or something

813
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:47.960
like that, and you start watching
TV and movies about space and you actually

814
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:55.480
become inspired. Well, think about
this also, that if you're curled up

815
01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:59.960
in one of these balls, Yeah, not only you. I clearly said

816
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.400
the catastrophic has happened that puts you
in this place, but that your only

817
01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:12.079
hope of being saved is that NASA
has some rush job launch that they can

818
01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:15.239
just pull off in a couple hours. So you know, you're basically getting

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you know, some astronaut with his
head hanging out the window going we're coming,

820
01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:23.239
buddy, and that's that's your hope. Otherwise your last minutes are going

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01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:28.559
to be curled up in a fetal
position, miserable. You know what.

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I think at that point you just
just just stay on the damn shuttle,

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just trying to make just trying to
make the best of it. Maybe maybe

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01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:37.920
you'll get lucky and maybe from you
know, NASA graduation, they'll send up

825
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:40.840
a nice commencement speech for you to
just to tide you over until your imminent

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01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:46.760
demise. For your last few minutes
in this realm, maybe you have some

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01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:52.719
inspiration. Here you go and the
one line from Aaron's commencement where he tells

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you how you know. Not all
of you are going to be successful.

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Be sure to follow, like,
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01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:20.840
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831
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:23.960
Malle for Trey at Trey Trenholme one, and be sure to check out Aaron

832
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:32.280
Ryanpoor at the Hyenas at The Hyenas
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01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:37.400
fourth. For ticket info Hyena's Comedy
Nightclub dot com. See you next time

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01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.440
at the Treehouse. Thanks Aaron,
Thank you. Guys are awesome.