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Hey, everybody, welcome to the Babylon Bee 2022 Thanksgiving special.
Hey, happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Only podcast that has a Thanksgiving special.
Hey, before we get to tell it's Thanksgiving, because right here it says it is Thanksgiving.
It's clearly on the note.
Yes.
And we wouldn't have been able to do that if it wasn't.
So you know it is.
When you need a sign, there's always one there.
There's some sort of sign that it's Thanksgiving.
Before we get started, so this is going to be a special episode where we just take a few minutes to talk about things we're thankful for.
We have some fun holiday stories.
We have subscribers submitted Thanksgiving stories, which will be fun.
But we wanted to do a little bit of promotional material first.
We want to remind you that we have Babylon Bee Live coming up.
So go to BabylonBLive.com to get tickets to come see us in person in the Fort Worth area on February 24th.
Gonna be a lot of fun.
Woo!
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It's gonna be a lot of fun.
So please come check it out.
Chandler's very excited about this.
I think it'll be really awesome.
Everybody else was just doing my SpongeBob impressions.
Yeah.
No, it's gonna be fun.
My first convention that I've actually been like a member of.
This is your first like conference or convention or meeting like featuring Chandler.
I guess so.
I've performed at NAM show a few times.
Okay.
So yes, as a musician.
Yeah, as a musician, but first time as like a personality.
That's like the modern day Lucille Ball.
That is like so sweet.
Yeah.
You know, you do have that Lucille Maul energy, I think.
Thank you.
Wow.
Well, that's what I'm thankful for.
That was very nice to be able to do that.
We need to write a sketch for her now.
Where she's like, she's got the chocolates coming down the conveyor belt.
We need to do the chocolates.
I think she's working on one.
I'm working on it.
So I'm excited.
I have to do more studying.
I have to watch a few more episodes to get the right.
You need us to buy you the entire Blu-ray setup.
I would love that.
That's what I want for Christmas from our Secret Center.
Or we could, you know, we could co-write it.
I don't know.
You guys?
We all can get a box.
That used to be a big thing in the television industry where like writers and producers and stuff, you would always just say you needed things for research because you wanted.
Like I knew a writer who got the entire box set of the Sopranos when it came out because he said he needed it to write a sketch.
That's awesome.
I mean, we kind of do that here.
Yeah.
Like, you know, all that Bucky stuff.
You can write it off or get the company to buy it for you.
Yeah, it's a write-off.
I don't think Seth watches the podcast.
We're probably safe saying that.
I got that Blu-ray set of Firefly just so we could have it in that box of Translation.
We'll be getting X-Wing for the X-Wings.
I specifically, I wrote that sketch about Kamala Harris, a speechwriter, who's a six-year-old kid.
Spoilers, that sketch will be coming out soon.
Yeah.
And at one part of the stage direction, I say he's playing with this very specific X-Wing model on Amazon.
He has an original rocket-firing boba fit.
And then I hyperlinked to the eBay.
Limited edition, this one.
Bid at this amount.
He gets out his mint condition black lotus for research.
It's for a problem.
It's for a problem.
It's a write-up.
Well, guys, you guys all grow up with special Thanksgiving traditions.
Yes.
You guys all do Thanksgiving.
I always like Thanksgiving.
I think it's one of those.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
I think you said that last year.
Yeah.
Favorite holiday.
It's one of the best holidays for sure.
And I think it's also kind of like non-denominational.
Yes.
It's like everyone's just come together.
The idea is like there's God who gave us all his stuff and gave us our families.
And let's give thanks.
And it's just a very simple, it's a very simple idea.
It's like there's not a lot of extra stuff that goes on.
And I love the spirit of it that you're grateful to God for the things you have.
You get to spend time with family and friends.
And I like that there's, it's a very relaxing and enjoyable holiday, but other than cooking that day, there's not a lot of prep or stress about it.
It always feels like a very relaxing kind of time of year.
Yeah, because Christmas is like the complete opposite.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do.
Yeah.
And then there's like the day after and the whole weekend after lots of time to like chill out and veg out.
I guess like, yes, being thankful, spending time with family, those things are all great.
But I just feel like Thanksgiving as an excuse to just like, that's the day.
I'm just going to like go way overboard and eat way too much and like feel like bloated and in pain.
It's going to be awesome.
Like, I'm going to try to do without that.
And then the drinking and then the leftovers.
And it goes through New Year's.
Yeah.
It's the holidays.
Let's just, let's just, I'll start on January 1st.
You know, I'm going to try.
This is actually my least favorite because I feel like I'm so tired of drinking and eating by that.
Yeah.
It's like that starts at Thanksgiving, that goes through Christmas.
And then by the time New Year's comes, I'm tired of it.
And that's why the gym is January 1st.
Yeah, New Year's is like expectations.
Oh, what I hope will happen.
Or you start getting anxious about like, what's my new year going to be?
And as opposed to just being and I feel lame if I don't do something on New Year's.
Like I feel lame if I just stay in, but I also, that's often what I want to do.
Yeah.
I think this year we fell asleep at like 11.
You know, it's like you couldn't quite make it to the end.
I'm doing stand-up this year.
This is the second time I've been on New Year's and that's my favorite thing to do.
It's only my second time doing it, but it gives me something to do.
That's cool.
And then you can celebrate with the people and do the countdowns.
Did you get to go watch him?
I did.
I was, yes.
Did you rate his show like one to one to 10?
I would rate it 10 out of 10.
I was so impressed, Adam.
I was really first one being no.
I was really blown away.
I was so top 10.
It's on the bottom.
I've never seen you do stand-up before, and I've seen you do your weekly news thing here, but you know, it's not a real true audience there.
And it was really great.
Well, if you'd like to see it, check out my new Dry Bar special, not big enough to cancel available now.
Where's it?
Okay, where can we see it?
So Drybar, it's run by, well, they're affiliated with Angel Studios.
They have their own website.
It's a clean comedy website.
So you can subscribe and watch it on there.
Or they also post clips and then eventually the whole special is on YouTube.
Now, I'm not sure if this one will get simultaneously posted on both platforms, but it'll be available on drybar.drybarcomedy.com and on YouTube.
Awesome.
You had one joke that's so amazing.
Yeah.
Congratulations.
There was one joke in particular that I just like, I don't know why this made me laugh as hard as I did, but it was the joke about how you said you're.
I want you to try to deliver it.
You said, I will try.
I will try.
But you said, oh, I got to go take my baby so he can feed.
Oh, yes.
And he said, that's really weird.
Like, babies don't feed.
Only parasites like ticks and leeches feed.
You wouldn't say, oh, I'm taking my wife to dinner for our eighth anniversary so she can feed.
And like, you said it in such a way, I like lost it.
How'd she do on the delivery there?
She did good on the delivery.
The setup was a little bit of a meander, but that joke.
I only heard it once.
But I knew it was coming.
And then it also reminded me of like dudes that talk about intermittent fasting and they always refer to it as, yeah, that's like when I feed.
I'm like, that's so weird.
I've never heard that.
You don't feed.
You eat.
Like, yeah, so I like fast for 16 hours and then for four hours, like I feed.
I'm like, that's weird.
So I when it was coming, I was like, oh my gosh, he's going to, oh, ah, it was, it sent me.
On Thanksgiving, we're all going to feed.
Oh, yeah.
Now that is a good thing.
Bringing it back.
You always do a really good job of that.
I'm like the ADD, like, and then you always go, well, let me get us a normal segue here.
Get us back on track.
Yeah.
But holiday traditions for Thanksgiving.
I don't know if you guys have like specific ones.
I have one of my favorite holiday traditions.
I grew up in a small town, McCungee, Pennsylvania.
And there's a tradition there that's been going on for close to 100 years now.
There's this mountain called Sheep Rock.
And every morning, this isn't a joke.
Sheeprock and McCungrock.
It's like everything about, like you said, what's the name of the town?
McCungee.
Yeah, that is the name of a town.
It sounds like an error.
At 5 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, the town gathers like 100 people or so.
When it's dark out yet, we have flashlights and it's like cold there.
Sometimes it's in the like 20s or 30s.
Sometimes it's snowing.
And we hike about, it's like two miles up this mountain.
And then the local pastors rotate having a sunrise Thanksgiving service on this mountain.
And the local Boy Scouts clear the trail the night before.
Back when I was in Boy Scouts, we would camp there overnight and clear the trail and hold lanterns as people go up.
And then the local Girl Scout troupe hosts hot chocolate and donuts at the bottom in the cabin when you come back down.
It's like I've done it almost every year growing up.
And now that I live in California, any year that I'm back home in Pennsylvania, we always do that.
That's like so sweet.
It reminds me of the Grinch.
Yeah, I was thinking, yeah.
It is.
That's we look down on Hooville.
The reason it started 100 years ago is the story behind it is there was a shepherd out with his sheep, like that morning, and they got lost in the woods and Sheeprock there it has like this kind of rock overhang and that's where he, like kept his flock warm during the snowstorms started to happen.
Yeah awesome, the Christmas spirit.
That's my favorite.
That's my favorite.
Uh, Thanksgiving tradition.
Then you move to California where no one does anything like that, Sofra.
Well, when I do stay out in California for thanksgiving, I just do a friends giving and it's, it's nice.
You just do the potluck thing.
Like I said, it's very relaxing and nice.
Yeah, it's great.
Well we, you should Have told your story last.
Yeah, it's all gonna be downhill.
Oh, that's very true.
It's like, yeah, we have turkey.
That's our tradition.
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We watch the football game.
The only thing that we did consistently was the day after Thanksgiving, we would always go ice skating.
And it was we just went to a local ice skating rink and like the whole extended family, 20 to 30 people, would show up at this ice drink and go ice skating.
That's awesome.
So that's really cool.
And it was nice because that was the crazy Black Friday.
Like everybody's out shopping.
So nobody's at the ice rink because everybody's out buying stuff at the malls when that used to be a thing, you know?
And then we would just all kind of show up.
It's just a nice relaxing time.
And then we would feed at Taco Bell.
I like the ice skating thing too because I feel like, you know, before Thanksgiving is too early for like winter and Christmas activities.
But then as soon as the day after hits, I love the holidays.
I like the whole Thanksgiving weekend.
Yeah.
Like you get such a long weekend.
It's relaxing and wonderful.
Did you guys hike any mountains or do any ice cream?
I do hike after Thanksgiving dinner.
I think that that's like a pretty regular.
I got to like break out of the street.
Like on the night of or the evening time, maybe like before, just like my family also usually eats like pretty early, like a 4 p.m. type thing.
Okay.
4 or 5 p.m. dinner.
Not super consistent with traditions, but one thing that we try to do when we're all together, my mom's a violinist and my sister plays flute and I play cello.
And we actually like did weddings and events when I was in high school and stuff.
And I made a little bit of money that way.
So we'll try to get together and practice some of like our trio songs and play some like classical music.
So that kind of like brings us together.
That's something that we try to do.
So we might do that this year when we're all together for the whole town gathers around you and sings.
We actually hike a mountain.
I bring my cello up.
You bring the cello up.
I've got to spice up these stores.
Yeah, I know.
I'm never going to live up to that, Adam.
I'm not going to live up to either of you guys.
So growing up, we would go out to the desert.
My grandma, my grandpa, they lived in Desert Hot Springs, which is just north of Palm Springs.
And that was like all the extended family.
We would all just kind of hang out.
So like our family's kind of scattered all over SoCal, so we don't see each other very often.
We have like some family that live in Irvine, family that live just all over, you know, just different places.
And so like that, Thanksgiving and Christmas and like maybe one other holiday, like that would be like the one or two days where we'd all kind of gather.
So it is if you haven't been to LA or Southern California, it's big.
Like if you're on the west side versus being on the east side, it's probably not that far away.
Like I've got cousins that live in like Laguna Nigel, but I never see them because it's like in traffic.
What does it take to be to Liverpool?
I mean, going to Orange County feels like a different world.
So it's like, yeah.
Yeah, it's sad.
I was talking about how in LA and California in general, it feels very isolating.
Like, yeah, I have friends that live across town, but I mean, I'd probably be more likely to see them if I was visiting from out of town.
Oh, we got to make time to like see you.
You would never make time.
Yeah.
You're there.
We'll see you soon.
It can be isolated.
I was amazed when I go to another city, like visit Nashville or something, and it's like you drive out of the downtown and it's like, there is nothing.
I'm just like, where did everything go?
The one that always pops in my head, there's a lot of cities like that.
But if you've ever been to Indianapolis, it's like you're just driving through like nothing, like cornfields, and then there's just a city there.
And when you're standing in the middle of the city, you can like look down the rows of buildings and it's like there's buildings and then it stops.
There's just like nothing.
You can just end up city.
You can just see where the city ends.
Wow.
I visited family in Kentucky when I was a kid.
I was probably eight.
And I remember being amazed at like just there just be like grass.
Like, why isn't there anything there?
Like, they just be like random fields that are just open.
I'm like, so weird.
Like growing up in SoCal, you just see buildings everywhere.
Yeah, it's such so much sprawl.
Well, here's a quote from Dennis Pereger: Because gratitude is the key to happiness.
Anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness.
And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations.
There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude.
The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
Here's a quote from another Jewish guy, Thessalonians 5:18.
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Very good.
True, dat.
So do you think that's true?
Do you think that it's not happy people who are grateful, but grateful people that are happy?
I was thinking about this the other day, how gratitude is a practice, and sometimes gratitude comes really naturally.
It's like, man, this is such a cool thing.
I'm so grateful.
I'm so thankful.
And sometimes it's something that you need to practice and remind yourself to look at your blessings that have become the norm and then go, oh, wait, I have that thing that I wanted.
Like, that's so cool.
I'm so grateful.
And then you feel happy about your life.
I think I've seen more recently just with this whole like woke movement and everything in our culture, the way that our society is going.
It happens on the right too, but it's the difference between just thinking the world owes you something, you know, and realizing that where we, and Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot too, but it's like where we are as a society, just the fact that you have like a house and like there's not warlords trying to behead you.
And, you know, like, that's like that, that's not the norm in the history of civilization, you know.
So there's such an interesting connection, I think, between, I don't know, there's a big divide between the people that think the world owes them something and the people who are like, I deserve nothing.
And so any little thing I get is like just so joyful to have, you know?
Yeah, like those Twitter employees probably weren't grateful for the free lunch when it was there, but now that Elon took it away, they just have an expectation.
Well, that's it's it's absolutely something the kids, man.
Those Twitter employees, I tell you what.
Now that all the lunch items are $8.
Exactly.
They're upset about that.
But you did get that feel watching like those TikTok videos where they're walking through, like, oh, yeah, look at that.
Yeah.
There seems to be more and more demand, especially on social media, like whether it's whether it has to do with the wages that people get paid or things that the government or their schools, it is just a constant, like, everything's a human.
We deserve more.
We just, we're owed more.
And, you know, people aren't grateful for what they have as much.
Yeah.
And it was funny for us to make fun of that Twitter video because we have a pretty swanky workplace, too.
Like, we love, we have good snacks and lunches and all that.
But I think, yeah, I don't know.
We don't have a food court, though.
So I was meaning to talk to you about it.
Oh, okay.
We should probably get a food court.
Okay.
Yeah.
We don't have the non-GMO shrimp.
Yeah, the cat.
I finished the last ice cream today.
We need more ice cream.
I'm working.
Okay.
I would definitely appreciate more organic food because, yeah.
That's for end of episode.
Just totally ruin all of our thankful, jolly cheer.
Well, Dan, do you want to read this C.S. Lewis quote that you pulled?
Yeah, so C.S. Lewis once wrote, I had not noticed how the humblest and at the same time the most balanced and capacious capacious?
I'd have to look up what that means.
The most balanced and capacious minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits, and malcontents praised least.
Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.
And that's in his reflections on the Psalms.
And I think he was kind of connecting, or like maybe I was connecting, like thanksgiving and praise that we praise God for who he is, for what he's done for us, for what he's promised to us.
And then therefore we thank him for someone's looking up capacious right now.
So your capacity, right?
Capacity.
So like if you're mentally healthy, if you have a lot of space in your brain.
A lot of space inside your head.
AOC is capacious.
Yeah.
So like the people that are always criticizing and are always cranks.
They're all like that phrase, cranks, misfits, and malcontents.
Cranks, misfits, and malcontents.
There's cranks over it.
Yeah, so I really like that thing at the end where he says praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.
And it's like when you're praising God or when you're praising somebody else for what they've done or like you're you're kind of externally focused.
You're not focused on what you don't have, what you need.
It seems like you're healthy in the sense that you're looking outside of yourself and you're saying, man, that's really great.
You're giving somebody else praise or giving God praise.
It's like your cup is so full.
You have abundance.
Your cup spilleth over instead of lack.
I need more.
I'm a malcontent.
Yeah.
And a misfit.
You got to make the crazy real, right?
I like that word capacious.
It just feels like I have space to, I have room for more, but I'm just like.
Capacious and cranks.
There's space.
So our office, is our office capacious?
Yes.
Very capitalist.
Very capacious.
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm using that.
I'm really glad we looked this up.
Yeah.
Well, let's talk about some of the things we're grateful for.
Romans 4, 8, blessed is the man against whom the Lord does not count his sin.
Obviously, we have all the things that we're thankful for, from salvation to common grace, everything God gives us in life.
I like this John Calvin quote, we are surrounded by God's benefits.
The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
I want to know what J.R. Tolkien said because I haven't read this yet.
Oh, this is great.
Yeah, a school child once wrote to Tolkien for a school project, and her question to Tolkien was, what is the purpose of life?
And he has this kind of winding letter, and he kind of says it's both too long and too short for that kind of a question.
But he says at the end, so it may be said that the chief purpose of life for any one of us is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means that we have and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
That's a great quote.
So like our whole purpose is to get thanks and praise.
It has capacity in it.
Yeah.
That's why it's a capacious quote.
C.S. Lewis, gratitude looks to the past and love to the present.
Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
We're just talking about that quote.
Nice.
Look at all this C.S. Lewis.
We have some other ones.
Gratitude exclaims very properly, how good of God to give me this.
Oh, nice.
There was a really funny anecdote that I had from going to the Desiring God conference.
Do you remember those with John Piper?
I don't know if he still does them or anymore or not.
But he was like kind of talking to the crowd before he got going and he was like, you know, you woke up today.
You're not in hell.
It's a good day.
And everyone started laughing.
And he's like, why are you laughing?
I'm sorry.
So it's like, I think like realizing what we deserve and then what we've been given instead.
I like this quote from Lewis.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness, and temperance is by Christian standards in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
That's an interesting one.
We've read that Tolkien one.
All right, well, what are some of the things we're thankful for before we this is gonna be a short episode, by the way, before we bump into our subscriber?
Well, maybe not.
Maybe we have a lot to be thankful for.
No, that's not what I meant.
I just like, well, this is gonna be thankful for this.
This will be short.
Wow.
Oh, man.
I'm thankful for Buckies.
That's all I can think of because I'm staring at a giant Bucky plush right in front of me.
We had a great time down there.
That's so cool.
What a cool thing we get to do for a job.
I just love, I love the bizarre random stuff.
Like when I'm touring the ark with Ken Ham, you have these surreal moments.
Like, wow, why am I here?
This is an incredible job.
And I started working with you guys this year.
So that's like a huge blessing that I'm super thankful for that I get to laugh at.
Yeah.
Thanks, Kyle.
I just think that it's so cool that we get to transmute all the chaos around us every day.
Transmute the chaos.
Can somebody look up Transmute?
Come on, guys.
I just get the more I hear about politics.
I'm like, I get really bogged down really quick.
And I'm like, see, I'm getting too deep into it.
We got to make fun of this somehow.
Transmute is a gender non-conforming mime.
Wow.
A mime who was born a male.
A way to ruin a really good word.
It was like transform.
I guess it just means transform.
I knew what transmute me.
You're kind of right, though.
Like, I feel like our whole culture is going crazy.
Like, if it's apart from God, that's all they have is just worried and freaking out about the news.
Yeah.
Worried about freaking out about who's going to be president in the next two years.
You just have chaos and people are going crazy about it.
And like we're able to look at the chaos and be like, hey, let's laugh.
Let's find something funny in this.
Let's remind everyone where the reality is.
Yeah.
It's great to have you guys because it just does keep me really sane.
And laughter, I think, also really points out where the line of reality and sanity is, you know, and it breaks up all that chaotic energy.
It's like, huh.
I'm thankful for our coworker Travis who got hit by a bus.
I'm not thankful that he got hit by a bus.
I'm thankful that he's okay.
I'm very thankful he's okay.
And actually, he has managed to come on screen and record a Travis's video game corner for us.
So let's take a look at that now.
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The first thing I did after I got hit by a bus was boot up an old classic Dreamcast video game called Shenmu.
I don't know what Shenmu means, and no one in the game is called Shenmu.
The main character is Ryu Hayuzuki, and he knows martial arts.
It is an RPG that started life as a virtual fighter RPG and then eventually dropped the Virtua Fighter gag and most of the fighting.
You do very little fighting in the game.
You spend most of your time walking around and asking if anyone has seen any sailors.
And then when they say no, he goes, I see.
It's a very boring game with very interesting ideas that never live up to fulfillment.
And that kind of comes to fruition with its near the end of the game when you're required to work as a forklift driver to advance the product.
It's a plot.
Sorry, I have a concussion.
And also, there are no guns or aliens or anything.
No explosions.
It's very boring.
So anyway, in Shenmue 2, you go to China, and that's where I am now.
And you also have to work in that game as well, but it doesn't make any sense because you're there to avenge your father's death and you keep getting a job so that you can live.
It's like they do all the things where, okay, yeah, technically he would have to make money, but normally you would skip past that with a montage or something.
Why am I going around swindling people into gambling as part of the gameplay?
It's very strange.
All I want to do is run around and fight people, and you can't, you can't do it.
I mean, occasionally you can in certain situations, but the game tries so hard to be realistic that they limit how much fighting you can do because no one can realistically beat up 50 people all at once unless you're Bru Loose La.
That means Bruce Lee.
I heard a joke once about Bruce Lee where it says, What's his favorite drink?
I will say that all of us are, you know, a lot of us come from comedy backgrounds or, you know, we try to aspire to be comedy writers.
We hired Travis as kind of a normal copywriter guy.
And he is, I think, the funniest person.
His delivery just of the way he can just say something.
It's such a natural.
It's very funny.
Yeah.
Like when you watch those Travis video game corners, you might think, like, oh, they wrote a funny nerd bit for him.
No.
He gets out here and we just turn the camera.
That one we didn't even plan.
He sat down and started talking to me about a video game and then I left and we just hit record.
So, yeah, I love that guy.
Yeah.
Feel better soon, Travis.
Love you, Travi.
Road to recovery from a concussion can be a long one.
Love you, T-Dog.
Yeah.
Tea dog.
I heard chuckles.
Yeah, you can hear laughter in the other aspect of the tongue.
I made it funny.
Yeah, friends, family, health.
You know, I know it's, I think, in the middle of politics, you can start to get too anxious and fearful, especially when the other party is running everything.
You're like, oh, everything is going to heck.
But I'm very thankful for my family that I'll get to go home and see them this year in Pennsylvania.
Some years I spend it out here.
I always love, I love Thanksgiving either way.
If I'm here in California, I'm thankful for the time that I get to spend with friends here.
If I go back home, it's great to see my parents and my brothers and my family there.
I'm very thankful for the Babylon B and the work we get to do here.
When you guys came to my show in Texas, I'm also just very grateful that between stand-up and comedy writing in this, that I get to do something like this with my life.
It's crazy, isn't it?
It's that old thing they say, you know, where like if you find a way to make money doing something you love, you'll never work a day.
It is like I feel blessed every time I get on a stand-up stage.
It's like, how is it that I get to do this?
And you know what popped in my head when you were saying about, you know, I'm in the midst of politics and everything.
One thing that I, like, how it's very divisive, but we have so much to be grateful for.
I think when I got into comedy and specifically stand-up, I was always grateful for being able to make people laugh and be able to see other people that make me laugh.
But one of the things that sort of comes from traveling to do stand-up is I'm very grateful for this whole country.
It's like when we get to go for a weekend and like step off a plane and you're in Texas, the week before that, you know, if I'm in Florida, sometimes I'm here in California.
There's people from like all of the political spectrum and stuff.
But when you actually get to see these different locations and get to interact with the people and just see the beauty of the landscapes and the cities and everything, it's just, I really am grateful for this country and just all the people here and all that it has.
Yeah, awesome.
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I got family, friends that I get to work at the Babylon B just for all the reasons that you guys were saying.
But like, you know, I get to just do kind of whatever I want to do.
I can plan a podcast.
I can write a script.
I have the opportunity to do kind of whatever I want to play with that day.
You know, it's just so much fun.
Yeah, you did a great job.
Dan wrote our If Women Had the Same Rights as Guns.
Oh, yeah.
That was his pitch.
And he read the script.
It turned out well, yeah.
Was that your first script you read?
That was my first one.
You just killed it.
That's really great.
Good job.
I'm not saying, I'm not bringing that up so that you can all praise me.
I think that's really just the idea that I get to do this for a living.
I get to pay my bills by doing that.
I couldn't have planned that.
It's just such a cool gift.
Yeah, I think I was writing those jokes, those bits for Ted Cruz to read when he did the cameo.
I was like, how is this?
Why are you writing?
It's surreal.
How is this happening?
Yeah, when he drops the Zodiac paper, which I think is great behind.
That was like the greatest moment.
It was so good.
Like when you interviewed John Cleese this year, I got to go to Freedom Fest.
So he's just like, goodness.
How?
How is this a real thing?
My favorite thing was him driving away.
And he's, you know, he's a little older, so he's got the mobility scooter after he's been walking around all day and just seeing him go away go, wee!
Screaming me, driving through, like running over people, driving through the crowd.
And just, yeah, yeah, that was just amazing.
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