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  1. “And by the way, the fighter and the kid has, I think, been holding at number one on iTunes in the sports and rec section for eight or nine weeks now. And Tim, you're going to be on that on Monday, so we're excited.”

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  2. “I appreciated my friend. I am going to be at Brian Callan. That's my Twitter and my Instagram D-R-Y-A-N-C-A-L-L-E-N. And you can go to BrianCallan.com to find out where I'm performing. I'm always performing. I'm going to be in Atlanta in October this Sunday. I'll be at the”

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  3. “Listen to yourself, follow your bliss, as Joseph Campbell, to bring it back around, said, and there is great security and insecurity. We are wired and programmed to do what's safe and what's sensible. I don't think that's the way to go. I think the way to go is to do things. I think you do things because they are just things you have to do or because it's a calling or because you want to be, you're idealistic enough to think that you can make a difference in the world. I think you should be a dreamer. I think you should try to make the world a better place. I think you should try to slay dragons. I don't care how big the opponent is. We read about and we admire the people that did things that were basically considered to be impossible. And that's what makes the world a better place to live.”

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  4. “Well, I would say that if you are searching for status, and if you are doing things because there's an audience for it, you're probably barking up the wrong tree. I would tell them that I live in a town where people spend twenty years scratching and crawling to get to the top of the wall, and usually they don't like the view. And that's because their value system was misplaced to begin with. Think that's what I would tell them. I would say, listen to yourself,”

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  5. “I thought about that question a great deal, a great deal. And, you know, would I have studied abroad a little longer? Would I have played tennis more? Would I have boxed earlier? I don't know, man.”

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  6. “Well, believe me, I was always nervous about getting cauliflower here. So, you know, I wrestled long enough and never got it, then I did enough jujitsu. But yeah, maybe, or maybe I would have had an injury. I don't know, man. Gosh, golly, I don't know. I don't know.”

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  7. “Oh boy, buy property in Venice. Oh boy and And oh boy, you know gosh, I thought about that so much and I don't know if it would had an effect. I guess focus work harder. But I worked pretty hard, man. I just was interested in a lot of stuff. I mean, you know what? I should have wrestled in college. I know that's lame, but I don't know, man.”

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  8. “While David will tell you, and he said this on the podcast, we did a podcast together, and David said, I was the first guy to get him to start reading, because I said to him he was younger and we were in theater school, and he was 17. And I said, he was hungry. This kid was hungry. And I said, surround yourself with people who will make you grow. And the difference between the people you admire and everybody else are the people that read. And he never forgot that. Yeah, it was pretty cool. So I'm proud of that.”

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  9. “I think that's kind of the idea. Fulfillment and meaning and being effective. There is intent in life, but then there is bottom line, there is something called being effective, changing minds, changing minds, and having a positive influence, and specifically what I mean by that as being an inspiration. One of the cool things about being 47 is that I find that I have young people come up to me and say, hey, I find your podcast inspiring, or I find what you're doing inspiring, or you recommended something, I read it, it changed my life. I like being in a position of service. Those are the important things. Service and all of those things, when you put other things in people first, I think it gives you balance. I think that's very important.”

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  10. “Oh, you know, probably being very social, probably making people feel good about themselves. I just like people. I think that's probably humor, humor. I think I've always made everybody around me laugh a lot. I'm proud of that. But I've always been somebody said something Dove Davidoff said, you know, at your wedding, one of the things that I thought was amazing is that you have one guy doesn't have any money and another guy's $100 million, and you've never made any criteria for your friendships or for the people that you have around you. It's just genuinely who you really like. And I'm proud of that. I'm not a, I don't have, you don't have to have done anything. You just have to be somebody I think is interesting, generous, kind, and funny, and you're my friend.”

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  11. “The documentary jazz and baseball and those people that give us perspective, those people that are able to put it all together, the guy who wrote fiasco, I can't remember his name, but these are the people that really, that's what I consider successful. They are really making a difference. They really are. I mean, it takes guts to write the way they do and to come up with a point of view and put it all together and be that fair be that fair man. Those are the people that I think are incredible.”

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  12. “Well, you know, anyone who is original, I think the name of the game is innovation and originality. So in my field, you know, as far as actors are concerned, I mean, Daniel D. Lewis does things. I don't know how he does what he does. Christian Bale is the same way. But I think anybody who surprises and shocks me with what they're able to come up with. Usually anybody that comes up with something out of nothing. I love the visionaries. Steve Jobs, the late Steve Jobs, was somebody I would consider very successful. He changed a lot. So people like that, people like that. I like journalists, man. I like, what's his name? Lawrence Wright, who wrote The Looming Tower and Going Clear, the great documentary maker who wrote”

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  13. “And pumping iron becomes political. My God. Oh, we don't do Bikram. We do a stranga flow, do you? All right. You win, I guess. Watching for an hour and a half is too long, so I don't do classes. I'll do 20 minutes when I'm done.”

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  14. “When I had my dog, one of the things I love to do is I would just walk my dog and that's where I would think and write. But I actually believe it or not, I sound so L. I almost every morning I drink green tea and I do some yoga. That's just my routine, man. Once you do it, you feel really great. So that's probably my.”

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  15. “Yeah, he knows so much about animal behavior and everything else. It's incredible. I'm not a big hunter. I don't like camping. I miss my cappuccino, but I'll do it. Again, it's the same reason I box. Getting punched in the face just reminds me of my own mortality, how tough I'm not, and it just keeps me a little harder. And I think hunting once a year in a place like Alaska and freezing my ass off for eight days is good for me.”

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  16. “Yeah, I mean, if Accordia had a beak, we'd eat the fucker. They had a muzzle. So now all of a sudden it's cute, I guess. It's funny how that works Yeah, I would 100% eat a corgi, I think. Chihuahua probably tastes more like whale, not a whole lot of meat on it, but I would eat. Yeah, but a corgi. I'm going hunting with Joe Rogan. Oh, yours.”

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  17. “Interesting. Well, probably something kind of probably a corgi. I could wrote that small enough to season and stuff in my oven. Sorry, I love corgis. In fact, if I get a dog, it'll probably be a corgi, but damn they look delicious.”

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  18. “I've always had pit bulls, and I just love them. I just love that bully face and I love their spirit. My female, my pit bull just died, and I've got kids. They want another dog, but I'm kind of like, oh yeah, we won't get a dog for a while. When you have kids, you know, that's enough”

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  19. “One of the reasons nothing seems to work in this country, or one of the When you start talking to people about campaign finance reform, you start talking to them about those kinds of things. Their eyes glaze over because it doesn't have immediate relevance to their life right now. And I think that's what we're dealing with, apathy. As long as people have enough to eat and they feel safe, you're going to have a tough time.”

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  20. “I agree with you, Tim. And I don't know the reason either, but I would imagine it's because in many ways these problems are rather insidious. I think that it hasn't come to a head. I don't think that we really, it's a little bit like when you're in California and they say we're at a serious drought. Conserve water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm still taking my shower every day and I'll probably let the water run when I brush my teeth because, you know, we're not really going to run out of water. The real problems, the real deficits, the things that are going to come to a head a lot of times are not sexy. They don't have, they're not very colorful. They're not that visible unless you know where to look, right? So the roots of the problem, when you start talking to people about campaign finance reform and how money in politics is probably...”

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  21. “You're going to think I'm plugging you, but I probably have recommended the art of learning and the four hour body. I'm not kidding more than any other book. I just think it's fantastic. And for young people, I recommend the four-hour work week. I just love the possibility and the optimism in those books. And I love that you've kind of lived it and what you do. So I actually start with those books a lot of the time. So, you know, it sounds like I'm shamelessly plugging you, but I am a fan. No, I appreciate it.”

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  22. “Because all those architects, all the people that created the intellectual scaffolding and argument for the Iraq, were none of them have done a day in the military. And I would even go so far as to say that they've never done a sport in their life. Dick Cheney, I guarantee he's never done a sport, and he sure as hell has never taken a punch to the face or punched anybody in the face. So I'd like to see how he reacts to what real pain is about. Fuck you, Dick Cheney. Anyway, keep going. Keep going.”

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  23. “Happened. I mean, Iraq doesn't seem to be doing that well, and it's 13 years later or something, or it's 11 years. I'm not sure. We went in in 2003. So I'd like to line those guys up as well. You could get those guys in a line. I'd like to punch them in the face. I don't want to kill anybody. I just want to hit them and feel them. Just feel their jawbreak, my two front knuckles. It'd be a lot of fun.”

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  24. “By the way, I want to just let me back up because I got to say one more thing. I read a book called Fiasco. You know, the architects of the Iraq War, how is that going for us, by the way? Who told us that it would happen very quickly? I mean, Dick Cheney was just at the American Enterprise Institute saying that the president must understand that we are in a war and we have to fight this war for as long as it takes. Hey, Dick. Okay, thanks. Thanks so much. You told us that we'd be welcome as liberator. So did you, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl and Douglas Fief and Michael Vadim and all you neocons, thank you guys. You guys said we should go into Iraq and I kind of listened to you. I mean, I guess he had weapons of mass destruction. Paul Bremer, who didn't, none of these people knew anything about the history of Iraq. And now I'd like to hear, can you guys at least say, hey, maybe we were wrong? Maybe we screwed up a little bit. I mean, ISIS, I don't know that ISIS would.”

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  25. “Grinding those guys. Yeah, ground, that front foot on the ball's your foot and just turn that body and keep that, keep everything loose. Just think of your fist as kind of a stone and your arms a rubber band and just sit down boom and punch. Yes. My left hook is pretty nasty too. So I don't know what I'd rather do. Maybe just left hook followed with an uppercut, something like that. We'll go into it.”

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  26. “Oh Jesus Well, after I saw fed up, probably anybody who's responsible for getting their unhealthy products and for getting Congress to say that French fries and pizza counts as a vegetable in our school lunch programs. I'd like to fucking line those guys up and sit down in my punch. I'm talking about a right and I can hit. I'll show you how to mit sometime. I'd like to sit down on my punch and just break a couple jaws, those assholes. That comes to mind. And I'm, again, hey, I ain't some, I'm not some left-wing guy who believes in a lot of government interference. I believe in the free market. They're not living in a free market, those people.”

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  27. “Yeah, so fed up was a great documentary. I'd have to think, I mean, there's so many good documentaries, man. I don't know. I'd have to think about that.”

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  28. “Their soft drinks like Coca-Cola is and doesn't contribute to obesity. I don't think there's anything wrong with one Coke a day necessarily. I don't drink it, and I'm a free market guy, but I don't think they're behaving ethically, and I don't believe the way they've hijacked the Food and Nutrition Board, the way they've stacked the deck with their own scientists, shame on those scientists and shame on the food companies. So that's a great documentary. Sorry to get on my soapbox, but I think a huge problem, and I think we'd solve a lot of our health care issues if people in this country learn how to eat properly, the enemy is not fat, as you know, Tim. It's probably sugar.”

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  29. “Well, I just read Fed Up, which is a very new documentary, which I recommend to everybody about the food industry. And I think the food industry, Mars and Coca-Cola and Nestle and Kraft, sorry, but I think that their behavior and how they target children with their unhealthy foods, with their sugar and sodium, I think they are going to be exposed, and I think that we're going to look at what they're doing in the school lunch programs, et cetera. I think we're going to compare them very much to how the tobacco industry was behaving back in the day when they were denying that their product caused cancer. There is no question that the enemy in our foods is sugar and processed foods. And I think that's what's causing type 2 diabetes in children as young as eight years old. Shame on them. Shame on them. Shame on them for saying that.”

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  30. “By the way, I also like to drink raw goat milk. After a workout, my favorite people to follow on Twitter, I don't have anybody. I don't really follow a lot of people on Twitter at all. That's what people laugh at me about. I think taking Hayek seriously is one of them. Friedrich Hayek wrote the road to serfdom, who is the great economist. I like, I follow them, but that's about it. And Tim Ferris, of course.”

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  31. “I like the old world wines. I like primarily French wines. There are some great California wines, of course, and great Italian wines, but there's nothing like a French border or a French burgundy with some age on it, nothing like it.”

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  32. “Usually a pilsner, a cold pilsner preferably something like Peroni or Moretti. I like the rice beers in Japan. That's what I like, but I'm a wine drinker. I like my red wine, and I like my red wine to have some age on it. And that's harder to find in a bar.”

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  33. “Forget it, Seneca and Socrates and Plato and Aristotle When you read them, when you read these men who are writing this stuff thirty five hundred years ago, whatever it was, twenty five hundred years ago, you are profoundly aware of the fact that there is a responsibility to being a human being. There are questions you must wrestle with on your own as a human being. Technology and the creature comforts and antibiotics and X-rays and plenty to eat, those things ultimately probably aren't going to help you. They're going to make you a lot more comfortable and maybe let you think longer and God bless and thank God we have them. But there is a responsibility to being a human being, to being an ethical human being, and to being a whole and complete human being that can, that nobody can really take, help you with. You've got to kind of.”

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  34. “Yeah, I wish there were some of those books I wish I had read when I was way younger. By the way, I loved the four hour body. I loved what you did with that. I loved the four-hour work week. I love the philosophy. I like the journey you took in how you broke it down. Those are the kinds of things I wish I had read when I was much younger. It would have made my schooling a lot easier. That's for damn sure. My God, the books, so many books, so many authors. I love Somerset Mom. I went through all those, I mean, you know, listen, listen. I mean, the symposium, Plato's Dialogues, I mean, come on.”

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  35. “That sort of compassionate side of life or of thought, I just loved how he was a biblical scholar, he was an Eastern philosophical scholar, and he would often compare and contrast the two. And that's what I really resonated with, I guess. So Campbell was the guy who really kind of put it all together for me. And not in a way I could really put my finger on, but certainly in a way where I kind of, he gave this wonderful, it made you just glad to be alive how vast this world is and how similar and how different we are. Maybe that's kind of the first guy I remember really blowing my mind. But then, you know, there are books like Josh Waitzkin book, The Art of Learning. I love...”

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  36. “You know, look, I mean, I went through, I would go through my phases. I remember reading Atlas Shrugged and the Fountain Head by Ayn Rand. And that's good fodder for a young man. It sets these bold stark characters. You could even call him Christ figures. And you think to yourself, I want to be that. And of course, I read Nietzsche, you know, about Nietzsche, you know, listen, the genealogy of morals, et cetera. I mean, this is bold, stark stuff for a young man where the truths and truisms are really cut and dry in a lot of ways. And it's just like kind of the equivalent of, I guess, you know, intellectual red meat. Then I got into Joseph Campbell and the power of myth and hero of a thousand faces and these kinds of things. And Joseph Campbell was the first person to really open my eyes to maybe”

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  37. “You know, probably my whole life, I mean, I think the ingredients, it was my subconscious and my conscious and the years I had been, the things I'd thrown out there and I just somehow was able to kind of cast a net and then sieve through all the shit and I just kind of, it's just a process of whittling down who you really are. And I guess whittling down what makes you laugh. I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know the answer. It's a surprise. It was just a huge surprise, a wonderful surprise.”

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  38. “Because it's a magic trick, and once they know what's coming, it ain't going to be the same. Music is different. The Rolling Stones have been singing Start Me Up for the past thirty fucking years. Well, I don't got it so easy. I got to come up with Start Me Up every time I cut a new one hour.”

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  39. “I still couldn't believe I was able to do stand up comedy. The great surprise of my life still is the fact that I make money doing this. And by the way, you forget how you came up with the ideas. You even forget how you structured them. You just know that they become part of you after a while. You know, a heartbreak is letting go of a lot of your great bits. You can't do them anymore because you've already cut them and, you know, it's not like music. You just got to keep inventing”

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  40. “That was a place, I think it was the west side theater in New York City, and it was down the village. And I just, I had this crowd, and I hit one. I hit one. It was the first time where things started to gel. And I'd been working all summer on it. And I'd just been working all summer. And it was a packed crowd. And I got up and I did about twenty minutes, which was an eternity back then for me. And they just kept laughing harder and harder and harder. And when I got off stage, some of them stood up. My girlfriend at the time was there. And boy, did I, I just, I went, oh my God, oh my God. So if I just sit and work all the time, alone in a room, this is what happens. And that was the end of it, man. I just couldn't believe it.”

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  41. “The mic didn't work that well, and my jokes just didn't seem to want to fly. Brits have a subtle sensibility these were look, you gotta if you go to Britain as an American comic, you better be good and experienced. I wasn't either of those two. And it got quiet quick, but I just forged through. I forged through. I was basically on fire. Maybe the most uncomfortable I've ever been in my life. And by the way, the one compliment I got wasn't one. A woman said she was beautiful. I think I was trying to pick her up and it didn't work. And she looked at me and said, you know, you'll really, um, I don't mean to sound bad, but you'll really like, you're very American. I mean, you're very loud and very big. Has anyone ever told you that?”

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  42. “Oh boy I think my first real paid gig was in London. My buddy had started an online bank and flew me to London to do stand up in a tent. And oh, I was, I don't think I've ever performed to that. That kind of deafening sil It was horrifying. Check or something, and that was fine. But oh, I mean, it was horrifying. People didn't really look at me afterward. Here was this American trying to do bad jokes. So, you know, you got to have those experiences.”

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  43. “Good athlete, not a great athlete, pretty good. And the other is get them to laugh at you. And those are the two things I got good at. I didn't want to be the last guy picked on the team. And by the way, you'll have fun with me on your team because I will make you laugh the whole fucking time. That's really where my training as a stand up comic started. And, you know, my life isn't much different. I get up on stage in different cities all over the now in Canada as well and probably in India pretty soon. I don't know them, but they're all looking at me and they need me to make them laugh for an hour. Nothing new, nothing new here, man. I'm just more honed. It's just a little more polished than it used to be. There it is.”

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  44. “You know, as I think about it, I was moved to so many different locations. I didn't live anywhere for more than really a two years. Think about this until I was 30. I mean, I remember when I bought my first house, I think I was 32, and it was in Venice, and it was the first time I'd ever put anything on a wall. And I was a real nomad. Well, what that meant was I was always moved and put into a whole different circumstance. Usually I was taken to a new continent. I'd be in a school for two years in Greece or in Lebanon, and my dad would come home and say, guess what? We got transferred too Saudi Arabia. And I was like, I don't know what Saudi Arabia is, but I have a dog and this sucks. And I miss all my friends. Sorry, get on a plane. We're leaving. And I would be thrown into a new set of circumstances. Well, there are two ways you get guys to like you. One is sports.”

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  45. “The fact that I realized there were huge deficits in my learning, I didn't, I wasn't familiar with the Greeks. I wanted to know where I came from. I wanted to know who I owed thanks to Socrates and Plato and Aristotle. What was the Bible? Why did the Bible have such authority for a thousand years or even thousands of years? Why? What was the contribution of the Hebrews, the Jews? I mean, the Old Testament and their laws. What was Roman law about? These were the things that I always knew that I should know about these things. I knew that they were people who had They also teach you how tough you are. You need both. You need what's called perspective And maybe that's kind of what I was inundated with before I began that journey.”

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  46. “Taekwondo, and I started fighting. My teacher was teaching me how to jab the bag, sort of a boxing jab. And I said, I have trouble concentrating. I'm getting C's or something. And he said, he was Korean. And he said, hit that bag again. And I hit the bag. And he goes, did you concentrate on that? I said, no. He goes, same mindset. Reading's the same way. Just let it come into your body. Stop trying to stop trying to force it in. Just let it come in. That began the journey of sort of learning by learning in a passive way, I suppose. It turned the process on its ear. I started to, I guess, use the mental model I used for Taekwondo, and I applied it to my academics. But I think it also came from perspective. I think that the turning point was always...”

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  47. “While I was always curious, and I grew up all over the world until I was fourteen I lived in seven different countries, right? So Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and Greece and India and the Philippines. So I was always exposed to so many different cultures. My father was a huge reader as was my mother and they were both pretty educated. But I think that I always had a great deal of trouble until I was a sophomore in college with what you would call concentration, the idea that you've got to sit down and fur your brow and concentrate. I didn't know what that meant. Nobody had explained the art of learning to me. The one thing I was very into, I went to college to wrestle, hurt my back, and then I saw these guys kicking and punching, these taekwondo guys, but they were fighting full contact and I went, I want to do that. So that began my journey into”

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  48. “Thank you. I'm getting paid for what I got in trouble for my whole life. My father used to pull his hair out when he get my report card because in fact I was fantasizing about being a professional skier or slash tennis player or anybody I was not. And guess what? It pays the bill now.”

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  49. “Was doing some, you never tell them that that's more important, that me running like an ostrich. In fact, I think I was working out this bit where I'm in a tower with no pants on and a woman's over my shoulder. And she's like, oh my God, your body feels like warm moving wood. And I don't know what I was like going through this. I'm mowing her captors down with a machine gun. I got bandaleros. My hair's wet. It's in my eyes. I'm writing this ridiculous thing. I think there's a horse rearing in the background. It's not something I can really, and this is literally, I know it's going to be a great fit, but I can't tell them that. And my father, my father was so great. My father goes, he's not here because he doesn't want to, he's not interested in your grocery list. The guy makes his living off his imagination. He's obviously coming up with funny stuff that the country that the world's going to laugh at. Leave him alone to shopping. And it was just great.”

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  50. “Well, look, I was working on a bit. My father has become my fan now because he's seen my stand up. And he also features pretty prominently in the next hour. And to his credit, it was great because my mother and my sister, and I think my wife were yelling at me about what to buy at the grocery store. And then they were asking me some terrible question that I didn't care about, about, I don't know. Do you want to go to Menchis with the kids and something? I don't know. And I wasn't paying attention. And my sister goes, as usual, Brian's here, but he's not really here. And in fact, I was trying to work on a bit. And so I was going, yay, yeah, Amentches, yeah. Okay, supermarket. Like I give a shit about that stuff. I'm trying to work out what an ostrich does. I don't know what I.”

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