Ep 154 | Jim Breuer Doesn't Care if You Think His Comedy Is Too Political | The Glenn Beck Podcast
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1 hour and 41 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Jim Brewer joins Jemele to discuss his life and career, and how he deals with the loss of his father, who passed away at the age of 89, and his wife, who is battling terminal cancer at the same time.
Transcript
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You probably know today's guest from Saturday Night Live or Half-Baked or The Joe Rogan Experience.
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He is very high energy. He has an incredible talent for telling stories.
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He has captivated audiences, impressed fellow comedians, earning him a spot on the Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
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He taught a young Dave Chappelle how to drive, spiritual advice from Steve Harvey.
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He skipped lunch with Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld to get a mani-pedi with his wife.
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This guy is rich, just rich. His output is prolific.
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He's released five comedy albums in the last three years alone, including literally one just last week.
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He is a much deeper person than you could possibly imagine watching him on stage behind all of his characters.
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And he he's he's the Jonathan Winters or or a Robin Williams in many ways.
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Behind all of that, he is devoted to spiritual truths.
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He proudly calls himself a modern day prophet warrior.
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He doesn't really have a party or play politics.
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It's that the things he talks about now are political.
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And you'll understand that in the in the podcast.
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He sees politics as an obstacle, an effort to rob us of our faith, multidimensional, full of wild stories, laughter and wisdom, but also heartbreak.
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Even as his wife of 29 years battles terminal cancer, he knows that he will never be mad at God.
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This man knows how to turn a stumbling block into a cornerstone and somehow he still finds the strength to bring the house down with roaring laughs.
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I want to start at a place probably people talking to you would not start at.
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I want to talk about how you deal so well with death and your dad's death, your wife being so sick.
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I think when you have a deeper depth of life, a faith, you have God in your life and you understand that we're not living forever.
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I think we have a serious problem with nobody knows or understands once we move into the next dimension, death or whatever you want to target.
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And humanity took care of each other for a long time, not until, I don't know.
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I remember being a kid and it's like, oh, grandma's in the basement.
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She's barking and she's talking about whatever.
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And we had people in the house somewhere along the line.
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They're like, you've got to make a billion dollars and go over there and you're very important.
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And we lost that, we've lost that connection with humanity.
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And my parents were, I don't know, I think I reflect a lot.
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I take a lot of time to reflect and think about life in general and what's really important.
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Am I going to, I remember when I begged God my whole life, please.
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This man grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in Dayton, Kentucky.
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I mean, he basically lived in hell for a long time.
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So the least, when you think the way you're taken care of as a child, as you grew up,
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my feeling is the least you can do is drop your very important world and your suburban
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or whatever you think makes you important and keep going to sacrifice, to look after them
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as they, as they start heading towards their end.
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But we don't, we don't understand the circle anymore.
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Don't you think, this is a conversation I want to have with God.
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Don't you think it would be better if the circle were reversed?
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And then you've, then you just got younger and younger.
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So your kids had this cute little baby that just disappeared one day.
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I mean, but technically, technically it is kind of saying, cause you're still dropping deuces
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in your pants, except for they're a lot bigger when they're 80, 90 years.
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And that was a big, that was a big breakthrough.
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Tell the story about taking your dad on tour and tell that story.
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So, I mean, I took him on tour all the time that, so I think you're referring to the documentary
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Um, and that's when I filmed everything with my dad, but I took him out all the time.
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So I told the camera guys, listen, film, but concentrate on him and we'll make blogs or something like that.
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But, uh, and I also realized that gave him so much life, um, gave him so much life, so
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much to live for at that time, he's hanging out with the guys, he couldn't really get around.
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But then I also, you got to humble yourself when they do have an accident, which wasn't, uh, we're not, they teach you all they want about Ponce de Leon and third grain.
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And if you're not paying attention, they'll drug him.
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Your child has ADHD, which means he's not sticking to the program.
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We're so sorry for your child's problem and issue.
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This pill will make them understand things better.
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He understood when he was in first grade going, uh, are we in prison or do we have to learn about geometry?
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Should we learn about taking care of one another?
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Um, but that's all things you gotta, when the first time he, he dropped, I, he dropped a deuce in his pants.
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That was, I could see the, uh, the look in his eye.
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I saw the look in his eye and it was pure humiliation.
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Um, and I just felt at that moment in time, it was my duty.
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No pun intended, but it was my, it was, it would be an honor to let him know as much as possible.
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And I actually learned a lot more about him and I had to start showering him cause he gave up.
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And when he gave up, what do you mean he gave up?
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My, um, my mom gave his car away and that happens with a lot of, uh, elderly people.
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So I would, he, he would go, um, you know, if you need the car, I'm not going to use it.
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I know you're not going to use it cause you can't even walk, but that was, that was there.
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Once the elderly lose their independence, they lose so much.
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They want to be able to go to the store on their own.
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They want to be able to do things on their own.
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I mean, think, think if you and I, we can't go anywhere and we have to always rely on people.
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And then you see the looks on the people that have to take care of you and like,
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hi dad, uh, you know, I gotta, here's one second.
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So, um, I think it all just, you figure it out, but you really have to deprogram yourself.
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This is, they, they do a good job programming you for a long time.
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Um, but first let me just pause to talk to you about relief factor.
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Have you had pain where you're like, I just can't do it anymore.
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Have you, uh, have you gotten to the point to where you've kind of just said, uh, this
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I can't tell you the relief of pain that has happened in my life.
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70% of the people who try, um, relief factor, go on to order more month after month, 1995.
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It's a quick start trial pack for it for three weeks.
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Cause you, you, oh, talk about your, oh, I had the greatest childhood in life.
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And he did not have a good childhood and he did not have a good childhood and he, and
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Tell me about him because he was, oh, he was always there, but he, but he didn't, he had,
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Never said a word, but he's always, the only time he say something, if he honestly thought
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I was going off the rails a little bit, he'd, he'd come in like, wait, wait, what's going
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Um, but he, and I saw him, that's another thing in my twenties, which also helped think
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about him more because I would, I would try to learn his history and I would try to learn
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Cause he was, he was, everyone loved him cause he was belly laughing funny, belly laughing
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No, I didn't, I didn't really understand his humor until afterwards.
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He didn't, he didn't show his humor until we had a drink together and I turned 21.
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We went to this place called Swamp Water Owls, Palm Harbor, Florida.
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We're the only ones that don't have like, you know, stringy hair off the chin.
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And, um, I remember I was getting, you know, I don't know what to talk to him about, but
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And then I'm catching a buzz, forget him outside.
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I'm talking to a couple of people and then like, I got to get in by my dad.
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I walked in and as I walked in, I looked where we were standing and I saw all these young
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guys looking down and I thought, Oh my God, he's, yeah, he's having a heart attack.
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So I go running over there and they're howling with laughter, howling.
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And I, I literally, you'd never seen your father funny.
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Like we would, I'd be in my, uh, I'd be a kid and we'd have a barbecue and I'd have
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to go to bed and I'd hear in the back patio, like at midnight, everyone else go, Oh my
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And I'd hear in high school, I would have people go, I was on your, your father's gym too.
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I was on your father's garbage truck this year.
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I go, I, I, I, I got your father's the funniest human being I've ever met in my life.
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And so when I came back to that moment, I look and it was him.
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He's holding court and all my kids' lives, my hand to God, I'll never forget it.
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This guy turns around and he goes, this guy's hilarious.
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I swear to God, he goes, can I hire him for a party?
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And then I watched him hold court for hours with these college kids.
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Some of the things like, like, what was he talking about?
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I can't repeat a lot of it, but he was one after the other, after the other.
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I don't know where you could go on the podcast.
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There's no rated G and I don't even think there's PG-13, but he would just do that.
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He would look at the waitress go by and look at the kids.
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That one will put you right back where you're dying.
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But he also, I also knew he was, he was a lot older.
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Like I knew we couldn't do sports or whatever, but we do fun stuff in the pool or we'd always
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We, we grew up on a street in Long Island where everyone looked after each other.
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I mean, there was a range of kids between some of us were six years apart, but I looked
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after them like little brothers and they looked, they looked at me like a big brother.
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And the older kids looked at me like a little brother.
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And then even the girls on the street, we all, all the neighbors, it's not that they, you
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know, if you didn't like each other, that's okay, but you still should know each other.
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And that's another lost art that has happened in this country.
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The, um, and back then you didn't, if you got out of hand, someone else's mother would
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be like, does your mother know that you're, cause I'm going to let her know unless you're
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So it was a great childhood and, um, yeah, it's not like I came from this terrible world.
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Is that just something that is developed in you or who did you learn that from?
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So, and what I mean by that is, it's, it's, I don't, it's not one particular person.
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I remember, um, my wife's grandparents just to, and I have to give her credit.
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And that was the first time I saw someone crawl in bed to hold them to pass away.
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And, um, and growing up, I mean, you learn in school, the kids that are picked on, I, I, you know, I'd get in a couple scraps.
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I, you, you, you learn real quick growing up how mean society can be.
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Ooh, you know, we'd had slow kids at school and they're the ones picked on.
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So that would cause a lot of fights and, and then the most vicious kids in school who I couldn't stand.
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Then you find out, oh, well, their father beats them or their, their grandfather.
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And even though it, well, it doesn't help the fingers, the punch marks on my chest that they left for no reason.
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But you understand like, wow, I don't know what that's like.
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So I think, I think compassion, you learn along the way, if you're open to it.
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I think the demons and I call them demons, um, have taken over everywhere that you're, that you got your mind and eyes locked into from the time you grew up.
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It's, it's, it's, uh, movies, television, news networks, all of it.
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And it's not, it's not so much, you know, people are concentrated on the stars are on there where they should concentrate on who's programming it.
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Who's the one saying, yes, put more of this out there and make sure we damn anyone who's not vaccinated.
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You know, you're watching hit TV shows and you're watching, uh, celebrities going, if you, you're watching, uh, late night television and they've did their, they've lost their soul, their minds, everything.
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If you're not vaccinated, you shouldn't be treated.
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And you should not have an airwave to put out such hatred.
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You know, it drives me nuts when I say one nation under God.
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Well, if you honored God, what we push in our daily lives, our judgment, hate, um, violence, sodomy, it's everything opposite of God.
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No, that's what's, so if I sit here and I make a million dollars, but I did it through creating a sex ring and pushing drugs and you came in here, made a million dollars because you're a lawyer.
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And that is an extremely dangerous God to look up to.
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And that is what I feel has really taken over our society.
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So let me see if I understand this because, um, I just went all over.
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Um, I've been saying for a while that it's not that we aren't a religious people or don't worship God.
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Right now, it's a lot of people's job or their station in society.
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They're not willing to do the right thing or say the right thing.
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I sit there and everything is, well, I'm saying that too, but if you turn on television,
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I'd watch the news and that's the first time when I realized, what is the news?
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Every day, death, horror, murder, kidnapping, terrorist, disease.
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And then I'd hear people go, well, people don't want to hear good news.
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If you came out with five, 10, 15 channels every day of your life, you are not going
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And then her neighbors came and they baked the cake and they did this and this one's got
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And if you know anyone that got cancer, I guarantee you things would change like that.
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So the mindset of anyone that says, well, it doesn't really sell is a fool.
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It's kind of like, I mean, as simple as, what is that?
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That show used to be on, you know, move that bus.
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And the whole community got together to take some family and they trans, you know, just
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It was always such a good story and a good feeling.
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But in my opinion, the devil's got a killer entertainment agents.
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Hey, let me just take a second here away from the comedy of Jim Brewer and and talk to
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We know that abortion has been a horror show in this country.
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Sixty three million babies since the beginning of Roe versus Wade.
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It will at least positively take it up to a birthday abortion.
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We have to battle it with good and battle it with truth.
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I want to talk to you a little bit about pre-born.
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But they're the direct competitor of Planned Parenthood.
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They are in wherever the largest providers are of abortion.
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And we have made a goal of 50,000 babies, saving 50,000 babies this year.
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The way they do it is when a mom comes in, they do an ultrasound.
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When a mom hears the heartbeat for the first time, when she can see the baby, she is 80%
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I want you to just dial pound 250, say the keyword baby, and support any way you possibly
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A lot of the problem has come from comedians being afraid or actually being part of it.
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You know, I think people would say, if they would watch, let's say somebody had to say
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it, they would say, oh, this is very political.
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Glenn, what blows my mind is how many people say, oh, you're political now.
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First, I'm talking about you trying to stick a needle in me.
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Or did you get conned and brainwashed to think it's political?
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That alone, I love when people go, what are you, some type of conspiracy theorist?
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I'm a conspiracy theorist because I'm questioning putting a needle.
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So, let me ask you, if I don't take it, I got a 99.9, but with it, I got less?
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But that is what another thing that's genius that I see has happened here is everything is categorized.
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You're liberal, you're conservative, you're Democrat, you're Republican, you're this, you're that.
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You do, in my opinion, you're doing yourself a dishonor.
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If this is good, this is good, this person's good, this person's good.
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I have people in my family, it's like, I'm a Democrat.
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And I'm going to, I said, well, what if that Democrat?
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And I'm not union, I'm a Democrat, I'm not Kennedy.
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And this side wants to put up a wall when I say let everyone in.
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When you join a team, here's an analogy I would always say.
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I used to, when I'd watch baseball all the time, diehard Mets fan.
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Now, diehard Mets fan, when you join a team, you forget about your morals because you're
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And that's fine and good until the team does something really gnarly.
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You know, I remember the first time a couple Mets players were accused of hitting their wives.
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And that's the first time I went, now, wait a minute.
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And there might have been, we didn't get the whole story yet.
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And so, keep, listen, we don't know where, if that was my brother or that was my neighbor,
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Because that's, you got issues and you have to deal with them.
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Like, that's just, that's the law of the, that's the moral code.
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But if it's on your team, hey, well, you don't know.
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And no matter what, it's, I've never seen a society controlled so well with just a name.
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And it baffles my mind that the haters are still.
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But, and I tell people, listen, you know the phrase love is blind?
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What kind of price have you paid for being called political?
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Um, to be dead honest with you, once COVID really kicked in, and I already know that,
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And again, once you realize we're not going to be here, we are in borrowed time.
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Um, you, you, you just, you come to terms with reality on a deeper level.
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And when, when COVID kicked in, I said, you know what, all bets are off.
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I already knew I wasn't in control, but now not only am I not in control from the natural
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order of life, but now the puppet masters that are in control just let us all know, you
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And what you have to do to go back to your natural pleasures.
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I don't know why I always go to an English accent.
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Sire, do you think they're catching on of all sadistic ways for centuries?
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And that, quite frankly, they never did free themselves.
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But what I was going to say was, there's not enough time anymore.
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There never was time, but it made me realize I don't have time to worry about what people
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And tremendous power spooks the hell out of people.
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But when I'm excited that other people get this.
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Because they're still, hey, they're still like, they're stuck.
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For years and years and years, you allow fear to control your life.
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I really think the biggest fear we deal with is the common fear of, I'll be found out.
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We feel like, I mean, we are the craziest self-hating egomaniacs.
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But we've been, we've been, we've been conditioned for that.
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If you really, I always, I love natural humanity.
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Um, and when you watch them, then I started realizing the words that we've used to condemn
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We're the only ones like, well, I got to go to school and in 20 years, I'm going to take
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my money and I'm going to invest that money and everything and I get my car and I drive
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I, I remember being in Australia, I don't know, I was on Saturday Night Live and we went
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to Australia and I was more fascinated with the alborigines and I, and I talked with one
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and he just, he goes, you, to us, you all look like ants.
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You just march aimlessly and you don't even know where you're going.
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He goes, we, cause I was asking him cause they were all gathering under trees.
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You'd be like in Sydney to be a tree and what are they doing?
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The men are over there and, uh, they're, they're discussing the day and they laugh about the
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day and they live for the day and tomorrow hopefully brings them a new day.
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When you go to Africa, you know, people are like, Oh, he's poor Africa.
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They're not, they're the ones that are living off the land.
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They're living in what I would have called a fort when I was nine years old.
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It literally is the, I went to this village where they have the bushes around them, um,
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to keep the, hopefully the predators to keep going.
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And then their, their, their huts, I had like awesome pictures.
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It's literally, it's literally like when we were kids, like you want to make a fort?
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And you come back and you're like, what do you got?
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And it's like, they're like, this is, this is amazing.
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And we created this and they're not making money.
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They're not, they're just living life to the fullest at the moment.
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Um, and they're in tune with spirituality and God.
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And they're in tune that everything is connected.
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All this has been so viciously planned to be deprogrammed of it's in everyone.
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I get excited when the light beams inside someone, I get excited when someone gets that
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moment and they see life completely differently and, and they start shedding all the stuff that
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they thought was so valuable and such a necessity.
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And I think COVID was the beginning of that big time.
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Some, some people, I mean, I do with my family, we look at it as a blessing.
00:42:14.500
I mean, a hundred percent, horrible, horrible stuff happened.
00:42:19.700
You know, I got in, I got in trouble with conservatives after, uh, Barack Obama's administration.
00:42:24.340
Cause I said, I actually look at him and I'm grateful in some ways because I learned who
00:42:34.160
I learned more about the things that I thought I knew that I didn't know.
00:42:50.220
They just get you to moan and complain and yell at the TV.
00:43:03.600
As long as my intention continues to be and will always be, I may fall off the mark here
00:43:10.340
and there, but I have intentions that are, I can honestly say are pure for humanity.
00:43:18.600
I really want to see humanity thrive and it pisses me off when I feel it's being taken
00:43:33.360
I don't care if people want to say, oh, he's this now.
00:43:46.480
You know, I was talking to a guy who makes sweatshirts.
00:43:50.740
You remember the old like high school sweatshirts?
00:43:53.920
I mean, if you're my age, you'll remember them, but they were made in America.
00:43:57.860
Those machines and the people that had that skill, they don't exist in America anymore.
00:44:03.320
We have to rebuild our apparel industry, making fabrics that you would think would be really
00:44:21.740
If you want socks that will keep your feet cool in the summer and warm in the winter, socks
00:44:37.260
Put your trust and hard-earned money in a company that does it right here in America.
00:44:49.700
I don't know if you can come to this without some great struggle in your life.
00:44:55.920
I mean, you know, at the height of, you know, my popularity, I'm at Fox and I'm, I'm, I go
00:45:06.880
I tell my kids all the time, neither of these things are true.
00:45:11.500
I was the third most admired man in the world one year.
00:45:16.340
The very next year, I'm working at Fox and I'm one of the most despised people.
00:45:26.540
But after you have been pushed and pushed and pushed, a good person, a person, I think
00:45:33.600
a human, forget good person, a human says, am I some of those things?
00:45:41.000
And you start to take everything out of you and look at it and go, oh, I see that, you
00:45:55.940
I, I'd, I'd be the first to admit I, I struggle all the time, nonstop, still do trying to figure
00:46:02.380
things out, trying to figure out how to move on, how to awaken more people, how to not sound
00:46:20.320
That's usually my biggest struggle because I realized as a kid, I felt I had a gift from
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But with that gift, it, it comes with a special order.
00:46:34.360
So, usually my first, my, comedy comes to me when I'm pissed.
00:46:51.820
So I get that, that, oh yeah, of course, because you're educated, so you're better.
00:46:59.640
You know, so, um, that lacks a certain bit of Christ-like humility.
00:47:08.100
So I have, I, I, that is my, that's when I go, okay, Jim, you know what you're angry at.
00:47:15.920
How do you present this, but find the humor so that the, preaching to the choir will obviously
00:47:26.120
laugh, but the, one on the other side will go, oh wow, okay, huh.
00:47:37.660
I had that, I had people come up to me and go, I was so pissed at you because, you know,
00:47:45.920
I was caught up and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, and he goes, and I, you made me, and now
00:47:51.560
I just, I can't believe what I was falling for.
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And I'm like, yeah, well, you got to make it look crazy.
00:48:01.520
That Broadway show is one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen.
00:48:25.740
I was performing at, um, the stress factory in New Jersey.
00:48:29.180
I was living in New Jersey and everything was closed.
00:48:33.960
And then even when it was sort of coming back, still comedians couldn't work.
00:48:45.980
He's like, Jimmy, I got, I, cause everyone's also trying to figure out how to beat the system.
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Uh, so every once in a while I'd be doing a show and you hear.
00:49:09.020
I was coming in for the closer and, um, competing against the Harley for 20 minutes or, or I would
00:49:18.880
be out there and I'd hear, we'd hear a couple yelling at one another and then I'd have to
00:49:24.540
pull the banner like, is that really all right?
00:49:32.940
You got to wear a mask at the, at the, when you check in and when you walk in, you got to
00:49:40.400
wear a mask, but when you sit down, you can take it off.
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And we should all listen to everything they say.
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If you stand and put it on, if you sit and take it off.
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Cause that's, Hey, you taught me in school what they did.
00:50:27.100
If you see people or children in your neighborhood, if you just change the accent now, it's just,
00:50:33.560
You put on a little, you know, the little, little happy dress.
00:50:38.940
Like if you see anyone outside, they're a danger to society and you care about your family and children, don't you?
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Every mayor, every governor that shamed you, terrorized you, tore your family apart, made you lose your job, divided everybody.
00:51:17.060
That was the most disgusting display of humanity.
00:51:21.460
And these are the people that are controlling my life and your life that they're taking my money from and doing whatever they want with it.
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And then in my own house, you know, these kids are all indoctrinated.
00:51:56.760
You know, I had my daughter come up to me and a niece that I love said, uh, dad, is everything cool?
00:52:04.880
Because everyone thinks you're, you know, you're making wacky videos.
00:52:08.960
And I understand why it happened, but that's why I had to get that out there.
00:52:21.920
Everyone was still like, I didn't, I felt we're at war.
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It's a war on your, it's a war on your common sense.
00:52:49.840
And unfortunately, humanity doesn't believe that evil exists.
00:52:58.120
And you'll be horrified when you realize where they're all located.
00:53:04.840
And I'm not sure some people can handle that, but I think the ones that can are very ready.
00:53:30.680
I had a, I had a trampoline and I'd be listening to old metal music.
00:53:35.060
I would listen to, um, um, Damage Incorporated by Metallica.
00:53:42.600
It was me and I'd be a general on a hill going, are we going to let them just take our children away from us?
00:53:57.880
I can't visit her in a home because I won't put a needle in my neck.
00:54:05.580
And just as the song would peak, you're like, charge!
00:54:11.580
And so I would give speeches in my head, like how to wake up humanity.
00:54:16.960
And the, and the best thing in the world was hearing so many people when I'd finish a set.
00:54:37.700
And that's when I realized, I don't care if you're going to think I'm political.
00:54:43.260
I don't care how you're going to categorize me.
00:55:03.100
And I think I named it like the night of the show.
00:55:14.100
I took an opinion that I've held for a long time today and just kind of came out on the air
00:55:21.380
about something called the Convention of States, which is, you know, the states having a constitutional convention.
00:55:32.200
And because they're just things that Congress is just never going to do.
00:55:36.200
And today, I've been thinking about it for a while.
00:55:40.300
And I believe our Bill of Rights and our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were divinely inspired.
00:55:49.040
You listen to any of Benjamin Franklin said the hand of God was there with us.
00:55:56.160
And they at one point when they couldn't agree on things, one of them suggested we all need to go to church.
00:56:02.480
And they all went to church and they all prayed together.
00:56:07.420
And I said today, I said, I'm no longer for the Convention of States because this is a sacred document.
00:56:16.400
And I don't think we are anywhere near where we should be tampering with something divine.
00:56:30.300
So when you say that, because I'm not educated in that category.
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I don't mean, and I don't mean to make it political.
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But I'm curious what you're, so you're saying your, your Constitution.
00:56:50.200
I think we, I think, I think the vast majority, even if Democrats, if you push them to the edge, and this is changing, unfortunately, but if you push them and say, forget about everything else, forget about it.
00:57:03.900
Won't you still give your life, even if you really disagree with me?
00:57:08.240
Well, this is when I feel, when I watch it, it looks so ridiculous and so insane.
00:57:19.940
And to me, and I have no investment on either side.
00:57:31.900
There, the people running things now, and you know what, this is also good too, because I've never heard anyone, I haven't heard so many people talk about the Constitution.
00:57:50.500
And again, this is all waking up so many people, so many people have never realized, hey, yeah, you know.
00:58:22.860
They're taking the Constitution, and they can play all the games they want.
00:58:26.800
Oh, there was a shooting, and I've got to take home, and you can't say that.
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I mean, you are in the category, I think, you're in the category of Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams.
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They could both spontaneously do a Broadway show.
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Well, I think maybe I'm, they were definitely huge influences in my life.
00:59:47.060
I got to meet him for literally 15, 20 minutes.
00:59:56.560
And what that is, they would bring comics to the Montreal Comedy Festival.
01:00:38.760
People would be like, the guy's really successful.
01:01:04.320
I'm walking by this breakfast place in the hotel.
01:01:15.840
I want to say it's like 93, 94, right before I really got into the Hollywood scene where
01:01:31.820
And he's sitting in there, and he's coming out.
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And I want to say, I want to say he was with David Brenner.
01:01:42.760
Whoever he was with, I feel bad because I don't remember the other person.
01:01:52.540
And he came out, and I went, Mr. Winters, I just want to say I'm a big fan.
01:02:21.240
And then he's like, all right, what's your name?
01:02:30.440
I had a Richard Pryor moment, and I had a Jonathan Winters moment.
01:02:35.340
Richard Pryor was, I always, I just wanted to see him live.
01:02:47.340
And I would go there every night to like, eh, maybe.
01:02:57.020
And then the last night there, I'm sitting in the back.
01:03:02.780
And as I'm about to leave, the emcee goes, we have a special guest.
01:03:11.400
He's going to take him a little bit, but please welcome Richard Pryor.
01:03:16.160
And I turn, and I see him, and he's being helped by about three or four guys.
01:03:27.980
It took him a long time to get to what he was saying.
01:03:32.940
But it was just such an incredible, because to me, that was my first huge, I loved Richard Pryor.
01:03:49.420
Because he's, in my opinion, he was the first one that was so truthful, so honest, so humble, so raw.
01:04:00.920
What comedians were being so honest about the fight he had with his wife to the point where she's like, she said, I'm leaving.
01:04:15.880
And then the vodka said, go ahead and shoot something else, Rich.
01:04:39.100
And he acts out the whole thing of a heart attack.
01:04:47.600
I remember him, the second concert he came out as a kid.
01:04:51.280
He was like, don't think I didn't hear your old jokes.
01:05:11.560
So he was, he was, so it started with Steve Martin.
01:05:22.960
A guy gave me, I remember asking my parents too.
01:05:27.200
They're like, can we, can we let Jimbo listen to this?
01:05:34.760
And I told you, sixth grade, I was relating to Steve Martin because he was completely silly
01:05:50.060
Then Eddie Murphy was the, I'm going to be Eddie Murphy.
01:06:27.860
I mean, standup, that's, you think it's harder to do standup than it is Saturday Night Live
01:06:37.320
I think the, I think, I think scripted, for me, scripted is a lot harder.
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And I don't like, if I don't like what I'm, what you're writing for me, it's really hard
01:07:13.860
So for me, being, going up on stage and just being honest and trying to be funny is way
01:07:20.060
more natural because that's who I am at the end of the day.
01:07:27.580
Uh, that's just always been the natural, the natural me.
01:07:35.620
I'm sorry to request, but I may request what the, um, music.
01:07:41.120
In the restaurant that your daughter was very upset about after college.
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You're bong, dang, bong, dung, bing, dung, dung, bing, dung, bong, dung, bong, dung, bing,
01:07:54.720
What's so crazy is that is what it sounds like.
01:07:59.580
I, if I don't hear that, if I walk into an Italian restaurant and I don't hear,
01:08:15.880
If I don't, if I go into a Chinese restaurant and I do not hear bong, ding, bing, bong, bang,
01:08:29.220
You ain't a, Jim Brewers of mine, you're not authentic and you're not putting me in the mood.
01:09:17.960
She got the mastectomy and history, all that stuff.
01:09:22.320
And did a guy who was like, you know, you used to eat this flower and do that and everything
01:09:43.920
She hated that because she hates, she tries to eat as clean as possible.
01:10:16.260
And I remember being in the room and, uh, and I saw her face.
01:10:28.240
Cause she did not, not that she was facing mortality.
01:10:44.880
And then I remember, and what we always do, we always find humor.
01:10:48.920
I remember being in the room and, uh, the doctor goes, and she goes, well, like, what
01:10:54.680
And she goes, ah, this was like maybe February.
01:11:02.060
She said, unless we maybe try a trial or something like that, but there's no guarantees, but we'll
01:11:11.900
And I just went, do you have drugs for me to ease the pain?
01:11:20.720
And that doctor looked at me like, how dare you?
01:11:33.460
And she just kept looking at me and she's like, no, no, no.
01:11:51.600
I used to, I used to say my mother committed suicide.
01:11:56.780
And it's just, and it's for some people at work.
01:11:59.580
Some people done doesn't, but do you say you mom, my mom committed suicide when I was young
01:12:05.200
and I used to, my partner on radio for years and still my best friend, he would bring anything
01:12:14.580
And I would immediately say, thank you for reminding me of my mother's death.
01:12:28.900
He'll still come up to me and he'll be like, I don't want to bring up your mother's death.
01:12:36.000
But you clearly came to, um, you clearly went through a lot.
01:12:40.640
You probably went through guilt and all the, all the cycles.
01:12:45.440
And then you came to terms with, there's nothing.
01:12:59.860
But because it's, it is, um, I guess I learned this from my dad.
01:13:06.460
Uh, it's, it, there's, if there's the life is going to crush you.
01:13:34.720
It'll make someone, someone gets sick and you watch that process for years.
01:13:44.700
She started a trial and she's, I remember I get these cluster headaches.
01:13:50.720
I used to get these cluster headaches and it's all, I believe from stress.
01:14:06.800
I mean, I had her way before that, way before that.
01:14:18.460
She thought I was, she thought her parents were like, he is a loser.
01:14:23.680
And she married me and she is just not thrilled about any of it.
01:14:37.440
I'm like, hon, this is the producer of the movie site.
01:14:43.980
I have said to her before, I've said, honey, we've been invited to, to the White House.
01:15:00.280
We're going to meet the lead singer of Hasty Tasty wants to go to dinner.
01:15:36.600
He looks at her and he's like, hey, come over and sit on BB's lap.
01:15:39.940
I wanted to say she didn't even know who you were, really.
01:16:16.440
So, oh, and then I remember the cluster started because everyone was out of the trial except
01:16:24.020
And I, she also has a very strong faith, very strong faith.
01:16:46.440
And I'd say her faith and her trying to be as clean as possible is what keeps her going.
01:16:52.980
She, I, our marriage, you know, I'm sure you and your wife, you've had a million times
01:17:01.540
who are like, you know, I think we had a nice run.
01:17:14.560
I can tell when I come to rub your shoulders and you're like, ah, this is sweaty.
01:17:22.340
If Aquaman did that, you'd submit, but I'm here.
01:17:30.000
Um, and we were, it was after the second kid and, uh, she was having a rough go.
01:17:51.080
Um, and that's another whole nine hour special, but she was like, oh, there is no God.
01:18:03.080
Um, and I'd be like, oh my God, how do you not know?
01:18:06.020
And I don't know if it was postpartum, whatever it was.
01:18:08.040
Um, I remember I was in the, I was in this low town we lived in and I challenged God.
01:18:22.000
I was, I had one of those cries cause I thought the world was where your mouth's open for an
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I'm like, if you don't, I need you to save this marriage.
01:18:56.180
If you exist and I always defend you, I always defend you.
01:19:04.960
I'm like, let me tell you a story and you make the decision.
01:19:15.480
My mom clearly at the martinis were like, I wanted to take you out.
01:19:23.840
Um, and I was like, if you don't show up now, I swear, I, I was, I swear to God, I swear
01:19:34.460
to you, I going, you don't want me to go the other side.
01:19:38.020
If I'm broken, I'm going, I'm going Darth, full blown Darth Vader.
01:19:49.140
And, uh, a couple days later, I come back from the weekend and she's in the living room
01:20:41.920
And she goes, she proceeds and she's like, well, I went to a coffee shop in town and the
01:20:49.160
I don't really know her, but she, she came from behind the counter and she said, you really
01:20:53.100
need to, you need to, I want to do something for you.
01:20:57.880
And I didn't, and the way my wife tells it, she's like, Jim, I, you know, she's crying.
01:21:04.080
I didn't want to, I don't, I don't know this person, but I just, I, I don't know.
01:21:19.780
She made a left and I, I, I stopped and I made a left.
01:21:26.500
And I went to her house and the house is cute and it's decorated nice.
01:21:44.400
And she goes, and then they, they held their hands and they started praying for me, praying
01:21:54.480
And, and I wanted to laugh because you knew you just challenged.
01:22:00.800
Well, not only that, but that's not the answer I was expecting when this conversation started.
01:22:15.800
I did not see this coming, but I'm like, continue.
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And then that's when she's like, I don't know what's going on.
01:22:21.780
I just want to start learning about God and go to church and, and Jesus.
01:22:34.940
I didn't visualize that, but he was like, you said, save the marriage.
01:22:49.180
And I tell you what, on my kids' lives, before that happened, she went to this thing called
01:23:03.920
Now that I do vitamins, I'm totally better now.
01:23:06.720
And my circulation before that, it was a coffee.
01:23:11.220
And now because the coffee, that's what made me angry.
01:23:17.540
And then it would end with the, you know, I don't like you.
01:23:29.840
Um, and she's getting into, and it was, it was definitely, I was open because she was,
01:23:43.380
she had a different spirit about her, but I was still like, how long is this going to
01:23:50.300
And she would, she would hit me up with a lot of times that people find their faith.
01:23:54.840
They meet like, it's like someone learning to swim.
01:24:09.440
And she would hit me all the time with, um, then she started looking at me differently.
01:24:19.520
You know, it's, it's like, no, you have a gift when I know that you should thank Jesus.
01:24:37.960
And I'd go, hon, please let me, you, you, what do you say?
01:24:43.940
You're working, working, work on that progress.
01:24:48.380
And just to tell her, she's like, but you really should thank Jesus.
01:25:16.140
And, um, and he'd go, Jim, what's going on with your wife?
01:25:24.260
Cause they know each other like brother and sister.
01:25:26.260
And I said, she, you know, she's really learning.
01:25:38.100
The women get together and they take a subject like, uh, being a parent and it's, you know,
01:25:44.000
they quote and they get the guy and they have coffee.
01:26:08.340
And so the guy, you know, the pastor would be up there.
01:26:32.000
And my friend's like, Jim, uh, does she, does she like pray?
01:26:37.860
I go, yeah, she starts, she does something before she eats.
01:26:48.700
And while, you know, she'll sit there and say, and she won't, it's not like Jesus.
01:26:54.940
Right before dinner comes, if we're all eating, she'll just do this for a second.
01:27:01.800
So then he's like, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta come out there.
01:27:07.360
I swear on my life, my hand to God, this is true.
01:27:18.620
And my friend's sitting there and he's looking at me.
01:27:31.240
And I know by this point, my wife is such a rock.
01:27:35.840
When she found her faith, I was on this way and I needed that real bad.
01:27:45.520
So then she gets the light and the stories I have that now she pulled me out of are just
01:28:16.400
You know, I found Jesus and Jesus teaches me that love.
01:28:19.440
And you know, everyone who's not perfect, you have to learn to understand where they come
01:28:32.360
He goes, if Osama bin Laden was sitting right here in your kitchen, you wouldn't hate him.
01:29:20.080
Jesus is crushing for like a good two months now.
01:30:03.340
And it was right back to before Jesus showed up.
01:30:29.540
And I was sitting at the island in the kitchen.
01:31:31.880
While this is going on in my head, she opens the door.
01:31:39.600
If this is the end, this is full-blown nuclear war.
01:32:18.540
I have a lot of anger that I'm trying to figure out.
01:32:27.940
and I'm begging you to just be patient with me.
01:32:44.060
And she turned away and she started going upstairs
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that's all it takes for a human being like this,
01:37:10.840
it's going to be horrible what happens to this person.