This past weekend I did a comedy show in Madison Wisconsin and I got the shakes. Hold on to your life. Sometimes you just have to hold on to something you can't let go of. Whether it's your life, or the life of someone you care deeply for.
00:05:49.200You know, I don't really have a million thoughts on politics.
00:05:51.780But, when it comes to health care, you know, I feel like it's almost inhumane if I don't feel like everyone deserves to be well or deserves to feel taken care of.
00:06:06.560Especially in America where, you know, I'm not a bookkeeper, but I'm sure if, if you got down to the brass tacks, we could find a way to afford it.
00:06:14.740Um, but then you got a lot of people that don't take care of themselves, you know.
00:06:18.940And so that's really the other side of the issue.
00:06:21.780Like, you know, if somebody's just laying in the park all day shooting heroin and they, you know, and they don't care about their lives, but you're taking somebody's tax money who does care, you know, um, I can understand why some people would think differently, you know.
00:06:38.340So I certainly see the different perspectives.
00:06:41.040Um, but I hope we find one that, uh, you know, that works for everybody.
00:06:47.140Um, and I don't know if there's a way, you know, um, I don't really know.
00:06:51.240But it does bug me sometimes, um, that some of the, the news stations just, I don't know if they really seem interested in finding a way as much as they do just beating apart the people that are trying to figure it out.
00:07:05.740You know, uh, I just don't think the news is as helpful as it could be sometimes.
00:07:12.540When it comes to like political issues, health, you know, healthcare is super important.
00:07:16.300You know, everybody needs a bandaid or a lung, you know, hell, I'll probably blow through something.
00:07:21.920Um, I had a sister that was born with a bad liver.
00:07:24.860She only had about a quarter liver in her.
00:07:28.200And so she needed a liver transplant early.
00:07:31.440And I know that, uh, if it weren't for the healthcare system, we wouldn't have had that organ, you know.
00:07:37.200And she's a little chatty, you know, I'll admit that.
00:08:51.660Um, that's kind of like a political thing that pops in my head sometimes.
00:08:55.020If that's even political, I don't even know.
00:08:57.340It's just something that I would think would be pretty neat.
00:09:00.280Uh, outside of that, another issue that sits on my heart sometimes is, uh, education reform.
00:09:07.600You know, um, I just don't feel like we teach children skills that can really help them, you know.
00:09:16.060Like, um, how to interact with one another.
00:09:20.740How to know if your friend is having a tough time.
00:09:24.520You know, um, how to cheer somebody up if they're not doing well, you know.
00:09:30.800I mean, I know it sounds like kind of some pretty gay shit, but, I mean, I feel like those are things we could be teaching kids, you know.
00:09:38.820I don't really care if Lamont knows about social studies, but I do care if he, if he understands that one of his friends is maybe getting abused at home or something and he can recognize it, you know.
00:09:54.540Um, I just feel like we could teach kids acceptance.
00:09:59.560We could teach kids, you know, how to love one another.
00:10:03.640Um, I just feel like we could do a little bit better job of education reform in that sense.
00:10:09.080Just teaching people how to care, you know.
00:10:11.680I don't think you should be able to graduate the fifth grade until you're not racist.
00:10:19.740Or until you realize what it means to be a contributing member of society, you know.
00:10:27.120Um, I just feel like there's a lot of things we could really be teaching children that's not factual, you know.
00:10:35.460That's more instinctual and more, you know, more of the heart, I guess.
00:10:41.480And that's just a thought of mine, you know.
00:10:43.180I'm not trying to push my beliefs on anybody.
00:10:45.240I'm just, I guess, sharing whatever's in my brain.
00:10:47.520Another thing I've wondered is if people who have served in the military, if their vote shouldn't count for more than those who haven't, you know.
00:10:58.560Like, maybe their vote counts for one and a quarter votes.
00:11:02.260And that might sound crazy to some people, but, you know, I think it would certainly teach us all to have a different respect for our military.
00:11:11.300I mean, if somebody puts their ass on the line, I feel like they, you know, they should get a little more, you know.
00:11:18.620And maybe it's, maybe it's just they, you know, get better packages when they're, when they're finished.
00:11:23.440But I just think that would be interesting if their vote counted for more than those of us who haven't served.
00:11:30.080You know, it's one thing I regret a lot.
00:11:32.980I mean, I wasted a few years of my life, surely, you know, just probably spraying out and thinking about owning animals and, you know, chasing trim around and, you know, all kinds of just, just void fillers, you know.
00:11:50.000Where I probably could have sacrificed some of my time and got out there and into the bazooka trade, you know, or whatever else they're doing, knife fighting, everything.
00:11:59.320So, anyway, those are some things that popped into my head.
00:12:03.760Another news piece, Pizzagate, if you guys are familiar, but Pizzagate is basically Italian food and child molestation have joined forces in Washington, D.C., I believe it is.
00:12:18.360And it's something where there's, you know, politicos and fancy pants people getting together in the middle of the night to do child molestation at a pizza place.
00:12:35.620I'm going to have to go ahead and throw that out there because, I mean, I've spent a lot of time around Italians.
00:12:41.340And they are, I mean, they kiss, you know, they'll kiss you on the neck.
00:12:45.220The men will kiss you on the neck sometimes.
00:12:47.220If you're at the racetrack, they, I'll see them sometimes kissing each other.
00:12:52.120If their horses win and getting excited and, you know, they eat for a long time and look at each other in the eyes and stuff and drink wine.
00:13:02.780They, you know, they're real loving, but I don't think that's going to lead to them loving a child so much that they're molesters.
00:13:09.040So that's why that whole story to me just seems like a bag of cat's bottoms, you know, if you really look at that.
00:13:18.160If you want to find some child molesters, dude, go to a poor neighborhood.
00:13:23.340You know, I think, I think your interests are better looking around there.
00:13:28.080I mean, in a lot of wealthy neighborhoods, they have these HOA programs or these HOA groups, which are homeowners association that can make rules about who can live in the neighborhood and who cannot.
00:13:43.060Um, so a lot of fancy neighborhoods can keep, uh, pediophiles out.
00:13:49.760So pediophiles are stuck at the gates, you know, and unless they got long arms, they're not going to be able to reach the children, you know, of the rich.
00:13:57.620But now I grew up in a poor neighborhood, you know, and I'm, you know, I'm not trying to say that that's anything special or that I'm better than anybody because of that.
00:14:08.200But we had surely some couple touchers by us, you know, and we split kickball with two, two adult touchers.
00:14:19.420These men, I'll tell you this, they had a law in Louisiana.
00:14:24.240And they had a law there in Louisiana, and that's one of the big 50 states and where if you were a registered sex offender, that means you were, you know, part of the union, I guess, and, um, that you had to go door to door and knock on the door and tell the people in the, in the home, in your neighborhood, you had to go door to door in your neighborhood and let people, you let people know that you are a pedophile, right?
00:14:54.240Well, in our neighborhood, it was all single parent families, you know, and half the parents worked.
00:15:02.380So us kids, we were home alone all the time.
00:15:05.660So you'd have these touchers come into the door, knocking and saying, I have to let you know that I'm a registered sex offender.
00:15:20.720We're like, she's not home right now, which is baffling in hindsight because then you got a pedophile standing right there with his desserts, really.
00:15:30.620Um, and that was a law in Louisiana that you had to do that.
00:15:36.080Um, thankfully, uh, once you know who the pedophiles are, you, the game changes, you know, a lot of, you know, these, you know, these pedophiles and touchers, they, they, it's when you don't know who they are that they can practice their art, you know.
00:15:59.260Um, but so we knew, I mean, we used to play kickball with these two guys, Mr. Daniel.
00:16:05.540I don't remember the other guy's name.
00:16:07.180He was kind of, kind of swampy looking, didn't really take care of himself, but we played kickball with them.
00:16:13.700Um, and, uh, Mr. Daniel, this one dude was, he was combing his hair all the time.
00:16:18.620I mean, he just, he'd comb his hair nine times in a minute.
00:16:24.600You know, like he was just like, like he was just trying to just comb the, comb the darkness right out of his soul.
00:16:32.880Like he just wanted to comb the touching out of himself, you know, um, or like he would look handsome enough that he wouldn't be a, you know, a pedophile anymore.
00:17:05.620Roll the ball, you know, and, you know, it really, it almost puts you on a level playing field once you knew who they were.
00:17:13.680So I guess there was some value in them going door to door because then you put, you know, you put a name and a face, um, with the dark arts that they had inside of them.
00:17:24.500So, but yeah, you want to find some kitty touchers.
00:17:27.300I don't think you need to mill around, uh, you know, a Papa John's out there in Washington, DC.
00:17:32.040Why don't you come on down to Covington, Louisiana and get out there off of, uh, off of McGee street where I grew up.
00:17:38.780And I bet you they still got a couple of, um, a couple of wild tender gents out there trying to be fancy with the young, you know, what else, man?
00:49:42.580Ask somebody else if they're having a problem too.
00:49:44.700That can really help you because, you know, if you can find a friend that's dealing with the same stuff, then y'all can deal with it together, man.
00:49:53.120Everything's easier to deal with, not alone.
00:49:55.920You know, I spent a lot of my life trying to battle everything alone.
00:49:59.160Feeling like, you know, just feeling like, I don't know, maybe like I wasn't a man if I couldn't solve it myself.