On today's episode of the podcast, the one and only Bishop Gunn talks about his favorite color, the blues, and how to deal with being a kid growing up in the 60's and 70's. Bishop Gunn is a comedian, songwriter, actor, and podcaster from Los Angeles, California. He is also a husband, father, husband, and friend of mine.
00:00:42.180We're out here just being, you know, we a couple of, you know, we a couple of the, of the, of the, of the most wildest little clams in the chowder.
00:03:00.080Dude, if I leave the house in a shirt that I don't like, I'm not gonna be, you know, real tickled about that.
00:03:08.440But if you see me somewhere and I look grumpy, then I probably have on a shirt that I don't like.
00:03:15.700You know, my mom's, you know, one time when I was growing up, my mom got a batch of real small shirts.
00:03:21.960And I don't know where she got them from.
00:03:24.740I don't know if, you know, somebody was selling, you know, boxes of really small shirts or whatever and she got a deal on that.
00:03:32.660Because she used to spend time, some time with some, you know, miscellaneous gentlemen here and there who was getting deals on stuff.
00:03:40.960You know, she dated a black Jewish guy when I was young.
00:03:43.780So, you know, she'd show up at the house with a box of, you know, you know, a box of, you know, one size fits all neck braces and shit like that every now and then.
00:03:54.180And we would play in the house, you know, play, you know, we'd play handicap at the house and, you know, put on different neck braces and, you know, wheel each other around and do courthouse and all of that.
00:04:06.460And, you know, just being children, you know, being young children and, and one time my mom got these shirts and, and I think probably for a year and a half, they had four different colors in the box.
00:04:19.520They had orange, they had blue, like, like a blue you never even seen anymore.
00:04:26.160Like, you know, they used to have a lot more different blues, you know, a long time ago they had a lot more.
00:04:32.580Now they have maybe seven different blues, you know, royal blue, I think midnight blue, you know, you know, British blue.
00:04:47.480They got that, you know, the British always want to do their thing.
00:04:50.880French blue, that blue that kind of, you know, it says it's going to be there for you and then it's not there for you.
00:05:00.560But this was a blue that they don't have anymore.
00:05:02.860This was kind of, it was like powder blue kind of, but, but a little, like if somebody saw you in it, they couldn't tell if maybe you worked at the hospital or if you were like a newborn baby.
00:05:17.940So I guess it was like a medical blue.
00:05:20.480You know, it kind of seemed like a blue, maybe you'd only put like a newborn baby in, like a baby, you know, a baby blue for a boy if somebody gave birth to a boy.
00:05:29.040Or it would be, you know, like the scrub, something like that.
00:05:33.760So we had that, they had orange, blue, they had pink, like not pink, but like purple and green, like a dark green.
00:05:43.460I think they were black, but it said dark green on them.
00:05:46.000So that's one of the problems sometimes with dark green.
00:05:49.200Somebody's like, oh, these are, you know, you'll buy six or seven hundred dark green shirts, but really they're just black shirts.
00:05:55.800And now you're wearing black shirts and you're thinking, you know, that your eyes don't work good.
00:06:00.320And that shit always, that's, I don't like it when, you know, companies do that to you.
00:06:05.520When they say, oh, you know, you got this box of dark green hitters right here and really they're just black hitters.
00:06:12.680And you're walking around in a black shirt and telling people it's dark green.
00:06:17.600And all your friends think you're crazy and you don't know any better because you can't, you think your eyes are bad because somebody lied to you.
00:06:25.300One of these fancy companies lied to you, but yeah, my mom got some bad shirts, some small shirts.
00:06:31.100And so for, I remember for a while growing up wearing those real, real small, small shirts.
00:06:37.420And I think, you know, I know, you know, anxiety is something different for everybody, but sometimes I think when I was young, that's one of the things that gave me anxiety was wearing.
00:06:48.040I mean, these were t-shirts that were for really almost just real athletic babies.
00:06:53.980If they had a baby that could, you know, that was, you know, that was going to wear a lot of different shirts, then those would have been for him.
00:07:03.260Because my mom got about a box of bad shirts.
00:07:06.020But anyhow, man, I hope that this November is fitting you comfortably.
00:07:14.680Because we're getting into a nice time of year.
00:07:17.120You know, I remember when I was young being, you know, November, you get outside and you could feel, you know, just feeling the cool air on your cheeks.
00:07:28.720And it felt like a, just like a man, like a, not a man, I guess like, yeah, like a man with like a cold tongue was just kind of licking your cheeks a little bit.
00:09:42.000You know, you could do whatever you wanted.
00:09:43.160And I grew up in a neighborhood where a lot of people look like shit.
00:09:47.280So it's like if we wore stuff that was not really, like if you showed up, dude, on our, if you got off of our school bus at the school and you look like shit.
00:11:46.220I was just trying to, I was, you know, I've just been, I've been, you know, I've been having a lot of, like, just anxiety and anxious energy.
00:11:55.060And it's been hard for me to, you know, when I get back to do the podcast, sometimes it's tough.
00:12:01.040You know, because I just feel, you know, just a lot of stress, I think.
00:12:06.640And I don't know what some of the stress comes from, I guess.
00:12:09.160Honestly, you know, sometimes I feel, you know, I feel like just more responsibility.