Theo Von： I Used Comedy to Change My Life
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In this episode of Trigonometry, host Francis Foster sits down with American comedian Theo Vaughn to talk about growing up in the south of France and how he got into stand-up comedy. They also talk about Theo's experience growing up on the streets of New York City, and what it was like growing up with autism.
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Broadway's smash hit, the Neil Diamond Musical, A Beautiful Noise, is coming to Toronto.
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The true story of a kid from Brooklyn destined for something more, featuring all the songs you love,
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Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful, the next musical mega hit is here, the Neil Diamond Musical, A Beautiful Noise.
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There's something great about having fucking nothing, you know?
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Because nobody can take anything from you.
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I didn't want people to see my background and where I'm from and think that that's me.
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The last people that really anybody felt safe to make fun of in, like, mainstream media felt like,
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you know it's like so if you don't have anything
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sheltering from the world there's not any like
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hamsters yes yes okay Theo we're normal people over there yeah I don't think anybody could
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realistically look at me and think that I've never said the wrong thing
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and I sat out there and watched smoke the cigarette out there
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right out there and that's the one thing no one's talking about huh and that's the one thing no one's
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That's how we normally start our interviews, let's get it over with.
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And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations
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Our brilliant guest today is already taking the piss out of us.
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It's the amazing American comedian Theo Vaughn.
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I don't know what you guys call it, bro, but we got it over here.
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Every celebrity has it when they have a movie coming out.
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We used to have a lot of people, a lot of adult, like in middle-aged kind of women with their shirts off, yelling stuff.
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Theo, let me explain something for the viewers because they're not used to seeing us like this.
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We just did a Joe Rogan show, and halfway through the thing,
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and you've been taking the piss out of us for the last 20 minutes.
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And I think you're going to carry on with that.
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And one of your favourite routines that I love is you talk about growing up.
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where you talk about growing up the way that you did.
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My backstory, pretty much, you know, I grew up in Louisiana.
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But we lived there when I was young, and it was good, man.
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You know, a lot of, you know, it was just a lot of, like,
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My dad was real old and my mother was regular aged and we grew up there and we had a nice
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And what else I'm trying to think that you guys would know about?
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Tell us the stuff you think we don't know about.
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We don't, do you guys have like different pets and stuff?
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I mean, it doesn't sound the same when it comes out of us,
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of what else I was trying to,
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I was going to think about asking you guys, man.
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But it's also got, you know, different countries
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within the union, four countries within the union.
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But except they speak different languages, Theo.
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Yeah, see, the Welsh have got their own language.
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The Irish, the Northern Irish, they've got...
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No, no, but they like blowing shit up, man.
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I don't know who Joe Joyce is, but I'll go with it.
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They meet up in parking lots and stuff and fight.
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and they were using bombs to blow shit up.
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So you've got on this tiny island, man, and Northern Ireland over there,
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you've got all these different cultures and different languages,
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I mean, I'm originally from Russia, so it's even worse, but yeah.
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My story is, yeah, I just grew up and, you know, I grew up just like in a regular place.
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Just like a lot of people, like, betting on, like, dogs would have babies and people would bet on how much babies they were going to have.
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and, like, people saw a guy die one time in a fire.
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they have a lot of, like, good food, but incest.
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the Scottish I've heard are pretty I heard it's pretty unbelievable over there but um yeah so
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that's I mean I guess what else was it like well how did you get into stand-up I think my dad was
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just really old when I was a kid and so I would make jokes about everything you know right I would
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try to change my reality that's interesting what does that mean Theo you'd like to change your
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reality well I wanted a different reality you know I didn't like the reality that I had and so I
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And so I wanted to be different or feel different
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I felt like I probably didn't have a strong chance.
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Why did you feel like you didn't have a strong chance?
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I think just because of where I was from, you know,
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just like poor, white, you know, like not,
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and we were just like poor, you know, just like, I don't know, people just kind of treat you
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different. People in the neighborhood don't have as much opportunity, you know, a lot of, not a lot
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of people kind of get out of there and do pretty well. So I think, yeah, I think I was like, I want
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to have a, you know, I want to have a real chance, you know. And so I started to find ways to like
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adjust my reality mostly with um you know using my imagination or um you know I would like
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do things like I don't know like bike to school so I didn't have to ride the bus from like with
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the poor kid just stuff like that you know so yeah I don't know is that what you're asking
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yeah that's great you know what I find really interesting about that is that you very few
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people who grow up from that type of background feel have that drive do you know what i mean
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because most people it doesn't matter where they're born into they look around and they
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just want to be the same as everyone else for obvious reasons you think that's true i think
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i believe that yeah yeah man oh wow but you were you had were different yeah what was it about that
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who gave you that well how did you get it how did you get it damn that's a good question man
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i think um i don't know i think i just didn't like things so much that they didn't i didn't
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have any other they had to be different you know right i just i don't know it's a good question
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man i never thought about it you know yeah i just like you know i would get involved in different
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stuff that seemed like i'd have new opportunities or find good friends who i felt like you know
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weren't going to be stuck in the same spaces i don't know i think i just maybe maneuvered well
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amongst it all yeah you know kind of yeah but i miss it sometimes i miss just some of the
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simplicity of it what do you mean by that just people like you know just been mates back then
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and stuff you know just had a buddy like i used to work on this farm for a while and i had a buddy
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who would he'd take his shirt off and go lay on the concrete after it rained you know just to stay
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you know, because he liked the feeling of the concrete on his skin.
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Broadway's smash hit, the Neil Diamond musical,
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The true story of a kid from Brooklyn destined for something more,
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featuring all the songs you love, including America,
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Like Jersey Boys and Beautiful, the next musical mega hit is here,
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Now through June 7th, 2026 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
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But that's really interesting because people would look at you and go,
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this guy is, you know, he's a comedian, he's successful, he makes good money,
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he's got everything, and yet you look back at a time where you were growing up poor.
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Yeah, there was just something, there's something great about having fucking nothing,
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you know because nobody can take anything from you right you know when you got nothing you got
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literally have nothing to fucking lose other people say to each other oh you got nothing to
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lose that's bullshit you know yeah but when you have nothing dude it's just god it's nice because
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you i mean you absolutely you have nothing to lose man and there's no i feel like that's as
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free as you could feel you know so you felt free but you also felt a very strong drive
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to get somewhere right yeah i think i just didn't like i think there was enough propulsion like you
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know my dad was so old it was so embarrassing and and and you know how old was he he was 70
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when i was born he was born in 1910 holy shit he was a senior citizen right you have that in your
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and just he was kind of a bit lazy so he would just kind of let me drive him around and stuff
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you know when I was probably 11 and 12 you know and um what's it like what was it like he liked
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to eat peanuts too and he would let me hold all the shells all the time what's it like being a
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kid when your dad like when you said your dad was old I expected like to be like oh he had me when
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his 40s or early 50s. Not 70. What was that like being a kid walking into school and your dad
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looks like your granddad? Yeah, I think I would pretend a lot that he was my granddad so people
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didn't know. And what was it like, man? It was like, it was kind of sad, I think, because it
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made me angry at time. You know, it made me very, you know, if I look at it, part of it was sad
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things that people normally wouldn't have feelings towards.
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maybe somebody think I have a grudge against time.
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oh, this is a way you could think of this, you know?
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in a weird way to like, want to be more creative, you know?
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I can't explain it all because I don't know all the words a lot of times.
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A lot of times people, like Rogan's great at knowing what he's thinking and saying it.
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But what's really interesting is your background.
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I think it made, I was just pissed at the way things shook out, you know?
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I was pissed at the way that time did things, you know?
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I was just like, oh, time, why do you do it like that, you know?
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And that made you want to sort of look at the world differently, okay.
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I think, you know, having an old dad alters a lot of things
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And it might seem like a strange thing or whatever.
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So, you know, I think just little things like that,
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you're making jokes with people when you're a kid,
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you're creating a different reality in your mind and all that.
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And it is me like in some of my heart and some of my spirit,
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I don't like to be a part of things that I don't choose.
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Well, stand-up, you just, you, you're fully responsible.
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You know, they said it was the hardest thing to do.
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You know, I got out to Los Angeles and they're like,
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And I had done a television show in America, a reality show, right?
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when i was younger okay today's a different kind of day for theo like about the past month i've
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seen like i'm in limbo kind of like i'm like i'm between like lives kind of like part ghost part
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human my father died a couple years ago sorry to hear that and then my mother actually lives down
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in tucson yeah i think at the age of 14 my mother emancipated me like legally emancipated me like
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signing the contract and everything that just says that i'm responsible for my own actions and whatnot
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i mean i think i was kind of a special kid growing up and i really like i could use like a lot of
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affection i needed a lot of attention she couldn't do it i mean it's going to be hard on me in the
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future i think because i don't really know how to care about somebody give us know what we're doing
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clue less wonder what kind of people do y'all think would be here well i knew they would be
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between 18 and 24 and i knew it was going to be three girls and three guys yeah i got this dream
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that i got here and everyone else was japanese and didn't speak a word of english japanese
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i have a big i can't deal with asian people that much i don't think
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oh my god we're all going to be asian and you exactly you're gonna be like
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in trouble i just have trouble i've just had trouble dealing with them theo he's 19 he's young
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um he probably hasn't been around a lot of people of color
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That's what I think people think of me when they first talk to me and get to know me.
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Because, I mean, a lot of times I don't even understand myself, you know.
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I'm surprised, as other people are, at some of the things that come into my head
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I mean, I'm not jumping on their case about anything.
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Whenever people meet me for the first time, they laugh at me or something like that.
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I've always felt that I was different than other people in a way.
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I mean, we're in a group right now, but right now, I'm totally alone.
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It's cool how life takes you different ways and whips you around like leaves in the wind.
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It's cool how life can just set you on a breeze and show you your country
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and have the most fun, you know, that you've maybe ever had
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and learn the most about yourself that you've ever learned.
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Well, I ain't got to hurry to get all fixed up.
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All I have to do is just, like, strap on my seatbelt, keep it, you know, kind of loose, and just kind of enjoy the ride that we're going on.
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I'm just going to inhale everything and just, like, let it just marinate in my lungs.
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It's been nice, and it's going to get even better.
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People, you know, always think it's ridiculous.
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But it was just societal-wise, you know, people just kind of pushed it off, you know.
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Even though now some of those shows are very popular and stuff.
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And so people were, and I kept hearing, oh, stand-up comedy is the hardest thing to do.
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So I was like, oh, I'm going to do that then, you know.
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I want to do the hardest thing that you have to do so that nobody can say that I'm, that I couldn't do, that I'm, so you couldn't associate me with anything else.
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I didn't want to be, because I'd been part of something that people were like, oh, no, we don't like this.
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I wanted to say, okay, well, if you're not going to like me, then you're going to have to not like me.
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And so I felt like stand-up was the only way to do that
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now that's just how I thought and I don't think that you know I'm not trying to be a downer
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no no at all I think it just kind of that's I think that's honestly probably how I thought
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yeah is that I want you to if you're gonna say something about me you're not gonna be able to
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base it on anything but myself you know right yeah so that felt to me felt pretty good stand-up
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is very honest right when you're on that stage you're either making people laugh or you're not
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It's funny, sometimes I would rather be the person
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Like, how do you mean you'd rather be the person
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I think sometimes I almost admired seeing that so much
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that if I wasn't able to easily be that person,
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then at least I could be a part of like creating that, you know?
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Genuinely, Fia, what you're saying is really interesting.
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And also you're talking to less than most of our guests too.
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I told you, we normally do quite serious conversations,
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you clearly have a brilliant mind for comedy, right?
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You do, otherwise you wouldn't be where you are.
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You wouldn't have had the success that you've had.
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So what we're interested in is like, how do you think?
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so I didn't want to be doing something that was wrong.
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Yeah, so, yeah, I guess that's how I think a lot about it,
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You know, I think, yeah, I think that's an answer of that.
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We referenced it at the start of the interview.
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One of our favourite routines of yours is the white privilege routine.
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And I think the reason it hits is, look, it's wonderfully funny.
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But I think the reason it hits is because you're telling the truth.
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And how did you, well, they didn't like, you know, sometimes like poor, poor white people get left out of like the, the poverty conversation.
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I feel like sometimes maybe it's hard to like, it's kind of shit.
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Sometimes you're like, if you're white, right.
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And, but if you are whiter, looked at as a white, you know, whitey, honky, Wiggers, whatever they call them, you know.
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A couple fucking, you know, little chavs, right?
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If you are chavs or just regular white people,
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I felt like a lot of times when people think of like poor,
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they think of just ethnicities first a lot of times, you know?
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Because white people, you're just supposed to have money, right?
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So automatically, out of the gate, you're like,
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how the fuck do we not have a little bit more money than this, right?
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If you've had a couple generations and you've shown up in the correct uniform,
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how would you not have a bit more of a treasure chest?
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But that's what you get born into, and so that's that.
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And yeah, it kind of feels like you don't really get a voice sometimes.
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you know? And then, yeah, so I think that was part of my thing. It was like, I ride the same
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bus as the poor black kids, the poor, we only had black and white in our town. But like, you know,
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when people think of, when people think of, yeah, helping, like, sometimes they would miss us,
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you know it would feel like sometimes and now also maybe that's just a feeling and maybe that's not
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even the reality but it was my perception sometimes you know i wasn't angry at black people for it i
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just was like well this is my truth you know right and sometimes it feels like uh they don't know
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where to put that truth in like a mainstream space right it doesn't fit that if you're not
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if you're poor and white and not a racist person or, you know,
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somebody who's mating with their, you know, siblings or whatever,
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then you, they don't, it's almost like, yeah, we're, yeah,
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And that's really interesting because, you know,
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whenever like you see people in the UK, like comedians do like,
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what they would call a racist voice, they would use your accent.
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yeah yeah do you know what i mean like and immediately you're just stigmatizing a whole
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load of people the vast majority of them are nice and decent and whatever else yeah yeah that was
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always crazy yeah i mean that was really rough during like a lot of um when the trump and hillary
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i think it was i don't know if that was the campaign but one of the campaigns it was like
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everybody just started really the last people that hollywood was a or like i don't know if it's just
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Hollywood the last people that really anybody felt safe to make fun of in like mainstream media
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felt like um poor white people you know yeah like we did it all if we did it all we'd have
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fucking done it differently I mean we'd have something to show for it you know so I think
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that yeah that shit yeah but that was the only one you could pick on so I think it's brave if
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somebody tries to pick on somebody else you know I think it's a little bit braver and I like that
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that's one of the things that's always kind of kept me wanting to stay in the game is like how
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how close to the middle of that tightrope can I get you know right um so you like getting close
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to the line and feeling a bit of that heat there yeah dude yeah I mean I'm you know I don't like
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I've, you know, I'm not, I'm far from anything.
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just trying their best or whatever, I don't know.
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Oh yeah, I wish that they would fucking, you know,
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Do you feel like there's jokes that you want to do
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But also I think you gotta be also like crafty.
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You know, like if I hear something that's just like racist
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or just retarded, like that shit makes me mad.
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But if you have something that is creative,
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then that always should be able to at least be admired in some way.
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We've had investigations by the police into comedians telling jokes.
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Someone told a joke and the police turn up and go,
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But, yeah, but that's where we are in the UK, man.
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But there's nowhere, there's nowhere, new place to go now, you know?
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Because I thought a lot of people were going to come back to you guys in a boat.
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Just because it, like, you know, I thought people would be like,
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because America is sort of the land of the free, right?
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You're supposed to be able to say whatever the hell you want,
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but you don't feel that that's the situation now?
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You can still, I don't really, I don't get too scared.
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If you have a crowd, you can go to the audience
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So they are more, you know, that's a little more normal.
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I think if you're just trying to, like, come up and learn in the clubs,
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Like, the Theo Vons and the Bill Burrs and the Joe Rogans,
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But if you're coming up to the clubs, it's really, really a lot tighter, you know?
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I think probably for, yeah, I mean, it's definitely been like, you know,
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it's been a very I don't know if it's been like a pro-black time in Hollywood kind of you know
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and in comedy and stuff like that um it's pro-diversity right yeah pro-diversity probably
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so that's probably a better way to say it you know I think I also think a lot of times with
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diversity of black and white just because that's all I grew up with yeah that's all we had growing
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up yeah but um and so maybe I didn't ever know maybe there were a lot more white people in
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comedy I don't I never super remembered it that way but maybe it was you know I mean my favorite
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comics were like Richard Pryor and Chris Rock are probably my favorites um this guy Fahini Manwar
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um so I don't know if maybe there were maybe there was like a racial ceiling I'm sure there used to
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be because there used to be a one on everything yeah women the same right yeah so I think you
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want to have some different you know i think there's also the thought of like well this
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ethnicity this skin color has had its time now it's time for other skin colors so and some of
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that you almost have to think well fucking maybe that's how time played it out you know it's like
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i don't you know i don't know what time's big plan is at the end so it's hard to really get a full
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breadth of it, you know, by just attaching myself to the moment that I'm in, even though it may feel
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uncomfortable at times, you know, and I may get pissed like, oh, shit, you know, but, um,
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but me personally, you know, I feel like I'm just, you know, I'm doing okay, and, um, you know, I'm
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doing my, you know, I feel like I'm trying to connect where I can with people, and, uh, I don't
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know. I don't know what else to say right now. Theo, do you ever feel like, do you ever worried,
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are you ever worried that someone will look over one of your old bits and go, oh, that's a bit
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naughty, and then try and start something or cancel you? Do you know what I mean? Do you ever worry
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about that? Yeah, I do sometimes. I think everybody listens to their old stuff, though, and is kind
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of unimpressed by it in some ways because you're evolving. Yeah, unimpressed is different though,
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brother, because if you are unimpressed, if I'm unimpressed with something you've done,
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I'm not going to come after you and try and ruin your career. Right. But for some people,
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if that's what I think he's getting at, which is like, are you worried that people, you know,
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you said the wrong thing, which wasn't even the wrong thing back then. And now it is and people
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are going to come after you. Or is that not a concern for you? I don't, I don't think it's not
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a concern, but I think, I don't think anybody could realistically look at me and think that I've
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never said the wrong thing you know what i'm saying like i know what you're saying
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you know right i was yeah i mean i was raised in the breadth of the wrong thing you know so
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i've heard all of its songs you know right um but do you think that makes you a better comic
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like in the uk we've got this generation of very like rich posh middle class you know uh went to
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oxford and cambridge you know they're very smart comedians do you sometimes think that the way you
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grew up the fact you come from such a poor background do you think that just makes you
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funnier that adversity that stuff you came through um yeah i think it gets well yeah you gotta have
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more the worst shit is the thing you know when the word if you don't have any and this wasn't us
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but this is just like a hypothetical thing if you don't have any like like laughter will keep you
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warm you know it's like so if you don't have anything poor people sit around they're more
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connected you know uh there's not as much sheltering from the world there's not any like
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hedges or any gates all your shit's hanging out the window it's like so you're more like um
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things just are a lot more real right it's hard to hide being poor is pretty hard to hide
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you know and so uh yeah and poor people are outdoors more they just hang out outside more
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And so you're talking with people and laughing.
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So that's, I think a lot of that just makes sense.
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Like we hung outside a lot, you know, maybe just as kids,
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but also parents were out there smoking and they had,
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some people were, what do you call it, pedophiles?
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And they had, you know, people, they'd have pedophiles out there
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trying to fucking hang out with you and shit.
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and it's just like it's a good soup to fucking, you know,
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So it's a good soup to make humor out of, you know, really.
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So I miss, that's some of the stuff that I miss
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is just the reality was right there all the time, you know?
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And does the life of stand-up, does that make you happy?
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Well, it's interesting because it gets pretty lonesome
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It gets pretty lonesome, I think, in some ways.
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and you go out, and they come in from this way,
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and you kind of meet along this line at the stage,
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and then you both go your separate ways, you know?
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it used to feel a little bit more like involved
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and you and your buddies were always there together.
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but a lot of that is time, you know, with just you.
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So I think you have to learn to bring like your mates along
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if you bring, you know, snacks or animals or whatever.
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I don't know what we're supposed to be talking about exactly.
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There is nothing that we're supposed to be talking about.
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does it feel like that is that what you think yeah yeah how so like unfairness hunters like
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you hunt down things that seem unfair you know what that's a good description yeah is it yeah
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is it fair or no i think that's a fair description yeah yeah i like that i like things to try and be
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fair you know yeah and it's hard to equivocate that or figure that out you know right it's hard
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to figure it out so i think you have to have people that are hot on the case you know that's
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a good description that's a really really good description man yeah uh yeah and we're not trying
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to start any shit i'm just we're just curious about how people see the world and from our
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perspective we you know we we both come from backgrounds where we feel fairness is important
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people not being mistreated is important you know people not being picked on the because of the way
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they grew up or what their skin color is or whatever yeah you know either way black or white
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doesn't really matter right um yeah it was yeah i mean like there's never like the
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it always felt like it was the white person's fault,
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Because in our town, black people were having a tougher time overall.
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You know, and so, you know, a lot of times I felt like
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that's interesting that you say that because like in the uk like we talk a lot about like
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white privilege and look if you've if you've come from money and you're white you're definitely
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privileged but there's loads of places in the uk which is just like the places that you grew up in
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like where these people legitimately have nothing they've got nothing you know and every day for
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them is a struggle and then for people to come along and go you're privileged to me that's crazy
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you know right well yeah it's crazy you're like uh well if i am at least give me some of it yeah
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you know yeah it's crazy man i think but also it's like a lot of the people that say that they
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they've never they're not from those places no they've never been there they don't know what
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it's like you know a lot of people like in like in los angeles you know a lot in some of the
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community, they didn't know what's even, none of them could even relate to anything I was talking
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about because they just didn't know it, you know? They were all, like, it was mostly people from
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New York or LA or Boston, you know, and it was more like just from a different kind of class
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of society sometimes. Not always, but maybe that's going to start changing too, I think,
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if there's less uh if a lot of like that overtly woke programming kind of goes numb eventually that
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will have to evolve because i don't think that the entertainment industry
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really has any couth i don't know if that's the word or not what does that mean i don't know what
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it means i don't know what it means man he doesn't know it might not even be a word it doesn't have
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Do you mean like the entertainment industry is dying, Theo?
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And sometimes the rest of us, I feel like, get played.
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It's almost like we're all just chasing this tale.
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And I don't know how it got started, but it's like,
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because they're just doing it, whoever they are,
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this hypothetical they are just doing it just to get,
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like they're just they're just doing it to create a trend or to make money or to do whatever
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our reaction to it also becomes its own business in a way it's all bizarre i'm not smart enough
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to know no but that's that is a very smart point that you just made yeah and i don't think it is
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i do yeah you know well i don't even know what the point is to be real honest with you yeah no
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but that was a good that is a great point you know the fact that that is its own industry
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and then the reaction to the thing is its own industry as well and you know and that creates
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jobs and money so that everybody is in their interest to keep this shit going right in a
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weird way yeah yeah it's what it all is and then in the end it's entertainment so it's like what
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can we really even say but that we were entertained you know yeah I mean it's painful sometimes
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some of the entertainment can you know it can be painful or it can hurt your feelings but
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um but yeah I don't know you know I don't know also what it feels like to be a different ethnicity
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in America I don't know what a lot of that feels like so it's really tough to say things
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and what is that like when you just see people all the time like go towards like
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the butt of the joke the butt of the joke you're the butt of the joke do you know what i mean
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yeah i think i didn't take it personally but i took it personally for the people from where i'm
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from yeah you know and i guess maybe i did take it personally some like uh
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yeah i would see i would see comics say like all these white motherfuckers and just think that was
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just like if i ever said that about somebody else it would be right yeah you know that's that's that's
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why i you know i i some people think i'm white some people think i'm not white and that was one
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of the reasons we started the show because i saw this happening like people were just using it as
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like a thing that you can just use like that, you know?
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Right, and there's a terrible history there, right, as well.
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Yeah, so it's like, yeah, and that's where I think,
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were probably mad at time, just like I was, you know?
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we ask a couple of questions from our supporters
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I hope it wasn't too uncomfortable for you, man.
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but you've got a very interesting perspective on life
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Sometimes I wish I serviced my own opinions better.
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Do you mean like you communicated them better or?
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I sometimes wish that I could service them better
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It does feel, I guess, a little sometimes restrictive,
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you know, you know, or it's just tough to navigate.
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nothing's ever really been fucking easy, you know?
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And I probably wouldn't like it if it was, honestly.
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and this is going to sound funny given what you've just said,
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I remember one time I saw these massive birds, right?
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And I sat out there and smoked a cigarette out there.
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And that's the one thing no one's talking about.
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And that's the one thing no one's talking about.
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Bro, there was seven of these women in there.
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because you can't even believe that it could happen, could you?
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I'll probably get back over there to the UK at some point, though.
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You see, that's what made you that attitude.
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See, that's the mentality that makes you feel one.
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Yeah, that's the difference between an American and a Brit.
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A Brit will look at that and go, that's an ancient monument.
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An American will be like, yeah, I could feel this.
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and get a little bit more intel on you guys, man.
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And people thought he was British all the time.
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