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I want to say, hey, hey, hey, happy Thanksgiving, I hope you canceled Thanksgiving.

Like I did. Because I'm not fucking around. This stuff is serious. I get it, Thanksgiving's a special time, I love Thanksgiving, it's my favorite holiday. You know, it's that that special time of year when the whole family gets together to eat one bird.

Hey, tradition. I do love it, though, and I you know, my family is I feel like we did something that was really genius for years. For years.

We'd all fly home to New Hampshire on Thursday, on Thanksgiving, every airport, wherever we were all coming from empty. And then we'd have Thanksgiving on Friday. We're geniuses anyway. It was also Thanksgiving. When I was six years old, it was Thanksgiving that made me never eat meat again because my dad took me to the neighboring farm to pick out our Thanksgiving turkey and I picked out the one I thought was, you know, cutest and. The farmer, Vic, just chopped its head off in front of me and I went, Oh, my God.

It was traumatic, but it was probably good because it made me realize where meat came from, so I did not eat turkey that night.

And then, to be honest, for probably one or two more years, I had Happy Meals and then I made that connection. And then I really never ate meat again. And I remember we were at Kentucky Fried Chicken and we were all shouting out our orders.

And when it got to me, I was like, I'll just have biscuits. And I remember my dad sat me down at a little table for two and was like, all right, let's just admit that you're a vegetarian and figure out what you can eat. And I never eat meat again. And now I'm trying to not eat cheese or eggs, because that's one thing I did eat, but I've been it's been like a month. Don't really miss it.

Um, yeah, so I hope you canceled Thanksgiving so that you can have Thanksgiving next year, in the next year, in the next year, and not be remembering, not have it be the anniversary of how you killed Dad because you had to have fucking yams in twenty twenty.

You know, I got a physical I always you know, I attribute Jimmy Kimmel to this, I always get a physical around my birthday because he told me to get a physical around your birthday and then you'll always remember to schedule your physical.

It's good. Smart, so I yeah, I got my yearly physical this week, and and my doctor was just like. covid is rampant, it's it's the worst it's ever been and we're three months away from every everyone getting a vaccine that really works. Like he said, this vaccine is going to be like the polio vaccine.

Just hang on a few more months. Don't have people die right before everyone can have a vaccine. It's fucking nuts anyway.

That's my little speech to you. This podcast is coming out a Thanksgiving, so maybe it's too late, but just be safe out there, wear a fucking mask, wash your hands.

Watch. Watch your droplets. I had a really good. Experience this week, I had a I had a really successful scientific experiment experiment, and I'm going to I'll tell you about it.

So, you know, I think about and it's not just because now I live in Los Angeles and I'm all hippy dippy granola head.

It's science I've been thinking about energy, energy, man, energy. What do they say about energy, destiny? It doesn't it's not created nor destroyed. It just exists, it can convert into other things, but it's there, it's there, you know, so.

I wanted to see, like, energy is so catchy and I know that there isn't anyone that would disagree with me, you know, if like. You accidentally cut someone off in traffic in the road with a fork and then like that anger gets in you and you feel like, you know, and then you pass that negative shit on. And that's that's how that energy stuff works, you know? So I was in my car and I was I went to my weed's door.

I pulled into a space. And I pulled real kind of close to the the SUV in front of me and but I didn't touch it for sure, and then I kind of backed into the space. Well, the guy in this suit, it was an Escalade comes out. He was so scary, is filled with rage.

And he goes, you fucking you in my car. You hit my car and you hit all the space. You want to hit my car.

And you know and I know I didn't, but I just was like, I am so sorry.

And he's like, oh, you're sorry. So that's it, right? You're sorry. So that's all better. That's it. It's just you're sorry and it's done.

And my heart is pounding, but I was like, no, I want to make it right or whatever. There's nothing I could do. He had a Russian or Ukrainian accent, but I can't do accents. But it's like for good.

Nothing I could do because you're you're a girl and I'm a man, you know, like almost like I can't punch you, you know, or something. And then he gets back in his car and he slams the door, but he's just sitting in it like he must be waiting for people or something.

And then I'm sitting in my car, my heart's going bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. But I think to myself, consciously, this is an opportunity for a scientific experiment, can I convert this scary negative energy into positive energy? So then I see him come out of his car and I get I put my mask on and I get out of my car and I go, I want to make this right.

Show me where the scratches he goes. Just forget it. I go. I'm not going to forget it.

I want to pay for this. I want to fix this. Tell me how I can fix it. Make it right. I'm going to make this right.

Then he softens. He goes, don't. It doesn't matter. Just, you know, just forget it. And then I go right up to him and I go. I'm going to buy you pot and he giggles and then I go, I he goes, no and I go, I'm buying you pot, what kind you like. And he goes, You don't have to. And then he goes. I like a full body high, and I was like Indigo.

It is so I go into the weed store and, you know, it's all like shields and, you know, you're spaced out and everything. And I get the pot.

And I was picking up some stuff for my step mom and I'm waiting in line and I look out the window and I see the meter maid is coming towards my car.

I can't see my whole car, but I see the back half. And this meter maid is walking and I go, fuck.

But I'm like so high from from the exchange I had, you know, like the conversion of energy. I go up. I go up. Fuck.

You know, I, I got to take it. But so, so I'll be contributing to paving some roads in L.A. like go L.A., whatever.

But the bouncer at the weed store, you know, they've got like security guards outside.

I saw him walk towards the meter maid and then walk back and then he came in and I go, I know I got a ticket. And he goes, you didn't? Because your friend out there put a quarter in your in your meter. I couldn't believe it. As if this day couldn't have gotten better and then. I paid for the weed, I got his weed, and then I go outside and I go.

I heard that you're my hero and, you know, you know, it's just a quarter, you know, and like I mean, I'm looking at this guy and he looks like a completely different person than the person I saw getting out of his car initially.

Like he was so happy with himself. You know, he did this sweet thing for someone he didn't even know, you know, and it he felt good, you know?

And then I go, here's your full body high, you know, and he takes it. He goes, oh, you didn't have to do that. And then he puts his hand out. I haven't shaken someone's hand in a year, pretty much, you know, since March. But I go, fuck it.

You know, I'll just Purell in the car, but I give them a big hand shake. We have a big, like, strong handshake.

And I go look at us. We were arch enemies and now we're best friends.

And he was just giggling like he just seemed so like a different person. And then I got in my car and he like, you know, like directed traffic for me to get back out on to Santa Monica and.

It just really made my day, and I bet it made his day like I bet he had he was in a good mood the rest of the day. Anyway, that's science and then another and then on that, not the same day, oh, right. Well, here's so I'm high from this this exchange and I go home and Rory and I are going to have two friends of mine out in his backyard by the fire pit, you know, with the fire pit between us, spread out, eat individual sandwiches and hang out.

And I was going to order the sandwiches, but then he texted and he's like, no, I'll order it. I go, Well, I'm halfway through ordering. He goes, No, send him to me. I'm going to order them. I go, OK, then I'm like, getting my shit together, doing all this stuff around the apartment. And I start heading over to his house and I get a text from him that's like one of these orders are complicated and I haven't you know, I'm just starting to put them in.

And I send him an audio text and I go, you haven't put the orders in yet, and then he sends an audio text back and he's like, uh, well, I've been kind of busy setting up my back yard for your friends.

And then I wrote back of audio text and I go. Yeah, well, I've also been busy and I still wanted to put the orders in, but you insisted and then I was like, hold on, I don't want to fight with you. I was just bragging in my head about how I know how to, you know, change energy scientifically from from negative to positive. And now I'm actually the one changing the positive energy into negative energy. Anyway, I started laughing at myself for being such a fucking hypocrite and explained to him upon arrival.

But, you know, we made up because we talked about it.

And it's interesting and funny, isn't it? It's so interesting. But, you know. I try and I do good stuff, but I'm still an asshole a lot, but another thing I did, this was cool. This is something that I've been doing for a while. And I don't understand the science of it, but it really works every time. I'm sure it doesn't work every time, but so far I'm batting a thousand. Just with a glimmer.

What it is, is whenever I see, you know, in L.A., it's a lot like a person with mental. Stuff going on.

You know, standing on the corner screaming at someone who isn't there or who we don't see any way, you know, those people who are just like I you know, when I drive by, slow down, I roll down my window and I try to lock eyes with them and I go, I see you. And it's so interesting, I swear to God for a second there, Lou said it happened twice yesterday, going to this recording I had to do and coming back.

So the first one I go, I can see you. And the guy goes, what did he say? He goes, Thank you, Mama.

Like, he saw me and he was lucid for a second. And then on the way home, I did it again. I rolled all the way to go with a different person. And I go, I see you. And he goes, hey, like but it's like a moment where they these people. People walk by them and don't acknowledge them at all because they're just trying to survive.

They don't want any trouble, so they just pretend they don't see anything, you know, I mean, it's like I remember I used to live in this. Total shithole in New York City. It was a five floor walkup and this guy had just gotten out of prison on my floor and my roommate and I were walking down the five flights of stairs and he and his friend were walking right behind us. And they spilled a box of bullets and bullets were just rolling through our feet.

And and I I'll tell you, we both acted like nothing was happening. We just acted like this is not happening because we were terrified to acknowledge that the the guy who just got out of jail behind us dropped a box of bullets. It's loud. It's raining down steps. No, doo doo doo doo doo. Which is a tune I feel like that's only used by guilty people to seem innocent. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. If you're singing that tune, you're guilty of something.

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Or acknowledge the fact that all were made up of, as humans, our feelings. You know, when you're not like a detective in your own life. All that fucked up shit goes somewhere, right? It's not created or destroyed. Energy. So Trump gave them somewhere to put it. They put it on others. The caravan immigrants, a Muslim ban. You don't have to look inward. You don't have to live and examined life, you can take all this misplaced anger that all this stuff that you never looked into.

Don't have to look inward, just put it here. I mean, that's the one thing that Trump has in common with his his sycophants and his followers, they have very little in common, to be honest.

He wouldn't be caught dead with most of them is the truth.

What they do have in common is they they don't dare live and examined life, they don't dare wonder I wonder why I lost my shit when my girlfriend ate one of my flaming hot Cheetos. I wonder if it it isn't really about that. But it's triggering a memory, a sense, a sensory thing that reminds me of something from my childhood.

You know, my therapist says if it's hysterical, it's historical.

But people do not want to investigate their lives, I think in a way that a lot of rich people I talked about wealth addiction before. That's something that Garry Shandling would talk about, wealth addicts just like that. They're addicts like any other addicts, like drug addicts.

They have an unfillable hole. Inside that they have not investigated or figured out, so they fill it with drugs or they fill it with money, money, money, money, money, and they don't know why that it's it never fills.

But then they're really rich and then they're really powerful and then they're making decisions on behalf of the rest of us based on their fucked up unexamined life and daddy issues.

It's very interesting. Interesting. It's interesting.

This is the thing, you know, we all. Everyone develops survival skills when we're little so that we can just get through childhood, we learn survival skills, but then as we get older, those skills, they don't serve us necessarily. So, you know, if we're lucky, we unlearn those things so that we can have a happy adulthood. But a lot of people don't unlearn those things they don't know to. And then they just get very angry, you know, like things like shame or things that if we don't kind of wonder about it or go, I wonder where that came from or why I'm feeling that way, it converts into anger.

You know, like I called Rory on a kind of like unconscious, sexist thing, I felt he did and his knee jerk reaction was very defensive because he's a human fucking being, but he's also someone who is looks inward and, you know, in time. And, you know, he we do this we do this for each other and we because we both are really interested. I like to be called out on shit, as you know, I'm interested in change.

But it was interesting because that knee jerk reaction is is self-preservation, you know.

But we get angry. I mean, it always makes me think of what Father Gregory said, one of my favorite Jesuit priests is something like. If you don't make peace with your wounds, you will be tempted to despise the wounded. And I think about that a lot because I see it. I recognize it in myself, but I see it and in others for sure. You know, it's why every once in a while there's an extremely homophobic politician who puts through oppressive laws or, you know, or doesn't put through like equality laws for LGBT Cucu I plus.

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So last week I talked about the undoing and how much I'm enjoying it, but also how just from episode one, I was like, these characters seem like they were written as Jews, but their last names, Fraizer, and they're played by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

And then by episode three, I Googled like the book it's based on, and I saw that the characters were Jewish and I was like, I fucking knew it.

And so I talked about it on the podcast. And I got an email through my our mutual friend, Mike Birbiglia by the author. Her name is Gene Have Correlates.

And I'll read you actually holding my glasses. We. Exchanged a couple emails. She said, hi, Sarah. People have been texting me, you know that I was talking about the undoing, blah, blah, blah.

You were right, of course, in your assumptions about these characters in The Undoing. You should have known which is what the book is called. This is actually the second time my characters have been ethnically cleansed on their emigration to the screen. I can't get all that exercised about it, but happy to chat about it if you'd like.

I was like, holy shit, you know, I love the show, but yeah, I really notice that stuff. When you want to call into my podcast next week to have a chat about it. This would be fun because I have conflicting thoughts about my own feelings about it.

And she said I'd be delighted. But you won't get a lot of outrage from me about this. I consider that my hold on these characters ends with the back cover of the book, and I believe in adaptation as its own creative act. My husband and I adopted Joyce's The Dead as an immersive theatre piece. We took many liberties and that's a way more sacred text than you should have known, I can assure you.

So we have Jeanne. Here she called in like she promised and we're going to talk about it. What what was it that clued you in that they were Jews?

That's my question to you, you know, because in episode one, I'm watching it.

And I know that for some reason these days, I'm just so hyper aware of non Jews playing Jewish women roles, which is fine like actors or actors. But it's. Every time, 100 percent of the time, it's so odd, but anyway, this is a different kind of thing and I'm watching it, and she's this therapist, this New York City therapist. I don't know if it's like the hutzpah about her, the rat a tat tat within their family, between her and her husband and the kid.

And I said this seems like it was written as a Jewish family, but I'm not even going to say this out loud because I know that my boyfriend will just think I'm crazy.

And but so why why do you think I felt that way? Why what what was I picking up on?

You know, I think we have a Spidey sense. You know, they talk about gaydar.

I haven't had the worst gaydar on the planet. I really can't tell.

I mean, Liberace, I wasn't sure, you know, but, hey, I think we have a we can kind of recognize one another.

I always knew you were Jewish, for example. Right. But I didn't make that up. Right. That's true. I don't know.

You know, as I said in my email, this is not has not really been a problem for me. I mean, every protagonist of every novel I've ever written has been Jewish, but there's only one character in one novel who really was profoundly Jewish.

I mean, really a scholar and a believer and practiced, sir, and all of those things for the rest of them, they're they're sort of like me. They're they're bad Jews. Yeah. Culturally aware, historically aware, sensitive to the realities, but godly, sensitive to slights that godless like.

Yes. Right. Yeah.

And so, you know, for a character like this, it really I mean, there are things about these characters that would have been much harder to separate them from their New York ness, their wealth.

You know, they're they're they're just kind of worldview, I guess.

But their Jewishness is pretty far down on the list for these particular characters. And and when I learned that this was going to happen and I learned it, you know, the writer is not that important. I learned it in a in a press release.

You know, I had a Google alert on my computer for the undoing. And they were announcing, you know, Hugh Grant and as playing the role of Jonathan Frazier. And I said, who's that?

But if it wasn't that difficult to figure it out. And and I kind of went, huh? And then I thought, yeah, that makes sense.

And as I said, I'm okay with it because, you know, philosophically, philosophically, if you are going to submit your work for adaptation, you you are have you have to let go.

And, you know, if you're going to, like, hold on to every detail. No, don't change that. No, I didn't write that. You're not going to be a happy person and there's no amount of money in the world that's going to make up for that. So this was something that I learned a long time ago.

I certainly learned it on. I had a previous novel, Adapted Admission was the film with Tina Fey. Yeah. And they also made her not Jewish, I would say. Yeah.

But again, it wasn't a very important part of her character, but there were other things that, you know, were not there certainly were not there on the screen at the end of the day.

And, you know, that was a harder adjustment because it was my first time.

Yeah. You said in your email that, you know, your authority ends with the last page of of your book. And I understand that's true. Yeah.

And adaptation then, you know, I mean, I guess I'd rather have them change it than have Tina Fey playing a Jewish woman or Nicole Kidman playing a Jewish woman, which also drives me crazy a little bit, you know, when it.

But it shouldn't. And it doesn't. It's just that it's it's every every time it's collect.

You may be more aware of this than I am.

And but you know what you you said in your email, which I thought was in and of itself so interesting, you said, I'm not sure how I feel about this.

And just think about think about how refreshing that is today.

I say I don't know how I feel about I have conflicting ideas about it. I haven't made up my mind. I mean, I find it better what we need as a country. Yeah. And being able to not know.

I mean, even that night when I looked it up and I saw the you know, the characters are based on Jewish characters from your book, my boyfriend Rory was like, yeah, but and I was like, don't say it.

You're right. I know you're right.

Which is what he was going to say was if the characters in the undoing were Jewish, I'd be like, sure, of course these despicable people are Jewish in this. You know, of course, these characters, these these murderous, despicable, lying characters are Jewish. So.

Yeah, not sure what what kind of case I have, I think I'm just a human navigating these feelings.

So basically there's no pleasing you, is what you're saying. Right. And I'd be pleased. That's my Judaism. There we go.

You know, my favorite my favorite line from Fiddler on the Roof, which stands in for Jewishness for many of us, is you probably don't remember this, but there's this little exchange. It's not very important in the show. But, Tavia, these men come up to TV and say, can you can you answer an argument for for me? And the first man says, I believe this interview says you're right. And then the second man says, well, I believe this.

And Tipu says, you're also right. And then the third man says they can't both be right. And Tavia says, you're also right. So, I mean, that's that's where we are. Yeah.

It's just I just I wasn't looking for any kind of resolution other than I wanted to see what would come up from talking to you.

You know, Ed, I mean, you know, the way you said it in your email, you said like, this is actually the second thing I've written that's been ethnically cleansed, you know, like that.

But you also said you're not going to get anything from me in the way in a way of discontent or, you know, because this is how this is what an adaptation is.

And if you think about all of the stories that have traveled from one art form to another, losing things along the way, gaining things along the way and all of the, you know, the pleasure that we've taken from, you know, Hamlet becomes the Lion King.

It loses things along the way, but it gains things along the way to to take part in that magical ride.

And that, you know, that was just an example that that popped into my head, you know, is to to ride the waves of adaptation.

And, you know, this has been one of the great joys of my life, you know, to follow stories from I mean, one of my favorites to another one of my favorite movies is adaptation, which was supposed to be an adaptation.

Yeah, that's that's somebody who's thought very long and hard about these issues. Much longer and harder than I have. Yeah. But yeah, to to to to suddenly kind of put your foot down and say I will not participate in this. You know, that's your right if you can.

There have been a lot of authors who said, I don't want I don't want Hollywood to come near anything that I've done. But, you know, I've loved too many movies that have been based on too many books to to opt out of that, you know. Yeah.

And it's interesting. It's like how you hear that, like Stephen King hated Kubrick's The Shining. Well, I loved Kubrick's The Shining. So, you know, and I love Stephen King, you know, but it's it's not his anymore in that way, you know.

True. And so you let go. Thank you for for letting me talk to you, for calling in.

And I think just to wrap it up, just to encapsulate it all, I think we can say Nicole Kidman is anti-Semitic.

Yes. That's our conclusion. Right. I wish I could just keep kibitzing with you. Kibbitz any time.

Let's do a VM that stands for voice mail in the biz. Hi, Sarah, this is Steve from Arizona. Two quick responses to one of your latest tweets. Number one, there will not be a day one for the Biden Harris ticket. And number two, Obama built those cages. Hey, thanks and have a great night. Well, that is the way to disagree with someone, what an absolute delight. Well, OK, what you're excited about is my biggest fear, which is that somehow Biden does not get in, which would be.

The downfall of democracy. He was elected, he was elected fairly blah, blah, blah, but boy, it's so odd to be on that other side and think that what is righteous?

Is not listening to the voice of the people or convincing yourself that can't be the voice of the people. And as for the cages, you're right. Obama built the cages.

At the border, but he used them, they were used to detain people who came over the border illegally. Make them an appointment to show up so they can come in legally and. They called it catch and release, send them back to where they came from, which is usually a dangerous situation. Is that ideal?

No, what Trump did is unique to Trump. He decided to use those cages to separate children from their parents and put them in cages.

And they've lost track of these children's parents, at least 500 of them, if not more. To take a baby or child from their mothers and fathers arms and put them in a fucking cage at the border.

Is the. No one thing I would like to see Donald Trump go to jail for now, Rorie says guys like that never go to jail.

He ain't going to jail. And he's probably right. I just want him out of the White House, but in my fantasy. He is convicted of crimes against humanity. So many children, I can't I don't know how anyone on the right. Thinks that's OK and the kuhnen bananas people that are marching with signs that say Save the Children because they think Democrats are pedophiles with like a pizza gate ring.

What? It's so insane and also awful. You can see this is fact, there are children in cages at the border because of this president and for no other reason, he thought that would deter them to be that evil, to do something that evil.

And the fact that people still come over proves that they're in grave danger. They are being punished for. Trying to find a safe life for their children, whatever, I'm just saying that these people purport to care about the lives of children and when it comes to the border, nothing. Nothing.

I feel like the rage of the rage of a John Wick when his dog died, that they can relate to John Wilkes dog dying and him going on a killing spree.

But why should anyone be mad that Trump has divided his children from their parents? Oh, it was my point. Um. I do appreciate your absolute lovely cadence and tone. And I'm sorry I get the last word because it's a voicemail and this is my podcast, but I have a feeling I would not change your mind.

You probably have news sources that are telling you and and things coming into your social media that are streaming into. Into your hand. And going straight into your brain, you know, it's so funny, my dad and I just had a fight about this kind of because, you know, he's also very liberal and and, you know, all his T-shirts shirts are this is what a feminist looks like.

Black Lives Matter. You know, Palestinian lives matter, but LGBTQ, I say it in a mocking tone. I think it's like the fucking sweetest, cutest thing ever. He's 83.

We had a fight last night because not a fight, but, you know, we never really fight.

But he has this thing he does now. I should back up and say my dad and I have both been punched in the face thrice. Me, for various reasons, one, I was breaking up a fight when I used to pass out flyers on the corner of MacDougal and 3rd, and the guy punched me square in the temple, knocked me out unconscious. Another was at Comic-Con where this nerd had like one of those Hulk fists and there was a line of people to take a picture and he came up in the front of the line and he didn't know what to do with, like, his feelings.

And he just, like, punched me with the Hulk fists. It knocked me back a step, but it was fine.

And like once I got my bearings, I just saw him being dragged away by two security guards with this, like, face of remorse.

And I was like, it's OK. It's OK. Oh, and the third one was in a movie where Ryan Phillippe beats the shit out of me. But, you know, it's very choreographed and everything.

And I feel like I sound like a battered wife, but I think I did maybe lean in or something where he connected knocked me right off my feet at a huge egg right here. And when I opened my eyes, it probably would have cried, but he was already crying and everything is OK.

So I do think it's character building. That was a big digression. My dad has been punched three times because he heckles rich people. He hates rich people.

And I try to say, Dad, just live by example, be a happy person that drives a Prius and has a 30 dollar Timex watch and people will see, wow, what a rich life he has. Maybe things aren't what is important or maybe it affects them zero.

But he's such a reverse. He calls himself a reverse snob.

So he sits at Starbucks and a guy drives up in a Bentley and he walks into Starbucks. And my dad goes, Hey, nice Bentley. That could probably feed eighty thousand people in India, but good for you. You need a Bentley and then or he goes, oh, nice Rolex. I my Timex was thirty dollars. I can swim with it.

You know, he's just. He's an instigator anyway, he very proudly was telling us at dinner how lately his thing is if he meets a Trump supporter, he'll have a very pleasant conversation.

Then when it's revealed they're a Trump supporter, he says, oh, sorry, I don't speak to Trump's supporters.

And he turns his back. And I just kind of hangs there like. Oh, good for you, I guess, I mean, I know it's so awkward, like I said, Dad, you're just you're you're you're fortifying a reputation that Democrats are elitists. Like you were having a pleasant conversation. What does it matter? Like, yes. You're not going to become best friends with them, but there's no reason he's he said he's said it recently in his apartment building.

He goes, I don't talk to Trump people. And the guy goes, so if I pass you in the hallway, you won't even say hi. And he said, I'll nod you. Looking good for you, Dad. But it's like the crazy thing is, is. He changed so fundamentally as a person, you know, he used to have a lot of rage, he he had a horrible childhood, you know, he never was physical with us, but he would have tantrums and he had just an uncontrollable rage and also was like the funniest guy in the world.

And, you know, but there was that piece of him.

And I I've I've had that rage, too, that I had to work through. But, like, he's 180 degrees different now. He's such a changed man.

He just grew and changed and found medication that worked for him. And like, he's a completely different person for years and years and years. And I find that so inspiring. I mean, I, I made a whole show on Hulu. I love you America. That was about people who have been changed. I'm inspired by it. And I said, Daddy, you know, you're your whole thing, he used to say, you catch more flies with honey, you know, I guess that's a saying.

You go you catch more flies with honey. Like, we had a mean softball coach. And my dad was, like, really nice to him. And it was work, too, because then he was like, nicer to us, you know, like and I believe that.

You catch more flies with honey, who's catching flies. Who wants to have flies? We got another voicemail, hey, Sarah, this is Mark. Well, here we are post-election. I just listened to the really amazing Law and Order episode of the podcast, because I'm a big Law and Order fan, too.

And I can't believe you made up fake words to the Law and Order song. And you didn't reference the movie TED two, which of course has awesome fake law and order lyrics in it. And I'm sure you know the movie because a bunch of famous comics. I'm sure, you know, all of them were all in the movie, so I'm sure you've seen it. OK, bye.

First of all. My lyrics to the Law and Order theme, this is the law side. Will they make arrests?

And this is the detail that. That they can. Funny story, I did not see Ted two.

But far before Ted two is even an inkling in Alex Elkin's mind, he was my boyfriend and I always saying those lyrics and he would be happy to hear this and I'm sure concede that I have always sung these lyrics to the theme song.

We both are super fans of Law and Order.

And I did hear that instead to they sing lyrics to Law and Order. Are you ready?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Here it comes. OK, ok, I'm ready. OK, let's all go to court. Let's go make some for now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some law.

I say we go to court Alex my friend and I adore him and he's frickin brilliant and I'm sure it was completely different. And he also is a super fan of law and order.

But he will tell you I've been singing these lyrics far before Ted too existed.

Not to be competitive, but, yes, they are my friends, I should see it, I just never saw it.

And that's the show. You know, my dad said that last week. I didn't say goodbye and it really threw him. So, Dad, this is me saying this is the end of the podcast and I'm winding down. This is me saying I love you. Goodbye. If you love the show.

See, a lot of people just say subscribe, rate and review.

I say, Nullo, if you like the show, subscribe rate and review. If you don't like it, why are you watching it? Why are you listening to it?

Release yourself. But if you like the show, subscribe rating review wherever you listen to podcasts and also check us out on YouTube if you're more into a visual stimuli.

Stimulation, stimulus, whatever. Bye, Dad. Hey, hey, hey.

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