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Silva Arzunyan ACCESS Coordinator: Hi everybody.

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Welcome, we're going to have an amazing show. Today we are waiting for everyone to login so please be patient and we will start soon

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*Dog Barks*  My apologies.

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I have audience members at home too who are really excited about the show as you could hear.

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First off, I really want to thank everybody who helped put this together. We have an amazing instructional technologist. He is the wizard behind the curtain. Michael Ashton, thank you so much, Michael.

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He really just makes technology look like it's really easy. And we do have captioning tonight if you're requiring captioning. Please click down below, there's an option for you to have closed captioning during the show.

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We have a wonderful program. We're going to begin with our improv class and then I'll say a few words about the Access Program here at Moorpark college.

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And then we will have tonight's professional comedian group, comedians with disabilities. So it's going to be a really fun evening. I hope this falls right between,

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you know, the end of your work day or your, your courses, your classes, and then right before dinner, so that you can have that debrief moment. That moment of having a good time.

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Oh, it is...that number of participants keeps going up so.

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It's wonderful. Lots of people logging in.

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Got 60 some attendance tonight. So imagine if you're at a comedy club, what a full room that would be.

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We will this will be interactive, just so you know. We will have the chat option open because for the first

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portion of the show, when we have the improv group, the students will be asking you questions. They'll be asking you like

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where is the scene happening? What's the relationship of the people in the scene? And they're going to look to you to let them know what those scenarios are going to be, and they will act out what suggestions you put.

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And then at the end of the show, there will be a Q and A with the professional comedy group so chat will be open then too. You are welcome to ask them questions. We want this to be a very interactive webinar.

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70 participants. This is exciting.

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So this came about because I really wanted to recognize the the 30th birthday of the ADA. The ADA turned

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30 years old on July 26th. Yeah!  Woo.

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So it was signed in July 26, 1990. And if you're not familiar and it's the Americans with Disabilities Act,

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it is a civil rights protection to individuals with disabilities, similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin,

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age, and religion. And it's such a very important part of our country's history and I'm grateful to be working in the program that I am and,

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you know, Covid came around and so it was very difficult for me to throw the birthday party. I wanted to throw it on campus, but physically we get to invite a lot more people and we get to have an opportunity to laugh together during a time I think we could really use some laughter. So

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without further ado, I'm going to introduce you to our very talented and improv instructor. And if you really like what you see, which I'm sure you will, you can sign up for improv comedy courses. That's

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under theater M14 A, B, C, and D. So there's four levels you could choose from with our instructor Aubrey Saverino.  Welcome Aubrey

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Aubrey Saverino, IMPROV Instructor:  Hi. Thank you Silva. Thank you so much for having us. We're really excited to be here and open for your incredible comedians.

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So as Silva said I'm Aubrey Saverino and I am a theater instructor at Moorpark college. I teach acting 1 and improv classes.

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And just like everybody our classes went online obviously for the pandemic, which

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required some creativity for our performance classes, but they've actually been going really well. We've been having a lot of fun

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this semester and we're going to be back doing it again next semester,. The theater is offering tons of online courses so, come join us. We would love to have you.

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We are going to do some short form games for you. Some of our students from our improv class are here tonight. In our improv class we study both short form and long form and I will do a few short form games for you.

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And the good news is for improv, you don't have to have any experience to take a class.

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So some of our folks have just started taking improv this semester. But you can also take improv up to four times,

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so we also have some folks who are returnees and they've taken improv a few times before. So it's great, we have all levels of experience participating today.

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Which is really exciting! So, just making sure I'm not missing anything else but we are so excited. Yes, as Silva said,

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what we really need from you is we will need suggestions from you in the chat. Things of like, we will need categories from you. We will need locations, we will need relationships. Our students will ask those for you...

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to get those from you, so start thinking of some suggestions now, and please put those in the chat. That will help the students do their improv from your suggestions.

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Right, so I think it's time, without further ado, I would love to introduce the fabulous improviser from the Moorpark college improv class. So

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come on down, everybody, we have Ethan! Hello, Ethan. We have Jade. Hi, Jade. We have Levi. Hey Levi. We've got Jonah. Jonah's up.

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And we've got grace. Hello, Grace. Come join us. Hello, hello. And we've got Kai and Wade. Hello, everybody. So this is our improv crew and I'm going to hand this over to Ethan, who is going to introduce our first game. So take it away, Ethan

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Ethan Pante: Alright, thanks. So the first game we are going to be playing is ru ru ru. It's essentially a category game. What we want you as the audience to do right now is throw out suggestions of categories. Things like types of ice cream flavors,

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types of animals, movie titles, you know, all that kind of stuff. And what our job is to do is to list anything that isn't in that category. Which the challenge is that

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when we ask you to not think of a pink elephant, you're going to think of a pink elephant. So,

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essentially what will happen is that we're going to each take a turn at saying that in a really fast paced way.

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And then if one of us either takes too long or says something in that category, then we're out. and then at that point, the person who is out will pick a category that you have selected or not selected. But throw them into the chat right now.

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Alright, I assume everyone's ready. Make sure you're unmuted, so we don't get that situation again, and I will pick a

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category from the chat.

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All right, let's go with types of pizzas. All right. And I'll go first. Grass

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Kai Nuki: Looks like I'm out there.  Aubrey: *Laughing*

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Aubrey: Alright Kai before you go give us a category. Kai pick a category from the audience. Go, go, go, you got it.

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Ethan: Wasn't muted.

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Aubrey: And let's do

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Kai: Animals. Aubrey: Animals. All right, animals, y'all. Here you go.

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Wade Varble: Fifty shades of disappointment.

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Jade Morrisey: Wriggle rats.

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Levi Flores: Narutu esmaki

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Jonah Lopez: Bob Saget

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Grace Nash: Beanie Babies

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Ethan: Master of the Universe, the fanfiction that inspired 50 shades of grey. Wade: The  Rolling Stones.

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Jade: Barsleys

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Levi, pick one for us.

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Levi: I'm gonna go with salad toppings.

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Aubrey: Alright, salad toppings. Things you put on your salad.

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Jonah: The Man in the Mirror.

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Grace: Poison Ethan: Jackson Pollock.

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Wade: looks sad.

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Jonah: Paprika

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Jonah: I'm out.  Ethan:  No, Jade had got out.

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Aubrey: Alright. So Jonah, go ahead and pick a category for us. What are we doing?

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Jonah: Superheroes. Aubrey: Super heroes, we are down to. All right. Ethan and Wade and Grace are our remaining folks. So superheroes, off, off you go.

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That is Grace, go!

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Grace: Pen.

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Ethan: Miranda Cosgrove's performance as Carly in ICarly Wade: Access.

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Ethan: Dan Snyder.  Wade:  Zoom.

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Ethan: Toenails. Wade: Jim Morrison.

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Grace: My left shoe.

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Ethan: Someone is outside my house right now.

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Grace: Oh, I see him too

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Ethan: They really are knocking on that door.

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Grace: I can hear it.

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Ethan: Oh, he's decided to break the door down. Wade: He's calling me

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Grace: Right in front of my salad.

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Ethan: And he's right here.

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Wade: knocking down the door.

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Grace: Daddy's. Ethan: And I'm now shaking his hand.  Wade:  I'm out now.

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Grace: Why?

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Aubrey: All right. And our last category. Ethan and grace. We got one right from John Loprieno. How about things you say at church. Things you say at church and take it away. This is for the win. Ethan versus Grace and go ahead Grace.

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Ethan: God I just love premarital sex.

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Grace: Isn't it the best?

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Ethan: Isn't Satan the one who always does it though?

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Grace: He is a daddy.

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Ethan: He is my daddy, your daddy, our daddy.

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Grace: Hell.

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Ethan: Fuck.

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Grace: Shit. Ethan: Damn.

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Grace: Wow that car's going really fast!

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Ethan: Oh, wow. Yeah, it's crashing into the church.

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Grace: That's a lot of dead people.

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Ethan: All those souls going straight to hell because they were here at church.

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Grace: Right on a Tuesday.

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Ethan: Isn't it Wednesday?

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Ethan: No, it's a Saturday.

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Grace: But what about Monday?

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Grace: Yeah, that's his day.

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Ethan: That's Satan's day?

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Grace: No, I don't want to say his name.

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Ethan: The Flying Spaghetti Monster, you mean?

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Aubrey: Alright, we're calling this a draw, y'all. Alright.

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Thank you, John Loprieno. You know, you you offer that up. You never know what we're gonna get here at improv. So there you go. That is our first game ru ru ru. To introduce our next game, questions, we have Jade. Jade, take it away, introduce this next game for us, will you.

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Jade: Hey very cool cats and kittens. Um, this next game is called questions. So first we're going to ask the audience for a location. It could be any sort of location.

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Then two of us are going to create an entire scene only asking questions. No statements. If we say any statements we're out and somebody will replace us.

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All right, we're gonna do the doctor's office. So...

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Could you hand me the scalpel?

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Jonah: Which scalpel are you looking at?

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Jade: Isn't it the silver one?

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Is it the silver one or the gold one?

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Jade: Can you test it?

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Jonah: Is the patient awake?

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Aubrey: Alright. Next up, go.

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Ethan: can you see if I have cancer?

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Jonah: Do you have cancer?

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Ethan: Aren't you the doctor?

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Jonah: Which doctor are you looking for?

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Ethan: Aren't you Dr. Facilier from Princess and the Frog?

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Jonah: Which Princess and the Frog. The sequel or the prequel?

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Ethan: Oh I thought there was only one movie.  Jonah: I'm out.

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Aubrey: Great, nice job. Jonah, next up.

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Levi: Do you have any band aids?

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Wade: Are you a doctor or do you just play one on TV?

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Ethan: Are you saying that I'm an actor?  Wade:  I'm out.

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Aubrey: Alright.  Next up.  Go for it.

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Grace: Can I get one Typhoid Mary?

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Ethan: Do you think this is a bar?

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Ethan: Are you asking me to get a Typhoid Mary a drink?

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Ethan: Are you asking for more than what I could provide for you?

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Grace: Can I just get my drink?

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Ethan: Do you want it virgin or not?

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Ethan: So you want...do you want it non virgin?

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Grace: Can I have it non virgin!?

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Ethan: You got it.

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Aubrey: Alright, Kai up next.

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Kai: That's my name umm.

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So, why are you here at this hospital?  Grace:  Can't you see?

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Kai: I feel like this is the kind of thing that the doctor should be telling me?

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That wasn't a question.

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Aubrey: That was not a question!

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That's it, that's it for questions. Everybody's gone for questions. So up next.

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Thank you all. Up next is half life and Kai I believe you are introducing half life for us. Yes?

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Kai: Yes.

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Aubrey: So, take it away Kai.

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Kai: So half life is an improv game where there are two people, and they have a scene, but it has to be done in under 30 minutes so we will be taking suggestions on the location and the relation of the people.

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Aubrey: You got it, kai.

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Kai: And then it has to be halved to 15 seconds. Then they do it again afterwards and it has to become 15 seconds and they do it again and it's five seconds.

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Aubrey: Awesome Kai. Thank you. Alright, so we got to pick a location here for our scene. Yes, we'll start with 30 seconds.

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I'll go ahead and pick one for us. We're going to do from the chat. Taking Alex's suggestion of Disneyland. Here we go. And hold on I'm gonna get my timer ready to go, and the clock starts now.

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Wade: Can we go on the Indiana Jones ride first? I mean, I'm wearing the hat and everything.

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Jonah: John I want to go to Space Mountain.

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Wade: Well, we can do that later, Jim. We can go to Indiana Jones first.

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Jonah: Okay, what's uh what's Tinkerbell doing over there? Is she alright? She looks like she's throwing up.

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Wade: She is?

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Jonah: Yeah, she's over there in the gutter. Oh. Oh my goodness.

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Wade:  I hope she wasn't... Jonah:  Are you alright? What, what's going on here.  Wade:  You know, drinking last night.

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Aubrey: Alright. That is our 30 seconds. So now we're going to do that same scene for Tinkerbell in 15 seconds. So let me get my timer ready. Here we go, same scene. Now we only have 15 seconds to do it. Ready and go.

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Wade: Can we go to Indiana Jones first? I'm wearing the hat and the jacket.  I'm just so excited!

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Jonah: Yeah, let's go after Space Mountain. But, uh, I think something's wrong with Tinkerbell. She's kind of throwing up over here in the corner. Wade:  Oh my god.

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Aubrey: Alright, Tinker Bell's been drinking some whiskey. OK, and now we are going to do that same scene. Oh my gosh. Here we go, same scene, but in five seconds. Ready, set, go.

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Wade: Oh my god, I'm wearing the hat and the leather jacket. Can we go on Indiana Jones first?

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Jonah: Yeah, sure. But Tinkerbell, I think she's hung over, she's throwing up over here, what's going on?

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Wade: She must have been hanging out with Pirates, Pirates of the Carribean.

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Aubrey: Alright, timer. I got it. Alright. There we go. There it is. Our half life. Okay, um. We've got one more game for you, and that is our alphabet game and to introduce that game we are bringing Ethan back. Come on back Ethan And tell us what's up with alphabet game.

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Ethan: Alright, so our next game is alphabet game. Essentially what we're going to do, well, going to ask for you guys to do is send a letter of the English alphabet into the chat and as well as a location. What we're going to do is create a scene only using...

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going through the alphabet, starting from that letter. So one time start with an A, the next time we'll start with a B and then so on so forth until we reach back into that letter.

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Of course, if we don't do that, then we get out and the next person will jump in to continue with their own sort of scene. So,

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I see we have some locations and some letters coming in.

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Julie's suggestion of K, and my suggestion of being in a theater.

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Right, and I believe Levi, you're up with me.

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Aubrey: Yes, Levi, come on down here we go. We're starting with the letter K. So they have to make it all the way through the alphabet back to the letter K. If they cannot think of a letter, they are out and the next person steps in. So off we go.

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Ethan: Kreno, well, what are you, what role are you auditioning for?

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Levi: Well, Lorain. Damn it. That's a W.  Aubrey:  *Laughing* Great start, Levi!

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Aubrey: Alright, next up, go!

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Wade: Larry, what role are you auditioning for?

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Ethan: Manny, I would say, I want to go for the supporting lead.

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Wade: Realized I started with S. I'm out.

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Grace: I forgot what letter we're on.

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Ethan: N I believe.

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Aubrey: N, take it away with N grace.

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Grace: Now is the time for all auditions.

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Ethan: Oh boy! I can't wait to audition! Thanks, Suzanne!

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Grace: Perry, you know, I got you.

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Ethan: Undoubtedly. I know you are always great at this process. Grace:  Really?

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Well, I do think you are.

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Ethan: Anyway, um should we start the auditioning process? I am your assistant director, after all.

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Grace: Basically, take it away.

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Ethan: Contrivedly that's not where I want that scene to go.

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So come on down. I think it's a...hi. Come on in. We are at...we're at B.

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Kai: That's okay. Ah.

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Bob should audition for this part, you know, I bet he'd be great.

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Aubrey: Okay, great. So come on down. Jonah, come on down and we are at E. Let's see if we can get to K.

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Jonah: Eliza. Are you auditioning for the main part?

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Aubrey: So I think that's Jade. Come on down. You got it, and we're at F.

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Jade: For real, this isn't a Shakespeare production?

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Jade: How can I find a Shakespeare production?

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Jade: If I go over there. Will you come with me, I get a little nervous when I do auditions.

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Aubrey: There we go, we made it all the way to the end of the alphabet and back again. Thanks. Alright Improv team come on out. Take a bow.

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There we are. Those are just a few of the short form games we play. And we also do some long form. We're going to have a show in a couple weeks on December 1st. We'll be sending out invites for that, so keep your eyes open.

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They're going to do some short form and long form on that and we would love to have some folks in the audience, supporting these students. So thanks so much. Take a bow Kai, Jade, Ethan, Wade, Levi, Jonah, Grace.

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Thank you all. Thank you so much to Silva and ACCESS for having us on here. We really, really appreciate it. And I am going to hand it over. Back to you, Silva.

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Silva: Thank you, Professor Saverino.

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Thank you, students!

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That was excellent. I believe this was your first zoom show so

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thank you for participating with us today. Before we get on to the third part of the show, perhaps the second part of the comedy. I'm the I'm the...yeah.

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Um, I threw myself off. Give me a second. I'd like to talk to you about the ACCESS program for a moment. The ACCESS Program

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is a program at Moorpark college that is free to all students.

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We are a service oriented program on campus to help students who have varying forms of disabilities. And they could be visible or invisible disabilities. So if you think of disabilities, quite often you think of

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the, the icon you see often, you know, the blue and white with a wheelchair on it, but we have students that have varying forms of disabilities that you might not see

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and will not look like the icon. So we have students who have medical conditions which could be,

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you know, anything from cancer to need for dialysis or different disorders. We also have students who have mental health care

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concerns that interfere with their education. Especially now with Covid, you know, there's just so much anxiety around it.

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We serve students who are on the autism spectrum, have ADHD. We have a wonderful team, and on our team we have learning disabilities specialists,

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and they have a lot of information and knowledge on learning disabilities and so students who have different forms of learning disabilities, you know, such as dyscalculia or dyslexia,

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we have services for them. We also do free learning disability assessments for students who might have a learning disability but never had it

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assessed or evaluated. So if you are a student who wants to join the program or is interested, please reach out to us. We are still available, even though the campus is physically closed.

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We are available online. And we are providing providing services remotely. And within our district, we have two Sister colleges. We have Ventura college and we have Oxnard college.

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While we use the term ACCESS here at Moorpark college you would find them at Oxnard and Ventura under EAC. So statewide, the name is disabled student services.

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DSPS disabled students programs and services. Basically we are all here to make sure that all students have equal access to education.

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Just let us know. It's a confidential program. We don't share your information with anybody you don't want us to share it with.

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We're here to help and we want to make sure that all of our students have the same opportunity to learn.

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And if you didn't know, about 10% of the college is registered with our program. So you're not going to be alone. You know no one's gonna put you out and I really love our college.

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I haven't noticed anybody, you know, treat the students with disabilities any more different than everybody else. So,

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you will find that your faculty, your instructors, your professors, everyone's going to be very, very helpful and inclusive, and we have great things in the community office that could help.

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books into Braille, he can make them into forms that read to you online on the computer. You know you, there's a lot of ways of learning and we want to make sure that we unlock that for you. And we give you that opportunity.

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So thank you for that moment to share about our program. I'm very proud of it. And next we have the comedians with disabilities. I'm very excited that they're here with us. It's a professional group and I will leave it to Nina G to introduce everybody. Nina on to you please.

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Nina G.: Thank you so much. Everyone give Silva

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We can't see you, but we can read you. So please, in the chat. We really appreciate all of your lol and your agreements, your disagreement, your boo's, whatever. Thank you.

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Suzanne gets it to the clap, clap, clap. So thank you everybody. We really appreciate your participation in this and and being here.

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I out of all out of all of the colleges in the world. Moorpark was the one that I wanted to get to. Because you guys have a zoo.

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You guys have a zoo keeping major and you have a zoo and I've seen the videos on it and like I've seen students teaching birds, how to talk and like, and I know that probably everybody the entire campus, which, with the exception of

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teachers are not on campus and the students aren't on campus but I assume that we still got to feed

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the birds and whatever other animals. I saw birds, lions, and tigers. So they have lions and tigers. Someone's got to take care of the lions

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and tigers. When we had...when the pandemic first happened there was a rumor here I am joining you from my kitchen in Oakland,

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California. And there was a rumor that the Oakland Zoo accidentally let out a tiger. That was going through East Oakland, and it was terrifying. It wasn't true. So just a shout out to all of the Zookeeper

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majors and I really, really, really do want to see your school.

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So I hope to be there one day. Smelly porcupine has a lot of anxiety. I think we needed to hear that. I don't know what that means. I think that's code, but someone just said that.

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Said that through the chat. That's exactly the kind of thing that we want to hear and see. So, my name is

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Nina G. And in case you couldn't tell right there. I am a stand up comic who stutters, and I'm joined here with Michael beers and Mean Dave who are part of the Comedians with

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Disabilities Act. And we perform at all kinds of colleges and love to talk about our own experiences and do it under the pretense of comedy and make you laugh, but also hopefully you learn a little bit about our

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experiences too. I, myself, I am a product of a California Community College which what I say that I don't mean that I went there as a student, although I did, I did two, two and a half years at

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Berkeley. But when I say I am a product of a California Community College, that is because my parents met at Oaklands City College.

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So they met at a community college and I am here because of this system, which I love, and I appreciate, and it kicked ass, so well you know it's a school. Um, so let's see. So let me tell you a little bit about the history of the

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Disabilities Act. It was started by a guy who used a wheelchair and another guy joined, who was a little person and another one who was blind. And when I joined, I was the fourth one. When I joined, as a person who stutters and has dyslexia people told me that I shouldn't be in that

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comedy troupe and because dyslexia and stuttering weren't real

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disabilities, until I quoted them from the Americans with

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Disabilities Act that says that a disability is a physical or mental impairment that substantially results in having to deal with assholes. So

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I'm pretty sure that it qualifies.

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And the thing about having a disability is as soon as someone needs to they suddenly have a PhD in the thing you have. Oh my god the advice, so much advice, things like for me, it's things like just slow down and breathe.

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I've Never thought slowing down. And I guess I would, I guess I haven't been

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breathing this entire time. But the advice always comes in two forms. Either I was watching Dr. Oz, you know, some crappy advice is going to come or I live right next to Berkeley

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California. So very, very, very smart, intelligent people but they sometimes tell me advice and it comes in the form of I was listening to NPR. Oh my gosh. Oh, I was

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Listening to National Public Radio is the sure sign that I am going to get advice from someone who just heard a segment and thinks they have a

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Master's in it, so. And so that's okay. That's okay. You can get, get a pass.

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Okay, but the advice always comes in really strange times in strange ways. I was once on a radio station and just talking about stuttering and comedy. Woman calls up, woman calls up and says,

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I have a friend who stutters and she found true love.

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And now she doesn't stutter anymore. Isn't that beautiful, isn't that wonderful isn't that the biggest bunch of Disney Princess BS you've ever heard. Oh my god, what happened.

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Okay hold on just a second. I think

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Okay. Sorry, I got kicked off of my own screen. I don't know what happened there. So, I'm sorry. I'm so glad it's you. The, um, it's a meeting...I did a show yesterday that was not on zoom that was on teams, teams sucks. Do not do a zoom on...I think when everybody got bombed

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like, back in March, they're like Zoom is awful. It's terrible. No, no. You just didn't know how to use it right. Well, that's why we need someone like Michael to kick out the weirdos who come on and...

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Like the ugliest thing I saw was a naked man who I shouldn't have been seeing. That's what happens when when you get Bombed like and that was the least ugly thing, actually. So, okay.

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So, sorry about that. I got very concerned there. Okay, so I was talking about the bad advice. So I have a friend who stutters who's about 23 at the time, and he

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was seeing a psychologist and the psychologist, and he was in therapy, not for the stutter and not for what the the therapist thought was his issue, which was that he was

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Virgin and the psychologist tells him tells him that once he starts having sex that he's going to stop stuttering. And I was like, you know that some BS right he's, uh, we'll see. We'll see. I don't know,

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I'll, I'll keep an open mind. But anyway yes, sex cures stuttering. That is what the psychologist thought. Now, you know, there's only 1% of us in the world. I'm sure we would have happened upon this here. Anyway, my friend, he started to date this girl.

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And after a couple weeks I could tell that it was going to go somewhere, that it was getting serious. One Sunday morning. One Sunday morning. I got a text and the text read I-I-I still stutter.

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Yeah that's right because he did it. And so I texted back. Keep trying. That's, that's exactly what happened there. Was the best text I ever got.

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Okay, so I'm gonna, I wanted to share a little bit about about what stuttering is because a lot of people don't understand it. We're only 1% of the population. In women, of that 1%, if there's four people who stutter one's going to be a woman and the rest are men. So we are

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outnumbered and a minority in a minority there. So stuttering is thought to be caused by a difference in the brain, on the left side. On the left side. This is the language side. All you people in psychology and in

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anatomy may have heard about the temporal lobe and Broca's area. And Broca's area is the expressive part of the brain. Right next door is the muscles that you use when you speak.

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And that is where we have a difference in our brain. So if we talk we stutter. But if we sing or if we use a funny voice, then we don't stutter because

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that part of the brain is bypassed and that in language goes to the right side. So that's why you hear people who

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are singers be completely fluent when they sing, but stutter when they talk. Also my favorite example of someone who stutters who manipulated their voice was the actress Marilyn Monroe.

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Who, by the way, that's a fake name, as some of you know.

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If you change your name and you stutter, why do you have a double M name!? Like that is hardest thing to say. I'm guessing she stuttered on season case. But nonetheless, nonetheless.

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Um. She of course was an actress and she stuttered. And that's why she talked like this, because when Marilyn talked like this, she could switch

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her speaking to the right side instead of the left side and then she was fluent. Now once I was talking to a guy and I was explaining

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stuttering to him and because he started to explain it to me. So I explained it back to him, and I did that voice to which he said, oh, that's very sexy. Maybe you should talk like that all the time.

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And I was like, no, that's cool. I think I'd rather stutter. And that is the end. What I hope you got out of that is that, um, we, we are okay the way we are.

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And that is why it's so important to access ACCESS. That's funny. Access ACCESS for your accommodations. I know a lot of people who are like me who have dyslexia and to stutter say that it isn't

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a disability, or they're past it, or they want to do it without, they don't want to use a crutch. I could go on and on and on. Use them! That is how I got to UC Berkeley. That's how I went on to

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Grad school and I got my doctorate. That is because I used extra time on tests and I had, I still read. I still read *Kurzweil audio noises* on Kurzweil. I read at 350

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words a minute on there. When I do it without I'm at 110 what words a minute. So it's an effective way to do your work. And talking about

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accommodations, it's our first comic that we are going to have after me, is one of my favorite accommodations, because he reads all my stuff. He edits everything I do, and probably knows way too much about me because of that, my good friend mean Dave everybody. Please welcome Mean Dave!

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Michael Beers: Yeah, Dave.

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Mean Dave: Good to see you everybody. Just gonna start my timer here. How about another round of applause there from home and all that for Nina G everybody. And also I want to clarify something in the chat. Miguel,

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if your cousin stutters give them time to let them finish, not to tell them to speak in a different voice, that's the overall

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kind of moral of her act right there. And, you know, what can I say about Nina G. that wouldn't take her longer to say. That's what I always love to say and point out.

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Anyways, one of my best friends. Definitely. I'm comedian mean Dave. It is just a nickname. It is short for meaningful David, so we can get that out of the way right away.

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You know, I know the other names you may start calling me based up...What's up with the backgrounds, Wesley? I don't know. I really don't, man, I mean, they're just

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It's just, you know, you really want to see what I what my room looks like. This is what my room looks like, man, it is the it is the bedroom of

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a serial killer, alright, who goes to NA that's pretty much it. It's the bedroom serial killer goes to NA. That's why I chose a nice high end bathroom

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to use as my background. Okay. Looks like a nicer place. Um, but yeah, as I pointed out right there, you saw there was a there's a little thing right there.

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You may be wondering what is, what's his disability there. Look at this dude, you know, lack of hygiene or something? Well, I just took a shower clearly

361
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it's not my disability. My disability, you probably wouldn't. I mean, well here's something you can probably tell looking at me.

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I've done some drugs, I've drank some alcohol. And so much so that I had to stop, and in order to stop I had to get help to stop. And I am what they say is an addict or alcoholic in recovery.

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I'm actually seven years clean and sober, which I'm very grateful for and, thank you, appreciate the support, because seriously from the bottom my heart, it has been a boring seven years. Alright.

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But the bottom line is, is when I pointed out to Nina kind of how the addict brain works in and in kind of comparison to the dyslexic brain that she described to me. She did some research and found out

365
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that addicts and alcoholics in recovery are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Isn't that really cool.

366
00:47:14,460 --> 00:47:19,380
Well, you know it's pretty much. It's a disability of a mental illness.

367
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Which is awesome. So now, what I do is I go standing in handicapped parking spots and tell people to go away and get out, get out of here. This is mine, mine now. I don't even drive anymore. I just stand there.

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And the irony being that everybody thinks I'm high or drunk yelling at all the cars. So that's, you know, kind of a weird thing. And I'm also probably the only

369
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disability that can walk into a bar and just start knocking over everybody's drinks and calling them ablest.

370
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You know, it's, you know, not many other people can really do that. But I take a stand for disability. And that's how I go up there, you know, so, uh, but yeah, it's, it's something that I figured out the hard way, you know, basically, about seven years ago I got a second DUI. Second.

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Pulled over I got pulled over with a point one eight alcohol level and got a DUI. I mean, personally, I feel if you get pulled over with a point one eight alcohol level and you get a DUI, you deserve some credit for pulling over successfully.

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You know, I'm not, I don't encourage drunk driving by any means, but, and I'm not trying to brag, but I was driving pretty good with a point one eight, you know, I was just weaving inside the lines.

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You know, like a kid in a coloring book. I was coloring all over the place. But I was inside the lines, you know.

374
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I'm an artist on the road. That's what I told the officer when he pulled me over.

375
00:48:39,540 --> 00:48:48,600
And but I'll be honest, I never got better customer service than I did from the California Highway Patrol on Highway 580 in Dublin, California.

376
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I highly highly recommend them for any and all DUIs if anybody is in need of one, you know, five stars on Yelp for my DUI they treated me with first class

377
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customer service, because they they arrested me and put me in the front seat of the squad car with no handcuffs on,

378
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tight next to the shotgun. You know that's trust you know I'm one of the guys. They let me be super trooper, you know.

379
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And then they were driving me into Santa Rita jail.

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And then they're like, this guy's pretty cool, man, let's let's put on a little entertainment for him before he has this long night in jail and they got a little screen on their dashboard and they played me a short film.

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And it was a real boring movie. Was just about a car that was weaving all over the freeway and I was watching it real closely and I said you know what officers, this looks like a guy who needs a DUI and the officer said that's you, asshole. And I was like, oh,

382
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this movie got better. I didn't know I was in it.

383
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So yeah, so that's that's basically when I came to the conclusion that with me drugs and alcohol is vicious cycle. You know, it starts with weed.  What goes well with weed, some beer, I drink the beers  I up the ante. What goes well with beer?

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Cocaine. 35 days later, after a good healthy binge, what goes well with the weed, beer, and cocaine? A second, third, and fourth DUI at the exact same time because that's when the acid kicks in.

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LSD. And it's the only way I can drive three cars in four different dimensions, 32 colors, 56 flavors into the Sky With Diamonds and still hit a cop.

386
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You know, anywhere you go because cops don't look both ways before running green lights at 2:30am after a hard party on a Friday night.

387
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That's why I did the cocaine. So I wouldn't fall asleep at the wheel when I was running my red light. Tried to be safe, look out for people on the road.

388
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And that's why I dropped the acid. So I can synchronize my triple drunk vision back into one with the universe and make it home safely. Alright.

389
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So point being, though, you know, one of the things I want to, I want to give a shout out to is, is my man Ethan over here, part of the improv troupe, because

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one thing I noticed, and I'm sure nobody else noticed was his little improv nod to Dan Schneider. And I just want to say if you know that dude is that's a, that was, I was like, alright, I'm in good company with this show. Alright, so.

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Point being a from that point aww whatever. Well, you know what's great is we're here on zoom having fun, you know it's it's wonderful to do a comedy show where I'm, again, I have not left my bedroom.

392
00:51:07,860 --> 00:51:19,200
And a lot of comedians are not really on board with all the zoom stuff, which I don't really I don't mind. You know, they're like those zoom comedy shows those aren't real comedy shows and I beg to differ.

393
00:51:19,830 --> 00:51:26,280
You know, because, you know, for years, people have had, you know, phone sex and, you know, Internet sex before.

394
00:51:26,610 --> 00:51:32,820
And no one ever came barging into your room and was like hey, that's not real sex you're having right there. Don't get your hopes up. You know, it's like...

395
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You know, so I just look at this as stand up comedy, the video game. And I embrace it completely. And it's the only show where I might get heckled by my landlord knocking on my door saying "hey you mind keeping your imaginary comedy show down.

396
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You know, I'm trying to try and watch some Home Shopping Networks". So again, point being, one of the things, again I am an addict in recovery.

397
00:51:57,660 --> 00:52:04,440
A lot of things, you know, one of the things that's great about it after doing it this long, is that when coronavirus hit,

398
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not much changed in my life. I really am really at the mercy of things outside of my control pretty much all the time.

399
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:19,110
You know, and a lot of people have been telling comedians like, oh, this must be a great time for writing material. And I'm here to tell you no, it's not.

400
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Because there's a new disaster every other week that people do not have a sense of humor about and

401
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:31,440
and you know, it's been the great unfriending of 2020 on social media, thanks to everything from politics to pop tarts.

402
00:52:31,740 --> 00:52:38,850
Everybody's just throwing down the gauntlet, a line in the sand, and you know it's like if you like chocolate pop tarts unfriend me now.

403
00:52:39,210 --> 00:52:45,720
You know and seriously though, if you do like chocolate pop tarts, and we're friends on Facebook, unfriend me because that stuff's disgusting.

404
00:52:46,230 --> 00:52:50,190
I don't understand it, it's you know, I really don't understand the chocolate frosting.

405
00:52:50,670 --> 00:53:01,680
But, um, but the point is, I've been trying to be more positive on social media because I used to be a lot more negative, you know, with my attitude and even that's not working. I made a post, not too long ago,

406
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just saying, you know, hey, went to the grocery store today. Got my groceries in 20 minutes. Pretty cool.

407
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:17,190
And the first comment was my uncle who said, Oh, that must be nice. Did you wear your mask, like a little pussy. And I was like,

408
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how did you know, Uncle? Yeah I did, I did wear my mask, you know, yeah, I got my groceries like a little pussy too. Paid for them, you know, like a little pussy. And, you know, went home made a nice little pussy dinner.

409
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You know, and, and, you know, little dessert after that, and took a bath too!

410
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Right after that a little bubble bath, you know, because I like my bubble baths. Now I'm a happy little pussy who's gonna go to sleep, clean and full and you sound like a, like an unhappy

411
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little one and you should probably keep your mask on a little more uncle, so.

412
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And, you know, and actually I used a stronger word, but I'm trying to clean it up after some of the some of the filthy words I was hearing from Nina. Well, actually I'm just joking around. You know, it's, I'm in a bathroom for Christ's sake. Point being too,

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one of the things I never thought. The reason why I like having this bathroom background is because I never thought, you know, the coronavirus has done a lot of things.

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Has made me appreciate more than ever the importance of a public restroom. Alright? Because ever since the shelter in place,

415
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you can't just count on a public restroom wherever you go. You got to really plot ahead and plan your pees and your poos

416
00:54:24,930 --> 00:54:36,300
when you leave the front door. And, you know, because I before you know just bathroom started opening up recently and now they might get shut down again if we do this other, this next shutdown.

417
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:45,900
And the last time I used a public restroom before recently. I remember I never thought I'd be nostalgic for it, but I remember it completely. It was in the middle of March.

418
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And it was it was the weekend before the first shutdown and basically I was, I went to a safe way out here in a town called Sunnyvale. Walked in,

419
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you know, everybody was scrambling for the for the, you know, for the toilet paper. I wasn't because I've got a cool head and I know the grocery store has never shut down, even in the shutdown, so I don't know why anybody's hoarding the toilet paper. But I go in there and go to use the urinal.

420
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There's two urinals in there. And so I'm used one urinal and another dude comes walking and he's using the urinal next to me.

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And if you're a dude, and if you've ever peed in a urinal next to some other dude peeing at a urinal. Or ladies, if you've ever used a she wee at a men's urinal next to another man peeing, you might know what this feels like. Sometimes if you're peeing next to somebody

422
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and if you're not peeing an even stream, you might get a little paranoid. You know, if, like you're rolling up there, you're peeing and somebody you're not hearing any noise next to you.

423
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Like what's going on over there or if you're the one who's rolling up and they're the one peeing and it's taking you a little while to get the fireman going into the fire,

424
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you might be like, you know, it's just it's it could get awkward, but on this particular day, me and the dude, we were peeing just even streams. Everything was cool. No paranoia no competition, either. It was great.

425
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But then after we were done, we kind of were done at the same time. And that's when we went to go wash our hands right afterwards.

426
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And we both were washing our hands, but I couldn't help but notice he was washing his hands harder,

427
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more aggressively, just really he had the sink on full blast. He was really pounding the soap dispenser, let me know. Just a lot of splashing.

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And I was like, are you taking a bath over there. What are you doing, dude, and

429
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I looked over and it was this young man who was just scared out of his mind just to look at me, and he kept glancing at me like I was going to do something.

430
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:45,360
And he was he was a young Asian dude. And this, this is important because I was trying to figure out why is this dude

431
00:56:45,930 --> 00:56:55,170
being scared? You know what, what's the problem? And then it dawned on me. This was the first weekend that I remember Donald Trump referring to the coronavirus is the Chinese virus.

432
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And I remember reading about some incidents in the news. So I was like, oh my god, this young man thinks I'm going to commit a hate crime.

433
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I need to put them at ease. And so I just I hurried up finished washing my hands, dried my hands, and I turned into this young man and I had to think fast.

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I just, I, I couldn't, I couldn't. You know, I just put both my hands on his shoulders, stopped him right there, looked him in his eyes, thought of the scene in goodwill hunting, and just said, it's not your fault.

435
00:57:23,970 --> 00:57:32,100
It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Said it like 20 times. It's not your fault.

436
00:57:33,270 --> 00:57:42,060
And then I gave him a big hug. Gave them a big long hug. Five minutes worth of hug, just to let him know we're on the same side here. We're going to get through this together.

437
00:57:43,290 --> 00:57:54,720
And then we both came down with coronavirus the week after that. So, so, yeah. That was back in March. So I got the all clear and everything's been good ever since. And I'd do it all over again If I had to.

438
00:57:55,530 --> 00:58:02,070
Because, you know, that's that's the thing we are going to get through all this stuff together and it's important, and it's, it's great, though, that we have these avenues to

439
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,200
to communicate to one another. And again, my name is mean Dave, I am not,

440
00:58:07,710 --> 00:58:13,920
you know, any other name, if you want to call me by any other name, I would really rather you not. Just go by mean Dave because

441
00:58:14,310 --> 00:58:22,290
I'm not Jesus. I'm not Charles Manson. I'm not Rasputin. I'm not the guitar player from Soundgarden or the bass player Metallica.

442
00:58:22,650 --> 00:58:30,240
I'm not the actor Jimmy Smits with long hair and a beard. I'm not Osama Bin Laden's courier in the movie Zero Dark 30.

443
00:58:30,570 --> 00:58:45,840
I'm not Mexican Russell Brand, Mexican almond brother, Mexican Rob Zombie. I'm not Mexican Steve Aoki whoever the hell that is. If I'm wearing a backwards hat, I am not a Mexican Silent Bob AKA Roberto De Silencio. I'm not Mexican lieutenant

444
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Dan with, you know, with his legs because I'm an able bodied actor.

445
00:58:51,510 --> 00:59:07,500
But if a woman's attractive and I assume possibly has lower standards than normal, I'll pretend to be Aqua Man but I think it's an insult to Jason Momoa, quite frankly, because you know he's...he's six foot sexy and I'm five foot everybody calls me homeless.

446
00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:08,310
So,

447
00:59:08,370 --> 00:59:12,870
if you're going to call me Aqua Man, technically I'm Dollar Store Aqua Man. And that is my time.

448
00:59:14,100 --> 00:59:18,240
Nina, do I bring you back up here or do I introduce our next comedian? I bring, alright.

449
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Your next comedian.

450
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:20,910
This dude.

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He is again, you know, we got...

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The coolest thing about this show that we put on for all that we get to do is we are, we truly are some of each other's favorite comedians. And this dude, I love this guy. All the way from Missoula, Montana. Give it up for Michael beers, everybody.

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Michael: Hey everybody.

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Welcome, let's keep it going from mean Dave.

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My coolest cousin from Oakland. I've been growing my hair for two years since I met him, and this is as far as I've gotten. I was also keeping it long for Nina. In addition to being one of my favorite people in the world, a mentor, and then co-conspirator. The only person

456
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:17,100
in the world of 7 billion people that would ever write me a recommendation to be a bouncer, so thank you for that Nina.

457
01:00:17,700 --> 01:00:34,380
And thank you zoom for expanding my hustle quite a bit. And I'm really happy to be at this college. I had no idea, which Nina had told me there was a zoo. Um, if there was a zoo where I had gone to college, I might not have dropped out. So, you live and you learn, right?

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Happy day.

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01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:49,410
Yeah, happy day. I feel like in 2020, screw wishing people happy holidays. Let's just say happy today cuz, you know, next one's not guaranteed.

460
01:00:51,660 --> 01:01:06,420
And I'm not one to bring up privilege a lot. I think it's an overused word. People weaponize it. Generally I'm much too tired as an advocate to be woke.

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01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:14,340
But I understand. I've done some work on my own. I continue to do work on recognizing my privilege.

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01:01:15,660 --> 01:01:16,350
My Bulldog.

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Definitely is a being of privilege.

465
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:46,500
Because he doesn't care! He doesn't care that I'm in Southern California right now. Give us a show? All he wants is treats. And he is a bulldog, and he knows that he's too fucking cute for me to yell at him. Right. Isn't that right? Okay, so, you guys get to meet Frankie a little bit.  I'm going to go get some treats, because this is how.

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01:01:55,290 --> 01:01:56,730
All right, here we go buddy.  Get up there, get up there, get up there.

467
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:07,650
Yeah, he knows, yeah. He knows. Yeah. And if this isn't the best analogy for how we have to treat the fucking president of the United States, I don't know what is.

468
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:21,210
You'd think they'd be nicer to us. You'd think they care instead of whining all the goddamn time.

469
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Alright.

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01:02:27,180 --> 01:02:34,530
So that was about five treats, which means we have about four minutes of quiet all to ourselves.

471
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:37,650
But again, in

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2020 I realized how much privilege I don't have. Yeah I have Wiener privilege for sure. I think about that all the time, and someone pointed it out to me a few times. And you thank you for those that did that. But, If you have ever complained about wearing one of these,

473
01:03:01,620 --> 01:03:13,650
allow me to point out the privileges that you have. You have all of them. Every single privilege. If this is the biggest thing that's stressing you out in your freakin life,

474
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:24,570
you have all the privileges. Oh my god. These are the people, the same people that told me for years to grow the fuck up

475
01:03:25,170 --> 01:03:41,610
are complaining about wearing a mask to help other people. And I know there's an F word meter, and I think I'm like right here, so I'm going to kind of like draw it back a little bit, because honestly in 2020 I don't have that many fucks to give. So,

476
01:03:43,350 --> 01:03:54,090
I'm gonna be honest. And I am. I'm so lucky to be able to come here from my living room and work so much with my friends Mean Dave,

477
01:03:55,080 --> 01:04:13,530
and Nina G. And another round of applause, and love, and respect to ACCESS and all that you do. Um, I was, uh, yeah. I've been a part of College organizations on disability before and it's good work that you're doing.

478
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:23,400
The ADA is 30, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is a reason to celebrate, but it's also a reason to check in with ADA.

479
01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:38,460
Because I don't know how ADA is doing on their 30th. I stressed out a lot, because I was like, I want to be all these things! And I turned 30 and I was like, I haven't done any of that yet. And ADA you've done a ton.

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01:04:39,510 --> 01:04:51,330
You've done a ton for everybody. I know there's some things on your list that you haven't quite gotten to yet. It's not all your fault. And by things on your list that you haven't gotten to yet.

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01:04:52,440 --> 01:05:06,660
I see you, people with learning disabilities and mental health. Um, yeah, we haven't got there, we owe you quite a bit and we're going to work with the ADA to get there by the time they're 35.

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01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:24,420
So, and we need your help, we need to lead you to lead that way. So those of us with visible disabilities, we've gotten the attention for far too long. Not that we don't have things to do, but we need to include more people.

483
01:05:25,710 --> 01:05:41,790
Alright, I'm going to add some jokes here in a second. I grew up in Montana. I remember one of my first memories growing up in Montana. I was about 10 years old and I was walking down the street with my mom. And this was one of those days, um,

484
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:49,020
that you don't want to go out and run errands with your parents. You just want to, you know, pick your nose and watch cartoons.

485
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:55,680
But I had to go because, you know, they have the keys and the cereal. So...

486
01:05:56,730 --> 01:06:02,850
And I should point out, um, I, I was born with an

487
01:06:04,050 --> 01:06:21,750
an hour hand. So it's very much a lot shorter than the average right hand. And then I was also born with the minute hand which is very much longer. One of my first jobs after I dropped out of college was being the world's first human clock.

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Because I have the minute hand, and I have the hour hand, that's a privilege that I own. So I would stand in the park and keep time, tick, tick, tick, tick, *beep*. Um, I ended up getting fired for that job because I was late all the time.

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But back to me being 10 years old. I'm walking down the street and I'm looking at ground. I'm pouting like you do. And I looked up at some point. And folksa I don't know why I looked up at this particular moment. But I'll tell you that when I did, I saw a sign

490
01:06:59,340 --> 01:07:00,720
like a beacon of hope.

491
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Said second hand store.

492
01:07:08,550 --> 01:07:29,520
Yes, finally, a store that has what I need. So I ran in there, away from my mom and I went up to the guy on the counter and I said I want one. He looked at me and said, do you need a toaster? And I was like, no! I got toast. All I need from you is a second hand.

493
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:37,710
And he looked confused. So I spelled it out for him. I said, look, I have the first one.

494
01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:43,080
All I'm looking to get from your store is the second one.

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01:07:44,190 --> 01:07:47,610
Do you have anything in a right that I can try on?

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Then he laughed and threw me out the store.

497
01:07:54,090 --> 01:08:01,710
And that's, you know, one of the first lessons I ever got in, you know, life isn't always about the truth.

498
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:12,600
One of my second lessons. Alright, we're going to say like 300'th lesson in life about life isn't always about telling the truth,

499
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:21,450
is going to history class. Now as people that are in college or, you know, in your living rooms

500
01:08:23,850 --> 01:08:32,400
scrolling through Porn Hub and listening to us in the background. I know who you are, um, but don't worry we're about to finish.

501
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,510
We're about to finish too.

502
01:08:37,590 --> 01:08:38,250


503
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:52,410
Going through my history class I was very disillusioned, because I grew up into this name, an adopted Native American.

504
01:08:52,860 --> 01:09:08,850
Um, and the history that you learn in class is more "story" than "his". A lot of times I remember Columbus Day, the teacher would still try to pull this one off, point to the board and say Columbus was a hero and he discovered the New World.

505
01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:14,700
I just got kicked out of class for laughing.

506
01:09:16,470 --> 01:09:19,800
Because here's something we can all do as a thought experiment over zoom.

507
01:09:22,440 --> 01:09:25,650
If there's someone there to greet you,

508
01:09:27,780 --> 01:09:29,490
it's not new!

509
01:09:30,900 --> 01:09:39,840
That'd be like me strolling into Walmart and going up to the guy in the blue vest and saying, and when he says, welcome, I look him straight in the eye and say no.

510
01:09:40,950 --> 01:09:48,090
This is a brand new store. I just discovered it. Show me to your corn.

511
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:51,090


512
01:09:52,140 --> 01:10:02,280
But yeah, so we don't always tell the truth in history. This year I did make some resolutions, I made some resolutions that are easy.

513
01:10:02,700 --> 01:10:06,900
And we'll get to that in a second. Also made some resolutions which are

514
01:10:07,650 --> 01:10:18,930
more of the the white side of my family, that's REX. That's like, you know, getting familiar with like losing weight or being healthier or, you know, starting to do yoga for a week.

515
01:10:19,530 --> 01:10:31,860
Um, that one for me was to be like a stronger person, you know, physically. I really wanted to get on point with my balance. So I realized...

516
01:10:33,060 --> 01:10:50,880
I go to a physical therapist, and they could help me learn how my body should do these exercises. And I wanted to go in there, and I wanted the training montage to begin in the cooler with the meat hanging, and I was just like this, you know. But no.

517
01:10:52,110 --> 01:10:56,730
My physical therapist was like, okay Michael, try to stand on one foot.

518
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:11,340
And I was like "this is dumb. Where are the barbells? Where's the sweat? Where's the old guy on the bicycle yelling at me? This is what I want." And they're like, No. Just, just try lifting your arm and, you know, touching your nose.

519
01:11:13,230 --> 01:11:15,810
And but I, you know, I'm brought into the process.

520
01:11:17,610 --> 01:11:18,720
I said they're a doctor.

521
01:11:20,190 --> 01:11:30,900
But then, and I actually started to work. These little tiny things I was doing was helping my balance. Um, but then I had this moment of clarity, like three weeks in, and I was like, shit.

522
01:11:33,030 --> 01:11:35,070
My physical fitness goal

523
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:40,380
is to be able to pass the sobriety test, sober.

524
01:11:42,060 --> 01:11:49,920
Like, that's my Russian. That's my Russian in the fourth one. That's the picture I put in the mirror as I train in the snow, is to be able to do that.

525
01:11:52,950 --> 01:11:57,990
But I do want to say with my last couple minutes. Um, I want to say thank you to Frankie.

526
01:11:59,610 --> 01:12:02,100
But I also want to...

527
01:12:03,150 --> 01:12:03,840
I'm

528
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:13,950
Talk about something that happened to me very recently. And I think a lot of people can relate. And if you can't relate, maybe you can do something, or you can learn something about it.

529
01:12:14,340 --> 01:12:23,820
I was walking down the street, the other day, and in front of a church, which I try to avoid,  not for my sake, but for theirs.

530
01:12:25,410 --> 01:12:33,330
But as soon as I was walking by, somebody came out from the little garden area in the church.  And they

531
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:40,230
appeared to be some kind of clergy. I don't know what denomination. But they stopped what they were doing in the garden,

532
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:51,180
and they came up to me. They were both wearing masks, which was, which was great. Um, but he came up to me and six feet away from me and he's like, I wish I could give you a hug.

533
01:12:52,590 --> 01:13:00,360
And I was like, cool. I wish I could hug anybody right now. And he said, but I want you to know,

534
01:13:01,500 --> 01:13:04,380
and he pointed to my hour hand,

535
01:13:05,790 --> 01:13:08,160
that there's a special place in heaven

536
01:13:09,480 --> 01:13:11,070
for people like you.

537
01:13:12,450 --> 01:13:18,990
Now I know some people in the chat and certainly some of the other comedians have experienced this before.

538
01:13:19,620 --> 01:13:34,320
He is not a villain that we know of. He's clergy, so there's always a suspicion. But everything in his life told him what he did was appropriate and normal. That doesn't mean it wasn't annoying to me.

539
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:50,190
On a couple levels. One, you stopped me and made me late for my meeting. Two, you're going to stand six feet away from me and expect me to find comfort in the fact that there's a special place there too?

540
01:13:52,650 --> 01:14:04,920
After I had to go to that classroom as a kid? I had to ride that school bus? I spent my life advocating for equity for people with disabilities and you're fucking telling me that when I die,

541
01:14:07,020 --> 01:14:12,060
I have to advocate for an elevator, because everybody else gets to take the stairway to heaven.

542
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:15,630
Darn it!

543
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:31,200
The work never finishes, and I want to say how much I love ACCESS and everybody that joined for doing that work every single day, whether you can get credit for it or not. We are making a difference. Good luck out there.

544
01:14:32,610 --> 01:14:33,030
Peace.

545
01:14:33,780 --> 01:14:37,140
Nina: Thank you, Michael. Everyone give it up for Michael.

546
01:14:38,370 --> 01:14:51,390
And for Dave. And for me. And for ACCESS. And for the improv group and Silva, everybody. So thank you everybody. Now we are going to open it up for some Q and A,

547
01:14:52,140 --> 01:15:05,100
and I think the first Q and A has to be, um, we have to hear from Dave about what he thinks about the ability to change his background and what his thoughts are about that. Dave.

548
01:15:06,450 --> 01:15:11,280
Mean Dave: Fine. I normally don't change them up this much, but I'm really just doing it for Suzanne.

549
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:17,850
She knows the Madonna Inn, Nina. You see that? She recognized it right away. This is

550
01:15:19,980 --> 01:15:22,650
Nina: I bet she has been to the men's...

551
01:15:26,460 --> 01:15:31,530
urinal there. Because every woman has to see the waterfall...

552
01:15:32,070 --> 01:15:34,050
Mean Dave: Right. That's right. I forgot about that.

553
01:15:34,110 --> 01:15:47,580
Nina: urinal. That is, every single old Italian woman in my family has gone to see it. It's like a shrine. It's one of the best things in California. Anyway, I'm sorry Dave, go.

554
01:15:47,670 --> 01:15:57,810
Mean Dave: Oh no no.  Like I said this was Nina's wedding and this is her bridesmaids, and yes I'm one of the bridesmaids. She specifically said if I was changing all these to put it up so.

555
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:13,380
Yeah. But yeah, no, it's just one of those things I get, again, I just don't like looking at the blank walls on my, on my room and it's just it's a lot better than my pillows over there, you know, as I sit here on my bed. So yeah.  It's great.

556
01:16:13,530 --> 01:16:28,230
Nina: Yeah!  And people loved them. So that was great to have a visual and auditory an thing going on. I hope all of the teachers in the crowd learned that it's important to to engage the ear and the eye.

557
01:16:28,440 --> 01:16:29,400
Mean Dave: Not all of us

558
01:16:30,090 --> 01:16:30,690
Nina: Just something to bring to the Classroom.

559
01:16:30,900 --> 01:16:37,830
Mean Dave: Not all of us were working together in tandem as a team with a very talented dog like some other people.

560
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:42,690
Michael: I don't know why people say that they're hard to work with in Hollywood.

561
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:43,680
Mean Dave: My god.

562
01:16:45,570 --> 01:16:46,050
Frankie

563
01:16:46,590 --> 01:16:48,540
Frankie just owned it there for a second.

564
01:16:51,330 --> 01:16:54,540
Michael: I know he's gonna be real hard to live with now.

565
01:16:54,630 --> 01:16:54,930
Mean Dave: Yeah, no kidding

566
01:16:55,740 --> 01:16:57,570
Michael:  Not that he was easy before.

567
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:14,460
Nina:  Okay, so audience please ask us questions. Um, and let's first start with a question to Dave, Mike, and myself, and I'll answer it to. Why did you get into comedy, and do you want to share anything about how you started?

568
01:17:16,260 --> 01:17:18,810
Mean Dave: Why did I get into comedy? Would you hire me?

569
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:34,740
Yeah, that's, I think that's pretty much point cut and dry. I mean, I've...bottom line, this wasn't a dream, it's resolving the nightmare of all my cool bands breaking up. I played in bands for 20 years. Where else would I get such a drug problem?

570
01:17:35,790 --> 01:17:44,670
But, but I've always loved stand up comedy. it's been a big part of my upbringing. My parents practically raised me on stand up comedy.

571
01:17:45,420 --> 01:17:54,690
I've always had favorite comedians growing up. But then when I got older and realized I hated all my jobs. Music was not going to be a full time career or anything.

572
01:17:55,200 --> 01:18:01,290
I had a band that had a comedic thread and I decided maybe if I started doing stand up comedy, I could help promote the band.

573
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:10,500
And then my drummer quit. So I was stuck with stand up comedy and I basically kind of got into comedy the way Happy Gilmore figured out that he wasn't a hockey player. That he was a

574
01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:16,260
golfer. That's my journey into stand up comedy. It was reluctant journey, but once I got here...

575
01:18:16,590 --> 01:18:27,660
This is, you know, I got into it and I stuck with it because I saw comedians that sucked make a living at it. So I figured at least I can be better than them, maybe, and make a little money.

576
01:18:28,170 --> 01:18:40,740
And then as I got into it and then I got in recovery I credit comedy with getting me into recovery, because I wanted to be a better comedian. Drugs and alcohol were a problem. So, and then recovery is my number one priority. So I thank comedy for helping me

577
01:18:41,370 --> 01:18:46,890
find a better life. And then because of that, yeah I make a living as a comedian, which is the best job I've ever had. So, yeah.

578
01:18:48,780 --> 01:18:51,000
Nina: All right, and Michael, how about you?

579
01:18:51,780 --> 01:19:00,660
Michael: Um, I, because I had nowhere else to go. Um, no, I got into comedy my senior year in high school.

580
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:02,730
It was actually a

581
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:13,050
a suggestion my drama teacher gave me two years earlier. Said that I wasn't very good at acting, but I had really good timing. So.

582
01:19:14,190 --> 01:19:22,590
And something about that little interaction from my teacher in the hallway stuck in my head. And when I had to do a senior project two years later,

583
01:19:23,670 --> 01:19:31,050
I picked stand up comedy just based on what that teacher had said. So a lot of credit to Mr Rothwell. Rest in peace.

584
01:19:32,250 --> 01:19:38,070
And then I stuck with it. I did my first 20 minutes in May of my senior year and

585
01:19:40,260 --> 01:19:43,380
it was the first time I felt like me.

586
01:19:45,270 --> 01:19:48,300
100% and for somebody with a disability, we...

587
01:19:49,320 --> 01:20:02,490
Part of our culture is trying to be other people. And spending a lot of time in that effort. But I feel 100% like myself. So I said, I gotta, I gotta respect this and give it its due.

588
01:20:04,350 --> 01:20:06,540
And now I get to perform for you guys.

589
01:20:07,650 --> 01:20:09,240
With these two, which is an honor.

590
01:20:13,020 --> 01:20:15,810
Nina: It's always been an honor to work with you guys, as much as that sounded

591
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:16,770
like a sarcastic kind of thing.

592
01:20:17,940 --> 01:20:18,300
Um,

593
01:20:20,220 --> 01:20:27,900
But, you know, um, what I do miss is having Mike here because he'd stay at my place and then

594
01:20:28,230 --> 01:20:40,320
Dave and Mike I drive with them to shows in the Bay Area, and it was wonderful for them both to pick on me at the same time in the same way.

595
01:20:40,530 --> 01:20:48,570
So that is something I miss I miss *Jumbled audio*.  Michael: I miss the most comfortable couch in the world and the cleanest car I've ever seen.

596
01:20:51,660 --> 01:20:54,510
Nina: He's lying on both of those things.  Mean Dave: Oh, look at that.

597
01:20:54,750 --> 01:20:56,550
Michael: I'm only lying about one of those Nina.

598
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:58,260
Mean Dave:  Yeah, the couch is comfortable.

599
01:21:02,130 --> 01:21:03,630
Nina: So many comedians have

600
01:21:03,630 --> 01:21:04,350
been on my couch.

601
01:21:06,420 --> 01:21:21,780
Nina: I sound like a therapist to the comics. Um, so, okay, so the way that I started in comedy, which is actually all in this book. Stutter interrupted, the comedian who almost

602
01:21:23,010 --> 01:21:27,420
didn't happen, was that when I was a kid, I was like...

603
01:21:28,740 --> 01:21:49,140
I was like 12 years old. I decided I wanted to be a comic. I loved it. And much like Dave, and this is where me, Dave, and Mike, we all truly love stand up comedy. And there's a lot of comics who don't. And we don't respect them as much, so.

604
01:21:50,910 --> 01:22:01,920
I really appreciate the love that these two guys have, because it's like mine, and I, you know, it's the first letters that I wrote like the fan letters

605
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:11,940
were to stand up comics and they were the ones who I had pictures of in my room.

606
01:22:12,270 --> 01:22:18,690
And I wanted to become a comic. But because of my stutter, I didn't think that would ever be possible.

607
01:22:18,990 --> 01:22:33,300
So the dream died. It got picked back up after I went to a conference for people who stutter and I kind of saw how I was interrupting myself. As a person who stutters we're interrupted all the time.

608
01:22:33,510 --> 01:22:45,390
But what I found was that I was interrupting myself. And interrupting myself, both in conversations because I felt guilty about having the other person sit through my speech,

609
01:22:45,780 --> 01:22:55,560
and also in terms of my wants, my desires, my dreams. And so I came back from that conference, made some changes in my life,

610
01:22:55,920 --> 01:23:11,760
and within six months, I started doing stand up. And it's been 11 years this coming March. So, um, so that's how I started. And disability was a big part of what held me back, but then also what

611
01:23:12,450 --> 01:23:27,720
the acceptance and celebration of it was the thing that got me back in. And reframing is a really important thing, so, a little bit about that. Do you guys want to add anything? While I look at the...Yes, Dave.

612
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:35,880
Mean Dave: Before we go further, I wanted to also give a round of applause and credit to the improv performers that performed before us.

613
01:23:36,210 --> 01:23:50,940
Mainly the ones who stuck around to the end of the show, because normally stand-up comedians, there's always an adversarial line between stand up comedy and improv. So I just want to say that adversarial relationship still upholds for anybody who left early.

614
01:23:52,890 --> 01:23:54,840
But the ones that stuck around, you guys are cool.

615
01:23:54,900 --> 01:24:00,210
Michael: It's funny, I was late showing up to this because I was in an improv class.

616
01:24:02,130 --> 01:24:02,820
Nina: The irony.  Michael:  True story.

617
01:24:04,470 --> 01:24:04,800
Yeah.

618
01:24:07,260 --> 01:24:23,040
Nina: So Dave, maybe you can help me with a little bit in the chat. I know someone asked me how it feels to have a president who stutters and a governor who has dyslexia. I assume that was to me and not to Dave.

619
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:24,000
I don't know *cut off*

620
01:24:24,420 --> 01:24:27,330
Mean Dave: I just wanted to say goodbye to Suzanne though cuz she's, she's got to take off.  Nina:  Is she going?

621
01:24:28,290 --> 01:24:29,310
Mchael: Yeah, I think she said she had to take off.

622
01:24:30,690 --> 01:24:34,650
She's been loving the backgrounds the most, so yeah.

623
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:47,340
Yeah, I love having. I mean, I haven't even I, I'll be perfectly honest, I haven't noticed his stutter. It's been stuff more that's been in the news. And I'm hoping that,

624
01:24:47,910 --> 01:25:05,040
you know, I think the best thing about it was that one that kid that got in the news, who you, I mean I'm I didn't watch the kid speak but I heard about it, and his message was one of inclusion and

625
01:25:06,330 --> 01:25:09,090
letting stutters stutter. I mean, that's

626
01:25:09,150 --> 01:25:20,970
the bottom line. That's the message that's one of the things that I think it's everybody's still...and that goes across the board for, you know, any and all this. It's okay to have a disability. Having a disability is

627
01:25:22,050 --> 01:25:31,590
something to totally be embracive of and learn and yeah just, you know, treat with patience and kindness and all that so.

628
01:25:32,700 --> 01:25:44,280
Nina: Yeah, and you know, actually, Dave, that leads into something about being an ally. And you guys have both been my

629
01:25:45,060 --> 01:25:52,530
allies at times. And maybe you guys can talk a little bit about that. And Dave, I was thinking the other day, you probably know where I'm going

630
01:25:53,280 --> 01:26:10,500
with this, there was a comic who did a joke, a joke like like this is a joke I've heard ever since Hip Hop came out. And Dave, do you want to say about how you were in...how you were an ally in that moment.

631
01:26:12,090 --> 01:26:22,470
Mean Dave: I'm gonna be honest, I don't know what time you're talking about. Was that Monday or Tuesday? I don't know. What uh I don't remember things Nina. It's part of the drawback of being...you know,

632
01:26:23,610 --> 01:26:24,690
having a burnt out brain.

633
01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:35,700
Nina: Okay, there was a guy who said...see and this is exactly the kind of ally that you want to be. You just do it and you forget about it.

634
01:26:35,790 --> 01:26:37,170
It's not about you.

635
01:26:38,220 --> 01:26:39,330
Michael: Zero ego. I

636
01:26:39,330 --> 01:26:39,510
Mean

637
01:26:41,100 --> 01:26:42,630
Not the proud boys versions.  No, I'm sorry about that.

638
01:26:42,660 --> 01:26:45,510
Nina: Yeah, exactly. The zero.

639
01:26:47,430 --> 01:26:51,000
There was a comic, the other night

640
01:26:51,360 --> 01:27:05,940
who said, Oh, I got a son and he kind of stutters I just was like, Oh, son. And this was like after I went up. I didn't really even do stuttering jokes.  I stuttered a lot. So there was that because it's that

641
01:27:06,690 --> 01:27:18,510
time of the month, and that time of the month I stutter more. Um, and so he was like, oh yeah, I tell my son he could be a DJ

642
01:27:19,440 --> 01:27:32,370
DJ because he just *record scratch imitation* just like a scratch. And not a great joke, not an original joke, the guy said it...and he doesn't know me, like Dave and Mike can make

643
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:54,780
fun of me all day long. First of all, they're funny so if you make fun of me you better be funny. And you also better have some love in between us. And this guy, he doesn't know me. Um, and then, and then I said something and then Dave made fun of him during his set almost the entire time.

644
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:03,810
Mean Dave: When was that specifically? I'm trying to remember this, this moment of heroism, that I did. You can tell me later. You don't need to tell it in front of everybody who's left here, but.

645
01:28:04,020 --> 01:28:06,840
Now, I'm like, I'm curious what I did too, man.

646
01:28:08,130 --> 01:28:11,400
Nina: You were just like, this is how you make fun of a person.

647
01:28:11,580 --> 01:28:12,360
Mean Dave: Oh, that!

648
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:13,710
Nina: And so you were educating him.

649
01:28:13,890 --> 01:28:16,860
Mean Dave: Huh. No, I was. Oh, that guy. I didn't even hear his

650
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:19,260
his horrible joke about you, my bad.

651
01:28:19,350 --> 01:28:25,770
I was just making a... Nina: And also, you put up a background to get him off the stage as soon as he said it.

652
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:27,420
Mean Dave: That's right.

653
01:28:27,450 --> 01:28:28,950
Yeah, he was going on and on.

654
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:29,880
He was, yeah.

655
01:28:29,940 --> 01:28:46,320
Mean Dave: He was rambling. He wasn't a comic. He was a guy that was new who was trying. I mean, yeah, I don't know. It's one of the things. He's a guy who's doing a new zoom open mic. And so we got a lot of patience for that too. We probably have less patience for

656
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:55,500
that than we do for just an average person who's, who's doesn't realize when they're being inappropriate. But yeah, so.

657
01:28:56,040 --> 01:29:03,720
Nina: Okay. Other questions. Keep up the activism and standing up. Dave do you see other questions that I might have missed?  Or are there other questions from any of our panelists?

658
01:29:03,840 --> 01:29:04,140


659
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:06,060


660
01:29:06,090 --> 01:29:07,170


661
01:29:08,310 --> 01:29:17,280
Mean Dave: Compliments to the dog. Oh, Francis Wilbert or Wilbert Francis said what instrument. I played drums, bass and guitar and I used to be able to sing.

662
01:29:18,060 --> 01:29:30,630
I yelled more than I sang, but yelled in the proper, you know, kind of tone and whatever. And I could actually sing at one time. Now my voice is kind of shot. My voice has gotten real deep and

663
01:29:31,470 --> 01:29:39,210
I wouldn't, you know, I could probably I could do it again. But it's been years. Last time I played a live gig was in 2012 and, like music, but...

664
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:42,420
Nina: But, you like that throat thing right like

665
01:29:42,960 --> 01:29:43,560
Mean Dave: Oh, throat singing.  *Deep throat singing*

666
01:29:47,940 --> 01:29:57,420
Mean Dave: It's tuvan throat singing I can always do that, so. And the deeper my voice is the better it is, so. Questions for all three of us. Do you guys have a dream place to perform stand up?

667
01:30:00,300 --> 01:30:02,550
I'll answer that.  No

668
01:30:03,060 --> 01:30:07,230
I don't have a dream place. I've performed at some real places.

669
01:30:07,530 --> 01:30:12,510
I've been my, I'm a past comic at my favorite club which is San Francisco punch line.

670
01:30:12,870 --> 01:30:20,460
And I've, you know, and once I did that, I don't know. I should have more dreams and goals, but now I just like to pay my bills and

671
01:30:20,820 --> 01:30:26,160
I don't like the comedy store, I don't care about New York, and I just love performing at various gigs.

672
01:30:26,430 --> 01:30:35,730
My favorite gigs have always been hole in the wall gigs. One of my favorite gigs this past year was performing to five people in a town called Sonora, which is like this hole in the wall town

673
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:41,370
on the way to Yosemite. We did an outdoor show out there and two of the audience members were

674
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a...I want to say a freshman and a fifth grader. They were sisters and I basically got to crowd work with them and talk to them for about a half hour, and it just entertained everybody and had a great time. So it's those are those are the times that it's a dream, so.  Just one of those things.

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01:30:58,890 --> 01:30:59,700
Nina: What about you, Mike?

676
01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:08,340
You're on mute, Mike. You muted yourself because the dog barked. And now,

677
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Michael: Thank you. Nina, you know me too well. A stage would be my dream place to perform. But I think a more interesting question would be what is the wildest place you two have performed?

678
01:31:25,050 --> 01:31:26,070
Mean Dave: Oh, good question.

679
01:31:26,370 --> 01:31:26,730
Michael: Yeah.

680
01:31:28,050 --> 01:31:40,920
just like, unexpectedly. Mine was a sex dungeon, a sex club in Richmond, Virginia. They had an open mic one night a week. The rest of the calendar was a little more kinky but...

681
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And I didn't realize it until I got in there. I was walking in and it was really dark, and they had like ropes and like saddles on the wall and ignorant little Montana boy here thought it was like a Western bar.

682
01:31:58,500 --> 01:32:01,830
But yeah, it was a great open mic actually.

683
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:08,370
Mean Dave: You know what's weird?. Every time I get asked that I forget them.

684
01:32:08,730 --> 01:32:20,670
I mean, because we do perform in so many...Oh I know one. Here's one that's right off the bat, and it'll tie into my backgrounds. And actually it's a good tribute to a friend of ours who...we actually had a friend who

685
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passed away today from the comedy world. His name is Albert LEA and he was a comedian who was a pro from the 80s and

686
01:32:31,230 --> 01:32:43,410
and then we got to know him in the last few years. He was disabled as well. Um, he had some health issues. He was confined to a wheelchair. But he had a great spirit and a great

687
01:32:43,890 --> 01:32:51,630
attitude and he used to book a show in his convalescent home, I think it's called,

688
01:32:52,260 --> 01:33:06,570
In Richmond, where he lived at. So you as you can see there's elderly people, disabled people here, and we would perform to them and it was a very interesting gig, because he couldn't tell if you were doing well or not.

689
01:33:07,710 --> 01:33:14,310
And so the best way to tell us if you're making the staff laugh, and they didn't really have the best senses of humor.

690
01:33:15,420 --> 01:33:28,050
But these ladies right here, I mean, we...It was a great show, because it felt like, I mean, we weren't paid for it, except in snacks, and we basically got to go and try our material in a place that,

691
01:33:29,100 --> 01:33:36,390
you know, some people definitely could tell, who we could tell were enjoying the show. And then I kind of got banned from it, too.

692
01:33:37,980 --> 01:33:48,330
All because of a guy who misunderstood a joke, who we thought was in a wheelchair and then learned he could walk because he actually stood up out of his wheelchair and confronted me about a joke I was telling.

693
01:33:49,020 --> 01:34:03,180
And I wasn't about to keep going with the joke so I just apologized because I didn't want to ruin the show. So yeah, and it wasn't a bad joke, either. It was just a story and a detail he didn't like so. Yeah. Can't argue with that.

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Michael: Yeah, well I can attest, one of my disabilities was cured the first time I heard you talk, Dave.

695
01:34:09,150 --> 01:34:10,110
Mean Dave: Oh really, that's *laughing*.

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01:34:14,310 --> 01:34:15,780
Michael: So you can take that snake oil on the road.

697
01:34:17,310 --> 01:34:21,630
Before Nina. I want to hear your weirdest spot. I did notice a question that asked

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under non-covid circumstances if we travel, and would travel. And absolutely.

699
01:34:30,900 --> 01:34:35,550
That's one of the nicer parts of the job is getting to go to places you wouldn't have otherwise. So.  Absolutely.

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Nina: Yeah.

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01:34:37,260 --> 01:34:51,990
And we've been...in between Dave, I, and Mike, whether it's with one or with both, we've been up and down California, Oregon,

702
01:34:54,900 --> 01:35:03,420
Minnesota. So we have been all over the place and hope to get back to that at some point. So, yes.

703
01:35:03,420 --> 01:35:12,090
Mean Dave: Yeah, that'd be awesome. That was the thing that was the coolest a year ago, we got to go to Minneapolis in the middle of winter.

704
01:35:12,870 --> 01:35:31,170
And first thing, and I would do this all over again, but the first thing we do when we get there is Nina's hungry and decides that a place is only a mile away and we can walk there. And it was 1.2, 1.3 miles through

705
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:46,590
the snow that was coming down. And we got to cross the Mississippi River to get there in the wind as it was hitting our faces. And if I had a picture I could show you exactly just how much....

706
01:35:46,590 --> 01:35:48,690
Nina: You do have a picture, you do because...

707
01:35:49,650 --> 01:35:51,000
Mean Dave: I don't have it yet.

708
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:58,410
I don't have it set up to show you. Just know that I let her know that we should have just, you know, Lifted or Ubered there

709
01:35:58,530 --> 01:35:59,490
the entire way

710
01:36:01,050 --> 01:36:03,030
Nina: And he hasn't let me un-know that ever since.

711
01:36:07,230 --> 01:36:09,150
Michael: Rumor has it it was uphill both ways, too.

712
01:36:10,740 --> 01:36:17,040
Mean Dave: Oh, important question here Nina from Stephen Turner, how do we book you guys in the future? Just contact any of us really.  *All talking*

713
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:22,530
Michael: You contact Nina.

714
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:35,280
Mean Dave: You contact Nina. Nina: Contact me. Here, I will put my website up again. Now I want to say the weirdest thing that I ever performed in, and Dave was there that night and the video is online.

715
01:36:36,210 --> 01:36:52,560
Okay, so I get up on stage and the stage really isn't a stage. It's just a microphone and it's at this very small the dive bar near us and...

716
01:36:54,000 --> 01:37:02,610
And first of all, someone wobbles in and they come up to me and they asked me for change. And I'm like, I'm performing.

717
01:37:04,440 --> 01:37:11,970
It was hard to know if I was the comic or just someone else. So he went to a chair.

718
01:37:13,470 --> 01:37:15,990
And then as that happened a fight broke out.

719
01:37:17,490 --> 01:37:27,570
And then the cops were called. And then as soon as the cops got there, the guy ran to the back to flush drugs down the

720
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:30,480
toilet, I assume.

721
01:37:30,750 --> 01:37:30,990
Mean Dave: *Indistinguishable*

722
01:37:31,740 --> 01:37:32,520
The cops are going back and forth.

723
01:37:33,570 --> 01:37:46,830
Nina: And I keep on going. I'm just going and doing my dirtiest stuff like just dick jokes all around because that's what you have to do in a situation like that. The cop sits down and he

724
01:37:47,700 --> 01:37:52,740
listens to my act. He was like the older guy and the younger ones were

725
01:37:53,550 --> 01:38:11,400
taking care of it. And he asked me if I had any cop, jokes I didn't. Now have to write some in case that ever happens again. Then the guy gets arrested right in front of the so called stage, yells as he goes out, and I did another five

726
01:38:16,740 --> 01:38:18,660
minutes and it was one of my proudest

727
01:38:19,980 --> 01:38:28,350
moments. And the way that I look at it is as a person who stutters I've been interrupted all my life so I will just keep on going.

728
01:38:28,860 --> 01:38:29,370
Mean Dave: You handled it!

729
01:38:30,510 --> 01:38:37,110
She handled it like a champ. I was there the entire time. There's a video on YouTube, of the entire affair.

730
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:40,890
If you look it up on Nina's YouTube channel.

731
01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:46,380
It's, it's pretty incredible. And she handled it like a champ. So

732
01:38:48,090 --> 01:38:48,420
Michael:  Gotta watch that later. Yeah

733
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:53,250
Nina: That sounds creepy but okay.

734
01:38:58,380 --> 01:39:11,730
All right, other questions, anything from Silva? Anything from the improv group who can actually talk because you have a thing? Okay. Another question here. Oh, great.

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01:39:13,410 --> 01:39:13,950


736
01:39:14,130 --> 01:39:15,420
Thank you. Yes!

737
01:39:15,450 --> 01:39:25,110
Aubrey: Yeah, I just wanted to say, you guys, all three of you were amazing. And I'm so glad also that our improv students get to watch professionals do this work.

738
01:39:25,620 --> 01:39:39,990
And what do you have, do you have any advice for young students or other students at Moorpark college or folks who are interested in comedy and improv. What can they do? Where can they start? Any advice that you would give to students.

739
01:39:40,350 --> 01:39:50,430
Mean Dave: Anywhere. Just anywhere. Just keep doing what they're doing. I mean, you guys all...the thing is when I was watching you guys all really were in sync and performed very well together.

740
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:59,040
It's not a competition. You guys were all working together, but your boy Ethan there was cracking me up. He had a few lines in there that really

741
01:39:59,610 --> 01:40:09,030
had me laughing, So. But yeah, just keep at it and and try to set goals and try to improve on them. That's really set realistic goals

742
01:40:09,990 --> 01:40:19,830
that you can achieve, because that's the only thing that kept me going was really just realizing that I could...because my goals were very, very low. I kept things really...I never planned on

743
01:40:20,970 --> 01:40:27,510
being passed at a club like The Punch Line and definitely people who knew me would never have guessed that I would ever be one.

744
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:35,040
And then I just got, I just, you know, set goals, improve. And the fact is to I keep a circle of people that are

745
01:40:35,910 --> 01:40:39,840
realistic with me. Nina's one of them. Michael's definitely one of them.

746
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:47,670
But people that are like, because it's hard to-it's, you know, you're getting into comedy and it's like going back to junior high, as an adult.

747
01:40:48,030 --> 01:40:55,560
And and you can get very lost in sort of friendships that may not be friendship. So it's important to have friends that you're able to be honest with

748
01:40:55,590 --> 01:40:55,740


749
01:40:55,860 --> 01:40:57,750
Mean Dave: and get honest feedback from, so.

750
01:40:59,550 --> 01:41:05,040
Michael: All right and two quick pieces of advice if you're thinking about doing stand up comedy. Do it.

751
01:41:05,550 --> 01:41:09,030
Don't wait until you think you're ready because if you wait until you think you're ready, you're never gonna do it.

752
01:41:09,750 --> 01:41:16,980
I know we're all approached after every gig, be like, I've always thought about doing it! You've just got to do it. And then the second bit of advice,

753
01:41:17,400 --> 01:41:26,820
And one that's really helped me a lot because I'm incredibly awkward if I'm not in front of a lot of people like, one on one. Um, if you want to do stand up have an improv

754
01:41:27,510 --> 01:41:37,770
base. Take a class. Because you can be the best writer in the world, but if you don't know how to think quick, and when things don't go the way you want,

755
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:42,960
you're never going to get as far as if you do, so. Make friends with improv.

756
01:41:44,190 --> 01:41:45,810
Aubrey: Come take improv at Moorpark.

757
01:41:46,140 --> 01:41:57,540
Michael: Yeah, Moorpark. Absolutely. And there's no geographical limitations. You guys can do it online. Aubrey: Yeah, exactly. Awesome. Michael: And thank you for what you do. Nina G: Yeah. Thank you. Aubrey: Thank you all.

758
01:41:58,260 --> 01:42:17,070
Nina: I think the one advice that I would also give is as a woman, you are out numbered, and to think about some of the safety things if you do want to do stand up and that's why I have great people like this that I go...

759
01:42:17,430 --> 01:42:18,330
Mean Dave: Get a taser!

760
01:42:19,380 --> 01:42:20,040
Nina: What's that!?  Michael:  Get a taser!

761
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:27,330
Nina: A taser is always good. If the audience doesn't laugh, you can

762
01:42:28,920 --> 01:42:51,120
threaten them. Um, so, you know, all that stuff is really important and also to like you don't-everybody has a different path. I'm not on the comedy club path. I've created my own and I'm much happier doing college gigs than I am in a nightclub. Um, and so I'm totally fine with that.

763
01:42:51,660 --> 01:42:58,440
Mean Dave: Yeah, nightclubs are overrated. I've already learned that. So it's, I mean I once I did it. I'm like, all right, enough of this. This place sucks.

764
01:43:00,150 --> 01:43:07,080
Michael: One more bit of advice, because everybody wants to say the dirtiest thing they can think of and pass it off as funny.

765
01:43:07,590 --> 01:43:18,600
We're not going to censor anything you want to come and create, but if you're going to be this offensive, you got to be this funny. Don't bring it if you're going to be this offensive, and this funny.

766
01:43:19,530 --> 01:43:21,240
Mean Dave: Fucking A. Right, that's...

767
01:43:21,900 --> 01:43:23,670
Michael: That's one reason why there are too many assholes in standup comedy.

768
01:43:26,130 --> 01:43:26,610
Nina: Yes.

769
01:43:29,220 --> 01:43:33,990
Mean Dave: I'm going to jump out of here. A friend of mines waiting outside to go go grab some quick dinner, real quick.

770
01:43:33,990 --> 01:43:35,340
Silva: Thank you everybody

771
01:43:35,400 --> 01:43:36,570


772
01:43:36,900 --> 01:43:37,920
Mean Dave: Thank you very much.

773
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:42,810
Silva: The background's scrolling.

774
01:43:43,440 --> 01:43:43,710
Nina: Yeah.

775
01:43:44,730 --> 01:43:49,890
Yeah, it's my computer. It has exceeded all of its

776
01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:55,080
memory. So I'm not able to get any of that, so sorry.

777
01:43:56,490 --> 01:44:00,390
Silva: That's okay, everybody kind of brought their own element.

778
01:44:00,510 --> 01:44:00,900
Nina G: Yeah.

779
01:44:02,820 --> 01:44:09,450
Silva: As you are performing and then as you were doing the Q and A. I just want you to know I was getting a lot of feedback.

780
01:44:10,260 --> 01:44:17,160
Not just on the chat, but lots of text messages were coming through, and people were just so happy that the three of you made it tonight.

781
01:44:17,910 --> 01:44:29,820
People also really loved seeing the students perform. And I want to thank you because as Bonnie lawyer mentioned earlier, it was that really good balance of

782
01:44:30,540 --> 01:44:37,500
educational but with entertainment. And more than anything right now I think we needed to laugh a little bit

783
01:44:38,100 --> 01:44:48,750
and you provided that tonight. But you also provided, you know, a lot of students who are watching and wanting to go into comedy.

784
01:44:49,530 --> 01:45:04,770
Or students who are watching, or people who are watching and seeing that various disabilities could also be the reason you go into something and, you know, kind of your strength at times, that was really great to see as well.

785
01:45:08,250 --> 01:45:09,090
Um, yeah.

786
01:45:09,330 --> 01:45:14,010
Nina: Thank you. And I think that, you know, part of comedy which is so great,

787
01:45:14,340 --> 01:45:32,220
especially comedy now, is that you can filter your experiences in a way that is authentic to you and your voice comes out. And it takes a long time to develop your voice, especially as a

788
01:45:32,670 --> 01:45:35,880
young person. And also I think that

789
01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:48,960
like you, you should study as much as you can, whether it's comedy, whether it's the theater, whether it's politics, whether its history.

790
01:45:49,170 --> 01:46:01,050
Because all of that is the content that goes into your act. And today, like the ADA joke is the exact quote from the ADA. I just put

791
01:46:01,860 --> 01:46:19,380
asshole in it. And when somebody works in the ACCESS office they're like, Oh surprise! That is the actual thing, and she put asshole there. And so, you know, it's like the more that you learn, the more that you can integrate in, and I think the best comics are well

792
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:38,370
rounded and smart. And you get people like Eddie Murphy, who is able to merge all of that and is considered one of the best is to stand up comics ever. Short lived, but still great. So those are the kinds of things to be

793
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:40,320
considering.

794
01:46:41,730 --> 01:46:46,800
Silva: That's a really good point. I hadn't really thought of that. You need to have relevant material. Yeah.

795
01:46:50,280 --> 01:47:05,340
Well, thank you, everybody. I know you have another show to get to. So I'm going to respect the rest of your time. I know everyone enjoyed the show. So thank you all for attending too. Thank you to the audience. And you all have a wonderful night.

796
01:47:05,700 --> 01:47:06,270
And bye everybody.  Aubrey:  Thanks for organizing, Silva!

797
01:47:12,990 --> 01:47:13,890
Michael: Good luck out there.

798
01:47:14,670 --> 01:47:15,060
Aubrey:  Bye.

799
01:47:16,110 --> 01:47:18,390
Nina: Thank you, everyone. Bye.