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Ever wondered what it’s like to trade the hustle and bustle of city life for the serene yet challenging environment of the desert? Our guest, a 65-year-old desert dweller, gives us a candid look at aging with grace while living remotely. They share the ups and downs of losing vitality, the annoyance with the term "valley" for the Phoenix area, and the rugged beauty of their surroundings. You’ll also hear about their quirky morning routine that involves battling headaches and navigating the often confusing advice from WebMD, all while relying on caffeine to kickstart their day.

But it’s not all serious — we shift gears to explore the joy and creativity that comedy brings. From the thrill of making people laugh to the curious satisfaction of delivering a perfect punchline, we dive into what makes humor so universally appealing. We even take a whimsical detour with a news story about Chinese climbers stuck on a cliff, imagining the absurdity of mountain traffic reports. Join us for a heartfelt and hilarious conversation that finds the funny in the everyday and the extraordinary.

Chapters

• 0:24 Midlife Reflections and Humor
• 6:36 The Joy of Making People Laugh

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:24

I mean it is depressing. Look at me at 30. And now look at me at 65. It is depressing and that's why you turn into an irritable bastard, because you don't got it. No more. See, I admit it. What's worse than a guy that doesn't got it anymore, that thinks he still gots it? Look, I live in the middle of the desert, like way in the middle of nowhere, because I've always wanted to live in the desert in the middle of nowhere, like way in the middle of nowhere, because I've always wanted to live in the desert in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, I love it. I think it's beautiful, and I know it's not for everybody. There's a lot of brown out there and a lot of rocks, you know, but it's gorgeous because it's so wide, open and quiet, desolate, isolated. That's what I wanted. That's why I live out here. Phoenix is what? 45 minutes up the road, I guess up the I-10. Phoenix is what? 45 minutes up the road, I guess up the i-10 and uh.

Speaker 2: 1:30

So you watch their news media. It's their little promotional plug for their, their news channels here, three or four of them, and they call it the valley, you know, and some other people call it the valley too, because they get it for the news stations. And it's not a valley. You picture little heidi skipping gaily through the meadows with their little flowers in a green valley, and it's not that. It's not a valley. You picture little Heidi skipping gaily through the meadows with her little flowers in a green valley, and it's not that. It's a fucking desert, with rocks and sand and wind and no trees. It's a fucking desert, it's not a valley. Irritates me to no end when they try to cover it up and make it prettier for tourism by calling it a valley. Yeah, there's mountains around it, you know. Calling it a valley yeah, there's mountains around it, you know. But we're in a flat desert. It's not a valley, it's a desert. Call it the desert. I love it when you see the, you know the airplane, the drones before the big game, you know, here in Phoenix to say and welcome to the desert, because that's where we are. We're playing sports in the desert. Desert's cool, valley's not. You see the nba sun. Sometimes they have these jerseys on, you know. And the valley, and they even promote it that way.

Speaker 2: 2:33

The desert got this and this doesn't help, but I've got this throbbing head when I wake up every morning. I wake up and my head is just beating like a drum. And after three or four days of that, and the last three or four days, I've looked it up. And what do you do when you have a medical ailment and you want to find out more about it? Why is WebMD the authority on it, when it's not? There are no authorities on the internet because everybody does it, so who's the one that stands out? Well, espn is an authority that is like the only sports website that you can go to that you can trust. That's got everything. Only one. All the rest of them don't even pale in comparison. That's the one authority is ESPN, but there are no real authorities out there. But the WebMD and I opened up and I say why is my head throbbing every single morning? And this is what I get.

Speaker 2: 3:33

Now, if I'm not mistaken, I think they just told me my head throbs every morning because that's a symptom of a headache. Did I just read that? Did I just read that? You know you scroll down a little bit three, four. You know read four or five paragraphs trying to find something that relates. And you know you get a little nugget every now and then, and I got one here. It's like it could possibly be from withdrawal from caffeine, which I had no idea there was withdrawal from caffeine, but apparently there is. You know it's like a drug and I've always said it's a drug. Now that I know because you can go from waking up first thing in the morning and walking downstairs, get getting ready to shoot yourself and end it all to within three minutes and 19 seconds after your first cup of coffee to to. I love ideological subversion and central control, population of the implementation of the arcades of current currency and In three minutes and 19 seconds, the transformations incredible.

Speaker 1: 4:45

All right, everybody, this will be fun. I used to live here in Los Angeles on Sierra Bonita, and I had an apartment and I had a neighbor and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry, because I like loud music. So when he knocked on the wall I'd mess with his head. I'd say go around, I cannot open the wall. I don't know if you have a doorknob on the other side, but over here there's nothing, it's just flat. I like an escalator man, because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. All right, all right, there would never be an escalator temporarily out of order. Sign Only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience, just I'm going to take it out tonight.

Speaker 2: 6:07

Boy, I love comedians all of them. Some are better than others and some aren't so good, but I don't care. I love every one of them. Isn't that how it generally is? It's the fact that you always admire and respect people that have the qualities that you don't have, people that can do things that you can't do and I couldn't do stand-up comedy no way. I'd be incredibly afraid of bombing. I mean, that's got to be awful, but yet the reward in return is the fact that you get to make people laugh.

Speaker 2: 6:36

As a comedian, you know what is a better feeling in life than making someone laugh? I don't know if there's anything better and I mean even better than that laugh. I don't know if there's anything better and I mean even better than that. I'm serious, making someone laugh is probably the greatest feeling in the world, makes you feel smart. Some comedians are great and they make you laugh and others don't. But I always say this if you're a comedian and you get one great kefa per night, you know per show you've done your job because you've made somebody laugh. That's a monumental achievement, in my opinion. So you know, comedians fall into the category, just like pizza and sex. Even when it's not that good, it's still pretty good.

Speaker 2: 7:25

Look at this. It needs no explanation. What the fuck on cnn? Chinese climbers stuck on a cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding for more than an hour due to overcrowding? I mean that, in terms of a joke or a punchline, would be beneath Mitch Hedberg. It's not clever enough. It's too obvious. It's already a punchline.

Speaker 2: 8:01

Rock climbers stuck in traffic for over an hour on a rope. And these people are Chinese. Look at them. They're not Dutch, they're Chinese. It's a rock climbing traffic jam. Stuck on a rock for more than an hour.

Speaker 2: 8:27

We're going to need traffic reports now, before you arrive at your rock. You know, in some, you know low frequency AM radio station, like they have at the airports. You know, for traffic information, parking information, am 850, find out. You know what the traffic is like on Mount Yandang. That's the name of it. Mount Yandang Well, that's the name of it, yandang Mountain. They're going to need policemen with a little blue light on their helmet flashing. Keep it up, keep it up. Pointing with a whistle, Holding on to a rope with their spikes in their shoes, rocks hitting him in the face, road rage. I don't even want to think about that. One little nudge for the asshole that cut you off. You can send him 2,500 feet to his death. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha ha. With no one, you don't think it's still okay For you to do nothing? I, I see everyone.