Felipe Torres Medina on Comedy, Immigration & Writing for Stephen Colbert (Hour 2)

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He's an author and he was a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

We'll be talking about his experience there as well as his book, America, Let Me In, Choose Your Immigration Story.

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And yeah, so let's kick it off, Pete.

What about you?

What is a natural disaster that scares you?

Well, I think, you know,

You got your basics, right?

Your floods, your landslides, your avalanches, tsunami, hurricane tornado.

I forgot about wildfire.

That scares

the

living

day.

If I was in a

wildfire, Greg makes light of my fears, but that would freak me out.

But I think winter, I think a bad blizzard, the idea

of

freezing to death, and I knew somebody who, I don't know if you guys remember this storm like in 2010 or 2009, where people in Chicago

I was reading about this because I still lived in sunny California.

I was reading about this horrible storm.

People left their cars on Lakeshore Drive.

One guy who was a family friend walked out of a bar because he wanted to see this phenomenon and drowned in snow.

What?

Yes.

You get disoriented.

It's like flying through dark.

And I think either a blizzard at the extremes, a horrible blizzard or a terrible wildfire, both awful ways to go.

I saw a few years ago in Atlanta, they had something similar where there was snowfall and in a lot of those Southern cities, they don't have the, the ability to plow.

They don't have the equipment

because they

don't generally need it.

People just left their cars on the freeway

and they were

like, we'll come back tomorrow.

It's fine.

I'm like, okay, cool.

Can you guys just invest like maybe something for like one plow for the freeways?

But yeah, I mean, that's absolutely craziness.

And what's interesting, you say that drowning in snow reminds me of a statistic that our old friend, Brittany Merleau gave me when we were talking about snowfall, which was one foot of snow equals one inch of rain.

So when you think of something like, when you think of something like four or five feet of snow, that's a lot happening right there.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, it's.

Yeah, winter winter freaks me out just because sometimes it's just too cool.

We shouldn't be out there, but Don

what about you?

Well, I first off I was a part of that blizzard in 2009 and yes, it was very very it was bad It was very bad from what I remember, but I would say I was gonna say wildfire, but I think I have to also go tsunami too tsunamis really freak me out because there's so much like

Nowadays, there's so much coverage of them, so I see them, you see them all the time.

They're just so scary.

I've never had to deal with one, but I would be really freaked out if I ever had to.

It's,

yeah.

I feel the same way about tsunamis, because I feel like it's the second thing that comes.

You see things like earthquakes or hurricanes, and then it

goes out to

the ocean and something happens, and a tsunami's coming.

one natural disaster that follows another one.

So yeah, Tsunami is terrifying me.

So

I did laugh when Dom said I was part of a blizzard, which I was going to say you were a snowflake or what?

You worked a Dairy Queen?

Oh, yeah, I just take the thing and just turn it upside down.

Greg, what about you?

I just said it.

Oh, that was your okay.

Yeah.

I'm making a comment of the residual.

Oh, no, I agree.

And Tsunami is terrible too, because

I think I was in my 30s before I really knew what that was and it was

one of

the news over in the Far East one happened and people didn't know what was going on

Yeah,

a friend a guy knew here is like well didn't they know that the waters I don't know if you never had experienced one you wouldn't know what was happening,

you know Also, you should never approach a natural disaster where people are hurt displaced and or killed with that kind of attitude like

what are they awful?

What are they supposed to do?

Like, get it a plane and all leave the entire country?

My goodness, people.

Speaking of the people, what are the people saying on the text line regarding our question of the night?

We got quite a few.

We got Brett from Brown Deer saying, I've been in a few of these storms like a tornado in a hurricane, but the one that would freak me out the most is a volcanic eruption.

Okay.

Oh, that was on there too.

Yeah.

That's when I feel like I could escape.

I feel like I could escape that one.

Because of molten lava's slow pace.

I feel like I could outrun Lava.

But for how long?

Lava just keeps

coming though.

If you get to the high ground though, if you

just

get to a roof of a building, take me to the closest Jimmy John's, just get to the top of the roof and you're going, Lava can't touch me.

Like a slow

tsunami.

Typically one story though, I would aim higher.

Never know.

Literally.

All right, Brett also said put money in my pocket I'm going to the Dells and my wife is a hundred dollars richer easiest hundred dollars I have ever made and I didn't have to and I didn't have to get naked to make it Okay, Brett.

There we go.

Thank you,

Brett You don't ever have to get naked

Sometimes

you just want to yeah,

so worse natural disaster.

All right, we got Tyler me naked

We're in a bathing suit in the shower

All right, we got Tyler listening on WMDX says earthquakes.

I like the rave environment of a good storm But at least I know it's coming days out.

Very true.

Yeah.

Yeah, we also have Karen from Racine says wildfires are very scary We got oh, let's see we got John from Madison Texan says for Pete and Greg One of which would be rough in the heating climate polar slide sloshing the big ponds

I don't even know what that means.

I don't understand that either.

One

is which?

I don't know what that means, John.

I need clarification.

John Murray, above him, too, for Madison says, tsunami or flood.

And then, yes.

John also is saying, but the big killer, Diller, is an asteroid hit.

It's not the only one to say that, by the way.

Where else?

Did you get?

You'll see.

Was there thievery at play here?

No, no, no, it's just a common thing, like being hit by an asteroid.

Yeah,

it's a common

thing.

Yeah, a common fear.

Does this feel like you're the only one that hasn't been hit by an asteroid this week?

Have you recently

been hit by an asteroid?

Well, call Deloitte, Deloitte, and Ribbons.

We're here for your asteroid needs.

Sorry, I apologize.

I apologize.

I was trying to be funny there.

Fail.

We still got a few more John Murray texts.

He says, here comes the decade of the coldest winter ever, Peter.

You are right.

Winter is the scariest of them all.

It's awful.

Because your first year as

Peter, I'm always like, who's he talking to?

John is one of the few people that calls me Peter, and I'm OK with it.

He also says the winter kills almost everything.

We need to start taking John Murray's text and just slamming him into one big text.

Like an asteroid.

Yes.

We'll do it.

We'll do it right now.

The winter kills almost everything.

400,000 people plus Schwabba and cockroaches and bedbugs survive.

And then he says, the burlive snowman from Rudolph will not be cruising around and making us smile.

Dude, John's on fire tonight.

Wow,

okay.

He's on wildfire

tonight.

I request that song as a bumper.

Pete, what do we have on the Facebook page?

We'll get to more texts in a little while, but let's get to the Facebook.

We've got Scott Tom, one of my favorite Madisonians says earthquake in shaky town.

We got a big old convoy.

Ain't she a beautiful sight?

No idea what that means, but thank you, Scott.

It's all

right.

People are just speaking their own language tonight.

This is stream of conscious text night tonight.

Mike Desatel says my sister passing gas.

Wow.

Oh boy.

That's some serious wind in that house.

All right.

Thank you, Mike.

And then Ian McArthur put a laughing thing.

Like, don't laugh at the fart jokes, Ian.

Come on.

Mike's better than that.

Fart jokes are

funny.

Vince says aging.

Oh, that's a, I'm with you there.

Robert Bro says global warming.

I don't know if that's a natural disaster, but yeah, it could be.

Sure.

Sean says populism.

Oh

boy.

Okay, now

we're

really

philosophical.

Yeah.

And then Amanda says, a sinkhole can happen anywhere at any time for any reason.

No one knows.

I'm scared

now.

That's true.

That scared me.

Ian says, solar flare layman.

Rob says with work ice storms.

Yeah.

Yep.

He does a lot of work outside.

Oh, okay.

That makes it.

And then Andrew Brown says, Trump's 250 concert,

the big two five.

Oh, concert.

More like a rally.

Am I right?

He's just going to

talk.

Yeah.

He's going to talk.

He's going to, he's going to recite his poetry.

So.

Prepare to be dazzled Sidney politics on the live stream says I used to think the movie twister was about a sentiment a sentient tornado that was attacking people and That set the stage for my fear for tornadoes.

Happy new year.

I Saw it.

I saw a twister in the theater when it first came out the original and I will say this it was so well done with the sound I thought a tornado was gonna rip the roof off of the actual theater.

It was so

impressive yet scary which has happened

Actually, during a tornado, a theater got its roof ripped off.

I can't remember when that was, but yeah, that's pretty scary stuff.

Very, very scary stuff.

You know what isn't scary though, guys?

What?

Our next guest coming up in just a little bit.

See what he did there?

It's called Segway.

That was an amazing SIGU.

Wow.

Well done.

And he's going to talk about, you know who he's going to talk about or who used to work for Greg?

Steve Colbert.

Steve Colbert?

Oh, I love Steve

Colbert.

All right.

Well, yeah.

No relation

to Steve Wander.

Steve, Stevie wonders, real name, Steve Lent, by the way.

All right.

Coming up after the break, we're going to be talking to Felipe Torres Medina.

He's an award winning humorist, author and former writer for the late show with Colbert talking about his book, his time on the show and what's going on in his world.

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Felipe Torres Medina is here.

Good evening, Felipe.

How are you tonight?

Hi, guys.

I'm great.

I'm happy to be here.

Excellent, excellent.

I talked to you, I believe last year when your book was coming out, it was great to talk to you about that.

And when everything went down with, I don't know if you heard about what happened, I'm sure you did, with the late show, Stephen Colbert, of course.

But I wanted to have you on the show to

talk about- What

happened?

Wait,

what

happened?

I mean, they just told you with vacation, didn't they?

OK, sorry, buddy.

OK.

Why isn't my key work?

But I wanted to have you on to talk about this because it's still very fresh, but it's kind of like an unknown situation for a lot of people with regard to what exactly happened.

But I mean, you were a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

How long did you work there?

I worked at the Late Show since October 2019.

So about six longish years, like six years and a little bit.

Yeah.

And that, that time you were a writer and I mean, I, I mean.

I actually saw you on the show.

He had you out as a guest to talk about your book.

It was great.

And it was like, after we had you on the show, I'm always like, I'm like, Felipe, see you do stuff on TV and whatnot.

And it's that weird thing of like, they're on your show once and you feel like I'm in their fan club now.

But, you know, can you, I mean, I know it's, I know it's fresh and I'm sure it doesn't, this whole situation is terrible, but can you kind of give us a brief overview of just the.

Your experience with what happened with regard to the cancellation finding out to where you are maybe today and you know how you are dealing with it if you will

Well, I mean the the reason we were canceled and you know you can Choose to Read into a narrative or not like I mean the official reason the show was canceled is that apparently it was no longer making money for CBS and

And that is the line, you know a purely financial decision is what they have said and repeatedly claim was the reason for the cancellation and I don't like I I will stick to the line the line that was the official line But you know people are entitled to their opinions and to have their thoughts based on the actions of the network and the

New owners of the network, but I do think like at no point was it communicated to me that it was for any other reason and at no point was it You know, I was just an employee at the show.

I

yeah,

like I was not part of privy to any of these conversations in terms of like how it has been I mean it was You know, the show is great.

The show was an incredible show the show employed 200 plus people in the city and the state of New York and Jersey, you know the

New York metropolitan area and we had The best in the business I will say like truly the best in the business and every Like at every part of the operation, you know So it's it was incredible to be able to work with people who were truly the best and everyone from props to interns to

graphics and editors and you know and then there were the writers but you know that we were just a little part of a beautiful beautiful machine that was making incredible stuff every day which to me is the the most cool and beautiful thing that we were doing is that it was every dang day we were putting on a little miracle that was the show that was like perfectly polished and

yeah

And sometimes I'm imperfectly polished, which kind of gave it a little bit of comedic sheen.

So yeah, it was great.

And obviously Stephen, who is like, like the best person.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Felipe, it's so great to have you here.

I have questions about the actual gig itself.

I always found that to be like probably in show business, one of the most intimidating jobs.

You have to come up with stuff every day, monologue, sketches, like it's a breakneck pace.

So, but I'll get this question out of the way to stick with what Greg's point was about the cancellation.

What did that do to the writer's room, the mood?

When you guys knew you show up to this job you love, what was the mood like after you found out?

And was it hard to be funny?

I don't know.

I mean, surely there were moments where like we were sad or personally I was sad and obviously it was a shock because the show, it was number one in ratings.

Like in its category, you know, we were beating Kimmel, we were beating Fallon.

um we were uh so like shock obviously was the first emotion i do think when you're doing a show every day and you're at that level of professionalism you kind of don't have time to feel too much uh and so we were like

As you said, it's a breakneck pace.

We were doing so, so much, and so much was happening in the world.

And the mandate of the show, as Steven always said, was to talk about what people were talking about.

And so it was fast, but it was, we didn't have time really to commiserate too much.

We just wanted to have fun.

And I think maybe that was the point, to have as much fun as we could with the time that we had.

And I think we did that.

I mean, just as a, as a viewer, it seemed like it was a blast from all the things and we'll talk more.

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I can talk.

I swear to God, everyone out there, I know how to speak.

It's just, it's been a day.

You're doing great, man.

Thank you.

Thank

you.

That definitely feels, that feels so

supportive right now.

There was so much energy in that you're doing great.

But right now we are talking to Felipe Torres Medina.

He's an award-winning humorist.

And that's how you know someone is not just funny, but smart when they have the word humorist.

next to their name.

He is an author of the book, America Let Me In, A Choose Your Own Immigration Story, which we're going to talk about in just a few moments here.

And he was also a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

And one last thing I wanted to ask with regard to this show, I really think folks should go out there to YouTube and watch The Best of the Worst, because something you said earlier, Felipe, is you get a very good sense of that, from that episode,

the entire family of the show, the work that everyone puts into it.

And I thought that that episode was really great because, you know, he was paying tribute to all of you.

Well, totally making fun of everybody, but it was great to see just who is part of that family.

But the question I have for you as a writer, when it's time to write the final episode or come up with the idea or like start to craft that, what does that look like?

Is it just a whiteboard and just a thousand ideas?

Or was it well thought about in

Stevens head and he said this is what we're doing.

I Think

a little

bit of both I think once we knew that we were getting Canceled and we knew that we were gonna have to do a final show There was a little bit of like blue sky conversation like what would you like to see?

You know, there was a lot of pitches that we I mean each one of us There were 14 about 12 to 14 writers and then there's like

Producer writers writer producers and stuff like that.

I think it's one of us like had several stabs of like the idea of like what do you want to what do you want to see before the show ends and A lot of that stuff ended on the show a lot of stuff stuff didn't end on the show some stuff ended on the final episode some stuff ended on other episodes You know as we got closer to the end and of course Stephen had an idea At some point Stephen like had an idea of what that

Finale should be and what it should look like so it was a little bit of both and you know that was like I think what made it so fun is that we were all like It was complicated because it was like we were thinking about the end in the downtime kind of that we had but you know We still had to do a show every day.

Yeah,

you know and we still had to like do today's show So that was a huge commitment on both parts from like Stephen and the writers and and everyone else on the show really of like

Okay, we're trying to do this thing, but also we gotta get we gotta have jokes for today You know and we have a second act that's comedy for like next week and we have to fill that somehow so It was it was really cool, but yeah, it was a little bit about that guess what I'm trying to say

Felipe late night TV that's just it's it's part of America it we all grew up watching Carson Letterman and now Stephen Colbert

Talk about if you would your background what led you to a job like I said the pace I was always I'm a writer myself, but I was always intimidated I don't know how you guys do that coming up with stuff every day the monologue jokes and all of that What was your background and what got you to the late show with Stephen Colbert?

so I Did not grow up with Carson because I was born in Columbia in South America and so I

We sometimes got Letterman, you know, and it

was

kind of like the show that we, like the late show.

It was kind of interesting that the one I grew up watching was the late show and it's the one I ended up writing for.

So we would get the late show with David Letterman and it was kind of like when I was sick and I couldn't sleep, you know, I would like turn on my TV with the volume really low and TV in my room and watch that.

And then I like did like,

Eventually we watched SNL.

We got SNL in Colombia, but it wasn't live and it wasn't on Saturdays, so it was more like Tuesday night three months later Rather than Saturday night live Not

live

Yeah, exactly and it was on Tuesday.

So it was funny and so I I think that was like my first exposure to like update

You know was my first exposure to like topical jokes like that now there there were some like satirical shows in columbia that were very good that um eventually stopped and so i think that that was also part of like my background uh but then once i moved to the states my background i mostly i trained at the upright citizens gate which is like oh yeah one of the biggest improv and sketch theaters in new york which is founded by uh second city people basically and so uh that was my background you know i would

you know, once I moved to the States, I consumed all the shows and growing up as a teenager in Columbia, I would watch the Colbert Report and the Daily Show on cable.

So I think it's, you know, the traditional late night, we kind of got Letterman a little bit, then I watched Update, then I graduated into the Report and the Daily and then I moved here and then it was like, well, I watch all of it, you know?

And yeah, so that's my background.

That must have been something when you walked into the writer's room for the first time on the late show, given what you just said.

That's so great.

That's very

kind

of.

Yeah, it was really, really exciting.

Well, and speaking so.

that leads me to my next question here or just my next point is the fact that you know you are from Colombia you immigrated to America and the reason why you came on to our show last year was to talk about your book America let me in a choose your own immigration story which I've now listened to twice it is a phenomenal book it is so funny but it's also so meticulous in the journey not just the immigration journey but the immigration journey

for this person and the immigration journey for that person having to do with your status.

Can you talk more about, you know, what led you to, I mean, to talk about your own immigration story is wonderful, but to do what you did, which was to really do some hardcore research into it, what led you to say, I want to write this book instead of the typical memoir.

I have always thought that my life is not that interesting.

So I was like, I don't want to just write a memoir because that's not that interesting.

You know, like Malala should write a memoir and she did.

But you know, like that's the people who, whose memoirs I would read and I would be interested in.

And I was like, I'm like, you know, like, you know, I have overcome some kind of difficulty, but you know, I'm not going to compare myself to anyone who like,

who actually has had to overcome things in life and has a story that is good and should everyone should know about.

And so what I was interested in was the fact that like I had to, I think the most interesting thing about my life, especially as an immigrant in the States, was that I had to explain my very well-meaning, mostly liberal friends in New York, like Bernie voters, kind of like in 2016.

that the entire premise of their immigration system, you know, when Trump was going out there and being like, they're not sending their best, people were like, well, they should just do this.

And I was like, well, they can't, you know, you know, there's no right way to come to America.

And also Bernie at the time in 2016 was talking about getting rid of the H1B program, but not suggesting the H1B visa, which is the normal work visa, but not suggesting an alternative, you know, while he was campaigning.

I was like, what are we doing?

You know like what is the trump is saying this and in one end of the political spectrum bernie is saying this on the other end of the political spectrum And everyone has an opinion on immigration, but no one knows what they're talking about You know and so to me that was like a dominant thought Basically since I moved to the states And so when it came to writing the book I was like well, how can I write a story that?

actually makes me laugh, but actually tells

people informs people of their own immigration system.

And so I found this kind of like multiple paths kind of form where I could create multiple characters living different kinds of visas and different kinds of immigration journeys.

And that is how that's how we did it.

That's how I ended up going into this.

It really is great folks.

You should I honestly say get the audio book.

The audio book is fantastic.

All I'll say is

the lawyer.

That's all I'll say.

You'll know when you

listen.

Our guest is Felipe Torres Medina.

He is the author of America Let Me In, a Choose Your Immigration Story, and he is a former writer for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Let's talk about the writing process, if you don't mind, Felipe.

We were talking about this breakneck pace of jokes and monologue jokes and sketches, and then you write a book.

which is a lot more, I would assume, tedious or maybe something you just weren't used to writing.

What was more fulfilling and what was more fun in terms of writing for you?

I think they were both incredibly fulfilling.

I think the biggest thing that late night writing does for a writer is just speed and the ability to just write and throw jokes away and kill your darlings and be like,

this

joke was good, but it's not good enough.

or it's not for today, goodbye.

And I used a lot of that muscle and those skills when writing the book because in the end, the book was following the same format as a show like ours did, which was you get a data point and then you find a way to enjokeify, to say something funny out of that.

Now, I added a layer of comedy and stories to frame all these data points.

you know, but a lot of the book, there's certain parts of the book that are just like explainers on different kinds of visas when I'm not telling a story.

And those were just like, that's the same mechanism I did to write monologue jokes for the show.

You know, here's a data point, then a joke.

Here's the data point, then a joke.

And so in that sense, it was very similar.

The thing that was

Crazy is how much slower the pace of publishing is and so I Remember being like, okay.

Well, I guess I wrote this joke and now I have to wait for my editor to read it and You know, it'll be three four weeks and that's fine like I wasn't expecting them to read it faster They had other projects to work on but it was like but why isn't

Why isn't one of the funniest people live Stephen Colbert telling me that this joke works 40 minutes after I wrote it?

This makes no sense.

That's

great.

That's amazing.

Yeah, the break next versus the page, it's got to be a very weird place to go.

And we don't have enough time anyways, but I'm not going to ask the question.

So what's next?

Because I'm sure you're just getting yourself in a place of making those next moves.

But I'll tell you what.

When you're doing something next, when something comes up, you got something, a new gig, whether it's a book, a show, whatever, please come back and talk to us about this because it's always great to talk to you.

And I really look forward to seeing what you do in the future, Felipe.

I would love to come back and thanks so much for those nice words.

Of course, of course.

Felipe Torres Medina is...

a writer, author of America Let Me In, a Choose Your Immigration Story.

He has been our guest this evening.

We're going to take a really quick break when we come back.

We're going to go into the nightcap, wrap things up about our thoughts, as well as your text messages on our question.

What is the natural disaster that scares you the most?

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We are officially in the nightcap where we, I don't know why I said it louder and louder right there.

Let's go.

It's

the

nightcap.

So welcome back to the nightcap where we read your text messages and we talk about...

what we've learned.

There you go.

I feel

like I should

be holding a cocktail.

I

really feel like

we should actually get smoking jackets for this segment

and bring

the light.

Oh yeah.

Bring my jammies.

You said the most childish thing like

this.

I'll bring

my

jammies.

You have

to tinkle.

I'm wearing my onesie with the poop chute.

All right, folks, we're gonna get to some more of your text messages and thoughts on our social media as well as the text line.

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But let's get to more thoughts on the question of the night.

What natural disaster scares you the most?

Dom, who do we have left on the text line?

Our good buddy Chris Casper said,

Y'all classified puddles as lakes, just saying.

I'm guessing he's referring to Fibs.

Chris, you classify the Vikings as a football team, I said

what I said.

It

is on a

duel.

He probably

would agree

with you.

And then he went on to say large extinction level event asteroid.

That doesn't frighten me because I'll be dead most likely.

And

if we can see it, it's still light years old, you know, with all the technology we have.

It still scares me.

Don't get me

wrong.

I said this to Bridget a couple of years ago.

I said, how amazing would it be to be on this earth when something like that happens?

Like this earth is many billions of years old, but you are on earth when it finally happens.

That feels like a, I don't know.

If you're gonna go,

go out big.

Alright, cool.

We got Nick from Marshall saying, of course wildfires and horrible blizzards, but I think active volcanoes would be the worst or tsunamis.

We got John from Madison saying, to clarify from his previous text in the first hour, since I was texting while driving, when the polar caps slide out of position.

What else we got here we got Brett from Brown Deer saying you can't outrun a

pyroclastic flow from a volcano.

That hot ash is coming at at you over 100 miles an hour and will cause your lungs to explode from the 1500 degree heat.

Okay.

You know what, Brett?

Take that, Greg.

Hey, Brett, how does it feel to be a know it all professor?

Good Lord, just trying to live my life.

This

next

one's the

worst one.

Oh, yeah, this is terrifying.

Andrea texting in from WMDX says drowning under the ice on a lake.

Oh.

Did you know?

You

have the

time.

You're looking up at the ice going, oh no.

But if you can find a hole in the ice, there are ways of getting out.

Tom Cruise and Mission

Impossible.

Okay, all right, all right.

I cannot run a volcano.

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise.

We got Mary from Tosa testing and saying, natural disaster freaks me out while driving along.

along in dropping into a gigantic sinkhole, natural or manmade from messing with the environment.

Yes.

There you go, there you go.

And we got Whistler from Rich and Center saying, worse feeling sometimes spirits from the large cemetery east of me.

Shiver me timbers, I don't know.

Alright, he's a pirate.

He's a pirate.

We got Melissa from Willy Street Texan Inc says here's my ridiculous natural disaster is a my ridiculous natural disaster is a zombie apocalypse Thankfully, someone gift me the handbook to survive it.

Oh, I feel like

that's not a natural disaster It's more like a scientific disaster, but I feel like the amount of John Murray Melissa from Willy Street Tex have come in over this topic They talk about this a lot.

Then look what he said.

He said it's a topic over

dinner

My darling wife Melissa on Willy Street almost got hit by lightning hit the door behind her as she entered John was in the doorway and Yeah, and it was a really bright flash fried the oven microwave washer dryer.

Oh, man.

My dad got hit by lightning once it was weird Whoa, yeah, that would be a bad one too.

These are just bad ways to die.

Oh, yeah Now we're

not natural disasters.

They were

just how you

might die

Still got quite a few here.

We got a couple more.

Yeah, let's keep going.

Melissa from Willy Street says nuclear winter.

Trump would call his nuclear launch a natural disaster.

So the math works.

And boy, I'm going dark.

Yeah, you guys really are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We got Dave from Madison Texan says another poorly managed pandemic.

Okay.

Yes, that terrifies me.

And then Mark from the sack says magnetic pole flip.

I don't know what that means, but in Wizard's side of follow-up, follow-up isn't death part of natural occurrences.

It's true.

Ooh,

that really is.

I've

got one more on

Facebook here too.

Jim Selovich says meteor destroying earth.

A lot of people scared of meteors.

And I could

see them.

Seen

a lot of movies, yeah.

That'd be tough.

Really quick before we get out of here.

Pete, what'd you learn?

I want to be a humorist.

I want to be an esteemed author.

No, I learned that, yeah, Felipe's a great guy and what a genuinely decent

Seemingly decent human being grateful and uber talented too.

It was fun.

It is fantastic

I seriously folks pick up his book and I really suggest audio version because it's great to listen to America let me in a choose your immigration story Don, what did you learn tonight?

Stephen Colbert is also a great guy as said from Yeah, so very awesome.

Yeah, and

I learned too that Nick on the stream wants Dom to know who Sergeant Hulk is Just watch

stripes, okay

I learned that this show is awesome.

We roll with the punches.

We have a great time and it's really fun.

And the people listening and, and responding is what makes me smile.

I didn't, I already knew it so much, but I needed it today.

So I'll just say that.

That's what I learned in this moment today.

All right, folks, we got to get out of here.

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So we'll be back tomorrow talking to Logan Roge and it's the night club.

Nightlight movie club, Casino Royale.

Let's get out of here.

Pete, say

good night to the people.

Good night, this

guy.

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