This is the FCB Podcast network. A brand is a soda day that we won't said, and we won't say all we got it? Does no one get Dictatto? And day It's gonna be Okaya Day that we won't said and we won't say all we got it? Does no one get Tatto? And don don't said it's don't be okay? Hey, everybody, I have to apologize for the sound on this particular interview. I think I'm having issues with the program I'm using. I'm trying to figure it out. I'm one woman's show here. So I asked RVO this week to release this interview with comedian Loo Perez as sort of a bonus episode. So you'll get your regular episode, you'll get another jail Ty plus, and you'll get this interview as well this week, just to say sorry and thank you for listening, so in case you want to listen to it anyway. And you can also see the video interview of this on my substack Jess Karrie Davis dot substat dot com, but that is for paid subscribers only. If you're a paid subscriber, you can watch the whole video interview. The sound is much better on the interview. Something with the way this program comes from my soundboard. So I'll figure it out. But in the meantime, please enjoy this interview with Luperez and enjoyed the rest of the shows this week. Well, hey there, everybody, welcome back to another episode of just Listening to yourself. Plus, I've got a favorite guest on with me this week. I'm so glad he could join me. I was in a little bit of a bind and he's such a good friend and agreed to help me out. I am here with comedian and author Louprez. He is the author of this joke That joke, excuse me, isn't funny anymore. And he is the former host of Weed the Internet TV. And he is the current host of the Looperez podcast. Luperez, welcome back to the show. I feel like I don't need to give you any more introductions, but there you go. No, thank you, I appreciate thanks for having me back. Well, it's a pleasure to have you, Lou. I actually thought about you because, well, first of all, you don't know this, probably because I never sent you the link, but you were a guest on the show last week. You just didn't know you had a tweet that went viral. It was a parody tweet. It was a parody sketch, and you tweeted it out and it went viral because people took it seriously. So I actually pulled the audio from that and used it as a little mini I do these little thing called just saying where I'd be like maybe two women monologue. So I used that to talk about to talk about a parody and knowing your sources, and that tweet went pretty viral. Yeah, I think if we're if we're talking about the same one. It's one where I wear my very thick glasses that are prescription and I have a black beanie on and my beard is a little a little more out of control than what I have right now. And uh yeah, And I went to a local school playground and told the camera that I was there to talk to children about sex and gender. And there's more. There's a little bit more to the to the video. It's a short it's a short video, and it's actually like a re upload. So I had posted it a while back and I was saying like, oh, let me, you know, let me put it out again. See what happens. And yeah, it went, it went big, it went viral, and it tricked a lot of people into thinking that there was a real gentleman who looked just like me who was hitting up this playground ready to get arrested if that's what it took to teach children about sex and gender. I loved the video because in the video you're you were like, I promise you that no one will come to this playground without learning about sets from me, And it really tapped into the creepy nature of what is going on right now. And that's with this discussion of kids and gender and sex and won't get to that, But what I wanted to talk to you about was the idea that this was parody. Now, to me, I knew it was parody right away because I know you and and I'm a big fan of yours, and so of course I laughed at it immediately. But I have some rules about, you know, what is parody and what is not, or rules about seeing things that could be parody and checking them out before I share them. But what to you makes a good parody, because to me it was obvious, And I was shocked at the number of people who are like, look at this guy. I hope this is a joke. It's like, if you're saying, I hope this is a joke, it probably is a joke. But so many people were keen to believe that. Oh yeah, I mean, and if it wasn't for just tons of people that know my work and or fans of my stuff going into the comments and being like and tagging me. So there were a number of videos that were ripped, that ripped and re uploaded. I think one of them with the music to Law and Order stuff like that, which I think itself is sort of like did they just parody a parody or what they thought was real? So yeah, if it wasn't for that, I mean, there are a lot of people that would still be, you know, thinking like, you know, this is this is real? And you know, as far as like what made it? I mean, you know, not to give away the ending, but at the end of it, there's a shot of me going down to slide like we you know, if that wasn't you know enough, uh to give it away. But people, the responses that I got to were rather violent. Um. I had a number of people contact me directly to threaten you know, my life and my and uh and whatnot. And one of them went to the point where a guy was like, oh, so this this is parody. Uh. I guess if I, you know, found your family and took a baseball back to them, that would be that would be satire, wouldn't it be? Um? You know? So there are people who really yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a I actually filed the police report because I take you know, it's one thing like if you come after me and say you're gonna beat me up and stuff, it's like okay, But bringing like family into it, I think is just, you know, just another level. And it's at that point where I take it, you know, I take it very very seriously. Well, what is the difference between like, like, how would how do you define parody? Um? Because I have this issue a lot. There are a lot of people who on Twitter especially, who are self identified sort of satirists, but I don't find them very satirical. I don't think everyone understands what good parody is or good satire is. What makes a good parody or a good satire, Like, what's the difference between that and you just like being hyperbolic or just exaggerating for the sake of funniness. That's a really good question. You know. It's one of those things. I guess I've been doing it for so long, I'm not I don't know if I could really define it because one of the things that I try to do is whenever I'm doing these things, I try to keep a straight face and deliver it as straight and serious as possible. And there is a point of you know, exaggeration where you need to kind of look at what's going on and imagine that this person that you're playing actually holds these views and like take it, you know, just a just one little step, one little step further. But you know, I totally get what people are saying. Where now things are you know, are so ridiculous that the line between you know, parity and self parody um are you know, blurring and it's a lot harder to um, you know, to to decipher um. And I guess I'm happy to be a part of that in a way. I mean, you're a comedian and an entertainer, so any form of entertainment or any form of attention, right is good at attention? Yeah? Yeah, Well It's funny like the amount of people who uh you know would then say, uh, I don't care if it's satire. After they you know, asked, is it satire, I don't care if it's satire. Uh, you know that you're giving these people ideas, really I'm getting I'm giving you know, these quote unquote you know groomer's ideas as if you know, as if they're not finding you know, ways beyond physically going to a playground and identifying themselves, you know, Like that's the idea that I'm giving these up. Yeah, Oh well, I think they're more mad that they got fooled by it. And I understand that argument that it's like life is what's going on in the political realm right now is so hard to parody. I mean, we look at what Balambi is doing and a lot of the jokes that they make actually come true. You know, a life is becoming a parody. But I still think people have a responsibility to like, I think that like what you did triggered the outrage that is sort of underlying everybody right now. It's sort of just under the surface for everybody. And I don't think a lot of us want to admit that we're just as bad as the other side when it comes to harboring rage and anger and outrage and wanting to look at the world so negatively and wanting to look at everything so negatively. We kind of do the same thing where we don't give stories or even jokes room to breathe because we're so upset at the principle of the thing and what's going on. I don't know, it just feels like everybody is a bunch of hour pusses out there. Well, and something that that I learned and what's fun for me with this stuff is one, you know, put something out there and getting you know, getting attention on it, and you know, having more people, you know, see my work. That's great. But then you also learn a lot about how people respond to this stuff. So for example, I, you know, put out this video, a number of people took it seriously. A number of people in the comments are pointing out, I lose you know, Luprez, he's a comedian, blah blah blah, and a lot of the comments, you know, we're something along the lines of, oh, buddy, if you ever tried to do this at a local playground by me, you know, i'd uh, you know, I'd riddle you with bullets. You know, i'd shoot you. We'd have a public hanging. The nicer people, the ones who are like you'd be uh you know, you know, uh, you know, you'd be sent off to the hospital, which is a nice way of putting like I'm gonna beat you up, but I'm not gonna kill you. You're gonna go to you know, you're gonna go to the hospital. Um. And then of course you have the you know, people using the meme of the the wood chipper. You know, I'm I'm gonna put you in a wood chipper, And I had no idea just how many people had wood chippers in the United States. Uh, you know, like there's a guy in like with like a studio apartment who has like this pristine wood chipper, you know that that he's just waiting to just put you know, a groomer in and and it really got me thinking, I'm like, wow, you know, this is really interesting, Like I'm getting all these violent responses, and yet in every single one of these towns and cities there's a list of people who have actually been convicted of second actual assault or you know, terrible things of children. And then when they get out, they have to like go door to door and let you know who they are. So you have people who have actually done this, not a you know, not a not a comedian, make a making a satirical piece, and yet those people seem to be doing fine. I don't know how many wood chippers have been used on actual real life monsters. And I'm not saying this is a call for violence or anything like that, but it was really interesting to sort of be that catalyst or allowing myself to be a target of a lot of people saying, uh, you know, I want to do violence who probably would never do violence in their you know, in real life. Thankfully. You know that seems to be the gist of the internet period. Yeah yeah, well, um, speaking a violence today, I woke up this morning to news about a terrible confrontation between UM parents and Antifa slash LGBTQ activists in Glendale here in California, And just to run it down for people, what happened was that it's Pride month, which is the only month that matters anymore, and of school Public School in LA had a pride display that used the LGBT symbols, Armenian traditional like flag colors and then put it all in the shape of a cross. It was just like one um after the other and the parents. It's an Armenian community, so it's it's a racial minority community, and it's they're very traditional. Armenians are very traditional, particularly um you know, religiously, and they were they were not pleased. A lot of these people are immigrants. They were not pleased. They came to protest the school board. The GBTQ activists showed up and pepper sprayed them and it and the Armenian dads are not like the white suburban dads in California. They were like, they were throwing down and so it turned into a big melee. And of course the headlines and the mainstream news is, oh, maga, maga. Protesters were beating up trans protesters. But it wasn't that at all. But that is the thing about this, just to bring this full circle, this is becoming violent, Like there are people out there who will send you messages on Twitter, and those are not the people you need to be scared up. They're really not going to show up at your house. But the people there are people out there like the guy that you portray in your video, in your parody video, people out there who who are so committed to this sexual identity ideology now that they're getting violent for it, and that is really it does really feel like everything's upside down right now. Yeah. I think it was Wesley Yang on Twitter who pointed out, like, can you imagine being the type of person who would take to the streets and actually fight parents because you want to push you know, the I guess the calling like you know, this gender ideology. What's interesting is, um, I have a friend of mine who lives in Glendale. He's Armenian. We grew up together in New York and then he moved, you know, to Glendale, and a couple of years ago, my family were visiting him in LA and we were driving around Glendale and I said to him, Man, I'm like, man, this is this is weird because like in La, like there's homeless all over the place, but here in Glendale, I don't I don't see any homeless. He's like, yeah, man, we're our Meenian. We don't allow that. We don't we don't let that happen. He's like, and you know, it's like, yeah, this is you know, this isn't a small tight knit immigrant group who have suffered you know incredible, uh, you know turmoil over the years. You know, there's the the Armenian genocide, there was the Armenian Diasporo. And it's like they've you know, built a community here and they want to they're very prideful of it. You know, they want to keep it, keep it clean, and keep it safe and all that. And yeah, they're ready to throw dukes um. And you know, my friend has told me some you know, some stories about you know that I would just call you know, you know some Armenian tales in the United States that are well worth a retelling. But you know, maybe at a different at a different time. But it is something where yeah, uh you know, as you describe it now, it's like, uh, you know, these parents have to be maga to be against you know, this uh, this ideology, and it's it's like, man, you were really running out of ideas. If if that's the you know, if that's your go to demonization, uh is you know to say, oh, well, uh you're for common sense, you must be maga. It's insane. Well isn't that where we are right now? Though? Like you look at all of the left wing entertainers, politicians, commentators, who are not they haven't had a conversion. They're not Republicans, they're not libertarians, they're not conservatives, and yet they've been ostracized from the left just for you know, one smidge of common sense or compassion. Or look at Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who is has been big on questioning the vaccines and the distribution and big pharma, and he's a Kennedy, you know, but now he's he's a right winger. Or look at all of the look at like the the reporters who broke the Twitter files, or people like Abigail Schreyer who was just investigating the trend of transgenderism among teenage girls, came across all of this evidence that whoa, this isn't this isn't some kind of natural phenomenon, this is this is a dangerous trend, and then was ostracized from the left. She's not a right in any way. She's a liberal, you know, a liberal voter, a liberal Democrat. And yet that's what we're seeing. We are seeing just if you are not hard left, then you're just to the right. And doesn't it seem like eventually almost if those that's the standard, we're going by these days that eventually almost everyone is going to be considered on the right. Yeah, I mean, you know, if you I guess it was during the twenty twenty election where half the country we're fascists, and now, now what are we gonna do. We're gonna get to a seventy fascist Great, well, I can't wait to see what twenty twenty four is like. That's what. It's just crazy to think that. It's like it's projection everything that the left has said the rights waiting to do and going to do. I mean, lou just yesterday, I think it's the what Gay and Lesbian Alliance or whatever whatever Rainbow group is out there, just issued a state of emergency, declared a state of emergency in the United States for LGBTQ people, as if as if they're not the ones running around beating people up and invading school board meetings, yet they're projecting all of this violence onto other people and they're the ones creating it. Well, yeah, I mean to hear that, I mean I heard that, you know, that was going on in Florida, which you know, I guess you're gonna have to let everybody in Miami and you know, Palm beach. You know, all the all these you know, uh, you know, gorgeous studs walking around in banana hammocks on the beach. Let them know how how in danger they are. Um yeah, I mean it's it's especially when it comes to like, you know, dangerous, it's dangerous situations. I think it's really important to know, like what are your actual risks, you know, because like, for example, if you were to tell me like, yeah, well, you know you have a pretty you have a pretty good chance of dying in a shark attack, right, It's like, okay, where Well, if you're in the ocean, okay, cool. I don't go in the ocean, so I don't have to You don't have to worry about anything. So if every time I stepped out of my out of my front door, I was worried about a shark attack, you'd have to be like, hey, Lou, you should really he's really uh, you know cool pool it, you know, because you don't have to worry about that. Um. And you know, I'm I, I you know, definitely don't want people being attacked. I think that's one of the reasons why I, you know, I'm very strongly in favor of self defense. I think I think gay's, lesbians, trans people and all all sorts of walks of life should be should be armed, you know, in order to actually handle actual scenarios where their lives are, you know, or at risk. But you know, like I think, like most people, I mean, when you when you look at it, like the chances of you being a being attacked, it's probably going to be by somebody that you know, you know, So it's sort of like when it comes to like trans people and gay people, just like straight people, it's like, you know, chances are if you're dating a terrible person, that's the person who's going to attack you. So you know, you might have to just do a better job dating. I wonder if someone will pull this and be like, hey, hey, y'all, this is Ali Michelle. I'm a conservative social media influencer that has been censored by big Tech, so I broke away from their restrictions and started a podcast called pillow Talk with Ali Michelle. My show is a space to have real conversations about the issues that I'm packed our everyday live without the fear of being canceled by the big tech tyrants. Subscribe to pillow Talk with Ali Michelle and FCB podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get podcasts. That's Ali Ali, come check on my show. I'll see you there. Well. And just for the record, Lou is anti shark attack. He's not, Yes and I this is a tactic though, right, This is a tactic to make yourselves victims. And what I'm seeing is because you know, the United States is becoming more diverse, which comes with its own set of issues. But one thing that's happening is that the immigrant community from other countries that really don't tolerate this stuff is starting to clash directly with the people who say that they're the protectors of the immigrant community, and it is creating this really strange cultural clash that's going on. I do want to ask you because we're running out of time here, so I do want to ask you, Lou, about about censorship moving forward into twenty twenty four, because we've seen a lot of the platforms open up, social media platforms open up thanks to Elon Musk's sort of pulling that trigger. This week, there was a story that most of big tech is going to lay off a lot of the censorship rules for twenty twenty four. I think they just don't want to get sued. There's a lot of lawsuits pending and a lot crawling up to the judicial system. So but there is still a lot of censorship going on. I mean, even when I watch my stupid little stories on Instagram or TikTok, people have to bleep outwards like gun or violence or blood, or they're not bleeping out the curse words, they're bleeping out the ideas of like violence or harm. There is still a sort of censorship going on. And now we're looking at right wing or right of center personality setting up sort of an alternative Internet, like we're talking two or three years ago. Now we've got Dan Bongino, Dave Rubin, the babylonpe is working with Twitter, Tucker Carlson's working on something. There's parlor, there's whatever Trump is doing. Are we setting up a two tier messaging system for twenty twenty four and beyond? That's what I want to know. Yeah, I wonder if I mean, one of the fun things about about Twitter that I don't think enough people talked about just how how much fun it is or was to interact with people whose ideas you despised, you know, they're like I remember when when Lewis Farakhan was on was on Twitter. Um, he might not. I don't think he's on anymore. But like I enjoyed, you know, uh, interacting with you know, with his stuff. It was fun. You know, there is something fun about you know, quote unquote you know hate speech. Um. For one, it's it's I think it's it's fun to uh to be able to engage those people, to take on those ideas, um directly, and then also to mock it too, and to let other people know that you're mocking. It's like, hey, look at the look how silly this stuff is. Um. So yeah, I mean are we you know, are we going to are we getting to a to a place where uh, you know, perhaps not necessarily like two tiered, but just all these fragments and we're all kind of speaking in our you know, in our bubbles. Uh, you know, probably we're probably getting there. Um. I know, when Elon Must took over, you've had all these uh ton of people just talking about how they were leaving the platform. A lot of them didn't leave, but they were talking about, you know, moving out of that neighborhood. Um. And yeah, I mean, well you know, we'll see what, we'll see what what goes down. And I just I think, you know, thanks to the to the Twitter files, um, it really brought to lights just how bad the uh, the relationship with the government and these private entities was. And UM, you know, hopefully, uh, you know, we're gonna we're gonna see a lot less of those of those you know, those relationships, those interactions. Are you a believer, Lou, A believer like justineber like a fan of Dustin Pieper, But a believer, are you? I don't think I seem to recall that you're agnostic, or at least it well I was. Yeah. I think over the past couple of years, I've I've had what I would call it a crisis of no faith, um that I've I've had I think a few very strong experiences that I would only be able to, you know, to describe as a religious and you know, in one way or another. Um. So while I used to be a strident, ardent atheist, I don't think I could call myself that, UM. And I have I have been I've had I've had conversations, one sided conversations that seems like through prayer, U there have been a number of times when I've dropped to my knees and thanked the almighty whatever that almighty almighty is. So it's it's still something that I'm I think, like like like most people, especially at this stage that I am, it's very hard to describe what what it is that I'm going through on that on that front, Oh, that's a I had what was going a totally different place with this, but then I expected But I think it's yeah. I one thing that I used to do is I used to reach out to people when I was not a believer. But I used to reach out to people and ask them, Uh, you know, hey, you're a little closer to God. I put in a good word from me. Um, and I used to I guess I used to see God and other people um and uh I liked seeing that. So you don't like seeing the idea of seeing yourself um or I wasn't necessarily seeing it. I think that I was fighting it for for a long time. I think that uh in a way. I mean, um, I my dad is a is A is a staunch believer. Um, hardheaded might be a way to And I wonder if if a part of my hesitation or my reluctance or my fight against it was, you know, not wanting my dad to be right about something. How how how lame is that I'm a forty one year old man, forty one year old teenager. Yeah, I think we're all sort of products of a type of a rebellion. You know. I worry about that with my own kids because I'm a believer, and I've raised my kids to be believers, but my parents are atheists, and so me being a believer, I had a conversion experiences. I and my parents are liberal and so um, I think, you know, there's a part of who I am that's maybe a reaction to them. So I'm I'm just more interested in the idea of because this is what I tell people when they get involved in inner faith marriages. Usually you're young, you're in love, and you you can't wait to be together, and you don't care about the faith part. It doesn't matter, you'll work it out. But I always tell people, as you get older, your notions of the world, universe, creation, all those things change. And then when you have kids, you really start thinking about their future and what's going to be you know, good for them, and what kind of solid basis you'll have as a human being to be good for them, And suddenly those things become more important, Like as you age, you're sort of getting closer to the end and you're you're thinking more about what exactly is my purpose? M Yeah, No, I totally totally agree. Um yeah, and trying to you know, raise kids with a you know, really strong foundation, and like it's like, well, where did you know, trying to figure out, well, where did that foundation come from? You know? Or or or how do I know this is the right way to do? Well, I'm going to keep praying for you, Lou. I think you're a part guy and you're gonna come to the right conclude. But and yeah, for those of you were just listening before, I told Kia that I just had a big blow up with my my wife. So I think that's a lot where a lot of her prayers are going right now to you. Whatever the argument was, she was right. So after he gets off this, he's got to go apologize, no matter what the argument was about exactly. Yeah. I'm not being cute though, Lou, I'm serious, No, I it is. I think the whole reason I brought up the faith question. I just wanted to know actually where you're at with your sort of biblical familiarity, because we were talking about the Internet and splitting up and doing all of this stuff, and um, these two tiered I'm sorry to sniffle into the mic. Um these two this two tiered or these fragments, that's what you said, fragments. That's what got my mind going. And I remember I've been reading about the Tower of Babel and how man built wanted to build a tower to get closer to God, whatever that looked like in that time. And God decided to destroy the tower and scatter the nations, and he's you know, man will be too powerful basically if they can can do this thing. And there's all kinds of interpretations about what that tower was and what it meant. That's not the point. But the Internet has been compared to the Tower of Babel quite a bit, and for a while I I have also considered that. I'm like, how far can we go? I mean, look, now we're looking at AI. Now we're looking at where our thoughts this is in revelation, our thoughts fly across the earth and in mere seconds, and we are building this machine that is so huge, and yet when you use the word fragment, I was like, it feels almost like that's what's happening. Like we were building this tower, but our own clause, our own can't allow us to complete it. We're always going to fragment. I don't know, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, totally. I think Jonathan Height wrote a piece so using the Tower of Babble as a way to describe I think, you know social media now and the effect that it's having on people, you know, But then again, I wonder, you know, because it's it's one of these things. I think one of the important things is being able to talk to one another, right, and being willing to talk to one another, and just going by that example you showed in Glendale, you know these you know, Armenian parents and gender ideology activists, I don't know if that conversation can possibly happen, and sort of like, well, what do you do when that conversation doesn't doesn't happen? Because I feel like the Armenian parents can have a conversation with you know, well intentioned liberals, well intentioned progressives, you know, people who are very you know, uncomfortable with the sexualization of children, and also the medicalization of of children. So yeah, it's it's one of those things. I think it's it's it's tricky, you see what happens. I would feel like we have this conversation every time we talk, but like, how what do we do we're not having conversations. I started through this podcast based on the idea that hey, if everyone can sit down and think about their beliefs, think through what they're talking about, think through their talking points, that there is a road to at least coexisting, you know, having the way we always have. Um, there's a road to that. And yet in the last five to seven years, really since the Trump era, it's been impossible to have conversations and and good faith conversations. And I don't think we're in a season to have those. I think you point you're the point you made is excellent. For these immigrant parents and this group of activists in this particular school district, there's no conversation to be had because the parents just want these people to leave their kids alone, and these people don't want to leave their kids alone, and so there is no compromise. There's no like, Okay, you can have access to my kid for whatever you want for thirty percent of the day. If like, that's not a compromise that can be can be made, And so what do we do in lieu of conversation? In lieu of conversation? That should be my next book. You can have that one for free. Um well, I think I think it's important to have the conversations wherever you can, you know, to make your arguments wherever you can. And you know, maybe that that does involve at first, you know, speaking to a small band of of people you know, to to bring them, you know, the analogy to Christianity, you know we're talking about, you know, Christianity started with a very small band of of of men and and and and women and grew from there. Oftentimes you know, people hiding out because they were you know, being being hunted. Um and yet they continue to have the conversation you know, and and spread. So I think a lot of it comes from, you know, having faith that you know that what you're talking about is worth talking about and and continuing to do that. Also having the courage to you know, to do it even if you know that can entail threats of being thrown in a wood shipper. I guess I don't want to build myself up to be something a lot higher than I am. Oh sorry, I didn't I didn't hear you on that one. Yeah, I lost your audio. No can you hear me? Can you hear me? I can hear you now? Okay, great, I just think I lost the connection quick for a second, all right, I'll hit this part out. Well, we've been going on long enough, Lou, I am. I actually now I need to have you back because we need to have a longer conversation about your faith journey, because I am fascinated by this, and I'm also fascinated by how awkwardly you have made every reference to faith in this podcast, even like the word you said the word faith, and you were like Dorton faith or fascinating. I'm watching him work this out in real time in his mind. Oh man, yeah, no, that that would be a great, great conversation. Well, you know I love talking to You're the best, So well, thank you. I UM, I know my dad was not a believer. My dad, as people know, my dad passed away and he was not a believer, but he was a seeker. He was a searcher. You remind me of him in a lot of ways, like you're just a really smart guy. Your your your mind is open, You're you're not um too angry to consider things. And that's how my dad was. I want to pack up his house and his bookshelf is just filled with like every philosopher that you can imagine. He's read every book. And Um was a thinker to the very end. But I found evidence that at the end he was looking at God. You know, he was taking notes, he was listening to sermons, he was reading his Bible. And I just want to encourage you that even if it feels like there's no like I don't have a physical answer. You know, why don't I feel something when I'm praying? Why don't I hear something? I read these stories or even hear stories sometimes and it's like if I'm not feeling it, if I'm not hearing it, is it not real? And I just want to encourage you to keep seeking. You keep seeking, because you know, I do believe God will meet you right where you are. It'll be right right what you need. But I think we have this idea that God's voice is supposed to sound like ours, like audible and loud and lou this is God I have heard your prayers and I'm answering them, and I'm gonna let your wife know that you were right in this argument. Don't worry. And it's it's I think we misinterpret God's voice a lot because we don't know how to hear it. And I think his voice doesn't sound like ours. It sounds like your baby crying, or the wind, or it sounds like the waves crashing against the rocks. Like there are things around us at our God's voice that we just sink our sounds. And um, I just will encourage you with that cool um. Yeah, hopefully I can. I can walk outside. If this Canadian wildfire smoke that came all the way to New Jersey, if it manages to leave it, Oh my gosh, I forgot about those wildfires. My family is supposed to go up to Canada at the end of the month. Well it turns out, I think. So there's the Canadian wildfire, then there's wildfire actually happening in the state of New Jersey. Oh really a little ways away from us. So yeah, outside it looks like it looks like Mars, like a like a yellow huge I remember those days because we know hearing how for of course we have wildfire season, although it's been raining for five months now so we won't have one this year. But I do remember those days. Well, you take care. I'm sure you can find some n ninety five masks around somewhere to protect you if you have them in your emergency staff. Before we go, Lou, tell everybody where they can find you, where they can find your book. Loo Perez is the author of that joke Isn't funny anymore? Tell us what the book is about, and then tell people where they can find it. Sure that joke isn't funny anymore? On the death and rebirth of comedy, it's basically a look back at my twenty years of comedy and all different iterations improv, sketch, comedy, stand up, and in particular the last you know, seven or year or so starting with Trump and what happened to comedy and how we can get it back. And it's available everywhere. Uh, if you want to check it out off of Amazon, that'd be great. And you guys can follow me at the Louperees on social media and my website, the Louperez dot com. All right, Lou, well, thank you so much. As always, I appreciate you. Let's have you back. I'm gonna let you go, and I'm gonna pray for you and you let you go and have some more faith experiences and then I'm gonna pick your brain apart and you're gonna have you back and give you a hard time about this faith journey that you're on. But this is like, this is my jam right here. I love that. I love that, Lou, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. 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