 I've been on gratitude for a couple months. It's fucking unbelievable. Yeah. Like I make gratitude checklists every day, several times a day, four times a day. Just to like, because I was talking to rain Wilson about, about, I was saying, like, Islam, they, you got to pray five times a day. And I was like, that's about the right amount. Yeah. That you got to remind yourself of like, no, fucking be a good person. And, uh, and then he goes, well, why don't you do a, and I was talking about gratitude. And he goes, why don't you do a gratitude journal five times a day? And, uh, and I was like, fine. So I just do a checklist of like, of the facts of what's happening in my life instead of the sci-fi, dystopian sci-fi. I write about what's, what I think is happening in this person. And they said, and they think, and it's like, much richer story though. The dystopian sci-fi has so many more interesting characters and plot twice, of course. Yeah. This is pretty much like crickets. Yeah. Because afterwards we're like, yep, things are great. And you're just like, yeah. But, but if, but I, isn't a lot of fun, right? But I don't, I'm not buying the thing of like, and therefore I'm going to be smited by the war. I'm working on that. I'm going to, I just think like, I don't think anyone can understand what anything spiritual or what's actually happening on earth. I don't think we can understand it. So I'm just going to try to appreciate, if I were a God, I would want people to appreciate what's good about their life. Yeah. I wouldn't want them to be constantly worried about how I, I'm fucking them or I'm going to fuck them or any of that stuff. Where are you at spiritually? With, I'm. Higher powers. I am, I was an atheist. I drank ayahuasca a number of times. I, uh, became a, uh, not a believer. Like I felt a thing that hasn't left. Yeah. And I'm not even, I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not, I'm just like, I don't know. It's just what I believe is happening. And I, part of the gratitude thing is just going like, this is excellent. I got to shut the fuck up. I don't have real problems. Yeah. There's connecting tissue out there. Uh, I haven't done ayahuasca mushrooms. You get a little glistening zone. Yep. That's, I like that because that's why I'm wondering, like what type of, um, nip it in God would like put a plan out there and watch it get misinterpreted and be like, well, well, I guess every religion's a misinterpretation. Yeah. I don't, do you know what I mean? Like, I don't think they're wrong. I don't think they're wrong that there is a higher power, but I think after the first sentence, it's wrong. And you should know, no, no, no, no, no, just there's a higher power. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then, but what about fish? Shut the fuck up about fish. No one needs to know about meat. And, uh, so I don't get lost in the thing of like, well, then how do I just, I'm of the mind that it's, uh, above our consciousness to have any sense of what's actually happening and I'm just going to accept what, what I see is happening and appreciate it. I guess I'm fearful of like, I don't want to lose all the cynicism because that's where the fun is. It, there's no, nobody like goes out at a bar to have a cigarette and talk about the things they're both grateful for. I agree. They go out to be like, and then this fucking guy, can you believe they're doing it? And that's the, those are the fun conversations. I agree. When you laugh with somebody, it's so ingrained in me and you and a bunch of people and like people that I think it's like, I just had the balance wrong. Yeah. I just had it like not 99% that and 1% like, well, yeah, there's probably, I don't know. Yeah. No, that's, that's, that's cool to have done that. Like, I guess I'm lucky a little, but I work hard all that shit. Do you ever think that you've gotten too much for your success? Like, is there like out of the gratefulness? I literally had the thought or wrote in the checklist. It's not a journal, guys. If you call it a checklist, it masculinizes. It does. I was going to say journal. Whoa, please. I'm not, I ain't no bot. I wrote, I couldn't compensate for the, how great my life is. Yeah. That's a total 180. Yeah. There's nothing I could do to, there's no volunteer, there's no amount of volunteer work, which is great because it lets me off the hook. I don't have to go myself. No, I couldn't. I mean, why, I, why even try a checklist? And then that's it. Yeah. So I can do a soup kitchen. Checklist said, no, I can't. There's not enough soup. Um, yeah, like that's where I've come to is like, this is, uh, this is, uh, this is insane. No, we're working at a surplus. Yeah. That's like, and I, it does buy my laziness. Does it ever purchase laziness for you? Like I, I like, I like mountain biking and the whole thing is like, you've got to ride these trails. You should go dig on these trails Saturday morning. I just donate money. I'm like, I'm not getting up on Saturdays, I go digging the mud. I'm like, you can have, I will donate top tier of what I can to this trail. And you do it anonymously because you're classy. Oh yeah. Yeah. Nobody knows. And, uh, except for right now, which probably, I'm betting your podcast is for followers. Who that, who that, uh, Rockefeller who gave $80 to the dirt bike trail outside of Portland. It's the most that the, it's, I want to get more. It's their, their Venmo's fucked up. Yeah. Uh, um, I was going to say the, uh, that's what that, the postscript to, there's nothing I can do to compensate is like, all I can do is work hard at the thing. Yeah. At the, let's say the talent is a gift. I think you're an asshole if you don't cultivate it. Yeah. That would make me the asshole if I didn't cultivate it. So that's the, so I do, I think I work as hard, maybe harder than I have. But the, the gift being funny or knowing how to put it into scripts, putting it into standup. Cause that's where I'm like being funny as a personality trait. And I've said it in the past, like I'm, I am an asshole cause I'm trying to capitalize on it. I grew up with everybody. This is like Midwestern like, see, this is wrong. You should, what are you a pretty boy? Hey, Mr. Hollywood. I've said it before, you know, five people that are funnier than you that have never done standup, at least five people. I don't, but there are, I, but I see people, I don't personally. Nope. Never met him. Sorry. You got the wrong guy. Um, but there are people on, on like, whether people will tweet or whatever. We're like, that's a fucking insanely good observation. Yeah. And people that just don't have the desire to try and write, but I don't think they're more noble than me. I, I don't do that. I don't take the Midwestern stuff and be like, see, he's the salt to the earth. I don't, I don't think it's noble. I just don't think they, yeah, they didn't have that. I got to be a star. Yeah, but fucking Beethoven. I don't know. I don't, I'm not going to judge Beethoven for wanting to. I will. Here we go. Yeah. Go ahead. Let me, let me turn my mic off. Um, no, I'm, I, for wanting to be Beethoven or thinking he had, uh, he should write compositions. I'm not going to be like, well, look at this fucking showboat. He was deaf, right? Yeah, he was deaf. So right there. So that's, that's, that's Midwestern. What have you got a hearing aid and like remastered all his stuff and it sucks? Yeah, like what? Like, oh, buddy. I, I, gratitude is amazing. Yeah. And, and, uh, I don't think it's like soft or. Yeah. Queer or whatever. You know what I mean? It's hard to talk about it publicly because I think public consensus is you should be more bitchy about things because it sounds arrogant. It's the, I know I've come to, I've, I've, I've covered that also, which is like, I'm not saying, I, I'm saying everyone should do it. Do you know what I mean? I'm not saying like, I'm not going to fall into the trap of like, easy for you to do. You have X amount of, you have that kind of car. I don't, yeah, you're right. But so do you have some car relative to somebody else? I, well, yeah. Or if you're on the bus, you're not, uh, you don't have to put your wheelchair on the, like there's, and if you're, if you're only, uh, uh, paraplegic, well, what about the quadruple? Like there are levels to literally everything. That's, well, I mean, that's the old stand-up thing just because somebody else's sucks, sucks, doesn't make my suck, suck any less. Yeah. It's like, yeah, I can imagine talking to somebody I know with three jobs like, Hey, in between your door dash deliveries, you should write a gratitude list. Well, but what's funny though is like, it works better than complaining. I know, but I can't tell them that. Yes. I'm telling, this isn't a trickle down advice when it comes to, no, I get it. But I'm saying it works better than bitching. It just does. Oh, yeah. It works on your brain. But it, but it's who you're receiving that message from. Yes. Like we can't sit here and tell somebody. But I would think, I actually think we're better messengers because we're like giving people a way forward, like in that, like I'm the depressed guy from Netflix. But and I'm telling you that I, one of the ways I got out, I get two ways, drugs and gratitude. Yeah. Like that's, that's pretty cool. Do you know what I mean? I don't think it's like, like, look at this. I'm not Oprah. I'm not fucking Tony Robbins. I'm just saying like, Hey, this is a thing I did. It's bet it's as good as any Zoloft or Prozac or I know, I still, and then maybe this is my own short, I still look at like, Oh, I'm not going to go to the bar later and be like, Have you thought about gratitude? Like, I can't, I can't be the messenger for it. Just like I was saying, how like, I'll like talk with my mom, like just cause something works for me. It's, it's the framing of the message, which is what informs all the stand up. Hey, this is what's working for me. If you'd like to try it, I'm going to tell you how it works for me. Yeah. I'm not saying like you have to do it or there's a, there's a, I'm just telling you, like it's a thing I started doing and it's pretty wildly effective. Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah. Did you like it though? You want more? Don't want to work. Would rather watch videos of me grab assing with people. First of all, go up here to subscribe and then go up here to watch more clips. This is like when the weatherman says there's a high pressure system coming in. I'm not really used to the green screen.