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With that further ado, let's get into this episode with my buddy Ed Larson. We talked on a couple topics that were somewhat serious and I think that you guys will be interested to hear my thoughts and his opinions on that. And I think it's something that we all will be able to relate to. So I'm looking forward to hearing your comments on that.
Thank you so much, guys. And without further ado, please welcome Ed Larson to Jeremiah Wonders. Go ahead. This is the winner.
Wait, sister. You go right to that? I'm going to get your family and eat your sister? Wow.
I haven't been practicing this power before. I mean, dude, can I just say that voice with that body is a lot. What's going to do you think? Wait, no, I don't want to go to Disney.
Oh, God. Okay. Wow. This is getting real intense real quick.
You know, you could have been a nice guy with a sultry voice, but you just went straight to demonic pedophile. I feel like I'm now he's not going to be sex. I just fucking. Oh, I don't think it's bad.
I mean, you're in it. No, no, no. Let's face the fuck off. I mean, I guess that's true.
Yeah. It is true. Never see a big love. No, that's a Mormon reality show, right?
That's not a reality show, right? That's not a reality show. It's actual show. It's actual show.
Oh, it's like a scripted. Yes. No, it's important. You have all these wives screwing in front of each other.
Wow. Teacup did learn. You know a lot about big love. One of the great shows that doesn't exist anymore.
Most of the people who messes up. Anyway, it was nice to talk with you. Absolutely. It was a pleasure.
I was a pleasure. By the way. Yeah. Did you have a concern?
No, I was just going to ask if you had any extra blood. No, I don't have any extra. I just asked you to trust me because I had it. Yeah.
What were you going to do with it? I have different types of blood. Yeah, different types of blood, different people's blood. You know, I'll just take a sack from a tree if that's all the time.
I'm confused. Are you a demon or are you a vampire? It's hard to tell from my angle. Party boy.
Oh, you're just a party boy. Party boy. You're just like drinking blood. Drinking blood.
I don't drink it necessarily as I rub it all over myself. Oh, you're just like all about smearing and just like, do you ever get in a hot tub full of blood or like a nice bath? An idea. Do you want to help me facilitate this?
I know I came up with the idea, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm the right person for the job. I don't think this is a job that I applied for. Well, it doesn't matter. You are hired.
You were here and you're not allowed to stop working here. Okay. How did I get in this office? I wrote you fire.
Okay. This was amazing. Yeah, this thing's pretty fun. Oh, this is very white.
I was on actually supposed to be sexy. We suddenly went over. But you went for demon vampire party boys. So that's okay.
Yeah. That's what we have. That's what we are. That's what we're always going to be.
Yes. Full of time. So, um, it is a good buddy of mine that I've known for years in a lot of different capacities. One of them is we've worked together on multiple seasons of roast battle.
Yeah. You do a lot of writing for the roast in general. And you are one of those guys who you're a get it done guy, in my opinion. Thanks, man.
That's very sweet of you. You're a get it done guy and a guy who is, I always feel like a positive and an idea man. You like throw like, how can we fix the situation? I've got a thousand ideas.
And that's who I, the kind of people who I like riffing and doing projects with who are like, we'll throw a thousand things at you. And then, you know, one of them will stick and then it's kisment and it's perfect. You know what I mean? And basically you just keep throwing ideas until someone starts laughing.
You know, it's laughing. It's probably not funny. Right. A lot of people take the time to write stuff that's not funny and they're just not laughing.
They're like, oh, that's a good idea. And they keep writing and keep writing. It's just like, oh well, you know, we shouldn't be enjoying ourselves. Yeah.
Because that's the whole reason we're, you know, not lawyers. I mean, it's very true. Yeah. I would not want to go in.
I don't even know what kind of offices lawyers go into. I was about to start describing a day in the life of a lawyer. And I know literally nothing about like them going in and looking at their next cases and stuff. Oh, it's usually them just stealing from people and prolonging things longer and longer than they're going to be.
Oh, okay. So if you have a lot of free time, you're going to be a lawyer. Wow. That's a fun opinion.
Oh, man. I was I was I was I was we were thrown into like immediately had to like work with each other, like intensively when it was the first year of a rose battle in Montreal. I was going to bring that up. Yeah.
And I was just I just thought about it when you were we I had to join the wave, which was very uncomfortable for me because, you know, I don't like doing other people's bits. Sure. Like that's like the first rule of comedy. Sure.
Yeah. The original be unique. Yeah. Have your voice all that.
Then, you know, it was just like, well, I mean, that's that's fucking do it. Well, yeah. So I had Jesus Trejo on this podcast a while ago. We actually talked about that because Jesus and you filled in for Jamar neighbors and Willie Hunter when we went to Montreal to basically showcase the show.
Yeah. So it was actually very cool of you and Jesus. Like it was a mutually beneficial thing. I feel like for everybody is like we kind of all got to showcase and Jamar and Willie couldn't do it.
And you guys stepped in and brilliantly performed. So much fun. I mean, I love, I've always had a lot of energy when I was in high school. I used to host all the pepperalese.
Did you really? Oh, yeah. I can see that. So I always had that like let's get the crown.
Well, you got like the booming voice to to really get things going. Oh, yeah. You got to make sure that last guy in the last row can hear you. Very true.
Because a lot of times we would do like the theater I was in in high school. We had the new microphones half the time. It was a huge S theater. Yeah.
And so if you can't talk loud enough, no one's gonna know what the fuck's going on. Yep. And so, uh, so you're a Jack. Yes.
Hey. But man, yeah, no, that was insane. Because I've gotten a lot of my gigs in my life is you're just like, there. And you're like, okay, well, I promise to deliver.
You know and this is you're like, you know, you're thrown into the situation where you and I, we've known each other for a while before, but we hadn't worked that closely yet. Yeah, like basically worked together at all. Yeah. Just like maybe a couple of ideas here and there.
Yeah. It was just, but it's also, it's like you're at Montreal. You know, so this is like the height of show business and comedy, you know, especially for us like eight years ago now, I guess at this point, something like that, seven, eight years ago. It was a while ago at this point.
Yeah. So we were kind of so nervous. I don't know about you, but you just like nerves going out the wall. You know, is that been trying to get to that festival?
That was my first time there. Oh, that's awesome. And I was just there as a writer. I was just there to help Jeff come up with jokes and stuff like that.
Sure. And so like just being thrown into on stage was, it was actually just so much fun. It was so cool. I mean, we got to perform in front of some of our comedy heroes.
Yeah, it can be fucking X-men. Oh, dude. I forgot about that. I literally, you know, like not entirely, but you know what I mean?
Like you have to be reminded. Because you're so in the moment like you're like, I got to, for me, like I was like, we got to make this good. We got to make this funny. We got to do all this stuff.
And I'm like micromanaging, trying to make sure everything's like perfect around. And yeah, which members of the X-men were there that night? Do you remember? Well, it was Olivia Wilde was there with Aaron Rodgers.
And that was insane. And then I remember we were doing our thing because we're sitting right in front of the judges. We're like running up and being fucking lunatic, doing like 9-11, my comedy. And it's the only way to really describe it.
And I remember there was a guy like right in front of us who was laughing his ass off and high-fiving us every time he came back. I was like, yo, this guy's great. I'm like, you know what, he looks familiar. Must be a comic or something.
Come later. It's Michael Fassbender sitting right in front of us. And then it was just like, and then he hung out with us all night long. And it was just like, he just wanted to be part of the wave.
And it was like the coolest fucking thing. I remember he like brought a joint and he like was after the show. We're smoking with him. And he brought this like really, honestly my best celebrity joke of all time.
And he's got this like little shitty like pinner joint. And he's like going to the trying to light it in the back hallway of this theater in Montreal. And I was just like, what the fuck is this? And then he's just like, I got like the giant saccoween.
And then he's just like, what the fuck is this? And he's like, oh, it's a joint mate. And I was like, I was like, fast bender, get it together. I was like, where did you get this?
The seven 12 years of slavery. Yeah, the fact that you were able to pop one of those jokes at Michael Fassbender. Oh yeah, this is a special festival. It was great though, man.
It was very incredible. And I remember I actually like, that went so well that they started doing the roast battles in New York. Well, that was the thing is that was really the introduction to the industry of what that show even was. So the stakes were so high that weekend because like I've been doing this every week with Jamar and Willie and we kind of had a rhythm down.
And as you know, you've been in many improv groups of sketch groups. It's hard to find a rhythm sometimes with people. But luckily you, me and Jesus, we all worked really well together. And I remember one of the bits that did really well was we bought these Asian, there's like these rice field hats.
Yes. It was a Vietnam reenactment. Yes. And coach T played machine gun.
It was pretty horrible when you just describe it. But in the act of the show, it made sense. Yes. I mean, it was what he got a joke.
I love throwing way too far. And it's just like sometimes it's a little, that's the beauty of something like the wave was like the jokes would sometimes be kind of middle of the road. Like, oh, that's kind of mean. And then the act would be 10 times more extreme than what they just said or the opposite.
It could be a silly joke. And then we put something crazy like that right after it. Yeah, no, you got it. One of the hits.
One of the go-to. So when they started the show in New York, they asked me to do the wave. And I remember just being like, I did it for a couple of weeks. And I like the East Coast version of the show, basically while our West Coast show was on.
Rosemasters, Gomez was the host. And I remember I assembled a wave, which was like Carlos Delgado. I remember like, all right, if I'm going to be in charge of a wave, it's going to be people of all different races and women. I wanted to be like, it's just the most obscure people.
And we did it for like two or three months. And then it got to the point where none of us were having a good time anymore. And I was like, I'm doing someone else's bit. And it really ate at me.
And so I just quit. And I disbanded the New York wave because I didn't feel right about it. I never actually talked to you about this. But I felt like gross doing what you guys do.
Knowing I didn't come up with it. It being like a version, even though you're doing unique bits to what that night was maybe. But yeah, just the idea of like the how it was formed and stuff like that, how can we go? That makes sense, I guess.
My favorite one that I wrote, though, my favorite wave that we did in New York. I don't know if you ever saw any of them. Was Jordan Temple. He was an amazing comedian.
I put a whole Cogan mask on him. And then he went out there and he ripped open his shirt. And it was right when the N word controversy was out. And he ripped open his shirt.
And it was a big black chest. And he's like, oh, no. Yeah, that's all the stuff right there. That's all the stuff.
Dude, so you actually have a documentary that is out right now that is up on Vimeo that I want people to check out because my wife, my and I, we watched it. And we loved it. And we loved just being able to support you in a longer form, something because we get to work on little things like, the wave or like little things behind the scenes on like little things like, you also help produce Jeff Ross's podcast, The Skin. And you've got a great podcast for your own.
But I want you to tell the listeners and the viewers what the kind of about, it's called How America Killed My Mother, right? Yes. And so basically, being a comedian, as you may know, we're doing our right now. But for a while, you struggle hard.
And it's just like, there's no money. And you just do everything you can. I'm working at a cheesesteak restaurant at night. I'm trying to make money, doing everything I can to keep doing comedy.
During this time, I'm an only child. And my parents are divorced. And my mom is struggling. And she's got type 1 diabetes for 35 years.
Because I was the, I made her that way. I was the biggest baby born in Florida. And I was. I love it.
That's 100% a real thing. And in the documentary, which I urge you to go see after this, I'll put the link in the description. There's documentation of this. It's so gratifying that that is the real thing that it is so continuous.
So now I'm like fifth, because of modern medicine and shit. You know, kids get bigger and stuff. And there's advances in technology. I couldn't hold the number one spot forever.
I know, I know. What are you going to do? And they're all no talent hacks too. Totally.
Calling babies hacks is the best. Everybody's a bunch of hacks. So basically what happened was it came down to it, being a diabetic. And this is not as funny as your usual podcast.
But that's OK. That's what I like about this podcast. It can range on the silly, ridiculous, too. The real stuff, because people relate to that stuff too.
So yeah, definitely. So being a diabetic in America, all right, it costs $16,000 a year to be a diabetic. Which, A, just like right off the bat, when you hear that, when I hear that, I'm like, how can that even be a real number? Because dude, there's been a lot of years where I barely made close to that money at all.
Yeah. Like for the whole year. I know, it's insane. My mom's making 10, 20 an hour at a nursing home.
She's not even supposed to be working there, because she's so fragile as a human being. She was a brittle diabetic. And so her blood sugar would drop on a whim. And then we couldn't afford the proper care that she needed.
And it was a fucking mess. You can't, insulin is the prices have gone up to 1,000% since 1996. And that's an unmanageable number. It really comes down to it.
My mom was paying over a grand every month in her medical supplies. And this is for diabetes. And for a disease that millions of people in America have, you figure we'd have a more under control. We don't.
And so we get in the situations where my mom was working with this nursing home. And the nursing home, she was there because they had a good insurance plan. And then they changed the insurance plan. And it worked for everyone else who worked there, except for my mom.
My mom's the only diabetic. And she had this machine that was a glucose monitor. So basically, if you're a diabetic and your sugar drops, your sugar level drops, to a certain point, you get brain damage and stuff like that. And then you've got to eat a bunch of candy to bring it back up.
And then if it goes too high, and then you can stroke out. So then you've got to take some insulin and bring it back down. So it's like a roller coaster. My mom was a brittle diabetic.
So it would fly up and down all the time. And she would lose her mind. And every time it got too low, she would develop brain damage and stuff like that. So she got this monitor that she used to keep on her.
And it didn't give her insulin or anything, but it just told her where she was at. And if it got. It was like an alarm clock, kind of like, hey, this is monitoring where you're at. Be weary, you're getting close, kind of thing.
Exactly. And so when it would beep, she would know to do whatever. And it came to the point where the new insurance company told my mom that she had to give them $800, or they were going to take the machine back. And back then, $800 might as well have been $10,000, either, one of us.
And so we didn't have it. And so we had to give the machine back. And she died in her sleep because the thing didn't go off. And it didn't wake her up.
So bottom line, it was like money that killed her. And then now when I say America killed my mother, I'm not saying just the government. Because there's different people that they prey on the poor. People prey on people who are less fortunate.
That's how a lot of people in this country make their money, whether it's banks, casinos, loan companies, like check-hashing stores, insurance companies, they prey on your weaknesses. And they try and get you to spend more money than you have. And so one thing happens, and it all starts toppling down, and you don't even know what the fuck's going on. And so my mom's developing brain damage during this process.
And she also develops a gambling problem while this is happening. Because one time, she went to a casino and $15,000 saved us. Moved to New York with it. It was my first two months rent.
She got a place in Jersey next to her family. It was amazing. So when that happens, it starts to become an answer. Yeah, you start thinking that that's a solution to your problems, is that maybe you can win another huge sum of money.
And the real thing is like, it's not common again. If casinos wanted you to win, they wouldn't exist. Right. That's not what they're designed to do.
Why would you exist if they were giving out money? It doesn't make sense. So all the odds are bet against you. And my mom just slowly kept going back and developed a serious gambling problem, which is very similar to alcoholism.
It becomes a disease and it's something you can't treat and you can fall off the wagon and then it just becomes a disaster. And you get, so every time I got to the point where every time I made money, I had to get her out of debt. So like all my roast value money, all my burn money, that went straight to her fucking gambling problems. And so I just stayed poor, even though I just started getting successful in comedy.
Yeah, you're writing on TV shows. You're a part of great things out here going on LA. I think you're rich. Oh, dude.
Well, that's just funny about like the comedy central thing is people are like, oh, you must be loaded from Rosebud. I'm like, I don't get any residuals from that. Nothing. And I got just the day rate of what those episodes were.
So that money literally went to bills immediately. Were you sag? Yeah, but they have this thing with Viacom where they are grandfather beyond sag. So they don't have to do residuals.
They don't have to. It's very strange. Whoa. So like they air literally all those most battle episodes in different countries.
And we don't see residuals from that. Well, I'll tell you something. We went and fought for it writer wise and we got some money. So maybe you should look into it.
No. The WGA went and got us some money for those all those different erics. Oh my goodness. So you know, go ahead and let in the cat of the box there.
But yeah, I mean, you get for me to know why not. Go check it out. You might just like seriously, if you just go back, there's websites that involve, especially if you live in New York City, people owe you money and you don't even fucking know it. And that's the craziest thing.
They're not going to pay you until you say, Hey, you want me money? Yeah, of course. Yeah. I know.
I know. Yeah, I guess I do. Yeah. Yeah.
So there is there's a lot of stuff you can put up. You can look for it and you'll just start randomly getting checks. That'd be cool. Yeah.
And so go look into that. But well, that's what I found interesting about your documentary is you're basically how I kind of looked at it is it feels almost like this mystery that you are trying to solve of what led up to the very sad realization that your mother passed away. You know what I mean? So you're kind of uncovering these dirty deeds that you end up going without giving too much away, but you go to the bank that lent your mom money, you go to the casino and you interview different people kind of like, how is this even legal or possible the way that you guys are doing things?
That's very fascinating. The bank actually did lend my mom money. I was actually going to confront them about all of the overdraft fees, right, because overdraft fees to me are the most fucked up thing in America. Yeah.
You're taking these banks are making billions of dollars a year on overdraft fees. And like anyone who overdrafts, you know, those are the poorest people in our country. You know, like, you know, this, I mean, I'm sure you've been there. I've overdrafted.
Yeah. And I'll be like, yo, you got to take this off. Yeah. Yeah.
Because then it leads to other things, you know, because then you get your paycheck. You're like, why can't put it in the bank? Because it's negative $300 from all my overdraft fees. So I got to go to a check-ash and store and I go to the check-ash and store and the check-ash and store takes 8%.
You know, and so then you start losing that money and then you just got this water cash and you don't know what to do with it. I can go to the casino or I can like, my landlord doesn't take cash. My car payment doesn't take cash. And so if I want to pay them, I have to go to back to the check-ash and store and buy a money order and that's more money.
And then you so it's just like it is so expensive to be poor in this country. It is insane, you know, and then gambling is for the poor. The lottery is one of the biggest scams. This is your thing.
You don't see many high rollers going into gas stations and getting scratch off tickets. Dude, it's it's just not happened. Rich man never bought a lottery ticket. Yeah.
You know, he doesn't have to. He's he said it's all for any. You see those people. They're like buying 100 tickets and scratching it off and they give it back and scratching it.
And it's disgusting and it's so scary. And you're like, I've been stuck behind that guy at the register. You're just like, I just want my soda. Could you please stop wasting all of your money to these guys?
And when it comes to other towns like Nevada, you know, everywhere is a casino in Nevada. The grocery stores got slot machines, the airports got slot machines, the convenience stores got slot machines everywhere. The bar has got slot machines because of the culture there. Yes, it is.
And if you have less than 15 slot machines, then you're considered not a casino. So any fucking joke and just have a slot, you've got a slot machine in your house. You know, like it's that it's that ridiculous out there. There's like Bitcoin fucking ATMs in Vegas because it's the only money that PIMS take.
It's a they call it a sense city for a reason, you know, and it's it's and it's why I've uncovered all this shit in the movie. And I realized like there are so many factors that come into it. And it's not just the government. I just I want to really because a lot of people they're like, you go after Medicare or the price of insulin.
It's like, yes, huge part of it. It's part of it. Yeah. And that's like what started the spiral.
But the thing I'm more concerned with is all the private citizens who literally just make their money off of taking money from desperate people. One of the saddest things that that sometimes people do, which is a huge industry living in the, you know, cities like LA or New York is people prey on people's dreams. They're predatory on people's dreams. And one time I came out here when I first moved out here, I'd been working morning radio in Kansas City.
And I really thought that I'd be able to get another job because I'd worked in, you know, the Kansas City market. It's not a huge market, but it's a main metropolis city. So I was like, okay, I might be able to get some some work. So I go to one of these cold auditions where you have to they're saying you have to pay to to to audition to read to possibly, you know, like become a radio host, which is basically like what now is podcasting.
They showed the facilities and stuff and it's this old equipment. They're like, you can have your own radio show, which they probably would have given you your radio show on some random point six radio station or whatever. But nobody's listening to it. And it's literally feeding into people's egos and dreams of being like, Hey, you can be a broadcaster.
And I did, you know, I did a cold reading there like we'd like to offer you the next step. And they're like, this is the next step. We just need $150 for this. And that, you know what I mean?
That's like there's sharks in the water and I hit up my old DJ boss and goes, you should never ever have to transfer money to get a job. He goes like for anything, he goes, look out for all these agents who want you to get certain headshots, there's certain companies and all that stuff. Oh, yeah, you got to get your headshots updated every six months. They tell you and you know, you're like, go fuck yourself.
And then oh my God. And then, you know, not to talk bad about the unions that I'm in, but it's mafia. It's impossible. You know, like it's a red dog appears on your forehead.
Okay, sorry. I take that back about the unions. I'm not bad. But like, honestly, like I'm sitting here, I'm a struggling actor.
I get my first gig and I'm not allowed to take the gig until I give them $1,500. Right. Impossible. It's impossible.
I got I got booked on one gig. So you like start paying a little bit here, a little bit there and those payments are not small. They're like, it's like it's like 500 a pop every time. I remember one time I got a gig on my buddy's TV show, but I was lucky enough to just get a through me apart and it was great.
I crushed it. I loved it. Friends of the people forever. I love that show.
And but I booked the gig and I do the show and then two days later, I get a call from Sag telling me that if I don't pay them, then they're going to have to reshoot the scene. I was in. That's pretty ballsy. All right there.
Like it's my friends TV show. It's like directly fucking with my friend now and it was a mess. So losing money on the gig. It's like, you know, it's everything comes.
And now like honestly, now that I'm paid in and I'm paying my dues and it's been a great help, you know, and it's been, but it's that initial hump that I don't understand why it's so much from the people who have so little. It really, it always, this whole country is built around that. It's so hard to get to the next step and it's so expensive to get to the next step that it becomes impossible, you know, and that's also how the industry stays so fucking white. And it's because they're only catering to people who have money to start.
You know, if you don't have the money to start, then I'm sorry. You can't you would be shocked. I think most people would be shocked. How many of the current social media stars came from either super, super wealthy families or connected people who are already in the industry?
It's very, it's that whole like, you know, the, the, the, the genuine Kardashian effect where it's very like, it's all under this umbrella of family members like who are hooking each other up kind of thing, which is also, I don't have a problem with that. As long as everyone else also has a fair shot, right? You know, because it's not like if I ever had a kid, I wouldn't want to help them, you know, like you help your kids. That's what you do.
You know, and so it's like, I understand that. But at the same time, it can't make it impossible for other people to start. And like, it's I do, I know that we're going through a lot of heavy shit in this country right now. And I know a lot of it is just like people in the streets fucking and I support it.
But I think people need to realize a lot of these people who think that they're, you know, a exceptional and I'm talking about the poor white people, you have been duped by the rich to think that you're special. You know, and that is something that the classism is happening all over the place in this country everywhere you turn. You're not, you know, you might think you're in a group and you are not. They don't do.
Yeah, man. And so it's, it's, it's insane. And they take the most vulnerable moments of your life and they'll find a way to screw you and you know, how to bleed you out a little more and just get that little bit of more money. And you know, and that's, let's face it, like we go back to overdraft fees and banks.
That's the only way they're going to make money off of poor people. Yeah, not make a money off of my $300 bank account. That's, you know, they're not, you know, they're not, you know, the interest isn't crazy. Yeah.
So let's, let's face it. The only way they're going to make money off of me is if I fuck up. And so they want you to fuck up because that's when the money starts rolling in and they charge you $35 a time. And when it came to gambling, my mom's gambling problem, she would write bad checks because she knew that if she wrote a check and handed it to the lady at the casino that they would give her money back and she'd be able to go to the, go to the table and have a chance to win and then go put that money in the bank real fast.
And then that's not a bad check. That's a good check. You know, and that was like how like, how a gambler's mind thinks. Yeah.
And the thing with those bad checks at Trump, Taj Mahal, which is where my mom used to go was a check, like a normal check. He read a check, your landlord and it bounces. He could put it in three times or she could put it in three times and then it bounces. Three times and then it's not good anymore and you have to develop another check.
But they came and every time it bounces, you get charged by the bank and you get charged by the people where it bounced from. So it's like $50 every time it happens. But Trump, Taj Mahal, when they were still open, they figured out that you can submit a check three times electronically. And then three times the paper checks.
They were submitting these checks six times each. And then my mom was so desperate, she was like four or five checks deep. And the thing is, they don't want you to write a good check because they don't make any money. That's their business model.
That's how they capitalizes. So I go back to the window where my mom was paying these checks and I physically walk in the casino and I go to the window and I try to pay my mom's debt. And they're like, no, we don't take money here. We don't take money.
If you want to pay the debt, you have to wire it to Vegas. This isn't a way of sitting. And so you're just like, what? I got to wire it to Vegas even though I'm right here and I want to give you the money that we owe you.
And like, no, you don't want the debt to be solved. They want it to accrue and build up interest and everything like that. Yeah, man. It's a predatory system and there's just a couple of people getting real fat off it.
And I think it's messed up. And we've let it go on too long. We should not be praying on our most helpless. And I think that is the real problem with America right now.
And it's capitalism, which is I'm down with capitalism. I want to make money. I want to have a bunch of money. I like money.
I'm into it. I just don't want to steal it from anybody, especially someone who doesn't have it. And that's unfortunately where a lot of people make their money and it's fucked up. You know, and then that's the point of the movie is I really can check it out on the meal, right?
I'm being starting October 2nd. I'm doing a limited release because I didn't I hadn't found anywhere to take it yet. And I'm still pitching it and stuff. But the thing is, I'm kind of shooting myself in the foot here because I don't think anyone's going to take it after I release it.
But I really just wanted it to be available before the election. And I'm just going to eat what I'm excited. I made the money with my mom's insurance money. And so I just because I was like, I don't know how to deal with this.
I have this crazy anger problem. I'm not allowed to kill people. And the only thing I know what to do is make documentaries. And so I'm going to make a documentary.
And so I took the money from the my mom's life insurance. By the way, if your parent dies, you don't owe and they have like a big and they're in a crazy debt, you don't owe that debt. If there is no estate, my mom had no estate. There's no money in the bank account when she died.
So you don't owe that money. If you get the life insurance from your family member that died, you don't have to take that life insurance money and solve those debts. No matter what the fuck they try and tell you, you do not owe them any money. So please remember that's like one of the things people try to trick you all the time.
Oh, it'd be good if you settled your mom's to fuck you. You pray down her. You know, it's interesting. You don't have to do that.
That insurance money is non taxable and it's yours. And so so make a note of that guys like, I mean, it's one of those. You know, it's a sad thing to have to come to terms with later on when that happens to you. But if you're going through that right now, like, yeah, listen to what I'd say.
And he's been through this. He literally made a documentary about this. You know, what else is a crazy thing that no one really talks about that you got to do when your parent dies is the first thing you do is you have to throw a party, like an expensive one of that expensive. Very expensive.
And I honestly, I had a really good, the guy, the funeral home director was really cool. And so I was he was very nice. He put out a cake. He was pretty cool.
I mean, he had beer balling illness. Like this dude was pretty chill. Yeah, straight up. It was just me in the room.
And I was like, so we're going to do this cheap. I was like, I was like, no upsells today. Yeah, we're just going to get me out of here and we're just going to do it like this. And then oh my God.
Are you Catholic? No. All right. So I was raised Catholic and my mom is very Catholic.
I'm now because I was raised Catholic. I'm an atheist, but my mom is it was very religious. And she's, you know, so I knew because she died in her sleep, she didn't get her last rights. Right.
And so I remember going being like, OK, I'm going to go ahead and make this happen for her. I'm like, find a priest who's just going to bless her body and they wouldn't do it. The priest wouldn't bless her body. I remember I went to a church.
My mom went to my mom's church and I was just like, so my mom passed away. You know, she's over at a kids funeral home. I was wondering if maybe I can get someone to go over there and bless her body. And the guy was just like, oh, I'm sorry, son, but we don't do that.
And I remember just being like, no, no. So you just go over there and you do the side of the cross-atter and, you know, I'll give you a donation, you know, and it'll be fine. And then he's just like, oh, that's not allowed. And I just remember just being like, I'm, fight you.
Like, I don't believe it. You will bless my mom. That's my mom. I'm the most I came for.
OK? Either you're blessing my mom or where I get it in the oven together. That's like, I don't believe it. God.
I will punch you and not feel better. You know, that. I'm going to find you. I'm going to find you.
And so I've got to the situation where I'm calling a million different places up. And I'm like, I'm like, Toronto, you started going down all the different religions. Yeah. And finally they're like, no, we do not do that.
I was losing my mind. I couldn't believe I couldn't get so fucking blessed a piece of toast if you ask. You know, like, it's just like, if I got a card, so what was the main reason why? Because it is the sacrament supposed to happen when you're alive.
The sacrament supposed to be your last rights or so, like on your deathbed. Ideally, a priest comes up to you and like holds your hand like the day you die. But that's a scene in a movie that doesn't always happen. Like, it never fucking happens like that.
It's all I was losing my mind. And finally my aunt, like a day and a half later, she's like, I found a guy. I think that guy is calling into the show right now. Yes.
I got some money. Would you mind coming down over to kids funeral home and my mother passed over to kids like kids like, yes, yes, you got it. You got it. Tom's for every New Jersey.
You've been there. Oh, I understand completely. Well, I have my aunt come pick you up and you can come down and you have you bring a Bible and you just bless her real quick. They'll throw you some cash.
Do you believe in God? Yes. You got money coming to you, buddy. Oh, that's fine.
Do you have like a priest collar or anything like that? Should I have to check pick up for you as well? You know, this is amazing. Father June, thank you so much.
But that's really not far from the truth. Unfortunately, it was like some dude that might slap the pre he was like a four hundred pound fill of water on the other thing. It's like build a priest. It's like coming up and you're like, pop up is like, you're blessed.
But yeah, the dude shows up. He's got this old as Bible. He's like 400 pounds of shirts not tucked in. You know, and it's like, it's like, where's the body?
You're like, dude, I'll tell you. Let's let's do this. Yeah. Here's your 200 bucks.
And we go down and he's blessed. And he was blessed. My mom is. He's blessed.
And he's blessed. And he's very I remember. Oh, God. And I go to the kids guy.
I'm like, Hey, so my mom's covered up right. I don't want to see her. Yeah. And then he's like, yes.
And I go down and she's like, she's not covered up. I'm like, God damn it, dude. What the fuck? I'm like, she wasn't like a tits worn out or anything.
But like, she was like, you know, like it was her face. I was like, I asked. Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, I don't want to say it.
Like later he told me, like, you know, I did that on purpose. And you needed to see her. He was closer and all this shit. And so I was just like, Oh, God.