#141: Happiness (@SteveSimeone)

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🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Steve Simeone invited me over to his place while I was in LA and we talked about happiness. It started off being a conversation about being broke, but it quickly shifted as it became evident that Steve's poverty level was no longer the main influence on his mood. We talked about girls, and about family, and about giganitic boobs. But at its base, it's just a couple of buddies hanging out.

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0:00.0	Like there's nothing better than when you're like does she have big tits?
0:02.9	I think she has big tits and then you're like oh my I want to meet a girl that
0:07.1	Who's so self-conscious she never went swimming for me just 13 to 22
0:30.0	Are we recording? Yes, we are ladies and gentlemen. How are you? Welcome to R.H. Ferris Guptertank. I'm R.E. Shafir. I'm at the airport in Austin some guy staring at me
0:52.1	These are always weird to do when I'm at the airport because people stare at me
0:55.8	So how so on today's episode
1:01.1	Steve Simone he's been on a bunch. I think he was on the God episode
1:05.2	It was really good heat me him and run as easy. Just had a nice talk about God
1:10.8	Simone has always been
1:14.6	I guess I mean we were door guys together at the comedy store, you know, we've known each other for 12 13 years and
1:21.1	maybe more and
1:24.1	It was semi suicidal for a long time not in the classic way
1:29.1	Not in the classic. I'm thinking of killing myself way, but more of an existential way
1:34.1	He would just always like you know life sucks. It's worthless. You can't make it unless you're a star
1:40.3	Unless you have parents that are in the business or unless you're beautiful. You can't find a girl girls are horrible
1:46.7	um
1:48.5	And it all came from somewhere. It was always super poor super broke
1:53.1	But it I don't know. It's just he was like this positive guy that was there was in a shell of negativity
2:01.3	Like nobody wanted to kill themselves more often and Steve Simone
2:07.4	But over the last few years he's kind of changed and he's sort of um I
2:12.8	Don't know he's sort of accepted
2:15.4	So come to not come to terms with who he is because not bad. That sounds like he's like a molester
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