#44: Autistic Brother (with Mike Recine)

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🗓️ 30 January 2012

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mike Recine was visiting LA last week and he came over to talk while he was in town. We shared some beers and talked about having a brother with severe autism.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to our chauffeur skeptic tank for the week of Monday
0:05.0	January 30th 2012. Hi everybody, how are you? On this episode I interview
0:12.2	comedian Mike Racine he's visiting from New York so he came over for a minute
0:18.0	he was just doing spots in town so he came over and we drank some beers and we
0:22.3	talked about he had this autistic brother but he was like severely autistic so
0:26.8	we talked about that but it was like growing up having him in the house. Mike
0:31.2	didn't know fuck all about the causes of autism or anything like that or any
0:36.4	studies that based on him he just knows what it's like growing up with one. So it's
0:41.6	fine we met at the Montreal Comedy Festival this year it was there he was really
0:44.9	funny but he was in New York so while he was here from New York to LA I'm
0:49.5	sorry I'm super fucking high and I've tried to record this 19 times and I can't
0:52.6	get it done so this is the last try I mean this is going. Anyway it's a good
0:57.4	episode it's fun. In terms of stand-up I'm in Minneapolis right now actually I
1:03.3	just finished my week there at House of Comedy it was at the Mall of America but
1:07.9	surprisingly it was still fucking good. I had a lot of fans come out I really
1:12.7	appreciate it you got everyone who came out that's I really do appreciate it you
1:16.4	you have no idea how much better it makes the experience of doing stand-up when
1:20.5	you get like at least 20% of people who know me in the audience like if you
1:25.8	listen to this you sort you get it a little bit right it's like just as
1:31.2	long as you get it you're just normal and it's fine then if I can get like
1:35.8	dark here there then like those 20% to 30 or 40% whatever it is a people
1:40.8	like know who I am just let there others know like you can let your guard down
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