583 - Simon King (Dark Comedy Legend to Be)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Simon is a Canadian comic with a particular talent for going places that scare the shit out of most of us. He looks into the shadows and finds the humor. From my perspective, that’s the kind of mind that deserves our respect, admiration, and gratitude. Sometimes, laughter is the only antidote to despair, so I consider Simon to be something like a hospice nurse. However I go out, I hope I manage to choke out a chuckle at the beautiful absurdity of it all.

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Here’s that Amazon link I keep forgetting to mention. Hope your fall is going well so far.

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Chango.
0:02.0	Music
0:29.0	That's how you show respect for your animal to stop their suffering.
0:31.7	And no one can argue that that's the right thing to do for your animal when it needs respect and dignity.
0:36.7	Everyone knows that's the right thing to do.
0:38.7	My grandpa is 96 years old.
0:41.7	If he starts walking around the backyard with a Kleenex box in his head,
0:44.7	a cape and a snooze suit and one roller skate,
0:46.7	and decides that he's Superman, and Lex Luther next door is going to steal his wheelbarrow,
0:50.7	I can't show him the same fundamental fucking respect I showed my dog.
0:54.7	That guy really is a war hero.
0:59.7	He elbowed Nazis to death in North Italy for four years,
1:02.7	and never brings it up unless he wants free Pia Denys.
1:04.7	And I can't get him to respect.
1:06.7	He deserves where he lives.
1:07.7	You are not allowed, Euthanasia,
1:09.7	but state-sponsored execution perfectly legally in 30 states.
1:12.7	So now when my grandpa goes crazy,
1:14.7	I got a framing for a double rape and murder in Texas.
1:17.7	Do you know how hard is that a whole man to hold a gun while you milk him for evidence?
1:21.7	That's not easy at all.
1:22.7	He's yet parade yet, his grandpa.
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