What is up everybody? Happy Good Friday or should I say Happy Good Friday. Welcome to another episode of just saying with Justin Martin Dale. We are going to stuff your baskets full of pop culture news and gossip.

The best way we know how producer John, how are you, bud? We're we're doing okay over here. We are over here. Yeah. Did you enjoy the 50th anniversary of the comedy store? Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It was good to see everybody out of there. They're just stressed out anxiety filled night at the club. Yeah, some people dressed up. Yeah, some people did not. It was very hot. It was so hot. I regretted that suit real quick. My God, we were in a heat wave and yeah, everyone was just sweating.

I was looking at everybody going, I don't know how you're in jackets and dresses. I just did like a casual Hawaiian guest shirt. That looks good. But yeah, it was a hot one. It was great. I didn't see any like celebrities there. I mean, it depends what you consider celebrities. That's true. Yeah. I think I saw like a puppet at one point. There was a puppet. Also known as Esther Povitsky. But yeah, overall, it was a great 50th anniversary.

Tempe, thank you for turning out on Saturday. That was really, really fun. It was nice to meet and greet all of you after the shows with Heather McDonald. Thank you for giving me some great feedback about this podcast.

That was a really, really, really fun time. But we've got to start this show off with some bad news. Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to friend here at the comedy store.

Comedy legend, Gilbert Gottfried, passed away from a hidden illness, I think. But another one gone too soon. I mean, I remember him as Iago from Aladdin. That was kind of my favorite Gilbert moment.

But RIP or is the last factory will say make God laugh. Yeah, he was really good to me when I was doing stand up in my 20s. He was like the first one who gave me actual useful advice. Yeah. And like, that was a bummer to read this morning.

I know everybody's dropping like flies. Man, we were talking before the podcast even started. We were saying like, I feel so bad for these young door guys who have to go change the marquee every week because somebody else kicked it.

But, you know, thoughts and prayers out to his family and friends, another one gone too soon, wrecking the comedy community.

But good news. It is Easter. It's a good Friday. So we're going to keep it going with some good news. And I'm going to start with this good news.

I'm not letting you go. You have the rest of April to use my discount 40 Justin cozy earth.com to get yourself some nice silky cozy pajamas and bedding mother's days right around the corner. So don't be afraid to use that discount 40 Justin. And thanks to everyone who's DM me saying, oh my God, thank you so much.

Because 40% off is a big deal. And I'm not just like throwing that out into the wind. You're going to get a good discount. And you're going to think me later. Happy Easter. Don't say I didn't do anything for you.

But let's get into it. Since the Easter is right around the corner. What do you wait? By the way, do you celebrate Easter, John? I do not. You don't know. I don't celebrate because you worship the dark Lord. Yeah. Okay. I'm one of the chosen ones. Okay.

But not a big Easter fan. No, I don't understand Easter, I guess. Honestly, it was always as a kid. I was always jealous because I was a Passover kid. So like everybody was excited for Easter and we were eating cardboard. Oh, you're a Passover kid. I was. Yeah. Now I don't follow it as much. But yeah, I used to we used to be eating.

Yeah. And you guys got to enjoy Easter Sunday and be done with it and still had a week off where you got to enjoy your vacation in school. Yeah. We had a week off where we were eating cardboard.

I mean, I get that. I don't really, I don't really remember Easter, which is really weird because I grew up in Texas. So it was like Easter was like a big deal. I remember getting baptized because I thought it was cool.

And then like I remember like my family would hide Easter eggs around the yard. And I remember one year. I reached until like, you know, where you turn your sprinklers on in your front yard. And I was like, I knew there was an egg down there and I reached down and grabbed what I thought was an egg, but it was a scorpion with thousands of babies on its back. And it stung the hell out of my hand.

And that's when I gave up on Easter. That'll do it. This isn't for me. It's not for me. And I just, I don't know something about the Easter Bunny just freaks me out that we've like normalized this weird pagan rodent that just like comes into your house.

Well, I think for for Jews, like the one thing that I could say is like Passover, you would read the stories in the like at the Passover dinner thing. I never quite understood the elements of Easter, the bunny, the eggs.

Yeah, like I just there was never a story. It's like fertility. Yeah, but bunnies don't lay eggs, but then there's Jesus, but then we put blood all over our doors, which that's my jam.

I think I that's like, I'm like, oh, we got to like put blood on our doors. I'll be like, okay. That's that's where I roll. But we do that also though for Passover. That's what you did. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that was like, yeah, you put the blood over the door.

So the angel of death doesn't kill your first born. Oh, those were the days. And this is why I don't believe in religion. That's basically the exact same story of

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