Alright, it is August 14th of Monday. This is episode number 710 of Let The Be Talk. Welcome aboard. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Hope you're still alive. That's why you're listening because you are alive. Are you alive?

Anyway, good to have you here. Lots to talk about today. It will be a solo episode. And I hope that you enjoy the ride.

Great weekend was out doing shows all weekend. I was at the comedy store and the Hollywood improv. Great crowds. A lot of new jokes starting to happen.

Starting to feel good about them. They're working. I'm tanker. I'm tanker in on the material.

But I had a fun weekend. Weather wasn't too hot. Just been home for I've been off the road now. I think I three three weeks.

I'm ready to get back out there, which by the way, some road shows are coming up. I'll be headlining at the comedy store in La Jolla September 8 9 and 10.

I'm going to be at box car comedy in Utah headline and two nights. Also a new show at Colorado Springs.

And that is at the funny pages. I'm kind of I'm in right now because I'm trying to remember the dates, but they're all at Dean Dale Ray dot com.

Come see me headline. And then of course, a bunch of dates at the end of September with the man Mr. Bill Burr. So those are the shows coming up. Come see me headline.

I enjoy doing an hour and stretching it out. And it's not the better than some butts in the seats and some new clubs. So that'll be cool support the funny pages and box car comedy. These are new clubs and they reached out to book me.

And that's just a miracle when you don't have an agent or manager. It's fantastic. So thank you to both those venues. And also I'm doing the flyover comedy festival.

And where is that St. Louis? That'll be great. It's going to be very cool to do a festival. I haven't done one since the Montreal comedy festival. I think around 2018. I did that.

So looking forward to a lot of good shows and also the merch is up Dean Dale Ray dot com and bonus episodes on the Patreon Patreon dot com slash Dean Del Ray. All right.

Lots to talk about. Let's get into the show. A huge, huge thing happened over the weekend. It was the 50th anniversary of hip hop.

Now that is a, that is a massive, massive number 50. And it's just, it's wild to think about hip hop is 50. And a lot of people go, well, how do they date when it started? You know, when do you date when rock and roll started?

It's an interesting thing, but I did read on it. And it's cool to read how the date that they consider something so organic as hip hop, how it happened.

Of course, it happened in New York. That is really the ground zero of hip hop. If you ask me, of course, later California kick an ass with Dre and NWA and Snoop Dogg and all that and Oakland having some of the great, great rappers will get all into that in a minute, but really to think about hip hop being 50.

Because when I was young, I was around when hip hop started to happen, at least what I thought. I remember around 1978 or so, I was going to a camp up north called Camp Mendocino. It was a boys club camp and it was ran by the Oakland boys club.

And you write a bus long bus trip up to Mendocino and you go to this camp. And the first time I went, I was like, this is going to be awful. I'm away from my friends. And after two days, I was like, I could stay the rest of my life here. It was unbelievable. I went multiple summers. I ended up working there.

You could work so you could go for free and worked in a cafeteria, did shit like that. And it really, it really was a life changer for me.

And I'm just, I'm just so thankful that I went to this camp because it was just incredible. That fucking guns there.

They had rifles. You could shoot rifles. There's no way you go to camp now and they have guns unless you're in the south or something, but it was, you know, target shooting that horseback riding, they had arts and crafts.

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