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the moon and the moon and the moon and the moon

and the moon and the studio this week is Ben Roy, a Denver-based comedian whose latest comedy special is called hyena. Then welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me and yeah I'm always stoked when the word heavy is thrown

around so I'm for it. I am too yeah this is not a balanced episode where we've got like kind of a bigger thing a smaller thing something in the middle it's it's kind of all heavy but with that being said none of these I think, are totally insurmountable, and I think that without making ourselves responsible for fixing anyone's problems in a single afternoon, I do think that we're going to be able to be useful and I'm especially

excited I think our first question it went in the direction I wasn't expecting like the

way that it started it was sort of setting up like my brother's the golden child

and usually questions like that are about like how do I deal with

my own irritation or resentment or feeling interpolated or misinterpolated and in this case it's a little

bit like I think everyone else is being too hard on him right right and

and I kind of love that I believed the letter writer when they said that I didn't

think they were trying to like cover up for sort of subterranean feelings of jealousy and I thought that was like genuinely pretty cool.

Right. So the subjects here is worker bee. My family have always quote worried

about my brother's education, work ethic, and career.

He was the golden boy who partied too hard and coasted too often to predictable results.

Turns out you can get by without planning or meeting deadlines as long as you're charming and brilliant.

It's been hard feeling like the worker bee mechanic to his big shop surgeon, but he's also my brother and I love him.

I couldn't be him even if you gave me a ladder and a teleprompter,

which helps it from feeling like a competition. What I don't understand is why our family seemed to

resent that he's doing well.

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