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Arizona riddled in COVID right now.

I took an Uber and I was like, hey, how's the COVID thing going?

And he goes, ah, it's pretty much gone.

I was like, that's not science, that's not, it's pretty much gone.

Like, they don't care my first show back since COVID.

It was in Arizona.

There was just like this huge COVID spike. It was right when the George Floyd protest started and the city was pretty much on fire. Literally the mountains were on fire, protest, COVID, shows completely sold out.

Nobody cared. My backyard, I could just see flames everywhere.

And I get a text message from the government.

I was like, you have to evacuate. I was like, oh my evacuate I was like oh my God and again I'm from

LA I'm scared of everything so like I get my little backpack I go to evacuate you know what

my neighbors were doing swimming in the pool and I go, I go, did you guys get the text?

Should we evacuate?

The child looks at me and goes,

it looks like we're swimming in a volcano.

Then, I go to the dad, are you evacuated evacuated and he just goes nah fuck the government I was like alright

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