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EP 013 with Richard Bowen

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

4.9152 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we have a conversation with stand-up comedian Richard Bowen. We talk about performing in all 50 states and how he used a job building skateparks to do it, winning $10,000 in a Laffy Taffy competition, the mechanics of joke writing, and being diagnosed with depression and how comedy helps him combat it. We also debate who would win in a fight, a Silverback Gorilla or a Kodiak Brown Bear.

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0:00.0

Yeah, man, it's November 6th. It is a voting day. Voting day. You know, it's, uh, it's kind of sad, the state of our country and our politics.

0:11.6

Yeah, I agree. And that's why I've been stoked that we've been kind of like staying out of that in our podcast for the most part. You know we'll talk about issues, but it's not like from like one side toward another. Yeah.

0:23.0

It's like when we come into this studio

0:24.2

into what we've been now calling the interrogation room.

0:26.5

Or the interview room?

0:28.9

Either one.

0:29.6

Yeah, one of them.

0:30.3

We're gonna, we'll come up with a real name here shortly but

0:33.4

There is no agenda there is no I'm trying to win a debate for this side we're not even coming from a side

0:40.9

We're just coming from the side of like curiosity about the

0:43.7

person yeah you know I was at the gym the other day and I I was gonna say you're

0:50.5

looking a little better it It's just the hair, dude.

0:54.0

So I was at the gym the other day

0:58.0

and I picked out this.

1:00.0

I usually pick out the elliptical that is facing a wall and so then I can watch something completely

1:07.8

innocuous like like house hunters or you know some bullshit like that is, you know, it's whatever.

1:14.1

And then to the right is Fox News, and then right next to Fox News is CNN.

1:21.4

And it is so discouraging watching those side by side because they are one

1:29.9

and the same and they are what do you mean they're one in the same they they are. What do you mean they're one in the same? They they're doing the

1:35.2

exact same thing to society on either fringe of a political spectrum.

1:42.7

And it's absolutely terrible.

1:45.3

You know, you have the talking head sitting there

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