My guest today is a hilarious friend of mine. He has stuff on Netflix himself, got a podcast,

that I've done a number of time Fitzdog radio, and he's a great man and his name is Greg Fitzsimmons.

It's nice to be called a man.

Do you feel like a man?

What is the, what was the thing that made you first feel like a man? I still don't feel like a man. Yeah. I'd say you're especially with that hat a lad. I'm a lad. Yeah. You're a lad. I got a twinkle in my eye. Yeah, you got the the pay the the news boy had on. Yeah

Put a hot shave on it today. Oh, no, thank you. Thank you for that. I think when my father died I felt like a man for the first time.

Are you the only son? No I have a brother who's 13 months older and you why do you feel like a man when your dad died?

I sort of felt like I had to take care of my mom even though

financial I thought I thought my dad was in debt when he died and then it turned

out like you know he was he was in radio and after, which people forget,

it's the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors.

There was a time where a radio job was union, where you actually got health benefits, a pension, collective bargaining, and that was just after SAG. It was the same as the actors on TV and film.

And when he died, he got this sweet pension from AFTRA that, you know, he had some savings and they own the house.

So she was, but I went into a

panic and overnight I became a man I started approaching the stand up it had been

how old were you 25 how long you been doing it four years and you were

sort of like it was like a little bit like silly and fun and and fun?

Do you have a day job?

No, no.

I was lucky I started in Boston and you know it was just there was so many gigs that.

Got it.

If you had 15 you could make a living.

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