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I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.

It's the Sound of Young America from MaximumFund.org and PRI, Public Radio, International.

Music

CUMOR is a stand-up comic from Los Angeles.

He's also been a writer on shows like Chocolate News, on Comedy Central, and the Leresis Lounge show on MTV among others.

We recorded him live on stage at the Benson Ball in Washington, D.C.

All right, yes. How's it going, boys and girls?

Yeah!

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Check out my fake enthusiasm. How you like it? Yeah!

I am never this enthused. You can ask my friends.

So, I'm getting old, boys and girls. I am getting old.

This is how I know I'm getting old.

Every concert I want to go to, there are always tickets left.

Every concert. I'm on the phone.

I'm like, oh, so you still have cool moldy tickets left.

Oh, really? Oh, front row! It starts in five minutes.

So, I know I'm getting old. I will jump from subject to subject because, I don't know, I left my takeaways in the hotel room.

I'm not an animal lover. I'm not an animal hater, either. I'm like in the middle.

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