Hello and welcome to another episode of IWave with Jimmy Ligemail. I hope you're all right.

I'm all right. We're not talking about natural disasters and politics anymore because it's

very stressful and this is not where we go to have that conversation. You come here to escape.

I come here to escape and we are going to run away together. I love today's episode. I'm so excited

about the two things I'm bringing you today. First and foremost, my incredibly funny and wonderful

and poignant guest, Neil Brennan. He is a great stand-up comedian. He's also the co-creator of

the Chappelle show, which is arguably one of the most influential and brilliant comedy shows

of all time. He made this special that's on Netflix a couple of years ago called Three Mikes

and it is this incredible combination of both funny stand-up and social observation but also

heartbreaking honesty and sincerity around trauma as a child and how that goes on to shape the

rest of your life and probably led him to being a stand-up comedian. So he's on this show being

funny and contancorous and overly opinionated. The Neil that I know and love and we went to all kinds

of stupid and then heartbreaking places and he even surprised me with how vulnerable he was

willing to be on this podcast and we still just don't see that enough from men. So I'm so grateful

for him because you know we all need to be soothed, we all need to figure our shit out and so

I welcome, I welcome that conversation on my platform. I can't wait to hear what you think.

But before I play Neil's episode in his chat with me, I'm going to play you a song. Don't worry,

this is not my song. I would never try to infuse a new singing career through this platform. I

would never put you through that. Nobody, nobody asked for that and I know it. But I have come across

this incredible song that is out today and it's about everything that we talk about on this show

and it's such a good, it's like an actual good song and it's very rare that one gets the rights

to music but the artist, his name is Kushy Music, has given me that because I've asked for it

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