My guest today is a guy I've known. We've sat at the comedy cellar table over a dozen times.

I would bet we've spoken near each other to each other, but don't know each other very well.

And he's got a book out called Spellbound, and he's on tour now with the same white,

let's fucking double up spell. Let's call it comedy tour spellb on as well.

It's Phil Hanley, you guys. Phil Hanley. Applaud for him wherever you are. Okay, Phil

Hanley. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. So the essence of the book, from what I understand,

is being dyslexic. Yeah. Now, here's the, what I want to say

about dis, you need to listen to what I need to want to say. What I want to say about dyslexia and

ADHD, it seemed like no one knew either of them. Yeah. Okay. And then people started to say they

had it about 20 years ago. And it became a bit of like a garden

variety of like yeah I'm just like it was like oh I'm OCD whatever yeah became like a thing people

said and then in the last two or three years people have started to come out and been like

no this is a fucking problem yeah ADHD is a real problem for me, or for people.

Yeah.

And dyslexia was a real problem for you.

And tell me about, because it, it seems like it's, it's defining and created a domino effect over your entire life.

Yeah, it's, I mean, it's the driving force of everything that's occurred. and created a domino effect over your entire life.

Yeah, it's, I mean, it's the driving force of everything that's occurred in my life as being dyslexic, for sure.

Which must be fucking infuriating.

Well, it started.

And back now, people, back then, it wasn't, people didn't even know what it was.

And when I finally got tested and found out, and my mom would be like, oh, no, he's dyslexic. The teacher's response would be like, no, I still think he's lazy and he's not trying. But it was just, you know, it's mission impossible for me. Yeah. And so kindergarten was, you know, they thought, okay, this, you know, the young man has a hope. And then, like, first day of first grade, it was just like, bang, like my version of Oliver Twist. Just like... So you look at a black, you look at the alphabet. Yeah. Basically the crown molding of every first grade classroom. Yeah, it taunts me. Yeah.

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