TLPP: The Personalized Jersey is Personal with Kirk Wilcox

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4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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A few weeks back I had former Detroit Piston Scot Pollard on the pod and this week I have current…Piston fan Kirk Wilcox. Both men have Piston jerseys with their last names on them. To which I wonder, is it tougher as an adult to wear a personalized jersey? Kirk and I talk about Warped Tour, the ‘04 “Going to Work” Pistons (appropriating blue-collar costumes), Marc Maron’s Doug Allen act, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (via Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man). FDR was stealing gold, killing pigs, technocrat’ing with chickens—and he still gets praise today, even though he reigned before “The Big Switch.” We have a new show on Lions of Liberty! The Politicks Podcast! Be sure to subscribe to the standalone Politicks Podcast feed. This is the absolute best way to support the show! Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And remember, they’re all Blood Suckers! Care about your liberty and future? Don’t miss the Expat Money Online Summit, October 10–12, hosted by Mikkel Thorup of the Expat Money Show. It’s free to attend and features top experts on protecting wealth, securing second residencies, lowering taxes, and owning property abroad. Upgrade for lifetime replay access and VIP panels with promo code LIONS for 20% off. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Attorneys on Retainer https://attorneysforfreedom.my.site.com/signupattorneysonretainerus/s/?promoCode=LU51ZEZ324 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Lou is also a brand ambassador for XX-XY Athletics and Attorneys for Freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.8	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network. And today,
0:42.5	I am joined by Kirk Wilcox. He makes political satire essays for YouTube. So go check them out.
0:49.5	And you could also catch him on Twitch, where he streams as well. And this has been a date in the making.
0:57.0	I've been wanting to get, get Kirk on for a while. And finally, stars have aligned and emails
1:04.8	no longer going to spam. And we were able to make this happen. So Kirk, I appreciate it. Thank you,
1:10.7	dude. And I'm honored to be the happen. So, Kirk, I appreciate it. Thank you, dude.
1:11.6	And I'm honored to be the first show you're doing after former Piston Scott Pollard, which I noticed that is Pistons jersey behind him on your interview.
1:21.0	So I'm like, I'm going to put my personalized Pistons jersey behind me.
1:24.8	This is a new Lou Porez thing, right? And it's just going to be nothing but Pistons fans and former Pistons players. We're turning this into a Pistons podcast now. We're taking over. The first thing I was going to bring up was I was going to say, Hey, Kirk, you know, it's so funny, you have a Pistons jersey up because, you know, who else? You know who was on my podcast? Scott Pollard. So I thought it was so organic for, I thought it was just, oh, wow, incredible synchronicity. But no, Kirk's like, you know, I'm totally, this is a total setup for that. But, oh, yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. And for those of you who haven't watched the episode, I got to interview Scott Pollard, who is a former NBA player. He played over 10
2:07.0	seasons, which is really rare. I didn't know that at the time. He played 10 seasons in the NBA.
2:13.3	He's 6 foot 11, and he needed a heart transplant about a year and a half ago.
2:20.6	And he's a big man and it's really difficult to find a heart for people that size.
2:27.5	So, you know, fortunately he was with the technology that we have today, they were able to find a heart that,
2:34.3	you know,
2:34.6	is keeping this dude running. And, um, yeah, it was a really interesting, uh, interview. Uh, I think, yeah, and he came off. I think he's like a really, you know, great guy and I got to talk to him, you know, off camera. Uh, and, And yeah, I think we're friends now.
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