Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world.

It is time to step out onto the high wire.

Well, you know, back many years ago, I spent my time in New York, I did some acting, I did some traveling,

and musical theater, all of that.

And I remember watching the Academy Awards long and lead dreaming maybe someday that would be me and Tony Awards and all those things.

And through the years, every once in a while, one of those actors would step up on the stage and do some diet tribe about some political issue.

And I remember all the pundits going crazy, who are these actors?

Who do they think they are, dictating upon us their knowledge as though they have any knowledge beyond, you know, how to hit a B flat without a piano or to, you know, do a two step across the stage.

And, you know, it was always offensive when I was an actor, but now when I look back, there are these moments that it can be a little bit disgusting when an actor comes to some sort of self-aggrandised moment to pontificate upon us their own opinions about a subject.

Well, I don't think anything has exemplified how disgusting that can be more than a video that is going viral this week.

This is out of New York City, I believe. This is a Broadway show and Patty LaPone, one of the great singers of our times decided that she had something to say to an audience member who apparently was letting their mass slide below their nose. Take a look at this.

That's the reason you used to have my name here. Put your mouth over your nose. That's why you're in the theater. That is the rule. If you don't want to follow the rule, get the f*** out!

What do you think you are? You're not respect the people that are sitting around you. Chris Harper pays my salary. Who do you think you are? You mean I'm just put your mask over your nose.

I mean the irony of the fact that she's sitting with like co-stars all around here. None of them are wearing masks, but apparently if you're sitting next to each other and you're not an actor, who do you think you are? In fact, I was thinking if you were writing this into a script which Patty LaPone is used to reading, I think that screenplay would read something like this.

Ms. LaPone screams at the audience member. Pull your mask over your nose. Who do you think you are? If you don't care about the people sitting next to you, then get the f*** out! Cut to the two co-stars sitting directly next to Ms. LaPone, wiping her saliva from their faces. The result of her frothing spits spewing tirade.

At least that's how I would write it if I was writing the screenplay. Ms. LaPone, you're totally out of line, you're totally hypocritical. What do you call these two things sitting right next to you on both sides? Are those not people too? Are you not disrespecting them? I mean wake up and look around you.

The type of insanity we're all dealing with, this type of madness, and maybe it's not Patty LaPone's fault. She's a part of that brainwashing insanity. She's watching CNN every single day. It's really getting her overly excited.

She's laughing out and maybe she feels like she's lost too much salary already from the COVID pandemic. Now that they finally open up and allow people to wear their masks, she gets paid, which is what one of the audience members points out. We're paying your salary and she didn't seem to like that response very much.

But this masking issue has really been one of the big juggernauts since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. In fact, I found myself in the middle of this. I have questioned the use of vaccines. We have had professionals on here many, many times before.

But one video we did in particular, and this made me think about it because it's sort of come up again for several different reasons. But I brought my son ever on over a year ago. I think it's probably almost a year and a half ago on to the show. To test masks, we had gotten a CO2 monitor.

And we decided let's just see what the CO2 levels are in his mask just for those of you that haven't been following us for that long. This is just a little experiment, the types of things we do here on the high wire. This is what that look like.

This is my son ever. Ever is 11 years old. And here in Texas, the mandate right now is that 10 and over have got to wear a mask. Ever has to wear a mask wherever we go. And so we bought this thing this week.

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