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STephen: Alan, good morning.

Alan: Okay, let me get my volume up a little bit here so that I can

STephen: double check mine. Hear our

Alan: conversation. There we go.

STephen: All right.

Alan: Morning. Good morning. How are you? Once again, I’m all about the fall colors. Helene and I have a trip to Kinswell Bridge planned for later this week. I don’t know if you’ve ever been out there or not, but yeah, old place, a former trestle bridge that Lieutenant Prenado came through and Broke it, but some of it still jumps out into this valley.

And this valley is an amazing display of fall colors. It’s like a bowl of tricks. It’s so colorful. So we’re doing that.

STephen: You have to go camping in the Kinsu dam area with my grandparents. Ah,

Alan: very cool. It’s it’s probably three hours away. Over by Pennsylvania, it’s right on the Pennsylvania, New York border and it’s it isn’t just getting there.

The entire drive is going to be beautiful. Once you get into the foothills of the Poconos and the Adirondacks, I guess that’s still a bit further east, but it’s very hilly all through that area and just around every corner. There’s a new Vista and wow, I love it there.

STephen: Yeah. All right. So we have a list.

Where do we want to start? You want to pick a topic first, or we just want to jump into something?

Alan: Let’s see. I’ll, biggest on my mind is we just saw a fantastic comedy show, Colleen and I really see a lot of comedy. And so it’s not like we’re the total experts, but after a while, you develop a taste and one of our top 10 of all time.

And that’s out of, Hundreds of shows, Jimmy Carr. He’s a rich comedian and has been maybe more known in the United States over the last 10 years, probably has a 30 year career. He’s like Emo Phillips in terms of not the odd delivery, the perfectly written jokes. They’re just gems. Each one of them so well written.

The perfect parapro, IANS, that’s what’s a fancy term for where you take like a left hand turn, it’s a walk down the garden path. He has the perfect setup line, and then the next line is not only funny, but wonderfully surprising, and he does it again and again. And it just, it’s such a mental workout to keep up with him,

And

STephen: It’s not the typical, yeah, not the sound disparaging, the more lowbrow or, the easier to access comedy, exactly. You gotta really stop a minute and think about. Yeah. And he’s

Alan: He’s uses all the language was not that he’s only clean. He’s actually has some great vulgarity, but it’s not just another guy saying motherfucker.

It’s I especially love the fact that. He like one of our common complaints about comedians nowadays is they repeat themselves a lot. They keep talking to the audience about how maybe they’re not getting it enough that joke should have gotten a bigger laugh. And if I was like earn my laughter I am so ready to laugh.

And if you suck. If you take your time too much, if you are continually. Rating me like what I want. And he like Steven, right? Every single joke is good. And so you get a ton of comedy in a two hour show as compared to someone who takes their time,