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In this episode of Lament Tonight, host Bob introduces rising comedy talent Joe Cason from Detroit, who now performs in Nashville. Joe shares anecdotes about growing up in Detroit, revealing his self-deprecating humor and clever observations about his life, family, and experiences. He discusses the challenges of being a comedian and the unique culture shock he faced when moving to Nashville, including the differences in accents and lifestyle. Joe performs several comedic bits, touching on topics like therapy, family dynamics, and dating. The conversation also delves into Joe’s upcoming shows, including a competition for Nashville’s Funniest Comedian and his weekly open mic event, which fosters collaboration among comedians. The episode wraps up with Bob thanking Joe for his participation and encouraging listeners to catch him live.
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Hey, everybody, and welcome to Lament Tonight. We’ve got a good one for you. Stick around and find out what Joe Cason’s all about. Right now, Gary Lime and the Fleetones take us away. One, two, three, four. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much, Gary. It’s always great to have you here. Bob, you are a great asshole. Thank you, Gary. I really appreciate when you talk nice to me like that. We’re here tonight with Joe Cason. I don’t know if anybody knows who Joe Cason is, but I kind of do. I won’t say that I know him personally, but Joe Cason is a rising comedy talent hailing from Detroit, believe it or not. He made it out alive, but without any equity in his home. And he’s now bringing the laughs to Nashville.
Where, I mean, if you bought early, it’s probably worth a lot of money at this point. Known for sharp one-liners and clever wordplay, his act blends self-deprecating humor, absurd observations, and stories from growing up in the Motor City. So without further ado, let’s just go ahead and welcome Joe. Tell us about it. Hey, Bob. Thank you so much for having me. So good to be here. Oh, great. And regale us here with some Motor City madness, as it were. Oh, it was a fun city to grow up in. Everyone called me White Joe. The only thing was there weren’t any other Joes. They could have just called me by my name. That would have been a little better, but it was fun. I enjoyed it. Well, that’s great. I guess there was no other Joes, so they called other people like, well, it’s Slightly Tan Mark.
I guess they probably should have. Or maybe Vitiligo Martin. That was actually my neighbor. Joe, why don’t you just jump right into the comedy for us and do some material? Absolutely. I’m happy to do it for you guys. So good to be here, everybody. So I gave up porn recently. Don’t know what I’m going to do for money now. But I will figure something out, I guess, but I’m just kidding. Uh, I didn’t make any money. I was recently told I look like Timothy Chalamet if he was left in the dryer for too long, but that much of a market for that. But, uh, I just turned, uh, just had a birthday. I just turned 29, which is fun. Uh, but 29 is kind of a weird age because I’m too young to own a home and I’m too old for a P Diddy party.
But being 29 in my family is a little strange, though, because my younger siblings are a lot more successful than me. Like my younger sister is a doctor. My younger brother’s an engineer. I bought a massage chair recently. It’s kind of a weird purchase when you’re unemployed, but it is weird being the family disappointment when your mom believes in Bigfoot. So that’s. It’s kind of weird that my mom believes in Bigfoot, you know, this mythical creature that’s never been seen. But she gave up on me in 2009. I’ve been trying to take blurry pictures of myself and send it to her to prove to her that I am real, you know. And my dad is like 99% convinced I’m gay, which means he’s only 1% wrong.
I got a text from my dad last month. He’s like, happy pride month, but you’re having fun. I’m like, dude, you’ve met my girlfriend. What are you doing? He says it so much. I’m starting to believe it. You know what I mean? But, uh, so anyway, I’m in therapy. Therapy is good, but my therapist, uh, she thinks I’m having a midlife crisis, which is a really sad way to find out. I’m apparently going to die in my fifties. Uh, she’s not a real doctor, you know? I’m actually glad I had a therapy today. I’m glad I didn’t get institutionalized because I have therapy every Thursday at 1130. I showed up yesterday at one o’clock thinking it was time. And they’re like, Mr. Case, and this is not your day. You usually have your appointments Thursday at 1130. And instead of saying, oh, I’m sorry, I’m brain dead. I just said, oh, I’m sorry, I’m bread. So I went into therapy, called myself bread.
He’s fully expecting to be institutionalized today, but glad that didn’t happen. I didn’t help the situation, though, when my therapist is like, imagine your younger self is sitting right next to you. And I was like, oh, you see him, too. So, yeah, but I am working on improving myself, though. Like I have, like I said, I’m dating again, which is good, which is it is good, though, because my last girlfriend ended up keying my car. I now drive a 2009 Toyota douchebag. So that’s great. But yeah, it’s like I said, speaking of things not going your way, my grandpa was in the Holocaust. And people always, when you have family in the Holocaust, people will always say like, would you ever go visit their concentration camp? And I was like, I would say like, yeah, I guess. But I looked it up one day and found out
This is a true story. His camp was bulldozed and they turned it into an amusement park. So now I actually want to go, you know, ride the holocauster or whatever rides they have. But it’s fun. My family is actually a Romani. There’s a stereotype that Romani people are criminals and thieves. And that’s kind of a sad fact. And then I found out that the the only three Romani words to make it to the English language. are Shank, Shiv, and Narc. Which is really upsetting. Yeah, so upset when i heard that fact. I decided to return uh all the wallets i had recently stolen. But I’m glad my family came to America, though. You know, move somewhere uh free of crime, free of poverty. So I’m from Detroit, as you said and detroit is a tough city to grow up in. And I know i don’t look tough.
But that’s because I’m not. It was dangerous, actually, growing up in Detroit, looking like me. I have what they call resting snitch face. So that was fun. But I get it, though. I’m kind of a small guy. Like, I was once asked to play a cancer patient on a TV show. And they told me I’d have to gain a couple pounds. That’s great. Actually, back in Detroit, they used to call me, uh, Extra Slim Shady instead. No, they really did call me white Joe. And, uh, I got bullied a lot in Detroit. That’s because i embarrassed myself a lot. Like, I, uh, used to accidentally call my teacher Mom. Which is weird. It was especially weird because i went to an all-black school. So that made it a little weirder but uh yeah but i’ll leave you guys on uh this i uh joined a gym recently. Yeah.
I don’t really understand how gyms work because people keep asking me to spot them and I just don’t carry cash on me like that. But there’s actually this couple at my gym that’s trying out for that show Naked and Afraid. And I could never do that because I’m already clothed and terrified as it is. But there’s this giant mural on the wall at my gym that just says I was born ready. And I really hate that statement. Because I was born premature. I was not ready at all. All right. That’s what I got for you today, Bob. Thank you. Fantastic. Joe Case and everybody. And White Joe. I think we’re just going to call you that from now on. You know, there’s no, we’re going to drop the case and just White Joe. White Joe. I’m down with that. You know, I mean, it could be a comedian name or a rapper name, actually. It could be. I could be both. There’s Ugly Kid Joe.
That’s another one that’s out there, right? That’s right. There’s Fat Joe. Remember Fat Joe? I remember Fat Joe, yeah. Now he’s not so Fat Joe. Yeah, he lost it. Lost a lot of weight. But you got to change the name. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Fat Joe. I mean, if you were to go to Tahiti for a year and come back all tan, they wouldn’t call you White Joe anymore. They’d call you Tan Joe from Tahiti. I can go with Tan Joe. I prefer that. Well, one minute here, Joe, we’ll get back to you. We got a word from our sponsor and I’m actually going to read this one. I don’t have, sometimes we have prepared things. I don’t have a prepared one tonight, so I’m just going to read it. So let’s see here. Let’s have a go.
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So it was very easy to spot, like, hey, there’s White Joe. Wasn’t Michael Moore from Detroit? Wasn’t he the filmmaker? Yeah, he’s from outside Detroit. Oh, okay. We’ll take him, you know. Yeah. Gross Point Blank, was he from Gross Point, perhaps? He was, yeah, Gross Point, that was east of Detroit. And then I think he lived in Flint for a while, if I remember correctly. So… Does everybody ever call you Canadian, Joe? Because, I mean, Detroit’s right there by the border. Maybe you just snuck across. Honestly, I think like I was telling people the other day, I think my parents made a mistake. Like, you know, my family came to America to have American babies. And I’m like, I was two miles away from free health care for the rest of my life. Yeah. Maybe we should rethink this, folks. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, you could actually see Canada from my old house, my old neighborhood, because I lived in South Detroit, right by the Ambassador Bridge. You look over, you see happy people with their cheap insulin. It was great. I was going to say, I don’t know how old your father is, but I think Viagra is covered over in Canada. That might be why I’m here today, Bob. Yeah. So maybe he was sneaking over the border. That’s one of those things you never hear about. Everybody’s worried about build a wall in Mexico and everything. What about all these Canadians just going back and forth, back and forth, getting cheap ciggies over here in the States and then dragging them back up to Canada? I mean, that’s got to be a racket, don’t you think? I think it should be. I know Canada would probably want to build a wall from us because I remember in high school, kids would cross the border because you could drink at 18, 19 in Canada.
And then you just come back and then it’s back to 21 or the casinos were also 18 and up. So a lot of people would go over to, you know, gamble away their fast food earnings. So their allowances, Burger King money goes far over in Canada. That’s right. That’s right. Exchange rate is mad. I went to Canada a long time ago and it was, uh, you’d get for a 20 American 20, uh, you get $25 Canadian at the time. I think that’s changed since then, but we were at a bar in Canada getting drunk with an extra $5. So it was fantastic. I mean, it’s like your free money just comes out of the sky, you know? So yeah, well, now you got to think about this. You need to really seriously, now that you are, you know, you have, you’re working your way into a career here.
as a comedian in Canada may be a good home base. You know, it might be, I know they do love funny people up there. They do. They have some great clubs up there. I’ve had friends in Detroit that are comedians go do gigs in Canada. They’ve loved it. I love, I mean, just the only difference is what milk comes in bags. I can get over that. You know, that’s right. The milk bag. It’s the only difference really. We don’t have a, we don’t have a jug. We have a bag. He’s like, how the hell do you get that home? He’s so nervous. Spilling it. It’s like they’re wasting so much milk up there from like spillage. I can imagine like, you know, people with palsy trying to get their milk bag and it goes all over the place. Oh my God. Yeah. So, so now you’re in Nashville now, which I mean, obviously Nashville, right at this moment is kind of like, you know,
one of the few centers of the universe, as I’m told by people who live near there in that area, because it’s booming. I mean, Nashville is like everything right now entertainment wise. And I mean, people just want to live there in Tennessee. You don’t have any state tax from what I understand. Right. So is that why you’re there just to get out of taxes? There’s no shiv shiv shank tax down there. Exactly. I got to, Yeah, make sure my $20 gigs aren’t taxed here in Tennessee. That’s what I got to do. Well, it’s like that $5 exchange. I mean, anything counts, right? It really adds up down here. So, I mean, were you forced to go down there because of a work program? Or was this something that you were like, okay, I’m making a conscious decision to go to Music City, USA? Well, I moved. I was 19 when I moved here.
And I moved with my, I was still living with my parents. So they, they moved, they wanted, um, kind of get out of the snow. My dad got a job here. Everyone moved. I went with them. I was, you know, love the chance to, uh, be in a new city, try new things. At the time I actually worked in the music business a little bit. So I was like, Hey, I’m going to Nashville. It’s music city. But then I forgot how much I hate country music. So I was like, maybe there’s no work for me here. Yeah. Yeah, well, I don’t know if writing your name on a pre-burned CD and telling people that it’s theirs now is necessarily working in the music business, Joe. You caught me. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. You can be pale shady. I’m pale shady. So do you enjoy it down there? I mean, obviously, the country music aside…
Although, to be honest with you, at this point, I mean, it’s kind of just pop music with, you know, like hay on it. So, you know, it’s not quite as as bad as it used to be where, you know, people had two teeth and overalls and babies hanging on them. Exactly. That’s once you leave Nashville, that is what you see. But I do love I do love it here. It’s a great city. The comedy here is incredible. We have some amazing comics blowing up out of here right now. Just really hardworking comics that are out there every single day. Great gigs, great shows. And because there’s so many tourists, a lot of the shows, you know, you get a lot of new people in and out of the open mics. You actually have like real audiences sometimes, which is as a comedian is pretty great because in most cities you’re just performing for the same 10 comics over and over and they’ve heard all your jokes. It just gets kind of hard. Well, that’s great. So,
That’s interesting. Now, since you’ve been there a decade, I mean, you’re practically a local at this point, I guess, right? Wouldn’t you become local? You don’t have a twang. You don’t talk like you’re from Nashville. I can be thankful for that. Do you put one on? Do you acclimate whenever you’re in certain situations where you’re like, oh, yeah, I was down at the Piggly Wiggly trying to pick up some beef jerky today. I have never done that, thankfully. And I actually right now, I actually live outside the city. I moved out to the country to save money. And that that is how everyone talks. I swear I need a translator just to hear what they’re saying at the local grocery store, which it’s not a piggly wiggly, but they do let you smoke inside. So I don’t know. Oh, well, it’s the same. The no smoking store is in town. Yeah, exactly. I got to go into Nashville if I want to.
you know, buy my cheese puffs without breathing in secondhand smoke. Well, think about it. You’d save on cigarettes. Just walk through the store a couple times. You’re like, where are you going? Oh, I’m going to go get a couple of cigarettes just by walking through the store, not actually purchasing any. Not a bad idea to save money, for sure. I mean, I know cigarettes are probably getting more expensive, so it’s an economical choice right there. If it wasn’t Piggly Wiggly, what was it? I’m curious. It’s called Lawrence. I think that’s just the guy who set up a store. That’s what they have here. And you go through and everything’s mostly expired and everyone’s smoking inside. Oh, okay. I was going to say, on the outside, it’s just a store. And then he’s like, yeah, it’s my store. It’s Lawrence. Oh, Lawrence. Yeah, exactly. Well, that’s…
When you first moved there as a young’un, I guess you were out of school at that point, or at least out of K-12 school. I mean, unless you get held back several times, I haven’t heard of. So, I mean, what was the big culture shock? Because it’s got to be a big deal going from, you know, Detroit is not a bustling mecca. Even 10 years ago, it was kind of on the down. So what was the life like? It was, it definitely was shocking with, like I said, I had a very hard time understanding everybody, which is kind of funny. And everybody thought I was from Canada too, just because of the way I talk. I didn’t realize that. You should just embrace that. I might take it up and maybe they’ll let me come back over, go over. But yeah, I couldn’t, I remember not being able to understand anybody was hard for a minute. And then everybody, I don’t know what it is. If Detroit just has way too many,
or at least my family, way too many Eastern Europeans, but everyone in the South I think is a lot taller. And I forgot like, yeah, cause I’m five, eight. So I would walk around being like in Detroit. I’m like, I’m average size. And then here in Nashville, like I am so short. This is, this is kind of hard. It’s well, it’s, I think it’s whenever they give birth. If the kid doesn’t drop all the way out, he just hangs there. And then they go, they’re walking around the grocery store smoking. That’s right. That’ll do it. Yeah. Maybe it would stunt them, but it doesn’t. So it gives them that little nicotine boost. They need to make it strong. Makes them. Yeah. Makes them hang on, hang in there an extra two weeks. Absolutely. Get a little bit bigger. So, so what’s coming up for Joe? What’s coming up for white Joe or Canadian Joe? We’ve got all these names for you now, Joe, pale Joe, white Joe, Canadian Joe. Yeah.
White, pale Canadian Joe. What’s the future hold for Joe? Well, I mean, comedy has been going very well. I’m very thankful. I’ve been at it less than a year and I’ve been getting adequately booked and having good shows. I have a show coming up in two weeks from today at the Dive Motel in Nashville, which I’m very excited about. It’s a legendary venue here in town. And I got some other… Contest coming up. I’m competing in Nashville’s Funniest Comedian coming in September. Oh, wow. You’re already signed up. I’m already signed up. I paid my fee. I mean, that’s not really much of a gig. It’s like I paid to be there, but I’m still pretty excited. As long as it all happens, then you didn’t get took. I mean, then you’re good, right? Absolutely. I trust that the email was official from the local club, which I’ve performed at.
So I was like, okay, it’s, it’s happened and I can, I’ll pay to make it happen. But yeah, I’m planning on, um, doing some shows here through September, October, uh, late this winter. I plan on hitting the road a little bit, doing shows just around the Southeast, hitting some new cities, doing some gigs in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Louisville. I have potential one lined up. So I’m going to be traveling a little bit, uh, getting my set together and growing as a comic. Wow. Wow. This is all crazy. So you’re from Detroit. You’re going to be traveling. What are your wheels? A Prius C. It’s an economical car. You are Canadian. Probably. A Prius C. That’s the little one, right? That’s the small one. I bought it from an old lady who rammed into everything. So there’s a dent on every corner of the car. And
I got a great deal. It was 10 years old, but there was only like 9,000 miles on it because- Oh my gosh. And a bunch of dents, apparently. And a bunch of dents. It was pretty bad. It’s hard to light your next cigarette while you’re driving in the parking lot at Lawrence’s. What was the name of it? At Lawrence’s, yep. At Lawrence’s shop. Lawrence’s store. So, you know, that’s tough. Well- We’re going to take a quick break and we’re going to come back and we’re going to play a game with Pale Canadian Joe. So everybody stay tuned. Back in one second. Bye. Gary, I don’t know why you sing so fast. I don’t know what’s going on with Gary. He’s like on speed or something. Come on. And that’s what she said. Oh, really? Okay. Well, his girlfriend concurs on all that. So that was Gary Lyme and the Flea Towns, everybody. Fantastic job. I don’t know if you could tell what song that was, but it’s an oldie but a goodie. And actually quite, I guess, Nordic in its origins, if you knew what it was.
So we’re going to play a game here, Joe. I think you decided, I have a list of games that I show the guests ahead of time. I say, which one do you think you’d like to do? And I think we’re going to go with your, you are the expert. All right. So you, Joe, are the expert in a field that I’m going to tell you. And it’s obviously a very improvised situation here. So I’m going to spit one out at you and we’re just going to see where it goes. Sounds good. Let’s do it. The challenging mind of a transplanted Canadian Detroiter into Nashville, down at Lawrence’s, sucking in the secondhand smoke. Okay, you’re a nuclear reactor technician. Don’t call it. No, okay. First order of business. And the alarms are going off. What happens? You’re the expert. What do we do?
You call the manager, the more expert. Here’s the thing. This isn’t fries. We’re not making fries. The fry vat’s burning. No, this is a nuclear reactor and you are the technician. Bob, I’m glad you asked me this. I actually have a master’s degree in nuclear science. This is my field. When that is happening, you pray to whatever God you believe in and hope that your family will at least survive the 300-mile fallout. Because if the reactors are going off, the first thing you got to do is just shut the alarm off. That gets kind of annoying. You can’t think with all the beeping. Yes, all the whistles. It’s hard to concentrate on what you’re trying to do. I think they did that at Chernobyl. That’s what happened. And look how that turned out. Actually, pretty decently from what it could have been. It could have been worse.
Yeah. Could have been way worse. So turn the alarm off. Get your head thinking straight. Then you just shut the reactor off. It’s an on off situation on off. You turn it off. It can’t do any harm. It’s not going to hurt anybody. And so you’re telling me all of these billions of dollars spent on nuclear power. Literally, each one of them just has a really large on off switch. It’s the most economical way to do it. If you have a key, you could lose it. It’s just best to have a button. If you turn it off and power goes out, whoops, you just flip the breaker back on. Power is restored to the Chicago area just like that. Oh, wow. I didn’t realize it was so simple. Everybody makes it seem like it’s really difficult. You really brought it down to earth for us. They just want to feel smarter than us. You know, it’s really not that complicated.
So then disaster averted, you hit the big switch. How do you get going again? Just hit the switch? Yeah, you turn it off and on. You know, when your computer’s having problems, sometimes you just got to turn it off and just let it sit, let it cool down. Then you turn it back on. All your startup programs come up, you exit out of them. It’s the same with the reactor. It’s really no different. It’s just a giant Chromebook. Does it come with Solitaire? Yeah. It has solitaire. It has chess. The chess uses a little too much processing power. So you want to be careful with that. It’s not Garry Kasparov’s chess. This is like minimal chess is what you’re saying. This is 400 Elo chess that you’d play with the kindergartner kind of thing. Oh my goodness. You know,
I almost believe in you on all of this, honestly. I think that it probably is that simple. It really is. So where do you get the uranium rods? I mean, do those come in – like, can you get them on Amazon? How does that work? It’s on Prime. You have to pay – they’re not two-day, but they’re on Prime. You got to get the extended delivery on those. But you can still get them. They come on dry ice. It’s – Not too complicated. Granted, the tariffs made it a little more expensive. Where do those come from? Do they have to import that, I guess? They got to import it from Chernobyl, actually. There’s a lot of radioactive material all over Chernobyl. They just pick up a rock. It’s now a rod. They just hammer it out.
Or they do like when you were a kid, you know, you got your clay, you just made a little turd out of it. That’s right. Just roll it in their hands. Well, there you go. That’s the nuclear technician. Now we got a new name for you. Nuclear Technician Joe. And the world feels much safer with you on the switch. I’m glad to be a part of it. Yeah. Gary, play us another song, would you? Thank you, and good night. No, we’re not done yet, Gary. I want you to play another song. Come on. leave you for that one so joe uh things are going well nashville’s doing good for you you may go to louisville which i don’t know if that’s an up or a down on the scale i’m gonna say it’s an up because people know that right so chattanooga maybe a little more of lateral lateral move on that one i would say so yeah uh you’ve been to chattanooga before haven’t you
Yeah, I’ve done shows here before. Did you go on the inclinator, the incline railroad? Have you been on that? I saw that was available, and I went to go actually buy tickets, and the thing was down. So I went, and I didn’t have cash, and we didn’t get to go. And I was like, you know what? I’m already losing time here. I’ve got to get back to Nashville. But that was cool. And then, fun fact about that, you – walk out of there looking for an ATM and you will run into a Confederate graveyard. So that’s a little, a fun little tidbit for those. Is that where the ATM is? You know, that’s where I thought it was surprisingly close to, uh, civilization. It was a very, another little culture shock for me living in Tennessee. I was like, wow, that would not last five minutes in Detroit. Yeah. I can imagine there would be a little intolerance on the, uh,
confederate graveyard situation, especially when they put the ATM in the middle of it. That’s just ridiculous. You go, oh yeah, it’s over there by, you know, Memorial to Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee ATM. For every greenback you get you get some confederate money as well. It’s a bonus. They’re trying to get rid of it. They wanted us to burn it, but we thought, no, we’ll give it away as a souvenir. You can actually buy Confederate money at, in Chattanooga too, by the way, like actual Confederate money. And I think they actually take it at Lawrence’s fun facts. So legal tender there only for cigarettes. Yes. Oh my gosh. Let’s see. What would the conversion rate? Speaking of that, what would the conversion rate be to a U S dollars and
defunct confederate dollars. That’s a great question. I mean, it only exists it’s got to be something like 250 to five, whatever that is. 50, 50 to one, I would say years on how long each was around. I think that would work, but you take a confederate bill to canada and you do get an extra five dollars so that’s still even to this day. Well, Joe, I want to thank you for being my guest tonight and all the best to you and your success and going on the road. I wish you nothing but the greatest. And don’t forget the lunch hour. You want to do the commercial for your own show here on Plausible? Yeah, absolutely. Every Tuesday at 12 o’clock Central Time, we have the lunch hour open mic.
If you hate your coworkers as much as I do, you can pop in, tell between five and seven minutes of jokes, depending on how many people we get in. We have so many great comics coming in all over the country, sharing their material. And at the end of everybody’s sets, we all go over each other’s stuff, give each other tags, help each other improve. So it’s like a great writer’s room for new and experienced comics. And it’s just a lot of fun to hang out. Come be a part of the family and join us 12 o’clock Central Time on Tuesdays. There you go. Joe Kaysen’s lunch hour. Now you’re making people work for a minute. I thought we could sit down and no, no. Oh, you got to critique and you got to write and you got to come up with ideas. I mean, this is working out, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. Come, come be a Joe Kaysen’s AI on Tuesday afternoon. That’s right. Come help me with my sets and I’ll end the show before I help you. The mechanical Turk. Yeah, that’s right.
Mechanical Turk. There you go. Well, Joe, thank you so much. Everybody go see Joe on Tuesdays as well as when he’s out performing live in the real world. And we’ll see you all here on the next lament tonight, next month. Who knows? We’ll be with me. I don’t know. We’ll find out. And hopefully it’ll be just as, just as nice and delightful as this was. So good night, Canadian pale Joe, nuclear technician Joe. Best of luck. Thank you, Bob. Thank you so much for having me.
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In this episode of Lament Tonight, host Bob introduces rising comedy talent Joe Cason from Detroit, who now performs in Nashville. Joe shares anecdotes about growing up in Detroit, revealing his self-deprecating humor and clever observations about his life, family, and experiences. He discusses the challenges of being a comedian and the unique culture shock he faced when moving to Nashville, including the differences in accents and lifestyle. Joe performs several comedic bits, touching on topics like therapy, family dynamics, and dating. The conversation also delves into Joe’s upcoming shows, including a competition for Nashville’s Funniest Comedian and his weekly open mic event, which fosters collaboration among comedians. The episode wraps up with Bob thanking Joe for his participation and encouraging listeners to catch him live.
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Hey, everybody, and welcome to Lament Tonight. We’ve got a good one for you. Stick around and find out what Joe Cason’s all about. Right now, Gary Lime and the Fleetones take us away. One, two, three, four. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much, Gary. It’s always great to have you here. Bob, you are a great asshole. Thank you, Gary. I really appreciate when you talk nice to me like that. We’re here tonight with Joe Cason. I don’t know if anybody knows who Joe Cason is, but I kind of do. I won’t say that I know him personally, but Joe Cason is a rising comedy talent hailing from Detroit, believe it or not. He made it out alive, but without any equity in his home. And he’s now bringing the laughs to Nashville.
Where, I mean, if you bought early, it’s probably worth a lot of money at this point. Known for sharp one-liners and clever wordplay, his act blends self-deprecating humor, absurd observations, and stories from growing up in the Motor City. So without further ado, let’s just go ahead and welcome Joe. Tell us about it. Hey, Bob. Thank you so much for having me. So good to be here. Oh, great. And regale us here with some Motor City madness, as it were. Oh, it was a fun city to grow up in. Everyone called me White Joe. The only thing was there weren’t any other Joes. They could have just called me by my name. That would have been a little better, but it was fun. I enjoyed it. Well, that’s great. I guess there was no other Joes, so they called other people like, well, it’s Slightly Tan Mark.
I guess they probably should have. Or maybe Vitiligo Martin. That was actually my neighbor. Joe, why don’t you just jump right into the comedy for us and do some material? Absolutely. I’m happy to do it for you guys. So good to be here, everybody. So I gave up porn recently. Don’t know what I’m going to do for money now. But I will figure something out, I guess, but I’m just kidding. Uh, I didn’t make any money. I was recently told I look like Timothy Chalamet if he was left in the dryer for too long, but that much of a market for that. But, uh, I just turned, uh, just had a birthday. I just turned 29, which is fun. Uh, but 29 is kind of a weird age because I’m too young to own a home and I’m too old for a P Diddy party.
But being 29 in my family is a little strange, though, because my younger siblings are a lot more successful than me. Like my younger sister is a doctor. My younger brother’s an engineer. I bought a massage chair recently. It’s kind of a weird purchase when you’re unemployed, but it is weird being the family disappointment when your mom believes in Bigfoot. So that’s. It’s kind of weird that my mom believes in Bigfoot, you know, this mythical creature that’s never been seen. But she gave up on me in 2009. I’ve been trying to take blurry pictures of myself and send it to her to prove to her that I am real, you know. And my dad is like 99% convinced I’m gay, which means he’s only 1% wrong.
I got a text from my dad last month. He’s like, happy pride month, but you’re having fun. I’m like, dude, you’ve met my girlfriend. What are you doing? He says it so much. I’m starting to believe it. You know what I mean? But, uh, so anyway, I’m in therapy. Therapy is good, but my therapist, uh, she thinks I’m having a midlife crisis, which is a really sad way to find out. I’m apparently going to die in my fifties. Uh, she’s not a real doctor, you know? I’m actually glad I had a therapy today. I’m glad I didn’t get institutionalized because I have therapy every Thursday at 1130. I showed up yesterday at one o’clock thinking it was time. And they’re like, Mr. Case, and this is not your day. You usually have your appointments Thursday at 1130. And instead of saying, oh, I’m sorry, I’m brain dead. I just said, oh, I’m sorry, I’m bread. So I went into therapy, called myself bread.
He’s fully expecting to be institutionalized today, but glad that didn’t happen. I didn’t help the situation, though, when my therapist is like, imagine your younger self is sitting right next to you. And I was like, oh, you see him, too. So, yeah, but I am working on improving myself, though. Like I have, like I said, I’m dating again, which is good, which is it is good, though, because my last girlfriend ended up keying my car. I now drive a 2009 Toyota douchebag. So that’s great. But yeah, it’s like I said, speaking of things not going your way, my grandpa was in the Holocaust. And people always, when you have family in the Holocaust, people will always say like, would you ever go visit their concentration camp? And I was like, I would say like, yeah, I guess. But I looked it up one day and found out
This is a true story. His camp was bulldozed and they turned it into an amusement park. So now I actually want to go, you know, ride the holocauster or whatever rides they have. But it’s fun. My family is actually a Romani. There’s a stereotype that Romani people are criminals and thieves. And that’s kind of a sad fact. And then I found out that the the only three Romani words to make it to the English language. are Shank, Shiv, and Narc. Which is really upsetting. Yeah, so upset when i heard that fact. I decided to return uh all the wallets i had recently stolen. But I’m glad my family came to America, though. You know, move somewhere uh free of crime, free of poverty. So I’m from Detroit, as you said and detroit is a tough city to grow up in. And I know i don’t look tough.
But that’s because I’m not. It was dangerous, actually, growing up in Detroit, looking like me. I have what they call resting snitch face. So that was fun. But I get it, though. I’m kind of a small guy. Like, I was once asked to play a cancer patient on a TV show. And they told me I’d have to gain a couple pounds. That’s great. Actually, back in Detroit, they used to call me, uh, Extra Slim Shady instead. No, they really did call me white Joe. And, uh, I got bullied a lot in Detroit. That’s because i embarrassed myself a lot. Like, I, uh, used to accidentally call my teacher Mom. Which is weird. It was especially weird because i went to an all-black school. So that made it a little weirder but uh yeah but i’ll leave you guys on uh this i uh joined a gym recently. Yeah.
I don’t really understand how gyms work because people keep asking me to spot them and I just don’t carry cash on me like that. But there’s actually this couple at my gym that’s trying out for that show Naked and Afraid. And I could never do that because I’m already clothed and terrified as it is. But there’s this giant mural on the wall at my gym that just says I was born ready. And I really hate that statement. Because I was born premature. I was not ready at all. All right. That’s what I got for you today, Bob. Thank you. Fantastic. Joe Case and everybody. And White Joe. I think we’re just going to call you that from now on. You know, there’s no, we’re going to drop the case and just White Joe. White Joe. I’m down with that. You know, I mean, it could be a comedian name or a rapper name, actually. It could be. I could be both. There’s Ugly Kid Joe.
That’s another one that’s out there, right? That’s right. There’s Fat Joe. Remember Fat Joe? I remember Fat Joe, yeah. Now he’s not so Fat Joe. Yeah, he lost it. Lost a lot of weight. But you got to change the name. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Fat Joe. I mean, if you were to go to Tahiti for a year and come back all tan, they wouldn’t call you White Joe anymore. They’d call you Tan Joe from Tahiti. I can go with Tan Joe. I prefer that. Well, one minute here, Joe, we’ll get back to you. We got a word from our sponsor and I’m actually going to read this one. I don’t have, sometimes we have prepared things. I don’t have a prepared one tonight, so I’m just going to read it. So let’s see here. Let’s have a go.
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So it was very easy to spot, like, hey, there’s White Joe. Wasn’t Michael Moore from Detroit? Wasn’t he the filmmaker? Yeah, he’s from outside Detroit. Oh, okay. We’ll take him, you know. Yeah. Gross Point Blank, was he from Gross Point, perhaps? He was, yeah, Gross Point, that was east of Detroit. And then I think he lived in Flint for a while, if I remember correctly. So… Does everybody ever call you Canadian, Joe? Because, I mean, Detroit’s right there by the border. Maybe you just snuck across. Honestly, I think like I was telling people the other day, I think my parents made a mistake. Like, you know, my family came to America to have American babies. And I’m like, I was two miles away from free health care for the rest of my life. Yeah. Maybe we should rethink this, folks. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, you could actually see Canada from my old house, my old neighborhood, because I lived in South Detroit, right by the Ambassador Bridge. You look over, you see happy people with their cheap insulin. It was great. I was going to say, I don’t know how old your father is, but I think Viagra is covered over in Canada. That might be why I’m here today, Bob. Yeah. So maybe he was sneaking over the border. That’s one of those things you never hear about. Everybody’s worried about build a wall in Mexico and everything. What about all these Canadians just going back and forth, back and forth, getting cheap ciggies over here in the States and then dragging them back up to Canada? I mean, that’s got to be a racket, don’t you think? I think it should be. I know Canada would probably want to build a wall from us because I remember in high school, kids would cross the border because you could drink at 18, 19 in Canada.
And then you just come back and then it’s back to 21 or the casinos were also 18 and up. So a lot of people would go over to, you know, gamble away their fast food earnings. So their allowances, Burger King money goes far over in Canada. That’s right. That’s right. Exchange rate is mad. I went to Canada a long time ago and it was, uh, you’d get for a 20 American 20, uh, you get $25 Canadian at the time. I think that’s changed since then, but we were at a bar in Canada getting drunk with an extra $5. So it was fantastic. I mean, it’s like your free money just comes out of the sky, you know? So yeah, well, now you got to think about this. You need to really seriously, now that you are, you know, you have, you’re working your way into a career here.
as a comedian in Canada may be a good home base. You know, it might be, I know they do love funny people up there. They do. They have some great clubs up there. I’ve had friends in Detroit that are comedians go do gigs in Canada. They’ve loved it. I love, I mean, just the only difference is what milk comes in bags. I can get over that. You know, that’s right. The milk bag. It’s the only difference really. We don’t have a, we don’t have a jug. We have a bag. He’s like, how the hell do you get that home? He’s so nervous. Spilling it. It’s like they’re wasting so much milk up there from like spillage. I can imagine like, you know, people with palsy trying to get their milk bag and it goes all over the place. Oh my God. Yeah. So, so now you’re in Nashville now, which I mean, obviously Nashville, right at this moment is kind of like, you know,
one of the few centers of the universe, as I’m told by people who live near there in that area, because it’s booming. I mean, Nashville is like everything right now entertainment wise. And I mean, people just want to live there in Tennessee. You don’t have any state tax from what I understand. Right. So is that why you’re there just to get out of taxes? There’s no shiv shiv shank tax down there. Exactly. I got to, Yeah, make sure my $20 gigs aren’t taxed here in Tennessee. That’s what I got to do. Well, it’s like that $5 exchange. I mean, anything counts, right? It really adds up down here. So, I mean, were you forced to go down there because of a work program? Or was this something that you were like, okay, I’m making a conscious decision to go to Music City, USA? Well, I moved. I was 19 when I moved here.
And I moved with my, I was still living with my parents. So they, they moved, they wanted, um, kind of get out of the snow. My dad got a job here. Everyone moved. I went with them. I was, you know, love the chance to, uh, be in a new city, try new things. At the time I actually worked in the music business a little bit. So I was like, Hey, I’m going to Nashville. It’s music city. But then I forgot how much I hate country music. So I was like, maybe there’s no work for me here. Yeah. Yeah, well, I don’t know if writing your name on a pre-burned CD and telling people that it’s theirs now is necessarily working in the music business, Joe. You caught me. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. You can be pale shady. I’m pale shady. So do you enjoy it down there? I mean, obviously, the country music aside…
Although, to be honest with you, at this point, I mean, it’s kind of just pop music with, you know, like hay on it. So, you know, it’s not quite as as bad as it used to be where, you know, people had two teeth and overalls and babies hanging on them. Exactly. That’s once you leave Nashville, that is what you see. But I do love I do love it here. It’s a great city. The comedy here is incredible. We have some amazing comics blowing up out of here right now. Just really hardworking comics that are out there every single day. Great gigs, great shows. And because there’s so many tourists, a lot of the shows, you know, you get a lot of new people in and out of the open mics. You actually have like real audiences sometimes, which is as a comedian is pretty great because in most cities you’re just performing for the same 10 comics over and over and they’ve heard all your jokes. It just gets kind of hard. Well, that’s great. So,
That’s interesting. Now, since you’ve been there a decade, I mean, you’re practically a local at this point, I guess, right? Wouldn’t you become local? You don’t have a twang. You don’t talk like you’re from Nashville. I can be thankful for that. Do you put one on? Do you acclimate whenever you’re in certain situations where you’re like, oh, yeah, I was down at the Piggly Wiggly trying to pick up some beef jerky today. I have never done that, thankfully. And I actually right now, I actually live outside the city. I moved out to the country to save money. And that that is how everyone talks. I swear I need a translator just to hear what they’re saying at the local grocery store, which it’s not a piggly wiggly, but they do let you smoke inside. So I don’t know. Oh, well, it’s the same. The no smoking store is in town. Yeah, exactly. I got to go into Nashville if I want to.
you know, buy my cheese puffs without breathing in secondhand smoke. Well, think about it. You’d save on cigarettes. Just walk through the store a couple times. You’re like, where are you going? Oh, I’m going to go get a couple of cigarettes just by walking through the store, not actually purchasing any. Not a bad idea to save money, for sure. I mean, I know cigarettes are probably getting more expensive, so it’s an economical choice right there. If it wasn’t Piggly Wiggly, what was it? I’m curious. It’s called Lawrence. I think that’s just the guy who set up a store. That’s what they have here. And you go through and everything’s mostly expired and everyone’s smoking inside. Oh, okay. I was going to say, on the outside, it’s just a store. And then he’s like, yeah, it’s my store. It’s Lawrence. Oh, Lawrence. Yeah, exactly. Well, that’s…
When you first moved there as a young’un, I guess you were out of school at that point, or at least out of K-12 school. I mean, unless you get held back several times, I haven’t heard of. So, I mean, what was the big culture shock? Because it’s got to be a big deal going from, you know, Detroit is not a bustling mecca. Even 10 years ago, it was kind of on the down. So what was the life like? It was, it definitely was shocking with, like I said, I had a very hard time understanding everybody, which is kind of funny. And everybody thought I was from Canada too, just because of the way I talk. I didn’t realize that. You should just embrace that. I might take it up and maybe they’ll let me come back over, go over. But yeah, I couldn’t, I remember not being able to understand anybody was hard for a minute. And then everybody, I don’t know what it is. If Detroit just has way too many,
or at least my family, way too many Eastern Europeans, but everyone in the South I think is a lot taller. And I forgot like, yeah, cause I’m five, eight. So I would walk around being like in Detroit. I’m like, I’m average size. And then here in Nashville, like I am so short. This is, this is kind of hard. It’s well, it’s, I think it’s whenever they give birth. If the kid doesn’t drop all the way out, he just hangs there. And then they go, they’re walking around the grocery store smoking. That’s right. That’ll do it. Yeah. Maybe it would stunt them, but it doesn’t. So it gives them that little nicotine boost. They need to make it strong. Makes them. Yeah. Makes them hang on, hang in there an extra two weeks. Absolutely. Get a little bit bigger. So, so what’s coming up for Joe? What’s coming up for white Joe or Canadian Joe? We’ve got all these names for you now, Joe, pale Joe, white Joe, Canadian Joe. Yeah.
White, pale Canadian Joe. What’s the future hold for Joe? Well, I mean, comedy has been going very well. I’m very thankful. I’ve been at it less than a year and I’ve been getting adequately booked and having good shows. I have a show coming up in two weeks from today at the Dive Motel in Nashville, which I’m very excited about. It’s a legendary venue here in town. And I got some other… Contest coming up. I’m competing in Nashville’s Funniest Comedian coming in September. Oh, wow. You’re already signed up. I’m already signed up. I paid my fee. I mean, that’s not really much of a gig. It’s like I paid to be there, but I’m still pretty excited. As long as it all happens, then you didn’t get took. I mean, then you’re good, right? Absolutely. I trust that the email was official from the local club, which I’ve performed at.
So I was like, okay, it’s, it’s happened and I can, I’ll pay to make it happen. But yeah, I’m planning on, um, doing some shows here through September, October, uh, late this winter. I plan on hitting the road a little bit, doing shows just around the Southeast, hitting some new cities, doing some gigs in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Louisville. I have potential one lined up. So I’m going to be traveling a little bit, uh, getting my set together and growing as a comic. Wow. Wow. This is all crazy. So you’re from Detroit. You’re going to be traveling. What are your wheels? A Prius C. It’s an economical car. You are Canadian. Probably. A Prius C. That’s the little one, right? That’s the small one. I bought it from an old lady who rammed into everything. So there’s a dent on every corner of the car. And
I got a great deal. It was 10 years old, but there was only like 9,000 miles on it because- Oh my gosh. And a bunch of dents, apparently. And a bunch of dents. It was pretty bad. It’s hard to light your next cigarette while you’re driving in the parking lot at Lawrence’s. What was the name of it? At Lawrence’s, yep. At Lawrence’s shop. Lawrence’s store. So, you know, that’s tough. Well- We’re going to take a quick break and we’re going to come back and we’re going to play a game with Pale Canadian Joe. So everybody stay tuned. Back in one second. Bye. Gary, I don’t know why you sing so fast. I don’t know what’s going on with Gary. He’s like on speed or something. Come on. And that’s what she said. Oh, really? Okay. Well, his girlfriend concurs on all that. So that was Gary Lyme and the Flea Towns, everybody. Fantastic job. I don’t know if you could tell what song that was, but it’s an oldie but a goodie. And actually quite, I guess, Nordic in its origins, if you knew what it was.
So we’re going to play a game here, Joe. I think you decided, I have a list of games that I show the guests ahead of time. I say, which one do you think you’d like to do? And I think we’re going to go with your, you are the expert. All right. So you, Joe, are the expert in a field that I’m going to tell you. And it’s obviously a very improvised situation here. So I’m going to spit one out at you and we’re just going to see where it goes. Sounds good. Let’s do it. The challenging mind of a transplanted Canadian Detroiter into Nashville, down at Lawrence’s, sucking in the secondhand smoke. Okay, you’re a nuclear reactor technician. Don’t call it. No, okay. First order of business. And the alarms are going off. What happens? You’re the expert. What do we do?
You call the manager, the more expert. Here’s the thing. This isn’t fries. We’re not making fries. The fry vat’s burning. No, this is a nuclear reactor and you are the technician. Bob, I’m glad you asked me this. I actually have a master’s degree in nuclear science. This is my field. When that is happening, you pray to whatever God you believe in and hope that your family will at least survive the 300-mile fallout. Because if the reactors are going off, the first thing you got to do is just shut the alarm off. That gets kind of annoying. You can’t think with all the beeping. Yes, all the whistles. It’s hard to concentrate on what you’re trying to do. I think they did that at Chernobyl. That’s what happened. And look how that turned out. Actually, pretty decently from what it could have been. It could have been worse.
Yeah. Could have been way worse. So turn the alarm off. Get your head thinking straight. Then you just shut the reactor off. It’s an on off situation on off. You turn it off. It can’t do any harm. It’s not going to hurt anybody. And so you’re telling me all of these billions of dollars spent on nuclear power. Literally, each one of them just has a really large on off switch. It’s the most economical way to do it. If you have a key, you could lose it. It’s just best to have a button. If you turn it off and power goes out, whoops, you just flip the breaker back on. Power is restored to the Chicago area just like that. Oh, wow. I didn’t realize it was so simple. Everybody makes it seem like it’s really difficult. You really brought it down to earth for us. They just want to feel smarter than us. You know, it’s really not that complicated.
So then disaster averted, you hit the big switch. How do you get going again? Just hit the switch? Yeah, you turn it off and on. You know, when your computer’s having problems, sometimes you just got to turn it off and just let it sit, let it cool down. Then you turn it back on. All your startup programs come up, you exit out of them. It’s the same with the reactor. It’s really no different. It’s just a giant Chromebook. Does it come with Solitaire? Yeah. It has solitaire. It has chess. The chess uses a little too much processing power. So you want to be careful with that. It’s not Garry Kasparov’s chess. This is like minimal chess is what you’re saying. This is 400 Elo chess that you’d play with the kindergartner kind of thing. Oh my goodness. You know,
I almost believe in you on all of this, honestly. I think that it probably is that simple. It really is. So where do you get the uranium rods? I mean, do those come in – like, can you get them on Amazon? How does that work? It’s on Prime. You have to pay – they’re not two-day, but they’re on Prime. You got to get the extended delivery on those. But you can still get them. They come on dry ice. It’s – Not too complicated. Granted, the tariffs made it a little more expensive. Where do those come from? Do they have to import that, I guess? They got to import it from Chernobyl, actually. There’s a lot of radioactive material all over Chernobyl. They just pick up a rock. It’s now a rod. They just hammer it out.
Or they do like when you were a kid, you know, you got your clay, you just made a little turd out of it. That’s right. Just roll it in their hands. Well, there you go. That’s the nuclear technician. Now we got a new name for you. Nuclear Technician Joe. And the world feels much safer with you on the switch. I’m glad to be a part of it. Yeah. Gary, play us another song, would you? Thank you, and good night. No, we’re not done yet, Gary. I want you to play another song. Come on. leave you for that one so joe uh things are going well nashville’s doing good for you you may go to louisville which i don’t know if that’s an up or a down on the scale i’m gonna say it’s an up because people know that right so chattanooga maybe a little more of lateral lateral move on that one i would say so yeah uh you’ve been to chattanooga before haven’t you
Yeah, I’ve done shows here before. Did you go on the inclinator, the incline railroad? Have you been on that? I saw that was available, and I went to go actually buy tickets, and the thing was down. So I went, and I didn’t have cash, and we didn’t get to go. And I was like, you know what? I’m already losing time here. I’ve got to get back to Nashville. But that was cool. And then, fun fact about that, you – walk out of there looking for an ATM and you will run into a Confederate graveyard. So that’s a little, a fun little tidbit for those. Is that where the ATM is? You know, that’s where I thought it was surprisingly close to, uh, civilization. It was a very, another little culture shock for me living in Tennessee. I was like, wow, that would not last five minutes in Detroit. Yeah. I can imagine there would be a little intolerance on the, uh,
confederate graveyard situation, especially when they put the ATM in the middle of it. That’s just ridiculous. You go, oh yeah, it’s over there by, you know, Memorial to Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee ATM. For every greenback you get you get some confederate money as well. It’s a bonus. They’re trying to get rid of it. They wanted us to burn it, but we thought, no, we’ll give it away as a souvenir. You can actually buy Confederate money at, in Chattanooga too, by the way, like actual Confederate money. And I think they actually take it at Lawrence’s fun facts. So legal tender there only for cigarettes. Yes. Oh my gosh. Let’s see. What would the conversion rate? Speaking of that, what would the conversion rate be to a U S dollars and
defunct confederate dollars. That’s a great question. I mean, it only exists it’s got to be something like 250 to five, whatever that is. 50, 50 to one, I would say years on how long each was around. I think that would work, but you take a confederate bill to canada and you do get an extra five dollars so that’s still even to this day. Well, Joe, I want to thank you for being my guest tonight and all the best to you and your success and going on the road. I wish you nothing but the greatest. And don’t forget the lunch hour. You want to do the commercial for your own show here on Plausible? Yeah, absolutely. Every Tuesday at 12 o’clock Central Time, we have the lunch hour open mic.
If you hate your coworkers as much as I do, you can pop in, tell between five and seven minutes of jokes, depending on how many people we get in. We have so many great comics coming in all over the country, sharing their material. And at the end of everybody’s sets, we all go over each other’s stuff, give each other tags, help each other improve. So it’s like a great writer’s room for new and experienced comics. And it’s just a lot of fun to hang out. Come be a part of the family and join us 12 o’clock Central Time on Tuesdays. There you go. Joe Kaysen’s lunch hour. Now you’re making people work for a minute. I thought we could sit down and no, no. Oh, you got to critique and you got to write and you got to come up with ideas. I mean, this is working out, Joe. Yeah. Yeah. Come, come be a Joe Kaysen’s AI on Tuesday afternoon. That’s right. Come help me with my sets and I’ll end the show before I help you. The mechanical Turk. Yeah, that’s right.
Mechanical Turk. There you go. Well, Joe, thank you so much. Everybody go see Joe on Tuesdays as well as when he’s out performing live in the real world. And we’ll see you all here on the next lament tonight, next month. Who knows? We’ll be with me. I don’t know. We’ll find out. And hopefully it’ll be just as, just as nice and delightful as this was. So good night, Canadian pale Joe, nuclear technician Joe. Best of luck. Thank you, Bob. Thank you so much for having me.