Bill Thompson

It was my job as the guy with tape over his glasses to point out the door for someone else and say, bad guy's in there.

So I was not a super badass in that regard.

I was a nerd for super badasses.

But we also all engaged in gallows humor.

And we would... The jokes and stuff.

Even someone who had recently died, we would make a joke about.

It's because you have this tremendous...

and comedy is the relief valve for that in a lot of ways.

But then someone would overhear that joke or something, and now you're looking down the barrel of a 15-6, which is a military investigation, and all of these things that could permanently impact your life in a way and give you a scarlet letter to where you could never be employed again or do anything ever again because you were simply trying to relieve some pressure or you were trying to find out where to buy your wife the next dress,

And now your life's being ruined.

And I know guys who suffered under that sword.

Like I wouldn't name them, but I know guys who, you know, their career met a terminal end because of a dumb joke or something.

It's like you can't be expected to go out and shoot people in the face and then be sensitive to someone's feelings an hour later.

Right.

It's just it doesn't it does not work.

Now, should you talk to that guy and say, hey, you know, you made woman X feel so and so.

be more cognizant of that whenever you're around her in the future.

Well, you should also have a rational discussion with the woman.

Yes.

Well, for sure.