Dave Chappelle

And every week, I learn some new word, like straight of Hormuz or blah, blah, blah.

And it's such an avalanche that it is fun, even for me now, to watch comedians contextualize this stuff.

Someone asked me about my transgender jokes.

They said, you know, you got in a lot of trouble for those transgender jokes.

And I go, ah, the good old days.

So much has happened so quickly.

But, okay, I'm hopeful.

As a matter of practice, this building opening up and being completed, it makes me hopeful.

Having my own comedy club, finally, after all these years, that makes me hopeful.

You guys being here with us, it's like a dream come true.

It makes me hopeful.

My community coming together in tough times.

You know, our family, we had tremendous losses recently.

People in our family passed away.

And the community, you know, picked us up.

That made me hopeful.

The little things mean so much more now.

And I would want to remind anybody that's listening to this show, man, that smile that you must have when it hurts to smile is priceless right now.

Anything you can do to let each other know you're safe or that you're okay.

It means everything right now because otherwise this is intolerable.