UNOBVIOUSLY FUNNY

Have you ever noticed that something you do or witness as part of your normal life strikes you as FUNNY?  Yeah, me too...

Some of the funniest things in life aren’t stand-up comedy, punchlines, memes, or viral videos of raccoons stealing tacos.

They happen every single day and because they happen every day, we stop noticing them.

Join Dave for some UNOBVIOSLY FUNNY talk about:

• Ten Funny Things That Happen Every Day That We Ignore
• Different Perspectives On Humor
• Five Ways To Recognize Humor In Everyday Life
• Five Ways To Bring More Humor Into Your Circle

Humor is not childish. It is wisdom with better timing.

Humor gives us emotional oxygen.

Life gets a whole lot lighter the moment you realize most of us are just confused adults making weird noises and pretending we know what we’re doing.

Giddyup!!!

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Transcript

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Welcome to O'Talkin' with Dave. Coming to you from his fortress in Sin City. Put your hands together for the pastor of positivity whose glass is always at least half full. Here's Dave.

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Hey, how are we doing out there? I hope you are top shelf like me. Because I am. There's uh there's a lot of talk, and I love it, and I think comedy and funny stuff is making a huge comeback. I look at that's what I watch now. I watch documentaries, live music, live comedy, roasts, or any any new comedy special, I'll give it a shot. And you find some people you didn't even know, you don't know them, and they're hilarious, and it's great. It's easy to find those. But some of the funniest things in life aren't stand-up comedy. They're not punchlines, they're not memes which slay me, and they're not viral videos of raccoons stealing your taco or something like that. But they are all around us. And I think it's important to find humor in things. It's everywhere. Every day, no matter where you go, there's something funny. And I don't, I you can send me your emails, Dave. Sometimes you just need to be serious. Okay, I get it. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. But the things that happen around us every day that are just part of our routine, we stop noticing the humor in them. And I want to talk about that today. Because it's a tragedy to not notice things that can bring you laughter and joy and just a little chuckle. That helps your day. I love that. Because humor is not just entertainment, it's survival equipment to be able to do that. It's like emotional WD-40. It keeps those, keeps your gears from locking up. And don't I know what WD-40 is. I don't need any of that. That's not funny. But WD-40 is it's just it's something that helps. It's a quick fix. It's not going to fix your engine, it's not going to solve your problems, but just that quick squirt. Ah, okay. Free things up a little bit. And that's what I want to talk about. Because studies in psychology and behavioral science consistently show that humor and enjoying humor, it reduces your stress hormones. It reduces your stress hormones, it lowers tension, it improves memory. How many times have you tried to tell a joke and couldn't remember it? Well, after you get one in your repertoire, boom, it just comes. Or you relive a bit. I love YouTube, but it's ruining people because instead of saying it, they can just show you, and which annoys me in public when I'm talking and people say, look at this. However, it also increases, you think about that. It I talked to, I've done a lot on this topic, but it increases your bond with somebody else. Could be a new relationship, could be one that's been around forever, and it's awesome because it creates and solidifies that bond. It's great for workplace morale. One thing I do on my exit questionnaires. What was the level of humor? Was about right? Was it too much or not enough? I've never had anyone say too much. Even Clyde the nipple breather didn't tell me it was too much. Also, it helps people through tough times. Can be grief, it can be trauma. I know some people who have cracked jokes at times where I would have been in pieces and they found something amusing. Not ha funny, but just an observation. And one thing about humor, the medical field has done studies on this, it improves pain tolerance. Being able to laugh it off, being able to uh find something that helps you deal with your pain and your tolerance. So laughter literally can change your body chemistry and make it adjust, which is fantastic. Some studies even suggest children laugh a hundred times a day, while adults are one-fifth of that on average. Of course, you've got your kids, you've got your adults. Some adults' face would break if they laughed. So what it means is somewhere between the bills and meetings and lower back pain and the arthritis and all of that, we miss out on important things. A kid will laugh, it sees something funny, it hears something funny or something unusual. It's gonna laugh because it doesn't have this resistance or tolerance built up. The thing is, we notice it less, but it's still there. The things that are funny are still there that we used to laugh at. We just stopped seeing it. So I want to go through a few. I've been thinking about this topic and I've just noticed some. For example, just everyday things. Like, have you ever noticed that in parking lots, it could be Home Depot, a grocery store, Costco, whatever. Everybody acts like they're busy. They're busy. Nobody's just casually walking through a parking lot. No, they're either power walking, like a man on a mission, or they wonder aimlessly holding coffee. That's what I'm going here, I'm going there. Or maybe forget where they parked. And they're not just casually looking. They it's like an archaeolog. They have to find their car. I've been there on all of this. A parking lot is kind of like a tiny festival of confusion out there. And I caught myself doing it the other day. I was going to get a haircut, and I go to my grocery store, and there's a little strip mall, and there's a Great Clips. And so I go into the grocery store and I make my appointment for Great Clips. The online app is fantastic, by the way. It's a very complicated hairdo, I get. But I'm in the middle of the grocery store and I get the alert, I'm ready. I'm thinking, okay, I can go over there. There's no waiting. I'm buying groceries. And so I stop at the and just kind of push my cart over because it takes what five minutes for this. Then I go get my haircut, just walk right next door, get my haircut. I come out and I'm like, okay, where's my car? Oh, because I'm looking at it from a different store. I get in the car and go home. I left my growth, my cart half full, not half empty, half full, in the grocery store. I get home and go open up the back of the car to get the groceries out. No, no. That's funny. That's self-deprecating, but also I think it has something to do with the parking lot. I don't know. But I've noticed since then in parking lots, everyone is there with a purpose. There's nobody just hanging out. Not the parking lots I go to. Maybe at Home Depot, you got some of the day workers waving at you, wanting to do that, but they've got a purpose. And so notice that the next time you're in a parking lot. Just look around. Watch how people are focused on something. And then restaurants is another place that I've noticed. I don't hear that well. Years of standing in front of amps with no earplugs has done that. And then, of course, I was married for 37 years, so I've learned to tune stuff out. I know the difference in music and noise. The thing is, like in a loud restaurant, I was in one the other night. We pretend we can hear. We pretend what people are saying. And I'm only getting about 30 or 40 percent just because other people talking and loud noises and plates breaking and people yelling and all that stuff. But it's like I pretend I can hear because usually I have similar, and I can tell by somebody's face what they're talking about. It's like absolutely, or wow, or no kidding. They could have just told me that their uncle just escaped prison. Oh, that's awesome. I don't know, but people do it, and then I look around and other people are doing the same thing. They've got the they're listening with their eyes, but you can tell they can't hear a word, or they don't get the meaning. And a lot of times they just zone out. And I've noticed other people are doing just the same thing I am. And then it hit me. Wait a minute, they're doing it to me too. Now that's a human nature thing, but it's also we just want to get along and laugh. Oh, you didn't even hear the joke, but now the joke is over and they laugh, so you just start laughing. It's funny, it's not obvious, but once you see it, and then you can be with I I love to sit at bars and look at restaurants and look around and whatever and make I make fun of people. Okay, judge me all you want. But it's watch this. This guy has no clue. This has no clue what they're saying, and then you can little see little micro things going on around you. And it's entertaining, it's funny. Then you have those people who won't let anything go. Anything. What'd you say? What? What was that? They drive you crazy. So it's just easier to act like you hurt. Then I was in the house the other day, and most houses have a junk drawer. I have cleaned this house, I've thrown stuff away. I have, I think last year it was 42 trips to the local thrift store donating stuff. I've still got a junk drawer. I don't know what happens. I think they grow junk. It could be expired batteries or a key. I've got keys, a whole ring of keys. I don't know where they go. I don't know what they're to. Where I what I did. I used to be a janitor. I've got keys everywhere. Rubber bands. I don't remember the last time I used a rubber band. I found a little rubber band ball. At some point I started it and started accumulating rubber bands. My dad had one this big. But I've got a rubber band ball in there. What are these from the 1990s? And scissors. So many scissors and scotch tape. And I know, I think I know where that came from. Probably every Christmas we need wrapping paper and we'll need tape. And then we never use it all. And then we can't find the scissors. So I've got all that. But it's not organized in any way. So when you do it, you open it up and you start scraping through and you find something. Oh, look at that. Oh, look, there's a bottle cap. Where did that bottle cap? What kind of bottles have caps now? And I spend it's like a trip down memory lane. And it's funny because oh, I remember that. Maybe bring us. You forgot what you're looking for to begin with. Sometimes when you get bored, just go open your junk drawer. You've got hours of entertainment right there. But no one ever organizes the junk drawer and it evolves. There's new junk, there's old junk. And there's things in your house right now that are going to end up in that drawer. Half of my tools are in a junk drawer. How does this happen? But it's funny because it's so common and you don't even think about it. Another thing, I look back at my I got a new phone, and a lot of stuff appeared that I deleted or came down from the cloud or came up from the, what's the opposite of the cloud? Came up from hell, I don't know. And I went across I came across some old group texts. Now, one thing that drives me crazy is a group text, but because it's hard to get out of them. And you'll do it for a trip, or if you're going with a few people, and you'll have group text just to let everybody know where everybody is or whatever. But it's funny to me now, and I look back at these texts, how people have different roles. You got one person who just writes a novel every time they send something, and then one person they'll disappear. They'll piss disappear for a day or two, and then all of a sudden you see them catch up and they'll start commenting on something that happened two days ago. And then you've got your thumbs up people. They don't do anything, it's just thumbs up. You don't even know if they read the text, it's thumbs up. It's like the person in the restaurant that can't hear, but they, okay, yeah, they just agreed to something horrible. But you got that thumbs up person in the group text. And then that thumbs up, all of a sudden they like devastating news. Oh, I just heard my aunt died. All right. No, dude, but it's funny because from text to text, most of the time they have that same role. It's just the way they respond. Unless they start the group text or they have something to say. Then someone else will be the thumbs up guy, and they're right. It's funny, especially when you know the people. And of course you will because you're there. And then you've got those people who hate them so bad, and they'll try to get out of it. So they'll just start saying negative comments. They want you to start another group text without them in it. But that's it's so common, and I think that is that's something in the last couple of generations. My parents never had that. I didn't have it when I was 20s and 30s, but it's kind of like uh some people use it as a chance to show out or one up with a picture or something funny. And I have group texts that are still going with different friends from 20 years ago, or probably 15 years ago, and it's fun to go back and look at those, and it's funny because it reminds me of the time, and then a lot of pictures only appear in group texts because you for some reason you didn't add them. It's fantastic, it's like looking back at a yearbook or something, but it's funny, it always makes me smile or laugh, and then people I've caught myself doing this several times lately, and then I had I had guests over not long ago, and they would do it. And then I go to up other people's houses and they do the same thing, and that is you open the refrigerator several times within 15 minutes or 30 minutes, as if it's making food. You just checked 14 seconds ago, but maybe, just maybe a rotisserie chicken appeared, or maybe uh a different kind of cheese, or maybe that container that was empty is full now. Notice it. Notice it. If I had somebody call me on it, you just checked in there. Are you hungry? Not really. What are you looking for? I don't know. Happens constantly, and then other people do it too. I just think it's funny, it's amusing. The whole human side of it, and then the fact that you get called on it makes it even funnier. And you can't stop. You keep on checking. Even an empty fridge. I have nothing in my freezer right now other than ice and this thing of Chipotle chicken that's frozen hard as a brick bat that I got at Costco probably six months ago. Yet I'll check the freezer. If I'm hungry, yeah, let's see. Maybe I can. There's nothing in there, man. You're not a pizza is not gonna birth itself in your freezer, but still, you check. It's just natural human nature things. And then I've noticed this about myself. Whether what's a weather? Whether anybody is here or not, I've noticed I can't get up out of my recliner or off the couch without making some sort of noise. And I'll do it sitting down too, but not as much. It's notice notice it about yourself if you're over 40. Notice it about yourself, but notice it about other people. I've started noticing that with other people. Ah that's when they sit down and then you don't know if they're doing exercise or they're goodness in the bathroom or whatever, but notice, and then they'll usually add it, add a sound effect. Almost like when I drink coffee, it drives my son crazy, and it's beginning to get on my daughter's nerve. But here's why I've got coffee right here. Just here's the way you sip it. That slurp gets my boy, but the ah at the end sends him into a state of annoying that takes him a while to get back. Same way with the getting up off the couch. There's certain sound effects to our lives. Notice this about yourself, but notice it about other people. Oh, and though a lot of times they'll say the same thing, or they'll hit their leg, or they have certain mannerisms. It is a soundtrack that's identifiable with that person. And I've got my own. And it's I will do that and laugh at myself, just me in my house, all alone. Now you wonder why dogs just stare at us so much. They're waiting for the next sound effect. And then you have GPS voices. They have certain GPS voices, and by that GPS, look, I'm aging myself, but Alexa and Siri or the directions on your phone, all these different things. You can set different phones, but certain ones you get a little dependent on. A calm British woman, I don't know who that is. It may not even be a person, but I trust her more than most of my family. She says turn left. Hey, there's a lake over there, but hey, she said turn left. You know, she knows things that I don't know. And that calm British voice, oh, I'll take it to the bank. I remember way back when I got my parents a Tom Tom. Not a drum, stop it. My they drove a lot and they were dependent on the Atlas, the State Farm Atlas. Mom was the navigator and dad was the pilot. We got them one of the, I got them one of those before they would travel cross-country. They had a woman's voice. My mom did not like my dad trusting that woman. And then she would take it out of the car when she wasn't in the car because she didn't want him in the car with that woman talking to. But that happens. And we get emotionally attached to a certain voice. They said Walter Cronkite back in the day. His voice wasn't what he was saying. You found out later that he was primarily full of crap and leaning one side, which I don't care about, but his voice, you got attached to that. And you could have him say anything. Sean Connery, everybody knows a Sean Connery. Something about that voice. But notice people, because it's funny, notice people will take certain, apply certain credibility to certain people because of their voices. And the other the opposite is also true. I've got friends with some strange voices that it's almost it's they talk funny. And this is coming from me saying they talk funny. It's hard, and I've dealt with this myself. Sometimes it's hard to take a southern accent very credibly as a brain surgeon or as a neuroscientist or something like that. Because when you talk, I guess it's hard to I don't want that guy poking around in my head with a stick. But that thing that we associate, I could take that to a different place and a life lesson and all that. Can we not just enjoy it because it's funny? And something about a British accent. David Attenborough, I think he just turned, I don't know, 90 or 100. The voice behind Planet Earth. I could listen to that man talk forever, no matter what he says. He could read the phone book or a recipe book, and I'm just riveted. But we have an emotional dependence, and I think that's I think that's amusing. Also, think about this. Notice this about yourself, but notice about other people. When something smells weird, just look. If it's not if it's not very obvious what that is, look how we all become detectives. Everybody turns into a bloodhound, they'll turn their head sideways. If you turn it sideways, it smells the sniffer's a little more tuned in or dialed in. And then somebody's inevitably gonna say, what is that? And nobody is gonna be able to calm down. You'll have some confident person who's oh, that's the No, it's not. No, that's not that. Serious investigations over, just a weird smell. First of all, unless it's fire or rubber burning or something like that, what are you gonna do anyway? Yeah, yeah, somebody ran over a skunk. What are you gonna do about it? Of course, you all you always have, and somebody's gonna say, and if somebody doesn't very quickly, I'll say it. My alerts the feller, something like that. But it's it's funny to watch people try to determine this mystery smell that's coming. And some people can't let it go. My mom was one, she couldn't let that go. She would even, she would smell a casserole and could tell you what all is in it. Or she would say she could. But that's that smell, smells affect people, some more than others. Oh, and then does anybody else have this problem? You go into uh you go into a public restroom and you have that the automatic faucet or the touchless. I feel like I'm a vampire. I can't I I don't know if I I don't have a reflection or what it is, but most of the time they don't work for me. And I maybe it's I I don't know what it is. Maybe they can sense fear, or maybe I didn't wash my hands enough, or what am I doing? But nobody nothing humbles a grown adult quicker. Then then trying to leave this restroom and the thing won't work. And you're patting it, and you're t your hands are dirtier from playing with the faucet to try to get it to come out. And then you've got the towel thing. And so I've I don't stare a lot in restrooms for obvious reasons, but I've noticed I'm not the only one. And it's older people, they're looking in under there and trying to find something. It's hilarious to watch people. Some of them are just waving, giving it jazz hands, trying to get something to work. And it's not that uncommon, but I especially have trouble. So even in the restroom, you can laugh in a restroom. I wouldn't, I wouldn't do a lot of pointing. But then one of the things that I I loved and I still love is, and it makes me laugh. Dog videos, baby videos, stuff like that, reels. But every time that you I used to go to the mailbox or just go to the car, or just go out back to put something in the garbage can. And when I came back, the dog acts as if I've come home from war. And it is great. And it makes me laugh and smile every time. They're reacting like, oh, you came back. You're back. This is incredible. Oh, thank goodness you're here. If that doesn't warm your heart, you don't have a heart. But it's also funny, amusing, humor. And I'm not talking all these things I've said, it's not belly laughs. It could be. But you're it's observational moments that okay, that lightened things up a little bit. The dogs are happy, but if you got a cat, they're just irritated that you interrupted their lifestyle. So it's finding little things. Again, none of these are belly laps necessarily, but it what it does, it makes something funny or enjoyable depending on your perspective or your personality. An analytical person, they're gonna be they'll notice irony or contradiction or something funny about that. It's a different kind of funny. Sarcastic people, they'll notice hypocrisy or something, absurdity. Yeah, sarcastic. I love sarcasm. I absolutely love it. And British humor has a lot of sarcasm and aloofness, but they notice different things. And then you've got those people who are just so empathetic, and you can tell a lot about a person by what they think is funny or what amuses them. Empathetic people, they're gonna notice awkwardness, or if somebody's struggling with something that they have done, something they're going through, and they may be more apt to notice something humorous or to insert humor to help that out. And then you've got your quiet people. I've got a lot of, believe it or not, a lot of quiet people in my life. And I know some of you are thinking, yeah, because you won't shut up. I can't get a word in edgewise. That's not it at all. It's part of it. But the quiet person, they're gonna notice everything. They're gonna notice everything. And then they're gonna save their observations or their input for the few people that they trust or their right moment. They'll hold their tongue and then they'll bring it up later. And usually what they bring up is is very insightful. First of all, they remembered it, which I'm not gonna do that. And then you got your extroverts, which I guess I am one. They'll turn a grocery store incident into a 30-minute talk with characters into different voices and a lot of flamboyance and all of that. Can't believe I left my cart of groceries to go get a haircut and then go back and get it. But humor is all in perspective. So two people can witness the exact same moment. One sees inconvenience, and the other one just sees comedy gold. That's why it's important to notice it. The daily things, they just become daily things, and we don't see them as funny anymore. So, how can we do that? How can we do that? And those things I just named, I decided when I see something funny, I'm gonna make a note. And I did that, and it was two days. There's a lot more that didn't make the cut. And I tried not to have really funny things on there, but what it did, it helped me to start notice the whole purple car, the whole clicker. I keep it with me all the time. But some ways to start noticing humor in everyday life. Slow down. Slow down. Humor hides from rushed moments. You gotta slow down to see it. It's there, it's there. Also, notice human behavior. Humans are funny, predictable, hilarious people, and they don't even know it. They're wonderfully strange. So if you slow down and watch it, just some of the things I said earlier, you're gonna that is. That's funny, peculiar, ha ha. And then look for contradictions out there. Humans constantly say one thing while doing another. They'll talk about how they can't get anything done for 15 minutes. Yeah, if you would shut up, you could go do that. It sales, it's the oldest story in the book where they don't have time. Can you give me five minutes? I don't have, I'll give you two. An hour later, they're still talking. Yeah, contradictions and different things. I love the contradictions just in it's not really contradictions, it's difference. Different. A very tall man with a very short woman. Or two guys going in that are out of place at a restaurant, but are having the time of their life and everybody's staring at them, they don't care. Yeah, they're out of place, but they're lifting the place up. So contradictions. I love to find those in age, color, size, situational stuff. It's fantastic. And then also, there's a lot to be said for a shared struggle. Some of the funniest things can happen when you're equally confused. I've got a friend, we're together, we laugh most of the time. And half of the time we're laughing at how stupid we are and how goofy and just struggling to get a story out or trying to think of a name. And we're we're just uh I remember one time we're in a garage and we're trying to think the name of this place. And we can't, and we don't look at your phone, don't look at your phone. And it's as if we're trying to discover the cure for cancer. And then all I'd say, it's got whiskey in the title. It's got whiskey in the title. I know they would, and she would say something, no, that's not it. And I would say, no, that's not it. And all of a sudden, Moonshine Flats. Oh, we both jumped up and down. It's as if we had found a lottery ticket or something. It's that shared struggle that was so funny. The other side is maybe I talked about empathetic person where someone's struggling and they've had that struggle, and so they spend time with them talking, and to be able to get that person to smile or get that person to laugh, and a lot of times it's the person struggling that will say something funny, but notice that. It's fantastic. And I think one of the best ways to notice humor is to laugh at yourself. You're the one that you're the one that matters most. You're always around yourself. If you can't laugh at yourself, come on. There's life loses some of its ability to embarrass you when you can laugh at yourself. It makes you less vulnerable. It's counterintuitive. But I do dumb stuff, I do funny stuff all the time. I laugh at things that almost happen to me. I almost I was watering this morning and was talking on the phone, and I was talking about my watch. I got a new watch. Da-da. And so I hung up the phone, hung up the phone. Who hangs up a phone? I turned, I hit the button and turned the phone off. See, that's funny. Hung up the phone, turned that off, and when I was doing it, my foot slipped, and I almost fell in the pool with my phone and my new, not waterproof watch, but I didn't. I caught myself, but I stood beside the pool and saw what if I had, and I laughed about it. It didn't even happen. And I'll tell somebody, I just told you. I've just told people in 96 countries and over 600 cities that it didn't even happen. But the fact that it could have is funny. Laugh at yourself. Laugh at yourself. So we talk about over and over about how important to have your circle, your close trusted friends. Or you can have a tight circle, concentric circles out, depending on the people. Take the responsibility to bring more humor into that circle. It makes it better for everybody, and you don't need to get the credit, just make sure it happens. Anytime that somebody's complaining or you feel the urge to complain, tell a story instead of complaining. Frustration it can be the story and the complaint, but put it put that complaint into a story that gives frustration with the perspective that makes it funny rather than I hate that place. Oh, the food there sucks. Tell the story. Tell the story because there's going to be something funny in that story. Also, exaggerations are okay. But do it carefully. Don't just lie, but exaggerations, tiny exaggerations, make observations hilarious. Like noticing something and just say it reminds me of whatever. Or you notice this woman with the duck lips. It looks like she got stung by a bee, or what whatever. It makes it funnier. You can exaggerate a little bit, it doesn't change the truth, but exaggerated observations are hilarious. And then the thing is the relatable to the circle, the certain you all have y'all has something in common. And people love hearing that I thought I was the only one. You say something and other people laugh and it's right? I think maybe you thought you're the only one that went through this. No, when you tell these stories, when you don't complain, when you exaggerate a little bit, inflate it a little bit, others are going to do the same thing. It feeds itself. The main thing is don't use cruel humor. Funny does not require collateral damage. Now we all pick on somebody from time to time. Oh, Lord knows I get picked on. You can pick on yourself and you can have the little dig here and there, all in good humor, right? But don't be cruel. That is the main not. Don't do that. And you know what cruel is. And so if you're doing it on purpose, shame on you. That's not funny. And then finally, learn to see the moment before you judge it. And what I mean by that is some inconveniences are future stories with a disguise. If you've got traffic coming in and you're late, and you're about to get caught in traffic, you're late, and you have to pee. That is horrible. That's a major inconvenience. Three of them. But later it's funny. So you can remember those. So the humor, it's so important. I talked about the health reasons and the mental health reasons and the morale and just how it helps you get through the day. If your life is a brick wall, the mortar is humor. It's not childish. I get called childish a lot. Okay. Go ahead. But humor is not childish. It's wisdom with better timing. It's well placed. Wisdom. Because life, it can be difficult, it can be stressful, it's definitely repetitive and unfair and exhausting. And humor gives us some emotional oxygen to get through all of those difficult times, exhausting times, unfair times. You don't use humor, and I'm not talking about ignoring your life. Don't just laugh at everything. No, it's serious. You don't ignore life, but humor helps you survive it better. Yeah. The funniest people are rarely people who have their all their crap together. Look at all the the comedians who have committed suicide. Very talented people. Yeah, they're they're laughing on the outside. Yeah, so it you don't just cause people are are laughing or make you laugh or seem like they've got just full of joy. No, it's not all that way. That's why I never complain about somebody even attempting to be funny or share humor. Because a lot of these people, they're they're usually the people who learn how to find a lighter moment in chaos. And maybe maybe that's the secret. The world is already funny. It's funny. Most people are just moving too fast to notice it. And life gets a whole lot lighter the moment you realize most of us are we're just confused adults making weird noises and pretending we know what we're doing. Slow down. Notice the humor. Laugh. Tell the story. Listen to the other stories and laugh. You're gonna be amazed at what is all around you that can lighten your day, brighten your day. It's funny. It's funny, ain't it? Alright, I hope this has helped. Uh, everybody needs a little humor. Everybody needs a little humor. So hopefully this hits somewhere, maybe it hits you in the funny bone. Let me know. David at otalks.com or david otalks.com. Go to the go to the website, otalks.com. It'll show you how to get a hold of me and where I'm gonna be and all that stuff. I gotta update my calendar. I'm sorry. Most of these are private events, so it really doesn't matter. But if I'm in your area, hit me up. I eat three meals a day most days. So thanks for hanging out. Thanks for hanging on. But most of all, thanks for O talking with Dave. Giddy up.