switching out the microphone we got like twenty microphones up here and no turntables for us back when you need him anyway everybody how you doing all right it's great to be here thanks for listening thanks for showing up listeners watchers at home everyone i like to say that everything is a story waiting to be written and since i am across shonar writer my set is a mixed night of poetry cityscape and flash fiction that i dedicate to humans being  humane we have a round of applause for that right because as founder of denver artists for rent control and attainable space for all i also want to shout out a big round of applause for all my fellow artists and activists doing the work of holding ground for humanity so here we go as i watch friends roll away on road trips some planning to return some not sure if they will i find it strangely comforting when a massive tumbleweed crosses my path on a busy denver street midweek day today funny business this was no ordinary supermarket for starters the clerks were in complete clown makeup and neon bright wigs the stock boys rode around the store pulling cartons of merchandise on little flat beds drawn by three wheelers lit up with christmas sort of colored lights and festive ribbons a steady stream of late seventy's muzak came through the speakers of a very old rather large p a every five minutes or so the music would suddenly stop and one clerk or another would bark into a bad microphone some special of the day styrofoam veggies from illinois artificial grape drink from michigan hybrid of rubber meat jerky from texas cd cardboard wheat bits from nebraska these were the days coltrane shipments from the yards of chicago detroit houston and omaha simple fair that made good use of recyclable products americans were learning to digest in different ways ever since that fool trump had brought the industry back james sebastian was not into any of this and he really wished he could go back to the future he knew that might sound trite but he couldn't help feeling that if the way things were going was possible i mean really styron veggies then something far more healthy for humans might be possible he had taken this job as lead clerk when his position as head monkey wrench or for adbusters went down for the last time he had a plan to replace the content of these boxes of cardboard crackers and such with real food just to see how the customers would behave his thinking was that if people had a chance to actually process the difference without even knowing what they were eating a real food revolution revolution could take place but james sebastian was being watched by a chip in amidala that would track his every fight or flight move that was the way of this thing a world that cared only about crisis mode and had no concern for rational thinking saving grace was the narrow scientific society of rational humans underground movement that had never surrendered the right to think clearly the membership numbers were small intentionally so and they were slowly making progress to recover the soil of a more grounded humanity today just as james sebastian was about to pull a dozen or so boxes off the shelf he uncharacteristically lost control of his balance and banged his right elbow so hard on the concrete ledge that a nerve pain shot through him instantly causing an animated plastic pop up clown to drop down from the ceiling and start yelling at him not to try any funny business at first this seemed like it would derail the day's effort but it turned out the nerve pain was coming from james funny bone and so caused him to begin laughing and crying at once this lead clerks lack of human control or resistance satisfied the clown which deflated to the size of a small parachute and then shot itself back to the painted black tempered glass ceiling i am the deer being hunted you are the man with a gun i am the food on your table and getting ready to run is the deer being hunted she is the man with the gun we are the food on the table let's all get ready to run run run strange things thrive in oceans the sea we can't fathom soil fingers of crime can spoil all that's there and split second gray surface thank god living hundreds of miles down under the world we don't see without help from cousteau like a planet itself can't destroy all that's there in this life time organic is snuffed to grow back from a place we don't share terrestrial watchdogs look over our shoulders from points we can't see guarding what grows from within deep reserves we can't grasp a sick grip of sure greed its organic recycles itself like great art may be shuffled and hidden away in this park but only to grow like strange things found fathoms away as in light years when all that we clutch and kill crumbles and falls away a new breed of being will find what lives on of this new force will say it's organic i sit with chris volunteer blindfold while dignity takes a cold hit no blame here right each man each woman respectfully rightfully blind especially those who would force us to suddenly see it their way while craftily stealing our money for drummed up ill legality eyes open our not spend a dark night in jail if you really are craving to see but be aware should you choose this floor essence you'll be made into a hostage for your suspect seeing cracked mirror trying to run when there's nowhere to go running from jailers running from villains running from star of another man show running and running and running and running your nks just the theme of that other man show of that other man show no worries no hurry your coup and your beautiful cooler more beautiful you on your on your fast and your furious magic and mojo you know how you know why you know where to go  anyone here ever heard of marfa texas yeah so this this closing piece that i have for you i wrote the day that we learned that trump would be sworn into office and i can't say he was elected because we all know what the truth is there but i wrote this and it brought me a sense of happiness in the midst of a feeling of trauma but it takes place in marfa texas which if you don't know is out in the desert of texas it's a it's been a county watering hole for pioneers coming through on horseback for decades centuries and there is an art colony there now that is becoming  more known for installation art that goes on there and i just have it on my list of places to visit someday anyway this is called speech it was the year two thousand and twenty four and the usual standard of presidential terms had fizzled out over the last few elections the earthquake madness of a trumpet ministration had leveled it all and things could not ever be handled the same good thing of course the united states population had nearly have to itself over that one with a good many americans fleeing to other more sane nations today  jane liberty adams took the orator pulpit at the town square in marfa texas oddly enough marfa was now the capital of a free nation for which this election had neither been dual party nor televised dressed in denim and boots the president elect had just gotten off of her horse and was ready to deliver her message miss adams was deaf and dumb and had been deemed the most intelligent progressive candidate to come along since j f k and the most compassionately sincere since jimmy carter her smile was honest and grand as she took one step up to no microphone and began signing slowly and clearly these words from her acceptance speech would become among the most quoted ever words are not the answer only pure action is appropriate now there is nothing more to say thank you thank you for listening oh and thank you denver open for being here all these years love it and you know keep keep us holding our ground of the independent everyone in denver holding the ground do everything you possibly can everyone everywhere all the time be an activist because it's the new way of life so there you go thank you denver open media thank you so much roseann now time for more words we're going to give you more words it's using them right now currently using some words how's it going i'm your your next host for this next block of time i'm daniel daniel reskin nice to meet you hi i'm a member here yes happy to be one of the violinists on the titanic right now as she goes into the sweet night tonight we're we're strapping these cameras on and we are right until the reels fall off you know what i'm saying right or die right now right or die right a lot of editing and rendering happens so then reopen media we're here tonight to send her off it's a phoenix i've learned you know it's not this is not the end this is a beginning but it sucks all saw we're dealing with these things being real and we're going to keep it going tonight we're going to keep this broadcast going until the morning light until some government stooge comes in here and literally pulls the plug on us we don't know what they're taken to take and stuff and things and a lot of the b boops in the lights and  love the click he's some really i'm really pissed off about the click he's but we're getting through it together gang i got coffee and delicate balance of marijuana and i'm keeping me entertained in awake until some crash happens and hopefully we'll catch that on camera until then we've got a great comedy block coming up for you comedy hip hop comedy and where does it end where does it begin where does one you'll see your it'll be up to you  and oh what an amazing comedian we have to kick off this comedy block he is the main course of denver comedy if you were going to denver comedy for the holidays and you're like what's on the plate this next guy comedy works you will find him there it is dwelling the best place in the country to see comedy except for right here and right now so everybody give it up for nathan l ride thank you all so much i appreciate it or come on running in right now to fix something i've blown it already do you want me to get does this was that no way to that make me look fat all right perfect it's always nice to perform in an intimate venue and you are lucky to see me in an intimate venue because in a couple years i'll be dead i apologize if my hair looks weird i'll bet it does so i went swimming a couple months ago so that's over this blemish that would be ideal some of that live c g i i'm so popular folks the phone lines are still open and we are so close to our goal if we could just get everyone in denver to donate a nickel or a dime we would save this place we could stop the bulldozers i was going to ask if it was ok for me to swear in on their like were going off the air we don't give a shit and i was like yeah that makes sense like mitch hedberg said you can swear in space too nobody can hear it  hopefully none of you voted for donald trump i feel like it's safe to say that nobody in here was a trump voter but they're out there obviously you know every time i hear the chant four more years four more years i think yeah that's about how much time we have left as a species for maybe four and a half years and we're all gone man it's unfortunate too because forty two was my goal age and i don't think i'm going to i don't think i'm going to make it could be the first person to die of gout if you don't know what gout is ask your dad he probably has it it's a bad disease i went ahead and got it early so as a quick learner  might as well use this platform to get some of my views there i am a proponent of assisted suicide i have to say proponent because it's weird to say you're a big fan you don't want to dig fan of  suicide everybody should be doing that it's not weird now i am a proponent though if you don't know what assisted suicide is it's where you decide to end your life by being murdered by john stockton and that is a tough job to get if you're not at least in your thirty's said that's a dated reference i would use a more current n b a player that is big on assists but they are not out there there's a lot of dunking and half court shot that's what i have gathered from current n b a basketball not a lot of dish in the rock also in the ninety's they called addition the rock performed at the hard rock not too long ago you might as you might not know this  hard rock named after chris rock's brother hart they've got a picture of him up in the right next to a pair of prince's underwear and we've got a pretty good hard rock here in town  am glad my beard grew back in for this evening i had a mustache for a while that's a tough look to pull off just a mustache i look like all of the super troopers you know want to you don't want that i look like fat freddy mercury fatty mercury from the band dairy queen now this is my favorite job about a lot of dumb jobs first job was in high school worked at the mall typical first worked at the mall folded shirts selling jeans i don't know if i'm allowed to say gene go on the air bleep it out if you have to it was a lot easier to sell jingo jeans back then this was the late ninety's now it would be a lot harder to convince somebody that that's the right amount of denim for one pair of jeans people see those now they're like that's three pairs at least what are you doing so shortage of d l my first girlfriend also in high school i was in high school too we were both in high school got to be clear on that not a good first relationship unfortunately everybody in my high school knew this girl as the marilyn manson girl so you can tell i did not look for the one i was like she's talking to me we're going to make it work also we were doomed from the start me and marilyn manson girl because i was more of a corn limp bizkit guy all right we were doomed from the beginning but yeah not a good first relationship she cheated on me a bunch damn marilyn manson girl there was even a rumor in our high school that marilyn manson girl had one of her ribs remove so she could suck a bunch of other guys dicks and it was like there's also a rumor that she was paul on the wonder years these jokes are for the ninety's really i would if i had been a comedian in the ninety's i would be killing that i would be on well not seth meyers because it would be the ninety's i would be on jay leno right now crush annette but you know those last couple jokes are for the classes of ninety six through two thousand and two so if you're into i'm going to it's harder when nobody's laughing i  i didn't look at my set list just then that's unprofessional i'm on the website good jokes dot com and so i just want to hit refresh and steal a couple of morning jokes i invented a new sex moves so get excited about that yeah this is a sex move for the literary set which of course means people who read a lot of books if you didn't know what it meant probably not a part of the set but movies are cool too i get it  this is a new sex move i'm calling it the stranger and in this new sex move you sit on your hand until it goes numb and then you shoot an arab guy in french algiers that's a new sex based on a very old book the stranger was written in like one nine hundred forty by dean koontz so don't look it up i'm right it was dean koontz he is timeless  i quit drinking a couple years ago it's been over two years so that's why there's so much beer in denver yaz that i stopped drinking at all for the good of the city i felt like i was being very greedy i still smoke weed though you guys smoke camera guys nodding the camera you got an idea head buddy all right you know a lot of people say that marijuana is a gateway drug and i actually agree with that because sometimes after i smoke i'll think to myself i wonder how much that gateway's is that rot iron what is that thing looks pretty heavy hard to tell without giving it a push the of course somewhere in my home we ensure because this will probably air sometime in october so there we go reruns i want to stay timeless and you can enjoy  don't wear the shirt since may i am aware it in january february march i don't care i have like four shirts so i don't look at a gallon or before i put on one of those four shirts i mean i do a quick impression for everybody this is my impression of a snake on heroin ready for that hopefully nobody else has done that tonight there's a snake on heroin ready it's states that's a snake on heroin because of j think do the heroin good question also how is the snake snapping is another good question i guess because of the heroin but again how to do the heroin must have had a salamander friend they've got hand snake stone all right now that marijuana is has been legalized in a lot of states there's a lot of a lot of people trying to legalize mushrooms you guys know about that that's happening here hopefully there's a push  the cool thing about mushrooms there's been studies recently that have shown there's a bunch of great effects for terminally ill patients cancer patients it helps in all kinds of ways helps their mood you know gets them ready for you know whatever comes next they get to meet god before you know that before they move into heaven and that's all this is all great you know but i don't think i want to do shrooms with a terminally ill cancer patient because i've done mushrooms and at some point they're going to get intense and that person is going to be like am i dying and i would have to be like will yeah but not because of the mushrooms let's just put some music on all right  that's going to do it for me thank you all so much for being here i am nathan lunch and yeah like i said call now the lines are open we're going to save this carwash whether i have to put twenty dollars into the piggy bank myself but i know this is all about awareness of public access and it is my pleasure to bring up your next performer he brought me up why not return the favor he's a very funny comedian he's also been  a part of member of the media for the last couple years just trying to help keep this place on the air any failed but we're still going to bring him up and let him tell some jokes and entertain you fine folks across the world that's right hello helsinki please welcome to the