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Is Craig Ferguson and I want to let you know I have a brand new stand up comedy special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm so happy and I would be so happy if you checked it out. To watch the special, just go to my YouTube channel. He Craig Ferguson show and it's just right there. Just click it and play it and it's free. I can't. Look, I'm not going to come around your house and show you how to do it. If you can't do it, then you can't have it. But if you can figure it out, it's yours. This is from Moss Whelan. That's a lovely name, isn't it? Moss Whelan. It sounds like a, like a village in the middle of England somewhere. Welcome to Moss Whelan. Enjoy the cricket. Moss says, would you ever make a puppet show for kids? The rabbit on your own show always seemed joyful. Yeah. Nah, nah, I don't want to do a puppet show for kids. Yeah, that's a nice short answer. I don't want to do a, don't want to really do a puppet show for anything. I loved doing the puppets on the late night show but the reason we did the puppets on the late night show and I think I've talked about this before but it was really because we had no money. I don't know. If you go and look back at the countless millions of pirated clips of my old late night show on YouTube, on the Internet, everywhere, you'll see that the show that I was making at the time we were making five shows a week and we had really honestly no money to make the show. We were making it. We had no band, we had very few writers, we had very few resources. A lot of the times, particularly in the first eight years of the show. In the last two years we got a slightly bigger studio. But in the first eight years of the show the studio was so small that if we had a guest band on, like, I don't know, Adele was on or the Damned or the Sex Pistols or the Buzzcocks or whoever it was on Echo and the Bunnyman. Ok, go, whatever. You understand what a band is. But when they were on the show we had to record the band first, let them play their music and then we had to move all their equipment off so we could get the late night equipment on. And then I would do the show and at the end of the show when the band would be on, I would pretend to introduce the band and then we would edit the band in. But I'd already seen them and so had everyone else. It wasn't ideal, but it worked for us anyway. The puppet thing was we just saw some puppets lying around the office. We all try that. And it resonated with people. People do love puppets, I think, because puppets can say things that humans aren't allowed to say. That's the convention, isn't it? And I think that's true. The best example of that, of course, is a former guest on the show is Triumph the insult comedy Insult Dog. It was a fabulous puppet. But I don't think I would do a puppet show for kids or for anyone else. But you know, I never say never. This is from Swagar Ghosts. I think I'm pronouncing that properly. Swakar Ghos G H O S E. It might be Gossie. I don't know. Swakar. It's very. It's a nice name. Sounds maybe in the end. I don't know. I've probably annoyed a bunch of people by even suggesting that it might not be. I don't know, wherever it's from. Anyway, it's an innocent mistake, but Swagar says I'm getting married in November this year. Any advice for a healthy married life now? Actually, I think I might have some advice for healthy married life. And it's to do with this. This is coffee and look, I won't lie to you. I was married a couple of times. The three. To be honest. I was married once in the 80s for a couple of years. That was a. I mean, look, nothing about the lovely woman I was married to. But we were both drinking a lot, you know, and it wasn't a marriage as I understand it now. And then I was married. In 1998, I got married again. And that was, you know, it was what it was and it didn't work out. But we had a lovely son who is obviously still my son, and. And who I love very much. So that was great, and the boon from that. But I've been married now since 2008, and here's what I would say. It's coffee, coffee time. Because every morning, whether I'm on the road and away from home or at home, we have coffee time. Every morning we sit down, we have a cup of very good coffee, and we talk. And a lot of the times, I'd say maybe like 80% of the time, I don't talk that much. I listen to a lot of things and a lot of, you know, my wife is very. Is very plugged into news and current events and politics. She pays a great deal of attention to all of that. I. I actually don't. I feel like something big is going to happen. I'll hear about it probably from her. And that's kind of where I get my news. It's a trusted source. So we have coffee time. Because news now. And this is one of the conflicts I have about even doing this, what I'm doing right now, which is everything in media, all media is social media. There's nothing but social media. When they talk about legacy media, you go, what are you talking about? Everything's a fucking website. Everything is, you know, everything. Everybody's got their tweets and their, you know, their Instagrams and their social media. Everyone's looking for traffic on their site, which, you know, fine, but it's. But that's what it is. And I find that. And I don't know if you guys know this, but I find the hyperbolic nature of reporting to be exhausting. Really, honestly, honest to goodness, exhausting. And I find it depressing. It's like, you go, this is a really big thing that's gonna happen and we should all be worried. And then nothing happens, or something does happen. But what the fuck did the worrying do? Did that help? I don't know. I mean, I know a lot of people disagree with me. Like, no, you gotta stay connected to what's going on. But I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if I really fucking do. I mean, especially now that I'm married to someone who is connected to what's going on. I'll hear it from her. And that's a trusted source for me. When she says, oh, guess what's going on in Washington? And then she tells me, like, oh, my God. And then I. The trick is to have really good coffee, is what I'm saying. Because then whenever you're listening to something and you go. And then you taste the coffee, you're like, oh, my God, that's delicious. And then you can hear things. And I'm not saying. I'm not listening. Of course I'm listening. But. But I'm also really enjoying the coffee, and I think that's what it is for me. So a healthy married life. Coffee. Now, there are considerations here. Obviously, there may be cultural or religious implications for you that require you not to drink coffee. Perhaps coffee isn't something you enjoy, or do you but find a coffee substitute? Perhaps water, perhaps, I don't know, Scotch, whatever you enjoy drinking in the morning. I used to enjoy drinking. I used to. When people say, I'm not an alcoholic, because I didn't realize I was an alcoholic till I drank in the morning. And I certainly. When I was drinking, which is a long time ago, I did drink in the morning. And what people don't tell you about drinking in the morning, I'm not advocating this, but I will say this. If you're an alcoholic, drinking in the morning, it's the best bet. That's the best bet. That's the only bet that's good at the end of it. This is like, oh, thank God. If you can hold it down, which is tricky a lot of the time. All right, this is from. So the key to a good marriage. Coffee or coffee equivalent. This is from Christine. How many tattoos do you have now? And what are the stories behind some of your favorites? There's an interesting thing about tattoos. I think tattoos are a bit like sex or murder. I think the, you know, the first one's the most difficult. Then after that, they get kind of easier. And the truth is, the way I feel about tattoos now is not the same as I felt when I got my first tattoo. And I think most people who have tattoos now kind of feel this way. I think the ones I talk to, you get one, and it's very significant. Oh, this is a tribal marking for my favorite saying, or this is my mom's sister's blouse. That was very important to me, or whatever it is you get tattooed in your body, and that's very important. And then the next one's important, but maybe slightly Less important, what happens is I got my first tattoo after my father died. My father hated tattoos. And after he died, I thought, oh, gosh, what's the best way to commemorate a man who hated tattoos? Celtic paradox. Get a tattoo. So I got a tattoo for my father, and I only got one, and then I forgot about it for a couple of years. Then about three years later, sadly, my mother died. And, you know, sad, of course, obviously. And then about a year after my mother died, I heard this kind of voice in my head. It was kind of like, oh, you get a tattoo for your father, but, oh, nothing for your mother. So I thought, all right. So I got my mother's family crest. I got my father's family crest tattooed. Then I got my mother's family crest tattooed. Interestingly, father's tattoo, the family crest of the Fergusons went on in about, I don't know, hour and a half, two hours. Hardly any pain at all. Mother's family crest, two days, agonizing. I don't know if that's significant or not, or maybe it says something about me. So I got those tattoos, but then I was talking to the guy who was doing the tattoo at the time, and he said, well, you know, it's bad luck to have an even number of tattoos. I was like, is it? And I'm very. I'm a control freak, so you tell me anything that I could possibly throw a bit of OCD onto and, like, bad luck. And I'm like, oh, I kind of have bad luck. So I had to have a third tattoo, and I had recently become an American citizen, so I got, you know, the join or die Benjamin Franklin, you know, tattoo put there, and that was the third tattoo. But after that, you kind of just get tattoos. To be honest, I don't really know how many I have now because it's like, does that count as one? Or, you know, what about. This is definitely one. But then these little bits were added later, and, you know, there's a bit around there, and that guy. And it becomes. I think it's just something that you do or something that you have, and it. It's not that it becomes less important. It just becomes less dramatic, maybe like a marriage, you know, or a relationship of any kind, you know, a friendship, you know, that over time, it becomes less dramatic and a little more comfortable, and it leaves a mark, and sometimes it stings, and sometimes you wish. I should probably get rid of that, but you know what? I would never get rid of a tattoo, and I'll tell you why. Because I feel like it's part of your history, you know, it's part of the. Whatever marks you picked up along the way. I feel that I have a scar on my hand. I don't know if you can see that there, there's a little, a scar across the back of my hand there I go. When I, I was drunk, when I was about 19 or 20 years old, I, I punched a window and some great idea I had about punching a window and I punched the window and I, you know, I, I got a scar in the back of my hand. It was very painful at the time and there's a lot of blood and very dramatic. But you know, I'm 62 years old now and I got a scar in my hand. I barely. But every now and again I see it and I go, I'm not blame you. What an. Or I just, you know, I have affection for, you know, whatever that young man was going through at the time. And it has a certain sweetness to it for me even. Although I, I'd rather not have done it. But I did it. And tattoos are a bit like that. I, I sometimes think grief is a bit like that. I was talking with someone last night at a show after my stand up shows now I do a lot of meet and greets and I was talking to a woman after the show and she was talking about she'd been bereaved recently and she felt bad and she'd come to the show to have a laugh and I had a laugh and that was great. And I was talking to her a bit about grief and I think grief is a little like a scar, you know, it really, I mean, my God, it's so painful and it never goes away, but it becomes something that's part of you. And in remembering someone, like a scar, it kind of becomes like there's a sweetness to a memory if you've loved someone and lost them. That's what I thought. I don't know why I got into that, but it's from tattoos, I guess because I got my first tattoo through grief. You know, that was what my father had died. I was bereft. I loved that man. I loved my mother too. And so the scar that I inflicted upon myself was a physical manifestation of the scar that I had in my soul from the grief. So the scar itself is the tattoo and every tattoo is a scar. I guess in a way. One of the things I will say one that kind of makes me laugh or maybe it's an indication, but here's a story right there. I don't know if you can see, I have the planet Saturn. That's where I wear my watch. Planet Saturn. Now Saturn, of course in mythology is the bringer of old age. He also ate his children, but I don't know if he really did that. I think that's metaphorical, but also, it's also metaphorical planet, but Saturn in mythology, the idea is that Saturn is the bringer of old age. I thought, well, I'll get that where my watch is. So if I forget to wear my watch and I look to see what time it is, I'll go, oh yeah, that's what time it is.

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All right, let's see, what else have we got? We got from Robby Winstead on Instagram. Robby says, the last book you read, what was the last book you read? Now, I'm quite awed about the way I read because recently, and this is one of the things I have to say that I'm so grateful for about these things, the phones is I've become very into audiobooks. So I will read a book at one point and it might not necessarily be the book I'm listening to. It's almost like I consume more. I know it sounds kind of greedy and I suppose in the way it is, but the audiobook thing is into me because I started getting into the Greek philosophers, Greek and Roman Stoics for the most part, but also Epicureans and, you know, go back from, you know, from Seneca back to Epictetus, from Epictetus to Zeno, from Zeno to Socrates. And I become fascinated by the audiobook thing and what I was interested in. And I'll get to the last book I read in a minute because it's none of this, but it made me think of it, is that the audiobook thing, getting into the idea of Socrates in particular. A lot of these guys, Epictetus as well, they didn't write down what they were talking about. Their pupils did, their disciples did, but they didn't. So the work of Socrates is all filtered through the writing of Plato, the work of Epictetus, who was a Stoic of some renown. I'm not an expert in any of this, but all of his stuff was written down by one of his pupils because they didn't trust, I think what it was is they didn't quite trust the medium to get across the message that they wanted to get across and they wanted to see. They wanted to be in the room at the time and I feel a great kinship to that. It is an interesting thing about what we're doing right this very second, which I'm not writing any of this down. I haven't prepared anything for it. I'm sitting in a fucking hotel room in Orange county because I'm doing a standup show tonight. But there is a directness about what we're doing now. And I don't know if you guys will respond to it, but I'm kind of interested in what's happening. Not that I'm comparing myself to the great Stoic minds of Epictetus or Seneca or anything like that, but Seneca did write stuff down. But I do quite like the idea of just talking. And maybe that's an egotism, maybe I'm second guessing myself, I don't know. But I guess the bottom line is nobody makes you listen. I mean, it's one of the things that I'm doing myself now is I don't listen to the. As much as I can avoid it. The cacophony of the media of all stripes. It doesn't matter if it's left or right or red or blue or Everybody's fucking yelling all the time. And I feel like I can't hear anything when everybody's yelling. And so I've become interested in audio recordings of the writing of the great Stoics there. Now, the last book I read was a book by Robert Harris, who's a great writer. It's kind of in the same theme that he wrote a. A trilogy of books which I highly recommend. Really very entertaining and very knowledgeable about the life of the great Roman statesman and, let's be honest, Stoic Cicero. And he wrote it from the point of view of Cicero's slave, Tiro. I think that was his name. And Tiro actually apparently did write a book, but it was lost in antiquity, it was lost in history. So Robert Harris wrote three books about that, assuming the role of Tiro in the writing, which is just fabulous writer. And I think they're called Imperium, Conspirata and Dictator. I think that's the name of the three books. But you can look up Robert Harris, the Cicero Trilogy, and they are set at the time when Rome was transferring from a republic to an empire. Now, I wonder if you can see where I'm going with this. There was a great shift in the politics of Earth at the time, and Cicero was very much complicit in that. He had a point of view in it. He wasn't ultimately victorious in how he wanted it to go. But he was part of the movement of history at that time. And it was witnessed expertly through Robert Harris's character of the slave Tyrol at the time. And it's just fascinating, It's a fascinating parallels into how the world is now. Because here's what I believe when everybody says this was during the election and all that. Everybody's saying it's never been as bad as this. It kind of always has. It always has been like this. This is how it is. But what it requires of you right now is to try and sift through the noise. I think it was. Look, I'm probably misquoting this terribly, but I don't know if I'm sure I'll be checked in the comments and stuff, but luckily someone else will read them. But there is a quote, I think it's an indirect quote. Beware the man that bangs the drum of war. Beware the man that says the enemy is at the gates, because I am that man and I am Caesar. Chilling, isn't it? You know, keep the people scared of everything all the time, and then, you know, it doesn't matter what you're trying to steer them into, just keep them afraid. And by having people afraid, having people frantic, they're easier to hurt. But that being said, I also have another theory that kind of is in opposition to that when it comes to the idea of, you know. Well, what I mean is like, when I talk to my wife, she's always like, she sees. She's not a conspiracy theorist, but she sees, oh, this is what they're trying to do, or this is what these people are trying to do, or that I'm like, I don't see it that way so much because I don't think people are that competent. You know, whenever I've met high up people in the level of corporate stuff or, you know, governmental positions, and I've met some very senior people in, in both of these worlds. I'm always shocked by how fucking dumb a lot of them are. Most of them just, you know, not even dumb to scan them like. And they, they don't have that. They don't have the kind of wherewithal to put a conspiracy together. Hardly any of them can put a fucking golf game together. I mean, it's. It's not that golf is a sign of intelligence. It's absolutely not. But it's a lovely game. I feel like a lot of the time the answer is incompetence, not conspiracy. That's what I think. Of course, I could be incompetent or more frighteningly, maybe I'm part of a conspiracy, but I'm not. I can't join anything. It's one of the things that really, I learned about myself when I was doing late night. Late night is, let's be honest, a fraternity, for the most part, certainly was then of about maybe at that time, it was half a dozen guys, and I couldn't even be part of that. I'm not a great joiner. That's why I never really worked as a band member. Especially if you're the drummer in a band, which is what I was. I mean, you want the drummer to be part of things, not working on his own. If you do that, you end up with the police. Know what I'm saying? You know what I'm talking about. Sting. That guy speeds up all the time. All the time. I hear him anyway. God, how long have I been talking? Okay, so look, here's the thing. I've got a bunch of emails here. I don't know how you guys feel about this format. I'm kind of okay with it. I think it's worth exploring a little more. I'll get more specific and I'll stay on the. Keep sending the emails and the tweets and stuff, and I'll. And I'll do some more of them if you want it to happen. If you don't, it's cool. I mean, I'll be all right, is what I'm saying. Here's what I'll try and leave you with something pithy and helpful. Here's what I think is try and have good coffee. Consider the source of your information. Talk to someone you trust and consider what that means. And also listen more than you talk, which is rich coming from a guy who's just talked. You know, stop for the last half hour. And I guess I really believe this. And this is for everybody. Light the up.

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