May 3, 2021
Life is like a butterfly... One minute you are floating along
and then the next... thummppp! Windshield.
This past week two men that I love dearly dropped dead.
Gerke Nauta was the director of the first two seasons of the
Kevin Masters Late Night show that I did in Amsterdam. He taught me
how to be a television host and how to look into the cold
black lense of the camera and speak warmly to the people watching
at home. Gerke Nauta changed the course of my life when he and
Jason Tegelaar chose me to be the star of their show.
Another great loss to me was the death of Carl Labove. Before
I ever met him he was my hero for his mastery of stand up comedy
and then in the course of our friendship he was a never ending
source of positive energy and an example of someone who never let
hardship rob him of his joy for living or diminish his sparkle in
any way. Both of these men are heroes to me in the story of my life
and I praise, remember and celebrate them in this episode. I also
talk about how I fell in love with the Toronto Blue Jays and why Bo
Bichette is the Tom Rhodes of baseball. Furthermore I talk about
why you shouldn't feed squirrels salted nuts, how to solve
the homeless crisis in Los Angeles and the most annoying thing that
the artist Rembrandt did to his wife. There is new hope for the
planet now that summer is arriving and because more people are
getting vaccinated it means that it won't be long before we are
allowed to gather in groups again to celebrate the best parts of
being human. Hooray for humanity and joy be upon you!
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