Name: "Chasing Whimsies" with Kevin Smith (from Joe Rogan Experience #134)
Uploaded: 2014-04-03T20:44:40.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Chasing Whimsies" with Kevin Smith (from Joe Rogan Experience #134)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-04-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"Chasing Whimsies" with Kevin Smith (from Joe Rogan Experience #134)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-04-03. Transcript available.

the joe rogan experience look i live with the fact that there's some people
that love what i do and
then there are some people like i'm fucking baffled why is this motherfucker
still here
so i get it i get like uh i get that love it or leave it or love it or hate it
really i mean i'll
take love it or leave it you're a perfect example what you just used though is
a great example what's
special about this whole thing is that a guy like you like you saying that uh
you know uh that you're
a love it or leave it guy but if you weren't you you're you're look if you
weren't a guy who has
this podcast sponsored by the fleshlight a guy who puts out a podcast on the
internet way before
anybody and a guy whose most recent movie you just say well kind of fuck
everybody i'm just gonna do
this on my own do it and release it my way fuck the entire system of it a guy
like you really wouldn't
exist any other way no you know you can't it's kind of you gotta go you're the
ultimate love it or leave
you're you're doing it your way play it with passion do it here's my philosophy
and it's everybody's
philosophy it's not even an original one one life you fucking die that's it and
you don't know what's
on the other side and we hope for this that we hope for candy land but we don't
know it could be as
simple as get in the box and stay there for all the fucking eternity you had
your shot your computer
we shut you down and you're finished so if that's the case it it it behooves
you to shoot for your
dreams every time i know it sounds a little dopey and tony robbins this but
like it's real it's real
like in a world where you're gonna fucking die like this is the way i think
about it and it's an
example that's real close to home my old man was a good dude my father good guy
not many good men in
the world this was a good fucking guy did worked at a post office uh canceling
your fucking stamp what
a soul-killing horrible job that is for years just to pay for a fucking family
who knew if he had dreams
maybe his only dream was to like i'll get married and have kids work maybe wasn't
a big deal to him
and he did whatever he had to to put food on the table and stuff like that good
dude take me to matinees
every wednesday go see a movie take me out of school half day go see flicks and
whatnot uh never
no not one of these parents that you know fucks around with a kid or something
like that where
you're like oh he was all good except there was that good straight arrow
fucking dude didn't went to
church because his wife made him but wasn't big into the church fucking mowed
his mother-in-law's lawn
all the time good guy good guy raised three good kids or at least two good kids
in me and so my father
we go out to eat one night uh he's about 68 years old we go out to eat morton's
in philadelphia
uh and it's one of those special nights man where the whole family winds up
being the same place
hadn't been that way in years my mom my dad uh me and my wife's with me uh my
sister and her husband
and she lives out and at this point i think she was living in kobe japan or
something like that so
she's rarely back in the states and my brother he's married to a dude but his
husband wasn't with us
he didn't make the trip that time unfortunately there we are in a back room at
morton's you know
and eating having a great time chit-chatting and the old man's putting away
steak cheesecake he's had
a couple manhattans that was his fucking poison and you could tell and i don't
even like paint this in
retrospect it was clear on the night parents love seeing their kids all in one
place happy healthy
not fucked in the head or something like that and you could tell he was
enjoying it there were his kids
shooting the shit everyone's trying to make each other laugh and shit trying to
make him laugh
he everyone since everyone's paying attention everyone else maybe nobody's
paying attention
to him eating maybe too much cheesecake that night but fuck it we're all having
a good time
put him in a cab that night kiss him on the head it was like hey man i'll see
you in the morning he'd
come out to philadelphia to see me do a q a at the uh wizard comic con philadelphia
wizard comic con
off he goes in the cab go home and i go to the hotel go to sleep i get a phone
call at six in the
morning from my brother and my brother's like um you gotta get down to hospital
on walnut and i said
why he goes dad and now my father was in and out of poor health he was diabetic
and whatnot he'd had
like uh strokes heart attacks and stuff like that yeah he was bad health dude
but um but no so when
my brother's like dad's in the hospital i'm like okay what now fucking throw a
rock and dad's got it
and my brother he could hear in his voice he was just like you gotta get down
here right now
and i was oh oh shit and i hung up got dressed went down i get to the emergency
room open the door
first thing i see is my mother who looks more scared than i've ever seen a
human being in my life
fucking terror on her face not i've seen my mother cry in my lifetime you know
i've made my mother cry
in my lifetime i've watched her cry watching fucking falcon crest when i was a
kid this was different
this was like terror fear uh you know almost like there was a fucking gun to
her head and off of her
face i looked at my brother my brother just has this expression where he just
kind of gives me the
slow nod which is he's gone you know my father was dead and i went in and i saw
him on a gurney and
shit and it was so strange and i go outside and i was a smoker like cigarette
smoker in those days i
was go to have a cigarette and uh donald comes out and i was like uh oh god
this is a shock and
whatever you know we were upset and stuff and uh i said how was it because he
was there i said what
happened and donald tells me the story of like uh dad woke up and had this like
big reaction like
just like i'm hot i'm hot he's throwing the sheets off and mom freaked out she's
like what's the
matter what's the matter she told donald call it call the ambulance call the
hospital and he was gone
within seconds so that's you know bad enough you know he was hot and
uncomfortable you don't want
to hear like oh he died in his sleep and we woke up and he just didn't but then
my brother says this
thing probably defined my life my brother goes uh he died screaming and i go
what what and he goes he
he died screaming and i was like what i mean that's is that a figure of speech
and he goes no he literally
he died screaming and you could see my brother was haunted by it and my father
wasn't like a i wouldn't
say he was a butch man or strong man but he wasn't a soft man money stretching
the imagination
and i never heard him get real loud or anything like that and the notion of my
father dying screaming
changed my life because i was like even a good man in this world you played a
game you play it straight
you play it by the rules you do everything you're supposed to you're gonna die
screaming and at that
point i was like there's no point in not trying to accomplish every stupid
fucking dream i've got even
if it's dumb shit like fucking you know oh my god i've always wanted to collect
this many fucking
wayne gretzky cards in one fucking binder or if it's like i want to make a
movie or if it's like i want
to put on a podcast or i want to do a tv show now i want to write a book chase
it all down chasing
whimsy is what i've been doing for the last few years just smoking weed and
chasing whimsy anytime i'm
like back in the day i'd have a good idea something i really wanted to follow
through on and you know
suddenly you get scared you start thinking about what some motherfuckers gonna
say and be like oh
it's stupid why would you fucking do that and fucking why why a lot of why
people in this world i try to
surround myself with the why not motherfuckers who you're like i want to try
this like why not let's
go let's give it a shot you got to be game man people help you achieve your
dreams and shit so
for me the last few years i've just been trying to accomplish every dopey dream
the big shit the little
shit you got to do them all you can't just do the climb every mountain shit you
know sometimes lay
the bar down step over and be like ta-da so you feel accomplished but chase it
all and do it all
because we're all going to die screaming and you might as well enjoy it here
and i and when i say chase
all don't fucking do it at the expense of someone else obviously don't hurt
somebody else but go after
your dreams man if your dream is to like i want to kill 12 children that's i'm
not saying i'm not
talking to you but go after your dreams if they're not going to hurt anybody
you