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The One-Armed Minister and Crackhead Comic on the Rehab Circuit
from Kind Of A Minister · #28
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2 minTim introduces the story of getting sober early in his comedy career and touring rehab facilities with a one-armed ex-crackhead minister whose prosthetic arm looked like a Halloween prop.
- 18:40Tim describes living in a big drainpipe with a MacBook Air at the end, emptying into a sewer.
- 18:54Tim quit drinking and drugs immediately when he started comedy on Long Island.
- 19:07Getting sober while entering comedy, a business where it's beneficial to work drunk and high, was the worst time to quit.
- 19:41Other sober comics on Long Island had lives that seemed worse than the worst drunk you knew.
- 20:00Tim worked for an ex-crackhead marine and minister with one arm who was very good to him, putting money in his pocket.
- 20:25The one-armed counselor for veterans alluded to losing his arm in war, but actually lost it smoking crack in a car accident.
- 20:37The ex-crackhead smoked so much crack he got in a car, lost consciousness, and woke up in a hospital with one arm.