Streetlight Angels Podcast

Laughing Through Life's Challenges: Eugene Bassham's Journey from Firefighting to Comedy, Community, and Mental Health Advocacy!

• Streetlight Angels • Season 1 • Episode 9

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This episode highlights the powerful role comedy plays in mental health and community building through the lens of comedian Eugene Bassham. He tackles his own experiences with trauma, illness, and comedy to illustrate how laughter can serve as not only a coping mechanism but also a tool for connection and healing among youth.

• Introducing Eugene Basham and his unique background 
• Impact of humor on trauma and emotional healing 
• Transitioning from military and firefighting to comedy 
• Utilizing comedy to address mental health in schools 
• Personal stories that highlight the healing power of laughter 
• The importance of community involvement in child upbringing 
• Eugene’s personal cancer journey and its lessons 
• The need for integrating humor in mental health discussions 
• Future collaborations around mental health and education

Josh:

Welcome to Streetlight Angels podcast. This is me, josh. I'm one of the hosts. I've got the other host with me, casey Kasey. What episode are we on?

Kasey:

Episode nine.

Josh:

Episode nine. That's what's up. Episode nine Moving fast. Holy cow, we're going right. I know third person coming in and being a guest with us. His name is Eugene Eugene. Welcome man. He's a comedian. Let me transfer that over to him. Let him explain himself and what he does. Welcome Eugene.

Eugene:

Thank you, josh. Yes, my name is Eugene Bassham. That's B-A-S-S-H-A-M. For those who want to say Bass Ham, I always say that my name is kind of like the two things people like in the South bass fishing and ham. You know what I mean. You may do that on Thanksgiving, you know, like we're going to have a ham and we're going bass fishing. That's cool. But I grew up in Nashville, tennessee. I am a professional comic. I actually I used to just travel all over the country now and travel all over the world telling jokes, and I tell jokes anywhere, from churches, schools and comedy clubs. So it's very encouraging to be here because you guys have a concept or I would say, not a concept more of a mission that I grew up with. I grew up where you had to be home before the streetlights came on and now you can't go out, even if you're right, and the new subdivisions don't have streetlights. So some of these places we have to put some streetlights.

Josh:

Yeah, this is. It's so true. Actually, I never even thought about it.

Eugene:

Yeah, you know, they got those companies now that have the, the drones that all they do is provide lighting for, like movie sets and things like that. And so you just, we just uh, sign up a couple hours a day. They just come out with the drones and be, like, you know, with some lights. Right, that's it.

Josh:

Watch your own, follow the kids home, that's a good idea. Holy cow, that's a great idea.

Eugene:

I need a drone to track my children my children for sure, and that that hits home with you, right, because you, you got, you got kids at home. Oh yeah, man, well, just a couple, right, yeah, I have, I have, I have three at home, uh, and then the rest. It's kind of like a revolving door, because I have 10 all together holy smokes yeah, yeah, that's that's what the doctor says every time he sees me.

Eugene:

It's like I knew it wasn't a different basham. It was like. It was like my doctor and I we have a great relationship. It was like you know, and at one time he was the only doctor in Nashville with a jerry curl, so it was cool. I was like I asked you, that's what it was like. Yeah, my doctor from Memphis, right on.

Eugene:

So 10 kids, oh, my conjunction with a comic lifestyle that's got to be hard to to keep yourself, I guess, in that state of mind where it's comedy. No, I don't know, man, I'm well. You see, the thing is, when you have that many different behaviors around you, it it gives you comedic gold, like my daughter, my oldest daughter. She owns her own house. Right, and she was like dad, you got enough kids for both of us, so I'm going to just adopt a house, and your grandbaby now needs new floors. You know what I mean.

Kasey:

That's fantastic.

Eugene:

So it's like that's one way to get me to do work for free, Right.

Josh:

Use the babies to dangle as a carrot in front of you.

Eugene:

Oh yeah, Get in on For your granddaughter, oh yeah, and the thing is is that she's held true like she's. She's 31 now and doesn't have any kids, but she takes care of a good house, though like I I can you can almost eat off her floor. She's so clean. I was like girl I thought you was raised in japan. As clean as these floors yeah, that's awesome.

Josh:

So 10 kids comic life. What was your past history were you? Were you always a comedian or well, that's the thing is.

Eugene:

You know, I've always been funny, but as far as like, I never thought this would be my job. And then you see so much as a firefighter between you know kids getting injured, car wrecks, you know burning buildings and things like that. You see a lot of tragedies and my coping mechanism for trauma has always been humor, like we had, you know. And in a lot of tragedies and my coping mechanism for trauma has always been humor Like we had, you know, and in a lot of communities you have a death in the family, y'all sit around you joke and laugh about when the person was there.

Josh:

Sure Like celebrating the life essentially.

Eugene:

Yeah, and so and that's what you kind of do when you're dealing with trauma is you celebrate the good amongst all of this stuff, traumas. You got to celebrate the good amongst all of this stuff. And so, you know, I've had some crazy calls, but then I've also had some that were crazy at the time, that end up when you think about it it's just hilarious. Yeah, you know, and so, due to HIPAA laws, you can't joke about a lot of stuff. Sure, but some stuff is just like. I know this one lady, lady, she thought she had an infection but she forgot. She put a piece of bread under her arm.

Kasey:

Oh mercy to no to keep the moisture.

Eugene:

She wanted to soak it up, okay. And then all of a sudden she got this goopy. Oh my gosh. She thought she had an infection and she was so big she couldn't see her armpit. She just knew she had goo under there.

Kasey:

No way. That just took us into a whole realm of.

Josh:

And then called medical assistance essentially, and then you showed up and said that's just some yeast or some bread.

Eugene:

We didn't know until we asked her to go through her day. What has she eaten? Because you know we have to do like this whole checklist of things and they're putting 12 leads on her because they're like, well, maybe she's having some type of heart issue or something. Yeah, yeah, because she was perspiring a lot yeah and oh wow and then you know, oh, and so it's like did you have a sandwich? Because we saw bread. She's like I, I put I had half.

Josh:

A other half is under my armpit here.

Eugene:

And she kind of put her head down. I was like, oh my gosh, I literally had to tell her that I do it too, just because I didn't want her to feel so excited. That was so sweet.

Kasey:

That's such a kind heart.

Josh:

That is nice.

Kasey:

So you went from being a firefighter.

Josh:

Military first right.

Eugene:

Yeah, I was in the Navy. You were in the navy, you were in here, had a lot of, had a lot of episodes where because you're not supposed to laugh, you know it's a we got a drill so and I was a I was a second degree black belt at the time, so it's like I was like alpha male type. So if you in my face I'm like thinking it's funny because you're not intimidating me, you know, and so it was kind of I would always get in trouble for bust now laughing and stuff like that. I remember one time the petty officer asked me to move, wouldn't ask me, directed me to move a mulch pile from over here to two feet over, like just because it was like and I did not find that funny, you know at all, no, not at all, I would imagine not.

Eugene:

But yeah, I used to get all kind of little chores and stuff. Like I stayed on bad you'd have thought I was the king of the bathroom. I stayed on bathroom duney, like I knew those guys. I was like whose pubic hair is this?

Josh:

yeah, but so you transitioned from the military and then got into firefighting. And then how long did you do?

Eugene:

well, I actually worked in, uh, mental health field for a lot time dealing with kids with autism and Tourette's. So Nashville at one time had a school that was specifically for social disorders as opposed to behavioral, and so they considered Tourette's, autism and other spectrums in that category because they were kind of were kind of like being falling through the cracks because you teach differently, you know. So the classrooms need to be different, and so what I would do is I would develop the behavior plans and I actually think that you guys are partnering with a company that kind of work with kids with autism interests.

Josh:

That's right. The school down South and Fort Walton? Yeah, they, they. They only have children that have autism on a higher scale. Yeah, so when she was.

Kasey:

I need to look deeper into that. Yeah, yeah.

Eugene:

Oh yeah, because the thing is, is that, like we call them replacement behaviors? Let's say they have an inappropriate behavior that's socially inappropriate? Sure you, just you, you want to replace it with a socially appropriate behavior, absolutely, and so I used to put the plans together. So, if you have an education assistant, I would monitor the interaction between the teacher, the student and the learning plan. Ok, and then I would. I would put a plan together that helped to implement the right social behavior and the right behavior you needed for them to stay on task. And was this for children specifically? Yeah, this was from K to 12. Okay, and like the school was, it had a high school, but only half of the building was being used. That's just how many students we had, because at the time, it was like they were pulling them as needed into the building.

Kasey:

Okay.

Eugene:

And now I think they have a whole building.

Josh:

So you got into comedy. And then you. But you've worked with kids, you've worked in the fire department, you've worked in the military. You've done the versatility is unbelievable.

Kasey:

I was about to say very diverse background.

Josh:

Yeah, it's, it's amazing. And then now you're, you know, Kind of really pivoted everything into comedy. But now you want to do what Almost bring it back with utilizing comedy into with children and schools and stuff, right.

Eugene:

Oh yeah, I mean because you know I believe I am only successful as I am because it does take a village to raise a child.

Kasey:

We just talked about that in our last episode.

Josh:

That's right. It takes a village to raise a child.

Eugene:

Absolutely, we just talked about that in our last episode. That's right. It takes a village to raise a child, absolutely, and so the success rate of people where I'm from, like graduating from high school or going to college, for me to be done all that, I've got like three associate degrees. I may have four. I just I kind of lose count. That's awesome, but every time I wasn't able to find a job that I wanted, then I just go to school and do something I was interested in.

Eugene:

you know, just to keep the mind going, but like my family and my neighbors and people are like stepped up to be like, oh, I'll help you with the kids, so I'll do this. I had my first business when I was 17. I owned an ice cream truck. They end up growing into like five ice cream trucks, so that's how I paid for my first associate degree in photography. Is doing that Right? And you know, crazy thing about the ice cream truck is that I used to have, I used to do a lot of daycares and senior facilities, like senior daycares and because everybody loves coming to an ice cream truck.

Eugene:

I remember this one lady. She was like she had to be every bit of 85. And she was like, if I didn't have this diaper on, boy with them pretty eyes and I got green eyes and freckles. So people always like compliment me on my eyes, but I've never had somebody tell me if they didn't have a diaper on. You know, yep, yep. I was like, yes, ma'am, because I've always respected my elders, sure, sure, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, I'll see you next Wednesday, yep. And then that's when you know they like you because they come out with their best blouse on the next week.

Josh:

Oh my God, there it is.

Kasey:

So you've always like, you've got this charisma about you that you attract people, you have humor, You're successful, you're traveling a little all over the world, you world, you're getting into schools. How does that play a part into mental health with people? How have you seen that something that you've taken, you've been able to have a beautiful career with this how have you seen that blossom into the mental health side for people?

Eugene:

Okay, so I started working with a company called One Degree of Separation, and what they found is that, as far as mental health is concerned, either you or someone you know is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's anxiety, depression or suicidal idealization. And it kind of hit me at home, because I was a teen parent and so I had a lot of stress and depression trying to figure out what am I going to do to take care of this kid. I wouldn't even old enough to get a job.

Kasey:

Right.

Eugene:

And so kind of like. I know if I had those stresses. And then I knew other people whose parents were either on drugs or working all the time and couldn't help with homework. Help with homework Like some people just get immense amount of stress not being able to do the work because they don't want their friends or other peers to know that they don't get it yet.

Kasey:

Well, they don't want to fall behind. We all want to look like we're holding our own.

Eugene:

Exactly, and so what I liked about One Degree is that not only did they deal with adults, they would go into schools and we would talk about how to talk about stress and anxiety and depression.

Josh:

On a comedic level, like on a level to where it's relatable too right.

Eugene:

Yeah, so what we do is we show them what we do as far as our job.

Eugene:

Sure, we laugh and you know, have a good time, you know, have a good time and I'll joke about. Like you know, people used to call me Spider-Man when I was a kid, because the only way I could see my girlfriend was to climb in and out of her window. Holy moly, gotcha, it's like so that was one of my nicknames, sure and so, or I'll be like you know, everybody's heard of Jackie Chan. Well, I was so good at martial arts in my neighborhood they call me Blackie Chan, and because the thing is is always, if you couldn't beat them up, just make fun of them. They couldn't beat me up because they saw my moves.

Eugene:

But right, and so you know, we'll be in the schools and we'll joke, and so we'll give them three to five minutes of a normal set. You know, clean set, like you know, like G, sure, you know, sometime, if we do a town hall meeting we've done town hall meetings it'll be like PG 13. So it's okay for television, it should be okay for this setting, right, right and uh, and so we, you know, it's like you'll have a kid. That was like you know, I, you know, I, I tried this with my mom, like cause. We'll do like three days in a row. I tried this with my mom like, cause, we'll do like three days in a row and we'll do like, let's say, we'll do the fifth and sixth graders, the seventh and eighth, sure, and then we'll do all the high school. Yeah, and you know, one of the sixth graders will find us the next day. It was like I talked to my parents and you know we had we talked like that's cool, you know.

Eugene:

It was like it was like you know, and when other comics have had other experience. Well, because every kid, they may not get what you're saying, but they may get what this other guy Sure.

Josh:

Yeah, you have a bunch of different perspectives and avenues to get to that individual child or their individual issue.

Eugene:

I should say Right, you go from laughing to crying to laughing and joy. You know, I mean that. You know it's almost like I've gone to churches where the preacher will say if I can only reach one person, that's all. Yeah, yeah, oh, that makes sense.

Josh:

Yeah, yeah, and because that could be the, the person that, um, that didn't get that laughter and joy and then goes up and shoots up a school. Right, you know what I mean. But if you could or go and self-harm that's right or-harm. If you could connect to them in a mental medical health state utilizing comedy without turning it into a jokes essentially Right, absolutely. I mean that's amazing. It makes you wonder why every school doesn't have its own personal comedian to be able to do that.

Eugene:

That's the thing Now, and the way One Degree does it is that they'll bring comics from that area, sure.

Eugene:

so it's kind of like you understand the culture and you probably got your humor around that okay like you don't want a comedian from crestview going up to make this very see but you know, and vice versa, like the military comedians that I know fit in very well when we do overseas shows, sure, because they underlay the cultural diversity. Right Before you go overseas they'll tell you all right, you got to take this class so you can understand the culture. That way you're not offending somebody on accident, sure, but yeah, it kind of brings it home for people when they can laugh with you, relate, and then say this is not, this may not work for you, but this is how I talk about it.

Kasey:

Right.

Eugene:

And so we don't like. That's the, I guess, the most pivotal thing about it. Sure, it's not giving you answers as far as relating to you, other than these are some questions you could answer to the person or for the person. Gotcha To, you know, to start the conversation, because that's the most difficult part about it. Especially boys are supposed to be tough and don't supposed to cry Right. So to hear a man say, man, yeah, I cried, you know. You know just the thought that I wouldn't be able to get a part time job, let alone a full time job. And yeah, 14, I had a kid on the way. So you know, I talk about that stuff and that's got to be scary oh yeah and yeah 14,.

Eugene:

I had a kid on the way, so you know I talk about that stuff and that's gotta be scary. Oh yeah, and so most people know me, you know from when I used to go from high school to high school talking about teen pregnancy prevention.

Kasey:

Sure.

Eugene:

Right. And then as I got older, it was like violence prevention. So they like what they now they call them violence and interrupters, where you just talk to other teenagers and be like, hey, it's different ways we can resolve issues, sure, without fighting or, you know, shootings and things like that. And so it kind of like when I met you and we talked about Angel Force and you know you talked about how give you know kids a person to look at, ok, well, you know, as a mentor in a sense, and give you a little common sense, in a sense, of how to behave when you're in different settings, and I also was like man, you know, it would be nice to be able to know your neighborhood is secure again, right, because it used to be.

Eugene:

You know, you always had that retired person that just set out and they'd keep out on the kids, they'd mind their own business, but they'd also be keeping an eye on the kids. Hey, stay away from the road, right? Or they'd yell at a car for going down the street too fast. Slow down, yeah, you know. And so we get into that. It's very convoluted in the sense where we get in that we need to mind our own business, mindset when, if we believe our children are our future, sure, if we believe our children are our future, sure, our children are our business, that's right. Yeah, that's right. And so, yeah, if it comes to how I'm dressed as an adult, yeah, mind your own business. But when it comes to a girl or a boy with his pants halfway to his knees, it's like I don't see how you can justify not saying, hey, pull those things up, man. Yeah, nobody wants to see your ass Correct.

Kasey:

So with that you've had all this experience, and is there one school locally that you've done that really stood out to you like an instance that you really felt you connected and that you made that difference, or you knew that you made that difference.

Eugene:

The one thing about the I say mental health shows, but they're really like trainings, yeah, and so every one of them have affected me, because you can see it in a child's eye, oh my God, when you give them a little light, you know what I mean. Especially, like when you're in the Pacific Northwest and some of those communities have the highest suicide rates in the country, and so for them to be able to allocate the money to bring people in to talk to their youth one, you know there's an issue when you want to put money behind it. You know what I mean, yeah. And then to like I would have done it all for free, like now I go back now on my own dime because I knew it helped that kid.

Kasey:

That's memorable.

Eugene:

And then they were like oh, I remember you, last time I was telling my friend and so they were telling their friend. I only did three minutes of jokes, so they had to be telling their friend not only about the three minutes of jokes but my story.

Josh:

Sure, and how it could be related to them and how they could, you know, bring that to light for themselves to help them continue to move on or maybe build a relationship with their family or friends better. However, yeah, that's freaking awesome, it really is.

Kasey:

Well, I know we were talking to about not just the kids and the outreach that has, but you were telling this awesome story before we started recording and I would love for you, if you're comfortable, to share that again with the listeners, because not only is being able to laugh good for your soul and good for your mental health, but you shed light on something and it just kind of blew me away.

Eugene:

So I got diagnosed with cancer, and this was a year and a half ago. And then it made comedy even more important to me, because I had read a story about a doctor who got diagnosed with stage four cancer and only had six months to live. And I had cancer on my vocal cords, right near my thyroid and everything, and so I wasn't supposed to be able to talk or, you know, I wasn't going to be able to swallow. It was a lot of things I wasn't going to. Only thing I lost was the ability to eat solid foods.

Eugene:

Wow, never lost my voice, you know wow you know I can still swallow and things like that. Now, another friend of mine, same time period, he had throat cancer and they had to put a a feeding tube. In same area, same cancer, but he had to have a tube. So I was like you know, I was doing my research, I found this doctor who locked himself in a hotel room and for two months all he did is listen to comedy albums and laughed and ate Right, and he thought it was, you know, weird that he didn't have the symptoms of somebody who was terminal, who was dying.

Eugene:

Like you know, certain systems and organs start shutting down. So he went to get checked out and he was in total remission. They didn't know where his cancer had gone and it was so inspiring that I was like I chose the right job, a job that not only gives you healing and joy, that it also gives you a mindset that you can think past your situation. It was like who thinks that, oh, if I'm going to die, I'm going to die laughing. You know what I mean.

Kasey:

Well, and I think too, like you said, just sitting here and listening to you and I'm hearing you say I chose the right job, I think it could possibly just be your life purpose, like you found your life purpose, where you just went down that path and that's right, and you've done so many things already pre, prior to, to where now you're utilizing this, what you actually like to do.

Josh:

And then you could take your past experiences and and and get that related into you. Know, every, everybody, especially having a child so young you know what I mean Doing military doing. You know rescue and stuff like that with the fire department. And then you you take those stories and you take um real life stuff and then implement comedy into it and so many people could say, wow, you know what I mean, like right. Well, it's not as bad as I thought it was.

Kasey:

Right and it's all encompassing mind, body, spirit, just overall. Absolutely, I love it.

Eugene:

And the best comics too. When you think about them, they're telling you real stories about their life. Sure, yeah. You know it's not. You know some people like punchlines, but punchlines are usually not true. Is that is? You know? It's just like. You know it starts here and then they just flip it. You know, and so it's not, it's just a joke.

Kasey:

Well, from the psychology standpoint too, though, when you can be relatable and somebody really feels like you're building that connection and that bond with them that gives you so much more than a punchline could ever endeavor, on that, you don't forget that person, just like that child came back to you and said hey, I was telling somebody about you. You know, you left a mark in somebody's life that they won't forget, and you were a happy moment in their life.

Josh:

Oh yeah, that's awesome, yeah, it's really good stuff. And then you know, I have to say you have really put the medical and mental side priority with the children and induced and created that with comedy, which is always a very serious, serious subject, and it's really hard to let people know that. You know you can laugh about something because you know, in a medical sense doesn't the serotonin levels and like all this crazy stuff gets rises and it actually helps you beneficially in many ways, right?

Eugene:

Oh yeah. So it's like when you laugh, your brain gets so much joy it shuts down. If you've actually ever heard a really good joke, you don't remember the whole joke. You remember parts and pieces. That's true. I never thought about that.

Eugene:

Yeah, your brain just shuts down. It's too busy enjoying it's, like you know, release a little bit of dopamine, that's true. So you have that happy hormone going around and you literally shed off. You know stressors and things like that and I'm a lot of tension and so a lot of times that's the reason why comics like hanging with other comics before the show is because it's so stressful. Get up on stage to have somebody Sure have you laugh and bring you down some. That's right. Then you get out there, you can work and you're like man, this is not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Josh:

That's right. Yeah, like public speaking and stuff like that.

Eugene:

A new audience always gets you. It's like the first time I did a show in front of like 65 and older. I was so intimidated. I'm like I've never done a show in front of my grandmother, let alone everybody else's grandmother, and I did the show and it was awesome. And the thing is because they had so many experiences like my grandmother used to say, I've been there and done that yeah, of course it was a whole lot easier. That's why they have so many comedy shows in Vegas and all places. It's like a little comedy capital. When it comes to different clubs, they'll have a buffet and comedy right next to each other, so you can eat your food and laugh until your stomach hurts. Wow.

Josh:

That's awesome, man. So what was the your favorite part or your funniest scenario story that you you know that you've ever encountered while you're doing this thing?

Eugene:

So the abbreviated version that I could give is when I had my ice cream truck, I had my first ice cream truck. I used to have these huge speakers on my truck, right Like 15s, and so I would play rap music sometimes, and one time, the first time I came down this neighborhood, all these thugs start running towards my truck because they heard the rap music and they couldn't believe it, holy cow. And this guy was like man, give me everything. And he was like so energetic that I thought he was trying to rob. And I was like and I peed a little bit. I was like like well, you, it was like. It was like and, and so I was like you trying to rob me. He's like no, I'm going to buy it for the kids.

Josh:

Oh, that's awesome.

Eugene:

That's super cool. And I knew he was a drug dealer so I charged him extra. It's like I'm not going to get arrested for charging him extra. That's funny. But that was like my scariest and funniest moment, because it's like I had to check my pants because I didn't want that little bit of pee to bleed through. Right, right, the last thing you want to be known as is the pissy popsicle wig. You know Perfect, perfect, that is. I'd have got canceled. That's hilarious.

Kasey:

Never forget this now.

Josh:

What did he say? The, what Popsicle, the pissy popsicle pants.

Kasey:

Pissy popsicle pants, I guess.

Josh:

That's hilarious, that's awesome. So I mean, and that's really good because, like that alone with the comedy, your ice cream truck going up into a neighborhood that clearly was a little aggressive, and then for them, for this individual, to come up and say they want everything, they want it all, but literally to buy the ice cream and everything that you had for the kids there, that is insane, yeah.

Eugene:

Right, buy the ice cream and everything that you had for the kids there. That is insane, yeah Right, and if you think about it, it used to be. Even if somebody let's say certain neighborhoods, people were doing wrong, they still knew to look after the kid. You know what I mean and that's great. I didn't even think about that, but it's like. It's like because I knew the reason why I had an ice cream truck is because growing up I was so poor I couldn't get anything from the ice cream truck. So that was my dream is to get something and have a section of my freezer just for kids who only had a handful of pennies, sure, and so that's. You know, I go through those neighborhoods and for him. So he had a little bit of my respect, but I also charged him extra. You know it's an upcharge.

Josh:

So, safe.

Kasey:

He had it.

Eugene:

Yeah, he had it.

Josh:

That's funny, so you can convert that into an educational piece for children. I would recommend the listeners to allow children to listen to this episode to understand that comedy is a scientifically proven medical benefit to people that are struggling, and children at that.

Josh:

And then also, too, the fact that you had said it like we talked before it takes a village to raise a child, and you were in the middle of that village, offering yourself and what you had, you know, your ice cream truck, or whatever the case may be, and I think if everybody had that same mindset within the neighborhood, we would allow our children to play outside and feel a lot more comfortable with them being out there until the streetlights come on. So, honestly, we definitely have to do this again. We appreciate you coming on here, eugene Basham, and do you have a website or do you have?

Eugene:

You can find me on Facebook Eugene Basham slash comedy. And then on social media is comedian Eugene and I have a website yeah, I forget. My wife gets on me all the time about that. And on social media it's Comedian Eugene and I have a website, but I keep forgetting it. My wife gets on me all the time about that, but I think it's EugeneBashamcom. I think that's what it is.

Josh:

Okay, no worries, but can they find your website on social? I think when they find you on social media, it's all they're going to use.

Kasey:

Yeah, social media.

Eugene:

Yeah, you can find all my links on social media and all my upcoming shows, because I do them all over the country. I got one February 7th in Nashville, nice, then I'm back in Santa Rosa for a show, then I'm in Indiana for a show, I think, the 23rd of February Awesome.

Kasey:

That's awesome, Eugene.

Josh:

And then I'll be at who's who. That's right, february 20th. Yes, be at the who's who here in Crestview. Now, what can we help you with? Are you trying to get into schools to run, maybe like what you were doing before, what you were talking about?

Eugene:

before. If they find me on my email, I can direct them to the business office for one degree of separation. Sure, and they set up all the school events and we understand, like the criteria that schools like to have. Sure, people are performing in front of their students Good, and we've done so many school systems that principals and everybody knows exactly you know what we do.

Josh:

That's good stuff, I mean. I think it's a beautiful thing. I would love to be able to collaborate Sorry, let me start over. I'd love to be able to collaborate with you when it comes to Angel Force Protection, because I think, you know, in any way you could bring education and comedy together for the eyes of a child, all the way from kindergarten to 12, and help in any way whatsoever. So again, you know, eugene, thank you so much, seriously, for coming. We're going to do it again, I'm sure, oh for sure, and maybe many times over, to get to where we need to go, and that is, you know, that's that common sense and letting our kids go outside and play until the streetlights come on, and bringing us back into a family village where we need to be, where you were raised, where I was raised, where Casey was raised in, and let our kids be there. So, casey, where, where can you find us?

Kasey:

Find us on Facebook, streetlight Angels. We'd love to hear comments, feedback. Let us know if you'd like to get linked in with Eugene, we'd be more than happy to connect you. And then, of course, our email is streetlightangelspodcast at gmailcom.

Josh:

Awesome, and that was Episode 9. We love every single one of you and, of course, be safe.