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Everything that follows is a work of fiction created for comedy. Every character, company, advertisement and film title is invented. 'Jesse', 'Koda' and the Red Line roster are fictional characters performed by AI-generated synthetic voices, not recordings of any real person. All characters are fictional consenting adults over 18. No real person is depicted. Any resemblance to real people, businesses or events is coincidental or used as parody.", "rights": "Original work. Not licensed for reuse, redistribution, resale, or model training.", "fiction_notice_end": "THAT WAS ALL JOKES. None of it was real. Every person, company, movie, advertisement and event in this show is made up. These are characters, not real people — performed by AI voices for comedy. Nothing said here is a statement of fact about anybody. Fiction only. Jokes and giggles.", "text": "[ALL FICTION — JOKES ONLY. Everything that follows is a work of fiction created for comedy. Every character, company, advertisement and film title is invented. 'Jesse', 'Koda' and the Red Line roster are fictional characters performed by AI-generated synthetic voices, not recordings of any real person. All characters are fictional consenting adults over 18. No real person is depicted. Any resemblance to real people, businesses or events is coincidental or used as parody.]\n\nColors of my pain has receipts writing a memoir called Colors of my pain is brave, but it is also suspicious. Because once you name the pain, you cannot pretend it is just traffic. For years, I thought I was just busy. Working, hustling, building, cleaning, fixing, starting over, making something out of whatever was left. Then you start writing your story and realize, no, this is not a schedule problem. This is a whole museum and every exhibit has receipts. The funny thing about pain is it does not always show up dramatic. Sometimes it shows up as a man in his 50s with a cleaning business, a supercomputer, and 14 projects saying, I'm fine. That is not fine. That is a full season on... Colors of my pain made me look at my life through the four colors. Red was the part that survived. Green was the part trying to make sense of it. Blue was the part that kept adapting because changing shape felt safer than asking for help. Yellow was the part that still wanted love, even when red was standing in front of the door with a clipboard. That is me, protector outside, soft middle, spreadsheet somewhere, emotional damage with a work ethic, and comedy is the only way I can say that without making everybody in the room check the exits. If I say I carried pain for years, people get quiet. If I say my trauma had better attendance than my family reunions now we can talk. That is the power of stand up. It lets the truth wear shoes. I am not trying to be a victim. I am trying to be useful. That is very red of me too. Even my pain has to clock in. I will take a childhood wound and ask, can this become a course, a book, a video, an app, and a three-minute bit? Some people journal to heal. I turn mine into a content calendar that is either entrepreneurship or a cry for help with thumbnails. But I think the book matters because people need a language for themselves. Not a fancy one, a working one. Red protects green things, blue adapts, yellow connects. Most of us are not broken. We are using the wrong color for the wrong job. I used red for everything. Pain, red money, red relationships, red website down, red feelings, red with a timeout that is exhausting. You cannot swing a hammer at every lock and call it access control. So colors of my pain is me learning the difference between strength and armor. Armor helped me survive. But you cannot hug people through plate metal. You also cannot build a peaceful life if every room in your head has a fire drill. The joke is I had to turn 50 before I started reading my own manual. And the manual said, sir, you skipped several chapters and overbuilt the panic room. That is OK. Bombed, app can fix a bad punch line. Four colors can explain why I keep grabbing the wrong tool. And colors of my pain can turn the old herd into something that finally pays rent.\n\n[THAT WAS ALL JOKES. None of it was real. Every person, company, movie, advertisement and event in this show is made up. These are characters, not real people — performed by AI voices for comedy. Nothing said here is a statement of fact about anybody. Fiction only. Jokes and giggles.]", "fiction_notice_audio": true}