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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\nI have reached the age where my past does not haunt me. It invoices me. That is different. Haunting is spooky. Invoicing is personal. A ghost just moves a chair. My memories show up with an itemized PDF and say, Jesse, we need to talk about labor, mileage and emotional wear and tear. That is why colors of my pain is not really a memoir. It is a collections department with chapters. I thought I was writing a book. No. I open a case file. Every chapter walks in like it has seniority. Childhood comes in first, puts its lunchbox on the table and says, I have been here since the beginning. Then business stress walks in with work boots, a vacuum cord and a customer asking, can you just do one more thing real quick? That phrase has aged me worse than time. Real quick means nobody has priced it. Real quick means Jesse is about to donate a portion of his nervous system to the community and I am a red in the four colors. So I do not process that like a calm adult, green would analyze it, blue would read the room, yellow would hug everybody and make snacks. Red hears real quick and immediately becomes a small claims attorney with a mob. I do not even mean to. My face just changes departments. Some people have resting nice face. I have resting final notice. That is the thing about pain. If you do not turn it into something, it turns into customer service voice. Nobody wants that from me. My customer service voice sounds like the warranty is already denied. So now I run it through bombed app that is a strange sentence for a grown man. I take pain from 1987, put it into an AI comedy app on a supercomputer and wait for it to tell me my trauma needs a stronger punchline. And the worst part is sometimes it is right. Bombed app will look at my deepest life lesson and go good premise week turn, tighten the setup. I am sitting there offended but also taking notes because I know the truth. Comedy is not pretending it did not hurt. Comedy is walking into the courtroom with the receipt, the mob bucket and enough timing to make the judge lean forward. That is what I like about getting older. I do not need the past to apologize anymore. I need it to give me material. I am not healed like a monk. I am healed like a small business owner. I still have the damage but now it has a folder, a title and a due date that is growth. Maybe not yellow growth. Yellow growth has candles. Mine has a spreadsheet but it works. Every time I take one ugly chapter and make it funny, I get a little bit of my life back. Not all of it. Let us not get dramatic. I am still a red. I like progress not a musical. But enough to say this. If my past wants overtime fine, clock in, bombed app is going to score the shift.\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}