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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\nThe chapter that would not stay quiet writing colors of my pain is strange because memories do not line up politely. They do not come in like chapter 1, chapter 2, clean emotional arc. They come in like a storage unit fell over. You sit down to write one meaningful life lesson, and suddenly your brain brings out a receipt from 1989, three family arguments, a bad business decision, and a feeling you thought you paid off already. That is why the book is called Colors of My Pain. It's not Colors of My Lightly Inconvenient Afternoon. Pain is not organized. Pain is a junk drawer with a heartbeat, and I am 50 now, so I am at that age where you start reviewing your life like you are the manager and the employee. I look back at younger Jesse and think, man, I want to hug that guy. Then I want to take his keys. Young me had ambition, heart, talent, and absolutely no owner's manual. He could build a business, shoot a wedding, make money, charm people, learn fast, and still walk straight into emotional traffic like the crosswalk owed him respect. That is the memoir problem. You have to tell the truth, but the truth keeps interrupting with evidence. The red part of me wants the book to move. Come on, lesson, punchline next chapter. The green part wants the pattern explained. The blue part remembers the mood of the room. The yellow part says, can we please not make this so heavy? And that is how I know the four colors are real. They are not just people out there. They are in me fighting over the keyboard. Red says, tell it straight. Green says, make it make sense. Blue says, show how it felt. Yellow says, leave them with hope. Then Jesse says, can we also make it funny because I cannot sell a book that sounds like a court deposition with childhood weather? Comedy helps because it gives pain somewhere to go. Not a way, just somewhere useful. If I can laugh at the chapter, I am not trapped in it the same way. That is why stand up works for me. A joke is a tiny rescue mission. It walks into a bad memory and says, we are not leaving empty handed. And I do not want to write the kind of book where I pretend I was wise the whole time. I was not. I was learning while bleeding. Half my life lessons came with late fees. That is the part people connect with. Not perfection, proof. The lesson is not Jesse had pain and became inspirational. The lesson is Jesse had pain, became a business owner, built too many websites, bought a super computer, started making comedy audio at dawn. But somehow still believes the story can help somebody. That is either healing or a very expensive filing system. Colors of my pain is not me saying I figured everything out. It is me saying I finally stopped running from the chapters. And if a chapter refuses to stay quiet fine, we will give it a microphone, a punchline and make it pay 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}