Cripp Daddy: Dark Comedy and Disability
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro and sponsors
1:02 – Cripp Daddy joins from the Chicago area
2:18 – Chicago vs. New York pizza and hot dogs
6:26 – Weed, Taco Bell, and painkillers
7:27 – Spinal muscular atrophy, therapy, and hospital stays
11:32 – The $2,000 income cap on disability benefits
12:59 – Losing his accessible van and doing comedy for love
15:21 – Growing up the artsy kid, and dark comedy with his mom
16:31 – Lou's aunt's funeral and laughter in grief
20:10 – Making people laugh vs. changing the world
23:48 – Seth Rogen, Count Dankula, and Houseplant
28:34 – Foreskin restoration and circumcision jokes
31:38 – The Guy Fieri tweet that started a feud
36:13 – Guy Fieri's charity work, and celebrity good deeds
39:17 – Animal Crossing and what Guy Fieri could do to win him back
42:55 – Ricky Berwick, Carlos Maza, and Steven Crowder
45:50 – Deplatforming, hate mail, and not apologizing
48:23 – Complaints to Lou's employer
50:05 – Losing his first big sponsor
54:10 – Getting canceled from a wheelchair
55:35 – A GoFundMe for a van and a portable comedy stage
58:00 – His girlfriend and why marriage would cut benefits
59:44 – Fatherhood, kids, and his Mexican dad
1:02:32 – Where to find Cripp Daddy and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Donavan, aka Cripp Daddy, joins Lou from the Chicago area to talk about dark comedy, disability, circumcision regrets, and his hatred of Guy Fieri.
We also get into Chicago vs. New York pizza, living with spinal muscular atrophy, the $2,000 income cap on disability benefits, losing his accessible van, dark comedy with his mom, laughter in grief at Lou's aunt's funeral, foreskin restoration, the Guy Fieri tweet that started a feud, deplatforming and hate mail, losing his first big sponsor, getting canceled from a wheelchair, and why marriage would cut his benefits.