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Joe "Boopsy" Ferris B.U.P.C.: The Gen X Poet Tells His Story - Episode 81

• Brian & Nicole • Season 3 • Episode 81

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A feral Gen X childhood, comedy and finding his people.

He calls himself a Big Ugly Piece of Crap, B.U.P.C., or "Boopsy" for short.  But to over 2.5 million followers, Joe Ferris is "The Gen X Poet” and “The Patron Saint of Sarcasm”, who somehow makes everyone feel a little less alone.  The comedian and content creator joins us for a three-hour conversation that's as laugh-out-loud funny as it is deeply real.

A Navy brat born in 1978, Joe takes us through a gloriously feral childhood on Charleston and Key West military bases that included sneaking through the fence onto a top-secret missile base, fishing for sharks as a grade-schooler and collecting a lifetime of Gen X scars (and a few CPS visits).  He reconnects the dots to his old high-school football buddy, Jon Wellington aka The DadBod Veteran, walks us through nearly joining the military before walking out at the last second and shares the "divine timing" story of meeting his wife.  Then come the hard-earned years: the MBA, the brutal stretch working two jobs on four hours of sleep and the 40-acre Oklahoma farm he and his wife built (home to Oreo, the 500-pound pet pig).

He also gets remarkably candid about the harder parts of his story.  Surviving childhood abuse at the hands of an uncle and the repressed memories that surfaced years later, and why he ultimately went no-contact with his parents.  And he explains how he turned a childhood punishment into "The Gen X Poet," got thrown onto a comedy stage by beloved comedian and content creator Graeson McGaha, and found his people on what he lovingly calls The Island of Misfit Toys.

If you've ever felt a little jacked up and a lot Gen X, this one's for you.

Find Joe "Boopsy" Here:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@b.u.p.c
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bupc_boopsy?   stkn=MWoxeGNmdWlycXZmdA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/18cBofPSi8/?mibextid=wwXIfr 
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@bupc-mo8uc?si=8eqnthP8TIBgia1B 

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