Louis Szekely (born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K., is a stand-up comedian, Emmy-winning television and film writer, actor, producer, and director from Boston, Massachusetts. He currently stars in the FX comedy series Louie, which he also writes, directs, and edits.

Louis Szekely出生于1967年9月12日，他以Louis C.K.的名字为人们所知，是一个杰出的脱口秀主持人，同时还是艾美奖获得者、电视制作人、出品人、导演。他现居马萨诸塞州的波士顿，当前的节目是FX系列，在这节目当中他也担任了编剧，导演和编辑。

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Those are simpler times, I think.

I just feel like, we maybe go back to that, by the way. But, in a way, good.

Because when I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering. I think maybe we need that, maybe we need some time where we are walking around with a donkey with parcels packing on the sides.

You just think that bring us back to the reality?

Yeah, because everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy. Like in my lifetime, the changes in the world have been incredible. When I was a kid, we have rotary phone. We had a phone that has to stand next to. You had to dial it. Yes. You know how preliminary? You are making sparks. And you actually would hate people with zeros in their numbers, because it was more… oh, this guy got two zeros. Screw that guy. Why do I wanna….oh?

And then it would be that if they called and you were not home, the phone just rings lonely by itself. And then if you wanted money, you have to go in the bank when it was open for like three hours. You would to stand in line with a check like an idiot, and then when you are out of money, you just know: well I just cannot do anything right now. That’s it, right.

If you have a credit card, the guys, oh, they need to bring out this whole ‘shangshang’, he can write….yeah…..and call the president to see if he has money.

It’s all true, kids, you have to call the president. Yeah, it was ridiculous.

Do you this, we, now, in the twenty first century, we take technology for granted.

Yeah! Because now we living in an amazing…amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoil the idiots, they do not care.

They got the people like that oh, it won’t…. give it a second…baby, it is going to space. Can you give it a second to get back from space? Is this speed of light seems too slow for you?

I was on an air plane, and there was internet, high speed internet, on that plane. That’s the newest thing that I know exists. And I’m sitting on the plane, they say open up your laptop, you can go the internet. It is fast, I am watching Youtube in the air plane. I mean on the aeroplane, and then it breaks down, they apologize that the internet is not working. The guy next to me says ‘pu..this bullshit’.

Like how quickly the world owes him something he knew existed only ten seconds ago. And on plane, plane is the worst one, because people come back from flights, and they tell you their story. And it’s like a horror story, it’s they act like their flights was like a cattle car in the 40s in Germany. That’s how bad they make it sense. They say ‘it was the worst in my life’. First of all, we didn’t board for twenty minutes, and then we got on the plane and they made us sit there. On the runway for forty minutes we had to sit there. Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly like a bird? Did you part take in a miracle of human flight? You non-contributing zero! You are flying! It’s amazing! Everybody on every plane should just call: oh, my god, wow. You are flying; you are sitting on the chair in the sky. But…but…but it does not go back a slight, the chair is really….here is the thing, people like they say these delays, really? New York to California in 5 hours, they used to take 30 years. To be back, a bunch of you would die on the way there and have babies. You will be there holding a new group of people by the time you get there. Now you watch a movie, you take a dump and you are home.