Running the Light

Sam Tallent

Mar 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kyle Kinane, Bert Kreischer, Trae Crowder, Ari Shaffir, Marc Maron, Dan Soder, Adam Cayton Holland, David Gborie, Chris Gethard, Doug Stanhope, Tim Dillon, Jackie Kashian, Tracy Chaille, Greg Chaille, Nathan Lund, John Novosad, Phil Palisoul, Nora Lynch, Kristine Levine, Rick Kerns, and Emily Tallent

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10 hr 26 min

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Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father—comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: what happens when the opportunity doesn't come—or worse—it comes and goes?

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16 reviews

Is That What Empty Means?

September 30, 2026

As funny as his stand-up is; his prose is even better. Some of the comics aren't the best readers but it's real because they've seen or been this protagonist.

Drew Bradshaw

August 28, 2023

Solid - just solid through and through. Well done Sam and thank you for sharing this.

S. Evelyn

July 4, 2025

A fantastically eloquent adventure.

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