Chase Geiser is Joined by Comedian Josh Denny.
Josh Denny has spent the last decade traveling the country, enjoying a passionate love affair with food and serving up heaping portions of funny as a Stand-Up Comedian. Originally, from Philadelphia, and currently residing in Los Angeles, Josh's lifelong trip across our nation has armed him with a vast knowledge of what makes you smile, whether it be with a clever comedic observation, or dropping knowledge on the best eats in the country.
Josh has released two hour-long Stand Up Comedy albums, including 2008's "Honest Brutality" and 2012's "Social Hand Grenades" to warm reviews.
In 2017, Josh's Food Network Show "Ginormous Food" premiered to an audience of over 35 million, and has since run for 3 seasons and has been globally syndicated in 13 countries.
Josh hosts several podcasts, and is a regular guest on radio and podcasts across the country as an outspoken advocate for free speech and artistic freedom in comedy.
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And you would think like, you know, I feel like StreamYard is the beneficiary of the fact that it's just sort of like a simple interface, but, you know, and it's a little bit better alternative to things like Zoom in terms of like your automatic distribution to your channels.
But, dude, make it fucking somewhat on par with any of the technology we have today.
Like, you know, I hate being the guy who bitches about the really cool stuff not being good enough, but it's not good enough, especially for as many people use it, especially for as many people like me that pay for it.
Like it should be better than Zoom in terms of its, you know, broadcasting capability, and it's just not.
You know, if I knew anything about, you know, how your internet signal determines your streaming stuff, I'd probably have a better quality show than what I put out when I do my podcast.
Yeah, I would say, I don't know what a lot of time is.
I would say a regular amount of time.
I don't know if it's a lot.
But yeah, I try to find, if there's anyone that I think is interesting or has like, you know, maybe interesting stories behind their material or whatever, that's usually the people I try to go after.
I mean, the whole thing started from the live show we used to do in LA pre-pandemic called The Darkest Hour.
And we had comedians come on and try to just do their most fucked up stuff.
And then it kind of just grew from there.
Like my old partners for The Darkest Hour are always like, oh, we're just as interested in, you know, like the stories about like where the, like what makes people want to do this kind of material.
And then kind of the idea of the podcast was pretty organic, pretty organic concept.
When you deviate it, you know, you kind of delineate it from the show.
It was sort of natural to slide it into a podcast form.
And ideally, the idea was to do it like a green room show during the live show.
And then that just never materialized.
We switched venues a couple times, which complicated the idea of doing that.
And then, you know, one of the venues we did, the Ice House, like that second room doesn't really have a green room.
There's sort of green room as the open bar next door.
So there really wasn't a way to do that there.
But, you know, who knows now post-pandemic?
I still don't even know what fucking clubs are going to be open back up in time.
I both simultaneously agree with what Tim Dylan said about the mass exodus to Texas is that, you know, if you were failing in LA, you'll keep failing in Texas.
I think, you know, but I also agree with Whitney Cummings in her last podcast she did with Tom Segura, where she said, like, LA's always been fucked up.
It's been fucked up for 25 years.
It's like, yeah, it's not, people somehow think it just got worse.
And it is worse, but it's marginal.
Like, it was bad to begin with.
And now it's a little bit worse.
And that really has the fucked up problem is that really has no bearing on anybody with any money or you know career in LA anyway.
Those people live in their own enclaves.
They avoid all the shit that the rest of us have to live in.
And, you know, and the show goes on, and that's why it doesn't get better.
And, you know, that's why the shitty governor that we have will probably get re-elected because the problems that he's created are not problems for the rich and powerful people that will determine whether or not he gets re-elected.
Yeah, he's just sitting in my thing, eating a sandwich, waiting for me to come back online.
It's like, yeah, I think I actually think I cut that part out of it, but yeah, it was, it was, that's always embarrassing when you have people on your podcast and then your stream drops.
I love the idea that a man cut his dick off and is now going to run our entire state.
I think it's wonderful.
What I loved is I was doing a lot of political shows sort of at the very tail end of the pandemic, like February, March, a lot of like libertarian and conservative shows.
And they were still trying to source candidates.
And I was like, what's wrong with Caitlin Jenner?
And people were like, she's not a serious candidate.
And I go, we're not a serious state.
It's just like, you know, this is the only place in the world where like a fucking 25-year-old white girl will tell you that walls are racist, but she lives in a gated community.
And, you know, abortion is her right, but dogs are people and they have feelings.
And, you know, it's so fucking we have the dumbest, you know, organized religion is a problem, but I worship crystals.
Well, I'm just curious as to when we're going to get past this idea that just because somebody's amazing in one industry, that they're like fit for office.
Like, we trust celebrities with political opinions.
It's like Tom Hanks is an outstanding actor.
You know, Leonardo DiCaprio is a fantastic actor.
Like, but why are we listening to him about climate change?
Like, does this dude ever even taken a class on the ecosystem?
Yeah, I mean, the sad part is, is like, they're not any less prepared than these career politicians.
I mean, you got to realize, like, most of these career politicians suck too.
Yeah, I mean, they just sort of like skated through an Ivy League education that was paid for by some rich people that was either their rich parents or friends of their rich parents.
And, you know, like Newsom was basically groomed by the Getty family to be the.
I mean, he's basically, you know, it would be like if Bill Gates was like, this is our new adopted son who we're going to run for office everywhere where we have legislative barriers to our monopoly.
It's like, yeah, it's all bullshit.
There is not, you know, the few, the few, and look at how we treat the few people that probably really are fit to serve and have great national leadership qualities like Tulsi Gabbard.
They run her out of town.
They call her a Russian spy.
And it's like, this is a woman who served her country as a veteran, as a military, like a, I don't think she was a military doctor, but she, you know, she was, God, what is the word for it?
You know, I think AOC is a good example of like sort of how American culture is full of shit.
Because the second she got into office, started making good money and got any kind of power, any set of principles or any sort of view of her mission got pushed to the wayside.
And now it's just staying in power is her only goal.
I don't know if she's actually gotten anything pushed through.
So, you know, it's, but, but boy, those titties, right?
And that's like, I will, I can't tell you how many of my even most conservative friends are like, but those titties, though.
They don't care how pernicious her politics are whatsoever.
And that's honestly why fucking men will continue to lose its shit because they can't stop thinking with their dicks when they should be thinking with their brains.
And I was like, no person who would willingly fuck a gayer version of me, which I didn't even know they could make that.
But anybody who would willingly have sex with a more flamboyantly gay looking version of me shouldn't be trusted to make decisions for anybody, let alone the state of New York.
I don't know if I could get the votes, but I could definitely get the views.
Because, yeah, there really has not been, you kind of need that pro-wrestling candidate in politics, right?
I mean, in a way, I think that's a big part of why Jesse Ventura won when he ran for governor of Minnesota's because he another recall election, by the way.
Because, you know, he had the gift of gab and he had that way of talking like a pro wrestler where he got people, you know, excited about him.
It wasn't even about like policy or anything he was saying.
They just liked the idea that he was taking on the establishment.
You know, I mean, people got really fired up about one or two of his policies, you know, but I think mostly people just liked the fact that he was going to go in and piss everybody off.
I voted for him because everybody I hate hates him.
And that's why, you know, people like you cannot, if you're really going to fucking make change in any industry, you cannot give a fuck about what those that came before you laid in front of you.
And that's what made Trump successful as a disruptive candidate.
And I didn't vote for him in 16, but I did vote for him in 2020.
So, you know, there was a big part of me that was like, boy, I would love for him to win just to, yeah, I very much wanted the people that didn't want him to win to be sad more than I cared about whether or not he got to be president.
Yeah, I mean, I just wasn't impressed by anything she had to say.
She seemed like such a placeholder candidate.
I mean, you know, it just felt like the problem I have with libertarians is that they make these very feeble attempts to be a bridge between the two parties rather than to be their own thing.
And that was very much what Joe Jorgensen felt like.
If I'm like, look, we have a woman who's very progressive, but who's also a libertarian?
And she, you know, what was she, a doctor or something?
I don't know.
But, you know, and she had some very, you know, libertarians try to appeal to Democrats by having like absurdly left-leaning social policies where they're just like, not only do I think abortions should be legal safe, but they should be mandatory.
Every person should have to kill one of their babies.
Like, it's like, no, that's Chinese.
What are you doing?
You're going too far.
You went too far.
You overcorrected.
Now you're in East Asia with your policy.
Yeah.
You know, and I and I got into a thing, not really got into a thing on Twitter, but like, you know, the thing with Marjorie Taylor Green came out yesterday.
And this is where the right bothers me is that the right gets too puritanical to the right, where it's like, you know, contraception is abortion.
It's like, it's not.
Scientifically and medically, it's not.
It just prevents fertilization.
It's not abortion.
Like, she was like, plan B is an abortion pill.
No, it's not.
You dumb bitch.
And so, you know, it's like, yeah, I agree.
I think we have a moral responsibility as a culture to look at something like abortion the same way we did at slavery and said, yeah, there's a lot of conveniences that come with it, but it's probably not the right thing to do.
And can we create a society where we can avoid it and come up with a better solution?
And that's what I think.
It's like so.
So then I put like, yeah, the moral to me, there's absolutely no debate about the morality of abortion.
It's something that if we are going to hold ourselves out as a leading culture in global civilization and and the way like if we're going to be a shining example of aspiring to be better, then abortion can't be part of that culture moving forward.
Any more than slavery could have continued to be a part of our culture moving forward.
However, you then have to make concessions to where you can live in reality with laws that support that morality.
So you can't go, yeah, we're going to make abortion illegal, but then we're also not going to allow people to have access to contraception.
It's like, yeah, I'm fine with making abortion illegal, but you should be able to walk into pavilions across from my place and fucking reach into a bin and grab a handful, whatever contraception you want for free.
If we all agree that a smaller, more controlled, more intentioned population is desirable, then why is abortion the solution over free health care and free birth control?
And it's like, people want to argue with me about the, you know, well, if you, if you're for free health care or, you know, the argument people will often make is nothing is free.
So it's all taxpayer-funded health care, right?
So if you're for taxpayer-funded Medicare and you're for taxpayer-funded birth control, you're not a libertarian.
Okay, that's fine.
Then withdraw me from that party or take that label off me.
I don't care.
But I absolutely think we can afford it.
I think we spend a lot of money on dumb shit we don't need and can't really justify.
And I think every American in this country should have free health care before we spend a dollar getting some fucking terrorist into a school in Saudi Arabia.
So, you know, I don't give a fuck about other countries.
They're not a responsibility.
They can use our tourism money to pay for whatever the fuck they need.
We took all the money, we dumped it into LA, and then we're like, what if we just let them live on the street and shit where they want?
That's fine, right?
When did that ever become like that?
And that's the whole, that's the problem I have with like this liberalism of hands-off, like, you know, you know, in some ways they're like, yeah, freedom is letting people do whatever they want.
Yeah, that's what's so ridiculous about these laws and everything is like I could literally write a letter to my sheriff and say, I'm a public personality.
And this is what a lot of other of our comedian friends do, by the way, the ones who are more famous and successful.
They literally just write a letter to the sheriff and they get a special exemption because they're a person, a person of interest, right?
And then they're allowed to conceal carry, carry weapons, or their security is allowed to conceal carry weapons as well.
So that's what's so interesting is a lot of times you'll see these, it happens a lot more with rappers than it does with like comedians.
But you'll see these situations where like a rapper will get, you'll see a thing where they're like they're pulled over and they get taken in on a weapons charge and then you find out nothing happened.
And it's often because they have a sheriff's exemption to carry to conceal carry.
So but they don't like to publish that because it's not very street cool, right?
Like it's not, yeah, I got a sheriff's exemption, motherfucker.
I'm cold.
Like it doesn't look badass to be like, my team petitioned the government to give me permission to carry weapons legally.
Like there's nothing gangster about that.
So they don't really advertise that part.
But yeah, most rappers have a sheriff's exemption to conceal carry based on the idea that they're a person of interest and they're going to be targeted.
And the other thing to consider, too, is that even if you do carry in California, the laws are so stringent that in the case that you actually use your weapon to defend yourself, the chances are you're going to go to jail for murder, right?
I mean, I'd have to go through a lot to transfer them here, but I just haven't done it yet.
You know, I live in a pretty secure building, so I'm not too concerned about it.
And, you know, it's also I live in a very sort of like I live in, oh, you, you're from out here, you know.
So I live in Burbank.
So it's like, you know, there aren't really the shit doesn't really run through Burbank.
Like when the shit hit the fan with the George Floyd thing and the protests and everything happened, I think the closest thing to any sort of like riots or protesting we had was a bunch of white people holding hands in downtown Burbank outside of a fucking Katsuya.
All this stuff is, all this stuff is performative.
And, you know, honestly, any of my white comedian friends that participated in that stuff in the summer, I immediately unfollowed on social media and don't associate with anymore.
I've never seen any of them talk to a black person in their entire life outside of a restaurant and putting their order in.
Like, it's so fucking performative.
I mean, the reality is, is, you know, is there anything to me, there's nothing more racist than the idea that a white person doing nothing is somehow helping black people.
Like, that to me is, again, and again, like, so much of why I talk about race so much in comedy is because I see the world that way.
Like, I see how I see this such bigotry of low expectations that white people have around people of color and how full of shit they are.
And most of the people that you see that are very like BLM-y on social media are actually some of the most racist people you'll ever fucking meet in your life.
And I learned that from moving to Philadelphia or moving when I was a kid, I lived in Philadelphia suburbs.
I spent a little time in Delaware, and then I moved to Minnesota, end of sophomore year.
And the East Coast is a very outwardly racist place, and the Midwest is a very inwardly racist place.
And the inwardly racist people are way fucking worse because there actually is like a subdued level of, like, East Coast racism is just bitching and moaning.
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It's like, oh, the fucking Koreans, they take it, they took all the good real estate and F-Philadelphia.
But there's no, these people aren't organizing to fuck with the Korean people.
Do you understand?
Whereas like in Minnesota, they'll be like, oh, you know, these, you know, they got all these Mexican guys coming up here to work at the hormel plant.
You know, that's great.
That's really great.
And then these people are having like secret fucking meetings and trying to work with local legislators to like get the Mexicans out of Minnesota and out of the factory and like and get their kids out of our schools.
And it's like, so, you know, oftentimes I learned at a very young age that the people who are the most friendly to your face are probably doing the most fucked up shit behind closed doors and actually working to, you know, circumvent any progress or any opportunity you might have.
And the people who are really just like talk shit directly to your face are probably the people who actually take the least amount of action to obstruct what you're trying to do.
I would be willing to bet that my so-called friends in comedy have done as much or more to prevent me from getting opportunities as the people who openly hate me on the internet.
Yeah, but it's also not about competition because it's like, if you really believe we're all unique snowflakes, then who am I competing against?
AOC's boyfriend?
That's it?
I think I've got it.
I think I've got it in a bag.
So, you know, it's like, if you really had this belief that what you do is somehow proprietary, then you would believe that no one is your competition.
But comics aren't like that.
Like, even people that are my friends, I know, like, at times, if they've been asked like, hey, do you know any other really good comedians that could do this club?
Like, they won't mention my name because they're afraid if I go in and do well, that that'll mean less dates for them.
Like, I've seen, because I've seen the same people I'm talking about do it when other comics names are brought up in front of me.
And they think, it's like when people get together cheating on each other's spouses, and then they get shocked that one of them cheated on each other down the road.
It's like, y'all motherfuckers met cheating on your wives and husbands, and now you're surprised that you're cheating on each other.
It's like, I watch other comedians talk shit about other comedians to bookers, and then they somehow think that I don't know that they do that about me when I'm not around.
But the problem is, is that bookers, if you think about the, like, what, what kind of person generally runs a comedy club, they're never really like type A, hardworking, diligent fans of comedy.
Like, comedy club bookers and owners are the lazy.
And restaurant owners, by the way, a lot of them are the laziest motherfuckers in business.
And I'll tell you what, like, my funniest friends are my oldest friends.
So, like, they've never been like, you should take this and put it into a bit.
But there are a lot of times where the shit we riff and joke about together ends up in material.
Just because, like, you know, my funniest friends are not comedians.
Like, my funniest friends, my two childhood buddies, Rich and Sean, that I've known since high school.
Or I've known Sean since we were 10.
He's my oldest friend.
And we'll just come up with the funniest shit hanging out together.
And then my other buddy Ryan, who's probably my oldest Minnesota friend or one of my oldest Minnesota friends, he's a bass player for the band Three Pill Morning and he's fucking funny.
And then my friend Tyson, who I went to high school.
No, no, actually, the biggest problem I had in his were the white women.
So like when he was going through his controversy, I don't know if you remember the episode, but he was like sitting at a table and he's like, if you have a problem with anything, any of this, let me know.
And like some girl who's like 22-year-old white chick who's like his head of development, right?
So she's probably already in a job that she doesn't fucking deserve.
And she's like, you know, my brother is about to get gay married.
And what am I going to tell their florists about your comments about gay people?
And I was like, dude, if that were me, I'd be like, get your shit and get the fuck out of here.
It's like, you should tell them that the entire wedding is basically paid for by Kevin Hart's money and that you should be very appreciative and you should get over his fucking jokes.
That's what I would have told her.
I would just be like, you make a retarded amount of money to look at other people's work and go, meh, eh, meh, yeah.
I'll pass it on to Kevin.
And you probably make $125,000 a year or more to read scripts for Kevin Hart.
And now you're afflicted because he once made a joke about gay people and you have a gay brother or you have a brother who's getting married and the florist is gay.
I can't remember the exact details, but it was just like the biggest pile of shit.
And even his publicist who was like, Kevin, you're not going to do this.
You're not going to go on your radio show.
You're not going to talk about this.
I'd be like, I'm going to go on whatever the fuck I want to go on and talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about.
Because I don't know if you know this, but I pay for all this shit.
Like, you know, just I couldn't believe the man has far more patience and grace than I would in that situation because I would have walked in that room and said, I'm a comedian.
All this is paid for by the jokes I've made, good, bad, or indifferent.
And if you don't like it, there's the fucking door.
No, he didn't apologize to the public, but he basically like dove on the sword to his team internally in that doc, which is the part that kind of bothered me.
I was just like, you don't owe them anything.
They have no, you know, their lives would all be harder without your money.
So that's what I would tell them.
I would bring them in the room and go, I'm so sorry that the money I give you has created complications in your personal life.
I guess you're going to have to figure that out.
If you want to keep cashing my checks and you have a moral conundrum about that, what we'll do is we'll put you on suspension.
You can decide if your paycheck is worth putting up with my intolerance for gay people through comedy.
And then we'll figure it out when you can't pay your rent.
I just hate this idea that like that you answer to the people that work like and I and I do believe from a from a like a leadership perspective, right?
You do have to be accountable to the people that work for you.
But this is what I have a problem with with the whole concept of like, and I and I hate to make the phrase cancel culture, but there's a problem with all of that.
This PC culture, cancel culture, whatever.
It's like the jokes, the work itself is not something that I owe you an explanation for.
Do you think, like, every day on the set of American History X, the director was walking around going, like, listen, I know this is all really sensitive subject matter for everybody, but it's a movie.
I just want you to know, and I appreciate you, you know, being black in a movie about white supremacy.
I know that's hard for you.
No, it's a fucking movie.
That's the art.
That's the work.
Nobody has to be told that it's not personal.
Do you know what I mean?
And so to have people in your building, if you're Kevin Hart, where they have to be reminded every day that the work you make comedically is not personal, I would never have those boat anchors laying around my office.
But on the other hand, so first of all, I totally agree with you.
But on the other hand, can you really say that comedy isn't personal?
Because I think what makes real good comedy funny is the fact that it rings true.
So when you say a joke that's hilarious on a sensitive subject, you know, maybe it's personal and it should be like not personal in a bad way that it needs to be canceled or censored, but maybe the reason it's funny is because of the absurdity of the general consensus of the subject.
Like if I write a joke about gay people, like I have a joke about if your doctor's gay, you should immediately get a second opinion.
I don't have a personal vendetta against gay doctors.
The idea for this joke came from the fact that I got a ridiculous medical diagnosis from a doctor who also happened to be gay, and that my immediate gut reaction was that their sexual preference was a foundation for a complete flaw in their medical prowess.
Like, well, if on day one they said this is where the shit comes out of and this is where your dick goes and you said, I disagree, maybe you are not the person for being a scientist or a doctor.
You know, they just go, it's sort of like there's some pretty simple parts of this whole medical shit.
It's about to get real complicated.
But day one, the poop comes out of here and then your penis goes in this hole.
And you were like, I think the penis can go wherever it wants.
And then you're like, okay, well, you should, I don't think you should get to be a doctor if you're already flunking on day one of like, my opinion is that bloodletting is fine and you can put your dick where the shit comes out.
They both sound like preposterous med like homosexuality is fine as a sexual choice, but as a medical opinion, it's preposterous.
And so, you know, and it's like gay people could be offended by that joke, but that, and that joke is personal to me because it comes from my reaction to a personal experience.
But I didn't write it with any intention of it hitting any gay people anywhere.
It's just about being funny.
It's about, again, Tom Segura said it perfectly.
Like, your job as a comedian is to live your life and report on it.
I can't be responsible for what comes out of this guy as a first reaction of like, this is just how my brain works.
Well, and that's actually the back end of that joke.
That joke kind of led to a much more existential thought process of like, why is everyone so obsessed with staying alive for as long as they can?
Now, I don't mean everyone should run out and kill themselves, but we have a real obsession with not dying in this country that I don't think is deserved.
Well, and this weird thing that we'll spend all our money, all our time, and waste away all of our happiness on just trying to stay alive.
I mean, if you really boil it down, how much of the American dollar is built on prolonging their lives?
I mean, health, food, nutrition, self-help, mental health, you name it.
And there's this weird obsession with like prolonging your lives as long as you possibly can.
And you saw it a lot.
Like the real pernicious thing about like vaccine mandates and things like that is like they're literally using that knowledge of American citizens desperation to stay alive, that fear of not getting to stay alive to get people to do whatever they tell you to do.
And, you know, it's so funny.
Like 90, I've had COVID at least two times, I know for sure.
And I think I just had the third flare-up recently.
I was sick for like two weeks.
And it was exactly like the second time I had it where I was, we were, we were tested.
We knew we had it.
And all the symptoms were the same and everything else.
Are you scared?
No, not at all.
Not in the slightest.
Not out, you know, because the fucked up thing is the first time we had it, we had it for 10 weeks.
And it was fucked up because it was like, it doesn't, this is what people, people go, I love when COVID denier people are like, you just had the flu, pussy.
It's like, no, I've had the flu, I don't know, 25 times in my adult life.
I know what the flu is.
The flu is diarrhea, cold symptoms, a little bit of fatigue, right?
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I've also had mononucleosis when I was mono sucks.
I mean, I know it was literally like you poop out pebbles of sand.
It was awful.
And there was like no amount of hydration that could fix the way you feel.
And the long-term problems I have, because people go, you know, I have a friend who's a scientist and she's like, you know, the long, you know, we're going to get a little bit of a, she goes, you should get the vaccine because the long-term effects of COVID are devastating.
And I go, they're both less than two years old.
You guys don't know the long-term effects of anything.
All you know is like anecdotal evidence from the few cases you've heard about.
We also have anecdotal evidence of the vaccine killing children and enlarging their hearts and them dying instantaneously as a healthy 13 and 14 year old.
So don't yeah, I saw somebody, somebody posted a study that was like, oh, out of a study of 150 children, only 1.5% of them had enlarged hearts after the vaccine.
And he had like a two and a half hour podcast on with Dr. Pierre Corey, I believe.
And they basically just like went into the data and all the evidence that ivermectin is definitely an effective preventative drug that you can take to avoid COVID.
But it's also, if you catch COVID early enough, a good treatment.
And they're basically made the case that it looks like ivermectin was intentionally hidden as a treatment because of the emergency use rules around vaccines.
If there's a treatment, you can't get emergency use for a vaccine.
And secondly, it's an old and very inexpensive drug that is not patent protected anymore.
But I mean, and I'm not a scientist, so I can't say whether or not, you know, what they're saying is legit, but I can say that I trust Eric and he's very, very smart, and he's not an attention-seeking whore.
So if he's saying it, it's because he actually believes it.
Yeah, you just, you have to follow the money on these things, man.
Like, so you don't think, let's get this straight.
So you don't think when a politician like Gavin Newsom has invested in companies like Uber and DoorDash and Lyft, you don't think that that somehow influences his policy to say no indoor dining.
The only kind of dining during this shutdown is going to be delivery services.
And by the way, have you heard of the delivery services that I have shares in?
It's like, dude, these motherfuckers are so corrupt.
They're literally, oh, let's mandate the vaccine so that you have to let us spend your tax money on free vaccinations.
And by the way, those vaccine companies are going to donate $20 million to my next campaign to make sure that I stay in power forever.
It's a total work.
It's a total work, man.
So anyway, I've had it three times.
Not a real concern.
It's just, you know, it's getting sick now.
It just sucks.
And one of my friends was like, I actually think that COVID is potentially like simplex or HPV where it stays dormant in your system and you have these flare-ups or whatever.
But going back to the thing about visiting the doctor is like, yeah, we do have this sort of weird obsession with staying alive as long as possible.
And I look around and I go, well, I have a lot of friends and loved ones who are already dead.
And they didn't get to do half of the fun shit that I got to do in my life so far.
So I feel like I'm playing with house money.
I feel like, you know, I've done a lot of cool shit for somebody who's only 37.
And I have, you know, I've been with the same person now for 10 years.
And so, you know, like when you look at the things that people have on their bucket list of like, these are things I hope I get to do before I die.
I feel like I've done a lot of them.
And I'm not saying I'm done.
I'm not saying there's like not a lot of other shit I would love to do.
But, you know, in the grand scheme of things, I feel like I'm already coming out ahead.
And so, you know, if my ticket got punched tomorrow, I wouldn't have resentments about that.
Or if I found out that I was, if I found out that I was terminally ill tomorrow, I wouldn't be like, oh my God, let me spend all my time and money trying to get more days.
I would just try to make the most of the days that I have left.
But I also don't think I'm not a live every day like it's your last kind of person.
Like I fuck around a lot.
There are days where I like to sleep most of the day and not do anything.
And so to me, if you're not one of those people, what the fuck are you doing trying to get more time?
You're not using the time you have.
You're not using the time you have.
And most of the people who are obsessed with staying along alive longer.
I sound dyslexic.
Most of the people who are obsessed with staying alive longer make the least of the time that they already have.
Yeah, but I don't think he's actually making any money at it, which is kind of, you know, it's almost like he's doing it for the love of the game of shitting on.
And it was like, we are one generation away from solving all of our problems in the Middle East if we just made it illegal to marry your fucking cousin.
My girlfriend's Middle Eastern, and it's like all of the, it's funny when you listen to like conservative criticisms of the Middle East, most rational Middle Easterners agree with it.
Like the only people holding on to those awful traditions in that part of the world are people who are like religious fanatics.
You know, and everyone else who's like fled there, like her family fled there during the revolution.
And anybody who's left there is like, oh, yeah, that Stone Age shit is crazy.
I mean, if you go, Gavin and I talked about this, I think, on the first podcast we ever did together, but he goes, if you look at footage of Iran in like the 60s, it was like the Jetsons.
They were like a cutting-edge Western civilization that tremendous wealth.
They had tremendous education.
They were literally fastly approaching Japan in terms of economy and what's the word I'm looking for?
Innovation.
So economically and in terms of innovation, they were like right on the heels of Japan in terms of being America's rival in terms of like innovation, technology, education, those types of things.
Yeah, I mean, so you look at those things, you know, and to we unfortunately in our privileged culture, we think speaking out against something like Islam is closed-minded or whatever.
But like, it's like that thing of saying, like, all terrorism or all Islamists aren't terrorism, but most terrorism is Islamic or religiously fundamental.
Like, people pick party based on how they think they can get elected and which constituents they think are most likely to vote for them.
Anyone who decides to be a politician is a narcissistic, power-seeking asshole.
And there's just no way around it.
I don't think they're, I think, like the Tulsi Gabbards of the world are the anomaly.
Like, you know, but this is the thing.
You cannot convince me you wanted to serve your country for the betterment of your country unless you were in the service.
It's impossible.
Because unless you were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
You're full of shit.
You're full of shit.
And, you know, so it's like, it's like I put out a series of tweets this morning where I was like, I've got great ideas for policy and great ideas for solutions and great ideas for compromise.
I have no desire to run for office or to have any of that in my hand in any of that seriousness because I don't seek that power.
I don't have any interest in the power.
And, you know, to change the, for people with the best ideas to be the ones to influence the way our culture moves, you'd have to change the whole system.
You'd have to tear it down brick by brick.
There's no way.
There's no way that somebody, you saw it with Trump.
Trump was an outsider who found his way in and everyone on both sides colluded to prevent him from having any meaningful impact on our country.
Yeah, I mean, and, you know, and I think time will tell us, like, if you look at what they did to Trump leading up to his election, what they did to Trump during his presidency, and what they've done to Trump and his entire family after his, they're still talking about the fucking guy like he's still in office.
And when you see what they've done to ravage the legacy of everything he's built and everything he's done in his life, it's one of the most accomplished, regardless of how he got there.
He is as synonymous with the branding of the American dream as anyone else.
He was the poster child for American dominance and success from like 1978 all the way until like 2010.
And so, you know, when you can basically take the real life Uncle Sam, the real life poster, the real life figure of American excellence propaganda and turn him into the biggest villain the world has ever seen because he threatens your power dynamic.
No one is safe.
And why the fuck would anyone with any sense ever follow in his footsteps and try to be president?
You think The Rock is going to be president now after what he saw they did to Trump?
You think any person with any fucking shred of intelligence would ever sacrifice their entire life to go do what Trump did?
Well, it's funny because we used to hold him up for those traits.
We used to hold him up because he was that kind of person.
Like this man, you know, this man is hell-bent on success no matter what he has to do to get it.
Isn't that amazing?
And then we were like, now we're like, isn't that dangerous?
Meanwhile, we look right next to him at other billionaires who do the same kind of shit.
And we still go, isn't that amazing?
Look what Oprah had to do to get to the level of success she's at.
Isn't that amazing?
Like you have to have that wiring to get to that level of success in any field whatsoever.
And then, you know, we just showed people what happens when you try to circumvent the power brokers of Washington and use that power for the good of the American people without their permission.
Because we've learned that if they didn't give you your permission or their permission and you don't do it the way they want you to do it, they'll destroy you and they'll destroy everything you've ever built.
And they literally have spent six years crafting a narrative that this man is Hitler, you know?
And it's just insane to me that we would take one of the, like I said, one of the all-time figureheads of the American.
Many immigrants came to America because of Donald Trump.
You know, what's so funny is like, I remember having that conversation with my team when my whole thing happened in 2018, where they were like, you know, well, you just can't make jokes like this.
And I go, yeah, what about the fact that I like, I'm one of the few comedians that doesn't advocate for constant drug use and alcoholism.
Like, I don't drink.
I don't do drugs.
I don't womanize.
You know, like, if I were a fucking, you know, they talk about like the your off-the-field character in football, right?
Like, oh, that guy's a fucking, you know, he's a choir boy off the field.
It's great.
Like, my, my off-the-field character is off the charts, but I like to make fucked up jokes, so none of that matters.
It's like, you guys, you could choose to market those positives about who I am, but you don't want to, right?
Because for whatever reason.
So it's like, same thing with Trump.
They could have talked about the fact that he never drinks and he doesn't drink alcohol.
All they talked about was how much McDonald's he eats.
And it's like, so it's, it's all narrative.
It's all like people talk about whatever they want to talk about.
It doesn't mean it's rooted in truth.
It doesn't mean it, it doesn't mean anything other than what they're telling you it means.
And if you're not smart enough to sift through the bullshit, then, you know, you're doomed to fall for it.
Their biggest fear, their biggest fear is that Donald Trump has the humility to step aside and say, I endorse DeSantis.
I endorse Ron DeSantis because Ron DeSantis, they can't.
Ron DeSantis is such a popular politician right now around the country because of the way he's with COVID and the way he speaks out about these social things that people think are ruining America.
Like the way he's speaking about CRT right now and handling that whole national debate, Ron DeSantis will be so popular that they can't steal the election from him.
Like when a guy will get 120 million votes, which I think is what would, if Joe Biden got 80 million votes, okay, let's assume that's a real number.
I think Ron DeSantis can win by the largest margin of victory since Reagan's second term.
Didn't Reagan win like 80 something percent of the vote or something when he re-elected?
Yeah, that's why they're so terrified of DeSantis.
You're going to start seeing all kinds of propaganda come out about DeSantis that isn't real because they know that if Biden doesn't stay alive, which I don't even know if he's alive now.
But if they have to run Harris against DeSantis, she will lose by all of the votes.
I mean, there will not be, there just won't be enough people.
The problem is not enough people hate DeSantis to collude against him for them to steal the, like, people hated Trump.
And the problem is, like, you know, even, you know, they interviewed people that like worked the election and they were like, I don't even know these motherfuckers, but I hate Donald Trump.
And so, like, there's no doubt in my mind that those types of people believe that Trump was so evil for America that they would do unethical.
Yeah, and I think the people who did unethical shit that we can at least, we at least know that that one fucking voter place in Michigan was doing fucked up shit with like hidden ballots or mailing ballots or double dropping ballots or whatever they did in Michigan that led to like 15,000 dead people voting.
So, no, he just went through and did this whole thing of showing where the people who voted were people who were, according to the voter records, deceased.
And, you know, CNN, literally to the point where, like, the New York Times covered Fleckis' video, and then CNN did a thing where they tried to debunk it and said, well, you know, a lot of people have the same name.
And he's like, yeah, but they don't have the same social security number and date of birth, right?
So like all these people with all these people with obituaries tied to their social security number also have voter records tied to their social security number.
So the same name, same date of birth, and you don't see the whole social in the record because obviously they don't share that, but the same last four of all those people.
And they were so, you know, go look at that on YouTube.
I believe in rigged in the sense of like even going, like, they've been rigged since Kennedy, since mobsters stood outside voting locations and were like, who are you voting for?
Yeah, if you're going to vote for Nixon, get the fuck out of here.
Like, that shit happened during Kennedy's election.
I think Kennedy got the mob to do the whole Bay of Pig shit so we could fucking go to battle with Cuba.
I think he used the mob to get elected.
I think he used the mob to do his bidding along with the CI.
I think the mob was basically an arm of the intelligence community to do things that we weren't allowed to do in an official militarized capacity in that time.
And then I think when the mob started making demands and Kennedy told him to go fuck themselves and sicked his brother on them, I think they killed him.
And I think they killed him to send a message to any other politician that was in their pocket to say, yeah, we don't give a fuck what office you hold.
And by the way, so the movie The Irishman skims over it.
There's a whole chapter on it in the book that The Irishman is based off called I Hear You Paint Houses, which is the actual written record of the main character.
By Charles Brandt, and it's the, oh, Frank Sheeran.
Yeah, Frank the Irishman Sheer.
So the funny thing is, is like my dad grew up in that time in the same area of Philadelphia.
And so while he wasn't in that world at all, he remembers a lot of the stories of the shit that was happening around that time and could corroborate so much of what happened in that book that he was convinced and therefore I was convinced that everything in the book is true.
And I think that's exactly what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
And I think that's what happened to Kennedy.
So, yeah, I think, you know, I think it's and like I said, in the movie, they kind of graze over it.
Like, if they could whack a fucking president, what's you think they wouldn't whack a union president?
And, you know, it was just like, I totally believe that that's likely what happened.
It's also not that sexy, but I think it is very true.
Yeah, and also the idea, like, what are the odds that Bobby would have been killed too if it wasn't the mafia?
Like, who was Bobby's biggest enemy?
The mafia.
So, you know, the RIC was basically put into law and, you know, he became sort of the Gestapo of the RICO Act and executing that and using it to bring down organized crime.
I mean, why was he killed?
And why was he killed after JFK?
If JFK was murdered and taken out of power, then why would Bobby Kennedy also have been whacked after that?
So it kind of makes sense to me.
Like they became the enemies of the mob that got them elected and put into power.
But that was the other thing about that, you know, there's a lot of talk that, you know, the Marilyn Monroe suicide was also something that the mob did to protect Kennedy.
But there was, you know, I'm not very familiar with it, but there were, yeah, there's ones that she, you know, was murdered as part of a communist conspiracy.
You know, oh, and then, yeah, so apparently, and then there was apparently, so word is she was fucking both the Kennedys.
Listen, they were Catholics, and they're known for doing things in groups.
But anyway, there was a rumor that she had threatened to blackmail Bobby.
And then I think he was supposedly the one that knocked her up.
And she was going to blackmail Bobby, and they had her whacked to avoid that scandal.
But, you know, it's kind of interesting.
So has ever in the history in America, has the president's mistress, the president, and the president's brother all been killed within that short amount.
The president's mistress, the president, and the fucking president's brother who was the attorney general under, you know, that has never fucking happened in the history of the United States before or after that.
And it's easy to rationalize from a national security standpoint.
Like, if you're working for the FBI and you truly believe that Trump is a national security threat and that it's your duty to your country to do anything you can to prevent, like, if you believe that, that's the power.
There's no checks and balances.
So I think that this, I think a lot of our intelligence community, they actually have good intentions, but they're Machiavellian and Machiavellianism is like inherently against rights.
Well, it also sort of rallies against critical thinking, right?
And so this idea that like there's that America has an enemy and it's basically whoever we say it is.
You know, most of the people that work in the intelligence community come out of the military.
So by nature, a lot of them are followers.
A lot of them are, you know, they believe their duty to their country is to do what they're told.
And, you know, a lot of this sort of, I'd say the more critical thinking arm of the intelligence community is more on this sort of engineering and technology side and some of that.
But I would say that those people also are like not going to necessarily question the authority or the militarized authority of the people that they work with because, you know, like those are great government jobs that pay very well.
And, you know, why would you want to upset the apple cart?
So, you know, it's like the Rogan thing that he said on his podcast.
Like hard times make hard men, hard men make soft times, soft times make soft men, soft men make hard times.
And I think, uh, but but I do think, you know, unfortunately, a lot of people in those government positions, even in the intelligence community, like they make good enough money and they believe in what they do as much as they need to to rationalize it, and uh, and you know, they're not gonna push back, they're not gonna ruin their entire career.
I mean, cancel culture is a perfect example of the psychology of the American person, and it works because it scares so many people into not saying shit or doing shit or standing up against it because they can't afford to lose their job and they don't want to lose their comforts.
And I think the intelligent community operates very much in the same way: like, you know, they sort of lavish you with a good, a good salary, great benefits, uh, all the just do what we say and don't ask questions.
And a lot of people are comfortable with that life.
If you'll mention your podcast again and your Twitter, I have two podcasts: The Darkest Hour, which you can get on any platform, which is a comedy podcast.
And then I have the Wake Up Call, which is actually only on locals when episodes premiere.
And then like a week later, you can get them on any podcast platform ad supported.
And then I also just recently launched, I have a new episode of this going up later today of my show called The Wake, or not The Wake Up Call, Next Week Tonight, which is a spoof sort of clip show that I do for censored.tv, which is Gavin McInnes' company.
So I do a show over there every week, which is basically headlines of future news, not current events, but future events, and kind of predicting what is kind of coming down the pike in terms of culture and politics and nonsense.
It's really hard because I'm not a political action committee.
I don't have a tremendous amount of followers.
I certainly didn't when I started.
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