Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh debate billionaire biases, jokingly pricing Putin at $25 million for support while critiquing Conor McGregor's inactivity. They analyze "The Offer," noting how removing the word "mafia" from scripts mirrors Hollywood struggles, contrasting this with Bollywood's shift from escapism to gritty realism. The duo explores nepotism's role in loyalty versus efficiency, linking family dynamics in "Coco" and "The Godfather" to product storytelling, such as the Omega Speedmaster's moon landing history, ultimately arguing that biologically rooted narratives drive human memory and value. [Automatically generated summary]
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Jake Paul's Wild Mother Boy00:05:20
Jake Paul is a wild mother boy.
He's the best.
It's unbelievable.
Whoa, no, wait for it.
Wild mother boy.
Yeah, oops.
I'm sorry, Connor.
I know your PR team is trying to hide that video.
If you're just an average, like, run-of-the-mill fighter, would you fight Jake knowing what you and your family is going to have to go through?
What's up, everybody?
Let's just get it started.
Here it is.
I have very important questions to ask you guys.
What's up?
I'm being serious.
Al, get off your phone, man.
I got important questions to ask you guys.
I need your feedback.
Thank you for paying attention.
I don't know what we're going to talk about.
No, I know exactly what we're going to talk about.
You think that Bill Gates' daughter's boyfriend's vaxxed?
Gosh.
Yo, that's a catch-22.
That's a catch-22, though.
Is Bill Gates' daughter's black boyfriend vaxxed?
Maybe that's true.
Maybe she's trying to piss off her dad twice.
Yes!
That's what it is.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
That's funny.
I thought she was just trying to rebel, but with the vax, but you're also like that was facing.
Hey, but not like, he don't look like boarding school black.
He don't look like...
Who does he look like?
He looks like just, he looked like Al.
What are you telling us about?
Puerto Rican.
Al with stitches.
Oh, damn.
Al with what?
Yo, Al's a real-ass black dude.
Nobody can call him soft.
Nobody can call him no boarding black.
Alpha is real black for sure.
He came from Far Rock.
You don't even know what's going on right now, son.
Stop.
I really don't know.
I really don't know.
You look like a broken head.
Eat more chicken.
Let's go, Al.
He's in Chick-fil-A, yo, boy.
Yo, I was thinking about what it was and I did not have anything with Chick-fil-A.
I was thinking you guys were going to go Milkman or some shit like that.
You're going to go Rorschach tests?
Oh, yeah.
Rorschach testing him.
I don't even know what's happening with the feet.
There's like no colors that even blend at all.
It's like you got two separate outfits on.
Kill him with the strings.
I thought he had no strings on his pants, idiot.
Come on.
Is Bill Gates' daughter's boyfriend vax, bro?
Nah.
Come on, he's not vaxxed.
He's not vaxed.
Why not?
He's not vaxxed.
Why not?
I don't know.
Off the cuff all ya.
I don't know.
Do you think you could look at somebody?
Do you think she was just looking for a dude that wasn't vaxxed and the only guy she could find was a black dude?
Oh, so you're saying she wasn't really into him because of the color of his skin?
Maybe.
Maybe she's a tiger.
She's like, I need an unvaxxed guy.
And then she set out a whole bunch of...
There's a lot of unvaxxed white guys.
You're probably related to a good amount of this.
Yeah, I know, but we're all married.
Okay.
Yo, if you have multiple tigers on your shirt, are you vaxed?
How many tigers?
How many tigers?
What do you know about her told me?
That's what I'm saying.
The most neutral outfits are.
Okay, now how do you know?
How do you know?
You just know, bro.
I caught you next.
Just give your ass.
I'm trying to figure out what Akash's outfit is even right now.
I match the shirt and shoes.
But you do.
There you go.
I'm killing him.
I'm killing the gray shirt and the gray sees.
Yeah, I'm kidding.
I'm killing that shit.
Miles laughing extra hard on that.
Is that tough for you?
I outdid you, Miles.
I outgrade you, bruh.
Miles can't tell the color.
Yeah, it was a color.
It was a color thing.
Okay.
I forgot about that.
No, it's all good.
We're going to keep it moving.
Do you know what I mean?
So what I want to know is your outfit.
Yeah.
When you go into the store, do you even look at the sizes?
No, I don't.
Or you just grab whatever's there and then you run out.
Yo.
Do you try shit on?
People be sending me stuff and if it ain't the right size, I'm not going to not wear it.
Oh, so they just sent you this?
Yeah.
I'm not going to not wear it.
Got you.
Now, do you have somebody with a gigantic helmet on put on your shirts before you put them on?
Do you put on your bicycle helmet and Venga dress?
It goes over my head.
If y'all make fun of my hair yet, with the Hitler haircut, what do you mean?
Holy shit.
Don't whip it that much.
Why are you saying that?
Jeez.
No, no, but I got no spray.
My shit is looking crazy right now.
Not enough to make fun of, in my opinion.
That's how you disown you.
You're not going to say anything about my lustrious hair right now.
It's lustrious.
My hair is lustrious.
Yo, my hair is so lustrious.
But I was 50% through that word.
He was like, fuck it.
I'm rolling a dice on the back hat.
It's luscious the word.
Lustrious.
Luxurious.
And luscious together.
Lustrious.
There you go.
I do feel like it's lustrious.
I ain't going to lie.
It's working right now.
Thank you so much.
Guys, this is the weekend.
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Okay.
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All right.
But my second question, because I told y'all I had two, and you haven't even answered the first one.
I don't remember the first one, be honest.
It was about Bill Gates.
Oh, yeah.
I answered.
No, he's not vexed.
She's trying to piss off her dad.
She's trying to piss off daddy twice.
Twice.
Yes.
That's what you believe twice because that's more of a thing in your community.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And also probably Bill Gates' community.
You know what I mean?
Bill Gates, Donald Sterling.
I don't imagine the communities are that different.
Do you think billionaires might have like racial?
No, call me crazy.
Yeah.
They might.
Okay, listen.
He gives water to black people in Africa.
Yeah.
To keep them there.
Yeah.
Like so many were moving here, Al.
And it was like, why?
Because water?
Okay.
He's still got his daughter.
He ain't doing nothing for Frank.
Why he can't help Flint.
Facts, bro.
Why is he cool to Flint?
Because he don't want to help the guys here.
That's too fucking.
There's nothing you can do.
You have nothing you can do with the Flint water.
He looks at black people the same way Africans do.
He's like, y'all are different.
Africans and black Americans, different thing.
I fucking run you.
When are we going to blend those groups?
When are we going to make them one?
What?
Black people and Africans?
You know how, like, originally, like, Irish and Italians, whites, we didn't consider them white.
Oh, but they all became the same.
And then eventually we're like, nah.
We need numbers.
Yeah, we need numbers.
Y'all are good about when we need numbers.
Hey, now it's Latinos.
These Hispanics is going crazy.
Right?
I'm going to be honest.
Do you consider zip-zips white?
Zipzips are white.
Did I talk about this on the podcast?
Yeah, you said that.
Zip zips.
Yeah.
No, zip zips.
Did I talk about like what how white people talk about Russians?
No.
This is wild.
White people speak the same way about Russians as they do about like hood black people, but they're embarrassed about the hood black people, like the way that they speak about it.
So they'll be like, I wouldn't go there.
It's kind of like urban.
Sketchy.
Yeah, it's a little sketchy or whatever, right?
Like, like the rich whites will say that kind of shit, right?
It's a little bit urban.
It's a little like hood, whatever, like that.
But they speak about Russians just out in the open.
They're like, oh, what's this restaurant like?
And it's like, ah, it's all Russians.
Right?
Like, are you going to go to Postatano?
Ah, the Russians came and it just ruined it.
So heels are down to value.
Have you heard them speak about Russians?
No, I do.
I'm not privy to these white combos.
But for real, I think the Russians are the rappers of white people.
And because we have this racial divide, they can't see themselves as the same.
Both trying to fight for attention.
You're talking about rappers and Russians?
Yeah.
Because imagine you're Russian.
You're growing up in this like a communist dictatorship where they're telling you you're not important at all.
You're just like a small cog in this big machine.
And imagine you're black in America and you're growing up in this system that's squashing you down and not letting you thrive.
So the second you start to thrive, you're like, yo, everybody's going to know.
Oh, that's an interesting observation.
Right?
That makes sense.
Why don't we take the black people and move them to Russia?
I don't think not.
Do you think that's it?
I don't know if Russia team Putin over here.
I would try to jump on any dictator.
Red day all day.
I don't fucking dictators too much.
Cut that shit out.
Hey, hey, he made a good ass point.
Okay, let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
What is your price to support Putin?
Okay.
This guy's crazy.
This guy's crazy.
This guy's wild.
This guy's until you're bad.
You got to give me that squad in FC Chelsea or whatever the fuck.
You got to give me a hundred dollars.
You got to get Abramovich's money.
I got to get his.
Yeah.
You got to get that.
25 million.
Otherwise, I don't trust it.
25 million.
I don't trust Putin, dog.
No matter how much money he gives me.
25 million.
You just got to be pro-Putin on all the platforms that you're on.
Anytime you're doing anything, you pro-Putin.
Do people know you got paid?
And Putin will never fuck with me?
No, you won't die.
You won't die.
Because my fear is Putin, if you don't trust him, he'll still turn on you no matter what.
Unless you assume that that's not.
Okay, 25 million.
Yeah, done.
Like, what, you know, like all these guys that supported Trump?
Yeah.
Like, they got bred, you know, they got kicked out and like they support Trump.
I'm just curious, what's the number to support them?
If everyone knows that I got paid and I could just be like, yada, yada, yada.
I love it.
No, no one knows.
How is that fun?
No one knows.
That's not a hype.
You know what I'm saying?
If you get sponsored by a giant company that everyone knows your sponsor, then you're like, yeah, buy these shoes.
And it's like, oh, yeah, that's why he's saying it.
But if no one knows, 30 mil.
If everyone knows, 50K.
How?
If everyone knows it's the price of an ad read.
Yeah, yeah, literally.
One-minute ad read on it.
Whatever.
Why doesn't Putin buy ads, bro?
I'm a mega yacht.
I'm on a mega yacht and I got a upkeep it for forever.
Okay, now I'm going to take that off.
I'm not saying in terms of money, just in terms of lifestyle.
20 mega yachts.
And I want it.
It's not even.
Are you leaving out any money?
Like, here's five pictures where you look really cool on Instagram.
How many followers do you want to support strap pictures?
They got to be docked in the Hudson.
Yeah, yeah.
And I got to pay for shit.
I want that.
Okay.
Now, I'm going to.
That's alarmingly.
I'm taking like three mil.
I'm taking it.
Maybe out to like 200 mil.
I don't know.
I don't think so.
Megadots are crazy.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
Yeah, Jerry Jones has like a $200 million.
He's a land Florida.
He's a land Florida.
He doesn't understand these things.
I'm not Puerto Rican.
I don't know if that's the same thing.
They make books.
Wow.
No, no.
Water is how they get here.
Okay.
I'm going to take that offer.
Okay.
I'm gonna call the banker and I'm gonna see what they say.
All right, okay, yeah, okay, okay.
What was your ring just now?
That was the weakest shit.
You gave up after me.
Why are you looking at us confused?
You know, you gave up.
The banker silently doing a podcast.
Some of us are professional over here.
So the ring in the phone isn't silent.
It's just silent on his end.
No, mine is also.
Okay.
I was getting a rotor.
Are you the banker?
Man, I had another fucking question.
I forgot that shit.
No, you gotta dig deep.
Nah, I forgot.
Oh, okay.
Here's another question.
This guy's got a lot of questions.
Okay, I got here's my second question.
My first question was fire.
This is the third question, to be honest.
I think fourth.
Count Ash Dork.
Is it more to support Trump?
Listen.
This isn't.
No, that was a question that inspired many other questions.
Now we're starting at a different question that will inspire other questions in conversation, right?
It's called you know, podcasting.
Look, here, here's my question number two: question number one, very fruitful for us already.
Okay, had some great content to start the podcast.
Okay, very fruitful, incredibly fruitful.
Gonna be a very easy job for Chifty to cut the beginning because it was so entertaining to hear, dude.
Okay, Chifty thought he was gonna move in that camera a lot today with the tank talk.
Okay, um, guys, all right, I have a third question.
Okay, I want, and I mean this seriously, I do, shifty chill out, dude.
You need to chill the fuck out and stop putting on Akash's shirts before he wears them diesel ass.
Do you know who Lou Farigno is?
Shifty?
Oh, I can see it.
A little bit.
He was the first Hulk in like the TV show back in the day.
Anyway, okay, guys, I have one more question.
Oh, he's in the offer.
Do you guys have any questions?
That's do you guys have any questions for me?
Do you have any questions for me?
Any topics that you'd like to talk about?
Have you seen the Jake Paul video?
Jake Paul is a wild motherfucking boy.
He's the best, dude.
He's, I mean, he's not even fighting Connor.
He's the best.
It's unbelievable.
You want to check it out?
Yeah, let's watch this video.
Connor McGregor just tweeted at me because of this interview.
He has to get active again.
You know, who knows when that's going to happen?
These are his tweets.
And here's my response: Connor, Connor, Connor.
You're more active on Twitter than you are in the Octagon.
Stop taking Trembolone and start taking fights.
You're more actively cheating on your white than you are in the Octagon.
Your priorities are mixed up.
Put down the bottle and get back to fighting.
You haven't won a fight in five fucking years, and the last time you did was against Cowboy Sarone, who hasn't won a fight against anyone since fighting you.
I'm a nobody, you say in this tweet.
Well, yeah, you're right.
I'm just a fucking kid from Ohio.
I really am a nobody, but this is where you fought your sixth fight.
There's literally two people in the crowd, and this is where I'm gonna be fighting my sixth fight: Madison Square Garden, the mecca of boxing.
August 6th, I know you'll be watching, kiddo.
Here's another fun fact: in your 18th fight, you made $150,000.
In my fifth fight, I made $15 million.
You want to talk about pay-per-view buys?
Nate Robinson, $1.8 million.
Ben Askren, $500,000.
Hyrun Woodley 1, 500,000.
Tyrone Woodley, 2.
No one even wanted to see that fight.
And we got 200,000 pay-per-view buys.
In the last five years, you've had zero pay-per-view buys because you don't fucking fight.
You have a lot to say about me, but I'm sharing millions of dollars with underpaid fighters while you're sharing hookers with Dana White.
Whoa, no, wait for it.
Wild motherfucking boy.
Yeah, oops.
I'm sorry, Connor.
Whoa.
Son, don't beef with Jake.
Yeah, you want to get it.
I know your PR team is trying to hide that video.
You shouldn't have fucked with me, Connor.
This is my game.
There's a new king in town.
I'm running shit now.
What's up, Connor?
What's up?
What's up?
Last year, when I won knockout of the year, you were just getting knocked out.
Fix your calcium deficiency.
Stop breaking your bones.
And let's get in the fucking ring and make $200 million.
Connor, no matter how you slice it, we're just not on the same level.
I'm my own boss.
Yeah, you made $100 million when you fought Floyd, but Dana took half of it.
So no matter what you do or what you make, cut that shit in half.
We went net worth for net worth.
I would shit on you, Connor.
Put the bottle down, get off of Twitter, get back in the ring, and shut the fuck up.
I'm going to put you back on a leash.
Fuck you, Connor.
They talk good shit, bro.
Son, it's almost like if you're just an average, like run-of-the-mill fighter, would you fight Jake knowing what you and your family is going to have to go through?
I think you would because it's a payday.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
That's right.
But you really got to look at that number and go, is this fucking worth it?
Like, you got to sit down with your family.
Because like you said, babe, he's coming after you.
He's coming after everything.
He's going to get videos from my pet.
It is, he's going to make you earn that fucking money, boy.
They're already risking their life going in the ring.
It's like, but it's different with family.
Son, imagine your girl.
He's posting pictures and shit.
Yeah, no.
You know what I mean?
Like pictures of you, G, now you girl, got to talk to her friends about it.
She's going to the store.
Now she's embarrassed publicly.
She's embarrassed.
No, that shit is crazy.
And here's what you brought up.
This is, he's not even fighting Connor yet.
This is pre-fight hype shit.
And I'll be honest.
So once the fight is announced, man.
Son, if he fights Connor in boxing, he's fucking confused.
I think he's going to win.
I think so.
The only thing I don't get.
Why are you doing this before the fight?
It makes it seem like you're not even interested in this fight.
Like it's not going to be a good fight.
I think it's more just like anything to promote him because he's going to have to promote everything for this fight.
Oh, okay.
Because a lot of people don't know Haseem Rockman Jr., right?
So it's like, it's all going to have to be interest in Jake.
And maybe what he can do is get the boxing community to be like, finally, here's a real boxer.
All the boxing fans are going to hate on Jake.
And then all the boxing fans are going to buy the fight so that they can watch Jake potentially lose.
In the same way, like Floyd made all that money.
It was a lot of motherfuckers just paying to see him finally get beaten up.
I think that's the angle for this.
I don't know.
I got to see him.
But if you're a fighter, do you want to bark up that tree?
You got to do like an audit.
You got to get a company to go through your whole history, like on some presidential shit, wipe everything clean, get all your family members, get all their shit off.
Yeah.
Because anything.
I'm going to assume he hasn't already gone through it.
Because he's been this again.
Fight's not announced.
Fight isn't on the table.
And he's already going through your shit.
Yeah.
Well, I'm sure people have sent him stuff.
Yeah.
That's the other thing.
Once you show that you're doing this type of content or you're exposing people like this, people who like to expose are going to be out there.
Yo, have you seen this video?
Theoretically, that girl, not that she did, but she could have just taken the video, sent it right to him.
Oh, you think it came from Shorty?
I'm not saying that happened.
I'm saying that's a that's now that he like you know he'll do that you could do that a girl Could do that.
Get some dirt, send it right away.
I'm not sending to anybody.
I'll just fuck this guy.
Or this will help you out and maybe get me a favor with you, whatever.
So let's say that this is something I'm interested with that girl.
It's like these girls are prostitutes, right?
And this is, you know, you get paid to leave.
You don't get paid for the sex.
You get paid to leave.
You heard that saying.
Best quote ever.
So greatest quote ever.
Charlie Sheen, hero.
Oh, did he say that?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So I'm wondering if this affects her bottom dollar.
You're the type of girl that gets paid by very rich dudes to fuck.
Now you've shown that you can't be trusted.
Correct.
You have incriminating evidence.
Who's fucking that girl now?
And the service that you might have used to get this girl, because you're not just getting her off the street.
At this level of wealth, you got to call the madam or something.
Like, yo, bring her through.
That's huge violation.
Like, you get fired.
Like, that girl's done, right?
Yeah.
There's got to be some people that look at that and they go, oh, good enough for Connor.
Good enough for me.
100%.
That's that rapper shit.
100%.
But is it worth the risk?
Like now, if you're fucking with these girls, you literally, unless you have some wild kink that they can satisfy, if you're just trying to get some pussy on the side while you're in some Dubai or whatever the fuck it is, is it worth your family to be with the bitch that videotapes shit and then ruins your family?
But most guys don't have a giant social digital footprint that, you know, like if some girl posts something from hooking up with like some finance guy and so whatever, like it's not going to necessarily pop up.
This guy, though, there's a lot of unless she targets him.
I hear what he's saying.
I guess I'm all, I'm wondering, like.
Did she fuck up her own prospects in this career?
Yes, 100%.
And like, fuck, what is the word that I'm looking for?
Like, it's not security, but a discretion.
Discretion is part of the job.
It is incredibly important.
And you're paying a premium for it.
It's like, I don't think, let's say she's a $10,000 a night girl.
Ain't no difference in pussy between $1,000 and $10,000.
I'm not paying you for your attractiveness.
I'm paying you for your discretion.
She ain't looked tipped.
That's another thing.
Like, throw a filter on, shorty.
Like, this is you.
She ain't look tipped out.
But I'm assuming she posts this on like her Instagram close friends or whatever, and then someone else rips it and like she accidentally leaks it.
Yeah, but it still fucks your career.
Also, the dudes that you see this as your career, they might not see this as a career.
This might be like a play to get more attention or etc.
Connor Fight Perception00:05:45
That's the thing about Go-Go.
To Mark's point, like, I think there's a lot of dudes that see that as like, oh, shit, she was a Connor.
Like, oh, I want to, I want to get it.
Agreed 100%.
Rappers do that shit all the time.
Ball players do that shit all the time.
You think Stormy Daniels' career is better or worse since she snitched on Trump?
That's true.
I saw her stripping in a club.
But what was she doing before Trump?
What do you mean?
That's an upgrade.
I don't no longer have to fuck guys.
I can just dance and people are coming just to see me because they can't.
And you went just to go see her.
I remember that.
I did.
Yeah.
Mad dudes in the front row with Make America Great Again hats stole money, bro.
It was hilarious.
Yeah, that shit helped their own.
Good enough for Trump.
Good enough for me.
That's probably what those dudes are thinking.
No, that's a great point.
I guess the ideal scenario would be if someone else leaks a video that's not from your phone.
Like the both of you are seen going into a hotel room.
Paparazzi gets over.
Exactly.
So now you're the girl that's quiet about it.
Somebody else got the shot.
But if you're the girl that's taking pictures or videos without consent while I'm sleeping, he's slipping, bro.
You don't sleep.
You go asleep with the girl.
You don't have to take comfort?
Do you fuck a hooker and cheat on your wife and then sleep?
Yeah, that's right.
While she's still there, it's crazy to me.
Proof of how good she is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's probably advertising.
I put him night and night.
I ain't no UFC fighter neither.
Yeah.
Knocked him out.
Yeah.
One more thing about Jake.
Why do you think he beats Connor in boxing?
Because I think the same thing.
I'm curious about your reason.
I think he's good at boxing.
I think he's like very good at boxing.
Good at boxing and been focused on it for years.
Connor hadn't just boxed in years and he seems a little more content now.
He got his proper 12 money.
Oh, I don't think it's that at all.
I think it's literally just he's good at boxing and he has an immense size advantage.
Yeah.
Connor's tiny.
Oh, that's true, too.
Connor fought, I think, when he first started in UFC at 145.
You know what I mean?
I think he knocks out Connor.
Yeah, he has height.
Three weights.
Like, Connor's probably walking around now at like 175 and he's swole as hell.
Like he's not even in like actual kind of fighting shape.
He's going to be slow at that weight too.
Does he have any incentive to fight Jake?
I think the fight would be crazy money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If he needs that.
It is crazy money.
And if he thinks that he can actually beat him, I think Connor believes he can beat anybody on the planet.
I'd rather see that fight than Jake versus Tyson.
Jake versus Tyson.
Yeah.
It's so engaging, though.
Tyson anything is going to be so much fun, but I hear you.
I think it makes for a better fight.
Yeah.
Come on.
Tyson destroys.
Unless he's just running like what?
Who did he fight?
Jones?
Yeah, Roy Jones.
Like, he was just running the whole fight.
Roy Jones won that fight.
No, I didn't.
I'm pretty sure you'd be like, he was running the whole fight.
I'll be tweeting the wildest shit.
You don't even remember.
I'm pretty sure he tweeted that.
I'm like, this one.
Yeah, he just said whatever.
He didn't say it.
He tweeted it.
Tweeting is different.
Yeah, probably though.
I don't know.
I mean, I think if I'm Connor, I'm fighting Jake as soon as I possibly can because the kid is getting exponentially better at boxing every single year.
So the earlier you get him, the better.
Yeah.
What if it's MMA?
Oh, if it's MMA, that's Connor, right?
Even with the size of English?
Yeah, because like, here's the thing.
I don't think Connor's jiu-jitsu is good or anything like that or his wrestling is good.
But the kicks are just different.
Like defending kicks, like it's just a very different thing to be in there and have to worry about the legs as well.
And Connor was a kickboxer.
Like he's proficient with the kicks.
So that's something I just think you can't.
It's just, it would be an unfair advantage for Connor.
Now, if they just did a straight kickboxing fight, that would be interesting as hell.
But I think what Connor would do is chew away at that front leg.
You know what I mean?
Like you've seen certain guys do it.
You just chew up the front leg.
You can't even move.
You can't paunch anything.
Nothing.
Like you saw.
In that what Old Boy did to Connor?
Say again.
In that what Old Boy did to Connor?
I think Poirier?
Poor.
In like the fight in early 2021, he took the leg, took the leg, took the leg, and then 100% KO'd him.
100%.
And then Connor went after the leg in that second fight.
Yeah.
And, but yeah, dude, it was just like you even saw like the Izzy Paul Acosta fight.
You remember that?
Yeah.
And Izzy just started chewing away at that fucking leg.
And Paul Costa couldn't even move forward.
Yeah.
He was just standing there like frozen.
Yeah.
So I think that, but that is more competitive.
Yeah.
Like I'm almost.
That's better.
I'm almost not interested in Jake fighting him just strict boxing because I think it will be too easy for Jake.
Is that crazy?
Well, it's crazy to say, but Connor's not big.
He still got power with that hook.
Yeah, the left hand is powerful.
It's great.
And he is quick.
I don't know, but how crazy is it that Jake boxing was a fucking joke?
And now we're going, yeah, I think he beats Connor within six fights.
Yeah.
I mean, knockouts, even if they're not boxers, the perception you have of a human being when you see them like put another guy to the fucking mat and they're unconscious.
It's just a different.
I'm going to look at you differently every time you do that.
You got to respect it, not only outside the rim, but like in the rim.
That's another thing with Connor.
Connor can't go in there and play games with him.
Like Connor could go in there and play games with Floyd a little bit because Floyd doesn't have that one punch power.
Like obviously he TKO'd him.
He don't get that one punch.
Get out of here.
Son, Jake will.
Six fights, three kids.
Six KOs, I think.
No, five fights, three KOs.
He didn't KO Woodley the first time.
He got Eskrin.
He got Woodley the second time.
He got Nick Robinson.
I don't know whose fifth fight is.
I think I'm thinking about it.
I like that he includes Nate's pod on that one.
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Yo, do you want to talk about this show, the offer?
Okay.
Who here has seen The Godfather?
Anybody?
No.
Yes.
We've all seen The Godfather.
Fantastic movie.
Mark hasn't.
You haven't seen the movie.
He hasn't seen movies.
It's like a three-hour movie.
It's so, it's a great movie.
It's considered one of the best movies of all time.
And it's based on a book, The Godfather.
And then this show called The Offer is a 10-episode series all about making The Godfather and what it took to make that movie.
And the way you said Top Gun made you feel, where it's like, yo, I want to make a movie.
This shit made me feel like that.
It's old Hollywood, and some of the stuff is like corny.
And the guy who's the producer clearly tells a story because he makes himself look good almost every scene.
But the shit that went down to get this, first of all, the mafia didn't want this movie made because it's a mafia movie and they weren't talking about the mafia back then.
Yeah, it wasn't.
Yeah.
So they are like, so he has to like kind of get the mafia on his side and get them okay with making the movie.
Did they eventually approve?
Yeah, they approved because he got a mafia guy in his good graces by kind of like, first, the guy calls him to a sit-down in Brooklyn and he's like, look, I'm not going to kill you to prove to you how more civilized than you think Italians are because he's like, this movie's also offensive to Italians.
He's like, what you say your side of the story.
And then the guy's like, look, I'm going to invite you to my office.
Come read the script.
Read the script if you don't like it.
If you think it's offensive, we won't make it.
I'm not making an offensive movie.
The guy comes.
They don't have a script done.
So he just, he has a beginning and an end and no middle.
He just puts fucking spreadsheets in the middle because he knows the mafia or he thinks the mafia guy won't read it.
He's just praying.
Hands it to the mafia guy.
Mafia guy.
Obviously, he fucking mafia don.
He looks at the page.
He looks how thick it is.
He goes, you know what?
You say it's good.
I trust you.
You say it's okay.
I appreciate you calling me over here.
And they're doing shit like this the whole movie.
Then you got the Hollywood side and the producers you got to deal with and the execs you got to deal with.
And this is a fucking great show, fun show.
Where's it on?
It's on Paramount Plus, which kind of sucks.
Yeah.
And Paramount is the company that produced that produced The Godfather.
It is some propaganda, but also good.
Let it be.
That's fine.
It's okay.
You should be proud of yourself.
You made the movie.
He was struggling before this movie.
Then all of a sudden they had this.
They had another movie called Love Story.
Just bang, bang, bang.
Like they're about to sell off Paramount, the company that owned it.
They managed to get them not to sell it.
Like it's just fucking crazy story.
If you have access to Paramount Plus, watch the show, especially if you've seen The Godfather and like The Godfather.
Was Paramount Plus Montana show?
Yes.
Yes.
Sudden Ranch.
That's what it is.
Yes, Yellowstone.
That's what it is.
Hey, yeah.
I feel like you would like the show a lot.
Yeah.
Have you seen it?
No.
And the guy who plays.
These are like the legends, if you ever read of how Hollywood was built up, Al Ruddy, Bob Evans, who did those movies in Chinatown and all those.
Yeah.
I'm going to go.
No, no.
It was all the crazy old executive stories of Hollywood.
And the guy who plays Young Pacino and the guy who plays young James Khan, rest in peace.
But like the guy who plays Young Pacino, it's fucking crazy how much he sounds like him and looks like it's fucking crazy.
It's like perfectly cast.
I love the how it was made story in general.
I think like, you know, for successful businesses, I think there's like a podcast called How It Was Made.
Yeah.
Like, you know, big companies.
And the stories are always great because in order to make something so successful, you need luck.
Everybody needs a little hint of luck or a few little hints of luck.
And those make like the best stories.
But the Godfather thing is really interesting that they needed the mafia to sign off.
I never considered that.
But I wonder if the mafia is happy because it presented the mafia, even though it was incredibly like violent and dangerous.
But there was like a romanticism to the mafia that exists today because of that movie in non-Italians.
So people who are completely unfamiliar with mafia, our idea is go say hi to the Don on the wedding.
Yay.
Kiss the hand.
Yeah.
The affection, the love.
It doesn't get like fucked up until, is it two?
Is it two?
Godfather two.
Yeah.
Where they show the relationship between that's where it gets really dark.
And I wonder if they would have had way more pushback if two was one.
Well, the book, the book, so a book comes out.
Puzo's like a struggling writer.
Yeah.
Did they show this at the beginning?
Godfather's book.
Thank you.
But he owed like mad money to different people.
And then he writes this book.
It sells 58 million copies.
It's apparently the best-selling book ever.
Imagine you just get a buck.
Yeah.
That is fucking, son, that book money is different.
Go on.
And he says, like, to his wife, who's suggesting write about what you know and the mafia, he's like, yo, I grew up with these guys.
You don't fucking write about them.
And then she's like, well, make the story yours.
Make it in a way that humanizes them or whatever.
But like, that's another fucking aspect to it.
From the moment the book came out and they found out they were making it a movie.
So many mafia people, like Frank Sinatra, one of the characters, Johnny Fontaine or whatever his name is, you watch the movie, you don't know.
It's making fun of Frank Sinatra.
I did not know that.
Because I see Frank Sinatra as this fucking Don, God, untouchable, like confident, charisma out through the roof.
And then the character's like this kind of pathetic needs the mafia to help him out guy.
Yeah.
And the book is centered way more on this character.
So Sinatra's like, I don't want this fucking movie made.
So the second he finds out it's a movie, he starts talking to mafia.
People were like, yo, this is making us look bad.
They don't want it made.
And this is the last thing I'm going to give away.
There's another scene with the mafia guy where he's like, can you not use the word mafia?
Or I don't know, somehow it comes up, the producer's like, you know what?
I'm going to do for you.
I'm going to not have the word mafia used in it.
Yeah.
And then the guy, the mafia guy's like, you would do that for me?
And he's like, yo, if you want it, that's what we'll do.
And then he goes and asks Coppola how many times you use their mafia.
Coppola goes once.
And then he says the line.
And he's like, can you take that out?
I just need you to do it for me.
He goes, done.
It was just one line.
Well, this is after the movie's already.
No, the movie's not.
It's written.
Well, it's written.
This is another thing he does to like schmooze over this mafia guy.
And then the producer gets in good with the mafia.
And then that is its own set of problems.
So I think one of the things that the show Entourage Exposed is that the life of the agent, manager, producer people is far more interesting in terms of stories than the actual talent.
Yeah.
Like if you're a fucking rock star like that, remember the book, The Dirt about Motley Crew?
Okay, you're going to have wild fuck stories and like destroying hotel rooms or whatever.
But like you're not coming across as much adversity because the adversity is dealt with by the team usually.
Yeah.
It's constant adversity.
Yes.
If you're the manager, there's a fire trying to put something out the agent and you watch, we watch Entourage and it was and Vince almost became this like character in the background.
He just like stumbles into pussy, lives a great life.
Yeah.
And battles of drug addiction for a season and that's the most boring season.
Yeah.
Like, all right, man, I don't care.
Yeah.
But the getting it made, and I talked to a person who said, that show is so accurate, I can't watch it.
It makes me uncomfortable.
I thought entourage was like an over-dramatization.
This shit don't really go down like this.
Entourage is so accurate.
And then this lady who worked like behind the camera fairly high up was like, I can't, it's so accurate, I can't watch it.
I, it's like, it reminds me too much of just fucking past anxieties and shit that I had to go through.
I can't watch the show.
Yeah.
It's so accurate.
Yo, it's interesting, though, that like we needed Vince's character that you could like live aspirationally through.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's so weird what we need.
Like Vince gets you in the door.
It's like, oh, wouldn't it be cool to be like part of this thing and girls are everywhere, et cetera.
But E is the star.
Yes.
And then also the agent, Ari, right?
But yeah, it's so interesting.
Without Vince, I don't know if that show works.
You still need the guy.
Even if he's not the focal point.
Yeah.
And you need to really care about him and that makes you care more because E cares so much about and Ari, this is like, they even added this little hook.
He's, I discovered Vince.
I don't discover a lot of people.
I discovered Vince.
So he takes more ownership in Vince's core.
So he cares more.
So that raises the stakes because emotionally, these guys care so much.
But I wonder if Ari's role in episode one was supposed to be as big.
But then he knocked it out of the park.
Yeah, I heard he knocked it out of the park.
And he did a fucking, he did a fucking great job.
But yeah, the offer.
Also, the name is good.
Yeah.
The offer, like, I'm going to make you an offer.
You can't refuse.
There's another show, if anyone like actually cares about that.
So we don't.
So Godfather was a Sicilian mob, and there's a show.
I think I brought it up before.
It's called Gamora.
Oh, yeah.
This is actually really cool.
So again, it was someone from Naples.
His name is Roberto Saviano.
As soon as he came out with it, he would target on his fucking back on his forehead.
He was in like protection in Italy for years because he exposed the Gamora and then they changed it to Gamora, the film title.
That became a film.
And then it's a series.
It's the Naples mob series.
You want to watch this?
I think it bounces around different networks.
I promise you watch it in an Italian language.
This is the fucking best mafia show you could possibly watch.
It's like people that have seen 000.
It's like that.
It's like The Wire.
And then like that mob kind of got busted in Italy and now there's another one called that 000 is Indrangata from Calabria and they're responsible for like 80% of drug trafficking between like South America and Europe.
Like it's and you have to be like blood related.
So those are like the big mobs, but Gamora is like the next after.
You know, you know the most impressive thing about the mafia and maybe you need violence and fear to make this work.
And yeah, I'm like backing into this, but that they can have a functional business with nepotism.
Oftentimes, the best people to increase the value of your company are not necessarily your kids.
Like, because your kids, you're rolling the dice.
It doesn't matter how good you raise them.
Some might be smart.
Some might be stupid.
It doesn't matter, right?
The best person to run your business might be some fucking genius that went to MIT or might be some like hard-nosed business kid that built his way up.
But there are other people out there that can increase like, what is it called?
The shareholders' profits.
I think one of the criticisms of Dolan is you look at the executive board and it's everybody's last name is Dolan on it.
You're like, and oh, is that why the Knicks suck?
Yes.
Like you're telling me the five people that can increase my shareholder profits are related to you?
What a coincidence, right?
It's like Moneyball, like that whole.
Moneyball, you're saying when you're choosing the right to your players, right?
So it's like, what's kind of impressive about the mafia is they're like, no, we're only doing blood.
Mainly Sicilian, period.
You can't be made without being Sicilian.
Right.
So, but here's the interesting thing.
Maybe they need to be violent because they can't compete with just blood.
Yeah.
So it's like, oh, you're entering my business.
Well, you shouldn't be threatened if your business was good.
Yeah.
Well, I can't make it that good because I got these fucking idiot nephews that don't know how to run a business.
But if I put a gun to your head, you're even open your business.
Your life is on the line.
You got to perform.
So if they removed, sorry, if they removed nepotism and just hired like any other business, they could probably still do the illegal shit they do just more proficiently and then not have to kill a single person.
They have to kill because you can't count on family.
Like, isn't that weird?
I think you got to kill either way.
Okay, you still got to kill.
But does the cogent?
Does it kind of make sense to me?
It makes sense, but like, you have to, the only way the Knicks are going to be good is if you start acing out board members.
Killing board members.
Like, if your life is on the line as a Dolan, the Knicks will perform.
You just got to raise the stakes because you can't get fired.
You can't get killed.
I think it's actually better that there's nepotism because if you just brought like hungry people, it's like, oh, shit, this is, there's no laws here.
I could just take out top guys.
Oh, if that's my own.
Very true.
I'm going to respect him.
Well, that also happens, right?
I guess that's the security, right?
It's the security is almost like royal family type shit.
Like, how do we keep it in our bloodline, like in our last name?
The concern is if you bring in these other people, it's like what happened with like Gucci and I'm sure a bunch of other products, right?
It started out as this family business, and then you brought in these other people who are sharks.
And the reason they're good is because they're sharks.
But the problem with a shark is it doesn't have friends.
Yeah.
Right.
So once it finds out that you're food.
It's the apex predator.
It kills.
It will eat you.
You're done.
But isn't that, I don't know.
I find that kind of interesting.
Like the mafia, I guess the only way to sustain and protect the family is with a bit of fear.
And who are you just acknowledging that there's going to be competition and maybe life isn't going to be.
Also adding on to Al's point, who are you the least likely to snitch on?
Some guy you barely know that you just started working for or your family?
I'm not snitching on my family.
There's security within this.
America is the thing that's like we built upon this.
I'm way less likely to tell on my family, my cousins, my brother.
I'm not doing that.
You can also ingrain values in family easier than like a grown person that's coming to the business at 30 years old.
So ever since they're kids, you're saying, hey, we don't snitch, we don't do whatever.
So you're curating behavior.
It's religious.
Yeah.
This is what is right behavior.
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This is what is wrong behavior.
At least I can trust your behavior.
You might not be smart enough to make some money.
Yeah.
And we might have to bring some cousins that can actually get to raise your employees.
Literally.
Yes.
Coppola, this ties actually into not necessarily the offer, but even the godfather.
When you think about why it's so good, Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather, brilliant guy.
He reads this, the thing and he's like, you know how you make this movie?
You don't make it about the mafia.
You make it about a family.
This is a story about family.
And that's where it's mafia is so family.
This whole thing, everybody relates to it.
Not just you're romanticized by the mafia, but you're drawn to it because of family.
Everybody is a Michael or a Sonny or a Frito, or you have a Michael or Sonny or Fredo in your family.
Dad probably has sons trying to figure this all out.
Like you have a daughter.
You got to be protective of her.
These are all just family stories, immigrant experiences in a lot of ways.
Even though you might not be doing illegal shit, you relate on an emotional level to it.
That's the Hollywood secret.
That was like the Spielberg, like make it simple.
Even he was a producer on Transformers.
All he said was like, it's a story about a kid in his first car.
That type of stuff.
That's a Pixar storytelling technique.
It's like every story has to be universal.
It has like every storyline has to be boiled down to something that every person on the planet can and will experience.
Like, for example, Coco.
What is like the baseline?
It's like the loss of family.
Come on.
You're wrong, man.
You know what that does?
I saw Doom Bay You on a plane.
That shit goes.
Motherfucker.
That's yo, the last scene of that movie.
The most Andrew talked about this.
He watched this movie on a plane.
I didn't watch it on my screen.
Remember, I watched it on the guy next to my screen.
I was fucking bawling crazy.
And I watched it on my screen.
Holy shit.
I think the director, Justin Chan Chan.
I hit him up after.
I was like, son, you made a beautiful movie.
He's a fan.
So shouts to him.
But fucking amazing movie.
Beautiful movie.
I don't normally have tears streaming down my face in a movie.
You're weeping.
You're weeping.
Yeah, I'll eyewater all day.
Tears, not normally.
This movie would be the end.
I was crying like this.
And it's fucking unbelievable.
I'm thinking about Coco right now.
I said to God, that shit does it to me, right?
Wait, I got you.
As an Indian, did you cry Lion?
Did you see Lion?
Yes, I did.
You cried.
But I had, I knew the story already.
Okay.
So I didn't cry as much.
What is Lion?
It's a crazy fucking story.
And it's a true story.
It's about a kid who is from like a poor part of India and is going to on the train station, somehow gets on a train to fall asleep.
He falls asleep on a train.
His brother like gets killed.
He can't find him.
Some crazy shit happens.
And then he just gets transported to a different part of India.
He has no idea where the fuck he is.
They speak a different dialect.
He ends up in an orphanage, gets adopted by a family in Australia.
Doesn't remember this as he gets older.
And then like randomly starts remembering, like, oh, I'm from India.
I'm from this part of India.
And then he like goes and tries to find his mom.
And it's a fucking amazing story.
Bet Patel kills it.
He's fucking great.
Oh, such a, it's a beautiful movie also.
Fuck.
Should you get emotional right now?
Yeah, nah.
On a plane?
There's one industry that's actually worked with nepotism.
It's Bollywood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They don't really seem to allow much else.
Every fan.
Yeah, I guess.
But like, still, the industry is like extremely profitable.
Everyone loves it.
The movies are great.
And it's all, it's all nepotism.
And why?
Why do you think it can function that way?
I don't know.
I mean, maybe acting is so easy.
Watch your fucking mouth.
Maybe acting's that easy.
Oh, explosion.
Bus falls over.
Boom, it works.
I swear to God, I'm going to play Kahono for you and you're going to ball your fucking eyes out like you're watching Blue Bayou.
No.
Don't do that.
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Is there a Bollywood scene that involves a white guy that you and Andrew can interact to?
No.
No, the white guys are always like some fucking, they're just terrible characters every time.
I really do that too.
It's like Switgames.
Those mass assholes.
Oh, fuck.
No, they just try to speak Hindi.
It sounds so bad.
It's always brutal.
If you were a white dude that grew up in Delhi, spoke perfect Hindi, could you get cast as like a Bollywood actor?
Like, are there any roles for you?
If you're like, you ain't related, so no.
With the networkism.
You can have some role.
You'd be somebody.
Side character.
But you're not going to be able to.
But Veer wasn't related, right?
And he was able to do some activity.
Yeah, Veer got in, and it does happen.
He says it's possible, but it just seems like families have such a chokehold on it.
And Bollywood is such an integral, like they have a chokehold on entertainment.
Movies are like, this is our escape.
We go watch the movie.
We're done.
Three hours.
It's going to be a fun story.
Like, they're starting to make more like realistic, gritty kind of shows.
And I'm curious to know how India takes it.
And to me, I almost look at it as a sign.
What do you mean?
Like, so like India that I grew up with escapism.
Yeah, Bollywood that I grew up with was pure escapism.
I'm going to go watch fun, rich people, beautiful colors.
India is beautiful colors in general, but like happy stories.
It'll be melodramatic, but happy stories because life is hard.
And the good guy wins at the end.
Like hero's journey.
We love the gritty because our life is good.
Like, what do we need to escape to?
Oh, so we want to feel something real because we're living in a fucking, we are the 1%.
Yeah, yeah.
Whether we like to admit it or not.
You go to an already like a hero's journey as well.
But I hear what you're saying.
There is, there's also an industry for these kind of gritty movies because there are people that need to access those feelings.
Bollywood, that was very rare.
I can think of it.
I don't need to feel that shit.
I feel like I'm not.
There's one or two movies where the main character died.
I'm sure there's more, but growing up, the big ones.
And now I'm starting to see more gritty kind of Bollywood movies.
And I'm wondering if that's a sign of their economy getting stronger.
Well, it's also Azerix is huge.
They climbed out of the third world and now they're like, well, you know, we want to see some of this.
There's people who are like, dude, life is good.
I want to get a Marley and me.
I want to see reality.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you see Miss Marvel?
I haven't seen it yet.
Oh, you should check it out.
I heard they'd be shitting on India in it, these Pakistanis.
I don't know about that, but I mean.
But it's like Disney and Netflix are coming to India.
They're not going to compete with Bollywood.
They're going to say, okay, what's the method?
Let me bring a horror.
Let me bring a thriller.
Let me bring something a little bit more.
Yeah, Netflix is trying to do Bollywood, like trying to compete with Bollywood, but they're doing it through different shows, grittier shows, sadder shows, reality type shit.
Interesting.
That's an interesting observation, though.
Like, as a country lifts itself out of destitute poverty, it starts to feel and relate to different things in the art.
Yeah.
Like the art is always a reflection.
I think Marley and me should be the test.
I said that as a joke.
If your country likes Marley and me, you're first world.
Can you break down Marley and me to anybody who hasn't seen it?
Literally is like white family, they adopt a dog, the dog gets old, they got to put it down.
End of the movie.
It's just like, we're sad our family dog dies.
It's old yeller, but we got ladies.
Yeah, but old yeller's sad because like real life happens.
Like nature takes over, the dog's decrepit, it dies.
Like this dog just got old.
It got lumpy and they're like, all right, go to sleep forever.
Like that's the whole movie.
So I think if you're as a country, it's like sad about this.
It's like, yeah, you're doing pretty good.
Yeah.
Any other country?
I can't believe you've seen Marley and me and not the godfather.
What the fuck is going on, man?
Because I like real movies, bro.
I like cinema.
Yeah.
Because my life is, you know, my life is hard.
That's what it is.
I don't want to watch The Godfather.
It's too real.
That's every day for me.
That was what flipped a switch with me with Bollywood in terms of liking it.
Because I was like, oh, I was like, it's so surreal and it's so ridiculous.
And then I was like, oh, they want to escape because they don't have my cushy ass life in America.
So watch it and don't expect the real shit, the reality, or an action star like flipping over an 18-wheeler.
I'm like, that's so fucking stupid.
It's like, yo, they don't want real.
Real sucks.
Yeah.
There's so many people over there.
So give us, give me escapism.
And then I watched it with a different lens and I was like, oh, we're just having fun.
This is great.
Yeah.
But when you go to your place and you're playing like poppy Indian music and you're just like, oh, I don't know what you're doing.
What would Indians think of Marley and me?
If like you went to Uttar.
They'd be like, they'd be like, why are you adopting this fucking street dog?
You motherfucker take our food, yo.
Let's take the fuck out of here.
That's my point, bro.
Play that movie anywhere.
North Korea.
You would have to do it.
You're a fucking dog.
Did anybody in your family have a dog?
Nah, never.
Mad street dogs.
And you just look at them like, yo, get the fuck away from our food, yo.
Yo, that's interesting.
I'm fascinated by cultures that don't have pets.
Okay.
Like, we live in Williamsburg, right next to all these Hasidic Jews.
Hasidic Jews don't have pets.
I've never seen a Hasidic Jew walking a dog ever in my life.
They just don't, they just don't do it.
And why do you think that is?
I don't know.
I don't know what the point is.
But I think in China, there's so many fucking kids that they don't want another thing to look after.
Is that what it is?
I genuinely think that is.
Like, you're a woman, you have six kids.
By the time you're like 25, do you really want a dog?
But you got to think there's got to be one woman that has two kids.
And it's like, oh, yeah, a puppy would be nice.
I think they think it'd be nice.
I assume they think it'd be nice, but that's not the focus, right?
Does the woman get a say?
I'm actually asking.
In what?
In an Orthodox community?
In a say in what?
In like, hey, we're getting a dog.
Outfit?
I don't want the dog.
Yeah.
So is the woman the one being like, oh, I don't want a dog?
I think if a man wants a dog, they're getting a dog.
I don't know, Duff.
I'm ignorant asking this question.
I'm going to Hassets more than anybody.
I don't think he'd have a single fucking clue.
Yeah, I think it's like part of the culture not to worship anything other than God.
Muslims often don't have dogs.
Oh, that's interesting.
Is it a...
Why are we going out of our way to feed this thing?
Do they have dogs in India?
Like, do they have pets?
No, if you're doing well, you have a dog and you love the fuck out of it.
But a lot of people don't.
But Muslims often don't have dogs and it's like a cleanliness thing, I think.
I can see that.
It's like a cultural slash.
It's like a kosher thing.
You're bringing in stuff from the street.
Yeah.
I don't know.
You probably don't like Dermot Shepherds.
It is a super.
Don't remember.
Aren't really going to make it in.
It is a super flex, though, when you think about it.
Yeah.
The idea, like, we have so much.
There's such abundance in this family that we can take care of an animal.
You said that shit a while ago, and I've always thought about it.
Corvette Storytelling Flex00:13:18
A flex is just waste.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
And apparently, this popped up the other day on, I was reading some shit.
High ceilings.
Yeah, high ceilings, but also light.
Like a waste space.
The American lawn.
I have vacuum.
I think it's a food for nothing.
Yeah, literally.
No, not even nothing.
I have room to not grow food.
Gardens.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh, not only is, oh, I could grow food.
That's interesting as fuck.
I don't even need to grow food.
This land is just great.
I have a vineyard here.
I can have anything.
Imagine you got a garden.
Like, I'm doing the work.
I'm not growing food.
I'm just growing flowers.
Yeah.
I'm just growing flowers.
Botanical garden.
What a waste.
Dude, people from other countries must show up and be like, wait, you can't eat none of this shit?
You have a dedicated area to growing things you cannot eat.
It's a food museum.
People pay to come naughty.
To not eat.
To look at things that are growing out of the ground.
Yo, flowers are waste.
Yeah, yeah.
Flowers are waste.
That's what I try to tell my girl.
That's why they love them.
They love anything that's fucking waste on money.
That's the flex for them.
They flex on their friends.
Look, I don't even need this.
That's what I'm waste.
Complete waste.
I'm having like high moments right now, but how interesting is that?
Like, at least a fucking tree generates shade, right?
Which is life or death.
Yeah.
Also, oxygen, but like literally shade in the desert or hot that is life or death situation.
A flower grows six inches off the fucking ground, right?
It offers no shade, you cannot eat it.
It is a drain on humanity.
The fact that we give this to things as gifts.
At least it looks pretty.
What about the people who just get plants and just fill up a whole studio?
What about oxygen?
LEDs.
We think clearer because of the experience.
That's a good point, though.
Like, there's a very blurry background if we don't have somebody watching.
If you want to get into the production of it, yeah.
But like, girls do want like the story.
If honestly, if you want to make a billion dollars, you open up a jewelry store, but you sell a product and a story with it.
That's the trick.
Can you give an example?
Because you go to a jewelry store, you buy jewelry, you give it a story of your shirt.
Can you tell us this is a woman's shirt?
Okay.
This buttons on the other side got out of the thrift store.
I was like, yo, this is sick.
Put it on.
I was like, it's a woman's shirt.
Capture.
I mean, that's a big woman.
This isn't bad.
This is a teacher.
That's a catch-out.
I don't even fill this out, bro.
This is like my metric.
If I can fill this out, that's why I know I made it.
Okay, no, break it down.
Because the buddy and the product.
Because a girl wants to know you suffer to get it.
You know what I mean?
Like, if you just bring her flowers, she's like, oh, that's nice.
You know, you bring her like jewelry from a store.
She's like, oh, it's pretty.
But if you're like, I got this, it was the last one.
I haggled with the guy.
It was pouring rain.
I ran home.
I lost a foot.
And now it's yours.
And I brought it to you.
I feel like they like it more.
Because if flowering, there's suffering involved.
There's a story.
You guys called effort.
Remember when you guys fucking bodied me on that?
Exactly.
So you need to have a store that gives guys maximum effort, but they just tell you what to say for the effort.
Now, once girls know about this store, it's fucking over.
Yeah, but it's on the inside.
They don't know.
That's the thing.
We got to block.
We got to put something on the outside of that store that women would never like.
You know what I mean?
Like discount.
Or like we have to put something on the outside that would make a girl never go in.
Some sort of like blocking.
No, but I think the guy just sees, oh, it's a guy shopping alone.
Discount sporting goods.
Discount sporting goods.
Slide the card across the table.
Hey, give this to your girl and then also tell her this story and she's going to love it way more.
That's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're going to have one simp that snitches and then influences everything.
Just deny it.
Deny it.
When you just break up a guy and his girl, you know, he made that shit up.
Yeah.
He didn't even fight any animals to get it.
Adding story, though, to anything, especially like product, is so valuable.
You know what I mean?
Like you pointed that out as the end of Game of Thrones where like the most powerful thing in the world is a story.
Yeah.
And you pointed that out how true that was.
And I was like, yeah, fuck.
Well, dude, think about it.
Even your watch that you have on right now, right?
Omega Speedmaster.
Yes.
Like this is known as the moon watch.
Yes.
That watch has so much more value because it's tied to people landing on the fucking moon.
How awesome and lucky are they?
Like even the Corvette.
The Corvette is what you got if you're an astronaut.
Yes.
That's why the Corvette is this amazing car.
Now, obviously, it has like, you know, tons of horsepower for how affordable it is.
And it's an American muscle car.
Yeah, yeah.
It's the astronaut car.
Yeah.
You came back, you get a fucking Corvette.
I want to drive the thing that the people that go to space drive.
Yeah.
Brilliant marketing.
Attaching story.
Hey, where are you going after you win the Super Bowl?
Hey, where am I going?
Disney World.
I mean, that's maybe like a smaller, but like attaching story to product.
I know you were like being silly when you were saying that, but like you're 100% right.
Yeah.
I do think attaching that story to the product.
But think of the marketing guy who went to Chevy or whoever was like, yo, we're going to give the astronauts Corvettes.
And you know what we're going to do?
We're not going to put the Ford logo on it or the Chevy logo, by the Chevy logo.
It's going to have a Corvette logo.
What's a Corvette logo?
We're going to make one that makes it look like a race car.
We'll have the fucking flags on it, right?
Like, isn't that like, and that's a smart decision.
It's its own car, the Corvette.
Yeah.
Even though we know it's a Chevy.
I didn't know it was a Chevy.
There you go.
Isn't that interesting?
I thought that was a different brand.
I mean, that is kind of, that is kind of cool.
And I guess like we do that as well, like in our business, but like really like tying in story.
What does this movie mean?
What is this movie really about?
Because stories are how, listen, the most potent books that exist to this day that have been here for thousands of years are what?
They're all stories, right?
They're not a list of fucking things.
The Bible is a story.
Luxury stories, right?
Luxury story.
The best story.
For some reason, we just attach ourselves to these fucking stories, man.
Maybe it's how we organize the world.
I mean, like, even the most, I was watching like a Bill Clinton fucking interview and like the way he answered the questions, every question had a, every answer had a story.
And I was like, man, like, that is some fucking next level shit.
Like, not here's my opinion.
Well, let me tell you why.
You know, in 73, I met, there was a guy who came up to me outside of a gas station and he said this.
Yeah.
And it was like, how, I don't know.
I remember like watching that and I get lost in it.
And there's always a great little payoff at the end.
And it's like, wow, it's you kind of like stand-up.
It's like you reward the person for listening.
Yeah.
And the most significant part is that you remember.
And you remember.
Like, how long ago did you see that speech or whatever?
Like, and you still remember.
It's like your brain to survive is going to attach itself to stories.
Why?
What is the biological?
I'm assuming just to survive.
I don't know the answer, but I'm assuming like, okay, in order to survive, when someone tells me some information about the fucking world, about the planet, like, hey, don't eat those pigs because they got the devil in them.
And actually, like, the meat is fucked up.
And now I remember not to eat the pigs way better than someone just going, don't eat it.
It's like an emotional tie with it.
It's like the memory palaces.
Like, have you ever heard someone do like a memory test or whatever?
What is that?
This is fascinating.
Like, they'll do like, so they have like these memory world championships where people try to like memorize the number of like the order of cards in a deck.
And like the world champion is able to memorize every card in order of like 60 decks on a table.
That guy, Jim Quick, remember we had him on there?
He was one of those guys.
And he's like, okay, yeah, Jack of Spades, Ace, whatever, like, and able to go through all of them, 60 cards.
And like the way that some people do it is they'll do memory palaces with like, okay, I walk in my house.
I see the jack of spades in the corner.
And the jack is actually like a jester that's in the corner and he's dancing.
And then he on his shirt has a heart on his shirt and it's this two of hearts.
And then he's able to create a path in his brain out of a story.
It's an actual map that you're familiar with.
Exactly.
And then you attach these things that you want to memorize to the map.
Yeah, exactly.
And then for whatever reason, it like locks in in that way.
But you're creating a story.
You're creating a story of you going through your home, I guess.
Yeah.
And maybe based on things you're already familiar with.
Yeah.
But I'm assuming it's got to be survival.
Like all those like old Jewish, like Levitical laws and shit.
Like, yo, don't eat this thing because it's bad.
And it's like a story from God.
God came down.
He's like, yo, don't eat shellfish.
It's not because he's going to make you throw up.
Right.
It's because God came down and this is going to happen.
You're going to get punished.
Because that is, I always thought that was like raise the steak so they really don't eat it.
But maybe it's just make them remember not to eat it.
I think that's what it is.
Maybe a little combination of both.
Because it's like, what's a coincidence?
It's like, it's not hard to think, don't eat a bottom feeder, right?
Because you can't really track what's gone through its body from top to bottom.
And then they put the story afterwards.
Like, and here you go.
Yeah, yeah.
Blah, And more content to read and discuss over and over.
No, but I think it's just, it's much more digestible.
Like it is just a more digestible version of information.
And then you get the same end result.
You bring up stand-ups.
I'm not even saying as a joke.
You think about the stand-up who might have had the longest standing power prior and Cosby.
Yeah.
And Cosby's all stories.
Look at Bert.
Bert.
The machine.
This is like an amazing story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The things that we attach ourselves to.
There's got to be something biological.
Yeah.
Right.
I think if you can just get people to play, you can play people's emotions.
That's the most powerful thing.
And you even.
Stories play the emotions.
Yeah.
I mean, you even look at like Chappelle, like as he's continued to like evolve as a stand-up, like everything is almost wrapped into story.
Yeah.
You know, like, what's Bird Revelation?
Where he's at the comedy store and he talks about Iceberg Slim.
Yep.
That story, and then he does uh the Emmett Till thing in equanimity.
It's beautiful story.
Our attention span increases for story.
Yeah, we have a lower attention span for just like um information, but information that's wrapped into story.
Yeah, it's also like what else was there to do for most of human history.
We didn't have TV, we didn't have TikTok, we didn't have these things, we had stories, so our brains are built for them.
Sit around, eat food, tell stories.
Interesting, and I'm assuming there's got to be a survival component.
I mean, we still sit around and ingest stories just through television and movies, we just let other people do it like Godfather.
It's just a story, yeah, like everybody.
But I'm assuming that's the biological programming is from just sitting around a film.
This is how powerful story is.
Godfather is a book that's a story, then they make a movie that's a story, and now they're making a story about the making of the story, of the making of the story.
Like, it's and the podcast is reviewing the yeah, yeah, no, I for me, and yeah, I'm sure we all feel this way, but like story is the thing that I'm most fascinated by, it's the thing that I most uh admire, yeah, you know, like yeah,
I just think that people who are great storytellers and these are like filmmakers, you know, like I think that is just such an incredible skill, and I think that you can I think that you can fill the gaps with maybe less acting chops when you have an absolutely amazing, engaging story.
Yeah, and those things are just few and far between, yeah.
Like, there's a few storytellers out there that are just absolutely incredible, like fucking Christopher Nolan, dude, like Chris and Jonathan Nolan.
Like, they have a skill to tell stories, man.
They get it, it's a fucking science to them, or maybe it's more than just a science, maybe it's not just you know, numbers and shit.
Maybe it's like for whatever reason, they have this like emotional connectivity to it and they can just produce it.
And it's a language that they speak.
But like, even that movie that came out with the time that was confusing as hell, like, you got to be so good at telling stories to even try to mess up time.
Like, the whole thing about story is it's like that's the super flex.
Like, what if time wasn't linear?
Which movie is that?
It's called uh, no, Tenon.
He did well with, he did it well in Interstellar.
I mean, he made us was so incredible, but I just feel like it's like, what if you mastered story?
How do you keep flexing?
How do you keep pushing to the next level?
Like, yeah, let me just tell the story all wrong and see if that works.
Yeah, I'm so bored with storytelling.
Let me try this.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
I would love it.
I'd love to just take class in that.
But I don't know if they even have to be linear for the stories.
Like, that's an assumption because that's how we normally tell stories.
But if you look at all those storytelling guides, like Dan Harmon's story circle, story circle.
Like, all that shit.
It's not necessarily linear.
Yeah.
It's just like these beats happen in this order.
Still a payoff.
Yeah, exactly.
But like that payoff can happen at the like you can rearrange those pieces like anachronistically as long as those pieces all happen in that.
I think pulp fiction is a good example.
Yeah, I was just going to say that.
Because it wasn't linear, but I think that just the way that we consume things, it kind of makes sense to do it.
So like you got to be very confident in your storytelling ability to mix and I remember as a kid, I didn't understand what happened in pulp fiction.
I was like, I don't.
You're like, what?
I'm such a linear thinker.
I was like, I don't know.
But you can now turn it on at any time and just watch it for 20 minutes.
But for that reason, yeah, you have to be an absolute master in that space.
Otherwise, it's like art house films can break that all the time.
But for the general public, like, I'm greenlighting these crazy budgets because we know on average, people want this payoff.
And that's just, yeah.
Yeah, dude.
Yo.
Do you want to rip through Feelings, No Facts?
Yeah, let's do it.
Okay.
You know, real quick, what's crazy about Pulp Fiction is the most dramatic scene is the middle of the story that they put at the end.
The Samuel L. Jackson diner scene.
I'm trying real hard to be shut up.
Yeah.
That's the climax of the movie, but it's not the climax of the story.
Yeah.
Hold on one second.
Al, we'll just wrap up and then we can get into that.
But yeah, yeah, yeah.
That is, I didn't realize that that was the fucking thing.
That's the climax.
It's just a random, it's a fucking scene at the diner.
And Samuel Jackson makes his beautiful speech, but it's actually the middle of the story.
Infamous Diner Climax00:00:58
Yeah.
Because at the end, there's crazy shit that happens in the middle of the movie.
It's like, oh, fuck.
But that's not the climax.
The climax is his speech.
Yeah.
Same with that Ron White Tater salad story.
It's like it starts here, but then the payoff is back in time.
Yeah.
And then pays off in the present.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
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What am I supposed to do?
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Just a sign of respect over there.
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What the fuck is wrong with these Europeans?
If I got a BBL, I would take a picture of Weiman and say, do that to me.