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April 25, 2012 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #209 - Eddie Ifft
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eddie ifft
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eddie ifft
You don't film this anymore?
Oh, it is filming.
joe rogan
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brian redban
John Heffron's been an MIA. That dude's been on the road for like 32 weeks.
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eddie ifft
He's kettlebell-ing somewhere.
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Yeah, he's somewhere doing push-ups in the fucking parking lot.
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I got pussy brain, Joe.
joe rogan
You do?
Just taking a lot of pussy into your body?
How are you doing that?
brian redban
Really long wits.
joe rogan
There's something creepy about saying eating pussy.
I'm thinking of chewing and swallowing.
A girl can suck a cock, and that's totally right.
But when you're eating pussy, it just sounds like you're chewing.
eddie ifft
Especially when it's a fat guy, and you think of him being hungry, and he's eating pussy, and you think he's just going to take a bite out of it.
brian redban
I wonder if you really ate pussy if it was the most delicious piece of meat in the human body.
joe rogan
Well, it's probably pretty tender, right?
brian redban
It's probably seasoned.
joe rogan
You'd have to make sure you didn't cook it very fast.
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joe rogan
You'd have to be like a searing.
eddie ifft
Yeah, you'd just black and blue it.
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This world that we live in, yeah.
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eddie ifft
I know it.
Or no, wait.
Is it Chopped?
joe rogan
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
But it was really good.
eddie ifft
There's a place in Atlanta you've got to be a member to get in.
Oh, Jesus.
And it's got, like, the restaurant, but then there's a member's room.
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The Rory McDonald one, people were criticizing it.
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That must stay in.
But Nick Diaz just nailed it.
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eddie ifft
I always wondered who that was.
joe rogan
That's Nick motherfucking Diaz, dude.
My favorite fighter to ever test positive for weed.
unidentified
What a good guy.
eddie ifft
Wait, they test for weed?
joe rogan
Fucking so stupid.
Not only that, he didn't even really test positive for weed.
He tested positive for an inactive metabolite.
It's not a psychoactive.
It's evidence that some cannabis has been in this system, but it's not evidence of marijuana.
It's evidence of an inactive metabolite.
That's all it is.
So you could have taken this inactive metabolite, which isn't even prevented or prohibited by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
eddie ifft
So it didn't matter?
joe rogan
Because it's also, besides the possibility of taking it that way, you can also get it from...
unidentified
Mask it.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
You can get it from marijuana.
It's not a masking issue.
I think it's a flushing issue.
I don't think you can mask marijuana.
I mean, I'm sure out there there's someone that can tell me wrong.
eddie ifft
But I'm saying, why would that...
That's not a performance-enhancing drug.
joe rogan
Well, it's somehow or another what they're saying, I believe, if I understand the legal language, I think what they're saying is that the metabolite shows that he has had it in his system.
But what's really crazy is it's so stupid because they know he's a patient.
He's a medical marijuana patient in California.
And if you don't know that Nick Diaz smokes weed, Jesus Christ, are you paying attention at all?
You don't know he smokes weed.
So what?
It's okay if he stops 13 days, but not 12. 11 days, but not 10. 9 days, but not 8. Shut the fuck up.
It's fucking stupid.
You know why?
Because what you're talking about is not him being high inside the octagon.
The psychoactive effects of marijuana don't exist when he's in that octagon with those levels.
It's impossible.
So he's 100% sober.
That should be the question.
You know he was taking it before that because he's got a card.
So when is it...
eddie ifft
Where's this logical cutoff?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Like...
The HGH thing, you know, the NFL's trying to...
joe rogan
Good luck!
eddie ifft
Yeah, it's so fucking crazy.
I've been reading so much about it because I do a podcast called WODcast about CrossFit.
joe rogan
Oh, do you?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
A CrossFit place just opened up like 10 miles away from me.
eddie ifft
They're opening in fucking bathrooms at Starbucks.
joe rogan
They're everywhere.
eddie ifft
But they...
They say they tested the games, and like 68,000 people tried out for the games this year.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie ifft
And these guys, like if you look at the guys that are the top CrossFitters, some people say they don't use, some people say they could.
I'm not here to say if they do or don't, but they're doing like four and five workouts a day.
They're just insane.
They're inhuman.
And just the recovery rate, I'm looking at going fucking HGH would be amazing.
But when they test, they test the same way the NFL does, which you can't catch it in a urine test.
Only like one time in the world has anyone gotten caught in an HGH urine test.
It was like a rugby player in the UK. Oh, at one time?
One time in a urine test.
joe rogan
What, did they have like crazy levels or something?
eddie ifft
Yeah, something was wrong.
joe rogan
Something was just completely wacky.
eddie ifft
But so they have this new system that they think they're going to be able to test.
But we had Sean Waxman, who is the Olympic weightlifting co.
He's got Waxman's gym down by the airport.
We had him on the other day and he was talking about how...
It's more of like a money-making thing.
There's money being made in the testing world.
So there's like lobbying being done.
joe rogan
To make more testing so they can get more money.
eddie ifft
To make more testing so they can make more money because it's just this ridiculous.
I'm a firm believer.
Why would you prevent people from enhancing themselves?
You let people take protein supplements.
That's coming from a cow.
We're taking the whey from a cow and we're eating it to make ourselves better.
Why can't we take the growth hormone from a cadaver and use that?
joe rogan
We don't do that, first of all.
We don't do that.
Because if you did do that, by the way, you can get really sick.
And you can get fucking mad cow disease, what we were talking about earlier.
You can get all sorts of crazy diseases.
eddie ifft
It's a synthetic, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
It's actually made by bacteria.
eddie ifft
It is bacteria?
joe rogan
Yes.
Bacteria constructed it.
eddie ifft
Well, but it's, so it's anything that's simulated.
joe rogan
It's an amazing process that you and I would never figure out.
Given a billion years and all the books in the world, you and I would still be sitting around telling fart jokes.
We would never figure out how to make...
eddie ifft
You'd be a lot further ahead than I would.
unidentified
Hormones?
joe rogan
Out of bacteria?
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
Fuck it, I can't figure out how a toilet works.
joe rogan
Isn't it amazing how some people's minds just can do that?
It's a variation in the way the human mind works.
It's so spectacular.
eddie ifft
I tried to figure out.
I was watching the way they're testing to figure out how the human growth hormone, the way they've got this thing that locks onto it so that they can test.
And I was watching over and over trying to comprehend it.
I couldn't.
I'm like, I'm a fucking retard.
I can't get this in my head.
brian redban
Rick Ross would have figured it out.
joe rogan
He probably would have, man.
The real Rick Ross that we had on yesterday.
Genius guy.
eddie ifft
The drug dealer.
joe rogan
Yeah, until he was 28 years old, he couldn't read.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, amazing story.
brian redban
Not only did he teach himself how to read, but he also taught himself the law and found loopholes in the law.
So he went from being like, can't even read a book, Jack and Jill, to fucking getting himself out of a life term in prison.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
It was one of the most amazing, I think the best podcast, just the story-wise.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
It was just amazing.
eddie ifft
And then some rappers kind of stole his identity.
joe rogan
One rapper stole his identity.
eddie ifft
That would piss me off.
joe rogan
Yeah, you'd think?
I mean, they thought he was going to be in jail for life is what it was.
He was a legend out on the street.
Like, you know, I had heard his name.
So who's making more money?
eddie ifft
The rapper?
joe rogan
I heard his name when I was living in LA. I wasn't even living in LA, rather, when I heard his name.
eddie ifft
Like he was that legendary?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, he was legendary as far as like drug dealers in this country.
You would hear about him in the news stores and stuff when his trial was going on.
So a huge, huge deal.
Nationwide, it was a huge deal.
eddie ifft
How'd you guys find him?
He's pretty public now.
unidentified
Twitter?
eddie ifft
It was at Rick Ross.
Or did the rapper have that?
joe rogan
No, he's Freeway Ricky on Twitter.
That's what his nickname was, Freeway Ricky Ross.
It's really interesting to see this guy who was 20 years old in this terrible situation and sort of just kind of found his way through the system to success.
And then it all came falling apart, and then he built himself back up again.
And now he's like a really cool dude.
brian redban
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Really intense, intense story.
eddie ifft
Is he pissed off about the guy stealing his identity?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
brian redban
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he should be.
Well, we can't talk about it.
There's part of it that we can't talk about for legal issues, so we'll drop it right there.
eddie ifft
There's a guy in Australia.
I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Chopper.
joe rogan
Yes, I have.
I love that fucking movie.
That's Eric Bana, right?
eddie ifft
Yeah, it's fucking amazing.
joe rogan
What a crazy movie.
eddie ifft
It's so crazy.
And it's supposedly all true.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
I mean, this guy, if you haven't seen the film, the guy got thrown in prison.
He was like a hitman kind of for drug dealers.
He gets thrown in prison and they're going to send him to the wing of the prison where the guys that want to kill him are.
So instead of going there, he cut his own ears off so that they put him in the crazy ward.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
And now he's got these fucked up ears.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
What a great idea.
joe rogan
Jesus, dude.
eddie ifft
But he's this crazy legendary Australian that people kind of like...
He's like a folk hero almost.
But there's a guy now...
joe rogan
Pardon the fuck up.
eddie ifft
There's a guy who does a parody of him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
And does a comedy show and tours to sold out shows everywhere.
unidentified
Oh, whoa.
eddie ifft
And I just did his show.
He does a show where he hosts it.
I did the Adelaide Comedy Festival and I did his show.
It's a late night.
Heath Franklin is the guy.
He plays Chopper and he's in character doing stand-up and it's good.
It's good.
It's good stand-up and then he's doing it as Chopper and every joke is about like misogyny and fucking harden the fuck up and he's got the mustache on and the sunglasses.
And I said afterwards, because I had heard rumors, I said, has he ever contacted you?
And he goes, yeah, yeah.
Apparently he's not very happy.
I go, Why would you fuck with a guy like that?
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
eddie ifft
This is the guy who will come in your house.
joe rogan
He's crazy.
unidentified
He's fucking crazy.
joe rogan
If you watch that movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's a great movie.
A really fun movie.
It's like you're rooting for this psychopath for some reason.
It's fucking amazing.
eddie ifft
Australia makes great fucking crime films like that.
They had a movie called Animal House.
Watch Animal House about this family.
joe rogan
Oh, I have that.
Yeah, yeah.
eddie ifft
It's fucking great.
joe rogan
So explain how he gets to do that, if Chopper's still alive.
eddie ifft
I don't know.
I said, do you have to pay him a commission?
joe rogan
He doesn't?
eddie ifft
Nothing.
And he tours and sells out shows everywhere.
joe rogan
That seems crazy.
That seems crazy.
That seems like you're asking for trouble.
You should give that guy a piece.
eddie ifft
Well, I mean, I guess it's kind of the same.
Well, I mean, it's like guys that do impressions.
I mean, that's the way he does it, but it's a full...
joe rogan
That's not an impression.
brian redban
That's why I'm just going to change my name to Louie Anderson if I have to do anything.
joe rogan
You don't think Louie will come down hard on you, son?
eddie ifft
What are you doing?
unidentified
Louie will hire some material designers to beat the shit out of you.
eddie ifft
Louie will come down hard on your son.
joe rogan
Oh, ouchie, ouchie.
unidentified
Both of you.
joe rogan
What are you saying and why are you saying it on the internet?
brian redban
What?
He likes spanking him.
eddie ifft
I always get nervous on your show because your fans are so diligent about facts.
joe rogan
Oh, they're too brutal.
They're brutal.
eddie ifft
I love catching you.
I'll get Twitters.
Last time I was here, I was talking about grass-fed meat.
Somebody's like, pigs can't be grass-fed.
They get sunburned.
joe rogan
They do?
eddie ifft
That's what he said.
joe rogan
I bet they do, if you think about it.
Those pink pigs.
eddie ifft
He's like, so they have to be under so they can't be eating grass all the time.
joe rogan
That totally makes sense.
Yeah, I would think.
Were they real pink like that?
What kind of protection from the sun is that?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
They'd probably get all fucked up.
brian redban
Imagine rubbing suntan lotion all over a cow.
joe rogan
Yeah, a pig, man.
A pig, not a cow.
Pigs are so weird because pigs are the only animal that we know of that becomes feral, meaning it becomes wild, almost immediately from the release from a farm.
And it actually physically changes shape.
It's real weird.
Their fur changes, it becomes darker and thicker and bushier, and their tusks grow longer, and their snout actually grows longer.
eddie ifft
Maybe that's how they should naturally be.
joe rogan
But it's so weird, though, that why doesn't that happen when they're domesticated?
eddie ifft
Because they're probably feeding them shitty food.
joe rogan
I don't know if that's it, man.
eddie ifft
Somebody told me what's the best way to get rid of a body.
Pigs.
joe rogan
The movie Snatch.
eddie ifft
Oh, did they do it in Snatch?
joe rogan
Yeah, remember the guy who keeps pigs?
Yeah, that guy was a great actor with those huge super coke pile glasses.
That guy was the shit.
brian redban
Wasn't it in The Sopranos also?
Or am I just thinking Snatch?
joe rogan
I think it was just Snatch.
It was definitely in Snatch.
eddie ifft
I asked a guy once who's gotten rid of a body.
I said, what's the best way to get rid of a body?
And he said, go fishing.
And I said, what?
He goes, go fishing.
joe rogan
Just throw him in the water?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
Like, you go far enough out in the ocean.
joe rogan
If you're lucky.
But if you're not lucky.
If you're not lucky, that bitch floats to shore.
eddie ifft
Not if you tie enough shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta tie him up Dexter style.
brian redban
And a pubic hair of yours would be caught in his mouth.
eddie ifft
Doesn't it?
joe rogan
But if you think about it, I mean, it's probably a good bet.
I mean, there's a lot of goddamn real estate out there.
I wonder how many people are buried out there.
How many people do you think are buried on the way to Nevada?
That crazy dirt road, those off to the side where you see weird dirt roads through the chicken wire.
What is that?
What's going on back there?
eddie ifft
Who owns that?
joe rogan
Who checks that for bodies?
Who scans that thing with the fucking metal detector looking for watches of people that got burnt up?
eddie ifft
I think it's funny when they find one.
Remember that bodybuilder?
joe rogan
I was just about to bring that up.
Chris Titus, yes.
eddie ifft
Didn't he try?
No, Chris Titus was the comedian.
joe rogan
No, the comedian.
Craig Titus.
Is that it?
eddie ifft
What's his name?
joe rogan
Hold on.
No.
Am I saying it wrong?
eddie ifft
He killed his personal assistant, he and his wife, because he was fucking her, I think.
And his wife caught them, and so I guess he and his wife decided to get rid of her.
joe rogan
To kill her.
eddie ifft
Yeah, that's the best way to handle getting caught cheating.
And they killed her, and then they took her out to the desert.
joe rogan
Yeah, Craig Titus.
eddie ifft
And they were going to light the...
joe rogan
They were lighting her on fire.
eddie ifft
Yeah, the car and her...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, I remember this guy.
He was so juiced to the gills.
He was so crazy that he actually was challenging Phil Barone.
He was saying that he wanted to fight Phil Barone when Phil Barone was young.
Phil Barone, when he was young, was one of the scariest knockout punchers in the UFC's middleweight division.
He didn't beat a lot of top guys, but he's a tough motherfucker.
For some crazy bodybuilder to come along and say, go watch that Dave Manet fight.
Go watch Phil Barone light Dave Manet up with like 15 punches in a row while standing while he's already unconscious.
He doesn't even have a chance to hit the ground.
And Barone's hit.
unidentified
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
joe rogan
I'm not kidding, man.
It's one of the greatest highlight reel KOs of all time.
And this fucking douchebag, juicehead...
Who just lifts weights, thinks he's going to fuck with that.
It's hilarious.
These guys, they get so full of testosterone.
They're literally not even human anymore.
If you see some of those guys when they hit those crazy levels of testosterone that you need to get that big.
eddie ifft
I used to work out at that Gold's gym and his picture was on the wall.
He was one of the guys.
It's not even a human.
joe rogan
It's not a human.
eddie ifft
The day that happened, I think I was in there and the guy was on a ladder pulling the picture down.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I'm sure.
Yeah, he's a disgrace.
But, I mean, like, when you get, like, that big, like, Lee Haney big, come on, man, that's not human.
It's not, you keep, it's an insult.
eddie ifft
But it would also feel like, like, I'm a little guy.
I weigh, like, 170 pounds, and I work out a lot.
I do CrossFit, like, six days a week.
And when I start...
joe rogan
You do, you're a freak with it.
eddie ifft
Yeah, when I start to work out where I'm doing a lot of Olympic lifting and power lifting and stuff, where I start to get a little heavier and up to, like, 180...
Mm-hmm.
I feel uncomfortable just like losing all my mobility and everything.
They're like handicapped people.
joe rogan
Well, that's also an issue of what you're doing for exercise.
If you wanted mobility, you should be doing yoga.
You can't just do heavy weights.
eddie ifft
Sure, but I do a lot of Metcons and stuff, but I'm saying when you get to that bodybuilder size, like Lee Haney size, You're almost like a handicapped person.
You need to have trouble taking your shirt on.
joe rogan
You'd be amazed at how well some guys can move with a lot of muscle that have stretched out.
That's really what it is.
It's all about flexibility.
There's this kid named Todd Duffy.
He's a heavyweight contender, and he probably weighs, I'd say he weighs around 240-ish, somewhere on that.
Looks like a fucking, like some sort of an action comic hero.
He doesn't even look like a real human.
And he's huge.
He's just swole muscles everywhere.
And this motherfucker moves like a cat.
Like, it's creepy to watch him.
It's creepy to watch him jump on dudes and punch them, because you're like, Jesus, he's not supposed to move that quick.
It's uncomfortable.
And one of the reasons why he can move so quick is he's a real athlete.
He stretches everything out.
He doesn't just do.
If you're doing Olympic cleans, if you're doing deadlifts, and if you're doing power squats, whatever time you spend doing that, you should spend twice that amount of time stretching out and getting deep tissue massages.
So for every two hours you're lifting, it should be four hours, two hours deep tissue and two hours stretching.
That's not bullshit.
You really need to stretch everything.
It takes a long time to really stretch.
eddie ifft
I don't fuck around because when I first got into CrossFit, I thought it was cool that you only had to work out for like sometimes three minutes.
The workouts are sometimes three minutes.
unidentified
Really?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
If you're good at it, like a good Fran time is three minutes.
joe rogan
What is a Fran?
eddie ifft
Fran would be a 95-pound thruster.
21 times.
joe rogan
What's a thruster?
eddie ifft
How's a thruster work?
You've got to clean it first, then you go into a squat, and then into a push press over your head.
So you do that 21 times.
Then you go straight to the pull-up bar 21 times.
Then you do 15 thrusters, 15 pull-ups, then 9 thrusters, 9 pull-ups.
So that's like 90 reps or something, what you're doing.
joe rogan
You're done.
eddie ifft
Yeah, you're fucking done.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're done.
eddie ifft
Or, you know, they have that scheme, rep scheme, you can do it with handstand push-ups and deadlifts, which is a pretty tough one, too.
joe rogan
So it's all just blowing it out.
eddie ifft
Blowing out.
Some of them are up to 20 minutes long.
Some of them are, you know, like, fight gone bad.
What's his name?
The wrestler, or the UFC fighter, I think it was Dana White, did it with CrossFit.
They put it together and they said, let's simulate A UFC fight.
So it's like, what are you, five minutes and then...
What's a round?
Three?
joe rogan
Five.
eddie ifft
Five-minute rounds.
And how many?
Three?
joe rogan
Three in the regular fights and five in championship and main event fights.
eddie ifft
So this is like five five-minute rounds with one-minute break in between each one.
And you row, then you do push presses, box jumps, everything.
And you do as many reps as you can get in of these things.
A minute each and then you switch to the next thing for a minute and it's five things in five minutes.
Then you take a minute break, five.
And they asked him afterwards, they're like, what was that like?
Was that like a fight?
He goes, it was like a fight gone bad.
And it just – it beats the fuck out of you.
But I used to go into the gym without warming up thinking I could do it.
And I could.
But then I developed so many issues with like bad back, bad knees.
joe rogan
Well, let me bring this up then because Steve Maxwell is a guy that I trained with a bunch of times, a brilliant guy, really well known for being a fitness guru.
And he thinks that those high repetition deadlift things that get done a lot in CrossFit, he said you're not supposed to do that.
That's not how those exercises are designed.
eddie ifft
Well, yes, yes.
joe rogan
There's too much potential for injury there.
eddie ifft
Yes and no.
I mean, I'm sitting here right now with I've got a bad disc because I did 155-pound power clean or squat.
What was it?
155-pound.
joe rogan
Dude, why don't you stop fucking around and take jiu-jitsu?
Just learn how to strangle people.
eddie ifft
I don't like to roll around with men.
joe rogan
You will when you choke the fuck out of them.
Listen, man.
eddie ifft
I do have aggression.
I do have aggression.
I would probably like that.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
You would love it.
You're a man.
It would help you tremendously.
You're so into fitness, but you're not even getting the rewards.
eddie ifft
I know.
joe rogan
You're not getting a skill.
eddie ifft
This workout I did the other day was a 155-pound squat clean and jerk 30 times as fast as you can do it.
joe rogan
See, that's where Maxwell has an issue with it.
His issue is that when you're doing these high rep exercises, there's just too much potential for fuck-ups.
eddie ifft
He's right.
And I hurt myself because, talking to Sean Waxman, who's an Olympic lifting expert, he's like a national champion or whatever.
I don't have my technique.
That's a high technique thing.
If you're an Olympic weightlifter, it has to be so precise.
It's like fucking ballet.
How good you have to be at your technique.
joe rogan
It's so scary when they have that one when they lock their arms.
eddie ifft
Yeah, overhead squat.
joe rogan
And it's overhead press.
And the fucking bar is like way too heavy for them.
You know they just got up there with trickery.
You know they did some...
eddie ifft
They did some crazy...
The snatch is fucking unbelievable.
joe rogan
And it's wiggling over the head.
You're like, my God, if that falls in your skull, you're done, son.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You're done.
eddie ifft
Dead.
joe rogan
I saw a guy get crushed by a bench once.
He was benching.
He went way over his head.
And he fucking...
His arm just gave out.
And it clank comes down on him hard.
It goes to his neck.
Everybody's screaming.
They're running over and pulling the weights off of him.
It was fucking pandemonium.
eddie ifft
You can spend five hours on YouTube crying your eyes out laughing at weightlifting.
joe rogan
Wait, once it fails.
eddie ifft
And the best is the guys passing out after a lift.
That's the funniest.
unidentified
Oh, where they just black out.
Where the guy has to do like a big deadlift and then just fall forward on his face.
joe rogan
Guys have died from that.
Guys have had hernias or rather aneurysms.
eddie ifft
I had a – one time in the middle of a workout, I had – I think it was an exertion headache or something where just – I knew like – and I try never to quit.
I just looked at everyone and I went, I'm out.
I'm out because my head started like – Pulsating.
A lot of times you were taught like, breathe in on the downward, on the eccentric and on the concentric, you exhale.
But a lot of times in our kind of lifting, they say, hold your breath because it locks your core.
If you hold your breath throughout the whole lift, like up, down, and then once you finish the lift, Exhale.
It locks your core together.
It locks your spine in.
It keeps more control.
So like just hold.
Take a deep breath.
Hold on the way down.
Hold on the way up.
Exhale.
So I was doing that and all of a sudden it was like… Like, I popped something in my head and I went, fuck, I'm gonna die!
Like, I really thought aneurysm or something.
joe rogan
What if it was?
It was just a little mini one.
eddie ifft
Don't tell me that.
Because aneurysms...
Well, actually, that's the way to go.
That's the...
You're out, you're dead, you're gone.
joe rogan
Unless you're like my grandmother.
My grandmother had an aneurysm.
They gave her 72 hours.
She lived 12 years.
She has Sicilian peasant genetics.
Those peasant genes, those brick-carrying savages.
That's a hardy people.
She survived.
No one ever took care of their health.
Everyone was just eating Italian food.
It was always meatballs and lasagna.
I would go over to their house.
It was just ridiculous.
My grandmother always made homemade pasta, homemade everything.
Everything was fucking sausages and sauce.
It was just aneurysms.
It was just cholesterol.
It was like all waiting to happen.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
So she lived for 12 years.
My grandfather had to take care of her.
It was amazing to watch, man.
It was amazing to watch.
It was one time, this is really, I mean, it's very sentimental, but it was, he was standing over her and she couldn't wipe her ass.
She couldn't do anything, man.
She had bed sores.
He had to turn her to make sure that she didn't, you know, have bed sores.
And she would still get them.
You know, she was in bed all the time, just constantly rubbing up against fabric.
For 12 years.
For 12 years.
And she was barely lucid, and she would make crazy noises, and sometimes she was there, and sometimes she wasn't.
But she was essentially trapped in her own body for the rest of her days.
And it was hard, man, because I was living with them at the time for a little bit.
When I first moved to New York, I didn't have enough money for my own apartment.
My grandparents lived in New Jersey.
Newark, New Jersey.
They had been there since, like, the 30s when it was an all-Italian neighborhood.
Now it had become this, like, Hodgepodge of like third-world people and really poor black people.
It's like it's not a good neighborhood at all by any stretch of the imagination.
And my, you know, they just stayed.
It just had become their neighborhood and they just dealt with it.
And my grandmother was just in a bed all the time moaning, just in agony and pain.
And one time she says to my grandfather like, you're too good to me.
Like, I don't deserve you.
eddie ifft
Like she was lucid, like she could talk?
unidentified
Yeah, sometimes.
joe rogan
Sometimes she would say something like that.
But it was really garbled.
I don't want to do an impression of it out of respect, but it sounded like someone who was pretty fucked up.
It didn't sound like the way I just said it, like you're too good to me.
She couldn't talk like that.
It was drawn out.
It was difficult to get a sentence out.
He told her he loved her.
She was his wife.
It was pretty crazy.
It made me cry.
And then she died.
It was one of those classic things.
When she died, he died a year later.
eddie ifft
Yeah, my grandparents did that.
My grandparents was 96. 96 they both lived too.
And he died and she went right after.
Like right after.
They both went all the way to 96 and it was like, what else is there?
joe rogan
There's no will.
I mean, you know, that's what life is supposed to be.
It's supposed to be you get to a point where it's really, you know, you're accepting the fact that it's over because it's not good anymore.
eddie ifft
You ever read the book, what's his name, the guy who wrote Man's Search for Meeting?
No.
It's a guy, Victor Hugo, I think.
He was in a concentration camp and he made it all the way through.
And he wrote this book on logotherapy, I think it's called, or logotherapy.
And he – it was amazing because he talked about all the people that survived and how they survived the concentration camp, being like stripped completely naked, having your hair shaved off your head, put in – like losing your identity, having no identity and being able to survive that, like being stripped of everything in life that you ever had and having your whole – most of these people, their whole families were killed, were murdered.
So like what do you live for?
And I think that happened to him.
His entire family was killed.
So some people would still have someone.
They'd be like, I want to live to get back to my wife or I want to live to get back to my child.
His was, I want to live to get back to help people, to show people how to get through something this atrocious.
Like that was his will.
But he said you had to have something.
If you didn't have something, you wouldn't make it.
And he talks about – the most amazing thing he talked about was going – how he said sufferings like a gas, it will fill a room no matter how big it is.
And he said like they were on the one train going to one of the concentration camps and like if you go over this bridge, you are going to the one where they kill you.
But if you make like a right turn, you're going to the one where you're going to stay alive for a couple more weeks.
It's a work camp.
And they're in the truck and he said they're like cattle.
They've got them all pressed together.
You can't breathe.
You smell like shit and you're smothered and it's all these other like concentration camp victims.
And you're in there and it's the worst like worst – Like place you could ever be in your life, like mentally, physically, and you're going over this and you're thinking I'm going to die.
I'm going over this bridge and we're going to the death camp.
But they made like a right turn to go to the work camp for two weeks and there was like a cheer.
In the truck, like in the car, the train car, that was like the greatest feeling in the world because they had two more weeks to live.
Like they weren't going to die.
And he said it's amazing that like you can be in that shitty of a position in your life but experience – have that like elation that's so high.
And it's kind of Buddhist about like living the moment.
I mean you're in a horrible, horrible place but you can have these levels of like – Like, fuck, that was, like, fucking amazing.
I just fucking, like, you remember the high highs of your life, and one of them was at the lowest point of your life.
Yeah, it's a fucking amazing book.
Did you look it up?
Is it Victor Hugo?
No.
joe rogan
I don't know.
eddie ifft
I can't remember his name.
It's called Man's Search for Meaning.
It's an old book, a famous book.
joe rogan
It is a weird question when you try to figure out what are you here for?
What is meaning?
If the human mind looks at the future and figures out that there's a certain amount of time left, there's only a certain amount of time left if you're to believe that this world is real.
You really have a finite time as you.
eddie ifft
If you believe this world is real.
It's funny you say that because I had lunch with my sister the other day who's very intelligent.
She's a partner in like the biggest law firm and we started talking about it and we disagree on a lot.
Like she's actually – she still believes in God and all this stuff and I said something about if you believe this world is real and she kind of gave the Descartes, I think therefore I am and I'm like … How does he know he was fucking thinking?
You know, like, how does he know?
joe rogan
Well, it becomes entirely more possible as technology increases to envision a world some point in the future where it's going to be possible to recreate reality in an indistinguishable form.
And it may have already happened.
We may be in it right now.
And that may be one of the reasons why life is so ridiculous is because sometimes, like in a lot of movies, there's some shitty writing.
And in this movie, there's a dude named Weiner who likes to pull his dick out and show it to girls on the internet.
He just happens to be a senator.
Or John Edwards.
What, your wife's got cancer?
Why don't you go fuck another chick and shoot a load inside of her?
That would be good for your presidential aspirations.
This is real.
John Edwards, not only that, he's on trial right now.
Following his trial.
They want to put that guy in jail.
He almost became the president.
He had a real good shot at being the vice president with Obama.
eddie ifft
Yeah, he did look like the all-American kind of...
joe rogan
He's a liberal.
He's an intelligent guy.
He's a lawyer.
He fucking looks great.
But he fucked around.
eddie ifft
But he was bagging his camera woman.
joe rogan
Tripped over his own dick.
Yeah, and apparently what happened wasn't just that.
That's not why he's in trouble.
Why he's in trouble is because of his campaign finances.
He apparently used some of the money to finance her living and him hiding her.
So that's what he's being accused of.
eddie ifft
It's amazing.
It's amazing as...
As scandalous or not scandalous but as corrupt as campaign financing is, that they'll go after him.
joe rogan
Well, I think they wanted to make a point.
eddie ifft
That's like going after a guy for stealing money from a drug dealer.
joe rogan
Right, that's funny.
eddie ifft
The money's so shitty in campaign financing, the way it's coming in and how illegal and how all these corporations are financing campaigns.
It's the fundamental problem with America.
joe rogan
You're right, but in this instance, one of the things about it is there's two very specific wealthy donors that he had courted.
And so it was really like he robbed them of Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He knew that his campaign was going to fall apart because he knew that his...
eddie ifft
I understand, but those fuckers are buying influence.
So that's what you get.
You know, you're...
joe rogan
Maybe one of them is a wealthy individual, is a woman.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but like if you saw the guy that was financing Newt's campaign or Santorum's campaign, these are just egomaniac fucking rich people, super, super, super rich, that have done everything and it's on their bucket list.
And then they also have ideals like, you know, I think the world should be run like this, so I'm going to put money in the pocket of a politician, you know, with these super PACs now and the way they do it.
And they go...
They're buying influence.
Politicians – I just read a great book, Lawrence Lessig, Republic Lost, and I've felt this way for years because I traveled all over the world doing comedy and every country I went to, everybody yelled at me about America.
Like every single green room of every comedy club, no matter where I went, it was like I was the representative for America and everybody wanted to fucking yell at me about my country and there was a lot I see wrong with America, a ton.
But at a certain point, I started snapping.
I'd be like, fuck off!
Fuck off!
Do you buy Coca-Cola?
Well, Coca-Cola pays for the politicians to get elected.
So stop drinking Coke and then you can come bitch at me.
Like, if you're putting money in the corporation's pockets, you're paying for these politicians to make the decisions.
joe rogan
Yeah, and most people are born into a system that they have no control of.
And to blame us for what's going on with the military-industrial complex.
I had a joke in my first album about it.
English people saying, you're responsible for this, you're responsible for that.
I go, well, me?
I don't even vote.
I steal cable.
You're not talking about me.
I'm just a dude who got shat out of a vagina some odd years ago, and here I am, and now we're talking.
I'm responsible for this crazy fucking machine, and I can't fix it either.
I'm 24 years old.
Go fuck yourself.
But there is that feeling when you go places and you feel like...
eddie ifft
I ended up making a documentary film about it called America the Punchline.
About how everywhere I was going, comedians, I'd be in Hong Kong, I'd be in Dubai, I'd be in South Africa.
They're all fucking making fun of America.
joe rogan
I always apologize.
I always apologize and say that I come to you from America.
I come to you from the balls of the dick that's fucking the world.
That's where I live.
eddie ifft
And that's a very common thing for American comedians to apologize because it's that...
joe rogan
You have to.
eddie ifft
You get there and...
I used to go on stage in England like back around 2003, 2004. I would walk on stage and they'd go, the next comedian's an American.
And I would do it for fun.
I'd tell him, he'd go, what do you want as your intro?
I'd go, just say I'm American.
And they'd go, the next comedian's American.
unidentified
Boo!
eddie ifft
The whole crowd would boo.
Wow.
Before they saw my act, I'm like, now I'm used to it after I go on.
joe rogan
So you did this on purpose, and would you go up and just explain?
eddie ifft
I would do it.
No, no, no.
In the beginning, I would apologize.
Like, when I first started going to England and all over the world, I would apologize.
And then I got to the point where I'm like...
I knew where I could stand and I liked that I just roped them in on it.
Like, you just booed me.
Now I'm able to come after you.
Because it was funny.
I wasn't doing well over there when I would be like, oh, I'm sorry.
But when I'd be like, really?
Who's our ally?
How are you pointing the finger at us when you're fucking right there with us?
joe rogan
But even that, I mean, you're talking about, well, really, man?
unidentified
You think Triple H doesn't work for the alliance?
joe rogan
I'll tell you what, you're talking nonsense.
I mean, even saying that, I don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Do you know what they're doing?
Who's allies?
What does that even mean?
What's involved in this alliance?
eddie ifft
Where are the lines?
I just was watching yesterday, they're saying Pakistan and Afghanistan are about, they might go to war with Egypt.
joe rogan
Well, there was a theory that someone said to me.
It was Duncan.
Duncan Trussell said there's a theory.
I believe he was quoting it, but what it was was that the idea is that as the world falls apart, really, it's your own reality that's falling apart.
It's just the reality of the world is that it's really a piece of your imagination and that as the world gets more and more chaotic and we move closer to the end of the Mayan calendar and there's nuclear war is a threat in the back.
What all that really is, Fukushima's meltdown, the pollution in the oceans.
It is really your own reality of your temporary existence in this plane is coming to an end.
eddie ifft
I believe that too, sort of.
joe rogan
Maybe.
I mean that's what we were talking about earlier.
We were talking about whether or not life really is a work of fiction.
I mean, I wouldn't say that I believe it, but I don't not believe it.
eddie ifft
Yeah, that's what I said, because I don't know what I know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, I get a lot of shit about these crazy what-if scenarios where you stop and think about it, and you're like, what if this?
And what if this is artificial?
But at a certain point in time, we know that's going to happen.
If you look at what you see now, just look at the fact that I can get on this laptop...
And I can just watch movies, and I can interact with people, exchange information, and the graphics are incredible, and the photos are high definition.
This is just one step in a process that is not gonna stop unless resources run out and we all wind up being fucking zombies and cannibals.
I mean, this is really the only way.
Civilization is gonna have to fall apart for us to lose our obsession with the direction the technology's moving.
There's never gonna be a time where we go, you know what?
We have enough technology, we're cool with this.
What we have to do is clean up our mess.
unidentified
No!
eddie ifft
But there also could be the chance of a solar flare or something that just wipes it all out where then the Earth starts over again.
Like Ice Age or something where we start from ground one again where we start...
joe rogan
Super possible.
eddie ifft
And you think about if we evolve from...
Not if we evolve, but as we evolve from apes or where apes came from, originally what they came from.
And that whole millions and millions of year process that has to start all over again and they might not get...
How do we even know if we have gotten the furthest along?
joe rogan
You know what's really fucked up, man, when you look at those pictures of what we evolved from?
You know, Australopithecus and all these dudes that lived like a million years ago.
That's not that long ago.
It's amazing that it go from a million years to today, and look how much different we look than every other ape.
Like, one ape started standing up, and by the way, there wasn't just one of us.
There was a gang of us, different species, a lot of them that never made it, like the Flores, the Hobbit man that they found recently, that as recently as, I think it was 10,000 years ago, they were living, coinciding with human beings.
eddie ifft
What's the Hobbit man?
joe rogan
They're little Hobbit people, little tiny people.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
A tiny race of human beings on an island Are they maybe like what dwarves are today?
No, no, no.
They're tiny people.
They're in proportion.
A dwarf, the idea is that it's a genetic anomaly in their body.
They have short arms and a large head.
eddie ifft
We had, on Talkin' Shit, my podcast the other night, we had...
joe rogan
I think it's dwarves.
No, midgets.
eddie ifft
Are you not allowed to say midgets?
No, they explained it.
As our guest, I had three dwarves.
joe rogan
Is a dwarf a proportionate person who's very tiny?
eddie ifft
No.
joe rogan
Which one is the proportionate that's very tiny?
eddie ifft
There's so many different types of it.
That they were explaining all their types like Tanya Lee Davis and Nick Novicki and Brad Williams were all on the show and they were all explaining that they all had – I think the three of them had three different types of dwarfism and then they talked about if they were to have sex and have a child, like there's a 25 percent chance that it could acquire – like that – and they know all this because they go to like the Little People of America convention which I went to this year which is fucking amazing.
And they study all this stuff and they know like – I think they've isolated the gene that causes dwarfism and they know what it is and they – through like gene therapy and everything – not gene therapy or whatever they do like stem cell or whatever, they might be able to prevent it from happening in the future.
joe rogan
But they can't reverse it.
eddie ifft
No, they can't reverse it but they might be able to prevent it from happening and I think a lot of dwarves were upset about this saying like – You're going to kill our species.
Yeah!
brian redban
Can they just make them sexy or can they just modify the gene to make like sexy dwarfs?
Because I think if they did it right, it would be cool.
eddie ifft
Well, I have a friend in Australia, this guy Iman, who is 41 pounds.
And he's full grown.
And he is the smallest man you'll ever see.
And he's a stand-up comedian.
And he is fucking tiny.
And he has a thing, I think it's called Rima disorder, if I'm right.
And the only other person in the world that has it is his sister.
And her name's Rima.
And he just looks like a miniature person.
Like everything's proportionate.
Everything.
Even his cock.
How do you know?
No, he claims it's big.
How tall is he?
brian redban
Backpedal.
joe rogan
Two feet?
eddie ifft
I would say...
He's about up to your thigh.
Midway up your thigh.
joe rogan
Wow, that's crazy.
eddie ifft
And he's tiny.
He's a funny comedian.
Really funny.
joe rogan
Really?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hilarious.
And I've gotten him wasted, which is fun.
joe rogan
How much can he drink?
brian redban
He can't have one wine cooler.
eddie ifft
He smokes pot like a fiend.
Like a fiend and drinks...
I saw him one night probably have six gin and tonics.
And he's got long hair too, which is funky.
And I had to hold his hair because he was puking outside.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's a classic.
eddie ifft
I ended up carrying him about 20 blocks home.
You carried him 20 blocks?
Like a baby.
unidentified
No, you didn't.
eddie ifft
I had to carry him in my arms like a baby.
joe rogan
That's a good CrossFit.
That's like a farmer walk.
unidentified
That's a good CrossFit exercise.
joe rogan
Did you do it like a sandbag?
Did you get him in a gable grip?
brian redban
No.
eddie ifft
First I had him on my shoulder like a parrot.
joe rogan
You get him in the guillotine grip.
It's an odd grip.
It's like this.
You got a palm outward and the other one inward.
It's really good for guillotines.
eddie ifft
And then I just took him back to my house and I let him pass out on my couch because he was just so fucked up and he What I had to get home.
And I was like, you know, you don't want like a stumbling dwarf walking around the street.
joe rogan
What is he technically?
He's not a dwarf, right?
eddie ifft
He has this thing called Rima disorder.
joe rogan
Right.
But what I'm getting at is...
eddie ifft
Oh, they don't like the word midget.
joe rogan
They don't like the word midget.
eddie ifft
They hate the word midget because...
joe rogan
But it used to be that there was like midgets and dwarves, and they were two different things.
eddie ifft
Midget comes from the word midge or something, which is an insect.
So you're calling them an insect.
And they also don't like it because their whole lives, they've been identified as, look at the midget.
And so it's not like...
joe rogan
It just seems so weird that the name change is going to change anything.
Isn't it really the intent with...
eddie ifft
I agree, but I think it's like when you look at...
Cracker, the word cracker doesn't hurt anyone.
Nobody's ever gone...
I'm one for – like I say on stage, I say absolutely every word I could possibly think of.
I have a joke about him.
I go, my best friend is a midget.
He's a real life dude and he hates the word midget.
He says that's the most offensive thing you can call a little person and I'm like, what about nigger midget?
And that's a lot more offensive because it's not like your people are enslaved except in The Wizard of Oz.
They, like, I understand where they're coming from their whole life.
Because I've been with them.
joe rogan
I feel like you've got to just give it to them just because they've got dealt a shitty hand.
If that's going to make you happier that we won't say midget, then I won't say midget.
You owe them that.
eddie ifft
I've walked down the street with them and it's amazing.
When you're with a black person, people aren't pointing at this day and age, yelling, look at the N-word.
But when you're with a little person, people fucking point and yell.
joe rogan
Do you watch Game of Thrones?
eddie ifft
No, everyone's telling me I have to.
joe rogan
That one little dude who's on the...
I don't know his name.
I should probably look it up.
He's a good actor.
Fucking brilliant.
He steals the show.
That show's goddamn good.
eddie ifft
Is that the famous little guy?
Dinklage or Peter...
brian redban
Yeah, he just won something like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's really good.
eddie ifft
Yeah, he's a great actor.
joe rogan
He's the best actor in the show.
eddie ifft
Well, Nick, who was on our podcast the other night, is in Boardwalk Empire.
He's the fighter.
Do you know Nick?
Nick Novicki?
brian redban
No.
I thought you said Lipnick before.
unidentified
No.
eddie ifft
He's kind of a midget.
brian redban
No.
eddie ifft
Isn't he your buddy?
brian redban
Yeah.
My buddy.
I had him on a podcast once.
joe rogan
You're just tight?
brian redban
No.
John Heffron's buddy.
eddie ifft
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He chokes Heffron, apparently.
brian redban
You know, I would do jiu-jitsu.
I'm kind of with you on that and a couple other reasons, but I would do jiu-jitsu if somebody like Ronda Rosie...
I took like five other of the hottest girls and it's just like you have to choose one of these girls every day you get to choose kind of like you know like like the bunny ranch and then you choose which one you want and it's no gi and you they'll teach you jiu-jitsu I would do it that way teach you yeah but listen I've wrestled you up I've wrestled women if you're just training if they're just being teachers I wrestled two girls in a jello I wrestled two girls in a jello wrestling contest for a radio promotion and And I said to the girls beforehand,
eddie ifft
I go, hey...
And these weren't UFC girls.
They're just girls.
And I go, hey, let's take it easy.
No one needs to get hurt here.
Like, I know I can't fucking beat the shit out of them.
Everybody's going to be like, you're an asshole.
So I know they're just going to club the shit out of me.
So I'm like, I had watched during the Jell-O wrestling.
I was the only guy in it.
It was all chicks and me.
And the round before me...
It was just like one of those inflatable pools.
The bottom of the pool was just on cement.
So they're wrestling on a piece of nylon over cement.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
eddie ifft
And I watch this girl pick up a girl, slam her, and her jaw hits the ground, and I hear the girl go, I think I broke my jaw!
And I'm like, this is fucking...
And then I'm going in next, and the girls are taunting me, and they're going, we're going to kick your ass.
joe rogan
This is after the girl broke her jaw?
eddie ifft
If you Google Eddie Ift Jello Wrestling, you can watch...
So the girls are fucking...
Beating the fuck out of me.
I had scratches and blood coming off.
And I'm going, calm the fuck down.
This is a show.
And they're gouging at me.
So finally, I just was like, alright, that's it.
So I thought, what can I do?
I can't fucking hurt them.
So I just started pulling off their bikini tops and bottoms.
And I was like, at least that's where they'll become defensive.
So if I just start showing their titties to everybody, I win, I look like the good guy, the crowd likes me, and sure enough, I accidentally fingered one of them, I think.
unidentified
One of the chicks you can watch, I pick her up and body slam her, and you just hear her go, I broke my fucking nose!
eddie ifft
You blood everywhere.
joe rogan
You body slammed her and she broke her nose?
eddie ifft
They were beating the fuck out of me.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Oh my god, dude.
They're beating the shit out of you.
What is the name of this?
How will someone search this?
eddie ifft
I think it's on YouTube.
Eddie Ift Jello Wrestling.
joe rogan
Oh my god, dude.
dude they're trying to fuck you up so you weren't on the offense You were just being defensive here.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I gotta tell you, I think I could take these two bitches.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
But like, what do you do?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you got her bra.
Almost.
You know what, dude?
You tried to be gentlemanly even how you took off her bra.
unidentified
Oh shit.
joe rogan
Oh shit.
Oh, that bitch totally broke her nose.
And she's laughing about it.
What a psycho.
Oh my god, that chick's a psycho.
eddie ifft
What do you do in that situation?
joe rogan
I don't do that.
I wouldn't do it.
I don't like me when I get mad.
brian redban
You tried a finger.
joe rogan
That sounded like the Hulk.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
I don't want to get physically...
I don't want to ever put myself in a position where I'm physical with a chick.
At all, like that?
eddie ifft
Me neither.
And like in high school one time, I had a girl, I beat up her brother.
And like it was a fair fight kind of thing.
I beat him up.
We did a fist fight, I won.
And she was older, like two years older, and she was like the biggest burnout, fucking hardcore.
Like crazy bitch in the school and everybody's like you're dead She came to get me and she beat me up in front of the whole high school Like she was just slapping me in the face and punch and I just had to sit there and take it And I just sat there and just took every punt like and just I just kept calling her a cunt There's this woman there's this woman who was a lesbian and she was also Like a really high level taekwondo player.
joe rogan
She was she'd fought a lot of national tournaments placed she had been a She was very good.
And she was in the class, and she had this hard-on for men.
Especially men that weren't as good as her.
She would beat the fuck out of them.
She beat the fuck out of Steve.
You know Steve Graham?
Remember Steve?
My buddy Steve?
Beat the fuck out of Steve.
And then I had to go with her next.
And the only reason why my instructor paired me up with her was to punish her.
Because she shouldn't have been going with me.
That was when I was like...
I was a U.S. Open champion, four-time Massachusetts state champion, and I was a man.
And I was just a lot faster and stronger and bigger.
And she fucking attacked me!
She screamed.
It was sparring, okay?
This is not a fight.
This is sparring.
And she screamed and just charged at me.
And I put a whooping on this bitch.
I never usually beat girls up, but I put a beating on that girl.
I didn't hit her in her face.
I only hit her in her body, but I clowned her.
I would do things to her that I knew she couldn't do to me.
I would double kick her.
I would kick her with my left foot and then kick her with my right foot at the same time.
To stand right in front of her.
I just did a bunch of shit that she couldn't do to me.
eddie ifft
Because you're at such a disadvantage.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like, I've always thought about...
Yeah, it was all wrong.
But you're at a disadvantage.
eddie ifft
Yeah, because, like, I've seen that where girls want to enter, like, that kind of sport.
And I'm all for women playing sports.
If you're an equal, that's fine.
But in a sport like this, there's a cultural exchange there that makes it, like...
Like football.
When a girl wants to play football, how do you feel about it?
It's like girls in the military.
joe rogan
Well, let me explain it to you when it comes to martial arts.
It's real simple.
You don't take advantage of anybody that's below you.
You try to be as nice as possible to the underclass.
Occasionally, when you're sparring, especially with contact, like kicking and punching, someone gets knocked out.
But you don't ever try to knock out someone who's a lower rank than you.
You always try to control yourself.
Shit happens sometimes when people run into things or you catch someone funny and you didn't know you were going to knock them out and they go unconscious.
That would happen.
But you should never do it on purpose.
And when someone who's a black belt, like this woman was, went after this guy who had like fucking 20 knee surgeries, can't move that good.
And he's not, you know, he's only a green belt.
He's just starting out.
And she went and attacked him like it was a goddamn street fight.
There's a level of aggression that people sometimes...
We'll take out on people in sparring.
The only reason they do it is because they can.
It's just bullying.
That's all it is.
It's straight bullying.
She would go after guys and beat the shit out of them.
But I see her spar women.
Nothing like that, man.
When she would spar women, she would take it easy on them.
She would pull her punches and kicks.
She was trying to knock guys out.
There was a real aggression to it.
She charged after me, man.
I screamed at me.
I was like 19. When I was 19, I was half crazy.
And I was not taking it from some bitch.
I put a beating on this chick.
I stomped her in the chest.
I remember not knowing how to hit her so that it was more of a push than a kick, but just to let her know what's up.
I launched her through the air and she skid on her butt and then I chased her down and then stood over.
And then I let her get back up and then I just started beating on her.
I'll never forget this because it was a real moment in my life where I said, I am not going to hurt her.
I am not going to hurt her.
Because my instincts were to knock her unconscious.
My instincts were to kick her in the face.
I was like, I'm going to kick this bitch in the face.
But I can't.
There's no way you can do that.
So it was a battle.
Because I was in a fight with a woman, essentially.
eddie ifft
Because if it was a guy and he took advantage of another guy like that, that's your thought.
I'm going to knock this guy out.
I'm going to kick him in the face.
He deserves this.
But then you go, I have to make a concession here because this is a woman.
So you have to like...
joe rogan
There were times in the gym where it just became all-out fights.
There was two times that I can really remember.
One of them, unfortunately, was when we had concrete floors.
We only had office carpeting over concrete floors, and we would spar full contact.
This is no bullshit.
And this was a hardcore fucking school.
We would fight in these Taekwondo tournaments, and they were scary, but the training was scarier than the fucking fights.
Because at least the training, you know, you would be with your friends.
eddie ifft
Sounds like Fight Club.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know all their shit, and they're all preparing, and you're gonna have to fight them four, five, six times.
When you're fighting, you're probably gonna fight someone who's not as good as your training partners, and you're not gonna have to fight as many times.
It was way easier.
But new guys would come in all the time, and it would wind up being just a brawl.
That's all it was.
I mean, I can't remember how many times we had to drive people to the hospital after we fucked them up because we would get in these situations where a guy would come in from another school and they usually weren't that good, you know, and they would get cocky or insulin and the instructor would let them join class.
Like, go ahead.
Would you like to join our class?
We can have the first class for free.
And we know we were just supposed to beat the fuck out of this guy.
So it was like, it was completely irresponsible.
Yeah.
But that's how it was handled.
When anybody was out of line and they came to the school, it wound up being a street fight.
And on concrete.
It was just a thin office carpet on concrete.
So this is how I essentially grew up.
From age 15 to 21, that's all I did.
So when some chick is screaming at me, chasing after me, like she's going to attack me after I watch her just beat up my friend, that was not happening.
But it was a milestone for me where I was able to not hurt her.
I was like 20 pounds heavier than her.
It was totally unfair.
But I was able to not hurt her.
Very important.
eddie ifft
Well, I was – I don't know if it was the night we did your show but I was at a comedy club one night and afterwards there was an argument.
I was – I had headlined there or something.
There was an argument about – Buying drinks or something and a couple had argued with a waitress and the women were fighting.
The girl that didn't want to pay her bill was arguing with the waitress at the comedy club and they were screaming, yelling at each other.
It pours out kind of into the street and a waiter stands up for the waitress, this black dude standing up for the waitress going, hey, you need to back off, blah, blah, blah.
And so then her husband So it's the black guy and the husband who's a Mexican dude.
So black guy, Mexican dude, and the Mexican guy's wife is standing behind him.
And they're arguing and they're about – it's escalating into a fight.
And you can tell the Mexican dude does not want to fight.
But he's standing his ground but he doesn't want to fight.
You know when two guys are going – and the black dude is like, yo, get the fuck out of here.
Pay your bill.
Get the fuck out.
Blah, blah, blah.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
A lot of fuck yous.
You don't want to fight.
But you can tell no one really wants to fight.
His wife comes over the shoulder and punches the black dude from the comedy club that works there in the face.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
eddie ifft
And I see the whole thing and I thought to myself, I've never...
That dumb bitch.
And...
What I thought should've happened right there is the black dude and the Mexican dude should've high-fived and beat the shit out of his wife.
Because she just got two guys in a fight who...
joe rogan
One guy didn't want to fight and probably was gonna get his ass kicked.
eddie ifft
Yeah, her husband didn't want to fight.
The black dude just wanted to break up, and now they have to fight each other, which they did.
And by the way, the black dude got a good punch in on her, too.
joe rogan
Really?
eddie ifft
Because she hit him.
He hit her right back.
He hit both of them, as he should.
Cops show up, and they're like, what happened?
I'm like, take her.
Take her.
There's your problem.
joe rogan
I had an ex-girlfriend take a swing at me once.
eddie ifft
That's assault.
joe rogan
Have you ever had an ex-girlfriend?
eddie ifft
Oh yeah, I've had a couple.
joe rogan
That's the darkest moment ever when you really, oh my god, someone is fucking punching me.
A girl punched me on a set once too.
She didn't quite catch me.
I put my hand up just in time.
I was doing this show.
It was for Merv Griffin.
It was a law show, like a courtroom show.
We were going to call it Rogan's Law.
It was like, I wasn't really a judge, but I would decide your cases.
It's been done since then.
I think Paul Mooney did it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, it's not.
eddie ifft
No, no.
joe rogan
Adolm Arrera does it.
eddie ifft
Comedy court.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
And then someone else did it, too.
There was another one.
I don't remember who the other comic was, too.
But anyway, it's a funny idea.
It could have been fun.
But they had a bailiff or whatever it was, a court reporter.
And she was this chick, professional hot chick.
A little worn out, a little weathered.
Not a bad girl, but was partying fucking hard.
I mean, just redlining it.
And she was one of those girls that would come over and she would flirt with all the writers.
I mean, she hadn't really done anything yet.
She had a star on her back.
And I go, why do you have a star?
She goes, self-fulfilling prophecy.
She actually said that.
I mean, you say, whoa, man, but that's how a lot of actors think.
And I tell you, before I had children, I looked at it completely differently.
Because I used to look at it and go, look at this fucking crazy bitch with a fucking self-fulfilling prophecy.
I would go aggro with it, right?
But now I look at it and I see a little kid that was just raised all fucked up.
She was only like 29 or 30 years old or something like that.
And she looked like she was closing in on 40. She looked 10 years older than her age.
And she was just hitting it hard.
And she probably was a great girl.
She probably wasn't bad.
They all need love or something.
They're all broken and damaged.
They're all little children that just didn't get enough attention.
eddie ifft
They should change the Hollywood sign to Daddy Didn't Love Me.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's true.
That's my problem.
So anyway, she goes out the night before we have to film.
And I don't know if she's nervous, because this is like the first thing that she's ever done, this pilot.
And she gets coked to the gills.
She stays up all night.
And she shows up in the morning to film with no sleep.
No sleep and crashing hard.
Crashing hard and going full psycho mode.
And, you know, I'm the one who's got to take these cases.
So they tell me what the subject of each case is, right?
Before I meet the people and they actually come up with the case, I sit down with a notepad and I start going, okay, these are real problems.
These people are like real issues.
It's like, you know, I have to really figure out what this is and what's funny about it.
And I'm trying to make it another...
So I'm sitting there writing.
It's like...
God, I'm so tense.
Joe, can you give me a massage?
Can you give me a massage?
I go, you don't even have to do anything.
You're just sitting there.
I go, you don't have to worry about it.
I go, don't be tense.
I go, I have to write all this stuff down.
I have to add lip.
I go, we're going to film in like two hours.
I really can't.
You fucking asshole!
You fucking asshole!
I just asked you to be nice!
unidentified
I just asked you to be nice and I'm fucking nervous!
joe rogan
And it was just complete 100% psycho.
She just did not have any connection with reality.
There was no rational response to the way the conversation was going.
If someone says, can I have a massage?
You know, and then you tell them that you're working.
They should be like, oh, okay, sorry.
What am I doing asking you for a massage?
You should laugh about it.
Like, silly me.
You're the one who needs it.
I'll get somebody else to rub my back.
Don't worry about it.
But it was like this weird thing where she wanted attention.
She wanted, like, sexual attention.
She wanted to be attractive.
She wanted someone to dote on her so that she would feel better.
But she was just whacked out from the coke.
Or whatever the fuck she was doing.
Meth or whatever it was.
But she was clearly up all night.
And she was with her friend.
And her friend just had this thousand yard stare.
This just lost look in her eye.
Like you know like these bitches had just been to nom and came back with their shoes in their hands barefoot walking through the parking lot Looking to take a hooker bath in the dressing room sink and I'm not bullshitting So she's like throwing makeup on but she's super frustrated because she's got heavy bags under eyes She's just gacked out of her head.
And so they wound up using a girl who was an extra.
They fired her She took a swing at me.
That's what I didn't get right like yeah, she took a swing at me when you when you said no I I said, well, I was like, what are you talking about?
I go, you're acting crazy.
I go, we're about to film this thing.
I go, why are you demanding so much attention from me?
I go, please.
And she fucking just hauled back.
And I'm like, no, this bitch is not hitting me right now.
And like halfway in, I'm like, dude, you better get your fucking hand up.
She's going to hit you in the face.
eddie ifft
Full swing.
joe rogan
Yeah, full swing.
Yeah, she took a swing at me, man.
And I caught it like...
Last minute I was like, oh my god, you're hitting me?
eddie ifft
Really?
I don't understand that because that's fucking assault.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I said to her.
I was like, which made her even more.
I go, excuse me, that's illegal.
I go, that's assault.
You can go to jail for that.
You shouldn't be hitting people.
You know, look, man, a man should certainly not hit a woman by any stretch of the imagination.
eddie ifft
But a woman shouldn't hit a man.
joe rogan
Exactly.
And men shouldn't hit men.
But women, you're hitting a man.
You're crazy.
That's like if I went over and punched a monkey or a gorilla or something like that.
That thing would kill you.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you doing?
You're going to hit a man?
eddie ifft
I just saw something.
Somebody said, those bumper stickers, there's never an excuse for a man to hit a woman.
And it's like, there's never an excuse for anyone to hit anyone.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
Unless you're self-defense.
Unless you're trying to save your life or your consciousness or stop someone from beating somebody else up.
But yeah, I mean, a girl doing that to me is like me going up to Alistair over him and punching him.
eddie ifft
How would I do that?
joe rogan
He's going to fucking kill me.
eddie ifft
I had a girlfriend punch me while I was in bed sleeping.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
unidentified
I've heard that.
Brian's all casual.
eddie ifft
I didn't pay for it though, right?
joe rogan
Brian's all like, whatever, whatever.
unidentified
I woke up with fists just wailing on me.
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, that's kind of what mine was.
I kicked a girl like she was living with me.
I kicked her out.
I was like...
She was just...
She was like out all night doing coke and not coming home and shit like that.
And I go, just fucking move.
Just get your shit out of...
So I come home one night and her dog has shit all over my house.
Like everywhere.
And I go, and she was supposed to be home.
She just stayed out all night.
Like I was out.
I come back and her dog has shit all over my house.
And she didn't like, and I go, that's it.
unidentified
That's it.
eddie ifft
And she was hot.
She was super hot.
She was a stripper.
And it was my fault.
I know.
You know, like, you know.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
It sounds perfect.
eddie ifft
I know, but I mean.
joe rogan
Everything sounds like it's in place.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I'm like, you've got it all.
eddie ifft
When you date a stripper, it's like doing heroin.
The first time, it's like, oh, this is fucking amazing!
And then the next time, and your friends are all shaking their heads going, dude, you don't want to do this.
It always ends up ugly.
And you're like, no, no, no, this one's different.
This one's different.
joe rogan
I've dated strippers that turn out to be very nice girls.
eddie ifft
I have, for real.
And I'm friends with some girls that are dancers, but this one was fucking the psycho.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of psychos out there.
eddie ifft
So I go, you gotta go, you gotta get out.
And I called her on the phone, I go, I'm putting your shit outside my house.
And just come and get it and go.
She didn't have a lot of stuff.
I was like, just come get your stuff and go somewhere and go.
joe rogan
See, that's what you fucked up.
Because you made her come to you.
You should never do that.
What you're supposed to do is have it brought to her by the blackest dude you know.
eddie ifft
Yeah, and I didn't realize that.
joe rogan
The biggest?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Whatever you know, if you don't get a black dude, a Samoan will do.
Angry looking Samoan.
Hopefully with some fucking visible tattoos near his neck.
eddie ifft
I... I came home and I was just like, fuck the dog and shit.
I was so mad.
I was like, but I didn't do it.
I didn't put her stuff outside.
But she came home and raged and I'm just in bed sleeping and she just starts wailing on me.
I go, what the fuck?
She goes, you're lucky.
She goes, I almost called the cops and told them you had a gun.
And I'm like, they would have taken me to jail.
Like, how crazy are you?
And funny thing is, I broke up with her since, like, years ago.
And I just Googled her to see what's going on.
The only thing I could find is that she was arrested for assault.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
eddie ifft
And I'm like, some other dude got it.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, some people grow up thinking it's okay to hit people.
Especially in the household, if they see their mom and their dad beating each other up, they grow up in that environment and they think that that's how relationships are.
You get mad at someone, you lash out at them like a child.
I've only had one girlfriend do it, but she didn't really do it.
She kind of half-heartedly did it.
She just was mad at me and she was young.
We were both young.
She was like 20, I was like 21. She sort of took a swing at me, kind of.
I ducked under it.
eddie ifft
I had a girl kick me.
I think I've called a girl a cunt to her face only a couple times in my life.
In New York, I'm getting a taxi one night.
joe rogan
That's not living, idiot.
Unless you have too many to count.
eddie ifft
I said to their face.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
That doesn't mean anything.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
eddie ifft
I'm standing on the street in New York City.
It's 5 in the morning.
I've just come out of a bar.
I've been drinking all night.
And I hail a cab.
And you know how sometimes you'll be standing there and somebody else has been waiting longer than you, but they're down the street a bit?
joe rogan
Right.
eddie ifft
I'm waiting.
I hail this cab and it stops for me.
So I open the door but she sees it stop for me and she's been waiting.
She comes running up the street to where I am and she's like screaming.
So I like stop and look and she pulls back and she's got on those fucking New York City fuck me boots, you know, that they all wear the black leather high, you know, like like knee-high boots.
She pulls back And kicks me in the shin as hard as she can and it felt like a chip of my bone came out of my shin.
And I just looked at her and I went, you cunt!
And as cunt was coming out...
It didn't even get to fully come out because her right fucking hook hit me right in the face.
Like she punched me as I said, cunt.
And I'm like, you fucking psycho.
And I was so angry that I did not know what to do.
I look at her boyfriend and I go, and I look at her and I go, and I had like a bunch of dudes with me too.
I go, I'm going to beat the fuck out of him.
Right now, he's going to die because you did that.
I'm like, I'm going to fucking kill him.
I'm like, you're fucking dead, dude.
You're fucking dead.
And he just grabbed her.
He goes, come on, let's go.
Let's go.
Because I couldn't do anything to her.
joe rogan
Yeah, you could.
eddie ifft
I should have had her arrested.
joe rogan
You palm strike her right in the nose.
Just an open hand like this.
unidentified
Smack!
joe rogan
Just a good gorilla slap in the nose.
I was so mad.
I've had these conversations before with people.
There's some people that have this really black and white thing with women.
You cannot ever hit women.
That's crazy.
A woman will stab you.
A woman will kill you.
I know a dude who got killed by his wife.
Don't tell me you should.
Because guess what?
If a woman pulls a gun on you, you should punch her in the face if you can.
It's the way to save your life.
Of course you shouldn't go out of your way to do it.
And when I say that I've called a lot of women cunts, it's because I've lived, motherfucker.
I've been a goddamn stand-up comedian working in bars for 23 years.
You don't think I've run across a few dozen cunts?
eddie ifft
I don't count on stage.
joe rogan
I've called a million cunts.
But for some people, I get accused sometimes of being a misogynist because I'm just honest about it.
But no one loves women more than me.
My house is filled with women.
My daughters are all women.
I have women everywhere.
I have a girl cat.
I love women.
I just don't like...
I do.
My house is half pink.
But I don't like cunts.
I love women.
I love nice people.
I love nice men.
I don't like douchebags.
But it's a weird thing, and we've brought it up before, but it bears noting and repeating.
Why is it that if you have a problem with guys, nobody ever says you hate men?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
There's not even a – there is a word for it because I brought this up once.
I said there's no word.
I tried to write a joke about it.
I said there's a word for hating women misogynists but there's no word for hating men other than lesbian.
And like somebody – there is a word.
joe rogan
Whatever the word is, nobody knows it.
Yeah.
But the important thing is it's not respected.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
It's a weird thing.
It's like, women are allowed to, you're allowed to say things like that.
And weak dudes are allowed to say things too.
When a guy says you hate women, goddammit, that is one of my pet peeves.
Like, you fucking pussy.
You goddamn traitor.
What team are you on?
A guy gets in an argument with a cunt and you're like, I've seen it happen, man.
There was a guy who did it to me once.
We were at a club, okay?
This is bad.
And this is after a friend of mine had killed his best friend in a drunk driving accident.
When I was in high school, I don't want to say his name, Tim.
He lived right down the street from me, killed his buddy in a drunk driving accident.
It was devastating.
And I remember, I'll never forget, Tim and I, we lived in the same neighborhood, and I was walking down the street.
It was like a couple weeks after it happened.
He still had the marks all over his face.
He was walking up the street, and I was walking down the street.
And I looked at him and I said, what's up Tim?
He goes, what's up?
And he just walked past me and I, the fucking palpable feeling of sadness and regret and shame and horror.
And the story was, he was drunk and he crashed his car And the cops were standing over him when he woke up in the hospital.
And the cops said something like, congratulations.
And he goes, what?
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
And he goes, congratulations, you killed your friend.
You're a fucking murderer because you were drunk and you killed your friend.
So he tried to jump out the window.
And they grabbed him and stopped him from jumping out the window.
So this is right after this happened, okay?
I'm doing stand-up, and I'm on Martha's Vineyard, and there's people, not Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, and people down the Cape would get fucking hammered!
And it was me and a couple other dudes, and one of them is this guy who was not a very funny guy, but he was like one of those guys that was always trying to be like, He was always trying to pick women's sides on everything.
Oh, that guy.
He was like super captain left-wing liberal, right?
And these girls are heckling the show, and they're hammered.
They're fucking hammered.
And we're outside, and we've done our gig.
The gig was a hell gig.
It was terrible.
There was a hockey game going on.
They refused to turn the game off.
Instead, they just turned the volume down.
So the hockey game's on, and people, every couple minutes, oh!
They would yell for the hockey game.
It was just one of those gigs that you had to do when you were young.
These girls are outside, and they are about to get in their car, and they're fucking sloshed, and I am so angry.
I'm so angry, because I'm just thinking about my friend Timmy walking up the street, and I'm like, what the fuck?
And I go, look at these fucking drunk pigs.
I go, it's not bad enough that you gotta heckle at a comedy show and scream and yell and ruin everybody's night.
Now you're gonna go drunk drive, you fucking pig.
And they were just fat, sloppy, and gross, and just mutants.
And this guy turns to me and goes, hey man, I don't appreciate you talking about women like that.
I go, I'm not talking about all women, you dumb fuck.
I'm talking about these drunk pigs.
I go, if those were guys, would I be allowed to, Captain Vagina, would I be allowed to call them pigs?
eddie ifft
The fuck?
joe rogan
Of course I would.
These are cunt humans.
These are cunt humans.
eddie ifft
They're fucking five guys walking down the street in Ku Klux Klan outfits.
joe rogan
He confronted me with it.
I really don't appreciate you talking about women like that.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've been in that argument a million times.
joe rogan
But Boston had a lot of that, man.
There was a lot of, like, ridiculous...
eddie ifft
I always feel like that guy, that type of guy that tries to get laid...
He can't get laid!
joe rogan
That's the problem!
eddie ifft
No, but that's his thing.
joe rogan
Of course it is!
eddie ifft
And he thinks that's his angle into it.
joe rogan
Exactly.
eddie ifft
So he's just as bad as anyone?
Like, it's his...
It's fucked up.
He's a traitor!
joe rogan
What I said earlier is really true.
A guy who tells you that is a traitor.
That's what he is.
He's selling out his gender for a couple brownie points with women so he could be close to them.
Mrs., can I sit by the fire?
You've been such a good boy.
Sit by the fire.
Thank you, my lord.
eddie ifft
Thank you.
joe rogan
He just wants to be close and get scraps from the table.
That's a guy who's never gorilla fucked a girl.
He's never ripped a girl's panties off or stuffed her into the corner of a couch and sweat on her.
When you're fucking her so hard, you're dripping sweat off your chest under her face.
brian redban
Mine collects in my chest hair and she puts her hands through it.
joe rogan
That too, son.
You gotta get some furious fucking going on to achieve those kind of levels of...
Of cool off, sweat, whatever.
Some dudes just, they're born in this crazy life with a weak hand.
Everything's weak.
Their parents are weak.
Their genetics are weak.
Their situations are weak.
Their outlook's weak.
Their character is weak.
Their discipline is weak.
They don't accomplish what they want.
They don't have the courage to go after what they want to achieve.
They don't ever become the man they wish they could be.
So all they do along the way is try to define the boundaries for everybody else and tell everybody else how they should think and should not behave.
And the guys that they hide behind, unfortunately, is a good one.
The guys that you should be a nice person.
It shouldn't be an asshole who hates women.
I mean, I've been around people that hate women.
It's an ugly, ugly thing.
When you hate all women, that's a really gross thing.
I don't like that at all.
eddie ifft
We've got a lot of those fans on our podcast.
joe rogan
I bet you do.
ONA has the most.
ONA used to have these fucking hater shows where they would do these comedy shows.
They booed Dom Irera in Philadelphia.
eddie ifft
I've seen that.
joe rogan
That's the famous one where Bill Burr went out and shit on Philadelphia for like 10 minutes.
eddie ifft
That was the best.
It's one of the greatest comedy performances of all time.
joe rogan
It really is.
And he keeps going back to the time, seven minutes and I'm doing all my time!
eddie ifft
The best line is when he makes fun of the Flyers, the Philadelphia Flyers for wearing slacks.
joe rogan
The best line is, fuck you and fuck the Liberty Bell.
Oh, that's fucking classic.
eddie ifft
I've had those shows where it's gone that wrong, and none of them have ever been close to as good as Bill Burr's, like what he did up there, because my rant will last...
I hate all of you.
I hope the fucking ceiling collapses like we're at the Indiana State Fair.
joe rogan
That's a dated reference, son.
Nobody remembers the Indiana State Fair.
eddie ifft
He kept going and going and going and going.
And it was like...
And he was pulling out every reference of every Philadelphia thing.
The bridge and the...
Rocky.
unidentified
He goes, you got real world champions here like Joe Frazier.
Who do you worship?
joe rogan
A fake guy from a fucking movie.
eddie ifft
Fucking amazing.
joe rogan
He killed it.
eddie ifft
I can't believe with how often comedians snap, there's not more videos of the snaps.
joe rogan
There's a lot of videos of snaps, man.
There's a lot.
There's a gang of heckler videos from me, man.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's one from last time I was up in Edmonton.
There's the River Cree.
There's one.
There's some chick.
She wouldn't sit down.
I think I fucked with her for 20 minutes.
It was ridiculous.
eddie ifft
Were you playing in the theater up there?
joe rogan
River Cree Casino?
eddie ifft
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, that place is great.
It's fun.
They do fights up there a lot, too.
There's a lot of MMA fans.
They have the MFCs up there.
eddie ifft
I've been to Edmonton a couple times.
joe rogan
They have these crazy shows.
They take pretty high-level talent.
A lot of those guys come up through there and wind up being UFC guys.
High-level guys.
So they have a good base of mixed martial arts fans up there, too.
eddie ifft
Or has China gotten into MMA at all?
joe rogan
Yes, they're getting into it now.
eddie ifft
Because the dude, the weightlifter, Sean Waxman, was telling us how China is – he's like, just wait until they get into CrossFit because he said Olympic weightlifting is massive.
He was claiming the Olympic weightlifting is like second to soccer around the world as a sport and it's just not recognized really in America.
It's not a big sport in America.
unidentified
Really?
eddie ifft
But around the world, it's massive.
Like in Russia – And China, China – well, there's two billion people in China and it's a fucking massive sport in China.
He's like, just wait until these fuckers get into CrossFit.
He's like, just wait because they're – and so I was thinking the same thing with MMA. I mean are they – do they have a history?
Because China also, the way they put money into a sport, they like pull you out of your life.
It's kind of like Russia used to.
And they're like, you are going to be a javelin thrower.
That's what you're going to do for the rest of you.
You are going to be known as a javelin thrower.
If they start doing the same kind of thing with MMA, where it's like they're taking young kids that look like they have the size, the build, the speed, everything, and going, alright, here we go.
Time to train you.
joe rogan
That doesn't always work, though.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
The funny thing is, it's like giving someone welfare.
A lot of times...
eddie ifft
You gotta have the drive yourself.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta...
Sometimes the guys who make it through having shitty jobs and getting to the top...
Anderson Silva worked at McDonald's.
You know what I mean?
There's something about that.
John Jones was a bouncer with a young girlfriend with a child.
You know what I'm saying?
That's why that dude gutted it up.
eddie ifft
Sounds like a warrior.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's true.
That's the real story.
John has two children.
And that's why he dropped out of college.
He was going to wrestle for Iowa.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but if you gave them more of a foundation as a young kid, let's say they had it as a kid, and they weren't pushed into it, but they were doing it a lot younger.
What age do kids start doing jiu-jitsu?
joe rogan
Some of them start really young.
Some start four or five.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
Somebody told me it's not good to have a kid do it because they don't have the cognitive ability.
joe rogan
My two-year-old and my four-year-old choke each other.
I teach them how to choke each other.
I teach them how to tap out.
Because they naturally start wrestling on the bed.
So while they're wrestling on the bed, I teach them, this is side control, and this is how you get out of the guard.
You don't want to be here, because he or she can control you.
I teach them really young.
So this is a part of their way their body's moving.
If you see my two-year-old and my four-year-old, they have jiu-jitsu matches.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
My two-year-old mounts her and my four-year-old hip escapes and she'll pull guard.
It's fucking pretty wild to see.
But it's just from showing them little natural moves.
I don't teach them how to finish each other, but they do anyway.
They choke each other, especially the two-year-old.
The two-year-old, she favors a Fedor Emelianenko-style rear naked choke where she grips like this and pulls it across the trach.
She likes to trach choke you.
She doesn't go for the jujitsu leverage one.
She goes for a real nasty catch lock sort of a choke.
eddie ifft
It's like Hefron with his cats.
joe rogan
It's natural.
It's natural that kids roll around and play together.
I just teach them how to get into better positions.
eddie ifft
That's another reason I wouldn't do jujitsu.
When I was a kid, when guys would wrestle in the pool, I hated that because I always had this fear.
I surf a lot, and when I get hold downs, it makes me go fucking...
I gotta go sit on the beach for a little bit.
joe rogan
What do you think about that guy that got killed recently?
eddie ifft
Scion?
joe rogan
In South Africa?
eddie ifft
Oh, the shark attack?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
I've surfed down there.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen sharks while you're surfing?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
The other day I was surfing, and I went to duck dive under a wave.
It was about four to six feet or something.
I go to duck dive.
And you duck dive, you dip your board below you so the wave doesn't catch it, and then you go kind of under the wave.
The wave's coming up on me in the face of the wave, and I just see a fucking giant fish shoot across in front of me.
So it's like a foot away from me, And all I can do is rather than like continue my duck dive, which would have been probably the smartest thing to do, I lifted like back, then thus like throwing me into a backflip.
Like the board me, fucking like board first, then my legs back over.
Boom, boom, boom, like getting held down.
joe rogan
What is a duck dive?
eddie ifft
You push the board under – the nose of the board under the wave and so that the wave goes over you and doesn't take you with it.
You actually don't take the force of the wave and you get through the wave and you end up on the other side.
This is on your paddle out.
joe rogan
Oh, I see.
I see.
I see.
eddie ifft
So as I'm about to duck dive through it, on the face of the wave, I see the fish go – How big?
joe rogan
How many feet?
eddie ifft
It must have been like four or five feet.
And I went...
joe rogan
Away from you or long?
eddie ifft
Long.
And I just went...
And went backwards.
And as I'm getting tumbled in the white water and going through the wash, I'm like, fuck, I'm getting held down, so no breath, and I'm like, fuck, trying to get to the surface so that I can start swimming as fast as I can.
And I pull up and I look back to see if I see a fin or something, and it's a seal.
And it's like laughing at me.
joe rogan
I caught a seal once, accidentally.
I cut the line when I saw it was a seal.
We were fishing, and I forget what we were trying to catch, but we were fishing with bait, and all of a sudden the line pulls, and I think I have a giant fish.
eddie ifft
Yeah, that's fucking big.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a seal.
eddie ifft
But I've seen...
joe rogan
It sucks, though.
You feel like shit.
eddie ifft
Oh, that would be terrible.
It's like catching a bird.
joe rogan
They're so cool looking.
What is it?
Is it a seal or a sea lion?
What are they, sea lions or seals?
eddie ifft
I think they're two different things.
joe rogan
I think they're sea lions, the things that you see off of California, right?
Aren't they?
unidentified
Sea lions.
brian redban
Sea lions, yeah.
eddie ifft
No, but I think what I saw the other day was a seal.
I'm pretty sure it was a seal.
joe rogan
You know what's really fucked up, man?
Those leopard seals?
Have you ever seen those things?
eddie ifft
I see leopard sharks all the time.
joe rogan
Yeah, leopard seal doesn't seem like a real animal.
Leopard seal seems like something from Star Wars.
It's a seal that's super predatory and has giant teeth and it's fucking huge.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was in that movie Happy Feet.
It was like the enemy in the movie Happy Feet.
And that's how I found out about it.
eddie ifft
Oh, and you found out it was real then?
joe rogan
Yeah, no, or was it Happy Feet or was, no, it was the actual March of the Penguins.
It was the actual March of the Penguins.
Because that's their main enemy.
That's what leopard seals eat penguins.
That's like their main food.
They're so scary.
They kill people.
They've killed people.
They recently killed a photographer.
Some woman got attacked and mauled.
eddie ifft
Yeah, there's all kinds of things.
I've got crazy stories of a dolphin.
I've seen...
joe rogan
But have you ever seen a leopard seal?
Pull up a photo, man.
It's kind of freaky.
eddie ifft
The shark alarm went off on me in Bondi, Australia.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
What does that mean?
eddie ifft
I'm surfing and all of a sudden I hear...
And I'm like, what?
And I just start looking around and every surfer's paddling out of the water.
And so my heart started beating.
I start paddling as fast as I can.
And I'm thinking, this is probably a regular occurrence.
I've surfed in Australia probably a hundred times.
I'm like, I've never heard a shark alarm, but maybe this is a common thing on a crowded beach.
So I start paddling, I look over at the guy next to me, and I go, and just to see what his reaction is, And he goes...
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's so scary.
That doesn't even look real.
eddie ifft
Yeah, that does look scary.
joe rogan
Click on the one with the big mouth, because most people can't see what the fuck that is.
Yeah, that one in the center.
eddie ifft
That does look scary.
joe rogan
Look at those fucking teeth.
That shit is ridiculous.
It doesn't seem like a real animal.
That's what's weird about it.
It seems like something that someone invented in a movie.
That's a seal.
eddie ifft
The alarm's going up.
I look at this dude and I go...
I look at him and he goes, haven't heard that in a long time.
unidentified
Oh God.
eddie ifft
So I just start paddling.
It was like, and you think you'd like fly out of the water.
It just seemed like an eternity.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
eddie ifft
And then I got out and they said, somebody called and said they spotted like a four foot shark or something and they have to get you out of the water.
But they're out there like, I have pictures.
A guy that owns Horizon Surf Shop in Santa Monica took pictures in Sunset.
The end, where Sunset comes out to the PCH, a fucking giant great white breaching right there.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
eddie ifft
I got it on my iPhone.
I'll show you.
joe rogan
Please show it to me.
eddie ifft
Where that guy died last week, that's in Cape Town.
I went down in the cage with the Great Whites and saw them.
I would never surf there.
Jesus Christ.
There's only like five deaths a year worldwide from sharks.
joe rogan
And three of them are there.
eddie ifft
South Africa is fucking there all over the place.
joe rogan
They happen here too.
The Santa Barbara guy got killed just two years ago.
eddie ifft
Seriously, five people a year.
I mean, more people die by dogs in California a year.
joe rogan
Right, but you know what you don't think?
How few people are in the fucking ocean?
It's a tiny number.
When you look at it, if the whole world was in the ocean, goddammit, dude, it would be a thousand deaths a day.
eddie ifft
You can find it.
Some guy...
They talk about your odds.
It's like 1 in 7 million or 700 billion of getting attacked by shark.
Some guy did the odds then.
Like he said, if you're wearing a wetsuit, okay, you look more like a seal.
If you're on a surfboard, it looks more like a fish.
So if you're by a river mouth where they go to feed, you're increasing your chances.
If you're alone, you're increasing your...
He does the odds and increases the chance.
And it's...
It's like one in 5,000.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
eddie ifft
That's what I would say.
I surf every...
joe rogan
Thank you, logical man, whoever you are.
eddie ifft
Where they go, this place is sharky.
And I'm like, well, how sharky is it?
And they're like, well, there's a salmon feed out there.
And they feed off salmon.
I went to this place called Green Island in Australia where we had to swim across the shark pit to get to the break.
joe rogan
What?
eddie ifft
Yeah, we just swim across the shark pit where the guys I was surfing with had seen a great white and they told me about how they got off and got out of the water and they'd climb up on the rocks and I'm like...
joe rogan
Dude.
eddie ifft
So the whole time I was out there, I'm like, I'm not enjoying this.
And I was surfing with Brazilians and they don't give a fuck.
They're fucking crazy.
And they're just like, stop being such a pussy.
joe rogan
Oh, you're so crazy.
eddie ifft
I'm like, I just don't, I'm not fucking feeling good about this.
joe rogan
They're so used to the water, especially if they're from Rio.
So used to surfing, such a part of the culture down there.
When Ari and I were there, we went to the UFC in Rio.
Great fucking time.
Goddamn, the food was delicious.
eddie ifft
They love their meat.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it was so good.
Brian and I eat at Fogo de Chão all over the country.
That's one of our favorite places.
We pull into a town, we find out there's a Fogo, we're always like, oh, mark this one off the list.
But these places in Brazil, this is the motherland.
It's called the, you know, Chuhascaria style.
eddie ifft
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I fucking...
So good.
Can you plug that in?
Do you have a plug?
joe rogan
But at, like, 9 o'clock in the morning, man, not even, like, 7 o'clock in the morning, we were up, and we were, you know, because we were all jet-lagged.
We were looking out on the beach.
7 in the morning, people were playing, swimming, running on the beach.
They're, like, so much more active and healthy than Americans.
eddie ifft
You know what's funny about Brazilians?
The men dance, too.
They're like black dudes.
They dance.
joe rogan
There's nothing wrong with it.
eddie ifft
And they love dancing.
And they look at white dudes that don't like it, and they're like, you're an idiot.
joe rogan
They're right.
eddie ifft
They're like, you'll never get so much pussy.
And it's fun.
I hang out with Brazilians in Australia, and it's funny because there's kind of like an Australian-Brazilian kind of clash.
joe rogan
Oh, there is?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Why is that?
eddie ifft
Because a lot of Brazilians come to Australia and they surf and they're kind of aggressive and there's a whole culture clash between the two of them.
joe rogan
There's a lot of aggression on the beach, right?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Supposedly.
I serve Venice Breakwater every day, which is supposed to be legendary for all this fucking crazy localism.
And I've probably had like...
Three or four incidents in my life where we've almost gotten out of the water and fought.
joe rogan
That's my friend.
You need to take some jujitsu.
unidentified
Have your Brazilian friends sit down with you and just show your basic positions.
eddie ifft
No, one dude was fucking giving me shit one day and all I did was he goes, oh yeah, let's get out of the water.
I'm going to beat the fuck out of you.
And I was like, really?
You're going to beat the fuck out of me.
He's like, yeah.
I'm like, okay, then you're going to jail because I'm a cop.
And he went, what?
I go, LAPD, motherfucker.
You just threatened a cop.
joe rogan
Well, you're lying, you bitch.
unidentified
And he went, he went, he went, uh, uh, okay.
joe rogan
Oh, that's so silly.
It doesn't work like that.
Off-duty cops don't have, like, some sort of special license to be cunts.
eddie ifft
But, no, he was being the cunt, and there's some locals that just fucking take it like, hey, this is our fucking area, you can't surf here.
joe rogan
That's so silly.
But has a cop ever done that?
eddie ifft
I've never personally had a problem ever in Australia, though, with like...
Australians are totally cool about like...
joe rogan
So it's more of an American thing?
eddie ifft
I think it's...
The localism I've seen in America is way worse.
joe rogan
Why is it?
Is it because there's a shortage of waves?
eddie ifft
Yeah, there's totally a shortage of waves.
And because everything's on the computer now, like there's all these sites that'll tell you where the good waves are...
Everyone's going to the same places, and so really only one person can catch a wave.
joe rogan
Is it easier to learn how to surf now, though?
Because you can kind of get lessons online.
Are there more people surfing?
eddie ifft
Somebody just Twittered me today and said, tell Joe to have Kelly Slater on the show.
joe rogan
Yeah, I met Kelly.
I interviewed him at one of the UFCs.
eddie ifft
He's a really good dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, he loves UFC. Yeah, he's good friends with BJ Penn, and he trains, too.
eddie ifft
That's BJ Penn, I think, is the one that did the CrossFit training.
Workout that named it Fight Gone Bad.
That might be who it was.
joe rogan
Oh, that probably makes sense.
BJ apparently is thinking about making a comeback.
He decided to take a lot of time off after the Nick Diaz fight, but apparently the rumor is that Dana talked to him.
I haven't spoken to Dana in a couple days, but Dana talked to him and he said he wants to fight.
brian redban
That'd be awesome.
joe rogan
It'd be nice if he wants to, if he actually wants to.
But if he's not motivated, there's two BJs.
There's BJ the world beater, one of the greatest fighters of all time, and then there's unmotivated BJ who just doesn't fight as well.
It's really that simple.
eddie ifft
It's like Tyson after...
joe rogan
It's hard, man.
Man, BJ's been at the top for so long.
You know how hard it must be to try to keep the motivation up, to train so hard.
And he's super natural, too.
He's not fucking around with growth or anything funky.
He's 100% natural.
I mean, he takes vitamins and supplements, but he's not fucking around with...
Anything that's going to aid in his recovery.
brian redban
Do you think that's probably why his motivation sucks?
Because everyone else is probably doing that shit?
joe rogan
Well, a lot of dudes do.
That Todd Duffy guy that we were talking about, he's one of the youngest guys that's got an exemption for hormone replacement.
Some guys have it because of head trauma.
Some guys have hormone replacement because if you're in a sport like football or boxing or MMA as well, when you're getting tagged in the head, It's very possible to damage the pituitary gland, and the studies that they've been doing on high-level combat athletes seem to indicate that a certain amount of head trauma will lead to a drop in your testosterone, a significant drop.
And it's not from guys that abused.
It's guys that were clean.
There's two ways to damage your system.
Well, there's a bunch of ways, but one of them is that disease obviously could damage you, but one of them is You can do steroids when you're young.
You do a lot of steroids and your balls just quit.
You just shut them down and break them.
And so then you need hormones.
Literally, they have to inject you through.
eddie ifft
Like testosterone.
joe rogan
Yeah, but those guys, it's always like monster, crazy-looking dudes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his prime type dudes where it's like there's no way to achieve those levels without completely jolting your body.
So that's one way.
There's another way.
If you get bit by the Brazilian wandering spider, that kills your dick.
eddie ifft
Shut up.
joe rogan
There's a spider called the Brazilian wandering spider that, when it stings you, it gives you an unbelievably painful hard-on.
Where your body, your dick is literally splitting like a hot dog that you sliced and then put it on the grill and it plumps when you cook it.
Your whole body's in massive pain.
eddie ifft
Where do I get this?
joe rogan
In the Amazon.
It's the most toxic spider known to man.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, and if it doesn't kill you, it breaks your dick.
Your dick's broken.
eddie ifft
Hear that, Australia?
They even have the fucking deadly spiders.
joe rogan
Yeah, they win that too.
eddie ifft
Because Australia's got some pretty badass spiders.
joe rogan
Australia's missing good drugs.
That's what Australia's missing.
You don't have the ayahuasca that Brazil has.
They have something similar.
There's an aboriginal elixir that's just not nearly as common, but it's very similar in the fact that it's based on the two elements, having a MAO inhibitor and having a DMT that you can take orally.
eddie ifft
I haven't spent much time with Aboriginal people in Australia, but my next trip over, and I go about twice a year, I've got a buddy who's decided he was a pro basketball player, and now his new thing, he's filming documentaries about, he goes way into the bush, like into the fucking bush, and he's filming documentaries, and I'm going to go with him.
Whoa, what?
I've gone up to Darwin to the Northern Territory and just kind of...
You know, like looked around and stuff, but I haven't gotten into it.
joe rogan
Most of the...
Australia's a huge continent.
eddie ifft
Fucking...
As big as America.
joe rogan
But most of the people live along the coast, right?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah.
There's only 20 million people.
Like we have...
What is it?
Like 300 million.
They have like 20 million.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
eddie ifft
And they all live around the coast.
joe rogan
That's why it's so great there.
eddie ifft
It's amazing.
joe rogan
What a great fucking country.
eddie ifft
It's the best place ever.
joe rogan
I love it.
When we were in Sydney, I was like, Brian, what did I say?
What do you think I would say if I was in Sydney?
brian redban
You wouldn't go into the...
Bush.
joe rogan
No, I would say I could live there.
brian redban
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It was a great place.
He always makes fun of me because everywhere we go, that's cool.
Like when we were in Atlanta, I was like, I could live here.
brian redban
Well, you used to not only say it, but you would be on the radio station that morning and be like, I think I might live here.
joe rogan
In your head, you were really thinking.
There was problems convincing Mrs. Rogan.
Obviously, I moved.
I moved to Colorado.
I was ready to live.
eddie ifft
How'd you pull that?
What happened there?
I want to know that.
Why you went to Colorado?
joe rogan
I didn't want to live in Los Angeles anymore.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I don't blame you.
joe rogan
Well, first of all, I travel for work.
I do the UFC. I travel.
I do comedy.
I travel.
I needed a local comedy scene.
Denver has one of the best in the country.
There's a club called The Comedy Works in Denver, and my friend Wendy, who runs it, she does an amazing...
eddie ifft
Wendy?
No, she's never booked me ever.
unidentified
What?
eddie ifft
Never, ever.
unidentified
Why?
eddie ifft
I don't know.
joe rogan
I'll talk to her.
You're hilarious.
That's Wendy.
How dare you?
Eddie Ift is a fine comedian.
eddie ifft
I've always wanted to work there.
joe rogan
Well, you should be able to pack places now because of your podcast, right?
If you don't know Talking Shit with Jim Jeffries, our friend, and Eddie Ift, they have a podcast together.
eddie ifft
Yeah, it's amazing how much fans come out now.
joe rogan
What's funny?
eddie ifft
And they're fucking idiots.
Like, I was in Atlanta, and these guys wore shirts that said Eddie Ift has AIDS. And show up at my show like a whole bunch of them wearing these Eddie Ift has AIDS shirts because Jim, you know, did that Google bomb on me.
joe rogan
What did he do?
What was the Google bomb?
eddie ifft
He told all our fans to Google Eddie Ift has AIDS. And if you do that, if enough people do it, when you search my name, that's the first thing that comes up in the cache.
unidentified
That's great.
joe rogan
That's beautiful.
eddie ifft
Yeah, and I'm getting them back.
I got a whole fucking plan.
But so, yeah, if you type in Eddie Ift, it's the first fucking thing.
And even my mom asked me about it.
joe rogan
Oh, that's hilarious.
Your mom's Googling your name.
eddie ifft
That's kind of weird.
She was trying to get tickets for her friends to my show and she typed in Eddie Ift and Eddie Ift has AIDS comes out.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
eddie ifft
I've had ex-girlfriends call me and go, do we have to talk?
So I did Kevin and Bean's April Foolishness last week at the Gibson Amphitheater just before I go on stage.
I'm not a big believer in intros.
Like a lot of comedians want their specific intro or make me look good.
I'm like, if I'm funny, I'm funny.
Doesn't matter what the fuck you say.
You could say, ladies and gentlemen, Eddie, if that's all I care about.
I don't fucking...
You've seen them on this.
You've seen them on...
If they know who I am, they know who I am.
If they don't, it's not going to help.
joe rogan
And I hate comedians.
eddie ifft
You're like, tell them I'm the guy from the Saturn commercial.
Or I'm the guy...
No.
And the one person that's going to go, oh yeah, that's not going to help you.
So I just want Eddie Ift.
But they had these nice intros for everybody.
So Beer Mug that works on The Kevin and Bean Show goes, hey, you like Slayer, right?
And I'm like, no.
He goes, I thought you liked Slayer.
And I'm like, no.
He's like, because I was going to go, he likes Slayer, he likes tequila, and he likes this, and he has AIDS. Perfect.
And I go, do not intro me.
unidentified
Really?
eddie ifft
I did not want this next comedian coming to the stage has AIDS. That's perfect.
joe rogan
You should have taken that and run with it.
You should have run with it.
eddie ifft
Because thank God he told me to, because you know when you're walking the stage and you get hit with that like...
Like when I did my first Comedy Central TV show, it was Premium Blend years ago.
Harlan Williams hosting.
joe rogan
Hey there, buttercup muffin top pumpkin biscuits.
eddie ifft
And my whole closing joke is all about Star Wars.
And Harlan, right between, like, go from his to mine.
You know, they have mine totally scripted.
They know exactly what I'm going to say.
But Harlan, because he's the host and he's the celebrity, he's allowed to do whatever he wants.
Does this big Star Wars bit.
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
And that's my closer.
And I'm, like, walking on the stage just going, it's over.
joe rogan
Mencia did that to Johnny Sanchez during a TV tape.
eddie ifft
Well, this is Harlan's original bit.
joe rogan
Oh, and I'm sure.
But, I mean, Mencia did it on purpose.
eddie ifft
Oh, he did?
joe rogan
He used to do guys' bits right before you do their closing bits before you bring them up.
brian redban
What?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Listen, man.
There's a reason why we went after that guy.
brian redban
I've never heard that.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Yeah, they were doing like Loco Slam or one of those fucking shows.
And Johnny Sanchez is a very funny guy and a great dude.
Really, really nice guy.
And he had this great joke about a neighbor that actually really happened to him.
Like this crazy Persian guy who would always accuse people of parking in his parking spot.
And he gets pissed and he speaks his broken English.
It's really funny.
This motherfucker does the bit, like, as he's bringing up.
It's Johnny's closing bit.
So he's going on to a television show.
He does his closing bit.
eddie ifft
That's beyond, like, just trying to get a laugh.
That's, like, sociopathic.
joe rogan
Oh, totally, yeah.
There's a pathology there, for sure, with that guy.
Unfortunately.
But, you know, I haven't heard anything about it in a year, so I'm hoping he's not doing it anymore, and he's got his shit together now.
But, yeah, at the time.
So when you had happened, just a total accident.
eddie ifft
Yeah, it was a total accident.
But, you know, at the time, I'd probably only been doing comedy, like, six years or so.
And I was just like...
joe rogan
Oh, no, that's devastating.
eddie ifft
Oh, fuck.
You know, like...
joe rogan
You don't even have, like, good stage legs in the first six years, right?
eddie ifft
No, and I was just like...
Anything can throw you off.
But it's more than that.
It's the whole fucking TV aspect of it, where you're like, well, what if I change my final bit now?
Are they going to get Matt?
Because you have to have everything approved.
joe rogan
Can you do a bit?
Can you do a Star Wars bit after he does it?
Is it possible?
eddie ifft
No.
joe rogan
It takes a lot of wind out of sails, right?
eddie ifft
Yeah, it really did, and it was a shitty joke anyways, but looking back, I'm like...
joe rogan
We were in Vegas, and it was me, and I think it was Joey Diaz, maybe Eddie Bravo, I don't remember, but we were there for some fights, and Harlan was playing at the Palms, so we went to see him.
Great guy.
I love Harlan.
eddie ifft
He's hysterical.
joe rogan
Every time I see him, you know, he's just, hey, there, fella.
He's, like, super friendly.
He's just such a warm guy.
Anyway, he goes on and he's fucking killing.
We're having a great time.
All of a sudden, the fire alarm goes on.
Like, attention.
You know, it was like...
Was it a fire alarm or an emergency alarm?
I don't remember what it was.
But there was a...
Like this crazy, really loud thing.
And Harlan played through it for 10 minutes.
eddie ifft
He's that guy that's funny in every circumstance.
joe rogan
Well, you know what he is?
He doesn't get mad about shit.
You know like he really didn't get mad and it was kind of funny that this guy was in the middle of his show and he was never like but was really fucked up was we were just sitting there were like this ain't real like a real terrorism joke they could have been fucking you know like oh Taliban running in with machine guns and shit oh fucking the Japanese tsunami would happen and I'd be sitting on the beach because I don't trust any like anytime they're like we need to evacuate I'm like fuck off Yeah, most of the time.
eddie ifft
In college, I stayed in my 22nd floor dorm room while a fire alarm was going off.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
You're crazy.
Because they would always make us go down, come back up.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's better than burning to death, trust me.
You're silly.
You're a silly man.
eddie ifft
I didn't trust them.
I want to know, though, why you went to Colorado.
joe rogan
So that, well, I just didn't want to live in LA anymore.
I think, my theory is, this is what I've always said, is that there's too many human beings in one spot.
And it's just like rat population density studies where they take rats and they put two rats in this cage and they're fine.
And then they put four.
And then by the time you have a bunch, you have all these crazy behaviors.
You have rats sitting in the corner, shaking, and the nutty rats, aggressive rats.
I just think there's, without a doubt, you get a certain amount of energy from people.
You get a certain amount of energy from the people that you're around.
And if you're in a tense neighborhood, you absorb a certain amount of that tension.
It's very difficult to relax.
And whenever I've been to places that have a lighter population, like Boulder, for example, Boulder, Colorado is only 100,000 people.
eddie ifft
Is that where you were living?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you drive around, everyone's driving slow, no one's tense, there's no one running red lights.
All the cuntiness of Los Angeles doesn't exist there.
And yeah, you've got to deal with some snow, but you deal with a nicer class of people.
It's because it's people that aren't under the gun.
And you take people out of this environment, like me, and you put them over there, and you calm down.
eddie ifft
Ask anybody about Los Angeles.
There was just a study that people hate, people from Los Angeles.
And I said, that's because we always tell you what the temperature is.
When you call someone, hey, I'm in Boston.
It's 70 degrees here.
I'm wearing shorts.
joe rogan
There's that, but please.
There's a real issue with why people come here.
Like what you said, they should call a daddy doesn't love me on the sign.
That shit's taxing after a while.
eddie ifft
It's taxing and it's also that overpopulation thing.
You take away the traffic out of L.A. Take away the population.
It's a pretty nice place.
joe rogan
Oh, it's beautiful.
eddie ifft
Mountains and oceans.
It's great, but fuck.
joe rogan
It's not as nice as Boulder, though.
eddie ifft
It's not as nice as Australia.
joe rogan
Looking at the visuals of Boulder.
What was amazing to me was that you could drive around and you'd look at these mountains.
If this was a painting, it would be worth a billion dollars.
It's like the most incredible natural piece of artwork, and it's in front of you every day.
Cool people, too.
Yeah, and it has a tangible effect.
When you're looking at mountains, like there's a place in Colorado that I really like called Evergreen.
It's a suburb of Denver, and my God, the view there is insane.
We looked at this one house, and I just sat on the porch, and I couldn't even fucking believe that they would allow you to live there.
eddie ifft
How long did you stay?
joe rogan
Four months.
eddie ifft
Why'd you leave so quickly?
joe rogan
My wife got pregnant.
We were way high in the mountains.
We were at, where we were was 3,000 feet above Boulder.
So it was 8,500 feet.
It's really high.
And you can't be pregnant up there.
First of all, even regular women that live in Boulder itself, which is 5,000 feet in Denver, There's a really high rate of premature births because of the oxygen.
There's no air up there, man.
I would work out in my yard and do these kettlebell drills that I do, and you'd really feel like there's not enough air in the world.
You can't get any air.
It's thin.
Walk upstairs and you're tired.
It's really thin up there.
So for her, it was brutal.
The morning sickness was intolerable.
And then on top of that, It's just real tricky up there when it's snowing.
We were in the mountains and mountain lions and bears and shit.
There's a lot of real stuff up there.
eddie ifft
Oh, you have cats, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, a dog got killed by a mountain lion.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah.
eddie ifft
That happens a lot.
joe rogan
Drink.
That sucks.
It's just not...
It's very rare that it happens because there's so much for them to eat up there.
It's very rare that one will attack a human...
But you, every now and then, could be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you find an old one that doesn't have sharp teeth anymore, but it could still kill you.
unidentified
Fuck.
eddie ifft
Ah, that would kill me if my dog killed.
joe rogan
But it's so gorgeous up there, man.
My wife says it's the calmest I've ever been.
She's ever known me in my life is when we were living up there.
eddie ifft
Dude, you need to go to Australia.
joe rogan
No, you know, Australia's cool, but first of all, it's not America, so that would bum me out.
And then as cunty as America could be, it's still where I was born, and I'm used to it here.
I could get used to it, like in terms of like if America was the apocalypse and Australia was the way it is now, for sure I'd move.
eddie ifft
That kind of happened to me, where I went there and I was like, oh, I could do this.
I still have family, you know, here.
And that's the thing, I can't, being that far from my family, otherwise, like, Arge is there.
Arge went and he's...
joe rogan
And he lives there, right?
eddie ifft
Yeah, he's got this big house and lives there.
joe rogan
Well, he's a huge superstar over there, right?
eddie ifft
People don't understand what a big superstar is.
Like, if you walk down the street here in America with, like, a famous – like, even how famous you are, you know, you're going to get recognized.
Like, if you walk down, like, a C Street, how often would you get recognized?
joe rogan
It depends on if there's a bunch of young dudes with tattoos.
If you see young dudes with tattoos, most likely I'm getting spotted.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
But him, like, we'll go through a town like Adelaide and every five feet someone's going, Arch Parker!
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
And it's like they saw...
It's like Chick scene Brad Pitt.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie ifft
And I go...
Why would he come to him?
When I first started hanging out with him, I was like, you're fucking super famous.
You're like Pauly Shore in the 80s famous.
joe rogan
How did you use that reference?
eddie ifft
Because you think about it.
That's back before people had 500 channels and before people had the internet and before where you only watched...
Like five things on TV. That's what they have back there?
Well, they've just lately.
I mean, they used to have...
joe rogan
They don't have cable?
eddie ifft
They do have cable, but not a lot of people have it.
joe rogan
Do they get American channels?
eddie ifft
Yeah, they do.
And now everybody, because of the internet, everybody's watching everything on the internet and DVDs and everything.
And they take a lot of our movies and put them on TV, but shitty movies and shitty sitcoms and stuff like that.
joe rogan
Remember when it was impossible, like if you had a DVD from there, it was a different region?
unidentified
Still is.
Really?
eddie ifft
Still is.
joe rogan
What is that nonsense about?
eddie ifft
PAL and NTSC. I don't know, but...
Wait a minute.
joe rogan
PAL and NTSC, doesn't that exist with VHS? Isn't that VHS? No, it's DVDs.
DVDs.
DVDs?
brian redban
Video games.
joe rogan
But with VHS, there was an issue with that too, right?
Wasn't there?
brian redban
Yeah, yeah.
It's always been.
It's a signal that I believe that their TVs use, I think.
joe rogan
Because I remember I got a multi-region DVD player just so I could watch the Ali G show from England.
eddie ifft
Because it's a totally different kind of DVD. If you play, like on my Mac, if I play a PAL DVD, it'll say you only have five more viewings.
And my old Mac switched over.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that, man?
What is that bullshit?
eddie ifft
And I had to buy software to convert it back, and it was like...
joe rogan
Really?
It was a third-party software?
eddie ifft
It was fucking crazy.
joe rogan
That's so stupid.
That doesn't make any sense.
eddie ifft
It has something to do with the cameras because I remember we were editing.
When I made my movie, we had some cameraman overseas and then we'd have to have all that tape.
We were shooting on mini-DV at the time.
We'd have it converted and it was such a process and I'd go, why?
And they're like, actually, I think there's more pixels or something in a PAL. I'm not sure.
joe rogan
Well, it makes sense that there's two different formats.
I didn't agree on it.
What doesn't make sense is your computer can switch back and forth, but only five times?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I don't understand.
joe rogan
Brian, do you know?
brian redban
I have no idea.
I never saw that before.
eddie ifft
I'm sure we're going to get...
All of us are going to get emails and Twitters.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure the tweets.
The tweets will come rolling.
eddie ifft
And I'm going to get yelled at for something was inaccurate.
joe rogan
Well, you should see the fucking...
What Callan gets.
The abuse Callan gets when he comes on here.
unidentified
Starts talking about U.S. history and gets shit.
Just misses a whole chapter somewhere along the line.
joe rogan
Not this, you know, he's not super knowledgeable about a lot of shit, but Callan's one of those dudes who would read a book and then yell at you for not knowing this five minutes after he read it.
unidentified
Do you realize, okay, Japan...
1945!
brian redban
That's a great impression.
eddie ifft
But you believe him, too.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, he's right a lot of times.
eddie ifft
He tells it so passionately.
joe rogan
He's a great storyteller.
You know, that's one of the beautiful things about having friends like Callan or you or Joey Diaz or Jim or any...
When you have friends that are comics, it's like, God damn it, it's so entertaining.
You know, when people talk about, like, doing this podcast, like, well, you guys are putting out so many podcasts.
Why is it a lot of work?
Well, there's work to it.
You know, you have to upload it.
Like, Brian has to do the dirty work.
But as far as the work of actually sitting down and talking, it's the funnest time ever.
eddie ifft
It's what we do anyway.
joe rogan
Well, it's a crazy thing.
It's like we never really took advantage of the resource that was us and our friendships until podcasts came along.
When we had radio shows, if you would go on someone's radio show, it's very rare that you could just bring in all your friends with you on the radio show and put on...
You had to interact with these DJs and that was their thing and that was it.
So it's like you never really got a chance to sit down purposely.
We're going to meet at 3 o'clock.
We're all going to sit down.
We're going to smoke some weed.
We're going to drink some coffee.
Let's talk some shit about all kinds of things.
That would be a great thing to do.
But nobody ever schedules shit-talking sessions.
But because of the fact that everyone is going to hear about this, and it's going to be something that goes on the internet, and people are going to enjoy it, then we started doing it.
eddie ifft
And the coolest thing about it, what I love about your podcast, is you guys...
You just talk, and comics are interesting people because We have a lot of time on our hands.
So most people have to do their job and that's why they're really good at their job because they do it.
We do our stand-up and then we have a lot of extra time and our stand-up comes from our extra time of us thinking and philosophizing and in doing so we all acquire lots of hobbies and lots of things we get into and we're all of a kind of weird kind of mindset.
Like to be a comic you have to be a bit OCD, a bit neurotic.
There's all these different aspects of it.
So you compile all that, you've got like a certain type of individual.
And so we all have a knowledge base that's like we have generalized knowledge, not a lot of specialized knowledge, but we have a general knowledge of all these different things.
joe rogan
Yes.
eddie ifft
And then we're able to also spin humor into it.
It's fucking, it's like… The greatest people to hang out with.
It's amazing.
unidentified
For us.
eddie ifft
And I'm glad that everyone, people go, aren't there too many podcasts?
No, it's fucking great.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, I think it's really cool that right from the beginning, everyone has sort of helped each other out and everyone has promoted each other.
You know, from the beginning.
I mean, Corolla, and I'm doing Corolla's show in a couple weeks, and when I'm doing it, we're going to record these little things where, you know, I do an ad for his podcast, he does an ad for our podcast.
eddie ifft
Oh, that's awesome.
joe rogan
But we always do that.
I mean, Ari, you know, texted me, said, hey, I got this gig coming up, I'm recording in Denver, can I do your podcast?
Yeah, sure, come on over.
It's like we all work together.
eddie ifft
I can't thank you.
You helped me with this.
unidentified
It's fun.
joe rogan
It's really cool.
I mean, it's a beautiful thing to do.
eddie ifft
Our podcast, this is no lying.
I'm not blowing smoke.
We get to see the numbers on Libsyn and how we're doing.
We get our biggest spikes when, like, I'll do your show.
joe rogan
Oh, that's awesome.
eddie ifft
When I do your show, Jim gets on your show and never talks about our podcast, so fucking nothing happens.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
He sells more DVDs.
joe rogan
You forgot.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
But I get on here and plug talking shit and seriously, like you can see – and what happens is it spikes and then it will plateau for a while and then I'll do like your show or Jay Moore's or Corolla's or something and it will spike again.
So it's showing that like the audience is coming and they like it and they stay.
And that's why I always tell other guys with podcasts, I'm like, come on my show and be a guest.
You'll get – our audience will then start listening to your show.
If they like you on our show, they're going to listen to you.
Like there's a guy, Brian McCarthy, who's the funniest fucking guy alive.
He's not a comedian.
We have him on our podcast and he's just – you know how you found these guys?
unidentified
Right.
eddie ifft
He's just a guy I found hanging out in a comic book.
joe rogan
Just a funny dude.
eddie ifft
The funniest fucking crazy dude in the world.
joe rogan
That's his skill.
His gift in life is being an interesting dude to be around.
eddie ifft
And he has a podcast now on National Lampoon, the Brian McCarthy interview show.
And he's just fucking...
He came on our podcast one time and just told us...
He told three stories that were three of the best stories I've ever heard in my life.
One, he fucked a post-op transsexual.
And tells the story, and the episode's called, I'm Gonna Eat This Dude's Cunt.
And it's the funniest story you'll ever hear because he's so brazen about it.
Then the next story he told, he got arrested smuggling pot from Jamaica in a boombox when he was 20 years old and stayed in prison for a month because he didn't want to let his mom know.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
eddie ifft
So he rode it out.
You know, they set your trial, but you can have bail.
You can post bail and get out.
joe rogan
So he stayed in prison for a long time.
eddie ifft
He just stayed in jail, and the other dude was crying every day that got caught with him.
He's like, no, my mom will kill me.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
His mom must have been terrible.
brian redban
Yeah, I thought he was kidnapped.
joe rogan
His mom was scarier than jail.
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, that's what he said.
joe rogan
Imagine that for pot.
eddie ifft
He's just the funniest fucking dude.
I like a guy like that who the industry has turned their nose up and won't fucking give him nothing.
joe rogan
Like Joey Diaz.
Until Joey Diaz started coming on this podcast, people didn't realize how brilliant he really is.
Because they see him on stage, he's talking about eating ass, touching your muffler.
They're like, we don't want to have nothing to do with this guy.
He's too crazy.
But then from the podcast, people have become big, big fans of his and they realize that he's complex.
We're real lucky in having comedians for Friends.
For other people, I'm saying this right now, and for sure there's someone out there going, I don't want a fucking needy ass comedian as my friend.
But we understand each other, like a guy like you, or a guy like Callan, or me.
If you and I were, if I didn't even know you, but we ran into each other in an airport, and I'm like, what are you doing?
I'm a comic.
Oh, I'm a comic too.
What's up?
eddie ifft
Alright.
joe rogan
What are you gigging?
What's going on?
I mean, it would be instant.
As long as you're not a douchebag.
eddie ifft
Well, Stan Hope wrote that great, great fucking blog about that.
joe rogan
About running into comics?
eddie ifft
No, about why he hates Dane Cook and you're not allowed to.
And it was fucking genius.
But he said to his fans, basically, he's like, at the end of the day, if I saw Dane Cook in an airport lobby or whatever, and I saw you, I'd go hang out with Dane Cook.
He's like, because I'd have more in common with Dane Cook than you.
And I could talk to Dane, and we have shit to talk about.
He's like, you're a fan.
Sorry.
joe rogan
That's a weird way of separating yourself from all the people who pay attention to the person.
No, no.
eddie ifft
The point Stan Hope was making was he was saying that everybody – he had a problem with Dane, and his problem was Dane called him a hater and said that he was jealous of him.
He's like, I'm not jealous of you.
I just – and he explained why and it was – he said, look, nobody was jealous of Chris Rock or Jon Stewart or Dave Chappelle when they got famous.
He goes, we're not jealous of you.
We're angry.
And it was a problem because they had this thing over – Stan Hope calling him on the phone, and it was just, it's a whole long thing.
But at the end of the day, he was saying, you know, like, here's my problems with them.
And it's a comic having a problem with a comic, over comic issues.
Like, you people that don't like Dane now, like you fans that don't like Dane, you're jumping on the bandwagon not knowing why...
joe rogan
Sort of.
I disagree, though, because I think a lot of people don't like people because it's just not their style.
And if you like a certain type of music and I don't like it, I'll shit all over that music, you know?
I mean, that's just what people do.
It's not an enlightened thing to do.
eddie ifft
No, I think there's now in comedy that so many people are aware of not just comedy, like what they like, but the clicks of comedy.
joe rogan
Aware of who's an easy target, a safe target?
eddie ifft
Yes.
Yeah, that's true.
And it's like, for a while, Dane was getting bashed so hard that I just wanted to get on the other side and be like a Dane supporter.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure people would have loved to bash Chris Rock if he had like a chink in his armor.
Yeah.
Or even Dave Chappelle.
If he had something wrong with what he was doing, they'd like to go after him, too.
I think when people look, when you're real successful, and they look, if they find something, fuck yeah, they're going to harp on you.
But if they don't find something, then you're Chris Rock.
You know what I'm saying?
You're just a brilliant comedian, and that is what it is.
It's not stealing.
It's not...
Not bullshit.
And I think that's really where it's at.
Because it's not just black eyes.
It's Louis C.K. Nobody hates on Louis C.K. Nobody hates on Louis C.K. He's doing...
Except Brian.
eddie ifft
Brian hates on him.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
eddie ifft
I had an old manager.
You might have been with this guy at one point.
James Dixon.
Do you know James?
joe rogan
Sure, I know James.
eddie ifft
Baby doll.
He said to me when I was like...
joe rogan
He's a great guy.
eddie ifft
Great guy.
joe rogan
Wild man.
eddie ifft
Some of the best advice I've ever had in comedy.
joe rogan
Some smoke hash under a glass.
First guy ever seen...
Smoked hash under a glass.
I didn't know how he did that.
He put it on a pin.
He lit the hash.
I thought he was a drug addict.
Because I was like 25 and shit.
I was like total straight edge.
Fucking aggro.
brian redban
I would love to have just been able to see you.
Like somebody smoking a joint around you or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'd roll my eyes and be like, look at this loser.
eddie ifft
James said – best fucking advice.
He goes – I used to call him.
I was like 24 years old just doing – just starting stand-up.
What do I do?
I don't know.
And he'd go, just be undeniably funny.
And I'd go, but what about – like they're coming to see me and should I – he'd go, just be undeniably funny.
And I'd go, what else?
Should I go to acting?
Be undeniably funny.
He goes, that's your job.
I'll do everything else.
Just do that.
joe rogan
That's a good agent.
eddie ifft
And then I said to him recently, I was like, you didn't mention you've got to be undeniably lucky, too.
He goes, yeah, I've seen a lot of lucky guys, and they've made it big, but they've never stuck.
They don't stick around.
joe rogan
Because they're like lottery winners.
eddie ifft
Yeah, he's like, you've got to really have it.
And the guys that are, like you're saying, like Chris Rock and...
joe rogan
Well, also, it has to be a passion of yours.
I've spent a lot of time doing things that were not a passion of mine.
I spent a lot of time doing other people's stuff, like other people's TV shows.
It was all fun times, but there's such a massive difference between doing something that you're really passionate about and putting all that energy and that reward that you get from that.
There's nothing like that.
That's where real success comes from.
Real success comes from transferring that passion and then people go and experience it and they feel it and it's pure and it's real.
You know, your stand-up is really just sort of a vehicle for getting out the greatness inside of all of us.
You know, whether that greatness manifests itself in piano playing or it manifests itself in, you know, you're a great basketball player or you're fucking awesome at editing videos.
What that thing is, it's just finding that in yourself and providing something to other people that gives them this energetic reaction.
You know, when they're sitting in the audience, it's laughter.
If you go to see Honey Honey, it's not laughter, but it's this other crazy, weird, satisfying thing where it's beautiful music.
That is what it's all about.
And unless you're doing that, you're not going to be happy.
Unless you're finding whatever the fuck it is in life that makes you do something.
And it always seems to have something to do with how other people appreciate your work.
Because it's like if you're a chef, you want people to appreciate your food.
If you're a carpenter, you want to appreciate what you've done and you've built this house.
It always seems to have something to do with giving something or producing something and creating something that other people feel good about.
Whether you're a lawyer who gets a guy out of a tricky situation because you really love the law, you have this passion for the law.
Whatever it is, it always seems to come down to How much passion do you have for it and how much does it positively affect people?
That's how you've got to structure your life.
That's why a lot of people get really lost and they just try to do things for themselves.
They just try to get ahead for themselves.
They just try to do well for themselves.
In doing so, you're like a person who's got this massive vitamin deficiency.
You're taking all this vitamin D, but you don't have any C. There's no C in your system.
You're missing vitamin love.
Everything you're doing is like...
unidentified
Move me, myself, and I. I will become selfish until I make it.
I don't have time to be nice.
joe rogan
But you don't understand.
You don't have a choice.
You will not be happy.
You won't be successful.
If you make it, you'll be miserable.
You'll end up fucked up on booze or drugs or whatever.
You're at an imbalance point if you're thinking solely of yourself.
It's like your greatest work and your greatest feelings will all come in And creating something that you're passionate about that other people are going to enjoy.
Seems to be that that is a big key to life.
That it has to be, to really truly be a happy person, you have to be doing something that other people are enjoying as well.
eddie ifft
Oh yeah, there's no fucking doubt about that.
joe rogan
Because when I hear people take antidepressants, I don't have any imbalance, any mental imbalance that I know of.
If I do, it's workable.
But when I hear people taking things to make them happy, I go, wow, man.
Imagine not being happy.
Imagine spending most of your time not being happy.
I don't feel that because I'm happy all the time.
eddie ifft
I'm not happy all the time.
I'm a pretty happy person and people have said that to me.
For a comedian, comedians are all, you're pretty happy.
I go, why look for happiness?
joe rogan
If you're intelligent, you gravitate towards happiness.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I try to find all the things that make me happy.
I go surfing, it makes me happy.
I go work out at the gym, I like that.
I love my girlfriend, she makes me happy.
I found her, you know, like my dogs, they make me happy.
I go out, I hang out with my friends.
Like do the things that make you fucking happy.
Like when people go, I hate my job, I hate my life.
I can't.
Yes, you can.
joe rogan
There's ways.
It's not easy.
It's certainly not easy.
It depends on how, you know, if you swam all the way out to the middle of the ocean and you go, I've got to get back to shore.
I can't.
Well, you got here, it's going to take a long time.
You've got to get better the same way you got sick.
It's not easy to get back to shore.
But, you know, if you had swam only a few feet and didn't get a mortgage and didn't have kids and didn't have 20 years and waiting for your pension and then if you just get out in six years, then you'll have full health insurance until you're dead.
There's people that cannot ever pull the trigger to jettison themselves.
unidentified
I know.
eddie ifft
I just had this argument with a friend who was telling me they're depressed.
And I said, well, like, look, what do you need?
What would – like, let's take the steps.
And they're like – can I get a coconut water?
They're like – That's not the thing you say to someone that's depressed.
And I'm like, look, I'm here to say, let's find the path.
joe rogan
What does that mean, man?
What does that mean, that's not the thing?
It's not one universal thing you say to someone that's depressed.
eddie ifft
And I haven't read the book about what I'm not supposed to say to people that are depressed.
joe rogan
I don't know what's going on in someone's head.
Because I know for sure I'm wired different than other people.
I've reacted different.
And how much of it is nature?
How much of it is nurture?
What the fuck do I know?
I don't even think that's an exact science, by the way.
I think there's a lot going on in the school of psychology that's theoretical and there's a lot of shit going on.
They still don't know exactly why a person is the way they are, so I don't know what the fuck makes someone happy.
eddie ifft
Have you seen the stuff the dude that teaches the class on happiness at Harvard?
joe rogan
He teaches a class at happiness?
eddie ifft
There's a class.
I think it's Harvard Business School.
You can watch some of his stuff.
joe rogan
Well, I'll tell you what wouldn't make me happy.
Teaching a class on being happy.
That shit would not make me happy.
eddie ifft
Well, this guy, no, but he talks about some cool shit.
He, apparently, it's like the most coveted class at Harvard.
Like, it signs up and you can't get into it because it's the first one.
brian redban
Because it's easy credit?
eddie ifft
No.
joe rogan
Yeah, it sounds easy as fuck.
brian redban
This is a puppy.
unidentified
Does it make you happy?
eddie ifft
Cheeseburgers make me happy.
He's done a lot of studies on happiness, which is pretty amazing.
I think one of them was he said that after $70,000, like in America, after you make $70,000, your happiness is not congruent with your financial level.
joe rogan
That's bullshit.
That means you've got bad friends.
You've got to learn how to party properly.
unidentified
That's a pussy.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
Who are you hanging out with, dude?
We could do some damage with some money.
eddie ifft
Hold on.
Hold on.
I got a friend who literally is a...
I shouldn't even talk about this.
Let's just say...
joe rogan
Let's figure out how to filter it.
eddie ifft
I got a friend with a lot of money.
joe rogan
Okay.
eddie ifft
Like a lot of money.
joe rogan
Okay.
eddie ifft
And this friend used the money.
For a while he didn't.
And then I was like, dude, do you know what you can get with what you have?
And then it clicked one day and then he had slip and slides on the top floor of the fucking wind with chicks naked fucking running down the slip and slides.
Whoa.
Well, fucking midgets dressed in or little people dressed in stormtrooper outfits are serving him drinks.
Like, he went and did it.
joe rogan
Sounds like a douchebag.
eddie ifft
No, but I mean, he just...
brian redban
Sounds like heaven.
eddie ifft
He just did the Michael Jackson thing where you have so much money, you're like, I want to live in a tree, and I want to have a monkey, and I want to have...
You know, like, you just start going fucking crazy, and like, let's see how we can just spend this money.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie ifft
And, you know, the next thing you know, he's just totally fucked up.
You know, just...
It crippled him mentally and he ended up in rehab and all kinds of shit.
joe rogan
That can happen when you're looking for that empty happiness or you're looking for happiness through substances.
People say, you're a hypocrite dude, you're getting high all the time.
First of all, I take weeks off.
I don't have to get high all the time.
I like getting high.
It's good for you.
I think marijuana is one of the only vices that I really don't have any problem with.
As long as you get all the other shit done in your life and you use it to enhance things that you're doing.
eddie ifft
I was just going to say, my agent in Australia is the fucking greatest guy that's ever lived.
And my agent gets everything done...
All the time.
And he's fucking amazing.
And he joked with me once.
He said about getting high.
You can be productive.
I know so many productive fucking people with marijuana.
Super productive.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of writers.
eddie ifft
Beyond writers.
People get shit.
The mentality I am, if I smoked pot, I'd be way more productive.
Because when I used to smoke it, I was better.
But I just can't smoke it.
joe rogan
Well, you just had one bad thing.
unidentified
Two.
joe rogan
Did you tweet me about this?
Is that what happened?
eddie ifft
Yeah, we talked about this on The Green Room.
joe rogan
Yeah, he tweeted me.
He was in horror.
He was just couch locked.
eddie ifft
Joe was my go-to guy.
And I thought, here's a guy that's going to talk me down off the ledge.
brian redban
You just need your medicine.
A lot of people say milk helps you when you have a bad trip from shrooming.
Even if it doesn't, you have that in your head.
Somebody told you milk.
Do you have milk around?
You ever have that happen again?
You drink a glass of milk, you'll feel it.
eddie ifft
I started getting panic attacks from it, and people told me, like Bert Kreischer told me, to get Xanax.
I'm like, I'm not taking Xanax.
Don't do that.
brian redban
Stick with the milk.
eddie ifft
He's like, take Xanax.
I'm like, I'm not taking Xanax.
And he goes, you just put it in your pocket.
He goes, you don't ever use it, but you know it's there.
What?
joe rogan
Bert, you silly bitch.
eddie ifft
I think Bert was the one who told me.
joe rogan
That sounds like Bert.
unidentified
No, no.
Just keep it in your pocket.
Put it in your pocket.
joe rogan
It's always there.
eddie ifft
I go, Bert, do you ever have a panic attack?
And he goes, fuck, every day.
And I go, what do you do to stop them?
He goes, have kids.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie ifft
Because I said I was having...
That's what it was.
joe rogan
It's your self-indulgence gets a backseat.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I was having trouble getting...
A lot of the anxiety was happening on planes and stuff.
I'm claustrophobic.
And they lock the doors of the plane.
I'm like, I want off this fucking plane.
Really?
When that pilot flipped out, I'm like, I get it.
I'm always afraid I'm going to be that guy.
Yeah, I have like a claustrophobia thing of like...
joe rogan
But you fly so much.
eddie ifft
So much.
And I don't like sitting on a runway.
I like when we take off.
I don't like when we pull up the gate and they're like, oh, we're not going to be able to pull into the gate for another 20 minutes.
That's when I'm like, open the fucking door.
joe rogan
What is it about comedians that are such control freaks?
eddie ifft
That's what it is.
joe rogan
It is a control freak.
Someone said something to me a long time ago.
It was comedian Tony V. And it literally became a tool that I use in my life.
He was driving back and forth from Boston to New York on a regular basis, and that's a long drive, a couple hours at least, even if you're going fast.
And I said, I go, how are you doing that every day?
And he goes, I just go zen.
I'm in my car, and I go, this is what I'm doing.
I'm driving the car.
And I just, that's...
That's how much time it takes, and I don't worry about it.
I just do it.
And I was like, wow, that is the way to think about it.
Because, you know, it's like you'd start, goddammit, why don't they pull this thing?
And you realize how much energy is wasted on something that you're never going to have any effect on whatsoever.
And if it takes two hours to drive somewhere, it takes two hours to drive somewhere.
Unless you hit a fucking wormhole and find yourself on the other side somehow, you know, it takes two hours to drive there.
You just have to go zen.
And it's a tool I use now.
So whenever I'm in...
Any sort of a situation where, you know, if it's bad weather, I just go, this is what I'm doing now.
brian redban
I heard some fucked up shit recently about flying and pilots.
This girl I know told me, like, I can't say who it is, I can't say what airline or whatever, but she knows this pilot, and he was talking about how he had to go to work.
She goes, oh, that sucks.
Are you tired?
He's like, that's why I can't wait to go flying.
That's when I get the best sleep.
I guess when they take off, the co-pilots fucking sit there, push a button, go to sleep, and they get woken up near the city.
joe rogan
Why is that scary?
brian redban
Because it's just like if you imagine like going into a cockpit of an airplane, everyone's fucking sleeping.
joe rogan
Yeah, one guy stays awake at a time.
I think they probably do shifts.
But I think the way those autopilot things work, unless there's a situation where they run into crazy weather and they wake right the fuck up.
I don't think it's that big of a deal.
It seems like it should be, but it's not like you're driving on a windy road.
You're just flying in a direction.
eddie ifft
Yeah, they put it on autopilot and it just fucking goes.
I know a chick who's a pilot, and I'm not going to tell you the airline, but she fucked another pilot while they were flying.
joe rogan
Oh, what a dirty bitch.
eddie ifft
A commercial airliner.
unidentified
What a dirty bitch.
I love her.
eddie ifft
And she wasn't flying the big ones, but she was flying maybe a two and a one, two seats on one side, one on the other.
unidentified
Dirty bitch.
joe rogan
Can't even make the big leagues.
eddie ifft
She's up there fucking riding a dude.
brian redban
That's awesome.
unidentified
Nice.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I know.
And I thought about that.
I'm like, I would like that.
I would like to know.
unidentified
Yeah, I would like that.
That if there's a female pilot up there, she's fucking up there.
eddie ifft
That makes me feel good.
joe rogan
It's Ari Shafir and I were on a plane once.
And the woman comes on over the loudspeaker.
Hello, this is your pilot.
And Ari goes, what?
A woman?
What?
And we're like, oh no.
brian redban
I hate that uncomfortable shit.
joe rogan
It was just, dude, don't do this.
Don't do this right now.
eddie ifft
Jim Jeffries was on a plane that a dude died.
joe rogan
Whoa.
eddie ifft
On the plane.
brian redban
I would hate that.
eddie ifft
Was with his wife.
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And he dies.
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
And it's like fucking like England to Australia or something.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
So he's dead?
unidentified
He's dead.
eddie ifft
I go, Jim, what did they do?
And he goes, they like took him to the back.
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
eddie ifft
And like covered him with like a blanket.
And I'm like, what did she do?
He goes, she just sat there.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
brian redban
Fucking cock.
eddie ifft
I can't imagine.
joe rogan
I watched the lady go into a seizure.
It was really creepy, man.
It was weird.
It was right after September 11th, too.
She was right behind us.
eddie ifft
On a plane.
joe rogan
Yeah, she starts, starts seizureing.
And they go, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
This happens sometimes.
I guess epileptic people, they just go into seizures.
brian redban
Yeah.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've seen that a bunch.
joe rogan
My friend Jay, Jay Helfert, he's a pool player and spent most of his life like gambling and playing pool.
He's playing this guy and the middle of the set, the guy falls down to the ground and starts bucking and kicking and making these noises and the guy was losing and he assumed that the guy was doing it to try to get out of the game.
Because dudes will do things to shark you.
They'll do things to distract you.
And he was looking at it like, wow, this is a new one.
This guy is faking a seizure.
But really, the guy was an epileptic.
And it was like a normal occurrence.
Like he'd be in the middle of his day, and he would just fall to the ground and start bucking and twitching.
eddie ifft
So he didn't help him?
joe rogan
He didn't help him.
eddie ifft
Did the guy die?
joe rogan
Someone helped him.
Someone came over and helped him.
eddie ifft
There's a video on YouTube.
I think you can find it.
And we played it on our podcast.
There's a comedian that died on stage in England.
Died.
Fell off the stage and died.
joe rogan
Well, fucking Gallagher's had like 18 heart attacks on stage.
eddie ifft
I know.
This guy just fell off the back of the stage, but he was that kind of comic, too.
So they think it's part of his act, and then eventually his son runs on stage and kind of is like, this isn't a joke.
joe rogan
That'd be kind of a cool way to go.
eddie ifft
I agree.
joe rogan
You know, why not?
What's better, that or Shark?
You would kind of ruin the show.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe.
eddie ifft
Shark would be horrifying.
joe rogan
Maybe it would make it better.
What if you were bombing and that was how you pulled yourself out of it?
eddie ifft
I saw a guy do that on a golf course once.
joe rogan
He died?
eddie ifft
No, somebody misses a putt and he just does a feint.
And I thought, that's a fucking cool trick.
You're going pretty far to show how bad that affected you.
And I'm sitting there and all of a sudden I see a woman jump over the railing of a six foot high porch.
Jump over it and just sprint down to it.
And I went...
Oh, that's...
And so I just ran and called 911. And I was like, fuck that.
joe rogan
What happened to him?
eddie ifft
He died.
They said he was dead when he hit the ground.
joe rogan
Which is heart attack or something?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sometimes it just stops, man.
You ever blow a piston in your car?
Just driving down the highway and bang!
Black smoke.
You pull over the side of the road.
eddie ifft
Have you ever thought you were having a heart attack and then you burped?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
I get indigestion.
joe rogan
That's not bad.
eddie ifft
I've gotten indigestion so bad where I'm like, fuck, I'm getting these crippling chest pains.
And I'm like, I guess this is it.
I'm going.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
eddie ifft
And then all of a sudden I'll burp and I'll be like, I'm going to live!
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
joe rogan
Really?
Have you ever had that?
brian redban
Yeah, I get it all the time.
I get it.
unidentified
My heart double beats.
brian redban
It freaks out.
You get double beats?
It's mostly all because of like, oh yeah, I had onions on my subway.
joe rogan
Onions?
Onions can fuck you up?
brian redban
Shit like that fucks me up.
eddie ifft
Beer, alcohol fucks me up.
I don't get it anymore because I'm a nerd about my diet.
I eat the paleo diet and...
And I fucking am religious.
joe rogan
How did you become this fitness nut?
I mean, because your choice of attack is like CrossFit.
Like, how did that...
eddie ifft
Well, I ran track in college, like, all my life.
And then got into, like, I was an ocean lifeguard.
And I was doing, like, ocean lifeguarding competitions and stuff like that.
And then I got into, like, triathlons.
And I was always doing it on the sly.
It was almost like I'd go out and party really fucking hard.
Like, really hard for, like, two weeks.
And then I would go, like, feel shit about myself and try to clean up.
Oh, that makes sense.
And it was like here and there, here and there.
And then finally, I just said, all right, this has got to fucking stop.
I'm a mess.
Like, I'm a mess.
When I'd go to the UK, I'd spend three months over there where I would drink at lunch.
And we would go out for lunch for beers and I would drink till showtime.
Drink, you know, they'd bring me a couple pints backstage at the show, do the show, and they'd go out and party all night.
And I'd come home from England just feeling like a piece of shit.
And I was like, alright, I better do something.
So I started working out and then I found that I liked body weight exercises like pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups and stuff because I didn't want to get big.
Because I like to run still.
And I found the Navy SEAL workouts.
So I started doing Navy SEAL workouts online.
And then they said, we don't have a workout today.
Go to CrossFit.
And I was like, what's this fucking CrossFit thing?
So I went to CrossFit.
I'm like, what is this fucking weird community of people?
And it's fucking weird, dude.
joe rogan
It is a weird group of people.
eddie ifft
It is a weird group of people.
joe rogan
The idea is they're different exercises every day.
Every day you're shocking your system.
eddie ifft
Yeah, shocking your system with metabolic conditioning.
It's a combination of gymnastics, weightlifting, and sprinting.
And...
And it's – the whole idea is prepare for the unknowing.
Like you never know what you're going to get.
Like in weightlifting you might do your legs one day and then you take a week break to let your muscles recuperate.
But if you're a mixed martial arts guy or a cop or a fireman or a military guy, You don't know what's happening day two.
So they might throw fucking legs at you day two and day three.
joe rogan
That's not good though.
eddie ifft
Not good in one aspect, but good in another.
Your adaptation levels start getting higher and higher.
joe rogan
Or you tear your ligaments.
eddie ifft
Not necessarily, because if you learn good form, which is what they try to teach you, is learn the proper technique and then you won't have the injuries and you won't have the problems.
joe rogan
But aren't you like, the whole idea about working out is supposed to give your body time to recover.
Is that like a battle, a seesaw?
eddie ifft
I'm a three-day-on, one-day-off guy.
Three days on, one day off.
Which is what they prescribe.
But you look at the guys who are now at the competitive level.
The guys that are competing, that are the top CrossFitters in the world.
If you look up this guy, Rich Froning Jr., just watch any YouTube video of him.
You're going to go...
This guy's fucking inhuman.
Inhuman.
Like, this is impossible what he's fucking doing.
joe rogan
You want to see impossible?
Brian, pull up Goggins Iron Man.
G-O-G-G-I-N-S Iron Man on YouTube.
There's this fucking dude who's a Navy SEAL. And it's some of the fucking crazy shit.
eddie ifft
The dude who came in second at the CrossFit Games last year is a seal.
joe rogan
They call him the toughest athlete on the planet.
This dude, like, regularly runs...
Where does it say?
Does it say Goggins Ironman in the upper left-hand corner?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, click on that.
This dude ran a 48-hour race.
It's a mile track, and you run for 48 hours.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
Just wrap your head around that.
eddie ifft
No brakes.
joe rogan
No brakes.
No rest.
eddie ifft
The guy that runs CrossFit Endurance.
joe rogan
But what it is, is you're pushing your limits.
Listen to this.
eddie ifft
I know.
Listen to this guy.
unidentified
Just to test my soul.
To see what I'm about.
To see in a 150 mile race at mile 75 when I feel really bad.
That's when you know.
That's the only time you can find out what the human body is all about.
What you're made of.
To find out limits to myself.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've seen this dude a lot.
unidentified
Limits to the human soul.
and every day I'm trying to see if I have limits.
I run anywhere from 125, 150 in a week.
So I'll try and put in about 450 miles a month.
joe rogan
Running!
unidentified
Usually every day I wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and I run anywhere from 10 to 15 miles in the morning.
And then I live about 25 miles from work.
So I get my bicycle, commute into work, do a normal work day at lunchtime around noon.
I'll run again.
eddie ifft
It's an ultramarathon.
unidentified
5 to 8 miles, whatever it may be.
Come back, work, and around 5.30 I'll ride back home 25 miles on my bike.
eddie ifft
I've considered doing one of these.
unidentified
bike and do like a short three or four or five mile run.
That's my everyday life.
So I don't just train like an hour or so.
I train until something is uncomfortable.
And then that's when you know who you are.
Jesus fucking Christ.
There's a thing called CrossFit Endurance.
joe rogan
It just never ends.
unidentified
I've done some races where you're on a one-mile track, And you're running for 48 hours straight.
So imagine running 48 hours on a one-mile track.
And it's not like you're sleeping.
You're running for 48 hours, as many miles you can get.
I'm gonna talk about mind torture.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's so fascinating that there's dudes that are constantly trying to explore the limits of what you can pull off.
eddie ifft
Well, we were just talking about this yesterday.
We had Andy Petronik, who owns CrossFit LA, on our show, and he was talking about where it's come from and what it goes.
It used to be that guys, they used to give awards for if you could do, like, 40 pull-ups.
There's guys that blow out 107 in a row now.
joe rogan
Now, do they do straight arm?
eddie ifft
No, we do a kipping pull-up, but I can do 40 in a row.
Without even thinking.
joe rogan
Can you really?
eddie ifft
Fucking simple.
joe rogan
Do you grab it palms outward or palms towards you?
eddie ifft
I go palms outward and it's just like when we jump rope you jump two at a time always and now it's advancing to three at a time and like three swings under your feet each jump.
And it's just you're learning that man just evolves and gets better and better and adapts at things.
We have a workout called MRF, where you run a mile, then you do 100 pull-ups, then you do 200 push-ups, 300 air squats, And then you run...
joe rogan
300 air squats?
eddie ifft
Yeah, and then you run...
You can break it up in any order.
So we do like 5, 10, 15, 5, 10, 15. Wait a minute.
joe rogan
Are you talking about Hindu squats where you go all the way down to your heels?
eddie ifft
Oh, the crease of your hip has to break the crease of your knee.
joe rogan
Okay, so your ass does not touch your heels?
eddie ifft
No.
Your hips, though, have to go below your knee crease.
joe rogan
Okay.
That's not quite as hard as Hindu squats, but I can't imagine that you can do all that and do 300 of those.
eddie ifft
So you run a mile, then you do 100 pull-ups.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
200 push-ups, which we do hand-release push-ups.
So your chest touches the ground, you release your hands, and then go up, and you're thinking, that's easier?
No, it's harder, trust me.
Your chest is touching the ground on every push-up.
And then you do 300 air squats, then you run a mile.
That's called MRF. That's a workout.
Jesus.
Add to it, now, a 20-pound weight vest.
But without a 20-pound weight vest, a guy in our gym did it in like 24 minutes.
And he did it, like it takes me like 36 minutes or something to do it.
He did it in like 24 minutes, and he did it He was doing his miles in like 515 or 520. Like a mile, he would run in 5...
With a backpack on.
No, he didn't do that one with the 20 pound vest.
It goes substantially higher with the vest on.
But the times are just coming down and down and down and the pull-ups and the weights are...
joe rogan
What about injuries?
Are people getting more injured now?
eddie ifft
I think people do sustain injuries just like they would in MMA and everything else.
joe rogan
Well, we have a big problem with that in MMA these days.
eddie ifft
You are.
And I think with the NFL, we talk about that on my show a lot because like my girlfriend's dad's an ex-NFL football player and he's got two artificial hips, two knee surgeries, and two shoulder surgeries.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
eddie ifft
I mean, they become like bionic men.
joe rogan
How's his dome?
eddie ifft
He's pretty good.
He's a very successful businessman but like I got a buddy who's a CrossFitter who's a Super Bowl fucking – he's a CrossFitter now but he was in the Super Bowl.
This guy has won the Super Bowl.
He's won national championship in football and high school championship in football and he is – he's got all these injuries from football.
But like he will tell you that CrossFit is like keeping him in the game because like there's nothing better for your back they say than doing deep back squats.
joe rogan
Huh.
eddie ifft
You know, like that's fundamentally what's good for your spine.
Now, if you're doing it with improper form, you're going to fuck yourself up.
You're going to fuck your butt.
joe rogan
When you go deep, when you do a deep squat, like how far down does your ass go?
All the way?
eddie ifft
Same kind of thing where I'm going to – mine goes really deep because – That's where you're going to get your explosiveness at the top.
People don't understand.
They think, oh, I don't want to go that low.
And I'm like, I want to get as low down as I can because right there is where your nerve are going to fire and you're going to be able to explode.
joe rogan
Dude, we need to get you to do jiu-jitsu.
You're overflowing with manly exercises and you don't have an outlet for them where you can see your progress other than the exercises themselves.
We've got to get you in.
You want to come tonight?
What are you doing tonight?
eddie ifft
You know what?
It'll be the fucking panic of me.
I've been choked out before.
joe rogan
No, you won't.
Listen, you don't spar your first day, man.
You learn some moves and you learn positions with people.
It's not like you're just allowed to get mauled.
eddie ifft
It's also, Callan told me once, I was talking to Callan because I wanted to take Krav Maga.
I had dinner one night with John Mayer and John Mayer is a big fucking Krav Maga guy.
He loves it.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, he loves that shit.
eddie ifft
And I had just been robbed.
I had a guy break into my house while I was there.
I'm upstairs in my house.
I come down the steps.
There's this black dude standing in my house.
And I go, what's up, dude?
brian redban
He dressed as a wizard.
joe rogan
It's an inside joke.
eddie ifft
Sorry.
He goes, I'm looking for David King.
And I go, who's David King?
He goes, is this his house?
And I go, no.
He goes, must have the wrong place.
And he walks out the door and I'm like, So I kind of walk out.
My dog was a puppy at the time.
I didn't want her running around.
So I follow him out, and then I take the dog back up inside.
I come back out.
I go, yo, dude, what's...
Who's David King?
And he kind of looks at me, and then he starts to run.
And he's already—he's got about 150 meters on me.
And I was like—I ran Division I track in college, and I was a sprinter.
And I'm like, this dude has no idea how fast this white guy is, and I'm going to fucking catch him.
brian redban
Why would you do that?
eddie ifft
I'm like, I'm going to catch this—because, you know, he was just in my house.
He just fucking robbed me.
And I'm like— What did he have when he steal from you?
When I took the dog back in, as I go inside, I see my pants were on the couch.
And I look, and the wallet's out of the pants, and everything's stripped out of the wallet.
unidentified
Wow.
eddie ifft
So when I go back out, I go, that's when I sprinted after him.
joe rogan
So you're ready to die for your credit cards?
brian redban
Yeah, yeah.
eddie ifft
No, no, I don't know.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
eddie ifft
This is what I'm telling you, my aggression problems.
joe rogan
You should, really.
eddie ifft
So I chase this dude.
I'm like, fuck, like, and when I turned the corner, he had just disappeared.
Thank God, because I live in Venice, and my buddy's like, dude, he's a shoreline crip.
He would have come back that night and put a bullet in your head.
You're an idiot.
Yeah, you're so silly.
In retrospect, I tell John Mayer about this, and Mayer goes, you've got to read the book Gift of Fear.
He's like, read that book, and then go take Krav Maga.
I tell Callan I'm going to Krav Maga, and Callan goes, no!
No, not you.
You will bring it on yourself.
He's like, if you know how to use it.
brian redban
It's like having a gun in your house.
eddie ifft
Yeah, he's like, so I don't have a gun.
I don't have fucking anything.
joe rogan
That's good to tell people on the internet.
I'll tell you what, I got guns.
You come to my house, I'm going to choke the fuck out of you if I get a hold of you.
I disagree with Callan.
If anybody had a lack of self-control as a young man, it was me.
That's one of the reasons my parents didn't actually want me doing martial arts because they were worried that I was going to start using it on people.
That was the number one fear in our house.
I had to convince them I wouldn't do that.
But you wouldn't do that.
You'd get self-discipline.
But it allows you, you know, at least if that guy jumped on you, attacked you, or didn't have a knife or something, you know, where it was a weapon, you're in trouble, at least you can kind of defend yourself.
You know, you put yourself in a better position.
And it's a great way to exercise, a great way to blow off steam, and it's interesting.
You're actually learning something.
You're learning, like, a language, the language of how to strangle people, how to break arms, how to get to positions.
And you learn these moves.
I mean, The interaction between two human beings and they're grappling.
There's an infinite number of positions and moves and different places to go to.
So it's very intellectual.
Jiu-jitsu is really completely underappreciated as an intellectual exercise.
eddie ifft
I already threaten enough people.
joe rogan
You wouldn't do it, man.
I never threaten people.
You wouldn't do it.
I've been doing martial arts my whole life.
I don't think I've ever said, I'm going to kick your fucking ass to someone.
eddie ifft
I do it on stage once a year.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
I don't ever do that.
eddie ifft
At least once a year, somebody will push me.
Like you were saying, Harlan, I laugh through everything.
But at a certain point, I have a snap where I'm just like, that's it.
joe rogan
That's so dumb.
That's going to get you hurt, man.
Come to jiu-jitsu with me tonight.
What are you doing tonight?
Come watch.
brian redban
He doesn't want to touch other guys.
joe rogan
Don't be silly.
eddie ifft
I don't want to roll around.
brian redban
Where do you go?
eddie ifft
Do you go to 10th?
joe rogan
Hollywood.
Yeah.
Come with me.
eddie ifft
I have to go to Hollywood for something.
joe rogan
You're coming.
eddie ifft
Not tonight.
I'll go another night.
joe rogan
There is no tomorrow, Rocky.
Like Apollo Creed said, there is no tomorrow!
unidentified
Tomorrow.
eddie ifft
Tomorrow is good.
I got a bulging disc right now.
joe rogan
Just watch!
I'll go.
Just watch.
I'm not telling you to get in there and get crazy.
brian redban
You have a bulging disc.
Whoa.
joe rogan
Brian will set you up, so I'm going to take care of that.
Well, listen, man.
Been a fun podcast.
We've done like three hours, man.
Time flew by.
Pretty close.
Two hours and something.
Always, dude.
Always a good time, my brother.
Always good to see you.
Always good to run into your clubs.
unidentified
Thanks for having me.
joe rogan
Anytime you want to come on, man.
eddie ifft
It's fucking awesome.
I love doing this show.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, dude.
And I've got to come on yours, too.
eddie ifft
Someday.
joe rogan
We'll do it.
eddie ifft
We'll work it out.
Our fans ask us constantly.
joe rogan
Do you do it once a week now?
Is that what you're doing?
unidentified
We do it.
eddie ifft
We've always done it once a week.
We do Monday nights, and that's the problem because you wrestle on Mondays, don't we?
joe rogan
Yeah, most of the time.
But I'll take the night off.
I'll do it in the day.
Okay, Eddie Ift and Jim Jeffries have a podcast on iTunes.
It's fucking awesome.
Please check it out.
It's called...
eddie ifft
Come see me at the Hollywood Improv.
joe rogan
How do you...
It's not talking shit because they pulled it off.
eddie ifft
Talkin's hit.
joe rogan
Talkin's hit.
Oh, I get it.
So you just moved to space over.
Very, very clever.
Talkin's it.
eddie ifft
Hit.
joe rogan
Hit.
Talkin's hit, ladies and gentlemen.
eddie ifft
I'm at the Hollywood Improv this Saturday.
Two shows I'm headlining.
joe rogan
Oh, that's beautiful.
The Hollywood Improv on Melrose, one of the best clubs in the whole country.
It's an amazing spot.
It's like really intimate seating and it's going to sell out.
So if you're interested, go online and just Google.
You know how to do that shit.
You're smart.
You gotta rush the stage?
Oh yeah, somebody got rushed on the stage there.
eddie ifft
Randy Kagan.
joe rogan
Randy Kagan?
Do you know the story about him?
eddie ifft
I don't know him, but I saw the whole thing and he has no idea why the guy went up there.
joe rogan
Guy just went crazy?
eddie ifft
Yeah, just fucking decked him.
joe rogan
What was he talking about when the guy decked him?
brian redban
He was doing a joke on California.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
The guy wasn't heckling previously.
There was no fucking reason or rhyme.
joe rogan
He was just crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That happens.
Go out there in the world, you can run into crazy football.
eddie ifft
That's why I should know jujitsu.
joe rogan
It helps.
It helps.
It would help you tremendously, dude.
Especially telling me you threaten people once a year.
Come on, son.
Life is short.
Enjoy this shit.
Thank you to everybody.
Thank you for all the love on Twitter and Facebook and all that stuff.
We appreciate the fuck out of you guys.
Thanks again for everybody who came out to Atlanta this past weekend.
For my filming.
Couldn't have been better.
You guys are the shit.
We're beyond lucky to be in the situation where we have a show like this.
I don't know how the fuck it happened.
Brian, do you know how it happened?
unidentified
The internets.
joe rogan
The internets?
Yeah, but I mean, something happened.
It all coalesced together in some sort of a magical form.
And we're very fortunate.
And we think about that all the time.
We were very appreciative.
So thank you very much to everybody.
Tomorrow, Mad Flavor, a.k.a.
Joe Diaz.
What the fuck, cocksucker?
He's going to come down and regale us with stories of old school criminal adventures and his ball sack, which, by the way, got him kicked off of Facebook.
brian redban
Purple vein.
unidentified
Hysterical.
joe rogan
That is so The cover of his documentary, he decides, Joe Rogan, this is going to be the cover of my documentary.
He's going to say, this is it.
unidentified
It's beautiful.
joe rogan
It's my balls, and they're hanging out there with fucking, there's a vein, a beautiful vein, and I'm pulling out, and it says, where I got my balls.
That's the name of my special, my documentary.
brian redban
Wouldn't that be like his dad's balls then?
joe rogan
Yeah, you would assume.
I mean, it's a metaphor.
So he's going to change it and it's going to be the actual picture.
He's a two-pronged attack.
The first prong is show people his balls, create a shock wave, which I guess he's achieved.
And then prong two is a different photo than it has already prepared.
Clever Joey Diaz.
brian redban
He's the man.
I can't wait.
I'm going on tour with him.
joe rogan
Yes, you are.
And the first gig in Columbus is sold out, right?
brian redban
The first show in Columbus is sold out.
The second show, there's some tickets left, and that's May 17th.
May 18th, it's Cleveland.
joe rogan
And how do people find out about this?
How do they get their tickets?
brian redban
Just go to deskwad.tv.
It's right at the top.
joe rogan
Powerful.
Deathsquad.tv.
And so that's it.
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
And thanks for everything.
I can't thank you guys enough.
You guys are the shit.
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Eddie, did you want one?
I have one.
Do you want one?
unidentified
Yeah, sure.
joe rogan
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unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Eddie F's going to fuck one tonight, maybe, perhaps.
He has a girlfriend.
Maybe he won't do it tonight.
He'll take it on the road if you're really brazen.
eddie ifft
I'll just do it in front of her.
unidentified
Whoa.
You're an animal.
joe rogan
I love it.
That's CrossFit coming out of you.
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Kettlebells are coming.
They should be here probably in the second week of May, the first wave of kettlebells.
The second wave are going to blow your fucking mind, but they're taking a long time to build.
unidentified
I can't wait.
joe rogan
They're so ridiculous.
How ridiculous are they?
brian redban
I just can't wait to talk about them.
joe rogan
I'm not even exaggerating.
eddie ifft
You guys have your own kettlebells?
joe rogan
I'm going to show you something that's going to blow your fucking socks off, Eddie Ift.
That's it, you dirty bitches.
We love you from the bottom of our black monster hearts.
I don't even know what that means.
I'm stealing Lady Gaga's names now.
See ya.
Bye.
I ran out of words.
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