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May 29, 2013 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #362 - Eddie Ifft
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brian redban
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eddie ifft
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joe rogan
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joe rogan
That's the nighttime version of the monkey.
That's the monkey that's just been up fucking and punching shit and eating fermented berries.
That's the monkey that's tired sucking all the monkey cock.
That's a tired monkey.
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brian redban
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brian redban
So you have a domain that you use that no one knows it's you?
Not even me, because you've never even told me about it.
joe rogan
I have my own pet science projects.
brian redban
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joe rogan
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unidentified
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joe rogan
Well, it's because if you wanted, you know, people to not know that DickPartyInMyMouth.com was your website, I think that would make sense.
brian redban
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joe rogan
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brian redban
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joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I was saying.
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Show's coming up.
I'm at the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg, June 14th.
But it's sold out, bitch!
I'm at the Bear 2 Theatre Pub& Grill with Ari Shafir in Anchorage, Alaska.
And this just went on sale today.
We're doing one night up there to do comedy to pay for our fishing trip.
We're going to go fishing.
So that's June 26, 2013. I've been wanting to go to Alaska forever, man.
I just want to see it.
I just hear it's insane.
I heard it just blows your mind.
Like, you go up there and you never look at nature the same.
eddie ifft
You see animals that you didn't know exist.
joe rogan
Yeah, my friends who've been there, like my hunter friends that have been there, they say it's like, you have to go there.
You have to go there once in your life just to see this unexplored...
Literally, you might go somewhere where a human's never been.
Like, it's possible to do that still in Alaska.
Like, if you really want to get crazy and take a plane and fly two hours out and just land somewhere, it's very likely no one's ever been there.
Like, that's crazy.
There's been a lot of goddamn people on this planet for a long-ass time.
But it is possible that you could find a spot in Alaska where there's never been a human being.
Not where I'm going, but, you know.
brian redban
What's the Alaskan women look like?
joe rogan
Like men.
brian redban
Really?
joe rogan
Like Alaskans.
brian redban
Fucking elbow faces.
joe rogan
No, I'm sure there's a few hotties up there that are just taking dick like it's going out of style.
Because you have so much power if you're a woman up there.
I think dudes just have to get used to tossing girls around.
I bet a lot of guys fight over girls, too, up there.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
It's really bad.
eddie ifft
It's like 10 to 1. They ship them in.
They have to.
They have that mail order stuff.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, there's a lot of that, but that's a commitment.
And the kind of girl that's willing to just pack up her shit and fly across the country, live with a crab fisherman.
You know, a lot of those bitches are crazy.
brian redban
Is this mail order?
eddie ifft
Everyone there is crazy.
They live in Alaska.
joe rogan
But I think it's awesome, too, you know?
I really enjoy these shows that I've been watching.
I watch, like, there's Alaska, The Last Frontier, and...
Mountain Men and all these subsistence shows.
I fucking love these shows, man.
The people on Alaska, The Last Frontier, these are not stupid people.
They are people who you would totally hang with.
eddie ifft
There's a young couple.
I did shows up there, loved it.
But every person I talked to, I'd be like, why'd you come to Alaska?
And they'd go, I love the outdoors.
And I was like, there's outdoors in Florida.
You buried a body somewhere and it's not deep enough.
And you had to go somewhere.
They won't come to get you.
joe rogan
I think people would still come to get you in Alaska.
I don't think that's safe if you're in the middle of a city like Anchorage.
eddie ifft
When I went there, I went from New York, flew to Seattle, and I just figured it was like another hour from Seattle.
And like six hours later, I was like, are you kidding me?
Like, I didn't look at the map and figure out that like, it's a Far away away.
joe rogan
Don't be rude, dude.
brian redban
What do Alaskan women look like?
joe rogan
Yeah, come on, man.
brian redban
How is she the number fourth person, though?
joe rogan
That's mean.
brian redban
Why does that mean?
unidentified
She's a hot redhead.
joe rogan
She's a real human, and you're seeing her.
brian redban
She has a hot redhead.
unidentified
Why does that mean?
joe rogan
How is she the number fourth good-looking woman ever in Alaska?
eddie ifft
Go to the seventh one.
brian redban
Sarah Palin.
eddie ifft
They don't have it in order, dude.
brian redban
Seven, man.
Yeah, this is order of popularity.
joe rogan
No, it's just what Google pops up.
You should use Bing.
They're less biased.
brian redban
No, it's not.
joe rogan
So anyway, Alaska.
Bear Tooth Theater Pub and Grill, Anchorage, Alaska.
Take these girls' pictures down, dude.
Please.
Thank you.
Also, the joint at the Hard Rock, July 6th, with Joey Diaz.
So that's the night before the UFC. There's a UFC on July 7th.
No, 6th.
UFC's on the 6th.
My show's on the 5th.
So Friday, July 5th at the Hard Rock at the Joint.
Should be a lot of fun.
I've never done that place.
I've been there for UFC fights before, but I've never done stand-up there.
eddie ifft
Is that in Vegas?
joe rogan
Yes, my friend.
And then the Moore Theater in Seattle on July 26th.
There's some other shit coming up, but go to JoeRogan.net, click on the tour thing, and you can find it all there.
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brian redban
Are you still going to do the kale shakes?
Did you take one today?
joe rogan
I did not take one, but I, you know, what he said is if I take it with calcium, he said it kills.
brian redban
Cook, though.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He said even if you, you just, if it's raw, as long as it's not calcium, it keeps that other stuff from affecting your body.
But he recommends it for cooking for a couple reasons.
One, because it kills even more.
And two, because it makes it more bioavailable.
I still have to, you know, I believe him, but I still have to look into it myself.
I've heard so many people say great things about the benefits of kale shakes, but I also heard what you talked about that one time about the bacteria, like fungal growth, similar to what he was talking about.
In kale?
Yeah, in kale.
eddie ifft
I eat tons of kale.
joe rogan
I do too.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
I do too.
I drink it.
I drink kale shakes.
Because I can...
I'm not going to eat that much.
There's no way I'm going to eat a giant, you know, 30 ounce fucking...
I mean, if you stack that in a bowl, I'm not chewing all that shit down.
eddie ifft
I do.
I eat kale salads like crazy.
joe rogan
When I blend it down, though, the amount is massive with cucumber and I use raw ginger and raw garlic and it just...
Boom!
It just...
A fucking ass-kicking burst of nutrients.
But Dave Asprey was talking about the potential downsides of eating a massive amount of kale.
It actually has a type of acid in it that is designed to keep it from being eaten by things, to discourage predation.
Which kind of makes sense.
But I have to read into it.
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A lot of people think that guy is always trying to make money.
He has so much shit online for free.
It's ridiculous.
His website has hundreds of thousands of little things on it for free.
And he's had it up for years before he started making his own coffee and selling it and all that other stuff.
But he wrote something about upgrading the kale shake.
And so if you're into kale shakes, you should read that because it's scientifically very fascinating.
I have to read it and then read The Opposing and you know how it is.
You gotta look into that shit, yo.
That's it, you fucks.
Eddie Ift is here.
You might know him.
You might not.
You might be in love with him.
But we're gonna talk some shit.
And we're gonna get to the bottom of things.
unidentified
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Boom, Eddie ift.
joe rogan
Boom.
That's what I'm saying, buddy.
Boom.
eddie ifft
How are you guys?
joe rogan
I'm fucking groovy.
How are you doing?
eddie ifft
Doing good.
joe rogan
Every now and then, I need to see something online to let me feel like I'm okay.
You know, you get a little self-critical, and then you read about someone online.
This might be one of the wackiest fucking things anybody's ever sent me.
This dude's on National Geographic Taboo.
It's a fake paraplegic who...
He used to be a woman.
He used to be a man, rather, and then became a woman, and then faked being a paraplegic.
eddie ifft
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
Wow.
joe rogan
What?
eddie ifft
Wow.
joe rogan
She had a secret, and the secret was that she's a fake paraplegic.
She went around in a wheelchair pretending to have a spinal cord injury, fooling everyone.
eddie ifft
You think you know weird people in your life, and then you read about these randoms that it's like, that's beyond anything the craziest, weirdest people I know could comprehend.
joe rogan
She's not a dummy.
She's a fucking PhD.
She's a chemist.
She lives in Salt Lake City and used to be a man.
eddie ifft
Right.
joe rogan
Decided to become a woman and then decided to fake that she was paralyzed.
brian redban
Maybe she's doing an experiment.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
eddie ifft
You can't put those two things in the same category, though.
You know, like...
joe rogan
I don't know.
eddie ifft
She could have made herself a paraplegic if she wanted to.
brian redban
Maybe she was molested by a goldfish.
What?
joe rogan
Did you just say everything that comes to your mind, man?
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Why would you be molested by a goldfish make you pretend to be paralyzed?
brian redban
Who would molest you to do something crazy like that?
I always think it comes back to being molested for the most part.
People act crazy.
joe rogan
Do you really?
eddie ifft
It does a lot of times.
You hear that.
joe rogan
But it's usually sexual.
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
When they've been molested, don't they usually act out in a sexual way?
eddie ifft
There's a lot of different things like borderline personality disorder.
joe rogan
That comes from sexual abuse?
eddie ifft
That comes from sexual abuse a lot of times, yeah.
joe rogan
I had a friend who loved dating girls who had been abused because he said they were always the craziest in bed.
eddie ifft
I used to have a bit about it.
I said when you have sex with like a really, really like A girl that's just so good in bed, I go, all I want to do, I go, I want to enjoy it, but I just want to say, like, which uncle do I have to thank for this?
Because, no, there is this, like...
Sometimes like the craziest, craziest, best sex you've ever had.
joe rogan
Do you open with that bit?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Is that how you get your party started?
eddie ifft
No, but I had sex with a chick who, it was the craziest sex I've ever had in my life.
And she was a squirter.
She was like, it was insane.
And she was fucking me this one day.
And she goes, fuck me harder, fuck me harder.
And I went...
I'm fucking you as hard as I can.
And then she swatted me across the face.
Like, hard.
And I just went, stop.
You gotta go.
I'm like, get out of my house.
Like, you just fucking cracked me.
And I was like...
joe rogan
What a risk taker that bitch is.
eddie ifft
And she just started bawling.
And I go, why are you crying?
You just hit me.
I should be crying.
You hit me so hard.
She goes, oh, and we start talking, and the next thing you know, her grandfather molested her and all this stuff, and she became a prostitute.
unidentified
Oh, God.
joe rogan
After you?
eddie ifft
After me.
joe rogan
After slapping.
You sent her to prostitution with your rejection.
eddie ifft
I've sent two girls to prostitution.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
What's their number?
eddie ifft
I don't think I sent them.
Uh, one chick, uh, I just dated her for a while, and then, like, years later, we remained friends, and she was hot, so hot.
Model, like, smoking hot.
And she calls me, and she goes, uh, like, probably the hottest girl I ever dated, and she goes, um, I was in New York.
Let's get together.
Let's have a drink.
Just friends because it was over.
And having a drink and she said – I said, I'm looking for a place in New York, like a room to rent just because I go back and forth from LA to New York.
She goes, why don't you come live with me?
And I'm like, I don't want to share a room with you.
That's not – I'm doing that.
She doesn't know.
I got a two-bedroom.
I go, where?
She goes, 57th Street.
I'm like, who lives on 57th Street?
Like that's like serious real estate.
I go, you're always getting kicked out of the country.
You have no money.
She goes, I got 90 grand in the bank.
I go, where'd you get 90 grand?
She goes, this other model I know said, hey, you want to go to Miami for the weekend?
She goes, we went down.
We partied with these guys.
We did coke all night.
She goes, I fooled around with her.
I fooled around with both dudes.
Went home and there was 25 grand in my bank account.
I'm like, 25 grand?
I'll hook for that.
$25,000.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie ifft
For a weekend.
joe rogan
It must be nice to be like a billionaire baller dude who could just order up some $25,000 girls.
eddie ifft
$25,000.
joe rogan
Wow.
eddie ifft
For a weekend they paid.
brian redban
This is Bali.
Where was this at?
joe rogan
Miami.
unidentified
Miami.
brian redban
Oh, yeah.
There's girls that go in that one country wherever Sex and City was.
eddie ifft
Oh, Bahrain or Dubai.
brian redban
And there's so many girls that have turned down the $25,000 offer from some king that just like...
It just hits all the ladies, like $25,000 a week, you know, in there.
But I know so many people that have turned it down, but I also know a couple girls that have done it, and that's just fucking crazy.
joe rogan
I think there's quite a few of those guys out there.
eddie ifft
Well, I've been to Dubai a number of times, and there's $50 ones there.
$50 for a prostitute.
joe rogan
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that these guys that get girls from America and have them shipped over there.
eddie ifft
Oh yeah, that's crazy shit.
joe rogan
That kind of money, that's a weird reality, you know, when you have, like, trillions of dollars.
Like, there's people who are, like, I think as far as private wealth is concerned, like, what we know and you see, like, the richest man in the world.
Meh, not really, okay?
Because what you're getting is the richest man in the world who has assets that are measurable, like in the stock market.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
When you're dealing with kings, you don't have any fucking idea how much those guys have.
You don't know.
Why should you know?
eddie ifft
I got a buddy who is...
joe rogan
They have a bank.
eddie ifft
I got a buddy who's a billionaire, a real live billionaire and never knew he had money for years.
He was just my friend's friend and never knew.
We hung out in New York and everything and then one day I was reading about his family in the newspaper and I went, holy fuck.
And I called him on the phone.
I'm like, you have money.
He's like, yeah.
I'm like, no, no, no.
You have like… Fucking money.
joe rogan
His family does.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
And I said, this is bullshit.
We have never gotten to take advantage of this.
I said, you have like crazy fuck you money.
So years later, he came into the money like where it was his.
joe rogan
Ew, that's so creepy.
Just sitting around, lazy, waiting for it to happen, waiting for someone to die off.
eddie ifft
Well, no, he worked hard, but someone did die.
I don't want to give away who he possibly is, but in one year, he went from fucking Zenith to Nader.
Like, he...
Straight to rehab.
In a year?
In a year from when he took over the money to...
He would call me and be like, I'm in Vegas.
I got the top floor of the Wynn rented.
I got slip and slides down the hallway.
There's strippers and hookers everywhere.
And we got midgets in stormtrooper outfits serving us drinks.
And he'd be like, I'll have a private jet picking you up.
Get here now!
joe rogan
How much money did he inherit?
eddie ifft
About five billion dollars.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
eddie ifft
And he's not fun anymore.
brian redban
That's the best clip right there.
joe rogan
He's not fun anymore.
That's a complete ball changer.
God damn.
eddie ifft
He's not fun.
joe rogan
Five billion dollars.
eddie ifft
It's the one guy that like...
joe rogan
Why is he not fun?
eddie ifft
Because the rehab kind of...
He killed it.
Yeah, killed it.
joe rogan
No, he only needed a year before he went into rehab?
eddie ifft
Yep.
joe rogan
Wow, that's hilarious.
And what was it for?
Coke?
eddie ifft
He was smoking crack.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Like the mayor of Toronto.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Have you seen that shit?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Have you seen the mayor of Toronto got busted smoking crack?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
They have pictures of him smoking crack.
He took pictures of people while he was smoking crack.
The mayor of Toronto apparently is a hoot.
He's just a fucking wild man.
And he's out there, like, in the hood, smoking crack.
eddie ifft
The mayor!
Well, that was Barry.
Barry from D.C. was smoking crack.
joe rogan
I guess this guy feels like if Mary and Barry can do it, why can't a white guy do it?
eddie ifft
I never...
My old partner on my radio show in New York would smoke crack.
Oh, Jesus.
And I heard it when I joined the show.
They were like, don't hang out with them.
Don't lend them money.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
They knew this and he was on the air with you?
eddie ifft
He was totally functioning.
Oh, wow.
And we would...
He would party hard.
He had a gambling problem.
He's still on the radio now.
I don't want to say his name.
joe rogan
Artie Lang?
eddie ifft
No.
That sounds like Artie.
I'm pretty sure it's well known, so I'm not saying anything.
joe rogan
Well, say his fucking name.
eddie ifft
Nah, just in case.
joe rogan
Danny Bonaduce.
eddie ifft
No, but anyway.
Who the fuck is it?
The first day.
joe rogan
Look at that.
You see that picture of the mayor smoking crack?
eddie ifft
The first day we went to McDonald's to get lunch.
The first day on the air.
And he starts talking to me about comedy.
And he's like, You make money doing comedy?
I'm like, oh yeah.
And he's like, can you lend me some money?
First day.
joe rogan
Oh my god, can you lend me some money?
eddie ifft
So then one night, he never came to my shows or anything.
One night he came to a show at Stand Up New York.
Comes to the show, and he's at my show, and I have to do like three shows there.
After the first show, he's like all excited.
Oh, this is fucking great.
He goes, let's go out.
Let's go.
We're gonna go out.
And I'm like, I should probably stick around here.
He's like, no, come on.
We're gonna go party.
We'll come back.
joe rogan
Who's that voice you're doing?
eddie ifft
I'm not telling you who he is, but he left and I never saw him again that night.
And we heard a story, he ended up like in the bus station, he was buying crack, he was in a bus station, but he's been fired from every radio station.
joe rogan
Fucking crack.
eddie ifft
Crack!
joe rogan
How did you just get into that?
brian redban
Well, if you had money, why wouldn't you just go straight to the good shit?
Why would you go to like the shitty drink?
eddie ifft
I asked my friend and he said, he just, it was such a bad thing for him, he couldn't say no to anything.
So when you're around drugs, everything just starts coming around.
Like, he would go, okay, I'll try that, I'll try that, I'll try that.
joe rogan
Is this when you want sports guys?
unidentified
Is that what you're talking about?
eddie ifft
You're such a dick!
joe rogan
The WNEW morning show?
eddie ifft
You're a dick!
joe rogan
Sports guys?
eddie ifft
You're a dick!
joe rogan
Well, you're the one who's telling me it's in the fight.
You were being very vague about it.
eddie ifft
I did a bunch about it.
joe rogan
How dare you?
How dare you?
That's exactly who the fuck it is, you son of a bitch.
We won't say the dude's name.
That's what you're trying to avoid.
I just need to know for my own interpretation.
eddie ifft
I weirdly haven't spoken to him since then.
How weird?
No, I talked to him this week.
brian redban
Does he look like one, Joe?
Like his picture?
Look at his picture.
eddie ifft
I talked to him on Friday or Saturday.
joe rogan
Yeah?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that's nice.
eddie ifft
First time in like 10 years.
joe rogan
Yeah, working with people that are on drugs is very strange.
You know, hanging with people that...
I had a friend who had a serious fucking crack, coke, and heroin problem.
unidentified
Definitely.
joe rogan
And eventually died.
There's a good buddy of mine in New York, and he would fucking vanish.
He would go on benders, and he would always want to get dropped off near a crack house.
It was really crazy.
And then he would clean up for a while, and it'd be great, and then he'd go right back at it.
eddie ifft
Did you ever work?
The Kansas City Club, Stanford and Sons.
joe rogan
Oh, fuck yeah.
eddie ifft
Those guys.
joe rogan
With Beetlejuice.
eddie ifft
You know, one of them died.
joe rogan
Oh, you know, things happen over here in Kansas City.
eddie ifft
I'm Craig Glazier.
I'm Craig Glazier.
I got a Maserati.
joe rogan
Things happen in the...
eddie ifft
I'm bagging this black chick.
unidentified
Kansas City.
joe rogan
You gotta see her.
I'm the king of Kansas City.
eddie ifft
She's pretty hot.
Joe Rogan won't come back here.
I don't know why.
joe rogan
It's weird.
eddie ifft
I call him every week and he just doesn't return my calls.
joe rogan
I would like to come back to Kansas City, but I don't want to deal with...
Those dudes are great to have in your rearview mirror.
eddie ifft
They need to be known, though, by the world.
joe rogan
Well, they're characters, and I appreciate them.
I really do.
I appreciate all comedy club owners.
I mean, I had a good time working for that guy.
He didn't try to fuck me.
eddie ifft
No, no, no.
joe rogan
He got along well.
eddie ifft
He pays you.
joe rogan
Pays you.
I mean, yeah, I meant financially.
I meant financially.
I mean, I've had issues before.
I mean, these guys to this day that I'll never forget, you know, and these are a couple of guys I still work for that tried to fuck me, and they didn't get away with fucking me, but I know the fact that they tried to, and it's like, come on, man.
You know, lies about how many tickets are sold and you find out, or, you know, there's clubs that, there's a famous story of a guy on stage at a club, and he makes everybody in the club count off a number.
I'm like, well, first of all, what a douchebag he is to use his stage time to find out if he's getting fucked financially.
But the fucking, it was 200 seats under what he thought it was.
Like, he looked out and he's like, this is not 300 fucking seats, man.
And the guy's like, it's 300 seats.
What are you gonna tell me?
You know, we got door deals, your money...
eddie ifft
And he was wrong.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
The comedian was right by 200 seats.
eddie ifft
Oh, the comedian was right.
joe rogan
The club tried to fuck him by 200 seats.
eddie ifft
I heard a comic at one of the clubs, one of the clubs I was working, that a comic came through...
And he would take so many comps.
They would sell it out and he was on a guarantee and then they would take like 40 comps or whatever.
And then his manager would be outside scalping the comps.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
Was it Barry Gatz?
eddie ifft
No, but I love that story.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
That sounds normal.
That sounds like a guy trying to hustle.
Hey, you gotta make money.
What are you gonna do?
You know?
Maybe he's managing a guy that's not on TV yet.
He needs some cash.
eddie ifft
No, this guy was a big name.
joe rogan
Hey, maybe he's got bills, you know?
He's got a little overhead.
eddie ifft
He wants to make an extra...
I mean, what are they?
Let's say $40 a ticket.
unidentified
Hey, look!
joe rogan
I got pills to pay.
I got bills to pay.
brian redban
Do you guys ever count?
I mean, I've done that before where I sit in the back and just try to count.
Like, I have a rough number at least.
eddie ifft
Yeah, absolutely I do.
joe rogan
You should do that.
Well, you should know how many seats a club has legitimately if you get a deal.
But if you don't have a deal, it doesn't matter.
You know, if you get paid X amount per week.
eddie ifft
I've had some shady shit just happen lately where, you know, where I've...
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
Think about whether or not you want to say it or not.
I know what you're saying.
Like I said, I appreciate comedy club owners because it's a fucking business that I don't want to be in.
eddie ifft
No, it's impossible.
joe rogan
I don't want to be dealing with a bunch of guys like us.
Could you imagine dealing with a bunch of us every week?
That's who you're making your living off of?
That's got to be crazy.
You've got to count on Joey Diaz to show up for a weekend or you don't pay your fucking bills.
You know?
You gotta count on this guy to show up and not be crazy.
That guy to show up and not do crack after the first show and then fuck off the last two shows.
eddie ifft
The club I just worked at.
The club owner, great guy.
And it's a funny...
Have you ever heard of this club, Captain Brian's?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
Do you know that, Captain Brian's?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
It's a seafood restaurant in Florida, and the guy brings in the big, big names, and Drew Carey just did it recently, and this guy knows how to market.
He knows how to sell tickets.
He's in this little island in Florida called Marco Island, and he packs this seafood place, and he sells everyone a dinner, and he's moving up near Naples to a 650-seat location that possibly, if they move the chairs right, they can put 1,100 in.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
And he's awesome, and he stands by the comics.
I love this.
Because there was a comic who got in trouble recently, like, got in trouble down there, and the cops were after him, and he stood by him.
And the other night, I got in a bit of an altercation at his club, and I thought he wasn't there, and I called him the next day to kind of say...
Look, wasn't my fault.
Just want to let you know.
And they're all like, don't worry about it.
He's got your back.
Like, he stands behind his comics.
And I thought, you know, they're going to tell me never fucking come back here, blah, blah, blah.
And he's one of those good guys.
There's a lot of scumbag.
There's a lot of piece of shit.
joe rogan
Tough business.
The nightclub business is tough.
First of all, think about who's your, the people that you're dealing with for the most part are drunk.
You're basically a drug dealer.
That's what you are.
Not only that, they do their drugs in your establishment.
And by the way, you could be sued if you give them too many drugs and they get in their car and go smash into someone and kill them.
So you got a lot of stress.
And then you got these drunk people that want to yell things out while the show's going on and then you have to get them kicked out.
And then you find out your bartender's been stealing from you.
And then you found out, you know, this is going on and that's going on.
eddie ifft
And to have comics.
The worst people in the world in your place.
joe rogan
I think we're not the worst.
I think we're second.
eddie ifft
Behind who?
joe rogan
Bands.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I think bands would be worse.
eddie ifft
But I think bands get a little more leeway than comics do.
joe rogan
I don't know about that, man.
eddie ifft
They're expected to fuck up.
joe rogan
They're expected to be wild and crazy, but I know a band, which were main Stone Temple Pilots, and they were hired for a birthday party of a friend of mine, Dana White.
And I was there while that Scott guy, the lead guy, was throwing a fucking temper tantrum in the back about the show has to start in X amount of minutes or they're fucking leaving and fuck this and fuck that.
eddie ifft
Wasn't he the heroin addict?
joe rogan
Yeah.
They were paying him a shitload of money to be there, and it was really weird because the show starts...
And they go, I mean, this is a private party.
Fucking Stone Temple party.
Stone Temple Pilots is at a private party.
Okay, so I don't know what insane amount of money they had to pay them to do that.
But I assume it was big money.
So anyway, they come out and are fucking nailing it.
But no one's paying attention.
It's the weirdest thing ever.
Because you got Stone Temple Pilots, and they're on stage, and they're fucking killing it.
That guy is a bad motherfucker.
And when I watched it, I was inspired to perform better on stage after watching him do a live show.
But when I tell you there's 10 people on the dance floor, I'm being kind.
There's 10 people in the dance floor and the Stone Temple motherfucking Pilots is on stage.
They didn't know what to do yet because everybody had been sitting down.
Before we brought Stone Temple Pilots up, it was like a Happy Birthday Dana thing.
A bunch of people gave speeches and I gave a speech and then I brought up Stone Temple Pilots.
So, and then someone says, one of the executives, like, come on everybody, get up, get up, get up.
Like, he felt bad that no one was on the dance floor.
But it was a strange moment.
Like, first of all, people did not expect that Stone Temple Pilots was going to be there.
It was a surprise.
So it kind of tripped Dana out.
It tripped everybody out.
They're like, what?
And then, boom, these guys go up on stage and people didn't know exactly what to do.
eddie ifft
Well, I've talked to guys in bands, and for them, you know, for us, corporates are fucking hell.
joe rogan
Well, you just feel like a whore.
eddie ifft
Well, they do too, in bands, and it's tough because when they play a concert, their fans come to see them.
All of a sudden, in that crowd, there might have been maybe a tenth of the people were their fans.
joe rogan
Well, they were so badass, it didn't matter.
But what did matter is at the end, he had to sing Happy Birthday to Dana.
He had to sing it.
Happy birthday.
You're singing happy birthday, and you're not just singing it.
You're singing it to a man.
And you have to sing happy birthday to a man, and that's part of the gig.
brian redban
Was it like a slow song, or was it like a rock-out song?
joe rogan
Well, he had his dick in his hand.
So, I mean, you can't sing that fast when you're jerking off.
brian redban
He just got kicked out, by the way.
Oh, did he?
eddie ifft
I met him in, you know the bar right next to the Laugh Factory?
I forget what it used to be called.
Hide or something?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
I was in there one night.
And this dude walks up to me and asks me for drugs.
And I look at him and I go, holy fuck, it's you!
And I'm like, how cliche is this?
And I was all excited about it.
I'm like, Scott Weiland just fucking asked me for drugs.
And everyone in there was like, yeah, he asked us too.
He asked everyone here.
He just walked around going, you got drugs, you got drugs, you got drugs.
brian redban
I hung out with that dude from Friday last night, the big guy that looks like Ving Rhames but one of his eyes is like silver and stuff like that.
You know who I'm talking about?
That big, big black dude.
What's his name?
Debo.
eddie ifft
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I know who you're talking about.
brian redban
He was there with his daughter, like six-year-old, seven-year-old daughter and his wife, and he just came in to hang out for a bit.
joe rogan
Came in where?
brian redban
To the comedy store.
joe rogan
Oh, that's hilarious.
brian redban
Like at 1 a.m.
eddie ifft
If you want to meet famous people, go to the comedy clubs in L.A. That's where they go.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that.
brian redban
Bam was there also.
Wasted.
joe rogan
The Scott Whalen guy, what drugs in specific?
eddie ifft
I don't want to say, but I think he asked for...
I'm not positive, but I think he asked for Coke.
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
I think he asked for Coke.
joe rogan
That seems like what somebody would ask for.
eddie ifft
Yeah, because you're not going to ask for heroin.
joe rogan
You're not going to ask for weed.
eddie ifft
No one has heroin on them.
joe rogan
Who asks for weed?
You ever have a dude to ask you for weed?
brian redban
All the time.
unidentified
Really?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've had a lot of people ask me for weed.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you're hanging around with the brokesters at the comedy store.
brian redban
No, it's mostly tourists from Canada and stuff.
joe rogan
Oh, that's even worse.
eddie ifft
And I've been accused...
Actually, this week, twice, I was accused of being on Coke.
joe rogan
Twice.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I hung out...
After my show, I met...
These doctors who went to the same university I went to and we started talking and they came back the next night and they were talking to me and something came up about drugs and they were like, oh, you really don't do cocaine?
I said, no.
And they go, oh, we were sure you were on coke.
Your pupils are really dilated and these two doctors thought I was on coke.
So then the next night I got in this altercation with this student and he's like, you're on coke, you're on coke!
No, I'm not.
He's like, I'm getting the cops, and I'm like, I'm not on coke.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
eddie ifft
Yeah, and I'm like, why does everyone think I'm...
You're a little energetic.
Yeah, they're like, you look like you're on coke.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
There's a big difference.
People would just like to say shit like that if you have too much energy.
They want to calm you down and slow you down.
It's sort of a subliminal way to get you to stop being so...
If they're getting elevated and you're getting elevated, if they say you're on coke, you automatically try to suppress it.
It's a weak checkers move.
eddie ifft
It's probably what was happening because this guy and I were kind of getting in a fight.
He was like, I'm calling the cops here on Cork.
brian redban
Why do you fight so much, man?
eddie ifft
How many fights do you get in?
No, I never fight.
I never, ever fight.
joe rogan
You just get really close?
eddie ifft
But no, this one almost happened Saturday night.
About what?
I walked, I was leaving the comedy club and I'm going to, I rented a scooter.
I was on this little island.
I rented a scooter.
joe rogan
Oh man, a fucking scooter.
eddie ifft
It was so much fucking fun.
I could not.
joe rogan
I'm bad, but I just don't trust those car things that are all around you.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but this island, nobody – there are people in golf carts.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
So it's isolated.
eddie ifft
So I see the staff in this bar across the parking lot, this Irish pub, and I thought, I'll go in.
They're all really nice.
They work – I'll go buy them a round and say goodnight.
So I go in to buy them a round of drinks and the bartender kind of loses it, this chick, that it's 1.30 and she's like, ah, last call or whatever.
And I said, I just want to get them a drink.
And she – they said, I thought you'd stay open until 2. It's always open until 2. She started yelling at them, and she was being really cunty to every single person.
And I like to think I'm good with people.
So I went around the bar and called her to the side to be nice to her and say, hey, I know you might be having a bad night, that kind of thing.
I'm sorry, blah, blah, blah.
I'm sorry if I ordered a round.
It's late.
Because really I wanted more limes in my drink that she gave me.
And I go, is there any way I can get some more limes?
And she was like, really?
You want more fucking limes in your drink?
And I was like, yeah.
And then it just started to get more and more heated where she just was like, Berating me like just and it wasn't it wasn't like this Daniel Tosh like ha ha ha I'm joking kind of thing it was she was just being a cunt to me and I went like this at the end she goes so do you want your limes now and I go no I don't I don't want the limes I don't want anything from you I go because you're a horrible person I go – and I don't say that to anyone.
I go, you're a horrible person.
And I walked over to the other – the staff, and I go, she's the worst person I've ever met in my life.
joe rogan
I go – Well, you got off light.
That's the worst person you've ever met?
eddie ifft
Well, I was exaggerating.
You spell horrible with a W? But I kept going.
And I said, this person, I said, I don't know what happened to her in her life, who physically or mentally abused her or whatever.
I said, I go, I've had murderers on my podcast that are nicer people than her.
I go, I've had a couple people on my podcast that have murdered people.
joe rogan
You shouldn't say that probably.
eddie ifft
And I said, no, no, they've gone to jail and served time and everything.
But I go, I, she's the, and I just kept talking to them, but loudly that she could hear it.
So she went in the back and started crying.
And like I broke her.
She – that was it.
And so I'm out in the parking lot, and all of a sudden two guys that work in the back of the kitchen come running out at me, and they come like running at me.
And I know there were cops in the parking lot.
I go, where are the cops?
And I'm just like backing up like looking for the cops because I'm like I'm not going to fight these guys.
And then no cops.
So I'm like, oh fuck, this is happening.
And I'm like, they're going to jump me.
You know, this is like some town in Florida.
I'm like, I don't know what to do.
So I do what I do best.
I lied.
joe rogan
What'd you do?
eddie ifft
I go, you don't want to fuck with me.
I look at the one guy.
I go, you're old.
I'll drop you in one punch.
And I look at the other guy.
I go, I fight MMA, dude.
I'm going to choke you out.
I'm going to kick your teeth in.
I go, when you go out, I'm kicking your fucking teeth in.
And you're going to wake up with no teeth.
And I'm going to ride away on my scooter.
And that worked?
I didn't mention it as a scooter.
It diffused it so quickly because the guy realized that he was like a big fat dude.
And the truth is, one-on-one, I could probably...
joe rogan
Here's what happened.
The old dude and the fat dude want to fuck the cunt.
eddie ifft
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
They came out to try to get some brownie points.
They tried to do some white knight action.
eddie ifft
But then the dude goes to pull out of his pocket and I'm like, oh, fuck, he's got a gun.
And I'm like, I should have just run.
I should have just run when they came out.
And he pulls out his cell phone.
He goes, I'm calling the cops.
And I'm like, good.
You guys just were going to jump me.
I go, get the cops.
And he goes, you're on coke.
You're on coke.
Because I was getting – I'm like, I'll fucking drop both of you.
I'm like, I'll do it.
You're on coke.
joe rogan
I mean – Well, that sounds like a coke move, and you are in Florida.
I mean, to talk some shit and make up a story about you being an MMA fighter, what if the guy was like, who do you fight for?
eddie ifft
I was doing anything to save myself from fighting, because I was like, I do not want to fight these two guys, because my thing is, I never want to go to jail.
I'm not.
I'm claustrophobic.
I don't want to get locked up.
joe rogan
Well, especially when the cops don't know the whole story.
eddie ifft
Exactly.
joe rogan
And you don't know if the guy's going to be a friend of the cops.
eddie ifft
Yeah, and a small town like that.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And easily the cops could beat the fuck out of you.
eddie ifft
And I had just heard that day about a comedian that was there a few weeks ago.
It's a very funny story.
joe rogan
Are you going to name this guy or no?
You motherfucker.
You're full of half-stories.
eddie ifft
Alright, I'll tell it.
I don't think he'll care even.
It was Jeff Dye.
Do you know Jeff Dye?
He's a good guy.
And he's a funny guy and he was on Last Comic Standing and he's got a show on MTV. But Jeff, they were at some bar after the show and they stole a jersey, like framed jersey off the wall.
Took it back to the condo.
unidentified
Had these chicks wearing it, taking pictures of it, everything.
joe rogan
Putting it on Instagram.
eddie ifft
Putting it on everywhere.
Oh my god.
Then the bar called the cops.
Cops got involved.
joe rogan
Duh.
eddie ifft
They bring it back.
They apologize and everything.
So show's Sunday night.
They go back to the bar after the show.
They take it again.
What?
Fly with it to LA. What?
Put it back on Instagram.
And then all this shit happened again, and they had to send it back.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
But that happened two weeks ago.
So in my head, I'm like, these cops aren't going to like a comedian in the parking lot.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
eddie ifft
It looks like he's starting to fight.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's a good move.
brian redban
Jeff Dye was the one that attacked Tony Hinchcliffe once on Twitter, calling him out.
joe rogan
He attacked him about what?
brian redban
His comedy.
eddie ifft
Really?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
What about his comedy?
brian redban
It was so long ago, but we did a podcast all about it.
joe rogan
You didn't like it?
brian redban
It was something like Tony, if you know Tony's comedy, it's very sarcastic, very dry, very like, almost like Jeffrey Ross, The Burn, because that's what he does for a living, he writes for it.
And he said something like, he was having like a weird set, and then Tony said something like, you know, like, I know I'm a great comedian, so fuck you, or something like that, like sarcastic.
And Jeff started like tweeting things like, Tony, your ego this, or something like that.
I can't remember, but I don't know.
It was in a podcast, we did Ice House Chronicles the day it happened.
joe rogan
You know, situations like that happen when a guy just decides to go after another comedian.
brian redban
Right, it's kind of weird.
Why would you do that?
joe rogan
It's a douchebag detecting device.
That's what it is.
It's like when a guy flares up like that, like, oh, you've been trying to hold that douchebag down, haven't you?
But look, it just flared.
You saw a guy say something and you decided it was time to cunt it out.
eddie ifft
I'm amazed when guys do it because I've always been under the impression that if I don't like you, I'll say I don't like you.
joe rogan
Well, that's a thing too.
You're like, a guy's bombing and he says, I know I'm a great comedian, so fuck you guys.
That's kind of a funny thing to say and you just decide to go and attack him.
Why are you doing it?
You're doing it because you're insecure.
That's the only reason why anybody does that.
eddie ifft
I always thought there was kind of a code of ethics among comics.
joe rogan
To not go after each other like that?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, especially when you're fucking around.
You know, I've heard people talk shit about guys that went on stage and were trying out new material.
Like, oh, this new material fucking sucked.
It was terrible.
Like, how about you don't even write any new material, all right?
You're making fun of a guy who's up there and, you know, maybe it didn't go well.
You know, maybe he tried some shit out and it didn't go well.
But what the fuck, man?
You know, for you to...
Are you pretending you don't know what that's like?
What does it say?
brian redban
Here's what he said.
And the winner for the most disgusting display of arrogance is Tony Hinchcliffe.
False sense of fame.
joe rogan
Oh, what's wrong?
And Tony says, oh, what's wrong, pouty pants.
brian redban
And then he wrote back, Tony, you told the crowd I taped TV today, so if this goes bad, fuck you.
joe rogan
That's funny.
That's the same.
brian redban
It's a joke.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
That sounds exactly like how Tony Chinchcliffe does his whole act.
eddie ifft
Sounds like there was more, though, behind that.
brian redban
No, there wasn't.
I asked Tony.
He's like, I don't even.
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, Tony's got notoriety right now.
He's working for the Burn.
He's doing well.
That was one thing that I've always noticed.
Whenever a comic would break away from the pack, you would always see a flood of guys talking shit about him.
Especially in the early days.
Like the first guys to get sitcoms and the first guys to get...
I remember having conversations with people and I'm like, why do you care?
How does it affect you if this guy is not funny but he's doing really well?
Somebody obviously likes them.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've always, whenever I feel anger towards a comedian, I always try to look at myself and say, am I angry at them or am I angry at myself because I'm not doing what they're doing?
Am I angry because I don't have the sitcom?
Am I angry because I'm not doing that festival?
joe rogan
For sure, there's that.
And you know what?
For sure, people have different tastes, too.
And if I don't like something, it doesn't mean it's not good.
I was in a car the other day, and some guy tried to play some band for me.
And he's playing it loud.
I'm like, oh my god.
I'm going to open this door and jump.
I'm like, this is terrible.
This music is terrible.
And he's like, they're a cool new indie band from Seattle.
I'm like, they need to stop.
They need to stop right now.
I'm like, this is nails on a chalkboard.
But to him, this was some cool shit that he wanted to play me.
You know?
And I... Look, Eddie Bravo doesn't like Leonard Skinner.
Okay?
I try to play some Leonard Skinner.
Eddie Bravo doesn't want to hear Leonard Skinner.
You know, I can play it for Ari Shafir, who's got, like, the shittiest...
He likes Lana Del Rey, and he only listens to it when he's naked.
But, like, his sense of music...
I'm not into his type of music, but I can play him some Leonard Skinner.
At least he can understand it.
Eddie Bravo is, like, my best friend.
Doesn't even...
Like Leonard Skinner.
eddie ifft
But I think people are more understandable, understanding about that with music.
They're not with comedy where they go, he's bad.
People always say to me, is he funny?
And I go, it's not my thing.
But I'm not going to say if he's not funny or not.
That's like going, he's not musical.
joe rogan
It's like one of the things that comes up when you're developing an act and developing an audience.
It's like when you first go on stage, like the first years, like the first 10 plus years of your comedy career, most likely the people have no idea who the fuck you are.
And so you, although you might have your own shit that you would like to talk about, you gotta, like, get into their head first with some fairly neutral or homogenous or confidence-building stuff so that then you can take them into deeper waters once they already like you.
So it will take, like, a lot longer to, like, get to it.
You know, so there's, like, there's a benefit, like, as a comic to that, and that benefit is that you're learning how to craft material and you're learning how to Pull people in.
You're learning how to not lose them with controversial stuff in the beginning that would work if you did it 15, 20 minutes in instead of your first bit.
I think that a lot of times when you're seeing new and upcoming comedians, there's a lot of frustration going on.
There's a lot of rejection.
Everybody's trying to put it together and get something to happen.
So there's all this fucking tension.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
So when a guy like Tony Hinchcliffe's doing good, fucking arrogant, you fucking bullshitter.
eddie ifft
How long's Tony been around?
joe rogan
Not that long.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Not that long.
brian redban
Seven years?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucking good, man.
I'll tell you, I took that kid to Indianapolis.
He was really funny.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
He made me laugh.
eddie ifft
I've never seen him laugh.
brian redban
He destroyed in La Jolla this week.
joe rogan
Ad-libbing a bunch of shit about the situation, like something that happened on stage.
eddie ifft
I've only seen him on the Ice House Chronicles.
I did when we sat there and he did impressions.
brian redban
Oh, he does a lot of Brody impressions.
eddie ifft
No, but they were like dead on.
He's good.
Like dead on.
joe rogan
He's a funny kid.
eddie ifft
I always like comics that can do impressions of other comics that no one likes.
joe rogan
This other guy, you know, he's just frustrated.
That's what it is.
It's just, that's...
It's a part of, and you know what, the feel the sting of being recognized for being kind of a cunty bitch, you know, when something like that, that's good for your personality.
You need to know that that type of behavior is loathsome.
And then when people read shit like that, they lash back at you, because they know exactly what you're really doing.
eddie ifft
I had it, when I first started comedy and I was in New York, I got a lot of shit too early.
Like, way too early.
joe rogan
A lot of shit?
eddie ifft
I know, like festivals and TV shows.
joe rogan
You're a cute little fella.
eddie ifft
But I didn't deserve it, and everyone let me know it.
You know, all the comics fucking let me know it.
joe rogan
There's no deserve it.
You know, you get a shot, a lottery ticket pops up, you grab it.
There's no deserve it.
Because what is the shot for?
Is the shot for you doing a sitcom?
Because if it is, guess what?
Anybody can do that.
It could be a comic that sucks.
His comic could be terrible, but if you write good lines for him in a sitcom, you could do it.
I was funnier on news radio than I was in my real act.
When I first started doing news radio in 94, I wasn't that good of a comedian.
eddie ifft
I don't know, I saw you, I always say this, I saw you, I think before I started doing stand-up, I saw you, Sarah Silverman, and I forget who it was, on Caroline's Comedy Hour.
And it changed comedy for me because you guys were dirty.
And I never saw dirty on TV. It was one of the first things that you could be dirty.
And I couldn't believe the shit Sarah was saying.
I couldn't believe what you were saying.
And I was like, oh, I think I want to do this now.
Like the fact that this is what I talk about.
joe rogan
Let me phrase that.
I had probably like 20 good minutes of fuck jokes.
But I wasn't a real comic, you know what I'm saying?
I could headline, but realistically, did I really have an hour?
Not really.
I had an hour, but 40 minutes of it probably sucked.
eddie ifft
I headlined way before I should have.
joe rogan
Yeah, absolutely.
We all did.
I mean, I was capable of doing an hour, an hour, like a year in.
But was it a good hour?
No, it was dog shit.
It was terrible.
eddie ifft
My third gig ever, a guy took me to Dan Rosenberg.
I still see him around sometimes.
Dan Rosenberg.
I was living in Pittsburgh.
He goes, hey, you want to open for me?
And I said, yeah.
You know, I was doing like open mic spots at the Funny Bone in Pittsburgh.
He goes, all right, we're going to Oil City.
We're playing this VFW. And I was like, all right, we get there.
And he goes, so you're going to do 30, 35 and I'll do 45 to an hour.
And I went, How long?
And he goes, 30 minutes.
You got 30 minutes?
unidentified
I went, I got five.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
Oh, that's a horrible...
To a person who doesn't understand how terrifying I am, that's a terrible, terrible feeling.
eddie ifft
I wrote jokes right there.
I was just writing them.
joe rogan
So my point is, when someone was giving you shit, if they were giving you shit saying that, you know, you shouldn't have got that so soon, stop it.
That doesn't mean...
Nobody should have...
If it's a sitcom, if that's what you're worried about...
eddie ifft
Also, you gotta know, I came up through the Comedy Cellar in New York with all the guys from Tough Crowd and that sense of humor of just shitting on each other.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's great.
eddie ifft
And they fucking...
Patrice O'Neal used to...
I would see Patrice.
I would walk in the club.
If I saw Patrice, I would go back out and go downstairs and come in the other way.
joe rogan
Because you didn't want to fuck him with you?
eddie ifft
Oh, he would just fucking kill me.
joe rogan
I love that guy.
eddie ifft
He was hilarious.
joe rogan
But it's like, when he fucks with you, it's like an honor.
You know, it's fun.
It's like, people who are not comics will probably never understand that way of interacting with each other.
eddie ifft
Well, I walked in...
We used to do the roasts in New York City.
That's like kind of where...
I mean, they'd always done roasts, but the kind of...
Reinvention of the roast happened through all those guys, Geraldo and all those guys in New York.
And the first one I went to, I think it might have been for Barry Katz or for – I forget who it was for.
But I walk in and Rich Voss is hosting it.
And I walk in and I sit down.
I'm all excited.
I'm at the roast and he opens and he goes, I'd like to thank all the comedians and Eddie Ift for being here tonight.
And I just fucking melted.
And I was just shitting myself.
And then they hit me like four more times during the roast.
And Rich Voss would go, yeah, apparently Eddie Iff just got another development deal.
Or his parents just gave him some more money.
Eddie was just killing me.
And then Bill Burr.
They all fucking smashed me.
And I remember, like, I was going to cry.
It hurt so bad.
joe rogan
Wow, you pussy.
eddie ifft
I was demoralized.
And I'm walking out and Tony Woods grabbed me.
Do you know Tony Woods?
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
eddie ifft
Tony goes, dog, what are you doing?
Why are you upset?
And I go, they just smashed me!
And he goes, dude, they're talking about you.
joe rogan
Where did you start doing comedy?
eddie ifft
I started in Pittsburgh.
I was there for about nine months and decided, you know, I don't want to be in Pittsburgh.
joe rogan
So why were you having a hard time with the way comics roll in New York?
eddie ifft
Because I went to New York and...
joe rogan
You didn't know anybody like that?
eddie ifft
I didn't know one...
No, not really.
Pittsburgh wasn't like that and I went to New York and they just beat me.
joe rogan
It's Boston.
It's Boston too.
Boston was ruthless.
Patrice and Bill Burr, both of them from Boston.
Those are fucking drunk fishermen.
eddie ifft
But like I have that now.
And, you know, I develop that from them and I do it to people and I forget how sensitive people are.
I mean, I just had a guy quit my podcast because I was always fucking with him.
joe rogan
What, like a guy you worked with?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I fuck with everyone and I don't realize how sensitive people are.
joe rogan
Comics like it.
eddie ifft
I love it now.
joe rogan
Me and Joey Diaz will start fucking with each other sometimes.
Insulting each other.
Fake insulting each other.
It's so fun.
Like, what are you doing, cocksucker?
You got a fucking Taibo class to go through?
Sit the fuck down, you know?
He'll say shit to you.
And when he insults you, it's funny.
What, you got a fucking kill?
Shake up your ass?
You out here walking around like a fucking Momo.
Sit down.
eddie ifft
I live for, when I see Rich Voss, I just love to go head-to-head with Voss.
joe rogan
It's fun.
It's fun.
I enjoy it.
It's fun.
You know, I remember I was listening to Opie and Anthony, and they're talking about Louis C.K. and Bobby Kelly, or Jim Norton, were talking about how comics interact with each other, and no one could ever understand it.
Jim Norton had a slice of pizza, and Louis C.K. just slapped the pizza out of his hand.
It said something like, your mother's a cunt, and just walked away.
And Norton just couldn't help but laugh.
He couldn't help but laugh.
eddie ifft
We used to do a thing at the cellar where if you were looking at anything on paper, like usually the lineup sheet is on the table.
If you were looking at it, one of the other comics would grab it out of your hand and crumple it up and throw it on the ground.
And so one night, Tony Rock is reading a newspaper article and it's a review of his show or something about him.
And Steve Byrne...
Walks in, grabs it, crumples it up, and throws it on the ground.
And Tony just punches him right in the face.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
unidentified
Where was this?
joe rogan
At the Laugh Factory?
eddie ifft
At the Cellar in New York.
joe rogan
At the Cellar.
eddie ifft
I mean, there was so much shit like that.
joe rogan
He punched him in the face?
eddie ifft
Like, for real?
Yeah, like, really hit him.
joe rogan
They got into a fight.
eddie ifft
No, I mean, they didn't fight after that.
Tony was mad.
I talked to Tony.
He's like, it's the first time I was ever written up in the paper.
And, you know, Tony was a brand new comic.
He fucking crumpled it up.
And I'm like...
Well, you know, but there's a thing at the Comedy Cellar table that says comics only.
Like, there's a table just for the comedians.
And it was just every night they would do it to somebody.
joe rogan
That's a great idea.
eddie ifft
You'd be sitting there and they'd grab it and they'd just put it in front of you.
joe rogan
A comics only table is a beautiful idea.
It's amazing.
People can get to you, though?
eddie ifft
People do come around, but that's what they do.
They'll put the little thing in front of them saying, comics only, like, go away.
joe rogan
Right.
eddie ifft
And so they do it to comics sometimes.
unidentified
Oh, no.
eddie ifft
Like, a comic will sit down and they go, um, comics.
joe rogan
People have to understand, like, that sounds rude, but that's the environment required to do good comedy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you have to also be aware that if you do some cheesy, stupid shit, they're going to call you on it.
So you've got to feel that.
You've got to feel that from those people in the room.
And that added pressure...
It makes you develop.
eddie ifft
I was on stage there one night, and you have to, to get to the bathroom, you have to walk past the stage.
You're literally one table back.
The row runs parallel to the stage.
And I'm doing my act, and Jim Norton walks by me, looks at me, and he's as far as you to me right now, and he goes, ugh.
He goes to the bathroom, comes back from the bathroom, looks at me again, and goes, double ugh.
It just goes upstairs.
joe rogan
It's only fun for comedians, man.
Regular people, if you did that at work, you'd get sued.
You'd get sued.
You would lose your gig.
Maybe people fucking can't crack jokes at work.
And there's people that are annoying about that shit, but there's a lot of funny that gets cut out of the workplace.
brian redban
Do you remember the water balloons at the comedy store, Joe?
joe rogan
Let's not talk about that as if it actually happened.
brian redban
But wouldn't it be cool if somebody might have done that?
joe rogan
If somebody might have launched water balloons with a catapult off the Comedy Store and flew them towards the Sky Bar where there was a bunch of assholes waiting in line to get in, it might have happened.
unidentified
I can't think of anything funnier.
joe rogan
Launched like 35 miles an hour.
I mean they hit them like cars.
I've used those things, yeah.
These people got hit in the head and their heads would snap back.
brian redban
These are like Paris Hilton's and stuff like that.
eddie ifft
I have a new respect for everyone at the Comedy Store that was involved in that.
joe rogan
I was fortunately on the ground level, so I heard screaming.
That's how I found out what was going on.
I heard screaming across the street, and then I see this dude get hit in the fucking head like the Zapruder film.
I mean, his head snaps back.
I mean, it's a fucking quart of water hitting this dude in the face.
It was really kind of fucked up because they had this contraption.
This allegedly happened, by the way.
Allegedly.
I don't even remember who was on the roof.
It was some employees, though.
eddie ifft
Allegedly.
Who could get in trouble now?
joe rogan
Allegedly?
I don't remember who it was.
And, you know, eyewitness accounts are some of the worst pieces of evidence you're ever going to come across.
So the reality is, I honestly, honestly do not remember exactly who did it.
It was some employee.
But you could, like, put in my mind, it was this guy.
And I'd be like, okay.
brian redban
We had a secret show where all the people involved talked about it.
joe rogan
I bet there's a lot of people now pretending to be involved.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the cops came to the store, and they were looking for the people, but nobody could figure out what happened.
I don't think they even looked on the roof.
Did they ever look on the roof?
No, I think- Allegedly.
Not really happened.
eddie ifft
That's genius, though.
joe rogan
Oh, it was ruthless.
But it was stand-up comedians, you know, drunk and high, going, should we?
Yeah, fuck it!
eddie ifft
That's awesome.
joe rogan
But we didn't know about it literally until it happened.
You know that front area of the comic store?
eddie ifft
Just shows you how childish comics are.
Our sense of humor is so...
Like, we used to throw crab apples at cars as kids.
That was our...
We would take these apples and you would just hit cars as hard as you could as they're driving down the road.
joe rogan
That's some East Coast shit.
eddie ifft
Or snowballs.
Snowballs in the middle of winter with snow all over the road.
joe rogan
How about snowballs with rocks inside of them?
That was a big one.
A lot of kids did that.
You drive by and you hear your car go BANG! You're like, you motherfucker!
Hit the brakes and then they scatter in three different directions.
eddie ifft
We used to set up our escape routes.
unidentified
We had this one where we'd be behind these trees.
eddie ifft
We'd be behind these trees, we'd throw the crab apples, and we'd kind of try to, once they stopped, we'd kind of show ourselves because we had such an amazing escape route, we wanted them to come after us.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
We'd run through this guy's backyard and he had a creek through his backyard, like I kind of lived near the woods, and he had a pipe, the creek went in a pipe that went under the road.
So there was a fence around his yard and it was like a...
If you open the fence, it closed itself.
So we had a stick that would keep the fence open, the door.
The last guy would kick the stick out so the gate would close if they were chasing you.
We'd run down into the creek, through the pipe, and come up on the other side of the road and just watch him looking for us.
brian redban
Oh, that's awesome.
eddie ifft
And we lived for this.
joe rogan
What if you fell and cracked your ankle and that guy came there and just fucked your face?
Knocked all your teeth out and pulled his fat Quaker Oats box cock out of his pants and just fucked your face.
And your friends, they're a bunch of pussies.
They're not going to help you.
This guy's got a giant hard-on.
He's just been waiting for some kid to throw a piece of fruit at his car so he can find an excuse to punch his teeth out and fuck his face.
He's just got you pinned up against the opening of that tube, that cement tube.
eddie ifft
I'm writing this as a movie.
joe rogan
And you now know whether you should rub his balls to make it go quicker.
eddie ifft
This is the start of a movie right here.
joe rogan
Should I finger his ass and maybe this guy will come?
Or just...
eddie ifft
No, but I did have a cousin.
joe rogan
Should I fight it?
Would that make him come quicker?
eddie ifft
I had a cousin who said, you know, he was the older cousin, Ted.
Ted Smith said to me, if you get caught, you're on your own.
That was the deal.
You're on your own.
Ted gets caught.
Who were you with?
Eddie Ift.
joe rogan
I saw some kid beat the fuck out of some other guy who threw a snowball at his car.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Some guys threw snowballs at this guy's car and hit that car.
Boom!
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
You see the guy lock up, hit the brakes.
His car shuts.
Click!
He throws it in the park and he's just sprinting from the moment he gets out of the car.
There was no hesitation.
This guy had a fucking plan.
And the kid hesitated for a second and was like, oh shit.
The guy came out way too quick.
If a guy starts running at you, you gotta know when to run.
And this guy was a motherfucker.
He was a tough guy, obviously.
He was an athlete, too.
He moved really quick.
Took this guy down and just smashed his fucking face in.
People were screaming, stop hitting him, stop hitting him.
He beat the fuck out of this guy.
eddie ifft
I don't, like, I've never had it happen to me where I got hit by anything.
Driving, now.
I don't know if kids still do it.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, they do it.
Are you crazy?
If you leave kids outside and there's snow, they're throwing it at cars.
That's a fact.
There's no getting away from that.
But if you throw a rock inside a snowball and you hit someone's car, you kind of deserve to get your ass kicked.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
eddie ifft
I never did that.
joe rogan
You shouldn't get killed, you know, but, I mean, someone maybe should scare the fuck out of you and smack you in the face a few times.
eddie ifft
A rock's pretty bad, yeah.
joe rogan
Because a lot of kids do that, man.
You're throwing crab apples, you fuck.
Crab apples will dent the shit out of a car.
eddie ifft
There was this crazy fucking group of kids in our neighborhood that used to...
Fucked up crazy kids.
And they used to tie a dummy to like a rope.
Up in a tree and swing it across the road in front of cars.
brian redban
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
That's how people die.
eddie ifft
Yeah, these guys were fucking crazy.
joe rogan
When I was in high school, there was this one dude and he was, I think he went to the rival high school and he was a little older.
So say if I was like 15, he was like maybe 18 or 19 or something like that.
And his parents had a lot of money.
And folks who grew up in Newton will know this story.
Newton, Massachusetts in the 1980s.
I guess I was probably a freshman in high school, so it was like 1981. Well, this guy had a Trans Am, like a fucking Burt Reynolds-style Trans Am.
eddie ifft
With the eagle on the hood?
joe rogan
And he ran over a dude.
And the guy got trapped under his car.
And he drove with the body under his car for miles.
He just killed the guy by driving with this guy under his car.
Yeah.
eddie ifft
Is he in prison still?
joe rogan
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know if he's still in prison.
I know he went to jail.
I mean, I know it was a big case.
It was all over the...
It was in the front page of the Globe.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
It was a big story.
My high school has been on...
joe rogan
This guy.
eddie ifft
My high school has been on the cover of USA Today...
Like three times in my life.
One, it was with our quarterback from our football team, sprained his ankle at a pep rally.
And they made a joke about it in like a little blurb that he, at the pep rally, he couldn't...
joe rogan
That's not as good as my story.
eddie ifft
No, but listen to this one.
joe rogan
Okay.
eddie ifft
There was a guy, two, two guys, and I'm really...
I'm pulling out of the one right now.
I'll tell the one, the other one.
I will tell you off air and I'll tell you why.
unidentified
You are a motherfucker with these fucking half-tell stories.
eddie ifft
I kind of told it on my podcast a little bit and had to pull out of it and edit it because he'll find us all and he's an evil genius.
The one dude.
But the other dude, his name was Bob Corby.
And Bob Corby was the guy, he was like a seventh year senior in high school.
And when he would come to school, You would hear about it.
Everyone's like, Corby's here.
He was the biggest badass back then.
joe rogan
What do you mean by seventh year senior?
You mean he never graduated?
eddie ifft
He never graduated.
He'd come to school once a month.
But he was the toughest motherfucker ever.
And one time I saw him come down the hall.
And there was like this gang of kids that were the tough kids.
And he came down and I was just cutting class.
And he grabbed one of them and was just banging his head in the locker.
joe rogan
How old was he at the time?
eddie ifft
He was probably like...
19 or something in high school.
joe rogan
What a douchebag.
eddie ifft
But the kid he was beating up was probably the same thing.
Like these were the degenerates that just never – they never went to – so he's just abusing this kid.
I get so scared I walk straight into a classroom that's going on and the teacher is like, what are you doing?
What are you doing in my classroom?
And I go, Because I was so scared of what was going on in the hallway that I just went into a random classroom.
Well, this dude, cops used to...
It was a known thing that the cops said, when you've got to go pick up Bob Corby, you've got to bring a lot of cops because he's that badass.
Well, a couple years ago, I see on the front page of the newspaper, I'm sitting on a plane, FBI agents come to his house because he's dealing drugs and his wife blows away an FBI agent with a shotgun.
And what happened was...
Cops came in.
He took the drugs, flushed them down the toilet, ran out the back door.
FBI agent says to his wife, we're coming upstairs.
She goes, don't come up here.
She's got her baby.
She's got a shotgun.
She goes, don't come up here.
And the FBI agent goes, we're coming up, FBI. And he comes around the corner and she just goes.
Oh my god.
Now, the argument was going to be like she ended up getting prison.
Bob Corby didn't, so I'm probably dead when I go back to Pittsburgh for telling this, but she – the argument was when drug dealers raid like – Why are you telling this story if you're getting in trouble?
joe rogan
Are you out of your fucking mind and you're telling it on this podcast?
eddie ifft
No, I mean, it was all over the newspaper.
I mean, it's a known story.
joe rogan
So you're still saying you shouldn't be telling it?
eddie ifft
No, no, I'm joking.
joe rogan
Wow, so she shotgunned the cop.
eddie ifft
She shotgunned the cop, but the argument is, and if you know from Craig Glazier from Sanford and Sons when he used to raid...
Drug dealers, that was how he made his money.
He would tell drug dealers that he was a cop and then take all the money.
joe rogan
Yeah, that is true.
eddie ifft
You never know if it's really the FBI. Right, so that was her defense, is that these could have been drug dealers coming to steal money.
And they still put her in jail?
Yep.
joe rogan
She's right in a lot of ways.
But why were they looking for him?
Because she was selling drugs.
So she must have probably known that, right?
She probably thought someone… He had a lot of priors.
That is a good excuse, though, that you could have thought another drug dealer was stealing your money.
A woman with a child is a very fucking primal thing.
They'll defend their territory if they have a gun and some guy who may or may not be an FBI agent is coming up the stairs.
And how long did she go to jail for that?
unidentified
I don't know.
eddie ifft
I think she's still in.
joe rogan
Well, this guy who was the rival guy from the rival high school was like the cool guy because his parents were like really wealthy.
So he had a car that was like we were all envious of.
Like if we had a nice car back then, it was an old shitty car.
He had, like, a nice new car.
It was mind-boggling to us.
This guy had a 1980 Trans Am or whatever it was.
eddie ifft
And he drove over somebody.
joe rogan
He dragged this guy for, I think it was something like seven miles.
And there was a meaty streak for seven miles.
I mean, the guy was stuck under his, you know, it's a car.
And it's a low car because it's a Trans Am.
And the guy got stuck under it and dragged for, like, seven miles.
unidentified
Wow.
eddie ifft
I dragged a hooker once for about, I'd say like five feet.
joe rogan
In a car?
eddie ifft
In a car.
joe rogan
Was she hanging on?
eddie ifft
She tried to put her arm in my window to unlock my door.
Like I put down the window a little bit.
It was like a crack whore.
And I was coming home from a gig and I will admit I had a little bit to drink and I was eating Wendy's.
joe rogan
Were you talking shit?
eddie ifft
I had a bag of Wendy's on my lap.
I'm eating and it's like 3 in the morning and This hooker flags me down and I thought like it was an emergency type thing, the way she was like wavy.
So I said, what's going on?
And she goes, it's so cold.
It's so cold.
And I went – and I only put the window down just a crack to find out what was going on.
She goes, it's so cold.
It's so cold.
And I go, huh?
And I'm like, all right, this is weird.
She goes, Let me in your car.
Let me in your car.
And I'm like, I'm not letting this chick in my car.
And she goes, come on, I'll give you a blowjob.
unidentified
And I was like, huh?
eddie ifft
And she goes, I'll do it cheap.
And then it like all occurs to me.
I'm like, oh, hook her.
And by the time I'm about to like put up the window and go, she's putting her arm in trying to unlock the door.
And so I just hit the gas to like get away from her.
And this is all a split second.
So my reaction is, fuck, this chick's getting in my car.
And I drive.
And I just see her just get dragged and then thump, thump.
And then in my head, I thought I was that dude.
I thought I drove over her.
I'm like, I just fucking.
And there I am in the middle of the ghetto in Pittsburgh and taking a shortcut through.
No one's going to believe me.
They're all going to be like, oh, he just likes to kill hookers.
joe rogan
My question, did you finish your sandwich?
eddie ifft
You know what?
I think I did.
Because what happened was...
joe rogan
Did you see her stand up?
eddie ifft
No, no.
I stopped.
I look in the rearview mirror.
She's fucking on the ground.
And I'm like, fuck, I killed her.
And I had to make this decision where I'm like, do I fucking leave or not?
And I think we talked about this on the Icehouse Con.
I fucking...
I was like...
I sat there and she stood up.
Finally.
joe rogan
Good.
eddie ifft
And dusted herself off and gave me the finger.
And then I gave her the finger and I drove away.
joe rogan
Wow, you gave her the finger after you almost killed her?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Weren't you happy that she was alive?
eddie ifft
I was so...
I was like, that's the end of my life.
joe rogan
Where's your compassion, though?
eddie ifft
No one would have left.
Why would you give her the finger?
joe rogan
You got off light, man.
You could have been a murderer.
eddie ifft
You weren't.
joe rogan
You should have been like, mwah!
eddie ifft
That wouldn't have been...
I mean...
I would have gone to jail for murder, but I didn't.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
eddie ifft
But I didn't.
joe rogan
I do not think you would have.
brian redban
I don't think you would have, because she kind of attacked you in some ways.
eddie ifft
No one's going to believe that, though.
joe rogan
Oh, they would believe you.
If you told the story exactly the way you did it, you know, you had a Wendy's bag and you're a Jack in the Box or whatever the fuck it was.
Was it Wendy's?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wendy's in your lap.
I mean, it all makes sense.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, you didn't know this is the spot where hookers are.
Were you from that town?
brian redban
Yeah.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but it was like, I... I drove through that area and it was a shortcut, but most people would be like, where are you coming from?
Where are you going?
It wouldn't have been like, why would you go that way?
joe rogan
There was a lot of car shit that went down when I was a kid that I remember that was like a real lesson.
Like there was a kid that I knew from my town that killed his best friend in a drunk driving accident by the time we were like seniors.
He drove drunk and smashed into a tree and killed his friend.
And there was that guy who drove over the guy.
There was quite a few of those little situations where someone died.
eddie ifft
Yeah, when people die young, that's it.
It's cars, it's drugs, motorcycles.
joe rogan
Another one, a guy that we went to high school with was changing his tire.
He changed his tire on the side of the road and someone smashed in his car and killed him.
Someone just wasn't paying attention.
So those were like three giant lessons that I was very fortunate that I didn't have to get on my own.
Like, don't drive drunk.
Don't stand on the side of the road changing a tire.
You've got to be careful.
eddie ifft
I'm not proud of it, but I used to drive drunk a lot as a kid.
And I was bad.
I was really bad.
And I don't ever do it now.
I never fucking do it because I'm too afraid.
joe rogan
It's avoidable.
Yeah.
But it's really kind of crazy if you stop and think about the fact that drug stores and they have liquor and then there's bars and they have liquor and then there's supermarkets and they have liquor.
If marijuana was as readily available as alcohol, it would be fucking bananas.
Because literally, if you go down Ventura Boulevard in Studio City Every 20 feet you can buy alcohol.
There's like a series of bars and restaurants.
Every 20 feet you can get fucked up.
eddie ifft
I'm amazed that I'm still alive.
One time I was at a bachelor party and we left and we were on Lake George in New York and we had to get back to the house where we were all staying and there was like one bar in this town and all these guys piled in this minivan and we were supposed to have two like vans for all the guys but One of the vans had to leave to take a guy to the hospital from the bar.
And we were leaving and this Australian buddy of mine that was there jumps on the roof of the car.
And I think it's funny.
I jump on the roof of the car too.
joe rogan
While you're driving?
eddie ifft
No, this is in the parking lot.
And then there's like a whole bunch of guys in the van because it was really crowded.
So he goes, ah, I'm getting on the roof.
And I went, ah, me too, just fucking around.
And the guy driving, good friend of mine, Sterling, fucking took off.
And we're on the roof holding on to, like, the rain gutters.
And he drives, it was seven miles, back to the thing, driving fucking fast.
And I'm trying to punch, like, the window with my hand, like, open, slap it, going, slow the fuck, like, you're gonna kill us.
Like, in my head I went, I'm dying because every turn we went around, I had to, like, redistribute my weight on the roof of the car or I was flying off.
And in my head I'm going, this is it.
This is how I die for sure.
I'm dying.
joe rogan
No, you were saying stop?
You were saying stop the car?
eddie ifft
Screaming stops.
joe rogan
And what happened to him?
eddie ifft
There's a van full of guys all screaming faster.
Like, thinking, you know, everybody's shit-faced.
joe rogan
I thought it was funny.
eddie ifft
And thought it was hysterical.
And then when we stopped, when we stopped at the house, I was really angry.
Like, he did like a donut in the parking lot.
We finally fell off.
And the, my one friend, of all my friends, only one friend said to me, he's like, He's like, I was practically like crying in there.
He's like, I thought you were killing two people.
joe rogan
And it could have happened.
eddie ifft
He's like, he's like everyone.
But I look at the Australian guy next to me and I go, we're going to fucking die.
And he goes, mate, we need a cocktail up here.
Like he was just loving it.
And I'm like, we're going to fucking die for sure.
joe rogan
You fall off a car going, you know, any amount of miles an hour, 20 miles an hour.
eddie ifft
We were probably going 55, 60, something like that.
joe rogan
You were dead as fuck.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
I don't know how we did to die.
joe rogan
That is where that football player, that young, what was his name?
I forget something, Henry, died falling off.
What's it?
brian redban
Chris Henry.
joe rogan
Chris Henry, yeah.
He fell off the back of a truck.
His wife was trying to get away from him.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And he fell and cracked his head open.
eddie ifft
Well, I was embarrassed because I kept thinking to myself, this is how I'm going to die.
And this is how my parents are going to have to, like, just such a horror...
Like, yeah, our douchebag son was on the roof of a car, and I was probably, like, 32 at the time.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
eddie ifft
Like, if I was 16, it'd be one thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, I thought you were way younger.
I'm confused with the timeline.
eddie ifft
Oh, this is just a few years ago.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
What the fuck, man?
You're hanging out with losers.
brian redban
You don't like to ghost ride your whip, Joe?
joe rogan
That's ridiculous, man.
eddie ifft
Yeah, it was terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta be real careful about what kind of drunks you hang out with, because there's the drunks that try to top one-up each other and try to out-drunk.
What is this?
brian redban
Ghost Riding the Whip.
That stupid thing that those kids do, where they get out of the car and dance and stuff while their car's still driving down the street.
joe rogan
Oh, come on.
brian redban
And it's called Ghost Riding the Whip.
eddie ifft
You've never seen this?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
Oh, God.
joe rogan
Are people really that fucking stupid?
eddie ifft
Is this the one where they fuck it up?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Okay.
brian redban
See, a lot of times you get on top of the car.
Sometimes you dance next to the car.
I always go right from behind the car.
joe rogan
No way.
eddie ifft
Have you done it?
brian redban
Yeah, I've actually done it once.
unidentified
Oh!
Oh!
brian redban
See, he falls, so the other guy's screwed.
The guy can't...
But yeah, it runs right...
It ran right into the camera guy.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Yeah, that's a good way to die, right?
Because you're filming the most hilarious video ever and your fat friend falls off the fucking hood of the car that's rolling towards you with no brakes on.
eddie ifft
That's why I can't believe none...
Only one of the jackass guys has died.
joe rogan
Oh, no!
Is that guy on the highway?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Look how fast he's going.
unidentified
The guy's running towards it.
eddie ifft
Yeah, because they're not going that fast.
joe rogan
Still, it's so fucking stupid.
That's a good spot for it, though, if you're going to do something fucking stupid.
There's an area out in Palmdale where we used to do all the Fear Factor stunts because we would close off this giant stretch of road and we would set semis up on it and people would be on the semis trying to jump from truck to truck and shit like that.
But we would...
eddie ifft
Oh, Jesus Christ!
joe rogan
Oh, he's not going fast at all.
He just jumped right off of that thing.
That's ridiculous.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, all right.
Stop with this.
eddie ifft
You see anybody get really fucked up in Fear Factor?
joe rogan
Um, no.
No, not really.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I mean, the worst accident I ever saw was, like, a dude jumping from one boat to another and, like, smashed his face.
eddie ifft
Wow, that's like Wipeout.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, he hit it hard, ba-boom, and it looked bad.
eddie ifft
Yeah, when I watched Wipeout, I'm like, how do they not fuck themselves up more?
Like, how do they not have a concussion?
joe rogan
Jackass is way scarier than Fear Factor.
Some of the shit those guys did, like when Johnny Knoxville was a fucking, already a movie star, puts a blindfold on, he stands in front of a bull.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the bull sends him flying through the air while he's blindfolded.
Those guys are crazy.
eddie ifft
Well, do you ever watch Nitro Circus?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
Nitro Circus is jackass with talent.
joe rogan
I can't watch that shit.
eddie ifft
I find it so impressive.
These guys are like trained...
They took the best motocross racer, the best BMXer, the best skateboarder, the best...
Everybody that's the best at what they do, and they do stunts.
joe rogan
And they beat the shit out of each other?
eddie ifft
No, they do stunts.
They'll jump out of an airplane without a parachute.
joe rogan
What?
eddie ifft
And hook up to another guy with a parachute.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
But they do these things that I'm like, how are they not dead?
joe rogan
So they're more taking risks, whereas the jackass guys are hurting each other.
eddie ifft
Yeah, they're hurting each other.
joe rogan
It's a different scene, because you're talking about guys, like jackass guys put bulletproof vests on and then get shot.
eddie ifft
But the risks they're taking, the jackass guys produce, Johnny Knoxville produces Nitro Circus.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
eddie ifft
If you watch it, and Johnny does stuff, and that's where he hurt himself when he fucked up his dick.
unidentified
What?
eddie ifft
Yeah, he had to pee.
I don't know if he still does, but I think he has to pee in a catheter or something.
Why?
They taught him how to backflip a motorcycle.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
eddie ifft
And Johnny just tried it.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
And he broke his dick.
eddie ifft
The handlebar went straight into his cock.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus, son.
eddie ifft
Brutal.
joe rogan
Oh, my goodness.
eddie ifft
But, yeah, they have this guy, Street Bike Tommy, who is one of the...
One of the Nitro Circus guys, and he's kind of their fat guy that they make fun of.
I've tried to have him on the podcast, and he's like, yeah, when I come to California, I'll do it.
But the other day, he Instagrammed a picture.
He just cut his finger off.
And it's the grossest picture ever.
But he...
They make him do all these things and he's not talented like they are.
And so whenever there's like something fun...
They're the slip and slide guys.
Have you ever seen their crazy...
joe rogan
I told you I don't watch that shit.
I don't want to watch idiots doing stupid shit and they're going to get them hurt.
eddie ifft
It's phenomenal.
joe rogan
To you.
I don't like that stuff.
I get it, you know, but I don't like it.
I want to watch guys run into walls and break their face.
eddie ifft
No, no, no.
But I mean, when they're doing stuff like...
joe rogan
There's other shit in this world that you have to...
eddie ifft
The stunts are phenomenal.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
eddie ifft
Phenomenal.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
Good luck with that.
eddie ifft
Do you know who Travis Pastrana is?
joe rogan
No.
I've heard the name.
eddie ifft
Travis is the motocross racer who now races rally racing.
joe rogan
Didn't he get hurt a few years back?
eddie ifft
The guy's broken like every bone in his body.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I went to, I think it was a thing for him.
eddie ifft
A birthday?
joe rogan
No, it was like a benefit slash birthday thing, I think.
If I'm thinking about the right guy.
eddie ifft
Is that the thing with Giraldo and Arch Barker were there?
joe rogan
No.
No.
eddie ifft
Because they roasted him for MTV. No, it wasn't that.
joe rogan
It might be a different guy, but go ahead.
eddie ifft
But he now races rally racing because he's just fucked himself up so much.
joe rogan
So he has to drive cars now?
Yeah.
Because he's broken everything too many times?
eddie ifft
Broken everything.
There's a great documentary on him called 99 Lives.
I think it's called 99 Lives.
It talks about his lack of fear, like his mental capacity and how he doesn't, like we all have fear and he doesn't have it.
joe rogan
What do you mean he doesn't have it?
eddie ifft
He just doesn't have it.
joe rogan
Is that real?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I think there's something scientific to it.
joe rogan
So he's got a brain that's got a missing piece.
That sounds like a really dumb thing.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but he's accomplished a lot of things.
joe rogan
Apparently there's a video of Johnny Knoxville breaking his urethra, if anybody want to watch it.
eddie ifft
Is that what it was?
He broke his urethra?
joe rogan
Matt Hoffman's tribute to Evel Knievel.
I don't want to see it, though.
eddie ifft
Matt Hoffman.
joe rogan
It's five minutes, and I'm breaking my own rules by even telling you about it.
eddie ifft
Matt Hoffman is a guy that is...
He's a BMXer that he's hurt himself so many times that they wouldn't do surgery on his knee, this special surgery, but they had it in Canada and they didn't have it in the United States so he went to Canada to do it.
The doctor could do it in Canada but by law he couldn't do it unless he was awake.
He couldn't put him under for it and they had to bring whatever the, it was like an anterior cruciate ligament or something and it was made of I forget what they used.
Not titanium.
Whatever they used to make it, something like a polypropylene or like a...
joe rogan
Like a wire?
eddie ifft
Whatever it was, he had to ship it to Canada because it was, like, illegal.
They weren't allowed to use it there.
So he put it in, like, he owns a BMX company, put it in, like, a bike box and sent it.
And then the doctor did it, and he talks about it.
He helped the doctor do the operation because there was, like, the doctor had, like, saw this part, put it in, and he stayed awake.
And let the doctor put this thing in.
These guys are just...
joe rogan
Well, I had an ACL operation where I stayed awake.
eddie ifft
You stayed awake for them?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But I just wanted to see it.
It was the first one.
Local?
They give you an epidural.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
They give you an epidural and knock you out.
So from the waist down, I couldn't feel anything.
eddie ifft
And you did it just as you wanted to watch?
joe rogan
I wanted to see it.
And I was scared to go under too.
eddie ifft
I don't like going under.
joe rogan
I don't like going under.
Going under to me was like a knocked out.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like I didn't ever want that to happen.
eddie ifft
I did it once.
I broke my ankle and they put me under.
And then when they went to take the plate, the screws out, I said, I'm not going fucking under again.
joe rogan
So you went with an epidural?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's certain things they won't do with an epidural.
But there's, you know, the second knee operation I got, I had him put me under.
But he had to help the doctor.
I was drugged up to the gills.
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
I don't think he was drugged.
joe rogan
Yeah, how did he help the doctor?
Like, here, hold this?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Hit that with a hammer?
When I say go?
eddie ifft
I think I saw the interview with him when he was talking about this.
joe rogan
What fucking robot doctor, voodoo doctor was he going to?
eddie ifft
The dude who rented me the scooter this week had esophical cancer, had his whole esophagus removed, and they moved his esophagus, like, around to the side and back because he had acid reflux so bad, and he got esophical cancer.
They did a procedure on him that had never been done before.
They put him into a coma.
To do the procedure because when you're under, you still swallow.
You still have a swallowing reflex.
It still happens.
But when you're in a coma, you don't swallow.
So they had to put him into a coma.
And I go, what was that like?
And he goes, well...
I go, when did you come out?
He goes, about two days later.
He goes, but I couldn't say my ABCs for about a month.
But it saved his life.
The guy's alive.
joe rogan
Wow.
Think about that shit when you smoke cigarettes, Brian.
Yeah, Brian thinks it's never going to happen to him.
eddie ifft
Oh, it will.
joe rogan
He's going to be that guy that's going to be fine.
Smoking a pack a day for the rest of his fucking life.
unidentified
Ugh.
Wait, but you have the fucking fake cigarette.
brian redban
Yeah, that's just so when I'm inside I can still smoke.
eddie ifft
Oh, God.
joe rogan
And also because he loves Stephen Dorff.
brian redban
This is actually watermelon flavor, too.
joe rogan
You don't know?
eddie ifft
No.
joe rogan
Oh, I need to turn you on to the douchiest commercial in the history of the universe.
It's a commercial so douchey, you have to think that it's a subtle parody.
You have to think that someone was like, someone hates Stephen Dorff, and they talked him into doing this.
And they're like, listen, he's an egomaniac.
We're going to talk him into doing this fucking commercial.
He's like, there's no way he's going to do this commercial.
unidentified
I'm telling you, I can talk this motherfucker into this commercial.
joe rogan
Steve, we want you to write this.
We want it to be in your voice.
eddie ifft
We want you to sell these cigarettes.
joe rogan
You got to see this.
brian redban
I'm tired of being a walking ashtray.
unidentified
Negative, too.
eddie ifft
I'm tired of feeling guilty every time I want to light up.
unidentified
I'm Steven Dorff.
eddie ifft
I've been a smoker for 20 years.
unidentified
And I just found the smarter alternative.
Blue e-cigs.
Blue lets me enjoy smoking without it affecting the people around me.
eddie ifft
Because it's vapor, not tobacco smoke.
Look at this.
joe rogan
This is my favorite part.
eddie ifft
That means no ash.
Deep slow-mo walking on the beach.
unidentified
With blue, you can smoke at a basketball game if you want to.
And how about not having to go outside every ten minutes when you're in a bar with your friends?
eddie ifft
The point is, you can smoke blue virtually anywhere.
unidentified
We're all adults here.
It's time we take our freedom back.
Come on, guys.
Rise from the ashes.
eddie ifft
Take your freedom back.
unidentified
You have to smoke outside, but not with that.
joe rogan
The long, slow draw at the end.
eddie ifft
That, uh...
That's, uh...
Do you ever, uh...
joe rogan
There's a douchier one, though.
Your show ever seen the Brad Pitt one?
eddie ifft
Is it, like, a Japanese one?
brian redban
We've done those, like, seven times.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen the Brad Pitt Chanel No.
5 commercial?
eddie ifft
I don't think so.
joe rogan
Oh, sweet Jesus, you must see this.
brian redban
Oh, wait, wait, there's a new one.
Wait, we should watch this new thing.
joe rogan
There's a new Brad Pitt Chanel No.
unidentified
5 commercial?
brian redban
No, no, no, there's a new commercial.
eddie ifft
Does he really need money?
joe rogan
A new commercial what?
brian redban
That's, uh, hold on.
joe rogan
What?
brian redban
All right, Courtney.
joe rogan
What is it?
brian redban
Courtney Love.
Have you seen that?
It's kind of like the same idea as what we just watched, but with Courtney Love.
joe rogan
No.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Hit it.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
Enjoy presents?
brian redban
Yeah, that's another company.
joe rogan
Is that Courtney Love?
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
You never know.
It's been a while.
unidentified
Yeah, seriously.
brian redban
That's Francis Bean.
joe rogan
Okay, so we're watching, for folks listening at home, we're watching some woman elegantly dressed.
unidentified
Old lady.
joe rogan
She has a lot of jewelry on, and she is walking up to Courtney Love.
eddie ifft
Who looks better than usual.
unidentified
You know, you can't smoke in here.
Relax.
It's a fucking enjoy.
brian redban
Way better.
joe rogan
Enjoy.
unidentified
Okay.
brian redban
That was way better.
joe rogan
Enjoy.
Sort of.
brian redban
A commercial uses the word fucking dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's still...
I mean, I guess it's better, but I mean, it's like, you want to be the cunt that smokes those cigarettes and acts like that?
brian redban
Better than a regular cigarette.
joe rogan
I guess it's more rock and roll than the other commercial.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
eddie ifft
It's better.
joe rogan
Okay, watch the Brad Pitt one on your own, but it's the only thing that's even douchier than the Stephen Dorff commercial.
The Brad Pitt one will turn your stomach.
Because Brad Pitt's got like a billion dollars.
It doesn't make any sense.
brian redban
Well, I guess he got paid like crazy millions.
eddie ifft
That's nice.
joe rogan
Maybe he's built a hut in Taiwan.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I saw Seinfeld doing a corporate once, and I was like, how much money do they have to pay Seinfeld to do a corporate?
joe rogan
A lot of those guys love that shit.
You know, Jay Leno makes a huge amount of money doing that stuff.
That's like his gig.
eddie ifft
That's like a big joke, though, the Leno corporate shit.
joe rogan
Is it a joke?
eddie ifft
Don't you know that?
Every comic, apparently, like when you sit on the couch and talk to him, he goes, so, uh, you doing corporates?
brian redban
Guess how much he got paid for.
joe rogan
He does a lot of them.
eddie ifft
He loves them.
brian redban
Guess how much he got paid for.
joe rogan
Who got paid?
brian redban
Brad Pitt got paid to do that commercial.
eddie ifft
Let me guess.
Let me guess.
joe rogan
How much?
brian redban
Let me guess first.
eddie ifft
11 million.
brian redban
11 million?
What would you say, Joe?
joe rogan
4 million.
brian redban
That's actually 7. Hmm.
eddie ifft
Because I know...
joe rogan
7 million dollars to sell your soul.
It's so bad.
It's so stupid.
Okay, you gotta see it now.
Play it now.
brian redban
Would you do it?
joe rogan
Me?
brian redban
For $7 million?
joe rogan
No.
brian redban
You wouldn't do it for $7 million?
joe rogan
No, because I don't need $7 million.
You know?
If I was broke, before I did Fear Factor, before I did News Radio, and you said, hey, you wanna do this really douchey Chanel No.
5 commercial?
We'll pay you $7 million.
I'd be like, fuck yeah.
eddie ifft
You can find some horrible commercials with me.
joe rogan
But that is...
This commercial, though, it's so ridiculous.
As a comedian, you would have such a hard time doing this commercial.
It's really hard to do.
eddie ifft
I've done some shit.
joe rogan
Play it.
It's so preposterous.
You watch it and you go, come on, Brad.
What is going on?
It's not a journey.
unidentified
Every journey ends, but we go on.
The world turns and we turn with it.
brian redban
Plans disappear.
eddie ifft
But look at him.
joe rogan
Look at him.
You're not really doing this, Brad.
You're acting, you fuck.
brian redban
Hold on.
joe rogan
No, come on.
That's disgusting.
That's so bad.
I mean, shit, I might do it for $7,000.
I don't want to lie.
eddie ifft
Was that one of those things where he just goes, oh, we want to get that house up at the Ski Resort.
I'll do it.
joe rogan
I don't understand.
I mean, I guess, look, he's involved in a lot of charitable ventures, so who am I to judge and guess what he does with his money?
unidentified
You're right.
joe rogan
He might do something really amazing with it.
eddie ifft
There's a banking commercial, and I forget what the bank is.
It's one of those trading companies.
The commercial, and I hear the voice, and I'm good with voices.
I go, that's Matt Damon.
And he's doing a banking commercial, and he's doing a voice.
Why does Matt Damon have to do fucking voiceovers?
He's got enough money, so I Google it, look it up.
Apparently, he donated all the money to charity.
And so because – and I read there was the hypocrisy of Matt Damon.
Here he is, a guy who – he was the voiceover in Inside Job, the movie about the banks.
And he's always – he's very liberal and he's been very critical of the banks.
And here he is doing a fucking commercial for the banks.
So I guess it was one of these things where he just said, you know what?
I'll do it.
We're going to take all that money.
And I'd like to see the charity he gave it to.
I hope it's something like a lobby against the banks.
joe rogan
Yeah, that would be a smart thing to do.
Use their money against them.
But it's still weird, you know?
brian redban
I would have sex with Brad Pitt for $7 million.
joe rogan
I think it would cost more than that.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I don't think Brad would have it with you.
joe rogan
I really don't think Brad would be like, and what do I get out of this?
brian redban
Well, what if he just was into it?
It's like a fetish thing for him.
joe rogan
Could be.
brian redban
Hairy guy.
joe rogan
I'm sure there's a lot of people that are willing to do that.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
brian redban
Seven million?
joe rogan
Seven million bucks?
brian redban
Hey, I'm putting the offer up there right now, guys.
joe rogan
Think about what your friend did for 25 grand and some coke.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, 25 grand and some coke, and who knows who she let fuck her ass.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
Probably a lot of craziness going on.
A lot of spitting in people's mouths.
eddie ifft
Well, I've talked about it.
You know your webcams.
You led me onto that, what's it called?
My Free Cams.
Those girls that go on there.
Can say what countries they want to be shown in.
So basically a girl can just check off.
She doesn't want to be seen in the United States, Canada, Australia, any English speaking place where she might possibly know someone.
But let the rest of the world just jerk off to her.
Never ever going to see one of those people ever again.
And it's like I think there's so many girls on there that we don't know about.
Like girls you know.
Because I never see my guy friends that don't have money always have to pick up like second and third jobs.
My girlfriends that don't have money, it's just life's easy.
brian redban
And they all say they're just responsible.
Whatever.
eddie ifft
I'm like, what?
Where are you getting money?
And I'm convinced they're all on my free cams in like Latvia and Estonia and Cambodia.
joe rogan
Probably, right?
They're all fucking stacking up bitcoins like a motherfucker.
brian redban
It's tokens.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Stacking up them bitcoins, son.
eddie ifft
You think that bitcoin thing is going to work?
joe rogan
I would like it to work.
So would I. I think it would be interesting.
I think it would be interesting if there was an alternative currency that a bunch of people agreed to that was stable.
If you could find a way to circumvent the financial system, that would be a way to defeat it, to define one that we all agreed on, that everybody got together and said, you know what?
Fuck all this craziness.
Let's put our resources into this other thing.
The problem is that's when you find out how corrupt the system really is.
Because they would never let you establish an alternative set of currencies.
eddie ifft
Right.
I think you'd end up dead.
joe rogan
Most likely.
They would discourage it heartily.
I mean, the amount of money that would be lost if there was a valid alternative to the dollar or the ruble or whatever the fuck you're using.
If there was some...
Nationwide or global currency that we all agreed to that was established and was really strong, that would fuck everything, man.
All this global power grab would be in the toilet.
eddie ifft
And third world countries would know when everybody has the same value on their dollar, when the dollar is the same value, which I've looked into this and thought about it, and it's really confusing, and I don't know enough about currencies.
What would happen?
Like would the value of – because you can trade internationally then and there's no one able to monitor it and there's no embargoes on – there wouldn't – it wouldn't be able to be taxed.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
It's interesting.
eddie ifft
It would eventually have to get taxed.
joe rogan
Somehow, yeah.
You would have to pay for things.
It really becomes a matter of government over bureaucracy.
eddie ifft
You can use it now to buy pizza and stuff.
joe rogan
The real problem is bureaucracy gets to a point where you start creating jobs that aren't necessary, and then you say, oh, we created X amount of jobs this quarter.
People love to do shit like that.
And sometimes those jobs are really good, and sometimes those jobs are government jobs.
And when government jobs get established, it's very rarely they get removed.
You know what I mean?
They might slash things if there's funding, but if there's money, they would like to keep jobs going and create new jobs in government and create new laws so that new jobs are in place.
That's one of the big arguments in not making pot legal, because you would lose a lot of people that are in the business of locking people up for pot.
And arresting pot dealers and then all of a sudden the pharmaceutical company is going to lose money.
What, are they going to let people go as well?
How does that work?
It's a weird financial situation where the resources and the impact of the control of the resources shifts.
And so that's like a financial decision.
And that's one of the real problems with making anything that's that popular illegal while it's illegal.
It's like financially it creates a real issue.
eddie ifft
Well, I also saw that a lot of the reason the pot hasn't become legal yet is because The regulation isn't in place yet.
They haven't been able to create the bureaucracy around it.
And a lot of times they've done things – like if you look around the world, the lack of regulation has created fucking – like you look at what happened in the Soviet Union when it dismantled.
And they sold off the gas companies, the electric companies, and the Russian mafia just became like – Billionaires overnight.
People were able to buy the electric company or buy – Well, I think there was a lot more to collapse the Soviet Union than that.
Well, no, no, but what I'm saying is they had two different currencies in Russia at that time or the Soviet Union.
joe rogan
They had two different ones?
eddie ifft
Two different currencies, and they were using one to buy up the other one.
People were smart enough to say, let's buy – All this currency.
I read this book called Rogue Economics about what happens with lack of regulation.
And they were – then when I read about pot being legal, it was like if it gets legalized, what happens?
The corporations might be able to come in and push out all the growers, push out all the – what do they call it?
joe rogan
If it gets legal?
eddie ifft
If it does get legal.
joe rogan
How would they be able to do that?
eddie ifft
It doesn't make any sense.
joe rogan
Because let's – Once the growers are already established.
eddie ifft
Because let's say – let's say the growers are established but let's say – Big corporations come in and get involved, like the tobacco corporations.
What if they, with all their money, buy up all the pot, the pot fields, everything?
There is no way of actually – it would be like opening the floodgates right away, and it's like, what's going to happen?
joe rogan
Well, I don't understand what you're saying.
Why would that stop the people who are already growing from growing?
eddie ifft
Well, when we had that proposition to vote to make pot legal, I was trying to read about it, and I'm not even a big pot smoker, but I was like, come on, we've got to fucking legalize this shit.
This is ridiculous.
joe rogan
I like how you did that with like a – I acted it out.
eddie ifft
Well, the referendum vote was like, let's vote to make it legal.
And then I started reading in a lot of the local Venice newspapers and stuff, and they were saying that a lot of the people in Humboldt and Mendocino County and all that were growers and stuff were against it because they were worried that they would get pushed out.
joe rogan
I'll tell you, that's not true.
The reason why they're against it is because you can make a lot more money when it's illegal.
That's why they're against it.
Okay.
You got their argument a little...
A little wrong.
And not only that, a lot of those people were also against medical.
They like to keep it illegal.
Because when it's illegal, it's worth a lot more money.
And it's hard to find people to sell it.
It's hard to find people that you can buy it from.
And so they can control the market.
eddie ifft
Well, but in that situation...
Pot is legal.
There's going to be more money spent on marijuana if it is legal.
joe rogan
It's just going to make more competition for them.
That's all it is.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
The reason why the growers don't want it is because a bunch of other people are going to start growing and then the prices are going to go down.
eddie ifft
But who would ultimately make the money on marijuana?
Wouldn't it be corporations?
joe rogan
The real issue that's undiscussed is something like Monsanto coming along and owning strains of marijuana.
Eliminating the other strains.
That is a distinct possibility.
If you see what they've done, who the fuck would have ever thought they'd be able to do what they've done with corn?
Who the fuck would have been able to believe that they would be willing to, that politicians would be willing to accept, I don't know what the fuck they're getting paid, I don't know how the fuck they're passing these laws.
Like the Monsanto Protection Act, all these different laws that allow genetically modified foods to be in your supermarkets without labels.
Because it's not clearly established whether or not they're 100% safe.
I know some of them are safe.
eddie ifft
If you ever question that and how that happens, read the book, Lawrence Lessig's book called Republic Lost.
And he explains how all that government subsidies, all of that shit happens.
And it's – they target.
It's the same way the defense corporation – But they target, like a lobby group or a special interest group or a PAC will – it's not even that they have the resources to just spend so much money.
What they do is they will – it's almost like mafia technique.
Like they'll go to a congressman and say, hey, you're running against this guy.
You're anti-guns.
He's pro-guns.
We're going to give all our money to him, and we're just going to – so it's just the threat.
It's not we're spending money against you.
It's the threat of we're going to spend money against you.
So the politicians then fold and say...
joe rogan
Well, they go with where the money is.
I mean, that's really what it is.
eddie ifft
I think it's 97% of the time or something, the candidate with the most money.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure.
It only makes sense.
I mean, you have to have like a wildly...
It's a popular platform for you to be accepted and you don't have as much money or you have to compete against a real jackass.
It's a bought system.
Something like Bitcoin or some alternative currency, I know a lot of people poo-poo it.
Maybe Bitcoin's not the one, but who the fuck saw Bitcoin coming?
I never heard anything about it until a couple of years ago.
And now all of a sudden you're hearing about it in legitimate news sources and you're like, whoa, what's going on here?
And then coincidentally it crashes through the fucking floor.
And the value drops and there's all sorts of fuckery involved with it.
eddie ifft
Did that happen?
The value dropped?
unidentified
No, I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, Bitcoin went through some...
But it's also people probably trying to profit or trying to capitalize on a system that's not completely secure.
I don't know.
I don't understand finances that much.
I'm too ADD for that shit.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I got the app and I just wanted to play with it and see what was going on.
unidentified
The Bitcoin app?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I just wanted to see what was going on.
I get every app.
Have you done an Uber yet?
joe rogan
Oh, sure.
Yeah, I use it all the time.
It's amazing.
eddie ifft
Fucking awesome.
joe rogan
Did you see the guy who is selling a house in Canada with Bitcoin?
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he wanted to acquire a lot of Bitcoins, and he had a piece of property that he wasn't using.
It was like a house on a lake or on a river, like a rural vacation house.
It's like 300 grand or something like that.
He's selling it on Bitcoin.
He wants 300,000 bitcoins or whatever the fucking equivalent is.
eddie ifft
Well, if you look at it, I mean, it's been going on on, like, games like I don't play, but, like, World of Warcraft and that stuff.
Those people, they had a whole South Park episode about it, about, like, where they have the little kids working, playing the video games so that they can acquire these coins or whatever it was, whatever the value on the game.
Because that happens in video games all the time where people try to acquire these coins Well, it's a legit service.
joe rogan
People will pay people in foreign countries, like third world countries, will play games all night with your character.
Like you give them your character for a few months and you come back and your character is like a master wizard.
Because these are like fucking total super nerd games.
It's not like you're playing checkers or chess or even, you know.
eddie ifft
I used to do that with my friends on Madden.
When they would leave, when we all lived together down at the beach, they would leave.
I would play as their team and just hurt their players.
joe rogan
That's funny.
Yeah, that's funny.
But one of the saddest shows that I ever watched was a documentary on this family that was addicted to World of Warcraft.
One of those games.
It was World of Warcraft.
But it was a family.
It was a husband and wife and a kid.
And the wife would always get bummed out when she had to take care of the baby because the husband could play the game and she was like complaining.
She's got a fucking newborn and she doesn't want it because she wants to get back to her character in the game.
And it was really depressing.
Oh.
Because you imagine if you're essentially being born into a house full of addicts.
They're addicts.
But it's not heroin.
It's World of Warcraft.
I mean, they are addicted to this.
They're completely, totally focused on this.
eddie ifft
That's why I hate when people go, drugs and alcohol ruined their life.
It's like, drugs and alcohol didn't.
They did.
Those people would have found something like fucking World of Warcraft.
If it wasn't drugs or alcohol, it would have been something.
joe rogan
I agree with you, but I don't agree with you.
Because I know people that literally, whatever it is, they got the bad gene, they cannot drink.
They have one drink and they're gone.
And they're sober and they need to be sober.
I know people that have a chemical issue.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I know one of those.
joe rogan
I know a few.
I didn't think they existed until I was in my late 20s.
And then I was like, okay, I think I am misreading this.
Because I was like, oh, a bunch of weak bitches.
I had this dumb approach to people who couldn't quit drugs or alcohol.
eddie ifft
Usually those people, I've seen them be fucked up with other things too.
joe rogan
Sure.
Yeah, but those people, they might have a psychological issue as well as this compulsive issue as well as like a chemical problem.
Like there's a cumulative things that can happen to you.
And for some people, it's also like alcoholism is a weird thing where it starts off where they can handle it.
And then somewhere along the line, their body just loses its ability to tolerate alcohol.
And if they keep drinking and keep abusing their body, it's one shot and they're Gonsville.
I've seen people like that.
I don't think we totally understand how another person is feeling when they take something.
And I think there are some people out there that can get hammered and they just fall apart.
brian redban
My friend Laura, she just takes one hit of marijuana and her body short-circuits.
And I think we talked about it once where she just stood up and ran towards the bathtub.
And just flew like tripped over the bathtub and flew and like almost chipped every single one of her teeth out.
And she had no idea why she did that.
It was just like her body just reacted crazy.
joe rogan
A friend of mine from Fear Factor, we were all in New York filming and it was all the crew and we passed a joint around.
And she took one hit and just blacked out.
And someone caught her.
Someone had to catch her in the middle of the street in New York.
She almost fell down and cracked her head off the concrete.
Like, she just went unconscious.
Everybody else is just taking a pull off a joint, and everybody else is fine.
But for whatever reason, it hits her, and her body is...
eddie ifft
That's why, you know, I've talked about it a million...
I've talked with you a million times about it.
My just...
I've had good experiences, but I've had a couple that were just fucking atrocious.
The anxiety level and the paranoia and the fucking, you know, like, I thought I was going to jump out of an airplane once.
joe rogan
It ain't for everybody.
That's a fact.
Nothing's for everybody.
You're not even drinking caffeine anymore, right?
eddie ifft
No, because it was all because of that.
The anxiety that I was getting.
joe rogan
You're so fucking aggro as it is.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
Look at you, savage.
You're fighting with fucking people you're on court.
eddie ifft
No, you know what?
joe rogan
You're telling people you're an MMA fighter.
eddie ifft
When that chick...
I want to justify that because when I got in the argument with her, I never once said, you're a bitch, you're a cunt.
I never raised my voice.
All I did was say, wow, you're...
I said, like I'm talking to you, I went, wow, you're a horrible person.
And just the way she was acting to me, it was like, you shouldn't get away with this.
joe rogan
I got you.
eddie ifft
And that's how I was talking.
And I never once said...
The next day, they said, oh, you said she should be raped, and you said...
I said, no.
I said, I hope she gets hit by a car on the way home.
joe rogan
Oh, see, you didn't just say she's a horrible person.
eddie ifft
No, no, no, but I was combating...
No, she said some things to me that I said that then.
joe rogan
What did she say to you?
eddie ifft
You know what?
joe rogan
I don't give a fuck about this story.
How about that?
eddie ifft
Yeah, she was just being a cunt.
Thanks, Joe.
joe rogan
You know, I mean, you know what it is.
eddie ifft
But I, no, I just, I want to justify that, uh, I forget what I was talking about.
joe rogan
It's no big deal.
I know what you're saying.
You're not on coke, but caffeine is a little too much for your personality.
eddie ifft
I'm not aggressive.
joe rogan
You're not aggressive, but if someone's a douchey person to you, you don't walk away from it.
That's what a lot of times...
What's that old expression?
If you're in an argument with an idiot, it's very difficult to tell who's who.
I probably fucked up that in paraphrasing it.
That is a situation where if you're in a situation where someone's aggressive to you and you're aggressive back to them, and then someone walks in on it, it looks like you're always in fights.
And you could be a guy that just defends yourself all the time, but it looks like you're always in fights.
Especially if there's YouTube clips of it.
eddie ifft
Where there's smoke, there's fire, and you know...
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, I've always felt like I've never been one to start shit with people.
I don't like starting shit with people.
But I also not really enjoy people getting off on me and saying shitty things to me just because they want to be cunty.
So when you stand your ground or when you're aggro back or insulting back...
It becomes the same thing.
They started it, but you're doing it.
You're both involved in it.
And it's really stupid, but it takes a long time to realize that it's really stupid.
eddie ifft
Right, right, right.
And what I did, the first thing I did when these guys came after me was cops.
And then I had no cops, and I was like...
Alright, I gotta, you know.
joe rogan
Well, those guys were working, too, so they weren't even fucked up.
They were just on that sweet, sweet pussy.
eddie ifft
I think they were pretty fucked up, though.
joe rogan
You think so?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I think they were.
joe rogan
While they were working?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, I think it was one of those.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Well, I bet they're just in love with that girl, man.
That's so common.
It's so common where you get one pretty girl who just dominates a business establishment.
That's the saddest thing when you go to visit a buddy at work and you realize that this is one hot chick that's sort of like putting her spray around the room and all these dolts that your buddy works with are tripping over themselves trying to please this girl and white knighting it at every turn and you know I think you're just out of line with the way you talk around women.
You know those cocksuckers and like oh you son of a bitch look what you're doing here you're throwing yourself on the sword.
eddie ifft
You sad sack of shit, you.
Well, that's what I said.
When the guy, when he finally calmed down, I said to the guy, he said, you've got a girl in there crying right now.
And I said, hold on.
I said, I explained what happened to him, and he kind of looked at me like, oh, this is a different story than what she told me.
joe rogan
Of course.
It always is.
A chick that wants to get you to fight someone for it, too.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but who does that?
joe rogan
Cunts.
Cunts.
Cunts, Eddie F'd.
Cunts.
eddie ifft
You couldn't get me to do that.
Any girl, yeah, he said, I'd be like, you're gonna have to deal with this yourself.
joe rogan
Yeah, well there's a lot of guys out there that can't give me pussy.
It's hard.
It's confusing as fuck.
If you're a dude out there, okay, and you're an unattractive guy, and you're working at a fucking kitchen at a bar, you know, you're flipping burgers, no one wants to fuck you, alright?
That's just a fact.
And you know that no one wants to fuck you, and that shit gets depressing, and you're willing to play the long game.
And befriend a lot of really cunty chicks hoping that when they're 40 and it all falls apart for them, they'll go with the guy who actually really loved them.
Once they get over this looks thing or whatever, and so there's a lot of poor saps out there that get sucked into, which is essentially a deal with a drug dealer that never gives you the drugs.
It's like, man, I got that cocaine, but dog, I can't give you none.
Come on, I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I just want a little bit of your cocaine.
Dog, I don't know.
I'm vulnerable.
I just feel like maybe you only want me for my cocaine.
And I would like us to just be friends.
Can't you just understand that I have this cocaine and I want to keep it?
unidentified
You know?
joe rogan
But I heard you gave Billy cocaine.
You know, I was very vulnerable, and I don't want to make that mistake again.
And now me and Billy don't talk, and I don't want that to happen between us, because we're good friends.
So I can't give you this cocaine.
So these poor pussy junkies will follow her around for years.
Are you doing another show over there?
unidentified
No!
brian redban
A fucking bug just attacked me.
joe rogan
So you're doing this for years and years, and, you know, you do drastic shit, like try to fight people in parking lots.
You know?
It's fucked up that sex is such a priority and requirement for the male body.
eddie ifft
If prostitution was legal, I think it would take such an edge off of it.
joe rogan
We have a fucked up attitude about prostitution.
I don't want anybody I know to be a prostitute.
eddie ifft
Me neither, and I don't want to...
I don't partake in it.
It's not my thing, but there's a lot of guys that I... Friends of mine that I'm like, let me take you to a hooker.
joe rogan
What I was going to say is I also don't want any friend of mine to be a janitor to have clean toilets.
That job sucks too.
I don't know which one's better.
I don't know.
If you're really open-minded with sex and there's a screening process and the guys who come through are polite, I really don't know which one is worse.
Cleaning toilets or letting a guy put a condom on you on top of you.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's really a cultural decision.
It's a personal decision.
But I think you should be able to make that decision yourself.
I wouldn't want anybody that I'm friends with deciding to be a coroner.
I really wouldn't.
I wouldn't want you to do that.
But if you want to do that, I think it should be your choice.
eddie ifft
I always wonder the mentality of that.
joe rogan
Fucking craziness, man.
You're looking at bodies all day.
eddie ifft
I was just talking to a dude who was a funeral director.
He was the bartender at this comedy club.
Yeah, I used to be a funeral director up north in Boston.
And I was like, wow.
How are you able to fucking do that every day?
joe rogan
Yeah, well how about guys who get caught fucking the corpses?
eddie ifft
Does that happen that often?
brian redban
Don't you know what gunjing is?
joe rogan
A buddy of mine back in Boston, him and his brother walked in on this guy who had just gotten done fucking one of the corpses.
He's almost positive.
He's like, there was a dead, naked girl on the counter, and this guy was huffing and puffing and sweating.
And he was back there with this dead, naked girl, and they heard something funny, and they were there because someone in their family had died, and they had to go through the funeral arrangements.
And he believes they just about stumbled upon a guy who had fucked a dead female corpse.
He's almost positive.
eddie ifft
Brian, you've got to know.
joe rogan
This is like a really conservative dude.
eddie ifft
There's probably some dark hole of the internet where you've seen these people.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you can find them.
eddie ifft
They've seen videos.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
eddie ifft
There's videos.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's videos of guys fucking dead bodies.
There's a video that a guy put online.
It was him and his boyfriend and he killed his boyfriend and then he like fucked him and cut him up and put it all online and ate some of his body.
What did you just show?
brian redban
Gunjing is an act where you take a person that's been buried recently and you get them from under the ground and you put your lips around their vagina and you have somebody else jump up and down on their stomach.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Whereby the first person to ejaculate misplaces lips over the dead person's sexual parts while his fellow competitors jump on the stomach.
eddie ifft
This is just made up.
joe rogan
Okay, that's made up.
That's totally made up.
That's so stupid.
eddie ifft
God, Gene.
joe rogan
Did you make that up?
eddie ifft
I have a feeling Brian did.
brian redban
I think Go Tanaka told me about that.
joe rogan
Why do you really think that's real?
Well, I guess it is real if you decide it's real.
eddie ifft
Yoshi would know about it.
joe rogan
What's a Cleveland steamer?
What's a Dirty Sanchez?
You know what it is, so it's real.
Once you invent it, it's like a drink.
It's like a Bloody Mary.
eddie ifft
We tried to make one of those up on there.
A drink?
No, on Urban Dictionary, and it was already there.
unidentified
What was it?
eddie ifft
I don't know.
It was something like we were trying to make the Amish Butter Churner or something, and we were saying you take a dildo and you...
You cum all over it and then fuck the girl with the cum of the dildo.
Or you fuck her in your ass while she's upside down like a butter churn or something.
And I swear to God, we put it on something very similar.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
It's probably every depraved sexual act ever.
It's probably been labeled.
There's t-shirts for sale.
There's a TM behind it.
brian redban
I made a sex move when I was in college.
And I used to call it the Don Pablo because it was a girl I fucked at Don Pablo's.
Where you would take the girl, she would be on her stomach, and you'd like lay down so you're kind of like butt to butt.
But you put your dick in her between your legs, so you're pushing it like that, and then you fall down.
So you're on top of her, and you're using her legs to pull it closer.
joe rogan
I lost you five seconds ago.
I don't know where you are.
brian redban
But it hit the G-spot like crazy, and that's all she wanted after teaching.
eddie ifft
She wanted the Don Pablo.
brian redban
But then I tried it to somebody else, and they're like, fuck that.
What the hell are you doing?
Just get on top of me.
joe rogan
Some girls don't want you practicing shit that you've already done before.
Hey, I've done this one a bunch of times.
Try this.
Lay down five.
They're like, wait, what are you doing?
God damn it, you silly fuck.
Brian fucks the same way he does podcasts.
Just interrupts with some weird shit in the middle of it.
Doesn't make any sense.
eddie ifft
Hold on, hold on.
joe rogan
Okay, open your mouth, put a toe in it.
No!
I thought it'd be funny.
eddie ifft
This girl that we know down in Australia, she told my friend that she woke up one night, she hooked up with this dude, she wakes up, he's standing over her jerking off, and he's got his toe in her pussy.
joe rogan
Oh my god, how rude.
That guy's an asshole.
He's out there walking around, a bunch of cat shit on the floor and stuff.
He's stuffing it right up some chick's pussy.
He should at the very least have some alcohol wipes and really do a good job of cleaning your toe off before you shove it in some chick's clam.
That's just rude.
That guy's a dick.
brian redban
You know what I've always wanted to try?
Have you seen those pills that they sell at CVS and they're for kids where they're like these little pills and you put them in a glass of water and they make this humongous dinosaur or something?
I've always wanted to put it in one of those girls' vaginas and see what happens.
eddie ifft
It's kind of like a tampon.
joe rogan
It's called they die.
You ever heard of a thing called toxic shock syndrome?
unidentified
Would it just freak them out?
joe rogan
When girls find things up their pussy, when they find things that are stuffed in their pussy and they've been up there for a while, sometimes they can get really sick.
Girls have died from tampons being stuck up their pussy.
brian redban
I mean, if you're going to nerf their pussy, you don't keep it in there.
joe rogan
What if you leave a chunk of it in there?
brian redban
I think it would blow up really big.
They'd be like, what the fuck?
There's a fucking Muppet coming out of my vagina.
joe rogan
You need to practice this in a lab before you stick it in a girl's body.
eddie ifft
I just heard a story about a guy who was fucking a girl and...
Found, like, while he was fucking her going down on her something, found a condom that was in her pussy.
joe rogan
Oh, my Jesus.
Yeah.
I was a girl that I was dating where she had her tampon, like, had broken off, like, in the middle.
And she pulled part of it out, but part of it was, like, stuffed in her pussy.
And I, like, put my finger in her, and I'm like, what the fuck is it?
And I pulled it out.
I go, you have a piece of tampon in your pussy.
She was so embarrassed.
She was so, so embarrassed.
Like, she was, like, almost in tears.
And I was like...
It's just a mistake.
Like, I know you have a tampon.
I didn't understand it.
Like, being a guy, you don't understand, like, how could that bother you?
Like, I know that you have tampons.
You tell me when you're on your period.
I don't understand why this would be an issue.
But to her, it was like this huge, like, embarrassment.
I'm like, I don't...
That's a girly thing, right?
brian redban
This girl I dated, we were drunk, and I fucked one of those little baby microtampons into her, and she didn't know about it.
And then a couple days later, she was getting kind of sick, and her pussy just smelled.
It was like a balut pond.
eddie ifft
No, I had to dig it out.
I had to dig it out.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
Yeah, I guess you would have to.
brian redban
Yeah.
eddie ifft
You know when you're, like, young and you're so horny, it's like, she's like, I'm on my period.
joe rogan
I know, and you rub it on the outside, and you wind up sticking it in there a little bit.
eddie ifft
You'll do any little thing you can do.
joe rogan
And then you can't fish that string out.
Stuffed it in there like a fucking musket.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
It's like you packed around in there.
eddie ifft
Then you've got to play gynecologist.
joe rogan
I've been there before, man.
You're like, let me just rub it on the outside.
And you hear those words coming out of your mouth.
Like, am I really that retarded that I just said that?
Let me just rub it on the outside.
But we've all said that.
Everyone said that.
eddie ifft
Let me just put it in for a second.
If you like it, it can stay.
If you don't, we can take it out.
brian redban
Let's sleep with it inside, just to see what it would feel like, and then if you want to move, that's fine.
joe rogan
The most disappointing thing is when a girl says, okay, and you're like, oh, she's just as fucking stupid as I am.
You're supposed to be the one who's sensible here.
You're supposed to pull us out of this predicament.
eddie ifft
It took me a long time to realize that if you just go when you're trying to hook up with a girl and you go, fine, I don't want to, and you go to sleep, all of a sudden they wake you up, they're like, come on, let's fuck.
Really?
Yeah, I found that.
joe rogan
Oh, you're ridiculous.
That means your game sucks.
eddie ifft
No, no, no, no.
No, hear me out.
Forever I was the one.
joe rogan
All these girls like waiting for you to go to sleep?
eddie ifft
No, no, no.
Forever I was the guy.
I would try everything.
I would keep them up for eight hours until they'd finally give in.
Like, listen, why don't we do this and then we'll try this?
joe rogan
You would ask them with words?
eddie ifft
No, I mean just, you know, while you're fooling around.
So then I found out that if you just, if you kind of Do what they do, and you kind of play hard to get.
They go, why's this guy rejecting me?
And then all of a sudden they're like, let's fuck!
joe rogan
Eddie Eft, working some long game on these chicks.
How long did it take before you figured that out?
It took years.
Here's my advice to you, my friend.
Just fuck girls who actually want to fuck you.
And when they don't, if they don't, you're like, that's cool.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let's just agree to not be friends.
eddie ifft
Come on, we all went through puberty.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We've all been there.
It's all good.
Just you go over there.
I'll go over here.
We're cool.
eddie ifft
Well, now I'm getting married.
joe rogan
Because there's some girls who like you.
eddie ifft
Now I'm getting married.
I get one for the rest of my life.
joe rogan
Oh, that's beautiful.
There's some gals who would like you, Eddie Ift.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I got one.
joe rogan
It's all about finding them.
eddie ifft
Found that one.
joe rogan
It's like finding your audience in comedy.
You don't want to do, like, Brian was talking about doing some shows this weekend with a bunch of old people in the audience and You know, that's an uncomfortable feeling when it's not your audience.
eddie ifft
It's awful.
joe rogan
It's terrible.
eddie ifft
It's awful.
joe rogan
You've got to find your audience.
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
Once those people who didn't live with the internet, once they die off, we're going to have a different world.
eddie ifft
You're lucky, Joe.
You're one of the few comedians, though, that gets to purely perform for your audience.
joe rogan
There's quite a few now, I think.
More now than I think ever before because of the internet.
You don't think so?
eddie ifft
No, I think we all still have to...
In Australia, I perform for my audience.
People come to me.
In the crowd, they're always...
They bought a ticket to see me, and that feels good.
joe rogan
In Australia?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
In America, I'm still doing gigs.
I'm at comedy clubs.
Every once in a while...
I've still had it.
I had it in the past two years, two or three times, where I've had the club owners tell me, hey, I know you do this, blah, blah, blah.
And I'm going, I'm in the car.
And they're like, what?
They're like...
And I'm like, don't tell me how to do my act.
I'm on my way home.
And they're like, what do you mean?
I've had three club owners in the last two years tell me You're too edgy, and you're too offensive on stage, and you're gonna have to calm it down for the next show.
They'll call me in my room, and I'm like, I'm in the taxi, I'm on my way to the airport, and they're like, what?
I'm like, fuck you.
You don't tell me how to do my act.
brian redban
We need to go on tour, man.
That just happened to me this weekend.
Five minutes before I went on stage, and he's like, I need you to do a clean set.
And I was like, I don't have anything.
eddie ifft
Just leave.
Leave at that point, because it ruined...
I've stayed, and...
They all end up apologizing and they try to keep you because they've got like, one time it happened here in LA and I just sold out crowd.
joe rogan
You can't tell a guy not to do his act.
If you don't like that act, you can not hire him again, but there's no way you can tell him how to do his act.
eddie ifft
So that's why I go fuck off and I just leave.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just, you can say, I don't think you're funny, you can fire him, you can ask for another comic to come in and replace him, but if you're gonna allow him to go on stage, you're not a producer.
You have no say in what goes on.
You know, that guy, it's his act.
If you don't want to hire him again because you don't like it, that's all cool.
But you can't direct a fucking comedian.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I got it in the airport.
I'm on the airport on the way to a show and the woman called me and said, hey, you gotta go tonight.
Listen, I need you corporate clean.
And I said, what?
She goes, I need you corporate clean.
We have a bunch of Christmas parties in.
And I said, no, no, when I got booked, I got booked to do my show.
And she said, yeah, but tonight's all Christmas parties.
And I said, well, that's not – and she goes, well, we're going to have to dock your pay then.
And I went, no, no, you're going to have to pay me what I was contracted to be paid.
joe rogan
We're going to have to dock your pay because you won't change your act for my tastes?
unidentified
Yeah.
eddie ifft
And I said, fuck you.
joe rogan
They treat you like you're a waitress.
That's what it is.
You've got to wear my apron with my logo on it or you're fired.
eddie ifft
But too many comics say, okay, I go fuck off and I leave.
And I think if more comics did that, they wouldn't do that to them.
joe rogan
Well, they can't.
They need the money.
I mean, I remember clearly days when I was told that I had to clean it up when I was coming up.
It happened all the time.
eddie ifft
Yeah, but if you suck it up just once, If every comic sucked it up once, no club owner would ever do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they would.
Because the guy could still find someone to replace you and they'd probably be cleaner.
That was one of the big things about being unoffensive.
When you first started out, you'd get so much more work.
Because when you first start out, you're opening for people.
The last thing someone wants to do is go on after some guy who breaks all these taboos.
Especially if...
You break the same taboos or if your act is clean.
There's two things.
One, the guy's already doing the kind of material that a headliner does or this particular headliner does.
Two, if you're clean and you have to follow some guy who's talking about fishing tampons out of chicks, a lot of times headliners will blow gaskets.
I've seen more censorship from headliners In comedy clubs, and including guys who are not big names, they just happen to be the guy last.
And it was just like you say, like for the most part when you go to a comedy club, if you see a guy who's an unknown name, he's not an unknown name just to you.
He's an unknown name, period.
So when he's headlining these clubs, People are coming to see the show because they've been comped.
Like, they get free tickets.
It's an off night.
Or, you know, the guy goes on the radio and drums up some business.
And they have contests and they give away some tickets.
And then they make the money off the alcohol.
And that's a common thing.
And those guys, I've seen those guys.
Those are like low-level dudes.
Usually probably struggle a little bit every now and then anyway.
They'll change a guy's act if a guy's a middle act.
eddie ifft
I've heard stories.
And I've had a couple guys give me when I was coming up.
Don't do this, don't do that.
Not many, but I've heard more stories about guys doing it.
I have never once said to anybody that opens for me, don't do that.
And it always annoyed me when I heard guys did it.
joe rogan
It's gross.
Unless the guy's stealing.
unidentified
Sure, sure.
joe rogan
Or if he's stepping on your shit.
And those are two instances that happen all the time.
And what I mean by stepping on your shit, folks who don't know stand-up, like say if Eddie Ift had a joke about going to Jamba Juice, and it was like a signature bit about going to Jamba Juice, I might, if I want to fuck with him, if I was the middle act, I might go on stage and just make up my own joke about Jamba Juice that I wasn't doing the night before, but I'll do it and it'll be clearly like I just slapped it together, but what I'm doing is trying to take the wind out of the sails of his Jamba Juice joke.
By already trampling on that subject.
It's a common thing that comics will do.
eddie ifft
What I do get – every once in a while I'll get mad about it is somebody deliberately blowing the light and offensively blowing it.
Like not just – they're supposed to do 30 minutes and they end up doing 45. Especially because you have two shows and you have to close.
I'll get mad about that.
But it also has to be, it's not five minutes over.
It's when they go ten or twenty minutes over, I want to tear their face off.
Like a chimpanzee does.
joe rogan
Well, that's rude, and that's why people think you're on coke.
Jesus Christ, look at this.
You just say, I don't act like I'm on coke.
You're like, someone is talking for an extra five minutes.
eddie ifft
20. I said 20. I said 20. Like a monkey.
Five minutes, they get away.
joe rogan
Why not exaggerate, bro?
The comedy is in the exaggeration.
brian redban
So this weekend I had to do a 15-minute act.
That was clean.
And so I would, like, replace words.
Instead of, like, throwing cum, I would, like, throwing hot dog juice.
eddie ifft
It ruins your show.
brian redban
And I made it silly and goofy.
And I also did a lot of just what I call math jokes, which is just, like, this happens, this happens, that's why that happens.
It's kind of, you know, like dumb shit.
eddie ifft
Where were you?
brian redban
And it fucking worked.
And I was like, this is horrible.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen in my life.
And you guys are loving it.
This is stupid.
unidentified
Where were you?
joe rogan
Well, that's silly, because you should just enjoy it.
You know, you shouldn't get upset.
Your issue right now, Brian, as we talked about this before the show, is that he's like known in a lot of places, but you don't do that many shows for people who don't know you.
So people who know you, they know you're this silly bitch and you're ridiculous and you're always buying boner pills.
So they want to hear this ridiculous shit out of you.
But for people who don't know you, they're like, why is this guy talking about coming on the ceiling?
Like, you know?
Like, what the fuck are you saying?
You know what I mean?
eddie ifft
Yeah, that's a tough combination.
And it's also, you know, you know this very well, that you can fall into when you're always performing for your crowd.
It gets easy.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You can get soft.
eddie ifft
And you got to throw yourself into these situations where nobody knows you.
joe rogan
Have you watched anybody, like, recently that, like, disappointed the fuck out of you?
eddie ifft
Yeah, and I can't say who.
joe rogan
I can't say who either.
eddie ifft
But it hurt me.
joe rogan
Oh, it was brutal.
Me and Diaz left 15 minutes into this dude's set.
We're like, we're going to get out of here.
eddie ifft
It was the laziest thing I'd ever seen.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that shit going around, man.
eddie ifft
And I... I almost wanted to, as a friend, tell him that you can't do this.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people like that, though.
I've always tried to do my very best to give a great show.
I want to do the best to give the best at whatever I got at that point.
And I'll have better shows and worse shows, but I'm always trying my best.
Always.
And when I see someone that's, like, just sending it in or phoning it in, I'm like, and especially if they're doing it, and they're doing it because they already have a devoted audience, I'm like, do you understand what an amazing position you're in?
eddie ifft
Yeah, how lucky you are, and you're cheating them.
joe rogan
Like, did you see, you saw the crazy Cat Williams shit, where he's, obviously there's an issue there, I don't know what the fuck it is, but do you know how many people, I mean, me, huge Cat Williams fan, I would be so sad if I went to see him, and that went down.
When he yells at someone in the audience and then leaves, and that's his whole set.
Because I remember his fucking specials where I thought the guy was brilliant.
I'm like, so fun.
So fun to watch.
I will never forget what it's like to be a fan.
I think the most important thing in order to still keep your zest for comedy is to still remain a fan of it.
eddie ifft
And also the struggle.
I struggled for so long.
joe rogan
Well, you're still struggling in America.
eddie ifft
It started to happen for me really quickly, and I'm glad it didn't because I would have been one of those assholes probably that just phones it in.
But what happened was I struggled for so long that now I value it so much more.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you're a hard worker anyway.
I mean, you're into CrossFit, and you're always...
You put forth a lot of energy.
You're not like a lazy guy who doesn't get shit done.
You just fucked up and you got famous in Australia.
eddie ifft
Colin Quinn said to me one time, I was taking a cab from the cellar uptown to the comic strip or something and I shared a cab with Colin and it was after Saturday Night Live and he had done all this stuff and I went, Colin, what are you doing?
We're all young kids, Flying around to the clubs and Collin was a couple generations older.
I'm like, what are you doing with us?
Why are you doing this?
And he's like, because every time I see one of you little fuckers on stage doing a good joke, I think I got to write one better.
That's interesting.
I think it's compulsive among us.
When I see a comic killing it, I'm like, I got to go home and write jokes.
joe rogan
You know what else makes me want to write jokes?
When I see someone eating it.
When I see someone bombing, I listened to Comedy Central Radio today on Sirius XM. You know, Sirius XM has a bunch of different channels.
And my main car, for a long time, I have not had satellite radio.
And I've just been listening to the podcast.
But I was in a truck today.
And so as I'm driving around, I'm listening to all this stand-up.
And it was terrible after terrible after terrible after terrible.
I couldn't wait to go home and write.
I'm like, this is just...
It was a closing bit that a guy did.
And after the bit ended, you know, it's like, thank you, goodnight.
I was like, you gotta be fucking cute.
eddie ifft
Oh, like that was your closer?
joe rogan
This is the laziest piece of shit I've ever heard in my life.
There's like zero thought into this.
eddie ifft
Because the people that don't know, you try to put your best, like your strongest bit last.
joe rogan
Yes.
eddie ifft
And so that When you hear thank you, goodnight, you're like, that shouldn't – that should have been his second joke.
joe rogan
It was such a hunk of shit.
It was such a hunk of shit.
eddie ifft
But I went to – I went in there one day to SiriusXM to host some show, and I said, who's in charge here of programming the comedy?
And they were really cool about it.
I sat down with them, and I went through all my bits that they play, and I said, don't play that one anymore.
Don't play that one.
I took out shit that I want retired forever that I am not proud of anymore.
And that's why I constantly send them new shit too.
I'm like, play this stuff.
This is the stuff I'm proud of.
joe rogan
It's always funny too when you listen to stuff that you think sucks.
And obviously somebody liked it.
There's people that were laughing and were playing it.
I just thought it sucked.
But then all of a sudden, boom, someone comes on who's actually funny.
You know?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, they played Brian Posehn's special.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
And all of a sudden, I'm laughing.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
Like, out of nowhere, like, oh, this is actual comedy.
But before that, I was just listening to the nonsense.
It was like somebody who just, like, structures sentence and said it in a certain way, and I'm supposed to think it's hilarious.
eddie ifft
I'm such a fan of comedy that I like when I'm listening to that stuff, and there's a comic I don't like, and all of a sudden, I get them, and I start liking them.
Like a comic that I would see in the club and I'm like, oh, I didn't like that and it might have been five years ago.
And all of a sudden I hear something new and I'm like, oh, they've gotten funny.
Yeah.
And I like to see, like, people are like...
joe rogan
If they've actually gotten funny.
You're telling me you're getting hypnotized and you're getting tricked.
eddie ifft
No, like, would they actually have...
I've seen guys that weren't funny become so funny.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
eddie ifft
And it's one of the great...
joe rogan
Like, I... That is a beautiful thing.
eddie ifft
I love that.
And people think, oh, comics are so competitive and they all hate and they want to see...
No, I want to see everybody.
I would love to walk in a comedy club and have every comedian fucking make me laugh.
joe rogan
You buying this?
brian redban
I do, because I felt the same way.
joe rogan
And this guy, though?
brian redban
I mean, well, he does cook.
I mean, I felt the same way.
Brody Stevens is a perfect example where when I first met Brody, I fucking hated him.
I was scared of him.
joe rogan
I always loved Brody.
I don't get it.
I knew Brody before you.
I thought he was awesome.
eddie ifft
He made me laugh from day one when he was barking at the Comedy Cellar.
brian redban
Yeah, I knew him from the Man Show.
He was the audience warm-up guy.
And he was just, like, really hard, like, I remember he was just like, like, we were slaves, like, screaming at us.
I just remember, he was just screaming at us.
joe rogan
I think you were probably way too high and you fucking freaked out.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
Well, then, you know, I met him a couple months later at the comedy store with you and I got to see him and then I was like, alright, I see what he's doing here.
Fucking, now I love him.
joe rogan
He's just Brody.
eddie ifft
He used to bark outside the comedy cellar to get people, he worked for them.
And his job was to get people in the seats, you know, come on, two for one.
And he was so fucking funny, barking people and, people!
Comedy downstairs!
joe rogan
Well, that's where I think he's at his best.
He has a warm-up.
He's like the greatest warm-up ever.
He's really fun, the way he does it.
And when you see a guy like that just completely ad-libbing, one of the best shows I've ever seen, best sets.
You know when you see a show and it's a late show, And there's many comics that have been up, and it seems like the room's dead.
And then one guy comes in and just with magic, just runs around the room.
Brody Stevens took his shirt off and started swinging it over his head while he was screaming for everybody to wake up, the show's not over, and there was like some music playing, and he got on stage and he had drumsticks.
Did he play the drums?
eddie ifft
Yeah!
joe rogan
But it was the way he did it.
It was all ad-libbed.
He just went with the flow of things and took the audience on a ride.
eddie ifft
You know why?
If you talk to Brody, he's truly in the moment.
It's all about that show right there.
It's not about, well, I already have all those good shows I've done.
He's about...
What am I doing right now?
And he'll feel like shit after that show if he didn't do well.
So he's fucking performing for his life.
He's like, I gotta win this crowd.
I have to kill.
And there's something about that.
I mean, that makes him great.
joe rogan
But he loves it.
He's still a fan of stand-up comedy.
Those are the best guys.
The guys are the most fun and the guys are actually still appreciated.
There's a weird thing that happens when Somebody's been doing stand-up for a long time, and then all of a sudden they decide that, oh, I fucking hate it.
I hate stand-up.
I hate my crowd.
I hate this.
I hate that.
And they just don't want to do it anymore.
It's like, man, I really think you need to rethink this.
eddie ifft
I've gone through phases where it's not that I hate it.
Where I'll go, I hate where I'm at right now.
And what happens usually is I start bombing them for a while, and I actually welcome a bombing period.
A month of bombing where I'm – A month?
Not like bombs, but like I'm an extremist.
I'll say I killed or I bombed, and it will just be average.
And it – but when I have a bad period, I'm usually about to come into a whole bunch of new shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, the desperation.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I'm just angry about everything and the act, and then I write – with Australia, I have to write a whole new hour every year.
joe rogan
I have to.
eddie ifft
I cannot go there without a new hour.
And I freak out about it.
joe rogan
Do you really like going there?
eddie ifft
Yeah, I do enjoy it.
joe rogan
But you're already famous there.
eddie ifft
I wouldn't say I'm famous.
joe rogan
You said you're a crowd there.
eddie ifft
Yeah, I've got a crowd.
And I sell tickets.
joe rogan
But you don't feel like you're there in America.
eddie ifft
No, not even close.
But you want to be, right?
I would love to.
joe rogan
So why don't you just put all your emphasis on that?
eddie ifft
I probably should, but I got bills and stuff, and Australia pays the bills.
joe rogan
How long do you go over there for?
eddie ifft
This year I only did about six weeks.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Okay.
I thought you were like...
eddie ifft
No, I was...
joe rogan
Doesn't Arge do like six months or something?
eddie ifft
Arge is there like almost half the year.
I was doing four months for a while.
joe rogan
You know, that is pretty badass though if you can actually live in two different countries because Australia is fucking cool as shit.
If you can get used to being over there and that becomes just like home to you...
brian redban
Is it easy to get used to?
I've never been there.
joe rogan
They're like Americans.
eddie ifft
They won't like me saying this, but it's like the 51st state.
They're so in tune with everything we're doing that you would be so comfortable.
joe rogan
But they're more relaxed.
eddie ifft
Yeah, way more relaxed.
joe rogan
They're more fun.
They're more relaxed.
The men are more like men.
The women are more like women.
They're less hung up.
Yes, very Texas-ish.
Very Texas-ish.
eddie ifft
The best aspects of Texas.
20 million people in a place as big as America.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
eddie ifft
So, you know, we've got 300-some million people.
They've got 20 million, too.
So it's just a lot easier.
joe rogan
You would fucking love it there.
You would love it there.
It's so nice there.
The shows are fun as hell to do there.
eddie ifft
The shows are amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, and the UFCs we've done there have been amazing.
I really love it there.
I've been there.
There's a few countries that I would think about living in, besides America.
There's only two, really.
Australia's one of them, and Canada's another one.
Because it would be the least amount of altering my life.
Do they drive on the right side of the road?
Which side of the road do they drive?
eddie ifft
No, they're on the other side.
joe rogan
Those motherfuckers.
That's bad.
That's why you've got to live in Canada.
eddie ifft
When you had David Lee Roth on, I listened to that episode, when you were talking to David Lee Roth, and he was talking about going to Japan.
And I was like, are you...
Fucking crazy.
joe rogan
He's so gangster.
eddie ifft
Like, that's crazy.
joe rogan
He moves in an apartment in Japan.
eddie ifft
Not knowing anyone.
joe rogan
Regular people.
One of the biggest rock stars in the history of the universe.
He's taking swords fighting lessons.
brian redban
I'm so jealous.
joe rogan
With his dog.
brian redban
I wouldn't do that.
eddie ifft
I couldn't.
brian redban
I almost went to Japan last, like, two weeks ago.
joe rogan
You could do that, Brian.
You know, that could be your life someday.
You could easily be that guy.
I'm going.
I'm not saying you'd be David Lee Roth.
brian redban
No.
joe rogan
I'm just being clear on that.
But what I mean is...
You could be the type of guy that just decides to...
Look, one day, eventually, it's going to be ridiculous that we're all sitting in a room together doing this.
We won't need to.
There'll be an immersion technology that's so fucking complete that we'll all be Skyping this.
We won't need to have a studio where we show up.
eddie ifft
There'll be holograms of us.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is probably totally old school.
So one day we're going to get to a point where there'll be some virtual place where we all meet to do a podcast, and all we're doing is sitting in front of our fucking laptop slapping a headgear on.
Yeah, or something.
Or, you know, Oculus Rift or something like that.
I mean, this Ustream setup in iTunes is probably going to be archaic in the future.
I mean, being on Sirius Satellite Radio, it's going to be archaic in the future.
There's probably going to be some...
Nobody saw this coming, right?
So who the fuck is going to see what's coming in 50, 60 years?
Or less.
And that's you, buddy.
You're on Maui, chilling, fucking drinking a Mai Tai, taking a month off of life, living there, still doing podcasts.
It's possible.
It's totally possible.
I don't plan on being in L.A. very long.
And I've been trying to figure out what's possible as far as, like, where can I live, where I can still do...
eddie ifft
I'd go to Australia.
We were having issues with...
I mean, my parents are getting old and I want to be near my parents.
They're on the East Coast.
But I'm still a five-hour flight away, whereas Australia, I'm 20 hours away.
Right.
My fiancé, her parents are East Coast.
I met her over there.
She's an American, but I met her there.
I would probably pick up and leave if we didn't have the families here because I like it that much over there.
Right.
Also, the dogs.
Taking my dogs over there, you gotta quarantine them.
Right.
I mean, I'd take them.
If there was no quarantine and I flew private or something, I'd fucking...
joe rogan
Okay, so no family.
No dogs.
No dogs.
You would just fucking live there.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Why not, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You love surfing.
You're there surfing?
eddie ifft
Yeah, surf every day.
unidentified
I'm there.
joe rogan
There's a lot of sharks there, isn't there?
eddie ifft
West Coast.
West Coast, they had five deaths last year.
That's how many are in the world every year?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
They had it in one year.
joe rogan
That is bad odds.
eddie ifft
There's talk it could be a Jaws.
Like, it's the same shark.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
And they haven't caught it yet?
eddie ifft
No, it was a weird fucking year.
And I was there this year.
I went to Perth, and I looked into going surfing, and I was going to go down the Margaret River.
And I just went, hmm...
I talked to one dude who used to surf there all the time.
He goes, I think about sharks like one out of every 20 times I'm surfing.
He goes, every day.
I think about them every day, though.
It's been ingrained in us, even though it's such an unlikely incident.
It's in my head.
joe rogan
Well, a couple of years ago, a guy died in Santa Barbara.
That's like right there.
eddie ifft
He was north of Santa Barbara.
He was near Halama Beach.
joe rogan
Okay, you would know.
eddie ifft
It was a surf beach.
joe rogan
Is it a good beach?
eddie ifft
I've surfed it, but the crazy thing about it...
Two years before that, same day, a shark killed a guy.
joe rogan
Same day?
eddie ifft
Same day two years earlier.
joe rogan
You know when the one scares me the most?
The one in San Diego.
The swimmer?
Where the guys were swimming, a hundred yards out.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
They were pretty far out.
eddie ifft
He was like a triathlete.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were training.
eddie ifft
It's so rare though.
joe rogan
The other people were all with them, they're all aligned together, they're all training together, and you see this one guy just get cut in half.
brian redban
Was he wearing like a brighter swimsuit or anything different than the other?
joe rogan
Nope.
Just got lucky.
And this fucking thing is like a 16 foot great white.
It's a big shark and it cuts him right in half.
eddie ifft
You have a better chance of getting killed by like a cow trampling on you.
joe rogan
Stop.
Stop your nonsense.
That's not true.
Because I'm nowhere near fucking cows.
eddie ifft
Okay?
joe rogan
If you're out there in the ocean, you're in shark territory.
eddie ifft
What about dogs?
Dogs kill way more people.
joe rogan
I hate that nonsense scenario.
unidentified
There's a better chance of you getting hit by lightning than killed by a shark.
joe rogan
That's true.
But that's not true if you're going in the fucking water.
Because most people aren't going in the fucking water.
When people say that shit, that's a dumb statistic.
eddie ifft
There's still millions and millions.
joe rogan
That statistic does not work.
You know, you have a zero percent chance of dying in a plane crash if you don't get on a fucking plane.
unidentified
Do you know that?
eddie ifft
Sure.
joe rogan
Yeah.
See, that's a real statistic.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not this nonsense of, it's more likely that you get hit by lightning.
eddie ifft
There's a better chance, apparently, more people die from vending machines falling on them.
joe rogan
0% of sharks occur outside of the water.
No sharks.
eddie ifft
Not if you talk to Australians.
You'll think they fucking fly out of the water.
joe rogan
Well, they can.
They can fly out of the water.
eddie ifft
Speaking of which, I saw the other day, and I was on Marco Island, Florida.
I saw a stingray fly out of the water, like five feet out of the water, and then back And that's how that woman died on the boat in Key West or something.
unidentified
She was on a boat.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
eddie ifft
And a stingray just came out and fucking clocked her and she hit the boat and died.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's right.
eddie ifft
Like, I think it was a head injury.
joe rogan
Yeah, my god.
Could you imagine if you were there and you saw that happen?
eddie ifft
When I saw this thing come out of the water, I was like, what the fuck?
joe rogan
Have you seen those fucking fish that fly out of the water when you're driving by in a boat?
eddie ifft
Are they swordfish?
joe rogan
They're an invasive species.
They're a species, I think they're called, I think it's, let me Google flying fish snakeheads or something like that.
I think it's a snakehead.
I might be confusing my fish.
What these fucking things do is they fly out of the water.
And these people are driving boats, and they're literally launching themselves at you, and you hit them with tennis rackets.
It's crazy.
I'm going to see if I can find the very...
eddie ifft
While you're looking for that, I know a guy that's been attacked by a shark twice.
joe rogan
Oh my god, what is he, retarded?
eddie ifft
Yeah, he's...
joe rogan
Does he hate himself?
eddie ifft
You can Google him.
Ben Vening, he was in...
Friends of mine hooked me up with them.
They're like, hey, this dude will take you surfing tomorrow.
We were out in a bar and I was like, oh, cool.
Where are we going to surf?
He goes, we'll surf Talos Beach, which is on one side of Byron Bay.
And I have stood up at the lighthouse and looked down at Talos.
And if you look down, you can see dolphins, sharks, whales, all kinds of shit in the water.
I go, I'm not fucking surfing there.
And he goes, it's cool, man.
It's real.
I surf it all the time.
And I go, no way, man.
Too much sea life there.
I'm not going in.
And he goes, I've been attacked.
He starts telling me the story.
I go, I saw you on the news.
I saw you on the news.
You're the guy.
He goes, yeah.
And I go, fine.
I'm going with you.
What are the chances of most unlikely incident happen to the same – and he goes, well, I've – I've been attacked twice.
And I go, fuck off!
And he told me another time he was out there and a bunch of Makos were frolicking and he'd see them.
Now if I saw that, I'm out of the water.
joe rogan
What's wrong with him?
eddie ifft
And he said one of them broke free, came at him, and he just started punching at it and pushing it away and it left him alone.
But the The other shark, I think it was a white pointer, bit his board and you can see the teeth marks.
You can Google and look at the picture.
brian redban
Is it because of like internal hemorrhoids or something like that you think?
joe rogan
What?
eddie ifft
That they came after him because of the blood thing?
I cut my foot the other day in Australia pretty bad and I didn't realize it was bad because...
When you're in water constantly, the bloods...
joe rogan
Google flying silver carp.
That's the fish.
Flying silver carp are the ones that fly out of the fucking water when you drive your boat.
eddie ifft
Yeah, apparently it's a little bit of blood that has to be in the water.
That's it.
brian redban
Yeah, it's probably internal hemorrhoids.
He might be getting turned out every night.
That's why he kept on getting...
joe rogan
Brian, please.
Will you just fucking think about what you're saying before you say it?
brian redban
Well, if there's a little blood in your butt...
eddie ifft
Yeah, apparently it's just a little bit of blood that can...
joe rogan
That's all it takes.
Girls on their period probably should never go in the water with their sharks.
eddie ifft
Is that a fact?
Yeah, absolutely.
joe rogan
I just don't get it.
I mean, I would imagine it would be really fun, but I just can't believe it would be fun enough to risk.
eddie ifft
There used to be a rumor that if you piss in your wetsuit, which everyone does, that the urine gives off the same kind of...
Scent that the blood does that attracts the sharks.
Because there was a guy in South Africa.
You need to see this video.
He's riding the wave.
He's up.
Cruising down the wave.
Up and down on the face of the wave.
And two sharks converge on him.
And grab him.
By the arm, and they ram into each other, and that's why they let go of them.
joe rogan
See these guys getting nailed by these fucking fish?
They fly through the air.
brian redban
And they're all bloody, too.
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Well, they land, and they get fucking shattered.
eddie ifft
I like how the guys just stepping up.
joe rogan
But look at these fucking things.
They just fly through the air, man.
They're all over the place.
eddie ifft
What are they called?
Silver?
joe rogan
Flying silver carp.
And they're an invasive species.
See that?
Like as these guys are...
Look at that.
They're just flying all over the place.
brian redban
Like frogfish.
joe rogan
I mean, they literally launch themselves in the air.
And sometimes when you go through like a whole school of them and there's like an infestation, like it really can be dangerous.
People are getting hit in the head and shit.
And these things are an invasive species.
Like, they've taken off.
They're not supposed to be there, I don't think.
And I think, if I remember correctly, somebody introduced them to these areas, and now they're just fucking taking off like crazy.
How fun would it be forcing other fish out?
brian redban
How funny would it be to, like, shroom or get really baked and just go down here and get attacked?
joe rogan
How funny would it be if you died that way?
If I was on mushrooms and a fish lodged in his mouth...
eddie ifft
I think I'd rather...
joe rogan
Choked to death.
eddie ifft
I think I'd rather die from a shark attack than one of these things.
joe rogan
These fucking things.
What a crazy ass fish.
eddie ifft
Piranhas would be bad.
Piranhas would be awful.
joe rogan
What is wrong with these fucking fish, man?
That's so weird.
eddie ifft
Did you ever watch the noodle, the catfish?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, I love those shows.
I was in my fucking hotel room.
I forget where it was.
And I was bored out of my mind, so I watched an entire episode of this show where they stick their hands in holes and get catfish.
Their arms all bloody, too.
Yeah, if you don't know what noodling is, it's the weirdest fucking thing ever.
eddie ifft
They go through the mouth and out the gill.
brian redban
It's disgusting.
eddie ifft
And then pick them up.
I mean, they're like hundreds of pounds.
joe rogan
You know, these fucking silver carp can get to be a hundred pounds.
eddie ifft
That'll knock you the fuck out.
joe rogan
They can get to be 110 pounds, and they fly through the fucking air.
They were imported from China in the 1970s for use in aquaculture ponds to control plankton.
By the early 1980s, both species had escaped into open waters in the southern states.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
This is a fish called a big head, and the other one called a silver carp.
eddie ifft
Here's a dude noodling.
joe rogan
This is fucking nuts, man.
No established populations are known...
The carp had been caught by commercial fishermen over the last few years.
Apparently people started eating them.
eddie ifft
Is that what an invasive species is, when they bring it in?
joe rogan
Yeah.
They bring a fish.
Was that noodling?
These guys are so crazy.
Because sometimes they get turtles.
They reach in there and there's snapping turtles in there and they get their fucking hand bitten off.
Like, guys have gotten fucked up doing this.
unidentified
Jesus.
eddie ifft
It's like rodeo caps.
joe rogan
Well, some guys really get dragged underwater.
eddie ifft
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They get fucked up, man.
Because you've got to get a good grip on these cunts.
So really, it's such a primal way.
That looks fake.
That looks completely fake.
Is it fake?
brian redban
I don't know.
joe rogan
It looks fake.
But some of them...
I mean, look.
If you grab a hold of a...
Oh, my God.
unidentified
What is that?
joe rogan
Catch a funnel head and release it.
Wow, he's letting it go.
That's a weird...
What's wrong with the thing's mouth?
eddie ifft
Where my parents live in Pittsburgh.
What is that?
joe rogan
It's hard to tell in that picture what's really going on.
unidentified
What a beauty.
Alright.
joe rogan
Wow, he's going to let that thing go.
brian redban
I don't think that's real.
joe rogan
It's hard to tell if that's real.
Yes, I'm sure there's some that are online that are real.
But grab your arm and put it in the mouth of a 100 pound animal.
eddie ifft
Yeah, not going to do that.
joe rogan
And it's in its environment.
eddie ifft
Not going to fucking do that.
joe rogan
I don't think people understand how strong a fucking 100 pound catfish is either.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, you ever like catch, what's the biggest fish you've ever caught?
eddie ifft
Like 12 inches.
And it was like...
joe rogan
Oh my god, look at the size of these catfish.
brian redban
200 pound.
joe rogan
That's what these are?
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Why are they so confident they can hold on to these things?
These things are still alive.
unidentified
They're cute.
joe rogan
But how weird is it that they can hold on to these things?
They're still alive, they're in the water.
Why don't they just freak out and get free?
Like they're holding...
If you don't watch the show, if you're just listening, these two...
It seems like Russian, right?
Speaking Russian?
unidentified
French.
No, it's Spanish, is it?
joe rogan
Is that Spanish?
Yeah, that sounds like almost Italian.
unidentified
Yeah, it sounds like Italian.
joe rogan
These fucking catfish, these guys, whatever it is, these catfish these guys are holding are fucking boats.
They're boats.
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a seven foot long beast.
brian redban
That's the size of a dolphin.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
It's like a dolphin size.
It's insane.
When they catch those things, man, those things feed a whole fucking village.
How are they going to let it go?
Look at that.
Good for you.
They're like, I know where you live.
When I let you go, one day I'm going to call upon you.
I'm going to turn you into sticks.
There's the largest catfish ever caught.
There's a photo of this, I think it was like Thailand or someone like that.
They caught this insanely large catfish.
I mean, and it shows like this whole like village like participating and cooking and eating this catfish.
But it's a whale.
I mean, the largest cat, Google that, largest catfish.
unidentified
How much is it?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
I don't want to even say it because we can find it soon.
Catfish.
I think it's something enormous, like over a thousand pounds.
brian redban
Here's a 220 pound catfish being caught.
unidentified
Let's see.
joe rogan
The nine largest fish ever caught.
Apparently catfish is in that mix.
Which is insane.
I think the largest fish ever caught is a shark, if I'm correct.
I think like a mako shark is like one of the largest fish ever caught.
eddie ifft
Really, a mako?
joe rogan
Yeah, blue catfish is number nine.
Okay, ready for this?
World record bluefish.
Oh, it's not nearly as big as I thought.
It's 130 pounds.
Okay, that's not the biggest catfish.
unidentified
No, because that one was 200. Yeah, the one we were just watching is 220 pounds.
joe rogan
Okay, tigerfish.
This is how big the biggest ones get.
Tigerfish, 100 pounds.
Alligator gar, 230 pounds.
Jesus Christ.
I'm pretty sure those get bigger than that, too.
Largemouth bass.
eddie ifft
Wait, but the sharks, they get thousands of pounds.
Okay, this is it.
joe rogan
Mekong giant grizzly bear catfish.
The adult, 9 foot long, 646 pounds.
Oh my God.
Mick Kong Giant Catfish.
M-E-K-O-N-G Giant Catfish.
That's apparently the biggest freshwater.
eddie ifft
Is this with rod and reel?
joe rogan
I'm pretty sure.
I'm not sure.
But the biggest fish ever caught is a tuna.
And the biggest fish ever caught is 1,496 pounds.
eddie ifft
Oh, that would make you some money.
joe rogan
It's enormous.
This guy's standing in front of this fucking thing, and it's way bigger than him.
eddie ifft
That's some serious cash.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a crazy fish too.
Tunas are just all muscle.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're super gangster, you know?
They're just flying around in giant schools jacking other fish.
So if you can catch one that's a thousand fucking pounds.
eddie ifft
That's a lot of money.
joe rogan
Imagine a hundred thousand thousand pounders under the ocean just fucking everything up in front of them.
And some asshole comes along with a fake fish and just ganks them.
eddie ifft
Ganks them out of the world.
I went down in the cage in South Africa with the Great Whites.
joe rogan
Oh, you silly bitch.
eddie ifft
And when you see these things coming at you, monsters.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
Monsters.
joe rogan
Why did you do that?
Were you totally, completely convinced that they were going to be able to keep the things away from you?
eddie ifft
Well, they put you in the cage, and the top of the cage is open to the boat, so you can climb out of the cage and into the boat, so it's almost like you're in a steel cage aquarium.
But you gotta put on a wetsuit and snorkel and everything and they either run an oxygen thing down to you or you wear a snorkel and you go up and down.
Hold your breath, go down, and watch for a while.
But you wait for four hours for the sharks to show up.
They put fish oil in the water because it's illegal to put chum in the water.
They can't do that.
joe rogan
Well, weren't there, like, there was a show that they were filming in South Africa, I believe.
eddie ifft
Yeah, we were there.
We were down at, I forget what the area.
We were in, I think, Hermanus.
And there's a place like Seal Island or something.
joe rogan
Well, they blame these people for a death because they were chumming to get the sharks, to catch sharks on their show.
eddie ifft
So they made that illegal.
But they still put fish oil in the water.
joe rogan
It's not the same thing?
eddie ifft
I think so, pretty much.
And they put fish oil in the water.
joe rogan
Look at that fucking catfish.
eddie ifft
Holy fuck.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
eddie ifft
It's the size of a dolphin.
joe rogan
There's pictures of them.
That's the tuna.
That's the biggest fish ever caught, apparently.
eddie ifft
But these great whites, they were the big fuckers.
They were as big as you can imagine.
joe rogan
How big do you think the biggest great white is?
What's the biggest great white ever caught?
Because it seems like a great white would be heavier than a tuna.
eddie ifft
Probably like 20 foot.
joe rogan
Does that make sense?
Let's say biggest great white ever caught.
eddie ifft
I mean, I was looking at ones that were at least 12 feet.
At least.
joe rogan
12 feet long?
eddie ifft
Yeah.
joe rogan
How much is a 12 foot long fucking shark weigh?
Jesus Christ.
eddie ifft
At least 12. These were terrifying.
joe rogan
Jesus.
brian redban
What are those lampreys?
joe rogan
Okay, this is ridiculous because it's saying that sharks were caught that were over 3,000 pounds.
eddie ifft
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is, this is, we're apparently looking at a...
eddie ifft
Well, it might be...
brian redban
That's the problem.
eddie ifft
It might be rod and reel.
joe rogan
Well, you read things on the internet.
That's the problem.
eddie ifft
Wow.
brian redban
What are these lampreys?
joe rogan
They have killed a 21-foot...
Yeah, that's one of those things that clings onto sharks.
They've killed a 21-foot, 8-inch great white shark.
That's like one of the biggest ones ever killed.
eddie ifft
Was that off Montauk, New York?
joe rogan
I'm not sure here.
This is actually almost as big as the one in the movie Jaws, which was...
Caught by Vic Hislop in 1985. It was the biggest great white shark ever caught.
So in 1985, they caught the biggest great white shark ever.
Huh.
Wow.
Suggestive of even bigger sharks.
He also claimed to have caught a bigger one than the one pictured, but he couldn't land it.
So he hooked a bigger one than the 21-foot one.
I believe it.
eddie ifft
I don't like that.
Well, I was reading about it recently.
Apparently, there's great whites are the ones that do all the killing off the coast of California.
They go over to Australia, Hawaii.
They found them over there, South Africa.
But there's one out in the middle of the ocean called the oceanic shark.
Check this out.
These are ones that hang out in the middle of the ocean.
And they're like bigger than great whites.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
eddie ifft
And they don't come to the coastal regions.
joe rogan
Well, what the fuck are they?
eddie ifft
They're just a big fucking motherfucking shark.
joe rogan
They're called oceanic sharks?
eddie ifft
They're the ones, like, when guys were getting shot down in World War II and their planes were, like, out in the middle of the ocean.
They're responsible for a lot of deaths because they'll clean up, like, a fucking whole shipwreck.
You know, they're the ones that, uh...
joe rogan
The great whites are the ones that are right here, right off of fucking L.A. Yeah, they've caught whale sharks before, but whale sharks aren't the same thing.
eddie ifft
Look up the oceanic shark.
I forget what it's like.
An oceanic white or something it's called.
joe rogan
The largest great white shark was caught off Phillip Island, and it weighed an amazing 5,085 pounds.
eddie ifft
I surfed there a month ago.
Cape Willamai.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
It was 20 feet 8 inches long and it weighed 5,085 pounds.
Look at that fucking monster.
You look at the size of that goddamn thing.
How scary is that bitch?
So oceanic shark, that's what I'm looking at?
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah.
Phillip Island, I just surfed there, and they told me when we were going, they said, this is known, it's a very sharky area.
And I said, why?
They said, there's a lot of seal breeding.
And I went, oh, fuck.
joe rogan
The oceanic white tip shark.
eddie ifft
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, creepy nature.
You're so creepy.
Why'd you create this?
eddie ifft
Wait till you go to Alaska.
Go see a musk ox.
joe rogan
What is that?
eddie ifft
Look it up.
joe rogan
When I saw it… I'm just getting into sharks.
unidentified
I didn't know that they existed.
eddie ifft
We're driving down the road one day in Alaska, and I look over and I see this thing and I go, what the fuck is that?
And he goes, oh, that's like a research lab because I was in Fairbanks where the university is.
And I go, no, no, what's that animal?
He goes, that's a musk ox.
And I go, no, you guys just made that up.
That doesn't exist in my world.
You made that up.
And it looks like...
joe rogan
We got an issue here, fella.
eddie ifft
What?
joe rogan
Because this thing is saying you might have the wrong name, shark.
eddie ifft
The oceanic white tip?
joe rogan
Yeah, because this is saying the largest one ever caught was only four meters.
eddie ifft
I think they're responsible for a lot of deaths, and that's what it was that I read.
That they stay out in the middle of the ocean.
joe rogan
Well, what the fuck?
That's a totally different thing, you son of a bitch.
Isn't there a bigger shark?
Come on.
I don't want you to be completely wrong here.
That's just sad.
You told me about some awesome giant shark out there.
eddie ifft
Well, no, no, because I was reading about which sharks.
Somebody goes, oh, I saw a hammerhead, and I go, they don't even kill.
joe rogan
Okay, let's look up largest killer sharks.
eddie ifft
So I was looking up which types are the most aggressive, because you always hear different stories.
joe rogan
I heard bull sharks.
eddie ifft
Bull sharks are nasty.
Tigers, makos.
joe rogan
Do you know that bull sharks, the big thing that happened in New Jersey that inspired Jaws?
unidentified
They go up the rivers?
joe rogan
Yeah.
eddie ifft
They go up the rivers all the time.
joe rogan
They go up the rivers into fresh water, man.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
They found one as high north as Illinois.
That show Monster Hunter, do you remember that?
Or Monster Quest?
Did you ever see that show?
Yeah, in that show, there's a couple things that they unraveled on that show.
It was pretty cool.
One of them was bull sharks.
Because it was like a myth that sharks had gone upriver into fresh water, like deep, deep into the country.
But apparently bull sharks can survive in fresh water.
They don't prefer it, but they can survive it.
eddie ifft
They're nasty, too, apparently, bulls.
They're the ones that'll attack you not for food.
They're just dicks.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're evil, man.
They're evil.
They're really, really aggressive sharks.
What else is really...
Tiger sharks.
eddie ifft
Those are aggressive, too.
Oh, there's a video that was on the internet.
Somebody sent me of a bunch of tigers.
It's in Broom, Australia, where a whale...
Beach, like, up.
It's, like, in a foot of water.
A foot of water.
And these makos are all just eating the fuck out of it.
And they're flopping around in, like, a foot of water.
And you're like, wow, they'll go into a foot of water.
And these girls are all, like, taking pictures and stuff.
And they're getting too close.
These sharks, but they're just feeding on this whale, just, like, eating the sides off of it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen shit like that.
You know, the creepiest thing I've ever seen, animals feeding, is a pile of Komodo dragons.
Have you ever seen that?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Dude.
Brian, Google Komodo dragons feeding frenzy because it's like Walking Dead.
Have you ever seen Walking Dead?
eddie ifft
The movie?
The TV show?
joe rogan
Yeah, you know how the zombies collapse on a body and it's just all of them just in a mass trying to rip this body apart and pulling chunks out?
Komodo dragons.
This is just one image.
This is just a few of them.
This is a small group.
This is only three.
I'd rather die by shark attack.
Yeah, the Komodo dragons.
That's a bad way to go.
But Komodo Dragons, there's images online if you look in Google.
eddie ifft
Did you ever see the images online?
I don't know if this is fake, and I know a lot of people have probably seen it.
Please don't send it to me again, because I actually deleted it.
I rarely, like, don't look at things.
But it was...
It was like a bunch of drug dealers took a guy out into the middle of the field.
joe rogan
These kimono dragons all stacked on top of them.
There's an even better one than that.
Because if you look a little further down on that Google image search, there's one a little further down.
It's just so ridiculous.
eddie ifft
I would not want to die like that.
joe rogan
Oh, they're ruthless, man.
eddie ifft
Well, these drug dealers took a guy out into the middle of this field.
I don't know what they did to them.
I think they...
I don't know if they behead him first, but then these vultures come and just pick away at his body, and it's a series of photos showing you the beginning to the end, and it's just a skeleton.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen one of those Tibetan sky funerals?
brian redban
It's actually a religious thing.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He's talking about a different thing.
There's two ones.
What you're talking about is the Tibetan sky funeral.
What he's talking about is them torturing and killing somebody and leaving their body to vultures.
There's two different things.
eddie ifft
What's the Tibetan sky funeral?
joe rogan
People do it to people they love.
unidentified
Oh, great.
joe rogan
They take their body when they die and they cut it up and they feed it to vultures and they actually film it.
They film it and take photographs of it and people request it.
They say, look, if I die, I want you to feed me to the vultures.
Because at least then, you know, your body goes, it's used for something.
And they go hardcore with it.
They smash up the skull after the vultures go through the body.
They smash up the skull so that the vulture eats that too.
brian redban
Don't Google image search it.
It's gross.
joe rogan
Google image search it.
Pull it up.
We'll end with that.
eddie ifft
Did you have Kenny Hots on your show?
Kenny vs.
Spenny?
joe rogan
No, no.
eddie ifft
Comedy Central show that used to be on the air where they'd compete against each other?
joe rogan
Yeah, no.
eddie ifft
I had him on my show.
He's some fucking maniac.
He, on one of his shows, he does all these crazy shows, he ate a human body.
What?
Yes.
They grinded up teeth.
He ate teeth.
joe rogan
What?
eddie ifft
He ate skin.
He's a maniac.
He's a hilarious guy.
joe rogan
Why would he do that?
eddie ifft
Because he's crazy.
Watch some of the YouTube videos of Benny vs Benny.
He had this one that they always compete against each other.
And one was who can eat more meat.
And he was grinding up meat and making meat shakes.
joe rogan
This is the Benton Sky funeral.
brian redban
And there's worse, where it's just like a side view of a person's face.
joe rogan
This guy, they tie him down too, so the vultures can't carry him off, so they have to finish it right there.
Tie him down, the vultures go through him, then they untie him, smash up the bones.
They have a whole bunch of them come down too.
But no, you're already dead in that one.
eddie ifft
Yeah, well, I still...
joe rogan
Some people want to die that way.
They want to be dealt with.
They want their corpse to be dealt with that way.
eddie ifft
Might as well make a spectacle.
joe rogan
Well, the way we do it is really weird.
We poison the body so that nature can't consume it nearly as easily.
So it's like you could dig someone out of a hole that's been there for like a year.
eddie ifft
Like taxidermy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, when you watch that show, like those autopsy shows, where they have to exhume bodies, a lot of times they're doing it, and the person's a fucking year plus in the hole, and their body's still there, you know, because you formaldehyde the shit out of it, and...
eddie ifft
Well, the funeral, too, the open casket funeral, I don't think there's anything creepier.
joe rogan
Oh, it's weird.
eddie ifft
I don't know why anyone does it.
joe rogan
Have you had anyone you know?
eddie ifft
Oh, fuck yeah, a ton.
I grew up Catholic, and they do that, and I'm like, stop!
joe rogan
How many have you been to?
eddie ifft
A lot.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's fucking gross.
eddie ifft
It's so gross.
joe rogan
But it's weird that it's the standard.
You know, I'm pretty sure they make you embalm someone even if you're going to cremate them.
eddie ifft
Really?
joe rogan
I think so.
I don't think they'll go straight cremation, right?
Isn't that the case?
brian redban
No, I don't think so.
joe rogan
Okay, I think you're wrong.
eddie ifft
I get creeped out.
joe rogan
I'm pretty sure.
eddie ifft
I'm pretty sure he changes up.
joe rogan
Because Joey Diaz has a friend that is actually an undertaker.
brian redban
They might drain the blood, but they probably don't replace it with embalm.
eddie ifft
Do you know how they drain the blood?
I think they have to.
joe rogan
I think they have to for sanitary reasons.
eddie ifft
And they put them on the table?
To drain the blood.
I don't know why I'm talking about this.
I hate this shit.
There's a story.
I got a friend of mine a job at a funeral home.
I knew a funeral director, and I got this guy a job when we were in college.
And he's Jewish, and he had never been to Jewish funerals.
They don't do that.
He went to the funeral home.
He was working there washing cars, watching the hearse and the limos and everything.
One day, the guys that he worked with, the first day, said, hey, go in that room and get some more sponges.
He goes in the room.
It's the embalming room.
And there's a body on the table.
And they cut them at, like, the wrists and the ankles, I think, and just let the wrists and, like, legs hang.
And so all the blood drips, and the floor is like a graded floor that just catches all the blood underneath, you know, and there's drains underneath.
So he walks in the room and sees them.
Just sees his body and just fucking loses it and runs off.
Quits the job.
Doesn't even go to pick up his check for one day.
He was like, fuck that.
brian redban
That's haunting.
joe rogan
Here's the answer to that.
There's no state law that says a body must be embalmed before cremation.
It's a bit more complicated.
Some states require that a body be buried, cremated, embalmed, or refrigerated within a certain amount of time.
So what happens, though, is that funeral homes will rip you off.
And that if you say that you want to get the body cremated, if they get a hold of it before, you know what I mean, someone's body gets brought to a funeral home, if that happens, a lot of times they try to sell you on embalming the person before cremation.
They just tell you it has to be done.
But it doesn't have to be that.
Apparently, there's a lot of money in taking care of dead bodies because people are forced to do something about it.
You can't just bury your friends.
You're not allowed to.
It's not legal.
You can't just say, hey, Bobby died in a car accident.
Do you mind if we take him and I want to put him in my backyard behind the apple tree?
You can't bury your friend in your yard.
It has to be in a funeral home or rather it has to be in a mortuary or whatever.
It's got to be a cemetery.
It's got to be taken care of in a certain way.
You can't just throw them in the hole.
You have to embalm them before you throw them in the hole, I think, for the most part.
brian redban
I think Costco sells caskets.
And so does Amazon, I believe.
joe rogan
Wow.
I'll never understand that.
eddie ifft
I'll never understand that either.
The amount of money that's put into them, too.
Like, you know, the deluxe bottle.
You're putting it in the dirt in an hour.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
I get it.
How much do people spend on their weddings?
Some people have these crazy million dollar weddings.
brian redban
Look, there's a coffin.
It's like, look, it's the size of a boy.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
Okay, that is fucking depressing.
Please shut that off.
eddie ifft
Did you watch the Brazilian prank show where the coffin is in the elevator?
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
It's the same one where the little witch comes out of the fucking...
brian redban
That's the best.
eddie ifft
I haven't seen that either.
It's a fucking great show.
brian redban
It's so amazing.
eddie ifft
It's fucking great.
The best prank ever.
unidentified
Really?
eddie ifft
They're in the elevator.
And the lights go off in the elevator.
They got a camera in there.
And then a girl...
joe rogan
Don't tell me.
Don't tell me.
I'll watch it.
I'll watch it.
eddie ifft
It's awesome.
joe rogan
I'll watch it online.
I'll watch it online.
eddie ifft
But watch the one with the casket.
joe rogan
What's it called again?
eddie ifft
Just look.
Brazilian prank show.
brian redban
Ghost girl.
joe rogan
Okay.
brian redban
Elevator.
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Scary.
joe rogan
Ghost girl.
eddie ifft
Brazilian prank show.
unidentified
It's amazing.
eddie ifft
You can watch it for hours.
joe rogan
No.
eddie ifft
Yes.
Yes.
Watch it.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't want to watch it.
I'm past that shit.
You enjoy it.
Have a good time.
That's it, Eddie.
Anything to add to the powerful people out there in the world?
eddie ifft
Twitter me.
Twitter me.
I can't get Twitter followers.
I can't get Twitter followers.
I think it's spelling my name or that I don't Twitter followers.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
What's the matter?
eddie ifft
I've got like 16,000.
joe rogan
How dare you?
eddie ifft
I know.
It's ridiculous.
joe rogan
How dare you?
It's because you're fucking around over in Australia.
They don't use Twitter over there.
eddie ifft
They don't.
joe rogan
Do they not?
eddie ifft
Some people.
It's not as big.
brian redban
It's not big in a lot of places, too.
I notice a lot of people from Texas don't use Twitter.
joe rogan
Oh, you're out of your mind.
Texas is flooded with Twitter.
Austin, South by Southwest, is a huge fucking Twitter destination.
brian redban
Every person I know from Houston doesn't do it.
joe rogan
Really?
I don't know.
I think a lot of folks, like regular people, they don't want to do it.
I mean, for comedians, so it's gigantic.
Facebook, Twitter.
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brian redban
Are you going to text us anytime soon?
eddie ifft
When are you in Vegas?
joe rogan
Milwaukee, July 5th, Vegas.
Alright, that's it.
We love the fuck out of you people.
And we'll be back on Monday.
I gotta do my TV show and talk to more crazy people.
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