Jan. 11, 2018 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| Just talk. | ||
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We're good? | |
| All right, we're live. | ||
| Sort of. | ||
| Sort of live. | ||
| We're rolling. | ||
| We're rolling. | ||
| We're rolling, dog. | ||
| So we were talking about the game. | ||
| We stopped because we figured this is probably good for the podcast. | ||
| So Ari finally paid off the bet. | ||
| Ari paid it off in a big way, man. | ||
| Big way. | ||
| In a big way. | ||
| So if you remember, when we were doing the weight loss challenge, It was like whoever wins decides the sporting event. | ||
| We're all sports fans basically, you know? | ||
| And I said at the time, I was like, let's go see Barcelona. | ||
| I think I wanted to see Barcelona play Paris in, you know, some tournament cup, some tournament that they were playing in. | ||
| And I was like, you know, two of the premier teams, and it would be fun to go to Europe and make Ari pay for it, you know? | ||
| So I told him that, and he was like, I'm going to, like, fucking Malaysia. | ||
| And he just left. | ||
| So never heard from him again. | ||
| And four months later, you know how it all played out. | ||
| So when he got back, he was getting fucking... | ||
| Lamb by people because he was supposed to pay up this bet, you know? | ||
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Right. | |
| And people were destroying him. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| I mean, online, they were just like, Welcher, you're a piece of shit. | ||
| Probably worse than that. | ||
| But anyways, once we got to like hanging out, once we did the Sober October thing, He was just like, right before that actually, I think he was like, which means like, what do you want to do, right? | ||
| And I go, well, how about... | ||
| I go, he's like, you know, you picked the event. | ||
| I go, I'm a big college football fan. | ||
| Let's go to the national championship game. | ||
| And I remember at the end of the 2013 season, 2014, FSU and Auburn played in the Rose Bowl out here. | ||
| And Burt's an FSU alum, I'm a big FSU fan. | ||
| I was like, let's go to the game. | ||
| And I remember that we met, it was like We got somebody who had students, because they both always in the national championship, they allow students to go to the game for pretty expensive, much less than the general public can go for. | ||
| In other words, because you want students to have the ability to go to see their school play. | ||
| So we got like student tickets for, I think they were $3.50 each. | ||
| And that's pretty expensive, you know, especially for a student. | ||
| But I remember Bert treated me. | ||
| He bought the ticket from me. | ||
| And we went to that game and he left that fucking halftime of the national championship game. | ||
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Why'd he leave? | |
| He was like, I'm tired. | ||
| I gotta see the kids. | ||
| I've been drinking. | ||
| He just left. | ||
| It was one of the best games. | ||
| He just left you there? | ||
| Yeah, we were sitting in separate sections. | ||
| But I was like, are you fucking... | ||
| I was like texting him. | ||
| He was like, I'm home. | ||
| So you were by yourself and he was by himself. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| He knew more people at the game because a lot of his friends that he went to school with We're at the game, too. | ||
| But I'm like, you're gone? | ||
| Did you just see the kickoff return? | ||
| The lead just swung, and he was like, I'm at home. | ||
| And I was like, all right. | ||
| So, all right, Psycho. | ||
| How weird. | ||
| So weird. | ||
| I gave him shit for it. | ||
| I still give him shit for it. | ||
| But it ended up being just this amazing finish. | ||
| So anyways, when I tell Ari I want to go to this, I'm kind of thinking that's the ballpark. | ||
| Because that's the only experience I have. | ||
| So the game's in Atlanta. | ||
| He buys tickets, and I'm like, I go, you're not flying me, coach, you know that. | ||
| He's like, no, you're a champ, you're going first. | ||
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Bert, Bert is coach, and I'll get him a seatbelt extension. | |
| I'm like, alright, cool. | ||
| But Bert ended up going from somewhere else. | ||
| So anyways, he bought the ticket, he got an Airbnb, a really nice house, you know, for a few days in Atlanta. | ||
| And then... | ||
| It's, you know, the big thing is game day. | ||
| And I'm thinking like, oh, that's cool that you got these tickets and you got, you know, but I think it's like reasonable. | ||
| And then we get to the stadium. | ||
| It was a total fucking disaster to get in because Trump went to the game. | ||
| So it was raining, it was wet, Secret Service everywhere, two hour lines to get into the venue. | ||
| And I paid a guy, a security guy, a hundred bucks to walk us through the line, which was almost impossible because it was so packed. | ||
| But, I don't know, he just started walking us through the line, like, in front of people. | ||
| People were yelling at the security guy, which was, like, so uncomfortable. | ||
| He's, like, a young black kid, and, like, old white people were like, the fuck are you doing? | ||
| He's like, I'm security. | ||
| And they're like, you're not security, you piece of shit. | ||
| Like, right to his, right in front of us. | ||
| And I was like, god damn. | ||
| Like, I just have never seen someone flip out like that. | ||
| What we were doing was highly unethical. | ||
| We shouldn't have done it. | ||
| But, like, we just weren't gonna wait in that line. | ||
| And then Bert, of course, Bert, in a crowd like that, he's like, it's okay. | ||
| I'm famous. | ||
| We're famous guys. | ||
| Like, yelling that to people, which is like... | ||
| No, he didn't. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| He's like, everywhere we went, if we went to a restaurant, they would come up and be like, hey, can I get you guys something to drink? | ||
| And he'd be like, do you recognize us? | ||
| They were like, what? | ||
| Was he serious? | ||
| I mean, I think it's part of his, like, you know, whatever, style. | ||
| And they were like, I'm sorry? | ||
| So part of a joke, or kind of a joke, but not 100%? | ||
| I think he's joking, but he's like halfway in the middle. | ||
| Because one time he was like, we're famous comedians. | ||
| And the lady was like, oh, I know who you are. | ||
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And he was like, isn't it awesome being famous, guys? | |
| And I'm like, shut up. | ||
| And he was serious? | ||
| I mean, he's like half serious. | ||
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Oh. | |
| It's so weird. | ||
| But it's like you see him in his element. | ||
| It's like him with crowds is really, you realize he really enjoys it. | ||
| He really enjoys the large groups. | ||
| He enjoys being recognized. | ||
| Sometimes we were walking and people were like, hey, you're the guy, I've seen you on Facebook. | ||
| He's like, you want a picture? | ||
| And they're like, okay. | ||
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Jesus Christ, Bert. | |
| Yeah, he loves it. | ||
| He loves it. | ||
| And then we were talking about how people would say, like, Tom. | ||
| And I was like, yeah. | ||
| And they're like, hey. | ||
| And then they would walk away. | ||
| They wouldn't come over to me. | ||
| They're like, hi. | ||
| And then they'd walk another way. | ||
| But with Bert, they're like, can I hug you? | ||
| They take their shirt off. | ||
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They sing together. | |
| They love it. | ||
| And he's, like, in his glory with it. | ||
| It's perfect. | ||
| So anyways, we get through this horrific line. | ||
| Into this unbelievable $1.6 billion stadium that they built in Atlanta. | ||
| I mean, it's fucking amazing. | ||
| It's such a beautiful, just standalone stadium. | ||
| You know, it's so state-of-the-art. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| We get in there. | ||
| Ari got us 50-yard line, so right in the middle, like 20 rows back. | ||
| I'm like, these are fucking amazing. | ||
| Like, you couldn't ask for better seats. | ||
| It has, like, some club access for, like, free booze, free food, catered food, prime rib. | ||
| I'm like, Jesus. | ||
| I'm like, how much did you pay for these tickets? | ||
| And he's like, mm-hmm. | ||
| I go, yeah, I want to know. | ||
| $3,500 each. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| I was like, Ari, are you fucking shit? | ||
| And he's like, how do you do it? | ||
| How do you do it? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| But he fucking spent over $10,000 on tickets for us, man. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Unreal, man. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| I mean, those are great seats, dude. | ||
| Those are absolutely amazing seats. | ||
| You know, when the McGregor-Mayweather fight was going on, Yeah. | ||
| I was hearing that people were buying tickets for a quarter million dollars. | ||
| That's fucking retarded. | ||
| That's so dumb to pay that much money. | ||
| You say that, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But you're balling pretty hard right now. | ||
| I mean, back in the dizzy, you thought about some of the shit that you can do now. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| I would be like, that's impossible. | ||
| So, we were talking about Jeff Bezos before the show, who's now the richest man in human history. | ||
| It's like, it's inconceivable amount of money. | ||
| He's worth $105 billion, which is just like, what the fuck? | ||
| He's like the eighth biggest landowner in the United States. | ||
| Do you know that? | ||
| He just buys... | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| I'm not stunned, though. | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| He has 300,000 acres of Texas. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| That's a lot. | ||
| That's a lot, yeah. | ||
| That's a big slab. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's just ballin'. | ||
| He's just ballin' out of control. | ||
| I'm pretty sure his DC home was either, I feel like it was either a museum or a hotel before. | ||
| He was like, make that shit in my house now. | ||
| A museum. | ||
| They're like, it's your house. | ||
| I wonder what he's like to hang out with. | ||
| Because there's a photo of him. | ||
| See if you can find this photo, Jamie. | ||
| There's a photo of Jeff Bezos from 1993. And he's got like a vinyl banner above his desk that says Amazon.com. | ||
| And it's just him in this janky little fucking Ikea desk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like bad clothes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Kind of chubby. | ||
| Typing away. | ||
| And now he's like, got some muscle on him. | ||
| Now he's jacked and... | ||
| Tan and probably got a supermodel for a girlfriend, does he? | ||
| No, he's got a wife, four kids. | ||
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Regular? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Normal? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Really? | |
| She's an author. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| How odd. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Odd. | ||
| He doesn't schedule morning meetings so he can hang out with the kids. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I read all this stuff. | ||
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I wonder why he's going so hard. | |
| Hmm. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| When you hit 105 billion, Yeah. | ||
| You would think you'd go, eh, we're good. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I think you just start really collecting, because when he bought the Washington Post, you know it's not like he's like, I love journalism. | ||
| He'd be like, be cool to own a newspaper. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| At that level, you're just like, I like waterfalls. | ||
| Are there any for sale or something? | ||
| Well, he's got... | ||
| Washington Post is one of the weird ones where you get a link. | ||
| Someone will send you a link. | ||
| And you click on it. | ||
| And it's a Washington Post article. | ||
| And it says, you obviously love great journalism. | ||
| Come sign up. | ||
| Like, fuck off. | ||
| They don't even give you the free reads, I feel like. | ||
| New York Times will give you 10 free reads. | ||
| I signed up after I kept clicking those. | ||
| I was like, I better sign up. | ||
| Washington Post, I feel like, click number one. | ||
| They're like, do you want to read this? | ||
| Do you want to pay or not? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not paying. | ||
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I'm not paying. | |
| Yeah, I mean, I support paying for journalism, but I feel like they should give us a taste, you know? | ||
| We should get a little taste. | ||
| It's tough to trust journalism these days. | ||
| It's tough to trust, like, how fucking weird your article's gonna be. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Journalism's tough. | ||
| Watching news has become... | ||
| Man, I remember when it started to skew to personality and taste. | ||
| Now it's like off the rails. | ||
| It is off the rails. | ||
| That's where the money is. | ||
| I know, but it's like, you're totally just going with who, like, you're gonna watch, you can select what do I feel like leaning towards. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then you watch that. | ||
| Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or, you know. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, Rachel Maddow. | ||
| Yeah, there he is. | ||
| Look at that picture. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He looks nothing like that now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what 105 billion will do. | ||
| He's just sitting there with that Amazon.com banner. | ||
| I hope that's still hanging somewhere in his house. | ||
| Yeah, he probably shoots loads on that thing. | ||
| What are you... | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Crazy that he started out. | ||
| I remember Amazon being a book thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I remember being a place to buy books. | ||
| And I remember thinking, how weird. | ||
| Like an online bookstore. | ||
| Why wouldn't you just go to the bookstore store where you could see the book? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And all those bookstores shut. | ||
| Like they closed. | ||
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He killed all of them. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| There's only a few left. | ||
| Well, I know a guy who got a deal. | ||
| With Amazon.com to publish a book. | ||
| It was like when Amazon started publishing books. | ||
| And they blackballed him because of this. | ||
| Because he had had traditional outlet deals before. | ||
| And his books would be front and center in Barnes& Noble and all these other different places. | ||
| He's a pretty popular author. | ||
| But as soon as you went to Amazon.com, they're like, fuck you. | ||
| And they just shut them out. | ||
| They shut them out of all those stores. | ||
| And I was like, whoa. | ||
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There's like a weird book war going on that I didn't know about. | |
| Those book people were trying to keep their business model going and thriving. | ||
| Yeah, but doing it by threats is never the way to go. | ||
| Probably not, no. | ||
| I mean, the best way to go is when Amazon publishes a book that people actually want to buy in your store, you dumb fuck. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Put it in your store. | ||
| You know what I hate about these super rich guys? | ||
| They'll never, they never in their interviews talk, have like, the only one who will talk like what it's like to ball at that level and make it sound fun and like the things you want to ask is Mark Cuban. | ||
| I've seen him in interviews be like, ah yeah, I got a lot of shit. | ||
| And, like, knows that, like, that's a genuine curiosity for people. | ||
| Like, how fun is that? | ||
| You have two 747s. | ||
| He's like, yeah, man, that's pretty cool, right? | ||
| And he talks about it. | ||
| But I saw this interview with Gates, and this guy was asking all those questions. | ||
| He was like, do you have to worry about, like, when somebody asks you, like, when you ask for something, that someone's going to try to ask for more because of your known wealth? | ||
| He's like... | ||
| You know, my charity really is, like, just, like, dodging all those questions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Of, like, the fun shit that everyone wants to know. | ||
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Right, right. | |
| He just kept going back to his charity. | ||
| We're like, we know you're a fucking charitable guy. | ||
| Tell us what it's like to own six planes, bro. | ||
| Like, what kind of shit do you have? | ||
| You know, he's like this Xanadu house. | ||
| It's like 70,000 square feet or something. | ||
| Well, he's got a house. | ||
| I think it's on Puget Sound. | ||
| It's somewhere in the Seattle area. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's Medina. | ||
| Medina or Medina? | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| I think that's what it's called. | ||
| But it's so freaky. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Looks like you're using an ad blocker. | ||
| What did you pull up? | ||
| 19 crazy facts about his house. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| $123 million. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Disable your ad blocker so we can read it. | ||
| So we were in Seattle and there's this thing that's near a bridge where you go under this bridge and they have these clear walls where you can see the salmon swimming up the salmon ladders. | ||
| They have everything set up with these clear glass walls. | ||
| It's really pretty badass. | ||
| But the guy who was there... | ||
| Who was the, you know, the guide of this thing, who's explaining us, you know, how this works and which kind of salmon you're looking at and the whole deal. | ||
| He was like, you know, my uncle worked on the Bill Gates House. | ||
| He starts talking about Bill Gates House, where Bill Gates House is and where he lives. | ||
| And I remember thinking, like, how weird must it be? | ||
| If you're so rich that all everybody wants to do is talk about like, hey, my friend worked on your house. | ||
| And I'm like, well, what's it like? | ||
| And he just starts describing his skills. | ||
| Well, he has like some sort of a submarine access in case he's getting kidnapped. | ||
| Like someone's trying to jack him. | ||
| They can get in a submarine and shoot out into the river. | ||
| I'm like, what? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know even how much of that is even true. | ||
| Because this guy seemed like he was missing a little piece of his brain. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Start really adding stuff to it. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I was thinking. | ||
| I was like, how much of this is urban myth? | ||
| I know that they were reporting even, like, I don't know, when that house was built 10, 15, or whatever years ago, that even back then, there was shit in his house, because it was super high tech, of like, if you walk in a room, Music would play, and as you left the room, music would die down and pick up in the next room. | ||
| I think a regular person could probably do something like that now, but that was unheard of. | ||
| Yeah, I think you wore a pin. | ||
| You put a pin on, and that pin, as you walked into different rooms, recognized that you were the person. | ||
| So you had specific colors that you liked. | ||
| So there'd be like backlighting that was specific. | ||
| I just like to be his kids. | ||
| He's big on... | ||
| He's the one that started that giving pledge, which is like for billionaires to give the overwhelming majority of their wealth. | ||
| Right. | ||
| To charity, so that you don't pass on billions to your children. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So his thing is like, I'm gonna leave my kids money, but not like crazy money. | ||
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Crazy money. | |
| But you're like, yeah, that's, you know, I totally get the idea behind that, but also like, if you grew up with You know, you're his kid and you're like, oh, we got lions this year or whatever. | ||
| And then you're like, you know, you grow up and you're like, I'm a whatever, a photographer now. | ||
| My dad left me five million dollars. | ||
| Five million dollars is great. | ||
| It's great, but my thing is like, it's such a step down from what they're used to. | ||
| I don't feel even remotely bad for some fucking kid who gets five million dollars from I don't feel bad. | ||
| What I'm saying is that that adjustment has to kick you in the balls. | ||
| I mean, the exposure that they've had, the lifestyle, is like, it's not, it's unfathomable to us. | ||
| Like, we can't even, it's beyond, they're just like, it's like being a prince, you know? | ||
| It's like your dad's a sultan of Brunei, and then he's like, well, go fucking, I mean, they're probably well-adjusted. | ||
| I don't know why I assume that, but I think that, like, He and his wife seem like such reasonable people that I bet they've, you know, prepared them for what's coming. | ||
| Well, they've got to figure out a way to make it on their own, and how do you get a kid to do that? | ||
| That's tough, right? | ||
| You know? | ||
| How do you get a kid to do that who's grown up like that? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you think about that with your kid, like, as you're starting to ball out of control? | ||
| Yeah, I think about it for sure. | ||
| Like, how do you... | ||
| And then, like, how to not, you know... | ||
| You want to prepare your kid for that, and then how will a boy, I don't know, maybe especially, boys align with their dads usually in a certain way, you know? | ||
| Like, kid compares himself to you and your success, but you don't want him to feel like, you know, he's less than. | ||
| Right, in your shadow. | ||
| Sure, yeah. | ||
| Especially, what if he goes into comedy? | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
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Oof. | |
| Have you thought about if your daughters were to go into comedy? | ||
| My seven-year-old's hilarious. | ||
| She's really funny. | ||
| Does she ever like... | ||
| I'm sure she's... | ||
| She doesn't know what the fuck comedy is. | ||
| No? | ||
| She just knows how to be silly. | ||
| Has she seen you on the TV doing it? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| She flipped through Netflix and makes fun of me. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, nice jeans, Dad? | ||
| No, she starts mocking me. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, she's just ruthlessly funny. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| She just goes after it. | ||
| Seven-year-old is the younger? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She goes after it all the time. | ||
| She's like, going after jokes. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's really funny. | ||
| But I see her becoming a YouTube character or something. | ||
| What do you think about them not feeling overwhelmed by your success or status? | ||
| I think it's less likely because they're girls. | ||
| I was actually having a conversation with Neil Brennan about this last night. | ||
| We were talking about another famous guy. | ||
| I don't know him that well, so I won't use his name. | ||
| But he has two sons and at least one daughter. | ||
| The daughter's highly motivated. | ||
| He's not worried about it at all. | ||
| She kicks ass in school. | ||
| She's awesome. | ||
| The sons are fucking insanely lazy. | ||
| And they just sit around and they know that when they turn 26, they get a giant check. | ||
| And they're 25 now. | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| They don't do shit. | ||
| That's terrible. | ||
| And he's super worried about it. | ||
| I would be too. | ||
| He doesn't know what to do. | ||
| Yeah, that's like a nightmare, man. | ||
| Well, it's so hard to actually do something if you don't have to. | ||
| It's so hard to make something happen in your life, right? | ||
| To start a business, to enter into a career, to become successful at it, to really focus and try to get good to the point where you're successful at something, you have to have a fire inside of you. | ||
| You have to have a need to achieve. | ||
| And if you already have a Ferrari, and you're already living in a mansion, you already have $10 million in the bank, you already have all your bills paid, you don't have to get up in the morning if you don't want to. | ||
| The idea of just becoming this disciplined machine that's out there to try to kick ass in this life and be self-actualized, so hard, so hard to pull off. | ||
| You gotta, like, dial back to on the spoiling, I think. | ||
| I went to... | ||
| High school with a grandson of a billionaire. | ||
| And they were very present in the area. | ||
| And they drove used cars, the grandkids I'm saying. | ||
| And obviously they could have gotten way more. | ||
| But it was like instilling this, you're not just going to coast through everything. | ||
| And they got jobs, and as far as I know about now, what he's doing now is he's working. | ||
| He's really working. | ||
| Even though he's going to inherit just crazy amounts of money. | ||
| But I mean, part of it too is just the nature of that person. | ||
| I think you can try to not go crazy with taking care of gifts and all that stuff, but some of that drive has to come from within, no matter what your socioeconomic level is. | ||
| Yeah, I would imagine some of it. | ||
| I think there's people that grow up rich that it doesn't matter. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| They're going to succeed. | ||
| They love it. | ||
| They like succeeding. | ||
| They like working hard. | ||
| They like getting things done. | ||
| But then there's... | ||
| Like, what causes a kid to be a lazy fuck? | ||
| You know, like, you come home, the kid's on the couch, just with their feet up, and they don't... | ||
| Did you do what I asked you to do? | ||
| I was gonna, but something happened. | ||
| Mike called, and fucking... | ||
| I know people like that, man. | ||
| I think there's something wrong with just... | ||
| I mean, I know people like that who you want to shake. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, what the fuck is wrong with you? | ||
| But they... | ||
| I think a lot of times they just... | ||
| It's almost like they fear doing the thing. | ||
| They're scared. | ||
| They're scared. | ||
| What if I do something and I suck at it? | ||
| You know, that kind of thing. | ||
| There's definitely that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's... | ||
| Well, you see that in a lot of, like... | ||
| Amateur comics that are sort of starting to make it into comedy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You see a lot of sabotage. | ||
| You know that stress of you're just doing open mic nights and then all of a sudden you're starting to get paid and then some people start moving forward and other people get left behind. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Remember those days? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| I remember thinking, like, man, boy, there's a lot of people here that are sabotaging themselves. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| You can see the stress of... | ||
| Because stand-up in particular is so open-ended. | ||
| Like, you could make of it what you want. | ||
| You put in as much as you want. | ||
| You either can be successful or not, depending upon how much you focus on it, how much talent you have, how much drive and discipline you have. | ||
| And a couple breaks. | ||
| Yeah, and a couple breaks. | ||
| There's a bunch of factors. | ||
| And sometimes those factors are just too overwhelming to some people, and you see them just start tanking it. | ||
| They're drinking at the store every night. | ||
| Yeah, because it's scary. | ||
| That's the truth, is that it's scary. | ||
| I remember, and people handle it different ways. | ||
| I remember the people who'd be like, they would just say, this isn't going to work out. | ||
| I don't know why we're doing this. | ||
| Oh, yeah, those people. | ||
| And I was always like, dude, don't talk to me anymore. | ||
| I don't want to hear you. | ||
| Yeah, you're fucking so negative. | ||
| But they're doing that just to sort of eliminate that pain of failing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're trying to just address it now. | ||
| Eh, come on. | ||
| We're just normal guys. | ||
| It's never going to happen. | ||
| It's never going to happen. | ||
| You and I will just get a fucking regular job. | ||
| We'll be working for Amazon or something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you're like, what? | ||
| What are you talking about, man? | ||
| Yeah, there's people who are like, yeah, this doesn't, you know, you can't make any money doing this. | ||
| I remember that a lot, too. | ||
| Like, you can't make any money doing this. | ||
| I was like, whoa, you can't make any money right now. | ||
| It doesn't mean you're not going to make money later. | ||
| And they're like, well, how are you going to get to later? | ||
| Because there's no money now. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| You know what's almost as weird? | ||
| Do you remember the development deal years? | ||
| Were you around during the development deal years? | ||
| I was at the tail end. | ||
| I was at the, where they were like, they were like, ah, two years ago you would have made $600,000 for that set. | ||
| And you're like, Jesus Christ. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I was there for the development deal years, but I kind of was working during most of it. | ||
| Because during most of it, I was doing news radio. | ||
| When it got really hot, I was doing news radio. | ||
| And I remember that there were comics that would go to Montreal. | ||
| They would do the comedy festival. | ||
| They would have these sets. | ||
| And they would come back, and they had half-million-dollar deals. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| And there were sitcoms, and they were convinced that it was all fucking happening for them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I remember I had quite more than one conversation with one of these people that was trying to put me on their show. | ||
| Comics that have never worked since. | ||
| Like, you do not hear from them. | ||
| You should do my show. | ||
| Yeah, bro. | ||
| My show's guaranteed. | ||
| This is what's going to happen. | ||
| It's guaranteed to go to air. | ||
| If it doesn't go to air, there's a million dollar backup deal. | ||
| Like, they had all this stuff that they were telling you about. | ||
| Like, they went the opposite way. | ||
| Instead of, like, being, like, terrified of the future to the point where they were just, like, letting themselves off the hook. | ||
| They were super confident in this weird, delusional, it's definitely happening for me thing. | ||
| It's odd, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's odd to subscribe. | ||
| See, that would always scare me because I'm more, my just more life perspective is like you don't react until like the check clears. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| Yeah, I don't go like, this definitely happens. | ||
| No, it's always like wait and see. | ||
| Well, those people that, it was interesting because none of them made it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| None of them. | ||
| And they were all convinced. | ||
| But it was a weird convinced. | ||
| It was like, have you... | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, you're not even that good. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| That's what I wanted to tell them. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| You got lucky, man. | ||
| You had a pretty... | ||
| You're kind of cute. | ||
| You had a pretty decent set in front of a very willing crowd. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And someone took a chance on you because... | ||
| People are going... | ||
| There was a nutty time. | ||
| I guess we should describe it to people. | ||
| There was a nutty time where they were just chucking around development deals like a regular person who probably had no business being on stage could get a $100,000 development deal. | ||
| Yeah, I literally just missed that. | ||
| I think they said that the last big one that they talked about was, like, 05. They're like, that was, like, one of the last big six-figure development deals, which is basically you go to Montreal... | ||
| You know, which is the Just for Laughs big festival. | ||
| All the executives go. | ||
| They all basically party for a week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was like an excuse to do work. | ||
| And then, you know, they were signing people up with those checks. | ||
| And we literally, I went in the 07 New Faces class. | ||
| And they're like, ah, two years ago someone got $850,000 for his 15-minute set. | ||
| 850? | ||
| Yeah, it's like one of the big, the last big ones that failed. | ||
| Like, they had a record, there was like a tallying of like, This person, this person, this person, this person all got them, and nothing came of it. | ||
| And then they went all in in 05 on a couple other people, and then that didn't pan out some. | ||
| So they're like, fuck these development deals, man. | ||
| Now it's done. | ||
| No, it never happens now. | ||
| You never hear about them. | ||
| No. | ||
| I got one in 93. I got a development deal in 93. Wow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
|
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From the festival? | |
| I got one of the first ones. | ||
| No, for the festival. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, I went to the festival with a deal. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, I had to deal with Disney. | ||
| Yeah, now they... | ||
| That shit never happens. | ||
| It was the weirdest thing in the world because it was... | ||
| I went from being fucking broke. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, you know, oh, I'm making $300 this weekend if I go to this place and do a set on Friday night. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then, you know... | ||
| You got six figures. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did you think, were you like, this is crazy right now? | ||
| I think I got 100 the first time, and then there was a second part of it where I got 50. It was just like, what? | ||
| I was eating lobster every night. | ||
| Didn't you say that your accountant made a business manager call? | ||
| He thought I had a gambling problem. | ||
| That's so funny. | ||
| It's like, nope. | ||
| I'm just eating like a king. | ||
| And he was like, how are you spending so much money? | ||
| And I was like, I'm just spending money like this is how I'm going to live from now on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's like, that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I was right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because I was right. | ||
|
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Yeah, you're right. | |
| It just took a chance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's so cool. | ||
| It could have turned out terribly wrong. | ||
| But the thing that was weird about it that was the most incredible thing was that once I started working and once the money, the check came in and... | ||
| I didn't have to think about my bills anymore. | ||
| There was a physical feeling of relief. | ||
| Like a physical feeling of relief. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To go from being broke and have no idea how you're going to pay your bills and just trying to hustle up a $100 set or a $75 set somewhere to go from that to just not having to worry about money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Instantaneously. | ||
| Instantaneously. | ||
| You know, after taxes, having X amount of dollars in the bank and just going, what? | ||
| That's in the bank? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I know. | ||
| But then the feeling, like a lightness of being, like, I felt physically lighter. | ||
| It's so much of your, like, it consumes you for so much of your life. | ||
| It's like, and there's this bill and there's that bill. | ||
| It's like it's on your mind all the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, like, Oh shit, I know I got these weeks of work lined up, but then that other thing's gonna come up, so I need to call it, because it's all you think about. | ||
| But I think it goes the other way too. | ||
| I think that when you get to this Jeff Bezos level, I think then all of a sudden it's a burden. | ||
| Because I feel like the lightness is, like Brian Callen had a saying once, and I've repeated it a bunch of times because I think he nailed it. | ||
| He said, you want to get rich enough so that you don't have to worry about your bills and you don't have to worry about how much things cost when you go to eat at a restaurant. | ||
| Yeah, that's great. | ||
| Because everything else after that is bullshit. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All that other stuff like acquiring stuff and fucking jewelry and shit like that. | ||
| What are you dealing with all that? | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| And it's like there's that thing too when you have enough money to go to restaurants. | ||
| And sometimes you'll go to a restaurant and they're like, and the special is this cut of meat and there's a lobster on the side and it's $69.95. | ||
| And you're like, not a problem. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I always feel like it's weird when they tell you the price. | ||
| I know. | ||
| You're like, what are you freaking going to embarrass me here at the table? | ||
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I'm good. | |
| But it's an odd thing. | ||
| Sometimes they tell you the price and sometimes they don't. | ||
| Sometimes they just tell you the special. | ||
| We have a rack of lamb. | ||
| Oh, that sounds good. | ||
| Nice restaurants. | ||
| A lot of times there's multiple items that just says market price. | ||
| Yeah, that's a weird one. | ||
| And you can just be like, I want that. | ||
| And they're like, you said so. | ||
| And then they just bring it to you and you're like, that's $400. | ||
| You're like, what? | ||
| Yeah, what kind of market is this? | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| But don't you think that if you get to the point where you're worth $105 billion, just to focus on you alone... | ||
| It's a lot, yeah. | ||
| It must be overwhelming. | ||
| It must be overwhelming, and also, it's like to the Bill Gates thing, it's like, it is the thing that... | ||
| That everybody probably wants to ask you to talk about. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| It's like everyone knows you have a 15 inch dick and they're like, let me see it, man. | ||
|
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Just let me see it. | |
| Can I touch it? | ||
| Can I see it? | ||
| What does it taste like? | ||
| It tastes like a regular dick? | ||
| Like it's limp and it's 15 inches? | ||
|
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It's crazy. | |
| It's like knowing that about someone. | ||
| It's all everyone... | ||
| So yeah, I think that energy you feel, that everyone's like, you're super rich? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because we're all fascinated, especially in this country, with, you know, accumulating wealth. | ||
| It's like, I feel like it's heightened here. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Well, I mean, think about how much of the culture is about ballin'. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I mean, it's all about young... | ||
| Entertainment culture is all about showing diamonds and stepping out of Rolls Royces. | ||
| I saw this dude. | ||
| I don't know his name. | ||
| They showed him getting jewelry that he bought. | ||
| And you saw that? | ||
| And it has an emblem with a 69 and it spins. | ||
| And he's got, like, diamond teeth. | ||
| And then he had, like, 200 grand in his waistband. | ||
| He just took it out and was like, ah, ah, stacking the money. | ||
| It's just, like, it's a fascination with, like, look how much shit I have and all the shit I can buy. | ||
| Like, that's part of the culture now. | ||
| It's been going on for a long time. | ||
| It has been, yeah. | ||
| It's coming up from poverty. | ||
| That's what it is. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The idea is that these guys were all, like, super poor, and then they made it, and here, this is what happens when you make it. | ||
| You know what it's kind of also, we see that in like hip-hop a lot here, but it's also what you saw with major drug traffickers. | ||
| They all come from extreme poverty, all of them. | ||
| El Chapo, Pablo Escobar, super, super, super poor. | ||
| And they accumulate in crazy amounts of wealth, and then they're like, look at all my shit! | ||
| You know, it's like you see the parallel. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| Yeah, like when Pablo Escobar, when he had hippos and shit. | ||
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He had a fucking zoo at his house. | |
| When he built his prison, he was like, I'll serve time, but I'm building it. | ||
| And there was soccer fields, and then he would fly in, national players, be like, play soccer with me today. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're like, okay. | ||
| And even after all that, he was like, nah, I don't want to be here anymore. | ||
| I'm going to get out of here. | ||
| I'm leaving. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He built his own prison. | ||
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What? | |
| Columbia. | ||
| And they had parties. | ||
| Joey Diaz got me on the show. | ||
| Because I watched Narcos, which is a great Netflix series. | ||
| And then there's another series called Surviving Escobar, and it follows... | ||
| Escobar had a right-hand man. | ||
| His right-hand hitman killed like 300 people for him, named John Heidel Velazquez Vazquez. | ||
| And it follows him from like the day they got Escobar and this guy turned himself in. | ||
| And it shows him in prison and how he just ended up starting another cartel from within prison. | ||
| It's a fascinating series. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And this is a new Netflix special? | ||
| I think what happened was that I feel like it was a... | ||
| It seems like it was a Colombian series that they acquired, is what it seems like. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| But it's really good. | ||
| I mean, it's all in Spanish with subtitles, but it's... | ||
| And that's the real guy in that picture right there. | ||
| Is that guy still alive? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His nickname's Popeye. | ||
| And he fucking murdered so many people. | ||
| And they had such a dedication to their bosses. | ||
| That's one of the things. | ||
| They followed them like religious leaders, you know? | ||
| Like, if he's in an interview, Popeye, this guy, saying, if Pablo Escobar had told me to kill my dad, I would have done it. | ||
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Whoa. | |
| Like, I wouldn't have hesitated either. | ||
| Like, they have such devotion to the boss. | ||
| It's really wild. | ||
| Maybe his dad was a dick. | ||
| Maybe he was. | ||
| He's like, yeah, my dad was a big asshole. | ||
| So, yeah, of course I'd kill him. | ||
| There's that movie that's coming out now about the lady from Cocaine Cowboys, what the fuck was her name? | ||
| Oh, Griselda Blanco. | ||
| Griselda, yeah. | ||
| With Jennifer Lopez. | ||
| No, it was Catherine Zeta-Jones. | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| And she actually, they made her, like, not as hot. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, she's like 80 now. | ||
|
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No, she's not. | |
| Yeah, she's 150 years old. | ||
| She weighs 6.50 like Burt. | ||
| You know, we took pictures, a picture before we went to the game together, posed together. | ||
| I have a t-shirt on. | ||
| Burt has a hoodie like this with pockets. | ||
| And then a jersey over it. | ||
| So it just looks so much. | ||
| Everybody, everybody was like, Jesus Christ, Bert, did you put on 400 pounds? | ||
| That picture. | ||
| Because he has like six layers on in that photo. | ||
| It was all, they were all. | ||
| You look pretty slim there, though. | ||
| You do look slim. | ||
| Ari got fat for a while. | ||
| Did he? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Ari got into serious candy addiction. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Quite a bit. | ||
| Which is fucking terrible for you. | ||
| That sugar fat, just getting fat from nothing but sugar. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But he just decided to lose the weight. | ||
| Yeah, he looked good. | ||
| That was a long time ago, though. | ||
| But the way he did it was pretty interesting. | ||
| He just said, eh, I don't want to be fat anymore. | ||
| That's a good way to do it. | ||
| Didn't join Weight Watchers, didn't do anything. | ||
| He has a body that responds to that pretty well, too, though. | ||
| I feel like there's definitely different body types, and he's the kind that could probably make a slight adjustment and see things sway. | ||
| Well, I guarantee with Burt, it's booze. | ||
| If Burt just cut off the booze, I mean, he would lose a massive amount of weight. | ||
| He goes so hard. | ||
| He goes so hard. | ||
| It's bizarre. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, he goes hard, man. | ||
| To the point where I was really stunned that he made it through Sober October. | ||
| I was stunned. | ||
| I think he really responds to challenges. | ||
| He likes the challenge. | ||
| We always joke how he speaks in hyperbole, and he's always just like, if you go, I bet you can do that. | ||
| He's like, definitely fucking do that. | ||
| It's always immediate. | ||
| It's without consideration of it. | ||
| He's like, I can definitely fucking do that. | ||
| Now Ari said, when we were hanging this weekend, because Burr's like, I'm definitely doing the LA Marathon in, I think it's in April. | ||
| And Ari's like, if you do that, I will show up in roller skates and I will fucking kill you. | ||
| And Bert's like, there's no way. | ||
| There's just no way. | ||
| And we were like, what are you talking about? | ||
| Like, you can casually roller skate a five-minute mile. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Casually. | ||
| Not even booking. | ||
| No sweating. | ||
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No. | |
| And he's like, after 10 miles, I mean, your feet will hurt. | ||
| And I'm like, so just push through it. | ||
| Like, why do you think you can push through something and somebody else can't? | ||
| Well, just fucking push through it. | ||
| We'll beat you. | ||
| I was like, I'll go take a nap and get back and then still beat you. | ||
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He's like, no, I'll definitely, definitely beat you. | |
| Well, he ran a half marathon. | ||
| He did, and he did surprisingly well. | ||
| I didn't think he would do that. | ||
| How long did it take him to run a half marathon? | ||
| I want to say it was like in the 240, something like that, right? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Maybe 235, 245, something that range. | ||
| So is that a clean split? | ||
| Like, can you say, oh, that means you would do a five-hour marathon? | ||
| Not necessarily, no. | ||
| You'd be slower. | ||
| You'd be slower. | ||
| You'd get tired. | ||
| You'd be slower, yeah. | ||
| That second half. | ||
| Everyone that I've talked to said, especially that last stretch, like those last five miles, are supposed to be the most taxing, you know? | ||
| Yeah, meanwhile, my friend Cam Haynes is running a marathon a day. | ||
| It's really, really crazy. | ||
| Really crazy what he does. | ||
| Fucking psychopath. | ||
| I know, and you watch him, you know, I pull up his Instagram, and I'm like, just fucking positive, man. | ||
| Just do it. | ||
| He's getting up every morning before work. | ||
| He has a regular job. | ||
| He's running fucking miles and miles at six in the morning. | ||
| And I heard him say, the only thing that made him seem human was him talking about, there was a time when he said it was hard to run a mile or something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was like, yeah, I remember when it was hard to run a mile. | ||
| I'm like, seriously? | ||
| You had trouble running a mile? | ||
| Yeah, when he first started running. | ||
| Like everybody else. | ||
| Running's a weird thing, man. | ||
| You've been doing it a lot more. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But when I do it now, too, I'm kind of amazed. | ||
| I think back at where it used to be difficult, and it's not difficult there anymore. | ||
| I'm like, well, how come it's not... | ||
| It's almost like your brain's like, well, what happened? | ||
| Like, what changed? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How come I can just run up this section now and hustle through here and push around this corner and get up to that ridge and go over the top and then to the next top, and that's where I stop now? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like, why did I get so much further? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Your body... | ||
| It's almost like your brain doesn't want to believe that your body can get in better shape. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know you can. | ||
| When I work out and have worked out for a long time and I'm fit and I'll do rounds in the bag or something like that, I'll know I'm not getting as tired as I used to be, but I don't want to believe it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That is weird. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Your brain is... | ||
| It's like trying to keep you from progressing in a way. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's like your brain has memories of the times where you were getting tired doing stuff that you're not getting tired anymore. | ||
| You're confused. | ||
| What's happening here? | ||
| I've been doing... | ||
| I hired a trainer and part of our workouts has been bike sprints, like stationary bike sprints. | ||
| Fuck, man. | ||
| Do you get an airdyne sprint or do you do just like a regular bike sprint? | ||
| I mean, it's a stationary bike, right? | ||
| So I don't know what type of bike it is, but it'll be like a max-out 30-second sprint in recovery. | ||
| I've never felt as close to dying. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I mean, especially on the third sprint. | ||
| It's like, you know, lungs, heart, quads are just like... | ||
| I have a whole new respect just for cyclists, just doing those fucking stupid sprints I do. | ||
| It's just so taxing. | ||
| Where'd you get this guy? | ||
| I found him just searching, and I met him, and then started doing work. | ||
| He's just been giving me one-on-one, and I've been just mixing it up. | ||
| So we'll have strength days where it's power days, higher weight, lower reps, and then he'll... | ||
| Throw in core stuff, and then we'll do high rep days. | ||
| I like the mixing it up. | ||
| I get bored, you know? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| It's been fun to work out with somebody who knows his shit and has been super challenging. | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| You wanna know his name? | ||
| Just give me his first name. | ||
| There's two dudes. | ||
| Two different guys? | ||
| Two different guys. | ||
| You go to two different guys. | ||
| You got two trainers. | ||
| I got three, actually. | ||
| Hashtag ballin'. | ||
| That's what I'm talking about. | ||
| How are your kids going to relate to you? | ||
| Man, they can't, man. | ||
| Daddy had three trainers. | ||
| Dad's on TV. Of course daddy's got a six pack. | ||
| He had three trainers. | ||
| I got Micah, Sean, and Kelly. | ||
| So how do you mix it up? | ||
| Why do you go to three different people? | ||
| Because you can, bitch. | ||
| Yeah, just to make it challenging and different. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just to do different shit. | ||
| Really, that's the truth. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just to do different shit. | ||
| Because I know that I'm going to get something different out of them on different days. | ||
| And how many times a week are you working out now? | ||
| If you've got three different trainers, you must be hitting them at least once a week, each guy. | ||
| I'm doing like three or four days a week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Tommy Bunn's getting in shape. | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| I'm super strong, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know why, but it just happened. | ||
| Probably because you're famous. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| Do you recognize me? | ||
| Do you guys want a picture? | ||
| Let's take our shirts off. | ||
| Some girl goes, oh, my friend that works here at this bar is a big fan of yours to Bert. | ||
| Will you sign the back of this to her? | ||
| He was like, how about a video? | ||
| And then she goes, okay, takes his shirt off in a black cigar bar in Atlanta, okay? | ||
| And like everybody, yes. | ||
| And then he takes the camera and he goes like up his stomach. | ||
| He's like, hey! | ||
| What the fuck, Bert? | ||
| But of course she was like, that's fucking awesome! | ||
| That's amazing! | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| She lost her mind. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| And if you were the girl. | ||
| Oh, this is him in a... | ||
| Oh, yeah, I saw this. | ||
| Like, what happened here? | ||
| Dude, he just... | ||
| We're buying booze. | ||
| But everybody was dancing. | ||
| It wasn't just him. | ||
| He got the vibe going, man. | ||
| I'm telling you, that's his natural element. | ||
| He's also about 19 drinks in. | ||
| 19? | ||
| Literally? | ||
| Boy, he looks hammered. | ||
| I mean, that whole store was dancing with him. | ||
| There really was. | ||
| People walked in and knew him. | ||
| Ari's drunk, too. | ||
| Look. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Look at Ari dancing. | ||
| He dances like the whitest fish fan ever. | ||
| That's so true. | ||
| He's like jumping up and down with his legs together. | ||
| These guys knew him. | ||
| Yeah, he was in heaven, man. | ||
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Boy, what a weird life that Bert Kreischer lives. | |
| He really is the party guy. | ||
| Oh, yeah, he's the machine. | ||
| I think for a while I was like, that's your act. | ||
| Like, I'm your friend, but that's your act. | ||
| And then, you know, enough hanging out, you're like, that's really who you are, man. | ||
| You're really the party guy. | ||
| He enjoys it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's so... | ||
| Rough on your body. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He pushes through, man. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| He gets up the next day and was like, he'll be like, I'm really feeling it. | ||
| But you're like, you don't notice. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know what I did when we went out to breakfast on, what was it, Monday? | ||
| I think it was Monday. | ||
| Yeah, we went to breakfast the day of the game. | ||
| And my friend Justin lives in Atlanta, comes over, picks us up. | ||
| We sit down at this breakfast place, coffees, and we order breakfast. | ||
| He orders eggs and toast and bacon or something. | ||
| And then he's like, all right. | ||
| And then as the waitress walks back, I go, oh, oh, oh, could you send him a waffle also? | ||
| Like in front of him, you know, and he's like, What? | ||
| And I go, you like waffles. | ||
| And he's like, yeah, that's true. | ||
| She's like, this massive waffle. | ||
| He's like, this was a really good decision. | ||
| Thanks, man. | ||
| Totally tearing it up. | ||
| Scarfing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I know he wants to do another challenge. | ||
| He was talking about doing something. | ||
| He keeps bringing things up and he makes these videos. | ||
| Ari threw one at us. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which I think actually would probably, again, it's something that would benefit him the most, but other people would get benefits from it too, was to go phone free, social media free for a month. | ||
| Oh, that's Ari. | ||
| Ari does that all the time. | ||
| Ari does it all the time. | ||
| That's like me asking you guys to do jujitsu. | ||
| Yeah, no. | ||
| But I think, like, I respected the challenge in terms of, like, yeah, I do look at that shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ari talked about. | ||
| And then, of course, Burr was like, easy. | ||
| I'm like, it's not easy for you. | ||
| You're on it. | ||
| He brings his charger with him when we went out. | ||
| I was like, why? | ||
| He's like, in case my battery runs out. | ||
| I'm like, you have 70%. | ||
| How are we going to run out? | ||
| He uses it a lot. | ||
| He's always on it. | ||
| So I was like, that's actually a good challenge for you because you are consumed with it. | ||
| But he was like, I don't know. | ||
| He was pretty hesitant to accept that one. | ||
| The problem with that is it's a tool for work. | ||
| That's But Ari's thing was like, well, you could have your assistant, the guy that helps produce your podcast, you could send him things and be like, hey, you gotta post these things. | ||
| You could post these promotions for my shows and blah, blah, blah, but you can't be on there consumed by likes and consumed by comments and that whole thing. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It was just... | ||
| It's not a bad idea. | ||
| It's not a bad challenge. | ||
| Good luck with it. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I think the physical stuff is really, really interesting. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| The physical stuff is the most interesting. | ||
| Even for me, a guy who does yoga on a regular basis, doing 15 of them in a month, was like, wow, I've got a lot to make up. | ||
| What would be another good one? | ||
| I don't know, but let me tell you something. | ||
| The last nine days, I did nine days straight of yoga, and it wasn't the last nine days. | ||
| I had plenty of time to go, but I just decided to burn it all out in one shot. | ||
| I was like, I'm learning a lot about myself. | ||
| I've never done anything that's that hard, 90-minute hot yoga classes, nine days in a row, with no days off. | ||
| I was like, if you just don't give yourself a day off, your body starts to adapt to not having a day off. | ||
| You can accomplish way more than you think you can. | ||
| That's what that shit taught me. | ||
| I remember being on the road once and having a deadline for a writing packet. | ||
| It was some type of submission or they were like, I was getting paid. | ||
| You gotta send it in by tomorrow. | ||
| I was doing so much writing in the hotel room that when I submitted it and everything was fine, I was like, Man, I could get a lot of work done in these hotel rooms. | ||
| But I needed that experience to tell me that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because all the time I'm like, you're just sitting around these fucking hotel rooms. | ||
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Right. | |
| You're just watching TV, flipping through the channels. | ||
| Yeah, not doing shit. | ||
| Watching those fucking pawn shop shows. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you're like, I just wrote fucking 20 pages. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, if you just make yourself do it. | ||
| For me, I don't have to, but one thing that does help is when I have a schedule of shit that I wrote down. | ||
| I have to work on my act for an hour a day for five days. | ||
| You put that in there. | ||
| I think that's really reasonable. | ||
| I give myself five hours of writing a week. | ||
| That's totally reasonable. | ||
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I have to. | |
| It's light. | ||
| It's light work. | ||
| I've been working on it more since I know my special comes out tomorrow. | ||
| Oh, shit, Tommy Buns. | ||
| Oh, shit. | ||
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Netflix special number three in the pipe, bitch. | |
| Yeah, dog. | ||
| Yeah, I'm excited. | ||
| Hot and fresh coming out the oven. | ||
| I'm excited for it, but I also have that new special anxiety where you're like, oh, it's back to square one. | ||
| But that's where the material comes from, right? | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| And I actually, I personally, I don't know if everyone works this way, I definitely... | ||
| Work better when it's 100% out. | ||
| In other words, not like the month, you know it's coming out in two months. | ||
| When it's actually out, I feel the fear and the drive more. | ||
| I create more when I know it's gone now. | ||
| It really fuels me. | ||
| Me too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Same thing, but it's the scariest fucking thing in the world. | ||
| It's terrifying. | ||
| For your act. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not the scariest thing in the world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's scary because you're so terrified of being up on stage with what I call without weapons. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Nothing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you have to really focus on getting that shit done. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then I find myself going to the store with notebooks. | ||
| I'm going over the shit before I go on stage. | ||
| Same thing, man. | ||
| You're just really tightened in. | ||
| Yeah, I'm doing a couple spots tonight. | ||
| I'm just like, yeah, I have like all new shit. | ||
| You have one hour. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, you literally have like one day. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then in one day, better have all new shit. | ||
| Tonight you can go up and just whip out some polished, smooth, fucking sharpened weapons. | ||
| Well, I actually thought about it, and it's like, you know, I have been for the last especially... | ||
| Month or so, really focused on the new stuff. | ||
| And I go, so tonight's the last night. | ||
| Do I want to say that thing one last time? | ||
| And I was looking over the bits, and I was like, not really. | ||
| I think I'm done, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I'm trying to focus on just all new now. | ||
| Well, we're being forced into this position for a good thing because you have fans, because the fans want to hear new stuff. | ||
| And it just makes me think about that I always used to pity those old guys back in Boston that never wrote. | ||
| That they had that same hour that they would do for a decade. | ||
| That's just so nuts to me. | ||
| It's crazy to think about now. | ||
| Because back then, there was no social media, and none of these guys got on television. | ||
| So if you didn't go to see them live, you did not know their material. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's really wild. | ||
| It's crazy to think that that was the norm, and that guys would polish an act together and put it together, and then they would just work, and they would never write. | ||
| They would fucking never write. | ||
| I feel like the norm now, without question, I feel like it was kind of debated for a little bit, is definitely when a special comes out, like, that shit is gone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I feel like that's accepted now that, like, you're done with that. | ||
| Totally. | ||
| Well, I had a conversation with someone at the store a year ago, because she did a special, and then after the special she was still doing the same material. | ||
| I go, what are you doing? | ||
| She goes, well, I don't think most of the people have seen it. | ||
| I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| I go, I guarantee you, if they're coming to see you, they're paying to see you, they've seen your work. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's like, why don't I have any new material? | ||
| Well, why the fuck are you touring? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, you can't be touring. | ||
| No. | ||
| With the same exact act that was on Comedy Central just six months ago. | ||
| You can't. | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No. | ||
| Especially. | ||
| People are paying. | ||
| You know, they... | ||
| It is weird in that you will... | ||
| I ran into it... | ||
| A bunch of times, but it's definitely the minority, which is the person who's like, why didn't you do that one bit? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you're like, because you know it. | ||
| Go watch that on Netflix. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I don't know if I told you, but I did one. | ||
| People were asking me to do some bits when I was touring. | ||
| I think it was not 2017, but 2016. They were like, do... | ||
| Are you going to do this bit and that bit? | ||
| So I was just doing one show at a club, and I was like, I'm going to try this thing out, this encore thing. | ||
| So I did my new show, and then I said, so people asked me to do some bits that you know, or whatever. | ||
| I forgot how I got into it. | ||
| And I got this huge round of applause, and then I would start it, and there would be like a big, big applause. | ||
| I would go through the bit to complete silence, like... | ||
| They would just watch me do the bit they know, and then when I would end it, another round of applause. | ||
| I was like, that was horrible! | ||
| Like, that was the worst feeling ever. | ||
| And the reason, because there was no laugh, because there was no surprise. | ||
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Right, they knew it! | |
| Yeah, of course, they knew the whole thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I did, like, the next bit, and I was like, you might, you know, whatever, know this one. | ||
| And it was the same thing. | ||
| They're like, oh, yeah, we do know this one. | ||
| And then I'd go through it, and they were like, yeah, I know. | ||
| Oh, that's the worst! | ||
| That was horrible. | ||
| That was my one attempt at doing that, you know? | ||
| Yeah, I don't even know how to do them. | ||
| Yeah, no. | ||
| And then people were like, I forget the next line. | ||
| They're like, it's this. | ||
| People knew the bit better than I did. | ||
| Yeah, somebody asked me something about the bit about people breaking into the White House, about the woman who was guarding the front door of the White House by herself. | ||
| That's on your last one, right? | ||
| And I had to go back and watch it again. | ||
| I was like, oh, I forgot all this. | ||
| I literally forgot how it worked. | ||
| I forgot all the different beats. | ||
| And in a day, it's not going to come together well. | ||
| No! | ||
| It's going to be terrible. | ||
| I did a private event in Vegas for these rich guys. | ||
| And I was like, just, I flew in and I was talking to them like five hours before the show. | ||
| And I was like, just so you know, I mean, like, I'm doing my current show. | ||
| And they're like, oh, we were hoping you'd do this, this, this, and this, though. | ||
| And I was like, alright. | ||
| So I went up to my hotel room, pulled up Netflix, started watching... | ||
| And making notes and then I downloaded the album so I could listen to it and I would walk around and I was like forgetting the thing that you think is a throwaway is actually like a connector. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fuck! | ||
| And I was doing like half-assed versions of it at the show. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| They were still like on board with it, but I was like that's not how that goes. | ||
| I knew I was fucking it up. | ||
| How many specials do you have out now? | ||
| You have Thrilled, which was a CD. Well, that's a CD. And then White Girls. | ||
| White Girls, CD. So two hours there. | ||
| Yeah, completely normal. | ||
| Completely normal. | ||
| Which is a special. | ||
| Mostly stories. | ||
| A special and disgraceful comes out tomorrow. | ||
| So five hours of recorded shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, stop and imagine that if you had to, like, do your whole catalog. | ||
| Like a Bruce Springsteen concert. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I mean, the thing about like a Bruce Springsteen or any of those guys is that on any given night, you could bring back that one and really get it sharp again for like five nights. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then kind of drop it and then do it. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We go like, that's old. | ||
| I don't do that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it just goes further and further away from your mind. | ||
| But they have to. | ||
| If you go to see Bruce Springsteen and he doesn't play Born to Run, you're like, what the fuck kind of piece of shit show is this? | ||
| I wonder. | ||
| I wonder because I feel like the... | ||
| Then again, though, he's famous for doing like four-hour shows. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So maybe he never does skip it because... | ||
| How the fuck does that guy have so much energy? | ||
| I know. | ||
| I mean, he's on those Trump diet pills. | ||
| He's gotta be. | ||
| He definitely looks tired in every photo. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| He's married. | ||
| He's married. | ||
| He's doing four-hour shows. | ||
| He's always like... | ||
| He just doesn't know, like, should I just bail on all this? | ||
| God. | ||
| God. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| This is the inside story about Bruce Springsteen and his concerts is always that people get bummed out when his wife is there. | ||
| They like Bruce without his wife there better than they like Bruce with his wife there. | ||
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A friend of mine- Like his energy changes? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Her friend is a crazy Bruce Springsteen fan. | ||
| She goes to tons and tons of concerts. | ||
| Sees them every year. | ||
| Multiple times a year all over the country. | ||
| That's so crazy. | ||
| And the people that are super hardcore say there's a different energy that he has. | ||
|
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Wow. | |
| They're like, oh, the wife's sick. | ||
|
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The wife's sick. | |
| Is she sick? | ||
| She's not here? | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Like they get fucking pumped when the wife's not there. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Because he sings with his wife. | ||
| Right. | ||
| His wife's a part of the band. | ||
| Right. | ||
| She does what? | ||
| The tambourine or something like that? | ||
| Yeah, that's important. | ||
| None of this shit works without that tambourine. | ||
| Without that tambourine. | ||
| This fucking show's bunk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I can't imagine touring and working with your wife all the time. | ||
| My wife and I, we always talk about how it's really unique we can do our podcast together and we have fun doing it. | ||
| But she leads this. | ||
| It's not like a guy thing when someone will be like, Hey, do you guys ever tour together? | ||
| And she's like, that's gay as fuck. | ||
| She's like, I don't know. | ||
| We're two different people. | ||
| We do our own show. | ||
| Like, no. | ||
| It's like, not gonna happen. | ||
| Well, you guys are in a rare situation, too, where you're both really good. | ||
| It's usually one of you's really good, and the other one is like... | ||
| No, not bad. | ||
| Not too bad. | ||
| I can't wait, man. | ||
| She's selling tickets, adding shows. | ||
| She's balling. | ||
| Give me that money. | ||
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Give me that money. | |
| Now you give me money. | ||
| Now you give me money. | ||
| You buy me shit. | ||
| I'm excited for her. | ||
| I think she's one of the best comics in the country. | ||
| She's awesome, man. | ||
| She really is. | ||
| Christina Pazitsky. | ||
| Don't sleep on her. | ||
| I remember saying that to her one night four or five years ago at the store. | ||
| Fucking crushed in the OR. And I came up to her and said, no bullshit, you're one of the best comics alive. | ||
| That set that you just did right now, it's not just funny, but it's insightful. | ||
| She's smart. | ||
| She points out shit that other people aren't pointing out. | ||
| She's a real writer, too. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Writes a lot. | ||
| How does she write? | ||
| Does she sit in front of a computer? | ||
|
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Pen and paper, and then a computer, and then a pen and paper. | |
| But yeah, a lot of notes. | ||
| A lot of writing. | ||
| A lot of actual, like you're talking about spending that time working on it? | ||
| She spends a lot of time. | ||
| You gotta do, you know, that's the difference between someone who produces a lot of material and someone who doesn't. | ||
| Like, I've had these conversations with people before with like, oh, I only write on stage. | ||
| I was like, alright. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Is that because it's the only way it works? | ||
| Or is it because you're lazy and this is how you justify it? | ||
| It's probably more that. | ||
| More that. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| That I write on stage stuff. | ||
| It's like, well, I do too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I write on stage stuff. | ||
| But don't, like, they give it out as, the thing that drives me crazy is I see them giving it out as advice to other young comics. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| Like, don't write on paper, dude. | ||
| Just write on stage. | ||
| Yeah, I write on stage, man. | ||
| That's what I do. | ||
| Like, okay. | ||
| Right, but is that the only way? | ||
| And is it the best way? | ||
| And isn't it possible that you're missing some stuff? | ||
| I think what happened was, too, was when Louis got really, really popular, and he was just like, I never write anything down, that became folklore and attractive to comics. | ||
| I feel like, oh, I gotta do that. | ||
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Is that what he said? | |
| He never writes anything down? | ||
| Yeah, doesn't even write down bullet points. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, just all in his head. | ||
| So then people are like, I started to hear that more when his fame really exploded and that was a big thing. | ||
| I was like, you don't even write shit down? | ||
| They're like, no. | ||
| Well, I guess if you're doing stand-up every night, three or four nights a week, Or three or four times a night. | ||
| You're doing those New York sets and you're constantly working. | ||
| It's constantly in your head. | ||
| You can get away with that. | ||
| I guess you could, but I always liked having at least a bullet point list. | ||
| Even when I wasn't writing anything long form down, I still like to have that, oh, what can I... Just to see it all. | ||
| See how the... | ||
| You know, how the movie plays out. | ||
| And I'm like, well, I should move this over here and this should be over here. | ||
| I couldn't imagine not having any of that written down. | ||
| But I just think that the more time you spend focusing on it, whether it's the more time you spend just writing stuff down or looking at bullet points or just the more intention you put on things, more attention, the more focus. | ||
| Definitely, man. | ||
| It's going to be better. | ||
| You're going to know it better. | ||
| It's like getting good at anything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, you put a lot of time into it. | ||
| It's going to happen for you. | ||
| Yeah, comedy writing, though, is one of the weirdest ones because everybody does it a different way. | ||
| Everybody's got their own weird sort of style and... | ||
| No one can tell you exactly how to do it. | ||
| You could never tell Theo Vaughn how to write a joke. | ||
| Right, no. | ||
| Especially him. | ||
| His act's so odd. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I know. | ||
| And then you mispronounce things, but it's disguised so well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's shit like that, where you're just like, how do you come up with that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Was it an accident the first time? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then I remember Carlin, he would write on note cards. | ||
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Did he? | |
| He'd go on stage with note cards and clubs, and then kind of shuffle through them, and be like, that's shit, and throw it on the ground. | ||
| And then... | ||
| I saw him in one of his last tours, that Universal Amphitheater. | ||
| And he, for like his last... | ||
| Because he called them like individual pieces. | ||
| Like his bits were... | ||
| It was really heavily about the writing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like the specific wordplay, the flow, you know, rhythm, patterns. | ||
| His comedy was very melodic like that. | ||
| And when it got like... | ||
| When it was like one of his closing pieces, it was... | ||
| Like, five pages? | ||
| He brought out the pages. | ||
| And he's like, I'm gonna read this because that's how I memorize it. | ||
| He's like, I memorize it by doing these shows and reading this. | ||
| So just so you know, for this thing, I'm gonna look at this. | ||
| Like, he told 6,000 people that. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And then he would, you know, ba-da-da-da-da, and then flip the page. | ||
| And he's like... | ||
| How was it? | ||
| It was funny, man. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| It was like the second-to-last special. | ||
| And I remember the... | ||
| Like, it was a really well-constructed piece of writing. | ||
| It was a little... | ||
| It threw you off a little bit to have him be reading it, you know? | ||
| But he... | ||
| I would say when I saw the show, that piece was probably at least half committed to memory, and he was still trying to, like, you know, repeat, repeat, repeat so that it would be in his memory. | ||
| But it was still really funny. | ||
| It was still really funny. | ||
| Well, he was also... | ||
| How old was he? | ||
| Probably 69, 70. I think he died at 70. Did he? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He looked older because he went hard in the paint, too. | ||
| Yeah, the drug use. | ||
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Yeah, but he was 70. He apparently had a pain pill problem for a while. | |
| I remember there was a time when he committed himself to rehab. | ||
| And I think it was wine and pills. | ||
| He was taking pain pills. | ||
| Those goddamn opiates, man. | ||
| They get people. | ||
| Ooh, they get you. | ||
| Ooh, they get you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But you got to think that your memory must eventually, at some point in time, start to give out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When you're doing these long monologues like he would do. | ||
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Oh, my God. | |
| Yeah, he'd do long, long monologues, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, he would write out his whole act, like the whole hour, and then just start doing it. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| They do a new one every year. | ||
| It's like reading a book almost. | ||
| I think he said 16 months was his turnaround. | ||
| That's what it was? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Every year. | ||
| He ended up doing 14, I think, specials. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What are you up to now? | ||
| You have quite a few. | ||
| Like if you combine albums and specials? | ||
| One. | ||
| Two. | ||
| Three. | ||
| Four. | ||
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Five. | |
| Six. | ||
| Seven. | ||
| I'm on my eighth. | ||
| It's a lot. | ||
| It's a lot. | ||
| You're gonna catch them. | ||
| Number eight's coming up? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you know where you're shooting it yet? | ||
| Boston. | ||
| Oh, you are doing it in Boston? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Unless I just change my mind. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Ooh, sorry, Boston. | ||
| Would it be at the Wilbur? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I have one other idea in mind that I'm still bouncing around in my head. | ||
| Do it at my house. | ||
| I'm thinking about that. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That'd be great. | ||
| In your kid's room while he's sleeping. | ||
| That's awesome, man. | ||
| That'd be a hit for sure. | ||
| What did you think of Chappelle's two specials? | ||
| I thought it was really interesting to see him do this big polished special in a big place and then do the little special in the belly room. | ||
| I was like, the belly room felt weird, man. | ||
| Personally, my take on it is the belly room, we're in the practice of calling that a special, but it's really not a special, in my opinion. | ||
| What you're seeing is what... | ||
| Definitely in Los Angeles, if you live in San Francisco, Denver, New York, places he likes to frequent, is what you see Dave Chappelle known for in these cities, which is he would drop into clubs and Spill out everything that's on his mind. | ||
| So, I mean, I don't know if it's more like semantics, but it's like, it's not as special. | ||
| To me, it's like you're seeing one of the best guys ever do a workout set. | ||
| Like, do a loose workout It's only been six, seven weeks since the special was shot that plays before it, in which he toured for a year with that. | ||
| You can see how polished and you know what I mean? | ||
| So I think it's really cool if you're a big stand-up nerd to see the other one. | ||
| That's what happens A lot in those cities that he'll just fly into and be like, here's shit that's on my mind. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you're seeing, like, it's masterful, but I think it's, like, I don't call, I think of it as separate than a special, you know? | ||
| Because a special to me is, like, you tour, you prepare, and then, like, you present it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, I understand that you could be like, well, yeah, it's a separate thing, it's a special, but I'm saying that within that, there's something really specific going on, which is like, this is like in the moment, Almost all topical commentary, and that's how that dude works. | ||
| He will walk into a club and be like, I want to get on stage and just talk about... | ||
| He loves topical stuff, so it fits perfectly. | ||
| But it's very different. | ||
| You can see the total difference, the contrast, especially if you watch one after the other. | ||
| You're watching... | ||
| Toward proven like worked out stuff and like Here's some shit. | ||
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I thought of basically in the last week right right right, but a whole hour of it, which is really crazy. | |
| Yeah, he's so prolific Yeah, and The way it worked was doing the two of them together. | ||
| That way you got to see the big polish special, and then you got to see the fuck-around workout set. | ||
| So it's like if you watch the big polish special, you're like, I need more. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's really interesting to see, I think, just to hear people go back and forth on which they liked more. | ||
| I thought that was really interesting. | ||
| I've seen a bunch of people, at least online, all say they like the belly room. | ||
| Well, the belly room was so intimate. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| To be in that room. | ||
| I was there for one of those shows. | ||
| It's so interesting to be there when you're watching someone film in front of 70 people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's so tight and small, you know? | ||
| You're kind of naked a little bit, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the people in the audience, they were fucking on the show. | ||
| I mean, the people that got those front row seats, they were featured prominently in that Netflix special. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| It kind of makes you entertain the idea of a really small special, what that would be like. | ||
| Yeah, there's different kinds of comedy, right? | ||
| The comedy that you do for 70 people is just not exactly the same as the comedy that you do for 700 or 7,000. | ||
| And the way you present it. | ||
| I mean, he basically sat for most of that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So that's different, you know? | ||
| I mean, usually, if you're in a big 2,500-seater, you're not going to, like, chill, sit on a bench. | ||
| Unless you're Mark Maron. | ||
| Mark? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or Cosby, old-school Cosby. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, he was always sitting. | ||
| Even as he got old. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And Cosby did it. | ||
| Not just old-school Cosby, but old, old Cosby. | ||
| Yeah, old, old Cosby. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| Do you think Cosby will tour again? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, I think that's done. | ||
| It's over? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| Well, I remember when he was touring. | ||
| There's a lot of promoters. | ||
| I think it's not worth the trouble. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think Louis will tour again. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think so too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think he'll take like a year off. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then he'll do some shows and people get mad. | ||
| And then it'd be, yeah. | ||
| And then, like, if... | ||
| You know, the real thing is, like, the corporate side of it. | ||
| Like, in other words, channel or network that would want to, let's say, host, show the special. | ||
| But he has such a dedicated... | ||
| No one's... | ||
| Website following is what he ended up developing. | ||
| He sold shows and made millions when people were doing the download my special thing. | ||
| I think he could book a venue, shoot something, and go back to his $5 model and do really well. | ||
| No, I'm sure he could. | ||
| And people would be really interested to see it. | ||
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Of course. | |
| But I think Netflix would have him on. | ||
| They still have his old stuff. | ||
| I watched his old stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I mean... | ||
| I was on a flight right after all of it went down. | ||
| I watched the special from DC, which I thought was really interesting to watch it knowing... | ||
| The DC one? | ||
| Is that the latest one? | ||
| The latest one. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| 2017. But just to know that... | ||
| It was, like, right around the corner that he was going to get busted. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Beating off in front of people. | ||
| It's a weird thing to get caught doing, too. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, like, out of all the things that people have done that they got caught doing, all the rape accusations and all the horrible shit, like, his is the most pathetic and also kind of the most innocuous. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's just humiliating. | ||
| Just beating off in front of people. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's like his kink. | ||
| It's what he likes. | ||
| But it could be way worse, you know, like, what he actually did. | ||
| I'm not saying it's a good thing to do to people. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| Hey, watch me beat off. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I know a bunch of people he did it to apparently laughed. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There's quite a few comics that I've talked to that know people that he did it to. | ||
| Yeah, I knew somebody that he did it to. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And what do you think? | ||
| Not happy. | ||
| But like, you know, I don't know, man. | ||
| It was like... | ||
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It's weird. | |
| I knew it for a long time, that story. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I said it before. | ||
| I was like, I mean, I knew it, and then every other person I talked to in comedy knew it. | ||
| And we were all like, that's fucked up. | ||
| But also, I mean, this doesn't excuse it at all either, but there is something about... | ||
| Something, at least as you know, something somebody did a while ago. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's like, what am I supposed to do? | ||
| Bring this shit up to them? | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, like... | ||
| How do you know? | ||
| But the other thing is, how do you even know that they did it? | ||
| Because one of the things that happened... | ||
| During the whole like did he do it or did he not do it thing before it came out was Someone had told me that it was bullshit and that what he had done is take some pictures with female comedians With his dick out just being silly and stupid and like and and then tell him please delete those pictures. | ||
| We're just having fun. | ||
| I don't want to get in trouble I mean, the story I heard was very specific and, like, you know, is basically one of the stories reported in the Times. | ||
| And I was like, I remember hearing that story and the person was not, you know, was pretty upset about it. | ||
| And then a lot of people heard the story. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then... | ||
| I don't know, you know, another year would go by, and two years, and three years, and you're like, okay, I mean, that's bad, but, like, as far as my role in it, you know, as somebody who knows the story now, it was just one of those things where you'd be like, yeah, that's a fucked up story, you know? | ||
| I mean, it's not someone that, like, hey, you know, that guy, he fucking punched someone 15 years ago. | ||
| He's a real asshole, and you're like, that sucks, you know? | ||
| But 15 years ago is a long time, right? | ||
| I mean, kind of. | ||
| It's like, is there... | ||
| It's not to minimize the wrongdoing, but isn't there some part of the conversation about how people mature and become different people as they get older? | ||
| I'm sure a lot of people that are in their 50s and 60s, who are not celebrities, you'd be like, do you know that when this guy was 26, he did this fucking horrible, stupid thing or something? | ||
| You're like, Jesus. | ||
| But you're like, well, that was a long time ago now. | ||
| I mean, that was kind of... | ||
| At least that part of the conversation exists in this, right? | ||
| It's something really bad. | ||
| I mean, he's being punished, so we're not saying that it definitely has not been excused because he's being punished, but it's also old behavior. | ||
| Yeah, that's the Dustin Hoffman thing. | ||
| Dustin Hoffman, this is where it gets really strange, a lot of his stuff was 30 years ago. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's like 1985 and shit. | ||
| I think part of the difference, too, between the Hoffman stuff and Louis, and maybe everybody else, is Louis' admission. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's very different, because even the stuff I heard with Hoffman, he is definitely trying to justify... | ||
| Versions and the behavior and like that's what people did, you know? | ||
| Is that what he said? | ||
| Oh yeah, he's like you know on the set like you try to like get you know you have to break the tension or there's there's a monotony to it and so people would have these conversations and say so it's it's like he's trying to it appears he's trying to be less accountable for what he said yeah whereas Louie was like these stories are true right so it's I think all those things end up affecting how your Redemption goes because they're like somebody's like I did this shit I was wrong right and I | ||
| think in this country people love Punishment. | ||
| Like, are you punished for the thing you did? | ||
| We hate, like, somebody getting away with something, right? | ||
| So, part of him, I think, coming back will also be that people realize that he paid a price. | ||
| I mean, he lost deals, he lost shows, lost money. | ||
| Definitely lost a lot of fucking touring money. | ||
| I mean, that day is probably at least a $50 million day for him, you know, with everything together. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, what a weird kink. | ||
| Jerk off in front of people, yeah. | ||
| I wonder how you develop it. | ||
| I mean, I guess I can imagine how you develop it. | ||
| Do you think that you could even do that? | ||
| Like, I was trying to think, could I even ask, hey, do you mind if I jerk off in front of you? | ||
| And then just get hard and actually, like... | ||
| Well, that's the thing. | ||
| I imagine he had to be leaking right before that, like, to come that fast. | ||
| It had to be something he's thinking about, like, all day, you know? | ||
| And, like, hanging out. | ||
| And then, like, hey, do you want to hang out? | ||
| Like, do you want to come back or whatever? | ||
| And, like, so as he's getting closer to doing it, I'm sure it's the only fuel that's on his mind, you know? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So, like, if you ask me that, I'd be like, well, that's not my kink. | ||
| So you're like, hey, could you go from fully flaccid to come in front of these people? | ||
| I'd be like, I don't think so, man. | ||
| I don't think I could do that, no. | ||
| Kinks are fucked. | ||
| It's fucking weird, man. | ||
| Kinks are weird, you know? | ||
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Like, I had a friend, and him and his girlfriend used to tie each other up. | |
| They'd tie each other both up. | ||
| Ball gags, the whole deal. | ||
| And he loved it. | ||
| He would talk about it with, like, great glee. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'd be like, why do you, like, tie each other up? | ||
| Like, what are you doing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Ah, it's fucking great. | ||
| Like, it's just something about, like, trusting that person to put that rope in their mouth and, like, I wonder how many of those kinks develop later, like you realize it later, as opposed to the more common theory that everything's tied to childhood, so that you must have been tied up or something as a kid once, and then you somehow relate that to sex. | ||
| But I wonder if you can be... | ||
| 28 and be like, man, this tying thing is fucking awesome. | ||
| I guarantee you can. | ||
| If you just date one crazy person, like if you have one girl who's just a wild animal in the sack and she just wants to tie you up, you're like, alright, let's do it. | ||
| And she does it and you love it and it's amazing. | ||
| We need answers. | ||
| Where's Jim Norton when you need him, man? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He would go deep with this. | ||
| He gets all sweaty and shit, and his eyes start bugging out. | ||
| Yeah, he starts blinking. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Nobody embraces their kinks more than him, though. | ||
| I fucking admire that so much about him. | ||
| Yeah, everything. | ||
| Whether it's trannies or anything that he's experienced. | ||
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Hey, hey, hey. | |
| Trans. | ||
| I'd say he says it. | ||
| He says tranny. | ||
| Oh, he does? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He definitely supports the industry. | ||
| The industry! | ||
| It's weird that you can't say tranny. | ||
| The tranny is somehow or another negative. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| These are noises that we make. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Chappelle, that was the thing, he got a lot of shit on the old one, or the one from a year ago. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so he brought up the topic, but he said trans people. | ||
| He was real specific on that part. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I guess in the last one he was like, fucking Chinese, man. | ||
| Well, there's certainly a lot of thought policing going on. | ||
| And there's language policing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And we have to wonder, like, how much of that affects the way people actually feel. | ||
| And how much of it is just people trying to control the way people communicate. | ||
| And dictating the languages. | ||
| Because, like... | ||
| When you go to the far end of the spectrum, there's these new gender pronouns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Zimzer. | ||
| Yeah, there's like 78 of them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which I think are utterly preposterous. | ||
| It's absurd. | ||
| Absurd. | ||
| It is absurd. | ||
| You're make-believing. | ||
| You make-believe language. | ||
| You're inventing all these new words. | ||
| And it's not like there's some universal agreement going on and everybody... | ||
| It's not like... | ||
| Remember when Miz was a thing? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There was Mrs. and Mr., but then there was Miss, and Mr. was married or Mr. was not married, and women were like, well, what the fuck? | ||
| How come we don't have one of those? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So they came up with Ms., but it never really stuck. | ||
| No. | ||
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Like, nobody uses Ms. No, it has to be like a real formal word. | |
| You know, writing or something. | ||
| Even then, would you say Ms? | ||
| I guess they would. | ||
| Never. | ||
| In the writing, they might, you know, might write MS if it was like, I don't know, a piece of journalism or something to indicate the person's single status. | ||
| I never hear that. | ||
| Yeah, but you don't hear it spoken a lot. | ||
| No, but they were trying to push for it for a while. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And that was something that was like on the borderline of being accepted by the common vernacular. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Shit. | ||
| It is... | ||
| I also wonder, like, how many people are just professionally upset at shit that's said wrong, you know? | ||
| Like, they're just... | ||
| Their reaction to everything is like... | ||
| It's like their job... | ||
| Is to police and react. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You shouldn't fucking, no, no, no. | ||
| That's not okay. | ||
| It's like almost how academia exists today. | ||
| You see, like, the way that people are on campuses. | ||
| It's like fucking... | ||
| That is not a reflection of the real world. | ||
| No. | ||
| To consider everyone's feelings at all times. | ||
| Why? | ||
| That's not how shit works. | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| People get upset and get offended at things, that's fine, but that everyone should dial back everything they say to make sure everyone feels protected, that's not how shit works. | ||
| What's been really interesting, the last five days, there's been a battle going on in my Twitter mentions that I haven't dived into at all. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But lesbians have been going at it with transgender people in my Twitter mentions. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| And this is like long-going conversations. | ||
| They're going back and forth and remarkably civil. | ||
| But what's interesting is all these lesbians, one of the things they've been saying, I dive in every now and then and read some of it and go, what the f- this is crazy, I gotta get out of here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But that lesbians were trying to say that a lot of the violence that happens in supposed lesbian relationships is actually transgender men to women, where they switched over and then they're beating up on their girlfriends. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| And that they're bringing their masculine, toxic violence into the world of lesbianism, and they're not willing to be honest about it. | ||
| And there was this crazy debate going on back and forth. | ||
| This lady was citing statistics of how many... | ||
| I wonder how accurate that is. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How many women in... | ||
| Well, she was a lesbian, and she was pretty... | ||
| Not that you were... | ||
| A fucking expert 100% on facts if you're a lesbian. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But she was pretty adamant about the statistics. | ||
| She was a lesbian who had her lesbian stats straight. | ||
| Well, the other thing she was saying, lesbians like women, and that she doesn't know any lesbians that want to date a transgender woman, like someone who used to be a man and is now a woman. | ||
| She was like, that's not what we're attracted to. | ||
| We're attracted to actually women. | ||
| Wouldn't that kind of negate the argument? | ||
| Because if formerly male transgender women are beating up their lesbian girlfriends, then there are lesbians out there that are dating and attracted to these transgender women. | ||
| Yeah, that would get it muddy there, right? | ||
| Yeah, so if she's saying, like, we're not into that, it's like, well, your stats then don't back up your argument, because that's clearly what you're indicating. | ||
| You're saying that these transgender women that were formerly men are dating women and beating them up. | ||
| I think she was saying people she knows. | ||
| Oh, so like her friends. | ||
| So like Elizabeth and Sarah aren't into it, so that's supposed to... | ||
| But it's like, how else could you know? | ||
| I mean, you'd have to have, like, a poll. | ||
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Of course. | |
| Like, how many of you gals out there are into eating pussy like eating fake pussy? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| That's a wild stat to consider. | ||
| I never thought of that. | ||
| Yeah, and there was this going back and forth with lesbians versus transgender women, and then they started getting... | ||
| Some people started getting hostile. | ||
| Like, let's just cut the shit. | ||
| You have a Y chromosome. | ||
| You're a fucking man. | ||
| And then it was like, whoa. | ||
| And then there was a lot of that going on. | ||
| There was a lot of... | ||
| You want us to assume... | ||
| Not just assume. | ||
| You want us to just go along with the idea that you absolutely are of the wrong gender. | ||
| And there's no way that you could just be crazy. | ||
| There's no way you could actually have gender dysphoria. | ||
| There's no way you could actually have a mental illness. | ||
| It's impossible. | ||
| And that's one of the weird things about... | ||
| Any group, right? | ||
| You're going to have a certain amount of people that are mentally insane. | ||
| Any group. | ||
| Any group. | ||
| If you have a thousand people, there's a certain percentage of those people that are just going to be insane. | ||
| But when it comes to gender, we're supposed to ignore that. | ||
| We're never supposed to think like, oh... | ||
| You're out of your mind. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, you're out of your mind. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, you're definitely a woman born in a man's body. | ||
| Dude, I tell you, I support all the trans rights and everyone doing all this stuff. | ||
| The only thing that I ever go like, that doesn't seem right, is with athletics. | ||
| That's the only thing where I feel like, it's not that I don't feel like someone should be able to play any sport and compete, but when a dude transitions to becoming a woman, it's like, I play basketball now. | ||
| It's like, come on, man. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| You have the right to live your life and play, but You have all those skills that you developed as a man, and now you're playing against frailer, smaller, you know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To say that you can't bring that up, that that's offensive, is ridiculous to me. | ||
| Well, especially when it comes to fighting. | ||
| Fuck yeah, man. | ||
| That was the big one. | ||
| And that was where I really understood how bizarre and how cult-like this ideology is. | ||
| I'd like to see you transition to a woman and fight women. | ||
| It'd be a lot of fun. | ||
| To have, what, 12 murder charges? | ||
| That would be the fun part? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| The bone structure is so different, and people that deny that are fucking crazy. | ||
| I know. | ||
| That is silly, man. | ||
| It's different. | ||
| What if I transition, whatever, anyone, a man, and there's powerlifting? | ||
| Well, people have done that, and they're winning and breaking all these records. | ||
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Of course they are. | |
| And why are we not stopping being like, that doesn't, no. | ||
| Because we want to save people's feelings. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Silly. | ||
| And what's really fascinating is, in the process of being super progressive, you go towards the most maligned section of society, which is like transgender people. | ||
| And so everybody else Who also has been marginalized by society, like women, they get put in a less protected category than transgender women. | ||
| So a man becomes a more protected class of woman than a natural born woman herself. | ||
| That's very interesting. | ||
| That's crazy! | ||
| That is. | ||
| It's very true, also. | ||
| Yeah, it's crazy because all these women that got beaten up by that man who became a woman who started fighting in MMA fought two women before ever disclosing the fact that she used to be a man because she said it was a medical issue that had nothing to do with them, which just shows you how completely insane the logic behind all this is. | ||
| Does she still fight? | ||
| She hasn't in a while. | ||
| But now everybody knows. | ||
| She lost to a woman. | ||
| She did? | ||
| Yeah, an actual woman who wound up... | ||
| Yeah, I said actual. | ||
| Fuck off. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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People are like, did you say actual woman? | |
| Did you say that? | ||
| What did you say? | ||
| But that's wild, right, that a woman beat? | ||
| She's not good. | ||
| No, she's not good. | ||
| She's not a good fighter. | ||
| No, she's just strong. | ||
| You don't look at her and think, oh, she fights like Chris Cyborg or she boxes like Claressa Shields. | ||
| No, she's not that unbelievably talented. | ||
| She's just physically way different. | ||
| She's a fucking man. | ||
| She's a man for 30 years, had children. | ||
| This was when I knew it was crazy. | ||
| I got in a conversation with someone online where this woman was like, she's always been a man. | ||
| I go, even when she got another woman pregnant and had children with her? | ||
| And she goes, yes, even then. | ||
| She was a woman. | ||
| She was a woman. | ||
| She was a woman that fucked another woman and got her pregnant. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What? | ||
| Just hang up. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| I know. | ||
| Like, this is so crazy. | ||
| You got to tap out of those conversations. | ||
| Like, even Bruce Jenner, when he transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner and then eventually got his surgery, right? | ||
| Or her surgery. | ||
| She said, even before the surgery, though, it didn't change anything. | ||
| I was always 100% a woman. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Then why get surgery? | ||
| Well, because you're thinking that gender is just with genitalia. | ||
| That's your mistake. | ||
| You, personally. | ||
| And that's the mistake. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Gender's not just genitals. | ||
| It's in your mind. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So it's also a facial reconstruction. | ||
| That's why you just said something fucking stupid, and I just let you know how dumb that was. | ||
| So what is the difference? | ||
| Someone said that there's gender, and then there's biological sex, and that gender is the operating system, and biological sex is the hardware. | ||
| 100% agree. | ||
| Yeah, makes sense. | ||
| Outrage over transgender female weightlifter who destroyed her rivals by hoisting 19 kilograms more than the runner-up. | ||
| Now she's a contender for the Commonwealth Games. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| Oh my god, look at the size of her. | ||
| What the fuck? | ||
| Laurel? | ||
| She's a goddamn gorilla. | ||
| Made her international weightlifting debut in Melbourne on Sunday. | ||
| It's about 40 pounds more than the second place person. | ||
| Yeah, what in the fucking holy hell. | ||
| Oh my god, look at the size of her. | ||
| Fuck. | ||
| Yeah, and imagine if you're a biological woman who's been training and working hard all her life, and then all of a sudden you have to compete with this. | ||
| And you're like, I'm first place, bitch. | ||
| And she's giant. | ||
| Look at the size of her head, her formerly male head. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's a giant woman. | ||
| That's just a way to get medals. | ||
| Well, it's sandbagging. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's what a lot of it is. | ||
| That's fucked up, man. | ||
| That is what a lot of it is. | ||
| That's not fair. | ||
| And people don't want to admit that. | ||
| That's not fair, yeah. | ||
| Sandbagging, if you don't know what it means, is like, you would get that in martial arts tournaments. | ||
| Like, say, you would have a tournament, and the tournament would be like for blue belts only, which is like one rank above white belt. | ||
| And then guys would be like a black belt in judo, and they would enter into the blue belt division and stomp everything. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because they're like, I don't have a belt in that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But he's sandbagging. | ||
| You know what they're doing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And everybody knows what they're doing. | ||
| You see that shit. | ||
| There's a lot of that where people just want to win, and the way they can win is by competing against people that are not on that same level. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If you don't think that people do that when they switch over from being a man for 30 years and then competing as a woman and not tell them and just start smashing these women- If you don't think there's something in that, then you don't understand athletics, you don't understand competition, you don't understand sandbaggers, and you don't understand the kind of people that wouldn't tell people about that in the first place. | ||
| But they don't want to look at it that way. | ||
| Everything has to go through the filter of being progressive, so you have to err on the side of being the most open-minded, the most liberal, and the most progressive. | ||
| Which I'm... | ||
| 100% for if women want to fight a transgender woman, if a woman wants to. | ||
| I think you should be able to ride bulls. | ||
| I think you should be able to skydive. | ||
| I think you should be able to do fucking bungee jumping. | ||
| I think you should be able to do a lot of ridiculous, crazy, dangerous shit. | ||
| You should be able to do flips with BMX bikes. | ||
| Why shouldn't you be able to fight a man? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Why shouldn't you be able to fight a transgender woman, a woman who used to be a man? | ||
| You should be able to. | ||
| If you're a man... | ||
| You're signing up for it. | ||
| Yeah, if you're a woman, rather, and you're 130 pounds, you want to fight 130-pound, 100% man, no transgender, no nothing. | ||
| If you want to do that, you should be allowed to. | ||
| You should be allowed to. | ||
| I don't advise it. | ||
| I think it's a terrible idea for you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're going to get pummeled. | ||
| Well, if it's a good fighter, you are. | ||
| There's just... | ||
| What is this? | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Bodybuilder? | ||
| What are you showing me, Jen? | ||
| The article says this person can't decide to compete as a man or a woman, and this is what they look like. | ||
| They can't decide whether to compete as a man or a woman? | ||
| That's what he used to look like on the left? | ||
| Fucking A, man. | ||
| And then, oh my god, he was super jacked. | ||
| And now he is on the right, but he looks like he's still a man. | ||
| He hasn't transitioned yet. | ||
| Still lives his life as both. | ||
| He lives his life as both. | ||
| See, this is where you're seeing that some of these fucking people have mental illness. | ||
| There was an episode of Radiolab where this one guy... | ||
| Who's also a girl, switches back and forth. | ||
| And under pressure, he changes. | ||
| Like, he's Paul or he's Cindy. | ||
| And this is what? | ||
| On what? | ||
| Radio Lab. | ||
| It's a podcast. | ||
| But Radio Lab is so fucking left-wing. | ||
| And I love them. | ||
| They're amazing. | ||
| But they're so left-wing and so progressive that they are unwilling to note and even address the preposterous nature of this fucking person who's like, I just switched. | ||
| Now I'm Cindy. | ||
| Right now? | ||
| Now I'm back to Paul. | ||
| We're back to Paul now. | ||
| In the conversation? | ||
| Yes, in the conversation. | ||
| Like, I just turned over. | ||
| Like, oh, you did. | ||
| Oh, you're this special creature that can just go back and forth and switch genders. | ||
| Or, are you fucking crazy, Paul slash Cindy? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We would never have violated Paige's wishes in this story. | ||
| It's an unfortunate understanding. | ||
| This is their note when they had to change the whole story, remember? | ||
| They had to go back because they got mad that they misgendered them in the original podcast. | ||
| How do they misgender if she goes back and forth? | ||
| They have to keep up at the moment? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So they misgendered how? | ||
| Were they called her a him or him a her? | ||
| Which one's the misgendering? | ||
| So miscommunication was between the reporter and the actual person they were talking to. | ||
| Yeah, the person's fucking crazy. | ||
| You can't just go back and forth and back and forth. | ||
| Like, cut the shit. | ||
| This whole thing is just preposterous. | ||
| They'll remove references to the name she no longer recognizes. | ||
| Does that mean that afterwards... | ||
| Afterwards she decided to go full female. | ||
| That's what happened. | ||
| What do you keep calling me Craig for, man? | ||
| So at one point in time during the show, she switches. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| I'm Paul now. | ||
| I'm Paul now. | ||
| Now I'm back to Cindy. | ||
| Cindy's light. | ||
| Cindy's happy. | ||
| Cindy's loose. | ||
| Cindy doesn't care. | ||
| You need psychiatric help at this point. | ||
| At one point in time, here's the thing. | ||
| You're not allowed to say that when it comes to gender. | ||
| When it comes to anything else, if you're like, oh, I recognize him as a wood elf. | ||
| I'm a wood elf. | ||
| You know, that's how I identify. | ||
| I'm a sprite. | ||
| I should be in the forest flying around with the butterflies. | ||
| Like, people go, oh, he probably has an issue. | ||
| That guy's schizophrenic. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But if it's a guy who's built like Brock Lesnar, who's like, you know, I've always identified as a small, thin woman. | ||
| People are like, yeah. | ||
| Who dances. | ||
| Totally cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We should respect that. | ||
| Yeah, we should respect that. | ||
| When it comes to gender, gender is this weird thing that we allow all sorts of very illogical behavior. | ||
| Isn't that wild? | ||
| Yeah, like these 78-plus gender... | ||
| By the way, they're adding more. | ||
| There's more. | ||
| There weren't enough. | ||
| There's more gender pronouns now than ever before. | ||
| But if it's a guy at a bus stop who's like, I am the president, you don't go like, oh, we should respect the fuck out of that right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're just like, oh my God. | ||
| He identifies as the leader of the free world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Address that. | ||
| No, you're supposed to be like, hey, stand over here. | ||
| Yeah, when it comes to gender, we're supposed to give a lot of leeway. | ||
| Let a lot of things slide. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think it's for good reason. | ||
| I think the good part of it is that we recognize that there are people that really do wish that they were a woman and would like you to call them a woman. | ||
| And why not? | ||
| Let the guy become a gal. | ||
|
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Sure. | |
| And maybe they'll be happier that way. | ||
| And I guess it shows acceptance and kindness on our part to just allow that to happen. | ||
|
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True. | |
| The problem with that is it's a goddamn slippery slope. | ||
| And a lot of this weirdness that's going on is people trying to control other people's behavior. | ||
| And one of the ways they try to do that is try to get you to use words that they've made up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is where you're seeing how preposterous it is. | ||
| The number of pronouns is also just... | ||
|
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78! | |
| Up until recently. | ||
| I mean, I understand somebody saying, like, I don't identify... | ||
| Like, I understand that concept. | ||
| It's not too hard to understand. | ||
| But where it's like, I also have free reign on a hundred words that you should possibly know to address me by. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| It's like, what are you fucking... | ||
| Why are you bothering everybody? | ||
| Is that what you get off on? | ||
| Well, you become special that way. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| You get special rights, special privileges, special attention. | ||
| You get... | ||
| It's just special consideration. | ||
| I'm trying to remember if my... | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I've had on my profile on Twitter for a long time. | ||
| Like, if you read my first bio sentence, I'm a comedian. | ||
| Is this comedian Zimzer? | ||
| That's my pronouns. | ||
|
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But nobody respects it. | |
| Well, I didn't even know Zim. | ||
| Yeah, Zim is a big one. | ||
| I know Zer, Z-H-E-R. Or Z-E-R, yeah. | ||
| Zimzer. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Those are... | ||
| These motherfuckers. | ||
| There's just so many. | ||
| What does it say? | ||
| We're really feeling dog cunts? | ||
| What does it say there? | ||
| What does it say there in his tweet? | ||
| We're really feeling dog cunts and want to thank the people of Australia for bringing it to our attention. | ||
| Well, we saw this clip where this guy, if you hit view there, he's like doing this video and we just heard him say it. | ||
| I was like, I've never heard somebody say that. | ||
| Can you play it or no? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Dog cunts. | ||
|
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I like dog cunts. | |
| I've never heard dog cunt. | ||
| I've never heard that before in my life. | ||
|
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It's really good. | |
| It's really good. | ||
| He drinks a beer and he's like, dog cunts. | ||
| He's an Australian guy. | ||
| We're like, fucking A. And then all these Australian people were like, that's right. | ||
| That's one of the things we say here. | ||
| What does it mean? | ||
| I actually got really great explanations of it about how common it is there. | ||
| Let me see. | ||
| This guy wrote... | ||
| Well, first of all, the guy goes, no problem. | ||
| That is how we talk here. | ||
| A dog in Australia... | ||
| It's like a dirty rat or an ugly person or a dishonest person. | ||
| We use it to put people down. | ||
| So it's like, you know, if somebody, you say dog, a dog is like a shitty person. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| So, someone wrote, there's a lot of shit cunts here too. | ||
| I like shit cunt. | ||
| He said it's two insults because dog is a common insult. | ||
| And this guy is a total bogan, which is like a white trash redneck. | ||
| The other guy said, if you say you fucking dog cunt to the wrong type of Aussie, you might get stabbed with a sharpened toothbrush multiple times. | ||
| And he said it's a snitch in bogan slang. | ||
| So a dog cunt's a snitch. | ||
| A dog cunt is a snitch? | ||
| Yeah, so a mad cunt is a good bloke. | ||
| A sick cunt is a professional BMX rider. | ||
| A fat cunt is Bert. | ||
| A dog cunt's a shitty person. | ||
| If you see your mate and he ditches you for a girl on a night out, he's a fucking dog cunt. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you see your mate, your buddy, and he ditches you for a gal... | ||
| He's a fucking dog cunt. | ||
| What's he supposed to do? | ||
| Like, what if he can get laid? | ||
| He's supposed to hang out with you, man. | ||
| You guys had plans. | ||
| I don't fucking know. | ||
| At a certain point in time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, what if she's really hot? | ||
| That changes everything, of course. | ||
| Kate Upton in her prime. | ||
| If she's super smoking hot, banging out right now. | ||
| Then your friend's being a dog cunt for getting upset at you, I think. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I don't know why I came up with her. | ||
| I'm having a hard time pulling hot chicks names for references on the fly. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| The other day I said Jennifer Beale from Flashdance. | ||
| I was like, where? | ||
| What? | ||
| Hey man, there's a special place in your mind. | ||
|
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That's how it is. | |
| I guess? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think we all go to like an era. | ||
| I would do that too. | ||
| Fucking Kathy Ireland, Smoke Show. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| She's like 80 now. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's because there was a time when I was really stroking to her. | ||
| Were you? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I'm sure. | ||
| When, like, that Sports Illustrated was coming out, I was probably like 13 or something. | ||
| So, yeah, that would have been prime time. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That era, it's like when you discover what a hot woman is. | ||
| When you discover what a hot woman is. | ||
| Oh, she's like someone's mom now. | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| Elle McPherson? | ||
| That's what she used to look like. | ||
| Yeah, so that right there. | ||
| It's got to be so hard for those women to let that go. | ||
| Yeah, to be that hot and celebrated for it. | ||
| And now to be just like a regular... | ||
| A nice lady with pearls. | ||
| Nice gal. | ||
| Someone's mom. | ||
| Yeah, I think the thing about the SI stuff, when the swimsuit issue would come out, is that they... | ||
| They were kind of household names and kind of not. | ||
| So you felt like you knew something by learning their name. | ||
| Do you know what I mean? | ||
| Because it wasn't a movie star. | ||
| A swimsuit model was learning that name. | ||
| I'm talking about as a teenager. | ||
| In a bizarre way, you thought you knew them better because you knew their name. | ||
| So I would be like... | ||
| Oh, Kathy Ireland, Elle McPherson. | ||
| And then people would catch on, but you'd learn their names and feel like you knew something. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's really weird. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| You felt like you were better than people that didn't know their names? | ||
| I think at 12 and 13, definitely. | ||
| Was it like a sports thing? | ||
| Yes, it's like knowing stats. | ||
| Like, that dude's 6'9", 245, so he can really fucking move, man. | ||
| You know, then you feel like you know more. | ||
| Yeah, that was always a thing, right? | ||
| When you were young, to be able to pull out sports stats and players' names, to know the entire lineup. | ||
| It's really crazy. | ||
| I saw this thing, Artie Lang, do you know that he can name for like 40 years who played in World Series and like... | ||
| Like, the two teams that played. | ||
| But I'm talking about, you can be like, 1958. He's like, that was Cardinals vs. | ||
| Mets, Game 4. He knows a span of 40 or 50 years by memory. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That's some really, really ridiculous stats to know. | ||
| Well, he's a fucking banana baseball fan. | ||
| Yeah, but this level of it is really... | ||
| I've never seen anything like that before. | ||
| Why doesn't he do, like, sports radio, then? | ||
| He did for a while, didn't he? | ||
| He might have. | ||
| Was that thing that he did with Nick DiPaolo, wasn't that, like, a sports radio show? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| What is he doing now? | ||
| He checked himself into rehab, right? | ||
| Um, I think so. | ||
| Because he was doing that show with Anthony Cumia. | ||
| Anthony, yeah. | ||
| And then, I think he checked himself into rehab. | ||
| I think so, yeah. | ||
| Which is good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He just did that last, or the new season of Crashing, the HBO show, Pete Holmes show. | ||
| Oh, he's one of the guests? | ||
| Or one of the stars? | ||
| No, he's a cast member, I think. | ||
| Oh, is he? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Because he was on it the first season, and yeah, he returned. | ||
| Poor guy. | ||
| He loves the drugs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the hard ones. | ||
| He's a true addict. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, you gotta wonder. | ||
| He's so funny, though. | ||
| He's hilarious. | ||
| And that's, like I said, that sports knowledge he has is fucking crazy. | ||
| Do you have sports knowledge? | ||
| You have a lot of sports knowledge. | ||
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No. | |
| Not like that. | ||
| I know some random things. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I know some things like... | ||
| I mean, basically, like I said, I like college football, and so I can hold a conversation with different levels of college football fans. | ||
| I could talk to a superfan and hang with them in that conversation, but I'm not like... | ||
| I can tell you every championship game for the last 20, no, no. | ||
| I remember people, teams winning and stuff, for sure, but I don't have a level that you'd be like, dude, what type of autism do you have? | ||
| That is like savant level shit where it's like you're such an expert in one field, you know? | ||
| All these weird stats you retain. | ||
| I'm not like that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You ever see Al Franken draw the United States like that? | ||
| No. | ||
| He's got this weird ability to draw every state. | ||
| Yeah, all 50 states. | ||
| He draws the shape of them, puts it together. | ||
| He draws the United States by free hand. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's very weird. | ||
| Like, his ability to do that, like, look at this. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| This is before everybody knew he grabbed butts. | ||
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What? | |
| Allegedly. | ||
| That's already impressive. | ||
| Just that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, he does the entire country completely freehand. | ||
| And it's an accurate map of the country. | ||
| How is this possible? | ||
| Well, because he's a real patriot. | ||
| This is one of the things that's kind of... | ||
| Disturbing and sad about this whole Al Franken thing. | ||
| The worst they got out of him was that he may or may not have grabbed someone's butt when he took pictures with him. | ||
| I don't know if he did or he didn't, but that's basically it. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| And he's resigning. | ||
| He's not going to be a senator anymore. | ||
| No, he's done. | ||
| But they didn't get him on anything completely horrible. | ||
| It was just like he may or may not have squoze in someone's butt. | ||
| A few people's butts. | ||
| How many? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
|
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Five? | |
| It's a few butts. | ||
| A few butts? | ||
| A few butts. | ||
| Like five or six butts? | ||
| That's really impressive, actually. | ||
|
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Yeah, it really is. | |
| It's very impressive. | ||
| And this is... | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, does California, the whole deal. | ||
| Well, come on. | ||
| Oh, there's Alaska. | ||
| Even as Alaska and Hawaii. | ||
| You do the States. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's the state fair. | ||
| That's where we would grab butts. | ||
| He would grab butts at the state fair. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, he was all high on his performance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He just was feeling, I'm the fucking king of the world. | ||
| I could see how it could happen. | ||
| I had my butt grab the bunch. | ||
| Taking pictures with women? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| After shows, yeah. | ||
| I've never grabbed. | ||
| I'm like, nah, that's just not. | ||
| I don't do it. | ||
| But I could see how people's butts would get grabbed. | ||
| Bill Burr was talking about it on his podcast. | ||
| He's like, this is a particular type of woman. | ||
| In her 40s, drunk, a little loud, getting kind of crazy. | ||
| Who's the one that's going to grab your ass? | ||
| They'll grab your ass. | ||
| They'll say like, can I pinch your nipple? | ||
| And they'll say something and before you can even say no. | ||
| Boom! | ||
| They're going for it. | ||
| They'll go for it. | ||
| Yikes! | ||
| And they're always boozed up. | ||
| That's always alcohol. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, alcohol is the catalyst for all shitty behavior and decision making. | ||
| By the way, did you see that Born Strong doc? | ||
| You see that? | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Born Strong is this documentary about the World's Strongest Man competition. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's really fucking interesting, man. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| These guys are such fucking, like, not normal species of human, you know? | ||
| Oh, is it like the Iceland guys? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They're doing those powerlifting competitions and stuff? | ||
| And they go to the Arnold Classic every year. | ||
| Oh, these guys. | ||
| These guys are such fucking beasts, man. | ||
| I mean, it is like... | ||
| It's not... | ||
| I mean, this dude does an 1,100-pound deadlift. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Eddie, 6'2", 400 pounds. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| These guys... | ||
| So unhealthy for you to be that big. | ||
| Well, that guy is interesting. | ||
| He was a national champion swimmer. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Yeah, as a kid. | ||
| Like a thin guy. | ||
| Yes, lean and thin. | ||
| And he's competing against guys. | ||
| Most of the guys he competes against are like... | ||
| That guy's the next smallest, basically. | ||
| All the other guys are like 6'8", 6'9", 4'10", 4'20", 4'30". | ||
| And the swimmer guy... | ||
| Has to eat, like, all day. | ||
| And they explain the physiology. | ||
| Look at the size of that guy. | ||
| 6'8", 4'27". | ||
| I mean, they're just... | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| They're so crazy. | ||
| But this level of competition is... | ||
| This is the guy from Game of Thrones right here. | ||
| He's a competitor, too. | ||
| But it's, like, the physiology of eating that much to sustain... | ||
| The muscle, eventually, you have to put on the weight. | ||
| Like, you need the fat. | ||
| And they explain how, you know, this guy's like, his physique is like that. | ||
| He's just kind of put together that way, but most of the guys have these big barrel bellies. | ||
| And a doctor explains how, at a certain level of consumption, these guys all basically get bellies, you know? | ||
| Because people are like, why do they have to get fat? | ||
| And just as you think that, they start explaining it. | ||
| So when you're that big and you lift in that much weight, you have to be fat? | ||
| Yes, that's basically what the guy says. | ||
| But the Game of Thrones guy's not really that fat. | ||
| But he's one of the unique cases where... | ||
| He is actually, like, built to be a fucking Viking. | ||
| In other words, the other guys are eating so much to sustain themselves, be able to pick up and recover from all this crazy weightlifting. | ||
| He's a guy who, like, is essentially born walking around 6'8", 395 or whatever. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, he's a... | ||
| Unique freak. | ||
| The other guys have to eat crazy amounts of food. | ||
| I mean, they show what one of these guys eats, it would blow your mind. | ||
| He force feeds himself like nine times a day. | ||
| And he has to? | ||
| He said he has to, yeah. | ||
| And has he ever tried to not do it and see if he's less strong? | ||
| I think so, yeah. | ||
| Isn't that weird that force feeding yourself makes yourself stronger? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| It really is interesting. | ||
| Like why? | ||
| Why do you get stronger if you're fatter? | ||
| Or do you need that much food to keep the muscles up? | ||
| And if you just eat that much food to keep the muscles up, there's gonna be a certain amount of fat. | ||
| That's kind of... | ||
| Yeah, I think that's more of the way it goes. | ||
| Do they talk about steroids? | ||
| Um, no. | ||
| Not really, no. | ||
| Well, that's a bullshit documentary then. | ||
| I don't feel like they did. | ||
| These fucking guys, no one wants to admit it. | ||
| That's a weird thing about that world. | ||
| That's the swimmer guy. | ||
| Look at him. | ||
| Wow, he was all lean and... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Gay porno-y. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not that he was, I'm just saying. | ||
| There's a film about a guy working out in the backyard and a bunch of guys showed up to suck his dick. | ||
| That would be the guy. | ||
| You'd believe it. | ||
| You'd believe this was real life. | ||
| The fact that one of those guys could just become a woman and just enter into women's weightlifting competitions is so fucking preposterous. | ||
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And they would be like, be respectful. | |
| Don't bring up the past. | ||
| She's a woman. | ||
| She's always been a woman. | ||
| God, she beat the competition by an astounding 600 pounds. | ||
| Weird. | ||
| Really crazy. | ||
| Yeah, beat the second runner up by 40 pounds. | ||
| No big deal. | ||
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It's normal. | |
| Super normal. | ||
| It happens. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Everybody does it. | ||
| No. | ||
| No. | ||
| We're going to look back on these days, and it's going to be an astounding... | ||
| Sort of observation on mass thinking, like groupthink, like what happens when people are scared of expressing themselves honestly and expressing controversial points of view because of the time and the culture. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What ramifications it has. | ||
| Like, by the way, here's what's weird. | ||
| I'm, and I don't know if it's good or bad, it's not a judgment call, but I am, I know so many people whose children are now transgender. | ||
| A lot? | ||
| Yeah, like five or six. | ||
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Really? | |
| Where I didn't know any before. | ||
| All out here? | ||
| When I was growing up. | ||
| All in California? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Well, one of them in Canada. | ||
| But yeah, really important. | ||
| What's this? | ||
| Toronto Furies, Jessica Platt, is a CWHL's first openly transgender player. | ||
| Now, she used to be a woman, and now is a man? | ||
| Used to be a man, now is a woman. | ||
| And she's playing women's hockey? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Fuck that. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Fuck people up. | ||
| Yeah, it's hockey. | ||
| Guess who's an all-star this year? | ||
| It's Jessica. | ||
| Yeah, take that fucking mountain from the Game of Thrones. | ||
| Put him in a skirt. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| See how many people he plows over like a goddamn human bowling ball. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| That dude's so fucking strong. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's just, if you're going to play sports, there should be... | ||
| Look, there are physical freaks that are women. | ||
| There's no doubt about that. | ||
| There's some women that are just physical freaks. | ||
| And there's some women that also take steroids. | ||
| That's another very controversial issue because you have women that are ingesting large amounts of male hormones and changing their physiology and then they also compete against women. | ||
| But then there's women or just women. | ||
| What about them? | ||
| How about looking out for them? | ||
| How about not letting them get their head smashed in by a man? | ||
| That's just not fair, man. | ||
| That's what it comes down to. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| But it's also, it just shows you how silly... | ||
| People have gotten and about how weird we are about looking at things and that everyone is so... | ||
| and because they don't really have a personal stake in the game, Everyone is so concerned about being viewed as being incredibly progressive and open-minded that they don't want to criticize us. | ||
| It's a really interesting point because if you really put yourself in a competition you care about, say it's important to you to win. | ||
| Imagine yourself competing in something where it's important to you to win. | ||
| And they go, but we're going to have this person in. | ||
| And those are the circumstances. | ||
| You would... | ||
| You'd be the first one to be like, fuck that! | ||
| That is not fair. | ||
| And those women get called bigots? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's really strange. | ||
| Yeah, that is very strange. | ||
| Those women get attacked online. | ||
| There's a bunch of women that didn't want to fight that transgender man who became a woman in MMA, and they got called bigots and transphobe. | ||
| And the transgender people... | ||
| That community is like super aggressive about defending that intellectual turf, defending that idea. | ||
| See, that's an interesting place is like where you go, because you have to have empathy for, let's say, this transgender person who's like, I want to compete. | ||
| And you're like, yeah, you should be able to compete. | ||
| But how is this circumstance fair to both sides, you know, to those women that are ready to compete in this thing? | ||
| They also want attention. | ||
| Part of the wanting to compete is also wanting attention and wanting everyone to know that you're a man who transitioned to a woman and that there's... | ||
| Look, there's a lot of energy in that. | ||
| There's a lot of people that are paying attention to that. | ||
| And anybody who says, no, that's preposterous, people, they want their privacy when it comes to these matters, and they don't want to be open to the ridicule. | ||
| Bullshit. | ||
| Bullshit. | ||
| They want attention. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| It's why they're competing. | ||
| It's what they're doing. | ||
| It's why they're letting everybody know they're the first openly transgender woman. | ||
| A lot of this is about... | ||
| I mean, some of it is about transgender rights. | ||
| It's about transparency and showing people how many of those folks are out there. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| A lot of it's about horseshit. | ||
| Yeah, there's a lot of attention. | ||
| A lot of it. | ||
| I mean, for you to sign up for that competition when you know what's what, it's definitely attention-getting. | ||
| Especially things like powerlifting and MMA. To deny that there's some sort of a difference in the male frame, there's also a lot of horseshit when it comes to what actually happens to the body during transition and how much strength you lose and how much bone mass you lose. | ||
| There's a woman named Dr. Ramona Krutzik, I think that's her name, and they interviewed her, and she's one of the very few people that's been interviewed about this as an actual endocrinologist that's not a gender transition doctor. | ||
| Because that's what a lot of them are. | ||
| A lot of the people that talk about these things and have these discussions about these things that are hashtag experts, they're actually transition doctors. | ||
| So they have a vested interest in sort of Expressing the ideology that there's no physical advantage and that these women, you know, once they've been under these hormonal treatments for X amount of years, they become physiologically a woman and there's no distinction between them and a biological woman. | ||
| But this one woman, Dr. Ramona Krutzik, she wrote an article for, I want to say it was It was either SB Nation or Bloody Elbow. | ||
| I forget what it was, but they interviewed her. | ||
| And she was saying, not only do you not lose bone density, but you maintain it because you're taking estrogen. | ||
| She's like, well, the idea is that a man has more bone density, they're thicker, they're built different, and that you would lose a lot of that in your transition to being a woman. | ||
| But you don't lose the bone density because estrogen is actually what causes people to maintain their bone density when they're older, when they're women. | ||
| That's one of the things that happens to women when they get older. | ||
| They get osteoporosis. | ||
| Part of the problem is that your body doesn't produce as much estrogen as it used to. | ||
| And so you have a lack of bone density. | ||
| One way to heighten that is to supplement with estrogen. | ||
| So it actually maintains bone density. | ||
| So it's a good argument. | ||
| But they're not the same as men. | ||
| Because they don't have testosterone anymore. | ||
| And if they're not taking exogenous testosterone, they're definitely going to have a disadvantage against men. | ||
| But they still would have an advantage against men. | ||
| Against women, rather. | ||
| They'd have a mechanical advantage. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| But there's also a mental advantage. | ||
| There's a reaction advantage. | ||
| The reaction time is quicker with men than it is with women. | ||
| There's a bunch of weird 3D space recognition advantages that men have. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| And then there's the thing that people want to pretend that there's no difference between men and women. | ||
| There's that group. | ||
| Do you know about that group? | ||
| No, but that seems like so stupid to even entertain the idea. | ||
| No, this is a common thing among the most ridiculous of the progressives, is that there's no biological difference in the sexes. | ||
| What? | ||
| How could anything support that's so dumb? | ||
| But it is dumb, but it shows you... | ||
| How insane a lot of this thinking is, is that this group think, this mass progressive thought process, that they just accept things that are totally irrational and then repeat them as ad nauseum. | ||
| Like we played this one clip where it seems like it's a transgender man, a woman to man, who's saying, she was talking, there was a Jordan Peterson debate, and she was saying there's no biological difference between the sex, and I'd be happy to unpack that for you. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Oh, you'd be happy to unpack biology. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| No difference at all in our biology? | ||
| Just no. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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There's no biological basis in sex and gender. | |
| What? | ||
| What did I say? | ||
| Is this an expert? | ||
| Are you a bigot? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Are you transphobic? | ||
| Are you a bigot? | ||
| Is this an expert? | ||
| No. | ||
| But she's teaching at a college. | ||
| Oh, that's... | ||
| Yeah, that would follow... | ||
| But that's what a lot's going on. | ||
| There's a lot of that going on in colleges where people are teaching unbelievably ridiculous shit. | ||
| I got to pee. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Go for it, buddy. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Da-da-da! | ||
| Tommy Bunz hasn't done the three-hour podcast in a while. | ||
| Doesn't have the kind of bladder for it. | ||
| We can go live, too, by the way. | ||
| We can go live? | ||
| We're back? | ||
| Well, it's too late. | ||
| We'll go live with Tyron when he comes in later. | ||
| People are parking in front of our garage again. | ||
| Fuckheads. | ||
| So young Jamie, this game that Tommy Bunz and Ari Shafir and Burt Kreischer went to, this was a game that you were interested in as well? | ||
| I was watching. | ||
| It was actually a really, really good game. | ||
| They took the side of Georgia, who turned out to not be the victors, but the final five minutes of the game was insane. | ||
| And you as a non-football fan could probably watch it and enjoy it too. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Now, let me ask you this, because this is what I was going to ask. | ||
| Is there any other sport, like football, that has the kind of attention on the college level? | ||
| Because, does basketball have that kind of attention? | ||
| Do people care as much about a championship game? | ||
| In March. | ||
| In March. | ||
| March Madness. | ||
| Oh, that's what March Madness is. | ||
| It's a marketed thing. | ||
| But not baseball. | ||
| Baseball, no. | ||
| No. | ||
| They do have a College World Series, but it happens in the summer when no one's paying attention. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| But that's it as far as in terms of other sports, right? | ||
| I mean, there's no other ones. | ||
| Yeah, I was just trying to think. | ||
| Wrestling has got a little attention, but it's very small. | ||
| But in their world, they sell out arenas and whatnot. | ||
| It's just not televised. | ||
| Right, but in wrestling, it's really only other... | ||
| I mean, it's like wrestling fans that are into it. | ||
| It's not a national thing. | ||
| Even then, I'm pretty sure not every college has a wrestling team. | ||
| They almost all have a football team, almost all have a basketball team. | ||
| They don't all have wrestling teams. | ||
| Yeah, you know one of the things they were highlighting I was reading this article about the coaches and about how the coaches were getting these large bonuses for victory And they were saying how crazy it is that the kids that are playing aren't getting any money, | ||
| but that these fucking coaches are making shit tons of money, and that the university profits massively from these successful football programs, and yet these athletes who are damaging their brain, damaging their body, and then a large percentage of them are never even gonna go on to a career in professional sports. | ||
| So, I was just pulling this up. | ||
| Here's another pop-up, but this summer, I think it was right before the basketball season started, this scandal hit the world. | ||
| Rick Pitino is, I think he might have been running the athletic program in some capacity. | ||
| I don't know if he was the AD, but he was definitely, he's like one of the top basketball coaches in the country. | ||
| And he was getting 98% of the cash of this deal they had with Adidas. | ||
| That's so much money. | ||
| Do you know about this deal? | ||
| No, that's so much money. | ||
| He raked in 98% of the cash from the University of Louisville's current Adidas deal. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| It's hard to explain how it can even happen. | ||
| If you watch the movie Blue Chips from the 90s, they sort of almost tap into it, but that was 15 years even before this is happening, so there's a whole extra world going on. | ||
| Look what he said. | ||
| This is what's funny. | ||
| The reporter asked him if some of the proceeds would be shared with the university. | ||
| He says, in quotes, it's for the athletic department. | ||
| Junk replied. | ||
| How do you say his name? | ||
| Jurek. | ||
| Jurek replied. | ||
| It's for these student athletes. | ||
| It's been earmarked for them. | ||
| Ha! | ||
| In fact, under the current deal with Adidas, which expires July 1st, 98% of the cash provided by Adidas goes to one person, Rick Pitino, the now suspended head coach. | ||
| That's fucking crazy! | ||
| Look at the next sentence. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| 2015-2016, for example, $1.5 million went to Patino. | ||
| Under his personal services agreement with the apparel company, just $25,000 went to the program, according to the contract obtained by the Courier-Journal under the state's Public Records Act. | ||
| The year before, the department got 10 grand. | ||
| And he got 1.5 million. | ||
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That's incredible. | |
| Why do they pay him so much? | ||
| How does it work? | ||
| He can recruit the kids to the school because he's got the name and whether or not he's got some sort of ability to sell them also, you know, I don't know that. | ||
| He can bring them in because he's got almost a franchise of national championships or at least ability to be on national TV in that big March Madness tournament I'm telling you about. | ||
| He'll get your eyes on there, which gets you with the NBA contract, which is the old dream. | ||
| They can sell that dream to them. | ||
| Those NBA deals are the best fucking deals in the world. | ||
| The guaranteed contracts to play and the shoe deals. | ||
| Shoe deals are big. | ||
| Dude, the shoe deals for those guys, the NBA guys, for the top tier guys, which is of course a very select few, but it's nine figures before they ever play ball. | ||
| They're signing like $100 million deals before they play professional basketball. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's fucking amazing, outrageous amounts of money. | ||
| We were talking about Under Armour. | ||
| What was the player that said nobody wants to play in Under Armour? | ||
| Kevin Durant said that. | ||
| And he sank the stock by saying that. | ||
| Because universities have deals with sneaker companies. | ||
| And that no one wanted to play for Maryland because they didn't want to play with Under Armour. | ||
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| Because they didn't want to wear Under Armour. | ||
| And everything just went... | ||
| Hilarious. | ||
| They've been struggling ever since. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yes! | ||
| It's amazing to me the way Under Armour has been able to compete, period. | ||
| Like, that is so outrageous. | ||
| That's a former University of Maryland student, athlete, I think he was a student athlete. | ||
| And that he was able to start an apparel company, athletic company, and really actually compete with Adidas and Nike. | ||
| I mean, that is so nuts. | ||
| It would be like you starting a fucking car tomorrow, and then you're like, yeah, Porsche, BMW, or a Joe car. | ||
| What do you like? | ||
| That's how nuts that is, to break into that field. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, fuck yeah it is, man. | ||
| They have that shit so locked down. | ||
| They have such deep pockets. | ||
| Their levels of endorsements... | ||
| And what he started doing, the Under Armour guy, wouldn't even pay... | ||
| Now they have paid endorsed athletes. | ||
| But at first, people were just liking the gear. | ||
| He was one of the first ones that developed that... | ||
| Tight fit, breathe right, compression gear. | ||
| And he developed some of it and would give it to people he knew at University of Maryland that were now in the pro. | ||
| And they're like, I like this shit and so does my boy. | ||
| Throw us some more of that. | ||
| And it was like that. | ||
| It was just kind of... | ||
| A very organic way of developing. | ||
| It would be like if you bake something and you're like, oh, that tastes good. | ||
| Can you make me another one for me and my friends? | ||
| It was like that. | ||
| I was reading something really interesting where they were saying that they're fucking up the brand because they've put them into discount stores. | ||
| That they're trying to raise the sales, and by raising the sales, they put them into discount stores. | ||
| By putting them into discount stores, they're going to change the way people look at the brand. | ||
| It's not going to be worth as much. | ||
| That's probably very realistic, man. | ||
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| That's very interesting. | ||
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Weird. | |
| People think so weird. | ||
| I know. | ||
| If you saw a pair of Nikes at a discount store, would you like, oh, fuck, Nike ain't wearing that. | ||
| That means zero to me. | ||
| Yeah, no. | ||
| And Nike has outlet stores, which is like discount Nikes, you know? | ||
| So that's kind of weird. | ||
| But it is true about how... | ||
| I mean, the other one is like that big baller brand. | ||
| They're basically attempting... | ||
| To compete in the apparel world. | ||
| That's LeVar Ball, right? | ||
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| That's the guy that got in that crazy thing because his son was arrested in China for shoplifting. | ||
| Was it China? | ||
| He was in China, yeah. | ||
| He was shoplifting, and then Trump says he got him out, and the dad says he didn't get him out. | ||
| Yeah, that's him, man. | ||
| And then the dad is, you know, Trump's calling the dad a fool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Trump's, I mean, well, that guy's very brash. | ||
| LeVar Ball. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| But I mean, I think, you know, that guy knows what he's doing, man. | ||
| Does he? | ||
| As far as PR, definitely. | ||
| He knows he's going to say some wild shit, and he knows people are going to be like, oh my god, what did he say? | ||
| And then he knows that that gets him more press, and it kind of just feeds itself. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And people act like... | ||
| Can you believe the fucking crazy shit that asshole just said? | ||
| And he's like, yeah, that's what I do. | ||
| And that's why you keep putting me on this show. | ||
| Sort of like Trump when he was running for president. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| It's the same school of thought. | ||
| And now, though, that guy... | ||
| So... | ||
| He has a son named Lonzo who plays for the Lakers, who's a first-round draft pick, like a top-tier player from UCLA. Then his other son, he has two more sons. | ||
| One of them was on UCLA's team this year, got arrested for shoplifting in China. | ||
| If he hadn't been released, if it wasn't a highly publicized thing, he definitely could have gone to jail for a while in China. | ||
| They don't fuck around, you know? | ||
| But anyways, when he got out and came back, LeVar pulled him From school, from UCLA, and also pulled his 16-year-old son out of high school and flew them to Lithuania, where they're now playing, both of them are playing professional basketball in Lithuania. | ||
| Professional. | ||
| Professional. | ||
| Air quotes. | ||
| Jamie did the air quotes. | ||
| Yeah, that's got to be in big air quotes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's definitely some good players that come out of there, but it's like, I mean, it is a circus over there. | ||
| If you see how it was when they arrived, it's crazy, the reception, you know? | ||
| So what is he trying to do now? | ||
| He's trying to start some new league? | ||
| He's trying to do a couple things. | ||
| He started a brand. | ||
| Big baller brand. | ||
| And, you know, that's like their ball and came out with these shoes. | ||
| They're basically $500 retail sneakers. | ||
| And if you're like, that's expensive. | ||
| He's like, because you're not a big baller, bitch. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| But are they like made by a real organization like Adidas? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Jamie says no. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| They're not made by it. | ||
| Definitely not. | ||
| And by the way, the son that's in the NBA turned down Real money. | ||
| Like, real fucking money because he was like, the father demanded that you basically pay to develop this brand from the big apparel guys. | ||
| Like, give us like a billion dollar contract and like, develop this brand. | ||
| What? | ||
| And they were like, no, we're not doing that. | ||
| And he's like, well then we're not even gonna talk to you about endorsing my son. | ||
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| Seriously? | ||
| 100%, yes. | ||
| Then, now he's had like, there's so much, Conversation about the brand, that he's definitely elevated the awareness of it. | ||
| What we don't know, what nobody knows, is to what level are they actually selling this apparel. | ||
| Because they have everything. | ||
| They have shirts and shoes. | ||
| They're getting... | ||
| They just got it rated an F by the Better Business Bureau. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Because their shoes are not the ones they sold. | ||
| They pre-sold a bunch of shoes, and the ones that people are getting are not what they bought. | ||
| So people are pissed. | ||
| There's no way to return those. | ||
| Or refund. | ||
| Refund or exchange them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're just telling people... | ||
| Literally, I think I read that the customer service people told you, oh, you must be a broke baller then. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you're not satisfied. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's literally what they're saying. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| But he's also... | ||
| I mean, he's... | ||
| So, anyways, he's... | ||
| He took these kids to Lithuania. | ||
| They're going to play basketball. | ||
| He basically says they're going to be on the Lakers when my three sons are going to be Lakers. | ||
| And we have no idea really realistically whether the two younger sons even have... | ||
| We don't know, to be fair, whether they're going to be NBA-quality players yet. | ||
| Clearly one is. | ||
| The one is on the Lakers. | ||
| So we don't know if that's going to pan out in any way, shape, or form. | ||
| He also talked about developing a league... | ||
| For, like, kids that are coming out of high school that don't want to go to college and play in a league where they get paid, like a salary, you know, a reasonable salary, which is an idea that a lot of people think is fascinating. | ||
| I don't know logistically whether he could pull that off. | ||
| You know, that's kind of a... | ||
| I go, no, for sure. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I mean, but the idea is one that people have talked about for years because college athletes... | ||
| Generate a lot of revenue. | ||
| They're getting fucked. | ||
| Yeah, don't get paid. | ||
| College athletes are getting pimped out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Especially in, like, football and basketball. | ||
| Well, you were telling me, I was talking to Jamie when you went to pee, about how big the game was that you went to see. | ||
| Oh my fucking God, yeah. | ||
| And I was saying, what about baseball? | ||
| Is baseball like that? | ||
| Like, no, nobody gives a fuck about college baseball. | ||
| Basketball is a little bit, you said March Madness. | ||
| Definitely popular. | ||
| But those are the big schools. | ||
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| Yeah, that's... | ||
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| And it's worth billions of dollars. | ||
| Many billions. | ||
| Which is crazy that those kids aren't getting paid. | ||
| That doesn't make any fucking sense. | ||
| Well, I got a free scholarship, Joe. | ||
| I got to go to school for free and learn. | ||
| Oh, great. | ||
| Get $25,000 a year's worth of free education. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| I tend to agree. | ||
| Does it matter, Jamie? | ||
| There's a couple kids. | ||
| Interesting story that came out earlier this year. | ||
| He's on one of the teams that did really good. | ||
| UFC, or UCF, I'm sorry. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| UCF's kicker was a YouTuber as the season started, and he got in trouble because he was making profit off of his likeness on YouTube, so they took away his ability to do that. - Oh my God. - Or he got kicked off the team. | ||
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And I think he left the team. - Oh my God, you fucking monsters. | |
| Like, what, you don't own people. | ||
| That's what drives me crazy. | ||
| It's like you don't own people. | ||
| They're providing a service that makes you an extraordinary amount of money, and yet you're keeping all of it. | ||
| Like that Patino thing, 1.5 million, the school... | ||
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For me. | |
| I'll give him 10 grand. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'll give school 10 grand. | ||
| That's a lot of the money. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| Oh, that's the argument. | ||
| I'll give you $10,000. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I think the thing about... | ||
| Fucking assholes. | ||
| The people who really argue the free education thing and how that should be of value is because... | ||
| They ain't worth a shit. | ||
| That's why they think that's awesome. | ||
| Your skill level is not impressive, and you don't generate millions and billions of dollars, so you go, there's fucking $100,000 worth of free education there. | ||
| It's like, yeah, but I'm bringing $10 million to the table, bro. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| And here's the big thing. | ||
| How much damage are they getting in that four years? | ||
| How much damage are they doing to their body? | ||
| Oh, in football? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In high-level, Division I, FBS football, a lot of those dudes are playing... | ||
| I mean, they're playing basically with, you know, the next NFL players. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, they're fucking each other up. | ||
| They're fucking each other up, and the odds of their body getting damaged to the point where they can never compete professionally are very high. | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| Yeah, so if you think of like, there was a statistic about NBA or, excuse me, NFL players, like how many of them make it into the fourth year. | ||
| And it's very low. | ||
| Yeah, the Not For Long League. | ||
| That's what they call it, yeah. | ||
| Is that what they call it? | ||
| That's the nickname for the NFL. Ooh. | ||
| Not For Long. | ||
| Yeah, the average NFL career is like three point some seasons. | ||
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Right. | |
| So think of that. | ||
| You're basically trying to outrun that through college. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then make it into the pros. | ||
| Yeah, that's why you really, from a business perspective, you really have to support guys coming out of college early to the NFL. Oh, 100%. | ||
| I mean, there's people who are like... | ||
| What about your education? | ||
| Get the fuck out of here. | ||
| I'll read a book while I'm balling, bitch! | ||
| I'll go back. | ||
| Go back with my free time, man. | ||
| Yeah, go back. | ||
| You're still only going to be 25 years old when your career is over. | ||
| That's fucking nuts. | ||
| I know. | ||
| There's millions on the table. | ||
| Millions. | ||
| You're 22? | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Although, do you ever think about how poorly you would handle that? | ||
| I think about it now a lot. | ||
| If I had been 22 and someone was like, here's $10 million. | ||
| I'd be like, what? | ||
| I would definitely not have been able to handle that well. | ||
| Yeah, I think about that hardcore. | ||
| I think about, like, what if I won the lottery when I was 20? | ||
| You go nuts! | ||
| You go nuts. | ||
| I got diamonds in my jacket, man. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
| I got diamonds on my Teefus. | ||
| My buttons are all diamonds. | ||
| I got diamonds on my dickhole. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's like we were talking about earlier about a guy being rich and having rich children. | ||
| Struggle is fucking very important for you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's very good for you. | ||
| It's very important for you. | ||
| It builds character. | ||
| It builds resolve. | ||
| Respect. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Respect money. | ||
| How many professional athletes who make millions of dollars work out as hard as my friend Cameron Haynes? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| That fucking guy has a regular job, dude. | ||
| Works for the Department of Water and Power in Oregon. | ||
| Does he really? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| 9 to 5. Regular job. | ||
| During his lunch hour, he doesn't work 9 to 5. He works like 7 to 4. And one of the reasons why he's got an extra hour in there is because he runs during his lunch break. | ||
| So he takes like two-hour lunches and runs for two fucking hours, runs the hills, and then comes back and finishes out the rest of the eight hours of the day. | ||
| I bet that dude feels good all day, though. | ||
| Just savage. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He doesn't feel good. | ||
| He doesn't want to feel good. | ||
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He doesn't be sore. | |
| You think he's in pain? | ||
| All the time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But he's happy, I was saying. | ||
| He's happy in pain. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I mean, he gets shit done. | ||
| He's not grimacing in pain. | ||
| He's like, this shit hurts. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| There's a mindset of those people, though, that can do those ultra-marathons. | ||
| That's a different world inside your dome, man. | ||
| You've got some darkness in there. | ||
| What was that woman that smashed all of them? | ||
| Courtney DeWalter? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's on the podcast. | ||
| Yeah, isn't she a teacher? | ||
| Did you listen to the podcast? | ||
| I did not. | ||
| She's amazing. | ||
| She eats nachos, drinks beer, eats candy. | ||
| She's eating candy when she's hanging out with us. | ||
| But what's going on in her brain, man? | ||
| That's what I want to see. | ||
| I want to see a CT scan. | ||
| She's a straight-up savage. | ||
| I'll tell you what, she was telling us about how she had some sort of retina edema where she was almost blind because her contacts fucked up or something like that and her eyeballs were bleeding and she couldn't see and she fell, cracked her fucking head open, like blood pouring down her head. | ||
| Still one. | ||
| Couldn't see. | ||
| Couldn't see where her feet were while she was running. | ||
| Her brain cannot be the same. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| She's just tough. | ||
| There's mental toughness that some people have that is almost unexplainable. | ||
| Like, what makes them that tough? | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| The ability to block out all the negative voices, the stop voices, I mean... | ||
| Well, think about personalities, right? | ||
| Like a personality like Burt, that could be the life of the party. | ||
| That's not me. | ||
| I'm not that guy. | ||
| I've never been that guy. | ||
| I mean, I can... | ||
| If we're all hanging around together, we're all drinking, I can make everybody laugh. | ||
| I can be silly and we can all have a good time together. | ||
| But I don't gravitate towards that thinking, that kind of behavior. | ||
| Whereas Bert can walk into a liquor store and have everybody sing along to I Would Die For You. | ||
| He's got his phone out and people are dancing. | ||
| Yeah, it's a genuine personality type. | ||
| That's who he is. | ||
| That's his personality type. | ||
| Some people have that personality type where They'll get up at 4.30 in the morning and it's dark outside and they relish the fact that they don't want to put their running shoes on and they don't want to hit that mountain and run. | ||
| They relish the fact that they're going to struggle. | ||
| They like it. | ||
| They like the pain. | ||
| They like the stinging of the lungs as your lungs struggle to fill with air. | ||
| They like it. | ||
| True. | ||
| Yeah, they like also the fact that other people can't do what they can do. | ||
| They like the fact that there's people that are in bed that are comfortably asleep while they're out there doing it, and it gives them an edge. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, what makes a person's personality to be this outgoing extrovert like Bert Kreischer? | ||
| What makes that stoic individual that can sit and go over, you know, like an accountant who can just sit and go over things for hours and hours, a coder? | ||
| Someone who could sit in front of a computer and go over 10, 12 hours a day. | ||
| It's a certain mindset, yeah. | ||
| It's a different kind of human, right? | ||
| Yeah, because both of those personalities I could never entertain, you know? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Just so far from what I am. | ||
| I'm fascinated by personalities. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I just find... | ||
| There's so many variables as to what makes a person who they are and how it changes over time and who you are the more you consider yourself. | ||
| I did a podcast yesterday about meditation. | ||
| It was all about meditation with Dan Harris from Good Morning America who's a big proponent of meditation and this guy. | ||
| Jeff Warren, who wrote this book, Head Trip, a very, very interesting guy, who is his meditation teacher. | ||
| We're just talking about thought processes and the mind and managing the mind and managing the way you do things, don't do things, and how much of these little weird kinks and pitfalls can just trip you up and fuck you up in your life. | ||
| Imagine Louis C.K. without this desire to beat off in front of women. | ||
| Let's say he did that 10 times in his whole life. | ||
| Imagine if you could get to him before those 10 times and go, hey man, look, you're a real nice guy. | ||
| You've always been friendly to people. | ||
| You give good advice as a comedian. | ||
| You can't beat off in front of people. | ||
| It's going to cost you like $50 million one day. | ||
| You're like, what? | ||
| You think so? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| One day it's going to cost you $50 million if you just beat off in front of people. | ||
| No one's going to work with you. | ||
| So just don't do that. | ||
| Yeah, don't do that. | ||
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Or, here's what you could do. | |
| Pay a hooker and say, I want to beat off in front of you. | ||
| And she'll go, okay. | ||
| And then you give her a thousand bucks, or whatever it costs, and you beat off in front of her. | ||
| You could do that. | ||
| And you'd be like, that's not the same. | ||
| But, like, what would make a person... | ||
| What makes a person... | ||
| Tech, really. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What is it inside your head? | ||
| It's all your experiences, really, that become your personality, I think. | ||
| There's that... | ||
| There's your experiences. | ||
| There's managing your particular biology. | ||
| There's so many different things. | ||
| Yeah, because you're at the age now, too, where you can see with your children, do you ever see how they're a certain age now, but you go, I saw that trait in you when you were one. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| You see the stuff that's natural in someone, the natural personality trait, and then you sprinkle life on top of that. | ||
| It starts to develop who the person becomes. | ||
| Well, your son is probably just now starting to talk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You'll start to have a little conversation with them, and then you'll start to see you in them, and that's where it gets really weird. | ||
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Really? | |
| Like, oh no, you've inherited all my craziness. | ||
| You see that in your kids. | ||
| My nine-year-old in particular. | ||
| Really? | ||
| She's got a lot of my crazy in her. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You totally see yourself. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| She gets obsessed with things. | ||
| Like, obsessed. | ||
| Where she'll just do them all day long. | ||
| Like, we went on a vacation, and we were walking back from the resort. | ||
| She did cartwheels all the way back from the resort to the room. | ||
| It was a half mile. | ||
| She just did cartwheels over and over and over again. | ||
| She just gets nuts about stuff. | ||
| Is it the kind of thing where you're like, hey, you should probably stop doing that? | ||
| No. | ||
| Let her do it. | ||
| I think as long as your kids aren't hurting themselves and hurting other people, the more you say, hey, don't do that, the more they're going to want to do that. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It's natural. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| What I try to do is encourage healthy things. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| When it comes to candy and sugar and stuff like that, I try to tell them, yeah, it tastes great. | ||
| It tastes amazing. | ||
| But you're really only supposed to have a little bit of it. | ||
| It's bad for your body. | ||
| I don't just give them this, hey, you can't eat candy. | ||
| Hey, you can't do that. | ||
| A little bit's good. | ||
| A little bit's fine. | ||
| Let's have a little bit. | ||
| Let's enjoy it. | ||
| But let's understand what it is. | ||
| Let's be aware of what it is. | ||
| But don't be afraid of it. | ||
| Don't run from it. | ||
| Nobody died because they had ice cream once a week. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| It's not going to hurt you. | ||
| Just don't have it every fucking night. | ||
| Yeah, just don't get crazy. | ||
| Don't let it become a part of everything who you are. | ||
| And one of the things that I do the most, though, is encourage them. | ||
| What do they enjoy doing? | ||
| What do you enjoy doing? | ||
| You know, like, my youngest one loves art. | ||
| Loves to draw. | ||
| Loves it. | ||
| Just constantly drawing. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| And I'm like, let's draw. | ||
| Let's do some art. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| It's like there's something, like, find out whatever it is where you can find this avenue for expression. | ||
| And I want to encourage that as much as I can because I feel like if there's anything in this life that'll guarantee you some satisfaction or some feeling of accomplishment or some Some way to fuel your passions. | ||
| It's find something that really hits your switches. | ||
| Find that thing. | ||
| Like, you found it, right? | ||
| You found it with stand-up? | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| I mean, would you imagine doing something else other than stand-up? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| I mean, at this point, I don't know. | ||
| I tell people that all the time, actually. | ||
| It's like, that's the thing you become aware of, I think, when you get older. | ||
| You're like, I'm so lucky. | ||
| That I do the thing I really like doing the most. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's really the thing. | ||
| And then you meet people... | ||
| I meet people all the time, but I talk to people who... | ||
| I'm just not happy with... | ||
| They're just like, I'm not happy with my life and this and that. | ||
| I'm like, what is it you really want to do? | ||
| And they go, I don't know. | ||
| Real question. | ||
| Real question. | ||
| If somebody... | ||
| Wanted to trade lives. | ||
| Jeff Bezos wanted to trade lives. | ||
| You get to be Jeff Bezos. | ||
| You get $105 billion, but you can't do stand-up anymore. | ||
| No, because I love it. | ||
| That's so hard for people to imagine that. | ||
| Well, no, because I know that sounds like a comical amount of money and that, like, who the fuck would turn that down? | ||
| But it's like, I don't really feel like I'm turning something down because I get so much... | ||
| Pleasure and joy out of doing what I do. | ||
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So it's so fun. | |
| Could you imagine if you made that deal and you came back to the comedy store and you're watching somebody just kill? | ||
| And you'd be like, fuck, I want to go up. | ||
| And they're like, nah man, you got to take your spaceship home now. | ||
| And you're sitting around writing things down when you think they're funny and you never get to do it. | ||
| Just giving it to people. | ||
| You take it. | ||
| See if you can make it work. | ||
| Do you remember Tom Agna? | ||
| He's a really funny comedian. | ||
| And apparently he lives in Thailand now. | ||
| And just fucking retired on his Writers Guild money. | ||
| Really? | ||
| And his mortgage is like 500 bucks a month. | ||
| And Neil Brennan went to see him last week in Thailand. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he was a comic? | ||
| Yep, he's a funny comic. | ||
| I knew him from Boston. | ||
| Really good guy. | ||
| There's Tom Agna. | ||
| Really good guy. | ||
| And he's retired there now. | ||
| Lives in Thailand. | ||
| Good for him. | ||
| Just on the beach, just kicking back. | ||
| And apparently he writes still. | ||
| He'll still write stuff for people, but doesn't give a fuck anymore. | ||
| Good for him, man. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I hear about things like that, and I go, wow, he did it. | ||
| He figured out a way to do it. | ||
| He figured out a way to get off the bus. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't think I'm getting off. | ||
| I feel like I'm going to George Carlin this motherfucker. | ||
| Just keep driving it? | ||
| Yeah, I feel like one day I'm going to die in a hotel room somewhere. | ||
| 80 years old on the road. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I mean, sometimes I think about, like, God damn, how much longer am I going to do this for? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because it feels like there's too much time still ahead of me. | ||
| You know what I mean, though? | ||
| But, I mean, like, I go, like, wait, I'm going to do this for 25 more years or something? | ||
| That's fucking nuts. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The only thing that excites me as much is outdoor stuff. | ||
| Yeah, you really love that shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm kind of jealous of all your hobbies. | ||
| But not, I mean, just that you, I'm jealous of the fact that you're passionate about, like, hunting, shooting pool, jujitsu, you know, archery, all that shit. | ||
| I'm like, God damn, I wish I had, like, that much passion for at least one other thing, you know? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I just think I'm crazy. | ||
| I think I find these things and then I get obsessed with them. | ||
| I'm lucky that there's... | ||
| I have to manage those things. | ||
| I have to be careful. | ||
| I'm lucky I don't know how to fix cars. | ||
| If I knew how to fix cars... | ||
| I entertained this idea for a while of building a car from scratch. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Of getting a frame and then starting to put suspension on it. | ||
| And I said, no! | ||
| You've got to stop! | ||
| You can't do this. | ||
| This will take too much time. | ||
| You can't do this. | ||
| And I would like it. | ||
| I would like it. | ||
| I'd start wiring things. | ||
| I'm surprised you don't at least get a place in the woods. | ||
| I think that's something we're going to happen. | ||
| I'm scared of that, too. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm scared of that, too. | ||
| You know, when we lived in Boulder, I liked it a lot, dude. | ||
| I liked it a lot. | ||
| I went to that house. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So peaceful up there, right? | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Just woods and mountain lions, eating your dog and shit. | ||
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Fuck. | |
| It's just weird. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I just have to... | ||
| For me, it's always like, make sure... | ||
| There's almost like there's two me's. | ||
| There's the manager me. | ||
| It's like, hey, hey, hey, hold on. | ||
| Before we embark on this journey, let's take a look at where this could go wrong. | ||
| Let's take a look at where this can go before I release the hounds. | ||
| And then there's the other part that's like, just wants to just go for it. | ||
| Go do things. | ||
| I want a hobby, though, dude. | ||
| Do you? | ||
| What kind? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Want to go bow hunting with me? | ||
| Bow hunting. | ||
| I would go to a range first to see how much I dig. | ||
| I've shot an arrow, bow and arrow, but it's been like 25 years. | ||
| I got a range here. | ||
| Oh, you have a range here? | ||
| Yeah, there's an indoor archery range in this place. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This weekend, I'm getting a thing called Techno Hunt installed. | ||
| Techno Hunt is, have you ever seen that video game where you hit a golf ball and the virtual golf ball rolls on the screen? | ||
| Yeah, they make that with archery. | ||
| You're doing that? | ||
| With bow hunting. | ||
| Here? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So the animals walk across the screen and you shoot at the animals with a regular compound bow. | ||
| And instead of having sharp pointed tips, this is the game right here. | ||
| You have a tip that has a flat head, like the head of a nail. | ||
| And so these animals walk across the screen and you literally shoot at the target. | ||
| And like, watch, it'll show you like... | ||
| It's going to be like this? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| It's coming this weekend, bro. | ||
| See, watch how it hits, where he shoots it. | ||
| You would want to get right there, right behind the arm. | ||
| Bam! | ||
| Perfect shot. | ||
| So that's going to be a good kill. | ||
| So it shows where the thing hit, and it shows your score and your vitals and stuff like that. | ||
| That's very cool. | ||
| You're going to be really into this. | ||
| I'm obsessed. | ||
| It's crazy, though. | ||
| Yeah, Ari, Bert, and I went to Topgolf. | ||
| You know what that is? | ||
| Oh, that's in Vegas, right? | ||
| Is that on the top of the... | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They have one in Vegas, and they have, I don't know, 25 locations. | ||
| Oh, they're all over the place? | ||
| Yeah, we stayed there for like... | ||
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Hours. | |
| Hours. | ||
| We thought we were going to play like a round, but it just became addictive and fun. | ||
| We just kept doing it over. | ||
| It's not just driving? | ||
| So you have like a bay, right? | ||
| Right, and then like your own tee, and the three of you put your names in the system, and you get a real golf ball, and they track the balls. | ||
| So like when you hit it, there's targets that you can go for points. | ||
| So, like, you hit that flag. | ||
| So it knows, like, Ari hit the flag, and it, like, so you get, like, eight points. | ||
| And then it'll be, like, your next ball's worth double. | ||
| And if you hit the blue flag, it's going to be, like, 16 points. | ||
| So, like, and then there's different games within the system. | ||
| You can go just for, like, chip shots. | ||
| You can go for distance. | ||
| Anyways, we just, man, I thought we were going to play, like, an hour. | ||
| I think we saved four hours. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And we were all, like, we've got to find another Topgolf. | ||
| Like, we were... | ||
| We were really, really into it, man. | ||
| And you guys don't even play golf. | ||
| No, I mean, I know those two used to play, like Ari said he played regularly a long time ago. | ||
| Same with Burt. | ||
| They both had much better shots than me, but I was equally obsessed with it. | ||
| Like, I didn't care that I was even shitting the bed. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I was having so much fun doing it. | ||
| There's so many different things you could do. | ||
| That's why when people tell me that they're bored, I mean, unless you're broken, there's nothing you can do. | ||
| But even then, there's so many physical activities that you could do that are free. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| I'm not bored by any means. | ||
| I just like... | ||
| Um, you know, throwing myself into an activity like that. | ||
| So you need a hobby? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Why don't you get into Jiu-Jitsu? | ||
| Nah. | ||
| No? | ||
| You're a big guy. | ||
| See the guns. | ||
| I never liked wrestling. | ||
| I wrestled one year. | ||
| I hated it. | ||
| Too gay? | ||
| I just don't like having, like... | ||
| Guys on top of you? | ||
| Yeah, and I don't like, you know, my neck being jacked or any of that shit. | ||
| I never liked, you know... | ||
| How about Muay Thai? | ||
| I like throwing punches. | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Yeah, just taking a Muay Thai class. | ||
| Learn how to kick the bag. | ||
| Learn how to hit the pads. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Learn how to use your defense. | ||
| Move. | ||
| Push away. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Maybe photography. | ||
| I like photography. | ||
| Yeah, when an old lady tries to pinch your ass after a show, you sweep the leg. | ||
| Sweep the leg, knock her out. | ||
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Whoosh! | |
| Boom! | ||
| Take her down. | ||
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Whoosh! | |
| Get some good press next day. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| Did you see that thing with Josh Hom from Queens of the Stone Age? | ||
| Oh yes, the photographer! | ||
| What in the fuck was going on? | ||
| Apparently the later story was like, well her flash was really fucking bothering everybody. | ||
| Oh, was it? | ||
| She wasn't supposed to have a flash going. | ||
| Oh! | ||
| But, that was not okay, the way that that shit went down, man. | ||
| Yeah, you're supposed to go, hey lady, turn the fucking flesh off. | ||
| He was, wasn't part of his thing, the guy was trying to kick the camera, but he like kicked her in the head or something? | ||
| Well, he said he was kicking equipment around and he accidentally kicked, he made a bunch of bullshit excuses. | ||
| It's super deliberate, you can see it. | ||
| Super! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He kicked her in the face! | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like the camera's like right here and he kicks the camera and he hits her in the mug. | ||
| Yeah, no, he fucked her up. | ||
| Well, in his defense, though, he might have been, like, super frustrated if that was the case. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That someone was, like, flashing in his face over and over and over again. | ||
| And by the way, I can totally see, you know, losing your shit on stage. | ||
| I think it's happened to everybody. | ||
| I totally see it. | ||
| But it's not okay. | ||
| Not kick at someone. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
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But I've wanted to. | |
| I can see saying something. | ||
| I've wanted to kick someone. | ||
| Have you? | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I mean, over the course of a whole career, yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I've wanted to kick someone. | ||
| You know what's interesting? | ||
| I watched... | ||
| I did Long Beach. | ||
| I did that... | ||
| What is it, the Terrace Theater? | ||
| I forget what theater is in Long Beach. | ||
| Big-ass theater in Long Beach. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Great theater. | ||
| Really weird. | ||
| Because there's no... | ||
| You could never have this theater today. | ||
| It would be completely illegal. | ||
| Because there's... | ||
| The way to get out, like the rows, the rows are like 70 seats long. | ||
| And there's no aisle in the middles. | ||
| There's aisle on the left side, aisle on the right side. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| But the whole span in front of you is just seats. | ||
| It's amazing to perform there. | ||
| Still there? | ||
| Yeah, that's the place. | ||
| Yeah, look at that. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Man, you gotta get up and take a piss. | ||
| If you got a piss and you're in the middle, you're fucked. | ||
| Especially if you're overweight, if you're a big fella and you're trying to get through all that. | ||
| But anyway, when I went there, they informed me that that was where Richard Pryor did his live in concert from 79 that's re-recorded. | ||
| And I went back and watched it after I got home and I was like, Holy shit, this is crazy. | ||
| He pulled up to the same dock where I pulled up. | ||
| He walks in with his wife, goes through the same back area that I went to. | ||
| Then I watch it, and in the beginning of it, there's a fucking guy in the front of the stage who's getting, like Richard Pryor's on stage, and he's standing there taking pictures of Richard Pryor. | ||
| While he's filming his special. | ||
| And Richard's going, sit down, motherfucker, stop taking my picture. | ||
| He's saying it even in 79 it was an issue. | ||
| Yeah, stop taking pictures. | ||
| And it's just a guy in the audience. | ||
| It's not a professional photographer. | ||
| What do you think of that phone thing? | ||
| Are you going to do that? | ||
| Yes, I'm doing that. | ||
| You are? | ||
| Oh, okay, I should probably tell people. | ||
| For my shows upcoming in Austin, Houston, and Durham, North Carolina, there's a company called Yonder. | ||
| They take your phone, they put it into a bag, and you keep your phone, but they have to open your bag when you leave. | ||
| So you're not making any phone calls, you're not doing any texts, you're not filming, you're not doing anything. | ||
| I watched Chappelle's special when Chappelle did that, and I was like, this is it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it was fucking amazing how much more tuned in people are. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like when they don't have their phone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Especially just checking your texts. | ||
| And every time you're on stage, I mean, how many times are people just standing there filming things? | ||
| I just did a show where it was like fourth row, dark house, and you just see... | ||
| See the light, yeah. | ||
| A fucking beacon of light. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And I was like doing, I'm doing, I'm talking, I'm talking, and then, you know, I'm just like trying to finish a bit. | ||
| And then I did, I'm like, hey man, what are you doing? | ||
| What? | ||
| What are you, what are you doing? | ||
| He's not even listening when I ask him what he's doing. | ||
| And then his friends are like, hey, he looks up, I go, what are you doing? | ||
| He's like, I'm doing, it's for work. | ||
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I go, you bought these tickets to do work? | |
| And he's like, I just, I gotta do it. | ||
| I go, no. | ||
| No. | ||
| You're lighting up the whole room, like people that don't realize that? | ||
| I go, there's like 15 minutes left. | ||
| And he's like, alright. | ||
| And he flipped it over, like put the phone down. | ||
| Not, not two minutes later. | ||
| He's back on his phone. | ||
| Back on it. | ||
| Back doing things. | ||
| I was like... | ||
| And I actually knew to not say anything at the second time because I didn't want to... | ||
| I didn't want the show to be about that because I was like, this is going to be negative as shit. | ||
| But thankfully the staff noticed and they went over there and I don't know. | ||
| I'm doing this from now on, I think. | ||
| This phone thing. | ||
| I mean, look, some people don't like it. | ||
| That's okay, but it's going to make a better show. | ||
| Here's the thing so people know, because I know a little bit about the Yonder thing, too, is if you're like, well, what if I need to? | ||
| You can actually leave the showroom, and they'll unlock it for you, and you can make your call in the lobby, but it's just keeping people... | ||
| Tuned in and not distracting people. | ||
| I went to see Love, the Beatles show at Mirage. | ||
| Fucking amazing. | ||
| The Cirque du Soleil show. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| I've heard. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| This guy in front of me has his brightness jacked to the fucking roof and he's texting people. | ||
| So while I'm trying to watch the show, this guy has this bright phone and he's just sitting there texting over and over and over again, completely disrespecting all the people around him. | ||
| Everybody's just gotta go like this. | ||
| Because the place is pitch black while a lot of this stuff is going on. | ||
| Because stuff comes down from the ceiling, and people are descending, and they're doing this acrobatics. | ||
| And this dickhead is just constantly on his fucking phone. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like, just, do you want to fucking experience things for a minute? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, you go to Cirque du Soleil, you go to Joe Rogan's show, it's like, you fucking went, you decided to go to the thing. | ||
| Like, don't you want to experience the show? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just watch the show for a minute. | ||
| You gotta force people, because there's a certain amount of people that are just not going to. | ||
| You gonna get a deal? | ||
| It's not cheap. | ||
| It's not cheap, yeah. | ||
| It costs money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I feel like it's gonna be worth it. | ||
| I think so, too. | ||
| And I'm definitely gonna do it for my special. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's a good idea. | ||
| I'm just doing it from now on. | ||
| Because my last two specials, I dealt with people sitting in the front row, in the second row, just standing there, holding that phone up in front of you. | ||
| Just holding it right at you. | ||
| Like, you don't think that's distracting? | ||
| You don't think that's weird? | ||
| Live your life! | ||
| I think it's an especially good thing to do in a big, big venue. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, that's it, folks. | ||
| So if you come into Austin, Houston, and Durham, We're taking your phone and putting it in a bag, Hooker. | ||
| Give your phone up, bitch. | ||
| Give that phone up, bitch. | ||
| Give it up, give it up, give it up. | ||
| You did your special in Denver, right? | ||
| At the Paramount, yeah. | ||
| It's a fucking great place. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Denver's the shit. | ||
| It's still my favorite, man. | ||
| It's my favorite city. | ||
| I think if I move anywhere, it'll either be there or maybe Seattle. | ||
| Those are my spots. | ||
| I would love to live... | ||
| I love, actually, downtown Denver. | ||
| I would also think it'd be amazing to live, like, 20 minutes outside of Denver. | ||
| Yeah, go to, like, Evergreen, Golden, live in the woods. | ||
| It'd be fucking amazing. | ||
| I think it's in my future. | ||
| Do you? | ||
| I do. | ||
| You're going to bail out of California when the little man starts getting older? | ||
| I don't think I'm going to do it in, like, the next couple of years, but I think in my life I will move to Colorado at some point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I really love it. | ||
| I love it too. | ||
| I love all aspects of it. | ||
| Like, I like the culture. | ||
| I like the outdoors. | ||
| I like the people that I meet there. | ||
| Always meet great people there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They have all the infrastructure you want from a big city. | ||
| You have access to everything. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| You have great restaurants. | ||
| You have great, you know, they have big sports. | ||
| They have entertainment. | ||
| They have everything you want. | ||
| The people are cool as fuck too. | ||
| They really are. | ||
| It's just, they're not pretentious like a lot of people that live in. | ||
| L.A. or San Francisco or New York. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're very laid back. | ||
| But, you know, they're surrounded by also... | ||
| I think there's something about being surrounded by the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| I think it's good. | ||
| Start taking yourself seriously. | ||
| You just look out and go... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Fucking the vastness of all this. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| It was a great night, man. | ||
| I had such a fucking lucky night. | ||
| It was an awesome night to do the special. | ||
| I'm trying to do Red Rocks, but every time I look for a date, I gotta look two, three years in advance, and it's like Tuesday and Wednesday nights. | ||
| I heard about that. | ||
| I was talking to them about Red Rocks, and they were like, people will take a date they don't even want because it's years in advance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's what they offered me. | ||
| They offered me a bunch of Tuesdays and Wednesdays. | ||
| And they're not in like in 2020 or something. | ||
| 2019. There's like Tuesdays and Wednesdays in 2019. That's all that's available? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I was like, I can't get a Friday? | ||
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| But the Belco, the place that I do normally, I like that, but that's like 5,000-something, whereas Red Rock is like 9,000. | ||
| It's a lot. | ||
| But you've been doing two Belcos. | ||
| Two Belcos, yeah. | ||
| That's 10,000 people. | ||
| No, I can do enough people, but it's just... | ||
| People want to go out on Saturday night. | ||
| They want to go out on Friday night. | ||
| They don't want to go on fucking Wednesday. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hike to some weird... | ||
| Have you been out to Red Rock? | ||
| Amphitheater. | ||
| No. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's supposed to be the shit, though. | ||
| Yeah, I heard it's incredible. | ||
| Brian Regan was in, and he was telling me how he performed there. | ||
| There's a video of it. | ||
| He made a whole film of it. | ||
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Really? | |
| He loved it. | ||
| He said it was amazing. | ||
| Not a lot of comedians perform there, though. | ||
| It's pretty... | ||
| It's pretty special. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it's got to be... | ||
| You got to do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, well, let's wrap this bitch up. | ||
| Everybody, tomorrow, meaning tonight, midnight tonight, the great and powerful Tommy Bunn special comes out on Netflix. | ||
| Don't sleep. | ||
| This is what you do. | ||
| You get up early and you watch the last one first. | ||
| Yeah, mostly stories. | ||
| Get jacked up. | ||
| That'll be a warm-up. | ||
| And then, why disgraceful? | ||
| It's how my mother described my stand-up one time. | ||
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She came and saw me on this tour. | |
| And she saw, you know, like when your parents come, you're like, oh, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And, you know, it was a good one. | ||
| Like, she came to a good show. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they came backstage, and it was like, my dad was like, there's a lot of people here, buddy. | ||
| What kind of money you get on something like this? | ||
| It was like a total dad question. | ||
| And my mom, I was like, how do you think, mom? | ||
| She was like, amazing, pero your language is like F, this, porno, F, F. It's a disgrace. | ||
| And I was thinking of titles, and I was like, oh, I love upsetting my mother. | ||
| So I called it disgraceful. | ||
| That's hilarious! | ||
| Your mother has a strong Spanish accent, right? | ||
| Very strong. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She speaks a lot of Spanish. | ||
| It's hilarious when you speak Spanish in front of me. | ||
| I've talked to people about it before, but it's funny when you speak Spanish in front of two people that didn't expect it. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I talk about it in the special. | ||
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Oh, yeah? | |
| Yeah, I have a bit about it now. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, because it throws them off guard. | ||
| They're like, how do you do that? | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| And then my sisters are darker, like, they have a darker complexion than me. | ||
| Oh, do they? | ||
| Yeah, especially if we go, like, if we go in the sun for, like, a few days, they turn into fucking Incas, and then I just burn. | ||
| So, yeah, it's very... | ||
| You can tell it's just genetics. | ||
| I got, like, my dad's skin, and they got hers. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's it. | ||
| Tonight, Midnight, Tommy Buns on Netflix. | ||
| Don't sleep. | ||
| Definitely watch it. | ||
| Anything else? | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| I love you, too, man. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Anytime. | ||
| Bye, everybody. | ||
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Bye, guys. | |
| I will be back in a little bit with UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley. | ||
| See ya. |
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