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Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day,
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Joe Rogan podcast
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by night, all day! Oh, hey
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Joe Rogan. What's
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going on? Is there a
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left or right here or does it matter? No, it's all mono. What's
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crackin' brother? Oh yeah, let me just get a little
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confidence here. I'm
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so small, this is like a large coffee to
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me. They'll
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make you pee, they'll make you pee. That's one thing to suppress
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those too. I'm peeing right now dude, I'm just gonna do the
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bite and just let it out. Ari peed in that seat three
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or four times yesterday. Yesterday?
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Yeah, he pissed into Bud Light cans. He's
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so disgusting. Ari Shafir? Oh
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yeah, every time he's here. Oh I didn't know he's here.
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He pees into things. I'm trying to get him to move
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here. He's not going to.
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He's a New York rat. Yeah. But he's here
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all the time. I mean, he might have been a little bit of
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a guy. Yeah. But he's here all the
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time. I mean, he might as well live here. He's here like four or
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five times a year. Yeah, just good
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enough. Good, I mean. It's good enough.
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He should, he should move here. He's
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so funny man. I love watching him at the
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Comedy Cellar. Because he's one of
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the guys that just fucking goes for it. Yeah,
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he definitely goes for it. It's
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gotten him in a lot of trouble. It
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all comes out in the wash though, right? Well
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if you're talented, yeah. Yeah.
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And he's definitely talented. He's a wild boy. I
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watch the crowd when he's on. Because
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I like to see the crowd just slowly kind of, he's
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working through stuff. He gets messy. I like that.
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Yeah. They put me and him on at
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the late, late shows now. In the
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Cellar? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What
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is New York scene like these days? Well,
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I'm here now. We'll say that. With
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an American flag out on it. This
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is what it does to you man. Dude,
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before I moved here, I was a 60 year old
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Jamaican woman. Look what Texas does to you. It gets
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you in its bones. It's just a fun thing to
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be. Be a Texan someone's the
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other day on the street said goes you'll got Kid
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Rock fuck Zack elephant a kiss I was like that
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that works. Yeah that tracks How
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long you been down here now like two
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weeks wow it's like a dream this has
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been a weird including this It's all a
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weird dream. How long you been doing stand-up now?
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I? Mean I got on
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stage when I was 17 or
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18 in high school started doing improv and
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stand up on stage Almost 20 years oh
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wow and then I went to college. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I was so I was failing
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on a high school I
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needed like a B to pass and
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I was friends with the acting teacher. We
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would drink together I'm
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a brother public school Wow yeah, we
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would drink together and smoke and I
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thought if I take his class He's got to give me an A or
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I can get him sent to jail probably for all this bad behavior and
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and I so I took this acting class and And
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I got on stage and he pulls me aside
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like day one he goes this is what you need to do
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with your life Why okay,
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okay? Stop drinking stop smoking.
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I was like in a gang I
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was growing we yeah I was a nightmare kid
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People think I'm just this nice little guy
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I was a fucking monster and getting on stage,
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and I got all that energy out and It's
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what I've been doing every day since wow Yeah That's
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cool that someone recognized that because most
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of the time they takes one person
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yeah, same It takes
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one person and you know that
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one person literally can change your life because you're
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in this Part of your
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life where you're not you don't know what the fuck you're
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gonna do Oh, and then someone gives you a direction and
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they say hey You're really good
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at this. This is your thing that oh
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my god I found my thing that day
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you go home. You're like I
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found my thing yeah, he had us First
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class we had to dance on stage He
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was like he goes you're gonna fuck. Oh,
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he was wild he was a playwright. He'd
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take the Metro North and from Connecticut, New
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Haven to put on little plays.
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And I just thought it was the sexiest thing. It was
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like this guy was living in the 1920s or something. Like
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a real artist. Yeah, yeah. And
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he goes, we're gonna humiliate ourselves
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day one. He goes, it's
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gonna be so bad, so everything you do after
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this is gonna be a breeze. And
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I've still used that to this day with
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stand up. You gotta get messy. You gotta,
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so he said, we're gonna go do the
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silliest dances when I went home, I was
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practicing in the bathroom, just
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sweating, turn around. I've never performed. And
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I'd get on stage and be like sillier, weirder,
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weirder, until you just had a
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mental breakdown. And then after that, doing
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a little Shakespeare was fine.
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Oh, that's an interesting strategy. Yeah. That
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makes sense. He makes someone break you down and go, you're allowed
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to fuck up. You're allowed to get messy. And
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that's why I got a place here, because I went
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to your club and I saw Brian
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Holtzman and I go, wait
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a minute, you're allowed to do this? There's
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a place where you're allowed to
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say whatever you want? Well, Brian
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Holtzman was like a hero of
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comedians in Los Angeles, but
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he didn't get good
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spots, unfortunately. They would put
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him on really late at the end of the show.
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And it was a wild thing to watch. You know, you
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watch like 20, 30 people in the audience, this guy's saying
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the most hilarious, but yet horrific things.
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And he just never got the
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respect that he deserves. I've known Brian
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for, I guess around 30 years
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now. When
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we first started at the store, we
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were like young hotshots. He
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was like this young,
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dark-haired, slick back, like
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really interesting guy. Like really,
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like same style that
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he has now he had back then. I can't imagine
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him with any more energy than he has now though.
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It was the same. As a young guy. Oh, his
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energy has not waned at all, which is why he's
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so good. You know, like
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some people slowed down. It sucks.
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It sucks to see yeah, you know cuz
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they slow down you like you
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don't want to say anything to them You know like hey, man.
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You gotta pick it up. Yeah, whatever the fuck you used to
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be you gotta bring that back It's just turn it up a
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little bit. Yeah, you're a little too Casual
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up there. I won't say lazy, but
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there's you know there's like you're too tired. Yeah,
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you gotta fire the fuck up Holzman
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never lost that that kind
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of that You
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know that fucking crazy gets crazy, but
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he didn't have a show like a real
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showcase He didn't have like a real you
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know like a real awesome
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spot Where he
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could perform in front of crowds that weren't
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tired and hadn't seen three hours of comedy
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But so now we've got him headlining yeah,
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you know and and people come to see
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him They know yes, they get excited people
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have seen him multiple times. Yeah cult following
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here. It's great. Definitely does yeah So that
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was it. I saw him once and then
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I was I went to like the open
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mic or whatever You know I was in
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town doing the Vulcan I think and
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then I go I'm gonna try to get an audition Adam wasn't
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here flew back got
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the audition then Did a couple
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spots then did a guest spot on Holtzman show and
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then I was in the car in New York I
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pull over. I'm just looking at apartments in Texas. I
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just called the guy go hey can I move there
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I? Made him an
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offer I made him an offer
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that was like insane. I'm renting he literally
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goes are you fucking with me dude and
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The next day goes they took your offer and
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I was and that was it wow Yeah, and
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it was like I know Ron White calls it comedy
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camp It feels like that when you're when I'm landing
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here. It feels like Camp David or something Yeah,
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Ari said it yesterday. He said you
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made a festival here every week. It's
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like a festival festival Yeah, I
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wasn't sure if I'd made the right move and then I'm on the
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plane And it's Roseanne
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Barr The next
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row back Sebastian Maniscalco, and
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I'm right behind him well, I
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was losing my fucking mind I Was
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ago, this is it Yeah Well,
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whenever you don't know if you should do something and
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you like to want to do something, but then you
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have that little oh I
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don't know is this right? You gotta always go for
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it You gotta do it you gotta go for it
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and you get better at that as you age You
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know it's like you have to you
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gotta fuck up a lot and they go
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fuck up a little less this time Yeah,
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there's the fuck up there, but it's also
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just like taking chances going for things. It's
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very important every time I've ever done it.
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It's been good my whole life every single
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time whether it's first time going on stage You
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know even this even like moving here sure
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you know cuz I have a family and
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I had a business You know like this
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podcast that requires guests, and yeah I had
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all these people that already lived in LA
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had this built-in you know group of people
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that I would have on it's
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just like Coming out
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here was but I was like this is this is
8:51
the move and then open in the club is like
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this is the Yeah, and it's gonna be fucking annoying
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It's gonna be a lot of energy a lot of
8:58
stuff going on a lot of things to pay attention
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to but that's what really needs You get to practice
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your hour Times a week and
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that's what the road comes to you. That's
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great that definitely helps a lot It's just
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like you see so much healthier. It's crazy.
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How much better you feel you don't travel
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every week It's nuts like
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I just started touring this year.
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It wears you holy shit It's
9:20
like getting drunk yeah it's like getting drunk and
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then you have a show that night and Then
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you have another show then you fly home
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and you get drunk flying home because
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it feels like when you land like you're
9:31
hungover Yeah, you just like oh, why
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am I so worn the fuck out with
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the heat here man? Yeah, you used
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to that Kind of
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why I understand Biden a little more. I've been
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this mayoral race in San Francisco?
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this might be like San Francisco
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is a failed city I mean
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it really is but this there's no better
10:41
Indication of how failed it is than listening
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to this debate Listening to
10:45
these people argue about what's important in
10:47
San Francisco. This was on the Jesse
10:49
Waters show you gotta listen to
10:51
this Cuz how many drag queens do you know?
10:55
You were at the debate
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last week and couldn't name Any
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drag queens on your own? I was
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wondering if you This
11:06
is an opportunity to redeem yourself And
11:09
if you could name three
11:11
LGBTQ advisors for your campaign
11:13
and three drag queens Just
11:21
Imagine the fuck and that was the thing
11:23
she's gonna sit down on this is the
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actual current mayor of San
11:27
Francisco London breed that's
11:30
her right. Yeah, and she's like,
11:32
can you name three drag queens?
11:35
Can you name three mentally ill
11:38
men who address up like the
11:40
most? Tardish Caricatures
11:43
like famous or just like pixie that
11:45
does the you know, the kids story
11:47
hour down Lexus
11:49
yeah, Lexus down at the club. She
11:51
does the burlesque show. What the fuck
11:53
are you talking about? Yeah, now sit
11:55
back and enjoy this is sit
11:58
back and enjoy the show when woke Wokeism
12:01
just takes on this energy
12:03
and it gets crazier and crazier. I
12:05
mean look at the sexuality
12:08
acronym. It used to be gay and
12:10
lesbian. G-O. It
12:12
is, watching politicians have to recite that.
12:15
Oh, it's like the gun to their head. Trudeau
12:18
has them all down. But my
12:20
favorite is 2-A-I plus. House
12:26
is like everybody's in this gang that's
12:28
not a white male. It's basically everything.
12:31
You mean the American flag? That would
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be a great flag to represent everybody.
12:35
Biracial people of color. There's so many
12:38
different things. Indigenous, there's
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two spirits in there, which is my
12:43
favorite. I'm a two spirit. What the
12:45
fuck are you? Why not three? Why
12:48
not four? Why not 45? You're
12:50
limiting yourself. And then
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A, which is hilarious too. How
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do they have any say? They're asexual.
12:57
Asexual. How are they in there with the
12:59
perverts? How are they in there
13:01
with the freaks? How are they in there
13:03
with the transgender people? How are they in
13:05
there with fucking guys wearing leather thongs and
13:07
G-strings walking down the street with a black
13:09
flag? We don't want any part of this.
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How are the As in that? They
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just don't want to fuck. My friend came
13:17
out as bisexual, this guy in New York.
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He goes, I've been so oppressed. Am I
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supposed to feel bad that you get to fuck everybody? Really?
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Just like, uh-uh. He's been oppressed. How
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so? I don't know. I
13:30
don't know. It's a fun thing to say. It's
13:33
a fun thing to say. Yeah. And
13:35
it also gives you a position where people have
13:37
to go, oh my God, I'm so sorry. What
13:39
did I do? George
13:41
Bush was talking about pride the other
13:43
day. I was like, if
13:46
he was... The obvious? Yeah. He
13:48
was on some interview. And I was like, if
13:50
he was president today, having to... You
13:53
know, the LMAFOs, the
13:56
HGTVs, the PB&Js,
13:58
these are tasty folks. You know, my
14:01
cousins are translucent. Now
14:03
watch this drive. But think about how much
14:05
has changed since him. Well, he
14:07
is so reasonable now in comparison. I
14:09
used to have a joke about
14:13
Bush getting elected about the Iraq War
14:15
and that there's people in the back of the room. And
14:18
their idea was the
14:20
only way to find out how dumb people really are
14:23
is to have a dumb president and see if everybody
14:25
freaks out. Because the only
14:27
way they know that he's dumb is if they're
14:29
smarter than him. So the only way
14:31
to find out is put a dumb president and see how
14:33
everybody responds. And then it was all about
14:36
the Iraq War and all these things happened, like what they
14:38
believed and what they didn't. And then at the end of
14:40
it, I go, I think the people in the back of
14:42
the room were going, I think we can
14:44
go dumber. And
14:46
they were right. They were so right. Well,
14:48
people act like Trump and Biden are the
14:50
first, like, we had an
14:52
autistic cowboy running the country for eight years. We
14:55
wanted eight years of that. Yeah.
14:58
Yeah. But people didn't want it at the end,
15:00
which is why Obama won. Which
15:02
is what this country always does. We swing
15:04
hard one way and then we swing the other way. And
15:08
Duncan Trussell said this when they were
15:10
smashing windows and looting during the George
15:12
Floyd protests. Duncan said,
15:14
dude, this is going to be so bad
15:16
because we're going to have a right wing
15:18
authoritarian president next. And
15:22
I thought about it. I was like, goddamn,
15:24
he's probably right. Because that's really what happens.
15:26
There's like an over correction one way.
15:30
Like the San Francisco London
15:32
breed mayor thing, this is
15:34
an over correction to discrimination.
15:37
So there is some discrimination of gay
15:39
people. There's discrimination of all kinds of
15:42
people. How now though? Well, there's still
15:44
with gay people for sure. There's still
15:46
people that are homophobic, especially religious people.
15:49
It's too complicated now because it's like,
15:51
well, there's that. And then there's gay guys who dress
15:54
up as women who want to read to kids. And
15:56
then there's those who cut their dicks. It's too. My
15:59
dad. came out of the closet when I was seven. So
16:01
I was raised in this stuff. Came
16:04
out as racist, but he, no he's gay. I got
16:06
a gay dad, I have two dad, mom, remarried
16:10
and then my dad with a husband. And
16:12
so it's funny, I try to talk
16:14
about this, like oh shut up straight white guy, this
16:17
isn't your lived experience. I'm like no it is, it
16:19
is. Do you say
16:22
this on stage? Do you talk about it on stage? I
16:24
talk about it everywhere. Yeah, people started booing me when I
16:26
started talking about this in New York City a long time
16:28
ago. It was the first time where I talked about my
16:30
personal life because I have a crazy, everyone has a crazy
16:32
life. What were they booing? Well they're just
16:35
like you can't talk, you can't talk about, that's
16:38
their life. You can't talk about what it's like
16:40
to be a gay person. And it's like when
16:43
I was seven, I was hiding it from my
16:45
friends. So I was living like a closeted gay
16:47
guy. I
16:50
went to insane lengths to hide my
16:52
dad having a boyfriend because back, this was
16:55
1993. That's
16:57
when it was, and prior, that's when
17:00
it was bad. But I
17:02
imagine what guys like that think of what's going
17:04
on now. To be like
17:06
you're like a two-spirit, hetero, whatever
17:09
this shit is. And back then
17:11
it was bad. When
17:14
I was in middle school, my friend Josh,
17:17
his mom was gay and he didn't tell
17:19
us. And nobody talked
17:21
about it but I.
17:23
Lesbian mom's a little cooler though. She
17:26
had the whole thing. She was wearing the sleeveless
17:28
vest with the big arms. She
17:30
was a big lady and she had a girlfriend with short
17:32
hair that was always over the house. It was like the
17:34
whole, you'd go who's that lady? Oh
17:37
that's my mom's friend. Why is she always over here?
17:39
Did she live with you? That's exactly what happened. It
17:41
was one of them things. But I
17:43
lived in San Francisco. And so
17:45
when I moved to Boston, I moved to Florida for
17:47
a few years then we moved to Boston. I had
17:49
been around gay people from the time I was seven
17:52
to 11, my neighbors were gay, my
17:54
aunt used to go over and play bongos
17:56
with them naked. They would smoke pot and
17:58
play bongos. I was like, I'm just.
18:01
Way cooler. Yeah, I mean, she just loved the fact she could
18:03
just be naked around guys and no one cared. But
18:05
it was just this thing where like the whole
18:07
neighborhood was gay. Everybody was gay. Everybody. So
18:10
gay was super normal to me. I did, but
18:13
some of my friend was like hiding the fact
18:15
that his mom was gay. You
18:18
know, we never really pressed him on it, but
18:20
me and my other friend were like, hmm, his
18:22
mom's gay, right? Like, yeah, yeah, obviously. But yeah,
18:24
we were 13. Like,
18:26
what are you gonna do? For men, I
18:28
think it was associated with AIDS. So
18:31
I remember I was in the car and, you know,
18:34
we would like raise money for AIDS runs
18:36
and all this stuff and my friend's like,
18:38
that's the AIDS thing, right? And
18:41
I would tell him, my dad's an attorney, I would tell him,
18:43
because he goes, this is my partner. And
18:45
I would tell my friends, they go, why
18:47
is your dad's partner sleeping? That's his law
18:49
partner. I go, they're working on a case.
18:52
They're gonna be up all night, fellas. You know,
18:54
if you hear some banging and moaning and see
18:56
they're recreating the murder, they're in there.
18:58
I would come up with this. It's probably why
19:00
I'm a good writer, because back then
19:02
it was not accepted at all. When did
19:04
everybody figure it out? I
19:07
never told anybody. Wow. Yeah, I think I
19:09
was in college the first time I told
19:11
somebody, because I was a theater major, so
19:13
it was like, I was safe. Yeah.
19:16
I was the weird one being straight. And it also gives
19:18
you like social props. It does,
19:20
yeah. Street cred. Yeah, I'll take whatever
19:22
I can get now. When you got
19:24
resting January six face, man, you need
19:26
something. Do
19:28
you think you have January six? Well, you do
19:30
with that hat. Resting January six face. Yeah, yeah,
19:32
yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I don't care. I
19:35
was raised to hate America. All that bullshit, I
19:37
fucking love this country, man. It's a great country.
19:39
I love it. There's no reason to hate America.
19:41
No. We should always hate
19:44
bad behavior in all
19:46
groups of people, left and right.
19:49
Shit, shitty, evil people on
19:51
both sides. That's what we're supposed to hate. We're not supposed
19:53
to hate America. And the history, it's history.
19:55
You gotta honor it. I didn't like the stuff growing
19:57
up with my dad and stuff. I had a lot
19:59
of resentment. about that, but I thought, you know what?
20:03
That was my burden to bear. And
20:05
I have friends who saw my,
20:07
you know, gay was bad back then,
20:09
but they'd see my dad being a
20:11
great dad and cooking us dinner. And
20:14
so their introduction to a
20:16
homosexual was this normal guy. My dad, he
20:18
looks like you. He looks like kind of
20:20
like Bruce Willis and fucking, he's
20:23
just a normal dude. He's not
20:25
a feminine. He doesn't do the like, yeah,
20:27
it's like, you know. Which
20:30
is interesting, right? That there's different
20:32
groups of gay people. We
20:35
associate gay with people who
20:37
behave in a very specific,
20:40
exaggerated way. Yeah. But,
20:42
you know. Well, they're the loudest ones
20:44
on the floats with their dick out and a
20:46
four-year-old's face. Well, that's what's weird. It's
20:48
like, it's not just gay
20:50
pride. It's overtly sexual
20:52
behavior pride, you
20:55
know? Those things should have nothing to do with these.
20:57
They're so different. I know
20:59
so many gay guys that are just like, you
21:01
would never know unless they told you they were
21:03
gay. They just seem like men. Do
21:06
you think people are actually homophobic or
21:08
they're just, they have an issue with
21:10
it getting sort of convoluted
21:13
into this sexual thing that our
21:15
kids are seeing? I
21:17
think people who are homophobic just lack
21:19
nuance. They don't understand that
21:22
there's weird people in every
21:24
group. Would you be
21:26
heterophobic if you found out about
21:29
people that are child molesters? You
21:32
know, like if there was men that
21:34
wanted to date 14-year-old girls and have
21:36
sex with 14-year-old girls, you
21:39
wouldn't be heterophobic because of that. Just
21:41
like you shouldn't be homophobic if there's
21:44
gay men that want to groom
21:46
young boys. It's not
21:48
about the gay. It's about
21:50
assholes. It's about shitty members
21:53
of society and it's about a lot
21:55
of them are people who are victims
21:57
themselves and then they perpetuate
21:59
it again. later in life. It's almost like
22:01
being bitten by a vampire. One
22:03
of the things that happens with all these molested
22:06
guys- That's how you become gay, by the way. Bitten
22:09
by a vampire? Yeah. But a
22:12
lot of these molested guys wind up doing
22:14
it to other kids, which is fucking
22:16
insanely evil. Like, their
22:18
life got destroyed, and then they wound up
22:20
destroying other people's lives. I think it's something
22:23
like 30% become molesters. Crazy. This,
22:25
my priest, and I don't know the backstory on this,
22:27
but he blew his brains out when I was
22:29
eight years old. Jesus, dude. Yeah.
22:32
Seven and eight was rough for you. Seven was dad
22:34
coming out, and then- What
22:37
did the priest do that he wanted to blow his brains
22:39
out? I don't know, but I always- Catholic? I
22:41
always think about it, because I'm like, were
22:44
my blowjobs that bad? You know what I mean? Were
22:46
they that bad? Was it Catholic?
22:49
I don't know what he did. He didn't touch me, because I wasn't
22:51
a part of it. Catholic?
22:53
Methodist. Methodist, interesting. Are they allowed to
22:55
get married? Yeah, I think so. The
22:59
Catholic ones- They allowed them to blow their brains out. He
23:01
did it at the altar. Oh my God. Yeah. In
23:04
front of everybody? Nothing, no. Off
23:07
day, thank God. But I remember going back in the next day,
23:09
and we just had a new guy, and he had a mustache.
23:11
He looked like Ned Flanders, and I'm like, no,
23:13
I can't do this any- Did
23:16
they tell everybody what happened? Yeah.
23:18
Did he leave a note? Give
23:22
me a problem, maybe. I don't know.
23:24
Does anybody know what was wrong? No, I Googled
23:26
it. It's been wiped. I didn't even find the
23:28
story. Oh boy. I know. They're
23:30
good at wiping that. Well, there's a
23:33
horrible thing that people connect
23:35
priests with child molesters. Because
23:39
just like we're talking about other things,
23:41
there's a group of them. Well, I
23:43
wonder if by occupation, if it's
23:46
the most, I can't say for sure, but- It's
23:49
certainly associated the most. It's
23:51
not like NASCAR drivers. Imagine
23:53
if that many NASCAR drivers were molesting
23:55
kids. They'd shut NASCAR down in a
23:57
fucking heartbeat. But meanwhile, go Catholic Church
23:59
gets- That's tax exempt status. They're
24:03
literally guilty of moving people who are molesters
24:05
to another place where they can molest new
24:08
people instead of turn them in. That's
24:10
what Pope Benedict got in trouble for.
24:13
That's one of the reasons why he
24:15
stepped down. Really? Yeah. He
24:17
was responsible for moving this one guy that went
24:19
on to molest 100 deaf kids. Yeah.
24:23
Yeah. They would
24:25
move these people to places where they could
24:27
get away with it instead of turn them
24:29
in. I don't know
24:32
if they gave him counsel. I mean, what the
24:34
fuck? The thing about that particular evil, the
24:36
evil of child molesters, is it doesn't
24:39
seem to be able to be fixed.
24:43
If you were a guy who was
24:46
like a Wolf of
24:48
Wall Street guy, he did a lot of crazy
24:50
shit with the stock market, but then you realize,
24:52
look, I fucked up. I should have never done
24:54
that. I was doing drugs. I fucked up. People
24:58
accept that you're not a thief
25:00
anymore. Yeah. You can go do
25:02
talk shows. You can write a book, and
25:04
people go, wow, that guy, they made a movie
25:07
out of him. Leonardo DiCaprio. Sure. Leonardo
25:09
DiCaprio played him at a fucking movie, and now
25:11
he's out there. He's back. But
25:14
we don't think that way about child
25:16
molesters. If
25:19
you murdered somebody, like I was young, I
25:21
was stupid, I hated that person, I didn't
25:23
think I murdered them. You do
25:25
25 years in jail, you come out. You would
25:27
think that guy's reformed. There's
25:29
no feeling like that ever with child molesters. You
25:31
go out and make Midnight at Paris after that.
25:34
Yes. He
25:37
never went to jail. No, I don't know if he did.
25:39
Well, he did something. I went out with a girl who
25:41
told ... She goes, I feel like I'm hanging out with
25:43
Woody Allen when I'm hanging out with you. I was like,
25:45
I don't know if that was a ... What
25:48
year Woody Allen? Yeah. Yeah,
25:50
it was like any haul? He was like, you're giving
25:52
me an existential crisis. You're not even Asian. I'm trying
25:54
something different. Have you ever listened to his old stand
25:57
up? Yeah, I like it. It's so pervy. Yeah,
25:59
he's very ... Pervy, but it's it's hilarious
26:02
how openly pervy yeah Yeah, and then you have
26:04
to think of the time in which he was
26:06
doing the stand-up. This is a 1960s Yeah,
26:09
so he's doing this like weird Sexuals
26:11
fucking a moose, you know the
26:14
moose had me mounted on the wall. It was
26:16
you know, he's talking about girls Yeah,
26:18
yeah, we talked about girls. I loved girls.
26:20
His voice is so to be
26:23
him, you know You know, he
26:25
really this is really what his voice is, you
26:27
know, and you're a knockout show
26:29
you really are and he's an odd dude
26:31
Yeah, that's just when you're funny though. Yeah,
26:33
you can be that's that's your currency. He's
26:35
an ugly weird-looking guy, but if
26:38
you're funny You that's
26:40
that's what you do. Yeah up until the whole
26:43
Child molesting accusations. Yeah,
26:46
she was a bit of a batshit
26:48
crazy lady I mean, they both of
26:50
them deserve whatever happened. They both deserve
26:52
it She was adopting kids in
26:54
returning them. What? Yeah. Oh, yeah. She returned. No
26:57
all the time. Yeah. Why? Yeah She just bad.
26:59
I like this one, you know, she would get
27:01
like mangled kids and and all these, you know,
27:03
they'd have all these Disabilities
27:06
and stuff and then she would return
27:08
them Wow. Yeah I mean all all
27:11
the kids have come out with different stories, but you
27:14
know Well, if you're they deserve each other
27:16
if you're fostering kids and taking care of
27:18
care kids You're taking care of kids that
27:20
have already experienced like some crazy shit You
27:23
know, so these kids are probably already
27:25
fucked up. I'm didn't speak English. They'd
27:27
bring them in from Different
27:30
countries China and stuff. I didn't speak
27:32
English. They'd be like disabled and
27:34
then Woody Allen's like you want to go for a
27:36
walk? But
27:41
his movies are so good They're
27:43
pretty good. They're not that good. They're not that
27:45
good. But but what I love about
27:48
it It's a different nobody could do
27:50
that now and go I can go go make a
27:52
movie a year you're going I'm gonna see the Rogan
27:54
movie. I'm gonna see the I'm seeing the Shane Gillis
27:56
movie. Did he really make one a year? Yeah, well,
27:58
he made him real cheap didn't pack himself and
28:02
that will never have that again I even remember when
28:04
I was in my teens go I'm seeing the Woody
28:07
Allen movie you didn't even care what it was it's
28:09
like a new comedian special coming out you'd just go
28:11
like they were always good right like how many does
28:13
he have oh my god look at movies yeah he's
28:15
still making
28:18
them that one's good rainy in New York it's good where
28:21
does he live now he lives in Manhattan
28:23
still yeah same place upper east
28:26
side wonder if he gets fucked with
28:29
like can you just walk around probably
28:32
he's dead he's old man yeah he is
28:34
old I don't think people would recognize him
28:36
really oh come on not a
28:38
younger not the younger generation I think they
28:40
know who he is he never lived with
28:42
Mia Farrow I found out so they'd never
28:44
live they never even slept over each other's
28:46
house they were never married oh
28:49
no kidding yeah doesn't make it
28:51
less weird that he started fucking her daughter
28:53
but no but it was not you
28:55
know the best to see newer
28:57
since she was like two yeah
29:00
yeah yeah not good yeah yeah
29:03
that's what he looks like now yeah yeah
29:05
they recognize him in a heartbeat dude well she's
29:07
older now yeah he's 88
29:10
Wow goddamn he's done the pandemic I
29:13
think finished him he's 88 finished
29:15
him well I mean just life
29:18
is finishing him he's 88 years
29:20
old man I mean that's
29:22
just and he just still does a movie here
29:24
what did he get arrested for there and that's
29:26
from a movie take the money around
29:29
I think oh yeah he
29:31
had some great fucking movies man he
29:33
did but he's a he's a real
29:36
like germaphobe neurotic guy the pandemic ruined
29:38
anybody that had that type of personality
29:40
oh I know a few people oh
29:43
god yeah done yeah they're
29:45
not coming back not come that's that
29:47
is a tragedy this is what that's the tragedy
29:49
of our time man yeah there were people that
29:51
were barely hanging on oh yeah
29:53
they were riddled with anxiety yeah
29:56
I was one of them but but it was more
29:58
because I because I didn't get the vaccine and
30:00
couldn't take part in society. That was a
30:02
fun little experiment we did that we're just
30:04
going to pretend like never happened. Yeah,
30:07
that was an interesting thing. Interesting
30:09
little thing, yeah. We had segregation
30:11
in this country based on medicine
30:13
and then we're back to pretending
30:15
like it never fucking happened. At
30:17
least now they're having hearings on
30:19
it. Yeah, nine years later, Fauci
30:21
was on TV the other day going, you
30:24
know, it could have come from the lab.
30:26
It may have been a leak. I want
30:28
to stay open minded and unseen. And they're
30:30
like, oh, okay. Like, what? Did you see
30:33
all that leaked stuff coming out of his
30:35
audio? Yeah. You got to make, make pressure
30:37
people. You got to. Yeah, they'll drop their
30:39
ideological bullshit when they can't work. Dude.
30:42
You've been showing when you make their
30:44
lives difficult, they will drop their ideological
30:46
bullshit. Just give them another booster. Boost
30:48
them up. Imagine saying that about people's
30:50
jobs that you're going to force them
30:53
into making a decision with their own
30:55
body. And not only that, but mandate
30:57
it. And not only that as a
30:59
doctor, know that some people are allergic
31:01
to some of the components,
31:04
some of the actual ingredients in
31:06
these vaccines. Sure. Aaron Rodgers is
31:08
one of them. Yeah. He's allergic to one
31:10
of the chemicals that's in it. You can't take it. And
31:13
some people have immune systems that work pretty
31:15
well and maybe you don't need to start
31:17
jabbing them with experimental stuff.
31:19
I mean. Yeah. It's a wild thing
31:21
that happened. And so many people are
31:23
still defending it because they defended it
31:25
previously. They're not defending it from a
31:28
position of objectivity, like here we are, 2024,
31:31
let's look at the data. No, they're
31:33
defending it from this weird place
31:35
of I defended it three years
31:37
ago and I shamed people three
31:39
years ago and we were right.
31:42
We were right. You were wrong. We were
31:44
right. It saved millions. They always say that.
31:46
Saved millions. Which is, by the way, there's
31:49
no way to tell if that's true. There's
31:51
no way to tell. Because the number of
31:53
people that actually die from COVID is so
31:56
grossly exaggerated. Most people think it's a
31:58
very high number of people that died from COVID. it's
32:00
less than 1%. It's like, was
32:03
it 0.3? Is
32:05
it like one third of 1%? Is that
32:07
what it is? Something like that? I
32:09
don't know one per, I know people do.
32:11
And some people, you know. I know a
32:14
couple of people that died. But it's not
32:16
what, I remember, I was watching CNN. I
32:18
was kind of like a brainwashed woke person
32:20
until the pandemic. Every day
32:22
I was on CNN watching, watching that death ticker,
32:25
that, like the stock market. And
32:27
then when I made my decision not to
32:29
get the vaccine, and I lost almost every
32:31
friend, every job, and
32:34
was called like a far right Trump
32:36
supporter, I go, okay,
32:38
this is, we've never done this before. What
32:41
was your decision? Why'd you decide not to
32:43
take it? Well, I
32:45
mean, I'm not getting something, first of all, it
32:48
wouldn't have been made that, Trump's really
32:51
good at pushing things through regulations very fast.
32:53
If we had any other president, there's no
32:55
way. That's what, whoops, do you
32:57
remember whoops, Joe, right, nobody can do that,
32:59
I call it warp speed. Edison
33:02
couldn't do it with lightning speed, but I did
33:04
warp speed, I made it. They said, sure, it'll
33:06
take 15 years, I made it in two days.
33:08
He's bragging about how quick he did it. And
33:11
I'm like, I'm not gonna fucking get that.
33:13
I'm young, I'm healthy, I had COVID, I
33:15
had natural immunity, I was doing what everybody
33:17
has done throughout history. Right, you already had
33:19
COVID, which is really important. Yeah, so why
33:21
risk that? And what was the, what
33:24
version of COVID did you have the earliest one? I
33:26
had the first, the first, the OG,
33:28
the original. And how bad was it
33:30
for you? It was, it was like,
33:32
I get the flu every year, I'm tiny,
33:34
I'm a sickly person, you know? I'm
33:37
allergic to fucking cigarettes. Can I get one of
33:39
those fucking days? Yeah, I did, why not? I
33:42
quit smoking when I was 12, but. But you smoked a cigar? I
33:45
started when I was 10. Oh, okay.
33:47
Yeah, 10 to 21, I smoked for 11 years. Nice.
33:50
So let's start now. Sorry, I would've
33:52
invited you. No, it's fine, it's fine,
33:54
I just, goddamn. How did I
33:56
know that you had quit cigarettes? Nah, you wouldn't
33:58
know that. I think somebody
34:00
brought it up. Well, I put
34:02
up a sign when I was filming the special
34:05
that like a no smoking sign. Pull that down.
34:07
Oh yeah. A no smoking
34:09
sign. Like a Marx brother when I fucking. Well,
34:12
I had a, when I was filming the special
34:14
last week and we were live editing it. So
34:16
I put up a no smoking sign in the green room
34:18
because I had all these, I had all this camera crew
34:21
and stuff in there. What
34:24
do you hit this thing? The other side. The
34:27
top that's flipped the way I handed it to, turn it towards
34:29
you, turn it towards you. No, no, no, the other way. You
34:32
see that? That's the top. Right there. And you pulled
34:34
that thing down. That's it, there you go. But you
34:36
got it backwards. You should do it the other way
34:38
so you can see what you're doing. Oh, like this?
34:40
Yeah, there you go. This is a company
34:42
of errors. Oh, I was good at this when I was 12. Where?
34:46
Oh yeah. I used to steal cigars. I was in like
34:48
a skateboard gang and I was so small, they'd send me
34:50
under the counter and I would
34:52
steal like thousands of dollars of cigars. Under
34:55
counters? Yeah, I'd sneak under the counter of a
34:58
drug store. Because I was so small. And
35:01
then I'd come out with, and we would sell them on
35:03
the street. Your gang
35:05
sold stolen cigars? Sold stolen cigars and
35:07
we grew weed in my backyard. Yeah,
35:09
yeah. It was a real, it was
35:11
a gang. I mean, somebody stole our
35:13
weed once, we went and flipped their
35:15
car over and burnt it. Wow.
35:18
Yeah. Jesus. Yeah, yeah. So that's the
35:20
privilege of growing up in Connecticut. It
35:22
was a privilege. What part of Connecticut?
35:24
New Haven. Oh, I know New Haven.
35:26
It's called Gunblazing. Everyone's like, oh, you're
35:28
so privileged. It was a, you know.
35:30
Good, New Haven's a sketchy place. Sketchy,
35:32
yeah, we hear gunshots every night. Every
35:34
single night. I used to do the
35:36
Joker's Wild Comedy Club in New Haven.
35:38
You did? Yeah. Oh yeah. Is
35:41
that still around? I don't know, it's where I did
35:43
my first open mic. No shit, you did your first
35:45
open mic there? Wow, yeah.
35:47
Actually no, first one was
35:50
the cafeteria at college. Yeah,
35:54
I was in a play. I was playing George Bush.
35:57
That's the first acting role I ever did. Stuff happens.
36:00
about that play? No. Stuff happens. It
36:02
was in the West End in London.
36:04
It was all actual quotes from
36:07
George Bush and his administration, the
36:09
whole thing. And it's fucking
36:11
amazing. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
36:14
The war and terror. Weapons
36:16
of mass destruction. All the whole, the way
36:19
they, it was almost like the pandemic, the
36:21
way they scared people. Weapons
36:23
of mass destruction. We gotta take them out.
36:25
We gotta do what we gotta do. And
36:28
we went in there and
36:30
what came of that? Yeah. Biden
36:33
pulling out, leaving billions of dollars of
36:37
shit behind. Yeah. If you just compared
36:40
Biden to George Bush, George Bush looks like
36:42
a fucking Rhodes Scholar. Yeah. Shakespeare. That's crazy.
36:44
We thought that he was an idiot. We
36:47
thought, God, it came up to such an embarrassment
36:49
that that guy is the president. Yeah.
36:51
And now look at the new choices we
36:53
have. You're like, yo, Bush
36:56
would be like the wise choice at
36:58
this point. Yeah.
37:00
You know? Oh yeah. Did
37:03
you ever watch the clip when they're like asking
37:05
them, I think about Bin Laden or something? So
37:08
I go, we're going to find Bin Laden, but
37:10
first watch this drive. Watch
37:12
this drive. Yeah. I watch that every day.
37:14
It was a good drive. Yeah. And it
37:16
was a way of keeping people calm and
37:18
like, he's so American. He just is. We're
37:21
dumb. We're fucking stupid. Yeah. He's a transport
37:23
to Texas. You know, they're from Maine. He
37:25
was born in New Haven, you know that.
37:27
Wasn't really. And he denies it. He did
37:30
not. The bridge that goes into New Haven is
37:32
the George W. Bush Bridge and he
37:34
denies. He was born in Yale New Haven hospital. Wait
37:36
a minute. Why would he lie about that? Because he
37:38
wants to be Texas, you know, red,
37:40
white and blue. I believe it. But he knows they're
37:42
from Kennebunkport, Maine. Born
37:44
in New Haven. Really? Oh yeah. Interesting. They're
37:46
like, yeah, we're naming the bridge after it.
37:49
Is an American politician. Hey baby, New Haven.
37:51
Yeah. New Haven, Connecticut. So at one point
37:53
in time he was hiding this. Is that
37:56
what it is? Isn't that funny?
37:58
He's younger than both fucking Trump and. Biden.
38:02
He's Jesus Christ. He hasn't
38:04
been the president in like 20 fucking
38:06
years. That's so crazy. He's younger
38:08
than both of them. That's
38:10
so nuts. Look at
38:12
that. That is so crazy. That's so nuts. I
38:15
would vote for him for a third term. A
38:17
hundred percent. In a second. Come
38:19
on back, George. Yeah. We need a
38:21
laugh, buddy. And bring that Darth Vader fucking
38:23
fake heart motherfucker with you. Yeah,
38:25
Dick Cheney. Yeah. Is he still
38:27
alive? Yeah, he's literally in the Bible. He
38:30
had no pulse at one point in time. No
38:34
pulse. Because he had an artificial heart
38:36
put in while they were waiting
38:38
to put a replacement heart in. Oh, that's
38:40
right. It had an artificial pump put in.
38:42
So this pump continually circulated blood. It didn't
38:44
have a pulse. So he had no
38:46
pulse. Tell me that's not in the Bible. Isn't that in
38:48
the Bible? Oh my God. I don't know. I haven't read
38:50
the whole Bible. Maybe you heard my priest blew his brains
38:52
out when I was eight. I kind of stopped reading. But
38:54
I mean, if you're gonna have like a
38:57
demon incarnate. God
38:59
damn. You probably have no pulse.
39:01
I would imagine. Watching
39:03
Biden, like when
39:05
he freezes up now. Oh yeah, that's crazy.
39:07
You think he's gone, man. Well, he's gonna
39:10
go. But also he's freezing
39:12
up, medicated to the tits.
39:14
Like whatever they're doing to keep him alive.
39:17
IV, vitamin transfusions and
39:19
fucking hormones and amphetamines,
39:22
whatever they're doing. I don't know what they're doing.
39:24
Neutropics, I don't know what they're doing. He could
39:26
be the first president to be assassinated by time.
39:29
I mean, I just. He's not gonna make it. I
39:32
just can't believe they're running him. It doesn't even make sense. The
39:34
more he flails about in these
39:36
speeches, the more he fucks up and almost
39:39
like he feels like he doesn't want to
39:41
do it. So he's trying to get out of it.
39:43
You're not really saying this didn't happen? This did
39:45
not happen. White House denies, claims Biden
39:47
froze at fundraiser event. They're calling him
39:50
cheap fakes now. But
39:52
wait a minute. There's a video of
39:54
the show where, look, I don't think
39:56
that's a big deal. The thing's over.
39:59
He gets led off. the stage like who cares that's
40:02
nothing some of the other stuff
40:04
like who was that one where he was like yelling
40:06
at people like completely just yelling
40:09
with a big
40:11
smile on his face he always does that
40:13
yeah but this was a wild one that's
40:15
just him walking off with Joe Biden with
40:17
Obama like who cares that doesn't I think
40:19
it was the like he gave him a
40:21
little pinch on the arm like you do
40:23
to your grandma let's go he's just looking
40:25
out at the crowd which is odd he
40:27
does look frozen though yeah yeah he's frozen
40:30
yeah but whatever yeah that's the least
40:32
of the things that are wrong the
40:34
thing of you've you seen the video
40:36
of him yelling Jamie there's
40:39
this crazy video he's
40:42
like someone says something to
40:44
him and he yells something back but it's
40:46
literally no words and then he has
40:48
a big smile on his face he yells and then he
40:50
does that whisper like well we're very very sure
40:57
it's hard to believe it's real it's
40:59
hard it's almost like we're being punked by China oh
41:03
they yeah they definitely doing that they're definitely doing
41:07
that go but was a bit of a
41:09
punk a little bit a little yeah yeah
41:11
minor worldwide punk that
41:14
we funded that we farther yeah
41:16
our tax dollars I about
41:20
reparations for everybody who got fired for not
41:22
getting the COVID vaccine I think everyone should
41:24
get a fat check hundred
41:26
thousand dollars that's not a bad idea
41:28
it's not even enough how many people
41:30
lost their fucking job people it's destroyed
41:33
people this isn't it well we hear
41:35
this though we hear with this one
41:37
is Donald Trump when
41:39
he was commander in chief refused
41:42
to visit a cemetery US cemetery
41:44
outside of Paris for
41:46
fallen American soldiers and
41:49
he referred to those heroes and I
41:51
quote as suckers and losers he
41:54
actually said that oh he said that
41:56
how dare he said that how
41:58
dare you talk about my son and all about stress
42:00
like that. What?
42:03
How dare you? Sweet
42:06
old man, though. Yeah. Is
42:08
that how his son died? Why is he saying
42:10
his son? His son, the death
42:12
of his son changes by the day. It's
42:15
like. But what is he saying there?
42:18
Is he saying his son died as a military
42:20
person? Yeah, I don't think he
42:22
died in war. He mixes it up. Does
42:25
that say how he died? He died from
42:27
cancer. Biden
42:30
had radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Cancer remained
42:32
stable. May 20, 2015, he was admitted
42:34
to Walter Reed National Medical Center in
42:37
Bethesda, Maryland because of recurrence of brain
42:39
cancer. He died there 10 days later.
42:41
OK. What
42:43
does that have to do? Why
42:47
is he saying, how dare they talk about my son?
42:49
He'll link everything to his son died.
42:51
No, no, no. Exposure to military burn
42:54
pits in Iraq.
42:56
OK, that makes sense. OK. So
42:59
what did he do? According
43:02
to his father, Bo was
43:04
diagnosed with, say
43:07
that word. Ankylosing
43:09
spondylitis. I can't remember which. Ankylosing
43:14
spondylitis. Ankylosing
43:21
spondylitis. After
43:23
returning from service in Kosovo, he
43:26
was later diagnosed with brain cancers, father believes
43:28
is a possible consequence of
43:30
exposure to military burn pits. Well,
43:33
those burn pits 100% fucked people up. That's
43:36
so crazy that they did that, too. They
43:39
had soldiers over there, and they had all this waste, and
43:41
they just burned it all. And then
43:43
the wind would just blow it right into
43:45
the camp. So these soldiers are just breathing
43:47
in toxic chemical waste. Yeah.
43:53
Yikes. Yeah, what the fuck, man? What
43:56
was the sun doing? Or someone's in
43:58
Kosovo. Was the sun serving? I
44:01
think so. Is that what
44:03
happened? It's
44:08
amazing how Trump, he looks
44:10
like, he looks so young
44:13
and energized compared to Biden now. Yeah but it's
44:15
just compared to Biden. Just compared to it. He
44:17
was in Kosovo after 1998-1999 Kosovo War working
44:22
on behalf of the OSCE to
44:24
train judges and prosecutors for the
44:27
local judicial system. 2004 became
44:30
a partner in the law firm of Bit
44:32
to Ferrato, Gentilodi,
44:35
Biden and Balik where
44:37
he worked for two years before being elected
44:39
attorney general of Delaware. He was
44:43
nominated, when Joe Biden was nominated for
44:45
Vice President, Beau introduced him.
44:47
Many delegates wept at his speech which were
44:49
crowned to the auto accident that killed his
44:51
mother and sister and the subsequent commitment his
44:54
father made to his sons. So
44:58
his active duty deployed
45:00
to Iraq, sent
45:02
to Fort Bliss for pre-deployment training this
45:04
day after his father participated in 2008
45:07
presidential campaigns, only vice presidential debate. Father
45:09
was on record saying I don't want him going but
45:11
I tell you what I don't want my grandson or
45:13
my granddaughter's going back in 15 years so
45:16
I can't see it all
45:18
Jimmy. It's cut off. Oh
45:22
so how we leave makes a big
45:24
difference. Whoa that didn't age well. So
45:27
how we leave makes a big difference. Then you
45:29
think about what they did in Afghanistan. Hey
45:32
man fuck that job. Fuck
45:35
that job. You literally have to be a
45:37
crazy person to want that job. Like do
45:39
you imagine wanting the stress of being either
45:41
the vice president or the president? Brian
45:43
Regan has a joke about being president. Every morning
45:45
you wake up someone's like problems sir.
45:49
Lots and lots of problems. Any
45:51
of those jobs. There's not one day where everything's
45:53
like fucking yeah. Do you think they should have
45:55
an age cap on the politicians? Well
45:57
they got a minimum right 35 to run. If
46:00
you want to be a fireman you have
46:02
to show that you're physically competent Yeah, you
46:04
have to complete a physical fitness course sure
46:06
you have to you know because you might
46:08
be able have to do things if you
46:10
Are a president I think you should have
46:12
to commit a mental fitness course like
46:15
they should have to test you with puzzles
46:18
They should have to ask you yeah, yeah, like
46:20
legitimately like it sounds stupid But that's a good
46:22
way to find out what whether someone's brain works
46:24
well test people with
46:26
puzzles and quizzes and
46:30
Ask them questions about history, and they shouldn't
46:32
be able to prepare for it I think
46:34
it should be something that you just you
46:36
just announce today's the day we're
46:38
gonna pull them into this room and we're gonna
46:41
Film it all and ask him a bunch of questions about
46:43
all kinds of things and then let's find out how that
46:45
guy How his brain works? I
46:47
mean, I think Mitch McConnell had two strokes
46:50
wait very short amount of time He locks up whatever
46:52
that is. I don't think it's a stroke, but it's
46:54
it he definitely locks up
46:57
like Windows 95 Yeah, yeah,
46:59
it's not good. It's not good,
47:01
and he's not stepping down Yeah,
47:03
these people are so old They're
47:06
so old and they shouldn't be doing anything
47:09
They certainly shouldn't be running the
47:11
world for future generations that they are absolutely
47:13
not gonna witness Mitch McConnell It is actually
47:16
stepping down. Oh, we will step down when
47:18
did he decide not too long ago? Okay
47:23
finally He
47:25
should have stepped down fucking immediately he
47:27
sounds like mr.. Magoo and Jimmy store
47:32
I mean your your GG ping or
47:34
whatever watching these politicians just having a
47:36
good chuckle I think they that
47:38
GG ping knows those politicians don't really run
47:40
jack shit It's
47:43
the you know what Trump likes to go the deep
47:45
state the deep state real. That's real
47:47
There's there's a bunch of people that run the government
47:50
from war they though well
47:52
There's a lot of money.
47:54
There's heads of immense
47:56
corporations that have incredible financial
48:00
control and influence on politicians. This is
48:02
the reason why lobbyists are some of
48:04
the richest fucking people in the country.
48:06
Like some of the richest real estate
48:08
is in Virginia, right inside of DC.
48:10
And it's a lot of its lobbyists.
48:13
The amount of money that they pour into
48:15
campaigns and pour into making sure that their
48:17
agendas are being met and that their businesses
48:19
get to grow because of regulations
48:22
or lack of regulations or tariffs or
48:24
lack of tariffs or whatever the fuck
48:26
they're trying to do. That's that's who
48:28
runs things. Really and makes
48:31
decisions. And then the
48:33
politicians keep us embattled in
48:35
these social squabbles. You
48:37
know it's like when they have when
48:39
Kamala Harris had this guy
48:42
in a dress with a beard come to the
48:44
White House recently. She's like oh my god for
48:46
pride month. Come on in. You're in the White
48:48
House. That is to
48:51
accentuate this the
48:53
social squabbling. It's so people get
48:55
fired up. Yay. Queers are in
48:57
the White House. And then other
48:59
people go what the fuck are queers doing in the
49:01
White House. It's like that
49:03
this is a part of the
49:06
grand plan to keep people
49:08
not paying attention to the
49:10
really important issues. And
49:13
to just constantly it's like
49:15
these these fucking beach
49:18
balls they throw up at a concert. They
49:20
constantly get thrown up. They're working. They're
49:23
going to take away gay marriage now. They're going
49:25
to take away abortion. They're going to take away
49:27
this guns the border. And they
49:29
just keep throwing these things in the air. So
49:31
you're just like looking left and right and looking
49:33
left and right. And while this is going on
49:37
there's all sorts of laws being
49:39
passed that allow them to look
49:41
at any computer any laptop any
49:44
any phone. They're
49:46
going to be able to bypass encryption with
49:48
A.I. I was just watching a
49:50
video where a security expert was talking about that.
49:52
He was talking about what's
49:55
that guy's name Rob Braxman. He was talking
49:57
about how A.I. in
50:00
your operating system. Once
50:03
they get AI in your operating system,
50:05
all this stuff like Signal and WhatsApp,
50:07
encrypted end-to-end encrypted devices, that's nonsense. It's
50:09
not going to work anymore. It's not
50:11
going to do anything. They're
50:13
going to be able to get your
50:15
information before it's encrypted, as you're typing
50:17
it, before you send it. Everything
50:20
is going to be transparent. They'll
50:22
have access to anything they want,
50:24
anything you have on any device.
50:26
It doesn't matter what kind of
50:28
encryption, what kind of bullshit you're
50:30
using. Oh, that's out the window. He
50:33
was explaining that. What
50:35
about Elon's Neuralink chip? Do
50:38
you think people are going to have those? They
50:40
can just go open up. They don't even have
50:42
to say it. You just think it. Open up
50:44
Google. That's going
50:46
to happen. There's going to be versions of that. What's
50:50
Nolan's last name? R-Boc. Say it again.
50:53
R-Boc. R-Boc. You
50:55
say it the right way? R-Boc. R-Boc.
50:59
R-Boc. He's the first Neuralink patient. We
51:01
had him in the other day. I
51:04
think the episode comes out today. It's out now.
51:06
Yeah, it's out now. He's the first
51:08
guy to get the Neuralink. Does that sound like Elon?
51:11
He's like, I'm sorry. It's working pretty well.
51:13
That's very, very smart. We're going to be
51:15
looking very well. Very smart, very interesting person
51:18
to talk to, completely paralyzed from the neck
51:20
down, except for a few movements in his
51:22
hands. He can kind of move a little
51:24
bit. The spinal cord's not totally severed, but
51:26
it's very badly damaged from an accident
51:29
in the river. And
51:31
now with this Neuralink, he can play
51:33
video games. He can do all kinds
51:35
of shit. And he said
51:38
the cursor goes where his eyes go. The
51:42
cursor goes exactly where he wants it to
51:44
go. So he's like, I have a built-in
51:46
aimbot if I'm playing video games. Because I
51:48
don't miss. He's
51:51
like, I can look right at it. I
51:53
can shoot at things, which is pretty wild.
51:55
And it makes you think, OK, well, for soldiers,
51:57
that's a must. You have to
51:59
give them that. You know in that's you
52:02
know some of the fighter jets the
52:05
new helmets that they have on now are
52:07
augmented reality helmets and When
52:09
they're flying the jets as they're looking
52:11
at a specific spot. That's where the
52:13
crosshairs go So
52:15
the the crosshairs are connected to
52:17
this We're gonna be
52:19
doing that with jokes like you just like
52:21
hit the punchline I think
52:24
Comedy is probably gonna be one of the last places Where
52:27
the actual human experience exists
52:29
in a pure form you
52:32
know It's one of several reasons
52:34
why at the mothership we make people put their
52:36
phones in a bag like get that out of
52:38
your head Yeah, stop looking at that just
52:41
sit down and watch a huge difference
52:43
It's a giant difference But if
52:45
we could still have things like that
52:48
it'll remind us of what it's like
52:50
to be a human You know like the
52:52
movies have kind of gone away go into
52:54
the movie theater. I stopped Well,
52:56
I stopped during the pandemic because you couldn't go and then
52:58
I was like, oh, this is way better if you have
53:00
a nice TV at home and no one's gonna erupt and
53:03
You know there's something about that kind of taking
53:05
a girl on a date But oh yeah I
53:07
remember I went everybody had to be six feet
53:09
apart and you know two people in each row
53:11
and that's all made up When
53:14
they found out six he's like it
53:16
was out there. I didn't I didn't
53:18
make up the rules It was out
53:20
there from this flu when we didn't
53:23
even have fucking electricity back then Well,
53:26
it's there's no it doesn't make sense.
53:28
It's in the air. It's a respiratory
53:30
virus They've never ever in the history
53:32
of human beings been able to contain
53:34
a respiratory virus You can't do
53:36
it if a respiratory virus gets
53:39
out to a certain number of people and it
53:41
starts spreading through certain pop It's just gonna and
53:43
it also has Animal reservoirs
53:46
so one of the things I find
53:48
it actually can exist in certain animals
53:50
in fact in deer They
53:53
tested a bunch of white-tailed deer just
53:55
wild deer and a bunch of them
53:57
tested positive for COVID-19 I'm
54:01
gonna look back this that's six. There's
54:03
still six feet stand six feet apart
54:05
at the airport. It's so fucking stupid
54:08
It's so stupid, but it was all a
54:10
thing where people looked for something to make
54:12
them feel better, right? So
54:14
even though masks didn't work even
54:18
though six foot distancing didn't work if
54:21
you were out in public and you
54:23
knew that kovat was a thing and there wasn't Some
54:26
sort of fake measure that made you at
54:28
least feel safe Like you
54:30
have to stand a little bit apart from each other you have
54:32
to wear the mask We're gonna be okay
54:34
if we follow these rules. We took the vaccine
54:37
We're standing six feet away We're wearing a mask
54:39
and so all those things even though none of
54:41
those things kept you from getting kovat zero of
54:43
those things Kept you from getting kovat. In fact,
54:45
there's more evidence now that the more of those
54:47
shots you take the more you get kovat there's
54:50
a bunch of different reasons for that, but I'm
54:52
not a virologist or biologist, but Those
54:55
things at least kept people thinking that they
54:57
were doing the right thing and that maybe
54:59
they're gonna be safe Instead of just a
55:01
freak out of a bunch of people with
55:03
no masks and a wild disease that we've
55:05
been told is gonna kill Everybody I saw
55:07
the clip of him saying, you know, that's
55:09
really they'll make you feel better. And
55:12
so I thought okay That
55:14
makes sense. Nobody said in that clip. Yeah,
55:16
it's not gonna help It's not gonna help
55:18
and then wear one then you people
55:20
start wearing two. Yeah, he was wearing two
55:22
Yeah, you got to wear two then wear
55:24
a face shield and put a fucking diaper
55:27
over your fucking head The wear two is
55:29
just like the woke shit in San Francisco.
55:31
It never stops It would go to wear
55:33
a beekeepers outfit. It would go further. Yeah,
55:35
if they let it stay on I wear
55:37
two masks now I feel more
55:39
protected. Yeah wrap yourself in plastic and
55:41
just stay underwater It's
55:44
amazing how that guy can gaslight It's
55:47
amazing. He does it and he's his hands
55:49
fidget and the you can tell with his
55:51
body language Oh, he's fuck. I love watching
55:54
him when he's in Congress when they're when
55:56
they're you know, interrogating him It's a political
55:58
feeder Ron It's all
56:00
misinformation and disinformation. Yeah. Oh,
56:04
he's well prepared to gaslight. But
56:06
how can people still watch him
56:08
and go, yeah, you know, we did the
56:10
right thing. Even in that audio
56:12
that you were talking about, he
56:14
said, would you make people's lives
56:16
difficult, they will drop their ideological
56:18
bullshit and get vaccinated. Fucking worked.
56:22
He said, when they were quizzing him on
56:24
this, when they were asking him about this
56:26
and confronting him with this, he
56:29
said, that's not what I meant. Yeah.
56:33
He's sick. He's a sick, mad
56:36
scientist. What could you possibly have meant other
56:38
than what you said? If
56:40
you're that guy, this is not like a
56:42
thought experiment, you're hanging out with buddies and
56:44
you're like, imagine if you were a guy,
56:46
you would tell people, no, that's not what
56:49
that was. That was you,
56:51
the head of the NIH, you, the
56:53
head of our America's coronavirus task force.
56:55
You're the big guy. You're the one
56:58
America looks to for the answers. And
57:00
you're saying that. Yeah, shame them and,
57:02
but God did that work, man. That
57:06
was what I learned from that was how
57:08
hard it is to stand up for something
57:10
you believe in. God damn.
57:14
To go, I'm going to do this and I'm
57:16
going to, you start to see your friends disappear,
57:18
your family. I mean, I wasn't allowed home
57:21
for Christmas. I had to sit outside
57:23
on a porch with half my
57:25
family outside wearing masks on and I'm
57:27
standing on the other side. It's 38
57:30
degrees out. And I'm going, what
57:32
am I like, like the first AIDS patient here?
57:35
How do they respond to that now? They
57:37
apologize? No, no,
57:39
it's just, it will not. Everything's just
57:41
back. We're just back. We're back open.
57:44
You know, it's, um, but that's,
57:46
do you think that's just human nature? Like we're
57:48
going to people are cowards. And
57:51
there's like a mass psychosis
57:54
that happens. Like everybody
57:56
to collectively panicked in the
57:58
face of this. that
58:00
we'd never experienced before, like
58:02
a global pandemic in our lifetime, and
58:05
then people fell apart. Like
58:07
that's what happens to people when they
58:09
get pressured. There's a lot of people
58:11
out there that have never really experienced
58:13
actual pressure in their life. So when
58:15
something scary like a virus comes into
58:17
their life, they fold up like a
58:19
house of cards. They just can't take
58:21
it. They don't know what the fuck
58:23
to do and they don't have any
58:25
personal sovereignty. So they don't have the ability
58:27
to go, wait, what is
58:30
everyone saying? That doesn't make any sense. Why
58:32
am I gonna do that? What are the
58:34
consequences? How much do we know
58:36
about pharmaceutical drug companies? Have they ever lied
58:38
before? Oh they have. Have they ever been
58:41
fine, oh the most fines in medical history?
58:44
Okay, what are these studies? Like
58:46
how long did they take to do these studies?
58:48
Like it's a hundred percent effective. What does that
58:50
mean? How do they define a hundred percent effective?
58:52
Does that mean if you take it you definitely
58:54
won't get COVID? Because that's what I thought it
58:57
meant. Do you know what it meant in a
58:59
hundred percent effective in stopping death? In
59:01
the vaccine, Robert Kennedy explained this to
59:04
me. This is his
59:06
words, not mine, but if he's right it's the craziest
59:08
fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. I
59:10
think he's right. In
59:12
the placebo group, two
59:15
people die. I'm gonna do his
59:17
voice while you talk. Don't do
59:19
that. In the placebo group, two
59:21
people died from COVID. In the
59:23
vaccine group, one person died. Two
59:25
is a hundred percent more than
59:27
one. So it's one hundred percent
59:29
effective. Imagine
59:33
that. Imagine that kind of math.
59:35
That's that's fauci kind of gasoline. Nobody really
59:37
knew. Nobody knew. It's like a hundred percent
59:39
effective. So you get people like Rachel Maddow
59:41
on TV telling you that. The virus stops
59:43
with you. You can't get
59:46
infected. You can't transmit. And then they never
59:48
even, they had to admit later in European
59:50
court that they never even tested it for
59:52
transmission. It was never tested
59:55
for transmission. Who hears that and is
59:57
gonna go, fuck it. Yeah,
1:00:00
I get I get to be the hero I
1:00:02
get to get the shot Yeah, and I get
1:00:04
to end it yeah, and that's how people walk
1:00:06
in Instagram Yeah, I
1:00:09
got vaccine. You know what fucking fine, but
1:00:11
don't shame the people who just made the
1:00:13
decision That it's
1:00:15
not for me I never said one negative thing
1:00:17
about the vaccine or who got it and goddamn
1:00:20
dude even in the in the stand-up scene I
1:00:22
was a far right I QAnon
1:00:25
all the fucking things horse
1:00:27
medicine guy. You know you know it's like listen man.
1:00:29
I got it on CNN I know it. I know
1:00:32
it more than anybody knows it Chris
1:00:35
Cuomo would not did you see the Dave
1:00:37
Smith dude Dave Smith fuck lit him on
1:00:39
fire He lit him on fire on his
1:00:41
corpse that piece of shit that
1:00:43
that clip actually I made I did an
1:00:46
impression of you Doing an
1:00:48
impression of Don Lemon dude wait
1:00:50
you met don't get the vaccine can't
1:00:52
go to work Yeah, don't get the vaccine. You
1:00:54
can't take a poop. Don't get the vaccine Unbelievable
1:00:57
that that is on national television and that
1:00:59
clip lives on and they get to just
1:01:01
get away with well Not only that him
1:01:03
and Chris Cuomo when he's talking about people
1:01:06
injecting Veterinary medicine
1:01:09
and then Chris Cuomo saying
1:01:11
Ivermectin a deer warmer like
1:01:14
the the Stupidity in
1:01:16
which they were describing on cable
1:01:19
television like first of all you're not
1:01:21
injecting anything you fucking Idiot you're taking
1:01:23
a small pill That's one of the
1:01:25
safest drug profiles of any drug in
1:01:28
recorded history That's been prescribed
1:01:30
to human beings billions of times
1:01:33
and the fact that they had the balls to
1:01:35
go on TV and frame it that way and
1:01:38
Then Chris Cuomo with with Dave Smith saying like
1:01:40
this is what we were being told that they
1:01:42
were take like you don't have Google Like
1:01:45
you just go out on CNN you spit
1:01:47
out what they're telling you Didn't look at
1:01:49
it at all even at the same token
1:01:51
even if you wanted to go experiment with
1:01:53
an actual Why don't you get to
1:01:56
do that? So you everybody
1:01:58
has to take this experimental fucking
1:02:00
rush vaccine that Trump pushed the
1:02:02
regulations. Yeah, but you're missing the
1:02:04
point. The point is I was already better. That's the dumbest
1:02:06
part about this. Sure. The dumbest part
1:02:08
about let them experiment, let them not experiment. That's not
1:02:10
the point. The point was I got
1:02:12
better really quick. Which is hooray. Yeah, but
1:02:14
they didn't want that. So that's when the
1:02:16
machine moved and they went with this horse dewormer
1:02:18
narrative because they were worried that other people
1:02:20
were going to start taking ivermectin. I took
1:02:22
a bunch of things and I talked about all,
1:02:25
I didn't say ivermectin by itself. I
1:02:27
said IV vitamins,
1:02:30
monoclonal antibodies, Z-packs.
1:02:34
I literally gave the list
1:02:37
of different things. There was some
1:02:39
cordysteroid. What is that stuff called? There
1:02:43
was some sort of a steroid that I took too. What
1:02:46
was it called? You were better like in two days
1:02:48
or something, right? Quick. Holy shit. Like
1:02:51
quick. How old are you? Like it was gone.
1:02:54
God damn. I was like, I'm going to get in the bag six
1:02:56
days later. I was like, let's see what's going on. Because
1:02:59
the only way to really see what's going on is to see if I
1:03:01
have endurance. I did 10 rounds
1:03:03
in the bag. I was nothing. At five days
1:03:05
in, I did a workout and I tried it. I was like,
1:03:07
I feel pretty good. I don't
1:03:09
want to relapse because I kept hearing that people
1:03:11
would work out too quick and they'd relapse. So
1:03:15
I said, let me just go through a decent
1:03:17
workout and see how I feel. If I feel
1:03:19
it all drained or tired, I'm pretty in tune.
1:03:21
Which is how I knew something
1:03:23
was wrong in the first place. I'm pretty tuned in to
1:03:25
my body. And then the next
1:03:28
day I said, all right, let's fucking push it.
1:03:30
Let's see what's up. And I pushed
1:03:32
it. I felt 100%. I was 100% six
1:03:34
days later. And I think I was
1:03:36
100% five days later. I just
1:03:38
didn't try. So
1:03:40
that was bad for the narrative
1:03:43
because the narrative was this thing was super dangerous.
1:03:45
You know, you need to take a vaccine. That's
1:03:47
the only way through it. And
1:03:50
my doctor was saying, no, no, it's
1:03:52
not as dangerous as they're saying, especially
1:03:54
if there's someone like you who works
1:03:56
out every day and takes vitamins every
1:03:58
day and He always eats healthy.
1:04:00
This is not the thing that's gonna get
1:04:02
you. He's like, the people that are dying,
1:04:04
what I'm seeing is people with comorbidities, he
1:04:06
was explaining everything to me, and
1:04:09
he recommended a series
1:04:12
of nutrients to take to prepare
1:04:14
yourself to like, to pump up
1:04:16
your immune system. And
1:04:18
he's like, but there's a bunch of things that you can
1:04:20
take if you do get infected that will help you recover.
1:04:22
And that's what it took. And it worked.
1:04:25
Yeah, I think how many people could have perhaps
1:04:27
replicated that. They didn't want that. In
1:04:29
order to have the emergency use authorization
1:04:31
so that they could make sure that
1:04:33
everybody gets vaccinated, they had to have
1:04:35
no other treatments. That's why they demonize
1:04:37
ivermectin. That's why they demonize hydroxychloroquine. That's
1:04:40
why they kept a lot of people
1:04:42
from getting monoclonal antibodies. They didn't want
1:04:44
any solution other than the one that
1:04:46
was gonna make them insane amounts of
1:04:48
money. And that's what they pushed for.
1:04:50
And we went through that. Yeah. And
1:04:52
the thing is like, did we learn? That's the
1:04:54
question. Did we learn? I don't think so. I
1:04:56
don't know. I think a lot of people
1:04:58
learned. You learned? I
1:05:01
learned, but I almost didn't survive it. To
1:05:03
go through that, and I had no bank
1:05:05
account. I had no money. The
1:05:07
money I was getting was from Comedy Club
1:05:09
Cash. And I had just
1:05:11
gotten to the clubs in New York City. And I
1:05:13
decided I'm not going, here's
1:05:15
my papers to get in. Right. I'm
1:05:18
not doing it. Right. Not
1:05:20
doing it. I fucking performed outside during
1:05:22
those shows. I was performing for free
1:05:24
outside of comedy clubs. And
1:05:27
then once the vaccine, I said, we need your papers.
1:05:29
And I just said, I can't do it. I said,
1:05:31
okay, take care. Wow. And to
1:05:33
do- How long did you go from that to not doing
1:05:35
stand up? How many months did you not do stand up?
1:05:38
Well, I started just doing videos in
1:05:40
my living room. I lost my fucking
1:05:42
mind. That's the thing is, and
1:05:45
when I tour, a lot of
1:05:47
my fans went through
1:05:49
a similar thing. And so when I meet them
1:05:51
after, it's painful. Because
1:05:56
everybody tells me this story. I'm a firefighter. I
1:05:58
lost my job. I'm a nurse. Yeah,
1:06:00
I lost my family. I was isolated my
1:06:02
might just met a guy his daughter killed
1:06:04
herself because she couldn't practice her
1:06:06
sports She was locked in her bedroom It's
1:06:09
like the fucking damage that
1:06:11
was done and to be able to stay
1:06:13
steady during that and go all right I'm
1:06:15
gonna go through this now without any friends
1:06:17
and Being labeled
1:06:20
this far-right crazy person for
1:06:22
just saying no. Thanks to
1:06:24
the shot Yeah, it
1:06:27
you can't believe you know what
1:06:29
that does to you And so
1:06:31
I just feel I feel so I feel
1:06:34
so much for these people that did it
1:06:36
and who's who stuck up to it Yeah,
1:06:38
I do too And I've also feel for
1:06:40
the people that got suckered into taking and
1:06:42
now they have like serious consequences or serious
1:06:44
health problems You know, I was
1:06:46
ready to get vaccinated the UFC had allocated
1:06:48
a bunch of vaccines for their employees This
1:06:50
is because they were doing shows during the
1:06:52
pandemic We did shows in the
1:06:55
height of the pandemic with no crowds so
1:06:57
the UFC has this place called the apex
1:06:59
center and the apex centers a small arena
1:07:01
that the UFC built and They
1:07:03
built it to do like the Dana White Tuesday
1:07:05
night contender series and a bunch of different other
1:07:07
fights that they filmed There and so
1:07:10
we went there And they
1:07:12
said we've got the vaccine so you
1:07:14
can get vaccinated We
1:07:16
saved one for if you want to get it. I
1:07:18
said, okay great a lot of the UFC employees It
1:07:20
was the Johnson and Johnson vaccine And
1:07:23
so I called up the doctor. Hey, can I get it today?
1:07:25
I was like the day of the fights He said I can't
1:07:27
do it today. You gotta you have to come to the clinic
1:07:29
Can you come on Monday and I said I
1:07:31
can't come on Monday? I gotta go
1:07:34
back Sunday I said but I'll be back in two
1:07:36
weeks for the next fights We'll do it then in
1:07:38
the time that I left the
1:07:41
the vaccine got pulled for blood clots and
1:07:44
I knew two people that had strokes
1:07:48
One guy that I met and another guy who was a friend of a
1:07:50
guy that I met and they told me
1:07:52
that they had Strokes like within five days of
1:07:54
getting vaccinated and I was like wait
1:07:56
what and then they
1:07:58
were saying I was reading the news story about
1:08:01
it. They're pulling it because of blood clots. I
1:08:03
remember that. These guys that got, had, and I'm
1:08:05
like, holy shit. And
1:08:07
I think I talked to the
1:08:09
UFC. I go, hey man, I don't want to take that.
1:08:11
And you know, they, one of the guys that I talked
1:08:14
to over there was like, I agree with you. Like, you
1:08:16
know, I took it. I don't know. I think I feel
1:08:19
okay, but I know a guy.
1:08:21
I know a guy. Everybody knew a guy that got
1:08:23
fucked up. Everybody knew somebody who got fucked up by
1:08:25
it. But it was like all of a sudden the
1:08:27
genie had come out of the bottle because before
1:08:29
that I was all in. I was, I was
1:08:32
not in any way, shape, or form anti-vax. And
1:08:34
it doesn't make you anti-vax for not wanting to
1:08:37
get one of them. My point is, in fact,
1:08:39
I was at a, I was having a conversation
1:08:41
with one of the
1:08:43
scientists that I talked to about this and I
1:08:46
was like, maybe this would be good to get
1:08:48
people that are these crazy people that are anti-vaccine
1:08:50
to like wake up and recognize the importance of
1:08:52
these things. So this was my mindset back then.
1:08:55
And so when that happened, I
1:08:58
decided like I'm not taking a chance with
1:09:00
this thing. Like this is too weird. And
1:09:02
then I knew another guy who had some
1:09:04
sort of a heart problem from the Moderna
1:09:07
one allegedly. And then it
1:09:09
just got, it just started getting weirder
1:09:11
and weirder. And then when a
1:09:13
couple of my friends got COVID, one of the things that
1:09:15
happened is my whole family got COVID. And
1:09:18
I was like, well, I should probably just
1:09:20
get it. And I was like,
1:09:22
if I get, I was getting tested every day
1:09:24
because we were doing the podcast. So the way
1:09:26
we would do the podcast to keep everybody safe
1:09:28
is all the employees got tested, security got tested,
1:09:30
I got tested, everybody got tested. And a couple
1:09:33
of times we had to cancel shows because
1:09:35
someone, someone tested positive. And then we all,
1:09:37
everybody had to keep getting tested. We were
1:09:39
very diligent about it. But
1:09:42
my whole family got it. My kids
1:09:44
got it and they were fine. Like
1:09:46
they skated through it. Like one day,
1:09:48
two days, they felt great. Like this
1:09:50
was early, early days, like no vaccine, no
1:09:52
one knew what the fuck the treatment was. My
1:09:56
wife got it. She took ivermectin because they
1:09:58
were actually prescribing it back then. and
1:10:00
her doctor prescribed it back then. This is the
1:10:02
early, early days. Yeah. I didn't
1:10:04
get it, but I did feel not
1:10:07
good. But I was in the house,
1:10:09
man. I hugged the kids and they were like, you're gonna
1:10:11
get it? I'm like, I'm not gonna get it. I was
1:10:13
like, it was a joke. We were joking around. Cause like,
1:10:15
they weren't even that sick. And my wife got it worse
1:10:17
than them for sure, but
1:10:19
I didn't get it. And I kept working out.
1:10:21
I was working out and I remember one day
1:10:23
I worked out and I didn't feel good. I
1:10:26
was like, man, I feel fucking weak. And
1:10:29
I was like, I'm just gonna do, I'm like,
1:10:31
use like lighter weights and just go through
1:10:34
like three series of this routine that
1:10:36
I do, just light and easy. Don't
1:10:38
push it. Just get the blood flowing
1:10:41
a little bit. And then the
1:10:43
next day I went back to the gym and I
1:10:45
did the same thing. I started working. I was like,
1:10:47
yeah, I don't fucking feel that good. Like I still
1:10:49
feel a little off. I'm like, let's just do the
1:10:51
same thing. Nice and light. Just go through the motions,
1:10:53
not pushing anything. And then the next
1:10:56
day I went in and I felt fucking
1:10:58
great. I'm like, okay, it's gone. Whatever it
1:11:00
was, it's gone. I tested every day, never
1:11:02
tested positive for it, but my body clearly
1:11:05
was fighting something. Like there's something going
1:11:07
on. And I, because I'm
1:11:09
so in tune with it, I recognize that
1:11:11
I didn't push. I do have
1:11:13
some friends though that are meatheads and
1:11:15
they also felt that same thing. And they were doing
1:11:17
jiu-jitsu and they just kept training really hard and they
1:11:20
got real sick. Because if you get
1:11:22
sick while you're broken down from training,
1:11:25
like if you have a really hard,
1:11:27
really hard workout is, the whole thing
1:11:29
is it makes your body stronger because
1:11:31
it breaks you down and then your
1:11:33
body has to build back up again.
1:11:35
I gotta have to help build a
1:11:38
body here. We can have
1:11:40
you build a body here. Asan's been working out. We
1:11:43
can have you come in here. I do laps in my hot tub, man.
1:11:45
That's as much as I do. I
1:11:47
don't need much. Well, you should do a
1:11:49
little something. You don't have to do anything rigorous. Actually,
1:11:51
I heard you say once, do
1:11:53
100 push-ups a day and it'll change your life.
1:11:56
And it fucking did. Just,
1:11:59
I couldn't do. You know, I did 50, now
1:12:02
I can do 100 no problem. Yeah, that'll
1:12:04
change your life. And my whole
1:12:06
everything, it's like, you gotta do what you're
1:12:08
willing to do. It can't be much. Well
1:12:10
you gotta have some activity. Your body needs
1:12:12
activity. Your body, so
1:12:14
my point is, if
1:12:16
you break yourself down from really hard workouts,
1:12:19
you will get fucking sick sick. Like the
1:12:21
sickest I've ever been is when
1:12:23
I got sick because I was working out really hard.
1:12:26
Because when that happens, then it hits you and
1:12:28
you just fucking get wrecked. And I knew a
1:12:30
bunch of people that did that. But
1:12:33
you just gotta be smart. Yeah. And
1:12:35
like a lot of tough guys are not smart. Because
1:12:37
they're just too tough. They're too tough and
1:12:40
they make these decisions like I'll just fucking
1:12:42
power through. Our ape brain, our man cave
1:12:44
brain, you know, it takes
1:12:46
over. It does, but that's also what makes
1:12:48
you successful. That stupid part of your brain
1:12:50
that can just power through things, that's what
1:12:53
makes you get up in the morning, that
1:12:55
gives you discipline. Yeah, yeah. That also can
1:12:57
fuck you up. It can fuck you up.
1:12:59
Yeah, it can fuck, you have to know,
1:13:02
you have to be the general of the army.
1:13:04
Yeah. You have to understand what's
1:13:06
going on. You can't always just be the soldier.
1:13:08
Sometimes you have to be strategic about it. Like
1:13:10
no, no, no, hold is not
1:13:12
the time to attack. Well you need people
1:13:15
you really trust who can tell you. I
1:13:17
mean, the weekend that I just filmed, I've
1:13:19
stayed up for three days straight to finish
1:13:21
editing it. So I've never done that. And
1:13:23
I remember doing it going, this is, I
1:13:26
don't know if this is really stupid or really smart,
1:13:29
but Biden can die any day and half of
1:13:31
your set is about Biden. The
1:13:33
wind could take him out, man. And
1:13:36
so I just did three days, you know,
1:13:38
couple hours of sleep. That's hilarious. It's like
1:13:40
a race to see if he dies. I
1:13:42
was supposed to film it in August in
1:13:45
Chicago. And I go, no, if he dies,
1:13:47
this is useless. There's three
1:13:49
years of honing these fucking jokes in.
1:13:54
And that's such a crazy mindset. I
1:13:56
got to get it out before the president dies. I
1:13:58
got to beat his funeral. Oh
1:14:00
my god. Do you think he do you think that they're gonna
1:14:02
put in Gavin Newsom? Oh That's
1:14:06
what I think I keep thinking like
1:14:08
every day. I'm waiting waiting for the
1:14:10
big announcement in the news He is so
1:14:12
repulsive man. He's repulsive, but he knows how
1:14:15
to talk that's all and he's attractive. God.
1:14:17
Damn it He's got a nice hair hot
1:14:19
privilege. Yeah, he's a he's a smooth gas
1:14:21
lighter and He's got
1:14:23
that serial killer face though super good at running a
1:14:25
state into the ground He
1:14:28
talks like he's rapping, you know, he'd like
1:14:30
yeah, we're gonna shut down. Yeah. Well,
1:14:32
it scares me. It's very practiced He's
1:14:35
a performer, you know, but
1:14:37
that's what half this country wants They want someone who's
1:14:39
just gonna make them feel good enough to go to
1:14:41
work every day Sure. Well as
1:14:43
their rights get eroded. Yeah slowly, but
1:14:45
surely Kamala Harris, that would be interesting
1:14:47
even to have her for one day
1:14:49
As president brother been hiding that lady.
1:14:51
That would be interesting. No No
1:14:56
That's what rest is gonna attack. You know, I got
1:14:58
kicked out of a comedy club for doing an impression
1:15:00
of her No, yeah, what they said
1:15:02
it's no longer okay for a straight white guy
1:15:05
to do an impression of a retarded hyena Wow.
1:15:08
Yeah What was the
1:15:10
club? It was
1:15:12
like I make shift thing during kovat It
1:15:16
was this outdoor thing and I got
1:15:18
thrown out they go you're racist I was
1:15:21
like, oh my god, and I got thrown
1:15:23
to the curb Wow because I couldn't do
1:15:25
the club So is unvaccinated. I hate saying
1:15:27
unvaccinated that makes it sound like the vaccine.
1:15:30
It's like being I'm I
1:15:32
didn't get circumcised I don't like being
1:15:34
called uncircumcised. Right? Yeah, so you can't
1:15:36
un something that just is right The
1:15:39
chop the chop. Yeah. Yeah, I hate
1:15:41
that it is we're careful with the
1:15:43
way we phrase your unvax It's like
1:15:45
fuck you. I'm just a human with
1:15:47
blood regular blood and you got Fauci
1:15:49
juice Trump Fauci juice Foot
1:15:51
around your body warp speed juice inside
1:15:54
of you son warp speed and
1:15:56
so did the the joke go over well Did
1:15:58
it get a good laugh? I was just
1:16:00
kind of talking about race and stuff,
1:16:02
and you're a racist, and the
1:16:05
manager came and physically threw me
1:16:07
to the curb, and I just remember, what the, what
1:16:10
is going on? When I started comedy, you
1:16:13
know, I started around the time of like
1:16:15
Sam Morrill and Mark Normand, and I started
1:16:17
two years after them, and we
1:16:19
were still doing open mics. You'd see Mark Normand on
1:16:21
The Tonight Show, and then back at the club, hey,
1:16:24
hey, comedy, all right, you're gay, I'm fat, praise, I
1:16:26
lie, hey, ha! And
1:16:29
we would say the craziest shit, and
1:16:31
it made you good, and then suddenly it was like,
1:16:33
you can't say this, you can't say that, you can't
1:16:35
say that, and it's all made
1:16:38
up, it's all made up. It all happened
1:16:40
during the Obama administration. It was a wave
1:16:42
of it, and Dave Smith
1:16:44
has tracked it. It's really interesting
1:16:47
to describe it. He
1:16:49
describes like when the phrases, all
1:16:51
the different catch phrases, that
1:16:54
all of it's around 2012. It's
1:16:56
like this big ramp up of
1:16:59
all these things, racism, all these,
1:17:01
transphobia, all this big ramp up
1:17:03
of all these issues happened
1:17:05
around 2012. I'm
1:17:09
transphobic, but that just means because I'm afraid
1:17:11
of them. Joe, I've
1:17:13
gone out with two by accident.
1:17:15
Yeah? Yeah, I used to
1:17:18
do online dating, and they would have
1:17:20
good angles, the surgery's getting good too.
1:17:23
And if they're Asian, phew, game over.
1:17:27
So I was on a date with, it was
1:17:29
a black woman, it turned out to be
1:17:31
a man. And
1:17:34
I had a complete mental breakdown. I
1:17:36
ran in the bathroom, I called my friend, I go, I'm
1:17:38
out with a dude, and he wants
1:17:40
to fuck me. He wants to take me home.
1:17:42
Jesus. Yeah, yeah, that happened twice.
1:17:45
So did they explain to you that they had
1:17:47
a dick? No, no. No,
1:17:49
no. If you're dealing with
1:17:51
someone who has a, I'm not saying all people that,
1:17:54
I don't even think trans is, it's all fucking,
1:17:56
just makes you have a seizure. But
1:17:58
no, they don't, a lot of them don't. tell you. Well
1:18:01
a lot of them feel like
1:18:03
you don't have to tell. I was
1:18:05
actually watching a podcast where a comic
1:18:08
was arguing that you shouldn't have to
1:18:10
tell someone that you're trans if
1:18:12
you're dating them even if you're having sex with
1:18:15
them. Hmm well you're
1:18:17
gonna find out. A comic was arguing that.
1:18:19
When they're fucking vagina comes apart. And they
1:18:21
were doing it in just this woke compliant
1:18:24
way. It wasn't like they had a well-thought-out
1:18:26
point. It was just like yeah why should
1:18:28
you have to tell people like what the
1:18:30
fuck are you talking about? What are you
1:18:32
talking about? You should tell people if you
1:18:34
have bad credit. You
1:18:37
should tell people if you're gonna get involved in
1:18:39
a romantic relationship with someone and you owe
1:18:42
the government a hundred thousand dollars in taxes. You should
1:18:44
have to fucking tell people that. Like I might be
1:18:46
in trouble. I might have to run to Costa Rica.
1:18:48
Yeah you should have to tell people a lot of
1:18:50
things. Yeah well it's
1:18:53
that that's the new way. It's just this compliance
1:18:55
for all this new shit that didn't exist a
1:18:57
couple years ago. Well the thing is that they
1:19:00
want to say that trans women are women so why should they
1:19:02
have to tell you? I think it's
1:19:04
transphobic to call somebody trans because
1:19:07
if they're an actual woman they're just a woman. So
1:19:09
why you calling them trans? You can't transition if
1:19:12
you were born a woman and you feel like
1:19:14
a woman. You really want to support people like
1:19:16
this? Trans shouldn't be on
1:19:18
the fucking table. That's a woman. With
1:19:21
a dick though. With the
1:19:23
dick. Yeah so that's how you say trans woman. The woman
1:19:25
with the dick. Just so to let everybody know. Just say
1:19:27
woman with a dick. A
1:19:29
dick person yeah. A
1:19:31
dick holding person. Dick holding person. For now they might
1:19:34
decide to get rid of the dick. Oh
1:19:36
man I wonder what that's that's the thing
1:19:38
I wonder if I've ever even. Yeah
1:19:44
yeah. They should show the surgery. You
1:19:47
want kids to get involved. They should
1:19:49
show the surgery of taking your forearm skin
1:19:51
and building a penis. Well it's hard
1:19:54
enough having God given penis. Imagine one
1:19:56
built by a bunch
1:19:58
of like arteries and. woman
1:22:00
to kind of keep you in check. So
1:22:02
men have been adapting. Vikings. That's
1:22:05
where Vikings came from. Yeah. That's where
1:22:07
pirates came from. Yeah. You
1:22:09
leave men alone and not have a bunch of
1:22:11
women around going, hey, slow the fuck down. Slow
1:22:14
down. Then you have battle
1:22:16
axes. Get me the... Boats full
1:22:18
of savages, storming villages. Yeah. Yeah.
1:22:21
Yeah. And so that's the
1:22:24
over correction. That's the over correction
1:22:26
is you get these incredibly feminized men. One
1:22:29
of the ways that happens is jobs,
1:22:31
right? So you have a job and
1:22:33
you're in this social structure for
1:22:35
eight hours a day that is
1:22:38
very unnatural and weird. And
1:22:40
most companies have DEI scores
1:22:42
and most companies have all
1:22:45
these different requirements and they're
1:22:47
openly allowed to discriminate against
1:22:49
especially heterosexual white men. I
1:22:51
mean, no one or two
1:22:53
things about that. Yeah. A
1:22:56
thing that Elon tweeted, I think
1:23:00
today or yesterday in response to
1:23:02
one of these things at Disney
1:23:04
where one of the guys at
1:23:06
Disney openly said, I would
1:23:09
never hire a straight white man. I
1:23:13
have that on tape. You know, I have a lawsuit. Yeah.
1:23:16
Well, that's why I'm bringing this up. Yeah. Yeah. I
1:23:19
mean... So you and I talked about it in the green room. And tell
1:23:21
your story. Tell what happened and how this all...
1:23:23
This shit fest. Yeah. It's
1:23:26
quite a long story. I
1:23:29
mean, when I started comedy and started,
1:23:31
I've been doing 20 years. So
1:23:34
I've been on TV, TV shows,
1:23:36
guest stars, co-stars. You
1:23:38
never really heard, you know,
1:23:40
that's too many white guys or it's getting
1:23:43
a little too white. And then
1:23:45
I remember like at comedy clubs, you just start
1:23:47
to hear people say, you know,
1:23:49
there's too many white guys, too many fucking white
1:23:51
guys. And then
1:23:54
it became quite popular to
1:23:56
just start to say, there's too
1:23:59
many of you guys. tape
1:28:01
and I just... What did you get on
1:28:03
tape? I got him literally saying
1:28:06
we will not represent white men and
1:28:08
its company policy. He said
1:28:10
it in plain it's not it couldn't be any more
1:28:12
clear. He said we cannot
1:28:15
work with you just because you're skin color.
1:28:17
And where were you when you recorded this?
1:28:19
Were you in New York? Yeah I was
1:28:21
in New York so you're allowed to do
1:28:23
it. I didn't even know that. Do you have
1:28:26
to tell them that you're recording? No. I
1:28:28
was sitting at my pot I did like a little because I
1:28:31
couldn't work because of the vaccine stuff so
1:28:33
I was just locked in my room for
1:28:35
two years making Instagram videos. I mean I
1:28:37
went from zero to a million over a
1:28:40
million followers just from I was doing Fauci
1:28:42
every day doing cameos going on the radio
1:28:44
is Fauci is and
1:28:46
it was just bizarre and but
1:28:48
it did it it it fucked me
1:28:51
up because it was
1:28:54
so it's so confusing to have someone go you are the
1:28:56
man for the job I had a great resume I mean
1:28:58
I was I was being considered for
1:29:00
big Hollywood roles I
1:29:02
was brought in for a sneaky Pete Giovanni Ribisi
1:29:04
I was up for that role and
1:29:07
making my own films and
1:29:12
yeah it fucked me up I got
1:29:14
really depressed I lost my mind. And
1:29:16
so when you recorded this
1:29:18
on tape what happened after you recorded on
1:29:21
tape? After that I
1:29:23
was too afraid because when I would tell people
1:29:25
about this they would go well whatever white guys
1:29:27
have had it good you know I'm going I
1:29:29
just fucking got here. But isn't that one of
1:29:31
the things that someone said to you like why
1:29:34
guys have had a good run? People
1:29:36
say that to me all the time. But wasn't that one of the things
1:29:38
that one of the agents had said to you? I mean
1:29:41
maybe I don't
1:29:43
know if an agent said that but but you
1:29:45
were telling me that someone said it to you.
1:29:47
Comedy yeah comedy clubs a lot
1:29:49
of not necessarily clubs but like the independent
1:29:51
run shows there would be note there would
1:29:53
be like no white people allowed shows. What?
1:29:56
Yeah oh yeah oh yeah yeah I was
1:29:58
at a club and I did a spot
1:30:00
guy goes, you go in on the next show? And
1:30:03
I go, yeah, he goes, I didn't know you were
1:30:05
in the LGBT plus two RQR community. And I go,
1:30:07
what? He goes, yeah, it's only no straight people allowed.
1:30:09
I was like, what the fuck? What
1:30:12
the fuck is going on? And
1:30:15
so I, after that, I waited
1:30:17
a while. I
1:30:21
talked to my therapist, I just didn't know what to do.
1:30:23
Cause I didn't want that to become a force
1:30:26
of its own. I wanted to have
1:30:30
my talent lead the way, which it had always
1:30:32
been doing. And it's
1:30:34
tough to have people call it, you say, oh,
1:30:36
you're just being a victim or whatever. And it's
1:30:38
like, yeah, sometimes you're a victim and you
1:30:40
have to fight it to heal from it and to move on
1:30:42
from it. And so I thought
1:30:44
if I don't fight this, I'm
1:30:47
going to kill myself because it was so, it's
1:30:49
so humiliating to have someone go, your skin color
1:30:51
is just, it's just not the time for it.
1:30:54
And so I just thought, I'm
1:30:57
going to go for it. And I just put it on
1:30:59
Instagram. I said, hey, I just got
1:31:02
turned down for being white, any attorneys out
1:31:04
there. And one guy reached out
1:31:06
and goes, I'm a discrimination attorney. He goes, this is
1:31:08
one of the most clear acts
1:31:10
of discrimination I've ever seen. He said,
1:31:12
it's so clear cut.
1:31:16
And so that was a couple
1:31:18
of years ago. So it's an ongoing thing. These
1:31:20
things take a long time, but.
1:31:22
And so what are you, you're suing for
1:31:25
discrimination? Is that what you're suing for? Yeah,
1:31:27
yeah, yeah. Every race is protected
1:31:29
under the civil rights
1:31:32
laws. There's no. Isn't that crazy
1:31:34
though, that they would think they're
1:31:36
so captured by this fucking mind
1:31:38
virus that they would think
1:31:40
it's okay to be racist to white people.
1:31:42
Not only okay, but like celebratory. Yeah. Wild.
1:31:45
Yeah, and I don't let people fucking do
1:31:48
that to me. People think I'm just this
1:31:50
nice little, I'm a fucking animal. When
1:31:53
you grow up in a crazy environment and
1:31:55
you survive it, man, it's
1:31:57
like fucking come at me. I
1:32:00
said, I'm gonna, it's a hill I'll die on, I
1:32:02
don't care. I was like, this is
1:32:04
war, we are in a full-blown culture war. And
1:32:07
I would give up everything for it.
1:32:10
Because I also
1:32:13
owe it to, you
1:32:15
know, people that can't fight for themselves. I
1:32:18
had this 10 year period where this shit
1:32:20
wasn't going on. I built up my acting
1:32:22
chops, my comedy chops, with nobody saying, you
1:32:24
can't do that, you can't say that. And
1:32:26
so I had this kind of, you know,
1:32:29
this energy. I
1:32:31
go, I have to, no one's gonna do it
1:32:34
for you, you know? I saw Jordan Peterson fight
1:32:36
for that Bill C-16 thing. And
1:32:39
I go, holy shit, watching, it's
1:32:42
worth watching the Congressional hearing in Canada
1:32:44
where he's explaining, you can't compel speech,
1:32:46
you can't tell somebody, you have to
1:32:48
say my pronouns, or you go to
1:32:51
jail. He's like, this is gonna get
1:32:53
out of fucking control. Everything he said came
1:32:55
true. I had him
1:32:57
on at the beginning of that stuff.
1:33:00
And I remember people saying to me, like,
1:33:02
why do you care about what happens? These
1:33:05
obscure moments that happen in these
1:33:07
universities. And I had Brett
1:33:09
Weinstein on after the Evergreen College thing, same kind
1:33:11
of thing. And I
1:33:14
was saying, like, do you know, these people are gonna
1:33:16
graduate. Do you understand what, this
1:33:18
is the future. These attitudes
1:33:20
that are being, these kids
1:33:22
are being indoctrinated into these mindsets,
1:33:25
they're gonna expand and they're
1:33:27
gonna be involved in the workplace and they're
1:33:29
gonna be involved in politics and culture. This
1:33:32
mind virus is going to go everywhere.
1:33:34
And you gotta say what it is. You
1:33:36
gotta call it out when you see it.
1:33:39
This is kinda crazy. And
1:33:42
obviously all these years later, I mean, this was like 2016, I
1:33:44
guess. So here
1:33:46
we are, you know. Well,
1:33:48
he's part of the reason I pursued this, Jordan,
1:33:51
because I just, he's like, you have to tell
1:33:53
the truth. That's it. Tell the truth. Or
1:33:55
tell the truth or at least don't lie. You
1:33:57
know, it's like, well, it's like you can't bloody.
1:33:59
I just upheld my speech, you know? That's
1:34:02
a pretty good impression. Clean your damn room, you know?
1:34:04
It's like finger a cat, rescue your father from the
1:34:06
belt. It's like, well, you know, it's like, you
1:34:09
know. I had to develop that one. That's
1:34:11
a good one. You know why? Because I
1:34:13
was in a little emasculated little he-him living
1:34:16
in New York, and I
1:34:18
would sit in my room and watch his
1:34:20
lectures with my fucking head would explode. I
1:34:22
go, holy, this is all the shit that
1:34:24
I think and feel, but I haven't been
1:34:26
able to articulate. He's a brilliant guy. And
1:34:29
my life changed forever. Once I heard him
1:34:31
say that, tell the truth, at least don't lie,
1:34:33
and my life has changed. That
1:34:36
video of him with Kathy Newman, have
1:34:38
you seen that? That's amazing. I watch that every week.
1:34:41
Yeah, it's amazing. It's a masterclass in how people
1:34:43
will try to bend your way, and he does
1:34:45
not bend. He'll be like, well,
1:34:48
you know, women need to like, contend in the
1:34:50
workplace. So what you're saying is women should just
1:34:52
be raped in the break room. It's like, no,
1:34:54
it's like, I'm not saying that. It's
1:34:57
a funny conversation because it's all that
1:34:59
gotcha shit gone wrong because
1:35:01
you're doing it with a skilled person,
1:35:03
a skilled linguist, and someone who really
1:35:06
understands what he's saying and has a
1:35:08
deep understanding of the history of
1:35:11
Marxist and Leninist philosophy and what
1:35:13
it leads to, what communism
1:35:15
and socialism actually leads to. What
1:35:17
you're actually saying is by forcing
1:35:20
people to comply, there's
1:35:23
only one way you force people to comply, and
1:35:26
that's violence. That is the only way. Ultimately, it
1:35:28
will, we're gonna put you in jail. What happens
1:35:30
if I resist? We're gonna kill you. It gets
1:35:32
to that. It gets to violence. We're gonna grab you, we're
1:35:34
gonna hunt you down, we're gonna put you in a cage,
1:35:36
and then we're gonna force everybody else to comply as well,
1:35:38
and this is what he's saying. It's like, you cannot
1:35:41
go down this path if you do
1:35:43
not know where it leads to. You
1:35:45
can't think you're being virtuous by standing
1:35:47
up for this disenfranchised and imposing this,
1:35:50
especially the gender pronoun thing, which
1:35:52
at that point in time, there
1:35:54
was 78 different recognized gender pronouns.
1:35:56
Yeah. Like, who knows how many there are
1:35:58
now? Like, now it's nuts. Not a thousand. It's just
1:36:00
like people just make things up and that's what's the
1:36:02
fun thing about tick-tock. China is so
1:36:05
clever Oh my god, they're so good with
1:36:07
to tick-tock is so good It's
1:36:09
so they're so smart what they
1:36:11
did and then to show you these
1:36:14
outrageous people Over and over
1:36:16
again with fake eyelashes reading stories to
1:36:18
kids just freaking everybody out with a
1:36:20
bunch of different You know, I'm two-spirit
1:36:22
and I'm this and that and I'm
1:36:25
trans masculine with the fucking the whole
1:36:27
thing is just nuts And then shutting
1:36:29
down free speech. I mean I've
1:36:31
been I've been banned for shut down for
1:36:33
three years They froze my I was going
1:36:36
for all my and damn it shit. Oh,
1:36:38
they check talk. They banned you. What'd you
1:36:40
do? They've well, they don't tell you they
1:36:42
don't have to be times being white boy.
1:36:44
I was texting on white Yeah, they don't
1:36:46
have to tell you that's part of when
1:36:48
you sign up, right? Especially tick-tock and it's
1:36:50
common. It's a communist Chinese. We are let
1:36:53
it's an act of war living in our pocket I
1:36:56
can't believe it's the one I don't use well, I
1:36:58
was telling you I changed my name
1:37:01
to queer disabled comedian And
1:37:03
suddenly they let me I started
1:37:05
getting ad offers from tick-tock And
1:37:10
then when I did the the bit about
1:37:13
where I come out on stages gay that was
1:37:15
the first video that they let Kind
1:37:17
of through because because the
1:37:19
algorithm let it through probably reviewed
1:37:22
eventually Yeah, it just
1:37:24
got removed I just
1:37:26
posted it again because I'm like fuck you
1:37:28
so I keep posting these things over and
1:37:30
over You just posted under different names. Yeah.
1:37:32
Yeah, my youngest daughter is obsessed with the
1:37:34
vegan teacher The vegan teachers is
1:37:37
crazy lady on tick-tock That's like this crazy
1:37:39
vegan lady and she keeps getting banned And
1:37:41
so they keep bringing her she keeps making up new
1:37:44
accounts and coming back So
1:37:49
they what I do on stage I keep coming up
1:37:51
with new identities to see what I can get away
1:37:53
with was this oh This is
1:37:55
his yeah, that's been frozen for
1:37:57
three years Wow. Yeah
1:38:00
And look at the first video like that's how many views
1:38:02
all of my videos used to get 3.1 million Yeah,
1:38:05
I was blowing up like I was getting like
1:38:07
ten twenty thousand followers a day and then uh,
1:38:09
wow Yeah, wow
1:38:12
and that's the difference between a comic selling out
1:38:14
a theater and Half
1:38:17
filling a club. Yeah, you know that
1:38:19
type of exposure. Oh for sure. Especially
1:38:21
comically He was actually very funny when
1:38:23
you have these Messages
1:38:25
that come and say that
1:38:27
your accounts being frozen. They
1:38:29
don't give you any reason
1:38:31
do they say non-compliance or
1:38:33
community standards? Say disinformation hateful
1:38:35
behavior. What did they say?
1:38:38
Each one is different You know mean like
1:38:40
each video when they pulled your account, what
1:38:42
did they say? Oh, yeah hateful behavior Hey,
1:38:45
my Instagram got pulled too. No,
1:38:47
oh, bro. That's when I lost it When
1:38:49
did that was the only back now, right?
1:38:51
It's back. I by the grace of
1:38:53
God I met somebody outside the comedy seller and
1:38:56
she goes can I follow you on Instagram? I said
1:38:58
no, I'm like they just they just banned my account
1:39:00
and that was the only way I was making money
1:39:03
Was selling tickets from my Instagram videos and
1:39:05
going on the road and this
1:39:07
girl said I she goes I just quit working
1:39:10
there and and I said can
1:39:12
they just turn you off and on she goes? Yeah I
1:39:15
go, can you have my account turn back
1:39:17
on? She was absolutely She
1:39:19
gave I gave her my information. She sent it to
1:39:22
somebody in Instagram. They just flipped the switch switch back
1:39:24
on the next day I was back So
1:39:27
is it just completely subjective based on one employee
1:39:30
decides? You're offensive. Yes,
1:39:32
they have a whole fucking department and if
1:39:34
they go well, they got two complaints or
1:39:37
whatever he's being transphobic or whatever the fuck
1:39:39
bullshit is going on at the time and
1:39:42
That you can't have that with art. No,
1:39:45
especially not comedy especially not calm I
1:39:47
mean the whole idea is to push
1:39:50
limits and the whole idea is to
1:39:52
like walk that crazy line and say
1:39:54
wild shit for fun It's just fun.
1:39:56
These aren't like you can't put them
1:39:59
in the same categories as hate
1:40:01
speech because no one's trying to be
1:40:03
hateful they're just trying to get laughs
1:40:05
and they're getting laughs oftentimes by saying
1:40:07
something that the audience knows they don't
1:40:09
mean they're saying it because it's funny
1:40:11
not because it's true not because they
1:40:13
want you to think it's true because
1:40:15
it's a ridiculous thing to say and
1:40:18
it's a funny thing to say and
1:40:20
when you hear the audience laugh that
1:40:23
means it worked it was effective it
1:40:25
doesn't mean you can then put that
1:40:27
in print and say that this is
1:40:30
an anti LBGTQT who gets to decide
1:40:32
AI to who gets
1:40:34
to decide it's like it'd be
1:40:36
like pointing to a random person in the
1:40:38
crowd at the mothership going you get to
1:40:40
pick what's hateful and what's not yeah what
1:40:42
comedians exactly but also like to have random
1:40:45
people working at Instagram that get to get
1:40:47
to decide that or tick tock they just
1:40:49
get to decide that yeah so
1:40:51
crazy and you know we know well thank God
1:40:53
for Elon Musk and and Twitter and X now
1:40:55
whatever I'm never calling I hate that well porn
1:40:57
pops every time you it's kind of crazy is
1:41:00
that porn on it but that was always no
1:41:02
but I mean X all every porn site is
1:41:04
like XXX so you type it in and usually
1:41:07
a porn site pops up well that's maybe your
1:41:09
browsing history while that's some talking about friend of
1:41:11
mine um but at least on
1:41:13
that site you don't have to worry about that
1:41:15
shit you could you can get wild you could
1:41:17
do whatever the fuck you want there I got
1:41:19
banned the day where we key actually
1:41:22
I had his attorney reach out to him
1:41:24
personally because I was banned right
1:41:26
before he started and and
1:41:29
I go oh Elon's taking over I'm they're
1:41:31
gonna give me my account back and you
1:41:33
know it just didn't happen and
1:41:36
I was doing an RFK
1:41:38
fundraiser I was doing stand-up with
1:41:40
RFK jr. and his
1:41:42
attorney Elon's attorney was there and
1:41:45
he and she texted him or something
1:41:48
so I'm gonna pretty cool turn it will turn it back on it's
1:41:50
you know so well it's pretty funny
1:41:52
we'll get it right we're gonna get it going again
1:41:54
so well there's no way he could have known I
1:41:56
mean there's so no there's so many fucking I can't
1:41:58
I'm about bunch of people
1:42:00
that had gotten unfairly banned, including
1:42:03
Megan Murphy, who got unfairly banned for saying
1:42:05
that a man is never a woman. They
1:42:08
banned her forever. Well, good.
1:42:10
Now she's back. Fucking racist. She's a
1:42:12
feminist. It's so crazy. She
1:42:15
was just arguing that trans men
1:42:18
or trans women are invading women's
1:42:20
spaces and imposing masculine behavior
1:42:22
and masculine character. They're acting like
1:42:24
men and taking over women's spaces.
1:42:27
Well, that was actually the only way to get
1:42:29
a movie role for me. I was in that
1:42:31
Daily Wire lady ball. And
1:42:34
I thought, how funny that I get kind of
1:42:36
canceled for being a white guy. And
1:42:39
now the first role, actually, no, I was
1:42:41
in the Western with Gina Carano. Oh,
1:42:44
the one with cowboy? Yeah. Cowboys are
1:42:46
all right to kick him in the fucking nuts. Did you? Got
1:42:48
to beat the shit out of him. That's hilarious.
1:42:51
That must have been terrifying. Oh, we fought every
1:42:53
day. Yeah, he almost killed me. That must have
1:42:55
been terrifying. There was a scene where fake hit
1:42:57
that guy. No, not fake. He goes, fucking get
1:42:59
me in the nuts. And he goes, so he
1:43:01
had me actually kick me in the nuts. Do
1:43:03
you have a cup on? No. And
1:43:05
I was like, dude, if you're fucking with me and I do
1:43:07
this and you kill me, this is not. And
1:43:10
he's like, fucking. And I ran and kicked him
1:43:12
in the nuts. We had to do it like five
1:43:14
times. Oh my God. That guy is an animal. Oh,
1:43:16
he's a savage. He would be like, let's just improvise
1:43:18
the fight scenes. I'm like, I'm
1:43:20
a Lego next to you, dude. Yeah.
1:43:24
He's too wild. He's
1:43:27
wild. He's so crazy. And
1:43:29
Gina, man, she is a monster. I
1:43:31
mean, the stuff she had to do
1:43:33
in that film every day, get fucking
1:43:35
killed and raped and beat up and
1:43:38
she, they found me on Instagram. I
1:43:42
was on my couch depressed and
1:43:44
I got a DM,
1:43:46
do you want to interview or audition for the
1:43:48
new Gina Carona movie? That's great.
1:43:51
And she just, she's suing Disney right
1:43:53
now. Yeah. I
1:43:55
mean, she should win. I hope so. I
1:43:57
mean, what she did was, I mean, the whole thing is just so, everyone's so.
1:44:00
crazy. Everybody
1:44:02
gets so nuts and it happens so
1:44:04
fast. It's a wild
1:44:06
ride from like 2017 on. It's
1:44:10
like once Trump got into office, there
1:44:12
was like all the women's marches. Remember
1:44:14
those? Yeah, that's where I got pussy.
1:44:17
Yeah, but those were like everybody,
1:44:19
they were women. It was
1:44:22
just women. Yeah. It wasn't like,
1:44:24
what's a woman? No. It's like
1:44:26
there they are. No. Women are
1:44:28
marching. Pussy hat's on. There's no dudes
1:44:30
and wigs. A couple years, this mass
1:44:33
wave of confusion just goes through the
1:44:35
culture and everybody's at each
1:44:37
other's throats on social media. I
1:44:39
never like
1:44:42
interact on social media. I just don't
1:44:44
do it. You can't. I
1:44:46
don't think it's good for you. You can't. Yeah,
1:44:48
I think it's- I've taken the bait a couple
1:44:50
times. I mean, you know, it's, if you're just
1:44:52
a regular person and then suddenly start blowing
1:44:54
up or whatever and people are calling you
1:44:56
all the worst possible names in the world.
1:44:59
It's a little alarming at first and you
1:45:01
want to defend yourself, but now, I mean,
1:45:03
you can't. I think if you wanted
1:45:05
to really engage people on actual ideas, you'd have
1:45:07
to do it anonymously. I think
1:45:09
if you really want to, like, if you want to
1:45:12
have honest discussions with people
1:45:14
publicly about stuff, you're
1:45:16
really better off doing it anonymously. Because if
1:45:18
you did it anonymously, and I don't have
1:45:20
any desire to do this either, but if
1:45:22
you do it anonymously, at least you could-
1:45:24
there's no personal attacks. No one knows who
1:45:26
you are. No one knows anything about you.
1:45:28
You could just talk about this issue. You
1:45:30
know, whatever the issue is, like AI,
1:45:33
whatever it is, whatever it is, is people are
1:45:35
debating online. You could have discussions about it. You
1:45:38
know, like people do on 4chan or
1:45:40
something like that or Reddit. Like, you have a
1:45:42
fucking crazy fake screen name. No one has to
1:45:44
know who you are. And you can talk about
1:45:46
things. But if you're a public
1:45:48
person like you are and you're going- like,
1:45:50
I see people arguing with people back and
1:45:52
forth about the quality of their work. Musicians
1:45:56
arguing with fans or trolls about whether
1:45:58
or not they're last- album was good.
1:46:00
I'm like, what are you doing, man? You
1:46:03
were inviting mental illness into your home. You
1:46:06
got to disconnect. Disconnect, man. Disconnect.
1:46:08
Most people are not disconnected because
1:46:10
it is the one form of
1:46:12
conflict that they can engage in
1:46:14
that doesn't really have consequences, unless
1:46:16
you say something really crazy and
1:46:18
then it goes public. But that's
1:46:20
pretty rare. Most people are just
1:46:22
attacking people randomly, getting out their
1:46:24
aggression, just attacking people and engaging
1:46:26
in arguments online. It's like, my
1:46:28
God. It's a great distraction, though.
1:46:31
To make it in our industry, it takes 100%
1:46:33
of your time and effort.
1:46:36
I'm in almost 20 years to
1:46:38
the point where I can now
1:46:41
not worry about feeding myself.
1:46:43
Well, you came to my attention because of
1:46:46
the videos. That's what I found out about
1:46:48
you. And then comics. Comics will all
1:46:50
have very high praise of you. So that's a nice
1:46:52
thing to know. It's a nice thing to know. Hey,
1:46:55
hey, comedy. That
1:46:57
was actually Mark Norman laughing at your
1:46:59
jokes when you were new was like
1:47:01
the first Tonight Show. Oh, yeah. And
1:47:04
he would just go, ha. So
1:47:06
all the comics, that became the way
1:47:08
to let somebody know you were good.
1:47:10
Everyone would do the Mark Norman laugh.
1:47:13
So nobody would actually give a genuine laugh.
1:47:15
But if you're like, hey, ha, ha, ha,
1:47:17
you're like, all right. Someone says that's a
1:47:19
good one. Yeah, because a lot of times
1:47:21
when someone has a really funny joke, I'm
1:47:23
always like, ah, that's good. That's
1:47:25
good. You know, that's the same thing. Yeah. And
1:47:27
you know what I did actually, because
1:47:29
I was so afraid to say
1:47:32
what I actually thought, I started doing impressions because
1:47:34
I would do my joke, my I would get
1:47:36
my real thoughts out through my impressions and people
1:47:38
would link it to them. So like, I'd be
1:47:41
talking about feminism doing Bill Burby like, right, I
1:47:43
went out with this girl last night, this fucking
1:47:45
cunt, right? Actually, toxic masculine,
1:47:47
right? It's fucking brutal, right? I
1:47:49
got to listen to that shit on a fucking Monday.
1:47:52
And everybody would erupt and I'd go, oh my
1:47:55
God, they think that was Bill Burst's thought. That
1:47:58
was me. Right. And so my whole The whole
1:48:00
act became just doing Trump,
1:48:03
all sorts of stuff. And I'm pulling back from that
1:48:05
a little now that I have some balls. I've grown
1:48:07
some balls. But it's still a fun way to do
1:48:09
it. It's still a fun way to do it. Yeah.
1:48:12
It's a nice little way that you
1:48:14
can sneak things in. Yeah. Yeah.
1:48:18
Do you do it? You're pretty good at
1:48:20
them. Impressions? Yeah. I have
1:48:22
a limited range. The ones that I do, I can do good, but
1:48:24
I have a limited range. Have you
1:48:26
ever done them on stage? Yeah.
1:48:29
I used to do a Mike Tyson impression. Because
1:48:31
Mike Tyson yelled at some guy in the audience that
1:48:33
he would fuck until he loved him. And
1:48:36
I was like, do you have any idea how long that
1:48:38
would take? And he
1:48:40
would have to decide. He would have to decide if
1:48:42
he loved him. Oh yeah, I remember that. I could
1:48:44
do Tyson. I could do a
1:48:46
few different people. It's so funny
1:48:48
when people say it's cheap or stupid. I go,
1:48:50
you just did an impression of your mom or
1:48:52
the mailman. Everybody's doing, you know.
1:48:55
Fuck those people. Yeah. It's
1:48:58
funny, it's funny. If it's good, it's good. If it's
1:49:00
not good, you won't laugh. That's it. End
1:49:02
of story. Do you need this later? Yeah, thanks.
1:49:06
We all know cheap stuff, but cheap stuff's not
1:49:08
impressions. Some great people
1:49:10
do great impressions, and it's part of the
1:49:12
fun of watching them on stage. Like
1:49:15
when Shane does Trump. Yeah. You know,
1:49:17
it's like, it's so good. It's so crazy good,
1:49:19
where he does Conor McGregor. It's
1:49:21
like, it's fun. I haven't heard of
1:49:23
Conor McGregor. Yeah, he does Conor McGregor
1:49:25
in Roadhouse. It's very funny. But
1:49:28
it's just, it's fun. And the crowd
1:49:30
loves it, and you're there to please the crowd. I
1:49:32
am one of the crowd. I love it. Yeah.
1:49:36
You know, this idea, this, it's all
1:49:38
perpetrated by artists who can't, either can't
1:49:40
do the impressions or under this false
1:49:43
idea that there's like a way
1:49:45
that you're supposed to do comedy.
1:49:47
Like there was an alt way that you were supposed to do comedy where
1:49:49
you weren't supposed to try hard. Oh, God. There
1:49:51
was a lot of that. There was a lot of that. And if you
1:49:53
acted things out or you have too much energy, they didn't like
1:49:56
you. Like you were supposed to not try and you were
1:49:58
supposed to just stand there and be kind of modest. Monotone
1:50:00
ish. Yeah, that's why I didn't
1:50:02
I don't really hang out with comedians or I
1:50:04
am now a little bit because it's a little
1:50:06
More comfortable at the mothership, but I
1:50:08
didn't like those things getting in my head and
1:50:11
then thinking are these comics judging me in
1:50:13
the back Or what I really are who cares
1:50:15
they know they are the ones who do suck
1:50:17
But when you're new when you're fresh and you're
1:50:19
malleable, you know, you need to you need to
1:50:22
grow like a foundation Well, a lot of people
1:50:24
get sucked down that road They get sucked down
1:50:26
that road in life and not just in
1:50:28
comedy but in pretty much every world every Community
1:50:31
you get sucked into the ideas of the
1:50:33
peers you want to fit in you want
1:50:36
to be one You gotta lift the top
1:50:38
member. Oh pop the top It's
1:50:40
like the ideas of your peers you get
1:50:42
sucked into this idea that this is the
1:50:44
way I'm supposed to think and behave This
1:50:47
is the way I'm supposed to perform my art. This
1:50:49
is supposed to way like when I first started out
1:50:52
Everybody had to be clean you had to be a
1:50:54
clean comedian Yeah So I started out was the 80s
1:50:57
the lady I was starting in 88 and that was
1:50:59
the time where everybody wanted to get on the tonight
1:51:01
Show and everybody wanted to get a sitcom So
1:51:04
you develop this like squeaky clean?
1:51:07
Television-friendly act and if you didn't have
1:51:09
a squeaky clean television friendly act, oh
1:51:11
this fucking idiot. He's just gonna do
1:51:13
the road You're just gonna be a
1:51:15
road act and that's what I was. I
1:51:17
barely got work in town do Carson or
1:51:19
anything. No No, I
1:51:22
I never did any of those talk shows until I
1:51:25
became a guest because I was on a television show
1:51:27
Like I fear fact or something like that I just
1:51:29
sat down and talked to like Conan O'Brien like that
1:51:31
kind of thing But I didn't do
1:51:34
stand-up on it first of all cuz I didn't like that
1:51:36
kind of stand-up I didn't like five minutes that
1:51:38
that that drove me nuts I had done a
1:51:40
couple of things like I did the MTV half-hour
1:51:42
comedy hour and a couple of those other TV
1:51:44
type shows But that
1:51:46
wasn't I wanted to be a club comic. That's all
1:51:48
I wanted to do I wanted to be a professional
1:51:50
club comic and I remember everybody
1:51:53
saying you're never gonna get work and ever gonna get
1:51:55
work and Part of
1:51:57
me was like I don't I mean I remember had this conversation
1:51:59
once with this And he was the host
1:52:01
of open mic night and he said listen you
1:52:03
got to change your act You're never gonna work,
1:52:05
and he was a professional And
1:52:08
he was like doing okay. He's pretty good like
1:52:10
a professional like a local Middle-act type
1:52:12
guy that had like a competent 20 minutes. It
1:52:14
was not bad wasn't good, but back then I
1:52:16
thought it was that's even as I was 21.
1:52:18
I actually saw him live before
1:52:22
I ever got paid to do comedy I went to see Dom
1:52:24
Ira and he was one of the opening acts and When
1:52:28
he told me that he
1:52:30
was like you're never gonna get any work
1:52:32
you got to stop swearing Yes, and I
1:52:34
go but all my favorite comedians are like
1:52:36
Andrew dice clay goes you're not dice clay
1:52:38
Yeah, I go I was like okay, but at
1:52:40
one point in time dice clay He's like look you
1:52:43
don't have to listen, but you're not gonna have a
1:52:45
career And you're like fucking stormed away left you feeling
1:52:47
like shit and then Four
1:52:49
or five years later. I came back to
1:52:51
the club headlining because I was
1:52:54
on news radio Yeah, and the place
1:52:56
was sold out and he
1:52:58
said what do you want me to say? I
1:53:00
go tell them you gave me the worst advice
1:53:02
that anybody ever gave me and then tell them
1:53:04
all the TV credits that I Have that you
1:53:06
don't have and
1:53:08
he just like like Shook
1:53:11
his head a little bit and just walked away cuz he
1:53:13
was right cuz he was still the same guy He was
1:53:15
still trapped. He was still a shitty mediocre
1:53:18
and a barely funny act that
1:53:20
was passable under the best conditions
1:53:23
possible only But like you would
1:53:25
never repeat his jokes at a party nothing He said
1:53:27
it was ever fun, and I went
1:53:29
up and killed and it was it was
1:53:31
so good It was fun And I was
1:53:33
a sweet little dirty and but this like
1:53:35
there was like a lot of the comedians
1:53:37
back then like the or Established guys were
1:53:39
actually angry that I had succeeded with a
1:53:41
dirty act because I was on television Like
1:53:44
I remember one of them saying I
1:53:46
can't believe they gave him a job with
1:53:48
fucking Disney Disney hired him because
1:53:51
Disney was where I got my first development deal and
1:53:53
they're like fucking Disney have they ever seen his blowjob
1:53:55
jokes like Disney and I
1:53:57
was like that shit's on Disney now It's
1:54:00
come full circle. It's
1:54:02
where kids are learning. But back then,
1:54:04
it was everybody wanted to
1:54:06
be clean. And so there was a
1:54:08
lot of peer pressure, so I tried.
1:54:11
I tried. I tried to conform my
1:54:13
act. I tried to write material that
1:54:15
was not me. Can't do it. I
1:54:17
was a 21-year-old animal who was a
1:54:19
kickboxer. That's all I was doing. My
1:54:22
whole childhood from 15 to 21 was me traveling
1:54:26
around the country, trying to kick people
1:54:28
unconscious. And then all of a
1:54:30
sudden, I'm in this new environment where
1:54:32
everybody's hypersensitive, and everybody wants you to
1:54:34
be clean, and everybody wants you to
1:54:36
do these jokes that, to me, were just like,
1:54:39
I want to hear wild shit.
1:54:41
I like wild shit. I got into comedy because
1:54:43
I saw Kinison. Yeah. I got into comedy because
1:54:45
I saw, I want to do wild shit. That's
1:54:47
what I wanted. You are a
1:54:49
fucking animal on stage. It's
1:54:51
like watching a wild animal. But it's
1:54:54
just you. You're just letting your fucking self come
1:54:56
out. It's just who I am. I mean, that's
1:54:58
just me being what I think is funny, my
1:55:00
kind of comedy. You don't have to like it.
1:55:02
A lot of people don't. That's OK. That's
1:55:04
what I like. But that's all music,
1:55:06
man. There's people
1:55:08
that don't like the Black Keys. I
1:55:12
don't understand them because I
1:55:14
love them. So I listen to the Black Keys.
1:55:16
I'm like, fuck yeah. And some people are like,
1:55:18
ugh. OK. Just
1:55:20
don't watch it. But this is just life. But
1:55:22
when you're in an environment where people are telling
1:55:24
you it's on an alt environment, and all of
1:55:27
your peers, and all the people that are so
1:55:29
desperately trying to succeed, because you've
1:55:32
achieved a level of comfort now, so you
1:55:34
can look back on it because it's not
1:55:36
that long ago where you didn't know if
1:55:39
it was going to work out. And that
1:55:41
moment when you're starting out, whether it's comedy
1:55:43
or anything, martial arts, fucking everything I would
1:55:45
imagine, when you're endeavoring,
1:55:48
when you're entering into this like
1:55:51
crazy world of possibilities, this might not work.
1:55:54
What are the odds of it? How
1:55:56
many comedians who do an open mic
1:55:58
night ever become a pro? Professional headliner
1:56:01
god damn it. It's not even one out
1:56:03
of a thousand. No, it's a nutty number
1:56:06
No, so if that was your child or
1:56:09
a really good friend you would say oh my god
1:56:11
Don't do this like this is not it's not gonna
1:56:13
work out for you Yeah, you're gonna be that 40
1:56:15
year old loser staying on people's couches with no future
1:56:18
fuck man. Don't do this So when
1:56:20
you're in that environment Like the alt scene when
1:56:22
no one's really quite sure and then there's a
1:56:24
few people that have made it a little bit
1:56:27
and those Are the ones that kind of set
1:56:29
the standards and they behave that way and everybody
1:56:31
else wants to be like them So on it
1:56:33
and they just want to be liked by everybody
1:56:36
else. Everybody conforms. Everybody becomes like this same thing
1:56:38
It's that group identity thing. I mean, which
1:56:40
is really what why things are crumbling right?
1:56:42
Yeah, you can't have it There is no
1:56:44
there's no community any person that
1:56:47
tells me I'm in a community You're
1:56:49
a child if your community is
1:56:51
not your close friends and your family. Yeah, and
1:56:53
you say you're in a community You're
1:56:56
a child. Mm-hmm. There isn't there's
1:56:58
no comedy community. They're a bunch
1:57:00
of them Yeah, they're little
1:57:02
microcosms of groups of people Yeah,
1:57:05
but once you have said this is our group
1:57:07
identity like this is what white men are this
1:57:09
is what black woman women are it's well,
1:57:12
one of the nice things about the club is
1:57:15
That when we hired Adam Eget to take over and
1:57:17
be the town quarter What are they one of things
1:57:19
that we were real clear because he was experiencing a
1:57:21
lot of pressure in LA Like you
1:57:23
get pressure like why don't you have more women on the lineup?
1:57:26
Why don't you have more this in the lineup? How come you
1:57:28
have any gay people? How come you know this I
1:57:30
said listen man This is going to
1:57:32
be this club is going to be 100%
1:57:34
of meritocracy. I do not give a fuck
1:57:37
about any mandates I don't give a fuck
1:57:39
all I care is if you're funny if
1:57:41
you're a funny trans person your funny gay
1:57:43
person You're funny white guy. You're funny black
1:57:45
lady. Who fucking cares. Are you funny?
1:57:47
And if you're funny you're in and
1:57:50
Because of that look how fucking diverse
1:57:53
the lineup that's what happens Especially
1:57:55
with the people coming up. There's all kinds
1:57:57
of different kinds of people from all kinds
1:58:00
of different walks of life with totally
1:58:02
different styles on stage. There's
1:58:04
so many different styles and
1:58:06
complete freedom, complete freedom to
1:58:08
try and Adam is so smart
1:58:11
that he'll have these conversations with these people and
1:58:13
he'll be like, I see what you're trying to
1:58:15
do. You know, just, you just got to like,
1:58:18
got to hone it in, figured it out.
1:58:20
Like I see you're trying to say it
1:58:22
like this, but maybe like there's a way
1:58:24
to say it that like makes the same
1:58:26
point, but it's not as clunky. So
1:58:29
valuable. That doesn't happen in New
1:58:31
York. It's like you're out if you're
1:58:33
not doing what we want and you don't know
1:58:36
what they want because it changes. So
1:58:38
well, it's good for us. It's
1:58:40
good for us. It's like helping recruiting tremendously.
1:58:42
When I met Adam, I was
1:58:45
like in shock. I go, this
1:58:47
is so foreign to me. A booker who's
1:58:49
like wants to work with you
1:58:52
and like, and we'll take a
1:58:54
risk and like invest in your talent. And he
1:58:56
was one of Norm McDonald's best friends. He did
1:58:58
a show with Norm. The guy knows comedy inside
1:59:00
and out. And I've known Adam for at
1:59:02
least 20 years. At
1:59:05
least I knew Adam when he was working
1:59:07
at the Tempe improv back when
1:59:09
I would just do the road there. And I became
1:59:11
friends with him then. And then he came to me
1:59:13
when I was banned from the comedy store. He
1:59:16
came to me in 2007. I
1:59:19
left the comedy store in 2007 over that Carl
1:59:21
Smith Sia thing. And
1:59:24
so I told him, I'm like, I'm never coming back.
1:59:26
I'm like, I'm gone. You've never gone back? I did.
1:59:29
I went back in 2014. But one of the reasons I went back
1:59:31
is the guy that was running it was fired. They
1:59:33
caught him stealing money. He got fired. And
1:59:35
then Adam, he get took over. And when Adam
1:59:38
took over, Adam came to visit me at the improv and
1:59:40
I was performing the improv and he's like, I'd really love
1:59:42
to have you back at the store. I'm
1:59:44
like, dude, I don't know if I could fucking go back
1:59:46
there, man. I
1:59:48
said I was never going back, that the whole thing
1:59:51
was so fucked up. He's like, you know, but that
1:59:53
guy's gone and it's different now. And we're trying to
1:59:55
bring the comic store back. And
1:59:57
so the reason why I did go back though
1:59:59
was because Arie Shafir was feeling a special there.
2:00:03
And I had been friends with Arie when Arie
2:00:05
was a doorman. I met Arie when Arie was
2:00:08
just starting out. He was this young, fresh-faced doorman
2:00:10
who just abandoned religion really recently. And so he
2:00:12
was like this young kid and he was funny.
2:00:14
And I became friends with him and then I
2:00:17
started taking him on the road with me. After
2:00:20
a couple years of him, you know, like seeing him
2:00:22
perform, I gave him some spots outside of town. I
2:00:24
took him to Denver. He killed. I'm
2:00:27
like, God damn. And so I helped. And I brought
2:00:29
him in front of all these crowds. I gave him the
2:00:31
kind of advice that I would want someone to give to
2:00:33
me. Him
2:00:35
performing at the comedy store, having
2:00:37
a Comedy Central special and doing
2:00:39
it at the comedy store to
2:00:42
me was like, I have to
2:00:44
be there. I have to. I
2:00:46
have to see that. I have to be there.
2:00:49
I have to support him. I'm so proud of
2:00:51
him. I'm so happy. I
2:00:53
had to go there. So I went there
2:00:55
the day before. The
2:00:57
day I went, I saw Roast Battle and
2:01:00
I was like, this is amazing. It
2:01:03
was so vibrant and so alive.
2:01:05
And the place was packed. We're
2:01:07
upstairs. And I was one of
2:01:09
the judges. Like you'd have a judge, like that
2:01:11
gets to judge the roasts. And
2:01:13
we had so much fun. And Jeff Ross was hosting
2:01:15
it. And it
2:01:18
was just the whole thing. The
2:01:20
whole thing was just. It
2:01:23
was so vibrant. I
2:01:27
was like, this is like a writing exercise.
2:01:29
This is like, I mean,
2:01:31
it's a roast battle. Roast
2:01:33
battles are you're picking on someone. Yes. But
2:01:36
it's really just a writing exercise
2:01:39
with one specific target. That's
2:01:41
all it is. One topic to stay on.
2:01:43
And Brian Moses is an amazing host to
2:01:45
that too. He's so good because he's so
2:01:47
likable. He's so fun. And he
2:01:49
even makes people hug it out. You know, like
2:01:52
at the end, we're all going to hug. Like,
2:01:54
you know, it's nice. He
2:01:56
does a great job of like keeping it
2:01:58
peaceful and playful. And then. I remember
2:02:00
being there for that and going,
2:02:02
okay, I think I gotta come back. And
2:02:06
then the next day, Ari did
2:02:08
his special, it was amazing, I couldn't believe,
2:02:10
I was like, this is just so crazy to see him
2:02:14
filming a special at the Comedy Store from
2:02:16
knowing him for being a doorman. Yeah. You
2:02:18
know, and now here he is. You see
2:02:21
people get so good so fast. Yeah.
2:02:23
Because I only know him as a killer.
2:02:25
I have no concept of Ari or any
2:02:28
of those guys when they start. Yeah, it's
2:02:30
one of the cool things about getting to
2:02:32
see someone from the very beginning. You
2:02:34
know, when I saw Tony Hinchcliffe,
2:02:37
I think he had been doing comedy five or six years
2:02:39
when I first met him. Yeah,
2:02:41
now look at him. He's so funny, dude. He's the best.
2:02:44
Tony is the best roaster on planet Earth. There's
2:02:46
no one better. And he'll do it off the
2:02:48
cuff. He can do it off the
2:02:50
cuff better than anybody alive. Yeah, it's so good
2:02:52
you think, oh, this is all pre-written. And then
2:02:54
you go, no, he just picked all this, you
2:02:56
know, I watch him in the mothership. Dude, he
2:02:58
does it in the green room all the time.
2:03:00
Him and David Lucas, I keep telling them this,
2:03:03
god damn it, you motherfuckers, do a show together.
2:03:05
The two of them together are magic. It
2:03:08
brings out the absolute best in David
2:03:10
Lucas because David Lucas goes savage on
2:03:12
Tony and Tony goes savage on it.
2:03:14
And they're both laughing at each other's
2:03:17
lines. So like he'll clown Tony and
2:03:19
Tony will be dying laughing. Like no
2:03:21
one gets angry and he'll clown David
2:03:24
and David will be dying laughing. Like
2:03:27
personal shit, like about the way
2:03:29
he looks and you know, dying
2:03:31
of diabetes and dying laughing. Imagine
2:03:34
that happening with like young Gen
2:03:36
Z woke people. Like experiencing something.
2:03:38
They should have to go to the mothership
2:03:40
and sit and watch that and go, look,
2:03:43
you can tear somebody down and
2:03:45
it's all fun. It's just funsies. And
2:03:47
one of the things about the mothership
2:03:49
that's so important is Kill Tony. Because
2:03:51
what Kill Tony shows everyone is that
2:03:54
in one minute all you
2:03:56
have the time for is to be funny.
2:03:59
And everything. Funny is rewarded
2:04:01
you could say outrageous things people say
2:04:03
outrageous things on Kill Tony all the time
2:04:06
but if you do well in that one minute
2:04:08
and they give you a big notebook and they
2:04:10
say we're gonna bring you back and Then you
2:04:12
get to get a chance to go back or
2:04:14
you get a golden ticket you get to perform
2:04:16
again Or then you become the newest regular and
2:04:18
now guys have careers Yeah, Cam Patterson has a
2:04:21
fucking thriving career Hans Kim has a thriving
2:04:23
career William Montgomery thriving career David Lucas These
2:04:25
guys are killing it on the road killing
2:04:27
look I should have moved here five years.
2:04:29
No, no, no perfect time Dude, you're doing
2:04:31
great and then the new special that you
2:04:33
just filmed there is coming out. It is.
2:04:35
Yeah Yeah, what are you gonna put it
2:04:37
out? It's it'll be
2:04:39
out probably tonight. Oh shit And
2:04:42
it was it's all election stuff and
2:04:44
I'm not a big fan of themed
2:04:46
comedy specials, but it was
2:04:48
just like Why not? I don't
2:04:51
know. Nobody why not for now? Like well, that's
2:04:53
why I change course and it and
2:04:55
I saw that Biden thing where he's sitting on
2:04:57
the imaginary chair And I go I got to
2:04:59
get this out now And
2:05:02
the weekend was so fun and
2:05:04
that room is magical. It's great
2:05:06
room. I think that building's alive, dude
2:05:09
It feels like it's been there for 20
2:05:12
years. Yeah, it felt like that right away
2:05:15
The building felt like that right away
2:05:17
that building's been there since since
2:05:19
1927 and I have this
2:05:21
thought about things that have been around A long
2:05:23
time. I think memories get baked into buildings I
2:05:25
really do sure when I go to the comedy
2:05:28
store every time I go to the comedy store
2:05:30
I have this feeling you walk
2:05:32
in the hallway. You get this feeling like
2:05:34
wow so much has happened here There's
2:05:37
so many experiences baked into that even when
2:05:39
no one's in that building I used to
2:05:41
like when we were leaving late at night
2:05:44
you know, we'd be hanging out in the
2:05:46
back bar and mitzi's bar and we'd be
2:05:48
Drinking and talking and everybody's like alright time
2:05:50
to go home and we'd go out in
2:05:52
the hallway and You
2:05:55
just feel the building the building
2:05:57
that building's alive. It wouldn't have been the same
2:05:59
if you just built a new construction. It
2:06:01
wouldn't have it would have had that kind
2:06:03
of fresh kind of... We
2:06:05
would have made it alive. We would eventually it
2:06:07
would it would take it a little time. We
2:06:10
brought the right spirit. We brought the spirit of
2:06:12
the Comedy Store to the mothership. You
2:06:14
know we knew what we needed. We knew what we needed because
2:06:17
we already had it. We had it in LA. We
2:06:19
had that we had a home base
2:06:21
and that's what we needed here. Like when
2:06:23
we first moved here I was like God
2:06:25
we don't have a home base. We had
2:06:27
the Vulcan which is great but it wasn't
2:06:29
set up the way I would set it
2:06:31
up. It wasn't ideal. There was a lot
2:06:33
of problems with the dynamics of the and
2:06:36
I was like it's also not it's not
2:06:38
quite big enough. This isn't ideal. So
2:06:41
we started looking for other places and then
2:06:43
when we found the mothership when
2:06:45
we walked when I walked into the Ritz theater and
2:06:47
looked around it was like the
2:06:50
place was talking to me. Was
2:06:52
it just one theater? What was it? What
2:06:54
did it look like when you walked in? Well it's been a bunch
2:06:56
of things since 1927. It was
2:06:58
a pool hall. It was a punk rock
2:07:01
club. I guess it was a
2:07:03
nudie movie theater at one point in time. I
2:07:05
can still feel the vibe. Yeah and then the
2:07:07
sexual energy in there. Weird energy in that place.
2:07:09
And then from I think
2:07:11
2007 on it was the Alamo Drafthouse.
2:07:16
So that's what it used to look like. Oh
2:07:18
my god. Yeah so it used to be like
2:07:20
that. But is that the whole thing though? Or
2:07:22
is that just what the the fat man is
2:07:24
now? That's the fat man. So the little boy
2:07:27
was always there too. That was a smaller theater.
2:07:29
So the Alamo Drafthouse had two theaters. One theater
2:07:31
that sat like 120 people and
2:07:33
one theater that sat like whatever the seats.
2:07:35
We have it set up for 250
2:07:38
people now. So you see how it angles up
2:07:40
like that? Yeah. So what we did was we
2:07:43
right where Jamie's cursor is we cut
2:07:45
the floor. Oh shit. And so
2:07:48
we lifted from all the
2:07:51
way back to like the second
2:07:53
row we lifted the floor up to
2:07:56
that height so it's flat. And
2:07:58
then So it doesn't
2:08:01
angle downward. So that's the little
2:08:03
room, right? So we lifted the floor up
2:08:05
to make it closer to the ceiling and
2:08:07
then we changed the dynamics of the stage.
2:08:09
So instead of being like this steep angle
2:08:11
like a movie theater where everybody has a
2:08:13
nice shot at the screen, it's flat like
2:08:15
a comedy club and then we lowered the
2:08:17
ceiling. And then so you could see
2:08:20
where the balcony is. The ceiling's lower even
2:08:22
than the balcony because that was Louis' idea. To lower
2:08:24
it. Louis' idea was like, can you lower the ceiling
2:08:26
even more? And I'm like, I think we can. That's
2:08:30
New York. New York, everything's just so fucking
2:08:32
low. Yeah, it is, but
2:08:34
it's also Louis because he's not just
2:08:36
a comic. He's also a producer. He's
2:08:38
done a lot of films and he
2:08:40
understands sets. He deeply
2:08:43
understands recording and dynamics. He
2:08:46
goes, cover everything with cloth.
2:08:48
Good muffle, all the back.
2:08:51
Is that the old, what was this one? Wow.
2:08:54
They're definitely watching something on the
2:08:57
screen. They had one solid balcony
2:08:59
back then. Interesting. Instead of
2:09:01
two balconies. That's
2:09:03
the Fat Man 2? Yeah, crazy.
2:09:06
Look at all them back then. Look at them. I
2:09:09
found a picture of Henry Rollins there.
2:09:11
What? Yeah, Henry Rollins was
2:09:13
on stage there in 1983. Look
2:09:17
at that. What year is that from? That's
2:09:21
crazy. Over there watching a talkie there, a
2:09:23
colored film. That's what it looked like back
2:09:25
then, dude. Isn't that nuts? Yeah,
2:09:29
so it's been there for so long.
2:09:32
And it was the queen it used
2:09:35
to be called. Wow. Is
2:09:37
that a river in front of it? What is
2:09:39
that? That's the dirt. Oh, that's the ground, man. That's
2:09:42
probably before it was paved. Well, they had
2:09:44
pavement. Yeah, they probably didn't pave it yet.
2:09:48
And so when
2:09:50
we got there, oh, here's another funny story.
2:09:52
When we got there, we had to tear
2:09:54
some of the stuff off the walls and
2:09:56
a swastika was painted on the brick. Whoopsie
2:09:59
daisy. Yeah, because he's... a punk rock club
2:10:01
I guess someone painted a swastika on the
2:10:03
wall Jesus and there's
2:10:05
a puncture there did I show you that photo of Henry
2:10:07
Rollins that I send that to you I think I did
2:10:11
so that
2:10:14
we're doing all the construction and I
2:10:16
figured someone would fucking remove the swastika
2:10:19
but it was like months before we opened I go
2:10:21
hey why is the fucking
2:10:23
swastika still here and so they go oh we'll
2:10:25
take it we'll remove it so they removed the
2:10:27
paint which made a
2:10:30
clear white swastika I go
2:10:32
hey retards get
2:10:34
rid of the design don't accept
2:10:36
you's now it's even more obvious
2:10:38
because now that where all
2:10:41
the fucking swastika was was sandblasted
2:10:43
off in the exact same design
2:10:45
it's cleaner we think you know
2:10:47
that's what happens when you hire
2:10:49
laborers who don't really necessarily know what that fucking thing
2:10:51
they could have sent it to Columbia University
2:10:53
is that Henry Rollins on stage there
2:10:55
a black flag 1982 Ritz theater yeah
2:10:58
shit I sent you one did I
2:11:00
show you the one right
2:11:03
now I got a better photo of it the
2:11:05
bet the better photo was pretty fucking crazy hold
2:11:10
on a second I'll get it here I
2:11:15
know I got it in this little pile that's 1980 black and
2:11:17
white 1982 well you
2:11:20
probably hired somebody to like and why do it in
2:11:22
black and white it's funny things really do feel old-timey
2:11:24
and black and white I
2:11:26
can't find it I give
2:11:29
up but anyway point is
2:11:32
we have photos in the the downstairs before
2:11:34
you go on stage there's those photos of
2:11:36
Steve Rave on that's him on stage in
2:11:38
that club in 83 damn
2:11:41
yeah so there's like this crazy history that's baked
2:11:43
into that place and think about just think about
2:11:46
the history in the last year you've been open
2:11:48
I know how much has happened in that room
2:11:50
well how much has happened to
2:11:52
the Austin comedy scene the scene has
2:11:54
exploded it's pretty well
2:11:57
it's just a neat it's a it was an empty
2:11:59
void that was needed because you go on the
2:12:01
coasts and there's great clubs, but that
2:12:03
group identity shit, this race can say
2:12:05
this and that, every night
2:12:07
you gotta sift through that bullshit. There's
2:12:11
also a history of wild comedy
2:12:13
here, because this is where
2:12:15
Bill Hicks started, this is where Kennison started. They
2:12:17
both started in Texas. And
2:12:19
when I had heard about Texas, like Jeanine Garoflow was
2:12:21
out here at one point in Houston, there was a
2:12:24
bunch of comics were out here in Houston,
2:12:26
and I was like, what is going on in
2:12:29
Houston? I remember hearing about that when I lived
2:12:31
in Boston, because I lived in Boston,
2:12:33
comedy store was Mecca, that was the place you
2:12:35
had to get to. I remember everybody was like,
2:12:37
you gotta get to the comic store, that's where
2:12:39
Richard Pryor started, that's where Sam Kennison started, Dice
2:12:41
Clay was there, all these comedians were at the
2:12:43
comedy store, like you had to get to the
2:12:45
comedy store, it was the place. Then
2:12:48
I kept hearing about Houston, and
2:12:50
then when I saw Kennison and Hicks,
2:12:52
people were like, you know they came
2:12:54
from Houston, I was like, what? Kennison
2:12:57
came from Houston, like from Texas?
2:12:59
Texas made comedians. Where was it
2:13:01
performing though? What was available? The last
2:13:04
stop. The last stop in River Oaks
2:13:06
was a fucking amazing club. I
2:13:09
don't think it's there anymore, I don't think the club's
2:13:11
not there anymore, because the club moved to a new
2:13:13
location, and I think that club went under, but the
2:13:15
original place where the last stop
2:13:17
was, was a great club, low
2:13:20
ceiling, perfect little stage,
2:13:23
and then there was also a little
2:13:25
side area, where they had an open mic that
2:13:27
would go to like two o'clock in the morning,
2:13:30
vibrant scene, like really vibrant scene,
2:13:32
and everybody loved to come through Houston and
2:13:34
work that club, and when you work that
2:13:36
club, you do like whatever, Wednesday, Thursday, or
2:13:38
Friday side, or whatever days you do, you
2:13:41
would go there and you'd see the open mics, and
2:13:43
it would be packed, and the local comics were really
2:13:45
good. They were good, man. Local
2:13:48
comics were fucking good. Like you'd
2:13:50
get to see these guys like Jimmy Pineapple, these guys
2:13:52
like you probably never even heard of them. Solid
2:13:55
fucking comedians, and
2:13:57
Sean Rouse was there at the time, and
2:13:59
Ralphie. There was a lot of comics
2:14:01
coming out of that area that I was like, this is
2:14:03
nuts, man. I did not know
2:14:06
that like Houston, like Texas and mostly
2:14:08
Houston had this scene and Austin had a
2:14:10
bit of a scene, but you know, a
2:14:12
little bit smaller, but nothing was
2:14:14
like what it is now. You should
2:14:16
have something in the middle of the country. You can't
2:14:18
just have comedy on
2:14:20
the liberal coast. You need something in the middle
2:14:22
of the country. I think that has something to
2:14:25
do with it. It helps for sanity. Yeah.
2:14:27
For sure. But it also helps that
2:14:29
it's run by comics. That club is run by us. It's
2:14:32
our club. There's no one else. There's
2:14:34
no management. There's
2:14:36
no like, there's no overseer.
2:14:38
There's no executives that are
2:14:40
making decisions based on money.
2:14:44
Everything is made based on comedy.
2:14:46
Yeah. Yeah. I know
2:14:48
some places if they get a couple of complaints about
2:14:50
a joke, they want you to ...
2:14:53
I'm not going to mention where, but I kind of got a little
2:14:55
talking to. We got some complaints about
2:14:58
this one joke and I'm thinking
2:15:00
like, who gives a fuck? The joke
2:15:02
kills every time. Yeah,
2:15:04
they don't get it. They're working against themselves.
2:15:06
Yeah. They don't even understand what they're doing.
2:15:08
They're literally poisoning their own business with this
2:15:11
stupidity. You just got to like let people
2:15:13
know you can be free and you'll have
2:15:15
more audience members and you will get rid
2:15:17
of these people that are looking to be
2:15:20
offended constantly because it won't be effective. All
2:15:22
that shit only works if people comply. People
2:15:25
don't comply and then other people go, oh, this is
2:15:27
just comedy. Just like when you go to see Quentin
2:15:30
Tarantino movies, nobody's really getting killed. Bob
2:15:33
Marley never really shot the sheriff. I don't know if you know that.
2:15:36
That was not real. Come on. I know. Come
2:15:40
on. Crazy. It's comedy and the problem
2:15:42
is these fucking idiots that are running these clubs are giving in
2:15:44
to the very thing that's going to kill their business. This
2:15:47
has given me like a second birth really because
2:15:50
I hit this wall where I've
2:15:52
developed this act and then you need
2:15:55
to experiment. Once I
2:15:57
started getting challenged when I would try to like veer off
2:15:59
and experience it. A little and I'm
2:16:01
never gonna bomb I'm I will end strong. I'm
2:16:04
there to entertain the crowd. That's that's my
2:16:06
thing I'm willing to do crazy shit and
2:16:08
experiment, but there everybody's paying and they're there
2:16:10
and that you know I'm gonna end strong
2:16:12
and so Yeah, that
2:16:14
was enough to get my ass to Texas. I
2:16:16
live in Texas. You could be free here You
2:16:18
could be free here and you could be free
2:16:20
where we are like it's we've set it up
2:16:23
that way We want to be it's like an
2:16:25
actual safe space. Yeah for real like yeah, but
2:16:27
but safe for everybody Yeah, I mean you can
2:16:29
be whatever the fuck you want as long as
2:16:31
what you're saying is funny. It's it's
2:16:33
all it is There's no room for any
2:16:35
horse shit. No ideology. No nonsense. It's just
2:16:38
you could have an ideology, but it's
2:16:40
just gonna be funny Yeah, that is
2:16:42
is palpable there or maybe the opposite
2:16:44
of that. You there's no like The
2:16:47
meritocracy that you set up you
2:16:50
can feel that there you go in
2:16:52
there and it's you're funny or not
2:16:54
Yeah, there's your support is I this
2:16:56
very support identity politics stuff which is
2:16:58
just Killing the businessman
2:17:00
the scene everywhere. Well, it's just
2:17:02
bad for some a business that's
2:17:05
about taking risks and saying outrageous
2:17:07
things and pushing the envelope and
2:17:10
That's all the greats all the big
2:17:12
imagine setting up Like
2:17:15
what a comedy club essentially is in this world
2:17:18
in the world of stand-up comedy a comedy club
2:17:20
is a place where you can Hone your craft
2:17:22
and perform so you go to clubs you learn
2:17:24
how to do it Then you go to clubs
2:17:26
and you make a living doing it and then
2:17:29
eventually if you get big enough Then you start
2:17:31
branching out into theaters and arenas. So
2:17:34
it's literally the the
2:17:36
gym. It's literally the dojo It's a
2:17:38
rehearsal is the place where you learn
2:17:41
Imagine having a place where you learn where
2:17:43
you can't take chances in a business That's
2:17:46
wrapped around taking chances where
2:17:48
all the greats whether it's
2:17:51
Don Rickles Lenny Bruce George
2:17:53
Carlin Richard Pryor all
2:17:55
of them said wild shit. Yeah all of them
2:17:58
and the only way you develop
2:18:00
wild shit is by performing it on stage
2:18:02
in front of people with freedom. Will
2:18:05
you get a chance? I just watched the George Carlin
2:18:07
documentary, did you see that? No, I haven't. I don't
2:18:09
know if it's on HBO or whatever, it's so good.
2:18:12
And I'm almost like, man, he almost had
2:18:14
more freedom than we, he's talking about seven
2:18:16
words you can't say. Right. Ship is fuck,
2:18:18
cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. The seven
2:18:20
word, now it's like the seven
2:18:22
million topics you can't talk about, race,
2:18:24
gender, gender. But you can. You can.
2:18:27
You just have to do it. You can. If
2:18:29
you're in a club that has that established, like the
2:18:31
mothership, anybody could do it. You don't have to have
2:18:33
a big audience. They'll let you do it. Anyone
2:18:35
will let you do it. And no one's
2:18:38
gonna complain. And then they will come
2:18:40
see you again. Sure. And then you'll develop,
2:18:42
and then the people coming to see you
2:18:44
know what you do, and there's no
2:18:46
worries. That's how comedy should be done. That's
2:18:49
the right way to develop both offensive and
2:18:51
non-offensive acts. Sure. You know,
2:18:53
some of my favorite acts are not, Nate
2:18:55
Barghazzi's hilarious. Yeah. Completely non-offensive.
2:18:57
Hilarious! But that's Nate's
2:18:59
act. Yeah, Brian Regan's,
2:19:01
Sebastian. Same thing. Great
2:19:03
comedians. But that's their
2:19:05
thing. And that's great. There's
2:19:08
no right way to do it. Do you ever
2:19:10
wanna see a clean person just go, I wanna
2:19:12
see them do an hour of the filthiest fucking
2:19:14
shit? It'll be funny. Sebastian, you know what? You
2:19:17
gonna get your take on this job? Yeah.
2:19:20
I take a girl home the other day, she goes, can
2:19:22
I give you a rim job? I go, what? She
2:19:25
starts pecking at me like a
2:19:27
baby bird. I don't want
2:19:30
my girlfriend to have the same lingo as my mechanic,
2:19:32
right? What, are you gonna start tweaking my nipples, right?
2:19:35
I just wanna see him fucking get, Seinfeld? It'll be
2:19:37
funny. Yeah. Talking
2:19:39
about fucking trans stuff and all that? Well,
2:19:41
even Seinfeld's pushing back on all this woke shit.
2:19:44
Well, he's getting, have you seen
2:19:46
the protests? Every show now. Well, it's Palestine
2:19:48
protests. It is, but it's still kinda linked
2:19:50
up with like, we're gonna shut down comedy
2:19:53
for our cause. So
2:19:56
he's getting caught up in that stuff. Well, you got
2:19:58
a lot of really dumb young people. that
2:20:00
are very entitled and think they can shut things
2:20:02
down because they have a cost you think they
2:20:04
I mean you think they would learn But they're
2:20:07
not going to and they're gonna keep doing it
2:20:09
and there's more attention to get every time they
2:20:11
do it See the stop oil now people they
2:20:13
just They vandalized
2:20:15
Stonehenge What
2:20:18
the fuck does Stonehenge have to do with oil
2:20:20
it's it's an amazing Monument that's
2:20:22
thousands of years old and you just spray paint
2:20:25
all over it because you want people to stop
2:20:27
using oil That's a mental illness and you're wearing
2:20:29
clothes made out of oil You fucking
2:20:31
idiot everything you own was shipped on
2:20:33
a truck that was used oil Every
2:20:36
fucking thing you eat every fucking thing
2:20:39
in your house Everything your
2:20:41
house is made out of the the electronics
2:20:43
on your phone Yeah, the wires
2:20:46
in your wall everything uses plastic you
2:20:48
fucking idiot everything uses oil They're
2:20:51
not stopping shit. No Yeah,
2:20:54
a little tomato soup on the van go
2:20:56
it's always rich kids too it's
2:20:58
entitled kids It's posh kids that think that
2:21:00
this is the thing that they should be
2:21:02
doing with their life I don't have any
2:21:04
purpose. They're taught that from element now I
2:21:07
mean for me it started popping up in
2:21:09
college a little bit these kids like oh,
2:21:11
yeah age three Anti-racist baby.
2:21:13
That's a real book. Oh, yeah.
2:21:15
Yeah. Yeah my kid when we
2:21:17
were in school Right
2:21:19
after the George Floyd thing they sent an
2:21:21
email saying to young kids like some of
2:21:23
them as young as like six and seven
2:21:26
Went there saying that it's
2:21:28
not enough that you not be
2:21:31
racist You have to
2:21:33
be anti-racist. There's almost two kids who
2:21:35
don't have any concept of race They
2:21:38
have black friends Indian friends Asian friends. These are
2:21:40
friends who's nice to me Who likes playing the
2:21:42
toys that I play with who likes playing the
2:21:44
games that I play. Let's let's hang out You
2:21:47
know, they don't care and you're making
2:21:50
them focus on this for no
2:21:52
fucking reason. It's gonna fuck them up Yeah,
2:21:54
so they fired the person at the school
2:21:56
and it became like a big lawsuit But
2:21:58
they realized they were getting grifted on, but
2:22:01
Jesus fucking Christ, you idiots. How did you
2:22:03
not see through? The parents were freaking out
2:22:05
like, what the fuck are you teaching them?
2:22:07
Why are you doing this? Why are you
2:22:09
introducing all these ideas? If there's
2:22:11
a problem, let's talk about the problem. There's
2:22:13
no fucking problem. This is not an issue
2:22:15
at all. You're making it
2:22:17
an issue to make yourself important. That's
2:22:20
the problem with these positions. When
2:22:22
people have these positions of equity
2:22:24
and inclusiveness, these people, they have
2:22:26
these positions in universities. They have
2:22:28
these positions in corporations. God
2:22:31
damn. The whole equity
2:22:33
thing, that happened overnight. The word
2:22:35
equality was switched with equity, the
2:22:39
equal outcome. That's the only way to do it,
2:22:42
is to force it. We have to force it.
2:22:44
We have to have this person and this person
2:22:46
and this race, but all the
2:22:48
identities are becoming infinite now. So
2:22:51
it's like, Kamala Harris. They
2:22:54
had to discriminate against every other type of person
2:22:56
because they said we're having a black woman. So
2:22:58
they had to discriminate against black men and
2:23:01
Asian women and everybody. Yeah,
2:23:03
well, it's definitely not a meritocracy if you got
2:23:06
her. No. No. None
2:23:09
of it makes any sense. The whole thing's
2:23:11
bonkers, man. It's a fascinating, fascinating time to
2:23:13
be alive, but it's good
2:23:15
for comedy. Good for comedy. I'm
2:23:17
actually playing a DEI officer, a
2:23:20
Jedi he's called, justice, equity, inclusion
2:23:22
officer in Adam Carolla has a
2:23:24
new cartoon now. Mr.
2:23:26
Burcham, which he
2:23:30
pitched that like 10, 15 years ago to Fox and
2:23:32
they said no. And
2:23:34
Daily Wire, who's just like scooping
2:23:36
stuff up, they produced it. I think a lot of
2:23:39
that was a response to what we were talking about
2:23:41
once. We're saying you can't make a good comedy movie
2:23:43
right now because no one will go off. Jeremy saw
2:23:45
it, saw that and was like, fuck dude. They
2:23:48
wrote that thing in like two weeks. They flew me out
2:23:50
to punch it up. We filmed it in like three
2:23:52
weeks and it was out. That's
2:23:54
wild. Mr. Burcham, Kyle's in it. Megan
2:23:58
Kelly's in it. Megan Kelly. man
2:24:00
nice it's got a
2:24:02
J Moore nice that's
2:24:05
my little diversity officer guy Alonzo
2:24:09
yeah I love Alonzo nice
2:24:13
yeah it's a it's
2:24:15
like um you know it's
2:24:18
like a family it's a fun time to push
2:24:20
back yeah it's a fun time
2:24:22
to push back the things have gone a little bit
2:24:24
haywire but we're gonna be alright for a
2:24:26
comedian oh my god I just wake up
2:24:29
and I just look at the headlines and
2:24:31
one thing that comedy does do is it highlights how
2:24:33
ridiculous these things are and it takes some of the
2:24:35
weight off of them yeah it's
2:24:38
the only way the what even look with
2:24:40
the word woke woke used to be a
2:24:42
cool thing and it with because of comedy
2:24:44
it's foolish it's now it's a clown world
2:24:47
word yeah it's a clown world word that
2:24:49
you can't use on the other side you
2:24:51
can't say I'm woke because I was like
2:24:53
bye so
2:24:56
it becomes a pejorative it becomes something
2:24:59
that someone points to it says oh
2:25:01
you're infected with the woke mind virus
2:25:03
like no no like no one who
2:25:05
is woke claims woke no
2:25:08
you can't do it they used to that's
2:25:10
from comedy that is from it just from
2:25:12
memes it's from the internet yeah that's what
2:25:14
it is man incredible well listen dude I'm
2:25:16
happy you're here hey thank you very very
2:25:19
funny guy it's been really fun watching you
2:25:21
perform at the club I appreciate that your
2:25:23
specials gonna fucking destroy I saw
2:25:25
some clips it's really funny thanks really good
2:25:27
building this thing that that is so needed
2:25:29
my pleasure thanks for joining the team flying
2:25:31
out from around the world now
2:25:34
we're showing up yeah yeah it's fun we're
2:25:36
having a good time awesome we're gonna keep
2:25:38
rolling man we got more plans okay wait I'm
2:25:40
two weeks in here so yeah we're gonna expand
2:25:42
get me buff please let's
2:25:45
do it all right tell everybody your
2:25:47
Instagram while before they take it down and
2:25:49
tie the fish ty the fish FIS CH
2:25:52
and I'm on tour right now all over
2:25:54
the country what's the website Tyler Fisher calm
2:25:57
and yes specials out now it's called the election special and I
2:25:59
have a panda I filmed when
2:26:01
I was canceled, kind of
2:26:03
illegally, I filmed in a comedy club that
2:26:05
I wasn't allowed in. Nice, nice. All right,
2:26:07
dude, well, again. Thank you, brother. Thank you,
2:26:09
my pleasure, brother. Welcome aboard. Good
2:26:12
to be here. All right, thank you, bye, everybody. Bye.
2:26:15
Bye.
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