ANDREW CHAPADOS | Danny Mullen gets cancelled
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Summary
In this episode, we have a very special guest on the show, Danny Mullen, a member of the rebel news crew. We talk about his trip down by the border, his time covering the Women's March, and much more.
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welcome back to another very special andrew says i almost forgot the name of my show because i
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said danny mullen he's our guest today how are you danny thanks for joining me no problem i'm
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doing great thank you for having me andrew this is just a monumental occasion you got a couple
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big fans here myself and an editor named lincoln uh he considers himself part of the uh the danny
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mullen i think it's legion am i if i'm correct a regime excuse me excuse me regime whatever but
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shout out to lincoln thank you oh he's gonna love that um this isn't the like the first time i think
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some other people at rebel news heard of danny mullen was when you had an excursion down by the
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border and ran into our fairly new reporter uh one who's been with us for a few months now i think
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doing uh the spanish reporting and everything you want to tell everybody how that happened and what
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came about really funny video we'll play it over top but you want to tell us that story
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yeah absolutely so we went down to the eagle pass border section of texas which is one of the highest
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volume places as far as illegal immigration we went down there for the scheduled date of the
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termination of title 42 title 42 was a trump era piece of legislation that was basically the last line
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of defense keeping the borders from being totally overrun and the biden administration was seeking
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to repeal it now to me i heard about all this and i just thought i have to see it for myself it sounds
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like awesome content and we just wanted to go down there and cover it and uh covering it in my case
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it's a little less professional than the squad of uh rebel news as far as their definition of covering
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an event so we went down there with a coyote costumes and an inflatable raft because we planned
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on crossing the rio grande into mexico actually i ended up getting tackled by border patrol it was a very
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immature display but at some point we ran into juan from rebel news and he pointed out to us that there was
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this giant congregation of uh of law enforcement border patrol and media and it was one who pointed
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out to us that hey i've been reporting on this sector of the border for months and months and i've never
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seen it this heavily protected it's bs they're just putting on a show for the media um and i don't like it
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because they're trying to give the citizens in america the idea that these borders are secure and
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they're actually not so that really fired me up i went right to city hall where the governor of texas
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was giving a speech in a coyote costume with my whole crew and we we really made quite a spectacle
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out there and one of my favorite moments with the young one from rebel news is um when somebody a
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police officer or a journalist asked us who we were and who we were with uh i just i shouted it out
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without thinking we're with rebel news mother effer and you could see in the background one going no
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they're not with us they're not with us panic but uh he did the right thing but i i think since that
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video came out uh rebel news was actually proud to have us claiming we were with them so what if he
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could do it again i think he would and the gesture would be more something like yes they're with us
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they're our newest correspondents maybe he's a little he's new he might have been thrown off by
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the telling him to chug the beer right away but uh he's a nice try to make him chug a beer yeah we
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tried to get him drunk we did he's more professional than i probably would have just drank and said who
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cares um danny watching your like i knew who you were i saw you on nelk vids and then ever since
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this one stuff it's just been non-stop binging your channel um my girlfriend and i watched the one where
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you rated the women's march and pretended that i think it's your girlfriend if i'm not wrong yeah
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um that you beat her up my girlfriend loved that she's like this is something that you would make
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me do and it just really takes me back to my youtube days causing a muck in uh libraries and
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stuff and really bothering people around where i do um and uh it just made me think of how did you
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get started doing this i don't know when your channel exactly started but was it always just let's
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go and do this excursion and we'll just make content out of it because the content is really
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you and you have you have all the guys you're doing with and i want to ask you about leo later
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but the content is just you're going to go somewhere and you're going to make it a good video is that how
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it always was yeah it i like to now think that we have enough of a team in place and i've done this
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long enough that when we go out to a place it's not just hey let's be buffoons in public i try to
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have some sort of idea behind it like the title 42 video we did it's called the u.s mexico border
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is a disaster it's one of my favorites it's us being super immature sex jokes really low level humor
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but around it we're doing some serious sort of serious journalism the same with the wnba game
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we're investigating a sporting event that most people have some ideas about and have heard of
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but they don't know what it really looks like on the inside and that's where we come in we get
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courtside seats show up in fur coats and that night as you know we actually end up getting arrested
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but um it started off a little i still from time to time will go back in private old videos of mine
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because at the very start i was getting used to the grind of putting out a youtube video every week
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which is probably not a healthy work schedule to have and no other forms of media do people have to
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put out content every week of the year without break i mean think about a sitcom or um films where
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people have they have breaks scheduled in and vacations we don't and i used to just be like all right
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i put out 42 pieces of content in a row i slept three hours last night i'm losing my mind let's go
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into a walmart and make loud noises until we get kicked out that's that's how it was a little bit in
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the beginning and i'm not proud of that and i'm i'm trying to move in the direction where hey now um
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we're gonna we're gonna get kicked out um by border patrol in a coyote costume while we're trying to
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make a young reporter shotgun a beer well whatever it is danny it's working let me tell you and i uh
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really thank you i really envy you um now i want to ask you about leo i've got so many questions
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um i want to ask you what he is a homosexual okay yeah he is he's come he's come out of the closet he
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uh that was really i'm sorry it's early and i'm just saying stupid stuff i'm sorry if there's a show
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on rebel news to say that i don't know i think it's this one um so for a few videos i'm watching
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it and you keep saying he's from the bachelor and the bachelorette i'm just like oh that's just a
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funny joke and i'm like is he actually from the bachelorette and i search it up and he was and he
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was funny on that i saw the highlights of that how did you guys begin to cross paths
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yeah so him and i met in los angeles at a social media little sketch comedy event that was going on
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a buddy of ours who was directing a stupid facebook sketch had us both on set and we met there and i
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saw the potential of leo immediately just based on his look for all these things we could do with a guy
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who looks like he should be on the cover of a romance novel but right right after we did that
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shoot though he got cast on the bachelorette okay and and i was bummed because i was like oh
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he's a reality television star now there's no way he's going to collaborate me with me this guy who
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has at the time i don't know 50 000 subscribers on youtube but thank god that leandro dottavio
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was canceled for sending inappropriate texts to a woman in 2012 they dug those up uh it destroyed
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his reputation in the reality television universe and uh he was mine again he was ready to come
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back to me because he would never get cast in another mainstream television show until the day
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he died so which is odd because there's so many reality shows where there's just like what's that
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one where they go to the island and there is it still temptation island i'm not sure if it's still
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that they basically just cheat on their spells the whole time but uh yeah send some texts and that's
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unacceptable for this genre now yeah isn't that isn't that strange the things that are okay and not
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okay like i i recently got canceled it was about a year ago for saying insensitive comments about
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overweight people on a podcast i was riffing it was clearly a joke uh i said something about overweight
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women and um how they should be treated and involved the samurai sword and it was clearly a joke i don't
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believe any of that but it resulted in mass backlash what the worst cancellation we've ever had but sort
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of like what you're alluding to andrew is there are there are tiers of cancellation the the worst you
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could get pegged with is racism after that maybe sexual assault or sexual misconduct fat is way down
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the list fat shaming so the whole time i couldn't even believe it i was like oh this is awesome i'm
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gonna cancel for fat shaming that's the best kind of cancellation i love this and it really allowed
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me to lean into it there when you reference that i looked it up and there is a change.org petition
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against you i don't think it's got any steam left behind it it faltered at like 50 000 or something i
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want to say so everybody go and sign that get it right on that absolutely we'll put that on the screen
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a lot of the names were were just not even clever joke names too it was clearly my fans i think signed
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about uh 25 of those signatures with names like uh hairy nutsack and long cock that was a lot of those
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names i want to point out so they're not as close to their goal as it may seem it's uh inflated a little
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bit we'll call it um i just love when you guys are teaming up and you're really i think you guys
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leaned into the pretending to be somebody harder than anyone i've ever seen and that's what makes
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it so funny when you guys pretend to be the single a baseball players for example yeah and i think and
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you did that with a hockey team as well and it's just yeah in this small town people just one accept
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that you guys are probably from this team and two you just go into like a restaurant be like we're from
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this team you can't even skate by the way i don't want to point that out but they somehow are just like
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yeah he's from i forget what they're called the uh stockton stockton heat yeah it used to be in
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canada that team that's why i remembered it but um oh man it's good um yeah they're assholes by the
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way they tried to copyright strike that video and we won through the youtube system but yeah the key
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to pretending you're somebody you're not i think again it helps to have leo around who's just this
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giant good looking dude and people they take a look at leo they're like this guy is too big and
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too handsome to be fooling around on youtube it must be legitimate whatever he's telling us
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so in the cases you reference he must be a real minor league ball player or a real minor league hockey
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player and then me i come in with the jargon it's all bullshit but i can tell you uh what size skate
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blade i have i can tell you the proper defensive formation when we played the the monterey bald
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eagles in another minor league hockey i just i have all those things at the tip of my tongue
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so after uh 30 seconds of interacting with us they're like all right i guess these guys are real
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minor league athletes we'll give them a free frappuccino at our starbucks and then leo always
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busts out the like a cuban accent whenever you're in those situations too um he's got that down yeah
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it's very good um another staple i think and i know that i'm just i'm running through things here but
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is your wrestling and jujitsu it's always impressive uh to watch people challenge you it's one of the
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my favorite parts of your videos um and there was this one guy i forget it might have been at the
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whip no is that the marathon race where one guy seemed like he really thought he could beat you
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you you do have jujitsu training i can tell that i'm pretty sure am i wrong yeah that'd be impressive
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if i didn't and i just somehow was able to lock people up in triangles yeah i do i do train brazilian
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jujitsu i've been a purple belt for way too long but yeah i try to train three times a week down here in
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la then where do you train i don't want to say that okay i don't want some wacko showing up with a sign
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when i'm just trying to lay low in the middle of class that's fair i'm just a big uh mma fan so i
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was wondering from that regard um how did yeah go ahead i was just gonna say it's a it's a good gym
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i train with good guys but it's a good bit too um yeah when your fans really want to wrestle you
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that's always a good time another thing i wanted to uh ask you about is how you got involved with
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nelk they sort of bring you in as like you mentioned the maximum level bullshitter um cia
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guy fbi guy sasquatch video i think you're in yeah um how'd you end up getting that gig let's call it
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or how did you just end up hooking up with them uh to do videos so they are very responsible for
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my early youtube success they saw my videos when i was doing those things i referenced earlier the
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immature i am out of ideas let's get herded out of a walmart unfortunately that's what i was doing
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they saw something there that they liked and they requested that i write them a couple of ideas
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so i sent them a list of four ideas one of which was based on an snl sketch to go be a pepper boy at
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a restaurant like a super nervous pepper boy and just pepper up people's dishes who don't require
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pepper on that dish you don't want pepper on that dish and then the other idea i forget two of the
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ideas but the other one i wrote them was actually a rehash of an old man show bit with uh adam carolla
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jimmy kimmel to show up at the airport dressed in pilot gear and then start getting visibly hammered
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in an airport bar yeah so we did that bit and i don't think i told them that i nicked that from
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the bad show i just i pretend that it was an original idea but we we did both of those sketches
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and what the pepper boy went over okay the drunk pilots went over really really well and that
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solidified my relationship to them and ever since they've been calling in when they need as you said
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a master bullshitter and the last two occasions where my services were needed where yeah i was the
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fbi agent who uh rolled in on a humvee to uh to arrest some mark they found up in the upper michigan
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peninsula who was a bigfoot expert yeah they found just some wacko who was the world's foremost bigfoot
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expert whatever that means up there in that region and uh yeah i i came in you you can watch the
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video that'll probably be better than me explaining it uh the newest milk bigfoot video and then
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recently i was a wedding planner right right wedding planner at a fake wedding where they were also
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pranking some poor guy i'm personal i remember all those you mentioned the man show i'm glad i think
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we're somewhat close to the same age so i'm glad to get all these references but i saw adam carolla i
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think on fox yesterday and i'm just thinking wow him and jimmy kimmel really went separate ways i i wonder if
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they just have this relationship where they don't talk to each other about anything related to
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politics or even if they talk at all because they don't badmouth each other but they completely went
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in opposite directions have you noticed that yeah yeah i was just about to bring that up too adam was
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one of my first comedy idols him on loveline there's a channel called loveline clips i think it used to be
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called popular now it's just loveline clips you can select any random adam carolla episode
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from 1997 to 2004 and he will make you laugh harder than most comedy specials on netflix i mean
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maybe you'll stumble across a bill burr or louis ck special that's better but adam carolla is almost
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as funny as those guys totally unscripted and i loved him then and it's made me so happy that
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he has basically been the same dude ever since i mean he was anti-bullshit back in the day when he
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was on loveline over taxation of people against crime against people raising their kids like
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knuckleheads and today that's become like um i mean you're basically a nazi if you say any of those
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things in public he hasn't backed down from that i still listen to his show every morning the adam
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parola show and it's great jimmy kibble on the other hand uh just had joe biden on his program
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and was referring to uh joe biden in the democratic party as we and asking america why or asking
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aloud why uh people aren't with us and he didn't in pondering why people can't understand like why what
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joe biden is doing in the white house is really great right now why can't people understand that
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so yeah it's sad to see and i just i think adam's got to ask jimmy like you're doing this is bullshit
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right you're just doing this so you can stay on a prime time program so you can keep your advertisers
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and your guests you don't believe any of this right because i don't think there's any way that
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jimmy kibble can sincerely believe what he said night after night well you mentioned the part where
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they talk about like we and i think it's very important for hollywood and social media like
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snapchat and instagram to present it as if their point of view is the only one and anybody who who
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differs from that even a little bit is like a really weird and strange and outlying person i think
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that's what a lot of it uh relies on especially in the late night talk show world where they all
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pretty much say the exact same thing everybody named jimmy and james it's all jimmy and james and
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stephen colbert i guess yeah hard segue danny into how often you're asking people to show you their
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penis um a lot plan speaking up not planned you tell can you tell your staff to turn their backs
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real quick and can you uh might pop it up and do what you look right up you might not give me a look
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of yours right now speaking up oh no in person only thank you i guess i have to talk about if you
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don't want you know that's that's um that is a a hard segue that was another thing unfortunately back
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in those days i referenced earlier when we didn't have much in the way of material we went down to
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san diego with a character called fan jerry in my group and we filmed the video that was actually
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titled show us your penis and we did a lot of asking people as you can probably imagine to show
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us their penis and unfortunately that set it off and it creeps back into my videos from time to time
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like a cancer i just i can't get rid of it oh man how much reliance is there on you know um going in
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there i know you said that you're doing these planning uh this planning now um or for the last
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while how much reliance is there on events happening because i remember when i was doing these
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types of videos way back in the day now let's say 2001 no i'm just kidding um that you kind of have
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to try to find an event and or find like a place to go to is that is that why you find yourself
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traveling a lot more or did you guys really just want to go and see more places because a lot of the
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videos are like fattest city in america and texas uh worst city in california did you kind of just want
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to like get out there and see like more of the more of the country or did you kind of like follow
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where events and where things would lead you i think both i think you i just scan the news read the news
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sometimes things jump out at me events oh we could really go piss a lot of people off at this place
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but also there really is something to be said for seeing the country and filming in locations other
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than los angeles la is so saturated with dickhead youtubers and people are so jaded that when you
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roll in with the camera they already have a list of assumptions about you uh wannabe tiktok star
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airhead stupid not funny get away from me i don't want to talk but when you roll into a business
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in say anchorage alaska or boise idaho with the camera it's a novelty and everybody would love to
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speak with you this is their 15 minutes of fame so it is refreshing to travel and film it makes it a lot
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easier not on the budget but it does make it a lot easier to create content i keep asking people i talk
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to from california if they want to leave because the people that are still there i just uh had a
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a friend of mine patriot j who's a rapper lawyer writer and everything he still lives out in
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california he doesn't plan on leaving uh versatile guy yeah he is i know and he's only like 23
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writer yeah he's like 23 dreadlocks can you be a lawyer at 23 did this guy uh skip law school
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maybe maybe he's older than that but he uh i think that's possibly five years in school how long does it
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take he might be like i think alexander hamilton was self-studied i think he passed the bar after
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like six months that happens sometimes yeah that happens you pay like a few grand you can do it but
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is there any desire to leave or do you just want to make uh california better is it is there too much
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uh good uh content fodder out there or how do you feel about that yeah i i don't think at least in my
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opinion i don't think there would be a better state to film in the weather is something you have to
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consider because we film almost exclusively outdoors so a rainy day shuts us down that's
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important absolutely the content is tremendous out here it is such a big state there are so many
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different worlds i mean a lot of star wars for instance they turned the the geography of california
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literally into different worlds i mean endor the sand dunes all of those locations they filmed
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that in the original star wars is here and also politically there are different worlds you can go
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to bakersfield and find the biggest flag saluting maga man on the planet but then you go an hour and a
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half the other direction and people are are lighting american flags on fire so we have that sort of
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diversity uh the the crime's insane the underworld the scum i love documenting that but it's also beautiful
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here i love la i love the history of la the only real reason to move would be just cheaper real estate
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and not having to pay 13 percent income tax which is a good reason but i mean i think we toyed with the
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idea of moving to las vegas but what do you have in las vegas you have the strip and then you have strip
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malls and i i just i can't people are going to get bored of me shoving a microphone in the face of a
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drunken tourist and then go and like hanging out in front of a chilies there's just there's not enough
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content in these low tax states so for now remaining in los angeles is the plan yeah not to mention if
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you get kicked out of one of those casinos they're all going to ban you forever i feel like because
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they i think they're all owned by three people like three companies own all the casinos so yeah that's
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true how how hardcore are you willing to go into a political scenario and what i mean by that is you
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went to evergreen college i don't think you guys were probably weren't in any physical danger at the
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time the people were wonderful there um in in that video just uh the kid who lets you pop his pimple
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that was in order to fight white supremacy of course because he was a whitehead um but could we see
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danny mullin mullin and leo going to like seattle during an antifa riot or something like that or you
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want to get that dangerous or is it best for you to not you know get into a place where you know you
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could actually get assaulted by a group of nerds yeah i would prefer to not get assaulted but i'm willing
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to get assaulted okay where it gets a little hairy is i don't want my cameraman or somebody else in my
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crew to get hurt because they um they aren't as in i mean this is their job and it's my life so that's
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the difference so i'm willing to get hurt but i don't want them to get hurt it's really the antifa
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the nerds the liberals they don't scare me in los angeles it's just people who were on the fringe of
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homelessness who can't really do the mental arithmetic if i kill this guy i'm going to prison
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for the rest of my life those are the scary people i mean i was just reading an article in the la times
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the other day where a guy's down in long beach right now walking into 7-elevens holding up the
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register for 322 and then just smoking the clerk after he takes the money just armed robbery life in
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prison automatically he thinks it's worth it for a couple hundred dollars and that's what scares me
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people who are just so out of touch with reality that they will kill you over nothing in doubt here
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in los angeles unfortunately there are a lot of those people and they scare me more than anything
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have you ever done one in another country yet no i'm not really too interested i mean i used to think
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that we would be safe if we went to canada the uk or australia but as you know i mean canada
00:26:40.920
especially free speech isn't really a thing and their prime minister is a nutcase i i don't really
00:26:48.400
want to get um i don't want to get caught like i don't want to get arrested at a wnba game or
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whatever their equivalent is zero in canada not sure i'm not sure what kind of like misogynist hate
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crime they would spin that up into being and i would be the next britney grinder or whatever her
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name is locked away for potentially 10 years for something that in america is nothing so i i think you
00:27:15.940
might uh the worst thing that would happen i think is you get charged for hate speech and probably
00:27:21.980
banned from the country i i don't think you're doing jail time canada doesn't like putting people
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in jail even for the worst of crimes in fact they did the thing that i think they did in california
00:27:32.960
and new york where they let a lot of people out during covid because the prisons were overcrowded
00:27:36.860
they said yeah so there's that i don't think you run the risk of jail time in canada especially if
00:27:42.540
you identify if you just tell them you identify as something or that you have a certain sexuality or
00:27:47.540
gender and then i think they'd be confused enough to let you just leave but uh the problem would be
00:27:53.440
getting in frankly uh you don't have uh 19 vaccinations i don't know if you can get in
00:27:59.480
right now is the problem as uh recently announced was you can never be up to date in canada so you're
00:28:05.080
going to need it every nine months to be considered up to date which is a great new laws i fixed my like
00:28:10.240
90s hair that i got going here it looks great actually thank you danny i uh pride myself on the
00:28:15.400
voluminousness of it um and it's not cooperating i need a haircut i need to go to my uh barber
00:28:21.780
maybe you should censor that so that he doesn't get mail he doesn't get mobbed yeah somebody coming
00:28:29.840
after me they'll be like well i can at least go after maybe danny will hear about it but um yeah i
00:28:36.440
need to also but i i feel like a hair appointment especially in la it's first of all you know you're
00:28:42.700
not going to be able to get in for a week so that knowing that it's going to take a long time
00:28:48.280
weirdly makes you procrastinate even more because you're like ah it's just like it's such delayed
00:28:53.800
gratification then i have to drive to the valley of los angeles it really is horrendous i i moved up
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the street from my old house so i just i just recently moved um like a mile about a mile and i
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thought that's great i'll go to the same grocery store i can work out in the same park my life won't
00:29:14.400
even change but that mile added nearly 25 minutes to my commute oh god because every day it's
00:29:22.800
something a junkie plows into a fire hydrant and floods the city block add 15 minutes onto your commute
00:29:30.020
a high-speed chase ensued with the police and now there's a shootout at la brea in la cienega
00:29:37.380
and you have to go 30 minutes out of your way so for me getting a haircut i mean i might as well
00:29:43.600
be crossing into tia one to get it done it's such and it's such an it's like an effort that's yeah i'm
00:29:51.180
getting anxiety just thinking about it i need one as well though see it's here it's construction or
00:29:55.940
car accident every single day if there wasn't any of that my drive to work would be 30 35 minutes but
00:30:01.420
every day it's an hour for some reason um and it never gets done but isn't your haircut like part
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of who you are i want to say like isn't aren't you recognizable partially because of your haircut
00:30:13.240
yeah it's a pretty stupid bowl cut right now and uh right after it gets cut i get a wave of
00:30:20.900
shit talk from the fans for like uh maybe three weeks until it grows out into a more natural state
00:30:28.920
then they're like all right we can stop making fun of his hair but yeah i guess um i guess when when
00:30:34.980
you do what i do you can't get the traditional like douchebag tiktoker perm cut or anything like that
00:30:41.020
you can't be trying to look hot so that rules out a bunch of haircuts for me right there
00:30:46.240
i do jujitsu so i don't want the hair all down in my face so that rules out a longer haircut
00:30:52.260
so i'm really left with just a handful of cuts and uh the bowl cut is somehow what i wound up with
00:30:59.480
i'm not really sure it's probably find a better alternative now that i'm talking about well i think
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um you know society really came into play into your haircut like society caught up to your haircut now
00:31:11.660
we're seeing it a lot more i was at a um a tech conference a couple weeks ago and uh there's this
00:31:18.240
guy with a big hockey mullet shaved side of his head big permed mullet at the back selling nfts
00:31:24.440
and i go up to him like this is going to be a canadian bro uh and it turns out he was uh like a
00:31:30.080
peruvian guy he's like yes you like this hair it is called the mullet and i was like this is impressive
00:31:35.340
and uh his company is called ugly bros shout out ugly bros don't get canceled on out yeah that was
00:31:43.260
the problem with the mullet too my hair used to be more mullet-y but now peruvian guys it's such a
00:31:48.440
big trend that they're rocking it and every date rapist frat douchebag that i see on the street too
00:31:55.140
with a pair of pit vipers and a longboard he's got the mullet now so i hadn't transitioned out of that
00:32:01.220
that got too big uh let me just scratch off wearing my pit vipers in my next video i got them because uh
00:32:08.420
uh vietnam uh filipino american comedian i'm friends with uh with a mullet has been wearing
00:32:15.400
them i'm like i need my own pit vipers for uh tell him he's got to be careful that's two strikes the
00:32:20.220
pit vipers and above but hey leo wears pit vipers too so i'm not hating pit vipers you just you can't
00:32:26.860
you could have like one thing that overlaps with the typical american date rapist frat boy you don't
00:32:32.200
want like all of your accessories it looks magic though i'll have to get rid of the longboard no i'm
00:32:37.800
against you in the anti-longboard stance it is impressive though you just randomly do these
00:32:42.680
things in your videos like you just randomly are able to kick flip and when i watched you just grab
00:32:47.140
this guy's guitar and start playing it maybe you're not like amazing at everything but you do that
00:32:52.900
sounds like an insult now that now that i say no you're right you're right but you know how to do
00:32:57.540
basically everything convincingly i think that's the the point to uh to be if you want to be like
00:33:04.220
danny mullen be able to do things convincingly is that fair to say yeah an improv teacher of mine
00:33:10.740
once said that when you're not doing improv or comedy you should just learn about the world go to a
00:33:17.840
play go to a symphony go to a new restaurant read a book about a subject you know nothing about
00:33:23.320
because all of that stuff will serve you in your comedy if you just have a little surface level
00:33:30.340
knowledge about everything and that's what you're referring to i know a little bit about a lot
00:33:37.240
which is better than being a master at anything well it really hits home for me is your hatred of
00:33:43.580
the french being a french canadian myself uh the constant wreck do i is it constant i wouldn't say
00:33:50.600
constant but there's been frequent times where you're saying let's yell at these french people and
00:33:55.260
you're just like napoleon sucked uh maybe you mentioned like descartes or something you have a
00:33:59.860
whole bunch of french references that i myself don't even know and you're able to fire them off
00:34:04.660
like six in a row this person was the worst person of all time his influence means nothing to me
00:34:10.100
and uh just the poor french you know but not actually yeah i i think you're referring to the
00:34:16.720
video across dressing in san francisco where we it's more than one danny i'm not lying
00:34:21.120
i don't i can't even remember the last time we disparaged the french but i mean i mean uh i i got
00:34:29.460
i was gonna lay into the french right here but that's the thing is something i told you i have a
00:34:33.860
shallow amount of knowledge about everything well i've exhausted my anti-french sentiment so now i'm
00:34:39.620
out of new things i need to i need to pick up uh maybe some 1940s era newspapers i'm sure there's
00:34:47.420
something negative i can find about the french there i'll just the well i'll just uh call my
00:34:51.960
dad and be like dad give me a lot of things french people hate at least in canada he hates separatists
00:34:57.500
um loves his poutine and his pepsi uh do you know what do you know what a joe louis is
00:35:03.760
a joe louis yeah it's a pastry there's this big pastry factory in quebec called vachon
00:35:10.240
and they create all these like the yeah v-c-h-o-n they create all these pastries um basically like
00:35:18.060
swiss rolls and like uh pies like moon pies essentially but it's called a loon moon here
00:35:23.980
uh so there's plenty of fodder that i can just message you if you're ever for some reason surrounded
00:35:29.460
by frenchmen from quebec so so poutine's great but what what's the the louis what is that called
00:35:35.980
joe louis but it's spelled j-o-s and then louis with an s like joss lewis would be a joke we would
00:35:43.000
say when we were kids um see that's that's um that's too deep because you can you can call somebody
00:35:49.800
a joe louis eater and nobody will get it like the less than one canadian they would get it so again
00:35:56.860
we're getting down to like three percent of the audience whereas poutine is that's highbrow that's a
00:36:03.820
highbrow insult if you call somebody like a poutine pig in their french but what do you mean i'm a
00:36:09.720
but uh but at least like at least poutine is like one notch above palm frites it's a little bit more
00:36:21.220
of a highbrow reference than that but we're not in the joe louis territory which is just people are
00:36:27.700
going to be scratching their heads this is the art of insulting the frenchmen palm frites apple
00:36:34.040
apple apple fries i see apple fries i don't know of crates well that's what palm that's what palm
00:36:42.620
frites means oh does it i thought it was just french fries no that's uh no we're gonna have to
00:36:49.060
next episode danny is just all french stuff yeah i i've been i've been calling people apple fry
00:36:57.160
eaters that's not even a thing that's just the two words stuck together very good we'll get we'll get
00:37:03.960
a thumbnail with just like a fleur-de-lis all right i wanted to explore as you lean in intent
00:37:09.240
intently um and listen to my wise words um keep going um more about this cancelling stuff do you
00:37:17.000
ever worry about it because this change.org thing if i think if the right people wanted to try to
00:37:24.740
like are you demonetized on youtube no no that's what i'm saying and let's not jinx ourselves here
00:37:31.260
maybe i shouldn't even say it but should this be something that you're worried about do you worry
00:37:35.720
about it at all when you're when you're making the content because every time i put a youtube
00:37:40.740
uh video up and it gets demonetized right away i pretty much always win the the appeal knock on wood
00:37:47.080
so it's not something i really worried about but i'm wondering with uh such a large channel of
00:37:53.700
yours and how many views you get you have to sort of worry about this sort of thing sometimes or do
00:37:58.800
you i think the bigger you are the less you have to worry about it because youtube they have done some
00:38:05.340
shady stuff like they got rid of leo's channel which was a smaller channel and you hear stories about
00:38:11.120
them just throwing aside the three strike system and axing channels that they don't like but they
00:38:18.500
can only do that when those channels are small because if my channel got booted up youtube it would
00:38:24.600
be it would be news enough other creators in this niche would pick it up and complain about it
00:38:30.460
and it would be bad press for youtube i mean a great example of this is when sargon of akkad got kicked
00:38:37.280
off patreon in 2018 or 19 and jordan peterson sam harris left the platform a ton of people left
00:38:46.180
the platform and it was a black eye that i think they've done everything in their power to recover
00:38:50.620
from youtube doesn't want that it doesn't want to censor people publicly and be be branded as that
00:38:56.560
platform so i feel actually pretty safe because of my size and um also especially more and more i feel
00:39:05.120
like i try to do comedy that's universally funny i want to do stuff that makes my parents laugh so
00:39:11.960
it's a little bit offensive it's a little bit naughty but it's really not violating community
00:39:17.200
guidelines i mean i'm sure youtube i mean clearly they don't like me probably there are a lot of
00:39:24.660
people in youtube who don't like me taking my girlfriend with a prosthetic black eye to a woman's
00:39:30.320
march okay they're probably offended by that but it's really i'm sure not their top priority for
00:39:36.160
removing from the platform what else do you want to do do you want to are you happy with staying on
00:39:43.480
youtube and i don't mean that uh insultingly did you do you want to do something would you ever do a
00:39:48.820
danny mullen show which have you been offered by like mtv or something is there anything like that
00:39:53.460
no official offers i just realized though that i uh my business email that's on my youtube channel
00:40:01.060
is like an email i hadn't checked in like three years so if mtv has emailed me i haven't seen it
00:40:07.360
but i'm not really interested in any of that i i like the immediacy of we make something we put it up
00:40:13.500
on youtube it gets views instantly i don't really like the idea of going radio silent for eight months
00:40:19.200
working on a tv show for netflix or hulu it goes up it gets the same amount or less views that i get
00:40:27.900
on youtube and then it's gone and then nobody can find it or access it again because the rights get
00:40:33.240
lost or sold and yeah five years down the line you're like nobody even knows where it is anymore
00:40:39.220
right now my content is all batched together i own it all it comes out when i want it to come out
00:40:44.420
i'm happy with what i get paid i i see people on youtube who make much much more money than i do
00:40:51.200
so i know there's plenty of room for growth i'm happy on youtube and the danny and leo podcast i
00:40:58.280
think it's called um when did you start that was there a particular reason or did you guys just say
00:41:03.800
that you want to just do a podcast like the rest of us yeah yeah it's the leo and danny show and we
00:41:10.200
started it uh on my couch actually uh on one hungover morning on my couch in 2019 and yeah that's just
00:41:17.860
for us to have a podcast because you have to have a podcast right not much more to it well before we
00:41:26.220
go i'd be remiss to not shout out ryan long um how did you guys meet uh really one of the nicest guys
00:41:32.560
in i will call this space this uh this sphere how did you guys get to know each other yeah i
00:41:40.420
believe we just exchanged a couple of direct messages um i called him a piece of shit he called
00:41:46.080
me a cocksucker no that's not true that it meant exchange text messages sounds like it's hostile or
00:41:51.720
direct message but no we just we just said hi i like your stuff the feelings mutual i went on his show
00:41:59.000
his uh his podcast actually remotely like i'm doing right now and then we first met up in films
00:42:05.160
here in la in november and uh shout out to ryan in the video we did that we've spoken of a couple
00:42:11.960
of times now that where i took my girlfriend my battered girlfriend to a woman's march the second
00:42:17.680
half of that video we went down to a ryan long comedy show in san diego and he gave our beloved
00:42:22.980
crew member king croc his first five minutes of stand-up ever my buddy king croc gets up on stage
00:42:30.020
at ryan long sold out comedy show with no material and somehow miraculously kills and he gave king
00:42:39.560
croc the confidence he needed to continue his comedy career now so shout out to ryan long isn't king
00:42:45.120
croc a donkey kong reference or that no that's king k rule my apologies yeah you're right that's the
00:42:52.880
that's the uh the crocodile guy yeah that came up the other day well danny i really appreciate you
00:42:57.940
coming on i had a lot of fun talking to you i'm down to if you ever come to can i'm down to come
00:43:03.060
out and support your hate speech here um hopefully i can come down there sometime um anything else you
00:43:10.180
want to mention to our canadian audience anything else you want to mention at all
00:43:13.040
um no just thanks for having me man i like rebel news you guys were super awesome all of your
00:43:19.180
reporters down there in uh in eagle pass love what you guys are doing keep it up and uh thanks for
00:43:25.100
having me man no problem you become a special correspondent whenever you want okay danny
00:43:29.880
mullen live from the border um tearing down that wall jumping the border anything all right hell yeah
00:43:36.480
send aside where they get to the stalling house side where they get to the walking no side for
00:43:41.560
the people as often rush limbo you know that i'm talking hey rush limbo you know that i'm talking
00:43:47.880
hey look rush limbo you know that i'm sent aside i don't trust a single soul inside need to euthanize
00:43:55.800
sit on their ass while they loot the guys with their suits and ties we rip them off with the strength of
00:44:00.800
gods if i see nancy pelosi or kevin mccarthy fighting like budakide yeah