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00:00:38.000No, no, no, like where they used to kind of be able to take care of themselves Yeah, or seemingly could there's not one place where you can go where you can get one Are you shaking that before you open it?
00:05:42.000And then everyone's reacting, but they don't think they're reacting.
00:05:46.000And now the New York Times is trying to go the other way, where they hired this guy, Brett Stevens, to write op-ed pieces, and every week there's a new, like, what did you just say?
00:06:34.000I was talking about the amount of fucking work it takes just to be like, I gotta worry about statutes and fucking the FCC and fucking executive orders.
00:06:52.000So much, I don't know if it's, I mean, they would say, like, you know, to be an active democracy, it's only as good as citizens and all that shit, but it seems like we're all more involved, and it's worse.
00:07:13.000Well, it's definitely not good, especially from the environmental side.
00:07:19.000Whenever a president is short-sighted about the environment, that scares the shit out of me, because that has repercussions for generation upon generation.
00:07:27.000And he's doing it for short-term money grabbing.
00:07:29.000Like the EPA being essentially gutted.
00:07:32.000What they're doing in Alaska where they're making roads and they're setting up mines near the salmon fisheries.
00:07:39.000What they're doing in Utah with the monuments.
00:07:42.000It's scary because they're just chopping away, just chopping away, and the repercussions could be forever.
00:07:47.000We have an amazing system here in this country in terms of the amount of public land that we have and the beautiful places where you can go and check out.
00:07:56.000All it takes is one or two assholes that have a mine, one or two assholes that allow...
00:08:32.000I have a notion that they felt excluded by elitism and going to Davos and the Hamptons and all these places and the Aspen Ideas Festival and TED Talks and all that shit.
00:08:48.000But this is, uh, which I get the notion of fuck you, like, but this is like, dude, you can't tell me that Obama stressed you out on this level.
00:08:59.000Like, the level of Trump stress that, like, is just created in the culture, that's what I was saying, like, it's havoc every day.
00:13:29.000If we had like a soul meter in the room and like you woke up one day and your wife is pregnant and it's like 48 days in, honey, honey, look at the soul meter.
00:13:58.000If you had a meter, if you had a way, obviously we don't.
00:14:01.000This is in a world with a robot president and a soul meter.
00:14:03.000And this is also in a world where they've proven the existence of the soul, which is just theoretical.
00:14:08.000But if you had a thing in the room with you, sort of like when you have a pregnancy tester, like, look at this, it's registering, it's real, it's happening.
00:16:15.000Basically, the Obama administration and Joe Biden recommended these guidelines for Title IX. So they recommended these guidelines for Title IX, basically protecting women on college campuses.
00:16:31.000But the problem is, they throw out due process.
00:16:36.000Literally, the idea is if you get accused, you're basically convicted.
00:16:42.000Guy gets accused, he's thrown out of school.
00:16:45.000And it's like, well, that's not due process.
00:16:48.000There were all these things that were like, I'd never thought about before.
00:16:52.000Because I want to believe, you know what I mean?
00:17:45.000I mean, I don't even want to speculate about what the stats are.
00:17:48.000The problem is, if you're a person who didn't do anything to someone, and then they're accusing you of doing something to them, and then it ruins your life, that's devastating.
00:20:19.000In situations like this where it's one person's word against the other and the result's critical, I don't know if that's really possible, though.
00:20:30.000I don't know of anything that exists or any technology that's on the pipeline.
00:22:05.000It's like literally as these things happen Because you read these, a lot of the times it feels like the choice for women is, as it's happening, it's like, fuck, I have to make my life about this now.
00:22:19.000My whole life has to be about this for at least a year and a half.
00:23:10.000Look at what happened with the UVA case in Rolling Stone magazine.
00:23:14.000They printed this stupid fucking lie, this crazy story that really becomes a problem because there's real rape going on all the time on campuses.
00:23:49.000I think that there's so much evidence pointing to the fact that it was all made up that there's very little possibility that something actually happened to her.
00:24:04.000The mattress girl, one, was a weird one because she definitely had sex with that guy and she definitely wanted to have sex with that guy because she was messaging him about sex and about, you know, I think she said something about bring condoms and you're going to put it in my butt.
00:24:21.000And then she just decided this is an amazing way to be a martyr and to be a victim and to bring that fucking mattress everywhere, including at her commencement speech.
00:24:36.000That kid is now suing that university, and I hope he wins.
00:24:39.000Yeah, again, I hope he wins, because I think due process is as important.
00:24:46.000It's literally a tie for first between protecting women and protecting the Constitution.
00:24:56.000Yeah, I don't even, the thing that bothers me about even talking about UVA or Columbia is it makes the story about lying women, which is just fucking not, they're the outliers.
00:25:40.000She comes over, or they have sex with each other, and then her friends convince her that because she was drunk, she could not consent, and that it's rape.
00:25:49.000Remember, that was a big thing for a while, that if you're not drunk, you can't consent.
00:25:53.000That was like, for a year or two, they tried to push that until they realized, oh my god, that makes everyone a rapist.
00:25:59.000I mean, having said that, I think that the...
00:26:03.000Part that alcohol plays in this shit...
00:28:19.000But Men want sex from women, so they're pursuing women.
00:28:24.000And do you know any men that you're friends with that you see over time that become more and more bitter towards women because they're getting rejected over and over?
00:28:33.000And they associate women with bad feelings.
00:29:10.000But that doesn't mean that they're shitty.
00:29:14.000Anymore than it means you're shitty if you don't want this fucking kombucha like you just don't your body doesn't want it doesn't mean that her body doesn't want you like there's but it makes guys it hurts their feelings and it makes them crazy and it also deals with these evolutionary mechanisms that are designed to make sure that we breed It becomes a significant issue for you.
00:29:34.000You want to figure out, how do I get this gal to like me to the point where she wants to have sex with me?
00:29:57.000It speaks to your bit about invention.
00:30:01.000The thing that your invention thing now is that the reason the thing of like why women haven't invented shit is because they don't have to.
00:31:39.000She wants someone to pay for everything.
00:31:41.000There is an evolutionary path where the woman is looking for a man who shows that he is capable of taking care of things while she is held up Being pregnant and taking care of the young.
00:32:28.000Significant situations like whenever there's a like a guy that falls apart under stress is one of the most unattractive things to women ever because There was a study where like that I think Whitney and I have talked about where guys Women don't like when guys cry in front of them.
00:32:44.000They say they want an emotional guy What they mean is I want you to listen to my emotions.
00:32:49.000Yeah, I don't want you to be emotional I need you to be a fucking marine Yeah, and if you're gonna be emotional and cry about things, it better be like a brave display of emotions.
00:34:07.000Imagine if you're a man, and you're picking a woman, and you have to decide when you're meeting this woman, is this chick going to be able to keep it together with me while I'm held up, literally held up for a year, like a whole year?
00:34:19.000For one year, I'm going to be stuck in this situation, and then from then, the next 18 years, I'm going to be responsible for the infant that comes out of this union.
00:34:30.000That's so different than our thought process.
00:37:05.000His brother dresses like a combination of Ringo Starr and Elton John and just is a completely out there guy and just talks about the horrors of Kevin growing up with his insanely abusive dad.
00:39:46.000Depending on what the action is, right?
00:39:49.000So, like, if he's talking about the rape in college, you know, you read the story, the way he wrote it, it's like, okay, you kind of did it when she said don't do it.
00:41:30.000Remember Attell's old joke that women love mystery, which is why whenever my girlfriend leaves the room, I take a shit in one of her shoes.
00:41:36.000LAUGHTER Hotel literally has a great one-liner for every occasion.
00:42:46.000I wonder how we're going to get past this culturally.
00:42:48.000I don't, and that's, so what I've been talking to people about is like, so there needs to be rules of engagement, and like, I think guys would be fine with scheduling it.
00:43:00.000The thing about the consent, because there was a thing in that article about that thing that they used to have at Antioch College like 20 years ago where it was like, I want to touch your breasts now.
00:44:06.000I mean, I've been implementing that in my own life where I'm like, I don't, cause I know once I sleep with somebody, I'll feel guilty, Yeah, that's a weird one, right?
00:46:28.000What it's doing is it's providing you a certain amount of ambition, a certain amount of desire, a certain amount of lust, and that's the mechanism that a lot of men use to get things going in their life.
00:48:07.000Depending on you, again, we're going back to those natural instincts that a mother needs the father to be the one who's going to watch over her and provide.
00:49:29.000Yeah, like, there's a ton of girls that like that.
00:49:31.000And again, and I think we've talked about this before, it's because girls never really saw porn before 1998, 99. So now they're seeing the full, like, all the options, and they're going, oh, yeah, Chogun's fun.
00:51:16.000And also, I don't want ever to get sexually aroused by that.
00:51:21.000I don't want to be connected with that.
00:51:24.000Because I think that, like, I stayed a girl, and she used to like to rub her feet on my dick, and for a while I had, like, this foot fetish thing going on.
00:53:02.000Consent and I again because women are physically weaker in general than men in in When sex it has to be them pitching it yes in a way like because otherwise Especially if it's physical yeah a buddy mine is huge physically huge a girl said Choke me and he was like I'll fucking so he just went like What is it,
00:55:13.000I think we need, I think we need laws, like unbelievably brutal laws when it comes to pills that people drop in drinks.
00:55:23.000When it comes to like the Cosby thing, I heard another story the other night about that.
00:55:27.000And I I just that freaks me out That's the one that freaks me out I think the most because I feel like that's like straight sociopath shit Yeah, you you want this from some person and you just feel free to pop drop something their drink and sit back and wait and watch and watch Yeah kick in I had a girl accused me of doing that to her whoa terrifying In Vegas.
00:58:34.000But how, you know, whenever you see it, it's all kind of like kind of pixelated.
00:58:39.000But after three hours, she finally like called me and was like, Hey, I know, because I called her, I was like, hey, just saying, I didn't poison you.
01:03:27.000What were you talking about with that girl you'd met, Cosby, and he wasn't a nice guy?
01:03:31.000Oh, I met Cosby at Arsenio one time, because I'm a million years old.
01:03:38.000I met a woman named Joy Dolce, who used to be in the talent department at Arsenio.
01:03:46.000And she was friends with Dave because Dave did Arsenio, whatever, whatever.
01:03:49.000So she would just go, hey, come by the show today.
01:03:52.000This is like when Arsenio was on, the original, like in 94. So I went by one day and Cosby was the guest and he just kind of fucking berated me.
01:04:08.000About, like, he was talking about the history of slavery, and he's like, and then the Dutchman came, and he pointed at me, and I was like, I'm not Dutch.
01:04:33.000Like, Bill Cosby is a brilliant fucking guy.
01:04:38.000But I just, he's just not, I wouldn't, I mean, knowing what I know now, he's a real piece of garbage.
01:04:46.000But my interaction with him at that time wasn't pleasant.
01:04:51.000And just seeing how he talked to people, it's just like, yeah, this guy's fucking not a good dude.
01:04:56.000Well, he definitely has an elitist sort of a thing going on, and I think that elitist sort of a thing is one of the ways that he was able to separate himself from his victims, that he's better than them.
01:05:06.000You know, he would behave in these weird ways when he'd do these shows.
01:05:09.000I've talked about it before, but I talked to these people that worked with him in a casino, and he would make the entire staff sit down and watch him eat.
01:05:21.000So all the people that worked in the theater, all the people that worked the aisles, they would have to come in the room and stand there while he ate.
01:05:30.000Then he had a security guard tuck him into bed at night.
01:05:33.000So he climbs into bed and the security guard tucks him in and then shuts the lights out and shuts the door.
01:11:55.000So I remember when I moved to New York in 91 and was in the comedy scene in 92, 93, 94 in New York, I couldn't believe the amount of jerking off that was going on.
01:12:10.000I just remember going, like, why is everyone constantly talking about, like, what the fuck is, it's, I remember, like, going to Louie's apartment for, to shoot, uh, movies, like, his shorts that he used to make, I would, like, PA on them, and,
01:13:43.000And I can get away with saying whenever I want to you because you're less than me.
01:13:46.000And she goes and I kind of feel like that's probably why he did that to those girls like he was above them They were below him and it was not just hey, I want to jerk off in front of you It's like you have to watch me jerk off because I'm above you.
01:13:59.000You know what's the thing you said earlier was relevant which is Getting hard from that.
01:15:48.000It's like, I think he realized that what he did was fucked up, and he had these crazy urges, and he did it, and then as time went on, he stopped doing it, and he's like, I'm a prisoner to some shit that I used to do.
01:15:59.000I know, and if he had just got in front of it.
01:16:00.000I feel like if he had just, A, if he had just talked about it.
01:17:23.000I think he had sex with someone on staff that probably felt like she couldn't stop.
01:17:29.000Mmm, that's that would be the that would be that sort of Rub I don't know you see I don't I don't want a victim shame, right?
01:17:38.000You don't know you don't know what really happened.
01:17:41.000I don't know his version I don't even know her version.
01:17:43.000I just know the third-hand version You know like I read one that he had sex with some girl until she blacked out like Matt Lauer likes to fuck.
01:18:01.000That to me is less a rape trap than it is.
01:18:05.000Just like a fucking, I don't want to have to get up and go.
01:18:09.000The offices at 30 Rock aren't that big and you're like, you know, it's probably, I don't want to walk 40 feet every time I need to shut the door.
01:18:41.000He, you know, he didn't chase him down like Harvey did or, you know, offer them a gig or...
01:18:46.000Another friend of mine said something interesting, which he said, uh, until dating people you work with is illegal, this is never going to stop.
01:18:56.000Yeah, Whitney's got a great joke about that that she's doing right now, about working in an office, you know, because she works on Roseanne now.
01:20:58.000Because I don't even think a lot of times you're attracted to them.
01:21:02.000I think you're attracted to the dynamic.
01:21:05.000I think you're attracted to like the uniform and like you're working and they're working and you're not supposed to and then you see them off campus in normal clothes and you're like You're just normal here.
01:21:37.000Both like really raw open micers trying it out didn't know what the fuck the future held in store for us It was just too much comedy talk and I was like, oh she's too much like me.
01:21:46.000Yeah, but she was fucking funny and She was one of the few people that I was like wow like she really could be like legit Like when when we were all open micers together and it never worked out for she's quit Yeah, I guess.
01:22:36.000I'm I I it does like drive me you don't want to see it.
01:22:41.000I don't want to see another I don't want that to be my Emotional support the person who thinks the way I think or feels the way I feel yeah in regards to achievement Yeah, especially like status and you know recognition getting the recognition from your peers and all that kind of crazy shit and craving it and Where are you with all that stuff?
01:25:36.000Fear Factor was a great education for me.
01:25:38.000First of all, it gave me a lot of fuck you money, which was great, because then I realized, well, once you have that, it doesn't really matter.
01:25:45.000You really can do what you want if you don't have to worry about how your bills are being paid.
01:28:01.000So then I was like, you probably can't write multi-cam sketches, and then Dave hosted SNL, he asked me to help him with it, and I wrote a great sketch.
01:32:56.000In his era, the goal was get a sitcom.
01:32:59.000And so he used to do clubs where I would go, I would do the clubs after him, and they would be saying like, oh he hates it, he didn't want to do this, he hates doing press, he's bummed out that he's on the road, he didn't move to Hollywood to be on the road.
01:33:12.000And I was like, does he understand that he's like one of the best comics that's ever lived?
01:33:16.000When we were all kids, when we were starting out, back when I met you at Boston Comedy in 1991 or whatever it was, you weren't even doing stand-up back then.
01:38:31.000I mean, like, if you saw a really funny woman, but she was dressing like a primetime Megyn Kelly on Fox with little tiny skirts on and her boobs showing, it's like, what are you selling?
01:38:44.000Like, you're selling something different than just I'm a stand-up comic.
01:38:47.000Like, you're selling I'm a sexy lady out for a night on the town, but I'm also going to tell you some jokes.
01:41:06.000That motherfucker is so funny, I said to him, I was like, hey, he did a joke...
01:41:13.000He did a joke that like, and I go, do you remember that joke where you're talking about you're in a fight with your wife and you said something?
01:42:45.000You know, like sometimes being drunk, like as long as the momentum's in the right way, you know, like you're thinking in a good way and everything comes out and you're on the stage, ah, I got some fucking shit to talk about.
01:43:15.000Being drunk on stage, it's not the right way to manage the ideas, but it is a good way to not give a fuck.
01:43:24.000It's like if you have an idea and you feel so strongly about it, and you're, I mean, obviously, it so varies depending upon where you are in your life and where you are with the material, but sometimes some material just needs a little bit of, I don't give a fuck.
01:43:39.000And then if you have a couple of drinks before you talk about that subject, and you're like, well, why the fuck do I have to pay attention to this?
01:46:48.000Like, the look of like, oh, you're, yeah, I can't, like, you're, you're, you're legit.
01:46:55.000You and I, when I, if I run into you, if we're passing in the hallway and, you know, you say, I love that bit that you're doing, like, ah, I'm like, I know you're a really funny guy.
01:47:22.000But you tell me someone who's really good says I'm good.
01:47:28.000It feels good you you you feel like you're in and that's what so many of us felt like we weren't yes before we became by the way I'd like to say that goes away.
01:48:48.000If it ends, you know, it's like, I've talked about this before, that that dream of retirement that's sailing off in the sunset is straight up horseshit.
01:52:31.000As long as you guys are cool with that.
01:52:33.000Yeah, I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.
01:52:35.000And it's not like, she's not like a dark-hearted person or whatever, but it's like, that's just kind of who, and you know, yeah, we all have this fear of like, can I do it again?
01:52:46.000It's jumping, you're jumping over, you're Evel Knievel.
01:53:45.000Yeah, and you don't really know for sure where the beats are.
01:53:49.000You think you've got a pretty good roadmap from all your experience, but until you do it in front of a live audience, they're there to tell you So, Mulaney just did this Mark Twain thing for Letterman.
01:54:01.000It was like the Mark Twain Prize on PBS for David Letterman.
01:54:04.000So, it's like Steve Martin, just Bill Murray, everybody.
01:54:07.000And John Mulaney's doing it, so he sends me his speech.
01:55:05.000And that's what an audience does, that you can't, like, oh, now we're doing comedy.
01:55:09.000I thought that was a straight, I thought that was just a metaphor.
01:55:12.000You know, I have an app on my phone, the sound app, the voice notes app, and you can look at it, you can edit the voice notes, and when you go into the edit mode, See the spikes.
01:55:25.000And so I'm going over this one bit, and I look, and there's this giant fucking spike in this Harvey Weinstein bit that I have.
01:55:35.000And then I realized that the giant spike is something that I didn't even know was a punchline when I wrote it.
01:55:41.000I was trying to set something else up, but the way it played out, it got the biggest fucking laugh of the entire bit.
01:55:47.000And then you have to act like you meant to do that.
01:57:56.000And it's like, so fucking breathtaking.
01:57:59.000And I was there with Jimmy Carr, the comedian, and I was like, when I'm impressed by Dave, it's like, he must, because I fucking know him so well.
01:58:06.000And I was like, this motherfucker's like...
01:58:08.000And he's like, yes, but don't discount, don't assume that you couldn't have done something because adrenaline does make your brain do shit.
01:58:19.000And super like, like make logic leaps that you wouldn't.
01:58:24.000But I, in my, in my line of way, in like my, I, that's maybe 10% ultimately of like, it's 90% written and then I'll 10% say, come on with some on stage.
01:58:34.000Yeah, when I'm intoxicated, I'm more willing to take these big leaps and go into new rooms.
01:59:23.000One of the good things about comedy today is because of all these kind of conversations that we have, people sort of understand the process and particularly the comedy story.
01:59:30.000Yeah, they want to see the process play out.
01:59:32.000Like I've talked to a guy the other day that was like, I came to see you while you were doing that Bruce Jenner thing, and I saw it through all its incarnations.
01:59:41.000I saw the early part was kind of clunky, and then I saw it where it became the finished thing, which is your closing bid on the special.
02:00:26.000So you've got like, what, 900 people maybe that are seeing alternative comedy in a night?
02:00:31.000Whereas podcasts, thousands and thousands and thousands, if not millions and millions.
02:00:36.000I think that there's a bunch of things going on, though, too.
02:00:38.000It's like, when you become a fan of it, like, I'm a fan of music, and I don't really, like, one of the things about having Chris Stapleton in is, I just wanted to ask him, like, how do you write jokes?
02:02:44.000Have you noticed a creep of like, oh, that's shitty, you know what I mean?
02:02:51.000I don't, and by the way, I'm not saying this like, because I can think of one, Joe.
02:02:55.000I'm just saying like, are there moments where you're like, oh, like, because I don't know, you're more popular than, you know what I mean, like, than I am.
02:03:04.000So I'm just wondering, like, have you noticed anything happening that you were like, eh, that's interesting.
02:03:10.000You've got to be careful of it, for sure.
02:03:12.000I think I felt it a lot more when I was younger, or, you know, just dumber.
02:03:48.000Perspective, you know, I mean that's one of the reasons why I like pot because it makes me insecure.
02:03:53.000Yeah Legitimately I like I like that in every ability in every like insecure define insecure Vulnerability like insecure about the future about life itself about like realizing like wow like at any moment now fucking earthquake can happen at any moment now we get hit by an asteroid and The cells in my body literally only have about 50 years left of life if I'm lucky.
02:04:18.000You know, worrying about my children, worrying about my family, worrying about, you know, all those things are real.
02:04:24.000You know, those sort of vulnerabilities, they're highlighted by marijuana.
02:04:29.000The awareness of your own Imminent demise and just life itself being so fucking uber bizarre like all those things are highlighted by marijuana Which is one of the things I like about it that ruthless Introspective quality of pot that people call paranoia.
02:04:47.000Well, I just think that's hyper awareness Yeah, which is why like hugs feel so good when you're high if you're high and you hug someone like ah It feels so warm.
02:05:08.000I did a podcast and after meeting, I had like two hours before the meeting.
02:05:13.000So I smoked a joint and then I hit the bag.
02:05:15.000I just went over to the heavy bag and it worked out for like 45 minutes and just, man, it's like you're so aware of all the muscle tissue moving.
02:07:50.000TMS which transcranial magnetic simulation 45 sessions it worked great like it literally I stopped taking it takes like 35 minutes and they just put like electrodes on yours yeah, I think I have video they put they put They yeah,
02:08:07.000they put video on Chris Rock sends me every single rape thing.
02:10:27.000For months literally like just like when people say I have anxiety I'd never had anxiety I was like I'm not an anxious person I wouldn't even know what that's like it's fucking miserable it's to me it was worse than depression because you're agitated and like you just feel like static it just was like a static over your body it was like you're you just have like this like cortisol snow And it sucked.
02:14:26.000I've eaten, I used to be a big dessert person, and I kind of just like, I think the mushrooms might have made me just go like, eh, you don't need that.
02:14:49.000And especially if you're really conscious about what you're eating in terms of probiotics and things that sort of help the landscape, the biome landscape and make sure you've got healthy things in there.
02:15:02.000I think that's so significant and the more researchers that I talk to and the more people that are nutrition experts to start talking about Your gut biome and how important it is to take the proper probiotics.
02:20:38.000I mean, I've had a bunch of different kinds of dogs in my life, and I'm a big dog fan, but I'm just particularly impressed with Golden Retrievers.
02:23:59.000Like, as you're doing it, you're groaning and straining and just barely, barely surviving certain situations and getting into positions where people are literally squeezing your fucking neck until you're about to black out.
02:24:12.000And it just makes the uncomfortable feeling of anticipation of stand-up, it just makes it less dangerous.
02:24:22.000I did a show last night at the Fonda, so it's like a theater, so to speak, audience, probably, I don't know, 800 people or something.
02:24:33.000And I'd done a spot on Tuesday night, went great.
02:24:37.000I've done spots every night for the last 10 years with some degree of decent.
02:24:42.000And the thoughts I was having before I went on, like, no, you're going to throw up on your, like, literally, like, Throw up on yourself, and then I'm on stage.
02:24:54.000I'm like, why did you think that was gonna happen, you fucking weirdo?
02:24:58.000Like, none of it even came close to happening.
02:25:01.000But your brain's just like, no, no, no.
02:25:05.000Like, this worst-case scenario shit that's so impractical.
02:25:09.000The other thing, you know what's great and horrible about stand-up is somebody was saying, like, yeah, you can't compare your set to somebody else's, and it's like, I can't not.
02:26:29.000Well, that's another thing about, we were talking about this the other day, you catch a bad one at the store and everybody sort of wants to commiserate with you.
02:26:36.000Like, oh, dude, last week I couldn't get a laugh to save my fucking life.
02:26:39.000And everybody wants to, it's not like, everyone knows, like, the level of comedy there is so high that everyone knows that everyone's legit.
02:27:42.000I don't I don't I don't even really know I feel like the main the OR like suits me better because I don't have to be like gregarious and did it you can just be like fucking you can be dark creep yeah you can be a dark creep And you can be a dark creep in that OR. Yeah.
02:27:58.000But it's also, I think it's incredibly valuable to have that many high-level comics around you all the time.
02:33:35.000Because it's like, I don't care about fame.
02:33:37.000I didn't know who that person was, and he's fucking hilarious.
02:33:41.000Well, that is not just about comedy, and I think that relates to a lot of the problems that a lot of people have in life with what you would call haters.
02:33:49.000Like, what a lot of haters are is they see people that are doing way better than them, they see things that are happening, and there's some things legitimately to hate, right?
02:33:58.000But then there's a lot of haters that are haters about athletes or about singers or rappers or whatever.
02:34:07.000And that jealousy is they look at themselves, they look at that person, they don't like the way they measure up, and so all they can concentrate on...
02:34:14.000It's trying to find something wrong with that person.
02:34:35.000I think a lot of times with this, it goes to that power thing.
02:34:38.000I think some guys, sometimes guys especially, will see their career as revenge.
02:34:47.000I think there is a little a little bit of that is worthwhile Yeah, but I don't I think it can poison a fucking sure poison you if you're if you're consumed by it because there's guys that we all know that are just like All they do is like you see what so-and-so got you're like yeah,
02:35:02.000those guys are useless Yeah, again, he's not it wasn't between you and him and it takes their work to that mindset that limited growth mindset that fucks with their work Yeah.
02:35:16.000Just try to be original and as good as you possibly.
02:35:19.000Somebody the other night was complaining like, yeah, my agent didn't, he moved and they didn't tell me.
02:35:25.000And I was like, dude, every job you ever get is going to be from other comics.
02:36:26.000Every commercial, I direct commercials, it's all from, that's from Chappelle's show, because it's like a long story, but like, Air Jordan, I did a thing with them, and then they were like, you should do more commercials, so I do commercials, and it's like, it's all from your peers.
02:36:42.000It's literally all from your peers, that's it.
02:36:43.000That's the only people that are gonna get you, they're the people that are gonna hire you.
02:36:48.000Some people don't like to think that way because I think there's like this embedded mindset that used to exist when there was a limited number of jobs.
02:38:00.000I was like, I saw Schumer do a joke Nine years ago that I really liked and just texted her like didn't really know her at all I was like hey that joke's fucking great and then she asked me to direct her show you know what I mean like and I'm not I didn't do it to get her to you know what I mean it's just this thing of just like yeah that's how you make relationships you just like I like that some people don't like watches stand-up though like no that's what she said she's like I just don't like stand-up And I was like,
02:39:40.000Like, it's, and there was a lot of, it was a dude who you've had on here, I can't remember his name, but, like, Spencer or something, I don't know, but, uh, who had talked about doing ibogaine.