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00:01:18.000But anyways, once we got to like hanging out, once we did the Sober October thing, He was just like, right before that actually, I think he was like, which means like, what do you want to do, right?
00:01:55.000And I remember that we met, it was like We got somebody who had students, because they both always in the national championship, they allow students to go to the game for pretty expensive, much less than the general public can go for.
00:02:10.000In other words, because you want students to have the ability to go to see their school play.
00:02:14.000So we got like student tickets for, I think they were $3.50 each.
00:02:19.000And that's pretty expensive, you know, especially for a student.
00:12:08.000You know what I hate about these super rich guys?
00:12:11.000They'll never, they never in their interviews talk, have like, the only one who will talk like what it's like to ball at that level and make it sound fun and like the things you want to ask is Mark Cuban.
00:12:21.000I've seen him in interviews be like, ah yeah, I got a lot of shit.
00:12:25.000And, like, knows that, like, that's a genuine curiosity for people.
00:12:35.000But I saw this interview with Gates, and this guy was asking all those questions.
00:12:38.000He was like, do you have to worry about, like, when somebody asks you, like, when you ask for something, that someone's going to try to ask for more because of your known wealth?
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00:13:34.000So we were in Seattle and there's this thing that's near a bridge where you go under this bridge and they have these clear walls where you can see the salmon swimming up the salmon ladders.
00:13:49.000They have everything set up with these clear glass walls.
00:13:57.000Who was the, you know, the guide of this thing, who's explaining us, you know, how this works and which kind of salmon you're looking at and the whole deal.
00:14:04.000He was like, you know, my uncle worked on the Bill Gates House.
00:14:07.000He starts talking about Bill Gates House, where Bill Gates House is and where he lives.
00:14:11.000And I remember thinking, like, how weird must it be?
00:14:14.000If you're so rich that all everybody wants to do is talk about like, hey, my friend worked on your house.
00:14:44.000I was like, how much of this is urban myth?
00:14:46.000I know that they were reporting even, like, I don't know, when that house was built 10, 15, or whatever years ago, that even back then, there was shit in his house, because it was super high tech, of like, if you walk in a room, Music would play, and as you left the room, music would die down and pick up in the next room.
00:15:05.000I think a regular person could probably do something like that now, but that was unheard of.
00:15:48.000But you're like, yeah, that's, you know, I totally get the idea behind that, but also like, if you grew up with You know, you're his kid and you're like, oh, we got lions this year or whatever.
00:16:01.000And then you're like, you know, you grow up and you're like, I'm a whatever, a photographer now.
00:16:11.000It's great, but my thing is like, it's such a step down from what they're used to.
00:16:16.000I don't feel even remotely bad for some fucking kid who gets five million dollars from I don't feel bad.
00:16:22.000What I'm saying is that that adjustment has to kick you in the balls.
00:16:25.000I mean, the exposure that they've had, the lifestyle, is like, it's not, it's unfathomable to us.
00:16:30.000Like, we can't even, it's beyond, they're just like, it's like being a prince, you know?
00:16:36.000It's like your dad's a sultan of Brunei, and then he's like, well, go fucking, I mean, they're probably well-adjusted.
00:16:42.000I don't know why I assume that, but I think that, like, He and his wife seem like such reasonable people that I bet they've, you know, prepared them for what's coming.
00:16:51.000Well, they've got to figure out a way to make it on their own, and how do you get a kid to do that?
00:17:08.000And then, like, how to not, you know...
00:17:12.000You want to prepare your kid for that, and then how will a boy, I don't know, maybe especially, boys align with their dads usually in a certain way, you know?
00:17:21.000Like, kid compares himself to you and your success, but you don't want him to feel like, you know, he's less than.
00:19:04.000Well, it's so hard to actually do something if you don't have to.
00:19:09.000It's so hard to make something happen in your life, right?
00:19:14.000To start a business, to enter into a career, to become successful at it, to really focus and try to get good to the point where you're successful at something, you have to have a fire inside of you.
00:19:27.000And if you already have a Ferrari, and you're already living in a mansion, you already have $10 million in the bank, you already have all your bills paid, you don't have to get up in the morning if you don't want to.
00:19:39.000The idea of just becoming this disciplined machine that's out there to try to kick ass in this life and be self-actualized, so hard, so hard to pull off.
00:19:50.000You gotta, like, dial back to on the spoiling, I think.
00:20:25.000Even though he's going to inherit just crazy amounts of money.
00:20:28.000But I mean, part of it too is just the nature of that person.
00:20:33.000I think you can try to not go crazy with taking care of gifts and all that stuff, but some of that drive has to come from within, no matter what your socioeconomic level is.
00:21:44.000You know that stress of you're just doing open mic nights and then all of a sudden you're starting to get paid and then some people start moving forward and other people get left behind.
00:22:08.000You either can be successful or not, depending upon how much you focus on it, how much talent you have, how much drive and discipline you have.
00:25:26.000I guess we should describe it to people.
00:25:28.000There was a nutty time where they were just chucking around development deals like a regular person who probably had no business being on stage could get a $100,000 development deal.
00:25:39.000I think they said that the last big one that they talked about was, like, 05. They're like, that was, like, one of the last big six-figure development deals, which is basically you go to Montreal...
00:25:51.000You know, which is the Just for Laughs big festival.
00:26:12.000Yeah, it's like one of the big, the last big ones that failed.
00:26:16.000Like, they had a record, there was like a tallying of like, This person, this person, this person, this person all got them, and nothing came of it.
00:26:25.000And then they went all in in 05 on a couple other people, and then that didn't pan out some.
00:26:30.000So they're like, fuck these development deals, man.
00:27:47.000It could have turned out terribly wrong.
00:27:49.000But the thing that was weird about it that was the most incredible thing was that once I started working and once the money, the check came in and...
00:28:01.000I didn't have to think about my bills anymore.
00:28:03.000There was a physical feeling of relief.
00:28:09.000To go from being broke and have no idea how you're going to pay your bills and just trying to hustle up a $100 set or a $75 set somewhere to go from that to just not having to worry about money.
00:28:48.000You know, like, Oh shit, I know I got these weeks of work lined up, but then that other thing's gonna come up, so I need to call it, because it's all you think about.
00:28:57.000But I think it goes the other way too.
00:28:59.000I think that when you get to this Jeff Bezos level, I think then all of a sudden it's a burden.
00:29:05.000Because I feel like the lightness is, like Brian Callen had a saying once, and I've repeated it a bunch of times because I think he nailed it.
00:29:13.000He said, you want to get rich enough so that you don't have to worry about your bills and you don't have to worry about how much things cost when you go to eat at a restaurant.
00:29:33.000And it's like there's that thing too when you have enough money to go to restaurants.
00:29:39.000And sometimes you'll go to a restaurant and they're like, and the special is this cut of meat and there's a lobster on the side and it's $69.95.
00:38:06.000He's running fucking miles and miles at six in the morning.
00:38:10.000And I heard him say, the only thing that made him seem human was him talking about, there was a time when he said it was hard to run a mile or something.
00:38:42.000How come I can just run up this section now and hustle through here and push around this corner and get up to that ridge and go over the top and then to the next top, and that's where I stop now?
00:39:02.000When I work out and have worked out for a long time and I'm fit and I'll do rounds in the bag or something like that, I'll know I'm not getting as tired as I used to be, but I don't want to believe it.
00:45:26.000He was pretty hesitant to accept that one.
00:45:27.000The problem with that is it's a tool for work.
00:45:30.000That's But Ari's thing was like, well, you could have your assistant, the guy that helps produce your podcast, you could send him things and be like, hey, you gotta post these things.
00:45:39.000You could post these promotions for my shows and blah, blah, blah, but you can't be on there consumed by likes and consumed by comments and that whole thing.
00:46:54.000I was doing so much writing in the hotel room that when I submitted it and everything was fine, I was like, Man, I could get a lot of work done in these hotel rooms.
00:47:04.000But I needed that experience to tell me that.
00:50:20.000It's crazy to think that that was the norm, and that guys would polish an act together and put it together, and then they would just work, and they would never write.
00:50:28.000I feel like the norm now, without question, I feel like it was kind of debated for a little bit, is definitely when a special comes out, like, that shit is gone.
00:50:40.000Well, I had a conversation with someone at the store a year ago, because she did a special, and then after the special she was still doing the same material.
00:52:46.000People knew the bit better than I did.
00:52:48.000Yeah, somebody asked me something about the bit about people breaking into the White House, about the woman who was guarding the front door of the White House by herself.
00:53:33.000So I went up to my hotel room, pulled up Netflix, started watching...
00:53:38.000And making notes and then I downloaded the album so I could listen to it and I would walk around and I was like forgetting the thing that you think is a throwaway is actually like a connector.
00:54:32.000I mean, the thing about like a Bruce Springsteen or any of those guys is that on any given night, you could bring back that one and really get it sharp again for like five nights.
00:58:34.000And isn't it possible that you're missing some stuff?
00:58:37.000I think what happened was, too, was when Louis got really, really popular, and he was just like, I never write anything down, that became folklore and attractive to comics.
00:59:44.000And I'm like, well, I should move this over here and this should be over here.
00:59:46.000I couldn't imagine not having any of that written down.
00:59:49.000But I just think that the more time you spend focusing on it, whether it's the more time you spend just writing stuff down or looking at bullet points or just the more intention you put on things, more attention, the more focus.
01:02:04.000I would say when I saw the show, that piece was probably at least half committed to memory, and he was still trying to, like, you know, repeat, repeat, repeat so that it would be in his memory.
01:04:18.000What did you think of Chappelle's two specials?
01:04:21.000I thought it was really interesting to see him do this big polished special in a big place and then do the little special in the belly room.
01:04:30.000I was like, the belly room felt weird, man.
01:04:34.000Personally, my take on it is the belly room, we're in the practice of calling that a special, but it's really not a special, in my opinion.
01:04:48.000Definitely in Los Angeles, if you live in San Francisco, Denver, New York, places he likes to frequent, is what you see Dave Chappelle known for in these cities, which is he would drop into clubs and Spill out everything that's on his mind.
01:05:06.000So, I mean, I don't know if it's more like semantics, but it's like, it's not as special.
01:05:11.000To me, it's like you're seeing one of the best guys ever do a workout set.
01:05:16.000Like, do a loose workout It's only been six, seven weeks since the special was shot that plays before it, in which he toured for a year with that.
01:05:28.000You can see how polished and you know what I mean?
01:05:30.000So I think it's really cool if you're a big stand-up nerd to see the other one.
01:05:35.000That's what happens A lot in those cities that he'll just fly into and be like, here's shit that's on my mind.
01:06:01.000I mean, I understand that you could be like, well, yeah, it's a separate thing, it's a special, but I'm saying that within that, there's something really specific going on, which is like, this is like in the moment, Almost all topical commentary,
01:10:02.000So, like, out of all the things that people have done that they got caught doing, all the rape accusations and all the horrible shit, like, his is the most pathetic and also kind of the most innocuous.
01:11:21.000But the other thing is, how do you even know that they did it?
01:11:23.000Because one of the things that happened...
01:11:26.000During the whole like did he do it or did he not do it thing before it came out was Someone had told me that it was bullshit and that what he had done is take some pictures with female comedians With his dick out just being silly and stupid and like and and then tell him please delete those pictures.
01:11:45.000I don't want to get in trouble I mean, the story I heard was very specific and, like, you know, is basically one of the stories reported in the Times.
01:11:54.000And I was like, I remember hearing that story and the person was not, you know, was pretty upset about it.
01:11:59.000And then a lot of people heard the story.
01:12:02.000I don't know, you know, another year would go by, and two years, and three years, and you're like, okay, I mean, that's bad, but, like, as far as my role in it, you know, as somebody who knows the story now, it was just one of those things where you'd be like, yeah, that's a fucked up story, you know?
01:12:15.000I mean, it's not someone that, like, hey, you know, that guy, he fucking punched someone 15 years ago.
01:12:22.000He's a real asshole, and you're like, that sucks, you know?
01:12:24.000But 15 years ago is a long time, right?
01:12:29.000It's not to minimize the wrongdoing, but isn't there some part of the conversation about how people mature and become different people as they get older?
01:12:40.000I'm sure a lot of people that are in their 50s and 60s, who are not celebrities, you'd be like, do you know that when this guy was 26, he did this fucking horrible, stupid thing or something?
01:13:01.000I mean, he's being punished, so we're not saying that it definitely has not been excused because he's being punished, but it's also old behavior.
01:13:10.000Yeah, that's the Dustin Hoffman thing.
01:13:13.000Dustin Hoffman, this is where it gets really strange, a lot of his stuff was 30 years ago.
01:13:42.000Oh yeah, he's like you know on the set like you try to like get you know you have to break the tension or there's there's a monotony to it and so people would have these conversations and say so it's it's like he's trying to it appears he's trying to be less accountable for what he said yeah whereas Louie was like these stories are true right so it's I think all those things end up affecting how your Redemption goes because they're like somebody's like I did this shit I was wrong right and I
01:14:13.000think in this country people love Punishment.
01:14:16.000Like, are you punished for the thing you did?
01:14:18.000We hate, like, somebody getting away with something, right?
01:14:21.000So, part of him, I think, coming back will also be that people realize that he paid a price.
01:14:26.000I mean, he lost deals, he lost shows, lost money.
01:14:30.000Definitely lost a lot of fucking touring money.
01:14:32.000I mean, that day is probably at least a $50 million day for him, you know, with everything together.
01:15:55.000Like, it's just something about, like, trusting that person to put that rope in their mouth and, like, I wonder how many of those kinks develop later, like you realize it later, as opposed to the more common theory that everything's tied to childhood,
01:16:11.000so that you must have been tied up or something as a kid once, and then you somehow relate that to sex.
01:16:24.000If you just date one crazy person, like if you have one girl who's just a wild animal in the sack and she just wants to tie you up, you're like, alright, let's do it.
01:16:31.000And she does it and you love it and it's amazing.
01:18:45.000In the writing, they might, you know, might write MS if it was like, I don't know, a piece of journalism or something to indicate the person's single status.
01:19:42.000People get upset and get offended at things, that's fine, but that everyone should dial back everything they say to make sure everyone feels protected, that's not how shit works.
01:19:51.000What's been really interesting, the last five days, there's been a battle going on in my Twitter mentions that I haven't dived into at all.
01:20:05.000And this is like long-going conversations.
01:20:07.000They're going back and forth and remarkably civil.
01:20:11.000But what's interesting is all these lesbians, one of the things they've been saying, I dive in every now and then and read some of it and go, what the f- this is crazy, I gotta get out of here.
01:20:22.000But that lesbians were trying to say that a lot of the violence that happens in supposed lesbian relationships is actually transgender men to women, where they switched over and then they're beating up on their girlfriends.
01:21:04.000But she was pretty adamant about the statistics.
01:21:05.000She was a lesbian who had her lesbian stats straight.
01:21:08.000Well, the other thing she was saying, lesbians like women, and that she doesn't know any lesbians that want to date a transgender woman, like someone who used to be a man and is now a woman.
01:21:21.000She was like, that's not what we're attracted to.
01:21:24.000Wouldn't that kind of negate the argument?
01:21:26.000Because if formerly male transgender women are beating up their lesbian girlfriends, then there are lesbians out there that are dating and attracted to these transgender women.
01:21:39.000Yeah, that would get it muddy there, right?
01:21:42.000Yeah, so if she's saying, like, we're not into that, it's like, well, your stats then don't back up your argument, because that's clearly what you're indicating.
01:21:48.000You're saying that these transgender women that were formerly men are dating women and beating them up.
01:21:54.000I think she was saying people she knows.
01:23:24.000No, you're definitely a woman born in a man's body.
01:23:27.000Dude, I tell you, I support all the trans rights and everyone doing all this stuff.
01:23:31.000The only thing that I ever go like, that doesn't seem right, is with athletics.
01:23:36.000That's the only thing where I feel like, it's not that I don't feel like someone should be able to play any sport and compete, but when a dude transitions to becoming a woman, it's like, I play basketball now.
01:23:51.000You have the right to live your life and play, but You have all those skills that you developed as a man, and now you're playing against frailer, smaller, you know.
01:24:58.000And what's really fascinating is, in the process of being super progressive, you go towards the most maligned section of society, which is like transgender people.
01:25:13.000And so everybody else Who also has been marginalized by society, like women, they get put in a less protected category than transgender women.
01:25:26.000So a man becomes a more protected class of woman than a natural born woman herself.
01:25:38.000Yeah, it's crazy because all these women that got beaten up by that man who became a woman who started fighting in MMA fought two women before ever disclosing the fact that she used to be a man because she said it was a medical issue that had nothing to do with them,
01:25:54.000which just shows you how completely insane the logic behind all this is.
01:27:46.000Someone said that there's gender, and then there's biological sex, and that gender is the operating system, and biological sex is the hardware.
01:28:38.000Yeah, and imagine if you're a biological woman who's been training and working hard all her life, and then all of a sudden you have to compete with this.
01:28:46.000And you're like, I'm first place, bitch.
01:29:31.000There's a lot of that where people just want to win, and the way they can win is by competing against people that are not on that same level.
01:29:38.000If you don't think that people do that when they switch over from being a man for 30 years and then competing as a woman and not tell them and just start smashing these women- If you don't think there's something in that, then you don't understand athletics, you don't understand competition, you don't understand sandbaggers,
01:29:54.000and you don't understand the kind of people that wouldn't tell people about that in the first place.
01:29:59.000But they don't want to look at it that way.
01:30:01.000Everything has to go through the filter of being progressive, so you have to err on the side of being the most open-minded, the most liberal, and the most progressive.
01:31:58.000But they're so left-wing and so progressive that they are unwilling to note and even address the preposterous nature of this fucking person who's like, I just switched.
01:34:52.000I think the good part of it is that we recognize that there are people that really do wish that they were a woman and would like you to call them a woman.
01:37:57.000He said it's two insults because dog is a common insult.
01:38:00.000And this guy is a total bogan, which is like a white trash redneck.
01:38:07.000The other guy said, if you say you fucking dog cunt to the wrong type of Aussie, you might get stabbed with a sharpened toothbrush multiple times.
01:38:14.000And he said it's a snitch in bogan slang.
01:49:42.000The fact that one of those guys could just become a woman and just enter into women's weightlifting competitions is so fucking preposterous.
01:49:50.000And they would be like, be respectful.
01:50:10.000We're going to look back on these days, and it's going to be an astounding...
01:50:15.000Sort of observation on mass thinking, like groupthink, like what happens when people are scared of expressing themselves honestly and expressing controversial points of view because of the time and the culture.
01:51:40.000There's some women that are just physical freaks.
01:51:42.000And there's some women that also take steroids.
01:51:44.000That's another very controversial issue because you have women that are ingesting large amounts of male hormones and changing their physiology and then they also compete against women.
01:52:06.000But it's also, it just shows you how silly...
01:52:11.000People have gotten and about how weird we are about looking at things and that everyone is so...
01:52:18.000and because they don't really have a personal stake in the game, Everyone is so concerned about being viewed as being incredibly progressive and open-minded that they don't want to criticize us.
01:52:29.000It's a really interesting point because if you really put yourself in a competition you care about, say it's important to you to win.
01:52:36.000Imagine yourself competing in something where it's important to you to win.
01:52:41.000And they go, but we're going to have this person in.
01:52:56.000There's a bunch of women that didn't want to fight that transgender man who became a woman in MMA, and they got called bigots and transphobe.
01:53:06.000That community is like super aggressive about defending that intellectual turf, defending that idea.
01:53:12.000See, that's an interesting place is like where you go, because you have to have empathy for, let's say, this transgender person who's like, I want to compete.
01:53:20.000And you're like, yeah, you should be able to compete.
01:53:22.000But how is this circumstance fair to both sides, you know, to those women that are ready to compete in this thing?
01:53:32.000Part of the wanting to compete is also wanting attention and wanting everyone to know that you're a man who transitioned to a woman and that there's...
01:53:41.000Look, there's a lot of energy in that.
01:53:43.000There's a lot of people that are paying attention to that.
01:53:46.000And anybody who says, no, that's preposterous, people, they want their privacy when it comes to these matters, and they don't want to be open to the ridicule.
01:54:17.000I mean, for you to sign up for that competition when you know what's what, it's definitely attention-getting.
01:54:23.000Especially things like powerlifting and MMA. To deny that there's some sort of a difference in the male frame, there's also a lot of horseshit when it comes to what actually happens to the body during transition and how much strength you lose and how much bone mass you lose.
01:54:42.000There's a woman named Dr. Ramona Krutzik, I think that's her name, and they interviewed her, and she's one of the very few people that's been interviewed about this as an actual endocrinologist that's not a gender transition doctor.
01:54:56.000Because that's what a lot of them are.
01:54:58.000A lot of the people that talk about these things and have these discussions about these things that are hashtag experts, they're actually transition doctors.
01:55:06.000So they have a vested interest in sort of Expressing the ideology that there's no physical advantage and that these women, you know, once they've been under these hormonal treatments for X amount of years, they become physiologically a woman and there's no distinction between them and a biological woman.
01:55:27.000But this one woman, Dr. Ramona Krutzik, she wrote an article for, I want to say it was It was either SB Nation or Bloody Elbow.
01:55:36.000I forget what it was, but they interviewed her.
01:55:38.000And she was saying, not only do you not lose bone density, but you maintain it because you're taking estrogen.
01:55:44.000She's like, well, the idea is that a man has more bone density, they're thicker, they're built different, and that you would lose a lot of that in your transition to being a woman.
01:55:53.000But you don't lose the bone density because estrogen is actually what causes people to maintain their bone density when they're older, when they're women.
01:56:02.000That's one of the things that happens to women when they get older.
01:57:16.000How insane a lot of this thinking is, is that this group think, this mass progressive thought process, that they just accept things that are totally irrational and then repeat them as ad nauseum.
01:57:28.000Like we played this one clip where it seems like it's a transgender man, a woman to man, who's saying, she was talking, there was a Jordan Peterson debate, and she was saying there's no biological difference between the sex, and I'd be happy to unpack that for you.
01:59:57.000Yeah, you know one of the things they were highlighting I was reading this article about the coaches and about how the coaches were getting these large bonuses for victory And they were saying how crazy it is that the kids that are playing aren't getting any money,
02:00:12.000but that these fucking coaches are making shit tons of money, and that the university profits massively from these successful football programs, and yet these athletes who are damaging their brain, damaging their body, and then a large percentage of them are never even gonna go on to a career in professional sports.
02:01:15.000It's hard to explain how it can even happen.
02:01:17.000If you watch the movie Blue Chips from the 90s, they sort of almost tap into it, but that was 15 years even before this is happening, so there's a whole extra world going on.
02:01:44.000In fact, under the current deal with Adidas, which expires July 1st, 98% of the cash provided by Adidas goes to one person, Rick Pitino, the now suspended head coach.
02:02:05.0002015-2016, for example, $1.5 million went to Patino.
02:02:09.000Under his personal services agreement with the apparel company, just $25,000 went to the program, according to the contract obtained by the Courier-Journal under the state's Public Records Act.
02:02:21.000The year before, the department got 10 grand.
02:02:29.000He can recruit the kids to the school because he's got the name and whether or not he's got some sort of ability to sell them also, you know, I don't know that.
02:02:39.000He can bring them in because he's got almost a franchise of national championships or at least ability to be on national TV in that big March Madness tournament I'm telling you about.
02:02:50.000He'll get your eyes on there, which gets you with the NBA contract, which is the old dream.
02:03:06.000Dude, the shoe deals for those guys, the NBA guys, for the top tier guys, which is of course a very select few, but it's nine figures before they ever play ball.
02:03:16.000They're signing like $100 million deals before they play professional basketball.
02:05:23.000I was reading something really interesting where they were saying that they're fucking up the brand because they've put them into discount stores.
02:05:30.000That they're trying to raise the sales, and by raising the sales, they put them into discount stores.
02:05:34.000By putting them into discount stores, they're going to change the way people look at the brand.
02:07:04.000He has a son named Lonzo who plays for the Lakers, who's a first-round draft pick, like a top-tier player from UCLA. Then his other son, he has two more sons.
02:07:15.000One of them was on UCLA's team this year, got arrested for shoplifting in China.
02:07:20.000If he hadn't been released, if it wasn't a highly publicized thing, he definitely could have gone to jail for a while in China.
02:07:28.000But anyways, when he got out and came back, LeVar pulled him From school, from UCLA, and also pulled his 16-year-old son out of high school and flew them to Lithuania,
02:07:44.000where they're now playing, both of them are playing professional basketball in Lithuania.
02:10:16.000So we don't know if that's going to pan out in any way, shape, or form.
02:10:19.000He also talked about developing a league...
02:10:23.000For, like, kids that are coming out of high school that don't want to go to college and play in a league where they get paid, like a salary, you know, a reasonable salary, which is an idea that a lot of people think is fascinating.
02:10:38.000I don't know logistically whether he could pull that off.
02:12:35.000Your skill level is not impressive, and you don't generate millions and billions of dollars, so you go, there's fucking $100,000 worth of free education there.
02:12:45.000It's like, yeah, but I'm bringing $10 million to the table, bro.
02:13:10.000They're fucking each other up, and the odds of their body getting damaged to the point where they can never compete professionally are very high.
02:13:17.000Yeah, so if you think of like, there was a statistic about NBA or, excuse me, NFL players, like how many of them make it into the fourth year.
02:13:45.000Yeah, that's why you really, from a business perspective, you really have to support guys coming out of college early to the NFL. Oh, 100%.
02:13:52.000I mean, there's people who are like...
02:15:21.000During his lunch hour, he doesn't work 9 to 5. He works like 7 to 4. And one of the reasons why he's got an extra hour in there is because he runs during his lunch break.
02:15:34.000So he takes like two-hour lunches and runs for two fucking hours, runs the hills, and then comes back and finishes out the rest of the eight hours of the day.
02:15:43.000I bet that dude feels good all day, though.
02:16:24.000I'll tell you what, she was telling us about how she had some sort of retina edema where she was almost blind because her contacts fucked up or something like that and her eyeballs were bleeding and she couldn't see and she fell,
02:16:40.000cracked her fucking head open, like blood pouring down her head.
02:17:41.000Some people have that personality type where They'll get up at 4.30 in the morning and it's dark outside and they relish the fact that they don't want to put their running shoes on and they don't want to hit that mountain and run.
02:17:55.000They relish the fact that they're going to struggle.
02:18:08.000Yeah, they like also the fact that other people can't do what they can do.
02:18:12.000They like the fact that there's people that are in bed that are comfortably asleep while they're out there doing it, and it gives them an edge.
02:18:20.000Well, what makes a person's personality to be this outgoing extrovert like Bert Kreischer?
02:18:26.000What makes that stoic individual that can sit and go over, you know, like an accountant who can just sit and go over things for hours and hours, a coder?
02:18:36.000Someone who could sit in front of a computer and go over 10, 12 hours a day.
02:18:55.000There's so many variables as to what makes a person who they are and how it changes over time and who you are the more you consider yourself.
02:19:05.000I did a podcast yesterday about meditation.
02:19:08.000It was all about meditation with Dan Harris from Good Morning America who's a big proponent of meditation and this guy.
02:19:16.000Jeff Warren, who wrote this book, Head Trip, a very, very interesting guy, who is his meditation teacher.
02:19:22.000We're just talking about thought processes and the mind and managing the mind and managing the way you do things, don't do things, and how much of these little weird kinks and pitfalls can just trip you up and fuck you up in your life.
02:19:35.000Imagine Louis C.K. without this desire to beat off in front of women.
02:19:40.000Let's say he did that 10 times in his whole life.
02:19:43.000Imagine if you could get to him before those 10 times and go, hey man, look, you're a real nice guy.
02:19:48.000You've always been friendly to people.
02:20:47.000Yeah, because you're at the age now, too, where you can see with your children, do you ever see how they're a certain age now, but you go, I saw that trait in you when you were one.
02:21:56.000I think as long as your kids aren't hurting themselves and hurting other people, the more you say, hey, don't do that, the more they're going to want to do that.
02:23:08.000It's like there's something, like, find out whatever it is where you can find this avenue for expression.
02:23:14.000And I want to encourage that as much as I can because I feel like if there's anything in this life that'll guarantee you some satisfaction or some feeling of accomplishment or some Some way to fuel your passions.
02:23:30.000It's find something that really hits your switches.
02:26:17.000I'm kind of jealous of all your hobbies.
02:26:20.000But not, I mean, just that you, I'm jealous of the fact that you're passionate about, like, hunting, shooting pool, jujitsu, you know, archery, all that shit.
02:26:32.000I'm like, God damn, I wish I had, like, that much passion for at least one other thing, you know?
02:29:43.000Right, and then like your own tee, and the three of you put your names in the system, and you get a real golf ball, and they track the balls.
02:29:54.000So like when you hit it, there's targets that you can go for points.
02:33:40.000Man, you gotta get up and take a piss.
02:33:41.000If you got a piss and you're in the middle, you're fucked.
02:33:44.000Especially if you're overweight, if you're a big fella and you're trying to get through all that.
02:33:50.000But anyway, when I went there, they informed me that that was where Richard Pryor did his live in concert from 79 that's re-recorded.
02:34:00.000And I went back and watched it after I got home and I was like, Holy shit, this is crazy.
02:34:05.000He pulled up to the same dock where I pulled up.
02:34:07.000He walks in with his wife, goes through the same back area that I went to.
02:34:11.000Then I watch it, and in the beginning of it, there's a fucking guy in the front of the stage who's getting, like Richard Pryor's on stage, and he's standing there taking pictures of Richard Pryor.
02:36:31.000I mean, look, some people don't like it.
02:36:34.000That's okay, but it's going to make a better show.
02:36:35.000Here's the thing so people know, because I know a little bit about the Yonder thing, too, is if you're like, well, what if I need to?
02:36:40.000You can actually leave the showroom, and they'll unlock it for you, and you can make your call in the lobby, but it's just keeping people...
02:37:01.000This guy in front of me has his brightness jacked to the fucking roof and he's texting people.
02:37:08.000So while I'm trying to watch the show, this guy has this bright phone and he's just sitting there texting over and over and over again, completely disrespecting all the people around him.
02:38:01.000Because my last two specials, I dealt with people sitting in the front row, in the second row, just standing there, holding that phone up in front of you.
02:40:01.000It was an awesome night to do the special.
02:40:03.000I'm trying to do Red Rocks, but every time I look for a date, I gotta look two, three years in advance, and it's like Tuesday and Wednesday nights.