Comedian and stand-up extraordinaire Richard Linklater joins Jemele to discuss the life and career of the late standup comic and TV host Bill Burr, who died in 2007 at the age of 76. We talk about his early days on the standup circuit, how he was one of the most underrated comedians of all time, and what it was like to work with him. We also talk about what it's like to be a standup comedian in the 90s and early 2000s, and why he's one of our favorite comedians. And, of course, we talk about the time we met him at a comedy club. If you haven't checked out the show yet, you should definitely do so. It's a must-listen! And if you don't know who he was, you're in for a treat! Thanks to our sponsor, Caff Monster Energy Drink. Caff is the best in the country, and we're giving you $5 off your first purchase when you place an order through Caff's website! Caff has the best tasting frappuccino in the entire country and it's only $5/month, so you get 20% off for the rest of the month! Caff does not have to pay shipping, shipping is free, and shipping is included in the purchase price is $99/month! so you can get 10% off your order, plus free shipping throughout the U.S., plus shipping includes shipping and shipping included in your shipping options, plus a free shipping, plus they'll get a free copy of the Caffirm and shipping discount when you sign up for the offer starts at $50/month and shipping starts, they'll have a maximum of $100/day, plus shipping starts are $50 or they can get you a carton of Caff gets you an extra $10/month of the deal, plus you'll get $25/day shipping, and you get an ad-only shipping address. You'll get free shipping and an ad on the ad is $50, plus an ad free shipping address, and they'll also get a discount on the deal starts in the first week of the ad starts, and your shipping address is $5 or they'll receive $5,000 shipping starts? You can also get 10/month for the ad will get the ad free ad-free ad, and the shipping discount starts in two weeks.
00:00:07.000He's a guy that I've been telling forever is probably the most underrated stand-up in the history of stand-up.
00:00:13.000I think he's like one of the all-time grades.
00:00:14.000And he's got a body of work because he did a one-hour, back before everybody was doing one-hour specials every year, he was doing that shit back in the 90s.
00:02:59.000It's like, he came along before Netflix, because if he was around today and people got to see his Netflix special, it's just one of those things that would have caught on.
00:03:09.000But in the HBO specials, you were either home when it aired or you weren't.
00:05:28.000When you're doing jokes that you think are killer, and they're just eating plates of shit up there because you don't have anything left in you.
00:05:35.000Like, last night, it was just Murderer's Row, man.
00:05:38.000I'm walking in, and fucking Bobby Lee's crushing, and then Chris D'Elia's crushing, and then I go up, and Theo Vaughn's crushing, and then it's fucking Ian Edwards smashing after that.
00:06:05.000You know, and there's so many guys that I came up, you know, we came up with guys that I would have, I was competitive when I started out, and there was guys I had bad blood with.
00:06:14.000And I see those guys now, and they're like my brothers, because we went through it together.
00:06:23.000I had that when I was a kid, when I was like 21-ish, because it was still left over from the martial arts days, like martial arts competition.
00:06:31.000I would want people to do bad, and then I realized, that is so stupid.
00:07:27.000Why don't you like going on after D'Elia?
00:07:28.000I just feel like he's so physical and big...
00:07:32.000And that doesn't really, it shouldn't affect me, but I just feel like when he gets off, the crowd is just like in this mode of like euphoria.
00:07:43.000And it's kind of like, all right, I'm going to take it down a couple notches and just talk.
00:07:48.000And I feel like sometimes that's my weakness that I can't adjust to that.
00:09:49.000And so when you do the special, it's almost like you've got to take a little time off before you do it.
00:09:54.000Yeah, there's a number of sets you do where you're in the groove, and it's tight, and everything feels good, and then there's a number that you do too much, and everything gets kind of flat.
00:11:24.000And I'm expecting, I'm gonna see people covered in fur, and everything's gonna be covered in snow, and they'll be riding dog sleds everywhere and shit.
00:12:56.000They think that there's been some giant raptors in the past and they found some old primate bones, some old ancient, you know, ancestors of human beings that had what looked like claw marks on their skulls.
00:16:16.000Aquatamundae is an animal that's in South America, and a friend of mine was telling me he ran into one, or I was listening to his podcast, rather, he ran into one of them in Arizona, and that it looks like a bear fucked a monkey.
00:16:29.000It looks like a half bear, half monkey.
00:17:08.000I mean, it does look like it's a member of the badger family when you look at its face, but then it has a tail, like a big, crazy long tail.
00:17:16.000But the teeth look like orangutan teeth, the way they curve in, like, sharp.
00:17:22.000I didn't even know that was a real thing.
00:17:24.000Apparently, there's a lot of them in South America, and then in the United States, they are expanding their range in Arizona.
00:18:09.000And people, apparently, the Game and Fish Department in Arizona, they get calls all the time where people are like, there's a monkey running around in the woods!
00:21:24.000What part of Costa Rica did you go to?
00:21:26.000Did you go to the middle part, like Lake Arenal with the volcano?
00:21:28.000We went to a couple different spots, but we went up to the rainforest and did the zip line, which is a mile long.
00:21:35.000And I'm like, who the fuck is checking this?
00:21:38.000Who's making sure that the stability of this line is intact?
00:21:42.000Yeah, and they have this volcano that's in, I forget, well, Lake Arenal is the area, and they've got these hot springs, and there was like 14 pools that went up a hill, and you could swim in each one,
00:21:58.000and the bottom was like cold, and the top one was so hot, it was practically boiling.
00:23:14.000I mean, it's obviously, there's a physical aspect to it.
00:23:18.000Like, you want your muscles to be manipulated because it's very good for them, and you get loose some kinks and a lot of weird stuff that's knotted up.
00:23:26.000But there's also the pleasure aspect of it.
00:23:35.000I mean, your skin is your biggest organ, and they talk about emotionally and psychically what it means to have skin-to-skin contact, and for an hour, somebody is devoting their skin to your skin.
00:24:28.000One that she would put crystals in my belly button and then my arm would be down and she would hold my arm and tell me to raise my arm to see what the pressure was and then she could tell by that which herbal remedies I needed for my allergies.
00:24:59.000She gave me allergies, these herbs, because I was just fucking sneezing nonstop, and I stopped sneezing.
00:25:07.000And you know that homeopath, they take like a barrel of distilled water, and then they'll put in like a mint leaf and like a couple other herbs, and then they just take the bottle and they fill it with that water.
00:26:11.000I mean, too much vitamins, excessive vitamins doesn't make any sense, but the studies that show that vitamins are beneficial, they're pretty specific.
00:26:22.000They're pretty specific in terms of, like, if you get your blood work done, right, for instance, and you are short, a lot of people are short of vitamin D. Vitamin D is a big one.
00:27:02.000Well, if you had a balanced meal, kind of, yeah.
00:27:05.000If you really made sure that you ate a certain portion of vegetables, green, leafy, dark vegetables that have a lot of vitamins, and if you made sure that you have the right amount of protein and...
00:27:24.000If you drink a big glass of orange juice, your body has a really hard time differentiating that between a big glass of soda or fucking high C or some shit like that.
00:27:51.000Fucking main line of sugar right into your system, right?
00:27:55.000I drink a glass or like if I go and I have breakfast with a big glass orange juice I fucking crash hard like an hour later.
00:28:01.000Yeah, it's a big old insulin dump Well, they just did is I just read yesterday that there's a study now that Losing weight is not about caloric intake.
00:28:11.000It's all about sugar and processed foods crazy Yeah.
00:30:06.000I'm 155 pounds, but I had a fucking belly, just because, you know, I was writing on Crashing last year, and we'd have like five meals a day, muffins being handed out, and I put on six pounds, and it all was in my belly.
00:30:25.000And so January 1st, I cut out all bread, all pasta, all sugar, and I've been working out like five days a week, and the belly just fucking disappeared.
00:30:33.000You seem like you got some pep in your step.
00:32:38.000Instead of usually a check with your shoulder or your hip, he taught me how to check guys under the chin with the top of my head, which I got good at.
00:32:47.000And then I did it one time and just click.
00:32:49.000And I got an x-ray and they're like, yeah, that's chipped.
00:33:27.000I put it on my head, and then I pump it up with air, and the air locks it in place, and there's a giant bungee cord that's on the end of it.
00:33:33.000And I pull it back, and the bungee cord is a 50-pound resistance, but they make it lower.
00:33:37.000They make, like, several different weights of bungee cords.
00:33:40.000You pull it back until it's, like, fully pulled, and then you can adjust the resistance on the halo itself.
00:33:46.000And so you do these, like, as you got it pulled back, you turn, like...
00:33:51.000And then I turn sideways and I do like 10 reps this way.
00:43:45.000And it was George McDonald who lived with me.
00:43:47.000And we would walk down the street to Spring Street, go to their condo, and we'd give them, if it was $600, we'd give that to Gladys and Tony.
00:44:55.000She moved out to Hollywood to make it, and about a year and a half later, this softcore porn came out with her in it, and she had the sickest body.
00:46:21.000That he had about being in Catholic school, and he did something wrong, and the priest smacked him in the head, and he goes, which is exactly how I think Jesus would handle it.
00:46:35.000And he just had this method of delivery.
00:47:29.000And so he had his notebook and he was like really organized with his bits and he had like some philosophy about like why he would take a pause and why he would rush this part and where he would take that part.
00:47:41.000And I was like, this guy's putting a lot of thought and effort into this.
00:47:45.000I remember going down to see Paula Poundstone perform at the Comedy Connection and he was the feature act.
00:47:51.000And he went up and as a feature got a standing ovation.
00:48:21.000Yeah, and that was the thing about when you were an opener in Boston, it was like, the criteria were, are you funny enough to cover 15 minutes to open?
00:48:30.000Number two, do you have a functioning automobile that you can take these DUI headliners to the gig with?
00:48:51.000You're like, holy shit, I'm going to be in a car with Don.
00:48:53.000And so one time Nick's Comedy Stop called me up and they're like, you're working in Framingham.
00:48:58.000You've got to drive the feature and the headliner out.
00:49:01.000And I go downtown to pick them up in front of Nick's.
00:49:04.000And I've got a 1976 Volkswagen Rabbit, four-cylinder, rusted-out floorboards, and I get down there, and it's Mike Sullivan Irwin, who weighed about 300 pounds, and John Panette, who was about 275. And they saw my car,
00:49:22.000and they both started giggling like schoolgirls, like, we're gonna fucking go to a gig in this car!
00:49:27.000So we packed them in, and I couldn't get the car going above, like, 40. So instead of taking the Mass Pike out west of Framingham, I had to take Route 9 the whole way.
00:51:06.000I just needed to realize that once I realized...
00:51:10.000And I had gone to Al-Anon because of my dad, adult child of alcoholic meetings, which helped me a phenomenal amount just to realize that it's a disease and that, you know, you're powerless to it.
00:51:22.000And that, for me, I was able to apply what I learned in there.
00:51:26.000Because I went to a couple AA meetings, and in Boston it was like, guys would get up and they were like...
00:51:30.000And then I blew a guy for a sandwich and I passed out the fucking dump.
00:51:35.000You know, it's like I couldn't relate.
00:51:37.000I mean, my thing was like I fucked a fat chick.
00:51:40.000I had a three-way with a couple girls who were, you know, as fat as John Panette.
00:51:45.000And so I could, but I read the literature of the 12 Steps and it helped me because it made me realize that when I wanted a drink, something was going on.
00:51:55.000And to this day, I just have that reaction.
00:51:58.000I know that I still want to drink all the time, but when I really want to drink, I stop and I go, alright, what's stressing you out?
00:54:04.000There's a lot of people out there that they have a dream, and then the pressure of trying to reach that dream, like his dream is to be in a successful band, right?
00:54:12.000And the pressure of trying to reach that dream and see it to fruition, it seems unreachable.
00:54:19.000And here you are, you're in your 30s, and you're working a construction job, and you know, you fucking work all day in Boston in the winter.
00:54:28.000You're tired as shit when you get home.
00:54:30.000You don't want to go to band practice.
00:54:32.000You get home at 6.30, you have dinner, and now it's 7.30.
00:55:23.000Sometimes when I work a casino, there'll always be that band in the lounge that's playing like Born to Be Wild and all those songs and like you'll see people that are like 57 dancing and you see them and they're dancing and it's like they're just reliving the only joy they had in their life which was like when they were young dancing to rock and this band is fucking they're gods to them.
00:55:49.000The time when you're young, when you're having fun, is so fleeting.
01:03:52.000Like, I love ladder ball, you know, where there's, like, two sticks and it's got, like, a ladder that goes between it and it's got a ball with a rope between the two balls and you whip it.
01:05:15.000There's something also, I think, that's incredibly important for kids to learn how to compete.
01:05:21.000And also learn what it feels like to lose and that bad feeling.
01:05:25.000There's a lot of people that grew up and they were never involved in competitive sports.
01:05:29.000They were never involved in any sort of competitive games.
01:05:32.000And they just don't know what it's like to lose.
01:05:34.000And I think that's a valuable lesson in life.
01:05:37.000I think it teaches you a lot about rejection from...
01:05:44.000I think it teaches you a lot about not getting the job that you want.
01:05:49.000I think it teaches you a lot about real competition in the real world, and it gets you used to that weird feeling of competing at a young age, so it becomes normal.
01:05:59.000Well, because I think there's a shame with being competitive these days because everything is so politically correct that you shouldn't be an alpha.
01:07:02.000In order to get to a certain rank, like, say, if you get up to, like, Purple Belt or Brown Belt or something like that, who knows how many hundreds of times you've been tapped out.
01:07:18.000All those years of doing jiu-jitsu, 20 plus years of doing jiu-jitsu, and all the times I rolled, and all the times I rolled people better than me, I've been fucking choked and armbarred.
01:08:26.000But the thing is, you're using your body.
01:08:29.000Your body is what is being attacked and your body is what you're using to attack.
01:08:33.000So, you know, things give out while you're attacking and things give out while you're getting attacked.
01:08:39.000And I think there's not enough jujitsu guys who I think if I was going to advise people, one of the things that I would advise is you should have a regular conditioning, strength and conditioning routine just to strengthen your joints,
01:08:55.000strengthen your limbs, strengthen your back, yoga.
01:08:57.000I think strength and conditioning and yoga are almost as important, not as important as jujitsu itself to get good at it, but almost as important to prevent injuries and to allow you to reach your full physical potential.
01:09:10.000Yeah, so, I mean, in terms of that being a life lesson, I think when you can physicalize something that then becomes, like in a workplace, more of a mental thing, you realize that being tapped out in the workplace can mean everybody gets fired on a regular basis.
01:09:27.000People used to get one job, and they would keep it for 30 years, you get a gold watch and a pension.
01:09:32.000Now, the average job, I don't know what it is, Jamie, what's the average lifespan of a job?
01:09:40.000I think people tend to bounce around a lot more, and so I think that life, people get divorced, and they have other successful relationships.
01:09:48.000You know, like, somebody was saying to me the other day, like, that joke, the Henny Youngman joke, take my wife, please, doesn't make sense anymore, because you would have fucking left her!
01:11:10.000I mean, it's a weird thing to say, but I really think we all collectively, as a species, need to emphasize and learn how to be nicer to each other.
01:12:40.000I just think as a species, just the human race, especially us as Americans, because we're so goddamn competitive, kind of learn how to be nicer.
01:14:23.000It's very much, you know, you can say what you want about the Catholics, but, you know, they were in the trenches in a lot of third world countries, nuns, and, you know, they did a lot of good.
01:14:35.000My parents both always did a lot of charity work.
01:14:38.000I do a lot of charity work with my kids, and, you know, that's going to stay with them.
01:14:42.000I think we throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to religion, and even just rigid ideologies.
01:14:47.000I think there's something about religion that can absolutely help some people, and there's aspects of it that are very beneficial.
01:14:54.000Having that code to live by, you know, even if it's because of the fucking spaghetti monster in the sky, like whatever it is that you believe, but if you really act like that thing is watching over you and that there's codes and tenets that you have to live by, Like, most of the tenets of Christianity,
01:15:10.000if you look at them, if you really follow Jesus' rule, which most people don't, but if you really did, you'd be doing a lot of great work.
01:16:52.000There's moments in my life where I feel terrible, where I've done something wrong, or I've fucked up something, or just failed, and I just feel terrible.
01:17:00.000And I always think, when I do have that feeling, like, God, I fucking hate this feeling.
01:17:26.000But conversely, when something good happens, when you help someone, when someone can't get their bag in the overhead because it's too heavy and you help them and you hand it to them and they smile at you and you smile at them, you walk off the plane, you feel good.
01:17:53.000And that's part of the joy of life, is those friendly, fun, nice interactions with people.
01:18:02.000But when you got your shit in order, it's easier to have those experiences.
01:18:06.000When you don't, my personal experience, when I don't have my shit in order, and I've made mistakes, and I fucked something up, it's very hard for me to enjoy anything.
01:18:16.000I feel like, if I have something that I fucked up, and then I have that terrible feeling, but I have to hang out with my family and my kids, I just ride it out.
01:19:02.000Well, it also becomes like, I was in therapy and I remember the therapist told me that we all have a narrative of our lives and you can choose that narrative.
01:19:14.000That's basically what behavioral therapy tells you, is that it's all...
01:19:19.000Everything in your life is a projection.
01:19:22.000You know, you say, I have these attributes, I've accomplished these things, or you can say, I lack these things, and I fucked up these things.
01:19:30.000And you can live your life putting that energy out to people, and it's as simple as just literally sitting down and thinking about how you want to see yourself.
01:19:50.000And part of the thing, the downside of religion is that I was raised with a lot of shame and guilt.
01:19:57.000And so those periods you're talking about where you fucked up and you're feeling bad and you've got to ride it out, you throw shame on top of that and it extends it and it makes it more profound and it's not just about your action and how it might have affected other people,
01:20:50.000I was like, I can't believe my mom and dad aren't together anymore.
01:20:53.000And there was a lot of Screaming and hitting and a lot of violence and it was just it was good that my mom got out Because I learned that when something is terrible like you don't just stay and get smacked around you leave But the bad thing was it just threw my whole life into chaos and I wanted some order and things and one of the things that I Turned to for order was religion Even at five,
01:21:20.000six years old, I remember my grandparents or whoever was taking me to church, I got into it.
01:23:00.000Literally, they had the ruler out, and they wouldn't.
01:23:01.000Wrap you on the knuckles all the time.
01:23:04.000And my mother said to me, she realized she got older, these nuns that were teaching, very often they became nuns because maybe they were lesbians, maybe they hated kids, they didn't want to go down that road.
01:23:17.000And so they joined the sisterhood to get away from it, and they stuck them in fucking classrooms with 25 jacked up, testosterone-ridden kids.
01:26:48.000You hear about that and you're like, oh my god!
01:26:51.000Can you imagine your baby, your poor baby you can't hear and they go to this place and they can't hear anything and this priest is sticking his dick in their ass and in their mouth and like, And they're like, this is God?
01:28:20.000We went to a pretty cool church growing up, and the priests were, apparently, I found out later, were all having affairs with women in town.
01:28:45.000The Eucharistic ministers are the people that go to church, but they're so special that they can actually go give communion to people that are homebound.
01:29:16.000No, it was like the people that were the ministers, they became close to the priest because they would have to go to him to get the bread blessed, and then they would take it in like a takeout bag, and they would deliver it to the people that were bedridden.
01:30:00.000It's like it's part of the Sunday bonding.
01:30:02.000Oh, and your child being christened and getting their first communion.
01:30:06.000These are big, like, landmark moments in your kid's life.
01:30:09.000You know, if you think about it, like, you get your communion around the time that you begin puberty.
01:30:14.000You know, they're all based on cycles of nature.
01:30:16.000You know, Jesus was born in reality in April, but according to the church, December 25th, which is right at the winter solstice when the north started.
01:30:30.000And all the ceremonies that you go through are tied into, you know, rites of passage in people's lives.
01:30:36.000That's why it's so weird that, like, when they were trying to convert pagans during the Roman days, they're like, well, you know, we do this thing in the winter solstice, like...
01:32:37.000It's very weird for a girl to have hormones in her body that are artificially put in there that trick her body into thinking it's pregnant.
01:32:46.000And they go through this whole cycle of it.
01:32:48.000And what's really fascinating is women lose their ability to discern certain smells that they get from men, whether or not a man is compatible.
01:32:56.000They've done these studies where they took women on birth control and off birth control, and they could smell men's clothes, like a woman off birth control can smell a man's clothes, she doesn't know anything about them, and can discern whether or not she'd be attracted to him.
01:34:04.000I'll tell you what, my wife, I remember like the first date I had with my wife, we rode bikes over the Brooklyn Bridge and it was a hot summer day and then we fooled around a little bit and I remember smelling her and fucking being so aroused.
01:34:24.000It was like, to this day, her smell turns me on.
01:34:29.000Yeah, people are compatible with each other in smells.
01:34:41.000I watched this Planet Earth special, and it was about...
01:34:46.000I forget which kind of wild cat it was, but they travel for hundreds of miles, and there's certain rocks that they know to rub their backs up against and leave an odor.
01:34:58.000And the other ones in the territory go to that same rock, and they smell it, and they rub on it, and then they decide who to mate with based on A specific tree or a rock that are miles away from each other.
01:36:31.000You could be on the street and you're like, oh, you fucking smell that and you go like that to the left, you go like that to the right and you're like, oh, it's over this way.
01:36:37.000You could smell a skunk from blocks away.
01:38:59.000So baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, they're oxidizing agents, meaning they will attach oxygen atoms to the sulfur atom in the thiol pairing and take away its ability to stink.
01:41:42.000If an unlucky mouse or bird became a meal, it was a rare treat.
01:41:46.000But this one is a vertebrate specialist.
01:41:48.000So there are some that eat insects and spiders, but an unlucky mouse or a bird is rare.
01:41:54.000But these fucking plants, this giant plant, is a specialist in rats.
01:41:59.000They lure rats with the promise of sweet nectar.
01:42:02.000But when the rat leans into the plant to drink the saccharine liquid, it slips on the pitcher's waxy interior and gets stuck in its gooey sap.
01:42:11.000Once it's trapped, acid-like digestive enzymes break down the still-living rodent.
01:42:37.000That's one of the real gigantic problems that people have with the deforestation of the rainforest is there's stuff down there that we haven't even figured out yet.
01:44:22.000Symbiotic relationship with fungi, where the fungi, the mycorrhizal relationship between certain plants and fungus, the plants and the fungus, like, exchange nutrients.
01:44:34.000You know, fungus actually breathes air.
01:45:23.000Not only do they know when they're being eaten, if you play sounds of a caterpillar eating leaves next to a tree, some trees change the composition, like the taste structure of the way the plants taste to animals.
01:45:47.000So these giraffes starve to death because upwind certain giraffes would be eating and then the wind comes down and through either a smell or sound or some method of transportation or transmission that we're not totally aware of,
01:46:04.000everything downwind is changing its flavor and it becomes disgusting to the giraffes.
01:47:23.000I know they did this whole thing with the Olympics about how many, there's like 2,000 dog farms in South Korea where they breed dogs for eating.
01:47:33.000And you go there and it's like, they're just regular fucking dogs.
01:47:36.000A whole variety like you would see in a pet store.
01:47:39.000And, you know, and we were outraged by it.
01:47:42.000And we've sent out, you know, there's people that fly over from the States and they adopt one pet.
01:47:47.000Meanwhile, there's like hundreds of thousands.
01:47:49.000And you get maybe 50 rich Americans come over and adopt a pet.
01:48:21.000I'd be like, well, I don't like that they have to live like that, but I like chicken, so...
01:48:25.000You ever, like, stop and go, you're in the middle eating chicken, and you go, this is five meals in a row that I've eaten a fucking chicken, plus eggs.
01:48:33.000It's crazy how much of those hormones I must have in my body.
01:48:37.000There's a big misconception about that.
01:48:39.000Yeah, most chickens that you're eating don't have hormones in them.
01:48:42.000Hormones are expensive, and you don't have to give the chickens hormones.
01:48:46.000The idea is that you give a chicken hormone, that's why they're so big.
01:48:49.000But no, they're so big through selective breeding.
01:48:53.000If you take that girl with giant tits, and you breed her with a guy whose mom has giant tits, and everybody gets together, and then you have just a giant tit family.
01:49:01.000That's essentially what they've done with these chickens.
01:49:03.000They've figured out a way to breed these chickens where they have preposterously large breasts.
01:49:42.000Why is there a dollar bill inside the chicken?
01:49:44.000Yeah, so when you think that you're getting hormones from food, most likely that's not the case.
01:49:51.000But it's highly likely that, especially with beef, especially corn-fed beef, you're getting antibiotics because they get sick.
01:50:00.000So you're most likely not getting hormones.
01:50:03.000But there's some hormones in the animal themselves and there's a certain amount of selective breeding that I'm sure would have more hormones than less, which would encourage the animals to have larger bodies and develop more food.
01:50:16.000But I think for the most part, the largeness is due to their diet.
01:50:21.000Like if you take a cow and you feed it grass, it takes much longer for them to reach the size that they would like the cow to reach before they butcher it.
01:50:31.000But if you feed them corn, they fatten up real quick.
01:50:35.000And then obviously there's extremes like that Wagyu shit and Kobe.
01:50:39.000Kobe beef where you get it's just literally a dying animal.
01:51:21.000So most of the time when you're buying...
01:51:23.000Like if you buy ground beef, I think...
01:51:26.000I hope I'm not wrong with this, but I think sometimes ground beef is a cow, like a female, and maybe they stop producing milk or they get to a certain age and they shoot them and then they grind them up.
01:51:37.000But if you buy steaks, like USDA Prime T-Bone, you get a nice T-Bone steak, that's coming from a steer.
01:51:43.000So that's a cow that cut his balls off and then they fatten them up.
01:51:53.000I think ground beef sometimes can be steered to, like certain cuts.
01:51:56.000But I think in some cases, I hope I'm not wrong about this, but I do know that most of the steaks you get, if you buy like a nice ribeye or something like that, you're getting it from a steer.
01:52:05.000Isn't there also some chemical that's released, they say, when they slaughter beef, that they get scared?
01:52:22.000If you shoot an animal and it's wounded and it's scared and maybe you have to follow up with a second shot or something like that, that animal will not taste as good as an animal that has no idea what hit it.
01:52:35.000That's why there's a guy that I know that's a chef of a very famous San Francisco restaurant, Saison, I think it is.
01:54:08.000I don't think they know exactly what it is, but they definitely think they're fucked.
01:54:11.000Oh, I think if plants can tell that a giraffe is eating from a mile away, I think cows can tell that there's a killing field right in front of them.
01:54:35.000When you buy kosher beef, there's a very specific ritual that has to be gone through, that has to be accomplished in order to proclaim beef kosher.
01:54:46.000It has to be a very sharp knife, and I believe it all has to be done by a rabbi.
01:56:22.000I went to her, she's a coach, and I used to go to her classes, and then I went in one time for a private session at her apartment, and when I was coming out, she was like, you gotta go, you gotta go.
01:57:19.000S-H-E-H-I-T-A-H, Shehita, and proficient in its practice, and who is a believing, pious Jew, may act as the slaughterer, Shohet,
01:57:36.000In performance of the commandment, it is the prevalent custom that the shohet must receive written authorization from a recognized rabbinical authority attesting to the aforesaid qualifications.
01:57:49.000Okay, so you have to have written authorization from a rabbi saying that you know what you're doing.
01:57:58.000The Sheteh must be done by means of a swift, smooth cut of a sharp knife whose blade is free of any dent or imperfection.
01:59:45.000Like, Ezekiel's the one that the UFO dorks always point to, because Ezekiel had some sort of a vision of a wheel within a wheel, like some sort of a vision that they think was some visitor from outer space.
02:00:12.000Well, they say that the—I forget who wrote the book of Revelations, but they say that it occurred at the same time as the Pompeii exploded.
02:01:55.000When I said genetically modified, it has been modified, but it's been modified through traditional agricultural methods of like splicing and, you know, however the fuck they did it.
02:02:04.000It's not like it was done with a dude in a lab coat.
02:04:46.000One of the stories of one of his mistresses, that's one of the things that she said, is that he ordered a pizza, but for the toppings he wanted little pizzas on the pizza.
02:05:00.000I don't know if that's real or not real, but that's just like him.
02:05:04.000He also got shit for when he was in New York and he was running.
02:05:06.000He ate a pizza with a knife and a fork, and he got a ton of shit about that.
02:05:11.000Yeah, maybe he doesn't like to get his hands dirty.
02:10:24.000She had a booming career, and then she wanted to spend time with him and get him involved, so they started Desilu Productions, and I think they were the first talent to create their own studio for their show so they could own it.
02:10:40.000And so he was, you know, he was the executive on the show like she was, and she created this whole world for them to be together, and then he just fucked everybody.
02:10:50.000That's what they did back then, especially back then.
02:10:54.000Probably nobody knew what, like, a star was a new thing.
02:11:08.000And you watch Elvis do this nonsense karate, and he's so obviously pilled out of his mind, so obviously high, that when you're watching it, you're thinking, we're not playing this on...
02:13:02.000And what they had basically done is figured out how to teach karate in a digestible form that families could go to, and it just became this big business.
02:13:10.000But Ed Parker was thought of as super legit.
02:15:55.000Because jiu-jitsu, because you can kind of do it full blast, like karate, you can, but it's not wise and you can't do it for very long if you full blast punch and kick each other.
02:16:07.000Everybody's going to get fucked up, including you.
02:16:10.000You would be fighting, like fist fighting all the time.
02:16:13.000But with jujitsu, because of the fact that you roll, meaning you spar, but that sparring does not involve striking, and you can tap out when you're in a bad position, you can literally go full blast.
02:16:24.000So you really find out people that are good.
02:16:26.000So there's very, very few fake jujitsu black belts, but occasionally there are some, and they get outed.
02:16:35.000And there's some hilarious videos online of guys getting busted.
02:16:39.000Well, where does Steven Seagal fall on that line?
02:20:08.000This guy's trying to throw him and he's just and the guy who's trying to throw him appears to be a black belt at least he's wearing a black belt fucking incredible man It's really amazing so judo was a much more effective martial art and judo was actually what was taught to the Brazilians when Count Maeda went to Brazil and taught people in Brazil I think?
02:20:54.000They turned that into Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
02:20:56.000So judo is standing as well as ground.
02:21:11.000So when she would get a hold of people, she would just fucking throw them on their ass and flip them and toss them and slam them to the ground.
02:21:16.000She just had phenomenal judo, but also a wicked arm bar.
02:21:20.000And that was because the niwaza, the ground attack part of jiu-jitsu, comes from judo.
02:22:06.000Most of it is throws and learning how to take an attacker.
02:22:10.000Like, if you just charge forward at an Aikido guy, and you have your right hand cocked and ready and just run at him and throw that punch, a really good Aikido guy is going to grab that and flip you and slam you on the ground.
02:22:58.000You're carrying your body around all the time with your legs.
02:23:00.000You can catch a guy in a triangle or an armbar and break his arm or choke him to sleep with your legs.
02:23:04.000I mean, there's a lot of girls that would fuck a lot of guys up On the ground just by using arm bars and leg locks and things like that.
02:23:11.000Because an arm bar is your whole body against someone's arm.
02:23:15.000Or a triangle is your whole body, particularly your lower body, but you're using your upper body too to pull down the head against the guy's neck and arms.
02:23:24.000So you're squishing the neck and the arms together and then you're pulling down the head.