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00:00:14.000And it was about how, you know, once the slaves were freed, they still perpetuated slavery by – it's called – I've got to find it.
00:00:27.000By – Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackman, and it's about how they put loitering laws in all around the country, and they would fine black people, and if they were standing around, they would arrest them.
00:00:43.000Or if there was like a petty larceny or a domestic violence thing, they'd arrest them for fucking two years with a trial with one judge and no jury, and the judge was very often a magistrate of...
00:02:05.000If you have an entire country that the ancestors that did most of the work did it against their will, and then you're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, you don't have to do that anymore.
00:02:20.000And then people are like, we want reparations.
00:02:23.000And white people are like, pfft, that was a hundred years ago.
00:02:27.000Do you know, at Georgetown, do you read about this Georgetown University as giving reparations to the slaves that built the university?
00:02:35.000So the families of the slaves, the ancestors, the families?
00:02:38.000They tracked them down with like 23andMe or one of those companies.
00:02:41.000And they're fucking knocking on doors and they're like, hey, are you blah, blah, blah?
00:04:13.000And it was a fucking tenement apartment, and downstairs, literally downstairs and one door over was the Ravenite Social Club, which was where Gotti met on Wednesday nights.
00:04:32.000They'd walk up and down the street smoking cigars, and John Gotti Jr. was kind of in charge at that time, which I guess would be this guy's father.
00:04:40.000And he apparently wasn't known as being that sharp.
00:04:50.000I think the FBI just had unlimited resources, government backing, and they slowly picked the fucking organization apart and then got people to rat on each other.
00:05:50.000Because these guys, you know, they had a fucking neighborhood where they would go to, and when they were in that neighborhood, that was their territory.
00:10:45.000She's trying so hard with those Daisy Dukes.
00:10:46.000I just went to a food truck before I got here, and there was an Asian girl, and my favorite kind of Asian girl, she was, I believe, Filipino.
00:10:55.000Big lips, tan, dark tan with Daisy Dukes, open-toed sandals, beautiful feet, nice pedicure.
00:12:12.000Because there are definitely some fake male feminists out there that are just doing it because they want women to love them.
00:12:18.000And they say a bunch of shit that really screws the curve up.
00:12:21.000But if you're being honest and you're being rational, you have to realize that the way a woman perceives being hit on is going to be way different than the way a guy does.
00:13:20.000I've known guys and watched them as they got older and, like, failed relationship after failed relationship where they started developing this, like, resentment towards women.
00:13:28.000You know, this is like a deep-seated, like, fuck them.
00:13:31.000All they want is this and all they want...
00:13:33.000Because what they're getting from the women all the time is negative.
00:14:28.000The problem is we equate prostitution with two things that are horrible, sexual abuse and sex slavery, sex trafficking.
00:14:36.000We equate prostitution with those things.
00:14:38.000That's why, like, when Robert Kraft got busted, one of the first things they said is, this guy's a billionaire and he was participating in sex trafficking.
00:18:45.000I think that if we had different attitudes about sex, we wouldn't look at it as harshly.
00:18:50.000We would look at it as horribly as we look at it.
00:18:53.000We look at it different because we think that intimacy is connected to romance and romance is connected to this emotional connection you have with this person that you're sharing pleasure with.
00:19:15.000It's just they're not in a good spot, they're not physically attractive, whatever it is.
00:19:19.000For some people, when they have a desire and a need to be touched, and it fucking wrecks them to the soul when they're not touched all the time.
00:19:27.000They constantly walk around filled with resentment, filled with bitterness, We're just quietly enraged inside at the hand that life has given them.
00:19:37.000And for those people, if you had legalized prostitution, if it was like someone who, like, you could conceivably have friendships with these people that you're having sex with, if you wanted to do that.
00:19:50.000Like, I knew a girl who, when she was younger, she was a sex worker, and she's a...
00:20:22.000You know, I mean, I don't think everybody has that attitude.
00:20:24.000And I would never want anybody to do that that doesn't have that attitude.
00:20:27.000But if you're one of those girls, it's like hustling.
00:20:29.000Maybe you don't have a family that backs you up.
00:20:31.000No, there's girls that like, you know, there is legitimately, like, I got a friend who's really wealthy, and his friends have, some of them, have like a girl in New York, and they pay for her apartment, and she's going to college, and he goes to New York seven,
00:20:47.000eight times a year, and when he does, she frees her calendar and goes out to dinner with him, goes to wherever, he sleeps there, they have sex, and it's a comfortable working relationship.
00:25:09.000And the tagline is, it's me in a pharmacy and I'm looking at a bottle.
00:25:12.000And it's Minoxidil 5. They just jacked it up from 3 to 5. And I go, four out of five, the voiceover goes, four out of five doctors say this will work.
00:25:22.000And then I go, I look at the camera and I go, four out of five, I like my chances.
00:27:45.000And once you shave your head, like for me, I got lucky I have a good shape.
00:27:50.000I have a good shape to my head, which is something that I watched.
00:27:52.000I went down a rabbit hole the other day.
00:27:55.000And I went down a plastic surgery facial reconfiguration rabbit hole because of incels connected to this conversation we were having earlier about guys who can't get laid.
00:28:08.000These guys were going to this one doctor.
00:28:27.000Maybe your head is shaped like a turtle or something.
00:28:29.000You have a weird crest on the top of your head.
00:28:31.000This guy puts implants under your skin to give you a nice round head.
00:28:36.000They had like before and after and this guy was like I always hated my head and now my head's amazing and I'm looking at this and I'm going oh my god like I didn't even think of that.
00:30:14.000And this goes back to the prostitution thing.
00:30:17.000What do people want from those people?
00:30:19.000Do they want the world to be a different place than it really is?
00:30:22.000Because are we operating as if this world is exactly how it is right now?
00:30:26.000Or are we pretending that the world is how we'd like it to be one day in a utopian society?
00:30:32.000Because if we're doing that, I get how you're behaving.
00:30:34.000But if you're looking at the world around you the way it is, and you don't think these guys should be able to get prostitutes, You're an asshole.
00:30:41.000I think that kind of boils down what libertarianism is.
00:30:45.000It's whether or not we are in a evolving utopian mindset or whether or not we're going to just say, let people be who they are and just accept how things are.
00:32:59.000You find out your great-grandfather was the guy who put the fucking garbage dump in the black neighborhood, and that's why you have a Cadillac.
00:33:06.000Dude, my wallet's on the table at that point.
00:33:52.000I'm really breaking it down, like I'm paraphrasing in a shitty way, but his machine is just going to scoop plastic up, and they think they could actually reuse that plastic and make things out of it.
00:34:37.000There was SpaceX, which is fucking phenomenal, what that program has done.
00:34:43.000They are delivering stuff to space for a tenth of the price of NASA. They have cut costs ridiculously.
00:34:53.000NASA was so fucking bloated, which was great, but now it's like he wants to put a fucking tunnel under LA and he wants these charging stations all around the country that are going to be solar powered, that are going to be expensive.
00:35:07.000He's just overextended himself and now Wall Street used to love him and now they're not buying it anymore and it could be the end of the company.
00:35:15.000How would it be the end of the company?
00:36:08.000My friend just bought a, I think it's a Mitsubishi, and it's a hybrid, but how it works is it goes all-electric.
00:36:15.000Until you run out of the electric charge, and then the motor kicks in, as opposed to my Prius, which is just alternating back and forth all the time.
00:44:34.000He's got a single mom and they just lost the apartment because she lost her job and now they're living with an aunt.
00:44:40.000There's all these circumstances going on and then you've got the white kids who are taking SAT prep classes and they've got a mom who's not working that drives them to their different sports.
00:45:35.000Well, I'm saying on the other side of being surrounded by people that are not achieving and being exposed to people that don't think that finishing high school or college is a priority.
00:45:44.000And so it's very hard to come up with that concept yourself, especially in the absence of like two functioning parents.
00:46:23.000And when people get upset at certain aspects of life without acknowledging that...
00:46:33.000Yeah, and then you've got people that live in abandoned factory towns, whether it's in the Appalachias or it's in Detroit, where you had jobs and your grandfather had a job and that was it.
00:46:43.000And it was just, it was like, there was no diversity of work in that area.
00:46:48.000And then the fucking plant closes and it's just despair.
00:46:52.000I have a good friend and his family is from coal miners.
00:46:56.000And the way he describes it, he's like, you have never seen that kind of poverty before.
00:47:01.000You've never seen that kind of poverty.
00:47:02.000You're in these cold towns, and people are just all fucked up on pills, like the whole town's fucked up on pills.
00:47:09.000It's like, you haven't seen poverty like that.
00:47:11.000It's dark, and there's despair, and there's no exit strategy.
00:47:26.000This is just what happens with despair, right?
00:47:29.000And this is just despair in that context.
00:47:33.000And then there's despair in South Central LA. Just despair in East LA. Just despair in, you know, really fucked up Mexican neighborhoods in LA. Well, that's why we were talking about – I think you had a guest on that talked about how everything's getting – robots are taken over.
00:47:59.000But with that, it sounds like it may happen, that type of a system, but there's still going to be despair because you still need a sense of purpose.
00:48:25.000But would $1,000 a month, if everyone knew they had $1,000 a month coming from the government, would it make you more invested in being an American?
00:48:35.000Would it make you more invested in keeping this thing running?
00:51:31.000You know, you're really talking about $2 million, probably.
00:51:35.000And don't think your kid's coming out of college into a job that's going to be able to support himself.
00:51:39.000You're still going to be subsidizing their phone and their car insurance and probably part of their rent for the next five, six years after that.
00:51:46.000Playing tickets when they come to visit.
00:51:58.000If you're on the market as a family of four to get health insurance in California, you're paying $20,000 a year, between $15,000 and $20,000 a year, which means, again, you've got to earn $40,000.
00:52:09.000A lot of people are moving out of California because of state tax.
00:52:13.000A lot of people realize, you know, I can live in Nevada and not pay any state tax.
00:55:02.000And you know Ari's like, yeah, sure, let's do it.
00:55:05.000So we go inside and I put a towel over his face and he leans over backwards and his head is below his body in the shower stall.
00:55:12.000The nozzle comes off the wall and I spray down his face and nothing, nothing, nothing.
00:55:18.000And then all of a sudden his body's convulsing, his legs are kicking, he's fucking screaming, water is shooting out of his nose, he's choking.
00:55:26.000And it went on for like a couple of minutes and And I'm fucking dying.
00:56:35.000That's a good tip if you're ever falling asleep while you're driving, folks.
00:56:39.000If you stop at a gas station and get a soda or a water and some ice, and then get a wet towel with ice in it and just rub your face.
00:56:49.000Because I used to smack myself in the face when I was coming back from gigs, and I'd be driving on the Mass Pike and there's no one on the road.
01:00:57.000The Shining, the movie with Jack Nicholson, apparently bothered Stephen King because Jack Nicholson was on edge from the beginning of the movie.
01:03:52.000I just heard something recently about museums that only something like 7% of most collections are what you see.
01:03:58.000There's so much stuff in storage, like cool shit that people might want to see that there's not room for because the buildings aren't big enough.
01:04:05.000Lots of instruments, for instance, 300-year-old violins get used by kids because it's...
01:04:13.000Cheaper to just keep them in use and send them around than it is to just store it and hope and restore it eventually after it's unused for 25-30 years because of all the old horse hair or whatever it is they used to make each thing.
01:04:24.000But there's really cool art by probably Da Vinci or who knows what's hidden in some of these places.
01:04:29.000But people that work there know and get to see some of it.
01:04:51.000You walk into some guy's palace, some emerald palace, and you open these two fucking teakwood doors, and you see a dinosaur in the middle of his front entrance.
01:06:29.000There's some talk that by the shape of his bones, that what he might have been doing was using those bones to crush giant dinosaur bones, and that he might be surviving on dead things.
01:06:41.000And that they also had some speculation that they might have had...
01:06:44.000They don't know what they really looked like because they don't know the skin color.
01:06:48.000They had some speculation that they might have had faces like vultures, like red, fucked up, really brightly colored faces, just to let you know they're disgusting.
01:06:59.000When you see vultures, it's not a coincidence that they're the grossest fucking looking animal on the planet and all they eat is dead shit.
01:13:30.000And they weren't actually maybe arms, but they were wings.
01:13:32.000Well, that totally makes sense when you think about ostriches and shit like that, that they used to have wings and they turned into those things.
01:16:53.000This book I was just listening to about music and the brain talked about the first instrument found is this, I think it was like a rib flute of like an elephant or something that's like 50,000 years old.
01:17:04.000But because it's a flute, they go, that's probably most likely not the first instrument being used because it was probably drums to get to a flute that's making sounds.
01:19:03.000Yeah, but they're also built way better, way different.
01:19:06.000So it might have been their bigger brains was to control their much stronger body because they were like 5'7", 250 pounds, like 220 pounds.
01:19:14.000Yeah, they were built different than us.
01:19:48.000They were just built, like, almost like a half a chimp, like, on the way from being, you know, Australia, or, you know, Homo erectus, or Australopithecus, or any of those...
01:20:09.000There's those little hobbit people that were in the Isle of Flores.
01:20:15.000They think there might be ones in those places too.
01:20:18.000Even in Vietnam, they have one they call the Orang Pendek, I think that's how you say it.
01:20:23.000And that's like a little monkey man, like a little hairy man that lives in the forest out there.
01:20:30.000And before this hobbit discovery, which was only like a decade ago, the people that live in the island of Flores, and they found out that there was absolutely...
01:20:39.000Three foot tall, little hairy people that had stone tools, and they organized, and they lived in these places, and they used fire.
01:21:06.000About 10,000 years ago seems to be the most agreed upon potential for spoken language.
01:21:13.000I think they might only have evidence that goes back that far.
01:21:16.000There's people that say it probably should go back as far back as 60,000 years, but I don't believe they have any evidence of that to support that.
01:22:56.000Like if you read Socrates, you read the history of him or of a lot of scholars and like really respected thinkers, they had young boys that they would bang.
01:23:08.000So what today is a horrific crime against humanity was completely normal back then.
01:23:39.000How much of being gay is stopped by society's expectations?
01:23:46.000Like what is the percentage of people who are actually gay who just can't act on it because it just – whether their mom or their religion or their church they go to or they got married and they had kids but they really want to be gay.
01:26:09.000But for a lot of them, my mom said it was the best environment they'd ever lived in because there was a solidarity among a lot of the women.
01:27:37.000I wanted to talk to you about this because it's so ridiculous.
01:27:39.000I saw this guy got suspended from his serious golf show because he was talking about the LPGA. And he goes, who's going to win the LPGA? He goes, let me go out on a limb and say it's going to be a Korean.
01:27:54.000Because apparently Koreans win a lot of them.
01:28:43.000That's why you're listening to golf radio.
01:28:45.000And you're talking about an impoverished country that has found a way, like black people found boxing, or Irish guys found the fucking police force.
01:29:04.000I had a very good friend of mine that I've talked about many times in this podcast who was a U.S. national champ while he was in medical school.
01:33:46.000I would say the bigger guys actually have...
01:33:49.000They can compete at a higher level deep into their 30s and even 40s.
01:33:53.000Like Randy Couture, I think he re-won the heavyweight title when he was 42. Because I would think there'd be more knockouts with heavyweights.
01:34:01.000There's a lot of knockouts with heavyweights.
01:35:02.000The only one who maintained a world championship caliber skill set deep into his 40s was Bernard Hopkins and Archie Moore when Archie Moore was younger.
01:35:13.000We're talking about the Rocky Marciano days.
01:35:16.000He fought deep into his 40s as well, but he was just a real crafty veteran.
01:35:20.000He actually also trained George Foreman, which is very interesting.
01:35:23.000So that crafty veteran trained George Foreman to be a crafty veteran and maintain his power.
01:35:30.000He had a real unusual, I don't know if you remember, but George Foreman used to almost put his hands up like he didn't know how to fight.
01:35:36.000Like, don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me.
01:35:38.000Almost like that, but that was his defense.
01:35:40.000He would move forward like this because he was so big.
01:35:45.000He was such an enormous man with these enormous arms.
01:35:48.000So when he would stack them on top of each other and walk towards you like that, it was this weird offense.
01:35:53.000And he learned that from Archie Moore.
01:35:55.000Part of his defense, holding his hands up in a weird way, he learned from Archie Moore.
01:36:36.000I saw this one fight where he hit a guy and the guy kind of took a dive and he leaned down and picked him up with one hand and started punching him with the other.
01:37:20.000Yeah, the fighting in the NHL, it's funny, there's really great clips of guys talking to each other before fights, and it's amazingly calm.
01:37:30.000They literally go like, hey, you want to go?
01:39:38.000Dude, do you know the fucking Bruins, and they actually dropped game one last night against the Blues, but the Bruins are set to win the Stanley Cup, which means Boston will win the fucking Super Bowl, the World Series, and the Stanley Cup in one year.
01:39:52.000And remember when we lived there, they couldn't win shit?
01:39:54.000It was like they had such an inferiority complex.
01:40:25.000And that's the thing about being in Boston, because I grew up a Mets fan.
01:40:28.000We had season tickets to the Mets since I was a little kid.
01:40:30.000And so when they got into the World Series and I was going to school in Boston, surrounded by mass holes, watching these fucking games, and they're just...
01:40:38.000I'm sorry, if you're from Boston, take it the fuck easy about your sports.
01:42:15.000I got obsessed with martial arts in like 81. So by the time 86 rolled around, I was like, what the fuck are you people paying attention to?
01:44:35.000There's just cities where they had that fighting at the turn of the century.
01:44:39.000Yeah, and I think it was the magical ingredient for stand-up.
01:44:44.000That's part of the magical ingredient.
01:44:46.000The magical ingredient wasn't just that there was guys like Barry Crimmins and Lenny Clark and Steve Sweeney and Don Gavin and Mike Donovan and all these brilliant comedians that we saw that we were so lucky to see.
01:44:56.000It was also that their audiences were savages.
01:49:29.000But back then, everyone that we knew had nothing.
01:49:33.000I remember Bud Friedman came to town in the early 90s when it was Evening at the Improv was like the original strip shot stand-up comedy show that put A&E on the map.
01:49:46.000I remember he came to town and there was a showcase at Duck Soup and we all went up and then Bud Friedman, who's a fucking great guy, takes us all out to dinner afterwards and sits us down and he goes through each of us.
01:52:31.000They set up a showcase of the Ding Ho, and all the guys come down, and they're in the green room, and they're drinking, they're doing blow, they're cracking each other up, and they all go up there, and they do fucking, you know, local references, and they're doing jokes about the Boston accent,
01:52:47.000and Macaulay's just sitting there going, what the fuck is going on here?
01:52:51.000And then Stephen Wright goes up, and he does Stephen Wright.
01:52:56.000And they find out a couple days later, nobody got it except Stephen Wright.
01:53:01.000And Stephen Wright at that time, Lenny told him, I think it was Lenny, one of them sat Stephen Wright down and goes, Steve, you're a sweet guy.
01:54:00.000Like, nobody can really tell you that you can never figure it out.
01:54:04.000Because comedy is not that different than anything else.
01:54:08.000And that if you really put a lot of time and effort and attention to it, you get better at it.
01:54:12.000So if you got any laughs at all, you might not be doing it the right way, but that's part of the process, right?
01:54:19.000Yeah, I think George Carlin said no matter how bad a comedian is, there's always one joke in his act that I go, God, I wish I wrote that joke.
01:54:27.000And if you have that one joke, it means you're capable of writing one.
01:54:31.000And sometimes your life changes, and it puts you in a different space that makes you a better comedian, whether it's your performance or your writing.
01:54:40.000And comedy is, you're displaying what's going on inside of you.
01:54:46.000When you're on stage, on some level, your anger, your fear, whatever it is, it comes out in your performance.
01:54:52.000And so if something changes fundamentally in your life, sometimes it's getting married, sometimes your father dies, whatever, you see people change.
01:55:56.000Because if you gloss over, god damn, it takes forever to figure it out because you've got to play little games with yourself and pretend you didn't do bad.
01:56:03.000So if you didn't do bad, you don't feel bad.
01:56:05.000If you don't feel bad, you're not going to change.
01:56:06.000That's part of the reason that exists, that horrible feeling when you fuck something up.
01:57:07.000And when you get enough people in a fucking room, and they're drinking, and it's weird, and then maybe you're a little tired, and then it comes off strange, and you're like, God, that set sucked.
01:57:16.000I need to get another set under my belt.
01:57:18.000And then the next set, you're like, boy, I don't want it to be like that last set, so I'm going to fire the fuck up.
01:57:22.000And then, oh, this one was good, good, good.
02:05:33.000There's a few guys who were doing some similar stuff, I'm sure, that didn't become famous.
02:05:38.000But as far as guys that became famous at that time who were genuinely regarded almost universally as being brilliant comedians, Lenny Bruce was the Mac Daddy.
02:05:48.000He was a guy who did all the television shows.
02:05:52.000And they wanted him to come on, and he was brilliant, and he would go on there with great material, and it was clean, and then he morphed.
02:05:59.000He just kept expanding and morphing and got more into drugs and just started just at the end of his career was really losing his fucking mind.
02:06:07.000He was just fighting these obscenity cases.
02:06:12.000You could watch videos of him that you could buy that I bought VHS tapes of back in the day where he would read the transcripts of his trial on stage.
02:07:50.000The only reason why that bit about the African people that were starving to death, that bit about those late night television shows, which is one of his darkest bits ever, and one of his best bits.
02:09:35.000He had some kind of a brain thing happen to him, and he got treated for it, and he recovered, but that's when he started acting kind of erratic.
02:13:07.000I mean, you've got social apps, but how do you take a social app and make it something that you sit down and watch every day as programming?
02:15:12.000Oh, he's got to go to sleep, and now I'm going to let him know.
02:15:15.000I'm going to keep him a piece of my mind.
02:15:17.000How many people are just ready to blow their fucking brains out, stand in front of the computer at night, and arguments with people on Facebook?
02:15:24.000First of all, that is one of the worst ways to communicate.
02:15:28.000I understand that it's a really effective way to communicate, but just text messages, just text, just writing things, it's like one of the crudest ways that we know.
02:18:15.000When you have friends, when you have people that you can confide in and talk to, you have different perspectives, different points of view.
02:18:23.000It's always best if it's in your house.
02:18:25.000If it's your wife, it would be amazing.
02:18:27.000I'm very, very pro getting your shit together in terms of the way you run a relationship.
02:19:10.000And I think all of us could do well to analyze how we interface with each other.
02:19:16.000Because I think most problems that people have...
02:19:19.000It's like one thing happens, then this thing happens, and that thing happens, but if the first thing didn't happen, would the second thing have happened?
02:19:25.000If the first slight didn't happen, if the first way you greeted someone was with a big smile and a handshake, and maybe the whole conversation would have rolled in a totally different way, and then afterwards someone said, hey, I thought you were mad at Greg.
02:19:38.000You know what I was, but the way he came over and shook my hand and smiled at me, I'm like, who cares?
02:19:43.000Whereas if you came over with an attitude, oh, this fucking guy, and then he's like, oh, that fucking guy hasn't dropped it yet, We're still arguing about the stupid fucking thing.
02:22:27.000If this family can get along, and we all love each other and care about each other so much, why can't the human race, why can't all these people get along better?
02:22:44.000I think that's what keeps people from being vulnerable and hugging and expressing how they feel about each other and supporting, like, unconditional love is getting rid of the fear.
02:22:57.000You can't be afraid that this love is going to turn on you and this person's going to hurt you.
02:23:20.000I think it's an interesting time for people to communicate, though.
02:23:23.000I don't think anybody has ever really gotten to the bottom of things in the past, the way people are trying to get to the bottom of things now.
02:23:36.000I think emotionally, the way we communicate with each other, even the way people are examining government and And examining foreign policy and examining the office of the president and examining voting and the electoral process.
02:23:49.000There's things that people are analyzing now and looking at it.
02:23:53.000I think because of all the chaos of the internet, we kind of lose sight of all the crazy shit that it's doing.
02:24:00.000Like, it's doing so many different things and changing things so much that it's rewiring the way people are looking at the world itself.
02:24:19.000Marijuana is being decriminalized left and right.
02:24:22.000It's because people here, people like you and me and anyone else that has a brain that understands about drug laws, hear them talking about it.
02:24:56.000I think the access to information, because the stream is so large, so much nonsense comes through it, that you lose perspective of all the positive changes taking place because of the internet.
02:25:11.000All of the information that's been distributed online, whether it's through videos, or through people talking about it, or podcasts, or comedy routines, or just facts with facts-based news organizations.
02:25:25.000Here's the real facts about marijuana.
02:25:29.000And this is, these are the real facts about where the money's going, how it's going right now to fund cartels, and how this is crazy because we're literally creating an organized crime empire because we're making something that everybody wants.
02:26:05.000And it basically says that, you know, stories trump facts.
02:26:10.000And that basically, we are a culture, the human species, has always believed the myth, whether it's religion or whether it's a political dogma, that we are more apt to ignore facts that don't support a story.
02:26:27.000Because telling facts, being factual, is difficult, because sometimes that fact doesn't jive with what you thought was true, and now you have to rectify that, and that's hard.
02:26:39.000And so it's easier for us to just say, you know, we're all – Jesus came, and when we die, our sins will be forgiven, and we're supposed to do this, and then if facts come up to negate how long ago man – you know, all the things we know from archaeology – I think it's 46%.
02:27:33.000Then he's with his friends, and he cracks open a beer, and he's like, what the fuck does my mama know about how old the fucking earth is?
02:27:40.000She barely knows how old she is, and they're just drinking.
02:27:43.000Now, a lot of people go to church on Sunday because culturally that's what you do.
02:27:46.000It doesn't mean they subscribe to all that stuff.
02:27:48.000But then you got, you know, every four years the government puts out an environmental study that is done by, I think, 12 different departments in the government.
02:27:59.000And it's considered the quintessential update on where the environment is internationally.
02:29:57.000We did a thing where we were trying to figure out, was it with, who was it with?
02:30:04.000Someone was explaining how much devastation cruise ships do in terms of the amount of fuel that they burn and the impact that they have and the fact, oh, it was Valentin Thomas, was it her?
02:30:21.000They were talking about each cruise ship, how much actual fuel they burn off.
02:33:09.000And then I'll be in Tampa at SideSplitters on June 13th to the 15th, and then I will be in Buffalo, New York at Helium Comedy Club on June 27th through the 29th.