Joe Rogan Experience #1310 - Sober October 2019 Preview
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Comedian and TV host Bill Burr joins Jemele to discuss his life on the road and how he got thrown under the bus by his wife. He also shares the story of how he almost died while on tour last year and how his wife almost did the same thing to him. Plus, he explains why he doesn t do drugs anymore and why he thinks his wife thinks he's crazy. Plus, we talk about his new album, Body Stop, which is out now and is available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and VaynerSpeakers. It's available for purchase on October 31st. Get your own copy of Body Stop's World Tour, which includes tickets to the Fall Tour, available now. The Fall Tour World Tour is available now, and is a limited edition limited edition of just $99.99! It includes a copy of the new Body Stop album, which will be available on all good record stores starting on November 1st, 2019. Buy it here: Body Stop s World Tour: Fall Tour: $99, or buy it here.99, and get a free copy of his new book, "Body Stop: How to Live Your Best Life on the Road" which is also available on Amazon starting on Nov. 1st! And, of course, you don't have to be 21 or older than 21 to buy it on Prime Day! or you can buy it for $99 or get a copy for free! and get an ad-free version of the book on amazon Prime! You can do so here: bit.ca/BurtBurtburt. That means you'll get 20% off the entire edition of Bodystop's Fall Tour Tour, plus free shipping, shipping included in the book, shipping and shipping, plus shipping throughout the UK, plus a free shipping anywhere else, and all kinds of other perks, including shipping, and shipping worldwide, plus all other options, including VIP membership, and they'll get a discount on the paperback edition, shipping worldwide. You'll get all the best of the best practices, and a lifetime access to the book is included in this episode, plus the paperback version, and more, plus an extra chance to watch the book and all other places you get a chance to review the book. Thank you for listening to the show, and so much more! Thanks for listening and supporting the show is much more. P.S. I hope you enjoy it!
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Let's hold up on labels till we hear the story.
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Then we had one year where it was like socialist.
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It wasn't purple, but it wasn't the right color.
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There was days where I would drink literally like fucking gallons of water.
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I was drinking water and I was adding salt to it.
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Just because I know I was dehydrating myself so much.
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I set off a fire alarm in the gym for my sweat.
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I still have PTSD from last year's Sober October.
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I get texts from you guys and panic sits in my heart.
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Yeah, if I had come to New York, it would have been, I mean, LA would have been terrible to be here for an extra month.
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But, like, I saw that fucking stupid device when I was moving.
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I opened up a drawer and I was like, get it out, get it out of here.
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I think Leanne and Push are going to podcast this entire Sober October.
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They were asking about drugs and how hard I party, and I was just talking shit, and I was like, you know, I go, I spoke a little bit of weed.
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Every now and then, if cocaine's on a switchblade, I'll hit it, but for the most part, I don't.
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And Leanne just heard me and she's making breakfast for the girl.
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She goes, he doesn't do mushrooms and he doesn't do cocaine.
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I'm like, bitch, I'm trying to move tickets in Dayton.
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You sound like you're coming off a coke bender.
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When you first started going on the road with me, you're way further ahead now than I was back then.
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We started to do theaters when you started to headline your own places.
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I was thinking about that level you were at that we all thought was like, Damn!
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Like, oh, I could sell out this whole weekend, too.
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I didn't think about theaters back then, like when we were all in the club.
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I had done a couple of theaters here and there, but for the most part, it was just about just working.
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He was like, what do you want to do with your career?
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He really planted a fucking seed in my head one day in the back parking lot at the comedy store.
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He goes, hey, don't fucking just hang around here.
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I've said this a million times, but you and Bill Burr in the back of the store telling me, your show's not that good, you should just stick with stand-up.
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I'm like, you're not even doing your stand-up justice.
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I'd see you do stand-up, but it's like you hadn't done it in five months.
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You'd been in fucking Thailand or some shit, swinging off of a tree by your dick.
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Also, I was worried you were going to get killed.
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You were doing so many different things in so many different places.
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He learned these completely unnecessary life skills.
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Yeah, that you can't apply to anything in your life.
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I mean the things that the kids roll around on.
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Rich Rebuilds, you know that YouTube channel, do you know who he is?
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Rich Benoit, he's a YouTube host, and he also, he fixed...
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He bought a junk Tesla that somebody had let get flooded with water, and he's just a really smart guy, and he's a tech guy, so he's like, okay, what the fuck is in that thing?
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So all the wires were fucked up, the battery was toast.
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So he bought a crashed one and he took the battery and the engine out of the crashed one and put it in the one that he owned and then rewired and went through this crazy process to get a Tesla to work that he eventually did.
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It's what's called the electric garage in Massachusetts where he rebuilds these Teslas.
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Oh, he had one of those with a big-ass fat tire where you're riding on it like a skateboard.
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I was in Rome, and we were on Segways, and I was just screwing around, and then I just hopped off, and I didn't realize that when you hop off, if you're leaning forward, it keeps going.
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And this thing started whipping around me, just...
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And we're in like a big piazza, and I just let go of it.
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Didn't hit anyone, but everyone around us was standing dead still, like...
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Oh my god, it would have been bodied right there.
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You're supposed to dive on it like a good hero.
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Those hoverboards that are jet skis where you go like 40 feet up in the air.
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I like the guys who get it turned over and then it starts to go down and they just, with extra speed, just shoot into the bucket board.
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All you gotta do is fall backwards and then kick your feet around.
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Yeah, there's a lot of useless skills I have from Travel Channel.
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Because I would've probably done it too if I was you.
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And I was like, goddammit, how do you get out of that?
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You're like, oh my god, I have the best job ever.
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But yet, you're still like, fuck, I gotta get out of this.
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It's weird, because you do get to go to really cool places and get paid for it.
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Well, what was happening is Tom's career was exploding at the time.
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She's like, I'm talking to Tom, and he's talking about these one-nighters, but I want to do the funny bones.
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I was so far removed from stand-up, I didn't even know you could do one-nighters.
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I think I was at a store a week later, and you were like, you know, Tom's doing, like, legit theaters.
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We all know guys that were really funny back in the day, and then they somehow or another quit.
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Dude, what if you had been like, I'm going to lean into Travel Channel?
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What if you became a Christian, like super Christian, got a cross tattoo on your arm just to let them know you're really down with them?
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Dude, when I got fired from Travel Channel, my world melted down.
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That was right when we were getting fat shamed.
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I like how you say we were getting fat shamed as if you guys weren't in on the fat shaming.
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You're saying you were getting fat shamed, but...
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At the time I got fired from Travel Channel, I definitely was one-sided, and I felt it hard as fuck.
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Your friend was fucking with you because he was worried you were gonna die.
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Dude, imagine taking a Conan appearance, which was massive at the time, and you go, nah, I'm going to use this for fun.
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DJ Dadmouth is my favorite character that everybody's ever brought to a morning TV show.
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I loved that you were doing that because I hated those shows.
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But then when you do morning TV dressed up like a fake rapper, for people who don't know, Segura created a character called DJ Dadmouth and he would just show up places and the people did not know what the fuck to do with him because the lowest rung in all of show business is morning television host.
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I'm so sorry if you listen to this and you're a local morning television host.
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It's one of the lowest rungs in all of showbuses.
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It's like you're broadcasting out of a Christian convenience store or something.
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The worst part, too, is that the four of us, plus 90% of the acts working those clubs, do not have a fan base watching that show.
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So you put it together, you're like, this is definitely a waste of time.
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And then if that's the only one that morning...
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We're like, you woke me up at fucking six to do this?
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I remember one time I got shirtless and went up in the weather and started saying, there's thunderstorms.
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When he just goes up and she goes, how you doing?
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I mean, he just destroys, but totally ruined the relationship for the club.
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When he does that big one in Chicago, he was in Chicago for sure, because I know he kept hollering at bulls to get him in the middle of it.
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Some dirty, Honda-driving savage ran into a $2 million Italian sports car.
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I did a show with him like a year and a half ago, one of the oddball shows, and he came in an all-white Rolls-Royce with a Like with a driver, you know, like a chauffeur.
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And he came in all white and had like a fucking enormous gold chain with a medallion TM. And I was like, that chain looks crazy.
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Sideswipe Tracy Morgan's convertible $2 million Bugatti.
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Didn't know it was a car that was like two feet off the ground.
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Those cars are so hard to see if you're right next to them.
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What does that dude's insurance say when he calls?
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That had to be an inspiration to doing the DJ Dadmouth, right?
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It was funny because some people would be really into having fun with you, like the Tracy Morgan people.
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Like, we called the PR person that drove us to the club.
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We're providing a wonderful morning show for downtown Pittsburgh.
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You're showing them how to make fucking pastrami sandwiches.
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We've got the Christian youth group who's going to sing for us next.
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I tried shitting on the last time I went to Cleveland.
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That's why I know the relationship's still fine.
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It feels like you're stepping into Truman Show stuff.
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Especially when there's a 22-year-old PA or associate producer.
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One time I went in and I said, yeah, I'm already drunk from doing radio.
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And it came back and she goes, what is in your cup?
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She's telling you you can't take your shirt off.
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I love how it's like she's telling me she found something out.
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You're like, I was poor you in front of everybody.
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It's hilarious when people don't know what job they're in and try to take it more seriously.
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If one of those morning shows fucked off, like the way we're talking about it, it'd be like the best morning show.
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Tom Green had a great, great one I'm remembering now, back when he was like public access and he was trying to promote his public access that became the Tom Green show and he just took over.
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You know what's amazing is like him and then that other dude, Jamie Kennedy, they did their best shit where they were like pranking people.
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When Tom Green was on, it was stuff I couldn't even believe.
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Oprah was like, it was such a phenomenon what was going on.
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He didn't just like, let me fuck with this amount of people.
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No, he got ball cancer, had to take a break, came back and tried to do like a more serious show with Humperdinck.
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But what I'm saying is people forgot how big it used to be.
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What he did was he did what we're all doing way before any of us, but it was when bandwidth was too expensive.
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It was part of the inspiration for me doing one.
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I was in Denver doing the Comedy Works and I talked to the company that was doing it for him.
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And I was seriously considering doing something like that.
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He had cables running from the desk all the way through his living room into a server room.
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And he goes like, I have to have all these people running it too.
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So what essentially it was, was he decided to try to do a talk show host.
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I remember that Joe Rogan, the fucking long sleeve under the short sleeve.
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That was all based on one switch he had in his house.
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He'd just go on and flip a switch, and the show went on and went live.
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So me and Red Band looked at it, and we're like, well, how much is involved in this?
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What would we have to do to do something like this?
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And then, you know, eventually it just led to...
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He had that live from the compound in his basement.
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And then the way that Opie and Anthony ran their show was an inspiration too.
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It was just a bunch of guys hanging out, talking.
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On O&A? On O&A and they'd just be eating breakfast.
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Jim would take a shit and be gone for 30 minutes.
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Yeah, when they first started on SiriusXM, they had to fill four hours of content.
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Isn't that crazy that Sirius said, hey, we don't have commercials.
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And then they just started selling commercials.
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That's because Howard got to get to the paper, kid.
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I mean, he's locked up in a contract for Liz Ive, son.
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They're like, if we can get over, let's say the number was 100 million subscribers, I get this gigantic bonus.
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And they're like, that took us from 60, plus another 40 is 100. So I get it.
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And I don't know what happened with it, but fucking Jew move right there.
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But basically what he was saying was that the only reason that deal took place at all was because he was...
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Was it Sirius or XM? He was Sirius and they bought XM. Right, right, right.
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The only reason why Sirius was kicking ass at all was because of Howard fucking Stern, period.
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Yeah, they wouldn't have acquired XM. And also, the model was so suspect at the time.
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You're going to leave terrestrial radio and go to a place where people have to pay for what they just turn on?
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And especially at that time, during that transition to satellite, no one else would have got people to commit to having a fucking satellite dish in your car.
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Remember you had those stupid fucking antennas that you used to have to put in your car to get To get serious?
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This fucking stupid thing that would stick up like a pigtail out of the roof of your car.
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Yeah, and how it would cut out for like every turn, any corner.
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Anytime there was a building in New York City, anytime something blocked it, any tunnel was dead.
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Whatever money that company makes, the only reason it's still in business is because of Howard Stern.
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Until Bennington and Opie and Anthony showed up, it was painful.
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He did my storytelling show too recently and did the same thing.
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Just talking about the good old days of fucking drug addiction in New York.
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He describes the city that you're like, oh my god, I want to be there.
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Did you see Times Square when it was Times Square?
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But I was like, what's that woman wearing a bra?
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What they did at Times Square, they turned Times Square into like a Disney mall.
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And it's a nightmare whenever you're visiting and also, you know, like when you're visiting, you're in a car and we need to go to this and all of a sudden you look up and you're like, are we in fucking Times Square?
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It feels like everything that makes New York amazing is gone.
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You used to do a funny joke about it, that you go for a meeting, and then you're walking, and people are just looking up, and he's like, why?
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And when you used to know what it was like, like peep shows and XXX everywhere, it was seedy and weird.
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Because by 91 was, I think, the first time I ever performed in New York.
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Well, this is like you're just starting out, though, kind of.
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We would go to Amsterdam, but Amsterdam was on the west side back then.
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That's where I became friends with Dom Herrera.
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Played pool with him in 94 at Amsterdam Billiards.
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When I meet a pool player, a comic who actually plays, Dom could play.
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I was around a lot of these weirdo, homeless, grifter-type characters.
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A lot of dudes would get arrested for doing three-card money.
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The best education of street culture, people who live on the street, I mean.
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My friend Johnny was always staying in people's house.
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He would stay in these weird little hostels and flop houses in New York and places that didn't have a roof.
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I remember as a kid in that era, the perception that you had of New York is like, This is nothing but crime.
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Well, Giuliani, you know, he clamped down on all that shit.
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I remember when I moved and I found a place and I came back to get my stuff and I told Neil Brennan, I was like, I don't think they have bars in my back window.
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97, I mean, I don't remember any crime, although I did get taken in three-card money a number of times.
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Anytime I saw three-card money, you know my brain, I'm like, I fucking got this.
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Dude, that, and they used to have this game where they had a nail and a piece of board, and you had a hammer, and you had three shots to get the nail in.
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So many people trying to get off some kind of scam.
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Yeah, I've been scammed by a driver in New York.
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I mean, it was probably like seven, eight years.
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No, like, you get in the cab, and you're like, you know, if you don't live there, but you kind of know, like, the layout, you're just like, basically, I want to go up, you know, 20 blocks this way, right?
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Just goes across town and starts going up the opposite highway from where we were.
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Yeah, I'm just looking at it like, what are we doing?
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I go, couldn't you have just gone up that avenue that we were on?
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He was like, I don't know what's going on, man.
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And then when we pull up, I see the meter going.
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That was supposed to be a 10-minute drive, and it's taking 40 minutes.
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He goes, just pay me whatever you want to pay me.
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So I go, like, the thing said, like, $68, and I was like, here's 20 bucks.
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He just told me, like, oh, it's right there, dude.
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But instead he took me around the city and then let me off.
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And then when I wanted to go home afterwards, I was like, what?
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I found out on my way on that cab ride because I started texting people at the next place.
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I was like, I was just leaving here, and I'm going to see you.
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Gone to a language that makes me feel powerful.
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I got pickpocketed in Florence, and I went into Russian.
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Every word I knew in Russian, I yelled at the guy.
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Because he was like, I don't know what I'm doing.
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You should have yelled out, America, you fucking traitor.
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You should have yelled out, America, and take your fucking shirt off, and said, I'm the machine, and started running after him.
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You should write that whole thing down about you talking about on the radio.
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Then, because the audience is going to be like, so wait, what do you do?
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And then you start making no sense and then blood comes out of your nose.
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You can do meth if you want if you don't want to do the coke that night.
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You take your high blood pressure medication on stage in front of the crowd.
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You know what I'd love to start growing is cocoa plants.
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You could organize a closet with some heat lamps and shit.
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How many people are growing their own coca leaves in the United States?
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The crazy thing is when you chew those leaves, it's actually not bad for you at all.
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That'll settle your nausea, you know, especially when you get to like...
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Isn't it crazy that everybody just thinks of this one thing as the processed, chemicalized fucking version that Scarface and...
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I mean, how many people have died because of cocaine?
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Is there another drug on the planet that has inspired more murders than cocaine?
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I would love to know murders versus number of dicks sucked for it.
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Man, if everybody got murdered every time they did coke, they don't.
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But a lot of people get their dicks sucked when they don't coke.
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Because girls can't afford Coke, too, if they're young and they're partying and they're out and some fucking guy comes along with a fat Tracy Morgan-like gold chain.
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That people are like, for sure, I'll just blow this stranger to have that.
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I knew guys who would get Coke that didn't do Coke.
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Because some girls, when they want coke, they're like, I am calling somebody and I'm going to get some fucking coke and I'm going to leave here.
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Next thing you know, there's a goddamn orgy going on.
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Some of it's just girls are like, oh, I know my blowjob is worse stuff, so what can I get out of it?
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My brother-in-law told me that he went to Woodstock 2, you know, like, what, 20 years ago, whatever it was?
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And he said, this guy got out of, one of his friends got out of a long line.
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Like, it took forever to get through concessions.
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And she goes, look, I'm not waiting on the line.
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He was showing us the footage of him on stage crowd surfing.
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And then goes out into the crowd, crowd surfs, and they stole his sneakers.
00:31:08.000
They took his sneakers and both people, both left and the right sneaker, they came to one of his shows and he signed it in the future.
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It's the video of him on stage in front of half a million people.
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I love how they, the Flanders Hill, have not wavered at all from their day one.
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If you open their Instagram right now, it's just like, check it out.
00:31:41.000
Cypress Hill's Instagram, half of it is weed videos with Cypress Hill music in the background.
00:31:47.000
It's just videos of people doing wax and dabs and bong hits with Cypress Hill in the background.
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Do you think they get high the way we get high?
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I saw a picture of you and it looked like you were.
00:32:21.000
We smoked so much before we ever got in the car.
00:32:24.000
I was like, I can't believe we're going to keep going.
00:32:39.000
I always try to think of the celebrity I could go beer to beer for and then really hurt them.
00:33:02.000
Who do you think could really fucking take it down?
00:33:11.000
If I go for their cocktail, and I've got to match them cocktail to cocktail, I can keep pace with Stan Hope.
00:33:20.000
Stan Hope doesn't drink as much as everyone thinks.
00:33:31.000
St. Helms, oddly enough, a lot healthier than I think people assume.
00:33:37.000
Ron White told me he gets fucked up every night of the week.
00:34:08.000
We're trying to figure out how to do Sober October this year.
00:34:15.000
I already have the answer, and I think it's early for me to say it now, so I'll wait until the end.
00:34:54.000
How about you can only drink water the whole month?
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I'm willing to negotiate with what I think our challenge should be for what you think our restrictions should be.
00:35:38.000
Well, what do you think the challenge should be?
00:35:49.000
I think it should be, if mental health is a legit part of health...
00:35:53.000
You should give up your fucking dopamine fucking addictions.
00:35:58.000
Yeah, get rid of your cell phones and your social media for a month.
00:36:01.000
I get why you wouldn't do it because of your career.
00:36:04.000
You can email your fucking ladies to fucking post shit for you.
00:36:18.000
I think about you sometimes when I feel like I've been on a flight or in a hotel room and I'm like, I think I've been looking at my phone for like three hours.
00:36:28.000
I just think it takes the connective tissue away from this challenge to the people that enjoy watching this challenge.
00:36:42.000
And then November 1st, everyone's like, oh yeah, you guys did Sober October.
00:36:48.000
And I understand, I'm not like Joe, who says do what I do, and then I'll just fucking have an easy time of it.
00:37:11.000
It wasn't a challenge in that there was no contest.
00:37:32.000
Whoever kills the most elks and can reverse steer them.
00:37:38.000
We definitely look at these fucking things together.
00:37:41.000
You can also get a legit real camera if you wanted.
00:38:11.000
I want it on GPS. I don't want that bullshit on a fucking treadmill.
00:38:15.000
The Rock's got new shoes with a Bluetooth capability in them.
00:38:29.000
How many miles do you run when you go for a run now?
00:38:32.000
It's no more than an hour, hour and 15 minutes.
00:39:03.000
I pretend I have to get to the top where everyone I know dies.
00:39:09.000
Whatever you got in your brain, give it to me a little bit when I work out.
00:39:19.000
We were working out like six, seven hours a day.
00:39:22.000
But the whole time, I was like, I do zero working out.
00:39:29.000
Ari, when you were here, when we were like three weeks into the month, and you were here, we did a podcast together, and you used my fucking rower, you did an hour on the rower.
00:39:52.000
Ari wants to do a challenge that he already excels at.
00:39:57.000
And your complaint about Joe is that he keeps logging in things that he is good at.
00:40:12.000
Why are you presenting it like a fucking presidential candidate?
00:40:26.000
We each get a choreographer and we work dance classes as much as we can.
00:41:02.000
I haven't even touched this thing since October.
00:41:08.000
We each gotta go to dance classes to get our skills set up.
00:41:10.000
We each work with a choreographer to create our own dance to the exact same song.
00:41:18.000
At the end, by the way, I'm selling this to the room.
00:41:32.000
At the end of the month, come November 1st, we each submit our one-minute hip-hop dance choreography video, and the fans vote on who the winner of Sober October is.
00:41:43.000
Gentlemen, I would like to hear your butles, starting with Tom Segura.
00:41:54.000
Because it's easy to say what I don't like about anything that comes out of your mouth.
00:41:58.000
So, what I don't like about it, or what I do like about it, is that no one's great at it.
00:42:04.000
I do like that it is a workout because those dancers are in unbelievable fucking shape.
00:42:10.000
Who do you think is the number one dancer right now?
00:42:21.000
Just because you speak Spanish doesn't mean you're a better dancer.
00:42:26.000
No, but I know I'm a better dancer than you guys.
00:42:35.000
Listen, I could do a lot of crazy shit with my body you guys can't do.
00:42:57.000
I mean, obviously I'm better than you, but nobody excels.
00:42:59.000
So, I like the idea of working at something that no one's great at, and...
00:43:13.000
I love how the movies make it seem normal that that guy could get that girl.
00:43:25.000
Joe, this is hip-hop dance we're talking about.
00:43:58.000
I think it's funny that we're comics and we get to look silly doing something, like not look great at it.
00:44:05.000
And I'm on board with, I think it's fun that people that watch that or get really into it would have a say in it.
00:44:12.000
Okay, I'm the only one of the three of us who's not obese, so it would look the least silly for me to doing it.
00:44:25.000
Yeah, it's all about the BMI. My BMI is off the charts.
00:44:27.000
Wait, you're saying that you are into it or not?
00:44:29.000
I'm saying I would look the least silly just in terms of that.
00:44:31.000
But you guys, I get why you look silly just moving at all.
00:44:54.000
Do you really think you're the current best dancer?
00:45:03.000
We each get ourselves choreographers, and we create our own dance to the exact song.
00:45:10.000
Okay, but the amount of molly I would have to do to enjoy that dancing.
00:45:28.000
You can't have something, oh, I think Tom danced better, oh, I think Ari danced better.
00:45:52.000
Olympic judges are the most corrupt people in all of sports.
00:46:00.000
But so we have to agree no bribing the fucking bribable Olympic judges.
00:46:20.000
There's something about the fitness challenges that are more exciting to me.
00:46:24.000
Yeah, because you're doing fitness all the time.
00:46:53.000
Have you scheduled an Australian tour to cancel yet?
00:47:10.000
The only time it's been in Australia was opening for you with a UFC ticket.
00:47:27.000
I know there's a bunch of people that are like, we want to be able to vote.
00:47:36.000
You're going to have to earn this motherfucker.
00:47:47.000
The flaw, he's saying, is that there's not like a clear, right, that it's subjective.
00:47:52.000
Yeah, you can't leave it in the hands of the judges.
00:48:01.000
First is like, you know, watch out for leg sweeps.
00:48:12.000
I would love to see those guys day one of jiu-jitsu.
00:48:14.000
He's like, Dude, just fucking worry about locking up half guard.
00:48:18.000
Rule number one is don't leave it to the judges.
00:48:33.000
Joe, I think you're overestimating your dance skills.
00:48:46.000
You don't think I know how to move my body better than you can move yours?
00:48:50.000
Do you know how crazy that is for you to even say that?
00:48:54.000
Do you know how crazy it is for you to say that my physical dexterity and your physical dexterity are the same?
00:49:09.000
If I got through that challenge and you came in last like you did with this last one...
00:49:16.000
We would have to put a sock in a fucking, with a lock in it, like a bike lock, and beat your ass.
00:49:44.000
I think you need to keep pushing how you think you guys are the same.
00:49:50.000
I could see us going through all these fucking things, and Bird at the end was like, well, you guys beat me, I can't believe it.
00:49:55.000
Like, you motherfucker, you're talking shit the whole month, talking shit the whole month, and you came in last.
00:50:04.000
I'm sandbagging you guys for the next challenge.
00:50:11.000
When Ari started posting these giant, he was on the bike for four hours.
00:50:25.000
It was like that scene in Big when Lovitz is telling, what's his name?
00:50:30.000
He's like, hey, slow down, slow down, slow down.
00:50:34.000
We didn't know how crazy anybody was going to take it.
00:50:39.000
We don't know how much we hated each other to really drive us to not be...
00:50:44.000
Well, I don't know how you looked at it, but I love you guys.
00:50:55.000
What was the most amount of points you ever put in in a day?
00:51:06.000
I did it in the hills and, you know, just kept...
00:51:17.000
That's when we took the foot off the gas pedal.
00:51:21.000
But why did you take the foot off the gas pedal?
00:51:35.000
And we'd just post numbers in the middle of the night.
00:51:41.000
I post in the middle of the night because my gym, Blink Fitness, would allow me to work out 24 hours a day.
00:51:49.000
I'd get off the comedy clubs and I'd fucking go work out at 3am.
00:51:54.000
I know, because you wake up and you're like, Blame Esty!
00:52:03.000
There was a lot of gameplay, but here's what I... I realized you guys woke up like, oh, what?
00:52:19.000
Well, he does have that incredible physical dexterity.
00:52:22.000
You would need a way for judges to decide, but...
00:52:29.000
No, hip-hop dancing, if you're going to get good, you're going to be dancing every single day.
00:52:36.000
Okay, I will tell you, I don't like doing it, but that response...
00:52:41.000
Because that's how we felt about everything, Joe.
00:52:45.000
Somebody showed me a tweet I made recently, like a year ago.
00:52:48.000
I'm like, how did we get from Burt can't run a marathon to all going to go straight edge for a month?
00:53:04.000
But he was also like, I could run a marathon tomorrow.
00:53:16.000
But I think the real test was that Tom was going to try to roller skate a marathon faster than I could run it.
00:53:30.000
But what do you think would have happened on the roller skating part of it?
00:53:42.000
LA Marathon was uphill downtown, but once you got past the store, you would have been hauling fucking ass down La Cienega.
00:53:53.000
Yeah, a couple of roller skating people reached out to me.
00:54:10.000
I get it from people that have been doing it for years and also like, what is that, the roller derby people?
00:54:21.000
Yeah, but if you had to ski for five hours straight without going up lift hills, going up the lifts, Up the hills, if you just skied only on your feet for five hours, I bet you'd be hurting.
00:54:35.000
Yeah, my feet are always hurting after a day of skiing.
00:54:38.000
Like, Jesus, because you're always like, ah, ah!
00:54:49.000
And then I pulled up and you were like, I don't think it's broken.
00:55:05.000
Give one more reason to fuck with the people at TSA. You're going to be fucking unbearable.
00:55:19.000
I'm like, I had my dick cut and your fucking stupid thing that the head of this company decided we need to buy points out that I got a vasectomy.
00:55:43.000
Wait, so I want to ask you one thing about your challenge.
00:56:07.000
It would, guys, I'm telling you, you're not going to do it.
00:56:13.000
It would make your lives, you'd be happier and you wouldn't know why.
00:56:17.000
No, I've been off Twitter pretty much, and I'm exponentially happy.
00:56:50.000
So today of your life, you have a family, you have two kids.
00:56:53.000
I started morning radio at 5 in the morning until 11. I'm going to piss.
00:56:56.000
So while you're on morning radio, you're not using it?
00:56:58.000
No, I was using it entirely to look up who I was talking to, where I was at.
00:57:02.000
But while you're on there, you're not doing it?
00:57:14.000
I was doing press for the Body Shots World Tour.
00:57:46.000
Are there totally days I'm totally off my phone?
00:57:50.000
I'll record stuff and post it, but I don't read comments and stuff.
00:58:02.000
Dude, my whole thing's about I only use stuff to promote tour dates.
00:58:21.000
How are we going to fucking switch him over to fucking hip-hop dance?
00:58:26.000
It starts with me thinking I have better dexterity than that.
00:58:43.000
We're checking our amount of usage online on our phones.
00:58:50.000
By the way, this time could be spent reading a book or doing something.
00:59:07.000
I get your board, but there's a far better way to spend your time than six hours of those days.
00:59:16.000
I'm sitting on this bus with a fucking thousand movies you can choose from, and I do this all the time, where I roll through, like, I'm going to watch a movie, which is like a normal thing to kill an hour and a half, two hours.
00:59:29.000
I'm going to spend that time doing this, right?
00:59:31.000
Looking at emails, looking at social media, looking at YouTube videos.
00:59:35.000
If I'm saying that you can knock off easily two hours...
00:59:39.000
And there'd be two hours spent just mindlessly staring at something else that you wouldn't have a record of.
00:59:52.000
When you're bored and you're looking out a window on a tour bus, eventually, not in the first 10 minutes, but maybe between 10 minutes, 30, a minute, 40, your mind's like, fuck, we're so bored.
01:00:06.000
And you're just not even thinking about those times because you're on there.
01:00:21.000
Ari's is surprisingly high because he uses his...
01:00:28.000
Today was three hours and a half, but his seven day was 30 minutes a day.
01:00:44.000
That three hours and 35 minutes today would be...
01:00:53.000
Even when you said 30 minutes, I was like, how the fuck is that possible?
01:01:16.000
I love the one guy that doesn't have an iPhone is walking you through your iPhone.
01:01:33.000
In Joe's defense, he's got to interview new people all the time and I'm sure there's times he's like, tell me about that guy, dot, dot, dot.
01:01:41.000
I keep hearing in my defense, in my defense, but I'm never in my offense where I'm like, that's too much.
01:01:47.000
You do do some work on your phone, but more than that, you fuck off.
01:01:52.000
I have every note transcribed in my phone, all my notes from my writing, my laptop, it's all on my phone.
01:02:04.000
It's not like it's going to be four hours and 35 minutes of productivity and 20 minutes of fucking off.
01:02:16.000
Where I can go, hey, tell me about dot dot dot what you Googled earlier.
01:02:33.000
That's a lot of time when you look at it, when you see that four hours.
01:02:36.000
A lot of waking time spent looking at a screen instead of your surroundings.
01:02:42.000
You're driving part of that, you're not using it.
01:02:46.000
It's me and it's you and then it's just some porn.
01:02:58.000
I was having a hard time with it, and now I'm back.
01:03:11.000
But that's the right year to buy, honestly, because that's a good keyboard.
01:03:15.000
Yeah, all the ones they got now are fucking horrible.
01:03:18.000
The problem is with that, you can't do the same things on Instagram.
01:03:21.000
You can't post stuff from your fucking computer.
01:03:30.000
No, I can't, but I blocked myself out of my account.
01:03:37.000
Yeah, but it does not make for a great Sober October challenge, in my opinion.
01:03:40.000
Just to watch people do nothing is not entertaining.
01:03:43.000
No, but he's saying that it would still get posted.
01:03:46.000
I'll buy you each a good, a camera, a legit, like...
01:03:51.000
The strength of this challenge is that people enjoy following along with it.
01:03:55.000
Okay, in terms of what we're doing, it's not our normal thing.
01:03:58.000
Rogan clearly is the working out, so he doesn't have to change his life that much.
01:04:04.000
It wouldn't be the worst for you to not have what you're already doing is promoting non-stop!
01:04:38.000
I like the idea of some sort of social media challenge, like staying off social media.
01:04:50.000
But Bert can go fuck himself with this hip-hop dance and shit.
01:04:54.000
I do have a hip-hop dance place right near my apartment that I could go to all the time.
01:05:00.000
Ari, do you think hip-hop dance would be a good one?
01:05:10.000
We'd have to get judges who don't know us at all.
01:05:23.000
You can't have a bad decision that causes a riot amongst our fans.
01:05:27.000
I feel like even if we don't do this, there was something so real about how good you said you're a better mover than him that I would love to see.
01:05:41.000
I feel like part of the month you have to do something with that.
01:05:52.000
Let's just put parameters on where Sober Tuber is going to be taking place.
01:06:04.000
Forget about any fitness, I'm already laying it down.
01:06:13.000
You know, that's how they wiped out most of South Americans.
01:06:18.000
The diseases you find there is what's going to have wiped out your people.
01:06:21.000
Graham Hancock says that at one point in time the Amazon jungle had 20 million people and thriving civilizations, beautiful cities, and that the Europeans, their dirty diseases...
01:06:37.000
Yeah, your dad was one of those settlers who found you to run away from a virus.
01:06:42.000
Your mom was down washing her laundry next to a Cayman alligator.
01:06:51.000
The Creek and the Cave, the Legion of Skanks are not doing their show at the Creek and the Cave anymore.
01:06:57.000
First of all, you guys coming to me on this is worse than Ainsling being coming to you about a comedy store.
01:07:10.000
No, they were trying to do it at the creek in the cave and the lady freaked out, right?
01:07:19.000
They'll use this as an excuse maybe or people will say that's the reason.
01:07:23.000
Wait, start from the beginning for someone who doesn't know what you're talking about.
01:07:26.000
Yeah, there's a lot of people who don't know what you're talking about.
01:07:29.000
They're legit people who fucking hold their own.
01:07:37.000
And they're hardcore guys, except when they come on this podcast and kind of puss out.
01:07:40.000
But like, they're hardcore guys for the most part.
01:07:52.000
Imagine Jackass in the heyday of Jackass and them all sitting here politely and not trying to fucking shave their heads in front of...
01:08:05.000
They're going to come up and do something crazy.
01:08:07.000
They just came here and had a good time with you?
01:08:15.000
They did a podcast with Milo Yiannopoulos, and Milo said they cucked out, so now Ari's running with the narrative.
01:08:21.000
Listen, so they booked Milo, and they're like, oh, we have this guy who's been fucking, whatever.
01:08:27.000
And then everyone started doing the thing where they attack the venue.
01:08:33.000
It's not enough that they can misanalyze the person Or say, I want nothing to do with that guy.
01:08:43.000
A woman who gave birth to tons of fucking great LGBA and fucking black performers, she's an issue because she's not stopping a performance from happening.
01:08:53.000
And then soon it'll be like, if you perform at that venue, then you're an asshole.
01:09:05.000
They have a lot more since I left college, but that's what I was told.
01:09:09.000
The problem is when you look at LGBT, which is like the accepted use of those letters, when you add the A in the end, we were like...
01:09:19.000
And Finn Taylor does a great joke where it's like they're included, but the reality is the asexuals hate the other ones.
01:09:27.000
A lot of lesbians are not really excited about transgender men, or transgender women, rather.
01:09:33.000
There's TERFs, you know, trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
01:09:37.000
I'm busy fucking living my life and trying to fucking dominate.
01:09:43.000
Damn, I didn't know you were trying to dominate.
01:09:53.000
A lot of comedians started trying to show how they were woke enough, and they were like, I don't think you should do it.
01:09:58.000
Very publicly, quit putting Rebecca in this position.
01:10:01.000
Because Milo Yiannopoulos was going to be in that place.
01:10:04.000
Here's how you can tell someone is a fucking white knight virtue signaler.
01:10:07.000
When they don't go to you saying, hey, Tom, I'm calling you on the phone.
01:10:13.000
So if I'm tweeting at you, I'll just write, at Tom Segura, don't do this.
01:10:19.000
If I really want a virtue signal, I'll go dot at Tom Segura or hey at Tom Segura.
01:10:26.000
Anytime anybody sees, if you're listening, you see somebody not start with the at.
01:10:34.000
Unless they're saying something positive, they just want everybody to see it.
01:10:41.000
You don't want to say, Steve Simone's new album.
01:10:43.000
Hey, R.A. Shafir, I loved your new Netflix special.
01:10:54.000
Your Jew buddy Milo, he's gonna appear on the show.
01:10:59.000
All these comics, all these people start saying, I will never go to the creek again.
01:11:06.000
He's Jewish and he's also married to a gay man who's black.
01:11:20.000
They started going to war with these fucking Virtue Signaler comics.
01:11:24.000
And then at some point, Rebecca, I talked to her a bunch.
01:11:29.000
And I'm like, Rebecca, what you do is you stand by your comics.
01:11:42.000
Then Milo's people said, oh guys, you put out the time and date of where I'm going to be.
01:11:56.000
And consider her name as the Creek in the Cave.
01:12:07.000
I didn't watch the whole thing, but the part with you and Milo pouring booze, it was pretty funny.
01:12:11.000
The next time somebody calls Milo a Nazi and me a Nazi sympathizer, they say, it's my face.
01:12:15.000
Maybe I'm just weird because I just saw my dad speak at the memorial, but I'm like, if you're going to tell me the people who took his father and say you need to say goodbye to your son...
01:12:26.000
And son, you've got to take care of the family now and watch the rest of your family fucking disappear and death is the same as that political analyst.
01:12:37.000
It's so derogatory and offensive in a way that I'm not okay with it.
01:12:41.000
So you can say that away from me, but if you say it to me, I'm going to...
01:12:44.000
There's a lot of Brooklyn comics that were saying that.
01:12:47.000
There's not enough of those guys that are getting smacked.
01:13:02.000
He pushes buttons, and he does so in the age of the internet.
01:13:09.000
The thing that they got him on, which is where it all got really weird, was essentially him saying that it should be okay what happened to him when he was molested.
01:13:24.000
And this priest, he would joke around and say that he was the one who pursued the priest.
01:13:37.000
It was talking about that on my show, and then talking about it on this other show.
01:13:45.000
The point is, anybody who says, like, you shouldn't be allowed to put...
01:13:50.000
That's what they're saying, but that's what it was.
01:13:52.000
But it was really just his harsh critiques of liberals and feminists that were so biting.
01:13:58.000
And then, you know, he actually did a podcast with Jordan Peterson recently where he talked about...
01:14:06.000
But from Jordan's explanation, it's like he's understanding now as he's getting older that, yeah, he was a victim of this thing.
01:14:19.000
Giving this guy like a pass that he did it to him almost.
01:14:25.000
Anyway, the Creek of the Cave is a great place for young comics in New York.
01:14:32.000
It's like they bring together young comics and give them places to perform.
01:14:35.000
It is what the comedy store was if you take away the 12 plus year comics.
01:14:48.000
I walked in on a skank fest and I walked past Ari throwing piss on somebody and I walked downstairs to a room full of people with their shirts off Chanting...
01:15:11.000
Yeah, that's where you opened up the Tupperware.
01:15:14.000
He took his shit in a Tupperware and then opened it up in the room.
01:15:37.000
I'll just shit into it and see whatever happened.
01:15:42.000
Sometimes when you shit and it smells awful and you realize you've shit so much that it's broken water and it's rising like...
01:16:10.000
Dog shit, once it gets in between your toes, smells worse.
01:16:20.000
I thought you were going to do a thing on dog hydration.
01:16:30.000
The real problem with dogs is the amount of water in their shit.
01:16:33.000
If you can dehydrate your dog, it'll be nearly as bad.
01:16:43.000
You know, you're walking in a city, and sometimes you see shit, and then if you smell it, if you smell it, it's like a fucking 90% chance that's human shit.
01:16:54.000
Oh, dude, that's what they told me in Hong Kong.
01:16:56.000
They're like, listen, if you see, hold on, not every mainlander from mainland China shits in malls, but if you see shit in a mall, that's a mainlander.
01:17:15.000
So, okay, so you're walking through the mall and you see human shit on the ground.
01:17:20.000
Chinese tourists are an underrated worst tourist in the world.
01:17:26.000
When they're saying to Trump, we're going to hold our tourism back, all the fucking travelers are like, please keep them there.
01:17:34.000
So they just, some folks who live in rural China, is that what you're saying?
01:17:40.000
They have these shorts, these wide shorts, with a cut down the middle.
01:17:46.000
But when you squat, so you don't have to fucking lift your shorts out, it comes out and then just shit away, bro.
01:18:20.000
I had to put up signs asking Chinese tourists to not poop on the grounds.
01:18:29.000
How did Chinese replace Americans as the worst tourists in the world?
01:18:55.000
If you're listening, it's all Asians, technically.
01:18:58.000
If you're listening, Ari did say everything to me.
01:19:01.000
Chinese tourists are by far the worst tourists.
01:19:03.000
Next is, I don't know how to say this, Israel and Russians tied.
01:19:15.000
And they have fucking inflicted them into the world like, go learn on their turf.
01:19:22.000
Can they get out of the army and they think they can fucking go nuts?
01:19:25.000
I don't know, but people don't like Israeli tourists.
01:19:33.000
No, Americans are not celebrated in a lot of parts where you travel to, man.
01:19:43.000
And the ones who travel are not the fucking fat rednecks to Texas.
01:19:47.000
We're the ones who've gone and gone to the world.
01:19:53.000
I'm just saying there's plenty of obnoxious Americans traveling.
01:20:08.000
Like, for you to think that other people are going to be like, oh, yeah, you just got to take a shit.
01:20:14.000
Dude, I've been where it's like, I got to piss in public at other things.
01:20:41.000
So if you were to confront somebody right after you're like, what the fuck did you just do?
01:20:46.000
The way they would confront you is like, what, you just got in your car?
01:20:51.000
Do you think that it's where their living is so overrun with people?
01:20:56.000
That they just shit anywhere and they don't think that anybody has an impact on the environment?
01:21:00.000
Well, now you're asking me to speak to an expert, and I will.
01:21:03.000
Even though I'm not one, but this is all my interpretation.
01:21:06.000
And yeah, I think they have no expectation of privacy because they're so fucking on top of each other.
01:21:18.000
But I'm saying, on the mainland, you know, China's over a billion people.
01:21:22.000
So you have a lot of, like, really poor, uneducated rural parts.
01:21:27.000
And, like, saying that somebody in that area does this, I'd be like, yeah.
01:21:30.000
Are you saying that, like, even somebody that lives in Beijing or Shanghai who has a job?
01:21:40.000
But if you see shit in a mall, it is a mainlander.
01:21:58.000
Now, what's funny is when you're in Macau, which is obviously a big casino kind of tourist destination, all the people there, they eyeball immediately who's like a mainland Chinese person, you know?
01:22:12.000
Well, that's a different type of thing where if somebody's like, you see dudes in Macau in like Versace shades and like Fendi and Gucci and like, I mean, crazy outfits and you're like, God!
01:22:28.000
And they'll be like, that's just a mainland dude who knew money.
01:22:44.000
You know how like England they got those guys that are like the Oasis who are like tracksuits and all that like this?
01:22:52.000
And then you got the old posh money who's like, all right.
01:23:14.000
You do the accent without saying the words, okay?
01:23:38.000
Have you ever heard the samurai speaking Sasquatch footage?
01:23:45.000
One of the dumbest things that Duncan and I did when we were doing that show.
01:23:54.000
And one of the things that we did when we studied Bigfoot was talk to a Bigfoot expert that was playing us some audio.
01:23:58.000
And some of the audio, it sounds like a samurai.
01:24:04.000
And the guy was claiming that this was like a secret recording of Bigfoot.
01:24:09.000
It was the dumbest fucking thing I'd ever heard in my life.
01:24:11.000
Did anything, by the way, in your conspiracy theories and what you challenge, was there anything that you ended up going, oh, that's not dumb?
01:24:26.000
Morgellons disease is a disease where people...
01:24:30.000
But you're saying something you didn't even think about before.
01:24:31.000
Yeah, I thought it was bullshit before because I had read that it was bullshit.
01:24:34.000
And what I read was that the people would think that they had things growing out of their skin so they'd be scratching themselves and they would add fibers to their skin and take pictures of it and say, look, I've got things growing out of my skin.
01:24:49.000
But then talking to a doctor who had Morgellons who explained to me that there's some sort of neurotoxic effect of Lyme disease.
01:24:58.000
And that everyone who has Morgellons also has Lyme disease.
01:25:01.000
And he was a legitimate doctor and a very smart guy.
01:25:05.000
And he was essentially saying that mainstream science in its rush to...
01:25:21.000
But you're gonna get us kicked off of YouTube with your dick out.
01:25:35.000
There's a bunch of pathogens that come with Lyme disease.
01:25:45.000
It's a dirty tick that has a bunch of fucking horrible...
01:25:53.000
You get a bullseye looking red mark around the area and the area hurts.
01:26:01.000
And then you start experiencing terrible symptoms like flu-like symptoms.
01:26:11.000
He wanted to brush his teeth and he couldn't go back and forth.
01:26:14.000
My friend's kid got Bell's palsy where his face went numb.
01:26:18.000
I had a teacher that had Bell's palsy in high school and they kept him out and then he came back.
01:26:26.000
No, but he came back while he still had the face paralysis.
01:26:32.000
We had a student a year older than me at Bell's Palsy and we mocked them relentlessly like we should have.
01:26:44.000
He was on stage and his face started going on him and he had to hold his cheek over to finish his jokes.
01:26:49.000
Then he called his brother-in-law and he goes, I think I'm having a stroke.
01:26:54.000
The next morning, his face was numb and drooped, and his brother-in-law goes, go to the fucking doctor right now.
01:27:15.000
Dude, I think about Bell's Palsy every fucking morning.
01:27:30.000
On the left I thought he was doing a Stallone impression.
01:27:35.000
He got it when he was young and sometimes it doesn't go away.
01:27:38.000
And so he wrote, so we're at about three moths.
01:27:46.000
Well, if you don't know how to spell, it doesn't help.
01:27:58.000
He spent like three weeks in his sister's basement just being like, it's never going to come back.
01:28:04.000
He tried to do a show, and he said everyone was just staring at him like this.
01:28:21.000
Wait, so why do you think about this every morning?
01:28:23.000
Dude, especially when I'm getting ready for a special, I think like...
01:28:30.000
The morning of my special, the secret time, I woke up and I smiled and I went, I beat Bell's Palsy.
01:28:41.000
Jesus Christ, how am I involved in this conversation?
01:28:44.000
I can't believe I'm involved in this conversation.
01:28:47.000
Bell palsy, you know what else I forget I think of?
01:28:58.000
Everyone got it at one point, and I just was like, don't give me all the hair.
01:29:15.000
Yeah, Mike Tyson had a weird circle in his head for a while.
01:29:21.000
Wait, you said you were going to dominate earlier.
01:29:33.000
Oh, you have time to dominate because you're not on your phone.
01:29:39.000
I can masturbate multiple times a day instead of just once like you guys.
01:29:47.000
Honestly, guys, it might not be this year about the fucking social media addiction and stuff.
01:29:54.000
Are you going to take that rock out of your dick home?
01:30:12.000
They pulled a straw out of one of those sea turtles' noses and they used it to fix my dick.
01:30:18.000
You know that straw video with the sea turtle's nose?
01:30:24.000
It's the reason why they don't have plastic straws.
01:30:26.000
If you're like, why the fuck do we have plastic cups to lids?
01:30:35.000
The reason why is because there's a fucking video of a turtle.
01:30:39.000
I don't know if this is the main reason, but it is for a lot of people.
01:30:50.000
I've got to tell you, it is so much harder to watch things happen to animals than to people.
01:31:01.000
How do we not know this wasn't a night of cocaine gone wrong?
01:31:10.000
So they realized that the straw was stuck, and apparently this is not...
01:31:36.000
It looks like Jim Norton's going, no, don't do it.
01:31:45.000
I would bite it with my face and I would pull it out with my neck.
01:32:13.000
How did they get the sea turtle on the boat to notice it in the first place?
01:32:35.000
They're going to take that out and they're going to stick it in Ari's dick hole to fix his...
01:32:43.000
They should recycle it and use that to open up your dick pipe.
01:32:47.000
They take that rock out, that calcified dick rock, make a nice ring for the little lady.
01:32:56.000
You connect your dick pipe with the actual tube that they pulled out of that turtle's nose.
01:33:00.000
Throw some diamonds in there, too, but you're good.
01:33:24.000
Remember we're gonna put all those jokes on the side of your car?
01:33:30.000
Dude, I just don't have a car, so it's tough, but a rental car.
01:33:33.000
I would be in on getting you a car, if it could say all that.
01:33:36.000
We're gonna rent you a Corvette and put a wrap on it.
01:33:40.000
Yeah, we'll put a sober October wrap on that bitch.
01:34:18.000
How'd you get poison ivy on your camping trip with Bobby?
01:34:37.000
Why'd the guy next to you start coughing suddenly?
01:34:39.000
Isn't that a fucked up thing about diseases too?
01:34:45.000
I did a meet and greet in Spokane and I'm doing it and the next guy rips his shirt off, puts his arm around me and he is burning on fire.
01:35:00.000
And he's like, yeah man, sorry, I think you're going to get it too.
01:35:13.000
And then he'd probably be like, hey, do you mind if we kiss?
01:35:18.000
Remember the other night we were talking, I was drunk and I was talking about how my inner dialogue is, you think I'm weak?
01:35:25.000
So one of the ones is when guys go, hey man, it's always like big Italian guys, picture you kissing me on the cheek.
01:35:33.000
Because I might hear my brain go, you think I'm fucking weak?
01:35:44.000
You run into a lot of weird people out there in that world.
01:35:51.000
What if we just shot Botox in your face for a month?
01:35:56.000
I knew a lady who shot too much and it affected her eyelid.
01:36:05.000
You get to the wrong doctor and they're like, yeah, one more shot.
01:36:09.000
During the Me Too movement, I always smile at women just to make sure I'm not having Bell's palsy.
01:36:14.000
Imagine if your nose is running and you didn't even know it's a consequence and it's all numb.
01:36:26.000
We're going to all get Botox so we can't move our face.
01:36:28.000
So you have to do your act like Joan Rivers with a frozen expression.
01:36:35.000
We're going to really start doing shit with our voices.
01:37:00.000
The best is when he told Flavor Flav, you look like a skeleton with duct tape wrapped around it.
01:37:19.000
There would be some fun of when you start getting a move down.
01:37:25.000
So wait, it should be something that we can do on the road, because we're all going to be on the road.
01:37:32.000
I'm telling you this, it might not be this year, and it might not be next year, but eventually you guys will come into my idea of mental health.
01:37:43.000
I'm saying Joe's saying this, obviously there's a conversation we had, I don't know if you want to share this, but he was saying, we were backstage and he was like, it's not bad to do another one of these halfway in.
01:37:52.000
So if you want to do another, do like, I'm cool with anything we decide.
01:38:05.000
I just think it should be hip-hop dancing and we should do it twice a year.
01:38:26.000
Can you do this where you touch your hands behind your back?
01:38:47.000
Show me how to do a split first and then I'll show you if I can do a split.
01:38:49.000
Listen, I don't want to get a muscle pull so I'll go down as far as I can go without warming up.
01:38:57.000
Why don't you guys just save time and touch dicks now?
01:39:10.000
His dick is about that far off the ground, and I think if he didn't have jeans on, the gravity would take his dick all the way to the ground.
01:39:26.000
So now, if I was at the end of yoga class, I could definitely hit a full split.
01:39:32.000
And you want me to go all the way down like you did?
01:39:50.000
This is the exact conversation we had all month last October.
01:40:01.000
I'm definitely charging every one of you motherfuckers, just like I did last year.
01:40:04.000
You can't follow up one of the shittiest all-time specials of all time with something even shittier.
01:40:12.000
No, whatever we decide to do, I'm still going full tilt.
01:40:19.000
No, last year he was awful, and he's gonna come back strong.
01:40:22.000
But he was saying he's going to come after us like he did last year.
01:40:30.000
I was saying, I'm not going to not talk shit this year.
01:40:38.000
But that's why when I do it, it'll be so effective.
01:40:48.000
Acknowledge that I have the Mickey Mantle gene.
01:41:04.000
He goes to talk about the people who died of disease and stuff like that.
01:41:07.000
A lot of people and I wanted to yell out, they didn't have the Mickey Mantle gene.
01:41:13.000
I did a date, I don't know, recently, and it was with the promoters that you work with now, and so you work with like one promoter.
01:41:29.000
He's got more than one promoter is what he's trying to say.
01:41:33.000
It's like a single guy when you're like, yeah, we were hanging out with your girlfriend.
01:41:38.000
He's got this one guy with the girlfriend chart.
01:41:54.000
Bert, I guess I'm the one promoter you work with.
01:41:57.000
Hey, Bert, I just want to tell you, I heard Tom talking about the promoters and it made me proud that I'm your promoter.
01:42:11.000
I mean, you wouldn't be that hurtful that you would be referring to someone else as your promoter.
01:42:22.000
They brought up the gene, and they were like, I've done a bunch of dates with him, and I tried to hang out, but...
01:42:30.000
A couple days, they're like, I can't do it, man.
01:42:34.000
Very few people can keep up with my pace on the road.
01:42:39.000
I don't know if I can keep up, but don't try to.
01:42:46.000
I don't know, it's just, I don't even notice I'm doing it.
01:43:10.000
I was thinking it might be a fun idea, the amount of time on a board.
01:43:31.000
You live near New York and you live near LA? They have Long Beach, but you're going to be on the road.
01:43:56.000
And then the beat breaks, and you go into something else, and you learn how to flip in this month.
01:44:16.000
There's no way they're going to be able to do splits in...
01:44:28.000
You really didn't think you could do a split, though?
01:44:31.000
I mean, to split, a grown-up doing a split is tough.
01:44:41.000
Can you sit crisscross applesauce and your legs don't hurt?
01:44:54.000
I'm pulling my feet up so that I can push down with my hips.
01:44:58.000
How come the one toe says no to you and the other toes say yes?
01:45:09.000
If I spread my feet out like that, and I'm lifting my toes up instead of pointing them down, I'm doing that so I can lean in with my crotch so you stretch the abductor-adductor muscle.
01:45:28.000
This guy breaks his hip every time he fucking gets out of the shower.
01:45:36.000
He won't be able to do anything with that hand for like a year.
01:45:38.000
They say I can squeeze a ball at about 19 months.
01:45:44.000
Okay, so on this side, it's a bone here, chipped off, and just free-falling.
01:45:50.000
And the other one on here, they have a push-in break that they only see in young children.
01:45:57.000
I told him I eat a lot of gummy-related products, and he goes, that might be...
01:46:00.000
That could, for sure, that could be part of it.
01:46:06.000
How come they only see it usually in one children, in young children?
01:46:09.000
They have unformed, their bones aren't just developing.
01:46:13.000
You eat so much sugar, your bones don't form right.
01:46:31.000
What would be the challenge if we had a ski challenge?
01:46:34.000
I guess it was how much you guys could eat my dust.
01:46:46.000
Ari is fearless, and he can go down anything, but it looks disgusting.
01:46:57.000
He snowplows the entire time, just like pizza pie, like this.
01:47:20.000
So what have you broken an ankle and a wrist in the last two years?
01:47:53.000
I really think that the direction I'm going in with hip hop dance is the right direction.
01:47:57.000
Because, Joe, it puts you out of our playing field.
01:48:04.000
I don't like that it's something someone's already done.
01:48:06.000
That's why even if I did this, I would have to go further.
01:48:08.000
Here's the only thing I don't like about the Hip Hop Dance Challenge.
01:48:16.000
I feel like we already know how it's going to go.
01:48:40.000
Psycho over here would fucking do, he'd log like 2,100 miles.
01:48:47.000
Yeah, and then he weighs a fucking buck 35, so halfway through the month he'd be like, you know, I can actually do 10 at a fucking chop now.
01:49:00.000
And then Ari would get mad at me for doing steroids.
01:49:12.000
He said he won a So Rocked Over contest because he was on steroids.
01:49:19.000
I said, this next comic is so funny, he recently won a fitness challenge by cheating on steroids with his friends.
01:49:29.000
I remember being with Ari when he realized you were using steroids in the car and he goes...
01:49:34.000
Not steroids, testosterone replacement therapy.
01:49:41.000
If I actually used steroids, it would be even more ridiculous.
01:49:44.000
Hey, by the way, what are you, a fucking chick?
01:49:57.000
How about least amount of time spent with your kids?
01:50:13.000
And I don't mind the fitness hip-hop challenge.
01:50:16.000
It would be a good weight loss thing, just the same as yoga was, like a ridiculous...
01:50:30.000
And it's probably a lot because of the booze, too, and whatever else I do.
01:50:38.000
I'll tell you another component you mentioned earlier.
01:50:43.000
Maybe 12-day stretch at the end of the weight loss challenge was nothing but water.
01:50:47.000
And that makes you feel fucking amazing after a minute.
01:50:51.000
Because we were doing the weight loss battle, and I just didn't drink anything but water for almost two weeks.
01:51:06.000
See, I was making a joke about my right arm just puts shit in my body that I don't want it to do.
01:51:14.000
He's just like, I go, what the fuck are you doing, asshole?
01:51:17.000
Yeah, Diet Coke, Coke, orange juice, anything but water, right?
01:51:25.000
For me, I mean, I can get by on a lot of combination of coffee and water.
01:51:30.000
Yeah, I could just do coffee and water and be fine.
01:51:33.000
Yeah, I mean, I still will have some other things, but I don't do it a lot.
01:51:36.000
But when you just do water, though, when you just drink water, you definitely...
01:51:56.000
I'm telling you, not this year, next year, whatever.
01:51:58.000
When you do get off your phones, you're going to have those same withdrawal symptoms.
01:52:07.000
We were texting about some bullshit, and then I was like, ah, I'm hopping on Twitter.
01:52:10.000
And I got on Twitter, and it became my life right again.
01:52:45.000
If you've got a big fucking fat lip of dip, you're letting people know.
01:52:52.000
Zach Galifianakis used to go on stage at the Improv with a dip in his mouth.
01:52:59.000
I swear to God, he'd go on with a big dip in his mouth and just spit.
01:53:02.000
Did he tell the people that he dipped in his mouth?
01:53:41.000
Zach Galifianakis had a joke that to this day I think is just a great joke.
01:53:44.000
You know it's time to do laundry when you get out of the shower and dry off with a shoe.
01:53:53.000
Yeah, one that I'll never forget where he was doing crab work.
01:54:13.000
Well, Zach's was like touching and sweet and funny, and it was like everything you'd want at a memorial.
01:54:21.000
Because everybody was so kind of, you know, sad and tense and emotional.
01:54:29.000
Brody's, Brody's, all Brody's high school friends had gone up, like seven of them.
01:54:34.000
And then friends from baseball, like telling all these, like so there was, you know, you see Zach, and then like three of these friends, and then another comic, and then like three of these friends.
01:54:43.000
And then Jeff just went up and he goes, you know, after hearing so many of Brody's high school friends come up and speak about him, I know I killed himself.
01:54:58.000
He had to wait like 30 seconds to talk because everybody just fucking fell out of their seats.
01:55:27.000
Honestly, what you're going to see, Joe, is you're going to see an onslaught of people online going, Joe, hip-hop dancing is not a bad idea.
01:55:39.000
Let me see you pop and lock your way out to the door.
01:55:53.000
So, it should be something that none of us are happy with.
01:56:00.000
I think the fun thing about Subur October, when we first did it, was that we were all miserable together.
01:56:07.000
Joe wasn't so miserable, but me, you, and Tom would all just commiserate.
01:56:13.000
And I didn't like the weird dreams that I was having when I was going through THC withdrawals when my REM sleep was kicking in.
01:56:22.000
That's when I realized that THC definitely suppresses REM sleep.
01:56:40.000
Crazy podcast, but he talked about it, the mechanism, what THC does.
01:56:46.000
It helps people go to sleep, but there's certain parts of the sleep that you're not getting.
01:56:50.000
Now, there's an argument that not getting that sleep is okay.
01:56:57.000
That you're getting plenty of sleep because the reason why THC puts you in that dream, you're recovering.
01:57:03.000
There's an argument that somebody made online that I don't know if it's correct.
01:57:12.000
Whatever kind of sleep that came from the THC. Let's see who can sleep the most in October.
01:57:29.000
So I'll get a prescription for 30 for a year and I won't use them.
01:57:32.000
He told you never to take them, so I'd take 30 in a year.
01:57:36.000
He gave me a prescription for 30. Oh, but you didn't use it at all?
01:57:42.000
And you know what's so funny is they do melt your brain.
01:57:47.000
I remember morning radio, like old school morning radio, when you go in, you have to be on to go to the next subject and slide your joke in.
01:57:55.000
And you remember leaving going, God damn it, I'm sharp.
01:57:57.000
Take a Xanax, and that doesn't happen for two days.
01:58:03.000
I noticed it because I was taking them and I just stopped and I was like, oh, I'm a lot sharper, just fucking nothing.
01:58:09.000
So like if you would go on stage and have to ad-lib something, you just wouldn't have it in you?
01:58:13.000
First time I ever took one, I got on a plane thinking, because I used to have a drink on the plane and start writing jokes.
01:58:17.000
I took a Xanax and, oh, these are going to flow out of me.
01:58:20.000
And I just sat there staring at the paper, going like, my brain's turned off.
01:58:37.000
I'm in love with Lambs Armstrong's fucking coffee.
01:58:46.000
That's the fucking greatest coffee I've ever had.
01:58:55.000
I didn't know it had an R in there until like a week ago.
01:59:01.000
Can I combine the mornings to just get coffee and take off?
01:59:08.000
There's so many times I want to come over here and just do bench press.
01:59:13.000
Joe says that, and then every once in a while...
01:59:18.000
And then someone will be like, can I get every single one this year?
01:59:26.000
I've had people that say, hey man, I want to come to the UFC. I go, yeah, sure.
01:59:32.000
Just ask for eight fucking tickets to a sold-out fight?
01:59:45.000
During a podcast, the security guys, they work out.
01:59:50.000
It's like watching Alien here where you're like, where are they in the ship?
02:00:24.000
Like one of them gun ranges where the fucking paper comes at you.
02:00:51.000
Yeah, Reggie and I are going to do it, and then we're going to do a podcast afterwards.
02:01:29.000
And it was so unbelievable that he got a prolonged standing ovation on a fucking 10-minute set.
02:01:38.000
Do you know how crazy your 10-minute set has to be?
02:01:42.000
Dude, he was just improvising songs on the spot, and then he would do that thing where he would make a certain sound, and then with the machine you'd tap it, and it loops, and then start building it, and he would do that.
02:01:55.000
And then he would just have a funny aside about something, and then take it back.
02:01:58.000
But the songs he was building in the moment were so...
02:02:09.000
You see it and you go, there's something about musicians that when you can see a certain musician, you don't view a comedian where you go like, oh my fucking God, I cannot believe the level of talent of that person.
02:02:22.000
You might think they're really funny or laugh a lot, but you're not going to be like, I've never seen something like that.
02:02:31.000
I saw him stand everybody up at Bonnaroo, a place where everybody was bombing.
02:02:47.000
If he's not talking to you, you're also like, now you're standing up and doing whatever.
02:02:52.000
I talked to somebody that went on a tour with him around that time and it was like four of them a night doing like ten cities together and I was like, what order did you guys pick?
02:03:07.000
You never want to follow someone who's really good at music.
02:03:14.000
They used to have a problem with that with middle acts.
02:03:18.000
That was one of the things that happened with...
02:03:24.000
Mitch Hedberg was on the road, and the middle act was a guy who was doing raps.
02:03:29.000
He had raps and songs and things he would sing, and he was crushing.
02:03:33.000
And then Hedberg would go on afterwards, and Hedberg's super deadpan.
02:03:42.000
Or you ever have a middle act in a club who just stayed a middle act but for like 15 years but became super proficient doing 20 minutes and you're like, this is fucking thunder.
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And it would be like a guy who's like, you know, he became an older guy.
02:04:13.000
Roy Johnson was a monster on stage in Tampa, and you could not fucking follow that guy.
02:04:29.000
Sam Tripoli and him had beef because they did a show together.
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And there was a secret shopper in the audience.
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He used to hire secret shoppers to rate the comedians.
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They think, like, I'm better than the headliner.
02:04:51.000
And you're like, I can't disagree with you 100%.
02:04:54.000
Well, here's another thing though, but when you're keyed into that, like when you get in and on Thursday you see that, it definitely raises your game for the whole weekend.
02:05:06.000
How the fuck did he quit and start selling cars if he's that funny?
02:05:10.000
What is he going to do for a hundred bucks a set?
02:05:12.000
But he probably, if I remember right, probably didn't start at like 20 or 22. I think he was a little older.
02:05:27.000
I'm friends with Roy, but no, I think that it was the thing that you get addicted to murdering.
02:05:35.000
And you don't go like, I'm going to go up and take chances because I want to blow the headliner offstage.
02:05:39.000
Now, I'm not shitting on Roy, but he just destroyed.
02:05:42.000
But I don't think he ever took the chance where he was like, I'm going to go up and bomb tonight and see if I can figure something out.
02:05:47.000
I think that's ultimately what happens to the features.
02:05:53.000
I had one I remember who, he's the story of the guy who was headlining in those clubs for like a decade or more.
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Didn't like break out, break out, but obviously he was like a proficient comedian.
02:06:08.000
Then, like, you know, it always has, like, somebody has, like, personal stuff happen, and then it's, like, family stuff, and, you know, for whatever reason, then they're, like, still in it, but now they've been doing it, like, 25 years, and then just needed the work, so it would take middle weeks.
02:06:27.000
Guys who really knew how to crush, especially they knew local references.
02:06:30.000
And then they're just like, and they've been doing it for, imagine 25 years and they're like, just do 20 and do it for like 10 weeks in a row.
02:06:38.000
They don't even care if you're like tired of your material.
02:06:47.000
They'd do 15, 20 a night and then they would do it like three, four of them in a row and then bring up Billy Crystal.
02:06:55.000
Billy Crystal ate shit at Nick's Comedy Stop that way.
02:07:18.000
And then these poor bastards would come in from out of town.
02:07:21.000
And these guys would talk in all this Boston talk.
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Hey, yeah, I'm just gonna fuck around in Boston.
02:07:38.000
I'll just go down there, and I don't really have an act right now.
02:07:41.000
I'm just piecing it together, but I'll be fine.
02:07:43.000
And then you watch Gavin smash, and Sweeney smash, and the fucking room is falling apart.
02:07:49.000
And you see these poor guys, like, the look in their eye, knowing they were going to certain death.
02:07:54.000
Nothing worse than following a crossover black act.
02:07:59.000
Like a black guy who can play to white audiences, where you just go up and you're young, you're like 32. Feels racist.
02:08:10.000
I don't know if it is, but I'm still listening.
02:08:22.000
Do you think the hardest act to follow would be like BT? Oh, BT was an impossible follow-up.
02:08:29.000
Okay, hardest act to follow, me and my Stacey always do this, but also the place.
02:08:32.000
So just to give you an example of what I'm talking about, following Mike Marino at a fucking cop convention.
02:08:41.000
I'm going to tell you the hardest weekend I've ever had in my entire fucking life.
02:08:48.000
No, I don't because I always saw him fucking...
02:08:50.000
He's one of those guys that could just at least kill.
02:09:00.000
And they give me a call and they say, we need to bring in another comic who's already in town to help you sell tickets.
02:09:10.000
These fucking mushrooms are far stronger than I thought they were.
02:09:25.000
I mean, you're pissing at the table, you're taking the fucking socks off.
02:09:36.000
There's another comic in town, and he's going to co-headline with you.
02:09:40.000
But the problem is, he's already brought his own feature.
02:09:49.000
So we've cut the host, so we got your feature, his feature, him, then you.
02:10:02.000
The host is going to do 15. The feature is going to do 15. He's going to do 40. You're going to do 40. Right?
02:10:13.000
And imagine how hard this guy was to follow, especially in Miami, where everyone's Spanish-speaking.
02:10:17.000
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Ricky Cruz, DJ Coochie, Steve Travino, and Burt Kreicher.
02:10:26.000
Dude, I bombed harder than I've ever bombed in my life.
02:10:29.000
I mean, sweat dripping off my chin, onto my shirt.
02:10:35.000
I bailed on that whole set and I brought a black guy on stage and I brought a Cuban guy on stage.
02:10:48.000
But I go, I said to him, I go, I'm going to just, I go, your people don't understand me, so I'll say the joke and you translate it to your people.
02:10:57.000
So I go, I was talking to this girl and the black guy goes, man, I'll spin game at this bitch.
02:11:08.000
And it fucking destroyed my whole act that way.
02:11:10.000
Whenever I had a joke, I'd have them translate it.
02:11:14.000
Sat on my stage for 35 minutes and drank tequila with me.
02:11:27.000
Remember that set you had where you bombed and you played it for everybody?
02:11:42.000
Tom's the best bomb you've ever sat in the back of a room with.
02:12:00.000
When I was there, I was like, this is a good spot.
02:12:07.000
And you bomb on the early show, and you can't believe how hard you just bombed.
02:12:35.000
By the way, before you tell your opening joke, Tom is great with feeling uncomfortable in a moment and taking it to the next level.
02:12:44.000
The one thing they say is do not mention negative shit about the Hawaiians.
02:12:52.000
I didn't know they were talking about your metabolisms.
02:13:10.000
Oh my god, you got me for a fucking fraction of a second.
02:13:25.000
Dude, the Sacramento bomb was the month after Hurricane Katrina.
02:13:34.000
I don't remember the wording of it, but it was like how there were reports of people raping.
02:13:44.000
I was like, I opened, I was just like, you know, nothing like seeing dead bodies float by that makes me want to fuck somebody, you know?
02:13:50.000
And then I just kind of like, would riff about like, you know, dead people and then being like, now I want to fuck.
02:13:59.000
And then I would go, you know, you have that thing, you're like, well, I'll just go to my act now.
02:14:03.000
It was already too late, and I would bomb for the full...
02:14:10.000
The second show, you were like, I know there's something to this.
02:14:17.000
Nothing like seeing a dead person on a TV floating by that wants to be going to fuck.
02:14:32.000
The bomb feels so bad, and you're sweating so hard, and you're like, man, this is emotionally just taxing, right?
02:14:41.000
She goes, I thought you were supposed to be funny.
02:14:48.000
She's like, you're supposed to do 25. You did 23. And I was like, ah, fucking, alright.
02:14:56.000
Then the second show literally is worse in an inconceivable way.
02:15:12.000
I eat it so hard that I'm middling, and the MC's like, damn, dude, you fucking suck.
02:15:23.000
Yeah, he was just like, god damn, I've never seen anything like that.
02:15:33.000
And then the next day, I was like, I don't know how I'm going to do this, man.
02:15:35.000
And Bert goes, can I give you one piece of advice?
02:15:41.000
Just do whatever you want, but just open on a different joke.
02:15:45.000
And at the time, I swear to you, that fucking first show, Saturday, Probably the best set that I've ever had.
02:16:03.000
I mean, like, the MC is like, Jesus, I've never seen a turnaround like that.
02:16:07.000
I'm like, this feels like I... I walk around and I see her.
02:16:19.000
She kept coming up to me going, you said he was funny.
02:16:23.000
The best part about his bomb was Tom used to have longer hair.
02:16:27.000
The amount of weight I lost during the sweating?
02:16:29.000
He used to have longer hair and he'd comb it back so it would be up, right?
02:16:45.000
That feeling when you're eating shit, it's not like anything else on earth.
02:16:48.000
I remember that he was up on stage, and somebody yelled at him, like some lady, and he's like, well, you're a fucking dog.
02:17:11.000
God made your mouth for one thing and it's not talking.
02:17:22.000
I would love to hear a feminist in the audience who say that now.
02:17:48.000
No, it wasn't enough that would have sent you to the moon.
02:17:52.000
But, like, my palms are sweaty and I'm fucking out of it.
02:18:08.000
It's either techno, hip-hop challenge, or folks.
02:18:16.000
No, but it's not fun to watch someone do nothing.
02:18:24.000
Since when is it about anybody else other than us?
02:18:42.000
Don't use Instagram challenges watching a holding your breath challenge.
02:18:49.000
Well, Bert, everyone doesn't have to be in on every goddamn thing you do every day.
02:19:19.000
Everyone shut the fuck up, Dad's got a girlfriend.
02:19:21.000
And you're just trying to stream and provide for the family.
02:19:25.000
They don't realize I've leveraged their futures for our income right now.
02:19:34.000
Yeah, my kids do not like that I've talked that much about them.
02:19:56.000
I go, what if people come up to him in the mall and they say, hey, your dad was talking about you.
02:20:04.000
I would call George on the phone on stage the other day, and everyone's yelling, and they're like, no, I'm George, you're the smart one.
02:20:24.000
Like, most things are fine for most of the world.
02:20:26.000
It's just a small percentage of people that are just wired all fucked up.
02:20:42.000
Can you just pull up one hip-hop dancer so we can look at it?
02:20:52.000
Go to Stance Elements and watch some of these guys do it.
02:21:31.000
Anything that doesn't require you to lose weight, I'm not in.
02:21:43.000
Imagine how much funnier it'll be when you do it, though, because you're fat.
02:22:00.000
I could get my body to move that way if someone taught me and I spent the required amount of time.
02:22:08.000
Do you think in one month you could be better than all of us?
02:22:31.000
Tell me a challenge that you think is fair for all of us.
02:22:38.000
Because that place like that is right near my apartment.
02:22:41.000
I walk by on the way home from not working out and I look through the window at them doing crazy dances like that.
02:22:48.000
No matter what this challenge would be, I'm crazy.
02:23:08.000
You didn't get it with the weight loss challenge.
02:23:10.000
By the way, Tommy, you should get a weight loss challenge belt.
02:23:20.000
We need a weight loss challenge belt for Tommy.
02:23:32.000
Don't they give you like a button or something when you win a marathon?
02:23:41.000
They give you one of them erasers that go on top of a pencil that nobody ever uses.
02:23:48.000
Like as if pencils are so crazy and you use up that eraser.
02:24:09.000
No one's going to be there to cheer anybody and queer the judges.
02:24:28.000
So just us, and then get actual judges who don't know us to decide.
02:24:36.000
I think you just got to say, give us an alternative.
02:24:40.000
Let's come up with something where we don't need judges.
02:24:51.000
Because it just hands the power over to this group of people.
02:25:00.000
I'm not trying to add two hip-hop dance judges.
02:25:07.000
I like Ari's idea, no social media for a year, except I have an empire to run.
02:25:17.000
No, you'd have to give your password to an assistant.
02:25:24.000
Why don't we each fuck Jamie and see he judges who's the best?
02:25:32.000
Judges is a real thing, but I think we're in the right direction with hip-hop dance.
02:25:41.000
If you lose again, there should be a real penalty for you.
02:25:48.000
Yeah, you'd put us into this in the first place.
02:25:54.000
If you come in last, you give us, spread it out collectively, a million dollars.
02:26:12.000
You're not going to lose if those are the stakes.
02:26:30.000
But Bert, do you understand that this is strange?
02:26:32.000
That you keep failing at these things, and yet you keep bragging every time we get together and contemplate a challenge.
02:26:38.000
I've had so much success when it comes to you guys that I think sometimes you guys forget about it.
02:26:53.000
The bus that I was on this week is better than any bus.
02:26:56.000
That's not when the tour bus championship was going on.
02:27:05.000
Did you ever take a picture of your bus and put it online?
02:27:08.000
Yeah, and you had it fucking photoshopped a hundred times.
02:27:15.000
The inside of your bus that looked like a prison yard.
02:27:26.000
I want you to pause for a second and imagine a world where the thing that you're bragging about when you've been called out for failing two challenges in a row, hard as fuck, that the first thing you're talking about is the shape of the bus that you drive around in.
02:27:58.000
I'm Leonardo DiCaprio at the front of the fucking Titanic!
02:28:06.000
What are the repercussions for you fucking pussing out?
02:28:12.000
One of the reasons why I have this right here is because I read about you saying that you were going to put it on your mantelpiece.
02:28:22.000
Joe, can you entertain a circumstance in which you think Burt could beat you?
02:28:40.000
I'd have to have some form of lymphoma or something.
02:29:03.000
Bert, there was days where I was like, man, I'm tired.
02:29:24.000
And also, you do need some repercussions for fucking blowing it back.
02:29:28.000
Let's not forget I'm the only one that ran a marathon.
02:29:33.000
But it doesn't seem like you are willing to face reality.
02:29:38.000
Well, reality is Ari Shafir didn't work out at all.
02:29:41.000
And even though you did run a marathon, Ari Shafir didn't work out at all!
02:29:57.000
How are you talking shit to Ari when Ari didn't work out for 10 years?
02:30:03.000
I'm the only one that came in with a challenge other than get off our fucking phone.
02:30:11.000
Did you ever see the video of him on my fucking rowing machine?
02:30:40.000
Tugging on Joe's tiger's tail is a big mistake.
02:30:42.000
Ari was massively surprising and Tom was a fair, fair competitor.
02:30:45.000
Now, I will say, I am just giving up ideas of what to do next October.
02:30:51.000
And I believe that Ari's idea was, I think, us not doing something is not fun to follow if you are a fan of the podcast.
02:31:00.000
Us not doing it, like, hey guys, let's sleep, wouldn't be really fun.
02:31:04.000
It would be how many hours of hip-hop dancing we put in.
02:31:07.000
There we go, now we're talking about something.
02:31:17.000
Let's do some dance that sucked when it was invented.
02:31:33.000
The easiest thing to do is something that you don't need a lot to take with you.
02:31:42.000
I do like running, but I don't want to be the one sitting here promoting running.
02:31:48.000
The only thing that's great about running is that if we did do it for the whole total miles of the month, it would get savage.
02:32:11.000
Well, I think it's physically possible to do a marathon a day.
02:32:16.000
Well, it would be way easier for me than for you.
02:32:19.000
Once again, I'm too drunk to even talk shit anymore.
02:32:23.000
By the way, when he said that, you looked at me like you're like, I'm going to do that.
02:32:33.000
It's not healthy for you to keep living in this world that you've created.
02:32:40.000
The drinking along with this proclamation of awesomeness.
02:32:56.000
But the thing is, you need to be punished if you lose.
02:33:05.000
There's a whole table full of whiskey over there.
02:33:11.000
If everyone agrees on running, I'm in on running.
02:33:18.000
What are we going to wear to track our, so that everybody has the same thing, to track their miles?
02:33:22.000
Well, you could wear the rock shoe or you could just get an Apple watch.
02:33:26.000
That way we could use our watch only for phone calls and then talk and do it if you ever send text messages and that'll do Ari's challenge at the same time.
02:33:36.000
So it'll eliminate our need for social media for the month.
02:33:41.000
We'll do as many miles as we can for the month.
02:33:45.000
The whole thing would be how many miles can you run in a month?
02:33:49.000
I'm going to tell you, I'm going to open up the first day with 30. 30?
02:34:12.000
We all have to track the miles with the same app.
02:34:22.000
You have to agree no growth hormone, no testosterone.
02:34:32.000
But you should get off high blood pressure medication before you get on anything.
02:34:44.000
You got all the way down to like 212 or something like that.
02:34:48.000
What did you guys weigh at the beginning of that first year challenge?
02:34:59.000
Don't act like I'm Devolt tossing a picture and showed it.
02:35:01.000
It was such a fucking disgusting picture of Bert.
02:35:03.000
And Bert goes, it was a shellfish reaction in Denmark.
02:35:13.000
I think we all have to track the miles the same way.
02:35:16.000
Is there going to be a stipulation that these miles can only be tracked outdoors on pavement?
02:35:23.000
Yes, because if you're on a treadmill, if it's GPS, the treadmill's not going to show anything on GPS. It has to be movement.
02:35:36.000
There's a nap I saw recently that tracks walking.
02:35:39.000
You know, it takes a lot longer to walk a mile than to run a mile.
02:35:45.000
Because, you know, if you're tired and you're running and you want to walk for a mile, that's fine.
02:36:08.000
Yes, there was like a little scandal where he died in this hot tub.
02:36:17.000
So he would just walk around trying to sling dick?
02:36:39.000
But that wasn't initially the report about that.
02:37:19.000
This was about a year ago when the stand was still open.
02:37:27.000
I started running and eventually I was out of steam.
02:37:30.000
And when I stopped, I was at 16th Street, not yet to 3rd Avenue.
02:37:40.000
I'm not enjoying the idea of going into this and just starting to run a fucking show.
02:37:44.000
You know how last year you got into a fucking zone?
02:37:56.000
When you said I got to go hunting, I'm offline for a second.
02:38:00.000
Yeah, I had to go hunting for, but I shot an elk on the second day.
02:38:05.000
Would we have been a little more, like, you think it would have been a little easier on us if you had hunted for five days?
02:38:19.000
When you're hiking, man, your heart rate gets jacked the fuck up.
02:38:22.000
When you came back from hunting, you did more than that, is what I'm saying.
02:38:26.000
Guys, can you just put yourself a thousand in a day on one day?
02:38:30.000
One day, I did 900, and then I came in here and worked out for another hour after I was done.
02:38:42.000
You're going to wake up, and you go, fuck, I have to just run a bunch now.
02:38:47.000
Oh, and Christina's like, let's hang out and make omelets.
02:39:02.000
I mean, probably first, but maybe second if something spectacular happens with Joe.
02:39:12.000
I should definitely do that, but before you do that, you should definitely lose some weight.
02:39:28.000
When you're over there, you definitely won't drink.
02:39:30.000
I mean, they don't even like drinking in Australia.
02:39:39.000
Maybe you're not doing this fucking cut-up coke we're doing tonight, but you're for sure drinking.
02:39:43.000
Yeah, you're going to have to do shoeys over there.
02:39:45.000
You're going to have to drink beer out of shoes.
02:39:46.000
Do you ever see me do the shoey on TV? I don't even want to know you did that.
02:40:00.000
You're letting him talk into his own thing again.
02:40:03.000
By the way, I'm the only one that came up with an idea that was fun.
02:40:12.000
I do like it in terms of none of us have any experience with that.
02:40:23.000
You're going to bring in these people and you're going to go, The reason why I thought Burt won...
02:40:32.000
Bert came from a different starting point, so I gave him extra points for that.
02:40:41.000
If you're going to win, it's going to be, you have to win.
02:40:44.000
You're scared of actually having to win something.
02:40:45.000
If we do the straight up running thing, Bert wins for sure.
02:40:52.000
I love that you have a direct line into my brain where you can see what gets my heart rate.
02:41:15.000
I came in here today thinking I was going to tell you guys I'm out.
02:41:26.000
You guys doing mushrooms for the show might have been the fucking best way to start this show.
02:41:37.000
It makes you realize what you really like about mushrooms.
02:41:41.000
Are we going to do a gig together, the four of us?
02:41:48.000
I fly back in November, November 4th, and I'm in New York all week.
02:42:21.000
If we decide, like the four of us decided to do a destination.
02:42:28.000
I was just thinking Vegas, but that's not really a destination.
02:42:33.000
We should do some shit that you don't normally hit on a tour, like somewhere in Wyoming.
02:42:54.000
I had Ed Calderon on the podcast the other day.
02:43:01.000
He was describing the whole cartel wars and how it all went down.
02:43:06.000
And it all was happening right when he signed up to be a cop, and he basically became a paramilitary operator.
02:43:12.000
Like, Jesus, just trying to fucking deal with shit that was going down the border.
02:43:17.000
I'm trying to space it out so it doesn't crumple up.
02:43:23.000
Are we talking about a destination just for us to hang out for the weekend?
02:43:53.000
And I got November 3rd off as my only weekend off from stand-up all fall.
02:44:00.000
And by the way, we could just do a comedy clip, too.
02:44:07.000
We could charge a normal amount of bird charges, usually.
02:44:21.000
I've never charged for a meet and greet in my entire life.
02:44:42.000
What we have time now is we don't have to agree to something dumb just because it's like, oh, fucking time is running out of the podcast.
02:44:48.000
Running, hip-hop dancing, and obviously my idea of you guys are for sure fighting.
02:44:56.000
I'm going to leave this right here for every show I do from now on.
02:45:14.000
Can you add an add-on that shows a bunch of pills on the side?
02:45:28.000
Listen, I'm well aware of the training that needs to go into this if we do running.
02:45:32.000
I personally think something sillier would benefit us, but I'm cool with whatever you guys pick.
02:45:37.000
Yeah, because you're happy coming in last with no consequences.
02:45:41.000
Are you saying you'll win either way no matter what it is?
02:46:16.000
If Las Vegas will open the action on this this year, which we might be able to get them to do, I know I'm betting on you.
02:46:36.000
On that fucking bullshit fucking running machine you gave me.
02:46:45.000
The good thing is that's going to get you in shape for the real running that you have to do when you come in last.
02:47:01.000
You're kind of doing the opposite thing as him.
02:47:04.000
Because Ari and I have done jiu-jitsu together.
02:47:08.000
When you're fighting for your life, which is what you're doing when you're doing jiu-jitsu, you know what a guy's got inside of him.
02:47:16.000
But fighting for your life and running is a little different.
02:47:20.000
That's why I knew he was going to come in second.
02:47:22.000
I knew he was going to come in second when we did this Sober October thing.
02:47:41.000
I feel like the only thing that's not settled is what is...
02:48:09.000
The idea that you just said, I'm Conor McGregor.
02:48:11.000
When Conor McGregor knocked out Jose Aldo with one punch.
02:48:13.000
If Conor McGregor was going to pick one person on this podcast to get behind, who do you think it would be?
02:48:31.000
If there was an audience, he would get them all going about how it's you, and then when it's like, press the button to vote, right then he would go, Joe.
02:48:46.000
If he's talking about your showmanship, he likes you.
02:48:48.000
Do you think he would lose money just because he likes that you get drunk?
02:48:54.000
He loses money because he loves that you brag and then fall down and then you love to get drunk.
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This is the sound of a man who doesn't think with his liver.
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But I'm saying, let's say, let's start with you.
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I can't even wrap my head around coming in last.
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He's looking forward to coming in last in front of a fireplace.
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Dude, this, whatever's wrong with me, whatever got me into comedy, all the things that are wrong with me, this is the base of it right here.
02:49:50.000
Because I believe, I genuinely I genuinely believe in myself in this moment.
02:50:05.000
And I think you also know on some level you're coming forth in anything.
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I don't know if I'm coming forth, but I'll tell you, I'll be very honest.
02:50:13.000
As much as I believe in myself, I know there's something wrong with Joe.
02:50:17.000
I know that Ari has this fucking Lou Gehrig's disease.
02:50:27.000
And I know that Tom is going to call me on the last day and go, Hey, you're done running, right?
02:50:31.000
You're not going to throw me under the bus on this one.
02:50:52.000
Kid's laughing and he's like, we're hosting a thing.
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I was like, I still, on some part of my mind, doesn't believe you.
02:51:06.000
He still put up good numbers that day, but I did go like, I couldn't do it.
02:51:18.000
What I loved about it is that we were seeing everybody's numbers.
02:51:23.000
It's like, can't we start slow and have like a, alright, you did five miles, call it for the day.
02:51:35.000
I'm going to give you the cards in my hand right now.
02:51:42.000
And I know that Joe's first day of running 26 miles is going to put him back for a couple days.
02:52:01.000
If we make it, if that's the agreement, I'm going to get down to 180 pounds.
02:52:16.000
Yeah, I'm going to lose 20 pounds, and I'm going to run...
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I'm going to start off with 10. I'll do 10 every other day.
02:52:23.000
And then by the time October ramps around, I'll be doing a marathon a day.
02:52:33.000
I'm going to have to show Burt what the fuck is up.
02:52:40.000
If he cuts it last, I'm going to block his number.
02:52:56.000
What I'm saying is, if I come in last this year and there's all these fucking repercussions, and then he came in last and had nothing wrong with him, it's super unfair.
02:53:20.000
Dude, why don't you just give us each 300 grand and it's settled.
02:53:28.000
Can I just say that I'm going to be in Columbus next weekend, so you may as well come out and see me at the Funny Bone.
02:53:35.000
Yeah, but don't do shrooms when you come to see my show.
02:53:43.000
It's not as good as the Met July 27th in Philly.
02:53:55.000
AriShafir.com All of them will be announced tomorrow.
02:54:03.000
Oh, there's still 100 tickets left for Chicago this weekend, too.
02:54:09.000
Dude, Rogan and I were in Chicago eating salads, and they were like, this is fucking super sweet, this salad.
02:54:15.000
And then we asked some lady, we're like, because we couldn't believe it.
02:54:18.000
And we're like, did you put sugar on this salad?
02:54:24.000
And we looked around, the thinnest person looked like Bert.
02:54:56.000
Yeah, explain to people the difference between a small 100-seat room to a 5, 6, 13,000-seat room.
02:55:03.000
It's the same material you're going to put on a special.
02:55:05.000
So when you deliver it to 6,000 people, realize you're delivering it to one person on the couch.
02:55:13.000
Do you find yourself talking louder or stuff like that?
02:55:18.000
But I don't think it would translate correctly if you're at home.
02:55:24.000
Like, I did my last one at the Wilbur, which is pretty tight.
02:55:27.000
It's like three comedy clubs stacked on top of each other.
02:55:34.000
I think that's how you're supposed to do comedy at a special.
02:55:40.000
And I've been saying this, I don't see if you agree with me.
02:55:43.000
I think that a special is only at its best, like, maybe 80% of what it's like to actually be in the room.
02:55:51.000
Because you miss the feeling of being in the crowd.
02:55:54.000
I try to get my shoots, and I haven't ever gotten as close as possible to a lot of experience.
02:55:59.000
But you can see a show at a Mexican restaurant on a Tuesday with a bunch of amateurs, and you'll laugh harder than watching any of our specials alone in your apartment.
02:56:08.000
Yeah, comedy, being there live is really what makes it.
02:56:13.000
I think a lot of comics mess up and they do their special for The Room.
02:56:20.000
You say that though, but Cat Williams, the best part of his special was the 10 minutes he did on Tallahassee or Jacksonville.
02:56:30.000
By the way, I'm a big fucking Cat Williams fan.
02:56:35.000
We talked about that, about doing it not for the room.
02:56:38.000
You don't shoot a special for fucking Jacksonville.
02:56:43.000
You guys especially are doing these massive, massive rooms, but then when people are going to see your special, almost all of them are watching in a really tiny room.
02:57:02.000
I'm at least a year away from even thinking about it.
02:57:05.000
I think the most important thing about doing a special is doing it at a place that has not seen you do stand-up.
02:57:14.000
I would find that to be a mistake because you're there all the time.
02:57:16.000
You've been working this material in front of those people.
02:57:20.000
Well, I get it on the level of like some of the jokes are surprise ending and they kind of like know what's going there.
02:57:26.000
You don't want to do a special for people that have seen this material ever.
02:57:29.000
You want those people to never have seen this material the same way the people that are home never seen it.
02:57:38.000
A lot of your mega fans are going to show up and go, dude, I just saw him like six months ago.
02:57:43.000
Well, what's interesting about the store right now is that you get comedy tourism there, where you're getting a lot of people that come to visit the store from all over the world.
02:57:52.000
I met some dudes there just the other day from England and Ireland.
02:58:00.000
But the few things I have in my head is I like a rock venue and I like a place I haven't done this material in front of.
02:58:17.000
In Cleveland, are you going to keep your shirt on?
02:58:20.000
I'll be super skinny after this marathon challenge.
02:58:39.000
When Ari's around and you open up a kombucha, you instinctively smell it first.
02:58:47.000
Dude, I could do an entire podcast on specials, because I feel like I'm obsessed with the good ones, like what makes a great special.
02:58:58.000
Jesselnik's first joke, the best joke I've heard.
02:59:00.000
I like those first jokes that come out really strong.
02:59:05.000
Anyone who says hi, any of that bullshit, fucking walk to the stage like Jesselnik or like Norm Macdonald and tell a fucking joke.
02:59:54.000
We're going to end this podcast with no conclusion.
02:59:56.000
Because otherwise we'll be just going to fight with Jack Stevens.
03:00:20.000
If you guys ever wanted an excuse to do mushrooms, there's a mushroom festival happening in just two weeks.
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All you gotta do is take mushrooms wherever you are.
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It's called Shroom Fest and fucking join in by taking mushrooms.
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Yeah, talk to me again in fucking late October.