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00:15:50.000The problem with bears is, too, once they get a spot where they know they can get food, or they can get water, or they can get something, they're going to come back to that spot.
00:19:40.000Still, they're small compared to some of the animals they compete with for food, but a wolverine has no problem standing up to wolves or a bear when a meal is on the line.
00:20:11.000They eat hares and rodents as well as larger animals like caribou that are weak or ill, but will also scavenge from any carcass they can get their claws on.
00:21:46.000But I hear about that and I wonder how many of those people, including the peacock lady, are doing it just for attention because they know that people talk about it.
00:21:54.000I think people that have, like I saw this girl in San Diego, La Jolla.
00:22:00.000She came to the restaurant with her micro pig.
00:23:36.000I read this book by this pool hustler.
00:23:40.000It was McGurdy, Life of a Billiard Hustler, I think it was.
00:23:44.000It's a really interesting book because it was about a guy who survived by traveling around on trains like a hobo, gambling, playing pool and billiards in the Depression.
00:23:56.000But during the Depression, he was talking about almost starving to death.
00:23:59.000Like, they would knock on people's door and beg for food.
00:24:02.000And, you know, people would just come out with a plate of food and give it to them.
00:24:05.000Like, everybody was, like, on the edge.
00:24:14.000You know, with looking at these homeless folks, and, like, for the most part, My opinion is you're looking at people probably have an undiagnosed or untreated mental illness.
00:24:25.000I don't know what the number is, but I would think it's a lot.
00:24:27.000And then there's also people that make mistakes down on their leg.
00:24:30.000And then people that, you know, had terrible childhoods, horrible abuse, sexual abuse, violence, the evil parents, you know, parents die, leave them alone, foster care, all that kind of shit.
00:26:39.000And then the more you take, the worse it gets.
00:26:43.000Yeah, tolerances are real for everything, I assume.
00:26:46.000I mean, they even have tolerances for snake venom.
00:26:50.000One of the things that snake handlers do, they'll give themselves a little bit of venom every day to make themselves immune to snake venom.
00:26:56.000Your body's an amazing, adaptable thing, which is why vaccines work.
00:27:00.000That's why these crazy fucks who don't want us to have vaccines, like, listen...
00:27:05.000We've got to be real careful with claiming expertise on this shit.
00:27:10.000We've got to be real careful with getting fucked over by pharmaceutical companies.
00:27:13.000We've got to be real careful of that, too.
00:27:15.000But we've also got to be real careful of not listening to these doctors and researchers that are struggling to find the ways to cure these horrible infectious diseases.
00:27:25.000Because they've got a lot of them nailed through vaccines.
00:28:12.000But just recognizing that over time, I've gotten to this point where I'm like, maybe I should just shut the fuck up about something that I don't actually know about and try to figure out what it is instead of saying what it is.
00:28:24.000What they do know is that vaccines have stopped the spread of a fucking bunch of awful diseases.
00:31:56.000When Jamie and I talked, and we've been talking about this forever, we wanted to get aloft in downtown, like up high, and start filming podcasts up there.
00:32:04.000Because I think that would be the coolest backdrop.
00:32:07.000For YouTube, you and me sitting here behind us, you're just all building.
00:38:10.000Isn't it funny how that moment when something you've never seen before, you see it, and it takes you a second to realize what it is, and then the word for what it is comes to your head right away.
00:38:23.000Like, you knew it was a coyote, even though you've never really seen a coyote before.
00:39:02.000And we saw it in the woods at one point in time.
00:39:05.000And then another one I saw in Santa Barbara in Montecito.
00:39:09.000Driving through a neighborhood I saw this animal run across the car in the front of the lights and I saw its tail and I was like, holy shit, that's a cat.
00:40:56.000And what's really crazy is the biggest company, the ones that's the most desirable, is a company that also makes computers and they make their own shit.
00:43:58.000I try to hold on to it for a minute, so I feel like they didn't rip me off, and then maybe three or two phones later, then I'll get the other one.
00:44:07.000But if I buy every phone, I feel like...
00:44:10.000I want to be a rebel within the rebel.
00:44:38.000It does everything, unless they come up with some new shit.
00:44:41.000But if someone said, hey, Ian, I'll give you a million dollars, but you gotta use that phone only for the rest of your life, would you say yes?
00:45:17.000Well, they admitted it, but they said they did it so that it would give you more battery life because your battery degrades over time, so they engineered it.
00:45:27.000They also must have understood that people were going to get frustrated with the fact that it slowed down considerably and it would give them an incentive to buy a new phone.
00:47:01.000I think they were playing football, like the soccer football, and then somebody picked up the ball and started running with it, and they started tackling each other.
00:52:17.000I told you a couple of while ago, they're adding three versus three basketball to the Olympics coming up, and the way that that game is played is so different than traditional basketball.
00:52:50.000And he went to Dagestan to watch Khabib Nurmagomedov, who's the UFC lightweight champion, who's a fucking animal, man.
00:52:57.000He's one of the rare, undefeated, top-of-the-food-chain fighters in MMA. They play a game of basketball in Dagestan where they don't dribble the ball at all.
00:53:07.000They just, like, wrestle each other to the ground.
00:53:09.000And they even choke each other and get each other in arm bars and shit.
00:53:32.000Part of what they filmed was he was in a wrestling match with this dude when they were trying to take a player out.
00:53:38.000So he grabs a hold of this dude, and when he grabs a hold of this dude, he drags him to the ground and gets him in a back, gets him in an arm bar, gets him in a rear naked choke.
00:54:51.000They just don't have access to a very good basketball and pump to keep it pumped up and their floor is probably not good to be dribbled on so they just figured out a better game to play instead of dealing with that fucked up ball in court.
00:55:01.000But that's a ridiculous way Jamie, these are world-class fighters.
00:56:49.000It was fun to play in the backyard because you can just get some sticks and stick them in the ground and then put one across the top as a wicket.
01:00:14.000And the athleticism's all over the place, too.
01:00:17.000You get a guy like Herschel Walker, and if you're in high school, and there's a Herschel Walker in high school, and he's on some team that you're opposing, good luck, fuckface.
01:00:27.000There's people that are just superior.
01:02:31.000And then they was like, alright, let him up and let's start again.
01:02:33.000And he got up and he just did it to the black dude again.
01:02:36.000And I was like, I'll never fuck with a cowboy.
01:02:38.000If a cowboy is a wrestler, if he knows how to wrestle too, both of those things, wrestlers are so goddamn strong, you don't realize until they grab you.
01:02:51.000And even if you can wrestle, I wasn't a good wrestler in high school, but I made it to the States And I remember when I was wrestling this kid who eventually became friends with, because he used to come to Nautilus Plus, which is a place where I was teaching Taekwondo.
01:03:08.000And we ran into each other when we were both like...
01:04:07.000I mean, just saying that in comparison because I admire them almost more than any other athlete because there's no professional venue for what they do.
01:04:15.000One of the more amazing things about wrestling is they go into it knowing...
01:04:34.000But then when you get to the top of the food chain, like a multiple-time world champion like Jordan Burroughs, he had a wrestling match with Ben Askren, and he just ran him over.
01:06:24.000He flatlined him in five seconds, made him the fastest ever KO in UFC history, and then mocked him afterwards and said he would smack him if he saw him at Whole Foods.
01:08:18.000But Wonderboy is a particularly difficult guy to fight, and especially for three rounds.
01:08:24.000Pettis recently knocked him out, but Pettis just hit him with a perfect punch, and that can happen to anybody, and Pettis timed it, and Pettis is a beast.
01:10:30.000So he had two fights at that weight, and that weight was torturous for him.
01:10:33.000He didn't make it for the Max Holloway fight.
01:10:36.000And then Jim Miller's definitely a 55-pound fight, and all the other ones are 55, until he got to Stephen Thompson, and that was the last one.
01:11:23.000So you had to drain your body in a sauna, and then everybody weighs, and then everybody rehydrates, and then the next day you play this grueling-ass game.
01:13:52.000Yeah, I've been fatigued, like, at soccer practice, and you just, like, you'll be wearing an opposing player's shirt, and just from fatigue, I'll just pass it to you.
01:14:03.000Just to not have to have the responsibility of this ball.
01:14:35.000I haven't chatted with him, but he thinks he broke his arm too.
01:14:38.000If you go to my friend Adam Greentree's Instagram, adam.greentree, he documented this hunt that he went in for a thing called a Himalayan tar that lives in New Zealand.
01:14:49.000And it lives in these alpine mountain areas.
01:15:17.000He filmed some of it but he was having a really hard time and then he had to get rescued and he had to go somewhere where the helicopter could land so they could winch him and carry him up and rescue him and take him to the hospital.
01:17:36.000I'm surprised bears don't attack humans just more often based on that.
01:17:40.000Like, how do they distinguish who's a hunter and who's not?
01:17:44.000They don't think of hunters as being something they should attack.
01:17:46.000They think they should get the fuck out of there.
01:17:48.000Because when they see guns go off and then a bullet hits a bear right next to them, that bear kind of explodes and screams in agony and falls to the ground.
01:17:57.000They just want to get the fuck out of there and not have it happen to them.
01:17:59.000So if they've seen that ever in their life, they've seen a bear get shot, which if you're in places where bears get hunted, it's very likely that they have seen that.
01:20:56.000So this guy, that Cecil guy, who shot that lion, he paid like $50,000 to go and hunt a lion.
01:21:04.000And it's probably one a day, two a day, three a day.
01:21:08.000So there's hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue coming in.
01:21:12.000This revenue comes in for these guys that want to kill lions and what they do is they use it to raise more lions and they use it to pay professional hunting.
01:21:20.000These people call professional hunters are basically game wardens to keep out poachers and to make sure that these animals don't get like rhinos don't get their horns chopped off and murdered just for their horns.
01:21:31.000Elephants for their tusks, things along those lines.
01:21:33.000So they need to hire people to protect against poaching because Look, in Africa, there's a lot of people that, especially in these areas where they have these hunting areas, these vast rural areas, people are extremely poor.
01:21:51.000It's not an ideal situation by any stretch of the imagination.
01:21:55.000But because no hunters are coming in now because of all the bad press after the cease of the lion shed, they had to kill 200 lions instead of murder them.
01:22:04.000Because that many got born and grew up in...
01:22:50.000On the other hand, these animals that are in there, particularly like the antelopes and black bucks and Neil guy and all these crazy wild fucking antlered creatures, they're in greater numbers than they've ever been.
01:23:10.000But then the numbers are high so people can hunt them.
01:23:13.000It's not like so that they can keep the whole wildlife ecology free and roam and look how vibrant Africa is now that we've stepped in with all these conservation dollars.
01:24:28.000There's a tribe, I don't know what part of Africa, but if a cheater or a cat hunts down an animal and kills it, these people from this tribe, they track the hunt,
01:24:44.000and then once the animal or the cat kills...
01:24:48.000The food, then they'll scare off the cat.
01:27:41.000Like when you feed a mouse to a snake or some shit like that.
01:27:44.000Well, it's even more wrong because it's holding in its hands.
01:27:47.000Dogs and cats that are currently vaccinated and kept under observation for 45 days...
01:27:54.000Oh, can you get rabies from eating squirrel?
01:27:56.000Small mammals such as squirrels, rats, mice, hamsters, kitty pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rabbits, and hares are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to cause rabies amongst humans in the United States.
01:30:44.000Yeah, there's been a lot of Reddit things where people are asking for like, have you ever been on Pimp My Ride?
01:30:49.000Tell us about your experience or whatever.
01:30:51.000I'm like, They did so much shit to those cars that would be like, hey, by the way, when this is over, go ahead and take half that shit out so you can legally drive it down the fucking freeway.
01:30:59.000Not every time, but some of the times they had to do that.
01:31:02.000If you had one of those cars now from Pimp My Ride, it would be a huge collector's item.
01:31:06.000It should be worth a lot of money if you still kept it.
01:31:10.000I think they started bringing it back, but...
01:31:20.000I definitely remember a couple of the guys said that they had to stay in contact with a few of the in-house mechanics because they had to keep getting something fixed.
01:32:17.000Shout out to Bud and Adrian, who was the host.
01:32:21.000They would take a car and they'd do it in a really short amount of time.
01:32:26.000And then after it was over, they would have to...
01:32:30.000Tighten it all up and when they do a build a car they have a shakedown period We're like they drive it for a few hundred miles to make sure there's nothing goes wrong Everything's working, right?
01:32:39.000It's like this period of time to make sure that everything's dialed in they don't get a chance to do that in a week, right?
01:32:46.000So that's probably what they're talking about.
01:33:50.000Who are in favor of, like, if you think about anytime someone passes a law that's bad for the environment, right?
01:34:00.000If they want to drill in Alaska, if they want to do something overseas, it's usually, I mean, it might be generalizing, but usually thought to be a right-wing thing.
01:36:16.000And those people that become cops, and it does happen, and we all know, and I'm a 100% supporter of law enforcement, but even law enforcement, they know it.
01:36:23.000They don't want to be surrounded by some weak fuck who's also a cop who wants to shoot people.
01:38:27.000I saw another one that Eddie Bravo sent me of a, it's not a cop one, but two dudes are having a conversation and this guy's got his hand behind the back.
01:38:35.000And he pulls a knife out of his pocket, and the guy doesn't even see, and he just, in the middle of the conversation, just sticks him in the stomach.
01:38:40.000And the guy's standing there, he moves back, and he's like holding his stomach, he can't believe it, and the guy comes towards him again, follows him, and the guy who got stabbed winds up knocking the dude out.
01:38:50.000The guy's coming towards him with the knife again, saying, I'll stab you again, and the guy hits him with the left hook and rocks him, and then hits him with the right hand and knocks him out.
01:40:33.000He was getting a similar surgery in that the Pneuma only happens in the U.S., but he was getting something done in Europe, so it was different.
01:40:42.000Well, they reached out to me to explain.
01:40:43.000First of all, the guy died from anesthesia.
01:40:46.000You could die from anesthesia from any operation.
01:40:48.000It had nothing to do with the penis enlargement operation, to use the more correct term, dick enlargement.
01:41:18.000Well, you're risking your life if you go to the dentist.
01:41:21.000Anytime you get put under, anything you're doing with anesthesia, there's a very small chance that something could go wrong.
01:41:29.000But it had nothing to do with this dick operation, so I just wanted to make sure that people know that if you look this up, I don't want any incorrect assumptions to be out there, and I carry no ill will towards these people that make this, and apparently it works.
01:41:44.000So I just want everybody to know that.
01:41:46.000Yeah, he's carrying no ill will towards his company that makes dicks bigger.
01:41:51.000Apparently, it actually, it's a weird thing, right?
01:41:54.000Like, for a man to do that, there's certain taboos that are involved in even admitting that you have an issue.
01:42:03.000Like, a little dick is a weird thing, right?
01:42:05.000Because it's one of the rare things that's unfortunate that you can make fun of.
01:47:01.000They were just deciding that these gypsy cab drivers, I think, this was, you know, boy, we're talking like probably like 1990s, 1992 or some shit like that.
01:47:11.000Like there was no internet and there was, I don't know if people were paying ever with credit cards.
01:47:38.000Like, I'm going to rob somebody that shouldn't be doing what they're doing for a living, so they can't really report to the police That I'm robbing you.
01:47:49.000Yeah, but they would shoot him and kill him.
01:47:50.000The thing is, they would just shoot him in the head.
01:47:52.000And the thing is, they would be considered...
01:48:19.000There was one – I found a story from New York Times, 1983. There was a weekend where 11 people were murdered, but this story just has the story of one guy that was found in the front seat of a gypsy cab, murdered.
01:48:28.000Could have been a shot, could have been a nice pic.
01:48:32.000It was definitely – well, I moved there.
01:48:35.000I think I moved to New York and – 91. I think I lived there from 91. I lived back and forth in 92. Here's a story from 1990. A sixth cabbie is slain in the Bronx, but it's New York Times.
01:50:15.000Everybody's just using their phone, standing out like the comedy store has become a fucking disaster trying to get in that parking lot now.
01:50:50.000There's a one-year pilot program, I think they're calling it, for Los Angeles County.
01:50:54.000That's why more and more have popped up.
01:50:55.000I think they're just sort of saying...
01:50:57.000We're going to do a year, figure it out.
01:50:59.000No one is going to be taken down for doing this, or like they were trying in Santa Monica to get rid of them for a minute, like the bird scooters and whatnot.
01:51:50.000You're supposed to be on the street with those.
01:51:52.000It says do not ride these on the sidewalk, but it is 100% not safe to be on the streets of L.A. on those because people are getting run over.
01:52:00.000I don't know if anybody's died, but downtown L.A., somebody driving 50 miles an hour ran over someone on a scooter.
01:52:08.000Why the fuck are you driving so fast downtown also?
01:55:27.000You would wake up, you'd eat breakfast.
01:55:29.000You'd just be sitting there staring out over the water, and the water would literally come almost underneath the balcony, so it looked like you were sitting in water, like you were floating in water, like you were on a boat.
01:55:41.000I was like, wow, this is so beautiful.
01:57:42.000It's more like they don't really happen in cities because the heat structure and it creates where the air pressure starts because it's a hot, cold air pressure system that kind of starts swirling.
01:57:53.000So because of the artificial concrete and all that stuff, that's why tornadoes almost protect the bubble.
01:57:58.000It does happen in cities from time to time, more like on the outskirts, but it's very rare to see one roll through a downtown.
01:58:04.000But does one ever go through Colorado?
01:59:28.000I mean, that might not have even been it, but it was one where there's probably so many fucking tornado videos, but it was one where these trucks were literally flying around in a circle like it was carrying this gigantic semi and just floating it in the air like a paper airplane.
02:00:15.000Because there's so many specials out there.
02:00:20.000And I get to do my material when I do it that way, but add a little twist and an extra layer to it, and that'll make people be more interested in it than if I was just going to do like just a regular stand-up.
02:01:13.000Because even when you look at your stand-up, you take on a topic, you dissect it, and you give people an alternate view of that topic, just like a TED Talk, and then you move on to the next one.
02:01:26.000So comics like you and me and other people, it's a perfect format for our stand-up.
02:01:33.000Yeah, are you doing that when you headline?
02:02:26.000Jamie, you don't know about any of that.
02:02:27.000I just remember a lot of ventriloquists and some people that were doing little prop things, but no one really had that truck full of fucking stuff.
02:02:35.000They'd be the comic that'd show up to the mic with a briefcase, and then afterwards he has to gather stuff like a stripper after his set.
02:03:24.000It's just all goofball shit, but he was funny, like, you know, and then pull it out, that's the trick, and just keep going on to the next goofy thing.
02:03:32.000There was a guy named Lenny Schultz, and he...
02:04:03.000It's a lot, too, about this fan that became his manager, and sort of he helped him and guided him along and apprenticed him a little bit, and just about the relationship and Pulled footage together.
02:08:24.000I started a joke, created it, and then broke it by overdoing stuff to it.
02:08:30.000And then I had to like figure out what part that I put in there that threw it off and take it out and fix it back.
02:08:38.000Well, it's always interesting to talk to someone that's really just a few years into comedy because then you've got to go over your own process and think about it more deeply.
02:08:46.000One of the things that happens in jiu-jitsu is in jiu-jitsu you get better when you teach.
02:09:22.000She was gonna come down and watch us she came to San Diego to watch when Tony and Andrew and I did that that giant arena down there because she's because she opens up for me all the time at the improv comedy store She's getting to be around all these assassins and she's getting to see it from the outside,
02:09:41.000but that was her first time Opening and I was like because she said she was gonna come down to watch I said you want to do a set and she's like I was secretly hoping you would ask I said alright come on come do a set So she opened, she did 10 minutes in front of, you know, it's like 1,200 people.
02:10:10.000Jesus Trio or like, you know, Frank Castillo or any of these guys coming up because you get a chance to talk to them about how you formulate stuff and you compare notes.
02:10:20.000And sometimes they have interesting ways that they do it that I never considered, you know?
02:10:24.000And sometimes people have interesting ways of thinking about their material.
02:10:28.000They think about it when they go walk their dog.
02:13:38.000Like, if someone told me Owen Smith was selling out arenas, I'd be like, good.
02:13:42.000Should have been happening a long time ago.
02:13:45.000And as much as Kevin Hart or fucking fill in the blank, whoever can sell out giant-ass places, Owen Smith's material is as good as it gets.
02:14:50.000I mean, I did a little bit, but not much.
02:14:53.000So, it's like things can be good, where it's like it's great to have a good gig, but those things can be bad because it ultimately takes you away from your stand-up.
02:15:02.000I mean, Louis C.K. said that to me once.
02:15:28.000Even if you don't do much in that day, and if you just write one line or one tag or something, it just counts so much towards the whole thing.
02:15:38.000And by the end of the year, where you end up is going to be way further than you would have been.
02:15:44.000I think it's not an even formula, though, because I do think that there's some value in taking some time and doing things as well.
02:18:23.000You take one old joke, go on stage, and there's some butter...
02:18:30.000But one thing is true for sure for me is that when someone like you is writing new stuff and that new stuff kills, like this past weekend, that makes me excited about writing new shit.
02:18:57.000I always see you go find new material, so it's always good.
02:19:01.000We both had new shit this weekend, and we're enthusiastic about it and excited about it, so it adds a different level to just going out to do a show that we would normally do.
02:19:13.000And then we get to talk about it afterwards with the excitement of how new the material is and how it's coming along.
02:21:27.000Yeah, that's one thing that if they do ever come out, I used to have a bit about that, if they ever come out with a pill, like a boner or a dick enlargement pill, if that actually works, it'd be 30 seconds later the first dude would die of an overdose.
02:21:52.000Yeah, I had a whole, there was a whole sequence where women would evolve because people would still have sex but the dicks would get bigger and the women would develop these flying squirrel pussies.
02:22:02.000They would just jump off cliffs to get away from dudes who were chasing after them with their big dicks and shopping carts.
02:24:35.000Yeah, fake lips is like, what am I supposed to do?
02:24:39.000Just pretend this is not happening in front of me right now?
02:24:41.000Well, it's also, it fucks with your, apparently we have an, when we see a certain person, when we see people's faces, we have an expectation to where things are going to be, based on where things are.
02:28:06.000He's got a giant gauge hole in the bottom and a medium gauge hole in the top and then big ones on his nostrils where his nostrils he has like the bottom hole where his nostrils are and then above the nostril he's got two huge holes where you can see the septum.
02:28:23.000He opened up the side of his nostrils.