On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Conor McGregor's recent loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov, how he got to where he is now, and the crazy amount of money he's making. We also talk about how he's going to go down in history as one of the greatest fighters of all time, and why he's probably the best at what he does. We also get into the crazy things he's been doing in the past, and how he might end up being the next big thing in the fight game. And we talk about why he should be the first black man to become a multimillionaire in the UFC, and what it means to him that he's able to do all of the things that he does, and that he doesn't have to go through the typical training and preparation that other fighters go through to get the job done. We finish the episode with some of our favorite moments from the past week, and look forward to what's in store for the future of the UFC and the UFC. Enjoy, and tweet us your thoughts! if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode. Timestamps: 0:00 - Who's the best MMA fighter of all-time? 5:30 - Conor McGregor 8:15 - Who is the best UFC fighter? 9:20 - Canelo Alvarez vs. Dana White vs. Conor McGregor? 11:00 12:00- Canelo vs. Donald Cerrone of the week? 16:00 Conor McGregor vs. 17:00 Canelo and Dana White? 18:00: What's the worst UFC fighter you've ever seen? 19:00 What do you think of a black guy you've seen? 21:40 - Who do you like? 22:10 - What's your favorite UFC fighter of the past decade? 25:00 Who is your favorite MMA fighter? 26:00 How do you feel about Conor McGregor s background? 27:00 Do you think he's the most underrated? 28:00 Is he a good human being? 29:00 Does he have the best chance of winning the next fight? 31:00 Should he have a chance of becoming a billionaire? 32:00 Will he ever stop fighting again? 33:00 Are you going to be a millionaire? 35:00 Why is he going to stop fighting in the next episode?
00:03:52.000The timing, the setup, the patience, the movement, the setting it up, looking for him to leap in, and BANG! Catching him when he's coming in.
00:03:59.000I'm pretty sure he said exactly what he said he was going to do right before the fight, too.
00:06:02.000But just the fact that they can do that, that they can get together and sing the same song, like thousands of them together singing the same song.
00:06:11.000I remember the first time when we went to Ireland, this House of Pain, and in between songs, they broke into the whole, you know, all the soccer chant stuff.
00:06:21.000And we were just like, whoa, this is crazy.
00:06:24.000You know, we never experienced anything like that.
00:06:26.000They don't do that at the sports events at home back then, not back then at all.
00:07:33.000Sometimes they would have them live and sometimes they would have the fights and you knew what happened, but you didn't get to see it for like a couple of weeks.
00:07:40.000They would delay it in North America for some strange reason.
00:08:12.000And then over time, because in Europe, before there was things like Fight Pass and things like that, you couldn't find a pay-per-view if you were stuck over there at 4 in the morning in the middle of somewhere.
00:08:21.000So you would lean on whatever you could as a fan.
00:08:24.000But you started seeing them shutting them down.
00:08:48.000I got the Fight Pass now, so everywhere I go, I got the Fight Pass and you have that little static IP address, so when you are out of the country, that's perfectly normal.
00:10:55.000If you're not prepared, if you don't think you're going to get punched and you relax for a minute and then you get punched by something you don't see coming, you can get fucked up.
00:11:02.000And when you're in a fight with a Greco-Roman wrestler of the caliber of DC who knows how to manipulate you, he just manipulated him perfectly into that right hand.
00:12:49.000It's like he fought really well in the first round, and then Bob Cook was yelling at him in the second round, keep your damn hands up.
00:12:57.000He was walking him down, almost disdainfully, walking him down.
00:13:02.000And I don't know if that was part of strategy to psychologically put up a lot of pressure on Stipe, you know, to try to establish that Stipe's done, that he's the champ now.
00:13:54.000Or he might want to do it one more time.
00:13:56.000But then there's always Jon Jones lurking, man.
00:14:00.000I feel like everybody knows that's the biggest rivalry in MMA. Isn't it?
00:14:08.000Yeah, I mean, the only thing, if you're going to talk about accolades of Cormier's, he has everything, all those championships, but there's that little asterisk on the light heavyweight belt that he never really got it from John.
00:14:23.000But that's the weird part about it, right?
00:14:24.000It's like when you're a champion, but the champion who's the real champion didn't lose it, and then they have an interim champion.
00:17:26.000That was at heavyweight in the PFL. It wasn't in the UFC. And then he comes back to the UFC. Comes back to the UFC as a light heavyweight and just...
00:20:56.000I don't know if it was 20 pounds, but I think it was, he was like 230 in this fight, and I think DC was 236. So DC came in light, too.
00:21:03.000He came in lighter than their first fight.
00:21:07.000But I think, you know, Stipe came in after like a whole year of waiting for this rematch, like trying to figure out if it's ever going to happen.
00:23:01.000I'm just saying percentage-wise, if you were to guess, what, about a third of the time you're looking at this and the rest of the time you're probably up here?
00:23:08.000Yeah, maybe less than a third on the monitors.
00:23:15.000You know, I want to see what's happening.
00:23:17.000But, like, if they're off to the side, like, pressed up against the cage, then I kind of have to go to the monitors because I need to see, like, I'm comparing it to an experience where I'm about a third of the time I feel like I'm looking at the screens.
00:23:32.000They're on the ground and I want to see what's going on with the arm that I can't see.
00:24:17.000I'm trying to figure out, do I just buy a ticket and go, or do I figure out how to, yo, any promoter out there that wants some jump around action?
00:28:33.000I had him on the podcast with Joey Diaz translating.
00:28:37.000It was amazing, man, to hear him tell his stories in Cuban.
00:28:41.000I just wish I spoke Spanish so I could understand it coming from his mouth, but having Joey translate it and talk about all the shit that he had to deal with coming up through the Cuban amateur system of wrestling.
00:32:40.000WWE doing merch and stuff like that because I see them putting shit together that's definitely got to be licensed.
00:32:48.000There's this whole subculture of wrestling and hip-hop going on right now too.
00:32:53.000Wrestling has definitely made its way into stand-up too now.
00:32:56.000They have this podcast, The Store Horseman, where they all just talk about pro wrestling, a bunch of comics, Tony Hinchcliffe and these comics.
00:35:53.000When I was a kid, it was Bob Backlund and Jimmy Superfly Snooker and Iron Sheik.
00:35:59.000I don't know if you could have really grown up in America as a little boy and not had a phase at some point where you interacted with one of these wrestling organizations, WCW or WWF, when I was growing up.
00:36:13.000And if you were one of those kids that's really into alt music and indie groups, you would go for some fucking Killer Kowalski shit.
00:36:22.000You would try to find some people that were off the beaten path.
00:36:26.000Do you know about this wrestling organization?
00:36:28.000Because there's a bunch of weird little tiny ones.
00:36:31.000Dude, when House of Pain was early on, but we were experiencing pretty good success, ECW had formed.
00:36:40.000The Crazy Extreme Championship Wrestling, I think that's what it's doing for, out of Philadelphia, and they invited us to a bunch.
00:36:46.000It was the first time I ever really, and I know it had happened before, but their whole show was about cats cutting their faces open and bleeding during matches and shit.
00:38:21.000Speaking of which, dude, last, I think it happened, I don't know if we talked about it, it might have been after the last time I was on, dude, so I'm on a trip, and I'm coming home literally about to get on the plane, and I get this text from my wife, like, um, I'm at the hospital, I got a,
00:39:32.000Like, this is the guitar on the fret hand.
00:39:36.000If I lost that part of that finger, I'm...
00:39:38.000It's going to take me four or five years to learn how to play with just these, at least.
00:39:43.000My friend Paul was closing a window, and it shattered and cut his finger and cut through the tendons, and his finger was permanently curled.
00:39:53.000And he had a bunch of operations to try to straighten it out, but then eventually he just gave up.
00:42:49.000And his dad's doing the recording, I believe, or a relative, somebody very close to him.
00:42:53.000And he goes into this whole theory of how he thinks when they collided the electrons, I believe, in the super collider, that they caused some crazy chain reaction that blew up the universe,
00:43:08.000but they also created an atom that weighed too much.
00:43:14.000The first 20 minutes is also explaining infinite parallel universes.
00:43:18.000So what the kid winds up with is this theory of like...
00:43:21.000One atom weighing too much and is that being just enough to shift our universe into a parallel universe?
00:43:31.000So, this kid had me fucked up because after I watched this, everything I saw for months was talking about, like, it would be a news guy on the news, like, I don't know what universe I'm in anymore.
00:44:02.000He claims that CERN destroyed the universe during recent experiments, which has resulted in us living in a nearby parallel universe instead.
00:44:13.000There's a lot of people online that think this is an explanation for all the Mandela Effect things that people keep finding online.
00:44:19.000He goes into stuff about the Mandela Effect, how there's apparently a bunch of people who think Mandela died in prison, and as far as I know, he was released, became president of South America, and that's the universe I'm from, just personally.
00:44:37.000It's like you watch it and that YouTube algorithm starts sending you down a whole bunch of other, you know what I mean?
00:44:43.000You start hearing, and it's like, and then again, everything that came out, there was all these shows I would see or movies or news things about the multiverse all of a sudden was everywhere around me.
00:45:58.000Our record at this point was two degrees, the oceans are hotter than they've been.
00:46:02.000Do you know how people do that, where they try to say, this is a natural cycle.
00:46:05.000This is something that some people still say, right?
00:46:08.000Okay, even if it was just a natural cycle, I wish humans weren't in the equation at all so there was no argument.
00:46:14.000I wish it would just be like, hey guys, it's getting really hot, what the fuck do we do?
00:46:19.000As if we had no control over it whatsoever.
00:46:21.000Not saying that we shouldn't take steps to fix it, we definitely should, but I'm saying that if it was impossible for people to have created it and it was happening around us, maybe we would be forced to do something.
00:46:33.000Maybe we'd be forced to go to higher ground, get the fuck out of the really hot spots, make your way towards Canada.
00:46:42.000I mean, maybe that's what we would do if there was no other way, but we know that at least part of what the problem is, is people.
00:47:17.000I have heard that some people are thinking...
00:47:21.000It's being burnt away on purpose is what I'm...
00:47:23.000If the things I've read are understood, I won't swear their truth because, again, that's one of the things you're saying is you've got to question everything now.
00:47:35.000No matter what side of whatever you are on, truth has been seriously compromised because there's a counter-opinion to everything and if you're not...
00:47:46.000I'm adept enough to really get involved and find factual information.
00:47:51.000You can literally counter any argument there is with something.
00:50:55.000What if every time you went to sleep and you woke up, you passed into a nearby and very similar universe, but not quite the same?
00:51:07.000And depending upon your choices and how you live your life, It's how you wake up and what new one you pop into on the other side and everyone's just a little bit different.
00:51:19.000The whole world changes just a little bit each time you make a decision one way or another.
00:52:55.000So I'm not claiming ownership of the thought.
00:52:58.000But it was like, what if we just come from a universe that's so perfect and shit, and it's boring as fuck, and we just plug in to have all these fucked up weird problems, and that's why everything's getting fucking weirder and crazier, because that's kind of why we're here.
00:53:22.000And it could be the only way we would appreciate all the good that we have is to balance it out with all the bad that we have.
00:53:29.000And when they start to overwhelm each other one way or the other, there's an imbalance that takes place and it leads to all of our fucking problems as a society.
00:53:37.000And when you think about how long you're going to be alive and what it is that you're doing here and why you're doing it, You know, all those weird questions and answers that go on inside your head, it's all, you're distributing energy, right?
00:53:51.000You're trying to figure out, am I distributing my energy right?
00:53:54.000Am I living my life in a way that is, like, the best I can do with what I've got right now?
00:54:06.000I mean, honestly, even, no matter what we're saying, if you woke up every day and that was your objective, you couldn't really go or do much wrong.
00:54:16.000And what if every day when you did that, you woke up in a nearby universe that was just a little bit different because of what you thought and did?
00:54:24.000Dude, that's like, you know, that's a movie.
00:59:15.000I had left House of Pain I went to New York with a buddy of mine and was just kind of sleeping on his couch and he had a guitar there.
00:59:24.000I started strumming it one night and singing these little words and he came bursting out of his room in the back like, what the fuck is that?
00:59:32.000And kind of was like, we're recording that tomorrow.
00:59:36.000I was there to just kind of further the rap career.
00:59:40.000Nobody really knew I played guitar and stuff like that a little bit.
00:59:43.000It was his encouragement that definitely came back when he was like, I think he was with it broad back there and he just heard the song and jumped like, what the fuck is that?
01:00:22.000What blows my mind, and I'm going to flip it on you real quick, is the comic arc of you get to work this thing out for a whole long time.
01:00:33.000And if you're really successful on your level type thing, then you shoot a special and that joke kind of goes away.
01:00:40.000You don't really get to tell that anymore.
01:00:43.000And that blows my mind because my whole thing is like, work this thing out and build this thing that I can go out and play every night for the rest of my life.
01:00:51.000So, like, you're, you know what I mean, like, so all the kudos being thrown back and forth.
01:00:56.000When I look at you or any amazing comedian that just turns it around and every year, two years, is belting out these fucking funny-ass specials, and then, like, you can't do that anymore.
01:03:59.000You got a DJ? I brought a little, you know, we got a few things to do, we could do for you.
01:04:03.000You know, I brought a little, you know, I've come here with just a guitar, with a keyboard player, and I was like, I'm going to bring my man from the world famous Beat Junkies, DJ Melody, over here.
01:09:33.000Do you feel like when you get through something like a fire with your family that for some inexplicable reason you feel like a little bit closer?
01:11:11.000The only reason a third of the house...
01:11:12.000My wife saved our whole block, honestly, because there's trees between all of our houses for privacy, because everybody has a pool and nobody wants to be in two-story houses, all that shit.
01:11:23.000So everybody just has these big, huge, just spiny-looking trees, you know what I mean, that go with that cover, turn into a wall, basically.
01:11:32.000Had she not been there and had the wherewithal to run down the block and get the firemen that had just drawn by and said, come back and fucking put this out.
01:12:24.000One day of fire, one week of fire, whatever it was, it freaked everybody out and scared the shit, and a lot of people lost their lives, or houses, rather.
01:12:32.000A lot of people lost their lives in Northern California, right?
01:12:41.000Really get a perspective like for your own shit because the minute you wanted to like do that you saw an entire town flattened in like an hour.
01:12:48.000Yeah, they lost people on the highway.
01:12:50.000People were trying to get out on the highway and they get caught in their cars and they caught fire.
01:12:57.000You know, for the people that survived, like for us, and it sounds ridiculous to call yourself a survivor, it's not like it was a war, but it's something that you really understand when you get through that.
01:13:08.000You're like, wow, we are barely in control of our own environment.
01:14:02.000She was really interested in Notre Dame when the thing burned.
01:14:04.000But something about that burning, and when it did, and she saw it, she was like, oh, it can happen anywhere.
01:14:10.000And it kind of dawned on her, like, okay, it's not just there.
01:14:14.000Because for a long time, I couldn't even drive by the house with her to go check on it or something, if she was in the car, my wife either, because she just didn't want to be over there.
01:14:21.000And then after that, it kind of changed, and she kind of realized, like, well, I guess it can happen anywhere.
01:14:29.000Which was a crazy thing to witness happen in a human, like, person, like, come to that understanding of, like, wow, shit's just not guaranteed.
01:14:37.000Like, in a weird way, you know what I mean?
01:14:39.000But isn't there kind of a, there's a magic in that.
01:15:50.000So, because there hadn't been one in the area, you know, those areas, like Gora Hills and Simi Valley, there hadn't been one for many, many, many, like a couple decades, I believe.
01:16:45.000I got evacuated for the first time while we were filming Fear Factor, and I remember I was driving home, and it started, there was a fire, it seemed like it was a little bit out of control, like, wow, this is crazy, and I'm driving to work.
01:16:58.000And then we filmed the day, and then as we're driving home, people are letting us know, hey man, this is bad.
01:17:06.000And as we're driving home, a guy got hit by a car, and he got killed.
01:17:11.000And I didn't see his body, but I saw his shoe.
01:17:14.000And we're like passing by where like all these people were freaking out because a guy apparently just tried to run into the highway and some guy hit him because he was panicking because there was a bunch of shit going on.
01:18:01.000And by the time I got back, we had to evacuate from our community, and we just got the fuck out of Dodge.
01:18:07.000That was the first time that had ever happened, ever, for me, living out here since 94. And that was in like 2002, 2003, something like that.
01:18:17.000And then it's happened twice since then.
01:18:22.000It's like you know that no one can do anything if everything goes wrong.
01:18:26.000If everything goes wrong, the wind gets too strong, and it gets too wide, and it goes left, and it goes right, and everything starts swirling around, and ashes fly through the air, and they land on other people's houses, like, you gotta get the fuck out of there.
01:24:19.000Or like, you know, a song like Black Jesus where it's like just kind of cultural, like fucking pop culture reference after reference leading down a path of just like stream of consciousness pop culture references.
01:24:40.000Even after the fact, when you turn in music to entities that shows or whatever, they want to know the lyrics so they can know if they should put it on air or this.
01:24:50.000It depends on whatever, if it's public network.
01:24:52.000But even when it comes to that, I have to recite it to somebody and have them type it.
01:25:33.000There'll be somebody who have a track, and we'll be like, oh, that's the track we're going to commit to, and we'll write lyrics to it.
01:25:38.000And it'll be just kind of, like I said, I'll drive around a lot with rap stuff and just let it bump and see what words start popping up.
01:25:46.000I like wordplay and bouncing wordplay, but it can't just be wordplay for the sake of it.
01:25:50.000It has to, like, tie into some sort of, like, idea.
01:25:54.000When it comes to a song, it's usually I string together some simple chord progression and once I see something I really like, like I said, pictures will start coming up and you kind of just try to describe the picture a little bit and sometimes you come across poetry when you're describing the picture and you'll be like,
01:26:51.000You're taking this idea from kind of garbagey idea that you know there's a premise there, and then over a fucking series of fucking shows or nights or fucking maybe months, you find it with different audiences, and then you got it, and you get to rock it for maybe six months good in all these places,
01:27:11.000and then you go and record it and make that special, if you're lucky enough to be on that level.
01:27:16.000It's almost like I almost envy the comic.
01:27:19.000I wonder if you guys ever envy the comic who doesn't quite have that yet so he has this bevy of material that he hasn't had to trash yet.
01:28:18.000As an artist, too, the thing that gets in your way more than anything is your ego, right?
01:28:23.000The thing that gets in your way more than anything is the way you view yourself, the way you want people to view you.
01:28:29.000I wouldn't produce my own records until maybe two albums ago, because I felt like if I'd made it through an album without being seriously challenged, I didn't make the best record I could.
01:28:42.000And then just being involved with a bunch of really seriously good producers, I learned to challenge myself.
01:28:48.000And even the records I've produced for myself, there's other guys involved producing with me that I know are going to be the ones, if that's something, hey, that sucked.
01:29:51.000Even if I'm not doing necessarily a straight rap song, there's times when I get a track from a producer that I just love the track and I'll build something around that.
01:29:58.000Other than that, it'll again start with a guitar and I'll either create a very rudimentary drum beat and lay down the guitar and maybe a vocal...
01:30:37.000A song will tell you what to do with it.
01:30:40.000You know, if you really listen to it, I believe that.
01:30:43.000Because I kind of, you know, one of the things Santana told me, you know, that I always held on to is like, you know, and I've experienced this once or twice where I've written very similar songs to friends of mine or people I know that was like, whoa.
01:30:58.000Maybe not sounding, but like the idea.
01:31:00.000Oh, wow, I wrote something that was exactly...
01:31:02.000And he said, like, you know, we're all just antennae that are, like, catching energies and shit and, like, bringing them in and we're, you know, making something out of that energy.
01:31:11.000And sometimes people catch that same energy and similar things happen, you know.
01:31:18.000I look at my ideas like this, but also because I don't write them down, I equate it to my children like this.
01:31:24.000My ideas are like little animals that are wild, and I see them and I think they're amazing, and so I'll play a song until I know it so well.
01:32:57.000It's not going to happen because even songs that I start to record, if I get halfway through it and I'm like not even satisfied with it, it gets erased.
01:35:26.000I'm just trying to have fun, live my life, go home, hug my kids, and fucking know that nobody fucked with them at school and they had a great day and then my universe is complete.
01:38:14.000I was told by the people at the hospital when I went back to visit once that a while after they had brought me in because it took them a minute to figure out what was wrong with me.
01:38:24.000The only reason they figured out what was wrong with me is because my actual doctor Who's this guy in Beverly Hills?
01:38:30.000I'm not going to say his name because I don't know if he wants that.
01:38:32.000But he was a member on the board of Cedar Sinai.
01:38:37.000So when they brought me in the hospital, all his records are computer accessible to them.
01:38:41.000So they found out about my history of being born with this heart defect.
01:38:44.000Because up until then, they heard Rock Dude, he's a musician, and they were like, alright, how much cocaine did you do?
01:38:50.000And all my friends were telling him, he doesn't do cocaine.
01:38:53.000And they were like, if we give him the wrong drugs, we can kill him.
01:38:56.000And then all of a sudden, the records came through, and that's what saved my ass.
01:39:01.000That along with the head of surgery there, the guy who did a double eight.
01:39:06.000Nine-hour surgery came off of one, told the guys they couldn't do my surgery because it was too complex.
01:39:11.000This guy, Dr. William Trento, he's an amazing person.
01:42:02.000No, this dude goes, and then I like started looking into who he was, and this guy goes and does like fucking tons and tons of like surgeries on kids down in South America, and he's just one of them dudes, man.
01:43:07.000We're wasting time with nonsense and arguments and conflict that all could have been disrupted from the very beginning by everybody being nice.
01:43:17.000This is why we need the alien invasion.
01:43:20.000Because a lot of people are invested in a lot of shit that's meaningless.
01:46:41.000There's the occasional polar bear and these fucking muskox.
01:46:45.000And they're up there, and they don't even look like real things.
01:46:49.000And you're stumbling across, like, imagine going through a white-out snowstorm to stumble across this 2,000-pound, enormous, gigantic, hairy, prehistoric beast that you could just walk up to and shoot with a bow and arrow and eat.
01:47:10.000I want to see if they fight with those things.
01:47:14.000They probably use it to fuck up other males.
01:47:17.000Most of those animals, they're not fighting off predators with that shit.
01:47:21.000It's definitely related to breeding and all that shit, for sure.
01:47:24.000They think some of it is like in some animals depending upon how much pressure they get from predators like elk keep their antlers very late to keep their antlers like into March and April because a lot of them live around wolves and the idea is that they need those antlers to protect themselves from wolves so they hold on to them longer than deer do biology It's real.
01:52:03.000Maybe the aliens travel here from another dimension and they have a new explanation for it.
01:52:07.000The thing about being a flat earther or the thing about any kind of thing that you could decide was already proven is that it doesn't matter what the facts are anymore.
01:52:21.000You realize that there's a certain number of people you need to have to start a community, and it doesn't have to make sense.
01:52:27.000You just have to have enough people that agree to it.
01:52:29.000If enough people agree to it, you can push some pretty preposterous ideas through, and a bunch of people hop on board, and they're happy to be on your group.
01:56:16.000It's funny when there's a song that plays all the time and connects you to one of your friends.
01:56:20.000It's like, as I'm walking out of the octagon, it's like...
01:56:26.000There was a period of about six years where anywhere Dana was, he could be on the other side of the world, I'm sleeping somewhere, I'd get a phone call and it'd just be a phone in the air at a club.
01:57:22.000You get these football games, college shit, like Wisconsin's and stuff, where it's part of a tradition.
01:57:27.000But I'm saying any event, an Angels game, a Dodgers game, a Yankees game, a Laker game, a football game, it pops up somewhere along the line.
01:57:37.000Dude, you're right up there with Queens.
02:04:42.000It's about a lady who was in a cult and she got locked up in a basement for like 13 years and then she got out and she doesn't know what the fuck anything is.
02:04:54.000It's not that, but it's like this lady, like chick comic, and I don't know her name, and I don't know the name of the show right now, but it's fucking hilarious, and she's like a Larry David-esque chick.
02:05:02.000Like she's Larry David-esque, I should say.
02:05:04.000Like the show is like, she's always like the fucking mom who's like fucking doing some crazy shit.
02:05:09.000There's like an episode of like where there's a mom amongst the crew that's like done porno, and so all the moms are talking about it, but like the fucking show's hilarious.
02:14:51.000I'm talking to fucking Khabib, but he's just staring like this.
02:14:56.000Like, there's a meme that just, like, focuses in on him, like, it's fucking crazy.
02:15:00.000So, like, it got me thinking, like, I wonder how, like I said, I've been to so many of these fucking fights that I don't even, you know, I was, like, trying to remember, and it's like, I can't even remember.
02:15:08.000Yeah, you've been coming to them for almost as long as I've been working for the UFC. Yeah, basically.
02:16:52.000They planned it, and so these guys, the camera passed in front of them, and they grabbed each other and started making out just so they could be on camera.
02:21:17.000Got a whole lot of love for the people.
02:21:22.000I got a lot of friends and I kept a few kids This whole time I've been fuckin' around I'm on my bullshit Smokin' and drinkin' You're wasting my time No happy and no thinkin' I'm aware that my wife I'm on my bullshit Smokin' and drinkin' You're wasting my time I
02:26:10.000So, there's imbalances and I've seen teachers like come out their own pockets and do things for, you know, people that were like, wow, man, that's, you know what I mean?
02:26:19.000I like to think I do nice things and I think I do, but I'm saying it's like when I see it on a level where it's like grassroots, ground level, it's impactful to me, you know?
02:26:58.000And if your teacher gets stuck, or your kid, rather, if your kid gets stuck with one of those teachers, that can have a devastating impact on the kid's life.
02:27:53.000Because that's the one that's not going to take any shit, and that's the one that's going to make sure he knows people aren't going to take shit from him in life.
02:28:50.000Even though I was probably, like, 11 or 12 or whatever I was, when I got in a fight with this kid, I realized this kid had been, like, badly burned when he was young.
02:28:58.000And we were, you know, we were in school together, and he was, like, missing part of his ear.
02:29:02.000And his neck was all fucked up, and I was thinking, like, wow, this guy, like, he's not doing so well.
02:29:29.000Like, he's a guy that just didn't get any love, and he feels like he got ripped off by life because he got burned when he was a little kid.
02:30:37.000Let me give you an example of a time in my life when I definitely deserved physical justice and got it.
02:30:43.000My father, you know, I was using guns when I was very young.
02:30:47.000We'd go out and shoot and, like, not hunt necessarily, but he'd take us out and shoot in the mountains, out in the Mangelis Forest back in the day.
02:30:54.000And, like, fucking, I had very good...
02:30:56.000Gun education and understanding of guns.
02:30:59.000And one time when they were away, I fucked around with his pump shotgun and accidentally loaded it and banged and shot into the wall.
02:31:43.000But no, I fucking could have fucking killed a human being easily.
02:31:47.000You need to sometimes know like, okay, this is because what you just did could have wound you up in fucking the penitentiary for the rest of your life.
02:31:56.000So an ass-kicking doesn't seem as extreme as you think when you put it in the balance of that.
02:32:03.000So when you're getting to like a level of that, I think...
02:32:48.000My mom was a little woman, like 4 foot 11, 5 foot tops.
02:32:52.000Oh yeah so after a while it was like it went from the hands to like stirring spoons and shit and then once those started breaking it became shoes and like you know whatever else broomstick.
02:33:05.000And then it became like wait till your fucking father gets home.
02:33:09.000My mom might have like gently smacked me upside the head gently like never like a real like wound.
02:35:28.000Not the basest, most lowest level or common denominator.
02:35:33.000I'm trying to find what kind of elevated level can I speak to you on?
02:35:36.000Even if it's about fuckery, can I raise the level of speaking about it and telling a tale about it without it being, again, the most base and easiest, lowest hanging fruit?
02:35:55.000That's the same thing, I think, with a joke.
02:35:57.000You're trying to find there's no real new Like, you're just finding new angles on funny shit.
02:36:18.000Other than that, like, if you're talking about relationships, you're doing a variation of a take on it that everybody's had who's had a long life and been in relationships.
02:36:28.000Especially Larry King, holla at your boy!
02:37:04.000Just having gals come over to the place.
02:37:06.000He's over at Arts Deli just holding court.
02:37:09.000Can you imagine if over the last year of his life he just banks an unprecedented volume of internet porn and just releases it all in one blast.
02:38:31.000Hey, dude, you need to get the mugshot of the dude who's still on CNN who got found out in Central Park in New York with meth and a makeshift noose around his dick.
02:39:14.000Oh, dude, if you see his face, you'll be like, oh yeah, he's like the English guy on CNN. He got caught in Central Park with meth and some sort of noose or something around his dick, as far as I remember reading.
02:39:51.000This wasn't like a drug-induced hallucination or something, right?
02:39:55.000Oh my god, how hilarious is the way they put this?
02:39:57.000CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket and a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, no big deal, and a sex toy in his boot.
02:40:07.000Law enforcement officials and sources said, Quest was initially busted for loitering.
02:41:11.000Was it tight around his neck and his dick?
02:41:13.000Well, I'm no fucking Columbo, but I see a connection!
02:41:20.000The police noticed Mr. Quest at 64th Street and West Drive at 3.40am, the official said.
02:41:31.000As he was being escorted out, he volunteered, in quotes, I have meth in my pocket.
02:41:37.000According to an official briefed on the case, the police searched him and recovered a small amount of methamphetamine in a Ziploc bag and a rope around his dick and his neck.
02:45:34.000And on this particular trip, I brought my girlfriend at the time, and I think Danny did, and Lethal brought his own homie or whatever, but we brought a bunch of guests.
02:45:45.000And as I'm getting through customs, the guy reaches into this one jacket I have, and he pulls his hand out, and there's this little nugget of Bud.
02:47:08.000A fucking ounce of weed, I shit you not.
02:47:10.000So you know what you were without even knowing you were doing it?
02:47:13.000You were like sending a small mule to get busted so that the big ones can sneak around the side.
02:47:19.000I must have been rolling a joint at the last tour and had a nug left over and just throwing it in the pocket and not thinking about it on one side.
02:47:33.000But I got in, I called the whole, I called everybody that smoked in the crew down to the room after that, and I was like, yo, check it out, man.
02:47:39.000I really didn't mean this to happen, but I probably had more good-ass fucking weed in Japan than anybody at the time.
02:47:52.000That moment, if they didn't go in that one pocket and they went in the other pocket first, and they found that giant bag of weed, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
02:49:20.000There's this whole urban legend that is very believable about this letter that went around like a bunch of people in the hip-hop music industry.
02:49:33.000Where they described, like, this guy claimed to be a member of the elite class of, like, executives of the music business in the mid-90s and whatnot.
02:49:44.000And there was a time when the private prison industry kind of came and got involved and got a lot of these people to invest and then kind of helped direct, like, things like rap music.
02:49:54.000And if you remember, there used to be, like, public—I don't know how big a fan of music you were at the time— I think?
02:50:27.000But it's totally believable that these guys would direct a music and a fucking media in a certain direction to encourage fucking basically a cycle of fucking prison.
02:50:38.000Because if you look at rap music, if you look at rap music and what happened from the 90s till now, there is no conscious music anymore.
02:54:32.000Look, if you look at Chris Rock's stuff, it's arguably some of the greatest work of all time in terms of the finished product of stand-up comedy, Bigger and Blacker.
02:54:40.000It's one of the greatest comedy specials in the history of the world.
02:55:02.000But we're all in some way connected to each other and collaborating with each other whether we like it or not.
02:55:09.000How many stages into the game are they going to collaborate with you?
02:55:14.000Are they going to be there for the final product?
02:55:17.000Or are they just going to be influences along the way in your artistic journey?
02:55:22.000Yeah, I mean, even the thing that I would consider that I wrote completely by myself, if you get down to the next level, it's like there's 25,000 things that have influenced why I think that way or feel that way.
02:55:42.000That's the whole angle of like there's really nothing new.
02:55:45.000It's all about the angle and I liken it to like when I watch to I like watching the old Dogtown like documentaries Dogtown and the Z-Boys and shit and it's like the whole approach to skating was like Everybody can do that,
02:56:05.000but the style you do it in, that's what it really starts coming down to.
02:56:10.000Again, if there's no brand new invention or brand new event, we're rehashing experiences that have been happening since the dawn of time.
02:56:20.000You're just finding a new style and a new angle to dress it up in that makes people feel like it's new.
02:56:27.000Sorrow, romance, love, anger, all those things.
02:56:32.000You're breaking the boredom of the way it's been thought of before in a new way.
02:56:37.000And that's what becomes appealing to people.
02:56:40.000But goddamn, when someone hits it and they do get through with something that's a new way of describing some shit we can all relate to, it makes you feel so good.
02:56:48.000Music makes you feel good in a way that comedy never can.
02:56:51.000Comedy makes you laugh and it makes you have a good time together.
02:56:54.000We're all in a room laughing, hooting it up.
02:56:56.000But music, when you're by yourself, man, it's just be you and that music, and you get goosebumps, you can lift more weights, you run faster.
02:57:24.000Again, see, I don't know if it's some grass is greener shit, and I don't even know if that's the proper phrase, but just when I look at it as an art form, that comparison when you're like, music is this, I'm like, comedy is so much more precious because you work it to that point.
02:57:43.000Even if you tell an amazing joke that lives in me and I fucking love it so much, I take it and tell it to him.
02:57:50.000For me, the minute I tell it to him, it ends.
02:57:54.000It's like that's the end of that joke for me.
02:58:29.000You have to watch an idea of yours come to a finite end.
02:58:33.000Whereas when an idea of mine comes to a finite end and it's good and it connects, I can repeat it over and over and over and people accept that.
02:59:43.000You're working that joke out and the joke's getting better and it's like, okay, it's a bronze medal joke right now and it's a silver medal joke.
02:59:50.000If you ever get it to that gold medal joke and then you drop it where it's supposed to be in that place in time of the special or the thing that everybody sees, then it's done.
02:59:59.000You know what's interesting now is there's a lot of comedy nerds.
03:00:38.000The point is there's a journey there until you get to that point where it's dropped in that special thing that's been seen across a broad spectrum.
03:03:38.000One of my drummers, the guy, he's Nick Fish, he's actually the band Fishbone, he's one of the namesakes, and he's into all that, like heavy jiu-jitsu, but like martial arts, but he's weapons trained like crazy.
03:05:05.000I got here in 94 and the gym had been so badly damaged by the earthquake that when it started raining, it was a year after the earthquake, When it started raining, the rain was leaking all throughout the ceiling.
03:05:16.000The ceiling was a wreck, and they had a band in the building, and I don't think they ever...
03:05:19.000They started off another place in North Hollywood, but it wasn't quite the same thing.
03:05:23.000The Jet Center in Van Nuys was one of those places.
03:05:25.000No, I'm positive now that's where it is.
03:05:27.000It's because it's a boxing ring, and I remember the Jet Center.
03:06:43.000And I'm a comedian, and I'm like fucking 26 years old, but I'm hanging out with gangbangers in this hardcore kickboxing gym of one of my martial arts idols, Benny Urquidez, and another one, Blinky Rodriguez, who was another one of my martial arts idols.
03:06:59.000And they didn't know who the fuck I was, and I was just in there training with them, and then it went under.
03:07:03.000And I was like, if I got this brief glimpse into this place that was...
03:07:09.000In my childhood, like, martial arts childhood, like, that was one of the meccas that I needed to go to.
03:07:26.000It's me, like, in a corner of a, you know, because they had the Everlasting, they had me in a boxing ring, and I was fucking, yeah, that was the Jet Center, we shot that.