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00:00:31.000Ari and I were thinking that when we started Sober October, we started smoking cigars, we were thinking maybe that will disqualify us and we can just quit.
00:04:02.000But god damn, it smells like dog shit.
00:04:04.000It smells so bad that they ban it in a lot of hotels.
00:04:07.000Because people will go into hotels, and folks that come from a culture where they eat that stuff all the time, they'll bring bags of it, and the whole family's eating that stuff, and it wafts down the hallway, and people are like, what in the fuck?
00:04:19.000It says it smells like Limburger, or it has been compared to Limburger.
00:04:49.000Found out on his Nest cams, like his security cameras, he goes into the bathroom, passes and falls down, and hits his head, and he showed a picture of just blood everywhere in his bathroom.
00:05:00.000Goes back to bed, didn't even know about it.
00:05:02.000Wakes up and he sees blood everywhere.
00:05:04.000Checks his cameras, finally he's sleepwalking.
00:05:06.000A couple days later, he starts having seizures, like out of the blue.
00:05:10.000Goes to the doctor, and the doctor says it's because of that, that diet he was doing.
00:07:37.000Because I always forget to take the before photo, and then I'm like halfway through a diet, I'm like, goddammit, now I'm just, I gotta quit this.
00:08:01.000Yeah, I follow a lot of bodybuilder girls, and I don't know why it's disturbing to me, but when they start cutting down weight, and then you see them, like, monitoring their food and watching their portions and shit, and they're getting leaner and leaner, it bothers me.
00:08:45.000I don't even like when they have those man shoulders.
00:08:48.000You know, where you see, like, a really beautiful girl and then she takes off her cardigan or whatever and you're like, oh, she has, like, her frame looks like a man.
00:15:51.000And he had to have his mom live with him for like a couple months because he couldn't do anything.
00:15:56.000When I was doing Zookeeper with Kevin James, I did a lot of my own bike riding and I fucking wiped out hard because I didn't realize that if we were in this scene where he was beside me and I was trying to hit him with a flag and he was beside me on his bike and I was holding on to the handlebars with my left hand which is your front wheel.
00:16:19.000So when I hit the brakes on my left hand, I just went flying over the top of the handlebars.
00:23:11.000Well, I had something the other day that fucked me up.
00:23:13.000It was because they don't tell you, especially when you're at the comedy store and everyone's just passing joints and stuff.
00:23:18.000This one person was one of those weed fanatics where he had put Keefe on it and whatever oil, THC oil, like it had like three things on it.
00:25:48.000If you get over served and they can prove it, you're just as responsible if he drives home drunk and kills somebody.
00:25:55.000Well, if you know someone's going to drive, the problem is, I was talking about this on stage once, that the real problem with drunk driving is not that people can't drive when they're drunk.
00:26:06.000The problem when you're drinking is you don't know...
00:26:35.000You don't know what the fuck's going on.
00:26:37.000That's why the consent issue when you're really drunk is weird.
00:26:43.000Some people like to get drunk and have sex, and then some people say, well, you should never have sex with someone when they're drunk because they can't consent because they're drunk.
00:26:53.000Okay, but then that's like 90% of all people having sex.
00:26:57.000How many people have sex while they're drunk?
00:27:13.000Well, I think autonomous cars, that's going to be very interesting, how they deal with alcohol in autonomous cars.
00:27:22.000Because if you have a drunk mode, say if you have a Tesla in 2026, and it has the option to be completely autonomous, it drives on its own, or you can go manual.
00:28:02.000Yeah, I have a friend who, he got arrested for a DUI, like more than one, and he had to blow into his thing on his work van.
00:28:12.000He had to blow into his little thing before it would let him start the car.
00:28:15.000This is another demolition man coming full circle again, because there's that scene where he gets in and he makes the car, he's like, give me control.
00:28:23.000And she's like, what the fuck are you doing?
00:29:01.000There's been these tests, and they're not, you know, it's not randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, but they have done some studies when they show that people drive well high.
00:33:28.000Can you imagine if that was the case with other occupations?
00:33:33.000CEOs of corporations would hang out with people who want to be CEOs, but they never really started a business, and they're all just hanging out together.
00:36:19.000One thing I didn't know is how they gave you...
00:36:43.000That was one of the weirdest moments of my life.
00:36:48.000You know getting phone calls that that he's dead the phone just kept ringing people just kept calling and friends and loved ones and family members and It was just it didn't seem real like who would kill that guy?
00:37:05.000I wish you had met him He was so cool like fucking everybody liked that guy And he used to like to get high and go to strip clubs Yeah He used to like to get high and go to strip clubs,
00:39:06.000For lack of a better term, he had someone who's a dangerous person meet this guy and let him know in no uncertain terms that his life was going to take a terrible turn for the worst if he continued down this path.
00:40:27.000But he didn't think he should get divorced because he felt like it was bad for his image.
00:40:31.000He was, like, really concerned about his image because he was, like, this squeaky clean family guy who was, you know, I mean, it was really starting to take off for him.
00:40:40.000See, Phil didn't really make it until he was older in life.
00:40:44.000Like, I don't think he got on Saturday Night Live until he was in his, like, late 30s.
00:40:51.000And when he was on news radio, I think he was, like, 46. Yeah.
00:40:55.000Yeah, so he was like, he had worked as a graphic artist, you know, he, that, did you see that album cover that's out there, Pinned to the Wall?
00:47:37.000I went from the iPhone XS Max, whatever the fuck the last one was, and then I got a Note 10. And then I got the new one, the iPhone 11 X Max Pro, fuck your mother,
00:48:21.000Their laptops' keyboards are so bad, I got a 15-inch one.
00:48:25.000There's companies that take the old ones, the old 15-inch ones from like 2012, and they put a SSD card in it, or they put a solid-state hard drive in it and update the processor and update the graphics.
00:49:26.000I'm one of the few people, because there's one thing that they haven't replaced yet.
00:49:30.000Like, a lot of the other things you hold down, it does what it used to do.
00:49:33.000But I don't know if a lot of people didn't even know about it, but when you're on the keyboard and you just, like, hold your thumb down, you used to be able to use it as, like, a mouse, like a cursor.
00:49:42.000So if you're trying to, you know, be accurate...
00:49:45.000But you can still do that with the space bar.
00:49:47.000You can still do it, not just the keyboard.
00:54:46.000and then voice right next to it so if i wanted to mix it i would have almost a perfect sounding stage recording so it's two separate recordings in the same show yeah so if you keep your phone on your on the stool you're recording the audience and then you have your voice right next to you have to sync them up yeah you just whatever garage okay wow that actually sounds badass yeah that actually makes sense like a real reason to have an iphone watch Yeah.
00:55:15.000You wear it, or I guess it's coming soon, but you could wear it and tell us how many times you wake up and it tells your heart rates and stuff like that.
00:57:37.000I was going to tell you, on the iPhone, something I didn't notice that you were getting close to was that they added in the Health app your headphone audio levels.
00:57:45.000So it tracks how loud you're listening to stuff over time.
00:57:49.000And it tells you when you're in a good or bad audio listening range.
00:57:52.000Like if you're listening to shit too loud, you're starting to damage your hearing.
00:57:55.000So this then gets into the Apple Watch.
00:57:58.000If you turn it on on your watch, it listens to the ambient sound.
00:58:02.000So if you're in an environment like in a city where it's too loud, It adds that into your audio health.
00:58:54.000There's an article that went around recently about this stuff called a mesh network that's created with some of these cameras on people's doors.
00:59:03.000There's a test that happened in the LA basin.
00:59:05.000700 cameras gave them access to almost the entire LA area.
00:59:10.000Because of the way that they link to each other.
00:59:12.000And there's, like, some, like, watchdog people are saying that, like, even if you're smart enough to, like, not do this, the person next to you might not be, or your neighbor might not be, they might have it on, and just because your proximity is close enough, your iPhone knows that your iPhone's next to it.
00:59:26.000And it just goes, oh yeah, you were here, Joe was there.
00:59:29.000Yeah, you can't, it's gonna be really hard to pull shit off in the future.
00:59:33.000And it seems like with all these Nest phones and Ring phones, or, you know, not Ring phones, Ring cameras and Net cameras, Nest cameras that people have on their front doors, After a while, everywhere you go, you're going to be filmed.
00:59:44.000They passed a law, I think, today that the California body cameras that cops use can't be used for facial recognition.
00:59:53.000The ACLU got a law passed through that said that won't be able to happen or something like that.
00:59:58.000Too bad, but we would have caught a lot more people.
01:00:01.000That seems weird because that seems like when you would want to use it.
01:00:06.000It's when you're a cop looking for bad guys.
01:00:08.000Yeah, but I think what's happening right now that I've been reading is third-party companies are getting access to that stuff, and they can buy it.
01:00:17.000And that's where some of the discrepancies, because it's just happening too fast.
01:00:20.000There aren't laws in place to stop some of these things from happening.
01:00:22.000I just think there's lots of gray area that people can maneuver in.
01:00:27.000It seems to be just a matter of time before you have surveillance everywhere.
01:00:48.000People are probably watching you fuck, Jamie.
01:00:49.000They do watch, they listen to the, some TVs have that stuff on to listen to what's going on in your house and what your, they cross-references, audio signals.
01:02:25.000But he was talking about how when ARPANET was starting up in the 60s, there were a lot of protests about just even turning it on because people knew that it was going to be a surveillance system, sort of like what is happening now.
01:02:38.000It doesn't work if people aren't using it, kind of.
01:02:42.000It needs to spread and grow, and that personal computing is sort of tied in and came along the perfect time for this to grow more, and phones is even the next evolution of it.
01:03:56.000Well, John Carmack had an interesting take on that.
01:03:59.000Carmack is the guy who created Quake and Doom and all those games, and he was talking about Oculus, and we were talking about technology and people being addicted to their phones.
01:04:07.000He's like, yes, but it makes your life better.
01:04:10.000His take on it was, but people's lives are improved because of this technology.
01:04:16.000Yes, people do get addicted to being on the screens, but one of the reasons why is because it seems better to them than not being on the screens.
01:04:29.000I see how you're looking at it that way.
01:04:32.000But that's, you know, convenient when you're in technology to look at it that way.
01:04:36.000But the people that look at it, like, in terms of, like, human beings and our connection with each other, like, how much of it is getting eroded?
01:05:13.000There's a lot of folks who don't do that.
01:05:15.000They see each other at work during the day and then at nighttime they're sitting at home watching TV or staring at their phone and their interaction is severely limited.
01:08:06.000No spoiler alert, but screening phone calls over answering machines popped up in that movie, and that was like a thing that I kind of forgot you used to be able to do.
01:08:15.000You'd be like, hey, no, no, no, I'm here.
01:08:17.000Yeah, you would let it go to, hey, what's up, Joe?
01:08:26.000You'd have some cool music, like some white snakes playing in the background.
01:08:31.000I get so many scam calls every day now that I spend most of my time just going through my missed call list and then Googling the phone number to see if it's a scam call or not.
01:10:41.000See, the thing about Tesla is, though, their navigation system is so superior.
01:10:46.000What I love about it is it works like a phone, because it's all connected to the internet, so you can say to it, hey, navigate to Tom's Barbecue, and it'll just...
01:17:49.000Elon should definitely have an update where it makes your car's speakers match with your acceleration so you feel like you're inside a rumbling car while you're driving down.
01:17:59.000They have that with some cars, but people get mad at it.
01:18:02.000Apparently, the new Corvette pipes fake sound into the car.
01:18:06.000When they make cars that are turbocharged, when you have forced induction with turbocharged, these turbos, they make the engine sound shitty.
01:18:17.000Like a naturally aspirated engine is the loudest, most rumbly kind of an engine.
01:18:22.000And when you have turbocharges, it mutes the sound of the engine.
01:18:52.000It says solar, a game changer for technology developed in San Antonio to pull water from humid air.
01:18:58.000So this guy, Moses West, he was retired and it took him four years.
01:19:02.000He developed this machine called AWG. I'm trying to find out what that stands for, but it's a big machine that literally makes drinking water from the air at very low cost, he said.
01:19:54.000The science behind the technology is simple condensation, the same principle that creates beads of water on the outside of a cold glass of water on a hot, humid day.
01:20:02.000The warmer and more humid the air outside, the better his machine is able to condense the water...
01:21:21.000I'm so glad they're out there fixing things.
01:21:23.000I'm really hoping, and I've talked to many technologists that believe this as well, that technology is going to be the solution for our environmental problems.
01:21:33.000That they're going to be able to pull carbon out of the air.
01:25:15.000I remember I was watching an episode of Top Gear and they were saying that the air that comes out of a Porsche 911 Turbo is actually cleaner than the air it sucks in in downtown LA. So if you drive around a 911 Turbo in LA, the exhaust fumes are actually cleaner than the air it pulls in.
01:25:33.000Bioweapon defense mode is what Elon Musk calls it.
01:25:55.000When those fires were going on, I remember he was tweeting something about they were being used as escape vehicles to get people out because they had such good HEPA filters on them, yeah.
01:26:09.000Yeah, having been in those fires myself, it's stunning how weird it gets when you're seeing, like, fire everywhere and then the air is just everywhere you go.
01:26:40.000Because you remember those karmas, those Fisca karmas, they blew up at the dock because the dock got overrun with water and they all started exploding?
01:27:43.000They could buy someone, maybe, or put their name on something, but for them to get in a car, it seems pretty tough for Tesla to do it, to make their own cars.
01:27:51.000No, I think they're teaming up with Volkswagen, and it's going to be an Apple car or something like that.
01:27:57.000It seems like an insane waste of time.
01:28:57.000The most busy you've ever been, how many podcasts were you doing?
01:29:01.000uh there was a point where with yours and death squad i was probably doing like 11 a week i was pretty much only doing podcasts i ruined all my relationships God damn.
01:29:15.000Yeah, see, that is just not wise, right?
01:32:10.000You just don't yank the trigger, just pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, bang, and let it go off like a surprise shot, and I hit everything I aimed at.
01:32:17.000And he was like, okay, you've shot that before.
01:32:19.000But like pistols, I've only shot pistols at a range with no instruction.
01:32:24.000I don't really, I didn't know what I'm doing at all.
01:32:26.000And once you learn like how to grip it, how to hold it, how to aim, like you don't really hold that hard with your right hand.
01:32:32.000Most of the pressure is with your left.
01:32:34.000And the grip is very, it's not intuitive.
01:33:20.000If you looked at the spread, if it was a disease, a deadly disease that was killing everybody, and you saw patient zero, and then it spread to two people, four people, six people, ten people...
01:33:30.000Now LA has more than 60,000 homeless people.
01:33:34.000And every single underpass that you go to, you see camps now.
01:34:27.000If you think that if there's something that LA needed to fix, out of all the things that LA complains about, the homeless problem is one of the most insurmountable problems.
01:35:25.000And they changed those standards under the Reagan administration and just sent these people out into the streets.
01:35:29.000And everybody thought it was like really cruel because here you're just releasing these people with all these like severe mental health problems and just releasing them out into the street.
01:35:45.000I mean, I don't know what it is, but another thing you're seeing around this area is mobile homes, like those campers, like Winnebago's, fucking everywhere.
01:35:56.000People just get enough money to get one of them mobile homes.
01:35:59.000They just park it on the street, and they live in those things.
01:37:37.000I don't need to give you a license, sir.
01:37:39.000They have this shit they keep on repeating.
01:37:42.000And they all go to these websites and they're reading it on their phone.
01:37:45.000Sir, I don't have to, you know, do this and that and this.
01:37:49.000And then they finally have to, like, break their window and just drag them out and arrest them just for a seatbelt violation.
01:37:54.000Some people are smart and do know what they're talking about, though, but other people have just, like, watched another video and are like, oh, I don't have to listen to this guy.
01:38:01.000There's something uniquely satisfying about watching that get pulled over by the cops and he knows exactly what his rights are and the cops are fucking up and he calls the cops on different codes and laws and the constitution and then he winds up driving off.
01:39:18.000If you do something that breaks the law, they've got to be able to pull you over and give you a fucking ticket and incentivize you to drive correctly and also find out if maybe you're running from the cops.
01:39:29.000So they pull you over, they get your ID, they go, hey man, you've got a murder warrant out for you, so please step out of the car with your hands up.
01:39:35.000I mean, this is the whole reason why we have cops in the first place.
01:39:38.000These people that think they don't have to pay taxes and the laws don't apply to them.
01:41:13.000A whole year behind bars, put a halt to his career, and all because he owed some taxes, because he had some wacky dude that was telling him he didn't have to pay taxes.
01:43:18.000So there's certain things, like if you're a guy who went to jail for embezzlement and you got out, but you're a football fan and you still talk about football, okay, you're just talking about football.
01:43:27.000But if you're a double homicide guy, you killed two people with a knife, and then you got away with it, but everybody knows you did it, and then you're talking about football.
01:46:43.000According to this TMZ article, I guess, it says that what he originally owed to the Goldman family due to 22 years of interest is over $100 million now.
01:47:53.000What he's doing seems to be almost like some of it's very theatrical.
01:47:57.000Remember when we interviewed him when he was on the run?
01:48:00.000We interviewed him remotely when he was on the run for murder, and he was saying that it was all nonsense, and I was asking him about meth.
01:49:17.000You could podcast from an island somewhere.
01:49:18.000As soon as that's possible being hologram style anywhere, you could have somebody on as a guest as a podcast, but in hologram form.
01:49:28.000Well, listen, if we decided to set up a studio on an island somewhere...
01:49:33.000And do the podcast from an island somewhere.
01:49:36.000We'd have to fly some guests in, right?
01:49:38.000Like, say if there's a few of us, we just talk shit about the news, all the things that are going down, the Trump impeachment, this and that.
01:49:44.000We all did it from an island somewhere.
01:54:46.000There's going to be so many stories about this, but we're never going to know.
01:54:49.000It's going to be one of those things that's like the Kennedy assassination or something, where decades will go by, you'll hear all these crazy different stories, people write books about it, but you'll never really know exactly what happened.
01:58:33.000There's just too much things to think about, too much anxiety.
01:58:36.000I think that's what's going on with a lot of people.
01:58:39.000I think there's a lot of people out there that just don't have their shit together, and they don't ever just say, look, before I do anything else, I gotta get...
01:58:47.000Like, Jordan Peterson talks about this.
01:59:49.000When I got down, what, like 15 years ago or 13 years ago, whenever that, when I, whatever, I think that was like 65 pounds or something, and I just thought I looked like I had AIDS or something.
02:00:01.000Well, you're just used to yourself looking big.
02:00:03.000Yeah, but I think some people, like, they have a body shape or look that looks way better with a little chub on them than they do if they look, I don't know.
02:00:13.000You know what Joey Diaz said when he lost a lot of weight?
02:00:16.000Remember when he lost a lot of weight?
02:04:05.000When you called it Thunder Pussy, it was the perfect name for that.
02:04:07.000I need to make a new show called Thunder Pussy.
02:04:11.000I mean, it's not like he's the only one who's ever done a show that has people just making things up.
02:04:16.000And I used to do that at the end of my shows, remember?
02:04:18.000I used to have people call out, but they would call out things to talk about.
02:04:21.000And they would yell out subjects, and I would just ramble about them.
02:04:24.000And occasionally, the reason why I would do it is occasionally, like one every two or three shows, I'd come up with an idea that actually would come up and become a bit.
02:04:35.000We were in Dallas last weekend for Kill Tony, and there was a bisexual on stage, and he was talking about how he's bisexual.
02:04:41.000And a lot of times when people are on stage and on this show, I'll be on my computer typing in bisexual on Spotify or something to see what comes up.
02:04:49.000And you come up number one or number two on Spotify.