After a month of sobriety, Greg and Joseph talk about their first drinks of the new year and how they feel about it. Greg talks about his first drink in over 30 years and how he feels about it, and Joseph talks about how he's lost his tolerance to alcohol and how it's affected his life in general. They also talk about what it's like to be a drunk comedian and how to deal with the effects of alcohol on your brain. They also discuss how drinking affects their relationships with their friends and family, and how drinking can affect the way they see the universe and the people around them. The guys also discuss what it was like to drink for the first time in 30 years, and what it means to be drunk now that they're back on the pill. They finish up the episode by talking about what they're looking forward to in 2020 and what they would like to see in the future of drinking in the 21st century. Enjoy the episode and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! and spread the word to your friends about this episode! XOXO, Greg, Joseph, and Brian Thank you so much for being a part of the Sober is Dumber Podcast! Cheers, Greg & Joseph! - The Sober Crew! Check us out, Cheers! Greg, Joe, Joseph and Brian, and Cheers. - Cheers!! - Greg, Gregory, Joseph & Brian, too! Love ya! xoxo, Greg ( ) Love you, Jon & Ben <3, Kristy, xo Thanksgiving, - EJ. <333 - The Cheers - Joe, Jake, EJ, Brian, :) - , Joe, XO, Glynis, ? . - John, J. ( ) , , EJ ( ) & Jon ( ) . , Joe, Gorms, , J. , and Brian ( ) - R. (A. ( ) , etc., etc., etc. . . . + JUICY, etc. (Thank you, JOSEPH, ) , etc, etc. - JACOB, JEAN ( ) Thank you for listening to this episode?
00:02:01.000I have the same depression as he does, and I felt like when I drank, it wasn't always for fun.
00:02:07.000A lot of times it was like dealing with feelings and bullshit like that.
00:02:11.000And so I saw him as an unhappy guy who was unfulfilled in a lot of ways, and I saw the alcohol was a big part of why his life wasn't what it could have been.
00:02:21.000And I just sort of feel like, you know, maybe I could drink, but maybe I can't.
00:02:54.000It took like, because everything's just a little off, it took like an hour before my liver processed it enough where I could play pool well again.
00:03:03.000Do you think you just lost your tolerance?
00:03:45.000Isn't it weird, though, the human condition that we're born with this set of, you know, this brain and these neurological pathways and this relationship to the universe and the people around us, and that we want to, whether it's smoking pot or drinking or taking opiates,
00:04:02.000we want to change the natural state of our brain.
00:04:49.000It takes a little bit more of, I think you have to sort of break through walls a little bit more as opposed to just the booze does that for you.
00:05:32.000So, is it like after the show you get high and then you write or you do it during the day?
00:05:37.000Well, I didn't do any shows this weekend because I was in New York for the UFC. And I had some friends that I was going to see while I was down there.
00:11:02.000Eighty percent of the items identified were fittings from weapons, mostly swords, and research believe it's remarkable so many were made from gold.
00:11:37.000Did they figure out how to pull it out of the ground or something?
00:11:40.000They hadn't started grabbing it from other countries yet.
00:11:44.000I guess that was their own local gold.
00:11:46.000Look at this, the quotation, look at this.
00:11:48.000A collection includes, it's believed, a battle shrine with a processional, I don't know what that word means, processional cross, suggesting Christian emblems were used as good luck charms for battle.
00:12:01.000On it is a quotation from the Book of Number, which reads, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
00:15:46.000And this is before the internet, so you couldn't tell people.
00:15:47.000It's not like you could tweet, hey, news radio is going to be on Monday at eight o'clock, but you don't give a fuck because you have a DVR. Right.
00:17:33.000And you could just watch those and record that one and then come back and watch them when it doesn't have commercials or fast-forward through the commercials.
00:18:19.000Nowadays, it has to be like, alright, what's the simplest, most basic storyline that lets you – you've got to get to know each character, each relationship, two or three great act breaks.
00:18:31.000There's so much criteria that go into the structure of it.
00:18:34.000There's no room for anything interesting to happen.
00:24:28.000It was a great show that was on basically pre-internet, where you would watch these wacky fucking stories of people that got busted murdering people by this one really good autopsy coroner.
00:24:43.000And this coroner, Dr. Michael Badden, one of the ones I'll never forget, he took this one lady, he was in love with this lady, and she died, and he stole her corpse and had it in his house, and put a tube where her vagina was, and he had bought cases and cases of perfume,
00:25:00.000because she was rotting in his bed, and he would just douse her in perfume and keep fucking her.
00:26:03.000And a lot of them have access to drugs because of the fact that they're doctors.
00:26:07.000There was a book called Dead Doctors Don't Lie.
00:26:10.000And it was basically the gist of the book was that a lot of people are dealing with mineral deficiencies.
00:26:15.000And that mineral deficiencies, it's by a guy named Dr. Joel Wallach.
00:26:20.000It's a controversial book, and his ideas are fairly controversial, but they're not controversial in the sense that in animal husbandry, in animal agriculture, people are very aware that you need to supplement the diet of a lot of animals with minerals.
00:26:35.000For instance, some of the places where I hunt, they don't bait animals.
00:26:43.000These are wild animals that are in these giant ranches.
00:27:20.000Say if you have, like if you're growing corn, monocrops is what they call monocrop agriculture.
00:27:25.000You're growing corn on like fucking 700 acres, just growing corn.
00:27:29.000Well when they till that land, like every year that land has less minerals.
00:27:35.000You're not supposed to grow the same thing in the same place forever.
00:27:40.000And the places that are doing it right, they do what's called regenerative agriculture.
00:27:45.000And there's a real good argument for it's one of the reasons why it's good to raise grass-fed cattle in these areas because the manure from the cattle actually is a great fertilizer.
00:28:06.000You need nitrogen, and nitrogen is very difficult to get when you want to put it into the ground for fertilizer and all these other different minerals.
00:28:17.000You have to add that stuff to the soil now because the topsoil has been so eroded from continuous over-farming.
00:28:26.000And that his contention was that most of us, even if you're eating vegetables and you're getting stuff at the grocery store, you're getting things that are minerally deficient.
00:28:36.000They're not optimally mineralized, if that's a word.
00:28:44.000It's just a liquid form of minerals, like minerals that come from...
00:28:50.000There's a type of water that's like a very rich in mineral water that is called glacial milk.
00:28:56.000And basically what it is is the runoff from glaciers that it carries an incredible amount of minerals in it to the point where the water actually kind of looks kind of milky.
00:29:06.000And you can get that in some places, some places on Earth, people, their water actually looks like that because it's got so many minerals in it.
00:30:57.000But I think you really should take something.
00:31:01.000It's so hard to make sure that you're getting all the vitamins that you need from your food, especially when you go on the road.
00:31:09.000On the road, unless you know you're eating in a really good organic restaurant or you're getting high-quality vegetables, high-quality meat, it's hard.
00:33:27.000He would just go to fucking Vietnam and go to a street meat shop where there's no running water and he'd just gobble down some fucking whatever meat.
00:34:06.000It's like a puddle that elk piss in, and they wallow around in it, and they get their scent on it, especially when they're rutting, when they're having sex with the female elk.
00:34:15.000They get in there, and they piss all over the water, and they roll around in it, and so you get this muddy puddle.
00:34:21.000And sometimes hikers, like if you're on some serious fucking trek, you know, you're doing like the Appalachian Trail or something like that, and your water scares, you can't find a creek, you gotta take the water out of an elk wallow.
00:35:45.000So that little thing with that light, you spin it around inside your glass of water, and depending upon the amount of ounces, a certain amount of time, but it's not that much time, shockingly.
00:35:56.000It's like 10 minutes, and sometimes guys even throw iodine tablets in water.
00:36:02.000The whole deal is just kill anything that can fuck you up.
00:36:05.000And just get over the fact that it's going to taste like piss.
00:37:03.000And through this podcast and through this company, a company called the Cash App, they've raised thousands and thousands of dollars and built a bunch of wells.
00:37:12.000They're in the process of building them now, and we've donated a bunch of money to Oh, that's amazing.
00:37:23.000And he gets so fucked up, like sometimes he works out, and then he gets to the point where his body turns pale, and he starts shaking and shivering, and they have to get him into a shower.
00:37:46.000And he's been on heavy, heavy, heavy antibiotics.
00:37:50.000And of course, one of the things that comes with heavy antibiotics, particularly something called Cipro, is you don't just get sick from that.
00:37:59.000You also get your ligaments become very, very lax and they get weak.
00:38:04.000And a lot of people that come off antibiotics for a long period of time...
00:38:12.000Like athletes, when they get staph infection, they put you on this heavy dose of antibiotics, but all your ligaments get weak, and they end up tearing your ACL. Both of his shoulders are torn, and he thinks it's probably a connection to the antibiotics.
00:38:27.000That he had to take to deal with the staff, or to deal with whatever the fuck this infection is, that he's got some very, very strange parasite.
00:38:35.000He goes so deep in the Congo, it might be an unidentified parasite, and that's part of the problem, is that he's basically like a fucking lab rat right now.
00:38:42.000And he's got malaria three different times.
00:38:53.000Well, one of the things, he got it, and then he said the anti-malaria shit is so bad, and it's so rough on you, that some people would prefer to get malaria and get it treated.
00:39:05.000And what was the stuff that he said that you get, there's a toxic sickness that he got from Maladorn, what the fuck was it called?
00:39:15.000I was trying to think of that word for like two minutes.
00:42:18.000They're trying to genetically engineer mosquitoes that don't carry malaria.
00:42:23.000And then they're also thinking that, you know, and this is really dangerous, really dangerous, that they could just get rid of mosquitoes, period.
00:42:32.000But the problem with that is, man, you don't know how all that shit's connected.
00:44:44.000It took like six weeks, they put it in, and six months later, there's fucking little, you ever see shavings from that powder on the bottom?
00:44:52.000I'm like, you motherfuckers brought termite-infested wood to my house, and now it's in my house also.
00:52:22.000Yeah, like if I've shot a deer in the field, and it's called quartering it, you gut it, you take out the heart and the liver, you eat the heart and the liver, you quarter it, you take the limbs off, you take the legs off,
00:52:38.000and you take the meat off the back, it's called the back straps, and the tenderloins, you take all that stuff off, and then when you fart, you fucking smell that animal in your farts.
00:52:59.000You're smelling it, and then somehow or another, those molecules come out.
00:53:04.000You go all the way through your body from you smelling it and breathing in that air, and it comes out in your farts, and you smell this horrific gut smell.
00:54:20.000Hydrogen sulfide is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence.
00:54:27.000It is naturally produced in the body and could, in fact, be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases.
00:54:37.000Can you imagine if all those weirdos that pay women to fart in their face if they're onto something?
00:57:49.000Like if you said, would you bet your life?
00:57:52.000That there's a guy out there that sent a private jet to get a prostitute and take her to a nice restaurant and then paid her to stuff hamburger meat up his ass.
00:58:21.000Well, and the funny thing is, like, I don't get the sense this guy is on a chat room talking to other guys that stuff ground beef up their asses.
01:01:22.000My friend, his wife is a school teacher in Utah and they have a problem in middle school because kids are taking tampons and they're soaking them and rubbing alcohol and stuffing them up their assholes.
01:03:38.000It's interesting how some things sink some people.
01:03:40.000Like, that Howard Dover guy has got to be so fucking confused that Donald Trump got away with that grab-em-by-the-pussy thing when all he did was scream.
01:05:23.000Well, you were talking about Texas and Austin, and Massachusetts is a Republican state.
01:05:28.000Boston is a Democratic city, but it's such a big part of the state that it's like what Austin is to Texas, and also like Minneapolis to Minnesota.
01:06:35.000Because with those deep fake generators, where they could take you, like they've already done videos with me, where they have audio of me saying shit that I would say.
01:06:47.000Like a bunch of shit that I would say, but I never said it.
01:06:50.000About like chimp armies and all those different things.
01:07:08.000The stuff that he does that's my favorite, that's really, really funny, is the stuff that looks fake.
01:07:14.000It's like he does the face swap shit from the Instagram filters or Snapchat or whatever it is.
01:07:20.000But he did a bunch of stuff because he was doing a pilot for Comedy Central, and thank God they're too fucking stupid to pick it up because they would have ruined it.
01:07:27.000Because he was showing me one that they wouldn't do.
01:07:29.000It was Caitlyn Jenner having sex with Trump.
01:08:08.000But Dunnigan, I did a show with him on Saturday night and he came out on stage and he put a laptop in front of his face and there was a big screen and he was doing the characters for the crowd that he usually does like as Instagram posts.
01:08:43.000We were doing a gig at the store on a Friday night, and he was supposed to be on right before me, but they were like, actually, let's have Kyle go on after you, because apparently his whole thing needs a big setup.
01:12:26.000You think a man and a woman are the same thing, you are out of your goddamn mind if you think all you have to do is get a little bit of surgery, take some hormones, and you're a woman now, and you should be able to fight women.
01:12:37.000Imagine if that's your daughter, and your daughter is getting pummeled by someone who used to be a man.
01:12:50.000Yeah, real women are training their whole fucking lives, you know, what they're sacrificing to be the best woman out there, and then to compete against somebody who's got testosterone that just puts them at a whole different level physically.
01:13:08.000But the gains that they've had through growing up through puberty with testosterone and being an XY chromosome, having the bone structure of a man, those are undeniable.
01:13:18.000And they're undeniable by the world records that these trans women are winning.
01:13:23.000They're beating men, I mean, they're beating women, biological women, by giant numbers.
01:14:25.000Say if a woman was 30 years old and she decided at 30 years old she was going to start taking hormones and become a man and compete against men.
01:14:46.000There's no denying there's a gigantic advantage.
01:14:48.000If a woman was going to compete, like say if she's going to compete in track and field, and she's 30 years old, but for all of her life, she's been taking steroids.
01:14:57.000Her whole life, she's been taking just steroids.
01:15:01.000Get a man jaw and a thick neck and fucking shoulders.
01:16:23.000We're in this weird fantasy world right now where people want to be so progressive and they want to be so open-minded and they don't want to be transphobic.
01:16:31.000So we're letting people say and do absolutely preposterous things that don't have any logic, that don't make any sense in terms of what we know about biology.
01:17:10.000If you want to be treated as a woman, that's fine.
01:17:12.000But you can't just decide you're a woman and now you're going to break world records in fucking deadlifts and you're going to run faster than any woman that's ever lived.
01:17:21.000You're going to beat them in bike races.
01:17:23.000You're going to break world records as a trans woman.
01:17:54.000There's freak physical specimens in men.
01:17:56.000But when you go so far, so far over that, when you take a biological male and they're just breaking world records as a woman, You gotta go, come on.
01:18:07.000We're entering into this complete nonsense area.
01:18:18.000Yeah, and I mean, I don't know what the answer is because the women, if they do start taking testosterone, then they obviously can't compete against women legally any longer.
01:18:31.000I don't know if there needs to be a third category of athletics.
01:18:35.000The trans category, that's the perfect answer.
01:18:38.000I don't think even if the women take steroids, if it would be fair.
01:18:42.000I don't even know if that would be fair because they're still not going through puberty.
01:18:48.000First of all, there's not a lot of data on this.
01:18:52.000There's not a lot of data in terms of years and years of competition where they've studied athletes that have been trans versus athletes that have been biologically female versus athletes that are biologically male.
01:19:06.000This is people going with the current thinking and the current progressive ideology where they don't want to be criticized.
01:19:14.000They don't want to be called transphobic.
01:19:16.000They don't want to have articles written about them or people call them terrible names and talk shit about them.
01:19:22.000And it's such a small percentage of the population, and it's become an issue that is being identified for political reasons.
01:19:29.000You know, it's something that is, like, my kid is at college now, and like, every class, you have to say your name, what gender you identify as, and what pronoun you want to be referred to as.
01:19:42.000Do you know how many fucking people this is affecting?
01:21:43.000Like, fuck it, I'm voting for Jill Stein because she's a piece of shit, or Elizabeth Warren's a piece of shit, and she doesn't address trans rights.
01:23:58.000His son said they were chanting USA. Maybe four people behind him were chanting USA. The rest were saying boo-SA. Is that what Donald Jr. said?
01:24:52.000There's a picture on Dana's Instagram of him and Donald sitting in front of the television watching fights.
01:25:00.000They're watching the prelims before he went out.
01:25:02.000Dana watches some of the card in his green room.
01:25:06.000He listens to the commentary and wants to see.
01:25:10.000Because there's a lot of moving pieces involved in being the president of the United States and also the president of the UFC. A lot of moving pieces.
01:25:17.000You don't have a lot of time to sit through the entire pay-per-view while you're there.
01:25:20.000So Dana sits in the back and he watches a lot of the pay-per-view card on the screen in his office or in his green room.
01:25:28.000So he was back there with Donald sitting on the couch and he put it on his Instagram just watching some fights.
01:25:33.000It's just him and Trump sitting there.
01:26:04.000Walking to Madison Square Garden last night with Dana White for the big UFC championship fight was a little bit like walking to a Trump rally.
01:28:04.000What would possess someone to want that job?
01:28:08.000I mean, look, if you wanted to have the best case scenario answer, it's like, I want to do a good job and make this country great and do better.
01:28:17.000But what do you think really is It's ego!
01:28:21.000I was watching Andrew Yang on some morning talk show on Sunday and he's walking down the street with his wife and it's a Sunday.
01:28:28.000He's got his fucking kids and I'm like, this is your Sunday?
01:28:31.000He's got followers with his name on his...
01:28:34.000Imagine like strangers with Fitzsimmons on a placard walking behind you cheering on a Sunday.
01:29:18.000They all should be on ego dissolving doses of mushrooms so that none of them are acting in their own self-interest.
01:29:24.000They all should have zero financial investments in anything that has anything to do with any decisions that they make.
01:29:33.000They should have to give up all their stocks.
01:29:35.000They should have to absolutely make sure...
01:29:37.000Trump is able to have all his businesses be run by his kids, which is kind of hilarious.
01:29:42.000But then he makes decisions that would benefit his businesses that are being run by his kids, and as soon as he's out of office, he jumps back in and takes over again, which is like...
01:33:39.000But if you have a clip that goes viral...
01:33:42.000That clip on YouTube or Twitter or Facebook, wherever, that could get 30 million people, 40 million people, way fucking more than is ever going to watch you on television.
01:33:54.000They've kind of accepted that on late night television.
01:33:57.000Late night television has kind of accepted that what they're looking for is these clips, these moments, these clips that almost act as advertisements for the show.
01:34:27.000That guy's videos on makeup get way more fucking views than anything that happens on Fox News, and that's a fact.
01:34:33.000Anything that happens on MSNBC, and that's a fact.
01:34:37.000Social media is way more potent than anything else when it comes to getting a message out.
01:34:42.000And for sure, conservatives are being discriminated against on social media, by social media platforms.
01:34:49.000Well, what's weird about it is that when you think about social media and coming out of Silicon Valley, which is famously left-wing, the election was really swung by the internet in Trump's favor.
01:35:01.000You know, whether or not you want to call them bots that were set up by Russia or whether or not it was just they were a well-organized campaign.
01:35:08.000They were really smart and very sharp about videos that they put out.
01:35:36.000And even if you're not banning them from those platforms, if you're shadow banning them, if you're making it very difficult for people to find them, which is real.
01:36:16.000It's all like, it's the most cartoonish version of me possible.
01:36:21.000It's all like big bull elk screaming and dudes getting head kicked in a muscle car doing a burnout.
01:36:28.000That's my fucking, that's all, you look at my Instagram search, and that's all affected entirely by this algorithm that figures out what I like.
01:36:36.000And then also recommends things to me.
01:36:39.000Like in terms of like, there's a lot of sponsored things on Instagram.
01:38:26.000You know, I would interact with him a little bit.
01:38:28.000And then he emailed me at my site to say that he got banned from Twitter.
01:38:32.000Remember on Halloween when a kid showed up at the White House and Trump and Milani were standing there and Trump put candy on top of the kid's head instead of handing it to him?
01:40:50.000Look, I wish there was a fucking pill that you could take.
01:40:52.000I wish there was a place where you can go, where they zap you, like the place where they turn Bruce Banner into the Hulk, that turns you into a woman.
01:40:59.000A legit, 100% bona fide XX chromosome woman.
01:41:52.000You know what else is weird is that the same mentality that says this says that a white kid who grows dreadlocks and dresses in urban streetwear is culturally appropriating.
01:42:10.000Many, many of the people that would think that, yeah.
01:42:12.000Including, there was a movement that they had, I think most people abandoned it, but it was really ridiculous for a while, where they were yelling at white girls wearing hoop earrings, because they were saying that this is a Latina thing, you're culturally appropriating.
01:45:08.000These people want to just talk and have you listen.
01:45:11.000Like, I saw a woman coming out of a fucking restaurant the other day, and I was walking in, and a t-shirt said, I don't want to hear, or men stop talking.
01:46:23.000It comes from people that want compliance.
01:46:27.000The whole thing about woke culture is people that felt like they've been pushed around, they felt like they've been bullied, they felt like they've been maligned, they haven't been treated fairly, and now they want to turn it on you.
01:49:44.000Well, what's the likelihood of you becoming a loser if you're in an impoverished, drug-riddled, crime, just ravaged area?
01:49:55.000Well, it's highly likely that you're not going to succeed in that area unless...
01:50:01.000You are some person of unbelievable character and unbelievable will and fortitude and you're raised by people who did a phenomenal job essentially in a war zone, right?
01:50:12.000If you live in the south side of Chicago and you look at the murder rate in the south side of Chicago and you compare it to the murder rate in war zones, they're pretty fucking similar, right?
01:50:20.000So essentially these people are being asked to do their best and come out of this war zone and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
01:50:29.000Whereas other people around them are not in a war zone.
01:50:31.000If we're a community, we're supposed to look at that and go, hey, how the fuck do you stop this thing from being a war zone?
01:50:46.000Well, it has to be looked at as our problem, not their problem.
01:50:50.000We are all living with the ramifications of inequality.
01:50:54.000It's affecting us on a daily basis, whether it's crime or whether it's our gross national product would be much higher if more people were educated and more people were proud of their work.
01:51:23.000And this includes poor white cultures.
01:51:25.000Like, I have a friend who's from Kentucky, and he tells me about these fucking people that live in these coal mining communities, where the coal mining community, the coal's gone, and the community's shut down, people are hooked on pills, and he's like, you have never seen poverty like this.
01:52:32.000Like, we as a community, as a giant 320 million person community, should be concentrating on fixing those spots.
01:52:41.000At least as much as we're concentrating on fixing problems in other parts of the world.
01:52:46.000I understand the logic behind going to these other parts of the world that are fucked up and trying to solve these problems before they affect us, before they come back to us.
01:52:58.000But internally, inside of our country, we're not doing the same thing.
01:53:02.000We're allowing people to become violent criminals by never giving them a chance, by never giving them an outcome, or never giving them possibilities other than what they see around them.
01:53:36.000And it was like this 10-part series, and it showed the experiences of the white kids versus the black kids, because it was an integrated school, but you were seeing that the black kids were lagging grade-wise, graduation rates.
01:53:48.000And they just went in depth, and you saw that a lot of the black kids were dealing with single parents, they were dealing with being fucking evicted, some of them being homeless, or just not having the resources, like, you know, the white kids are getting SAT prep classes.
01:54:03.000And, you know, they're getting extra help because they've got a parent that's not working that can pick them up from school and drive them to a tutor.
01:54:09.000And there's just all these things that you're seeing.
01:54:11.000One side is getting fostered and the other side is struggling.
01:57:32.000But if you wanted to, if you wanted to fix, if you were a person, say if Greg Fitzsimmons became president, How do you fix that?
01:57:39.000How do you even make steps to fix that?
01:57:42.000Because I haven't heard anyone come up with a plan, maybe there is one that I haven't heard, but a plan where it makes sense, where there's a long-term proposition to try to take these communities that are just habitually engulfed in crime and violence,
01:57:59.000just consistently, like throughout the 60s and the 70s, and fix it.
01:58:49.000Like, how do you stop The 1%, like these bankers and investment people, how do you stop that?
01:58:54.000And how do you stop that in a way where it doesn't seem like you're changing the rules of the game because some people are just psycho good at it and completely dedicated to only making money?
01:59:06.000Well, you're not changing the rules because the estate tax was there from day one.
01:59:12.000The Founding Fathers wanted there to be a very large estate tax.
01:59:16.000To avoid what happened in Europe, which is these building up of these families that are handing down wealth.
01:59:21.000And so these kids, you know, so I think we need to go back to right now it's like 35% or something like that on wealth over $10 million if you're a couple.
01:59:32.000They need to go back to really taking that money back because… And doing what with it though?
01:59:46.000Because if it just went to a bunch of government programs that don't seem to make sense and that are poorly structured and that money gets wasted, that would make me sick.
02:00:00.000No, I think it has to be job training programs.
02:00:02.000It has to be helping small businesses grow with low-cost loans.
02:00:07.000But think about these kids that are inheriting a billion dollars.
02:00:12.000What are you ever going to contribute to society?
02:00:15.000As opposed to, if you were set up with, you went to a private high school, you went to a great university, you went to a graduate school, all of it was paid for.
02:00:23.000You had nannies, you were given tutors.
02:00:26.000You should be able to go out and make a good living now.
02:00:38.000I'm not saying take away everybody's money when they die, but I'm saying that there's a grotesque amount of money that needs to be pulled back.
02:00:45.000That's one way of at least putting a chip away at it.
02:00:58.000Unless you want, like, cops or police to occupy these areas.
02:01:03.000Like, how would you ever stop, like, at this point in time, how would you stop places from being crime-ridden?
02:01:08.000It would have to be, like, a multi-step program where you would slowly but surely implement it and try to slowly but surely chip away at all these problems.
02:01:39.000But I feel like if it's that way, unless it's federally, if it's that way, like, you're dealing with communities that don't have as much money already.
02:01:49.000You know, because just by virtue of the fact that they're crime-ridden and poverty-stricken, these are communities that already don't have any money.
02:03:25.000You had places where the lowest in our society, the most vulnerable, were taken care of, and those were closed, and those people are on the street now.
02:03:34.000That was during the Reagan administration, right?
02:04:05.000Well, part of the problem is that, you know, it's just gotten so expensive to live here.
02:04:09.000You know, the real estate has gone through the roof, and so people that were living on the edge, you know, paycheck to paycheck, all of a sudden, you're fucking, you're out.
02:04:16.000You stay on as many couches as you can until people say, look, you can't live here anymore.
02:04:21.000And then you're in your car, and, you know, trying to get, now you gotta get, to get back into housing, you need to come up with a first, last security deposit.
02:04:39.000Well, one of the things they're finding is that, like, I work with this group called People Concern in L.A., and they're trying to get people into housing.
02:04:50.000Transitory housing where they can at least get a shower, get some decent clothes.
02:04:54.000We can go in a job interview and get started where you don't have to pay that first last security deposit.
02:05:00.000That's great if you're not mentally ill.
02:05:37.000So they need to have, and one of the things they found also is when they give people housing, it used to be contingent on you staying sober.
02:05:44.000And now they're finding that, no, get them off the street.
02:05:47.000If they're still using, you try to work with them, you try to get them into counseling, but you don't throw them back out on the street because they're using.
02:06:39.000He needs at least a year of sobriety before he even thinks about doing that, but even then, you're taking a guy who's a bona fide addict, a self-professed addict, and then you're going to give him drugs?
02:07:17.000I'm really happy for Artie, and I've seen him, you know...
02:07:20.000I saw him before he went in, and he was a fucking mess.
02:07:25.000He was really bad, and he had been doing good.
02:07:28.000Like, he was on Crashing the two years that I was there, and he would come in, and the guy was always on time, knew his lines, improv'd his face off, was always fucking great.
02:07:37.000And then you'd hear that he'd gone off again, and you were just like, man, can't you just fucking...
02:08:40.000I mean, that guy, not that he was ever like a hard addict, but he's been sober for a lot of years, and he found ways to replace it and still be a fucking madman.
02:09:12.000I'm like, I think you gotta run a lot.
02:09:14.000You gotta get in shape, and then you do it a lot, and then you get used to it.
02:09:18.000Yeah, the high doesn't kick in right away.
02:09:20.000There's some layers you gotta shed first.
02:09:22.000But this goes back to what you were talking about earlier, about so many of us are looking for a way to twist our consciousness, to do something to just take you out of whatever the fuck the normal, sober consciousness is.
02:09:37.000Yeah, what's wrong with the regular sober consciousness?
02:09:39.000And I mean, I'm saying this as somebody who struggles with it.
02:09:44.000I feel all the time like reaching for something.
02:09:49.000Even if it's like, I took CBD pills this morning, just because it changes me a little bit.
02:10:52.000I can remember trying to hook up sober after being drunk for so much of my life and then getting sober and then trying to hit on girls and, like, go to bed with a girl while sober was weird.
02:11:04.000I was looking at my body like, look at this shitty body.
02:11:07.000I didn't care about my body when I was drunk.
02:12:51.000They probably thought they liked you until you fucked them and then you're hanging around talking and farting and they're like, get this guy out of my fucking apartment.
02:13:07.000With someone, especially if you're really aroused, and they're really hot, and you're really into it, and they're into you, that is a drug.
02:15:24.000It's like when guys see a car, like a brand new Mercedes in a commercial, and there's a girl with long legs and high heels, and she's leaning against the car.
02:15:32.000You're like, oh my god, does that girl come with the car?
02:15:56.000And that's what's used to sell most things.
02:16:00.000How many things in America, in particular, are sold by attractive women?
02:16:08.000Attractive women in ads, attractive women that we associate, if you get this Lamborghini, attractive women will be more drawn to you because it's difficult to get a Lamborghini.
02:17:19.000We are being tricked left and right by our dicks and our vaginas and our sex hormones are talking us into nonsense where we could just be enlightened and we could travel the galaxy together.
02:17:30.000But we've got to get past all this sex stuff, this biological sex stuff.
02:17:34.000And you can have an orgasm in your own brain here with this new phone, iPhone 72. Yeah.
02:17:40.000And just press the button and get that out of your system.
02:20:03.000No, they've got them here too, I think.
02:20:06.000But anyway, this motherfucker is on one side of the river, and he can hear a mating call from the other side of the river, and he's slow as shit.
02:20:17.000So this sloth here is the female sloth, and he fucking, and I don't know where they get these cameras from, but they watch this guy go down the tree, across a limb, into the water, can't swim for shit.
02:20:29.000There's fucking rapids, he makes his way across, I was like...
02:24:25.000Whether it's, you know, he said, she said shit, where, like, you know, you have a problem with this guy, and then another guy tells you he said some shit about you.
02:27:34.000I was fucking around with Dave Vada one time when I was in like 10th grade and we were wrestling around and he reached down and grabbed my balls really hard and squoze them like a fucking nut.
02:28:09.000Like, say if you're throwing a kick with your right leg, and I'm throwing a kick with my right leg, and we throw them at the same time, and we're moving weird, sometimes it just goes right in the sack.
02:28:23.000Someone will be hitting you and you're trying to hit them in the chest, but inadvertently they catch part of your leg and it redirects it right towards their balls.
02:28:39.000There's a company called Diamond MMA and I wear their cup when I do jiu-jitsu.
02:28:44.000It's a compression short with all these straps built in and this cup that It's got a more flexible foam rubber on the outside, and then a very hard rubber that covers the outside edge,
02:28:59.000and a very hard rubber that covers the sack and the dick.
02:29:04.000And then it fits very snugly to your body, and you can get kicked in the balls pretty hard with those on.
02:33:46.000And then if you were a girl, I felt bad for girls back then because how annoying would it be that somebody's just grabbing- My wife must know what we're talking about.
02:35:01.000Like, the whole process of men developing and getting testosterone and going through the whole cycle of adulthood, it's just a fact that women mature quicker.