Joe Rogan Experience #1384 - Ari Shaffir
Episode Stats
Length
2 hours and 46 minutes
Words per Minute
208.27377
Hate Speech Sentences
125
Summary
This week, the boys talk about the death of Bert Kreischer, the school bus driver who threw a kid off the bus, and how to deal with a grown man who thinks he's a kid. Also, we talk about what it's like to be a kid in the 80's and 90's, and what it was like to grow up in the 90's and early 00's. And, of course, there's a new segment called November, where we try to figure out what's going on in the world in the month of November and try to make sense of it all. Enjoy, and don't forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting apps! We'll see you in November! XOXO, John Rocha and Matt Kuchta Music by Jeff Kaale ( ) Art: Mackenzie Moore ( ) Music: Hayden Coplen ( ) Editor: Ben Koppel ( ) Editing: Will Witwer ( ) Audio Engineer: Will Gray ( ) Mixing: Will) Editor: Will ( ) Copy and paste this into an audio file and paste it into a blog post ( ) and post it on SoundCloud ( ) If you like what you hear, tag us on Anchor.fm/Not Sobriety November, we'll be listening to it on November, November, and we'll send you a review of it in the next episode of Not Sobriance November, so you can be notified of the next week! Thanks for listening and sharing it on your thoughts on the podcast! Subscribe to Not Stoned November, not Sobrience November, We'll be looking out loud and sober November, Thank you for your feedback, and much more! Love you, bye bye, bye Bye Bye Bye, Bye, bye, Bye Bye! - John and Matt, bye. Cheers, bye - John & Matt, Kristy - Mike & Matt <3 - Mike and Mike Love, Yours Truly, Mike & Mike, Mike & Rory & Rory and Rory . ~ Thank you, Mike and Rory xx - EJ & Ben & Rory, Kristy, Ben & Mauricio XO, Sr. - P. & Kacie, Sr., Chad, Brad, Mike, Jack, EJ, Paul, Jr.
Transcript
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Well, that one never got repeated in podcast history.
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We were saying how Bert is the only person we know who's both funny and a great promoter.
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You get someone who's really funny, but we were talking about Bert's...
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Oh, it would have been so much better if they got that natural thing.
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Give us one of those cartoonists to make the video.
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Well, for everybody, the audio, we're going to stop now.
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Bert, he would do a bunch of stupid shit and get injured.
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And some red belt kid who's with Hori and Gracie.
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When he was that young, he really reminds me of that frat guy that he was.
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I can't really see it now, but this is him like four years removed from that.
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I think part of it, he's also going along with it, enjoying...
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How about that video that I showed you that Bridget Phetasy showed me?
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It's a video of this guy who's on a school bus...
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It starts with a bus driver throwing a little kid off the school bus, screaming at him, and then a bunch of people are like, what the fuck are you doing, man?
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The bus driver gets back on the bus, and then they check the little kid.
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And they realize this little kid with a lunchbox and everything is actually a grown midget.
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And he's pretending that he's a little kid hanging out with these little kids.
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And then they get to him to see, hey, are you okay?
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Something to do with Burt, but I don't know what that was.
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I definitely don't remember what the fuck we were talking about.
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So I've set myself in October to see if I can fucking do it again.
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You told me about that app that's on the thing.
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Yeah, that's what I was looking for like five, six years ago.
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You know, it's sort of like, remember when we had to do those 15 yoga classes?
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So because you had to do it, you just fucking knew you were going to do it.
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Because you could always say, I'm not going to use my phone much.
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Dude, I'm an observer of the other people on their phones.
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With me, I found myself just reading Google News stories for no reason.
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It's like, oh, this car sold for this much money.
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I'm lying to myself because I'm always thinking that I'm going to, oh, but there's material in this.
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Really good ones, like that guy getting thrown off the bus.
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The way that the horse thing would have got to you years before the internet.
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Well, the internet was around, but it was years before social media.
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I did have a friend of mine that I go back and forth with.
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He was one of those dudes that just knows everything that's fucked up.
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I open up the email and it's that porn star with a baseball bat up her ass.
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And then, you know, we would go back and forth.
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I would send him something fucked up, he would send me something fucked up.
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Dude, interesting fact about Belladonna, that first storytelling show we ever did at the Improv, 12 people were there, and she was one of them.
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I was like, hey, man, it's not a disrespectful thing.
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Also, I'm afraid I'm going to go down this line of her husband.
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Gaping porn is the weirdest shit ever because people want to look inside people's bodies.
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They close up vagina and wait for the jizz to come out.
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What's really weird is that some things that some people would hate, other people love.
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Like an intelligent, well-respected woman, I won't break up her name, was on stage talking about how she likes taking loads in the face.
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Now, she might have been saying this as a joke, but it might have been true.
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Or is it guys like it, and that's why it's a thing?
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Or girls pretend they like it, so the guys do it.
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But some girls would be like, fuck that, get that away from me.
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There's so many people that are into such weird shit.
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I'm like, all right, well, that won't do it again.
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But a guy would get mad if a girl spit on his dick?
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Maybe if you were having a really hard time staying hard anyway, because she's intimidating you, and you're barely hanging in there, and then she spits on your dick, you're like, hey, what the hell?
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If Larry Flitt never did the Hustler stuff and never went through all the court cases would...
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I mean, that guy took a bullet for the freedom of expression.
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Whether you like porn or not, we've all jerked off to it.
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They had already done Deep Throat before Hustler, right?
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Deep Throat was a porn film that people went to see, like a regular film.
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Same time, wasn't it also a nickname, like a code name for someone?
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That was one of the insiders in Watergate, and their nickname was Deep Throat, but that was because the movie had already been out.
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They named one of the Nixon Watergate people after a porno?
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Look, man, those CIA people or whoever the fuck was involved with all that stuff, FBI, a lot of them are bros.
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Yeah, do you think one guy's like, I caught a drug dealer.
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Because I went to someone who's running for president and I broke into that fucking office, dude!
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There's a lot of, I mean, they're like cops or like military people.
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You know, they're like, a lot of them are just men, guys, guys, men.
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You know, if you're working for like one of the biggest police, I mean, it's essentially a police organization.
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None of them majored in English with a focus on Shakespeare.
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If it's a group of women that are, you know, from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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They're definitely not going to call it deep throat.
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But that movie was in 72, so when did Hustler start?
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Hustler was around 75, 76. Are you a aficionado?
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The first one that I had in my collection was...
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Larry Flint started it in Columbus, that first headquarters were in Ohio.
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I had to go to the Hustler office once to review porn.
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There was an article that they were doing where you review porn.
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I forget is like early in the days of the internet, right?
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Yeah, they were just trying to figure things out and try things out.
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Or maybe they showed me a little of the porn or they showed me the magazine.
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Hustler started the same year Nixon ended in 74. The first deep throat was 72. Yeah, so that's exactly where it came from.
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Didn't you and Stanhope and Stanhope's mom review boobs or something?
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Stanhope's mom would watch porn and give these fucking hilarious reviews of it.
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I'm telling you, dude, she fucking murdered it.
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I wouldn't play any of it because it's their stuff, but people can see it.
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Kill Tony, five-year anniversary, episode 273. So it was Dom Irera who's the best at those things.
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No one's better than Dom at those roast shows, talking shit, or something like Kill Tony where a guy does one minute of terrible comedy and he gets to chime in.
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He's just the master at dissecting people, ironically.
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Have you ever seen him do his open mic character?
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If you interrupt him, he has to back up and start from the scratch, from the beginning, like over and over again.
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He should be on every episode and then whoever the guest is on top of it.
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He's just so good at talking shit to people when they do terrible things and do it in a way where you can't even be mad at them.
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Were you watching last night's new episode of Kill Tony?
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They should have a little blurry thing that can bounce around your cock.
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Honestly, a setting at this point on the YouTube.
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Did you see the new release that said something and maybe this is people freaking out for no reason.
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People are freaking out about some new terms that they have where they can get rid of any channel that they don't think is commercially viable.
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They did update their terms of service, but I haven't looked into this.
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I think that they might have always been able to do that.
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So they always have the ability to tell you to fuck off.
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If you're learning that as an adult, holy shit.
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And he does it on a talk show and people are laughing.
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So he's on this show and the guy's speaking to him.
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Not only does he understand it, he tells a story to the crowd and they're laughing.
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So he learned either with her or because of her.
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They're trying to fucking addict you every chance they get.
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But it's just the influence that one person can have when you're a kid who starts up a social network.
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You think you're just going to connect people that want to say hi to their friends from school.
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And then people are putting filters in there to try to control the content.
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And then people are biased against certain political ideologies and more submissive or more permissive of others.
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Wait a minute, you didn't engineer it specifically to create conflict, but it's more monetarily beneficial for you to create conflict, and your algorithm is sort of conflict, it sort of gravitates towards conflict,
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Like, if you engage with things, a lot of people, like, say if it's...
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If you engage with abortion threads, your feed will be filled with those things.
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If you're a person that instead engages with only positive stuff, would that make your...
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So I did this as a test to myself, whatever, on YouTube to see how much YouTube was influencing me.
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Tim Pool kept coming up for fucking, you know, five months after that podcast you did.
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And then it was like, so I was like, from now on, for a month, I'm only clicking on puppy videos.
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When I see one, like, of yours or of somebody's that I want to see, or music, something that pops up before, I'm like, nope, not touching it.
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Only searching and clicking on YouTube videos that have puppies.
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Soldiers coming home when their dog's greeting them.
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And then eventually they just started hitting me with only fucking puppy videos.
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So the algorithm just recognizes what you're interested in.
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You ever talk to someone who's like woke about something and you want to be like...
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I don't believe you're this mad about this thing.
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And so then it's like, I think they've been influenced to think a certain way by these dumb algorithms.
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One of the things about being into anything, left-wing or right-wing stuff, is when you get into it, it's fun.
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When you've got action, shit's happening, you're yelling at each other.
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You're going to that fucking Facebook every day.
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What the fuck do these assholes have to say about the First Amendment today?
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But you proved, at least on YouTube, that if you just gravitate towards positive things, like most of my YouTube feed is like MMA fights and pool matches.
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I watch a lot of pool, pro pool, and muscle cars.
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My YouTube feed is pretty much what I look for.
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Does it still hit you with shit that you're like, oh, what is this about?
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They sneak some gossipy stuff in there, some celebrity stuff in there.
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Weird ones get in that don't seem to make sense.
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I use it in the sense that it's connected to my Instagram, but I don't actually use it.
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There's a little controversy this week that Instagram's going to take the likes away from viewing.
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It's going to take the likes away from public viewing.
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You can't see how many likes you got for a post anymore.
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You can see it all, but I can't see how many likes you got.
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So if you put up a picture and your picture got 40,000 likes, I can never see that.
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So they can still make their money off it, but everyone else won't get into a contest.
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Speculation is that it's going to drive advertising dollars into giving money directly to Instagram instead of people being able to advertise on their own.
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But if you were an Instagram, right, and you had people making shit tons of money off your platform just by posting things, hey, this is my new butt cream or whatever the fuck you're selling, and they don't even get a piece of that, they gotta be like, hey, what are we doing?
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We're spending a million dollars a month in fucking bandwidth, probably way more than that, actually.
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It's gotta be millions in bandwidth for every month.
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I also think that it's going to de-incentivize people to like photos.
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Exactly, because you don't see you making a difference.
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Who's made more money than those butt doctors because of Instagram?
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If you look at the percentage of uptick in revenue, butt doctors.
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And now suddenly they're in the money in butts.
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Dude, do you know there's a theory that I think is true that women are just hotter these days because they're always on the verge of being on Instagram.
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So even to go to the supermarket, they're putting makeup on, they're putting nice clothes on, they're always looking their best because they run into a friend.
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You know, if you're a gal, there's a lot of competition out there, and a lot of these hoes go for it, okay?
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They're pulling their panties aside at 38% of their pictures, you know?
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I mean, there's a lot of strong competition out there now.
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And this is, by the way, for sure, one of the reasons why prostitution is illegal.
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One of the reasons why prostitution is illegal, it would completely flip relationships on its head.
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If guys didn't need to have a relationship to have sex, just sex, and relationships were only love, but you can go, no, get sex from a woman for money, just like you get a handjob, or just like you can get a massage, rather, you can get a handjob.
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How can they massage your head if they can't massage your dick?
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People would change what they want out of a relationship.
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I'm not saying that all women are like this, but any woman that is sexually manipulative, she withholds sex from her man if he doesn't do certain things.
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My friends in Bangkok, where I met people in Bangkok, they don't play those...
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The regular women here, the non-working women...
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Because they know, dude, I can just walk down the street, like a bodega in New York, they're everywhere, and just find a woman.
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So this like, I'll make him wait, it's like, shut up with that.
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If there was no shame for the girl, if no one really cared if she hooked up with you on a one night stand, it turns out she fucked your cousin a month ago, no one cared.
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People didn't talk about this shit when we were kids.
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Nobody taught you what to do in a relationship.
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Those are the three most confusing fucking things that happened to you.
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Can I make a PSA real quick for all the children who are going to start drinking?
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Your parents are never going to teach you about alcohol use.
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When you have a few drinks, you can switch to water if you're feeling drunk.
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You're going to throw up if you keep drinking like a child, but you're a child, right?
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If you're going to drink, and I don't advise anyone under 21 to drink because that's illegal, but if I was going to advise them, I would say have two drinks.
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You're for sure going to get drunk, but just limit it to drunk.
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If you're 16 years old, two shots of Jack Daniels will put you in a fucking goofy mood.
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I would say wherever you're at, if you're feeling good, just stop for a while.
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Well, the problem is you lose your inhibitions, right?
00:25:06.000
You'll have more fun if you switch up Coca-Cola.
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Yeah, next thing you know, you got Bert on the table.
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Because you can have two or three of those in four minutes.
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You still got two more shots that haven't hit you yet.
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Ari Shaffir's going to be with me at the improv tonight at 10.30.
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Because tell everybody the whole, you went on a little journey there, trying to figure out where to go.
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It's a lot about Judaism, my upbringing, you know?
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Fucking do that, comedy club funny, be done with that shit, you know?
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So that's what I've been working on for a while.
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It's been the longest one, two and a half years.
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But it's also the first one that you did like a theme.
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And it's essentially, so what you did was like, there's a lot of guys who do that.
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But that festival is like, that's how it is, right?
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So you decided to do a theme, but to do this theme with American style stand-up.
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I went with my storytelling show one year, and then my plan was to go show them what a fucking American Hour was, which is my last special.
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Just like, hey, here's your stand-up, you fucking fools.
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Trying to do some fucking higher thing where you're tying it all together, but they're not funny.
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And so I was like, everybody here, I'm giving you an American hour.
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And then the next year the plan was, and it became two years later, was like, now I'll do one of your stupid fucking theme hours, but I'm not going to do it where I'm just fucking serious for 20 minutes.
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The people I know who saw it live was in the room.
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People see four or five shows a day for five days in a row.
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Some of it's funny, but a lot of it's not funny.
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Of the not funny part, that was like legit powerful stuff.
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Where you're like, fuck, you're caught up in the emotion.
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But a lot of them is just forcing in, and I've seen people doing my storytellers, like forcing in some lesson or something.
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Mikey D did one on there about getting AIDS. Oh, Jesus.
00:28:24.000
But usually it was like, comics did it, it was just funny, and then when normals did it, they were like...
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They'd be like, that's not just the day I lost my watch.
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Yeah, and that's what they do in Edinburgh a lot.
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Some of them are really good, but that theme thing was that.
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When you say American-style stand-up, I almost wish I wasn't an American stand-up so I could fucking wholeheartedly agree with you.
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But I wish I wasn't an actual American stand-up so I could have a non-opinionated point in this.
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Because when I hear people say, like, America's not where the best stand-ups are, I'm like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck you!
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I'm sure a lot of you are out there in New Zealand and Florida and other countries.
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Some of you are a genius, and some of you are amongst the best in the world.
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It doesn't disqualify you from being amongst the best in the world.
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But if you want to say that there's not a greater number of hilarious fucks, female and male, in America, a way disproportionate number, you're out of your fucking mind.
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Well, especially now with the internet, I mean, you can become a legit national act with no one's help like Andrew, like Schultz is doing.
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These fucking killers like him, all these assassins.
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But the thing is, these guys, they're blossoming now.
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And people get so worked up, too, which is also fun.
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People definitely get more mad than they ever have before, but they also get happier that you're willing to push the envelope, too.
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If you say the wrong thing, like, I think I can go a little darker.
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They can take away a level of money we can make.
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But like, they can't take away the ability to do stand-up.
00:31:36.000
And you just have a few clubs that'll be like, yeah, we're never gonna fucking get rid of him for anything he says.
00:31:41.000
But yeah, and also, fans, like, if you did something, I mean, it would have to be some horrible shit.
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Yeah, you'd have to murder somebody or something.
00:32:07.000
I think Norm McDonald, maybe, I shouldn't say friends, like Norm knows him.
00:32:10.000
And I think Norm has actually talked to him about doing his podcast.
00:32:17.000
I want to show you something that Stan wrote a long time ago, now that we're talking about this.
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Norm has whatever the fuck the opposite of having a filter is.
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He's just got weird, crazy shit that's going to come out of his mouth.
00:32:41.000
Did you see the Sacha Baron Cohen with OJ? No, I did not.
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And he's just this Italian guy, and he's like, I mean, you gotta watch, but he's like, yeah, no, he has some assistant women, you know, I wish I could kill them, but I guess I cannot.
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And the guy's like, OJ's like, all right, man, no, no, no.
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To be able to do that shit right in front of those people, they don't even know what's happening.
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This is what I mean by, like, they can't ever take it all away from us.
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Everyone calling The Stand, posting hateful messages and emailing hate speech to us.
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We never respond to such irresponsible protests.
00:33:28.000
Despite what you feel about Ari Shafir, we have the right to book or hire anyone, regardless of their views on religion, race, or politics.
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Ari is a comedian and a performer just because you view his creations as something that is not humorous, but hate speech.
00:33:43.000
Harassing our establishment will not deter us from booking Ari to perform at the stand.
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Furthermore, unorganized protest over a something that is out of our control is not only morally wrong but is viewed as a crime.
00:34:02.000
We will find out what special interest group this is and press charges if this continues.
00:34:31.000
You know, in some clubs, they don't recognize that.
00:34:37.000
Like, full letters about Paul Mooney, complaining about him.
00:34:42.000
And she was like, call Paul, read it to him, and then decide if he wants the letter or not.
00:34:47.000
Tell the people who complained that he's going to be severely punished.
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He goes, read it again, read it again, I love this.
00:34:55.000
And we'd read it back, he goes, you want to go safe for my day, yeah.
00:34:58.000
And then we'd call the person, we'd be like, okay, he's been docked for two weeks, he won't be here.
00:35:04.000
And we're hoping that they'd be there when he was there again.
00:35:07.000
And of course he was never told not to show up.
00:35:18.000
When I find someone that's like a one star for a restaurant that I know is good.
00:35:23.000
And then I'll read the review and I'm like, let me check out this dude's profile.
00:35:39.000
You know, did you see that New York Times review?
00:35:41.000
They gave the fucking Brooklyn Steakhouse that we love...
00:36:01.000
And you're like, wow, maybe something happened.
00:36:04.000
Because look, if you're a provocateur slash journalist, and I know how much you love trolls, that's what that guy did.
00:36:11.000
He took one of the most delicious restaurants of all time, and he made a one-star rating.
00:36:16.000
So either he's really clever, or he's got to be a twat.
00:36:20.000
It shows up on top of Google when you search Peter Luger Review, too.
00:36:26.000
I can count on Peter Lucas takeouts in Brooklyn to produce certain sensations, and then I don't know.
00:36:30.000
Well, it's a very, very popular restaurant, right?
00:36:34.000
Last time we were there, we luckily weaseled in and had to grease some palms, but it's a fucking sweet spot.
00:36:41.000
When Diaz was in town, he was like, get a reservation.
00:36:45.000
And so we had my manager assistant call and say, we're part of Obama's staff.
00:36:50.000
Yeah, they said we could do 315, and that's it.
00:37:01.000
You can't do that for a one-star restaurant, you cunt.
00:37:05.000
That's more than, he's not just, he's just Or he's one of those writers.
00:37:10.000
There's certain writers that are just trying to be assholes with everything they do.
00:37:16.000
They love accentuating the art form of being an asshole.
00:37:23.000
When you're an asshole with good, you know how to say the, you know, put the right words in the right order.
00:37:28.000
It just sounds juicy and pops and makes you seem terrible.
00:37:32.000
But when you're doing that over something like Peter Luger's, you lose all that one star means.
00:37:40.000
What one star means is you go to the Olive Garden and the fucking guy who works behind the counter has heroin problems.
00:38:01.000
See, it's more showing that this guy's trolling.
00:38:07.000
He's made us uncover him, though, and we uncovered him.
00:38:12.000
If you want to make a fucking splash in the restaurant review business in 2019, that's what you do.
00:38:32.000
I mean, he was talking about the steak not being flavorful.
00:38:38.000
If they dropped it on the floor and picked it up on the way, it's still a two-star.
00:38:55.000
It's so much more fun to be angry at something.
00:39:02.000
So, since it was this, whatever, this theme thing, I was like, we should do it in a synagogue.
00:39:05.000
There's this place that I was like, this works because it's like a performance space that was a synagogue, and then they didn't want me to do it because of my material.
00:39:13.000
And then we kept trying to find new synagogues that would let me do it.
00:39:17.000
The one that would be good for performance, and then also that would let me do it, and they were all like, no fucking way.
00:39:23.000
Some of them are like, do you have Holocaust jokes?
00:39:28.000
My dad has survived, but I can see whatever the fuck I want.
00:39:33.000
No, I think you can say whatever the fuck you want.
00:39:46.000
It's like, that's one of the rare things where only Jews can talk about it in that way.
00:39:51.000
I mean, anybody can talk about anything, right?
00:39:53.000
But only Jews can talk about the Holocaust from a position of, hey, that was my family that was killed.
00:39:59.000
That was my dad who was in the fucking concentration camps.
00:40:04.000
But like, yeah, I'll do it the way I want to do it.
00:40:06.000
The only people that can say that, that that is my family.
00:40:22.000
Not only did the Armenians have a genocide, but there was a denial of their genocide.
00:40:34.000
Not that long ago, people were still denying the Armenian genocide.
00:40:41.000
I didn't know about it until Manny Gamburian told me about it.
00:40:47.000
Well, they hate the people who massacred their ancestors.
00:41:58.000
I was trying a turkey thing and it's too close to Thanksgiving.
00:42:19.000
The ancient or modern name of the country is Hellas or Helada.
00:42:52.000
They adopted its official name known in English as the Republic of Turkey.
00:43:00.000
It was probably some cross-promotion with Kellogg's.
00:43:06.000
Remember when Kazakhstan got mad at L.E.G.? Fucking real mad at him.
00:43:15.000
Dude, that Borat movie is one of my favorite movies ever.
00:43:24.000
You go back and watch it today and you're like, what in the fuck, man?
00:43:28.000
And again, that guy, he's just so good at fucking with people.
00:43:36.000
While all this madness is going on, remember when he shit in the bag and was handing it to one of the people in the house in Georgia?
00:43:48.000
Do you know he fell asleep in that house in Georgia?
00:43:53.000
And then he fell asleep because they were drinking wine.
00:44:03.000
But then he woke up and he was just like right into it.
00:44:12.000
Got blasted, woke up drunk, still realized he was Borat.
00:44:17.000
Him with Donald Trump back in the day when he was Ali G. Did you ever see the Ali G movie?
00:44:23.000
He made a movie that was only available in the UK. I actually bought a special VHS player just to play it.
00:44:29.000
Yeah, because it was one of those ones that was...
00:44:33.000
No, VHS. There used to be two formats of VHS. There was a format that they used over in the UK, and there was a format that we use here.
00:44:42.000
And you have to either get a universal player, one that plays all formats, or you had to get a separate one.
00:44:50.000
But I got it specifically so I could get the Ali-G TV shows, too.
00:44:55.000
You used to be able to buy the TV shows online in VHS. The TV shows were great, yeah.
00:45:01.000
Dude, I'm telling you, man, this fucking movie is great.
00:45:15.000
If you're a stoner, this is an outstanding movie.
00:46:06.000
And then you finally watch it, and you're like, this is legitimately funny.
00:46:10.000
That's another one, if you watched it today, you'd be laughing hard.
00:46:14.000
Remember when the baby was in the umbilical cord and he's swinging around the room?
00:46:20.000
At the end, he, like, lands with his house in, like, the desert somewhere.
00:46:23.000
It's like, it kind of should already be over, and it's like, he's still going.
00:46:26.000
And then everyone's greeting him, him and his dad, like, rip torn or something.
00:46:30.000
They're greeting him, and one of the signs says, why is this movie still going?
00:46:43.000
You've never seen anything like that in Jackass.
00:46:48.000
There's a lot of people taking serious risks on TV back then.
00:47:07.000
The guy who would do the pranks on people and put makeup on and shit?
00:47:14.000
How am I not getting Jamie Kennedy out of my mouth?
00:47:24.000
I went into it going like, give me something like 14%.
00:47:39.000
How about the one where he talked those guys into being gay Chippendales dancers?
00:47:50.000
It was like he was a sleazy producer and he was telling these guys that they were going to be in this new show called Guys Gone Nuts.
00:47:56.000
And then eventually it got further down the line.
00:48:00.000
But then eventually it got further down the line where they were going to have to do gay stuff.
00:48:04.000
He was getting them on film, saying how much gay stuff they'd be willing to do.
00:48:12.000
And he's this sleazy promoter, treating them like they're male prostitutes.
00:48:23.000
Do you remember when he got Holtzman to wipe his feet?
00:48:41.000
He wiped the guy's feet because he thought the guy was the king?
00:48:43.000
Eventually he was like, in my country you're supposed to wipe some of his feet.
00:48:45.000
And he had Holtzman, who used to open mics with him.
00:48:53.000
And then he's wiping his feet and then he's just like, wow.
00:48:56.000
Those guys who put that crazy latex shit on your face when they can give you a fake nose and fake cheeks, like you can't tell.
00:49:08.000
You ever hear about Jim Carrey after Man on the Moon?
00:49:11.000
He got those people that did the makeup for him to look like...
00:49:18.000
He got them to make him up as whatever and the rumors that I heard.
00:49:25.000
Put him up in just makeup and then he drove a cab around and drove fares around just so we could hear what people are actually saying when they don't know it's Jim Carrey in the room.
00:49:37.000
Yeah, I could see when you become someone like Jim Carrey, it's got to be weird as fuck.
00:49:42.000
He probably wanted to go on a little vacation with a fake face.
00:49:47.000
If it was really easy to do, if it didn't take hours to apply, you'd probably want to do that just to see how everybody treats you.
00:50:00.000
Well, he's also now, he's become some new thing, right?
00:50:07.000
He paints and talks about things, and he's into psychedelics.
00:50:13.000
Like, everything he talks about is like, he doesn't mention the psychedelics.
00:50:32.000
It's a big controversy, but the trailer just came out today.
00:50:39.000
They can't be happy that they're making Sonic into a movie and getting Jim Carrey, one of the biggest actors in the world.
00:50:47.000
When would the nerds be okay when they hear movies coming out?
00:50:51.000
Batman, the first Batman with Michael Keaton, they were, I don't know, it seemed like they were happy.
00:50:55.000
I remember when there was one of the biggest controversy I ever heard about a role was when they were going to have Tom Cruise play in Interview with a Vampire.
00:51:07.000
Anne Rice did not want Tom Cruise to play Lestat.
00:51:11.000
He was like this super intense character in these excellent books.
00:51:19.000
And she, you know, had this vision for what her vampire king character was like.
00:51:27.000
She wanted someone who was just more depth and intelligence and just someone who had more layers.
00:51:47.000
Like, when he's like an angry vampire in that movie and he's yelling at that little girl, you're like, holy shit!
00:52:03.000
He's hook, line, and sinker with the fucking sci-fi religion.
00:52:21.000
Yeah, that was the one where he lives over and over and over again.
00:52:23.000
People had already given up on him for the movie or two before, and then that movie came out and nobody saw it, but it was so fucking good.
00:52:31.000
That's one of the most underrated science fiction films of all time.
00:52:34.000
And every time I'd be like, no, because they would do this, and then they would cover that.
00:52:46.000
It's like same thing, living the same day over and over again.
00:52:48.000
And one of them was how long did Bill Murray spend day after day?
00:52:57.000
They think it's a route because they were like, it's death.
00:53:01.000
It's bowling a perfect game, all these different things.
00:53:03.000
They said about 30 years of living the same day over and over again.
00:53:12.000
Yeah, as I was getting older, one of the things I thought was, like, why do I have this expectation that at some point in time, a person stops learning and growing?
00:53:21.000
Like, I never expected people in their 60s, like, being better people and learning more.
00:53:32.000
So my thought was, like, why do I have these expectations for people?
00:53:37.000
I almost assume that when people hit a certain age, they're fucking done.
00:53:44.000
But you do meet some people who don't do that, right?
00:53:47.000
Somebody's mom or grandmother that's like, oh, I'm learning archery.
00:53:50.000
When Bourdain was 58 and he started getting seriously fucking into jiu-jitsu, like seriously into jiu-jitsu, I was like, look at you, motherfucker.
00:54:02.000
Like taking lessons, private lessons, every day for an hour and then training and rolling with people for an hour.
00:54:12.000
Like how he used to be addicted to heroin, he got addicted to jiu-jitsu.
00:54:21.000
There's a picture of him walking down the street in Italy.
00:54:26.000
I mean, you look at it like, this is the guy that I used to know that was on high cholesterol medication.
00:54:36.000
Because he's on the road drinking wine, eating fucking this and that, and fatty foods, and a lot of sugar, and just drinking whatever the fuck he wants, right?
00:54:46.000
You know, not fat, like a big fat guy, but he definitely developed like a little belly.
00:54:54.000
Dude, he got into jiu-jitsu and completely transformed his body.
00:54:58.000
Lost all the weight, stopped eating sugar, stopped eating carbs, started eating really healthy, cut way back on the drinking.
00:55:15.000
So you've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:55:19.000
People always like to say eight-pack, but I don't ever see a separation in that bottom one.
00:55:23.000
You've got to be like some kind of turtle person, you know?
00:55:29.000
Point is, the dude transformed his fucking body.
00:55:33.000
He's throwing a lot of dick root there, though.
00:55:37.000
I think he bought those shorts like 20 pounds ago.
00:55:54.000
He fights in the most brutal form of stand-up striking with a headbutt, and they soccer kick each other on the way down.
00:56:18.000
And they play, first of all, barefoot most of the time.
00:56:26.000
And these other guys were just laughing about it.
00:56:33.000
You're seeing this stuff and you're like, how are they doing this?
00:56:37.000
I've seen it only on a dirt floor that they're barefoot.
00:56:49.000
They have circles where they just get going and they do the kick.
00:56:58.000
So they hit this straight and know how to pop it right back up.
00:57:05.000
I think it's one of those things that if your body doesn't develop throwing your legs around like that, it's really hard to do.
00:57:14.000
Like when I was teaching, you would get people that were like in their 30s.
00:57:24.000
But if you get those little kids, when they're like five and six, you get them to teach them how to whip their legs into things.
00:57:35.000
Well, I don't know if it's the one you saw, but this is a...
00:57:39.000
Well, this seems like these guys are fucking it up.
00:58:09.000
If you could learn that, how to whip your legs around like that when you're like eight or nine years old, as you get older, you'll maintain that sort of leg dexterity.
00:58:22.000
I took it from Myanmar to Thailand, and then I was like, I need to send this to myself.
00:58:29.000
And they're like, all right, we can get it there in two days.
00:58:39.000
I'm like, we can get you there in three months for, like, $4.
00:58:53.000
By Mule meaning someone stuffed in their house.
00:59:00.000
That's one where you need a certain specific kind of athleticism.
00:59:07.000
Someone who's an outstanding basketball player or a football player, you're not going to be good at that.
00:59:19.000
I mean, think about what I can throw a lot of crazy kicks.
00:59:31.000
You'd have to learn how to jump up and you're whipping down and kicking the thing down.
00:59:36.000
But it's up and I think you'd have to be crazy flexible too.
00:59:45.000
Most people have a lot of resistance when you try to lift your leg up.
00:59:59.000
And when I get the bug, when it feels like, hmm, this is there.
01:00:03.000
I want to, you know, I was thinking about, I actually talked about this with Malcolm Gladwell in the last podcast.
01:00:12.000
He does it in the clubs just around LA, develops an hour.
01:00:16.000
Then he takes it on the road in clubs, and then he takes it on the road the next year in theater.
01:00:24.000
Yeah, Louie had that, but not in the three-year, just like when he was doing them, like, you know, three months, four months, four months.
01:00:35.000
Which I guess you could if that's all you did, and you just really dug into it.
01:00:42.000
Also, I find there's some times where it's like, I watch Atel a lot in New York, and he's like, the best.
01:00:47.000
I was just saying that to Malcolm Gladwell too.
01:00:51.000
If there's one person who's at a super elite level where he doesn't get enough love, it's David Tell.
01:00:56.000
And it's like you see him on a regular basis and you're like, Jesus Christ.
01:00:59.000
He's just on a level above even the highest level people.
01:01:13.000
He's not thinking like, well, I don't have time to work on this for three weeks until people don't know the reference anymore.
01:01:21.000
He's like, oh, I got three weeks with this fucking topic.
01:01:26.000
And then when people are starting to lose the memory of the topic, he just moves on.
01:01:35.000
He's also a guy who says the best example of someone who got better when they got sober.
01:01:46.000
Everybody else gets sober and then they get serious.
01:01:51.000
You can't have a sense of humor about anything anymore.
01:01:53.000
That's the beautiful thing about podcasts, too.
01:01:55.000
One of the beautiful things is that you don't have to, like ideas that you have that aren't funny, you don't have to bring them to the stage.
01:02:04.000
Because remember, there was a point in time after Hicks where a lot of people were trying to do bits on stage that meant something.
01:02:12.000
But you see them doing that, and you're like, okay, it's fine if you have that, but I just always feel like this.
01:02:20.000
Bill Hicks did it, and honestly, I have the same problem with him.
01:02:32.000
And you gotta also take it in the context of the time.
01:02:35.000
If you were alive back then and watching it back then, it would be really funny shit.
01:02:47.000
The first time I saw him was like 88. But were you laughing when you heard it?
01:02:55.000
I was laughing, and I was saying, wow, this guy's...
01:03:00.000
He was, like, railing against capitalism and fucking Tiffany in the mall with Jimi Hendrix.
01:03:12.000
He just had all these, like, counterculture bits.
01:03:15.000
You know, a lot of it was mocking ridiculous trends in American culture.
01:03:21.000
Very, very unique takes on things that didn't necessarily fit with our idea of what we thought comedy was.
01:03:28.000
Like, you never thought, like, oh yeah, you make comedy out of that, too.
01:03:33.000
So he was, like, making comedy out of, like, weird ideas, like anti-war ideas, and he was doing stuff that other people weren't doing.
01:03:41.000
And it changed people's opinion of comedy, because there was something about when Hicks would go on stage, you would feel like, why?
01:03:51.000
He said, every time I see him, I say, why don't I write more shit like that?
01:03:55.000
That's what Jenny said to me after he saw Hicks.
01:03:58.000
He goes, I always think, why don't I write things like that?
01:04:07.000
Isn't that weird when some master looks at somebody else and is like, oh, why can't I be more like that?
01:04:15.000
He was a guy that, for whatever reason, thought that he had to be We're good to go.
01:04:44.000
Yeah, first time I saw him was 88, but I saw him a bunch of times.
01:04:47.000
But I saw him murder at the Comedy Works in Montreal.
01:04:52.000
You know, that room is like 100 people max, right?
01:04:59.000
And I remember he was doing a bit about some guy trying to sell him a car, some car salesman selling him a car.
01:05:09.000
How could he extract so much comedy out of someone selling him a car?
01:05:21.000
But again, it's like I've said this so many times about him.
01:05:27.000
Stand-up on TV is maybe 60% as funny as it is when you're seeing it live.
01:05:44.000
It's like you're laughing, but it's also like, wow, how many fucking people are here?
01:05:53.000
So if you watch Richard Janney today and you go, I didn't think it was that funny.
01:06:05.000
I mean, the first time I watched him was, I think it was 92 or 93. On stage at the Comedy Works.
01:06:16.000
But the first time I saw him physically, I was an open-miker.
01:06:18.000
That was in 88. I paid to see him at Catch a Rising Star in Cambridge.
01:06:26.000
He was like a guy who had been on The Tonight Show.
01:06:28.000
And I knew him because he had been on The Tonight Show.
01:06:42.000
And he was so casual and loose with his punchlines.
01:06:46.000
And I remember thinking, God damn, this fucking guy, he's got it made.
01:06:50.000
He's just traveling around the country doing stand-up.
01:06:58.000
You look at people and you're like, you know, you would have killed for your life and you're upset about it right now.
01:07:01.000
You would have killed for your life 20 years ago.
01:07:06.000
What I wanted to do from the time I was a beginner in 1988 was I wanted to make a living doing comedy.
01:07:18.000
The only thing that sucks about shitty apartments is bugs and crime.
01:07:26.000
It takes like a week and then you're used to it.
01:07:28.000
Prison may be a little different, but if you've got freedom, if you're in a place, as long as your life's not being threatened and your fucking things aren't getting stolen, all that other stuff is mostly bullshit.
01:07:39.000
If your house has two bedrooms or four bedrooms...
01:07:49.000
Your happiness does improve with more money, up to $88,000.
01:07:54.000
And then it's like, a new Lamborghini gives you the same happiness as a new, you know, BMW, as a new Honda.
01:08:02.000
The thing about a Lamborghini is you can't leave it anywhere.
01:08:07.000
If you've got a stupid car like that, you don't just pull it up to the mall and park anywhere you want.
01:08:15.000
I was driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, and this guy had a Lamborghini in his driveway, but he didn't have it in his garage.
01:08:22.000
He just had it parked in his driveway, and it was kind of like sticking out in the street.
01:08:25.000
People were whizzing by, wham, wham, in Malibu.
01:08:28.000
I'm like, what a weird thing Malibu is, where these houses that are on the fucking highway, like on the Pacific Coast Highway.
01:08:35.000
It's a highway, and there's a door that's five feet from a speeding car.
01:08:41.000
Yeah, I don't know how they get their car into those driveways.
01:08:49.000
And there's a ton of bars on that fucking road.
01:09:17.000
The worst one was the voicemails that the wife...
01:09:28.000
I didn't want to support her ability to do that.
01:09:35.000
It should be record someone's voicemails and then play it on the internet.
01:09:50.000
I met him when I came on with Dr. Neil Reardon.
01:09:56.000
Stem cells kept my wife's neck to give me a blowjob!
01:10:26.000
But the Jews, it really is a throwback thing, right?
01:10:30.000
Because it's almost always there's some sort of intoxicant or some sort of psychological issue.
01:10:37.000
It's always like when your default is go to the Jews.
01:10:40.000
How much have the Jews had an impact on your life?
01:10:44.000
I'm not saying that some people haven't had bad situations with people that happen to be Jewish.
01:10:50.000
But I want to know, if we could have a chart, show all the people that rally against the Jews, find out how many Jewish people have actually had a negative impact on your life.
01:11:02.000
Mel Gibson would be like, the Jews are the ones who are holding my money back.
01:11:08.000
Maybe, because I'm saying that's what the Jews he's come in contact with.
01:11:11.000
Didn't he do Passions of Christ and make some ungodly sum of money?
01:11:18.000
I think one of the things he did was he took ownership of the film, so he financed it.
01:11:27.000
If I remember correctly, The Passion of the Christ, he's a very religious guy.
01:11:42.000
I don't think he has Nazi roots either, but maybe someone in the family.
01:11:49.000
Yeah, somebody might have had some questions about the Holocaust.
01:12:01.000
So when he made Passion of Christ, he said, look, this means a lot to me.
01:12:13.000
His production company spent $30 million to produce the show.
01:12:18.000
That's more than I'm spending on Ari Shafir Ju, taping February 8th at the Skirball Center in New York.
01:12:23.000
Get tickets at AriTheGreat.com right now for tickets.
01:12:29.000
Are you doing sets in town the week of that you're doing that too?
01:12:32.000
Yeah, I'll probably do other material those nights.
01:12:35.000
You wouldn't want to run the set, like, constantly?
01:12:37.000
I've been running it for so long, so many times.
01:12:49.000
So, yeah, I'm just running the shit out of it all the time.
01:12:53.000
That's a good place to be where you just have it down.
01:12:59.000
Well, we talked about it, where some of these synagogues were like...
01:13:02.000
I was back and bending over too much to make it work in a synagogue.
01:13:08.000
I was worried about the height of the ceilings.
01:13:15.000
Anyway, after agonizing over it, they came back a week later and were like, we don't want you to do it here.
01:13:43.000
Yeah, doing something in a synagogue, man, who knows if it's going to work?
01:13:50.000
Is it going to be weird when it comes through on the television?
01:13:56.000
What percentage worse might this be, the laughter, versus what do I gain from the look?
01:14:01.000
Two of the things you talked about that I think are very important.
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And then on top of that, that's where you perform most of the time.
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Because the theme, once you get past what the theme is, people just want to hear the material.
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So I was like, I'm going to work out all this shit, this theme stuff in clubs in New York and LA. Just regular club sets.
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Follow Big J talking about some relationship in the crowd or follow Bobby Lee doing whatever.
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It's just stand-up and then that theme is on top of it.
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So how much material do you have outside of it?
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A year ago in Edinburgh, a year and three months or something like that, I did an add-on show after my last few shows were done, were sold out.
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We did an add-on show in a tent and I was like, this will be the next specials material.
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The problem is I go crazy with just this theme shit.
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Right, you don't want to talk about one subject anymore.
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You see a homeless guy picking shit out of his ass.
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Every comic at the store had a bit about that lady dancing in the street on Sunset.
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Because they all felt like they just are, even though she was posted up there.
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And I'm like, well, I've got to do this for a week.
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And then when I'm done, I express myself, shit like that, then I get back to the material.
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That's why I came out to fucking LA. February 8th, is that what you said?
01:16:36.000
That'd be crazy to get the exact same water bottle and switch it like an old spy.
01:16:52.000
I think the lesson is don't ghost anybody, but...
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You know, but I mean definitely do give free drugs to people, but...
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That's more trouble than I thought it would be.
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Plus, you didn't take into consideration that he's on medication either.
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It's his newfound zest for life that has given him this ability to put out that promo.
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Like, sometimes I wanted a glass of wine with a steak.
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It doesn't really make that much of a difference.
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I mean, you can't enjoy the things out of life.
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Like, we smoke pot here, but it's like, what if we don't have any pot?
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It's like, it's all right, we'll still do the podcast.
01:18:14.000
The thing about alcohol, though, versus pot, is you pay a price.
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You pay a small price for a glass of wine or two beers.
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But if you have like three drinks, you pay a few dollars.
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If you get hammered, if you drink like seven, eight drinks, you get drunk, the next day you're going to feel like shit.
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But also that day, if you're with friends drinking, it also feels really good.
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Have a good time with your friends, getting a little loopy.
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I missed the drug enhancing a moment that it should have been.
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Once I have the Italian meal, it's like, oh, wine would be great here.
01:19:16.000
They figured out how to alter your state predictably with a small glass of liquid.
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I passed by locked cabinets of liquor at hotels.
01:19:31.000
You can abuse virtually everything that everybody enjoys, whether it's food or sex or anything, or electronics or anything.
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There's some people that watch television 12 fucking hours a day.
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They just sit in front of the TV and watch TV all day.
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What I mostly do is, the one thing that I do trick myself with, like I said, is those Google stories.
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And then I wind up reading, like, scientific stories about, like, fucking space and all these different things.
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A, because it's interesting, and two, because I'm getting to look at my phone.
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So it's like, I'm tricking myself into saying, oh, this is, but this is, like, crucial information I need to have.
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But also it's because of the feeling, I need to check this, I need to check this.
01:20:17.000
Tate said he got banned for three days on Instagram for something, you know, that shit happens.
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During that time, he was banned, where he's like, oh, I'm banned for sure.
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He checked his phone like 72 times, checked his Instagram.
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Like, just reflexively, we end up going to that.
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After I use it for an hour, whatever you want to set it to.
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My girlfriend put the code on there, so I can't override it.
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Even if I need to, if I need to promote something big, I need to be on there all day, I would tell her to take it off.
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Otherwise, once I hit her, it says, you've got five minutes left.
01:20:52.000
If you're going to make a post about a show, do it fucking now.
01:20:58.000
And then I end up using it a little less because I don't want to waste that hour in case, let's say, I want to post something later.
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It's very rare that I really do need to answer emails on my phone.
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And you can do it an hour a day and just get it all done.
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The only time is, like, say if you were in the middle of a deal, like you were about to sign a deal for your special and you're going back and forth with lawyers and all that.
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The Skirball, February 8th, it's called G. AriTheGreat.com, yeah.
01:21:28.000
But if you were going to do that, that kind of makes sense.
01:21:35.000
I check in in the morning just to make sure there's not some nonsense that I forgot I have to do during the day.
01:21:40.000
And then I try not to check my email at all until I start doing podcast ads.
01:21:44.000
Okay, so one thing I would say for that is what I like is not checking it for the first, and I fail, first hour or two of the day.
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You know, my favorite thing to do, and I've only done this a couple of times, legitimately, is don't look at my phone at all and go right to yoga class.
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Instead of bogging it down and like, does this deal sound good for this club?
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It's just like, just let your mind wander when it's supposed to.
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You come out of there a different person from another dimension.
01:22:41.000
You ever space out when you're doing a back-on-your-back thing and then all of a sudden you come to and you're like, not asleep, just out of it.
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Everyone's standing up and you're like, oh, sorry.
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You're messing with your consciousness when you're doing that.
01:23:02.000
They did a new Netflix special about that Bikram guy.
01:23:06.000
Yeah, I haven't seen it, but I saw there's ads.
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A lot of people are changing the name of their yoga class.
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Yeah, she was like, yeah, because nobody wants to be associated with that.
01:23:25.000
Women would pay a million dollars for one drop of my sperm.
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In the worst way possible, but he's definitely a character.
01:23:54.000
When you're around a bunch of these freaky people...
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When you're around a bunch of these freaky people and everybody's half naked and you're the guy who's the one who teaches them how to do yoga.
01:24:07.000
Dude, isn't it weird when you see somebody who went all in with yoga?
01:24:15.000
What if that's what I started wearing yoga pants everywhere?
01:24:27.000
If you're allowed to wear a Bikram t-shirt, you gotta wear it now, right?
01:24:32.000
I think the special's out, this Netflix documentary, I think it's out.
01:24:48.000
I'd be like, show me one woman who spent a million dollars on your sperm.
01:24:54.000
I know someone who runs a yoga studio and that was the fucking final nail in the coffin.
01:25:04.000
But I think back when he started getting crazy, right?
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240. Back when he first came here in the 80s, and they're like doing...
01:25:16.000
You remember girls wear like scrunchie socks, and it was...
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You remember like Olivia Newton-John, Let's Get Physical?
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They were taking aerobics classes, buying those Reeboks aerobics shoes with the Velcro.
01:25:32.000
The socks had a little poofy ball in the back sometimes.
01:25:47.000
So he came over here from India and started teaching and just letting the old snake out of the basket.
01:25:59.000
To make like Indian music sounds and say he took the snake out of the basket?
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Insinuating his cock, but yet he's a snake charmer.
01:26:11.000
You definitely got, joke-wise, you got two levels.
01:26:22.000
Because if you say something about someone from China and you're going...
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Okay, well, definitely I would say there is an argument for racist.
01:26:45.000
Yeah, if you were really woke, you could take a swing.
01:26:57.000
Do you know who fucking never, never gets stood up for?
01:27:22.000
There's only one guy now who does not look good.
01:27:42.000
Well, I told Bert if he makes 205, he gets the belt.
01:27:54.000
I go, dude, there's guys who weigh 235 on Tuesday and they fight on Saturday at 205. Yeah, you can cut that.
01:28:03.000
I would love to see the fucking fat foals hangover.
01:28:19.000
For those that are watching, you can't see this, but there's like 10, 15, 20 people there.
01:28:35.000
I don't know if Steve Brown wants to bring hockey up on this broadcast.
01:28:49.000
Yeah, we heard of it when we watched them draw make-believe on the TV. They're pretty good.
01:28:56.000
Yeah, guys, you're watching a VHS. Doug Gilmore's not on the team anymore.
01:29:23.000
They found some guy doing that and some other guy doing that.
01:29:35.000
Yeah, we heard of it when we watched Toronto Maple Leafs on the TV. They're pretty good.
01:29:55.000
His mom's like, why are you screaming down here, Jimmy?
01:30:07.000
It says this according to the website that it's on.
01:30:15.000
The law is not strict on the no gimmicks claim.
01:30:20.000
We were talking about the road of being a stand-up, traveling and doing stand-up.
01:30:24.000
Being a pro wrestler that nobody knows, like trying to make it on the circuit.
01:30:41.000
Is your friend Tommy still bowling professionally?
01:30:50.000
We used to be able to fight off Sabertooth Tigers and neighboring tribes.
01:30:53.000
Dude, he was ranked fifth in the world in bowling.
01:30:57.000
He was ranked fifth in the world in bowling, and he made $35,000 that year.
01:31:05.000
Yeah, that always comes up on Reddit, because of that sign.
01:31:16.000
What do you do in bowling that makes your knees go?
01:31:30.000
If you twist harder, you probably torque harder.
01:31:40.000
I do know there's some pros that play into their 40s and 50s.
01:31:44.000
It seems like slidey shoes wouldn't be the way to go if I didn't know better.
01:31:51.000
But I'm saying I do know that slidey shoes are the way to go because the pros use them.
01:31:57.000
But I would think that if you had more grip, you could wing the ball harder.
01:32:03.000
I think it's the movement they got going, the speed they got.
01:32:11.000
So, it almost all says it's arm injuries except for MCL. Oh, him?
01:32:21.000
Do you know how many fucking Marines are laughing right now?
01:32:26.000
They don't have the guts to step into the lanes.
01:32:33.000
You've been to Afghanistan, but have you been to hard work lanes over on the third?
01:32:50.000
So he says, so here's how the tournament works.
01:32:53.000
You play the whole week, and the top five go into the tournament.
01:32:57.000
Starts with, fifth plays fourth, the winner of that plays third, the winner of that plays second, the winner of that plays first for the championship.
01:33:03.000
So if you're in first place for the week, you have to play one game.
01:33:06.000
If a lefty is in the fourth, fifth game, if that lefty wins, he's already set a groove that only he's going to be in.
01:33:14.000
Whereas the righty has to use the other guy's groove, and so it's like he's not set in his own, the lefty will go all the way and win.
01:33:22.000
It's because they've grooved up the fucking lane.
01:33:26.000
Two righties are like, I don't remember using each other's groove.
01:34:00.000
Dude, there are bowling groupies that are hideous.
01:34:05.000
Every industry has a groupie, and the bowling groupie is not great.
01:34:13.000
Where they're like, I know you from this scene.
01:34:14.000
Yeah, even ones you would think no fucking way.
01:34:18.000
Like, you used to think no fucking way for, like, guys who played video games, but now guys who play video games- But they have Ninja?
01:34:27.000
He's married, but there's other guys that you could say that for sure.
01:34:31.000
I know it's foreign to a lot of men, but- She could do it.
01:34:38.000
You can get it if you really want, but you must try.
01:34:47.000
So once there's a lot of money in something, you get groupies.
01:34:53.000
Didn't you have lounge lasers that hung out there?
01:34:54.000
There was a few really hardcore drug addicts that would hang around the pool room and then some really lonely ladies.
01:35:00.000
And then there was a few girls who played pool and they would hook up with guys too.
01:35:07.000
There was a few of those girls who would get really...
01:35:16.000
And they'd be like, hang out, waiting to score with Tommy O'Goulson?
01:35:20.000
The only thing that saves pool is, well, there's some...
01:35:24.000
No, there's some tournaments to be played in America, some.
01:35:27.000
But in other countries, there's a lot of money.
01:35:29.000
There's big, like, they go to Qatar, and they play billiards in China, and you can make, like, real money in tournaments out there.
01:35:36.000
But you have to be, like, a Shane Van Boning, or, you know...
01:35:47.000
There's a few of those guys that are like just straight up killers.
01:35:56.000
I would imagine if you're like an elite pool player and you're a handsome fellow, you'd probably get a little tail.
01:36:06.000
That's the thing about if you went to Asia, you might be like a god to them.
01:36:18.000
He's probably the greatest pool player of all time, and he's from the Philippines.
01:36:24.000
He does commercials and all kinds of crazy shit.
01:36:36.000
Tiger Woods goes anywhere people know who Tiger Woods is.
01:36:49.000
Yeah, how come you can say Filipinos are standardly way better at pool than us?
01:36:54.000
But you can't say America is clearly the best comics in the world?
01:36:58.000
Well, some Americans are just as good, I mean pool players are just as good as Van Boney.
01:37:08.000
Overall, Filipinos have a lot of great pool players.
01:37:12.000
But there's a lot of killers over here too now.
01:37:24.000
And here it came from like storytelling just like around a campfire.
01:37:29.000
Well, it came from a lot of variety shows, too.
01:37:47.000
And then Lenny Bruce will go on and do some stand-up.
01:37:49.000
And then, you know, that's how they did it back then.
01:37:54.000
We talked about that yesterday with the Ice House, that the Ice House is the oldest comedy club technically, but it really didn't become a full-time comedy club until 1978, where it was a store.
01:38:06.000
Yeah, so they were a full-time comedy club first.
01:38:09.000
People kept saying it was older, but it wasn't a comedy club.
01:38:14.000
They'd have magic and fucking bands and all kinds of stuff.
01:38:18.000
Yeah, that's why they say one of Mitzi's biggest decisions was going like, we're going all comedy.
01:38:41.000
She let people fucking figure it out on their own.
01:38:46.000
She just wanted you to develop and become better.
01:38:50.000
And then she'd always find a good spot to put you.
01:39:00.000
And if she liked you, every set, you're going to go after a murderer.
01:39:16.000
But every now and then, man, she'd throw me a gem to tell me how much she loves me.
01:39:25.000
And then she'd give you a little piece of niceness.
01:39:27.000
I was, you know, 27 years old and I expected it going in.
01:39:51.000
He was a mascot of the opposing team, the Pied Pioneers, and he had a fucking flute and shit, and he got beat up by a giant baseball that was our mascot.
01:40:09.000
I want to say it was like 93, somewhere around then.
01:40:15.000
Yeah, and we came to the comedy store, and we're just sitting in the back of the room watching that play.
01:40:19.000
I remember thinking, I can't believe I'm even here.
01:40:21.000
I can't believe this is really the comedy store.
01:40:22.000
And then maybe six months later, I was out here living because the show got picked up.
01:40:28.000
Maybe not even six months, probably four months.
01:40:32.000
Pilot gets seen, got picked up, came back, did six episodes, and I was just hanging around the store.
01:40:45.000
And no bullshit, I was there every fucking night.
01:40:51.000
So all I would do was go to the comedy store after I worked.
01:40:59.000
I had one of them Oakwoods apartments in Burbank.
01:41:01.000
You know one of those ones where it's a pre-furnished apartment?
01:41:04.000
Four people were coming at her act for six months.
01:41:06.000
And then somewhere around episode three, I'm such a fucking genius, I figured this show's gonna take off, I'm gonna get a lease.
01:41:13.000
So I got a lease for a year, an apartment in North Hollywood, a real apartment.
01:41:22.000
But it's good that I got that lease because I was going to move back to New York.
01:41:30.000
I don't remember how much it was, but I remember I had a pool table in the living room.
01:41:35.000
I got a place that was big enough for me to put a pool table in the living room.
01:41:42.000
I'd 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. That's 5 feet with 4 on each side.
01:41:50.000
A good table is 4 1⁄2 by 9. So you want to give yourself like 15 feet width, and then you want to give yourself a solid 20 feet length.
01:41:59.000
So you measure out 5 on the front, 5 on the back, so you don't knock it with a stick.
01:42:10.000
That's like me when I go to a place, I'm like, smoking's allowed, right, Pot?
01:42:14.000
I'm like, because I want to know now or I'll just move on.
01:42:19.000
But I had a neighbor that got mad that I was playing pool.
01:42:26.000
He asked me to not do it until they don't use the living room because the floor was creaking.
01:42:32.000
And this guy was like the superintendent of the building.
01:42:40.000
And he said, well, you're walking around the pool table when you're playing pool.
01:42:46.000
Are you telling me not to walk in the living room because you can hear me walking?
01:42:55.000
It wasn't like I had fucking cowboy boots and I was running around on a hardwood floor.
01:43:17.000
I could hear the phone ring, and then I could hear the answering machine go off, and the person...
01:43:26.000
And I didn't realize what a piece of shit the house was until we got an earthquake.
01:43:32.000
I don't know if you've ever been in a legit earthquake, but this was like a 5.5.
01:43:36.000
It was really the aftershocks of the big Northridge earthquake.
01:43:44.000
It didn't do anything that I thought it was going to do.
01:43:46.000
I felt like an earthquake, everything would shake.
01:43:53.000
The apartment was made out of a refrigerator box.
01:43:57.000
If I was inside a refrigerator box and you were outside, come on up, pussy.
01:44:09.000
I remember thinking, God damn, you're vulnerable when an earthquake hits.
01:44:12.000
When you feel the first one here, you're just like, whoa.
01:44:17.000
It feels like a car's underneath you or a garage.
01:44:21.000
They said that one of the fault lines moved recently for the first time in 500 years.
01:44:52.000
Speaking of weed, did you see the story about the NBA player that got suspended?
01:44:57.000
They suspended him for 10 games because he had an incident, a medical edible marijuana incident on a team playing.
01:45:03.000
Conduct detrimental to the season, to the team.
01:45:07.000
It's only an hour flight from Phoenix to LA, too.
01:45:11.000
What is he flying to LA? They suspended him for 10 games for that?
01:45:14.000
I kind of think, I was looking at the military.
01:45:16.000
They don't want him on the team anymore, either.
01:45:20.000
I don't know what he's doing, but they're doing good.
01:45:24.000
They're doing good without him, and he's owed $24 million this year.
01:45:34.000
You don't have to pay them for those 10. Maybe someone dosed them.
01:45:45.000
And on the way out, somebody recognized me, and they were like...
01:46:03.000
Yeah, we were at the bar, and some girl was there, and I was ordering a drink, and then she just goes like, so she had her beer, and she just like, going like that to me, and I'm like, excuse me, and then she was smiling, and I was like, alright, that's very funny.
01:46:16.000
I'm picturing Bert with headphones on running somewhere on the road listening to us right now.
01:46:29.000
Bert, you're one of the three of us who's not obese.
01:46:40.000
You were three pounds away from not being obese, and you went down.
01:46:56.000
Oh, what'd you got down to less than that before, huh?
01:47:06.000
Oh, the government doesn't want to know if I'm obese.
01:47:26.000
And change the weight to 200. That's going to be obese again.
01:47:33.000
Wait, 126. 164. That has your age in there, too.
01:47:39.000
Normal weight for the range is 121 to 164. Yeah, but what's just overweight?
01:47:51.000
190. What would you have to get to to be overweight?
01:47:53.000
Anything went over 165 is going to be overweight.
01:47:56.000
No, no, I want to see the difference between overweight and obesis, where that line is.
01:48:28.000
It all depends on what time I weigh myself, too.
01:48:33.000
It's easy for me to stay around 195. I could do that right now.
01:48:44.000
Like, with workouts, it's so hard to put in, like, the real consistent fat-burning time.
01:48:54.000
I don't know how you lift all that weight around.
01:49:01.000
I understand deterioration that comes with aging.
01:49:04.000
It's one of the most important things for your health as you get older to lift weights.
01:49:09.000
Muscle mass has some sort of correlation between health and muscle mass when you get older.
01:49:16.000
They say that you should do some resistance exercises and weight-bearing exercises just to keep your bone density and your muscles strong.
01:49:28.000
Well, my thought is, use this fucking thing while you got it.
01:49:31.000
Because you don't see a lot of 70-year-old dudes that can work out hard.
01:49:36.000
The point is like, don't work out hard when you're 50, so that when you're 70, you're still alive.
01:50:00.000
It's amazing that we're friends because I really enjoy the not moving.
01:50:10.000
I enjoy not moving, but I've got caveman jeans, dude.
01:50:21.000
Well, I try to be as nice as possible, but there's definitely some shit in me, especially from my childhood, all my childhood.
01:50:30.000
I grew up fighting in martial arts tournaments.
01:50:32.000
That is not a good way for your brain to develop with violent combat sports every day of the week from the time you're 15 to the time you're 22. That's not good.
01:50:44.000
It's just, you can do it with proper guidance and become a nice person, and I'm not doubting you can.
01:50:49.000
But when your whole life is about kicking people unconscious...
01:51:00.000
And that's also the time when you're going through puberty.
01:51:02.000
That's also the time where you're learning about life.
01:51:11.000
You gotta throw water on that fire all the time.
01:51:14.000
You gotta get out there with the hose every day.
01:51:24.000
Do you ever just want to strangle somebody in life?
01:51:30.000
If you do jiu-jitsu or lift a lot of weights, beat up the punching bag, punching bag is probably the best.
01:51:35.000
But you don't even think sometimes you're like, as you pass somebody who cuts you off in traffic and just like way too close, you're not like, I could kill you.
01:51:41.000
Well, if someone was talking shit and getting mean to me, it's very nice to know that you can fuck people up.
01:51:51.000
If you see some guy, like some average body dude who thinks he's a badass because he talks shit, he's mean and stupid, then he might take a swing at you.
01:52:02.000
It's very good that you are the one who gets to decide what happens.
01:52:08.000
And you can teach someone a very, very severe lesson and let them know, hey, motherfucker.
01:52:35.000
So, if I run into a mean person, I want to be the one who gets to decide what happens.
01:52:41.000
I want to be the one who gets to decide if somebody gets hurt.
01:52:45.000
There's just too many people out there that'll just take sucker punches at people and hurt people.
01:52:52.000
There's so many videos of people hitting people and doing fucked up things to people for no reason.
01:53:02.000
There was an old lady that was waiting in line at a grocery store and somebody punched her.
01:53:10.000
I just remember a video of some kid hitting an old lady.
01:53:13.000
There's always one person who takes it too far.
01:53:17.000
They knocked out this guy as he was getting off of a subway.
01:53:23.000
And he fell face first out cold on the concrete.
01:53:32.000
Like that is something that can literally change the rest of your fucking life.
01:53:40.000
There was a lot of people doing things like that for a while.
01:53:45.000
It's all those Yale fucks with all their money and their fucking fancy grades.
01:54:05.000
Yeah, it's just like, I don't know, their college just looks like they have the whole world ahead of them.
01:54:12.000
Well, it is in some ways, but it's also like this is a weird time to go to school.
01:54:17.000
Yeah, my friend's a teacher at a liberal arts college.
01:54:38.000
It's culturally appropriating people who lived in the 1880s and had to suffer with no internet.
01:54:46.000
But I just mean, not in terms of who they're offending, but just in terms of they have to be fighting against something.
01:54:53.000
Are you allowed to dress up as a Civil War soldier if you're from the North?
01:55:00.000
You can't be a Confederate soldier because that harkens something.
01:55:10.000
That's another one I could see going both ways.
01:55:12.000
I could see somebody going, that reminds me of the Civil War, which is slavery, so that's hurtful.
01:55:17.000
And someone else could be like, no, I'm honoring the people who fought for freedom.
01:55:21.000
And then they could go back and go, why is it only the white experience to be able to fight for freedom?
01:55:28.000
If you were around the Civil War, you'd be a giant.
01:55:38.000
In the 1860s, I think the average size for a man that was in the army was like 125 pounds.
01:56:09.000
The third tallest average in the world at the time was 5'7".
01:56:17.000
That means the first average is like 6 feet tallest.
01:56:27.000
Like if there's an average, what's the average, the tallest average height?
01:56:42.000
That was the third highest, third highest height average.
01:56:49.000
The people that lived during that time, during 1866. What do you mean that was the third highest average?
01:57:01.000
Like, for instance, England could have been higher than...
01:57:30.000
Right, but the number of humans, the overall number of humans.
01:57:35.000
So you have three groups if you have 90 people.
01:57:37.000
If it was the third highest average, we're the third tallest in the world.
01:57:49.000
30 and 30 and 30. If that's what we have, then that's obviously...
01:57:57.000
In the numbers that are represented by each individual category of height.
01:58:01.000
So it's 5'10 to 6'2 is one group that's 30 people.
01:58:09.000
I'm just saying this so you can understand what the third highest percentage means.
01:58:20.000
Instead of 90 people, let's say there's 90 million people.
01:58:28.000
But the third highest percentage was 5'7", which means that out of these millions of people that were alive back then...
01:58:35.000
So the top third was average this, the second third averaged this, and the third third averaged that?
01:59:01.000
American soldiers were tall by the standards at the time amongst the world.
01:59:06.000
But people were so tiny back then that third highest height, the third highest category was 5'7".
01:59:14.000
Of all the average heights, I'm confused on why you guys are not on the same page here.
01:59:24.000
He's saying the third grouping of people averages 5'7", which is like, what grouping would that be?
01:59:29.000
I thought you were saying average height of people in 1966, the third average height of people was 5'7".
01:59:46.000
At the time, the average height of a male was 5'7", the third tallest males in the world.
02:00:06.000
How often do you think people starved to death back then?
02:00:12.000
And if everybody's that little and it's the same genes, how the fuck is in a hundred years plus, what is it, 150 years, how do people get so much bigger?
02:00:26.000
When you stand next to someone like Alistair Overeem or someone like that, and he's from Holland, a big old Dutch dude.
02:00:37.000
He's the glory heavyweight kickboxing champion.
02:00:50.000
The Conquerors fuck all the hottest women, and then they make babies, and then in 2015, you get that guy.
02:01:02.000
You have German Shepherds and Chihuahuas and you have that guy and you have Redman.
02:01:09.000
What's CRISPR? CRISPR is gene editing technology that they're currently using on live human beings now.
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They're doing the first test now on live human beings.
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Yeah, it's gene editing technology they came up with.
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Boy, I know I'm going to butcher this, but it's a tool that they recognize that bacteria carry certain signals, and they figured out how to edit genes using what they learned from how bacteria carry these signals.
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I know I'm butchering this, but they're getting better and better with the tools, and they're getting to a point where they're able to isolate certain genes, like in China, They were able to give people HIV avoidance, resistance to HIV, but it also had some sort of a positive effect on their intelligence.
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I think that's speculated, but there's a bunch of weird chain reaction things they're not entirely certain of.
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That's why they're saying it's unethical to just experiment on people, but they're doing it right.
02:02:14.000
Someone's going to have a goddamn Incredible Hulk kid.
02:02:16.000
Enjoy your ethics while my kid fucking smashes your village.
02:02:19.000
Well, once a country decides they're going to pull the trigger on super people...
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What if all porn by the year 2050 is Chinese guys with giant hogs?
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Every Chinese guy is seven foot tall and they all have a giant hog.
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Giant Brock Lesnar bones and huge hogs like 12-year-old kids' legs.
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And they're just banging everything that moves.
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They're just fucking their way through the world.
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I mean, if one country pulls the trigger and they decide they're going to make super people, everyone would have to catch up.
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If we said, hey, we can't allow people to communicate openly and freely.
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We can't allow an even distribution of all the information in the world.
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It's just too much power that we're just giving away to people.
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If they did that, the world would fucking be a totally different place.
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And if someone doesn't stop them before they make super people, if they say, listen, we can't do the super people because then everyone's going to be a super person and no one's going to have body issues because everyone's going to be perfect.
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I don't like the way your nostrils flare when you get mad.
02:03:53.000
That's within 100 years, they're probably going to be able to engineer most things about people, unless something catastrophic happens to us.
02:04:05.000
Yeah, I was just like looking up that thing that genetically augmented soldiers with enhanced self-healing abilities and superior strength.
02:04:12.000
Once again, Jean-Claude Van Damme ahead of his motherfucking time.
02:04:18.000
Do you remember there was like a scene where he went back in time with a machine gun and was fucking people up?
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Like in the Civil War days or something like that?
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Somebody else in Time Cop was like a bad cop, I think, that went back and did bad things.
02:04:36.000
They were like going back and stealing gold and shit and coming back with the gold.
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Because I've always thought, like, man, how cool would it be to go back in time, like, to the...
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Any time in the history of the Spartans and see somebody show up out of nowhere with a machine gun.
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Asking for the gold, and they pull out their gun, and he just fucking guns them down.
02:05:24.000
Didn't look like he had real solid tactical training with the use of that, but that was that scene.
02:05:29.000
I always thought that would be a cool scene in a movie.
02:05:41.000
We just have our own fucking stupid radio shows.
02:05:55.000
When people ask me why do I keep telling people to do it, that's why.
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And people, you told too many people to do podcasts.
02:06:07.000
If you're listening to me and you're upset that I'm saying that, it's probably because you need to do your own podcast and you know I'm right.
02:06:17.000
Not everybody should be, but a lot of people could.
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Just because you think everybody can fucking do it.
02:06:30.000
You won't be this big, but you'll still have a fun time.
02:06:33.000
You just sit around talking shit and you fucking record it.
02:06:39.000
And this is also a lot like the internet, and nobody saw this coming.
02:06:43.000
Nobody thought the biggest broadcast show was going to be something that someone just does on their own.
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It was the headline of an event at the Staples Center.
02:07:14.000
A lot of the big boxing matches like Tyson Fury's fights.
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Andy Ruiz, the heavyweight champ, he's on that, too.
02:07:28.000
So all these guys, and it's like X amount per month.
02:07:31.000
I don't remember how much it costs, but you can watch the fights on your phone.
02:07:35.000
You can watch all the Bellator fights on your phone.
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That's cool if you watch those because then you could like, if you have to miss one, just tune in.
02:07:52.000
I get home from a gig and if it's a UFC that I didn't see, as long as I stay the fuck away from my phone, I have no idea what happened.
02:07:58.000
I go home, plot my fucking feet up, watch the fights after the shows.
02:08:20.000
11,000 people watched the stream this way on this guy's glasses.
02:08:25.000
Reflecting it onto Twitch or something like that.
02:08:55.000
You're not really watching that for the actual action.
02:09:19.000
So they were rumored to come out recently sometime soon.
02:09:22.000
But yeah, they're just pushed to 2022 right now.
02:09:26.000
I don't know if it's for Siri specifically, but Alexa built-in glasses now.
02:09:30.000
They're like sunglasses that have all time built-in.
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While you're wearing it, you can talk to Alexa.
02:09:39.000
They need to take some Russian scientists, they need to bring them to Steve Jobs' grave, and bring them back to life.
02:09:44.000
We need to reinvigorate him, reanimate him, and have him run Apple again.
02:10:03.000
You can't have a fucking thing that's going to record you.
02:10:08.000
It should be bullshit, but it's going to happen.
02:10:14.000
The rest of us didn't sign up for it, and we're still having to deal with it.
02:10:23.000
It's like having a cell phone in someone's face the whole time.
02:10:34.000
And no one could tell if you had it recording or not, right?
02:10:39.000
You want to do it around your house, that's fine.
02:10:42.000
But what do you do if China, with their super dick dudes, all of a sudden has glasses?
02:10:47.000
If Huawei gets into the digital glasses company...
02:10:52.000
What if they bring him over here and we don't even know it because we're so fucking ignorant because we lost just like the stem cell race.
02:11:01.000
That's always a good one that people like to say.
02:11:03.000
Well, we got behind the curve with the stem cells.
02:11:10.000
That's not a thing to do to make a good podcast.
02:11:16.000
Logan Paul had more pay-per-view buys than Anthony Joshua vs.
02:11:21.000
I'm reading it had about a million or maybe more.
02:11:27.000
I didn't know that you'd get that many for a streaming service.
02:11:30.000
The thing is, so many people have these streaming services now.
02:11:55.000
And it was the headliner of a card where Billy Joe Saunders fight.
02:11:58.000
Billy Joe Saunders is one of the best fighters in the world.
02:12:03.000
He defended his title on the undercard of two YouTube guys fighting.
02:12:10.000
For him, I'm sure he's just like, I'm getting paid.
02:12:47.000
He should be like, I'm the winner of this fight.
02:13:00.000
Can Billy Joe Saunders beat him with his right arm tied behind his back?
02:13:11.000
Splint on his leg, right arm tied behind his back.
02:13:31.000
Shane Carwin, who's one of the biggest punching heavyweights in the history of the fucking sport.
02:13:40.000
So he's got his right arm taped to his body and he's just blasted him with left hands.
02:13:52.000
This is such a ridiculous idea for him to do this.
02:14:02.000
Dude, when I was taking jiu-jitsu in Boulder, I was on the mats.
02:14:10.000
He scooped him up for some reason at one point in time, just to joke around, to pick him up.
02:14:15.000
But when I was there, I was training at their jujitsu school, and this guy walked in there as his left hook.
02:14:50.000
Anyway, that guy walked in when I was doing jiu-jitsu.
02:14:57.000
He was, at the time, he was probably close to 300 pounds.
02:15:06.000
And for Ellis, he's so crazy to be willing to have a boxing match with that dude and get punched in the head by that guy.
02:15:29.000
I know, but not one of those guys, but some other celebrities.
02:15:31.000
Dude, I know too many people that are having real problems with their head.
02:15:35.000
A lot of fighters, like post-career, are having real struggles.
02:15:42.000
You've got to know when to stop, and head injuries are...
02:15:52.000
And then also, when you get hit, it's like an unnatural fulcrum.
02:15:59.000
I think the thing about it is you're trying to avoid cuts.
02:16:05.000
But you can get fucked up with a punch or a kick wearing headgear.
02:16:14.000
Tripoli and I talk about having a fight, but he won't fight me.
02:16:27.000
No, I know his mom loves him and he's worried about him.
02:16:31.000
Yeah, I think that's overall why he's running away from the fight.
02:16:39.000
Yeah, I know, but we've been talking about this fight forever and he won't fight me.
02:17:04.000
I was thinking the big gloves, but that's definitely one way to go.
02:17:35.000
And it was the day after Sober October was over.
02:17:40.000
And they kept rolling blunts and passing around.
02:17:42.000
And I had to pronounce some Russian names two hours later.
02:18:07.000
He gets a good one at the end of the round too.
02:18:34.000
Yeah, this isn't like some guy's playing silly.
02:18:42.000
He said no he's not knocked out, but you got fucked up, Gomez.
02:18:46.000
Oh, that's the kind of fighting that got your dad stabbed to death.
02:19:25.000
He's putting his hand out there, he's pawing, and Lewis throws these combinations, and Jeremiah's waiting.
02:19:33.000
Would you compare some to Anderson Silva a little bit?
02:19:39.000
And he's also being very smart with his defense.
02:19:42.000
And Lewis got a little feel for that right hand.
02:19:48.000
He also keeps blocking on the side that Jeremiah's not touching him, which is...
02:20:38.000
Dude, I never go as far as I go on Legion of Skanks.
02:20:41.000
It's just such an open environment for doing whatever.
02:20:43.000
Well, it's also in support of, like I said, wild comedy.
02:20:59.000
Lewis is relaxing a little bit more now, and he's starting to use some technique.
02:21:04.000
It looked like he just punched him in the stomach.
02:21:06.000
He looks like he's closing his fist every time.
02:21:08.000
He smacked him hard in the head with that right hand.
02:21:30.000
He's uneducated, which is a lot of his problem.
02:21:46.000
Of course, the round is over and Louis is still punching.
02:22:16.000
Well, listen, he did crack him with some big shots.
02:22:30.000
Just let me tell you something about slapping people in the face.
02:22:35.000
Open hands, hitting your eyeball, you're going to scratch your fucking eye, and you're going to have a real eye injury.
02:22:43.000
You do whatever you want, but I want you to know that open hand slapping and reaching like that, you just ask.
02:22:48.000
As someone who's seen probably 500 people get poked in the eye up close, you're going to get poked in the eye.
02:23:07.000
That's a good way to get those things whacked off your head...
02:23:11.000
Maybe if you had some eye goggles, like legit little welding goggles or some shit.
02:23:18.000
It would almost be worse for you because it would fuck with your peripheral.
02:23:24.000
When you have things on, that's one thing I always hated about headgear.
02:23:27.000
You put them on, you can't see things here and here good.
02:23:30.000
Your window of your field of view gets narrowed.
02:23:43.000
So I would think that would be the same thing with those goggles.
02:23:47.000
I think they would still fuck with your peripheral.
02:23:51.000
All those things would fuck with your peripheral.
02:23:57.000
If you trained with them on, maybe you could do it.
02:23:59.000
You would get more used to it, but it still cuts you down.
02:24:01.000
They could also just touch your goggles with their face, and they would get their sweat all over your goggles, and then you wouldn't be able to see as good.
02:24:17.000
Let's just cut the shit and put some gloves on and fight.
02:24:20.000
If we're going to do that, if we're going to slap fight, let's just fight.
02:24:24.000
I want to be able to take you down and strangle you.
02:24:27.000
Poking each other in the eye and smearing each other's fucking goggles.
02:24:31.000
Who do you think would have been in a just straight jiu-jitsu fight between you and Lewis?
02:24:48.000
He needs to weigh 330. He's lost a little shitload of weight.
02:25:13.000
Like, if that guy just, you know, if he dieted down and got ripped, he's still 215, 220 pounds.
02:25:20.000
If he lost 45 pounds, he'd be 215. Is he that big?
02:25:40.000
Well, Big Jay took it from Dice, the weightlifting gloves.
02:25:53.000
Dude, I brought Dice to meet Jay on a roof party on July 4th.
02:26:04.000
Could have been a year ago, but I think this year.
02:26:23.000
Yeah, we were going to do a podcast with him and Dice.
02:26:42.000
He would do radio feuds on purpose, but Dice would get into feuds on purpose.
02:26:53.000
Remember when he had those comics acting out some movie that he was filming with his VHS camera?
02:26:58.000
That he'd edit, by the way, he'd edit by like, say stop, and he'd rewind and press pause right there and start recording from there.
02:27:12.000
This is after he had sold out like, what, 300 stadiums?
02:27:17.000
He sold out arenas and stadiums all across the world.
02:27:22.000
After that, he's recording these fucking weird impromptu He made us have characters.
02:27:31.000
Miles Jobbani would show up and he goes, you're the foreigner.
02:27:33.000
And every time you show up, I'm going to give you the evil eye.
02:27:50.000
He had me and Bobby, while we were fighting, he made us come into these and beat each other up.
02:28:05.000
If someone said, what's Dice like in real life?
02:28:27.000
Yeah, the glasses are like the Elvis, not rhinestones, but the thick gold that goes back here to get shorter.
02:28:35.000
So he does a lot of videos from the gym because he does work out a lot still.
02:28:54.000
Me and Kumia and Jimmy and fuck, who else went with us?
02:29:03.000
I went with you once to the dice show in Vegas.
02:29:07.000
I think I went a different time than you guys went.
02:29:11.000
Before the Riviera closed, he was up in the upstairs room.
02:29:36.000
He doesn't know what it will be yet, but he'll just like...
02:29:39.000
He gave somebody his phone number out on radio one day.
02:29:43.000
He was about to get a new phone, and so on radio he goes, Hey, my old phone number is...
02:29:51.000
And people start talking to him and calling him.
02:29:55.000
As soon as he turned it on, it just starts ringing.
02:30:03.000
He got this one guy where he started calling the guy back.
02:30:16.000
After talking to him, his dream was to talk to Dice.
02:30:20.000
A week later, he's like, Dice, I'm at work right now.
02:30:22.000
He's like, so what kind of work you're doing right now?
02:30:30.000
But the fact that that would be the thing that gets his gear spinning.
02:30:41.000
He would either be the butt of the joke or he'd have somebody else watching him.
02:30:53.000
And it's like, even to this day, he's still doing it.
02:30:56.000
If someone was in the back steps of the comedy store, and let's say you're a fan, but let's say you're standing straight up, and I'm two steps up.
02:31:28.000
And then he'd sit down and just ask if we saw that.
02:31:41.000
His message, I remember realizing at some point I didn't have to grow up in this business.
02:31:45.000
Like, I still had thoughts of, like, even though I'm not going to be a lawyer, but, like, that's still the direction I'm supposed to head, you know?
02:31:58.000
And then I heard, I called Dice, and his answering machine was, I'm like, dude, that's the guy in his mid-50s.
02:32:07.000
And I'm like, oh, maybe I don't have to grow up.
02:32:17.000
I think people will put pressure on you because they have to grow up.
02:32:25.000
As long as you're paying your bills, as long as you're paying your taxes, as long as you're not a deadbeat dad.
02:32:40.000
As long as you're a good person, who gives a shit if you grow up?
02:32:48.000
We're deciding we want people to behave in a certain way.
02:32:56.000
These guys like Dice are having a great fucking time.
02:33:06.000
Because I'm on stage dead and everyone just kept waiting.
02:33:15.000
I will tell you, if Dice dies on stage, and you're a comic in the area, and at some point people start to realize, oh fuck, this is not a prank, you know?
02:33:23.000
If you get up there and realize he's dead, you should say, what?
02:33:29.000
And then stand up and be like, it's a fucking gag.
02:33:32.000
And then just leave it up there for a while longer.
02:33:51.000
He made Norton and Florentine introduce him like they go into a Subway sandwich shop and they'd be like, ladies and gentlemen, avert your eyes!
02:33:59.000
And then he would like walk in to a Subway sandwich shop.
02:34:06.000
You have just dice on the road and someone announces him like that everywhere he goes.
02:34:29.000
He said he had a gun in his desk drawer, and I was like, no, you don't.
02:34:33.000
You would never have him around your kids, because I do.
02:34:37.000
And I'm like, you know I don't have $200, so I can't make that bet.
02:34:42.000
And then he's all left his thing and goes, don't look in there.
02:34:48.000
And then Freddie Soto, fucking fuckface Freddie Soto, told him, I was just in the office, told him that I went into his drawer.
02:35:03.000
I was rifling through his affairs, which never happened.
02:35:13.000
Why do you think Freddie would want to get you back?
02:35:15.000
I think he was jealous of my upbringing and how I had a foosball table at home.
02:35:18.000
And it always bothered him that he didn't have that growing up in Texas.
02:35:23.000
But the point is, I never wrote through his affairs.
02:35:25.000
You know what Burt said once that was really freaky?
02:35:53.000
Like, I've had enough people come on this podcast that have you semi-convinced that you're living in some sort of simulation.
02:36:01.000
When he has seen bodies no longer have life in them, right?
02:36:12.000
Is he saying he's the only thing in the universe?
02:36:17.000
What if everyone was the only person in their own universe, and everyone's universe intersects with other people's universes, and that you think that the universe you exist in is the same as the one that I exist in because we hang out together.
02:36:35.000
But the actual universe in your world is revolved around you.
02:36:44.000
Once one guy realizes that he's in that, he's able to travel to other universes, has to kill the one person from each universe that's the real person.
02:36:57.000
Not John Clark, but there's a movie coming out.
02:37:01.000
It's been made, I believe, or they're finishing it now.
02:37:03.000
It's coming out next year with Ryan Reynolds, where he plays an NPC character in a video game that realizes he's that.
02:37:21.000
They call someone an NPC? That means you're just, like, a dead-on.
02:37:28.000
By the way, if anyone makes that movie, you're welcome to.
02:37:34.000
And say it's based on a conversation between Ari Shaffir and Joe Rogan.
02:37:38.000
And Ari Shaffir's taping of his new motherfucking comedy special will be February 8th.
02:37:46.000
New York, Manhattan, right near Washington Square Park at the Skirball Center.
02:37:53.000
I'll post it on my Twitter, my Instagram, and yeah, February, two shows.
02:37:57.000
I like how after all these years, you still are slurring your words together.
02:38:12.000
Especially when we do tag team, when you're introducing people, it's like you're fucking already done in your head.
02:38:34.000
But some people who are, one of the things is they start slurring their words together.
02:38:47.000
Like they can't get their mouth to move as fast as their brain?
02:38:57.000
I know too many people that have been hit in the head.
02:39:00.000
It's just, after a while, man, and the thing is, you can retire now, and you start getting headaches like three, four years from now.
02:39:09.000
Depression might set in five, six years from now.
02:39:12.000
Seven, eight years from now, you might have memory issues.
02:39:15.000
It's not a simple, like, as soon as you're done, like, here you are right now.
02:39:19.000
Like, as if you stop fighting, like, right now, today, and you're like, I think I stopped fighting at a good time.
02:39:27.000
But maybe all the times you've been hit over those years leading up to that is going to start to kick in years from now.
02:39:33.000
That's why you see some fighters, they're fine when they retire, but then you see them 10 years after they retire and you can barely understand a word they're saying.
02:39:43.000
People die of heart disease like years after they stop doing coke.
02:39:50.000
I long for the day when they figure out how to revitalize brains.
02:39:56.000
When they figure out how to, whether it's through stem cells or something.
02:40:04.000
You have to suck one of those Chinese guys' giant monster dick, and that's where the best stem cells are?
02:40:12.000
That was the only way to fix TBI. You had to suck a giant super person's dick.
02:40:21.000
We have shot it right into these monster cocks.
02:40:24.000
That would be the Chinese porn film with these guys.
02:40:27.000
The only way to cure brain damage would be you'd have to suck one of their cocks.
02:40:32.000
You'd get these old football players, their bad knees, suck these giant Chinese cocks.
02:40:37.000
And they're like, but what if sucking this cock, the act of it, gave me more depression?
02:40:48.000
You're not going to want to have only one cock in here.
02:40:50.000
What's hard is just going ahead and jumping the cue.
02:41:10.000
Women like Botox women that are addicted to it, you would have that.
02:41:13.000
Imagine if that's where all of the best stem cells came from.
02:41:19.000
And if you really wanted to get them, you've got to get them right from the tap because you can't have them in the air.
02:41:23.000
So you've got to literally take it from the cock to your mouth.
02:41:36.000
So, these Chinese guys are actually bred in a lab to make...
02:41:39.000
They're not out in the streets, but then they get...
02:41:41.000
But that's just to milk them for their fucking juice.
02:41:52.000
And people want to kill them, but also, like, don't kill them!
02:42:02.000
So when they're about to be caught, maybe that'll have something to do with it.
02:42:05.000
The cops in the backseat sucking his dick when they're arresting him.
02:42:14.000
That would be the greatest fucking gay porno of all time.
02:42:22.000
A giant Superman, engineered Superman with a giant hard dick, and everybody wants to suck his dick because it cures all of your ailments.
02:42:31.000
I've had a bad ACL since 86. It's too important.
02:42:43.000
They know, but imagine if that was the only way you could get the best stem cells.
02:43:28.000
Someone has to plug your butt during those two.
02:43:37.000
Once men have robot fuck dolls, how many years before women have them after that?
02:43:42.000
Well, I think it'll be when men allow the women to have it.
02:43:45.000
I don't think it's a good idea to let them have it.
02:43:49.000
They just don't have the body that goes with it.
02:43:52.000
They have vibrators and giant dongs and purple dicks and shit.
02:43:57.000
Men want softness, which is harder to replicate than hardness.
02:44:03.000
Some man would want something interesting that a woman would probably take advantage of.
02:44:16.000
Some guy's gonna want something up his ass, basically.
02:44:27.000
Be like, oh, it was made for a guy, but guess what?
02:44:28.000
It'll be a sext off a man, then the gays will be like, I'm a man, I want mine, and the women are like, can I use yours while you're not using it?
02:44:35.000
Right, right, so So if a gay guy has a fuck doll, then he...
02:44:42.000
When the lesbian forecloses on the gay man's house for partying all day and not working, then she can use their fuck doll.
02:44:50.000
She goes, listen, Luther, you're a loser, but you got a good fuck doll.
02:45:00.000
It ends with a lesbian entrepreneur getting the fuck doll in payment for back rent.
02:45:07.000
This, I mean, we're about 50 years away from having indistinguishable, I just made that number up, but I'm pretty confident, indistinguishable human robots.
02:45:18.000
Right about when you and I are ready to kick the bucket.
02:45:25.000
Yeah, this was already on my pad just when I walked in here.
02:45:34.000
What were you just doing with your hand that made it look like writing?
02:46:03.000
Yeah, we're going to talk about poisonous things, but we got high.
02:46:06.000
That was the plan is to do this and then swap it.
02:46:24.000
We should do it in here because I would like to be able to call that shit up.