Joe Rogan Experience #1396 - Michelle Wolf
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In this episode, we talk about mushrooms, mushrooms, and more mushrooms. We also talk about new age stuff like crystals and new agey things like crystals, crystals, and crystals. We talk about how mushrooms are good for your mental health and how they can make you more productive and creative. We also discuss how mushrooms can help with anxiety and depression and how you can get high on them and how it can improve your overall well-being. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you like it, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and we'll read it out on the next episode. Thank you so much for being a part of this community and supporting us. Stay tuned for our next episode next Wednesday! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast if you enjoyed this episode. Thank you for supporting us and/or any amount you can manage to afford our sound quality and sound quality. We are working on making this podcast a little bit better for you. Please be kinder and more affordable for our listeners. We appreciate you. Love ya. xoxo, bye. Cheers, Cheers. - Cheers Cheers! - Jon & Sarah. Jon and Sarah -Jon & Sarah, Sarah, Caitlyn. <3 -Jon and Sarah, Kristy, Jon & Caitlynne, Sarah, . Jon, - Sarah - . . . & Sarah - Jon and Sara, , , and Sarah - . . , , & Sarah & Sarah - Thank you, Sarah - Sarah, and Sarah , and the rest of the crew - , etc, and all of our support and support us, and much more. . , and all the rest. & all of your support and love, etc., etc., and so much more! -Jon, etc, etc. - etc., and all that good vibes, love, love you all love you, and support you, etc.. etc. etc. etc., & so much so much love, so much support you all. ) (Thank you, thank you, bye, etc... AND MUCH LOVE, MYSELF, MURCHES, JUICY.
Transcript
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How many lame wolf jokes have you had to endure in real life?
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Joe List constantly tries to get the nickname Wolf of Wall Street started.
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Every time I see him, he's like, Wolf of Wall Street.
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You were saying that you like the turmeric coffee, but you don't like to admit that you like that stuff?
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Yeah, I recently got into all this new-agey health stuff and crystals.
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I honestly think a lot of it's just in your 30s at some point.
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I just think I'm in a little bit of a crystal phase right now.
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I was like thinking about, oh my god, this is so embarrassing.
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I was thinking about maybe looking up like shamans in New York, you know, to be like, maybe I can get like, just explore the spiritual universe a little bit.
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But like shamans, like, do you want to do drugs?
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You could get away with it legally right now in Oakland.
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Slowly but surely, that's going to be the whole country.
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Although, I recently did them and I all of a sudden, I didn't realize this happened on mushrooms.
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Oh yeah, if you take the right amount, you get super giggly.
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This is, I was, I'm sure I was annoying to everyone around me, which is also pretty normal, but like.
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Well, a lot of people are microdosing now, and what they're doing is they're taking a level of, they're taking, like, enough psilocybin so that you don't quite feel it.
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But they report this amazing alleviation of anxiety, they feel super creative and really friendly, and all these, like, powerful, positive vibes, but they're basically sober.
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Does it affect you if you actually wanted to take...
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Yeah, would you have to take an extraordinary amount?
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You're going to be able to blast off every single time.
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I couldn't imagine that somehow or another it would get in the way.
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The feeling that happens when you take a large dose where you just feel the tingling and you get fucking scared.
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At the beginning of the Gulf War, like right after 9-11, Stanhope and I got fucked up on mushrooms, like the day of the war.
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And we were watching TV, and they were like, war coverage.
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We get high and watch TV. And we were watching TV, and he said, war coverage begins today at 5. And he goes, holy shit, there's a kickoff for the war!
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That war, the invasion of Iraq, the most recent one, not Desert Storm, but the most recent one, that is forever cemented in my head by mushrooms and him saying, holy shit, there's a kickoff!
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That would make war more fun if they broadcast it like a game.
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Because in the future, I don't think people are going to be fighting people.
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I was doing a gig at MIT recently, and I spent the first ten minutes yelling at them to stop making robots.
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Lex works at MIT. Yeah, he's a professor at MIT, Lex Friedman, who's a specialist in AI. He's been on this podcast a couple times before.
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I also feel like that, like, ten years from now, people are going to be like, do you remember she said she didn't want to have an Alexa in her home?
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Like, that's, like, going to be the new racist.
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But did you think about, like, when Trump was giving you a hard time, did you think, hey, motherfucker, if I ran against you, I could really fuck you up?
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For a second while he was tweeting against you and all the craziness that was going there?
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It didn't even occur to me, but also I'm still 34, so I couldn't even run if I wanted to.
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Because you don't want anybody sneaking in and just ruining the entire country on a sneak tip.
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Although if I was, I'd be like a long-game terrorist.
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They do plan, some terrorists and some organizations do plan things way, way, way in advance.
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That's like the thing they say about China, that China plans things like hundreds of years out.
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Probably like six days, knowing how hard they work.
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I mean, that country is like, I mean, they invented everything.
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And we just were like, no reason to be scared of them.
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I used to work at this tech company, and we had a lot of Chinese people that worked.
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It was a computational biochemistry research lab, so of course we had a lot of Chinese people that worked there.
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And that's my favorite thing is when you're like, you're racist.
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Well, then people, they get, they're like, not all Chinese people are doing well.
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And I'm like, yeah, I'm sure there's Chinese people that aren't doing well, but, you know, their parents never talk about them.
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When you say not all Chinese people are doing well, there's fucking a billion of them.
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Yeah, I mean, there's plenty that aren't doing well, but the ones that are doing well are doing really well.
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Yeah, you're concentrating on the glasses half empty.
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The Chinese people that worked at this tech company, if they were Chinese nationals, they were only allowed to have access to certain parts.
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Like, there were certain parts they had to keep separate from them and they couldn't know about.
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Me, I'm just like, I'm just recruiting new people to work here.
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But the one guy who worked there, he came over, didn't know any English, and he learned English by watching Seinfeld.
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So I kid you not, he had this Seinfeld cadence that he spoke with.
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Not the full thing, but every time he'd come into the office, he'd be like, whoa.
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I wonder if there's an equivalent show in China, where if you went over there and tried to learn Mandarin from a television show, what would you concentrate on?
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There's a difference between racial and racist.
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But if you want to eat salad, it's like the best way to eat salad.
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Because you ever try to like get a fork in a tomato?
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But you can grab a lot of lettuce with them chopsticks.
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Well, it's not really traditional Japanese stuff, but it's like Japanese new style American stuff.
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I'm lucky I didn't get a tattoo until I was like 25. And I didn't get sleeved until I was in my 30s.
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It's such a fun decision to make for your whole life.
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Every time I see a picture of him, I get angry.
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I just want to be like, I don't spend a ton of time in hair and makeup, but anytime I have something, there's at least a little hair and makeup.
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And I'm looking at this guy, and I'm like, why can't we just be that?
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Well, I think what he's doing, and what a lot of people are doing, is they're going way overboard to not give a fuck.
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Did you see the Lizzo thing from the Lakers game last night?
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They said that there was a recent shift in one of the tectonic plates that it was the first time it moved in 500 years.
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The other place I was thinking of moving to was Bozeman, Montana.
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So if it blows, it blows right on your fucking head.
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They didn't find out about it until satellites.
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The geyser's there, but the geyser is a result of underground volcanic activity.
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There's a super volcano under Yellowstone that's so fucking big that when they first saw it, they didn't know what it was.
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And then they realized it when they started looking at satellite images that it's essentially what happens when a volcano just completely explodes and the mountain disappears and it becomes like a crater.
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So the whole top just blows up and happens every 600,000 to 800,000 years.
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And the last time it happened was about 600,000 years ago.
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Well, I feel like if it blows, you want to be there.
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Because you don't want to be one of those people eating people.
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That's why I never understood bomb shelters and stuff like that.
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You literally want to see that giant city-sized thing just coming straight at you.
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Just close your eyes and let's see what happens when you die.
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Well, there's been a bunch of super volcanoes that have killed people.
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We were talking about, what island was that, Jamie?
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There was one that happened somewhere around, I think it was Indonesia, where it killed most of the population on Earth.
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They were down to just a few thousand human beings.
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Is that near Indonesia, or am I making that up?
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Well, a few thousand people other places other than that.
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Because what happens is you get, like, nuclear winter.
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When the entire atmosphere gets filled with volcanic dust, and it gets freezing cold, it blocks out the sun, animals die.
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But I mean, when you see mountains, that's the result of activity.
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You know, that's the result of plates moving and shit moving upwards.
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Wait, but the people really trying not to care, the Lakers game last night, Lizzo.
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And I actually, I went to the game last night, and she wore this t-shirt that had this big hole in the back, and she was just wearing a thong out of it.
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My theory is that she forgot underwear and then cut it, and she was like, I can fashion it out of this hole.
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Her butt is on that plastic Delta court side seat.
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Well, you know, Lil Duval, he had a great point.
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He said, how come when little skinny hot girls wear no clothes, everybody gets mad at them and calls them sluts.
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He's like, when big girls dress like that, everybody celebrates.
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Well, my biggest problem with it is that you'll see all these women, I'm sure, being like, she's just confident.
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It's still wrapped up in women needing to feel sexy to feel confident.
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No, to be confident, you have to stick your ass out.
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It's like when baboons, when they're in estrus.
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Well, you also got to remember, she's only been getting a lot.
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I feel like I've only known about her for like a year.
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You might be one of them weird people who likes to do it as a choice.
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They're coming out with a new one, a new iPhone that's a real small one.
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People that are tired of fucking staring at their screen all day.
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Are you one of those people that wants to get into like flip phones again?
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No, I have thought about getting a flip phone, but the problem is everybody iMessages me.
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They're trying to keep you from switching over.
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Well, when they figured out the blue text, too, the blue bubble carries status.
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Someone with a green bubble, just like, what's wrong with you?
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Like, you have your own, like, you made, like, your own phone program.
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It's not jailbreaking you do that with an iPhone, but you do something different with a...
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I thought it had a different name because I don't think it's jail.
00:18:47.000
So basically what they do is they erase everything off of the phone, start fresh with a clean version of Android.
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And then they add their own skins and they add their own loaders.
00:19:05.000
They get really geeked out because with Android you can change everything.
00:19:17.000
I have a friend who only uses an iPad and can only get messages when it's connected to Wi-Fi.
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It's very frustrating when you're trying to get a hold of that person.
00:19:49.000
And I respect the fact that he made a proactive move.
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I have to figure out a way to not stare at my phone all day.
00:20:01.000
But then he was, like, texting with the thumbs, doing that T9 thing.
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It's like fucking receipts and diner matches and shit.
00:20:27.000
Not just hilarious as a comic, but hilarious as a human character.
00:20:31.000
Every once in a while, he'll do like a joke check, and you'll get this weird text from him that's like, hey, does anyone have anything about raccoons and cats?
00:20:42.000
You know, it's like just a combination of like, it's like a Mad Lib.
00:20:44.000
You're like, no, I've not heard that one before.
00:20:47.000
Well, I guess when you're a guy like him, too, if you're writing joke jokes all the time, like everything's a joke joke.
00:21:10.000
But it is one of those things where it's like, yeah, does anyone have jokes about s'mores and hot air balloons?
00:21:16.000
To me, he's the most underappreciated master of our age.
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And he doesn't get the kind of love that he should from the general public because he has zero marketing.
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Zero anything other than people saying he's awesome and people seeing him be awesome.
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And he's one of the rare guys that got sober and got better.
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And also he'll bring candy to the club every once in a while, which I love candy.
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He'll just bring bags of candy to the cellar every once in a while.
00:22:07.000
There was a group of Latino women in the front and mean mugging the whole time, just arms crossed.
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After their set, they'd be like, yeah, but then there's these women in the front.
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Attell gets on stage, looks immediately at them, and he goes, Oh, why so sad?
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But he has that laser vision where he sees it in the crowd.
00:23:14.000
But there's a lot in that in comedy right now, too.
00:23:17.000
Like, I mean, he's been around for decades and should definitely be, like, widely loved.
00:23:25.000
It's like, you know, like this Mark Norman, Sam Morrell, Dan Soder.
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It's just, like, I feel like they're all underappreciated.
00:23:36.000
You know, like, there are guys that are, like, great joke writers, you know, and it's, like, hard for them to sell specials now because it's, you know, people are like, you're a straight white guy.
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But isn't, like, um, I mean, there are straight white guys.
00:24:02.000
I mean, he looks nice, he's presentable, he has a small dog, you know.
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That's why the Flintstones will have a gay old time.
00:24:26.000
Oh, now I just want to see a gay Flintstones remake.
00:24:37.000
If you think back to Fred Astaire and things like that, if there was a guy like that today, you're like, that poor guy, come out of the closet.
00:24:45.000
You're just like, no, he's just a straight tap dancer.
00:25:04.000
I mean, I don't even know if white guys tap dance anymore.
00:25:18.000
My parents used to live outside of Wilkes-Barre.
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So in town, it would either smell like chocolate, because of the factory, or poop.
00:26:02.000
You get used to eating wild game and you start preferring it.
00:26:07.000
I have a lot of people I know that hunt out there.
00:26:18.000
Do you have to wait for a long time for things?
00:26:30.000
If you know how to shoot a gun, if I had a good rest with a rifle, I haven't shot a rifle a couple months ago, but if I hadn't shot a rifle, I shot an elk once and I hadn't shot a rifle in a year.
00:26:44.000
And if you have a rest, and the rifle's on the rest, and the rest is steady, all it is is about trigger discipline.
00:26:51.000
It's just squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, boom!
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Keep the crosshair on the animal, and it's not that hard.
00:27:02.000
For the guys who do it, it's like, when you eat something, like we ate elk last night at my house.
00:27:16.000
I didn't butcher it myself, but we quartered it, which means you take the legs off and the back straps off and you take all the big parts of meat and then I send it to a butcher and they'll make sausages and cut it into roasts.
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So it's like a bag, like a big bag, like about this big.
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And you can get two back straps in there from an elk.
00:27:45.000
I just love the idea that there's all these people on planes with like...
00:28:06.000
Well, you have to, look, if you, I could either send all of it to the, but the back straps are so easy.
00:28:18.000
I mean, they know in places like Utah, they're used to that.
00:28:21.000
I mean, this makes me so mad because I had an Alexander McQueen purse.
00:28:25.000
You know the ones, you guys know Alexander McQueen purses, right?
00:28:30.000
They have ones that have like rings that you like, you put your hand through and it's like a bunch of rings attached to the purse.
00:28:37.000
Well, I brought it through security and they were like, no, you have to check this because it looks like brass knuckles.
00:28:45.000
And so I had to check my McQueen purse, my little quilted patent leather McQueen purse.
00:28:54.000
Well, Tony Hinchcliffe tried to bring a pool stick.
00:29:01.000
We were working together and my friend Scott Frost has a...
00:29:10.000
Big time gambler, pool player, professional pool player, very famous guy in the world of pool.
00:29:16.000
And so we were going to go and play at his place.
00:29:23.000
He just walked right through security with a pool cue.
00:29:25.000
Pool cue is totally illegal to bring on a plane.
00:29:27.000
So we're walking around LAX and I go, hey man...
00:29:41.000
So on the way back from Phoenix, they were like, what the fuck are you doing?
00:29:45.000
He's like, oh, I'm just going to bring the pool cue on the plane.
00:29:51.000
He went back out and he had to go back to the counter and check it and come back.
00:29:56.000
Because you could beat someone to death with it.
00:30:06.000
You somehow get into the cockpit and you're just poking the back of their heads.
00:30:22.000
Haven't you ever watched a Steven Seagal movie?
00:30:32.000
Well, they sell glass bottles inside the terminal.
00:30:41.000
Like, when you have duty-free, don't they hold on to that stuff and then you get it later or something?
00:30:44.000
I think you can buy glass bottles of, like, sparkling water in, like, throughout the thing.
00:30:53.000
Yeah, you definitely can buy a bottle of water.
00:31:00.000
I think they have the little glass sparkling ones.
00:31:11.000
Went right through security at LAX. On purpose?
00:31:17.000
He gave me this knife and I had it in my fanny pack and it just went right through security.
00:31:21.000
I mean, it's a fucking click, a big hefty knife.
00:31:27.000
I got back to my place and, you know, it's like I was in my hotel room and I noticed I had it.
00:31:35.000
Well, look, I get excited when I can get hair product through.
00:31:41.000
Well, it's supposed to be under whatever, three ounces, but every once in a while I'll forget, or I'll be running late, and I'll throw in the full-size bottle.
00:31:49.000
And luckily, a lot of times, it'll be black women.
00:31:53.000
They'll see it, and they'll be like, no, if it's fine, go ahead.
00:31:57.000
Well, they know you're not a fucking terrorist.
00:32:00.000
And also, it's hard to find the right hair product.
00:32:06.000
They were going to let people bring knives again.
00:32:08.000
They were going to let people bring four-inch knives, and they were going to let people bring pool cues.
00:32:12.000
But then I think something happened, and there was another event.
00:32:18.000
You remember at LAX where that guy shot one of the TSA agents who came to LAX with a rifle?
00:32:25.000
And shot a TSA agent, that's right when that was going down, then they locked it down.
00:32:30.000
So if I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say, they don't want us bringing little knives and pool cues, so they shot that guy.
00:32:44.000
It's just, what you can and can't bring is crazy.
00:32:48.000
I could beat someone to death with a skateboard.
00:32:53.000
Yeah, also it's like you couldn't just have a bunch of three-ounce things that you combine together.
00:32:59.000
Yeah, you have a bunch of three-ounce things in an empty tub.
00:33:19.000
Because what if I did say that and then someone did do that?
00:33:22.000
See, there's a lot of people that are really crazy and not that creative.
00:33:27.000
Yeah, they're just like, ah, if only I knew a way to do this.
00:33:41.000
But he was trying to light it in front of everybody.
00:33:43.000
He didn't even do it in the bathroom, the fucking idiot.
00:33:49.000
If I was going to light a bomb, I'd light it in the bathroom.
00:33:58.000
And then start walking, like you don't even know what's happening.
00:34:01.000
Like one of the action movies where the bomb goes off behind you.
00:34:06.000
You're just hoping someone Instagrams it at the right time, too.
00:34:09.000
You're like, oh, we're all going to die, but also, what a good post.
00:34:12.000
But also, hopefully your phone is really durable.
00:34:19.000
It fell from this guy, and we did get this amazing action photo.
00:34:24.000
Yeah, it's a weird thing that everybody gets super, super checked flying.
00:34:30.000
But you don't get super, super checked when you go to the mall.
00:34:34.000
There's all these other places where you don't get super, super checked.
00:34:37.000
Yeah, I mean, I feel like there should just be metal detectors everywhere.
00:35:00.000
If you're there like a minute before the train leaves, you can get on the train.
00:35:15.000
I was with my family in Italy, and we took a train ride.
00:35:20.000
Sit back, watch the countryside, drink a Diet Coke.
00:35:27.000
In the UK, they have really good service on trains, too.
00:35:31.000
If you take one of the Virgin trains or whatever, they come through and they have snacks, they have Imagine being like in the old west times when they had those really nice first class trains that were going across the country.
00:35:42.000
And like everyone's dressed like a gentleman and a lady.
00:35:46.000
And you're just like, everyone looks beautiful.
00:35:57.000
I think it probably just felt soft and maybe it was expensive.
00:36:04.000
Do you know that they used to use beaver pelts to line the inside of their hats?
00:36:14.000
And there was something about the inside of hats that they used mercury.
00:36:22.000
Yeah, I was going to say, that sounds like a bad idea.
00:36:25.000
So that's where the expression mad hatter came from.
00:36:28.000
It came from people not knowing that mercury was poison, so they're putting mercury in their fucking hats.
00:36:44.000
I definitely think someone told me that on this podcast.
00:36:52.000
I run into people and I go, oh, I know that guy.
00:36:56.000
I'm like, fuck, he was on my podcast a month ago.
00:36:59.000
Literally, it's like I'm forgetting everything.
00:37:06.000
So, this is the explanation I just read on this, corrosiondoctors.org, which, I don't know the validity of it, but...
00:37:13.000
So, it was camel hair that was used as the felt material.
00:37:16.000
In order to soften that up and speed up the softening process, they would use camel urine to process that.
00:37:26.000
Workmen that were doing that would use their own urine to soften it.
00:37:31.000
Some of them were being treated for syphilis with mercury.
00:37:36.000
That would then bleed into and lead to some problems.
00:37:40.000
Imagine you get some syphilis piss on the inside of your fancy hat.
00:37:44.000
I mean, this is what you get for having sex outside of marriage.
00:37:49.000
Imagine if you wait all those days and she still gives you the clap.
00:37:55.000
They might have even used the mercury to process it and skipped all the pee process, but the first paragraph says it was urine that did it, and then...
00:38:04.000
Yeah, I mean, I think I'd rather wear my own pee than a camel's pee.
00:38:11.000
You ever see the pictures of people when they used to die from syphilis?
00:38:31.000
She's a woman who's got this amazing Instagram page.
00:38:35.000
And she specializes in ancient medical procedures.
00:38:43.000
And one of the things she was showing us was photos of people who died from syphilis.
00:38:55.000
Like, I just don't even know who became doctors back then.
00:38:57.000
They were like, I got this crazy idea that'll get rid of your blood and it's just more like...
00:39:05.000
You know, like when you used to see old, like rich dudes wearing wigs?
00:39:34.000
He's probably like, I shouldn't have fucked that whore.
00:39:39.000
I can't believe I've got a fucking hole in my head.
00:39:42.000
He's just like, he just keeps walking around being like, it was worth it.
00:39:56.000
That's why, like, the expression big wig, the more money you had, the bigger the wig you got.
00:40:07.000
Their fucking hair was falling out, so they had wigs made.
00:40:09.000
And so because these guys were the shit, they're, like, basically the male Kardashians of the day.
00:40:14.000
Everybody started copying them, and probably a bunch of other people had syphilis as well.
00:40:18.000
Their hair was falling out, so they all got wigs.
00:40:19.000
So when you see a bunch of people in the old days that were in court, and how the judge and everyone would wear powdered wigs, all that started because of syphilis.
00:40:31.000
You know, that's first of all, hilarious to think that everyone was like in court and they're like, so how's your syphilis?
00:40:47.000
There's also, do you know, you ever watch like British crime dramas?
00:40:54.000
I'm basing British crime dramas on what I think they actually still do in Britain.
00:41:00.000
I feel like they do it on TV. They must still do it.
00:41:10.000
Who was the last guy who kept the powdered wig over here?
00:41:32.000
That's like a really well cared for and groomed sheep.
00:41:36.000
Like when someone loves their sheep and they brush it.
00:41:54.000
Look at those guys wearing those stupid wigs and everybody else is modern behind them and around them.
00:42:00.000
They're just wearing a wig, but they also pull out their phone.
00:42:38.000
So look at the old picture down there, the painting, the bottom of the screen, right there.
00:42:55.000
Everything sexual back then had to be terrible.
00:43:03.000
But people get horny enough, they don't care about smells.
00:43:14.000
We have standards until, like, you get desperate.
00:43:19.000
You have standards until you don't have options.
00:43:25.000
You have standards until you don't have options.
00:43:34.000
I just kept scrolling and they started getting weirder.
00:43:37.000
This might be some social justice warrior stuff.
00:43:40.000
Why African judges still wearing wigs is a glaring symbol of British colonialism.
00:43:47.000
But also, if they still want to wear them, let them wear them.
00:44:02.000
Yeah, I mean, you know, you gotta put your own style.
00:44:08.000
Like, today, why do they wear those stupid fucking robes?
00:44:11.000
We're making fun of wigs, but we're not making fun of these goddamn wizard robes they wear.
00:44:16.000
Like, the Supreme Court, they still wear the robes.
00:44:27.000
I'm pretty sure that's a character from an Eddie Murphy movie.
00:44:45.000
I think they wear the robes to symbolize that there's something special.
00:44:52.000
I was thinking it was like to hide any sort of affiliation to anything.
00:44:57.000
That would be the charitable way of looking at it.
00:45:00.000
I think they wear the robes because they're mystical.
00:45:08.000
I would be a terrible judge because I wouldn't be able to just...
00:45:16.000
There was a bunch of those shows where they were trying to do them with comedians.
00:45:20.000
I actually did a pilot once way back in the day where it was like a comedy court...
00:45:30.000
The idea was that you're going to bring people in with disputes like, you stole his records, that kind of shit.
00:45:40.000
So people that had small claims, they would go there.
00:45:46.000
I think Dom Herrera did a pilot for one of those.
00:45:48.000
There was a few of those floating around for a while.
00:45:50.000
I think it'd be fun if we had comedy court now, but in the way where a lot of us comedians got to decide if you get to stay in comedy or not.
00:46:00.000
It's like, no, no, you've been doing too much social justice stuff.
00:46:09.000
If you criticize someone for something, and then we can pull up you doing that exact same kind of joke.
00:46:15.000
Like, if you get real social justice-y about a bit, and then we go, oh, look at this dick.
00:46:24.000
I mean, that's what people do on Twitter all the time.
00:46:27.000
It's so great because people are like, yeah, I can't believe you do this.
00:46:32.000
And then, of course, minutes later, it's like, again, so are these times you use the N-word back in 2012. Well, back in the early days of Twitter, no one totally understood what it was.
00:46:44.000
Well, for me, I still had a day job, and I used it every day.
00:46:52.000
Just constantly, I'd read news stories, and I'd practice joke writing.
00:46:56.000
I had five followers, and I was brand new to stand-up.
00:47:02.000
And then it became a place of importance, and I was like, I've got to delete everything.
00:47:07.000
Once you start getting actual gigs, you're like, oh no, this could fuck me.
00:47:11.000
And then you've got to wonder, today people just store and wait.
00:47:16.000
They'll store and wait for you to get something.
00:47:28.000
Yeah, well, it's also, back then, no one understood what it was.
00:47:35.000
Like, they didn't understand what they were doing.
00:47:36.000
So, it's like you thought you were talking shit to friends.
00:47:39.000
It's like, Ashton Kutcher was, like, the first guy with Twitter.
00:47:47.000
And that was during, like, the heyday of Punk'd.
00:47:51.000
We didn't know this was going to turn into a thing where it would cause the spring rebellion in Egypt or whatever.
00:48:00.000
You remember when it would be your at Michelle Wolf is eating pizza?
00:48:10.000
You would always say the at thing is doing something.
00:48:24.000
And then, you know, somewhere along the line, it was like, this guy touched my tit.
00:48:32.000
There was some breaking, some rebellion in some foreign country.
00:48:44.000
The videos from Hong Kong, they have not stopped.
00:48:49.000
The crazy thing is you heard a little bit about it in America.
00:48:53.000
And then when the NBA stuff happened, they were finally like...
00:48:57.000
Then everyone heard about Hong Kong and you were like, wait, it took basketball to get this to make the news?
00:49:06.000
Well, it was people who didn't want to criticize China.
00:49:10.000
But also, I gotta say, again, shout out to China is...
00:49:13.000
As soon as the basketball stuff started happening, the next morning they were painting over murals and taking things down.
00:49:24.000
It was like a GM or something from the Houston Rockets.
00:49:27.000
He tweeted something in support of the Hong Kong protests.
00:49:36.000
No more NBA. We're not putting it on the TV. And the thing is, a lot of NBA players have huge shoe deals and other endorsement deals in China.
00:49:45.000
And they might have an entirely separate shoe deal in China that's making them millions of dollars.
00:49:52.000
And so the players were sort of like, hey, let's backtrack on this a little bit.
00:50:06.000
China is at least a little bit upfront that they don't care about human rights.
00:50:15.000
It's like we go an extra step to pretend that we care about human rights, but we're not the best at it either.
00:50:36.000
Yeah, you can get in trouble if you're saying stuff.
00:50:42.000
He just lost his case where he's supposed to pay $35,000 because he made a joke about...
00:50:52.000
And everybody donated money and then like a bunch of years later the kid was still alive and he made a joke like, can I get my fucking money back?
00:51:34.000
So it started, I believe, two years before that.
00:51:40.000
You and Ari actually talked about it in 2016 or something like that.
00:51:44.000
Yeah, I remember there was one year in Montreal that people were talking about it.
00:51:50.000
There was another comic who got heckled by this...
00:52:01.000
But someone was on stage, and this lesbian couple was heckling.
00:52:08.000
He got up and called them a bunch of dykes and said some crazy shit to them.
00:52:14.000
I was like, heckles out of context are so funny.
00:52:17.000
It was a lesbian, called them a bunch of dykes.
00:52:22.000
Well, you know, people get drunk and they yell stuff out at comedy clubs and it was disruptive.
00:52:28.000
So that comic wound up having to pay money too.
00:52:33.000
I think he lost, I want to say it was a lot of money.
00:52:36.000
I want to say it was like $100,000 or something crazy.
00:52:42.000
I don't like any time a comic is taken seriously.
00:52:52.000
If someone's yelling at you while you're on stage, they're disrupting your work.
00:52:59.000
But if you just decide, listen, you fucking fat slob.
00:53:24.000
And because wherever that dude was in Thailand, they want some dope cars.
00:53:37.000
Do you know Kyle Dunnigan's face swap videos with Elon?
00:53:46.000
One of my favorites is when he does the what's up chicken butt to his mom.
00:53:57.000
Annie plays his daughter, and he plays this, like, weirdly effeminate, probably gay dad who's just, like, really gossipy.
00:54:04.000
But he, like, talks about having sex with women.
00:54:08.000
But he's, like, always gossipy about, like, celebrities and stuff.
00:54:17.000
It's Caitlyn Jenner's, that's the coupe de gras.
00:54:24.000
They were gonna give him a show, you know, like a face swap show.
00:54:30.000
It would've been the best fucking show on their network.
00:54:32.000
But they were so bad in terms of like cutting controversial stuff out.
00:54:40.000
Like she was riding Donald Trump, you know, because he does a great Donald Trump too.
00:55:00.000
Trans people are allowed to have sex with the president, too.
00:55:13.000
I think that's a pretty good look for a trans person, you know?
00:55:27.000
My favorite part was when, you know, there was the whole thing I was, you know, when all this was going on and she was winning Women of the Year, I go, do you understand that she's against gay marriage?
00:55:43.000
Just, I want you to stop and pause before you decide this is a hero.
00:55:49.000
You have a moron who just happens to be transgender.
00:55:52.000
And just because she's a famous moron does not mean she's anything other than a moron.
00:56:03.000
Well, I guess I'm just kind of a traditional girl.
00:56:09.000
This is where I wish we could get to with some of this stuff, is that you can be like, yes, I appreciate and respect everything about you being able to be trans.
00:56:32.000
This isn't about being anything, whatever the hot button issue that you are.
00:56:37.000
It's like, no, you're just still a shitty person.
00:56:39.000
Well, this is where the loophole has gone into women in sports.
00:56:52.000
And they're not getting fucked like Trump with Caitlyn on top.
00:56:59.000
The Olympic weightlifting, the people who do powerlifting tournaments, they stopped it.
00:57:04.000
They won't let transgender women enter in and pretend to be a biological woman anymore.
00:57:09.000
Well, and there's one thing that women have to, in order to fight this correctly, women have to admit that men are physically stronger than us.
00:57:21.000
That's like admitting that women can have babies and men can't.
00:57:26.000
But there's a thing, like, I mean, I've gotten into fights with people about Serena Williams, and they're saying, like, well, she could beat any man, and I'm like, she literally can't.
00:57:35.000
I'm not saying she's not great, but the last time she played against a man, he was like some guy who drinks and like...
00:57:42.000
He was like rake 600th, was like drinking, whatever.
00:57:47.000
And this was back a couple years ago when she was like really at her peak.
00:57:56.000
But in high jump, the best woman in the world right now is jumping about 6'7".
00:58:24.000
He would have been a world record holder if he was a woman.
00:58:28.000
You're getting world record holders now, in weightlifting in particular, where they're trans women.
00:58:35.000
There was a girl who was a man for 32 years, became a I didn't understand how far...
00:58:55.000
This whole PC progressive culture had gotten in terms of completely off the rails and not looking at things accurately.
00:59:02.000
I was like, come on, you've got to be objective.
00:59:04.000
I'm not saying people can't be trans, but what I'm saying is you can't not tell someone.
00:59:08.000
By the way, I'm 100% for a woman fighting a man if she wants to.
00:59:34.000
And she's fighting for the bantamweight title this weekend in Vegas.
00:59:40.000
See, now this, she just calculatedly decided that she was a better fighter than this guy and knew that, look at this, fucking this dude up!
00:59:50.000
He still clubbed her in the back of the head there.
00:59:55.000
See, he's getting in trouble for clubbing her in the back of the head.
00:59:58.000
But she had a boxing match with this guy and fucking flattened him.
01:00:06.000
I don't know the specifics behind it, but it's super risky for a woman to fight a man.
01:00:12.000
But she wanted the challenge, and I completely support it.
01:00:17.000
See, this dude is fucking dangerous, but she's a super high-level fighter.
01:00:33.000
But you're talking about a guy who's just a schmo.
01:00:40.000
Knows how to punch, but that's a world champion.
01:00:43.000
If Jermaine Durand wants to do that, I wouldn't say she couldn't do it.
01:00:48.000
But the idea that you can not tell someone that you were a man for 30 years.
01:00:54.000
I got into a conversation with this on Twitter back when I used to get in conversations with people.
01:01:22.000
I guess you felt inside that you were always supposed to be a woman.
01:01:27.000
I think you're probably saying the wrong words anyway.
01:01:32.000
Yeah, I mean, it's such a complicated, like, and the thing is, this is what bothers me, is that you can't even question or have any discussions around it.
01:01:43.000
Where it's just like, no, I want to know and I want to be better, but I need help understanding.
01:01:48.000
Even the language you use, I want to be better.
01:01:57.000
But, yeah, I mean, like, I don't, like, yeah, I want people to live whatever way they want to live.
01:02:05.000
And I don't even know how to look it up online.
01:02:09.000
If they find out what you're searching, they'll come for you.
01:02:12.000
They'll come for you and take away your woke past.
01:02:14.000
Now you can't have another special because you Googled...
01:02:21.000
Well, people literally have gotten massive blowback on their careers because of that.
01:02:26.000
You know, because of questioning whether or not trans people can fight.
01:02:30.000
I mean, Ronda Rousey got a ton of shit when she was saying she didn't think trans women should be able to fight regular women in MMA or biological women, whatever you want to call it.
01:02:38.000
If you didn't even say regular women, like, you piece of shit.
01:02:47.000
It's funny because these are the people that don't want bullies.
01:02:50.000
It's like the same people, progressive people, are the ones who are anti-bullying.
01:02:59.000
Because they're just feeding off of each other.
01:03:03.000
And one of the things that happens with piranhas is when one of them gets sick, the other ones fuck them up.
01:03:12.000
Like, one of them, you'd see one of them have, like, a little slight wiggle to them, and they'd be like, hmm.
01:03:20.000
I'd come home and half a piranha would be at the bottom of the tank.
01:03:26.000
I had a hamster that ate the other hamster once.
01:03:34.000
I don't know, but it's a weird thing to walk home to when you're five.
01:03:37.000
Her name was Fluffy and she was eating her babies.
01:03:44.000
She's holding on to the baby's head and just chewing up.
01:03:55.000
I guess I got to go to the library and look this up in the encyclopedia to see if it's a thing.
01:04:00.000
Why is my hamster eating its baby's head like it's a fucking ripe tomato?
01:04:18.000
When one steps out of line, even when woke people, they don't say, hey, Sheila's a good person.
01:04:42.000
It goes from we support you to burn it to the ground.
01:04:48.000
And everyone's trying to stand out as being, like, ultra-progressive and hardcore with it.
01:04:54.000
So everyone's, like, making these hard stances on Twitter where it's, like, so aggressive.
01:04:59.000
I think, though, that my theory behind it is that we've always liked, as a human, we've always liked to watch people die.
01:05:09.000
Because we used to do Gladiator when people got beheaded or burned at the stake.
01:05:18.000
And they were all just like, yeah, because in that moment, your life isn't as bad as the person who's getting burned.
01:05:30.000
They're online and they're like, oh, I can take down this person.
01:05:36.000
Did you really just destroy someone's life who was trying to be a good person?
01:05:41.000
I don't know, go after companies using plastic or something like that.
01:05:50.000
When anyone steps out of line publicly and then people start attacking them, this is not like a personal issue to them.
01:05:57.000
It's not like this person that did this thing, it's like really affects your life.
01:06:01.000
But the amount of energy that people put into it and the amount of time, like when people want to go dig up those old tweets and want to find out things that you said or, you know, and this, it is similar to that feeling of watching a public execution.
01:06:21.000
They'll go on your Instagram, leave tons and tons of, like, terrible comments.
01:06:30.000
Did you really feel, does that make your day better?
01:06:34.000
I just found something dark as you guys were talking about this.
01:06:39.000
The last public hanging, there was like a huge media event, like 20,000 people traveled to Kentucky to watch it happen.
01:06:48.000
She was the local sheriff and she didn't go through with it because of probably the attention.
01:06:55.000
And while this was all going on, there was like a media circus.
01:06:58.000
People were eating hot dogs, drinking lemonade, camping out overnight.
01:07:11.000
It said he wanted for the rape of a 70-year-old woman.
01:07:20.000
Yeah, see, Bethesda confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old Lishi Edwards, a capital crime under Kentucky law, and one that fell upon the local sheriff to punish.
01:07:32.000
I could appoint the deputy sheriff to deputize any citizen to spring the trap, Thompson told reporters as she stoically resigned herself to the role.
01:07:41.000
But to do that would inflict an unpleasant job upon someone else.
01:07:46.000
So she decided this disgusting job, she was going to do it, and then decided not to.
01:08:01.000
The problem with those, anything post-slavery, post-1865, there were so many crimes that people were arrested for that were nothing, where men were being forced to do labor.
01:08:13.000
So what would happen was, because of the fact that slavery was now abolished, These men would be loitering, right?
01:08:24.000
You grew up a slave, and then all of a sudden you're free.
01:08:28.000
Well, they would just arrest you and then make you do hard labor in jail for nothing.
01:08:33.000
Yeah, they essentially figured out how to make slavery legal again.
01:08:42.000
I mean, when you make a guy work in jail for a dollar a day, whatever the fuck they pay, how is that not slavery?
01:08:55.000
We get so mad at a lot of the current stuff that's happening with what we're supposed to be saying, the right pronouns to use, all that stuff.
01:09:04.000
And it's like, yeah, okay, I'll try to say the right pronouns.
01:09:09.000
How about we go back and kind of correct some of this 400 years of slavery and oppression that we did for black people?
01:09:25.000
I think the real problem is these communities, they've never recovered.
01:09:30.000
Like places like Baltimore, there's certain communities that have been the same forever.
01:09:36.000
And South Side of Chicago is another one, right?
01:09:38.000
There's these communities that they're just, they're fucked with, riddled with crime and drugs and so many people in and out of jail and this constant recidivism rate.
01:09:58.000
I mean, the people that are heroes in your neighborhood are drug dealers.
01:10:02.000
Boy, there's no effort put to that in terms of like a systematic national effort on the federal level to step in and do something to these communities and do it on a scale that we do in other countries when we bomb the fuck out of them.
01:10:21.000
Like, when an apartheid, after apartheid happened, they had like a day, there was a couple days of reckoning or whatever it was called, where everyone went up and they were like, these are the things I did.
01:10:37.000
And it was like this like terrible, like, cathartic, admit to your racism.
01:10:46.000
And then we're all just like, no, we're not racist.
01:10:50.000
Well, some people are racist, but what's racist is that these communities suffered under a system that was completely imposed because of racism.
01:11:01.000
In the 1800s and then in the early 1900s and during the civil rights era.
01:11:06.000
This is all, I mean, there's no denying that it's the echoes of at least...
01:11:11.000
Ancient racism that needs to be somehow or another addressed.
01:11:17.000
Some people want reparations, and the idea of it makes sense, right?
01:11:36.000
Like, if you look at a giant plantation, and they used to have slaves, and they profited off those slaves, and that plantation is somehow or another still in operation today.
01:11:45.000
But if it was, like, uh, where'd you get your money?
01:11:49.000
And then how do you go about giving it back to people?
01:11:53.000
Do you give it back to the ancestors of the people who were slaves?
01:11:57.000
And the problem is, like, if you give people money, I don't think it fixes the problem.
01:12:01.000
I think to fix the problem, there has to be some sort of...
01:12:04.000
I mean, we've beaten this horse to death on the show, unfortunately.
01:12:10.000
I don't know what it would be, but I think there has to be some way...
01:12:20.000
South Side of Chicago has more murders than Afghanistan.
01:12:32.000
This is such an unsolvable problem, and the stuff that people go after on Twitter, like the social justice stuff, is so easy to do.
01:12:40.000
And it's like, yeah, of course that's what you're going to like.
01:12:43.000
You can have a hard day or whatever shitty job you have, and then you come home, you see someone got mad at something or did something wrong, and you get to be like, yeah, this person, you're canceled.
01:12:55.000
And then you close your computer or whatever, or you watch people retweet it.
01:13:15.000
Twitter is great for just getting out information.
01:13:24.000
If I read some cool article, like I was reading some article about China has made pig-monkey hybrids.
01:13:35.000
And they've successfully made these pig-monkey hybrids.
01:13:42.000
I'm pretty sure it was just a regular pig fetus.
01:14:02.000
They do Pig Monkey and then just like a little baby boy is born.
01:14:09.000
But I think what they're trying to do is develop...
01:14:12.000
Pigs, their hearts and a lot of their organs are very similar to ours.
01:14:17.000
And their digestive tract is very similar to ours.
01:14:20.000
There's certain tests they do on how things are digested, and they do them through pig stomachs.
01:14:25.000
Well, they do a lot of transplants with pigs now, too.
01:14:28.000
So I think the idea is eventually get to a point where you can get harvestable organs from pigs.
01:14:35.000
So they'd have some sort of a pig-human hybrid.
01:14:42.000
You've got some pig lady walking around your house.
01:15:08.000
I'm like, I'm looking, I was like, but drums have like a pretty big hole in the back.
01:15:15.000
Tight like a drum is a dumb way to describe a vagina, for sure.
01:15:20.000
Unless there's like a weird covering over a vagina.
01:15:23.000
Tight like a fist, like a mason's fist, like a stone mason, someone who carries bricks every day and has fat, strong hands.
01:15:43.000
But if you can get a pig with a human vagina...
01:16:03.000
Yeah, if you found out that no one was looking, they don't fuck sheep because it's gross.
01:16:09.000
They fuck sheep because the sheep's that high and they're right there.
01:16:14.000
What about that poor guy who's the exact right hype for a sheep?
01:16:20.000
And he's just like, oh, I don't even have to bend my knees at all.
01:16:41.000
I would love if that's that guy's defense in court.
01:16:44.000
He's just like, no, but you've got to look at this video.
01:17:02.000
It's a ridiculous thing that people fuck animals.
01:17:11.000
There's one of the dolphin that came up on a woman.
01:17:16.000
It's the best trolling that has ever been done to me.
01:17:19.000
There was an article that said I was guilty of bestiality.
01:17:23.000
It said wolf guilty of bestiality and it was from my hometown newspaper, The Homestown Sun, which is a very small newspaper.
01:17:33.000
There's like three or four people that work there, I think.
01:17:35.000
But, like, it said that I was guilty of bestiality, and they did so much research.
01:17:40.000
Like, they got, like, the paper, the right paper.
01:17:47.000
And then the surprising thing was at the end of the article, it said I pled guilty, and the fine was $1,500.
01:17:53.000
And I was like, and it was about fucking dogs, that I was fucking dogs.
01:17:57.000
And I was like, well, if that was what I was into, $1,500, like...
01:18:05.000
Depends how much money you have and how big the dog's dick is.
01:18:18.000
There's videos like that that existed before the internet.
01:18:21.000
There was a video, I think it was called Barnyard Betty.
01:18:24.000
It was me and my friend Billy and my friend Ron.
01:18:27.000
We went over to their house and it was in the basement.
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I remember one of us had to guard the door in case someone came into the basement.
01:18:34.000
So they put the VHS tape on and one of us had to stand by the doorway to the basement just to make sure that nobody opened the door and busted us.
01:18:42.000
And we watched this fucked up video of these trailer trash looking meth girls that were blowing donkeys and having sex with dogs.
01:18:55.000
There was an episode of Nip Tuck where that happened.
01:18:59.000
There was a woman, she put like peanut butter on her vagina and their dog would like lick it off.
01:19:07.000
I remember I was kind of younger and I was like, that's a weird thing to put in TV. With a dog bites.
01:19:20.000
Yeah, if you had too many dogs, like you said, like, oh, one's not enough.
01:19:26.000
Peanut butter down there, peanut butter on the vajayjay.
01:19:40.000
And then after a while, you're like, wait, what?
01:19:47.000
Like, it started out like, whoa, this is kind of a cool show.
01:19:53.000
And then like four seasons in, you're like, hey, what are you doing?
01:20:02.000
And it was, I mean, it's just a, I mean, it's, It's not actually a great show, but I really did like it.
01:20:08.000
And the first couple seasons, I'm like, this is great, this is great.
01:20:11.000
Season three and four, I was like, this is crazy.
01:20:14.000
And then the end of it, I was like, okay, they brought it back around.
01:20:17.000
Well, the term jump the shark came from Fonzie jumping over a tank full of sharks.
01:20:25.000
Literally, people were like, get the fuck out of here.
01:20:36.000
I saw him at the Emmys last year and he introduced himself to me, which I was like, this is the craziest thing.
01:20:47.000
And I was like, this is like, I mean, it's Henry Winkler.
01:20:58.000
He wrote a book called I've Never Met an Idiot on the River.
01:21:08.000
There's a lot of people who really like fly fishing.
01:21:28.000
Yeah, I think it's more unbelievable that he'd wear a leather jacket water skiing than jump over a bunch of sharks.
01:21:34.000
Well, how about he's got it in between his legs?
01:21:40.000
Wait, did Henry Winkler actually learn how to...
01:21:53.000
Wait, that looks like he's really doing that, too.
01:22:03.000
Up until the point where it actually flew through the air and then they got some rugged Brad Pitt from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood type dude.
01:22:15.000
That moment has now jumped the shark as memes and stuff.
01:22:20.000
But it's crazy that it was such a bad episode that it became symbolic of a show going off the rails.
01:22:47.000
Yeah, and I get that, but it's like, I don't know.
01:22:50.000
I just have a hard time Listen, I've been watching a lot of Lenny Bruce over the last few months.
01:22:57.000
I found this one Lenny Bruce channel on YouTube.
01:23:00.000
It's got all of his old clips from various television performances.
01:23:10.000
I don't want to say he's the best, but he's the godfather of this thing that we do, that you and I both do.
01:23:16.000
He really is the guy who started talking about shit instead of just telling jokes.
01:23:20.000
He started talking about social problems, and why is this, and relationships, and sadness, and all kinds of weird stuff.
01:23:29.000
I mean, he developed a whole different kind of style of stand-up comedy.
01:23:33.000
But it's not funny because you're looking at something that happened in 1950 and 1960. It's just so hard for it to translate.
01:23:41.000
Comedy, unlike anything else, I don't know, though.
01:24:00.000
I think there's some people that do it that even, you know...
01:24:04.000
50 years from now, people will look back and be like, that joke's still funny.
01:24:09.000
Lenny Bruce had one joke that many comics have accidentally told since then, because they didn't know any better.
01:24:17.000
But it was about gay people, that being gay is against the law.
01:24:22.000
So they put you in jail with a bunch of guys who want to have sex with you.
01:24:33.000
I mean, back then it was just a fucking nuclear bomb.
01:24:36.000
I can't imagine being in the audience and hearing someone talk like that for the first time.
01:24:42.000
Because the best comedy, I think, is things you...
01:24:47.000
As soon as someone says it, you're like, I have always thought that.
01:24:51.000
They're just vocalizing something you were never able to put together.
01:25:04.000
I mean, that's the other thing about Lenny Bruce.
01:25:08.000
I mean, he was arrested multiple times for telling jokes.
01:25:25.000
You know, real stand-ups are ones that are just like, no, I have to do this.
01:25:31.000
Like, you don't do it for, like, a week and you're just, like, crawling out of your skin.
01:25:35.000
Also, the audience is ultimately supposed to be the judge of whether or not something's good.
01:25:41.000
And if that's not the case, then we're losing personal freedom.
01:25:46.000
You know, like, someone's not going on stage and saying, you know, I'm going to advocate that you murder someone.
01:25:56.000
We're talking about someone cracking a joke and the audience laughs and they enjoy it.
01:26:01.000
And today, even today, when people get upset about someone's stand-up set and they try to cancel something and...
01:26:12.000
They're at a comedy show, so they know it's a joke and they were laughing.
01:26:25.000
Why don't you speak out against that, you fucking cowards.
01:26:31.000
I'm in favor of a comic telling whatever joke they want.
01:26:34.000
And then the only way you're going to know it's funny is if you say it out loud to an audience.
01:26:39.000
And it might not be funny the first thousand times you say it until you figure it out.
01:26:44.000
Well, that was my giant issue with comics that were going after Louis after that set was leaked.
01:26:50.000
The only thing people should have been mad about that is that the set was leaked.
01:26:53.000
That should have been like, you don't know where he's going to end up with that.
01:26:59.000
Huge premises that you disagree with and then he convinces you why he's right.
01:27:08.000
I mean, it's not like he really thinks that someone pushed a fat kid in front of a bullet and that's why they're talking in front of CNN. He'll figure out a way to make that work.
01:27:16.000
This is his first time doing stand-up in 10 months.
01:27:22.000
But you know that, and I know that, because that's what we do.
01:27:25.000
But there's a lot of people that don't even understand the mechanics of creating a joke.
01:27:29.000
A lot of times you'll go up and you'll have a premise, and you're like, God, I fucking know there's something.
01:27:33.000
He might eat shit with that joke for a couple months before it really starts catching.
01:27:40.000
There's always jokes I've had that now I'm coming back to because I wasn't ready to tell it then.
01:27:47.000
And now I'm getting back to it and I'm like, okay, maybe this direction.
01:27:55.000
People have no idea how hard it is to write jokes.
01:27:57.000
Well, that's Ari's entire new hour that he's doing.
01:28:06.000
He had to go to Israel and take religious classes all day, studying the Talmud fucking 10, 12 hours a day.
01:28:18.000
And we had talked about him doing bits about that years and years ago.
01:28:30.000
And especially stuff that's personal like that to you.
01:28:37.000
And then once you do those jokes, hopefully they were good enough because you're really not going to get to revisit them.
01:28:43.000
For you to go back over your like, hey, I put an album out 10 years ago and it kind of sucks.
01:28:49.000
Please don't go back and listen to the roots until after you see the second version.
01:29:01.000
I feel like sometimes, though, I feel sometimes you can show kind of your evolution by redoing some stuff a little bit, but you can't.
01:29:20.000
I mean, he's done that a couple times for specials, right?
01:29:24.000
Didn't he do the Netflix special and an HBO special?
01:29:27.000
I'm telling you for the last time, I think that was HBO, right?
01:29:33.000
And then I think he did a Netflix special that was very similar.
01:29:39.000
And I think now, I think they made a multiple special deal with him or something like that, and now he's putting together his new one.
01:29:53.000
There was a rumor that he was going to be at the store.
01:30:03.000
He, to me, is like one of the most unheralded of the great comics from the 90s.
01:30:13.000
So he hasn't done stand-up or anything in a long time.
01:30:16.000
And so he's starting to go and do it again, and then there was this rumor that someone, some star who hasn't done stand-up in a long time is going to do stand-up at the store in the belly room.
01:30:27.000
And everybody's texting everybody, is fucking Eddie Murphy going to the goddamn comedy store?
01:30:32.000
And we were all going to go down there and watch, but it turned out to be Damon.
01:30:46.000
I want to see the first words out of his mouth.
01:31:02.000
And I mean, I think part of it is he sees Dave just like destroying.
01:31:07.000
And I hope there's like a little competitiveness in him where he's like, I gotta jump back in.
01:31:18.000
Like, I don't know what he's doing, but goddammit, that black don't crack shit is not a lie.
01:31:37.000
When you saw him with Jerry in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, he's driving around with Jerry.
01:31:51.000
He looks like in Beverly Hills Cop, he's just thinner.
01:32:13.000
He does not look like he's almost 60. He looks amazing.
01:32:25.000
We were at the cellar and Tracy brought jelly beans.
01:32:31.000
And he was like, yeah, talking about the jelly beans, like, we don't have access to them with our money.
01:32:40.000
Like, he'd be like, I can't do any impressions, so this is going to be the worst Tracy Morgan you've ever heard of.
01:32:47.000
Who else you know is going to bring jelly beans?
01:32:53.000
He makes all of us eat jelly beans, and then he goes, not the green ones.
01:33:17.000
Scroll down there with Eddie Murphy with that beautiful young lady.
01:33:54.000
This is what I want of all people in Hollywood who look like that.
01:34:04.000
But tell us what you're doing so we at least have an idea that there's some crazy shit behind it.
01:34:21.000
He looks like he's 15 years younger than me, at least.
01:34:25.000
I'm looking side by side on the screen now, not bad.
01:34:31.000
I'm pretty healthy, but I party a little too hard.
01:34:33.000
Like, he's got like a little wrinkle right here.
01:35:00.000
That's like a fucking quarter million dollar earring.
01:35:12.000
And, you know, he did a thing a few years ago, right when Cosby was starting to get into trouble, when, I don't know if you saw it, but he did, like, this thing where he was at a panel, and he was receiving some award, and he started doing a little stand-up, and talking about them taking away Bill Cosby's awards,
01:36:12.000
Charlie and I did a tour together in like 2007. We did like 22 cities.
01:36:18.000
We traveled together for the whole month, like the whole month together.
01:36:28.000
And a guy that was basically a famous person first and then started doing stand-up, which is the hardest way to do it.
01:36:40.000
You're on stage and people are like, you're famous.
01:36:43.000
Let's see your A-plus act that I paid money to see, and you're basically an open-miker.
01:36:58.000
He would host and then he would slowly work up enough material that he could do a set.
01:37:07.000
When that happened, he was deep into his 40s when things really started clicking for him.
01:37:12.000
Imagine being an open-miker and famous and in your 40s.
01:37:19.000
At least then, though, you have life experiences to pull from.
01:37:23.000
You hear a lot of these people when they're like, you know, some people start in their teens and they turn out to be, you know, the best in the world, Dave Chappelle.
01:37:30.000
But other people start in their teens and I'm like, have some life first.
01:37:36.000
You know, like, I mean, like, I had, like, I had a whole career before I got into stand-up.
01:37:42.000
I started in 2011, so I was 26, 25, 26. What was your, you were saying your career, you were talking about?
01:37:59.000
Yeah, that's where Joe, still trying to make it happen.
01:38:04.000
But I started at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007, and then it collapsed in March of 2008. And then I stayed with J.P. Morgan for a couple years after that.
01:38:18.000
I worked with mutual funds and separately managed accounts.
01:38:29.000
Well, so in March of 2008, a bunch of friends of mine, this is like before Bear collapsed, a bunch of friends of mine went to see a taping of SNL. And I've always been such a huge fan that afterwards I was like, how do these people do this?
01:38:45.000
And I Googled them and they all started in improv.
01:38:47.000
So I started doing improv and I did that for a couple of years.
01:38:50.000
And then even at my first improv class, I was like...
01:38:57.000
And then I eventually got into stand-up after that around 2011. But it was one of those things where I was very much like a very type A, get good grades, try to get the best grade in the class type of person.
01:39:10.000
And I didn't really develop opinions or a point of view.
01:39:14.000
And so when I started doing improv, I was like...
01:39:19.000
You make choices, and then the more I got into stand-up, I was like, yeah, how do I feel about these things?
01:39:31.000
That's really when I feel like I started becoming a person.
01:39:35.000
I don't really think I had a personality before that.
01:39:38.000
I wonder if I would have been as curious if I wasn't a stand-up.
01:39:44.000
How much of my curiosity is because I started getting curious about things because I wanted to be able to talk about different things?
01:39:52.000
I'm definitely much more observational in the world than I used to be.
01:40:01.000
I remember thinking when I was a kid, I thought about what my wedding would look like as a little girl.
01:40:07.000
And now the idea of having a wedding seems ridiculous.
01:40:12.000
The idea of me in a big dress walking down an aisle.
01:40:19.000
But if you were going to get married, how would you do it?
01:40:29.000
It seems weird to have a party right after because you're like, let's see if this is going to stay.
01:40:37.000
Well, you're going to have a legal contract with someone, especially you now, because you don't want that Roseanne Barr Tom Arnold type deal.
01:40:49.000
You got some guy who kind of, like, comes with you on the road, becomes your tour manager.
01:40:55.000
That would never happen to me, though, because one of the things I find most attractive is a guy being really good at something.
01:41:01.000
And he's really good at being your tour manager.
01:41:08.000
Always has the best hotel rooms waiting for you.
01:41:10.000
Yeah, it's like, every time I go in, it's set up the exact way I want it.
01:41:22.000
I think, well, that's the case with most women.
01:41:24.000
Most women, I think, like guys that are good at stuff.
01:41:45.000
Dominant genes, like a big man, big tall man, good features, good symmetry.
01:41:52.000
Yeah, I've been working on this new joke about how women, we're attracted to the exact thing that's the most dangerous to us.
01:41:58.000
We like those men, so we make more dangerous men.
01:42:04.000
We could decide to just only mate with short, soft-boned men and make a whole generation of killable men.
01:42:14.000
And women would be like, yeah, we're the ones in power, but it's never going to happen.
01:42:18.000
Yeah, but that would have to be a real conscious decision that's against evolutionary biology.
01:42:22.000
It would have to be like, women have to be like, first of all, we'd have to get women to agree on something, which isn't going to happen.
01:42:29.000
But then also, yeah, you'd have to be like, no, this is the law.
01:42:38.000
Yeah, like we're going to outbreed all the Goliaths and all the gorillas, all the savages and barbarians.
01:42:47.000
Every once in a while, like a baby's born, it's like at the height and weight is too high, and they're like, we've got to get rid of this one.
01:42:59.000
Oh, that's not wise, because China's not going to do that.
01:43:02.000
They're going to use CRISPR and develop Hulk babies.
01:43:11.000
Are you worried at all about something like that?
01:43:21.000
You know, like, we're involved in a cold war with Russia, and we were involved in a cold war with Russia.
01:43:30.000
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I can imagine us getting into a war like that again, but I do worry about, like...
01:43:40.000
Like hacking, like more of like a, what's it called?
01:43:47.000
It is much more likely, but god damn, if there was some sort of like a real attack from China or from Russia, it would be more China than Russia.
01:43:57.000
From what I understand, Russia does not really have the money.
01:44:01.000
They have a military, but they don't have the kind of military that we have.
01:44:06.000
It's a pretty big drop-off from the United States to what Russia has.
01:44:15.000
I feel like ever since nuclear weapons came about, people are like, yeah, let's not do those kinds of wars anymore.
01:44:25.000
We'll still go in, if there's air quotes, insurgents.
01:44:37.000
I think often, what if there was a war and they had to put the draft back in?
01:44:45.000
Then I'd think about all my guy friends and I'd be like, well, first of all, I don't want them to fight because I like them.
01:45:04.000
You know, like I can't imagine him on a battlefield.
01:45:13.000
I can imagine Ari giving the other soldiers some sort of pill.
01:45:26.000
Find the reservoir and dump a bucket of acid into it.
01:45:28.000
This is just going to make whatever happens today a lot of fun.
01:45:31.000
Who out of your friends do you think would be a good soldier?
01:45:38.000
Well, I think Dan Soder would be a good soldier.
01:45:45.000
I mean, he's a teddy bear, but he's also, I think, for the right reasons, he'd be like, I would kill them.
01:46:00.000
It's more fun to think about the people I don't think could do it.
01:46:03.000
There's no way Keith Robinson, even before his stroke, was getting into a war.
01:46:11.000
But after the stroke, maybe he's got less to lose.
01:46:23.000
It's still pretty much not super usable, but he gets up on stage every night.
01:46:39.000
And he's one of my favorite people to sit at the table with.
01:46:43.000
Because you sit down, you're immediately making fun of each other.
01:46:50.000
People don't understand why that's so fun for us.
01:46:58.000
It's one of my favorite things, too, about comics is shitting on each other.
01:47:03.000
It's healthy to get shit on so you laugh and know that you can laugh at yourself.
01:47:08.000
People who can't laugh at someone shitting on them, they're the worst.
01:47:14.000
It's also like, it allows us to say the stuff that like, because comics will say pretty much anything on stage, but there is a line where we're like, no, this is for only other comics.
01:47:27.000
There's often times we'll be in a discussion and we'll kind of look around and be like...
01:47:30.000
If that guy heard any of that stuff we were talking about having sex with midgets, I don't think any of us are going to have a career anymore.
01:47:38.000
Yeah, if someone put, like, a hidden camera and a hidden microphone in the back bar of the comedy store, oh, Jesus Christ.
01:47:47.000
When you're trying to shock other comics, you know, shock road-hardened veterans...
01:47:54.000
Well, because our problem is that, like, we want to say the funniest thing.
01:48:00.000
Even past our line, where you're just like, no, this isn't.
01:48:04.000
I have this Sober October group text that I'm in with Ari Shafir, Bert Kreischer, and Tom Segura, and it's fucking ridiculous.
01:48:11.000
Sometimes it's so ruthless and so ridiculous, I just go, oh, fuck.
01:48:22.000
I also have a group text that's with a couple of my female friends and like that one, I'll look away from my phone and then I'll look back a minute or two later and there'd be like 96. And I'm just like, what happened?
01:48:35.000
And there's three different conversations going on.
01:48:42.000
It's really like, being friends with women is a lot of work.
01:48:53.000
I also love being friends with women because there's stuff that you can talk to them about that just like, either you can say it to men, but they're not going to have the in-depth discussion about it that you want it to happen.
01:49:04.000
You know, like women will just indulge each other and be like, but how did he say it?
01:49:23.000
You know what, how many times have you had a conversation when someone just writes something like, sure.
01:50:05.000
If you want to fight, let's just do it now and not wait till we get to the restaurant.
01:50:11.000
I also think it's good for men when women have a lot of female friends because...
01:50:16.000
Good for the other person you're dating or married to.
01:50:19.000
You should want your girlfriend to have a couple female friends so that she can have the conversations.
01:50:26.000
The more I think about relationships, the more I'm like...
01:50:29.000
No, men and women, like, a husband and wife shouldn't be having all of those discussions.
01:50:39.000
Have it with your girlfriends, and then just talk to him about whatever else.
01:50:49.000
I go on double dates with my wife and her and her friend and me and it winds up being two different conversations.
01:50:53.000
I get stuck with the husband and she's talking to her friend like, oh my god, so cute.
01:51:00.000
And I just have these rambling girl conversations.
01:51:03.000
I go, hey, hey, hey, let's have one conversation.
01:51:08.000
Yeah, and it's so nice to have the girls just to be like...
01:51:13.000
Yeah, I get to indulge the girl side of myself.
01:51:21.000
But some people want to pretend that men and women are the same thing.
01:51:26.000
I think that's such a detriment to both men and women.
01:51:29.000
Like, saying that women are the same as men, it's like, well, we're not, but also, why do we want to be?
01:51:43.000
And then there's some people that do float in the middle, but like...
01:51:46.000
Well, I think it all gets conflated with equal rights.
01:51:49.000
Like equality, equal rights, equal laws, equal willingness to try different jobs, those kinds of things.
01:51:57.000
And then we decide that men and women are not any different and that these are all cultural creations and these are things that are concocted by society.
01:52:08.000
And I think, I mean, I think it's kind of, it's bad for women when we say, well, we're just the same as men, because it's like, you're saying with that sentence that men are correct.
01:52:21.000
And when you finally start to think of us as men, as the same as men, now we're correct too.
01:52:29.000
What I like to say is that men and women aren't math.
01:52:40.000
You make every fucking human that's ever made is made in a woman's body.
01:52:44.000
This whole thing, though, is weird to me because I'm like, where did this come from?
01:52:52.000
But it's some sort of a cultural creation that women are different than men.
01:52:58.000
That this is something that society has sort of imposed on women.
01:53:06.000
And, like, we just sometimes just like to be around each other, which men, I think, sometimes just like to be around each other, too.
01:53:15.000
You know, like, it's like, I can hang out with the boys, no problem.
01:53:18.000
I grew up with older brothers, you know, like, all I ever did was hang out with boys.
01:53:22.000
But now, like, I also see so much value in just getting to be with girls.
01:53:32.000
There's a lot of stuff that men like that women don't, a lot of women, don't have interest in.
01:53:45.000
It's all exactly what we were talking about before, where people trying to control people and define people.
01:53:51.000
I think that's one of the reasons you see it a lot, especially online, from white women.
01:53:58.000
You know, like we want to be able to, and I mean, us being able to tell other people what they can and cannot do or say is us just being like, yep, that's our power now.
01:54:11.000
We might never be better than white men, you know, but we can at least control what you get to say about us.
01:54:18.000
And I think as soon as white women are like, yeah, we do like to have control, then we'll be like, thank you.
01:54:33.000
How dare you tell black people how to feel about what jokes we can and cannot say about black people?
01:54:43.000
I'm sure you see it at stand-up shows where there's white women with their arms crossed and then when you start talking about race and then black people who are laughing and you're like...
01:54:54.000
They're like, you shouldn't be able to tell jokes about black people like that.
01:54:58.000
Well, I think a lot of it, too, is people working in offices all day where they're constantly suppressed.
01:55:03.000
The way you communicate in an office is so vastly different than the way a comic communicates on stage in front of a nightclub.
01:55:09.000
It's so different that most people, the vast majority of their day, is under the spell of human resources.
01:55:17.000
They have this imposed standard of communication that's not how they want to talk.
01:55:24.000
And also, men and women working together is strange.
01:55:29.000
And anybody who says it's not strange has never worked with women and men together.
01:55:43.000
Yeah, and I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, you can't even broach the subject now because people are like, it's not an issue.
01:55:56.000
Like, okay, yeah, there's a lot of sexual harassment that happens in offices, but there's also a lot of legitimate relationships that happen in offices.
01:56:02.000
Like, there's flirting, there's one night stands, there's, you know, like...
01:56:10.000
People fuck for a while and then they might hate each other, but they still gotta figure out how to work together.
01:56:17.000
The hilarious thing is when that happens and there's a boss and someone who's below them.
01:56:25.000
And again, I look at it from my perspective where I'm like, I'm attracted to men who are good and powerful.
01:56:34.000
I worked in an office, and my boss was really good looking, and I was attracted to him, and there was a chemistry, and we started sleeping together.
01:56:47.000
And then, you know, like, yeah, this is like...
01:56:50.000
You're going to get canceled just for saying that.
01:56:53.000
You can't say that you want to be with someone powerful, and someone who holds something over you.
01:57:01.000
Yeah, I mean, if he's really hot, you know, I might get a shot, too.
01:57:17.000
I do see it now, and this is a weird thing, but super feminist women, I do see a lot of them kind of dating jawless, kind of pushover guys.
01:57:36.000
They're like, no, I found these soft-boned men.
01:57:51.000
Like, ooh, there's not a goddamn thing they can do about that.
01:58:16.000
I think they might have done something to her actual jaw itself, too.
01:58:19.000
But it was one of those very unfortunate chins.
01:58:26.000
They put a piece of plastic or something where her chin...
01:58:29.000
It used to go in too far, and then it came out a little bit.
01:58:41.000
She didn't like the shape of her jaw, so she got her jaw reworked.
01:58:44.000
Well, some of these guys should look into that.
01:58:47.000
I don't think there's much you can do if you have a tiny little jaw.
01:58:54.000
But yeah, working with men and women working together is like, there's a way to figure it out.
01:59:01.000
And the real issue is people holding things over you in order to get you to sleep with them.
01:59:06.000
It's not you being someone who works with someone who's legitimately attracted to this guy and then you get together.
01:59:12.000
It's still, if I was running a company, I'd say, hey, don't fuck each other, you assholes.
01:59:25.000
Because if I say, yeah, what are you, banging your secretary?
01:59:33.000
You would have to say that it's in the rules and regulations, you would have to say.
01:59:38.000
But there's no way you can tell me that it's not possible for a man and a woman who are working together and the guy's the boss and the woman works under him and they fall in love and they have an amazing relationship.
01:59:57.000
He's a power-hungry piece of shit who abused his power.
02:00:09.000
We gotta give her half of that hundred billion dollars that he has and get her out of that ivory tower.
02:00:19.000
The real issue is someone sexually harassing you.
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Like some guy was holding a promotion Over your head saying that he wants you to sleep with him or making lewd comments that make you feel disgusted.
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Or you show up to work and you're not interested in that person at all.
02:00:34.000
You just want to do your job and they're making comments about your breasts or your legs or your mouth or...
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They're somehow creepier than like the breast or the butt.
02:00:47.000
Just picture him with his just fly down, pants still on.
02:01:02.000
There's no one thing that a woman could say to a man that makes him feel like a piece of meat like that, like humiliated.
02:01:09.000
It's so hard to sexually harass men because they're into so much of it.
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Especially if we're attracted to you, you're sexually harassing.
02:01:49.000
I know you're married, and I have a wife as well, so let's just keep this in the salon.
02:01:59.000
By the way, we are going to need to get something to lock that door.
02:02:05.000
But the thing is, even if a male boss, even if he got everything in writing beforehand, saying this is consensual.
02:02:14.000
I think you could easily say afterwards, it wasn't.
02:02:20.000
Well, that's what's exactly happening with Matt Lauer.
02:02:24.000
He was having a sexual affair with a woman that he worked with that wasn't even under him.
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She was in a different department, and they're still saying that he had power over her.
02:02:35.000
See, the thing is, this Ronan Farrow guy, Ronan Farrow guy, He's obviously a real legitimate journalist, and he's done a deep dive into these things.
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Until Matt Lauer comes out and just has to make statements, I guess, on all these different things.
02:02:53.000
Because apparently there were some people that got paid off.
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And then he's proven there's been several different compensation payoffs, people that were sexually harassed.
02:03:06.000
Well, even when you hear about payments, you're like...
02:03:09.000
Yeah, that might mean it's legitimate, or it might mean that they thought, this is the easiest way to fix this problem.
02:03:22.000
That's the gold standard of sexual harassment pants.
02:03:25.000
When you paid that chick $32 million, you're like, what did you say, Bill?
02:03:33.000
That's just like, no, I don't want to have to deal with it anymore.
02:03:40.000
Apparently, there's also a clause that she has to deny that anything ever took place.
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And then if evidence comes out, she has to lie and say that evidence is not valid.
02:03:58.000
That lady right now has probably got her feet up.
02:04:01.000
She's probably got fluffy slippers on, sipping tea.
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Because every now and then she just like wakes up in the morning and they just realize she doesn't have to do shit ever again.
02:04:26.000
If you live a reasonable life, you don't have to do a goddamn thing with $32 million.
02:05:00.000
If you have a legit $32 million in the bank, What would you get out of that?
02:05:11.000
What would it have to be in order to get $3 million a year?
02:05:24.000
Like, that's what we did, like, due diligence on mutual funds and stuff like that.
02:05:30.000
Like, I mean, there's a lot of funds that, like, it fluctuates, but there's, like, a good 4%, you know?
02:05:41.000
I'm sure there's higher yield ones that you could use.
02:05:50.000
I don't have anything in the stock market anymore because after Bayer collapsed, I literally saw people that were working there for 30 years lose everything because they lost their job and they were reinvested in the company, which they say you're not supposed to do,
02:06:05.000
but this company, Bayer built itself on being like...
02:06:09.000
Like, loyalty and like, you know, like, work for us, help people move ahead, and then they'd reinvest back into the company.
02:06:17.000
You get stocks, like all this stuff, and then you lost your job and the stock price went from $130 to $2.
02:06:26.000
Did it help you when everything crashed to give you a jump to get into stand-up and go balls out?
02:06:58.000
I was cheap, relatively cheap labor compared to everyone else.
02:07:04.000
I also came up with a Microsoft Access program that we used in the department that no one else knew how to use.
02:07:16.000
The company could go over, but I was still in the early enough phase that I had no idea what this whole comedy thing was going to turn into.
02:07:27.000
Knowing that all these people that did work hard towards a legitimate career, that it could all fall apart on them?
02:07:33.000
I mean, that scarred me, I think, in a different way, where I was just like, oh, you can't trust the stock market.
02:07:42.000
It didn't make me worry about my career or anything like that.
02:07:48.000
I think I was too young to think about longevity career-wise.
02:07:52.000
And I was too new in comedy to think it was like, that could all fall apart.
02:07:58.000
I didn't assume it was going to go anywhere anyway.
02:08:03.000
People are always like, well, you should be invested.
02:08:15.000
Like if you're at 60 or whatever it is and you want to retire and your 401k just completely drops, then you got to wait, what, 10 more years to retire until it gets back up to where it was?
02:08:33.000
Every now and then you throw the money on the bed and just roll around?
02:08:42.000
Like, you're like, I'm just going to roll around in this money and then afterwards you're like, I got to clean up all this money.
02:08:53.000
Yeah, if you're naked and you're rolling around with money.
02:08:58.000
I don't even like, I like wash my hands after I touch money.
02:09:11.000
It's like one of the one things that you know has been passed on from person to person to person to person.
02:09:16.000
Very few objects, like a watch or a light, very few objects are touched by as many people as money.
02:09:31.000
And the numbers of people that get dollar bills that test positive for cocaine, it's crazy.
02:09:39.000
Yeah, they did some study on $100 bills, like the percentage of $100 bills that test positive for cocaine.
02:09:56.000
Did you see that Walmart sweater that they got in trouble for?
02:10:02.000
They're so lame, they didn't even know what the fuck it was.
02:10:24.000
Dirty people wipe their hands with their own hands.
02:10:30.000
Maybe they wipe their ass with dollar bills when they run out of toilet paper and then they wash the dollar bill off in the sink but do a shitty job of it.
02:10:43.000
It says the flu can last for up to 17 days on a dollar bill.
02:10:49.000
When people start getting sick, just pull out the credit card.
02:10:51.000
That's why when I was little, I ate dirt, I ate boogers, I ate grass, and I rarely get sick.
02:11:04.000
80% for cocaine, 94% according to a 2002 report for poop.
02:11:16.000
Like, they always say, like, there's poop, like, there's fecal matter on, like, your toothbrush if it's, like, near you.
02:11:27.000
Oh, we're touching railings after you wash your hands.
02:11:46.000
I picture someone pulling that chain out of their ass.
02:12:07.000
Yeah, a lot of fucking people doing Coke on $100 bills.
02:12:18.000
If you wanted to really spread a disease in this country, spread it through money.
02:12:31.000
But yeah, it would be really easy if you had cocaine on dollars.
02:12:36.000
You could easily just put some sort of a fucking horrible disease on dollars.
02:12:42.000
There was a guy last night at the Lakers game who was throwing money, just one dollar bills, into the crowd.
02:12:48.000
And people were scrambling for it, and I was like, this could be, he could be passing anything.
02:12:57.000
I was like, or this is a really great way to see if your counterfeit bills work.
02:13:18.000
It feels weird when you're like, with no specified target.
02:13:23.000
If you're like, I'm so rich, I'm going to give it to a school.
02:13:28.000
I'm so rich, I'm just going to throw it in the air.
02:13:34.000
I mean, even at strip clubs, I can get behind it because you're like, oh yeah, you're paying this lady.
02:13:47.000
I bet strippers really hate raking in the fall.
02:13:55.000
But they must get money thrown at them all the time, right?
02:14:07.000
You're like, this isn't going to work in the vending machine.
02:14:10.000
That's another job where there's no male equivalent that's as humiliating.
02:14:15.000
Because like Chippendales dancers, like if a guy's a Chippendales dancer, it doesn't even come with a stigma.
02:14:21.000
Like, he's a good-looking guy with a six-pack and wants to make some money.
02:14:24.000
Puts his hog in a tube and starts dancing for ladies with cowboy boots on.
02:14:30.000
Like, hey, our boyfriend used to be a Chippin' Hills dancer.
02:14:34.000
I mean, it's a real testament to how much better women's bodies are.
02:14:44.000
I mean, I'm attracted to it, but, like, it's still just like...
02:14:48.000
It's not something I want to see dancing around, necessarily.
02:14:53.000
It's like a guy just sitting there dancing in front of you.
02:14:57.000
Like, you know, when women are dancing, they're letting you know, you could fuck me.
02:15:19.000
Like, you know, like, yeah, we like attractive men, but, like, you want to get us?
02:15:23.000
Like, show us you're capable of things, you know?
02:15:29.000
Like, your life is so fucked up that you're a Chippendales dancer?
02:15:36.000
You're 35. Yeah, like, can't you be, like, an accountant or something?
02:15:57.000
Like, when girls go to see men strip or men dancing, they scream.
02:16:11.000
Like, the women are aggressive because they want to make money.
02:16:20.000
Yeah, and it's like, yeah, because you're paying them.
02:16:26.000
What do you think would change in society if prostitution was legal?
02:16:31.000
I think it'd be a lot less guys that are stressed.
02:16:35.000
Yeah, I mean, I... People would probably be a little nicer.
02:16:39.000
I think those women would finally get, like, they could have, like, a union.
02:17:07.000
Could you imagine what it'd be like being at a prostitution meeting, all smoking, all sitting around?
02:17:14.000
But there's also one woman in a skirt and heels who's just like, we're not all like that, okay?
02:17:24.000
There's the classy versus the unclassy side of the room.
02:17:27.000
Well, I knew a girl who, in college, she was...
02:17:32.000
She was a prostitute, but she was a prostitute like she would fuck guys she knew for money.
02:17:45.000
And I was like, okay, so you knew the guys and you would fuck them for money.
02:17:54.000
Well, that's an argument that comes up a lot where there's some women who say that, like, no, I want to do this.
02:18:01.000
Well, if you want, look, imagine if you're a woman, right, and you're in college, and some guy says, I will pay you $2,000 to have sex.
02:18:13.000
Versus, you have to work for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.
02:18:20.000
And you go, oh, okay, he's like this nice businessman and he can't get laid.
02:18:27.000
But either way, it's not the worst thing in the world.
02:18:33.000
He just likes sexual pleasure from a pretty girl and you like money and then...
02:18:43.000
But obviously, that's best case scenario, right?
02:18:46.000
The worst case scenario, I think, is pimps and people abusing women and sexual trafficking and all the stuff that's associated with...
02:18:54.000
The same sort of thing that's associated with illegal drugs is associated with illegal prostitution.
02:19:05.000
But if they were going to be a prostitute, I would like it to be like a legal thing.
02:19:12.000
But if you're going to have prostitution, If it was legal, first of all, why isn't it legal?
02:19:18.000
How come it's okay to fuck anybody you want, but it's not okay to pay for it?
02:19:29.000
At this point, we should go as a society, hey, we're not getting rid of this.
02:19:34.000
Let's just figure out a way to make it as safe.
02:19:41.000
But maybe that's also part of why some guys like it, because it is illegal.
02:19:49.000
Like, if you look at porn, it's all naughty porn that's popular now.
02:19:52.000
It's all, like, my stepsister, stepmother, stepbrother.
02:20:10.000
See, because porn is so prevalent now, and it's so easily accessible.
02:20:18.000
You're watching on a nice screen on your phone.
02:20:22.000
So because of that, we're gravitating towards weirder and weirder shit to get our kink off.
02:20:29.000
People have to be like, I can't even believe we're doing this.
02:20:39.000
The next thing you know, they're getting crazy.
02:20:42.000
I love the amount of time it takes to convince someone in porn.
02:21:01.000
I want to see a porn that actually takes the amount of time it would take to convince someone.
02:21:10.000
But if it's, sorry to slut shame, but if it's, yeah, like a relationship.
02:21:19.000
Some people like a long, drawn-out courtship sort of deal.
02:21:24.000
Some guys, guys that I'm friends with, they prefer that a girl doesn't want to sleep with them quickly because this way, this is a girl that is making good choices.
02:21:36.000
Especially in your 30s, you start thinking about, okay, this could be the one.
02:21:42.000
I mean, that's how they always say you're supposed to play the game.
02:21:44.000
It's just be like, no, hold out for him, hold out for him.
02:21:50.000
You can have great relationships after a first one-night stand.
02:22:06.000
Sometimes it's good to have a couple of cocktails and go, fuck it, let's do this.
02:22:13.000
Well, there's these moments where the universe creates, especially nightclub moments, couple of cocktails.
02:22:22.000
The universe just puts those little seeds out there.
02:22:25.000
You look at them, they look at you, and you're like, what do you think?
02:22:31.000
But then, like, I always think about, like, I live in New York.
02:22:36.000
How do people in other cities, not even cities, towns, like, you're at a bar, what are you doing?
02:22:54.000
It's like a hot girl in Daisy Duke shorts, like, with a tractor.
02:22:57.000
I'm like, Please tell me how many look like that.
02:23:00.000
I'm sure there's hot farmer girls out there that live in those small towns near Hershey.
02:23:09.000
He's really attractive and his wife's really attractive.
02:23:27.000
It's, I mean, and then part of it's just dependent on, like, the weather that year.
02:23:33.000
You work so hard and then all of a sudden it just doesn't rain?
02:23:43.000
Like, they have these books where they're, like, back before they had, like, real weather satellites, they had Farmer's Almanacs.
02:23:58.000
There's a lot of things you hear from back then where people said they were witches and then you're like, yeah, but how did they know?
02:24:07.000
Well, do you know what that whole witch trial shit was about?
02:24:14.000
When you have late frosts, a lot of wheat in particular, it develops fungus.
02:24:20.000
It's one of the funguses that could grow on it.
02:24:27.000
So these people were getting acid from the bread.
02:24:31.000
So people were tripping balls and freaking out and thinking that...
02:24:48.000
I bet a lot of it was men who were attracted to women, and those women weren't attracted to them, and they were angry, and then they were on acid.
02:24:55.000
And then they were like, oh my god, she's a witch.
02:24:57.000
And then they were paranoid, and they believed in witches back then, they believed in witchcraft, and why wouldn't you if you're on acid eating bread?
02:25:04.000
And all of a sudden you're like, I'm bewitched!
02:25:15.000
There's no way women aren't going to turn on each other immediately.
02:25:21.000
Yeah, they used to drown them, which is kind of morphed up.
02:25:23.000
Well, my favorite thing, not my favorite thing, my favorite thing in the world.
02:25:29.000
It was one of those things where it's like, we'll load her with rocks, and if she sinks, she's not a witch.
02:25:45.000
But then if they put a bunch of rocks on you and you floated, you were a witch.
02:25:51.000
But I'm going to guess they never found ones that didn't sink to the bottom.
02:25:57.000
Forget about all the smells and the syphilis and all the fucking powdered wigs.
02:26:05.000
Yeah, and then, like, also you just have kids and they just keep dying.
02:26:14.000
Well, that's also the whole life expectancy thing.
02:26:17.000
There were people, it's like, someone had, my friend Chris Ryan had explained that to me.
02:26:22.000
When people think that people back in the 1200s only lived to be 30 years old, on average, that's because of infant mortality.
02:26:31.000
So there's so much infant mortality and childhood mortality that it lowered that, the life expectancy.
02:26:46.000
I can't remember the name of it is escaping me, but it's a really good book about like, oh my god, why can't I think of the name?
02:26:59.000
And it just essentially talks about like how things are actually, because you know people always say good old days, and how things are getting exponentially better and will continue to get better.
02:27:28.000
Because he's saying that everything's better, that there's less violence, there's less crime, there's less rape, there's less all these things.
02:27:35.000
And people are like, you're belittling all the horrible crimes that take place.
02:27:39.000
And you're enabling all these assholes to try to say things are fine and to not be protesting about all these issues.
02:27:52.000
It's again, what makes me bad about the social justice stuff is that he's not saying, don't try to keep making things better.
02:27:58.000
Don't try to like, yeah, there are things we should protest.
02:28:01.000
He's just saying that like, no, statistically, we're headed in the right direction.
02:28:06.000
And then he even talks about anomalies where we do go backwards sometimes.
02:28:10.000
But like, this is all stuff where it's like, If you don't want to know the actual information, don't get in the fight to begin with.
02:28:23.000
That's a lot of what happens when you talk about women not being as strong as men.
02:28:29.000
Other people, or men who are trying to fight for women, they want men and women to be as good as each other in sports.
02:28:40.000
And it's like, just because you want it, It doesn't mean it's true.
02:28:44.000
Very few people say that, but something that people do say is that a trans woman is equal to a biological woman.
02:28:56.000
And that argument has been disproved by all these women that are winning world records.
02:29:00.000
And they say, well, there's outliers in sports, period.
02:29:04.000
So that these people that are athletic anomalies like Michael Jordan or whoever, you know, people that are just supreme genetic athletes, so do you discount them?
02:29:14.000
But no, they're coming from a different gender, you fucking idiot.
02:29:20.000
You're trying to find some loophole where it makes sense, where a six-foot-six man can play girls basketball.
02:29:27.000
But you can't, because 90% of the population that's not on Twitter, the regular people are going to go, hey, fuck you.
02:29:38.000
Martina Navotrilova, they're calling her a bigot.
02:30:03.000
Well, this is the argument that I got in with this guy on the show.
02:30:05.000
He was saying that there's not that much difference between men and women.
02:30:08.000
I go, okay, so you think women should be able to compete with men?
02:30:14.000
I'm like, well, that's exactly what you're saying.
02:30:16.000
Do you think that it's okay if women compete against men in weightlifting and in basketball?
02:30:20.000
How well do you think that would work out for women?
02:30:22.000
How well do you think it would work out in track and field?
02:30:24.000
How well do you think it would work out in anything?
02:30:26.000
There's a reason why there's a difference where we define men's sports and women's sports.
02:30:36.000
If there's that many of them, you're going to find out how few they really are.
02:30:43.000
Is it not fair that they have to have their own league?
02:30:53.000
I don't think it's not fair if they have their own league.
02:30:58.000
Well, and it's like, none of us have made any of these choices.
02:31:04.000
If you're a trans person, and you were born a man, but you've always believed that you're a woman, that's also not fair, you know?
02:31:18.000
But that doesn't mean I want you competing with me because you're going to destroy me.
02:31:29.000
Your comedy special that's on Netflix right now.
02:31:54.000
All these people think I'm just a political comic.
02:32:06.000
But it was kind of cool, the correspondence dinner thing that put you on the map.
02:32:25.000
I just remember that when he tweeted at me, I like, because he tweeted once after the dinner and then sometime in like later in the year, like months after.
02:32:33.000
And I was doing like, I was doing a show in Brooklyn.
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And I was out in Brooklyn doing shows and I was like drinking hot toddies because I think I was like feeling a little under the weather and I was like, this will fix it.
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And I kept getting messages about this tweet, and I was like, what?
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And then I finally saw what happened, and I was like, well, I guess I gotta go home so I can tweet something back.
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Go home after you've been drinking to tweet back at the president.
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I'm like three hot toddies in, and I'm just like, all right, what can I say?
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You said something when you fucking roasted him.
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He said something about when he, I don't remember the exact tweet he sent me, but it was like something so-called comedian did such a terrible job.
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I bet you'd be on my side if I had killed a journalist.
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And that was during the Khashoggi stuff or whatever it was.
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Yeah, the Saudi journalist that had been murdered.
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That is like some of the best publicity you could ever get.
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Bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondence Center.
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There was parts of it where people got kind of quiet, but I remember I was like, first of all, this is for the audience at home.
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But also, I was like, it's one of those rooms where you're like, yeah, there's...
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They will have an author instead of a comedian.
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Good first step and comeback of a dying evening in tradition.
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I love this because I don't know if he wrote this tweet though because the grammar is so perfect that I'm like...
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Yeah, it just feels like I was like, did someone else draft this?
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There's the correct apostrophe after the S. Yeah.
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Yeah, it feels like, I don't know, maybe he dictated this one and someone was like, I'm going to spell everything right.
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Well, they've done various things to try to stop him.
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This is 2018. They've done various things to try to slow down his use of Twitter and social media.
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And I do think that there was a time when someone else was handling it.
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But now I think he just fucking goes guns blazing.
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Pops two Adderalls and a Sudafed and just starts fucking thumbing it.
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I had a dream last night, and I forgot about it until we started talking about it, that he was battle rapping and that some woman made a rap about him and then he made a rap back at her.
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Maybe it's because I knew you were coming in here.
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And people were like, that is pretty fucking good.
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He says stuff sometimes where you're like, that's like, that's bars, you know?
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But then there's other times where you're like...
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Then you're like, wait, but he's the president.
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I wish he wasn't the president, because sometimes the shit he says is hilarious.
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When he put a fucking giant Trump Tower on Greenland, when they were talking about whether or not we were going to buy Greenland, he goes, I promise not to do this.
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And he shows Greenland with a giant gold Trump Tower in it.
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It's funny, and then you're also like, oh, come on, why are you president?
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Like, anytime he holds up a graph of any sort, I'm just like, this is great.
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Like, it's always stuff where you're just like, this is amazing.
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I don't know if there's a better person to represent how crazy today is, though.
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Like, if you wanted to look at, like, the personification- Michelle Wolf, thank you very much.
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Your Netflix special will be, by the time people hear this, a little bit out later today, but the actual special will be Tuesday night at midnight?