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00:00:35.000Everybody in LA, like there's like this nebulous age where it's like, Behavior-wise and everything, you're somewhere between 25 and 45. And then on either side of that, you're too old or too young.
00:00:52.000Because they don't have the responsibility of having to shovel snow and prepare for the winter and get up and scrape your windshield because there's ice on it.
00:01:39.000You're either going to get some kind of a job, and you're going to be bitter and angry, or you're just going to keep doing this forever and it's never going to happen.
00:01:47.000I feel like with comedy in particular, it's one of those careers where...
00:01:52.000It's not even you fail upward, you just fail laterally.
00:01:54.000Like, comedy is one of those things where you can kind of just continue to exist in and around it despite actual talent.
00:02:01.000Like, we all know the comics where it's like, you're not dead yet?
00:03:32.000And the amount of people, you know, You can't tell someone.
00:03:35.000There are plenty of people who aren't naturally funny that make a huge career out of things, you know, because someone else unfunny finds them funny.
00:03:42.000But it's one of those things where I'm not going to be the one to tell you to give up on your dream.
00:03:48.000Like, that's not my position to tell someone that.
00:03:51.000But you're constantly surrounded by these, like, it's almost like this walking dead of unfunny.
00:03:55.000Like, they're just at the shows and they're just there for decades of your life.
00:04:44.000He came from the show and then went through the back kitchen area and then went to...
00:04:49.000It's happened a few times where people know that we hang out back there because we talk about it on the podcast.
00:04:53.000We go back there to smoke and then all of a sudden there'll be like me and, you know, Callan or whoever and you and comics just talking about the sets.
00:06:15.000And all of the betas, you've got a lot of great fans, but on the fringe ones, they were like, oh, don't ask her for a lighter.
00:06:21.000And I'm like, tell you what, when someone bigger and stronger than you that has the ability to hurt you comes into your personal space, not really wanting a lighter, wanting something else, and your sensors go off, make sure that you stay silent and see how great you feel.
00:06:34.000I don't think there's any respect for the idea that, like, sometimes you feel scared, and it's not like a cry wolf thing.
00:09:54.000You did not say you are taking your podcast to levity, which is the governing, for those of you who know, body that owns a lot of the improvs, and they're a huge thing.
00:10:02.000But you told me you're going to the improv.
00:14:56.000They're just not checking their goddamn phone all the time.
00:14:59.000One of my favorite shows that I ever did when I was doing that, when I prepare for my Netflix special the last couple months before, I did all my shows with these phone bags.
00:15:07.000It gets to be a pain in the ass, especially when you're doing giant places.
00:19:21.000Well, the only problem would be like a place like the store, they'd have to sit somebody at your table because every place is like a two top or a three.
00:19:27.000But then it looks like you're with them.
00:21:46.000I go on the road with a lot of guys, you know, so that's different.
00:21:50.000Because when you're on the road together, you really like family.
00:21:52.000You know, like if I'm on the road with Diaz or Ari or Hinchcliffe or any of those guys, like, you know, we eat together, we work out together, we're just bullshitting together, we're walking to the mall together and hanging out.
00:22:03.000Like, it's all, we're together all day.
00:22:42.000The right way to tour and the right way to treat a comedy club waitress and the right way to speak to your tour.
00:22:49.000There's so many shitty comics out there that do things wrong and I very early on decided these are the rules that I want to tour with and this is how I want to treat people.
00:22:59.000Yeah, that's the only way we learn about everything, really, right?
00:23:02.000We've been talking about this a lot lately, that there's nothing written down by people like us, by, like, legitimate established comedians with specials who headline all over the country and the world.
00:23:20.000I feel like there's a book out there that should be written, and it should probably be done by us, where we kind of just talk about how everyone has a different process, everyone's got a different way of doing it, because young comics, I mean, there's a lot of wasted energy trying to figure out how to do it,
00:23:40.000and no one can really figure out how to do it themselves until they just have experience and do it, but I want to know how you write.
00:23:49.000What do you do when you have a premise?
00:24:57.000Yeah, I think that everyone has their own way, for sure.
00:25:00.000And I think you can learn from other people's ways and maybe try them out.
00:25:05.000And also you've got to realize that someone like you who's been doing it forever and doesn't write anything down, that's very different than someone who's just starting out who doesn't write anything down.
00:25:13.000Like, you should probably write some shit down.
00:25:20.000But the thing about it is that the consequences, like, if you really want to make it as a comic, you must literally dedicate your life to it, particularly in the beginning.
00:26:18.000But there's so many people doing it now.
00:26:20.000I mean, the numbers are fucking astonishing.
00:26:23.000There's no litmus test for like what's decent.
00:26:25.000But if you're good, I really feel like even though there's 700,000 podcasts, if you have something that's unique and interesting and you build something...
00:29:27.000And the guy, who obviously, it wasn't his dream job, just like a dude.
00:29:30.000And I was talking and he was like, I've heard you on Joe Rogan.
00:29:34.000And I was like, I'm in Sweden in like a girly plate shop.
00:29:37.000And here's this dude who probably like fucking loves MMA and you and recognize my voice across the world in like the weirdest little plate store.
00:29:45.000And I was like, that's the power of comedy.
00:29:58.000I did this whole Asia tour and I was like, Malaysia is of all the countries I did because I did Hong Kong and I did Japan and there was one more and I'm blanking on it.
00:30:58.000Like, places that you have no real context for are feeling your heart and they're understanding what you're saying and it's resonating with people that are nothing like you.
00:31:23.000Because people want to feel seen and heard, and that comedy validates that weird voice in your head.
00:31:28.000And it lets you know that you're not alone, and for so many people that feel alone, it's so powerful to feel like you're being seen and that somebody understands you.
00:31:37.000And that's why it's so important to have so many different kinds of comedy, different shapes and colors, just so people can choose who they resonate with.
00:31:44.000I'm never going to be able to reach everyone, and that's okay.
00:32:04.000I'm going to Vietnam and it was in bold.
00:32:07.000And I've been to Vietnam before like for funsies, but it was in bold and it was like this like written out like imprisonment will be issued.
00:32:16.000There will be no jokes about do not mention Vietnam War, Vietnam, like all these things.
00:32:20.000And I legit was like, I do mention the Vietnam War.
00:32:23.000So just please remind me day before not to have that one joke.
00:32:27.000It's not a joke about the Vietnam War.
00:32:28.000I just it's in there as part of the setup.
00:32:31.000But some countries, like you do military shows, they have a no burden list.
00:32:35.000There's certain things you can't say when you do a military show.
00:32:38.000You can't make drug jokes, please don't make fun of the president, which I get.
00:32:42.000And some countries are like, no fucking joke, do not say it, you're dead.
00:32:46.000So they wouldn't let you joke about Vietnam.
00:32:51.000I feel like I could, but then try explaining context to someone that just wants you in jail.
00:32:56.000I was going to China, I did Hong Kong, and I had Beijing, and they canceled it to honor, so random, the Tiananmen Square massacre, which of course should have been honored prior, but it wasn't.
00:33:07.000And they canceled all comedy, not that there was a ton across the land.
00:35:21.000It was very cringey, and I think a lot of people are like, there's like some borderline people are like, fuck this guy with this he, him shit.
00:37:58.000I talk about it in my act, so I'm not going to do the bit, but I really am cognizant of the fact that people in many cases look up to us and or are jealous of us.
00:38:06.000And like with anybody, if you give them a reason to be like, what an American pig, and I don't, I will always show you that we are as good as we think we are.
00:38:14.000That's what I always say about Hawaii.
00:38:16.000People say, oh, if you go to Hawaii, they don't like white people.
00:39:53.000I would want her to think it was okay.
00:39:53.000The thing is, your nose matches your face.
00:39:55.000Like, if I didn't know you got your nose fixed, I would, yeah.
00:39:58.000Well, sometimes, too, because I had one, you know, I look and I can spot one a mile away, like a nose job, and a lot of people have big noses and they get these scooped out things that don't fit their face because everybody wants, like, a cute little goyish nose.
00:40:13.000If you're, like, if you've got, like, a long face and you have this scooped out nose, you can tell.
00:40:19.000Like, if Ari got a little nose like yours, we'd be like, what in the fuck is going on with your face?
00:40:23.000If any dude had a little elfin nose, but I have a small head, I have a small mouth, it's a syndrome, and I have a tiny nose now, but, uh, yeah, but that's it.
00:40:31.000I think the blonde hair throws people off, too.
00:40:32.000Can you smell as good as you used to be able to?
00:41:04.000And it's difficult just around people and I'm constantly having, I'm constantly like being, like just mentally attaching things in places of smells.
00:41:13.000Like I'm just having, not deja vu, but I'm always having an experience.
00:41:18.000My nose used to be fucking useless until I got it fixed.
00:41:21.000I feel like you've been hitting the nose so much.
00:41:55.000Well, what it is is when you have blood under the skin, the reason why you get calcium or the cauliflower ear, it's actually what happens is the blood calcifies.
00:42:04.000The blood actually literally becomes a rock.
00:43:02.000She fought Jessica Ai and Jessica Ai fucked her ear up and to the point where her cauliflower ear broke off and you could see inside of her head.
00:46:22.000It comes out on the field and women are not allowed to be aggressive.
00:46:27.000It's a thing where it's like, on sports day, like, you know, wear a skirt, be ladies, represent, and you got dudes just running around ripping people's heads off, raping villages, and one girl takes her shirt off at a World Cup game, Megan Rapinoe does something that's like, whoa, scandalous.
00:46:42.000Well, I just got back from the UFC. There was three women fights this weekend.
00:50:39.000But I don't think there's enough to show hometown pride, especially for something like the Raiders.
00:50:45.000The Raiders are from fucking LA. They're from LA, and then they're from Oakland, and now they're here in Vegas, but they're not from Vegas.
00:50:52.000And I don't think the Rams, I mean, to me, I don't really even know anyone that watches football.
00:50:57.000And it's weird that we're getting a football team.
00:51:01.000I wonder what would happen if players were not allowed to switch teams.
00:52:33.000I was in Montreal last week, and I was just sitting in a cafe, and I was just listening to these two French-Canadian guys go in on just shitting on other parts of Canada and other cities.
00:52:53.000That's why they lock it down at 10. Like, just losing it, and then I tweeted, I Instagrammed about it, and then the rest of the Canadians weighed in on how much they hate French Canada, and it became a thing, and I'm like, none of us watch hockey!
00:53:04.000Well, French Canada is a different Canada.
00:53:43.000Because you cannot just easily, when you're in England, you gotta go through the whole thing when you're going to another country, and it used to just be such a chill thing.
00:53:50.000And now it's a little bit of a nightmare.
00:55:50.000Well, liberals used to be, when I was a kid, and my parents are hippies.
00:55:55.000We lived in San Francisco when I was a little kid.
00:55:57.000And so I always thought of liberals as being the people that were open-minded, not wanting to silence people, letting people speak.
00:56:08.000They're all about people just being who they are and not trying to enforce rigid patterns of behavior and thought on people.
00:56:15.000But that's not the case now because they think they're doing the right thing because they think they're combating something that's awful and aggressive and regressive.
00:56:24.000They feel like the country that they know and love is slipping away.
00:56:31.000But the response to it is not the right way to go about it.
00:56:33.000The response to it is to show a great example of what your ideology represents by being a good person, by being open-minded, by being kind.
00:56:45.000Instead, people are being super, super shitty.
00:56:47.000There's so many super, super shitty people that think they're doing the right thing because they're progressive and they want good things.
00:56:56.000Gay rights, and they want racial equality, and they want people to be able to make more money, and they want people to be happy and healthy.
00:57:02.000But it doesn't mean attacking anyone who, from the get-go, doesn't agree with you.
00:57:05.000Because, by the way, if you and I disagree, and you calmly want to have a conversation with me, I am very open to having my mind change.
00:57:13.000Of course I want to be on the right side, and I want to do the best thing.
00:57:16.000If you yell at me, and you call me stupid, and you're attacking me, and you're on the defense from the get-go, you're on the offense from the get-go...
00:57:54.000And you don't want to call people out specifically because just because somebody carried a plastic bottle that day doesn't mean they don't drive a hybrid.
00:58:21.000And you have no idea the pious, good life that person is leading, and you're judging them on a snapshot on which you don't want to be judged on.
00:58:47.000It's just people that are ultra-aggressive about enforcing their ideology, and then they're really shitty, and they want other people to comply.
00:58:54.000And so you get these people that represent the right, and these people that represent the left, but a lot of the ideas of the right and the left, there's nothing wrong with being fiscally conservative, there's nothing wrong with being socially liberal.
00:59:06.000Which is what a true Republican is, and you want less government in your money.
00:59:11.000There's room in there for conversation, but when you go far right and then you go far left, then there's no room.
00:59:16.000And when you start vilifying people from the get-go, and when you start expecting people...
00:59:23.000Owen Benjamin, who is just basically is like in a tinfoil hat somewhere and like living off the grid, he offended a lot of people, right?
00:59:35.000And he said a bunch of stuff about trans stuff, and I remember there was this girl that I was friends with on social media, didn't know her, but just followed her because I liked her writing.
00:59:46.000And she DMs me one day and she's like, she's like, Owen Benjamin, like, how could you be, like, maybe I, I don't know if I'd interacted with him on Twitter.
00:59:53.000I'm never on Twitter because I think it's a toxic fuckhole.
00:59:56.000And she was like, she's getting mad at me.
01:01:57.000As a journalist, you should applaud that I go and collect my facts.
01:02:01.000They want compliance, like immediate, instantaneous compliance.
01:02:04.000And I said, I'm an ally, and I am pro-trans, and I am pro-gay rights, but you do not get to bark at me on a Sunday morning when I have no idea what we're talking about and get mad at me.
01:02:13.000I just have to tell you, I don't trust anyone who says they're an ally about anything.
01:03:23.000People would say these kind of things, and you would go, eh.
01:03:26.000You get likes and retweets, which are basically pitchforks.
01:03:29.000But if you said something about someone, like you said something about Bert or something like that, And he said it online, like, fucking Bert should know a lot about getting drunk in Russia.
01:04:05.000Like, even now, you and I are agreeing on everything, and I'm like, I'm gonna face a firing squad of betas when I get on my Instagram later and be like, and Rogan was talking, and not you!
01:04:15.000Listen, there's a certain percentage of people that are gonna attack every woman who comes on the show.
01:08:04.000I wouldn't get hate from women, but I think for a certain amount, like, sometimes guys' podcasts, they want to hear you talk about guy shit, you know?
01:08:12.000I talk about football for at least five minutes, and I have my own...
01:08:15.000You talked about how you were violent as a lacrosse player.
01:08:17.000Right, so are you rock hard or what, America?
01:09:26.000They had late frost, and the late frost caused fungus to grow on their wheat.
01:09:30.000That fungus contains lysergic acid, which is very similar to LSD. So while these fucking people were eating their bread and using their wheat and flour, they were getting acid poisoned.
01:09:42.000So they were thinking that everyone was witches.
01:09:44.000And it was always probably men that couldn't get laid.
01:09:47.000And now you're talking about in America.
01:10:02.000Widespread thing, of course, to spread Christianity, but they'd have witch committees, like, go from town to town to find people, because everybody needs, like, a scapegoat.
01:10:10.000And then they'd check you for marks, and, of course, a mark could just be a birthmark, and then there's trial by fire, trial by floating, whatever.
01:10:16.000You know, they used to tie women down and weigh them down with rocks?
01:10:20.000And if they drowned, they weren't a witch.
01:10:22.000But if they survived, then they knew they were witches.
01:10:52.000You're talking about the women having good bodies.
01:10:55.000No, what I was talking about is that women, when they go on a man's podcast, a lot of times they get women, or men rather, hate on them.
01:11:02.000Oh, I was going to say that women have...
01:11:05.000Like, today, women, you're body shaming, or you're showing an unrealistic body type, and you're feeding into unrealistic body expectations.
01:13:12.000I think it's just your body heating the room.
01:13:16.000Come on your podcast because I genuinely enjoy your interaction and I do think you have a really smart, cool audience of most of the people that think like you.
01:13:24.000I think as a woman or just as a person, anytime you open your mouth or leave the house, there's going to be people who like you, people who don't.
01:13:30.000So you just don't focus on the ones that don't because I have found when someone doesn't like me, it typically has nothing to do with actually me.
01:13:37.000Well, there's a thing that people do when someone's very opinionated where you want to, for some reason, combat their opinions.
01:13:44.000I've seen people do it even in things that they don't necessarily disagree with.
01:15:24.000When I do have a genuine criticism of someone...
01:15:28.000I talk about this in my special, but you're so rarely allowed to voice it because it's like, well, you're just jealous.
01:15:32.000I'm like, or I am in fact doing the correct feminist thing and judging her on merit of what she has done, and I dislike it, and it has nothing to do with her being beautiful.
01:15:41.000I think there's obviously issues that women need more equality in in this country.
01:15:48.000I think the issue with the concept of being a masculinist or even the concept of being a feminist is that everyone automatically thinks you care about that more than you care about general humanity, right?
01:17:29.000The idea that as a woman you're constantly being preached to by other women, like preaching to the choir.
01:17:33.000What it is, is I think on a granular level...
01:17:36.000I enjoy having conversations and most men I know are like they're not these oppressive horrible people and we always look to the extreme left or right to prove our point when in actuality there's a whole population of people who think and feel just like you and that's the key is finding those people and communing with them.
01:17:54.000Well, you've always been very pro-male.
01:18:31.000Of having that, people that say all men, like the kind of feminists that say all men, I'm like, you're part of the problem.
01:18:38.000Because that's just as bad as some guy saying all women are sluts.
01:18:40.000Like you are just as bad for marginalizing anyone.
01:18:44.000I was hearing this woman talk about sex and she was like, women want this and women want, she was on a podcast, women want this and women want you to slow down and women want you to be gentle.
01:21:53.000She was like, we have more dogs in the car.
01:21:55.000She opened up the car and there was like seven cute little white dogs and I picked up this one and I just started crying.
01:22:01.000My dog died while I was on tour in Japan.
01:22:03.000I never got to say goodbye to Blanche.
01:22:05.000And I'm just crying and I'm holding this dog and she's white and I was there to buy sugar and I do the girl thing where I'm like and she's white and it's sugar and she's sugar and it's cosmic.
01:22:14.000Cut to me just putting $300 in a cardboard box with no receipt, no paperwork.
01:22:19.000I gave this Chinese lady my phone number and I have a dog now.
01:27:01.000Or right in front of you over here, too.
01:27:03.000But the weird thing is back in the day, like, actors would never do commercials because if you did a commercial, we all knew, even people that were non-actors.
01:28:19.000I was on set with this actor named Ryan Hansen, who's in, like, Veronica Mars, and we were talking about, like, Would You Rather, and we were just playing this game, and he was like, Who's your celebrity pass?
01:32:41.000A state-issued, if you apply for funding, for support if you're going to school, like a loan, or the state's paying for you to go to school, you get a scholarship, you should also be able to apply for a state-issued prostitute.
01:32:52.000If you are a little socially awkward, maybe you haven't had sex, because men get weird if they haven't been made privy to the way a woman is, or they haven't had sex and you're going to college.
01:33:53.000He's the guy who owned the New England Patriots.
01:33:55.000He went to a massage parlor and they gave him a happy ending.
01:33:58.000And the next thing you know, they arrested him and told him there's a video of it.
01:34:02.000They were trying to get him to plead guilty and all this different shit that was going on to a guy who's like insanely, insanely wealthy, who just was going there to get jerked off.
01:34:11.000But one of the things they said was that he was participating somehow in sex trafficking.
01:34:17.000And so they were accusing him of that.
01:34:19.000That was a big part of what the police were saying.
01:34:22.000Well, it turned out that none of the girls that worked there were sex traffickers.
01:34:49.000But it's a buzzword that's very specific in terms of the difference in the consequences that you would want someone to face, whether they just went there to get jerked off or they participated in sex slavery.
01:35:02.000I mean, you are because the ring ends with you.
01:35:03.000So because there's a demand for it, there is a supply.
01:35:06.000So that is by and large a part of the issue.
01:35:09.000And I say this not knowing a ton about sex slavery, but I do know that if you take away the stigma, and you can normalize things very quickly.
01:35:17.000You could do that and even we've done this with women and bodies and the way that we look at people who are overweight and we look at people with different things like we are getting to a place where it's less of a thing.
01:35:26.000I think you could do that with prostitution.
01:35:52.000If we were going to vote on it, most people would vote on no prostitution because they don't want their daughter or their sister or their mother to be a prostitute or them.
01:36:57.000If she's going to make money that's going to go back into your society, that's going to be put to good use, it's going to be taxed, it's going to be in your community, what do you care what she's doing behind closed doors?
01:37:06.000If it's safe and it's regulated, just like weed, all of a sudden, there's standards now.
01:38:36.000They can watch TV. They can drink and smoke pot and fuck and they go crazy for a short period of time and then at the end of that time they can either leave the church forever or come back and most of them come back.
01:39:01.000Like, when you repress people, that's when they want to do things really badly.
01:39:05.000Oh, for everything, we have this obsession as humans with regulating other people's bodies, minds, everything, with religion, with laws.
01:39:13.000Some of them are put in place to make sure we don't accidentally kill ourselves, but by that same token, if you are dumb, like, we always have signs like, don't touch a live wire.
01:39:50.000Yeah, other countries don't even think about suing people over the shit that people sue for in America.
01:39:55.000It's a weird game, but it's also, you know, it's there to protect you.
01:39:58.000It's there to protect you, I think, a lot, just in discussions with my husband about, like, food safety, and in this country, everything is so sanitized, this, like, anodyne food system we have where everything is wrapped in plastic and refrigerated, and it's all there so that a health and safety inspector can say this is okay.
01:40:15.000You go to Europe, food is just out, and people are fine.
01:40:19.000Because companies, I think it has to do with health and safety, of course, but also liability.
01:40:23.000So much of our regulations and rules are really put in place for liability issues, making sure that somebody doesn't get sued versus your genuine concern for your safety.
01:40:33.000Because we're so able to just, it's good and bad living in America.
01:40:36.000You can sue if you feel you've been slighted, but you can sue not to really make a point, just to make some money.
01:43:25.000When you say cunt, first of all, for my friends that live in Australia, like my friend Adam Greentree, he throws that thing around like it's a beach ball.
01:43:34.000It's actually a weird adjustment for them.
01:43:36.000In England, too, they come here and we're like, dude, we don't say that, and that's a thing there.
01:44:52.000Those shirts, and shirts that, remember there was this ironic t-shirt craze for a very long time that would be like, it would say, and only dorks wore them, it would say stuff like, the voices in my head tell me what to do.
01:56:32.000I think sometimes what we have to be afraid of is tokenism.
01:56:35.000You want it always to be an organic story and we do have a problem with not populating our worlds with enough variety because white people see white things and people see things a certain way.
01:56:50.000But it's tough because where do you draw that line?
01:56:52.000For my sketch show, which comes out in the spring...
01:56:55.000For my writers, I wanted a diverse writing team because I wanted to make sure that we were not inclusive, but also that we were making a smart show that wasn't just from one point of view.
01:57:07.000You wanted from different perspectives, but you also wanted quality.
01:57:09.000You wouldn't sacrifice quality just to get a demographic.
01:57:13.000And so what I did was, because to me this was an infallible way to do it, I had all the writer's packets, because people submit writing packets and samples, I had their names taken off of it.
01:57:22.000So that when I read your packet, I was reading it and I could only base my opinion on the content of the comedy.
01:57:30.000But we had 28 submissions, and there were some we liked, some we didn't.
01:57:34.000We narrowed it down, but I never knew what the person's name was or what they looked like until I said I like it and we scheduled a meeting.
01:58:10.000You're being discriminatory against Italian Americans.
01:58:13.000It just means like these are the people, for whatever reason, that are more invested in that particular way of thinking.
01:58:20.000And we can begin to create opportunities and ways into things so that in 20 years, maybe it is, oh, everybody goes to see whatever ethnicity of doctor.
01:58:29.000We can create these opportunities, but nobody wants to sacrifice performance just for that.
01:59:09.000And I can't get on this show and I can't do this and that.
01:59:11.000But when you do get on a lineup and you fucking crush, you're the one everyone's going to talk about.
01:59:16.000So when you're given this opportunity to fucking nail it, it might be hard getting in there, but when you have that chance...
01:59:21.000You can't use things as a stepping stone one minute and as a crutch the next.
01:59:25.000So just know that if you're the only girl in a lineup, for example, and I'm speaking from a world that I live in, not for anything else, and you fuck up, people are going to think all women are like that because you were the sample.
01:59:35.000I would prefer them to not think about it all.
01:59:37.000Just think about being the best that they can be.
01:59:39.000Don't concentrate on your gender at all.
01:59:41.000Don't, but I think it's something that's always brought up and put in our faces.
01:59:44.000So if you have to, just know that if and when you do succeed and you are good or just as good, People will remember how great you were, and you will shine more than just the other average dude, the 12 dudes that were on there.
01:59:56.000Well, I think that's one of the good things about comedy communities is that when people are good, they get respect.
02:00:13.000When they're killing, they're killing because they're a great comic and everybody gives them props.
02:00:17.000It's not this thing where, like, the men are versus the women.
02:00:20.000And by the way, to do the men, but to say the guy thing, if you are a mediocre, like, male comic especially now, you're not going anywhere.
02:00:26.000Because there's so many people doing comedy and the odds are so against you, you've got to fucking bring it and that gets rewarded.
02:02:19.000I have noticed younger people snap, which I think, I did a college gig five years ago, and I was like, okay, it doesn't feel as validating as uproarious applause, but...
02:05:56.000And you see people that have, when they're on it, they have this unfounded self-image, like unfounded belief in themselves, like delusional belief in themselves.
02:07:08.000Do you remember the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Crazy Eyes Killa had Larry David over his house and he plays Scarface 24-7 on his big screen?
02:09:44.000They take the coca leaf, they extract the cocaine, and then it's the number one medical supplier of medical cocaine takes that stuff from the coca leaves that they convert into the flavonoids that they use for Coca-Cola.
02:10:30.000They're going to it because they're probably attracted to the smell of it because they know it's going to be effective for whatever they're trying to do.
02:10:37.000I'm just saying the Diet Coke repelled them.
02:16:49.000It's a hybrid, and I don't need a new car.
02:16:53.000We live in this society that you're always trying to posture and show off things, and that's fine if a car is your thing, but that's just a way that I choose to help.