On this episode of the podcast, the brother and sister duo of the sit down with their good friend and former band mate, Michael Yeo. We talk about Michael's upcoming tour and how he deals with being a dad to his new daughter. We also talk about how to deal with the pressures of being a father and how to balance it all with a career and a life as a musician. And, of course, we talk about the craziness that is the Hard Rock Cafe in Fort Lauderdale, Florida! If you don't know who Michael is, you're not going to want to miss this one, because he's going on a tour this fall and we can't wait to catch up with him in the middle of it all! Enjoy this episode, and don't forget to leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks for listening and Good Luck Out There! XOXO, Kevin & Rory xoxo - Kevin and Rory - Rory & Michael - Good Morning America Michael's new album "The Hard Rock" is out now! Check out the album now! Michael talks about his new baby girl and how she's going to be a big girl! What does she like it? What do you like about her? Can you tell us what you think of her looks like? What are you looking forward to in the new album? and what do you think about the new cover art? - What is her favorite part of the new record that she's listening to? ? Can she's favorite song from the new single? & much more! - and who are you most excited about it? - and what are you going to get in the next episode of Good Morning Morning America? (featuring Michael's music podcast?!) and so much more. - Michael's favorite thing about her music and what s going to do next? Thank you for listening to this episode? . - Thank you so much for tuning in! & so much love you guys! -Rory & Rory's music and I hope you all enjoy this episode! - - The Hard Rock Rock Podcast! - Thankyou so much respect and appreciation! - MYSELF! - RONGS! - PODCAST! - SONGS: - RYAN & GABE - JUICY
00:00:49.000I don't know because I don't have sons, but everybody that has both says, whoa, the girls are just so loving and sweet and the sons are just trying to light shit on fire.
00:02:02.000This is what I heard from some clubs, is he loves college football so much, he'll schedule tour dates around big games so he can be in the city already.
00:05:20.000She didn't know what the fuck she was doing, and she was trying to put her shit on, and she slid right into the trail right when I was coming around this corner.
00:10:37.000It's like so much of it is biased and distorted and they're trying to paint a perception of someone instead of just laying out the facts in an objective way.
00:10:49.000It's just so much of that going on now.
00:10:51.000I feel like it's a very unfortunate case, but I feel like one of the things that's happened is because of subscription models for newspapers, things like Washington Post, New York Times, they have to be outrageous.
00:11:03.000Like sometimes in my Google News feed, I'll get a story and I'll click on it and then it'll say to subscribe, go here.
00:11:11.000So they got me to click on it with the click-baity shit, and I bet, you know, one out of a hundred or whatever will follow through and give them the credit card information and subscribe.
00:11:28.000Yeah, The Daily is, I used to listen to it a lot, but it's a thing where I think news, when we watch news, it's more salacious than entertainment news.
00:11:37.000I remember, you know, they're all about the headlines, and here's what, like, they just had this democratic, you know, where they went against each other, the debate, and the next day on the news, All they showed was the same five clips of Elizabeth Warren going after this person,
00:11:56.000Bernie Sanders going after that person.
00:11:57.000And they have 24 hours to at least tell you the good things they said.
00:12:02.000Like, give me some policies or something.
00:13:02.000You know, it's like when you see these hit pieces that are written about Bernie Sanders and you know it's horseshit, that's where, like, when you know something's horseshit, that's when you go, oh, wow, look what you're doing.
00:13:13.000And then you see a bunch of other news articles that are similar and that are on similar left-leaning publications or similar establishment-connected publications.
00:13:25.000And you go, oh, this is like a sort of a concentrated effort to try to minimize his campaign.
00:13:54.000The only way it's not going to happen is if they give him some fucking CIA injection into his coffee one day and his fucking chamomile tea to give a little squirt in there.
00:14:03.000I mean, the guy already had a goddamn heart attack, which is crazy that he's doing this well.
00:14:08.000He had a heart attack on the campaign trail.
00:14:10.000I mean, bro, this is like, if you have a car and you're driving it over to the guy's house who wants to buy it and one of your cylinders blows...
00:14:19.000He's still like, that's a good car, I'll fucking take it.
00:14:33.000But what's interesting to me, and we were talking about it at this benefit you did, you came out and made this statement about Bernie Sanders.
00:14:52.000I mean, you have a huge audience, man.
00:14:53.000It might have had something to do with it, but that's why they attacked me, which is hilarious.
00:14:57.000They did exactly what I said you can do about a person.
00:15:01.000I said, if you take all the worst aspects of a person and ignore everything else and just magnify those, you can paint a very distorted perception of someone.
00:15:08.000And so they're like, good, let's do that to him.
00:15:10.000Let's make Bernie Sanders look like a piece of shit for using that.
00:15:12.000Well, also the fact that he used the most wishy-washy endorsement ever.
00:15:16.000What I said is I'll probably vote for him.
00:15:30.000Listen to Kyle Kalinske, listen to Jimmy Dore, listen to the people that are really paying attention, listen to The Hill, people that are really on top of it, where it's their business.
00:15:54.000When he explained how he was going to put a very small tax on Wall Street speculation, We're good to go.
00:16:31.000No, I want to see the two of them, like him and someone who opposes his ideas, who actually understands the economics of it, and discuss it in a long-form Like a YouTube video.
00:17:19.000Do you believe that if you're Bernie Sanders, you have to talk about that information?
00:17:23.000Because we have a president that didn't give any information.
00:17:27.000I feel now politics is, I'm going to give as least information as I can, so they can't use it against me.
00:17:34.000And it works, obviously, because you have a guy like that in the White House.
00:17:37.000So if I'm Bernie Sanders, why would I tell you how much everything's going to cost?
00:17:40.000With Trump, the personality overshadowed everything else.
00:17:45.000His personality overshadowed all of his shortcomings.
00:17:48.000So because of the fact that he could say things like, when he was talking about China, you know, you could go to China, and you ever see that video?
00:20:05.000But his whole life, he's been concentrating on Donald Trump, and Donald Trump kicking ass, and Donald Trump's name, and Donald Trump's ego, and filling that ego, and cheating at golf, and doing all the things that he wants to do whenever he wants to do them.
00:20:23.000I agree with you on that, but what I'm surprised about, look, and I don't care what side of Finch you're on, but what I'm surprised about is some people believe he's doing things for the country's best interest, not for his own.
00:20:36.000Well, he's definitely doing things for his best interest.
00:22:33.000An objective opinion of him like, well, he's got some good policies and he's got some questionable economic theories and I don't know whether or not they're accurate, but this is why Elizabeth Warren stands out to me and as a mother and as a woman, I think it would be great to have a woman in the White House and I'm biased in that direction.
00:24:09.000It's like people decide they're on team ultra-progressive and, you know, and then everybody else can go fuck off and they want to attack those people and force those people to comply.
00:24:38.000It's just, they're going about it in this militant, psychotic way, wearing ski masks, and professors are hitting people over the head with bike locks, and everybody's losing their fucking mind.
00:24:47.000They won't even let conservative people speak at universities in a debate.
00:24:52.000That stuff is wrong, but I understand what that is.
00:24:55.000That's just rabid tribalism, and that's an overcorrection, and that needs to be called out, and it needs to be stopped, because the only way to really find out who you agree with is to let both sides talk.
00:25:12.000This infantile perception of people, including young people, that a lot of people on the left have, is that you don't even want to hear people with questionable ideas speak because then they're going to radicalize young people and people are going to get drawn to them.
00:25:29.000Well, that's a very egotistical perspective.
00:25:31.000It's like, I can see they're full of shit, but these young people are not going to be able to.
00:25:36.000And I'm smarter than them, and I want to stop them from being able to speak.
00:25:40.000I don't like when people get mad when you have questions.
00:26:53.000This is a way to not get sucked into this, like, really biased tribal perception that a lot of people get sucked into.
00:27:02.000And they get sucked into this team mentality, and they get blinders on, and they can't see things for what they are.
00:27:08.000We have a real problem with wanting to be in tribes, and it's just a part of our DNA. It's a part of our nature.
00:27:14.000It's how we survive to the 21st century.
00:27:17.000I mean, we survive by teaming up and having this loyalty to the people in our group to fight against the invaders who want to take our women and our food.
00:29:16.000If you had kindness and understanding, you temper your words, you take a deep breath, and you go, well, I assume she's just trying to do her best.
00:29:22.000Or I assume he's just trying to get by, just like all of us.
00:29:25.000And that kindness and understanding goes a long fucking way.
00:29:29.000Because as soon as you dehumanize someone, as soon as you say, you know, hey, he's on the left, fuck him, he wants to take away your money and turn American to Cuba, fuck you!
00:29:37.000You know, like that kind of nonsense, man.
00:29:39.000I read a book called Never Split the Difference.
00:29:46.000It's about an old FBI terrorist negotiator.
00:29:52.000And basically the book tells you how to talk to people.
00:29:57.000Like he took that tactic they use in the FBI to bring it to real life business and everything.
00:30:02.000How to talk to people where you can get them on your side.
00:30:04.000And just certain questions you ask where instead of them helping you, well it turns it from me asking you to do something to you wanting to do it.
00:34:39.000They don't even have to give you a sheet.
00:34:41.000Say if you pay taxes, and you make a good living, you probably have to pay a hefty sum of taxes.
00:34:46.000They don't send you, hey Michael, we used all this money on education, we fixed the streets with this money that you sent, so you should feel happy that you're contributing to society.
00:35:05.000They don't say, hey, fuckface, you owe us $3 million, you have to pay this off, and this is how we're going to force you to pay it off.
00:35:11.000And Wesley's like, look, good, I'm sorry, I'm going to go back to work, I'm going to make that money, give me a couple years to pay it off, and I'll pay it off.
00:36:18.000I'm very happy that I get to live in America.
00:36:20.000I'm very happy that we have this incredible system where you literally can be a person who's struggling and go on to become incredibly successful.
00:36:28.000We don't have a caste system in this country.
00:36:33.000There's definitely people that grow up in terrible environments and impoverished, crime-ridden, gang-ridden neighborhoods, and they're way more fucked than I ever was growing up.
00:36:42.000However, you can go from a kid like me who was on welfare when he was young and, you know, when I was a little boy, and Go on to become someone who can make money in this country.
00:38:15.000Well, I think what was going on there was Wesley was a part of some wacky group that was saying that you don't have to pay taxes because it's unconstitutional.
00:39:25.000No, I was just looking through Instagram, and I was like, because people have mentioned it to me that have met my dad and seen pictures, and I'm going, ah, whatever.
00:42:16.000I get to turn you on to Kyle Dunnigan.
00:42:18.000Go with Kyle Dunnigan where he's talking to, where Trump is talking to one of the Kardashians and he's trying to buzzer into the White House.
00:49:27.000I saw him on a red carpet a couple years before and he was like vibrant and just the stress and the guiltiness and everything is just beating him down.
00:49:35.000I don't think he'll even make it to jail.
00:49:39.000I told my wife that because you're going to die in jail.
00:49:43.000Well, he's probably depressed so deeply.
00:49:46.000Imagine going from being the toast of the town, posing with Oprah, top of the world, going on the red carpet, everybody loves you, everybody thanks you when they get their Academy Award.
00:49:54.000Have you ever seen the compilation of all the stars thanking Harvey Weinstein?
00:49:58.000And then many of them went on to accuse him, accuse him later of being a monster.
00:50:02.000But meanwhile, they're just praising him.
00:50:05.000Well, but don't you have to play that game?
00:51:49.000That was one of the things that the court artist, there was an artist that drew him throughout the case, and she was saying that you could see his deterioration, his physical deterioration over the course of the trial.
00:52:24.000I think it was a thing where, oh, let's play it for the court, and then he just got so broken down through the process, which he deserved, and it just took a toll on him, man.
00:54:21.000But if you're an agent, and you've known Harvey Weinstein for four or five years, or ten years, and you know he's been doing this, but yet you continue to send actresses to this guy, shouldn't you have some type of responsibility, too?
00:54:38.000Did they think that he was just a pig and he was trying to talk those girls into willingly having sex with him, which many did, or did they think he was a rapist?
00:54:47.000Because he was both of those things, apparently.
00:54:50.000He was a guy who had sex with girls who were willing to whore themselves out to be in movies, and he also forced himself on women who did not want to have anything to do with him.
00:55:00.000So he had both of those things were going on.
00:55:02.000But you don't think the agencies that were sending all these big actresses in, they didn't know, they knew the both types.
00:55:09.000Hey, they had some girls willing and some girls are saying they're raped.
00:56:57.000He, per Paltrow, he approached Weinstein outside of a play premiere in 1995 and he told him, if you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I'll kill you.
00:58:49.000Like you probably, if you were an actress and you went to him, you were probably thinking, okay, this guy is probably exactly like he is on TV. He's Mr. Huxtable.
00:59:15.000Well, they say that that's one of the things that happens with rape victims is that they sleep with the person willingly afterwards.
00:59:22.000And it doesn't mean that they weren't raped, but it's almost like they are trying to erase the shame of rape by going back to that person and actually willingly having sex with them.
00:59:35.000It was one of the arguments that Harvey Weinstein apparently had used, that these girls had willingly had sex with him after these encounters.
00:59:43.000And then, you know, they tried to show that.
00:59:45.000But psychologists talk about that and they say that this is a coping mechanism that some victims actually wind up using, which is just...
00:59:54.000I mean, the mind plays crazy tricks on you, right?
00:59:57.000And when you're going to someone who's America's dad, like Bill Cosby, you think he's going to help you out and give you that little boost and get you going in your career and you can't wait to be there with the Academy Award going.
01:00:08.000And I just want to thank Bill Cosby because he gave me my first break and he's always been a beautiful mentor figure to me and a father figure.
01:00:15.000Meanwhile, empty cup of tea and you got a headache and your pants are off.
01:03:05.000Because there's a lot of people that go up that are not really comedy store standard.
01:03:08.000And someone will come the first time to the comedy store and they'll see a promoter show, and one of the promoters goes up and eats shit for 20 minutes in the middle of a star-stacked lineup, and you're like, what the fuck did I just see?
01:03:19.000Or they put a girl they're trying to bang on the lineup.
01:04:10.000So they'll insert themselves into these star-stacked lineups, like there's Dahlia and Jesselnick and all these things, and they'll get up in there and do 20 minutes in the middle of that.
01:04:22.000Like, I was with Jim Jeffries, is on my podcast this week, and he was talking about he doesn't like going to the comedy store because he's so used to performing in front of his own crowd that he actually gets kind of nervous going up at the comedy store because...
01:05:22.000Like, doing stand-up at this point is really about being honest about the material, reps, putting in the time, putting in the effort, putting in the focus, and then grinding.
01:08:04.000Yeah, and one of the reasons why I don't do that is because I am trying to experiment.
01:08:08.000And I'll do things backwards, where I'll do my closing bit first, or I'll do punchlines first, then try to reinvent the beginning of it at the end.
01:08:19.000And I'll do that just to try to figure out if I'm doing a bit the right way, because you don't really know.
01:08:23.000I know the beats, I know where there's jokes, I know where it's funny, and I know the premise.
01:08:28.000But I don't know if I'm doing it the right way.
01:08:53.000But sometimes it hits a groove and then you catch this new part of a bit that's way better than any other version of it's been before and then it becomes your closing bit.
01:10:48.000Literally, every day, you do glutes, I mean, you do legs one day, you do chest one day, or upper body one day, and it just rotates, and you change workouts every week.
01:10:58.000It goes from 12 to 10 to 8. It's just like college football.
01:11:02.000And the thing is, you control, you have your own rack.
01:11:06.000So they only let like nine people in the class, and it's one trainer.
01:11:10.000So it's almost like a personal training, because you're all doing the same thing, and nobody's in your space.
01:16:58.000I appreciated the unbelievably fortunate position that you are in, where you have an opportunity to be a professional stand-up comedian.
01:17:07.000And I think a lot of those guys, they probably never had real jobs.
01:17:09.000If you had a real job working on a construction site or doing something hard, driving limos, working in a fucking shitty office, sitting in a cubicle every day, suffering.
01:17:19.000And then internalizing that suffering and realizing, I don't want to fucking do this.
01:18:05.000That's why I was saying it was so inspiring, like, coming on this podcast, because it kind of was a domino thing after doing this, because to me, this podcast is very inspirational to people, and it was the moment I was on here.
01:18:17.000So I did this whole lifting, then I listened to the David Goggins book, and I was like, oh my god, this dude's crazy and a beast.
01:18:51.000Because once I saw what you've done live, I've seen it on YouTube, but once you hear and you feel the magnitude of it, it was like, what the fuck am I doing?
01:19:02.000I need to really start pushing harder.
01:19:05.000And I need to really focus just on comedy, on podcasting.
01:19:16.000Dominoed into more and more things where and it had a lot to do with your listeners like saying jiu-jitsu gyms reaching out to me because I said I wanted to try that you should try it you're built for it man you told me not to because my knee I have knee problems that's right what's wrong with your knee again it's a meniscus I did no I never got it fixed hmm so but get it scoped but like the shirtless dudes in the whole the whole to just it bother you right now your knee yeah Yeah,
01:20:42.000In fact, results that are shown on the MRI. I had a full-length rotator cuff tear in my right shoulder that they were thinking I was going to need surgery on.
01:20:49.000I got some stem cells, and less than a year later, I had two stem cell injections, and less than a year later, I got another MRI, and it was gone.
01:27:21.000It didn't suck as bad as David Goggins.
01:27:23.000It didn't suck as bad as people that have been raped and didn't suck as bad as people who were continually molested and beaten and all those things.
01:27:31.000I want to compare with someone who was a real victim.
01:27:56.000It wasn't until I started being good at something that I realized you could get positive reactions from people from being good at something.
01:28:06.000And then I became obsessed with being good at things.
01:28:58.000Mentor those kids and those kids derive a bunch of self-esteem and a bunch of positive feedback from that parent if the parent does it correctly.
01:29:06.000Like Ilio Gracie, who's the founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, one of the founders along with Carlos Gracie.
01:29:14.000One of the things that he did with his children, and Ilya was a great man, and his children are fucking assassins.
01:29:20.000I mean, he developed literally an army of the greatest martial artists the world has ever known.
01:29:26.000One of the things he did when they would compete, he would give them prizes if they lost.
01:29:33.000He understood early on that putting pressure on kids and making, like, this is your whole life, they crack, they break, they just can't take it anymore, and then they wind up doing drugs, and they escape, and they give up.
01:31:40.000So I think that's why some parents, you know, they call them the helicopter parent or the dad that's always at football practice that's yelling at their son.
01:31:51.000They know that too, so they try to make, sometimes parents try to make it more difficult on their kids.
01:31:56.000I think those people are usually living vicariously through their children, and they usually were bitch athletes, and they want their kids to be good.
01:35:38.000You watch golf and you don't play golf?
01:35:40.000When Tiger Woods, you remember when he won the, this was about the time, like six, seven, eight months ago, when he won the, he came back and made a big win.
01:36:05.000Because if he can do that with twisting the torso, and he knows how to rotate his feet, that's one of the things that kids get stuck when you teach them martial arts.
01:36:51.000Like that's something you should really...
01:36:53.000I have a friend and his daughter is playing golf and he got her into golf specifically because he said that's a great way to get a scholarship.
01:37:01.000If you could go back and play what sport, what would it be?
01:38:21.000I'd go to the gym, work out, go to the pool hall, hang out, play a little bit, go do my comedy show, come home from my comedy show, go straight to the pool hall.
01:38:30.000I would bring my pool cue with me to the shows.
01:40:13.000Because, like, even when you get knocked out, like, it's not nearly, even occasionally it is, but most of the time it's not.
01:40:20.000It's not nearly the kind of force that a football player gets hit all the time.
01:40:23.000And you get hit like that in practice, you get hit like that in high school, you get hit like that in college, you get hit like that in all these games, and it all adds up, man.
01:40:32.000And a lot of these guys, by the time they're young, like, they said Aaron Hernandez, when he died, when they checked his brain, he had one of the worst cases of CTE they had ever seen.
01:40:43.000Almost like his brain lived like 50 or 60. It was aged so much in a short amount of time.
01:40:52.000But also when we go over the stuff that's in CTE, mood and all the other impulsive, bad behavior, all those issues, that was that guy's life.
01:41:35.000And then as you get better at hurting people, you get more accolades, you get more success, and then you delve further and deeper into this world of being this ultra-violent assassin.
01:41:50.000Your identity is you're the guy who smashes people.
01:41:53.000You know, and it's a hard train to get off, too.
01:41:58.000Once you're on that, and that's your life, and then all of a sudden you're 36, 37. And then you can't do it anymore.
01:42:02.000Yeah, you can't do it anymore, or you're not doing it well, and you're becoming the nail, and not the hammer.
01:42:06.000And you're like, fuck, what am I doing with my life?
01:42:08.000And then with each fight that you have, when you're slipping a little bit, you say, I'm just going to fight until I'm 40. The real damage...
01:42:16.000Is those ages 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 fights.
01:42:19.000That's where the real damage is coming in.
01:42:21.000Because those are the ones you're getting KO'd.
01:42:23.000Those are the ones you're getting rocked all the time.
01:43:11.000I like being interested in different stuff, you know?
01:43:14.000That's also why I have all these hobbies.
01:43:17.000I have all these different things that I'm interested in, whether it's playing pool or archery or hunting or any of these other things that I'm interested in.
01:43:24.000I'm not just interested in them for the end, like with hunting, the end is always the Excellent meat that you get out of it and the fact that you're eating this organic, wild game that's the best food in the world.
01:43:37.000But it's also the difficulty in the pursuit allows me to express myself in a different way.
01:43:43.000It also allows me, because I'm not that good at it.
01:43:46.000I mean, I'm better at it than a regular person, but in terms of, like, I have friends that are, like, world-class archers and bowhunters, like my friends John Dudley and Cameron Haynes.
01:43:55.000Those two guys are two of the very best bowhunters in the world, and they're my mentors, and they help me out a lot.
01:44:00.000But I like sucking at things, because you can learn about yourself.
01:44:04.000You learn about yourself from concentrating.
01:44:07.000It's ingrained in my psyche, in my brain.
01:44:10.000It's something that I have to concentrate on and practice every day.
01:44:13.000And I think there's a real benefit in sucking at things.
01:44:16.000Even if you're excellent at something, find something you suck at and get better at it.
01:44:22.000There's real benefit to that, to being a beginner.
01:44:25.000It stimulates your mind in a way that when you've already achieved a certain level of Of success or a certain level of high level of ability at something where you've been doing it most of your life.
01:44:40.000You sort of like you get accustomed to this feeling of being really good at something.
01:45:44.000Whether you're learning a language, and I'm talking out of my ass there because I don't know any languages.
01:45:48.000But this is what I've been told, is that it helps you intellectually when you're learning a game like chess that's complex, when you're learning archery, when you're learning things that require all these moving parts to come together.
01:46:01.000You're using your brain because you're thinking things through.
01:46:05.000You're also using your brain because you're managing your emotions.
01:46:08.000You're also using your brain because you're managing your discipline and your will because you don't want to quit.
01:46:14.000And then you're using your brain to try to harden your body and condition your body and get it to the point where you can actually do jujitsu effectively.
01:46:24.000And then you also have to get disciplined so that you go to the gym all the time.
01:46:27.000So you have strength in order to execute these moves.
01:46:30.000And you have cardiovascular endurance in order to survive the rounds.
01:46:33.000All those things are not just good for jujitsu.
01:47:22.000I'm so disappointed in myself because I said when my son was born, I have a lady that comes over and I tell her, just speak Spanish to him.
01:47:32.000And I said, by the time he's two or three, I'm going to know Spanish too because I'm going to learn it when he learns it.
01:47:37.000Goddammit, I don't know one word of Spanish besides hola, right?
01:47:41.000But I'm upstairs the other day, and this lady is talking to my son in Spanish, and he's answering in Spanish, and I have no idea what they're talking about.
01:47:50.000A little wizard, a little golf play in Spanish.
01:49:16.000His mom farts so loud, and he caught her.
01:49:20.000Like, Like she was farting like in the house and they were laughing at it and so then he filmed her when she didn't know and she's sitting in front of the kitchen and she rips this fucking tremendous fart.
01:49:50.000People talk shit around him in Spanish, and then he'll like, wait, let it go for a little while, and then he'll just respond in perfect Spanish, and they're like, oh, fuck that.
01:50:01.000Yeah, he just signed a two-deal Netflix special.
01:51:11.000I know a lot of times they can leave some comments and stuff like that, but the people that reached out to me, and I don't read comments, but the people that directly DM me, it was all like, dude, this, this, this, this, this is sending me workouts.
01:51:47.000Like, my friend, you know, I have a friend, you know, he hasn't broke or anything, but he's a comic, but when he goes up, he goes, I don't know why I always get heckled.
01:51:56.000Like, literally every time I go up, I get heckled.
01:51:58.000And I go, well, you're always yelling out the crowd.
01:54:01.000And since the last time I've been here, I was like, look, I hosted a lot, but now I'm just going to invest in stand-up, and I know you're out of acting, but I want to just, I want to support, my goal by the end of this year is be able to 100% fully support my family just on stand-up.
01:54:35.000He's so good that it makes you want to act.
01:54:37.000It makes you like, oh god damn, that would be like...
01:54:40.000Acting with someone like that where you it's a real craft like there's a fucking dance that he's doing with those people He's acting with I really enjoy watching that and I'm like maybe maybe I could do something like that Maybe I would be interested in doing something like that because like there's not like The prejudice that I have about actors is because of the worst ones that I've worked with,
01:55:01.000or the worst ones that I've met, or the worst ones that I've known, that are just really annoying and self-obsessed.
01:55:10.000They're like terrible comedians, but they don't have punchlines.
01:55:13.000You know, terrible comedians are all about themselves and they just dominate every conversation talking about themselves and what they're doing and what they want to do and how they're not getting booked anywhere and it's because these people don't like them because they're fucking jealous because of this and that.
01:55:40.000It's like, well, you know, I'm not getting it because this person got it or I don't understand why this person is doing it because I was here way before them and I was like, well, that's a problem.
01:56:38.000And the people that, like, I don't understand, and I hope nobody takes this wrong way, but I don't understand how you could be in something, I don't care if it's comedy or working wherever, and you haven't shown progress, how do you stay in it?
01:57:38.000Well, what's going on is they didn't really concentrate on evaluating what they're doing and looking at it from like a technical perspective, looking at it like your mechanics or your mechanics off, like the way your son hit that golf ball.
01:57:50.000He is already on this crazy path where he understands physical mechanics.
01:57:59.000I'm sure, I don't follow golf, but I'm sure if you went to a public golf course, there's guys right now that are 50 years old that can't hit a ball that good.
01:58:06.000They've probably been playing their whole life.
02:02:14.000Like at the Comedy Store when all these different...
02:02:16.000What I love about the Comedy Store and what I don't like about LA people is they debate about spending $30 on a lineup where the rest of the country is spending $50 to $100 for that one comic.
02:02:31.000That's how the people in LA are so just not thankful.
02:03:52.000But I feel like that's a more Hollywood crowd in some weird way.
02:03:57.000You know, one of the things that's the Comedy Store, it's really shocking how many people come from not just out of state, but out of the country to come to those lineups.
02:04:27.000I just saw Joe Coy sell out two shows at the Forum, and I was there, and when he walked out, it could have been Bruno Mars, it could have been, like, same applause, same everything.
02:04:37.000And that's what I love, is that This industry right now is on fire, but the people leading it to...
02:04:46.000I've only been in it nine years, but they're giving.
02:05:39.000Well, it's also, too, there's a brotherhood and a sisterhood amongst us and our friends that you are dealing with a very small number of people that are professionals at this on earth.
02:05:52.000Like, when you go to the comedy store, if I run into Anthony Jeselnik and I give him a hug, It's not just he's my friend.
02:05:59.000It's also he's one of maybe a thousand people like him on earth.
02:06:44.000What do you think it is, because you've reached the peak and continue to grow, but what do you think that when you're a comic and all of a sudden you just pop up?
02:08:04.000The beautiful thing about podcasts is, first of all, comics, unlike in the past, say if you were the host of The Tonight Show, and you were Jay Leno, and then David Letterman was the host of his show, you guys were in competition.
02:08:35.000But they had to do that back then because there was only one host of The Tonight Show and there was only one host of this show and one host of that show.
02:08:41.000I mean, all told, out of all the people on television that did late night talk shows, there might have been six.
02:09:53.000Before, it was like, oh, there's only a few spots.
02:09:55.000If you want to get a sitcom, you and I show up in the audition room, and I'm looking at you, and you're looking at me, and I'm like, you playing for Bob?
02:10:20.000And one of the things that I realized early on, You know, you make less money if you take people on the road with you, and you pay for their flight, and you pay for their hotel, and you pay for their meals.
02:12:07.000I think also, just being around the comics at the Laugh Factory Improv and Comedy Store, it's a thing where now people, before it's like, oh, if somebody crushes, I don't want them to crush them.
02:12:19.000Now people love to go, they want to be a part of a great show, not be the only funny one at the show.
02:12:27.000That's so insecure, that not wanting anybody to be good.
02:12:30.000Here's the thing, just, didn't you get into comedy because you like it?
02:21:28.000You know, Aubrey de Grey was on yesterday, who's an expert in anti-aging technologies.
02:21:34.000So we're talking about all this stuff and I'm just thinking like here I am talking this guy who spends his entire life trying to extend people's lifespan to 500 plus years and he's in the middle of this right now and he's running this institute in Northern California that's designed or does designing all these different specific methods of extending life and they're experimenting and doing all these different things and raising money and I'm like,
02:22:00.000this is such a weird path I've gotten on.
02:22:02.000But does he really think he can do it?
02:22:08.000Yeah, with stem cells and a bunch of the different biologics that they're experimenting with and all sorts of different, and as the technology increases and grows, and then CRISPR, which is a gene editing tool, and a lot of the other things that they're probably going to invent over the next three to five years,
02:22:25.000he believes, is going to be some giant breakthroughs.
02:22:39.000Yeah, it's regenerative, meaning you're literally going to not just stop aging, it's going to regenerate to the point where it's going to, your biological age, even though your physical age, your calendar age is the same,
02:22:54.000you're going to keep getting older that way, but your biological age is going to go backwards.
02:23:02.000Yeah, because what they're doing is they're treating aging like a disease.
02:23:06.000They're not treating it like an inevitable aspect of life.
02:23:13.000Well, breakdown of the body due to normal stresses and just overall use.
02:23:19.000Okay, well, what is the difference between someone who's 5 or 6 versus someone who's 50 or 60?
02:23:25.000Well, the body's ability to regenerate tissue, the body's ability to recover, you know, all these different things that are going on inside the cells.
02:24:48.000And when you think about what they're going to be able to do 50 years from now, they're going to make you an 18 year old.
02:24:57.000You're going to be able to regenerate tissue.
02:24:59.000All the things that are happening to people's discs.
02:25:02.000Where they get degenerative disc disease, which I have, which your disc gets smaller and actually your spinal column is actually compacted more and you have to try to mitigate that with spinal decompression and a bunch of different things.
02:25:15.000They're going to be able to inject stem cells into that.
02:31:50.000And so instead of letting Deontay come to him and he was boxing like he did for most of the first fight, he fought the second fight the way he fought him in the 12th round.
02:33:35.000If that is true, that he had it on for 20 minutes and that it really wore him out, that's exceptionally silly on the part of his management to allow that to happen.
02:36:03.000Because I think he won the first fight.
02:36:06.000Deontay knocked him down twice, but not only did he knock him down in the 12th round, but Tyson Fury came back and won the remainder of that round.
02:36:14.000So you could almost give that round a draw, and then the other round when he knocked him down, you've got to give to Deontay Wilder.
02:36:20.000The remaining 10 rounds are not in dispute.
02:36:23.000The remaining 10 rounds went to Tyson Fury.
02:36:25.000So if you just look at it on paper, he should have won that fight.
02:36:29.000Although most people weren't upset with the decision, Because Deontay almost had him out.
02:38:45.000I remember, like, after Tyson stopped boxing or after, you know, he lost, I kind of lost a lot of interest in it because I grew up with, like, Sugar Ray, Tommy Hearns, and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and I felt like I don't see fights like that anymore.
02:39:36.000I know some stuff about boxing because I'm a fan, but it's not like MMA. If someone wants to talk to me about MMA, I can give you very educated opinions on things and I can dissect things.
02:39:49.000With boxing, I have some opinions, but you know, There's other people that are better at it.
02:40:45.000When he hit Luis Ortiz and the spray of sweat flew off his face and Ortiz crumbled and he had this look in his eyes like, what just happened?
02:41:53.000And what's crazy is it came out probably about eight months, last time I was on here, but they just released it on DVD, so my mom thinks I made it.
02:43:14.000So this special that's on Amazon, why did they release it now on DVD? They said, Comedy Dynamics, I guess there's a DVD company that invests in a couple specials a year.
02:43:26.000And for some reason, they invested in mine and thought it could do well.
02:48:33.000Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss What the fuck?
02:49:07.000Main navigation screen, like, navigation is way better.
02:49:11.000And the voice prompts, like, you can say to, like, say, you want to talk about a restaurant, like, Felix is my favorite restaurant in Los Angeles in Venice.
02:49:20.000I'll say, navigate to Felix Restaurant in Venice.
02:49:46.000The 44 years I've lived, the technology we've seen from not being around to being around, he goes, they'll improve it, it'll get better, but all the stuff that was made in that short amount of time that you didn't have, the internet,
02:51:32.000Yeah, well, my house right now, I was going to get Tesla panels, but I can't get Tesla panels on my roof because of the pitch of my roof, but I'm getting them on the side of where the lawn is.
02:51:44.000So you want to go completely off the grid?
02:52:14.000One of the things that Tesla or Elon is doing that's really intriguing to me that I have guarded skepticism, not guarded skepticism, guarded optimism, I should say, is Neuralink.
02:54:31.000Like, how about some shit is going down?
02:54:33.000How about you're at the comedy store and you see a fistfight down the street and, like, these two people are beating the fuck out of each other.
02:56:05.000I don't think this is just like a concept, but what people linked on here is that a little menu pops up and it says learn skills as though you're in the matrix.
02:58:16.000And then, because that was hard to obtain.
02:58:19.000Because most people aren't born like that.
02:58:21.000Now the Kardashians, it takes money, I guess, for a lot of women to achieve that, and money, the amount of money where you don't have the disposable income to do it.
03:01:14.000Well, I was going to bring up this video that's been going around.
03:01:17.000I was going to ask if this is a new thing or just the internet got it, but it's wigs for men, but it's gone viral online a few times over the last few months.
03:04:05.000So the first time I hooked up with a girl out here when I first moved here, I went out like, you know, she was in bed and I went out to the living room and I thought it was an animal on my couch.
03:07:09.000And anything that's going to be intelligent and innovative, anything that's going to invent technology, the only reason why you invent technology is because you are curious.
03:07:18.000And if you are curious, you're not going to stop being curious.
03:07:21.000You're going to continue to be curious.
03:07:23.000And if you have a fucking whole planet filled with predatory apes that have thermonuclear weapons, and they want to control various patches of land that they've designated on maps with lines, and they put stupid fucking fences up.
03:07:37.000and they nuke each other and they fucking fly planes and drop bombs out and they have other planes that they fucking operate remotely with these little joysticks and drop bombs on people and we kill terrorists and some of the people that run the country are terrorists and and then you have for the stock market like what the fuck are these people doing the stock markets what is that a bunch of numbers that are bouncing around they're trying to speculate what's gonna go this and it's based on confidence oh my god these people are crazy and then they have the ability to sound video through the air And it reaches their phone on
03:08:07.000the other side of the world instantaneously like, whoa, this is really heavy stuff.
03:08:11.000These fucking crazy monkeys down on planet Earth are weird.
03:08:59.000If we found a planet somewhere, 300 years from now, that had people on that planet that lived like people lived here in the 1700s, we would be blown away.
03:09:08.000I just think it's the most unique and interesting thing we've ever found ever in life.
03:09:11.000I just don't know, with everyone having a cell phone, can take footage, why don't they have, like, real...
03:09:17.000Why don't multiple people have the same footage of the same thing?
03:09:43.000They don't have to visit all the time.
03:09:45.000If they only visited once or twice, these unique experiences that have happened once or twice over the course of human history, or three times, or ten times, or a hundred times, what are the odds that anyone's going to capture it?
03:09:57.000Especially if they're smart about how they come.
03:09:59.000Especially if they have some sort of cloaking apparatus or they have some ability to understand whether or not they're being viewed or observed and knowing how to hide or how to camouflage their ships.
03:10:11.000But of course they would be interested.
03:10:13.000I think that's the least plausible scenario that they wouldn't be interested in us.
03:10:17.000The thing that was interesting to me when you interviewed Snow, he's been through everything.
03:10:45.000That's one of the big problems with the military is that NASA does not have access to what the Navy has access to, which doesn't have access to what the Army has access to.
03:11:27.000I think at one point in time, well, it is for sure, one point in time, what they used to work on secret military projects, or aircrafts, and that's where the Blackbird came out of, that's where the stealth bomber came out of.
03:11:38.000There was a lot of that stuff that a lot of people mistook for UFOs.
03:11:41.000I think the real question lies in the very small percentage of unexplained sightings.
03:11:49.000So if you look at UFO sightings, you take the pie of UFO sightings, I would say, and not me, they say.
03:11:57.000What they're talking about that's been solved is somewhere in the neighborhood of 95% of those.
03:12:01.00095% can be explained by swamp gas, ball lightning.
03:12:06.000Ball lightning is a phenomenon that comes when, depending upon tectonic pressure, the Earth can release this lightning out of the ground that travels in a ball-shaped pattern and zigs through the sky and then vanishes and disappears.
03:12:20.000They don't totally understand how it's being created, but they do know it requires Some pressure in the earth, something about tectonic plates and possibly different atmospheric conditions, but it's a real observable phenomenon that's actually occurred on planes before.
03:12:35.000Like it's flown down the passageway of a jet at one point in time.
03:12:41.000Yeah, people, multiple people observed this ball lightning and they thought they were being aborted by a fucking UFO or something.
03:14:29.000500 years from now with the exponential growth of technology like we're experiencing on Earth, 500 years from now if we don't blow ourselves up or if they're different than us, like maybe they evolve different and they don't have the same battle for resources so they didn't develop the kind of...
03:14:44.000Territorial behavior that us apes have, if they develop something more complex and a different sort of cooperative evolutionary mechanism, they could be very different than us, but still way more advanced, but interested in us.
03:17:37.000He's not like everyone should have the even amount of money and we should all give up our money to the institution and then the institution should decide how it gets divided and you shouldn't be able to make more than X amount of dollars.
03:18:19.000There's a lot of things that your money goes to.
03:18:21.000The idea that we can't extend that, and to have a better life because of it, and to have Free healthcare and free college education and to eliminate student debt.
03:19:14.000That's one of our biggest problems, is the amount of influence that not just the drug companies have, but a lot of industry has on the way politicians decide how to spend your money.
03:22:03.000I think a lot of people don't trust her after that whole Pocahontas shit.
03:22:06.000The Indian stuff where she said she was Native American and it turns out she's like one one hundredth of a percent or whatever the fuck it is.
03:22:12.000But is that- It's also she was a Republican for most of her career and then she churned over and became a Democrat.
03:23:38.000I think what's going to happen is we're going to see that regular politics, the way they've been practiced for all these years in this country with these two bullshit choices, are going to go away.
03:23:52.000And I think it's going to be harder and harder for established people, whether it's Republican or Democrat, to keep doing that song and dance and having people buy it.