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00:04:17.000Well, they told cops that, first of all, cops are retiring left and right in New York, and then they told them they can't restrain people by putting weight on them.
00:04:28.000They can't put a knee on their back or their neck or any other place, and they can't administer chokeholds.
00:04:34.000And there's all these jujitsu guys who train cops that are, like Henner Gracie put a video on his Instagram page.
00:04:41.000He works a lot with cops, Jamie, Henner Gracie, and explaining why this is a terrible idea.
00:04:47.000Like, you can't control someone any other way, unless you use violence, unless you hit them with things, or you tase them.
00:06:59.000And it could be just, I get allergies.
00:07:02.000And I've also had walking pneumonia because when I'm on the road over the years, you just are on planes or international stuff, and you go, you're heavy breathing.
00:07:09.000And then I find out, oh, I just did 10 dates in a row.
00:07:12.000Then I come back and my doctor says, Bob, you have pneumonia.
00:08:36.000And people love the idea of not waiting in line, so they're willing to die.
00:08:41.000Get any video of Disney World opening day.
00:08:44.000I saw this going around on Saturday that there were some influencers that went, because there's a lot of people on YouTube that just go to Disney parks all the time.
00:08:50.000And they were saying they felt sick, and they just went the next day.
00:08:55.000And they're like, oh, this is fun, but all of our throats hurt real bad.
00:10:10.000You're 10 years of doing something that revolutionized this, okay?
00:10:15.000So I just started it It was before COVID. I started it because I was doing shows and I'd be in a theater and people would be yelling at each other.
00:10:26.000And I would go, guys, what are you doing?
00:10:28.000Or I'd have a bit about prejudice when I was six years old, when there was profiling, when there was segregated bathrooms.
00:10:35.000And I started talking about it and people would get angry.
00:11:07.000You know, I mean, you lost in 1865, you're going to rise again?
00:11:11.000The other thing is, they're pulling down statues, right?
00:11:15.000So the statues are like, they're like chocolate Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, the ones that are hollow.
00:11:21.000So if a statue to me is less than an inch thick of the lining around it and it's hollow inside, I think an inch, it could maybe stay up if it's heavy enough.
00:15:28.000I mean, stand-up is the root of that in a way.
00:15:32.000Yeah, because you can make fun of ideas that maybe even someone agrees with the idea, but if you mock that idea and it's so funny it gets them to laugh, they have to think about it.
00:17:16.000Our deadline's November, or the world's gonna fall apart.
00:17:19.000We gotta get rid of this motherfucker by November, and everybody's clamoring and trying to figure out how to do it, and pretending Joe Biden's brain isn't melting, and everyone's running around trying to put together some sort of a...
00:17:28.000Well, actually, they got a mic stand, duct tape, and a pipe cleaner.
00:18:29.000We would sit around back when you were, I think you were six, but we would go to Fab's, this Italian restaurant on Van Nuys, and we would be with our wives.
00:20:27.000When you're doing a movie, we were in a shower stall in an old hospital and it was supposed to be Rikers Island or whatever the hell that prison is up there.
00:24:36.000You still saw, even though Cosby, I know, was mad at him because he thought he was lifting some of his stuff, but Cosby would get mad at a lot of people, but he's doing fine now.
00:28:53.000And to be on a thing with Chappelle, and to be able to do that, and to be able to go out there, especially where we're at right now, and there's nothing on my nose right now, I'm just telling you the truth from my heart.
00:29:05.000I do this, I've always done it, but more so now, I'm 64 years old now, even though I look, you know, 63. But what you're able to do, if you can unify people, In a room, or in a dry bed,
00:29:22.000or at these giant places that you're doing, it is...
00:29:29.000Absolutely beautiful and especially now Whenever you're able to do those dates that are coming up people will never forget it when we come out of this that's very nice I don't know if we're gonna be able to I've kind of resigned myself to I think we will I'm fine listen like legitimately I'm fine working in comedy clubs for the rest of my life I don't give a fuck I just like doing stand-up and that's one of the things that I've gotten out of this you know I've been doing,
00:29:56.000the last few years I've been doing arenas, and they're great, but so is the OR at the Comedy Store.
00:30:06.000I don't, I honestly, I just like doing stand-up.
00:30:09.000If we can never do arenas again, if no one ever, no rock bands, no UFC ever does an arena again, no football games are ever in a sold-out arena, okay.
00:30:20.000But you can't do UFC in the OR. Well, they're doing UFC with no crowd.
00:31:58.000Well, you know, they've got to take precautions.
00:32:00.000Listen, man, I was pretty nonchalant about it in terms of not worried, but as more time has gone on in terms of getting sick, my fear is getting somebody else sick.
00:33:04.000She's basically explaining why he's so fucked up and why he lacks empathy.
00:33:09.000And what she said was that the father was like a sociopath and the mother was never around and was absent and didn't give him...
00:33:18.000Any love or attention and only, according to her, used the children to comfort herself instead of being there for them.
00:33:27.000And that he developed this narcissistic, self-centered personality in response to that.
00:33:32.000And that his father would, you know, anytime he showed emotions or anytime he showed needs, his father would cast that aside and squash that inside of him.
00:35:07.000We need someone who can say something that calms people down and brings us together and inspires us, man.
00:35:12.000People need inspiration and we need to know and understand that we are all in this together and we can go forth and pretend we're not and keep burning buildings and keep going crazy and screaming in the streets for the heads of politicians and kill the cops and all that crazy shit or Or take your mask off,
00:35:29.000that's my fucking right, and fuck you.
00:38:25.000Now, as a person who appreciates the history of comedy, I kind of wish I went to one of those things just to see what it was like to hang out with those guys.
00:39:05.000Overcome like this a situation where they're really nervous and I could coach them and talk them through because it brought me back like I used to I used to teach martial arts and I coach a lot of kids in particular I bring them to tournaments and I would I would train them and then you know like these 14 15 year old kids I take them to tournaments and they'd be fucking panicking and I would talk them through it and I would say you're gonna get through this and you're gonna be a better person because you got through this because it's so scary when you get through something so scary you become stronger and And this is something you
00:43:01.000I kind of feel sometimes I locked in at 9, because the world hadn't fallen apart for me.
00:43:06.000I didn't see how fucked up everything was.
00:43:09.000I mean, you could go deep psychologically with it, but I think at the end of the day, we enjoy, first of all, when comedians are around comedians is when that shit's the worst, right?
00:48:06.000Bill Burr plays the drums like a son of a bitch.
00:48:09.000Well, I was gonna say something about him.
00:48:11.000I finally did something that actually stayed on topic, I think.
00:48:15.000He came to my wedding, and then he had to go do a gig.
00:48:19.000And he does the gig, and his wife stayed, and he comes back in a different outfit, like a pink jacket.
00:48:27.000He left my wedding and is such a good friend, he came back again, because he was so happy for me, because who the fuck else would want me than my wife?
00:48:41.000In Philly, in Camden, at the Tweeter Center, it was called, when we were on the Opie and Anthony virus tour.
00:48:49.000So it was Tracy Morgan, myself, Louis C.K. Is that the one where Don Marrera got heckled and he went on and he literally attacked the crowd?
00:49:34.000The way he's made that whole fucking Boston brilliance.
00:49:40.000And he just started to pummel them back and said the worst things you can say, every inappropriate thing you could possibly say, calling, talking about their cheesesteaks and the Sixers and just, you know, the thing you saw.
00:51:34.000He's a great guy, but I love winding him up.
00:51:36.000He does something that Chappelle does that I find them both so brave that they know where their A point is and they know where their endgame is.
00:52:03.000And sometimes it's not quite as close, but then they still know how to fluff the final thing.
00:52:10.000Well they both know how to take a subject and I mean it's one of the cool things about being at the store is you get to see like the beginnings of those bits that a guy like Chappelle or Burr or anybody will start out and then flesh it through and figure it out and then tighten it up and then by the time they're filming a special so it's a weapon.
00:53:14.000I met him in Houston, and he was kicked out of the comedy workshop in Houston because of the shit he would say on stage, because he had been running his, you know, tent show of faith healing with his brother Bill, and they told me some real fucked up stories about shit they would do.
00:54:40.000He was in the Houston Chronicle, on the front page of the Arts and Entertainment, and he dressed himself, because they banned him from the club, in a diaper and And a crown of thorns and blood coming from the crown of thorns down his face with his eyes rolled back in his head and said that he had been persecuted just like Jesus from playing the comedy workshop.
00:55:02.000But it's pretty fucking heavy, you know?
00:55:05.000And he had made it quite a name for himself and had a following there.
00:55:10.000He went, I don't know what to do, man.
00:55:11.000I want to come out to LA. And I went, well, I'll I'll help you out.
00:55:15.000I was planning the laugh stop in Houston.
00:56:16.000There was a guy who wrote a book on comedy.
00:56:18.000He was teaching a comedy course at a university.
00:56:21.000And he was sitting here talking to me and he said that the best comedy always punches up.
00:56:29.000Because there was a time when people really believed that nonsense.
00:56:32.000Like that there was a formula to comedy and that comedy should always attack the large power structures and that the small people should be, you know, elevated by comedy.
01:00:04.000And the way it's been told to me, I don't know if these stories whisper down the lane, is that they went back to the same place after a while.
01:02:39.000I remember him pacing back and forth and looking down the hallway.
01:02:44.000I know I definitely saw him at least once, and I definitely saw him on stage with the bathrobe on, but I remember looking down the hallway seeing this guy.
01:04:34.000The story was special, too, because it showed that, you know, he was trying to make it, and it fell apart, and then he took a long—didn't he take, like, ten years off?
01:04:44.000Yeah, aluminum siding was the years of— Many years.
01:06:54.000You don't see any love out of them, any sweetness.
01:06:58.000I think as a As a nation, at this time, we need someone who has got a real message, not some bullshit, canned speech that's prepared by a focus group where they figured out all the right beats to hit.
01:07:17.000But they're not even doing the right beats.
01:07:19.000I mean, the Mount Rushmore speech could have had five, six minutes in it that could have added some people to it.
01:07:29.000If Obama was stuck in this situation, I really, truly believe he could have given a speech that made us all feel like we're going to be okay.
01:08:22.000You see what we were talking about earlier with the cops and all these murders that are happening in New York City and Chicago's got record murders.
01:09:48.000They don't want to say that these incredibly significant historical protests have created an uptick in the virus that will likely lead to deaths.
01:10:57.000In terms that I will not be able to recreate explained all the different factors that when they examine the virus would not be very likely to have happened in nature and certainly not as quickly as they had that the all these different aspects of the virus point to the fact that it had been something that had been manipulated the fact that there was a level 4 lab in Wuhan this is not People love to use the term conspiracy theory,
01:11:22.000but this level 4 lab where they studied coronaviruses that come from bats is there.
01:12:26.000And Brett Weinstein's very careful in not saying that this is definitely what happened, but he points to all the factors that lead to this very likely conclusion that this is something that accidentally got out of a lab.
01:12:40.000There's a reason why it's so contagious, that it spreads so easily, that it takes on so many different forms and has so many different reactions to so many different people.
01:12:47.000It's almost like we're dealing with a bunch of different diseases.
01:12:50.000Anytime you mate humanity with an animal, there's a serious problem.
01:14:45.000I mean, they're not letting anybody in, but they're literally back to a no-virus situation.
01:14:50.000It's like the resistance of the United States is down because so many, not the resistance, but our immune system is down because there's so much hatred.
01:15:17.000If it was just a normal day, if maybe George Floyd just hopped in the patrol car, you know, or maybe didn't give them that counterfeit $20 bill, never got arrested, what the fuck would we be looking at?
01:15:30.000It's kind of amazing when you really...
01:15:32.000No, it's a change of history in one moment.
01:15:36.000In an instant, in an incident between two people.
01:15:42.000Between one cop and one man, and then the world sees it because one girl, 17-year-old girl filmed it.
01:15:48.000She puts it up, the whole world sees the horror of that guy leaning on that man's neck with his knee.
01:16:32.000If this George Floyd thing that was like teeing the ball up, you know, and then this George Floyd thing happens and boom, the powder keg blows.
01:16:41.000I think the enough is enough moment happened and everybody's holed up in quarantine and everybody can't pay their rent and nobody can do anything but watch all this bullshit of all this racism and all this all of our bureaucrats spewing a bunch of lies and garbage at everybody.
01:17:01.000My favorite part of it was the black and white video the actors made to try to fix it.
01:17:36.000Well, you know, there's something great about people that have a heart for it that are well known, whether it be acting or sports or whatever music that people are that look up to those people.
01:17:50.000But it's saturated when it's just people doing it because they're getting publicity.
01:18:31.000Yeah, it's the smell of narcissism, the smell of ego, the smell of the preposterous idea that you're going to sing your way out of people dying.
01:18:40.000And that's what we're living right now.
01:18:42.000That's what we're listening to right now.
01:18:43.000When I see Jared Kushner, and I'm sure he's a delightful guy.
01:20:07.000And I've known people that know him, I'm sure you do too, that have said, I worked with him, he was horrible, and I've also talked to people that hung out with him, he was great.
01:20:17.000Yeah, I've talked to people that know him, that really like him.
01:20:50.000It's just a sad time and we have to punch through it.
01:20:54.000The problem also is the nature of this business is that the way politicians are taken apart, their past is taken apart, things are taken out of context, they make these attack pieces, they look into their finances, they look into their past relationships, they try to find every fucking little piece of something that might indicate there's a character flaw.
01:22:12.000Mental illness and drug rehabilitation and guidance and if that can happen, how does that happen?
01:22:17.000How do you send people into the depths of Chicago where a lot of the pandemic of that kind of lack of love and pain...
01:22:27.000It has to be done locally and it has to be done in each individual place by someone who understands the community.
01:22:32.000It has to be done locally in each individual city.
01:22:36.000Each individual city has unique problems.
01:22:38.000I don't think you could use Baltimore's solution on Detroit.
01:22:42.000I think you have to have your own solution for each individual place based on people that actually understand how it got to where it is and what could be done.
01:22:51.000And mayors and their regime need to be heroes.
01:25:39.000I want to know what was your decision-making process and how did you find – because you were already on your way to wherever you wanted to make your playground – Well, I was gone for seven years.
01:25:53.000I was gone from 2007 to 2014. And that was that Carlos Mencia incident that I had at the store.
01:26:37.00094. Well, I always wanted to ask you what it was like, because when you did Full House, you basically had to stop doing stand-up, because you were on this squeaky clean...
01:28:56.000I'm just going to do what I like to do.
01:28:58.000Tell me again where you had left off about the Mencia thing with the Carlins.
01:29:03.000So he had made some sort of sneaky backdoor deal with the store to have them ban me, and he would put his name on the marquee, which he never would do before.
01:29:12.000Like, he would do spots, they would just show up and bump people.
01:30:05.000You give a vampire of all the other performers, not just a vampire, but someone who, if you were going on stage, he would go on before you and do your closing bit and then bring you up.
01:30:15.000There was a lot of dark shit going on.
01:32:37.000Outcast from the comedy community like that video and the subsequent all these other comedians coming out and telling stories about him Everything fell apart and this is what I told them was gonna happen.
01:32:47.000I was like this is not it's not gonna go away.
01:32:51.000This is not like People make mistakes.
01:32:54.000They accidentally do someone's bit because they forget it was someone's bit or you come up with the same thing people yeah, there's a lot but There's good people and then there's people that are victimizing people and he was one of those that was victimizing people and with the worst I've ever seen and so this had happened and I knew when Adam came to visit me at the improv I knew Well,
01:33:26.000And Ari was filming his special in the OR. And Ari was one of my best friends.
01:33:32.000And I had been friends with Ari from the time that he was a doorman.
01:33:36.000And I was like he had gone through this journey of being a doorman to I started taking him on the road with me So I take him on the road and we would do all these gigs together and now here he is He's got his own television show and he's doing a fucking Comedy Central special and he's filming it at the store I'm like I gotta be there So I came there on Tuesday night.
01:35:28.000Where I had a weird experience, and I was trying to keep somebody sober, and I had to stay up all night to keep them sober so that she didn't find out.
01:35:38.000And as a result, I hadn't slept, and I had a week set in Vegas at the Dunes.
01:35:43.000And then after the set, she came backstage and said, you've lost it.
01:38:13.000Well, it was a bad run for about six years where it wasn't very good from 94 to around 2000. And somewhere around 2000, it started picking up again.
01:38:35.000This is my own personal theory, and I'm only basing it on the timeline of Kinnison's death.
01:38:41.000Kinnison left the comedy store somewhere around like 90, and then he died somewhere around like 92, somewhere around there, 93. And then...
01:38:53.000You know, so many guys had gone off and done sitcoms and like Jim Carrey had gone off and done movies and in Living Color and there wasn't that many people there.
01:39:04.000And then there was also a lot of really bad talent.
01:39:07.000There was a lot of guys who were bodacks.
01:39:10.000There are people that could have been accountants and instead chose comedy as a career and they learned how to walk the stage and they learned how to hold the mic and they learned how to talk to the audience.
01:40:10.000It wasn't as blue until after, and Full House and the video show were simultaneous, and they were family, you know, 7 o'clock at night on a Sunday, I'm hosting videos.
01:40:21.000I can't say, here's another fucking video.
01:41:48.000I was like, you know, I put all that time into that place, and I thought what we were doing, like, that Mencia thing, I thought that was, we're doing the right thing.
01:42:10.000Yeah, that was my best work was after that because I was you know my best my first real big special was 2009 which is two years after that and then You know and I don't have any hate for that dude and I hope he gets better like I hope he's doing great.
01:42:27.000I really do I think he has learned his lesson.
01:45:02.000And then when the shows ended, I started directing some stuff, and then I did a special called That Ain't Right, and that was the HBO special that upset a lot of people and also put me in Rolling Stone and Newsweek and all these things.
01:45:34.000It upset people because that's what you had always been doing, but they didn't expect that out of you because they wanted Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos.
01:48:22.000I was about to talk about racial injustice ready to go because I've got all this stuff when I was a kid and segregation and I was living it and didn't understand it when I was six, seven years old in Virginia.
01:48:34.000So it was like I started to have much more intent in what I want to do right now and make people laugh.
01:48:43.000I've got to throw a dick joke in just to make myself happy.
01:48:45.000Well, stand-up comedy is supposed to be here's the world through my eyes.
01:48:48.000Whenever some other comic comes along and tells you not to do your version of reality, they can go eat shit.
01:48:55.000And usually there's something wrong with them.
01:48:57.000And that's obviously the case with Bill Cosby.
01:50:02.000Like, if no one knew that priests raped kids, and then you came home and said, Mom, the priest raped me, your mom would be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
01:53:03.000Can't we just cut off the little hands on each side and just have just a – or can't everybody have a – there has to be a dream discourse.
01:56:58.000You're doing comedy in an event where people are talking about a serious issue that maybe they've been maligned and misgendered and just fucking disenfranchised their whole life.
01:57:13.000You know, a questionable joke that wasn't your best joke, and then a song about transitioning, and you're wondering why they're not laughing.
02:00:04.000When you say Robin Williams to somebody, anybody, they get emotional you know because he he could have never done stand-up and just acted in movies when 9-11 happened um you know about 9-11 right yeah okay uh can't do that you can't do that joke it's not a joke it's just me being an ass Thanks for sitting through this with me.
02:02:15.000That's a movie that I gave as an example and someone was saying that trans people are never funny and a straight person in drag is never funny.
02:05:08.000And he's getting ready for something because he's dressed in his wardrobe for what will be the suit that's going to be the show, the movie.
02:08:43.000You know, this is the last time I got lucky that I had a couple that I couldn't really do in my last special and I never really fleshed out and I could start with them.
02:08:51.000I could kind of get going, get a little bit of momentum and then piece together an act.
02:08:55.000But that desperation is what creates your act.
02:08:59.000This last, after that happened, and I could feel what was happening in the world in the past, and you could too, for the past Year, year and a half of what we were going toward with Trump at the helm and all of the shit that's been happening and all the people at each other.
02:09:20.000So it started happening fast where new stuff was coming to me and I was reflective over my life and reflective over...
02:10:52.000Everything we're going to get to do when there's a vaccine, when we find out if the vaccine works, we find out what the fuck all this is, when we get to go out and really do a room that's 100% full, and you don't know what's coming with your big dates coming up.
02:11:09.000I think they're all getting canceled, if I had to guess.
02:11:12.000I mean, unless something happens between now.
02:11:13.000I mean, I'm supposed to do Madison Square Garden October 3rd.
02:12:19.000It's made me way more aware of how much responsibility I have doing this thing.
02:12:24.000When we first started doing this podcast, it was me and Brian Redband and whoever the guest was, Joey Diaz or Eddie Bravo or Ari Shafir, whatever it was, and there would be like a thousand people listening.
02:13:41.000That's kind of – you're an influence on me in a huge regard because I didn't come to podcast because every fucking person on the earth, the kid across the street has a podcast.
02:13:53.000The UPS guy the other day had a podcast.
02:15:34.000I can't remember where, but it's moving somewhere big, apparently.
02:15:38.000You know, and that's a mindfuck, too, because now it's like there's more scrutiny on it, there's more people paying attention and criticism and everything, but it's also, it's like...
02:20:16.000I'm concerned with long-term effects from anybody that has this because I was talking to a friend of mine who is a doctor who is saying he's treating a basketball player.
02:20:25.000Who three months, a guy in his 20s, three months after COVID is still having issues with his endurance.
02:20:31.000He hasn't gotten his endurance back to where it is.
02:20:33.000Like his lungs are not working at full capacity.
02:20:36.000So there's perhaps some damage or something.
02:20:39.000I've heard from people that are scarring.
02:20:55.000Well, it's not necessary, but it was essentially saying that in the autopsies that they're doing on people who died of COVID, they're finding blood clots in all of their organs and their liver, their lungs, their kidneys, everywhere.
02:21:08.000Yeah, this is a fucking weird disease, man.
02:21:10.000And what I've been hearing with the vaccine, they don't know if you get it, if it can keep you safe.
02:22:03.000Messenger RNA. Messenger RNA. See, it does something to the body and forces the body to create proteins that fight off the virus.
02:22:11.000Another thing that's really important is vitamin D. They are finding, and this is what you were talking about with African Americans having a particular problem with COVID. African Americans have a particular problem with vitamin D as well.
02:22:22.000Because, of course, with their skin color, their ancestors all came from Africa, where your body had all this melanin to protect itself from constant sunlight.
02:22:31.000So they didn't have to worry about absorbing so much vitamin D from the sun.
02:22:59.000So I was talking to your guys before I came in here, and they were saying, yes, I've been out in the sunlight, because I've been out, go to the pool, that's like Hawaii for my wife and I, and that's been helpful.
02:24:12.000And when your body doesn't have any building blocks, your body doesn't have any nutrients, your body is deficient in all sorts of critical nutrients that it needs for all these different functions, it's not going to do the job.
02:24:26.000When your body's weak, it's not going to do the job.
02:24:28.000But fortunately for us, in 2020, you can take supplements.
02:24:33.000And vitamin D is not expensive, it's not prohibitive, but it has a huge impact.
02:24:37.000One of the things that they're showing is that, and this is something that Dr. Rhonda Patrick talked about when she was on the podcast, she went over all these different studies that they've done in places where COVID patients were in the ICU. And in one of them, in several, but one of them that I can recall,
02:24:53.00080 plus percent of the people that were in the ICU for COVID had vitamin D deficiency.
02:24:59.000Four percent had sufficient levels of vitamin D. And there's multiple studies that point to the exact same thing.
02:25:07.000It's critical in your body's ability to fight off illness and particularly effective with COVID. So when you're talking about African Americans, one of the things my doctor told me was that when he was doing tests in Manhattan with African Americans, some of them had non-detectable levels of vitamin D. So these are people that,
02:25:27.000first of all, their ancestors come from a climate where they're supposed to be in the sun all the time.
02:25:30.000Now they're not, because they're in this northern hemisphere, cloudy, it's in the winter, they're not getting anything in the sun.
02:25:37.000And they're not taking any vitamins, so they're just not getting it.
02:25:39.000It makes them particularly susceptible.
02:25:41.000Another thing that makes people particularly susceptible is obesity.
02:25:44.000That is, according to my friend who's a doctor in New York, is a huge factor in people that are in the ICU. I've heard that quite a bit.
02:27:05.000I think the best way to do it is probably in the middle of your meal.
02:27:08.000Like eat some of your food, take your vitamins.
02:27:10.000When you're eating elk, which I've seen a lot of photos of, a lot of elk pictures, would you take the D in the middle of four pieces of elk?
02:28:53.000So you've got like the tissue and then the water and the amount that you shit is surprisingly small.
02:28:59.000Whereas when you're eating a lot of salad and you're eating a lot of like celery and fibrous foods, all that stuff, your body doesn't really digest it.
02:29:15.000Some people are saying you need to have the vegetables, and then there's some people that are on this carnivore diet that say you don't need any vegetables.
02:29:20.000Well, some people are vegan, like my wife's a pescatarian.
02:29:58.000Can you imagine if you go to a restaurant and they come out and they have one of those fucking Bugs Bunny silver things where they pull the top off of it and it's a dude's butt.
02:30:04.000It's just a perfect butt like an athlete.