In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Joe talks about how California has been hit hard by the recent 9/11 attacks and what it's like to live in Los Angeles. He also talks about the benefits of living in a smaller city, and why he doesn t miss the big cities. Joe also talks a little bit about his love of golf and how he got addicted to it in college and how it's a great way to relax in the middle of nowhere. Joe also gives his thoughts on how to get out of your head when it comes to playing golf and why it's not as bad as it used to be. Joe is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster from Los Angeles, California. He's been in the entertainment industry for a long time and is a big part of the LA community, but he's also an avid golfer and golfer. He's a good friend of mine and I really enjoyed this episode and I hope you enjoy listening to it. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review on whatever platform you're listening to this podcast on Apple or wherever else you get your podcasts. We love feedback. Thanks for listening and support! -Jon and Alex! Tweet us if you have a question or would like to support the podcast, we'd love to hear from the pod cast or podcast? Timestamps: 5:00 - What's your favorite thing to do? 6: 7:30 - What do you like about California? 8:00 9:40 - How do you think California is a better place to live? 11:15 - What s your favorite place to go to do the most right now? 12:00 | What's the best place to relax? 13:30 | What are you looking forward to going to do in LA? 16:30 17:40 | What is your favorite part of California's most relaxing place? 18:20 - What does California's worst place to play golf? 19:40 21:00 + 20: What s a good place to be most relaxed in the most relaxed place to do most of your day? 26:00 & 27: Is it better than California s most relaxed? 27:00 // 27:10 28:00 / 28:20
00:02:48.000I caught myself the other day watching a thing on the TV, like golf lessons or whatever, and at the same time I was on my iPad on YouTube not realizing I was doing two at once, learning how to chip.
00:03:11.000And as far as activities that suck time, I mean, at least you're walking around, you're out in nature, you got all that beautiful green grass, you know?
00:03:22.000It's definitely an interesting thing to suck time because it gives me energy and when I'm away from it, I can think more clearly about everything else.
00:03:33.000You're always thinking about your next shot or your last shot, what you did wrong, what you could have done better for the next one.
00:03:40.000So it's like when I'm out there, I'm not looking at my phone for four or five hours, which is great.
00:03:45.000I'm not thinking about anything else so that when I do afterwards, And you know, normally most days, if I don't do that, I sort of like crash out around evening time.
00:03:57.000But if it's a golf day, even if I'm up at 6, 5, 7am, I have energy all day, all night after that.
00:05:50.000Who's that one dude that does the thing at the driving ranges where he steps his leg up in the air like he's throwing a pitch and then he steps forward?
00:06:26.000And what's crazy about him, so what's crazy about the sport of golf is that that's your first shot, and then after that, touch.
00:06:33.000As you get closer to the hole, touch becomes so much more important.
00:06:36.000So this guy can do that, and he can also make a 10-foot putt that has a hill from right to left, and then bends from left to right, like...
00:06:45.000There's a comparison, I guess, to pool, the break shot.
00:06:49.000Some guys have crazy break shots with a lot of power.
00:06:53.000And then afterwards, it's a touch and finesse game.
00:08:04.000So they have these outside areas, like chickens running around and shit, and they're playing pool, like a lot of open air pool tables.
00:08:12.000And obviously it's an island, so it's near the ocean.
00:08:14.000There's probably a lot of humidity in the air.
00:08:16.000And the tables, they also have this weird thing they do where they pour powder on the rails.
00:08:20.000So they have baby powder because everything gets so slick because it's wet and sweaty and sticky and moist.
00:08:28.000So they put baby powder near the pockets and they all touch the baby powder on their fingers and then the cue runs smoothly through your hand.
00:08:35.000But then you're always touching the table.
00:08:36.000So you're putting baby powder all over the table.
00:14:07.000Because if you look at his style, he's got a brilliant style.
00:14:12.000His style is take the minimal amount of damage, find your openings, and then establish your game, and then dominate.
00:14:19.000And that's what he's done to everybody.
00:14:20.000That's what he did to Manny Pacquiao in their fight.
00:14:23.000Manny Pacquiao apparently had a fucked up shoulder, but that's what he did to Ricky Hatton.
00:14:27.000Dominated Ricky Hatton at the time was...
00:14:30.000You know, one of the best in the world and a guy that a lot of people were interested in seeing how he would do against Mayweather.
00:14:36.000And then the second fight with Maidana, you get to see the brilliance of Mayweather because you knew he got clipped in the first fight.
00:14:42.000So he digested all of Maidana's movements and what he did wrong in the first fight and he came out in the second fight and just put on a clinic.
00:16:17.000If you're a young boxer and you want to know what it's like to be a 41-year-old and still be at the top of your game, you've got to be like him.
00:17:23.000Bernard was a master of distance, too, and Bernard was a different kind of style, different kind of defensive style.
00:17:29.000Bernard, like, would frustrate guys a lot.
00:17:31.000He would clench with them, tie you up, make it very physical.
00:17:34.000And guys get real frustrated, and they didn't know what to do, and they just wanted to fucking start winging punches, and then he'd get right in your face again and clench a hold of you, but then break with you and catch you with the left hook, break, catch you with the right hand.
00:17:45.000Always defensive, always protected, always disciplined, you know?
00:17:49.000Frustrating your opponent in boxing is one of the interesting things, right?
00:17:55.000Everybody remembers the ear bite, but not a lot of people talk about the massive amount of clenching and headbutts that Holyfield was landing on him in that fight.
00:18:05.000It's very clear when you watch it again.
00:19:57.000It says his first professional fight was at Light Heavy, but right before that, he was listed around age 21 at 178, which is around the time he was in the Olympics.
00:20:07.000So he probably fought at light heavyweight.
00:20:10.000So if his first professional fight was light heavyweight, and then he went on to be the cruiserweight champion, he beat Dwight Mohamed Kawi, who used to be Dwight Braxton.
00:23:31.000One of the reasons why chimps attack people is because if people give something to someone else and they don't give it to them, they have a real sense of fairness.
00:23:40.000Yeah, there's a famous story of this guy who had a pet chimp.
00:23:44.000And then the thing about chimps is you can keep them when they're young and then they get older and it's like a man, but a man that's five times stronger than you.
00:23:52.000And like, why is he going to listen to you?
00:25:40.000It's one of the most horrific, cruel attacks you'll ever hear of because they did it to try to take away from him the things he wants and needs.
00:25:49.000Like, chimps recognize you need your fingers in order to do things.
00:25:58.000They don't they don't just try to kill you they try to take away what it means to be a human so if you try to hide your hands they'll pull your hands away from and open them up and bite them off like crazy with a rage filled look in their eye and They don't communicate with language So they only have this sense in their head of what's fair and what's not fair and what you've done to them.
00:26:19.000So if you do something that makes them jealous, they think immediately you've done something bad to them.
00:26:25.000They don't think that, no, no, I just gave my friend a cake.
00:27:23.000And then humans, as we get older and more sophisticated with language, but still carry the same childish emotions, we find reasons to be upset at someone for being successful.
00:27:38.000We find these weird little ways that we can justify our jealousy or our anger or our disdain for those who are more successful than we.
00:27:48.000So it's like we're coming up with complicated, sophisticated ways to justify these primal behaviors that chimps exhibit in just violent rage.
00:30:04.000I went to the LA Zoo once, really high, really high, like on an edible.
00:30:10.000And I wrote a piece on my website called Animal Prison.
00:30:15.000And I was like, because it made me feel, because you know when you're really fucking super baked, you're sensitive to everything.
00:30:22.000But just, I recognize how, instead of thinking about myself and thinking about, you know, oh, I'm going to go to the zoo and see the monkeys, I went there and I immediately felt sadness.
00:30:34.000I was like, oh no, these poor creatures.
00:32:16.000My girlfriend at the time dropped me off after school.
00:32:24.000And I was getting my backpack out of her trunk, but she forgot that I was behind her car getting a backpack out of her trunk, so she started backing up.
00:32:32.000Your girlfriend backed over you on purpose, and now you're justifying it.
00:32:57.000He won a lawsuit against West Covina to keep the chimp in the 60s because the judge said the chimp, quote, doesn't have the traits of a wild animal and was somewhat better behaved than some people.
00:37:24.000And the reason why they keep feeding them eucalyptus is because the second you stop giving them eucalyptus, like truly within three seconds of them not having the next leaf, they turn more into a bear.
00:38:30.000Do you remember that story about a girl that this couple adopted and they thought they were adopting like a 10-year-old and it turned out to be a tiny person and a tiny person who's completely insane and was pretending to be a little kid?
00:39:41.000Parents who are accused of abandoning an eight-year-old Ukrainian girl say they adopted say she was actually a 22-year-old mentally disturbed adult.
00:40:34.000She said she didn't know many details about Natalia's background, but we're told her previous adopted parents gave her up for undisclosed reasons, like maybe because she's 20. Christine Barnett said that Natalia terrorized her family, tried to stab them when they were sleeping,
00:40:49.000and once tried to push her towards an electric fence and poured bleach in her coffee.
00:41:42.000Though she was said to be 6 when the Barnetts adopted her in 2010, NBC News said it saw hospital records showing her age as about 8 in June of 2010. Oh, well that doesn't mean anything.
00:41:55.000Okay, citing court documents, WISH-TV and Indianapolis CW affiliate reported that the girl's age was changed from 8 to 22 in 2012. It said a skeletal survey at the Peyton Manning.
00:42:09.000Holla, Peyton Manning has his own children's hospital.
00:42:12.000Peyton Manning Children's Hospital deemed her to be 11 at the time.
00:42:16.000Wow, she was 22 with a 22-year-old skeleton when she was 11. Wow.
00:42:21.000Well, she made a career perpetuating her age facade.
00:45:03.000Dude, I was on my YouTube feed watching Filipino Pool the other day and an old interview came up with us with someone I didn't even remember was a guest.
00:45:12.000If you had said, has this guy been a guest?
00:45:41.000Like I was telling you, Ron White's doing a guest spot on the show I'm doing tonight here in Austin, and he's going back looking over his stuff, and today he was.
00:45:51.000I was hanging with him, and at one point he goes, you know what?
00:46:17.000Because, like, there's a scene where this 16-year-old daughter goes outside, and there's these people doing construction in their backyard.
00:46:23.000And, I mean, like, the window's right there, the parents are right there, and these construction workers are like, yeah!
00:47:56.000He reaches in, he grabs, like, she's cooking spaghetti, so he dips the spoon in the sauce, tastes the sauce, reaches in through the window.
00:49:19.000Carol Ann Freeling was the young point of the series, played by Heather O'Rourke.
00:49:23.000Only six years old, when the first Poltergeist film was released, O'Rourke captivated audience.
00:49:29.000She was misdiagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1987. The following year, O'Rourke fell ill again, and her symptoms were casually attributed to the flu.
00:49:38.000A day later, she collapsed and suffered a cardiac arrest.
00:49:41.000After being airlifted to a children's hospital in San Diego, O'Rourke died during the operation to correct a bowel obstruction.
00:49:48.000It was later believed that she had been suffering from a congenital intestinal abnormality.
00:51:57.000So, for a guy who's really into feet, and then he breaks up with this woman and tries to get a new one, it's like, hmm, feet thing's kind of important.
00:56:48.000And there was a guy in it who was played by Michael Sheen, who was going to be the president, a crazy egomaniac president, and he wanted to detonate nukes.
00:57:04.000He died and came back to life, and when he came back to life, he could see the future when he touched your hand, like he holds your hand, and he could see what's going to happen to you.
00:57:58.000While watching Beetlejuice, I was thinking about what we were talking about earlier, about what executive would make that today, not knowing that it's a hit.
00:58:28.000It's basically a creepy movie about real estate and them not listening to the leader of purgatory that tells them to do anything but say Beetlejuice three times, but they do.
00:58:41.000The exec would be like, what are you talking about?
01:02:16.000And they're like, they're not into hanging out with the kids.
01:02:19.000She's bored and it's rainy and shitty and then she goes through this weird tunnel and all the people over there are mirrors of her parents.
01:02:48.000So, whenever you have kids, Tony, whenever you shoot a live one into the old lady, and you make a little baby kid, little baby Tony, make them watch Coraline.
01:07:08.000The charitable giving campaign in which she willingly committed to give away almost most of her wealth to charity over her lifetime or in her will, it says.
01:07:55.000I do know that women who fend for themselves and who run businesses and women who are like entrepreneurs and go-getters, they do statistically have higher levels of testosterone.
01:08:07.000And they think there's a correlation between not just their actions, but when they're forced into the role of the breadwinner and forced into this role, they actually naturally develop more testosterone than they would if they were in a situation where they were married to Jeff Bezos and they could just chill.
01:09:48.000And the thing is, it's not just as simple as they lied.
01:09:52.000It's also that people got medical screenings with that device that weren't accurate.
01:09:58.000So, like, maybe you don't feel good, maybe you have a history of cancer in your family, and you're like, oh my god, I think I might have something.
01:10:04.000And then you go to wherever, and you get that Theranos blood screening, and they go, no, Mike, you're fine.
01:10:12.000And you're like, whew, back to boozing.
01:14:46.000You know, like, I went to a boxing gym once in North Hollywood, and the boxing coach, never forget this, he's like, you should invest in this thing I'm doing.
01:16:53.000The director's charity, the Wonder Kinder Foundation, lost an undisclosed amount in November 2006. It had assets of $12.6 million in 70% of its interest.
01:17:04.000And dividend income reportedly came from Madoff.
01:18:00.000One of the things they said that was really fascinating about him, the cops that handled him and all the people that brought him to court, he never felt any remorse.
01:19:30.000Well, when you're Elon Musk and you're worth 20 billion or whatever, you look at Jeff Bezos, you're like, that piece of shit's stealing my ideas.
01:19:37.000His fucking Project Blue or whatever, that bullshit rocket formula thing he's got, lying about his achievements.
01:19:46.000When you're Jeff Bezos, and you realize you're worth $150 billion, but you realize some Saudi oil guys are probably worth a couple trillion.
01:19:53.000Wouldn't it be nice to be the first legit trillionaire from the Western world?
01:21:55.000Do you expect a guy that played golf more than any other president ever in the history of presidents who complained about Obama playing golf, who's playing golf more than anybody ever, when you tell him the job's over, he's not going to keep working.
01:25:31.000Like, two blocks away from the Jaehyun Kim Taekwondo Institute, and I found it when I was 15. I got super, super lucky, because they were the most hardcore.
01:25:40.000And this was in 1980. It was just different.
01:29:41.000There's some people, they do something for a long time but they never do it right.
01:29:44.000They always have like these weird flaws in their style or their execution or their technique.
01:29:50.000But I think getting good at anything, whether it's Chess or golf or playing a musical instrument I think that's one of the most important things a person can do is learn something from scratch where you suck at it I'm trying to think of the next thing because I'm I'm not great at archery,
01:30:10.000I'm pretty proficient I know how to keep my shit together when it comes to like the moment of truth when I look in a bow hunting scenario because I've been nervous a lot doing stand-up and fighting and all the other shit I've ever done but I need something new.
01:30:23.000I'm trying to figure out what it should be.
01:30:26.000But I think guns, like learning how to shoot pistols correctly, like that terror tactical, that helped a lot.
01:30:32.000That was an interesting thing to do, to get better at that.
01:30:35.000Because you realize that this is a totally different thing than anything else you do.
01:30:38.000And so you, and learning from all the people there, like, how to hold it correctly, grab it really hard with your right hand, but your left hand, or your left hand, rather, but your right hand, you don't really grab that hard, which is interesting, because that's the trigger finger, but you don't have a lot of tension in that.
01:30:51.000The tension is more in your left hand.
01:30:53.000And all these techniques you learn from those, like, people that win these world championships and shooting, anything you're doing, man, whatever it is, whether it's yoga or any, just try something new.
01:31:20.000And we all know that he cheats, but he doesn't know that we all know and that we're watching him the whole time, so it's one of the funniest running things.
01:31:27.000Three out of the four of us know that the one is cheating continuously.
01:31:33.000Where he'll go, he'll find his ball, if he finds his ball, by the way, which if he can't find his ball, he'll just say that he found his ball and drop another ball.
01:31:42.000He'll pull his cart over and then go to the other side of his cart so that we're all blocked out and he'll magically find his ball.
01:31:49.000Are you playing golf with Donald Trump?
01:33:54.000At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway, they came up with a nickname for it.
01:38:10.000He did these card tricks and I was watching everything he did and I have no idea how he did it.
01:38:16.000He did things where he had a stack of cards and he'd keep tapping the stack and the stack would go smaller and smaller until there was two cards.
01:39:51.000So I show up day one, and basically we're all in a big writer's room or whatever, and I go, yeah, you know?
01:39:58.000And they're like, we got Tony here, because he's gonna add some edge to the comedy on this show, because it was Comedy Central's first ever magic comedy show.
01:41:20.000It was really funny because there was this kid, they went to this, we ended up finding this like nerdy smart school where this kid was excited about his 3D printer and basically it was just him making things appear out of absolutely nowhere while one kid was still printing one thing with a 3D printer.
01:41:41.000It took forever and he ended up just pidge and pidge and pidge and pidge and car, car, car, car, car.
01:43:11.000I was a big fan of his growing up because I was a huge fan of Magic, David Copperfield, but after I figured out how the fake that was, I moved into Street Magic because it's a little harder to do, and that's what he was big on.
01:43:24.000So I waited my whole life to watch him up close and he's got to be two feet from like I said and I wanted to just I wanted to try to catch him and he was so good at he did like seven tricks in front of me can't he's a really nice guy really nice guy like genuinely nice on camera off camera with everybody with security guys with my family with everybody Like,
01:48:54.000But my friend Tim Kennedy, who was a top-notch middleweight in the UFC, put the fucking choke to him, choked him completely unconscious, and let him go.
01:49:03.000And he falls and bounces his head off the ground.
01:49:28.000And all these people, he always falls next to somebody and they're just about to help him and then they see that his dick and balls are just painted black.
01:56:13.000I had one the other day, so it reminds me of that, where one of the guys that works at the comedy store was coughing hysterically, and he was coughing, and blood started shooting out of his neck and then out of his ear, and each cough just...
01:57:40.000But the people that do it, they get horrific headaches and real bad hangovers.
01:57:45.000And what they're experiencing sounds a lot worse than what Jamie experienced having actual COVID. Tell me what it was like having actual COVID. I've said it a few times.
01:57:58.000I thought I was getting a sinus infection.
01:59:36.000Yeah, it says that symptoms for the cedar fever include fatigue, headache, facial discomfort, a sore throat, partial loss of smell, and a feeling of having plugged ears.
01:59:44.000And what is the actual plant that gives you that shit?
02:01:53.000Like I was telling you, I don't remember having this conversation with someone on a podcast that I just saw a clip of.
02:01:58.000I'm like, oh yeah, I fucking completely forgot about that guy.
02:02:03.000That is like, if I had a really interesting conversation, if it was rare for me to have an interesting conversation with people, if I worked in a factory, and very rarely I get to sit down and have a cup of coffee with some scientist who tells me some really cool shit, I would be telling everybody about that story.
02:02:19.000I'd be like, dude, I had this conversation three hours, just me and this scientist, and he was telling me all kinds of crazy shit.
02:05:30.000Remember, I think she was doing what they were supposed to do, like labeling things with certain whatever, and then they were like, how did this leak?
02:06:44.000Because they think that Fox News is turning on conservatives because there was people in the Trump campaign that were talking about the election results, the election results being fraudulent and all these different things.
02:06:59.000And so Fox News said these are unfounded accusations, so they cut away from this guy explaining this, and the conservatives are freaking out.
02:07:37.000Because on one hand, I see their point.
02:07:40.000If it's not true, you really shouldn't put it on the air.
02:07:43.000But on the other hand, it's like the president's people are saying this, so it makes it news.
02:07:49.000Even if it's not accurate, I think you're supposed to let it air and then say, this is what's wrong with what he said as far as what we know right now.
02:08:27.000And this is not outside of what's possible.
02:08:31.000Imagine if, whether it's Biden or the next administration, whoever the fuck it is, gets into power and they say, we're going to make laws...
02:08:39.000That punish people for spreading false propaganda.
02:09:04.000If they decide that they're enemies of the current administration, and the current administration gets the support of the people, because the support of the people, like, if most of the people are into the president, and they can, like, what if they have control of the House?
02:12:04.000Yeah, I'm not into buying things like that.
02:12:06.000I think it's possible today to live to be 120. And I think what we're dealing with now, we're on the cusp of what's possible.
02:12:18.000I don't want to say any names, but I was having a conversation the other day with a billionaire, a very wealthy man who believes he's going to live to be 200 years old.
02:13:54.000Tim Kennedy, the guy we talked about earlier, he famously overtrained for his last fight with Kelvin Gastelum because he had a fight cancel.
02:14:03.000He went through a full six-week training camp and then a fight canceled.
02:14:06.000And then he got another fight come up in another six weeks or five weeks, I think.
02:15:35.000And if you get sick when your body's already tired and compromised and then a virus gets in there and weakens you even further, you can get really sick.
02:15:43.000I had pneumonia once for a tournament that I went to.
02:15:47.000It was when I was training like a moron.
02:18:49.000And it's so easy to say that we need to be more empathetic and we need to be more nice to each other.
02:18:55.000But I really do think that that is something that we need to concentrate on.
02:19:00.000This idea that people are making lists of people that voted for Trump and supported Trump and that they're going to put them on these lists and they're going to send these lists out to potential employers.
02:19:15.000You've got to give people the opportunity to make mistakes, and you've got to give people the opportunity to grow, and you've got to give people the opportunity to have a different opinion than yours.
02:19:26.000And just to say that if you support that guy, you support this or that or whatever horrible thing it is, whether you think it's racism or fascism or whatever ism it is.
02:19:38.000I really think now more than ever is a time to come together as a country and to realize this is not healthy for anybody, to divide ourselves into these two groups.
02:19:50.000And the more we push against, especially the people that won, the people in the Biden camp are now like, now we're going to make, even AOC wrote that, we're going to make a list of all the sycophants and supporters of Trump.
02:20:03.000I don't think that's the right way to do it.
02:20:06.000I think historically, blacklists and lists of people that are forbidden from working or forbidden from being considered a part of accepted culture, it's very dangerous.
02:20:21.000People are malleable and people, they make mistakes, they fall into groups of people that have different opinions.
02:20:44.000Yeah, it's fucked up that people are rioting in the streets, and it's fucked up that there's police brutality, and it's fucked up that there's COVID, and it's fucked up that people are losing their jobs.
02:20:52.000But the only thing we have together, if we really truly are a community, is to treat each other like we're a community.
02:21:02.000Like, I imagine a world where there's a Republican and a Democrat living right next door to each other, and they joke around, and they laugh about stuff, and they talk to each other, and they have different opinions.
02:21:55.000People really, you know, they, I bet a lot of people towards the middle end of your podcast, you don't realize it because your body's, you know, superhuman or whatever.
02:22:04.000But they have to pee a lot because people get extra hydrated to do your show.
02:22:18.000I've had podcasts where, particularly after yoga, because after yoga I drink a fuckload of water because I do that hot yoga, and I'll bring a 64-ounce hydro flask with me filled with ice and water.
02:22:31.000I'll drink that whole thing during a yoga class.
02:22:59.000Let's go back to what you were just talking about, about being nicer to one another in a unified front.
02:23:04.000I had this thought the other day, which was...
02:23:08.000I was thinking about America after 9-11, when we had a terrorist attack, and we had what appeared to be a clear enemy, and it brought us all together.
02:23:18.000That's probably the closest we've all been together, right?
02:24:33.000You roll up the window and the flag's blowing.
02:24:35.000So one of my conspiracy theories, going back on that, to that 9-11 thing, is that one of the reasons why this country is sort of turning in on one another is because right now we don't have, for the first time in forever,
02:24:51.000because we're pulling out troops of everywhere, We don't have an enemy, you know?
02:24:57.000We don't have an actual targeted, let's unify to beat this opponent type of situation.
02:25:03.000Instead, troops are coming home for the first time in forever from Afghanistan and this and that.
02:25:07.000And we realize that we were fooled into getting into Iraq and all of this other stuff.
02:25:43.000Like in a big city, who's going to invest in going back into those places, you know?
02:25:49.000When you see these closed down places, to bring them back up.
02:25:54.000To imagine a time where you're going to drive down Melrose and all those stores are filled again and there's all hustle and bustle and traffic and people walking on the streets and not dangerous fucking gangsters everywhere.
02:26:26.000This thing for the Comedy Store where it was Whitney Cummings and Bill Burr and Paul Rodriguez and Annie Letterman and Jay Leno and me and we're on a roof with Mike Binder and it was the first time I've been in Hollywood in a long time and the first time I've been at the store in a long time and it was really emotional And it was sad.
02:26:48.000And I was sitting there hanging out and you realize there's no one on Sunset.
02:27:58.000That year that you had was 2002, 2004, something like that.
02:28:03.000Same year as the E46. A lot of people think it's the Goldilocks zone of BMWs because it's before BMW became this really cushy It's a luxury car and was more of a driver-focused car.
02:28:19.000And the year that I have is 2005. I actually got it from a guy who contacted Jamie, who we were talking about E46s, and he's like, I got one that only has 15,000 original miles.
02:30:51.000You probably were doing 45. Yeah, but I realized he didn't say 45. I knew I was doing 45 in a 35. He said I was doing like 49 or something like that, but I knew I wasn't.
02:31:01.000Literally, this model Corvette has like three speedometers that you can't miss.
02:31:06.000There's a giant digital one, there's one there, and then there's one on the other side that shows you another speed.
02:34:48.000I think they call it a suicide shifter because you have to reach down and imagine Brad Pitt, beautiful as he is, no helmet, just driving around.
02:34:56.000See it in the upper right-hand corner?
02:37:17.000I like hanging out with those people because I don't get tired until 4, 5, 6am normally in old normal life.
02:37:25.000Sometimes I'm completely oblivious to it and I don't realize that they're doing that and they don't want me to know that they're doing it so they keep it secret from me and everybody wins.
02:38:29.000I was sick and I got a hold of old school NyQuil and I took it and I was lying in bed and I was just like, I was like melting into my pillow.
02:39:06.000Luckily, I had already started the adventure of doing stand-up and all that and had a reputation or whatever because I could totally, 100% see myself.
02:39:22.000Well, I think a lot of people, if you don't have a good enough...
02:39:27.000like a discipline a thing you're into that requires work that you really get joy out of if you don't have that and then you find the drug early before you've had the good feeling of accomplishment right that drug feeling could take you over and then it's really hard to like sacrifice it's really hard to do embrace discomfort when you're really into that codeine feeling yeah Just drift away.
02:43:52.000But only people who really understand Poole know how difficult the shots are or how he changed the angle with English.
02:43:59.000And I think bodybuilding, when you see a guy like Dorian Yates or like Lee Haney or like Ronnie Coleman, when they get to that peak form when they're on that stage, only a person who really knows how difficult it is to be that massive and that shredded and to be standing there with veins on your feet all the way up to your calves.
02:44:47.000But for them, because they understand the dedication involved, people that are really into that, man, it's like a tight-knit community of people that are really into looking shredded and vascular and what it means to be that guy, you know?
02:47:51.000I'm playing bass and guitar in the band, so there's a bunch of other people that probably wouldn't be big fans of that being out there, either.
02:47:57.000Have you thought about bringing that back now that we're in the center of live entertainment?
02:53:04.000If you know that you can just get tested and then you can go perform in front of a real crowd, packed like the old days where everybody's clean, We were having so much fun.
02:53:19.000It's a little reminder that you and I and Diaz and Ari and Duncan and so many others, we lived through the golden years of the Comedy Store.
02:54:52.000And by the way, the system's so messed up that one week it'll be one person, and the next week a different person says that that's okay, but this isn't allowed.
02:55:49.000And also, when you factor in that people will be talking less than they would be, especially, you know, right around the corner is the Saddle Ranch, which is playing music and you have people at tables.