In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian and podcaster joins us to talk about how he went from being a stand-up comedian to becoming one of the funniest people on the planet. We talk about his rise to fame, how he got his start in comedy, and how he was able to break out of a small town to become a household name in Los Angeles. We also talk about what it was like growing up in the 80s and 90s in LA and how it all led him to becoming a standup comedian, and what it took for him to rise to the top of the comedy game. Finally, we talk about some of the craziest things he's done in his life, and why he's one of my favorite people in the entire world. Enjoy, and tweet us what you thought of this episode! if you liked it! Timestamps: 3:00 - How did he get started in comedy? 4:30 - How he broke out of the small town of Los Angeles 6:00 - What it takes to be funny in LA 8:15 - How to get your name out there 9:20 - What's it like to be a comedian 11:30 What is it like being funny? 12:40 - How much money does it take to do standup 13:00- What does he make 15:30- How he got into comedy 16:40 17:00 How does he get his name out of LA? 18: What s he like to do 19:10 - Why he got started 21: How he was inspired by Bill Maher 22: How much does he think he s funny 23:00 What s it mean to him? 26:10 27:00 Is he good at it? 29:00 Can he be funny 32:00 Do you have a good day? 33:00 Does he have a favorite movie 35:00 Who s he think I m gonna do it 36:00 Are you a good guy ? 37:30 Is he a racist? 39:30 What s his favorite movie? 40:00 Should I get a tattoo 45:00 I m not racist 44:00 Would you like to ask him a question?
00:02:47.000Then we did, like, I was just doing, like, straight-to-the-camera stuff, and it was, like, um...
00:02:52.000Kind of like long form, almost like talking to people, but it wasn't like comedic.
00:02:55.000It was more just like, hey, this is what's going on, you know?
00:02:57.000But for me, I was like, I want to be funny in what I do, you know?
00:03:02.000Like we have the podcast where we get to joke around and that's longer form, but like if we're going to create something, like a piece of content, I want it to be funny.
00:03:08.000And then it was Bill Maher actually inspired it.
00:04:02.000Sometimes having an opinion is super costly.
00:04:06.000But if you can thread the needle or we call it slice it thin, that's what we say on the show, where you can say it in a way where it's not costly, other people will really be engaged with it.
00:04:17.000Because they'll be like, yeah, that's how I feel.
00:04:18.000It's just when I was trying to explain it, it seemed kind of sexist, or it seemed kind of racist, or it seemed kind of this.
00:04:22.000And it's like, if you can actually get it down to just the nuance of what the issue is, you'll get it.
00:04:49.000What that is is when you're just trying to call people out on things, like trying to make things more whatever, more sexist, more homophobic, more racist than they really are.
00:05:01.000Those people that are doing that, they need to take some heads.
00:05:17.000And the people that do it, they never get ostracized, they never get called out.
00:05:22.000People just either agree or disagree, but when people just go ridiculous after someone for something that doesn't make any sense, this is the year for that.
00:05:31.000Because the pandemic exaggerated everything.
00:05:34.000It exaggerated everybody's fears, exaggerated everybody's anger, everybody felt more helpless, and a lot of times when people don't feel well, they don't look internally to try to fix themselves.
00:06:33.000I think it was back in 2016. There were all these articles...
00:06:37.000And they just kind of like positioned, I guess it kind of like positioned white dudes specifically as like responsible for all the evils in the world.
00:06:45.000And I guess the people in power are going to do the bad things.
00:06:48.000And if white people are in power, they're going to do it.
00:06:50.000But I don't know if you can like make a blanket assessment on like everybody that has white skin with that.
00:07:07.000And the people that agree with it, that's a real problem, is that there's a lot of lemmings out there that don't have a lot of time to sit through things and really think things out.
00:07:51.000They just want to get gorilla fucked by a guy who, like, respects them.
00:07:54.000They all have the right boundaries, and they set up right, they feel comfortable, and then they have a couple of cocktails, and they're like, let's go.
00:09:34.000They don't have the time to look for, is this guy a stereotypical douchebag man, or is this guy a thoughtful guy who looks like a dickhead?
00:09:47.000If you're some fucking big meathead dude, likes to go to the gym, but you read a lot, and you're really interesting, you just like being yoked.
00:12:58.000That song is a funny song, because if that song was about hard-ass dicks, there is no way it would be so publicly and culturally acceptable.
00:16:37.000But to get New York City out, you would have to go back in time.
00:16:42.000You would have to do so many different things.
00:16:44.000You have all these mom-and-pop businesses that were open for 30 years or gone forever in the span of eight months.
00:16:50.000You would have to somehow or another stop that from happening so you keep the flavor that is these small individual businesses in New York City.
00:16:57.000Because that's one thing about New York City.
00:16:59.000New York City, even though it's very expensive and it's huge and it's massive, the thing that makes New York City cool is these independent little small mom and pop spots.
00:26:48.000So like I think I was punching up and I just hit that part of my finger first, but he's massive like he could just fucking destroy me if he wanted to.
00:27:59.000Because you're You're forcing your body to pick up heavy things, and your body just gets denser.
00:28:05.000Everything gets thicker and denser because your bone structure is recognizing, your body's recognizing that this fucking dude likes to carry heavy shit now.
00:30:28.000Like, how many people are rooting for...
00:30:30.000Like, Khabib seems like an incredibly sweet guy, and he's like a consummate professional, but I feel like the way you market the fight is not in the way that when we were younger watching Roy Jones, we were like...
00:30:39.000Yo, Roy's gonna do some crazy thing where he puts his hand behind his back and he just knocks the dude out.
00:30:44.000We were rooting for Roy to win, even in his most dominant time.
00:30:47.000I feel like now the way you promote the fight is, oh, this is the perfect guy to take out Khabib.
00:30:51.000You know, like, Justin's the perfect...
00:30:53.000Oh, yeah, you know, he's got striking, but he has a wrestling background.
00:30:56.000We're kind of like thinking of different ways we take him down.
00:31:24.000But Khabib figured out a way to get the fight to the ground, almost finished it at the beginning, or the end, rather, of the first round, and then got him in the second round.
00:31:40.000Like, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't fuck around, doesn't abuse his body, always fit, always in shape, always training, and lives like a champion.
00:31:47.000And it's like very religious, like very...
00:32:02.000But I think they're trying to talk him into having more fights, but he told his mother that he was going to retire after he fought Gaethje.
00:33:28.000A lot of really good fighters that the UFC either lost a bidding and they went over there or they decided to leave the UFC and go over there.
00:33:38.000So guys that fought at 170 are now fighting at 185 because that's really what they weigh.
00:33:43.000A guy who fights at 170 generally, like a guy like a savage, like Kamaru Usman, he walks around like 190-ish, maybe even bigger, and then just dehydrates himself down to 170 for a very small amount of time, and then balloons back up.
00:33:57.000Like, you see them at the weigh-ins, and then you see them the next day at the fight.
00:34:00.000It's hard to believe it's the same person sometimes.
00:34:02.000Yeah, but then there's certain guys that are fighting around their weight, and they're exceptional.
00:34:06.000Like, Izzy fights probably within like five pounds of what he walks around in.
00:34:09.000Izzy fights, he weighs in below the limit all the time.
00:35:17.000He sees patterns that other guys don't necessarily see.
00:35:21.000And his emphasis on precision over power, like all these guys that are really interested in power, that's one of the things that the Paulo Costa fight was so...
00:35:30.000So interesting about that fight was like, Paulo Costa is just this giant gorilla.
00:35:52.000Like, when he started lighting up his leg and doing all his feints and switch stances on him and get reeds on him and then popping him, he started picking that dude apart.
00:39:46.000But you know, with Canelo, Floyd, one of the things he did that was really intelligent, he forced Canelo to go down to, I believe it was 152 pounds.
00:48:28.000And he's only 23. If he decides to dedicate himself to actually being a boxer and spends all of his time boxing and then talking shit and doing podcasts, you fucking never know, man.
00:49:45.000So he pulls up on the back of a pickup truck with water balloons and wet toilet paper and starts chucking it at him while he's doing the interview.
00:52:42.000I keep on telling Izzy, I'm like, bro, Darren Till's gotta get some wins, but a fight between you and Darren, the lead-up on social media, is gonna be the most fun.
00:54:54.000There's a good argument that you could have maybe stopped the fight, but if he goes on to knock Izzy out, maybe the argument is that you've got to let guys fight.
00:55:02.000Listen, the end of the result of the fight is the end of the result of the fight.
00:55:53.000Listen, man, there's a lot of good fights for him in the UFC, in 185, and in 205. The thing about him at 205 is interesting is he's not even going to gain any weight.
00:57:41.000It's interesting to watch the Paul brothers.
00:57:44.000What I think is great about it is, first of all, if you're in the business to get eyeballs and make money, they are getting eyeballs and making money like no one ever.
01:00:37.000It's like, Dana White, get involved with these kids!
01:00:39.000I know it's funny that he doesn't want to, isn't it?
01:00:40.000And you can't act like you're desecrating the sport or whatever, because you took Conor into boxing when you had no business in there with Floyd.
01:01:59.000You might think they're internet famous.
01:02:03.000But he's way more famous than anybody else that you're thinking about in this sort of realm of like internet star that can generate a lot of income and is willing to fight.
01:03:20.000You know, like boxers, like a Floyd, if he had those full four-ounce gloves, he's not going to be able to do that same Philly shell defense.
01:03:45.000You've been hit by Marcos Maidana, short right hand.
01:03:49.000You're not going to be stunned by any of these guys.
01:03:51.000Well, it's also like you can hit him once or twice until he gets your read and then he understands where you're at and starts picking you apart.
01:14:04.000People were mad at him for that, but I was like, that guy's probably in his line of sight and fucking with things in the middle of a scene while the guy's trying to act.
01:14:12.000And a lot of those guys on sets are disrespectful.
01:14:15.000Like, they don't respect the process that the actors are going through.
01:16:06.000Okay, the the book going clear is even better than documentary and it's yeah, it's crazy shit, man It's all talking about Elrond that Elrond was basically like he was a guy who was mentally ill right was trying to He was trying to create some sort of psychology therapy for himself.
01:16:23.000Yeah through like books and self-help books and then he created and concocted this religion after telling people that the way to make real money is to start a religion but is Isn't that how all of them go?
01:19:22.000Well, I think there's probably a lot of people in Hollywood that are gay that are leading men that can't come out of the closet because there's one thing that you can't do in Hollywood for whatever reason.
01:19:32.000Hollywood pretends that it's not homophobic at all.
01:20:20.000Because there is an accounting for the homophobia of a modern society As lessened as it is, as opposed to like the 70s and the 80s and the 90s, there is still homophobia and people do not want to see an openly gay man making out with a woman,
01:20:39.000pretending that he's in love with her.
01:21:47.000If The Rock turned out to be gay, a super athlete like The Rock, a gigantic superhero of a man, if all of a sudden The Rock said he's gay, and I'm not saying he's his.
01:24:04.000There's a thing with, I don't know, I do understand and I have empathy for people in those situations where you have to make a decision that's based on finances.
01:24:14.000Literally two days ago, I don't know if I told you this, but the head EP, I can't say his name, but who basically got this show made on my side, the Netflix show, called me.
01:24:25.000He was like, hey man, I just watched it.
01:25:01.000Yeah, there's a recall for Gavin Newsom right now.
01:25:04.000It's reached over 800,000 signatures, which is big.
01:25:07.000And if it reaches 2 million, then it can actually happen.
01:25:11.000But the fact that CNN went after him, I'm like, oh, they're sacrificing him.
01:25:16.000They realize that what he's doing, especially after going to that restaurant and sitting indoors with no mask after telling everybody to social distance.
01:26:30.000The men, I think they have to resign no matter what, and then maybe jail.
01:26:36.000Joking around about jail, but legitimately resigned.
01:26:38.000Yeah, we're joking around about jail But I legitimately think they should be forced to resign but also break your own protocol if you're Nancy Pelosi and you have shut down Beauty salons and then you go to a beauty salon with no fucking mask on you force them to do your hair It's over.
01:28:11.000It's like, Joe, you're a testament to this.
01:28:13.000If you have a reasonable, rational point of view, sometimes it leans left, sometimes it leans right.
01:28:20.000But it's reasonable and it's rational, and you're not positioning the other side as evil with your show.
01:28:25.000You end up having the biggest show in the history of media so far, right?
01:28:30.000These people on CNN or Fox News or the AOCs or whoever the AOC is on the other side are playing to the loudest 10% on the internet, but they're losing the rest of us.
01:28:40.00080% of us are literally right here in the middle going, fuck, I can't trust these guys.
01:29:00.000You're like smoking weed with Red Band.
01:29:04.000And then it just fucking fell into your lap because you're like, these guys, I imagine you probably thought earlier on, there's a little more skepticism.
01:29:13.000No, maybe it comes from like the conspiracy type background Well, I've always had skepticism for people that are in power that are establishing a narrative that you know benefits Politicians or benefits special interest groups.
01:29:24.000Yeah, whatever the fuck they're doing when it's transparent and obvious It just drives me nuts like how these groups don't see it and then you see that like that kind of wedge It keeps being driven and driven and driven and fucked up world though dude that world of politics is so baffling like But they have to represent us in a certain way.
01:29:41.000And once they realize that they're losing us, they will change.
01:29:57.000All of a sudden, all these same stiffs that have been saying weed shouldn't be legal and it's horrible, all of them, well, you know, it could really help states and this is a drug for medicine purposes and all this other nonsense.
01:30:57.000And what's so funny is we would clown Russia and all these other countries for doing this exact same thing and sit here like, oh, well, we have freedom of the press and all that other stuff.
01:31:04.000Okay, what you're going to say is make sure we're left-winged.
01:31:06.000It's just bullshit because at the end of the day, we have the internet now.
01:31:41.000See, you can't talk shit on CNN. What we do that is so comforting to people is we talk shit like they would if they're with their friends, and they're sitting around the kitchen table, cracking beers, talking shit.
01:32:00.000So if you see a bunch of men on television and they're never talking shit, or when they do talk shit, it's like Don Lemon shit talking, where you're like, what is happening here?
01:33:08.000And it's fucking refreshing because then you're like, oh, I can trust that guy because if he does get something fucking wrong, he's going to say it.
01:33:56.000And if I have a mistake, I think it's way more important that I say the mistake and tell people the actual facts than protect my fucking fragile ego and pretend that I didn't fuck up, that I didn't make a mistake.
01:35:02.000Trump takes over California, brings it back to life, gets rid of all the homelessness, and then comes back and runs for president again in 2024 and wins by a landslide.
01:36:04.000Like, I do not believe there was enough voter fraud to flip the election the other way, but I have some hardcore lefty friends, and they're like, all this voter fraud shit is bullshit.
01:36:35.000Dude, bare minimum, I think there was a story about a husband and wife.
01:36:39.000The husband ends up dying, like two old people, but they had their mail-in ballot, and I think she sent it in anyway, knowing who he would vote for.
01:36:56.000That being said, there is voter fraud, and he's leaning in, I imagine, to the voter fraud thing to continue to bolster up his base and delegitimize the loss, because he's always about branding.
01:37:05.000That's all he understands is branding.
01:37:07.000And it's actually a smart move if you lost, how you can keep those people emboldened.
01:37:13.000Yeah, but I think the average person that was kind of like drawn to him is only drawn to him in terms of like His victory state and I think that they're starting to kind of sour a bit on Trump They're kind of think he's looking a little bit pathetic now.
01:41:37.000But still, the idea is that the president is our savior and he's going to do these things to make our lives better.
01:41:42.000And when he doesn't, we're kind of resentful.
01:41:44.000Yeah, dude, the presidency getting in there and trying to get something to happen and try to make things happen has got to be brutally difficult.
01:41:52.000And that's why the thing about Trump is quite interesting.
01:41:54.000He did these things that you think he made them happen, but he didn't actually.
01:41:59.000He did a lot of these executive orders.
01:42:02.000And the problem with the executive order is...
01:42:06.000When you actually get a law passed, say what you want about Obamacare, and who gives a fuck if it's good or bad, I don't know enough to even tell you, but that shit is entrenched.
01:42:15.000They've been trying to get rid of that shit for the last four years, and it hasn't really been taken all the way down, and because once you get something passed, it's kind of locked in.
01:42:24.000But our system is built in a way where it's very difficult to lock things in.
01:42:27.000And when you're not willing to make any of those compromises, like none of these fucking hacks are, it makes it very difficult to have long-lasting change.
01:43:40.000In a public space where you're speaking to large numbers of people, you're influencing large numbers of people.
01:43:49.000What else would that guy do where he would have that kind of influence and power?
01:43:52.000The reason why he got that gig is because nobody who's really intelligent and really ambitious and really on the ball wants to be the fucking mayor of LA. Weirdos want to be the mayor of LA. You have to be a sociopath.
01:44:06.000Every decision you make, some people end up dying.
01:44:09.000Here's my favorite part about him, though.
01:45:50.000You know the problem with the defund the police thing is I start to look into it.
01:45:54.000And we were talking, we do a piece about that talks about part of this, but it's such a shame because the marketing, once again, is just trash.
01:46:02.000A lot of cops would agree with a lot of the things within Defund the Police.
01:46:07.000Cops don't want to deal with mental health issues.
01:46:10.000The average cop does not want to handle people who are crazy.
01:46:13.000They want to protect average citizens from, I don't know if it's more or less sane people, but from people who are breaking the law and potentially putting their lives at risk.
01:46:22.000And that's what they get in there for.
01:46:23.000And now they're dealing with people who are like mentally ill in the middle of a park.
01:46:27.000And it's like, what the fuck is going on?
01:46:29.000So I think part of the defund the police thing is like, why don't we reallocate funds so that there are specific groups of people that are positioned just to do this?
01:46:37.000And I think the average cop would be like, yeah, that'd be kind of dope.
01:46:40.000Why use wording that you know is inflammatory, you know is going to piss people off, and you know is not going to get the support from the people who actually would support it.
01:46:48.000It's like the same thing with this democratic socialism.
01:47:12.000These are socialist programs, but when you put the fucking word in, you know it's going to rile people up.
01:47:17.000You know it's going to piss people off.
01:47:18.000Bernie Sanders was running on the platform of democratic socialism, and they were so scared of him, they had to rig the primaries in 2016, and they fucked him again in 2020. And he's a pussy for not saying.
01:48:53.000Can I say one thing about the education thing, which is so interesting to me?
01:48:57.000It behooves a country that generates its income off taxation to have an educated populace because then they will have higher paying jobs and you get more money!
01:49:09.000Like, if you're the government, you should be forcing everybody to get a fucking master's degree so you can get more money.
01:49:31.000The problem is the government has been subsidizing education for so long, and that's the reason why these institutions charge so much money in the first place.
01:49:39.000Because they know it's going to get paid off no matter what, and they can make up these bullshit majors like fucking poetry.
01:51:54.000Since we're the one giving you Social Security, we're the government, we're gonna take our cut first.
01:51:57.000We want our little pound of flesh, that shit that you owe us, that you didn't pay back.
01:52:02.000Yeah, so you're an old guy, you're at the end of the line, and your life didn't work out the way you wanted to, and you still have student debt.
01:52:41.000Listen, no one is ever going to really wipe it clean with the powers that be and the way the government is structured right now and the way these banks and bankers have influence over politicians.
01:52:55.000It's at least the option of making some schools free and the option of giving people the opportunity to actually get an education free.
01:53:04.000And then also, you know, a lot of people have talked about absolving student loan debt, and I think Biden even talked about that at one point in time.
01:53:10.000It's not a bad idea if you want to keep the economy cracking.
01:53:14.000Tax breaks are also a good idea because people spend money.
01:53:17.000When they get tax breaks, they spend money.
01:53:20.000When they spend money, the economy gets juiced up.
01:53:22.000Those are the things that I was interested in with Bernie Sanders.
01:53:26.000He obviously didn't want the tax break part.
01:53:29.000But the thing with student loans and then healthcare.
01:53:33.000The idea that we're supposed to be a country, right?
01:53:36.000A country is supposed to be a community.
01:53:40.000If people get sick and ill, we're going to spend our money to fix the streets.
01:53:44.000We're going to spend our money to repair bridges.
01:53:46.000But we don't spend our money to make sure that our brothers and sisters are able to get healthcare if they're ill or injured.
01:53:54.000And then they're in insurmountable debt if that happens and they're fucked for the rest of their life because they broke their leg and they didn't have insurance.
01:54:04.000What would be the conservative approach to healthcare?
01:54:09.000Well, the free market approach is you want people to compete and you want them to get the most value for their education.
01:54:18.000If a guy's a better surgeon, he should be able to generate more income than a guy.
01:54:22.000And that would be limited in the case where there was a public free healthcare.
01:54:27.000Or you could have people inside the public system, and then you could have private options as well, like they do in Canada.
01:54:33.000In Canada, you have your public healthcare, so if you're a person of moderate income, you can't afford a private doctor to do surgery on you, you could still get your surgery from a lot of very great surgeons.
01:54:44.000But you also have the option to seek out an elite specialist.
01:54:48.000But a lot of people from Canada before COVID were coming down to the United States to get surgery.
01:54:52.000Because some of the best surgeons are here, which speaks to the power of the free market.
01:54:56.000Right, so you have to find a way to kind of like balance those two things.
01:54:59.000Yeah, you've got to find a way to balance it out, but healthcare in general should be a right.
01:55:05.000It should be a thing that we give people when we bring them into our culture and they contribute.
01:55:11.000You contribute taxes, some of that taxes should go to healthcare.
01:55:32.000Well, instead of fat shame, what they should do is, like, there should be some sort of education of the negative aspects of being overweight and promote it heavily.
01:56:13.000But you chose to eat all these things or not treat yourself right.
01:56:16.000And now you're taking away a hospital bed from someone who really fucking needs it.
01:56:19.000Like, at what point, like, Corona really put that shit in perspective, but also with the universal healthcare, I wonder if we could start having that conversation and it's not looked at as, like, hateful.
01:56:27.000It's literally just looked at as, like, hey, this is pretty reasonable.
01:56:30.000If we're all in this together, we need to start acting like it a little bit.
01:56:33.000You know when you're on a plane and then you're too heavy so they say, yo, can you go to the other side?
01:57:38.000yeah bpc157 lift weights get to that gym pussies it is crazy lizzo slams critics who say she's promoting diet culture hilarious diet culture oh you're promoting health culture i'm a big girl who did a smoothie detox every big girl should do whatever they want with their bodies how about every person Yo,
01:59:34.000The fact that this fucking guy made it to the mayor of one of the largest cities, if not the largest city in the fucking country, is crazy.
02:02:00.000Because dudes who are not used to being around comics, it's so funny when a comic starts jabbing at him, fuck with him, you see him like, what?
02:02:11.000No, because what happened was, I think I was busting his balls on the fighter and the kid, and then he DM'd me, and he said something in the DMs like, I must have run over your cat, or something like that.
02:02:21.000He said something corny-ass shit, right?
02:02:24.000And I was like, but I guess a lot of people- But I don't know, maybe they're not used to like, you know, when you see someone in person, then the same energy is kept.
02:02:32.000Like, if I make fun of you on a podcast, like, I will say that to your face.
02:02:36.000And the people that I won't, I'm not gonna make fun of on a podcast.
02:03:01.000When he talks about physics and he goes down these wormholes and starts talking about things and explaining geometric patterns and stuff to us.
02:04:41.000I went to one of the dinners at his house.
02:04:43.000Then I went to one of the lunches at his house and he brought over Eric Von Daniken and the guy was asking, we were all asking him questions about his theories about ancient aliens.
02:04:56.000He's a believer, meaning that it's not necessarily based on realistic interpretations of this ancient shit.
02:05:05.000Like, his version of the plaque at Palenque that shows, it looks like it shows a guy in a rocket ship taking off into heaven.
02:05:13.000But someone who is a Mayan scholar then explained to me that the imagery that is on display in that is that iconography of the flames below them and all that.
02:05:25.000That's all been explained in multiple texts and that this type of imagery exists all throughout Mayan culture and doesn't have anything to do with space travel.
02:05:38.000I legitimately forget exactly what he told me, but I remember doing a short dive into it going, okay, I kind of see why someone would, if they didn't understand Mayan language and these Mayan hieroglyphs,
02:06:13.000Our guide said that they were just trying to mimic mountains, and that if you look at them with the mountain range in the background, they actually are situated in the same way that the mountains are.
02:06:23.000Oh, you mean the actual pyramids themselves?
02:06:26.000So they didn't look at them as pyramids.
02:06:28.000They were like, no, we just made mountains because mountains were the sickest shit back in the day, so we just started to make them as well.
02:06:32.000There's a lot of interpretations of why they did what they did.
02:06:35.000The problem is we don't really know because they're dead.
02:08:28.000Look, if they can develop some sort of incredible city on Mars, and he's still alive, like when he's 80, they might fucking shoot him up there.
02:13:11.000She should have put all the chips on the table and just flew to Bali and just bought herself a palace on top of a jungle somewhere and just partied where they can't send you home.
02:13:56.000And his name was Sonny, this Indian cat.
02:13:59.000He drove around in a fucking Lamborghini.
02:14:01.000So he would show up and they were just bullshitting.
02:14:05.000They had, like, fake blood testing machines, and people would try them and go, oh, the machine's not working, we're just gonna do you the regular way.
02:14:12.000And they wound up doing so many people the regular way because the machines didn't work, and Walgreens bought into them, or Walmart?
02:14:19.000Walgreens bought into them and ordered, like, thousands of machines.
02:14:24.000They hustled a lot of people, but one of the reasons why they hustled all these people is because people wanted to believe this narrative that there was this woman genius who set up this company.
02:14:40.000This is long before she got called out for it.
02:14:42.000She did this speech at this women's empowerment thing, and she was talking.
02:14:47.000I was like, that girl sounds like an idiot.
02:14:50.000I was like, this does not sound like something that a genius says.
02:14:53.000Like, whatever you think about, you know, name your tech genius, whichever one.
02:14:59.000When they speak about things, they have an understanding of what they're talking about that shows that there's like some fucking high horsepower intelligence behind them.
02:18:28.000I want to just take a minute to say, especially to the young women in the room here, do everything you can to be the best in science and math and engineering.
02:18:43.000It's our actions that will determine this new stereotype around women being the best in science and technology and engineering, and it's that That our little girls will see when they start to think about...
02:20:55.000There's certain people that are males that have a propensity towards those things, whether it's science or engineering or those technology disciplines.
02:21:35.000It's more just like, there's so many more dudes that do this, so 9 out of the 10 are going to happen to be guys just because that's how the numbers are going to work out.
02:21:43.000What Hitchens talked about, that women generally don't use humor as a social tool.
02:21:50.000It's not a thing that they use to try to get men to like them, like men use to try to get women to like them.
02:22:29.000My girl dies laughing because she sees it.
02:22:30.000And I'm like, oh, this is a new thing.
02:22:32.000Now that there is a currency and value attached to being funny as a girl, you can get followers and you can get all these sponsorships and everything like that.
02:22:40.000I think a lot of girls that are really good at it are starting to get, not only starting to get, but lean into it in a way that maybe they hadn't in the past because they're like, well, what am I going to get out of just being the funny girl?
02:22:55.000They're also doing this for other girls, so they have their audience, just like they would talk to their friends, but instead of having to go on stage in front of a group of fucking idiot dudes that are not going to get it and going to be aggressive.
02:23:08.000Yeah, they have like a, for lack of a better word, a safe space.
02:23:18.000It's like they finally had a place where like all their references that all of them and their friends found hilarious were definitely going to work.
02:23:40.000And it might be completely outside of our sphere of comedy.
02:23:44.000Like, you and I, it might not hit us, but they're going to be famous and successful.
02:23:47.000And I wonder if another generation of chicks are coming up seeing that, going, oh, I might not be the hottest chick, but I can get a lot of value and have a career if I lean into this funny side that I always kind of suppress because I thought dudes weren't into it.
02:24:01.000I'd be really curious to see what happens in the next 10, 15 years.
02:24:05.000I think there's definitely going to be some that rise up.
02:24:40.000And men in comedy don't root for other men in comedy.
02:24:44.000Like, guys in comedy need to stick together.
02:24:46.000Guys in comedy need to defend ourselves against all these asshole women that talk all this horrible misandry about male life and men behaviors.
02:25:42.000The top of the food chain scientists, probably a lot of them are spectrum-y and fucking full-on geniuses at a scope that morons like you and I could never really...
02:25:55.000We don't even understand what kind of person that is.
02:27:23.000I'm shocked that people didn't get this, but I would watch the guys doing the monologues, like the late night guys, and see them wait for laughs on jokes where nobody's there.
02:27:32.000Right, because they're doing them from their house.
02:27:53.000But on this, I was like, I can't wait for punchlines.
02:27:56.000So when we're putting these things together, we're writing these jokes and And then we would, I literally would make sure at the end of every punchline, there's the beginning of something else.
02:28:07.000Even if, like, sometimes I'll say, I'll just give away, every time I come in here, I give away all my tricks.
02:28:12.000But I'll say now, at the end of a line.
02:28:16.000The punchline could be inflatable, fucked all.
02:29:03.000Four episodes, each one is 15 minutes, and it's Coronavirus, Conspiracy Theories, Black Lives Matter, and then like a nation divided, like political division.
02:29:12.000How much time does it take from getting the concept of what the theme is going to be to finishing a video?
02:29:36.000The last two weeks was two hours of sleep.
02:29:39.000Jesus Christ for four videos that are 15 minutes long each it's cuz I mean, you know the joke density dude.
02:29:45.000Yeah, it's so and they're like Terry Schiavo jokes like you You have like so obscure and interesting and that's half the fun of it is you laughing at these references That's the things like I'm it's for yeah, there's just a lot of like some people are gonna get the joke I don't think everybody could possibly get every joke the pictures all have jokes like did you notice you in the pictures?
02:31:52.000And again, you are the very best at capitalizing on this weird time and creating comedy that's specifically perfectly designed for like Instagram and YouTube and these 15 minute chunks.
02:33:06.000Alex, who's fucking a genius, but the guy is so competent.
02:33:12.000He's the guy who does all my production stuff, like he shoots all the videos, he shot the specials and everything like that.
02:33:17.000When we started working together, he had no fucking clue how to edit.
02:33:21.000The guy learned Premiere eight days before he edited the Netflix special.
02:33:28.000I'm telling you, bro, and literally I would tell him as we're writing and going up, I'd be like, bro, do you want me to get you like a class or something like that?
02:33:35.000And he'd be like, nah, it's like the same thing, you know what I mean?
02:33:37.000And I noticed he was pulling a lot of late nights, and every time I'd go in the room, like, one of the screens would have the special.
02:33:43.000The other screen would have a YouTube screen up.
02:33:45.000And it would just be like, how to insert text.
02:33:48.000He's just learning on YouTube how to put together the special.
02:35:37.000And he starts running a team of editors.
02:35:40.000And it was just this perfect experiment on like just investing in people who you think are fucking competent and have the same like vision as you and the same level of like...
02:37:24.000You get to tell Netflix the things you want.
02:37:28.000Chappelle gets to tell Netflix the things he wants.
02:37:31.000Kevin gets to tell Netflix the things they want.
02:37:33.000In terms of they could give you a note and you could be like, I would really prefer it this way.
02:37:36.000I respect your opinion, but I prefer...
02:37:38.000There's a few people in the world that get that.
02:37:41.000And we built up enough confidence and trust in not only the market with the people, but also with them that they were just like, yeah, do what you want.
02:38:07.000And it was a joke we had, and it was a non sequitur.
02:38:10.000It was a joke about, it was a, you know, I said Trump with no experiences, Trump, who had no experiences with viruses outside of the ones he got from Stormy.
02:41:16.000Because nobody feels bad about a fucking super athlete like Terry Crews getting his dick grabbed by some guy that he could literally throw through a fucking wall.
02:41:25.000So it's not like he's a victim physically.
02:41:28.000So you can make fun of him in a way you can never make fun of a woman getting sexually assaulted.
02:46:01.000I think that child rape is the big one, right?
02:46:04.000If you're a child rapist, because a lot of those guys that are in jail, their life of fucked up crime and craziness started out because of being molested.