In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian and podcaster talks about his upcoming trip to Arizona. He talks about how he packed for the trip, how he's been a shut-in for the past year, and what it's like to leave your house after a year of not leaving your house. He also talks about what it s like packing for a big trip, and how he s feeling about it. Also, he talks about why he doesn t want to wear pants again, and why he thinks he should wear pajamas instead of pants. And he talks a little bit about the weirdest thing he s been wearing for the last year, which is pajama pants. It s a good thing he hasn t worn them in a year, because he s going to need them in Arizona, which means he s not going to be comfortable in them. And that s not a bad thing, since he s leaving in less than a week and a half and is going to travel in a car with his wife and kids in the backseat of his car, and it s a 13-hour drive from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Arizona. And it s not like he s planning on going back to Los Angeles in the middle of the winter, which he s used to do, but now he s here in Arizona in the summer, and he s excited to go back to LA in the fall. And he s really excited about it, and can t wait to do it, so why not do it again? Check it out! - it s gonna be a lot of things. Joe Rogans podcast, check it out. - The Joe's Podcast by Day, by Night by Night by Night, all day, by night, by day, and by night by night - all day all day by day All day long, all by night. by day and all day long by night all day and night by day by night all by day. All by night and night, By night and day, by all day - by night with you re-listen to this is what it means Joe s Podcast by Night and Night by night! - By night, Joe s podcast by night? - Joe s Pajamas by day & all day with his life by night , by night... What s going through his life? By day, he s trying to figure out how to pack for his trip, what s he s wearing?
00:03:09.0001989, it started in telemarketing because my mother would send me goofy suits like that because they had just gone out of style like in that earlier, that decade.
00:03:20.000So they're, you know, fucking, it's like buying acid wash jeans now.
00:03:25.000They're a fucking nickel a pair at the thrift store.
00:05:32.000Well, I'm going to get my follow-up shot two weeks from now from the same lady, and I want her to see the same dirty bandage and make her pick it off.
00:05:41.000I know that's rude, but I think it's funny.
00:05:44.000So you're getting the shots in Bisbee?
00:08:55.000You know, so I'm like, you really think these fucking masks work?
00:08:57.000You know, they say masks are all bullshit, and then next thing you know, Bill's, ugh, ugh, that fucking Irish face gets red, and he's on a rant.
00:09:05.000I mean, obviously, masks do something.
00:10:50.000Well, I might be killing as many old people by not getting a regular flu shot, but I don't give a fuck about old people and they're not in my life.
00:10:59.000Which I think, subliminally, a lot of people If coronavirus was killing that many babies and children, I think the same anti-maskers would be attacking you with a crowbar for not wearing a mask in public.
00:11:39.000I've been studying evolutionary psychology.
00:11:44.000I downloaded a book on Audible about it, 16 and a half hours, and listened to it on the way out, so I should have a degree, even though I didn't understand most of what they were talking about.
00:15:46.000He does, on his website, he's a comedy fan, and he has all these different comics.
00:15:56.000Pull up notes from the pen.com and how comics would fare in prison, because he rates all the comedians how they would, and of course, you do very well.
00:16:24.000I feel like redheads fight more than usual, so he'd probably get into a few altercations, but generally would be alright with a few, some new stories and a few scars.
00:19:10.000Some of them, you go, even myself, like Kentucky Fried Movie, you go, oh, that was the shit in 1979. And then you watch it, you go, this is the dumbest fucking movie ever.
00:23:10.000But you know, like, when you're, like, at the store, there was always an interesting hodgepodge of beginners and veterans.
00:23:17.000People that had been, you know, doing the road forever, and then there'd be people that, you know, you hung out with, you're like, oh, he seems like a funny guy.
00:23:25.000And then you see his set, and you're like, oh, shit, I can't hang out with you.
00:25:24.000And then you realize, oh, he stumbled into two accidentally funny jokes that he doesn't even understand are funny, but you're already promoting him.
00:26:12.000No, the one I'm talking about, she's doing great with other stuff.
00:26:16.000So it's not like, you know, that's the thing with comics.
00:26:19.000It's like either they make it or they're a tragedy.
00:26:22.000Either they make it as a comedian or whatever it is that sought them, that made them seek out becoming a comic, ruins whatever's left of their life.
00:26:31.000If they can't make it in comedy and they see all these other people make it in comedy, then they're depressed and angry and bitter and they just want to burn the world down.
00:27:16.000Yeah, we're going in a different direction on this tour.
00:27:19.000Imagine if you were still doing your act from like 2000. You had some great bits in 2000. I remember your act in 2000. It was funny as fuck.
00:27:28.000Imagine if you just hung on to that and you kept doing it on the road.
00:28:20.000And when that doesn't change, and you're still angry about it, but you already did like three different bits from three different angles, and I can't eat this pie with a different fork again.
00:30:43.000They're very quiet about that, so no one knows.
00:30:46.000They're very quiet about a lot of things.
00:30:48.000If you were a comic that maybe eight years ago was hired to be a comic that's in the game, and you put on the whole fucking CGI suit, and you did your act in front of a fake audience so they can put it in the game,
00:31:03.000but you had to sign all sorts of non-disclosure agreements, like it's the biggest secret that you're going to be on the game, and then you're never on the game, you still to this day could not fucking talk about it.
00:31:26.000One of the good things about COVID, and I could go on about all the great things about COVID. And I'm sorry if half a million people are collateral damage to the joy that I've gotten out of COVID is I get to learn about a lot of new comics that I don't watch comedy because I'm always afraid,
00:39:42.000You're just laying around waiting to rot out from the inside.
00:39:44.000I know, and I still feel like that, and everyone's aging beautifully, and I'm not gonna keep up.
00:39:50.000Ron White was a fucking luxurious head of hair, and now that he's 60 days sober, sharp as a tack, I think he's gonna pull through this swimmingly.
00:39:58.000I don't remember him not being sharp as a tack.
00:40:01.000Well, he was always great, even when he was drunk.
00:40:03.000I mean, he was always a great comic, for sure.
00:40:05.000Even when he was drinking, like, every day.
00:40:08.000But, you know, like I said, I didn't ask for specifics, what it is that was getting him.
00:40:14.000Something bad enough where he got so scared that not only did he get off the booze, but then he went to Costa Rica and did multiple ayahuasca ceremonies.
00:40:49.000Even without money, I'm monetizing, capitalizing on a personal conversation where I'm like, fuck, that would have been a great deal.
00:40:56.000You could look at it that way, but you could also look at it like you want to share this in its purest and best form with all the people that enjoy your podcast.
00:41:03.000That's why when I saw you, I go, just tell me the stuff that we're not going to talk about on the podcast.
00:41:31.000Now, I just opened it before because I had the booze shakes before you showed up, and I go, I should open this now because I don't want to be quivering.
00:42:05.000If there is anything I could sell on my podcast, it's liquor.
00:42:10.000When I was a Miller Lite drinker on stage, I think my first five specials of whatever, like CDs or DVDs when they made the transition, You can hear me saying, can I get another Miller Lite up here?
00:45:54.000I know when I can't brush my tongue because I gag that I'm nervous, where I wasn't really aware that I was nervous until I think they have very high standards for your work in the UK. They don't tolerate sloppiness so much.
00:47:07.000A few pints later, then all their aggro that they've swallowed because of their culture.
00:47:15.000Oh, it's impolite to say this, and that's why they're fucking smashing each other in the head with pint glasses at the end of the night at last call, or whatever they call last call.
00:47:24.000They got a lot of stabbings over there.
00:47:27.000It's a weird thing, because, you know, it's hard to get a gun.
00:50:04.000But he's fucking ripped me off since 2007 as a PR stunt basically when Bristol Palin was announced that she was pregnant at like 17 when Sarah Palin was a vice presidential candidate.
00:50:24.000Savingbristol.com, where I was offering her like 25 grand to have an abortion so she doesn't ruin her life and get stuck in that cult.
00:50:31.000The next day or within that week, he put up a fucking Levi, the father of the baby, a website saying we're going to raise money to fucking...
00:50:45.000Like, this is fucking specific, and this last one was...
00:50:51.000He's talking about NFL players wearing pink shoes, the bit I did, like, five years ago, where the NFL hasn't done pink shoes for years, and it's not even football season, and you're using the exact same fucking...
00:52:41.000I can't believe I... I would never do a show like that ever again.
00:52:45.000I don't think you can ever do a show where you bring in producers that aren't comics, that don't understand your sensibility, and then you have network executives that have their opinions and they're not funny and they all want to get their greasy little hands on the recipe.
00:53:07.000I met her when she was like 16. Yeah, she has a fucking tattoo of a quote of my bit on her belly from when she was like 16. And I go, I'll pay for you to get that covered up.
00:55:07.000But I'm saying now I have that presence of mind where I wouldn't do something stupid because a suit went, how about instead of you're a suicidal drunk guy, you're a crazy guy who wears funny hats.
00:56:40.000I'm trying to trick him into coming out here.
00:56:42.000Once I open my club out here, I'm going to slowly trick him into coming out here.
00:56:46.000I just have to figure out what's the proper strategy.
00:56:51.000I'll come out here more because you're on the perfect side of the country.
00:56:56.000Everything east of the 35 corridor goes all the way from the fucking bottom of Texas up through Kansas City and Minneapolis.
00:57:07.000I could drive everything west of there the long route and listen to fucking audible books and be in bliss and in my most hyper-creative place.
00:57:29.000You just had a fucking creeper come up to the door here.
00:57:35.000Yeah, you don't want someone to know what you're driving.
00:57:37.000That's why I have trained killers out there.
00:57:38.000You know, I still, I do gigs in shitholes where they don't have a green room.
00:57:43.000So I sit in the van and smoke cigarettes till fucking Chaley comes out and taps on the window, goes, come on in through the kitchen, we'll get you on stage.
00:59:18.000I don't gauge them enough, but still, they think that the podcast is secretly talking to you, like Twyman, who murdered his mother, thought that Lorne Michaels...
00:59:31.000Was telling him to come on Saturday Night Live.
00:59:33.000Had a couple of those where fucking Chad Shank is great.
00:59:38.000I don't do Facebook, but when he sees problems coming like that, he fucking gives me a head up.
01:00:50.000When I left on this trip, right before I left on Sunday, my buddy Raider found a spot where you go, oh, we could make Comedian Grove, like Bohemian Grove for comics.
01:01:04.000And it was the first time that I really thought, oh, I could leave Bisbee and move there.
01:01:10.000Comedian Grove, meaning you have a place that comics can all move to.
01:02:16.000This would be a place we could have a performance space, 17 different places where people could come in, like a private club, free speech zone.
01:03:41.000It's one of the reasons why I moved here.
01:03:42.000My plan was move here, get settled, live in a place where there's less people, and also separate stand-up comedy from the entertainment industry outside of comedy.
01:03:50.000Because we're always been, like, entertainment industry adjacent, right?
01:03:54.000Movies and TV shows, they corrupt comics in a way.
01:03:59.000You know, in the opposite way you would think.
01:04:02.000You know, you think of like people getting corrupted, it's usually for the worse.
01:04:05.000But they get corrupted and they get watered down.
01:04:07.000They become politically correct and woke and a part of the system.
01:04:10.000We've seen it with talk show hosts and even comics that are good that start working in Hollywood.
01:04:15.000They start quoting things like fucking Sacha Baron Cohen.
01:04:20.000He made a Facebook message to Mark Zuckerberg asking him why a post from...
01:04:28.000There's a legendary portrait artist from Australia.
01:07:00.000But he got caught up in thinking somehow or another that this parody piece, which is making fun of like QAnon people who think they're getting a fucking microchip installed with the vaccine.
01:10:59.000So the U.S. uses NTSC standards while UAK uses PAL, P-A-L standard, and it says they will not play on VHS standards.
01:11:07.000Okay, so it was VHS. What was interesting is you would have to give a non-region VHS tape, a VHS player, and the VHS players that were really cheap for some reason would work on everything.
01:11:22.000The ones that were more expensive would only work on US VHS tapes.
01:11:26.000So I bought a special VHS player just to watch the Ali G stuff.
01:11:52.000I'm just getting the fuck out of here.
01:11:54.000But there were some legendary interviews where people, like, genuinely got upset with him.
01:11:59.000One of the books I listened to on the way out, a guy who lives in Austin, Zha Zhang, wrote a book called Rejection Proof, where he was born in Beijing, and he lives in Austin, and he was trying to be an entrepreneur,
01:12:14.000but he found himself afraid of rejection.
01:12:16.000So for 100 days, he went out every day and did something where he had to face rejection, and he would film it for a video blog back then, and he wrote a book about how he over...
01:12:27.000But the things he was doing is like, I asked a man for $100.
01:13:26.000And the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
01:13:29.000And I go, I just listened to that in a smart fuck book about, oh, that's why the hairs on your fucking back of your neck stand up is because your animal instinct is to look bigger.
01:14:04.000But that's what he gets into is exactly Darwinian theory about there's a reason that you don't You are afraid of rejection because in your ancestral place, yeah, rejection would make you not be an available mate,
01:14:26.000And it would wreck your confidence, and your confidence, I think it probably has- And then chicks wouldn't fuck you and you wouldn't spread your seed.
01:14:33.000Right, but don't you think that has something to do, like the confidence thing, must have something to do with either fighting off enemies or predators?
01:14:40.000I learned the pecking order, there's a reason they call it the pecking order, is because some naturalist realized, oh, chicken A will peck at chicken B, or chicken C will peck at D, but they don't do that.
01:14:55.000D doesn't fight A because they know it would disrupt, they would lose, and then they wouldn't spread seed.
01:15:11.000I had to stop ourselves from getting into, oh, yeah, we know shit about fucking evolutionary psychology just because I read a fucking long book while I was scared of Alpine, Texas.
01:15:22.000You know, I think that that's one of the reasons why people are attracted to risk-takers, too.
01:15:26.000And I think this has actually been proven, or it's at least, I shouldn't say proven, been theorized that, like, guys like dudes who do those BMX jumps and shit and guys who do, like, crazy risk-taking, like, things, there's something about that, that a person who's willing to risk their health and life is attractive to the opposite sex because that's a person who has courage.
01:15:47.000Even though it's a weirdly bastardized form of courage, you know, it's not the courage to go fight The enemies of the town that are coming in to try to steal your women and children.
01:17:21.000And those women don't want to fuck those guys anymore.
01:17:24.000It's so crazy that that's what happens.
01:17:26.000When they beat a man down like that, separate him from his friends, don't let him play sports, don't let him get into things that she thinks are stupid.
01:18:17.000And then one day, years later, a fan who had heard the story sent me a cassette to the old, sitting on the old studio, right by Jamie's little amplifier.
01:20:48.000If you don't have that, yeah, you don't have anything.
01:20:50.000We could list all the people that should never have gotten late in their life, but they're fucking cool or they can play music or whatever.
01:22:10.000It's, um, the dynamics, like power dynamics like that are very weird with people.
01:22:15.000I have some questions I wrote on the road.
01:22:18.000That's why I was so fucking jacked coming in here after three days of driving, is all of those thoughts about, okay, oh, I can talk to him about this, and then, oh, I'm going there, I can't remember three days of thoughts, I'm gonna belch them all out like a breach,
01:22:35.000birth, fucking abortion, all in the first 30 minutes and have nothing to say.
01:22:40.000Douglas will always have something to say.
01:22:42.000It went to nowhere because I don't know enough references of new comics or new hot comics.
01:22:49.000I was going to do the Power Dynamic game.
01:22:51.000I'll save this for Kreischer because he loves games.
01:23:12.000But it was the power dynamic game, where if there were two, like, equal parties, and they had a relationship, let's just say the easy Kreischer-Segura, let's say they were in a gay relationship, and one of them wanted to say the other one took advantage of me.
01:24:57.000One of the things that I love about Bukowski more than anything is that he was in the post office until he was like in his 40s.
01:25:02.000I used to use him as a negative inspiration.
01:25:06.000In my 30s, where I, like, be lazy, and I go, ah, fuck it.
01:25:12.000Bukowski didn't write shit until he was, like, 43 years old, so I would use that as negative inspiration for why I can not work, because now I'm 53. Well, there's, like, you get a different...
01:25:27.000It's like, you could cook a steak, and you could sear it for five minutes on each side, or you could cook a brisket, and it takes 18 hours.
01:26:07.000Where you get to Van Horn and go, should I take the scenic route through Marfa and Alpine?
01:26:12.000Or should I go right to Fort Stockton and check into a fucking horrible hotel that I'm terrified to go in with a pink mohawk in West Texas?
01:30:26.000And this book is basically about his gambling days when he's this young kid.
01:30:32.000In Kentucky, they called him the Rifleman and he would just get fired up on speed and play people like $10,000 and fucking just never miss.
01:31:11.000A lot of these games, these guys were all speeded up.
01:31:14.000And apparently, I've never done amphetamines like that, but they say that when you're playing pool and you're on speed, not only can you stay awake, but you see things, like super sharp and clear.
01:31:55.000That was the thing that players all did, and he talked about it in his book, and they've talked about it in other books, too, that would talk about pool.
01:32:00.000These guys that would gamble for hours and hours at a time, they would all do it on speed.
01:34:09.000And then I still never appreciated it till she made me watch the All-Star game where they do this skills competition.
01:34:16.000And then it's like fucking Harlem Globetrotters.
01:34:19.000Guys are bouncing, dribbling a puck on top of their stick and then fucking whipping it under their legs and fucking hitting coffee cups out of fucking cutouts and like, oh, it's not all luck.
01:36:37.000The next question was, and I put this on Twitter as a poll, but I really thought it was an interesting question for you.
01:36:45.000Would you rather be the first person to take an untested vaccine or the first person to ride in the backseat on the freeway of a driverless car?
01:40:06.000I don't think he always did that, though.
01:40:07.000If you look at his whatever routine that they documented that was famous for being a ridiculous list that you could read online of all the different shit that he did during the day.
01:41:56.000Everything I do in my career, if it's a show, that's why I only do one show a night, because I drink the perfect amount to have a confident show...
01:42:57.000It's also like, there's an art form to doing less.
01:43:03.000There's definitely something to be said for having less things.
01:43:06.000I would like to live multiple lives simultaneously.
01:43:10.000So I could just pursue my individual interests in each one of those lives.
01:43:14.000And just singularly, you know, not think about business stuff, just think about one thing that I like to do, and just live like that.
01:43:22.000Because there's a real, it's really attractive to me, people that just get dedicated to, whether it is painting or just making music, whatever it is, you've got one thing that you're dedicated to.
01:43:33.000I think that's something very interesting about that to me.
01:43:37.000I don't even have the attention span for a lap dance, and I can't remember the last time I was even in a titty bar, but someone would buy you a lap dance, like Don King.
01:43:49.000I don't know if he's still around here.
01:47:50.000Go, like, lucidly out of the dream, remembering the dream, and go back, hang on, I have to piss.
01:47:57.000Just like I pissed here on the podcast, I can get up out of a dream, say, please hold, dream, piss, lucidly, I'm not in a closet like Sean Rouse.
01:49:03.000So, I was in such a state when I woke up this morning from dreams where, you know the dream where you wake up and go, oh, fucking thank God everything was going for me.
01:49:12.000Right, but this is what I want to know.
01:49:13.000Did the lucid dreams start independently of the Seroquel stuff?
01:49:21.000I remember when I was probably an early teenager, the first time that I could correlate that stomach drop feeling of when you're about to fall off of something, but you could fly.
01:49:53.000Is this something that you just figured out as you were doing it, as you were having these lucid dreams?
01:49:57.000Yeah, but the same problem that everyone who has dreams, you can't quite remember it, but the feeling, the stomach drop feeling, the, oh, I'm floating.
01:50:06.000Things that connect your brain back to, okay, I know I'm in a dream, but I'm not going to wake up.
01:50:14.000But you got better over the years just by having lucid dreams over and over again and realizing what's the thing that you do that gets you out of the dream.
01:50:23.000Don't do that and just figure out what to do to stay in that state.
01:50:27.000Sometimes you wake up or sometimes you're only alerted to the fact that you're dreaming because you hit bap, bap, bap.
01:51:33.000And it's about apparently there is some technology that they're working on right now where they can record certain aspects of your thoughts.
01:51:43.000Like if you're thinking about a triangle, it'll show an image of a triangle.
01:51:46.000And they think they're going to get to the point Where they're going to be able to get at least some sort of a reasonable facsimile of the visuals that you're having in your dreams.
01:51:57.000Oh my god, wouldn't that fuck with cancel culture?
01:52:41.000Until you can read his thoughts, go through his trash, fucking follow him like Scientologists do, and find out what dirt do we have on you.
01:52:48.000Hey, I'm canceling TMZ because they went through my trash and found a few text messages that were printed.
01:56:42.000There's also a thing where the idea that you have a certain amount of reach and because of that reach you have a certain amount of responsibility.
01:56:50.000You have a responsibility to be yourself.
01:56:52.000The problem is if you only lean into that responsibility and you think of it as this thing that you must do because you have a civic duty to spread this kind of information or that kind of information, then you can't be yourself anymore.
01:57:05.000You can't just be whoever the fuck you are.
01:57:09.000You have to be this thing that they think is more acceptable.
01:59:11.000If I was a new comic, you are the equivalent to Carson right now, where you have that much reach.
01:59:19.000If I were a new comic and I was doing the Joe Rogan show, I would be nervous for every other reason than I was nervous today, which is I haven't been out in the real world in a year.
02:00:02.000If you start thinking about what you're actually going to say.
02:00:05.000Oh, I've been doing that since Sunday, you fucking asshole.
02:00:09.000That poor prick, the guy that said I'm a big fan at the fucking Motel Kitzmiller in Fredericksburg, once he said I'm a big fan, I wanted to talk to him about all the things I've been thinking for 650 miles.
02:00:26.000I asked, hey, if you want a cocktail, I'm making cocktails in room 8. Did you say it to him?
02:03:31.000There was always a photo of him at the store of him climbing out of the limo.
02:03:36.000He was like climbing out of the Comedy Store limo, and he's like, literally like, You can't even imagine he can get through the doorway, and he's holding the door open, and he's got a big smile on his face.
02:03:44.000The urban legend that I attributed to John Fox, who was kind of his predecessor of, don't eat the mayonnaise in the condo, where his nose starts fucking dripping blood during a set, spilling onto his shirt,
02:06:43.000But my point is, before that time, those comedy clubs did not exist in those cities.
02:06:48.000So if you went back to the 1970s, there was nothing.
02:06:51.000And if you go to the 1960s, these guys were doing variety shows, like the old Lenny Bruce tapes, where he would be a host of a variety show.
02:06:58.000He'd bring up a band, there would be a dancer and a musician.
02:08:16.000Well, you know, where I started out in Boston, that was what you would see these headliners do the same act over and over and over again.
02:08:24.000Most of them didn't do television, or if they did, it was like little clips on Evening at the Improv, like little quick 15 minutes or something like that.
02:08:32.000But they all had murderous acts that you could watch over and over again.
02:08:36.000Like, I could watch Steve Sweeney a hundred times in a row, and it was the same act.
02:09:37.000I think a lot of great artists have it.
02:09:40.000And what it is, it's one of the things that keeps you good.
02:09:43.000Because one of the things that fucks you is if you start taking yourself really seriously and you think your work is important or you think your work is great.
02:10:52.000Well, the people, you know, the cliche with Joey, and there's other people I could name that I can't think of, where he could read a phone book and it would be funny.
02:11:21.000Every comic, I mean, when you're saying you're a writer imitating a writer, but you know when Hunter S. Thompson used to write, one of the things he did when he was younger, he'd write The Great Gatsby over and over and over again.
02:11:33.000He'd just write it out, word for word, just to get an understanding of the beats and the way, you know, F. Scott Fitzgerald, right?
02:16:24.000If you can find one person in that Lowe's who knows who I am, no one's ever going to believe me because they're not going to know who I am.
02:16:32.000And I made him walk around a Lowe's talking to anyone that would listen.
02:18:55.000Safeway was the hardest thing during COVID because I live in a small town where the only corporate thing there other than Burger King, which is the worst fast food ever, and I hate them.
02:20:10.000Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind.
02:20:13.000A vast majority of our technologies are built for...
02:20:16.000The waking state, even though a third of our conscious lives, a third of our lives are asleep, current technological interfaces miss an opportunity to access the unique, imaginative, elastic cognition ongoing during dreams and semi-lucid states.
02:21:04.000They can guide the dreams towards particular themes.
02:21:08.000TDI is a protocol that we utilized within an app on the wearable sleep tracking device, Donamo, to record the wearer's dreams.
02:21:18.000Additionally, it's also possible to guide the dreams towards certain ideas when the wearer is in the process of going to sleep by targeting them with information.
02:21:29.000Oh, so they put like a panda bear in your head over and over and over again.
02:21:33.000I've heard of people being able to practice things like this, and it sounded so BS to me.
02:21:40.000I was like, okay, they can learn guitar while they're sleeping.
02:21:42.000Look up, I'm gonna guess 1978. What year did the Shah of Iran die?
02:21:50.000Because I remember I would sleep with AM radio on, hoping to hear Air Supply, because I was in love with a girl, and I woke up, and my dad said, oh, the Shah of Iran died, and I go, that's so fucked up!
02:22:05.000I had a dream about it, and then realized later, I had slept with AM radio on, so I heard it on the news.
02:23:37.000I mean, there's been a ton of documentaries and news stories.
02:23:40.000And then the one big one was when the Pope turned out he used to be a bishop that was letting go these guys after they got caught molesting kids.
02:23:50.000And one of them went on to molest 100 deaf kids.
02:23:59.000He was involved with a lot of the moving around of those pedophile priests.
02:24:04.000And that's one of the reasons why there was one point where they said he couldn't leave the Vatican because there were certain parts of the world that wanted to try him with crimes against humanity.
02:27:33.000Like, so if someone got a hold of your balls, if you died, and you donated your balls to science, and some guy needed a new pair of balls, if he got your balls, he would be shooting your loads for the rest of his life.
02:27:43.000So he'd be making Doug Stanhope babies.
02:27:45.000And they'd be like, but Doug Stanhope is dead!
02:35:41.000There's so many people that have to fucking speak up In whatever the culture is, there's a million different cultures that have all been boiled down into left wing or right wing, but when you fucking talk to people off the record that are in whatever groups...
02:37:13.000Since there's this heavy left-wing bias on Twitter, when people abandon Twitter or they get kicked off of Twitter, they're almost always right-wing.
02:37:21.000And when they go to these places that say, we don't have any censorship, well, what's the big censorship on Twitter?
02:37:27.000The big censorship is in saying offensive things.
02:37:30.000Saying things that have been deemed culturally inappropriate.
02:37:33.000So that's, of course, especially if you're some fucking 16-year-old kid, you don't care about the future of this app.
02:40:51.000We've never experienced this kind of a thing before.
02:40:54.000This thing is so much more powerful than any other new thing that's ever existed in terms of the ability to get out ideas and how much it can change culture.
02:41:02.000I mean, maybe kids will figure out a way around it, or maybe it'll warp people to the point where they're willing to accept some sort of totalitarian regime as long as they think it's ethical and moral.
02:41:14.000Yeah, as long as they think it's like the ethical and moral thing to do, like it's a great ethical, moral, totalitarian regime, and they'll hop on board, and then you're going to be cool with, you know, 2020s McCarthyism.
02:41:27.000It's like, it's going to be very similar.
02:41:29.000And then 2030s will go, fuck this, and they'll figure out another way to fuck them, and then the system will fuck them again.
02:43:53.000A fucking million-year-old bit of mine...
02:43:58.000You love a kitten, but if you came home and there was 8,000 kittens in your fucking one-bedroom apartment, you'd put on golf shoes and stomp them to death.
02:44:20.000Like, it's not good to be in that kind of fucking high RPM buzzing of LA. I love your love of Austin, but I almost moved here from Bisbee when I first moved to Bisbee, and I had a fucking issue there,
02:44:37.000and I go, fuck it, I'll move to Austin.
02:44:39.000I'm like, Austin, the traffic here, which is my number one consideration, along with weather of where to live, Like, the traffic here is so fucking awful.
02:46:03.000It's better than L.A. I don't understand the L.A. thing anymore, especially now for comics.
02:46:09.000It doesn't make any sense to me, because it used to be that you wanted to be connected to television, and you wanted to be connected to the movie industry, but Comics today are more connected to podcasts than ever before, which means you could be anywhere.
02:47:41.000Dennis, the lead singer of Dr. Hook, who when we get drunk and we play karaoke in the funhouse, we play Dr. Hook all the time, and he just randomly...