On this week's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the boys are joined by a new co-worker at The Sunset Strip Comedy Club, who happens to be a stand-up comedian and friend of Joe's. They talk about what it's like to work at a comedy club on the Sunset Strip, what it s like to live in Los Angeles, and what it was like growing up in New York. They also talk about the recent riots in LA, and the recent shut down of the economy by the city government. They also get into the latest news in the world of LA, including the recent shooting of a woman at a gas station, and some of the craziest things they've seen in the past 24 hours in the city, including a woman being put down on her face on the sidewalk while being robbed, and a man being pepper-sprayed by the police. And, of course, there's a story about a woman getting pepper-poured by the cops and being taken to the ER because of it, and how she's not a fan of pepper spray, and why it's a good thing she doesn't like it. Joe also talks about how he doesn't want to move to LA anymore, because it's not as fun as it used to be, and he's not sure if he should even be here at all, but he's going to move here anyway, so why not try it out anyway? and much, much more! Enjoy, Joe and Joe! (and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe to our podcast, Apple Podcast. . Subscribe, rate, review, and tell us what you think of the show! and we'll be listening to it in the next episode of JOE ROGAN PODCAST! Subscribe to JOE JOGAN EPISODE by clicking the JOB JOBRAN EXPERIENCES by day and JOBE RODAN Podcast by night, by night all day, all day long! Thank you for listening to JOBORRAN! by day, Joe Rogan Podcasts by Night All Day All Day by Night, by Night by Day, All Day, Joe Rogans Podcast by Night! by Night Night by Night all Day, By Night by By Night, All By Day, by Day by Day! - All Day By Night All By Night By Night - By Day by Morning by Night
00:01:47.000I mean, before this year, I would have said that I never wanted to leave L.A., but I also couldn't have imagined them shutting Hollywood down until further notice.
00:01:57.000So I don't know what is going to happen next.
00:02:00.000The district attorney, I think that's who it is, killed the gang task force, too.
00:02:05.000That's the new thing, because apparently there's not enough crime.
00:03:27.000I was talking to a friend that's a fireman who's friends with cops, and they were all discussing this, apparently, that they just don't know what to do.
00:04:04.000Yeah, I'm laughing because I was with Dylan Sullivan last night and we walked to get food and there were like a bunch of junkies around and they kept just like appearing and I was getting really nervous and then we saw a cop car Across the street and we're like let's go be by the cop and we walked over to stand by the cop and I was like this is not very this is that's not a very popular mindset right now
00:04:34.000to go and be near the cops yeah and I pictured someone spray-painting like fuck the police and me like doing a carrot mark and saying fuck yeah the police because we got so excited to see them we're like oh thank god the cops are here where were you at?
00:04:49.0006th and a different street Yeah, there's that area around where the Vulcan Gas Company is that's a homeless shelter.
00:06:04.000Well, and it's fucked because if you're going to shut everything down, you have to give us a lot of money because rent is so obscene there that I think it's unimaginable for anyone who lives anywhere else to...
00:06:29.000But if you're going to shut all the comedy clubs, like, and I was applying for jobs that I didn't even want on Indeed just to try to make some money because my unemployment covers less than half of my rent.
00:06:41.000And I'm just like, what do you expect me to do?
00:06:44.000And if I'm in a position where I, every month, am I going to be, how am I going to not be homeless?
00:06:51.000I just can't imagine people who have it so much worse than I do.
00:06:55.000Yeah, and there are a lot of people like that.
00:06:57.000And there's also, like, it incentivizes people to do crime.
00:07:00.000It really does, because they're like, I need to fucking get by.
00:09:24.000That fucking place is gonna be all tents and guns and fucking dogs and it's gonna be chaos.
00:09:29.000It's really gnarly and it's interesting to me how little people allow for like incorporating new information and changing your mind about stuff especially at this point because there are people who still are like comics shouldn't be doing shows.
00:11:43.000Yeah, I take a lot of vitamins, including vitamin D. Are you taking D with an ionophore, like quercetin or curcumin or any of those things?
00:14:15.000Well, I had written a lot of new material.
00:14:19.000I had been writing in quarantine, but so much of that made no sense because it was written by an insane person because I lost my mind in my home.
00:14:30.000So I'm writing shit that's specific to my apartment and also writing stuff about something that was on the news in March.
00:14:38.000So by the time I went on stage and went and looked through it, I was like, this can never be seen by anybody.
00:14:44.000So I did some stuff that was like new and then I did some old stuff.
00:14:50.000People say it's like learning to ride a bike.
00:14:52.000It's like learning to ride a bike and then not walking and then standing up and your legs have atrophy.
00:14:59.000Like that first set was people were laughing and I had fun but I wouldn't try to sell it to HBO or anything, you know?
00:15:58.000I did that one show, and then the next night I did another one, and on the way to that show that night, I had this feeling that I hadn't felt in forever, and it was the joy of going to do it.
00:16:10.000And I remembered that I used to have that feeling every single night when I would go to the comedy store, or when I would go do a show.
00:16:38.000It's interesting to me because it's like the same people who on National Suicide Day will post about How important mental health is and come talk to me if you ever feel sad this that and the other and now a year in it's like why are people not talking about mental health and why are those same people saying like you're a piece of shit if you go see your friends you know what I mean because like people are killing themselves They're killing themselves in record numbers.
00:17:03.000Swartzen has a friend who works as a sheriff and said that they would get like one suicide a week back in the day and now they're getting five a week.
00:17:13.000And they were just overwhelmed by the number.
00:17:17.000It might have been one a month and now it's five a week.
00:17:29.000And they think about the deaths and the toll.
00:17:31.000And they're not counting like how many people's lives have gone from, you know, they created a business, they worked hard for years and years, and then it's just been taken away from them through no fault of their own.
00:17:48.000My friend Katie is a nurse in Chicago, and I have been in contact through this whole thing.
00:17:56.000And it was, I mean, her hospital was teeming with COVID patients.
00:18:00.000She said now it's teeming with alcoholics who are having DTs, people who lost their jobs in September and And have been drinking themselves to death all day in their homes.
00:18:09.000She said that she's never seen DTs this bad.
00:18:13.000Like she said, it's crazy how many people are dying of alcoholism there.
00:18:27.000And it's also just not the same thing.
00:18:30.000And it's so inaccessible that it's costing people their lives.
00:18:34.000Yeah, it's the undiscussed aspect of the pandemic.
00:18:40.000You know, it's uncomfortable for people.
00:18:42.000When they think about the cost of the pandemic, they want to think about how many people are going to get sick, how many people are going to be in the ICU. That's something we have to absolutely consider.
00:18:50.000But you also have to consider what happens when you shut down...
00:20:38.000Yeah, I hope people scream instead of protest.
00:20:40.000They're probably going to stop people from screaming, though.
00:20:42.000They're probably going to tell people.
00:20:43.000Because, you know, look, they don't want an inspector to come there and say, hey, people are screaming, we're going to shut this place down.
00:20:50.000Disneyland's been closed for a fucking year, and they're losing some insane amount of money.
00:20:54.000It's like $300 million a day or something crazy.
00:22:16.000Just say, how much is Disneyland losing per day?
00:22:18.000It's adding it all together with Disney, the company, and how much they lost in China, and Orlando, and the TV channels, and all that stuff.
00:25:35.000Just because someone told them they have to shut up.
00:25:38.000I mean, they would have definitely lost money, period.
00:25:40.000There's no way to not lose some money.
00:25:42.000Everybody lost some money, but to lose that much money is just preposterous.
00:25:46.000Well, and then if you think about those workers, think about how much they could possibly be collecting in unemployment, and it's got to be a hundred bucks a week.
00:25:56.000I mean, it's got to be so low if they were minimum wage workers.
00:26:00.000Because you just get a fraction of that.
00:26:02.000And where can you live on $100 a week?
00:26:15.000You have to live with your parents and you have to hope they can pay their mortgage.
00:26:18.000It's interesting, like, what we just did there is basically what's happening in California in terms of fear of COVID. Like, when there's a person that ramps it up so high, like $100 million a day, you came at $50 million a day.
00:27:24.000Which means they have either diabetes or some other cancer, some other disease that makes them extremely vulnerable.
00:27:31.000Then they get COVID and then they die of it.
00:27:33.000Doesn't mean you should minimize the fact they died and COVID definitely killed them because if it wasn't for COVID, they would have probably stayed alive.
00:28:04.000You know, I asked her what she was seeing in Chicago.
00:28:07.000And she said that it was obese men and people of color.
00:28:12.000People call her it because of vitamin D. Really?
00:28:15.000Yeah, because darker folks, their melanin actually protects them from the sun but makes them generate less vitamin D. My friend who's a doctor worked in New York and he said he would experience, when they were testing folks, he would experience some folks that were black that had undetectable levels of vitamin D. I think?
00:28:54.000Well, what they should have been is given vitamin D, you know?
00:28:57.000I mean, and not just given vitamin D, but everybody should have been told from the beginning.
00:29:01.000Like, vitamin D plays a critical role.
00:29:03.00084% of the people that were in the ICU with COVID were deficient in vitamin D. Only 4% had sufficient levels of vitamin D. People that were in the ICU with COVID. And that's a big problem with the entire country because human beings aren't designed to be indoors.
00:29:21.000We're supposed to be outside doing shit.
00:29:23.000That's how the human body evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.
00:29:27.000So this whole environment that we're living in is terrible for the generation of vitamin D. The only other way to get vitamin D is to take it in pill form.
00:31:07.000And I thought that I was just going to have it for my whole life because I didn't think I was heavy enough that it was affecting my joints.
00:31:19.000Because again, if I carry around a heavy bag through an airport, my back will hurt at the end of the day, if I do that right now.
00:31:25.000And to have to carry that weight around everywhere I go, everything I do, even just sitting, having that extra weight, I just don't want it back.
00:31:35.000And I think part of it might be, because I stopped eating flour and sugar, which I've heard are inflammatory as well, so I think part of it might be that.
00:31:42.000But the other thing is just getting to set down the weight.
00:31:59.000I play tennis and swim and I do workouts that Stacia Patwell created.
00:32:06.000She was a comic, she ran a show at the store and she's a trainer and she started doing these classes on Zoom for female comics and a bunch of us have had before and after transformations where like a bunch of fat comics have gotten hot because of her workouts and She's onto something dude.
00:32:27.000She's so fucking funny and she can like work you out for an hour where I'm just like laughing.
00:32:33.000I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend and she has this specific brand of tough love where she'll like she'll call she'll call me a pussy like right before I'm about to drop out of a plank and she'll be like the world has enough pussies.
00:34:27.000I joined a support group for overeaters and I weigh, measure, and write down every single thing I put in my body and eat balanced portions that were given to me by a dietician.
00:34:42.000Protein, grains, fruits and vegetables, fats.
00:34:45.000And then my goal that I try for is to be in a caloric deficit of about 250 calories a day, which averages out to about a half a pound a week of weight loss.
00:34:57.000And I don't do it perfectly, but that's enough where I'm not starving all the time.
00:35:02.000I'm satiated, so it's sustainable, but I'm also steadily losing weight.
00:37:06.000If you could take the energy, the good that you feel from losing weight and getting healthy and just somehow or another put it in a VR. Put it in someone's head.
00:42:29.000Yeah, I was talking to Dylan Sullivan about that last night about how the OR was so fun because you can watch...
00:42:40.000People be so funny and you can watch them bomb, being hilarious at like one in the morning.
00:42:47.000And those are my two favorite things about stand-up, are watching people be hilarious and then separately watching them eat shit is hilarious.
00:42:54.000To watch someone tell a joke to a bunch of people and have no one laugh, it's hilarious.
00:43:30.000Like sometimes you'd be in like Florida or something like that and Tampa, and not to single out Tampa, but someone would go on stage and they'd be so bad.
00:43:39.000I worked at one time with this guy who's the middle act was so bad that I was baffled.
00:43:43.000I was like, I don't think there's anything funny.
00:43:54.000So I would close myself in the green room and then have to time out when this fucking guy was getting off stage and then run down to the bottom because I couldn't listen.
00:44:04.000Because if you listen to a bad act, it'll fuck your head up.
00:44:21.000And the idea was that if you talk to someone who's schizophrenic, Like if you talk to them long enough, it's possible that you could start exhibiting signs of schizophrenia.
00:44:31.000So I think the conversation was someone was talking about visiting someone in the hospital and that there's been cases where people go to visit people who are schizophrenic and they spend time with that person and then the staff starts looking at them and goes,
00:45:06.000A shared psychotic disorder is a rare type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder such as schizophrenia.
00:45:15.000For example, let's say your spouse has a psychotic disorder and as a part of that illness believes aliens are spying on them.
00:45:27.000If you have a shared psychotic disorder, you'll start to believe in the spying aliens, but apart from that, your thoughts and behavior are normal.
00:45:34.000People with psychotic disorders have trouble staying in touch with reality and often can't handle daily life.
00:45:39.000The most obvious symptoms are hallucinations, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:46:02.000Or being in a comedy show and watching it together.
00:46:05.000That reminds me of another phenomenon.
00:46:08.000They did a study called Being Sane in Insane Places where a person who was sane checked into a mental hospital and they had to end the study early because the psychological damage that the person endured was so great that it became unethical.
00:46:53.000the shitty comedian and that's the worst part people know who you are they know you're funny people don't know who I am and so at the time when I was in Tampa they didn't know me either because that's the bitch is when is when people see a comedian who sucks and then another comic gets on stage they don't know who you are either they assume you're at the level of the person who just went up yeah they're upset they're not gonna laugh at your stuff that are plus they're not warm And they've had a few drinks,
00:47:18.000and they're just like, what the fuck am I doing with my night?
00:47:44.000But then they live with someone who does and that someone imparts that on them just by virtue of living in this house where you're with a fucking insane person.
00:47:55.000I think it also happens with homeless people.
00:47:59.000I think that there are people who have been getting treated like they're crazy for so long that it drives them crazy.
00:48:06.000Because I can't imagine asking someone for something or talking to someone and having the person just like fix their eyes and keep walking, you know?
00:48:57.000But for him, one of the things that he was saying to me, he goes, dude, I gotta tell you, man, this is...
00:49:03.000Because there was a bunch of crew and all that.
00:49:06.000He goes, this is the only time in years where people have been nice to me.
00:49:09.000He goes, because I'm with you, I'm hanging around, everybody's nice to me.
00:49:13.000And then it made me think, oh, this guy gets treated like shit everywhere because he's basically sleeping in flop houses or these hostels or anywhere he can if he can get the money.
00:49:23.000Serious drug problem it wound up killing him and I remember I never forgot that like he was saying like This is crazy man like people would be nice to me here like no one's ever nice to me I remember thinking like why is no nice to you you're a great guy and then I I'm like how fucking weird is my thinking like I'm doing a,
00:49:43.000you know, I was friends with this guy.
00:50:50.000It's like I know that I've been very lucky.
00:50:54.000But I also know that I've taken advantage of moments and made the best out of them.
00:51:00.000Because I'm obsessive and I work real hard.
00:51:04.000And I think a lot of people have learned from that.
00:51:06.000I think I've showed a lot of people that are in my life, and a lot of people are like, you've got to work.
00:51:11.000That's how you get things done in this life.
00:51:13.000You can get by on talent, and you can get by on brashness.
00:51:18.000There's a lot of things that you can pull off in this world where you can kind of skirt the system, but really you're better off working too.
00:51:26.000Even if you have all those things, and I've always kind of been impulsive and kind of crazy, but I also work.
00:51:32.000I work really hard at everything I do.
00:51:51.000That's one of the things that I've tried to do really well with this podcast is boost people's signal that I think are really good and really funny or interesting or whatever.
00:55:09.000And there's no predicting who's going to get it and who's not.
00:55:13.000There are people who go in and out of recovery and then one day it clicks.
00:55:19.000My dad was quitting stuff for my whole life and...
00:55:24.000And eventually got sober in jail when I was 12 and was sober for the rest of my life.
00:55:30.000He was sober for the next 12 years until he died when I was 24. And I don't think that anyone ever really expected him to stop drinking, you know?
00:55:39.000So it's like worth having hope for people, but also...
00:55:44.000My mom didn't argue him into finally quitting drinking.
00:55:48.000I didn't beg him into finally quitting drinking.
00:55:51.000Nobody convinced him except for his own misery of losing his family and then being in jail.
00:56:17.000I think that there also can be an environmental component.
00:56:21.000I know that some things that I liked about it were it made me feel comfortable talking to people.
00:56:29.000Crowds have always been kind of draining for me, large crowds, especially if it's like people I don't know.
00:56:35.000Um, and I felt like I could talk to guys for the first time when I started drinking, but then I couldn't stop drinking once I started drinking, so I would be, like, laid out on a bathroom floor with the guys I liked, like, stepping over me to pee,
00:56:57.000There'd be like a moment in the night where I was like, oh yeah, I'm fucking hot.
00:57:03.000And then I'd have like throw up in my ear and be fucking pissing someone's futon.
00:57:08.000So it just was always real rough and there was a period of time for like years where I woke up and started drinking and drank all day and was a blackout drinker every night.
00:57:19.000And then I actually had a boyfriend and I I quit drinking for him and then I started again and it just was always like it always went back to the same place like I tried quitting I tried quitting every year since I started.
00:57:39.000I started drinking pretty much daily when I was 17 and then got sober when I was 29 and haven't had a drink or a drug since.
00:58:26.000I only have like a, other than the birth of my children in my head like that, I have like the day I started comedy, the day I was married, that kind of shit.
00:59:09.000Yeah, you called ahead of time to get a spot on the open mic, and then you could do a set for five to seven minutes.
00:59:16.000And so I typed my set out word for word on the computer, practiced it in front of a full-length mirror a million times, and wanted to cancel.
00:59:27.000But I would have had to cancel to cancel, and I'm not a bitch, so I did it.
01:00:54.000And I maybe get another shot of the thing later.
01:00:57.000You know, you get to move on to like the next level on to the next step.
01:01:01.000Back then, I remember in Milwaukee, there was a headliner who thought I was funny and wanted to see if he wanted to bring me on the road.
01:01:08.000And so he got me a feature set at a show, a one-nighter.
01:01:14.000And I went and did it and got blackout drunk and don't remember anything he said to me on the ride home, but I do know he never brought me on the road with him.
01:01:52.000It's a weird thing, that genetic propensity for alcoholism, because I've seen it in people where their parents are drunks and they just can't fucking help it.
01:05:51.000But I'm just saying, if you're not doing the drugs yourself, the thing about Joey is he's doing the same dose.
01:05:57.000He's dosing you, but he's also taking exactly what you're taking and more.
01:06:02.000I think I could pull it off more because I don't do drugs because anytime I get like a gift box from a weed company, I give it to my friends and I feel like I could easily be like, oh here and have one that says it's like 10 milligrams and like ruin Frank Castillo's week.
01:08:09.000The point is it makes it an adventure.
01:08:11.000So instead of it being this boring thing that you have to do, now you're barely keeping it together.
01:08:18.000It's like trying to walk a tightrope while you're blindfolded, with one eye blindfolded, and one arm's tied behind your back, and you've got a fucking splinter in your foot.
01:10:39.000What makes that story, like, just get funnier and funnier the longer I picture it is thinking about how many times they say the name of the fucking flight in the airport before it They announced that we're going to start boarding to Galveston.
01:12:35.000Because they miss flights, because you get forgetful.
01:12:37.000When I would get high, and I used to get high every day, even though it gave me horrible panic attacks.
01:12:46.000horrible panic attacks gave me panic panic attacks and it gave me puke burps and I would smoke with like the guy I had a crush on like the guys I had a crush on and would get high as hell would be so aware of like every molecule of my body would be so self-conscious and then would start like deeply belching and the guy's like oh what the fuck It was fucking hell.
01:13:10.000I would drive and I would go 14 miles an hour.
01:13:14.000I would stop at a stop sign for half an hour.
01:13:18.000I just couldn't be sure of the distance.
01:13:20.000And I was like, well, maybe that car is far away.
01:14:51.000I'm just so used to it that I just walk through it and I'm just like, oh, this is the part of my lizard brain that makes my heart pound out of my chest as if I'm gonna go to war right now.
01:16:42.000The difference between having an hour or two to go over my material and think about what I'm going to do, you don't have to do that, right?
01:16:50.000But if you do that, you definitely feel better and your performance improves.
01:20:23.000They dread writing because they don't want to deal with writing shit and they don't want to deal with staring off into space not being able to think of anything so they try to think of something before they sit down to write and that's not what works for me personally.
01:20:39.000And they have a laptop so then they just start fucking going on YouTube or watching porn or looking at websites or Louis C.K. told me he has a laptop that's not even connected to the internet.
01:26:48.000I think that, especially now, having not shaken hands very much for a while, I think that it is strangely intimate to hold another person's Hand.
01:26:58.000People like touch their penises with their hands.
01:28:01.000Worry about that like I used to do Shows and after the show shake everyone's hand and take pictures with hundreds of people I would do like I did the Chicago theater It was like hours and hours of people in line taking pictures We were all laughing and just taking pictures of people for hours and just shook everybody's hand Wow,
01:28:19.000and now you think about that today like God Recipe for so many diseases like how did you not get sick?
01:28:25.000But I think it boosts your immune system.
01:29:31.000You must deal with like, you know, I don't want to say who it is, but there's a girl that used to go to the comedy store that stopped putting her name down on the list because she had this one rabid fucking stalker that wouldn't stop.
01:29:45.000And it made me so angry, you know, that she was so nervous that she had to take her fucking name off of the lineup.
01:30:22.000Something that has happened that I'm like so tickled by and confused and is so weird to me is like...
01:30:30.000There have been guys who have seen me and are too nervous to ask me for a picture, or are too nervous.
01:30:37.000There have been two now, so not a ton, but where they're too nervous to talk to me.
01:30:44.000And one of them I saw, and the other one told me at a later show that he stood and was ready to introduce himself, but then got too nervous.
01:30:55.000And the idea that people would be too nervous to meet me is very flattering to me at this point.
01:31:01.000It's way better than the forced kiss, though.
01:32:15.000Yeah, one of the comics got me a Diet Coke because he was going to get himself a Coke and I asked him if he would get me a Diet Coke and then hours later this happened.
01:35:20.000If they had a drink and don't remember what happened after that and woke up naked next to a fucking crazy chick who did the same thing to their friends.
01:38:57.000Yeah, if people didn't do it, it's Chanel.
01:38:58.000You know how guys like will make maps and you could go to the like especially like Quake 2 and Quake 3 Quake 2 in particular you could go and see how they were making the maps and it's almost like oh you see the structure of everything it's like when I've taken mushrooms there's been times where I thought I had a better understanding of the structure Of the things that I was seeing.
01:39:20.000Whether it's people or buildings or even outside and trees and everything just like looked, I understood it more.
01:39:31.000With edible weed I just get this like Bizarre exposure to reality like really bizarre like all like hyper aware of all of my vulnerabilities hyper aware of Of everything hyper aware of just so that one time I went did 1300 milligrams.
01:39:52.000I was at a concert where 1300. It's so hard.
01:39:54.000You were in a dome and there were visuals like you're explaining.
01:40:51.000Yeah, she shut the door too, if I just realized.
01:40:53.000Doing that, showing how Drake's producer has taken this Whitney Houston four-second sample, reversed it, pitched it up really high, and then they slowly fade into the song you recognize.
01:41:08.000You're like, I never knew that was Whitney Houston.
01:42:21.000Okay, drowsiness, sleep, dizziness, loss of motor control, decreased reaction time, impaired judgment, lack of coordination, slurred speech, confusion, aggression or excitability, loss of memory of events while under the influence,
01:42:38.000stomach disturbances, respiratory depression at higher dosage.
01:45:28.000GHB causes a loss of inhibition, relaxes people, boosts their sex drive, and promotes feelings of euphoria.
01:45:33.000But side effects include memory lapses, drowsiness, clumsiness, dizziness, or headache, lowered temperature, tremors, nausea, and diarrhea.
01:46:11.000I thought about it, but it wasn't worth it.
01:46:15.000If I had, I mean, I definitely believe in letting doctors do their jobs.
01:46:19.000And if I had, you know, a spinal surgery or a knee surgery or something else where the doctor was like, no, you need some serious painkillers, then I would take them.
01:46:27.000But if it's something where, like, I have the choice.
01:46:30.000Yeah, I do know guys have done that and started using again.
01:46:36.000Because you don't want to be in fucking agony from a surgery, but then it's like, you don't want to also go off the deep end and ruin your life too.
01:46:43.000The problem is opening the door, right?
01:50:13.000Did you learn this method from someone?
01:50:16.000Yeah, but I can't remember who or when, but something that really changed the way that I looked at meditation was Jimmy Shin, who I'm sure you know, or you don't at all, and that's fine too.
01:50:29.000He ran shows at the Comedy Store, and he and our friend Greg were talking to me about it, and they said that You can have your thoughts racing the entire time you're meditating and have that still be a perfect meditation.
01:50:46.000Because I was always obsessed with like, I'm doing it wrong.
01:51:12.000And now when I have a thought come into my head, as they do, I imagine it just like releasing out through my chest like steam and just going up.
01:52:24.000It's just like I started doing just six in and six out and I found a way where if I do it on a regular basis and just thinking about my breathing I can get into this weird trance.
01:52:34.000And a couple of times I've done it where I think I've achieved like some bizarre psychedelic state.
01:52:40.000And I haven't been able to do it recently.
01:52:43.000Like last time I did it was months ago, but I still do the breathing thing, but I think maybe I'm using it too hot.
01:52:49.000I think maybe if I lower the temperature to like 170 instead of like 185, I'll be able to relax a little bit more and I'll be able to achieve that state again.
01:52:58.000Because I think the times I've achieved the state, I was using a sauna that didn't get as hot.
01:53:57.000I've never been knocked unconscious, though.
01:53:59.000I've been dropped where, like, my legs gave out.
01:54:02.000The last fight that I had, the last kickboxing fight, I got hit with a left hook, and my legs just stopped working, and they went like this.
01:57:02.000Like, I don't think it's true, but I don't not think it's true.
01:57:06.000Well the thing about hallucinations is they occur in the same part of the brain as sight.
01:57:12.000So if you hallucinate you are seeing the thing.
01:57:15.000So I absolutely believe that a drug could unlock a door in the brain that's best left locked and he could have all those experiences and fully have had them.
01:57:40.000And I opened my eyes and saw the blue streamers.
01:57:44.000And I knew where I was right away, but I couldn't believe I was still there.
01:57:50.000So I haven't had it where I had other experiences, but I've had that feeling of a lot of time passing and then coming back and feeling like I traveled through time, essentially.
01:58:02.000Is that the only time you've ever fainted?
02:05:51.000I like not having to run shit by another person.
02:05:55.000I like being able to make my food the way that I like it and season it the way I like it and not have to worry about fucking Bozo's high blood pressure or the fact that he doesn't like fucking fish or what he wants to watch, what he wants to do.
02:06:11.000I feel like I talked to you at the store about this before COVID. Like...
02:06:17.000There's the issue of the fact that the relationships I've been in since doing stand-up, I've had the same fight over and over with my boyfriends, which is they're just like, I can't always be your last priority.
02:06:27.000And I'm like, well, you can't come before any of the shit that you come after.
02:07:02.000You can't come before all my basic needs.
02:07:04.000Well, it's sad when someone gives up those priorities and then puts a guy in first place and it winds up not working out and you've wasted so much time.
02:07:13.000Well, and this is also like, you know, when I was in Chicago and like working 40 plus hours a week at a day job, doing 34 shows in a month at night, so like literally bringing my comedy clothes with me to work, changing in the bathroom into like a mini skirt,
02:07:29.000and then like seeing my co-workers and being like, oh, I'm going.
02:07:33.000They must have just thought I like partied a lot because I always...
02:07:36.000Went from work to a show, and then getting home, and it's 11, 12, sometimes 1, and having to, you know, put some food in my face and go to sleep and wake up at 6 and do it the next day.
02:07:51.000Like, I'm sorry that I can't pencil in date night, motherfucker.
02:10:47.000That's the thing is, like, for a lot of comics, like, that's such a big year.
02:10:51.000The year where, like, when you're getting your shit together and you just started working and you're really kind of moving and shaking and going on the road and then all of a sudden the year's gone and you're like...
02:11:01.000Starting up the engine again and moving.
02:14:36.000It's like, to get to the level of being a legitimate professional...
02:14:41.000It takes so much trial and error, and the emotional pain of bombing is so fucking ruthless on your self-esteem and how you feel about life.
02:14:49.000And some people just can't take the hit.
02:14:52.000But if you can take the hit, if you can keep going, and if you're like you, or you're like, I feel unstoppable.
02:15:59.000I waited outside of the Laugh Factory in Chicago for fucking two weeks in the freezing cold, left work early to stand out there for an hour to go up on the open mic and do a clean three minutes the next week.
02:16:12.000Like, I could go on and on and on, but I followed the fucking process.
02:16:19.000And we have this idea that, like, Especially in the Midwest or in places that are not the coast, people have this idea where it's all about who you know.
02:16:30.000But what they don't tell you is like, but you meet those people by working hard and showing up and being tenacious and not quitting.
02:18:17.000The audacity that I had when I was 21 to think that I could be a professional comedian, I want to go back in time and smack myself in the face.
02:22:40.000And I've heard crazy things, like I lived with someone who swore that the COVID molecules hung in the air for up to an hour after a person walked by.
02:22:56.000Yeah, she was terrified she wasn't leaving the place.
02:22:59.000And I thought that no one was leaving their apartments, and I stayed inside for three months, didn't touch another human being, didn't fucking do anything.
02:23:06.000I went on a hike with someone, and they both got super mad at me, and I was like, I'm going to move out.
02:23:11.000And I told them the next day, so it was a separate conversation, but I was like, I'm moving out.
02:23:15.000So you went on a hike, and your roommate got furious?
02:23:29.000And when I have worked weekends, like when I worked a weekend in Vegas and it was indoor, and I quarantined before and after and I got tested.
02:23:39.000I flew to Wisconsin and I quarantined before and after and got tested.
02:23:43.000Didn't go around other people until I'd been tested.
02:23:46.000And so that's what I'm talking about, where it's like, I think that you can be careful and still live a little bit of life so that we don't all end up killing ourselves.
02:23:55.000Some people don't want to not be scared, though.
02:25:40.000So my priority was just do the podcast, wait for the dust to settle, wait for it all to either get herd immunity or go away, and just keep being pretty...
02:27:44.000Well, and I see a lot of body positivity posts in my Instagram feed, and the narrative is, you can be living your absolute best life and be morbidly obese.
02:27:57.000And I haven't had that experience, you know?
02:28:02.000I can't- I like how you just phrased that.
02:28:47.000Because the one physical attribute that's universally attractive across all cultures is a smaller waist-to-hip ratio because it indicates that a woman is fertile but not currently pregnant.
02:28:58.000Men are attracted to women who look like they could get pregnant in the same way that, like, we look towards bright colors because it might be a piece of fruit on a tree.
02:29:25.000Yeah, it pisses me off because so many of the people who are so easily offended and so quick to attack other people are people where I'm like, you're on my side.
02:29:59.000Now, it's a weird time because there's a lot of people's opinions that get broadcast to a lot of people now.
02:30:06.000And a lot of those people, you wouldn't really probably care about their opinions if you were just talking to them.
02:30:13.000But when they get together in these little bully groups and they go and attack them, this comedian wants fat people to die and would rather them die.
02:30:47.000It's like the way people communicate on Twitter.
02:30:49.000It's like, are you really that outraged that a girl is expressing that she used to be fat and she lost weight and now she can't get the fucking vaccine because they're giving it to fat people?
02:31:06.000There's a lot of fucked up things going on.
02:31:08.000If that's what's occupying your time and then you're replying and going back and forth for hours about this and probably checking your phone incessantly...
02:32:25.000That's how people are supposed to talk.
02:32:27.000That's how you find out who a person really is.
02:32:29.000That's how you find out how they really express ideas.
02:32:32.000This shit where you're just writing things out and tweeting things and you're doing it so people like you or pay attention or you're virtue signaling or you're trying to attack people and you're misrepresenting their original opinion and you know you are.
02:32:50.000Or you're doing it because you think that somehow or another they've said something that offends your group because you've got this tight group of people that also like to be fat.