On this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the boys talk about Franklin's Brisket, the best brisket in the whole wide world, and the best t-shirt ever made. Also, Matty and Aaron talk about guns and other cool shit. Enjoy the episode, and stay tuned for the next one. -Joe Rogan and the Joe Rogans Experience is a podcast where you get to listen to some of the most influential people in comedy, comedy, and stand-up comedy from all walks of life. Enjoy and spread the word to your friends and family about this podcast! -The Joe and the Gang Experience Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Thank you for listening and supporting the pod! Please rate, review, and subscribe to the pod on whatever platform you're listening on. If you like the pod, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you re listening. We re listening and sharing the pod with your friends. Peace, Love, Blessings, Cheers, EJ & The Crew. -Your Hosts, Ej & Matty. Cheers. Timestamps: 3:00 - 4:30 - What's your favorite thing you ve ever heard of the pod? 5:40 - EJ and EJ's T-shirt? 6:15 - What do you think of the podcast? 7: What would you like to wear? 8:00- What kind of weapon do you would you be wearing? 9:00 11: What are you looking for? 12:30- What's a good day? 15:00 +3: What s your favorite weapon? 16:40 17:00 Is your favorite color? 18:00 Should you have a gun? 19:00 Do you like a good shot? 21:00 Would you like me wear a shirt? 22:00 What are your favorite piece of armor? 23:00 How do you like your goggles? 24:00 Can I wear that? 25: Is it a good vane? 26: What color vidos? 27:00 Are you wearing a shirt that's a vane or something like that's cool? 30:00 Does he like the color of color?
00:06:36.000But me and my friends it was amazing my parents used to we would watch them at the very beginning like the hoist Gracie and the tanks and the early shit like you'd have like a 500 pound sumo guy fighting a karate person that's 120 pounds and We used to fight my parents used to like our all of our parents friends They would have all the kids and we would have to after the UFC we would all have to fight each other It was like battle royal And me and my two brothers and then all of our friends would always be over there,
00:07:02.000and we'd have to fight each other after.
00:07:55.000And I remember one time, a New Year's Eve party, I was hammered before, you know, this is early shit, and I got so drunk, and I was so funny, and I started, I was like, I want a fucking black eye, and I told everyone at the party was allowed to punch me in the face as hard as they could.
00:08:49.000If it was your birthday back in the day, I would sneak up and fucking pop you in the fucking face, and then you get a black eye from me for your birthday.
00:08:55.000This is what happens when you grow up in the woods.
00:09:55.000So I don't think they should take the gloves off, but they definitely should take the headgear off, because those are like fucking 10-ounce gloves.
00:13:04.000Then I'd drink like fucking a lot of those, and then I'd get into the whiskey.
00:13:09.000But on the second vodka, I'd probably do a couple bumpers, and then I'd just start bumping, and then I'm bumping, and then I'm bagged in, and then I'm deep in the bag.
00:15:02.000You know, every Sunday there'd be, you know, football games on and barbecue and cooking, but it would just be like, you know, everyone was there.
00:15:48.000Well, it's just a maintenance thing, and it's like a constant thing, and it's just like, you build it up, and it's just- It's part of the culture, too.
00:17:22.000Food reviewers didn't know what was happening, because we were young, we were cool, we played really loud music, and we served really good food.
00:17:28.000And people just didn't know, you know, it's like one of those things where you, and it was in a part of town that wasn't really built up yet, and it was just like, it was chaos.
00:17:43.000And we all were like riding this wave.
00:17:46.000And the wave, sometimes you get fucking barreled.
00:17:50.000And I think it's just like, but you keep going.
00:17:53.000And you know, and it is that pressure of making the best food that you can, having the best experience for those people that are coming into your restaurant.
00:18:18.000I was the last guy at the party kind of thing.
00:18:20.000You know, where it was just, like, after about two years at Parts and Labor, it kind of died, the hype died down, and it was, you know, it was just kind of one of those things where it's just, like, every day we partied.
00:18:34.000On the days off, all of our staff would party together.
00:18:37.000And it was just like one of those things.
00:18:43.000So at 29, I had a heart attack, right?
00:18:46.000So I had a heart attack after about a three-day binge, no sleep, Big fucking work, you know, just like 15 years, my whole life of being a maniac, being a psychopath, being like, I'll do anything on the table.
00:19:44.000And I go home, and I wake up at like 5, 5.30 in the morning.
00:19:50.000And I'm a big dude, so I used to do this thing.
00:19:52.000Like, if I was partying, like, really hard, and I get, like, palpitations...
00:19:56.000I would do this thing where I'm doing almost like jumping jacks, and I would cough out the palpitations that I would feel, and I thought that was doing well.
00:20:04.000I don't know if you do that when you're working out and you feel your heart rate getting to where you feel like your heart's going to explode, but I used to do this jumping jack thing, and I'd be at a party just shoveling cocaine in my face, and all of a sudden I'd be like, and doing this thing, and everyone's like,
00:20:36.000It was like an uncompromising vice grip on my heart.
00:20:41.000So it was like this thing that was getting tighter and it wouldn't stop.
00:20:47.000If I moved or anything and I would stand up and I was like stretching and I was doing all these things, I was just like, this is just, it's just clenching and it's getting tighter.
00:21:10.000And I was like, this is something I've never felt before.
00:21:13.000And this is something that I'm like, I know my palpitations, I know like, you know, coke boy fucking psycho shit, and I'm just like, this is not that.
00:21:19.000This is like, and I was like, Trish, take me to the hospital.
00:26:46.000One of the scariest things is your identity.
00:26:50.000My identity was if you came to Toronto...
00:26:53.000You were going to come to Parts and Labor and party with me.
00:26:55.000If you were a chef, if you were like, you know, a cool celebrity, if you were like a thing, you would come to Parts and Labor and like party, you know, kind of thing.
00:27:03.000And I was so fixated on this like persona, this thing that I'm like this party boy.
00:27:09.000And it was really scary because I was just like, am I really that?
00:27:41.000It's going to affect my contract with fucking Vice.
00:27:45.000Because my very first thing I did with Vice was a show called Hangover Cures, where I would take a chef and get them as fucked up as possible.
00:27:53.000Then the next day, that chef would have to cook me a hangover cure.
00:27:55.000And so it was just like, at the very beginning, I was so afraid that my whole identity was drugs, alcohol.
00:28:05.000And to separate that and to do the work and to get into fucking all the shit was very scary because I didn't even get sober for two years after that.
00:29:47.000Yeah, like I got I got banned from our own nightclub.
00:29:50.000I got banned from like, you know, I got walked in on and I was trying to like rob pretty much this drug dealer I was like I swung on like I would be blackout drunk Trying to fight my friends and like being like you can't stop like because people would try to stop me They would like I would walk into a bar and like because I'm in the hospitality group like,
00:30:08.000you know, I'm in the crew and So it's just imagine being a comedian and somebody gets almost blacklisted, but we still love you, but you can't show up here.
00:31:32.000And then, by the last time I ever drank, the last time I ever did any, like, fucking anything, was, you know, nine years ago, the weekend of November, whatever, 12th, and my friend was visiting from England,
00:31:49.000a chef, and we were doing a big dinner, and I got so fucking drunk.
00:31:54.000And I walked in Friday service, mid-service.
00:36:39.000And then a lot of hard work, a lot of years, a lot of listening, a lot of taking suggestions and doing things that other people say and listening.
00:41:53.000My crew was like a transitional time too, right?
00:41:56.000Within the last 10 years, within the last, you know, seven to five years was a big transition and just the mentality of chefs to be like, instead of like eating chocolate bars and smoking cigarettes and getting drunk and fucked up every day, we're gonna meditate, jog or run and work out and be peaceful and like talk about like different books that help us and check in on each other.
00:42:19.000And all of a sudden, there was, like, this big transition with me and our team and all that kind of stuff, too.
00:42:25.000Even more so now, it's a full, like, thing across our whole company about all that kind of stuff.
00:42:31.000But, you know, there was, like, it was one of those things where we were just, like, it was kind of, like, maybe they were hiding it from me, but there was definitely, like, we wouldn't drink at work anymore.
00:42:47.000Yeah, like, well, it's like that thing where it's just like, you know, maybe they were doing all the drugs and partying to, like, people please me.
00:46:16.000The party's over and you become the fool.
00:46:20.000And it's like that's the thing is like now I just want to have a thing like I just want my life to be normal Yeah, you know, I just want to have my I want to go to work Monday to Friday when I have weekends with my family and That's it, you know, that's great because you got the best of both worlds Like you had the experiences that you could talk about and you have these you have the chaos in your past Ah,
00:46:43.000but yet you still are having a good time Best time.
00:47:01.000And it's just like, and I, you know, I got mad ADD and I just want to fucking like grab you and like, I really want to feel your muscles right now.
00:47:09.000That's all I'm I want to be like, I want to feel his traps or his biceps.
00:47:13.000I want to just grab it and like, but that's my head.
00:47:15.000And then I'm like talking about this vulnerable bullshit and I'm just like, I'm going to grab his biceps in like two more hours.
00:47:21.000But it's just like, I think, you know, but I get to be me.
00:47:26.000I get to get a DM from you being like, hey, come on the show.
00:47:29.000And I'm like, what world am I living in?
00:51:20.000I was and I never did and I'm happy that I because I was so I never met him and I even anytime he came to Toronto I would make sure that I didn't go because I don't know I was just I was like I'm gonna fucking ruin it yeah I'm gonna walk up there and be like hey Tony let's do a bag of you know I wouldn't have done the thing that he makes fun of exactly because I was too young and too fucking psycho and too into meeting him yeah where I was just like I can't meet him because I'll fucking kook it Yeah,
00:51:47.000I got super starstruck when I met him.
00:52:12.000He has a lady that is his handler, and you have to contact the lady, and the lady will drop Dave off, and she will say, let me know if there's anything wrong.
00:54:23.000Well, no, the alcohol and benzos and alcohol are the only thing that really, or one of the rare things that really kill you if you jump off them.
00:54:30.000That's what they say about Amy Winehouse.
00:56:09.000But I think it was just like, you know, too many cooks in the kitchen with Vice, and I think it was just like, there was a lot of different little things, you know?
00:56:19.000But he gave me a shout, and it was crazy.
00:56:23.000He started popping up, and I was just like, he's doing it.
00:56:26.000And I was just like, he's fucking doing it.
00:56:28.000And I think it's like, you know, I even hit him up when his book came out.
00:56:34.000I hit him up and I was just like, hey man, we have the same publisher too.
00:56:38.000And I was just like, congratulations on publication day, third book, big one.
00:58:22.000Like, if you were in a kitchen, you're a chef.
00:58:23.000If you are leading a team, teaching them how to cut better, sharpen their knives, cut vegetables, take care of things, build stocks, build dishes, understand the ergonomics of a dish, then you're a chef.
00:58:36.000But I was just like, I'm not anything now.
00:58:40.000Because I'm only as good as my last paycheck.
00:58:43.000So I'm just like, there's no more paychecks.
00:58:45.000So I had some restaurant partners, and I was like, we're going to activate.
01:00:25.000I've built to a level where I feel comfortable with my team that I can start focusing my energy and time more on my physical self, which will help my mental self, which will now help everything else.
01:00:39.000So I think I'm trying to build my own Swiss clock of my Maddie world.
01:00:44.000And right now, I have to set up a financial foundation of businesses.
01:00:48.000Which I have, and now I have my home with my family taken care of, and now I can kind of start tending to Maddie a little bit.
01:02:22.000So my my my my my agility my agility we have great drainage sandy soil and My fucking my my my I was like literally it was the stupidest thing I fell down like a baby.
01:02:34.000I was like a turtle laying in the middle of fucking Melrose I was like Melrose and Myrtle and I was like at my homie.
01:02:40.000You do not want to be hurt on Melrose these days either It's like a Mad Max movie.
01:05:37.000As soon as the lights went down, everybody went fucking madhouse.
01:05:45.000I took my headphones off and I looked around and we were like, whoa!
01:05:50.000And me and John Anik and Daniel Cormier are looking at each other like, boys, this is crazy!
01:05:55.000And we took a photo, there's a photo that's on my Instagram of John Anik, Megan Olivi, me and Daniel Cormier right before the fight started.
01:06:06.000It was just like it felt so great because We had been calling fights over the past year, but we had been doing it with no audience at the Apex Center.
01:07:35.000So, it's like, California's approach is way worse than Florida's approach, and Florida's approach is way better than Canada's approach, too.
01:10:18.000It's still so early and it's so stupid and it's fucked up.
01:10:22.000You've got to give people personal freedom.
01:10:24.000You can't take that away from them because then you're not what we signed up for.
01:10:28.000What we signed up for is elected officials who represent the people.
01:10:33.000You're not supposed to run the people and tell the people they can't work.
01:10:37.000And if you're saying you're doing it to protect them, and it turns out not only does it not protect them, but it's less effective than letting them be free, and you don't course correct, and you don't adjust, then you're a piece of shit, and we have to take you out of office.
01:10:50.000That's what's happening in California.
01:10:52.000That's why they're recalling the governor in California.
01:12:18.000And then once we got the numbers in, in terms of what the disease was actually doing, unfortunately, Maddie, 78% of the people that are in the hospital from COVID are overweight.
01:13:21.000And there's a bunch of different ways to handle it.
01:13:23.000But the thing that drives me crazy and that drove me crazy and got me out of California was I was looking at the way some states were handling it.
01:13:30.000And I was like, that makes more sense.
01:13:31.000And I was looking at how California was handling it.
01:13:33.000They're representing it the way you want to live.
01:13:34.000Well, they were doing it in a more effective way because their case numbers were lower, but they had more freedom, and the economies were way better in those states.
01:13:43.000So even though people were catching COVID everywhere, every fucking state had COVID, right?
01:13:47.000In the states where they were open, the businesses were staying open, and there wasn't a significant difference in terms of, like, these states, the businesses are open, but look, way more people are dying.
01:14:05.000If you look at it statistically, but they have hot weather and they have sun, and so they're outside in the sun, and it's better for you for vitamin D as well.
01:16:59.000John Hennessey was telling me that between Houston and I forget what other spot, it's apparently like this insane wild boar area where they mostly hunt them night with night vision goggles and rifles.
01:17:11.000Dude, I remember my dad had a fucking VHS tape called Ferocious Tuskers.
01:17:19.000And it was a bowie knife, wild boar hunting video.
01:19:49.000Put a movie on that's enjoyable, crank it up loud so you hear it over the sound of your voice, and just get on an elliptical and watch the movie.
01:20:52.000But I'm just saying, just for activity, when you watch a movie with an elliptical machine or something like that, it's like it's not even happening.
01:22:49.000He's a famous Japanese samurai from the 1400s and he killed 62 men in one-on-one combat.
01:23:02.000Yeah, and he wrote a book called Go Rind No Show, The Book of Five Rings, and it's all about strategy, and I read it when I was a kid.
01:23:09.000I was obsessed with this guy when I was a kid, because when I was fighting, I was always looking for something to give me some sort of a psychological edge, and his book was all a book on it.
01:23:17.000I was like, who better to teach you about psychology of fighting than a guy who beat 60 men in fucking sword fights?
01:24:53.000From Steven Seagal to somebody who's killed 62 people.
01:24:56.000Well, Aikido was designed for, like if a samurai was in a sword fight, and the sword would go flying, and the guy was coming at you with a sword, you had to be able to take his energy and use it against him.
01:31:50.000Dude, I met him once again through the Ruka dudes, and it's just like, watching his highlight reel, I'm sitting with this guy.
01:31:58.000So once again, I love that I don't really know too much, so that you can meet people on these genuine kind of places, these good starting grounds.
01:33:34.000I remember at a young age, my dad teaching us how to box a little bit and fight, and I remember he always would say, he's like, punch through the face.
01:33:43.000He's like, you want to extend through the face.
01:33:47.000He's like, think about punching the back of their head.
01:35:24.000She's one of those people that, like, she followed me on Instagram, like, years ago, and I DM'd her, and I was just like, why do you, like, sometimes I'm, like, amazed.
01:35:32.000I'm just like, why do you follow, like, is this, like, you, or is this, like, a thing?
01:37:54.000The gi barely fits me, because obviously they don't have any large gis, because they're all in shape.
01:37:59.000And then the one guy, it was so funny, there was no belts that fit me, so the one guy had this big purple belt, and he gave me a purple belt.
01:38:05.000And so we took a photo after the thing, and my Instagram was like, you're a purple belt?
01:38:23.000But Alex, who do I do, he just became a blue belt.
01:38:27.000And he's doing it at the Undefeated Gym in LA. Oh, nice.
01:38:32.000And so he just got his blue belt, and we were talking about imposter syndrome.
01:38:36.000He was just like, because we always make fun, he always says he's a tough white belt.
01:38:39.000And so he's like, but now I'm a shit blue belt.
01:38:43.000You know, so it's always like that humbling moment, and there's always like that moment in time where you're like, I don't, why do I deserve that?
01:38:49.000He's like, I should have worked hard, I should be a better white belt to get that blue belt, actually.
01:38:53.000He's like, I could still work harder at being a white belt to get that blue.
01:38:58.000And I think that is the thing where most of the time, my brain is always saying, no, why do you have this?
01:39:49.000You know, because it doesn't make sense, especially like when you're young, you never thought you'd be successful, and then all of a sudden you are, and you're like, is this even real?
01:40:12.000We started out together, and one of the things we always talked about was that one day we would get to a place where we could pay our bills with comedy.
01:40:30.000Like, do you get paid for five minutes?
01:40:31.000Yeah, well, you get a little bit, depending on which club it is.
01:40:34.000You know, it depends on where you're at.
01:40:36.000Like, clubs in New York, they'll have people do shorter sets, and clubs in LA, sometimes you do 15, so you make like 25 bucks at the Comedy Store if you do 15. But if you do, like...
01:41:03.000When you go on the road, you know, if you're lucky, you'll get a guy who's a headliner who'll take you with him on the road.
01:41:10.000So, like, say if you're starting out and you're a host or an opening act, someone will take you with them and then they'll let you, they'll say, hey, just do 10 minutes and then bring up the middle act and then you'll get to watch the middle act and go, someday, someday I'll be the middle act.
01:41:22.000And then one day you're the middle act and you watch the headliner and you're like, someday.
01:41:26.000And then someday, one day you're the headliner and then one day people are actually coming to see you.
01:41:30.000And one day they introduce you and people cheer and you're like, what?
01:42:46.000I was just like, I walked out, I was like, you fucking, like, I just started, like, chirping the crowd a little bit, and, like, working the crowd, and being like, where the fuck are you from?
01:42:53.000I'm like, I'm in, my first show was in Boston, in this, like, little dive bar, and it was so incredible.
01:42:58.000I was just like, what the fuck is up with Boston?
01:43:00.000You guys are fucking all racist, you're fucking losers, you all sound like you're from Southie, I was just like, whatever, making jokes.
01:43:06.000And I was just like, and then I was just like, okay, who thought I was gonna cook?
01:43:10.000And everyone's like, and I'm like, why would I cook?
01:44:10.000I have a baseline that I work on, and I go on and off, and I have tangents that I can run off of, and I've built out this timeline of my life, and I tell these stories throughout my life.
01:44:21.000If you just tell the drug stories, I feel like.
01:44:23.000Bro, I have this one story that's incredible where we stole $16,000 from my parents.
01:44:30.000My dad was an entrepreneur at one point, so we had a lot of money.
01:49:06.000He calls our old roommate Dougie and he literally is like, dude, I got pulled over and there was like a snowstorm kind of and my windshield wiper flew off and I was using my arm driving like half the speed limit and I got pulled over because the cop is now going to drive me to a garage so I can fix my windshield wiper.
01:50:23.000And then he called us about the cops and all this stuff and we were all gonna have Dustin and he showed up and it was the craziest.
01:50:32.000We did all the cocaine in about two weeks and we didn't sell any of it and none of us left and And I'm like, if you're in culinary school, everyone's pretty crispy.
01:50:48.000At that point, you're just like, and it's pure cocaine, so you can sleep on it.
01:50:55.000So we broke off this little piece, and I can still remember it.
01:50:58.000I remember everybody that was there, I won't say their names, because one of them works at the airport.
01:51:05.000I remember man and he broke off a piece and we took it and it was like a rock and he just took it and like hit it on the table and just dust fell and we made like fresh lines out of that and we just did it and we were like it was like it was a movie it was like euphoric it was like this is a drug see this is a drug the shit we're doing with like with like laxatives and fucking stepped on ten times that's not a thing this fresh cocaine that's nice that's what It should be,
01:52:20.000No, because even if you want to cook it and take it and fucking freebase it or anything, it just turns to glue most of the time.
01:52:28.000Or even, you can get chunky, shitty Coke, and sometimes I would take a plate and put it in the microwave and heat it up, and then you pour the Coke on there and it'll dry it out, kind of, and make it more crispier and nicer to sniff.
01:53:17.000Well, it's just like, because I wasn't a drug dealer, but it was like, I lived with a couple drug dealers, and then it was so good that we were just like, this is crazy.
01:53:25.000We have the supply, and we're like, this will last us like a year.
01:57:53.000And it was amazing because literally I get back.
01:57:56.000You know, I'm like, I go back to school, you know, take a shower, brush my teeth, you know, get ready and shave my face.
01:58:04.000And then like two weeks later, it's almost like the end of the year too, and I fucking, I just drop out to go on tour with like a metal band, with my buddy's like metal band.
01:58:14.000And I like drop out and then like my punk, because I was like, you know, when you're, I feel like I got caught.
01:58:20.000By doing drugs, but then me being like punk I was like all my friends like death metal band is touring Canada They're like do you want to come with us?
01:58:28.000I don't need a piece of paper I don't need my diploma to say that I'm a chef I learned everything what I'm gonna learn in the last two weeks of this course and so I ended up actually dropping out and And I felt like it's one of those things where I was just like, you know, I never talked to those chefs again I never saw it like who sees their college student or you know who sees their teachers from college really and then years down the line It's so incredible.
01:58:51.000My chef, Chef Anthony, I'll say his first name, but Chef Anthony fucking hit me up on Facebook.
01:58:58.000He's this big Irish fucking red motherfucker.
01:59:34.000Like, all of the chefs in that class, in that fucking whatever, that was, you know, whatever you call it, a class or whatever, there's like, you are the one.
02:00:52.000It is interesting that no one else from the class made it.
02:00:55.000Yeah, and I don't even mean that to—because I'm a firm believer of going to school, and I think going to school taught me that I liked school.
02:01:27.000And most people don't use the tools that you learned in high school.
02:01:31.000Like, high school's mostly just a social experiment, you know, for, like, building, keeping kids away from their parents and, like, doing stuff and building social fucking, you know, awareness, kind of.
02:01:40.000But I think it's just, like, the amount of things that...
02:01:45.000I think the thing that clicked with going to cooking school was I realized what self-esteem was.
02:01:53.000I never felt self-esteem like that before.
02:01:56.000Where all of a sudden, if I showed up with my clean chef whites, and I did what the chef said, and I did my mise en place, and I cooked a dish, and I did everything to fucking the spec of what was put to me...
02:02:12.000I was always just, what do I have to do to pass?
02:02:14.000I was very much like, and I was funny enough in high school that I could work with my teachers on what do I have to do to just get through this shit?
02:02:28.000And I think a lot of teachers even were like, well, you know, I was one of those kids that they're like, okay, good luck with whatever the fuck you're going to be doing, too.
02:02:50.000I remember when I switched, because I got kicked out of my first high school for fighting, and my older brother was a fighter too, so they're like, we're not dealing with another Matheson.
02:02:57.000You've got to get the fuck out of here.
02:02:59.000So then I went to a Catholic high school, and I remember the first week, I walked, during morning prayer, I was just like...
02:03:08.000And just walked out of the room because I saw my homie walking down the hallway.
02:03:45.000So in Nova Scotia, big, big fellowship, Mormon world, you know?
02:03:51.000Then my dad was like a high deacon or whatever the fuck it was.
02:03:54.000We always sat next to the Bishop's family, front row shit, because it's all like the families, whoever's up on the stage or whatever, the families sit in the front rows and shit.
02:04:03.000And so then when we moved to Ontario...
02:04:06.000I fucking, you know, like when we were about 12 or 13, right around like that time when we started all of a sudden doing like drugs and drinking is when we stopped going to the church.
02:04:19.000Because that's maybe a part of it too, right?
02:04:21.000Where like, we were like, I never had a Coca-Cola.
02:04:39.000When we left the church, but because they have so much information on you and your family tree stuff, it takes a long time to actually get your shit out of there.
02:06:15.000You know, like, little small things that I don't think are, you know, crazy.
02:06:19.000But I think it's definitely, like, one of those things that, like, you know, never having, like, a Coca-Cola, and then all of a sudden I'm, like, doing acid.
02:06:35.000Sometimes that's what triggers it, right, is the repression.
02:06:38.000There's so much repression, and then all of a sudden they take the reins off you.
02:06:42.000Well, and the idea of heaven, just like, at a young age, I strongly felt like there was no heaven.
02:06:48.000And I strongly felt, I didn't believe it from a young age, because I also, and there's three levels of heaven in the Mormon, or in the Book of Mormon, right?
02:06:57.000There's like the celestial, the fucking whatever, and the whatever.
02:06:59.000So I was just like, there's three levels of heaven.
02:08:38.000But I think it was like one of those things where I remember when the missionary showed up and it was almost like they served her like papers or some shit.
02:08:45.000And I remember my older brother almost like beat the shit out of these missionaries.
02:08:48.000Was like, get the fuck out of, you know, one of those kind of things.
02:08:51.000Like get off our porch, get the fuck out of here.
02:09:09.000Because they know the guy who made it up, and he was a con man.
02:09:12.000We used to go to the hill where he found the Book of Mormon, and they used to redo the event, and we would visit the jail where he was murdered.
02:10:32.000Well, they always thought that, you know, scientists and archaeologists thought that people came down from the Bering Strait, the Bering landmass.
02:10:40.000But there was also people that lived here as well.
02:10:43.000See, there's a lot of confusion about that.
02:10:59.000And they think maybe some of them made it here, and they think that for sure some people came across the Bering Landmass, and they think that some people might have come up from South America, like the Olmecs.
02:14:12.000Like, they're floating over and it was like this incredible thing where we were like, and forever, like, our family is just like, remember the aliens that came to your wedding?
02:14:22.000It floated down there because you just put them up.
02:14:24.000This is like lighting trash on fire and letting it go.
02:18:14.000And I think if something like the aliens came, the only good thing that would come out of it is we'd realize how foolish a lot of the arguments, a lot of the anger that we have are.
02:18:25.000Well, it goes away once the big dogs come down.
02:19:10.000You know, like, it is one of those things where we're just not prepared for whatever, like, we're so used to being in our own, you know, world.
02:19:16.000We have a narrow window that we can operate in, and anything that goes outside of that narrow window would fall apart.
02:19:22.000Do you think, like, laser weaponry would help us?
02:19:24.000Or do you think bullets would, like, nothing will help us?
02:19:27.000This is going to be like us showing up in tanks and dealing with chimps.
02:21:06.000It looked like there was a ship underwater.
02:21:08.000And so as they closed in on this, they saw this thing that was about the size of this room, like 20 feet, 30 feet long, something like that.
02:21:19.000Somehow intelligently controlled it faced them and it blocked their radar which is Technically an act of war right and then it moved off at such an insane rate of speed that they couldn't watch it and then it went to their There they had an established destination point that they were eventually going to go to that was 30 miles away This tic-tac thing flew to that spot so they took their information.
02:21:44.000Yeah It was like, you're going here, I go there.
02:21:46.000It went directly there, but it got there in a second, 30 miles away.
02:21:50.000It went from 80,000 feet above sea level to one foot in less than a second.
02:21:56.000They have no idea how fast because the radar blips like one second.
02:21:59.000In that time, it went from 80,000 feet to one feet above sea level.
02:23:00.000They came down here, whether it's Australopithecus or some of the lower primates, and they intervened and did some genetic experiments and created us.
02:23:10.000Now, one of the reasons why that's so interesting is because scientists recently just came out and admitted that they've made human-monkey hybrid embryos.
02:23:21.000So these are real things that they've done.
02:23:23.000And they said they did it under the guise of harvesting organs, because we need organs, so they're going to make these human- Just organ donors.
02:24:04.000And what if these monkey-human hybrids go straight Planet of the Apes on us?
02:24:08.000The idea of us interfering with a lower animal sounds arrogant and crazy.
02:24:15.000So when we think about someone doing that to us, like an animal, like some being from another planet coming down here and introducing its DNA into ours, into what we used to be, into lower primates and creating a person, sounds so arrogant and crazy.
02:24:30.000But then you think of what we're actually doing with humans and monkeys.
02:26:25.000So what they think, what this guy, Zacharias Hitchin, and his believers think is that they were trying to tell this story of how some beings came from another planet, manipulated human DNA, and look at that.
02:26:41.000So this is from, there's the sun and there's all the planets, and that one planet all the way over to the right in between them, they think that is this planet that they all came from.
02:34:16.000But, you know, people were there, and they have some pretty detailed depictions of those people back then, like when Cortes came and the Spaniards came.
02:34:27.000I think if I had to choose one, it would be ancient Egypt.
02:34:30.000But if I had to choose another one, I think I might want to be...
02:34:34.000I might want to see what it was like when the settlers first encountered the Native Americans when they were making their way across North America.
02:36:48.000Coming to terms and like fighting the war at the end, but they have to return, like one warrior has to return this chief to, you know, or a soldier, I shouldn't say, but like a soldier returning a chief to his land that they just had this great war, you know, the horrible fucking war,
02:37:05.000but it's just like, you know, like, it's a great movie.
02:39:35.000Like when you're out there on a mountaintop and you're out looking out, part of what's amazing about it is the humbling of yourself that comes about.
02:39:45.000You gain this intense humility because you're around this...
02:43:59.000You know, it's an interesting thing to talk to, like, young kids about that because they really soak it up, right?
02:44:04.000And I'm just, like, learning, like, not to talk too much about stuff, some stuff, but, like, Trisha, she loves talking about everything with them.
02:44:12.000It's so interesting to see her, like, really engage and, like, describe, like, what, like, murder is.
02:44:17.000Or describe, like, you're watching something and he's like, what is that?
02:44:20.000And, like, Trisha will be like, well, that's when, like, somebody, like, kills somebody and they didn't like them and then they killed them and it's not good to kill anybody, though.
02:44:28.000And you're just like, what's happening?
02:44:30.000What's crazy is he's only been alive for five years.
02:44:35.000Just think about yourself five years ago.
02:45:02.000It's one of those things where I always knew that I wanted kids and wanted this stuff, but I was just like, I don't know how it will fit in with my whole thing, right?
02:45:11.000It's such a different thing where you're your own individual, your relationship with your wife and your partner, and then your children, and how does that all work?
02:45:19.000Louis C.K. gave me some real good advice once about that.
02:46:15.000The craziest thing, too, now that we're just talking about kids, but it's just like one of the things that makes me crazy, or not crazy, but the growth of the love...
02:46:27.000And the connection, because it's like one of the, I said, I mentioned that earlier where it's just like when, and we did very intense home births, beautiful, very lucky to have like, you know, no breaches or no nothing and they were very, you know, Trish did all the work.
02:46:41.000What do you do if there is a breach if you're doing a home pregnancy?
02:46:44.000Do you just get her to the hospital quick?
02:46:45.000Yeah, we have one midwife, and we did a doula for the first one, and then we literally didn't have anybody.
02:46:51.000It was just me and the midwife for Rizzo and Ozzy.
02:46:56.000So yeah, if something goes down, then you just call the EMS. And then you have a thing set up.
02:47:01.000When you're close to the hospital still?
02:47:03.000No, well, at the farm, we're like 45 minutes.
02:47:21.000But the thing that I was trying to say is that the magic of television and our brains are like, the second it comes out, you have this eternal love.
02:47:31.000Where you do have that eternal love, but the love really grows.
02:49:11.000You just want your kids to be happy human beings.
02:49:15.000The saddest thing is when someone has expectations for their children that aren't their children's hopes and dreams, and they force them on their kids.