Joe Rogan Experience #1685 - Shane Gillis
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3 hours and 13 minutes
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The boys are back after a brief hiatus, and we're back with another episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. This week, the boys are joined by comedian and friend of the pod, Nick Pizzi, who joins them to talk about a variety of topics, including: drinking in general, how to deal with a hangover, and how to not get drunk at comedy clubs. They also discuss how to handle a night out with friends and family when you're drunk, and why they don't like drinking at all. They also talk about how they try not to drink at all when they're drinking with friends, and what they do when they do get drunk. And of course, they talk about the worst thing you can do when you re drunk, which is talk shit with your friends. Enjoy the episode, and don t forget to subscribe to the pod by clicking the bell to get notified when we upload a new episode every Monday morning! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art by Skandalous. We do not own the rights to either of these songs, credit goes to the original artists. If you like them, please give us a review on Apple Podcasts! Thank you for listening and rating/subscribing! Also, if you like the pod and review, please leave us a rating and review in iTunes, we'll be sure to send us your thoughts on the podCast and review the podcast in the comments section! Thanks again for listening to this episode, it really means a lot to us. We really appreciates the pod cast and it's a lot of people are listening to our podcast and it helps us out! -Maggie and we really appreciate it. - Thank you so much. -Mavus and Nick is a great podcast! XOXO -Joe Rogan and Nick and Nick are looking out for the pod is amazing. -- Thank you, Joe Rogans and we appreciate you, Nick and his support is so much of your support is really important to us and we hope you're listening to us, too much of this podcast is really good, too. Thank you guys are amazing, really good and we love you, thank you for all of your feedback is really appreciative of us, so much, we appreciate all of our support.
Transcript
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So we were saying that, I was saying that this is Stan Hope's move, drinking Bud Light, and you were saying that you like drinking Bud Light because you could drink more, and then I said Stan Hope switched to cocktails.
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All this happened, we had to fuck up with the recording.
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Just being bombed and having random strangers show up at his house?
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But, yeah, every once in a while he'd get a little nasty.
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I mean, it was like a month, and I can drink, but I can't...
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I think when the mines closed, because it was an old copper mine, And they all, like hippies from California moved in there.
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Although I think all he does is, I could be wrong.
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Maybe his routine changed during COVID. In fact, I know it did.
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He would just go to the grocery store and come back.
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Just make sure he's got enough money in the bank?
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But yeah, like I said, every once in a while he'd get a couple drinks and be like, look at you.
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He'd be hanging out and out of nowhere he'd be like, you're fat.
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People that just drink Bud Lights, they probably don't get that nasty.
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You know, like some seafood and like a nice light beer.
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Yeah, you can't drink like craft or like IPAs outside.
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Yeah, I know, but if I start crushing IPAs, I'll get hammered.
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If I drink 12 IPAs a night instead of Bud Lights, it'd be a disaster.
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But you wouldn't need 12. You'd need five, and you'd have the same effect.
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Yeah, but that's why I try not to drink liquor ever.
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I'm trying not to get fucking hammered at these places.
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I had a bad habit of getting hammered at clubs and talking shit.
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That's the worst feeling when you're all drunk together and you're like, did I say something stupid?
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And you know people said stupid shit to you, so you're like, man, was I that guy too?
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At the cellar now, it's like we're all having conversations about race and shit like that.
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I might get hammered and be like, would you guys shut up?
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There is nothing worse than comedians that are virtue signaling.
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Like, around other comedians and trying to establish a way that we should all communicate.
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Just because someone says something ridiculous to make other people laugh, like, yeah, that's what they're doing.
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They find a way to claim the moral high ground, to be upset at everybody else.
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But if you're a comedian and you do that, you're a traitor.
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You know that these guys are just talking shit.
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Here's me, you know, just being vulnerable and truthful.
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No, we're saying ridiculous things to make each other laugh.
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Six or seven of these, and we'll have a good buzz going.
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You know, that's one of the things that I've been reading about lately.
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I'm actually rereading this book by Brian Murarescu.
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It's all about ancient Greece and how they used to take wine, and they had wine laced with all these psychedelic chemicals, and that's, you know, the whole Eleusinian mysteries.
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But back then, everybody used to drink all day.
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They didn't know how to make strong shit like they know how to make today.
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Sitting around, waiting to get fucking killed by barbarians?
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Yeah, they would do mushrooms and go berserking.
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I can't imagine doing those things on mushrooms.
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If, like, that was a normal part of everyday life, was cutting people apart, you'd probably want to be on mushrooms.
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But that's why people complain today, you know, because it's pretty easy.
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So the things that people complain about, they're relatively mild in comparison to the historical record of how fucked up life was.
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So you saw that in the store and you're like, this is the one.
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I saw this shirt and I was like, that's the drip.
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I was with Ari at the house and I was like, I look like a dickhead, right?
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Taking your dick out with other people around is funny.
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And I was like, dude, who's this joke for, bro?
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Plus, I guarantee you Tim's got cameras everywhere.
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And I was like, I bet you I can swim underwater the length of the pool.
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And then when I got, I was like out of breath, got to the other side, I was like, came out and his dick was out.
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That dude lived most of the pandemic in South America.
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So yeah, he was trying to get me to go down there with him.
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He's big on new experiences, like hiking type things, going places and traveling.
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Well, he got real big on travel a few years back where he took like three solid months off where he didn't do any comedy.
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I think he brought a flip phone, and he just traveled.
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He asked me to go to Bonnaroo with him this year.
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I was like, dude, I'm not going to a fucking...
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It's gonna be 95 degrees with just hippies and tents.
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Yeah, he likes taking Molly and hanging out with weirdos.
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I don't think I know anybody that values freedom like Ari does.
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Even though stand-up's the best job in the world, he'll take months off of his schedule.
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Well, I think it's from when he was a kid, leaving the whole Jewish thing.
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He's probably accustomed to losing his entire community.
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For people who don't know, he lived, what is it?
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He lived somewhere in Israel where they read the Talmud like 12 hours a day.
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And they did chores and he was in like a religious retreat.
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And then they realized, or he realized like, fuck this.
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People would think, oh, I told you he was a Republican.
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Payne Stewart, he used to wear it all the time.
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Yeah, if I had one here, I'd put it on so you could see.
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Yeah, I'd have to be like, well, of course I would.
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I'm not going to be like, you look like a fucking idiot.
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Of course I'll be like, yeah, everything you do is great.
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I mean, the only thing I like is doing stand-up, so...
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Bro, I was standing in the back with Ari and you started going and I was looking at him like...
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Yeah, I mean, some people are gonna get mad, but it's comedy, you know?
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The people that aren't mad are having a great time.
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I mean, we saw, we just did two nights in a row.
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And these shows at Vulcan that we've been doing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, they sell out, like, instantly.
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And these knuckleheads decided to defund the police.
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Yeah, you got a fucking driver and a bodyguard, dude.
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I'm walking around just like, dude, I'm gonna get fucked up here.
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Get from the parking lot into the structure, and then from the structure to the parking lot, and then we vacate the area.
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Yeah, you secure the perimeter of the area with security.
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If you have sunshine all the time, you have California, and everybody's fucked up.
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It's like someone who stays up for five days in a row.
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Even California now, they're recognizing, like, Los Angeles is hitting a massive crime wave.
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I know so many friends who their apartment's been broken into, their car's been broken into, they've been robbed.
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And, you know, that makes it more dangerous, but it also makes it more fun.
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Like Burr was saying when he did Saturday Night Live, and when he did that sketch, or that opening monologue, rather, and he talked about, what's his name, that got punched, the little dude?
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Yeah, yeah, the guy from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
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But that's what happens when you have all this...
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A lot of just run up to random whiteys and punch them.
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When you're 60 years old and you don't know karate, and you're Rick Moranis, it's probably not the best.
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Yeah, and that guy's not going to recover from that well.
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Tim told me, Dylan told me that he was in Times Square and he felt like he was being hunted.
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It used to be so easy to walk, and now you walk into the streets, you feel like a victim.
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I moved there like a year before COVID started.
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The first open mics I did were at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone.
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They lived in Harrisburg, and they lived somewhere else out there.
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There was another, like, real rural area of Pennsylvania.
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I'm like, people who think of Pennsylvania, they think of Philly.
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You know, you think of Pennsylvania, you think of Pittsburgh, you think Philly, you think cities.
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You're out there, you just smell cow shit, and you see deer everywhere.
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I think that's one thing that happened with COVID. People are moving out of cities in a lot of places.
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There's still plenty of people in cities, obviously.
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But a lot of folks are like, do I need to do this?
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Like, to get good enough at stand-up to do, like, what Nate Borgazzi's doing, just living in fucking Tennessee.
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And I just got in at the cellar and all that, so.
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Well, you could always just travel around, too.
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Guys like Tim that have places out here that you could stay at, I would buy a comedy condo, but I do not trust comedians.
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For the club, I would have a condo out here where comics could stay, but they'll ruin it.
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They'll punch a hole in the wall and piss on it and then show me a video.
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I swear to God, before I came here, me and Ari were talking about that.
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But they don't know you know fucking karate, dude.
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Like, all I did was make a video of pissing in a hole in his wall.
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If I had a hole in someone's wall and I was drunk and it was funny and somebody had a camera, I'd probably do it.
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You know, because you think you're never going to get that piss out of the wall.
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And then he went and punched a hole in the wall and threw up in it.
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I think he's trying to have a career right now.
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Punching a hole in the wall after losing a fight and throwing up in it.
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Have you ever been in a party where a full melee brawl breaks out?
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I was in one- just when I graduated high school.
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There was a kid who was- I think he was from Iran and his family had a lot of money and they had a mansion in Beacon Hill.
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But it was somewhere in the Newton, Massachusetts area where they have like a lot of money.
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And this kid just invited everybody over to his house.
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And this girl, I still to this day can't remember what she did.
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She either threw a drink in a guy's face or she hit him.
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But I was there when the first spark started the fire.
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And this dude just fucking uncorks a picture-perfect right hand in her face.
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And then there's fucking people jumping on people and smashing things and throwing people over stairs.
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And I'm like fucking ducking and I make my way out.
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It was just like, all of a sudden, you could feel it in the air.
00:21:02.000
It's like something happens to people when there's a mob mentality thing.
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They were just looking at you like, maybe I'll punch you.
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I snuck through it without getting hit, and I got outside, and friends of mine were, like, in piles.
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These piles of people fighting random piles of other people.
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The last one, it was in high school, we got in a group fight.
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I went to the Catholic high school, the public high school.
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We decided to meet to fight, and I guess half their guys didn't show up to the fight, so me and, yeah, we just jumped to them.
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It was probably like, we were probably about 20 to 30 deep.
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They were probably like 10. We just beat the fuck out of these kids.
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He's going to be very happy when he hears this.
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He started doing wrestling moves to these kids.
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Yeah, but it was funny, because a lot of the kids who were afraid to fight, that were with us, my friends, were kind of hiding.
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It was at night, so they were hiding in the dark.
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And then once one kid from the other school went down, they'd all swarm and start kicking him in the face and shit.
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Now imagine a 25-year-old man who was like 350 pounds.
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So a MMA fighter used the walls of Jericho to win a match?
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And once someone has your legs in that position and they've got their center of gravity over your lower back, you're not really getting out of that.
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Like, if you get to that position right there, you're kind of fucked.
00:23:41.000
Every single younger brother on earth has had that happen to them.
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It's like you shouldn't ever get to that spot, but if someone does get you to that spot, I'm trying to think of how you would get out of that.
00:23:56.000
Because the way your body is bent, like you would have to figure out a way to rotate, but you're not going to rotate with full hold of your legs like that, and then someone leaning on your back, and you're trying to turn, you're fucked.
00:24:08.000
That might be like the ultimate finishing move.
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The thing about that, it's like, it's not going to take you out.
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I think it just puts your spine in a very bad position where it hurts a lot.
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I think it's the same thing because it just was like a cleaner video of it.
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Because once you get into that position, like when someone has both of your legs tucked under the arms like that, I don't know what you're going to be able to do.
00:25:02.000
The guy in the blue, he's way better, and the other guy's already done.
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The key is to never let yourself get into that position.
00:25:31.000
So that's a Boston Crab, or is that the Walls of Jericho?
00:25:35.000
I think it's Chris Jericho doing it makes it the Walls of Jericho, otherwise it's a Boston Crab.
00:25:41.000
Congratulations on reliving the worst thing that's ever happened to you on a gigantic platform.
00:25:56.000
People get so sad and someone catches them from the wrist lock.
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A wrist lock in an MMA fight is a very embarrassing moment.
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But, like, in jujitsu, it's, like, the most embarrassing way to get tapped.
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I thought the most embarrassing is getting tapped by like a girl, right?
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And that happens to everybody that does jiu-jitsu.
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They always show up early and they're like, I'll be pretty good at this.
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Then all of a sudden she's fucking behind your back, chucking the shit out of you.
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When you find out a woman can kill you, it's very sad.
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A woman who weighs less than you, who's weaker than you, but she can kill you?
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I got Duncan a year of jiu-jitsu once for Christmas, and he went to classes, and he was doing it with his girl, and she was new.
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They're both starting together and she was strangling him.
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And I was like, oh, Duncan, we got to work on this.
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When I started, there was very few women doing it.
00:27:36.000
Any girl willing to play tackle football with boys?
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And then once, you know, then we all hit puberty and they couldn't.
00:27:49.000
Did you see that giant transgender woman that's playing rugby in Australia?
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I don't even know if this person's undergone any transition because we've gotten to this super preposterous point where you can just say you're a woman.
00:28:20.000
Like, there's a thing about a woman getting arrested for child molestation.
00:28:25.000
And I'll send the video because I'm going to send you this, Jamie.
00:28:31.000
You have to see this because this woman has a beard.
00:28:38.000
Come on, look at the size of that male human being who is playing rugby against women.
00:29:09.000
Yeah, that's a large person to be playing rugby against women.
00:29:12.000
And I would say that that was probably an unfair decision.
00:29:20.000
Woman charged after allegedly sexually assaulting boy six in Toronto Park.
00:29:46.000
Shouldn't they at least say woman with a penis?
00:29:54.000
They don't even say anything about the person being transgender.
00:29:58.000
We've gone through the looking glass where everything's nuts.
00:30:01.000
She is charged with sexual interference with a person under the age of 16 and sexual assault.
00:30:08.000
Is there any small chance that they just accidentally put the wrong picture up in the article?
00:30:15.000
Probably not, but it's happened before, and they're just like, oops, we put the wrong...
00:30:20.000
What, are you working for the Toronto government?
00:30:37.000
The male teachers that get in trouble for hooking up with kids.
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They should be like, I actually identify as a woman.
00:30:45.000
Women who molest boys, everybody's like, hmm, what's a woman?
00:30:53.000
That looks, if I had a bet, guy or girl, I mean, I'm leaning heavily towards God.
00:31:14.000
They're trying to say that that's a sexual orientation and that being a pedophile is actually a sexual orientation.
00:31:31.000
I saw a professor talking about how a woman, or a man rather, could have a sexual consenting relationship with a 13-year-old.
00:31:42.000
And I was like, what in the fuck are you saying?
00:31:48.000
Yeah, because you have no kids, you think stupid shit because you think it makes you sound progressive.
00:31:55.000
That's a tough one to get to through being progressive.
00:32:01.000
People can make some fucking weird mental leaps in gymnastics.
00:32:09.000
There's also people that are just a real contrarian.
00:32:11.000
They just want things to be okay, even if they're not okay, so they'll argue for it as an intellectual exercise.
00:32:26.000
You would say that, but we are so through the looking glass with so many things that really are preposterous that I'm not sure if that's the case anymore.
00:32:35.000
You know, like the idea that you can't be racist if you're a person of color.
00:32:52.000
They know it's not true too, but they're counting on the fact that the people that say this, first of all, they're all people of color, so they're in a protected class, or they're white people who feel extra guilty, so they want you to feel bad.
00:33:05.000
And so they want to show you that they're on the side, the good side.
00:33:08.000
They're on the side of the people that are anti-racist.
00:33:13.000
Or the people of color can't be racist is because, like, you call a white person, like, yeah, whatever, cracker.
00:33:19.000
But they found a loophole, and it's to call us racist.
00:33:28.000
It's even worse because it makes you feel guilty.
00:33:31.000
Because if someone calls you a bad word, like a negative stereotype about your race, they're the piece of shit, not you.
00:33:38.000
But if someone calls you a racist, now you have to defend yourself against being a piece of shit.
00:33:46.000
What was your experience like with the whole SNL debacle thing?
00:33:56.000
There's not many people that you can even talk to about it.
00:34:02.000
It makes you not trust people and shit for a while.
00:34:17.000
I was one of the first people to get canceled or however you want to say it.
00:34:57.000
So I found out I was getting on SNL the day before they announced it.
00:35:02.000
They're like, hey, we want to put you on the cast.
00:35:09.000
My agents and all those people, they were like, do you want to send a packet in for SNL? And I was like, no.
00:35:21.000
And then I guess they saw me at JFL and Comedy Central thing, and they were like, we like him, we want him to audition.
00:35:29.000
So I went straight to the main stage for the audition.
00:35:32.000
And the whole time leading up to it, I was like, I'm never going to get this.
00:35:48.000
And then when you go to audition, it's just, you just wait your turn in a green room and they keep you there extra long for like two or three hours to like make you nervous.
00:35:58.000
But I knew I was certain I was never going to get it.
00:36:05.000
And then they were like, all right, it's your turn to go.
00:36:16.000
The whole room's empty except for a table of writers and producers and Lorne Michaels.
00:36:21.000
And then you go on and they're like, three, two, go do five minutes.
00:36:38.000
Like, I was so nervous when I was auditioning that I had to, like, hold the mic against my chin because my hand was fucking shaking.
00:36:45.000
You just have to do stand-up for five minutes to no one.
00:36:50.000
And you're not supposed to look at or acknowledge the table of writers and producers or whatever.
00:37:01.000
So your agent says, do not look at the writers.
00:37:04.000
Yeah, they're like, don't even acknowledge them.
00:37:07.000
And everybody was like, they're never going to laugh.
00:37:09.000
The table, Lauren, all them, they're not going to laugh.
00:37:13.000
And I was like, I was supposed to not acknowledge them.
00:37:27.000
But as soon as they started laughing, I was like...
00:37:33.000
I was told the whole time, no one's gonna laugh.
00:37:45.000
A couple days later, you get a call back, and you go into the office, and you meet everybody, and you walk around and talk to everybody.
00:37:50.000
And the people I was with that were also doing that, then you go into Lorne Michaels' office to meet him.
00:37:57.000
So the three people I was with, they all went in slowly, met him, left.
00:38:06.000
They invited him to the call back, and then were like, no, never mind.
00:38:10.000
And then they kept me there for an extra hour by myself.
00:38:15.000
And I was just sitting there like, oh fuck, I got this.
00:38:25.000
And then I go in and meet with Lauren and he's the man.
00:38:30.000
And he was like, I'm going to use you, but I don't know how.
00:38:35.000
And then time passes and I figured they were going to ask me to be a writer.
00:38:41.000
Usually you work on the show to experience what the show's like.
00:38:48.000
By all accounts, that place is a den of thieves.
00:38:53.000
You hear Jim Brewer's account of the climate in that place, and it's horrific.
00:39:03.000
If you're a writer and you submit your packages, the higher-up writers will steal your shit, according to Brewer.
00:39:10.000
If you submit a package, they own that package, even if they don't hire you.
00:39:15.000
So if you have some great premises, they decide they're just going to take your premises and not hire you, they own all those bits?
00:39:28.000
So I was like, even if they offer me the writing thing, I was like, I don't want to take it.
00:39:34.000
But anyway, they asked me to go straight to cast.
00:39:41.000
Lauren calls, says, hey, we want to use you on the show.
00:39:47.000
He was like, do you have anything you want us to check out?
00:39:51.000
They have people that vet you, but they're not used to people having podcasts.
00:39:56.000
So they'd have to go through hundreds of hours of shit.
00:39:57.000
They'd go through your Facebook, your Instagram, your Twitter.
00:40:00.000
I was just like, I'll just delete all that shit.
00:40:22.000
You hear from everybody you've ever grown up with.
00:40:27.000
So that lasted for about three hours before an article came out.
00:40:49.000
And it was funny too, because people were like, man, they really had to dig to find this.
00:40:52.000
I was like, that's probably like three minutes in.
00:40:55.000
We had one podcast online and it was three minutes in.
00:41:06.000
But the idea today is that talking shit is not real.
00:41:11.000
Out of context phrases and sentences that you've used and put them in quotes and make you look like a monster.
00:41:25.000
I think I was number one on Twitter for like three straight days.
00:41:33.000
Yeah, everybody was like, stop reading comments.
00:41:39.000
And it's crazy, too, because I'll read like 90 good ones and then one bad one.
00:41:54.000
But then there'll be one that's like, he's nervous.
00:42:01.000
Like, he laughs at his own jokes on every podcast.
00:42:13.000
I went into Lorne Michaels' office, and he was talking, and I was convinced I was getting fired.
00:42:21.000
Because if they didn't get me on that, there's so much more.
00:42:28.000
So he was talking to me and he was like, no, we think we can...
00:42:31.000
He's like, if we just get you to the first episode, people will see you're not a piece of shit person.
00:42:40.000
If I get fired here, whatever, I'll just go do Joe Rogan next week and I'll be fine.
00:43:05.000
In Lorne Michaels' office in the middle of that.
00:43:15.000
Because I remember somebody contacted me to have you on, and I was like, I don't have any room.
00:43:21.000
I could do an emergency podcast, but I'm like, let me let this dude ride this out, and then we'll do one eventually.
00:43:37.000
Like the whole time I was like, I kind of get it.
00:43:38.000
When someone gets really canceled, you need perspective.
00:43:43.000
It's like you need that venom to work its way through your system.
00:43:46.000
And then you develop a certain amount of immunity to the actual moment.
00:43:55.000
So when Lauren pulls you in the office and says, we just have to get you to the stage, we just have to get you to an episode, then what happens?
00:44:06.000
It kept being like, no, you guys need to fire him.
00:44:12.000
The fun in going after someone is not going after someone and then no consequences.
00:44:19.000
What makes them happy is to then get you fired.
00:44:34.000
Those are the best fucking comedy sketches that are on the internet right now.
00:44:39.000
The only thing that's at the same level is Kyle Dunnigan's shit.
00:44:45.000
He's got a massive advantage with that face swap, though.
00:44:51.000
Have you seen the new thing that Dunnigan is doing?
00:45:12.000
And there's something about it that it's almost got like a South Park-esque quality to it because it looks so fake, but it's obvious.
00:45:24.000
Look at the little tiny hand he holds up for Bill Maher.
00:45:30.000
It really is amazing because he's like, look at AOC! Because it looks so fake.
00:45:37.000
Like, you would never believe that that's the real person.
00:45:44.000
The material is brilliant, and you can get away with so much in someone else's voice when everybody knows it's not really that person.
00:45:51.000
It's really one of the most genius platforms ever created.
00:46:01.000
Kurt's like one of my favorite But the shit you're doing is right up there with that.
00:46:07.000
It's really funny, and it's like something you would never be able to do on SNL. The stuff you guys are doing.
00:46:15.000
I financed half, and then we had a production company that financed half.
00:46:46.000
Here's what's uncomfortable about it, is I don't want to sound like...
00:46:49.000
It's weird for me to rail against cancel culture.
00:46:52.000
Because I was a victim of it, for lack of a better word.
00:47:02.000
Yeah, I'd rather just be like, look, if people bring up cancel culture, I'm just like...
00:47:06.000
Honestly, I really believe it's better for you in the long run.
00:47:10.000
You're a brilliant comedian, and I think your sketches are incredible, and I think it's better that you not get attached to something that's ultimately corrupting.
00:47:17.000
And I don't want to be on the other side of it, where it's like, I'm a free speech guy.
00:47:23.000
It's like, dude, I don't want to be involved in any of this.
00:47:31.000
Everyone who's involved in creative endeavors should understand context and nuance.
00:47:36.000
And when they don't, they're either being disingenuous or they're stupid.
00:47:42.000
Either you don't agree with someone talking shit, which is fine.
00:47:46.000
Maybe you don't like talking shit because you're a more serious person.
00:47:49.000
In which case comedy is the right venue for you.
00:47:54.000
But you should also understand, you know what people are doing.
00:47:58.000
And if you don't know what people are doing, you're either an idiot or you're an asshole.
00:48:02.000
You're either purposely trying to ignore subtlety and nuance and the fact that there's context to what people are doing and joking around.
00:48:17.000
All sorts of stuff, but you can't joke around about race?
00:48:34.000
We're just so oversensitive and we're so worried about being called out for stuff.
00:48:41.000
Yeah, people get very afraid of getting called out.
00:48:44.000
And very afraid of not calling out someone else because then silence is violence.
00:48:55.000
Like, if I see other people fuck up and say something crazy, even still, my first reaction is like, whoa, what the fuck were they thinking?
00:49:02.000
And then 20 minutes, 30 minutes later, I'll be like, alright, he was fucking around.
00:49:07.000
And then, especially if you just see a clip, And it's wild.
00:49:21.000
First time I saw it, I was like, whoa, what the fuck?
00:49:38.000
But people outside of our world don't understand.
00:49:42.000
If someone, you know, if you introduce someone...
00:49:49.000
Give it up for Shane, that fucking loser, that fat drunk.
00:50:04.000
And it was real clear, if you saw his whole set, that not only was he fucking around, but it actually worked.
00:50:10.000
And it got laughs because the guy's whole set before him was...
00:50:15.000
Talking about white people being mean to Asians.
00:50:18.000
And he had this whole pandering thing who was like, what I would really ask is, please stop being mean to us.
00:50:25.000
And then Tony goes on right afterwards and says that horrible shit.
00:50:31.000
It's not like a racist convention at Vulcan Gas Company.
00:50:52.000
I had people coming to shows, recording my sets, and then typing them out as if they were real.
00:51:01.000
The bit that I do about what happened when I endorsed Bernie Sanders where people were taking small pieces of stand-up bits and taking them out of context and using them to show what a piece of shit I am.
00:51:16.000
Clearly, and if you type out someone's stand-up or a podcast...
00:51:39.000
But I don't think, what I meant to say, they don't care.
00:51:50.000
What they're doing is they're intentionally taking something out of context, and they're trying to make it something that it's not.
00:51:56.000
There's a lot of range when people are saying things.
00:52:06.000
When you're saying something in the context of comedy...
00:52:08.000
What type of comedian would ever try to offend?
00:52:11.000
What really would be like, alright, I'm going to go out there tonight and really say the worst thing I can think of to these people.
00:52:20.000
Well, Patrice always had the very best line about all this stuff.
00:52:23.000
He said, if you think something is really funny or if you think something is offensive, it comes from the same place.
00:52:29.000
A guy's just trying to have a bit work on stage and get laughs.
00:52:35.000
For people who don't know, when we create stand-up, we really don't know if something's gonna be funny.
00:52:39.000
There's many times where you have an idea and you're like, fuck, I hope this works.
00:52:50.000
If you say something fucked up and it doesn't work, you gotta be like, alright, my bad.
00:52:55.000
I've many times said, well, that's the last time I'll ever say that one again.
00:52:59.000
You're like, alright, this crowd likes it, you motherfuckers.
00:53:04.000
So, they don't fire you at first, but then it keeps piling on.
00:53:11.000
But the whole time I knew I was getting fucking crushed.
00:53:14.000
Oh, and they make you, you have to put out a statement.
00:53:17.000
So they were like, and this was like within hours.
00:53:24.000
And the statement they send you is just fucking crazy.
00:53:51.000
That thing's been in my head for fucking five minutes or however long it's been.
00:53:55.000
You know what's saving Private Ryan when he gets the ringing in his ears?
00:54:12.000
It was just funny how confident I was at the time of just like...
00:54:22.000
I was doing podcasts for a while being like, Rogan, help!
00:54:26.000
Damn, that's one thing about me not paying attention to anything.
00:54:31.000
I never felt like I was entitled to anything like that.
00:54:34.000
But it was fun to go on podcasts and be like, St. Rogi's, help, dude.
00:54:40.000
You gotta kind of just go through these things, you know?
00:54:44.000
In the end, one of the things that you and I have been talking about is that it made you stronger.
00:54:53.000
Like when people hear you, and I heard it last night, when they introduce you, and Tuesday night too, people go shithouse.
00:55:02.000
But for a while, what happens the first, like...
00:55:06.000
I was in New York, too, so people are very uptight.
00:55:10.000
And you go on stage, and then it's just in your head.
00:55:13.000
You see people whisper to each other, and you're like, he's telling her who I am.
00:55:21.000
And you see the girl's face change, like, oh, racist.
00:55:29.000
I'd have a dream about comments or tweets about the worst secrets in my entire life being out there.
00:55:43.000
My family's getting letters from fucking dudes.
00:56:01.000
And this was the first thing they were, like, proud of.
00:56:05.000
I'm like, I got JFL. They're like, what the fuck's that?
00:56:09.000
And they're like, but then when you say, like, I'm on SNL, they're like, finally we can be proud of this loser.
00:56:17.000
And then, like, four days later, the whole world's like, your son's a racist piece of shit.
00:56:33.000
So, they send you, they're like, hey, you need to apologize right now.
00:56:38.000
And I was like, can I just not apologize, please?
00:56:44.000
If we start interacting with this at all, I'm fucked.
00:56:48.000
So I didn't know an NBC producer was on this group text I was in.
00:56:54.000
I just got it from an agent that was like, you need to apologize.
00:57:02.000
So it made me look like I was a baller, but as soon as I was like, oh, fuck.
00:57:07.000
I'm looking at my phone like, fuck, fuck, fuck, dude.
00:57:13.000
And this, again, I'm going from zero, like no one knows who I am at all, to like the whole world is, I mean, it's crazy.
00:57:21.000
And then, so they asked me to put out a statement.
00:57:33.000
And I talked to some comedians, and they were like, how are you going to do stand-up again if you say this?
00:57:39.000
Like, how are you going to be able to go do comedy having just said everything I said was inexcusable?
00:57:46.000
From now on, everything you said is, you know what I mean?
00:57:50.000
Everything you've done, you regret, and it's disgusting.
00:57:55.000
Lorne called, and he was like, Just give me something.
00:58:02.000
I was like, I can't do the sorry, inexcusable thing.
00:58:09.000
So I had fucking 10 minutes to write this thing.
00:58:22.000
Just say you're a comedian that pushes boundaries.
00:58:25.000
So my first thing I'd tweet out was like, I'm a comedian that pushes boundaries.
00:58:34.000
But yeah, I was like, sorry to anybody that's actually offended.
00:58:38.000
Because I didn't think anyone was actually offended.
00:58:44.000
Of course there are people that saw it that were like, this bums me out that this word's getting thrown around.
00:58:54.000
Because that's not the way you meant to do it in the context.
00:59:03.000
It's like you're saying something inappropriate on purpose.
00:59:07.000
And the only way you can do that is if the other person knows you're not racist.
00:59:14.000
It works because you're saying something that's ridiculous.
00:59:20.000
That's how many people are listening to this thing.
00:59:27.000
I can't believe it took this long to shout him out.
00:59:35.000
Everything you've said to me this week, I've heard from Matt.
00:59:41.000
Yeah, you're like, you know humans were supposed to be like this?
00:59:43.000
Like, you know we're supposed to be out gathering?
01:00:01.000
It's okay, but it's one of those things where it's like you're caught up in this moment of like, this is huge, you're emotional.
01:00:07.000
And in a couple of years, like, you know, you're going to be embarrassed.
01:00:14.000
You can apologize for hurting people's feelings.
01:00:21.000
The problem was those statements are so grandiose, too.
01:00:23.000
It's like, people, like, when Jimmy Kimmel made a statement about doing blackface in the 90s, it's like, oh, Jimmy.
01:00:31.000
They know that you were just doing Karl Malone.
01:00:39.000
That's the problem is the people that want you to apologize for that stuff, they're all sanctimonious shitheads who are just trying to take people down.
01:00:50.000
They're not really thinking you're a bad person.
01:00:53.000
No reasonable human being thinks Jimmy Kimmel's a bad person or a racist.
01:01:01.000
They got a bag of rocks and they're looking at windows.
01:01:18.000
And on Twitter, even today, even after it happened to me, I'll see it happening to someone else and be like...
01:01:26.000
It is, but, you know, we're talking about Tony.
01:01:29.000
When Tony goes on stage now, I'm telling you the round of applause this fucking guy gets is like double what used to happen.
01:01:45.000
You know, we know it's just, you're just doing comedy.
01:01:47.000
You're fucking around, and it mightn't, Might have been the wrong thing to say at the time, but he probably had about five seconds to think about what he was going to say as he was walking to the stage and said, I'm going to light these people up.
01:01:58.000
I like to think about Tony right before he went on looking at someone like, watch this.
01:02:27.000
Because that was the only place that I wouldn't have been freaking out.
01:02:34.000
Like, I didn't want to go home and sit in my apartment alone.
01:02:41.000
Like, knowing all this shit is happening to you?
01:02:51.000
It was the only time I've ever experienced what it must be like to be famous and do stand-up as like a drop-in.
01:02:59.000
It's funny because after time everybody forgets what happened.
01:03:22.000
I was the one that was like, you guys are gonna fire me.
01:03:37.000
Now, if it wasn't me, I'd probably be defending me.
01:04:03.000
Look, life is filled with these weird trials and moments of revelation and ways you understand things.
01:04:12.000
And the best way to understand consequences is to really have a moment...
01:04:20.000
And when you come out on the other end and you don't think you're ever going to.
01:04:24.000
Because there had to be times where you didn't think you were going to come out on the other end.
01:04:35.000
It's also the embracing of the importance of stand-up comedy.
01:04:44.000
There's been two times I've loved stand-up comedy.
01:04:49.000
One was I went through a breakup after a long time, and I was fucking devastated.
01:04:53.000
I dated this girl for like six years, and then I went and did stand-up that night and almost cried.
01:04:58.000
Just because it was the first time I was happy after going through a breakup, and I was like, damn, I love this.
01:05:05.000
While you're getting fucking crushed by everybody, you can go out and do stand-up and people are like, you guys like me.
01:05:18.000
I've been doing it for more than 30 years and someone goes up and kills.
01:05:29.000
Nothing better when you don't know their material, too.
01:05:32.000
Never seen them before, and they're just lighting a room on fire with really interesting shit.
01:05:40.000
It is, because if you're contained inside that Saturday Night Live structure, no disrespect to anybody that is, but you're not as free.
01:05:58.000
I think that's what bothers me the most, because people like to...
01:06:00.000
Here's one thing that I notice, that people that do the canceling, or attack people on Twitter, or however you fucking want to call it, they like to vindicate themselves by being like, no one gets canceled.
01:06:15.000
They're always like, cancel culture's not real.
01:06:23.000
But they like to be like, nah, you're doing better now.
01:06:30.000
You can't fuck someone over like that and then be like, nah, you're fine.
01:06:41.000
And they like to say, like, SNL couldn't have used me or wouldn't have used me.
01:06:44.000
They would have been like, ah, he would have been a waste on there anyway.
01:06:49.000
But you would have never had the kind of freedom that you are doing your sketch show now.
01:06:58.000
And that fucking OnlyFans dad that you sent me today?
01:07:03.000
I mean, imagine you would not be able to do that anywhere.
01:07:13.000
What I like, people like different shit, right?
01:07:43.000
And you know, you're nervous when you're filming stuff.
01:08:02.000
I mean, I know a girl who makes $100,000 a month showing her feet.
01:08:28.000
They're fans of this one person because they've seen her before, and so they want to jerk off to her feet.
01:08:38.000
I haven't subscribed, but that's what I understand.
01:08:42.000
I mean, probably her in her underwear and her feet, you know, those kind of things.
01:08:48.000
If, like, the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee thing launched on OnlyFans, how that would have gone down?
01:08:53.000
And if they just started just banging on OnlyFans, just releasing videos?
01:09:01.000
Well, it's a great way to make money, but the problem is you get addicted to that money.
01:09:04.000
If you're making $100,000 a month, and then you go, you know what, I really want a family someday, and I've got to stop showing my cooter, and then you get off of it, and you realize you've got a $4,000 a month condo, and you're like, what am I doing here?
01:09:20.000
Yeah, I've got to show my pussy to pay for this fucking Lexus I bought.
01:09:24.000
It gets weird, because you can get imprisoned by bills or your lifestyle, and if you have that kind of lifestyle, it's super hard for someone to give up that kind of money, because that's way more than porn money.
01:09:37.000
Porn stars, unless you're top of the food chain porn gal, you're not making that kind of loot.
01:09:51.000
They're in a weird situation now where no one buys DVDs anymore, right?
01:09:57.000
One of my neighbors back when I lived in California was a guy that I did jujitsu with.
01:10:15.000
And he would tell me, like, the real money's in producing.
01:10:18.000
And then the fucking internet comes along and just pulled the rug out from underneath that business.
01:10:29.000
And so they went from making millions and millions of dollars every year to nothing.
01:10:49.000
And, yeah, it just was a wave of things falling apart.
01:10:53.000
And, I mean, I think the only people that can make any money are the girls.
01:11:10.000
...very industrious and they figure out some sort of subscription-only panel.
01:11:21.000
It's a weird world because a lot of people beat off, but a lot of people like to lie about it.
01:11:31.000
Before Ari got here, I was just up in Tim's mansion in the hills alone, just beating off up in the mountains.
01:11:46.000
Dude, I'll start DMing or texting girls or something.
01:11:53.000
I used to have a whole bit about jerk off first, then think about keys to life.
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If you're thinking about doing something, just jerk off and then look at it.
01:12:00.000
Because a lot of times your perspective is marred by this desire to breed.
01:12:05.000
And you don't really like the person that you're going to call.
01:12:09.000
You're not really socially compatible with them, but you want to fuck them.
01:12:17.000
Like, if a guy jerks off, the bit was basically that if a guy jerks off and still calls you, he fucking loves you.
01:12:33.000
When you're a young man and you don't understand it, like I remember being like 18 and 19 being so confused because I was like, I was really into a girl and then I'd have an orgasm and I was really not into her.
01:12:46.000
And some girls would think that like, oh, he's an asshole.
01:13:21.000
Because they want you to raise the children with them.
01:13:41.000
And how long in, when do you decide, like, when do you give up?
01:13:50.000
Like, the first article, it was funny, the first article came out that said I used the C word.
01:13:56.000
My agent calls me, and is like, did you say that?
01:14:02.000
I would literally, I was like, that's not in, I don't say that shit.
01:14:11.000
Oh, that was UTA. Shout out UTA. They dropped me.
01:14:18.000
They kept Jussie Smollett as long as they could.
01:14:27.000
Jussie Smollett, or Jesse Smollett, as Dave Chappelle calls him.
01:14:43.000
He must have been a terrible actor when those fucking cops showed up.
01:14:47.000
I'm sure with his fucking- He's like, what happened?
01:14:49.000
Put a noose still around his neck holding a Subway sandwich.
01:14:58.000
And the way he spells, like, pronounces his name wrong.
01:15:13.000
Nah, I just wanted to shout out UTA. Yeah, listen man, all those structures, all those things, they can do you good.
01:15:20.000
Don't get me wrong, but they're basically like bridges that'll fall apart in the middle of your journey across the river.
01:15:36.000
You know, comedy is the only thing that we can all count on.
01:15:40.000
Comedians and audience members that love comedy.
01:15:43.000
And there's a lot of people outside of that world that will try to change the true meaning of what you're saying and try to pretend that you're being serious and try to pretend that you're a bad person or to try to pretend that it doesn't matter.
01:15:55.000
And you should never be able to say those things again.
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You're a racist or a sexist or a homophobe or this or that.
01:16:05.000
Because you know what you're doing, and it doesn't work anymore.
01:16:08.000
The thing about this whole climate, this oversensitive climate, is that people are fed up with it.
01:16:14.000
And so there's a massive rebound when someone gets through on the other end.
01:16:23.000
But there's still people that that is their currency.
01:16:27.000
So they're still trying to cancel people all the time.
01:16:29.000
And with a lot of it, and one of the things that Tim said, and then I became friends with Tim after he wrote something really...
01:16:36.000
Insightful about comics that were coming out against Louie and he said one thing that they have in common is they're all really mediocre and They love the fact that this brilliant guy is being taken out So it moves them up the ladder and they're they're trying to gain social clout by attacking him 100% true and the Louie thing was everybody knew that Everybody knew that story about Louie in comedy.
01:17:07.000
Well, I knew that he used to ask Sarah Silverman, and he would jerk off, and she would say yes.
01:17:12.000
And he would jerk off, and they would laugh about it.
01:17:13.000
We heard the stories, and then, so everybody knew it.
01:17:21.000
And then, as soon as it becomes in the news, now every comedian wants to speak out against it.
01:17:27.000
It's like, where were you when you heard about it?
01:17:31.000
Well, they were scared when Louie was on top that if they came after him, then everybody else would take out them to try to make Louie happy if Louie didn't get taken out.
01:17:43.000
But once it was clear that Louie was hit and wounded...
01:17:47.000
You ever see what happens with buffaloes when they get attacked by a lion?
01:17:55.000
There's a video of these water buffaloes get attacked by a lion, and one water buffalo gets attacked and finally manages to get free of these lions.
01:18:03.000
They're fighting off these lions, finally manages to get free, and as he's moving around, another water buffalo comes along and slams into him and knocks him over, and then the lions get him.
01:18:19.000
When someone senses weakness, the really shitty people amongst them, those people attack.
01:18:36.000
And then his friend comes along and rams into him and knocks him over.
01:18:41.000
I mean, just stand up for yourselves, water buffaloes.
01:18:51.000
There's an amazing documentary called Relentless Enemies.
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And in this documentary, there's a strange part of Africa where the river shifted.
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And when the river shifted, these lions and these water buffalo got stranded on an island.
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And it's a large island, but it's only filled with water buffalo and lions.
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And so because the lions can only hunt buffalo...
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Like the female lions are as big as a male lion everywhere else.
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Because all the ones that survive are ones that figure out how to attack lions.
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This is where they unite and try to take out the lions.
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Well, lions are so much smaller than a buffalo.
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And once they start attacking the lions, it's like, ah, it's kind of sad now.
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See if you can find that relentless enemy's lions.
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Like, natural selection has taken place and these lions have gotten way bigger.
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But the thing is, the female ones have these fucking enormous muscles, man.
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Just give me some images of the jacked female lions.
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There's pictures of them where they look fucking super...
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So, when do they give up and when do they fire you?
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I met with the people at NBC, like the head of NBC, all those people.
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You're at like a giant marble table at the top of a skyscraper.
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You had to meet with the people at NBC? Yeah, met with NBC. In person.
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Met with people from SNL. What did they say to you?
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It was such like, it was for real, it was like I blacked it out.
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Maybe traumatic, definitely traumatic, but like...
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Like it was totally, I detached and I was like, no, I don't care.
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Because you don't want to be like, no, I'm not okay.
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No, you gotta just be like, no, I don't give a fuck, dude.
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Yeah, finally get the call that's like, nah, we're gonna...
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And then they were like, we're gonna release a statement, you release a tweet.
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In fact, since my thing, I've seen people issue the apology NBC gave me.
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Basically, everybody that has said sorry has been like, yeah, I'm very sorry.
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That's the thing that can get you in the most trouble.
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It's because it's so free-flowing, and when you're doing it alongside another comedian, you're just trying to make each other laugh.
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And one of the best ways to make a comic laugh is to say some shit you're not supposed to say.
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Did you ever have any contact with Lauren afterwards or anyone?
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Does he say they're better than anything we do?
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I know it wasn't up to him, and everybody's like, yeah, it was.
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I thought I'd be more capable of discussing it, but...
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So I don't want to come on and do stuff where I'm like, yeah, and then it was unfair how I was treated.
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Nowadays, there's no chance I'm going to work at NBC. So those are the rules now.
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If I want to argue why we made these rules, that's different.
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I have zero desire to do a television show now, but I've been offered multiple ones over the last couple of years.
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And the first thing that I think of is like, I don't want to defend any of the shit that I said in like 2009 or whatever.
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And if you don't know what I'm doing and you see it and you're not offended, all I can say is, that's not what I meant.
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Not this entertainment value, murder, rape, suicide I'm listening to.
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I try to watch the Night Stalker, that Netflix series.
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Now, there was one part where they listed, in the Night Stalker, they listed all his victims.
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Now, obviously, there's nothing funny about it.
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It's just funny that that's the wildest shit I've ever heard.
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Yeah, there's nothing funny about that, but it's crazy.
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See, I hear stuff like that and I just want to find that guy.
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He went to like a Mexican neighborhood and they all started beating the shit out of him and turned him in.
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Oh, that was the worst part of the documentary.
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The crazy thing is things like the Zodiac Killer.
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I think there was a new breakthrough very recently on the Zodiac Killer.
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Didn't Trump say his dad killed Kennedy or something?
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And then Ted Cruz is out there fucking carrying water for him after that.
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He's like, I was about to do a Trump reference.
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So when did it relax for you where you felt everything's okay again?
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I mean, it was like five or six months after I got, like, canceled, COVID started.
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I mean, everything shut down, so it was like...
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It was kind of inconvenient timing for me because I would have liked to have kept going.
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But then it did look like I got canceled and stopped.
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How many downloads are you guys getting on a regular basis?
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I wasn't paying attention until it got really big.
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You also have to establish a relationship with your audience where they understand who you are.
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And they know that even if you say wild shit, you're saying wild shit because you're being silly.
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Yeah, but I think it gets so big that you lose the relationship with people.
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Yeah, but then I'm saying outsiders will jump in and be like, what did he say?
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To be able to have something, like for me, to be able to have something where you can talk I would do this podcast exactly this way if I was just starting out and no one knew who I was and there was just a hundred people listening.
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And it can be done that way, but you gotta take your lumps.
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And when they come for you, you just gotta go...
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Dude, I was taking the fucking subway home while getting canceled.
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I would go to 30 Rock and meet with Lorne, and they're like, we're going to be all right, like all that.
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Then I would get on the train home, and everybody, it was number one on Twitter, so people were just looking at me just sitting there like...
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Like just staring at me, and I'd be sitting there going...
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Did you have conversations with people about it?
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Every normal person is like, yo, this is crazy.
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But when people try to pretend they don't and try to reduce you to the worst thing you've ever said, and this is you.
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The people that want to do that, most of them...
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They want to be a comic or they were a failed performer.
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They're either a failed comic or a failed writer.
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Most critics are critics because they don't have anything to contribute.
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Do you think Stephen King wants to be a critic?
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They want to explore the boundaries of their creativity and their discipline to bring that creativity into a tangible form where other people can absorb it and appreciate it and enjoy it.
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And that's actually a good point because before, so like while I was an open-miker in Philly, I was criticizing because I wasn't creating anything good.
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So I would sit there, I'd be like, this person sucks, this comic sucks, fuck them, fuck that.
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You start to fucking meet these people that you just shit on.
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Why the fuck was I... So it's almost the same thing where like...
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While you're in that little incubation period of being an open mind, I was miserable.
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I had the exact same experiences when I was coming up because I was super hypercritical of other people.
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And I remember I had a bit about Jenny McCarthy.
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I mean, it wasn't the meanest bit in the world.
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I read that she was getting her breast implants removed.
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And I go, that's like Tiger Woods chopping his fucking arms off.
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I go, put him back in and make him bigger and no talking.
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What, are you going to go do Shakespeare in the Park now?
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Every comedian, I'd be like, this person's special.
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And then I'd see them do stand-up and be like, fuck!
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The thing about specials is everyone's special is 60% to 70% less funny than how they actually are live.
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There's no way around that because the experience of being there live is magic.
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I don't want to give it away because it's so good.
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But there's this bit about the Me Too movement.
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And I was like, there's a special thing in the air when you see a comic live.
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And you're also tense when you're doing a special.
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And I was super bummed out when I heard that you only got to film one night.
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Because I know I have four shows to get it out.
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Like my last special that I did, that I filmed in Boston, most of it was from the first show.
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The reason why I did a couple of extra bits in other shows that I figured out a way to sandwich in, I was like, ah, I forgot to do this on that first show.
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That's the only reason why I put anything in from other shows.
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Because the first show I was super loose, because I knew I had four shows.
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But some of my specials before that, I only had two shows.
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And you go out there for those two-show specials, you're like, boy.
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If those had reversed, like if my first show sucked, I would have just been on stage just like, what the fuck?
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One of my biggest specials I did was in 2014 for Comedy Central, and a lady heckled me during my first set.
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The bit was about the guy that broke into the White House.
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It was a setup, and it eventually made men look really stupid.
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But the beginning was like, hey, where you going with this?
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I was doing a Trump joke, and I started the Trump joke, and she was like, we hate Trump here.
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Do you think I'm going to do a special where I go on stage and I'm like, I loved our last president.
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Like, what type of psycho would that, you know?
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I'm not gonna go on stage and be like, I support the government.
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Yeah, but people are just wanting their voice to be heard, and they're not taking into consideration that you're filming something, you know?
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And if you are, they want to be the one who gets it on recording.
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Yeah, but filming specials is a fucking harrowing experience because...
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All my friends went back to Philly in New York.
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I stayed in Tim's house by myself for like two days.
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It's an uncomfortable feeling when you're done.
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If you had a chance to do it again, you know like Whitney was about to do a special and We were hanging out in the parking lot at the Comedy Store and she was like, you know, I'm pretty I'm confident and everything in this but you know Like what do you think and I said, you know what I think?
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You're a fucking hilarious comedian and Every special that I've ever done There's always like six months before the special comes out or five months and during that time I'm still doing some of that old material and it gets better.
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And I'm like fuck if I just waited three more months.
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I go I think you should just wait a little because I see some of these bits you're thinking them out while you're doing them.
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They're not like They're not just drilled into your DNA yet.
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They have a time, like a wine or a whiskey or something like that.
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There's a time where it's, take it out of the barrel.
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But if you take it out of the barrel early, they seem clunky.
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I remember Louis was doing a special every year.
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And I think even he realized this is not the way to do it.
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It's always good to just get one out there anyway.
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He was like a big influence, like talking to the people I was trying to make it with.
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It's like, if we just put our money together and make something really good, it'll pay off.
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And they needed to hear it from somebody who actually had that happen.
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Well, he's one of the most industrious of all the young comics.
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In my opinion, he's like the best guy that took advantage of the pandemic, too, because he put out those- Yeah, him and Tim.
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But what he did with those sideways videos, like, turn your phone sideways, and then these wild rants, where it's like, punchline, punchline, punchline, bang, bang, bang, which is very different than his actual stand-up.
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You know, where his stand-up is like, he'll hold a laugh, he'll work the room, he'll fuck around a little, he's super loose and relaxed.
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But these things, he had figured out a very specific rhythm that's applicable for watching it on Instagram.
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I was like, you know, when you meet someone famous, every once in a while they suck.
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Well, you're worried that wasn't going to be nice?
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You get to your level, people lose their fucking minds.
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What was weird is like people tell people that you're somewhere.
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They're playing at this little bar in the east side.
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And everyone's staring at you, and they all got their phones out.
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Like, it's just weird to see, like, you have like 45 minutes to be like, alright, I'm normal for 45 minutes out at this bar.
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People kept coming in, like, we gotta get out of here.
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I was just like, goddammit, dude, get out of here.
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That's when it gets weird, when you can't have conversations, when everybody just wants to take a picture.
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It's fun to watch a famous person be able to live like a human for 45 minutes.
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Like an empty bar, we're all just friends drinking.
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You just gotta stay at a bar for like 20 minutes and just go.
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One of the only times I met Pete Davidson, he brought that, it fucked me up.
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Occasionally, I'll get someone who gets weird with me, but it's really, really, really rare.
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I'm getting these really important messages that I have to deliver to you.
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There was a schizophrenic the other night at Vulcan.
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Grabbed me by my shoulders, wanted to talk to me.
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I mean, they say that 1% of all people are schizophrenics, right?
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So if you have 300 million people in this country, you have 3 million schizophrenics.
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Yeah, he was slamming scooters and talking to himself.
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He was walking around after he body slammed these scooters.
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At least the schizophrenics do what they're talking about.
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I used to work, I worked for the state, for Pennsylvania, for a little, and I would have to go around and go to like, I would investigate like state-run like homes, and a lot of them were like schizophrenic houses.
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So you'd go in and just be, dude, something happens to schizophrenic people, they get very fat.
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They all wear like, dude, every schizophrenic house I went to was like dudes in fucking full sweatsuits, chain-smoking cigarettes, just like screaming at a lady.
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I wonder if he worries it's going to come for him.
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Well, as you get more and more famous, he's handling fame very well because it hit him.
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He's got that crazy internet fame where it hit him over the last, I will say, three or four years.
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And he's getting funnier, which is amazing, because he's always been funny.
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And there's no one better at those just random rants about everything and anything that's going on in life.
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Some car rental place didn't honor his reservation?
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So he said they're all pedophiles, and the guy likes to fuck kids, and he's like...
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Of course, but I'm saying that's literally what you just said was the most schizophrenic thing I've ever heard.
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I went to war with the fucking Enterprise and called them all pedophiles.
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Every once in a while, Tim will do something that reminds you that he is gay.
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Young Jamie went wacky and he started spazzing out and started doing karate underneath the table and kicked some wires.
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That's what people say when you come do this podcast.
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They're like, first couple minutes you'll be nervous and then you just develop a flow.
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The anxiety over the shit I've said on this podcast already.
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You think you're going to get to a point one day where that'll be untenable and you're going to have to just not read it?
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Like, I'll be like, I won't read Reddit or Twitter or all that shit.
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Well, that's the thing, because Reddit is wild.
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Well, Reddit is filled with some of the most intelligent commenters on the internet.
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The thing that bums me out about Reddit is Reddit is generally uncensored, right?
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But they took out the Donald when they had that...
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During the alt-right movement of like 2015-ish, somewhere around there, where people were realizing there's a lot of attention that can be gathered up by joining that movement and attacking the libs and calling them pussies and saying we're going to punch them in the face and all that kind of shit.
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I mean, you know, Pepe the Frog all of a sudden had a Nazi outfit on, and you're like, hey!
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And it was like when someone was saying something mean, you know, you'd have the Pepe the Frog crying.
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That's because they're saying the worst things you can say through...
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And then some people were using it the right way.
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I mean, I'm a big proponent of free speech, but I'm also...
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I understand that, you know, things can get out of hand with these communities.
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But, do you ever see the thing with Kekistan and Shia LaBeouf?
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That was like the beginning of it, where it was like...
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And the podcast was about how brilliant these people were.
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They found the flag, and they went, fuck Shia LaBeou.
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They were looking at the stars and flight paths.
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And they drove around honking the horn to try to triangulate the location so you could hear the horn honking online.
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Radiolab has decided to take down this episode.
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Some listeners called us out, saying that telling the Capture the Flag story in the way that we did, we essentially condoned some pretty despicable ideology and behavior.
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Do you think we just essentially condoned that?
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To all listeners who felt that way and to everyone else, please know that we hear you and that we take these criticisms to heart.
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I feel awful that the things we said could be interpreted that way.
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It was certainly not our intention and we apologize.
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You're reporting on a fascinating thing that happened on the internet where a pretty preposterous actor who's really ridiculous, he will not divide us!
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Yeah, and he puts up this flag and they found the flag.
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And what they said, they didn't condone anything.
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They're reporting on people smart enough to figure out where the location of this thing is based on the goddamn stars in the sky.
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I mean, for those of you who don't remember this, yeah, there was just one part Shia moved his flag to just in the middle of Tennessee with like an upward camera angle at a flag.
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And they just looked at the sky in the background and figured it out.
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And then it was funny because they were all like weaponizing autism.
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They were like, he has no idea the power of autism.
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Just guys, autistic dudes in their basement like...
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But I can't believe that Radiolab is owned by a corporation.
01:52:32.000
Again, back to the SNL thing, that's exactly what it was.
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Well, the problem is now I have to pick a side.
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So me coming on here and being like, I understand why I got fired.
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Now you're getting double canceled by the gays.
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The gays are going to be like, we liked him up until that moment.
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Comedy's incompatible with the corporate environment.
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That's why I was saying that one of the best things about all these things is you appreciate comedy.
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No, there's more neurosurgeons than there are stand-ups.
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There's a lot of people that claim to be stand-ups, but someone pay to see you.
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It's like you were saying that you're 10 years in, you're doing your first special.
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Because it really is a 10-year journey, and only if you work hard.
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The people that sort of dabble in it, like that is one of the saddest things when you see like an open miker who you've seen for 12, 13 years and they're still an open miker.
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And they're still struggling and bombing and they kind of go on stage once a week or something like that.
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Tell you what, when you get canceled, those are the guys coming out of the woodworks.
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They're coming out just being like, that motherfucker was mean to me at a bar once, and here's a three-paragraph thing.
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Yeah, there were guys that were like, he told me to quit comedy.
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There's some people that like, you want to tell them like, you're probably good at something.
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I had been doing open mics for about three months.
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There was a local guy, he was doing a, he was doing a weekend in Pittsburgh.
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In Mars, PA. So he was like, he asked the club, he was like, are there any good open micers that I can bring to open?
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Because I was like, yo, we got a hotel room, dude.
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We were playing fucking drinking games all day with four locos.
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So I go on in this tiny hotel banquet room, just blacked out, doing 20 minutes of just...
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He was wearing one of those throwback Pittsburgh Penguins jerseys.
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And then finally, like 10 minutes into my set, he looked at his friends and was like, that one wasn't bad.
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As soon as I... For some reason, nothing clicked that I was bombing.
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Finally, when somebody halfway through my set was like, yeah, that one was alright.
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I was like, holy shit, how bad am I doing, dude?
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Get off stage, the fucking club owner's like...
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There's a lot of good things he tried to pursue.
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Well, it's hard to tell when someone's young and drunk and bombing.
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Well, I mean, that's how you end up running a hotel comedy club in Mars, PA. Well, you never know, too, though.
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Like, if he said, can you do 20, and you said, yeah, and you went up there and kind of were funny for 20. True.
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And you weren't blacked out doing Four Locals all the way.
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The second night, there was a wedding at the hotel.
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And me and my friends were like, let's crash a wedding.
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We were like, yo, let's crash your wedding, dude.
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So you just showed up at the wedding at the hotel?
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We went to the Salvation Army around the corner and bought a bunch of suits.
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We were drinking Four Locos at the indoor pool all day in Pittsburgh, just getting fucking hammered.
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We were literally taking a picture with the bride, and she was like, wait a second, who are you guys?
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So they were all trying to fight us, and then I had to leave to go do this show, and I bombed.
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The groomsmen showed up to the bar that I was performing at.
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And the club owner was like, yeah, this guy is a piece of shit, dude.
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How long had you been doing comedy at that point?
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So I lived in central Pennsylvania and I was like kind of dabbling in it.
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What gave you the confidence or what made you think that you could go to Philly and make it?
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I did McGoobie's, you know McGoobie's Joke House?
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I won their New Comedian of the Year in 2014. And then I was like alright I can do this and then I moved to Philly.
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Because Baltimore was kind of the closest city from Harrisburg.
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So I'd go down to Baltimore to do stand-up, go to Philly to do stand-up.
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And I moved to Philly with the sole intent of doing stand-up.
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Did you give yourself a certain amount of time?
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I got fired from that state job that I was doing, which was fine.
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Investigating children's crimes at state-run children's houses.
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Any time an orderly would subdue a child, you'd have to go investigate it.
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People would be like, what's wrong with my car?
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And so what clubs are you getting up in Philly?
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Helium, Mark Rospin's opening up a spot out here.
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When I lived in Boston, there was five clubs on one block.
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All you have to do is just have enough talent, and there's enough talent here already.
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This is a real unusual place, and I think it could be better.
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I think this could be the hub of stand-up in the country.
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And it could be separate, as I was saying before we started.
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Separate from any other showbiz institutions that are more hesitant to take risks, right?
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Cuz if you thought about like what mainstream mass media is podcasts were never thought of in that light because It's just even this room.
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It's like just fucking two of us and Jamie You know it's like you would think that for something to reach millions and millions of people it has to be There's got to be more folks here.
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And because Segura's here now, and he's brought his podcast, and his wife is here, who's brilliant.
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You know, Giannis Papas is splitting his time here.
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It's just like, this is a good talent pool here.
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And there's a real enthusiastic group of up-and-comers.
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A lot of them, there's some up-and-comers that came from LA and New York and all that.
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The goal was to be up by July 4th, but we ran into some wild shit that I'll have to talk about eventually.
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Like, if you want to move to New York or L.A. Good luck.
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I mean, there's a lot of these comics, like Genevieve, who went on the shows with us before.
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The whole idea of comedy is, like, a lot of comics just need a little help.
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They need to know they're loved and accepted and they've got a place.
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It's something I can do and it's not something a lot of people can do.
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And run a club with the expressed idea, intention, the expressed intention of just keeping it open.
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And you'll know, obviously, what a good club should look like, so the room will be good.
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Yeah, I can't wait till people start filming specials at my club.
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I just want it to be a super comfortable environment for everybody.
02:05:06.000
Listen, man, I would be no one without Mitzi Shore.
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If you want to talk about all of the people in stand-up comedy that are important, she is the most important person ever in stand-up comedy that's not a comedian.
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Because all the other ones, whether it's Richard Pryor, or Eddie Murphy, or Dave Chappelle, or George Carlin, or Lenny Bruce, or Kinison, they're all comics.
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She's a non-comedian who is one of the most important people in the history of the art form.
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Because when she ran the Comedy Store, her whole thing was, yeah, the inmates are running the S.I.R., She thought it was funny that the comics were running things.
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She thought it was funny that the comics would do wild shit.
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She thought it was funny that they would say crazy shit.
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When people would call in or they would send in complaint letters, especially if they got kicked out from heckling, that was a lot.
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They would say, your comedians were rude to me.
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That's what everybody always tries to make the comparison.
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The Christians being like, you can't talk about sex.
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I mean, I had a little bit where people would send letters and stuff.
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They're less aggressive in their desire to stop you from doing your job.
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They might not want people to go to see you, or they might not want their friends to see you, but I don't think they're trying to get you fired the way the left is now.
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You know what the thing is going on with the left is, a lot of it is, They're being bullies.
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And a lot of the people that are progressive, that are really open-minded, and unfortunately, there's a lot of people on the left that were bullied by assholes when they were young.
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They have a serious resentment, and they want to go after the people that they think of the- Nerd rage.
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And it's also people that they don't have a lot of love in their life.
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If they do have love, it's like very conditional and it's very precarious.
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Obviously, I'm making mass generalizations about huge swaths of people, but it's a personality trait that they have.
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There's a thing that leads people to want to be completely uncompassionate And attack people relentlessly and try to get them fired.
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Most of those people have experienced deep pain in their life.
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It's that old expression, hurt people hurt people.
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That's the reason why the cancel culture coming from the left is so vicious.
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And the most vicious shit is coming from transgender people or gay people.
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So that when something happens, they come for you.
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The one thing I will say, like, we touched on a little bit about, like, when I was an open miker in Philly, like, I was talking shit, dude.
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And that's where I think a lot of these people that are, like, these former comedians or comedians that are, like, no, fuck them, fuck this.
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Like, I've been in that where it's, like, I'm not doing shit.
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So I'm just sitting around like, oh, you think they're good?
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A lot of things you'll see in established comedians is, if you go to see them live, like I've seen some of these established comedians on the road, and you gotta have Phil Friday night.
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Because even though they're established, they're not selling tickets.
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There's people that you know, even from television shows, that have been on sitcoms and stuff, they're not selling tickets on the road.
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Yeah, imagine being like, I want to see that guy who scolds people on fucking Twitter.
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Can you imagine just listening to like a frumpy white dude giving you fucking a lecture about how to be a good person?
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I've had some of those fuckheads on my show before.
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You get into these conversations when you realize like they're not thinking deeply or honestly about things at all.
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They're just subscribing to this pattern of thinking and behavior.
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I have personally experienced what it's like...
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When you try to be honest, and you get fucking just back.
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That's the one thing about cancel culture that does fuck you up.
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And even the people are like, I don't give a fuck, dude.
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You know, everybody's been fucking so mean to me.
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I'm one bloodline away from being like, Joe, thank you so much for having me.
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I mean, no matter what I do, there's always a couple people that are gonna be like, see, I knew he was a Nazi, or like, whatever.
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Yeah, those people can all eat shit, and they're all crying themselves to sleep every night.
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When people are just attacking people randomly and trying to exaggerate who that person is so that they can make them more cancelable, those are not happy people.
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Part of it is, I don't think you were here when I was telling you this story to some friends the other night that there's this guy that I'm friends with online and he runs a, I don't even know what he looks like, he runs a philosophy page and he's a really fucking smart dude and he'll send me some things sometimes about a podcast and they're like super insightful.
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He's one of the rare people that I contact online that I actually listen to what he says.
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And he said, you're going to have a problem with what you're doing with other people because you have a walled garden.
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And he goes, and you're very close to your friends and you're very supportive of all your friends.
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And people on the outside, they don't like the fact that they can't get in, and it makes them angry.
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Because comics in general, you know, we're all...
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Insecure to a certain extent, but also desiring of love and attention.
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And we see a whole group of people that seem to be having this amazing party that you can't get into, and they're all supporting each other.
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It's a rare thing for comedy to have this real love and acceptance amongst people that also do what we do.
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But the people on the outside, man, even people that are successful, They're resentful.
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To be an island, to be one person alone, even if you're doing well, out there floating around.
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Comics without comic friends, bro, that's a shit life.
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If you didn't have your comic friends, like if you just tried to go out and what happened the other night happened and you were just by yourself, that shit would stink.
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It's like every time you went out there was just a crowd.
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And you're not there with your friends fucking around being like, this is weird, right?
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You're just by yourself like, this is fucking weird.
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Or if I let it change me and all of a sudden I thought that I deserved all that, that it was normal.
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You know, like, yeah, this is what people feel about me, man.
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Comics without comic friends, that's a terrible life.
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Because you've got to think, they're the only people that are going to understand you.
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And if you have a job that you do, and you don't have the love of your peers, you don't have the love of other people that do the job you do, they don't feel like you have their back.
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They feel like you're a traitor, or you're not helping, or you're not supportive.
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Yeah, but that walled garden thing, that's very, very true.
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Yeah, I was probably doing a podcast and feeling like, fucking, all those guys fucking suck, dude.
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And that's, again, that's why, like, if a comedian talks shit on me, which a lot of them did, a lot of them very publicly shit on me, I didn't really respond and go after them because it's like, I've been there.
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Where it's like, I'm going to take advantage of this moment because I'm...
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And I met you, Louis, Chappelle, Burr, everybody.
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And he watched some of my set and he was just like, ah, you're funny, you're gonna be fine.
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Burr is an interesting cat because he's not on really social media at all.
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You know, he'll post things every now and then, but he's not reading things.
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Yeah, he's posting like, he's like, the Bruins.
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He's remarkable in his ability to maintain who he is in spite of this massive amount of fame that he's achieved.
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That was like the first podcast I listened to was Bill Burr's.
02:16:36.000
Well, his podcast is like Tim's in a way that he's got that muscle where he can just rant.
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That's one of the things that Tim has a massive advantage.
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So Ben is sitting there laughing at everything he says, so he's got this one in-the-house crowd.
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Which is important, because if you're doing it by yourself, you're like, is what I'm saying funny?
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He's not worried about whether or not he's saying something funny or not.
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And then I was like, I'll just go on Joe Rogan.
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Dude, you should have seen my face just like...
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I thought about having you on, and I thought about me even rescheduling people, but I was like, this guy's just got to go through this.
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And I also thought that perspective that you achieve through time is valuable for something like this.
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Now she's getting canceled and I'm sitting there like...
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That's three Bud Lights and two shots of whiskey, folks.
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She seems like a legitimately mentally ill person.
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And then she started dating or married John Legend, who's a hot guy.
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60% of my diet is old hip-hop and classic rock.
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Yeah, I love old school Gangstar, like Eric B and Rakim, EPMD. I love listening to shit like that.
02:20:30.000
You know what's funny, though, is when you get canceled or whatever, you get out of nowhere, there's celebrities.
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Because I was fans of these people, and they just fucking crushed me.
02:20:44.000
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an article on CNN. He was like, this motherfucker stinks.
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When you meet him, hang out with him, he's a great guy.
02:21:29.000
So Friday night, DJ Trauma does the set, and then people don't even know Tlaib's going on.
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And then he goes on, and the place went shithouse.
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It was just funny sitting back and getting crushed by people that I was like, damn, I was a fan.
02:21:59.000
Comedically, yeah, there was a couple in comedy.
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My diet of Twitter is about 10 to 15 minutes a day, and I'm always like, what am I doing?
02:22:08.000
I'll read something and then I'll read somebody saying some wild shit and I'm like, alright, I gotta get the fuck off of you.
02:22:14.000
I want to take those people and put them on a podcast alone.
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Like, once you say something, like, hurtful and attacking people.
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Everything I do and say, I'm like, who the fuck am I? Why would I say this?
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And then, that was one thing, and this was a real weird moment of clarity I had while I was getting cancelled by these people that have always gone after me.
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In Philly, the alt scene, we always had a problem, which was weird.
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I was like laying in bed at night like really thinking about what I had said, why people were upset about it, and I was just like, I don't think they're doing this.
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I was like, I don't think they're laying in their bed.
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Meanwhile, I was laying up at night like, maybe I fucked up.
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And that gave me some assurance of like, at least I'm second-guessing myself.
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I don't think these people are second-guessing themselves at all.
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Back then, you didn't have pronouns on your Twitter bio.
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If someone does that seriously, unironically, I'm like, okay.
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If I don't say her, I'm a piece of shit, but I can say she.
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She's a black lady, so she's like, this makes me feel like a fucking slave.
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But it's also a way, legitimately, For certain people that don't feel like they fit in to any gender, to try to have a path carved out.
02:24:59.000
If you say someone's he, him, there's certain people that don't feel like a he or a him.
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There's a fucking crazy spectrum of human beings in males and in females.
02:25:13.000
And some people, they don't want to play the game.
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They don't feel like they fit into gender norms.
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Listen, when I joke around about shit, I still get it.
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I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a biological male who doesn't identify with being a male, who doesn't want to be thought of as a female, and you just want to be they-them.
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I don't want to be a part of your reindeer games.
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It's like other people that want to reinforce them that are the most annoying.
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Because they're just doing it for brownie points.
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But if you tell me I can't make fun of things, or I'm a racist, or a sexist, or a homophobe, or a transphobe, I say fuck you.
02:26:24.000
I can't make fun of you, or I'm some sort of a person who's in some way demeaning or marginalizing you?
02:26:37.000
Life itself is a big, messy soup of crazy shit, especially being a person.
02:26:43.000
We've got billionaires flying into space for no apparent reason.
02:26:59.000
Their wives just sitting there watching them take off like, please be a challenger.
02:27:18.000
I'll have a heart attack in a hotel at the Albany Funny Bones.
02:27:22.000
Some dude's gonna launch into space and be like, oh shit!
02:27:26.000
When a comic dies on the road, for us, it's a little bit like he went out on his shield.
02:27:36.000
I think George Carlin died in Vegas at a hotel room where he's performing.
02:27:46.000
The places he was performing were not that glamorous.
02:27:53.000
There's something about like the New Orleans, the Orleans.
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Find out if the weekend before that he was working.
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I was admitted earlier in the afternoon with chest pains.
02:28:21.000
Damn, the lore was always that he died on the road.
02:28:57.000
He had one week to sit on that and be like, that show sucked.
02:29:01.000
He just feels his heart twitching every now and then.
02:29:05.000
I bet before your heart gives out, it probably gives you a few warning shots.
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And like any man, you're going to be like, I'm not going to the fucking doctors.
02:29:13.000
Do you know when you're poor and you have a car and you're starting it and it goes...
02:29:22.000
And you know one day that it's just going to be click, click, click, click, click.
02:29:34.000
I mean, maybe it would be nice to die around your family, but wouldn't that be very traumatic for them?
02:29:39.000
It's traumatic for them no matter what if you die.
02:29:48.000
I hope it's a Thanksgiving dinner and I'm just like, hey, would you pass me that?
02:29:52.000
I was as close to my grandfather as anybody in my family.
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And when he died, I remember there was part of me that was, we knew he wasn't doing well.
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So it was part of me that was relieved that he wasn't in pain anymore.
02:30:08.000
But there was part of me that was, I don't want to be there.
02:30:16.000
I was in the room, and he started, like, he was laying there, and he just started, like, and they had to, like, shove a tube down his throat, and they pushed me out of the room.
02:30:29.000
And so they have to do whatever they can to prolong life.
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Isn't that fascinating, like, how we feel about life?
02:30:34.000
Like, even if a guy's 136 years old, if he's in the hospital...
02:30:40.000
Even if he's done it all, if he's in the hospital twitching, they'll get clear, clear!
02:30:55.000
My friend Spud, shout out Spud, shout out Billy.
02:31:01.000
He took Molly with me for the first time and he was like, my mom died of cancer.
02:31:06.000
I watched her get put on every drug imaginable.
02:31:11.000
He's like, bro, if they would have just gave her fucking Molly or like gave her like a one of these drugs to just, you know what I mean?
02:31:20.000
Yeah, give her something that makes her feel really good before she goes.
02:31:24.000
That night, the night we were talking about that, me and Spud, we took a couple hits of Molly, and then I ate...
02:31:32.000
See, I'd always done mushrooms, but I always did, like, a little bit.
02:32:02.000
I was sitting there, I was like, I was like, yo, guys, I'm blind.
02:32:05.000
And they're like, you're alright, you're alright.
02:32:07.000
You're not supposed to do seven grams with a bunch of people around.
02:32:14.000
That seems like that's a little more, too, right?
02:32:33.000
First of all, it's a crazy idea to do molly and mushrooms together.
02:32:39.000
The molly took over, somebody dropped a big ziplock bag of fucking mushrooms.
02:32:45.000
And I was just sitting there munching as many as I could.
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To the point where I was having trouble swallowing them.
02:33:02.000
I think he did some sort of an MAO inhibitor with mushrooms.
02:33:09.000
I've listened to a lot of Terrence McKenna lectures.
02:33:15.000
It was like he gave these talks that he would do in front of a couple hundred people who travel around the country and do these.
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And he gave one of them about some combination of drugs.
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I'm not completely sure I remember, but I think it was an MAO inhibitor and a large dose of mushrooms together.
02:33:31.000
And he said that he could feel like his thought process, his ability to think was getting erased.
02:33:44.000
Yeah, that his ability to process thoughts and the ability to communicate was like he could watch it get erased and he was like genuinely concerned that he was never gonna come back from it.
02:34:01.000
My friend Matt McCusker, he's all about the mushrooms.
02:34:08.000
He's always talking about how it's like a religious ego death.
02:34:16.000
You know, I'm like, dude, fuck, what are you talking about?
02:34:25.000
I kept dying, going to heaven, seeing my dad, who's still alive...
02:34:32.000
I would be in heaven with my dad, and then I'd get brought back to life with a paramedic shining lights into my eyes like I was overdosing.
02:34:57.000
That was an overdose that I would have had if I kept doing drugs.
02:35:03.000
One of the things that I think about with psychedelics is how much of the way you think normally plays a part in what you see.
02:35:16.000
Is it that your anxiety and your fear and all your ego is interfering with your imagination and creating these nightmare scenarios that aren't real?
02:35:30.000
Is it that the way you think about life and the way you behave and the way you treat people changes the world itself and it changes your world and it's represented in the psychedelic world that when you embrace a certain mindset and go into these psychedelic experiences and release yourself and allow whatever it is,
02:35:54.000
the DMT or the mushrooms or whatever it is to take a hold of you and take you on a journey.
02:36:08.000
I woke up the next day like, bro, I gotta change a lot of things.
02:36:23.000
I think when people struggle with psychedelic experiences, or if people have legitimate mental illnesses that do psychedelics, that's never a good idea.
02:36:32.000
You know, people that are hanging on by a thread already and they eat seven bags of mushrooms.
02:36:41.000
We were outside by a campfire and I was literally, I'd be like staring at someone and they'd be like, what are you looking at?
02:36:54.000
You know what's weird is we all kind of see the same things.
02:37:09.000
The foot of my bed, there's a long, spindly, shadowy figure just standing there.
02:37:17.000
And it walked along the side of my bed, like, reaching its hand out at my face.
02:37:25.000
I thought it was so real that I thought it was like an intruder.
02:37:29.000
There was no part of me that was like, this is a demon.
02:37:33.000
And then, months later, I found out about sleep paralysis.
02:37:40.000
Googled it, and there was an image of exactly what I dreamed on the internet.
02:37:56.000
That goes to the mushrooms thing with the ego death or whatever all those dumb fucking hippies want to call it.
02:38:04.000
Even though I'm like, ah, these fucking dumb hippies.
02:38:09.000
One of the weirdest experiences I've ever had is with 5-MeO-DMT, which is a different kind of dimethyltryptamine.
02:38:16.000
I think it has a different molecule attached to it or something.
02:38:22.000
With regular DMT, it's like these wild, fractal, psychedelic...
02:38:28.000
Yes, and super luminous, and then you have entities that are communicating with you, and these wild things.
02:38:37.000
I had a bunch of jokers the last time I did it.
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And it made me realize instantly, because my first thought was like, hey, fuck you!
02:38:50.000
My first instinct, like, it was all laid out in front of me.
02:38:56.000
They were saying, you take yourself too seriously.
02:39:01.000
Damn, I wish everybody got to see you get that high.
02:39:06.000
But it was a real lesson because it's true, and it changed the way...
02:39:09.000
I mean, this was just a few years ago, the last time I did it.
02:39:11.000
I think it was two and a half-ish, three-ish years ago.
02:39:16.000
And I still think of that as, like, that made me a markably more relaxed person from that moment on.
02:39:22.000
Because I was realizing, like, there's this tension when you're worried about what people think about you, and there's, like, a If you take yourself too seriously, you don't want people to talk about you a certain way.
02:39:33.000
And whatever it was, I'm doing this experience, and I'm also in the DMT world, and there's these guys going like this.
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Because you're managing a certain level of fame, and sometimes your ego gets in the way, or your perceptions are off and you're not willing to readjust, whatever it was.
02:39:59.000
But these jesters giving me the finger, I realized exactly what it was about.
02:40:10.000
I'm like, you're right, you're right, you're right.
02:40:16.000
And then they went away and it became this beautiful journey.
02:40:19.000
But it was an opportunity for me to have a bad trip.
02:40:39.000
But there was, like, a massive number of jesters giving me the finger.
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And it let me know, like, that shouldn't bother you at all.
02:40:50.000
You could look at that, and you could be bothered by it, and you could look at that and think, that's hilarious.
02:40:54.000
The only reason why you'd be bothered by it is you're connected to your own self-image, and you're connected to this idea that you want to project out to all the other people.
02:41:13.000
This kind of goes back to the cancel thing, but same thing with the mushroom thing I had, where there's that trauma, the jesters, whatever, however you want to describe it, but there's like, you wish you could keep it, because eventually you start to lose it again.
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You forget that low point where you have that moment of like, This is what I am.
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You know, and that's one of the good things about failure.
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Like, failure forces you to reassess, and also, you can get too, like, with comedy in particular, because it's so weird.
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Like, there's no director, there's no producer, it's just you.
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You're writing it, and then you're producing it.
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And then you're performing it in front of everybody.
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They don't seem like they are at the time, but they really are good because that's the only way you're going to reignite your enthusiasm.
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Which is like, I just started doing The Cellar, and everybody there hadn't seen me do stand-up.
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So then I was able to do my best material, my old material.
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Where it's that moment of like, I gotta start trying to do new at a club that I'm just at.
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Like, if you're just doing arenas, you're not gonna write new material.
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It's just like, it's a detached sort of feeling.
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But there's a thing that's detached about doing a top-level club, like The Cellar.
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It's one of the best clubs in the world, and it's in Manhattan.
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And everyone knows that Chris Rock goes up there occasionally.
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So there's a pressure to a place like that that's not necessarily conducive to creativity.
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It's good to do shows where no one knows you're going to be there.
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It's good to do shows with small amounts of people.
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You have to go to the strength and conditioning gym.
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If you don't do those things, you won't get as good as if you did those things.
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You could be a successful fighter and just work on takedown defense and punching, and you maybe get pretty far with that.
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But you won't get as far as a guy who learns jujitsu and a guy who has amazing cardio.
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Because apparently that was an existing injury.
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He had probably kicked someone really hard in training and created a stress fracture.
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And John Wayne Parr and then Eric Nixick from Extreme Couture, who's one of the top coaches in Vegas, they both put videos up on their Instagram.
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And when John Wayne Parr noticed that his leg was starting to buckle in a weird way after he threw one leg kick, kicked him in the thigh.
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Because he apparently had a cracked shin going in there.
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And it was of concern enough that they went to the doctor and got it scanned.
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So when you see him throw a kick, there's one where he hits the elbow, and then he goes back to sit down, and his leg just gives out on him totally.
02:45:02.000
That's what kind of a savage Conor McGregor is.
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So his left side is the power side, so his left kick's his big kick.
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And that was the kick that he was throwing, even though he had a broken shin.
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That video we were watching of him driving around in a scooter.
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And people are like, I did not enjoy the way people who are not MMA experts were talking about the conclusion of that fight.
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And they were saying that Conor is old, Conor's done, he doesn't have the anger anymore or the drive to become a champ anymore.
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You people don't know anything about MMA. Let me tell you what happened.
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You got a guy who went out there, guns blazing to give it his all with a pre-existing injury and he got beat by a better man.
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He got beat by a guy who might have beat him anyway, but took him down.
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And here's the thing that I was saying going into that fight.
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Historically, and this is never an indication of what can happen in the future because people can improve, they get better.
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But historically, Conor's really dangerous in the beginning of a fight.
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Dustin Poirier is dangerous for all five rounds.
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These combat trench warfare type fights where you're five rounds in with Dan Hooker and he'll win it in the fifth round.
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These wars with Max Holloway and Justin Gaethje.
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If he dominates the first round, he's likely the favorite to win the second round.
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And then he's even more of a favorite to win the third round.
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But this is just based on historical moments and fights, what Conor has done, and what Dustin has done.
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I remember thinking, yeah, but the second fight...
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If Nate Diaz had fights with no time limit, he'd win them all.
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They were like, yeah, he let Leon off the hook.
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I'm like, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
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You go after him, you run into a straight left.
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When people go after people recklessly, they get cracked.
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He took a misstep and he tried to charge him and he got fucking destroyed.
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You gotta be super careful when you're going after people you think are hurt.
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And people who don't know that, they should shut the fuck up.
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I don't know if it was this one or the last one.
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His post-fight interview where he was like, yo, house party at my house.
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I was like, this is the greatest dude of all time.
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Well, that was one thing that really popped up that I was trying to express after the first Conor fight.
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When I interviewed him after he chokes out Conor McGregor, he goes, I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
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You asked me because I was wearing a Notre Dame polo or whatever.
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You're an Irish fan or whatever, and you like Conor McGregor.
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I love Conor McGregor, but the Nate Diaz, the build-up to the first fight...
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When Nate Diaz and Conor were doing interviews with each other, I was like, dude, Nate Diaz is the fucking man.
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Because Conor was getting in everybody's fucking heads, talking all that shit, and then he tried to do it to Nate.
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There's one interview with CNN Business or some bullshit, where Conor's sitting there and he's like, you're skinny fat, you're like a gazelle, I'm a lion, I'll fucking tear you apart.
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Immediately, I was like, well, that guy's gonna win, dude.
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Oh, and in the same interview, Connor was like, ah, probably knock him out in the first round.
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It's the meanest shit talk I've ever heard in my life.
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I was telling people going into that fight because it was a last minute replacement.
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I think it was Rafael Dos Anjos who was a dangerous fight for Conor.
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And Conor, did you change your approach once it got named Nate for your fight?
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The only approach I change is I dug the grave a little bit wider, a little bit longer for Nate's skinny, fat, long body.
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Nate Connors says this has been the easiest training week of his career.
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Connor, you said at the press conference last week that you actually like Nick and Nate, as your opinion changed about that now after this week.
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You gotta recognize him because he knows what's real.
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Better hope he gets that knockout, otherwise it's gonna be a night for him.
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And Connor, if you don't get the knockout, is it a night for you?
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If he's still conscious when he hits the mat, I will crush his hips and pass his guard and mount him and strangle him.
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Like a boa constrictor wrapped around his long frame.
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And finally, it was a pound for pound number one at the time.
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There's going to be a massive contingent of Irish fans just like there have been for Conor's last few fights.
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Connor, you mentioned you buried three bodies in Vegas?
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That line when he was like, yeah, I'll probably knock him out in the first round.
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He's like, he better fucking get that knockout.
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Right now, they should never do interviews this way.
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Yeah, they're trying to provoke these guys into it.
02:53:41.000
Well, not only that, there's two guys who, I don't know if they're MMA fans, I don't know how much they know about MMA, and they have written questions on pieces of paper, and they're throwing it out at two guys who are literally about to engage in the most important fight.
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These guys should be in a room somewhere, together, and they should be a skilled moderator, like a Max Kellerman-type dude, who can talk to those guys.
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Like, that fight really made MMA... It's starting to get to the point where it's treated like the NBA or the NFL. Well, the big thing...
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Where they start respecting it enough to not have guys on fucking Fox Sports, whatever.
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The lamest lineup of training partners I've ever even heard of.
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Those guys talking about MMA in that context, they seem so preposterous.
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With their little scorecards, like reading off the little gotcha questions.
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The money interview, the CNN business or whatever that was, there's a lady asking them questions.
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I remember him saying, she said, he said he wants to make $100 million.
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I knew that guy was special in 2013. I was watching him fight in England.
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We had a little Twitter back and forth in 2013. I said, I hope to be calling your fights one day in the UFC. That's awesome.
02:56:32.000
You know how I was talking about earlier about when you see someone say something fucked up and your instant reaction is just like, fuck them.
02:57:08.000
He goes, come on over here, let's have a podcast.
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He said, come on, Joe, let's have a fucking podcast.
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I feel like I should just get something out of him.
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Even if you recognize the fact that he's emotionally charged up like that, this is just him expressing himself while he was emotionally charged up.
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By the way, Connor, I'm framing this in the studio.
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Dakota Meyer, our friend from the podcast and Great American Hero, he's got a company that does that.
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As soon as he said that, I'm like, of course I'm going to frame that.
02:58:06.000
It takes a special person to even want to fight the way he's fighting with a half a billion dollars in the bank.
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He's probably literally the richest guy that ever really wanted to fight hard.
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Even Floyd Mayweather, as rich as he is, and he's one of the all-time greats, if not the greatest boxer of all time, he's fighting people that have zero chance of beating him because he's smart.
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Because he's like, I'm just going to make a lot of money here.
02:58:37.000
He's fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov while he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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How terrifying is that guy's responses to these things?
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When Conor was like, I only count knockouts in my record.
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Khabib, it's like, I take people into deep waters and they discover themselves.
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It's like, dude, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
02:59:02.000
What's scarier than a white Muslim just talking shit, dude?
02:59:05.000
I take people into deep waters and they discover themselves.
02:59:14.000
Khabib, today he posted a picture of him with a bunch of figs.
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Oh, all the way from Dubai to USA. Thank you so much, brother.
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That guy made it to undefeated as a world champion, and the last guy he beat was what many people thought would be his most dangerous challenge, and he almost had him in the first round and got him in the second round.
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It was just like a few adjustments, and maybe if he was less tired.
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A human's a human, but really elite grapplers, it's hard to submit them, man.
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That guy's up there fucking wrestling bears in the mountains.
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I keep bringing up these fucking UFC interviews, but there's one with him, and I think it was Max Holloway.
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Yeah, Max was cutting weight, and the New York Athletic Commission decided he was too skinny.
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He goes, yeah, it would have been hard, but I could have made the weight.
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They just stepped in and decided, I don't know, man.
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Max was, the problem was he's losing a lot of weight over a short amount of time.
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But when it comes to skill level, Max is at a very, very, very high level.
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So if he can keep the fight going, the thing about a guy like Max Holloway is he never gets tired.
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So if he can get you into the third, fourth, and fifth round, if you don't have the cardio to keep up with Max, You're fucked.
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Like, the last fight that he had with Calvin Cater is, like, literally one of the greatest performances I've ever seen inside the Octagon against Calvin, a guy who's, like, really fucking dangerous, man.
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No one is ever close to as scary as Khabib, though.
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While he was fighting Conor, and he was like, now we talk.
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Let's talk now, while he's punching him in the face.
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The best thing he said during the lead-up to the Conor fight, he goes, I want to change his face.
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Like, I get upset about comments like, ah, he's not that funny.
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You need a guy who's so ultra-super dominant that he makes everybody else rise up.
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Because he's all about all this style and all the fucking expensive watches and driving around on the rolls.
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That had to be a bummer getting hit by somebody being like, now you want to talk?
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Because then the melee broke out after the fight because Khabib wasn't done.
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People were talking shit on the side of the cage.
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Having a fight for four rounds with Conor McGregor and then jumping over the cage and fucking up people in the crowd.
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And I know people love pro wrestling, and I get it.
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And I got into these whole A&E documentaries on pro wrestling recently.
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But for me, the real people are the fascinating ones.
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Francis Ngannou, talking about working in the sand mines when he was 10 years old, digging wet sand.
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Can you fucking imagine if you had to fight fucking Francis Ngannou?
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Just the paralyzing fear you'd have leaving your locker room.
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But he's also the greatest heavyweight of all time.
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Francis fought and knocked out the greatest heavyweight of all time in Stipe Miocic.
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He's like when extreme determination meets massive character developed by ruthless path in life meets great technique and discipline and hard work and superior genetics.
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Like all those things collide to like this perfect specimen of a wrecking machine.
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Jackass 4 will feature Francis Ngannou in Nutshot scenes.
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I did it the first time, and they said, listen, man, we know you.
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People know that you're the hardest puncher in the world.
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I love the fact that they are like, these dudes are such warriors that they're like, they speak in like, that's like tribal, like, did he extend his legacy yet?
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Well, also, he's well aware of what he can do to pulverize those nuts.
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If he uppercuts you in the nuts, that's a wrap, kids.
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I know a couple guys who lost a ball from sparring.
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Like they didn't have a cup on or did something stupid.
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One of the guys was fighting in the UFC. He got kicked in the nuts in a sparring session.
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He didn't bother putting his cup on, thought he was sparring light, ruptured his testicle, lost it.
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Got kicked to the part where it got pulverized.
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I don't know about the fucking, the strength of a testicle.
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But if a guy's a 170-pound man and he can crush your nuts, what does a 270-pound man do?
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And a 270-pound man is the most terrifying puncher, or one of, since...
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The only other guy as terrifying as him is Derrick Lewis, who they were supposed to fight, but now it looks like Derrick Lewis is going to fight Cyril Ghosn.
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If they made Derrick Lewis, it's almost like they shouldn't have heavyweights.
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It's like Russell Peters' dad would say, somebody's gonna get hurt real bad.
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But the first fight was they were both very hesitant to pull the trigger.
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Because both guys have, like, super legit one-punch knockout power.
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They need to let that fucking Matinho guy fight Ngannou.
03:08:20.000
The dude who was just swallowing everything O'Malley had?
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You know, O'Malley had, I believe, I don't want to misquote this, but I believe he broke two records in that fight, or came close to one record of the, over a three-round fight, the highest percentage of accuracy.
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Somewhere in 80% of all the shots he threw landed.
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And I think he landed the most amount of strikes, which is crazy too.
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That Moutinho kid, Chris Moutinho is a monster.
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If he retired for the rest of his life, that kid's a legend.
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Like, if he stops a fight, I go, man, maybe he's seeing some shit I'm not seeing.
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I think he knew O'Malley had to finish him for O'Malley's sake.
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And it was like, we don't even need to waste our fucking time on this.
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I understand he went the distance, but, like, we don't need this certainly vicious knockout that is coming.
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Especially a guy like Herb who's like super considerate and really he's about protecting fighters that aren't defending themselves.
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He has hands up but the thing is like O'Malley was just sliding those punches straight through those gloves, around those gloves.
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He was like, yo, this fight's for the Phoenix Suns.
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Especially after you beat the guy who was favored.
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How about fucking house party at my house, though?
03:10:56.000
You know, him and his brother are both like, wow, fitness for that.
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Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be there for that one, unfortunately.
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I watched Nate Diaz, Nick Diaz Brothers compilations on YouTube.
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It's one of the reasons why they're so durable.
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They don't get tired like everybody else gets tired.
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This is like from the last time I talked about this was like four or five years ago.
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Because I said two once, he goes, no, five times now.
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Tell everybody how to get a hold of you on social media.
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It's at Shane M. Gillis, Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast, and Gillian Keeves on YouTube.
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Gillian Caves on YouTube, legitimately the best guest show out there.