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00:00:59.000That's probably exactly when it happened to me.
00:01:01.000I remember doing the podcast and I couldn't read off a laptop.
00:01:05.000I was actually doing a podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson and I wanted to ask him about something and I pulled up the laptop and I was like, I can't even read this.
00:15:50.000Either they kill something and they want to let everybody know that they killed something, so they let all the other coyotes know, or they're doing roll call.
00:15:58.000When they do roll call, if one of the coyotes doesn't respond, that means the coyote probably got killed.
00:16:04.000And when a coyote gets killed, the female coyotes in the pack produce more litter.
00:16:09.000It's one of the reasons why coyotes are everywhere.
00:16:11.000They're one of the most unusual animals in North America in that when their populations decrease, the female litters increase.
00:16:19.000Like they make more babies and they spread their territory out.
00:16:23.000Because they used to be limited to the West.
00:16:25.000But then when in the 1800s and the 1900s, when people started shooting them and running them off, like when they extirpated the wolves, like wolves are, basically they were...
00:28:12.000That was the bear that probably kept human beings from crossing the Bering Strait.
00:28:16.000The Bering landmass during the Ice Age, when the continents were connected and you could walk from Asia to America, there was a bear called the short-faced bear that died off when all the megafauna died.
00:28:31.000Somewhere around 12,000 years ago, there was a mass extinction of megafauna, and the short-faced bear was amongst them.
00:28:37.000It was like twice the size of a polar bear.
00:29:10.000Just imagine being a primitive man with animal skins covering your dick, wandering through the forest trying to find a squirrel to feed your children.
00:29:24.000There was, you know, some nuclear lake and the animals ate out of it and tadpoles were this big and there was a fucking bear like that just going around killing everybody.
00:32:41.000Yeah, there was like one of them legend things where people were claiming to see enormous birds, bird-like creatures that had like 17-foot wingspans, and they were thinking that pterodactyls still existed.
00:45:11.000I mean, I remember when I was coming, I don't know if you know this, but when I was coming up in Boston, I got a lot of shit for my comedy because that's when evening at the improv and comedy, you know, half hour, all that stuff.
00:45:26.000And I remember people telling me, you have to clean it up.
00:45:29.000You need seven minutes of clean material.
00:45:31.000You need seven minutes of clean material.
00:45:53.000I remember I saw you on MTV's Comedy Half Hour and you were talking about how much pressure you apply To, you know, you don't want to hurt, you know, how much do you,
00:46:08.000how much to push a girl's, I mean, is there a thing, you know what I mean?
00:46:13.000Oh, it was when a girl's like, I go, she's like kissing your lips and kissing your neck, but she's spending way too much time in this particular area.
00:46:23.000You're trying to encourage this downward trajectory of her affection.
00:46:28.000So you're like arching your back and you're putting your hand on your head, but you don't know how hard you can push her head before she gets mad.
00:46:35.000It was fucking genius to me because every guy is busy because you don't want to be a fucking asshole, but it's like, dude, this is doing nothing.
00:47:18.000And we were like, that's not what I think about.
00:47:20.000And I remember there was a guy that I work with at Nick's Comedy Stop, and he was telling me this, you gotta clean it up, you gotta stop saying fuck, you gotta do this.
00:47:27.000I go, but I go, but my favorite comics are like Dice Clay.
00:49:46.000This week, Kanye went on a media blitzkrieg.
00:49:49.000He threw so many stones at the Jews, he's now an honorary general in the West Bank, which is soon to be the only bank that will accept him.
00:49:55.000J.P. Morgan actually canceled his account, so the only transaction Kanye is going to have is when Caitlyn drops off the kids.
00:51:15.000That thing that he did, the America series that he did on Netflix, like that, those fast-paced...
00:51:21.000He developed a new kind of stand-up that you could do with no audience on Instagram, because he doesn't have to wait for the laughs, so he just hammers you, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
00:51:31.000Because when people were doing Zoom stand-up, it was terrible.
00:53:31.000The future is not these fucking gatekeepers and executives.
00:53:34.000All those people are, like, if you say some wild shit on a special, and then someone tries to bring it to a streaming service, And then the people start getting upset and protesting.
00:53:59.000Because you're not seeing stuff that you might think would be offensive, but you laugh at it, and that's our job.
00:54:04.000Well, also, how many people are complaining versus how many people are enjoying it?
00:54:09.000It's a lack of perspective because they're only paying attention to the people that are writing emails and making these fucking campaigns, and those people are losers for the most part.
00:54:20.000The people that get upset at a comedian telling jokes to the point where they want to contact sponsors and contact banks, they don't have anything going on with their life, and their thing is to try to get some sort of a result out of their efforts, and their efforts are negative to cancel you.
00:54:36.000If you don't like it, you don't have to listen.
00:54:38.000If you don't like a Quentin Tarantino movie where Brad Pitt smashes a woman's face on a mantelpiece, don't watch it.
00:54:57.000But today's kids, these activist-minded kids, think that they have some sort of a civil, civic duty to try to remove you from the entertainment ecosphere.
00:56:52.000And instead of, like, when I was coming up in the 90s, when you would get on a sitcom, I remember there was all this resentment from other people that I knew that had agents that sent them out for the same roles.
00:57:05.000So we're all kind of the same age, and there's a guy who's a fucking character on a sitcom.
00:57:14.000And if he gets it, you're like, fuck, that could have been me.
00:57:18.000And you see him on the CBS promo smiling.
00:57:21.000You're like, ah, that could have been me.
00:57:23.000I remember when Kevin James got his sitcom and when he was, they were like playing these ads for the sitcom and I remember some comedians like, that's like fucking fuck that show and it's not.
00:57:35.000I go, you're saying that because you wish it was you.
00:57:42.000You're only upset because you feel like because someone else is successful, somehow or another it took something away from you.
00:57:48.000But it doesn't change the fact that it's successful.
00:57:51.000You're only damaging your own mind by thinking that way.
00:57:55.000Well, success, they kind of mindfuck you with the success thing because you have the potential To have dreams come true, things you felt as a little kid, or places you wanted to go, or things you wanted to get,
00:58:10.000or the life you wanted, is this potential that that could happen in this business, right?
00:59:25.000You think you're making it because on paper you're successful.
00:59:28.000So you're always trying to compare your success to other people's success and you're always trying to stay ahead of them because it's the only thing you have.
00:59:35.000Because you don't have the friends and you don't have the family and you don't have love from your peers in just fun times, hanging out, talking shit.
01:01:15.000I mean, after this appearance, my special will sell millions of things and I'll be rich and we'll get cars together and I'll move to fucking Austin and I'll fucking play your club.
01:06:43.000I remember when I first moved to LA, it was in 94, and I got an apartment in North Hollywood, and it was a nice apartment with a loft, and I had a pool table in my apartment.
01:06:53.000And I would come home to my apartment, and I'm like, this is crazy.
01:07:19.000Most things like that, like big, giant, crazy things, they're very overrated.
01:07:24.000They're not worth the effort that it takes to acquire them, and you don't get the level of satisfaction out of having them that you think you would.
01:07:31.000There's some things you're gonna enjoy in life like some things that I still enjoy I still enjoy cars like I still enjoy hot rods and I still enjoy I like I get a wild thrill out of driving them.
01:07:43.000It's like taking a drug It's fun, but most of those things that people try to acquire they just look good to other people because they're unattainable Because you see that big house on the hill, like, wow, who lives there?
01:07:57.000The guy who lives there, that's just his fucking house.
01:08:04.000If you don't have good quality of life inside of that, like a wife that you love, children that are happy, if you don't have that, then you have nothing.
01:13:08.000It's a weird feeling when that sun goes away and you have that little flashlight and you have the light of the fire and there's nobody around for a long time.
01:13:19.000And if you do hear somebody, it's weird.
01:15:11.000They go with a large pack on their back and they go out deep, deep, deep into the woods and they'll spend a week out there hunting by themselves.
01:15:24.000And if they get an animal, they pack it out on their back.
01:17:30.000Like going out there and being alone and being away from civilization completely and seeing wild animals and hearing them and stalking them and going up the mountains.
01:17:42.000It's just everything about it requires all of your focus.
01:18:34.000I mean, I'd been fishing a few times, but what had happened was I'd seen a bunch of PETA videos and I was like, okay, I'm either going to become a vegetarian or I'm going to become a hunter.
01:18:45.000Because I don't want to be a part of this factory farming thing.
01:19:06.000And just go out there and get my own food and just the reset alone and Callan and I had the best time because he got two comics and a bunch of these like hard-nosed fucking you know like hard camping hunters And Callan's taking a shit and we put like a silver flag in it.
01:20:27.000I remember we were eating over a fire.
01:20:33.000I think one scene actually did make it in because when I went to shoot that deer, I had to crawl to a position and lay the rifle down on a rock to get a good spot, and I crawled right over a cactus.
01:20:46.000So I had cactus thorns all over my legs.
01:20:52.000I think there's a video of it online, of Callan with needle-nose pliers Pulling cactus thorns out of my ass and legs while we're eating this meat over a fire.
01:21:08.000But when we were there eating that meat over the fire, it was so...
01:21:15.000Satisfying and the meat was so good because it was so fresh and was like, you know We just put salt on it like maybe salt and a little pepper and we're just frying, you know But we're grilling it over this fire and I remember thinking I want to do this for the rest of my life Yeah, like this is the most fun the most the food was so delicious and it was so satisfying and if you've never had wild game before Like,
01:21:38.000people have this idea, like, gamey, tastes badly.
01:26:40.000You have to have a wind catcher or a wind detector.
01:26:46.000So what it is is like talcum powder and you have a little bottle.
01:26:49.000When you hunt, you squeeze this bottle in the air and a mist of smoke, like talcum powder, goes in the air and then it drifts, which way the wind goes.
01:28:46.000Like in Manhattan, if like, if Manhattan gets hit with a nuke, you know, and then the power goes out, and then all the people in Westchester and all the people in Connecticut are the only ones that survive, Ooh.
01:28:58.000I saw that episode with, what's her name?
01:29:06.000Well, the talking about Russia, that sort of explanation of how quickly things can go badly and how we're contributing to that by funneling money and funneling arms over to Ukraine.
01:29:18.000As much as you think of what Russia has done as horrific, we're on the verge of nuclear war right now.
01:30:54.000His band would go to Russia and do shows, which was fucking great.
01:30:58.000Yeah, he'd just go over there and do shows.
01:30:59.000His friend Andy or something has business over there, so they'd just all go over there, his whole band, do shows for a week, and then come back.
01:31:06.000During the fucking invasion, Louis was scheduled to do shows in Ukraine.
01:31:59.000I remember we flew in and we were at the palaces.
01:32:03.000He had 36 palaces or something, and they didn't bomb any of them.
01:32:09.000They sent one rocket through his bedroom window just to let them know what they could do because they used all those palaces as camps, as bases, because they're already fortified.
01:34:48.000And it was like, you know, you could leave a comment, and they'd leave a comment, and so what happened was is I had this thing, and all these fans would come and leave comments.
01:34:58.000Hey, I saw you here, blah, blah, blah.
01:35:58.000And Keith Robinson was KWR superstar or something like that.
01:36:03.000Dane was, I don't know, fucking to the top or some shit, right?
01:36:07.000And they started fighting each other and it was, dude, they were taking like days to go out and write like articles about each other and they were smashing each other.
01:36:20.000I'm talking thousands of people are going to this every day just to read these fucked up comments that comics were saying about each other as aliases.
01:36:33.000All of a sudden I get a thing in the mail you have to stop.
01:36:41.000It had a logo of these little kids just like sad, you know?
01:36:47.000And it was kind of like blurred out and had like three little kids just sad.
01:36:52.000You have to take all the swears, your language, you've been reported and you're going to be fined $5,000 and jail time and I had to go, I panicked.
01:37:04.000I went through and I had to take all the fucks out and the swears.
01:37:07.000I took all the swears and stuff out and then I got another letter.
01:37:11.000It's like, it's not enough, the things that are being said, and I shut it down.
01:37:17.000It really was the FBI? A year later, I'm on tour with Dane, and I'm like, dude, remember that site, man, that fucking thing with the, I'm so sad that it's gone.
01:39:05.000Like me as a person walked out and I grabbed the mic and I went and it just went and all the balls sprinkled around and then there was a ball in the middle that was my face but when you touched it it was liquid.
01:40:09.000One of the more interesting things was that you could tour places, like you can go to the Louvre in Paris, and you're walking around.
01:40:16.000And so like you could just like go to there and then it's like there's people around you moving around because they filmed it while there was a crowd there.
01:42:00.000Like, my friend plugged it into his computer, and we went in, and we sat down in the movie theater, all of us, eight of us, in the movie theater, watching Caddyshack, and it was my little avatar that I made, and I was looking over.
01:42:13.000We were throwing popcorn at each other.
01:46:00.000So you move in any direction, and you're carrying like a plastic gun, and then you have the virtual reality headset, and you're running around like you're in a real first-person shooter, but you're stationary.
01:46:50.000And so you go in Virtualizer Elite 2. And so you move around, and so as you're moving, you're actually getting a workout, which is pretty fucking cool too.
01:47:01.000Because like, you know Dance Dance Revolution?
01:47:04.000Fucking kids lost shitloads of weight and got in great shape because they got addicted to that game.
01:47:09.000And so it's like rewarding because the game is fun, but you're actually getting a benefit out of it.
01:47:14.000So if you have this, this virtualizer, a different one, so this one is different, but it's the same kind of deal.
01:47:22.000Like, you're actually using your legs to move around, and when you're doing this, you have a haptic feedback suit on, so if you get shot, you feel it, and look at that guy's running.
01:47:33.000So you're getting a good fucking workout.
01:47:35.000Yeah, the problem is that most guys who game are like, you know, 400 pounds.
01:47:39.000Right, but you could lose weight like this.
01:47:41.000The same thing with the Dance Dance Revolution thing.
01:47:44.000Like, a lot of people started out fat, but, you know, in Dance Dance Revolution, you have to move your feet really fast to get a good score.
01:47:50.000And so, if you're doing this, and the faster you run, the faster you actually move in the game, that's fucking amazing.
01:47:56.000Well, they have boxing on it, which is...
01:50:19.000And you'll have that porn forever where you can just put it on and have sex with whatever porn star you want virtually in your living room.
01:50:28.000You can relive that moment over and over again.
01:51:18.000We're ready to open up the door and step into it.
01:51:20.000And some people are probably further ahead than others.
01:51:23.000And then, again, these neural interfaces, like Neuralink, When things like that, when they start doing that and they can send signals directly to your brain, whoa.
01:51:32.000I was thinking of this and I decided to Google before I asked you, have you heard of AI porn yet?
01:51:37.000Because I imagine using all this AI technology we're seeing online right now, they have to have been working on this.
01:52:08.000The problem is you want to think she's just a free spirit and she's very healthy and she just enjoys sex and she gets off on it, but the reality of that sort of public display of sexuality is oftentimes it stems from abuse.
01:52:52.000Remember when TV shows would come on and then the commercial would come on and wake you up.
01:52:55.000Yeah, so you'll be in your hotel room trying to get some whatever, some, you know, best friend's mom porn, and all of a sudden it's, you want that big boy?
01:53:43.000I mean, the movie and the book for the first one were not the same thing, so I don't know.
01:53:48.000Two would just be a different story too.
01:53:49.000It'd be great though, like even my special, if that was...
01:53:55.000If we did virtually, if we put a virtual camera, I think the setup is weird.
01:54:00.000You have to put it in a front row seat and it has to, I don't know, it has to go up in a certain way and then you have to join these videos together.
01:54:08.000You have to put them together, the way you put it together.
01:54:11.000If you could go, if you're all over the world, if you could go and go to my special live the night we taped it, I could have sold tickets to the special worldwide.
01:54:21.000Like, you're filming your next special.
01:55:07.000So is it one of the smaller productions?
01:55:09.000Because UFC Fight Pass has a bunch of like farm sort of leagues where guys start out and then they wind up making it to the UFC afterwards?
01:55:55.000It seems like it does change a little bit, and I don't know, you probably don't have control over that from my experience watching other streams, but maybe, they might have changed that now, too.
01:58:12.000And people started freaking the fuck out.
01:58:16.000Because if you didn't tune in in time to hear that this is just like fucking, this is a performance, people thought when they tuned into the radio, We're being attacked by aliens.
01:58:27.000So what year was that with the war the 19 what?
01:58:32.000So 1930 Halloween 1938 the infamous war of worlds radio broadcast was a magnificent fluke Orson Welles and his colleagues scrambled to pull together the show and ended up writing pop culture history.
01:58:45.000So this was 1938 Yeah, so it was the H.G. Wells classic, The War of the Worlds.
01:58:52.000But I believe they added things to it, like they made it seem like there was legitimate news broadcasts, and it caused a nationwide hysteria.
01:59:03.000And he was 23 years old when he did it.
01:59:05.000Oh, by the next morning, 23-year-old Wells face and name were on the front page newspapers coast to coast along with headlines about the mass panic his CBS broadcast had allegedly inspired.
01:59:27.000I think at least one, it might have been just a report of a suicide, like sensationalism, because journalism was very hard to fucking vet back then.
01:59:35.000I wonder if that's true, because I do remember saying that people killed them, or reading that people killed themselves.
01:59:47.000Dude, I had this guy on the other day, Ryan Graves.
01:59:50.000He was an advanced fighter pilot for the Navy.
01:59:53.000And in 2014, they updated all of their radar systems and they started seeing UFOs everywhere.
02:00:01.000So all over the East Coast and the ocean, when they would travel out the ocean to run these training missions, they started seeing these objects that defied physics.
02:03:19.000He's running like four different world-changing industries simultaneously.
02:03:24.000I mean, who the fuck else is running like an electric car business along with an internet satellite high-speed data business along with a revolutionary rocket business that could not just shoot rockets into space but have the rockets land.
02:04:08.000When we were kids, the goal was, I mean, I started out with Fitzsimmons, and we did open mics together, we traveled together, and I remember we always would talk about the goal was to be a professional.
02:13:15.000It's fucking it was just exciting to like we got there got to the arena Spark up a joint put on the fucking music.
02:13:23.000I brought like a big old bluetooth You know a speaker thing we crank up some fucking great tunes and we all fucking put our suits on we're ready to go to work.
02:13:32.000We're fucking professionals I have a whole closet full of suits of different sizes.
02:13:38.000My fifth fat, my fourth fat, my sixth fat.
02:14:53.000I would wake up in the morning and say goodbye to my mom in sixth grade, go out the front door, go around the back, crawl into the basement.
02:15:02.000And in the corner of the basement, I had a little pillow and a blanket.
02:15:13.000I had nobody and I was in a major depression and I didn't know it.
02:15:16.000And I would sleep in the basement and I remember I would just eat food like, you know, Suzy Q's and ringdings and it just made me feel almost like a friend, you know?
02:15:29.000You know, I just had a problem and I... I remember I got real big.
02:15:37.000And then my sixth grade teacher, actually, Mr. DiPersio, got me into running.
02:15:43.000It was like all of a sudden he became my dad.
02:15:46.000You know, he kind of took me under his wing.
02:18:45.000You go into this room and there's all these other kids of all nationalities just in this room watching this one TV. I remember they came in with a box of deli sandwiches.
02:18:57.000And everybody ran over and grabbed, and you grab a sandwich, and they had these purple onions on top, these wet onions, because I think they were old sandwiches that they would donate to the Juvies.
02:19:08.000And they all took them and threw it on the ceiling.
02:19:10.000And I looked up on the ceiling, and it was just years of onions on the ceiling.
02:19:34.000And he just looked at me and he shook his head.
02:19:36.000And they shackled me to two other 18-year-olds.
02:19:40.000I was 13. And they took me to the Charlestown Y. So the Charlestown Y, the bottom floor was the Y, but the top floor was a juvenile lockup.
02:19:50.000So you had to go through the gym, go upstairs, and they take you into this room.
02:20:10.000That night, some kid got a pencil in his eye from another kid.
02:20:15.000And then you go into this room with just bunk beds.
02:20:19.000Steel bunk beds filled in the room and the highway I don't remember the Charlestown Y the highway with 93 was right there So it's just cars like as close as me and you were just whipping by on the highway all night long and Yeah, I went to jail and they from there you just go to another jail another jail I think it was till I was 15 I was going in and out of juvie jails and foster homes and Jesus Christ.
02:20:56.000And, you know, there's that thing where it's like, I don't know if you've heard that thing where, you know, you don't know, is it good or bad?
02:26:34.000And he lost it all from alcoholism and drugs.
02:26:37.000So he started this house called The Road Back.
02:26:41.000And I remember I was sitting there, petrified, and all of a sudden, he comes down, there's all the staff, and there's this one kid fucking being, fuck this place, I don't want to fucking be here, fuck this, I want the fuck out, screaming and yelling, and he came down the stairs,
02:26:57.000old dude, gray beard, psoriasis, he had a misty cigarette, you know, those little slim and sassy, just smoking it, and he came down, He goes, where's this fucking fuck up?
02:27:10.000Where's this cocksucker that wants to leave?
02:29:27.000And I remember when I got out, I was petrified.
02:29:32.000The first day out, 14 months later, I haven't seen my family for over a year.
02:29:38.000And I got out and I asked the guy, I go, what do I do?
02:29:42.000He goes, go to a meeting far enough away where you can't walk home.
02:29:48.000Get a ride there, but don't get a ride home.
02:29:51.000So I did that, and I went to a meeting, a young people's meeting, and they dropped me off, I got the meeting, and I kept asking people right away, can you give me a ride?
02:30:14.000And he was like, fucking sure, no fuck, come on, let's go.
02:30:17.000He went over to the piano, started playing all these chicks around him, I was like, what the fuck?
02:30:23.000Then we went to a Bickford's and we talked about spirituality.
02:30:27.000We talked about program all night till like two in the morning with these hot chicks and ham and he was this rock dude from Berkeley and he became my friend, you know, and we wound up going to meetings every night and I got sober and I got my shit together and And he's still my friend to this day.
02:30:47.000He's still one of the funniest guys I've ever met.
02:31:06.000Yeah, it was I mean it saved my life that place and the NFI shelter care Giving me the responsibility and the respect as a human being to make a choice and then this road back You know Tom Tompkins this where he used to call me content because if you fell a bunch of little cunts would fall out of your head Because all I thought about was chicks You know what I mean?
02:31:41.000We just would say hi, and we had this thing.
02:31:44.000I get out, they have this thing called IKIPA. It's called the International Conference of Young People in AA, where thousands of young people in AA would converge on one town, and it was Boston.
02:31:57.000The year I got out, it was Boston, at the Park Plaza Hotel, right?
02:32:02.000So it's all young people trying to get sober.
02:32:06.000And I remember we all got hotel rooms and I went there and they did a sobriety count, dude.
02:32:12.000Thousands of people in the room all the way down to one day.
02:32:17.000It was like fucking, you know, 60 years.
02:32:20.000You know, all these people had these 20, 30, 10...
02:32:24.000A week down to one day and there was like this one girl that had one day and the place just...
02:44:54.000After Dane kind of made it, I remember the group broke up because I think Dane came one day and he was like, I have a show on the night of an Owl and the Monkeys show.
02:45:03.000And we were like, yeah, but it's Owl and the Monkeys.
02:45:06.000And he was getting paid more for his single show than he was...
02:45:09.000We were getting paid for the whole show.
02:45:11.000So I was like, alright, fuck it, we're done.
02:51:21.000Yeah, I got in like a couple in high school.
02:51:23.000One time in high school this dude grabbed me in a headlock and threw me to the ground and he was gonna punch me in the face and decided not to.
02:52:27.000I remember one time I was in Fenway Park, like that area, like Kenmore Square, and I was walking down the street and these fucking kids, I forget if it was two or three kids, I think it was two kids,
02:52:43.000and they were just street kids, like shitty kids.
02:52:47.000And he's like, hey man, Could I borrow some money?
02:53:52.000I know you got some money Oh, no, I don't have any money for you.
02:53:55.000And then when we got to the door It was like perfect timing like right when they were starting to escalate shit and in the door the door was a logo of a guy Flying through the air kicking another guy in the head.
02:54:07.000Yeah, that was the Jehan Kim Taekwondo Institute and I took karate for a while.
02:56:58.000And I'm like, I'm gonna fuck his life up, because I can't stop stuffing my face, because whatever the addiction is, because I turned off the other addictions, and now I'm addicted to this, and I needed help.
02:57:16.000And then I'm a member of this cigar club, Cigar Republic.
02:59:41.000So it allowed me the moments of clarity to understand, I'm not hungry right now, but I'm hungry, you know?
02:59:49.000There's also a thing in your stomach, this isn't theory, this isn't, you know, this is a theory, there's ghrelin cells in your stomach that tell you you're hungry.
03:00:00.000So when you remove, in theory, when you remove, and I want to get male, I'm just saying, when you remove that stomach, those cells go with it, so you have less of those cells, yeah?
03:00:14.000It helps you not feel that hunger when you're not hungry.
03:00:18.000Well, it seems like also you change your pattern.
03:00:20.000And once you develop a new pattern, you could really, that pattern, if you stick with it and you get momentum, that pattern can become your new way of thinking, your new way of life.
03:00:31.000That's how it is whenever I get really serious and start doing something like very serious, it becomes my new thing.
03:00:38.000And then it becomes easier to do because it's just a part of the day.