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00:01:12.000It's all stuff that I've always been taking long before I ever got involved in this company.
00:01:18.000So if you're interested in it, if you're interested in nootropics, a very controversial area, I want you to just go to Google and just Google the word nootropics.
00:01:27.000N-O-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. It's all about supplementation to enhance your brain's ability to produce neurotransmitters.
00:02:20.000And while I'm already ahead and I'm not worried about paying my bills and everything's going well, the last thing I want to do is get involved in anything that I didn't really.
00:02:30.000That's not true, though, because I did do Fear Factor again for another term.
00:02:33.000But you've got to realize I really like those guys that I worked with.
00:02:36.000And you're good at it, too, by the way.
00:02:38.000And I would be sick if I saw somebody else doing it.
00:02:48.000But there's no way I would be involved in a company unless I believed in it.
00:02:52.000And everything that we sell it on it is all stuff that I use in my daily life that I've talked about long before I got involved in this company.
00:02:58.000Especially kettlebells, which I feel are the best as far as strength and conditioning.
00:03:04.000If I had to pick one exercise, I think kettlebells is the best piece of exercise equipment that you can have.
00:03:10.000It's like a cannonball that's got a handle on it.
00:03:12.000And it's all about controlling this fucking cannonball.
00:03:16.000And they come in a bunch of different sizes.
00:03:17.000I use sometimes as light as 35 pounds, sometimes 50 pounds, sometimes 70 pounds.
00:03:22.000And they give you amazing workouts that directly apply to jujitsu for me.
00:03:27.000But for any athletic endeavor where it relies on explosiveness and muscle power, And it's all exercises that make your body move as one complete unit.
00:03:37.000As opposed to like isolation exercises, which a lot of people do at the gym when you see them lifting weights.
00:03:42.000This is something where your entire body, like there's things called Turkish get-ups, where you hold this weight up, you're lying on your back, and then you slowly and controlledly stand all the way up to your feet, And then bring it all the way back down.
00:03:54.000It's a really odd thing, you would think, but it's really applicable for strength and fitness in real-world athletic pursuits and even just for picking shit up and even just for having a strong body.
00:04:05.000It's better to have a strong body than a weak-ass bitch body.
00:07:12.000Yeah, it's called the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
00:07:14.000But that seems to be people murdering people.
00:07:17.000Like other people slamming on you and making it so that your health is no longer a possibility.
00:07:24.000You can look at it that way, and that is certainly part of it, but what it also is is competition in the highest and most dramatic form that a human being can see other than war.
00:07:37.000I mean, it's not the healthiest thing to be an Olympic gymnast.
00:07:40.000Yeah, maybe, but this is even worse because this is another person dominating you.
00:07:45.000You know, the idea of losing in gymnastics is, you know, I'm sure a cruel bitch after years and years of practice and you slip when you land.
00:07:53.000But it's nothing like getting your ass kicked.
00:07:55.000There's nothing like getting just the fuck beat out of you in front of the world.
00:08:00.000And there's the emotions that are involved in the show of control.
00:08:05.000The place to look is to look at the very, very best guys.
00:08:09.000If you look at the guys like Anderson Silva, he's this insanely good fighter.
00:10:59.000Because they cook the hot dogs at night, or outside rather, just this giant line of people who are basically waiting to get a very mediocre hot dog.
00:11:32.000- Brian Holtzman. - Brian Holtzman has made me laugh harder saying inappropriate, ridiculously inappropriate shit than anyone. - Well that's how I feel.
00:11:41.000I mean, I'm talking about someone. - Brody's starting to get a little famous though.
00:19:05.000Don't you think that made you, as a comedian, those really tough sets in the beginning, where you kind of realize what you've got to do to fix?
00:19:14.000It's about just failure and failure and failure and then finding, at the end of the movie, the character has just kind of, you see one sequence of, oh, this guy's going to figure it out eventually.
00:19:55.000You just need to see comedians over and over and over again and eventually go, okay, I can do something like that.
00:20:02.000It's a weird thing when you start to realize that it's a craft, but that yours seems like it's kind of similar to other people's, but it's not.
00:20:14.000It's your weird take on shit, and you've got to find out what the fuck that is.
00:20:18.000You've got to find the silly, find the preposterous.
00:20:44.000Like, Geraldo is one of my favorite comedians of all time and was a friend of mine, and, like...
00:20:48.000He even said like he's like when I started out like my first TV sets I sounded like Dave Attell I was on TV sounding like somebody else before I figured out who I was and then he I mean I think Gerald is one of the great comics but like for me it was just I sounded like I sound like Stephen Wright when I started out yeah then I sounded like Mitch Hedberg and then eventually I sounded like myself Yeah, it's hard to avoid, man.
00:21:13.000It's hard to avoid being really influenced by the guys that came before you that were really good.
00:21:20.000I caught myself sounding like Rich Jenny on stage once.
00:23:32.000And then there's people that just are crazy...
00:23:34.000And their perceptions are just off, and they'll get a thought in their head, and they don't have the ability to discern whether or not it's an objective thought, whether or not it's a reasonable thought.
00:23:43.000They just got that thought, and they fucking run with it.
00:23:46.000And with you, they're like Todd Barry.
00:23:53.000But no one ever accuses me of sounding like Woody Allen because I'm like a suburban white kid grown up and he's this short Jewish man from New York City.
00:24:02.000We just don't look like each other in any way, shape or form.
00:24:05.000I think people don't make that connection.
00:24:07.000So do you feel like you were influencing him delivery wise?
00:25:12.000There are people, because I'm such a big fan of his, there are people who I talk to to this day who go, once that happened, I will not see his movies again.
00:25:59.000He drugged a teenage girl and had sex with her or something like that.
00:26:04.000But then there's this whole documentary about that case, I think it's called Wanted, and it shows the shades of grey in that case.
00:26:14.000That case was really complex and there was a judge who was really high and mighty and kind of got carried away about his or her own ego and how The judge, him or herself, I forget what it was, was making headlines by saying certain things in the court, and then it became like a spectacular event where he might have gotten like a year in jail or something, but then it got kind of blown out of proportion and it was going to be a much bigger deal.
00:30:05.000My wife and I went, and this was even more the case, my wife and I rented a house in western Massachusetts this summer for a month so that we could just write and relax and get away from...
00:30:35.000We, um, but it was funny because my wife has been saying since we, we've been together probably about eight years, got married four years ago, and, uh, Since we met, she was like, I think that I belong in the country.
00:30:48.000I think that we should move to the country.
00:34:40.000He's a correspondent on The Daily Show sometimes.
00:34:42.000But anyway, he was telling me there's this book, and I think it's called Rats.
00:34:46.000It's all about the culture of rats, and there's this phenomenon theoretically called the Rat King, which is that certain rats are in such an enclosed space that after a while their tails are intertwined, so they're existing essentially as one large rat unit.
00:35:05.000I don't know if I can substantiate this, but people should look up Rat King.
00:35:09.000That sounds like some comic book shit, man.
00:36:48.000Mike Birbiglia said this to me, I did not, I thought he was just fucking around, I thought his friend was just fucking around, but apparently there are clumps of rats that get connected together by the tail, and they grow together while joined at the tails.
00:37:05.000So, there's like a group of like, in this photo, there's a group of, it looks like 30 or 40 of them, just on top of each other, connected by the tails.
00:38:54.000They probably just are tied up in knots.
00:38:57.000They're probably not growing together through the tails.
00:39:02.000I don't think their tails become one unit.
00:39:04.000I think they're just gross, and they just get tangled up.
00:39:08.000Ira Glass, who we mentioned earlier, you don't know his show, This American Life, but he was saying the other day that sometimes he's struck with We live in New York, you live here in LA, with the degree to which we are living like medieval lords.
00:39:26.000Like we have our beck and call, any food, any type of food we want, prepared any way we want, About 25 minutes.
00:40:46.000We were talking about one-click shopping on Amazon, but it's the easiest way to buy anything, and when you start doing it, it becomes so goddamn addictive that Yeah.
00:42:04.000I think cheat meals, cheat days, just as long as you're being reasonable, as long as like 80% of your food is really good food and healthy and every now and then you have a burger or something like that, you could do that.
00:42:43.000And people say, you know, that's unevolved and lustful killing.
00:42:50.000Those cows are not going to live forever if you just let them walk around.
00:42:55.000And if people aren't killing cows, something's going to kill cows.
00:42:59.000Either cars, because you're going to hit them with your cars because they're going to be everywhere, or you're going to have mountain lions running around taking cows out in front of you every day.
00:44:53.000It's no different than any other comic, like Michael Richards that goes from being an actor to being a comic and just can't really pull it off.
00:49:47.000Just so people have a point of reference, when I was starting out, whenever you're in the middle of nowhere, you're in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and you drive by a Best Western, and it says, Comedy Night Wednesday, that was my life.
00:50:17.000So it was like, it was the combination of what I would become was like a soft-spoken kind of storyteller, and then what they wanted was like fast jokes.
00:56:47.000I don't think that place exists anymore.
00:56:49.000Yeah, I don't know if that was pasteurized or homogenized, but they used to have it at Whole Foods, but now you've got to go to those little specialty markets in California.
00:57:34.000But I don't know if that's a corporate decision or what, but it's unfortunate because raw milk, man, doesn't give you any weird stomach shit.
00:59:31.000I was in that stage where I was having, like, eating...
00:59:35.000Like, I was about to have eating blue balls, where you're halfway through your sandwich, and you're like, if I don't finish this sandwich, I'm going to flip out.
00:59:42.000So I said to the guy, I was like, is there anywhere I can eat this sandwich?
01:01:21.000Because most foods with peanuts in them do not allow enough of the protein to escape into the air, causing a reaction.
01:01:27.000Just because the smell of foods containing peanuts won't produce a reaction because the scent does not contain the protein.
01:01:35.000She was just freaking out at the possibility, but most likely since it was like a food, it's a dust from the crunching of the peanuts, apparently.
01:01:45.000That's enough, apparently, to freak some people out.
01:01:47.000It's rare, but that's enough for some people, which is crazy.
01:02:28.000That's not nearly as bad as peanuts to people allergic to peanuts.
01:02:31.000People that are allergic to peanuts, it fucking kills you dead, and it's everywhere in tubs of it, and people are eating it in front of you.
01:03:37.000Yeah, I don't think they've adequately researched the long-term effects of putting fucking weird particles through people's bodies.
01:03:46.000And it might work on, you know, there's a thing about any sort of exposure to things that you might be fine, I might be fine, but one person, just like the person that's allergic to peanuts, people's bodies are weird, man.
01:03:57.000One person could have a totally different reaction to that radiation and really get sick because of it.
01:04:18.000Because for most of us, drinks are great.
01:04:20.000Some people cannot have that one drink.
01:04:22.000So imagine living in a world, and I have friends that have done this, where they look at everybody drinking like, this is everything you're doing.
01:04:29.000If I did, I would be dead in an alley in a week.
01:04:32.000I'd just fucking go on a massive bender until I ran out of heartbeats.
01:05:55.000Yeah, being an actor, even though he was getting on in his days, when he was running for president, the effects of the presidency hadn't quite broken him down like it did during his term.
01:06:05.000But he stomped Carter in this two-minute speech about what's the difference between a recession and a depression.
01:06:13.000A recession is when a neighbor's out of a job.
01:06:16.000A depression is when you're out of a job.
01:06:45.000They're not going to listen to a man who doesn't have children, trust me.
01:06:47.000The people who have children will never listen to a man who doesn't have children because they know that there's a physiological change that happens in a person's body, in your brain, in your consciousness, in your understanding of relationships.
01:06:58.000When you have your own children, and he doesn't have his own children.
01:07:01.000Yeah, but when he runs for president, he's going to have two two-year-olds, twins, daughters.
01:08:37.000And so Obama, who says that he's going to stop wars, all of a sudden he wins the Nobel Peace Prize and he has to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
01:08:58.000You're watching these candidates and you're like, this is the last death throes of a dying situation, a dying configuration, the configuration of Democrat versus Republican.
01:09:11.000And what we're going to do is give America back to the small businesses, to the families.
01:09:45.000And meanwhile, the same companies will be controlling things, no matter who's in control.
01:09:49.000We get wrapped up in shit like gay marriage and immigration and all this different stuff that nobody really gives a fuck about at the top of the heap.
01:09:56.000And they just keep sucking money out of the system the whole time.
01:10:00.000We're dancing around worrying about whether dudes should be able to write things down and say, I'm a this now and you're a that now.
01:10:15.000When it becomes more and more transparent, you realize what an incredible job they've done of just keeping everybody in the dark and just running things from the background.
01:10:25.000As far as running the world, really, the fucking banks have done a fantastic job.
01:10:31.000I mean, in spite of all the competition, all the access to information people have today, the fact they still run it the way they run it, it's amazing.
01:11:09.000I was very confused by what they were saying, what their message was.
01:11:14.000The word defense is a funny word because it's not defense when you're in another country.
01:11:18.000So when you say raise defense spending, I'm down for strengthening anything in America.
01:11:24.000But I think I don't see any reason to send someone's kids to some other fucking country to shoot some people they never met because some assholes say that that's the thing that needs to be done.
01:11:35.000It's not that you don't support the troops and it's not that you don't think that it's good to have a strong army because I absolutely do and do.
01:13:05.000Tim Robbins was saying to me that he was like, what you're experiencing right now, this kind of haze of like press junk and all this stuff, it's basically what they would do if they, literally if they wanted to make you insane, they'd stick you in a room and ask you the same question over and over again all day until you crack.
01:13:29.000Yeah, that's like if you were a guilty person, they would bring in a series of investigators that would ask you the exact same questions and see if you have the same answer.
01:13:39.000If you could have like a hundred investigators and they give you the same questions and you have to give detailed stories, you would fuck that thing up.
01:15:47.000You say you're going to go see the doctor, you don't.
01:15:49.000You say you want to be a comedian, you're a bartender.
01:15:52.000I mean, pick a damn plan and stick with it.
01:15:55.000He's kidding, but he's not as funny as you.
01:15:57.000My parents have been together 40 years, which is, yeah, no, but it's too long.
01:16:03.000If you're ever in a relationship that's moving towards marriage and you're not ready don't go to my sister Janet's wedding Nice shirt loser Sorry.
01:16:49.000No, no, he's been really nice to me in the last year or so.
01:16:52.000Well, that's a nice tactic that people do.
01:16:55.000Yeah, they create conflict, and then somehow the conflict gets resolved, and then there's like this emotional connection because you have something at stake.
01:17:02.000I think he's a little bit addicted to conflict.
01:17:37.000Some people just can't quite get the spark going.
01:17:44.000Awkward interviews, like when someone's asking half-hearted questions or doesn't have the passion for it, it's very uncomfortable to listen to.
01:17:55.000That's why those press junkets have to be maddening for you.
01:17:59.000Especially for a stand-up when you're always aware of people's attention spans.
01:18:05.000Well you and I were talking the other day about they want me to do all these local morning TV shows and it's hard because they don't, when you say on those local morning TV shows, when you say a joke, they'll say, I don't know what you mean.
01:23:59.000When was the last episode that you had that was even just a slight problem?
01:24:02.000Well, you know what's crazy is that making a film...
01:24:05.000Is actually not the healthiest thing for sleep disorders.
01:24:10.000I was having anxiety and sleep deprived and I was directing.
01:24:15.000I was directing myself, acting out things that I had done in my life.
01:24:19.000I had an episode where I was sleepwalking and my wife came in and I was adjusting lamps in the bedroom and she was like, what are you doing?
01:24:32.000Like, I was actually patronizing her, which is the worst thing you can do when you're sleepwalking is just insult people for not understanding your reality.
01:25:26.000I've never videoed myself, but I have this great new video technology called My Wife, who remembers everything I see, whatever I do or say.
01:25:36.000So she's kind of explained to me what it looks like.
01:26:21.000Yeah, he removed a tire iron from the car, entered the house, and he beat the mother-in-law to death, choked the father-in-law unconsciousness, and then he used a knife from the kitchen to stab them.
01:26:40.000Because, I mean, I have this disorder and I could not imagine doing anything that...
01:26:45.000Like, basically, the reason I wear a sleeping bag is that if you undo the sleeping bag, the moment you start doing something that requires dexterity and focus and concentration, that's what wakes you up.
01:27:47.000It's in, if people want to find it, it's in 30 cities in theaters this weekend.
01:27:52.000And will it be available on Netflix and iTunes and all that stuff soon?
01:27:55.000Soon it will be available, all these places, but it's, right now it's going to, it's booked, if you go on sleepwalkmovie.com, you can see in the next month it's going to open in 170 movie theaters around the country.
01:28:05.000Listen, if you ever want to come back in, we'd love to have you.
01:28:29.000We're probably going to do an Ice House Chronicles here because it's going to be Joey Diaz, Ari Shafir, me, and Doug Stanhope as well at the Ice House.
01:28:43.000And of course, Doug and I are also still doing the End of the World show, December 21st, 2012, at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. with Joey Diaz and Honey Honey, the band.
01:29:23.000And Redband is R-E-D-B-A-N on Twitter.
01:29:26.000And Desquad.tv if you want to buy the new Desquad t-shirt that is like a ripoff of a bunch of big companies that are probably going to wind up suing him.