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00:01:56.000You can't possibly read 100,000 fucking things, but you might be able to put a good dent into it if you got in your car or if you were on a train or on a plane and listened to audiobooks or at the gym or jogging.
00:02:10.000If you're one of those nature-at-the-park type characters that's not worried about muggers and you run around with a fucking thing on, not worried about getting clipped over the head by someone who's sneaking up behind you and you don't see them coming, or maybe you're just fucking that confident in your foot speed.
00:02:23.000You're just like, this motherfucking mugger.
00:02:59.000I recommend Steven Pressfield's The War of Art.
00:03:02.000This is a book that I've been recommending to everybody.
00:03:04.000It's such a good book as far as motivation to get your shit together that I bought stacks of them and I used to hand them out to people all the time.
00:03:41.000You gotta smoke a fat joint before you read that and then just shut it off and walk away.
00:03:46.000There's some really interesting stuff in there and some complete nonsense.
00:03:51.000It's really, like, if you wanted to pick a book where you were worried or curious whether or not, like, there was some disinformation afoot, whether they were trying to connect really, you know, actual factual ideas with fucking UFO bases at Walmart...
00:07:21.000I'm like, well, Joe Rogan, it seems that no one from your show went to Lumosity, but everybody from Joe Rogan, bitch.
00:07:37.000What I like about it, what I think is interesting is you can personalize your goals, which is kind of odd when you first start doing it because you're like, wait a minute.
00:07:48.000Why wouldn't it be better to click everything?
00:07:50.000I guess maybe it would be too difficult.
00:07:52.000But as you're doing it, it gives you memory.
00:09:28.000For those who have been asking about AlphaBrain, we'll talk about that next.
00:09:32.000The studies on alpha brain will finally be published, allegedly, in February.
00:09:37.000It takes a long time to get into a scientific journal about stuff, so people have been asking about the results of the double-blind placebo test.
00:09:43.000We did what's called a pilot test, and then we're going to do a big fat test after this, but it's because the pilot test is very encouraging.
00:09:51.000I guess that would help you if you took Lumosity.
00:09:54.000I think the idea behind something like Lumosity is that your brain, much like everything else, grows in strength with repetition and focus.
00:10:03.000It seems to work as far as my brain when it comes to stand-up comedy.
00:10:07.000The more I'm doing stand-up, The more I'm in that stand-up comedy vibe, it seems like a mental shape.
00:11:54.000Because when I think about the things that I do, like a lot of the things that I do, like MMA commentary, would be very difficult to do if you hadn't done it before.
00:12:02.000And the more you do it, the more you get sort of sharp at it.
00:12:06.000Well, Lumosity treats it like there's exercises you can do that will allow you to be flexible in your ideas in that sort of a way.
00:12:16.000Thinking outside the box, avoiding errors, multitasking.
00:12:19.000How's your multitasking skill, Sam Tripling?
00:14:05.000I mean, just what you see on stage, he was doing in their offices.
00:14:09.000So when he came up onto the stage and I introduced him, first guy up, walked up to his standing O. He had already loved everybody mentally that they had loved him right out the gate.
00:14:20.000You already told this story on this podcast before, but it's a great story.
00:19:52.000You know, people focus on the adult film stars, and they're really just a small part of a huge thing.
00:19:56.000And it's just bringing out all this, you know, you call them savages, all the late-night rumblers of people who, like, can't get on The Tonight Show.
00:20:03.000Like, all these crazy burlesque people, and comics come and do real comedy they want to do, and just crazy pole dancers who, like, I mean, like...
00:22:41.000The only thing that makes sense to me about not wanting your name is if you're trying out totally new shit and you want a completely neutral audience.
00:22:48.000Like you don't want people that are there for you.
00:22:50.000They might give you a little bit of extra juice that you don't deserve with a bit.
00:22:53.000You don't want to work on your new material in front of your crowd because you know that they're going to laugh at it.
00:26:03.000I'll write down in my joke, premise, this premise, premise, premise, and I'll work them out in my head, and then I'll go on stage and be like, okay, that works, that doesn't work, and I make mental notes in my head.
00:26:13.000Well, I definitely have done that before, and I think that if that works for you, it's all really about how much focus you're putting into it.
00:26:20.000If your focus is you just sitting there going over it and redoing it over and over again in your head and then just writing down the premise, I think that's basically just like writing.
00:26:29.000It's just you're not actually putting it down on a piece of paper.
00:26:32.000The one thing about writing, though, is they say that, especially physically writing, like pen and paper, not just typing, When you physically write something, it helps memory retention.
00:27:11.000It's just I've tried to be like the guy who sits down like, I'm going to write this out.
00:27:15.000And then go on stage, it just something gets lost in translation.
00:27:20.000But I just, I mean, I'm talking to myself in my head constantly.
00:27:24.000I used to do it when I worked at the Standard Hotel.
00:27:26.000They used to think I was a crazy guy, and the Hispanic maid service wouldn't sit next to me during lunch because they would see me talking to myself all day, just working on the bit, acting it out, just to get through the day of this job that I was very thankful for,
00:27:44.000But that's how I would get through the day, just working on these bits, playing them out in my head.
00:27:48.000And then by the time I got on stage, I would have this somewhat crafted bit already on stage.
00:27:53.000Yeah, I used to do that when I drove limos.
00:27:55.000I used to drive around and pretend like I was doing the bit as I was driving.
00:27:59.000I find that when you're doing certain tasks, especially driving with no radio on...
00:28:05.000Driving with no radio on is a good thing to do.
00:28:08.000Not enough people do it, but just driving around and just thinking.
00:28:11.000Like, sometimes you can figure some shit out, and you have ideas that come to you because you're not being inundated by constant ideas of other people, whether it's advertisements or songs you don't really want to hear.
00:28:38.000As I thought it was going to be, but you've got to just work through it.
00:28:41.000And now that I've been on stage, I'm trying to be a little more honest with what's gone in my life because I've had a crazy life with my drug problem and all that stuff and just all the crazy places I put myself into and all that stuff.
00:28:54.000You know, the crowds have really been reacting to it really well, man.
00:28:58.000I'm really impressed, like, you know, the comments I'm getting on stage.
00:29:02.000This is something you've done, this is the first time you've done this?
00:30:28.000It's gotten so much about relatability to the point that I just feel like people want to hear premises about stuff we all already agree upon.
00:30:39.000And I just don't want to do that stuff.
00:31:33.000You're longing for someone to go up there and just take it to another level.
00:31:37.000Which is why after a long time of resisting the late night spots at the comedy store, I very much embrace them now because there's a lot more room for me just to...
00:32:32.000And the crowd was still there, and they were great, but right when I walk on the stage, these two dudes in the front row just jump me.
00:32:39.000They're just trying to heckle me right out the gate, and I'm very blessed that I've been doing comedy long enough that I'm dead on the inside.
00:35:58.000Part of it is Hollywood itself, because you get a disproportionate amount of people who think they deserve way more attention than they're getting.
00:36:04.000Like, this is the place where they congregate.
00:36:06.000This is the light that draws the moths.
00:36:11.000So they come here, and one of the things that they want to do is prove that they're better than everybody else.
00:36:16.000You ever talk to someone who's like a really weak comedian that's sort of just starting out, and like, you know, we're gonna fucking own this town.
00:36:53.000Okay, well you watch this guy become the most bloated asshole because of all this success that he's having and all this adulation he's getting.
00:37:04.000He believes his own hype and tailspins.
00:37:07.000And the whole thing is, it's really fascinating to watch.
00:37:10.000Really, really fascinating to watch because the guy becomes just a fucking asshole.
00:38:00.000It's a fascinating piece on watching...
00:38:04.000The reaction to this guy, like he gets huge and he has all this arrogance and then it all implodes on him and you get to see the aftermath of it.
00:38:16.000And it's a really interesting psychology or psychological Sort of a profile.
00:38:24.000It's an interesting documentation of a process.
00:38:28.000A process of hitting unfathomable heights of popularity.
00:38:46.000I don't want to say who it was, but she threw her coke in the face of the executive producer and said, if you fuck your wife the way you write, it's no wonder why you're getting a divorce.
00:39:24.000The reason why Charlie Sheen cracks like that...
00:39:27.000Don't you think part of that is the pressure of just being Charlie Sheen?
00:39:31.000Just the pressure of being on this gigantic fucking hit sitcom and everywhere you go people are following you with cameras and you just want to do coke?
00:39:38.000You just want to go fucking crazy and smoke some rocks.
00:39:40.000Was there a lot of pressure when you were doing Fear Factor?
00:40:18.000He's got that right kind of fame I talk about on stage where it's like he's above it, meaning no matter what he does, we're cool with it.
00:40:26.000I mean, the guy locked the porn star in the bathroom after smoking crack and got a huge TV deal with FX. Anybody else, that's taken them down, but he's just at that level where it's like he's above it.
00:40:40.000I mean, he's got a new movie coming out.
00:40:51.000If someone pretends to be like a Ted Haggard type dude, pretends to be this very pious religious leader who's trying to show people the way, meanwhile he's smoking meth and getting gay hookers.
00:41:00.000That's what people have a problem with.
00:41:02.000It's not smoking meth and getting gay hookers.
00:41:04.000Because if, you know, if George Michael did it and was just like honest about it, like, look, I got a lot of money, I really like meth, and I like hookers.
00:44:07.000You know, a great example of what you're talking about is like anytime you hear a story about a woman cutting a man's privates off, you hear women laughing about that constantly.
00:44:53.000It's like, why wouldn't you be a male rights advocate?
00:44:56.000What about that guy that got arrested for rape, did four years in jail, and it turned out that the girl was lying, and now she has to do two months, and she gets to do it on the weekends.
00:45:08.000This poor man, he was just the neighbor.
00:45:10.000And the girl got caught watching pornography by her mother, so she concocted this story that she was sexually assaulted, and she said that the story just got bigger and bigger and bigger until it spiraled out of control.
00:45:20.000We talked to a guy on Greg Fitzsimmons' show the other day who was falsely accused of rape, and he went to jail for six years before the woman finally recanted.
00:45:34.000And it was a woman who he just got drunk with, and she didn't want to tell her boyfriend that she cheated on him, so she made up a story about getting raped.
00:45:42.000Famous, there's a football player who just got on Seattle.
00:46:27.000The idea that you could make fun of someone who's looking out for men's rights, that's so gross.
00:46:32.000If someone made fun of feminists, The values and ideas, the true values and ideas of equality in terms of law and employment and non-discrimination, all those things, if someone actually made fun of that just because they didn't like women, that would be disgusting.
00:46:48.000It would be disgusting and misogynistic, but a woman can say that like male rights dodo or male rights advocate dummies, like, completely dismiss the idea that there should be someone looking out for men's rights.
00:47:02.000But the idea is, the problem is, Who's going to come forth and say we need to change those laws?
00:47:07.000Who's going to come forth and say, listen, if you want to falsely accuse someone of rape, you have to go to jail for the exact amount of time that you could have imprisoned that for.
00:47:58.000The Naughty Show podcast, and he got in a lot of trouble because he would give out the names of the victims in these sexual stories when the story was coming out that they weren't being honest.
00:48:09.000And, you know, I personally don't think any name in a sexual assault case should be put out until a final verdict comes out.
00:48:17.000I don't know if that's realistic, but, I mean, especially today when anybody can accuse...
00:48:22.000Well, how about a final verdict like this guy's case where he's in jail for four years?
00:48:35.000I mean, personally, I would like nobody's name to be put out at all because...
00:48:39.000Again, you could find out later on that they are innocent, but just the accusation towards a man, TMZ will run with it.
00:48:46.000If you're somewhat famous, they'll say, your name, bright lights everywhere, and alleged victim, and you never hear their name.
00:48:52.000And I understand a point of that, because you want women to come forward and not be afraid that their names can be splashed everywhere.
00:48:58.000But let's not put the guy's name out until we actually know something.
00:49:04.000It's interesting, but when you're in a position, like say if you're a famous basketball player or something along those lines, there's no innocent until proven guilty.
00:49:11.000There's accuse them and then let them try to figure out how to exonerate themselves.
00:49:17.000And a lot of the times, it's just people that are crazy, that are making things up.
00:49:21.000A lot of people don't know that Mike Tyson's story, when Mike Tyson went to jail for rape, did you know that the girl who accused him of rape also had a false accusation of rape?
00:49:30.000That she had a drop a year before that.
00:49:32.000She had made up a rape story a year before that.
00:49:37.000And I'm not saying that, you know, I don't know what happened or what didn't happen, but Mike Tyson is incredibly honest about his background, like what he did wrong, what he did right, how he was feeling, why he did the things he did, and he maintains this day that he did not rape that girl.
00:49:51.000I saw his one-man show at the Pantages.
00:50:58.000I don't think it has to be only the people that, you know, like the female, the weaker sex, are the ones in the weaker physically, are the ones that get the, you know, get the compassion.
00:52:49.000And they're both as dangerous as the other ones.
00:52:52.000Sometimes you see, like, these sentences where, like, a man and woman commit a crime, the guy gets life, the woman gets, like, three weeks in jail.
00:55:56.000If a man comes home, there's no dinner on the table, and his wife is on the phone watching TV or on the computer ignoring him, he won't feel respected.
00:56:17.000Well, they hate it because it sends out a message to other girls, you know, that they have to tolerate that shit, and you might not want it.
00:57:26.000It's really interesting, because you see how other people react to this person's life, and they're angry.
00:57:36.000I think it'd be more funny than anything, but I guess a site like these feminist sites, I guess their point is that this sends a really bad message.
00:57:45.000I've always felt like there's a difference between progressives and liberals.
00:57:51.000Liberals are really open-minded to all thoughts.
00:57:55.000I don't know if you can be open-minded to everything, but you're pretty much open-minded to different lives.
00:57:58.000I feel like progressives are a little more skewed way to the left, kind of the way the neocons are skewed way to the right, where they have a certain vision of how the world should be.
00:58:07.000It's more of an idealistic view of the world, whereas it's like Rosie O'Donnell versus Howard Stern.
00:58:13.000I feel like Howard Stern and what he represents is more of a liberal base where he's like, he'll make fun of everybody.
00:58:20.000Whereas Rosie O'Donnell has a certain view of how she should see the world, and it views progressive, you know, like feminism and all that stuff, and I'm open-minded to everybody.
00:58:29.000I don't care if you're straight, gay, or whatever you're into, man, woman, whatever.
00:58:33.000If you're a cool person, I'm down with it.
00:58:36.000Yeah, I think the idea of progressive is just like anything else.
00:58:41.000Call yourself a Republican, call yourself a Democrat, call yourself a liberal, call yourself a conservative.
00:59:10.000Like, I was looking at this Twitter page the other day, and there was some crazy lady who likes to get ball gagged.
00:59:15.000And she's like, there's a smile behind this ball gag, and she's showing her rope marks on her arms, and she's like in a bondage and shit like that.
01:00:25.000There's a big difference between the savagery that lies in the Italian DNA. And your average waspy type chick, you know, who went to Columbia and wears Birkenstocks and is really tired of assholes like this promoting this kind of bullshit.
01:02:26.000How come a man's able to do it and we don't go looking to save him, but if a woman does it, like, Okay, just, I mean, this is just throwing it out there, just trying to objectively look at the full spectrum of human behavior and saying it is possible that it's not degrading for that woman.
01:03:25.000There's a lot of people that are really emphasizing...
01:03:30.000Things that would benefit women, but there's a lot of them that do think that men should be able to be whoever the fuck they want, and we should be able to choose.
01:03:38.000I mean, there's people that you get along with that I wouldn't, and I get along with that you wouldn't.
01:04:33.000And the idea that because someone hates you, they hate everything with a vagina is ridiculous.
01:04:38.000And especially when they're being very specific about what you said that's stupid.
01:04:43.000That doesn't mean they hate every woman.
01:04:45.000And that idea that you're going to get backup from every person with a double X chromosome on the planet because you said that is a silly...
01:04:53.000Like, parachute that people pull to try to stop everything.
01:05:31.000About the Pacific garbage patch and There was this thing on climate change and all I did was just put it up there and the the topic was nine things that or things that Scientists are less sure of than they are of climate change and all the sudden it my fucking It is on Vice.
01:05:54.000All of a sudden, my Twitter feed became this massive argument, back and forth, between people that are in total denial that we're causing climate change.
01:06:03.000Oh, yeah, these are the same scientists in the 70s that said we're headed to an ice age.
01:06:32.000And people on the left think that climate change is done by man and that we're accelerating it and we need to do something and carbon tax and all that shit.
01:06:40.000And people on the right think it's just a ploy to get more taxes.
01:06:43.000People on the right say, look, if you look at the trends, the earth is warming and cooling.
01:07:01.000There's people that are studying this 20 hours a fucking day every day of the week and they don't really know what the fuck is going on.
01:07:08.000And some dickhead with a regular job who reads the Wall Street Journal and pretends he's a player in the stock market because he day trades during lunch.
01:07:16.000This dumb fuck thinks he can tell you?
01:07:18.000No, he's one of those weirdo right-wing, you know, there's this, what's good for business, and a lot of them are broke.
01:07:26.000That's what's really interesting about people that support big businesses and they have right-wing ideologies, and a lot of them that will support these big businesses are getting fucked over by the same businesses on the regular.
01:07:36.000Isn't it called the lottery mentality, where like, even though people are broke, they're like, I might win the lottery, and then I don't want to pay taxes on that.
01:07:43.000We're like, well, that's probably not going to happen.
01:07:45.000Well, there's also that people don't ever want to think that they're losers.
01:07:49.000They always want to think that they're just winners who haven't won yet.
01:07:52.000So even if their life is shit and it keeps falling apart and they never get it right, one day I'm gonna get it.
01:07:58.000And when I do, these fucking pukes in Washington aren't getting a nickel.
01:08:02.000These motherfuckers, they don't work for shit.
01:08:05.000You know, what they're trying to do is support the hippies.
01:08:07.000To vote against your own interests is just so interesting.
01:08:11.000Yeah, this guy, Seth Bronstein, the Associated Press, the science correspondent, what he said was that the world's climatologists are now gearing up to officially proclaim that they are 95% certain that humans are to blame for global warning.
01:09:11.000And it's a big point, is that for whatever reason, people that don't really know want to jump up and say, look, I am no fucking climate expert by any stretch of the imagination.
01:09:20.000I sort of get it, but I also know that there was...
01:09:24.000I mean, there's been ice ages without human intervention.
01:09:27.000There's been the period when the dinosaurs were here.
01:09:29.000It was a vastly different climate than we're experiencing right now.
01:09:32.000We obviously had nothing to do with that.
01:09:33.000That was an asteroid impact that changed our climate.
01:09:36.000All that shit happens, and it happens on a regular basis.
01:09:38.000And it probably happened 12,000 years ago, and it's probably what ended the last ice age.
01:09:43.000But these people that pretend that they know that we're not causing some of it You're crazy.
01:09:50.000Is it that you think that you can now get your news tailored to your views?
01:09:54.000Instead of everybody watching four channels, now there's such niche news channels that just play to what you want to hear.
01:10:03.000So it just reinforces what you're saying.
01:10:06.000You don't hear the other side of the argument.
01:10:15.000You know, I think one of these days there's going to be some sort of technology where you could post something and it'll immediately be verified as truth or horseshit.
01:10:25.000Oh, I'd love to see the horseshit symbol.
01:10:27.000Well, it seems like it should be able to, like...
01:10:30.000You should be able to post a statement and then have to put like an S or an I. I is that it's just an idea or you know F maybe it's just that it's fiction or S is a statement.
01:10:42.000If you want people to take you seriously.
01:10:44.000So if you go with S and you believe this and then boom it calculates all the known scientific data from peer-reviewed sources and it just gives you a pile of horseshit that sits underneath your post.
01:13:10.000Apparently, the iTunes thing has to do with posts and comments, and it also has to do with downloads and also has to do with new subscribers.
01:13:17.000And so people develop algorithms to kind of hack into this.
01:14:14.000Well, what he would do is, like, if he found out you were the same kind of comedian as him, an ethnic group, right?
01:14:20.000He found out you the same kind of comedian as him, and you got booked on this ethnic group comedy night, what he would find out is he would call you up and he'd go, Hey, I got this other gig that night.
01:15:27.000The guy was telling a bunch of hacky jokes.
01:15:32.000And so the dude talked about it on his Twitter, and he came up to him, asked him if that was his name, and just punches him right in the face.
01:15:40.000And then pushed him, and then came back and punched him in the face again.
01:15:43.000And what the guy said was really fucking mild.
01:18:58.000They suspended Tony Kornheiser because he said that one of the female reporters was dressing like she's 20 years younger, and he had to take a week off.
01:19:16.000So anything that comes even close to that is like, eh, eh, eh, whoa.
01:19:19.000It's just unfortunate when everybody has to act.
01:19:21.000I mean, it's one thing if you're saying something that's shitty, but it's another thing to act straightforward towards political correctness.
01:19:29.000Because if I said he fights like he tried to kill his mother, everyone would have been fine with that.
01:19:34.000He fights like he tried to kill his mother.
01:19:37.000Everybody would have been fine like that.
01:19:38.000But the sexual implications of rape are somehow or another awful.
01:19:49.000You go to see a movie and you see a dude kill 30, 40 people, but if they fuck and you see his penis go into her vagina, people will explode.
01:19:57.000The thing that they want to do all day, everybody wants to fuck.
01:20:01.000This is what most people want if your hormones work.
01:20:04.000You want someone who wants to fuck you and you want to fuck them and you actually like them and they actually like you and you guys both like to fuck each other and you go at it.
01:20:44.000You know, that is a really important point.
01:20:46.000We have this weird desire for violence in this country.
01:20:50.000And even though in real life we love sex and we want sex all the time, you can't just blow people on TV. You can't.
01:20:58.000I mean, if they show anything in a TV show, it's a kiss, and maybe you start pulling each other's clothes off, and then the fucking screen goes black.
01:21:06.000Oh yeah, it's the Sex and the City stuff.
01:21:08.000It's like passion, passion, next day, laying in bed.
01:21:11.000Could you imagine if there was a real incident where a guy came to some police station and just sucked everybody's dick?
01:21:18.000Just gassed the whole room, pulls a pin, throws it in there, sleeping gas, everybody falls asleep.
01:21:25.000They wake up and the videotapes just show him sucking every dick in the place.
01:23:25.000You know, having little girls, man, and the idea of that about giving your little girl away to someone is so horrific to me, so impossible to even imagine.
01:24:57.000Well, that's the place where Amber Lyon got fired from CNN or left CNN because she did this detailed report on Bahrain and they turned it into like a tourist piece.
01:25:14.000It's weird when you go to all these places how much American culture is everywhere.
01:25:19.000You know, Aaron Cater used to have a joke about that, about how, you know, like he'd go to the Middle East, do entertaining, and they'd be like, America is a paper tiger, you know?
01:26:09.000I don't want this to be like an anti-Subway thing.
01:26:11.000I eat that thing all day, buffalo chicken, until I die.
01:26:14.000I was in Chichen Itza going to see the Mayan pyramids, and we passed by this huge sign for Coca-Cola, a big billboard in the jungle for Coca-Cola.
01:28:24.000It says, Afghanistan's male soldiers are having sex with other guys, but don't call them homos.
01:28:29.000Well, there was also something where, like, they were, like, their soldiers, they would have a young boy who would have to service everybody.
01:29:48.000You need only watch the CNN clip below where three gay American troops speak of the need to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, which has been repealed now, I believe, to understand the difficulties of being gay in the U.S. Armed Forces.
01:30:33.000An unclassified study from a military research unit in southern Afghanistan that's looking into gay sex details how homosexual behavior is unusually common among men in the large ethnic group known as Pashtuns,
01:30:50.000P-A-S-H-T-U-Ns, Pashtuns, although they seem to be in complete denial about it.
01:30:58.000What's a new unclassified study of Pashtun meant?
01:31:00.000Oh, that's what the new unclassified study revealed.
01:31:04.000These men admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys, and shun women both socially and sexually, yet they completely reject the label of homosexual.
01:31:17.000The research was conducted as part of a long-standing effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people.
01:31:25.000When you read shit like that, and you read that people are dying over there, and you think the idea that they're going to try to change this, you think about what they do when they marry off 8-year-old girls, cut women's noses off, they do this kind of shit, pretend they're not gay while they're fucking each other,
01:31:52.000This is how they figure out their way around it.
01:31:54.000The Pashtun men interpret the Islamic prohibition on homosexuality to mean they cannot love another man, but it doesn't mean they can't use men for sexual gratification.
01:32:06.000What an interesting little gray area they found.
01:32:09.000Yeah, there's a little fine print right there.
01:32:11.000It's sort of like prostitution is illegal, but if a girl is naked at a strip club and she rides your dick and you cum in your pants, that's all good.
01:32:20.000If prostitution is illegal, but if I buy you dinner and then we have sex, I spend the same amount of money on the date, and then I have sex with you, it's perfectly legal.
01:32:30.000Or pay their housing or something along those lines and just keep them on the payroll.
01:32:38.000Kathleen Madigan was here, and she lives in this certain part of Hollywood where they have all these really nice bungalows, really cool small houses.
01:32:46.000And she was like, that's where the studio heads used to keep their mistresses.
01:32:49.000They used to put them up in these houses.
01:32:51.000It was so common that there was a whole neighborhood of mistresses.
01:32:57.000I mean, if prostitution is illegal, what's going on there?
01:32:59.000Well, there's that whole website, sugardaddy.com, where a lot of young female ladies from Hollywood are on, and it's guys with money looking for companionship.
01:37:07.000And if that doesn't work or you run out of air, you're going to suffocate via satellite and we're going to get to watch it all on our phones.
01:39:55.000That right there, that photograph is a 1.5 ton building block that was produced as a demonstration of the 3D printing techniques using simulated lunar soil.
01:40:05.000So they did it with something that would be like, you know, similar in consistency.
01:40:08.000And the design is based on a hollow closed cell structure reminiscent of bird bones to give a good combination of strength and weight.
01:40:16.000So they would fly this printer up there and then just start building these walls With this printer out of the lunar soil.
01:40:40.000Well, the idea is that they know that they can fly shit up there that can do this.
01:40:47.000So they could actually send some sort of rover type robotic thing up there with these printers and build these houses before we even get there.
01:40:58.000They just flew, I think it was an F-16, they flew it as a drone.
01:41:04.000They successfully flew it and landed it and they achieved supersonic speeds all done completely as a drone.
01:42:53.000You know, when the opening sequence of the Terminator movie, the first one, where the Terminators are walking around, you see them stepping on skulls and stuff, and you see those giant flying robots, like that's drones, man!
01:44:47.000I mean, if you could allow really angry feminists to program robots to be a male robot to be anything they want it to be, how would those guys be?
01:44:56.000Would they be really sensitive and just fun to be around and really nice?
01:45:56.000Well, we had Matt Fultron in here and he was talking about how that kind of like fucked him up in his career because he used to write for the back of the room and he wasn't writing for the crowd.
01:46:05.000And then he realized once he started going on the road like, oh, I fucked up.
01:46:09.000Like I'm writing for a bunch of people that are like cynical and they've heard every joke in the book and they don't really want to see comedy anymore.
01:46:15.000They want to see something unexpected.
01:46:25.000But when you pay money to go on the road and you're in Buffalo and you've got to do stand-up at a comedy club, that ironic shit ain't going to fly.
01:46:58.000I couldn't, at that time they weren't letting locals play the comedy clubs because they could just fly out comics from LA. So we had to make our own scene and I would just find crazy bar gigs.
01:47:10.000Like anywhere I could perform, like we would go in between bands.
01:47:15.000You'd have hard metal bands playing, bring out the comedians, and I would have to go out and just deal with all the hecklers, shut them up, and then bring the other comedians on.
01:47:25.000We would take any kind of gig like that.
01:48:33.000I have a certain style of comedy I like to do, so I create my own environment in which to do it at, which is the naughty show or the comedy rap battles and stuff like that.
01:48:46.000That's what I enjoy doing, so I create a brand.
01:49:07.000What I'm saying is it showed a lot of get up and go on your part to like start these nights and put these things together and have comedy shows where there was nothing else there going on.
01:49:17.000A lot of other people go, ah, I can't do it in this city.
01:49:19.000You know, that was a very ingenious sort of a way of workaround, you know?
01:49:56.000I remember moments where we'd go to a local pizzeria, Pontillo's, and Whoever got sat in the wrong seat, you were going to get pounded on all night by everybody, and they wouldn't let you up from the booth, and you would just get vicious.
01:50:09.000I just learned to not take it personal and just hit back.
01:50:13.000To this day, that's really helped me with hecklers.
01:50:23.000Do you find, though, that when you're dealing with an actual polite crowd that wants to hear material, they're like, hey, how come no one's throwing anything at me?
01:51:14.000During the weekdays, mostly free stuff, where you would take your time and get tight.
01:51:20.000But then on the weekends, and a lot of weekday gigs...
01:51:23.000There's just, you know, drive to New Hampshire, drive to Western Massachusetts, drive to Maine, drive to Attleboro, drive to Marlboro, drive to here, and you got used to these really fucking terrible places, standing on top of milk crates, and nobody's paying attention,
01:51:45.000Before I was a regular at any comedy club.
01:51:49.000When you say Montreal, you mean the festival?
01:51:51.000I just came to LA and I was just a ball of fire and I got picked up and they brought me to Montreal.
01:51:58.000I didn't even know what it was at the time.
01:52:00.000The only time I'd ever played at a club was about a year before I'd opened for Nick DiPaolo at the Riviera, which was booked by the guy who eventually went on to be on The Sopranos.
01:53:21.000Before he got on stage, they'd be screaming at each other, go up and perform, get off stage, tell me what a great job I did, and then go back to arguing with his girlfriend.
01:54:18.000People like talking about anything, man.
01:54:20.000They like people that talk about shit that's interesting.
01:54:24.000If you just had a sports podcast that talked only about sports, it wouldn't be as exciting as a sports podcast that mostly talked about sports.
01:54:31.000But if some other shit came up and it was interesting and you go, ah, we can't talk about that, that's the beautiful thing about having a podcast.
02:00:58.000A lot of those guys that get into that position too.
02:01:01.000There's also the thing that happens when people get into that sort of position of prominence where they feel like they have to stand up for their idea of what's right.
02:01:10.000So him shitting all over her music, like, come on, I unabashedly perform pop music for myself and, in capital letters, everyone around me.
02:04:06.000You might be better off being a chimp, better off doing an old school primate style.
02:04:11.000That trickery of being on a screen, singing a certain song, having them all going crazy and throwing panties at you, that shit's unnatural.
02:04:18.000When it comes down to it, he's got weak genes.
02:05:10.000What you should be concentrating on is the fact that her and Miley Cyrus had an old-school South Park slut-off on the Video Music Awards, and Lady Gaga dominated her.
02:05:19.000She dominated her without any of the tongue sticking out, without any of the stupid shit with the foam finger, just with this tremendous body she has.
02:06:22.000You shouldn't be that famous when you're that young.
02:06:25.000You're 20 years old, you're trying to find yourself, and you're doing it on television like that, and someone allows you to put that together and do that on television.
02:11:09.000She's another one that was a brilliant young actress.
02:11:12.000But I always get weirded out by the idea because, like Miley Cyrus, I think everybody should be able to do whatever the fuck they want to do.
02:11:20.000However, are you sure that's what you want?
02:11:23.000And are you sure you're ready to handle the repercussions of that?
02:11:26.000Because being a Miley Cyrus has got to be mind-bogglingly difficult to not go crazy.
02:11:31.000If you look at all of them, everyone who ever was a young superstar, how many of them made it through?
02:11:38.000Ron Howard, Jodie Foster, and who knows how crazy they really are.
02:12:29.000There's no doubt that if you are a regular human being, like we all are, and you don't slowly get inoculated to the idea of fame, you don't develop some character, you don't get older, you don't get wiser, you just jump into it from the time you're a baby...
02:12:46.000Your reality is going to be so much different than everyone else's.
02:12:49.000It's going to be impossible to relate.
02:14:02.000I wonder if ever we'll find out what were the full extent of the surgeries, but he's the first guy in the history of television, film, everything that we watched become like a freak.
02:14:15.000Went from, and I don't mean freak in a good way, went from being this young boy who's this brilliant talent to being this man who hides and wants to be with children and has an amusement park and he's pale.
02:14:52.000The comparisons of his face when he first started and then what he became over the years and what he looked like before he died, it's really, really shocking.
02:15:04.000First of all, who the fuck are these plastic surgeons?
02:15:07.000How come nobody knows who these people are?
02:15:09.000Like, we know who the guy is who gave him the drugs that made him die, but nobody knows who did all that work on him.
02:15:15.000Like, that guy did a terrible disservice.
02:22:37.000Like, if I catch a wave, like, if I'm on a roll, like, especially if I'm writing a blog or, like, lately I've been writing a novel, actually.
02:23:11.000The only thing that keeps me from doing it is distractions, whether it's playing pool or doing jiu-jitsu or other things in my life or watching TV or something like that.
02:23:20.000Those are the only distractions that actually keep me from creating things.
02:23:35.000That's why I never understood joke stealing, because I love so much coming up with an idea for Fine-tuning it and presenting it to people and the reaction to it.
02:24:01.000What gets me off is coming up with an idea in my head, fine-tuning it, tagging it, and then presenting it to a crowd and getting a reaction from...
02:24:09.000300 strangers or how many people are in the crowd?
02:24:39.000I love it when I hear, you know, I'll go on the road and I'll meet some people who are fans of the podcast and They're in the middle of nowhere and they're doing their own podcast.
02:24:47.000And I love that they're finding their own creative ways to put their things out.
02:24:50.000It isn't necessarily like, hey, I gotta get this podcast out because I need to have this result which will lead to this.
02:28:50.000Well, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.
02:28:52.000It's a weird thing, because I'm working for you, and you kind of do whatever you want, but then it's a club that's kind of what it's clean.
02:28:58.000So what you're saying is you're working for me, but you're also working to impress the club so you can come back again.
02:29:03.000No, I... Dude, I get that I'm not their kind of comic.
02:29:47.000Well, one time I was in the green room and I was all alone and I was just writing and getting my set ready and all of a sudden I hear in the shower, they have a shower in the green room, the main room, I heard the faucet just turning.
02:30:32.000So I start getting a little freaked out.
02:30:34.000So I walk into the lobby and it's pitch black, but there's this weird one light, this bright white light going against kind of where Tommy used to stands, which is kind of where the cashier area is of the main room lobby.
02:30:49.000And it's this white light, and it's kind of a weird reflection coming from Sunset Street.
02:30:54.000It's coming from there, bouncing off this glass door, and then it's hitting this thing.
02:31:00.000And I have no clue how the white light is getting there.
02:31:02.000And I'm just looking at it, all of a sudden I see just this figure go right in front of the light.
02:31:07.000And I'm just like, ah, okay, I'm fucking out of here.
02:31:10.000And I just went in the other room and made them go turn the lights on, because I'm a big pussy.
02:31:16.000So you saw something go in front of it?
02:31:19.000Like this figure just go right in front of that white light.
02:31:23.000Is it possible there was some sort of a reflection from outside?
02:31:27.000It's possible, but I wouldn't put my...
02:31:30.000Maybe it's possible, but all I know is that what's light in the lobby, I come back, it's pitch black, and I just see something go right in front of this white light.
02:31:45.000I've talked about it before on this show about how I believe it's like, I believe in ghosts because I think everything is energy and it's a transfer of energy.
02:31:52.000And you always hear like when ghosts happen, it's always when some violent crime had happened, which I always think fucks with the transfer of the energy when you get absorbed back in to the whole, you know, the connection.
02:32:05.000When your energy goes and you get absorbed back in, some violence fucks with that transfer and your energy ends up getting, it's in between here and there.
02:33:50.000I mean, it could all be the imagination.
02:33:52.000It could just be like an archetype that keeps repeating itself over and over again in the human psyche.
02:33:57.000Is it possible that there's things that can't be proven through science in terms of what we judge as scientific proof?
02:34:06.000I think it's possible that it could be.
02:34:08.000I think it's also possible that there could be a whole other dimension that we don't experience in this current state.
02:34:16.000There might be another dimension where consciousness lives.
02:34:18.000You know, there might be another dimension where your soul goes after you die.
02:34:23.000It sounds ridiculous, but so does regular life.
02:34:26.000Well, your episode on psychics, man, I totally relate to that.
02:34:29.000I mean, again, I feel like everything's interconnected through energy and that some people may be able to connect with the energy a little better than other people.
02:34:41.000Maybe they see stuff that's going to happen.
02:34:42.000Maybe, but the episode on psychics showed more about charlatans than anything.
02:34:47.000Well, there was part of that, but that's just one instance in which I personally believe that there are people who can tap into an energy that other people maybe can't.
02:35:29.000The dice thing, I looked at it and he had his hand in his pocket while I was rolling the dice and I wonder if there's something in his pocket that registers, like he could touch it and it gives him like two zaps for two, three zaps for three, like it lets him know like what the number is.
02:35:51.000My cousin supposedly can, if you hand him something, he can put it in his hand and he can tell you where it's been and what's happened to it.
02:44:14.000I'm just saying that was the instance in which I heard in which I would tell you that if I'm robbed at gunpoint, I'm going to say some nasty shit.
02:44:20.000It's in the heat of the moment, you know?
02:44:23.000And even afterwards, two hours later, if I'm talking to my girl, I'm going to be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
02:45:54.000I'm a totally different human being than I was ten years ago.
02:45:58.000If you're paying attention and you're working on yourself and you're constantly trying to think and look at the world objectively, you're going to grow.
02:47:02.000Through history, we've seen people who are profiled by agencies.
02:47:06.000You know, Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King, who weren't necessarily doing anything wrong, but they were being monitored.
02:47:13.000It's like you don't have to do something wrong to be monitored.
02:47:15.000Well, that's the J. Edgar Hoover days.
02:47:17.000And before that, of course, the McCarthyism.
02:47:19.000But the McCarthy era is a classic example.
02:47:22.000Of people being persecuted and people being singled out and people being spied upon and categorized, these dangerous and divisive groups.
02:47:31.000That kind of behavior is unconstitutional for a reason.
02:47:35.000Looking into people's lives is a violation of privacy and it's unconstitutional for a reason.
02:47:39.000And we have to recognize that there has always been people that are looking to capitalize on the holes that we have in our system and they will create false flags And through those false flags, these events will cause them to clamp down more on security.
02:48:27.000It's happened over and over and over again.
02:48:29.000Yeah, I mean, even if you talk about conspiracy theories with some people, they can't even begin to understand because they're looking at it through their point of view.
02:48:37.000My whole thing is, like, if you ever watch the first 48, man, it's this great show.
02:48:41.000It's sadly about murder and real murder investigations.
02:48:44.000You see people killing other people for $20.
02:49:48.000That was them trying to take over territory.
02:49:50.000They thought that area, that block or that blacktop was...
02:49:57.000Another gang's territory, and they didn't care who they shot, they just wanted to shoot.
02:50:02.000So, they don't care if they take out 13 people, they just want to gain a certain amount of power and resources.
02:50:07.000Same thing, like, you know, if the government does something where a bunch of people die, whether it's 100, 200, 3,000, 5,000, whatever, it doesn't matter in the bigger picture of everything.
02:50:19.000Yeah, and they also know that time will continue to roll on, more conflicts will arise, and people forget about it.
02:50:27.000Yeah, people forget about so many different things that happened in the past.
02:50:30.000They forget about different bombs that went off.
02:50:33.000They're gonna forget about this mall in Africa after a while.
02:50:36.000People are gonna forget about You know, the bomb that the Iraqis blew up on the U.S. warship.
02:50:43.000There's so many different events in the course of a decade of war plus that we've been involved in that they can just tally them all up and push them all aside.
02:50:52.000As long as there's some new thing in the news to think about, people will keep thinking.
02:50:56.000Do you feel that this naval yard thing hit as hard as most of the...
02:51:00.000I feel like it happened and everyone's like...
02:53:04.000I always think it has so much to do with people shooting guns, because in the movies, what you'll see is somebody will shoot somebody, and then they'll walk away, and then they'll be able to go shoot somebody else.
02:53:14.000There isn't an instant law enforcement situation that comes and hunts them down.
02:53:19.000One movie with Steven Seagal, I think it was Above the Law, where that one guy goes on this crime spree for like a whole day, and he's just killing everybody.
02:53:27.000At no point do you see law enforcement anywhere.
02:53:30.000You know, he just moves on to the next crime, moves on to the next crime.
02:53:33.000Like, I just feel, people feel like they could shoot somebody and just easily get away with it.
02:53:43.000You equated above the law with a real life situation?
02:53:46.000Well, I just feel that there's some people...
02:53:47.000You made a Steven Seagal movie, like an important point?
02:53:49.000Well, my point, I just use it as an example, meaning that I feel that a lot of people who go off in Chicago, they start shooting people.
02:53:59.000I think when you watch television or even movies, there's always someone who could shoot somebody and he just walks off and his life goes on.
02:55:50.000We'll see you this weekend, Sam Tripoli and I. And you can ask Sam to elaborate on his Steven Seagal slash shoot someone and get away with it theory.
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