Joe Rogan Experience #515 - Ari Shaffir
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2 hours and 54 minutes
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210.50923
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112
Summary
This week, the boys talk about the best way to make money online, and what they would do if it was super easy to buy stuff online. Also, we talk about how much they would like to see Ellen DeGeneres's butthole, and how many people would be willing to pay to see it, and why it would be a good idea to have a breathalyzer on your cell phone. Also, a new T-shirt that looks like a chicken, but is actually a chicken shirt. Ari and Joe talk about that, too, and it's pretty good. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. The theme song is Come Alone by Suneaters, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Contest Code: JOE10% off your first purchase with code "TheJoe" at checkout. To enter the contest, use code JOE at checkout and a $10 discount code at checkout, and a 10% discount code is given to the winner will be chosen by random.org/thejoe and a random random person at random, random person must be able to attend the JOE 10 day giveaway. Winners must be 18+ and a guest must be 21+ and must have a valid ID. and a valid cell phone with a valid validating phone number. Thank you for listening to the podcast and reviewing the podcast. If you like the podcast, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, we'll be entered into the contest! Thank us in the next episode! and we'll get a shout out your thoughts in the podcast next week! Thanks again next week, and an ad-free version of this episode of the podcast on the podcast! Will you review the episode on iTunes? Thanks for listening and review us out on your favorite podcast episode of this podcast and review it on your podcast? and review the podcast in iTunes! Subscribe to our podcast on Podchaser and leave us your thoughts/tweet us in your podcast recommendations! in the pod is a review and review on your thoughts on the pod? if you review it in iTunes or your thoughts about the podcast review and what you think it's the best thing you like it's funny or weirdest thing you've listened to so far?
Transcript
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Hey, I've been away a while, but I missed you guys.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Squarespace.
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There's probably about five or six websites out there dedicated to various parts of Ari's body that have been made during the construction of this very podcast.
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Squarespace allows you to make your own website with just simple web tools.
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It's nothing that the average dimwit that knows a little bit about computers like myself can do.
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They've figured out how to streamline it, narrow it down.
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And you can make websites that look really good.
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You guys made a living selling pictures of your dick.
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Your wife just takes pictures of your dick and sells them.
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His dick's not bad, but I'm an excellent photographer.
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If it was real easy to buy shit online, if everything was like Amazon One Click, you know, and I landed here like five cents to see your dick, you know.
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Like, think about how much, like, let's get weird, Ellen DeGeneres.
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If Ellen DeGeneres took pictures of her butthole and you needed, it cost you five cents to see it.
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How many fucking people would pay if it was really easy to pay?
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Like, do you want to pay five cents to see Ellen's?
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And you're allowed to not even take like a breathalyzer test for anything under a certain amount of money.
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After a certain amount of money, it should be like the responsibility of the manufacturer of the cell phone to make some sort of a breathalyzer thing.
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Because otherwise it's too fucking easy to just buy shit if you're really hammered and you buy something fucked up.
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People have been calling that for a long time, breathalyzer for your phone, for your computer.
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Anything that you send after 2 o'clock in the morning is most likely a mistake.
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When I get too high late at night, I buy so much things.
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And for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase, go to squarespace.com and enter in the code word JOE. Yeah, they're all different.
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These dudes online have been getting mad at all these gay innuendos and jokes.
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All this fucking homophobic shit and all this fucking...
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If you get weirded out, that's your own shit, son.
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Go to squarespace.com, make your own dick joke website, use the code word Joe.
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One cool thing about it, code word Joe, is that you can actually build the site and then not pay for it yet, and then decide, like, alright, I'm going to get this thing.
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They're so confident in the ability to make a website so easily that they let you try it out, register and try it out without entering your credit card information.
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So at the end of that, if you're like, your website's whack, son!
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Anyway, go to squarespace.com, use the code word Joe, and save 10% off.
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And more importantly to me, I met the Squarespace people.
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Everybody, they came to the show, they're really friendly and nice and fun.
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People always say, oh, you're so faithful, you're always looking at the bright side of things, man.
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I have faith in the future because I think that technology and the technology creators are the ones that are dictating what's taking place.
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Everyone is scrambling to deal with the technology and the technology innovators.
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Well, instead of actual products, solid items, instead of solid items and things that you weigh and put on a scale, instead you're dealing with things like a Google.
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Somewhere, you know, there's hard drives that keep all the information on, and obviously there's offices, but the reality is that Google's not a real product that you can pick up and have in your hand.
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You can have a Google phone, but what the fuck is Google?
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Well, the number one thing in that company is nothing.
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So this idea has picked up all these hard drives and set up all these web browsers and set up all these different Google Chrome and Google operating system.
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And they're a really ethical and responsible company, which is fascinating.
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Because one of the most powerful, one of the most, is also very progressive.
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I have a friend who works at Google, and there's a guy who works in the office who's a guy outside the office, but in the office he likes to be referred to as a woman, and he dresses up as a woman.
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So he goes to the office, he dresses up like a man.
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He's not trying to get a thing from the government.
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That's a very good question, but a better question is, why can you identify someone's sex by the clothing they wear?
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That seems like the most ridiculous thing ever.
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I used to, when I was religious and worked at some law firm for the summer, and then the next year I lost my religion in that summer, and then I worked there again.
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Yeah, and I didn't want to explain to them, so I would just take my yarmulke off as soon as I left work.
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I would put it on to work, and then take it off as soon as I left.
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Because these smart motherfuckers are the ones that are the most innovative, the ones that are the most on the cutting edge about what's changing the world.
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Like Google searches are changing the goddamn world, right?
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I mean, not always write a lot of contrary information, but just the sheer bulk of the information.
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You start reading things like, oh, this guy's a professor of astronomy from Cambridge.
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Yeah, you go, okay, well, this guy's super legit.
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And all these dudes that are involved in these companies.
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There's always going to be weirdness when money is involved.
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But it seems like the ethic of the internet, the ethic of these electronic corporations is one of social responsibility.
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I'm trying to think if there's any bad of those companies.
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Like Tesla, they're supposed to be really cool.
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Elon Musk has got a reputation of being this really fascinating, innovative guy.
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They offer to put you through Phoenix Online College.
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I think people can build an ethical company, you know?
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I just think that for so long, people are so goddamn ruthless.
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So people say, oh, you know, you're always fucking so optimistic.
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Ben and Jerry, they've been doing it for years.
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Ben and Jerry have been doing it, like, way back before it was interesting.
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Like, we're just going to do it because it's the right thing.
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My parents tried to send me to a special camp there.
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Because I definitely worked something in Burlington.
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Because I was going to say, I actually made a Squarespace store.
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You just put a picture in of what you want to sell.
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In two days, it automatically goes to your bank account, the money, and it sends you like a little shipping thing, where to ship it to.
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I was so blown away how easy a store was because I knew blog kind of websites and stuff.
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I knew it couldn't be that hard because I used WordPress.
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But this store thing, I was so amazed at how easy it was, how much control you had.
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And Squarespace, you can make a store in less than five minutes.
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It uses another company that's just like PayPal.
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And PayPal, you could just use a credit card, too.
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It's just pretty much a credit card processor that charges, I think, like, $0.35 per transaction.
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And that's actually cheaper than what PayPal does, because I believe PayPal actually uses a percent of how much money.
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Where this actual company, whatever, I forget, it's like Spark or something, actually only just charges you 35 cents because all it is is a credit card transaction fee.
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So we're just moving numbers around in the ether.
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Well, that's what the big argument with that band in Seattle was about.
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And I talked to someone over there and they were like, no, it's the venues that they want their percentage.
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It's like, well, then why don't you put it as a venue cost so we know who to blame?
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I've seen your shows and people are like, your tickets were $35.
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You know, I would love to rally against shit like that, but I don't have that kind of time, so I just gotta keep pressing forward.
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You know, I think Louis for a while was doing some weird shit where he's making people pay in cash, and they had to buy it the day of the show, and they had to pay in cash.
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The idea was to stop scalpers, too, because there's always a scalping problem.
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That always happens if you're going to sell out of place.
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Like a Ticketmaster, someone who buys it from Ticketmaster, some company.
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People were offering to pay $150, $200 for tickets.
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No, I bought Louie tickets for you, for someone else, and then you couldn't go, the other person couldn't go.
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I told the doorman, I was like, hey, you can sell them.
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In LA, people are like, come on, this restaurant's gotta have two seats somewhere.
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When I said that before, I was treating you like a buddy.
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They just sent me two packages of Sriracha cashews.
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You would want them delivered to your house every day.
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But shiraj cashews, as far as being an option where nothing had to die that's an animal or a mammal...
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Even if they're salted and roasted and stuff, still, it's got to be more easy to process, right?
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Well, what's more easy to process about everything that NatureBox has is that they have no trans fats.
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Trans fats, your body has a process issue with those.
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That's why so many Holocaust survivors are living such a long life.
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Yeah, now they're living to a hundred and something.
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Do rabbis really bless those foods, the Jew food?
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No, they look over it and make sure people like you aren't doing anything to it.
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According to Eliza Schlesinger, you're not supposed to say Jew.
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And if you say someone's a Jew, then it's like an insult.
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It's the first time I've actually heard a girl say that.
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According to Eliza Schlesinger, people would get upset if you called someone a Jew.
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Free shipping anywhere in the U.S. If you have an office vending machine and the best thing that you can eat in there is peanuts.
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Well, somebody told me they blessed all the animals.
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And I was like, that's kind of cool if there's just like this old Jewish guy that came over there and just like, all right, guys.
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They look over the killing and they make sure it's all killed right.
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In theory, I think that kosher was a great idea at first.
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They set some ground rules like don't eat pigs.
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If you cook a pig the same way you cook a deer, you're going to have real problems.
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They eat a lot of animals, and so they get trichinosis.
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Try mushrooms and get sap from a tree, but they didn't know, why do we keep getting sick every time we eat this pig?
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Well, they just thought the pig was disgusting.
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They thought if you eat pig, you're going to get sick and you're going to die.
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And most pigs, whether they were wild or domestic, apparently they're the exact same thing.
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That was a rule we weren't allowed to accept when they said, why is stuff not kosher?
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Because bacon is awesome, and nobody dies from bacon.
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I mean, you could buy from, you could die from, like...
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Hey, NatureBox, how about some bacon-flavored stuff?
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It's funny how Nature's Box doesn't have anything bacon-related, now that I think about it.
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Grillo's Pickles, by the way, has the greatest pickles in the history of the free world.
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They don't need to make pickles when Grillo's Pickles is out.
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People are like, what's the big deal with pickles?
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Just buy yourself one container of those hot, spicy...
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And what's cool about Nature's Box is that, you know, you get this once a month, and you could add any other...
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Like, I loaded up mine with like 12 different...
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Because if you go to Nature's Box, it's a chick named Nature.
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How long are you doing ads on each of these people?
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Damn, we said a lot of cool shit before this podcast ever started.
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We have a Nick Diaz calling into our Punch Drunk sports podcast.
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So, did you do Punch Drunk when you were on the road, when you were in China?
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Did you have a guest, or did you do it by yourself?
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Okay, so you did it from, like, remote locations?
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I pulled over into some woods until my phone went off because it was too cold.
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We came back from break and I was just like, and Tebow's like, are you fucking showering?
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What is the audio like when you're Skyping into a podcast like that?
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So you could, but have you ever tried to do it on 4G? Yeah, I did a walk around the city a lot.
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Yeah, but sometimes it goes like, especially in New York, it comes in and out.
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That seems like that would be a really cool way to do a podcast.
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Yeah, TBL, TBL, TBL, TBL. Sounds like this, kind of.
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The good part of what you could do, though, is you could record it separately on an MP3 player.
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And then send them the audio later and they could cut it in so it sounds fine.
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So have two recordings going simultaneously and they would have to sync them up?
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The live one would be the only one that kind of stops.
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That seems like a project that we would give to you and it would take at least a year.
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You would find all sorts of reasons why that's not going to happen.
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But I always wanted to know what happens when a bullet hits a hard drive.
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So I set up some hard drives and loaded up my hunting rifle.
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So you're shooting at something that's 100 yards away and you have about an inch Wow.
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Maybe a little more, inch and a half or something like that.
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You can see this is us shooting at the hard drive.
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It's all just about staying put and not freaking out.
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Yeah, I mean, that thing, that has a muzzle brake on it, which is this thing around the tip of the rifle barrel that distributes the energy better.
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So it doesn't, it doesn't kick as much, which is really important because the kick is what scares the shit out of you.
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That's what you're scared of so you clinch up before it happens.
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Somebody put up a thread of some of your old videos.
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It's like you have such a gift for video editing.
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I quickly learned, though, how to, how, using, like, editing HD nowadays, how much fucking computer you need, though, to make it even worth not killing yourself trying to do.
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The videos I do, there's, like, at least that It had like at least 12 layers of audio going on at the same time.
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Is there some sort of super dope setup that we can get that would convince you to start making videos again?
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Well, I mean, this one was fun to do, but, you know, I don't know.
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You were making amazing videos a long time ago.
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That submission video for some show on comment section that will never happen.
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I looked at it the other day, and I was like...
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You've got real talent as far as how you choose scenes and edit things and music and effects into them.
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It's like you don't just take a video and cut it together and edit it.
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You made some awesome videos when we were working together doing those.
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He's like, you're the first guy to figure out length on the internet.
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They were like, how do you make a 10 minute long clip that people will actually watch?
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Nowadays it is getting easier, the actual programs.
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The new Final Cut Pro is cool because it can sync up...
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Automatically where you used to have to just try to line up two sounds and stuff like that.
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Let's get some bad mamma jamma computers and do this, man.
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I mean, it would be fun to see how much unstressful it is.
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I was talking to a dude today who recently quit Adderall.
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I think a lot of people that do the Adderall feel like there's a crash at the end of the day.
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Oh, you've got to have a It's either the fast acting ones or the time release ones.
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Yeah, they come down so it's not like boom and drop off the cliff.
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I don't understand ADD, because I have it, hardcore.
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But I think if you have it and then you take it, it calms you.
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It's so hard to tell what the fuck is going on.
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See someone drink, and then they just lose their marbles.
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They just, for whatever reason, they just lose their marbles.
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You're like, how many fucking drinks have you had?
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Because obviously something's happening to him.
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I think there's a very direct, there's a distinctly different physiological effect of alcohol on his body as opposed to your body.
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You and I have gotten drunk a bunch of times together.
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You're exactly the same guy, but you'll laugh a little bit more.
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You'll be a little bit more ridiculous, like all of us when we're drunk.
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There's people that have a real issue like that.
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If you black out, that means you're an alcoholic.
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I like to drink, but it seems like every night I come home like, I don't remember the last hour at all.
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But then I'm thinking, wait, I only had three drinks last night.
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I think there's also a lot to do with how much you smoke weed with alcohol.
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Like, right now, today, I've only smoked weed, and I really don't remember what I did last...
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Well, you didn't get much sleep last night either, right?
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It happens a lot, though, where, like, I come home, and I'm like, well, I don't remember much last night, but...
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Smoking 14 joints is probably a bad idea, but what's a good idea for you is definitely to take a break off the boozing.
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I mean look, what you did with your life as far as like have fun over the last few years, go party, you know, just be at the comedy clubs all the time.
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It's like, do you do it and manage how much damage you do to yourself in the process?
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At a certain point in time, I just feel that most folks can't keep drinking.
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Most folks, they get to a certain point in time.
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There's always stories about some guy who's 100 years old, smoked cigarettes, but that guy, the reason why you hear those stories is that's unusual as fuck.
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Most people, when they get to be 50, 60, when they're smokers, they start having real problems.
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I'm like, how often did you hang out with your grandfather?
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He's over there jerking off and eating tobacco.
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I know there's always a guy that lives to be 100 and a guy that smokes all the time and he's fine until the day he died.
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I know people that I've seen their body deteriorate.
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You know that weird thing you do when a guy's a chain smoker and you start to see their face starts to shrivel in?
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But just, I know several people have died because of cigarettes.
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The first was a guy that I knew, well, I guess I don't have any relatives that died from it, but I knew a guy who was at the pool hall he used to hang out with.
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I knew three guys there that died from cigarettes, that smoked cigarettes every day.
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He changed smoke, then they got cancer and died.
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You could probably smoke for a good 20 years if you wanted to.
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Probably like, I mean, Ari, you have to admit, you used to enjoy smoking.
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In China, I was thinking, like, I got the urge back.
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Ooh, because everybody smokes over there, right?
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Maybe it's the pollution, so I was already feeling it a little too.
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No, I was looking at people with their cigarettes going...
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Do you think that you could smoke for like a week and then not get hooked again?
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One is still, I could still be like, that was disgusting.
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It might be disgusting, but then it starts going away through your body.
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And then the next day, you'll be like, yeah, I need one.
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I had a guy on here, Dr. Carl Hart, who explained addictions to me.
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When you're talking to a guy who's super smart and knows a lot about the human body and the mechanisms of addiction, and he's explaining to me, I'm hearing the words he's saying, and I get what he's trying to explain to me, but I totally don't understand the mechanisms of how these addictions work.
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But the way he was saying it was that it's more mental than anything.
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The actual physical addiction, he said, is not that big of a deal.
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Yeah, like the people who eat their couches and stuff.
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Eat the couch cushion out a little bit at a time.
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She would pull the plastic tape, break it off, put it in her mouth and start chewing it.
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Yeah, there's like addictions that are just compulsive.
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For whatever reason, you just feel the need to do it.
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That rush that you get when you're not supposed to go to that drive-thru, but you, fuck it, let's do this, and it's like you get an addiction to that feeling.
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You've had that feeling too, especially when you're drunk.
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It does feel good to know you're going to get food.
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Yeah, you're going to get some delicious, delicious...
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Remember when we used to walk to Carney's right down the street from the store?
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That's some of the worst shit you could ever eat in your life.
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Every time I eat it, I was like, what the fuck did I just do to my body?
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Yeah, you get chili fries on top of a chili dog.
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This is very peripheral because you're not doing it all day, every day like you can with cigarettes.
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So I would imagine just the ritual aspect of the tradition, of the habit, would be way bigger because you're doing it all day.
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Chewing for the same six minutes it would have taken to smoke it, and then throws it out and starts a new one.
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That's smart of him, but then he started smoking again.
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But then one time I saw him on stage, he threw one out and started a new one, and he goes, What are you doing, Dice?
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That's so nice that he would worry about how much money he's spending.
00:32:39.000
Yeah, he's got to get a special brand cigarette that he wasn't even smoking for like five years.
00:32:43.000
There is something very calming about it, though.
00:32:54.000
That real effect is just that you're addicted to cigarettes.
00:33:01.000
Nicotine is more of a stimulant, I'm pretty sure.
00:33:05.000
It's also, it calms you because you're like, oh, now I don't need a cigarette anymore.
00:33:07.000
Well, let's Google that because we live in 2014 and I might be totally wrong.
00:33:12.000
But the way it was explained to me and the way Dr. Hart describes it is that what's going on is you have this buildup and this need to get it in your body.
00:33:22.000
Then when you get it in your body, you calm yourself.
00:33:24.000
So that when you're in a situation where you're very stressed out, you absolutely have extraneous external stress, but you also have the stress of the fact that you need a cigarette.
00:33:34.000
Maybe it also seems like the same feeling as when you get a cigarette.
00:33:36.000
So when you do actually get stressed, it's like, oh, this reminds me of the time.
00:33:42.000
And again, I think what we talked about earlier, that the daily ritual aspect of a cigarette must be incredibly strong because you do it so often, especially if you have a drink.
00:33:53.000
How many people tell you they only smoke when they drink?
00:34:00.000
You know you're doing something bad and you're like, fuck it.
00:34:05.000
It's like the flavor of coffee and cigarettes together is like the best two ingredients that make the best pie ever.
00:34:16.000
This is the actual explanation of what nicotine is.
00:34:21.000
Nicotine is a potent, boy, here we go, sympathomimectic.
00:34:31.000
Parasympathomimectic alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants and is a stimulant drug.
00:34:39.000
That's why people like to smoke cigarettes after they fuck.
00:34:43.000
It's a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and agonist.
00:34:50.000
It's made from the roots and accumulates in the leaves of plants, which is obviously a tobacco plant.
00:34:59.000
There were a lot of words in there I didn't know.
00:35:01.000
I think you can get nicotine from, I want to say guarana.
00:35:42.000
But apparently when you get it in Brazil, you get the pure form of it.
00:35:46.000
And a lot of times what we get has a lot of sugar in it.
00:36:10.000
You ever have that shit, that soda, that Brazilian soda?
00:36:13.000
At Fogo de Chão, you never have that green Guarana soda?
00:36:18.000
If you're going to go to Fogo de Chão and have the full Brazilian experience, you've got to get one of those Guarana sodas.
00:36:49.000
So guarana, I'm pretty sure is a totally different thing.
00:36:56.000
Anyway, the important thing is keep smoking because it simulates you.
00:37:03.000
I wonder how many people, as we talked about cigarettes and how bad they were, got the urge and lit up.
00:37:11.000
I wish I'd never smoked my whole life and on my 40th birthday I would start smoking.
00:37:17.000
By the time you turn 80, who cares if you get cancer?
00:37:28.000
Maybe that fucking computer sitting in front of the computer editing just cooked you.
00:37:36.000
Maybe you could do it from a distance with a remote control or something.
00:37:38.000
No, because you get addicted to things and you start looking at things and overplaying stuff over and over.
00:37:46.000
Yeah, when you play something over like three hours in a row.
00:37:51.000
But that's a sign of being really in love with what you're doing.
00:37:57.000
You know that when you release those really good ones and you got awesome response online from people.
00:38:04.000
Universally, on that message board, people talk about how great your video editing skills were.
00:38:09.000
At the end of those nights where you're like, ah.
00:38:16.000
There's something about it, like it dries out your tear ducts.
00:38:21.000
Well, I got a pair of glasses, and they're yellow.
00:38:30.000
They look just like the type of glasses you wear on the range.
00:38:32.000
Because looking through yellow, it's supposed to be like...
00:38:34.000
Remember they have those stupid fucking commercials for those cheap-ass sunglasses?
00:38:40.000
They would go to the beach and be like, what do you think of these?
00:38:51.000
Well, those are the ones that you're supposed to look at when you look at your computer.
00:39:03.000
Listen, Ari, you got nothing to say to that guy.
00:39:08.000
You're on a bus next to each other for five hours.
00:39:16.000
Oh, these are my HD wraparounds I've seen on TV. What?
00:39:20.000
You saw them on TV and you ordered them from TV? They allow me to see you in a totally different light.
00:39:43.000
What's it like to have those beautiful wraparound yellow sunglasses?
00:39:46.000
It's like not having them, but it's way better than that.
00:39:50.000
Yeah, people say some weird shit to people sometimes.
00:40:15.000
People say douchey things, like, on the sneak tip.
00:40:18.000
They can say douchey shit like that where you're not supposed to get mad at them, but you're allowed to anyway.
00:40:28.000
What kind of question are you asking me, bitch?
00:40:40.000
Joe, did you follow that story about that kidnapping of the kid that they found in the basement?
00:40:51.000
Nancy Grace interviewed the guy, the father, too, I guess, last night.
00:40:57.000
You're trying to tell me that you didn't look in the basement for your son and he was in there for 11 days?
00:41:10.000
And wasn't he like, I just thought my son was dead.
00:41:22.000
The kid was in the basement the whole time hiding.
00:41:26.000
He decided to make himself like a little house back there.
00:41:35.000
I mean, that doesn't seem like a normal kid wants to be around their parents.
00:41:45.000
Oh, you're saying the dad must have done something.
00:41:49.000
Whatever it is, whoever did something, it seems like something's wrong.
00:41:52.000
How many people are out there like that, that we don't know about?
00:41:55.000
What percentage of the population is in some terrible place like that, where they're trying to hide from their parents or they're trying to hide from someone in their family or someone they're close to?
00:42:13.000
Because they said they found him solo back there.
00:42:17.000
Maybe he decided to go on an epic masturbation.
00:42:25.000
But there was blood that was found, like on rags and stuff.
00:42:27.000
There's a lot of weird questions about this whole thing.
00:42:40.000
Whoever said that, tell them to go fuck themselves.
00:42:41.000
All these artists are moving in there and it's like changing up.
00:42:52.000
We're going to be kicking ourselves in 20 years.
00:42:55.000
You could have gotten a house for $10 and you didn't do it?
00:43:00.000
All due respect to Kid Rock and Eminem, I'm not moving to fucking Detroit.
00:43:12.000
Well, listen, the folks that are there, I definitely think there's an artist community there.
00:43:17.000
We met a lot of cool people that live there, no doubt about it.
00:43:20.000
But I'm saying, if you were trying to invest in something that you think you're stealing money, it's going to take a lot of work to bring Detroit back.
00:43:38.000
Um, where, uh, these people were fishing and I was like, this water is not clean.
00:43:45.000
And it was like, it's one of the most, the area around Zug Island is one of the most polluted areas in the country.
00:43:51.000
And I was like, man, I mean, how, I don't know if they're testing these fish.
00:43:56.000
There were Chinese people fishing in those fucking dirty, and I was like, what are you doing?
00:44:00.000
Even the residents were like, what are you doing?
00:44:05.000
You might have a fish that's not so good, but at least you're not hungry.
00:44:11.000
Shit, if you're smoking cigarettes already, you know, what difference does it make if you eat a fucking metallic fish?
00:44:18.000
Some fish loaded up with polluted heavy metal pollutions.
00:44:22.000
Apparently they checked a fish that they caught outside of Fukushima.
00:44:29.000
This is a science guy who debunks a lot of the myths about, you know, climate change and disasters and all sorts of like...
00:44:38.000
He's very, very strict, very concise with his, whether it's politically correct or not.
00:44:47.000
He's very scientific about his explanations for these things.
00:44:50.000
And he was explaining that this is a fish that is indigenous to this area.
00:44:55.000
So it's a fish that's been sucking in that water, filled with radiation.
00:45:06.000
You don't have to worry about the fish that's in the ocean.
00:45:09.000
They have caught fish that have an elevated amount of radiation in it.
00:45:13.000
And this is what's been really fascinating about Fukushima.
00:45:16.000
Obviously, I'm a fucking idiot, so when you're listening to me, anything that I say that might sound tricky, Google it.
00:45:22.000
What's fascinating about this is that it's opened me up to paying attention to how many different things have radiation.
00:45:30.000
There was an article the other day that said Grand Central Station has more radiation naturally occurring because of all that stone, all that marble that they have inside of there.
00:45:40.000
Marble gives off a certain amount of natural radiation.
00:45:44.000
And there's more radiation inside that giant train station than is allowable at a nuclear power plant for workers.
00:46:01.000
But when you're on a plane, you're taking mega doses.
00:46:07.000
And Ensign, he does a lot of relief work for people up in Fukushima, trying to help people and spread the word about how bad the situation is and how many displaced people are up there.
00:46:16.000
He said that he brought his Geiger counter with him.
00:46:20.000
He said, when you're in a plane, it's like the same as when you're in Fukushima.
00:46:28.000
Hang out there for a couple hours and you'll be fine.
00:46:31.000
So if you find a fish that's like a mile off shore, that fish is probably not just hanging out at that exact location for, you know, the whole time.
00:46:45.000
That was one of the reasons why it was significant.
00:46:49.000
I think it's hard to put in our stupid little heads how big the fucking ocean is.
00:46:59.000
If you look at what the Pacific Ocean looks like and you look at the continent in North America, we're like this little tiny thing in there.
00:47:05.000
We don't show the whole thing on the map because there's not enough room to show the whole thing on the map.
00:47:17.000
The only way you get it is when you fly in Australia and you look out the window.
00:47:26.000
You can't see an end to the left, you can't see an end to the right, you can't see an end ahead, and you can't see an end behind you.
00:47:36.000
Yeah, and you better have a fucking good one of them...
00:47:39.000
Yeah, that's the stuff we were going to get back to.
00:47:42.000
There was a part in Life of the Pie, I just watched it in 3D the other day, but there was a part in it where the tiger made this crazy face right before he was about to pee on the main character, and it was so trippy.
00:47:58.000
And you were saying that you thought the movie kind of felt unrealistic, the tiger.
00:48:02.000
Well, it was completely unrealistic as far as the dynamic of the relationship between the guy and the tiger.
00:48:09.000
The fact that he beat the tiger back and he was on a boat.
00:48:15.000
If he was Wolverine or something like that, he could survive.
00:48:19.000
You understood the end, how he explained all that.
00:48:23.000
But during the movie, I'm like, this is just pissing me off.
00:48:27.000
When he was trying to get up that ladder and he wouldn't let him in the boat, man, that was some deep shit right there.
00:48:37.000
You know, my only problem with it is the unreal...
00:48:39.000
I mean, I shouldn't have a problem with it if it's just a dream.
00:48:41.000
But the unrealistic movement of the cat drove me fucking crazy.
00:48:45.000
Because without that, the whole movie does not exist.
00:48:50.000
Like that Judge Dredd where they all use a slow-mo.
00:48:54.000
Yeah, like, this is, wow, this is a commercial for that camera.
00:49:08.000
I just went like this, and I'm holding tight in your headphones.
00:49:12.000
You get a limited amount of time, and then it's like, go fuck yourself.
00:49:18.000
You can say somebody who's a Super Bowl winner the next day.
00:49:52.000
Godzilla was most certainly, no spoilers, no spoilers, most certainly the best Godzilla of all time, without a doubt.
00:49:58.000
You didn't mind the part where he got knocked out and buried under that building, and then all of a sudden he was up and fighting again, and then the next scene he was back to buried under that building?
00:50:09.000
Nobody likes guys getting knocked out with pistols in the movie and then getting up and then duking their way out of a bar.
00:50:19.000
I'm saying not getting up, being buried under a building, suddenly fighting the second Mothra guy, and then back to buried under the building as if he never had gotten out of it.
00:50:38.000
The dude had the worst luck of all time, but yet the best luck.
00:50:43.000
The main character, all these terrible things keep happening, and yet he just stays alive.
00:50:55.000
I was going to ask you, Tony said that he hated it because the face was really round and he looked very Japanese and cutesy.
00:51:16.000
I don't know why he was thinking about it looking cutesy.
00:51:23.000
The movie felt like a bunch of Hollywood people made it.
00:51:29.000
Well, it just felt like when you have an idea that's that high concept, you can run into cut-the-shit moments.
00:51:36.000
You can run into a bunch of cut-the-shit moments.
00:51:41.000
I mean, you could get away with doing a movie like 28 Days Later.
00:51:44.000
Obviously, they're completely different types of movies, but there was no cut-the-shit moments in that movie.
00:52:01.000
So he goes to that compound with all the army people.
00:52:19.000
He would always, like, humans will just devolve into animals.
00:52:24.000
But then he, like, releases, like, one zombie into the, they were keeping.
00:52:28.000
But he's, like, suddenly an expert with weapons.
00:52:31.000
The whole movie is, like, trying to figure out what's happening.
00:52:40.000
He's really awesome with a machine gun out of nowhere.
00:52:42.000
Mo, how long had he been hanging out with those resistors?
00:52:50.000
What if he had a background in the military or some shit?
00:52:56.000
The lone guy who's had a background in the military, he's a loner.
00:53:04.000
He can shoot somebody over his father's shoulder at like eight yards.
00:53:14.000
I feel bad for Carl because he has zero chance of getting laid.
00:53:19.000
He's already wandering around shooting fucking zombies.
00:53:23.000
He's like some older chicks that might eventually take him.
00:53:32.000
Once you heard about cutting off the arms of zombies and like...
00:53:40.000
Look, dude, I wouldn't fuck someone with AIDS. Imagine fucking someone with a zombie.
00:53:43.000
It seems like people with AIDS live a lot longer than zombies.
00:54:22.000
Imagine holding some girl zombie down and she's screaming and gnashing.
00:54:31.000
What if you fucked them and they came back to life?
00:54:42.000
I found a cure that none of you are going to believe.
00:54:57.000
That's a great idea for a movie and everyone just starts fucking zombies and then you have to fuck the little ones too.
00:55:11.000
Yeah, all through the movie would be Death Metal.
00:55:15.000
Just guys kicking doors down, holding zombies down, white pale asses bobbing up and down, male and female zombies.
00:55:24.000
Just an interracial, intergender orgy of fucking dead people.
00:55:29.000
As they get healthy again, they have to start fucking whatever zombies are left.
00:55:32.000
Go back to the compound, dude's got a fucking oil drum filled with Viagra.
00:55:46.000
Because the biters would fuck you back a little bit.
00:55:48.000
They'd bite you back and the fuckers would fuck.
00:55:57.000
Could you imagine if the only way that you could get them to come back is to fuck them?
00:56:05.000
Because you wouldn't want them being zombies and eating your family.
00:56:23.000
Everybody would be rushing to yoga mat places to try to fuck all the yoga zombies.
00:56:30.000
Oh yeah, whoever got locked in the yoga, whatever happened there.
00:56:34.000
If you could get to a yoga mat, most likely you're going to have some hot chicks in there.
00:56:43.000
Or the farts have stayed in there for too long.
00:56:45.000
What if the zombie just completely gave in to you?
00:56:47.000
What if the zombie started backing up on your dick?
00:56:56.000
But she still reaches back, claws at you, so you've got to hold her wrists.
00:57:05.000
If I was on a mission to save the world, I'd go Korean barbecue.
00:57:10.000
Yeah, but you see, it's a race between if you could fuck them before they can bite you or their friends bite you.
00:57:19.000
So you can't go into places like a fucking Korean barbecue solo.
00:57:28.000
You only turn into one of them if they bite you a little.
00:57:40.000
I think every time you come inside of them, they get a little less zombie.
00:57:52.000
But then the problem would be you'd both get addicted to having sex in that way.
00:57:56.000
Yeah, how long till you get hard every time you hear...
00:58:15.000
What would be gross is they would all come back to life, but half of them would be missing chunks of their neck.
00:58:34.000
If you hold them to that hand too much, it just evaporates.
00:58:42.000
Why is it that's a thing that people are constantly worried about?
00:58:45.000
They're constantly worried about the zombie apocalypse.
00:58:54.000
But do you think it's because people worry that...
00:59:04.000
Some fucking disease that gives us rabies or something.
00:59:11.000
When 12 Monkeys came out, I was like, that shit's real, man.
00:59:20.000
How many of those apocalyptic movies are there?
00:59:30.000
There was something that they, a chimp disease, right?
00:59:33.000
They manufactured it and then it got into people.
00:59:39.000
Like, oh wow, it's way worse if they're really fast.
00:59:43.000
I don't know how the fuck they went back to slow zombies after that.
00:59:45.000
28 days later would be 10 times more epic if those motherfuckers were fast.
00:59:52.000
If those motherfuckers were fast, that movie would be, that show would be so different.
00:59:56.000
They're all adrenaline, just running after you as fast as possible.
00:59:59.000
I mean, maybe one of the elements in being able to construct these stories that take place over long periods of time is that the zombies can't be the biggest threat.
01:00:08.000
Because if they're not the biggest threat, then people sort of become the biggest threat.
01:00:12.000
Because that show is a show about, the zombies are sort of periphery at this point.
01:00:16.000
Like, what the show's really all about is people, like, turning on people.
01:00:23.000
Yeah, zombies are like, yeah, it's just like a speed bump.
01:00:27.000
I used to go crazy when I watched that show and they were all at the prison and they were all outside.
01:00:39.000
Occasionally you'd see them kill them, but there were days on end where they're out there planting tomatoes.
01:00:43.000
Because they're right outside the fence, you mean?
01:00:56.000
Why would you do that when you're just stabbing the head?
01:01:01.000
Well, if there were so many, you could just mow them all down in big portions of gas and stuff.
01:01:12.000
And you're just doing like kettlebell exercises.
01:01:19.000
In a switch, you've got to do a lot of lefties because you don't want to imbalance your back.
01:01:22.000
Do you think you could do that, even if it was a zombie?
01:01:28.000
If it was a crew of zombies, I wouldn't need any preparation.
01:01:33.000
It wouldn't even take me five seconds to stab the first zombie in the head.
01:01:36.000
If you gave me a nice big sword type thing, and there were zombies, and I had to stab them, I would immediately start stabbing zombies.
01:01:42.000
Yeah, but you would see the human elements of them.
01:01:55.000
They always have that when somebody sees their kid.
01:02:07.000
That was the most fucked up part of that show where guys had to kill their wives and shit and kill their family members and kill their daughters.
01:02:13.000
The one guy that kept his daughter locked up and thought she was sick.
01:02:24.000
That very specific scenario would definitely take place with a lot of people.
01:02:31.000
And also they would also hope that one day there'd be a cure.
01:02:36.000
But they're carrying this threat around all the time.
01:02:38.000
I wonder if you could have the same show with that 28 Days Later style.
01:02:49.000
Because it seems like the zombies would be a way bigger threat.
01:02:52.000
Yeah, they're on you at any time, and then it's over.
01:02:57.000
So you couldn't have as many relationships with people that go bad.
01:03:06.000
I'm fucking chasing after you full clip with crazy bloodshot eyes.
01:03:15.000
It wasn't as good, but it's pretty goddamn good.
01:03:18.000
That's a realistic monster scenario, not like Godzilla.
01:03:27.000
We tried to kill it during World War II. They were trying to kill it.
01:03:39.000
Those tests that they did in the South Pacific, they weren't shooting Godzilla.
01:03:51.000
How do you think one man got shot three times by one bullet?
01:03:58.000
You guys, I can't believe you left that in the script.
01:04:04.000
You need to take it to a board of people who will watch this and tell you what's ridiculous.
01:04:17.000
We'll sit down, watch a movie together, and then give them feedback.
01:04:34.000
They would need something where you would agree to not talk about it.
01:04:40.000
That's how you know a movie's going to suck when there's no critic reviews because they don't put it before the critics.
01:04:44.000
They're like, you guys are going to pan it and they'll know it.
01:04:47.000
When you see no ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, avoid that movie.
01:04:52.000
Not even those people are deluded enough to think people will like this.
01:04:55.000
There's also weird movies that they don't release for years.
01:04:59.000
They sit on the shelf and they're like, do you remember Antonio Banderas, The 13th Warrior?
01:05:07.000
It was originally called, like, The Eater of the Dead.
01:05:17.000
Eating pineapples and drinking margaritas and shit.
01:05:26.000
Yeah, it was one of those movies that took a long time to come out.
01:05:40.000
I think I started to read it, but I never actually read it.
01:05:46.000
Yeah, the book is, like, way more involved, though, and much more, like...
01:05:54.000
Well, they do better than this Antonio Banderas movie.
01:06:07.000
It made $62 million, but the budget was more than $100 million.
01:06:13.000
You know what looks stupid is that I Frankenstein movie.
01:06:22.000
Could you imagine if you sit down with the guys who wanted to make that and go, wait a minute, wait a minute, what?
01:06:26.000
Did you just tell me you're having a sexy Frankenstein?
01:06:31.000
I could have sworn I walked in this office and you told me you wanted me to invest movie in a sexy Frankenstein.
01:06:46.000
What's the difference between a vampire and Frankenstein?
01:07:06.000
So wait, he's not going to be a big zombie anymore?
01:07:12.000
He looks like a guy who's been in a rough street fight.
01:07:19.000
Dracula wasn't even allowed to go in the sun, but the Edward guy just sparkled.
01:07:41.000
Yeah, they don't die like a real fucking vampire.
01:07:47.000
Can you pull up without us getting pulled off of YouTube?
01:07:51.000
See if you can pull up a video of Frankenstein with no volume.
01:08:04.000
We need to set it up on that thing so we can watch it without it being...
01:08:32.000
Meanwhile, how the fuck is that guy still in class?
01:08:36.000
Can you imagine you're a thousand years old, you keep going to class because you don't want to make anybody suspicious?
01:08:47.000
He was actually like the Spanish flu that killed him, which was I think in the 1900s.
01:09:07.000
So he's only been around for like 100 years or so.
01:09:09.000
He's old enough to know that he shouldn't be in high school anymore.
01:09:14.000
It's like the idea is that he died when he was in high school.
01:09:20.000
How about just say, oh, actually, I'm older than I look.
01:09:26.000
That was something that I read today online where it was showing how many Asian women could be like almost 50 and they look like they're 20 years old.
01:09:39.000
Oh, they look 50. Oh, they look younger, not 20. But they look super young.
01:09:55.000
I know a couple girls that are like 45. And I mean, they look pretty sexy.
01:10:07.000
More alien DNA? Just that type of DNA. That's my theory.
01:10:11.000
No, it's just the type that stays young longer.
01:10:25.000
If you look at all the different races, and obviously there's some sort of biological explanation for this, but how the fuck did so many Asian people have such similar features?
01:10:37.000
How the fuck did so many African people have such similar features?
01:10:42.000
It's amazing when you look around at how many Chinese people have black hair and And similar skin tone.
01:10:48.000
How many black people have that hair and similar skin tone?
01:11:24.000
All dogs were at one point in time who knows how many thousands of years ago.
01:11:28.000
They have no idea when people started domesticating dogs.
01:11:31.000
But they assumed that it was right around the time civilization was invented.
01:11:39.000
That's what you're looking at when you look at a shih tzu, when you look at a husky, when you look at a wolf.
01:11:50.000
They all come from wolves, which is the weirdest thing.
01:11:54.000
He domesticated a wolf who was like, let's get the two coolest wolves.
01:11:57.000
Well, they had an episode about it on the Cosmos.
01:12:08.000
They're like, well, we want the whatever theory explained, too.
01:12:25.000
According to the cosmos, is that some wolves got friendlier with people because the people would feed them.
01:12:30.000
And then they kept coming around, the people would feed them, they developed a relationship, and then those wolves would chase off the other wolves.
01:12:34.000
And then they only bred with the wolves that were friendly.
01:12:39.000
Yeah, those wolves eventually became dogs over who knows how many thousands of years.
01:12:45.000
Selective breeding, bringing certain dogs, wolves that behaved in certain ways together.
01:12:50.000
I mean, I don't know how many generations it took to do it.
01:12:57.000
Did you have to tell you my new theory about why black people are late?
01:13:01.000
So, you've heard about black people's time and how they're just late.
01:13:11.000
It's like Don Barris says, there's only one race.
01:13:17.000
Because when you were slaves, time didn't matter at all.
01:13:35.000
Some of the hardest working people you'll ever hire are African Africans.
01:13:38.000
Those are the drug dealers in Beijing and Hong Kong.
01:13:49.000
Dude, you shouldn't do that because I bet the Chinese authorities had no idea.
01:13:57.000
Cracked by Ari Shafir on the Joe Rogan podcast.
01:14:03.000
Imagine if they got angry and they started going after you.
01:14:06.000
This is something that you would think about if you ate way too much pot.
01:14:10.000
If you ate way too much pot, you're like, why did I give up the fact that they were drug dealers?
01:15:10.000
There's a few places with, like, one-story things, but not much.
01:15:14.000
Because LA's 20 million people, but the good news is they're flat out.
01:15:19.000
The flattened out, I think, alleviates a little bit of pressure.
01:15:31.000
So you can bike around real easily and walk around.
01:15:38.000
See, that's the difference between New York and LA. New York doesn't really have those.
01:16:14.000
I mean, they're a little bit conservative because they don't have any plumbers that are over there.
01:16:17.000
They have people that work for the embassy or people that work for banks.
01:16:22.000
So the people are a little more conservative and smarter.
01:16:26.000
People that go work in Shanghai or in Hong Kong instead of where they're from.
01:16:31.000
You guys are the cool people that want to do stuff.
01:16:46.000
Well, you don't have to tell me the person's name, but so you had your agent set this up?
01:16:49.000
Yeah, I think Rhodes talked to my agent at an airport, and he tells him he goes on those things, and he got me and Schubert.
01:16:58.000
They start their own scene, and then they'll bring out a guy to do their four rooms, and then they'll team up with another guy in another scene.
01:17:10.000
There are brand new comedy scenes starting from scratch.
01:17:21.000
And the people that are already there, they're working for banks, they're working as teachers, and then they see a show and somebody goes, hey, guess what everybody, there's going to be an open mic next Thursday because they found some bar that will allow it.
01:17:32.000
And then somebody tries, so these people there are like, Longest is like three years.
01:17:43.000
There's nowhere to learn from either other than YouTube.
01:17:51.000
Imagine if China takes over and becomes the number one comedy community in the world.
01:17:56.000
But China has this style of comedy that's like this thousand-year-old Abbott and Costello with cadence changes.
01:18:04.000
So the new guys that speak both are trying to do regular style comedy?
01:18:15.000
I saw a guy, there's a video about a guy from Canada who moved to China and became a comedian.
01:18:22.000
He was a comedian in America, but he learned Chinese.
01:18:26.000
Yeah, learned Chinese, speaks, you know, which one, Mandarin, I don't know which one.
01:18:31.000
Des Bishop did it for the last year, took a bunch of Mandarin classes.
01:18:36.000
He's big in Ireland, but he's from New York originally.
01:18:48.000
Can you imagine going from not speaking Chinese to speaking Chinese for a fucking living in front of Chinese people?
01:18:56.000
Making fun of the alphabet and why certain symbols look like certain things.
01:19:03.000
And how difficult is it to learn how to talk in that language?
01:19:11.000
Because the references are so off that it just won't.
01:19:16.000
A lot of it, something really big in Chinese culture is losing face.
01:19:24.000
But, like, losing faces, like, say, I'm trying to pay for a meal, and you're like, no, I got it.
01:19:30.000
I'm like, I'd be like, hey, man, you gotta let me do this here.
01:19:35.000
You can't embarrass me in front of these people.
01:19:38.000
It's more than just, like, slight embarrassment.
01:19:40.000
That's another reason why there's less crime, is because people are like, what am I getting caught?
01:19:48.000
So they go out of the way to not be that person.
01:19:50.000
So is there statistically less crime than America?
01:19:55.000
They say women can walk 3.30 in the morning drunk and no one's touching them.
01:19:59.000
The only violence is acts of rebellion against this country.
01:20:04.000
Yeah, where people take out machetes and fucking hack up a Mahjong game.
01:20:12.000
They show Mahjong games getting hacked by these fucking Uyghurs.
01:20:27.000
I think W-I-E-G-E-R? But it might be W-E-G-E-R. You can put ethnic W-E and it'll probably come up.
01:20:44.000
But they don't, I don't know, they don't like, they want to break off or something.
01:20:47.000
So they're the ones who got the big stabbings that were going on.
01:20:51.000
And there were these videos of this mahjong playing game going on.
01:20:53.000
And this guy just lifts up his shirt, pulls out an axe, a little hand axe, and just starts axing this guy.
01:20:59.000
And then the other guy, who's also watching, he's like, oh, it's on?
01:21:02.000
And he just picks up his shirt and starts fucking axing these people.
01:21:06.000
Yeah, and then everyone, like, this mayhem, somebody, like, is what, they try to tackle him.
01:21:11.000
He comes back, tries to ax this girl a few more times.
01:21:31.000
It's also spelled in another instance U-I-G-H-U-R. So U-Y or U-I. And they're Chinese Muslims.
01:21:41.000
They're always starting to trouble, the Muslims.
01:21:45.000
Yeah, but they show this on the subway and it's with the kids there.
01:21:49.000
I mean, they blur it right as the hacking goes on.
01:21:58.000
Now they have complete control over the media, of all the media.
01:22:05.000
Well, they kind of don't know that they're getting the real story.
01:22:08.000
So they say it's the Uyghurs, but you know how there's rumors like, I don't know what Al-Qaeda is and what the other one is?
01:22:14.000
It's like they say that, but who knows what that really is?
01:22:20.000
But there, they just like, we really don't know.
01:22:26.000
But, you know, it's different than here, and it's the same as here.
01:22:28.000
It's like they were going to put chips in all the computers so that you couldn't go on sites that China didn't allow.
01:22:33.000
You can't go to Google, but you can go on a VPN and just go through a different server and get all the stuff.
01:22:43.000
Other companies are concerned about China because China will just copy shit.
01:22:47.000
Like, they have fake Apple stores that are just totally fake.
01:22:50.000
My friend, Turner Sparks, who's helping running the scene in Shanghai, So he's bringing Mr. Softy to China.
01:22:59.000
He's bringing these Mr. Softy trucks out there.
01:23:03.000
And then someone else will just paint up another van exactly like Mr. Softy.
01:23:10.000
And just park it right in front of his Mr. Softy van.
01:23:13.000
It just looks like he put two vans there together at the same time.
01:23:25.000
You don't even think in terms of copyright laws.
01:23:27.000
Yeah, they don't think in terms of litigation either, right?
01:23:29.000
It's just a totally different kind of culture as far as our constant suing of each other back and forth.
01:23:40.000
I mean, it's got to be really fascinating for you to come from our American culture and be immersed in their culture for three weeks.
01:23:48.000
I've been to Brazil for a few days, but a lot of Brazilians speak English.
01:23:52.000
After like seven, eight, nine days, though, it started to become normalized a little bit.
01:23:57.000
Plus, I got a little lonely, so I could make friends easier once you need to.
01:24:04.000
Shanghai was the first night and we went to like suburbs of Shanghai for a few days and then back to Shanghai for two days.
01:24:10.000
They have a proper club called Kung Fu Comedy which is like...
01:24:17.000
There's one room that looks like the belly room and it's just like, oh, this is a cool place.
01:24:22.000
Other places where bars where they try to set it up, you know.
01:24:26.000
But it's all these expats who need something English-speaking.
01:24:28.000
It's kind of like the USO tours, you'd ever hear about that, where they're always really thankful.
01:24:34.000
They're just so happy that there's English-speaking comedy.
01:24:37.000
And how many of those people knew you from online?
01:24:43.000
So most people are just there because they're checking out new comics that come into town every week.
01:24:47.000
Yeah, and some guy's like, man, I'm a big fan of yours.
01:24:49.000
He goes, yeah, I checked out those videos on the website that they showed.
01:24:52.000
I was like, oh, that means you saw who was playing, and then you watched the video.
01:25:01.000
There were some podcast listeners, a few here or there, that one show in Shanghai had like seven or eight.
01:25:09.000
So Shanghai is just developing a reputation, like these scenes are developing a reputation for bringing funny people around, so folks just come out to see who the new guy is.
01:25:17.000
Yeah, and it's like once a month they can bring in an out-of-towner.
01:25:20.000
And the scene starts, but you can only do the room like twice with any joke before they're like, yeah, we've all seen it, man.
01:25:26.000
Because you're drawing from a city of 50,000 tops.
01:25:29.000
In a city of 24 million, there's 50,000 English speakers.
01:25:34.000
But you know, the open mic days, that's how you did it anyway.
01:25:37.000
Every week, you'd be like, oh, they're performing in front of the same guys.
01:25:40.000
That's the worst when it's almost all comics in the room and just a couple audience members, but the comics have all seen your shit before.
01:25:48.000
We're not going with you for seven minutes for your one new bit.
01:26:04.000
That's the worst though when there's no one in the audience that's beaten down and tired and you know there's more comics in the audience than the audience is.
01:26:16.000
And they have a city outside, like a 40 minute bullet train outside there called Suzhou that had this real small town feel.
01:26:37.000
When they say Manhattan, do they just mean only the island?
01:26:40.000
Yeah, we're not talking about the actual full city.
01:26:42.000
Do they ever actually say that, or do they say New York City?
01:26:53.000
It's Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan.
01:27:04.000
But I never know if they're just talking about only the island of Manhattan or the surrounding boroughs.
01:27:11.000
Like when someone says New York City, the Bronx is New York City.
01:27:21.000
But if you picture just Manhattan, this is bigger than that.
01:27:29.000
I think I'd been there once before for a karate tournament, but I was like 16, and I didn't really remember it that much, and somebody else was driving.
01:27:41.000
So I was there for comedy, and the first time I drove, I drove up the West Side Highway.
01:27:47.000
That was the first time I ever saw the skyline.
01:27:49.000
It was just pretty dramatic on the West Side Highway.
01:27:52.000
I was like, this is the craziest thing I've ever...
01:27:58.000
I was like, I can't believe how big this city is.
01:28:02.000
When I got back after three weeks, I was like, oh yeah.
01:28:17.000
And so they had these rice paddies right across the field.
01:28:21.000
And they were like, let's make a financial district.
01:28:29.000
They don't have to wait until it's an election year to show they're doing anything.
01:28:32.000
Did you go into any of those cities that were crazy polluted?
01:28:38.000
Now, I wasn't there one of the awful days where Des Bishop, the Irish guy in Beijing, is not as bad as Shanghai, but still real bad.
01:28:51.000
They see what they, everyone has an app on their phone for pollution.
01:28:54.000
And so I was in the unhealthy range pretty much while I was there.
01:28:57.000
But if it gets worse than that, he goes, you wake up in the morning and it felt like you smoked all night.
01:29:00.000
So the app recognizes the air or tells you what the forecast?
01:29:05.000
So then they won't bike to work if it's real bad.
01:29:10.000
So you have these tissue papers they give you that everyone has at all times.
01:29:16.000
Yeah, because after SARS, everyone started wearing...
01:29:18.000
People are concerned with spreading it to others, too.
01:29:23.000
Do you know that there's a spread of MERS that's going on now?
01:29:25.000
Oh yeah, they have signs up for that at every train station.
01:29:40.000
Trying to get guys to stop kissing their camels.
01:29:51.000
I mean, how long does it take for some of the more ridiculous...
01:30:02.000
Pretty smart to not eat pigs if all these people are dying and getting sick.
01:30:06.000
How long does it take before those just totally go away?
01:30:14.000
Throwing the salt over the shoulder, when did that come?
01:30:30.000
But it's natural to feel, like every time, I would do that growing up, I'd be like, I just believed in sudden superstitions that I thought of.
01:30:39.000
Remember, do you ever do one of those things where if I step on this crack, my whole family might die?
01:30:46.000
Or you try to avoid cracks for whatever reason, but then you really keep going.
01:30:51.000
Well, when you're confused about the nature of reality, you think it's very mystical.
01:30:57.000
Well, I've always wondered if the real origins for superstitions like that in children are that children have a more honest awareness of the nature of reality itself, is that it's malleable, and the things you can alter The way things go, but you think about it in stupid ways,
01:31:14.000
But it might be the way you act or think or behave, and you feel that, you sense it, but you can't sort of communicate it correctly.
01:31:22.000
Can't process it, can't put it into context, so instead you worry about stepping on cracks and breaking people's backs.
01:31:28.000
You feel the sense that you have some sort of a weird ability to affect and change your destiny based on decisions that you make.
01:31:38.000
When the cat goes across the street in front of you, do you still get at least plus one?
01:31:44.000
When I see a ladder, I'll usually move around it the other way instead of like, what the fuck does this matter?
01:31:51.000
I was kind of superstitious when I was a kid, but I've always loved cats, and I've always had cats, and I've always had black cats, so I never give a fuck about black cats.
01:31:59.000
So when a black cat would go across the street, I would never think, oh my god, I'm fucked.
01:32:05.000
Give that cat a little bowl of tuna fish and pet it.
01:32:31.000
Some fucking glowing eyes running across the road in front of your car?
01:32:45.000
There's an old Disney thing with a superstitious guy.
01:32:54.000
Yeah, I think it was created then for walking days.
01:32:56.000
Maybe horses would freak out and they'd see a cat run across them and people fell.
01:32:59.000
And it bled into the shadows so it just saw something moving.
01:33:06.000
Or you could shit your pants and fall on your rake.
01:33:10.000
And you fucking die because you don't know what staph infection is back then.
01:33:19.000
Whenever someone says dude, you got to give him the floor.
01:33:22.000
He had this leg that had purple from like just below the knee all the way.
01:33:35.000
And inside the purple ring was like a yellow ring.
01:33:58.000
That was the only guy I ever saw in Shanghai that was homeless.
01:34:07.000
Did you have a newfound appreciation for America when you re-landed?
01:34:11.000
And are you ready to say a Pledge of Allegiance right now?
01:34:15.000
There were some things where I felt a lot more free.
01:34:19.000
You can buy a beer and walk down the street and drink it like a man.
01:34:37.000
Smoke a joint, they don't know what weed smells like.
01:34:48.000
Did you imagine they've kept weed from the whole country?
01:34:53.000
What would happen if weed spread through that country like wildfire?
01:34:57.000
Yeah, but what would happen if weed spread through that country like wildfire?
01:35:01.000
If Ari Shafir became a weed evangelist for China?
01:35:15.000
They're going to fight tooth and nail to keep their silly cultures.
01:35:27.000
Their pants are cut down the middle, so that allows them to.
01:35:30.000
Yeah, they have these loose shorts, like skorts.
01:35:34.000
And then if they're squatting, you can just see their little dicks.
01:36:16.000
They have a lot of toilets, but there's just no toilet.
01:36:49.000
As soon as you cross the threshold of the bathroom, it smells horrible.
01:36:52.000
And you open up the first stall door, and your mind can't even register at first.
01:36:59.000
Because there's no toilet here, so that's the only explanation.
01:37:02.000
And then you go to the next one, and you're like, what?
01:37:14.000
I took like two steps out of the bathroom and I was like, oh yeah, diarrhea.
01:37:23.000
So this guy who owned the bar, the club was in Shanghai, gave me this tissue packet.
01:37:37.000
You got to pull your pants all the way down, squat over it, but also try not to shit into your pants.
01:37:50.000
What do you do with explosive diarrhea, though?
01:38:03.000
I would feel like that would really work your core a lot.
01:38:37.000
That's how Asians just squat, eat all the time.
01:38:44.000
This just happened last week in China in one of those toilets.
01:38:48.000
Somebody dropped their brand new phone in the toilet, and so the husband went to go in there and grab it, but he passed out because of the fumes, and then the woman tried to grab the guy out.
01:39:01.000
That's like that scene in Stand By Me where they're all barfing.
01:39:11.000
They have those shitters on the train when it's moving around and stuff.
01:39:24.000
It sounds like at first I was kind of jealous, but now I don't want to.
01:39:28.000
They have someplace where there's real toilets.
01:39:32.000
But like in a lot of places, you just don't know.
01:39:36.000
And then it's like six or seven tissues in there.
01:39:52.000
A lot of them were just like older Chinese ladies that look weathered.
01:40:14.000
Imagine if Puerto Ricans asked for Puerto Rico back.
01:40:28.000
But at this point, if Britain was like, no, you don't get it back, China's like, you really want to do this?
01:40:40.000
But all the Hong Kong people, they look at the mainlanders.
01:40:50.000
And they carry fucking raw turkeys in their bags when they go.
01:41:00.000
Yeah, I was told that it was racist against other Chinese.
01:41:08.000
Like the north, but think of like the south, but way worse than that.
01:41:12.000
But I'll tell you what, if someone shit in a mall, it was a mainlander.
01:41:18.000
It doesn't mean they're all like that, but that's...
01:41:22.000
Well, it seems like their reality is just far more sparse, right?
01:41:31.000
Well, what is it that's causing them to behave in such a...
01:41:34.000
Well, they had a lot of revolution in the last, like, not that many years.
01:41:38.000
Like, you know that walk where they put your hand behind your back and clasp it and just, like, stroll?
01:41:43.000
They're like, none of my friends are getting shot in the face, you know, at a firing squad.
01:41:48.000
Like, they've lived through some, like, bad times.
01:41:56.000
Yeah, if you go to that Kimura, a lot of guys have good defense.
01:42:00.000
Set up that far side arm bar if you don't control the body.
01:42:23.000
I mean, it's like, if you're crossing a street like this, and you know they're making a right turn, if they see a hole big enough for their car, they're taking it.
01:42:31.000
Those mopeds are shooting in and out through traffic, through like pedestrians.
01:42:43.000
And you have to just keep walking and know, you see me, you're gonna move.
01:42:56.000
I see where you're not gonna be in, like, two seconds.
01:42:59.000
Don't stop walking in the middle of the street.
01:43:01.000
Do they text in characters while they're driving like that?
01:43:05.000
Their texting must be so much more complicated than ours.
01:43:10.000
So they text in characters and they drive like that.
01:43:12.000
And they all, at night, especially the cab drivers, To save battery, they'll turn off their lights.
01:43:26.000
Oh my god, that's the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
01:43:29.000
Like it's in the city, you can pretty much see.
01:43:30.000
And you're just walking across the street and you have to hope that they can see you well enough to time you.
01:43:37.000
They'll turn off their motor at red lights because they think that saves gas.
01:43:52.000
And doesn't that take the most gases to start up again?
01:43:57.000
The engine goes into some sort of sustained hibernation or some shit, but it essentially shuts the engine off.
01:44:11.000
So over time, maybe for every five minutes we're worse, but over ten minutes we're better.
01:44:17.000
If you read those things where it says what's the miles per gallon that a car gets, that's only driving a really sane, calm person.
01:44:32.000
You slowly accelerate up to whatever speed you want to go to.
01:44:50.000
They're just like, man, those are just white paint on a road.
01:45:00.000
I rode one of those fucking drunk late at night.
01:45:10.000
No, I mean, I didn't skim one at all, but I could feel the breeze go by.
01:45:30.000
We went on a junk boat in Hong Kong the day before I left, the day before the last day, and just jumped off into the bay and stuff.
01:45:39.000
So it was essentially just different, but both cool?
01:45:44.000
It's a perfect mix of beer, Thai food, a little bit of acid, and just fucking jellyfish came up at some point.
01:45:55.000
Yeah, the jellyfish came in and it got a little more dangerous, but we just kept jumping in.
01:46:05.000
My ex had it on her neck and it was just this huge burn.
01:46:10.000
You gotta take a credit card and scrape it out.
01:46:29.000
There's one in Australia that kills people on a regular basis.
01:46:33.000
They have these emergency stations that they have set up on the beach where they have these giant jugs of vinegar.
01:46:48.000
There's one comic, Sean got stung the year before.
01:46:51.000
And they said they had to pee in a cup and then pour it over it.
01:46:54.000
Yeah, but then they said they found out later that's not the way to, that's actually not a thing.
01:47:07.000
It's not as far as we are from Australia, I don't think.
01:47:13.000
Yeah, they're south, but like straight down south.
01:47:20.000
It's no bigger than your fingernail and it can kill you.
01:47:24.000
Even when you haven't bitten your nails lately.
01:47:27.000
No bigger than your fingernail and it can kill you.
01:47:43.000
Box jellyfish no bigger than your fingernail can kill you.
01:48:02.000
Size of a goddamn fingernail and it can kill you in seconds.
01:48:09.000
Upon further research, this itty-bitty jelly...
01:48:15.000
And not from the sheer adorableness of it, but from its insanely poisonous sting.
01:48:20.000
The species box jellyfish was described as recently as 2007. Wow.
01:48:28.000
The species of box jellyfish was described as recently as 2007. After a 44-year-old American tourist, of course, by the name of Robert King, was swimming in Australia waters and encounter...
01:48:47.000
That's where the name of Common Kingslayer comes from.
01:48:55.000
They called this fucking jellyfish a kingslayer because it killed this guy named Robert King.
01:49:02.000
They didn't know about this jellyfish until 2007. So this guy got stung.
01:49:08.000
He died from a tiny jellyfish they didn't even know about.
01:49:15.000
There's some of them where they have one in a little tiny test tube.
01:49:26.000
Especially Sydney, because that's where someone might be.
01:49:33.000
And it didn't kill a guy until 2007, and so they decided to call it the Common Kingslayer.
01:49:41.000
That's pretty wild, because it killed that guy named Robert King.
01:50:01.000
And then all the things, all the barbs are going into you.
01:50:06.000
They've known about box jellyfishes for a while.
01:50:09.000
But this type of box jellyfish, the common kingslayer, was discovered as recently, first described as recently as 2007. Wow.
01:50:18.000
So they didn't know about it until this guy got fucked up by it.
01:50:22.000
Yeah, Steve went to this beach where there's just tons of jellyfish and he just started putting them on his head.
01:50:42.000
Did Steve-O actually put like a poisonous jellyfish on him?
01:50:46.000
But not like that guy that got stung by the box jellyfish.
01:50:55.000
It's so weird that these things exist that can kill you so easily.
01:51:03.000
It's just weird that these things exist that have venom in them.
01:51:15.000
Only symptoms can be treated, which can last from hours to weeks.
01:51:29.000
You're going to be researching jellyfish for the next month.
01:51:37.000
The severe symptoms don't breathe their ugly heads until about 5 to 120 minutes.
01:52:11.000
Well, it sounds like with all that other shit, of course you would think that you're dying.
01:52:22.000
Severe pain, excruciating muscle cramps, severe pain in back and kidneys, burning sensation of skin and face, headaches, nausea.
01:52:34.000
You'd have to be the cockiest motherfucker ever to be like, yeah, we'll walk this off.
01:52:39.000
Bro, these fucking box jellyfish ain't killing me, dude.
01:52:51.000
It's scary as fuck that nature creates these little things like that.
01:52:57.000
And probably some goldfish can eat it fine, not get in trouble at all.
01:53:01.000
It's probably some shitty bird that comes down.
01:53:03.000
We did see a fish eating at one of them, and it was trying to get out of there, so we'd have to dive.
01:53:12.000
I mean, they must have created this toxin to avoid predation.
01:53:19.000
They serve jellyfish in some of the restaurants.
01:53:23.000
Can we play the Steve-O video or would that get us yanked from YouTube?
01:53:35.000
Did you ever see the video of Steve-O when he's up in a tree and lions come up to him?
01:53:45.000
He had like one of those Mexican farm worker hats, you know, those straw hats those dudes like to wear, and he's up in this tree, and this lion runs up to him in the tree.
01:53:54.000
Just runs up the tree, he's checking him out, a female lion, and she like bites his hat.
01:53:59.000
She doesn't bite him, she bites his hat, and he's like stuck up there in the tree.
01:54:03.000
It is the most terrifying thing anybody that I've ever met has ever done.
01:54:08.000
Was that the guy who died, his buddy from that show, Wild Boys?
01:54:15.000
No, the guy who died in a car crash was one of the guys from the other show.
01:54:29.000
Not from all the other crazy stuff, but the chances.
01:54:32.000
I mean, they just, those guys just every day would risk their lives.
01:54:36.000
I mean, that was, Johnny Knoxville was a goddamn movie star, and he's putting a bandana over his eyes and letting a bull throw him through the air.
01:54:45.000
So you talk about the best comedies, you're like, oh, what are there any good comedies?
01:54:49.000
All three of those jackasses were fucking awesome.
01:55:02.000
If you haven't seen it yet, it's like the 2.0 or whatever version.
01:55:11.000
Like, there's some really, really funny scenes in that movie.
01:55:14.000
The grandpa stuff they did in Jackass was awesome.
01:55:18.000
He was riding that rocket and that thing went off and blew a hole through the metal rocket right by his head.
01:55:29.000
Johnny Knoxville filming a stunt and everyone would be like, oh, yeah, of course.
01:55:35.000
What is it about dudes who want that feeling, that rush of getting right up to the edge?
01:55:54.000
I saw him in San Diego and he had a sex addiction.
01:56:04.000
But then this last time I saw him, just a month ago, I went down again to see him, and he had a guy that came with him to make sure he didn't make his sex addictions.
01:56:14.000
Listen to me, Steve-O. I'm going to tell you something right now.
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A guy like you is supposed to have a sex addiction.
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I'm gonna mention your daughter in front of them.
01:56:37.000
I'm going to talk about your treatment and leave it blank.
01:56:46.000
A guy like that, like he probably, I mean, he's a famous dude.
01:56:50.000
So I bet some really hot chicks launched themselves in his direction.
01:56:57.000
So really crazy bitches are probably attracted to him like a magnet to metal shavings.
01:57:06.000
So, for a guy like that, the amount of love and sex he must be getting, or thrown in his direction, offered to him, must be pretty stunning.
01:57:14.000
Yeah, and he's probably, you know, he looks in the mirror, he knows what he looks like.
01:57:27.000
No one, I mean, only one guy gets to be Steve-O. Yeah.
01:57:31.000
I remember that because it struck with me, too, as I said it.
01:57:35.000
We were talking about creating, like, when someone's a fan of yours.
01:57:38.000
The craziest thing is, like, if someone's an Ari Shafir fan, you're the only one that could give them Ari Shafir.
01:57:43.000
If they become an Ari Shafir fan, you're the only one who's doing Ari Shafir comedy.
01:58:10.000
Some Christian person going, you shouldn't do that so much.
01:58:17.000
I mean, there's addictions to fucking washing your hands.
01:58:20.000
If it's like he can't carry on with his day, so he can't get anything done, then it's like, I guess that's an addiction.
01:58:24.000
But isn't it parallel to what we were talking about earlier about the cigarettes that it becomes like a force of habit?
01:58:31.000
It becomes like a well-worn trail in your mind.
01:58:36.000
But then if I've got work to do, if there's something I have to do, I'm like, I can't.
01:58:54.000
I want to take it completely out of your control.
01:59:05.000
Oh, I got a YouTube video to show you, by the way, that you could probably play.
01:59:09.000
I guess the sex addiction thing, when it becomes a problem, is when you start spending money and we start being sloppy and having sex with no condoms with people in the streets.
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Or when you're doing things you don't want to do.
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Or you really like doing that and it's way better than not doing that.
01:59:25.000
I think it's when you look at yourself later and go, fuck, I don't want to do that.
01:59:30.000
That's beating off, that's using Q-tips, that's fucking biting your fingernails.
01:59:37.000
I saw this guy, somebody was talking about losing a bunch of weight, some comic at a barbecue, and this other fatter comic, he was talking about eating natural chips and stuff instead of processed stuff.
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And the fatter guy's like, man, Lewis, you've got to show me how to lose weight as he's eating the chips.
01:59:52.000
Just don't eat those things that you put in your mouth.
01:59:55.000
Yo, you gotta rewire my brain and make it awesome.
01:59:59.000
I'm tired of having this lazy ass bitch ass brain.
02:00:04.000
If people don't get their brains rewired in some way, shape, or form, if you're a lazy fuck, it's very difficult to wake up one day and go, I'm not going to be a lazy fuck.
02:00:14.000
Yeah, if you don't get early going, I have lazy tendencies.
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And it's one of the reasons why I'm not lazy at all.
02:00:32.000
I like, if I work, especially if I do a show, the show goes well, everything's great, I listen to set on the way home, I know the new bits I'm working on, I don't have a responsibility as far as writing, and I don't like to write too late at night.
02:00:45.000
Yeah, I write late at night, but only if I am home.
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I don't go out and then come back and write, because I feel like I'm tired.
02:00:53.000
Sit in front of TV. I'll download TV. I just won't have cable so I can have it all the time.
02:01:00.000
Yeah, you could get everything now on Apple TV, Hulu, Netflix.
02:01:03.000
Yeah, but then when it's done, you don't automatically, like, oh, this next show's started.
02:01:11.000
The good rule of thumb is you can get anything that's ever been made.
02:01:17.000
So you don't need a TV anymore that's hooked up to cable.
02:01:22.000
The only bad thing that you'll run into is live local TV, which you can now find.
02:01:35.000
Today in Pasadena, a young man came home to find another man sleeping in his bed.
02:01:52.000
Now with Chromecast, though, and Apple TV, you can just stream from your phone, like NBC.com, so you can watch the local news streamed to your Apple TV anyway, so it doesn't even matter.
02:02:04.000
Is there any bigger dinosaur in our culture than the local news show?
02:02:08.000
Is there any bigger dinosaur than the 5 o'clock news?
02:02:24.000
You've got to bounce around to five different things.
02:02:26.000
You know what somebody pointed out that was so scary about the government?
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You know how Bush was like, I can't let you show the caskets coming back?
02:02:33.000
And then Obama's like, okay, guys, we're going to stop that.
02:02:46.000
What do you think about all the shit that's going on in Iraq?
02:02:59.000
I know it's not our fights, but what a disaster.
02:03:22.000
So they had this thing they were going to do in China.
02:03:23.000
They were going to put chips in one of the computers so that you couldn't go on VPNs.
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So you couldn't go on the stuff they didn't allow.
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And the government was like, alright, alright, alright, we won't do it.
02:03:41.000
Whereas here, that's just something we were going to do and not tell anyone.
02:03:58.000
So when you talk about, like, ultimate freedoms, it's like, eh, I don't know.
02:04:05.000
I just found this out by PDC. You know, you remember PD. If you go into your security on your...
02:04:18.000
Then you go all the way down to system services.
02:04:26.000
Then it'll just say, like, it'll show your history.
02:04:29.000
And let's just say, we'll click on Los Angeles, nine locations recorded, and it's just showing locations that I've been in the last nine days, the exact address I've been in.
02:04:43.000
No, locations that I've hung out at, like I went to.
02:04:47.000
Is it places where you stopped and made a call?
02:04:49.000
No, where I stopped and it just shows that I wasn't driving anymore, like I hung out.
02:04:56.000
It's like the exact map, the exact addresses of places I've been.
02:05:03.000
I'm just finding out about it on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
02:05:08.000
And now what Apple is saying that you use it for is that it will automatically become smart.
02:05:21.000
And that's why if you use different things like Google Home versus your trip to...
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It's just to improve maps and And things like that.
02:05:39.000
Unless the government gets a hold of it and finds out the warehouse where you're storing the drugs.
02:05:48.000
Well, if you're going to the drug house, don't bring your phone.
02:05:58.000
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I can't imagine someone would actually want to do that.
02:08:04.000
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02:08:35.000
I loved the setup that it was in Cheetahs, which is like a dingy strip club in LA. Yeah, you get this vibe just going into it.
02:08:42.000
We're doing it again this year, actually, in Montreal.
02:08:46.000
So you walk up the stairs, you just feel like darker.
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And then no matter what's said, it's like, go for it.
02:08:54.000
You're not allowed to say tranny anymore, by the way.
02:09:08.000
In the future, it'll be one of those things where it's like, you know, like Tom Sawyer, they don't say...
02:09:16.000
The word nigger, they took it out of Tom Sawyer.
02:09:20.000
That's the problem with people going, well, that's certainly certain lines.
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That you shouldn't, people shouldn't listen to it.
02:09:27.000
Otherwise, you're like the exact same people that took out, that edited Huck Finn.
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And said, no, you can't have that book in there.
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I'm not saying you can't write what you write, but I'm allowed to go to the school board and try to get them to take it out of the libraries.
02:09:39.000
That's what you're doing when you contact the network and say, we want this band.
02:09:42.000
Yeah, you have to reflect the time in an accurate way because it's not about...
02:09:47.000
You're pretending that people haven't evolved socially since the 1920s or whenever the fuck they made...
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That's part of being a human being is understanding that there's a constant series of...
02:10:04.000
We're seeing it in front of our own fucking eyes because of the internet.
02:10:08.000
We're seeing people get super sensitive about shit they shouldn't get so sensitive about.
02:10:12.000
Other folks embrace it just because they want to be in and out of a fight and pick a side and look for the fat acceptance movement.
02:10:31.000
That's one of those where you're like, well, stop it.
02:10:48.000
Just like a sex addiction or a gambling addiction, it's a food addiction.
02:10:52.000
I don't care what anybody says about- It fringes in the eyes of others.
02:10:58.000
But what anybody says about the causes of it, for sure, some people have a faster metabolism.
02:11:06.000
For sure, some people can get away with eating anything.
02:11:08.000
We all know dudes who can just eat anything and they never get fat.
02:11:12.000
But we also know that if they staple your stomach, what are they doing?
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If you start taking less, you'll need less to fill up.
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But the idea is that if you could just get it off and keep it off.
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I mean, I guess there is such a thing as an addiction, but I think it's way more people just going like, well, I'm in that group.
02:11:56.000
You just stop going to the diner at 345. It's also they get addicted to having certain types of foods in their body, like sugars.
02:12:07.000
If I have enough days in a row of lots of candy, which is every day, and then if I go a day without it by 6pm, I start getting low blood sugar.
02:12:36.000
You get some caffeine from the tea, but they say that herbal tea is like drinking a very mild vegetable soup.
02:12:44.000
There's some certain type of vegetable nutrients that you can get.
02:12:55.000
Really, the caffeine stays in the leaf, so it's not really coming off it into your stuff.
02:13:04.000
Once I started losing my voice, I just did a little research.
02:13:13.000
I've never heard caffeine makes you lose your voice.
02:13:17.000
They said smoking, but I'm like, look, I'll make do where I can.
02:13:26.000
He said he pretty much ran that show, top to bottom.
02:13:35.000
But Dave Foley was what I would call a secret producer, an uncredited producer.
02:13:41.000
Well, he was just really good at creating sketches because of Kids in the Hall.
02:13:51.000
And so Dave would see a scene, and the reason why he was able to do that was that Paul...
02:14:16.000
But Dave, you know, he just had a great sense of it.
02:14:20.000
And it was just a really open sort of an environment where they allowed, like Andy Dick, you know, they allowed him to be him.
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He would have these moments, and he would add a bunch of things to the moment to make them more ridiculous and preposterous.
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I could see how she would make something really funny.
02:14:48.000
She might suggest something to me, and she would see your character from an outside point of view.
02:15:11.000
But he essentially would just take the lines and go into his character and then, you know, like, create that Jimmy James character.
02:15:17.000
I was talking about the other day how great he was in, like, Office Space.
02:15:40.000
If he really had a lot of money laying around, he might do it.
02:15:47.000
That's how I describe Stephen Root when it comes to being an actor.
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Plus, you couldn't say anything bad about the guy as a person.
02:16:00.000
But the most impressive actor was Maura Tierney.
02:16:04.000
Because I didn't even know she was acting sometimes.
02:16:07.000
Like, sometimes we'd fuck off in the middle of scenes.
02:16:10.000
And she'd get back into the scene, and she was so good.
02:16:13.000
Like, you couldn't tell that she was acting sometimes, if that makes any sense.
02:16:22.000
I took a couple lessons, some private lessons that Disney made me take with this really crazy lady who was trying to get me to leverage her to be my mom in a sitcom.
02:16:45.000
They hired her to do it, but she was really weird with me.
02:16:51.000
She's like, I'm worried you're going to go over there and you're going to fail.
02:16:57.000
You know, because people played head games with me all throughout my childhood in fights.
02:17:04.000
People would say weird head game shit to you when you were weighing in.
02:17:06.000
Like, what's it going to be like when I knock you out?
02:17:08.000
Oh, that's not going to happen, so don't worry about it.
02:17:13.000
And I'm going to kick you in your fucking face.
02:17:16.000
So when you knew that you were going to have a fucking kickboxing match and then you're talking shit to somebody at the weigh-ins, the difference between that and some lady who's an acting coach trying to tell me that she thinks I'm going to go over there, I'm worried you're going to go over there and you're going to fail.
02:17:30.000
I'm like, well, you don't need to worry about that.
02:17:33.000
This is some gross, passive-aggressive, like, why are you worried that I'm going to fail?
02:17:42.000
You don't ever say, I'm worried you're going to go over there and fail.
02:17:51.000
When you're acting sitcom style, you pretend that it's really happening.
02:17:58.000
I was never watching you on news radio going, Jesus, man, fucking do the line again.
02:18:04.000
But it was also good writing is the most important thing because news radio had- It's hard when it's really shitty writing.
02:18:13.000
It was like the best written shows, by far, the best written thing that I was ever a part of.
02:18:22.000
Yeah, the baseball show was diggity-diggity dog shit!
02:18:29.000
When you do a show like NewsRadio, it's easy to be good.
02:18:34.000
They let you say, like, I'm going to change these lines a little bit.
02:18:44.000
Not just in the fact that he's a really good writer, but he also recognized that if you let someone...
02:19:06.000
He's been on the podcast before talking about the problems that he's had in divorce and alimony and child support and stuff like that.
02:19:13.000
He's one of those guys that, when I think about the fact that he might have been derailed in a lot of ways because of this horrible relationship that he...
02:19:42.000
You get used to seeing all these people interact with other people of their ilk, and that's where I developed my no headshots policy.
02:19:52.000
Seeing actors interacting with other actors, and they're both crazy, and they're both trying to work it out.
02:19:59.000
Too much chaos there with famous people trying to hang out with other wanting-to-be-famous people or other famous people.
02:20:07.000
There's also the weird dynamic if only one of you is successful.
02:20:14.000
I've had friends that were successful, but they dated unsuccessful actresses, and the unsuccessful actresses would always try to get them to mention them to a casting director.
02:20:25.000
Because that movie, he's casting that movie, and I am fucking perfect for that part.
02:20:28.000
He doesn't know that I'm perfect for that part, but you have to tell him.
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Or the other way, it's even crazier when it's a chick and the chick's making mad money and on TV in front of the camera.
02:20:39.000
And then she's like, do something with your life.
02:20:41.000
It's that Weasley dude that's behind her sweaty, holding her hands.
02:20:50.000
It's kind of a romantic comedy involving my wife and another man.
02:21:18.000
People, like, the yin and the yang of relationships.
02:21:21.000
I've seen so many, like, cool relationships that at some point became...
02:21:27.000
No, they just, the girl turns and they go, what are you doing?
02:21:40.000
Well, it's also you hanging around with comics.
02:21:41.000
Yeah, and it's like, yeah, I'm gonna struggle for a while.
02:21:44.000
Well, there's a lot of comics that they get married and the girl wants to have a baby, and she worries, how are you going to be able to feed the baby?
02:21:51.000
Why'd you get involved with a fucking broke comic?
02:21:55.000
Okay, Ari, you can't help who you fall in love with.
02:21:59.000
You can't help who you fall in love with, and I fell in love with you, okay?
02:22:09.000
Well, what I fell in love with you was your love for abortion, and now things are changing.
02:22:19.000
Yeah, if you talk to someone and you're dating them and you know this is never going anywhere, and they're like thoroughly opposed to abortion, you're like, eeks.
02:22:31.000
Because unfortunately, Patrice had a fucking great joke about that.
02:22:36.000
Patrice had a great joke about people getting mad that you don't want to have the same kind of relationship they have.
02:22:48.000
And, you know, you want to be the president of General Motors.
02:22:51.000
Well, the president of General Motors, that job's not available.
02:22:54.000
But the job is available that I come over to your house at 2 o'clock in the morning, drink your last Snapple, and you suck my dick.
02:23:07.000
Like, don't, like, if that's the kind of relationship.
02:23:13.000
He goes, that's the kind of relationship we have.
02:23:16.000
You know, you can't get mad at me that I don't want to make it something different.
02:23:22.000
I call this girl in some city that I'd hooked up with here or there.
02:23:24.000
I met her in Bray at one of your shows, actually.
02:23:36.000
And she was like, actually, I got a boyfriend now.
02:23:43.000
I mean, honestly, our relationship is only ever like that one thing.
02:23:50.000
So you offered to just hang out and be like a nice guy?
02:23:58.000
So you felt like if you got close to her and you were hanging out together, sex would probably happen.
02:24:05.000
I was like, hey, there's some new movie out this week.
02:24:08.000
And then, yeah, you don't have to say, obviously.
02:24:24.000
That was the hold music they played when Homer lost his child and couldn't find Bart.
02:24:28.000
So it was like missing persons and they start playing that for the hold music.
02:24:40.000
And one of them was one of the pieces of advice, never go back with an ex.
02:24:50.000
Because how many times have you gotten back with an ex and had the best sex in the history of the fucking universe?
02:24:57.000
We don't see each other for a long fucking time.
02:24:59.000
It should just be like, be careful with your heart with an ex.
02:25:14.000
I'll get rain on you, you bitch, and you'll turn back into Clayface.
02:25:30.000
Yeah, so what were you about to say when I'm so rudely interrupted?
02:25:48.000
I would love to see you like swaying back and forth in front of a microphone.
02:26:13.000
Some of the lyrics will be real quiet-y, like...
02:26:29.000
If you hang out with an ex, you're definitely fucking.
02:26:51.000
And then, about five hours into it, they said something that reminds you of how fucking annoying they were.
02:26:59.000
Jill Sobily used to have a song about, if you want to prove my lack of heterosexuality, listen to Jill Sobily.
02:27:08.000
But she used to have a song about forgetting a guy's smile.
02:27:11.000
And they're like, oh yeah, that's such a great smile.
02:27:14.000
And I was like, oh yeah, you tried to fuck all my friends.
02:27:21.000
It's very difficult, if a girl has a nice ass, to remember all the mean things.
02:27:25.000
A girl has a great ass, and she's DTF. You're hanging out.
02:27:39.000
Little kissy, kissy, kissing your dick is like a goddamn crowbar.
02:27:49.000
Sometimes you get a girl that can just talk to you.
02:27:54.000
And I'm sure there's certain guys that are sexier, too.
02:27:58.000
There's a lot of shit you and I both do that it's really fucking annoying and is a real vagina dryer.
02:28:08.000
For every girl that thinks what you do is hot...
02:28:12.000
First time I opened for you, I saw a girl, hot, walking across the whole, like, Faneuil Hall.
02:28:19.000
She's crossing from the bathrooms back there all the way.
02:28:45.000
Speaking of enlightened, Shroomfest is here August 9th, 10th, and 11th.
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It pretty much answers every question you've ever had about mushrooms.
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If you just Google Ari Shaffir Shroomfest Primer.
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Are you worried about advertising shroom press that you might be targeted by the feds?
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Sometimes if I don't see any reason for these rules at all, I'm like, nah, we're not going to act on that.
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The fact that you go to CVS and buy a gallon of whiskey and drink yourself to death in the parking lot.
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People under 23. And even if they do it, whatever.
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I had some cool friends in high school that did it that always scared me.
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If we're going to allow people to drink at 21, how can you not allow them to take mushrooms too?
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If you have community centers where you could give these kids a dose that you know is super safe...
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I'm not saying the kids should do mushrooms, don't get me wrong.
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I'm not saying they should do mushrooms, but if a 16-year-old wanted to do mushrooms...
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And they just got them on their own and took them.
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There was always kids that did mushrooms and fucking listened to the wall.
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In Hastings, in the fucking heroin area, they have safe shoot-up places.
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So if you overdose, they can whatever, help you.
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You should be able to talk to your guidance counselor in high school about it.
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We're going to talk to you about how psilocybin affects the brain.
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John Hopkins University showed that people who took...
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Certain drugs that were not just legal but respected.
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Like, that's the real problem with things like psychedelic drugs.
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They can get the rights to, and Strassman did all those studies on DMT, and then new ones on DMT. They got new ones going on right now.
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Somebody gave me some in Winnipeg, but he freaked me out.
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And then he goes, but if you don't do it, don't give it to anyone.
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He's got your phone's location addresses hooked up to his laptop, and he's phoning you around in a fucking bulletproof van.
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I found some people that were podcast listeners.
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And he said something because I made a joke about mushrooms.
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And he's like, oh yeah, you know, I get him out here.
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And I was like, where do you get them out here?
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McKenna talked about all the different varieties that look like psilocybin mushrooms but are super toxic.
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That seems like a get-out warning from the plant.
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You know what the other problem with that Amanita muscaria one is?
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Never talked to a single person who had a real trip with them.
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Yeah, and they think that the mushrooms that you're getting now, when you get an Amanita muscaria, for folks who don't know what the fuck we're talking about, Google Amanita muscaria mushroom and religion.
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Google religion, because it's connected to a lot of religions.
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It's fascinating, but we've talked about it too much on the podcast to go on.
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But I've never heard a single person who's done it who got off on it, who had a real psychedelic experience.
02:34:27.000
Jan cooked it up and we drank this tea, but McKenna was saying that those mushrooms may be different genetically and seasonally and also in the area.
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If you get cherries out of season, then it's sweet.
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And apparently you got to catch them in the right area.
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You got to get them from the right branch of this mushroom tree that's grown or whatever it is.
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But the ones that we're getting today are just bullshit.
02:35:02.000
But apparently in some parts of the world, some people know how to do it right.
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They're probably the ones who cultivate them on purpose since they're letting them grow.
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Like psilocybin mushrooms get you off no matter where the fuck you are.
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No matter who takes them, psilocybin mushrooms produce psilocybin.
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There's a bunch of different types of these, similars.
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But all of them that have psilocybin knock you into fucking Jupiter.
02:35:26.000
That doesn't work that way with the Amanita Muscaria.
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So a lot of people are confused about the original use of the Amanita Muscaria.
02:35:31.000
There's all this speculation about it being attached to Christianity and all these ancient religions.
02:35:38.000
If you look at all these old cards and things from the 1800s, Santa Claus on Christmas cards.
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They all had the Amanita muscari attached to it.
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That mushroom was like a big part of Christian folklore and culture.
02:35:54.000
So they just thought, like, I'll put this weird-looking mushroom in?
02:35:57.000
It was mainstream for a small period of time in the 1970s.
02:36:01.000
But the Catholic Church bought off the rights to the John Marco Allegro books.
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This John Marco Allegro guy wrote a book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
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And the reason why it was significant is he was one of the scholars that was...
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That said that's what helped start Christianity?
02:36:31.000
It connected the mushrooms to Jesus and a bunch of other shit.
02:36:34.000
They bought up the rights to it, but they didn't buy up the rights to the other one, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth, which is even more inflammatory in its title.
02:36:41.000
Sort of like to go, hey, you can't silence me, dickheads.
02:36:43.000
I'll just write another one, and I'll write it with another company.
02:36:47.000
The Sacred Mushroom of the Cross, you have to buy, you have to get it.
02:36:53.000
You can probably almost automatically illegally download it.
02:36:57.000
Yeah, he started publishing it again a few years ago.
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Before that, I have a couple copies of it, but they're all really old.
02:37:05.000
And Christianity doesn't want people knowing of that.
02:37:10.000
It was at Simpsons where Homer had a crayon up his nose and it went through his brain and made him super smart.
02:37:14.000
And he came up with a proof that there's no such thing as God.
02:37:18.000
And he gave it to his next door neighbor, Smithers.
02:37:37.000
It's like, well, we can't let there be a proof for no God.
02:37:40.000
Yeah, I don't know what the fuck they would do.
02:37:45.000
Like, what if they found incontrovertible evidence?
02:37:48.000
If the Catholic Church found incontrovertible evidence that Christianity was designed by aliens to keep people in line until they landed?
02:38:00.000
Yeah, what if they found, like, one of those, like, Obi-Wan, help me, Obi-Wan, you're my only hope.
02:38:07.000
Hulligan shows up and explains how humans were created.
02:38:21.000
I think they keep going because for the same reason Philip Morris kept going when they found out.
02:38:26.000
They're like, well, we got a good business going now.
02:38:53.000
Ari, for folks who don't know, has such an interesting take on religion and religious, fundamentalist religion ideas, because he lived in a crazy religious community in, not a kibbutz,
02:39:12.000
And studied the Talmud for like 12 hours a day, every day, and had all these super specific rules.
02:39:18.000
And then went from there to become, within a couple years, he was a dirty comedian, which is amazing.
02:39:26.000
Like not only was he just a dirty comic, but he was doing like, you know, like that.
02:39:30.000
Those videos that he was doing that was very, you know, jokingly racist and stuff.
02:39:35.000
He went from, like, the opposite end immediately.
02:39:38.000
Well, he went very inflammatory, shock humor, stuff that he thinks is funny.
02:39:45.000
You're, like, one of the only dudes that I know that went from being, like, in a very strict religious upbringing, like, about as strict as you can get, to becoming an open-minded, dirty comedian who starts a mushroom festival.
02:40:02.000
There were a few others that were religious that got out.
02:40:20.000
He was real deep in the brother so-and-so, brother Joe, brother Brian.
02:40:30.000
There's no justification in the Bible for killing someone at war.
02:40:38.000
Just because America's attacking Iraq, you're not allowed to go in and kill an Iraqi.
02:40:49.000
Baking up in kosher, then it always comes back to something.
02:41:05.000
Could you imagine if you're dealing with a religion that the people that all practice that religion are clearly elevated?
02:41:12.000
They're clearly in some incredible place where they never lie, and they're only altruistic in their motives, and they're super kind, they're super honest, and they live universally.
02:41:26.000
Universally by this intense moral code and this...
02:41:32.000
Projecting of love and understanding everywhere.
02:41:33.000
So much so that you felt it when you were near them.
02:41:36.000
Like, wow, that guy's clearly a Catholic priest.
02:41:40.000
If it was a thing where these people would never lie, they would never cover up child rape, then you might listen to them.
02:41:47.000
Then you might say, okay, well maybe these guys really did find the Word of God.
02:41:52.000
And if the word of God made a lot of sense, if it doesn't make sense to people, well, you know, God works in mysterious ways.
02:41:58.000
Or retards wrote a book, and you're asking me to follow a book that retards wrote.
02:42:02.000
They used to sell, if you donated enough, they would sell you these tickets.
02:42:06.000
I forget what they're called, but these tickets into heaven.
02:42:09.000
And that, I mean, the priests, the popes, they would do that.
02:42:12.000
That's not even close to the worst thing they've done.
02:42:19.000
The last pope, the last guy, is really, he's guilty of crimes against humans, crimes against nature.
02:42:27.000
He was one of the guys that diverted priest pedophiles.
02:42:35.000
That means the head of your organization is going to do that, and you're still going to be in that organization?
02:42:44.000
So the priest was directly responsible for moving a guy who raped like a hundred deaf kids.
02:42:52.000
The official numbers, like, speculation between 30 and 100. I mean, this has been going on for 1,500 years.
02:42:59.000
Probably since the beginning of the times where they made them be celibate.
02:43:07.000
It's probably when they started covering it up.
02:43:11.000
I mean, it's amazing that you have one religion.
02:43:14.000
And this is a religion that I come from, by the way.
02:43:20.000
I think of Catholicism as its own religion, but I guess you're right.
02:43:24.000
But Catholics don't think of themselves as Christians.
02:43:26.000
You talk to a Catholic, it's very rare that a Catholic considers themselves a Christian.
02:43:31.000
Yeah, and Egyptians don't consider themselves Arab.
02:43:45.000
But Catholics, the one religion that's explicitly connected to raping children.
02:43:53.000
Look, there's people in all sects of life that do terrible things.
02:44:10.000
It should be the responsibility as a Catholic Church.
02:44:12.000
Not even cover it up and make sure it never happens again.
02:44:16.000
This guy should go to jail as a warning to other priests.
02:44:19.000
He was accused of crimes against humanity by victims of sex abuse.
02:44:23.000
Victims' complaints to the International Criminal Court accuses Pope Benedict and three others of failing to prevent abusers.
02:45:05.000
Remember those people in China that the baby powder formula?
02:45:08.000
Baby formula powder that like 20 kids died from this baby powder?
02:45:14.000
And they found out what the CEOs of that company were doing was putting this enzyme in that would make it test higher for purities.
02:45:20.000
But this enzyme, they just added on their own It also had toxins in it and it killed 20 people.
02:45:26.000
The Chinese government said, we're going to kill you all now.
02:45:28.000
How about what happened with GM? With these fucking cars?
02:45:33.000
Sam Tripoli was on the podcast and he was talking about it in sort of vague terms.
02:45:48.000
And they're willing to risk someone else's life over a dollar a car.
02:45:52.000
So it would save them a dollar per car to let this happen.
02:45:57.000
It's like you think you're better than that, but it's like organizations, when they go unchecked, they'll just become that.
02:46:29.000
Uber, to me, is a perfect example of why the free market exists.
02:46:37.000
They fucking yell at you and demand that you pay fucking cash instead of credit card, even though that's not the rules.
02:46:48.000
Those guys have downtime in between gigs sometimes.
02:47:07.000
If you've signed up, whenever you're ready, go ready to work.
02:47:17.000
I know they're not paying their driver's insurance.
02:47:22.000
I think they've gone through some checks, but I don't think they're that crazy checks.
02:47:26.000
I had talked about how I thought that somebody was going to get murdered and kidnapped.
02:47:35.000
If you get bad ratings, if you drive all over, people won't take you.
02:47:39.000
Yeah, I got a guy in New York who asked me to give him a rating.
02:47:44.000
Yeah, but if you murder and kill somebody, you just take their phone and give yourself five stars.
02:47:54.000
Someone's going to fight for their life on a password-protected phone.
02:48:03.000
No, they would know in the system they came to pick you up.
02:48:12.000
They don't really start the phone up that good.
02:48:18.000
Moto X. No, not the Moto X. What's the other one?
02:48:35.000
Too much time spent checking social media and emails.
02:48:43.000
Occasionally I got on Twitter to send out messages.
02:48:57.000
Because I was just amazed that this deer was so used to being around people.
02:49:00.000
But other than that, I didn't really go online.
02:49:19.000
Because it's good to be able to get information quickly.
02:49:25.000
Yeah, and if I don't, then it's like, I don't know if, you know, I'll tell other people, look it up on your phone.
02:49:30.000
Do you think technology in doing that, like if you look at that trend, the trend of being constantly connected to your phone, being afraid to leave your phone behind, do you think that technology, if you sort of extrapolate, like where is that going, that didn't exist before?
02:49:42.000
Do you think that technology is drawing us in to become completely committed to machines?
02:49:50.000
Dude, Duncan just got back from this virtual reality conference, and he fucking called me up, tripping out.
02:50:04.000
I was in front of the improv, and we're talking on the phone.
02:50:06.000
He goes, dude, you're not gonna fucking believe this, man.
02:50:09.000
He goes, this is bigger than the invention of the camera.
02:50:12.000
This is bigger than the invention of the internet.
02:50:15.000
He goes, you go into a room, and there's a man in the room playing piano.
02:50:20.000
You put them on and he goes, and it's almost indistinguishable.
02:50:26.000
He goes, it's HD and it's a film and it's playing out in front of you in three dimensions.
02:50:30.000
The way they make this film is they put cameras all over a person's body and then they film as this guy's walking around.
02:50:37.000
So as you move this headset that you're wearing, it picks up all the appropriate angles from all the different cameras and it's seamless.
02:50:45.000
He said the first one, if you got that Oculus Rift, the first one, Yeah, I played that at his place.
02:50:59.000
But like a new prescription on my glasses that you get nauseous for like half a day.
02:51:19.000
I've gotten like where I've rolled down the window, I'm like, I'm not going to make it.
02:51:23.000
Well, I'm like, I am gonna fucking, I can't swallow quick enough.
02:51:28.000
Because you don't know where the turns are coming, so it's like, it goes against where you know where it's going.
02:51:33.000
It's just, it does not even, it has to be curvy.
02:51:36.000
If I'm reading in a car, if I try to read a book or a newspaper in a car, I get sick.
02:51:45.000
I got sick flying in an FAA-18 when I flew with the Blue Angels.
02:51:58.000
I didn't ever hear it like that, and then I heard it in books that way.
02:52:11.000
Like if a girl's got the hots for you, hey Ari, she's got her eye on you.
02:52:15.000
But what is that fucking, some ancient fucking medieval shit?
02:52:22.000
Back when people talked really weird, you know?
02:52:25.000
I think that the only thing that's lacking in cell phones and stuff is the, it hasn't gotten caught up by the etiquette yet.
02:52:32.000
So people are now starting to be like, hey, it's dinner.
02:52:36.000
And people are also starting to really get into retro shit.
02:52:46.000
We're going to turn into a pumpkin in three minutes.
02:52:53.000
They also have street meat, which is delicious.
02:52:55.000
There's expose, which I did not eat any street noodles.
02:52:57.000
This is the way they got their oil to cook the noodles.
02:53:01.000
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02:54:06.000
So going in line with what we're talking about.
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We'll find out about Oculus Rifts and all kinds of other shit!
02:54:11.000
Oh shit, we got a show tomorrow night at the Ice House.
02:54:17.000
And then there's another show that we're doing in the little room.
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And maybe we'll get people back and forth from over there too if they want to do extra sets.
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