In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down with Byron Bowers to talk about his experiences traveling around the world and dealing with the TSA. Byron talks about his trip to the Dominican Republic and how he dealt with some of the crazier things the TSA did to him while he was there. He also talks about what it's like to be a black man in a foreign country and how the police treat black people and how they treat other black people. We also talk about how dangerous it is to bring cologne on a plane and how much cologne you should be allowed to carry in your carry-on bag and how to deal with the crazy TSA policies that exist in third world countries. Enjoy the episode and spread the word to your friends about this podcast! Stay tuned for more episodes coming soon! xoxo and stay safe out there, friends. XOXO, EJ & Byron Xoxo, Ej and EJ Thank you EJ and Byron for coming out here to talk to me and talking to me! Ej & Byron, we hope you enjoy this episode. EJ is a great friend of mine and I appreciate you guys for coming along with me on my travels. XO & Byron. . . . Ej is a good friend. Byron is a dope dude. , Ej I hope you all have a great rest of the week! XO. - EJ Ej, Eyo . EK -EJ & EJEJ -BONUS ( ) :) EJ, EK ( ) EJ ( ) . (EJXO ( ) ( ) & Ej ( ( ) ( ). (I hope you like this episode is a little bit more than EJ has a nice day! (HAPPY MONDAY! ) :P (THAT'S DADDY CHOO CHOOCHOOT CHOOTCHO CHO CHOOO) (SORCH) ,EJ ( ) (EOD ( ) -EODY ( ) and EODY CHOODO ( ), EJ'S ( ) AND EODIO ( ) ,EODIO (?) (COUCH) ( ) ?
00:01:08.000If the United States wasn't established just a few hundred years ago, if that didn't happen, what would the world be like?
00:01:16.000Would most of the world be like a lot of these countries that you visit where you deal with insane police corruption?
00:01:25.000I've had friends that have been pulled over in Mexico, and the cops basically just straight up tell you, like, do you want to get out of this?
00:02:39.000So what I did, I unloaded all my bags and started rearranging things so I could put it, so I could check it, and you can make it back to America.
00:02:48.000But once they saw me doing that, and they saw how neat I was, and every time they touched something, I had to put it back a certain way.
00:02:55.000They was like, this is just going to be a waste of time for even us.
00:02:58.000Yeah, but don't they have rules like we have rules as far as how many ounces of liquid and stuff like that you can take on a plane?
00:04:07.000So what were you doing down in the Dominican Republic?
00:04:09.000I met up with some friends of mine from college, some African homeboys, and I really hopped in on their trip because they visit the DR a lot, and I wanted to see what it was like.
00:04:37.000Some of the reefs wasn't as, you know, not like when I was in Jamaica or when, like in Hawaii, where everything just comes alive and it looks like a city.
00:05:22.000That was the most beautiful thing I saw from this trip was just, like, 40 baby squid all lined up in a row that looked like they'd just been born, you know?
00:05:59.000And you put it on, and you actually feel like you're underwater.
00:06:06.000They have this program, I think it's called Deep Blue or something like this, something blue.
00:06:11.000But you put it on, and one of the reality programs that you put on is an ocean one.
00:06:17.000And you're standing at the bottom of this, like...
00:06:20.000Ocean area and these fish swim by and It's it's not a hundred percent realistic because the graphics aren't totally there yet.
00:06:29.000Yeah, but it's like 85 percent realistic That's amazing a whale pulls up to you and you get to look at the whale like you look in its eyes But like I don't know if you ever used any kind of virtual reality I'm pretty new to it, too.
00:08:41.000That's the wrinkle thing, is the elasticity of your skin gives out.
00:08:45.000Your body stops producing collagen correctly.
00:08:48.000But you can mitigate some of that with, like, moisture, and, you know, like, some people use creams and shit like that, but at the end of the day, time wins.
00:09:28.000No, but once I got into it, my mom, like I was raised by my mom, like our sense of smell is just so strong, you know, so it was always fragrance around.
00:09:37.000And to me, that's the first, like, that can alter your mindset or your mode, like when you smell something good.
00:10:54.000Just like, you know, like when you feel the energy of a lady or, you know, whatever you attracted to or the sound of a motor when it goes by, you know what I mean?
00:12:29.000I kind of know there's some, ah, you gotta have camshafts, and you gotta have some cylinders, and there's spark plugs, and ignite some shit, and there's some fire explosions going off.
00:14:36.000Like, if you go to, like, the really older Porsches, like the old 911s, like the long hood models, I think it was like 65 or 64, I think it was, to 73. Those models, they're really light.
00:14:49.000Like, that's a 2,000-pound car a lot of times.
00:14:52.000So you feel everything when you're bumping around those things.
00:16:23.000You don't drink it, but you're having to be working on a leak or changing something and it drips and it gets in your mouth and you're like, oh, I get it.
00:17:34.000And I know that because I know coding and I studied engineering to my senior year, and I had to snatch a faulty remote start system out of the beamer when I got it.
00:17:47.000So I had to go under the dash and rewire everything.
00:19:05.000Well, they definitely have, like, whenever you're dealing with electronics, you have to have the power in the ground, and then there's a bunch of other stuff that goes on.
00:19:12.000I installed some stereos when I was younger, you know, but they were easy back then.
00:19:19.000You could get to everything pretty easily.
00:19:21.000You could open up the dash pretty easily, pull out the existing stereo, and you just have to figure out where the power is and where the wires connect.
00:20:09.000Well, it's amazing how well these cars work when you really think about it, because, like, I have a Lexus, and I have a key that is actually in my wallet.
00:20:44.000It is cool, but it's just, when you think about how many different things fail in terms of, like, electronics, you know, like, how many different people's iPhones start fucking up, most cars, especially when it comes to, like, your car, German engineering or Japanese engineering,
00:21:02.000something like that, they're so fucking reliable.
00:21:05.000I mean, the amount of times that they actually do fuck up is, people complain about it, but it's pretty small in comparison.
00:21:25.000So now you notice where everything is about the features and less about, you know, and it's a cycle of cars having more power and cars saving gas and cars having more power.
00:21:36.000That's just a pattern that's just going to happen.
00:27:12.000So we filmed, and I took traction control off, and it was four of us in that little car, and we just slid around a corner, and those guys were scared, you know?
00:32:05.000The racism inside the black community between light-skinned and dark-skinned people.
00:32:10.000Well, it is until you go to, like, Brazil and you see...
00:32:14.000Or they're all Brazilian and see the racism amongst Brazilians.
00:32:19.000Or, you know, I start hanging out with other cultures and start seeing the separation within other cultures and seeing what I call a pattern of just human behavior.
00:32:32.000Well, there's definitely a pattern in human behavior, trying to find groups that they belong to and then alienating and isolating themselves from the other groups.
00:32:40.000Yeah, that's an unfortunate thing that people do.
00:32:44.000The feminist thing to me is separating man from woman.
00:32:49.000And then you got the gays and then you got what's going on between the black people and the cops.
00:35:45.000And then there's feminism that totally makes sense to me.
00:35:49.000I think there's a lot of women that they get treated unfairly.
00:35:54.000They work with assholes who just want to fuck them or want to treat them like shit because they're a woman or they have power over them and they know they can pull some stuff on them that they can't pull on men.
00:36:25.000In some ways, the idea of feminism is to recognize those women for what they are, just awesome human beings, and to sort of shield them and protect them against a lot of sexism, a lot of misogyny, a lot of shit that gets directed in their direction.
00:36:55.000I think there's just ignorance, just foolish people.
00:36:58.000And I think in a lot of ways, it's not even the people's fault.
00:37:02.000A lot of what we are is a measurement of who our parents were.
00:37:07.000Who their parents were, the neighborhoods that we lived in, the people that we were exposed to, and the think process, the thought process that surrounds these areas is super difficult to escape.
00:37:19.000You know, it's just really hard for people to think outside of the box.
00:37:23.000It's easier now because you might live in a bad neighborhood with a bunch of silly people that don't think very well, but you have access to the internet now.
00:37:31.000So now you can start to take in other ideas and consider those ideas.
00:37:34.000Maybe these fucking people around me are assholes.
00:37:37.000Well, the problem with the internet is, and I got friends and family that don't have the thought of going to the internet.
00:39:12.000So you feel like you can't relate sometimes when you're talking to them?
00:39:15.000Well, in a sense, but the things you find interesting, they might not find interesting.
00:39:23.000And there's always a thing in the black community when they was like, how desegregation ruined the black community because it took the doctors and lawyers out of the community.
00:39:32.000But, them niggas don't want to hang around them niggas.
00:39:35.000Them doctors ain't trying to sit around motherfuckers that drink alcohol all day.
00:39:58.000But that's the journey that I'm on and then I try to go back and explain those things.
00:40:06.000There's amazing aspects to all sorts of different ethnicities, different parts of the world, different groups of humans.
00:40:14.000There's like amazing aspects of their culture that they have that it's gonna be weird if all that stuff gets lost.
00:40:22.000But I think ultimately what human beings eventually are gonna have to figure out is the only things that matter are like I mean, it's really like basically straight Martin Luther King,
00:40:38.000Jr. Judge a man by the content of his character or a woman.
00:44:18.000This hyena would come in and just mangle their livestock.
00:44:21.000And they had to get up in the middle of the night and then drive there super early in the morning before the sun came up to observe this hyena because he would only be there for like a few moments in the early, early morning and then he would bolt.
00:45:16.000The malaria ones are supposed to be particularly abrasive on your body.
00:45:20.000I don't want to see my kids walking around poisoned just because I thought it would be cool to go see an elephant in its natural environment.
00:46:18.000But it's weird because you see people holding up the fist and all this other stuff, but we're so far removed.
00:46:24.000I consider us a group of people that, you know, things have happened in our past, so we're afraid of that, but we don't know how our future looks either.
00:46:31.000Well, it seems cool to have this idea that there's Africa and it's like fucking Narnia, or it's like the blue people that lived in the fucking Avatar.
00:47:35.000I think it is insanely cool that this place was populated just a few hundred years ago by people that were essentially living the way people lived tens of thousands of years ago.
00:48:30.000I'm reading one of his books on coyotes, but what he was talking about North America that they almost they had like almost like a myth about About horses like it's possible that at one point in time they had domesticated horses Somewhere in North America like you know tens of thousands of years ago,
00:48:48.000but this is all like pre ice age Ice age hits ice age thaws out like a lot a lot of shit has gone down here But those people, they did not live an avatar existence, is my point.
00:49:01.000Like, Native Americans would go to war with each other.
00:49:29.000It's also the same reason why racism exists.
00:49:32.000People get in this us versus them thing where they want these people, whoever these people are, they want everybody has to be on this team and fuck everybody else.
00:49:42.000Because that's the only way they feel like they can survive.
00:49:46.000But what's interesting to me, I think, is that In this day and age, that old way is just melting in front of our eyes because people understand each other.
00:49:56.000How many white people have Black Lives Movement hashtagged on their fucking Twitter page?
00:51:26.000There's a few, like the one that the guy got shot in his car, reaching for his wallet with his wife and kid in the car.
00:51:35.000Tell me these things don't exist, because everybody was like, ah, that's how they said it went down, but you know the guy probably said something, or he went and reached for something, or maybe he had a record, maybe they knew this guy was a dangerous...
00:52:27.000And what they do is they you're supposed to determine when to shoot or when you when you can get shot when when someone could be a threat when you have to shoot them It was fucking amazing.
00:52:37.000It's amazing to watch because this guy in just a few of these scenarios started freaking out Like he got shot in a couple of them when they shoot you they shoot at the ground in front of you with a blank So he had to realize that this is how quick a cop can get shot by a psycho.
00:52:55.000And so there's different times where he got pulled over, where he pulled someone over, or where he was handling this one guy in a parking lot, and the guy went behind the car real quick and then came out and shot him within a second.
00:53:06.000He's like, sir, can I see some identification, sir?
00:55:33.000It felt weird, but yeah, because I realized, yeah, like, Yeah, it's just weird things that happen, but it's interesting what goes on because I met guys who shot at people before and shot people.
00:55:47.000So if you hear anything about my set, you know I know both sides.
00:57:04.000I mean, when you're in an area that has a lot of shootings, So much so that you drive under a car and you don't even want to call the cops.
00:57:12.000You know, like if you saw something like that in Beverly Hills, if you were an average person who's like a successful accountant, who has a nice home in Beverly Hills, and you're driving to your house and someone shoots over your car, fucking for sure you're calling the police, right?
00:59:09.000But now, the more I think about it, the more I think of, that might be the best way To curb crime, to curb need, to curb people doing things out of total desperation, to curb a certain amount of despair that some people feel.
00:59:25.000And then from there, it might be like a jumpstart for people pursuing other ideas that might successfully contribute to the economy.
00:59:34.000I don't know enough about the economy to really comment.
00:59:37.000I'm just reading a bunch of different things a bunch of people have said about it, and I'm like, wow.
00:59:42.000So it might actually make sense in terms of law enforcement, in terms of unemployment, like all sorts of different things where you would have to factor in where the money would come from.
00:59:54.000It's kind of counterintuitive, but once you look into it, you're like, look, How many of these people that are super desperate and don't have money for bills, there's no jobs, how many of those people would relax a lot if they got X amount of dollars a year?
01:00:09.000Like whatever it is, they would survive.
01:00:11.000I know like with myself, I'm like I'm around people that make money now and they like money is not important, but I'm like you made it to the mountaintop already.
01:01:27.000But in survival mode, and I try to tell people that who try to talk about these issues but never been in the situation before and feel the need to go out and see why people get out and don't look back or they try to help people and people concentrate on other things.
01:02:40.000And two, they can't communicate with people who've been making $100,000 their whole life or grew up in that situation.
01:02:47.000Well, you know, that's a big thing with people that go to war.
01:02:50.000People that have been to war, they, for some reason, even though it was awful and they saw friends die, it was the best time of their life.
01:02:59.000It's like there's something about living knowing that any moment you could be dead that makes the live moments, the moments when you're not dead, more special.
01:03:08.000And then you come back here and everything's sort of muted.
01:03:14.000I think that's why a lot of rich people, they start, if they don't have any meaning in their life, they don't have a thing that they're really into, they just start buying shit.
01:03:22.000They just start collecting houses and boats and they're just trying to figure out there's got to be something exciting to do here.
01:03:30.000Well, once I started making like $30,000 a year doing stand-up, it changed me because I wasn't invited to LA. I slept on the floor for a year.
01:04:00.000A lot of people had the living out of your car.
01:04:02.000Yeah, but to me, that's kind of normal for LA. But I figured, I think I made it, part of me think I made it when I graduated from college, because I was the first to graduate from college.
01:04:11.000And I was like, I gotta unlearn everything I was taught now.
01:04:38.000Then even the military, because I went to Afghanistan for 13 days.
01:04:42.000I think colleges are incredibly important, but I think that like all things When the world around them evolves quicker than they do, it creates issues.
01:04:54.000And I think a lot of what you're seeing...
01:04:56.000I've talked to some kids who go to school that are taking these classes from ridiculous left-wing professors who are basically communists.
01:05:08.000And this left-wing thinking is like super uber prevalent on campus to the point where it's like distorting kids' versions and views of the world.
01:05:52.000They get the degree, they go from getting a degree to teaching, and they teach, and they don't enter the world.
01:05:58.000So they live in this world of these sort of esoteric ideas, these philosophies that they would like to be real, but might not necessarily be real.
01:06:24.000Yeah, but it alienated me from my community.
01:06:28.000We got bused to a school, so everybody in my apartment complex got on a bus and went to school, and then we got separated to where it was like five black people in this class, and when we would go to lunch, we'd have to walk on different sides of the hall, and everybody from my neighbor would just mush me coming through the hall and stuff.
01:08:23.000Yeah, because the thing that the alarm they had, or the alarm, and it's funny because the engineering book school, but it never was hooked up properly.
01:09:36.000Yeah, I remember the the crazy argument about Napster.
01:09:39.000I remember I had to sit back and Go I remember very clearly when that Metallica guy got involved Lars Ulrich got involved and he was you know saying that this is stealing and and he was going crazy and freaking out I remember literally sitting back because I was listening to it on Sirius satellite radio.
01:09:58.000I think it was a time or something I was listening to something on my car.
01:13:36.000It must have some sort of a different effect because people say that the crack thing, like after you do it, it's like really good in the beginning and then it's not so good after a while.
01:15:46.000There's nothing they would normally do.
01:15:48.000You could make somebody do that, you know what I mean?
01:15:52.000So I look at it like if I was, and I could think like a 1% because I got a business, I was educated in business, so they give you a Republican mindset.
01:15:59.000So if I was in control of a society, right, and I had a group of poor people and I controlled the resources, and this happened on the street with drugs too, that's why a drug dealer would get robbed.
01:16:09.000If I control the resources, I can allow it to go out or I can not allow it to go out.
01:17:43.000I remember it was a pharmaceutical company in that town that made a lot of money and I remember standing outside face to face with it and I was like, this is a setup we'll never win.
01:17:51.000This is where all the money is right here in this pharmaceutical company.
01:19:02.000The anger started to come, and then you in the streets hustling, and I don't think I had the mentality.
01:19:07.000It got to one point I knew that if I crossed the line, like if I would have harmed somebody in a very bad way, there's no coming back from that.
01:19:14.000And I don't think I was ready to make that decision.
01:19:16.000But I do know the guy, when I left, he went on to build that part of town and finished.
01:19:23.000It was just two of us at the time, but it became a crew of six, and each made 13-5 a week take home.
01:19:46.000So he pulled out because religion the rest when we're gone?
01:19:49.000Yeah, but I just saw the way my mind where I just saw stuff early You know, you just put the pieces together early, right?
01:19:56.000Well, that's that's a skill That's a skill that a lot of people have to learn and you learn it by watching either you do your own fuck-ups or you watch a lot of people fuck up around you Yeah, like if you talk to the children of alcoholics, they rarely drink I shouldn't say rarely.
01:20:11.000What I should say is I run into a lot of people who were the children of alcoholics who realized, like, fuck that noise.
01:20:19.000And they realized growing up with unreliable parents, they were fucked up.
01:20:24.000And those people, you know, there's like proof positive.
01:20:28.000You don't have to actually go through the mistake to learn yourself.
01:20:32.000But once I learned, I didn't hate drug dealers no more.
01:24:10.000It's a powder form, and they still put it in their mouth, and they got a spit cup, and they'll always be like, oh, you know, as a kid, go grab my spit cup.
01:33:05.000There's gonna be those guys, but if you find someone that's good, you develop a good relationship with a good agent and a good manager, it's like everything else, man.
01:33:13.000You can come to Hollywood and meet a bunch of crazy actors, or you can meet a bunch of artists.
01:33:18.000You can meet a bunch of people that are completely out of their fucking mind, full of shit, doing meth, doing Adderall all day, promising you the world, never delivering shit, or...
01:33:27.000You can meet some of the people that you and I know from the Comedy Store.
01:36:13.000Like, as far as making the cut because...
01:36:15.000The talent, as far as what people got going on, I still feel like a regular comic compared to what the people I'm on stage with now.
01:36:23.000And that says something about me, how I feel confident-wise, but it also let me know, like, you know, I gotta get, you know, whatever else I need to get done, done.
01:36:50.000But then one night somebody don't show up or somebody don't want to follow Joe Rogan and you have to follow Joe Rogan and then you learn What season is on a different level.
01:37:05.000And you can't cheat your way of being seasoned in anything.
01:37:27.000So 12 people doing 15-minute sets and the show goes on all night.
01:37:32.000So you're gonna get some opportunities if you're a young guy or young girl to go on like right after Chris D'Elia or right after, you know, a Joey Diaz or Ron White.
01:37:43.000You get a chance to see these people take these tough spots after they just watched.
01:37:47.000You go on after Ron White, you're going on after someone these people love.
01:38:22.000It's a very very unique environment in that sense because it gives us a chance to also see how other people do that and also see I mean you're gonna get a chance to see 12 different people's styles if you sit there the whole night.
01:38:36.000It's so much difference in their style and so funny so much I mean big difference between you who's really funny and a guy like Michael Costa who's already really funny or As well.
01:39:16.000And what happened was I started learning how to communicate what I thought was funny versus tell jokes.
01:39:22.000And then he said, by the time we put you in the main room with these guys to do theaters, you will learn how to perform in front of a group of people between 200 and 20,000.
01:39:34.000So he, and to me, like, regardless, I listen to what people say he told to them, but he didn't have no conversations with me.
01:39:40.000He just made it, it just prolonged what I thought I was ready for.
01:39:45.000But by the time I got to the main room, and I'm used to doing these intimate or alty rooms, and I'm performing behind, like, you or Louie, and I'm seeing, like, oh, this is a broader audience, and I gotta perform, I gotta walk the stage, I gotta, I can't do it like I've been doing it.
01:40:07.000And I tell people now, like, yo, you perform in the main room at midnight, you're gonna be just as strong as somebody who does it at 8 o'clock by the time it's all over.
01:40:17.000And when you go to another club and you get an 8 o'clock spot, Boom!
01:41:00.000Yeah, the first time I did, the callback that got me to Montreal, I went up first, and I didn't want to go up first, but the set was so strong, it affected the next three comedians after me, because people were just staring at them.
01:41:24.000It's like if someone sees you kill, one of the big things that happens, and one of the beautiful things about the comedy story, about what you're talking about going on after all these different people that are killing, is you learn how to relax.
01:41:35.000There's a lot of what happens is when a guy has to go on after someone that's really strong, is that they panic.
01:41:40.000And when they panic, they can't even be themselves, which is not as funny as that guy.
01:41:57.000He was too good and too famous and too popular, and he would do like 45 minutes, and then I would do whatever, like 15 minutes after him.
01:42:04.000And I always bombed, but I always that was the spot that I got and I realized like a bunch of things I would see hear my own jokes come out and knew they were not good Like I didn't think they were good.
01:44:04.000I think also, I think a big part of what you just said that's important is you were talking about the way it feels when you're listening to it.
01:45:07.000And I want to look good before I get turned into a hashtag because that's what the police are doing is turning niggas into hashtags.
01:45:14.000And I turn to somebody that looked white and I'm like, you know the average lifespan for a young black man, 25, but hashtags live forever.
01:45:21.000So it's the thing about field depth and shallowness and like that's the complexity of like my bits but I have to admit and that's a true how I really felt you know when he hit the car and I was like oh that the car was bouncing I'm like look at the suspension on that.
01:45:36.000But that's what makes it funny to people.
01:46:56.000I read something the other day on Jen Kirkman, and she was talking about comedy is one of those things you actually do get better at when you get older, and it's one of those things, a rare thing for women, too, that they're still like a 40-year-old woman doesn't have a lot of opportunity as an actress.
01:47:14.000You can kind of play some mom roles and stuff like that as far as to lead something.
01:48:10.000And by the way, I'm talking about all women with that.
01:48:12.000Ladies, if you have self-esteem problems, like we all do, and don't think, oh, because your hair doesn't look a certain way, it's all there.
01:48:20.000But it kind of comes when you stop giving a fuck.
01:49:51.000I don't think women would be as attracted to a guy who just won the lottery and got $500 million as they would to some guy who's some media mogul who started his own business, built it up into an empire, and now has $500 million.
01:52:05.000Nope, but we Airbnb'd a property and they stared at us.
01:52:12.000When you Airbnb a property in that community and you have to have a cookout at 5 o'clock in the morning, you're going to get some stares the next day.
01:52:21.000You had a cookout at 5 o'clock in the morning?
01:53:29.000It don't bother me, but at the same time, I don't...
01:53:31.000If I look at it from my neighborhood, my Latin neighborhood that I live in, and they bring that bouncy castle over and they play the mariachi at five o'clock in the morning...
01:54:40.000But you tell people that you know somebody who fights chickens, and they go, really?
01:54:44.000Like, they don't even get grossed out.
01:54:46.000I mean, there's some super vegans who probably get really pissed off or animal rights activists, but the average person doesn't give a fuck about a chicken.
01:54:53.000If those chickens are fucking each other up with spurs on, they put razor blades on their back feet.
01:57:24.000Yeah, and well in a lot of ways then what you're saying is like those those principles of life and those things that you're talking about like these different patterns that you see in Electronics or in the universe you kind of see that in life You see that in comedy too, right?
01:57:39.000Like exactly what you were talking about in comedy like having go through Things, making mistakes, making things like really obvious and then realizing, whoa, I got to look at this for what it really is.
01:57:49.000Versus people who look at things through a distorted perception.
01:57:54.000Like most of the people that you know that have distorted perceptions of their own abilities or distorted perceptions of their own life or where they fit in in the world, those are the people that don't progress because they're not looking at themselves.
01:58:05.000They're not taking these assessments of themselves accurately, so they're not moving forward.
01:58:12.000They stay where they're at because they think that where they're at with whatever they're trying to do is good enough or is perfect or is better than it really is.
01:58:22.000But, yeah, and what I learned from my last, my acid trip, that the one you saw me the day after is that, in art and our genes, because I saw idea or I saw conception, what I told you,
01:59:24.000I know a dude who got into a fight with another dude, and as they were scrapping, like as they're about to fight, he goes, tonight we dine in hell.
02:00:03.000But it's just that movies create these scenarios in people's minds that they almost want to reinvent in the real world if a similar situation presents itself, you know?
02:04:45.000Either way, she lied to the judge and to the court about sending those texts, because she had deleted them, but then they somehow or another recovered them, and they found out that she lied about that.
02:04:56.000And she lied about a few other things, too.
02:04:59.000But the judge started quoting all this feminist theory and quoting different feminist writers and wound up getting this guy convicted, which is beyond a reasonable doubt.
02:05:10.000Like, as soon as someone says, I did not send him a text asking him for sex...
02:05:16.000And then you find out they did in fact send that text asking them for sex and it deleted.
02:05:20.000Well then you've got reasonable doubt.
02:05:22.000Like instantaneously you have doubt because you have to go, okay, what about the rest of this stuff you're telling me isn't true?
02:05:28.000I'm not saying that he didn't force her to give him a blow job or that he did.
02:05:36.000But in my opinion, you instantaneously have to have reasonable doubt when you find out that someone's willing to lie about certain aspects of what happened.
02:05:46.000So, I was watching this and I was listening to this woman from, what is that?
02:06:27.000Or she doesn't know that you've been snipped And you don't tell her that you can't get her pregnant, so you keep pumping lows into her, and you gotta keep ramping up the sex.
02:06:40.000And so now she's wearing a helmet, and you're fucking driving her through a wall.
02:06:43.000Oh, that'll be interesting right there.
02:06:46.000But you're doing that to make her happy, but you really don't like it at all?
02:10:20.000That oats lives in a nice nostalgic way in a field and they plow with a fucking like a regular mechanical plow and they do everything old school.
02:11:55.000And my family was like, shh, that's the family that your grandmother helped use the nanny for.
02:12:00.000And they remained close because of, you know, she helped raise these young ladies, you know what I mean?
02:12:08.000And they would fly my mom, my grandmother, out to Philly to spend time with them and stuff like that.
02:12:14.000And it's an interesting, you know, situation.
02:12:17.000So, just to hear these stories and, you know, my grandmother telling me about the cotton gin and She broke it down like, yeah, we'll take the cotton and take the seeds out and let it go.
02:12:49.000How people do a day's work and gotta, like she said once slavery ended and people had to get paid, how somebody, I don't know if it was her father, somebody did a job and they gave him a dime.
02:13:23.000That person living that life and making a dime and living in a modern, a semi-modern to us, you know, modern in its context, society, is doing so much better than someone who was born 200 years before that.
02:13:37.000And so much better than someone, you know, any time prior to that.
02:13:58.000So, it's just an interesting time frame.
02:14:01.000You know, when we look back at people that lived, like, a couple hundred years ago, we think to ourselves, like, fuck that.
02:14:07.000You know, especially if you were a slave, or even if you were a free person living in America in 1810. Let's just go to 1810. Just a regular person.
02:14:20.000Like, you and I don't want to do that.
02:14:22.000You don't want to go back to that fucking life.
02:14:52.000The grapes were on the vine, the tomatoes came out the ground, the chickens, you know, my grandfather hauled chickens, so the eggs came out of the backyard.
02:15:22.000So my first six years is like, you know, when you're eight or ten, they put a pellet gun in your hand and you work your way up to the hunting rifles.
02:15:29.000So that's what I left when I moved to the city.
02:16:12.000Beans, you put them, you get a bucket, you open them, you run your thumb through them, which I didn't like none of that, but that's what it was.
02:16:22.000Well, there's something beautiful about that, right?
02:17:21.000We've figured out a way to truck things in, people have, you know?
02:17:24.000Once we start trucking things in, nobody grows anything anymore.
02:17:27.000I heard a story about people like my uncle and his friend are having money, and they put $300 together and bought a goat and ate off that goat.
02:17:37.000Yeah, they fed it a little bit, and then they ate off of it for like a month.
02:17:40.000Yeah, if you kill a goat in your yard, though, and people find out about it, this is my friend, I don't need to say his name, but my gardener guy that I was talking about earlier.
02:19:42.000That's why if you look at how to tie it, when they say how do you take care of denim and keep it from fading, they'd be like wet it and hang it in the sun because the sun kills the bacteria and gets rid of the smell.
02:20:35.000We don't do it here, but I did something where I had to stay at a country home and you wash like a sheet or a shirt and you hang it in the sun and let the air hit it and it's just the freshness of the smell, you know.
02:20:46.000And what was smart about this place, they put the lemon trees near the hanging place so now your clothes got a lemon smell to it.
02:22:48.000Because it was so low to the ground, it would bottom out on things.
02:22:51.000It didn't handle very well because it wasn't designed for that.
02:22:54.000It was just designed to be a really low car.
02:22:56.000It was tubbed, so the back area where the back seat is was all cut out, and then the frame was welded and bent up so that the wheel tucked deep into the back wheel well.
02:23:07.000It looks great, but it's stupid as fuck.
02:25:04.000I know enough to kind of butcher that, but now they know how to do that with old school cars.
02:25:12.000So they can take that 1969 Mustang and put a similar type of computerized suspension arrangement in it, where it's constantly adjusting to the terrain.
02:25:26.000They're also figuring out how to do analog brakes on old cars.
02:25:29.000They haven't figured out that totally yet.
02:27:55.000It's a road off the 2, but if you take the 210, and you head towards Pasadena, and you go up into the mountains, there's these crazy abandoned roads where you might not have anybody out there except maybe a dude on a motorcycle.
02:28:10.000And everything's like turny and twisty.
02:28:14.000If you go out there, you'll see like mules, like a car that they cover, like they would take this car and then they would cover it over with like graphics and maybe even some plastic or something so you couldn't tell what it looked like.
02:30:33.000The M10 is an interesting motor because on the one hand it was sort of BMW's corporate engine at the time, but it actually made its way all the way up to Formula 1. A little too geeked out.
02:30:44.000And they would use these used, seasoned M10 blocks to build their crazy turbo Formula 1 engines.
02:30:52.000And there's a really neat documentary about the history of the M10 engine.
02:34:24.000I mean, it's not maybe too fast for a race car driver, but too fast for a guy like me.
02:34:29.000One of the cool things about that 2002 is you get to ring the engine out.
02:34:34.000There's a lot of range where you can drive it.
02:34:36.000You rev it up, and that's where you get your power, and you can go plenty fast in it.
02:34:41.000The handling of those cars a lot of times is connected to the lightness and all the feel of the car is coming from the fact that there's not a lot there.
02:34:51.000This car is a totally different experience.
02:34:53.000This car is all about managing the pedal because if you stomp on the pedal, that fucking thing is going spinning.
02:35:34.000Yeah, my homeboy, he built this 69 Shelby.
02:35:39.000The 68 got damaged, so the insurance had to cut him a check, and he spent that money and built a 69 that I haven't drove, and he don't drive it as much because it's worth a lot of money.
02:41:14.000Like, there's a bunch of shit that's supposed to happen.
02:41:15.000One, you're supposed to have your lights on, you get pulled over, you shut your car off, you shut your ID. Everything's supposed to go according to plan.
02:41:20.000So you're throwing in all these new loopholes.
02:41:42.000I lived in Inglewood, and I realized, like, all the time, I get my car searched, put it in the back of Capoli's cars, and I talked to a cop, and he told me about proximity and how criminals operate, and when they wake up, they get descriptions in the morning, and if you fit that description, they're going to profile you.
02:41:58.000And that's when I realized, like, oh, I'm living in the wrong neighborhood, driving the wrong vehicle.
02:42:02.000So when I got the 944, I get what I call corporate old white man colors, that champagne or that boring gray color.
02:42:09.000And I just drive and I have really no problems.
02:42:14.000That's the things, like how my mind works.
02:42:17.000Sometimes I figure out that pattern and be like, okay, if this is what is getting pulled over and stuff, then I need to, you know, I don't know if it's the survival in you or what, but it's like I have to shift.
02:42:28.000And some people will be like, I don't feel like I should shift like that.
02:42:32.000But I'm like, you know, the cops will be like, slow down.
02:42:56.000And I was like, this is amazing right here.
02:43:03.000But I also experienced another white privilege thing when I had an accident in the 944, and it was a Latino people, and a guy got out of the car.
02:43:11.000The cop showed up, and I was sitting on the car.
02:43:14.000The old white guy, he was like, sir, is this your car?
02:44:08.000I think with a lot of cops, something can happen, too, where they pull over so many people that are illegal immigrants, they start getting upset.
02:44:15.000They start getting upset at it, and they treat it disproportionately.
02:44:20.000I've seen a lot of fucking people that are driving illegally in Los Angeles.
02:46:06.000Yeah, I mean, if your outfit is being represented by people that are doing fucked up things like those videos that we were talking about earlier, that's your outfit.
02:46:14.000So you have to go and you know that these people are gonna see you, look at you, and know that you represent that team that they've been watching on these videos.
02:46:22.000And I'm from a place where the cops look like you.
02:46:24.000So the cops that treated you fucked up look like you.
02:46:35.000It's so much that isn't understood outside of the videos that I'll be in.
02:46:40.000Do you think there's a way on stage that you can relay a lot of the stuff that you're talking about?
02:46:46.000I feel like if you could figure out a way to make humor out of the difference between your background growing up and what you're experiencing now and just your own unique perspective Yeah, I'm slowly talking about it.
02:47:03.000You can ask Tosh, when I worked with Tosh, my opening joke, I'd walk on stage and be like, not all Black Lives Matter.
02:48:50.000When you're looking at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, you just don't think about it?
02:48:54.000I think, and I said this before, before everything got crazy, Trump got crazy, I understand sometimes where he's coming from through educational purposes.
02:49:03.000I understand Republican mindset, you know what I mean?
02:50:04.000Yeah, and it was like off-camera like she I don't think she realized that she's being filmed or this is just not her behaving like I'm gonna play it for you this this Yes, we came we saw he died She's also looking off at someone else like for their approval She's not even looking at the woman.
02:50:29.000She's talking to necessarily It's just that's a weird thing to joke about, the enormity, the magnitude of assassinating a foreign leader.
02:50:41.000Whether he's a dictator or not, there's a lot going on there.
02:50:45.000You are overthrowing the ruler of a government, even though he's a terrible ruler, and you are now opening up that government and those people that were being suppressed by that government, you are opening them up to the turmoil of establishing a new leader.
02:51:03.000So when you see someone who is running for president and they are joking around about a scenario that has taken place that they were a part of, she was a part of, and that scenario is now directly connected to horrific tragedies and this chaos.
02:52:16.000And if a dude was out and his lights wasn't right, and he was on a motorbike, the cop got on the bike with him and rode him with him to jail, he had to take the cop to jail.
02:53:24.000But you hear somebody telling this story, and they telling how bad it was, because you know they live it, and it was over something simple.
02:53:33.000Like, I told you next time I see you that this was going to go down, you know what I mean?
02:54:00.000But I think, yeah, if Hillary get in, I think they're trying to lure everybody her way, and then she's going, on the low, sign some document that's really going to fuck people up down the line.
02:56:14.000It's never been more obvious that it's a charade.
02:56:17.000And I fully never learned it because I look at the bigger picture and the pattern.
02:56:24.000Well, Byron, we're gonna come back in four years, and we'll see if you're right about Hillary Clinton, if she fucked up.
02:56:29.000Because you remember just a little while ago, everybody was saying that Hillary Clinton, that the FBI was gonna drop some bombshell, and that more information was gonna come out about the horrible things that she's involved with and she's done, and then she's gonna probably be indicted, and then she's gonna wind up pulling out.
02:56:44.000She's not gonna be running for president.
02:56:46.000That was like the big rumors just a few months ago.
02:56:48.000Now, Trump has gotten so fucked up, He's done so much stupid shit and said so much stupid shit and now like the Harvard Republican Club for the first time in over a hundred years is coming out against the nominee.
02:57:03.000There's like a bunch of different prominent politicians that have come out against him.
02:57:09.000Usually by the time someone gets to a point where they're running for president, they're the Republican nominee, whether it's Mitt Romney or anyone else, Like, they're kind of embraced.
02:57:18.000You know, like, okay, we've got the nominee, everything's in order, let's move forward.
02:57:32.000Well, what happened in DR, they got a lady, you know, in charge, and it was some sneaky stuff like that, but when she got in, she started doing the curfews, and she took the Haitians and kicked them out.
02:57:45.000You know, she gave them, to be fair, she was like, you got this amount of money, you can stay.
02:57:50.000Yeah, so it got, and guys were showing me scars that allowed them to stay in the DR. So, yeah, it got real for me over there because I finally talked to these dudes that used to be kids asking for money and now they're adults asking for money.
02:58:22.000Yeah, yeah, and they look up to us, they was like, you know, they was like, look, regardless of what's happening, I know, I know black people getting killed by the cops, but you still got a chance to be something.
02:58:33.000And I couldn't even say nothing like...
02:58:35.000And meanwhile, North Korea looks up to them.
02:58:39.000North Korea, you know, at least they don't have to deal with Dear Leader.
02:58:43.000They don't have to cry for hours and hours when his dad died.
02:58:46.000If they don't cry correctly, they get put in jail for six months and forced to work in labor camps.
02:58:51.000They have labor camps in North Korea where people are literally starving to death and they stick dogs on them and the dogs eat them.
02:58:56.000I mean, this is Game of Thrones type shit and it's going on right now.
02:59:04.000He was a child of someone who was convicted of some sort of a crime and forced to work in these slave camps.
02:59:11.000Grew up in his camp, did not know the rest of the world, did not know there was a whole world out there, and somehow or another escaped.
02:59:18.000But he talked about turning his own family in.
02:59:20.000They have everybody narcing on everybody, turned his whole family in.
02:59:25.000In his description of the different levels of torture and treatment, like different levels of slavery, like what you're capable of doing when you're almost dead, what you're capable of doing.
02:59:35.000They have it classified, like what jobs you get, depending upon how close you are to death.