The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 175 ｜ Is THIS the Most DANGEROUS Man in Comedy？｜ Dave Landau ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Really, since the 1970s, you were a comedian that made it if you were on Saturday Night Live.

00:00:06.300 Today's guest is no exception.

00:00:09.400 These days, however, when he watches SNL, he doesn't recognize the show.

00:00:13.860 Nobody recognizes the show.

00:00:15.860 And he wouldn't make the roster because he's actually funny.

00:00:19.580 He is extraordinarily irreverent, to say the least.

00:00:24.420 The phrase comedian's comedian gets overused.

00:00:29.640 You know, Bill Hicks is a comedian's comedian.

00:00:33.060 It usually means that the comedian is too edgy or subversive for non-comedians to understand.

00:00:39.660 I'm not a comedian, but I understand him, and he is still comedian's comedian.

00:00:46.320 He is, it's brilliant writing, unbelievably offensive, but brilliant.

00:00:52.460 His latest special, A Prison Ten, is all the proof that you need on that.

00:00:59.200 This man does not care about any lines.

00:01:03.480 His comedy is so dark that you're kind of like, well, the apocalypse isn't so bad.

00:01:11.260 The world is ending, and there's nothing funny about it.

00:01:15.800 Well, until you watch his special, and then it's a little funny.

00:01:18.940 There's no telling how his jokes are going to end, you know, slip on a banana peel, and then end not on the street, but in the sewer.

00:01:29.860 He is a very different thinker and very funny comedian.

00:01:33.380 If you're a fan of Steven Crowder, you'll find this nice to reminisce with an old friend.

00:01:39.880 You will recognize him.

00:01:41.200 Please welcome Dave Landau.

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00:03:11.080 Your perception of me, do you think I would be a fan of your comedy or not?

00:03:29.000 Maybe the old you?

00:03:35.280 I'm such a fan.

00:03:36.740 I am such a fan.

00:03:37.900 But the good, wholesome, trying-to-be-better part of me hates me for it.

00:03:44.720 You know, I'm so conflicted.

00:03:46.940 Because you are, of which my humor has always been, very dark.

00:03:53.460 You are the darkest cavern I've ever experienced.

00:03:58.260 Thank you.

00:03:59.000 Your comedy is so dark.

00:04:02.540 You said, you were talking about, you know, end of the world and you brought up your son,

00:04:07.220 you know.

00:04:08.240 Do you remember?

00:04:09.320 Oh, yeah.

00:04:09.680 Yeah.

00:04:10.180 Could you just express this?

00:04:12.560 Yeah, where he just says, you know, Dad, you know what I want to be when I grow up.

00:04:15.940 And I said, it doesn't matter.

00:04:18.620 You know, just explaining to him how the world's going to end.

00:04:22.800 It's going to end.

00:04:23.280 It just doesn't.

00:04:24.100 Yeah.

00:04:24.340 Good night, son.

00:04:24.860 It just doesn't matter.

00:04:26.220 Yeah, he's seven.

00:04:27.100 Yeah.

00:04:27.200 It's like, he sees the day.

00:04:28.640 It's so funny.

00:04:32.960 Yeah.

00:04:33.700 And then, you know, what I, what the good part of me hates is that I just love all of

00:04:42.000 your humor and you are offensive in every possible way.

00:04:47.820 Thank you.

00:04:48.500 Yeah.

00:04:49.080 Yeah.

00:04:49.280 Yeah.

00:04:49.520 Cause I don't know why you do it.

00:04:51.280 No, but it is, you know, it is.

00:04:53.420 Yeah, of course.

00:04:54.040 Cause that's, I mean, that's, is that what you're striving for or?

00:04:59.460 You don't know.

00:05:00.680 That's the odd part.

00:05:01.560 Like I never want to look at, cause it's not necessarily that it's dirty.

00:05:04.840 It's more that it's filthy.

00:05:09.320 Graphically.

00:05:10.420 It's no, it's honest.

00:05:12.040 Yes.

00:05:12.360 And that's the way that I look at it is a lot of times.

00:05:14.520 Honesty is going to be that way.

00:05:16.720 So I don't necessarily go to be offensive.

00:05:18.840 I just go for the joke.

00:05:20.880 But in today's world, I mean, it is, there wasn't one.

00:05:27.980 Sometimes, sometimes the way you craft jokes, it's like, oh, that's going to piss off people.

00:05:34.580 Oh, here's another group of people.

00:05:36.060 That's going to piss off all in the same joke.

00:05:38.400 You'll have like three levels of people that are just want to set you on fire.

00:05:42.920 Yes.

00:05:44.720 What I like to do is I like to like the end of the joke with the tag.

00:05:47.820 Yes.

00:05:48.080 I like to find eight more things that are more offensive.

00:05:51.080 I know.

00:05:51.580 Make the beginning offensive part less offensive.

00:05:54.540 And that's what I enjoy is watching a crowd.

00:05:57.020 Oh my gosh.

00:05:57.740 Because you get an honest break though from people.

00:05:59.720 Right.

00:06:00.140 Because if they're cracking at something like that, you know that there's this, there's this

00:06:03.680 honest part of them that actually enjoys that.

00:06:06.500 Right.

00:06:06.980 Because there's so much we have to hide now in our society and like what we think is funny.

00:06:10.900 So bad.

00:06:11.500 Yeah.

00:06:11.840 Why not just say it?

00:06:13.060 Why not just have fun?

00:06:14.000 Because even when I.

00:06:15.400 But it's not.

00:06:15.800 I mean, the things you say are true, but some of the things are really offensive.

00:06:25.820 And it's not as true as it is.

00:06:28.860 I want to be able to laugh at that.

00:06:31.660 Yes.

00:06:31.860 You know, it's, it's clearly, at least I hope some of them are jokes, but it's clearly a joke.

00:06:38.940 But you, you give us permission to laugh and nobody is doing that.

00:06:45.460 At least, I mean, Chappelle does it, but.

00:06:48.980 I think you're a level down from, I mean, into the dark hole.

00:06:54.420 Yeah.

00:06:54.640 You're a level down.

00:06:56.000 You are more dangerous with your comedy than I think anybody else out there.

00:07:00.100 Thank you so much.

00:07:01.020 Honestly.

00:07:01.540 And I, I worked with Chappelle a few times when I, I started and he's one of my heroes.

00:07:06.080 You opened for him.

00:07:06.740 Yeah.

00:07:06.980 Yeah.

00:07:07.180 And this was when he was like, I opened for him for 7,000 people where it was, you know,

00:07:12.960 people were just going crazy, but they were all heckling.

00:07:15.260 It was at a time when he was supposedly going insane and then when, you know, when I remember

00:07:19.460 those days and then he walked right.

00:07:21.440 And then when he came back, it was amazing.

00:07:23.520 And it was, and now he, what was the difference when he, when he left?

00:07:27.360 Cause I remember this, he didn't, he signed to do a show and everybody thought he was crazy

00:07:31.760 because he, he left behind all that money and possible stardom.

00:07:35.860 And I remember thinking he is either crazy or I really like him because he knows the

00:07:43.020 price of his soul and he just sold out.

00:07:46.200 Yeah.

00:07:46.460 He, he always said to, he said his mom told him she made 30 grand a year as a teacher.

00:07:50.420 He said, if I can make that as a comic, I'm happy.

00:07:53.040 Everything else is icing on the cake.

00:07:54.640 Like, so when they offered him more money and more money to do things that he didn't

00:07:58.500 agree with and censor him, which was part of his contract to not do, he walked.

00:08:03.440 And then when he came back, he did exactly what he wanted to do.

00:08:06.860 And now he's oddly enough, a white supremacist and people attack him and try to stab him on

00:08:13.060 stage.

00:08:13.560 And it's like, he's only arguably one of the top five greatest comedians ever.

00:08:18.240 We try to take that.

00:08:19.400 Oh, it's amazing.

00:08:20.420 So he, yeah, he's such a hero to me, you know, and with the darkness, that's just my

00:08:25.080 life.

00:08:25.540 That's who I, I am.

00:08:27.820 So if I wasn't talking about something that is dark or I take a nugget of truth, like my

00:08:33.360 wife and I, or my, uh, my son and I, when we're sitting at our house pre COVID is one

00:08:37.360 of the jokes and he wants, I have to teach him about death because I take him to meet

00:08:41.560 my parents at the cemetery.

00:08:43.420 And you know, one of the lines is they still vote and you know, he gets to the cemetery and

00:08:48.000 I mean, he's like, Oh, you get him a goldfish.

00:08:50.360 That's how they learn about death.

00:08:51.880 You flush them.

00:08:52.600 So instead I get him a cat.

00:08:53.960 Oh my gosh.

00:08:54.600 You know?

00:08:54.780 And I'm like, you completely clogged up our toilet.

00:08:56.920 We're just sitting there, you know, like we have to tell you, it's just so perfectly

00:09:02.240 crafted.

00:09:03.060 Thank you.

00:09:03.660 And, uh, for somebody who is, I think a connoisseur of dark comedy, uh, there's just nobody better

00:09:13.840 at it than you.

00:09:14.820 That means the world.

00:09:15.700 Seriously.

00:09:15.980 Thank you.

00:09:16.540 Yeah, you're welcome.

00:09:17.700 Um, so do you know who Kurt Garan is?

00:09:21.180 I don't.

00:09:21.980 Okay.

00:09:22.280 You should.

00:09:23.000 Okay.

00:09:23.300 Um, he was, um, the biggest, most powerful star in the 1930s.

00:09:31.460 And, uh, he would go to, he was movie star, but he was also a comedian.

00:09:37.200 Um, he was kind of like Tom Hanks in, in, of his day, you know, or, uh, Will Ferrell.

00:09:44.640 You know, everybody loved him.

00:09:47.060 Uh, and he went into the cabarets and he started doing Nazi jokes from like 1928 to 1933.

00:09:56.460 Right.

00:09:57.500 He ended up, uh, a little edgy.

00:09:59.660 Yeah.

00:10:00.080 He ended up in a concentration camp, uh, and was killed.

00:10:04.580 It was a horrible, horrible, horrible story.

00:10:07.200 Um, but if things go poorly, if we don't turn around, good news, that could be you.

00:10:16.120 I know.

00:10:16.500 I'm excited for it.

00:10:17.700 I'm excited for the comedian camps.

00:10:19.960 Right.

00:10:21.580 We, I, are we getting further away from that?

00:10:25.500 Because I don't mean that literally, but all I mean, maybe, so, you know, we were going

00:10:31.180 maybe, but there was no one, there was, I kept saying, where's Lenny Bruce?

00:10:39.740 Is there not one Lenny Bruce that is willing to stand up to this?

00:10:46.240 No one, it seemed.

00:10:48.340 And now there is, it's, it's a Renaissance.

00:10:53.380 Yes.

00:10:54.060 When you have people in, you know, they've been on the show, you have Jim Brewer, you

00:10:57.480 have, uh, you have people that are willing to step up.

00:11:00.180 And I think it's not even so much to make a stand as much as it is.

00:11:05.920 Talk about the things that are going on.

00:11:08.040 And even when I talk about, for example, trans, I do it from a point of, I talk about me.

00:11:13.720 Like if I was to compete as a woman, uh, it would make no difference whatsoever.

00:11:18.160 And I'm able to point that out where I just talk about, you know, I'm at the end of the

00:11:22.280 swimming pool, my balls are hanging out.

00:11:24.280 They're like, who's this fat girl? 0.96

00:11:25.860 I think she has emphysema, no sports skills whatsoever. 0.95

00:11:29.760 You know, and there's a way to point out the, the lunacy of everything that's happening,

00:11:33.460 you know, without necessarily being antagonistic in the sense of you have to be offended.

00:11:39.420 I think in, in certain ways, because you're choosing to be, you're choosing to be a part

00:11:43.760 of something that is brainwashed to be offensive.

00:11:47.280 You know, the currency of today is to be offended.

00:11:50.560 The currency today is to be a victim.

00:11:53.140 It makes no sense to me at all.

00:11:54.540 It goes against what I think human nature is.

00:11:57.000 So eventually I think, yeah, we're going to have to either, either comics are going to

00:12:02.420 have to step up, start growing some balls and go back to being comics that are actually

00:12:06.960 doing what they're supposed to do, which is genuinely making people laugh with their own

00:12:12.620 beliefs and their own jokes.

00:12:14.240 And also, you know, artists, but I think comedians more so are the, usually the ones that bring

00:12:21.780 us into revolution.

00:12:23.260 And they're the ones who bring us out of the dark side because of that, you know what I

00:12:28.360 mean?

00:12:28.960 Um, because they, they poke at our conscious, you know, George Carlin was brilliant at that.

00:12:36.260 100% right out of Vietnam too.

00:12:38.080 Right.

00:12:38.900 And he, he made you think you'd laugh your ass off, but you'd go, well, maybe he's right

00:12:47.040 on that.

00:12:47.640 Maybe I should, you know, he had a message to him.

00:12:50.460 I hate messages, but he did it well.

00:12:53.760 He did it really well.

00:12:55.840 And there we went for a while where there was no one willing to stick their neck out.

00:13:03.140 But yeah, for a long time, well, and Carlin died in 08 and some of the stuff he said you

00:13:08.560 could do on stage right now and it would be just as important.

00:13:11.800 Oh yeah.

00:13:12.240 That's what's, that's what's so crazy about his last special.

00:13:15.200 And with Carlin, it, it wasn't so much about a message.

00:13:19.120 He just wasn't pandering to anybody.

00:13:21.360 Right.

00:13:21.660 So he was saying, this is what's wrong with everybody.

00:13:23.720 This is what's wrong with all humanity.

00:13:26.120 And this is the problem.

00:13:27.360 And he went out and he said at first, it's why prior is so well liked because he brought attention

00:13:32.580 to a group of people that weren't really being, you know, uh, shined on in any mainstream

00:13:38.620 light other than Cosby, who was very, very likable up until some incident, um, something

00:13:45.540 happened.

00:13:46.100 I watched that with my kids when they were younger and I felt so bad.

00:13:49.280 I kept watching it and going, when do I tell them when I found out that my wife was pregnant,

00:13:56.520 I bought the, I didn't buy it.

00:13:58.020 I used my dad's copy of fatherhood that he had had and I read it on the plane.

00:14:02.900 And then three days later I was like, Oh, that's, that's good.

00:14:06.920 Maybe I shouldn't take all the advice.

00:14:08.340 I'll never forget.

00:14:09.260 My kids, they'd watch Cosby, you know, for 10 years, we watched the whole thing.

00:14:14.260 And, uh, and, uh, you know, episode two, I've said to my wife, I'm not sure if this is a

00:14:20.080 good idea because at some point we have to tell them who he is.

00:14:23.800 And I remember after this, after all the episodes, I'm like, okay, this is a good way and a good

00:14:31.060 time to talk about, you may not, you may like someone's work, but the person, and they were

00:14:39.880 like, he did what?

00:14:42.380 Yeah.

00:14:42.820 Like he, he, he raped, uh, Bill Cosby. 0.96

00:14:47.940 Yeah.

00:14:48.240 Who?

00:14:48.660 But serial.

00:14:49.180 Everyone.

00:14:51.140 For like 30 years.

00:14:52.680 Yeah.

00:14:52.900 That was it.

00:14:53.760 I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't as, it was most of his career.

00:14:57.640 Uh, he's in jail, right?

00:15:00.160 Well, not now.

00:15:01.940 Oh, he was in there for a while.

00:15:03.480 No, they did take away his fake college degrees though.

00:15:07.400 That taught him.

00:15:08.380 That's what I loved about it.

00:15:09.840 Where they're like, we're taking your fake diplomas.

00:15:13.060 Oh, good.

00:15:14.000 That's, it's going to learn them.

00:15:16.000 Yeah.

00:15:17.480 Yeah.

00:15:17.920 It's hard because you watch himself and you go, it's arguably no matter what you say,

00:15:22.640 one of the greatest specials ever put on tape.

00:15:25.500 I mean, it just is.

00:15:26.540 And, but you wonder, is this a guy who's such a sociopath?

00:15:29.840 He nailed being a comic.

00:15:31.600 That's perfect.

00:15:33.000 At being this family friendly, you know,

00:15:35.840 no one would suspect.

00:15:37.160 Yeah.

00:15:37.320 There was no edge necessarily.

00:15:39.360 It wasn't that it was, there's no edge cause it was good,

00:15:41.420 but there was just this perfect,

00:15:44.660 like I'm catering to human beings in every way possible.

00:15:48.880 And I, no one's ever done that the way nobody has ever been as likable as a

00:15:53.540 comic as Bill Cosby, in my opinion.

00:15:55.560 So if you go by that, how many people have Jim Gaffigan raped?

00:16:00.000 I mean, oh, I mean, he kind of has, he has edge, but he's the same guy.

00:16:04.620 He's yeah.

00:16:04.860 Yeah.

00:16:05.100 Everybody kind of likes Jim Gaffigan.

00:16:06.500 Everybody loves him.

00:16:07.340 Right.

00:16:07.620 I just got a real problem with food.

00:16:12.420 Yeah.

00:16:12.780 That'd be weird if that came out.

00:16:14.340 Thank God he has like 50 kids.

00:16:16.100 I heard.

00:16:16.520 So maybe that's his wife.

00:16:19.220 He's getting it at home.

00:16:20.340 Yeah.

00:16:20.580 Yeah.

00:16:20.800 His wife's like, listen, you could be Cosby quickly. 1.00

00:16:23.680 Let's just, he's just putting on a mask and trying to get out to the BTK van.

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00:18:14.880 Five best comedians can be of all time or today.

00:18:21.540 I would say Dave Chappelle, uh, George Carlin, uh, Robert Schimmel.

00:18:28.300 Um, boy, that's tough.

00:18:34.440 Uh, there's so many Eddie Murphy.

00:18:39.040 What happened to him?

00:18:40.580 I think, I think what happened to Eddie Murphy was just, he was attacked so ruthlessly by

00:18:45.840 the press that you have to look at a guy who was so unbelievably talented, made some bombs

00:18:52.320 and they couldn't stand that he didn't live up to his own hype.

00:18:57.280 Like he was a 19 year old kid, 20 year old kid when he did Delirious.

00:19:00.940 People forget that.

00:19:02.140 So they were insanely unforgiving to him whenever he made something that wasn't good.

00:19:06.960 So, which ended up being a lot of things, but he still made some really good movies.

00:19:11.100 Oh, he made great movies.

00:19:12.360 And it was really funny.

00:19:13.820 Yeah.

00:19:14.100 And I remember when, like with, when he got nominated for the Oscar for Dreamgirls and

00:19:18.060 they said it was when he looked at the camera before he was about to shoot up the way that

00:19:21.620 he looked at the camera and he, during an interview and he's like, you know, I was in a movie where

00:19:26.020 I played nine people, you know, like he still had it where it's like, no, the talent was always

00:19:32.640 there, is always there.

00:19:34.460 Um, I think with him, they just cut him down in such a way because he was the first sort of 1.00

00:19:41.440 mega star to break at that very young age in the eighties in that comedy boom.

00:19:48.060 And you're, every movie you make is not going to live up to Beverly Hills cop and 48 hours.

00:19:53.260 And these are like masterpieces of comedy.

00:19:56.120 So you can't expect everything to work.

00:19:58.840 What does he do now?

00:20:00.220 I think he just does voiceovers in his basement and makes $40 million.

00:20:04.680 You know what I mean?

00:20:05.140 I don't think it's too bad.

00:20:06.420 No, I'm not saying that.

00:20:08.400 Does he want to exercise that muscle anymore?

00:20:11.300 He says that he does, but I can only imagine having been trashed the way that he, he has

00:20:16.760 been, why would you want to go out and go, okay, I have to make something that live up

00:20:20.860 to delirious and raw where you're, you know, 20 and 25 and now you're, he's got to be what

00:20:28.120 approaching 60, I would assume.

00:20:31.180 Yeah, but he should, I mean, Louis CK is still out there.

00:20:35.780 You want to be talking about trashed?

00:20:37.600 Oh yeah.

00:20:38.180 I mean, and Louis CK proved that it, and I was so glad he came back because, you know,

00:20:43.440 I'm going to put Louis in the top five as well.

00:20:46.160 I think he's phenomenal.

00:20:47.760 So I'm going to put him obviously in the top five as well.

00:20:50.960 And Patrice O'Neill, actually, if I, I don't know if I've named six.

00:20:54.900 Patrice O'Neill.

00:20:55.300 I don't think I've seen her.

00:20:56.880 Him.

00:20:57.560 Him.

00:20:57.920 Him.

00:20:58.180 Patrice O'Neill, big black dude.

00:20:59.880 Always a, always a male. 0.90

00:21:02.580 Oh, always a guy.

00:21:03.600 Old guy.

00:21:04.260 Patrice.

00:21:04.360 No, no, he passed a few years ago.

00:21:05.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:06.300 Always, always a dude.

00:21:07.880 He put out an album called Elephant in the Room, or a special.

00:21:12.220 One of the funniest specials ever where he's talking about a girl who went missing in Aruba.

00:21:17.840 And he's like, well, what's her name?

00:21:18.920 And the whole audience goes, Natalie Holloway.

00:21:21.020 He goes, right, right.

00:21:21.660 And he goes, and the other girl he killed, the Hispanic girl, nobody says anything.

00:21:28.200 He goes, yeah, exactly.

00:21:28.980 No one cares.

00:21:29.780 They just sent some guy out to the end of a pier to be like, yeah, wait a minute, I'll see her. 0.99

00:21:36.300 But it's like, he did this, it was, it was one of the most, it's one of the best specials I've ever seen.

00:21:42.160 It's perfect, it's offensive, it's great, it's like, and he was somebody who took a risk every time he was on, on Mike.

00:21:49.360 I think one of the best comedy writers and comedians, and I'm surprised he wasn't on your list, is Ricky Gervais.

00:21:56.580 Oh, Gervais for sure.

00:21:57.740 I mean, that's why it's so tough to, and Gervais has heart too, in a way, especially with his show that he put out recently.

00:22:04.720 And the way that his, yeah, 100%.

00:22:06.580 Have you seen, what is it, the BBC series that he did, Derek, I think?

00:22:12.720 Have you ever watched that?

00:22:13.720 I haven't seen Derek, no.

00:22:15.420 You should watch it.

00:22:16.360 I'll watch it, though, for sure.

00:22:17.540 First of all, it's very dark, but it's about a guy, he plays a handicapped guy, and he has to live in a nursing home with a bunch of old people. 0.88

00:22:25.520 And there's this one character that is so offensive, so offensive, that it's hard to watch, and he doesn't fit.

00:22:37.580 You know, it's just all of a sudden, everything's gonna, and then this guy comes in so offensive.

00:22:41.840 But you watch the arc.

00:22:44.080 I mean, he's brilliant with heart.

00:22:46.920 He is just brilliant.

00:22:48.480 He's like a, Hughes, what was his name?

00:22:52.760 He made the comedian, he made a bunch of stuff with John Candy, the director and writer.

00:23:00.160 Oh, not Harold Ramis.

00:23:02.460 No, no, no.

00:23:03.700 Oh, John Hughes.

00:23:04.660 John Hughes.

00:23:05.240 See, that's what's missing today.

00:23:07.060 John Candy's one of my all-time favorites.

00:23:08.560 It's not a stand-up.

00:23:09.620 And I think John Hughes is missing because Uncle Buck, Trains, Planes, and Automobiles.

00:23:13.560 These are movies, yeah, they don't make those anymore.

00:23:15.660 I've been saying it forever, where you just, you love the character.

00:23:19.200 There's this schlub, there's a reason these people exist. 0.95

00:23:22.180 You don't, there's no heart anymore to anything like that.

00:23:26.140 I think that's, you know.

00:23:28.160 But no, but Gervais, his last one about the one where his wife dies, and he's completely, you know, he just hates everyone as a result of it.

00:23:36.620 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:37.580 And there's.

00:23:38.520 What is it?

00:23:39.560 I forget the name of it.

00:23:41.000 Afterlife.

00:23:41.480 Afterlife.

00:23:41.980 Yeah.

00:23:42.160 It's brilliant.

00:23:42.760 Brilliant.

00:23:43.060 Brilliant.

00:23:43.400 And you see him turn around at the end, and there's so much heart there.

00:23:47.300 Yeah.

00:23:47.520 And that's what I love about Gervais.

00:23:49.300 Me too.

00:23:49.640 Is that's the underlining thing.

00:23:51.360 There's always this theme.

00:23:52.720 And so, you know, Red Skelton.

00:23:55.360 Yes.

00:23:55.740 So Red Skelton said, you can go see a clown at the circus, and you will just remember you saw a bunch of clowns at the circus.

00:24:05.360 Yeah.

00:24:05.640 But the clown that can make you laugh and cry, you will never forget.

00:24:09.460 Yep.

00:24:09.620 And that's Ricky Gervais.

00:24:11.660 I mean, he's brilliant.

00:24:13.860 So.

00:24:14.400 Did you ever see Life's Too Short?

00:24:17.740 No.

00:24:18.340 I don't think so.

00:24:18.780 It was a show he made with Warwick Davis, who played, like, Leprechaun, and he was in Willow.

00:24:24.560 And they just, they just hate him.

00:24:28.100 So they do stuff like they make the door on their office.

00:24:30.860 They put the knob a little bit too high, so he can't get in.

00:24:34.300 It's just, it's just, it's like deliberately cheap, but it's so funny because Warwick is willing to take.

00:24:39.740 What's it called again?

00:24:40.940 Life's Too Short.

00:24:41.720 Life's Too Short.

00:24:42.400 I gotta look that up.

00:24:42.980 It's brilliant.

00:24:43.780 In one episode, he's being trolled by this kid constantly on MySpace, attacking him for being a dwarf.

00:24:50.020 So he finds him, goes to the school, walks into the classroom, and just starts ripping this kid apart where everybody's laughing.

00:24:56.960 And then it cuts back to the kid, and he's just in a wheelchair with a blow straw.

00:25:00.920 And then he realizes he starts feeling bad, so at the end he's like, well, you know, I just felt he kind of deserved it.

00:25:08.100 And, like, behind him, it's just the kid in the blow chair with, like, kick me on the back of it.

00:25:12.620 Kids are chucking backpacks at him.

00:25:14.820 And it's just like this.

00:25:16.320 It was so funny.

00:25:18.020 And, like, only, like, Gervais and somebody with enough vulnerability like Warwick Davis could have pulled it off.

00:25:23.600 Yeah.

00:25:26.560 You, I have a very dark sense of humor, but I know where that came from.

00:25:35.600 Gervais has a very dark sense of humor.

00:25:38.580 You're one of the darker ones I've seen. 0.99

00:25:42.840 Where does that come from with you?

00:25:46.920 A lot of places.

00:25:48.520 I grew up in, I grew up in Grosse Pointe Woods, which bordered Detroit.

00:25:52.180 Okay, that's enough.

00:25:52.860 Yeah, right there.

00:25:53.900 Right off 8 Mile.

00:25:55.120 You saw a lot of stuff.

00:25:56.860 My dad was, well, my mom was kind of like a bipolar nurse. 0.97

00:26:00.940 And my dad.

00:26:01.440 A nurse for people with bipolar?

00:26:02.880 No, no, no.

00:26:03.320 Or she had bipolar.

00:26:04.300 She was a great nurse. 0.99

00:26:05.460 She just wasn't good at treating her own bipolar.

00:26:07.760 Oh, okay.

00:26:08.320 Yeah.

00:26:08.900 And my dad got Agent Orange in Vietnam.

00:26:11.880 And they, he ended up with a brain tumor.

00:26:15.680 And the government was very kind.

00:26:17.700 They gave us absolutely nothing.

00:26:19.500 And they didn't, they didn't address it at all.

00:26:21.720 And his insurance company was like.

00:26:23.980 I know this sounds bad, but I kind of wish we'd returned to those days on a lot of fronts

00:26:28.160 with the government where they did nothing for you.

00:26:31.740 Anyway.

00:26:32.680 Yeah, they just, well, they didn't help at all.

00:26:34.860 Yeah.

00:26:35.120 Yeah.

00:26:35.220 The insurance company as well was like, sure, you've been paying us, but maybe you've had

00:26:40.480 it forever.

00:26:41.680 So he ended up having to pay out of pocket.

00:26:44.440 My dad was my hero.

00:26:46.680 He ran Babe Ruth Little League for everybody.

00:26:49.380 He was everybody's coach.

00:26:50.600 He was, and he got sick when I was about 14.

00:26:53.960 He ended up passing away, which then led to my mom's suicide.

00:26:56.800 And that, uh, that's where mine came from.

00:27:00.020 So we have a very, a lot in common.

00:27:02.000 Yeah.

00:27:02.800 Your mom as well.

00:27:04.140 Yeah.

00:27:04.320 When I was 14 or 15.

00:27:06.300 Yeah.

00:27:06.380 I'm very sorry to hear that.

00:27:07.560 Yeah.

00:27:07.680 I was a little older.

00:27:08.540 My mom did, but my dad died when I was a teenager.

00:27:10.960 Yeah.

00:27:11.660 Bad.

00:27:12.460 Yeah.

00:27:12.680 I was, I was on stage a couple of days ago and a kid in the crowd said he had been in

00:27:17.140 the back of a police car.

00:27:18.280 I said, why?

00:27:18.840 He said, well, my girlfriend's mom killed herself.

00:27:20.800 I was like, all right, she dug myself quite a hole, probably not as deep as the one they

00:27:26.000 dug for her.

00:27:27.500 And then I said, don't worry, my mom, I said, my mom, my mom killed herself, uh, as well.

00:27:32.960 Don't worry about it.

00:27:33.720 But it was right after we had our kid and she would be like, could I babysit?

00:27:37.860 And I'd be like, I don't know, mom.

00:27:39.120 Cause if you get depressed like an hour in, you're going to have to at least hang yourself

00:27:43.420 from the ceiling fan.

00:27:44.440 So he's got a mobile to look at.

00:27:45.920 And it's the only way that I could justify like the, right.

00:27:50.700 Cause I loved my mom.

00:27:52.240 Right.

00:27:52.620 I just, she, she lost her mind after my dad passed and because she was older, she worked

00:27:59.360 as a candy striper and then became a nurse and then she'd work in mental wards. 1.00

00:28:04.440 And as a result of that, she never got help and she knew how to, she would attempt suicide

00:28:09.700 and then talk her way out of it like that. 1.00

00:28:12.200 Cause she knew what to say.

00:28:13.660 Right.

00:28:14.000 She was smarter than them.

00:28:15.400 So she would just say whatever and they'd go, well, yeah, you shouldn't be here.

00:28:18.860 Obviously you clearly drank a bottle of Vicodin on accident to go home.

00:28:23.520 Right.

00:28:23.740 You know?

00:28:24.120 And so my dad would go around the country trying to pay out of pocket.

00:28:30.580 So my dad who went from nothing when we were born to a millionaire, lost everything.

00:28:35.820 And I ended up being raised by my aunt, my, my, or my aunt, various aunts.

00:28:41.920 My, the woman who was watching us was a very close family friend.

00:28:45.580 She ended up killing herself.

00:28:47.620 Did you ever start to think maybe?

00:28:49.400 I thought maybe it's me.

00:28:50.240 Yeah.

00:28:50.700 I'm going, am I the common denominator?

00:28:52.520 Do I snore?

00:28:52.980 A lot of people killing themselves around me.

00:28:54.820 I just sort of, yeah, she had been, she had been stealing pills from, uh, work.

00:29:00.600 She was an ER nurse and that she got caught.

00:29:03.620 And one day she didn't come home and I'm like, this is weird.

00:29:06.440 And then she didn't come home again.

00:29:07.880 But because I was now a teenage drug addict, I was like, well, I'm not going to ask any questions.

00:29:12.580 I'm just going to throw parties.

00:29:14.240 And then when I went to her house to check, she had, you know, she had, uh, swallowed a

00:29:18.760 handful, died in her bathtub.

00:29:20.100 And then I was watched by other aunts and stuff.

00:29:22.740 And I remember it cause she got very mad when she found out that I had smoked pot.

00:29:28.040 Very angry.

00:29:28.800 And I was like, this is weird.

00:29:30.140 She lets me smoke cigarettes and shoot pool and like what, you know, but she got nuts at me. 1.00

00:29:35.380 And I realized it was a projection of her own addiction.

00:29:38.880 So after that, uh, I just kind of, I didn't go to, I gave up on going to school.

00:29:44.620 I didn't really have any ambition other than possibly going to second city to do comedy,

00:29:49.280 but I didn't really believe in much.

00:29:51.940 And I was arrested 13 times over the course of, from what age to what age I was arrested

00:29:57.340 mostly from 16 to 20 and then once at 27.

00:30:02.660 And that's when my sobriety started and jail time, uh, just jail, not prison.

00:30:11.120 So just, yeah, I'm not some good for you.

00:30:13.480 I didn't break federal laws.

00:30:17.020 I mean, come on.

00:30:17.860 It was just some theft and four DUIs passing out at a red light in a toga.

00:30:24.020 Uh, yeah, I thought it was a stops in it, right?

00:30:26.560 You know, I thought it was a stop sign.

00:30:28.120 I thought it was a red light.

00:30:29.600 I was like this thing.

00:30:30.960 Oh, that was a bad day.

00:30:32.740 So I was waiting at a stop sign and I thought it was a red.

00:30:37.680 So I started snorting ketamine off of a roadmap, you know, an animal tranquilizer, you know,

00:30:43.260 to wake me up.

00:30:43.940 And I, I passed out and, uh, and who hasn't done that with their road now?

00:30:48.860 Clearly it's what they were for.

00:30:50.300 Kids are not kids today.

00:30:52.240 Where do they do their ketamine?

00:30:53.880 You know, right off their phone.

00:30:55.680 That's why it's so amazing that it's for depression.

00:30:57.720 Now I'm like, what do you think I was doing it for?

00:31:00.860 I could have told you that in 98.

00:31:02.720 So like, I, uh, I ended up, uh, getting woken up by the police and they're like, what are

00:31:10.980 you doing?

00:31:11.460 And I said, my, my car stalled.

00:31:13.360 And they said, it's running.

00:31:15.360 And I said, it must've restarted.

00:31:17.760 And then they arrested me and they walked me into the jail because it turned out I was

00:31:22.160 in front of the police station.

00:31:24.000 So it was these different things where I would get, and then a whippets was another one where, 0.91

00:31:29.580 uh, nitrous was very popular in the nineties in Detroit.

00:31:34.320 And in the late nineties, I went to probably like 2000.

00:31:38.040 I went to a store in Detroit and I was trying to buy like 30 cans of whipped cream in like

00:31:43.240 mid August.

00:31:44.340 And the guy's like, what are you going to use these for?

00:31:46.360 I'm like, uh, ice cream social.

00:31:48.600 And mind you, I'm wearing like a full track suit.

00:31:51.360 I have a sideways hat and chains.

00:31:53.860 And the guy's just taking them behind the counter.

00:31:57.040 He's like, I'm not selling you these.

00:31:58.340 I'm like, yeah, you are.

00:31:59.580 He's like, no, I'm not.

00:32:00.640 So I'm like trying to reach for him.

00:32:01.960 He's like, I'm going to call the cops.

00:32:03.700 Like, okay.

00:32:04.800 So I, I walk outside and I started giving them the finger and there were these two leaders

00:32:09.360 and I just started filling my car with the two leaders.

00:32:12.200 Like these are mine now I'm hammered.

00:32:14.660 And then I noticed a cop and I'm like, oh, so I start waving to the guy all politely.

00:32:19.960 Like, thank you for all the two leaders, sir.

00:32:22.140 And I get in and I strive away.

00:32:23.940 I get pulled over a few minutes later to the day I got my license.

00:32:27.660 I got a DUI the day I got in a high speed chase and crashed my car into a tree on the

00:32:34.260 day.

00:32:34.940 The day I got my license.

00:32:36.060 Yeah.

00:32:36.240 My dad let me borrow his car and he regretted it.

00:32:39.840 Yeah.

00:32:40.200 And it was a little bit after you just got diagnosed.

00:32:43.180 So you can tell that.

00:32:44.680 So you hadn't proven yourself to be.

00:32:47.420 Not yet.

00:32:48.040 A complete moron.

00:32:49.120 No, not yet.

00:32:49.800 No, no, no.

00:32:50.640 He, he was worried.

00:32:51.820 But my dad, fortunately at that time, I shouldn't say fortunately, but I think his brain hadn't

00:32:58.400 been going yet.

00:32:59.300 And my dad was very funny.

00:33:00.480 He was like danger field.

00:33:01.460 Like he would really make jokes about anything, really had a great sense of humor and was

00:33:06.280 tough as nails.

00:33:07.040 I mean, he had a halo in drilled to his head for a year and a half and he would go golfing

00:33:11.900 and he didn't take painkillers.

00:33:14.060 It was crazy.

00:33:15.120 But he, the day he loaned me the car is when he started to worry about me because I'd never

00:33:21.400 been arrested before.

00:33:22.460 I was 16 and I got in a high speed chase because I was giving people lawn jobs going under their

00:33:28.920 lawn, you know, ripping it up, you know, and I decided to do it in front of a guy who

00:33:34.820 was sitting in a BMW and I had a Buick Regal.

00:33:38.120 And so we ended up in this high speed chase and we were having a family reunion at the

00:33:42.520 time.

00:33:43.380 So I smashed into a tree.

00:33:45.440 Now, all my friends who were still conscious run.

00:33:49.800 I'm unconscious by the airbag.

00:33:52.160 So it's just me.

00:33:53.660 And what I didn't know, even though he had gone down to the hood to get liquor, was the

00:33:57.600 trunk was filled with a bunch of party supplies for the party the next day.

00:34:02.200 So the trunk pops open and for like a half a mile is potato chips and beer and liquor just

00:34:10.600 leading to me unconscious in a car.

00:34:15.240 And then I wake up and I see my dad and I walk out and my dad's never been violent to

00:34:20.360 me.

00:34:21.260 And I walk out and I go, dad, don't worry.

00:34:23.040 I'm okay.

00:34:23.680 And he just hit me in the face and knocked me out the second time that evening.

00:34:29.340 And then I get woken.

00:34:30.700 I finally wake up and the cop seriously goes, he's awake.

00:34:34.740 If you want to hit him again, completely on my day.

00:34:38.840 You know, they knew exactly what had happened.

00:34:41.400 Six months suspended license though, at that time, kind of a slap on the wrist, different

00:34:46.020 time.

00:34:46.540 And then from then on, the more my dad was gone, the more my family was gone.

00:34:52.100 I just, I had abandonment issues, which was not their fault, but I was just kind of lost.

00:34:58.560 I had, you know, I just sort of went to a very...

00:35:01.400 You're saying family's important?

00:35:02.860 Yeah, it's weird.

00:35:03.640 Yeah.

00:35:03.880 You know, it's, it's almost like you need them.

00:35:05.680 Right.

00:35:06.220 And yeah, so I was being raised by my friends who could stay out all night.

00:35:11.080 And a lot of them, the ones who could stay out all night, were dealing with certain issues

00:35:15.540 at home.

00:35:16.200 And the ones that had good home lives were going home.

00:35:19.340 And I ended up addicted to drugs and alcohol for years.

00:35:23.800 How far down that rabbit hole did you go?

00:35:25.580 Very, very, very.

00:35:27.100 I mean, 13 arrests and I was a...

00:35:29.880 If I didn't drink, and this was by the time I was a senior in high school, I remember I

00:35:34.640 went to eat rice at Eastland Mall in Detroit at a food court.

00:35:41.780 And when I went to eat the rice, my hand was shaking so bad from withdrawals.

00:35:45.900 It was like going everywhere.

00:35:48.060 And my friend Stu's like, do you have Parkinson's?

00:35:50.540 He's just like ripping on me.

00:35:51.760 And I'm like, I got to go to the bathroom.

00:35:53.460 And I drove down the street, grabbed some liquor from the liquor store, and I just slammed

00:35:59.760 it to drive back so I could sit down and finish eating my food.

00:36:03.980 Wow.

00:36:04.100 And that was the moment I'm like, I realized I was a severe alcoholic.

00:36:08.460 And then when I finally ended up in rehab and felt what it was like to detox, I knew

00:36:14.000 that I had some serious problems.

00:36:16.300 So you were really just addicted to alcohol?

00:36:21.540 Alcohol is my main thing, but I did...

00:36:24.180 I mean, I was a dry-souled weed.

00:36:25.680 I did everything.

00:36:26.720 But alcohol is my main thing, eventually cocaine, because I wanted to stay up to drink.

00:36:33.180 Correct.

00:36:33.440 And LSD was everywhere.

00:36:36.040 I mean, I did...

00:36:37.400 We ballpark at like 350, 400 hits.

00:36:40.500 Jeez.

00:36:41.200 Yeah.

00:36:41.900 What do you think of this new trend where LSD is cool again and it's good for you?

00:36:47.100 I don't believe it.

00:36:49.140 I mean, if there is some sort of idea to microdosing with mushrooms that actually cures depression

00:36:55.320 and there's people that believe it and can prove it, I'd be interested in truthfully seeing

00:36:59.720 it.

00:37:00.140 I'd like to see the facts.

00:37:01.400 LSD because of where it comes from and the way that it was made and the way that it's

00:37:07.680 sort of a mind control, I don't think it was good for me.

00:37:13.500 Because I have a thing called HPPD and I still get the occasional, you know, something will

00:37:20.040 move.

00:37:20.460 I don't understand things.

00:37:21.620 I have a concept of time that's not necessarily...

00:37:24.620 Really?

00:37:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:37:25.560 There's like a division of like when I started doing hallucinogens versus when I didn't and

00:37:31.440 I have like two separate lives and I didn't know that.

00:37:35.020 Yeah.

00:37:35.480 I didn't know that until my doctors, you know, diagnosed me with it.

00:37:41.680 So I just wouldn't do it.

00:37:43.560 You know, I've had friends who are like 40 now who are like, I think I want to try acid

00:37:48.020 and I'm like, at 40?

00:37:50.160 Like when you're 16, you don't have to worry about anything.

00:37:52.540 See, I have the different advice.

00:37:54.100 I became an alcoholic and now as an adult with teenagers, I need those blackouts.

00:38:02.820 I wasted them on nothing.

00:38:06.820 Oh, I'm not saying I don't miss a good one.

00:38:09.420 Don't piss those away, man.

00:38:10.860 You only have so many of those.

00:38:11.960 Yeah, I can still get a hangover though.

00:38:13.380 I just have to eat ice cream and then wake up the next day and I feel like I've been doing

00:38:17.100 egg stands all night.

00:38:18.840 It's wonderful.

00:38:19.660 So yeah, I guess, you know, really though, I guess how it went was just different dark

00:38:25.440 things happen in my life and making jokes with my friends.

00:38:28.480 It's how I just dealt with it.

00:38:32.140 Sitting here talking to another alcoholic and who had similar life growing up.

00:38:39.780 Uh, I know the danger of, um, drugs eat no matter how much pain you're in, uh, man, drugs can

00:38:49.600 be very, very dangerous.

00:38:51.200 So how do you kill a constant nagging pain without blowing holes through your stomach or being

00:38:57.720 addicted to something?

00:38:58.600 I have found relief factor.

00:39:00.840 And once I began taking it, almost all of my pain, well, all of my pain did go away almost

00:39:07.680 all of the time.

00:39:08.800 I still have flashes of it, but I, I, I wasn't able to use my hands or anything.

00:39:14.280 Um, most of the time it was awful.

00:39:17.280 Please give relief factor a shot.

00:39:19.480 Try it.

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00:39:35.760 A lot of people know you as, you know, the cohost with Steven Crowder.

00:39:40.400 Yes.

00:39:41.460 You, you still talk to him cause he's fallen off the map and yeah, the, uh, he, well,

00:39:47.220 he had the issue with the daily wire.

00:39:49.200 Uh, that was very public.

00:39:51.020 Um, I believe he's coming back though.

00:39:53.020 You do.

00:39:53.540 Yeah.

00:39:54.280 Good.

00:39:54.980 We miss him.

00:39:55.660 Yeah.

00:39:56.100 I know a lot.

00:39:56.600 He's very funny.

00:39:57.400 A lot.

00:39:57.820 Yeah.

00:39:57.980 A lot of people really want him back.

00:39:59.620 Yeah.

00:40:01.200 Um, uh, when you look at, um, people who are doing comedy, let's say Saturday night live

00:40:12.380 and you see the people that are on there now, do you think they know they've sold out that

00:40:20.140 they're, they're, they're, they're shills or are they just, have they just finally just hired

00:40:25.560 a bunch of people who are really not funny, just not, you know, it used to be, everybody

00:40:31.020 was really funny.

00:40:32.060 They just didn't know how to finish it.

00:40:33.820 Now it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's the ending of every scene is the whole

00:40:39.040 scene.

00:40:39.800 Yeah.

00:40:40.100 I agree.

00:40:40.580 It feels like it's written by the CIA every time you want, doesn't it?

00:40:43.740 It does.

00:40:44.160 It really is uncomfortable.

00:40:45.620 Yeah.

00:40:45.780 And then you see update and I kind of go, okay, they're comics.

00:40:49.340 I do think they are, you know, I think Colin Jost knows what he's doing.

00:40:52.820 You know, I think, but the rest of the show, it just feels like it's a forced thing.

00:40:57.280 It's like, I used to like Colbert.

00:40:59.600 Mm.

00:41:00.060 And then once you saw the dancing vax needles, I was like, why would you allow that ever?

00:41:05.720 Can you imagine even Johnny Carson coming out there or even Leno?

00:41:10.300 Anybody?

00:41:10.940 Nobody would have done it.

00:41:11.740 It's insane.

00:41:12.580 Nobody.

00:41:12.760 That's it.

00:41:13.280 That's an agenda.

00:41:14.180 It's propaganda.

00:41:15.420 And it's, and you've, you've, you've also, it's not that, that is, that screams propaganda.

00:41:22.760 It was so terrifying in a way to see those dancing needles.

00:41:27.580 Um, uh, but it's like people just write off half the country now.

00:41:32.980 Yes.

00:41:33.600 Where Carson would have never done that.

00:41:35.820 No, never done that.

00:41:37.300 It was for everybody to enjoy.

00:41:39.160 Yeah.

00:41:39.460 And that's the part where if you don't enjoy something on, on accident or because by default

00:41:45.920 you're offended or you don't like it, that's fine.

00:41:47.980 I mean, comedy is not for everybody.

00:41:49.620 Not everybody's going to like you, but now it's deliberate division and that's what they

00:41:54.700 want.

00:41:55.140 Yeah.

00:41:55.460 And that's what the, it's what the entire mainstream outlets are.

00:41:58.300 It's to make a group of people hate another group of people.

00:42:02.260 And unfortunately everything in the mainstream is designed to make you detest.

00:42:08.820 It's not even just right.

00:42:10.620 It's anything outside of their dogma.

00:42:13.900 Yes.

00:42:14.420 It's a religion.

00:42:15.440 Yeah, for sure.

00:42:16.280 I'd say it's, it's extreme.

00:42:18.480 It's hard to even call it left at this point because people can look at liberal and I can

00:42:24.300 look at liberal and go, well, I'd say I was liberal.

00:42:26.400 I don't, that's why I don't call it liberal anymore.

00:42:29.880 I don't, I'm uncomfortable calling it Democrats.

00:42:32.820 Yeah.

00:42:32.980 There are Democrats that I know that vote Democrat.

00:42:35.400 Right.

00:42:35.840 And they don't buy into all this crap.

00:42:37.620 They're strangely not standing up against it.

00:42:41.060 But that's different.

00:42:43.220 There is, the power is in the uber dangerous left.

00:42:49.320 Absolutely.

00:42:50.280 And that's why it's where they land.

00:42:52.680 But we're at a point now where people are doing things to be liked, but what they're

00:42:58.320 doing is extreme.

00:43:00.500 And what they're doing is, is it's violent, it's wrong, and it's very much to be liked.

00:43:06.320 And we're living in a thing where outrage is currency.

00:43:09.340 So why?

00:43:10.840 Why is that something you want to be a part of?

00:43:13.140 And it's not even, you know, it comes down to, we have arguments of people use trans or

00:43:19.540 they use this or they use that.

00:43:20.800 And they want to use victimhood and they want to use everything else or be a part of this.

00:43:24.820 I don't feel that this is how everybody feels.

00:43:27.780 I don't feel that there should be this constant training of division to make you feel like

00:43:33.200 you're nothing.

00:43:34.240 Yeah.

00:43:34.620 And that's what it is.

00:43:35.440 It's evil.

00:43:36.020 It is.

00:43:36.700 It is.

00:43:38.480 I've talked to several people and many of them atheists or agnostic.

00:43:43.800 I'm like, you know, this is a very religious word, but I don't know how to describe telling

00:43:49.820 people you are nothing.

00:43:53.180 You will never be anything unless you get them.

00:43:56.800 Yep.

00:43:57.360 That's, that's just evil.

00:43:59.380 Well, and to blame somebody else.

00:44:01.100 That's the idea.

00:44:02.220 You're never going to be anything because of that guy.

00:44:05.180 Why would you believe that?

00:44:06.840 And then you have an entire institution.

00:44:08.400 You have college, all that higher learning.

00:44:10.620 And the idea is you go there and a professor teaches you that you can never amount to anything

00:44:15.420 because you were born into a color.

00:44:17.300 And then this other color has everything, but doesn't deserve it. 0.70

00:44:20.980 And this has to somehow be switched.

00:44:23.900 So you're being trained that you should never be anything because you can't be.

00:44:28.040 Unless you take it.

00:44:28.880 Right.

00:44:29.260 And the other part is being taught that they are worthless and that they need to check

00:44:33.320 themselves in every way possible.

00:44:35.300 And I have a son.

00:44:36.140 It's like, I don't buy into that.

00:44:38.580 How old is he?

00:44:39.800 He's going to be eight this weekend.

00:44:43.700 So I'm judging by the way the world's going.

00:44:46.020 It's going to be a good last birthday.

00:44:48.620 Good last year.

00:44:49.700 You have to be.

00:44:52.180 I mean, I have teenagers.

00:44:53.900 I'm terrified for the world.

00:44:55.160 And they have gone to the age where they have asked me, so, dad, I know you're really

00:45:03.580 pessimistic.

00:45:06.320 What's my life going to be like?

00:45:08.920 And the honest answer is, I don't know.

00:45:13.300 It could be really great.

00:45:15.320 It could be really bad.

00:45:16.360 But I grew up in a time that was a blip in human history.

00:45:21.840 It's always been that, you know?

00:45:24.180 Yes.

00:45:24.620 But do you think the American age is over?

00:45:29.440 I think social media ruined it.

00:45:36.000 I think because I think technology ruined it.

00:45:39.340 I think technology evolved a lot quicker than people did.

00:45:42.180 Oh, yeah.

00:45:43.060 And I think that's the dangerous part is I do believe in freedom of speech and that everybody

00:45:47.420 should have a voice.

00:45:48.420 When did we stop saying, I so strongly disagree with you, but I'll fight to my last breath

00:45:52.960 for you to be able to say it.

00:45:55.160 Right.

00:45:55.660 And the problem is, is I've learned, though, that a lot of the people on social media maybe

00:46:02.180 shouldn't talk.

00:46:03.180 I've always thought of it as we've all we know these people were around us.

00:46:11.320 Yes.

00:46:11.440 I mean, we always had the guy on the street or the family on the street that everybody

00:46:17.000 else on the street would go.

00:46:18.140 Kids, do not play.

00:46:19.920 Don't just don't go over there.

00:46:21.280 Just don't go over there.

00:46:22.120 If they're talking to you, just just keep walking on.

00:46:23.900 Pretend you didn't hear it.

00:46:24.880 Everybody had that.

00:46:25.840 But now they have connected with everybody else's person on the street.

00:46:31.960 And so they have this voice.

00:46:36.340 It's the same voice.

00:46:38.020 It's always been.

00:46:38.920 It's just in our face and being used now to terrify all of us.

00:46:45.660 And everything's being used for fear, including a ring doorbell app like I have that where all

00:46:51.800 of a sudden I'm just want to make sure everything's safe in my house.

00:46:54.820 I have cameras in the back.

00:46:56.300 You know, it's I had I had to become a gun owner for my own safety.

00:47:00.700 And it was because of threats that I had gotten from being on like the Kumia show.

00:47:05.800 And so all of a sudden in my ring doorbell app, I'm getting stuff from, you know, other

00:47:09.940 people that have it like there's an ambulance on this street.

00:47:13.140 Does anybody know why?

00:47:14.840 It's like, I think you're a little too worried, but it's people that are shut ins that are

00:47:18.260 always worried about everything.

00:47:19.740 And now they're afraid because they're telling the whole neighborhood what to think and feel

00:47:23.940 and they're worried.

00:47:24.700 And it's it's this it's a market of fear.

00:47:27.440 So are you I mean, I might be one of those ring people affair that are like because I

00:47:34.980 want to my ring.

00:47:36.160 I want I want I love that technology.

00:47:39.680 I love the ease of everything.

00:47:41.620 But I don't trust the gathering of all of that information when it comes to those companies

00:47:48.700 now getting in bed with the government.

00:47:50.620 You're like, well, I don't want you having, you know, a complete visual contact of me all

00:47:58.500 the time.

00:47:58.880 Not like I'm coming home, you know, drenched in blood.

00:48:01.860 But no, I could.

00:48:02.960 I could.

00:48:03.580 I mean, yeah.

00:48:04.360 And then I really don't want it to work.

00:48:06.240 But I just don't want that intrusion.

00:48:10.200 And there's no one to trust, it seems.

00:48:13.060 No.

00:48:13.300 And they're selling you information out.

00:48:14.960 Yeah.

00:48:15.200 I remember when I got a pager and I was, I don't know, 16.

00:48:19.960 And my dad's like, excuse me, doctor.

00:48:21.860 And I'm like, what?

00:48:22.660 He's like, why do you have a pager?

00:48:24.680 And I'm like, you know, my friends.

00:48:26.860 Yeah.

00:48:27.280 I'm like, yeah, exactly.

00:48:28.240 I'm like, my friends want to get a hold of me, you know, in case they're near a pay phone

00:48:31.920 and need a dime bag. 0.99

00:48:33.500 But he's like, why do you really need one?

00:48:35.660 And I'm like, I don't know, that's what we have them.

00:48:38.180 He goes, don't you think it's dangerous how easy it is for people to get a hold of you?

00:48:42.320 Yes.

00:48:42.760 And this is in the 90s.

00:48:44.880 But it really bothered him because then it was right when like the internet came out and

00:48:48.800 he liked technology, but he just kept finding it scary how there was this beginning of no

00:48:53.800 privacy.

00:48:55.440 And this was, you know, he passed long before any of this stuff.

00:48:58.400 Yeah.

00:48:58.520 But even then he was warning me about what was going on, how this seems like it's a very,

00:49:03.860 very slippery slope into where you will never have a moment of a day where you can be left

00:49:09.100 alone.

00:49:09.720 Well, if you look at what the World Economic Forum is saying, if you look at even Ray Kurzweil

00:49:15.940 or Stephen Hawking.

00:49:17.620 Yeah.

00:49:18.120 We're talking about things that are so far beyond our understanding because man's never faced

00:49:26.240 anything like this with AI and all of the stuff is coming, that could be the most dangerous

00:49:34.260 cage that nobody ever gets out of except the ruling elite.

00:49:40.060 But they might actually be trapped by, you know, a form of AI that grows beyond them.

00:49:48.820 It is the acting elite in Hollywood may be ruined by AI because it's like, oh, we have

00:49:54.480 actors with no ego.

00:49:56.280 Yeah.

00:49:56.840 They're like, oh, that's great.

00:49:57.960 Yeah.

00:49:58.080 We don't have to pay them.

00:49:59.080 Right.

00:49:59.420 Oh, it's wonderful.

00:50:00.940 That can completely get completely happen.

00:50:03.520 There's no doubt about it.

00:50:04.280 I mean, in a very selfish way.

00:50:05.640 I mean, when it gets good enough, I thought I'm going to fake my death, you know, and just

00:50:11.680 hide it.

00:50:12.760 And then I'll just have me.

00:50:15.160 I'll just get up in the morning, take two minutes and go, talk about this.

00:50:18.420 And I'll be on TV and radio talking about that forever.

00:50:21.740 It's getting pretty solid.

00:50:23.240 I've been making a few porns of me.

00:50:25.500 It's just me and me.

00:50:26.620 They don't sell well.

00:50:27.820 No, no.

00:50:28.720 I'm the only buyer.

00:50:30.980 Right.

00:50:31.420 It's like a fine wine.

00:50:33.160 You know, you have to develop a taste for it.

00:50:37.020 Is there anything that is off limits?

00:50:43.780 No.

00:50:44.400 Yeah.

00:50:45.560 I used to say to my writers when we were doing, I was doing comedy shows early in my

00:50:52.600 career, and I said, I don't know, this might be over the line.

00:50:59.320 And I look at them and, is it funny?

00:51:01.420 If it's funny, never cut funny.

00:51:04.420 Ever.

00:51:05.680 That's the difference.

00:51:06.740 Like, there has to be this level where it's like, if you're doing something for complete

00:51:11.020 offense, just to be offensive.

00:51:13.400 Right.

00:51:14.040 Why?

00:51:15.040 But if it's hilarious, who cares?

00:51:17.980 I mean, I've never felt that anything should be, if it's done the right way, no.

00:51:24.220 Never.

00:51:25.360 And I've heard the most offensive jokes in the world.

00:51:28.100 And everyone I've heard is funny.

00:51:31.180 To me.

00:51:31.900 I mean, I'm not saying everybody would like them.

00:51:33.820 Right.

00:51:34.200 But, you know, to me, funny.

00:51:36.320 But, yeah, I don't find anything to be over the line.

00:51:39.040 And maybe I'm somebody that can take it a little more.

00:51:41.240 Like, sometimes I'll be hanging out with people at a party, and because I'm jaded, I'll say

00:51:45.840 something, and I'll be like, oh, man, I, yeah, yeah.

00:51:48.340 And you're like, well, that's, that's the one I shouldn't have gone with.

00:51:52.100 You know, and that's, and you guys to reel it in, and amongst other people.

00:51:56.880 Right.

00:51:57.080 Yeah.

00:51:57.400 Like, oh, right, you have a soul.

00:51:59.480 So, it just depends.

00:52:01.560 It's, but for me, yeah, no, there's no line.

00:52:10.580 You look at social media today and TikTok, and you see, I don't know if you saw the new

00:52:17.920 app that came out this week.

00:52:20.000 This is terrifying.

00:52:21.640 It's a new app.

00:52:22.420 It's a filter.

00:52:22.960 It makes, it doesn't work well with men, just women. 1.00

00:52:27.180 Yeah.

00:52:27.600 But it makes you absolutely model beautiful.

00:52:34.480 And so I don't need it.

00:52:36.980 No, I can't work that many miracles.

00:52:39.520 Okay.

00:52:39.860 It's weird.

00:52:40.620 It doesn't seem to work really well with men.

00:52:43.420 Yeah.

00:52:43.720 But with women, I mean, you'll see these people, and there's a couple that are like, oh, I don't 1.00

00:52:48.300 look like that at all.

00:52:49.240 And it, you know, just, they take the filter off, and you're like, really?

00:52:53.760 Yeah.

00:52:53.900 Put a little bit of makeup on, and you look like that.

00:52:56.360 Right.

00:52:56.660 But then, there's some that are just, woof.

00:53:01.360 Yeah.

00:53:01.720 And they are beautiful in the filter.

00:53:04.660 And every single woman that I saw doing it said the same thing. 1.00

00:53:10.160 This is so bad.

00:53:13.020 Is it called Tinder?

00:53:17.380 That's terrifying, though.

00:53:18.820 It's terrifying.

00:53:19.820 All of the women are saying, this is so bad.

00:53:22.260 They want it, but they know this is horrible, because I don't look like that.

00:53:30.100 We're living in a time where we have this impossible standard of beauty, while we're also trying

00:53:35.520 to embrace the worst things about somebody.

00:53:39.320 Now, I shouldn't say the worst, but if you happen to be obese, you happen to be these things

00:53:43.440 that people might find on a trip, whatever it might be.

00:53:46.380 I don't care.

00:53:47.680 But it's like, for other people, that's something that they might look at, however they are flawed,

00:53:53.240 where we don't embrace flaw, but then we're supposed to embrace flaw.

00:53:56.360 That's what I don't understand.

00:53:57.880 We're living in a time where you go, okay, Lizzo's gorgeous.

00:54:00.420 We want to love her for her body, whatever it is, while simultaneously saying, you're not

00:54:05.220 good enough.

00:54:05.860 You're not worth it.

00:54:07.240 You should look this good.

00:54:08.640 That's why we created this app.

00:54:10.220 It's a confusion and a consumerism that I'll never understand.

00:54:13.660 So, it just makes people feel like they don't...

00:54:17.820 But they're both lies.

00:54:19.940 Correct.

00:54:20.420 They're both lies.

00:54:21.700 That's what I don't get.

00:54:22.560 And then you have this reality in the middle that isn't acceptable, which is who you are

00:54:27.220 and who you should be.

00:54:28.960 And there's nothing...

00:54:29.640 And men, we're gross anyway.

00:54:31.680 I do not understand why women would even... 1.00

00:54:35.160 I don't understand why other guys are interested in other guys, let alone women. 0.72

00:54:39.040 I don't get it at all.

00:54:40.180 Yeah, like where you're like, because yeah, I grew up around guys.

00:54:42.600 It's like, they were disgusting.

00:54:44.020 You're disgusting.

00:54:44.860 Just awful creatures.

00:54:46.360 And then you look at women and they're just works of art. 1.00

00:54:49.320 And it's like, you don't even need an app to realize how beautiful you are.

00:54:53.220 Like, you're made to be perfect.

00:54:56.560 And then to have this on top of it, it's this competition with themselves that they don't

00:55:02.240 even need to be having that creates an insecurity amongst them that they don't deserve.

00:55:06.940 One of the things I fight with all the time, because I realized at one point last summer,

00:55:16.880 I think our family, we were on vacation.

00:55:19.140 And I think it was like the third day when I realized we hadn't said a genuine, kind thing

00:55:28.640 to one another in three days.

00:55:30.980 It's just, just wrecking.

00:55:34.640 And I mean, all of us are just, we just keep stepping it up, you know?

00:55:40.380 And I thought, I don't know if this is real healthy.

00:55:48.420 Sarcasm is, and I also realized a few years earlier, unfortunately, and I wish, I mean,

00:55:55.500 this is tragic, but I have a daughter with cerebral palsy and she's very literal, okay? 0.52

00:56:01.420 Yeah, oh yeah.

00:56:02.000 And, and I didn't, I didn't realize with all the sarcasm that's going on, you know, I know

00:56:10.920 she's very literal, but I didn't think like, you know how much you get sarcasm?

00:56:15.280 Right.

00:56:15.660 No.

00:56:15.900 Uh, and I, I just, I, I find myself in this place where it's like, I don't know, is that

00:56:22.700 good or bad sarcasm?

00:56:26.760 It's, yeah, it's tough.

00:56:28.760 I mean, if you know it for sure, I think it's, I think it's my favorite.

00:56:34.180 It's good though to me.

00:56:35.800 I mean, yeah, especially my son is very sarcastic.

00:56:38.540 He was like seven or eight.

00:56:40.040 Like I'll be excited about something or like an accomplishment I had.

00:56:43.300 Yeah.

00:56:43.700 Oh, I just did this and it went really well.

00:56:45.400 And you know, my son will just kind of go like, oh yeah, dad, that's really good.

00:56:49.460 You should be really proud of yourself.

00:56:51.480 And he sees seven.

00:56:53.440 I know.

00:56:53.860 And he just walks away and I'm like, I'm like, that hurt a lot.

00:56:58.520 It's like, why did you just kick me?

00:57:00.160 I know.

00:57:00.740 You know, and they get it though at this like young age and we were driving the other day

00:57:05.400 and we were late and to, uh, going to my brother's house and he goes, that's fine.

00:57:10.180 Your brother's always late.

00:57:11.220 Why don't you just blame it on him?

00:57:12.440 Like you always do.

00:57:13.460 I was like, what?

00:57:15.400 I was like, do I, I'm like, do I have two wives?

00:57:18.540 You know, it's just, he'll just say stuff where, so I, yeah, I think it just depends,

00:57:23.160 but I, I, I enjoy it.

00:57:25.440 Cause I think it's a fun way to be dry.

00:57:27.820 I love it.

00:57:28.540 I had a, uh, uh, a meeting with an executive at premier radio, uh, when they were first

00:57:35.080 hiring me to do syndicated talk.

00:57:37.300 Okay.

00:57:37.800 And, uh, he was the vice president in charge of the talk industry.

00:57:42.140 And, uh, so I had to go out and meet him.

00:57:44.580 It was the last interview I had to do.

00:57:45.920 And I sat at the steakhouse in New York city and Paul Castellano was shot outside.

00:57:54.480 Sorry.

00:57:54.920 And he was, he, everything he said, and I, I knew nothing about him and nobody warned

00:58:02.080 me about this.

00:58:03.080 Everything he said was either sarcastic or he was an ass.

00:58:09.380 Yeah.

00:58:09.560 You know what I mean?

00:58:10.100 And I walked out of that building and I said, I either love that guy or hate his guts.

00:58:19.360 You know what I mean?

00:58:20.460 Cause if he's serious, he's a monster, but he's the kind of guy, a little like Kaufman 0.99

00:58:29.380 that he just enjoyed it himself and he wasn't doing it for anybody else's laughs.

00:58:35.220 He's, he just likes to just watch people.

00:58:37.960 Yeah.

00:58:38.160 You know, and, uh, turns out, uh, he was very sarcastic, which worked out well for me.

00:58:43.780 Yeah.

00:58:44.080 Otherwise I probably would have been on a killing spree with him.

00:58:46.300 But, uh, uh, it's, it's, uh, it's bizarre.

00:58:51.140 Um, let me ask you, um, I had Jim Brewer on, I don't know, a couple of months ago.

00:58:57.220 Okay.

00:58:57.760 Yeah.

00:58:58.060 I saw the interview.

00:58:58.820 Yeah.

00:58:59.400 He is funny.

00:59:00.300 Yeah, he is funny.

00:59:01.040 He really is.

00:59:01.660 And, uh, we talked afterwards and I said, uh, cause he's very spiritual.

00:59:07.300 Spiritual, very spiritual.

00:59:08.800 Yes.

00:59:09.740 And, uh, uh, I said, you gotta do a comedy special on religion.

00:59:17.220 Cause he can approach it in such a way where he's skeptical and, you know, all the true

00:59:23.160 stories that he went through, um, that I think a lot of people, cause, because religious

00:59:27.800 people are always perceived as having a stick up their butt.

00:59:31.100 Yeah, of course.

00:59:32.700 Yeah.

00:59:33.520 Are you religious?

00:59:34.900 You were, cause you're, you grew up Catholic.

00:59:36.620 Yes.

00:59:36.820 Are you religious or are you spiritual?

00:59:39.220 Are you nothing?

00:59:40.520 It's odd.

00:59:41.200 Uh, no, no, I believe in God.

00:59:43.320 Um, I do.

00:59:44.020 I pray.

00:59:44.560 I do.

00:59:45.340 Um, but I have battled with it at times and it was kind of being sober and finding a God,

00:59:52.440 you know, that I believed and sort of taking pieces of what I thought different religions

00:59:58.760 worked for me and it's not that I don't believe in Catholicism.

01:00:03.080 I was very, very angry at the church for what they covered up.

01:00:07.260 That's just the truth.

01:00:08.040 You were an altar boy.

01:00:09.220 Yes.

01:00:09.740 Yeah.

01:00:10.040 Oh yeah.

01:00:10.500 Still.

01:00:11.200 I mean, you still can't sit.

01:00:13.480 I, uh, uh, no, my, it was my brother.

01:00:20.280 But that didn't happen to you.

01:00:21.660 No, no, no.

01:00:22.240 Thankfully, thankfully not.

01:00:23.500 I wasn't, uh, I wasn't that cute enough.

01:00:25.720 Yeah.

01:00:26.340 It was, uh, I tried.

01:00:27.960 Did you feel kind of like, you know, it's not that I want it.

01:00:31.520 I started dressing sexier.

01:00:33.440 I, uh, I would put glitter on before mass.

01:00:38.760 Yeah.

01:00:39.340 Um, I, I, that was disheartening to me though, because I, uh, even when my mom would kill

01:00:44.780 herself, she was very devout and we would go to church sometimes three times a week to

01:00:50.380 the point where even God was like, you want to slow down?

01:00:53.460 Like, you know, you're really becoming kind of a groupie.

01:00:56.500 Yeah.

01:00:56.640 It's been much, you know, it's like, look, I get it.

01:00:59.500 You, you, you're doing it right.

01:01:00.940 Right.

01:01:01.340 Yeah.

01:01:01.980 Um, but I am, yeah, I am.

01:01:04.400 And I do go to church here and there and I, I wouldn't say that I'm, you know, certainly

01:01:08.820 this very, very devout in the sense of, I follow all the rules, do everything right.

01:01:14.040 I'm not, I very much just believe on, believe very strongly in treating other people.

01:01:19.260 Well, being kind to other people and just praying to God, knowing that I am completely

01:01:25.820 flawed in every way imaginable.

01:01:27.700 And I try to do work on the side that I can do privately to help other people do what

01:01:33.840 I do.

01:01:34.440 This is not, this is now it feels kind of like, well, like kind of like you're, you're saying

01:01:40.240 too much, like I'm covering and I, I help people on the weekends.

01:01:45.360 And I, yeah, yeah, yeah, look, I killed a guy on the way too much.

01:01:52.940 I, when I used to drink, you know, you wake up in the morning and you, you go, well, I

01:01:56.820 hope that's deer blood on the hood of my car.

01:02:02.340 I guess deers wear shoelaces.

01:02:04.900 Um, yeah, uh, I am, but it's like, I can't say I'm a particular religion to be honest with

01:02:10.920 you.

01:02:11.060 I guess is what I'm trying to say.

01:02:12.340 I, I, I, but I don't hate the Catholic church.

01:02:16.540 Like I, I, I did for a minute.

01:02:18.460 And that's the truth because I was very, very angry at what happened.

01:02:22.560 But now that I've had priests come to my shows that are fans, they find the jokes funny.

01:02:27.220 I've been able to open my eyes to go, well, there was a serious problem going on.

01:02:32.160 There may still be.

01:02:33.820 So, so the fact that they go to your show and find your filthy comedy.

01:02:42.820 Funny doesn't make you question them as priests.

01:02:45.160 No, I think it's great.

01:02:46.340 Yeah, it's kind of true.

01:02:47.520 But like, I'll, I'll even go out to him and go, sorry about that whole altar boy part.

01:02:50.940 And they'll be like, I'm just glad it went by quick.

01:02:54.280 Glad I wasn't wearing the collar.

01:02:57.620 Yeah.

01:02:57.940 They'll be in like one of my shirts.

01:02:59.360 Yeah, I guess it's, it's, it's hard for me to answer, you know, then, then a simple yes

01:03:06.360 or no.

01:03:06.740 Cause it's like, yes, I do believe in God and I do believe that there is something that

01:03:12.680 has created us.

01:03:13.700 But I, I, at the moment I'm trying to figure out not so much what that is, but what I believe

01:03:19.860 fully.

01:03:20.620 Yeah.

01:03:21.520 Is the best way.

01:03:22.280 I don't think, I mean, I keep.

01:03:25.220 But yeah, it does sound more where I'm like, no, I try to be nice.

01:03:28.300 I don't, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't know.

01:03:32.480 I, I, I do stuff.

01:03:34.920 Yeah.

01:03:35.180 Um, I've never, I, you know, I, I don't traffic no more, you know, it's just sort of.

01:03:40.520 I don't traffic no more.

01:03:42.380 Yeah.

01:03:42.880 I, uh.

01:03:44.060 But I do believe in God.

01:03:45.140 Yeah.

01:03:45.400 I think, uh, my father, when he died, um, he was so open-minded on almost everything.

01:03:54.820 Um, and I really loved that about him.

01:03:58.740 Uh, he could find the, he could find the joy other people had in things that he didn't

01:04:06.940 necessarily agree with, you know, but he thought this is great.

01:04:11.180 Um, and towards the end of his life, he became just so calcified and he became a different man.

01:04:19.340 And I think the secret to never getting old and also probably to a better afterlife is

01:04:30.540 just always question always.

01:04:34.320 I don't know.

01:04:35.740 I don't know.

01:04:36.580 I mean, I know what I believe, but I could get to the other side and it's like nothing

01:04:42.220 like that.

01:04:42.800 Maybe it's that, you know, the elephant and the eight armed woman up there.

01:04:46.520 Yeah.

01:04:46.680 I'd be shocked.

01:04:47.780 I'd be shocked if it was, but think about that.

01:04:50.280 If I'm, you know, if I'm up there and I'm dead and that's the reality, I guess I'm like,

01:04:55.380 I'm Hindu or whatever that really, yeah.

01:04:58.740 You're like, oh, is that close enough?

01:05:00.180 Are you just, yeah, you wake up and you're a lizard and you're like, yeah.

01:05:04.820 And I thought about that too, where I think that's, that's the part that bothers me sometimes

01:05:10.020 about religion where it's like, I know exactly what happens and I judge you very hard for

01:05:14.220 it.

01:05:14.380 Right.

01:05:15.040 And, and, and I don't know.

01:05:17.220 All I know is nothing.

01:05:20.320 And, and I was raised to question everything.

01:05:23.000 It's like when I was young, my dad was, I saw JFK in the theater when I was nine and

01:05:28.280 like we would go to Gettysburg, we would go to all these history places and that's where

01:05:32.460 we, and I actually had interest in it as a kid, but it was basically my dad saying,

01:05:36.920 Hey, the CIA killed this guy.

01:05:39.080 I'm like nine, you know?

01:05:40.500 And it's like, don't trust anything.

01:05:42.000 Don't try.

01:05:42.580 And I always learned like, don't necessarily believe anything that you see as fact.

01:05:47.740 And that's how I grew up to believe everything is just don't necessarily believe what's on

01:05:53.280 the surface.

01:05:53.680 Correct.

01:05:53.840 Like you said, always ask questions.

01:05:55.920 That's how I was raised.

01:05:56.840 Isn't it crazy?

01:05:57.340 I, I mean, I remember the JFK thing, you know, there was more shooters, blah, blah, blah.

01:06:05.680 He was a CIA agent.

01:06:07.020 And when I got older, I could look into those things and go, well, maybe, I don't know, but

01:06:12.080 maybe, but now it's starting to come out and you're like, good God, it looks like the CIA

01:06:20.460 or somebody involved in the government did kill him.

01:06:24.380 Yes.

01:06:25.340 I mean, it's almost as if everything you believed is crumbling and that is so dangerous because

01:06:33.320 you, you got to hold onto something.

01:06:35.540 Is there anything that was real?

01:06:37.920 Do you feel like that ever?

01:06:39.240 Yes.

01:06:39.440 All the time.

01:06:40.540 Because everything that I look at is somehow related to something that you were supposed

01:06:44.440 to believe in.

01:06:45.280 You were supposed to believe in some, you were supposed to believe in some level of decency

01:06:49.440 and some level of protection.

01:06:51.260 And the reality is, is all along, it's been a level of power.

01:06:56.100 And that's what bothers me about everything that's going on.

01:06:59.340 It's the same thing with, if people look at a global thing or everything that's going

01:07:02.860 on right now, what is the benefit of everything?

01:07:05.540 That's the benefit of everything that's happened in the last few years.

01:07:07.460 Power.

01:07:08.360 That's it.

01:07:10.000 And what does power want?

01:07:11.880 More power.

01:07:12.560 That's it.

01:07:13.000 They don't care.

01:07:14.300 It's the same as, you know, I know that you talk about certain things people had to

01:07:20.320 take.

01:07:21.520 You know, you look at Woody Harrelson the other night on SNL and how people are getting

01:07:24.980 mad.

01:07:25.520 And it's like, for what?

01:07:27.080 For saying what happened?

01:07:29.040 He just said what happened.

01:07:30.700 That's all he said.

01:07:32.560 And people are outraged.

01:07:34.240 Why are you outraged?

01:07:36.040 It's just what happened.

01:07:38.440 That's the part I don't understand.

01:07:39.840 Why did you not question it?

01:07:41.720 Why did you think that that was a good?

01:07:43.860 Again, I have every vaccine imaginable.

01:07:46.920 The one that I didn't take was the one that seemed a little odd.

01:07:50.740 Like even in my special, when I talk about, you know, if I got the polio vaccine and the

01:07:55.120 next morning I woke up and I'm like, why are my legs all noodley?

01:07:58.420 You know, I'm just, you know, across the floor.

01:08:02.100 Yeah.

01:08:02.460 It's like, I would have questions.

01:08:04.020 So I just kept noticing everybody was getting sick.

01:08:08.100 So I'm like, well, this isn't effective.

01:08:09.940 And I kept flying and I would go to like Florida or Alabama that would let me do shows.

01:08:14.380 And people are like, you're the biggest germaphobe I know.

01:08:16.660 Why are you flying?

01:08:17.460 I'm like, there's no one on the plane.

01:08:19.400 I get first class.

01:08:20.660 I pay $80 and then they pump me up.

01:08:23.420 No one's on the plane.

01:08:24.720 I can still make money as a performer.

01:08:26.960 I am like, this is absurd.

01:08:29.000 Like you putting a mask on with your germy hands is absurd.

01:08:33.720 And it's because I grew up with somebody who was teaching me about germs constantly.

01:08:38.860 So it all didn't add up.

01:08:40.600 And the way that people didn't question it and politicized it made no sense.

01:08:45.520 And then switched.

01:08:47.140 Like the left was completely against Trump.

01:08:50.200 It was at warp speed, all this.

01:08:52.240 Don't take the vaccine.

01:08:53.300 Don't do this.

01:08:53.940 Don't do that for it.

01:08:54.940 Yeah.

01:08:55.320 Then in one day they were like, yeah, you got to take Biden's vaccine.

01:08:59.200 But yeah, you got to do this.

01:09:00.340 Right.

01:09:00.680 And they were against big pharmaceuticals.

01:09:03.840 But in the worst pharmaceutical incident, I think maybe since Bayer in Germany, you're

01:09:13.400 seeing that this is collusion with the government and it's all cover-ups.

01:09:18.400 And yet those same people who were right to question pharmaceuticals are now like, don't

01:09:24.560 say that about Pfizer.

01:09:26.040 How dare you say that about Pfizer?

01:09:27.200 Yeah.

01:09:27.640 Why would a company ever, ever do something against you?

01:09:31.940 It's not like they created an epidemic of opioids.

01:09:35.340 And I'm young enough to, or, you know, and I'm old enough to remember where I worked at

01:09:40.100 a pharmacy in the nineties, which is a great place for a drug addict to work.

01:09:43.720 Oh, it's really good.

01:09:44.540 Especially when they weren't really counting anything.

01:09:46.460 Right.

01:09:47.040 Because you could just get a handful of Valium and just throw some nickels in there.

01:09:51.240 You know, but it was, I remember though, the, the Oxy wraps and the Vicodin wraps.

01:09:59.120 And I mean, you could have an Oxy pen at the doctor's office, you know, like this was something

01:10:03.200 that they were selling.

01:10:04.440 Oh yeah.

01:10:04.780 They were really pushing it, everything.

01:10:06.520 And I'm not against opioids for the proper use of them.

01:10:09.100 Right.

01:10:09.220 But I don't believe that anybody should have to live in pain.

01:10:12.840 Not at all.

01:10:13.580 You know, there's enough stuff to kill it, but you know, fentanyl is an end of life drug.

01:10:20.860 That's what it says on the box.

01:10:22.060 It's for hospice.

01:10:23.020 End of life use only.

01:10:25.180 For hospice.

01:10:26.260 Yeah.

01:10:26.380 And sadly I've lost, oh man, at least 15 friends in the last two years.

01:10:33.720 From fentanyl?

01:10:34.200 Oh yeah.

01:10:34.740 Because it was in cocaine.

01:10:37.640 And I don't know why people are still doing cocaine, but then it's in there.

01:10:42.140 There's the tiniest bit.

01:10:43.620 They don't know what it's for.

01:10:45.120 They don't know if it's for, because they make it for a different degree of, you know,

01:10:48.940 some is for people, some is for elephants, some is for the, you know, and then it ends

01:10:52.980 up killing them. 0.94

01:10:54.680 It's like, I wouldn't touch any of that stuff now, but that's a drug that is designed to

01:11:00.740 kill you peacefully. 0.56

01:11:01.720 And it's just being made and pumped out.

01:11:07.400 You're on the road now.

01:11:08.740 Yes.

01:11:09.140 Where are you going?

01:11:10.380 I will be in, let's see, where am I going?

01:11:13.920 I'm going to the Ice House in Pasadena, California.

01:11:17.500 And then I will be at the Comedy Zone in Greenville, South Carolina.

01:11:21.400 When are you at Milk Through Your Nose?

01:11:23.660 I will be, what, every other Wednesday?

01:11:28.040 Every other Wednesday.

01:11:29.320 Okay.

01:11:30.460 Sounds like a club that would exist.

01:11:34.060 Yeah, I'm at Yuck Yucks and Milk Through My Nose.

01:11:36.520 Yeah.

01:11:37.080 I'm at Barn Yucks, Huckle House.

01:11:39.580 Well, I hope we see more of you.

01:11:42.860 You're very funny.

01:11:43.480 Thank you.

01:11:43.760 I really enjoyed talking to you.

01:11:45.520 Comedy specials just unbelievably offensive, but very funny.

01:11:50.480 Thank you so much.

01:11:51.140 Thank you.

01:11:57.280 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend

01:12:02.900 so it can be discovered by other people.

01:12:04.520 We'll see you next time.

01:12:17.320 Bye-bye.

01:12:21.460 Bye.

01:12:27.780 Bye-bye.

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 04, 2023

Ep 175 ｜ Is THIS the Most DANGEROUS Man in Comedy？｜ Dave Landau ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 04, 2023

Ep 175 ｜ Is THIS the Most DANGEROUS Man in Comedy？ ｜ Dave Landau ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Ep 175 ｜ Is THIS the Most DANGEROUS Man in Comedy？｜ Dave Landau ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast