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00:03:03.000But while I was sitting there, it was a Tuesday.
00:03:06.000I was off from shooting, and I remember calling my wife and specifically saying, I like it here and everything, but if Godzilla comes out of the Hudson River, where are all these people going to go?
00:03:20.000If you sit in New York City in Manhattan, like on the 50s, and just sit there at a cafe, you could estimate, I mean, it's like maybe 10,000 for every 10 minutes that you sit there, people that walk by you.
00:03:35.000We don't have that foot traffic in LA like there's in New York.
00:03:40.000There's a little bit of foot traffic downtown, but Sunset Strip, that ship sailed.
00:03:45.000You don't see people walking around the Sunset Strip, Hollywood Boulevard, but not to the dense, you know, not to the numbers of New York.
00:06:20.000The store was planning on keeping the OR open, and they canceled my show in the main room, and they offered me a spot in the OR. I was like, I don't think we should be doing shows.
00:06:34.000Because if you make a mistake, and there's a 14-day period where all these people can get infected, who the fuck knows who gets infected during those 14 days?
00:06:44.000Because we didn't know what it was yet.
00:06:48.000It's still strange because so many people, Idris Elba apparently is asymptomatic.
00:06:53.000He's not showing any symptoms and he has asthma.
00:06:55.000And I was reading something, find out if this is true, that somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of the people are asymptomatic.
00:07:05.000And I wonder if that means they never show symptoms, or I wonder if that means they're asymptomatic for a certain period of time, so 60% of the people infected are asymptomatic, but a certain percentage of those people ultimately get the cold, or get the cough and all the terrible symptoms.
00:09:28.000I saw the one that the guy had the 40th birthday party and they all got on planes afterward and went off to different parts of the country.
00:09:36.000Family from New Jersey was not very old either.
00:12:57.000There's no way anybody could dial it into one person where you got it from.
00:13:01.000That's the weird thing is we're constantly interacting with people and touching surfaces.
00:13:05.000And according to these cruise liners that they're testing where these people were sick, even people that are asymptomatic, it shows the virus stays on surfaces for as much as 17 days.
00:14:31.000They're trying to say that this is an American disease.
00:14:36.000There's some propaganda network from China that's, I don't know what's connected to the government or what, or maybe it's people just fucking around.
00:15:10.000You might just go to the fucking movies, watch a nightmare movie, watch a horror movie while you're in this fucking theater just wondering if everything you touch is eventually gonna kill you?
00:15:24.000Apparently, they were saying also that it has something to do with blood type, and they don't know why, but a lot of the fatalities were blood type A. They seem to be vulnerable, or maybe it's just a coincidence.
00:15:34.000They don't have enough data yet, especially here, like reliable data that we can trust here in America.
00:22:09.000Look, the skier that went skiing in New Rochelle, the Jewish guy that went to the synagogue, well, the two dudes he went skiing with, I mean, Encino, in critical condition, well, they were.
00:24:43.000I don't think that's the way to do it.
00:24:44.000I mean, if they do do it and they have a bunch of people almost like podcast style, maybe that would work and have like a telethon, raise money for the staff.
00:25:51.000We have her on a home school schedule.0.72
00:25:53.000They have an 11 o'clock, 10 o'clock video conference and an 11 o'clock Then we do math, we take a breather, and she hits the mitts too.1.00
00:26:03.000Everybody gotta hit the mitts at the house.0.68
00:26:04.000We gotta get that stress out, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:22.000It is the one defense for this that seems to be agreed upon by almost everyone, is that if you have a strong immune system, you have a better chance to get through any sickness.
00:30:33.000And you can do something to strengthen your immune system.
00:30:36.000Your immune system is something you can work on.
00:30:38.000You can work on it by cleaning up your diet.
00:30:40.000You can work on it with regular exercise.
00:30:42.000You can work on it with regular sleep.
00:30:43.000All those things have a real big impact on your immune system.
00:34:52.000I don't know what the difference is between CBDMD's PET formula and their regular formula, but I had three full droppers of their peanut butter PET formula.
00:35:32.000I'm enjoying the time, just the relaxing time of no pressure of things to do, you know, no shows to go to, stay home every night, hang out with the girls.
00:40:14.000So some people are paying attention to everything, some people are over-cautious.
00:40:18.000I went to the fucking supermarket, this lady had goggles on, and she had, I mean, not goggles, but big Jackie Onassis, dark sunglasses, a fucking face mask with these giant gloves on, and she's walking away from everybody, like everyone's a bomb.0.90
00:42:15.000And if you don't respect it, people are gonna die.
00:42:18.000And there's people like the lieutenant governor, I think, who he is of Texas, who is like, we should take a risk with older people just to get the economy back in line.1.00
00:43:23.000So they locked everything down and now they're like, listen, this could last a long time.
00:43:27.000We've got to start the rumblings now of getting this ball rolling again.
00:43:32.000Because if this goes six, seven months, and no one's working, no one can go outside their house for six, seven months, this is crazy.
00:43:39.000We won't have any money, and China's going to take over.1.00
00:43:42.000Tucker Carlson had this whole piece he did that I saw that was actually pretty accurate, where he was talking about what could be possible.
00:43:51.000He was talking about how the NBA... Did you see that whole segment where the NBA, they had said something about China, and then you see all these people that were praising China and saying positive things about China?
00:44:05.000What was the reason behind that, Jamie?
00:44:19.000It was support for Hong Kong, and then China got pissed at that, and so then they started tweeting nice things about China, and they started...
00:44:28.000Well, at the time that that happened, there was, like, NBA teams in China doing games, and they'd just come back, and then they started asking all of them what they thought about this, and then, like, LeBron started supporting China, I think, and then everyone jumped on them, and, like...
00:44:50.000Well, what Tucker Carlson was saying in this piece was that imagine if that's the whole country.
00:44:56.000Understand that if China's the ruler of the world, if China becomes the ruler of the world, not the United States because of something like this.
00:45:08.000The idea that the United States is the ruler of the world, so it has to stay the ruler of the world forever.
00:45:13.000No, natural disasters, disease, fucking asteroid impact, there's a bunch of different things that could shift the balance of power in the world.
00:45:48.000Well, that's ridiculous because we're human beings and other human beings are stuck in a circumstance where they're living under a military dictatorship.
00:45:55.000So there's no difference between them and us other than culture and the place where they live.
00:46:03.000With natural disaster, with disease, with failure of the economy, with war, with all these different factors, things change, and our perception, much like our perception of our society itself, it's always going to be like this, and all of a sudden this disease comes along and shuts everything down.
00:46:18.000You're like, whoa, that's a fucking wake-up call.
00:46:20.000You need to recognize that this is kind of fragile.
00:46:45.000This is uncharted territory where we have slipped into a place where no one's working and everyone's scared and the president wants to go back to work on Easter because it's a special day to him.
00:48:30.000And she's telling me to stay the fuck home and mind my business.
00:48:33.000I do know three, four people who work in emergency rooms that have told me it's not a fucking pretty place.
00:48:40.000My brother's a cop in a hospital, and he says that it's a fucking nightmare, that you have to sort them out, A and B, and B is if you have kidney-itis, and A is if you have corona.
00:52:58.000It's that they used a video of me to support their campaign to say that I endorsed him.
00:53:05.000And then they took a bunch of my bits, and they took a bunch of things we said on the podcast, high as fuck, out of context, and made it look like I was some right-wing monster.
00:53:15.000Make them like I'm some sort of homophobe.
00:53:18.000And then they use the transphobe thing from the lady that used to be a man.
00:53:23.000If you don't know the story, used to be a man for 30 years, became a woman for two, and then started beating the fuck out of women without telling them that her whole life she had been a man up until recently.1.00
00:53:34.000She just thought it was a medical condition that she didn't have to reveal.
00:54:07.000I'm a guy that I support bull riding, okay?
00:54:10.000I support if you're a woman and you want to fight a man, I support it.0.99
00:54:14.000But you got to let that person know that you're a man.
00:54:19.000If you used to be a man, you've got to let them know.
00:54:21.000If a woman wants to fight a biological man right now, a guy with his balls, and she wants to do it, and he wants to do it, and they sign off on it, you could skydive.0.70
00:54:50.000It doesn't mean the woman can't win because Jermaine Duran to me Actually had a kickboxing fight with a man and knocked him the fuck out.1.00
00:55:46.000You can't fight women if you used to be a man and not tell them.0.99
00:55:50.000It's so ridiculous that that's even a debatable subject.
00:55:54.000Like, I had a bit about it where I said, never do I think as a society we could get to a point where someone would say, hey man, I don't think it's cool if you get your dick removed and then beat the fuck out of chicks.1.00
00:56:04.000And people would be like, you're out of line.
01:01:15.000But anyway, they had a meme on their page that said, you're telling people you're going to put them in jail if they go out after 8 p.m., but you're letting people out of jail early because they got the coronavirus.
01:03:46.000A lot of them did because they wanted to work.
01:03:48.000See, the thing about Harvey is apparently, this is Whitney Cummings' take on it, she said he would actually give them the things he would tell them he would give them.
01:03:57.000So he'd say, hey, you suck my dick, I'm going to make you a star.0.54
01:05:03.000One of the people said the producer did not have symptoms and was under close observation.
01:05:07.000It was not clear why he had been tested.
01:05:09.000I'm telling you, there's a lot of shit that don't sound right to me.
01:05:14.000Listen, Invicts are the last people they care about.
01:05:18.000The only problem you have with those things is that you could really sue the state.
01:05:23.000I got locked up when HIV was starting to get popular, 87, 88. So as soon as I got to my destination, they had already built an HIV unit that was a fucking state-of-the-art facility.
01:05:37.000Everybody else lived like a fucking Momo.
01:06:27.000But I mean, the people that were already inclined towards hating gay people, and then there's a disease that everyone's terrified of that you get through sex that could kill you, and it affects gay people disproportionately.
01:06:42.00083, 82, those are tough years, you know.
01:06:48.000They even made a phenomenal movie about it called And The Band Played On with Richard Gere and a bunch of great actors.
01:07:10.000And everybody in that movie was a movie star.
01:07:13.000It was a phenomenal movie about HIV. HIV really started with a stewardess, a male stewardess that would take flights from France or Italy or England.
01:07:25.000Don't quote me, but let's just go with France to New York.
01:07:29.000And when he would come to New York he would fuck somebody from the plane, then go to Studio 54 and get his dick sucked, and then go right back to England.0.74
01:09:47.000Where Gene Simmons was brilliant was on Miami Vice when he played the coke dealer on the fucking boat in the pilot for the second season.0.98
01:10:30.000There's a lot of great movies from that era.
01:10:34.000I've been putting them out, G. That's it.
01:10:36.000It started, like, March 4th for me, by mistake.
01:10:40.000At about 11 o'clock, I caught on, because my wife changed something at the house, so they threw a different epic out of some package, and at 11 o'clock, Death Wish was starting.
01:10:51.000And I watched it from the beginning, and now I know why rape and all that shit is disturbing to me.
01:11:24.000You were with Bronson, and at that time, New York had had the vigilante, the Jewish guy, Berkowitz, the one that got on the train and shot the two black teens because he felt intimidated by them.
01:21:35.000So instead of hitting the bag, he decided to run up a hill in Canada.
01:21:39.000It was very hard to run up this hill, so every day he would run up the hill.
01:21:44.000And finally there was a kid in the block, and he had some type of muscular dystrophy, and the kid always said, I'd like to walk up that hill.
01:21:52.000So then he said, listen, before you die, we're going to walk up the hill one time.
01:21:57.000And they walked up the hill on the way back.
01:23:34.000And the other comedian was like, man, you're just a bum.
01:23:38.000And you know, like when you're at that, when you're an open mic and you really can't, and he was walking away and he said something to somebody, he goes, it's going to be all right.
01:23:48.000And Eddie Murphy goes, nah, it ain't, man.
01:23:50.000There's nothing worse than having something to sell and nobody to sell it to.
01:28:48.000I think it's going to be a long time before we feel comfortable doing shows again.
01:28:51.000It's going to be strange at first, you know?
01:28:53.000But I also think when the dust settles, it will settle, hopefully, unless this is the first thing that falls and then all those other things fall into place that we talked about, like natural disasters.
01:29:31.000And I think we've gone through a long stretch in this country where everything was static, everything was doing fairly well, we were on an upward trend, no real tragedy nationally that changed the way we live our life other than September 11th.
01:29:47.000So we got like September 11th and then all these years of war of course, crime of course, but we're basically business as usual for most folks.
01:30:33.000There's a fucking end to this ride, okay?
01:30:36.000This ride comes to a stop someday, and it doesn't matter how much shit you've acquired, it doesn't matter how far you got up this ladder, what position of prominence you have in the community, and how you're respected by the business world, nobody gives a fuck when you're dead.
01:31:29.000There's a lot of guys listening to this right now that we're hoping for these weekends coming up so they could pay their rent.
01:31:33.000This is uncharted territory for those folks and all of us that are Experiencing this, but the people that are going check to check, they're the ones who are really getting hit.
01:31:41.000I want them to also know that you cannot stress over this enough that your stress makes you get sick also.
01:34:24.000Listen, so what you mean to tell me is that Motley Crue, who was supposed to start a huge tour in August, Guns N' Roses, who was supposed to start a massive tour I mean,
01:34:41.000when Live Nation thinks about giving that Motley Crue money back, they have a heart attack.
01:34:54.000I think it's August that they go on tour.
01:34:57.000So what are you telling me, that right after people are allowed to go out, people are going to start Going out and spending money right away?
01:36:21.000How long do you think it's gonna be, if you had a guess?
01:36:28.000Honest, honest, honest, honest by what I'm seeing today, by what I watched in the news last night, I think for me to go back on stage, it'll be May 1st.
01:36:44.000And I don't know when I'll be on another plane again.
01:37:15.000I've written jokes that, like, you know, the funny thing was, like, last week, they had that poor little white kid that had the rosy cheeks.
01:48:36.000They have a heightened sense of appreciation of life.
01:48:40.000Like my friends, all my Jewish friends that would go over there for whatever religious thing, they would talk about how hot the Israeli chicks were.1.00
01:49:34.000So now that focus has to be on real survival things and health and community and taking care of each other and looking out for the people that don't have any money right now.
01:49:43.000Because they're not lazy, they just got fucked.
01:49:45.000You know, we've got to look out for each other, right?
01:49:47.000All those things are coming into focus now instead of the nonsense that people have been focused.
01:50:10.000It's good if you're, you know, you need it if you're injured, right?
01:50:14.000But it has an effect on your gut biome and it causes inflammation on some people.
01:50:20.000Cam Haynes was on that shit every day.
01:50:21.000He was taking 800 milligrams every day and he was in all this pain.
01:50:25.000And I sent him this Rhonda Patrick thing where she was talking about the dangers of ibuprofen and taking large doses of it, particularly all the time.
01:51:33.000So two different types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, Ibuprofen and Naproxen.
01:51:37.000They're both available over the counter.
01:51:40.000And he said it's important to be aware of the ibuprofen warnings and naproxen warnings and take steps to limit the risk.
01:51:46.000So Cam was on 800 milligrams of this shit a day.
01:51:48.000He's in pain all the time because he runs so much.
01:51:51.000Gets off of it and the pain goes away.
01:51:54.000So he's taking something for pain and it's causing him to be in pain all the time.
01:51:58.000Because it's causing all this inflammation, because his gut is reacting to this fucking chemical he keeps dumping in there, and it's a vicious cycle.
01:52:06.000Because you've got all this inflammation, and that's what's causing you to take the shit, and the shit is giving you the inflammation.
01:52:12.000And he's thinking the inflammation is coming from his running.
01:52:34.000Like, how many regular folks know that this stuff is bad for you?
01:52:38.000How many regular folks take unnecessary medication that could be beneficial to you if you have a real issue, but you take it all the time, you take it too much, and actually causes problems?
01:52:47.000This is a wake-up call for people when it comes to your health.
01:52:50.000A wake-up call for taking care of your meat vehicle.0.95
01:54:00.000But it really is the truth that I've just, I think the immune system, we've flown so much.
01:54:09.000We have flown so much that that builds a different type of immune system.
01:54:15.000Well, how about all those shows we did like at the Chicago Theater and giant places where we took pictures with people after the show, hundreds of people?
01:54:21.000You know, I just did the Treasure Island, sold it out and took pictures with everybody after the show.
01:57:10.000He's worried it's in his brain because he's having some shakes and some chills and some issues that lead him to think that it's connected to whatever the fuck this parasite is.
02:04:45.000I went in the car, pulled the car out of the driveway, went like six steps, stopped the car, and then sat there for 10 minutes deciding whether I should take the mushrooms.
02:08:51.000There was a crazy guy in Boulder who had just gotten out of prison for murder and his wife, I don't know, they were getting Xanaxes from a pharmacy.
02:11:58.000As your body starts eating up and sweating?
02:11:59.000Dog, I've been off of coke for 12 years.
02:12:01.000At the seven year mark, I'd be working out from time to time and I'd bump into a coke rock that just went through my system and I'd get all paranoid and creepy for a minute.
02:12:10.000Like, I was still digesting shit throughout the years, but I believe that those bars and all those little zanny things stick into your fat, and then they get me tired the next day.0.99
02:14:24.000And I could hear the silverware hit the table, and I could hear the dishwasher washing dishes, and every time his fork would hit, The fucking thing.
02:17:03.000And the Apple ones, I think the sound quality has been reviewed as being better too.
02:17:10.000They just, they have, they figured out how to make it, like you just open it up, right?
02:17:14.000You pull it out of your pocket, you open it up, it asks you if you want to connect, you press a button, boom, it connects, stick it in your ear, and you hear perfect.
02:17:21.000And for me, it's so much better than a hands-free system when you're driving in the car.
02:17:26.000I just have it in my ear, and I double tap on that.
02:17:29.000Instead of it going through the whole car and hearing it in the speakers and everything, I just hear it in my ear like I would a normal, normal conversation I would have with AirPods on.
02:17:37.000There's another level you could probably get into that I don't think you have in-ear monitors, which I know Burt has.
02:18:57.000You can still hear the music on the radio.
02:18:58.000You know, you said something to me, and I realized, like, that's something that I do, and when I do it, I probably have some of my best results, is you were saying a couple years ago you stopped listening to music driving to the store.
02:19:14.000My car that I have, some of my favorite sets, after I drive there, is a car that doesn't even have a radio.
02:19:22.000That little Porsche that I have, the red one, because it's so, it's old, and it's like real loud, and it's fucking...
02:19:27.000It's real mechanical, and I'm just, I'm so engaged with it, but that I went, by the time I get to the comedy store, my brain is firing, right?
02:20:28.000You know, in fucking actors, you hear all this fucking malachy.
02:20:32.000But I heard that Denzel would sit in a room once a day and go through all his emotions until he drove himself to tears just to check himself for the day.
02:22:57.000Right now I'm thinking a lot about falling in love with comedy.
02:23:02.000The shit I did, Stan Hope, coming over to my house as a feature act first.
02:23:08.000And I was an MC at The Broker on Tuesday nights, 1991. Stan Hope comes as a feature.
02:23:17.000If anybody ever did that run, you knew that the Tribble Run started Tuesday in Boulder, and Wednesday you had Off, and then Thursday you had Craig, Colorado.
02:25:04.000People that did road gigs, that's a different world, man.
02:25:06.000I remember when I was doing road gigs, sometimes the booking agent, particularly if I was a middle act, they would bring in a headliner from New York, and a lot of times with these guys, they were club guys.
02:25:19.000Like, God, I forget the guy's name, but he was an old club act who worked around New York City.
02:25:27.000He never really did the road, just did New York City, and he and I did a gig together in Burlington, Vermont.
02:25:33.000And you can see this is like a rare thing for the guy.
02:25:34.000The guy didn't have a car because he lived in New York and didn't know how he was going to get around.
02:25:38.000He had to have someone drive him up from the city, wanted to get a ride with me.
02:25:42.000I was like, man, I'm not giving anybody a ride to Vermont that I don't know.
02:25:47.000Like, that's just too weird, you know?
02:25:49.000This gig doesn't pay that much anyway.
02:25:51.000But those guys that didn't do the road when they did, man, they were like a fish out of water.
02:31:09.000And I'm fucking going in to see us every day and clipping ten Bruce Springsteen double-set CDs born in the USA. They're going for $80, whatever they were going for, $40.
02:37:11.000You have no idea what I was going through last night, you fuck.
02:37:14.000I didn't get into bed till four in the morning.
02:37:17.000I went to bed at 4 and I woke up at 3.30 and was like, what the fuck happened?
02:37:25.000I must have went down at a quarter to 11. I probably was in this position for an hour and then I just fell off the fucking stool and just laid on the floor.
02:41:21.000I mean, it says it's good for the same stuff CBD is.
02:41:23.000So CBN study benefits include pain relief, anti-insomnia, promote growth of bone cells, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsive, and appetite stimulant.
02:42:49.000I was irritable because of CBD. Yeah, but you know what?
02:42:54.000You should have a little fatigue at night.
02:42:57.000If you take, like, more than a thousand milligrams of CBD at night when you get home, if you work out, if you legitimately have an injury, like, I know it rests the fuck out of me at night.
02:44:46.000Hard to find because I would also imagine that any negative effects would be zapped by the pill industry online to Google it.
02:44:54.000Somebody says maybe at high dosages it might affect it but the very first thing I said it says effects of zolpidem which is Ambien had no effects on REM sleep.
02:46:44.000It just seems to me that if you want to be healthier, taking something that just makes you go to sleep is not the answer.
02:46:52.000Yeah, it's one thing if it's a natural alternative that just relaxes you in a lap, but something that knocks you the fuck out and when you wake up you're in a gunfight with the cops.
02:53:13.000But the best way I think would be if we put it together where they could sync it up like the dark side of the moon and then watch the whole card with us.
02:53:21.000So we're going to press play right now.
02:53:46.000They ended up with Khabib, Conor McGregor.
02:53:47.000Here's the thing about UFC fights, for some strange reason, and I'm not sure why, they're as entertaining to watch the second time as anything I've ever seen ever.
02:57:18.000But, you know, John's still the greatest of all time.
02:57:22.000If you look at all the guys that he'd beaten, Anthony Smith, OSP, Leota Machida, Rashad Evans, just go down the line, Rampage Jackson, just go down the line, Vitor Belfort, just go on the line, everybody, John beats everybody, Daniel Cormier twice, stopped him the second time.
02:57:41.000So for Dominic Reyes to put on a show like that?
02:57:44.000See, this is why this coronavirus is so fucked up for MMA. A, that people can catch it and get sick, and their loved ones can catch it and get sick, of course.
02:57:54.000But B, goddamn, there's some good fights that need to be made.
02:59:04.000I mean, even if it's just an e-community or it's just a virtual community, it's still all of us that kind of vibe on these conversations and have a good time together, we're all in it together, including people listening.
02:59:19.000You know, this is a weird thing that we're doing.
02:59:21.000And we're not going to stop because of this virus.
02:59:24.000If we have to do it from our house, if it gets so crazy they keep me in the house, we're going to do it.
02:59:29.000We'll hook it up with some sort of cameras.