The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan Experience #1803 - Greg Fitzsimmons

00:00:12.000 And we're rolling, Gregory.

00:00:16.000 Rolling, rolling, rolling.

00:00:18.000 We were just talking about how they kicked Michael Jordan off a course because he was wearing cargo shorts while he was playing golf.

00:00:26.000 Yeah. 0.96

00:00:27.000 Silly rules. 0.98

00:00:28.000 I mean... 1.00

00:00:28.000 That's crazy. 1.00

00:00:31.000 Wouldn't you be happy Michael Jordan's on your fucking golf course? 0.99

00:00:34.000 I mean, I don't know if he's not paying extra to be there, you know? 0.99

00:00:36.000 It doesn't matter.

00:00:37.000 It's Michael Jordan.

00:00:39.000 For sure people show up if they find out he's there.

00:00:42.000 Yeah.

00:00:43.000 We don't want him to.

00:00:43.000 I mean, you don't want him to come ruin it.

00:00:46.000 I don't mean that.

00:00:47.000 I mean, like, more people will go to that course.

00:00:49.000 Oh, yeah, maybe.

00:00:50.000 Like, people will be excited.

00:00:53.000 Yeah.

00:00:54.000 The greatest basketball player of all time plays golf on your golf course.

00:00:57.000 Well, yeah, yeah, for sure. 0.93

00:00:58.000 If he was going to be a regular, that would suck.

00:01:00.000 Was he just dropping in? 0.53

00:01:02.000 I think it was one of those kind of places.

00:01:03.000 He was probably playing with somebody at a really prestigious course, and they're like, get out of here.

00:01:08.000 Yeah.

00:01:08.000 It's like, why?

00:01:09.000 You've got cargo shorts on.

00:01:11.000 You were telling me the rules.

00:01:12.000 You can't wear shorts.

00:01:15.000 The good course is you can't wear shorts.

00:01:16.000 Ever.

00:01:18.000 110 degrees outside.

00:01:19.000 And the caddies.

00:01:20.000 The poor caddies are out there slugging these...

00:01:23.000 I used to caddy growing up.

00:01:25.000 That was my first job as a caddy.

00:01:27.000 And I weighed like maybe 100 pounds.

00:01:29.000 And they would send me out there with these...

00:01:31.000 Remember Rodney Dangerfield's bag and caddy shack?

00:01:34.000 With the tap in it.

00:01:35.000 These guys would have like 17 clubs.

00:01:38.000 They'd have like 20 extra balls in the bag. 1.00

00:01:40.000 They'd have an umbrella, a raincoat, fucking ball retriever. 1.00

00:01:45.000 And I'd be out there. 0.99

00:01:47.000 And I catted on a really hilly course in New York.

00:01:50.000 And it was like straight up and down.

00:01:53.000 And you're carrying the bags the entire time.

00:01:56.000 Two bags.

00:01:57.000 There was no golf cart.

00:01:59.000 How much do you think they weighed?

00:02:01.000 Um...

00:02:03.000 Probably 60 pounds, 70 pounds. 1.00

00:02:05.000 Fuck! 1.00

00:02:06.000 Together? 1.00

00:02:07.000 Yeah, no.

00:02:08.000 I would say each bag...

00:02:09.000 I don't know weight that much.

00:02:11.000 How much?

00:02:11.000 Each bag?

00:02:12.000 That'd be like you're carrying 120 pounds.

00:02:14.000 No, probably 40 pounds.

00:02:15.000 Probably 40 pounds each.

00:02:16.000 So you're carrying 80 pounds around.

00:02:17.000 And I weigh 100. Oh my god.

00:02:20.000 And up and down hills. 0.99

00:02:21.000 And shitty golfers, which means one guy hits it to the left, the other guy hits it to the right. 0.99

00:02:24.000 So you gotta run up to the left ball, leave his bag, and then take the one bag, run off to the right, See what club that guy needs. 0.99

00:02:33.000 And then as soon as he picks his club, run back to the first bag.

00:02:37.000 And it was crazy.

00:02:38.000 And they say the average golf course, if you walk a golf course, it's about seven miles. 0.99

00:02:43.000 And when I would go there and this is the shit, this is the thing about when I was a kid, I mean, I was 13 years old. 0.97

00:02:49.000 I used to get on my 10 speed bike and I would ride seven miles to the golf course. 0.98

00:02:55.000 And I'd go to Twin Donuts on the way.

00:02:56.000 I'd get a ham and egg sandwich on a roll with salt and pepper and a blueberry donut. 1.00

00:03:00.000 And I'd sit in the caddy yard with these fucking lunatic Irish Catholic kids from Yonkers. 1.00

00:03:05.000 Bobby Killer Kalacki and Nicky Zapio. 1.00

00:03:08.000 One-armed Willie.

00:03:09.000 One guy had one arm. 1.00

00:03:10.000 And then I would go out and I would caddy two fucking bags. 0.99

00:03:14.000 And then I'd get on my bike and I'd ride seven miles home again. 0.99

00:03:17.000 And then I'd go out and take mescaline and drink all night.

00:03:20.000 Sleep four hours, come back and do it again.

00:03:23.000 Now it's like, I do a 45 minute workout, I feel like a champion.

00:03:26.000 Dude, I watched Shane Gillis put down 15 beers during a podcast yesterday.

00:03:31.000 And he drank another 10 for the rest of the night.

00:03:35.000 He was 25 beers deep by the time we wrapped up the show last night.

00:03:41.000 I mean, he's a giant dude.

00:03:43.000 He's a big boy.

00:03:44.000 But that is preposterous.

00:03:46.000 How often does he do that?

00:03:47.000 I have no idea, but I can't imagine doing it once.

00:03:50.000 I imagine if I drank 25 beers in a day once, the next day I'd be like, there's no more beer in my life.

00:03:58.000 Dude, my brother-in-law drinks.

00:04:00.000 He was drinking three or four six-packs a day his whole life.

00:04:04.000 His whole life.

00:04:05.000 Till when?

00:04:06.000 Till he died?

00:04:07.000 He's still drinking, but I don't think he does those kind of numbers.

00:04:10.000 I think he does two six-packs a day now.

00:04:11.000 How is he alive?

00:04:12.000 He looks like me with a washboard stomach.

00:04:16.000 What?

00:04:16.000 Construction guy.

00:04:17.000 Just a fucking lean, mean machine. 1.00

00:04:20.000 Doesn't eat sweets. 1.00

00:04:21.000 Doesn't eat breakfast.

00:04:23.000 Starts drinking early. 1.00

00:04:25.000 Goddamn. 1.00

00:04:25.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:04:28.000 And I bet he weighs 150 pounds.

00:04:30.000 That's crazy.

00:04:31.000 The amount of calories alone.

00:04:33.000 And all that beer.

00:04:35.000 Is he drinking light beer?

00:04:36.000 Yeah.

00:04:36.000 That's the thing.

00:04:37.000 That's what Shane was drinking too.

00:04:39.000 He was drinking Bud Lights.

00:04:42.000 It's not that Deep with alcohol, right?

00:04:45.000 How much alcohol is in a Bud Light?

00:04:48.000 Four percent?

00:04:50.000 A little higher than four percent.

00:04:51.000 So it's like barely half of a Canadian beer, right?

00:04:54.000 A Canadian's like eight percent? 0.89

00:04:56.000 They have stronger beer.

00:04:57.000 Yeah.

00:04:58.000 Yeah, like a solid Canadian beer I think is like a nine percent beer.

00:05:02.000 And what is an IPA? Probably about that.

00:05:06.000 Well, when you get those fucking crafty dudes, those craft beer dudes and start making their own shit, they can kind of dictate. 1.00

00:05:12.000 I've had some potent shit. 1.00

00:05:14.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:05:15.000 Potent craft beer.

00:05:16.000 Does it taste potent or it just feels potent?

00:05:18.000 Oh, you taste alcohol. 1.00

00:05:19.000 You taste fucking wheat and weird shit. 1.00

00:05:22.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:05:23.000 Yeah.

00:05:24.000 Honey.

00:05:24.000 I've had one that was a kombucha beer.

00:05:27.000 It's kombucha with alcohol in it.

00:05:29.000 It was pretty tasty.

00:05:30.000 That sounds good.

00:05:30.000 It was pretty tasty.

00:05:31.000 It tasted just like kombucha.

00:05:34.000 They give you a small glass because it was a lot of alcohol in it.

00:05:38.000 It's weird.

00:05:39.000 It's a different thing.

00:05:40.000 A small glass of beer.

00:05:42.000 Once you're getting into small glasses of beer, this is a different thing.

00:05:45.000 Right, yeah.

00:05:46.000 What are we doing here?

00:05:48.000 Yeah.

00:05:48.000 It's so funny.

00:05:49.000 I was just talking to somebody out front about how when you started out, you were straight edge, man.

00:05:53.000 You had a beer once in a while.

00:05:55.000 Yes.

00:05:55.000 That was it.

00:05:56.000 You didn't smoke weed.

00:05:57.000 Nope.

00:05:57.000 You didn't get drunk.

00:05:58.000 Nope.

00:05:59.000 You didn't take drugs.

00:06:00.000 Nope. 1.00

00:06:01.000 I thought it was for losers. 0.99

00:06:02.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:06:03.000 And a lot of times, that's the truth. 0.99

00:06:06.000 A lot of times it is for losers. 0.97

00:06:07.000 Well, here's the problem. 0.99

00:06:08.000 The problem is that there's people like you that exist.

00:06:10.000 There's Snoop Dogg's and there's Joe Rogan's and there's people and Seth Rogan's who can function at a very high level while high.

00:06:20.000 And so all these teenagers are like, hey, Joe Rogan can do like nine podcasts a week and go on tour and he's high.

00:06:28.000 Why can't I get high?

00:06:30.000 Because most people can't do that.

00:06:33.000 It's a tolerance issue.

00:06:34.000 Yeah.

00:06:35.000 When I smoke weed with a real champ, like Wiz Khalifa or Action Bronson, those guys smoke way more than me.

00:06:43.000 Really?

00:06:43.000 There's people that smoke way more.

00:06:44.000 Snoop smokes way more than me.

00:06:45.000 Yeah.

00:06:46.000 Doing the podcast with Snoop, it was just blunt after blunt.

00:06:49.000 And you kept up with him?

00:06:49.000 No.

00:06:50.000 I didn't even try.

00:06:52.000 I tap out early.

00:06:53.000 I need to try to keep this ship together.

00:06:56.000 When we're having a conversation, I'm trying to guide it and figure out, is this entertaining?

00:07:01.000 How do we move this along?

00:07:04.000 He's just getting blasted.

00:07:05.000 He's just amazingly entertaining just naturally. 0.99

00:07:09.000 But the fact that he can do the Super Bowl high as fuck, he did that. 0.97

00:07:13.000 That was awesome. 0.99

00:07:14.000 I love that video clip.

00:07:15.000 You see that video of him smoking weed?

00:07:17.000 You see that little house getting blasted?

00:07:21.000 My God.

00:07:22.000 Before going on stage in front of millions of people.

00:07:25.000 Yeah.

00:07:25.000 They said, don't crip walk.

00:07:27.000 Of course he crip walked.

00:07:28.000 Uh-huh.

00:07:28.000 You know, they told Eminem not to kneel.

00:07:30.000 Of course he kneeled.

00:07:31.000 Yeah.

00:07:32.000 Yeah.

00:07:33.000 That was interesting.

00:07:34.000 It was interesting, like, people's reactions to it.

00:07:36.000 Some people didn't like it.

00:07:38.000 It's like, the halftime show is so strange anyway, right?

00:07:41.000 It's like, it's a thing in and of itself.

00:07:44.000 I mean, yes...

00:07:46.000 It's a part of the Super Bowl, but it's not really.

00:07:49.000 It's really just like a chance for a live performance with big superstars.

00:07:53.000 Right.

00:07:54.000 It's for ratings.

00:07:54.000 Yeah.

00:07:55.000 It's for ratings.

00:07:56.000 Yeah.

00:07:56.000 And it's also like...

00:07:58.000 You get the military putting stuff in sporting events, which is always weird to me.

00:08:02.000 It's like all of a sudden, you're at a baseball game and you've got to stand up while they show up.

00:08:07.000 And this is not maligning soldiers, but what does that have to do with sports?

00:08:11.000 Why is it they're suddenly inserting a moment of silence for this or let's salute this guy? 1.00

00:08:17.000 The military pays for that shit. 1.00

00:08:19.000 Do they really? 1.00

00:08:20.000 They pay...

00:08:22.000 Whether it's a Lakers game or a baseball game, whenever they do that shout-out to the troops, they pay for that.

00:08:27.000 Whoa.

00:08:28.000 They started doing that like 20 or 30 years ago.

00:08:32.000 Military was never part of sports before, but then the military wanted to recruit, and they said, where can we find young men that are kind of physical?

00:08:40.000 And they said sporting events, and so they started marketing sporting events.

00:08:44.000 Wow.

00:08:45.000 Wow.

00:08:46.000 Because you think of it as just an American patriotic thing.

00:08:49.000 That's what they try to tie it into.

00:08:50.000 You don't think of it as like the military's paying that these guys do this.

00:08:55.000 Right.

00:08:59.000 Don't get me wrong, Joe Rogan.

00:09:00.000 I love America.

00:09:01.000 I do, too.

00:09:02.000 Yeah.

00:09:03.000 Yeah, I do, too.

00:09:04.000 But, you know, it's tricky.

00:09:08.000 Yeah.

00:09:08.000 What if they started doing that for comedy shows?

00:09:12.000 You know, because you know there's those crappy comics that do, how about a nice shout out to all the ladies? 1.00

00:09:17.000 How about a shout out to the troops?

00:09:19.000 What if it turns out the ladies and the troops are paying for this? 0.93

00:09:25.000 On the way in, there's just a hat that the hot chicks put money in. 1.00

00:09:29.000 A bunch of girls going, listen, I'd like you to give a shout out to the ladies. 1.00

00:09:32.000 Okay, okay, okay.

00:09:34.000 What do we got here?

00:09:35.000 A thousand bucks?

00:09:35.000 Okay.

00:09:36.000 For an extra 50, I'll do crowd work with you.

00:09:39.000 I'll talk about your dress.

00:09:40.000 How many times has that happened to you?

00:09:42.000 Hey, it's my friend's birthday.

00:09:43.000 Will you please call it out and make fun of her? 0.95

00:09:45.000 Yeah.

00:09:46.000 Yeah, we don't do that.

00:09:48.000 There's a whole show that's prepared.

00:09:49.000 Right.

00:09:50.000 Just because it's live.

00:09:51.000 You had a good heckler last night down at the Vulcan. 1.00

00:09:54.000 You had this fucking lunatic who yells out, and it was exactly what you said. 1.00

00:10:00.000 First, a chick said something that was kind of like, it wasn't a big deal. 1.00

00:10:04.000 I forget what she said.

00:10:05.000 It was like a minor thing.

00:10:06.000 She's like, survival of the fittest.

00:10:08.000 Yeah.

00:10:08.000 And then you dealt with her in a funny way, but it was like, you had wrapped it up.

00:10:12.000 You'd put a bow on it, you shit on her, you put her in her place, you were moving on. 0.97

00:10:16.000 And then the floodgate, once one person starts, all of a sudden the floodgates open. 0.99

00:10:20.000 That's what happens. 0.98

00:10:21.000 And this guy yells out, Elon Musk, get the fuck out of Texas or something? 0.95

00:10:27.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:10:27.000 Tell Elon to get the fuck out of Texas. 0.99

00:10:29.000 Like, oh, the smartest man in the world who's involved in completely revolutionizing Ford's separate businesses. 0.96

00:10:37.000 Creating 100,000 jobs in the state of Texas.

00:10:40.000 Why would you want him here?

00:10:41.000 Bringing all those great jobs to the state of Texas. 0.98

00:10:43.000 Why would you want him here with his fucking rockets that are putting people on Mars and his Tesla plant? 0.98

00:10:49.000 That Gigafactory, there's a giant party there tonight. 0.99

00:10:51.000 It is the biggest fucking place I've ever been to in my life. 0.99

00:10:55.000 Really? 1.00

00:10:56.000 It looks like some government facility.

00:10:58.000 Wow.

00:10:59.000 It looks like you're not supposed to be there.

00:11:00.000 And they built that fast, huh?

00:11:02.000 It's so big, dude. 0.98

00:11:04.000 It's so fucking big. 0.98

00:11:07.000 That's where I saw the Tesla Cybertruck. 0.98

00:11:10.000 Elon was showing us the truck.

00:11:11.000 Oh, really?

00:11:11.000 Yeah.

00:11:12.000 It's giant.

00:11:13.000 That thing sounds badass.

00:11:14.000 It's amazing.

00:11:15.000 It's one of the best looking cars I've ever seen in my life.

00:11:17.000 Yeah.

00:11:17.000 When you see it in real life, he told me it'll stop a.45.

00:11:21.000 .45 handgun. 1.00

00:11:22.000 No shit. 1.00

00:11:23.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:11:24.000 I go, a 45? 0.99

00:11:25.000 Like, that's a fucking heavy round. 1.00

00:11:27.000 Whoa. 0.99

00:11:28.000 Yeah.

00:11:29.000 The doors and the windows. 0.98

00:11:30.000 No shit. 1.00

00:11:31.000 It's a fucking serious armored vehicle. 1.00

00:11:34.000 You getting one? 1.00

00:11:34.000 Fuck yeah! 1.00

00:11:36.000 100%. 1.00

00:11:37.000 Is he going to give you one as a question?

00:11:38.000 I bought...

00:11:39.000 He doesn't give anybody one.

00:11:40.000 Yeah.

00:11:41.000 He doesn't give away cars.

00:11:42.000 I bought my other Tesla from him.

00:11:44.000 I bought my current Tesla.

00:11:45.000 I have the Plaid.

00:11:48.000 It's Plaid?

00:11:49.000 It's called Plaid.

00:11:50.000 Oh.

00:11:50.000 Do you know what it is?

00:11:50.000 No.

00:11:51.000 You know the deal?

00:11:51.000 He's a fan of Spaceballs, the movie.

00:11:54.000 Yeah, those Spaceballs.

00:11:55.000 And Plaid was like, what was it, like a mode in one of their, is that what it was?

00:11:59.000 In the spaceship?

00:12:01.000 Uh-huh.

00:12:01.000 Like where it goes super fast?

00:12:02.000 It's the most preposterous car I've ever driven in my life.

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:06.000 It's so fast.

00:12:08.000 It goes 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds.

00:12:10.000 What?

00:12:11.000 1.9 seconds.

00:12:12.000 Is that the fastest car out there?

00:12:15.000 It's got to be up there.

00:12:16.000 I mean, it's certainly one of the fastest cars in the world.

00:12:18.000 So you pull up to the line and there's a Lambo next to you at a red light. 0.96

00:12:22.000 He's gone.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, he's gone.

00:12:24.000 He gets buried.

00:12:25.000 Wow.

00:12:25.000 Yeah.

00:12:26.000 All my cars that are fast, like my Porsche, my muscle cars, they don't have a chance.

00:12:33.000 Wow.

00:12:33.000 They don't have a chance with that very sedate-looking four-door sedan.

00:12:38.000 Four-door family sedan.

00:12:41.000 It's so conservative-looking.

00:12:44.000 And you don't have to take the time to shift gears because it just winds on one motor.

00:12:48.000 One gear.

00:12:50.000 There's no gears.

00:12:50.000 And the acceleration is instantaneous.

00:12:53.000 It's literally like a roller coaster.

00:12:56.000 Dude, next time I'm in town, I need a ride.

00:12:58.000 Oh, you need a ride.

00:12:58.000 You need a ride.

00:12:59.000 I took Tim Dillon in a ride, and he was screaming.

00:13:01.000 He was like, Jesus Christ!

00:13:03.000 Like, you can't believe how fast it is.

00:13:04.000 Wow.

00:13:05.000 Yeah.

00:13:06.000 Because my kids had been used to the old one, which is very fast too.

00:13:10.000 Was that the X? No, Jamie's got the X. I had the P100D, which was like the last model.

00:13:18.000 It's like the four-door model, which is also stupid fast.

00:13:21.000 No reason to make it faster than that. 0.99

00:13:24.000 No, it's pretty dangerous to go that fast.

00:13:26.000 I took them the other day.

00:13:27.000 I'm like, are you ready?

00:13:29.000 Everybody's ready.

00:13:30.000 I go, here we go.

00:13:30.000 Boom!

00:13:31.000 And I nail it and just...

00:13:34.000 You hear a little girl screaming in the backseat because it's so fast.

00:13:37.000 Yeah.

00:13:38.000 I remember I rented a car.

00:13:40.000 I rented a Mustang because, as you know, I've always wanted a Mustang.

00:13:43.000 I can't believe you haven't bought one yet. 0.95

00:13:45.000 It's ridiculous. 0.96

00:13:45.000 It hurts my feelings. 0.96

00:13:47.000 Yeah, I know.

00:13:48.000 So I rented one.

00:13:50.000 I know. 1.00

00:13:51.000 Fuck, man. 1.00

00:13:53.000 Two kids in college, man. 1.00

00:13:54.000 It's paid for.

00:13:55.000 I got that money.

00:13:56.000 I get it.

00:13:56.000 And so, I rented this Mustang.

00:13:59.000 It was a GT. And it was a convertible.

00:14:02.000 And I took my...

00:14:03.000 This is the difference between my son and my daughter.

00:14:05.000 I took my son out first. 0.99

00:14:07.000 And I'm fucking gunning it. 0.99

00:14:09.000 We're flying around Venice. 0.99

00:14:11.000 And he's going, slow down!

00:14:13.000 Slow down! 0.97

00:14:14.000 And...

00:14:15.000 And then we went home and I put my daughter in the car and I'm flooring it.

00:14:19.000 And she's like kneeling in the seat, putting her head up in the air going, faster!

00:14:24.000 Faster! 0.91

00:14:26.000 And that's been our life.

00:14:28.000 She is me and my son is my wife.

00:14:31.000 We line up exactly.

00:14:33.000 That's hilarious.

00:14:34.000 Isn't it weird how your kids just come out of the box totally different personalities?

00:14:39.000 Right.

00:14:40.000 Before I had kids, I thought it was more of a nurture thing than a nature thing.

00:14:48.000 But it's not.

00:14:49.000 It's definitely both.

00:14:51.000 It's both.

00:14:52.000 For a lot of parents, we really...

00:14:55.000 We get neurotic about whether or not we're doing all the right things for our kids.

00:14:59.000 Are we doing enough? 0.98

00:15:00.000 Did I fuck them up? 0.99

00:15:01.000 And sometimes you've got to give yourself a break and go, you know what? 0.99

00:15:04.000 It's mostly nature.

00:15:06.000 There's a lot of nature in there. 1.00

00:15:07.000 You could definitely fuck a kid up. 0.99

00:15:09.000 But it's interesting when they find twins that were separated at birth and adopted by different parents. 0.99

00:15:13.000 And then they bring them together and they like the same music.

00:15:16.000 They wear the same clothes.

00:15:17.000 Play the same sports.

00:15:19.000 Yeah, it's nuts.

00:15:20.000 It's weird.

00:15:21.000 I know, I know.

00:15:23.000 I just read about these twins that they found that were like that.

00:15:25.000 And like, yeah, it was exactly that. 0.99

00:15:27.000 They both had like music scholarships for the same fucking instruments, the colleges. 0.99

00:15:31.000 So strange. 0.99

00:15:31.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:15:32.000 So strange.

00:15:32.000 Like, what are we?

00:15:34.000 Like, what kind of combination of genes and epigenetics and, you know, natural environments and like, what are we?

00:15:42.000 We're such a strange animal.

00:15:44.000 But I guess that's kind of the case with dogs, too.

00:15:48.000 If you've had puppies, like different puppies, for whatever reason, they just come out of the box like that.

00:15:54.000 They're just different.

00:15:55.000 Yeah, we had these two puppies that were siblings that we adopted together, and they were rescues. 0.99

00:16:00.000 And one of them is the fucking nicest dog in the world, and the other one we had to send back because we had kids, and it was biting fucking everybody. 0.99

00:16:08.000 Really? 0.99

00:16:09.000 Yeah.

00:16:09.000 How old was it?

00:16:11.000 They were maybe a year.

00:16:14.000 And it was biting people?

00:16:15.000 Yeah.

00:16:16.000 Like angrily.

00:16:17.000 Yeah, and it was a las opso, like just a cute little dog.

00:16:19.000 How weird.

00:16:20.000 But some of them have tempers.

00:16:23.000 Yeah.

00:16:23.000 But it's amazing when you raise kids, though, and you ask yourself these questions about the nature of human development, and you get to watch them, and it's like, I don't understand...

00:16:37.000 Why my father was not more interested in us as kids.

00:16:40.000 There's nothing I am more curious about over the last 20 years than watching every second of my kids' development and seeing the choices they make and how they become who they are.

00:16:50.000 I mean, nothing comes close to that being that interesting.

00:16:53.000 I think it's our generation responding to the sort of lackadaisical effort that our previous generation put in.

00:17:01.000 I think we also...

00:17:04.000 I think our parents were raised by savages.

00:17:08.000 Yeah.

00:17:09.000 I don't think we realize how much of a difference like 1920 versus 2020 really is.

00:17:16.000 Yeah.

00:17:17.000 The world is such a different place.

00:17:19.000 My grandparents came over from Italy and Ireland and they were raised by savages. 0.93

00:17:25.000 Yeah.

00:17:25.000 They were savage people.

00:17:27.000 And those are the people that raised my mom.

00:17:29.000 Mm-hmm.

00:17:30.000 And that's just how things were.

00:17:33.000 Your kids, you just open the door and you let them out and you hope they didn't get eaten by wolves.

00:17:37.000 Yeah.

00:17:37.000 That was how you had children.

00:17:39.000 You had a bunch of them, and if one of them died, you cried at the funeral.

00:17:43.000 Yeah.

00:17:43.000 That's it.

00:17:44.000 That's how they did it.

00:17:45.000 And one of them did die.

00:17:46.000 Yeah, a lot of times.

00:17:47.000 I mean, statistically, like, you know, there was...

00:17:49.000 Back then, there was...

00:17:51.000 So many diseases that kids died from.

00:17:54.000 And my grandfather, my mother's father, who's the one I most relate to, he's the relative I feel the strongest kinship to, because I knew him the best.

00:18:04.000 He was one of 13. He was the youngest of 13 in Ireland.

00:18:08.000 They lived in a fucking two-room mud house. 0.99

00:18:11.000 And they would save up money, and they'd send one kid over at a time. 1.00

00:18:15.000 And the kids that got over to the U.S. would send money back to Ireland.

00:18:20.000 I don't know if they do this in Italy, but in Ireland, the oldest daughter stays behind with the parents.

00:18:28.000 That was your Social Security plan.

00:18:29.000 One kid stayed behind and took care of you. 0.99

00:18:32.000 And the other 12 all came to the U.S. That kid got fucked. 0.99

00:18:36.000 That's right. 0.99

00:18:37.000 Unless you like Ireland, which is great. 0.99

00:18:39.000 I mean, now.

00:18:40.000 Plus, she's got that room all to herself now.

00:18:43.000 That one room.

00:18:45.000 But back in those days, it's so crazy that people would be willing to take that kind of a chance.

00:18:50.000 They didn't even have a video to watch.

00:18:51.000 Right.

00:18:52.000 You know, there was just anecdotal evidence that America was better.

00:18:57.000 Yeah.

00:18:58.000 That you had more opportunity there.

00:19:00.000 Imagine a trip.

00:19:01.000 And also, was it better opportunity?

00:19:03.000 I mean, you showed up in America.

00:19:05.000 If you showed up during, you know, a lot of the Irish came over during the famine, which was in like 1840 or something. 0.96

00:19:15.000 And they got off the boat right into the fucking Civil War. 0.92

00:19:20.000 And they got thrown into the army. 0.98

00:19:22.000 Or some of them came during World War I. And they got enlisted.

00:19:26.000 Right, right.

00:19:27.000 At least it's food you can hide in the woods if she goes south. 0.88

00:19:30.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:31.000 But, you know, the Irish had a rough lot, man. 0.99

00:19:34.000 My son's got a sign on his wall in Chicago.

00:19:38.000 There's an actual sign that says, Irish need not apply.

00:19:40.000 He got it at some antique store.

00:19:43.000 Oh, wow.

00:19:43.000 It was real, man.

00:19:45.000 We were fucking... 1.00

00:19:46.000 We were savages. 1.00

00:19:47.000 We were uneducated. 0.98

00:19:49.000 We believed in this crazy Catholic religion that they didn't believe in in this country. 1.00

00:19:54.000 And we were looked down upon for being Catholic. 0.60

00:19:57.000 Yeah, Catholics until President Kennedy. 0.95

00:19:59.000 That was a historic moment that a Catholic became president.

00:20:04.000 We don't think of that now.

00:20:06.000 You think of a Catholic as just being a consistent branch of Christianity.

00:20:10.000 I guess it was the case after Kennedy.

00:20:14.000 I guess you and I grew up in an era after Kennedy, so it had already kind of been accepted.

00:20:19.000 But back then, when I talked to my grandparents about it, they were saying that Catholics were looked down upon.

00:20:24.000 Well, they were looked at like that the Pope would rule this country.

00:20:28.000 That was the fear that they were fed, was that it was a papal rule.

00:20:32.000 Interesting.

00:20:33.000 Yeah.

00:20:34.000 That's interesting.

00:20:36.000 Yeah.

00:20:36.000 Have you been to the Vatican?

00:20:37.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:20:38.000 Fucking crazy, right? 0.99

00:20:39.000 Yeah, it is crazy. 1.00

00:20:40.000 Do you realize how much money those motherfuckers have? 1.00

00:20:43.000 When you walk around and look at all that artwork and you're like, hey, where'd you get this? 1.00

00:20:48.000 Yeah.

00:20:49.000 Yeah, right.

00:20:50.000 I see some Jewish tears on the corner of this Monet over here.

00:20:53.000 It's basically like they're hoarders.

00:20:56.000 Yeah, I know.

00:20:57.000 They're hoarders for like generation after generation of spectacular artwork.

00:21:02.000 Yeah.

00:21:03.000 Because it's all just kind of laying around.

00:21:04.000 Yeah.

00:21:05.000 No, 60 Minutes did a piece on the basement of the Vatican where they have all these archives of just drawer after drawer of Byzantine tiled art and oil paintings and sketches.

00:21:19.000 I mean, it goes on forever. 1.00

00:21:21.000 And that shit, you want to talk about pay every kid that's been molested, give him a fucking painting. 1.00

00:21:30.000 They should just have an open house where if you've been molested, you get a wristband, you go in, and you get to leave with one piece of art. 1.00

00:21:40.000 That's the darkest part about the Catholic religion, that everyone knows. 1.00

00:21:44.000 Everyone knows it's connected to child molesting. 0.95

00:21:48.000 Everyone knows.

00:21:50.000 And we joked about it.

00:21:52.000 Oh yeah!

00:21:53.000 Priest and an altar boy walk into a bar.

00:21:55.000 Isn't that funny?

00:21:56.000 No.

00:21:57.000 I mean, neither of us got it, but we all know somebody who got it.

00:22:01.000 We all know somebody who got molested.

00:22:04.000 Yep. 0.99

00:22:05.000 Oh yeah, I know a couple people, and I tell you what, their lives are fucking miserable because of it. 0.99

00:22:10.000 I got a friend who was molested by a priest. 0.99

00:22:12.000 He has been in and out of rehabs his entire adult life, because he's never dealt with it.

00:22:17.000 Well, it starts you off in life in the worst possible way.

00:22:21.000 You're seven years old.

00:22:22.000 Someone entrusts you with a priest. 1.00

00:22:24.000 He shoves his cock in your mouth. 1.00

00:22:27.000 And you're like, what? 1.00

00:22:29.000 What is God?

00:22:30.000 What is life?

00:22:32.000 What kind of rules are there? 0.99

00:22:36.000 That didn't happen to me, but I did have a horrible fucking Catholic school teacher in first grade. 1.00

00:22:41.000 She was such a cunt. 1.00

00:22:43.000 Sister Mary Josephine. 1.00

00:22:44.000 I can't remember anybody's name from back then, but I remember this bitch. 1.00

00:22:47.000 Really? 1.00

00:22:48.000 She was so fucking mean. 1.00

00:22:50.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:50.000 I don't remember if she hit me or threatened to hit me. 0.99

00:22:52.000 I can't remember.

00:22:52.000 It was just constant fear.

00:22:54.000 I remember she used to tell you, she'd make you stay overnight and sit on a nail.

00:22:58.000 What?

00:22:59.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:23:00.000 She was going to keep you after school, and she'd make fun of you if you cried. 0.99

00:23:04.000 She'd mock you. 0.98

00:23:05.000 Did you tell your parents about this?

00:23:07.000 Yeah, my mom's like, whatever.

00:23:09.000 Yeah, it's good for your grades.

00:23:11.000 You're getting good grades there.

00:23:13.000 Did you ever have to sit on the nail?

00:23:14.000 No, no.

00:23:15.000 She wasn't really making anybody sit on the nail. 0.99

00:23:17.000 She was just saying she was going to make you sit on the nail. 1.00

00:23:19.000 She was just terrifying and just terrorizing little kids. 1.00

00:23:22.000 But the glee that she had, the way she would...

00:23:26.000 And then it just took a while for me to...

00:23:28.000 And it kind of killed my interest in religion.

00:23:33.000 Because when my parents broke up, I was five.

00:23:36.000 And I remember being really into God then, because I wanted things to make sense.

00:23:42.000 Because I was five years old, and all of a sudden, I'd seen my dad hit my mom, and then it was scary.

00:23:48.000 My dad yelling at my mom, and he hits her, and then we run out of the house, we flee, and all of a sudden, now we're staying with my grandparents.

00:23:56.000 And I remember being terrified.

00:23:58.000 And I remember thinking, like...

00:24:01.000 I was looking for order and for someone who was like a leader because clearly I saw what my dad did and in my eyes I had immediately written him off. 1.00

00:24:13.000 I was like, well, he's a piece of shit. 1.00

00:24:14.000 He just hit my mother. 1.00

00:24:16.000 I saw the whole argument.

00:24:17.000 I saw why he hit her.

00:24:19.000 She brought home hamburger meat for dinner and he got mad that she brought home hamburger for dinner and he smacked her in the head and knocked her down. 1.00

00:24:28.000 I saw it happen.

00:24:30.000 I'll never forget it.

00:24:31.000 Never forget it.

00:24:32.000 I'll never forget running into the bedroom to hide.

00:24:35.000 I'll never forget.

00:24:36.000 I remember the print on the sheets that I was standing behind, looking down, because it was in the 70s, right?

00:24:44.000 So it had these loops on the sheets.

00:24:47.000 Everything was colorful back then.

00:24:52.000 So then I got really into religion and I was talking about God all the time and I was trying to read the Bible and I was looking forward to going to Catholic school because in my mind that represented order. 1.00

00:25:05.000 And then I went there and that cunt just fucking chased it all out of me. 1.00

00:25:10.000 By the time I was done, I was like, there's no way these people know God. 1.00

00:25:14.000 Well, the nuns are not the ones that should be the face of the church, especially with kids. 0.99

00:25:21.000 And my mother went to Catholic school in the Bronx and got the shit kicked out of her. 1.00

00:25:26.000 All the kids did. 0.99

00:25:27.000 Because these nuns, they joined the nunnery because they didn't want kids. 1.00

00:25:32.000 That's why they joined.

00:25:33.000 They were running from that life. 0.99

00:25:34.000 And then they joined up and then they went, all right, here's 30 fucking kids for eight hours a day that you're now going to teach. 0.99

00:25:40.000 Oh, I never thought of that. 0.99

00:25:41.000 And they resent them.

00:25:42.000 Yeah. 0.95

00:25:44.000 Nuns are the funniest thing because, first of all, we make fun of the Muslims for how the women are forced to dress. 1.00

00:25:51.000 What's a nun wearing? 1.00

00:25:52.000 It's like a burka with a skylight. 0.94

00:25:56.000 You know what I mean?

00:25:57.000 They have to cover their ankles. 1.00

00:25:59.000 They wear those ugly fucking shoes. 1.00

00:26:01.000 And then they are just like cheerleaders for the priest. 1.00

00:26:04.000 They can't perform a mass.

00:26:05.000 They can't do the transfiguration.

00:26:08.000 They're just like these second-class citizens for life.

00:26:15.000 I don't know.

00:26:16.000 Whenever I see them, it's like seeing a little person or something.

00:26:21.000 You get happy and you want to run up and take a selfie or hug them or something.

00:26:26.000 Don't you get excited when you see a nun?

00:26:28.000 No, I don't.

00:26:29.000 You get terrified.

00:26:30.000 No, I get sad.

00:26:31.000 I'm like, this is a waste of a life.

00:26:34.000 When I was there and I saw how this lady was treating kids, All I could think of was, my God, she must be miserable. 1.00

00:26:43.000 This is me as a six-year-old. 0.99

00:26:45.000 And I'm like, she must be fucking miserable. 0.99

00:26:48.000 There's no way you're a happy person. 0.99

00:26:50.000 But in my eyes, there's no way this is connected to God.

00:26:55.000 If God is real, he doesn't have anything to do with this.

00:26:57.000 And it cured me of religion.

00:27:00.000 In first grade.

00:27:02.000 By the time the first grade was over...

00:27:04.000 My sister, though, who went to the same Catholic school, they had teachers who were priests and teachers who were just regular people.

00:27:11.000 She got a regular lady. 1.00

00:27:12.000 And the regular lady was so nice. 1.00

00:27:14.000 Yeah.

00:27:15.000 And I was like, God... 1.00

00:27:16.000 Fuck. 1.00

00:27:17.000 I got robbed. 1.00

00:27:18.000 You did, and that's a shame because I'm not completely...

00:27:22.000 The Catholic Church gave me a lot, and I definitely went for the ride a lot longer than you did, and I feel like it did order the universe for me in a big way.

00:27:32.000 And then I was devastated when I was a teenager, and I realized that it was Such a lie! 0.95

00:27:37.000 It really fucked me up existentially for a while. 0.83

00:27:40.000 Really?

00:27:40.000 When did you figure it out?

00:27:42.000 In high school, we took a class called The Bible as World Literature, and it traced all the major parables in the Bible.

00:27:51.000 Noah's Ark, the Garden of Eden, two previous pagan texts that had existed for hundreds of years before the Bible was written or Christ came.

00:28:01.000 And I was just like, no.

00:28:04.000 No.

00:28:04.000 Really?

00:28:05.000 No.

00:28:07.000 Because I used to talk to God.

00:28:08.000 I talked to Jesus.

00:28:09.000 I felt like a kinship with Jesus.

00:28:12.000 I still do.

00:28:12.000 I still talk to God sometimes.

00:28:17.000 It's not religious.

00:28:19.000 It's spiritual.

00:28:20.000 But that structure was put in there for me as a kid, where I was told that there was this person that loved me and forgave me.

00:28:29.000 And that was a beautiful thing.

00:28:30.000 And it's still in there.

00:28:33.000 I reject the church.

00:28:34.000 Yeah.

00:28:35.000 But I'll take God.

00:28:36.000 I'll take Jesus. 0.81

00:28:37.000 What kind of school were you in when you learned all this stuff?

00:28:41.000 I was at a private school.

00:28:42.000 So it was just a regular— So it was very progressive.

00:28:44.000 Interesting.

00:28:45.000 And so what did they—like, where's Adam and Eve?

00:28:49.000 What did that come from?

00:28:52.000 God, I don't remember.

00:28:57.000 I don't know.

00:28:57.000 I think the first references to, like, the first version of a similar story to Noah and the Ark is Epic of Gilgamesh, right?

00:29:06.000 Okay.

00:29:07.000 That's 6,000 years ago.

00:29:10.000 So it's many thousand years before the Bible.

00:29:12.000 Yeah.

00:29:13.000 And then there's a lot of other ones that are, like, real similar.

00:29:19.000 Yeah.

00:29:19.000 Well, and it's also, it's all based on, the pagans worship nature.

00:29:24.000 They basically, so if you look at, Christ's birth was December 25th, which is basically the winter solstice.

00:29:32.000 Easter, when he rose from the dead, was the vernal equinox.

00:29:34.000 That was spring.

00:29:37.000 You know, it all corresponded with natural occurrences, everything in the Christian calendar.

00:29:44.000 Yeah, and that wasn't really originally when his birth was supposed to be.

00:29:48.000 No.

00:29:48.000 Right?

00:29:49.000 It was supposed to be in January or something.

00:29:50.000 Something like that.

00:29:51.000 Yeah.

00:29:51.000 And they moved it around just to get the pagans on board.

00:29:54.000 Yeah.

00:29:55.000 That was during Constantine, right?

00:29:57.000 Yeah.

00:29:57.000 Wasn't that during the Roman Empire?

00:29:58.000 Right.

00:29:58.000 And Constantine wasn't even a Christian until he was dying, like on his deathbed.

00:30:04.000 He was like, eh, I'll try it.

00:30:06.000 Might as well.

00:30:06.000 Yeah, you never know.

00:30:07.000 I get to lose.

00:30:10.000 I'm in the middle of reading Meditations while I'm listening to the audiobook of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

00:30:15.000 Oh, right.

00:30:16.000 Fascinating.

00:30:17.000 Fascinating that a man who lived almost 2,000 years ago was so in tuned with all of the basic aspects of being a person, all the pitfalls of ego and of courage and of seeking knowledge and of balance,

00:30:36.000 the balance of life.

00:30:38.000 He was aware of all this stuff.

00:30:39.000 Yeah.

00:30:40.000 Almost 2,000 years ago.

00:30:41.000 Right.

00:30:42.000 It's really crazy.

00:30:43.000 It is, and like a lot of it, there's been a renaissance of, he's come back, because a lot of it is like, I go to therapy and the thing I do is cognitive behavioral therapy, which is basically looking at your thoughts And realizing that your thoughts are not your reality.

00:31:01.000 And that traces back to him.

00:31:03.000 Yes, yes.

00:31:04.000 Yeah, he said that, one of the great quotes that I put up on my Instagram, he said that your happiness is directly connected to the quality of your thinking.

00:31:15.000 Right.

00:31:15.000 Which is fascinating.

00:31:17.000 Right.

00:31:18.000 And it's to challenge, I mean, the whole idea of challenging was pretty monumental back then.

00:31:25.000 Yes.

00:31:26.000 People didn't challenge.

00:31:27.000 Right.

00:31:28.000 I wonder what they did and didn't do.

00:31:29.000 You know, we have this interpretation of what they did and didn't do based on literature and also the amount of literature that we have, relatively speaking, compared to what we have about today.

00:31:40.000 Like, we have versions of life today by people that we don't agree with.

00:31:44.000 We would read these versions of life today and we go, well, this is not accurate.

00:31:47.000 But if someone finds these versions of what life is today, a thousand, two thousand years from now, they're going to read it and they're going to go, oh, this is how people felt.

00:31:56.000 This is their perceptions of things.

00:31:59.000 It's not necessarily accurate because you just have a small amount of people that are relaying this information.

00:32:06.000 Whereas today, you have so many people relaying this information.

00:32:11.000 So when you read about what life was like 2,000 years ago from one person's perspective, it always makes me wonder how many different schools of thought were there back then.

00:32:21.000 There's people today that are extremely close-minded, extremely cynical, they have very negative ways of thinking, and this is how they go through life.

00:32:30.000 If you read that guy's journal, if you wrote a journal and then it got passed down thousands of years later, they read it like, oh, this is how people looked at the world back then.

00:32:38.000 They were so cynical.

00:32:39.000 That's why they drank and did drugs. 0.98

00:32:41.000 Their life was a misery.

00:32:44.000 But then some other person's eating healthy food and doing yoga and going to charities and giving people love and attention and trying to make the world a better place.

00:32:53.000 And they coexist.

00:32:54.000 It's just like, whose version of life do you get to hear?

00:32:58.000 Yeah, that's why, like, did you read Howard Zinn at all?

00:33:01.000 No.

00:33:02.000 History of the Americas, and it's basically, it's the history of America, but told from different perspectives of the Native American, of the slave.

00:33:11.000 And it's very interesting because it is like, wow, this is the same group of events, but seen in a completely different way.

00:33:19.000 Mm-hmm.

00:33:20.000 He was a teacher at BU, Howard Zinn.

00:33:23.000 He was a really important guy.

00:33:26.000 They quote him in Good Will Hunting.

00:33:28.000 Remember the big speech where he tells off the guy in the Harvard bar?

00:33:32.000 He's quoting Howard Zinn a lot in that.

00:33:36.000 Yeah, it is amazing how someone's perspective, even someone who lived thousands of years ago, can be directly applied.

00:33:48.000 We're really the same thing.

00:33:50.000 If you lived in the time of Marcus Aurelius, you would be Greg Fitzsimmons living 2,000 years ago.

00:33:57.000 You would fit right in.

00:33:59.000 You would eventually adapt and you would get used to it.

00:34:02.000 Just like people got used to wearing masks and standing six feet apart from each other real quick.

00:34:08.000 Yeah.

00:34:08.000 Right?

00:34:09.000 Real quick.

00:34:09.000 Everybody got used to that.

00:34:10.000 Right.

00:34:11.000 We got used to...

00:34:14.000 We're good to go.

00:34:31.000 Yeah, I wonder if I could have gotten by.

00:34:37.000 The skill sets that you and I have that have made us somewhat successful, one of us more than the other, but you'll catch up.

00:34:45.000 And you wonder if those same skills would be applicable if it was the medieval times? 0.98

00:34:51.000 No, we'd be fucked. 0.99

00:34:53.000 I'd be the court jester. 1.00

00:34:55.000 I mean, that's a shit job. 1.00

00:34:56.000 I think they killed a lot of court jesters. 1.00

00:34:58.000 A lot of court jesters died!

00:34:59.000 Yeah, they tried out something. 0.99

00:35:01.000 You bomb one night and off with your head.

00:35:03.000 That was the problem with court jesters. 0.88

00:35:05.000 There weren't open mics where you could try out new material. 1.00

00:35:08.000 You had to go straight to the king with your new shit. 0.99

00:35:10.000 How did you ever develop a good relationship with the king? 1.00

00:35:13.000 Where the king knows that you're just fucking around. 1.00

00:35:19.000 King! 1.00

00:35:20.000 Come on, King!

00:35:22.000 You know?

00:35:24.000 Yeah, she's not really fat, King.

00:35:27.000 It's just an old joke.

00:35:28.000 Like the Chris Rock, Will Smith thing.

00:35:30.000 I mean, this is essentially the jester and royalty.

00:35:34.000 Right.

00:35:35.000 Interesting.

00:35:37.000 It's exactly what it is.

00:35:38.000 Interesting.

00:35:39.000 Will Smith is as much royalty in America, kind of tainted now, like severely tainted, but before that moment where he walked on that stage and slapped Chris Rock in the face, Within minutes, he was about to win an Oscar,

00:35:55.000 right?

00:35:55.000 Like, later on the night, he won an Oscar.

00:35:58.000 He is one of the greatest actors of all time.

00:36:00.000 He's been in so many films.

00:36:01.000 He's beloved by everyone.

00:36:03.000 And then decides he doesn't like the way the jester is referring to his wife.

00:36:09.000 Even the most mild of ways. 1.00

00:36:11.000 If that was a thousand years ago, he might have just walked up and cut his fucking head off in front of everybody. 0.99

00:36:16.000 They made everybody clean it up. 0.99

00:36:18.000 And they just sat there and watched with his feet up and ate grapes while they cleaned Chris Rock's body up.

00:36:23.000 Yeah.

00:36:24.000 Mopped all the blood that poured out of his neck hole.

00:36:28.000 While people cheered.

00:36:29.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:36:30.000 And then people would take his side.

00:36:32.000 Just like there's a bunch of people that have taken Will Smith's side.

00:36:36.000 I've read a lot of people take Will Smith's side.

00:36:38.000 Well, Tiffany Haddish did.

00:36:40.000 Preposterous.

00:36:40.000 Yeah.

00:36:41.000 I mean, how do you as a comedian take the side of a guy that is attacking somebody who's just doing what was not a harsh joke?

00:36:50.000 Yeah.

00:36:51.000 Not just not harsh, but complimentary.

00:36:55.000 G.I. Jane 2. Which, by the way, I'm up for it.

00:36:58.000 I'm very excited.

00:36:59.000 I'm up for the role.

00:37:00.000 Congratulations.

00:37:01.000 Yeah, thanks.

00:37:02.000 G.I. Jane 2 is what he said.

00:37:04.000 G.I. Jane 1 stars Demi Moore.

00:37:07.000 Fucking gorgeous actress. 1.00

00:37:09.000 She's a Navy Seal in the movie. 1.00

00:37:12.000 Strong woman.

00:37:13.000 Total, complete badass.

00:37:15.000 Becomes a Navy Seal. 1.00

00:37:16.000 Tells a guy to suck her dick. 1.00

00:37:19.000 Like literally. 1.00

00:37:20.000 This is the movie.

00:37:21.000 This is a great movie for women. 0.91

00:37:23.000 It's an empowering movie.

00:37:25.000 So saying G.I. Jane 2 to you...

00:37:28.000 Yeah, I think there was some history there because he had also made some jokes about when the Black Lives Matter thing happened, she boycotted the Oscars.

00:37:36.000 No, it wasn't Black Lives Matter.

00:37:37.000 No, Oscars So White.

00:37:38.000 She boycotted the Oscars and then he made a joke about how she wasn't invited to the Oscars in the first place.

00:37:44.000 It's like me boycotting Rihanna's panties or something.

00:37:48.000 Exactly.

00:37:48.000 He said, isn't she on a TV show?

00:37:51.000 Yeah.

00:37:51.000 Well, that's the one that gets the actors.

00:37:54.000 Aren't you on a TV show?

00:37:55.000 Oh, yeah.

00:37:55.000 Yeah.

00:37:56.000 Because I remember I was dating this girl once.

00:37:58.000 This was before I had my no headshots policy.

00:38:00.000 I was dating this girl once, and I was on a TV show, and she was trying to get into film.

00:38:08.000 She was an actress. 0.99

00:38:09.000 And she said she was shitting on me. 0.99

00:38:11.000 She goes, I wouldn't want to do TV. I just want to do film. 0.99

00:38:15.000 And I remember throwing my head back going, ah!

00:38:20.000 I go, hold on.

00:38:21.000 So if the producer of Friends just calls you up and says, hey, we would love to have a show wrapped around you, you're going to be like, no, I want to do independent films.

00:38:32.000 And I just was mocking her.

00:38:34.000 I was like, what did you just say?

00:38:36.000 I don't want to do TV. I'm going to do films.

00:38:38.000 You're not doing anything!

00:38:40.000 You're literally not doing anything.

00:38:41.000 And you're telling me you don't want to do a television show.

00:38:45.000 But that was a thing back then for serious actors.

00:38:49.000 Until these shows like Sopranos and all the Netflix shows and Game of Thrones, these serial shows that proved to be more in-depth, more dynamic, more interesting, more captivating, They have so much more time to develop plot lines and characters.

00:39:08.000 Game of Thrones is better than any movie that's ever existed.

00:39:11.000 By far!

00:39:12.000 By a long shot.

00:39:13.000 And also as an actor, to get a role like James Gandolfini got and said, okay, here's a role.

00:39:20.000 We can either do this for two hours once, and we can try to have a character arc happen there, or we can do it for ten years, and this character will go to all...

00:39:29.000 You can explore different facets of this character, and we've got a staff of genius writers that'll come up with stuff.

00:39:35.000 I mean, what an adventure for an actor to go through that.

00:39:39.000 Yeah.

00:39:39.000 Ruth from Ozark.

00:39:41.000 Holy shit, she's good. 0.99

00:39:43.000 You don't get a Ruth from Ozark in a movie. 1.00

00:39:45.000 Yeah, right.

00:39:45.000 You don't have the time.

00:39:46.000 Right.

00:39:47.000 You gotta build into that.

00:39:49.000 Yep, yep.

00:39:50.000 What is her name? 1.00

00:39:51.000 You're gonna have to fucking kill me! 1.00

00:39:54.000 Yeah! 1.00

00:39:55.000 Woo! 0.99

00:39:55.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:39:56.000 Was that the season finale? 1.00

00:39:57.000 Yeah, that bitch is wild. 1.00

00:39:59.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:40:00.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:40:01.000 I don't know shit about fuck. 1.00

00:40:06.000 She's one of the greatest characters in all of movies. 1.00

00:40:09.000 She is.

00:40:09.000 In all of acting.

00:40:10.000 Well, I like it when there's a character.

00:40:12.000 It's like Steve Buscemi.

00:40:14.000 When you see somebody that physically does not look like they could be a badass and then they transform into somebody that is scary.

00:40:21.000 Oh, she's awesome. 1.00

00:40:22.000 I think she won the Emmy for it last year.

00:40:25.000 Wow, she's only 27. Didn't she win the Emmy? 0.85

00:40:28.000 She should have.

00:40:29.000 I mean, who knows?

00:40:30.000 I think award shows are nonsense.

00:40:32.000 And I feel even stronger about it.

00:40:35.000 Yeah, she did.

00:40:36.000 I feel even stronger that awards are nonsense after watching the Oscars allow Will Smith to go on stage and receive an Oscar and give a speech.

00:40:47.000 After he assaulted someone on television.

00:40:49.000 Yeah.

00:40:50.000 After he broke a law.

00:40:52.000 Like, you can go to jail for that for quite a long time.

00:40:56.000 And let's be honest, it's a workplace.

00:40:58.000 You are at work.

00:40:59.000 The Oscars is part of your job.

00:41:00.000 Yes.

00:41:01.000 And in a workplace, somebody physically assaulted somebody and then got employee of the month.

00:41:08.000 Employee of the Year.

00:41:09.000 Employee of the Year.

00:41:10.000 That's Employee of the Year, right?

00:41:11.000 Right, right.

00:41:12.000 That's basically Employee of the Year.

00:41:14.000 Best Actor?

00:41:15.000 Yep.

00:41:16.000 Right?

00:41:16.000 Yep.

00:41:17.000 Oh my god.

00:41:18.000 Wild. 0.99

00:41:19.000 Yeah, it's fucking crazy. 0.99

00:41:21.000 It's a morally vacant and bankrupt industry. 0.99

00:41:25.000 It really is.

00:41:26.000 Yeah.

00:41:27.000 I mean, just the compilation of people thanking Harvey Weinstein.

00:41:32.000 Over and over and over again.

00:41:34.000 All these Oscar winners and huge celebrities and all these progressive liberal icons thanking Harvey.

00:41:41.000 They would go up and whenever they would win something, they would 100% thank Harvey.

00:41:45.000 You want to be in another Harvey movie? 1.00

00:41:47.000 You're going to thank Harvey, motherfucker. 1.00

00:41:50.000 And you go up there and you thank Harvey and you take pictures and you hug him. 0.99

00:41:54.000 Just a list of people that have photos with that guy.

00:41:57.000 And like the priest altar boy thing.

00:41:59.000 They knew!

00:42:00.000 They knew.

00:42:00.000 I knew.

00:42:01.000 I'm not exactly on the inside of Hollywood, and I was well aware of Harvey's casting couch.

00:42:07.000 Everybody did.

00:42:10.000 Tarantino was telling me about an old Hollywood producer that had an office with a bedroom in it. 1.00

00:42:17.000 And he would take the starlets, they would come into his office, and he would literally open up a bedroom, and he had a bed right there, and he would fuck them. 1.00

00:42:24.000 And they fucked all the stars. 1.00

00:42:27.000 Because you were the only way that they were going to get in a movie. 0.99

00:42:31.000 Wow. 1.00

00:42:31.000 And so, if you wanted to be in a movie, you had to fuck. 1.00

00:42:34.000 And there was a woman, we've talked about this before, was it Maureen, this Irish woman, do you remember her name? 0.99

00:42:41.000 Who wrote an article about it.

00:42:44.000 They interviewed her from that time, from early Hollywood. 0.99

00:42:49.000 And she was explaining how her career is not going to go anywhere because she won't fuck these guys. 1.00

00:42:54.000 And she was an old school Hollywood movie star. 1.00

00:42:58.000 Yeah.

00:42:58.000 And she was like at this pinnacle of her life, but realizing she's not going to keep working.

00:43:05.000 Maureen O'Dowd?

00:43:07.000 Maureen O'Dowd is the Times writer.

00:43:09.000 Oh.

00:43:10.000 No, it's not.

00:43:11.000 What's the name? 0.99

00:43:12.000 God damn it. 1.00

00:43:13.000 I know that Jerry Lewis got in trouble, and a woman came out and said, it was standard that if you worked with Jerry Lewis, you went in his dressing room and you had sex with him. 1.00

00:43:22.000 If you were cast as the girlfriend in his new movie, and she was brought into his trailer, and he just basically fucking took his pants off and expected it. 0.97

00:43:32.000 I can't remember if she actually had sex with him or not, but she said that that was the standard. 0.99

00:43:35.000 That was the rule.

00:43:37.000 What is the...

00:43:38.000 Maureen O'Hara.

00:43:39.000 That's it.

00:43:40.000 That's it.

00:43:41.000 Wow.

00:43:41.000 See if you get the quote.

00:43:43.000 Because it's pretty crazy.

00:43:44.000 I think she was in The Quiet Man with John Wayne.

00:43:49.000 Oh, yeah?

00:43:50.000 What year was that?

00:43:52.000 50s?

00:43:53.000 50s.

00:43:53.000 I think that makes sense.

00:43:54.000 She gave this quote as to what it was like to be an actress back then.

00:44:00.000 Yeah.

00:44:00.000 And, I mean, I think...

00:44:03.000 That's what that business was about.

00:44:05.000 It was about the executives and all the people that put the money into the movies, and they would all hobnob and they would all bang the actresses.

00:44:15.000 Yeah.

00:44:16.000 Which is crazy. 0.97

00:44:17.000 And plus, when it was the studio system and you got hired for a three-year contract, you were having sex with the head of the studio for that. 0.95

00:44:26.000 I guess you probably had to. 0.93

00:44:27.000 Yeah.

00:44:29.000 That was crazy.

00:44:31.000 If you think about it, we've discussed this before, but the business itself is so insane because you take people that are incredibly insecure, and generally speaking, most of them were either ignored or they had some sort of childhood trauma that leads them to seek out exorbitant amounts of attention.

00:44:47.000 Not just regular amounts of attention, but exorbitant.

00:44:49.000 I'm sure there's very healthy people that want to act, and I've met healthy people that are actors.

00:44:54.000 But it's hard to make it in that business.

00:44:57.000 And the people that really, really, really want it and find a way to fucking network their way and do the politics thing and get through the real fucking sociopaths that get through to the golden handle of the I made it door and turn that knob. 0.75

00:45:16.000 That is the worst environment for them. 0.95

00:45:19.000 You're going into a place where you get chosen or not chosen.

00:45:23.000 And most of the time you don't get chosen.

00:45:24.000 So you go into audition.

00:45:25.000 So basically they're deciding whether they like you in real time.

00:45:29.000 And you walk in there and you hope they like you and most of the time they don't.

00:45:33.000 So every time you get rejected, you just get shot down further and further and further.

00:45:38.000 And then you see people who do make it and you get more and more resentment. 1.00

00:45:41.000 And then some fat fuck like Harvey Weinstein comes along and offers you. 1.00

00:45:46.000 Listen, I can guarantee you an Academy Award. 1.00

00:45:49.000 You just gotta guarantee I'd nut in your mouth. 0.99

00:45:52.000 Irish film star Maureen O'Hara today charged Hollywood producers and directors with calling her a cold potato without sex appeal because she refuses to let them make love to her, says the Mirror New York correspondent. 0.98

00:46:05.000 I'm so upset with it that I am ready to quit Hollywood, Maureen says.

00:46:09.000 It's got so bad, I hate to come to work in the mornings.

00:46:14.000 I'm a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign because I don't let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me.

00:46:22.000 They have spread word around town that I am not a woman, that I am a cold piece of marble statuary.

00:46:28.000 I guess Hollywood won't consider me as anything except a cold hunk of marble until I divorce my husband, give my baby away and get my name and photograph in all the newspapers.

00:46:39.000 If that's Hollywood's idea of being a woman, I'm ready to quit now.

00:46:44.000 Year?

00:46:45.000 1945. Wow.

00:46:48.000 That's wild.

00:46:49.000 She was in that movie with John Wayne.

00:46:51.000 The whole plotline was that they were engaged and she was being difficult. 0.99

00:46:58.000 And the big payoff at the end of the movie is John Wayne fucking hits her and drags her through the fields, knocking her down. 0.98

00:47:05.000 And it's like this feel-good ending that's kind of a comedy. 0.99

00:47:08.000 Yeah.

00:47:11.000 That's, again, like we were talking about the difference between 1920 and 2020, that there's completely different worlds.

00:47:18.000 Yeah.

00:47:18.000 Completely different kinds of human beings.

00:47:20.000 And that's represented in the art.

00:47:22.000 If you watch movies, I mean, just watch Steve McQueen movies from 1970. He smacks the shit out of his co-stars. 0.99

00:47:30.000 Right. 0.99

00:47:30.000 I mean, everybody hit people back then. 0.99

00:47:32.000 It was normal for a star of a film to hit the co-star, who's a female, in the face. 0.99

00:47:39.000 Right.

00:47:40.000 All the time.

00:47:41.000 And it was felt justified.

00:47:43.000 Yes, she talked back.

00:47:44.000 Yeah.

00:47:44.000 I mean, there's so many films like that.

00:47:47.000 Look at this.

00:47:50.000 McClintlock is magnificent.

00:47:52.000 Wow.

00:47:55.000 That's crazy. 0.98

00:47:56.000 She's over his knees and he's spanking her. 1.00

00:47:58.000 Yeah. 0.71

00:47:59.000 John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in McClintlock.

00:48:02.000 What is that movie like?

00:48:04.000 Have you seen it?

00:48:04.000 I think we might have watched this clip before.

00:48:07.000 That's kind of why I pulled it up, but...

00:48:10.000 Yeah, she was a hottie. 1.00

00:48:12.000 Give me some volume.

00:48:19.000 It's also interesting the fascination that people had with the West back then.

00:48:29.000 Yeah.

00:48:30.000 I mean, how many West movies were made?

00:48:33.000 Still making them.

00:48:34.000 Everybody's watching him chase this woman away.

00:48:39.000 She's running to get away from him, and the crowd's like, let's see what happens.

00:48:44.000 Maybe he'll beat her. 0.92

00:48:53.000 Wow.

00:48:56.000 So this is the 1940s or 50s?

00:48:59.000 It's in color, so it's got to be the 50s, right?

00:49:02.000 Yeah, it's the 50s.

00:49:02.000 I think it's the 52, maybe?

00:49:06.000 So he follows her into the barn.

00:49:09.000 Uh-oh.

00:49:10.000 Oh, her pants fall off. 1.00

00:49:13.000 That was a note from the network.

00:49:16.000 Yeah, we need to see some legs. 0.99

00:49:17.000 So he's just casually walking while she's running because she's got heels on.

00:49:22.000 She can't run fast. 0.96

00:49:23.000 And he can just, as a strong man, stroll after her and keep up with her.

00:49:31.000 She hit him with a tomato. 0.68

00:49:34.000 He climbs over the counter.

00:49:37.000 She's still running away from him.

00:49:39.000 Chinese stereotype guy in the background watching.

00:49:43.000 He falls down because she throws some buckets around.

00:49:46.000 Oh, my goodness.

00:49:47.000 Oh, boy. 0.98

00:49:47.000 Now he's going to hit her with the bucket? 0.98

00:49:48.000 Is that what's going to happen? 0.98

00:49:52.000 Oh, my God.

00:49:53.000 This is so corny.

00:49:54.000 Oh, my God.

00:49:55.000 He's falling down.

00:49:57.000 But this is what's wild.

00:49:58.000 Everybody is outside, like stomping at the doors, trying to get in to watch him chase her.

00:50:06.000 While they destroy a guy's store. 0.99

00:50:08.000 Yeah, and this guy, they don't give a fuck. 0.99

00:50:10.000 This guy's like, hey, my store. 0.99

00:50:12.000 Oh my god, she pushes the chair at him and he falls down.

00:50:17.000 Now she's gonna escape. 0.99

00:50:19.000 Oh no.

00:50:20.000 Uh oh, here comes the beating.

00:50:24.000 He can't even get up.

00:50:26.000 He's so unathletic.

00:50:28.000 Alright, let's get her going up a ladder. 1.00

00:50:30.000 Let's get a low angle shot of her going up the ladder. 1.00

00:50:35.000 Terrible.

00:50:35.000 Oh, my God.

00:50:36.000 Look, the ladder came loose.

00:50:39.000 Oh, butt shot up the ladder. 1.00

00:50:41.000 And that's just hotness.

00:50:43.000 Oh, man.

00:50:44.000 Let's get her wet. 1.00

00:50:45.000 Let's get her wet in the slip. 1.00

00:50:48.000 Wow.

00:50:52.000 Oh, and she pulls her in, too.

00:50:55.000 But you see her, like, that's all just natural hotness. 0.81

00:50:59.000 Girls didn't even work out back then. 1.00

00:51:00.000 Oh, look at this.

00:51:01.000 Ooh, my lord.

00:51:03.000 Isn't it funny when you see a woman like that and you think, what does she look like today? 1.00

00:51:07.000 She's dead.

00:51:08.000 She's dead.

00:51:09.000 100%.

00:51:09.000 Yeah.

00:51:10.000 Yeah, I mean, she was probably 30 then.

00:51:13.000 That's a dead lady. 1.00

00:51:16.000 Right?

00:51:17.000 Yeah.

00:51:18.000 What are the odds she's alive?

00:51:20.000 Sometimes you see an old lady and you're like, wow, you were hot 50 years ago, weren't you? 0.99

00:51:24.000 Oh, for sure.

00:51:24.000 This is hilarious.

00:51:34.000 The way they all follow him as he's chasing her is so goddamn strange. 0.74

00:51:40.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:51:42.000 Like, imagine this movie today.

00:51:44.000 Imagine if someone did a recreation of McClintock.

00:51:49.000 Yeah.

00:51:50.000 Imagine.

00:51:51.000 Right.

00:51:51.000 Alright, now he's gonna walk in.

00:51:52.000 He knows where she is.

00:51:53.000 Oh, no.

00:51:54.000 Now he's got her.

00:51:56.000 She throws herself through a window rather than get beat by this man.

00:52:01.000 Oh, now he's got her.

00:52:04.000 Now he grabs her by the hand and everybody loves it.

00:52:07.000 Look at them laughing.

00:52:07.000 She just went through a window and now he's manhandling her.

00:52:11.000 Hilarious! 0.96

00:52:13.000 Oh, now he's going to put her over his lap and he's going to spank her in front of everybody. 1.00

00:52:18.000 You've been digging those birds into me for two years. 0.95

00:52:23.000 Now you're going to get your...

00:52:26.000 Now you're gonna get your come up. 1.00

00:52:28.000 Oh, a guy gives her a fucking shovel and he's beating her with a shovel. 1.00

00:52:33.000 Damn! 1.00

00:52:34.000 Oh my god. 1.00

00:52:35.000 Oh my god.

00:52:37.000 This is wild.

00:52:39.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:52:40.000 She's screaming and he's hit her like ten times in the ass with a metal shovel. 1.00

00:52:47.000 Now get your divorce. 1.00

00:52:51.000 That's how divorce worked back then. 1.00

00:52:53.000 Wow.

00:52:57.000 Don't think you're going to get rid of me that easy.

00:53:02.000 She still wants him, in other words.

00:53:04.000 He beat her with a shovel in front of the whole town.

00:53:07.000 And she's saying, this marriage is not over.

00:53:09.000 And now she's chasing. 0.96

00:53:10.000 This is how unrealistic Hollywood was back then.

00:53:13.000 She catches this carriage in her heels where she couldn't run from a guy walking just five minutes ago.

00:53:22.000 And now she catches the carriage that's pulled by horses.

00:53:27.000 And now she's been subdued and we see them at home and now it's docile and they're making out.

00:53:32.000 Is that what's happening?

00:53:33.000 Yep.

00:53:33.000 He solved the problem.

00:53:35.000 The problem was... 0.97

00:53:36.000 She needed a beating. 1.00

00:53:37.000 She needed a beating. 1.00

00:53:39.000 Wow. 0.86

00:53:39.000 That's wild. 0.86

00:53:40.000 That's wild.

00:53:42.000 And the crazy thing is, that's not the movie I was talking about.

00:53:45.000 It's another movie with the two of them where it's the same ending.

00:53:48.000 Really?

00:53:49.000 Yes!

00:53:49.000 So he beat up a lot of women in those movies.

00:53:51.000 Well, her in particular.

00:53:52.000 It was a regular thing.

00:53:54.000 How much domestic abuse existed back then? 1.00

00:53:57.000 Was it 100%?

00:53:58.000 How many husbands and wives physically fought back then?

00:54:03.000 I think that they really did think that they were...

00:54:07.000 I know when they hit kids, they felt like it was a duty that, you know, spare the rod, spoil the child.

00:54:13.000 Like, they really thought it was part of parenting.

00:54:15.000 And I think that that probably extended to marriage to some extent also.

00:54:21.000 I mean, I can't think.

00:54:23.000 Hitting my wife is the furthest thing I could ever imagine. 0.96

00:54:26.000 Like, the impulse.

00:54:27.000 I've been mad at her.

00:54:29.000 I've yelled at her.

00:54:30.000 But to lift my hand to strike her is so foreign to me. 0.90

00:54:35.000 Hitting anybody.

00:54:37.000 If I'm hitting someone, it's because there's a lot of danger.

00:54:40.000 Right.

00:54:40.000 Some real bad things are happening if I'm hitting somebody.

00:54:43.000 It's not I'm upset at someone.

00:54:46.000 Yeah.

00:54:46.000 If I'm hitting someone, it's because I have to.

00:54:49.000 Yeah.

00:54:49.000 The fact that this is how they used to have comedy movies- Right.

00:54:55.000 The fact that the whole town was following him around is so strange.

00:54:58.000 Like, I'd like to be in the writing room.

00:55:00.000 And then we'll have the whole town follow John Wayne as he chases Maureen through the streets.

00:55:05.000 I like it!

00:55:07.000 I like it!

00:55:08.000 You know, like an angry mob.

00:55:10.000 Yeah.

00:55:10.000 Like a bunch of gawkers.

00:55:13.000 Yeah.

00:55:13.000 Just all gawkers.

00:55:15.000 Onlookers, you know?

00:55:16.000 Jesus.

00:55:16.000 Just a bunch of rubberneckers following him around with big smiles on their face, laughing while he beats his wife over his knee.

00:55:23.000 Right.

00:55:24.000 And that's the final scene, is them kissing because he tamed her like a wild bronco.

00:55:30.000 Yeah.

00:55:31.000 He broke her.

00:55:32.000 Because she was broken.

00:55:33.000 Wow.

00:55:34.000 There was something wrong with her.

00:55:35.000 That's less than 100 years ago.

00:55:38.000 That's what's crazy.

00:55:39.000 Yeah.

00:55:40.000 When you look at art, it shows you, it gives you, it's like a time machine.

00:55:45.000 It's one of the more amazing things about film, is that it's a time machine into this era where things were just way different.

00:55:55.000 And one of the best representations of that is comedy.

00:55:59.000 Like, comedy from 1950 just doesn't work.

00:56:04.000 It doesn't work.

00:56:05.000 You know?

00:56:06.000 It's like, it's the wrong pieces and the gearing's off and it's got the wrong fuel.

00:56:13.000 It doesn't work.

00:56:14.000 It just doesn't work.

00:56:15.000 Well, sometimes it does.

00:56:16.000 Like, I can still watch the...

00:56:18.000 My kids watched the Marx Brothers when they were little and they got it from the get-go.

00:56:22.000 They were kids.

00:56:22.000 They didn't know any better.

00:56:23.000 No.

00:56:23.000 Show it to a 40-year-old.

00:56:25.000 You don't like the Marx Brothers?

00:56:26.000 It's good.

00:56:28.000 It's film.

00:56:29.000 It's interesting because it's a part of an earlier era.

00:56:33.000 Right.

00:56:33.000 But what I was talking about is stand-up.

00:56:34.000 Yeah.

00:56:35.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:56:35.000 Stand-up is...

00:56:36.000 Lenny Bruce, who without him, neither one of us would be here.

00:56:39.000 In my feeling, he is the OG. He's the godfather.

00:56:45.000 He's the guy who figured out how to take social and cultural issues and just a unique take on life and explain it in a way that blew people away.

00:56:56.000 It was not just jokes.

00:56:58.000 And he brought in the fact that he was Jewish.

00:57:00.000 There was a context.

00:57:01.000 There was opinions.

00:57:03.000 He was...

00:57:05.000 Yeah, he was challenging everything.

00:57:07.000 And the way he went off the rails at the end with all the legal stuff, it was a testament to the fact that he was going to be true to whatever was going on in his head.

00:57:18.000 And it was a shame because that wasn't going through everybody else's head.

00:57:22.000 They didn't want to hear it.

00:57:23.000 He was reading court papers on stage and there's video of that.

00:57:26.000 I've watched the videos.

00:57:28.000 But if you go and watch his stand-up from the early 60s, it's not applicable.

00:57:34.000 It doesn't work today.

00:57:36.000 There's a couple of jokes that work today.

00:57:38.000 Every now and then you're like, ah, that's pretty funny.

00:57:41.000 But for the most part...

00:57:43.000 That ground has been tread upon by so many people since then that it's like the things that he's saying that are groundbreaking are just normal things to us today.

00:57:52.000 Right.

00:57:53.000 It was jazz.

00:57:55.000 I mean, the way he talked was jazz.

00:57:57.000 And it was like, I can still listen to it because, like you said, it's a time capsule.

00:58:02.000 And to see somebody go on stage and talk in that way at a time when people didn't talk that way was very brave.

00:58:09.000 Not just the language, but the rhythm of it and the attitude of it.

00:58:13.000 Everything about it was really like he was a maverick.

00:58:16.000 Yeah.

00:58:16.000 He was a maverick and he was a brilliant guy who saw things and knew that there was a way to talk about them on stage that would change people's opinions of these things.

00:58:29.000 Change the way people saw these subjects.

00:58:31.000 And the way to do that is to make them laugh about them.

00:58:34.000 Right.

00:58:34.000 And so he was expanding people's perceptions while doing stand-up comedy.

00:58:40.000 Right.

00:58:41.000 But it's a time capsule.

00:58:43.000 If you didn't live in that time, if we lived back then, we would be howling at him the way we howl at Dave Chappelle today.

00:58:50.000 But we don't live back then.

00:58:53.000 So it's like you're so advanced.

00:58:56.000 By the time you're a 54-year-old man today, the amount of exposure you've had to different styles of living and ways of life and philosophies and different...

00:59:06.000 There's just like so much texture to society and life that just doesn't seem to exist back then because of the time.

00:59:15.000 I would love to just... 0.86

00:59:18.000 Man, if I had a fucking time machine and I could just sit unobserved and just watch a Lenny Bruce performance and be in the crowd in 1964... 0.98

00:59:29.000 At the Village Gate or something. 1.00

00:59:31.000 Fuck, it would be amazing. 1.00

00:59:32.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:59:32.000 Just to see the people back then? 1.00

00:59:34.000 What was it like to walk around back then?

00:59:38.000 What was it like to see them smoking cigarettes inside and laughing?

00:59:43.000 How do they treat each other?

00:59:45.000 They're different kinds of humans, man, and you see it in film.

00:59:50.000 And also, as a comedian, it's so hard for us to break through what people have already seen.

00:59:56.000 And like you said, it's a more limited...

00:59:59.000 People were of the same ilk back then.

01:00:03.000 They were predominantly the same races and the same repressive society that they were living in. 0.81

01:00:09.000 And to go into an oppressive society and break down those mores in front of them in a funny way You can't do that today the same way because everything's already been exploited and been challenged and the lines have all been crossed.

01:00:22.000 But the line was so much richer back then. 0.97

01:00:25.000 To go into that territory and fuck with it was powerful. 0.98

01:00:31.000 Did you ever see that movie yesterday? 0.99

01:00:33.000 About the Beatles?

01:00:34.000 It's not really about the Beatles.

01:00:36.000 It is about Beatles music, but it's about a guy who wakes up in a world where no one knows the Beatles.

01:00:42.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00:42.000 That was great.

01:00:43.000 Yeah.

01:00:43.000 I love that.

01:00:44.000 So he sings these songs and everybody's like, this is incredible.

01:00:47.000 Yeah.

01:00:47.000 Like, what's this from?

01:00:48.000 He's like, you never heard this song?

01:00:50.000 Yeah.

01:00:50.000 And then he realized nobody knows.

01:00:52.000 I think he was in a car accident or something.

01:00:54.000 What happened to him?

01:00:56.000 I forget what happened to him.

01:00:57.000 Something happened where...

01:00:59.000 Freak bus accident.

01:01:00.000 Yeah.

01:01:00.000 So something happened.

01:01:02.000 This is the premise.

01:01:02.000 And there's only a few people that have heard of the Beatles for some reason.

01:01:05.000 And these people know what he's doing.

01:01:07.000 And they think he's paying homage to this band that doesn't exist anymore.

01:01:10.000 Like, well, good on you for bringing the Beatles music. 0.99

01:01:13.000 And he's like, oh shit, you know? 0.98

01:01:14.000 So a few people know. 1.00

01:01:16.000 But most people think he's just a fucking genius. 0.99

01:01:20.000 Imagine if you could go back to 1964 and do stand-up. 1.00

01:01:26.000 How you would crush.

01:01:28.000 Yes.

01:01:29.000 Oh my god.

01:01:30.000 Yeah.

01:01:30.000 Oh my god, how you would crush.

01:01:32.000 And you wouldn't even have to steal someone else's material like this guy did in the Beatles movie.

01:01:37.000 Yeah.

01:01:37.000 If you could go back with your own act in 1964. You would be the godfather.

01:01:42.000 Right.

01:01:43.000 100%.

01:01:44.000 Yeah.

01:01:44.000 If you could do the Greg Fitzsimmons of 2021 material or 2022 material in 1965, you would be the greatest of all time.

01:01:55.000 People would have tattoos of you on their back. 0.97

01:01:58.000 There would be posters of you at every fucking comedy club. 1.00

01:02:02.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:02:03.000 You know those Lenny Bruce things?

01:02:04.000 Whitney just gave me a photograph, a framed photo of Lenny Bruce getting arrested.

01:02:09.000 Oh yeah?

01:02:10.000 Yeah.

01:02:10.000 And it's like that is what they would give it about you.

01:02:13.000 Yeah.

01:02:14.000 100%.

01:02:14.000 Right.

01:02:15.000 You would have to slow down.

01:02:16.000 You'd have to give them a break.

01:02:18.000 They'd be laughing so hard.

01:02:19.000 They'd probably have hemorrhages. 0.91

01:02:20.000 Yeah.

01:02:20.000 They wouldn't know what to do.

01:02:21.000 It would be like putting Tom Brady in the NFL in 1950. Right.

01:02:24.000 When those guys had bellies still smoked. 0.73

01:02:27.000 Yeah.

01:02:27.000 Right.

01:02:29.000 Yeah, it's a different world.

01:02:31.000 Yeah.

01:02:32.000 Different world.

01:02:32.000 Right.

01:02:33.000 But it's like that world has to exist because that's the foundation.

01:02:37.000 And then everything gets built from it.

01:02:40.000 You know, Pryor came from Bruce.

01:02:43.000 He took what Lenny Bruce was doing and he made it funnier.

01:02:46.000 He was better.

01:02:47.000 And his stuff still works today.

01:02:49.000 There's a lot of his material that's still very funny today.

01:02:52.000 But even then, when you're dealing with 1970, 1975, 1980 versus 2022, it's a different world, man.

01:03:04.000 Watch Eddie Murphy Raw. 0.97

01:03:06.000 It's like, wow, this is like a fucking time machine to a different mode of thinking. 0.98

01:03:12.000 And even Eddie Murphy watches that and cringes. 0.92

01:03:15.000 He says he would never do that material now, which is kind of crazy.

01:03:18.000 It was very homophobic.

01:03:21.000 Oh my god.

01:03:22.000 Yeah.

01:03:23.000 But in a funny way.

01:03:24.000 It wasn't in a mean way.

01:03:25.000 It wasn't homophobic in a hateful way.

01:03:27.000 It was just homophobic and like your joke you did last night about how you missed the F word.

01:03:33.000 Because it was fun.

01:03:34.000 It's how you said happy birthday to your friend.

01:03:37.000 Yeah.

01:03:37.000 There's a way to say a thing where you're talking about a subject and you're not being mean.

01:03:44.000 You're just talking about a subject.

01:03:46.000 And then there's a way to do it where you're talking about a subject, but you're using that subject and you're disparaging it. 0.98

01:03:56.000 You're shitting on it for laughs. 0.97

01:03:58.000 Right. 0.99

01:03:58.000 Whether that subject is an ethnic group, a racial group, sexual orientation, whatever it is. 0.99

01:04:04.000 If it's just women, you know, or if it's just men. 0.99

01:04:07.000 I mean, remember there was like a series of women that would just shit on men? 1.00

01:04:11.000 You know, like that was their thing. 0.99

01:04:13.000 It's like, men think this.

01:04:15.000 And I was always like, imagine if a guy went on stage and said all those things about women.

01:04:20.000 Yeah.

01:04:21.000 People would hate you.

01:04:22.000 Right.

01:04:22.000 They would hate you so much.

01:04:23.000 But the idea was like, men have had their time in the sun.

01:04:25.000 It's time for girls to take it back. 1.00

01:04:27.000 And the way to do it is to shit on men. 1.00

01:04:28.000 Uh-huh. 1.00

01:04:29.000 Yeah.

01:04:30.000 Well, what about, we were talking last night about Regina, what's her name on the Oscars?

01:04:36.000 Regina King.

01:04:37.000 She did a bit where she said, we need to do testing.

01:04:40.000 The COVID committee said that we have to randomly test some people. 0.99

01:04:43.000 And so she calls up all the hunky guys on stage and she starts frisking them in a way that you go like digging her hand into their assholes. 1.00

01:04:55.000 It was crazy! 0.98

01:04:57.000 And all anybody could think was like, could I bring Nicole Kidman up on stage and start patting her down in front of millions of people for a laugh?

01:05:05.000 Oh my god.

01:05:08.000 I didn't see that.

01:05:09.000 Can I see that?

01:05:10.000 Can I see her say that?

01:05:11.000 And do that?

01:05:12.000 And that she even made a joke about, I can bring Will Smith up because...

01:05:17.000 Jada gave me a pass.

01:05:18.000 Jada gave me a pass.

01:05:20.000 Yeah!

01:05:21.000 I want to see her do this.

01:05:22.000 Nobody slapped her over that.

01:05:24.000 That's wild.

01:05:25.000 I don't even know who Regina King is.

01:05:27.000 She's a great actress. 0.90

01:05:29.000 What has she been?

01:05:31.000 I think that movie about the women that were working for NASA. Is that her?

01:05:38.000 What was that movie?

01:05:40.000 I didn't see that movie.

01:05:41.000 I miss 9 out of 10 movies.

01:05:44.000 Really?

01:05:45.000 Do you get the screeners?

01:05:46.000 No.

01:05:46.000 I just don't.

01:05:48.000 I hardly watch movies anymore.

01:05:50.000 Let me see this here.

01:05:52.000 Your test is fine.

01:05:53.000 It says that you're married.

01:05:54.000 Negative.

01:05:55.000 Negative.

01:05:58.000 Regina also called out Wilson. 0.87

01:06:00.000 Did you miss it where she's groping him?

01:06:03.000 What's at the beginning of that video?

01:06:05.000 It's just longer of her calling them all on stage.

01:06:08.000 I was trying to find the actual video, but like the video wasn't gonna be on.

01:06:11.000 Oh, they go to a still.

01:06:13.000 When she starts groping them, they go to a still in this.

01:06:16.000 I was gonna try to find a video.

01:06:17.000 Look where her hand is. 1.00

01:06:19.000 I think it's gone.

01:06:22.000 There it goes.

01:06:24.000 Sorry.

01:06:28.000 A COVID pat down?

01:06:37.000 Wow.

01:06:43.000 How weird. 0.99

01:06:47.000 So Jason Momoa is backing his ass up to her and she's rubbing all over his body. 1.00

01:06:52.000 Nobody's laughing. 0.99

01:06:53.000 You're safe.

01:06:54.000 No, no, it's real, Josh.

01:06:55.000 It's real.

01:06:56.000 It's academy protocol.

01:06:57.000 Okay, guys.

01:06:59.000 Thank you, Ms. Hall.

01:07:00.000 So is this playing off the fact that men used to grope women?

01:07:03.000 Is that what this is?

01:07:04.000 No, it's just that she kind of played the single horny girl all night. 1.00

01:07:11.000 It was kind of her persona because she's not a stand-up and the other two are.

01:07:14.000 So that was kind of her bit all night.

01:07:16.000 Okay.

01:07:19.000 So then she groped on them.

01:07:21.000 Okay.

01:07:21.000 I'm triggered.

01:07:23.000 Well, it's just...

01:07:24.000 It's funny, I guess, that...

01:07:27.000 It's not funny.

01:07:29.000 It's funny that someone thought it was funny.

01:07:31.000 Yeah.

01:07:32.000 It's like that that was in a writer's room and everybody was like, yeah, let's do that.

01:07:36.000 Right.

01:07:37.000 Well, it's like you said, it's like, it's their time.

01:07:40.000 They're empowered.

01:07:41.000 Right.

01:07:42.000 Yeah, but no one feels like the men get victimized, which is, that's what's interesting, right?

01:07:47.000 Because no one feels like the man is in danger.

01:07:51.000 So because of that, it's not a bad thing.

01:07:55.000 Right.

01:07:55.000 But if you had like a giant woman, like a six foot four super athlete volleyball player or something.

01:08:03.000 Or if Caitlyn Jenner did it.

01:08:05.000 A giant woman, I said. 0.99

01:08:07.000 And you went with like a young, aggressive, sexually aggressive woman. 1.00

01:08:14.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:08:15.000 Biological woman. 0.99

01:08:16.000 And she's groping like jockeys. 1.00

01:08:22.000 Right?

01:08:24.000 Maybe then, he'd be like, hey, this feels a little weird.

01:08:27.000 Yeah, he's in danger.

01:08:28.000 They're in danger.

01:08:29.000 Right. 0.98

01:08:30.000 She could grab him by the hair and just stuff him into her pants. 0.99

01:08:33.000 Right. 0.98

01:08:34.000 You know?

01:08:34.000 He'd ride her like a horse.

01:08:37.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:08:38.000 See, that would be different if you knew that she could kill him. 0.84

01:08:42.000 You know? 0.83

01:08:44.000 If you had a giant MMA fighter, there's this woman named... 1.00

01:08:47.000 What the fuck's her name? 0.99

01:08:50.000 Gabby Garcia. 1.00

01:08:51.000 There's this woman named Gabby Garcia who's this roided up female MMA fighter who probably weighs 250. No shit. 1.00

01:08:58.000 Really? 1.00

01:09:00.000 She's a freak. 1.00

01:09:01.000 Damn. 1.00

01:09:02.000 Freak of science. 1.00

01:09:03.000 And she's a big woman already because I think she's like 6'2". 1.00

01:09:07.000 Whoa.

01:09:08.000 So there.

01:09:09.000 So if that girl is with Bobby Lee in bed, Yeah. 1.00

01:09:13.000 You know? 0.82

01:09:14.000 You gotta see her jacked. 1.00

01:09:16.000 Like, there's photos of her, like, flexing.

01:09:19.000 I mean, that's her right there. 1.00

01:09:21.000 Whoa.

01:09:23.000 Is that roids?

01:09:24.000 Oh, yeah.

01:09:25.000 Yeah.

01:09:26.000 Not just roids.

01:09:28.000 All the roids.

01:09:30.000 Yeah, I mean she's a giant woman and she fights over in Japan sometimes. 1.00

01:09:35.000 She has these freak show fights where she'll fight like some fucking housekeeper or something like that. 1.00

01:09:43.000 It doesn't make any sense. 1.00

01:09:44.000 She's fighting someone who has no chance of beating her and she beats the shit out of them. 1.00

01:09:48.000 The women that she's fought, some of them are these tiny ladies. 1.00

01:09:52.000 Look at this.

01:09:53.000 This is her soccer kicking this chick. 1.00

01:09:56.000 Does she fight legit other fighters as well? 0.99

01:09:58.000 Yeah, she fights other fighters too, but the thing is she's so big, she's never gonna get anybody her size to fight. 0.98

01:10:04.000 Could she win against a good smaller fighter?

01:10:10.000 She's lost in jujitsu match. 0.97

01:10:12.000 She lost a jujitsu match recently to a woman that might weigh 100 pounds less than her. 1.00

01:10:17.000 Wow.

01:10:18.000 Yeah.

01:10:19.000 Look at the size difference there.

01:10:21.000 Right there, that image.

01:10:23.000 Look at the size difference between her and the girl she fought. 0.97

01:10:26.000 That's real.

01:10:27.000 So they do stuff like that in Japan.

01:10:29.000 Japan likes freak shows. 1.00

01:10:31.000 They like freak fights.

01:10:32.000 They do like three-on-one fights and stuff?

01:10:34.000 They don't do that.

01:10:35.000 That's Russia. 0.84

01:10:36.000 Oh, in Russia.

01:10:37.000 Russia, they like to do that.

01:10:38.000 Yeah, I saw a father-son team fight against another father-son team.

01:10:42.000 Yeah, they've had women fight men. 1.00

01:10:44.000 They've had a bunch of wild shit happen over there. 0.98

01:10:48.000 But my point is, if that lady was feeling up a guy in a sketch, it would be a little more weird. 0.98

01:10:56.000 Yeah.

01:10:57.000 When you see that woman, Regina King, and she's touching Jason Momoa, Jason Momoa is this giant, athletic, strong man.

01:11:05.000 You know he's not in danger.

01:11:06.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:11:07.000 He can go, hey, hey, stop grabbing my cock. 1.00

01:11:09.000 Let's stop. 1.00

01:11:10.000 He's not in trouble.

01:11:11.000 Yeah.

01:11:11.000 So that is why it's funny, I guess?

01:11:13.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:11:14.000 But it is very hypocritical.

01:11:16.000 A little bit. 0.76

01:11:17.000 That that's a source of humor?

01:11:19.000 That she's going to get her cheap feels on Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa?

01:11:23.000 Yeah.

01:11:24.000 Okay.

01:11:25.000 Like, if I was those guys, I'd be like, is this what we're doing?

01:11:27.000 Yeah.

01:11:28.000 So what am I supposed to do?

01:11:29.000 I'm just supposed to pretend that this is funny?

01:11:31.000 Well, that's what was tough about the sketch, is that they were forced to go through with it.

01:11:35.000 And you could see on their faces, they weren't happy.

01:11:38.000 Josh Brolin's a smart guy.

01:11:40.000 Yeah.

01:11:41.000 There's no way he thinks that's funny.

01:11:43.000 He's just got to do the thing that you're supposed to do when you're up there.

01:11:47.000 Let him touch you.

01:11:50.000 So funny.

01:11:51.000 It's weird.

01:11:53.000 Anybody attack you on stage?

01:11:55.000 No.

01:11:57.000 No, don't put that out there.

01:12:02.000 Not the Joe Rogan Challenge.

01:12:04.000 Not interested in that, no.

01:12:06.000 Dude, I got attacked a few times.

01:12:08.000 I know, I remember.

01:12:08.000 I remember you got attacked in Boston, you fought the guy off, they pulled the guy off stage, and then you went, alright, who else wants some?

01:12:17.000 You savaged the whole show by saying that.

01:12:20.000 Yeah, right.

01:12:21.000 Because instead of everybody being like, oh my god, I can't believe this guy just attacked Greg, you cracked a joke, everybody started laughing, and you rolled right back into your act.

01:12:31.000 Yeah, right.

01:12:31.000 Well, I had to.

01:12:32.000 Well, the show ended.

01:12:36.000 We're good to go.

01:12:57.000 And they drag the guy out, and then the manager comes up to me, remember Harry Conforti from Stitches?

01:13:03.000 Yeah.

01:13:04.000 And he goes, all right, Fitzy, you got five minutes left.

01:13:06.000 I'm like, what?

01:13:08.000 I gotta finish?

01:13:09.000 And so I went back, and I think he thought it was like, get back on the horse, you know?

01:13:14.000 Whew.

01:13:14.000 Yeah, so I went up and I said, all right, who's next?

01:13:16.000 They probably got to drop the checks.

01:13:18.000 They got to drop the checks.

01:13:19.000 That's probably what it was, right?

01:13:20.000 I think it was my first standing ovation when I went back up there.

01:13:23.000 What the way you handled it, though?

01:13:25.000 Okay, who's next?

01:13:27.000 Who else wants some?

01:13:29.000 But it got them laughing.

01:13:30.000 And then I remember I'm like, that's well done.

01:13:33.000 Well done.

01:13:33.000 Because it's like those moments where you don't know what to do, like Chris Rock after you got slapped.

01:13:38.000 Didn't know what to do.

01:13:39.000 Yeah.

01:13:39.000 And he kind of tried to blow it off and go right back into the script.

01:13:43.000 But in his head, he's like, I can't believe what just happened.

01:13:47.000 Like, we were all in shock.

01:13:48.000 I thought about it.

01:13:49.000 There was a moment where he went, I could.

01:13:52.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:13:53.000 And we're all going, yeah, do it, do it.

01:13:55.000 Yeah.

01:13:56.000 Well, you know what he would have said. 0.99

01:13:57.000 He would have went into her infidelity and, you know, the public humiliation of him being on her podcast and talking about her fucking her son's friend. 0.99

01:14:06.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:14:07.000 And having a relationship with him for years, like that whole thing.

01:14:10.000 Right.

01:14:11.000 Oh, the whole... 0.99

01:14:12.000 Seeing Will Smith sit there, like, whose fucking idea was that? 0.98

01:14:16.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:14:16.000 To do that publicly? 0.98

01:14:17.000 Right.

01:14:17.000 Like, whose idea was that?

01:14:19.000 Hmm.

01:14:20.000 That alone was like, yo.

01:14:22.000 If I was friends with him, I'd be like, ee, ee, ee, ee.

01:14:25.000 Talk amongst yourselves.

01:14:27.000 You guys want to have a conversation about this?

01:14:28.000 You want to express it?

01:14:29.000 That's good.

01:14:30.000 But to put this out there for the whole world to mock, and that is what they're going to do.

01:14:36.000 They're going to mock it.

01:14:37.000 This is not what you want.

01:14:38.000 You don't want this.

01:14:39.000 And you don't want it in this way.

01:14:41.000 Because people have broken down that video of them talking forensically.

01:14:47.000 So you can see where the edits are.

01:14:48.000 Like here, her legs are crossed.

01:14:50.000 And then a second later, her legs are down.

01:14:52.000 She doesn't have enough time to uncross them. 0.51

01:14:54.000 That means they did multiple takes of this.

01:14:55.000 So they had very different versions.

01:14:58.000 And they tried to piece it together and put it together as one conversation.

01:15:02.000 Oh, really?

01:15:03.000 Yeah, there's people that have done forensic analysis of the video.

01:15:06.000 Wow.

01:15:07.000 Body language analysis.

01:15:09.000 Uh-huh. 1.00

01:15:12.000 Damn. 1.00

01:15:13.000 Just get divorced. 1.00

01:15:15.000 Yeah.

01:15:15.000 Just keep moving.

01:15:17.000 What do you think it is that keeps him with her?

01:15:20.000 Who knows?

01:15:22.000 Maybe he loves her.

01:15:23.000 Maybe he likes a strong woman. 0.67

01:15:25.000 Maybe he likes that kind of personality.

01:15:28.000 Maybe he's into that.

01:15:29.000 Yeah.

01:15:29.000 And I don't mean like a strong woman.

01:15:30.000 When I say strong woman, I don't mean like an ambitious, intelligent woman. 0.67

01:15:34.000 That's what a lot of people think of a strong woman. 0.97

01:15:36.000 I mean someone who likes to be the boss.

01:15:38.000 Yeah.

01:15:38.000 Someone who likes to tell you what to do.

01:15:41.000 The term strong woman is a pejorative to some folks. 1.00

01:15:45.000 And I don't mean it in terms of a strong, disciplined, successful, ambitious woman. 0.74

01:15:52.000 I mean bossy.

01:15:55.000 I mean overbearing.

01:15:56.000 I mean someone who enjoys telling people what to do.

01:15:59.000 Someone who's very self-centered and enjoys telling people what to do.

01:16:03.000 They get off on that.

01:16:04.000 They get off on that control of other people.

01:16:06.000 Yeah, we all have friends that are like that.

01:16:07.000 We have friends that are couples.

01:16:09.000 And it's not just a woman. 0.99

01:16:10.000 Either one.

01:16:11.000 No, it could be 100% the man.

01:16:13.000 When you see one person push the other one around and you see them just...

01:16:17.000 Just fall into that role of that dysfunctional, what do you call it, an enabler.

01:16:25.000 Somebody who enables their anger. 1.00

01:16:27.000 Because there's a lot of successful people in Hollywood, and I'm sure whatever industry you're in out there, listeners, Where the asshole wins. 0.94

01:16:37.000 The person that will make everybody else uncomfortable and will keep it up, most people will fold in the face of that and they will put up with it because they don't want to be uncomfortable anymore. 0.97

01:16:48.000 Well, it depends, right?

01:16:49.000 And if you're in a situation like the Harvey Weinstein situation where everybody relies on that person, that was the different situation there because he was the producer of these films.

01:16:58.000 He was the one who gave the green light.

01:17:00.000 He was the big dog.

01:17:02.000 So everybody relied on him.

01:17:04.000 The directors, the actors, the Academy knew that one of those films that his company put together was going to be- Oscars.

01:17:13.000 They were all incredible.

01:17:14.000 Yeah.

01:17:15.000 You know, Hinchcliffe has a whole bit about it.

01:17:17.000 If you go and watch all the films that he produced, I mean, they're some of the greatest films of all time. 0.95

01:17:24.000 Miramax, how many goddamn amazing films did they make? 0.97

01:17:28.000 Amazing, yeah. 0.99

01:17:29.000 You know?

01:17:30.000 Probably more than any producers in history.

01:17:32.000 Probably.

01:17:33.000 In terms of Oscars. 1.00

01:17:35.000 In terms of just awesome fucking movies. 0.99

01:17:38.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:17:38.000 I mean, he put together so many awesome movies. 0.99

01:17:41.000 Right.

01:17:41.000 And the fact that he was working with Tarantino, who's, in my opinion, the greatest movie producer or the greatest director of our era.

01:17:48.000 Mm-hmm.

01:17:49.000 So, like, a Tarantino film is like, when was the last time you saw a bad one?

01:17:53.000 Yeah.

01:17:54.000 You know?

01:17:55.000 They don't exist.

01:17:55.000 Yeah.

01:17:56.000 They're all awesome.

01:17:57.000 They're all at least watchable.

01:17:58.000 Yeah, at least. 0.96

01:17:59.000 And most of them are fucking awesome. 0.99

01:18:02.000 Most of Tarantino's films, while you're in the middle of it, you're like, what the fuck? 0.99

01:18:09.000 There's these what the fuck moments. 0.99

01:18:11.000 You are never not engaged in the movie. 0.99

01:18:15.000 To me, a great movie I get lost in.

01:18:17.000 When it ends, I have to shake myself out of the experience I was just in.

01:18:22.000 And that's how he brings you into a world, and it's the dialogue, it's the specificity of the dialogue, it's the energy of the music, his soundtracks are incredible, his casting, you know, he's found his stable of people that he believes in,

01:18:37.000 and he knows how to use them.

01:18:38.000 Yeah.

01:18:39.000 No, it's incredible.

01:18:40.000 If you really look at the body of work from Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Hateful Eight, you can go down the line.

01:18:51.000 They're so good, man. 1.00

01:18:53.000 So many fucking bombs. 1.00

01:18:55.000 I mean, like nuclear bombs. 1.00

01:18:57.000 I don't mean like bad. 0.99

01:18:57.000 I mean like just fucking smash hits. 0.99

01:19:01.000 Right. 0.99

01:19:01.000 He's like the Coen brothers without Oh Brother Where Art Thou? 0.99

01:19:07.000 You don't like Old Brother We're Out there?

01:19:08.000 I didn't like that one.

01:19:09.000 I love that movie.

01:19:10.000 Really?

01:19:10.000 Love it.

01:19:11.000 You know what?

01:19:11.000 I never liked their movies the first time.

01:19:14.000 I always liked the movies the first time, and then I liked them better, and then I loved them, and then I think they're genius.

01:19:19.000 The more you watch a Coen Brothers movie, the better it gets.

01:19:24.000 Yeah.

01:19:24.000 What is your favorite Coen Brothers movie?

01:19:26.000 Oh, Raising Arizona is my favorite movie of all time. 0.99

01:19:28.000 That's a great fucking movie. 0.99

01:19:29.000 What about Fargo, though? 1.00

01:19:31.000 Fargo is right there.

01:19:32.000 It's right there.

01:19:33.000 That's such a good movie.

01:19:34.000 Jesus.

01:19:35.000 I mean, talk about Steve Buscemi. 0.99

01:19:36.000 Like, he just, you know, so fucking great. 0.94

01:19:40.000 And he's another guy. 0.88

01:19:43.000 Just the casting, the offbeat casting.

01:19:45.000 So much of great movies is about, you know, what happens before this thing is shot and who you cast.

01:19:52.000 Oh, yeah.

01:19:53.000 Isn't it interesting, like, a guy like that is so important for a movie?

01:19:57.000 Like, to have, like, an offbeat, odd-looking dude that kind of, like, it gives you a certain flavor to a movie.

01:20:06.000 Like, if he was a good-looking guy, if he was, like, a James Franco-looking guy in those roles, it would not work.

01:20:11.000 Right, right.

01:20:12.000 You need a guy like him.

01:20:14.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:20:14.000 You need a sad sack. 0.97

01:20:16.000 You need...

01:20:16.000 A guy who looks like life has beaten him up for his entire existence.

01:20:20.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:20:21.000 Yeah.

01:20:21.000 You need odd characters.

01:20:25.000 When they get those hookers and they're in the motel room and the TV's on and they're both having sex right next to each other on twin beds. 1.00

01:20:32.000 It's just so fucking dead. 1.00

01:20:36.000 There was just no life to it. 0.99

01:20:38.000 It was just...

01:20:39.000 Yeah.

01:20:41.000 We were talking the other day about comedy movies, about how the genre has been killed by wokeness.

01:20:49.000 There's not a lot of good comedy movies anymore.

01:20:53.000 If you go back to Step Brothers and Superbad, you can't make those movies anymore.

01:21:01.000 And that's not that long ago.

01:21:02.000 What about Tropic Thunder?

01:21:04.000 Tropic Thunder.

01:21:05.000 You can't make that movie anymore.

01:21:06.000 Couldn't make that movie.

01:21:07.000 No chance. 0.99

01:21:08.000 If you tried to make that movie verbatim today, they would fucking show up with pitchforks. 0.98

01:21:14.000 But Borat's doing it. 0.95

01:21:15.000 Sacha Baron Cohen is still making movies that are out there.

01:21:19.000 He's found a way to do it as parody.

01:21:22.000 Yeah.

01:21:23.000 And to trick people.

01:21:25.000 He's found a way to do it. 1.00

01:21:26.000 What he did with the Borat movie, holy fucking shit. 1.00

01:21:31.000 Crazy. 1.00

01:21:32.000 When the girl's dancing and she has her period...

01:21:36.000 Like, oh my god.

01:21:38.000 And those poor girls, the debutantes, this is their biggest day of their life. 0.74

01:21:43.000 They've been groomed for this for generations.

01:21:46.000 This is their coming out.

01:21:48.000 The only thing I didn't like about that movie was how they tried to portray what was going on with Rudy Giuliani.

01:21:55.000 Like Rudy Giuliani or hate Rudy Giuliani, he was 100% not masturbating. 0.98

01:22:01.000 He was tucking his shirt into his pants like an old man. 1.00

01:22:07.000 Uh-huh. 1.00

01:22:08.000 And the guy runs in, you know, don't have sex with her, she's too young, or she's not old enough, have sex with me, or whatever he said. 1.00

01:22:16.000 I don't know. 0.99

01:22:16.000 I think you give that 30 more seconds, his pants were unbuckled. 0.99

01:22:19.000 You think so?

01:22:20.000 Yeah, I think he was into it.

01:22:23.000 He was not fighting...

01:22:25.000 Because, did you see the one with...

01:22:28.000 Who was the politician that he trapped in the room that he was coming on to in the previous movie?

01:22:39.000 He was running for president.

01:22:41.000 Ron Paul?

01:22:42.000 Yeah, was it Ron Paul?

01:22:43.000 Was it?

01:22:44.000 I can't remember who it was.

01:22:46.000 He had someone in there.

01:22:47.000 But he came on to somebody and they said, get me out of here, and he stopped it.

01:22:51.000 Rudy was not stopping it.

01:22:53.000 Yeah, but it wasn't him.

01:22:54.000 It was Rudy Giuliani with a girl who was talking to him and he was signing a release.

01:23:01.000 Yeah.

01:23:01.000 You remember all that?

01:23:02.000 No.

01:23:04.000 Yeah, there was something going on where they had to sign something and he was taking his microphone off.

01:23:12.000 He had to take his microphone off because he just did an interview.

01:23:14.000 So here it is.

01:23:17.000 He pats her?

01:23:18.000 Yes.

01:23:19.000 Puts his hands on her?

01:23:20.000 She's touching him and taking his microphone off.

01:23:24.000 And then he pats her.

01:23:26.000 And so he sits down and he tucks his pants back in.

01:23:43.000 Laying back on the bed is a very submissive thing to do in that situation.

01:23:47.000 I mean, his understanding is that this is an underage girl, isn't it?

01:23:51.000 I don't know what his understanding is.

01:23:52.000 Is that what it was?

01:23:53.000 She was 15?

01:23:54.000 Is that supposedly?

01:23:55.000 I don't know how old they said she was.

01:23:58.000 You can give me your phone number and your address.

01:24:04.000 Yeah, the tap is a little weird, but he's an old dude. 0.99

01:24:06.000 Old dudes tap people like that. 0.98

01:24:08.000 So she's taking off his thing, and he's tucking his pants back in. 1.00

01:24:15.000 But he's not touching his dick, is he? 0.99

01:24:18.000 It's a little weird. 0.99

01:24:20.000 A little weirder than I remember.

01:24:22.000 His hand stays in there a little longer than normal.

01:24:24.000 Because if I'm going to tuck my pants, I'm going to go like this.

01:24:28.000 That's it.

01:24:28.000 And I'm going to sit back up.

01:24:30.000 I also know, as a married guy, if I'm alone in a room with a girl that age, and she's touching me or whatever, it's time to stand up, take myself out of a dangerous situation.

01:24:42.000 Well, first of all, if she's 15, you should never be alone with a 15-year-old in a bedroom in a hotel somewhere.

01:24:51.000 That's just...

01:24:53.000 Just to have to answer the question, were you alone in a bedroom with a 15-year-old girl?

01:25:00.000 Well, there was an interview and she was like, nah, [...

01:25:15.000 Right.

01:25:15.000 But back in his day, what age was the age of consent when Rudy Giuliani was 30?

01:25:24.000 16. 15. Probably, right?

01:25:27.000 15. So let's imagine.

01:25:29.000 How old is he now?

01:25:30.000 You say he's 80?

01:25:31.000 Probably.

01:25:31.000 Probably 80?

01:25:32.000 Yeah.

01:25:32.000 So we've got to go back 50 years.

01:25:34.000 So let's go back to 1970-ish.

01:25:37.000 What was the age of consent in 1970?

01:25:40.000 Well, there was also the sexual revolution was happening, which I think lowered the age a little bit.

01:25:45.000 Really?

01:25:45.000 I think it made things more...

01:25:46.000 I mean, look at, you know, Roman Polanski and, you know, everything was depicting...

01:25:53.000 I mean, look at Woody Allen.

01:25:54.000 Wasn't that illegal, though, when Roman Polanski did it?

01:25:57.000 What was the movie he made with Manhattan?

01:26:01.000 No, that's the age of legal drinking and stuff.

01:26:06.000 To marry without parental consent?

01:26:08.000 In 1970, the age of majority was lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old.

01:26:13.000 But I think that's just to get married.

01:26:16.000 The age of consent is different.

01:26:19.000 That's parental consent for marriage. 0.52

01:26:23.000 No, but it's not 21, Jamie.

01:26:25.000 It was never 21. It's always been 18. To say that it's lowered, making it legal for males and females 18 years old to marry without parental consent, that's just marry. 0.57

01:26:36.000 It's definitely never been 21 to have sex.

01:26:40.000 No chance.

01:26:42.000 It's the same thing.

01:26:43.000 What does it say?

01:26:44.000 Consent for marriage.

01:26:45.000 But that's considered sexual intercourse in law.

01:26:48.000 Yeah, but it's not.

01:26:49.000 Look, it says it was about 12 years old for females and about 14 years old for males.

01:26:54.000 That's in the 12th century.

01:26:56.000 Oh.

01:26:57.000 When they first made age of consent.

01:27:00.000 Today's age of consent for sexual intercourse is between 14 years old and 18 years old in Western countries.

01:27:07.000 I'm pretty sure that they even made that because you would just marry someone so you could do that.

01:27:11.000 Yeah.

01:27:12.000 Right, but I don't think it was ever 21. What that's saying is that it was 21. I can't imagine that there was ever an age of sexual consent that was 21 in America.

01:27:23.000 That doesn't make sense.

01:27:24.000 No, that seems...

01:27:25.000 People were marrying so much younger than that.

01:27:27.000 Right.

01:27:29.000 Like, so what is the age of sexual consent?

01:27:33.000 Just Google, what was the age of sexual consent in 1970?

01:27:36.000 I'm looking at the...

01:27:37.000 That's 100% what I Googled, is age of consent in 1970, and that's what came up.

01:27:42.000 I think the way they were interpreting it, it's interesting that they were interpreting it as marriage.

01:27:47.000 Yeah.

01:27:48.000 You know, maybe this is how they thought back then.

01:27:51.000 Like, if you were having sex, you're going to get married.

01:27:53.000 Yeah. 0.86

01:27:53.000 Which is so terrifying. 0.86

01:27:55.000 Yeah.

01:27:56.000 I got like a 1920. There was age of consent.

01:27:59.000 26 states had age of consent at 16. 21 states had age of consent of 18. One state, Georgia, had age of consent of 14. Georgia!

01:28:08.000 It was like 19, 20, so 100 years ago.

01:28:10.000 Didn't Elvis, when he married his wife, wasn't she like 14 when he hooked up with her?

01:28:16.000 I think when they met she was like 14, and then they dated, and then I'm not sure how old, I think she was like 17 when they got married, but they dated, and she went overseas when he was in the army.

01:28:29.000 Yeah, visited him.

01:28:30.000 You know, the crazy one is Jerry Lee Lewis.

01:28:32.000 His cousin, right?

01:28:33.000 It was his cousin, and she was 13. Yes!

01:28:37.000 Yeah, you find that.

01:28:38.000 Jerry Lee Lewis with his cousin, with his 13-year-old cousin.

01:28:42.000 I typed in, I added a few more words, and it was still words at the same way.

01:28:47.000 Age of consent intercourse in the U.S. in 1976. In 1929, the age of consent for marriage, sexual intercourse, was raised to 16 years old for both females and males.

01:28:57.000 So it used to be younger than 16. So in 1970, the age of majority was lowered from...

01:29:03.000 See, the age of majority, though, is a different thing.

01:29:07.000 I think that is the marriage thing.

01:29:09.000 So you could get married at 18. It used to be 21 for marriage, which is pretty wise, really. 1.00

01:29:16.000 Like, it should probably be like 21. For marriage?

01:29:18.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:29:19.000 I mean, like, you don't know what the fuck you're doing. 0.99

01:29:20.000 Yeah, I don't know. 1.00

01:29:21.000 You barely know what the fuck you're doing at 21. Yeah. 1.00

01:29:23.000 Your frontal lobe's not fully formed until you're 25, right?

01:29:28.000 See if you can find a photo of Jerry Lee Lewis with his 13-year-old bride.

01:29:33.000 13-year-old cousin.

01:29:35.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:29:35.000 Damn! 1.00

01:29:36.000 He married her, right? 1.00

01:29:38.000 Didn't he?

01:29:39.000 That's what I heard, yeah.

01:29:41.000 And he was a star.

01:29:42.000 Yeah.

01:29:42.000 Which was crazy, because you see him with what looks like a little kid.

01:29:46.000 Uh-huh.

01:29:47.000 That's it.

01:29:48.000 Look at that.

01:29:48.000 That looks like a little kid.

01:29:50.000 Yeah.

01:29:51.000 Yeah.

01:29:53.000 His 13-year-old bride.

01:29:55.000 Wow. 1.00

01:29:55.000 I mean, that is fucking wild. 1.00

01:30:01.000 Imagine being that poor little girl, like, all of a sudden you're hanging out with... 0.99

01:30:04.000 She doesn't look unhappy.

01:30:05.000 She's smiling in every picture.

01:30:07.000 Well, back then, the attitudes were probably very different about whether or not that should be allowed.

01:30:14.000 Do you think that's her down there?

01:30:15.000 You think they stayed together all those years?

01:30:17.000 Is that possible?

01:30:20.000 That looks like her. 0.98

01:30:22.000 Wow.

01:30:23.000 It does look like her.

01:30:24.000 Wow.

01:30:25.000 It worked.

01:30:26.000 He was right. 1.00

01:30:26.000 Damn. 1.00

01:30:27.000 So much for your theory. 0.99

01:30:28.000 Well, I don't know about that.

01:30:29.000 The troubling history of Jerry Lee Lewis is the title of that article.

01:30:33.000 Is that the same woman?

01:30:36.000 That can't be the same woman. 0.90

01:30:38.000 I bet he's got a type.

01:30:40.000 Just keeps getting a new one.

01:30:42.000 Oh no.

01:30:43.000 It's his seventh wife. 0.81

01:30:45.000 Yeah.

01:30:45.000 Oh Jesus Christ.

01:30:47.000 He renews his vows with his seventh wife.

01:30:50.000 Wow.

01:30:51.000 Is that recent?

01:30:52.000 Is he alive?

01:30:54.000 Click on that.

01:30:56.000 He renews his vows to the seventh wife. 0.64

01:30:59.000 2021. Wow.

01:31:01.000 That is wild.

01:31:04.000 Imagine the checks he cuts every month to six other women. 0.99

01:31:09.000 They're probably all dead.

01:31:10.000 One of them died.

01:31:11.000 One of them died in suspicious ways.

01:31:14.000 Oh, really?

01:31:15.000 Yeah, one of them was one of them.

01:31:17.000 She drowned. 0.56

01:31:18.000 Like, one of those deals.

01:31:19.000 Wow.

01:31:20.000 Yeah, find that.

01:31:22.000 Yeah.

01:31:23.000 Yeah, one of them was...

01:31:25.000 I remember people, like, you know, they used to call him the killer.

01:31:30.000 That was, like, his nickname.

01:31:31.000 Oh, right.

01:31:32.000 But I don't think it was because of that.

01:31:35.000 But then...

01:31:36.000 His fourth wife.

01:31:38.000 His fourth wife.

01:31:39.000 Too much loving drives a man insane.

01:31:41.000 Yeah.

01:31:44.000 Who knows what happened.

01:31:45.000 Wow.

01:31:46.000 I mean, that...

01:31:47.000 Also, you're married to Jerry Lee Lewis.

01:31:50.000 You might be doing pills.

01:31:52.000 Yeah.

01:31:53.000 You know, and you might fall in the pool. 0.99

01:31:55.000 Like, who fucking knows? 0.99

01:31:56.000 Right. 0.99

01:31:57.000 I don't know.

01:31:59.000 Yeah, I think it's like when you have those seven kids and one dies.

01:32:03.000 If you have seven wives, one of them's gonna die. 1.00

01:32:06.000 If you're Jerry Lee Lewis.

01:32:08.000 Seven's a big number, man. 1.00

01:32:10.000 Shit. 1.00

01:32:11.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:32:12.000 I met a dude the other day who's my age.

01:32:15.000 He has three ex-wives.

01:32:17.000 He's currently married.

01:32:18.000 He's got three ex-wives.

01:32:19.000 I was like, bro.

01:32:21.000 Wow.

01:32:22.000 And he still believes in the institution. 1.00

01:32:24.000 He's a sucker. 1.00

01:32:26.000 Wow. 1.00

01:32:27.000 He's a sucker. 1.00

01:32:28.000 Does he have money? 1.00

01:32:28.000 No. 1.00

01:32:29.000 Did he have money?

01:32:30.000 He's not bad.

01:32:31.000 He's not doing bad.

01:32:33.000 I wouldn't want to be in his position and have three different women to pay alimony to. 1.00

01:32:39.000 I don't know how that works though.

01:32:40.000 Maybe they found new guys and maybe they, you know, because when a woman gets remarried, generally speaking, you don't have to pay her anymore. 1.00

01:32:47.000 You have to pay child support.

01:32:49.000 But the alimony supposedly ends as soon as a woman gets married. 0.76

01:32:53.000 The way I know this is because I have a buddy.

01:32:55.000 I've talked about him many times because it's one of the craziest stories.

01:32:58.000 It drives me crazy because he got divorced.

01:33:05.000 They didn't have any children.

01:33:06.000 They were married for, I believe they were married for 12 years.

01:33:09.000 They've been divorced for more time than they were ever married.

01:33:12.000 He still pays her alimony.

01:33:13.000 They never had any children.

01:33:15.000 She lives in his old, amazing house in the Palisades. 0.99

01:33:18.000 This is a fucking spectacular house, this gorgeous view. 0.98

01:33:20.000 She lives in that house with her boyfriend, and she has to pretend the boyfriend doesn't live there. 0.99

01:33:26.000 So every time someone goes to inspect, the boyfriend literally has to get a fucking U-Haul, throw all his shit in it, and drive down the street, because they know when the inspection's gonna come. 0.99

01:33:35.000 The inspection comes, they look around, no guy lives here, and then as soon as they leave, he comes back, unloads his shit back in the house, and he'll never marry her, because if he marries her, the gravy train stops. 0.99

01:33:47.000 So your buddy, he's paying for the whole... 0.99

01:33:50.000 Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

01:33:53.000 Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

01:33:54.000 He's been doing it for 12 years.

01:33:56.000 Yeah.

01:33:57.000 No, excuse me, for 14 years.

01:33:59.000 He's been divorced.

01:34:00.000 This is 14 years a couple years ago, so I might be off by a couple years.

01:34:04.000 But it's a long time to be paying Essentially, he's paid millions in alimony to a woman who's completely capable of working. 0.99

01:34:14.000 He didn't fuck her so hard she can't work anymore. 1.00

01:34:16.000 She's like a normal person. 1.00

01:34:18.000 There's nothing wrong with her.

01:34:19.000 The relationship ran its course, and it's over.

01:34:23.000 But because they were legally entangled in a marriage, he's obligated to help her maintain her lifestyle in perpetuity. 0.98

01:34:32.000 So for the rest of her fucking life, Until she gets married again, he has to pay her alimony, which is wild. 0.99

01:34:41.000 And it works both ways. 0.99

01:34:43.000 We got a friend who's a woman who's a very successful corporate something, where she makes a million dollars a year. 1.00

01:34:51.000 And then she's got a husband who's a lawyer, and he stopped working.

01:34:55.000 And before they got divorced, he was out of work.

01:34:58.000 They got divorced. 0.99

01:34:59.000 She pays this motherfucker tens of thousands of dollars every month, and he tortures her, and he refuses to work. 1.00

01:35:07.000 Why would he work? 1.00

01:35:08.000 Exactly.

01:35:09.000 If he starts working, it just gets taken out of the money she'd be giving him.

01:35:14.000 California, I think, might be the worst place to get divorced. 1.00

01:35:17.000 That is wild that they do it that way.

01:35:19.000 Yeah.

01:35:21.000 This is one area where I'm sexist.

01:35:24.000 I really am.

01:35:25.000 Because I kind of get it from a girl's point of view.

01:35:28.000 Because it makes more sense.

01:35:32.000 Because women have had children and women raise the children and traditionally one of the things that goes along with alimony is the fact this woman is taking care of your kids. 1.00

01:35:41.000 Yeah.

01:35:41.000 And child support.

01:35:43.000 That all makes sense.

01:35:44.000 And the fact that they didn't pursue a career.

01:35:46.000 Yes, sure.

01:35:46.000 They had to take time off.

01:35:47.000 They supported you.

01:35:49.000 But a man.

01:35:51.000 Who won't work and just leeches off of a successful, strong woman who's got a very lucrative career. 1.00

01:35:59.000 That guy's useless. 0.99

01:36:01.000 He just plays video games all day. 1.00

01:36:03.000 No!

01:36:04.000 And then he gives her a hard time about the kids.

01:36:06.000 He moved out of state and it's ugly.

01:36:11.000 Who has the kids? 0.90

01:36:14.000 I think one of them's in college now.

01:36:17.000 She had the kids, and I don't think he was doing a lot of parenting, but he was still getting money to parent.

01:36:24.000 So she's taking care of her children and she's paying Alma. 0.72

01:36:30.000 I'm a sexist.

01:36:30.000 Yeah.

01:36:31.000 In that regard, I'm a sexist. 1.00

01:36:33.000 That guy, if I was a judge and I could make the rules, I'd be like, you need to get your bitch ass out and get a fucking job, dude. 1.00

01:36:40.000 Right. 1.00

01:36:40.000 If you've got a law degree and a resume and you're not working, that's on you. 1.00

01:36:45.000 That's just a scam.

01:36:47.000 Yeah.

01:36:47.000 A guy doing that, an able-bodied man, it's not like she did something to him where he sued her and made a lot of money because she did something horrible and he won in civil court.

01:36:58.000 No, they just used to fuck. 1.00

01:37:00.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:01.000 She doesn't want to fuck him anymore, so she has to give him tens of thousands of dollars every month? 1.00

01:37:06.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:06.000 Ugh. 1.00

01:37:07.000 Yeah.

01:37:07.000 Ugh.

01:37:08.000 Dude, I'm so glad, as I know you are, to have met a woman that I know I will never divorce, that I'll never— I have friends that have gone through it, and it's crippling.

01:37:19.000 Take three years of your life and just say, okay, I'm going to be miserable because I'm going to be dealing with lawyers and betrayal and— That's the thing about my friend.

01:37:27.000 It was worse because he had to hire her lawyer.

01:37:32.000 He had to pay for her lawyer.

01:37:33.000 Oh, yeah, my friend did too.

01:37:35.000 But it gets worse.

01:37:35.000 So she knew that she was going to divorce him, so she went to all the best lawyers in town.

01:37:42.000 Because once you visit with them, they can't represent the other guy.

01:37:46.000 Exactly.

01:37:46.000 So she planned this out for a long period of time.

01:37:50.000 She did it over a course of months.

01:37:51.000 Wow.

01:37:53.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:54.000 Shit! 1.00

01:37:56.000 He fucked with the wrong lady. 1.00

01:37:58.000 Damn! 1.00

01:37:59.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:38:00.000 It must be so amazing, because we've all had breakups, and you start to see a side of a person that when you were with them, you didn't see before.

01:38:07.000 Vengeance.

01:38:08.000 And in marriage, it's that times 10. Vengeance.

01:38:10.000 Yeah.

01:38:11.000 This woman, she got my buddy. 1.00

01:38:13.000 Wow. 0.98

01:38:14.000 Yeah, and still, I mean, she's fucking sitting up, getting her toes done right now, eating bonbons, raking in the money. 1.00

01:38:22.000 Doesn't have to do anything. 0.97

01:38:24.000 Never has to have a career, never has to work, never has to worry.

01:38:27.000 Lives in a beautiful house.

01:38:30.000 No effort. 1.00

01:38:31.000 Shit. 1.00

01:38:32.000 Nothing. 1.00

01:38:32.000 Doesn't even like the guy. 1.00

01:38:34.000 Doesn't even have to be nice to him.

01:38:36.000 A person who you're not even nice to gives you hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. 1.00

01:38:41.000 Because you fucked. 1.00

01:38:43.000 Because you did it in a different decade. 1.00

01:38:45.000 Yeah.

01:38:45.000 It's wild.

01:38:46.000 Yeah.

01:38:47.000 I mean, what's interesting is the idea of a gold digger.

01:38:55.000 It's an incredibly financially lucrative endeavor.

01:38:59.000 Like, if you're a woman, and say, if you could find some really crinkly old dude and trick him into thinking you really love him, how much time has he got left? 0.88

01:39:07.000 What if you got some billionaire character who runs some fucking oil business and he's worked, you know, like J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith? 0.94

01:39:15.000 Yeah, right. 0.98

01:39:16.000 Like, that kind of situation.

01:39:17.000 That guy's worth a fuckload of money, and all you have to do is hang out with him for a very short amount of time, and you get that money.

01:39:23.000 Yep.

01:39:23.000 If you're going to run a business, think about there's a lot of businesses that people run where they don't enjoy it at all.

01:39:29.000 They're in finance or they're in insurance sales or something.

01:39:33.000 They don't enjoy the business.

01:39:34.000 They're doing the business because it's successful.

01:39:37.000 It's a lucrative endeavor.

01:39:39.000 They figure out how to maximize their profits and how to make the best deals and you get together and strategize on how to conquer the segment of the marketplace and all that stuff.

01:39:49.000 You're trying to make money.

01:39:50.000 That's all you're doing.

01:39:51.000 You're not creating art.

01:39:52.000 You're not enhancing people's existence.

01:39:55.000 Gold digging.

01:39:57.000 If you're a hot woman who's kind of aimless, but you're manipulative, there should be classes. 1.00

01:40:03.000 Where classic gold diggers can tell you, this is how I roped him in. 1.00

01:40:08.000 This is how I met him.

01:40:09.000 I had to play hard to get.

01:40:10.000 I did this.

01:40:11.000 I became friends with his wife.

01:40:13.000 And that was my way in.

01:40:14.000 And I knew eventually I'd be alone with him.

01:40:16.000 There's stories like that where you're like, wow, this is wild how this woman slowly connived her way into this old rich guy's life and then tricked this dude into thinking that she loved him.

01:40:29.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:40:30.000 Because if you're like some fucking 80-year-old man and some really hot 40-year-old, it's like, I've always loved older men. 0.99

01:40:37.000 It's just like, I don't care. 0.99

01:40:40.000 I mean, for me, it's just like, older men, there's so much more experience, there's so much more knowledge.

01:40:47.000 I love your spirit.

01:40:48.000 Yes, I mean, you're just so wise.

01:40:50.000 My husband doesn't have sex with me anymore. 1.00

01:40:52.000 They start saying shit like that. 1.00

01:40:54.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:40:54.000 And meanwhile, you got kids that are just sitting on their asses waiting for the inheritance and you're like, fuck them. 1.00

01:40:59.000 Oh my God. 1.00

01:41:00.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:41:01.000 That shit. 1.00

01:41:02.000 That is like the one of the things that women do when they want to put out that smell. 1.00

01:41:07.000 When they put that scent out for a guy, they complain about how their boyfriend doesn't have sex with him anymore.

01:41:12.000 It is the number one move.

01:41:14.000 I was talking to a friend of mine about it once and it happened later that night.

01:41:19.000 Literally happened later that night.

01:41:21.000 He had a friend and his friend came by with her friend and she was talking to him about how her boyfriend never had sex with her. 1.00

01:41:30.000 And I was like, she wants you to fuck her. 1.00

01:41:33.000 She's literally saying, my friend was successful, and she's literally putting this thing out there. 1.00

01:41:37.000 She's literally saying, my boyfriend doesn't have sex anymore.

01:41:40.000 That's like, there's an opening.

01:41:42.000 There's an opening.

01:41:42.000 I'm not happy.

01:41:44.000 You're trying to move now.

01:41:45.000 It's like, here, I'm moving the pawn here.

01:41:48.000 Oh, look, it's right in the line of your rook.

01:41:51.000 Let's see if you do that.

01:41:52.000 Yeah.

01:41:53.000 Right.

01:41:54.000 It's nature.

01:41:55.000 I need to be fertilized.

01:41:56.000 I'm not being fertilized.

01:41:57.000 Not just that.

01:41:58.000 It's like she just bet on the wrong horse. 0.99

01:42:01.000 She's got this guy who's not fucking her or she's bored with him or they fight too much or he's rude or whatever. 0.99

01:42:08.000 But that's what they say. 0.99

01:42:11.000 Maybe it's me.

01:42:12.000 I mean, is there something wrong with me? 0.96

01:42:15.000 He never wants to have sex with me. 0.98

01:42:17.000 I mean, 15, 20 minutes into the conversation this came up, I was like, this is fucking hilarious, because we were just talking about it. 0.95

01:42:24.000 Dude, you know who it happened to?

01:42:25.000 Who?

01:42:26.000 Alexander Hamilton.

01:42:27.000 Really?

01:42:28.000 He was approached by this woman, and she seduced him, and she started having an affair with him.

01:42:34.000 She was married at the time.

01:42:35.000 So when he was president?

01:42:36.000 No, no.

01:42:37.000 Hamilton was never president.

01:42:39.000 Who's Alexander Hamilton?

01:42:40.000 Hamilton was one of the founders of the Constitution.

01:42:43.000 He was never president?

01:42:44.000 No.

01:42:45.000 He should have been president.

01:42:46.000 Everybody thinks he was president.

01:42:47.000 I thought he was president.

01:42:49.000 He wasn't president, was he?

01:42:50.000 How many presidents do you think you can name?

01:42:55.000 20?

01:42:55.000 20 tops.

01:42:56.000 Maybe.

01:42:57.000 Yeah.

01:42:57.000 It's been 46. Yeah.

01:42:58.000 I can maybe name 20. 46?

01:43:00.000 Yeah.

01:43:00.000 Trump was 45. Yeah.

01:43:03.000 Well, how far back can you go?

01:43:04.000 Trump?

01:43:05.000 Me?

01:43:06.000 Obama?

01:43:06.000 I can go back to Gerald Ford, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower.

01:43:14.000 Roosevelt?

01:43:17.000 I'm lost there.

01:43:18.000 I'm lost.

01:43:19.000 When you get to me, 1940s, I'm lost.

01:43:21.000 Yeah, I think Roosevelt is as far back as I can go.

01:43:23.000 Yeah.

01:43:25.000 And then there's those ones from like the 1800s.

01:43:27.000 Like, who's that guy?

01:43:28.000 Yeah.

01:43:29.000 Yeah.

01:43:30.000 So Hamilton was never president.

01:43:32.000 I don't think he was ever president, but he was... 0.99

01:43:34.000 And I think the reason why is this woman had an affair with him and then fucking shook him down. 0.99

01:43:41.000 And the husband was in on it. 0.99

01:43:43.000 And he was a guy...

01:43:44.000 I mean, Hamilton...

01:43:45.000 I don't know if he...

01:43:46.000 I read the book.

01:43:47.000 And he was... 0.99

01:43:49.000 You know, the guy started out as a fucking... 0.99

01:43:51.000 He grew up poor in the Caribbean and made his way into law school through patronage of people that were impressed by his intelligence. 1.00

01:44:01.000 He was a hustler and then he was a soldier. 1.00

01:44:03.000 Great fucking soldier. 1.00

01:44:05.000 Fought the British and then he was Washington's what Jamie is to you. 1.00

01:44:12.000 He was to George Washington.

01:44:14.000 Like a producer of his podcast?

01:44:15.000 Yeah.

01:44:16.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:44:17.000 It only had one download because it was the fucking internet back then. 0.98

01:44:20.000 Yeah, they wrote it with a feather. 0.99

01:44:24.000 Wow, so a woman busted a move and she did it with her husband? 1.00

01:44:29.000 Yeah, he was aware of it and she kept shaking him down and the couple shook him down together.

01:44:33.000 They shook him down because they were going to show that he was having an affair?

01:44:38.000 Yeah.

01:44:38.000 Wow.

01:44:40.000 Maria Reynolds.

01:44:41.000 Maria Reynolds.

01:44:42.000 There's no photos of her?

01:44:43.000 No, no, no.

01:44:43.000 Is there a sketch?

01:44:44.000 There could be a painting.

01:44:46.000 Let's see.

01:44:46.000 What year is this?

01:44:47.000 Like 1700s?

01:44:48.000 Yeah, early 1800s.

01:44:51.000 Man, that's wild.

01:44:53.000 Yeah.

01:44:53.000 But that's a story as old as time.

01:44:55.000 Yeah.

01:44:56.000 Is the conniving woman who is very attractive, who cons an unattractive rich man into marrying her, and then she divorces him and makes exorbitant amount of money. 1.00

01:45:07.000 Wow, she looks like a skanker. 1.00

01:45:10.000 That was what she looked like? 1.00

01:45:11.000 I don't know.

01:45:12.000 Is that a real photo? 0.98

01:45:13.000 She also knew that he was a womanizer.

01:45:16.000 I think she's the actress that plays the character in the play.

01:45:19.000 She knew he was vulnerable.

01:45:21.000 Oh, there's a play about it.

01:45:23.000 Oh, Hamilton.

01:45:24.000 Oh, that's what Hamilton's about.

01:45:25.000 Oh, duh.

01:45:26.000 That's what that's about?

01:45:28.000 I thought it was a rap.

01:45:29.000 It is.

01:45:30.000 It is?

01:45:31.000 So they made a rap?

01:45:33.000 It was a rap musical.

01:45:34.000 A hip-hop musical about a president who got seduced?

01:45:38.000 Yeah.

01:45:38.000 I don't know if he was president.

01:45:39.000 I don't think he was ever president.

01:45:40.000 No.

01:45:41.000 Oh, I mean, I'm sorry.

01:45:41.000 Hip-hop about a politician.

01:45:43.000 A founding father.

01:45:44.000 Yeah.

01:45:44.000 Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of Treasury, is fully refuted.

01:45:49.000 Written by himself.

01:45:50.000 Oh, so he wrote Charge of Speculation.

01:45:54.000 Which was a big thing of, like, the question was whether or not he should have written that.

01:45:58.000 Whether or not by admitting to it and addressing it, he would ruin his career.

01:46:02.000 And it turns out it was a mistake.

01:46:04.000 He ruined his career.

01:46:05.000 So he admitted that she and he had an affair and that ruined his career?

01:46:09.000 Yeah.

01:46:10.000 Here it goes.

01:46:12.000 The Reynolds affair.

01:46:13.000 A daughter named Susan born August 18th.

01:46:16.000 Oh, is that his...

01:46:17.000 Do you have a kid with this girl?

01:46:19.000 I don't think so.

01:46:20.000 1790, James Reynolds moved his family from New York to Philadelphia.

01:46:24.000 Summer of 1791, Maria visited Hamilton, who was staying there.

01:46:29.000 She asked for help, saying her abusive husband had abandoned her.

01:46:33.000 There you go. 0.99

01:46:34.000 He's not fucking me. 0.99

01:46:35.000 Yeah, he's not fucking me. 0.99

01:46:36.000 Hamilton organized a meeting for later that evening to give Mary the money. 0.99

01:46:41.000 Code for, I just want my nut.

01:46:43.000 That's what it says.

01:46:45.000 I like how everything else in this list is so proper to the bottom line.

01:46:52.000 Code for, I just want my nut.

01:46:54.000 That's hilarious.

01:46:55.000 That's very funny.

01:46:57.000 Wow.

01:46:59.000 That's interesting.

01:47:00.000 That's what they say.

01:47:01.000 My husband's so mean to me.

01:47:03.000 He doesn't have sex with me and he's mean to me. 0.99

01:47:06.000 Oh, that's terrible. 0.82

01:47:08.000 You know, I don't get along with my wife so well either.

01:47:10.000 I mean, it's just like...

01:47:11.000 It's so funny how people like us probably should have been together, but we never will be.

01:47:17.000 Doesn't seem fair that we shouldn't be happy, does it?

01:47:20.000 We should be happy.

01:47:21.000 Let's have coffee someday.

01:47:23.000 Next thing you know, Jed's a millionaire.

01:47:25.000 Boink! 1.00

01:47:26.000 It's just so easy to extract money from a vulnerable man if you're a beautiful woman and you are, you know, a fucking sociopath. 1.00

01:47:36.000 If you're good at it, like, guys are vulnerable. 1.00

01:47:40.000 Like, a dorky dude.

01:47:42.000 There's like some guys. 0.91

01:47:44.000 Like, imagine a guy.

01:47:45.000 Okay. 0.99

01:47:46.000 I'm not saying Bill Gates is a sucker. 0.94

01:47:48.000 I'm sure he's very smart. 0.97

01:47:49.000 He's too smart for this. 0.98

01:47:50.000 But if he was a guy like Bill Gates, who's kind of a nerdy dude who's worth a fuckton of money, and some bombshell comes along and starts hanging out with him and brushing her tits against his arm when she's reaching for a pen, you know, like the standard moves, 0.99

01:48:06.000 becomes buddy-buddy with him, would just... 0.95

01:48:10.000 Let's just go on a vacation together as friends.

01:48:12.000 We're friends.

01:48:14.000 Just slowly.

01:48:15.000 The payoff is so giant.

01:48:18.000 The payoff, if you could become Mrs. Gates, oh good lord. 0.86

01:48:24.000 Because even if you get a prenup, it's probably pretty fucking generous. 0.84

01:48:28.000 What's a million to this guy?

01:48:29.000 Plus, if you prove he cheated during the marriage, I think you can get rid of the prenup.

01:48:33.000 I think he cheated on...

01:48:34.000 Didn't he cheat on Melinda all those years?

01:48:36.000 He had a long-term affair, like a previous girlfriend that he never really broke up with.

01:48:43.000 There was a thing, they had like an agreement where you'd have one weekend a year with her.

01:48:47.000 Oh, right, right.

01:48:48.000 Yeah, I think they actually had an agreement.

01:48:51.000 But whatever, I'm not interested in their life.

01:48:53.000 But I'm interested in people getting robbed.

01:48:55.000 Yeah.

01:48:55.000 I'm interested in that.

01:48:56.000 I think it's fascinating that the fact that...

01:49:02.000 Women are so much more desirable than men are in that regard. 0.85

01:49:05.000 It's so much easier to con a man into marrying you even though he potentially could lose exorbitant amounts of money.

01:49:15.000 I feel like women are less vulnerable in that way.

01:49:19.000 A woman with a broke guy who wants to marry her, she's gonna be super skeptical. 1.00

01:49:24.000 She's really, really rich.

01:49:26.000 I think it goes both ways. 1.00

01:49:28.000 I think it takes a personality that is, like you said, like you don't think you deserve good dick or good pussy and all of a sudden it comes to you. 1.00

01:49:37.000 But it's way more common with the woman doing it to the man. 1.00

01:49:41.000 Well, men more likely have the money. 1.00

01:49:44.000 Yeah.

01:49:46.000 But it's also, as a scam, it's more common, way more common, to have like a hot young woman connive and trick some old man into marrying her. 0.98

01:49:58.000 Rich old man, she won't have to worry.

01:50:02.000 Right?

01:50:02.000 Yeah.

01:50:03.000 That's a fucking eagle song. 1.00

01:50:04.000 She's heading for the cheating side of town. 1.00

01:50:07.000 Yeah, that's the eagle song.

01:50:09.000 Wikipedia article about this.

01:50:11.000 It says that at that time period, the common practice was for the wrong husband to seek a duel as retribution.

01:50:20.000 But they didn't do that because he was of a lower social status and realized he could get blackmail money.

01:50:27.000 Extortion.

01:50:27.000 Oh, so he got the blackmail money instead of the duel.

01:50:31.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:50:33.000 Yeah, well, he probably didn't want the duel because he just wanted the money because he let his wife fuck that. 1.00

01:50:37.000 Because they got $1,300 at the end of the... 0.99

01:50:40.000 $1,300?

01:50:41.000 That's how much he had to pay out?

01:50:43.000 Yeah.

01:50:44.000 Wow.

01:50:44.000 I don't know.

01:50:45.000 It doesn't seem like a lot.

01:50:46.000 That's a weekend at the Treehouse in Danbury, Connecticut.

01:50:52.000 And you're not getting bonuses.

01:50:53.000 No bonuses.

01:50:54.000 And we're going to take a taste of the merch.

01:50:57.000 Just let me wet my beak on those CDs.

01:50:59.000 Do they give you a taste of the merch?

01:51:01.000 Do you have to give a taste of the merch to a club ever?

01:51:03.000 Casinos do that. 0.98

01:51:04.000 Oh, do they really?

01:51:05.000 Yeah, if you sell merch at a casino, they'll take like 20%.

01:51:08.000 Interesting.

01:51:09.000 Yeah.

01:51:10.000 Interesting.

01:51:11.000 Do you do casinos often?

01:51:13.000 Once in a while.

01:51:14.000 I'm doing one in Massachusetts next month.

01:51:16.000 Oh yeah?

01:51:16.000 What are you doing?

01:51:16.000 Plainville or something.

01:51:18.000 Plainville, Massachusetts.

01:51:19.000 No kidding.

01:51:20.000 Yeah, I got a bunch of time hitting the road hard right now.

01:51:23.000 Yeah?

01:51:23.000 The next, like, five weeks, I'm gone.

01:51:26.000 Nice.

01:51:27.000 Every weekend?

01:51:28.000 That one of those deals?

01:51:29.000 Pretty much every weekend for like six weekends.

01:51:32.000 Nice.

01:51:32.000 Coming up.

01:51:33.000 Yeah.

01:51:34.000 Nice.

01:51:35.000 I went out from December till February.

01:51:40.000 It was light.

01:51:42.000 I mean, you don't have to worry about it.

01:51:43.000 I'm sure you sell out wherever you go.

01:51:45.000 But I was finding like people were like the Abercrombie and Finch virus came out and people were like hanging back a little bit.

01:51:52.000 And now they're finally starting to come back.

01:51:53.000 Like last month people started coming out again.

01:51:56.000 Well, the whole world's economy has to kind of like fall back into place.

01:52:00.000 Yeah.

01:52:00.000 And for so many people, the hit was huge.

01:52:04.000 Yeah.

01:52:04.000 So many people lost businesses.

01:52:06.000 Right.

01:52:06.000 So many people lost all their income.

01:52:08.000 So many people.

01:52:09.000 And then what's fascinating to me is my friends who run restaurants are telling me how hard it is to find workers.

01:52:16.000 I don't get the math on this.

01:52:18.000 Yes, that's what I'm saying.

01:52:18.000 Where did all the workers go and how are they affording to live?

01:52:21.000 Yeah.

01:52:22.000 I mean, I get while unemployment was running around, there was an issue because like one of my friends said that he had this guy who was a bartender that used to work for him and he wanted to hire him back again, but the guy said I could only work 20 hours a week.

01:52:34.000 Right.

01:52:34.000 He goes, why?

01:52:35.000 He goes, because that way I get unemployment.

01:52:38.000 So because of the free money from the government, this guy was willing to...

01:52:43.000 He said, I'm not going to give up this free money.

01:52:45.000 Yeah.

01:52:46.000 Which is crazy, because he could have made more money In an honest way, by actually working all the time.

01:52:52.000 He's like, nah, I'll just take that free money until it runs out.

01:52:56.000 And part of it is like, people are exploring different lifestyles now.

01:53:01.000 I think that the pandemic made people stop and go like, oh, what do I really want to do with my life? 0.93

01:53:08.000 And now they're coming out of it and they're saying, do I want to be exploited by a shitty job or do I want to get some unemployment and fucking sketch for another month or two?

01:53:17.000 Yeah, I think that's the best aspect of the pandemic was the fact that it made people sort of recalibrate what's important in their life, what to do with their time. 0.78

01:53:28.000 Yeah.

01:53:28.000 It made people think like, you know, someone who maybe wanted to pursue some sort of artistic endeavor and they got to do it, you know, and get it going during the pandemic.

01:53:38.000 And then when it's over, they just said, let's go for it.

01:53:41.000 Yeah.

01:53:41.000 Try to make it this way.

01:53:42.000 Right, right.

01:53:43.000 That's a good thing, if you could do that.

01:53:46.000 I mean, so many people played it safe in their life and got these jobs that paid the bills, but they lived in misery.

01:53:54.000 And they always wanted to do this other thing, whatever that other thing was.

01:53:58.000 So if that happened with some folks, that's probably the best thing that happened from the pandemic.

01:54:03.000 Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if, like, you know, it was like after the Depression, you know, this economy got really strong for a while.

01:54:14.000 Roaring 20s.

01:54:15.000 Yeah, and now it's going to be like you're going to see new business because there's lower overhead.

01:54:19.000 People aren't expected to take office space like they used to.

01:54:23.000 There's a lot of ways you can communicate, telecommunicate, rather than have to fly to a place for a conference.

01:54:29.000 And so small businesses are going to be able to launch new ideas.

01:54:32.000 Right.

01:54:32.000 Actually, the Roaring Twenties were after the pandemic of the Spanish Flu.

01:54:37.000 Right, right, right.

01:54:38.000 When did the recession start?

01:54:41.000 It was after the Roaring Twenties, right?

01:54:43.000 Wasn't it?

01:54:43.000 The Depression started like 1930, I guess.

01:54:47.000 Was it?

01:54:47.000 Right around 1930. Yeah.

01:54:50.000 So that was when people were talking about the roaring 20s of 2020, that that was going to be a response to the pandemic, that being locked down for two years is going to make people seek as much freedom as possible post 2020, which is kind of true with some people.

01:55:07.000 Some people are, like we were saying, pursuing jobs that they maybe didn't think they could pursue before or some sort of an artistic path of life.

01:55:19.000 And I think streamlining their lives and realizing they don't need to eat out three nights a week and they don't need to take a trip to Disneyland and instead they start to do things that are cheaper and simpler and they don't need as much income.

01:55:31.000 Yeah.

01:55:32.000 And also, you know, the working from home thing changed a lot of people too.

01:55:37.000 Because there's been many people that have said they're more productive, they're happier, and it's easier to work from home.

01:55:45.000 All you really need is an internet connection and a computer.

01:55:47.000 You know, how often do you need to physically be in an office for your job?

01:55:52.000 What jobs require you to be physically in your office?

01:55:57.000 Well, there is something to be said for the water cooler talk, that there is like ideas pollinate, cross-pollinate in an office where you're working on a project, he's working on a project, you realize that there's something symbiotic that can happen between you and...

01:56:10.000 So I think that physical brushing up against each other, depending on the company, is useful.

01:56:15.000 But if you're doing pure sales, you may be able to just do that from home without having to waste two hours a day commuting.

01:56:23.000 And then the amount of meetings they get called just because people fucking call meetings because they can and they waste your time and you're not doing those. 0.63

01:56:31.000 Yeah, there's a lot of people that are pushing back against coming back to the office and they're angry about it, you know? 0.87

01:56:36.000 Yeah.

01:56:37.000 And it's funny because you weren't angry about it two years ago.

01:56:41.000 It was normal.

01:56:42.000 But now the idea of going back to the old ways pisses you off because you don't want to commute.

01:56:48.000 You don't want to be stuck in traffic and waste all that time.

01:56:50.000 But I see both points.

01:56:52.000 I see that there could be probably some jobs where you benefit from being there physically. 0.99

01:56:57.000 But I could also see where if you're a disciplined person and you're productive at home, the problem is like how many guys are beaten off in front of their fucking camera during Zoom? 0.99

01:57:06.000 Right. 0.97

01:57:06.000 How many guys got busted? 0.97

01:57:08.000 That guy from the New Yorker.

01:57:09.000 Yeah, Tubin.

01:57:10.000 Tubin.

01:57:11.000 Was it New York Times?

01:57:13.000 No, New Yorker.

01:57:14.000 How many people, like, there was a lot of guys got caught doing that, though.

01:57:19.000 Yeah.

01:57:19.000 It wasn't just that guy.

01:57:20.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:57:20.000 There was a lot of guys got caught jerking off. 0.99

01:57:22.000 It's like, how many guys just jerk off all the day when they're at home? 0.98

01:57:28.000 It begs the question, what is productivity? 0.57

01:57:31.000 How are you measuring productivity?

01:57:35.000 How much discipline do you think people really have when you just leave them at home with their computer?

01:57:40.000 I remember Louis said something about the way he writes, that he writes on a computer that's not connected to the internet because he doesn't want to be distracted.

01:57:47.000 Yeah, that's smart.

01:57:48.000 That's smart.

01:57:49.000 Yeah.

01:57:50.000 No, they have programs now for your computer that do that for you, writing programs that keep you off the internet.

01:57:57.000 What's it called?

01:57:58.000 There's a few of them.

01:57:59.000 I can't remember what it's called, but a lot of professional writers use them.

01:58:04.000 Makes sense, because it's so easy to just go, oh, let's check Twitter real quick.

01:58:08.000 Oh, let's see what the news is.

01:58:10.000 Maybe I'll find some interesting story in the news.

01:58:12.000 You never do.

01:58:13.000 I have this app that's called Pomodoro Technique.

01:58:16.000 Have you ever heard of that?

01:58:17.000 No.

01:58:17.000 You do 20 minutes.

01:58:19.000 It's very simple.

01:58:20.000 It's a timer on your phone, and after 20 minutes or 25 minutes, you can set it.

01:58:24.000 It goes off, and then you have five minutes to check your emails, to do Wordle, whatever the fuck you want to do for five minutes, and then you start the next 20-minute period. 0.99

01:58:33.000 I swear to God, I have ADD, and it fucking works for me, man. 0.98

01:58:37.000 I get so much shit done when I do the Pomodoro technique. 0.99

01:58:42.000 Because if you just sit down in front of a computer and just try to write, you get distracted. 0.98

01:58:47.000 I react. 1.00

01:58:48.000 You know, a text pops up and your agent says, I need a fucking headshot for whatever. 1.00

01:58:53.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:58:53.000 Because it's the 1970s that I live in. 0.99

01:58:56.000 But like, you know, shit comes up. 0.99

01:58:58.000 You got to change your travel, whatever. 0.99

01:59:00.000 And I find that in that 10-minute period that are the five or 10 minutes that I take off, I get so much done.

01:59:07.000 Yeah.

01:59:08.000 Yeah.

01:59:09.000 I just, I write...

01:59:12.000 Well, you write late at night, right?

01:59:13.000 Yeah, I write when everyone's asleep.

01:59:15.000 I do get a lot of degenerates that text me, though.

01:59:19.000 Like Kurt Metzger, he's one of those guys who texts you at 4 o'clock in the morning.

01:59:23.000 Comics will text you at any time.

01:59:25.000 So I put my phone on silent, so that I do not disturb.

01:59:29.000 And then, most of the time, I've been writing on a Windows computer, so texts don't pop up.

01:59:34.000 Oh, really?

01:59:35.000 So it's like iMessages don't pop up.

01:59:37.000 Yeah.

01:59:38.000 Yeah, I do it for a bunch of reasons, but mostly I do it for the keyboard.

01:59:42.000 I have a ThinkPad, and the keyboard's just so much better than anything that Apple makes.

01:59:48.000 Really?

01:59:49.000 Oh my god.

01:59:50.000 The difference is so huge.

01:59:52.000 It's so huge in the ease of typing and accuracy, like how much more accurate I am.

01:59:57.000 With a MacBook, they have those flat keys and the ThinkPad, the keys have a little C shape to them so your fingers fit in them.

02:00:05.000 You know which key you're always on.

02:00:07.000 And there's travel.

02:00:09.000 The keys have travel to them.

02:00:10.000 Like the travels, the distance, the keyboard travel is gigantic.

02:00:15.000 You mean spaces between the keys?

02:00:17.000 Mm-mm.

02:00:17.000 The amount of space it takes to press a key down.

02:00:20.000 Oh, okay.

02:00:21.000 The shorter the travel, keyboard travel, the less accurate you'll be.

02:00:24.000 Okay.

02:00:24.000 The more keyboard travel it is, the more your finger knows it's registering, you're pressing it, and then you get into a rhythm of where everything is and it's effortless.

02:00:36.000 Typing is so much better.

02:00:38.000 I've been typing on a ThinkPad for like five or six years for that very reason.

02:00:44.000 I've had ThinkPads.

02:00:45.000 Because their keyboards are just the best. 0.91

02:00:47.000 There's fucking no comparison. 0.96

02:00:50.000 Unless you use an external keyboard. 0.97

02:00:53.000 You can buy an external keyboard, like a mechanical keyboard.

02:00:57.000 There's a lot of great external keyboards where they have a lot of key travel.

02:01:02.000 So if you buy one of those ergonomic things, there's a lot of key travel in those.

02:01:06.000 There's a distance.

02:01:08.000 The standard distance, I think with the new MacBooks, it's probably like, I'm going to guess, like 1mm, 1.2mm.

02:01:17.000 With the ThinkPad, you can get 1.82mm.

02:01:20.000 That seems like no big deal, but it's a giant deal.

02:01:24.000 It's a giant deal when you type.

02:01:25.000 I can see that. 0.99

02:01:26.000 I can remember, shit, just how old I am, typewriters, man, where you really had to fucking depress that thing. 0.99

02:01:32.000 And there was a motion with your fingers. 0.99

02:01:35.000 It was very conscious striking.

02:01:37.000 Yep.

02:01:37.000 And I can see, like, I know there's probably old newspaper guys that still write on typewriters.

02:01:43.000 You think so?

02:01:43.000 Well, you know Andy Rooney was still writing on a typewriter until the end.

02:01:47.000 Probably.

02:01:47.000 He's just complaining.

02:01:49.000 Yeah.

02:01:50.000 That's all we're all doing, right?

02:01:52.000 Yeah.

02:01:54.000 But do you take the ThinkPad on the road with you?

02:01:57.000 Yes.

02:01:57.000 Yeah.

02:01:58.000 Or I'll take a MacBook.

02:01:59.000 I have an old MacBook from 2015. Yeah.

02:02:02.000 They had better keyboards back then.

02:02:03.000 Right.

02:02:04.000 2015 still wasn't as good as the ThinkPad, but far superior to my modern MacBook.

02:02:09.000 I have a modern MacBook, and it's just like flat, tick, tick, tick, tick.

02:02:13.000 There's no feel to it. 0.99

02:02:15.000 I want to fucking... 0.98

02:02:16.000 Also, I have an X1 Carbon. 0.99

02:02:20.000 It's super light.

02:02:21.000 It weighs nothing. 0.99

02:02:22.000 It's fucking waterproof. 0.99

02:02:24.000 You can spill water on it. 1.00

02:02:26.000 It's mil-spec so you can drop it off a fucking countertop. 1.00

02:02:29.000 It doesn't break. 1.00

02:02:31.000 Thinkpads are fucking durable as shit. 0.99

02:02:34.000 You get trapped into the Mac ecosystem, which I most certainly am with some stuff, like iPhotos and all that kind of jazz. 1.00

02:02:43.000 There's benefits to that, but there's also a lot of benefits to not being on that nipple.

02:02:49.000 And the big one is that you have access to different hardware.

02:02:53.000 All your hardware, if you have an Apple, essentially is controlled by Apple, except external stuff like USB keyboards and things along those lines, wireless keyboards, Bluetooth keyboards.

02:03:04.000 But for the most part, most people probably just use the keyboard.

02:03:08.000 If you buy an iMac, use the keyboard that comes with it. 0.96

02:03:11.000 That little bullshit white keyboard, the clickety-clackety-clickety. 0.99

02:03:14.000 That's terrible. 0.99

02:03:15.000 The experience of typing on those is not good. 1.00

02:03:18.000 You want a fucking keyboard where your hands sit there and you press keys. 0.99

02:03:23.000 And then you get into that rhythm and it just... 1.00

02:03:27.000 You can think and type and it just comes out so much smoother.

02:03:32.000 They've done studies that show that people that have like more keyboard travel and they've like tested their amount of errors and how many words they can type per minute and it's higher.

02:03:42.000 It's higher when you have more travel.

02:03:44.000 Yeah, there's something that should be a visceral experience.

02:03:48.000 Some people still write on, you know, like Seinfeld famously still writes on yellow legal pads, and there's something about the speed that you can write.

02:03:57.000 You think more.

02:03:59.000 Yeah, you think maybe a little bit more deliberately and a little more slowly, and so the words you're putting down might be a better version of the joke than if you were typing really fast.

02:04:07.000 I could see that.

02:04:09.000 Yeah, maybe.

02:04:09.000 Sometimes I write stuff out by hand, and I do feel like...

02:04:13.000 You all see the alternative comics. 0.98

02:04:15.000 They've always got a fucking moleskin notebook with their new jokes in it. 1.00

02:04:18.000 And I think, yeah, but what if you want to edit that? 0.98

02:04:20.000 Like for me, I'm constantly taking, you know, I'll have a set list and then I'll take a chunk from that and I'll move it in.

02:04:26.000 And then by the end of the month, it's a nightmare because I've got five different documents that have similar material in it.

02:04:31.000 And I don't know which is the most recent version of the bit.

02:04:34.000 Yeah.

02:04:35.000 So I still, after all these years, don't have an exact process that gets me to that one hour where I've got the one hour of material in one document that's all up to date.

02:04:46.000 One of the things that I was using that I haven't used lately, but I was using it when I was preparing for my last special, and maybe even the special before that, was Scrivener.

02:04:55.000 What's that?

02:04:57.000 Scrivener is a word processing software that allows you to put things in these little side column, like these categories of topics.

02:05:12.000 So a lot of guys use it for book writing.

02:05:14.000 And it also does this, too.

02:05:16.000 It's just like notepads.

02:05:18.000 Yeah, it has this feature, which is you have these index cards that you can put up on a corkboard like that, which is kind of interesting.

02:05:25.000 But besides that, there's also this option to have these separate Word files.

02:05:32.000 So what I would do is...

02:05:34.000 I would write something on Microsoft Word, and then I would copy and paste it into Scrivener.

02:05:40.000 Because Scrivener, like there's benefits to Microsoft Word that I really like.

02:05:44.000 One of them is Focus Mode, which I used to use Write Room for.

02:05:48.000 Do you know what Write Room is?

02:05:49.000 Yeah.

02:05:50.000 Write Room is a software for Mac when I used to write exclusively on Macs.

02:05:54.000 And it's cool because it allows you to have a black screen where you don't have access to your screen.

02:06:04.000 I like that.

02:06:10.000 I used to like to write on that.

02:06:12.000 But then Microsoft Word realized that they were probably losing out on people doing that instead of using Word.

02:06:19.000 So they came up with Focus mode.

02:06:22.000 So focus mode is you just press that and all you see is the screen goes black and all you see is white text on a black screen, which I like.

02:06:30.000 Yeah.

02:06:31.000 I like writing like that because it just, to me, it just, it works better.

02:06:36.000 Or, you know, white screen and black ink.

02:06:40.000 I don't remember which way I use it, but how do I use it?

02:06:45.000 I think I use a black screen with white ink.

02:06:47.000 You could obviously switch it up.

02:06:49.000 Yeah.

02:06:49.000 Do whatever you want in terms of like the color of the screen.

02:06:51.000 But then I would copy and paste that and then I would put that into Scrivener.

02:06:58.000 And so I'd have like here's a subject like chewing gum.

02:07:01.000 That'd be a subject.

02:07:01.000 I put that and it's in a column and I can click on it and then I can move that column down or up.

02:07:07.000 So my opening bit is here, and then I would do this.

02:07:10.000 But I said, oh, but I've been doing this bit about kangaroos instead of the gum bit, so I'll swap them.

02:07:15.000 And so I could move them.

02:07:16.000 So anytime when I would open up Scrivener, I would have my set list on the left-hand column and each individual bit I'd have written out, which helps me a lot.

02:07:26.000 Because I used to just have bullet points, but sometimes I'd forget tags.

02:07:30.000 So it would help me just to memorize stuff.

02:07:34.000 I'd write out the whole bit.

02:07:36.000 Word for word.

02:07:37.000 Yeah.

02:07:38.000 As much as I can.

02:07:39.000 Really?

02:07:39.000 Yeah.

02:07:39.000 Wow.

02:07:40.000 And then I have a separate notebook.

02:07:42.000 Notebook where I write in.

02:07:43.000 And that's from memory.

02:07:44.000 So when I would do shows, I would write things down.

02:07:48.000 By hand.

02:07:48.000 Yes.

02:07:49.000 And I'd write most of it down.

02:07:51.000 Most of the important parts of the joke I'd write down.

02:07:54.000 Then I moved to index cards.

02:07:56.000 So when I do an arena...

02:07:58.000 I have index cards in my green room.

02:08:00.000 So I'll get there an hour plus before the show and I sit down with Sharpie and index cards and I write out all my bits that I'm going to do.

02:08:10.000 Like bullet points at that point?

02:08:12.000 Bullet points and some bits that are new that I'm not sure exactly how they go, I write it all out.

02:08:16.000 Are you looking at it on stage, or is that just the process of writing it etches in your memory?

02:08:21.000 It etches it into my memory.

02:08:22.000 I don't look at anything when I'm on stage.

02:08:24.000 But that process really does work.

02:08:26.000 There's something about physically writing something, pen to paper.

02:08:29.000 Absolutely.

02:08:30.000 Yep.

02:08:30.000 Right?

02:08:30.000 It does something weird.

02:08:31.000 Yep.

02:08:32.000 Definitely. 1.00

02:08:33.000 It's amazing, because I see guys like Attell, who's always got new shit. 0.99

02:08:38.000 And Chris Rock. 0.99

02:08:39.000 I saw Chris Rock put his last one hour together coming into the Comedy Store.

02:08:43.000 Never had a piece of paper.

02:08:44.000 I saw him with a piece of paper the other day.

02:08:46.000 Oh, you did?

02:08:47.000 A notebook.

02:08:47.000 Chris Rock went on stage.

02:08:48.000 I saw him the day before the Oscars murdering.

02:08:52.000 Yeah.

02:08:53.000 Murdering.

02:08:53.000 He was killing.

02:08:54.000 Killing. 0.68

02:08:55.000 Killing. 0.98

02:08:55.000 Old school Chris Rock. 0.98

02:08:58.000 He's had some sets in the store where he's working stuff out, where he's not killing.

02:09:03.000 He's trying to find the beats, and he doesn't care if he doesn't go well. 0.99

02:09:06.000 He's confident enough that he's Chris Rock, that he could just kind of fuck around. 1.00

02:09:10.000 But goddamn, was he killing. 1.00

02:09:12.000 Killing. 1.00

02:09:13.000 Yeah, he went up.

02:09:14.000 I was on stage one night, and then, you know, at the OR, they'll hand you a piece of paper sometimes, because there's a guest that wasn't on the schedule, and I opened it up, and it was, what's his name?

02:09:26.000 The short comic, black guy.

02:09:29.000 Kevin Hart?

02:09:29.000 Kevin Hart.

02:09:30.000 Jesus Christ.

02:09:31.000 How dare you? 1.00

02:09:37.000 So he comes up and he fucking kills. 1.00

02:09:39.000 He does great. 1.00

02:09:41.000 And then he goes, and now Chris Rock.

02:09:44.000 And I was like, oh, this is going to be tough to follow.

02:09:46.000 He made Kevin Hart look like an open miker. 0.56

02:09:49.000 He destroyed right after that.

02:09:52.000 Wow.

02:09:52.000 Yeah.

02:09:53.000 It was recent?

02:09:54.000 Yeah, this was just a few weeks ago.

02:09:56.000 Yeah, he's on fire right now.

02:09:57.000 Chris is hot.

02:09:58.000 Yeah.

02:09:58.000 And his tickets are selling.

02:10:00.000 Now they're selling fucking hotcakes. 0.98

02:10:02.000 Isn't it weird that a scandal like that does something to ticket sales? 0.99

02:10:07.000 Yeah.

02:10:08.000 It's also like people want to hear his take on it.

02:10:10.000 But he's been telling people, like, hey, if you came here to hear me talk about that, I'm not talking about that.

02:10:15.000 Which is interesting because he's going to talk about it eventually, I'm sure.

02:10:18.000 I bet you he's, you know, Chris is famous for having writers.

02:10:21.000 He has guys that help him out. 0.99

02:10:23.000 And I know those guys are all sitting at their fucking keyboards right now. 0.98

02:10:28.000 Well, the real question is how hard you want to go. 0.99

02:10:31.000 Well, it's also a moving target because you see how people have felt about Will Smith.

02:10:36.000 It's been a week and a half and now you've seen people are more upset with him now than they were.

02:10:42.000 So jokes that he would write right now might not match the mood in a week.

02:10:48.000 Do you think people are more upset with Will Smith now?

02:10:50.000 It feels like it.

02:10:51.000 I feel like for two days after the Oscars, it was kind of like people don't have their own opinions.

02:10:57.000 They wait to hear other opinions in the media, and then they pick one.

02:11:01.000 And they hadn't heard other opinions yet.

02:11:03.000 And the new ones that came out were mostly anti-Will Smith.

02:11:06.000 Ah, that's interesting.

02:11:08.000 That's an interesting perspective because I saw a lot of hot takes after the Oscars where I was like, it is amazing to me how many dummies think that Will Smith was justified for assaulting a guy for the most mild joke ever.

02:11:22.000 Yeah.

02:11:23.000 It was amazing to me. 1.00

02:11:25.000 You don't talk shit about a man's wife. 1.00

02:11:26.000 Like, well, good, because he didn't. 1.00

02:11:28.000 He definitely didn't.

02:11:29.000 He said, GI Jane 2, can't wait.

02:11:32.000 That's it?

02:11:33.000 If that's your borderline for assault, we live in a barbaric society.

02:11:38.000 If that's where you draw the line, because now we're going to have chaos in the street.

02:11:42.000 And I was talking about on stage, I was like, there's a difference between someone saying that at a party.

02:11:49.000 Like if someone said, oh, so some guy comes up to me and he says to my wife, G.I. Jane 2 can't wait. 0.98

02:11:55.000 I'm like, okay.

02:11:57.000 How did he say it?

02:11:58.000 Like, how did he say it?

02:11:59.000 Maybe the guy was hilarious.

02:12:01.000 Maybe he was this happy-go-lucky, life-of-the-party guy.

02:12:05.000 He goes, hey, G.I. Jane 2, can't wait.

02:12:07.000 And everyone's laughing.

02:12:09.000 Or maybe he's like, hey, G.I. Jane 2, can't wait.

02:12:12.000 Like, fuck that guy. 1.00

02:12:13.000 That guy needs to get smacked. 1.00

02:12:14.000 Right? 0.99

02:12:15.000 How is he saying it?

02:12:17.000 And if you watch how Chris says it, big giant smile on his face.

02:12:21.000 Jada, love you.

02:12:22.000 He says, I love you.

02:12:23.000 And then he says that.

02:12:24.000 I love you.

02:12:25.000 Yeah.

02:12:26.000 Here's a mild joke about a powerful woman. 1.00

02:12:29.000 And, you know, that's his job.

02:12:31.000 Look at what Ricky Gervais has said about people at the Golden Globes.

02:12:35.000 I mean, he has gone hard. 0.68

02:12:36.000 He's a savage.

02:12:37.000 And, you know, Chris Rock went up and he serviced the front row.

02:12:41.000 That's part of your job as the host of the Oscars.

02:12:42.000 You used to be Jack Nicholson you would always talk to.

02:12:46.000 And, you know, that's what...

02:12:49.000 Will Smith is Hollywood royalty.

02:12:51.000 You gotta say something.

02:12:52.000 It really is what we talked about earlier.

02:12:54.000 It's a jester getting smacked by royalty.

02:12:56.000 Yeah, right.

02:12:57.000 It's wild.

02:12:58.000 Yeah.

02:12:59.000 It's wild.

02:13:00.000 But that royalty doesn't seem the same because of the internet, because of the exposing of the way they think and behave.

02:13:09.000 Like, here's a good example.

02:13:10.000 Like, Alec Baldwin shooting that woman on set, and then there's video of him talking about it openly, like, days later, on the side of a highway.

02:13:20.000 Like, they got a camera in his face, like, it's a terrible tragedy, and he's out there talking. 0.99

02:13:24.000 He's not even talking to, like, fucking regular reporters. 0.99

02:13:26.000 It's people with phones. 0.99

02:13:28.000 And he's giving his take on these things.

02:13:31.000 I mean, maybe it was reporters, but it's very unofficial, the way everything's happening.

02:13:35.000 It's not a press conference.

02:13:37.000 And then he'll go do a podcast and talk about it.

02:13:41.000 His wife has a podcast, and everybody's just talking.

02:13:44.000 It's like all of the mystery of what a movie star is, is gone. 1.00

02:13:51.000 When you hear their goofy takes on things, When people have these hot takes on politics, and you listen to an actor talk, you're saying, man, shut the fuck up. 1.00

02:14:02.000 Don't do this, man. 0.99

02:14:03.000 You're going to ruin your career. 1.00

02:14:04.000 You're an idiot. 1.00

02:14:05.000 The way you're talking about politics is terrible. 1.00

02:14:08.000 Just go play the Hulk.

02:14:10.000 Be the Hulk.

02:14:11.000 Be the guy who turns into the Hulk. 0.99

02:14:12.000 Don't be this fucking guy who's chiming in on every aspect of what the Senate is fucking weighing in on. 1.00

02:14:21.000 Stop! 1.00

02:14:22.000 Yeah.

02:14:22.000 You're not good enough at this.

02:14:43.000 I think we're good to go.

02:14:59.000 You know what it's like to be on set?

02:15:01.000 Everyone's getting your cappuccino for you.

02:15:03.000 Everybody's telling you what a great job you're doing.

02:15:05.000 People don't continue working in films because they're great artists. 1.00

02:15:08.000 They like having their ass kissed all fucking day. 1.00

02:15:11.000 It's a great feeling. 1.00

02:15:13.000 Me and Stanhope just did this movie and it was a super low budget movie.

02:15:17.000 We were not treated like kings.

02:15:18.000 But... 0.99

02:15:20.000 Asses were kissed, and it felt fucking great. 0.98

02:15:22.000 And I said, I want to do more of this. 0.99

02:15:24.000 I want to be the center of attention in front of a bunch of people that their job is to make you feel good.

02:15:30.000 And then you're going to have an opinion about the economy.

02:15:35.000 But the thing is, it's intoxicating, and you think that you deserve that opinion.

02:15:39.000 You are an important person.

02:15:41.000 You do need to weigh in.

02:15:43.000 I can remember when they interviewed Sharon Stone, and she was weighing in on an earthquake in China.

02:15:50.000 And she said that maybe it's karma because of the way they treat my friend, the Dalai Lama.

02:15:55.000 No!

02:15:56.000 Yes.

02:15:57.000 Yes.

02:15:57.000 That's amazing.

02:15:59.000 Yes.

02:15:59.000 She's like, I'm friends with the Dalai Lama and maybe it's karma and the way they treat Tibet.

02:16:04.000 Like... 0.99

02:16:05.000 That's one of the dumbest things a person's ever said. 1.00

02:16:08.000 Like, maybe an earthquake which killed who knows how many thousands of people who are subjects to this fucking communist regime, totalitarian regime. 1.00

02:16:18.000 Stone earthquake in China was karma for Tibet. 0.99

02:16:21.000 Yeah.

02:16:22.000 Sharon Stone facing a ban on the showing of her films in China after suggesting that the recent earthquake that killed up to 67,000 people may have been the result of bad karma over the country's occupation of Tibet. 0.99

02:16:35.000 No, look, if the fucking head of the CCP, if an asteroid hit him in the fucking head, like, maybe that's karma. 0.99

02:16:42.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:16:43.000 Like, maybe.

02:16:44.000 While he's writing something down to impose new sanctions on Tibet.

02:16:49.000 Yeah.

02:16:50.000 Yeah.

02:16:51.000 The fact that someone who's a grown adult would actually say that while being interviewed, like maybe it's karma.

02:16:58.000 I'm friends with the Dalai Lama.

02:17:00.000 The senator that pushed through that don't say gay thing in Florida, his house was taken out by a tornado or something, and then afterwards there was a photo taken and there was a rainbow.

02:17:11.000 There was a rainbow over where his house used to be.

02:17:15.000 That's hilarious. 0.70

02:17:17.000 It's hilarious that gay people own the rainbow that used to be owned by leprechauns. 1.00

02:17:22.000 I know. 1.00

02:17:22.000 It's fucking funny, man. 1.00

02:17:23.000 I used to have a whole bit about it because of the Duck Dynasty guy. 0.99

02:17:26.000 The Duck Dynasty guy was coming after gay people and just saying, I don't get it.

02:17:31.000 I don't get it.

02:17:33.000 I don't understand it.

02:17:34.000 And I was like, well, there's a lot of things I don't understand.

02:17:36.000 Like, I don't understand yellow cars. 0.91

02:17:38.000 Like, I don't fucking go freaking out about it. 0.98

02:17:42.000 And I was like, he better be nice to gay people. 0.99

02:17:44.000 And the joke was that, or, you know, look what they did with the rainbow. 0.99

02:17:48.000 Like, they fucking own the rainbow. 0.98

02:17:50.000 I go, they could do that to Camo. 0.99

02:17:51.000 Because he's a Duck Dynasty guy. 0.99

02:17:53.000 I go, if they did all gay porns from now on in a duck blind... 1.00

02:17:56.000 Like, all gay porns start out with two dudes duck hunting. 1.00

02:18:00.000 One guy goes, something about duck hunting made me horny. 1.00

02:18:03.000 And then this white dude in handcuffs drops down to his knees and starts sucking this guy's dick, and everything's in camo. 1.00

02:18:11.000 How many of those would they have to do before people associated camo with gay? 1.00

02:18:15.000 Before they owned it.

02:18:16.000 They would just take over camo.

02:18:17.000 Guys would shoot less animals because they wouldn't wear camo.

02:18:20.000 They would start striking out more and hunting. 1.00

02:18:24.000 LAUGHTER Because gay folks own the fucking rainbow. 1.00

02:18:29.000 As you're coming, you put one of those duck whistles in your mouth. 1.00

02:18:32.000 As you're nutting.

02:18:40.000 The rainbow's a weird one, right?

02:18:42.000 Because it's like, it used to be leprechauns, pot of gold. 0.93

02:18:46.000 How did it become gay? 1.00

02:18:47.000 Like, how did that thing that happens after it rains and the sun comes out, how did that get associated with gay folks?

02:18:52.000 Well, maybe it's that we're all in a spectrum, that the whole spectrum comes together.

02:18:57.000 And we have unity.

02:19:00.000 I'd like to know the actual answer.

02:19:02.000 I wonder what the actual answer is.

02:19:04.000 Like, how did gay people become associated with rainbows?

02:19:07.000 Let's find that out. 0.76

02:19:10.000 Jamie's getting a workout today. 1.00

02:19:12.000 Bullshit. 1.00

02:19:12.000 L-B-G-T-I-A-Q+. What's the plus for? 1.00

02:19:19.000 I think you pay extra for that.

02:19:21.000 It's like five bucks extra a month.

02:19:22.000 I heard some guy talking about LBGT, whatever, whatever, whatever.

02:19:26.000 Yeah, I saw that.

02:19:26.000 And he added a plus onto it.

02:19:27.000 Dude, there's another letter in there now, too.

02:19:29.000 I, right?

02:19:30.000 I think, is that inquisitive?

02:19:32.000 I think.

02:19:34.000 Open for business. 1.00

02:19:36.000 I'll fuck anybody. 1.00

02:19:37.000 I, as in I'll fuck anybody. 1.00

02:19:39.000 That's pansexual. 1.00

02:19:41.000 They call that P. I heard this woman saying she has two children and one of them is pansexual.

02:19:47.000 I'm like, how do you know?

02:19:48.000 How old are your kids?

02:19:49.000 Pan is you can be attracted to a man or a woman.

02:19:53.000 She's talking about her queer children. 0.97

02:19:56.000 And she looks like she's in her 40s. 0.99

02:19:58.000 I'm like, how old are your kids?

02:19:59.000 How old is this kid that you're saying is pansexual?

02:20:02.000 Because if you're talking about an 8-year-old, I'm a little upset with you.

02:20:05.000 What are you saying?

02:20:07.000 You're saying my kids are pansexual? 0.83

02:20:09.000 Say my 20-year-old kid is pansexual. 0.66

02:20:13.000 I go, okay. 1.00

02:20:14.000 Your kid's a freak. 0.93

02:20:16.000 That's a weird one, right?

02:20:17.000 Because that just seems like what you like.

02:20:19.000 As opposed to like, there's gay people that are just, that's their sexual orientation, they're attracted to gay people.

02:20:26.000 Or what you're curious about.

02:20:27.000 Yeah.

02:20:28.000 But when you're saying you're not even bi, you're pan. 0.99

02:20:32.000 You just need a lot of attention.

02:20:35.000 Oh, here it is.

02:20:37.000 Harvey Milk had something to do with it.

02:20:39.000 They had a pink triangle, was the big symbol before that.

02:20:42.000 Oh, that's right.

02:20:43.000 But that was also used by the Nazis.

02:20:47.000 What?

02:20:47.000 The Nazis used a pink triangle to identify and stigmatize men affirmed as homosexuality.

02:20:56.000 Oh, wow.

02:20:57.000 Wow.

02:20:58.000 I did not know that. 0.96

02:20:59.000 So, gay guys in concentration camps, they used that. 0.89

02:21:03.000 Wow. 0.98

02:21:06.000 That's wild.

02:21:07.000 I didn't know that.

02:21:08.000 And then it picked up after he was assassinated.

02:21:10.000 When Harvey Milk was assassinated in 78, it says the demand for the rainbow flag greatly increased.

02:21:16.000 And they started selling from there.

02:21:17.000 So it was Harvey Milk that sort of started it going.

02:21:21.000 Well, it says up there this guy Baker said he chose the motif because of its association with the hippie movement of the 60s.

02:21:30.000 But that the use of the design dates all the way back to ancient Egypt.

02:21:34.000 Mmm.

02:21:35.000 The use of the rainbow design?

02:21:37.000 For gay people?

02:21:38.000 Oh, Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

02:21:42.000 Oh, and they love Judy Garland.

02:21:43.000 They love Judy Garland.

02:21:47.000 Somewhere...

02:21:47.000 Remember once a year Letterman would bring that singer in to sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

02:21:52.000 Really?

02:21:52.000 And he would cry.

02:21:54.000 Really?

02:21:54.000 Or he would get on the edge of tears.

02:21:55.000 Yeah, once a year he brought this same guy in for fucking 20 years and he just sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow. 0.90

02:22:01.000 And he would get on the edge of tears? 0.97

02:22:03.000 I wonder why.

02:22:03.000 I don't know.

02:22:04.000 Reminded him of something in his childhood.

02:22:08.000 Mandy Patinkin.

02:22:09.000 Is that who sang it?

02:22:10.000 Yeah.

02:22:10.000 Oh, wow.

02:22:12.000 Mandy Patinkin's an odd duck, right? 1.00

02:22:14.000 He is.

02:22:14.000 Because then he was on that Homeland show.

02:22:16.000 Yeah, he was good on that.

02:22:17.000 Where he played the CIA guy.

02:22:18.000 It was great.

02:22:19.000 Yeah.

02:22:19.000 It was great.

02:22:21.000 Here, give me some more.

02:22:27.000 From your windowpane To a place behind the sun Okay, I'm good.

02:22:41.000 You see, I'm missing the gene that enjoys The Grateful Dead and musicals.

02:22:46.000 That gene, I don't have that.

02:22:48.000 It's like cilantro.

02:22:50.000 To some people it tastes like soap.

02:22:51.000 To me it tastes good.

02:22:53.000 Yep.

02:22:53.000 So nothing, you hear the dead, you don't feel groovy.

02:22:56.000 I just go, what is happening here?

02:22:57.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:22:58.000 What is happening here?

02:23:01.000 I don't get it.

02:23:03.000 Yeah.

02:23:04.000 It just doesn't do it for me.

02:23:05.000 Alright. 0.99

02:23:05.000 I get people love it, but there's a lot of shit people love that I just don't understand. 0.99

02:23:10.000 Yeah, I get like that with a lot of hip-hop to me. 0.99

02:23:14.000 I just don't connect to.

02:23:16.000 There's some I think is great.

02:23:17.000 Mumble rap doesn't do it for me.

02:23:19.000 I don't understand that, but I love lyrical hip-hop.

02:23:23.000 Yes.

02:23:25.000 For whatever reason, I'm a 1990s hip-hop fan.

02:23:28.000 If I listen to Wu-Tang Clan, I get it.

02:23:31.000 That's right.

02:23:31.000 Gravel Pit.

02:23:32.000 Listen to some old stuff.

02:23:34.000 I like stuff where I go, oh, I love how he put that line together.

02:23:39.000 It's clever.

02:23:40.000 It's fun.

02:23:43.000 But The Dead, I grew up with The Dead.

02:23:45.000 We went to a lot of shows when I was a kid and took a lot of...

02:23:49.000 Mushrooms.

02:23:50.000 We just went to Halloween.

02:23:52.000 We went to the Hollywood Bowl and went to a show and took mushrooms.

02:23:57.000 There was like 15 of us.

02:23:59.000 We had a blast.

02:24:00.000 Well, they say that the dead is only understood when you do acid for some people.

02:24:05.000 Uh-huh.

02:24:06.000 Which maybe that's my problem.

02:24:08.000 Because there are songs that I... Like, there's a thing called Icaros.

02:24:13.000 Icaros are these South American songs that they play when you're doing DMT. Oh, really?

02:24:20.000 Yeah.

02:24:20.000 When you're taking ayahuasca or you're smoking DMT, they play these songs...

02:24:25.000 And when you listen to these songs, these hallucinogens, they sync up with the music.

02:24:33.000 So the visions that you have sync up with the music, and you'll watch these entities dance to the beat of the music, completely in tune with it.

02:24:44.000 They synchronize together.

02:24:46.000 It's really wild.

02:24:47.000 And if you just heard the songs, like I've got some on my phone, If you just heard the Icaros without that, you would not be impressed.

02:24:57.000 It's like watching a 3D movie without the glasses on.

02:25:00.000 Yeah, here it is.

02:25:05.000 So these are the songs they play when you're in the jungle.

02:25:09.000 And it's kicking in.

02:25:13.000 So this is this guy.

02:25:17.000 And one of the things they do is they blow tobacco in your face too.

02:25:22.000 And they've got these rattles and...

02:25:25.000 And I've listened to these...

02:25:28.000 This has got Don Robert.

02:25:32.000 I've listened to these while on DMT and it's very wild.

02:25:37.000 Because like...

02:25:39.000 The entities, I mean, whatever's happening, whatever that hallucination actually is, is up to debate.

02:25:47.000 We really don't know what that is.

02:25:49.000 But it seems like these things are alive.

02:25:51.000 And they are moving to the beat of this sound.

02:25:57.000 And it seems like they're not just willingly, they're joyfully moving to the beat of the sound.

02:26:03.000 They work together.

02:26:06.000 It enhances the experience in a way that there's no...

02:26:10.000 Like, I've listened to music when you're high on pot.

02:26:12.000 It sounds better.

02:26:13.000 Like, if you listen to Comfortably Numb, where you've had a couple of hits of a joint, you're like, wow.

02:26:19.000 Yeah.

02:26:20.000 Hello?

02:26:21.000 Is there anybody in there?

02:26:24.000 There'll be no more.

02:26:26.000 Wow.

02:26:28.000 You might feel a little sick.

02:26:31.000 And it's like you get trapped in the music.

02:26:34.000 It enhances it.

02:26:35.000 You go with it.

02:26:36.000 This is different.

02:26:38.000 This is like whatever those hallucinations are when you're on DMT, they belong with that music.

02:26:48.000 They don't deviate from the music.

02:26:51.000 They stay in the music and it's spectacular.

02:26:54.000 It's really wild.

02:26:55.000 To have that with the song.

02:26:58.000 It seems like whoever constructed those songs knows this.

02:27:02.000 That's what's wild about the Icarolls, because they're very specific in the kind of way they do it. 0.74

02:27:06.000 Is it ancient, the music?

02:27:08.000 That's a good question.

02:27:10.000 I mean, the practice is ancient.

02:27:11.000 The shamanistic practice of the ayahuasca ceremony is ancient.

02:27:16.000 But like a lot of these ancient things, it gets tainted by modernity, you know, because like different people give their own interpretations of it and different people have their own ways of doing it.

02:27:26.000 They don't even know how people even figured out how to make it.

02:27:30.000 You know, the history of ayahuasca use is thousands of years old, and they don't have any idea how these people figure this out.

02:27:38.000 Because it's a complicated pharmacological sort of a situation.

02:27:42.000 You're taking one plant that makes dimethyltryptamine, and then you're taking another plant and combining it with it, and this plant has an MAO inhibitor, which is monoamine oxidase.

02:27:55.000 So monoamine oxidase is something that's produced by your gut.

02:27:58.000 And when you orally take DMT, the monoamine oxidase, it destroys the effect of DMT. And the thought behind that is there's a lot of things that people eat.

02:28:12.000 That have naturally occurring dimethyltryptamine in it.

02:28:15.000 There's a lot of grasses and a lot of different plants.

02:28:18.000 DMT is very common.

02:28:19.000 It exists in thousands of plants and animals.

02:28:22.000 And so if you were just eating these things, you'd be tripping balls all the time.

02:28:26.000 This is the thought behind it, in that your gut produces monoamine oxidase.

02:28:31.000 So when you take an MAO inhibitor and you mix it with dimethyltryptamine, then you have orally active DMT, which generally speaking doesn't exist other than that.

02:28:42.000 When you get DMT from a smokable form, then it goes straight to your blood, and then the effect is almost instantaneous.

02:28:51.000 When you smoke DMT, 15, 20 seconds later, you're in the center of the universe.

02:28:55.000 For how long? 0.99

02:28:57.000 About 15 minutes, I would say, like fully tripping balls for about 15 minutes, and then the next five, you're like trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. 0.99

02:29:06.000 But sometimes you go right back in. 0.99

02:29:07.000 Sometimes you grab the pipe and go right back in.

02:29:09.000 Oh, you do?

02:29:10.000 I've done that.

02:29:11.000 I've gone back in three and four times.

02:29:14.000 So then you're dealing with an experience that takes, you know, an hour and a half or so.

02:29:18.000 But that's unusual.

02:29:18.000 Most people just do it once?

02:29:20.000 Well, you do it and you're so blown away by what the fuck just happened. 0.98

02:29:23.000 A lot of times people just want to stop and think about it. 0.98

02:29:26.000 But I've done it a lot.

02:29:28.000 So for me, when I've done it and I come out, I'm like, I'd like to go back in there again and hang out.

02:29:33.000 I was just starting to figure some things out with these fellas.

02:29:36.000 And can you pick up where you left off when you go back in?

02:29:39.000 No, you have no control over that.

02:29:40.000 You have no idea what it even is.

02:29:42.000 And whatever it is, it's different a second later. 0.99

02:29:45.000 Do you write shit down? 0.99

02:29:47.000 Do you journal while you're doing it? 0.99

02:29:48.000 No, it's too complicated.

02:29:51.000 The other thing about it is it slips through your fingers so quickly.

02:29:56.000 It is like a dream.

02:29:58.000 You know how you wake up from a dream and you're like, oh my god, it was you and me and Mike and we were flying around on a giant seagull.

02:30:09.000 We're good to go.

02:30:22.000 Something about dreams, when you wake up, they're very vivid and specific.

02:30:25.000 But within five, ten minutes, that very vivid, specific memory goes away.

02:30:32.000 But do you think that those are metaphors that your brain is trying to show you?

02:30:36.000 In a dream?

02:30:37.000 Yeah.

02:30:37.000 Who knows?

02:30:39.000 I mean, I think it depends.

02:30:42.000 I've had dreams before where I was talking to dead friends, and I always wondered.

02:30:46.000 I had a dream once where I was having a long conversation with Phil Hartman, and it was after he was murdered.

02:30:52.000 And then Phil Hartman was explaining to me that he and his wife worked it out, you know, and that, you know, like, oh, you know, he was like laughing about it in the way like Phil Hartman was.

02:31:02.000 Oh, she gets a little...

02:31:04.000 She gets a little upset, you know?

02:31:06.000 She's a little volatile, like, joking around. 0.96

02:31:08.000 And he sat down on, like, a lawn chair.

02:31:11.000 I'll never forget this.

02:31:12.000 He sat on, like, those little lawn chairs, foldable lawn chairs.

02:31:16.000 He sat down and he was, like, in the grass a little funny.

02:31:20.000 So as he sat down, he leaned to one side and he fell over.

02:31:24.000 And as he fell over, he hit the grass and then he was gone.

02:31:27.000 Hmm.

02:31:28.000 And then I realized that it was a dream.

02:31:30.000 And then I woke up.

02:31:32.000 I'm like, what is that trying to tell me?

02:31:34.000 Maybe it was trying to tell me I missed my friend.

02:31:36.000 It was trying to tell me...

02:31:37.000 He fell.

02:31:38.000 I mean, I don't know what it's trying to tell me.

02:31:40.000 Because then he was gone.

02:31:41.000 It was me recognizing that this is just...

02:31:45.000 I have this wish to talk to him again that I'll never be able to talk to him because he was murdered during our break.

02:31:52.000 So you film and then you have three months off and then you go back and film for another season.

02:31:57.000 So during the break is when he was murdered.

02:32:00.000 I never got a chance to see him.

02:32:03.000 And when he died, it's just like I know he died.

02:32:07.000 Everybody told me he died.

02:32:09.000 We all got together and cried.

02:32:10.000 We all talked about it.

02:32:11.000 We were all blown away by it.

02:32:12.000 But I didn't see him.

02:32:15.000 So it's like all of a sudden he's gone.

02:32:16.000 So there's like this missing thing in my head.

02:32:20.000 Like this missing connection.

02:32:21.000 This missing...

02:32:22.000 So maybe that's why I had that dream.

02:32:24.000 I don't know why you have dreams.

02:32:25.000 But they do know that the psychedelic chemicals that you release...

02:32:30.000 While you're in heavy REM sleep, they think are very closely related to the same psychedelic chemicals you have when you trip.

02:32:38.000 So it puts you physically into a dream state.

02:32:42.000 It's very similar because your brain is producing psychedelic chemicals during heavy REM sleep.

02:32:47.000 They just don't know exactly how much.

02:32:50.000 It's complicated because in order to find out that there was always anecdotal evidence that the pineal gland produced DMT. They know that the pineal gland now, they know it produces DMT. But there was guesswork before.

02:33:04.000 They knew that it was produced in the human body, they know it's produced by the liver, and they know it's produced by the lungs.

02:33:10.000 But they didn't know if it was produced by the pineal gland until the Cottonwood Research Foundation, which is a foundation that's run by these folks in, I think it's in New Mexico.

02:33:24.000 Rick Strassman, who's the guy who wrote DMT, The Spirit Molecule, he's a scholar who was the first guy to get FDA approval to do dimethyltryptamine studies with people.

02:33:39.000 And so he did these studies with people, and that's like one of the things that they were working on.

02:33:48.000 How long ago was that?

02:33:49.000 Not that long ago.

02:33:50.000 It was in the last 20 years or so.

02:33:53.000 I think the book probably came out in 2002. I got a study in 2018. I think it's talking about something from 2011. 2011 was when they found out that DMT was produced by the pineal gland, for sure.

02:34:08.000 So this Cottonwood Research Foundation, which Strassman works with, they did these studies with rats. 0.96

02:34:14.000 And rats are allowed to cut their heads open and fucking just stick probes in them while they're alive. 1.00

02:34:18.000 And they found out that rats' pineal glands actually do produce DMT. So they've proven it, at least in these mammals. 0.99

02:34:26.000 So it exists in nature, in different grasses and seeds and whatever, but then it also is produced.

02:34:32.000 The same chemical is also produced by different organs in your body.

02:34:35.000 It's produced by the organ that is literally the third eye.

02:34:39.000 Your pineal gland, in some reptiles, it actually has a retina and a lens. 1.00

02:34:45.000 No shit! 1.00

02:34:46.000 Yes. 1.00

02:34:46.000 Really? 1.00

02:34:47.000 Yeah.

02:34:47.000 It is an eyeball.

02:34:49.000 It's like that whole thing of the Eastern mysticism.

02:34:51.000 And is it located in between your forehead?

02:34:54.000 Yes.

02:34:54.000 It's right there.

02:34:54.000 It's right back there.

02:34:55.000 It's going there.

02:34:55.000 And also, you know the eye of Horus from the Egyptian hieroglyphs?

02:35:01.000 See that?

02:35:02.000 It looks like the pineal gland.

02:35:05.000 Look at where the eye of Horus is, or the eye of Ra, excuse me.

02:35:09.000 Horus was a different god. 0.77

02:35:12.000 The eye of Ra, if you look at that and look at the cross-section of the human brain in relation to the pineal gland, where the eyeball is in the eye of Ra is exactly what the pineal gland looks like in a cross-section of the human brain.

02:35:27.000 So this third eye that everybody always equates with enlightenment, right?

02:35:34.000 And, you know, you look at Buddhas, they have third eyes.

02:35:36.000 Like, that Buddha right there has a third eye, that little Buddha on my counter.

02:35:40.000 This is literally the area where your brain produces this psychedelic chemical, DMT. That's amazing.

02:35:49.000 It's wild shit. 1.00

02:35:50.000 Damn! 1.00

02:35:51.000 So if they can figure out how to extract that from your brain, they can use it. 0.99

02:35:57.000 I mean, it seems like there would be therapeutic uses for DMT to open people up to...

02:36:02.000 It seems like your brain is almost triggering you to feel certain emotions.

02:36:06.000 Like if you had feelings about Phil Hartman that were unresolved, that it is basically activating parts of your brain that will let you emotionally deal with that when you're ready.

02:36:17.000 Certainly could be.

02:36:19.000 Certainly could be.

02:36:20.000 And then there's also traps of thinking that I'm sure get exposed by these psychedelic chemicals like nightmares. 0.75

02:36:27.000 These are traps, pitfalls of thinking, things you're thinking about that are like fucking with you, that your brain explores while you're under the influence of whatever these dream chemicals are.

02:36:38.000 Because dreams are very confusing to people.

02:36:41.000 We don't exactly know what the reason for them is.

02:36:44.000 But we do know that your brain produces these chemicals.

02:36:50.000 And they also think that your brain probably produces these chemicals when it thinks your body's dying.

02:36:57.000 And they think that's responsible for near-death experiences.

02:36:59.000 Seeing the light and all that.

02:37:01.000 Yeah.

02:37:01.000 And the hallucinations that come with it.

02:37:03.000 Like, I went to heaven, I talked to God. 0.98

02:37:04.000 You might just be tripping balls. 0.97

02:37:07.000 And also, tripping balls might actually be a chemical doorway to another dimension. 0.97

02:37:13.000 Like, the idea of this realm that we have our physical bodies in being the only thing that ever exists.

02:37:21.000 Well, if you talk to those string theorists, those people that understand quantum theory and that debate whether or not there's 11 dimensions or 12 dimensions, they think there's many more dimensions outside of the ones that we have senses to detect.

02:37:36.000 And that might be what you encounter when you're encountering these incredibly potent psychedelic drugs.

02:37:42.000 But the fact that the most incredibly potent and most hallucinogenic psychedelic drugs are closely related to normal human neurochemistry is really wild.

02:37:53.000 Yeah, that is pretty cool.

02:37:54.000 DMT is the most potent psychedelic drug known to man, and it's closely related to human neurochemistry. 0.95

02:38:01.000 In fact, your brain produces the actual drug That makes you trip balls.

02:38:07.000 The actual drug. 0.71

02:38:08.000 I think your brain even produces 5-methoxy DMT. See if that's true.

02:38:14.000 I think your brain, which is even more potent, 5-methoxy, which is 5-MeO DMT, is even more potent than a regular DMT in terms of the impact per gram of the stuff.

02:38:26.000 Wow.

02:38:27.000 Yeah.

02:38:29.000 I had a dream once.

02:38:31.000 I have dreams.

02:38:32.000 I have very vivid dreams.

02:38:34.000 And I woke up one morning, like woke up from the dream.

02:38:37.000 And the dream was that I was in like a bay near an ocean.

02:38:41.000 And then a giant wave came up and it picked me up and it carried me and it threw me.

02:38:46.000 And I woke up in the middle of it and I was like shaking. 0.96

02:38:50.000 And my wife woke up and I said, I just had this fucking, I told her the crazy dream. 0.94

02:38:54.000 Went on the internet, and that was when that crazy tsunami had hit in Thailand. 0.99

02:39:00.000 Isn't that fucking weird? 0.97

02:39:02.000 That is weird. 0.99

02:39:04.000 You believe this?

02:39:05.000 You think I could have broken through?

02:39:07.000 No.

02:39:09.000 It could be coincidence.

02:39:10.000 You always have to say that.

02:39:12.000 Or it could be you sense something.

02:39:14.000 Like maybe there is some sort of a connection when so many people die.

02:39:20.000 It's a tragedy.

02:39:23.000 There's like a ripple in the psyche.

02:39:27.000 There's this guy, Rupert Sheldrake.

02:39:30.000 And he had this concept.

02:39:33.000 It's called Morphic Resonance.

02:39:35.000 And the concept is based on the idea that all beings share some kind of an accessible database.

02:39:46.000 And what he used as proof of this, and it's not really even proof.

02:39:51.000 It's very theoretical.

02:39:52.000 But one thing that they showed was that rats...

02:39:55.000 Make sure this is true, too.

02:39:58.000 I'll give you a chance.

02:40:00.000 Get to the DMT thing first.

02:40:01.000 But rats, when they would show them a maze on the East Coast...

02:40:07.000 The rats in the West Coast would be able to solve the maze quicker.

02:40:13.000 Morphic resonance?

02:40:15.000 Morphic resonance.

02:40:16.000 And this idea was that there's some unseen connection.

02:40:22.000 That all these beings, and whether it's across species, I don't know.

02:40:27.000 But he was definitely saying within a particular species is what he was trying to describe it as.

02:40:31.000 But the theory extends further than that.

02:40:33.000 The theory sort of extends to the idea that there's all these...

02:40:37.000 Thoughts and consciousness.

02:40:39.000 And then when people are developing similar inventions, completely unrelated to each other, that it's not as simple as two people solving the same puzzle because they have the same tools and the same idea because they're a human being.

02:40:55.000 It might not be that simple.

02:40:57.000 It might be more that there's so many people working on a thing that it kind of permeates the collective human consciousness and different people pick up that baton and run with it and they might be both doing it at the same time but often times when a great breakthrough experiment is taking place there were other people working on the exact same experiment somewhere else and they don't know if this is Again,

02:41:26.000 purely by coincidence and chance and that this is something that is needed and that all these sort of technologies, they build up with each other and they feed off of each other and then it kind of like naturally progresses to the cell phone, naturally progresses to Wi-Fi,

02:41:41.000 whatever it is.

02:41:43.000 It might not be it.

02:41:44.000 It might be that as well.

02:41:47.000 It might be that plus we all share some sort of a cosmic database and that we all share some sort of connection in consciousness that we are not fully aware of and we can't measure it.

02:42:03.000 So we're not sure if it's real.

02:42:05.000 So, like an internet, exactly like the internet, except it's just something that we're all wired into and unaware of, except on a subconscious level.

02:42:14.000 And maybe it's also developing, right?

02:42:17.000 If you think of eyesight, eyesight exists on almost every mammal, right?

02:42:23.000 And eyesight had to have come out of a need for a thing, but it wasn't instant.

02:42:30.000 It wasn't like a single-celled organism all of a sudden had eyesight.

02:42:33.000 Single-celled organism became multi-celled organism and eyesight slowly evolved, right? 0.97

02:42:38.000 And our eyesight is eerily similar to the eyesight that exists in like squids, octopus, you know, cephalopods, like weird fucking creatures in the ocean.

02:42:48.000 They have a different way of utilizing light and image, but they It's kind of similar.

02:42:53.000 So what is happening?

02:42:55.000 How is that happening?

02:42:56.000 What is that?

02:42:58.000 This thing takes time.

02:43:01.000 There must have been a very primitive version of eyesight.

02:43:04.000 And then it became what we have now, where you can read, and you can detect things in the distance, and you can pick out different flowers, you can focus.

02:43:12.000 We go to see things.

02:43:13.000 The visual experience of going to the movies is a spectacular element of being entertained.

02:43:19.000 Look around!

02:43:21.000 That's why we love beauty.

02:43:22.000 We love art.

02:43:23.000 We love to see things, right?

02:43:25.000 That had to have evolved, and it evolved in a way that connects to our emotions.

02:43:31.000 I mean, this artwork, you see it, it brings you to tears.

02:43:33.000 Some of this shit I saw in the Vatican, I mean, it changed my physical state to look at these incredible paintings and know that in 1100 A.D. somebody made them. 0.99

02:43:43.000 And here it is in this pedophile's basement in some fucking church that gets to skirt international law and harbor fugitives, because that's what it is. 0.99

02:43:52.000 But that very strange thing that we have, the sense of being able to see things, the sense of sight... 1.00

02:44:03.000 That evolved.

02:44:04.000 Maybe we're evolving a sense of how we each other think.

02:44:09.000 Maybe telepathy is an evolving sense and you're getting it in these like weird little hints and whispers like when you think about someone and then they call you.

02:44:20.000 Everybody wants to say that's a coincidence.

02:44:22.000 But man, I've thought about people like they just pop into my head and I haven't thought about them in forever and then I open up my email and bam, there's an email from the dude and it'll give me goosebumps.

02:44:32.000 Yeah.

02:44:32.000 Like what is that?

02:44:33.000 There was this woman that just died and she lived in some Eastern European country and she'd been blinded as a child and she had this sense and she predicted 9-11, she predicted like a ton of shit. 0.99

02:44:45.000 Really? 0.99

02:44:45.000 She was like this little poor woman in this little town in Eastern Europe. 0.99

02:44:49.000 And she was blind?

02:44:50.000 She was blind as a child.

02:44:52.000 Yeah.

02:44:54.000 I wonder if telepathy is something that's slowly evolving in the human animal.

02:45:00.000 I could see that.

02:45:01.000 It totally makes sense that it could.

02:45:03.000 There's certain nonverbal communication that we all share.

02:45:06.000 Here it is.

02:45:07.000 Everything Baba Venga, the blind Bulgarian mystic, predicted for 2022. Oh, great. 0.99

02:45:13.000 What else did she predict?

02:45:17.000 Okay. 0.97

02:45:17.000 She claimed the 44th president, who turned out to be Barack Obama, would be black. 0.97

02:45:21.000 Wow.

02:45:22.000 However, she also said that he or she would be the last president, which again did not happen.

02:45:26.000 Okay.

02:45:28.000 Okay.

02:45:29.000 In 1989, she claimed the American brethren will fall after being attacked by steel birds.

02:45:34.000 Whoa.

02:45:36.000 And the innocent blood will be gushing. 0.69

02:45:39.000 Some believe this is a reference to September 11th.

02:45:43.000 Eh.

02:45:45.000 Vladimir Putin will win the 2018 election, she predicted.

02:45:48.000 In 1979, during a meeting with writer Valentin Sidrov, Vanga said, World War III. Shortly before her death,

02:46:08.000 the elderly woman said, Russia will not only survive, it will dominate the world. 0.73

02:46:14.000 Oh, great.

02:46:15.000 Oh, boy.

02:46:16.000 I don't want to hear that.

02:46:18.000 That scares the fuck out of me because I had Mike Baker on, who was a former CIA operative, and I always say former in air quotes.

02:46:26.000 Yeah, right.

02:46:27.000 Because he always tells me things.

02:46:28.000 They keep dragging me back in!

02:46:30.000 Yeah, he definitely knows what number to call.

02:46:32.000 I'll say that.

02:46:34.000 Yeah, right.

02:46:34.000 It's like, am I a former Comedy Store comic?

02:46:37.000 I still go back there and work sometimes.

02:46:38.000 She's got a good one that we missed out on coming this year. 0.99

02:46:42.000 Aw, damn it. 0.97

02:46:44.000 Was it the invasion of Earth by aliens with the arrival of an asteroid? 0.99

02:46:48.000 Oh, boy.

02:46:49.000 Oh, boy.

02:46:50.000 Coming this year.

02:46:51.000 Virtual reality takeover, which is kind of accurate.

02:46:52.000 Virtual reality takeover for the coming year, that's meta, right?

02:46:56.000 Mm-hmm.

02:46:57.000 Maybe.

02:46:57.000 Water shortages?

02:46:58.000 Water shortages?

02:46:59.000 Eh, but it's not.

02:47:00.000 It's a desalination shortage. 0.99

02:47:02.000 You could fucking just shitload of water. 1.00

02:47:04.000 It's three-quarters of the goddamn Earth. 1.00

02:47:06.000 The idea of the water shortage is, no, there's a shortage of innovation, you fucks. 0.99

02:47:10.000 The water's right there. 0.98

02:47:12.000 Don't say there's a shortage of water.

02:47:13.000 The water's right there.

02:47:14.000 Don't they have a salinization machine in, like, San Diego now that's really effective?

02:47:18.000 Yeah, they can do it.

02:47:19.000 I mean, they can, I don't know if it works at scale, like, for 300 million people, if you can, but they can eventually. 0.97

02:47:27.000 You're telling me they can ship video through the sky, and it lands on someone's phone in New Zealand instantaneously, and you can't pull that fucking salt out of the water? 0.95

02:47:36.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:47:36.000 Can it be done? 0.99

02:47:37.000 Can salt come out of water?

02:47:38.000 Yes, it can, right?

02:47:39.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:47:40.000 Get the fucking salt out of the water. 1.00

02:47:41.000 We'll never have a water crisis again. 1.00

02:47:44.000 Yeah.

02:47:45.000 I'm with you. 1.00

02:47:45.000 Fuck out of here with that. 1.00

02:47:47.000 That drives me crazy. 1.00

02:47:49.000 Oh, the Russian thing. 0.99

02:47:51.000 So Mike Baker was saying that they have hypersonic nukes, and so does China.

02:47:55.000 We don't have those.

02:47:56.000 Yeah.

02:47:57.000 And hypersonic nukes- That's one of the ones they set off last week, right?

02:47:59.000 Yes, they sent one to Ukraine.

02:48:01.000 Yeah.

02:48:01.000 He said the speed is one thing, but it's also the ability to change direction.

02:48:07.000 So if you see a torpedo, or a missile rather, and it's launched from Russia and it's headed towards Chicago, they can time when it's going to hit Chicago, a conventional nuke.

02:48:18.000 But these, they take turns in the air.

02:48:21.000 You thought it was going to Chicago?

02:48:23.000 Psych!

02:48:24.000 We're going to Phoenix!

02:48:24.000 Boom!

02:48:25.000 And it happens in seconds.

02:48:27.000 They go seven times faster than the speed of sound.

02:48:31.000 And when they explode, isn't there something like it sucks the air out of your body?

02:48:38.000 They have those.

02:48:39.000 They have those too.

02:48:41.000 They have those where they can detonate them over a city and it sucks all the air out of the city for like five minutes so everybody suffocates to death.

02:48:48.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:48:49.000 Shit. 1.00

02:48:50.000 Bro. 1.00

02:48:52.000 We don't have those either, do we?

02:48:53.000 I don't know if we have those. 0.99

02:48:55.000 Who knows what the fuck we have? 0.99

02:48:56.000 I think we have UFOs. 0.99

02:48:58.000 Why would we know what they have and they don't, you know?

02:49:01.000 They'll let us know.

02:49:03.000 They'll try to scare us.

02:49:04.000 I mean it in the other way, like, clearly we would probably have something better that we're just not going to tell people about.

02:49:08.000 We're just getting it and let it out there because then they would try to top it.

02:49:11.000 It's like rock, paper, scissors.

02:49:12.000 Or, clearly we wouldn't have an old, decrepit man with Alzheimer's as the president. 0.61

02:49:19.000 Right? 1.00

02:49:20.000 An old liar. 1.00

02:49:21.000 A guy who's like, there's fucking hours of footage of him lying about everything. 1.00

02:49:26.000 Lying about his education background. 0.99

02:49:29.000 Lying about things he's done or said.

02:49:32.000 Yeah, that's our president.

02:49:33.000 We're not good.

02:49:35.000 This is not like, we're like...

02:49:38.000 When Leonard Skinner, when everybody died, then they reformed the band.

02:49:42.000 It's not the same band.

02:49:43.000 Yeah.

02:49:44.000 Yeah, we got too much emphasis on the president in this country.

02:49:47.000 We need to spread that power out a little bit more.

02:49:50.000 Did you see that video of Biden with Obama?

02:49:54.000 And Obama is at this party, and Obama is saying hi to everybody and shaking hands and actively ignoring Biden.

02:50:01.000 Biden is in his ear, trying to talk to him, puts his hand on his shoulders.

02:50:07.000 Obama ignores it and reaches forward to another person to shake hands with him.

02:50:12.000 100% slighting Obama. 1.00

02:50:13.000 No shit. 0.99

02:50:14.000 100% sliding by. 1.00

02:50:16.000 Yeah, I think they had a period where they weren't really talk, because Biden would famously say stupid shit that he wasn't supposed to say. 0.98

02:50:22.000 And then, yeah, there was a couple times I think Obama was not talking to him. 1.00

02:50:25.000 He's a moron. 1.00

02:50:27.000 And he said famously that, you know, leave it to Joe, he'll find a way to fuck things up. 1.00

02:50:33.000 Like, that was a quote.

02:50:35.000 Yeah.

02:50:36.000 You got this?

02:50:37.000 Yeah, this is a 13 second video.

02:50:39.000 Yeah.

02:50:39.000 You can't tell what's going on in it.

02:50:40.000 This is one where he's just wandering around.

02:50:43.000 The one below it is the one.

02:50:45.000 That's me at every party.

02:50:46.000 This is the one.

02:50:46.000 So watch this.

02:50:47.000 Go full screen.

02:50:49.000 And give me some volume.

02:50:53.000 Oh, there's no volume there?

02:50:55.000 Okay, there it goes.

02:50:57.000 So, look, he's like, bro, look, he's trying to get his attention.

02:51:01.000 Look at this.

02:51:02.000 And Obama's, like, shaking people's hands and talking to people, and then he puts his hand on his shoulder.

02:51:07.000 Ignore him.

02:51:08.000 Look, actively ignores him and reaches to another person to talk to him.

02:51:14.000 Or talk to her, rather.

02:51:18.000 Yeah.

02:51:19.000 That is a guy getting slighted.

02:51:21.000 In any world.

02:51:23.000 If you and I were at a party and you put your hand on my shoulder, I would turn around immediately like, what's up? 0.91

02:51:28.000 I wouldn't fucking ignore you and reach to another person to shake their hand. 0.92

02:51:32.000 If you're touching my shoulder... 0.99

02:51:34.000 He was icing him.

02:51:35.000 He was icing him.

02:51:36.000 Yeah.

02:51:37.000 100%.

02:51:37.000 Yeah.

02:51:38.000 100%. 0.99

02:51:40.000 They're all fucking grossed out. 0.99

02:51:42.000 Like, you've got this guy who's the president, you took a chance, you made him the president, and he's got all these gaffes. 1.00

02:51:48.000 He says all this crazy shit. 1.00

02:51:50.000 You know, we can't allow him to stay in power. 1.00

02:51:52.000 Are you saying you're gonna remove Putin from power?

02:51:54.000 What are you saying?

02:51:56.000 We're gonna be with the troops in Russia.

02:51:58.000 You're sending troops to Russia? 1.00

02:52:00.000 The fuck are you saying? 1.00

02:52:00.000 Did he say that? 1.00

02:52:01.000 He said something about our troops will be with the Ukraines.

02:52:05.000 We'll be with them.

02:52:06.000 And people are like, well, what are you saying?

02:52:10.000 Are you saying that we're going to send troops to Ukraine?

02:52:13.000 Like, what are you saying?

02:52:14.000 There's been a lot of confusion.

02:52:15.000 The White House has had to walk back several statements.

02:52:17.000 Pull up what the White House had to walk back.

02:52:20.000 The White House had to walk back several statements.

02:52:23.000 By Biden, to the point where one of his press conferences recently, he does his little speech, and then afterwards, people start yelling questions, and they killed his mic.

02:52:32.000 They killed the mic for the audience, and they killed the mic for Biden, and then they cut the screen. 0.99

02:52:38.000 So, like, so he can't say anything stupid. 0.99

02:52:41.000 White House attempts to walk back, Biden stating Putin can't stay in power. 1.00

02:52:47.000 They just can't trust him to say things.

02:52:51.000 The President's point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.

02:52:55.000 That's not what he said.

02:52:57.000 What did he actually say?

02:52:58.000 For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.

02:53:01.000 That's what he said.

02:53:02.000 That means he can't remain in power.

02:53:04.000 That doesn't mean Putin can't be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors.

02:53:08.000 That's not what it says.

02:53:10.000 So he's saying things that don't even sit with the narrative that the administration wants to put out.

02:53:16.000 All the rest of the people that don't have dementia.

02:53:18.000 This is crazy.

02:53:20.000 We're a year in, Greg.

02:53:22.000 And this guy is rapidly deteriorating.

02:53:25.000 If you look at him from his best debate performance versus who he is now, you're seeing what happens to every president except Trump.

02:53:35.000 Everyone ages, but Obama came in a young man.

02:53:39.000 He definitely aged, but he's still very smooth, and there's no cognitive decline whatsoever.

02:53:48.000 He just looks older.

02:53:50.000 He's more distinguished.

02:53:50.000 He's got the white hair.

02:53:51.000 Trump is the same guy.

02:53:53.000 Trump looks exactly the same.

02:53:55.000 Is that good?

02:53:56.000 I don't know.

02:53:57.000 Somehow or another, it's like a duck. 0.99

02:53:58.000 Water just fucking shakes off his back. 0.99

02:54:01.000 But Biden is older. 1.00

02:54:03.000 Bush got a lot older.

02:54:05.000 Clinton got a lot older.

02:54:07.000 These people age.

02:54:08.000 It's a crazy job.

02:54:10.000 They age hardcore.

02:54:11.000 And when you're already at death's door... 1.00

02:54:14.000 That is just a fucking carpet of banana peels. 1.00

02:54:17.000 Yeah, we've got all these laws about how old a girl has to be to have sex with her. 1.00

02:54:20.000 How about how old a president?

02:54:21.000 Let's put a ceiling on presidential runs. 1.00

02:54:26.000 It's not a bad idea.

02:54:28.000 The problem with that idea is that there are people that are very valuable, that are older, who are incredibly wise.

02:54:36.000 They have all of their faculties.

02:54:38.000 And it would be an amazing resource to take advantage of All the years of knowledge and learning and wisdom and maturity.

02:54:49.000 Right, he could be a cabinet member, but not the president.

02:54:51.000 The president should have limitless energy.

02:54:54.000 But it could be you could have a fit 80-year-old who's doing the job who...

02:55:00.000 You don't want to be ageist to someone who's totally capable of doing the job at 80. Yeah.

02:55:06.000 It's just not this guy.

02:55:07.000 Yeah, but it's an eight-year job if you get re-elected.

02:55:09.000 So now he's 88. That's true.

02:55:11.000 That's true.

02:55:12.000 Yeah.

02:55:13.000 I mean, is there an 88-year-old that's on the ball?

02:55:16.000 Dick Van Dyke.

02:55:17.000 Dick Van Dyke.

02:55:18.000 Not selling his house.

02:55:19.000 But also, Dick Van Dyke is not doing the kind of work that the president has to do, which I think is part of what ages you.

02:55:27.000 Right, right.

02:55:27.000 You're in charge with...

02:55:28.000 You have to talk to international world leaders.

02:55:32.000 You have to talk to bankers and financiers.

02:55:34.000 You have to talk to people that are selling you doom and gloom about the environment.

02:55:38.000 Mm-hmm.

02:55:39.000 All the union leaders, the press.

02:55:41.000 And then there's gun violence.

02:55:43.000 What are you going to do about the gun violence?

02:55:44.000 What are you going to do about this?

02:55:45.000 What are you going to do about this racial tension and this illegal immigration?

02:55:50.000 What are you going to do about that?

02:55:51.000 Oh, my God. 0.99

02:55:53.000 Could you imagine the fucking every day you wake up and here's what's on the agenda today, sir. 0.99

02:55:59.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:56:00.000 Fuck. 1.00

02:56:01.000 I mean, when you think about that and you think about the gaffes that Biden has had, how few Obama had. 1.00

02:56:08.000 Oh.

02:56:09.000 Did he have any? 1.00

02:56:09.000 His shit was tight. 1.00

02:56:10.000 Did he have any? 1.00

02:56:11.000 No.

02:56:12.000 There was no stumbles.

02:56:14.000 Yeah. 0.93

02:56:14.000 I mean, maybe it made a misplaced word here or there, but there was nothing where you go, this guy's incompetent. 0.93

02:56:20.000 But the fucking Democrats, when Trump was in office, they were like, oh my God, he's mentally compromised. 1.00

02:56:27.000 He needs to be removed. 1.00

02:56:28.000 He's slurring his words.

02:56:30.000 We need to remove him. 0.99

02:56:31.000 But they're not saying shit now. 1.00

02:56:33.000 This shows how crazy you are. 1.00

02:56:35.000 Because this is the most glaring example of someone who has reached a point of decline, that cognitive decline is relatively available to anybody to see. 0.98

02:56:46.000 You just have to watch the videos.

02:56:48.000 Do you think he'll run again?

02:56:52.000 Because I think he hinted that he would not when he ran for office.

02:56:56.000 And certainly, Kamala is not the next alternative.

02:57:00.000 I don't think people want her.

02:57:03.000 Bro, if anything happens to him, if I was her, I would be very scared.

02:57:08.000 Yeah.

02:57:08.000 I would be very scared.

02:57:10.000 Because I don't think they're ever going to let her just be president.

02:57:13.000 I don't think she's well-liked.

02:57:15.000 I don't think, like, when you keep hearing the things about her cabinet, people quitting, and the way they feel about her.

02:57:22.000 And then her speeches, which are these rambling, nonsensical, like, unprepared, poorly worded ramblings.

02:57:31.000 I'm sure you've seen some of those, right?

02:57:33.000 I have not.

02:57:35.000 You haven't? 0.99

02:57:36.000 Honestly, I'm almost embarrassed to say, but since Biden's gotten elected, I just checked the fuck out. 0.96

02:57:43.000 I need a vacation. 0.97

02:57:44.000 I need a vacation, and I'm woefully undereducated about what's been going on. 0.67

02:57:50.000 Give me one of the most recent ones that she's done that's ridiculous because there's a shit ton of them that people have mocked because they're these vapid, nonsensical ramblings like a kid doing a book report on a book they haven't read. 0.79

02:58:06.000 Yeah. 0.95

02:58:06.000 That's what it's like. 0.95

02:58:08.000 You know, one of them was about Russia.

02:58:10.000 She's like, Ukraine is a country, and Russia is a bigger country, and Russia is occupying Ukraine, and that's not good.

02:58:20.000 Literally, I'm barely paraphrasing.

02:58:25.000 See if you can find that one, because that one's just so hokey.

02:58:28.000 But it's like...

02:58:29.000 Well, I mean, essentially, the Democrats got together and they said, we got a choice here during the last election.

02:58:36.000 We can either jump, get idealistic...

02:58:40.000 Here it is.

02:58:41.000 Give me some of this.

02:58:41.000 Word salad spectacle.

02:58:43.000 Kamala Harris mocked for consulate. 0.89

02:58:45.000 Once again, for another doozy of a word salad statement.

02:58:49.000 This time Kamala was giving a speech about affordable internet access.

02:58:54.000 Think about the significance of the passage of time, right?

02:58:58.000 The significance of the passage of time.

02:59:00.000 So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs, and there is such great significance to the passage of time.

02:59:18.000 Well that wasn't very good, but that wasn't the best one that mocks her.

02:59:24.000 She loses her 10th staffer since June.

02:59:27.000 She seems totally out of depth in almost every other issue, especially when she has to ad lib and talk from the heart or extemporaneously about the issues she should have thoroughly digested.

02:59:37.000 And she's gotten so much bad publicity.

02:59:39.000 They're just talking about it.

02:59:41.000 Oh, this is the Fox thing. 1.00

02:59:43.000 They're just shitting on her. 0.99

02:59:44.000 But yeah, that's not a leader. 0.99

02:59:46.000 That's not what you want.

02:59:48.000 There's a lot of brilliant, articulate women out there that could do that job. 1.00

02:59:54.000 It's not the best pickings.

02:59:57.000 You know what happened? 0.99

02:59:59.000 Bernie won a fucking couple of primaries. 1.00

03:00:01.000 That's what happened. 1.00

03:00:02.000 And they're like, oh, Jesus, we're going to lose all our money.

03:00:05.000 That's what I was starting to build up to say.

03:00:07.000 It was like, you know, they could have gone idealistic.

03:00:09.000 The left could have, you know, gotten a progressive voice in there.

03:00:13.000 And they said, no, let's just get Trump out. 0.99

03:00:15.000 Who's the safest fucking bet? 0.99

03:00:17.000 Who's the oldest statist white guy we can find? 0.99

03:00:20.000 Well, it's also they just did not want Bernie.

03:00:23.000 They did not want Bernie.

03:00:24.000 Even if he won, they did not want Bernie.

03:00:26.000 They didn't want Bernie leading the Democrat Party and all of his wacky Democrat socialist ideas that would reform wealth and do all kinds of things that they were just not interested in doing.

03:00:38.000 You know, stop all the military industrial complex money from influencing foreign policy and decision making.

03:00:43.000 And he was a dangerous threat.

03:00:46.000 Is he your guy?

03:00:48.000 That was the first time I ever got cancelled.

03:00:50.000 I said I would probably vote for Bernie.

03:00:52.000 And then he put it on his Twitter page. 0.99

03:00:54.000 And then they found out a bunch of crazy shit that I've said. 0.98

03:00:57.000 And joking and took it out of context. 1.00

03:00:59.000 And calling me a homophobe and a piece of shit. 1.00

03:01:03.000 This is just... 1.00

03:01:04.000 The business as usual.

03:01:06.000 The business as usual is, like, you have to be sanctioned to run the thing.

03:01:09.000 Yeah.

03:01:10.000 Right?

03:01:10.000 And the way you get sanctioned is you become, like, deeply compromised.

03:01:13.000 You become a part of the thing.

03:01:15.000 You take the money.

03:01:19.000 That's done by members of Congress. 0.99

03:01:21.000 The amount of fucking money that they make when they know decisions that are going to be signed and passed. 0.99

03:01:29.000 They know laws that are going to be put into place. 0.99

03:01:31.000 They know, like there was one recently they were talking about Nancy Pelosi and the amount of money she invested in Tesla right before Biden signed this EV bill, electric vehicle bill.

03:01:43.000 It's like 1.2 million, find out if that's true. 0.65

03:01:46.000 They should all have to put their money in trusts while they're in office that are done in fucking mutual funds, index funds, things that are auto-generated buying and not individual stocks. 0.95

03:02:00.000 Well, insider trading is against the law. 0.97

03:02:02.000 Yeah.

03:02:02.000 How is that not insider trading?

03:02:04.000 If you know that someone's going to sign a bill, and that bill is going to be a massive boost to the electrical vehicle industry, just as an example, and you know that bill's going to be signed, so right before that bill's signed, you buy a fuckload of stock in electrical vehicles,

03:02:21.000 and then the next day, or whenever it was, that bill gets passed, and then that stock goes up, and you make a shit ton of money?

03:02:30.000 How is that not illegal?

03:02:31.000 They put Martha Stewart in jail for stock trading. 0.78

03:02:34.000 Remember that?

03:02:35.000 For illegal insider trading?

03:02:37.000 Yeah.

03:02:38.000 How is it what the Congress does?

03:02:40.000 How is that?

03:02:41.000 They should not be able to buy and sell individual stocks.

03:02:45.000 That's it. 0.99

03:02:45.000 Especially not shit where they have inside access. 0.99

03:02:46.000 And then keep an eye on their fucking brother-in-law, too, because they're making some phone calls. 1.00

03:02:51.000 Exactly. 1.00

03:02:51.000 Or their husband. 1.00

03:02:52.000 Yeah.

03:02:53.000 Yeah.

03:02:53.000 Well, that's the Nancy Pelosi thing.

03:02:55.000 Yeah.

03:02:55.000 She's worth like $200 million.

03:02:57.000 She makes a couple hundred grand a year. 1.00

03:02:59.000 Jesus.

03:03:01.000 It's crazy.

03:03:03.000 I need an inside tip, man.

03:03:05.000 I got one inside tip in my life from a friend of mine.

03:03:09.000 He was a guy I went to high school with, and then he was on Wall Street.

03:03:11.000 He never gave me any stock tips.

03:03:13.000 And then I got my first development deal, and he calls me up one day, and he whispers.

03:03:19.000 He goes, I'm not going to say the stock number because I don't want him to get in trouble.

03:03:23.000 But he gave me the inside tip and I bought it at $15 and I put a lot of money in and it went up to $20 and then it doubled and then it doubled and then it doubled and it was all the way up to like $350 a share.

03:03:37.000 And I said, my strike price is $400. 0.95

03:03:40.000 I'm fucking selling this at $400. 0.98

03:03:41.000 I would have made hundreds of thousands of dollars. 0.99

03:03:44.000 And then it went $325.

03:03:47.000 And then it went $250.

03:03:48.000 And it came all the way down.

03:03:50.000 I sold like half of it on the way down.

03:03:52.000 So I made some, but it came all the way down.

03:03:55.000 This all happened within a month.

03:03:57.000 It went up and down like that.

03:03:59.000 Is that what it is?

03:04:00.000 Yeah, they do that.

03:04:01.000 They trick people into buying the stock, and then a bunch of people also buy the stock.

03:04:05.000 The stock price goes up, and then you sell.

03:04:08.000 Is that what happened with GMC? Hold on.

03:04:12.000 Pelosi's husband invested in Tesla, but not as viral post claims. 1.00

03:04:17.000 Okay, so it's bullshit. 0.96

03:04:19.000 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi purchased $1.25 million in stock from the electric vehicle company Tesla. 0.98

03:04:25.000 A day later, on January 25th, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all federal vehicles to be electric.

03:04:47.000 It says partly false.

03:04:49.000 It's true that Pelosi's husband invested up to a million dollars in call options for Tesla stock in December according to the financial disclosure documents claims that The representative bought $1.25 million in shares one day before Biden's executive order are inaccurate.

03:05:06.000 The facts.

03:05:07.000 A viral meme wrongly accusing Pelosi of investing millions in Tesla the day before Biden signed an executive order on electrical vehicles circulated widely on Facebook on Monday with millions of views, more than 275,000 shares.

03:05:22.000 The Post paired a picture of Pelosi next to a photo of Biden signing the order.

03:05:28.000 In some versions of the post, the banner over the top of the images used sarcasm to obliquely suggest Pelosi engaged in insider trading, reading, wow, what are the odds of that?

03:05:41.000 Talk about luck.

03:05:42.000 What are the odds?

03:05:43.000 Keep going.

03:05:44.000 It's true that the husband, Paul Pelosi, made a Tesla investment recently, according to the House Speaker's financial disclosure documents published on January 21st.

03:05:54.000 However, the date and the amount of the investment don't match the claim that's circulating wildly online.

03:06:00.000 According to Pelosi's latest periodic transaction report filed with Congress, her husband on December 1st invested between $500,000 and $1 million So it's only off by a little.

03:06:13.000 And 25 call options for the Tesla stock at a strike price of $500 in March of 2022. Call options are financial contracts that give the buyer the right to buy shares of a stock for a certain amount.

03:06:26.000 The strike price...

03:06:27.000 Until a set expiration date, Biden signed his executive order directing federal officials to transition federal, state, local, and tribal government fleets to clean and zero emission vehicles on January 27th, more than a month after Pelosi's husband made the investment.

03:06:45.000 Yeah, but for sure she knew he was going to do that.

03:06:49.000 That's only a month difference.

03:06:50.000 It's not saying a day later, it's still a million dollars, and it's a month later.

03:06:55.000 So it's inaccurate in a sense, but it's accurate that they had to have been discussing.

03:07:03.000 Well, it's also one of the most widely traded stocks in America.

03:07:07.000 True.

03:07:07.000 But that's a giant decision that's made that boosts the stock significantly.

03:07:12.000 And for sure, she has an insider track on it.

03:07:15.000 And also, how'd you get a million bucks to invest?

03:07:18.000 Where's that coming from?

03:07:19.000 Well, how much is she worth? 0.99

03:07:21.000 $300 million or something?

03:07:22.000 Where'd she get that?

03:07:23.000 Right.

03:07:24.000 Trading.

03:07:24.000 Yeah.

03:07:25.000 It's all trading.

03:07:26.000 What does her husband do?

03:07:27.000 Is he a trader?

03:07:28.000 That's a good question.

03:07:28.000 I don't know.

03:07:30.000 He's really good at it if he's a trader.

03:07:32.000 You know, you can mirror Pelosi or anybody's trades.

03:07:36.000 You can track what they hold in their portfolio.

03:07:39.000 Can you just buy what they buy?

03:07:41.000 You can buy exactly what they buy.

03:07:43.000 Oh, you'd be killing it.

03:07:43.000 It's federal.

03:07:44.000 People do that show on TikTok, like, I'm just buying what they buy.

03:07:47.000 Good move.

03:07:48.000 Killing the game.

03:07:49.000 Yeah. 0.73

03:07:49.000 That's a good move. 0.73

03:07:50.000 Just follow Pelosi.

03:07:51.000 Buy what that lady makes. 1.00

03:07:52.000 Yep.

03:07:52.000 Maybe she's just a genius.

03:07:55.000 Maybe.

03:07:56.000 So it seems like he bought a million dollars worth of stock a month before they signed that order.

03:08:02.000 That seems like that should be an issue.

03:08:05.000 That seems like it's controversial.

03:08:09.000 Those kind of decisions are discussed.

03:08:12.000 Like transitioning the entire fleet to electric vehicles, that's not something someone comes up with on a whim the day before they write that down and say it in front of the world.

03:08:21.000 That's something that gets discussed.

03:08:24.000 I assume.

03:08:25.000 Wouldn't you assume?

03:08:27.000 I don't know if...

03:08:29.000 Who knows? 0.98

03:08:31.000 I know that I was going to buy Tesla and my broker talked me out of it and then it fucking went crazy. 0.53

03:08:37.000 Your broker talked you out of it?

03:08:38.000 Yeah, he said that the fundamentals were bad, their supply chain wasn't going to be there when they couldn't meet the needs of all the Teslas that they were selling, which was all wrong.

03:08:48.000 True.

03:08:49.000 Yeah.

03:08:49.000 They're making their own chips now.

03:08:52.000 Are they really?

03:08:53.000 Yeah, they're doing a lot of things to bypass the problems with the supply chain.

03:08:56.000 Oh. 0.99

03:08:57.000 Elon's a fucking wizard, man. 1.00

03:08:58.000 Yeah. 1.00

03:08:59.000 I'm really interested to see what he does with Twitter, because he bought 9% of Twitter.

03:09:03.000 Oh, that's right.

03:09:04.000 I read an article today, though.

03:09:05.000 I didn't read the article, excuse me.

03:09:07.000 I read a headline today that said that he might have done something illegal by buying that stock.

03:09:15.000 Oh, really?

03:09:16.000 Yeah, but what is that?

03:09:19.000 What could he have done?

03:09:20.000 I don't understand that.

03:09:22.000 What was his motivation for that?

03:09:26.000 It says the disclosure of the purchase.

03:09:30.000 The disclosure of the purchase?

03:09:31.000 That he disclosed it?

03:09:32.000 It's the timing of the disclosure, it says.

03:09:36.000 I think when you make a giant purchase like that, not disclosing it in a certain amount of time can affect things.

03:09:45.000 Oh, like affect how other people buy it?

03:09:48.000 Sure.

03:09:48.000 Or sell it or do whatever they do.

03:09:50.000 Right.

03:09:50.000 Affect the stock price?

03:09:52.000 Yeah.

03:09:53.000 I'm interested to see because I hear they're going to put an edit button now.

03:09:57.000 Because that was one of the things that he suggested and he made a poll.

03:10:00.000 Do you think Twitter should have an edit button?

03:10:02.000 And he said yes.

03:10:04.000 Who edits what?

03:10:05.000 You.

03:10:06.000 Whether you can edit it.

03:10:07.000 Like if you write something and you write 1945, but you meant 1965. Like, fuck! 1.00

03:10:12.000 You have to delete the tweet and start all over again. 0.98

03:10:14.000 And he once made a poll, should Twitter have an edit button?

03:10:20.000 And the vast majority of people said yes, so let's see if they implement that.

03:10:23.000 Oh, I see.

03:10:25.000 Okay.

03:10:25.000 It's a 50-year-old law that requires that investors notify the Securities and Exchange Commission when they surpass a 5% stake in a company.

03:10:34.000 Musk reached that benchmark on March 14, according to the filings, but he made his public disclosure only Monday.

03:10:44.000 That sounds like a minor.

03:10:46.000 In between, he continued to buy stock at the price of around $39 per share, bringing his total stake to 9.2%.

03:10:53.000 After his disclosure, Twitter's share price rose roughly 30% and is now above $50 per share. 0.96

03:11:01.000 No shits! 0.91

03:11:02.000 So basically, if he had disclosed earlier that he was buying it, the price would have risen faster. 0.99

03:11:08.000 Yes.

03:11:09.000 Got it.

03:11:10.000 And maybe that would have been bad for him, because he wouldn't have been able to get it at the same rate.

03:11:14.000 Yeah, exactly.

03:11:18.000 If he's actually listened to...

03:11:19.000 So I don't know how much power a person who's worth 9% has over a company.

03:11:26.000 Well, he's the biggest owner.

03:11:28.000 Right.

03:11:28.000 The biggest stakeholder.

03:11:29.000 Shareholder.

03:11:30.000 But if he...

03:11:31.000 Do they have to listen to him, though?

03:11:33.000 You know what I'm saying?

03:11:34.000 Do they have to listen to him in terms of whether they want to ban people, whether they want to have an edit button, whether or not they want to apply the principles of the First Amendment to something like Twitter...

03:11:47.000 Right?

03:11:47.000 Well, maybe it's the fear that if he were to dump all the stock, it would hurt the price, so they want to keep him happy.

03:11:54.000 I was having a conversation with a couple friends yesterday about this and one of them was dealing with Comments on another social media platform and what they were saying was that You know what Twitter does by banning people and censoring people is definitely bad But there are some fucking horrible people that were banned by Twitter that are now ruining these other social media apps and And they were explaining to me what's happening and how these people comment on these

03:12:25.000 other apps and about how toxic they are and about how they have a whole group of people that have also been banned that find these new social media apps and that's where they congregate and hang out and that's their community now.

03:12:36.000 And it's just...

03:12:37.000 It's just Chernobyl. 0.50

03:12:39.000 It's just toxic.

03:12:40.000 What are the other apps?

03:12:41.000 Well, there's a shitload of them.

03:12:42.000 I don't want to name the one that this person was talking to me about specifically because I don't want to fuck up because I think I believe in these other apps.

03:12:50.000 I believe in all these other alternative platforms and I think that there's great value in having competitors and Whether it's to Twitter or to YouTube or to any of these, Facebook, any of these giant, huge companies that have a massive pipeline to the consciousness of the world.

03:13:11.000 Because the ability to distribute information on Twitter or on Facebook or like...

03:13:17.000 That is unprecedented.

03:13:18.000 There's never been a thing like that where a privately owned company has the ability to get ideas out there that can change the way elections are run, to change the way so many things are thought of in this country.

03:13:32.000 I think we need alternatives, and I think we need alternatives that adhere to free speech.

03:13:36.000 But the problem is when they've got these shitty people that they've kicked off of these other platforms like Twitter, because Twitter is pretty ruthless about it, then they go to these other places and they run amok.

03:13:47.000 And then they're like, hey, free speech, you need free speech. 0.96

03:13:50.000 But then they're organizing harassment campaigns and fucking with people and targeting them all day long and constantly commenting on them. 0.91

03:13:57.000 And you're like... 0.95

03:14:00.000 I don't know if that's good either.

03:14:01.000 That would make me not want to go there if I was this person.

03:14:06.000 But I don't like what Twitter did.

03:14:08.000 I don't think Twitter should have banned Trump.

03:14:10.000 I think that was a terrible idea. 0.96

03:14:13.000 It's a terrible precedent to set that you can decide that you don't like a guy who's the fucking sitting president of the United States at the time and kick him off your platform because you don't like the things he's saying. 0.73

03:14:24.000 Yeah, I guess it's like if they control what newspapers can print and they're culpable for misinformation, I guess they're trying to look at the biggest providers, whether it's Facebook, Instagram, whatever, and hold them to that same standard. 0.54

03:14:41.000 Well, then the question is, are they a publisher or are they a utility?

03:14:46.000 Right.

03:14:46.000 That's the fine line.

03:14:48.000 And the thing is, if the President is saying something that's not true, like if the President is saying, like here's one thing that Trump always would say, the elections were stolen.

03:14:59.000 And people are like, well that's not true.

03:15:00.000 You can't say that.

03:15:02.000 I think you should say to the President, hey, either you prove definitively that the elections are stolen, and we look at this with a panel of objective experts.

03:15:16.000 And if you can't do that, you have to stop saying that.

03:15:18.000 We're going to delete all the times you've said it.

03:15:20.000 That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

03:15:22.000 If it is provable, I don't know how provable...

03:15:27.000 I don't think Trump had the election stolen from him, but I don't think there was zero election fraud in any election ever.

03:15:37.000 No, but it's certainly no higher now than it's ever been.

03:15:40.000 In every investigation, it's turned up negligible.

03:15:44.000 Has that been a bipartisan investigation?

03:15:48.000 Have the Republicans found the same results?

03:15:51.000 Have the Democrats found the same results?

03:15:52.000 Well, there were 60 investigations.

03:15:54.000 60?

03:15:55.000 Yeah.

03:15:55.000 And none of them found a real, measurable fraud?

03:15:59.000 I think there might have been one that had some evidence out of 60. So I would imagine they were bipartisan, some of them, at the very least.

03:16:09.000 If that's the case, then Twitter should look at that evidence and say, hey, you can't say that, because here's the evidence, and we'll point to the article and maybe a link to say, look, there's been 60 investigations, only one found an amount of measurable fraud.

03:16:26.000 I don't know if that's true.

03:16:27.000 But I just know that they accused Bush of...

03:16:33.000 Bush was accused of election fraud in, like, whatever it was.

03:16:39.000 Was it 2008?

03:16:41.000 2004?

03:16:41.000 Is that what it was?

03:16:43.000 But, I mean, they were accusing him of election fraud back then.

03:16:45.000 They even had that documentary, Hacking Democracy.

03:16:48.000 Do you remember that documentary?

03:16:49.000 No.

03:16:50.000 It was an HBO documentary that concentrated on the Diebold machines, and it showed that they could be influenced by a third party.

03:16:57.000 Like, a third party could have access to the machines, and they could change the result.

03:17:02.000 And they proved it on the show, in the documentary.

03:17:05.000 They actually did.

03:17:06.000 They used the voting machine and changed the result.

03:17:09.000 And was that the Diebold owned by a Republican donor?

03:17:13.000 I believe so.

03:17:14.000 Yeah.

03:17:14.000 Yeah, I believe so.

03:17:15.000 At the time.

03:17:16.000 I think they also make ATM machines too.

03:17:19.000 Yeah.

03:17:20.000 It's like they make machines.

03:17:21.000 It's pretty scary to think about how easy it would be to steal an election electronically.

03:17:27.000 And I don't know why we don't have a uniform system of voting from state to state and that you can just – this state buys machines from this company.

03:17:38.000 This one's online.

03:17:39.000 This one's not online.

03:17:41.000 It's insane.

03:17:42.000 Remember the dangly chads?

03:17:44.000 Yeah, right.

03:17:45.000 Remember that?

03:17:45.000 The dangling chads.

03:17:47.000 The little fucking things that didn't get punched all the way through so they didn't count them. 1.00

03:17:51.000 Right, right. 0.99

03:17:53.000 Yeah.

03:17:53.000 It's like, for sure, people are weasels.

03:17:57.000 And people are always trying to game any system.

03:18:00.000 But, like, that being a reason why you're going to keep a president, because he thinks he got robbed.

03:18:06.000 He didn't get robbed, according to most people, or a lot of people.

03:18:10.000 Prove it. 0.99

03:18:12.000 But banning a president seems fucking crazy. 0.99

03:18:16.000 It's crazy to say that you were robbed when you weren't robbed. 1.00

03:18:19.000 That's crazy too.

03:18:20.000 Right.

03:18:21.000 But prove that, and then even his followers should be able to look at that and go, hey, why is he saying he got robbed?

03:18:27.000 Yeah.

03:18:28.000 You know?

03:18:28.000 Right.

03:18:31.000 I think there's some voter fraud that always takes place because some people are zealots. 0.97

03:18:36.000 And people that are working for the Republican Party, if they're involved in, you know, if there's some way, if there's a bag of mail that you know is coming from a Democrat community, you can fucking hide that.

03:18:48.000 You know, and there's mail-in ballots, or if there's some weaselly way you can do something, people are going to do it.

03:18:55.000 Right.

03:18:56.000 But it's also, you know, the default move when you're going to lose an election is to call voter fraud.

03:19:02.000 Yes.

03:19:03.000 And that's just as weaselly.

03:19:04.000 Yeah, it's been done by both sides.

03:19:06.000 It's bad, too, because it undermines our confidence in democracy, which is already kind of shaky. 0.65

03:19:13.000 And that is also one of the things that the Russian troll farms prey on.

03:19:17.000 All those Russian troll farms that they found that, like, comment on Facebook and start Facebook pages and do all these, you know, they interact with people and get them all stirred up.

03:19:28.000 All of them are trying to undermine our conference democracy. 0.53

03:19:31.000 They love it.

03:19:31.000 This is exactly what they wanted.

03:19:32.000 They wanted us fighting amongst ourselves and distrusting the democratic process.

03:19:37.000 They won.

03:19:37.000 That's what they wanted.

03:19:38.000 And it's been very effective.

03:19:40.000 And because of the freedom that we have with these social media platforms, they can take advantage of that.

03:19:46.000 They did this thing recently.

03:19:47.000 They found out that 19 out of the top 20 Facebook Christian pages were run by Russian trolls. 0.91

03:19:55.000 No kidding. 0.91

03:20:01.000 Wow!

03:20:02.000 I was looking up, trying to find some Twitter information in 2017 or 2018 this article was posted.

03:20:08.000 An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts. 0.96

03:20:15.000 Damn. 0.99

03:20:16.000 Two-thirds. 1.00

03:20:17.000 That's sick! 0.95

03:20:19.000 That's crazy.

03:20:21.000 That's crazy.

03:20:24.000 It had the number of accounts, similar numbers, like only 34% of these accounts are human.

03:20:30.000 Oh my god, that's so crazy.

03:20:32.000 Suspected bots, 66%.

03:20:34.000 The most active Twitter bots produce a large share of the links to popular news and current events websites.

03:20:39.000 So when they say bots, is that necessarily...

03:20:42.000 That's automated.

03:20:43.000 Yeah, they have a definition of what they use for a bot, but it's basically like an automated account, not run by an actual, you know, like someone claiming this is their...

03:20:52.000 So there's multi-layers to this.

03:20:54.000 I'm sure some of those bots are used by corporations and media sites in America to drum up interest.

03:21:03.000 Do you remember there was a Howard Stern controversy because there was a video that got released, and I want to say it's from 2013, where he's telling people to make fake Twitter accounts and tweet at celebrities to tell them to go on The Howard Stern Show? 0.99

03:21:18.000 Oh, no shit. 0.99

03:21:19.000 Yeah. 0.99

03:21:20.000 It's really embarrassing.

03:21:21.000 It's like, you know, he's talking about what they need for the show to be successful and he's doing this like seminar in front of all of his employees.

03:21:29.000 So he's on stage and he's got like a PowerPoint presentation.

03:21:32.000 And one of the things he's telling them to do is to tweet at celebrities.

03:21:38.000 And tell them that you have to be on the Howard Stern Show.

03:21:40.000 We want you on the Howard Stern Show.

03:21:42.000 And so he wants you to make a bunch of accounts.

03:21:45.000 Make a bunch of accounts that should be part of your job.

03:21:48.000 Do that and tweet at these celebrities.

03:21:50.000 It's like, whoa.

03:21:51.000 Yeah.

03:21:52.000 It's a bad look.

03:21:53.000 Yeah.

03:21:54.000 You never seen it?

03:21:55.000 No.

03:21:56.000 It's not something I could ever imagine doing.

03:22:00.000 Yeah.

03:22:00.000 It's not something I could imagine anybody doing.

03:22:03.000 There's a lot of people doing it.

03:22:04.000 There's a lot of podcasts out there that are filled with, you know, what do you call it when you get fake followers?

03:22:10.000 Yeah.

03:22:11.000 You know, they go to the farms that give you the fake followers. 1.00

03:22:14.000 And, you know, a lot of these new podcasts that are very corporate, they're all full of shit. 0.99

03:22:19.000 You know, they're all, it's all fluffed up with, you know, tricks. 0.99

03:22:22.000 Yeah, they're trying everything they can.

03:22:23.000 Yeah.

03:22:24.000 So there's bots, which are automated responses and automated tweets that they do with a program.

03:22:32.000 But then there's these troll farms that are actually people, and they create memes, and they make a lot of funny memes that mock Hillary Clinton or mock Barack Obama or mock Joe Biden or whatever. 0.98

03:22:46.000 And they fucking churn these things out. 0.97

03:22:49.000 And they're hilarious. 0.99

03:22:50.000 Some of them are hilarious.

03:22:50.000 I had this woman, Renee DiResta, on my podcast.

03:22:53.000 And she studied the internet research agency in Russia.

03:22:56.000 And she looked at hundreds of thousands of these posts and memes. 0.99

03:23:00.000 And she's like, this is like this wild, directed effort to stir up shit in America. 1.00

03:23:07.000 Yeah. 0.99

03:23:07.000 To get people fighting with each other. 0.99

03:23:09.000 Wow.

03:23:09.000 One of the things they did, they pitted a Texas separatist group.

03:23:13.000 They made them have a demonstration across the street from a pro-Islam group.

03:23:21.000 So they organized both of them.

03:23:23.000 And they organized them to be across the street from each other. 1.00

03:23:26.000 Shit. 1.00

03:23:28.000 Genius. 1.00

03:23:29.000 It's wild.

03:23:29.000 It's genius.

03:23:30.000 But that kind of like really sneaky shit. 1.00

03:23:33.000 Yeah. 1.00

03:23:34.000 Because that's what they're doing.

03:23:35.000 And how do you control it?

03:23:36.000 How do you keep that from happening?

03:23:37.000 How can you?

03:23:38.000 How can you?

03:23:39.000 I mean, on one hand, what you're saying, and I agree with it to some extent, is not to kick anybody off Twitter.

03:23:45.000 But then on the other hand, you go like, yeah, but these are the airwaves.

03:23:48.000 Right.

03:23:49.000 Right. 0.92

03:23:50.000 And what my friend was saying about these shitheads that have gone to these other platforms and are ruining these platforms to the point where they don't want to go to these platforms anymore. 0.96

03:23:57.000 Because every time they go, they're just dealing with these people that have been kicked off of Twitter and now they run amok here. 0.96

03:24:03.000 Like it's their playground now.

03:24:04.000 Like they got their own playground.

03:24:06.000 And you try to go over there because you're like, well, maybe Twitter is being a little bit irresponsible with their take on the First Amendment. 0.99

03:24:12.000 And then you go over there and you're like, well, what the fuck is this? 0.99

03:24:15.000 This is not good. 0.99

03:24:16.000 This is a terrible experience.

03:24:18.000 The experience for the users is awful.

03:24:22.000 It's... 0.99

03:24:24.000 It's tricky shit, man. 1.00

03:24:26.000 Yep. 1.00

03:24:26.000 It's like, how do you do it? 1.00

03:24:27.000 How do you do it the right way? 0.98

03:24:29.000 You know, you want free speech, but you don't want a cunt farm. 1.00

03:24:32.000 Yeah. 0.99

03:24:33.000 You know, you don't want just, like, assholes just, like, overflowing, where every time you go there, you get harassed and insulted, and that's what's fun for people. 0.89

03:24:43.000 Like, there's a lot of people that... 0.97

03:24:44.000 Do you ever see the...

03:24:46.000 What is the Storm? 0.96

03:24:48.000 What the fuck is the HBO QAnon documentary? 0.98

03:24:53.000 Entering the Storm. 0.99

03:24:54.000 What was it called?

03:24:56.000 Into the storm?

03:24:57.000 Into the storm.

03:24:58.000 It's great.

03:24:58.000 Have you ever seen it?

03:24:59.000 No, I haven't seen it.

03:25:00.000 It's on 4chan. 0.99

03:25:01.000 It's all about 4chan and the QAnon hoax, this supposedly insider into the White House that was giving you all this information about what Trump is actually doing to try to stop the pedophiles and all this wild shit. 0.81

03:25:15.000 And it shows you how they manipulated these people and shows you how they created this sort of thing.

03:25:22.000 And started putting out this fake character that they were saying was an insider with all this inside information that they would distribute in this very cryptic manner. 0.91

03:25:33.000 But it's fucking wild to see how these people just buy into it hook, line, and sinker. 0.97

03:25:39.000 And about the end of the film, they recognize that they were hoaxed after January 6th and everyone's fucked and they're all going to jail. 0.99

03:25:45.000 Like, hey, I thought we were on the good side.

03:25:48.000 Right, right.

03:25:49.000 Well, what is the need that people have to believe this stuff?

03:25:53.000 Is it that they've been lied to?

03:25:54.000 Part of it is that the government does systematically lie, as every government always has.

03:26:00.000 We know more about it now because it's a little less opaque now than it used to be.

03:26:05.000 But it opens the door.

03:26:07.000 When you have...

03:26:08.000 You know, when 9-11 happens and all of a sudden, you know, steel is being carted away in fucking trucks that are owned by the mob and different things happen, you go like, all right, now I'm going to look for a crazy answer because you didn't give us transparency.

03:26:23.000 Yeah. 0.72

03:26:24.000 Not to bring up 9-11 conspiracy theory.

03:26:26.000 I'm just saying, like, that's what leads people to start these theories, is that they weren't given the truth in the first place.

03:26:32.000 Well, anytime there's a gigantic event like 9-11, you're going to have a lot of chaos.

03:26:38.000 Anytime you have a lot of chaos, you're going to have conflicting eyewitness accounts, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and not even malicious, not even intentional.

03:26:48.000 No, but it's anecdotal.

03:26:49.000 People handpick these anecdotal stories and then they put together a narrative.

03:26:53.000 Exactly. 0.96

03:26:53.000 And then also people are so confused after an event that they give inaccurate depictions of events just because they don't know what the fuck happened. 0.96

03:27:02.000 Yeah.

03:27:03.000 And then there's like legit...

03:27:05.000 You know, there's religious conspiracies.

03:27:07.000 People have conspired.

03:27:08.000 The government's conspired.

03:27:09.000 People have done things.

03:27:10.000 There's plenty of evidence.

03:27:12.000 If you go through the Freedom of Information Act, there's a bunch of things, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that got us into the Vietnam War.

03:27:18.000 Never happened.

03:27:20.000 Operation Northwoods, this plan to blow up jet airliners and blame it on the Cubans and arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay to get us to go to war with Cuba. 0.76

03:27:31.000 That was all the government's real plan, signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, vetoed by Kennedy.

03:27:37.000 He was like, what? 1.00

03:27:38.000 The fuck are you doing? 1.00

03:27:40.000 I mean, it's probably one of the reasons why they killed him. 1.00

03:27:42.000 I mean, probably his reluctance to go along with a lot of the propaganda and the business as usual that the government wanted to keep running. 1.00

03:27:52.000 That's how they ran shit. 0.99

03:27:54.000 That's what they did back then. 1.00

03:27:56.000 Right. 0.98

03:27:56.000 The fact that they didn't just come up with that plan, but the fucking Joint Chiefs of Staff signed it, they're like, we're good to go. 0.98

03:28:02.000 I like it. 0.96

03:28:03.000 Good idea, guys. 1.00

03:28:04.000 Let's kill some people. 1.00

03:28:05.000 And let's kill Cubans. 1.00

03:28:07.000 That's what they were going to do. 1.00

03:28:08.000 They were going to blame the Cubans and blow up a jet.

03:28:12.000 They had a drone.

03:28:14.000 It was a drone jet.

03:28:14.000 They were going to fly a jet and make it explode in the sky.

03:28:17.000 Look what the Cubans have done. 1.00

03:28:19.000 And what?

03:28:19.000 Say there were humans in it?

03:28:21.000 Yeah.

03:28:22.000 So literally the theories about 9-11 were part of an actual plan in the 60s.

03:28:28.000 That plan was in some way eerily similar to a lot of the crazy conspiracy theories that people have about 9-11.

03:28:37.000 And that's one of the reasons why they get so curious about these things is because the government has done – the Gulf of Tonkin, rather, is – That's irrefutable.

03:28:49.000 We know that that didn't happen.

03:28:51.000 We know that the government made up a false flag event so that we could go to war with Vietnam.

03:28:57.000 And it happened.

03:28:59.000 We did it.

03:29:01.000 Right. 0.95

03:29:02.000 And then after 9-11, all of a sudden there were military actions that were taken that didn't even fucking make sense.

03:29:10.000 That's why I get real suspicious when the government starts releasing information about UFOs.

03:29:18.000 When they start releasing information about crafts made from other worlds and Really?

03:29:28.000 No one wants to believe in UFOs more than me.

03:29:30.000 Yes. 0.99

03:29:30.000 I got a fucking UFO behind me. 0.99

03:29:32.000 I got a UFO on the table. 1.00

03:29:34.000 No tattoos?

03:29:35.000 No UFO tattoos?

03:29:36.000 No, I should.

03:29:36.000 I should have one.

03:29:37.000 Nobody wants to believe in aliens and UFOs more than me.

03:29:40.000 Yeah.

03:29:40.000 And I'm not in.

03:29:43.000 I'm watching these press conferences and I'm seeing these videos that they release and the way they're describing things and I'm like, God damn it, why do I have this part of me that's calling bullshit? 0.97

03:29:54.000 I have a feeling that they have access to some technology that is above and beyond what we think is currently available. 0.99

03:30:04.000 And whether it's military shit or whether it's drones, whatever the fuck it is, I think some of the things that we're seeing that operate in these insane ways, I think it's some stuff they're testing. 0.97

03:30:17.000 That's what I think. 0.99

03:30:19.000 Maybe...

03:30:20.000 Some of it's aliens.

03:30:22.000 I'm willing to believe that too because of the Fermi paradox and maybe just the sheer number of stars in the universe.

03:30:30.000 The idea that this is the only place that has life is crazy.

03:30:32.000 Yeah.

03:30:33.000 This doesn't make any sense.

03:30:34.000 It's illogical.

03:30:35.000 Yeah, something's out there. 0.99

03:30:36.000 And if something was out there, I think they would check us out because we're out of our fucking mind and we use nuclear bombs. 0.99

03:30:42.000 Yeah. 0.99

03:30:42.000 I would watch. 0.99

03:30:44.000 I would see what we're doing.

03:30:46.000 So I'm not opposed to the idea of UFOs being real, but when the government starts having transparency about unidentified flying objects, that, believe it or not, them talking about it is where I'm like, huh,

03:31:02.000 really?

03:31:05.000 I don't know.

03:31:06.000 I don't know if I believe it.

03:31:07.000 I don't like when the Pentagon starts telling me that UFOs are real.

03:31:13.000 Really?

03:31:14.000 Yeah.

03:31:15.000 Yeah, sure.

03:31:17.000 I just don't think they would tell you.

03:31:19.000 Yeah.

03:31:19.000 I think they'd rather keep you in the dark.

03:31:21.000 They're just making people pay more attention to it.

03:31:24.000 But if they have a product that behaves and moves in a way that is unexplainable with traditional acknowledged technology, but it's just some new technology, what better way To mask the fact that you have this thing than to say,

03:31:41.000 you know guys, there's some things we just can't explain and we don't know what to do about them but we've had multiple sightings of these incredible objects and we don't know what they are.

03:31:49.000 We have no idea. 0.97

03:31:51.000 Yeah, it's like when your parents get divorced and then your dad suddenly introduces you to his new friend who's got huge tits. 1.00

03:31:59.000 And they seem to know each other for a long fucking time. 1.00

03:32:02.000 And she comes on vacation with us? 0.99

03:32:04.000 Hey dad.

03:32:08.000 It's just, when has the government been transparent about things like that?

03:32:13.000 Never.

03:32:15.000 Never.

03:32:16.000 No, they're not giving you anything they don't want you to have.

03:32:19.000 No.

03:32:19.000 Why would they want...

03:32:20.000 I think that that is like a nice distraction to all the conspiracy theorists and all the UFO aficionados like myself.

03:32:29.000 And I think...

03:32:35.000 Yeah.

03:32:37.000 Yeah.

03:32:42.000 I think that's a likely possibility.

03:32:44.000 Right.

03:32:45.000 At least it's on the table.

03:32:47.000 Yeah.

03:32:48.000 Speaking of conspiracy theories, our friend Tom O'Neill, the chaos author. 0.98

03:32:53.000 Fucking thank God you introduced me to that guy. 0.96

03:32:56.000 They're producing a movie. 0.99

03:32:59.000 Oh, are they really?

03:33:01.000 One of the major streamers.

03:33:02.000 I think I can say Netflix.

03:33:03.000 Yeah, Netflix is doing it with probably the best documentary maker of the last few decades. 0.99

03:33:09.000 That's fucking great. 0.97

03:33:11.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

03:33:11.000 That book is so good. 0.99

03:33:13.000 Oh, by the way, this is how good a guy Tom is.

03:33:16.000 I told him, I sent him a message, hey, my wife's mom is so into your book, and she's all in.

03:33:23.000 And she's in the middle of reading it, and every time I talk to her, her eyes light up, and she wants to talk to me about the book.

03:33:39.000 Really? 1.00

03:33:43.000 No shit! 1.00

03:33:44.000 Did she remember Jolly West? 1.00

03:33:46.000 No, she didn't remember that.

03:33:47.000 But she remembers going to that clinic because that was in the neighborhood where she lived.

03:33:51.000 Yeah.

03:33:51.000 And everybody went there.

03:33:52.000 But she was a part of that whole movement.

03:33:55.000 Wow.

03:33:56.000 She was there.

03:33:56.000 So this was unbelievably fascinating to her.

03:33:59.000 This is like her diary.

03:34:01.000 And Tom offered to talk to her when she finished the book.

03:34:04.000 Oh, nice.

03:34:04.000 He said, I'd love to get on the phone with her and have a conversation with her and maybe answer some questions because there's some new information that we have after the book was published.

03:34:12.000 I have some new information because he's still looking into it.

03:34:14.000 Yeah, yeah.

03:34:15.000 Which is crazy.

03:34:16.000 Well, he's got so much material that didn't make it into the book.

03:34:19.000 There has to be a second book.

03:34:21.000 He just came to my birthday party two nights ago.

03:34:27.000 Thanks.

03:34:29.000 Happy birthday.

03:34:30.000 Thank you.

03:34:31.000 And he never tires.

03:34:32.000 If I have a new friend that he hasn't met before and I say this to my friend Tom, oh, what do you do, Tom?

03:34:36.000 Well, I'm all right.

03:34:37.000 What'd you write, Kath? 0.88

03:34:38.000 He will then sit there for an hour and a half and just fucking download them on the important parts of the book. 0.93

03:34:44.000 And it's not to promote. 0.85

03:34:45.000 It's just he is passionate about his curiosity about this and putting it all together.

03:34:51.000 For people who don't know, we should end with this because we've been going for a long time.

03:34:55.000 Tom was originally hired to write an article about the anniversary of the Manson murders.

03:35:00.000 By Premier Magazine. 0.96

03:35:02.000 Upon investigation in writing the article, he realizes there's some inconsistencies and there's some problems, and so he goes deeper and deeper, and then he gets fired from that, and he keeps writing, and then more people hire him for books and this and that, and it goes on for 20 fucking years. 0.90

03:35:17.000 20 years.

03:35:17.000 And all this time, you were his friend, and you were his neighbor in New York, and then you were his neighbor in Venice.

03:35:22.000 Yep. 0.99

03:35:23.000 And then Greg, who has never suggested anyone to me as a guest, you go, you gotta have this fucking guy on. 0.97

03:35:29.000 And you tell me this whole story, and I'm like, a guy who loves conspiracies. 0.97

03:35:33.000 Yeah.

03:35:33.000 I'm like, oh my god, this is a great one.

03:35:35.000 And I think Jamie read the book, and... 0.97

03:35:38.000 It's fucking incredible. 0.99

03:35:40.000 Yeah. 0.97

03:35:40.000 It's really something that, like, when people say I worked on something for 20 years, it's like, did you? 0.97

03:35:46.000 Right. 0.99

03:35:46.000 But I can tell you by living next to him, every morning that motherfucker made a pot of coffee, drank the whole thing, and then wrote for nine hours. 0.99

03:35:53.000 And if he wasn't writing, he was in a car that I gave him, a 1985 Volvo 240DL. He was driving into the fucking desert in 100 degree heat with no fucking air conditioner. 1.00

03:36:04.000 To investigate the Manson murders. 1.00

03:36:06.000 Because there was some LAPD officer who was on his deathbed that was finally ready to talk.

03:36:11.000 And he went all around the country.

03:36:14.000 And the thing about the book is, this is a real journalist who corroborated every fact in that book.

03:36:20.000 And that's the thing about it, that...

03:36:23.000 What's so amazing is he doesn't at the end wrap it all up and go, here's exactly what happened.

03:36:27.000 He comes just short of saying, I know definitively that he said he never got the smoking gun, but you as a reader go, no, you did, Tom.

03:36:38.000 And he's like, no, I didn't, because he has the discipline of being a real journalist.

03:36:42.000 It's so good.

03:36:43.000 Yeah.

03:36:44.000 It's amazing.

03:36:44.000 It's so good.

03:36:45.000 It's dense.

03:36:46.000 It's so good.

03:36:47.000 Yeah.

03:36:48.000 And the audiobook is great, too.

03:36:49.000 I listened to the audiobook.

03:36:50.000 Yeah.

03:36:51.000 All right.

03:36:52.000 Gravitons, I love you.

03:36:53.000 Can I pour my dates out?

03:36:53.000 You're the best.

03:36:54.000 Yes.

03:36:54.000 Hey, people.

03:36:55.000 Pour them out.

03:36:55.000 Come on out and see me.

03:36:57.000 I'm going to be performing at the- What is your website?

03:37:01.000 I'm going to be in La Jolla at the Comedy Store.

03:37:03.000 Great club.

03:37:04.000 One of the best.

03:37:05.000 Then I'll be in Spokane.

03:37:07.000 Also in April, New Orleans, Lafayette, Louisiana.

03:37:11.000 Then I'll be at that casino in Plainville, Mass.

03:37:14.000 Denver Comedy Works, April 28th through 30. Tacoma Comedy Club.

03:37:19.000 Irvine Improv, and then Bakersfield, California.

03:37:21.000 All dates at Fitzdog.com.

03:37:23.000 Beautiful.

03:37:24.000 And Instagram and Twitter, what do you want each one?

03:37:28.000 At Greg Fitz Show on Twitter, and then Instagram, I think it's just my name, Greg Fitzsimmons.

03:37:32.000 I think so.

03:37:33.000 And then the podcast is Fitzdog Radio, and then I do another one with Mike Gibbons called Sunday Papers.

03:37:38.000 Beautiful.

03:37:38.000 Are you still doing something with Alison Rosen?

03:37:40.000 Yeah, Childish with Alison Rosen.

03:37:42.000 Beautiful.

03:37:43.000 Yeah, doing it all.

03:37:44.000 Good to see you, my friend.

03:37:45.000 Joe, good to see you, brother.

03:37:45.000 I love you.

03:37:46.000 Can't wait to have you out here when the club opens. 0.87

03:37:48.000 Yeah!

03:37:48.000 Next time.

03:37:49.000 I can't wait.

03:37:50.000 Okay, good.

03:37:51.000 Bye, everybody.

The Joe Rogan Experience - April 08, 2022

Joe Rogan Experience #1803 - Greg Fitzsimmons

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