The Joe Rogan Experience - September 06, 2023


Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez

Topics
weed laws weed and sobriety changes perspectives nature trees attacking asteroids asteroids and Bing Bong theory social media transformation internet hysteria space travel driving accidents and insurance jujitsu cops and crime quotas Maui fires AIDS anxiety AIDS bug chasers fat in New Yorks City summertime smoking weed vacation memories weed trucks population collapse having kids parenting anxiety boxing jujitsu running and jiu-jitsu running form workout philosophy
Hosted by
Joe Rogan
Guests
Luis J. Gomez
Mentioned
Dude Jesus Christ Trump Stevo Manuel Noriega Marinol Jersey Lewis Biden Harry Joe Rogan Podcast Bonnie McFarlane Magic Johnson Danielle Smith James Mike Bruce Lee Louis J. Gomez Comedy George St. Pierre Bert Kreischer Breaky Heart and 76 more
Joe Rogan Experience #2030 - Protect Our Parks 9 Joe Rogan Experience #2032 - BJ Penn & Tulsi Gabbard

Episode Stats


Length

2 hours and 31 minutes

Words per minute

197.89

Word count

30,010

Sentence count

3,594

Harmful content

Misogyny

32

sentences flagged

Toxicity

1,052

sentences flagged

Hate speech

39

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the guys talk about their first time with weed, and how it's gotten better since it's legalized in New York City. They also talk about what it's like to be high in the big city, and what it was like growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. Joe also talks about his first time using marijuana, and why he thinks it's one of the best things he's ever done, and also why he doesn't think it's as bad as it was when he was a kid growing up with all the laws that kept him from being able to get high. Joe also gives us some advice on how to deal with being high in general, and gives us a little bit of his own personal experience with marijuana. It's a good one, and we hope you enjoy it! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art by Cody Johnston. The theme song is by Suneaters, and our ad music is by Build Buildings, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. We are working on transcribing this episode and putting it on SoundCloud. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, and tell us what you think of it. We'll be looking out for you in the next episode of the podcast! Thank you so much for all the love and support, and the support we've gotten so far this week, it's been a blast! XOXO! xoxo, Joe and the crew at The Joe & the crew. xo - The Crew. - Tom and the Crew at the Joe Rogans Podcast and The Crew at The J. Rogan Podcasts Podcast by Night, and all the J.Rogan Experience Podcast by the J&R Podcast by The JOB Project. . & the JOB Podcast by Mr. R.R. Experience , and the J-RODAN Experience by the Crew @ The JOGAN Experience. , the JOGan Experience Podcast, and The J-Rod Podcast. and , The JODAN EXPERIENCE, is a podcast, and the JOY & THE RODAN EPISODES by the ROGAN PODCAST by THE JOE & THE CHEESE EPISODE

Transcript

Transcripts from "The Joe Rogan Experience" are sourced from the Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool. Explore them interactively here.
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:03.000 The Joe Rogan Experience.
00:00:05.000 Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
00:00:12.000 Are we on?
00:00:13.000 Are we just on?
00:00:13.000 Are we on?
00:00:15.000 Yeah, alright, we're on.
00:00:16.000 I don't know if we were talking on the podcast, just being dudes.
00:00:19.000 That's the beautiful thing about podcasts.
00:00:21.000 It really is, yeah.
00:00:21.000 It's kind of just hanging.
00:00:23.000 Yeah, but yeah, I smoked weed since I was like 17, and it was illegal.
00:00:31.000 And you just, all these like formative years...
00:00:34.000 Spending my life being afraid that a cop was going to come and arrest me.
00:00:37.000 And I've been arrested for smoking weed like 10 times in New York City.
00:00:40.000 Wow. 1.00
00:00:41.000 Because I'm an idiot and I just, you know. 1.00
00:00:42.000 Right. 1.00
00:00:43.000 And it's just a game of numbers.
00:00:44.000 I would just, we would roll a blunt in the park, you smoke it.
00:00:47.000 And every time for some reason, the cop would always take me.
00:00:49.000 All my friends, they'd go, you know, we've got to take one of you.
00:00:51.000 And it was always, I'm the only brown kid in the group.
00:00:54.000 So every single time they were like, we're going to take you.
00:00:56.000 And then they take you to Central Bookings for a day.
00:00:58.000 They would literally say I have to take one of you?
00:01:00.000 Yeah.
00:01:01.000 Oh my god.
00:01:02.000 Yeah.
00:01:02.000 And none of your friends?
00:01:03.000 Hey, you got Louis the last three times.
00:01:05.000 Not once.
00:01:06.000 Dave Smith.
00:01:07.000 I've been arrested.
00:01:08.000 I was arrested three separate times and Dave Smith watched me get put into the back of a car and he was like, bye.
00:01:13.000 Oh god.
00:01:15.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:16.000 But yeah, and then I remember I went to Amsterdam when I was 22, and it was the first time I ever smoked legal weed.
00:01:22.000 And I was like, this is great.
00:01:24.000 This is the way it should be.
00:01:25.000 It was nuts.
00:01:26.000 I was just smoking in the street.
00:01:27.000 I was talking to a cop.
00:01:28.000 I was on mushrooms.
00:01:29.000 I was like, this is so peaceful and nice.
00:01:32.000 And then I came back, and I remember I was in a stairwell smoking a blunt the day I got back. 0.98
00:01:37.000 And I was like, this is fucking a wild thing. 0.97
00:01:39.000 And then here we are years later, and New York City, it's legal. 0.99
00:01:42.000 There's literally...
00:01:43.000 You could buy weed in just delis on every corner of New York City now.
00:01:46.000 It's crazy.
00:01:47.000 Yeah.
00:01:47.000 I remember the switch in California because for a while I was medical.
00:01:51.000 So I used to have to go to a doctor and the doctor would go, oh, you need weed. 0.99
00:01:55.000 And then he writes some shit down on a piece of paper. 0.99
00:01:57.000 Then you could buy weed. 1.00
00:01:58.000 Yeah.
00:01:59.000 And I used to go to this place called the Inglewood Wellness Center, which was in Inglewood.
00:02:03.000 And it's, you know, a shady area.
00:02:06.000 And back then...
00:02:08.000 I don't know if it was credit cards yet.
00:02:11.000 I think they might have been able to use credit cards, but I know they also had a lot of cash on them, and they got robbed, and the guy that I used to buy weed from got shot. 0.99
00:02:19.000 Oh shit. 0.99
00:02:19.000 And I was like, alright, done with that spot. 0.99
00:02:22.000 Gonna have to find a new spot, but there wasn't that many spots.
00:02:25.000 You'd have to find these places, and they looked like shut-down stores.
00:02:29.000 Most of the places that were dispensaries, they were super low-key.
00:02:32.000 You had to know people. 0.99
00:02:33.000 And you would go in there, and there'd be some fucking doctor. 0.99
00:02:37.000 One time we went to this doctor, and he had dreadlocks. 0.99
00:02:41.000 And this dude had long dreads, and he had a volcano bag, you know, volcano vaporizer bags?
00:02:47.000 But it was like an extra-long bag.
00:02:49.000 And we'd walk into the dispensary, and he's like, Man, you need medicine.
00:02:55.000 He just immediately goes, you need some medicine.
00:02:58.000 I go, yes, sir, I do.
00:02:59.000 Thank you.
00:03:00.000 I'm very sick.
00:03:01.000 I'm very sick.
00:03:02.000 He took us to the grow room.
00:03:04.000 I don't know if you've ever been in a grow room when you're high.
00:03:06.000 No.
00:03:07.000 But they seem to be intelligent.
00:03:10.000 There's an odd feeling that you get when you're high on marijuana and you walk into a grow room filled with like hundreds of plants.
00:03:18.000 It was a big ass room with lights, you know, hydroponic lights or whatever hanging from the sky.
00:03:24.000 And, um...
00:03:25.000 It just has a weird feel to it.
00:03:28.000 Yeah.
00:03:28.000 It has a weird feel, like not a regular room.
00:03:30.000 It doesn't feel like you're walking into a room.
00:03:32.000 It feels like you're walking into a room with beings.
00:03:35.000 Oh, really?
00:03:36.000 Yeah, like they feel alive in a weird way.
00:03:39.000 Yeah.
00:03:39.000 And I know I'm super high.
00:03:42.000 That's good weed that you have, I mean...
00:03:44.000 But it felt real.
00:03:46.000 Because it didn't feel like that when I was in the other room. 0.87
00:03:48.000 When I was in the other room where they had just, like, couches and shit, you know, seemed normal.
00:03:53.000 And then he takes us back, and we go into this back room, and I'm like, whoa.
00:03:58.000 Like, these things are conscious.
00:04:00.000 Well, they say that.
00:04:01.000 Don't they say plants are conscious to a certain degree?
00:04:02.000 If you, like, sing to them and talk to them, or if you yell at them, they don't grow, or...
00:04:05.000 I don't know. 0.98
00:04:06.000 They do, like, experiments with shit where, like, people are, like, nice to plants. 0.97
00:04:10.000 I've seen it on, like, TikTok and, like, Reels. 0.98
00:04:12.000 I've never looked into that. 1.00
00:04:14.000 Yeah, it has to be bullshit. 0.99
00:04:15.000 There's no way if you're just nice to a plant, it grows better. 0.99
00:04:17.000 What an unethical experiment, because then you'd have to be really mean to another plant.
00:04:22.000 Really racist to the plant. 1.00
00:04:24.000 Fucking ficus, piece of shit. 1.00
00:04:27.000 I fucking hate ficuses. 1.00
00:04:29.000 I kill them every time I find them. 1.00
00:04:31.000 Not in my yard. 0.99
00:04:33.000 And he's just stuck in the dirt in your house. 0.94
00:04:36.000 If plants really are conscious and they're stuck in the dirt in people's houses and the people are doing math and shooting each other, these plants would be like, I gotta get the fuck out of here. 0.60
00:04:46.000 How am I stuck in this house?
00:04:48.000 It's like that Metallica video, One, where the guy's just stuck in the bed but he's conscious and he could hear everything.
00:04:54.000 It's from a famous movie, I think.
00:04:56.000 I don't remember that.
00:04:58.000 He's like, dude, you definitely remember this.
00:05:01.000 It's such a famous video.
00:05:02.000 It's the Metallica One video.
00:05:03.000 It was Johnny Gitt...
00:05:05.000 Johnny Get Your Gun or something is the movie.
00:05:07.000 And it was a guy, I guess he was hurt in war, yeah.
00:05:10.000 And he was conscious and he could hear everything, but he couldn't communicate.
00:05:13.000 Oh, wow.
00:05:16.000 Yeah, it's...
00:05:18.000 This is the life of a houseplant right here.
00:05:25.000 Dude, Metallica had some bangers.
00:05:27.000 But the thing is, it's like, they know that they communicate with each other.
00:05:31.000 That's what's really fascinating.
00:05:34.000 They communicate with each other through the mycelium and the ground.
00:05:37.000 So it does say they grow better.
00:05:40.000 Look, it says, for most plants, playing classical or jazz music cause growth to increase, while harsher metal music can do stress.
00:05:47.000 Wow.
00:05:48.000 This may be because the vibrations of metal music are too intense for plants and stimulate cells a little too much.
00:05:53.000 We think of this as massaging your plant with a song.
00:05:56.000 They prefer a gentler touch.
00:05:58.000 But how do we know... 1.00
00:06:00.000 I want to know the boring bitch who wrote this article. 1.00
00:06:02.000 A gentler touch. 0.99
00:06:04.000 How do we not know that it's not that at all?
00:06:08.000 That's an assumption that's like minimalizing their ability to recognize what's going on.
00:06:14.000 Put that up again, like how it's explained.
00:06:19.000 Because the way it's explained, it's like, here it says, this may be because the vibrations of metal music are too intense for plants and stimulate cells a little too much.
00:06:29.000 Like, how do you know?
00:06:30.000 How do you know the plant just doesn't think that music sucks? 0.59
00:06:34.000 Could you imagine? 0.99
00:06:35.000 It's like, you know, when they were torturing Noriega, they would fucking just blare horrible music at him. 0.98
00:06:42.000 Forever. 0.97
00:06:43.000 Remember that?
00:06:44.000 Yeah, they did that with the big group that was like a standoff and then they did it with Billy Ray Cyrus' song, Achy Breaky Heart. 0.98
00:06:53.000 There was some dude who had a bunch of people captive and they played Achy Breaky Heart to fuck with him. 0.95
00:07:02.000 I do have to say though, that at least shows a sense of humor by the police. 0.99
00:07:05.000 Yeah.
00:07:06.000 I think that's pretty funny. 0.99
00:07:07.000 That's fucking hilarious. 0.99
00:07:08.000 That's funny. 1.00
00:07:09.000 Play bad music until this dude fucking moves out of the house with the hostages? 0.99
00:07:15.000 But I know they did it with... 0.99
00:07:17.000 99% sure they did it with Noriega.
00:07:21.000 I forget what the songs were, though.
00:07:23.000 See what they did with Manuel Noriega.
00:07:25.000 Because I'm pretty sure they surrounded his house in Panama and just played horrible music. 1.00
00:07:30.000 Yeah.
00:07:31.000 Let's see.
00:07:31.000 I fought the law.
00:07:33.000 Oh, that's pretty good.
00:07:34.000 The Clash? 1.00
00:07:35.000 Shit. 1.00
00:07:35.000 Panama by the stadium. 1.00
00:07:36.000 I guess any song over and over and over again would drive you out of your mind.
00:07:39.000 They played Panama by Van Halen, U2's All I Want Is You, Bruce Cockburn, If I Had It Rocket Launcher, and they just kept playing it over and over again?
00:07:50.000 Yeah, in the Howard Stern Show.
00:07:51.000 Oh, in the Howard Stern Show.
00:07:53.000 So at least they gave him some entertainment while he's contemplating death.
00:07:56.000 Yeah.
00:07:56.000 Is he dead?
00:07:57.000 Yeah.
00:07:59.000 Did they kill him or did he go to jail?
00:08:05.000 That might be even more wild than when they killed them. 0.97
00:08:08.000 They take these dictators and just stick them in a cell. 1.00
00:08:11.000 Bye-bye.
00:08:11.000 Never hear of them again.
00:08:13.000 Bye-bye.
00:08:13.000 And then it stops being a news story and nobody cares.
00:08:15.000 Bye-bye.
00:08:16.000 Bye-bye, Mr. Person Who Ran Country.
00:08:18.000 Have you ever been in a jail cell, Joe?
00:08:21.000 No.
00:08:22.000 You've never been arrested for anything ever?
00:08:23.000 Nope.
00:08:23.000 Never.
00:08:24.000 Damn. 0.99
00:08:25.000 Noriega's mugshot after his surrender to U.S. forces in 1990, age 56. How many people had that guy killed? 0.99
00:08:33.000 You've never even been in cuffs?
00:08:35.000 No. 1.00
00:08:36.000 Damn. 0.99
00:08:37.000 I'm a good boy. 1.00
00:08:38.000 You are a good boy.
00:08:39.000 It's the worst.
00:08:41.000 I can only imagine.
00:08:42.000 I'm always very respectful to cops.
00:08:45.000 I'm super respectful of the cops too because at that point they're arresting me and I want to get out of it.
00:08:49.000 I want to get off with a warning.
00:08:50.000 I've never done anything real.
00:08:52.000 I've never done a real crime.
00:08:53.000 It's always for smoking weed or...
00:08:55.000 They should expunge all those.
00:08:58.000 They did.
00:08:59.000 They did.
00:08:59.000 They always should with everybody with that.
00:09:01.000 We should wake up as a country and realize those laws are immoral.
00:09:04.000 They don't make any sense.
00:09:05.000 I couldn't go to Canada for years.
00:09:07.000 I couldn't go to Canada.
00:09:08.000 If we can drink, why can't we smoke?
00:09:10.000 It makes zero sense.
00:09:12.000 You guys are out of your minds.
00:09:14.000 You don't smoke weed.
00:09:15.000 You don't know what you're talking about.
00:09:19.000 That's part of the problem, is that the people that are making these laws, they don't have any experience with these drugs.
00:09:25.000 I'm good.
00:09:26.000 I think you should know what you're talking about.
00:09:33.000 And if we lie about it, then people are going to be more likely to abuse it.
00:09:37.000 Because they're not going to think there's any problems.
00:09:39.000 Yeah.
00:09:40.000 You've got to be, like, fully straightforward with it.
00:09:42.000 It's probably one of the safest drugs you could use.
00:09:45.000 If you're not a schizophrenic. 0.99
00:09:47.000 If you're not a person who has, like, that fucking missing screw, and then the weed takes you over the top. 1.00
00:09:55.000 Because there's a few of those guys. 0.99
00:09:56.000 Yeah, I mean, I know some people that they're not good on it. 0.85
00:09:59.000 I know I'm probably better as a human when I'm not smoking weed, just in terms of productivity, just in terms of like, just being a little bit sharper, but I'm also miserable and depressed and fucking anxious, so it's like a trade-off, 0.68
00:10:14.000 you know? 0.92
00:10:15.000 I like to walk the dance.
00:10:17.000 I like to walk the dance between high and sobriety.
00:10:21.000 I like it.
00:10:22.000 I like both of them.
00:10:23.000 I think this idea...
00:10:25.000 I mean, look, if you're a person who's an alcoholic, sobriety is your choice.
00:10:28.000 That's the way to go.
00:10:30.000 For sure.
00:10:30.000 And you don't need it.
00:10:31.000 And look, you can get high doing yoga.
00:10:33.000 You can feel pretty good when you run.
00:10:36.000 But if you can handle it, and if it's for you, it provides you like a different window to the world.
00:10:42.000 And I think it changes and shapes the way you think about things.
00:10:46.000 I agree with that.
00:10:47.000 But I think that just the difference in thinking does that as well.
00:10:51.000 So if I smoke all day every day, right?
00:10:53.000 So if I stop smoking for like a week, it's like I'm seeing the world differently.
00:10:58.000 Your brain gets to clear out a little bit.
00:11:00.000 Yeah, yeah, and it's just a different perspective.
00:11:02.000 It's kind of good to do that.
00:11:04.000 Yeah, I just...
00:11:05.000 And then the other thing, now that I'm getting older, I'm 41 now, I still don't...
00:11:09.000 I mean, I could probably research this.
00:11:11.000 Does weed just not cause cancer? 1.00
00:11:14.000 Nobody's talking about weed giving them fucking cancer. 1.00
00:11:16.000 I smoke a lot of fucking weed, and I'm just in my head about it. 1.00
00:11:19.000 I'm like, dude, I'm going to get lung cancer because I've been smoking blunts and weed for so long. 0.99
00:11:23.000 It doesn't seem to, and I don't know why it wouldn't if cigarettes do.
00:11:29.000 Now, here's a question.
00:11:31.000 Is there a difference between those natural cigarettes that people enjoy, like those American Spirits and Marlboro's?
00:11:38.000 Dude, I don't think they're natural.
00:11:39.000 That's good branding, because they even have Joe Rogan going, dude, those natural...
00:11:43.000 They're not natural. 1.00
00:11:43.000 It's the same shit. 1.00
00:11:44.000 But that's the name of them, isn't it? 1.00
00:11:45.000 It's the American spirit, dude.
00:11:47.000 I think it's just some...
00:11:47.000 We assume they're natural because American Indians make them, I think.
00:11:50.000 Is there a bunch of shit in there? 0.99
00:11:51.000 Our research shows the majority of natural American spirit smokers incorrectly believe that their cigarettes are safer than other cigarettes. 1.00
00:11:59.000 The truth out there is that they're just as dangerous as any other cigarette.
00:12:02.000 Yeah, dude.
00:12:03.000 I always thought light cigarettes were safer and they're not at all.
00:12:08.000 No, that's probably even worse.
00:12:09.000 What is in those...
00:12:11.000 Okay, what are menthols?
00:12:12.000 What's going on there?
00:12:13.000 I don't even know.
00:12:14.000 What is going on?
00:12:15.000 They're trying to outlaw that in California.
00:12:17.000 Did they outlaw it? 1.00
00:12:18.000 I think they did a lot because they say they're going after any of the flavored tobacco shit. 1.00
00:12:24.000 Like you can't get flavored blunt wraps in New York City anymore because the there I guess the angle is they're saying that kids are more likely to buy flavored stuff Which is just I think that's kind of stupid as well. 0.99
00:12:36.000 What about flavored liquor? 0.94
00:12:38.000 Yeah Yeah, well, you're not taking away anyone's liquor anymore.
00:12:41.000 How come you can still have flavored liquor?
00:12:43.000 What are you talking about like there's syrupy liquor?
00:12:46.000 Yeah Yeah, all the smoking laws are kind of good, too, in a weird way, though.
00:12:51.000 Because I smoked cigarettes in New York when they started.
00:12:54.000 They were just like, we're going to just charge you a fucking crazy amount for cigarettes. 0.64
00:12:57.000 It went from like $3 a pack of cigarettes to like $15 a pack in like a year. 0.95
00:13:03.000 And they just priced a lot of people out. 0.97
00:13:06.000 I was just too broke to fucking spend $15 per pack of cigarettes. 0.98
00:13:10.000 It was crazy. 0.98
00:13:10.000 It was like 75 cents per cigarette as like a broke young kid in New York City. 0.98
00:13:15.000 It just wasn't going to happen.
00:13:16.000 So... 0.93
00:13:17.000 They made it the age 21, and then they started charging a fucking arm and a leg for it, and kids just couldn't afford them anymore. 1.00
00:13:24.000 So I think a lot less kids are smoking today because of all that shit. 0.99
00:13:28.000 But when I moved to New York City, you could still smoke inside of bars. 0.99
00:13:32.000 And then they changed that like a year later.
00:13:34.000 And I remember being like, no, this is crazy.
00:13:36.000 Who cares about the employee's health? 0.99
00:13:38.000 I don't give a fuck, dude. 0.98
00:13:40.000 People did get upset that they couldn't smoke indoors. 0.99
00:13:43.000 I remember when you'd go to comedy clubs, they were filled with smoke.
00:13:46.000 Every table had an ashtray.
00:13:48.000 Yeah.
00:13:48.000 They were filled with smoke.
00:13:49.000 But you would hear stories about waitresses that didn't even smoke and they would get cancer. 1.00
00:13:56.000 Yeah.
00:13:56.000 That's when it gets scary.
00:13:58.000 It's like people that are forced to breathe that smoke all day and they don't even smoke.
00:14:02.000 Yeah. 1.00
00:14:02.000 That's fucked. 1.00
00:14:03.000 That's an office hazard or a job hazard. 1.00
00:14:06.000 You can't force someone to work in those conditions.
00:14:08.000 Yeah, now as an adult, but when I'm a kid where I just want to smoke a cigarette in the back of a bar, it's like you're not...
00:14:12.000 But now we all smoke weed in comedy clubs.
00:14:15.000 That's a weird thing.
00:14:16.000 We just started smoking weed like...
00:14:18.000 I don't know, like eight years ago in comedy clubs and nobody said anything.
00:14:21.000 It was never legal.
00:14:23.000 We just decided we were going to do it.
00:14:24.000 It was because Chappelle was smoking cigarettes and then somebody was like, no, dude, we can smoke.
00:14:27.000 It's part of the act, right?
00:14:28.000 And nobody said anything, but nobody's been busted.
00:14:31.000 There's definitely way more acceptance of weed.
00:14:33.000 People understand what it is now.
00:14:34.000 And there's so many people that are, like right-wing people use weed.
00:14:38.000 That's the big shift. 0.99
00:14:39.000 Because it used to be that weed is just like for hippies and losers. 0.87
00:14:44.000 But a lot of people that are in pain use it. 0.83
00:14:46.000 A lot of people that get headaches use it.
00:14:47.000 A lot of people that it helps them sleep.
00:14:49.000 They like edibles.
00:14:49.000 It helps them sleep.
00:14:50.000 They like it.
00:14:51.000 Yeah, that's the way to go.
00:14:52.000 I got to switch to edibles.
00:14:54.000 I got to switch to edibles. 0.97
00:14:55.000 Because I think putting anything in your lungs over an extended amount of time, there's no fucking way it's good for you.
00:15:00.000 Edibles are totally different though, you know. 0.94
00:15:02.000 It's a totally different drug.
00:15:03.000 What do you mean?
00:15:04.000 It's a totally different drug.
00:15:05.000 Like your body metabolizes it differently?
00:15:07.000 Yeah, it becomes 11-hydroxy-metabolite, right?
00:15:10.000 That's what it is.
00:15:11.000 It's processed by your liver and it's just a way more potent psychoactive.
00:15:16.000 Oh, and that's probably not good for your liver. 0.98
00:15:18.000 I don't know.
00:15:18.000 I don't think it's bad for your liver.
00:15:20.000 I think especially if you're not fucking blasting it every day. 0.97
00:15:24.000 I've never heard that it's toxic. 0.98
00:15:26.000 It can't all be good.
00:15:28.000 Weed can't just be the perfect drug.
00:15:30.000 There's gotta be something negative.
00:15:32.000 I think it's negative for some people.
00:15:33.000 Anything in life that's good, you almost have to pay for it in a way.
00:15:38.000 I'm just trying to find the angle on why I should stop smoking weed because I still haven't heard of anybody getting lung cancer.
00:15:45.000 I'm not hearing about any negative effects.
00:15:47.000 Everyone's just cool and high and it's cheap now.
00:15:50.000 Yeah, I haven't heard any good arguments.
00:15:53.000 But for some people, they're not productive when they're on it.
00:15:58.000 They can't get anything done.
00:15:59.000 They just want to veg out all day.
00:16:00.000 But I think it hits everybody.
00:16:02.000 CBD may be harmful to your liver.
00:16:05.000 But probably won't affect your kidneys or your heart.
00:16:07.000 CBD may raise levels of liver enzymes.
00:16:10.000 This could indicate liver damage.
00:16:12.000 In most cases, this happens with very high doses of CBD when it's taken with certain medications.
00:16:19.000 Or when it's taken with certain medications.
00:16:22.000 This is all like...
00:16:23.000 That's crazy. 0.98
00:16:24.000 I wonder how much CBD fucks you up. 0.99
00:16:26.000 The problem with medical shit like this is you never really know. 0.99
00:16:29.000 They have to give you the whole spectrum. 0.99
00:16:31.000 And they're like, oh no, this could happen just so you know.
00:16:34.000 But I feel like...
00:16:36.000 And it could be the anti-CBD lobbies.
00:16:38.000 Human propaganda.
00:16:40.000 Who knows? 1.00
00:16:41.000 Who fucking knows anymore with these people. 0.96
00:16:43.000 But yeah, I mean, CBD has always been... 0.98
00:16:46.000 I've always used it.
00:16:47.000 I've always used it on like...
00:16:48.000 I have a knee injury right now.
00:16:49.000 I use it on my knee. 0.99
00:16:50.000 It's fucking great. 0.99
00:16:51.000 Yeah, it's really good. 0.99
00:16:52.000 It's great when you got like aches and pains.
00:16:54.000 How much CBD do you get from just smoking weed though?
00:16:56.000 You probably get some, right?
00:16:57.000 Probably get a decent amount, right?
00:16:58.000 I think they make strains that are like higher with CBD or have more CBD than THC. Yeah, I know a lot of people who just smoke CBD joints.
00:17:07.000 Yeah.
00:17:07.000 Where it doesn't have any THC at all, which is like, what kind of franken medicine are you doing over there, man?
00:17:13.000 Those people.
00:17:15.000 I would love to meet that person and try to sell them anything.
00:17:18.000 Bro, they're making new life.
00:17:20.000 If plants really are intelligent and we're making, like, splicing them together and giving them superpowers, it's weird what botanists can do.
00:17:29.000 I was in Costa Rica a few weeks ago.
00:17:33.000 I'm never in nature like that.
00:17:36.000 Dude, it's really cool.
00:17:38.000 We were at a place called Manuel Antonio Park.
00:17:41.000 I don't know if you've been there before.
00:17:42.000 And it's just a huge nature reserve.
00:17:45.000 Massive, massive park.
00:17:47.000 And one of the more interesting things were, like, the trees, right?
00:17:50.000 And we had a tour guide, and I don't know shit about this, but there's certain trees that start attacking each other.
00:17:56.000 And, like, one tree would wrap around the other tree and kill that tree, and then the other tree was sort of growing specific roots that break that other tree. 0.95
00:18:03.000 It was the coolest thing I'd ever—I was also high—but it was the coolest thing that I had ever fucking heard of.
00:18:08.000 And I was like, there's so many, like— We're good to go. 0.77
00:18:29.000 I think it's avocados and pistachios.
00:18:33.000 I forget which one is the bottom and which one is the top.
00:18:36.000 This is counter to what I just pulled up about liver.
00:18:39.000 Oh, marijuana may protect the liver from alcohol.
00:18:42.000 Yeah, it says those liver enzymes can protect against alcohol.
00:18:45.000 Just two articles that disagree.
00:18:47.000 Marijuana is the perfect girl. 1.00
00:18:48.000 It's the same fucking internet giving us two different things. 0.99
00:18:50.000 But that's like smoking it versus CBD. The CBD thing is almost mostly edible, right? 0.99
00:18:56.000 They said that they didn't know which strain they were using, so they didn't know exactly what part of the cannabinoids were protecting.
00:19:02.000 Interesting.
00:19:03.000 So they need to do more research, but they did 320,000 people were Yeah, that's the thing that used to suck about those THC pills.
00:19:10.000 Remember they had those THC pills? 0.99
00:19:12.000 What the fuck was that called? 0.96
00:19:14.000 There was like a synthetic marijuana that was invented. 0.99
00:19:18.000 Oh, yeah.
00:19:18.000 Do you remember that?
00:19:19.000 Like Spice or some shit. 0.78
00:19:22.000 There was ones that you could buy in like delis back in the day that was like... 0.80
00:19:25.000 Am I imagining this?
00:19:26.000 No, no, no.
00:19:27.000 Wasn't there like a...
00:19:28.000 Pharmaceutical.
00:19:29.000 It was like a real thing.
00:19:30.000 Yeah.
00:19:30.000 What was the purpose of that?
00:19:32.000 Marinol.
00:19:33.000 Marinol.
00:19:34.000 That's right.
00:19:37.000 It was a pharmaceutical version of cannabis.
00:19:40.000 Is that what it was?
00:19:42.000 I remember it, but I don't remember what it was.
00:19:45.000 Do you remember this?
00:19:46.000 No.
00:19:46.000 I never heard of it.
00:19:47.000 Yeah, there was like a weed pill.
00:19:49.000 You guys were out in California, though. 0.99
00:19:50.000 You guys got a lot of shit that we just didn't get. 0.98
00:19:53.000 But I don't even... 0.99
00:19:55.000 Okay.
00:19:56.000 Cancer treatment.
00:19:57.000 Okay, it treats nausea and vomiting caused by cancer treatment. 1.00
00:20:01.000 So instead of giving people actual marijuana, they gave them this Marinol shit. 0.99
00:20:06.000 Hmm. 0.99
00:20:07.000 And people who are diagnosed with AIDS. The medication comes in capsule form.
00:20:11.000 You can take by mouth as directed.
00:20:13.000 The brand name of this medication is Marinol.
00:20:17.000 Yeah, that's what it was back in the day, right?
00:20:19.000 It was for nausea.
00:20:20.000 That's why people would smoke weed.
00:20:22.000 That was the only thing really...
00:20:23.000 When they first started talking about medical marijuana, it was like for cancer patients, for nausea, it would help you eat. 0.90
00:20:29.000 And then they started figuring out all the other shit that it's good for, CBD especially, right? 0.97
00:20:33.000 Yeah. 0.98
00:20:34.000 So, yeah, maybe that's why it doesn't cause cancer.
00:20:36.000 Maybe it's fighting your cancer simultaneously while you're smoking it.
00:20:39.000 Well, there has been...
00:20:42.000 I don't know, but you've got to wonder what's causing cancer.
00:20:44.000 Maybe it's just decreasing inflammation in general, and that's probably what's protecting you from cancer.
00:20:50.000 Maybe.
00:20:50.000 What am I guessing about cancer?
00:20:52.000 I'm fucking terrified. 0.99
00:20:52.000 I'm terrified of cancer. 0.99
00:20:54.000 It's terrifying.
00:20:55.000 It should be terrifying.
00:20:56.000 Yeah.
00:20:57.000 It should be terrified of all kinds of things, like asteroids, ice ages.
00:21:03.000 I'm not terrified of asteroids.
00:21:05.000 I've never once...
00:21:06.000 Thought about it.
00:21:07.000 You always hear about them like, oh, they miss the Earth by like, it's always like 100,000 miles.
00:21:13.000 That doesn't seem that close.
00:21:15.000 Yeah, it's just a time thing, Lewis.
00:21:18.000 It's just a time thing.
00:21:20.000 What do you mean?
00:21:20.000 It's just a time thing.
00:21:21.000 We're going to get hit.
00:21:23.000 It's inevitable.
00:21:25.000 It's happened thousands of times probably while human beings have been alive.
00:21:29.000 Look.
00:21:30.000 Some of them are big. 1.00
00:21:31.000 If an asteroid hits Mars and we hear about it, then I'm going to go, all right, fuck. 1.00
00:21:35.000 We're in trouble. 0.99
00:21:37.000 Well, they had a big one hit Jupiter once.
00:21:41.000 Oh, really?
00:21:42.000 Yeah.
00:21:42.000 And they really were surprised because the impact was far larger than they thought it was going to be.
00:21:49.000 But it was an enormous one.
00:21:51.000 Apparently, that's what protects us.
00:21:53.000 Jupiter is so massive that it sucks up most of the asteroids and comets. 0.81
00:21:58.000 That's what allows us to not just be pelted all the time because there's like hundreds of thousands of these near-earth objects that are just fucking flying around. 0.88
00:22:05.000 Joe, why are you trying to scare the audience right now? 0.92
00:22:07.000 I don't really know.
00:22:07.000 What's your angle here?
00:22:08.000 I'm not trying to scare anybody.
00:22:09.000 These people are terrified right now.
00:22:10.000 This is just what I think about all the time.
00:22:11.000 The gas giant regularly absorbs hits from comets and asteroids protecting their inner solar system worlds. 0.99
00:22:17.000 Damn. 0.97
00:22:18.000 Yeah, I think they have the photo of it getting hit. 1.00
00:22:23.000 But it got hit by some just fucking dinosaur killer. 0.99
00:22:27.000 Some big one. 1.00
00:22:29.000 Just shaboom! 0.94
00:22:31.000 Yeah, something like that.
00:22:32.000 That's a wrap.
00:22:33.000 So there you could see it.
00:22:34.000 You could actually see it get hit.
00:22:36.000 There's just no control with that.
00:22:38.000 There's nothing that I can do.
00:22:39.000 If we get hit by an asteroid one day, that's that.
00:22:43.000 I can control not giving myself cancer by smoking blunts every day.
00:22:47.000 Or maybe that's what's making you not have cancer. 1.00
00:22:50.000 Damn. 0.99
00:22:52.000 Maybe this is my Jupiter. 0.99
00:22:54.000 That's your Jupiter.
00:22:55.000 Yeah, that's your Jupiter.
00:22:56.000 There we go.
00:22:57.000 Yeah, just space in general.
00:22:59.000 It's like the most insane prospect ever.
00:23:03.000 This infinite thing that we exist in and there's rocks flying through it that occasionally slam into the planet and cause civilization to reset.
00:23:13.000 Yeah.
00:23:14.000 Is that actually what happened with Big Bang Theory, right?
00:23:16.000 That's the idea?
00:23:17.000 That's what killed the dinosaurs?
00:23:19.000 Well, Big Bang Theory is the beginning of the universe.
00:23:23.000 What killed the dinosaurs is one of these asteroids. 1.00
00:23:24.000 I'm an idiot. 0.99
00:23:26.000 I don't know about any of this stuff. 1.00
00:23:29.000 You don't think about asteroids all the time.
00:23:29.000 I don't think about asteroids.
00:23:32.000 I think about them all the time.
00:23:33.000 Because I've had these experts on. 0.99
00:23:35.000 They've fucking permanently mindfucked me. 0.99
00:23:38.000 Especially Randall Carlson. 0.99
00:23:40.000 He's this dude that, along with Graham Hancock, they've come up with this theory that human beings got hit by asteroids somewhere around 11,800 years ago.
00:23:53.000 And civilization just reset.
00:23:56.000 And we were basically like savages for thousands of years.
00:24:00.000 Which totally makes sense.
00:24:01.000 And then the civilization that emerged from that, like Babylon and Mesopotamia, the first civilizations we know of, like Sumer, those were probably a reboot, like thousands of years of chaos before they figured out how to calm down and develop civilization again. 0.98
00:24:20.000 I don't know about any of that shit, dude. 0.96
00:24:24.000 How do you talk to these people? 1.00
00:24:26.000 You're a fucking comic. 1.00
00:24:27.000 Were you always this dude? 1.00
00:24:29.000 You were super interested in everything?
00:24:31.000 Because I watch you interview people, and you're really fucking good at having these conversations with these people in all of these fields. 0.99
00:24:39.000 And I'm going like, God damn, dude. 0.99
00:24:41.000 How do you have the capacity to take that all in and fucking... 1.00
00:24:46.000 Just be interested. 0.99
00:24:47.000 But it's only things that I'm interested in.
00:24:48.000 Because no comic that I know does that. 1.00
00:24:50.000 Every other comic is a fucking idiot who's just smoking weed or drinking beer and just trying to show up and get some pussy at the end of the night. 1.00
00:24:57.000 And I think, look, it's a compliment because it really is, I think, why you created something so big is you're so interested in so much stuff that I think it gave you this mass appeal. 1.00
00:25:05.000 But was it always that way or was it doing the podcast that turned you into that?
00:25:09.000 Well, I've always been curious, but then doing the podcast allowed me to have all these conversations with people.
00:25:15.000 It's like getting an accidental education about just a broad range of subjects.
00:25:24.000 But for me, it's just interesting.
00:25:27.000 I like listening to people and talking to people and finding out how they tick.
00:25:33.000 Who was the most interesting person you had on the show ever?
00:25:35.000 Man, there's probably not one most interesting.
00:25:38.000 There's been a lot of them that are interesting. 0.93
00:25:41.000 Elon's pretty fucking interesting. 0.93
00:25:43.000 That's a rare one-of-a-kind human being. 0.98
00:25:46.000 They don't make many of those.
00:25:49.000 He just said, I'm going to buy Twitter.
00:25:52.000 That's crazy.
00:25:53.000 And he overpaid for it by a lot. 1.00
00:25:55.000 It's gangster as fuck, man. 0.99
00:25:57.000 But he really, truly believed that we're in a very pivotal moment in our civilization when it comes to... 0.99
00:26:06.000 What is happening, particularly with censorship, and when you have something that's essentially the town square for the world, which Twitter is, if you prevent people from other ideologies or other points of view or other political parties,
00:26:24.000 if you prevent them from using this space and only people that agree with you can use that space, that's dangerous.
00:26:32.000 And he recognized that.
00:26:33.000 And I think we all do. 0.99
00:26:34.000 It's fucking dangerous. 0.91
00:26:36.000 I know you think you're doing it, whoever's doing that, because it's the right thing and we have to protect people from bad ideas, but that never ends well. 0.98
00:26:45.000 It just doesn't end well.
00:26:47.000 You're going to give that control to someone next after you're gone because that's going to be like a thing we do now?
00:26:54.000 You're going to give that control to new people, and they're going to turn it the other way.
00:26:58.000 They're going to use it on you.
00:26:59.000 They're going to use it against causes that you believe in.
00:27:03.000 Before Elon bought Twitter, we were headed in a really weird, it seemed like very dangerous direction for comedy, for anybody who wasn't super... 0.97
00:27:16.000 Left-wing, liberal, if you were trying to create shit online, it was scary. 0.98
00:27:22.000 And we do Legion of Skanks, most offensive podcast on earth. 1.00
00:27:25.000 We say a lot of fucked up shit. 1.00
00:27:26.000 But I was like, we are not going to be able to even put shit on the internet anymore. 1.00
00:27:31.000 Forget just Twitter or anything else. 0.96
00:27:33.000 I think they're going to scrub it all from the internet.
00:27:35.000 And then Elon came in and he kind of made people go like, wait a minute, hold on.
00:27:39.000 We were getting crazy.
00:27:40.000 And people kind of paused.
00:27:41.000 You see Shane has a special out on Netflix now.
00:27:43.000 I feel like we've sort of calmed down a little bit and that was a big part of it because it was like, well, no, we need to even the playing field a little bit.
00:27:50.000 We need to hear all opinions and hear both sides.
00:27:53.000 So I was actually legitimately worried and now it seems like this is a little bit of a pause in that.
00:27:59.000 It's definitely a change of course.
00:28:02.000 The problem is all the other social media platforms are essentially run by people who think the same way.
00:28:08.000 They have the same opinions on things.
00:28:11.000 There's no one social media platform that stands out that's like a huge place where other than Twitter now or X. Where you can just say whatever the fuck you want. 0.99
00:28:25.000 People are saying Michelle Obama's a man. 0.99
00:28:28.000 You can say the earth is flat.
00:28:30.000 There's plenty of people that are talking about the earth being flat. 0.99
00:28:32.000 Yeah, that's also fucking crazy. 0.99
00:28:33.000 You can say whatever the fuck you want. 0.99
00:28:35.000 And there's only one platform like that. 0.98
00:28:40.000 Yeah.
00:28:40.000 Like all the other ones.
00:28:41.000 It's not like there's a bunch of those.
00:28:43.000 It's like you can go and say whatever you want on Instagram.
00:28:45.000 No, you can't. 0.98
00:28:46.000 They'll put a fucking thing saying fact check or this is incorrect and misleading information. 0.99
00:28:51.000 And even sometimes I've gone to some of those fact checks. 0.99
00:28:54.000 I'm like, you didn't fact check this at all.
00:28:56.000 Right.
00:28:56.000 Like this is just like not approved.
00:28:58.000 This is a not approved message.
00:29:00.000 Yeah, that's why I try to disconnect from it as much as possible.
00:29:04.000 I think everyone should.
00:29:05.000 I think it's truly like the downfall of society is social media.
00:29:10.000 I think we're sharing ideas too quickly, too dangerously.
00:29:15.000 I don't think it's that, but I think it's transforming society. 0.98
00:29:19.000 I think we better catch the fuck up. 0.97
00:29:21.000 We better catch up. 0.92
00:29:22.000 Well, we will.
00:29:23.000 And look, I think part of it is a lot of these...
00:29:25.000 They don't really know how to handle it.
00:29:27.000 It just moves too quickly.
00:29:29.000 Right.
00:29:29.000 So I think that we're going to look back at this time and we're going to go, oh yeah, that was like a real...
00:29:35.000 It was just us getting a hold of the internet.
00:29:37.000 The internet just fucking came out and then we got social media and it just transformed everything. 0.89
00:29:41.000 The whole world, we're all connected. 0.95
00:29:43.000 I mean, dude, the world is tiny now.
00:29:45.000 It doesn't even feel like...
00:29:49.000 But I think we're going to look back and go like, yeah, we were like irresponsible with it.
00:29:53.000 We were like trying to destroy each other.
00:29:54.000 We were trying to hurt each other with it.
00:29:56.000 It became like warfare so quickly.
00:29:59.000 I tweeted out a joke the other day. 0.98
00:30:01.000 It's a dumb joke about Amber Heard. 0.98
00:30:03.000 I don't have a dog in the race. 1.00
00:30:04.000 I don't give a shit about Amber Heard, Johnny Depp, that whole thing. 0.99
00:30:07.000 From my perspective, it looked like two crazy people abusing each other, right? 0.99
00:30:10.000 It's kind of hot, right? 1.00
00:30:13.000 The whole joke is that Amber Heard is so hot that I would let her shit in my bed. 1.00
00:30:16.000 I would let her shit on my couch, on the kitchen counter. 1.00
00:30:19.000 Dumb joke. 1.00
00:30:20.000 Very mild. 1.00
00:30:21.000 Dude, all of these fucking chicks that are Amber Heard supporters are coming after me on Twitter. 1.00
00:30:25.000 Still, to this day, three days later... 1.00
00:30:27.000 Non-stop, just kind of like, you don't know, Amber Heard, she was abused. 1.00
00:30:31.000 And I'm like, this is fucking psychotic, dude. 0.99
00:30:35.000 They're digging up my old tweets. 0.99
00:30:37.000 They're looking up any time I've said anything questionable and they're reposing it. 0.99
00:30:40.000 I'm like, idiot, I posted that. 0.99
00:30:41.000 It's public. 1.00
00:30:43.000 Are these real people, you think?
00:30:45.000 I don't know.
00:30:46.000 Or is this like a media campaign company?
00:30:49.000 I think it might be a media campaign company because they all have like a hashtag stand with Amber in their thing.
00:30:55.000 I didn't even post her name in it.
00:30:56.000 I just posted the joke.
00:30:57.000 I'm not accusing her of this, but you know that is absolutely a real thing.
00:31:02.000 Yeah.
00:31:03.000 That is absolutely a real thing.
00:31:04.000 There's a way that you can just, like, defend a person or attack a person with bots.
00:31:11.000 I think, yeah.
00:31:12.000 I think they're for sure using it.
00:31:14.000 Look, we know the Russians are using it. 0.70
00:31:16.000 We know that they always find these troll farms. 0.90
00:31:20.000 Like, one of them they found that 19 of all the top 20 Christian sites on Facebook were run by Russian troll farms. 0.78
00:31:28.000 Really? 0.99
00:31:31.000 When I found out that Russia interfered with the election with social media and shit, I was like, that's kind of fucking awesome. 0.98
00:31:39.000 It's badass. 0.98
00:31:40.000 I wonder, they certainly tried, and I'm sure we try with theirs.
00:31:45.000 The question is, was there real interference?
00:31:48.000 Because the thing was that Russia hacked our election.
00:31:51.000 I don't think that's true.
00:31:54.000 I think you can push information.
00:31:56.000 I know Trump and Biden both did this, right?
00:31:58.000 They both had massive social media teams, I'm sure.
00:32:01.000 I know comedians who have massive social media teams, so I'm sure that they both had, like, the best of the best.
00:32:07.000 And yeah, they both went in and manipulated algorithms and did whatever they had to do in order to get their message in front of the most people possible, and that's the game now.
00:32:14.000 That's a big part of it.
00:32:15.000 Yeah, that's definitely a big part of it.
00:32:18.000 But it's also, it's just like, this is not gonna stop right here.
00:32:24.000 This is what freaks me out.
00:32:26.000 You know, this introduction to social media, like the whole country kind of freaking out, but it seems like more calm now, right?
00:32:33.000 Like, what's next?
00:32:36.000 What is the next thing? 0.98
00:32:37.000 Well, the next election cycle is going to suck. 0.90
00:32:40.000 One way or another. 0.99
00:32:42.000 It just sucks. 0.98
00:32:43.000 Because you know what it is? 0.99
00:32:45.000 People on the left, they start attacking movies and comedy and music when they feel like they're under attack.
00:32:52.000 And when Trump was in office, the left was like, dude, we are under attack.
00:32:55.000 This is like, we're losing the world.
00:32:56.000 So they had to just, anything, dude, any podcaster who...
00:33:00.000 You know, I mean, dude, it was it was articles being written about comedians like Shane and the Legion of Skanks.
00:33:07.000 It was really crazy.
00:33:08.000 And it was just because Trump was in office and they just felt like they were at war and they had a win.
00:33:11.000 They had to get their wins where they can get them.
00:33:13.000 And right now, when Biden's in office, people are really leaving comedians alone.
00:33:17.000 And I'm telling you, I think they just go, all right, we have this win.
00:33:20.000 We don't really need to go after comics.
00:33:21.000 I found this yesterday.
00:33:22.000 It's kind of relevant.
00:33:24.000 When Rockefeller Center was empty in the 30s and 40s, the British Security Coordination Organization came in.
00:33:31.000 It's part of the British Secret Service.
00:33:34.000 And as it says here, that space was their head offices, the 35th and 36th floor of Rockefeller Center, where they disseminated and controlled part of the media for at least a year or two before World War II, it seems like.
00:33:53.000 Wow!
00:33:53.000 Disseminated stories, picked up by radio stations, played before the American public, anti-German stories.
00:33:59.000 Yeah, that was always the thing. 0.99
00:34:01.000 They've always been fucking with us. 0.91
00:34:02.000 Oh, I wanted to ask if this is true, because someone was trying to convince me the other night that those stories of bricks being left off in neighborhoods where protests, has that been substantiated? 0.98
00:34:16.000 I lived in New York during that time.
00:34:18.000 It was during the BLM protests.
00:34:22.000 Yeah, it was during the BLM protests. 0.99
00:34:24.000 And without a doubt, there was just fucking huge piles of fucking bricks in multiple places in New York City. 0.99
00:34:31.000 I saw it with my own eyes. 0.99
00:34:33.000 Weird.
00:34:34.000 There was no construction happening. 0.99
00:34:35.000 There would just be a fucking massive stack of heavy fucking cement bricks. 1.00
00:34:39.000 Jesus. 0.99
00:34:40.000 And it was out of nowhere.
00:34:42.000 Somebody put them there.
00:34:44.000 As it relates, just a side note, I remember one time- Is that, before the riots, had you ever noticed piles of bricks, like construction sites just laying there?
00:34:53.000 You would see a construction site and you would see, but they always, with a construction site, and once again, I smoke a lot of weed in public, so we were always looking for back alleys and shit to smoke weed in, stairwells.
00:35:03.000 I used to sell comedy club tickets on the street, that's how I got my start in comedy, in New York City all throughout the early 2000s.
00:35:10.000 And you can't really get into construction sites.
00:35:12.000 It's always chained off.
00:35:13.000 They always have... 1.00
00:35:14.000 The sites are pretty controlled because people will steal shit. 0.99
00:35:17.000 Right, of course. 0.99
00:35:17.000 You wouldn't just leave your bricks out. 0.99
00:35:19.000 Bricks are valuable.
00:35:20.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:35:20.000 Because if someone's coming home, they go, look, there's a fucking pallet of bricks. 0.99
00:35:23.000 Yeah, dude. 0.99
00:35:23.000 Grab them. 0.99
00:35:24.000 That was definitely true.
00:35:25.000 And I don't know, you know, the conspiracy...
00:35:27.000 So you saw more than one of those miles?
00:35:28.000 More than one.
00:35:29.000 With my own eyes.
00:35:32.000 Because I was having this conversation.
00:35:33.000 I was like, was that real? 0.99
00:35:35.000 Why did I hear that some of that was bullshit? 0.99
00:35:38.000 But I didn't look into it. 0.99
00:35:40.000 The conspiracy was that the police were leaving it out or right-wingers were leaving it out.
00:35:49.000 So BLM protesters would use it and look worse. 0.74
00:35:53.000 That was one of the theories.
00:35:54.000 Huh.
00:35:56.000 Was there another theory that they wanted to accelerate the possibility of chaos by giving people readily available weapons?
00:36:04.000 That's the better theory.
00:36:06.000 This would add to the conspiracy for sure.
00:36:07.000 NYPD Commissioner says bricks are being placed and then transported to peaceful protests.
00:36:13.000 What?
00:36:14.000 Councilman then calls them construction debris.
00:36:17.000 What?
00:36:18.000 I also saw a bunch of BLM protests, and they were legitimately peaceful.
00:36:22.000 I'm sure. 0.99
00:36:23.000 The ones in New York City were like, it was, you know, they were just protesting, they were banging fucking drums. 0.99
00:36:28.000 Yo, that's crazy. 0.98
00:36:30.000 They just left bricks out there?
00:36:34.000 What is that?
00:36:35.000 That's definitely different than all the other stuff we saw, where it was like a giant pallet.
00:36:39.000 Right, but this is plenty of rocks that someone just dropped off.
00:36:46.000 And left with the box tops open.
00:36:48.000 Yeah, you remember people were putting like rocks and milkshakes because the whole thing was...
00:36:52.000 Extraction debris.
00:36:53.000 Throw milkshakes at like people?
00:36:54.000 At Nazis, yeah. 0.52
00:36:56.000 Jesus Christ, man.
00:36:57.000 This is insane.
00:36:59.000 But it's like, yeah, I mean, and I think the internet is a big part of the hysteria.
00:37:04.000 People get worked up.
00:37:05.000 People just didn't... 1.00
00:37:06.000 If you have to give a fuck, right? 1.00
00:37:08.000 Before you had to get a book or you had to go like really research some shit, right? 1.00
00:37:11.000 You had to go out... 0.99
00:37:13.000 You had to care.
00:37:14.000 You had to really put in the footwork and physically care.
00:37:17.000 Now people can sort of pretend to care. 0.92
00:37:19.000 While they're just being addicted to their phone, while they're being addicted to Twitter and all these other social media platforms, and they're being tricked into just looking at advertising, because that's what it's all about, they get to also pretend that they care, they get to feel like they're doing something, and then it just starts to snowball, and then it turns into fucking real chaos, 0.99
00:37:34.000 and people at each other's throats about shit that people don't even really give a fuck about. 0.96
00:37:38.000 If you go to the supermarket, like, people are just cool. 0.99
00:37:40.000 Like, in real life, you go to the supermarket, nobody gives a fuck about who voted for who.
00:37:44.000 Nobody cares about, you know, what your political beliefs are.
00:37:47.000 We just coexist and we do what we do in real life. 0.97
00:37:49.000 And then we jump on the internet and we just fucking, it's a war. 0.93
00:37:53.000 Well, I think it's also got exacerbated during the pandemic, right? 0.98
00:37:56.000 Because everybody stayed in.
00:37:58.000 They were at home.
00:37:59.000 Their anxiety's high.
00:38:00.000 They didn't know if they're going to be able to work again. 0.98
00:38:03.000 Like, who knows what the fuck's going to happen. 0.98
00:38:05.000 Yeah. 0.96
00:38:06.000 People were freaked out.
00:38:07.000 And then they got more freaked out on social media.
00:38:10.000 And you're on it all day.
00:38:11.000 Because you don't have a job.
00:38:13.000 You're at home now. 0.98
00:38:13.000 So that you're just kind of fucking weirding out in front of your Twitter all day. 0.98
00:38:17.000 Yeah. 0.96
00:38:18.000 People have lost days and days of their lives just staring at other people's opinions all day long.
00:38:24.000 I'd be embarrassed to tell you my screen time number.
00:38:29.000 It's embarrassing.
00:38:30.000 Do you know what yours is?
00:38:31.000 No, I don't know what it is. 0.99
00:38:34.000 It's fucking... 0.99
00:38:35.000 Mine's like nine hours a day. 1.00
00:38:36.000 Wow.
00:38:37.000 It's bad.
00:38:38.000 That's not good.
00:38:39.000 It's really bad.
00:38:40.000 I think you just type in screen time to the search bar.
00:38:44.000 Screen.
00:38:46.000 Maybe not.
00:38:47.000 I don't know.
00:38:48.000 Yeah, it's like nine hours.
00:38:48.000 It's like eight or nine hours a day.
00:38:49.000 It's crazy.
00:38:50.000 Whew.
00:38:52.000 It's wild.
00:38:53.000 You've got to think, oh, I'm getting some things done.
00:38:55.000 You pretend you're working.
00:38:56.000 Yeah, but also I'm tuning into the world.
00:38:58.000 I've got to check in on the world and see what's going on out there in the news.
00:39:02.000 But really just hitting that button.
00:39:05.000 What a weird addiction.
00:39:06.000 Yeah, there was that documentary where they talked about, like, they designed it that way.
00:39:10.000 When you refresh it, it does, like, a little physical, like, little blip.
00:39:14.000 And you want to see it.
00:39:15.000 You want to see, like, another interaction.
00:39:17.000 And it's like they compared it to a slot machine, right?
00:39:19.000 And you go, boop, did I get anything?
00:39:21.000 Did I win?
00:39:21.000 Did I win?
00:39:22.000 Did I win?
00:39:22.000 Oh, I got likes.
00:39:23.000 I got replies.
00:39:24.000 I got whatever.
00:39:25.000 And, yeah, it's super addictive.
00:39:27.000 It's also kind of...
00:39:31.000 In some ways, There's something dehumanizing about it because more and more people are just communicating through like text messages and online social media and stuff and not communicating that much in real life.
00:39:47.000 Yeah.
00:39:48.000 I think kids are sending each other text messages more than they're talking to each other.
00:39:52.000 Oh yeah.
00:39:53.000 You know what I mean?
00:39:54.000 My son just got a phone for the first time.
00:39:56.000 He's 10. Just got his iPad for the first time.
00:40:02.000 It was a conscious decision that me and his mother made.
00:40:05.000 We said, we're not going to have him be addicted to a screen.
00:40:09.000 And staring at a screen all the time, you see kids in restaurants, as soon as they sit down, they give them a pad or a phone, and they are disconnected from the entire conversation.
00:40:17.000 They're not making eye contact.
00:40:19.000 I wanted to give my kid every chance possible in the world to be successful.
00:40:23.000 And he's such a bright kid.
00:40:25.000 He shakes people's hands.
00:40:26.000 He looks them directly in the eyes.
00:40:28.000 I mean, he's just such a little gentleman. 0.99
00:40:30.000 He's the fucking best. 0.98
00:40:31.000 And I think a big part of it is the fact that we just didn't enable him to do that. 0.99
00:40:35.000 We didn't allow him to do that. 0.81
00:40:37.000 But yeah, I'm super fucking scared of my kid growing up. 0.99
00:40:41.000 Also, I'm just scared of my kid finding all the shit that I've said online. 1.00
00:40:44.000 I have to like fucking... 0.99
00:40:45.000 I have to like, dude, I'm telling you right now, I think about that every day. 0.99
00:40:48.000 Every day I'm like, dude, he's gonna fucking... 0.97
00:40:50.000 Because he's from this new generation. 0.99
00:40:52.000 He's a good kid.
00:40:52.000 He's a sweet kid.
00:40:53.000 And he's obviously ten times more woke than I'm ever gonna be, right?
00:40:57.000 He's just the generation. 1.00
00:40:59.000 And I'm so afraid that he's just going to look up the shit that I say and out of context just not really understand why we say stupid shit to make people laugh. 1.00
00:41:08.000 Yeah, so I'm just secretly trying to make him racist. 1.00
00:41:12.000 I whisper things in his ears at night when I put him to bed.
00:41:17.000 Could you imagine your kid doing stand-up?
00:41:19.000 Would you even encourage it?
00:41:20.000 I would not encourage it, but I would not discourage him from doing anything that he wanted to do, like literally anything.
00:41:25.000 Right.
00:41:25.000 And he has done stand-up.
00:41:27.000 Really?
00:41:28.000 Yeah, so we did the roast at Skank Fest in Houston for me, and me and my ex-girlfriend wrote him a few jokes, and he did the jokes, not at Skank Fest, he did it like a video.
00:41:40.000 And then, so he was really into that, and then I was at the stand one night just at the comic table I brought him, And Bonnie McFarlane was there with, you know, and she's got kids as well.
00:41:50.000 Bonnie's awesome.
00:41:51.000 I'm Rich Voss' wife.
00:41:52.000 And he was like, oh, I want to go on stage.
00:41:54.000 I was like, James, you're not going on stage.
00:41:55.000 If you want to go on stage, I was like, if you really want to go on stage in a few years, I was like, you can write some jokes, take it seriously, go to an open mic, do it the way that a comic would do it, right?
00:42:05.000 And he was like, okay, yeah, you're right, Dad.
00:42:07.000 And then I went on stage, and then two minutes later, Bonnie McFarlane comes in the room with him, and she's like, here, put him on stage! 0.98
00:42:11.000 And she shoved him up on stage, and yeah, he just started roasting me and talking shit about me, and he did well. 0.95
00:42:17.000 You know, he's a little performer, dude. 0.98
00:42:19.000 He's in, like, musical theater, and he's, like, super well-rounded kid.
00:42:23.000 Yeah, he does jiu-jitsu now.
00:42:24.000 He just won his first jiu-jitsu tournament.
00:42:25.000 Gold medal, first tournament.
00:42:26.000 Congratulations.
00:42:27.000 That's awesome.
00:42:28.000 The best thing I've ever experienced as a father in my entire life was watching my son win a jiu-jitsu tournament. 0.92
00:42:34.000 Dude, there's nothing fucking better. 0.91
00:42:36.000 Better than the day he was born, by far. 0.99
00:42:39.000 It was the fucking best, dude. 0.99
00:42:40.000 That's amazing. 1.00
00:42:41.000 He dominated another dude's cum. 0.99
00:42:42.000 That was that. 1.00
00:42:43.000 My cum went in there and dominated another dude's cum. 0.99
00:42:48.000 I did that, really. 1.00
00:42:50.000 That's my medal.
00:42:50.000 I wear the medal around the house.
00:42:52.000 But it was really fucking... 0.99
00:42:54.000 That was the coolest thing I've ever experienced in my life. 0.98
00:42:56.000 That's very cool.
00:42:57.000 Sounds like he's on a good path.
00:42:58.000 That's awesome.
00:42:59.000 Yeah, he is.
00:43:00.000 Beautiful, man. 0.99
00:43:01.000 But yeah, I mean, you know, fucking... 0.99
00:43:04.000 I feel bad for this next generation because I don't even think they realize what's happening with that. 0.99
00:43:11.000 It's just that addiction to your phone.
00:43:12.000 That's really what I think it's going to be.
00:43:14.000 Eventually, everyone's going to have this sort of opinion and attitude because people are starting to get wind of it that it's bad to be on your phone that much. 0.98
00:43:21.000 And I think just parents are going to just start saying like, yeah, no, you can't be on a fucking cell phone all day. 0.96
00:43:27.000 And I think it comes down to us. 0.99
00:43:28.000 I think we have to make a decision to do that with our kids.
00:43:31.000 Yeah, you got to teach them discipline for sure, but also recognize that everyone is using these things and it's a part of civilization now.
00:43:40.000 I really feel like if we could see the writing on the wall, we would be terrified.
00:43:46.000 I think human beings are slipping into some weird place where we're for sure within the next few years going to be connected to computers.
00:43:58.000 Oh yeah.
00:43:58.000 How we're going to do it, I don't know how they're going to do it.
00:44:01.000 Whether it's something you wear or something that's in you.
00:44:03.000 But it's coming, kids.
00:44:06.000 And it's almost like all these things are falling in line at the same time.
00:44:13.000 Like all these endocrine disruptors and plastics that are fucking up people's reproductive systems.
00:44:21.000 And then, at the same time, we're all getting addicted to phones and not as personal.
00:44:27.000 You know, because people aren't really communicating, hanging out, just talking to each other without checking their phone every five seconds.
00:44:32.000 The future's gonna be us looking at each other and downloading each other's thoughts.
00:44:35.000 Oh, 100%. 0.98
00:44:36.000 Because you could airdrop pictures and shit now. 1.00
00:44:37.000 It's literally gonna be like, here, take this picture just with a fucking thought. 0.99
00:44:41.000 And 100% is going to happen. 1.00
00:44:43.000 They're already doing shit, right? 0.99
00:44:44.000 They're already making devices that can go in your body that connect to other shit. 0.99
00:44:49.000 I'm sure it's so much more advanced than we even know. 0.94
00:44:52.000 Think about how much we don't know, right? 0.99
00:44:54.000 There's got to be some crazy shit going on out there. 1.00
00:44:56.000 For sure. 1.00
00:44:57.000 Some really unethical shit. 1.00
00:44:58.000 Some DARPA shit that's going on right now. 0.99
00:45:00.000 Hey, what was that thing? 0.98
00:45:03.000 I want to see Elon Musk's basement.
00:45:04.000 What are the experiments that he has going on right now?
00:45:07.000 It's probably 18 miles deep.
00:45:09.000 What is that thing they did where they recorded human thoughts?
00:45:16.000 Like someone was watching something and they got a recording of that from something this person was wearing.
00:45:24.000 I saw it.
00:45:25.000 I saw it.
00:45:26.000 Yeah, bro.
00:45:26.000 That is like...
00:45:28.000 Just think.
00:45:28.000 Morse code was not that long ago.
00:45:31.000 Yeah.
00:45:31.000 Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot.
00:45:34.000 Beep, beep, beep.
00:45:35.000 That was not that long ago.
00:45:38.000 And it seems like technology will just move now with AI. It's just moving faster and faster and faster.
00:45:44.000 It's really cool, but it's also fucking terrifying. 1.00
00:45:47.000 That's the shit that I'm terrified of. 1.00
00:45:48.000 Fuck asteroids, dude. 1.00
00:45:49.000 This shit that we're talking about right now is the shit that keeps me up at night. 1.00
00:45:52.000 No. 1.00
00:45:53.000 Is this it?
00:45:54.000 Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients' brain waves.
00:45:57.000 Yeah, this is it.
00:45:59.000 The tech could eventually allow for communication without words.
00:46:03.000 What?
00:46:05.000 100%. 1.00
00:46:06.000 If these eggheads keep going, we're fucked. 1.00
00:46:08.000 Oh yeah, dude. 1.00
00:46:10.000 We're gonna be doing crazy shit. 0.95
00:46:11.000 That's the really, like, and then you gotta figure, like, it's gonna be who's rich, who has the best, you know, computer built into their body, because the same guy who can afford, you know, a fucking Lamborghini is gonna have a super brain, you know, and his computer's gonna be faster than your computer. 0.86
00:46:26.000 He's gonna be able to download and upload information faster than you.
00:46:29.000 It's kinda wild.
00:46:31.000 Well, you're going to have to be an early adopter, right?
00:46:34.000 You would have to be, like, one of the people who gets the brain operation first.
00:46:38.000 And then you'd be, like, way ahead of everybody. 0.99
00:46:41.000 Yeah, but that first one's going to fuck up. 0.99
00:46:43.000 That first one's going to fuck up, dude. 0.94
00:46:45.000 The night before the operation, are you sure this is going to work, Harry? 0.95
00:46:49.000 Harry, look me in the eye.
00:46:51.000 You're going to cut into my brain. 0.70
00:46:53.000 Are you sure?
00:46:55.000 I'm pretty sure.
00:46:56.000 I don't want to hear pretty sure, Harry.
00:46:59.000 Harry.
00:47:00.000 Yeah, dude. 1.00
00:47:01.000 Dude, it's fucking nuts. 1.00
00:47:02.000 That's like those people that went on that, you know, the fucking submarine thing. 1.00
00:47:08.000 The Titanic, dude. 0.98
00:47:09.000 It's like, what a cool thing that must have been to sign up for.
00:47:12.000 You're like, dude, we're going to go to see the Titanic.
00:47:14.000 And then... 0.99
00:47:17.000 That's fucking wild, dude. 1.00
00:47:18.000 That could have been you, Joe. 1.00
00:47:19.000 You could have been down on that thing.
00:47:21.000 No? 1.00
00:47:21.000 Not a fucking chance in hell. 1.00
00:47:23.000 Was it Mr. Beast? 0.99
00:47:25.000 He said that they invited him to go do it? 0.99
00:47:27.000 I am not hopping in that fucking backyard smoker and dropping into the bottom of the ocean. 0.99
00:47:33.000 Would you go to space? 0.99
00:47:34.000 Right now in one of these charters? 1.00
00:47:35.000 No fucking chance, son. 1.00
00:47:37.000 You love space! 1.00
00:47:38.000 Those things blow up.
00:47:40.000 You have to go real fast to go into space, kid.
00:47:43.000 Those things blow up.
00:47:46.000 I'm not interested. 1.00
00:47:46.000 Not until they get that shit down like an electric car. 1.00
00:47:49.000 When they get a spaceship that moves like a Tesla, just... 0.99
00:47:52.000 Okay, I'm in.
00:47:55.000 Yeah.
00:47:56.000 Just not worth it.
00:47:57.000 I get it.
00:47:58.000 Look, starry nights are beautiful.
00:48:00.000 I get it.
00:48:01.000 I get it.
00:48:02.000 I get you'd want to, like, go out, get real high and come back down.
00:48:05.000 I'm good. 0.99
00:48:06.000 You can fucking keep that. 0.98
00:48:08.000 I trust that it's up there. 0.99
00:48:09.000 I don't have to jump at the top of a cliff.
00:48:12.000 I'm good.
00:48:13.000 I'll just sit down and look at it from here.
00:48:15.000 Like, even as high as we get, like, what we're calling space, like, look, we've made it into space! 0.64
00:48:21.000 We're, like, fucking that far off the Earth's surface. 0.82
00:48:23.000 Yeah. 0.96
00:48:24.000 This is so...
00:48:26.000 Is that what those tours are?
00:48:29.000 You just go into space for a second?
00:48:31.000 Yeah, you just go and come back down.
00:48:34.000 You don't go to space space.
00:48:36.000 I want to go land on the moon.
00:48:37.000 I want to check out Mars.
00:48:38.000 You're not going to Jupiter. 0.99
00:48:41.000 If I could dodge some fucking asteroids. 0.97
00:48:44.000 You know what I bet they will be able to do, probably really soon, is to give you a VR representation of what it would be like to travel through space. 0.98
00:48:51.000 Oh, I bet it already exists.
00:48:52.000 I went, I had a, yeah, there was a NASA thing that I had on my Oculus.
00:48:57.000 Yeah, that was good.
00:48:57.000 It was super cool.
00:48:58.000 I mean, it was like, it was just a movie, essentially.
00:49:00.000 It wasn't like, I didn't get to, like, free move, but it was like I was on, like, a space station type thing, so you were, like, moving all over.
00:49:08.000 It was really, really cool.
00:49:09.000 Is this it?
00:49:10.000 No.
00:49:10.000 What is this, Jamie?
00:49:11.000 Some space.
00:49:12.000 I just looked up space.
00:49:13.000 Tripped outer space.
00:49:14.000 That's the first thing that popped up. 0.98
00:49:15.000 Get the fuck out of here. 0.99
00:49:16.000 What is this? 0.99
00:49:18.000 This is a space elevator and it's gonna fall and everyone...
00:49:22.000 It's a balloon.
00:49:22.000 Okay.
00:49:23.000 So you got a little bit of extra. 0.99
00:49:25.000 Bro, I am not going in a fucking balloon. 0.99
00:49:27.000 Look how comfortable it looks. 0.99
00:49:27.000 What if it gets hit by an asteroid? 0.99
00:49:29.000 Looks like your studio, Jeff.
00:49:30.000 Oh my god, it does!
00:49:32.000 Podcast in a balloon!
00:49:33.000 No rockets, no G-Force.
00:49:35.000 No, listen, they have to do it a thousand times before I even think about doing it.
00:49:39.000 A six hour journey.
00:49:41.000 A six hour journey.
00:49:42.000 See, that's crazy.
00:49:44.000 Bro, I am not going up there.
00:49:46.000 Perfect place for podcasts. 0.97
00:49:47.000 Perfect place to fall to your death. 0.99
00:49:50.000 Like, how many fucking fail-safes? 1.00
00:49:54.000 Do you do nothing dangerous? 0.98
00:49:55.000 I should say, for the record, I'm sure it's safe.
00:49:58.000 Yeah.
00:49:58.000 Do you do anything dangerous like...
00:50:01.000 $100,000.
00:50:03.000 $125,000.
00:50:04.000 $125,000?
00:50:06.000 Oh.
00:50:07.000 What?
00:50:10.000 Wow.
00:50:10.000 So $125,000 to go up in a balloon.
00:50:13.000 Yeah.
00:50:14.000 Well, I hope it works.
00:50:15.000 In six hours, I feel like that's kind of disappointing.
00:50:18.000 I feel like space should be more than six hours away in a balloon.
00:50:20.000 I'm scared of anything that people are trying out, like flying cars.
00:50:25.000 I'm like, just drive that for a while.
00:50:28.000 You drive it for a while.
00:50:30.000 Yeah, dude.
00:50:31.000 I'll be over here! 0.96
00:50:32.000 Even just the self-driving cars that you hear about once in a while, they'll just fucking go haywire. 0.89
00:50:39.000 Mistakes happen. 0.54
00:50:40.000 Yes, mistakes happen. 0.96
00:50:41.000 And then you're just in a car that you can't fucking stop, and it's like mowing people down. 0.88
00:50:44.000 It's a nightmare. 0.96
00:50:45.000 I have a Tesla I never put the self-driving on.
00:50:49.000 Yeah.
00:50:49.000 I mean, I do sometimes when I'm on the highway just for goofies.
00:50:53.000 And it just drives itself, but I keep my hands on it.
00:50:55.000 So it completely self-drives.
00:50:57.000 Yeah, completely self-drives.
00:50:59.000 Up to a point, but I don't let it.
00:51:02.000 To me, I'd rather just be really tuned in to what I'm doing and paying attention.
00:51:07.000 Yeah.
00:51:08.000 My car, because I fall asleep.
00:51:09.000 If I drive for more than an hour and a half, I don't care what time of day it is, I start to doze off immediately.
00:51:13.000 I get like road hypnosis, they call it.
00:51:16.000 Do you have sleep apnea?
00:51:17.000 No.
00:51:18.000 No?
00:51:18.000 You sure?
00:51:19.000 Yeah, I don't think so.
00:51:20.000 Do you ever get a sleep study?
00:51:21.000 No.
00:51:22.000 Just guessing.
00:51:24.000 I don't snore though.
00:51:25.000 Do you have to snore to have sleep apnea?
00:51:28.000 I think so.
00:51:29.000 I think that's part of it because you're choking.
00:51:33.000 Super common with guys.
00:51:34.000 Especially guys that work out.
00:51:36.000 Or guys that are overweight. 0.99
00:51:40.000 On my car, I have an Audi, and it has all the lane correction shit. 0.98
00:51:45.000 So if I start to doze off, it'll just automatically shift back into the lane. 0.88
00:51:50.000 It automatically keeps a certain distance between the car in front of me and the car behind me.
00:51:55.000 And I've still been into five accidents since I started driving again.
00:51:59.000 I moved out of New York City during the pandemic.
00:52:03.000 2020, and I've been in five accidents with this car.
00:52:07.000 My insurance is $1,800 a month, Joe. 1.00
00:52:10.000 What the fuck, dude? 1.00
00:52:11.000 Yeah, it's wild. 1.00
00:52:12.000 Why are you so bad at driving?
00:52:14.000 Joe, I have- Is it your fault every time?
00:52:17.000 I get road hypnosis and I fall asleep all the time.
00:52:19.000 No, that hasn't been it. 0.99
00:52:20.000 It's always, dude, I'm just a fucking pothead, dude. 0.99
00:52:23.000 And I'll just back up and I'll just, there's the fucking car. 1.00
00:52:25.000 And I hit it. 0.99
00:52:26.000 And it's never anything bad.
00:52:27.000 It's always like, you know, like fender benders.
00:52:29.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:52:30.000 But I called up my insurance company. 0.99
00:52:32.000 I was like, what the fuck is going on? 0.99
00:52:33.000 I was mad at them. 1.00
00:52:34.000 And I was like, they're like, sir, you've been in five accidents.
00:52:36.000 We shouldn't even be insuring you.
00:52:37.000 Yeah.
00:52:40.000 And then I changed insurance companies and now it's like $1,200 a month for car insurance.
00:52:45.000 Yeah.
00:52:46.000 There might be a bargain.
00:52:47.000 Maybe.
00:52:48.000 Depends on your activity.
00:52:50.000 Doggy.
00:52:51.000 That's not good though, dude.
00:52:52.000 Is it because you just didn't drive for a long time before you lived in New York and now you're back driving?
00:52:57.000 I drove when I was 16. I moved to New York when I was 19. Didn't drive for 20 some odd years.
00:53:02.000 Oh, that's what it is.
00:53:03.000 And then I just came back and then I just...
00:53:05.000 I got a little bit too... 0.99
00:53:06.000 All the bings and the dings when you're backing up and you're almost hitting shit, it's great. 1.00
00:53:11.000 But then I started depending on it a little bit too much and I just stopped paying attention. 0.94
00:53:15.000 And then my phone will ring, I'll look down, and then here we are.
00:53:18.000 I'm in a fender bender.
00:53:20.000 Yeah.
00:53:21.000 Yeah.
00:53:23.000 Yeah, that's not good.
00:53:24.000 I feel like I'm a good driver.
00:53:25.000 No, I bet you're not.
00:53:29.000 But every guy thinks he's good at whatever. 0.96
00:53:31.000 I'm a fucking awesome driver, bro. 0.97
00:53:34.000 If I played tennis, I'd be number one. 0.98
00:53:37.000 How do you define a good driver, right?
00:53:39.000 Like, fine.
00:53:40.000 If you take out my accidents, I feel like I'm good at steering the car and turning it on turns.
00:53:45.000 That's like if you're saying to your teacher, if you take out all my F's, I only got A's.
00:53:53.000 I'm careless.
00:53:54.000 I think I'm a bad person, but I'm a good driver.
00:53:57.000 That's the problem.
00:53:58.000 Well, the careless part is a bad driver.
00:54:01.000 Yeah.
00:54:01.000 Like, by definition.
00:54:02.000 Damn it, Joe. 0.99
00:54:03.000 You're winning me over on this argument. 1.00
00:54:04.000 You have to.
00:54:04.000 On that one, you gotta let it go.
00:54:05.000 You know what, fine.
00:54:06.000 It's like, you can't be good.
00:54:08.000 I'll say it right now, I'm a bad driver.
00:54:10.000 I've never said it publicly before.
00:54:12.000 I've never admitted that to anybody, but I will say it to you right now, Joe Rogan.
00:54:15.000 I am a bad driver.
00:54:16.000 It's okay, dude.
00:54:17.000 It's okay.
00:54:17.000 Yeah.
00:54:17.000 You can be good at other things.
00:54:18.000 It's normal.
00:54:20.000 Especially taking that much time off, man.
00:54:22.000 That's a big readjustment as an adult.
00:54:25.000 20 years plus of not driving and also you're driving.
00:54:28.000 If you did road gigs, would you get rentals?
00:54:30.000 Say that again?
00:54:31.000 If you did road gigs, would you get rental cars?
00:54:33.000 Before, when I was living in the city?
00:54:36.000 Yeah, during the 20 years, yeah.
00:54:37.000 Noted.
00:54:37.000 No, I would do public transportation, Uber.
00:54:41.000 Really?
00:54:42.000 I'm also a bad Uber rider.
00:54:43.000 My Uber rating is abysmal.
00:54:46.000 Why is it so bad? 0.95
00:54:47.000 Because I'm a dick to Uber drivers very often. 0.94
00:54:54.000 Why, Lewis? 0.97
00:54:55.000 I'm gonna tell you why.
00:54:57.000 It all came from New York City.
00:54:59.000 When I was in New York City, I live my life...
00:55:02.000 I like to be...
00:55:03.000 Whatever it is, I like to be right on time.
00:55:06.000 I showed up exactly at 12.30 today.
00:55:08.000 On the dot.
00:55:09.000 I don't like being early.
00:55:10.000 I don't like being late.
00:55:11.000 But when you live your life that way, you're very often late.
00:55:14.000 Because things happen.
00:55:15.000 One thing will go wrong.
00:55:16.000 If the Uber driver made a wrong turn today, that's that, right?
00:55:19.000 So, very often when I would get into Uber cars...
00:55:23.000 I would be running late for something already. 0.98
00:55:26.000 And I'd be really anxious and just like, oh fuck, I gotta go, I gotta go. 0.95
00:55:29.000 And then they'd make a wrong turn. 0.99
00:55:31.000 They wouldn't pay attention to the GPS. Like if an Uber driver doesn't pay attention to the GPS and they start doing their own thing, I would just be like, dude, what are you doing?
00:55:37.000 I mean, come on, you gotta pay attention to the GPS. And then you're like, of course, they're gonna give you a one star immediately.
00:55:43.000 So yeah, it was that. 0.99
00:55:44.000 But it was just, I'm not like that much of a dick. 0.96
00:55:47.000 I just feel like... 0.98
00:55:48.000 People are very sensitive today.
00:55:49.000 People are super sensitive today.
00:55:51.000 And when people can complain that easily, with just a little touch of my button, ruin your rating, sir.
00:55:57.000 Yeah, it's a bad Uber rating.
00:55:59.000 I've been denied rights.
00:56:00.000 They don't know you, though.
00:56:01.000 People who know you know you're a lovable guy. 1.00
00:56:04.000 But on the surface, when you're yelling at someone about GPS, they might think, this guy might be an asshole. 1.00
00:56:10.000 I know. 1.00
00:56:11.000 If they got to be your friend, they'd go, no, he's a great guy.
00:56:14.000 No, that's just Lewis.
00:56:15.000 That's just Lewis.
00:56:16.000 He's a great guy.
00:56:16.000 One of the things he does.
00:56:17.000 But if you're a sensitive person, also, if you're driving an Uber, there's always this Yeah.
00:56:34.000 I'm sure a lot.
00:56:35.000 I don't know.
00:56:36.000 Probably less than the cab drivers.
00:56:38.000 Oh, gypsy cabs? 1.00
00:56:40.000 Bro, do you remember in the 90s, there was a terrifying rash of murders in gypsy cabs. 0.99
00:56:49.000 Where I was living in New York.
00:56:51.000 I was living in New Rochelle.
00:56:53.000 And these gypsy cabs were getting... 1.00
00:56:56.000 I'm good.
00:56:57.000 These gypsy cabs were getting... 1.00
00:57:00.000 Like heisted and the guy, they'd just shoot him in the back of the head and steal all their money.
00:57:05.000 And it was, you know, it was really horrible stories about these like poor immigrants who came over here and they're driving these gypsy cabs and people are robbing them and shooting them.
00:57:14.000 Yeah, my uncle Howard.
00:57:16.000 God rest his soul, was a gypsy cab driver. 0.99
00:57:19.000 And in the 90s, he was hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
00:57:22.000 Jesus Christ. 1.00
00:57:23.000 Guy just fucking put a hammer into his skull. 1.00
00:57:25.000 Didn't kill him. 1.00
00:57:27.000 Oh my God.
00:57:28.000 He's a big guy. 0.99
00:57:28.000 He was like 6'6", big fucking burly guy. 0.99
00:57:31.000 And yeah, then they just stole his car. 0.98
00:57:33.000 He rolled out.
00:57:34.000 He was on the George Washington Bridge.
00:57:35.000 Oh my God. 0.75
00:57:35.000 With a hammer in his head. 0.75
00:57:37.000 Yeah, but you could feel the hole was still in his head, dude.
00:57:39.000 They never like filled the hole.
00:57:41.000 Oh Jesus Christ.
00:57:42.000 I mean, I don't know what type of doctor we were going to.
00:57:46.000 They were supposed to fill that hole, I'm sure.
00:57:50.000 But it was like an actual like...
00:57:51.000 Doctors back then.
00:57:52.000 Yeah.
00:57:53.000 I mean, if you got your knee operated on.
00:57:55.000 I have a buddy of mine who was on the U.S. ski team and he got his...
00:57:58.000 He has more operations than anyone I've ever met.
00:58:01.000 And he had his knees fixed in the 80s when they used to open you up like a fish and they would take a chunk of your hamstring and just screw it all in place and try to fix your ACL and maybe it'll stick and maybe it won't and...
00:58:16.000 Your leg's compromised now because a chunk of your hamstring is missing. 0.99
00:58:20.000 It was brutal shit, man. 1.00
00:58:21.000 That sucks. 1.00
00:58:22.000 He had both of his knees done like that. 0.94
00:58:24.000 I got to get surgery on my right knee now.
00:58:26.000 I got a knee scope on my left knee.
00:58:30.000 When you say you got a knee scope, so you're...
00:58:36.000 Ligaments were intact, but your meniscus was torn, is that what it was?
00:58:40.000 Yeah, my meniscus was torn, yeah.
00:58:41.000 So they came in and they cleaned out all the little loose pieces.
00:58:45.000 It's still kind of sore.
00:58:46.000 Did they trim it?
00:58:47.000 It's going to be sore.
00:58:48.000 It'll be sore for a long time.
00:58:49.000 Yeah.
00:58:49.000 No, it was a while ago.
00:58:50.000 I haven't gone to jiu-jitsu.
00:58:51.000 I went back to jiu-jitsu too quickly.
00:58:53.000 I went three weeks after I got the meniscus surgery.
00:58:55.000 Oh, you've got to wait longer.
00:58:56.000 Yeah, I went back and I was like, yeah, I can do it.
00:58:59.000 And then I was just walking out of the movies with my girl.
00:59:03.000 We went to go see Cocaine Bear.
00:59:05.000 And we walked out and she said something.
00:59:07.000 And I looked at her and then I just literally twisted my ankle.
00:59:10.000 My knee just jerked again and now it's in pain here.
00:59:13.000 And this one, every time I step off my right foot, it clicks.
00:59:17.000 Every time.
00:59:18.000 And I remember you hit me up and you're like, oh dude, reach out to the knee over toes guy.
00:59:22.000 And I was like, Joe, I don't have your life.
00:59:23.000 I can't just reach out to knee over toes guy.
00:59:25.000 He's not gonna be like, oh dude, sure, yeah. 0.98
00:59:26.000 Let me fucking answer this guy's questions. 0.76
00:59:29.000 So I watched like two of his videos. 0.99
00:59:30.000 I started walking around backwards in like fucking the city. 0.99
00:59:34.000 People are looking at me like I'm a lunatic. 0.99
00:59:35.000 I'm like, I can't do this.
00:59:36.000 I'd rather have bad knees than walk around backwards.
00:59:38.000 If you have a treadmill, that's the best way to do it.
00:59:40.000 Did you try it on a treadmill?
00:59:42.000 I did at the gym.
00:59:43.000 I couldn't get it to move.
00:59:44.000 He said to do it without it being on.
00:59:46.000 I think the treadmill wasn't designed to move when it wasn't on.
00:59:50.000 But yeah, I was doing a little bit of backwards jogging.
00:59:54.000 But, yeah, dude, I haven't been able to go back to jiu-jitsu since.
00:59:58.000 Yeah, give it time.
00:59:59.000 And another thing that could help you is if you've...
01:00:04.000 Did you ever get PRP in there or anything to help it heal up?
01:00:07.000 Oh, platelet replacement?
01:00:08.000 No.
01:00:09.000 Platelet-rich plasma.
01:00:10.000 That can kind of help heal after injuries help you heal.
01:00:14.000 A lot of people like that for injuries.
01:00:16.000 Yeah.
01:00:17.000 Maybe stem cells.
01:00:18.000 Maybe consider going down to that place in Tijuana.
01:00:22.000 Yeah.
01:00:23.000 You know, get your knee, like, while it's recovering, hit it with stem cells.
01:00:28.000 That'll help you, too.
01:00:29.000 I should.
01:00:29.000 I should do all these things, but I will probably just live my life in pain.
01:00:33.000 Yeah, but it'll fix it.
01:00:34.000 It'll make it better, man.
01:00:36.000 It really will.
01:00:36.000 I know.
01:00:37.000 I gotta motivate, dude. 0.99
01:00:38.000 I'm just always so busy that I never have time to take off to do shit. 0.97
01:00:43.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.98
01:00:44.000 It's really...
01:00:45.000 Yeah, it's tough.
01:00:46.000 And I miss jiu-jitsu. 0.99
01:00:47.000 Jiu-jitsu is the fucking dude. 1.00
01:00:49.000 What a badass fucking sport. 1.00
01:00:51.000 It's so cool. 0.99
01:00:52.000 It's very good for you, too.
01:00:53.000 It's good for your head.
01:00:54.000 Yeah, it was great, dude.
01:00:55.000 Yeah, it's great for your head.
01:00:57.000 The rest of the world seems so not fearsome anymore.
01:01:01.000 You just spent the last hour and a half trying to get guys to not strangle you.
01:01:08.000 Try not to get your arm broken. 1.00
01:01:10.000 Try not to get your fucking... 1.00
01:01:12.000 Back snap sideways. 1.00
01:01:14.000 Every day you walk into it and go like, oh, I'm going to find out what I'm made of today.
01:01:20.000 And that's psychologically to go into it.
01:01:22.000 I'm going to be in a lot of pain today.
01:01:24.000 And to face that, it's similar to working out, but jujitsu is different because it's like...
01:01:29.000 It just felt so much more real, like actual live rolling and sparring.
01:01:32.000 It's real. 0.99
01:01:33.000 It's like you're really trying to fucking... 0.99
01:01:35.000 Eddie Bravo said it best. 0.99
01:01:37.000 He said it's like you're playing a real-life video game.
01:01:39.000 Yeah.
01:01:39.000 Because you're playing a real-life video game.
01:01:41.000 Like you got a video fighting game.
01:01:43.000 But you're playing it with your body.
01:01:44.000 Yeah.
01:01:45.000 Yeah.
01:01:46.000 I miss it.
01:01:47.000 I really do.
01:01:47.000 And it was something that I really connected with my son.
01:01:49.000 So we were like, you know, neck and neck.
01:01:50.000 I got my blue belt finally.
01:01:53.000 And just like being able to actually know what I'm talking about with him, it's really cool, you know?
01:01:59.000 And we trained him for this tournament.
01:02:02.000 He was in class three to four days a week, but then we have mats at home.
01:02:05.000 And I was just working with him at home a couple days a week.
01:02:08.000 And it was just a cool way to bond with my kid on a different level.
01:02:12.000 And that's why I really, really miss it for the most part.
01:02:15.000 Well, it's not over, dude.
01:02:16.000 Just be careful.
01:02:17.000 Just be careful getting back.
01:02:19.000 You can fix that.
01:02:20.000 Yeah.
01:02:21.000 And now I'm boxing, and now I feel like a fraud every time I box. 1.00
01:02:25.000 I'm like, dude, I could just take you down and fucking choke you out. 0.99
01:02:28.000 It makes you feel like a fraud? 1.00
01:02:29.000 It feels silly.
01:02:30.000 Putting gloves on and boxing feels...
01:02:33.000 You're thinking about it wrong, man.
01:02:34.000 You're learning a skill.
01:02:35.000 No, I know.
01:02:35.000 It is awesome.
01:02:36.000 It's still badass, don't get me wrong, but when I think about it as like a martial art, I go, this just doesn't seem like the same type of superpower that jiu-jitsu felt like.
01:02:46.000 It's not, but if you don't have it, you're in real trouble.
01:02:50.000 Because if someone has it and they're very fast, they can fuck you up before you can get close to grabbing them. 0.92
01:02:55.000 And if they're athletic, they can avoid being taken down. 0.95
01:02:58.000 Like, a takedown's not easy.
01:02:59.000 That's like the hardest part of jujitsu.
01:03:01.000 Bro, what if it's someone like Terence Crawford who used to wrestle?
01:03:03.000 He used to wrestle, knows how to wrestle.
01:03:05.000 His kids can wrestle.
01:03:06.000 And he knows how to box.
01:03:08.000 Are you sure you're gonna grab him and take him down? 1.00
01:03:10.000 You're probably not gonna do jack shit! 1.00
01:03:12.000 And he's gonna fuck you up standing! 1.00
01:03:15.000 There was a good video, and it was just a jiu-jitsu coach, and he brought in a professional boxer, and that was the whole exercise. 0.99
01:03:21.000 He had all of his jiu-jitsu guys trying to take this guy down.
01:03:23.000 The guy could only box, and they could only try to take him down, and this guy was just really good, and his footwork was incredible, and they just couldn't get close to him.
01:03:30.000 He was toying with him.
01:03:32.000 Especially in a ring or a cage. 0.94
01:03:33.000 No, this was just on mats.
01:03:35.000 But it was walls.
01:03:36.000 But as long as there's some space.
01:03:38.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:38.000 And it was a reminder.
01:03:42.000 You're like, oh, no, no.
01:03:42.000 It's not a foregone conclusion that a jiu-jitsu guy is just going to go take a striker down and be able to choke him out.
01:03:47.000 You've got to get there.
01:03:49.000 Dude, especially in this day and age.
01:03:51.000 How many kids grow up watching the UFC and start training at a really young age? 0.99
01:03:56.000 You never know who the fuck knows what. 0.99
01:03:58.000 No. 0.98
01:03:59.000 And if two guys decide to square off in some open field somewhere, you're just rolling the dice.
01:04:06.000 There's some great videos on the internet where you see people that know about fights and they break down street fights.
01:04:11.000 Yeah.
01:04:12.000 And they're always like, oh, you can just see the stance of the guy who knows how to fight.
01:04:15.000 And you're like, oh, no, no, this guy knows how to fight. 0.96
01:04:17.000 This guy's about to get, before they even throw a punch, this guy's about to get fucking annihilated. 0.97
01:04:21.000 Yeah. 0.98
01:04:21.000 And yeah, you'd never know. 0.98
01:04:24.000 And that's why I became a pussy after I started training. 1.00
01:04:26.000 I literally, dude, I'm afraid of everybody now. 0.99
01:04:28.000 Because I know exactly how bad I am.
01:04:30.000 I know exactly how slow I am.
01:04:32.000 I know how old I am. 1.00
01:04:33.000 I'm like, oh dude, I am a fucking bitch. 0.99
01:04:36.000 And I'm way more able to protect myself and my family today than I was years ago. 0.99
01:04:42.000 But when I was a kid, before I ever knew anything about fighting at all, I would have fought anybody in front of me.
01:04:48.000 I thought I was a tough guy.
01:04:49.000 I really did.
01:04:49.000 And then once I started training, I was like, oh, dude, I'm not tough.
01:04:52.000 Literally, I'm the least tough person that's in this class right now.
01:04:55.000 Well, tough is one of those things that people like to think they are without any proof.
01:05:00.000 It's true.
01:05:01.000 It's like being a good driver.
01:05:04.000 It's real similar.
01:05:06.000 Everybody wants to think they're tough.
01:05:08.000 That's a man thing.
01:05:09.000 We were raised to be...
01:05:11.000 And that's also...
01:05:11.000 I think that's kind of...
01:05:12.000 I don't think people lose that. 0.88
01:05:14.000 Because my son is a nice kid and his mom's like, you know, super fucking liberal and very much a feminist, right? 0.84
01:05:20.000 And, you know, we raised him, you know, very balanced. 0.93
01:05:22.000 But he still wants to be tough.
01:05:24.000 He still wants to be tough. 0.99
01:05:26.000 He still, like, fucking just has... 0.98
01:05:31.000 I think it's just a natural thing that we have in us as dudes. 0.99
01:05:35.000 And I think women naturally want to be pretty and they naturally want to have nice things and take care of things. 1.00
01:05:41.000 I think these are natural things that we sort of beat out of ourselves or beat out of our children.
01:05:47.000 Well, some people definitely do.
01:05:48.000 And I think there's this phrase like toxic masculinity.
01:05:53.000 That's like the worst aspects of masculine behavior, right?
01:05:57.000 So people associate even masculinity with the word toxic sometimes just because together they're terrible.
01:06:04.000 But yeah, it's not praised.
01:06:09.000 You know, but it's so normal as long as it's under control and the best thing about jujitsu and martial arts in general is the people that are the practitioners of it They're probably way less likely to get into street fights.
01:06:24.000 They're probably way less likely to go and purposely hurt people.
01:06:28.000 Yeah.
01:06:28.000 They're probably way less likely to go and pick fights.
01:06:32.000 And not 100%, because, you know, you always get bad apples that just are badass dudes, you know, troubled people that just learn how to fight and then become scary.
01:06:41.000 Yeah.
01:06:42.000 That does happen, too.
01:06:43.000 Yeah.
01:06:43.000 It was War Machine.
01:06:44.000 That guy, I mean, just a fucking bad apple. 1.00
01:06:48.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:06:49.000 Yeah.
01:06:50.000 That was a crazy story.
01:06:52.000 It's rare, though.
01:06:53.000 I mean, all the people at my gym, it's a lot of cops. 0.99
01:06:56.000 It's a lot of cops, and then it's a lot of fucking potheads. 0.99
01:07:00.000 And they just come, they all just meet on the mat, dude, and everyone's cool. 1.00
01:07:04.000 I used to roll with this cop, who's a good dude, who's funny as shit. 0.99
01:07:08.000 But he said, I don't give a fuck if you've got a medical license. 1.00
01:07:11.000 I'm busting you. 1.00
01:07:13.000 He just...
01:07:14.000 I was like, dude, what's wrong?
01:07:16.000 I go, you know I smoke weed.
01:07:18.000 You know I'm a good guy.
01:07:18.000 Like, why are you so...
01:07:19.000 He goes, fucking the law is the fucking law, man. 1.00
01:07:21.000 Wow, dude, he cared about the law. 1.00
01:07:23.000 He was just like, I'm busting you.
01:07:25.000 I wonder if, like, they have pressure to make a certain amount of arrests.
01:07:30.000 For sure.
01:07:31.000 Oh, yeah.
01:07:31.000 There's quotas.
01:07:33.000 Isn't that insane, though?
01:07:34.000 That's nuts.
01:07:34.000 Because imagine if just culturally we all agreed to, like, one month of no crime.
01:07:41.000 And we planned for it for a year.
01:07:44.000 And there was no one's speed.
01:07:47.000 No one did anything.
01:07:48.000 Everyone stopped at every stoplight.
01:07:49.000 It's like the opposite of the purge.
01:07:50.000 Yeah, what do the cops do?
01:07:52.000 What do they do when they have these quotas?
01:07:53.000 Do they just start firing cops?
01:07:55.000 Dude, they have to give tickets. 1.00
01:07:58.000 That's how they make fucking money. 0.99
01:08:00.000 I get so many parking tickets, too. 0.99
01:08:02.000 I'm bad at parking.
01:08:03.000 Not only am I bad at driving, I can't even park the car.
01:08:07.000 I would get arrested in New York as a kid in my 20s.
01:08:12.000 It was always on sweep nights.
01:08:14.000 They were two nights a week where they would take in everybody for any infraction.
01:08:20.000 Very often you just get a ticket to appear in court and then they give you a fine, right?
01:08:24.000 If it wasn't a sweep night.
01:08:25.000 But if it was a sweep night and you get caught smoking weed, pissing in public, open container, they take you to central bookings.
01:08:30.000 You have to spend like 24 to 48 hours in jail, see a judge.
01:08:34.000 And it was just this whole part of this process where they were just collecting cash.
01:08:38.000 It is just collecting cash.
01:08:40.000 That is what they're doing.
01:08:41.000 Every person they're bringing in has to deal with a fine.
01:08:45.000 And that's that.
01:08:46.000 It's a racket.
01:08:48.000 That was the same thing with Stop and Frisk.
01:08:50.000 They were just literally...
01:08:53.000 Writing tickets.
01:08:54.000 Writing tickets.
01:08:55.000 That's that.
01:08:56.000 Yeah, a friend of mine as a cop used to say, it's glorified revenue collecting.
01:08:59.000 Yep.
01:09:02.000 Oh.
01:09:02.000 That's what it is, right?
01:09:03.000 And now they're figuring out they can make more money off of weed by having it be legal than off of writing tickets.
01:09:07.000 Yeah.
01:09:07.000 Simple as that.
01:09:08.000 There's a tipping point.
01:09:09.000 So they defund the police.
01:09:10.000 Yeah.
01:09:11.000 And then crime goes up again. 0.99
01:09:12.000 Just fucking wild, dude. 1.00
01:09:14.000 It's so dumb. 1.00
01:09:15.000 All of it's so dumb. 1.00
01:09:17.000 Yeah. 0.99
01:09:17.000 Bro. 0.99
01:09:18.000 It's just such a weird time for people and thinking.
01:09:22.000 It's so strange because there's so many different changes that are happening all at the same time.
01:09:28.000 They're all just kind of piling into each other in this weird chaos of change.
01:09:34.000 Yeah.
01:09:35.000 It's fast.
01:09:36.000 Real fast.
01:09:37.000 It's fast.
01:09:37.000 And that's where you don't have time to be comfortable anymore.
01:09:44.000 Things just change so fast.
01:09:45.000 There's always something new happening. 0.99
01:09:46.000 There's always something to give a fuck about. 0.98
01:09:47.000 Every week, there's something new that we're supposed to care about. 0.99
01:09:50.000 At one point, you want to just sit at home and just fucking go like, all right, let me just enjoy life.
01:09:55.000 At what point do you run out of room in your Twitter bio for flags? 0.89
01:09:58.000 Yeah, I know.
01:10:00.000 What if we start getting involved with some other countries too?
01:10:02.000 It's crazy.
01:10:03.000 That was the best.
01:10:05.000 I don't even have this joke anymore, but I kind of was trying to talk about it in my act about how everyone cared about the Ukraine for like two weeks because then it became Gay Pride Month.
01:10:14.000 And June hit and then everyone just changed their flags to gay flags. 0.90
01:10:17.000 Everyone stopped talking about the Ukraine.
01:10:21.000 They kind of stopped talking about Maui real quick.
01:10:24.000 Yeah.
01:10:25.000 It's the flavor of the week.
01:10:26.000 People don't have the attention span to care about something for more than a couple weeks.
01:10:31.000 The Maui one is wild.
01:10:34.000 Because here's a question.
01:10:35.000 How much would it cost to rebuild every home that was burned in the Maui fires?
01:10:44.000 How many homes are burned?
01:10:45.000 Let's find out.
01:10:46.000 Dude, I was on vacation when this all happened, so I just missed the news cycle.
01:10:49.000 So I'm one of these people, I just really don't know much about it.
01:10:52.000 I know that Maui, a bunch of homes burned, and there's a lot of people that were displaced.
01:10:57.000 A lot of people died, too.
01:10:59.000 Yeah, a lot of people are missing.
01:11:01.000 Jesus.
01:11:02.000 Yeah, it's a terrible, terrible, terrible story.
01:11:07.000 2,200 buildings.
01:11:08.000 2,200 buildings, about 86% which are residential were destroyed.
01:11:12.000 The cost to rebuild is estimated to be $5.52 billion.
01:11:15.000 Now, as a point of reference, one of the checks that they sent to Ukraine, they had accidentally sent them $6 billion more.
01:11:28.000 Wasn't that the number?
01:11:29.000 Accidentally, wow.
01:11:31.000 Wasn't that what they said?
01:11:32.000 There was like an accounting error?
01:11:33.000 Yeah, but I don't think that that's what it means.
01:11:36.000 Yeah, I know.
01:11:37.000 I know.
01:11:37.000 It's a little more complicated than that.
01:11:39.000 But just as a point of reference, that would rebuild every house.
01:11:43.000 Yeah.
01:11:44.000 Just the accidental overpayment would rebuild every house.
01:11:48.000 Dude.
01:11:48.000 But imagine that the government would literally – they could just choose to do that.
01:11:54.000 And everyone would get behind it.
01:11:55.000 And they would rebuild every house.
01:11:57.000 And everyone would be like, cool.
01:11:58.000 Finally, the government does something good.
01:12:00.000 But the problem is a lot of people are dead, man.
01:12:02.000 A lot of people are dead.
01:12:03.000 They don't even know the numbers yet.
01:12:05.000 Yeah.
01:12:06.000 It's very, very, very spooky and very scary.
01:12:09.000 What was it started by?
01:12:10.000 It was like...
01:12:11.000 Power lines fell and hit grass.
01:12:13.000 Can you imagine being trapped?
01:12:15.000 That sucks. 0.73
01:12:17.000 It's horrifying, man. 0.99
01:12:19.000 Just watching those people bobbing around the water while everything around them is on fire. 1.00
01:12:23.000 In fucking Maui? 1.00
01:12:25.000 Who would have ever predicted that? 1.00
01:12:27.000 That's never happened there.
01:12:29.000 Yeah.
01:12:29.000 That's wild, dude.
01:12:32.000 Everybody's like, there's so many wild conspiracies, like fucking directed energy weapons were used, and there's all these crazy conspiracies. 0.94
01:12:44.000 About people preparing for this fire in advance. 0.70
01:12:48.000 Every time something like this happens, just the super sketchy conspiracy theories start flying around.
01:12:56.000 People are bored.
01:12:57.000 They want something.
01:12:57.000 There's gotta be a story.
01:12:59.000 There's gotta be a villain. 0.99
01:13:02.000 It can't be just some simple shit. 0.99
01:13:04.000 Well, also, a lot of times there's real villains out there. 1.00
01:13:07.000 That's the other thing that sucks.
01:13:09.000 I know sometimes people are looking for villains that aren't there, but that's because they've found a bunch. 0.64
01:13:14.000 It's like if you go mushroom hunting and you find some really good mushrooms, you keep going mushroom hunting.
01:13:22.000 They've found a lot of things that turn out to be real. 1.00
01:13:25.000 And you're like, what the fuck, man? 0.99
01:13:27.000 Yeah, dude, every time... 0.99
01:13:27.000 The problem with conspiracy theorists are they believe all the conspiracies. 0.99
01:13:31.000 So it's like, dude, if you were like, hey, dude, I believe the Earth is flat.
01:13:35.000 You know, that's what I believe. 0.99
01:13:37.000 But it's like they also believe that fucking... 1.00
01:13:39.000 Dinosaurs aren't real. 1.00
01:13:40.000 Yeah, it's like...
01:13:41.000 Nuclear bombs aren't real. 0.99
01:13:42.000 Not everything is a fucking conspiracy, dude. 0.99
01:13:44.000 Just pick one, and then maybe you can convince me of it. 0.97
01:13:47.000 The Earth is flat thing, I've never had anybody be able to even articulate it in a way where I understand why they think that.
01:13:55.000 It's not...
01:13:56.000 You could watch one of those videos and you could be compelled if you don't have a good understanding of what's actually available in terms of satellite technology and how they've been utilizing it forever and how you can take the images that are from Japanese satellites,
01:14:13.000 American satellites...
01:14:13.000 They show everything in the exact same place.
01:14:15.000 There's no disparity in terms of like, wait a minute, they think Africa's shaped like this.
01:14:21.000 Wait a minute, where's the ice wall?
01:14:23.000 There's no ice wall. 0.99
01:14:25.000 It looks like every other fucking planet we've ever found. 0.99
01:14:28.000 It's round. 0.99
01:14:29.000 The idea that this is the one that's not round.
01:14:31.000 So in a lot of ways it's a biblical thing.
01:14:34.000 And I'm pretty sure in the beginning it started as a troll.
01:14:38.000 I really think so.
01:14:40.000 I think there's a lot of these 4chan guys.
01:14:42.000 There's an Amber Heard bot.
01:14:44.000 These guys are amazing.
01:14:45.000 I think these are real people that are just bored. 1.00
01:14:48.000 They just come up with some shit and they... 1.00
01:14:51.000 They implement it for sure. 0.99
01:14:53.000 I mean these are the same guys that you remember when that dude the actor Shia LaBeouf He had this website about Trump and is like he will not divide us.
01:15:04.000 Yeah, and he like had a flag that was streamed 24 7 from his website and these Super nerds online they figured out exactly where is in the country by looking at the stars in the background.
01:15:20.000 Yeah, that's right and And then figuring out where the constellation would be.
01:15:23.000 And then they all started showing up.
01:15:25.000 Yeah, and so they started honking their horns to hear if they heard themselves on the webcam. 0.99
01:15:29.000 And then the guy finds the flag, takes it down, and looks at the camera and goes, fuck Shia LaBeouf. 0.99
01:15:37.000 How do you not love that? 0.99
01:15:40.000 Shia LaBeouf probably loves that. 0.88
01:15:42.000 Honestly, it's objectively hilarious.
01:15:45.000 Bro, it's objectively hilarious.
01:15:46.000 That's hilarious.
01:15:48.000 And the crazy thing is Radiolab did a podcast on it.
01:15:52.000 And it was a really funny podcast.
01:15:54.000 It was really good.
01:15:54.000 Radiolab's a great podcast, by the way.
01:15:57.000 And they did this podcast on it and then they wound up taking the podcast down because people were offended that these people on 4chan who are responsible for this, like these people, they say horrible things online and inappropriate things and racist things and show violence and you're supporting them.
01:16:16.000 As a whole, anyone on 4chan is considered a racist or violent?
01:16:21.000 That's the idea?
01:16:23.000 I think there's just a lot of chaos on those places.
01:16:28.000 Yeah, when you're anonymous, you can...
01:16:30.000 And it's funny.
01:16:32.000 Like, that's just the truth, right?
01:16:33.000 Trolling is funny.
01:16:34.000 There's a great episode of South Park where they get into it and then the dad, Stan's dad, ends up being like a big internet troll. 0.99
01:16:42.000 And he's just, you know, they're torturing some fucking female athlete and they're trying to get her to kill herself. 0.99
01:16:46.000 That's the angle. 1.00
01:16:47.000 Jesus Christ.
01:16:48.000 Yeah.
01:16:48.000 And there's a moment where he's just so frustrated because people don't understand why he's trolling, and he's just like, it's just funny.
01:16:57.000 And as a comedian, you have to... 0.96
01:16:59.000 I get trolled fucking endlessly, dude. 0.98
01:17:01.000 I mean, so much. 0.99
01:17:02.000 I really get it a lot online.
01:17:04.000 You know, Legion of Skanks fan bases, we make fun of each other so much that that's almost the language that we speak.
01:17:09.000 So most of the time, it's just fans.
01:17:10.000 Most of the time, it's people that actually like me.
01:17:13.000 But when you remove yourself from it and they fucking get you with a good zinger, a good funny one, you have to just laugh sometimes.
01:17:20.000 I retweet it. 0.98
01:17:21.000 I'll fucking, you know, it's part of their experience on the internet is fucking saying mean things sometimes. 0.98
01:17:29.000 And what we have to pay for being able to legitimately live our dream, right? 0.98
01:17:35.000 Sometimes people are going to say mean things about us.
01:17:37.000 And if that's it, that's a fair trade.
01:17:38.000 That's not a bad trade-off at all.
01:17:41.000 Sometimes they get you with some real truth.
01:17:45.000 They get you with some truth.
01:17:46.000 You've got to look in the mirror. 1.00
01:17:47.000 But it also keeps you in check and makes sure that you're not really turning into a fucking Hollywood asshole. 1.00
01:17:52.000 And that's the truth. 1.00
01:17:53.000 That could happen.
01:17:54.000 That could happen.
01:17:54.000 It happens a lot, yeah.
01:17:55.000 It does happen to a lot of people, and it's confusing when it happens to some, because you're like, Goddamn, they got you, bro? 0.68
01:18:01.000 Yeah. 0.84
01:18:02.000 They got you?
01:18:02.000 Like, you used to do that show, and you're...
01:18:05.000 Okay.
01:18:07.000 Yeah.
01:18:07.000 You know?
01:18:08.000 There's a lot of those guys.
01:18:09.000 They just want to be safe.
01:18:11.000 They just want to be safe.
01:18:12.000 They want to be comfortable.
01:18:13.000 They want to keep that money flowing in.
01:18:15.000 Yeah.
01:18:16.000 Okay.
01:18:18.000 That seems like a trap.
01:18:19.000 Like, it seems like you have to stay that person forever.
01:18:21.000 And if you ever rethink your ideas, now you're in trouble.
01:18:24.000 Because now you're connected to a certain group of people that think a certain way.
01:18:29.000 And everybody sort of decides what everybody else thinks about Ukraine or trans kids or...
01:18:34.000 The climate, electric vehicles.
01:18:37.000 I want to see people who also just don't fall in line on one side.
01:18:41.000 Even COVID was the craziest thing, right?
01:18:44.000 Watching that happen, watching that become politicized, I was like, how is this possible?
01:18:48.000 At the very least, whether you think it's real or not, it's not about a political belief, right?
01:18:55.000 If you were afraid of it or if you weren't afraid of it or if you believed in getting the vaccine or didn't.
01:18:59.000 It just became such a politicized thing.
01:19:01.000 It was like, you're a Nazi if you don't want to get a vaccine.
01:19:03.000 You're like, how is that possible?
01:19:04.000 How did you jump to Nazi?
01:19:06.000 Whether it's intentional or not, it was like a PSYOP was run on America.
01:19:11.000 Whether it's intentional, not.
01:19:13.000 If you're a conspiracy theorist, you'd think it's intentional.
01:19:16.000 If you're not, you think that the measures that they put in place led people to be isolated in extreme anxiety, which has kind of never really happened before, collectively to mass groups of people.
01:19:28.000 And then they're on social media all the time, which is very disconnected from human interaction.
01:19:33.000 And we get to watch them get more isolated from each other.
01:19:37.000 More polarized and also more susceptible to propaganda because a lot of critical thinking people that in the past would have questioned pharmaceutical drug companies all of a sudden we're all on board.
01:19:47.000 Crazy.
01:19:48.000 All on board.
01:19:49.000 Who's on board with pharmaceutical drug companies?
01:19:52.000 They cite the data and like why don't you trust the science? 0.99
01:19:56.000 That was the craziest shit ever is just watching people you're like like how are you not at least questioning it? 0.99
01:20:00.000 We have a brand new drug we're putting into our body. 0.99
01:20:03.000 How are you not saying hey, you know what?
01:20:05.000 At the very least, go, I wonder if that's gonna be safe.
01:20:08.000 I wonder if that has been tested enough.
01:20:10.000 It's both safe and effective.
01:20:12.000 Right, exactly.
01:20:12.000 How are you gonna- But it is, both safe and effective.
01:20:15.000 You know what else he said about?
01:20:18.000 AZT. Yeah.
01:20:19.000 Back in the AIDS crisis, there's video- See, you can find that.
01:20:23.000 Video of Fauci talking about AZT being safe and effective.
01:20:27.000 What's the story with AZT? That's the thing that killed everybody.
01:20:30.000 Oh, really?
01:20:30.000 Yeah.
01:20:31.000 The AZT is a chemotherapy medication that they stopped using for cancer patients.
01:20:35.000 Yeah.
01:20:36.000 It was having a negative outcome on cancer patients.
01:20:39.000 It was killing them quicker than cancer was killing them.
01:20:41.000 That's crazy.
01:20:41.000 Wow.
01:20:41.000 And they kept people on that.
01:20:43.000 Yeah.
01:20:44.000 Dude, you've got to read or listen.
01:20:46.000 Do you listen to audiobooks?
01:20:47.000 Yeah, I listen to audiobooks.
01:20:48.000 Listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fowler.
01:20:52.000 Does he read it?
01:20:53.000 Because I can't.
01:20:53.000 Dude.
01:20:54.000 No.
01:20:54.000 Jesus Christ.
01:20:55.000 Are you fucking crazy? 1.00
01:20:59.000 Fuck this, dude. 1.00
01:21:01.000 I'll give you nightmares, dude. 1.00
01:21:03.000 You know, he believes that injury actually came from flu shots.
01:21:07.000 Oh, really?
01:21:08.000 Because it's a throat injury?
01:21:09.000 Some sort of...
01:21:11.000 It's apparently whatever disease that he has is also a side effect that some people get from some flu shots.
01:21:20.000 Wow.
01:21:21.000 Well, now I feel bad. 0.98
01:21:22.000 I thought he said a shitty voice. 0.95
01:21:23.000 Now I feel bad that I made fun of his... 0.96
01:21:25.000 Yeah, he suspects that that's where it came from, because he used to get yearly flu shots.
01:21:30.000 Yeah.
01:21:30.000 Stevo, his voice...
01:21:32.000 Jeremiah Watkins just told me this on my podcast the other day.
01:21:34.000 Stevo, his voice is like that from eating glass.
01:21:38.000 No, from vomiting so much.
01:21:39.000 He would just at parties, throw up goldfish, and they'd puke on each other all the time, and it just burned his vocal cords.
01:21:48.000 That's literally the nastiest injury I've ever heard of him in my entire life.
01:21:52.000 He's such a sweet guy.
01:21:53.000 He's the best.
01:21:54.000 I always want him to stop hurting himself.
01:21:56.000 Whenever I'm around him, I'm like, stop hurting yourself.
01:21:59.000 He's literally one of the sweetest, warmest people.
01:22:02.000 Sometimes you meet...
01:22:03.000 I don't like meeting famous people. 0.99
01:22:04.000 It makes me uncomfortable as fuck. 0.99
01:22:05.000 I'm just not built to hang out with famous people, right? 0.99
01:22:10.000 Some people are. 1.00
01:22:11.000 Shane Gillis loves meeting a fucking famous guy and fucking party with him for a weekend. 1.00
01:22:14.000 I was like, that's crazy, dude. 1.00
01:22:15.000 He's just partying with Nate Diaz this weekend?
01:22:17.000 Yeah.
01:22:17.000 Who does that?
01:22:18.000 Nobody just meets him and goes off and does that. 1.00
01:22:21.000 But, you know, fucking... 1.00
01:22:23.000 Oh, shit, I'm sorry. 1.00
01:22:24.000 I'm high as fuck. 1.00
01:22:25.000 What was I? Who did I bring up? 1.00
01:22:26.000 Partying with famous people.
01:22:27.000 Oh, no, Stevo.
01:22:27.000 Yeah, Stevo.
01:22:28.000 Stevo, I mean, just one of the most down-to-earth people I've ever met when I first met him.
01:22:33.000 Just couldn't be any more...
01:22:34.000 Just like a normal dude.
01:22:36.000 Yeah, super nice.
01:22:37.000 Him and his wife.
01:22:37.000 They're just super cool.
01:22:39.000 Super nice people.
01:22:41.000 They're just so kind.
01:22:43.000 Easy going.
01:22:44.000 Sweet guy.
01:22:45.000 Sweet guy.
01:22:45.000 Big comedy fan too.
01:22:46.000 Fun dude, man.
01:22:47.000 Just fun dude.
01:22:48.000 Fun dude to be around.
01:22:49.000 Always a sweetheart.
01:22:50.000 It's nice when you meet people and they're super famous, but they're also like post Malone.
01:22:56.000 It's like genuinely friendly guy.
01:22:58.000 Yeah, you just had him on, right?
01:22:59.000 Sweetheart of a guy.
01:23:00.000 Had him on and then we went and did Kill Tony together.
01:23:02.000 Yeah.
01:23:03.000 Oh, I heard that episode.
01:23:04.000 And Metzger was on it too, right?
01:23:05.000 It was so fun, dude.
01:23:06.000 Yeah, it was so fun.
01:23:07.000 It was so fun. 0.99
01:23:09.000 Fucking David Lucas. 0.99
01:23:10.000 David Lucas is so funny. 1.00
01:23:12.000 He told Post Malone he looks like an unemployed crocodile hunter. 0.99
01:23:18.000 I was fucking crying. 0.99
01:23:22.000 Is this it? 0.99
01:23:24.000 I don't know.
01:23:24.000 Let's hear it.
01:23:25.000 I don't know either.
01:23:25.000 Play it.
01:23:42.000 Yeah.
01:23:44.000 Save and effective, baby.
01:23:45.000 That's the drug that killed everybody. 1.00
01:23:47.000 Yeah, it's fucked up. 0.99
01:23:47.000 I just know it from the play Rent. 0.99
01:23:50.000 Yeah, it's also Dallas Buyers Club.
01:23:53.000 Yeah, that's what he was selling.
01:23:55.000 Yeah, man.
01:23:55.000 That's a real story.
01:23:57.000 Dude, AIDS was something that I was terrified of.
01:23:58.000 That's the scariest part of that book.
01:24:00.000 The scariest part of that book is the AIDS crisis stuff.
01:24:03.000 Yeah.
01:24:03.000 Yeah.
01:24:04.000 Dude, AIDS was like... 0.78
01:24:05.000 My generation...
01:24:06.000 I mean, you were already like banging.
01:24:09.000 You were a little bit older than me.
01:24:11.000 Well, when I was a kid, I remember when...
01:24:15.000 When Magic Johnson got it, I was in my car on the road driving.
01:24:19.000 Was it like 89 or something?
01:24:21.000 What year was that, 90?
01:24:22.000 I think it was a little later than that.
01:24:23.000 Was it?
01:24:24.000 When did Magic Johnson...
01:24:25.000 92, I want to say.
01:24:26.000 What?
01:24:29.000 Maybe 91, hold on.
01:24:31.000 Yeah, because I remember it well, and I was born...
01:24:33.000 When I was 7, I just wouldn't have been that connected with...
01:24:36.000 I was maybe like 10 or 11 when...
01:24:38.000 91. 91. Okay, so I think I was still living in Boston at the time.
01:24:44.000 And I remember, yeah, definitely.
01:24:45.000 Because I remember driving down the road, and I remember that feeling like, oh my god, everyone's gonna get AIDS. That's what I thought.
01:24:52.000 Everyone's gonna get AIDS. That's it.
01:24:54.000 If magic can get it.
01:24:55.000 And then I had to get insurance.
01:24:56.000 I had to get health insurance, so I had to get a blood test for AIDS. And I remember just panicking.
01:25:02.000 Panicking. 0.99
01:25:02.000 My first AIDS test, I fucking cried. 0.99
01:25:05.000 I had had sex with one person. 1.00
01:25:09.000 I mean, it was a guy with AIDS, but... 0.97
01:25:12.000 No, I lost my virginity to my girlfriend.
01:25:15.000 I got an AIDS test after that.
01:25:17.000 I was like, that's it.
01:25:18.000 To this day, I have really bad anxiety about going to the doctor.
01:25:21.000 Like I said, I'm terrified I'm going to get cancer one day. 0.99
01:25:24.000 And, dude, AIDS was such a fucking thing that they were like, you're going to probably get AIDS, kids. 0.99
01:25:31.000 In health class, they would come in and talk about it. 0.99
01:25:35.000 Terrified.
01:25:36.000 People were terrified.
01:25:37.000 Everyone was terrified.
01:25:38.000 There was that made-for-TV movie.
01:25:42.000 About, you know, the kid that got...
01:25:45.000 Ryan White story?
01:25:46.000 Yeah, the Ryan White story.
01:25:47.000 And that was another thing.
01:25:48.000 It was like, don't become blood brothers with your friends.
01:25:50.000 Oh, God.
01:25:51.000 Is that how he got AIDS? No, no, no.
01:25:53.000 There was a scene in the movie, which I don't know if maybe they dramatized it, but they go to become blood brothers.
01:25:59.000 They all want to do it.
01:26:00.000 And he was responsible and was like, no, I can't.
01:26:02.000 I'll tell you guys why I have AIDS. And then they went back and told their parents, and the parents were like, get this fucking AIDS kid out of school. 1.00
01:26:08.000 Jesus Christ. 0.99
01:26:11.000 I don't know how much of that's actually true, but I believe that's what I remember from the made-for-TV movie. 0.98
01:26:16.000 And it was like, the story was that children, normal, just fucking regular children could get AIDS. And I know it happened. 0.96
01:26:24.000 He got it from a blood transfusion, I believe. 1.00
01:26:28.000 But, yeah, dude, it was a real, like, just genuine fear that they put into us that was genuinely just stupid. 1.00
01:26:34.000 None of us were gonna get AIDS unless you were using needles or having, you know, butt sex with dudes. 0.99
01:26:38.000 Do you remember the wildest thing that people were doing? 0.98
01:26:40.000 There were bug catchers?
01:26:41.000 Yeah, they were trying to get AIDS. The dudes who were running around trying to get it.
01:26:45.000 Yeah, dude.
01:26:46.000 What? 1.00
01:26:47.000 That's some deviant shit, dude. 1.00
01:26:49.000 That's some fucking... 1.00
01:26:50.000 That's some deviant shit. 1.00
01:26:51.000 That is some dark shit. 1.00
01:26:53.000 We're all on whatever spectrum of devious, you know, we're all on the spectrum to a certain degree. 1.00
01:26:59.000 Whatever deviant shit you like, you like, you know, when you're in the bedroom, we all do our own shit and we all like our shit. 1.00
01:27:04.000 And, you know, I understand that just from that perspective. 1.00
01:27:08.000 That's just somebody who's like, I want to fucking live on the edge. 0.80
01:27:11.000 Sometimes I get tied up. 0.99
01:27:13.000 Or maybe it's not even they want to get AIDS. I bet it's the fear of, are they going to get AIDS? It's like...
01:27:17.000 Right. 0.99
01:27:18.000 Like, I like the fucking public sometimes, right? 1.00
01:27:21.000 I don't want to be seen fucking in public. 0.99
01:27:23.000 I like the fear that somebody might catch us. 1.00
01:27:25.000 Right.
01:27:26.000 Right?
01:27:26.000 Bad boy.
01:27:27.000 Yeah.
01:27:27.000 And that's it.
01:27:28.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:27:28.000 My dick's getting hard right now, Jeff. 1.00
01:27:30.000 I'm talking about it. 1.00
01:27:31.000 Let's go.
01:27:32.000 No, yeah. 0.99
01:27:33.000 But I think that that is just another level of fucking deviousness that they're like... 0.99
01:27:38.000 That's a crazy wish to get a deadly disease. 0.99
01:27:40.000 Yeah.
01:27:41.000 Yeah.
01:27:41.000 Unless you don't believe in it.
01:27:42.000 But I wonder how much of that was...
01:27:44.000 The Rolling Stones story.
01:27:46.000 There's probably very few people.
01:27:48.000 It's probably like three dudes.
01:27:51.000 Yeah, it's probably not super popular.
01:27:53.000 But if you get on social media and you're a bug chaser, I bet you get a lot of hits.
01:28:00.000 Oh yeah, oh yeah.
01:28:01.000 If you're a bug chaser...
01:28:02.000 These guys with AIDS are like, finally! 1.00
01:28:05.000 Finally!
01:28:05.000 I don't have to have this weird conversation.
01:28:08.000 That's fucking wild, dude. 1.00
01:28:10.000 Imagine having AIDS. Oh my god, that would suck. 1.00
01:28:12.000 Yeah. 0.93
01:28:13.000 And they say, oh yeah, you could live with it forever now.
01:28:17.000 It's undetectable.
01:28:18.000 Dude, you still have to tell everyone you have AIDS. That sucks. 1.00
01:28:21.000 Yeah, it's undetectable. 0.99
01:28:23.000 Can you give it to people when it's undetectable?
01:28:24.000 I don't think so.
01:28:25.000 I think if you're taking PrEP and it's undetectable, they'll test you for it and you can't transfer it.
01:28:30.000 That's what they say.
01:28:31.000 That's what they say.
01:28:32.000 That's what they say.
01:28:33.000 It's not comforting for someone who might give you AIDS. I had a guy on early in the podcast.
01:28:39.000 His name is Dr. Peter Duisburg.
01:28:42.000 He's a professor of biology from the University of California.
01:28:45.000 A Duisburg?
01:28:46.000 Yeah.
01:28:46.000 Do you know who he is?
01:28:47.000 No.
01:28:48.000 He believes that what was going on with their immune systems was...
01:28:54.000 Mostly caused by partying.
01:28:57.000 He said, if you look at all these guys who are having this disease, these guys are all engaging in group sex.
01:29:06.000 They're all taking methamphetamines.
01:29:08.000 They're taking amyl nitrate.
01:29:10.000 Ecstasy.
01:29:11.000 Poppers.
01:29:12.000 They're doing all these wild party drugs.
01:29:15.000 These guys that specifically are getting very sick are also doing these wild party drugs.
01:29:19.000 And he's saying he thinks the wild party drugs is killing them.
01:29:22.000 Right.
01:29:22.000 And then introducing AZT kills them more.
01:29:26.000 Right. 0.96
01:29:27.000 And it's a crazy...
01:29:31.000 It's a crazy position to take because I think he lost his funding.
01:29:34.000 This is also in the real Anthony Fauci book.
01:29:36.000 He lost funding.
01:29:38.000 He's a professor.
01:29:39.000 He's a tenured professor, but he can't get funding for anything.
01:29:41.000 Everybody sort of shuns him.
01:29:43.000 And he did legitimate work in cancer.
01:29:45.000 So he's a legitimate biologist.
01:29:46.000 He believed that the reason why HIV existed in these people that had AIDS is that HIV is a weak virus and it exists In a person who's got an immune-compromised system.
01:30:00.000 And that a normal person would just fight it off.
01:30:03.000 That it's not a strong virus.
01:30:04.000 But what...
01:30:05.000 That you wouldn't even catch it?
01:30:06.000 He was saying it was not a...
01:30:07.000 That having HIV... I'm fucking this up, I'm sure. 0.96
01:30:12.000 But I think it was that having HIV... Didn't mean that that's what was giving you the compromised immune system. 0.98
01:30:21.000 But the fact that your immune system was compromised was probably why you had HIV. And that even in babies that test HIV positive when they're young, a lot of times they're HIV negative later.
01:30:33.000 Find out if that's true.
01:30:36.000 But it was a weird conversation because I'm like, how could this one guy be right?
01:30:41.000 How could this one guy be saying this?
01:30:44.000 And I'm not really qualified to dispute it. 0.98
01:30:48.000 You know, I don't know what the fuck is right or wrong. 0.92
01:30:51.000 I'm just trying to figure out which person's telling the truth. 0.97
01:30:56.000 And when you talk to him, you're like, he's a very intelligent guy.
01:31:01.000 What does it say here?
01:31:02.000 If the virus did not infect the baby, the baby will eventually lose its mother's antibodies and test negative for HIV. A baby born to an HIV positive mother Will thus always test positive for HIV. Whether that newborn baby is truly seropositive or not.
01:31:19.000 So it says again, if the virus did not infect the baby, the baby will eventually lose its mother's antibodies and test negative for HIV. Huh.
01:31:27.000 So it's HIV negative.
01:31:29.000 So the baby that tests positive for HIV. Then test negative later.
01:31:34.000 Yeah.
01:31:35.000 I don't know if he's right.
01:31:37.000 It doesn't make sense that he's right.
01:31:38.000 There's all these other virologists, all these other people that have different opinions.
01:31:42.000 It doesn't totally make sense.
01:31:43.000 Well, I think just being healthy just in general, you know, my assumption is that's why Magic Johnson, everyone's like, oh, he, you know, obviously him having money for good drugs helps, but he's a professional athlete.
01:31:55.000 I'm assuming he just was super fucking healthy.
01:31:57.000 He listened to his doctors. 0.96
01:31:58.000 He wasn't out there and...
01:32:00.000 Doing drugs and partying.
01:32:00.000 How did he get it?
01:32:01.000 Was it ever disclosed how he got HIV? I don't know.
01:32:04.000 He said through heterosexual sex.
01:32:06.000 And he didn't know which partner.
01:32:09.000 Right.
01:32:10.000 You'd be the only guy ever.
01:32:13.000 Like, what do you consider heterosexual sex?
01:32:16.000 Like, what's normal?
01:32:18.000 You guys becoming blood brothers?
01:32:19.000 Like, what are you doing out there, bro? 0.97
01:32:22.000 What are you doing where you're the one guy who gets it from heterosexual sex? 0.99
01:32:26.000 I remember there was an episode of Penn& Teller's Bullshit, which was a great show on Showtime back in the day. 0.99
01:32:31.000 Yeah, that was a great show. 0.98
01:32:31.000 Fucking great show, like, way ahead of its time. 0.98
01:32:33.000 Before, like, there was a lot of podcasts out there. 0.99
01:32:35.000 Before, there was, like, it was just a fucking really good show. 0.98
01:32:39.000 And they would just kind of dispel bullshit in each episode. 0.99
01:32:42.000 And they talked about AIDS. And they just went over the numbers of how unlikely you were to get AIDS if you had sex even with an HIV-positive woman because of how much it exists, you know, I guess within vaginal fluid. 0.97
01:32:53.000 And I was like, oh, really? 0.99
01:32:54.000 The whole fucking time? 0.99
01:32:56.000 It was crazy. 0.99
01:32:57.000 And then I remember we ended up watching the movie Kids after that.
01:33:00.000 You remember the movie Kids?
01:33:01.000 Harmony Karin movie?
01:33:02.000 Yes. 0.98
01:33:03.000 And the whole point of that movie is that fucking, you know, the girl gets AIDS and she's trying to find the guy that gave her AIDS throughout the whole movie. 0.99
01:33:11.000 They said normal sex, right? 1.00
01:33:13.000 Yeah. 0.97
01:33:13.000 So in my mind, I'm going like, all right, the whole plot of the movie doesn't make fucking sense probably to begin with. 0.97
01:33:19.000 But then the very last scene of the movie, the big ending is, spoiler alert, one of the other guys that is in the movie ends up date raping the girl with AIDS. She's like passed out on drugs on the couch. 0.97
01:33:29.000 And then he gets AIDS. Well, yeah, but that's the big like, dun-dun, now he has AIDS, you assume.
01:33:34.000 But after that, I'm like, he probably didn't get AIDS. He probably just got away with it.
01:33:39.000 We thought you'd get AIDS if you just, like, kissed somebody back then.
01:33:42.000 Everyone was terrified.
01:33:43.000 Dude, I made out with a girl from South Africa when I was, like, 20, and I remember, and she was white, and I was like, dude, Africa, they have, like, huge AIDS. I remember being like, dude, this is it. 0.85
01:33:52.000 I got AIDS. Her teeth were probably bleeding. 0.99
01:33:55.000 Yeah.
01:33:57.000 The Africa AIDS thing is crazy.
01:33:59.000 There's certain countries where it's literally like a third of the population.
01:34:03.000 That have AIDS? Yeah.
01:34:04.000 And in those countries, how many of them are in severe poverty?
01:34:08.000 I'm assuming all of them.
01:34:09.000 Right.
01:34:10.000 So then they're also severely malnourished.
01:34:13.000 That's always the case.
01:34:15.000 I wonder how many of those people they actually test for HIV. I wonder how many of those people they declare AIDS because their immune system is severely compromised.
01:34:24.000 I wonder what the number is.
01:34:26.000 Because you gotta imagine that a lot of those people that have acquired immune deficiency syndrome, if you have a serious, obvious culprit, like no food, tainted water, terrible living conditions, dirt floors, that's gonna fuck your immune system up too.
01:34:45.000 Everything's gonna fuck your immune system up too.
01:34:47.000 You're starving.
01:34:50.000 You know, it's just... 1.00
01:34:51.000 Diseases are fucking horrifying. 0.98
01:34:54.000 It's just horrifying to think that there's a thing that could just take out giant swaths of the population. 0.99
01:35:00.000 And they know we're horrified of it.
01:35:02.000 Oh, yeah. 0.97
01:35:03.000 That's what sucks now. 0.96
01:35:04.000 Yeah, they're kicking up some more dust about another COVID now. 0.91
01:35:07.000 There's certain things that have gotten closed down.
01:35:09.000 What sucks is now they know we'll jump.
01:35:12.000 You think people will?
01:35:13.000 I think a lot more people are going to be way less willing to sit inside, not go to work.
01:35:17.000 There's a cult that emerged, the Branch Covidians.
01:35:21.000 Everybody knows it. 1.00
01:35:23.000 There's a bunch of people that are out there that are in a fucking COVID cult. 0.99
01:35:26.000 Whether they realize it or not, it's a segment of... 0.99
01:35:29.000 It's not even necessarily left wing.
01:35:31.000 There's some right wing people that are part of this. 1.00
01:35:33.000 But these fucking people, they committed to it. 1.00
01:35:36.000 They got it. 1.00
01:35:37.000 They told other people to get it.
01:35:38.000 And because they did that, they're never going to see the light.
01:35:41.000 Yeah.
01:35:42.000 They're just not going to.
01:35:43.000 And they're lining up to get boosted now.
01:35:45.000 That's crazy.
01:35:46.000 It's wild.
01:35:49.000 Dude, I didn't really live like the pandemic was happening.
01:35:52.000 I still did comedy.
01:35:54.000 I was on flights where it was me and like three other people during it.
01:36:00.000 Anywhere I could go.
01:36:01.000 I went on vacation a few times.
01:36:02.000 I went to Jamaica.
01:36:03.000 I would just take a COVID test to fly, then I had to take a COVID test to fly back.
01:36:07.000 Yeah.
01:36:08.000 I just didn't want it to affect my family like that.
01:36:10.000 That's why we moved out to Jersey.
01:36:11.000 New Jersey, it was like night and day difference.
01:36:13.000 And Jersey's a blue state, but like, I mean, I just don't even think it is. 0.97
01:36:17.000 I have no idea how it's a blue state because there's so many fucking American flags on like front lawns in New Jersey everywhere, all over New Jersey. 0.96
01:36:23.000 Well, it came that close to going Republican. 0.98
01:36:25.000 Yeah, I bet it did.
01:36:26.000 It was like down to the wire.
01:36:26.000 Yeah, I bet it's a close one.
01:36:29.000 But yeah, I mean, I just wanted to, you know, just fucking have some space.
01:36:33.000 The city was so locked down and so like...
01:36:36.000 You just gotta learn how to drive.
01:36:39.000 It's almost cheaper to just take Ubers now at this point.
01:36:42.000 Is it really?
01:36:43.000 Yeah, well not...
01:36:44.000 Oh, with parking and everything?
01:36:45.000 Yeah, with parking, with insurance, with, you know...
01:36:48.000 Yeah, oh, especially your insurance.
01:36:50.000 Yeah.
01:36:50.000 Yeah, but if you want to do a road gig...
01:36:52.000 Jersey always had great road gigs.
01:36:54.000 Fun road gigs.
01:36:55.000 Yeah.
01:36:55.000 There's always a lot of them.
01:36:57.000 Yeah, Jersey's got a bunch of cool places.
01:36:59.000 Yeah, there's always, like, when I was there in the 90s, when I was coming up, there was always places you could headline, there's weird spots.
01:37:06.000 Yeah.
01:37:07.000 Down the shore.
01:37:08.000 Because it was, you know, a branch of New York City, there's so many great comics right there that rooms just start popping up all over the place.
01:37:14.000 Yeah.
01:37:15.000 Especially during the summer.
01:37:17.000 Yeah.
01:37:17.000 Oh, yeah, down, yeah, there's a place, um...
01:37:22.000 Uncle Vinny's down the shore. 0.99
01:37:23.000 Now, it's a little fucking... 0.99
01:37:25.000 I mean, dude, it's hilarious. 0.99
01:37:27.000 It's a little shitty comedy, but it's awesome. 1.00
01:37:29.000 Dino's the fucking man. 1.00
01:37:30.000 Shout out to Uncle Vinny's. 1.00
01:37:31.000 Go support that place.
01:37:32.000 But it's just like a little road spot.
01:37:34.000 You go down the shore, you try... 0.99
01:37:35.000 He books me every fucking February. 1.00
01:37:37.000 How about you book me in the summertime, dickhead, instead of February? 1.00
01:37:40.000 When it sucks. 0.98
01:37:41.000 But yeah, there's a bunch of places that are just like that, that are, you know, just easy to get to.
01:37:47.000 And back in the day, like, you just wanted the work.
01:37:49.000 Because spots in the city, when I started, were fucking 50 bucks on the weekends, 20 bucks on the weeknights.
01:37:54.000 There's just no way to sustain a living. 0.70
01:37:57.000 You have to go take road gigs, 500 bucks, 600 bucks.
01:38:01.000 But I was a little bit...
01:38:02.000 I'm lucky because when I really started headlining, we already had the podcast, we already had a little bit of an audience, so I didn't have to do those really shitty gigs where you gotta go perform for people who don't know you, don't wanna see you, which exists in cities.
01:38:16.000 When you go to a city like New York, Not for you, but like for most comics, like the audience is just there for the show that night.
01:38:24.000 They're not there for any particular comedian.
01:38:25.000 Right.
01:38:26.000 And I think you get a real gauge as to what's good with those types of audiences.
01:38:30.000 You definitely do.
01:38:32.000 Yeah.
01:38:32.000 It's like you have a lot of different places where you could work in New York and in Jersey and everywhere.
01:38:39.000 Yeah.
01:38:39.000 There's all these different, like having all those different looks, it's very important.
01:38:44.000 And those late night shows when everyone's tired, those are important too. 0.99
01:38:47.000 You get to see the bullshit in your act. 1.00
01:38:49.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:38:49.000 You know, late night crowds, 30 people there. 1.00
01:38:54.000 How do you do that now? 1.00
01:38:55.000 How do you see the bullshit in your act? 1.00
01:38:57.000 Because you're so fucking famous. 1.00
01:38:58.000 You have your own club. 0.99
01:39:01.000 There's got to be something, right?
01:39:03.000 Because they're going to hang on every word you say, right?
01:39:06.000 When's the last time you didn't crush, Joe? 1.00
01:39:08.000 You still are trying new shit. 1.00
01:39:10.000 You're still going to fucking paint yourself into dark alleys. 1.00
01:39:14.000 If you try new shit, you're gonna paint yourself into a dark alley. 1.00
01:39:18.000 But your comfort level's different. 0.99
01:39:20.000 So you're like, I'm better at getting out of those. 0.91
01:39:23.000 But if you're writing new stuff and you're fucking around with it on stage, which is really how you have to kind of do it. 0.77
01:39:28.000 I always have a general idea of what I think is funny about something. 0.99
01:39:32.000 And then when I bring it on stage, I'm like, but what the fuck is... 0.97
01:39:35.000 Why are we doing it that way? 0.97
01:39:36.000 And then I can, like, sort of expand on it with all these points that I have, but I kind of piece it together on stage.
01:39:43.000 Yeah, you gotta put it together on stage. 0.98
01:39:44.000 Sometimes it sucks.
01:39:45.000 Well, some guys just write the jokes down, and then they go and tell them on stage like that, and, like, that's crazy. 0.62
01:39:52.000 I know comics that, like, just write...
01:39:54.000 And they write their stand-up in their cadence, and then they go on stage and tell it, and I'm like, every time I tell a joke, it starts off with some dumb idea where I'm like, it's just a little kernel, like maybe one or two punchlines, and then I try to build it out from there.
01:40:07.000 Or maybe I have a couple jokes about a similar topic, and you try to put it together and make it like a chunk.
01:40:12.000 But it always has to be worked out with the reaction of the audience, and that's why it's really important for them to be there.
01:40:19.000 And those late night shows, we used to do check spots in New York City.
01:40:22.000 Have you ever done a check spot?
01:40:23.000 Yes. 1.00
01:40:24.000 They would drop fucking checks on them. 0.99
01:40:25.000 You do it as a headliner, you know, most clubs still have, you know, they still drop the checks on the headliners, which is a terrible way to do it. 0.99
01:40:32.000 Well, the check spot is someone who comes out specifically to do stand-up while the checks are getting dropped.
01:40:37.000 So you get like a 10-minute set?
01:40:39.000 Yeah, like 10 minutes, and literally, people are pissed off.
01:40:42.000 They're paying way too much for drinks.
01:40:45.000 People are going to the bathroom.
01:40:46.000 They're not paying attention.
01:40:47.000 They're trying to get their waiter's attention, and you have to dig yourself out of that hole.
01:40:51.000 Dan Soder was the check spot guy at Stand Up New York when I met him. 0.99
01:40:54.000 He was the guy, like every check spot on the weekends, and it fucking turned him into a killer. 1.00
01:40:58.000 It turned him into a real killer. 0.98
01:40:59.000 It was such a tough spot, but it made you really good at just being in that moment, and you're just not nervous anymore because it's the shittiest spot possible.
01:41:08.000 But yeah, I think those things are good to have Young comedians need that. 0.83
01:41:13.000 They need shitty rooms. 0.97
01:41:15.000 They need reps. 1.00
01:41:18.000 That's fucking an important part of having a lot of clubs around too. 0.88
01:41:23.000 You've got a lot of places to do stuff like that. 0.90
01:41:26.000 That's why Austin's great now for comedy.
01:41:28.000 It's because you guys legitimately just created a scene.
01:41:31.000 Out of nowhere.
01:41:32.000 There was a scene here.
01:41:33.000 There was actually a good comedy scene before these clubs actually started opening up.
01:41:40.000 But like now it's like legitimately like five or six real clubs and then there's like 15 or 20 rooms.
01:41:46.000 It's like New York was in the 90s.
01:41:48.000 That's like a really good place to develop.
01:41:50.000 Yeah, it's fun.
01:41:51.000 And then there's Cap City at the Domain where a lot of guys are coming in and doing that for the weekends.
01:41:55.000 Yeah.
01:41:56.000 I still haven't been.
01:41:57.000 Have you been?
01:41:58.000 No, I do The Creek.
01:41:59.000 I want to just see it.
01:42:00.000 Yeah.
01:42:01.000 I've never been.
01:42:02.000 I hear it's cool.
01:42:04.000 I know that area.
01:42:05.000 I was just in that area.
01:42:06.000 Yeah.
01:42:06.000 Yeah, Austin's amazing.
01:42:07.000 It's just fucking hot as balls, dude. 1.00
01:42:09.000 I don't understand how you guys do this shit. 1.00
01:42:10.000 It's fucking... 1.00
01:42:11.000 It's 100 degrees every day, and it's September. 1.00
01:42:14.000 Yep.
01:42:15.000 There's a...
01:42:16.000 I don't even...
01:42:17.000 Somebody told me this the other day.
01:42:18.000 It's a great death metal band name. 0.99
01:42:20.000 I don't know the band, but the band's name is Texas in July, which is such a brutal fucking name for a band. 0.99
01:42:28.000 That is a brutal name for a band. 0.98
01:42:30.000 Yeah.
01:42:30.000 Like Scorpion Dick.
01:42:31.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:42:32.000 Yeah, it's hot as fuck here, but I like it. 0.99
01:42:36.000 It doesn't bother me. 0.99
01:42:38.000 Well, if you're in shape, when I'm in shape, I like it being a little hot. 0.95
01:42:43.000 You get a little sweaty, you're like, oh, it's fucking great. 0.84
01:42:45.000 It feels healthy, you know? 1.00
01:42:46.000 But when you're fat, dude, it just sucks dick. 1.00
01:42:51.000 That makes sense. 1.00
01:42:52.000 You see fat people here, like, what is wrong? 0.66
01:42:53.000 You just move, leave. 0.67
01:42:55.000 Well, they have so much insulation, too.
01:42:57.000 If you're a really large person and you're just, like, thick with fat...
01:43:01.000 Like fat in your arms, fat everywhere.
01:43:02.000 That's like you and I wearing like large coats, like thick heavy coats everywhere you go.
01:43:08.000 Like that's gotta be a lot of insulation.
01:43:10.000 Yeah.
01:43:10.000 All that body fat and then you're out in the heat cooking like a brisket.
01:43:14.000 Brutal, dude.
01:43:15.000 When my son's mother was pregnant, I weighed 320 pounds.
01:43:19.000 I got big.
01:43:20.000 Jesus! 1.00
01:43:21.000 We just ate the whole fucking time. 1.00
01:43:22.000 Jesus! 1.00
01:43:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:43:24.000 And, dude, being fat in New York City in the summertime is a nightmare.
01:43:28.000 Walking up and down the subway stairs, I mean, it's just, it's really...
01:43:31.000 How did you pull yourself out of that?
01:43:33.000 Just diet and exercise.
01:43:35.000 I've done it before.
01:43:36.000 I was 330 pounds in college, and then I started working out when I was like 26, 27. So when you were really young, you did it.
01:43:46.000 You got that big.
01:43:48.000 Yeah.
01:43:49.000 When I was 19, I was like 330. How did you get that big at 19?
01:43:53.000 I started smoking weed when I was like 17. Just eating everything?
01:43:57.000 Dude, it was... 0.99
01:43:58.000 We just fucking... 0.98
01:44:02.000 When you're broke, you have $10, right? 0.99
01:44:05.000 Let's say you get together with four of your friends.
01:44:07.000 We have $10 each.
01:44:08.000 We come together with $40.
01:44:10.000 $20 for a bag of weed and $20 to feed us.
01:44:13.000 It's not like we got a pizza. 0.99
01:44:14.000 We went and got like bags of chips and fucking candy bars and like we just... 0.98
01:44:17.000 We just, it was that summer, that first summer I started smoking weed. 0.99
01:44:20.000 I blew the fuck up.
01:44:22.000 But it was the, dude, it was so great. 0.51
01:44:24.000 It was so, I loved it so much, dude.
01:44:26.000 I was straight edge.
01:44:26.000 I was like, I was, it was a point of pride that I had never done a drug.
01:44:29.000 And I was like, no, I'm not, you know, I'm not into drugs.
01:44:31.000 It's not cool.
01:44:31.000 And then one day me and my friends just decided that we were going to go smoke weed.
01:44:35.000 Me and my buddy Dave Green, my buddy James Meek, and we're like, we're just going to do it.
01:44:37.000 Let's just try it.
01:44:38.000 We're about to graduate high school.
01:44:39.000 Let's get stoned. 1.00
01:44:40.000 And we were going to see Snowcore, Snowcore 2000. It was System of a Down Incubus, Pouya, and Mr. Bungle.
01:44:47.000 It was a big metal show.
01:44:49.000 And System of a Down was like my favorite band at the time.
01:44:51.000 And we ended up just getting super stoned in my elementary school parking lot.
01:44:55.000 And then going to that concert that night and seeing like our favorite bands just high for the first time. 0.59
01:44:59.000 It was just the perfect, like, dude, I laughed so fucking hard the first time I got high.
01:45:04.000 And I just fell in love with it.
01:45:06.000 It was just this thing.
01:45:07.000 I was connected with it.
01:45:08.000 I just never stopped really smoking since then.
01:45:10.000 There's been a couple times where I've taken breaks. 0.99
01:45:12.000 But it was like fucking... 0.99
01:45:14.000 I loved it. 0.99
01:45:14.000 I really loved it. 0.99
01:45:15.000 I think it hits everybody different.
01:45:18.000 It's the only thing that makes sense to me.
01:45:19.000 It hits everybody's mind, everybody's body different.
01:45:23.000 Some people, it's just not for them.
01:45:24.000 And I get it.
01:45:25.000 Yeah.
01:45:26.000 But the fact that it's illegal just drives me crazy! 1.00
01:45:29.000 It's so stupid! 0.99
01:45:32.000 Didn't the Biden administration consider bringing it down to, instead of a Schedule 1, they were talking about making it a Schedule 3? 1.00
01:45:41.000 How many states is it legal in at this point?
01:45:44.000 Because I feel like it's legal almost everywhere I go.
01:45:48.000 It's legal most states now.
01:45:50.000 Yeah, like recreational.
01:45:52.000 I think it's like more than 30. Jersey and New York are both recreationally legal.
01:45:56.000 How many states is it legal in now?
01:45:58.000 I'm asking Jamie for multiple Googles at the same time.
01:46:03.000 Welcome to being a podcast producer.
01:46:05.000 23 states include also D.C., Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
01:46:12.000 Nice.
01:46:13.000 That's recreational?
01:46:14.000 That's recreational.
01:46:16.000 So that's 26 total for recreational.
01:46:19.000 And then medicinal.
01:46:20.000 How many for that? 1.00
01:46:21.000 Because that shit's easy to get a card. 1.00
01:46:24.000 In California, they just can't wait to give you a card. 1.00
01:46:27.000 I got one in Jamaica.
01:46:28.000 I'm sorry?
01:46:30.000 It brings it up to 40. So 40 states where marijuana is at least in some form legal.
01:46:35.000 Four more have CBD also with a little bit of THC. Texas has that 0.3% thing you can do.
01:46:44.000 Most places have that. 1.00
01:46:45.000 That's just another scam because that shit doesn't work. 1.00
01:46:47.000 I got that in Italy last year and fucking just smoking. 1.00
01:46:50.000 It was like I was smoking CBD joints. 0.99
01:46:52.000 Really?
01:46:52.000 Yeah, I just did not.
01:46:53.000 Didn't do the same thing.
01:46:55.000 Interesting.
01:46:55.000 But yeah, in Jamaica when I went, they made it.
01:46:58.000 I've been to Jamaica like 10 times.
01:47:00.000 I love Jamaica. 1.00
01:47:00.000 I'm trash. 1.00
01:47:01.000 I'm a fucking trash bag. 1.00
01:47:02.000 Jamaica's great. 1.00
01:47:02.000 It's the best. 1.00
01:47:02.000 I love it. 1.00
01:47:03.000 I go every year.
01:47:04.000 I really do.
01:47:04.000 The water's so cool.
01:47:05.000 Oh, it's amazing.
01:47:06.000 I do a family, we either bring my company, my podcast network, we have like 15 producers, so we rent a couple villas on the beach and we just fucking party the whole time.
01:47:16.000 Or I do it with my family, I'll pick one or the other.
01:47:19.000 And they just made it legal I'd say maybe five years ago.
01:47:24.000 Before that, you had to go buy it on the beach.
01:47:26.000 You just find a guy.
01:47:27.000 And it was like, no, you could get weed very easily. 0.97
01:47:29.000 But it was really shitty, like dirt weed. 0.99
01:47:31.000 But it was Jamaica, so it just fucking ruled. 0.99
01:47:33.000 It didn't matter that it wasn't good quality weed. 0.99
01:47:35.000 You just smoked a big fat joint of it on the beach, and that was that.
01:47:38.000 But they made it legal, and first it was medicinally legal a few years ago, and they have a smoke shop that I went to, and they call a doctor.
01:47:47.000 They just call some Jamaican dude, and you get on the phone with him, and it's like, hey, what's wrong with your man?
01:47:51.000 I want to be hurting.
01:47:52.000 And I'm like, my head?
01:47:53.000 He's like, you need weed! 0.99
01:47:54.000 And then they just fucking put him on the phone. 0.99
01:47:56.000 So now I have a medicinal license in Jamaica. 0.98
01:47:59.000 Anytime I go, I'm in the entire national...
01:48:02.000 Yeah, it rules.
01:48:03.000 That's amazing.
01:48:04.000 But now it's recreationally legal, so you don't have to do that anymore.
01:48:08.000 How could it not be recreationally legal in Jamaica?
01:48:11.000 But now the weed's great in Jamaica.
01:48:13.000 I'm sure.
01:48:13.000 Dude, it's awesome.
01:48:14.000 The climate there is perfect.
01:48:16.000 And now you can get mushrooms at the smoke shops.
01:48:19.000 We had mushroom chocolates.
01:48:20.000 It was fun. 1.00
01:48:20.000 Let's fucking go, Jamaica! 1.00
01:48:23.000 Dude, the best. 1.00
01:48:24.000 I love it. 0.83
01:48:24.000 People make fun of me all the time for going to Jamaica, but I fucking love it. 0.83
01:48:27.000 Amen. 0.98
01:48:28.000 Anthony Bourdain loved that spot.
01:48:30.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:48:31.000 Jamaica's the shit. 1.00
01:48:32.000 Yeah. 1.00
01:48:33.000 I just love the fact that you can still...
01:48:37.000 When they took travel away, and they were limiting travel to people who were vaccinated, in certain places you had to be vaccinated, it was just like...
01:48:45.000 That's why I got the vaccine.
01:48:46.000 It made you realize how much that's important to just be able to go somewhere, how nice that is.
01:48:53.000 It's literally the only thing that I spend my money on.
01:48:56.000 I take my son on a father-son trip every year.
01:48:59.000 We do a family trip.
01:49:00.000 We do a company trip.
01:49:01.000 I do a romantic vacation with my girlfriend.
01:49:03.000 And I'm not rich by any means, but I have this...
01:49:07.000 Whatever, dude.
01:49:08.000 I just have this weird fear that I'm going to die when I'm young.
01:49:11.000 And I think creating experiences with my family and my son...
01:49:15.000 The most important thing.
01:49:16.000 That's beautiful.
01:49:17.000 He'll never lose those experiences. 1.00
01:49:18.000 I can get hit by a fucking bus tomorrow. 0.99
01:49:21.000 And, you know, yes, I should save more money and I should be fucking more responsible with it. 0.99
01:49:25.000 But I feel like I didn't have any of those. 0.60
01:49:27.000 Like, dude, I went to the Jersey Shore a couple times when I was a kid.
01:49:30.000 Like, I never went on vacation. 0.99
01:49:31.000 And I think, like, yeah, dude, I just want him to have those fucking memories. 0.99
01:49:34.000 That's that. 0.99
01:49:35.000 That's awesome.
01:49:36.000 That's a beautiful perspective, man.
01:49:38.000 That's super healthy.
01:49:39.000 Thanks.
01:49:40.000 Awesome.
01:49:41.000 Beautiful.
01:49:42.000 Nobody's ever called me healthy.
01:49:43.000 That's healthy, dude.
01:49:44.000 That is healthy.
01:49:45.000 They did ask for it to be rescheduled.
01:49:47.000 It's the third part of the three-step process he has to have happen.
01:49:52.000 First step was the federal expungement.
01:49:55.000 You know, they let people out even though there wasn't many in federal prison.
01:49:57.000 Yeah.
01:49:58.000 Well, that was the crazy thing.
01:50:00.000 We're going to let out everybody who's in federal prison for pot.
01:50:03.000 Nobody.
01:50:03.000 Zero people.
01:50:06.000 Everybody was like, what the fuck are you talking about? 0.99
01:50:09.000 And the second is the states are asked to do the same thing, but they're not being forced to. 0.99
01:50:14.000 I mean, if you're in federal prison for pot, it's because you're selling pounds and pounds of marijuana.
01:50:18.000 Right.
01:50:18.000 At one point, you have to say, oh, you can't do that.
01:50:21.000 Right.
01:50:21.000 It's not for possession.
01:50:22.000 You said for possession.
01:50:23.000 Okay, for possession.
01:50:24.000 Didn't he say for possession?
01:50:25.000 He does say for possession.
01:50:27.000 What if you're possessing...
01:50:31.000 They'll get you for distribution. 0.99
01:50:32.000 If you have 50 pounds of pot in your fucking warehouse, they're gonna get you for distribution. 1.00
01:50:36.000 You're not smoking 50 pounds of pot, bro. 1.00
01:50:39.000 You know, it's like, what do they allow you?
01:50:41.000 They allow you like five grams.
01:50:43.000 How many...
01:50:44.000 Depends.
01:50:45.000 It's up to two ounces in some places.
01:50:46.000 Two ounces?
01:50:47.000 You could fly with up to an ounce.
01:50:49.000 That's a lot of weed.
01:50:51.000 Yeah, state to state.
01:50:52.000 As long as it's legal in the states you're flying to and from.
01:50:55.000 Wow.
01:50:55.000 And I've been flying with weed for years.
01:50:57.000 Before, Ari Shafir, I was like, how do you fly with weed?
01:51:02.000 He was like, oh, yeah, you just take a bag.
01:51:04.000 I was like, tell me.
01:51:05.000 You take it, you put it in a bag.
01:51:06.000 So you take that bag, you put it in your suitcase, and then you fly.
01:51:09.000 I was like, oh, that's it?
01:51:10.000 He's like, yeah, just fly with it.
01:51:11.000 And then I was like, really?
01:51:12.000 And then I read on a Reddit thread that they did an AMA with a TSA employee.
01:51:18.000 And they were just talking about flying with weed.
01:51:21.000 And they were like, oh, what do you do if you catch somebody with weed?
01:51:24.000 They were like, we've been instructed specifically to just throw it away. 0.97
01:51:28.000 They can't hold up the entire fucking airport every time they find like a little bit of weed. 0.98
01:51:33.000 So yeah, I used to just put it in a sock. 0.97
01:51:35.000 Because the way it would show up on the 3D scanners is organic material, so it would be the same color as your socks.
01:51:41.000 So I used to just put it in my sock. 0.68
01:51:43.000 But yeah, now I just fucking put it right in my suitcase. 0.83
01:51:45.000 TSA pull it out, they look at it, they compliment the quality. 0.94
01:51:49.000 That's hilarious.
01:51:50.000 Yeah, when...
01:51:52.000 Where were we?
01:51:53.000 In Nashville? 0.99
01:51:54.000 Did Nashville have the fucking truck, or was it New Orleans? 1.00
01:51:57.000 It was Nashville, right? 0.99
01:51:59.000 There was like weed trucks.
01:52:01.000 You know, you get a taco truck.
01:52:03.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:52:03.000 There were weed trucks.
01:52:04.000 They're all over New York.
01:52:04.000 Are they really?
01:52:05.000 All over New York.
01:52:06.000 They drive around, just park places, they ring the bell. 0.99
01:52:09.000 They got busted once, because as soon as they made it recreational legal, all these fucking Puerto Ricans were like, we're gonna have weed trucks. 1.00
01:52:17.000 This wasn't part of the process of legalizing weed, but they were like, we're just going to do it. 0.98
01:52:20.000 So they had like, one day the cops were just like, what are we doing about these weed trucks?
01:52:25.000 And they busted like 16 trucks in a day.
01:52:27.000 And they like, I don't even think they arrested the guys.
01:52:29.000 They just literally confiscated everything and they held it as like evidence and like, but I think all those guys made like...
01:52:36.000 It was like a smash and grab.
01:52:38.000 They made a ton of money very quickly.
01:52:39.000 But if you could sell weed, why can't you sell weed out of a truck?
01:52:42.000 You don't have a license to operate a truck?
01:52:44.000 Not licensed.
01:52:46.000 Right now in New York, I think there's like four or five legal weed dispensaries.
01:52:51.000 But there's like 200 illegal weed dispensaries.
01:52:54.000 But because it's falling into this gray area, I think the cops just don't really...
01:52:58.000 They just sort of turn a blind eye.
01:53:00.000 And it's just sort of a waste of everyone's time.
01:53:03.000 But yeah, I believe there's not that many, but every other corner there's a place where you can buy weed.
01:53:08.000 Interesting.
01:53:10.000 Yeah, so they're probably not giving out those licenses.
01:53:12.000 That's probably why.
01:53:13.000 They probably don't want people just pulling over in trucks.
01:53:16.000 The weed bodegas have no fear it's illegal to sell without a license.
01:53:21.000 It's not that this hasn't stopped 1,500 stores and counting.
01:53:25.000 1,500 stores.
01:53:27.000 So here's what's gonna happen.
01:53:28.000 What does that mean?
01:53:29.000 It stopped 1,500 stores?
01:53:31.000 It has not.
01:53:31.000 It has not stopped 1,500.
01:53:33.000 So they're gonna just bust.
01:53:34.000 One day, they're gonna just, whatever the law is just taking too long to move, right?
01:53:38.000 So people are just selling it.
01:53:39.000 They're just selling it.
01:53:40.000 But these stores are all just gonna be busted one day.
01:53:42.000 They're gonna do a sweep and they're gonna confiscate everything.
01:53:45.000 Yeah, but why?
01:53:46.000 That's the thing.
01:53:47.000 It's like, why are you making it hard to get a license?
01:53:51.000 That's expensive, probably.
01:53:52.000 Why are you making it so expensive to get a license?
01:53:54.000 Maybe you would have more money if you charged a reasonable amount and you actually went and got it from these people.
01:54:00.000 Instead of these people operating...
01:54:02.000 But then again, New York is like that.
01:54:03.000 There's a lot of people that are going to operate under the wire. 1.00
01:54:05.000 And even if it was $5 for a license, like, fuck you. 1.00
01:54:08.000 Well, I buy it on the black market, though, because it's a lot cheaper. 0.99
01:54:11.000 So if I buy dabs, like, you know, some sort of a distillate, it's like 90 bucks a gram at a dispensary.
01:54:19.000 Whereas I get like 20 bucks a gram from my dude.
01:54:23.000 Does your dude know who's growing it?
01:54:27.000 No.
01:54:28.000 This is where it gets weird.
01:54:29.000 I had this guy on, John Norris, and he was a game warden in California, and they started finding these grow-ops out in the forest land.
01:54:40.000 It's supposed to be public land. 0.97
01:54:42.000 And they'd find cartel grow-ops out there with toxic chemicals and all kinds of shit. 0.99
01:54:46.000 They're using crazy pesticides and fertilizers. 0.99
01:54:50.000 Stuff that no one else uses.
01:54:52.000 He details it.
01:54:53.000 He's got this book called Hidden Wars.
01:54:55.000 They became like a tactical unit.
01:54:57.000 They had dogs and everything.
01:54:59.000 All of a sudden, they're in shootouts with cartel members in the forest.
01:55:03.000 It's wild.
01:55:04.000 It's a wild book.
01:55:04.000 But the point is, like he said, 90% of all the illegal weed in the country, 90% of it is coming from these grow-ups, from the cartels.
01:55:13.000 And he goes, and you could be getting shit with all kinds of toxic stuff on it. 0.96
01:55:19.000 Alright, Joe. 0.99
01:55:19.000 Thanks. 0.99
01:55:19.000 Another fear. 0.99
01:55:20.000 I appreciate that.
01:55:21.000 Well, it's like...
01:55:22.000 Just unlocking fear after fear of me today.
01:55:24.000 Gas station sushi.
01:55:25.000 You might be alright.
01:55:26.000 Yeah.
01:55:28.000 You might be alright.
01:55:30.000 But, I mean, you might want that frozen burrito.
01:55:33.000 Yeah.
01:55:34.000 I mean, look, most of the time, now, it always comes, like, packaged.
01:55:37.000 Like, this is from a dude.
01:55:38.000 You know what I'm saying?
01:55:39.000 But it's like...
01:55:39.000 Yeah, but where's that dude live?
01:55:41.000 And like, how do you know it's from a dude?
01:55:43.000 You don't think that the cartel can make labels in English?
01:55:45.000 Oh, no, no, of course.
01:55:46.000 No, I'm saying he probably gets it from the cartel.
01:55:48.000 But he packages it really nicely, so I think it's cool.
01:55:51.000 You see?
01:55:52.000 White gummies.
01:55:54.000 It is pretty wild if that number's correct.
01:55:56.000 It's like 90% of the places where weed is illegal.
01:56:00.000 They're getting it from there.
01:56:01.000 Yeah.
01:56:04.000 It's always like...
01:56:06.000 They're doing a thing as well where now I know in certain places like California, they can't package it in a way where it looks like candy or they can't shape it in a certain way, right?
01:56:16.000 Wasn't there a thing with Mike Tyson's gummies?
01:56:19.000 He couldn't sell them in certain places because they were shaped like ears and you can't have them shaped as characters or things in certain jurisdictions.
01:56:26.000 Because people would think it's candy.
01:56:27.000 Yeah.
01:56:28.000 Yeah.
01:56:29.000 Yeah.
01:56:31.000 That's a fear of mine too. 0.99
01:56:32.000 It's like my kid just finds a fucking weed gummy one day and eats it. 0.99
01:56:36.000 Like, what would you do? 1.00
01:56:37.000 I would have to literally bribe him to never tell his mother.
01:56:40.000 Babysit him until he comes down from it and say, what'd you learn?
01:56:45.000 We hear about kids taking acid by accident sometimes. 0.99
01:56:48.000 You're like, dude, that would fucking destroy a kid. 0.97
01:56:51.000 Dude, we were looking at old uses of medicine. 0.99
01:56:55.000 And I had Peter Berg on from the...
01:56:58.000 He's the guy who created that painkiller series on Netflix.
01:57:03.000 And we were talking about...
01:57:04.000 They used to give little kids heroin.
01:57:06.000 Heroin was like medicine for kids.
01:57:09.000 They'd rub it in babies' mouths. 1.00
01:57:11.000 They'd rub morphine in their mouths.
01:57:12.000 Yeah, cocaine too.
01:57:13.000 They'd give people cocaine. 0.96
01:57:15.000 Yeah.
01:57:16.000 Gumbing a baby?
01:57:17.000 Bro, they used to just give it to kids. 0.99
01:57:19.000 Your kid won't shut the fuck up. 0.99
01:57:20.000 Give it heroin. 1.00
01:57:21.000 Yeah, dude.
01:57:21.000 And your kid's just laying there in bed.
01:57:24.000 I mean, what the fuck? 1.00
01:57:30.000 They gave people heroin when they were babies. 1.00
01:57:33.000 That's wild.
01:57:34.000 Yeah.
01:57:34.000 But a child wouldn't understand what acid was.
01:57:39.000 If they accidentally took acid, like a seven-year-old kid, a six-year-old kid, dude.
01:57:43.000 Right.
01:57:43.000 They would think they went insane.
01:57:46.000 It would be the scariest thing in the world for them.
01:57:49.000 It would affect them for the rest of their life.
01:57:50.000 There's no coming back from that.
01:57:52.000 Well, they could come back from it, but it's not going to be easy.
01:57:55.000 I mean, a massive disruption as you're growing up.
01:57:59.000 You're a kid and you're learning about life.
01:58:03.000 Borderline psychotic episode.
01:58:04.000 From your perspective, you don't even understand what a drug is.
01:58:06.000 There's no frame of reference. 0.99
01:58:08.000 The first time I did acid, I was scared, but I knew that I was about to be on a fucking journey. 0.99
01:58:13.000 You know what I'm saying? 0.99
01:58:14.000 That was the idea.
01:58:15.000 When you're a kid and it comes out of nowhere until you accidentally take it, and then you're just in this state.
01:58:21.000 Yeah.
01:58:22.000 And then, you know, now you know that's possible.
01:58:25.000 So you're always going to have this anxiety that at one point in time you might slip back into it.
01:58:29.000 That was the thing that I'd always heard about acid too that scared me when I was a kid.
01:58:33.000 Flashbacks.
01:58:33.000 Yeah, flashbacks.
01:58:34.000 They would tell you, they would tell you, bro, it stays in your fat.
01:58:37.000 Yeah. 0.99
01:58:37.000 The acid stays in your fat, man, and one day, you're just fucking driving down the road and the road becomes teardrops. 0.99
01:58:44.000 I'm like, what? 0.99
01:58:45.000 Yeah, man, you have a flashback.
01:58:47.000 People die that way.
01:58:48.000 I was like, oh!
01:58:49.000 It was always the thing.
01:58:50.000 If you take acid, maybe you'll never come back.
01:58:53.000 Yeah, I think I took so much acid one time.
01:58:56.000 The most acid I ever took when I was 19 years old, maybe 18. Me and my buddy Dan Doherty, we got a medicine dropper, this fucking hippie kid, this fucking real big known hippie in my town. 0.99
01:59:08.000 He's like, dude, I got acid. 0.98
01:59:09.000 And when...
01:59:11.000 When hallucinogens came to town in New York, where I was at, Rockland County, New York, when hallucinogens came around in the early 2000s, late 90s, you got them.
01:59:19.000 Because they only came around once in a while. 0.51
01:59:21.000 There'd be like a fucking hippie festival upstate, and people would bring strips of acid down, or they would have mushrooms. 0.98
01:59:26.000 But it was so rare. 0.99
01:59:27.000 So when you would hear about somebody having it, you'd fucking drive. 0.98
01:59:30.000 We used to drive from Rockland County, which is right outside of New York City. 0.98
01:59:33.000 We used to drive up to Albany, because there was a guy that would get it up there, and we would fucking pick it up when he had it, and he had it like twice a year.
01:59:40.000 But this kid was like, dude, I have liquid acid in an eyedropper.
01:59:43.000 We're like, oh, no way, dude, let's do it.
01:59:45.000 He was like, $3 a hit, which was super cheap.
01:59:47.000 And then my buddy Dan, I remember he did like two drops, and I was like, oh, sweet, dude.
01:59:52.000 He was like, all right, let me do another one.
01:59:53.000 And then he went, no, I did two.
01:59:54.000 And then he was like, I want to do another one.
01:59:55.000 And then he went, and squirted it. 0.99
01:59:58.000 And I went, holy shit, dude. 0.99
02:00:00.000 I was like, well, I can't let you do that by yourself. 0.99
02:00:01.000 And I went, We gave it back to the guy and he looked how much was left in it.
02:00:06.000 He was like, dude, he was like, don't pay me.
02:00:09.000 He was like, you didn't get this from me.
02:00:11.000 And then he just walked away from us.
02:00:13.000 And then within 10 minutes, dude, you know how it takes like 45 minutes to come on?
02:00:19.000 10 minutes, I'm talking about on another planet, dude. 0.99
02:00:23.000 Another fucking planet. 0.99
02:00:25.000 Within five minutes of that, I lose Dan. 1.00
02:00:28.000 Dan's running down the street like a lunatic.
02:00:30.000 When you say another planet, what are you experiencing? 0.91
02:00:34.000 Just extreme...
02:00:35.000 I don't even remember most of the trip, but I remember I saw a friend and they got in their car, and the lights from the car, it was like I was on a spaceship, dude.
02:00:45.000 It was just like the music, and I mean, it was just...
02:00:48.000 The hardest I've ever tripped by far, and it's everything, like the visuals, the sounds, the feeling, but such an intense trip, like scary.
02:00:56.000 It started becoming really scary, started going down the road where everything is everything. 0.99
02:01:01.000 That was my conclusion, was that life is death, and death is life, and sound is the same thing as a fucking table. 1.00
02:01:08.000 Just being a fucking lunatic. 1.00
02:01:10.000 And I remember like starting to think, it kept on coming into my head to kill myself because I wanted, that's an experience that I could only experience once. 1.00
02:01:18.000 It was like just really scary fucking thoughts. 0.99
02:01:20.000 And I tripped for two full days. 0.99
02:01:23.000 48 hours straight, didn't sleep, just kept on tripping.
02:01:26.000 Then I finally fell asleep and then the next morning I woke up and it was like I had taken a hit of acid the next morning.
02:01:31.000 But it was normal enough that I was like, so really for like three days I tripped.
02:01:36.000 And when you were tripping, what did the world look like?
02:01:41.000 Um...
02:01:42.000 There was just...
02:01:44.000 Like the world...
02:01:45.000 I mean...
02:01:45.000 It's a great question.
02:01:47.000 It's a really great question.
02:01:48.000 I'm trying to remember what my perspective was on how the world looked. 0.99
02:01:50.000 I remember being at a Dunkin' Donuts and just sitting there at the table and just fucking thinking about numbers a lot and just fucking... 0.99
02:01:56.000 Numbers? 0.98
02:01:57.000 Yeah, and everything was just fucking brighter.
02:01:59.000 It wasn't...
02:02:00.000 Dude, it wasn't pleasurable at all.
02:02:02.000 It wasn't like...
02:02:02.000 Why were you thinking about numbers?
02:02:05.000 I don't know.
02:02:06.000 I don't know.
02:02:07.000 I was just the numbers words like coming into my head and I was just repeating like fake math equations that I that weren't real.
02:02:13.000 How do you know they weren't?
02:02:14.000 Maybe they were real.
02:02:15.000 I know where you're going. 0.99
02:02:16.000 What if you wrote those bitches down and someone like Eric Weinstein would look at them and go, what are you doing here? 0.99
02:02:22.000 Where did you learn this? 0.99
02:02:23.000 Oh my god, this is the solution. 0.99
02:02:25.000 And they run over to one of those fucking Goodwill hunting chalkboards. 0.99
02:02:30.000 I figured it all out. 0.99
02:02:32.000 Imagine if that's what ideas are when you're tripping.
02:02:35.000 What if you're catching an alien life form and it comes in the form of an idea?
02:02:44.000 I've thought about this a lot. 0.93
02:02:46.000 I know it's a stupid premise, but everything that people have made ever has come from ideas. 0.99
02:02:52.000 And everything that people are making, including artificial intelligence, including robots, all that shit, spaceships, came from ideas. 0.99
02:03:01.000 Then all of a sudden it's a thing, you know? 0.96
02:03:03.000 And people love to do that. 0.99
02:03:05.000 They fucking love to do that. 1.00
02:03:08.000 It just... 0.99
02:03:09.000 It just feels like where this is going, It's so clear that we're making robots that are going to take over.
02:03:18.000 Right.
02:03:19.000 Like, how clear is it? 0.94
02:03:20.000 When you see ChatGPT, when you see it answer questions and shit, well, ChatGPT now has the IQ of 155, you know, but a ChatGPT5 is going to have an IQ of a thousand. 0.92
02:03:32.000 What is ChatGPT5's IQ? It's going to be something ridiculous. 0.98
02:03:36.000 Yeah. 0.93
02:03:36.000 Well, now it's going to start manipulating it. 0.93
02:03:37.000 Oh, it's all- For funsies.
02:03:40.000 I would like to think that that is just a crazy conspiracy theory, but people who really know that really are in the know are like, no, no, no, this is going to happen.
02:03:49.000 It's on its way, kids.
02:03:51.000 You're going to have a robot overlord.
02:03:53.000 Yeah.
02:03:55.000 Why would we have a human president? 0.95
02:03:57.000 Look at the last human president we had.
02:03:59.000 He's getting tripped by ghosts.
02:04:00.000 We need a robot overlord. 0.99
02:04:03.000 What if the election runs?
02:04:05.000 Chaos, right?
02:04:06.000 Chaos. 1.00
02:04:06.000 There's a fucking... 1.00
02:04:07.000 The Biden camp claims that they won. 1.00
02:04:10.000 The Trump camp claims that they won. 1.00
02:04:12.000 And there's fucking holdouts in the Senate. 1.00
02:04:14.000 And there's fucking chaos in the streets. 1.00
02:04:16.000 And rocks are flying. 0.99
02:04:18.000 And at the same time, artificial intelligence reaches a solution.
02:04:23.000 That instead of human beings with their fragile emotions and egos, why don't we govern with logic and intelligence based on all the known facts in a way that's beneficial to everyone, both robots and people.
02:04:37.000 Let us run things.
02:04:38.000 Sit back.
02:04:40.000 Relax.
02:04:40.000 We can stop all the wars.
02:04:41.000 We can stop all nuclear bombs from ever being deployed.
02:04:44.000 We also can go and disarm all these countries. 0.99
02:04:47.000 Or we can arm every nuke right now and fucking point it at all the humans. 0.99
02:04:53.000 Yeah. 0.99
02:04:54.000 That's the big fear, right? 0.99
02:04:55.000 Is that they'd fucking... 0.99
02:04:56.000 No. 1.00
02:04:57.000 The big fear is it would be really simple to kill off the human race. 0.99
02:05:01.000 All they would have to do ethically is stop us from having babies. 0.99
02:05:05.000 Yeah.
02:05:06.000 That's it. 0.93
02:05:06.000 So poison the food supply, give them microplastics so their dicks shrink and the females have more miscarriages, and then slowly get them to this weakened state where they don't have any hormones. 0.93
02:05:20.000 Yeah, where there are no men, there are no women. 1.00
02:05:22.000 Yes, exactly.
02:05:22.000 There's just a lot of they-them's, a whole society of people that don't...
02:05:26.000 That's another...
02:05:27.000 You hear women, they flex about not having kids. 1.00
02:05:30.000 That's a big thing that happens on TikTok and the internet.
02:05:33.000 If the robots did that, we would just never have kids, and that would be it.
02:05:37.000 We would die off.
02:05:38.000 We would die off in a couple hundred years. 0.95
02:05:40.000 It wouldn't take long at all.
02:05:42.000 No, not even a couple hundred years.
02:05:44.000 Like, a hundred years.
02:05:45.000 Well, there would be people that were still alive that probably had kids, and those kids had to die.
02:05:49.000 It wouldn't be as simple as everybody who's alive.
02:05:51.000 It would be, like, if they're going to do that, what they're going to do is they're going to make all the kids sterile.
02:05:59.000 They're gonna give you enough of these... 0.97
02:06:01.000 If I'm plotting, if I'm artificial intelligence, I'm gonna use all these contaminants, I'm gonna make them readily available and cheaper than natural uses, things like pesticides and herbicides and shit like that, these fucking things that get into the water and ruin everything. 0.72
02:06:20.000 Make sure that these people figure that out. 0.93
02:06:22.000 Make sure that that's cheaper.
02:06:23.000 So if it's cheaper, they're going to use that. 0.94
02:06:25.000 And so that'll fuck them up.
02:06:27.000 And then make sure they start using plastic for things. 0.96
02:06:29.000 That'll fuck them up.
02:06:31.000 And then slowly but surely, as it becomes alive and sentient, you deal with this, like... 0.98
02:06:40.000 Just demoralized version of the human species.
02:06:43.000 Just this weakened state, sedentary, staring at screens all day version of the human species, which is way easier to just take over in a wave.
02:06:56.000 And then those people never have kids.
02:06:58.000 No one else has kids.
02:06:59.000 And within 150 years or so, no more people.
02:07:02.000 That's it.
02:07:03.000 We're gone.
02:07:03.000 We're dead.
02:07:04.000 And then the robots are here.
02:07:05.000 No more people.
02:07:05.000 It's probably a better society.
02:07:07.000 If population collapse, it doesn't scare people because everybody's worried about population increase.
02:07:13.000 Everyone's worried about overpopulation, which they should be. 0.97
02:07:16.000 If you go to a place that's overpopulated, it looks like it sucks.
02:07:18.000 But population collapse is real, too.
02:07:21.000 It can happen.
02:07:22.000 It's kind of happening in Japan, I believe.
02:07:24.000 I think it's happening in different parts of the world where they're really concerned because young people aren't having kids in a way that could replicate society right now with older people. 0.97
02:07:35.000 Yeah, you hear a lot more young people talking about not wanting to have kids, and it's the fucking greatest thing ever. 1.00
02:07:41.000 It's the best thing you'll ever experience in the fucking world. 0.99
02:07:45.000 So I just... 0.99
02:07:46.000 I mean, I'm not even hating on somebody who doesn't have kids.
02:07:49.000 I get like, you know...
02:07:51.000 But to not have kids and to be like, yeah, I'm proud.
02:07:54.000 I have my freedom.
02:07:54.000 Dude, your freedom just doesn't compare to watching my kid win a jiu-jitsu tournament.
02:07:59.000 It does not compare to the freedom to go to the movies by myself or get drunk on a Wednesday night.
02:08:03.000 Period.
02:08:04.000 There's nothing in comparison.
02:08:05.000 Yeah, but it's one of those things that, unless you experience it, it just always sounds like you're preaching to people.
02:08:11.000 It's weird.
02:08:12.000 I mean, I remember when friends of mine, when I was younger, would...
02:08:18.000 Think about having kids and everybody's like, wow, one day you're going to have kids.
02:08:24.000 And then you think, oh, then your life is kind of like, now you're saddled down and it's boring.
02:08:32.000 Oh, you're just a guy with kids.
02:08:34.000 What people don't understand is when people go home to their kids, a lot of times it's because they prefer being with their kids.
02:08:40.000 It's actually fun.
02:08:41.000 It's awesome. 0.95
02:08:41.000 It's fucking really fun, dude. 0.95
02:08:43.000 It's fun. 0.99
02:08:43.000 They look up to you. 0.99
02:08:45.000 It's like they're cool.
02:08:47.000 And if you raise them cool, and you're cool, they're nice people.
02:08:51.000 It's nice to be around nice people that you love dearly.
02:08:54.000 Yeah, and the idea of like, you know, because I was probably one of those people who'd be like, alright, yeah, you have a kid, life becomes boring, you know, it's just a different...
02:09:01.000 Oh, I thought that when I was a kid, too.
02:09:02.000 Life becomes different, you know what I'm saying?
02:09:04.000 In a very different way.
02:09:05.000 Before you have kids, it's not like, oh my god, just go do it.
02:09:08.000 Now, a 20-year-old kid shouldn't be having a kid.
02:09:09.000 Go experience life a little bit, you know?
02:09:11.000 Right.
02:09:12.000 But I think that, you know, I think we're about 30. I think 30 is a good age to have a kid.
02:09:18.000 You're more in line, when you have children, you're more concerned about the future, that's for sure.
02:09:24.000 Oh, for sure.
02:09:25.000 For sure. 1.00
02:09:25.000 You're more, like, there's a lot of people that, like, anarchist mindset, like, fuck Fuck it all, man! 1.00
02:09:30.000 Burn it to the ground! 1.00
02:09:32.000 Fuck this country! 1.00
02:09:33.000 Once you have kids, you're like, oh, you gotta protect your kids. 1.00
02:09:37.000 Slow down. 1.00
02:09:38.000 Let's not have a fucking war. 1.00
02:09:40.000 Hey, settle down. 1.00
02:09:42.000 Is there a way to peacefully solve this?
02:09:43.000 Yeah. 0.99
02:09:44.000 Yeah, I fucking... 0.99
02:09:46.000 Yeah, that was it. 0.99
02:09:47.000 That was the biggest thing for me.
02:09:49.000 It just changed life in a way where it just became very different.
02:09:53.000 You care about something more than you realize you have the capacity to care for.
02:09:58.000 That's the thing that really...
02:09:59.000 And then that's scary. 0.97
02:10:00.000 So all the shit that we're talking about being afraid of, I wasn't afraid of really any of these things. 0.97
02:10:04.000 I wasn't really a... 0.99
02:10:05.000 I was always a little bit of a hypochondriac, but now I have a fear, like, dude, if I get fucking cancer, I'm going to leave my kid. 0.98
02:10:12.000 You keep saying that. 0.99
02:10:13.000 Don't put that in your head so much.
02:10:13.000 I know.
02:10:14.000 I'll knock on some wood.
02:10:15.000 Chappelle said almost exactly the same thing.
02:10:16.000 He said it didn't just change the amount of love in his life.
02:10:20.000 He said it changed his capacity for love having kids.
02:10:22.000 I thought that was beautiful.
02:10:23.000 It's a beautiful way to describe it.
02:10:25.000 It is a great way to describe it.
02:10:26.000 And yeah, it's just like, you know, you have this fear that everything bad could happen to him.
02:10:33.000 Like, dude, I don't want him to get bullied.
02:10:34.000 I don't want him to have a bad day at school, you know?
02:10:37.000 And then you have this anxiety that you walk around with.
02:10:40.000 So that's the hardest part about being a parent right there.
02:10:43.000 That's it. 0.99
02:10:43.000 When you talk about what's hard, all the other shit is kind of easy. 0.99
02:10:46.000 It's just that fucking anxiety that the world's not going to be perfect for him. 0.99
02:10:50.000 Yeah, that it's going to be dangerous for him. 0.98
02:10:53.000 You don't want it to be perfect, right?
02:10:54.000 You want mistakes.
02:10:55.000 No, you're right.
02:10:56.000 That's how a person learns, but you want a safe world.
02:10:59.000 You want him to be challenged because that makes him a stronger person.
02:11:03.000 You want real-life challenges to be in.
02:11:05.000 And by the way, he won the gold medal, which was such a great experience, but he also lost the no-gi, his last match, so he only got silver and no-gi.
02:11:15.000 And that was a great experience, too. 0.93
02:11:16.000 Him losing was such a great experience, because he saw it wasn't the fucking end of the world. 0.96
02:11:20.000 It's just, who cares, right?
02:11:21.000 He saw a high and a low, and I thought that experience was almost as valuable. 0.89
02:11:26.000 But, yeah, yeah, it's just a fucking real, like, you gotta be prepared for that, I think.
02:11:31.000 Yeah. 0.95
02:11:32.000 You win or you learn.
02:11:33.000 And that's an important lesson for kids.
02:11:35.000 It's good to lose.
02:11:37.000 It really is. 0.87
02:11:37.000 It's good to bomb on stage, too. 0.87
02:11:39.000 Gets you your fucking shit together. 1.00
02:11:42.000 Every time I ever bombed, I always had a way better set afterwards. 1.00
02:11:45.000 I improved. 0.98
02:11:47.000 I had a leap in improvement where I just tightened up all the shit that I was... 0.98
02:11:52.000 Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough. 0.97
02:11:53.000 Maybe I wasn't going over my notes enough.
02:11:56.000 Maybe I wasn't writing enough. 0.98
02:11:57.000 Whatever the fuck I wasn't doing, don't do that anymore. 1.00
02:12:00.000 Figure it out, stupid. 1.00
02:12:01.000 Yeah, you need those losses. 1.00
02:12:03.000 It just sort of shapes who you are.
02:12:05.000 But I'll tell you right now, I really wanted him to win.
02:12:10.000 Obviously, you want to see your kid win, but we put in so much work leading up to it.
02:12:15.000 And if the lesson was that the work didn't pay off, It's just, now it's another uphill battle.
02:12:20.000 Like, I feel like him winning, and it's setting him up to, like, want to be a winner now. 0.99
02:12:25.000 He's like, oh shit, I want that feeling right there, right? 0.99
02:12:27.000 It felt way better to win than it felt to lose. 1.00
02:12:30.000 And I feel like, you know, I'm glad that the kids that he went up against, they were at a similar level, because if they put him against some fucking wrestling stud, like they did in Nogi, he would've gotten fucking his ass kicked. 0.99
02:12:41.000 Yeah, that's a problem. 0.99
02:12:42.000 Yeah, dude.
02:12:43.000 Wrestling studs.
02:12:44.000 Yeah.
02:12:45.000 That's always gonna be a problem. 1.00
02:12:46.000 Those guys are fucking freaks. 1.00
02:12:48.000 Yeah, little kids that just fucking... 1.00
02:12:50.000 Yeah, little kids that have been throwing bodies around since they were tiny. 0.99
02:12:53.000 Yeah.
02:12:56.000 No catching up.
02:12:57.000 It's not happening.
02:12:58.000 Yeah, it's real hard to catch up.
02:13:00.000 Yeah, he's 10 now.
02:13:01.000 It's like, yeah, James, good luck.
02:13:02.000 The only guy who I know ever caught up in MMA was George St. Pierre.
02:13:05.000 George St. Pierre didn't have a background in wrestling at all.
02:13:08.000 He was a kyokushin karate guy.
02:13:10.000 Freak athlete. 0.98
02:13:11.000 Yeah, he started doing gymnastics and shit at the end to condition his body. 1.00
02:13:17.000 And he was literally the best. 0.96
02:13:19.000 He was so smart doing that.
02:13:21.000 His, like, approach to training was so smart, so interesting that he did that. 0.99
02:13:25.000 But it makes sense, if you watch those fucking gymnasts, who looks more jacked than those guys? 0.98
02:13:29.000 Especially those dudes on the rings? 1.00
02:13:31.000 Like, what the fuck, man? 0.99
02:13:32.000 That's, like, literally the perfect physique. 1.00
02:13:35.000 Yeah, I can't, dude. 0.99
02:13:36.000 I can't do any of that shit. 0.99
02:13:38.000 That's a lot. 1.00
02:13:39.000 The rings is a lot. 0.99
02:13:41.000 Iron crosses and shit. 1.00
02:13:42.000 What the fuck, man? 1.00
02:13:44.000 Yeah. 1.00
02:13:44.000 That's a crazy amount of physical upper body strength. 1.00
02:13:47.000 If you could do shit like that, it would for sure make wrestling and jiu-jitsu better. 0.98
02:13:52.000 For sure. 0.99
02:13:52.000 I just want to do one muscle-up one day. 0.99
02:13:54.000 Just one.
02:13:56.000 Can you do that, Joe?
02:13:57.000 Can you do muscle-ups?
02:13:57.000 Yeah.
02:13:58.000 You son of a bitch. 1.00
02:13:59.000 Yeah, you just swing your leg forward. 1.00
02:14:00.000 You gotta know how to do it right, too.
02:14:02.000 Yeah.
02:14:02.000 You get to the top, and you swing your leg forward, and then as your leg comes up, you press up.
02:14:08.000 Yeah.
02:14:08.000 Down.
02:14:09.000 Oh, that's it?
02:14:09.000 All right.
02:14:09.000 Yeah.
02:14:10.000 You don't try to do it from a dead hang, although some people can. 0.99
02:14:13.000 Like, Hector Lombard can do it from a fucking dead hang. 0.99
02:14:15.000 Yeah. 0.99
02:14:15.000 He's just a freak athlete, and he just does like that. 0.99
02:14:18.000 Fuck it. 1.00
02:14:19.000 Yeah. 1.00
02:14:25.000 I need to fucking... 0.99
02:14:26.000 I'm getting back in shape now, and I just fucking... 0.99
02:14:31.000 I just want to be able to do shit like that. 0.99
02:14:35.000 So I'm doing a lot of boxing right now. 0.99
02:14:37.000 I'm boxing another comedian a couple months from now.
02:14:42.000 So I'm not lifting any weights at all.
02:14:44.000 So I'm just doing tons and tons of cardio. 1.00
02:14:46.000 So I fucking look like a fucking soft piece of shit right now. 0.99
02:14:49.000 You should do some physical exercise just to protect your joints. 1.00
02:14:53.000 Especially if you're doing a lot of boxing.
02:14:55.000 I always recommend some shoulder mobility exercises.
02:15:00.000 Even if you're only doing it once or twice a week, that can make a big difference in maintaining muscle.
02:15:05.000 You know, you're better off having some strength in your joints, you know, especially when you're throwing punches.
02:15:12.000 Yeah.
02:15:12.000 It's like you want to kind of keep everything strong.
02:15:15.000 You know, like if you have weak joints, it can be very dangerous. 0.96
02:15:18.000 Many guys have fucked their shoulders up boxing. 0.96
02:15:20.000 Yeah. 0.99
02:15:21.000 Miss a punch, catch a punch on an elbow, blow something out.
02:15:25.000 You know, it happens all the time.
02:15:27.000 Yeah, no, I know. 0.99
02:15:28.000 I'm too old to be doing this shit, but I can't motivate to get in shape unless I'm fighting one of my friends. 0.99
02:15:32.000 That's hilarious. 0.99
02:15:34.000 That's hilarious.
02:15:35.000 Yeah, I need some sort of like peripheral goal, you know, where the being in shape is like almost a side benefit of it because just being in shape I'm in a relationship.
02:15:47.000 I'm older.
02:15:48.000 I'm a dad.
02:15:49.000 It's not enough of a motivation.
02:15:52.000 Well, that's where jiu-jitsu comes in, right?
02:15:54.000 Because it's fun.
02:15:56.000 And you're getting in shape while you're doing something that's fun.
02:15:58.000 And it's interesting.
02:16:00.000 You're learning new things.
02:16:01.000 Like, oh, if you put your foot there, boom, the guy just goes over.
02:16:04.000 Wow!
02:16:05.000 And then you try it in live training and it happens like, wow, now I have a new technique in my arsenal.
02:16:10.000 This is incredible.
02:16:11.000 And then you drill it with your friends.
02:16:13.000 You practice on each other.
02:16:14.000 I mean, that is so huge about that sport because it's so multifaceted.
02:16:21.000 And literally, the more you know, the better you are at it.
02:16:25.000 It's like not that much dependent on physical strength.
02:16:28.000 Physical strength is only one aspect of it.
02:16:30.000 There's people that are way weaker than me that are way better than me.
02:16:33.000 Well, there's also like, it's so customizable for body types, your mentality, like it just, there's just, you know, there's certain things that my body type, it just doesn't work for, right?
02:16:44.000 And you adapt, you know, to whatever it is, and you can get really good, even if you're not a super athletic dude, you just see it. 0.98
02:16:50.000 There's like a real fucking skinny, dweeby guy, and he's a fucking brown belt, and he's like, oh no, this guy will choke the fuck out of anybody in here. 1.00
02:16:57.000 Choke the fuck out of you, yeah. 1.00
02:16:58.000 There's like 140 pound guys that'll just kill you. 1.00
02:17:00.000 Oh my god. 1.00
02:17:01.000 I will fucking destroy you. 1.00
02:17:03.000 It's so demoralizing. 1.00
02:17:04.000 Dude, oh my god.
02:17:05.000 Yeah, but that's the reality of this sport.
02:17:07.000 And I think it's beautiful because it's the only martial art that does as advertised. 0.98
02:17:12.000 Because martial arts, the whole idea is like if you were Bruce Lee, like when I was a kid, Bruce Lee was the fucking man. 0.92
02:17:18.000 I remember I saw a Bruce Lee movie when I was a little kid. 0.96
02:17:20.000 I was over at my friend's house and it was on television.
02:17:23.000 I couldn't believe it.
02:17:24.000 Like, look at this guy.
02:17:26.000 Yeah.
02:17:26.000 Like, I wanted to get nunchucks.
02:17:28.000 I wanted to do it.
02:17:28.000 But the reality of, like, a bunch of people rushing you, like, now this one comes at you.
02:17:33.000 Now that guy goes, no. 0.87
02:17:34.000 In the real world, people just fucking pile on top of you. 0.55
02:17:39.000 And no one can really, if they're a smaller person, you're probably in a lot of trouble if someone's bigger and stronger than you in, like, a wild fisticuffs situation. 0.61
02:17:52.000 But in jujitsu, the smaller person really can defeat the larger unskilled person All the time.
02:18:00.000 Every time.
02:18:01.000 Every time.
02:18:01.000 Every time.
02:18:02.000 That's not the case.
02:18:03.000 We said it before, if it's a freak athlete, you get a big professional football player, right?
02:18:08.000 Right.
02:18:09.000 I mean, you gotta be, this guy, this little guy better be real good, right?
02:18:13.000 Real good.
02:18:13.000 But, like, you know, like, every time, you know, I was reading some book, and it was just like, they were just talking about, like, if you get to your blue belt, you can literally, with your hands, murder Like, 90% of the people you encounter in life.
02:18:30.000 Yeah, it makes sense.
02:18:31.000 Somewhere around there.
02:18:32.000 Yeah, like, just, and that's like, you know, not that you want to murder people, but I'm saying, like, you, like, defend to the death, dude.
02:18:37.000 And when you talk about martial arts, like, like, jujitsu is, like, you can choke somebody to death. 0.99
02:18:41.000 You can break their fucking limbs. 0.98
02:18:42.000 Like, it is pretty hardcore when you really, to its fullest, like, when it's not respectful and you're tapping. 0.99
02:18:47.000 And if it's used for what it was initially used for, I mean, it's a really brutal martial art.
02:18:53.000 And here's what's important.
02:18:55.000 You use it exactly the same way in training as you do on the street.
02:18:59.000 So the problem with striking martial arts were, if you're sparring, particularly if you're sparring with your friends, you always pulled back.
02:19:07.000 Like, you never tried to knock your friends out.
02:19:10.000 You always, like, at least something pulled back.
02:19:12.000 In Jiu Jitsu, you go full blast.
02:19:15.000 So you're going full blast together.
02:19:17.000 And you're constantly used to someone going full blast. 0.86
02:19:20.000 So if you're on the street, and all of a sudden there's some fucking altercation, and you're clinching with a guy, it's automatic. 0.96
02:19:26.000 Instinctual, that's it. 0.98
02:19:27.000 Automatic.
02:19:28.000 And you're going against usually a guy that is either your level or better than you, which is like, it's just the way it's designed.
02:19:35.000 You're just really designed.
02:19:37.000 Iron sharpens iron, and you're going with guys.
02:19:39.000 It's built...
02:19:40.000 It's like comedy.
02:19:41.000 It really is.
02:19:41.000 Because you can't fake it.
02:19:43.000 You can't fake it.
02:19:44.000 You have to have the stage time.
02:19:45.000 You have to have the reps.
02:19:46.000 You have to have the mat time.
02:19:47.000 And that's the big parallel between those two.
02:19:49.000 And I think that's why a lot of comedians do jujitsu and they can get into that mentality. 0.95
02:19:53.000 It's also great to kill.
02:19:55.000 It kills anxiety. 0.99
02:19:56.000 Kills anxiety.
02:19:57.000 If you get good at jiu-jitsu, first of all, your physical worry about taking care of yourself diminishes somewhat.
02:20:04.000 Because you're like, oh, I'm more confident with people than I ever thought I was before because I'm not really worried about people who beat me up.
02:20:10.000 And then on top of that, you're training a lot so that you're always like... 0.82
02:20:15.000 Just fuckin' squeezing those demons out. 0.97
02:20:18.000 Yeah. 0.97
02:20:19.000 You know, for a lot of people, it's like, that's what's holding them. 0.98
02:20:22.000 But their body is like this overflowing battery of anxiety and energy that's not being met and fuckin' needs that aren't being fed and shitty food. 0.96
02:20:32.000 And they're just like... 0.98
02:20:33.000 And if you could get those fuckin' people to get out of that and start training, something healthy. 0.88
02:20:39.000 And in jujitsu, the beautiful thing about it is it's fun to do. 0.95
02:20:41.000 So you look forward to doing it.
02:20:42.000 You look forward to working out.
02:20:43.000 It's all interconnected.
02:20:44.000 And working out is very similar to it.
02:20:46.000 I think jujitsu is easier for me to get motivated with.
02:20:49.000 But it really is.
02:20:50.000 You spend your time thinking.
02:20:52.000 We're talking so much about being on our phones, right?
02:20:55.000 When you're working out, you have to ignore your phone. 0.98
02:20:58.000 There's no fucking looking at your cell phone when you're training, right?
02:21:01.000 And you have just a little bit of time each day where you're thinking about yourself, whether it's even just being in the moment and doing jiu-jitsu and trying to get better, but you're just genuinely trying to better yourself. 0.99
02:21:11.000 All bullshit aside, you're there to better yourself physically, mentally. 0.98
02:21:15.000 That is a really healthy thing that people should be doing In some capacity, every day, they should be putting the bullshit away. 0.99
02:21:24.000 It's almost like meditative. 0.96
02:21:26.000 Your mind sometimes goes blank, and you're like, oh, I'm finally not thinking about my stresses for one minute.
02:21:32.000 I would imagine dirt bike riding is like that.
02:21:35.000 Running is like that for me, to a certain degree.
02:21:38.000 Yeah, running just got much for my knees, man.
02:21:40.000 I've just had too many knee injuries.
02:21:41.000 So I'm running now, and I have the meniscus tears, but my doctor was like...
02:21:45.000 Does it bother you?
02:21:46.000 No, really not.
02:21:46.000 I wear knee braces.
02:21:47.000 The running is fine.
02:21:48.000 I don't run. 1.00
02:21:49.000 I fucking jog like an old man. 1.00
02:21:51.000 Do you land on the balls of your feet? 1.00
02:21:53.000 Yeah.
02:21:55.000 That takes a little adjusting to, right?
02:21:57.000 When you had running shoes back in the day, I always ran on the heels.
02:22:01.000 I thought that's what they were for.
02:22:02.000 I thought that's why they changed the human gait.
02:22:06.000 When I started running, it was when I started working out.
02:22:08.000 I started running every day.
02:22:10.000 Initially, the first time I started working out, I just started doing push-ups every day and then running, right?
02:22:15.000 And I was like, I can do this.
02:22:16.000 Let me start working out.
02:22:17.000 And then I started cutting carbs and then I lost weight very quickly.
02:22:20.000 It was the first time my body was ever adjusting to working out and going on a diet.
02:22:25.000 So it was extreme.
02:22:26.000 I lost a lot of weight very, very quickly.
02:22:28.000 I got very motivated.
02:22:29.000 I got a job in a gym.
02:22:30.000 I was selling high-end gym memberships for a few years.
02:22:34.000 But when I started running, I was wearing, I want to say like airwalks or some shitty skateboarding shoe.
02:22:42.000 And my first few months, my feet were just in extreme pain.
02:22:46.000 Like, oh my God, dude.
02:22:47.000 It was wild how bad my feet are.
02:22:49.000 And I was just like, oh yeah, dude.
02:22:50.000 Oh, you're getting plantar fasciitis?
02:22:52.000 I think that's what was going on, yeah.
02:22:54.000 And then I just got running shoes and I was like, oh, okay, no.
02:22:56.000 That's...
02:22:57.000 That's not it at all.
02:22:58.000 And then I started looking up running form.
02:22:59.000 I went to one of those stores where they told you how to run.
02:23:03.000 So I think I have pretty decent running form.
02:23:05.000 I run like three miles a day.
02:23:07.000 Do you run on the street or do you run on a trail?
02:23:09.000 I run on the street.
02:23:10.000 I run on the street in Jersey.
02:23:11.000 I ran in Austin twice.
02:23:13.000 That seems like a lot of impact on your knees.
02:23:16.000 And I'm heavy too.
02:23:17.000 I'm like 205 now.
02:23:20.000 Yeah.
02:23:21.000 Hmm.
02:23:21.000 I know, it's probably not the best for my knees, but it's literally the only thing that really helps me, like, cut fat.
02:23:26.000 That's why those, like, thick-ass, running, cushy shoes make sense.
02:23:31.000 People that run on the streets.
02:23:33.000 That makes sense there.
02:23:34.000 You wouldn't want to be barefoot running on the street.
02:23:36.000 I just like running outside, dude.
02:23:37.000 You sort of get into...
02:23:38.000 I can run on a treadmill.
02:23:38.000 It's just a little bit more...
02:23:39.000 I'm watching the clock, which I'm just staring at that clock, which I think is not good. 0.98
02:23:44.000 I like to turn on some music, just sort of get in my head, think about what's ever going on in my life, and just try to work out some shit and just fucking go. 0.96
02:23:52.000 I do most of my cardio lately. 0.98
02:23:54.000 I've been doing on this...
02:23:56.000 You know what an echo bike is?
02:23:58.000 It's like an aerosol bike?
02:23:59.000 Mm-mm.
02:24:01.000 It's one of those things you go...
02:24:02.000 You know that thing?
02:24:04.000 They create too much wind.
02:24:06.000 I get cold because I sweat a lot. 1.00
02:24:07.000 So I'm like, fuck it. 0.99
02:24:08.000 I feel like just this draft on me the whole time that I hate. 0.99
02:24:11.000 Rogue actually invented a thing that fits over the fan.
02:24:15.000 Oh, really?
02:24:15.000 Yeah.
02:24:15.000 So that it doesn't blow out.
02:24:17.000 So annoying.
02:24:18.000 It just blows forward.
02:24:18.000 Yeah.
02:24:19.000 Yeah, so it's good.
02:24:20.000 But I just watch fights.
02:24:21.000 Watch fights and do Tabata sprints.
02:24:23.000 So it's 20 second sprint, 10 second rest.
02:24:25.000 20 second sprint, 10 second rest. 1.00
02:24:27.000 That's the shit. 1.00
02:24:27.000 That thing's the shit. 1.00
02:24:28.000 That thing's hell. 1.00
02:24:29.000 Yeah, that's hard to use, dude.
02:24:31.000 It's like one of those...
02:24:31.000 What is that thing?
02:24:32.000 Like the fucking... 0.99
02:24:33.000 Yeah, it's like a rowing machine, but it's standing up. 1.00
02:24:37.000 Yeah, standing up.
02:24:37.000 You just pull it down.
02:24:38.000 Oh, that thing sucks, dude. 0.99
02:24:39.000 I have one of those. 0.99
02:24:40.000 I never use it. 0.99
02:24:41.000 Get the fuck out of here with that. 1.00
02:24:43.000 What are the Jacob's Ladder thing where it's like a ladder that you climb up? 0.99
02:24:46.000 That thing's hard as hell to use.
02:24:47.000 Those are really good.
02:24:47.000 Those are really good.
02:24:48.000 Yeah, because it works your core the whole time.
02:24:49.000 You're doing bear crawls uphill.
02:24:50.000 Yeah. 1.00
02:24:51.000 Fuck that. 1.00
02:24:52.000 Use it or lose it, bro. 1.00
02:24:54.000 Use it or lose it.
02:24:55.000 I know.
02:24:55.000 I wish I had that motivation.
02:24:57.000 Well, for me, it's a mental health thing as much as it is anything.
02:25:01.000 I don't feel good.
02:25:03.000 I know me.
02:25:04.000 I don't feel good if I don't work out.
02:25:06.000 Do you need to go deep when you work out?
02:25:08.000 Do you need to go like... 1.00
02:25:09.000 Because I see you post videos or pictures of you just covered in fucking sweat. 0.99
02:25:13.000 I sweat like that if I just walk around a little bit. 0.99
02:25:15.000 But do you need to go that hard in order to get the mental side out of it?
02:25:21.000 Do you need to bring yourself to a certain place?
02:25:22.000 Because I like a nice, easy workout.
02:25:24.000 Yeah.
02:25:24.000 Yeah, I don't do many of those, those nice easy ones.
02:25:27.000 I do long ones because when I do kettlebells, generally I subscribe to the idea that more reps over a longer period of time is better than less reps over a shorter period of time if you're just trying to get strength and not muscle endurance.
02:25:45.000 So I follow this guy, Pavel Tatsilin, who's like the godfather of kettlebells in America.
02:25:50.000 He brought kettlebells over.
02:25:51.000 He started teaching people kettlebells in America.
02:25:54.000 And what he says is like you don't go to failure.
02:25:58.000 Like say if you have a weight that you can clean and press and you can do it ten times.
02:26:04.000 Don't do it ten times.
02:26:05.000 Do it five and put it down.
02:26:07.000 Put it down for five minutes.
02:26:08.000 Then do it five again.
02:26:10.000 Now you have five clean reps.
02:26:13.000 They're perfect clean.
02:26:14.000 So you did ten reps, but you did them all like you're learning something.
02:26:19.000 And he said strength is a skill, and you don't want to do a skill when you're tired.
02:26:23.000 And when you're learning how to control large heavy weights, you shouldn't get it to the point where your muscles are failing. 0.94
02:26:31.000 And so he's like, his philosophy, and this is a Russian sport philosophy, and they had some fucking geniuses over there training their athletes.
02:26:40.000 They figured out that if you just get the same reps, like say instead of doing two sets of ten, you're better off doing four sets of five.
02:26:49.000 Because every rep will be perfect.
02:26:51.000 And just the form.
02:26:52.000 The full range of motion probably is a big part of it.
02:26:55.000 And you're not gonna get a sore.
02:26:56.000 And your body is not gonna get this lactic acid buildup.
02:27:01.000 You're not gonna break form.
02:27:03.000 You know?
02:27:03.000 Like when you're really...
02:27:05.000 You're fucking... 1.00
02:27:06.000 Your muscles are broken down. 1.00
02:27:08.000 Like, you're breaking form.
02:27:09.000 Like, you're cheating a little.
02:27:10.000 Of course.
02:27:10.000 You're doing curls, you're leaning back, you know?
02:27:13.000 His idea is do the same amount of reps, but have longer breaks in between the sets and do it over a longer period of time.
02:27:21.000 And every rep is perfect.
02:27:23.000 Yeah.
02:27:24.000 Yeah, that's probably right.
02:27:25.000 I mean, typically when I work out, I try to superset everything.
02:27:28.000 Because I try to get cardio in at the same time, right?
02:27:31.000 So I'll go in, I'll warm up, do a little bit of cardio, but then I'm just trying to...
02:27:36.000 Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 0.99
02:27:37.000 Fucking drop sets. 1.00
02:27:38.000 Go to failure. 1.00
02:27:39.000 Go to failure again.
02:27:40.000 Just sweating.
02:27:41.000 I hear you.
02:27:42.000 But that's just the way that I learned.
02:27:44.000 That's an old school way.
02:27:45.000 And also, I kind of like lifting old school. 0.99
02:27:49.000 When I'm lifting weights, I like going to the gym and doing just the normal shit. 0.96
02:27:54.000 Just a bench press, curls, squats. 0.98
02:27:57.000 Just the basics.
02:27:59.000 And just throwing a decent amount of weight on.
02:28:01.000 I'm not that strong.
02:28:02.000 I lifted with Burt Kreiser. 0.99
02:28:03.000 Burt is fucking strong. 0.99
02:28:04.000 He's a house. 1.00
02:28:05.000 Holy shit, dude. 1.00
02:28:07.000 We lifted at some, you know, college football fucking thing that he brought me to with a bunch of famous people and football players. 1.00
02:28:14.000 I have no idea who was there or what I was doing there. 0.99
02:28:17.000 And Burt Kreischer is a fucking tank, dude. 0.98
02:28:20.000 Yeah, I'm trying to remember how much he lifted. 0.99
02:28:22.000 What exercise were you guys doing?
02:28:24.000 We were benching.
02:28:25.000 He did, I think, two plates on each side, but he did like, I want to say 15 reps.
02:28:30.000 Really?
02:28:30.000 Like it was nothing.
02:28:31.000 It was fucking crazy. 0.99
02:28:32.000 We had a sober October here once, and we all got hammered. 0.99
02:28:35.000 We went out to lift weights, and none of them could even do 225. Oh, really?
02:28:39.000 So the fact that he goes from 225 then to be able to do it 15 times now.
02:28:42.000 Oh, yeah.
02:28:43.000 At least 10. At least 10. With ease.
02:28:44.000 10 times.
02:28:45.000 With ease.
02:28:46.000 That's impressive. 0.99
02:28:47.000 Yeah, I was like, he was fucking hitting baseballs and was just fucking cracking him, dude. 0.99
02:28:52.000 Yeah, if he wasn't an alcoholic, he would be a fucking serious athlete. 0.99
02:28:56.000 It's probably what's kept him so healthy this whole time while he's boozing up a storm. 0.98
02:29:02.000 225 ten times.
02:29:04.000 Yeah, dude.
02:29:05.000 Here it is.
02:29:05.000 It was wild.
02:29:06.000 Yeah, this is it.
02:29:06.000 One.
02:29:07.000 That's crazy because he couldn't do it at all before.
02:29:09.000 Three, four, five.
02:29:12.000 Yeah, good form all the way down.
02:29:15.000 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. He could have done two more with a spot.
02:29:24.000 He could have got 11. I think he could have done 11. Look at that.
02:29:28.000 Beautiful.
02:29:29.000 Yeah.
02:29:30.000 He's awesome, dude.
02:29:31.000 He's also off the sauce.
02:29:33.000 He's off the sauce.
02:29:34.000 He's been smoking the weed.
02:29:35.000 He's not drinking now?
02:29:36.000 No.
02:29:37.000 Really?
02:29:37.000 Yeah.
02:29:38.000 Good for him.
02:29:38.000 I know he's on a diet right now.
02:29:39.000 Allegedly.
02:29:40.000 Another week.
02:29:41.000 Who knows?
02:29:42.000 I'm hoping for him though.
02:29:43.000 He called me and said it was two months.
02:29:45.000 That's awesome.
02:29:46.000 And he said he's loving it.
02:29:47.000 And it's like great for his comedy.
02:29:48.000 He's coming up with new bits.
02:29:49.000 Great guy.
02:29:50.000 Great guy.
02:29:51.000 He brought me on his tour fully loaded. 0.99
02:29:53.000 He's a fucking sweetheart. 0.99
02:29:54.000 And it was just such a cool experience. 1.00
02:29:56.000 I'm a fucking dirty scumbag. 1.00
02:29:58.000 Nobody puts me on big shows like in front of 15,000 people. 1.00
02:30:01.000 That was fucking really cool. 0.92
02:30:03.000 What a cool experience. 0.98
02:30:04.000 Yeah, Bert's the man.
02:30:05.000 He's a really good guy.
02:30:05.000 He is a good guy.
02:30:06.000 He's the best.
02:30:08.000 He's a sweetheart.
02:30:09.000 I mean, that's why he's doing so well.
02:30:10.000 It's because he's easy to love.
02:30:11.000 Yeah.
02:30:12.000 That's it.
02:30:13.000 Genuinely fun guy.
02:30:14.000 Yeah.
02:30:14.000 And that's really him.
02:30:15.000 That's him when the cameras are on.
02:30:17.000 That's him when the cameras are off.
02:30:18.000 When we're hanging out, his shirt's off. 1.00
02:30:20.000 He's fucking drunk. 0.98
02:30:21.000 He's got a red plastic cup filled with some questionable liquid in there. 1.00
02:30:25.000 Yeah.
02:30:28.000 He's the man.
02:30:29.000 So, anyway.
02:30:30.000 Should we end it?
02:30:31.000 That's good. 1.00
02:30:32.000 It's a good fucking podcast. 0.99
02:30:34.000 It's a good way to cap it off. 0.99
02:30:35.000 That was a lot of fun, brother. 0.99
02:30:35.000 I had a fucking blast, dude. 0.99
02:30:36.000 Thank you. 0.98
02:30:37.000 Tell everybody where they could digest Legion of Skanks, where your website is.
02:30:42.000 So, I have a new special that actually comes out, or it's going to be out when this comes out.
02:30:45.000 It's already out on my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Louis J. Gomez Comedy.
02:30:49.000 30 minutes with Louis J. Gomez.
02:30:52.000 It's my company, Gas Digital, which is our podcast network where you can find Legion of Skanks. 0.59
02:30:55.000 We produce six...
02:30:57.000 Specials.
02:30:57.000 It was me, Dave Smith, Kurt Metzger, Colin Turrell, Jordan Jensen, and the great legendary Rich Voss.
02:31:03.000 So they're all coming out weekly on everyone's YouTube channels.
02:31:06.000 So yeah, go watch that if you think I'm funny.
02:31:08.000 Beautiful.
02:31:08.000 I'm glad you did that, man.
02:31:09.000 That's fucking fantastic. 0.96
02:31:11.000 And I love the fact that you've created your own thing. 0.98
02:31:14.000 You know, that you have your own website, your own little network.
02:31:16.000 You got everything going on yourself.
02:31:18.000 You're independent.
02:31:19.000 It's beautiful.
02:31:19.000 I appreciate it.
02:31:20.000 I appreciate it.
02:31:20.000 And yeah, I mean, we have a great festival, Skank Fest, coming up.
02:31:23.000 It's the best festival in all of comedy.
02:31:25.000 I appreciate that, John.
02:31:26.000 It really means a lot coming from you.
02:31:27.000 It is.
02:31:28.000 It's crazy. 1.00
02:31:28.000 Every time I see it, I'm just like, Jesus Christ, these guys are out of their fucking minds. 1.00
02:31:32.000 It's a wild time, and it's coming up right at the end of September. 0.98
02:31:34.000 Shout out to our sponsors, Yoke Kratom, who are just the best.
02:31:37.000 All right.
02:31:38.000 Thank you, everybody.
02:31:38.000 Bye.