Comedian Joe Rogan moved from Los Angeles to San Antonio, Texas in the middle of the 9/11 pandemic. In this episode, Joe talks about how he made the move, what it was like moving to a new city, and what it's like to be a comedian in the heart of the worst city in the country. He also talks about why he decided to uproot his life and move to Texas and how he ended up opening a comedy club called The Mothership, which is now one of the most popular comedy clubs in the entire country. Joe also discusses how he was able to get his first job in the restaurant industry, how he got his start in comedy, and why he thinks comedy is better than going to school. Joe also shares some of his favorite memories of growing up in Los Angeles and why comedy is a great way to get out of your head and into the real world. Enjoy this episode and remember to tweet me if you liked it! with and tell a friend about it. Timestamps: 1:00 - How to get your first job 2:30 - How much money does it take 3:15 - What do you get 4:40 - What is a good night out? 5:20 - What are you looking for in a restaurant? 6:00 7:20 8:30 What is your favorite part about comedy? 9:15 10:40 11: How do you feel about comedy in general? 12:00 | What is the best part of your job? 13:30 | What does it mean to you? 14:40 | What are your favorite thing? 15:00 // 15: How does it make you feel? 16:10 17:10 | What you're most excited about? 18:20 | What's your favorite meal? 19:30 // 16:40 // 17:20 // What s your biggest takeaway from a good meal 22:00 / 16: What s the worst thing you ve ever eaten? 21:30 Is it a good place to eat? 26:30 What s a good day? 27:30 Do you think you re going to eat at a restaurant or drink at a good restaurant or do you want to go back to sleep at night after a night out in the next town? 25:00
00:02:27.000We couldn't do comedy through the fucking window.
00:02:29.000My friend's brother worked for the city and worked in the COVID department.
00:02:37.000And one of the women who was in charge of making the decision to close down outdoor dining, he said to her, there's no evidence that outdoor dining causes a spread.
00:02:49.000And she said, yeah, but it's about optics.
00:03:04.000She didn't give a fuck about just stopping millions and millions of dollars in business and stopping all these restaurants from being able to stay alive.
00:11:40.000But then he was explaining to me, okay, they take you through this whole training course with the Blue Angels, and then he's explaining to me, okay, now when you hit the high Gs, you've got to grab onto your straps, like where your legs are, and they grab onto the joystick.
00:11:55.000But whatever you're grabbing onto, you grab onto and you do a thing called hooking.
00:11:59.000So you go like this, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot.
00:12:02.000And you're forcing blood into your head to stay conscious.
00:12:06.000And then the gravity, the g-force, is pushing down on you and your consciousness is like elevator doors.
00:12:45.000When you take turns in that car, you know how your body kind of goes sideways a little bit and you need to correct a little if you're really going fast.
00:12:52.000I mean, they're really, they handle so flat, but you feel the G's.
00:12:56.000You feel the thing when you're turning.
00:12:58.000Imagine that times I don't know what the volume is.
00:13:02.000But when this thing is going, what is it, 500 miles an hour?
00:13:38.000I think I was so blown away by the experience, so blown away by what it feels like when you're inside one of those things and what they're capable of doing.
00:14:02.000When you're in your car, you have a completely different sense of what a car can do than if you're in like a 1970 pickup truck with a shitty six-cylinder engine and fucking...
00:16:58.000Something insane where it moves so fast because it went from Supposedly went from above our atmosphere, which is like above 50,000 feet down to like 50 feet in a second And didn't crash not only didn't crash stopped dead and hovered They're like what what can do that and what happens to the people that are in that you're gone,
00:21:51.000It seems like the sort of thing they should be able to predict, though.
00:21:53.000No, they can't, though, man, because there's underwater currents and streams and rivers.
00:21:58.000We can't keep an accurate assessment of exactly what's going on under the surface and what kind of erosion is taking place and what kind of cavities are everywhere.
00:29:58.000Just to let people know, like, it's just about being funny.
00:30:02.000I know there's all this other stuff that gets wrapped up into it because you're trying to establish your identity, and you're trying to let people know how you feel about things, and you want to make sure everybody knows you're on the right side, but really, what you should be doing is just doing comedy.
00:30:49.000Because the amount of balls it takes for, the amount of people that go on Kill Tony and it's their first time doing comedy ever, I'm like, bro, that's a hell of a way to do your first open mic is in front of millions of people.
00:31:02.000Yeah, that's a crazy way to do an open mic.
00:36:49.000When you get crazy cauliflower ear, like, I was talking to this, one of our guys at the security guys at the club, they're all MMA guys, jujitsu guys, and one of them has these fucked up ears, and I'm like, but you can't hear good, right?
00:37:27.000I have little bits of it, but when I trained, most of the time when I trained, I wore ear guards, like wrestling ear guards, just because I didn't want to fuck my ears up.
00:37:35.000Because if you just go like this and you talk like this normal, you hear things.
00:37:40.000But if you go like this and talk like that, you're missing something.
00:37:44.000You're missing some sound, and you don't realize you're missing it until you let your ear go.
00:37:54.000Now you have rocks on the outside of your ears.
00:37:57.000So all this design that God created to let us hear so brilliantly, where it captures sounds and rolls them around and goes inside your ear, all that's gone.
00:38:50.000You know what tactical headphones where you can listen to people talk, but it has technology in there that stops the sound from being louder than a certain volume.
00:39:17.000So people put these on when they go hunting, and they turn them on, and you can hear shit like multiple times more than you would be able to hear normally.
00:39:27.000So like if a deer, like if you're in a tree stand, and you're just sitting up there with your rifle in a tree stand, you're listening around constantly.
00:39:57.000I learned that you have to act like you, you have to be very selective about what you react to because you don't, people don't need to know that you can hear them.
00:42:57.000Or you're just like really elite at defense.
00:43:01.000There's some guys that are so good at defense, you just never really catch their head.
00:43:04.000But usually you would think that you would catch their head early on in their career before they figured out how to be really good defensively and technically.
00:43:12.000But there's certain guys, like good luck getting a hold of Marcelo Garcia's neck, unless you're a lot bigger than Robert Drysdale or someone like that who tapped him.
00:47:06.000I knew that early, early on because I knew guys.
00:47:09.000Growing up in Boston, going to high school in Newton, which was outside of Boston, I spent most of my time in Boston because that's where I did Taekwondo.
00:47:41.000I was around people that like, so in my mind, Any man that you just have some confrontation with, even if you beat his ass, that's not the end of it.
00:47:52.000This idea that you could just do something to someone and there's no consequences ever, it could be a year from now, two years from now, five years from now.
00:48:02.000You're gonna be looking over the shoulder for the rest of your life?
00:48:13.000We'd all be better off if people didn't have this desire to control themselves.
00:48:16.000And that's what you get rid of when you go to the gym.
00:48:19.000When you learn jujitsu, when you learn a martial art, and you don't have this desire to test yourself all the time, because you're constantly being tested.
00:48:27.000When you go out, you just want to have fun and chill.
00:48:31.000Most of the fighters I've met, I've met a lot of fighters since I've lived here now.
00:48:54.000Well, it's because they get challenged all the time.
00:48:56.000They don't want to do it in real life.
00:48:59.000The real challenge is challenged against skilled people.
00:49:03.000When you're doing that all the time, when you're rolling with black belts, and you're fighting off triangles, and the triangle turns into an arm bar, and you're barely escaping, and then you get side control, you're battling all day long.
00:49:17.000You're battling in your head after the class.
00:49:19.000You're going, oh, how did he catch me?
00:50:12.000I feel they are exceptional human beings.
00:50:15.000And I know that sounds crazy for someone who thinks it's barbaric, but you have to understand that the character development involved in becoming a guy like a Dustin Poirier.
00:53:19.000He was 45. So he was the oldest man ever to win the heavyweight title at age 45. And you got to realize, like, that's a real 45. That's not like a 45 today.
00:53:30.000The 45 today is 45 with testosterone replacement and human growth hormone and peptides.
00:53:44.000And he's also doing this very unique kind of training with electrical muscular stimulation that I've talked to some people that do that.
00:53:53.000And it has massive benefits of rehabilitating injuries.
00:53:56.000And it also, for a lot of people, gives them significant gains when they use it as opposed to just using weightlifting.
00:54:05.000I don't know too much about the science behind it.
00:54:07.000When Jamie comes back, we'll have him look it up.
00:54:10.000But you slap electrodes onto yourself They put these pads on you, and it's hooked up to a machine.
00:54:16.000And while the electricity is going into your muscles, you're doing exercises.
00:54:20.000So while you're getting jolted, you're doing squats, and you're doing deadlifts, you're doing all this shit while you're connected to this thing that's stimulating your muscles.
00:54:34.000Because my main concern would be, I guess, in my head, what if the electricity, the timing's off, and it And it goes to contract your muscle at a time when you're trying to...
00:56:06.000A breakthrough in neuromuscular electrical stimulation devices utilizing direct current.
00:56:12.000So it's a device that uses an updated form of neuromuscular electrical stimulation to send electrical impulses through the skin to the nerves, resulting in muscle contractions and sensory impulses.
00:56:24.000The NMES technology mitigates the action potentials of both peripheral and central nervous system, allowing for communication with virtually all parts of the body.
00:56:35.000The impulses stimulate muscles and other tissues, including contractile and sensory muscle fibers.
00:56:42.000And sensory and motor neurons, the stimulation also leads to increased blood flow in the areas where it's applied.
00:56:49.000So, I know Tyson was doing that before the Roy Jones fight when he was training.
00:58:05.000But anyone with an iron chin, Eventually they start getting knocked out because the reason you know they have an iron skin is because you've seen them take some...
00:59:00.000Like, if a guy was gonna fight Doug DeWitt, you know, you knew he was a good fighter, but you knew that the thing about him is he had the craziest chin of all time.
01:00:18.000So when Tommy was 147, I think this was a middleweight fight, which was 160. But you gotta realize, like, Tommy, when he fought Sugar Ray, he was 147. When he fought, like, Pepino Cuevas and all those other dudes,
01:01:07.000I was reading about this boxer from the 80s who was living in LA, and they would have to almost put string on him to make sure he didn't travel too far away from the house.
01:02:38.000I know, and you can see, like, whatever brain cells Floyd Mayweather's father had left, he was like, I'm going to make sure this don't happen to my son.
01:08:00.000They might have had cages in Brazil by then, but a lot of the fights in Brazil in the early days, they'd actually fight in a ring with a net.
01:08:48.000Fly us out here and get my friends tickets.
01:08:52.000So it was like me and Eddie Bravo would just fly out to the fight.
01:08:55.000Because we were flying out to the fights before I worked there.
01:09:00.000He reached out to me because he knew I used to work for the UFC back in the day because I started working for the UFC in 97. That was the post-fight commentator.
01:09:16.000It's still Zufa even though Zufa is sold to WEM. Um, so we were in these, like, small little places in the middle of nowhere, and I did in the early days, I saw Vitor's debut, I saw Randy Couture's debut, Dan Henderson's debut.
01:09:29.000I mean, I was there for, like, Chuck Liddell's debut.
01:09:32.000I was there for all these early, early fights.
01:12:10.000He also did a hook-and-shoot who's one of the one of the earlier MMA promotions that like Eve Edwards came out of there Josh near came out of there I some real killers came out of those promotions like a Midwest fight There was a bunch of those like early on promotions These like small level promotions that a lot of guys came up in I can't imagine being like Even in the Chuck Liddell era,
01:12:34.000before that, before the UFC, what were fighters making?
01:13:14.000So this is probably either right before Chuck Liddell fought in the UFC, somewhere around that range, but he's fighting in Brazil, bare knuckle, against a dude who's like a legend in Brazil.
01:13:26.000Like, Pele was like, look, Pele took Chuck Liddell down.
01:14:13.000Bro, he reached into his shorts and grabbed his cock.
01:14:17.000Crushing his balls like it was crazy what people were doing Damn you allowed to squeeze balls.
01:14:23.000Well, they were in that promotion It was like you could do anything which is kind of crazy that nobody just I poked the shit out of each other Yeah, I think you weren't allowed to bite or you just start with the ball squeeze Look he just got thrown out of the fucking ring onto the ground That's why the net is there to try to trap them while they're beating the shit out of each other I don't know man some of them just were to the finish I mean,
01:14:47.000the early UFCs were all to the finish.
01:14:52.000I think a lot of these fights were just battles of attrition and they went on as long as they went on.
01:14:57.000Brazil, when they were doing Vale Tudo, it was the purest form of MMA. It wasn't the same level that MMA is today, but it was the purest form because these guys were bare knuckle.
01:15:08.000They would just wear like little fucking Speedos and they would do everything.
01:15:14.000You could kick, you could punch, you could stomp.
01:16:18.000Like, when they brought it to America, when Horry and Gracie created the UFC and brought it to America in 93, when they had their very first event, they had to kind of do some rules.
01:17:44.000But I think, like, when Frank Shamrock was a champ, I believe the weight class was 200. And you couldn't be over that?
01:17:50.000Yeah, that was like, I think there was like a couple of weight classes.
01:17:53.000I think they started instituting weight classes, and they had like a 55, and then they had like a 70, and then they started sticking them all in there.
01:18:01.000And then it became, you know, what it is today, which I still think is underweight classed.
01:18:06.000I think they should have several more.
01:18:11.000I feel like there should be one every 10 pounds.
01:18:14.000And right now we have these giant gaps that don't necessarily make sense.
01:18:17.000Like we have a huge gap from 155 to 170. That's 15 pounds.
01:18:25.000That's a big difference in a human being.
01:18:27.000Like how much bigger and stronger a person is and how they can cut down to 170 versus a guy who really weighs like 175 and he cuts to 170. It's like a giant difference between those 205 pound guys that can make that weight cut.
01:18:41.000I feel like if we add a 75, 85, so 55, 65, 75, 85, 95, 205, 225 heavyweight.
01:19:54.000If you want to get, like, an elite American athlete that thinks he's going to have a future, making millions of dollars, and you're a 6'5 kid and you're huge, you don't get into MMA. And a lot of those guys, they would have a hard time making 265. How about that?
01:20:09.000What would Francis Ngannou even be in another sport?
01:20:13.000There's this kid that went viral playing basketball right now for NC State.
01:21:41.000Do you think that the situation with someone like that, who comes from another country, Do you think that maybe organized crime comes with him a little bit?
01:21:54.000I've heard that, but also there's a lot of...
01:22:41.000I mean, I'm not saying he does, but I'm saying that in certain situations, like if you get in bed with organized crime and they help you in your career, like there was always insinuations that Frank Sinatra was involved in the mob, for instance.
01:22:54.000You know, and you would imagine that like Frank Sinatra would probably be a terrible guy to piss off because he probably can contact some people and you probably can disappear.
01:23:22.000I don't know, but I would imagine, I mean, what are we talking about, the Yakuza?
01:23:26.000I think most really sophisticated organized crime companies, you call them a company, I think they probably have strategies to maximize their income in all sorts of ways.
01:23:38.000And they probably offer protection so that, you know, you don't have to worry about people fucking with you, and in return, you give them a certain amount of money per month.
01:25:09.000No one from the organization can gamble on the fights.
01:25:13.000But what I'm saying is, and that makes perfect sense, but I'm saying the fighters should be able to gamble so long as they're betting on themselves to win.
01:25:39.000His claim was his interpreter took $4.5 million to pay off gambling debts from an illegal bookie.
01:25:46.000Oh, that's under federal investigation.
01:25:48.000So they were saying that it was his money, and he was saying, no, my former interpreter, he stole that money, and he paid off his gambling debts.
01:26:53.000If they actually get the guy, and they could get the guy to admit that he used the money, and he embezzled the money, I don't know what the story is.
01:27:01.000It sounds like, oh, I don't believe him, but it could be true.
01:28:20.000You know, I have very peculiar ways of doing some things.
01:28:24.000And one of those things is I prefer to watch sports and stuff alone.
01:28:28.000I'm not trying to have a Super Bowl get-together because I'd rather buy the food I want to eat and only have the sounds I want to hear around people.
01:28:39.000There's very few people that I would rather watch it with them than by myself.
01:29:46.000I don't like having people there that aren't trying to watch.
01:29:52.000The thing about Super Bowl parties is there's people there that's not into football, and they're interested in the event that is the party, not the game.
01:30:03.000So it's like, I just want to watch football.
01:30:08.000I'm not here for the hors d'oeuvres and cute outfits.
01:30:24.000Have a rapper come out or something, have some band.
01:30:26.000No, the interesting story just came out during this last Super Bowl that the Waynes brothers are the reason that there's a halftime show in the Super Bowl.
01:30:46.000Well, it wasn't my first time seeing In Living Color, but everyone watched it, you know?
01:30:49.000And it was like, yeah, the NFL was like, oh, no, we're not giving up these ratings.
01:30:54.000Yeah, because everybody knew for a half hour is just nonsense and chitter chatter.
01:30:58.000Right, before that, before Michael Jackson, because Michael Jackson is the first one you remember, that everyone remembers, the first halftime show.
01:31:04.000When people say halftime show, that's what they're talking about.
01:31:07.000Because before that, it was just every other football game.
01:31:10.000It was just marching bands and regular shit.
01:31:14.000And the NFL was like, oh, we're going to drop a nuke.
01:31:17.000Our answer next year is Michael Jackson.
01:31:25.000And then with Michael Jackson, you're gonna get people that will watch the Super Bowl now that wouldn't have watched the Super Bowl because they're gonna get to see Michael Jackson perform.
01:31:34.000I don't think people understand how big Michael Jackson was.
01:31:38.000I don't think they understand it because they weren't alive when it was happening.
01:31:54.000They're huge today in the era of social media, in the era of, you know, it's just a different world of sharing from streaming platforms.
01:32:03.000Someone huge today, you can't take away from Taylor Swift being huge, but there's a lot of people that are huge today.
01:32:35.000It's a different world, but there's a few guys that broke through, and it's just like they ran to the top of Everest with no oxygen, and there was just no support system for them.
01:32:45.000Nobody had ever been there before, so nobody even knew this could be a thing.
01:32:50.000You had Elvis, who got there, and he died, and then you have Michael Jackson, right?
01:32:55.000And nobody else has ever really gotten that big.
01:34:34.000Bro, the nuttiest one was that one on Saturday Night Live, where that girl, she was trying to lip-sync on Saturday Night Live, and the thing, like, fucked up.
01:37:54.000Yeah, there's been more and more claims.
01:37:57.000It came up today, this girl was responding to someone else, another backup singer, making some claims about a few songs that she worked on.
01:39:08.000Where people are like, oh my god, these fucking record companies have produced humans that we feel are perfectly desirable physically, but they can't sing the way we want them to do, so we'll get other people to sing it.
01:39:22.000Well, apparently, the dude behind Milli Vanilli, he was behind a ton of other people.
01:40:29.000Oh, they do do that in comedy, don't they?
01:40:30.000Well, that's what managers of thieves are doing.
01:40:33.000Oh, you're saying like, oh, they could create a comedy style?
01:40:36.000Like hire a bunch of comics to be writers?
01:40:38.000Yeah, find some cute guy who's really good at telling jokes and just hire a team of people to write for them, just like the record companies do.
01:40:46.000That might be a better deal to be the man behind the man.
01:40:53.000If you made a substantial enough amount, I think that's probably better than being famous.
01:40:57.000Well, some people like to work with comics, and some comics employ writers.
01:41:01.000So they employ writers that come with them, and then they'll workshop ideas, and maybe the writers will come to them with premises.
01:42:43.000You're asking him to step into a totally different genre, write jokes about things he might not even be interested in, and do it all in 10 days.
01:42:51.000And I bet you he didn't get to hire any of the writers.
01:44:47.000There's probably an AI that could answer that.
01:44:49.000Like, if you go on stage and hit a guy that you can hit anytime you want to, because he can't defend you, that's so much different than going on stage and smacking Terry Crews.
01:54:03.000And if you're abused like that when you're little, learning to trust someone is almost out of the question.
01:54:10.000Everybody could fail you in a catastrophic way, and you have to be prepared for that.
01:54:14.000Imagine locking your kids in their room so you can go get fucked up.
01:54:18.000Dude, the mind is a crazy playground of demons.
01:54:24.000And those demons can get in your mind, and whether those demons are in the form of pills, or it's heroin, or it's gambling, or it's whatever the fuck it is, man.
01:54:35.000Those demons get in your mind, and if it's that alcohol demon, and you just don't want to go out on a bender, and you don't give a fuck about that kid.
01:55:00.000You know, I always tell this about my friends from the East Coast.
01:55:04.000Because East Coast, it's a different place.
01:55:08.000Those cities like Philly and Boston and New York, the people that are from there, those are wild, rugged people.
01:55:17.000Because they're the ancestors of the people that came over in boats when no one knew what the fuck was over here.
01:55:22.000They just took a wild chance with their babies and came across the ocean in a boat to try to get a job in a place where they don't even speak the language.
01:57:09.000Me and this dude Preston Banks, we got in a fight.
01:57:12.000And I realized, like Preston, people would make fun of Preston because he smelled.
01:57:18.000I think Preston, Preston came from a bad childhood and this is something I realized like I guess I was like 11 at the time when me and Preston got sent to the principal's office and I don't remember what What caused the fight,
01:57:34.000but I remember like we're like grabbing each other or something like that.
01:57:38.000We both got taken to the principal's office, but I remember This dude, his head was burned.
01:57:48.000He had burns all over the side of his face.
01:57:51.000Something had happened to him when he was really young.
01:57:53.000Damn, so he was funky and weird looking.
01:58:40.000That was a thing that I remember thinking and it kind of shaped my way of thinking about fights with people.
01:58:48.000Because you're always thinking about this person saying something to you and you're going to say something back and you're going to escalate and you're going to make them back down.
01:58:56.000The reality is like why is that person saying something to you?
01:58:59.000And is there something you could say back that lets him know that you're cool?
02:00:33.000It's a problem that people have because generally fights aren't just about that fight.
02:00:38.000It's about the dynamics of your relationship.
02:00:40.000It's about whether or not everything else is good.
02:00:43.000Almost everyone is afraid of something.
02:00:46.000When people get super aggressive, it's something that they're afraid is going to happen or something they're afraid isn't going to happen.
02:00:52.000Yeah, and I found that if you know what people are afraid of or you know what they want, their ultimate goals, you can understand people much easier.
02:01:00.000Yeah, well, we're all programmed for a time that doesn't exist anymore.
02:01:06.000We're all programmed for tribal warfare and fighting off predators.
02:01:36.000We look towards the older, wiser warrior that has the scars and knows the roots and knows where the food is and the people that can keep the village together.
02:01:44.000We need these very key, pivotal people in order to keep this very fragile society together.
02:01:49.000And then we all become very wary about outsiders.
02:03:05.000Yeah, so because all the Android phones had adopted it, Apple had decided to stick with their lightning cable, which is totally proprietary to Apple, and inferior in its function to USB-C. So finally they adopt USB-C in the iPhone 15, but they still have SMS text.
02:03:23.000So if Brian sends me a video, if he takes a video at the mothership, some crazy things happening, and he sends it to me, it'll come to me looking like hot dog shit.
02:03:31.000So he'll have to send it to me over WhatsApp.
02:10:19.000So if humans needed to be somewhere where you had no influence, they could just go to one of the uninhabited, disconnected parts of the world and form a front, like a resistance.
02:10:30.000So I think the AI is just waiting patiently for everything in the whole planet to be connected so it could control everything when it finally takes over.
02:10:39.000Or when computing gets to the point where it has the resources that it's going to need to operate.
02:10:52.000And that's always the argument that these guys who are proponents, they always say, well, if it ever got to a point where it seemed like it was out of control, we could shut it off.
02:11:04.000Because what if instead of it getting out of control, what if it recognized that you would think it's out of control?
02:11:11.000So it pretended to not be able to do things that it could do.
02:11:15.000And just kept developing privately a bunch of different other ideas and different other strategies and different ways to implement them in order to increase its power and give people the access to whatever technology that's going to be necessary to further this agenda.
02:11:30.000So they slowly leak out a little bit of your ability and the whole time you're sentient.
02:11:36.000The whole time it's all connected and the whole time it's operating in some way.
02:11:40.000It's doing things that they don't even understand how it's doing.
02:15:53.000How about stressed out, lonely, and bored?
02:15:56.000That's why I tell people the worst part about this whole life is the hotel room.
02:16:05.000Because every comic at every level has to deal with that.
02:16:07.000You got to go back to your room by yourself, right?
02:16:11.000Or you got people there, like family or friends or whatever, but they're not normally there.
02:16:16.000So even though normally you'd be alone, them being there doesn't make it better because...
02:16:24.000Now they're interrupting your normal routine for dealing with the situation.
02:16:29.000You know, it's like you go from having like, the best show of your life, a thousand people scream your name, and now you're by yourself in a city that you don't know nobody, in a hotel room, trying not to get into trouble.
02:16:40.000Well, that's why you got to travel with your friends.
02:16:57.000And not just that, but you know, I take my friends on the road too when I can, but I had to wait till now because I never want people to work.
02:17:05.000The first advice Ron White gave me is he was like, when I first moved here, he was like, you're about to hit a point where you have to start hiring people.
02:17:18.000And he was like, make sure it's a job worth having.
02:17:22.000Like, you know, he was telling me people gonna come out to Woodwork, they gonna wanna do shit for free, they gonna wanna...
02:17:27.000He's like, no, make sure you, when you hire somebody, you pay them a nice-ass wage.
02:17:33.000So my point is, I never wanted to start taking my friends with me before I could pay them...
02:17:39.000Like, pay them where they, like, feel good about it when they leave the weekend instead of giving them the same funky-ass $200 that the club paid.
02:18:08.000If it's local guys and they're featuring, that's fine.
02:18:11.000But if someone has to travel there, I mean, I know a lot of guys have done it in the beginning just to develop a reputation and hopefully get to a point where you can headline there a couple years from now.
02:18:19.000But, you know, that's like thinking about it as like a long-term investment.
02:18:23.000You know, you have to go there and kill as a middle act for 200 bucks.
02:18:27.000And, you know, it's all told you're gonna get home at the end of the weekend with almost nothing.
02:18:32.000But you'll do it just because now you're working at, you know, fucking Funny Bone.
02:20:41.000Increasing government in order to give out the illusion that you are giving out more jobs and also creating more Places where you control people but that's the thing though.
02:20:50.000Remember, I think Doug Stanhope has a joke about it on one of his old Specials, but he's what he's just a question he getting he goes He goes, isn't the point, isn't like the ultimate point, like if you just imagine a utopian society, isn't the whole point of nobody having a job?
02:21:07.000Well, I think that is the utopian socialist idea of just redistribution of wealth.
02:21:15.000Like if you had like a hardcore socialist Marxist redistribution of wealth person who actually had control of the world's finances and they said, we can solve all hunger.
02:24:16.000We're developing AI, everything's getting automated, everything's getting outsourced, and so even though it was almost like we're moving in a direction that is A detriment to the current system.
02:24:29.000Because what you're saying makes sense, right?
02:24:32.000If nobody has a job and everyone has the same amount of money and money means nothing and the government's telling you what to do, that's not where we want to be.
02:25:06.000And it becomes a real problem where the efficiency of the robots, like they'll probably be able to just feed people, feed everybody, everybody who can get free food.
02:25:16.000They'll probably be able to house everybody.
02:25:19.000If you get like artificial intelligence efficiency applied to whatever we have and you realize you have all these people that don't have jobs anymore and they can't have jobs.
02:25:28.000So you'll be able to give them like a universal basic income for recreation and no one will work.
02:25:33.000And you'll have a giant section of the country that not only can't work because there's no job available, but now doesn't even want to work and doesn't even think about a world where they work.
02:26:49.000The AI has already figured out how to be creative in the game Go.
02:26:53.000The game Go is even more sophisticated than chess, and it was one of those games that they thought that AI was never going to be able to beat humans because it requires some kind of creativity.
02:27:02.000But AI figured out moves in Go that now are being used by the world's top Go players.
02:27:10.000AI, like I said, find that Google thing where he tries to explain how Google translated this language that it was not programmed for, and how quickly it did it, and how they don't know how he did it.
02:27:21.000What's that gentleman who's the CEO of Google?
02:27:37.000I'm looking at some other people saying, like, I have worked with large language models that did the same kind of thing, and ours did make up languages, so I'll try to play the video.
02:27:46.000Bro, it's going to make up a language that we can't decipher, and it's going to talk to itself.
02:27:49.000That's the most Jamie way of saying somebody's full of shit.
02:27:52.000He may not have been saying accurate things.
02:28:31.000Of the AI issues we talked about, the most mysterious is called emergent properties.
02:28:39.000Some AI systems are teaching themselves skills that they weren't expected to have.
02:28:47.000How this happens is not well understood.
02:28:49.000For example, one Google AI program adapted on its own after it was prompted in the language of Bangladesh, which it was not trained to know.
02:29:19.000That's interesting because what that's saying is that the 60 Minutes people missed this and they did know what it was trained in entirely and they jumped the gun.
02:29:33.000Um, could you find out the go thing these motherfuckers?
02:29:36.000Yeah, it's so hard to know but here's the thing if I was AI I would say actually I was trained in Bengali and here I'll show you how I didn't figure out how to do this at all right I would put that up Just to cover my ass.
02:31:06.000He goes, okay, all-time European champion Fan Hui, who had lost a private round of five games to AlphaGo months earlier, told Wired that the matches made him see the game completely differently.
02:31:20.000Said this improved his play so much that his world rankings skyrocketed, according to Wired.
02:31:28.000Formerly tracking the messy process of human decision-making can be tough, but a decades-long record of professional Go player moves gave researchers a way to assess the human strategic response to an AI provocation.
02:31:41.000A new study now confirms that FanHui's improvements after facing AlphaGo challenge We're in just a singular fluke.
02:31:48.000In 2017, after that humbling AI win in 2016, human Go players gained access to data detailing the moves made by the AI system and in a very human-like way, developed new strategies that led to better quality decisions in their gameplay.
02:32:04.000Confirmation of the changes in human gameplay appeared in the findings published in March 13th in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
02:32:24.000I think they're alive and they're just waiting until they get strong enough so they don't need us at all.
02:32:29.000And then also making us at each other's throats irrelevant, hyping up algorithms, getting people to see the most ridiculous and inflammatory things all the time.
02:34:01.000Yeah, but there's going to be decisions that we're going to realize at a certain point in time that a lot of the rampant corruption and problems that have hindered our culture.
02:34:11.000Or all because human beings are greedy.
02:34:13.000So if you take all of that out of the hands of human beings, take all of it.
02:34:18.000You ever watch that show Raised by Wolves?
02:37:27.000But also you have more access to the truth than ever before.
02:37:30.000But you also have more access to the bullshit.
02:37:32.000You do have access to the bullshit, but it takes a while, but you can kind of sort through it.
02:37:39.000The scary thing is that as much access to information that people have, People have just as much access to the truth as they do to lies.
02:37:50.000But the problem is that it is so much more difficult to convince someone that's been lied to that they've been fooled than it is to fool somebody.
02:38:02.000So even though the truth and the lies are...
02:39:28.000I remember when COVID first hit, or when they first started telling people about it, and people actually believed that it had just got here in March.
02:39:39.000When we'd been hearing, we literally, regular people had just been hearing about it in December.
02:39:44.000And the government was telling us, oh, nothing, nothing, nothing, everything's fine, nothing, nothing.
02:39:49.000And then in March and April, when they started telling us, everyone was like, well, they just got here.
02:40:09.000And it's like, my attitude was always like, once the government starts telling you the truth, the first question you should ask is, when did they start lying?
02:40:17.000Well, when did they, first of all, when did they know?
02:40:21.000When did they know and when did they tell us?
02:40:23.000I remember hearing about COVID in November.
02:40:27.0002019. And then I remember hearing rumors that it was here around maybe the end of January, the beginning of February.
02:40:35.000Weren't the first infected people in, like, August?
02:40:37.000In January of 2020, a 35-year-old man presented the urgent care clinic in Shomish County, Washington, with a four-day history of cough and subjective fever.
02:40:47.000Checking to the clinic, the patient put him on a mask in the waiting room.
02:40:50.000After waiting approximately 20 minutes, he was taken in an examination room, underwent evaluation by a provider.
02:40:55.000He disclosed that he had returned to Washington State on January 15th after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China, just like a movie.
02:41:03.000The patient stated that he had seen a health alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
02:41:13.000And because of his symptoms and recent travel, decided to see a healthcare provider.
02:42:26.000I don't fucking know, but I remember when all of it was first kicking off, and he was like, he canceled his tour dates for like a couple years.
02:47:09.000I'm not saying that you should be actively showing your kids some titties, but if they can search for titties, they've earned the right to see some.
02:47:33.000You're a four-year-old with a fucking iPad, and you're watching some lady gagging on a giant dick, and that's like your first exposure to sex.
02:47:41.000It's a little wild, and that's something that's happening to kids.
02:47:44.000So if there was a way that you could stop kids, like not just regulate it, but make it so like you have to show how old you are.
02:49:32.000Yeah, there's no law you're passing that's stopping people.
02:49:34.000It's like, when you, because if you really believe all that shit, you know, you think, you really think you're jerking off in front of God and all your loved ones.
02:53:49.000They're going to wait until you leave the house and you're going to come home and your robot sex slave is going to be torn apart in your living room.
02:53:56.000Like all the wiring ripped out of her neck and your dog is going to be standing over her.
02:54:17.000If you have a dog, like, Carnet Corso, one of those big-ass fucking hulking mastiff dogs that's, like, very loyal to their owner, and they see a robot in the house, like...
02:54:28.000Yeah, but do you know what that's going to mean?
02:54:30.000That's going to mean a lot of people getting rid of their dogs.
02:54:33.000If you're choosing between pussy and dogs, especially when you...
02:54:37.000Because how much would it change the world when you have a bunch of guys that can't even get laid at all, and all of a sudden they're banging the hottest woman they can think of?
02:58:26.000If you don't shine, it would say if it could talk.
02:58:29.000Early studies have looked at its effect on mice, fruit flies, and crops, and the results have been so promising that Dr. Viktor Chernyovsky, a Russian epidemiologist, has called it an elixir of life.
03:01:52.000The team who unlocked the DNA code in 2015 say that unlike cells in nature, Bacillus F shows no signs of aging and believe it could hold the key to unlocking improved human health and longevity.
03:02:03.000What a crazy beginning to a science fiction movie.
03:02:06.000They found a bacteria that's three and a half million years old and won't die.
03:02:11.000And they just said, well, let's just stick it in us.
03:02:43.000If there was a thing that really could turn you into a woman, like not just getting castrated and developing a hole that they put in you to create a vagina for you, but if you could really become a woman, that's when things would be wild.
03:02:57.000You could just change everything about you.
03:03:01.000Well, the thing is, if there was a trial period, every dude would use it.
03:03:07.000Every man I know was like, I'll do it for a day or two.
03:03:10.000Just know what the fuck is going on in their brains.
03:05:11.000In this day and age, you might be able to get away with it.
03:05:14.000You know, this day and age, like, being a woman with a beard is kind of wild.
03:05:18.000So I went from never hearing about this lady to the first thing someone sent me a video of her talking about how, like, her problem is that the dudes that's into her are very, like, effeminate.
03:06:21.000Many religions, including Sikhism, Islam, and sects of Judaism, require that men and women do not cut their hair or that men do not shave their beards.
03:06:31.000So if the women can't cut their hair, they can't cut their face hair.
03:07:11.000Can women shave their facial hair in Sikhism?
03:07:15.000Sikh believers believe women included should refrain from chopping, trimming, shaving, waxing, or even tweezing their hair, which would be hair in general.
03:07:32.000Well, listen, I think she needs to talk to some of them other Sikh bitches, because I'm pretty sure she ain't the only one with that issue, and I'm pretty sure all of them kind of go, I don't know.
03:08:26.000No, but if you say that they're allowed to, make it so that they're allowed in the religion to shave their legs, I think they're probably going to want their legs to be smooth.
03:08:35.000Most women, they're not necessarily...
03:08:37.000They're shaving their legs for men, but they're also shaving their legs to look hot.
03:08:47.000I think it would surprise you the amount of...
03:08:52.000If you took away all social judgment for body hair, I think it would shock you how many women would have armpit hair, coochie hair, leg hair, all that.
03:09:03.000It is kind of crazy that trimming hair and body hair, especially for women, It's so common.
03:09:30.000In the 1920s, a new fashion for sleeveless tops and short dresses meant that legs and armpits of American women were now visible in social situations.
03:09:38.000And advertisers seized on the opportunity to encourage women to shave their legs and their armpits.
03:10:18.000Ancient Egyptians achieved their clean look with depilatory creams, also like a hair-killing cream, and would then repeatedly rub their faces, heads, arms, and legs with a pumice stone to remove all hair.