This week, we talk about the Phish concert in Las Vegas, Dana White, the UFC, and the UFC in general. We also talk about how much money the UFC is making and what it means for the future of the sport. We also get into the UFC and Dana's new deal with the UFC. And we talk a little bit about the new Phish album and how it's going to affect the music and the music history of the band. We wrap up the episode with some listener questions and some listener mail. If you have any questions or suggestions for us or just want to say hi, tweet us or and we'll get right to it! Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Dana White's UFC deal 6:50 - How much money is the UFC making? 9:30 - Who's getting the most out of the UFC deal? 11:40 - Phish's new music 16:15 - What's the best seat in the house? 17:20 - What are the best seats in the stadium? 18:10 - Is Max Holloway knocking you out with two seconds left in the fight? 19:30 22:00 27:00- Who's the craziest person in the UFC? 26:30- What's your favorite thing about the UFC?? 29:20 32:00 -- Who is your favorite UFC fighter? 31:30 -- What do you'd like to see at UFC in September? 36:00 | Who's your best friend? 37:30 | What are you looking forward to watch? 39:00 // 40:00 + 39:40 41:00 & 45:00 What s your favorite part? 45:10 46:00 Can you tell me what you're most excited about? 47:30 + 47:00 And so much more? 48:30 // 45:40 + 48:00 How do you think you're going to get it back from this episode? Theme song by Ian Dorsch? Music by Ian McLeod_ Theme by Theme Song by ? 5th Grade Music by , & Music Credit by by . (music by ) & (c) by ( ) is by & ( )
00:03:57.000My cameraman was telling me this morning, Kevin shouts to Kevin, he films and edits all my stuff, but he's a big UFC fan.
00:04:02.000He said Dana put out like a three-minute video after UFC 300 of a bunch of people criticizing the fight card on UFC 300. And I was like, dude, that's the thing that you need.
00:04:56.000I remember being 27 and just being so angry, and I haven't let go of all of it by any stretch, but being like, I don't like me being like this.
00:06:28.000And I've said this publicly, I think, on True Jordy's podcast, but watching Andrew blow up, there's times where I'm insecure, and I'm like, oh, am I going to get there?
00:06:35.000But then watching him handle all of it, I'm like, oh, that is such a blessing to be able to watch him handle everything.
00:06:42.000So if and when I get to that position, this is how you handle it.
00:07:03.000As the number of eyeballs increase, every feeling you have about these groups of people with an opinion amplifies as their numbers amplify.
00:07:31.000And then that actually helped me because I was like, oh, if Joe Rogan doesn't, the most famous guy I know doesn't read the comments, I thought there was like something weak and you needed to like train yourself to get used to negative.
00:08:01.000So if I'm engaging with people who are troubled, mentally ill people that are just looking to shit on people, then you get all that energy in your head.
00:08:12.000I wouldn't gravitate towards that energy in real life.
00:08:14.000Why would I gravitate towards that energy online?
00:10:48.00068 degrees on a Sunday, I'm walking around, there's trees, there's beautiful people, there's good food, and I realized the only reason I hated it is because I would leave Texas when I moved to New York or LA, and every hacky liberal would be like, oh, I hate Texas, but I like Austin.
00:11:01.000And then I got insecure and some loser shit, and I was like, you know what?
00:12:08.000If you look at the science behind masking, there's actually legitimate science that breathing those dirty fucking masks with that bacteria inches from your mouth is bad.
00:12:18.000Yeah, because you're spitting in this thing, and then this thing is right in front of you, and it's also warm and moist, and so it breeds bacteria.
00:12:26.000Like a surgeon wears masks to protect someone whose body is cut open.
00:14:26.000When I talk to liberal people about what that means, they would be like, yeah, you know, I just want to, like, specialize the police force and have less, like, have de-escalation measures first, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:07.000Oh, when you were showing me that fish thing, all I was thinking about is I'm going to get shrooms, tickets to a fish show, sit there and lose my mind.
00:15:13.000Ari Shavir is trying to convince me to go to a makeup specialist and get a prosthetic nose and chin.
00:16:27.000Have you seen the rap beefs that are happening where they think the songs are AI? Because they're so, like, one guy said, I know this song isn't AI because how can AI take a breath in a song?
00:16:37.000And I was like, because it's AI. It's just going to get better and better.
00:16:41.000No, they um, they take breaths, they do all kinds of stuff now.
00:16:44.000They mimic all the patterns of speech that they can record from all these different people.
00:16:49.000So if you have a database, like say you and I, we've been on a bunch of podcasts now, so they could take us and have us say anything, and it would be like weird pauses and clearing of the throat.
00:18:40.000The thing about expensive stuff is if you can't afford it, the stress of that not being or barely being able to afford it and working for it is not nearly worth what you get out of the thing.
00:18:52.000The only time nice things are worth it is when they're kind of free.
00:18:56.000Meaning, not that they're free, but that you don't feel it.
00:18:59.000Like, if you went out and bought a new Mustang, you wouldn't even feel it if you're rich.
00:19:07.000It's like, it doesn't affect your life.
00:19:09.000But if you make $60,000 a year, and you go out and buy a new Mustang, and then you're looking at those car payments, and you're looking at your rent payment, and then you're looking at your bills, You're like fuck yeah, like maybe I should take on like a little uber thing on the side You know that's my Mustang.
00:19:25.000Yeah, we wind up doing that to pay for a car Yeah, which is a great thing to do if you want to do it that way, but the the additional stress Like houses.
00:19:53.000And I was sitting down, I didn't even have furniture yet, and I was dating this girl, and we were sitting down listening to Seal, you know, the Kiss by My Rose?
00:21:23.000Yeah, so I'm very financially, I think just by product of being a comedian and like you risk everything, I don't have any risk aversion at all.
00:22:27.000And one of the problems with under-reporting, when there's no police presence, and that's a thing in LA right now, robberies are so common, it's so bad.
00:22:36.000The mayor of LA's house got broken into.
00:24:06.000Yeah, I remember watching a presidential debate.
00:24:08.000It was Obama and Romney, I think, and then we're at the Village Lantern where we came up, and then my boy Michael Blaustein points to the TV and he goes, why would anyone want this?
00:24:16.000And I was like, yo, that's a good point.
00:25:27.000This thing that they're doing right now with the criminal trial for the hush money payment, this is essentially, the way it is, it's like he incorrectly labeled a payment on, it's like a ledger thing.
00:25:43.000It's not even like it's illegal to pay someone to shut up.
00:25:47.000The whole thing is, it's like how he recorded what that payment was for.
00:25:52.000I don't know enough about the trial to know.
00:25:55.000But I think what a casual observer like myself would say is, oh, this seems like a witch hunt.
00:25:59.000And I don't think if your strategy is to make Trump not win an election, I think that only emboldens his support.
00:26:05.000People who are on the fence might be like, oh, they really are trying to get this guy.
00:26:08.000He's right when he says all this stuff.
00:26:53.000I thought South Park had a really good take on illegal immigration like 15 years ago, which was like the liberals are all just like, let them in, let them in, let them in.
00:27:01.000The conservatives are like, don't let any in.
00:27:02.000And nobody's like, hey, maybe we could also just try to help them out in their country so they don't need to sneak in.
00:27:07.000And that's probably a great way to do aid.
00:27:09.000The problem with that is then you don't get the cheap labor that you need to make cars for like $10.
00:31:19.000Everybody that lives on the East Coast, unless you move there recently, you're essentially the child of either immigrants or the children of immigrants who are, you know, of grandparents of immigrants.
00:31:31.000Children or grandchildren of immigrants.
00:31:32.000Yeah, someone came from a boat, and they landed on that spot, whether it was the 1920s or whatever the fuck it was with my family, it was in the 1920s.
00:31:41.000So these people, they landed there from fucking Italy and Ireland, and they were poor as fuck and desperate.
00:31:48.000They made it across the ocean on a boat without YouTube.
00:31:51.000They didn't know what the fuck they were getting into.
00:31:53.000They probably barely saw a photo of what America looked like.
00:31:55.000They had no idea if they were going to get a job.
00:32:46.000If you're in New York City, and you're walking on the street, and it's just constant flow of people coming your way, you literally can't wave to everybody.
00:33:22.000I thought it was only white women at first, so it was just funny to me, but then I found out they're doing it to everybody, and now I'm scared for my wife.
00:33:28.000Yeah, I saw some Asian lady get punched in the face today.
00:35:06.000The amount of power that you get in a wheel kick is because it's my legs, it's my upper body, there's a whip to it, it's got all this torque.
00:38:10.000Because I knew a lot of guys who their brain got ruined.
00:38:13.000And it didn't seem like they realized it.
00:38:17.000It didn't seem like, because they were still fighting.
00:38:19.000It didn't seem they realized, or maybe they didn't know what to do, or maybe they just weren't that smart, but they were still fighting and training, but I was realizing they were slurring their words, and there was just this clear evidence that something was off.
00:38:33.000And I was like, oh my god, is that happening to me?
00:40:34.000So if you got a guy that you could do it with and he's cool and you're cool and you like each other, you know, and you can make this agreement like if I hit him, I'm gonna hit him like this, like kick him.
00:40:45.000And if you do that, then you really develop sharp timing and it's great.
00:40:49.000But you do have to do hard sparring every now and then because you got to know what that feels like and the consequences of making mistakes are so much more.
00:44:16.000So if you just eat a 16-ounce steak, you put a 16-ounce rib eye in front of you, And if that's all you're eating, you'll be full.
00:44:23.000You'll eat that and you're like, that was great.
00:44:25.000But if there's mashed potatoes right next to it with gravy and then maybe some french fries and then maybe over there there's a little bit of spaghetti and meatballs.
00:44:55.000You really – especially one of the things as you get older, you realize there's a giant difference between people my age that take care of themselves and people my age that neglect their health.
00:45:56.000When I would just read articles, he's coming on the pod, we're researching, and I'm like, they paint him as like this billionaire fuckboy who just wants to be a billionaire and have sex with an 18-year-old or whatever.
00:51:49.000It's just crazy that our society is so fucked up that we've been spending so much money on shit like wars overseas and not nearly enough money on trying to figure out a way to have the minimum amount of people grow up to want to punch people in the face on the street.
00:52:11.000Or feel like they need to punch people in the street.
00:52:26.000If they can pump money at that, what would the downstream effects of a lack of crime and violence, if you could give people hope and educate them at an early age and set people up saying, I'm gonna help you, I'm gonna mentor you, I'm gonna get you along in life.
00:52:41.000The amount of money that we would spend to do that would pay for itself four, five, six times over and less crime, less bullshit, less losers, less problems, less prisons.
00:52:52.000Yeah, so much of it seems like it just starts at home, and there's the generational trauma thing that you hear about a lot, and it's like, yeah.
00:52:58.000Well, like we were talking about with the East Coast.
00:53:00.000There's a little bit of generational trauma there.
00:53:01.000Yeah, I had to think about, my dad struggled with alcohol abuse, struggled with a lot of stuff, and I had to understand what his life was supposed to be in India, and then what it was going to be here.
00:53:14.000He'd passed this exam that like 5 million people apply for and they select like 200. Like he was going to be a millionaire bare minimum, 24 years old.
00:53:22.000Then he's at another family member's wedding and his little cousins are like, hey, you're getting married today too.
00:54:02.000Then he comes here and he's in Texas as a brown guy in the 70s, probably less than to all these people, and he's used to being a star, and he can't be funny, and he can't be himself, and that just sucks the life out of you slowly, day by day.
00:54:52.000Here, he's just struggling trying to figure it all out.
00:54:55.000And so, I've become keenly aware of like, I don't know if we as immigrant kids appreciate everything our parents had to go through to get here.
00:55:05.000Well, if my grandparents, it was actually my grandparents' parents that moved here, but if they weren't the type of people that were so gangster they were willing to get on that boat, I would be in Europe somewhere.
00:55:16.000I'd be in Europe hanging out in a cafe, smoking cigarettes, talking shit.
00:55:20.000Yeah, I would be a fat, spoiled piece of shit.
00:55:47.000But I've seen hopeless poverty in India where it's just like, I don't know how y'all get out of this in three generations even.
00:55:53.000Yeah, when you fly into Brazil, one of the things that happens when you fly into Rio, we would do UFCs there, you go through the favelas, the airport, and the drive from the airport to where the beach, where we're staying, you drive straight through the favela.
00:56:08.000So all to the right of you is shantytowns, and you see extreme poverty.
00:56:13.000And have you ever seen that movie, The City of God?
00:56:47.000You're 25 before you figure out what the fuck you're even doing with yourself.
00:56:50.000I remember riding a train in India with my mom.
00:56:52.000My mom has, like, fibromyalgia, all these joint issues, and then they, like, we had to move train stations, all this stuff, or, like, platforms or whatever, and everybody's just rushing, and people are, like, screaming, trying to get off the train.
00:57:04.000People are, like, screaming, like, please just let me get off.
00:57:06.000And I'm like, yo, people are gonna die doing this.
00:57:09.000And then we talked to family in India, and they might have just been saying it flippantly, but they said the cheapest thing in India is a man's life.
00:57:14.000They said that in Hindi, but like, the idea that you just grow up around so much trauma and whatever, that it is what it is.
00:57:20.000When there's a billion people, and that's what India has.
00:57:47.000And I love India, and I love going back, and I also just understand how privileged I am that I was raised here, and I feel like we as immigrant kids take that for granted sometimes.
00:57:55.000Isn't it interesting how some places just...
00:59:04.000They've been buying up farmland around military bases.
00:59:08.000They sell America cheap cell phone towers and internet routers.
00:59:12.000They sell them cell phone towers at a discounted rate so that they could have their cell phone towers around military bases so they could listen to everything that everybody fucking says.
00:59:40.000They had cameras and batteries that were so much better than iPhones or anything that was available in America at one point in time, and they were just making these insane phones.
00:59:50.000And I remember they made a Porsche-designed phone.
00:59:53.000It was a Porsche-designed Huawei phone.
00:59:56.000I'm like, this is the craziest phone I've ever seen.
01:01:17.000China's total population decreased for the first time in decades in 2022. And population decline is expected to accelerate in the upcoming years.
01:01:25.000And that's because of the population of women versus men.
01:01:29.000And then the gap in genders could increase because the older people that didn't have the one-child policy, they're going to start dying off.
01:04:06.000And then he goes, if you go to London or France or wherever and eat the chicken, it's purely white because they don't allow you to fuck with it like they do in America.
01:04:15.000What are they doing to America to make it yellow?
01:04:18.000I don't know what they're doing exactly.
01:11:07.000Because if you just live in a small town and hang around with the same people and you don't like to go online, you go to the same bar, whatever the fuck you do, you don't know how much people vary.
01:11:31.000You could be some amazing person who is out there, like Jose Andres, going to these crisis areas and feeding people in Palestine, and you know that guy, Jose Andres, the chef?
01:12:12.000So the coals and the fire's crackling, the stakes are searing, and they raise them and lower them depending upon what point in the cook it is.
01:12:20.000At the beginning of the cook, you start off high, like way above the flames, and you slowly lower it down to sear it.
01:12:33.000Well, that guy who runs that place is this incredible chef, and he goes, he went to Ukraine, he was feeding people in Poland when the Ukrainian refugees were trying to flee Ukraine during the beginning of the war when Russia invaded, and he's over in Palestine right now.
01:12:52.000But anyway, so this guy goes over there and feeds people.
01:12:56.000So you have this guy, who is this incredible chef, who's this beautiful human being, who's like really doing something that's selfless, really doing something that's just real charity, feeding people delicious food, because he's an incredible chef.
01:13:22.000And there's so little thought and engineering in society of trying to figure out a way to mitigate all of our problems.
01:13:32.000Instead, we just put band-aids here and band-aids there and spend more money and hire more government workers and spend, spend, spend and nothing gets fixed.
01:14:29.000I worked at a not-for-profit organization for a few months, just as I was a comic trying to make money, and I was like, oh, no one works hard, because there's no bottom line.
01:14:45.000It's the cushiest job every holiday off.
01:14:48.000That was super evident during the lockdowns in Los Angeles, because the government was so flippant about closing people's businesses because they didn't lose any money.
01:15:39.000Even if it's not a said deal, it's an understanding.
01:15:43.000I also, I don't know if this is a reason, none of these, I don't know if they're reasonable, but the idea of getting reelected, I was like, at some point I was like, oh, they're just, they don't care about making the city better, they just want to get reelected.
01:15:53.000So I'll go to these special interest groups who I know will vote for me, this voting bloc that I know will vote for me, I'll make them happy and I'll get reelected.
01:15:58.000If you just gave a president or whoever one six to eight year term, but one term and then you're out, I think it would help mitigate a lot of the useless stuff that they do.
01:16:07.000Slightly, but you would still get the vice president taking over afterwards.
01:17:15.000I think, I was saying this on stage or something, but I didn't have a problem with Trump, but the noise that Trump brought, I was like, I don't want it anymore.
01:18:25.000Isn't it crazy like one instance captured by one person in the camera and it just starts a fire keg.
01:18:31.000Yeah, well, look, I've been with a, I was with a Damien Lemon, black comedian friend of mine, and he got, like, I was with him when we got racially profiled.
01:18:38.000He was going, they pulled him over, they're like, you're doing 24, searched the car, brought other cops, they were searching me, like, do you have any drugs?
01:18:44.000I was like, I've never done a drug in my life.
01:18:46.000And he was like, you better be honest right now.
01:19:20.000And so the one thing I think they were bothered by is a fan of his who was a cop gave him, like, the New York City vest that you can, like, park wherever you want to.
01:19:27.000And so he was just parking, and they were upset about that, but, like, 24, and then calling backup cars and all that, I was like, there's something here, Rachel, going on.
01:19:51.000So I think when you see these stories, Philano Castillo, I think was his name, or George Floyd or whatever, I think black people are like, I've been through that and I've been trying to tell you that happens and y'all don't want to listen to me, now you're seeing it.
01:22:32.000And they would find ways to prosecute.
01:22:34.000Look, we know today, I've done a ton of podcasts with Josh Dubin.
01:22:49.000We've got a bunch of those guys come on the podcast, including one guy who came on who was actually guilty.
01:22:56.000He was guilty before, and we knew he was guilty, but he got 50 years, and then he was talking about how he turned his life around a month after he was on the podcast.
01:23:04.000How long was it after he was on the podcast?
01:23:32.000Okay, so he didn't kill anybody in jail, and then he's out now, and he's got this new lease on life, and he's out, and he's trying to do something different with his life.
01:23:43.000When you listen to his explanation of what happened, why he went to jail...
01:24:37.000Because it certainly can with some people.
01:24:39.000But we've had people on that were innocent and prison made them amazing.
01:24:42.000I mean, something about the constant studying and the accepting your situation in life even though you were innocent.
01:24:50.000And then a lot of those guys got released.
01:24:52.000It's crazy to see them like they lost 20 years of their life for something that was bullshit, complete bullshit, and then you find out that the cops and the prosecutors who were involved in their case had done that to many, many, many people.
01:25:05.000That's another thing that people need to take into consideration.
01:25:08.000How fucking dirty some people involved in prosecuting and convicting people are.
01:25:14.000You remember that guy in Pennsylvania?
01:25:16.000There was a guy in Pennsylvania who was a judge who went to jail because it turns out that he was getting paid to have kids arrested and sentence them into juvenile centers.
01:28:53.000Because it was the same verbiage everywhere, horse dewormer.
01:28:56.000It was something that was, they were saying it to make you look foolish.
01:28:59.000They weren't saying, a medicine that won the Nobel Prize, a medicine that's been used in, it's part of the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines, a medicine that's been prescribed billions of times.
01:29:17.000Because they were banking on the idea that the casual observer doesn't understand how corrupt everything is and that they could just feed them bad information.
01:29:28.000But in the age of the internet, when the government says things and everybody knows that it's not true or when the media says things and everybody knows that it's not true, It doesn't work forever.
01:31:28.000I also think maybe I was privileged to move in the safest time New York has probably ever seen.
01:31:32.000Like, I moved in 08. I would walk home from New York Comedy Club, which was on like 23rd and 2nd, to my apartment on 50th and 8th, at 1 in the morning, barely even think about it.
01:34:40.000And also the universities and the Marxist philosophies that they've been pushing in universities because they've all been infiltrated by Russia, by the former Soviet Union, and now by China and Russia together.
01:34:53.000They push the wokest teachers, the wokest professors, the nuttiest policies, and they're literally doing it to deteriorate the fabric of American democracy.
01:35:21.000But, you know, The internet came along and threw gasoline on all those plans and made it much more chaotic.
01:35:31.000But in doing so, it also created this other thing, luckily, because I think this other thing that we're doing right now, podcasts, being completely unregulated and being on even platforms that are corporate platforms like YouTube, pretty fucking unregulated.
01:36:35.000We would not know if it wasn't for Matt Taibbi and all those people that, like, Michael Schellenberger and Barry Weiss and all those people who went through the Twitter files and were like, look at this.
01:37:29.000The people that broke into the office, CIA agents, CIA informants, CIA employees, and then...
01:37:38.000Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission, and he was the only one that they would accept for Richard Nixon's vice president.
01:37:47.000The other guy, Spiro Agnew, they hit him with, I think it was tax evasion, so he's out, they get rid of him, and then they get Nixon in there, and then they get him with this whole Watergate thing, and they get rid of him.
01:37:58.000And then he was the most, apparently, he was the most popular president in U.S. history, and he won the election by the largest margin in U.S. history.
01:38:15.000And what Tucker was saying, I don't know if this is true, but what Tucker was saying was that Nixon, he was very interested in the Kennedy assassination.
01:38:23.000And he had said to the head of the CIA, I know why they killed JFK. Wow.
01:39:34.000No, real journalism is very important.
01:39:37.000And real journalism is critical for people to understand.
01:39:40.000But I think a lot of the real journalism now is happening independently.
01:39:45.000It's these people that they publish on Substack and they have a large following because people like Glenn Greenwald, people know that they can trust them.
01:39:52.000They're going to give you the straight dope whether or not it's uncomfortable for you or not.
01:39:58.000But as soon as you start working for a massive corporate entity like the New York Times or any other one, Washington Post, figure out what it is.
01:40:05.000And that's where the Woodward and Bernstein, they were working for the Washington Post.
01:40:52.000But they think that it's worth it because they're bringing information.
01:40:55.000I don't know what they think, actually.
01:40:57.000But no, they're tools of power, and that's the one thing that you're not allowed to be.
01:41:03.000Even if you think the power is good, maybe they all support the agenda of the U.S. government, destabilizing the world and impoverishing their own population.
01:41:36.000I think it's been the case for a long time.
01:41:38.000I mean, if you look at what happened to Richard Nixon, which I, of course, did not understand at all, Richard Nixon was taken out by the FBI and CIA, and with the help of Bob Woodward, who was a Washington Post reporter who had been a naval intelligence officer working in the White House,
01:42:59.000This intrepid reporter, Bob Woodward, was a tool of power, secret power, which is the most threatening kind, To bounce the single most popular president in American history, Richard Nixon, from office before the end of his term, and replace him with who?
01:43:15.000Oh, Gerald Ford, who sat on the Warren Commission.
01:43:19.000Now, how did Gerald Ford get to be Richard Nixon's vice president?
01:43:22.000Well, because Carl Albert, the Democrat Speaker of the House, told him, you must choose him.
01:43:54.000Yeah, he was on the Warren Commission.
01:43:57.000And so, sorry for the long story, but the point is, like, that happened in front of all of us, but the way it was framed cloaked the obvious reality of it.
01:44:06.000The people who broke into the Watergate office building, from which the name is taken, Watergate, I think it was six of them or seven of them, all but one was a CIA employee.
01:44:20.000So the whole thing, Richard Nixon was elected by more votes than any president in American history in the 1972 election.
01:44:29.000He was the most popular by votes, which is the only way we can really measure popularity, the most popular president in his reelection campaign.
01:45:29.000Yeah, because he'll talk about the deep state and all these things that when, if you're like me, who's a casual guy, who I think is a larger percentage of guys who really want to do the research, They're like, this is deep state, deep state.
01:45:41.000And he'll talk about it as if it's this conspiratorial, dark, sinister, rub their hands together kind of.
01:45:46.000And he's like, no, basically it's just bureaucracy.
01:45:49.000There's a lot of unnecessary jobs in the government.
01:46:15.000Yeah, but he said, I think they truly believe, and it's kind of like an elitist thing where they're like, these people don't know what's good for them.
01:49:32.000I think they said Bush won Florida by like 500 votes.
01:49:34.000And I think about like domino effect, and the domino effect of that is insane.
01:49:40.000Because eight years of Bush is what got us eight years of Obama.
01:49:42.000I think people were so done with Bush that they were like, Let's give a black guy a shot.
01:49:46.000And then eight years of that, the white people that were kind of angry about Obama getting elected were like, fuck this, let's go to the guys that are going to piss them off the most.
01:52:38.000People got sick and they called it Gulf War Syndrome and they were denied.
01:52:42.000They were denied, but they were denying that it was real until investigative journalists dug into it and found out that it was most likely the result of depleted uranium rounds.
01:52:53.000Yeah, apparently depleted uranium is the shit.
01:52:55.000If you want to like fuck up tanks and stuff, like it just shoots right through them.
01:53:01.000Used as weapons because it's so dense, it self-ignites at high temperatures and pressures and because it becomes sharper as it penetrates armor plating, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
01:53:13.000As depleted uranium penetrator strikes a target, its surface temperature increases dramatically, according to Oak Ridge Associated University's Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity.
01:53:54.000The Pentagon said it will send depleted uranium armor-piercing ammunition to Ukraine as a part of its new assistance package, a step senior Russian official called a criminal act.
01:55:24.000The illness suffered by soldiers who took part in the Gulf War syndrome was not caused by inhaling depleted uranium, according to a scientific study.
01:55:32.000Instead, researchers believe the Gulf War syndrome may be due to soldiers being exposed to the nerve agent Sauron.
01:55:38.000So, there's probably a bunch of misinformation that's put out by official people in regards to that, but I would imagine that would play a factor.
01:55:48.000If depleted uranium was used And I know that a lot of the people, one of the things that they talked about, there was a documentary done on Gulf War Syndrome, and these people that were actually going through the wreckage of tanks wound up getting it, and they were talking about it that they didn't know.
01:56:04.000Yeah, the burn pits that Jon Stewart talked about.
01:56:27.000Like, how little do they give a fuck about you if they burn toxic shit and it goes downwind and just runs through the camp?
01:56:35.000Being a government, I think, this is why there's some level of sociopathy involved, is you have to be okay with the baseline level of innocent death, I think.
01:59:47.000So they're going through different filters, different ways of looking at it, and then later on they show the actual missiles headed towards it.
02:01:07.000Son, that game is, I mean, it's crazy what video games are doing.
02:01:10.000There's now, like, I watch the NFL a lot.
02:01:12.000When a guy scores a touchdown, they use like a 6K camera, and you look at that, and you're like, oh, that looks like a video game.
02:01:18.0006K, the more crisp reality looks like the video game now.
02:01:22.000I was watching a video yesterday on YouTube that was a review of the Google Pixel 8 Pro, and apparently it has AI in it that can give a smile for For your kid's face.
02:01:37.000It's correct, because he said, the guy was reviewing, he said, my one kid is never paying attention, never looked, well, then get a picture of him not paying attention.
02:02:03.000Well, have you seen the new Microsoft software where they can take a photograph, just a photograph, and then with your voice have you say all kinds of shit in video, and it looks seamless.
02:04:38.000And then they could literally move the position that you're in.
02:04:42.000So if you're in the center of the thing, you're like, I want to be behind that park bench.
02:04:45.000They just put you behind the park bench.
02:04:46.000Dude, for my special, luckily we got prize picks to help me pay for the cost and then we did like an ad read in the middle.
02:04:52.000The background, we filmed it on a green screen and my guy Kev created that background in like 30 seconds and you can't tell the difference.
02:05:01.000It looks like maybe slightly different but so many people are like, did he stop the middle of his taping to do an ad read?
02:05:08.000It just added this stuff into, which probably before your guy got to it, but this has just been added to video editing software, some of the AI stuff we've been talking about.
02:05:16.000It's now built into the actual editing software.
02:05:19.000It's like what just happened on screen was they changed the small amount of diamonds into a large amount of diamonds, and it now works in the video that they're using.
02:14:32.000This guy made some of the greatest comedy specials in the history of the world, and we're going to talk about the slap right there with that, if not before that.
02:14:39.000But the comedy, like his audiences went way up.
02:14:43.000His ticket sales went through the roof.
02:16:07.000I mean, that was the path back then, right?
02:16:09.000I think this is a little bit of Monday Morning Quarterbacking, where back then it was Eddie Murphy, do stand-up, be a legend, go do movies, be a legend, do whatever you want to after that.
02:16:17.000And Chris was doing, the stand-up was still insane.
02:16:21.000I think, even Never Scared, fantastic.
02:16:23.000You watch that, you're just like, wow.
02:16:25.000Four specials that are just like, or was it his third special?
02:22:00.000And I was like, what a cool, honest moment we had where I didn't have to pretend.
02:22:04.000I think that's one of the best things about the podcasting, is talking to people and being like, oh, I had a preconceived notion of you, and you're very different than what I thought.
02:22:13.000Yeah, we get informed the more people we talk to.
02:22:16.000The more people we talk to and the more conversations we have, we get more informed as a human being.
02:22:21.000I think one of the things that limits people is the access they have to other interesting people.
02:22:26.000And I think that's also one of the things that is really exciting to people about podcasts, why they like it so much.
02:22:31.000Because now they can listen to interesting people talk.
02:22:56.000There's been people that I've had to read books on astrophysics and string theory and try to understand what the fuck they're talking about or AI. It depends.
02:23:10.000Some people have read their entire book and I knew they were coming on months in advance so I prepared for it.
02:23:16.000And then other people, I'm just like, I can't wait to talk to that guy.
02:23:20.000You know, like, that Mexican OT, zero prep.
02:24:25.000You're probably better off doing it the Larry King way with some stuff, but Larry King didn't interview theoretical physicists.
02:24:33.000I need to know something about what you're talking about to be able to have my own questions.
02:24:41.000Because there's some things that are so nuanced and they're so complicated that you should have some understanding of them before you talk about it.
02:24:51.000But then, other times, it's like, oh, guy's a comic.
02:25:22.000Even by being selfish, you're actually going against yourself.
02:25:27.000You're not realizing it at the time, but you're actually poisoning your own show by being selfish.
02:25:34.000Yeah, the best thing that I've learned in life is try to actually listen.
02:25:38.000Especially, and the more nervous you are, like, even this pod, I come on, I'm like, just try to listen and respond to what he's saying in the moment, and just stay in your own body and do that.
02:25:51.000Like, when I'm, you know, hanging out with someone, Just a regular person.
02:25:55.000I'm so much better at talking to people now than I was before I did a podcast.
02:26:00.000Because I'm so much better at not talking over someone, waiting for them to talk, trying to get the most out of what they're trying to say.
02:26:08.000Instead of just listening and then just me talking, trying to figure out how did you come to that conclusion?
02:27:15.000So I used to get really irritated at that stuff.
02:27:18.000And then I think what Schultz said to me one time, because this kid at a diner started interrupting our conversation and telling us about his education and how smart he was.
02:27:26.000And then I was so annoyed when we left.
02:27:30.000And Andrew was like, yeah, but you got to feel good about yourself that that guy, for whatever reason, felt insecure around you and felt he needed to impress you that much.
02:27:38.000Well, it's when someone knows someone from something, right?
02:27:41.000If they know you and you don't know them, they need to let you know they're a big deal.
02:27:45.000Yeah, and it's just insecurity, and it's like, I used to take it as malicious, and now I'm like, oh, that guy, I'm not great at it, but I try to remind myself, oh, that guy is meeting probably, he's probably listened to you thousands of hours in his head, and he wants so badly for you to like him,
02:28:00.000and he just doesn't know how to do that, and he doesn't know, hey, if I just have a real conversation with Joe, he'll walk away being like, that's a nice guy.
02:28:06.000And then he just overcompensates with, let me impress him because I did all these things and show him what I've done.
02:30:09.000I think about that because I don't feel nearly as confident in podcasting as I do in stand-up and then I just remember, oh, stand-up is something I've been doing 17 years now or whatever.
02:30:18.000Podcasting I've been doing 5, 6, whatever.
02:30:37.000I could try to get my thought out now, but if I'm just going to be talking with everybody, is that going to add to the best podcast or do I just fall back and wait?
02:31:28.000Well, it was also for me, it was very important to see because Ari had been telling me these things for decades and had never figured out a way to do it on stage and decided to do it all in one special.
02:31:57.000And then he becomes a comic, which is wild.
02:31:59.000And when I met him, it was like, I guess it was the 90s, and he was like, maybe one year did Ari start working at the store.
02:32:08.000It might have, I think I was on, that might have been Fear Factor days, I don't remember.
02:32:12.000But it was like, he was a young, young guy who was just starting to do stand-up, and then the more I got to know him, I'm like, what did you do?
02:32:42.000I used to try to push myself to do this material that was personal.
02:32:44.000Like, I hope I can make my dad's story into a bit or something to end a special with or whatever.
02:32:49.000But now I realize I don't need to push.
02:32:51.000I wasn't good enough to do that back then.
02:32:53.000And now as I'm getting better, I think I can dig deeper, be more honest, be more personal, tell more personal things or whatever, and then I'm ready now, I feel like.
02:33:01.000Yeah, you can figure out a way to make it good.
02:33:08.000Especially like somewhat potentially painful things that you're trying to make funny.
02:33:12.000I remember I would see some comics come up and be just so awkward, say all these horrible things they went through, and they'd be like...
02:33:17.000I don't care if y'all laugh, this is therapy for me.
02:33:19.000And I know you're just saying that because you're nervous, because you're not doing well, but you gotta understand how fundamentally wrong, this is not therapy.
02:33:26.000We're not here to help you through this.
02:33:28.000Go to therapy, make it funny, and then come bring it to us.
02:33:31.000I remember there was some dispute at Just for Laughs, and some comic yelled at some other comic that if you're not using your comedy to promote social justice, you can go fuck yourself.
02:33:47.000I think you also, that's probably a young comic, probably, because I know I had these ideas of what funny was.
02:33:51.000And I remember watching, I think it was called Talking Funny or Funny People or whatever, with Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Louis C.K., and Jerry Seinfeld.
02:33:59.000And then there's a moment where Ricky, who's the youngest comic in the room, is talking about these jokes and, like, I don't want to do those jokes because those jokes are easy.
02:35:15.000It was so much so that the Punchline in Atlanta used to have a green room, and on the back of the green room, people would write on the wall, and it said, quit trying to be Hicks.
02:36:04.000He was saying, he was on somebody else's podcast and that guy was saying about Brian Regan, I remember Hicks was really dying to go see you at X, Y, and Z. So Hicks loves Brian Regan.
02:42:18.000And I was like, oh, I'll bring him on the road.
02:42:19.000And then I thought, you know, one thing I try to do to pay forward how Schultz helped me is that once I get to know you and I think I know how you're funny, I'm like, hey, well, let's watch your set if you want, and I'll see if I can give you some advice.
02:42:30.000I'm not the end-all be-all, but I'll try to help you how I can.
02:42:33.000So I had Derek feature one show, and then I watched the set, and I was like, buddy, I barely got, I got some tags for you.
02:42:38.000But I don't see, like, structurally, oh, you could do this, you could do X, Y, Z. You're so fucking funny.