Comedian and writer Joe Rogan opens up about how he lost his faith in God, sold his dream house, and decided to move to Queens, New York to be closer to a bagel store. Joe also explains why he decided to get married to his wife, Chrissy D, and why he thinks she s the best thing that has ever happened to him in his life. He also explains how he and his wife are now living in Queens and what it s like to be a millennial in the big city. Joe also talks about why he doesn t want to move back to his hometown of Los Angeles and why it s a good thing he s now in a place where he can walk to the bagel shop in the morning and get a cup of coffee in the afternoon, and how he s finally found his feet back in Catholicism. It s an emotional rollercoaster of a ride, and you won t wanna miss it. If you re a fan of the show, check it out! The Joe Rogans Experience is a podcast by day, and a comedy show by night, all day long. Check it out by night. I never know what's going on with him, but I know it s going to be an amazing ride. . I can t wait to see what he s up to in the next few episodes. -Jon Sorrentino and I hope you like it. I ll be back in the future. --Jon And I ll give you some advice on how to get your ass out of your headspace on the road. and how to be your best in the city to get a good night out Thank you for listening to this episode Joe -- Jon - J. ROGAN PODCAST (featuring: & J.ROGAN , JOSEPH CRUISER ( ) AND JOE RYAN ( ) and JOSH MILLER (J. R. (JOSH RAYE (JOE JAYE) (JOSYNN (JACKETT) ) JOE JAMES (JACOB RYOZ (JORDAN) JOSH JEAN (JODY D) and JOSIE D (JAYE LYNN ECHTER (JAMES)
00:02:00.000And I convinced my family, because that's what we can do, right, as comics, I convinced them, I had them buy this story, convinced my girl, my family, what's going to be better for us is to sell this five-bedroom house.
00:02:20.000We're going to move to Queens, where we can walk to stuff in bagel stores and be in civilization.
00:02:24.000We're going to temporarily live in a two-bedroom apartment.
00:02:28.000And then we're eventually going to move into a condo and life's going to be better because, you know, I won't have to care for these grounds anymore.
00:02:37.000I won't have to throw out the garbage.
00:03:25.000What's going on in my career right now, selling the most tickets I've ever had, financially the best I've ever done, getting all these opportunities, was the worst version of me as a human being.
00:03:35.000Not because I was just self-sabotaging after self-sabotaging, and I couldn't, didn't know why.
00:03:41.000Do you have friends that you could talk to about this stuff?
00:03:43.000Yeah, but they're, you know, not, they call me gay.
00:03:47.000Like, they're old school New York guys that are like, I don't fucking know, dude, get a therapist.
00:03:52.000And I'm like, well, yeah, I, what I had to do, what I, I really felt like nobody could really help me with this.
00:03:58.000I was like, I gotta just turn to professional therapist and then I go into And then I turned back to going to church, and I was like, well, at least I have, like, if anything for me, church is just an hour a week to just meditate and sit there, and I have nothing.
00:04:20.000But that chaos stuff, you know, because people always, you know, Chrissy Chaos, I was actually living in it, and I was like, okay, now what I've done, now I've, like, hurt my family.
00:04:31.000Now I've done a thing that's, like, not funny.
00:04:33.000Now I've, like, taken things from my kids because I thought my kids would be like, oh, yeah, Dad, like my eight-year-old.
00:04:40.000We had this moment that kids are just kids.
00:04:43.000I'm telling her, isn't this great, baby?
00:05:19.000Now my family's like, hey, we're with you.
00:05:23.000We're with you, but we gotta figure this out.
00:05:26.000So now we're settled, finally, in a place.
00:05:29.000And we're kind of falling in love with the neighborhood we're living in as time has went on.
00:05:33.000And my kids are finding friends and all that.
00:05:36.000And I'm not going to take that from them.
00:05:39.000I'm not going to be like, well, wherever we are now, we're going to stay for years so they can build the bonds and the friendships that they need that I inadvertently took away from them without me even realizing.
00:06:14.000It was, I believe, I have confidence, I believe that I'm in this business, I can do it.
00:06:19.000And I believe that like we're all together now, especially how comedy is now, I feel like we're all like this big brother, sisterhood, like we'll help each other.
00:06:25.000If one of us is falling, like we got each other.
00:06:29.000But I think that the actual anxiety of the day of, you know, again, being a New York guy, one night Radio City, the next night the theater at MSG, all these, for me, a lot of tickets, you know, 10,000 plus tickets, which is, you know, that's huge for me.
00:06:44.000I was like, how am I going to balance all this?
00:07:03.000There's always people that are going to find some negative thing in anything.
00:07:06.000So now, now, I've gotten to that point to accept that I'm wildly different.
00:07:11.000Not wildly different, but I'm much better now than I was in September when all this stuff was going on because I've just kind of accepted that I don't really have control of what others think.
00:07:22.000Maybe you need a thing other than just comedy that you do that's not like career-oriented, like a hobby, like some kind of other interest that you really enjoy that you could focus on.
00:07:46.000Well, what I've done, because I haven't gotten to the hobby yet, what I've done is I've really, I thought I was always focused on my kids, always being a father is everything to me, but I said, what you just said, I said, I'm going to really just focus on being a dad, being home,
00:08:02.000coming off the road a little bit, just temporarily doing my thing in New York, keeping my podcast going, keeping my name out there, but not going on this national tour, getting away from that, For now, I've shot a special.
00:08:15.000It's going to come out at the end of the year.
00:09:07.000The biggest you can get is you've achieved, which is beautiful.
00:09:10.000But I still saw you yesterday obsessing over your hour and thinking about, like, how do I make that joke better, which is why you've gotten here.
00:09:18.000And I've had that question in my head yesterday when I got back to the hotel.
00:09:32.000Because I love comedy, but I was like, I don't know.
00:09:35.000I just shot a special and was like, you know what, I need some time off where I don't know that you've ever done that, right?
00:09:40.000I mean, you've never taken a big break from stand-up.
00:09:42.000Well, I took a big break during COVID. Right.
00:09:44.000But other than that, you've always been like, you have a love and a passion that's, you're not worried about, like you're never looking at your watch being like, is an hour up yet?
00:09:53.000You know, when you're podcasting, you're never being like, I gotta get an hour.
00:11:06.000I always feel, after a workout, great.
00:11:09.000Because I was an athlete, I played basketball my entire life, to the point where my friends from home Are like, you never mentioned basketball, and that's the thing you were known as in the neighborhood.
00:11:59.000Then physical therapy, getting my doctorate degree, was an obsession.
00:12:02.000And then comedy became an obsession, and I think I have this thing in my head, where I know I have to stay in the present, but sometimes I can't help it, where I'm like, well, is this your obsession ending now, and you're going to find another obsession?
00:12:13.000Yeah, it's the thinking about the negative possibilities that are dangerous.
00:13:20.000This makes me feel, at times when I feel emasculated, that's something that makes me feel masculine.
00:13:26.000When I'm like, oh, I don't know how to build anything, and I got my girlfriend here putting up sheetrock, and I'm like, I can build fucking walls emotionally.
00:13:32.000I don't know how to do anything else other than that.
00:13:35.000I'm like, at least I feel like, you know what?
00:14:13.000And so I feel like I control my output as best I can, but yet then I sit with these thoughts kind of...
00:14:21.000You know, they eat at me sometimes, you know?
00:14:24.000But, and then maybe it comes out in weird ways where I'm like, well, I'll just sell my house or I'll, you know, I have a grid family thing right now, but maybe I'll, you know, maybe I'll fall in love with the actress from Baby Reindeer.
00:15:42.000I had this house sale and then I had a family member who really was acting crazy, like crazy, crazy, crazy, where I was like, this is now a nightmare.
00:15:54.000So I'm like, now for the first time in the past nine months, I'm like, you, one self-induced, one not, And you've created, now how do you deal with this?
00:16:04.000How do you think you created the problem with your family member acting crazy?
00:16:49.000Put your feet down right now and your family's, you know, my eight-year-old is, she's old enough now to somebody will, you know, somebody in her class will be like, oh, your dad's the comic.
00:17:13.000My 13-year-old, I have 13, 8, and 2. My two-year-old's obviously a baby, but 13 and 8?
00:17:18.000You're going to have to now really, really, really get your shit together.
00:17:22.000And I think that was scary because nobody really in my family, no male figures at least, even though my father's a great man, nobody really got their shit together, right?
00:17:30.000I was like, I'm the only one who went to college.
00:17:32.000I'm the only one who pursued anything.
00:17:33.000I'm the only one who's ever even owned a home, you know?
00:17:36.000So even though I sold it immediately...
00:19:23.000Some guys wanted to kill him because he owed money, got taken care of, and then he went to Gamblers Anonymous, and at least he was like, well, I have this disease, and I don't do it anymore.
00:20:58.000But like when we first got there, you know, it's like an old school, if you don't know Staten Island, it's like an old school New York City neighborhood.
00:21:05.000It's like the only borough that is like, you know, kind of like more Republican than anything.
00:21:10.000Like they are like freedom, like American flag, you will see American flags everywhere on Staten Island.
00:21:24.000And so they, you know, they're, like when I moved in, you know, I come in here, it's me, you know, like, you know, I'm Italian, whatever, but then my whole family's Puerto Rican.
00:21:34.000And my neighbors, for like the first two weeks, just because I didn't know, I told my neighbors that my wife was Italian, that my girl was Italian, not Puerto Rican.
00:21:42.000I swear to God, I told her we were Puerto Rican.
00:21:45.000And then my neighbor, who's a great guy, he's a doctor, he finally came over to me once and he goes, you know we know he's Puerto Rican.
00:22:49.000So they're like, we can't, this is our house, like we have to stay, like we, they have a baby, they have a whole, so, and I fucked up, but I do feel, I do feel that we, I'm confident we can, we are getting out of it,
00:24:38.000You know, he would always tell me, you know, you could leave my mother's house, right, where she still lives, and you could go to the right was church, and to the left was the OTB racetrack, but it kind of, the church was like at a top of a triangle, so you could go either way and get to the church.
00:24:55.000And my father told me, he'd always be like, you know, when you're going to church with your mother, though, you always go to the right, okay?
00:27:16.000If you live in New York City, if you live in LA, people become a burden, because there's so many of them, you don't appreciate them.
00:27:23.000See, the thing with New York, I agree, and New York now, it never felt that way, you know, my whole life there, but recently, New York has become a place, still great, still my home city, but...
00:28:00.000Three times in the past year, three times in the past year, I've been physically assaulted or had to defend myself against a mentally deranged homeless person.
00:28:12.000One time I was walking to the comedy cellar, some guy came at me.
00:28:16.000And, like, just put his elbow in my chest and I had to push him and he fell over a pile of garbage.
00:28:19.000I just had to push him as hard as I can where I'm like, I never dealt with that.
00:28:23.000And now you're starting to hear people who, like, would always kind of, you know, never, ever, ever even think about, like, voting any other way.
00:28:31.000But the traditional New York way are like, I have to now vote another way because it's not safe for me anymore.
00:30:43.000Well, when you saw those illegal immigrants that came here that attacked the police officer and they were out of jail the next day, flashing the bird at the cameras, that's crazy.
00:30:54.000You got someone who illegally enters from another country, assaults a police officer, and they're right back out in the street.
00:30:59.000And by the way, any race or religion doesn't want that in New York.
00:32:29.000What's really crazy is that video where he was doing that thing, trying to get people to get vaccinated, and, like, you get a free burger, so he's eating a burger.
00:32:41.000Warren Wilhelm Jr., Yeah, and he just divorced his wife, which she also stole, they said, like $80 million or something like that went missing.
00:35:21.000I thought, you know, I've never seen, like, a girl's...
00:35:23.000No girls had ever shown me their vagina when I was 11. But they were trying to explain to me that it's like, I guess I wasn't, I guess I wasn't 11. I guess I was 13. Okay.
00:35:34.000So it was like, we only lived in Jamaica Plain for a year and a half.
00:35:40.000Yeah, I think we moved there before school.
00:35:43.000I think I went through the summer and then I went to school.
00:37:05.000We actually were on the same basketball team playing basketball together and she had already had sex and I was a virgin and we had this sex and unprotected and I'll never forget she was you know she put like a do-rag on she had done this before My mom wasn't home.
00:38:27.000I... Pandora's box of anxiety opened up for me on 9-11 because I thought my mom was dead, this whole thing.
00:38:34.000So I couldn't shake that feeling for 10 years after that.
00:38:37.000I could not shake the feeling of thinking my mom or anyone I loved, any woman that I loved, girlfriend or mom or aunt, if they did not respond to me within five minutes of a text, I assumed they were dead.
00:38:49.000That feeling of 9-11 every day came back because I was calling my mom, no response, no response.
00:38:58.000And then something happened where I started to look at my anxiety like narcissism and like disgusted with myself to the point where, because I used to put out these videos, Anxiety Tuesday, talk about my anxiety and people will still sometimes be like, oh, that Anxiety Tuesday stuff,
00:39:13.000it helped me so much, why don't you do it anymore?
00:39:17.000That guy was so pitiful because you were being worried about things that really didn't matter.
00:39:24.000What I should have done and what I know now is dealt with that anxiety in a healthier way.
00:39:28.000So instead of subconsciously, you know, selling my house because I was really nervous about a big show, we've been able to deal with that anxiety in a healthier way and make a better decision.
00:39:37.000So I think like this relationship with anxiety is so like big and swings in my life that I used to kind of let, I'm trying to use the energy now to be like, well, how can you learn from this?
00:40:27.000I was, you know, one of the best players on the team.
00:40:33.000I remember she wasn't texting me back.
00:40:36.000I foolishly texted her before the game, like when we were in the locker room, and then thinking, okay, we're going to go in for warm-ups.
00:40:42.00020 minutes, I would have to leave my phone in another room, because the anxiety of, like, is the phone ringing or not, I couldn't handle it.
00:40:50.000So if I texted her, and then I went and did something else for 20 minutes, I would say, at the end of this 20 minutes, she's going to have a text, she's home, and you can relax.
00:41:53.000I come back and I have the phone stuffed in my pants.
00:41:57.000I stuffed it in my like tidy shorts and I played the game with the cell phone stuffed in my pants because I said the only way I'd be able to do this is somehow When nobody's looking, even though it's a packed college crowd,
00:42:13.000pull out this phone and make sure that she texts me or else I can't play.
00:42:17.000I'm going to be paralyzed and I can't play.
00:42:19.000So I had it, and then I was playing the game, realizing this is worse, because now I'm waiting for the phone to vibrate, and every time I thought it was vibrating, it wasn't.
00:43:03.000Again, back then, not knowing anything about mental health, not really caring, being from deep in Brooklyn.
00:43:08.000What they did is they, on a road trip, one time we were going to a game, they found a way to, the star six-seventh called me from an unrestricted, it'll pop up nobody, and they said,
00:43:24.000the girl's name was Melissa, they were like, hey, we kidnapped Melissa.
00:43:33.000Like, everything that I confessed to them, they said.
00:43:36.000And I had, and it was crazy, my freshman year, when she also played basketball as well that year, when I was a freshman, she was a senior, so we would always be in the same gym at the same time, so I had no anxiety.
00:43:50.000My junior and senior year, when I was a better basketball player in better shape, the leader of the team, but she was not with me every game, 50% free throw shooter, because my brain, I couldn't feel my body.
00:44:02.000And I somehow got people, my teammates didn't even know this, I got all the way to Division III All-American.
00:44:07.000I was like, I'm my school's all-time leading scorer, or maybe second now.
00:44:10.000But I did all this stuff, and I was completely, 100%, absolutely having like this mental health Crisis.
00:44:19.000As anxious as I could be, I swear, I would never joke about this.
00:44:22.000I was like at 21 years old being like, I'm gonna have to kill myself.
00:45:07.000But I cared about their safety, always.
00:45:11.000And it was this thing I could not let go of.
00:45:13.000And the biggest fear I have, the biggest fear I have, and that's why I'm trying so hard to work at this now, and sometimes it's fucking exhausting, but I'm trying so hard, is I don't want that anxiety to come back, and then I put it on my daughters.
00:45:26.000Because I don't want them, I don't want to be their 18, 19, want to live their life and dad's here texting them and they don't write back and now I'm thinking, who has my daughter?
00:45:56.000So what happened was, the only advice that I did get from a friend of mine who's my kid's godfather now, Was like, you are so much better basketball player, which is what I cared about back then.
00:46:08.000You are such a better basketball player when you're single.
00:46:10.000When you don't have a girlfriend, you are such a better basketball player, and that's what you need to do.
00:46:15.000So the only way at that time I could overcome it is to be single and to not connect together.
00:47:38.000Yeah, but it's interesting what you said to me about therapy is I felt that way myself.
00:47:43.000I was like, you know, sometimes I feel like I have, we all have issues, but I'm like, sometimes I'm just like bitching to my therapist and I'm forcing myself to talk about these things that I feel like I have a better handle over from like my own kind of, you know, meditation and just, you know, thinking, you know, like seeking out help for myself,
00:48:00.000listening to people speak, having life experience.
00:48:02.000I'm like, you know, I like my therapist, but I'm like, I don't know, man.
00:48:06.000Sometimes it's like, you don't want to be the guy that's like, I don't need help, because I get it.
00:48:10.000But I'm like, yeah, I didn't need this today.
00:48:14.000I feel like you made me nervous again now.
00:48:18.000Like, I didn't need this at all today.
00:48:20.000But it's Tuesday, 11, 15, so that's our session.
00:48:23.000That's what Abigail Schreier was saying.
00:48:25.000I had her on and she had written a book about therapy in kids and that obsessing about problems sometimes can exacerbate the problem, make them worse.
00:48:34.000So instead of just like allowing that problem to sort of go away and naturally recover from it, now you just rehash it over and over and over and over.
00:48:44.000And it becomes a thing that you're concentrating on all the time.
00:48:47.000And that you're not developing the ability to be resilient.
00:48:51.000And resilience comes from a lot of things.
00:48:53.000If you have bad things happen in your life, you can develop anxiety.
00:48:57.000But also, when bad things happen in your life and you recover from them, you realize you can recover from bad things.
00:49:04.000I feel like I'll just, you know, I've been through it.
00:49:07.000Like, I'm not scared of anesthesia anymore.
00:49:10.000I used to be that guy that's scared of anesthesia because I had to get a colonoscopy because I took a shit that looked like it had some blood in it.
00:49:15.000And it turned out it was just a bunch of boysenberries.
00:49:36.000Because a big anxiety for me would be...
00:49:39.000Okay, I feel a pain in my chest, my stomach, you know, whatever.
00:49:43.000Like, I had gas once in my stomach, and I had shows in England, and I literally went from literal gas pain, because you were eating all this British food, just a minor gas pain that was going to go away in 10 minutes, to...
00:49:56.000Brain exacerbated it into potential appendicitis.
00:50:38.000I don't know how I'll react to anesthesia, but now that wouldn't happen.
00:50:44.000Now what I would say, if I got an appendicitis feeling right now on the show, what I'd say was, well, if that's going to be the case, you'll deal with it.
00:50:54.000We have enough modern medicine here where if this thing got really bad and this was like, you're going to die, You have enough medicine here where you can make this as painless as possible.
00:51:04.000Were you the headliner of these shows?
00:51:09.000I wasn't selling anything, but I still was the headliner.
00:51:12.000I let people down, and I had to apologize to my stepmom that I said she died.
00:51:16.000And the other people that were with you, did they fly over there to do those shows too?
00:51:18.000No, they were from the UK. They were from the UK. But all I ever wanted to do was see the beach in the UK. I've always been obsessed with it.
00:52:05.000I like it because it's interesting and it's fun.
00:52:07.000I like it because it makes people laugh and it excites my brain to come up with new stuff to talk about.
00:52:13.000But when you were young in Jamaica Plains and doing those things, would your defense thing, would you always try to make people laugh from a defensive point of view?
00:52:24.000No, but if you talked to my friends from high school, they wouldn't have told you I was funny.
00:54:10.000You're thinking about the exact amount of revolutions you're putting on the ball, the angle that ball is going to come off, what is going to come off with spin.
00:54:17.000Are you going to put check spin on it so it shortens the angle?
00:54:20.000Or are you going to put running English on it so it lengthens the angle?
00:55:06.000That's interesting because I thought you were going to say it feels like...
00:55:10.000The guys who I know who play golf have bigger careers because they're making these connections with people on the golf course and getting these things.
00:55:38.000Like, Brian Callen famously told me this story where his mom was watching this guy that his dad was gonna do business with play golf, and the guy cheated at golf.
00:56:19.000He just says, what kind of traitor of a person are you that you want to live around people who hate you because of your fan choice?
00:56:24.000Unless, he said, the only caveat to that is if their father was from, like, Pittsburgh, and you're a Dire Art Steelers fan, you moved to New York, I get that.
00:59:03.000Just all guys sitting at a table like this having dinner, they do not know comedy is supposed to happen.
00:59:07.000The wife thought it'd be a good idea to get a comedian in there for his 60th birthday that she wasn't invited to because this was a guy's thing.
00:59:15.000And so a 60-year-old billionaire doesn't know who the fuck I am.
00:59:20.000If you're gonna have comedy, have Jerry Seinfeld, have Joe Rogan, have somebody that they know.
01:02:39.000And I said, well, you know, Mr. Cohen, she told me just come out here, birthday gift for you, you know, do 15 minutes and, you know, like just, you know, just do the best I can.
01:02:50.000And she thought you'd like me because I talk about the Puerto Rican kids and all that.
01:02:53.000He goes, yeah, yeah, that's I'm not Puerto Rican, though.
01:03:30.000So I just like planted my feet and I just, to the wall, didn't even look at anybody, just did my exact David Letterman set, which is about being on the subway.
01:03:39.000I just came back from England like shit from 10 years ago, but I had it and I did it.
01:03:43.000And they started to laugh and sure as shit.
01:04:13.000But I thought I had to sign NDAs because it was during COVID times and they were like renting out a restaurant, which like you really couldn't do back then.
01:04:19.000So I was like, just don't mention that.
01:04:21.000And I was like, and I thought it was really more for like, you know, they don't want reporters showing up to the actual event and them getting in trouble.
01:04:29.000But it's like, the next day, who cares?
01:04:31.000So I do my podcast the next day, Hey Babe with Sal Vulcano.
01:04:34.000And I start the show with, dude, I fucking ate it last night.
01:06:27.000And then the family now has become like friends of mine.
01:06:31.000It's like really, the Cohen family owns the Mets are like awesome, amazing people.
01:06:34.000It's like, it's almost, even though it's a big Major League Baseball team, it's like when you go to the game, it's like, Josh, you don't even need a ticket, dude.
01:12:28.000But because I've talked about the Mets and went to Mets games, the Yankees people used to give me tickets, won't give me tickets to the game anymore.
01:12:34.000They said, you're either with them or us.
01:12:35.000I was like, that's kind of a dickish move.
01:13:42.000I mean, because, you know, you just deal with it.
01:13:44.000But what's the beautiful thing about comedy is, you know, when you put out the comedy work or the podcast is the players, the actual Yankee players, Anthony Rizzo, these guys, they've reached out and been like, oh, I like that bit.
01:13:54.000So they're like, text me if you want tickets.
01:13:59.000But these, you know, the PR people who would give you the nice tickets, they said, that's not happening anymore for the Yankees, for the Mets.
01:14:05.000The Mets were like, dude, we'll give you fucking dirt from the field, whatever you want.
01:14:09.000So I kind of, you know, you go to where you're wanted, right?
01:17:30.000That's also a good one too because it's physical.
01:17:33.000And I think the things that you get into that are physical require even more because it requires not just thinking, but it requires like execution.
01:17:42.000There's like a physical thing that you have to do.
01:17:44.000Yeah, I was going to do boxing a few years ago and then the very first day I was there, a guy got into the ring and sparred and he was, you know, kind of being really like, you know, Macho guy.
01:17:56.000And he was like, I'm not wearing a cup.
01:17:58.000And the trainer was like, we should wear a cup.
01:18:03.000He got hit in the nuts and his testicle came out of the scrotum.
01:18:07.000So that was my first 20 minutes there.
01:18:09.000So I was like, I'm probably not going to do this, even though I know that that's not most likely going to happen to me because I would wear the cup.
01:18:16.000But I was like, I just was like, you know what?
01:18:17.000If you see a man's testicle fall out of his nutsack, You're probably not gonna go back to do that thing just because you're just, you know, it just gives you, it makes you uncomfortable.
01:18:28.000But I do want to, I do envy, I do feel like I should know about MMA because not only is it such a cool sport you can defend yourself, also in the comedy community, It's big.
01:18:41.000I mean, the only fight I ever went to was a PFL fight, that league, at the theater at Madison Square Garden.
01:18:49.000And the fans, they were, you know, I had never been, I don't know anything about MMA. It was a lot of recognition from the pods because they were like, it's all one community.
01:18:57.000And so I was like, this could be my golf.
01:19:59.000So you, because it's become second nature to you how to do these things, but someone like me who has a bit of fear just from being older and not doing it, like my father learned how to drive when he was 45, so he's just a terrible driver and can't drive.
01:20:12.000Even though he's not scared of life stuff, he's gone into fist fight stuff, but he's like, I can't drive.
01:20:17.000I learned how to drive when I was 17. I'll drive with one arm.
01:21:29.000So in some ways, then, it's like my fear of getting over anesthesia when I got the colonoscopy.
01:21:34.000You just got to get hit a little bit and you'll get over the fear.
01:21:37.000You'll understand you can accept that.
01:21:38.000The problem is, like, if you're sparring with another guy and he hits you with a jab and then you hit him with a jab and he hits you a little harder, like, this guy's hitting hard.
01:21:46.000Then you start hitting each other hard and next thing you know you're fighting.
01:21:58.000And I've only ever been in two fist fights my whole life.
01:22:01.000My first fist fight I punched this kid Glenn in the face thinking I'm gonna knock him off his bicycle and I'll win and he didn't even move a muscle and then he beat the shit out of me.
01:22:08.000And then the second fight I got into was just like a bar brawl and I got hit, but I got hit like in the back shoulder.
01:22:51.000And if you do it with a good school that has a good ethic about them, you could do it pretty safely.
01:22:56.000Yeah, because I'm a person, you know, we talk about it, we get excited about it, but sometimes I don't put these things into practice, even though I know stand-up is...
01:23:04.000We're doing difficult things here, but other things I'm like...
01:23:07.000Like, for example, when I, you know, in the middle of the pandemic or whatever, 2022, sometime around there, I got nervous about...
01:24:24.000The thing about it is it's really good for your head because it's so difficult that it really does make the rest of life's difficulties easier.
01:26:39.000He said something once where he was like, you know...
01:26:42.000I, because sometimes I think about this, you know, when you get a little older, even though I'm not super old, but you start to think like, hey, are my best years behind me?
01:26:53.000And I heard him say, he was like, you know, when I, he only became famous or like people knew his name and read his book when he was 43 years old.
01:26:59.000He said, so I was sitting there at 42 years old thinking, well, Whatever, all my fun, all my drug days, all my wild, it's all over.
01:27:08.000I'm in the back half of my life now, and this is what life's going to be.
01:27:11.000He goes, and I didn't realize that it was going to be the next 20 years of my life that would be me, be the best years of my life.
01:27:18.000And I never heard someone talk about it that way.
01:27:21.000It was like, I know we know that you never know what tomorrow holds.
01:27:25.000Our whole lives can change in an instant.
01:27:26.000But sometimes, I can't help but feel like, oh...
01:28:29.000I'm going back in right and like back to school and all those movies me right it was huge It's crazy like how many people are like that out there that could have made it and just didn't and just stopped just Stopped or got the whatever demons they had got the best of them.
01:28:44.000Yeah, which is a lot of us Yeah, I mean there's a lot of guys out there that have demons and their demon might be cocaine they're dealing alcohol Gambling, whatever it is.
01:28:54.000There's like a demon that gets people.
01:28:56.000And it's also timing, right place, right time.
01:28:58.000I didn't know this about sports, but like, you know, like the same way, like we know funny, funny, funny people that just never really made it for whatever reason.
01:29:51.000He defended his title against Alexander Gustafson, who's like one of the best guys ever in the light heavyweight division, and didn't even train for it.
01:30:00.000And it was the hardest fight of his career, because he was getting beat up in the first few rounds, and he pulled it off in the last two rounds.
01:30:34.000He's beaten every single person he's ever faced, except there's only one loss that he has, and it's a disqualification in a fight that he was dominating.
01:30:47.000There was fighters that he was fighting where he was so much better than everybody that the way they would describe it was like he was playing with his food.
01:34:23.000The comedy store would always cost me money.
01:34:26.000What I pay out in tips, it would be way more than I would make for doing a set.
01:34:29.000One thing that always stuck with me, when I was in eighth grade, at the same time, I had mono and my mom had gout, so none of us could, we just couldn't move.
01:34:38.000I fucking had mono and she couldn't move her foot.
01:34:40.000So she got us cable television and we watched cable and they would show reruns of Oprah, the Oprah Winfrey show.
01:34:49.000And I remember one day, and it's like advice that just stuck in my head.
01:34:53.000Oprah was on, I think it was one of the first times she was on with Dr. Phil.
01:34:57.000Oprah was on and she said, you know, the thing about success is, real successful people, is the money always comes second.
01:35:05.000It's the passion first, and then the money comes second.
01:35:08.000If you reverse it and you go after the money first, you may get success, but there's a negative karmic energy attached to that money.
01:35:14.000So the only way to do it the right way is you go passion first, and then the money will always come, but it will come second.
01:35:20.000And I don't know, I was like in a fever, mono dream, and I just always remember, and it always stayed with me my whole life.
01:35:27.000And that's why I brought up before, I was like, when I saw you kind of, you know, hammering out your set, I was like, oh shit, this is why.
01:36:13.000But the people who want to pretend that it's the whole thing, that's foolish as well.
01:36:17.000Because you can't just manifest things.
01:36:20.000I remember we were at the Comedy Store once, and there was this lady that came to the store who was a friend of one of the comics.
01:36:27.000And she was telling me that she is following the secret.
01:36:32.000She's like, I have the secret now and now I know that I'm going to be married to the person that I love and I'm going to have an amazing career and all these different things.
01:36:43.000As I go, I go, so you're confident in this?
01:37:04.000No, there's a lot of things you have to do.
01:37:05.000There's a lot of work involved, a lot of learning.
01:37:08.000You've got to make mistakes and recover from those mistakes and do better and write better stuff and perform better and get better at skills.
01:37:16.000You have to do stuff that people actually enjoy.
01:37:19.000So what do people enjoy about my work?
01:37:21.000What am I missing that other people have?
01:37:25.000It's not just, I want to be a rock star, I'm going to make it happen.
01:37:29.000So this lady was telling this to me, and this was the only time I'd ever met her, but we were all hanging out in the back of the Comedy Store, so she was out there for a couple hours, right?
01:37:38.000So then I saw her again, like a year, two years later.
01:37:44.000I was doing a show at another club, and I ran into her outside.
01:38:30.000So there was a lot of people running around during these days, like the early 2000s, that had this thing in their head that they could manifest a reality.
01:39:22.000Well, and also, correct me if I'm wrong, by the time you started your podcast, you were already successful, you were already the host, you were already kind of a household name, I'm sure financially successful, so you didn't need it for the money.
01:39:32.000You were like, I just want to talk to my friends.
01:40:04.000Three months ago, and I thought he wasn't in the room, but the way they have that set up is you really believe he's in the room, like almost like a hologram.
01:41:13.000He would stick when he was a kid, when he was a kid, when he would get yelled at by his mom and dad, he would stick safety pins through his dick and balls as a way to cope with it all.
01:41:41.000And he was like, you know, it was like this thing where they were like, the producer was like, hey, he's going to talk to you for five minutes.
01:43:09.000I still feel really positive and great about that, but sometimes my brain can't hold on to that for too long, and then what will happen is we'll say, okay, well, let's balance it.
01:43:26.000And so I hear from you a lot, you'd be able to kind of take that confidence, which is a beautiful thing, and just kind of have it make you stronger and say, all right, I'm going to keep going up, where I look for a way down from it to balance.
01:43:39.000So I fight against that, but I'm getting close.
01:43:41.000And I do think the next time I come on this podcast, I'll be fully gay.
01:45:18.000If I'm in my office, there's a giant difference between how I feel, if I just Watch YouTube videos, even if it's like an interesting thing.
01:45:28.000It's a giant difference between how I feel that then if I go over my material and I start writing and I write a new tagline, I write a new joke, I have a new premise, I have a new thing that I put into my phone.
01:45:41.000So, it's like, you gotta learn, like, what is the thing that helps?
01:45:46.000The thing that always helps my mental state is to be To be engaged in a thing and to be creative and to try to figure this thing out and then do the work that you need to be doing for your career, for the thing that you love,
01:46:31.000If I fucking did everything I'm supposed to do, I can enjoy anything.
01:46:35.000But if I have, like, in my head, like, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing, I'm not doing the work I'm supposed to be doing, then I feel like a loser.
01:46:44.000So let's just do the work, and then you don't feel like a loser.
01:46:47.000And then you could be sociable, then you're fun to hang out with, because you're not, like, overwhelmed, like, your mind is not on this thing that you should really be doing.
01:46:56.000Instead of being here at this party with your friends, you really should be at home working on that thing.
01:47:01.000Get all that shit done, so that you don't feel bad.
01:47:04.000See, because I hear you, and I think that that's 100% accurate.
01:47:29.000It's this weird thing that, so I think sometimes I flirt with that because I pretty much, you know, I do my writing and I do kind of say, all right, get into comedy, got the whole family behind you, you need to do this, let's do this, but sometimes it's that Catholic guilt, but I'm at a point in my life now,
01:47:47.000I'm reading this book, Case for Christ.
01:48:21.000Case for Christ, and I was like, wow, this guy's putting forward, like, very compelling arguments for, like, not only Jesus's existence, but his actual, like, works being real.
01:48:32.000Like, this all being fucking pretty real and pretty historically accurate.
01:48:38.000And then so I started to like go back a little bit, right?
01:48:41.000And I started to say, you know, because some of the things I'm even talking about on the show are kind of like, you know, it's still me, but it's like it's not as much as me anymore.
01:48:53.000Because I started to go back to church and I started to feel like this like, just like calmness and almost like even if it's forced, like this forced connection.
01:49:03.000You know what your problems are, right?
01:49:05.000And you know how you're doing when you're doing your best, and you know the things that you're doing that lead you to go astray, to go haywire, right?
01:49:57.000Have like a set in your head Of ideals, of behavior that you're tolerating, behavior that you're not tolerating, the way to handle things when things come up.
01:50:10.000And don't just dwell on every problem.
01:50:13.000Instead, have this thing very rigid in your head.
01:51:23.000Write down, like, these are problems that come up.
01:51:26.000And this is how I'm going to avoid these problems.
01:51:29.000Well, you know what I think happens, too, is...
01:51:31.000Because of podcasting, sometimes I'm like, because my girl said something to me once, interesting, she was like, you know, on these podcasts, you talk about all these issues you have and whatever, she was like, but at home, you're like, not that guy.
01:51:42.000Like, I don't know, like, this stuff is like, you're never like talking to us about it, you're never acting like that.
01:51:47.000Like, she was like, I see you writing and doing things, but then you go on the pod and you're like, look at this fucking...
01:52:59.000Yesterday I hadn't eaten and I did a 24-hour fast, so I was just, I was like in my body yesterday.
01:53:03.000I felt like a lot of, I mean, I know you've done it before, but when you get on those fasts and you just get like all this energy, like I couldn't even sleep.
01:54:12.000It's true, but I think it's one of those things where they probably just took records differently back then.
01:54:18.000I think in China, I think you only celebrate your birthday once every 10 years.
01:54:22.000So you could be like, oh, I'm 500, but you're really not.
01:54:26.000Well, that would mean you're 5. Yeah, exactly.
01:54:29.000But I think, you know, human beings biologically, the only thing that's going to change how we age is science, and they're pretty close to being able to do that with a lot of things.
01:54:40.000There's a few things you could do to mitigate aging today, and it does work.
01:54:44.000It does help you, but you're 500 years old.
01:54:47.000It's most likely that they just didn't know what the fuck they were talking about.
01:54:52.000He died at the age of 950. There you go.
01:54:55.000Tara was 128. Noah, as the last, the extremely long-lived Anteluvian patriarchs, died 350 years after the flood at the age of 950 when Tara was 128. The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible,
01:55:11.000gradually diminishes thereafter from almost 1,000 years to 120 years of Moses.
01:56:32.000Yes, the Gospels were 70 years later, but they were based off the accounts of people who were living at that time and up to like 25 years after it.
01:56:41.000And they say, oh, well, game of telephone.
01:56:44.000I can tell you something goes around the room.
01:56:53.000But what they said is because of that ancient thing of, you know, kind of having to pass down these Old Testaments because they couldn't write, it would be like if you're playing a game of telephone, but every person, I check with the person before to make sure the word I'm saying is right.
01:59:29.000That's probably not what happened, and the Romans themselves acknowledged there's no body in that tomb that we put in there three days ago.
02:00:15.000But if you looked at it, like, what's the most logical explanation?
02:00:18.000Is the most logical explanation that a dead guy came back to life, or the most logical explanation that someone took his body, because that's what the Romans said?
02:00:38.000After reading that book, there was enough things that happened that historical scholars who aren't religious, some are believers, some are not, are like, this existed and this happened.
02:00:50.000But you're talking about historical scholars from 2,000 years ago.
02:00:55.000And their knowledge of science and biology and life and the universe itself was extremely limited.
02:01:41.000Who knows if it was a religious thing?
02:01:44.000Look, there's people that have mass hallucinations all the time about a lot of things, and there's people that you could give them false memory.
02:02:36.000And so if this person was this significant person A religious guru figure like Jesus was, right?
02:02:45.000And he really does have this amazing view of how humanity can live in harmony, and he really does talk to people about this, and he really does preach forgiveness, and he really does treat everybody the same,
02:03:09.000And if you really do have a fundamental view of reality that's based entirely on myth, and you have connected this guy to the Son of Christ, or the Son of God, rather, this figure that is brought here to save us, and the Romans took him from us and killed him,
02:03:26.000and now he died for our sins and the whole thing.
02:03:29.000If you have that in your head, and then someone says, I saw him, like, I saw him too.
02:04:25.000Genghis Khan, they did the wildest thing with him.
02:04:27.000They sent a pack of people to bury Genghis Khan, then they sent another pack of people to kill the people That everybody that went to Genghis Khan's funeral was murdered.
02:04:38.000They all got murdered by another group of people, and then those group of people got murdered by a separate group to make sure that no one had any understanding at all about where Genghis Khan was buried.
02:05:36.000Marco Polo wrote, even by the late 13th century, the Mongols did not know the location of the tomb.
02:05:41.000Secret history of the Mongols has the year Genghis Khan's death, 1227, but no information concerning his burial.
02:05:48.000So, a frequently recounted tale, Marco Polo tells that 2,000 slaves attended his funeral, were killed by the soldiers sent to guard them, and that these soldiers in turn were killed by another group of soldiers, which killed anyone and anything that crossed their path in order to conceal where he was buried.
02:06:06.000Finally, the legend states that when they reached their destination, they committed suicide.
02:06:46.000And they created more trees, so it created more oxygen, sucked out more carbon from the air, because nothing's better at eating carbon than trees.
02:07:36.000White people, we get the worst rap in history, but Asians fucking kill each other and are so racist and hate each other like you can't imagine, dude.
02:08:12.000This was interesting that sex was not taboo.
02:08:18.000It was because we all had to live under one roof.
02:08:21.000So sex was just animalistic to procreate to get more bodies on the farm.
02:08:24.000So you would watch your mom and dad have sex right next to you It wasn't a thing about cleansiness.
02:08:31.000I mean, I'm sure you had to get an erection and get wet, so there had to be some type of something.
02:08:35.000But it was like this wild thing where this whole idea of taboo, sex being taboo, and having terms for everything is pretty much like a new...
02:08:45.000I read this whole thing about impotence court in France.
02:08:50.000So back in the day, dude, there was this guy who wrote this.
02:08:59.000I read one page a day, and it's about different times in history, kind of applied to today.
02:09:03.000But this one thing I read about was in the 1600s, there was an impotence court.
02:09:07.000So if you could get divorced, if your wife or if you wanted a divorce, the wife wanted a divorce, The only way out was you had to go to this court and you had to prove that your husband is impotent and can't get his dick up.
02:09:23.000So the court were there and then you'd have to perform the act.
02:09:27.000And if the husband couldn't get it up, you have to have sex in front of people, couldn't get it up, would grant you...
02:09:33.000The divorce because that was the only grounds that it was necessary for.
02:09:41.000So he wouldn't deny a woman's ability to procreate.
02:09:43.000The man can't get an erection, so you could leave him.
02:09:46.000And then I think if he did prove his manhood and have sex with her and get a hard-on and cum, I think then he had the legal right to kill her.
02:10:52.000But when Copernicus and all these different people figured out that that wasn't the case, Galileo...
02:10:59.000No, I know that, but I'm saying, so what do you think today we believe in that we will be disproved in a major way?
02:11:05.000Because when Copernicus and Galileo came out and said, I'm sure it's the other way, I have the proof, and then everybody was like, wait, what?
02:13:32.000And then it was on whichever partner actually was found to not be able to get it up had to pay for the court proceedings and lawyers and everything.
02:13:57.000The thing is also that, boy, when human beings used to have fertility rituals, like they were always trying to reproduce because people died so early.
02:14:18.000That's when people look at the average age of people back then.
02:14:23.000Oh, people only lived to 30. That's really because there was so much infant mortality, and infant mortality and childhood mortality factors in that, because half your kids were going to die.
02:14:56.000This gets into saying that big dicks were an issue back then or something.
02:15:00.000They were using this statue as a scarecrow in many places because it would threaten rape, so it would just scare people away from the gardens and whatnot.
02:16:11.000I think back then, too, I think that soldiers, I read a lot of stuff about the Roman soldiers.
02:16:17.000I think Greek soldiers were like, you know, had wives and kids, but on the battlefield the night before was totally okay to be gay, have an intimate relationship, because they thought you have to be in love with the man you're protecting next to you in order to protect him in the right way.
02:16:41.000I think we have a lot of terms now for shit, but I think back then, like James Buchanan, who was the president before Abraham Lincoln, they used to call him.
02:17:14.000I don't know when it came, but I was fascinated to read that I was like, oh wow, back then when you think that You know, people must have been much more conservative back then.
02:17:22.000They were like, no, we don't give a shit at all.
02:17:23.000Like, just do get the country in order.
02:17:26.000And actually, it plays a part because James Buchanan being, you know, possibly gay and with this guy and, you know, calling him Nancy, this senator boyfriend of his.
02:17:36.000Was a senator from the South, and it was James Buchanan's presidency because he was giving all these favors to, they think, his boyfriend of that state that tipped the balance scales and kind of caused the Civil War.
02:18:03.000And they say that he really sided with the kind of freeing the slaves and the North and the Union because they had much more soldiers and were much bigger than the South.
02:18:13.000But like, if that was the other way, Lincoln wasn't, at the time, you know, you can make up what you want, and some people agree and disagree, but it's like, he was going with what he thought was best to preserve the Union.
02:18:26.000Not necessarily, you know, I think slavery at that time, a lot of people started to be like, this is gross now, stop doing it.
02:18:33.000But I read a thing too where it was just geography where they said if the cotton plantations were in the north, you would have had the slaves and we would have been the non-slave holders.
02:18:42.000So like we had to do that with the – of course they didn't, but they would say we had to do that with technology.
02:18:48.000At the time, this is what we had to – we needed the manpower and they were the only people who would do it.
02:18:53.000It's really just that they could do it.
02:19:10.000Specific, tumulent, specific place they got the...
02:19:16.000Slaves from in Africa were people who were very kind, giving people.
02:19:21.000There wasn't any war there, so they believed you.
02:19:23.000If you said, come with me, I'll come with you, because I listen.
02:19:28.000We're all at peace here where we are, so why wouldn't I come with you?
02:19:32.000And then the Portuguese were enslaving them and putting them on these ships, and then that's why they were able to get them from that part.
02:19:41.000Sinister, these are good people that are just – their culture is to follow.
02:19:46.000But then you have like the Native Americans who were on the land at the same time in America and you couldn't enslave them because they would be like, no, we're fighting everybody around us because they could have subjugated them too.
02:20:00.000I forgot what book it was, but I was reading it.
02:21:36.000Humans do war, which is the thing that everyone's the most fearful of.
02:21:40.000The most terrifying things in history are war, and we just, even though we know that, and most people don't want war, we assume there will never be a time with no war, which is a crazy thought.
02:21:51.000You asked me earlier, why do you think the NYPD is not, you know, why do you think the city's going to fail?
02:21:59.000I guess you would call this a conspiracy or maybe an explanation, again, from one of my cop friends.
02:22:03.000He's like, you know why they're doing that?
02:22:05.000He's like, the high, high up people, you know, those people that don't even exist on paper that are worth 10 times as much as Elon Musk and whatever, those guys, they want AI, They want it in the police forces.
02:22:18.000So what they're doing is they're causing chaos here.
02:22:20.000And they're going to cause so much chaos that we're going to beg to just be ruled by AI. We're going to be begged for an indifferent AI piece of machinery that sees it in black and white and will do the right things, put the criminals in jail, is who will be ruling this city.
02:22:36.000And it's going to take some time, but that's what it is.
02:22:53.000I don't think they're thinking that far in advance, honestly.
02:22:56.000I think the ideology of these woke people, it's really a cult.
02:23:00.000And the cult is that there is some institutional racism that has caused all these people to be locked up, and the only solution is to just let them out.
02:23:13.000And when they commit crime, it's because of institutional racism.
02:23:47.000I mean, it's just they're not thinking that far in advance.
02:23:51.000I think most of the people that are Propagating this stuff.
02:23:54.000But I also think we're being influenced by other countries.
02:23:56.000I think we're being influenced by social media, which is also being influenced by foreign actors that are doing things and saying things and promoting things specifically to degrade our confidence in our system.
02:24:26.000And I think that maybe that's something that in the future, like we're living through it now, but in the future, they'll be like, oh, remember when the years those people were on social media and they got into all these wars and destroyed the planet if it gets there because of these things that weren't even real?
02:24:45.000It's going to be a very hotly discussed topic, because it's controversial even today while it's happening, and the evidence is irrefutable.
02:24:53.000The evidence of its presence is irrefutable, but there's still some people that don't think that that's what's causing it.
02:24:58.000I think it's certainly exacerbating it, at the very least.
02:25:01.000I don't know if it's caused it, but the infiltration of the education institutions by other countries is well documented, too.
02:25:08.000They know what they're doing, and it's working.
02:25:10.000I mean, Yuri Bezmenov, we've talked about it a thousand times, unfortunately, that video from 84. I saw it.
02:25:45.000So like those people, when we speak about these people that want this and want that, do you think like there's things about the universe that they know for a fact that they're as human as you and I and they just know it and this is why they do what they do?
02:26:08.000If you take away people's freedom of speech because you think they're wrong and you're right, the problem is then someone else who comes along can also take away your freedom of speech.
02:26:16.000If they get into power, if they think you're wrong, you gotta have people be able to talk about things so you can figure out what's right and what's wrong, and sort things out.
02:26:24.000Find out what's true, what's not true, what's...
02:26:26.000The only way to do that is freedom of speech, and you have to allow people to do that, even if they say things that you don't enjoy, you don't want to hear.
02:26:33.000It's better to have someone refute that and work it out than to silence people.
02:26:38.000As soon as you don't think that, then you've silenced discourse.
02:26:42.000If you've silenced discourse, you've fucked up all progress.
02:26:45.000And now people are just going to cling to whatever it is, like the reason why they went after Galileo.
02:26:52.000Because people have an entrenched set of beliefs, and they don't want anything to come along and challenge that.
02:26:57.000And anything that does, they'll squash that.
02:28:23.000Now we would know how poison that is for a kid.
02:28:26.000And that was just five, six years ago where people weren't aware of the kind of dangers of it all.
02:28:32.000That might be a thing where people, when they were smoking cigarettes, didn't know that they were killing themselves.
02:28:38.000And the smoking industry was allowed to just promote.
02:28:41.000That might be It's so pervasive, though.
02:28:45.000I think it's going to turn into something even crazier.
02:28:48.000I think with AI, the introduction of AI and then newer technology that allows some other form of communication, it's just going to get even weirder.
02:28:57.000I just think this is the reality that we're living in.
02:30:13.000And if it does adapt and it becomes objective and it actually has...
02:30:17.000Smart decisions that would benefit the entire country as a whole people are going to want to listen to it because it's going to be superior to us and it's not going to have the greed and Deception built into it that human beings do it's not going to be right supposedly influenced by money Yeah,
02:30:33.000but of course I mean yeah well it becomes sentient that it doesn't you know right now it's controlled by people it's but if it becomes something that designed itself You know, if it surpasses the design of human beings and creates its own version of itself,
02:30:49.000but a far superior version of it, and then we allow that thing to lead us.
02:30:53.000So what we got to do is find jobs that you just want to be towards the back of the line, because AI is going to start to take over job after job.
02:31:01.000But comedian, we're pretty far down the line I mean, I know AI could take us over on TV and on the internet.
02:31:08.000Well, live performances are still going to be a thing.
02:31:38.000Those people are that big because of human-invented technology that allows you to introduce massive amounts of hormones in your system that don't make any sense.
02:31:54.000And I heard that, you know, I was always taught that steroids will give you cancer, all these bad things, but I read recently that was just based off one study a while ago that steroids done right is actually not healthy, but it's not going to kill you if you do these things right.
02:32:41.000Yeah, so if you have a lack of sleep and you take creatine, it's supposed to increase your performance and things and makes it so that the lack of sleep doesn't really affect you nearly as much.
02:32:51.000Yeah, it says on my bottle not to take the creatine with caffeine.
02:35:09.000If I'm going to have a meal where I know I'm not supposed to eat it, but I'm just going to enjoy it, it's always like pizza, carbs, pasta, lasagna, something like that.
02:36:43.000Your father had eaten so much sodium in one sitting that it made our, I swear to God, it made our machines convince us that he had congestive heart failure, but in fact he had eaten so much sodium because of the food that he ate that this diuretic,
02:36:59.000once the fluid cleared, his heart, he has a slight arrhythmia, but nothing like congestive heart failure that was purely from the sodium.
02:39:36.000So we get, but, so she's giving birth, like crowning, like it's happening, and my dad walks in, because he's just like, this is my first, this is my grandkid, my first grandkid.
02:39:47.000I walk in, and I was like, Dad, like you cannot at all be here.
02:39:52.000And he was like, yeah, you know, like you're here, I want to be here.
02:40:34.000He was like, I was hoping for a boy, hoping for a boy.
02:40:36.000I'm like, you weren't at the gender reveal.
02:40:38.000You fucking knew it was going to be a girl, dude.
02:40:40.000What do you mean you were hoping for a boy?
02:40:43.000And then he told me though, he was like, you know, if I was still in the throes of my gambling, he's like, I would have gambled with your uncles on your kids' gender.
02:41:28.000I think the French, to this day, I think you're allowed to cheat on your wife in France as long as you don't Fall in love with someone else, you're allowed to step out and have sex, but, like, it'll get you in trouble, but, like, a night out with the guys drinking beers got you in trouble.
02:41:42.000Like, you're not going to get divorced unless you fall in love.
02:42:13.000Someone's explaining that to us, like how much, you know, because so many Muslim immigrants have moved into European places, and they're trying to change, like, they've changed neighborhoods, they've changed the way people behave, the way they're allowed to behave.
02:42:32.000And, you know, it's the most progressive place, I think, I've heard in the Middle East.
02:42:38.000But even with that, there were certain, like, I couldn't, you know, sometimes I have bits to joke around, like, oh, my friends think I'm gay.
02:44:17.000And I'm starting to think about it, right?
02:44:18.000Even though I know the people in Dubai are progressive and cool and whatever.
02:44:21.000But I was like, what's the point of all this?
02:44:23.000And then that day, the night before, I'm sorry, of our flight, From JFK to Dubai, Iran and Israel got into that little skirmish, remember that, where people were like, World War III,
02:44:50.000Why are we going to where there's a possible conflict, it's boarding with the country, even though I know Dubai will be safe, I know it's a safe place, I get it, but like, what am I doing over there?
02:44:59.000Why are you and I, me and my girl, going, our kids are back home, what happens if there is a war and we can't get home?
02:45:35.000I mean, not 100% that, but there was a weird low-pressure zone where they did cloud seed, but the clouds didn't move for a few days or something like that.