00:01:47.000It's like the NBA used to, I think, for weed stuff, they used to say that they'd get tested, I think, October 1st, which is right when preseason starts.
00:02:14.000I don't think the NBA does that specifically, but I don't know, honestly.0.83
00:02:19.000So, what are the rules in the NBA in terms of marijuana now?
00:02:22.000I thought that was part of the thing that they negotiated in the contract to make sure, because a lot of players like to be high when they play.
00:02:29.000I think they might just have stopped testing for it, is all.
00:02:33.000I want to mention names, but I'm friends with some guys, and they tell me they can't play unless they're high.
00:02:40.000That's the same thing with pool players.
00:02:41.000I know a lot of pool players, they like to get lit.
00:02:44.000Before they get on the table, yeah, pool.
00:02:51.000NBA can randomly drug test each player up to four times during the season and two times in the offseason, with additional tests allowed anytime there is reasonable cause.
00:03:00.000But marijuana is no longer part of the standard testing panel, yes, sir.
00:03:05.000Yeah, so they can smoke weed, which makes sense.
00:03:07.000Let them, it's not what are you doing?
00:03:09.000It's not hurting anybody, and they play better with it.
00:03:47.000The cases I've seen, though, are like the overs.
00:03:50.000Like they had player props, and like he needed 4.5 rebounds, and he has four, and he's just trying extremely, extremely, extremely hard to get that extra rebound, which is like, well, that's wrong.
00:04:02.000And the other one, which was he was fixing a spread at like in the last second, like he sprinted down the court to get an extra basket with like three seconds on the clock when they were down by 10 or seven technically to beat the eight and a half point spread.
00:05:15.000World Cup just happened like two, three nights ago where they just got under the knockout round, you know, so that the big tournament was every team plays three games to figure out where you figure or where you end up to play the next part of the tournament.
00:06:47.000This is what I don't like about sports betting.
00:06:49.000Not that, because that's about advancing, but about sports betting is even the consideration that a person is playing a certain way because they're worried about a spread or because they've been paid off to not score or they've been paid off to foul.
00:07:04.000You know, like, there's the problem with these things you can bet on anything.
00:08:00.000And who can, if you can take all the people that vote to dinner and, you know, smews them at dinner, it's going to be a thing where who's going to beat you when you have all the voters?
00:09:04.000If you're not, somebody that's not qualified can be in a position where, you know, they're making decisions on the masses of people's lives.
00:09:16.000Not just that, they can appoint judges.
00:10:12.000And you don't feel that until your daughter gets knocked out the ring where she's supposed to be boxing somebody that's the same gender, and then now her whole side of her face broke.0.97
00:12:19.000And then, you know, even with that, you still have some type of responsibility to.
00:12:27.000Not see things the same as other people.
00:12:30.000Like, I just got all this flack about me talking about how this business of people inflating things has caused depression in comics.
00:12:43.000You know, that we're supposed to be a happy craft, but now it's this big push about if you're not on social media, you're not on this, you're not on it.
00:12:52.000A lot of these comics are, you know, going through this mental health thing where they always sad about their numbers, you know.
00:13:01.000Like, yo, man, it is a thing, and some people inflate things, and everybody wants to be on the same level.
00:13:09.000So sometimes you can't be, oh, well, you can, but people look at it as a certain way where when you're proud of the steps that you've taken, and if I played in the G League, that's not the NBA.
00:13:26.000So I wouldn't say that I played in the league because I know what the league means.
00:14:06.000The numbers thing is a real problem with people because it gives you a quantifiable measure of whether or not you're doing well.
00:14:14.000And if you already have anxiety, which a lot of comedians have, you're already socially awkward, which a lot of comedians are, you don't feel accepted, which is how a lot of comedians feel.
00:14:24.000And then you look at those numbers, you're like, 2,400.
00:15:50.000So, the difference is that in 17 and 18, people were just starting to be aware of the power of social media, and then they were really concentrating on different comics that had a large social media following.
00:16:06.000You know, I think that was like right when it first started happening.
00:16:59.000To judge myself against what somebody else is doing, it's guys who have less everything, but they're in this realm where they had everything.
00:17:09.000I see guys that are at everything with no specials and no proven thing.
00:17:32.000So the difference is like when you sell out these shows and you put out these specials, like I've seen your specials, they have millions of views.
00:17:38.000So it's like obviously you have a following.
00:17:41.000If you didn't and you were doing the same thing, then it would be a problem.
00:17:45.000But then also, that would, it's like comedy in a lot of ways, not always, but in a lot of ways, is a meritocracy.
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00:21:29.000And because people can make you feel bad about anything.
00:21:32.000If you, a person that feels bad, just think Minnesota, it's all these people that's on the team that play for the Boston Celtics that are millionaires.
00:23:51.000If you see someone doing well, so you see someone set and you like it, that's fuel that makes you want to go work, makes you want to get some shit done, it gives you energy.1.00
00:24:02.000Or it could cripple you if you're a dummy.0.96
00:24:04.000If you're a dummy and you get angry and you get bitter and then you just put all this negativity on the person who's doing better than you, which a lot of people do.0.98
00:24:15.000That's a weird dynamic in this business when you know that.0.97
00:24:19.000It's going to be people, no matter what you're doing, it's going to be somebody doing better than you.
00:24:25.000When I was in comedy clubs, I remember being there and they were papering the room.
00:25:11.000So you would just show up at Philadelphia once a year.0.98
00:25:13.000Show up, do your homework, make sure you got a tight set, you've been practicing, you're ready to rock, fuck these people up, and then leave.0.82
00:25:22.000And then they're like, can't wait till you guys are back again.0.74
00:25:25.000And then next time you come back, you know, all right, I've built an audience now.
00:25:34.000It used to be a totally organic thing across the whole country.
00:25:38.000Is it a difference, in your opinion, between me bringing my audience to a venue from whatever other thing that I do versus people coming that don't know anything about me?
00:25:56.000And me winning that person over versus the person that I already know.
00:26:50.000The process is writing bits, performing them, tweaking them, getting them tight, knowing, reviewing tapes, going over your material, going over your writing, talking with friends.
00:27:02.000And then every day it gets a little bigger.
00:28:04.000But I said, Bobby, you didn't understand when I was hosting at the Houston Improv, I was doing something that most people didn't understand why I was even doing it.
00:28:15.000And they would see, why would you be hosting?
00:28:18.000I said, because I'm not going to be in front of Bobby Lee's audience.
00:28:21.000But it's people that live in Houston, his audience, that I have no idea who I am.
00:28:27.000I said, Bobby, but before you, I was coming to the Houston Improv hosting for multiple people, and I was just winning over fans that would never have seen me if they wasn't coming to see you.
00:30:54.000I think one of the things that trips people up about social media, a lot of these young guys in particular, young people in particular, Is that they are thinking about other people and they are comparing themselves to other people and they are looking at those numbers.
00:31:06.000And you're looking, you're spending all of your energy.0.98
00:31:10.000If you have an allotted 100 units of energy in a day, you're spending a disproportionate amount on things that don't empower you and actually kind of fuck your head up.0.98
00:32:15.000Thinking of an excellent person is a hater.
00:32:19.000Someone is always trying to diminish people and downplay people and look at someone in the least charitable way and the worst possible way.
00:32:26.000To somehow or another, trying to make themselves feel better.
00:32:40.000And my dad, this is one story that I did not put in the special that I should have.
00:32:47.000And my dad had all these thoughts.0.96
00:32:51.000And he was, I literally say he was a crazy man.
00:32:53.000But when you think about the things that he would say, made sense.
00:32:56.000My dad, and why would you be telling me this at the age that, but he just gave them, I think I was like 11.
00:33:04.000And my dad out of nowhere just said, you know what I'm, people spend the same time and money on being fake when they can put that same time and money into being real.
00:33:16.000And I'm like, I didn't know, I didn't understand what that meant.
00:33:20.000But as I got older, if you spend any money or time faking something, you could probably spend that money and time being real about something.
00:33:34.000You know, why go buy a fake necklace to act like you're rich when you can go buy a real necklace, if I'm saying, at some point, if I'm saying, and, you know, be actually be rich, you know, if that's what, if you keep comparing it to necklaces.
00:33:53.000I just didn't understand it at the time.
00:33:55.000But then as I got older, I understood why put this time in to pretending when you can put that same energy in and then become real at what you do?
00:38:41.000Reports indicate the new White House East Wing ballroom is projected to cost about $600 million, with roughly half, just over $300 million, coming from taxpayer funded government accounts, despite earlier promises that it would be taxpayer free.
00:38:55.000300 million sounds like a lot until you find out how much money they spend on other things.
00:39:01.000When you find out how much fraud is in NGOs, how much fraud is in nonprofits, how much fraud is in insider trading and propping up companies so that they can get better deals.
00:39:48.000The big one is if you look at our country as a community, and that's what we're supposed to be doing, we're supposed to be the United States of America.0.91
00:39:56.000All that bullshit aside, that was the one good thing that happened about 9 11.0.68
00:40:00.000When 9 11 happened, after that, we were all united.0.99
00:40:05.000We realized we are actually on a team.
00:40:08.000So if we're on a team, Why do we have these deeply impoverished neighborhoods for decades and decades that are riddled with crime and drug abuse?
00:40:32.000More opportunities for people, more opportunities, more support, more education, more everything that you need if that was your neighborhood.
00:40:40.000And if we did that, we'd have to switch the way our system runs, but that could be done, man.
00:40:47.000You don't have to have losers, not that many.
00:40:49.000That's the thing about making America great, right?
00:40:53.000If you're trying to make anything great, don't you need intelligent people to do that?
00:42:00.000I've never seen this many people say so many damaging things about a past president.
00:42:05.000It's like he's still on the forefront, and it's not like we have a president that's doing the greatest job for this country, you know, which is a weird thing to me.
00:42:16.000And people are going to ask, is that what's the belief?
00:43:06.000And that's what's so confusing about it all.0.97
00:43:08.000So you got this guy who's created like this fake persona where he puts on an American flag bandana, comes out to Hulk Hogan music, does all his interviews with sunglasses on, has a bunch of crazy, silly rhymes, and says ridiculous shit just trying to get attention, the most amount of attention.0.96
00:44:46.000He's just a guy who is a competitive wrestler, played in the NFL, and he's like, I got to do something to figure out how to get people to pay attention to me.
00:44:58.000If you look at Conor McGregor, you look at Sugar Sean O'Malley, you look at these guys that have these flamboyant personalities, these big personalities.
00:45:08.000They get an immense amount of attention, and that translates into Much more money and much more opportunities.0.96
00:45:14.000There's no fucking way that guy would have gotten that fight at the White House if he couldn't fight.
00:45:20.000Because the fight that he had before that, he fought Curtis Blades, who was a top 10 UFC heavyweight, huge wrestler, and they went to war, dude.0.99
00:45:28.000I mean, he put it on him for three fucking rounds.0.79
00:45:30.000Like, Curtis just has an insane heart and survived it.1.00
00:45:55.000I mean, he wasn't with other people, but he would show up at fucking Sonny Liston's house and scream about him on his fucking front lawn at four in the morning.0.99
00:46:54.000It's, you know, I'm not comparing him in terms of his cultural significance to Josh Hokett because, you know, he was my parents, my mother, and my stepfather were hippies.
00:49:16.000If you think they did that in the 60s, and they 100% did, if they're doing mind control experiments on people and they're influencing people's opinions, and half of the reason why people are at odds with each other all day long online is probably government intervention.
00:49:31.000At one point, there's some government's intervention.
00:49:37.000This is wild that the CIA created the hippie movement.
00:49:40.000And your mom's favorite band probably helped them.
00:49:43.000In the 1950s, the CIA bought up the world's supply of LSD.
00:49:47.000They brought it to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, who reverse engineered it, giving them an unlimited supply and a complete monopoly.
00:50:59.000The theory is the CIA orchestrated the hippie movement to steer a very real anti war movement into something a little easier to combat dissent without teeth.
00:51:08.000The hippie slogan was literally turn on, tune in, and drop out.
00:51:15.000In other words, do acid and remove yourself from society.
00:51:18.000And a lot of them did drop out of society to go live in communes in the woods.
00:51:22.000This intersection between hippie culture and the CIA could all be a great big coincidence.1.00
00:51:27.000Maybe military brats naturally want to rebel.0.98
00:51:30.000And maybe the CIA was giving away acid because they're chill like that.1.00
00:51:34.000Maybe the CIA created the hippie movement.
00:51:37.000And your mom's favorite band probably helped them.
00:52:05.000After 1992, they was like, no more positive rap.
00:52:09.000Well, it was whenever Straight Outta Compton came out, because I was in Boston at the time.
00:52:13.000I would remember to the day it happened.
00:52:16.000But Straight Outta Compton wasn't a drug-filled induced album.
00:52:22.000It was, if you look at some of the songs, you look at a lot of the songs that were on that album, it was rebellious songs against.
00:52:30.000The system, yeah, you know, the police, and then 1992, man, when they decided, yo, we don't want no more De La Soul, we don't want no more Tribe Car Quest, we don't want no, you get them leather medallions off your.
00:52:45.000It's like, yo, we need, we need, like, yo, they would like self destruction and uh, West Coast, West Coast All Stars.
00:52:56.000They was like, what they coming together, hell no, you know, we need.
00:53:05.000And that's crazy that the biggest times that I've experienced this country being together was the Olympics, when the dream team came, 9 11, and COVID.
00:53:20.000That's the biggest time that we, the three biggest times I've ever even seen us together.
00:53:36.000And we have to realize that we're all supposed to be a part of a team.
00:53:41.000And you can't play on a team if your teammates don't think that you're valuable.
00:53:47.000Not only that, you can't play on a team if your teammates are poisoning you, if your teammates are allowing you to eat rotten food so that you can't play, and maybe giving you inferior gear on purpose, and maybe keeping you in a place where you can't get sleep so that you're not going to.
00:55:53.000You know, so I see things from both sides.
00:55:59.000All the time because I'm in that which makes me grateful.
00:56:02.000I'm grateful that I can do the things I can do with my family, you know what I'm saying, versus parenting from a place of frustration.
00:56:10.000Yeah, you know, but I understand this frustration thing, you know, I'm trying to take care of you, and you know, and then sometimes I look at my kids like, you know, something you have it really easy because if I wouldn't have washed them dishes, my mom would have destroyed me.
00:56:40.000The housekeeper comes in four days out the week, you know, and now I'm like, so you just going to throw that stuff on the floor and you making it hard for the housekeeper?
00:56:49.000You know, the reason why she's here four days a week is so to make your life easier, but you're adding on to.
00:57:08.000You want them to be able to take care of their own problems and you want them to be able to understand the consequences of their actions.
00:57:15.000So, this is like a fine line of like encouragement and punishment and like explaining to them how your life was different and you have to appreciate this life.
01:02:56.000But I mean, the guy who's doing comedy, he's doing comedy for adults that are drinking in a nightclub, right?
01:03:01.000No, we were at an event where it was all these bodybuilders.
01:03:05.000The gym, Next Level had done a show for all the.
01:03:12.000The people that work out there and the trainers.
01:03:14.000And I'm thinking, okay, this is at a ballroom, you know, it's probably gonna be pretty cool.
01:03:19.000And I stopped in, you know, we sat in the back, and then it went left.
01:03:25.000And I was like, hey, man, let's get out of here.
01:03:28.000And he's seen me, and so he's like, nah, this ain't the same.
01:03:35.000I'm like, yeah, I'm not going for a certain type of laugh, I'm not doing shock value, you know.
01:03:42.000So he's watched almost all the specials, you know, so it's not the same for him.
01:03:51.000You know, and he looks, he knows a lot of comics, so it's not conducive.
01:03:57.000I was like, Hassan, we out, we out of here.
01:04:01.000He's like, but it's some comics you can go and you can watch their whole show, like a Marcus D. Wiley.
01:04:07.000He can get an understanding of at least marriage, you know, how marriage goes to give you some fuel.
01:04:14.000But I think the landscape of comedy is different for different people, not knocking the people who do shock value or a lot of sexual content.
01:07:36.000There was a legal dispute between them.
01:07:39.000Gallagher's younger brother, Ron, who shared a strong likeness to Leo, asked him for permission to perform shows using Gallagher's trademark sledge-omatic routine.
01:07:46.000Leo granted his permission on the contingent.
01:07:48.000On the condition that Ron and his manager clarified in promotional materials that this was Ron Gallagher, not Leo Gallagher, who was performing.
01:07:57.000Ron typically performed in venues smaller than those in which Leo Gallagher performed.
01:08:01.000After several years, Ron began promoting his act as Gallagher 2 or Gallagher TOO or TWO.
01:08:08.000In some instances, Ron's act was promoted in a way that left unclear the fact that he was not the original Gallagher.
01:08:15.000Leo initially responded by requesting only that his brother not use the sledge-o-matic routine.0.99
01:08:19.000You can't use the fucking sledgehammer.0.97
01:08:23.000Ron nonetheless continued to tour as Gallagher too, using the routine.0.99
01:08:28.000In August 2000, Leo sued his brother for trademark violations and false advertising.
01:08:34.000The court ultimately sided with Leo and granted an injunction prohibiting Ron from performing any act that impersonated his brother in small clubs and venues.
01:08:43.000This injunction also prohibited Ron from intentionally bearing likeness to Leo.
01:10:39.000I don't think you should pigeonhole yourself with anything.
01:10:43.000But I would not take my kids, especially when they're really young, to see someone who's like very sexual or really rowdy or really raunchy.
01:15:57.000I have a feeling there may be a type of memory from particularly traumatic experiences that stays in a space.
01:16:06.000And I think this is one of the reasons why they have to disclose within a certain amount of time someone's been murdered in a house in a lot of places before you buy it.
01:16:13.000Because people don't want to live in a house that's got that energy in it.
01:16:47.000It was things that were things here before us, you know.
01:16:50.000So, I think there's things here with us, yeah, definitely with us.
01:16:53.000And people who don't think that haven't smoked DMT, but I definitely get a hold of some DMT, and you're like, okay, I don't know, there's things around me all the time, there's things that are influencing you all the time.
01:17:10.000And this is like when we talk about like good energy and bad energy, one of the things you experience in psychedelic states is a clear recognition of like good things that you've done and bad things you've done.
01:17:21.000Good way of thinking, the good way you think about things, a positive way, and bad.
01:17:25.000Like, I remember having negative thoughts in an experience once, and it was all these like dark fractals.
01:17:31.000And then I realized it was trying to show me that these dark fractals, these crazy geometric, these like scary patterns that I was seeing, was because of my own thoughts.
01:17:40.000And then I released them, and it turned into beautiful geometric patterns over and over.
01:17:46.000And it kept saying, Look at this, and look at this.
01:17:49.000And I was like, Oh, it's actually the way you think.
01:18:59.000When you, when people like LSD, you know, hallucinates, you know, or mushrooms or these things, people are like, well, you only saw that because you were on this.
01:19:11.000But maybe that's the portal on how you see certain things.
01:19:15.000I think there's certain things that we block ourselves from being able to see by our own protective instincts.
01:19:24.000I mean, this is why people, I think, get paranoid when they smoke weed.
01:19:27.000One of the things that weed does is it dissolves all these artificial barriers that you've put between you and, And the thoughts of real danger.
01:20:52.000Because what people don't know is that a giant percentage of all the drugs or marijuana, rather, that people are buying in places where it's illegal, they're growing them in national forests in California.
01:21:52.000He was a game warden, and it turned into a tactical unit.0.68
01:21:56.000They had to get dogs, like Belgian Malmois and shit, with bulletproof vests, and they're going in there having shootouts with the cartel because the cartel had set up these marijuana grow-ups in the woods.0.86
01:22:06.000And it was his job to police that area.0.97
01:22:08.000It's like, okay, I guess that's what we're doing now.
01:25:07.000I think that's detrimental to this society where I just, I personally need to feel better, but I don't want the community around me to feel better.
01:25:20.000And in my mind, if everybody around you in the community feels better, I think it makes for a more harmonious, you know, environment than me just being the only one.
01:25:34.000Yeah, but that's because you're a wise person.
01:25:35.000The problem is there's a lot of people that aren't wise and there's no one.
01:26:00.000Well, you've got to sit there and do some shit you don't want to do to get some money, and with the rest of your time, you can do whatever you want as long as you keep showing up every morning at the same spot.0.99
01:26:31.000You're on a well designed, slow drip amphetamine, and you're out there fucking sleeping four hours a day, getting shit done, you know, driving a Jaguar.0.99
01:26:45.000And this is the problem with our society.
01:26:47.000People don't have a real purpose, there's a lot of people out there that don't really have a purpose.
01:26:51.000They don't have a real feeling of purpose in their life.
01:26:54.000You are very fortunate because you found a thing that you're really good at, that you love to do, and you make a great living doing it.
01:27:01.000A lot of people don't have a thing, and they never were taught to pursue a thing, or they never saw anybody else do it, and they realized they could do it too.0.98
01:27:10.000And then, next thing you know, they're married, and they have kids, and they're in their 30s, and then they're in their 40s, and they feel like shit.0.98
01:28:04.000And the hardest thing, because I'm a small company, the hardest thing is when I have to explain to somebody why it's a no, you know, on this particular special.
01:28:21.000And it's not just my no, it is for other people's no, because I tell people, and I explain this, if we're doing a special, With you, you have to get the approval of all five of us because we all do different things.
01:28:41.000And I want everybody who's involved in your special to want to do it, not they have to do it because it's a part of the company.
01:30:59.000And it's been some decisions that have been made that was, it was my call at the end, but it was somebody else's idea, like with Domino Effect.
01:31:09.000It would have never been a Domino Effect 2, 3, or 4 if I would have stuck with the name that I started with.
01:31:55.000And I think that people should put, like, right now, I'm on the Custom Fit tour.
01:32:00.000Well, I'm off into August because I'm going to take six weeks of vacation.
01:32:06.000But Custom Fit is not going to be a special.
01:32:13.000It's just the tour that I'm doing now because the specials that I'm writing are different than what I just wanted to take this time to just do.
01:33:03.000I mean, when you're in a position like you're in, too, when you're producing other people's specials, you're going to get a bunch of people to come to you that you don't want to do their shit.0.97
01:35:02.000So I paid for everybody to come out here and I paid for them.
01:35:05.000I gave them a full salary with everything for like a year and a half or so, maybe even more, maybe two years before anybody had to go to work.
01:37:14.000Well, I mean, just by its design, it's a big showroom, it's brighter, the ceilings are taller, and then you get into the original room, which is just tight and Perfect.
01:37:24.000The original room is like, that's where you find out what's real.
01:37:27.000You know, I've seen a lot of people have rough sets.
01:37:30.000They're real confident going into that room.
01:41:50.000Emergency light attached to like a generator, and we could put a you know, put the run the wires through the crowd and put an emergency light on the stage.
01:41:58.000I go, That's that, we'll do that, and then we'll just do stand up with no mic.
01:42:02.000We did the whole show with no mic, it was the opening, middle, and then me.
01:47:47.000So then another time, oh, and then later on that same weekend, he had this lady with him and she was sitting at the top and I was sitting up there and she got up and she left her purse.
01:48:01.000So I didn't want to leave and leave the lady's purse there.
01:48:03.000So I grabbed the travel and I got the purse like this.
01:49:48.000Counted the room either, I would have been like that's not my job yeah, but Ron White, I was in Orlando manager Orlando called me say hey Ali um, I know you have a, I know you have a um a feature.
01:50:02.000But um, Ron White would like to um, you know, feature for you.
01:50:09.000And I was like I don't, I don't know um, no person named Ron White.
01:50:14.000And she's like you don't know Ron White.
01:50:17.000I'm like, wait a minute, Like Ron White, Ron White?
01:50:20.000I think it's like some other guy who's using his name or something like that.
01:50:23.000His name happens to be Ron White, too.
01:53:56.000And when I was coming here all the time, I knew it, right?
01:53:59.000So, one of the things that was good about doing comedy is a lot of people that moved during the pandemic just wanted to get out of California, but they had no idea what the rest of the world was going to be like.
01:54:08.000They'd never been to Nashville, they'd never been to Austin.
01:54:42.000Yeah, I'm saying how I heard about it like, oh yeah, like Creek In The Cave, I'm like damn okay, Creek In The Cave is coming from New York.
02:00:15.000It used to be you went through a door, and it was like another small room.
02:00:18.000And in that small room, it was separated from the front door.
02:00:22.000They moved the front door, and now everybody went in through the parking lot, right?
02:00:26.000And so they went into the lab through the parking lot.
02:00:28.000So the front door was back there now, and when you would open it, it was all this noise from the street, and they had a curtain to block off the noise, and you'd hear people talk.
02:00:37.000They were like, Right next to your stage where they were buying tickets.
02:01:37.000You know, and I had um just won Comedy Central's Comic To watch in like 2013.
02:01:45.000So you get a package, you get an album, you get a half hour and you get a chance to go on one of the shows that's already on um Comedy Central.
02:01:54.000So they was pitching me the Adam Divine show and I was like I don't like it.
02:05:18.000So I'll come in and I'll host it for no money.
02:05:20.000I go, because he wanted to make sure that everybody was paid.
02:05:23.000He was going to take out a loan, and Ari was going to pay all the grips, all the camera people.
02:05:27.000Because they, you know, these people, they chart out their year.
02:05:30.000They're like, oh, I'm doing this, it's not happening for the next six weeks, and then I'm doing this for five weeks, and that's their year.
02:05:36.000And that's how they budget their life.
02:05:38.000And Ari decided that he was going to take out a loan to pay everybody.
02:11:38.000The talkative ones were, like, I called a lot of people on my phone, and everybody's same report was You know, you call me like three in the morning talking about you want to talk to me about my life.
02:15:34.000You might be cooking out whatever the mushroom is giving you to let you see the spirit world or see the fairy world or the gnome world or whatever it is.
02:17:17.000At that point in time, when do we start to say maybe there's something in this substance, this compound, this molecule that lets you interact with something that's real?
02:17:28.000If it's repeatable over and over and over again, if all these people see the same thing over and over and over again, and people have been writing about it since the beginning of time, they've been writing about elves and fairies and gnomes and magic people in the woods.
02:17:41.000What do you think they were doing?0.99
02:17:42.000They were probably eating these fucking mushrooms.0.99
02:17:44.000So, it's this show that I watch that I still don't know what this show is about, but I've watched, I'm on season number four, and I have no idea what it is.0.99
02:23:21.000I got to watch something that has a little more to it than what normal people would watch.
02:23:29.000Because I like to see normal people in shows, like something I can relate to.
02:23:34.000The Dutton Ranch, you know, being Texas, this is how ranching is.
02:23:41.000This is how I always experienced how ranching goes with cows and how you keep your land and all these different fights that people have over land.0.99
02:23:52.000I'm like, Shit is pretty interesting.0.99
02:26:58.000And you get two garlic sauces with each chicken.
02:27:02.000And once you dip a piece of that chicken in that garlic sauce, it's not going to survive.
02:27:07.000It's like, I bought three of them because I know if two are going to make it home, I have to eat this one.
02:27:12.000By myself, and they put on a piece of pita bread.
02:27:15.000It's already roasted, and it's insane that I would eat a whole chicken by myself.
02:27:21.000Estimates suggest 24 to 26 million chickens are killed every day in the United States for meat.
02:27:27.000So if you don't want factory farming, you got to figure out a solution where you can get 26 million chickens a day, or you convince people they need to stop eating meat.
02:27:39.000But if we look at, say, if I'm looking at a show, Game of Thrones or House of Dragons.
02:27:47.000When I would see them sit down to eat, it was a lot of meat on that table.
02:31:24.000Yeah, so there are a few different species of jellyfish.
02:31:28.000Anyway, my point was when I was a kid, alligators were protected and they were at this lake and you could see them and people would throw marshmallows in the water and the alligators would eat them.
02:35:08.000It explains it to you in these little four pieces.
02:35:10.000Under Mao, aimed at exterminating rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows as a part of the Great Leap Forward, it was framed as a public hygiene and agricultural protection drive meant to reduce disease and protect grain from being eaten or contaminated.
02:35:23.000Mass mobilization methods included trapping and poisoning rats, swatting flies and mosquitoes, and organized efforts to scare and kill sparrows.
02:35:34.000Before you get to the end here, they had one little problem, so they introduced something else to fix that problem.
02:35:38.000That created a new problem, so they introduced something else to.
02:35:50.000So, sparrows were targeted because they ate grain seeds, but they also consumed large numbers of crop eating insects.
02:35:57.000Their near extinction caused an ecological imbalance, leading to insect population booms, lower crop yields, and contributing to Chinese famine, the Great Chinese Famine, which tens of millions died.