The Joe Rogan Experience - September 16, 2026


Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White

Joe Rogan Experience #2554 - Carlo Rovelli

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2 hours and 28 minutes

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28,382

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00:00:02.000 Joe Rogan podcast.
00:00:04.000 The Joe Rogan experience.
00:00:04.000 Check it out.
00:00:06.000 Train by day.
00:00:07.000 Joe Rogan podcast by night.
00:00:09.000 All day.
00:00:13.000 I mean, when I was a kid, I talked to him a little on the green room, and then I thought he had a pretty good set.
00:00:13.000 I like him, though.
00:00:19.000 He's funny.
00:00:20.000 Matt's funny.
00:00:21.000 Matt Rife is very funny.
00:00:22.000 What the fuck's going on?
00:00:23.000 I don't get fucking crowd work.
00:00:25.000 I mean, it's not my thing, but I get it.
00:00:28.000 You know, it's a tough skill.
00:00:29.000 Some people are really good at it.
00:00:31.000 I guess they are, but I won't let my opening act do it.
00:00:34.000 Oh, it becomes a problem.
00:00:35.000 Because then they feel like they can talk to me, which they cannot.
00:00:38.000 Yes.
00:00:39.000 Because I just, I always looked at it as a time killer back when I had 41 minutes, but I was supposed to do 45 minutes.
00:00:45.000 And I'm like, I got to talk to these fucking hayseeds for four minutes and get this thing wrapped up.
00:00:52.000 But once I had the jokes, you know, I just do the fucking jokes.
00:00:56.000 I mean, I don't knock it.
00:00:56.000 Yeah.
00:00:58.000 It's cool.
00:00:59.000 It's a different thing.
00:01:00.000 It's a different thing.
00:01:01.000 It relies on a very strong improvisational muscle because, like, you're under the gun.
00:01:06.000 Come up with something funny to say.
00:01:08.000 But it is always funnier because it's under the gun than it would be in a normal circumstance, like the things that you're saying.
00:01:15.000 But you can never use it again.
00:01:17.000 I mean, you can use the skill all the time.
00:01:19.000 I mean, I guess some people are that good at it.
00:01:21.000 Ingram's really good at it, Rick Ingram.
00:01:23.000 He's got a lot of built in stuff, like material he could pull out to because he does it so often.
00:01:29.000 Oh, yeah.
00:01:29.000 So he's got to blend the two together.
00:01:30.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:01:31.000 He seamlessly integrates the two of them together.
00:01:34.000 He's really good at it.
00:01:36.000 Big J, Big J Okerson, he's really good at it.
00:01:39.000 He's really good at it.
00:01:40.000 Because he knows how to hold a moment.
00:01:42.000 Yeah.
00:01:42.000 He knows how to hold, like, when someone says something ridiculous, he knows how to pause.
00:01:46.000 He knows how to, like, he's got great storytelling.
00:01:49.000 Yeah.
00:01:49.000 He's a nice guy, too.
00:01:50.000 He's a great guy, but he also is a great comic.
00:01:53.000 Like, he just does funny stand up comedy on top of that.
00:01:56.000 So it's like, yeah, the crowd work is nice, but it's not the only thing he does.
00:02:00.000 Whereas some people, that's their whole thing.
00:02:02.000 Well, I hear these young comics at the club, I got to work on my crowd work.
00:02:05.000 I got to work on my crowd work.
00:02:06.000 And I'm like, well, you don't, but.
00:02:07.000 Is your Pat O'Neill's joke about that?
00:02:09.000 I don't want to give it up on the air, but it's really hilarious.
00:02:12.000 He's funny, man.
00:02:14.000 That guy's a joke machine.
00:02:16.000 Pat O'Neill?
00:02:17.000 I think Pat is.
00:02:18.000 I had him on my show too, right after I saw him on Kill Tony.
00:02:22.000 So funny.
00:02:24.000 It's amazing.
00:02:25.000 Kill Tony, what was the kid's name that opened last night?
00:02:30.000 Oh, you weren't there Monday night.
00:02:31.000 I was there Monday night.
00:02:32.000 The young kid from Alabama.
00:02:36.000 Do you know who I'm talking about?
00:02:37.000 He just got the golden ticket on Kill Tony.
00:02:37.000 I didn't know.
00:02:40.000 When I was hosting.
00:02:41.000 And you were there that night.
00:02:42.000 Let me just talk about that.
00:02:43.000 I'll find out.
00:02:44.000 Find out.
00:02:45.000 It might not have even aired yet.
00:02:47.000 As it airs?
00:02:48.000 No, I just don't know his name.
00:02:49.000 Fuck the kid's hilarious.
00:02:50.000 He works at the club, too.
00:02:51.000 Cool kid, too.
00:02:52.000 And, you know, I was living in Alabama, decided to take a chance.
00:02:55.000 Brent Reed?
00:02:56.000 Brent Reed.
00:02:57.000 Yeah, Brent Reed.
00:02:57.000 He's opening for me tonight.
00:02:59.000 Funny motherfucker, dude.
00:03:00.000 And he was saying, that's right, because he was saying, like you said after you saw him on Kill Tony, hey, I'd like to have you open for me.
00:03:06.000 And he was like, holy fucking shit, man.
00:03:08.000 He had called his dad.
00:03:10.000 He's like, I'm fucking opening for Ron White.
00:03:14.000 His dad was giving him shit about his comedy career.
00:03:17.000 Stand up.
00:03:19.000 I have.
00:03:20.000 You know, stand-up's not as funny as it used to be to me.
00:03:23.000 It's very, very rare that I'll sit and watch somebody do stand-up and laugh out loud if I'm up on the balcony.
00:03:29.000 But that kid cracked me up.
00:03:32.000 He's very good.
00:03:34.000 Great writing.
00:03:36.000 What's amazing is that when he came back on Kill Tony, he'd only been on one time.
00:03:41.000 One time.
00:03:42.000 And they already knew who he was.
00:03:42.000 Actually not.
00:03:44.000 I mean, they gave him a round of applause like it was one of the biggest comics in the country and he'd been on once.
00:03:49.000 Yeah.
00:03:50.000 And the second time was he'd actually, I thought that too.
00:03:53.000 But he had actually been on before and bombed.
00:03:57.000 And he talked about that.
00:03:58.000 About how he came back in this set.
00:04:01.000 He was just, he'd been working at the club.
00:04:03.000 He'd been living in Austin.
00:04:04.000 He's way more comfortable.
00:04:06.000 Built his act up.
00:04:07.000 And he was like, super honest about it.
00:04:09.000 We're all chilling in the back.
00:04:10.000 Very cool guy.
00:04:12.000 We were just talking about it.
00:04:13.000 He's like, yeah, I just had to get my shit together, man.
00:04:15.000 I had to figure out what the fuck I'm doing.
00:04:17.000 And the first time I did, I kind of froze.
00:04:19.000 But this time I was like, and this time he had to follow that other dude.
00:04:23.000 Who was that other dude who also got a golden seat?
00:04:25.000 Two in a row.
00:04:25.000 Right, right.
00:04:26.000 And that guy was funny.
00:04:26.000 Who was that guy?
00:04:27.000 Have we seen him since?
00:04:28.000 I haven't seen him back up before.
00:04:29.000 I've seen him since, but.
00:04:30.000 That guy's fucking talented, too.
00:04:32.000 He was very funny.
00:04:33.000 So they got two golden tickets in a row.
00:04:35.000 Who was the other guy that got a golden ticket that way?
00:04:38.000 He had a fun name.
00:04:39.000 Like a made up name.
00:04:42.000 Sorry.
00:04:42.000 Give me a second.
00:04:43.000 Yeah, it was like Sir.
00:04:45.000 I don't remember.
00:04:46.000 Something.
00:04:46.000 I don't remember.
00:04:47.000 I don't even remember.
00:04:47.000 I don't remember.
00:04:48.000 But it was hilarious.
00:04:49.000 It was ridiculous.
00:04:50.000 Whatever his name was, was ridiculous.
00:04:53.000 So I just got back from Lake Como and Verona and Zermatt, Switzerland.
00:05:00.000 Oh, damn, dude.
00:05:01.000 Fucking.
00:05:02.000 21 days of just pure relaxation.
00:05:07.000 And I got to tell you, I dug every goddamn minute of it.
00:05:11.000 It was 107 degrees here in Texas.
00:05:13.000 It was, oh, the high today is 62.
00:05:15.000 Yeah, that guy right there.
00:05:16.000 What is his name?
00:05:17.000 I thought it was right here.
00:05:23.000 It's French, I think.
00:05:25.000 Yeah, I know it.
00:05:26.000 Francois something, right?
00:05:28.000 I think it's a fake name.
00:05:30.000 Let's see if he says it here.
00:05:30.000 Sorry.
00:05:31.000 Does he say it?
00:05:34.000 I can't hear.
00:05:35.000 Not fine, not fine, not fine.
00:05:36.000 Okay, tell me what it is.
00:05:37.000 But that dude is very funny, too.
00:05:38.000 Yeah, he's very talented.
00:05:40.000 Super funny in the interview, too.
00:05:41.000 Like, very funny back and forth.
00:05:43.000 Right.
00:05:43.000 Just a funny dude.
00:05:44.000 So, two golden tickets in a row.
00:05:45.000 But anyway, that guy killed so hard that when the other guy came on after him, it's like, holy shit.
00:05:52.000 Like, you got a tough spot here.
00:05:54.000 And he murdered.
00:05:55.000 And he murdered, right, on top of it.
00:05:56.000 Yeah.
00:05:57.000 So, when he opened for me, there were still a couple of jokes that didn't work.
00:06:01.000 I mean, it wasn't like.
00:06:03.000 Playing a kill Tony crowd.
00:06:04.000 That's a different crowd.
00:06:08.000 And so, but he got his footing back and did a great job for me.
00:06:15.000 And then, is it Dedrick, the other guy?
00:06:18.000 Yes, Dedrick.
00:06:19.000 Yeah, Dedrick Flynn.
00:06:21.000 Fucking hilarious.
00:06:23.000 I think he's one of the best around.
00:06:26.000 Absolutely.
00:06:27.000 Just his demeanor on stage.
00:06:29.000 He's on the show tonight, too.
00:06:30.000 And that's another dude that almost didn't leave Atlanta.
00:06:34.000 He was stuck in Atlanta and just spinning his wheels and he couldn't make it happen.
00:06:37.000 And then he came out here and got on Kiltonium.
00:06:39.000 Boom!
00:06:40.000 It's just such a great opportunity if you're ready for it.
00:06:44.000 If you're not, it's just another passing moment and the crowds love it too.
00:06:48.000 I mean, the crowds get it.
00:06:50.000 But if you're not ready, it ain't going to happen.
00:06:53.000 Steve Francois.
00:06:54.000 Francois, yeah.
00:06:55.000 The comedy seller.
00:06:56.000 I think he has that added.
00:06:57.000 That's what he calls himself, the comedy seller, like S E L L E R, unlike The Club.
00:07:02.000 That's right.
00:07:03.000 That was his crazy name, The Comedy Seller.
00:07:05.000 But very funny, dude.
00:07:07.000 Yeah, I mean, It's the greatest thing for comedians in the history of comedy in terms of like having a real platform that if you've been banging it out on the road for seven, eight, nine, ten years, you put together a solid half hour, hour, you're really starting to tour, you're middling for guys, you're really starting to feel like a real comic, and you got one banger minute on Kill Tony.
00:07:28.000 Boom!
00:07:29.000 Next thing you know, you show up.
00:07:31.000 Like, look at all these guys.
00:07:32.000 Look at Ari Maddy.
00:07:33.000 Ari Maddy goes on stage, they go fucking bananas now.
00:07:35.000 Yeah, they do.
00:07:36.000 William Montgomery, they fucking, the Black Keys asked me to bring William Montgomery to the club.
00:07:42.000 Because I was going up that night and they were coming to the club.
00:07:45.000 They go, hey, is William Montgomery coming?
00:07:46.000 I'll make sure he comes.
00:07:48.000 I called him up.
00:07:50.000 Fuck, man.
00:07:51.000 It's so much fun.
00:07:52.000 And even though I enjoyed it when I first saw it out in L.A., I did not have the vision that Tony has of what it could be someday.
00:08:03.000 I just thought it was a great idea, and I didn't know if it would ever go anywhere.
00:08:06.000 But good God.
00:08:08.000 I told him maybe like four or five years in, I go, whatever you do, don't stop doing this.
00:08:13.000 I go, this is going to be one of the biggest shows in comedy.
00:08:16.000 I go, this is so unique and so huge and so different.
00:08:19.000 And the way you host it and the way you do it is different than the way anybody else would do it.
00:08:23.000 Nobody else could do it.
00:08:25.000 It's all him.
00:08:27.000 He really is pure genius, the show is.
00:08:31.000 He's a genius host.
00:08:33.000 People hate on that guy.
00:08:34.000 You have no idea how talented he is.
00:08:37.000 That improvisational talent that he has off the bat like that.
00:08:40.000 Oh, I have an idea.
00:08:41.000 Second to none.
00:08:43.000 Second to none.
00:08:44.000 It's incredible.
00:08:45.000 I was telling him a lot.
00:08:46.000 He's like, Really?
00:08:47.000 You think so?
00:08:47.000 I go, Do not ever stop doing this show.
00:08:49.000 This show's going to be fucking huge.
00:08:51.000 Fuck, and it is too.
00:08:52.000 And now it sells out Madison Square Card two nights in a row.
00:08:55.000 Yeah, wow.
00:08:56.000 Wish I could do that.
00:08:57.000 It's amazing.
00:08:59.000 I'm so happy for them.
00:08:59.000 I love it.
00:09:00.000 And it's so cool to watch.
00:09:02.000 And it's such a positive karma show because all the comics that leave that show and they take off like, you know, it's just watching Cam Patterson on SNL, watching all these different comedians just sell out all over the country.
00:09:17.000 It's incredible.
00:09:17.000 I love it, man.
00:09:18.000 I love it when somebody hits it, you know?
00:09:20.000 Well, it's great for all of us.
00:09:22.000 It is.
00:09:22.000 It's great for the club.
00:09:23.000 It's great for the young people coming up to see that it's possible that someone else can make it there.
00:09:28.000 It's like, it's the new, like, Hollywood, you got a sitcom thing.
00:09:33.000 It's like very similar.
00:09:33.000 You know what I mean?
00:09:35.000 Because back in those days, like, when one of your friends got a sitcom, you're like, holy shit, Mike got cast on fucking Bob's cousin, whatever the fuck it is.
00:09:44.000 Right.
00:09:44.000 Some stupid ass sitcom.
00:09:46.000 And everybody was like, wow, maybe I can make it too.
00:09:49.000 This is the new version of that.
00:09:50.000 You're seeing guys actually, but now it's just stand up.
00:09:53.000 Like, you have a real career in stand up from it.
00:09:56.000 Which is all I've ever done.
00:09:56.000 Right.
00:09:58.000 Right.
00:10:00.000 That's all I've ever done is stand-up comedy.
00:10:02.000 And so that's kind of a weird career, you know, not to be able to bounce to hear off of anything other than just jokes.
00:10:11.000 Stand-up comedy is a weird career, period.
00:10:13.000 Because, you know, everyone's like psychologically fragile, right?
00:10:18.000 And then you're going through these ups and downs and you're trying to sell tickets and you're trying to be relevant.
00:10:23.000 Then something's got to happen.
00:10:25.000 Something's got to happen.
00:10:26.000 Right.
00:10:26.000 I mean, there's got to be a catalyst, right?
00:10:28.000 And for me, it was all, you know, the blue-collar comedy tour.
00:10:32.000 Which now people don't even remember what that is, but at one time it was a big deal, you know, and it, it, uh I think most people my age remember it.
00:10:39.000 Most people are also shocked that there's not another one.
00:10:42.000 That some other guys haven't figured out how to do something like that.
00:10:46.000 Like take that level of comics, like four of them, put them together and go on tour.
00:10:51.000 Right.
00:10:52.000 Well, you know, with the killers that kill Tony, it's kind of like that.
00:10:55.000 It's a little bit like that.
00:10:56.000 The group of some guys not as big as, you know, Foxworthy, and Foxworthy was the only real star of that show when it started, you know, he was, he was willing to share a stage with me, and that's you know, that was the catalyst for me.
00:11:11.000 But I'd also been doing stand up for 14 years, and I'd been headlining comedy clubs for 11 of them.
00:11:17.000 That's the thing, right?
00:11:18.000 It's there's no substitute for the time in, and there's so many guys that are like right about to crack, you know, that's where Kill Tony really comes along.
00:11:25.000 Yeah, guys that have really put that time in, really been on the road.
00:11:29.000 Yeah, if you're prepared for the opportunity, then that's the best thing out there for you.
00:11:34.000 And if you're not, then it was just another day at the park, you know.
00:11:38.000 Then you have to figure out what the fuck you're going to do with your life.
00:11:38.000 No big deal.
00:11:41.000 Yeah.
00:11:41.000 Good luck.
00:11:42.000 Because you bomb on Kill Tony and you're an Uber Eats driver and you're like, oh no.
00:11:46.000 Man.
00:11:47.000 What is my life now?
00:11:49.000 Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't really get weird exposure early.
00:11:54.000 That's the worst thing that can happen is you win a contest or something and you don't have the show to back it up with, but all of a sudden you can sell tickets and that's just a death spiral is what that is.
00:12:04.000 Yeah, that could do you in.
00:12:08.000 There's such a dance of what works and what doesn't work.
00:12:11.000 Guys trying to find their voice on stage and trying to write and trying to figure out what to do and then also might have a drinking problem.
00:12:19.000 Also might do cocaine.
00:12:21.000 Also might have owe the IRS $50,000.
00:12:25.000 Some of these guys are so fucked up, but they're some of our favorite artists.
00:12:30.000 And when they crack through and then all of a sudden become comfortable and make a living, it's a fucking glorious thing to see.
00:12:35.000 It was always neat at the comedy store because all the comics park in that parking lot.
00:12:39.000 And you could tell when something happened because it's either shitty cars or great cars.
00:12:43.000 There was no medium cars out there.
00:12:45.000 You were either broke or you had cash.
00:12:47.000 And if you had cash, you had a new car.
00:12:50.000 There would be times you go back there, it was like Mercedes.
00:12:50.000 I know.
00:12:52.000 Ferrari, Porsche, Corvette.
00:12:55.000 Right, Vega.
00:12:58.000 Well, there was always a lot of people that dragged.
00:13:00.000 I always tried to talk to Mark Marinette to get a nice car.
00:13:02.000 He would never do it.
00:13:03.000 Him and Ari.
00:13:04.000 Like, I had an M3 once.
00:13:06.000 I'm like, Mark, this is a sensible car.
00:13:07.000 This is not too crazy.
00:13:09.000 It's not too look at me.
00:13:10.000 Fun to drive.
00:13:11.000 It's so fun to drive.
00:13:13.000 I go, dude, it makes driving a ride.
00:13:15.000 You don't even have to go fast.
00:13:17.000 Just the way it handles, the way it accelerates, the braking, carbon fiber brakes.
00:13:21.000 It's got carbon ceramic brakes, man.
00:13:24.000 It's fucking incredible.
00:13:26.000 It's on rails, this thing.
00:13:28.000 I was like, he goes, How much is it?
00:13:29.000 And like, we're going back.
00:13:30.000 He just couldn't be that ostentatious, you know, I've got a lot of money guy.
00:13:34.000 Even when he had a lot of money.
00:13:35.000 I'm like, What's the point?
00:13:36.000 I was the same way when I first started making money because I just assumed it was all going to end, right?
00:13:41.000 So, which it does normally.
00:13:45.000 And so I was like, Fuck, man, I just got to be ready for when this, I got to make as much money as I can and work as hard as I can before this whole thing comes tumbling fucking down.
00:13:56.000 And it never fucking did.
00:13:56.000 Wow.
00:13:58.000 So now then I was like, oh, somebody's got to put a stop to this.
00:14:02.000 And then I tried to quit for a little while, but fuck, it's just too much fun.
00:14:06.000 I spent every penny I had for years.
00:14:10.000 I didn't give a fuck.
00:14:10.000 Even when I was on TV, I was living like a baller.
00:14:13.000 I was just spending all my money.
00:14:15.000 I didn't save anything.
00:14:18.000 I'm like, if it doesn't go, if it goes out, I'm not living normal now so I could live normal forever.
00:14:25.000 I'll figure out a way to live normal.
00:14:26.000 Like right now, I'm on fucking television.
00:14:28.000 Like, give me a car.
00:14:29.000 Let's go.
00:14:30.000 I want to buy a house.
00:14:32.000 I was like, look, if I go bankrupt, I've had my car repossessed before.
00:14:36.000 I've been broke before.
00:14:37.000 Like, okay, I'll be broke again.
00:14:38.000 But right now, I'm not broke.
00:14:39.000 So I'm going to live like I'm not broke.
00:14:41.000 I was living like I wasn't broke this past three weeks in Switzerland.
00:14:41.000 Yeah.
00:14:46.000 That's a nice way to live, man.
00:14:47.000 But I don't think you could do it forever.
00:14:49.000 Like, you have to work as hard as you do.
00:14:49.000 I think that's the thing.
00:14:51.000 Like, you're always touring.
00:14:54.000 You're always working on your material.
00:14:55.000 You're always writing.
00:14:56.000 You're always doing sets.
00:14:57.000 You're at the club.
00:14:58.000 All the time, you're always banging it out.
00:15:00.000 So, for you, you've earned that.
00:15:03.000 Like, when you kick back and you got a fucking peanut colado, you don't drink anymore, but you're sitting back with whatever you're doing, just taking in that sun, not a damn thing to do.
00:15:13.000 People are feeding you food.
00:15:14.000 Yeah.
00:15:16.000 Oh, the work's already been done.
00:15:18.000 Yeah.
00:15:19.000 But you have to earn that.
00:15:19.000 If you just do that, that's not good on its own.
00:15:22.000 That's it.
00:15:23.000 People look to that thing as if it's like Jordan Peterson's talked about that before.
00:15:27.000 Like, the people imagine their retirement.
00:15:30.000 Sitting on a beach drinking margaritas.
00:15:31.000 Like, how many margaritas can you drink?
00:15:33.000 How long can you sit on that beach?
00:15:33.000 Right.
00:15:35.000 Right.
00:15:35.000 Before now, you're depressed.
00:15:36.000 Or even if it's, even if it's you, you bought a yacht.
00:15:39.000 Right.
00:15:40.000 How long can you sit on that?
00:15:41.000 That's crazy.
00:15:42.000 Before you're bored out of your skull.
00:15:45.000 But yeah, it's almost 70 years old.
00:15:49.000 Fuck yeah, I deserve all the I get to do whatever I want.
00:15:53.000 Yeah, you get to do whatever you want.
00:15:56.000 But again, like 20 days is good.
00:15:58.000 Have you ever been to Switzerland?
00:15:59.000 You need to switch back to work.
00:16:01.000 Fuck.
00:16:01.000 I have not.
00:16:02.000 It's so gorgeous.
00:16:03.000 And it's not even that.
00:16:04.000 It's the infrastructure of it.
00:16:07.000 And we're $40 trillion in debt.
00:16:09.000 We don't have a high-speed train to anywhere.
00:16:11.000 Where's our shit?
00:16:14.000 You can get to the top of almost any mountain there at 70 years old.
00:16:18.000 You'll take a train to here, a fucking auger, cut through a mountain here, then a gondola over there, and then over the top.
00:16:25.000 You can actually go to fucking Italy on gondolas from Switzerland and have dinner and come back.
00:16:31.000 It was fucking gorgeous.
00:16:32.000 The only thing I didn't like was pay toilets because you have to have a dollar in Swiss francs.
00:16:41.000 To take a shit.
00:16:41.000 To take a shit?
00:16:43.000 And I'm like, that's discrimination.
00:16:45.000 Why is it discrimination?
00:16:46.000 Only people with a dollar can shit here.
00:16:50.000 And then, and it wouldn't take a euro and it wouldn't take American money.
00:16:54.000 But then I found out, oh, you can use a credit card.
00:16:56.000 So I have to borrow money to shit.
00:16:58.000 Yeah, and make payments.
00:17:01.000 It's a dollar.
00:17:02.000 A dollar to shit.
00:17:03.000 Yeah, but if you don't have one of those dollars, you got to get your credit card out and swipe it on this.
00:17:07.000 I guess after a while, everybody adjusts and you just keep a dollar with you if you're going to go out in case you have to shit.
00:17:13.000 And that way, at least you keep the riffraff out of the toilets.
00:17:17.000 Yeah, well, they got to, riffraff got to shit somewhere.
00:17:19.000 You know, they do.
00:17:20.000 They don't want them shitting on the street.
00:17:21.000 And I was about to shit on the floor if I couldn't find a way in.
00:17:24.000 And finally, it's another guy behind me who said, Your credit card works.
00:17:27.000 I'm like, You should be able to do Apple Pay.
00:17:31.000 Yeah, straight through to the shitter.
00:17:32.000 Yeah, can't you?
00:17:34.000 But I loved it.
00:17:35.000 I had so much fun.
00:17:36.000 Lake Como was so beautiful.
00:17:37.000 Well, you know, Switzerland has famously been neutral, right?
00:17:42.000 That's Switzerland.
00:17:43.000 And a lot of banks.
00:17:44.000 A lot of banks go over there, right?
00:17:45.000 They have a lot of money and they don't spend any of it on war.
00:17:48.000 Yeah, they don't spend a dime of it on war.
00:17:50.000 And I was asking, you know, it was kind of interesting because.
00:17:55.000 I went to France almost exactly a year before, and I got kicked off that cruise ship, the little Viking cruise.
00:18:04.000 Did I ever tell you that story about kicking off of that fucking thing?
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00:18:52.000 I knew it was going to be a problem when I saw the boat, right?
00:18:55.000 Because I got weed and gummies and shit.
00:18:58.000 I'm like, I don't know if this is going to work or not, but I'll just see what I can get away with, right?
00:19:02.000 And then I'll deny it and then do something different.
00:19:06.000 You know, we park the boat every day.
00:19:08.000 I can just get off the boat and smoke.
00:19:09.000 I don't really care.
00:19:11.000 And the fucking people came down on me so hard at Viking Cruises.
00:19:17.000 And the captain of the ship confronted me in front of a bunch of people, really loud and aggressive, and called me a liar.
00:19:27.000 Were you lying?
00:19:28.000 No, I was smoking pot out on my deck.
00:19:31.000 And which is where the first guy came in and said, Hey, listen, you can't smoke pot in your room, but if you want to smoke pot on your deck, well, that's what I had been doing, but I hadn't been real careful about keeping the door shut.
00:19:41.000 And this was the hotel manager guy, not the captain of the ship.
00:19:45.000 And he was the nicest guy ever.
00:19:48.000 And he meant me no harm.
00:19:50.000 Just figure this out, you know.
00:19:52.000 Well, the next day, we were parked right at the dock.
00:19:55.000 And the dock was right there, right off my balcony.
00:19:57.000 And I'm sitting there in a cloud, in a little puff going anywhere.
00:20:01.000 And he calls and says, hey, the captain wants to talk to you.
00:20:03.000 And I'm like, do I know what it's about?
00:20:05.000 And he goes, yeah, you know.
00:20:07.000 And I'm like, all right.
00:20:08.000 And they came in just in the hallway, just dressed me down.
00:20:11.000 And he said, I said, no, I was smoking.
00:20:14.000 Pot, where that guy told me to, and pointed right at the other dude and he goes, I think you were smoking pot in your, in your bathroom, and he got in the ventilation system.
00:20:22.000 Oh, you just made that up, dude.
00:20:25.000 You just called me a liar.
00:20:27.000 I'm one of your customers, I bought a suite on this goddamn thing and he said, you listen to me.
00:20:32.000 And at the end of it he goes, well listen, if you want to smoke pot on the top deck, maybe I could look the other way.
00:20:37.000 Why didn't you open with that?
00:20:38.000 Yeah, instead of jumping my fucking ass?
00:20:40.000 And how illegal is pot over there?
00:20:43.000 Oh, you know I was in the wrong.
00:20:44.000 You know it's probably illegal, but But I mean, how illegal?
00:20:47.000 Nah, not very illegal.
00:20:48.000 I mean, you can still buy as a parent.
00:20:51.000 You can get a fucking card and go in and buy weed.
00:20:53.000 Okay.
00:20:54.000 Well, that's silly, man.
00:20:56.000 God, the whole thing's so silly that that's still an issue.
00:20:58.000 I get the whole smoking pot publicly.
00:21:01.000 It is gross, especially to non smokers and people with families.
00:21:05.000 Yeah, and I forget how strong the smell is.
00:21:06.000 Yeah, it's strong.
00:21:08.000 I get that.
00:21:09.000 I understand that.
00:21:10.000 That makes sense to me.
00:21:12.000 But the laws against it are just stupid.
00:21:14.000 They're just fucking stupid.
00:21:17.000 Speaking of felonies.
00:21:18.000 You can't do that on the air.
00:21:19.000 Huh?
00:21:19.000 I'm not.
00:21:20.000 It's a cigar.
00:21:21.000 Oh, okay.
00:21:22.000 You can smoke that on the air.
00:21:24.000 Oh, thank you.
00:21:24.000 I brought you one, too.
00:21:25.000 Let's go.
00:21:26.000 It's actually, I can't tell you where it's from.
00:21:29.000 Uh-oh.
00:21:29.000 Because that's a felony, too.
00:21:33.000 Why?
00:21:33.000 Huh?
00:21:34.000 Oh, is this from that other country?
00:21:36.000 Some foreign country.
00:21:37.000 I actually bought it in.
00:21:38.000 I think those are legal to have.
00:21:39.000 No, they're not.
00:21:40.000 I think Cuban cigars are legal to have, and that's not what we're talking about because these definitely wouldn't be Cuban cigars.
00:21:46.000 But I think Cuban cigars are legal to have.
00:21:46.000 No.
00:21:49.000 Oh, I think you're allowed to have a certain amount of them now.
00:21:52.000 Where it used to be there was an embargo to all trade to Cuba, and I think there's a limited amount of Cuban cigars you're allowed to possess.
00:21:59.000 Let's look that up.
00:21:59.000 I don't think that's right.
00:22:00.000 I believe that's the case.
00:22:02.000 Do you need a lighter, sir?
00:22:05.000 Thank you very much.
00:22:05.000 There you go.
00:22:07.000 Ron White, ladies and gentlemen.
00:22:08.000 What a gentleman.
00:22:09.000 Boy, this smells like South Florida.
00:22:13.000 Yeah.
00:22:17.000 For us, it's tough.
00:22:19.000 Damn, these are legit.
00:22:20.000 Damn, this is a real thing, Ron White.
00:22:24.000 Yeah, it is.
00:22:27.000 There's like a loophole.
00:22:28.000 Isn't it weird?
00:22:29.000 There's a loophole?
00:22:30.000 Yeah.
00:22:30.000 Isn't it weird how some countries are just way better at certain shit?
00:22:35.000 Can you buy Cuban cigars at a U.S. shop?
00:22:37.000 No.
00:22:38.000 No.
00:22:38.000 Can you order Cuban cigars online for delivery to the U.S.?
00:22:41.000 No.
00:22:42.000 Yeah, you can.
00:22:43.000 Smoke a Cuban cigar while abroad where the law permits it?
00:22:46.000 Generally, yes, but do not bring it back.
00:22:49.000 What?
00:22:50.000 That's crazy.
00:22:51.000 Imagine they're telling you whether or not you can smoke a Cuban cigar if you're in England.
00:22:58.000 Right.
00:22:59.000 I used to get them from England.
00:23:01.000 I had a dude in England that would send them to me.
00:23:03.000 This is way back in the Dizzy.
00:23:05.000 And he would send me a box of them with no bands on them.
00:23:07.000 And then he would send me a separate bag with all the bands in it in an envelope.
00:23:12.000 You notice these don't have bands on them.
00:23:14.000 That's the thing.
00:23:14.000 Yeah.
00:23:15.000 But there are so many fake ones.
00:23:17.000 No, that's the most counterfeited thing in the world is Cohiba cigars.
00:23:24.000 Look at this.
00:23:26.000 It says for a period ending September 2020, travelers could bring limited Cuban cigars back for personal use.
00:23:32.000 That exemption was removed.
00:23:35.000 Exception was removed.
00:23:36.000 Current CBP guidance says people subject to U.S. jurisdiction may acquire Cuban goods while outside the United States in certain circumstances, but may not import Cuban origin tobacco products into the country.
00:23:49.000 Well, thank God these aren't Cuban.
00:23:50.000 Yeah, thank God.
00:23:52.000 Well, I bought them in Switzerland, so I assume they're Swiss.
00:23:54.000 They must be.
00:23:55.000 They're really good at everything over there, including cheese.
00:23:55.000 They must be.
00:23:58.000 Well, they're good at cigars.
00:23:59.000 That's Zeno Davidoff from Switzerland.
00:24:02.000 Oh, really?
00:24:03.000 Where did he get their tobacco?
00:24:03.000 Yeah.
00:24:05.000 Well, he was rolling cigars, he was making cigars in Cuba.
00:24:09.000 But he smelled the whole thing coming before everybody else did, moved to the Dominican Republic.
00:24:13.000 And before he did that, he moved seeds over there, started plantations, moved his rollers over there.
00:24:18.000 So, really, when that all went down, the only really good cigar you could get was Davidoff.
00:24:24.000 It's kind of crazy how the Cubans really are so much better.
00:24:28.000 There's like a level, they're a level above.
00:24:30.000 They're a level above, and one of it is the rollers.
00:24:33.000 You know, they just had generational rollers, and they have these big rolling rooms where somebody would sit up in front of the thing and read them books, and they'd just sit there and roll these beautiful, fucking classic cigars.
00:24:43.000 That smoke gorgeous and taste gorgeous.
00:24:46.000 Well, if you don't have that, there have been companies that have bought other cigar companies just to get their rollers and then discontinue the line altogether.
00:24:54.000 Now I need these guys twisting up some fucking.
00:24:56.000 Yeah, you need the wizards.
00:24:57.000 Yeah.
00:24:58.000 There was a place in Miami where we used to go to when we would do the Miami improv.
00:25:03.000 And you could go and watch these people who used to be in Cuba and now they're in Miami rolling cigars.
00:25:09.000 Watch them do it.
00:25:10.000 And cut it, roll it out.
00:25:13.000 And they'd sell you the cigars right there.
00:25:14.000 It's like incredible.
00:25:15.000 You watch them do it.
00:25:16.000 And that is pure contraband, too, you know, because that tobacco is coming from somewhere.
00:25:21.000 Yeah, I don't know where they're getting it.
00:25:23.000 They didn't, I don't know if they even said.
00:25:25.000 I don't remember.
00:25:25.000 It was a long time ago.
00:25:26.000 But, you know, you can get great cigars from Nicaragua, great cigars from the Dominican Republic, but there is a difference.
00:25:34.000 Yeah, there's a difference.
00:25:35.000 It's crazy.
00:25:37.000 You know, it's a really small area, too, where they grow the tobacco.
00:25:39.000 It's a tiny place.
00:25:41.000 And actually, you can still buy pre embargo Cuban cigars in America.
00:25:46.000 So if it was rolled and brought into the country, before the embargo, they're legal and there's a market for them and they're expensive.
00:25:53.000 Pre-embargo Cuban cigars, because all these really well if they have to have been kept the whole time in humidors, whoa.
00:26:01.000 But these big rich guys that you know, cigars were a penny.
00:26:05.000 And then Cuban cigars came available and they were a nickel.
00:26:08.000 Nobody gonna pay a nickel.
00:26:10.000 You know this 120 years ago and.
00:26:14.000 But it turns out they did pay a nickel and they were just that much better.
00:26:17.000 And then those guys, when they heard about that embargo, they bought everything there was and built these huge humidors and when they died Those things went on the market, you know.
00:26:26.000 Oh, wow.
00:26:27.000 I stayed at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, and they have a Cuban cigar outlet in that hotel.
00:26:35.000 So, whoa.
00:26:36.000 I bought one because it was like $200.
00:26:39.000 So, it was like a 1960 cigar?
00:26:41.000 62 or something like that.
00:26:43.000 That's crazy.
00:26:44.000 See if you can find those online.
00:26:45.000 Are those available online?
00:26:47.000 I'm sure they are.
00:26:48.000 That's a crazy thing.
00:26:49.000 Pre embargo Cubans.
00:26:50.000 You know what JFK did before he made the embargo?
00:26:55.000 He bought a shitload of cigars, brought them back.
00:26:58.000 You motherfucker.
00:26:59.000 Yeah, and he knew what he was doing.
00:27:01.000 He knew what he was doing.
00:27:01.000 You motherfucker.
00:27:02.000 You motherfucker.
00:27:03.000 Yeah.
00:27:03.000 You did that and then you made them illegal.
00:27:07.000 Yeah.
00:27:08.000 What's up?
00:27:09.000 I had to click.
00:27:10.000 I was 18 plus on Reddit to look at a picture of them.
00:27:14.000 It says it's NSFW content and it's just pictures of cigars.
00:27:18.000 Why is that not safe for work?
00:27:19.000 I have no idea.
00:27:21.000 Looks like the whole cigar thing is all NSFW.
00:27:23.000 Pre embargo 1962.
00:27:26.000 Are those for sale or they're just photos?
00:27:27.000 I was just finding a photo.
00:27:28.000 I thought that was.
00:27:29.000 Super strange.
00:27:30.000 I didn't even get that.
00:27:30.000 That is super strange.
00:27:31.000 I probably can't find them on eBay, I bet.
00:27:33.000 It's porn for cigar people.
00:27:35.000 Yeah.
00:27:36.000 They just want to stare at that.
00:27:36.000 Right?
00:27:37.000 I felt it move.
00:27:41.000 What is it about men who love collecting things that are hard to get?
00:27:47.000 Well, I think that once you have money and then you, all the things you thought you wanted, you get those and then you want something you can't have.
00:27:55.000 This is not too bad.
00:27:56.000 This is one that's $300 for one cigar.
00:28:00.000 I think it's a bundle of $25.
00:28:01.000 What?
00:28:01.000 Really?
00:28:02.000 I think it's a bundle of $25.
00:28:03.000 That's ridiculous.
00:28:04.000 That's really cheap.
00:28:05.000 That's cheap for any Cuban cigar.
00:28:07.000 Wow.
00:28:08.000 That can't be possible.
00:28:09.000 No.
00:28:11.000 I paid more than that for.
00:28:13.000 These guys are fucking you.
00:28:14.000 Probably fake.
00:28:15.000 I bet.
00:28:15.000 This is how you get.
00:28:16.000 Stumble across fake sneakers really quickly.
00:28:16.000 Maybe it's fake.
00:28:19.000 But is that really?
00:28:21.000 Look at the reviews.
00:28:22.000 It's all four stars.
00:28:22.000 You think it's real?
00:28:23.000 I would just say, if you guys are already saying the price isn't right, this is some fake shit.
00:28:26.000 I don't know.
00:28:27.000 Ron would be the one to know.
00:28:29.000 I didn't even know about this until 20 minutes ago.
00:28:31.000 Maybe it's real.
00:28:32.000 This is how people.
00:28:33.000 I'm telling you, this is how you buy fake Jordans.
00:28:35.000 Jamie, let's order a box.
00:28:37.000 I can't imagine that this is.
00:28:38.000 Order a box, please.
00:28:39.000 Add a cart.
00:28:39.000 Who's going to smoke it first and test it?
00:28:41.000 I will.
00:28:42.000 I will.
00:28:42.000 Ron and I will.
00:28:43.000 We'll bring it to the club.
00:28:48.000 Just pause that.
00:28:49.000 Just put that aside.
00:28:50.000 Send it to me.
00:28:50.000 I'll order a box.
00:28:51.000 We'll see what's up.
00:28:52.000 All right.
00:28:53.000 As long as we don't get in trouble.
00:28:55.000 It's totally legal?
00:28:56.000 Yeah, it's totally legal.
00:28:57.000 It didn't say that in the other thing.
00:28:59.000 It didn't say pre embargo.
00:29:01.000 Here's a review.
00:29:02.000 First five pack I bought was not good.
00:29:04.000 Every single cigar was plugged and didn't have a smooth and easy draw.
00:29:08.000 Not just from this particular cigar, but Camacho as a whole.
00:29:10.000 And he still gave him four stars?
00:29:13.000 However, the handwritten.
00:29:15.000 I received, I never forgot, and gave Cigar City a second chance.
00:29:15.000 Thank you, Card.
00:29:19.000 The latest five pack I bought was well worth the price.
00:29:22.000 It's a sad day when the Cuba tobacco bundlers for this cigar are all used up.
00:29:26.000 This may be my number one favorite cigar, hands down.
00:29:30.000 The transition between each third is absolutely incredible.
00:29:33.000 So the first five pack sucked, and the second five pack was insane.
00:29:37.000 Interesting.
00:29:38.000 Huh.
00:29:39.000 Well, they're cheap.
00:29:40.000 Maybe they have.
00:29:41.000 They have 10 reviews total seven or fives and three or fours.
00:29:46.000 I'm just saying.
00:29:48.000 Hey, take a swing of five cigars.
00:29:49.000 Fuck it.
00:29:52.000 You can handle it.
00:29:54.000 Yeah, we'll see what happens.
00:29:56.000 We'll be all right.
00:29:57.000 I bought dumber shit.
00:30:00.000 No.
00:30:00.000 For sure.
00:30:02.000 How's that fucking Corvette you got, baby?
00:30:04.000 How's that thing?
00:30:05.000 Somebody wants to buy it from me.
00:30:06.000 You know who?
00:30:07.000 Who?
00:30:09.000 Jay McGraw.
00:30:10.000 Does he?
00:30:11.000 Oh.
00:30:11.000 Yeah.
00:30:12.000 He can get one of those, he can get one built.
00:30:14.000 You don't want to sell yours.
00:30:15.000 Yours is yours.
00:30:16.000 Yours is set up here.
00:30:17.000 Yeah, that's my car.
00:30:18.000 That thing's beautiful, man.
00:30:20.000 Yeah, you can't sell that.
00:30:21.000 You have to keep that.
00:30:23.000 Someday when you die, that'll go on auction.
00:30:25.000 It'll be worth a fuckload of money.
00:30:26.000 That thing is beautiful.
00:30:28.000 And it's got a bar in the trunk.
00:30:30.000 It doesn't have it anymore.
00:30:32.000 I took it out because it didn't have a top because I wanted that bar for whatever fucking reason, Joe.
00:30:39.000 Did you get Colvin in Austin?
00:30:43.000 I think they did, right?
00:30:43.000 Did they do the work on it?
00:30:45.000 Yeah, he's the best.
00:30:45.000 Yeah.
00:30:45.000 Casey?
00:30:47.000 They've done some of the work.
00:30:48.000 Some of it was done in Atlanta.
00:30:50.000 I mean, the basic build was done in Atlanta, but the setup on it was done by Kurt Busch's race team.
00:30:56.000 He was testing tires at his oval track, and he said, bring it out here because he knew I was building it.
00:31:01.000 And he said, I'll have a guy set it up for you.
00:31:03.000 Oh, that's awesome.
00:31:04.000 And so there's footage on the internet of him driving at 170 miles an hour on an oval track and me going, what the fuck, dude?
00:31:12.000 He's doing donuts in it.
00:31:13.000 I'm like, God damn, I just had that fucking paint job.
00:31:17.000 You could drive it, set it up.
00:31:20.000 He said, we need to drop that front end an inch.
00:31:24.000 And I said, well, yeah, but if we drop that front, Ron, we need to drop the front end an inch.
00:31:30.000 You don't need to ask questions.
00:31:32.000 I'm like, okay, drop the front end an inch, buddy.
00:31:35.000 You know more about this shit than I do, don't you?
00:31:37.000 Those guys, I can't really drive.
00:31:39.000 I can drive.
00:31:40.000 I mean, I've been around a track a few times.
00:31:41.000 I know how to drive, but not like these guys.
00:31:44.000 They feel things that you and I wouldn't feel.
00:31:46.000 They're like, oh, the left canvas is off.
00:31:48.000 This is off.
00:31:49.000 There's something going on.
00:31:51.000 It's, you know, the understeer is off.
00:31:54.000 I don't like these tires.
00:31:54.000 Something's off.
00:31:55.000 Like, they feel it with their ass.
00:31:57.000 Yeah.
00:31:58.000 And they did a beautiful fucking job on it.
00:31:58.000 Yeah.
00:32:01.000 And it's so much fun to drive.
00:32:02.000 It scares me a little bit because.
00:32:04.000 You know, it's just got so much power.
00:32:07.000 It's so light.
00:32:08.000 And nothing to it, but running over 500 horsepower.
00:32:13.000 I just had fuel injection put on it because it was running kind of rough early on.
00:32:18.000 You know, when I'd get it started, it'd start cold.
00:32:20.000 But now it just, boom, boom.
00:32:22.000 Yeah, was it a carburetor setup before that?
00:32:24.000 Yeah.
00:32:24.000 Yeah.
00:32:25.000 Those stink too.
00:32:26.000 The problem is they make your whole car stink like gasoline.
00:32:28.000 Like, whoo.
00:32:29.000 I used to like that.
00:32:31.000 I still like the smell of gasoline.
00:32:32.000 There's something about you getting an old muscle car, you smell that gasoline, like, yeah, America.
00:32:38.000 It's just a lot of it is nostalgia.
00:32:43.000 Nostalgia from the time when I was a kid, muscle cars were the thing.
00:32:47.000 Well, mine was born the same year I was, 1956.
00:32:51.000 So it's been around 70 years, that car has, just like me, still running, just like me.
00:32:59.000 Right, but it's got all new parts.
00:33:00.000 Yeah, it's not the same.
00:33:01.000 We've got to work on that with you.
00:33:03.000 We could have driven away what we didn't use.
00:33:05.000 Yeah, that's the same with mine, my 65.
00:33:08.000 There's nothing in that other than the outside.
00:33:10.000 Right, that's all mine is.
00:33:11.000 Some of the frame, I mean, everything.
00:33:13.000 Dashboard and some of that stuff.
00:33:16.000 Everything else, you know, it's got an Art Morrison chassis on it and coilover springs and disc brakes and supercharger.
00:33:25.000 It's got an LS engine in it.
00:33:28.000 That thing is, there's nothing about that that's an old car.
00:33:32.000 I got to tell you, yours is the prettiest Corvette I've seen.
00:33:35.000 And when I first saw that one, I was like, man, I didn't think anybody could beat me in the Corvette department.
00:33:41.000 That thing's stunning.
00:33:42.000 That thing's a dream boat.
00:33:44.000 When I first saw it, I was like, oh shit.
00:33:46.000 When I first saw it, it was a lot different.
00:33:47.000 I brought it to my friend Steve Strope.
00:33:49.000 When I first saw it, it had the grossest interior.
00:33:52.000 It had cheap Corvette bucket seats from maybe a C4 Corvette or a C5.
00:33:59.000 They were terrible seats.
00:34:01.000 And the interior sucked, and the shifter sucked.
00:34:06.000 And it was a little underpowered.
00:34:08.000 It didn't have the supercharger in it.
00:34:10.000 And I brought it to Steve Strope.
00:34:11.000 But it did have the chassis.
00:34:13.000 And so we upgraded the suspension.
00:34:15.000 And then he upgraded everything else and completely redid the interior and put like really solid bucket seats that grip you and wider tire and brakes set up.
00:34:24.000 And we got those cool wheels.
00:34:26.000 Those wheels are sick.
00:34:27.000 Yeah, those solid.
00:34:29.000 Really set it off.
00:34:30.000 Show a photo of that, Jamie.
00:34:32.000 There's a photo of me with Jay Leno when I did Jay Leno's Garage with it.
00:34:36.000 The wheels are controversial.
00:34:37.000 People either love them or they hate them.
00:34:38.000 I fucking love them.
00:34:39.000 I think it just.
00:34:40.000 I wouldn't like them on all.
00:34:41.000 I don't think on many cars, but on that car, it's like the perfect wheel for it.
00:34:46.000 What's that green car?
00:34:47.000 I saw you driving out last night.
00:34:49.000 Yeah, that's.
00:34:50.000 That's my other car.
00:34:51.000 Look at that son of a bitch.
00:34:51.000 Oh, yeah.
00:34:52.000 Those wheels rule, dude.
00:34:52.000 Look at that.
00:34:54.000 Those are fucking badass wheels, man.
00:34:56.000 They rule for that car.
00:34:58.000 That thing's sick.
00:35:00.000 So that was all red.
00:35:01.000 The stripe was red.
00:35:02.000 Steve Strope turned it black and did the wheels and did everything.
00:35:06.000 He really tuned it in nice where it's just dialed in.
00:35:09.000 Yeah, that's badass.
00:35:10.000 It's so fun, man.
00:35:11.000 That's me and Jay tooling down that.
00:35:13.000 He's the only other guy that's driven it other than me.
00:35:16.000 That thing's fun.
00:35:17.000 And again, it weighs nothing.
00:35:19.000 It's probably got 550 horsepower now.
00:35:22.000 With the supercharger.
00:35:24.000 Yeah, I won't let anybody drive mine, but I'll let you drive it.
00:35:27.000 All right.
00:35:28.000 Let's go.
00:35:28.000 Well, you know, we're setting up a studio at the track.
00:35:31.000 Or what?
00:35:32.000 We're setting up another studio at the racetrack.
00:35:35.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:35.000 You told me about that.
00:35:37.000 At the races a couple years ago or whatever.
00:35:41.000 Sometime around November ish, we'll start doing podcasts out of there.
00:35:46.000 I hope to get it done right around the time Formula One is in town.
00:35:49.000 That would be fun so I could get some drivers on and do some podcasts from there.
00:35:54.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:55.000 So we'll be able to go around the track.
00:35:56.000 Are you going to do all the tracks?
00:35:57.000 No, some of them.
00:35:58.000 Both places.
00:35:59.000 So we'll be able to go around the track, take guys around the track.
00:36:02.000 Take people that have never been around the track.
00:36:03.000 And what I want to do is bring in car companies.
00:36:06.000 So, Mustang has this new dark horse Mustang.
00:36:09.000 It's crazy, 600 horsepower, crazy Mustang.
00:36:12.000 Let's let people drive it.
00:36:14.000 You want to sell some Mustangs?
00:36:15.000 Let these guys drive it just for funsies.
00:36:18.000 We'll take some pictures and then we'll do a podcast.
00:36:20.000 Talk some shit with whatever, musicians, comics, people.
00:36:25.000 And then have fun on the racetrack.
00:36:27.000 Yeah, we see a ton of those guys out of Driftwood out of my golf course.
00:36:30.000 A lot of those guys are golfers and they all go out there and play golf whenever they're in town.
00:36:36.000 Oh, I'm sure.
00:36:37.000 Race car driving and golfing.
00:36:39.000 I, you know, I really wish I could get into golf and I probably will someday.
00:36:42.000 I probably will.
00:36:43.000 I'll probably be forced into it.
00:36:44.000 It's a lot like, like, a lot like shooting a bow.
00:36:48.000 In that, don't tell me that because then I'll, then I can't do it.
00:36:51.000 Yeah.
00:36:52.000 I mean, in that, in that you never do the exact same thing twice.
00:36:57.000 You know, there's the shot's going to be either further or shorter or the wind's going to be coming from some other way or whatever.
00:37:02.000 So you're, it's, you really have to.
00:37:05.000 And the big difference is when you cock a bow or whatever you call it, uh, That's where all the power is, right?
00:37:11.000 It's already in there.
00:37:13.000 You don't have to generate it now.
00:37:13.000 It's built in.
00:37:15.000 Right.
00:37:15.000 You just aim it.
00:37:16.000 But golf, you have to generate all the power with your body, which is hard to learn how to do.
00:37:23.000 Well, I watch Jamie.
00:37:25.000 I watch Jamie do it all the time.
00:37:27.000 You ever seen Jamie whack a ball?
00:37:29.000 That fucking dude can get some distance.
00:37:31.000 Jamie can whack a ball.
00:37:33.000 Jamie, you want to come out to Driftwood and play golf with me?
00:37:35.000 I'd love to play at Driftwood.
00:37:36.000 Huh?
00:37:36.000 Driftwood's a great place.
00:37:37.000 I'd love to play there anytime.
00:37:40.000 I'll take you out there.
00:37:41.000 The dude can draw.
00:37:41.000 You go.
00:37:42.000 What's your furthest drive?
00:37:44.000 Well, I mean, it doesn't.
00:37:45.000 It's all dependent, but I've hit it over 300 yards, which isn't that important, as Ron would know.
00:37:50.000 It's all about what hole you're hitting it on, and is it worth it hitting 300 yards in that hole?
00:37:55.000 Yeah.
00:37:56.000 How far can you drive a ball?
00:37:59.000 You know, I hit the ball 235, 240, something like that.
00:38:04.000 But, you know, if I really get into one, I catch a sweet spot, you know, maybe 255, which is nothing compared to 300, but you find a 70-year-old dude that can do it.
00:38:15.000 What is like an elite golfer, like the best driver?
00:38:18.000 How far are they?
00:38:19.000 That'd be Rory McElroy, probably at about 325 average.
00:38:26.000 So 100 yards.
00:38:27.000 They hit the ball 100 yards further than me.
00:38:28.000 I played with.
00:38:29.000 Jamie, you're only 25 yards off of some of the best golfers.
00:38:32.000 No, no, no.
00:38:33.000 That's not how I would even word it.
00:38:35.000 Yeah, they're in the middle of the fairway.
00:38:37.000 You're saying, like, how far have I ever hit it?
00:38:39.000 Which is what I'm answering.
00:38:39.000 Yeah.
00:38:40.000 It's not how far do I hit it, which is like your average.
00:38:43.000 Would you take out your tops, take out your lows?
00:38:45.000 I see what you're saying.
00:38:46.000 What's your average?
00:38:46.000 Well, that's very humble of you.
00:38:48.000 I'd be bragging my ass off.
00:38:48.000 Well.
00:38:50.000 300 yards, bitch.
00:38:51.000 No, because then I get on their ass.
00:38:55.000 I'm on their ass.
00:38:57.000 I'm going to hit 320.
00:38:58.000 Have you seen those guys that go to those driving ranges and they have these crazy swings where they completely spin and then rotate their body?
00:39:07.000 They almost do a 180 and then smash it.
00:39:10.000 Those guys, it's got to be way over 300 yards.
00:39:13.000 Yeah, they're hitting at 4.
00:39:14.000 They're sometimes 500 yards in some cases.
00:39:16.000 That's crazy.
00:39:17.000 They're using specialized equipment.
00:39:18.000 They're playing in a specialized scene.
00:39:21.000 But they still can't play the game of golf.
00:39:21.000 Yep.
00:39:23.000 Right.
00:39:24.000 That's definitely right.
00:39:25.000 Or usually.
00:39:25.000 Right.
00:39:26.000 I mean, usually they'll make maybe a two or three handicap.
00:39:28.000 They'll be decent at golf.
00:39:30.000 Right.
00:39:30.000 But the elite guys, they can't touch them in the game.
00:39:35.000 Yeah, there's a similarity in pool, and that's the brake shot.
00:39:39.000 This guy's the current 579.
00:39:43.000 Jesus, Kyle.
00:39:44.000 Yeah.
00:39:45.000 That's insane.
00:39:47.000 Yeah, that's like a fucking half a mile, isn't it?
00:39:50.000 This isn't even like 425.
00:39:50.000 It is.
00:39:54.000 He's probably got a three.
00:39:54.000 This is on a course.
00:39:55.000 Oh, my God.
00:39:56.000 He's a big dude.
00:39:57.000 He's also playing out, and he's getting a little bit of help with elevation out there.
00:40:00.000 You can tell he's out in the mountains.
00:40:02.000 Right.
00:40:03.000 Wow.
00:40:03.000 A little help.
00:40:04.000 A little help.
00:40:04.000 But that's what you want.
00:40:05.000 You want to hit it on the green.
00:40:06.000 That's kind of what's way more important.
00:40:07.000 410 yards.
00:40:08.000 Yeah, if you can do that.
00:40:09.000 Yes, that's bonkers.
00:40:11.000 That's bonkers.
00:40:12.000 Wait till some of those super athlete NFL players get involved in golf and golf.
00:40:16.000 LeBron's gotten involved recently.
00:40:17.000 Oh, God.
00:40:18.000 And he started a YouTube channel, but he obviously doesn't have a ton of time to play.
00:40:23.000 He's busy.
00:40:23.000 Right.
00:40:24.000 But his growth in the year he's played is pretty remarkable.
00:40:28.000 Of course.
00:40:29.000 He's a super athlete.
00:40:30.000 Same with Justin Gaichy.
00:40:31.000 I mean, he's really good to start.
00:40:31.000 Yeah.
00:40:33.000 But he's played forever.
00:40:34.000 Justin?
00:40:35.000 Yeah, I think, didn't he say he took six months off or three months off and played every single day?
00:40:39.000 Well, what happened was when he got hurt in the Max Holloway fight, he didn't do nothing for like a long time.
00:40:45.000 And he just let his body heal, let his brain heal.
00:40:48.000 And he played golf every day for like a year.
00:40:50.000 And DC was saying, like, dude, he got so fucking good.
00:40:54.000 But of course, he's an athlete.
00:40:56.000 Like, if you're a world champion MMA fighter, you can kind of do anything if you set your mind to it.
00:41:02.000 Right.
00:41:02.000 You can play golf.
00:41:03.000 He could skateboard.
00:41:04.000 He could do whatever the fuck he wants.
00:41:05.000 Because those guys also are ridiculously.
00:41:07.000 Flexible, right?
00:41:09.000 He's not that flexible.
00:41:11.000 He's loose, though.
00:41:12.000 It kind of matters.
00:41:12.000 It's what matters more.
00:41:13.000 I mean, I went to stretch zone today.
00:41:16.000 You know, that's where I go to.
00:41:17.000 You go to stretch zone?
00:41:18.000 Do you go to someone who stretches you?
00:41:20.000 It's the best thing in the world, man.
00:41:23.000 It's kind of resistant stretching, which it takes an hour.
00:41:28.000 And they just have you on a table and they're just bending you around.
00:41:30.000 And boy, you can play some golf when you get off of that.
00:41:33.000 Really?
00:41:34.000 Nothing frees up your lower back.
00:41:36.000 You got to be able to.
00:41:37.000 How many people are doing it?
00:41:38.000 Just one person.
00:41:39.000 One guy just holding you down and twisting you.
00:41:40.000 And they've also got straps where they strap you to the table.
00:41:43.000 So they, I mean, they can do things to you.
00:41:44.000 That you can't do to yourself.
00:41:46.000 You just can't get that kind of stretch in.
00:41:48.000 Interesting.
00:41:49.000 And I fucking love the place.
00:41:51.000 And it seems like, and it's never busy.
00:41:54.000 And it seems like that, because there are tons of old guys out there playing golf.
00:41:59.000 Every one of them should be on that table.
00:42:02.000 It fixes everything.
00:42:04.000 Do you do anything to work out to like strengthen your body other than playing golf?
00:42:09.000 No.
00:42:09.000 You should probably do like a light kettlebell routine.
00:42:12.000 I don't know.
00:42:13.000 I'm not going to do a kettlebell, but maybe some rubber bands or something.
00:42:17.000 Kettlebells are not hard, man.
00:42:18.000 You don't have to be.
00:42:19.000 I've seen video of you doing it.
00:42:21.000 It looked like it would break me in half.
00:42:22.000 Yeah, but you don't have to do that weight.
00:42:24.000 You can do a real light weight.
00:42:25.000 A light weight is a great workout.
00:42:27.000 Sometimes I do, like, if I'm not feeling that good, I'll do just a routine that I do with a 35 pound kettlebell.
00:42:33.000 Just to, if I just want to break a sweat, I don't want to really exert myself, but I want movement and I want my tissue to loosen up.
00:42:41.000 I'll do a whole routine with a 35 pound kettlebell.
00:42:44.000 Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
00:42:45.000 I should do more.
00:42:46.000 It would be great for your golf, though.
00:42:48.000 There's a lot of things you do, like rotational twists, things that would be really good for just generating force with your drive and just control of your body, just overall body control.
00:42:59.000 Yeah, I know that I lost some muscle when I was just losing weight with Ozempic or whatever it was.
00:43:08.000 So I know I could get more.
00:43:09.000 And I know that the whole secret to me getting to be 80 and still mobile is because there's leg strain.
00:43:14.000 And I was really kind of impressed with myself in Switzerland because I was getting around pretty good, you know, because I do, you know, I do whatever, testosterone and human growth and all that kind of stuff.
00:43:29.000 So, it does make my muscles stronger because I was doing things.
00:43:32.000 I'm like, there's no way I'd get up to the top of that thing and I'd just chug on up there out of breath, but my legs are fine, you know?
00:43:39.000 Yeah, it makes your body behave like a younger body.
00:43:41.000 That's the whole key.
00:43:43.000 People miss out on that because they're afraid of the stigma attached to taking testosterone.
00:43:47.000 Like, look, your body doesn't make it anymore.
00:43:49.000 When your body makes it, you feel better.
00:43:51.000 Get all this ideological shit out of your head, especially like a lot of my left wing friends are very adverse to the idea of taking testosterone.
00:43:59.000 Like, look, you don't have to take a lot of it.
00:44:01.000 It's not what we're saying, we're not saying get on steroids.
00:44:03.000 What we're saying is bring your body back to levels that it had like when you were 30, and you'll feel so much better.
00:44:09.000 Your immune system will work better.
00:44:10.000 You'll sleep better.
00:44:11.000 Look, I mean, just look at me the difference from when I came to Austin and you came to Austin.
00:44:18.000 And then I was still drinking really, really hard and ridiculously hard.
00:44:25.000 But I was 30 pounds heavier and sluggish.
00:44:29.000 I never felt good.
00:44:33.000 And today, just after going to Ways of the Well, You know, taking all that stuff.
00:44:38.000 And I got to tell you, I feel better than I have in fucking ever.
00:44:44.000 I am just, I think that everything in my life is stronger than it was then.
00:44:50.000 I mean, I think the stand up's even stronger, you know, because I think it is too.
00:44:54.000 And I think you add on to that, like a little bit of weightlifting.
00:44:57.000 I don't mean anything crazy.
00:44:59.000 And one of the best things you could do is what's called a farmer's carry.
00:45:02.000 Just get a couple dumbbells and just walk.
00:45:04.000 You can walk around your property, you can walk around your street.
00:45:07.000 You know, I do like a couple hundred yards and then a couple hundred yards back.
00:45:11.000 I go up a hill and then I go down a hill.
00:45:12.000 The whole thing takes me like 15 minutes.
00:45:14.000 It's phenomenal for your body.
00:45:16.000 Like carrying things, like carrying heavy things, is really good for you, man.
00:45:20.000 It's great for your grip strength.
00:45:22.000 It's great for your back, your core, like everything.
00:45:25.000 Everything felt like, like right when I first started doing it, my body was like, oh yeah, do more of this.
00:45:32.000 It's like, intuitively, I was like, oh, this is tying everything together.
00:45:36.000 Like moving weight around, I think, is very important.
00:45:39.000 Not just standing there and like, Pressing and doing stuff like stationary.
00:45:43.000 I think there's some real benefit in like walking with stuff because you got to balance it.
00:45:47.000 It's heavy and you're moving there and your grip gets tired and you have to set it down and then you fucking shoot.
00:45:52.000 How much weight are you carrying?
00:45:53.000 200 yards.
00:45:55.000 140 pounds.
00:45:56.000 Oh, fuck, dude.
00:45:59.000 You just want two little weights in your hands.
00:46:02.000 Well, these, the kettle, this might be a different time you saw me, but I don't think there's any video of me doing that.
00:46:06.000 But these kettlebells, they're each 70 pounds.
00:46:09.000 So I have one in each hand.
00:46:10.000 And so it's 140 pounds total.
00:46:12.000 And I'm walking up this hill and then I'm walking down the hill.
00:46:15.000 And I do it every other day.
00:46:17.000 It's phenomenal.
00:46:18.000 And then you work out every single day.
00:46:20.000 Yeah.
00:46:21.000 Every day.
00:46:22.000 Every day I do something.
00:46:23.000 Have to do something.
00:46:24.000 Just for sanity.
00:46:26.000 Yeah.
00:46:27.000 I guess if you're not moving forward, you're moving backwards.
00:46:29.000 I just want to maintain and also sanity.
00:46:32.000 The real thing is sanity.
00:46:33.000 The world's nuts.
00:46:35.000 Like, one great way to alleviate some of the pressure of paying attention to how nuts the world is is to do something really hard, do a hard workout, do a yoga class.
00:46:46.000 Just something difficult, just something that takes you out of it for a minute and just relaxes you.
00:46:50.000 Yeah, I'd like to get back into yoga again.
00:46:52.000 I did that for a while and it was so good for me.
00:46:54.000 That's one of the best things I bet for golf.
00:46:56.000 Oh, yeah, it is.
00:46:57.000 No doubt about it.
00:46:57.000 Then you play forever.
00:46:59.000 Just do yoga.
00:47:00.000 I had this hot little yoga instructor come over to my house and it was just a great way to just fucking start the day.
00:47:06.000 And I did it every day.
00:47:08.000 What happened?
00:47:09.000 Well, other girlfriends didn't like her because she was so hot.
00:47:12.000 I'm like, I don't know if I'm willing to fade all the heat just for some yoga where all my motives suck anyway.
00:47:20.000 I just wanted to be near the.
00:47:22.000 Something very hot about yoga ladies, too.
00:47:25.000 Like a really good one?
00:47:26.000 Yeah.
00:47:26.000 Oof.
00:47:28.000 Yeah, so I'm going to get back into something.
00:47:30.000 We met a female trainer the other day that's friends with John Paul and Eloise.
00:47:36.000 And so we're going to hire her to start coming over to the house.
00:47:39.000 Oh, there you go.
00:47:40.000 Start working it.
00:47:40.000 That's a good move.
00:47:42.000 Because I'll do more with a woman.
00:47:46.000 Really?
00:47:47.000 Just to show her that you can do it?
00:47:49.000 You know, just, I don't know.
00:47:51.000 I just show up for it if it's a woman.
00:47:55.000 For some fucking reason.
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00:48:57.000 But yeah, that's what I need to focus on for next.
00:49:01.000 Yeah, you got to keep the body healthy.
00:49:04.000 Your body's healthier now than it's been before, and now you got to start strengthening it.
00:49:08.000 Real simple.
00:49:08.000 And you can.
00:49:09.000 Like, there's no reason to get weak.
00:49:12.000 Other than an injury, other than something that's wrong with you, it's out of your control.
00:49:16.000 There's no reason.
00:49:17.000 No reason to just be weak.
00:49:20.000 You can be healthier.
00:49:20.000 Yeah.
00:49:22.000 I'm after it.
00:49:23.000 It's fun, too.
00:49:24.000 You have more energy for other stuff, you know?
00:49:27.000 Your life has more.
00:49:29.000 You have more vitality.
00:49:31.000 It'll only get better, Joe.
00:49:32.000 It'll only get better.
00:49:33.000 That's what I'm saying, dog.
00:49:35.000 How come people are ragging on our club, man?
00:49:37.000 Who's ragging on our club?
00:49:38.000 I'm watching on TikTok, people.
00:49:41.000 Goddamn mothership.
00:49:43.000 It's a walled garden.
00:49:44.000 Someone warned me about that a long time ago.
00:49:46.000 This philosopher guy that I know said, You got to be careful because, like, it looks like you guys are having too much fun and other people can't get in.
00:49:53.000 And they feel like it's a walled garden because they want to shit on it.
00:49:56.000 You know, the thing is, like, people are like, Why?
00:49:57.000 Because we're all friends in there.
00:49:58.000 It's because, like, it's a very intimate group of friends.
00:50:02.000 And we don't know when somebody else is going to come in there and listen to us bullshitting and then go jabber away to some fucking buddy else.
00:50:10.000 Or get upset at some of the things that someone says because some.
00:50:12.000 People say horrible things in that room, don't even mean it because it's funny.
00:50:16.000 They say it to be funny.
00:50:17.000 And then I've seen some of that.
00:50:19.000 One of the things that I've seen is people that are talking about the kind of comedy that they hear there.
00:50:27.000 And what they're talking about is Brian Holtzman.
00:50:30.000 And they were talking about this guy, he's yelling about gay people.
00:50:33.000 Hold on.
00:50:36.000 You're talking about Brian Holtzman.
00:50:39.000 What that is is the comedy version of death metal.
00:50:43.000 Some people like death metal.
00:50:44.000 Right.
00:50:44.000 You don't have to like death metal.
00:50:45.000 And you don't have to watch it or listen to it.
00:50:47.000 You might be into opera, but that guy is fucking hilarious.
00:50:51.000 And offstage, the sweetest, nicest guy you ever seen.
00:50:55.000 Nicest person there is.
00:50:56.000 Onstage, he becomes this fucking maniac, but it's like satire.
00:51:00.000 It's on purpose.
00:51:01.000 It's not a real person.
00:51:02.000 Yeah, it took me a while to get it.
00:51:04.000 It's brilliant.
00:51:05.000 He's one of the best comics alive.
00:51:07.000 He's one of the funniest guys I know.
00:51:08.000 Like, he's fucking hilarious.
00:51:09.000 Is it offensive?
00:51:10.000 100%.
00:51:11.000 Yeah.
00:51:11.000 Some of the things he's going to say will offend.
00:51:13.000 Offend the fuck out of you.
00:51:15.000 They will offend the fuck out of you.
00:51:16.000 They offend me.
00:51:17.000 I'm like, Jesus Christ, Holzman.
00:51:19.000 But you've got to leave room for that.
00:51:21.000 There's always got to be room for everything.
00:51:24.000 There's room for everything.
00:51:24.000 And if it doesn't work, the people won't laugh.
00:51:27.000 And if they don't laugh, he won't come back.
00:51:29.000 You know, after a while, that's it.
00:51:31.000 But they laugh.
00:51:32.000 We laugh hard.
00:51:34.000 And you could say, this is awful that they're laughing at that.
00:51:37.000 And you got a point.
00:51:38.000 But that's not what it is.
00:51:40.000 Right.
00:51:40.000 No, I'm telling you, I didn't get it at first.
00:51:42.000 And because I saw him eat it one time, and I was like, because he can, you know, he can find a crowd that's tough.
00:51:50.000 But that can happen.
00:51:52.000 But a lot of it now, he's got his own crowd.
00:51:54.000 Yeah, his own crowd.
00:51:55.000 They're looking for it.
00:51:56.000 The other thing that people keep saying is that it's like a right wing club.
00:51:58.000 The vast majority of the people that are in that club, working in that club, are left wing.
00:52:02.000 That's crazy talk.
00:52:04.000 People just assume because they connect Tony, you know, and people also connect me to that.
00:52:09.000 When I don't, I think, I mostly think that's because they don't know me.
00:52:13.000 But, and I, cause I look right wing and cause I did kind of help Trump.
00:52:17.000 But other than that, other than that, you think that might be what's left wing my whole life.
00:52:24.000 But yeah, and I know you have very left wing views on a lot of fucking things.
00:52:29.000 I have very left wing views on a lot of things.
00:52:30.000 But I also recognize when, um, Government is taking over our lives.
00:52:37.000 And what we were sold with the Trump administration would be that would end and, you know, there'd be a drain in the swamp.
00:52:44.000 Obviously, it's not been ideal, like in that regard.
00:52:48.000 I think it's, yeah, well, you know how I feel about it.
00:52:50.000 A lot of people left.
00:52:52.000 I mean, I'm left of, certainly left of some of it, but I also carry a weapon and I believe in the death penalty.
00:53:03.000 And, you know, I, but for the most part, You know, I'm a left leaning faction in the green room, you know.
00:53:14.000 I mean, I'm a left leaning faction.
00:53:15.000 You and Brian Simpson.
00:53:16.000 Brian Simpson's very left, too.
00:53:18.000 But, you know, Tony's the only one who's like on the right.
00:53:21.000 Tony's like legitimately right wing.
00:53:22.000 No, yeah, he's MAGA.
00:53:24.000 That's kind of, well, I guess.
00:53:27.000 I don't know.
00:53:28.000 I don't even know if you would say that.
00:53:30.000 But he's like pretty openly right wing to the point where me and him argue about left wing, right wing stuff all the time.
00:53:38.000 But it's like, The problem is not left wing, right wing.
00:53:41.000 The problem is like rational and insane.
00:53:43.000 Yeah.
00:53:44.000 Like the open borders was insane.
00:53:46.000 That was horrible fucking move.
00:53:49.000 The COVID mandates were insane.
00:53:52.000 Forcing people to get vaccinated was insane.
00:53:54.000 All that stuff was insane.
00:53:56.000 That stuff scared the shit out of me.
00:53:58.000 The censorship online was insane.
00:54:01.000 All the woke nonsense, forcing you to use pronouns and forcing you to never dead name someone or you get kicked off of Twitter for life.
00:54:09.000 There was so much insanity.
00:54:11.000 That we needed some sort of a break moving away from that.
00:54:15.000 And that was my position.
00:54:17.000 I was like, this is going to continue.
00:54:18.000 Because, like, obviously, Biden was not really the president for four years, right?
00:54:22.000 So the people that were running the country will continue to be running the country.
00:54:26.000 These non elected people, it wouldn't be him.
00:54:28.000 And then when she's in, it would be the same fucking people.
00:54:31.000 It would be the same people.
00:54:33.000 I voted for him.
00:54:34.000 I bet you did.
00:54:35.000 I did.
00:54:35.000 And because I wouldn't vote for Trump.
00:54:38.000 And also, they were going after women's rights.
00:54:41.000 Well, I'm going to side with the women because I don't like any kind of candidate, but I'm going to vote.
00:54:45.000 And then the women didn't go and left me out there like a dumbass holding my dick going, well, where were y'all?
00:54:53.000 When you say women's rights, you mean abortion rights?
00:54:54.000 Yeah.
00:54:55.000 Yeah.
00:54:56.000 Yeah, because, I mean, I'm going to be a grandfather in a few months.
00:55:00.000 I don't know if you knew that or not.
00:55:01.000 Congratulations.
00:55:02.000 Yeah.
00:55:03.000 I'm so fucking excited about it.
00:55:06.000 And, I mean, it's just, I mean, it's happening a little late in life for me, but, you know, now I'm looking like, well, if I play my cards right and I live as long as my mother did, I can see this kid through fucking high school.
00:55:19.000 The abortion rights thing is a weird one.
00:55:22.000 You know, it's like I don't think I have a right to tell anybody what to do with their body.
00:55:27.000 I'm not a woman.
00:55:28.000 I've never been pregnant.
00:55:29.000 I have no idea what that's like.
00:55:30.000 I have no idea where some guy gets you pregnant and it takes off and you got to make a decision.
00:55:34.000 And it's four weeks in, six weeks in, or if there's medical issues coming up.
00:55:38.000 It should be between a family and their doctor.
00:55:41.000 I have, so I really can't say anything.
00:55:41.000 Yeah.
00:55:46.000 But there's a weirdness to like late term abortions.
00:55:50.000 And I know most people say, well, late term abortions are only in the case.
00:55:53.000 Where it threatens the mother's life and no one really wants to do that.
00:55:56.000 I know someone who got a late term abortion in New York.
00:55:59.000 And it was just because the boyfriend didn't want to have the baby and they waited too long and she was pregnant.
00:56:05.000 And it would scare the shit out of me.
00:56:06.000 I'm like, you guys just killed a baby.
00:56:10.000 I'm not saying that happens all the time, but I'm saying just the fact that that can happen scares the shit out of me.
00:56:17.000 Well, aren't there laws against even, I mean, even before these laws were passed, weren't there laws saying, well, not pass this?
00:56:24.000 What did they just pass in Massachusetts?
00:56:26.000 Didn't they just pass some.
00:56:28.000 New abortion law in Massachusetts?
00:56:32.000 I think the rational thinking is that most women would never want to abort their baby late term, right?
00:56:38.000 And if someone's doing that, it has to be extenuating circumstances and that it has to be because of and to eliminate that possibility and to put someone through like a life threatening situation because they really do need an abortion and the law says they can't have an abortion unless they get some exemption.
00:56:53.000 So they have to prove it and then the person's life is at risk.
00:56:57.000 So I could see how you would say we will allow late term abortion so that this.
00:57:02.000 Can never present itself.
00:57:03.000 Yes.
00:57:04.000 Massachusetts expands abortion access to any point during pregnancy.
00:57:09.000 On Monday, it joined nine states and Washington, D.C. in eliminating gestational restrictions on abortions.
00:57:16.000 So, what does this mean exactly?
00:57:18.000 Let's scroll down.
00:57:19.000 I think this means any time during a pregnancy.
00:57:21.000 So, this means like eight months, two weeks, you can get an abortion.
00:57:26.000 Most abortions happen within the first trimester.
00:57:28.000 Very few take place after 24 weeks.
00:57:31.000 The previous limit for abortion in the Bay State.
00:57:33.000 Those that do occur after that point often involve situations in which doctors discovered a fetal anomaly late in the pregnancy.
00:57:42.000 Massachusetts law was championed by major medical groups, including the National Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the state's chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
00:57:57.000 The law received support from Kate Deneen, the abortions rights activist whose son died in utero at 33 weeks.
00:58:05.000 What is it saying?
00:58:14.000 Yeah.
00:58:15.000 So a lot of people are scared of this because you can have an abortion like really late when the baby is a baby.
00:58:25.000 Yeah.
00:58:25.000 Well, I'm, you know, fuck, I'm not for that, but I'm for a woman's right to choose.
00:58:29.000 If, uh, uh, for the same reason you just said, I'm not a woman.
00:58:35.000 I don't know what it's like.
00:58:36.000 I don't want the government involved in my.
00:58:38.000 Well, there's some people that think even the cases of rape and incest, you shouldn't be able to, which is crazy.
00:58:43.000 Wow.
00:58:43.000 Right.
00:58:44.000 Because then you get to, if you're a rapist, you get to go, I want that chick to have my baby.
00:58:48.000 Oh, my God.
00:58:48.000 Oh, my God.
00:58:51.000 Oh, well, whatever.
00:58:52.000 What are we in the medieval days?
00:58:55.000 In the old Viking days?
00:58:57.000 So, what are we going to do about the Texas Senate?
00:59:02.000 You met Tyler Rico.
00:59:03.000 You liked the guy, right?
00:59:05.000 I did like him.
00:59:06.000 I like his thoughts on the Ten Commandments in schools and public schools.
00:59:10.000 I don't think he's right.
00:59:12.000 And he's a very religious guy.
00:59:14.000 And his position is when you put the Ten Commandments in public schools, what you're really doing is you're forcing Christianity to them, and you're not, you're not, you're probably pushing them away from Christianity rather than bring, you're like forcing it on them.
00:59:28.000 And if you're going to do that, how can you do that and not have like scripture from the Hindu text, scripture from the Book of Mormon, Muslim, you know, Islamic text?
00:59:39.000 Why is it just the Ten Commandments?
00:59:41.000 Yeah, when there's a separation of church and state, that's a state run organization.
00:59:45.000 Yes.
00:59:46.000 So his position is that, and I think, You know, he's probably right about this, otherwise, he'd get sued.
00:59:51.000 Is that there's a couple like very wealthy people who are Christian nationalists and they want to take over like the school system and turn Texas like completely Christian.
01:00:05.000 And yeah, I think that's scary.
01:00:08.000 That kind of shit is scary because pushing whatever your ideology is.
01:00:12.000 Look, if you invite people into your church and you know, you're a person who is of exemplary character and you're a wonderful guy, and there's something about this guy like, wow.
01:00:22.000 This guy, the way he lives his life, man, I really think he's really cool and kind.
01:00:27.000 I like to see what this church is all about.
01:00:29.000 That's how you get people to be interested in what you're doing and the way you're promoting life.
01:00:33.000 You can't be force fed.
01:00:34.000 But you're forcing it on people.
01:00:36.000 You're just going to push them away from it.
01:00:37.000 It always happens that way.
01:00:40.000 You force it.
01:00:42.000 You can't decide that your way is the way that other people have to live.
01:00:46.000 That's the whole idea of America you're supposed to have the freedom to do whatever the fuck you want as long as you're not hurting others.
01:00:54.000 And if you want to believe in.
01:00:57.000 Whatever, some ancient religion that people gave up on thousands of years ago.
01:01:00.000 Who fucking cares?
01:01:01.000 Yeah, go ahead.
01:01:02.000 Go ahead.
01:01:03.000 Yeah, I first noticed him when he really came out against that school voucher program, which I was against also.
01:01:09.000 What was that?
01:01:10.000 Which one was that?
01:01:11.000 School vouchers.
01:01:14.000 And he lost.
01:01:15.000 He fought so hard against it because they wanted to give school vouchers so you could take this money and go to a private school.
01:01:22.000 But the only people that were using them were people that already had their kids in private schools.
01:01:25.000 Most Texas counties don't have a private school, and a private school can also.
01:01:30.000 Decide who they want.
01:01:31.000 For no reason they can eliminate anybody.
01:01:34.000 They'll take a student or not take a student, right.
01:01:36.000 And that came out of the public school system, that money, and went into the private school system and and Tal Rico really fought hard against that uh, because we need better teachers, we need more teachers, we need the public school system beefed up.
01:01:50.000 Uh, we're getting the beat out of us in education and I think Tal Rico was really, really good for that and I think he's a smart, honest man.
01:01:58.000 I hope he never gets sucked into the corruption of all the money, like most people do.
01:02:02.000 But You know, you really can't put Ken Paxton back in the office in the state of Texas.
01:02:08.000 That guy's just too corrupt.
01:02:10.000 You know, he's just a bad egg, and we don't need him around here.
01:02:15.000 There's a lot of shenanigans with weed in this state right now.
01:02:19.000 There's a lot of alcohol lobby money, and a lot of people are trying to ban weed and they're trying to make it a felony.
01:02:24.000 They did it.
01:02:25.000 I know, but they're fighting it in court now.
01:02:28.000 There's a bunch of cases.
01:02:31.000 It's really stupid.
01:02:32.000 It was such a big step backwards, you know.
01:02:34.000 And I was asking one of these guys that owns a head shop, you know, that I like, you know, I go in and talk to him every once in a while.
01:02:41.000 I don't like that.
01:02:42.000 Delta 8 or whatever they were selling anyway.
01:02:44.000 But, but, you know, but these guys really went all in on these businesses that were legal and all of a sudden, snap, here's the stuff you got to take out.
01:02:54.000 What do you got left?
01:02:56.000 And that's really brutal for somebody that really, you know, waited all in.
01:03:00.000 Billions of dollars lost.
01:03:02.000 Yeah.
01:03:03.000 Thousands of jobs.
01:03:04.000 And I guess they burned the weed.
01:03:06.000 That's what I asked him.
01:03:07.000 I said, what did you do with all that weed?
01:03:10.000 Crazy.
01:03:11.000 It's also, look, regulate it and tax it, you fucking idiots.
01:03:14.000 You're missing out on so much money.
01:03:16.000 And also, leave grown adults to do whatever they want to do.
01:03:20.000 You're not going to convince people that weed is fucking PCP.
01:03:24.000 Okay.
01:03:24.000 You're not, this ain't Reefer Madness days.
01:03:26.000 Right.
01:03:27.000 Everyone's been smoking weed for some time.
01:03:28.000 We know what propaganda you throw out there.
01:03:30.000 We know it's bullshit.
01:03:31.000 We know what weed is now.
01:03:32.000 Can you go crazy if you smoke too much weed?
01:03:32.000 Yeah.
01:03:34.000 Yeah, don't smoke too much weed.
01:03:36.000 Can you go crazy if you drink too much?
01:03:37.000 Yeah, don't drink too much.
01:03:38.000 It's the same goddamn thing.
01:03:40.000 Don't tell people what to do.
01:03:42.000 You don't have the right, especially when I look at these guys.
01:03:42.000 Right.
01:03:45.000 Like, you guys are.
01:03:46.000 You dorks can't decide what other people do and don't do.
01:03:50.000 And it seems like enough of them would have died that a new set of faces would come around.
01:03:56.000 They're going to lose elections, I'll tell you that, because young people aren't tolerating this bullshit anymore.
01:04:00.000 Like, this is stupid.
01:04:02.000 Not even young people, most people.
01:04:03.000 Most people realize the only way you can come to this conclusion that there should be laws and felonies, that people should be locked in cages for weed, is if you are either retarded or you're on the take.
01:04:13.000 Yeah.
01:04:14.000 It's one of those two things.
01:04:15.000 Either you're too fucking stupid to be a leader or you're on the take.
01:04:15.000 One of those two things.
01:04:19.000 Because this is dumb.
01:04:19.000 Right.
01:04:20.000 And also, you're missing out on so much tax revenue.
01:04:24.000 How much does California make in tax revenue?
01:04:27.000 How much does Colorado make in tax revenue?
01:04:29.000 A fucking buttload.
01:04:30.000 A buttload.
01:04:31.000 And, you know, even when some weed was legal in Texas, I got mine from Oklahoma anyway.
01:04:41.000 You should say that online.
01:04:43.000 People, they'll come for you.
01:04:44.000 They will.
01:04:45.000 It's probably like getting those Cuban cigars fake, not real Cuban cigars.
01:04:49.000 How much revenue does California make?
01:04:53.000 Get every year.
01:04:54.000 There's a state by state breakdown.
01:04:56.000 Okay.
01:04:57.000 And we can put that money in the public.
01:04:59.000 $7.765 billion.
01:05:03.000 Billion dollars.
01:05:04.000 Billion dollars.
01:05:07.000 Wow.
01:05:08.000 That is fucking crazy.
01:05:11.000 That's so much money.
01:05:13.000 They're missing out on $7 billion.
01:05:17.000 And they're missing out on how much did the tax, how much did the alcohol lobby give you?
01:05:21.000 Could have been $7 billion.
01:05:22.000 No, I don't think so.
01:05:24.000 So somebody is either retarded or corrupt.
01:05:26.000 Corrupt.
01:05:27.000 Corrupt.
01:05:27.000 Yeah.
01:05:28.000 Yeah.
01:05:28.000 Yeah.
01:05:28.000 And I'm so sick of it.
01:05:30.000 You know, I'm so sick of it.
01:05:31.000 You could be, Texas could be making a shitload of revenue with legal marijuana.
01:05:35.000 And bring in some goddamn gambling.
01:05:37.000 We're sending everybody right across the border to fucking Windstar, although I work there.
01:05:43.000 So don't quit going.
01:05:44.000 But they just pour, just dump money into Windstar because casino in the world is about 300 yards north of Texas.
01:05:53.000 What do you think about that?
01:05:54.000 Do you think that casinos should be everywhere?
01:05:56.000 And what do you think about, like, the argument that.
01:05:59.000 If you're promoting gambling and you have these casinos, you're going to ruin people's lives because you're going to give them easy access to something that they're addicted to.
01:06:06.000 They've already got access with fucking DraftKings.
01:06:09.000 You know, you can gamble from anywhere.
01:06:12.000 But, you know, they can still go to somewhere else and do it.
01:06:16.000 You know, they go right across the border, go to Louisiana, go to, or fly into Vegas for $79.
01:06:22.000 Right.
01:06:22.000 But there's an argument that you don't want it in your state.
01:06:25.000 There's an argument that, like, if you really care about the people in your state, you would probably make it more difficult to go to these casinos.
01:06:31.000 We have horse racing here, right?
01:06:33.000 Do we?
01:06:33.000 Yeah.
01:06:34.000 You can gamble on that.
01:06:35.000 Not much, but it's, they moved Riedosa down to Texas, the races that were in Riedosa, New Mexico or New America.
01:06:42.000 I remember when I was playing pool in New York, the real gambling junkies would start their day at off track betting.
01:06:49.000 They would go and gamble on horse races, and then they would come over to the pool hall later in the afternoon.
01:06:55.000 And lose the rest of it.
01:06:56.000 Yeah, or have stories about how they lost.
01:07:01.000 That's a wild group of folks that you were hanging out with in the New York playing pool, wasn't it?
01:07:07.000 Oh, yeah.
01:07:08.000 Homeless people, junkies, pool hustlers.
01:07:12.000 Like some of the wildest people I've ever met in my life.
01:07:15.000 It was really fun.
01:07:16.000 There was this one place that I used to go to in New York City.
01:07:18.000 It was called Chelsea Billiards.
01:07:20.000 And it was a 24 hour place.
01:07:22.000 And there's regularly, you have guys that were sleeping under tables.
01:07:27.000 While it was open?
01:07:28.000 Yeah, because it was open 24 hours.
01:07:30.000 So at nighttime, and they didn't get games, they would just crawl under a table and go to sleep.
01:07:34.000 Because there's a whole downstairs area that was rarely used unless it was really packed.
01:07:40.000 But it was a real pool hall.
01:07:42.000 A real 24 hour pool hall.
01:07:44.000 I met so many degenerates there.
01:07:46.000 There's a great book about that place.
01:07:48.000 There's a great book called Playing Off the Rail by this guy, David McCumber.
01:07:54.000 He was Hunter S. Thompson's editor when Hunter S. Thompson was, I think he was working for a newspaper in the Pacific Northwest for a while.
01:08:01.000 McCumber's a very, very interesting guy, great writer.
01:08:04.000 And he took my friend, Tony Anagoni, who was a world class professional pool player, and they traveled around the country gambling and wrote this book.
01:08:13.000 It's a great book.
01:08:14.000 Really, like, really accurate, honest book.
01:08:16.000 Playing Off the Rail?
01:08:18.000 It's called Playing Off the Rail, is the name of the book.
01:08:21.000 Okay.
01:08:22.000 And the guy Tony, who was a friend of mine, I did commentary with him on a pool match once in California back in the 90s and hung out with him a bunch of times, played pool with him.
01:08:33.000 And then one day I got a call from a friend of mine that told me he jumped off the bridge.
01:08:38.000 No shit.
01:08:39.000 He was 17 when he did that.
01:08:40.000 He was 17.
01:08:42.000 He was stricken with road fever.
01:08:45.000 No, no, 22 years later, he got the chance.
01:08:48.000 So when he was 17, he tried to do it.
01:08:51.000 So, 22 years later, he got the chance to follow that dream not as a player, but as a steakhorse, financial backer for Tony Antigone, a non smoking, macrobiotic eating, Renaissance pool hustler, student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green felt poetry of the dead stroke.
01:09:09.000 Tony was a brilliant guy, like an incredible pool player.
01:09:13.000 And again, didn't smoke, didn't drink.
01:09:16.000 He would play for like 24 hours and would only drink water.
01:09:20.000 He played these like long gambling matches with like high end.
01:09:24.000 He was like a world champion caliber pool player.
01:09:24.000 Pool players.
01:09:27.000 But he jumped off the bridge, man.
01:09:31.000 No shit.
01:09:32.000 Yeah.
01:09:32.000 I don't know what was going on.
01:09:33.000 You know, I wasn't close with him at the time.
01:09:36.000 I hadn't seen him in a few years.
01:09:37.000 You know, he was living in San Francisco.
01:09:40.000 I was living in L.A.
01:09:42.000 And then somebody called me.
01:09:48.000 It's such a scary thing when you don't know that a guy would do that.
01:09:52.000 And then they do it.
01:09:53.000 And you're like, You're always like, what could I have done?
01:09:56.000 Could I have said something?
01:09:57.000 You know, sometimes someone will call you and say something and it picks you up.
01:10:01.000 Joey Diaz will do that all the time.
01:10:03.000 He just calls you up and tells you he loves you.
01:10:05.000 Yeah, he does that to me.
01:10:06.000 He's the best.
01:10:07.000 And I do it to him too.
01:10:08.000 It's like, it feels good.
01:10:09.000 It's like you check in.
01:10:11.000 You check in with your friends.
01:10:13.000 And sometimes when your friend's going through it and you don't know the extent of it, like a lot of men are stoic about that shit.
01:10:18.000 They don't tell you how bad they're suffering, they don't tell you what's going on.
01:10:23.000 You don't know until it's over.
01:10:24.000 And then you're always like, what could I have said?
01:10:27.000 Could I have done something?
01:10:28.000 Should I have told other people?
01:10:29.000 What could I have done?
01:10:30.000 Yeah.
01:10:31.000 Like Brody.
01:10:32.000 Brody was a rough one.
01:10:34.000 Brody was a rough one.
01:10:35.000 I had no idea.
01:10:37.000 You know, I knew Brody was struggling.
01:10:38.000 I never thought he'd take his own life.
01:10:40.000 I thought he was just like, he just struggled, you know, like to keep it together.
01:10:45.000 But he would get on stage and he'd be brilliant.
01:10:47.000 And I was like, this guy's clearly like a great comic, hilarious guy, awesome, awesome guy to be around.
01:10:52.000 Everybody loved hanging around with him.
01:10:54.000 It's like, he'll be fine.
01:10:56.000 I had no idea.
01:10:57.000 And then all of a sudden, you get that call.
01:10:59.000 You're like, Brody took his own life.
01:11:00.000 You're like, what?
01:11:03.000 No.
01:11:04.000 You know, like, you're like, what?
01:11:06.000 You can't even believe it.
01:11:07.000 You don't believe it's real.
01:11:08.000 It's like, how?
01:11:09.000 Would it say it again?
01:11:11.000 I don't believe it's real.
01:11:13.000 Well, if anybody ever says that I killed myself, I didn't I Am not that kind of person you go find out Joe who killed me.
01:11:23.000 I will find out.
01:11:24.000 Yeah, I won't believe it.
01:11:26.000 Yeah, I knew you would I will.
01:11:29.000 Oh, that's what I was gonna tell you that I went to that trip in Switzerland and And then we were taking a ride in a car for two and a half hours to from Zermatt to Interlaken and I had this driver from England Andrew, and he had married a girl from Switzerland and moved there 12 years ago and and when I was in in Paris, I really was expecting to get some Anti-American sentiment,
01:11:58.000 because they don't really like us that much anyway, but I really didn't feel it and I'm like, oh well, maybe I'm building this up more than it is, but in Switzerland and and also in Northern Italy, I felt like I'm getting a cold shoulder And in these places, and I asked him about it.
01:12:18.000 I said, is this in my head?
01:12:21.000 He goes, mate, if you want to know the truth, they don't like your fucking war.
01:12:28.000 They don't like your war.
01:12:30.000 Those guys can hit everybody but you and you're slinging missiles and then they also don't like the tariffs.
01:12:37.000 If you're doing things over there to fuck you up, they don't care.
01:12:40.000 But if it fucks us up, yeah, we care.
01:12:43.000 I'm like, well, I didn't have anything to do with it.
01:12:47.000 But that war is sitting pretty, pretty nasty with just about everybody, I think.
01:12:52.000 Everybody here, too.
01:12:54.000 There's very few people here that think it's a good idea.
01:12:57.000 The only people that I've heard that I think are very intelligent people that think it's a good idea, one of them was Palmer Lucky.
01:13:05.000 Palmer Lucky's a tech guy, a very, very smart guy.
01:13:09.000 And one of the things that he was on a podcast and he was explaining was that Iran had ramped up its missile production above and beyond.
01:13:20.000 And they were like actively accelerating their missile program.
01:13:24.000 And if they did acquire a nuke, it would have been a real problem because they have an insane reserve of missiles.
01:13:31.000 He was saying if we continue to allow them to ramp that up, and obviously, the other thing people have said is the timing was poor, and that really, if the United States was going to attack Iran, they should have attacked Iran when they had the protests.
01:13:31.000 This is what he was saying.
01:13:46.000 When they had people in the streets and they were revolting against the government and the government was executing civilians, that's the time.
01:13:52.000 And if they did it then, I bet the whole world would be with them.
01:13:55.000 And I bet the people probably would be with them.
01:13:56.000 The people of Iran would be with them.
01:13:58.000 Who knows what the fuck would have happened?
01:13:59.000 It would have been a different thing.
01:14:01.000 But the timing was way off.
01:14:04.000 And his position is also interesting because he makes weapons, right?
01:14:11.000 He makes drones.
01:14:12.000 He makes like super sophisticated military technology.
01:14:16.000 But he does it because he thinks it's well, also, it's his business.
01:14:20.000 But he does it, his rationale is that it's important to have a very strong defense and that he's a patriot.
01:14:26.000 That's his position.
01:14:28.000 And his position is that this government is a dangerous government and they were.
01:14:33.000 Actively trying to ramp up their missile program.
01:14:36.000 Again, you have to take it from perspective that he's also a weapons man.
01:14:39.000 Right.
01:14:39.000 He's also a.
01:14:41.000 He is a brilliant guy.
01:14:42.000 Yeah, I've seen.
01:14:43.000 And it's not like the Iranian government's really cool and we're misrepresenting them.
01:14:48.000 They're fucking executing people for protesting against the government.
01:14:51.000 They're doing that in the street.
01:14:53.000 They run their government, they run their country with an iron fist.
01:14:56.000 It's scary.
01:14:57.000 They definitely sponsor terrorism.
01:14:59.000 They definitely do.
01:15:00.000 But also, they've been attacked, they've been overthrown.
01:15:05.000 We installed their government.
01:15:06.000 Yeah.
01:15:07.000 You know, like we monkeyed with Iran in the 70s or the 50s, whatever it was, when you see those photographs of it, like it was very Western.
01:15:15.000 Like they had a democracy.
01:15:16.000 Fuck yeah, it looked nice over there.
01:15:18.000 Yeah, we fucked it all up.
01:15:20.000 It was a big part of us fucking it all up.
01:15:22.000 And I bet a lot of it had to do with oil.
01:15:24.000 I bet it did.
01:15:26.000 I bet it did.
01:15:27.000 It's so spooky.
01:15:28.000 The kind of shit that we've been doing and they've been doing and all these governments have been doing all around the world, monkeying with other people's fucking countries.
01:15:38.000 It's like Jesus Christ.
01:15:39.000 Everybody's out there playing Russian roulette.
01:15:41.000 Like, what the fuck are you doing?
01:15:42.000 Yeah.
01:15:43.000 And, you know, Israel's right in the middle of all that missile slinging, also.
01:15:49.000 But, boy, they don't like it.
01:15:50.000 They don't like it.
01:15:51.000 And I don't think they understood that the only thing that keeping Iran from bombing other people was us.
01:15:58.000 So when we started bombing them, they're like, what the fuck?
01:16:01.000 Yeah.
01:16:02.000 I'm going to start shooting some stuff out to Bahrain and Qatar.
01:16:07.000 That's the other thing, is all the other Gulf states that support.
01:16:11.000 The attack in Iran.
01:16:12.000 That's kind of nuts.
01:16:13.000 There's all the, you know, all those other countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar and all that, they support it.
01:16:19.000 Like, they don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
01:16:22.000 They don't want Iran to have that kind of power.
01:16:25.000 But most people in America are like, this was the whole reason why one of the things that people loved about Trump was no more bullshit wars.
01:16:34.000 No more wars.
01:16:34.000 Yeah.
01:16:36.000 No more unnecessary wars.
01:16:37.000 That was the one thing I couldn't argue with.
01:16:39.000 Yeah.
01:16:39.000 You know, like, okay, well, yeah, we don't need to be in a war.
01:16:42.000 Yeah, and that's what we hoped.
01:16:44.000 You know, But it seems like we're in one.
01:16:46.000 Seems like it.
01:16:47.000 They won't call it that, but that's what it seems like to me.
01:16:50.000 What are they calling it?
01:16:50.000 A conflict?
01:16:51.000 Yeah, a conflict, military conflict.
01:16:53.000 Same as Vietnam.
01:16:54.000 Jesus Christ.
01:16:55.000 Yeah.
01:16:57.000 It's like that was a good idea.
01:16:58.000 I looked up something crazy last night.
01:17:00.000 I just, I think I asked Grok or one of the things, like how many.
01:17:03.000 Could you talk just a little louder?
01:17:04.000 How many years has the United States been in conflicts?
01:17:04.000 Sure.
01:17:08.000 I think just like in general, total.
01:17:11.000 And it said that like only from the years from 1891 to 1897.
01:17:17.000 Were we not in a conflict?
01:17:19.000 And since World War II, we've been in some sort of something every year.
01:17:24.000 Yeah.
01:17:25.000 Every single year since whatever, 45.
01:17:26.000 Not a thing like Switzerland.
01:17:29.000 We're in all of them.
01:17:31.000 All of them.
01:17:33.000 And I think it's a lot of it is just exactly what you were talking about the big machine that is defense.
01:17:42.000 It's a huge machine.
01:17:43.000 The budget is insane, the amount of money is insane.
01:17:45.000 And they want to keep making that money.
01:17:47.000 That's why we don't have our high speed rails.
01:17:50.000 Also, they try to do that in California.
01:17:52.000 It seems like people stole the money.
01:17:54.000 I don't know what the fuck they did there.
01:17:55.000 You know how much they spent on the high speed rail in California?
01:17:59.000 It's insane.
01:18:00.000 It's like they haven't even laid to tracks yet.
01:18:02.000 They've spent billions.
01:18:03.000 They're way over budget.
01:18:04.000 It's going to take forever.
01:18:05.000 And even then, there's a part that you have to take a bus.
01:18:09.000 You get to it.
01:18:10.000 Yeah.
01:18:11.000 Who was explaining that to us?
01:18:12.000 It's not a high speed bus either, a regular bus.
01:18:14.000 No, it's a regular bus.
01:18:15.000 Regular bus.
01:18:16.000 You take the high speed, it goes to a very short distance.
01:18:19.000 You get off, you get on a bus, and you go from like Bakersfield to LA on a bus.
01:18:25.000 And they spent billions, billions of dollars in there.
01:18:29.000 I figure out the end of it.
01:18:31.000 So you can take a bus where you're going.
01:18:32.000 It's so stupid.
01:18:33.000 And then they had Gavin Newsom posed in front of trains the other day, did a press conference talking about how they're moving forward with the high-speed rail.
01:18:41.000 Bitch, that thing ain't ever going to work.
01:18:44.000 It's just a grift.
01:18:45.000 They're just stealing money.
01:18:50.000 Like those goddamn condors.
01:18:52.000 What about the condors?
01:18:54.000 I don't think they're real.
01:18:55.000 What do you mean?
01:18:56.000 I just don't think they're real.
01:18:57.000 I don't think there's a shortage of them.
01:18:59.000 I don't.
01:19:00.000 I think we just got the right amount of condors, and it's nature's way of taking care of itself.
01:19:05.000 It's an ugly bird.
01:19:06.000 So, do you think that when people were saying that the condors were endangered, do you think that there's a grift attached to that?
01:19:13.000 That's what I think.
01:19:14.000 What would be the grift?
01:19:15.000 The grift is give us money so we can save these condors.
01:19:19.000 And then, boom, you got money.
01:19:20.000 And are you saving condors with it?
01:19:22.000 Well, we don't know.
01:19:24.000 Are you in a position that condors should be allowed to go extinct?
01:19:27.000 Should they be allowed to go extinct?
01:19:27.000 What?
01:19:29.000 If they want to.
01:19:32.000 Leave it up to the condors.
01:19:33.000 If they don't want to fuck anymore, quit fucking.
01:19:36.000 One of the things that they've said was that a lot of them were dying from lead poisoning.
01:19:40.000 From bullets, from hunters.
01:19:43.000 And so they made the hunters switch over to copper bullets.
01:19:46.000 Do you know that?
01:19:47.000 And that doesn't.
01:19:49.000 California, you have to have copper bullets now.
01:19:52.000 In your shotgun?
01:19:53.000 Yeah, and in rifles too.
01:19:55.000 Like if you shoot an elk with a rifle in California, you have to have a copper bullet.
01:20:00.000 Yeah, and I think.
01:20:00.000 No shit.
01:20:02.000 Do you use copper bullets anyway?
01:20:04.000 No, I don't.
01:20:05.000 I don't really hunt with a rifle.
01:20:07.000 Oh, you're just a bow guy, right?
01:20:08.000 Yeah, but.
01:20:11.000 It's effective.
01:20:12.000 They work.
01:20:12.000 I've killed an elk with a copper bullet before.
01:20:15.000 It does work.
01:20:17.000 I shot an elk in California with a rifle.
01:20:19.000 But it's weird because I don't know if that's really what's killing the condors.
01:20:24.000 Does that really.
01:20:24.000 I don't know.
01:20:25.000 How many birds die from lead poisoning from bullets?
01:20:28.000 That seems kind of.
01:20:29.000 They fly awfully high.
01:20:31.000 How many hunters are losing animals that there's that many bullets that are just laying around that birds are eating?
01:20:36.000 I don't know.
01:20:37.000 I don't think that's right.
01:20:39.000 That seems like a weird connection.
01:20:42.000 Like, see, if a bird made a habit of eating lead, yeah, that'd be fucking terrible for you.
01:20:47.000 But is that really affecting the population?
01:20:49.000 There's that much lead out there?
01:20:50.000 I wouldn't think so.
01:20:52.000 It sounds kooky.
01:20:53.000 Yeah.
01:20:54.000 But I don't know.
01:20:55.000 I don't either.
01:20:55.000 You know, but there's always these weird regulations they put down on things to protect wildlife, it gets super squirrely.
01:21:09.000 Is there any data that shows that animals were dying from lead poisoning for bullets?
01:21:17.000 I wonder why they would make.
01:21:19.000 Because California just passed some crazy law where they made 70% of all tires illegal.
01:21:27.000 What?
01:21:28.000 I know.
01:21:29.000 70% of the tires that are being sold in California will now be illegal.
01:21:34.000 Because of what?
01:21:35.000 Some crazy new regulations about what kind of tires you're allowed to have.
01:21:40.000 What they're made out of?
01:21:41.000 How they're made, their construction method, the quality of them, blah, blah, blah, how efficient they are, whatever it is.
01:21:49.000 70%.
01:21:51.000 What are they going to use for tires?
01:21:53.000 Well, they're just going to be able to sell 30% of the tires.
01:21:57.000 They're going to have to sell more of those tires.
01:21:59.000 But it's going to probably cost the consumer a lot more money.
01:22:02.000 It's probably going to fuck up the manufacturers, fuck up their businesses.
01:22:06.000 And it's some regulation that's supposed to work with it, it's supposed to save gas somehow.
01:22:14.000 The more efficient tires over time will save millions of gallons of gas.
01:22:18.000 Like, stay the fuck out of people's business, you cunts.
01:22:21.000 California has approved a new replacement tire efficiency program, not a ban on tires you already own.
01:22:27.000 Right, but it bans the tires you can sell.
01:22:30.000 This is a weird way to frame it.
01:22:32.000 It regulates.
01:22:33.000 Your tires are going to wear out, and then you can replace them with these.
01:22:36.000 It regulates which new replacement tires may be sold in California for pasture vehicles.
01:22:41.000 What changes?
01:22:42.000 California Energy Commission unanimously adopted the rule on August 17, 2026.
01:22:47.000 Its purpose is to ensure replacement tires are, on average, at least as energy efficient as original equipment tires fitted to new vehicles.
01:22:56.000 The key technical measure is rolling resistance.
01:22:59.000 Lower rolling resistance generally means less energy is needed to keep the tire rolling, which can improve gas mileage or EV range.
01:23:08.000 So it's basically like you can't buy cheap tires.
01:23:11.000 You have to buy the same kind of tires that your car came with.
01:23:16.000 Well, so they're really kind of putting a ban on shitty tires.
01:23:18.000 Are there people out there just making shitty tires and they're trying to get rid of them?
01:23:22.000 Well, they're probably making tires that are less expensive and still pretty good.
01:23:26.000 Like if you're driving a Camry, do you really need original equipment tires?
01:23:30.000 Your car sucks.
01:23:31.000 Your car has.
01:23:32.000 Oh, no, I would be looking for the cheapest tire I could put on that tire just to get to the next payday.
01:23:37.000 Exactly.
01:23:37.000 So if you're broke and you're different, the difference is like a $79 tire or a $59 tire, and it's basically the same to you.
01:23:45.000 Yeah.
01:23:46.000 Yeah.
01:23:46.000 Just put them on the camera.
01:23:47.000 And now all of a sudden, these tire shops can't sell them anymore.
01:23:47.000 Yeah.
01:23:52.000 What?
01:23:53.000 So what if you have inventory?
01:23:55.000 Do you have to get rid of your inventory?
01:23:57.000 Do I have to dump all my.
01:23:58.000 What if you're a guy, like he works at Tires RS, and you said, you know, it'd be cool.
01:24:04.000 If I could ensure that I had every fucking tire for 90% of the cars right away, I'll stack them, I'll stock them here, and that way I'll get a whole ton of business.
01:24:14.000 We have your tires.
01:24:15.000 Right.
01:24:15.000 And then all of a sudden, you got to get rid of all those tires?
01:24:17.000 We ain't got your tire no more.
01:24:19.000 That's crazy.
01:24:21.000 Seems like there'd be a lot of other things to worry about.
01:24:23.000 Well, I have my buddy Matt who was at the club last night.
01:24:26.000 His house burnt down in the Pacific Palisades fire.
01:24:28.000 And he's like, the regulations you're going through to try to rebuild your house are fucking insane.
01:24:35.000 He's like, we're not even close to starting construction.
01:24:38.000 And he's got money.
01:24:39.000 And he, you know, it was like he could just start construction.
01:24:42.000 Are they just going to change the way they build houses there to make them less fireproof?
01:24:46.000 I don't know what they're doing, man.
01:24:47.000 They're just making it, the regulations are insane.
01:24:51.000 It's just like there's so much red tape before you can begin construction again.
01:24:55.000 Whereas in Texas, if your house burnt down, you go, oh, here's the plans for the new house.
01:24:59.000 They go, oh, it looks good.
01:25:00.000 It's up to code.
01:25:01.000 Good luck.
01:25:02.000 Build your fucking house.
01:25:03.000 And you just build your house.
01:25:04.000 That's it.
01:25:05.000 You're on that California Coastal Commission, bro.
01:25:05.000 Right.
01:25:09.000 They are brutal.
01:25:09.000 Yeah.
01:25:11.000 Those people are brutal.
01:25:12.000 Yeah, I'm glad I'm out of the real estate fucking.
01:25:17.000 The California real estate.
01:25:18.000 California, yeah.
01:25:19.000 Well, I'm glad I got out when I did.
01:25:21.000 A lot of people are trying to get out now.
01:25:22.000 Yeah.
01:25:23.000 I know a bunch of friends that are trying to get out and they can't sell their house.
01:25:26.000 But I got to tell you, I still love Southern California, man.
01:25:29.000 I love to go out there and play golf and hang out with my, you know, I still know a lot of people down there.
01:25:34.000 Southern California is beautiful.
01:25:36.000 Oh, it's beautiful.
01:25:37.000 That fucking climate is just untouchable anywhere in the world.
01:25:41.000 Which is amazing that they fucked it up so bad that people want to move from there.
01:25:44.000 Yeah.
01:25:45.000 Because it's awesome.
01:25:46.000 It's not just awesome, it's like the variety of environments you can get to within two hours.
01:25:52.000 It's crazy.
01:25:53.000 Remember you were going to buy that big ranch out in Montecito or Santa Barbara or somewhere?
01:25:59.000 I didn't even know you had money then.
01:25:59.000 Yeah.
01:26:00.000 Whenever you first told me that, I was like, oh, yeah.
01:26:04.000 You have no idea what it costs to buy a fucking piece of property.
01:26:04.000 All right.
01:26:08.000 A podcast and a couple of fucking shows.
01:26:08.000 And what do you got?
01:26:11.000 First time I did your podcast, I didn't even know what it was.
01:26:14.000 I don't know.
01:26:14.000 You'd ask me to do it.
01:26:15.000 I said, I got to come do your podcast.
01:26:18.000 And I had no idea.
01:26:20.000 It was fucking millions of people and it sold books and tickets.
01:26:24.000 And I'm like, God damn, Joe, what do you got going on over here?
01:26:27.000 Well, it was, you know, back then it was like kind of under the radar.
01:26:32.000 People didn't know what podcasts was.
01:26:34.000 But still, millions of people were listening to them.
01:26:36.000 How many subscribers do you have now?
01:26:39.000 Do you even know?
01:26:40.000 I think on YouTube, what do we have?
01:26:42.000 20 something?
01:26:43.000 Yeah, we're over 20, I think.
01:26:45.000 20 million on YouTube and same on Spotify.
01:26:48.000 It's like 20 million subscribers.
01:26:50.000 Fuck.
01:26:50.000 Yeah, that's a lot of people.
01:26:53.000 Yeah, that's I was talking to Angela about it this morning.
01:27:01.000 She said, What are you doing?
01:27:03.000 I'm doing Joe's podcast.
01:27:04.000 I'm going to go talk to 20 million people, and I really don't have anything to say.
01:27:09.000 So she goes, Joe will lead you through it.
01:27:13.000 I'm like, I know, but it's still 20 million fucking people.
01:27:13.000 You'll be fine.
01:27:16.000 You can't think about it.
01:27:17.000 Yeah, I know.
01:27:18.000 When you think about it, it'll fuck your head up.
01:27:19.000 I just started thinking about it.
01:27:20.000 Fuck me up.
01:27:21.000 Don't do it.
01:27:22.000 20 million.
01:27:23.000 Do I know any of them?
01:27:24.000 I know a lot of them.
01:27:25.000 Listen, they're just folks like you and me.
01:27:27.000 That's why it works.
01:27:28.000 Yeah.
01:27:29.000 You know?
01:27:30.000 We just have lucky lives.
01:27:33.000 We have lucky lives, Joe.
01:27:35.000 Very lucky lives.
01:27:36.000 Lucky lives.
01:27:37.000 That's the best way to put it.
01:27:38.000 I'm going to do, you know, next week I'm celebrating 40 years in stand up comedy.
01:27:45.000 September 17th, 1986 is when I first started telling jokes.
01:27:45.000 That's amazing.
01:27:51.000 Are you doing a set that night?
01:27:52.000 I am.
01:27:53.000 I got a show in Dallas that night.
01:27:56.000 Oh, nice.
01:27:58.000 And I'm leaving this weekend for the first time.
01:28:00.000 I've been off for four months.
01:28:01.000 So I'm going to.
01:28:03.000 Florida, I think Daytona, and I don't know.
01:28:08.000 I always love to stand up in Dallas.
01:28:10.000 Dallas is a fun city.
01:28:11.000 Yeah, it is.
01:28:12.000 That's fun.
01:28:13.000 I always loved Dallas.
01:28:15.000 I always loved Houston, and I always loved Dallas.
01:28:18.000 Yeah, I love Houston too.
01:28:20.000 I just have that one big play out in Katy, that big, gigantic room out there.
01:28:24.000 I don't even go into Houston anymore.
01:28:26.000 I just go to Katy.
01:28:27.000 That's as far as I go.
01:28:28.000 What is the place?
01:28:29.000 Oh, I don't know.
01:28:30.000 It's that 6,000-seater.
01:28:31.000 You played it.
01:28:32.000 I had that big, old, huge thing.
01:28:33.000 They can block parts of it.
01:28:34.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:28:35.000 I did that spot.
01:28:36.000 Big fucking.
01:28:38.000 I think they changed the name of it every two years, you know, put a new sponsor on it.
01:28:41.000 It was a Toyota something.
01:28:42.000 Yeah, they always do stuff like that, right?
01:28:44.000 That's always weird.
01:28:44.000 Yeah.
01:28:45.000 It's always a bank or some corporation or something.
01:28:48.000 I could never find a room in that town that I liked because there was the really nice one was too small and they had this big concrete vomitorium downtown that used to be a rock house.
01:28:59.000 So you could just wash vomit out of it with a fucking hose.
01:29:03.000 Had a lady fall out of the fucking balcony 26 feet, landed on another lady, flattened a fucking metal chair.
01:29:11.000 Both of them left.
01:29:11.000 Oh.
01:29:12.000 And I thought a light fell from the sky.
01:29:14.000 I didn't know.
01:29:15.000 I was on stage.
01:29:16.000 And people were going, people screaming.
01:29:19.000 I'm like, fuck, fuck.
01:29:21.000 And turned the lights on.
01:29:23.000 And we got fucking ambulance, fucking stretchers coming out.
01:29:26.000 They both left on fucking stretchers.
01:29:28.000 Oh, my God.
01:29:30.000 And a big lady, two buck 80, fucking flattened another woman and her chair.
01:29:35.000 Then the next show, the same night, guy has a heart attack and dies.
01:29:41.000 And I'm like, is this an Indian burial ground or some shit?
01:29:44.000 Jesus Christ.
01:29:47.000 What the fuck?
01:29:49.000 And that was my only play there.
01:29:51.000 And then they opened that big building out in Katy.
01:29:53.000 I'm like, okay, this is mine, boys.
01:29:56.000 That place is haunted.
01:29:57.000 Fuck, yeah.
01:29:57.000 I'm not going back.
01:29:58.000 Have you ever talked to anybody else that had weird things happen in that place?
01:30:02.000 I really hadn't.
01:30:04.000 Two nights or two shows.
01:30:05.000 Two shows in one night.
01:30:06.000 Nuts.
01:30:07.000 Yeah.
01:30:07.000 And I always thought, man, these balconies are awfully fucking steep because you could go up there and sit in it and go, how do people, what keeps them from falling over?
01:30:17.000 Not a goddamn thing.
01:30:17.000 Nothing.
01:30:19.000 A woman just lost her balance and went, whew, right over the fucking edge.
01:30:24.000 Whenever I see those penthouses in Miami, I think of that.
01:30:27.000 I was watching some YouTube video where there is one of the.
01:30:30.000 I like watching those real estate shows where guys are like, look at this incredible apartment.
01:30:34.000 Right.
01:30:34.000 Look at the amenities.
01:30:35.000 I don't know why.
01:30:36.000 I'm a moron.
01:30:37.000 I like watching.
01:30:38.000 I like real estate shit.
01:30:39.000 I like watching condos in places I'll never buy a condo.
01:30:42.000 So he's at this crazy condo that's a penthouse in Miami.
01:30:47.000 It's like $70 million and it's got this glass wall that's like titty high and then down like 70 flights.
01:30:57.000 It's just a glass wall.
01:30:59.000 And then look over the side.
01:31:00.000 Like, I can't swing that.
01:31:02.000 I don't like that feeling.
01:31:05.000 I don't like it worse if I have my phone in my hand because I can fall off.
01:31:09.000 That's fine, but I can't let that phone go.
01:31:11.000 What if the phone hits somebody in the head and kills them?
01:31:13.000 That'd be on you, wouldn't it?
01:31:14.000 It would be on you.
01:31:15.000 It'd be easy to trace that motherfucker right on back to where it came from.
01:31:18.000 It'd be hard.
01:31:19.000 It's just like the balcony thing.
01:31:21.000 I see that in New York City, too.
01:31:22.000 Some of those apartments that have balconies, and you just look over the ledge like, that's too weird.
01:31:27.000 It's too weird that there's a place in your house where you could.
01:31:29.000 Definitely die if you take an extra step.
01:31:32.000 Right.
01:31:33.000 I would say don't live in a place where you could definitely die if you take an extra step.
01:31:38.000 Just generally, as a rule.
01:31:40.000 That's got to fuck with your anxiety, too.
01:31:42.000 Imagine getting high up there and looking down.
01:31:45.000 I've still got that penthouse, but it's only 22 floors.
01:31:48.000 Yeah, that's plenty.
01:31:48.000 That's enough.
01:31:49.000 I've been to your place.
01:31:50.000 That's enough.
01:31:51.000 That's more than enough to die.
01:31:54.000 More than enough.
01:31:54.000 I live like 600 feet in the sky.
01:31:56.000 I know you do, dude.
01:31:57.000 You live way the hell out of here.
01:31:59.000 I asked someone who lives up there, too.
01:32:00.000 I have a couple weird dreams sometimes where I. Like the building is falling over.
01:32:05.000 It's not like a crash or a big event, but like it's just weird inception, like mind bending, just falling to the ground very slowly and weirdly.
01:32:14.000 It's fucked because you can feel the sway.
01:32:16.000 I see my toilet water move all the time.
01:32:18.000 Fuck that, dude.
01:32:19.000 Get out.
01:32:19.000 Where do you live?
01:32:20.000 Don't say it.
01:32:21.000 I don't want to say it.
01:32:22.000 I can't say it.
01:32:23.000 I live downtown also.
01:32:24.000 Don't get out now.
01:32:26.000 It's fun.
01:32:26.000 Get out.
01:32:26.000 Get yourself a place in Triple Springs.
01:32:28.000 I have a really cool view.
01:32:29.000 You can't, like, the view is insane.
01:32:31.000 Oh, yeah.
01:32:32.000 Your view is sick.
01:32:33.000 Yeah, I mean, there's pros to it for sure.
01:32:35.000 Like, whenever I'm in New York City, if I know somebody that has an apartment, my friend's dad had an apartment in New York City, and he had like this corner building, like this building where his apartment had glass on one side, glass on the other side.
01:32:48.000 It was just all city, and it was in the middle of everything.
01:32:52.000 And I was like, this is the view.
01:32:54.000 Like, a lot of people have the view of like the city in the distance, but the city right on top of you.
01:32:58.000 And he was like, you know, like 30th floor or something like that.
01:33:01.000 And there's all these other buildings.
01:33:02.000 It's like, Like a sci fi movie.
01:33:04.000 You know, it's like, it's so exciting.
01:33:07.000 Just the feeling of all these lit windows and all these buildings around you and looking down, seeing the cars and traffic.
01:33:13.000 All the fucking stories, man.
01:33:15.000 Yeah.
01:33:15.000 Everybody has, you know.
01:33:17.000 And everybody's like watching everybody else.
01:33:18.000 Everybody's got fucking binoculars.
01:33:20.000 They're looking into other people's windows and seeing if people are fucking.
01:33:23.000 I've got them.
01:33:25.000 I got a big old fucking tripod.
01:33:29.000 I ain't seen titty one with it.
01:33:31.000 I don't know how much I spent on that goddamn thing.
01:33:34.000 I ain't seen one tit.
01:33:36.000 The New York City thing, I kind of get, but I don't.
01:33:39.000 I mean, I think I get it.
01:33:42.000 If I was a single guy and I was younger, I kind of get it.
01:33:46.000 But someone like, to me, I'm just being on top of people like that is not good for you.
01:33:52.000 I don't think it's good for you to be smushed in with so many people, like to feel all their vibe around you all the time.
01:33:57.000 Yeah, I love to go there.
01:33:58.000 I used to take my mother.
01:33:59.000 My mother used to love to go to fucking theater there.
01:34:03.000 So when mother was alive, I would take her to New York.
01:34:06.000 And we went to see a fan of the opera.
01:34:08.000 And like halfway through it, I leaned over to my mother and said, I didn't realize it was an opera.
01:34:13.000 Well, it's in the name.
01:34:15.000 I'm like, I know, but I still didn't know it was going to be an opera.
01:34:17.000 Oh, you thought it was going to be like the movie?
01:34:19.000 Play a thing, yeah.
01:34:20.000 I didn't know it was going to be just a straight up fucking opera.
01:34:22.000 I wouldn't have gone, but we also went to see uh, Book of Mormon with the original cast, and that was so fucking funny, man.
01:34:30.000 Book of Mormon's amazing.
01:34:31.000 God, what a great fucking South Park boys, South America.
01:34:35.000 Didn't they change the name of their show to South America for Trump?
01:34:38.000 Yeah, I think it's an episode.
01:34:40.000 No, it's the next year, that's what it's gonna be called.
01:34:43.000 Yep, that is the best joke.
01:34:46.000 I laughed out loud.
01:34:47.000 I read it on my phone by myself at the house and laughed out loud.
01:34:51.000 That is fucking rich.
01:34:53.000 Oh, it's so silly.
01:34:54.000 You can't fuck with those guys.
01:34:56.000 They're funny and they don't give a shit.
01:34:58.000 And they're super rich.
01:34:59.000 Yeah, super fucking rich.
01:35:01.000 The website has South America now.
01:35:08.000 Fucking amazing.
01:35:10.000 I couldn't live without South Park.
01:35:12.000 That means we'll get a new theme song.
01:35:13.000 They're like the only thing that Comedy Central didn't fuck up.
01:35:17.000 They were two things for Comedy Central.
01:35:20.000 They had so much power with the success of that show.
01:35:23.000 I guess they don't fuck with us.
01:35:25.000 I remember when the first tape was going around, the VHS tape.
01:35:28.000 Jesus.
01:35:29.000 Yeah.
01:35:29.000 What would Brian Boitano do?
01:35:31.000 Remember that?
01:35:32.000 What would Brian Boitano do if he were here right now?
01:35:35.000 He'd make a plan and follow through.
01:35:38.000 That's back before the internet.
01:35:40.000 That's what's really crazy.
01:35:41.000 South Park was around before the internet was everywhere.
01:35:44.000 So this was probably like 95, right?
01:35:49.000 Yeah, I think so.
01:35:50.000 When did the first.
01:35:51.000 It debuted on Comedy Central in 99, I think, or 96.
01:35:54.000 But there was a tape that they had made that was going around.
01:35:57.000 Yep.
01:35:57.000 There's the spirit of Christmas, and there's something that thinks that's Jesus for Santa's.
01:36:01.000 Yeah.
01:36:01.000 Yeah, Jesus.
01:36:02.000 It was a Christmas card or something.
01:36:04.000 Yeah.
01:36:05.000 What year was that made?
01:36:07.000 Because I remember I was dating a gal who worked in an agency, and she got a copy of it.
01:36:12.000 This says 95, but something just said 92.
01:36:15.000 Hold on.
01:36:17.000 Interesting.
01:36:18.000 So it was like the internet really became a thing in people's.
01:36:21.000 First release.
01:36:22.000 Oh, that's weird.
01:36:23.000 Something was released in 92, and then something in 95.
01:36:26.000 Okay.
01:36:29.000 The first in 92, short films.
01:36:31.000 So I think.
01:36:33.000 I guess it would have been Jesus.
01:36:35.000 The earliest that I could have seen it was 95, I believe.
01:36:42.000 Jesus, the kids play some magic hat on Frosty.
01:36:46.000 I don't really remember that one, but definitely remember seeing the second one, Jesus and Santa.
01:36:51.000 So when was the internet really in everybody's house?
01:36:53.000 I got the internet for the first time in 94.
01:36:55.000 When did you get the internet?
01:36:58.000 I got CompuServe first.
01:37:02.000 Like AOL, it's like 95, 96.
01:37:04.000 What was CompuServe?
01:37:05.000 What was the difference between that?
01:37:06.000 It was like AOL.
01:37:08.000 Okay.
01:37:08.000 Like chat rooms.
01:37:09.000 I had AOL.
01:37:09.000 Yeah.
01:37:11.000 Yeah.
01:37:12.000 I still don't have the internet.
01:37:14.000 I still don't have it.
01:37:16.000 You don't have internet in your house?
01:37:17.000 This year.
01:37:18.000 This year you're going to get it?
01:37:19.000 I don't use it, but I've got it.
01:37:19.000 I do.
01:37:22.000 It's good to not use it.
01:37:23.000 You're smart about that shit.
01:37:25.000 Oh, I can't.
01:37:26.000 Yeah.
01:37:26.000 I can't.
01:37:27.000 I cannot read what people fucking say.
01:37:30.000 And then every once in a while I think I can for a second and I'm like, nah.
01:37:35.000 Yeah, just don't put it down.
01:37:36.000 Because when we were raising money, by the way, I got to tell you, and I may have already told you, but, you know, when we bought the Sherp or whatever the fuck it was, that fire truck, they used that one year later to save lives.
01:37:54.000 One year later, that same storm system hit that same riverbed, and they used that thing for days.
01:38:00.000 And they talked about it on the news.
01:38:04.000 Now they have two of them, and they said one of them was given by Joe Rogan and Ron White.
01:38:08.000 And I was made me so proud that we were able to do something that really made a fucking difference, you know?
01:38:13.000 Yeah.
01:38:14.000 No, that's really awesome.
01:38:15.000 That's really awesome we could do that.
01:38:17.000 I mean, that's a no brainer.
01:38:18.000 That's a real thing that can help people.
01:38:20.000 That's so cool.
01:38:22.000 Those things look crazy, too.
01:38:23.000 Oh, they're so fun, man.
01:38:25.000 I took it down the river and fucking you go up any bank over giant rocks.
01:38:29.000 The thing will go in it.
01:38:30.000 You can't stop it.
01:38:31.000 You just can't stop it.
01:38:33.000 Fun thing to have the shit go sideways.
01:38:35.000 That area gets hit a lot, right?
01:38:36.000 Is that like Wimberley?
01:38:37.000 Is that that area?
01:38:39.000 Well, you know, you really.
01:38:39.000 Yeah.
01:38:42.000 It was that unique storm system, but it happened fucking twice.
01:38:45.000 There, that baby is.
01:38:46.000 Yeah, I don't know if I sent this to you.
01:38:48.000 I forgot.
01:38:48.000 This is the one you guys got money for.
01:38:50.000 Wow.
01:38:51.000 That's it?
01:38:51.000 That's the one we bought, Ron.
01:38:52.000 Look at that.
01:38:53.000 That's so dope.
01:38:54.000 That's the coolest thing.
01:38:56.000 Wow, that thing's incredible.
01:38:58.000 Look at it taking all those kids.
01:38:59.000 That's so fun.
01:39:00.000 Yeah, they took that thing all the way across Greenland, right across the middle of Greenland.
01:39:05.000 It took weeks and weeks to do it, but they took it all the way across.
01:39:10.000 Just nothing stopping them.
01:39:12.000 They put gas in the tires.
01:39:15.000 And they can run it for it.
01:39:15.000 It's only got a 55 horsepower motor.
01:39:18.000 Oh, wow.
01:39:19.000 But it's all torque.
01:39:20.000 So it doesn't go very fast.
01:39:22.000 And it needs to get good gas mileage, right?
01:39:24.000 Because it needs to get into weird places.
01:39:26.000 But they can put gas in those gigantic tires.
01:39:29.000 That's insane.
01:39:31.000 So you can suck the gas out of the tire while you're driving?
01:39:33.000 Yeah.
01:39:34.000 How do you even get the gas out of the tire?
01:39:36.000 Like the tire's spinning.
01:39:37.000 I don't know how it works.
01:39:39.000 That doesn't make any sense to me.
01:39:40.000 Yeah.
01:39:41.000 I'm trying to figure out how that makes sense.
01:39:42.000 Like, how are you going to get the gas out of the tires?
01:39:44.000 It just, I don't know.
01:39:46.000 They ain't rigged up, I guess.
01:39:47.000 They got a line that goes to it.
01:39:47.000 I don't know.
01:39:49.000 But the line's spinning.
01:39:51.000 If the tire's spinning.
01:39:52.000 But also, the tires deflate completely at night.
01:39:57.000 I mean, it airs itself back up.
01:40:00.000 Whoa.
01:40:02.000 Why does it do that?
01:40:03.000 But I asked him a million questions before I bought the fucking thing.
01:40:09.000 Whoa, look at that thing.
01:40:10.000 That's nuts.
01:40:11.000 This is a video explaining the fuel system.
01:40:13.000 I don't know if I can put the headphones on.
01:40:17.000 Each wheel has its own tank.
01:40:19.000 Each wheel has its own tank.
01:40:20.000 It's weight evenly, so Sherp doesn't tilt.
01:40:23.000 Even if one tank is empty, the Sherp remains stable.
01:40:27.000 Cool fact.
01:40:28.000 Tires are self-regulating.
01:40:31.000 While driving, they adjust air pressure via exhaust gas.
01:40:34.000 No onboard compressor needed.
01:40:36.000 So go ahead, shoot one tire.
01:40:38.000 Sherp keeps rolling.
01:40:41.000 Whoa.
01:40:43.000 I guess it did not explain it.
01:40:44.000 You asked, what's up with fuel in those Sherp wheels?
01:40:47.000 Let's break it down.
01:40:49.000 If you shoot the tire, will it explode?
01:40:51.000 Will Sherp tilt if just one wheel has fuel?
01:40:54.000 Yes, the fuel is stored in the wheel hubs.
01:40:57.000 We're in the hub.
01:41:02.000 There you go.
01:41:04.000 It's in the center of it.
01:41:08.000 So you have to take them off to refuel.
01:41:11.000 That's what it is.
01:41:12.000 That makes more sense.
01:41:12.000 Okay.
01:41:13.000 That makes more sense.
01:41:14.000 Still, very genius.
01:41:16.000 Fucking cool.
01:41:17.000 Great way to store fuel.
01:41:18.000 Yeah, they're made in the Ukraine, and the guy told me we'd just take them out to the front, let the Russians shoot at it, and then bring it back.
01:41:24.000 Figure out another way to build it.
01:41:26.000 They just keep on going.
01:41:28.000 They got plenty of room to test it.
01:41:29.000 And that's all mud out there, anyway, in the Ukraine.
01:41:32.000 That's where that was all conceived and cool as shit.
01:41:38.000 What a great fucking little vehicle.
01:41:41.000 Nobody needs one, really, unless you live right up there on the river and you want to help in a flood.
01:41:46.000 Or you got a crazy ranch.
01:41:47.000 Crazy ranch.
01:41:49.000 Just change where you're plugging into.
01:41:51.000 So he can do it right.
01:41:51.000 Okay.
01:41:53.000 You don't have to take it off, you can just go right from those tanks.
01:41:56.000 Okay.
01:41:58.000 And that's how you pump fuel into your tank and drive it.
01:42:01.000 That's nuts.
01:42:04.000 Well, if you have a crazy ranch or if you're on a front line, it's probably a good vehicle to have.
01:42:09.000 That Wimberley area does get hit hard, right?
01:42:12.000 They get those flash floods.
01:42:14.000 Well, they got two of them, you know, in almost exactly a year apart, both of them right at 4th of July weekend.
01:42:21.000 But I don't know if it was supposed to be like a thousand year event and then it happened a year later.
01:42:26.000 And I'm like, well, that wasn't a thousand year event or a hundred year flood.
01:42:30.000 It was a one year flood.
01:42:32.000 But I don't know if it's a constant problem.
01:42:34.000 I mean, yeah, all those river.
01:42:38.000 If it gets a storm stuck over that, everything is granite, right?
01:42:41.000 So it all just fucking runs all over the place and feeds into the Guadalupe and then it goes nuts.
01:42:48.000 Yeah, those flood zones are nuts when you see what can happen, like how high the water can get to and how quick it can happen.
01:42:55.000 Yeah, we drove it just the other day just to see the devastation.
01:43:01.000 But that Camp Mystic is just sitting right there.
01:43:05.000 I didn't see it the first time I went down there.
01:43:08.000 And, uh, but boy, it's just right there with Camp Mystic written right in big letters right on it.
01:43:12.000 And I'm like, God damn, how could they not see that that might be a problem?
01:43:17.000 But it never had been, you know, it had to take the worst thing and the worst place and, you know, no communication out there.
01:43:24.000 And I know they blame a lot of it on somebody, Biden or somebody, but, but it really was not foreseeable, you know, from, from my perspective.
01:43:35.000 And I really did look at it.
01:43:36.000 I mean, I, I did, uh, You know, I gathered as much information as I could, and I'm like, yeah, they couldn't have done anything about that.
01:43:47.000 Just a horrible, horrible fucking thing.
01:43:50.000 But, you know, life goes on.
01:43:54.000 We all learn lessons, and, you know, I don't think that mystic camp will ever open again, which is too bad.
01:43:59.000 But it tried opening up again.
01:44:01.000 Yeah, I think too many people bucked up against it now.
01:44:05.000 It's such a gorgeous place, though, right there on the fucking river.
01:44:08.000 It was there for 100 years or something.
01:44:10.000 I mean, that's nuts.
01:44:13.000 Yeah, but.
01:44:15.000 Did you see that crazy avalanche that broke the dam in Nepal?
01:44:21.000 Yeah, I was over there when that happened.
01:44:23.000 Were you there, really?
01:44:24.000 I mean, not in Nepal, but I mean, I was overseas, and every news cycle was just nothing about that.
01:44:30.000 That was insane.
01:44:31.000 I wonder if that situation is in other places up there where there are big ice dams or whatever.
01:44:38.000 I mean, I wonder if that's going to be something that happens as those glacier caps start to melt.
01:44:44.000 And they are melting because the The rivers were running like crazy when I was in Switzerland, and they were worried about it because normally they would not be getting that much water.
01:44:55.000 But those ice caps, they had a really hot summer, and those ice caps are keeping those rivers running.
01:45:00.000 Imagine your whole city's existence is tied to whether or not you have an avalanche.
01:45:07.000 Yeah.
01:45:08.000 And you're sitting there like, please, please, no rock slides.
01:45:11.000 Yeah.
01:45:12.000 I think the rock slide is that what caused the Nepal thing?
01:45:15.000 There was an avalanche that came down and.
01:45:18.000 And fucked up the dam?
01:45:19.000 Is that what it did?
01:45:20.000 No, the avalanche came down and blocked, and that's what made the lake.
01:45:24.000 Then the glacier broke off and landed in the lake and busted that down the chute.
01:45:30.000 So there were actually two events.
01:45:32.000 The rock slide made a lake.
01:45:35.000 How long did it take for everything to happen?
01:45:38.000 Well, I mean, once it broke.
01:45:40.000 No, but it was really quick with the rock slide?
01:45:43.000 Between the rock slide and the avalanche?
01:45:44.000 I don't know what the distance was between the rock slide and the avalanche.
01:45:47.000 Fuck, man.
01:45:48.000 But it was a pretty big lake.
01:45:51.000 That water, watching the water wash over those people was insane.
01:45:55.000 That was horrible.
01:45:55.000 And the speed in which it came and the volume.
01:45:59.000 Oh, just knocking things completely down.
01:46:02.000 Saturdays and rocks.
01:46:04.000 Flowed down at speeds approaching 150 kilometers an hour, kicking off a flood that raised water levels as much as nine meters in 30 minutes.
01:46:13.000 30 minutes.
01:46:14.000 Oh, duck.
01:46:17.000 It's just the way it was like this idea people have like, oh, the water's coming.
01:46:21.000 You'd be able to run, like, ah, ah.
01:46:23.000 No.
01:46:24.000 You know, we watched that video, like, oh, you don't have a chance.
01:46:27.000 You can't go anywhere.
01:46:28.000 There's just nowhere to hide.
01:46:30.000 And the volume was a wall, just a giant, like a building size wall of water.
01:46:35.000 A lot of boulders and Logs and ice and cars and everything, and you're just going to get crushed.
01:46:43.000 It's not just water.
01:46:45.000 It's everything the water is carrying with it.
01:46:47.000 Insanely heavy shit.
01:46:49.000 Stupid, stupid fucking mayhem.
01:46:54.000 Just total mayhem.
01:46:55.000 Yeah, natural disasters are fucking crazy.
01:46:58.000 When you see all the meteor spots on Earth, all the little fucking holes in the ground that where they, you know, like this one Australia that they. didn't discover until fairly recently.
01:47:11.000 Yeah, I saw something on that.
01:47:12.000 Look at that.
01:47:13.000 Hit by an asteroid right there.
01:47:15.000 When did that happen?
01:47:15.000 Huh.
01:47:16.000 An asteroid the size of a house.
01:47:18.000 Yeah, it was one in Nevada, this crazy one in Nevada.
01:47:21.000 It's just this fucking gigantic crater.
01:47:24.000 Have you ever seen that one?
01:47:24.000 Yeah, I've seen it.
01:47:26.000 Man, how often does that happen?
01:47:26.000 Fuck.
01:47:29.000 I don't think it's happened in a long time.
01:47:31.000 And we hope it's going to be a little while before it happens again.
01:47:34.000 The time scale of Earth is so vast, and the time scale of a person is so small.
01:47:40.000 That many, many people can die, live and die, live and die, live and die, and it doesn't happen.
01:47:45.000 And we say, oh, the odds of it happening are very low.
01:47:48.000 But really, it's just random.
01:47:50.000 It can happen, and if it does, boom, no more civilization.
01:47:54.000 Well, yeah, but now we could shoot them down, right?
01:47:57.000 No.
01:47:57.000 We can't?
01:47:58.000 No.
01:47:58.000 We can't stop them?
01:47:59.000 I don't think they're ready for that yet.
01:48:01.000 No.
01:48:02.000 I don't think they're ready in any way to stop something big that's headed our way.
01:48:07.000 I don't think so.
01:48:08.000 I think they have some theories, they've never done it.
01:48:11.000 I don't know how much time, effort, andor resources have been put into making sure that if a civilization killer asteroid is coming our way, that we can all join together and launch rockets from China and Russia and everywhere else and knock that thing off course.
01:48:25.000 I don't know.
01:48:26.000 Put Elon on it.
01:48:27.000 Yeah.
01:48:28.000 He'll fix it.
01:48:29.000 He might be able to.
01:48:30.000 He might be one of the only guys that can figure out how to stop something like that.
01:48:34.000 But I don't know if they even know when those things are coming.
01:48:38.000 You know, some of them are coming from behind the sun and they don't see them until it's too late.
01:48:42.000 What do you think about it?
01:48:46.000 Limiting how much people can contribute to a political party.
01:48:54.000 I think if anybody, there should be a set amount that anybody can donate.
01:48:59.000 And if they donate one dime more than that, they're hung by the neck until dead.
01:49:05.000 That's what I think.
01:49:07.000 And keep the billionaires out of politics.
01:49:10.000 I think also you could say the same thing about corporations.
01:49:13.000 Absolutely.
01:49:14.000 Also, you could say the same thing about lobbyists.
01:49:18.000 There's a lot of influence on our politics that I think should be eliminated, and money in politics is so ingrained, it's so entangled in politics.
01:49:18.000 Absolutely.
01:49:31.000 Like the idea of removing it entirely seems ridiculous to people.
01:49:34.000 But if it didn't exist, and you said, hey, what do you think about letting corporations, you know, those ones that dump shit into rivers and pollute ecosystems and do a lot of funky shit in third world countries they're not supposed to do, what do you think about having them contribute so much money to our politics that they have incredible influence over regulations that get passed?
01:49:55.000 Absolutely.
01:49:56.000 What a great idea.
01:49:56.000 Yeah.
01:49:57.000 I wish I was one.
01:49:59.000 Nobody would say that's a good idea.
01:50:01.000 You would say, no, let's keep money out of it and make sure that all laws that get passed are for the benefit of the society and the people.
01:50:07.000 Absolutely.
01:50:08.000 Not individual corporations or individual people.
01:50:11.000 Yeah, definitely not.
01:50:13.000 And then you would go even further than that.
01:50:15.000 You'd say, well, let's make sure that the people that are doing the job are compensated fairly but are not allowed to insider trade.
01:50:25.000 Yeah, isn't that?
01:50:28.000 We're being grifted, Joe.
01:50:29.000 100%.
01:50:30.000 We're being grifted.
01:50:31.000 No ifs, ands, or buts about that.
01:50:33.000 I was listening to this story.
01:50:36.000 It was really about Chinese politics, and I don't think communism is the answer to anything.
01:50:41.000 But you don't just, it's not a, the leader is not a popularity contest.
01:50:46.000 That's somebody that's been in this business for 40 years, you know, that knows how to run a country.
01:50:50.000 It's not just, here's this guy.
01:50:52.000 We'll let this guy do it.
01:50:53.000 Everybody seems to like this guy.
01:50:55.000 You know, it's all come from the ground up, you know, and China works pretty well, I think.
01:51:02.000 You know, I don't know.
01:51:04.000 I've never been there, but.
01:51:05.000 It makes sense that people in those powerful jobs should have a lot of experience.
01:51:10.000 That, but they also can't be removed.
01:51:12.000 They have total power.
01:51:14.000 And if you say anything about the government, they will literally put you in a prison somewhere.
01:51:19.000 They'll put you in a camp somewhere.
01:51:21.000 They've removed people.
01:51:22.000 They've silenced people.
01:51:24.000 They've even made them disappear.
01:51:26.000 You can't step out of line.
01:51:28.000 And the government and the businesses work hand in glove.
01:51:32.000 That's it, period.
01:51:33.000 There's no government, no business that works without the influence of the government over there.
01:51:37.000 So they have.
01:51:39.000 Giant problems too, but they probably have better leadership in terms of like strengthening their country.
01:51:45.000 But it's terrible for freedom.
01:51:47.000 What you need is like I've heard the argument and I don't agree with it, but what you need is great leaders, right?
01:51:54.000 But what you need is like a benevolent dictator, like someone who really does care, someone who really is a good person and genuinely doesn't want for anything or need for anything and just wants to try to make their mark and make the world a better place.
01:52:06.000 Yeah.
01:52:07.000 That doesn't exist.
01:52:08.000 It doesn't.
01:52:08.000 And why not?
01:52:09.000 Why not?
01:52:10.000 I don't know because most of the people that get the job, that's not who they are.
01:52:14.000 Most of the people are either warmongers or pussyhounds.
01:52:18.000 They're power brokers.
01:52:20.000 They're people who want the feeling of being the top dog.
01:52:23.000 Those are the people that generally get to those positions.
01:52:27.000 Because the struggle is so hard to get there.
01:52:30.000 And then they're going to tear you down and attack you and pull up things from your past.
01:52:34.000 And most people don't want to go through that.
01:52:36.000 And so a lot of people that may be good leaders never want that position.
01:52:39.000 Right.
01:52:40.000 Because it's a shit job.
01:52:41.000 And it doesn't even pay well.
01:52:42.000 Yeah.
01:52:42.000 It's like it pays a half a million dollars a year, and these guys that are, which is good money for a real job, but like if you're being the president of the United States, you're around billionaires and there's all this influence.
01:52:52.000 And then they leave the job, and then they get these speaking gigs.
01:52:56.000 So they talk at a conference of bankers for a half a million bucks.
01:52:59.000 You're like, what?
01:53:00.000 Right.
01:53:00.000 What is this?
01:53:02.000 What is this shenanigans that you're involved in?
01:53:05.000 It's the way it is.
01:53:06.000 The job doesn't pay much, but the job pays a lot, you know, if you work it that way, you know.
01:53:11.000 They all leave rich.
01:53:13.000 Jimmy Carter was like the only one that, like, kind of stayed reasonable his whole life.
01:53:21.000 He never became a rich guy after he left office.
01:53:25.000 He basically, that's who he was.
01:53:28.000 He stayed the same way.
01:53:29.000 Way, I think Tallarico might be one of those guys.
01:53:32.000 Well, I would hope so.
01:53:34.000 You know, look, it's always good to assume the best about people.
01:53:39.000 He said some things that I think are questionable, yeah.
01:53:43.000 But you know, God is non binary, he said that one time, and then people were like, I don't know what non binary means, and I'm making me nervous.
01:53:53.000 I get what he's saying there.
01:53:54.000 God is not a man, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, yeah, it's God, it's an infinite loving force, yeah, not as simple as I get it too.
01:54:02.000 I get what he's saying.
01:54:03.000 It's just what you're saying is also like you're - I get people that want to say they're not a man or a woman.
01:54:10.000 I feel like you should say whatever you want to say.
01:54:13.000 But to say that that's a thing is a different thing.
01:54:18.000 If you're a biologist and you say there's non-binary people, are there?
01:54:22.000 What are we saying?
01:54:23.000 There's XX and XY, and there's people that are intersex.
01:54:26.000 There's people that have this weird thing.
01:54:28.000 There's women that are born XY, so they're a man, but they have their testicles inside of their bodies.
01:54:36.000 And they also have androgen resistant genetics somehow or another.
01:54:41.000 So they never become like masculine and they look really feminine, but they're essentially XY chromosome.
01:54:48.000 It's weirdness.
01:54:49.000 That's really what non binary is.
01:54:51.000 That's real non binary.
01:54:52.000 That's like very strange.
01:54:53.000 That's like you're intersex.
01:54:55.000 But some people just don't feel comfortable in their skin and they don't want to be labeled a male or a female.
01:55:00.000 They just want to be whatever they are, which is fine.
01:55:03.000 But when you're talking about biology, I think we have to be able to make a distinction.
01:55:07.000 We have to know like what we're actually talking about.
01:55:11.000 You know, facts over feelings.
01:55:13.000 Feelings are fine.
01:55:14.000 You should be able to say what you call yourself, Carol or Bob or whatever you want to do, man.
01:55:19.000 You want to be a man now?
01:55:20.000 Okay, you're a man.
01:55:21.000 I'm cool with that.
01:55:24.000 But let's not let the nonsense invade the actual analysis of what we're talking about.
01:55:31.000 And some of what we're talking about is just dysphoria.
01:55:34.000 It's gender dysphoria.
01:55:35.000 That's what it's always been described as, which is, you know, there's a lot of things that people have wrong with them.
01:55:41.000 It doesn't mean that, you know, They're bad people.
01:55:44.000 It doesn't mean that you should alienate them.
01:55:46.000 They shouldn't have rights.
01:55:48.000 No one's saying that.
01:55:49.000 You're saying, like, no, you can't compete in the women's division because you're not.
01:55:53.000 You're a biological man.
01:55:54.000 I know you wish you were a woman and I know you want to be identified as a woman.
01:55:58.000 That's great.
01:55:59.000 But when it comes to sports.
01:56:00.000 When it comes to tennis.
01:56:00.000 Right.
01:56:02.000 Yeah, stop.
01:56:02.000 Stop.
01:56:03.000 Stop the nonsense.
01:56:04.000 This is, you know, it's just there's a lot of weird shit that goes along with compassion, you know, where people don't want to look at.
01:56:13.000 reality because reality itself is not compassionate.
01:56:16.000 The reality itself is like, you know, you are discriminatory, you're transphobic, you're this, you're that.
01:56:21.000 Like, okay.
01:56:23.000 I'm not, that's not what we're saying.
01:56:25.000 Like, we're saying, like, you've got to be reasonable.
01:56:28.000 And reasonable is you've got to know what's the difference between a sex offender who decides he's a woman and wants to hang around with women versus a guy who has gender dysphoria and wants to be recognized as a man.
01:56:40.000 Absolutely.
01:56:41.000 Two different things.
01:56:42.000 And if I get it wrong, forgive me.
01:56:44.000 You know, if I don't call you the right name or whatever, I suggest you try to grow a pretty thick skin because people are always going to be mean, you know, so just let it run down your back.
01:56:54.000 I mean, I've got thick skin, you know.
01:56:58.000 It's a complicated conversation because it's not one that we all thought we were going to have 20 years ago.
01:57:02.000 No.
01:57:03.000 That was going to be the forefront of society discussion about gender.
01:57:07.000 It's odd.
01:57:08.000 It's very odd.
01:57:09.000 I just don't like it being promoted for young people because young people are getting surgeries and taking chemical castration drugs and doing.
01:57:17.000 Which is essentially what hormone blockers are.
01:57:19.000 They're the same category of drugs they use for sex offenders when they chemically castrate them.
01:57:25.000 It's fucked.
01:57:26.000 To do that to kids is fucked.
01:57:27.000 Do that to kids that don't know what they're doing yet.
01:57:30.000 They're confused.
01:57:31.000 And there's a lot of detransitioners, man.
01:57:33.000 There's a lot of people that went through that and really wish they didn't.
01:57:36.000 And they get ostracized from the trans community.
01:57:38.000 They get ostracized from progressive communities.
01:57:41.000 They get told they were never trans to begin with.
01:57:44.000 Like, what does that mean?
01:57:45.000 Like, what are you saying?
01:57:47.000 This is not like you're saying someone's not black or not white.
01:57:49.000 Like, just traits that are just they are what they are.
01:57:55.000 You have blonde hair, you have black hair.
01:57:57.000 This is like what you're born with.
01:57:58.000 To say you are not really transgender, it's like, what the fuck?
01:58:01.000 Fuck, are you saying?
01:58:03.000 You're making someone do something to their body.
01:58:08.000 You're doing something to them through surgery or through chemicals.
01:58:11.000 Like, this is to say that you're not really transgender.
01:58:16.000 Like, what?
01:58:16.000 You just did it.
01:58:19.000 I don't know.
01:58:20.000 How about recognize the fact that people are easily influenced and sometimes people make mistakes and sometimes people get convinced or convince themselves that they should do something because it's fashionable in society and it's culturally relevant currently.
01:58:34.000 Yeah.
01:58:36.000 Yeah, you know, I'm not for any of that.
01:58:37.000 But, I mean, I think try to be fair, try to be nice and, you know, let them do whatever the fuck they want to do.
01:58:46.000 But even Tallarico's against having any kind of surgery before 18.
01:58:50.000 And same as Paxson, but Paxson didn't cost this, Tallarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits.
01:59:03.000 And that happened to Paxson.
01:59:04.000 How did he cost, what did he do?
01:59:07.000 What did he do that cost $6 million?
01:59:07.000 Paxson?
01:59:07.000 Yeah.
01:59:10.000 Well, back in 2020, eight of his assistants turned him into the FBI for fraud.
01:59:17.000 One of them was a 50-year Texas Ranger.
01:59:19.000 He fired that guy, five decades of service in the Texas Rangers.
01:59:24.000 Well, that guy sued him, and they fired four of the eight people that turned him in.
01:59:31.000 He did.
01:59:32.000 They fired him.
01:59:34.000 And then he realized that he was going to get fucking sued over it.
01:59:38.000 And he came up with a solution.
01:59:40.000 He was going to give them $3 million to settle this case.
01:59:44.000 And then the House said, no, it's not coming from us.
01:59:48.000 And then they sued, won $6 million.
01:59:51.000 And guess who paid that $6 million?
01:59:53.000 You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery and how he ever got out of this stuff.
01:59:59.000 He was impeached by the House.
02:00:01.000 His own party impeached him 121 votes to 22.
02:00:06.000 And then the Senate put him back in because they didn't want to lose the seat.
02:00:10.000 But he's a criminal, just a piece of shit.
02:00:14.000 I don't know enough about them, but I do know that they're surprised that Tal Rico is ahead of him in the polls.
02:00:20.000 I'm not.
02:00:21.000 I think that people are sick of what's going on right now in Texas.
02:00:25.000 They've been in control for 30 years.
02:00:27.000 What have they given us?
02:00:29.000 Let somebody else fucking drive.
02:00:31.000 You know, they're jacking with my marijuana, and I'm ready to get them out.
02:00:36.000 The marijuana thing is just so stupid because if you look at the national polls, it's something in the range of 70% of the people think it should be legal.
02:00:44.000 And we should decide, right?
02:00:46.000 We, the people, should decide.
02:00:48.000 And if you find out that these people who are making these decisions have been influenced by the alcohol lobby or by anybody else hung by the neck until dead.
02:00:48.000 Yeah.
02:00:56.000 That's what I'm saying.
02:00:58.000 Let's get some severe penalties in there.
02:01:01.000 It's corruption.
02:01:02.000 It's bad for us.
02:01:03.000 And it's also bad for the look of Texas.
02:01:06.000 Texas is supposed to be a place that's about freedom.
02:01:08.000 And it is in a lot of ways.
02:01:09.000 But in that way, it's definitely not.
02:01:11.000 No.
02:01:12.000 And it's definitely stupid.
02:01:13.000 Again, we looked at what California's making just the tax revenue $7 billion.
02:01:17.000 $7 billion.
02:01:18.000 B. With a B. With a B.
02:01:20.000 Yeah.
02:01:21.000 And is there some enormous problems that have taken place?
02:01:25.000 No.
02:01:25.000 No.
02:01:26.000 You know what is the problem is alcohol sales are down.
02:01:26.000 No.
02:01:30.000 That's the problem.
02:01:32.000 That's what got it all stirred up.
02:01:34.000 Alcohol is tanking it right now.
02:01:36.000 I mean, wine, liquor, tequila, all of it is 20% or more off.
02:01:42.000 What do you think is the cause of that?
02:01:43.000 Well, it's that younger generation just doesn't feel the need to go get hammered every night.
02:01:48.000 They don't have the wallet for it.
02:01:50.000 The kids are broke.
02:01:52.000 You know, they got $80,000 worth of fucking school debt that your kids don't have and my kid doesn't have.
02:01:58.000 And, you know, there's just no money for it.
02:02:00.000 And then they go to these clubs and they like to smoke some weed and go in there and not drink.
02:02:06.000 And I, you know.
02:02:07.000 Also, they don't like hangovers.
02:02:09.000 Yeah.
02:02:10.000 And I'm right there with them.
02:02:11.000 I mean, I think it's a better way.
02:02:13.000 I mean, I can't go through this life without some kind of buzz.
02:02:17.000 I need it.
02:02:19.000 But liquor was the wrong one for me.
02:02:21.000 And I've just found better ways.
02:02:23.000 You know, there's more than one way to skin a goddamn cat.
02:02:27.000 And the only reason why that stuff is illegal is corruption.
02:02:27.000 I know.
02:02:30.000 It's stupid.
02:02:30.000 All of it.
02:02:31.000 Whether it's marijuana or mushrooms or all these things, we should understand them, study them, and they benefit a lot of people and they should be legal, period.
02:02:41.000 Everybody who thinks not either hasn't done them or doesn't know what they're talking about or is coming from a very authoritarian perspective where you think the government should be allowed to control people's behavior.
02:02:50.000 And I think that's fucking ridiculous.
02:02:52.000 Yeah, I think it's fucking ridiculous too, Joe.
02:02:53.000 Fucking ridiculous.
02:02:55.000 I'm glad we're on the right page.
02:02:56.000 Huh?
02:02:57.000 I said, I'm glad we're on the right page.
02:02:58.000 We're on the same page, man.
02:03:00.000 We're on the same page.
02:03:02.000 You think cameras have anything to do with it?
02:03:04.000 What do you mean?
02:03:05.000 People recording people doing dumb shit and not being free to be.
02:03:08.000 Oh, that stops people from getting drunk?
02:03:10.000 Maybe.
02:03:12.000 Never stopped me.
02:03:12.000 Nah.
02:03:13.000 I'm talking about the kids.
02:03:14.000 I was thinking.
02:03:14.000 You were talking about kids.
02:03:15.000 Do you think so?
02:03:15.000 Is that what you think?
02:03:17.000 I'm sort of asking.
02:03:19.000 Maybe.
02:03:19.000 Maybe.
02:03:19.000 Could be.
02:03:20.000 Are they afraid to be caught doing dumb shit?
02:03:22.000 Well, people are very aware of being caught and getting embarrassed because so many people have gone viral these days.
02:03:28.000 Maybe.
02:03:29.000 Maybe it's a factor.
02:03:30.000 It's possible.
02:03:31.000 What did they do to Jelly Roll, man?
02:03:33.000 I said, poor Jelly Roll.
02:03:35.000 All he did was say the president was a fat pig like me.
02:03:38.000 That's what he said.
02:03:39.000 And then he said, if you're a Trump supporter, don't listen to my music.
02:03:39.000 Yeah.
02:03:43.000 Well, that was after they canceled him anyway.
02:03:45.000 And so he, I mean, I'm not really, I like Jelly Roll fine.
02:03:51.000 I don't know him that well, but, you know, but I wasn't a big listener anyway.
02:03:56.000 But I've met him a couple times, seemed like a nice guy.
02:03:59.000 But boy, they went nuts.
02:04:01.000 Yeah.
02:04:02.000 I mean, nuts.
02:04:03.000 Get him out of here.
02:04:04.000 Never listen to his music.
02:04:05.000 What did he say?
02:04:07.000 I didn't see what he said.
02:04:08.000 I heard about it.
02:04:10.000 But Jelly Roll's a sweetheart.
02:04:11.000 Yeah.
02:04:12.000 I wouldn't have advised him to say that they were stupid.
02:04:14.000 I wouldn't have either.
02:04:15.000 I've always been careful with that kind of stuff, you know?
02:04:19.000 Don't be stupid, Ron.
02:04:20.000 Don't be stupid.
02:04:21.000 Well, he was on the Jimmy Kimmel show, right?
02:04:24.000 So he was doing a monologue.
02:04:26.000 I don't even know if he wrote it.
02:04:27.000 You know, it could have been the writers from the Jimmy Kimmel show who are obviously very anti Trump.
02:04:32.000 Like, sure.
02:04:32.000 At least Kimmel is very openly anti Trump.
02:04:35.000 So, you know, they could have just.
02:04:37.000 Tricked him into doing it.
02:04:40.000 Tricked him into throwing his career right out the goddamn window.
02:04:43.000 Look, he's super talented.
02:04:45.000 He'll be fine.
02:04:46.000 It'll be one of those things where it's a bump in the road and he'll have to get over it.
02:04:51.000 He seemed like such a nice guy when I met him.
02:04:51.000 I hope so.
02:04:53.000 He is.
02:04:54.000 He'd been a Ron White fan since he was a kid, you know, and I got to have a warm place in my heart for those kind of folks.
02:04:54.000 He's a sweetheart.
02:05:00.000 Well, he's also going through a lot of different changes in his life, right?
02:05:03.000 Like, so here he loses 300 pounds, which is a giant change, gets hooked on fitness.
02:05:08.000 This is a giant change.
02:05:10.000 Changes his whole life, changes his body, did the ways to wealth thing, just like you.
02:05:14.000 And then he gets divorced.
02:05:16.000 So that's another big change.
02:05:17.000 So he's got these two giant changes, and then he's on the Kimmel show and he's saying stupid things.
02:05:22.000 Well, he's saying jokes.
02:05:23.000 I shouldn't even say he's saying stupid things.
02:05:24.000 He's saying, I'm not even saying it's stupid.
02:05:28.000 I'm just saying, like, if you want people to like you, like, going after Trump and that, especially from his perspective, like, as a country guy, like, that's a giant chunk of your crowd.
02:05:40.000 Absolutely.
02:05:41.000 But if you feel like that's what he was doing stand up, you know, at the club.
02:05:46.000 He did it a bunch of times, and he was practicing.
02:05:46.000 Yeah.
02:05:49.000 So I think that's also one of the reasons why he wanted to host the Kendall show.
02:05:53.000 I think that might have been rushed a little bit.
02:05:55.000 Yeah.
02:05:58.000 Stand up's really, really hard.
02:05:59.000 It's a long road.
02:06:00.000 It is.
02:06:01.000 He got laughs.
02:06:02.000 He had some good lines, but it was, you know, it was what you expect from someone who's beginning their stand up journey.
02:06:09.000 But I think, you know, if you know the guy, and I do, he's the best.
02:06:09.000 Yeah.
02:06:15.000 He's a sweetheart.
02:06:16.000 I mean, at least my experiences with him have all been awesome and with other people that I know.
02:06:20.000 He's a very jolly, friendly, lovable guy.
02:06:20.000 Yeah.
02:06:24.000 But like all people, he is human and humans do things that other humans don't like.
02:06:29.000 And then you suffer the consequences and, you know, Right.
02:06:33.000 I think he'll be fine.
02:06:34.000 He'll be fine because he's super talented.
02:06:35.000 I mean, he's a fucking brilliant singer and brilliant songwriter.
02:06:40.000 We'll see.
02:06:41.000 I think he'll be fine.
02:06:42.000 I think, you know, if he could do it all again, I bet he probably wouldn't.
02:06:46.000 That's part of life.
02:06:48.000 You know, you can't back up.
02:06:50.000 No.
02:06:52.000 You do some things you wish you hadn't, and you go, oh, shit.
02:06:55.000 You know, but talented people, like, look at Kanye West.
02:06:58.000 He had a fucking diamond swastika around his neck.
02:07:01.000 A year later, he's selling out giant arenas.
02:07:03.000 Right.
02:07:04.000 I can't explain.
02:07:06.000 I can't explain Kanye.
02:07:07.000 People bounce back.
02:07:08.000 Well, he's super talented.
02:07:11.000 I mean, that's really the thing.
02:07:13.000 Unbelievably prolific and super talented and driven.
02:07:13.000 Yeah.
02:07:17.000 Right.
02:07:17.000 Like a motherfucker.
02:07:19.000 And full blown nuts.
02:07:20.000 Yep.
02:07:23.000 Just like us, you know?
02:07:25.000 Just in a different way.
02:07:26.000 I mean, everybody's fucking crazy.
02:07:28.000 That's the thing.
02:07:29.000 Like, people are attacking Jelly Roll.
02:07:31.000 One of the reasons people like to do that is they're terrified of them ever doing something that stupid.
02:07:36.000 And so then when someone does do something that they think is stupid, they just can't wait to attack.
02:07:40.000 Boy.
02:07:41.000 Especially someone that's like on top of the world.
02:07:43.000 I mean, it's relentless.
02:07:45.000 I know.
02:07:46.000 Every, I mean, I've watched TikTok, you know, and I just see those feeds coming through.
02:07:50.000 It is jelly roll.
02:07:52.000 Oh, boy, they're losing their minds over it.
02:07:55.000 I went, what?
02:07:56.000 Trump invented name calling.
02:07:58.000 He's the one that brought it back from the death with Ellen Degenerate.
02:08:02.000 That was the first one he did, I think.
02:08:04.000 Yeah.
02:08:05.000 And I'm like, oh, name calling.
02:08:06.000 That's what we're back to.
02:08:08.000 I don't even know what the joke was.
02:08:10.000 It was saying Trump's a fat fuck just like me.
02:08:12.000 Like, what was he saying?
02:08:13.000 That's what he said.
02:08:14.000 I mean, I don't know what the whole bit was, but.
02:08:17.000 That's all it was?
02:08:18.000 But he said, Trump's like me.
02:08:22.000 He's a fat pig.
02:08:24.000 That's it.
02:08:24.000 That's it?
02:08:25.000 And that's what they got mad at?
02:08:26.000 That's what they got mad at.
02:08:27.000 He called the president a fat pig.
02:08:28.000 That's interesting.
02:08:28.000 He's just kind of fat.
02:08:30.000 Well, he's definitely not thin.
02:08:31.000 Yeah.
02:08:34.000 Not from where I'm sitting.
02:08:36.000 I mean, was the joke like he could lose weight because I lost weight?
02:08:39.000 I mean, what was he saying?
02:08:41.000 I just think he was saying.
02:08:44.000 Should we play it?
02:08:45.000 Yeah.
02:08:46.000 All right, let's play it.
02:08:47.000 Oh, it says here.
02:08:48.000 Fat pig comment.
02:08:48.000 Okay.
02:08:52.000 Jelly rolled joked that his own 300 pound weight loss meant he essentially lost an entire Donald Trump.
02:08:59.000 The fat pig comment he quoted past remarks Trump made about others and said, Well, Mr. President, from one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness is very important.
02:09:08.000 Huh.
02:09:09.000 That's not bad.
02:09:09.000 Right.
02:09:10.000 That's not bad at all.
02:09:11.000 From one fat pig to another, saying that he lost an entire Donald Trump.
02:09:16.000 Okay, he did.
02:09:17.000 Like literally, he lost 300 pounds.
02:09:19.000 That's more than a Trump, probably.
02:09:21.000 And then he said, from one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness is very important.
02:09:26.000 Is that terrible?
02:09:27.000 No.
02:09:27.000 Yeah.
02:09:28.000 That's not terrible at all.
02:09:30.000 And that's it.
02:09:31.000 So maybe the real problem was him.
02:09:36.000 Being on Kimmel to begin with.
02:09:37.000 Yeah.
02:09:38.000 Would be a mark against him to.
02:09:41.000 And then maybe saying, if you're a Trump supporter, don't listen to my music.
02:09:45.000 But that was the next day or whatever.
02:09:47.000 Yeah, you can play it.
02:09:48.000 Sadly, those are the only laps Trump's been doing lately.
02:09:50.000 Yeah.
02:09:52.000 According to the Washington Post, a lot of doctors are worried about the president's weight.
02:09:57.000 After his last physical, we found out Trump gained 14 pounds, which means he's now tipping the scales at almost 240.
02:10:03.000 It's crazy.
02:10:06.000 Think about this, y'all.
02:10:07.000 In the last few years, I've lost 300 pounds.
02:10:21.000 That means I've lost an entire Donald Trump.
02:10:26.000 And let's be honest, based on his approval ratings, it seems like most of the country wants to do the same thing.
02:10:31.000 Now, listen, we should take it easy, y'all.
02:10:39.000 We shouldn't be making fun of the president for his weight because we know that he would never do that to other people.
02:10:45.000 I don't speak badly about somebody's physical disability.
02:10:51.000 But he's got the biggest stomach I have ever seen.
02:10:53.000 He's actually fatter than ever.
02:10:55.000 The mayor is incompetent, and the governor is a big fat slob.
02:11:02.000 Big fat slob.
02:11:03.000 I'm telling you, I have a friend of mine.
02:11:05.000 He's fat as a dinosaur guy.
02:11:07.000 He said, Chris Christie's a fat pig.
02:11:09.000 You cannot do that.
02:11:10.000 Chris Christie is not a fat pig.
02:11:12.000 He is not a fat pig.
02:11:14.000 He's not a fat pig.
02:11:15.000 Don't call him a fat pig.
02:11:16.000 Sir, in the back, don't call him a fat pig, okay?
02:11:20.000 I don't talk about people being fat.
02:11:23.000 I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob.
02:11:26.000 I don't mention it.
02:11:29.000 Well, if that ain't the pot calling the kettle fat.
02:11:40.000 Well, Mr. President, from one fat pig to another, take it from me that physical fitness is very important.
02:11:46.000 And trust me, you'll be happy to see your penis again.
02:11:54.000 I just speak from a little bit of experience.
02:11:56.000 The first time I seen mine recently, I was surprised at how cute it was.
02:11:56.000 Here, y'all.
02:12:01.000 It's rudimentary stand up, right?
02:12:03.000 Like, he's learning how to do stand up, so he's almost like he's a politician.
02:12:06.000 I gotta tell you, I think he did a pretty good job, did a very good job.
02:12:10.000 But I mean, you know what I'm saying?
02:12:11.000 It's like it's monologue type stand up, and clearly someone wrote it and he's reading it off a teleprompter.
02:12:18.000 Yeah, probably.
02:12:20.000 But anyway, it wasn't you know, it certainly wasn't bad.
02:12:24.000 I mean, it was just jokes, you know.
02:12:26.000 It's just jokes.
02:12:27.000 If someone got so upset, they'd never want to listen to Jelly Rolls music again after that.
02:12:32.000 They're crying.
02:12:33.000 They're crying.
02:12:34.000 They're in tears.
02:12:35.000 Let's see it.
02:12:36.000 Let's see it.
02:12:37.000 Yeah, it wasn't the funniest stuff.
02:12:38.000 But I mean, he didn't.
02:12:39.000 That's someone they wrote that shit for him.
02:12:41.000 I guarantee you.
02:12:42.000 I'm sure they did.
02:12:42.000 100%.
02:12:43.000 You could tell he's reading it.
02:12:44.000 It wasn't like he was just speaking off the cuff.
02:12:46.000 He was 100% reading a thing.
02:12:49.000 He looked good, though.
02:12:50.000 He looks great.
02:12:50.000 Didn't he?
02:12:51.000 He looked kind of handsome.
02:12:52.000 He's very handsome now.
02:12:53.000 He lost a lot of weight, man.
02:12:54.000 I mean, the guy, when he came to do the podcast, he ran six and a half miles on the treadmill while we were hanging out.
02:13:01.000 No shit.
02:13:01.000 Oh, yeah.
02:13:02.000 And talking while he's running.
02:13:03.000 So I'm working out.
02:13:05.000 I'm in front of him, working out, lifting weights, and he's running on this treadmill the entire time and talking while he's running.
02:13:10.000 Wow.
02:13:11.000 Yeah, he's fit now.
02:13:12.000 It's kind of crazy.
02:13:13.000 We went to see him.
02:13:15.000 You know, he performed at, you know, Matthew McConaughey has that Mac and Jack, that big thing that they do where it's a big charity benefit and auction, and he has people perform.
02:13:26.000 So he, Jelly Roll performed.
02:13:28.000 He was a performer that night.
02:13:29.000 And then as he's coming off the stage, there's this stairway with a railing on it.
02:13:35.000 And we're, me and Tony are over to the left side, we're, you know, behind the stage.
02:13:40.000 He grabs a hole in the railing and jumps over it.
02:13:43.000 And I go, Do you know what you just did?
02:13:45.000 I go, You used to be 500 pounds.
02:13:47.000 And now you just grabbed a railing and jumped over it like a cat.
02:13:50.000 Like, that's crazy.
02:13:51.000 Wow.
02:13:51.000 So, like, you're a different human being.
02:13:53.000 That's kind of inspiring, actually.
02:13:55.000 It's very inspiring.
02:13:56.000 Yeah, I wish he didn't say that stuff, but I mean, it's just sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze.
02:14:02.000 Yeah, you're right about that.
02:14:03.000 You got to figure out the juice and the squeeze, baby.
02:14:03.000 You know?
02:14:06.000 You got to figure it out.
02:14:08.000 But, you know.
02:14:09.000 If you know Jelly Roll, he's a great guy.
02:14:11.000 It's just that kind of monologue stand up stuff.
02:14:16.000 It is funny seeing all the different times Trump called people fat, though.
02:14:19.000 That is fucking hilarious.
02:14:21.000 Yeah.
02:14:24.000 But, you know, Trump supporters are fucking nuts, man.
02:14:26.000 They're rabid.
02:14:28.000 He represents something other than just a person to them.
02:14:31.000 Oh, it's Christ.
02:14:33.000 Yeah.
02:14:33.000 Well, he represents something, a leader that they wish they had, you know?
02:14:37.000 Yeah.
02:14:38.000 Which is a real problem in our society in general with leaders.
02:14:41.000 We look to them as if they're something different than every other person that's ever been a leader before.
02:14:46.000 Like, this is the one.
02:14:48.000 This is the one that's going to save us.
02:14:50.000 And you know what?
02:14:50.000 Right.
02:14:51.000 Some people are hopeless.
02:14:52.000 And anybody that says, well, I'll give you hope.
02:14:55.000 then, you know, what are you going to do?
02:14:59.000 You know, if you got to, I've told people, I've said this more than once back when, that if you really want to improve your lot in life and you don't really have anything and you don't really have an education, you should be Bernie fucking Sanders, you know, as your guy, because he wants to get the minimum wage up.
02:15:20.000 You think somebody's going to come in and hand you a bunch of loot.
02:15:22.000 That's never going to happen.
02:15:23.000 Maybe you can make a couple more bucks an hour.
02:15:25.000 Go with that.
02:15:26.000 You know, that's, Is it Bernie Sanders?
02:15:29.000 Yeah.
02:15:30.000 Yeah.
02:15:31.000 The guy from Vermont.
02:15:32.000 Okay.
02:15:32.000 Yeah.
02:15:32.000 Yeah.
02:15:33.000 So, you know, he was really trying to help.
02:15:36.000 But they're like, that's not enough.
02:15:37.000 We don't.
02:15:38.000 Well, they didn't want him.
02:15:39.000 The Democratic establishment did not want that guy.
02:15:42.000 That was the first time that I ever got attacked when I had Bernie on.
02:15:46.000 And someone was on the podcast and they said, Who are you going to vote for?
02:15:50.000 I said, Oh, it was Jimmy Doerr.
02:15:51.000 And I said, If I was going to vote for anybody, I'd probably vote for Bernie.
02:15:54.000 Who's the one who makes the most sense?
02:15:56.000 Like, he's the only guy that's like, he's anti war.
02:15:58.000 He wants to take a small amount of money from stock market speculation and use that to fund a bunch of these social programs.
02:16:07.000 I'm like, let's see.
02:16:09.000 This is a long time ago.
02:16:10.000 I don't necessarily think that I feel the same way anymore about him.
02:16:15.000 One of the reasons being is that he kind of gave in to the Democratic establishment.
02:16:19.000 He let them run him over during that whole thing with Hillary where they rigged the primary.
02:16:25.000 He let them get away with stuff where I think he should have put his foot down and said, This is fucked up.
02:16:30.000 This is the way we're going to do it.
02:16:30.000 Right.
02:16:31.000 You guys are rigging the party.
02:16:32.000 They haven't had a legit primary in like what, more than a decade?
02:16:38.000 That's not good.
02:16:39.000 That's not good if you want to be the party that's the solution, the change.
02:16:42.000 Well, you have, where's your primaries?
02:16:46.000 Like when they installed Kamala, they just shoved her in there.
02:16:46.000 What are you doing?
02:16:49.000 All of a sudden, this is our representative now.
02:16:51.000 Biden's out.
02:16:52.000 And we were like, wait, what?
02:16:54.000 Right.
02:16:54.000 There's no primary?
02:16:55.000 Like, what about the rules?
02:16:56.000 What about the way we've always done this?
02:16:58.000 Well, Biden was taking a nap.
02:17:01.000 Had to do something.
02:17:02.000 It's amazing he's still alive.
02:17:05.000 I thought he was going to die right after he got out of office.
02:17:08.000 I thought he was probably barely hanging on, which is also one of my big fears about him doing another four years.
02:17:14.000 There's no way, no way he's going to make it out of four years.
02:17:20.000 It's all going to be over soon.
02:17:20.000 I don't know.
02:17:22.000 What do you mean?
02:17:23.000 AI or the apocalypse?
02:17:25.000 The apocalypse.
02:17:26.000 JD Vance was doing a speech I was listening to on the Tim Dillon show.
02:17:29.000 Yeah, I almost brought this up a second ago because I just saw it on Twitter again.
02:17:34.000 He was talking about end times.
02:17:36.000 What was his exact quote?
02:17:38.000 Let's play it.
02:17:39.000 Let's play it.
02:17:41.000 Is it like, first of all, who are you talking to that you feel like this is the thing to say?
02:17:49.000 This is talking about whether or not we're entering end times.
02:17:56.000 JD Vance was?
02:17:57.000 Yes.
02:18:00.000 He's on Tim Dillon's show?
02:18:02.000 No, He was just giving the speech.
02:18:05.000 Tim Dillon was making fun of it.
02:18:06.000 It's fucking hilarious.
02:18:08.000 What's he saying?
02:18:09.000 Friends and their family.
02:18:12.000 So I tend to think like the, while I wouldn't be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now.
02:18:23.000 And if that leads to the end times, okay.
02:18:26.000 And if that leads to, you know, us building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I'm gone, that's great too.
02:18:35.000 I just think you've got to kind of try to have.
02:18:38.000 Wait, It was the other part.
02:18:41.000 It sounds like he's saying if it leads that the second hope is it leads to a great world.
02:18:47.000 Yeah.
02:18:48.000 But if it leads to the end times.
02:18:50.000 That's okay too.
02:18:51.000 You know, us building a better world that thrives.
02:18:55.000 And if that leads to the end times, okay.
02:18:57.000 Not okay.
02:18:58.000 Yeah.
02:18:59.000 What are you saying?
02:19:00.000 If that leads to the end times, okay.
02:19:02.000 Not great.
02:19:03.000 That's not okay.
02:19:04.000 And if it doesn't lead to the end times and everybody lives a great life, well, that's great too.
02:19:08.000 That'd be just fine.
02:19:11.000 Doesn't seem like the optimum perspective.
02:19:13.000 What does he even say?
02:19:14.000 I feel like you should reverse those two.
02:19:17.000 And the goal is not end times.
02:19:19.000 The goal is make a beautiful world for all of us where people thrive and everybody's happy and leave the end out.
02:19:27.000 That's the problem with religious people that are convinced that there's a set of events that have been predicted.
02:19:33.000 You think he's a religious person?
02:19:35.000 You think he's a fake religious person?
02:19:37.000 Vance?
02:19:38.000 Yeah.
02:19:39.000 He's a Catholic.
02:19:39.000 JD Vance?
02:19:42.000 He wrote a book about, what was his book?
02:19:42.000 He's very religious.
02:19:44.000 Communion?
02:19:45.000 That one was called His Pitching.
02:19:45.000 Yeah.
02:19:47.000 Yeah.
02:19:48.000 Yeah, he wrote a book about his spiritual journey.
02:19:52.000 Oh, I didn't.
02:19:53.000 I saw the other movie.
02:19:54.000 Yeah, I mean, that's why Communion, the other one, I know I brought that up when he was on the podcast.
02:19:58.000 Like, you know, you wrote a book about a guy who got abducted by aliens.
02:20:02.000 That's the same book title.
02:20:04.000 That's Whitley Stryber's book, Communion.
02:20:06.000 Oh, shit.
02:20:07.000 There's a famous movie with, who's in Communion?
02:20:07.000 Really?
02:20:15.000 God damn it.
02:20:16.000 I want to say something, but I don't think it's right.
02:20:20.000 1989?
02:20:23.000 I just knew about Hillbilly.
02:20:24.000 Christopher Walken, that's right.
02:20:25.000 I just knew about Hillbilly Elegy or whatever the fuck.
02:20:28.000 Yeah, that was his first book, and his new one is Communion.
02:20:30.000 But there was a book called Communion by this guy, Whitley Stryber, who had been abducted by aliens allegedly.
02:20:36.000 You know about the name changes?
02:20:37.000 What is that?
02:20:38.000 He's changed his name like four times.
02:20:42.000 What?
02:20:43.000 Yeah.
02:20:44.000 Wait a minute.
02:20:45.000 Okay.
02:20:45.000 James Donald Bowman, his birth name.
02:20:49.000 James David Hamill, the name given to him after his mother married her third husband.
02:20:54.000 Oh, well, that's understandable.
02:20:55.000 Yeah, but he changed it when he was in high school, I think, for that one.
02:20:58.000 But he adopted him.
02:20:59.000 He went by J.D. Hamill through high school.
02:21:01.000 That makes sense.
02:21:03.000 James David Vance, the name he adopted in 2013 before graduating from law school, changing his name to Vance to honor his maternal grandparents, Mama and Papa, who helped raise him.
02:21:16.000 Well, there's a logic behind it, at least.
02:21:18.000 It's not like he's like ducking taxes or something.
02:21:22.000 Right.
02:21:23.000 Maybe.
02:21:23.000 I'm not saying that's why he did it, but how many people do you know have changed their name like that?
02:21:27.000 Not many.
02:21:28.000 At least more than once.
02:21:29.000 That is odd.
02:21:31.000 He did it three times.
02:21:32.000 Four.
02:21:33.000 I wonder if you're trying to reinvent yourself.
02:21:35.000 Why do you do that?
02:21:36.000 I don't know.
02:21:37.000 I don't like the end times talk.
02:21:38.000 I don't trust him.
02:21:39.000 I don't like that talk.
02:21:41.000 That kind of talk is crazy talk.
02:21:42.000 Yeah.
02:21:43.000 Like if it's end times, okay?
02:21:45.000 No.
02:21:46.000 Jamie said it best.
02:21:48.000 Not good.
02:21:49.000 Not okay.
02:21:49.000 That's not okay.
02:21:50.000 That's not okay.
02:21:51.000 No, that spooks me out.
02:21:55.000 I understand why people are attracted by religion.
02:21:59.000 I understand it from giving you a moral framework and an ethical framework.
02:22:04.000 Get that.
02:22:05.000 But when people think that they absolutely know what the interpretations are and absolutely know what's going to happen, and they have their own.
02:22:13.000 Then I'll absolutely quit listening to them talk if that's what they come at me with.
02:22:17.000 I know, and you don't know.
02:22:20.000 I'm like, well, my uncle was a Baptist preacher, so I grew up in the church and was really involved with every single aspect of the Baptist church.
02:22:32.000 And I believed that my uncle was the.
02:22:35.000 Uh, who you met.
02:22:36.000 Uh, he smelled like piss and he was having problems.
02:22:39.000 But he but he was my hero my whole life, because I thought he was the only one that was telling me the you know the truth.
02:22:46.000 And he ends up hitting on my girlfriend.
02:22:49.000 He was an animal, he was.
02:22:51.000 He asked her to marry him.
02:22:54.000 He asked Jeanie to marry him.
02:22:55.000 That's hilarious.
02:22:56.000 She, I came home, they'd watched a show, and then they came back and I had another show to do.
02:23:00.000 I came back, nobody was in the living room.
02:23:02.000 I was staying at the condo and and I said, how'd it go?
02:23:05.000 And she goes.
02:23:06.000 He asked me to marry him And I'm like, well, he was joking, right?
02:23:09.000 And I said, I'm in love with your nephew.
02:23:12.000 And he goes, did he ask you to marry him?
02:23:14.000 I'm like, fuck, dude, really?
02:23:17.000 Wasn't he really old then?
02:23:17.000 I mean, I never said it.
02:23:19.000 Yeah, well, yeah, he's 90.
02:23:21.000 90, yeah.
02:23:21.000 I think he's kind of not really old anymore.
02:23:23.000 No, no, no, he's not old anymore.
02:23:26.000 But still, I grew up in the church, and I understand the church.
02:23:30.000 And I understand what's good about it.
02:23:30.000 Right.
02:23:34.000 And yes, they were teaching a good way of life, you know, to be honest and, you know.
02:23:39.000 All those things that you should be and you should follow those 10 commandments.
02:23:43.000 Anyway, you know they're all good, except for one of them or something.
02:23:46.000 I don't want them, I don't like, but I can't remember which one it was, but uh, but anyway uh, I came away from the whole thing with that.
02:23:58.000 I'm like, how do I know you know my family that we never talked about politics that much.
02:24:03.000 We were a little town up in the Panhandle and they were all Baptist or Church OF Christ and even they didn't agree with each other And the Church OF Christ is kind of a Texas religion.
02:24:13.000 It came started here.
02:24:15.000 Oh, really?
02:24:15.000 Yeah.
02:24:16.000 And so very small.
02:24:18.000 But my grandmother was that.
02:24:19.000 And so, you know, she'd go around picking up all the little ladies and go to this little church.
02:24:25.000 And she spoke in tongues every Sunday morning.
02:24:28.000 She would stand up and, and I was sitting right next to her and it embarrassed me every single time.
02:24:35.000 And then the preacher's wife would stand up and interpret because she had the gift of interpretation.
02:24:40.000 That's one of the gifts.
02:24:42.000 And it was always a fundraising thing.
02:24:44.000 You know, it was always the Lord telling you to go deep into your wallet.
02:24:49.000 Oh, how convenient.
02:24:50.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:24:52.000 Did you ever see the, what is the gemstones?
02:24:55.000 Fabulous gemstones?
02:24:56.000 Righteous.
02:24:56.000 What is this called?
02:24:57.000 Righteous gemstones.
02:24:58.000 That's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.
02:25:00.000 Damn, that's a good show.
02:25:01.000 It is so rich, man.
02:25:02.000 I just can't wait for another fucking season of that.
02:25:05.000 That show is fucking phenomenal.
02:25:08.000 And that's a real, I mean, that's where Kinnison started.
02:25:10.000 You know, Kinnison was one of those revival, tent revival preachers.
02:25:14.000 Right.
02:25:14.000 Yeah.
02:25:15.000 Yep.
02:25:16.000 And you know what?
02:25:17.000 That's where I learned this art form was watching my uncle preach.
02:25:21.000 He was very funny and always getting a laugh on stage, saving souls every fucking week.
02:25:27.000 And I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
02:25:29.000 But he was a great orator, you know, really, really good.
02:25:33.000 And I know that's where I learned I want to be that guy on stage, but I just don't want to have a religious message.
02:25:39.000 You know, I want to be able to tell some dick jokes.
02:25:41.000 But that's where I got it, I know.
02:25:43.000 And that's where Chris Rock got his, too, you know.
02:25:46.000 His dad was her uncle or something was a preacher, right?
02:25:48.000 And pretty common.
02:25:49.000 A really good preacher is a really good orator.
02:25:52.000 Yeah.
02:25:52.000 There's people that are good at it, and there's people that are good at it.
02:25:54.000 Larry the Cable guy, his dad was a preacher and a pig farmer.
02:25:59.000 Wow.
02:26:00.000 That adds up to Larry the Cable guy.
02:26:02.000 That makes sense.
02:26:04.000 It's just, it's a real problem when people pretend they have the answers.
02:26:08.000 Because people want to believe that they do.
02:26:10.000 They really want to believe this person knows.
02:26:13.000 When someone tells you, you have to do this or you're going to burn in hell forever.
02:26:17.000 Like, are you fucking sure?
02:26:20.000 Yeah, really?
02:26:21.000 If you thought this through.
02:26:22.000 How do you know?
02:26:23.000 Like, based on what?
02:26:27.000 I have no idea, but I'm glad it's there and I'm glad people are tied to it and, you know, I don't want to.
02:26:33.000 I don't care about it.
02:26:34.000 I don't bust on anybody's faith because I don't believe that.
02:26:38.000 It doesn't mean that you, that doesn't mean I'm right.
02:26:41.000 You know, I've been wrong about so many fucking things.
02:26:44.000 I might be wrong about all of it.
02:26:46.000 The problem was when someone believes something but then wants to force other people to believe it too.
02:26:50.000 And that's an age-old problem with human beings.
02:26:54.000 That's a real issue.
02:26:57.000 All right, Ron, let's get the fuck out of here.
02:26:59.000 We got a show to do tonight.
02:27:00.000 Let's go.
02:27:02.000 Let's go do it, man.
02:27:03.000 I'll be there at 7 o'clock or whatever.
02:27:05.000 Yes, sir.
02:27:08.000 And then I'm closing Thursday night.
02:27:11.000 Beautiful.
02:27:12.000 To get ready for these shows in Florida.
02:27:14.000 Nice.
02:27:14.000 Can you look up my dates in Florida real quick?
02:27:17.000 So I'd see which ones.
02:27:18.000 He's already got it.
02:27:20.000 Tatersalad.com.
02:27:21.000 Yeah, there we go.
02:27:22.000 Dayton Beach, Jacksonville on the 11th, Dayton Beach on the 12th, Sarasota on the 13th, all throughout Texas.
02:27:30.000 Yeah, Grand Prairie, that's the anniversary date right there.
02:27:33.000 September 18th.
02:27:35.000 Yeah.
02:27:35.000 40 years.
02:27:36.000 That's going to be fun.
02:27:37.000 It's going to be a lot of fun.
02:27:39.000 Tatersalad.com.
02:27:40.000 Yeah, yeah.
02:27:41.000 How's that?
02:27:42.000 I heard the Cosmopolitan face in Vegas is very nice.
02:27:44.000 Fuck, yeah.
02:27:45.000 2,300 seater.
02:27:45.000 Great.
02:27:47.000 So, 1,000 seats bigger than the one I played at the Mirage.
02:27:51.000 Nice.
02:27:52.000 And I stay in the mansion over at the MGM Grand.
02:27:56.000 That's pretty sweet living over there.
02:27:58.000 Look at you playing golf.
02:27:59.000 All right.
02:28:00.000 Playing golf.
02:28:01.000 Let's wrap this bitch up.
02:28:02.000 All right, bye.
02:28:02.000 Appreciate you, brother.
02:28:03.000 I love you, man.
02:28:03.000 Thanks for having me on.
02:28:05.000 Bye, brother.