Comedian Greg Giraldo has passed away at the age of 49, and it's a sad day in the comedy world, and we're here to pay our respects. We're joined by comedian Tom Green to remember him, and to talk about some of the things that made him a great stand-up comic, and how he was a great friend of ours. We also talk about the new microphones we're using to record the show, and what we're doing to make the audio better, and some other things that we're trying to do to make it better for the future of the show. We're also joined by our new sponsor, The Fleshlight! Shure SM58 microphones, and a new set up we're working on to make this show better than it was before. We'd like to thank Shure for all the support they've given us over the past few years, and especially for the microphones they've been working on the show and the equipment they've provided us with. We can't thank them enough. Thank you, Shure! It means the world to us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, family, and all the people affected by this terrible news. We'll see you soon. - Tom and Rogan Tom Green - The Folllight Mics - Scentless and the Fleshlight - Shure's new mics - And much more! - Thank you so much for sponsoring the show! XOXO - Tom Green and the Felllight Thanks for listening to this show, Tom Green is a great guy, and thank you for being a good friend of mine, and I hope you enjoy this show and I can't wait to come back next week with more of your support, I'll be back with a better version of this show next week. XO - ROGAN AND RODAN - - THE FALLLLLLLLLELLLEADER - AND THE FILLED LITTER - ROGO'S PODCAST - RYAN DADDY - RAYO RAYA - RICKY BONUS EPISODES - RODA SONGS, RAY AND GARALDO (RIP, RODY'S BONDS AND TAYLOR SONDS, RODY'S SON
00:09:45.000Now, I've always been curious about television broadcasting.
00:09:48.000When you take a course like that, what do they have you do?
00:09:51.000Do you pretend to be like a newscaster?
00:09:53.000It's mostly technical, like it wasn't on camera.
00:09:57.000There was one on-camera course, but it was mostly like editing, video editing, lighting, photography, how to work a video camera, how to set all your technical stuff.
00:12:42.000So you've always, from your time in broadcasting school to now, you've always been really involved in the technology of the behind-the-scenes stuff.
00:12:51.000You know, I kind of figured, when I was in high school, and I thought it'd be fun to, you know, Do a TV show someday, is basically what I thought.
00:13:00.000I was watching David Letterman at night, and I was thinking, man, that would be the most fun thing to ever do, I was thinking.
00:15:13.000We actually got a record deal when we were in high school, and the song and the video was playing on TV and everything.
00:15:20.000It was a very exciting time for two young rappers from Ottawa.
00:15:26.000This video won the 1992 Much Music Video Award, CMVA Award.
00:15:33.000We performed live on the On the CMVA awards and I covered myself with shaving cream for no reason and got up in the lens of the camera, covered myself in shaving cream.
00:15:44.000So we weren't like the sort of hard core.
00:17:23.000I was thinking about this the other day.
00:17:24.000Rap music back then is kind of like, it kind of provided what the internet provides now, which is a glimpse into other parts of the world, other places.
00:17:36.000You know, here was, we were in Canada, and we're listening to these songs coming out of New York, coming out, you know, Boogie Down Productions out of the South Bronx, and we're listening to them telling all these tales of life on the streets in the South Bronx, and you're listening to this, and you're going on a cassette, you know, and you're listening to it, and you're Walkman on the way to school, and Criminal-minded, the record, and you're like, oh man, listen to these stories.
00:17:56.000I was thinking about that driving over here today.
00:18:00.000It's kind of sad because in a way that might be something that disappears from music now because of the internet.
00:19:40.000That's the dream in high school, though.
00:19:41.000To get up on stage, say something or do something that everybody in the entire school is staring at you like Michael J. Fox in the Back to the Future playing the guitar on the stage like you're from outer space or something.
00:19:53.000What a weird pressure that is for children to want to stand out like that.
00:19:58.000I don't remember the feeling myself, but if you wanted to be...
00:20:00.000Some sort of an actor or something, and you were 10, and you were in school, and you saw some girl that was on a show, and she was 10, and you're like, what the fuck?
00:20:11.000That's a terrible way to be raising kids, thinking about getting the most attention possible for almost nothing, like instantaneously become famous.
00:20:20.000So everything that your parents, all the character that gets developed from hard work, that's all nonsense.
00:20:48.000You know, there's the grand conspiracy theory is that, like, man, you know, Hollywood is trying to condition us to be, like, subservient to our government, man, and be patriotic.
00:21:00.000But no, Hollywood is giving you what you want to see.
00:21:03.000Hollywood's giving you what you want to see, and they're doing what they like, too.
00:21:06.000They're making the kind of stupid shit that they like to watch.
00:21:09.000yeah you know it's like the the people that are creating it are just as much of a victim of the the conditioning as the people that they're selling it to people don't realize that they think it's some grand scheme no supply and demand yeah people want to see uh sex tapes and then see the people go do shows and watch their lives and sort of see everything and know everything right do you watch uh jersey shore i i've I've only seen it once, but I enjoyed it a lot.
00:22:35.000I think the thing that's bizarre about all the reality TV, though, is not to overanalyze it.
00:22:40.000I guess maybe I'd be overanalyzing it at that point.
00:22:42.000We were talking about my broadcasting course.
00:22:43.000They taught us about, you know, documentation and making documentary.
00:22:46.000We had a documentary filmmaking course, and they talk about when you put a camera on something, right, it changes what you're filming, right?
00:22:51.000So you can never really make a true documentary of anything, because as soon as you put the camera on it, it's going to change...
00:23:28.000It's all fascinating to me, man, because it's so easy to change behavior by just putting a camera on it.
00:23:33.000If that's really the case, if all you have to do is add a camera, add the fact that other people are going to get to see it and it changes everything, no, they're still doing this.
00:23:39.000Even if they're faking it and acting it out, I don't care.
00:23:42.000They're still doing all this stuff on the show.
00:23:44.000And to me, look, it's like some sort of a National Geographic special.
00:25:40.000And it was the perfect moment, and it was just sort of the perfect, perfect thing that happened there.
00:25:43.000You know, to me, the thing is, I used to like the beginning when they were, you know, fucking up, too, at the beginning, and they'd be making fools of themselves at the beginning.
00:25:50.000But now it seems like the people coming in are coming in on purpose to be bad.
00:26:18.000Because there is good stuff that I find and hear sometimes.
00:26:20.000But just going through life now, like when you're walking, you're in an elevator, you're walking through a mall, or you're listening to the radio or the mainstream stuff, it's all this shit.
00:26:50.000The loss of the DJ. The loss of the DJ. The DJ to me is one of the things I miss the most about the radio, about growing up and listening to the radio.
00:27:00.000I would listen to guys and listen to the shit that they liked to listen to.
00:28:11.000There's an art to being a true fan of the music and going out there and listening to different stuff and collecting your own favorites and saying, look at this cool shit that I got.
00:30:33.000Once, but it was also like a remix version, so it was other shit mixed up with it.
00:30:36.000So this is just, you hear a song, you like it, you want to know what it is, you pull Shazam up, it tells you what it is, downloads it, and buys it for you without even asking you.
00:30:45.000You can just start playing it in your car seconds later.
00:30:46.000If your car's Bluetooth, bam, it's playing in your car.
00:31:41.000And I had a meeting one day with a television executive at my house, okay?
00:31:49.000And we went up on the roof of my house, and we had a meeting, just a discussion, having a beer, talking about some ideas, television ideas.
00:32:31.000I am fascinated by ancient Asian artwork.
00:32:34.000I'm fascinated by Buddhas and Thai Buddhas and the fact that they've looked that way for hundreds and thousands of years and all these different people depict these things in different artistic ways and that the Buddha is a character of peace.
00:32:49.000The idea of these Thai Buddhas to me means To me, it's a beautiful artistic representation of enlightenment.
00:33:46.000Self-mummification was a practice and it's been done several times by these monks.
00:33:52.000And one of the things they do is they eat nothing but very, very lean foods.
00:33:57.000They eat, like, seeds and nuts, and they go through rigorous exercise routines for, like, three years, where they virtually strip their body of all its fat.
00:34:06.000And then they start drinking this crazy tonic that's, like, semi-poisonous.
00:34:12.000It doesn't kill them, but it fucks them up nice and slowly.
00:34:14.000And it keeps maggots from growing on them.
00:35:44.000There is a lot of stuff on the internet that we read that is not true, and that is true.
00:35:48.000Now, you were talking about the UFOs last night at your show, which was hilarious, by the way, and it was great running into you over there.
00:35:54.000Yeah, we ran into each other at a club.
00:36:04.000It was a really cool crowd, because even though it was like a fucking 100 degrees in there, like literally, it was at least 100 degrees in a row.
00:36:11.000I fucking drank like crazy because I was so hot.
00:37:53.000And this was this whole sort of controversial thing that was going on up there, but it was actually quite funny because he had this amazing party in this car wash right across the street.
00:38:03.000Well, it's because the bar closed, right?
00:38:05.000And then it's like, okay, well, the bar at the hotel closed, and then everyone said, well, you know, Doug Stanhope's having a party in a car wash across the street.
00:38:51.000You know, the thing that's cool about it is, like, you know, so we go over there, I'm at the Montreal Comedy Festival, and I met Bill Burr, and he came and saw my show, and then last night I thought, you know, I'm going to go see Bill's show, go see Bill's show, you pop out on stage unexpectedly, next thing you know, I'm up here at your house, we're drinking cups of coffee, delicious coffee, and doing some Webbovision here, right?
00:41:05.000So now I'm swinging bloody babies around and jacking off elephants and stuff and getting inside deer carcasses and doing all this stuff, right?
00:41:14.000And then you're working on this thing for like a year, right?
00:41:17.000You're working on this thing for a year, nonstop.
00:41:39.000And they're like, well, we don't know how we're going to make real guts come out of the carcass when you cut it.
00:41:42.000And then they go off, and these are like...
00:41:45.000People that are professionals, you know, and they go off and they come back the next day and they go, okay, we've rigged up this compressed air that we're going to put in the back of the taxidermy deer.
00:41:53.000You're going to run your knife down the slit.
00:41:55.000It's going to shoot out real pig guts that we've got at the butcher shop.
00:41:58.000And I'm draped in pig guts and I'm doing all this stuff.
00:42:21.000Shit, I thought it was pretty fucking funny.
00:42:23.000I don't know what's wrong with me, right?
00:42:24.000But the fun thing about it is after that initial weekend and the whole sort of everybody talking about your movie being crazy and disgusting and all this stuff, I've been on tour this year doing stand-up, and it's been so much fun because there's a lot of nutjobs out there in the world that and it's been so much fun because there's a lot of nutjobs out And it's part of my show now when I do my stand-up.
00:42:46.000I do a little guitar at my show in the middle, and I sing a couple.
00:42:49.000Like, Daddy, would you like some sausage?
00:42:51.000I sing that with the – everybody sings it with me.
00:42:53.000And then people start shouting out some of their favorite bits.
00:44:15.000It was done in a way where I think that 50% of the people who watch it are definitely going to hate it more than anything they've ever seen in their entire life.
00:44:30.000So I went on Netflix and you're reading the reviews and it's It's pretty much 50-50 people are giving it either a good review or the worst review you've ever read in your life, back and forth, back and forth.
00:44:40.000And these people are just arguing with each other about it.
00:44:43.000Here we are 10 years later after I made this thing.
00:44:46.000I'm looking at these people having these passionate arguments completely on opposite ends of the spectrum.
00:47:03.000But I wasn't really, you know, I was also with a girl who was my friend who was sitting beside me on this side and we were all friends and Or she was friends with them.
00:47:42.000Well, you know, that's one of the best things about learning martial arts is that you become confident in your ability to defend yourself.
00:47:49.000You might not always be able to defend yourself.
00:47:51.000There might be guns and weapons, but you're not going to feel completely helpless.
00:47:56.000You're going to feel like you have at least confidence if you have a chance you can do something.
00:48:00.000Whereas a person who doesn't know how to fight at all and has no experience, it's such a paralyzing feeling when you're in the presence of violence.
00:49:30.000And I put my hand behind him, and I kind of lowered him down onto the ground, and I put my fist up in his face like this, and I said, I don't want to hurt you, man.
00:49:40.000And his leg was kind of flapping up on the side of my body like this, and I had him pinned on his back on the sidewalk, and he said, okay, man, okay.
00:52:48.000They give you a lot of stuff like, this is what you do on the street when a guy comes after you, but you can't prepare for everything on the street.
00:52:54.000You don't really know what the fuck, if a guy's going to have a gun or a knife.
00:56:54.000You can get, the internet is bringing content to your television.
00:56:57.000It's just doing it through outside parties now.
00:56:59.000It's not quite as accessible as I would think it would be.
00:57:02.000Yeah, I worry that it's going to get all controlled so that, you know, you end up, everyone gets some box, they're watching the internet on their TV, but it's not the real internet, you know?
00:57:11.000It's just the stuff that the shows that get bought by Time Warner Cable and they decide to put on the internet, which then all of a sudden you don't have the internet.
00:57:19.000You have this sort of just other way of distributing television that's on demand, but it's not free.
00:57:27.000We need to make sure that – and I don't know a whole lot about it, but I was talking about this the other day with my friend, and he said net neutrality is a big issue right now.
00:57:36.000They're talking about – Well, since you're in Hollywood, since we don't know a lot about it, let's argue about it.
01:01:20.000It's dangerous because sometimes it drags on, and I do the Q&A for like a fucking hour or something, and I don't know how to end, because it's so open-ended.
01:01:27.000But I think people like fucking around and being able to talk to me, so I let them know.
01:01:32.000Like, well, there'll be a time where we can yell shit out, but it's not, let me get my material out, do all this, and then we'll fuck around.
01:03:15.000Yeah, well, and it's like when you were playing that song earlier, I was sort of sitting here kind of curling up inside my shoes, you know, because it's like you're looking at something from 20 years ago, and you're going, oh, geez, I wouldn't really do it exactly that way.
01:03:26.000The way I'm rapping, trying to sound like Chuck D, you know, it's like, that's kind of cheesy, you know?
01:03:31.000But it's capturing, somebody said this to me once, that, you know, you just have to think of all these performances as capturing a moment in time, you know, and just, but I don't, you know, that's all well and good, and I appreciate that, but I don't want to, it's still me.
01:03:42.000I don't really want to watch me from 15 years ago do comedy.
01:04:34.000Yeah, most of the material is written down.
01:04:37.000The way I start off almost all of my bits is I start them off with blog entries.
01:04:41.000Whether or not it gets posted on the internet, almost all of it is just me dissecting a subject.
01:04:46.000This is the method that I've come to over the last few years.
01:04:49.000To me it's the best method because it allows me to really examine all the different ways I think about a subject without worrying about people's attention spans.
01:04:57.000So I just write, you know, and it could be page after page after page, just ramblings on what I think about anything.
01:05:02.000And then I dissect what's funny about it.
01:05:05.000Like, this is funny, this is funny, this is funny.
01:05:07.000And then I say, well, how much this would go into a bit?
01:05:39.000I think you get different kinds of creativity just from driving in your car with the music off.
01:05:43.000If you have your stereo off and you just drive in your car and don't talk to anybody, just doing that, doing average everyday things.
01:05:49.000A percentage of your brain, you know, you're going to focus on what you're doing, you're going to focus on activity, but you're going to get bored.
01:05:55.000Your brain is going to get bored, which is driving.
01:05:56.000So your brain is going to start thinking about things.
01:05:58.000So a percentage of your brain will start coming up with ideas, and you'll start pondering things and questioning relationships, and you start breaking down your life while you're driving with no stereo on.
01:06:07.000You know, when you've got the music on, you listen to that, and then you're off in no thinking land.
01:06:13.000That's one of the most dangerous things about the media.
01:06:15.000Is the fact that it's so pervasive and it's so easy to get to and it's so easy to just sit there and watch and just get sucked into it and never think at all.
01:08:08.000And even if I think it sounds crazy, you're channeling something, okay, maybe you are crazy, but maybe in your crazy, in your actual true belief, you may have it, that you're communicating with this deity that Maybe you can bypass some of the pitfalls and roadblocks in human consciousness, and maybe you can see things that other people can't truly see.
01:08:26.000So maybe you are crazy, maybe you are full of shit, but maybe you still have some good points.
01:08:29.000I'm willing to let that be a possibility.
01:08:31.000So I listen to nutty people do all kinds of different conversations and all kinds of different lectures.
01:08:36.000So I was listening to this, and I fell asleep listening to it.
01:08:39.000So I was on the plane for a five-hour flight, and it's like hours and hours of Lectures of this woman talking through this man, channeling, telling you, love, life is love.
01:08:50.000All this nutty fucking New Age type shit.
01:08:52.000She's channeling from this deity in this strange voice she's inflecting.
01:11:14.000This year, I've been traveling around this year meeting hundreds of people every weekend in different cities, right?
01:11:20.000So you're meeting all these different people.
01:11:22.000Do you find then you start having that happen more when you come back to LA? Yes.
01:11:27.000I mean, especially if you meet someone who's interesting and you wind up talking to this dude and you talk to him on the internet.
01:11:32.000Well, that's an internet, you got an internet memory now.
01:11:35.000You know, this guy is a part of your internet group.
01:11:37.000You know, if you've been on my message board, people sign up for my message board, and sometimes there's some cool people who have some interesting things, and okay, now that guy's a name in my things of, you know, names of people that I can store in my mind.
01:11:49.000I mean, it's like 150, that's what they say.
01:11:51.000I really do find that it does seem like a data issue.
01:11:55.000It seems like a data processing issue.
01:11:58.000We're not supposed to have access to this many fucking people.
01:13:41.000It might be life in some sort of an embryonic form.
01:13:44.000And it has to break out of this like a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly.
01:13:48.000We're seeing with technology that people have created today in 2010, we might be seeing just this eggshell that's about to break and this new thing is going to hatch out of it.
01:14:00.000I could use a robot around the house that had sensitive skin.
01:14:09.000That would be so strange if you just had this really super hot robot that you could fuck whenever you wanted, and you didn't have to feed her, you could shut her off, you could do whatever you wanted.
01:14:18.000But when you turned her on, she's like, oh, we fucking?
01:15:05.000If you could actually have these totally controllable, artificial people where you could program in their personality and make them super accepting and docile and always kind and always sweet and affection to you, would people even get in relationships anymore?
01:19:09.000Well, I think basically just the sort of instant access to anything online is kind of starting actually to get to the point where it's not as...
01:19:49.000I think I've watched too much of it in my life, and I'm not interested in it that much anymore.
01:19:55.000Sounds like you're campaigning for a nice girl.
01:19:57.000When I started seeing it online in video, to be honest with you, I watched it a lot because I was interested in the web streaming technology.
01:20:05.000So I would go on some of the sites just to kind of...
01:20:08.000That's it, just for purely technological purposes.
01:20:10.000It was sort of like a business or research kind of thing because I'm doing my web show.
01:20:14.000I wanted to see that the streaming quality was good and things like this.
01:20:17.000And you can get the most data from the facial section.
01:20:37.000Until everybody calms down, and then they're gonna realize, well, I don't really like watching all this crazy mouth fucking until girls throw up and then coming in their eyeballs and all that shit.
01:23:27.000The point I'm making is, it's a good thing to not take off.
01:23:31.000There's a dude that I know whose friend was dating a porn star, and he was trying to reconcile the fact that she fucked guys, and that this was just a job, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:23:39.000I just kind of put it in the back of his head.
01:23:41.000And she came home with a contract, and she's going over the different parts of the contract, and he goes, what's this, airtight?
01:23:48.000She goes, airtight means a dick in every hole.
01:24:16.000I think you know when your girlfriend's got airtight in her contract, that's kind of weird.
01:24:22.000It's a strange thing that a lot of the people in the porn business do.
01:24:26.000They figure out a way to have boyfriends and girlfriends and be in relationships, but they still fuck.
01:24:30.000They fuck other people when they work.
01:24:31.000But they're only allowed to do it when they're working.
01:24:33.000Yeah, it must because we're also, you know, accustomed to seeing it now that people probably out there actually can justify it in their mind because, oh, this is a legitimate profession here.
01:24:47.000When does the Tom Green sex tape come out?
01:26:07.000Why would you want to watch yourself, right?
01:26:08.000I think it's like what you were saying.
01:26:10.000You're watching yourself having sex and you're If you don't like watching yourself on news or radio, why would you want to see yourself having sex?
01:26:34.000I do have one of me when I was like 16 or 17. You know, using my dad's VHS camera that would make like old home movies about carrots attacking me and stuff.
01:26:41.000And I would like set it up in my room and stuff.
01:28:26.000It's a very, you know, there's a little bit of intrigue here behind the story because there was, you know, some things done in TRL that were not necessarily ever made public.
01:28:53.000Okay, so we went to Seattle and we were filming bits in Seattle and we thought, hey, this would be funny to do this song called the Bum Bum Song.
01:29:01.000It was a ridiculous idea and I would go and it was just a silly video of me going around Seattle saying my bum is on the cheese, my bum is on the rail, my bum is on the boat, my bum is on the dock.
01:29:09.000It was a silly, sort of like a Dr. Seuss style nursery rhyme rap.
01:29:22.000And then we played it on my show and we said we want this to go to number one on Total Request Live, which is their countdown music show that they would have every night, hosted by Carson Daly.
01:29:34.000So, we played it on Seattle radio and it went to number one instantly.
01:29:38.000This was when my show was on MTV. It was a really doing well show on MTV. The show was doing well on MTV. It went to number one.
01:29:44.000People saw the absurdity of this song, Knocking 98 Degrees, Britney Spears, NSYNC, and whoever else was on the J-Lo, I think, out of the number one spot.
01:34:12.000And the thing that's funny about that, which is really cool, is that, like, you know, that song is like, I hear that all over the world now.
01:34:20.000That's when you're walking through, like, you know, an airport in...
01:34:24.000In Amsterdam or something, and it's like, you know, you hear him rapping about, you know, it's pretty cool.
01:34:28.000Who would have thought that Eminem would have, I mean, I guess it was pretty awesome when he came out, but I mean, just to be around for 10 years.
01:37:25.000I'm kind of thinking, you know, I've got to get out of the house sometime here in LA. I need something social to do that's not going and sit in some loud nightclub drinking with people.
01:37:36.000Hey, this is something to really kind of wrap my hands around.
01:37:38.000I also was missing getting up in front of an audience.
01:37:41.000The web show is in my living room, so you don't have the audience.
01:38:24.000But usually it was five to seven minutes opening act and amateur night at first, you know, for a little year.
01:38:28.000So tell me how you concocted this tour.
01:38:31.000I mean, how long had you been doing stand-up before you said, all right, I'm going to take this to the road now?
01:38:35.000Well, basically what happened was I was jumping up all around town and then Norm MacDonald asked me to open up for him one night and do some shows with him one night just to kind of get, you know, keep practicing.
01:38:45.000And then, uh, and, uh, essentially, um, I, uh, and, uh, Sarah Sheregi from Gersh came to all my shows and said, you know what, I'm going to book you on a tour.
01:40:02.000Doug Benson brings in notes on stage and goes, look, if you don't want me to be stumbling around wondering what the fuck I'm talking about, this is good.
01:40:09.000But eventually, after a while, though, I was kind of like, I started feeling like it was kind of a bit of a crutch, because I'm trying to be really physical.
01:41:15.000So when you wrote out your act, did you write out a beginning, a middle, and an end?
01:41:21.000Did you put it all together verbatim, or do you ad-lib when you were on stage?
01:41:25.000Yeah, initially I sort of, yeah, I ad-lib a lot on stage, but I have this sort of pretty solid, like, I know where I'm going to start, I know what I'm going to do when I start, I know what I'm going to do when I'm finished.
01:41:36.000I actually pretty much know the order I'm going to go in through the bits that I've tried and tested.
01:41:42.000But then often I'll kind of go off into the audience between bits for a second and talk to some people for a second.
01:41:49.000But what's happened is it sort of evolved over the year, like the last nine months of doing it, is every week I'll kind of go, you know, maybe this is a little...
01:41:59.000It's too depressing of a subject matter to talk off the top.
01:42:03.000So then I'll move it sort of later in the act.
01:42:51.000And I think the disappointment of forgetting them makes it easier to remember the next time, because then I go look at them again, I go, I've got to remember this tag, this line, this line.
01:42:58.000And so it's sort of, it's interesting.
01:42:59.000It is interesting, because it really is kind of cool.
01:43:03.000I mean, again, this first year of doing this full-time, night after night, but to...
01:43:07.000When people tell you, you've got to get up, it's like a muscle.
01:43:09.000You get up on stage, you start to retain it differently.
01:43:14.000There's been obviously periods for two, three weeks where I haven't done a show this year, and then you get back on and you can't remember anything.
01:43:21.000I take a week or two off all the time, and when I come back on stage, I'm like, I always have to do a warm-up set.
01:43:25.000I do something in town in LA, and then it charges it.
01:43:28.000And then that's the only time where I'll go over material just to familiarize myself with what I've been talking about most recently.
01:43:35.000So I have my iPhone records all my sets, and I get recordings from Brian too.
01:43:39.000So then I take them and I put them on my iPod, and then I just listen to them on planes.
01:44:13.000And you know, I think like what we were talking about when we were having coffee, when I got here, In the kitchen, you were talking about how it's just nice to be in an independent thing where you want to come up with a crazy idea, a funny thought, and you go up and you can try it and there's no somebody coming in telling you not to say this or do that.
01:44:35.000The most frustrating thing for anybody controversial like you has got to be a bunch of executives that have their ideas about what they think is going to be funny, and they're imposing it.
01:44:43.000And you're like, look, it may not be funny for you.
01:44:45.000It might not be funny for three people in this room, but four people in this room might think it's the funniest shit they've ever seen.
01:44:50.000And you're going for those four people, and these people can never see that.
01:44:54.000All they can see is, but you're losing three.
01:44:57.000If you just took this back, this person would still like it.
01:45:00.000You'd still get the original people, and we'd have two more people that like it.
01:45:04.000They think in these nutty numbers, and they're not thinking creatively.
01:45:07.000And then you end up spending most of your time dealing with that, and at the end of it all, you're never really sure what it would have been if you'd just sort of gone wild on your own.
01:45:15.000It's a beautiful thing about the stage.
01:45:17.000Just being on the road has been really fun.
01:45:21.000I also thought it'd be a cool way to go out and film stuff for my website, because I've always said, hey, it'd be cool to take my web show And go to different cities and see the people that watch the web show.
01:46:12.000Well, you know, the thing is, to give you a little bit of an idea here, so what we've done in my eyesight, because 4chan, I found, did some fairly clever and ridiculous and absurd prank calls on us constantly.
01:46:33.000And obviously the most annoying thing, because it's completely irrelevant, and I'm sitting here with a guest.
01:46:38.000But that was on the phone, but on Skype, it's much more difficult for them to do that, because we've created a system, which I'll tell you about off-air, actually.
01:47:19.000Yeah, I think I'm starting to lose my hearing.
01:47:21.000I've noticed a lot sometimes I'm in conversations with people and they're talking to me as if I should be able to hear what they're saying.
01:49:57.000And if that's what aliens decide to do to us, they'll do the same thing to us that we do to monkeys, that we do to dolphins, that we do to killer whales.
01:50:18.000I try to keep these thoughts, these ideas of UFOs and aliens, I try to keep them away from my consciousness because I think they're giant time wasters.
01:50:26.000They contemplate, what if the aliens come in?
01:50:32.000I'm open to the possibility that there are aliens, but I'm not going to sit around and watch some fucking lights in the sky that I don't know what the fuck it is.
01:50:39.000It turned out it was actually a helicopter and you're actually retarded.
01:51:22.000It's all so strange that it's entirely possible there's something super advanced past this, and they can communicate with us.
01:51:28.000And it probably could be here right now watching us.
01:51:31.000But these guys that came out today, or that you were talking about last night, that are Air Force generals, etc., that have been sworn to secrecy for the last 50 years or whatever, that say that they came and checked out some nuclear sites, and that they shut off some nuclear weapons, and they're all saying that this happened.
01:51:56.000One of the things that it could be that I always think is maybe these guys are like being paid by the government to say absolutely ridiculous things and that nothing ever really happened at all.
01:52:06.000And what there are is a part of some sort of a disinformation campaign.
01:52:09.000And then eventually turn out they lied about a few details and that will discredit the whole story.
01:52:13.000And it just makes aliens seem more and more ridiculous to calm people down because there may be some things that they can't keep wraps on.
01:52:21.000And when those things are leaked, the best way to diffuse the impact of some sort of a crazy event or video, the best way to diffuse the impact would be to show all these other ones of similar stories that seem absolutely ridiculous.
01:52:32.000So it automatically gets lumped into, oh, it's a UFO video.
01:52:37.000And so it automatically puts it into that category.
01:52:40.000I mean, that's an effective psychological tactic.
01:52:42.000If you were someone like the CIA or someone in the NSA, someone who's like of a super intelligence community, they know how to fucking manipulate people.
01:53:34.000I think there's a lot of people scrambling, trying to figure out a bunch of different things that don't make sense.
01:53:38.000And I think it's very possible that there are some alien life forms, but I do not think that our government has shit under control enough to keep all that shit under wraps and to somehow or another be communicating with these things.
01:53:48.000I think if the government knows anything about UFOs, they know barely more than the average person knows.
01:53:53.000And they have some evidence and they keep that shit under wraps.
01:53:56.000They have cleared up some evidence perhaps.
01:54:31.000And all of a sudden, someday evolved to become human beings.
01:54:34.000Whatever the fuck we were as single-celled organisms that became us, there's going to be a similar leap of evolution from us to something else.
01:54:43.000So it literally will be the aliens will be treating us the same way we treat a fucking ant colony.
01:55:07.000So then we get in this thing and you get to go to another planet instantly with their technology and it's got more space and there's no pollution.
01:57:31.000And Tom Green, if you haven't seen his show, he has a whole web, we were talking about the show, he and I did, he has a whole, literally like a Tonight Show on the internet.
01:57:39.000It's a brilliant thing, and I loved it, and it inspired me to do this.
01:57:43.000That was the first thought in my mind of putting something together on the internet.