#662 - Matt Rife
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Summary
Matt Rake joins us to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement, the Woot bracelet, and a conspiracy theory surrounding the events of the BLM protests in response to the George Floyd killing in the streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 2020.
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Today's guest is a stand-up comedian and an actor.
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um he's he's pretty much he's the tim burton of rhode island i think that's safe to say he's got
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a new show coming out later this year on netflix called the altruists um we're thankful to have
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him this is his first time being here and um he's had quite a journey uh and we're just
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I just want to make sure I look fucking BLM adjacent.
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Like, you wouldn't protest yourself, but you'd help make the signs.
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I just want them to know that, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, I'll hit the barbecue, but I'm not hitting the march, you know?
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Yeah, because the BLM march also, I think it just got too...
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I had just gotten a whoop bracelet, so I was all about my steps at that time.
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oh that's a great point dude people don't think about dude i wouldn't be surprised and this is a
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conspiracy theory a lot of those were like blm marches and like probably the you know i don't
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know if also maybe like the george floyd protest that was all kind of the same thing i think yeah
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i think so but um were the were the blm marches and stuff was all that part of like just big
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propaganda for like the woot bracelet in some of those companies is that a real conspiracy
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if people would think it was just for the fitness aspect i don't know let's look that up on perplexity
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if you can dude or what are they saying is there because all i'm saying is that's smart
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that's smart do we put out this thing people need their steps how do we get them outdoors
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it's a black bracelet i'm just saying the bracelet could have been any color hey you said it i was
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way too early in the pod for that i mean bro this pod's been through a lot so i know man i'm so
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happy we finally make it happen i think we'll be fine dude me too man good to see you good to see
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No, there's no credible evidence that the BLM marches were a conspiracy to sell whoops.
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Which is a little slangish, I feel like, for perplexity.
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Or that the protests themselves were pre-planned as a fake operation.
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What is true is that the 2020 protests happened in response to the George Floyd killing,
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and like many large demonstrations, that included a mix of peaceful marches and some incidents
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i gotta tell you man you're you're very good at reading out loud you think your cold read skills
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are incredible really oh yeah i was stumbling over those words not even saying it out loud
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yeah that was very impressive i'm just glad to know that you don't have every skill dude because
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when you like because you were like dude you kind of you made things difficult on a lot of us bro
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when you were like the good-looking comedian dude and first of all were hurt a lot that was the that
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was the meanest part of the sentence fuck sorry you changed a lot bro when you became
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what you just changed the whole role it was like because comedian was a safe place for like kind
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of regular looking dudes who didn't have that thing bro who couldn't really go around who
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couldn't just walk up to a woman and be like ta-da that's not true you literally have that
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everybody knows that no yes that's i thank you no man amongst the comedy community you're a piece
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ass dude everyone knows this this is not true that's absolutely true you gotta get out and ask
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more well i mean i mean i i i i i mean i don't think so but what i do know is there's a there's
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only a few no you did it bro you were like oh my god and people dude i remember a lot of comedians
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a lot of us were we wouldn't even go out of our houses for months after i after i came onto the
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scene yeah after i started doing push-ups yeah people like ah we were making noises we'd never
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Anyway, good to see you, bro. I'm just kind of giving you a hard time.
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I know. Congrats on all your success and everything,
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so cool it's wild dude it's a lot it it's a lot yeah you know what we did talk one time
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hold on i'm not even done with this yet is it is it does it bug you that i say the good looking
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comedian thing does that bug you at all or no it doesn't bother it doesn't bother me it bothers
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other people i suppose it does you think i get shit for it all the time people act like i'm the
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one walking around saying it oh yes that's the weird part oh no dude yeah because it was like
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what do you mean because first you heard rumors there's a guy and he's he's doing comedy and it's
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good and he's and he's good looking and people like what do you mean people are calling their
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grandfathers grandfathers why and your grandpa be like what do you mean and his his bracelet
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would fucking start you know not good not good call edna now like report to grandmother i didn't
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realize i was affecting families you were just it was just a lot for people bro um sorry because
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people had never seen that the the you know this is like there's a there's there's some people that
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have like skill like a skill and then another skill like people are surprised when somebody
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has one skill and then they also have something else it's almost like um like justin tucker do
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you know who that is for baltimore the baltimore ravens kicker can you bring him up yeah yeah he's
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an i believe he's a is he an opera singer he's a mezzo he's he's a singer he's a singer no way
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so we got that leg and that throat bro just a full body powerhouse yeah
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or having that kind of skill set to opera sing?
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The NFL punter is just a mild thing that he's doing.
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Bro, when you got that kind of lung in you, bro,
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yeah i think i have probably have you yeah of course it's always like when you're in your car
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you turn the radio you turn the volume down just enough to hear yourself you're like am i fucking
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this up then you can hear yourself you're like i'm fucking ruining this song like i know i don't
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have it in me because you have to try eventually you don't know what skill set you might have
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yeah like i was watching a good point yeah you don't know what skill set you might have right
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and who even ever even tries how many people could be like they never even tried that's
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unbelievable yeah like what yeah like are there things you've tried are there some side quests
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that you've kind of tried you know what i feel like i've been so busy i haven't had time to
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really explore a lot of other avenues but i'd like to learn stuff i'd love to learn like an
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instrument or something or fucking magic dude yeah you fuck with magic i mean i think it's you
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know i'm kind of like that's where the black in me shows up at the surface bro when people start
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doing a lot of magic like it feels like it could be too real it just like what if this dude's doing
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this right here what's he doing in his all in his you know i'm saying if he's willing to show us
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this yeah what's he doing at the house that's a good point but also picturing somebody learning
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magic in their house by themselves is also one of the funniest things i could i can imagine
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i can't picture anything lonelier nobody around to see your wallah
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or your kazam or whatever your fucking power word is i don't know is that is that not a is
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that not a magician word is that like a chef is that chef shit no that's a good question bro
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Yeah, dude, chefs and magicians beef over their, like, verbal, like, ejaculate or whatever it's called.
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Or, like, they're, like, dude, chefs and magicians beef over, like, their, what is it called, do you think, Matt?
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They're, um, it's not, they are, it is a delivery, but.
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onomatopoeia was like some kid that couldn't read good that had to go to the toilet or whatever
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i remember that we had a dude in our um in our sunday school and he couldn't you just started
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looking at him bro and you could tell he had to go to the toilet he was fidgeting yeah he was his
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whole body would start shaking i'm not gonna lie to you i i would have lost all my money on how to
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spell that word onomatopoeia and you'd be like damn onomatopoeia soon bro so we got to get him
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out of here, bro. And onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates
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or suggests the sound that it describes. I didn't even know there was a T in there. I've been saying
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onomatopoeia my entire life. Yeah. Well, we can take a break if you need us to.
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Impacts and collisions. So like boom, bang, crash. You know what did it a lot was like those old
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comic books with like uh batman oh a hundred percent where it's just it's just the one big
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word bang yes back when it was uh it was adam west was like the original yeah you big comic guy
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you know i'm not that big into it but i i think i liked it when i was a kid but i never got into
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the comic books i feel that did you no i can't do it i don't know why i'm not a big on paper kind
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of guy like i'm not reading the harry potter books i'm not doing it yeah now i mean i could
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settle i think if i ever have to go to the hospital for a long time i'm saving sopranos and harry
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potter for not gonna go to the hospital for a long recovery series yeah hospital if i get married
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and if my wife's in a coma or something i gotta sit in there with her you just ever propped up
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to watch the series that's uh what's the um well i mean i'm gonna have just i want to have something
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to do i want to be able to look for because some people that's such a scary time in their life if
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your spouse is in a coma or something if your wife's in a coma so i want to at least be able
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to look forward to something. So I've saved those things till then. What's that? Is it
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Munchausen syndrome is where you keep somebody sick so that they need you? I could see you doing
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that just to finish the series. Yeah, dude. Like my, my, my wife's like, she's starting,
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like you're getting like a little bit of reading on her, like her, like on the, on the Harvey
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monitor. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hold on, honey. I'm almost done. Hold on. I got four episodes of
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breaking that left dude you know that's happened to somebody oh 100 no there was a guy uh i met a
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guy at a show one time who he faked being sick from work for three weeks to stay home and watch
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tv that was like his full thing wow and his wife totally just allowed it which was like a cool mom
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letting you skip school that's got to be dope yeah man that's the one that's the the one i want to
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find a lady like that on the second day she's like oh i see what you're doing oh yeah he's not even
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faking it anymore on day three he's just living his life she's on to him yeah and she's like i like
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it how long you're gonna be here dang dude yeah that's gotta be if you get like a good partner
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like that but yeah dude so that's like uh what are we even talking about how the fuck did we
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get into watching onomatopoeia onomatopoeia yeah the bangs the wallahs magic oh that's what it was
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yeah yeah what's your finishing term oh man because oh how did uh voila come to be a term
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how did uh or what ta-da i think it's ta-da voila is definitely a chef term i don't know
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why that came to me voila voila sounds like uh it tells audience the truth oh oh voila came from
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voila tells the abracadabra that's a yeah classic it's magic might be the lamest one i've heard you
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do it tricking you gotta tell them what it is it's magic that's magic hey that's like if you're
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making love to a girl and it's not that good you're like it's sex yeah that's come yeah it's
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wiener she's like it's barely wiener okay it's not dick for sure it's not dick it's wiener
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it's almost like one of those like can't believe it's not dick
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how is that not like blue chews motto blue chews hems pills i can't believe it's not dick
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yeah oh that's weird pop one of those bad boys the blue chews yeah oh dude yes and dude i'll
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i'll even nibble just half of one a half well yeah i kind of based it on like how that what's
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going on or whatever like because i used to live with my buddy's dad i used to live brother
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My buddy's dad, in RIP, my buddy's dad just passed Wally.
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And I lived with him, dude, right out of high school.
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I lived with him because he had a script for them Wiener pills, right?
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You couldn't just be getting those uppers, bro.
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And so when somebody had it was like, dude, so I was like, well, if I live with Wally, then he's got a script and I can just pop him if I need him because I had a ton of sexual anxiety.
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Oh, I wish he'd have told me that before we signed the lease.
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Oh, I thought, dude, I thought I was going to be living large, dude.
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i'm just i'm just saying like his erection was getting its steps in you know he's gonna whoop
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he's gonna whoop around it yeah it's like yeah that's dick you know what was the what was the
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sexual anxiety that you had oh just in my i had a lot of sexual anxiety bro just nerves yeah a ton
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of nerves what is it like i had a tough time talking with girls it made me nervous bro like
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super nervous because i think i had a tough relationship with my mother so even just the
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interaction with like looking at a woman being looked at my voice that kind of stuff was like
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made me super like nervous so i think that just that didn't just it doesn't just go away kind of
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so then you move on through life and now now the women you're interacting with it's like about
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you know uh dating intimacy dating sexuality whatever wiener and then for wiener that's all
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you know so just some of that but anyway so i went to live and i gotta talk dude i have you here and
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i'm talking so much no i love the story already uh so i went to live with wally bro r.i.p shout out
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and uh and so we were living over there we're living in like a studio apartment too so oh no
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no it wasn't that bad sorry it was a one bedroom but the bedroom didn't have it just had a little
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balcony it didn't have like a full wall got it got it okay so i'd sleep out on the couch and he
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had a car and he would let me borrow his car but the car you couldn't turn it off you had to get
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it jumped so i would drive the car to school and i'd park like this was at loyola in new orleans i
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would park up by the like teacher's area and just leave it running the whole time and for some
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reason if the car's running they like wouldn't put a ticket on it like somebody just ran inside
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or whatever it's genius so i'd leave it running the whole time i was at class it would cost like
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maybe six dollars in gas but i would leave it running anyway he got the pills i would try to
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nibble off him so he didn't see and i'm trying to reshape him and shit bro i was carving them
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into crescent moons oh dude i was trying to make them all smaller and shit bro it i was like
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Being serenaded to that would, I don't even know if I'd need the pills.
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Yeah, they'd be drinking orange juice and vodka in the bed, and I'd go in there and just play it for them a couple times.
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I remember my first apartment in L.A. I was living with my manager's son at the time.
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And I lived on the couch, and I had, like, the small closet.
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And then he had, like, what would be considered the bedroom.
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I remember he was out of town one weekend, and this girl wanted to come over.
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And she was like, what are all those clothes doing out there?
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I was like, oh, yeah, I let my friend live on the couch.
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He's like, he's passing through town, and you put all his pictures up on the walls and shit?
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You're like, yeah, he's the kind of guy he is.
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Yeah, I came down to do some stuff with Billboard with the Red Clay Strays
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And then just stayed in town for the shows, man
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And there wasn't anything within like an hour of the city that I really liked
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If you live an hour outside of Nashville, you don't really live in Nashville
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Yeah, yeah, you live a little bit further out, I agree
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Yeah, it's nice, there's some good land out there
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that you get to bring those guys up. They're special, bro.
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You know, comedy really, a lot of comedians really
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music for men and young men. Do you feel like that
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from like the 50s and 60s, which I think was like
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Obviously, this is a song about being on antidepressants then.
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This is a song about coming off of SSRIs, dude.
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I was a song, music and bone, God's perfect wording.
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no, I'm just fine. It's just a matter of time. I mean, those are bars in there, man. Oh yeah.
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I think it's powerful stuff. People here living, I think they're blind. It's like, yeah, how can
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you, how can you be so positive and all this stuff's going on? Dude, I think that's kind of,
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sometimes it's where we are in the world and I don't even want to get negative, but it's like,
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it does feel sometimes like we are pretending that we're okay. Does that make sense? Absolutely. I
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mean, I think I operate from a big position of just bliss. I try to stay out of stuff. Like I'm
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i'm not a political person at all like i just i i should get torn for to shreds for even saying
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this but like i don't pay attention it seems so stressful it seems like all bad stuff all the
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time and i'm like it's either happened or it's not nothing i can really do about it yeah so i
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mean sometimes being uninformed leads to a little bit of happiness do you know it's a good it's a
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good point i think the more that i've the more i learn sometimes the more it hurts sometimes or
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something hurt i don't i don't know what it is no i think that's life though i think about like
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when you're a kid you don't know anything life is so blissful right you can't you don't you don't
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even know about all the problems going on yeah dude you're that's so right little kids are just
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like they don't know anything i think the more you learn as life goes by i mean i think the
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the magic of of life kind of gets um smeared yeah you know sometimes i wonder it's like
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because sometimes we talk we'll talk about stuff on here that's like kind of political or things
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that like we feel a lot of it's like stuff that you end up learning about through technology too
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and it's like we wouldn't know it if we were like back in like tribal time where we were in like
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these you know if we didn't have so much technology we wouldn't know a lot of this stuff but do you
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think that's how we're supposed to be though i don't think it's how we're supposed to be i think
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there will be a time in the future where we will look back and or someone will look back and they'd
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be like what were they do how did they even what was happening you think do you think we're supposed
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to know about everything going on in the world like do you think we should know what's going on
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like overseas in different countries with different people it's tough dude like as human beings
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well i wonder if sometimes i think that no it doesn't do us any good i mean a lot of times
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i'm angry about stuff that's not even in my area and then it's like where i could probably put that
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put that same energy towards stuff that is maybe more localized yeah or even in my own family and
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personal life to have a better effect on those things or try to uh but then i also i've heard
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people talk about like that there's no real separation like in between space and time so i
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wonder sometimes like if people like if you see something that's so painful in the world and you
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prayed enough about it or you really tried to channel like whatever good had been blessed to
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you or bestowed upon you if you try to channel it towards like could you have an effect you know so
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because then that makes me think oh well then there is some purpose to all of that yeah absolutely
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but i don't know i don't know any of that but it's just it is stuff to think about no that's
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a good spiritual direction though i like that you know it's something to think about but i don't
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think there's anything i can't sit here and be like sometimes like sometimes i'll be like well
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why don't certain people say this say speak up somebody but that's that's me like trying to
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project or think some way it's like everybody's on their own thing yeah of course sometimes i
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maybe have wishes yeah but but sometimes it's like yeah it'd be better just to like sit and laugh
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sometimes people just want their comedians to just joke around and not be yeah not be talking about
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other stuff yeah sometimes just because somebody doesn't speak up on something doesn't mean that
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they're not empathetic about it maybe they just maybe they can't handle it maybe that's just not
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where they're they may not have blinders on that you know they have their sights on something
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specific or just minding their own business yeah doesn't always mean they're a bad person i don't
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think no i don't think so either yeah like i have friends and my buddy's like dude i i was like do
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you ever think about this or worry about this he's like well you know i got a couple kids my kids
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right now and i have a kid who you know he has a kid that has some learning disability he's like
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i just spend i have to focus all on that it's like you can't fault that it's like no i think
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that's actually better i think i think general i think uh focusing a lot of your energy on the
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things more direct to you i think can be a good thing i think that's a lot more peaceful think
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about the things that get like people are complaining online all the time about something
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right yes all the time it's like okay is that thing you're complaining about to you personally
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more important than like you know your kid's baseball game or whatever it is or their birthday
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stands like you're like mastering a tweet and you miss your kids like you know double or he gets a
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worry about my own shit i don't know if that's healthy or not oh i don't think it is at all but
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i notice i'll even use worrying about other stuff sometimes as like a method of like escapism from
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like not taking care of the things i need to be taken care of that's a very good point next time
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You know, that's, look, there's stuff happening in Gaza right now, and you're expecting, what
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You want troops on the ground over here, right?
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yeah i don't it's i mean it is it's i think if we didn't have as much technology would we take
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on the world as much you know yeah i don't think i don't think it's healthy for us i mean obviously
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there's so much good to be learned you know but i do feel like it distracts us from a lot of things
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we probably should be focusing on firsthand yeah i'll leave that open to interpretation it's a
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more generalized concept but uh yeah i don't think it's good for us yeah i think uh i think
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i think a lot of different things about it you know what so what else what else at cma's you do
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have you spent a lot of time in nashville or no uh i mean i've been performing here since i was
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like 16 like zany's was one of the first clubs i ever got to perform at really yeah did you open
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up for somebody oh a bunch of people i mean uh tommy davidson to polly shore to jim brewer bill
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bellamy i've opened for oh ralphie obviously when i was like still living in ohio he used to let me
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come down here and do his shows right before christmas at zany's and he would like i mean he
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would pay me like five six hundred dollars which i'm in high school so that's like a million dollars
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to me so that i could like i could go back home and like buy my family christmas presents with
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that money oh dude he's like the nicest guy so i mean i've been coming here for a while i love it
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here yeah comedy scene too yeah it's good people man it's some of the best people i couldn't agree
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more what i can't believe you got to come down here and work with ralphie that was so wild
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what was that like did you see him having troubles back then i mean that was a long time ago
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i mean he was fat the whole time right i never knew him to not be gigantic um so i mean there
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was no i mean i was also 16 17 so again i'm not really like looking for problems wow yeah that's
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at the that's you that's the brea improv yeah i think i'm i'm 17 in this maybe 18 wow i think i
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maybe just turned 18 in that but look at that watch wow fake couldn't be more fake
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what's it made out of like it looks like a goddamn ben 10 watch dude it's like it's made
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out of ivory is it real ivory no it's not real ivory man it's pure plastic is it real tusk
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not at all man oh dude look at ralphie's smile bro yeah man i miss him a lot oh he was such a
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good guy he started when he was super young too i think he started when he was 14 yeah he was full
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of black he said he was so big because a lot of his inside it had a lot of blacks and a lot of
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blacks in them black people inside of him i mean you could fit a couple of black people inside of
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him he said there was like a couple black guys in the front seat and the back seat of him
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because you know it's not you give one brother a ride a couple brothers show like like whoa who's
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that yeah you know you got somebody hopping on the pegs you know yeah dude that was the craziest
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thing bro i used to bike through the neighborhood and uh on my way to school i go through the black
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area and my buddy jonathan would get on um on the back and then like sometimes a couple of his
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buddies would get on the front dude and so i was just this little just like white little engine
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that could dude you know just like calves just pumping i think i can i think i can i'm just
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sitting there yeah and they used to call me the n-word bus that's what they call me when they
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saw me pulling up they're like oh here come your bus and they'd all jump on dude and i'd have to
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get like five guys to get the you know help them get their education or whatever and i was like i
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can do it get their education like you're a public service bro if i didn't get them there it was like
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11 more blocks of school if i didn't get them there they wasn't going they stopped at block
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gate oh bro yeah yeah one or two dudes got off bro we never saw them again that's so fucking
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funny too so that was wild bro but yeah ralphie was like ralphie was one of a kind bro i can't
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name somebody else that's like ralphie can you really no man i really wish i could see how he
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would have navigated like comedy today because it's changed so much in just the 15 years that
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i've been doing it and watching him i mean not give a fuck isn't the most articulate way to say
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that but like he was just so unapologetically himself and people fuck with it dude i didn't
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i i had never met anybody who didn't like him oh dude i remember i broke down when he passed out
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it like really hit me hard oh same man that was arguably my first like mentor in comedy he um
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i was i wasn't even i think i'd maybe just turned 16 he was coming to youngstown ohio
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he was playing a theater up there i'm sorry it was cleveland he was he was doing a hilarities up
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there and this is like when twitter like you could you could reach anybody on twitter everybody was
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so accessible so i like tweeted at him i was like hey i'm this kid in ohio and i'm doing comedy now
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can i open for you at hilarity and he was like yeah you know what fuck it come on down but my
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mom ruined it she well because she had no experience in this whatsoever i mean to her this is just a
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grown man inviting her son up to cleveland right this is like pedophilia or whatever yeah she had
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no idea i mean i had been doing comedy or humorous pedophilia humorous pedophilia maybe five months
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i've been doing stand-up so i didn't know anything either so she's asking like where do i park do we
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need to buy tickets what time we need to be there where do we need to go do i need to talk to
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anybody i ended up asking him so many questions on behalf of my mom he was like hey man i actually
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it's actually not going to work out so he can't he canceled on me and then maybe six months later
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he was doing youngstown and he let me come up and do that that was like my first theater show
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I think it made it into one of his specials where he was
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word and make it mean something different so he
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was like I think we should name the most delicious
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white room with a few black people but it didn't matter like the joke was just great across the
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board like he was for everybody his crowds were so eclectic oh and i love coming up with that i
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never wanted to like pigeonhole and play to like a specific audience i'm like if he can appeal to
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everybody like that's the main goal yeah dude well yeah just to be your i think to try and try and
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be as close to your truth is what it is and i think ralphie was that guy he was just like
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he loved like being accepted by black folks and white folks he loved bringing them together with
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humor yeah uh and he loved just like being able to kind of be welcomed just in that space because
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to be in that space also and navigate comedy it's important because you have like a you don't have
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a responsibility or something but you can bring people together if two people can laugh at the
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same joke that's a big thing i couldn't agree more i think sense of humor is so important dude
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dude that's so cool that you got to have some of those moments with him yeah when i first moved
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to la he uh he used to pick me up we'd go to like a diner he'd make me order like three entrees and
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i was like is this fucking for you he was like no whatever you don't eat you can take home with me
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now you have like groceries for your week yeah i have leftovers for it the nicest guy man wow i
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know i know dang that's big bro that's a big heart he was mostly heart heart and brothers inside of
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He was one of those people that, like, I wish I could have got to share what I get to go through now with him.
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Just to get his perspective on it, see what advice he would have had, you know.
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i mean god damn bro i think i can't i think i can't i think i can't dude we gotta get these
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brothers to school dude that was his long dude oh damn bro he would love that joke though he
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would love oh he would love it bro dude honestly i can i'm not even joking i can feel him smiling
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right now that's one thing bro i believe that there is this there's this like between space
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and time like if we say like ralphie we love you and we miss you and thank you for all the times
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you made us laugh i believe i think he can feel that somewhere i think so so i think that there's
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like a like i think there's a way that you like that you can transfer like a feeling or like a
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hope you know um through space and time you know i don't know no you can call it prayer you can call
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it whatever whichever angle you want to come from i think it does affect things yeah and here's the
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thing even if it doesn't isn't it so much better to just believe it anyways 100 isn't life just
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better to believe it yeah i mean i feel the same way about fucking bigfoot just cooler to believe
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he's out there yeah dude is he probably not but it's so much more fun to think maybe he is dude
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what about the guy that just was on joe rogan that saw an eight famine is it uh i think he was a navy
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seal can you bring him up they saw an eight foot big they said eight foot that's pretty big well
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how tall is victor women yana he's got to be close but his little ass he would be a he would
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be kind of a punk in the bigfoot community just a runt i mean he would be i mean they would
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respect him for sure he more of a slender man oh you fuck with slender man i mean i don't fuck
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with him dude i i that's my that's my lane dog i love all spooky shit oh yeah that's right do you
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You bought the spooky—you invested in Ed and Lorraine's—
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But their house is in Connecticut, so it's down the street, hour and a half drive, something like that.
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Not a lot of people know that I'm even into this stuff.
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My friend and my business partner, Elton Castell, he and I started doing—
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he had been doing ghost hunting on youtube for oh god probably close to like eight years now
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and then i kind of came aboard about five years ago something like that we've been like around
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the world to some of the most haunted places it's so fucking you have yeah yeah we had sam and colby
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on here talking about that before those guys are awesome yeah those guys are fucking sick dude one
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time i went to dinner with rogan i go meet him sam and colby are are they like with joe shut up
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blew my mind yeah man they're good dudes i was like what the fuck are y'all doing here dude
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it's a smaller world than you think oh they're like the like spooky in sync kind of it's like
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it's kind of what they seem like a little bit when you meet them you know yeah man they're
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handsome for no reason yeah it's like oh you're handsome and you're ghost hunters they're another
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they're a couple justin tuckers dude that's who they are you can't even see bangs in the dark
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there's no reason to even have good hair like that i it's just but dude bangs that's an onomatopoeia
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through a little bit more of that. So you moved, so you,
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and you said you wanted some land? Yeah, I wanted land
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have to have to go direct. Okay, so that's Providence
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I wanted some kind of a comedy scene and Providence
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has the comedy connection there, which is a fucking
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They've got a couple of good theaters there that I'll do like our holiday toy drives at and stuff on the wintertime
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And then they have a there's a ton of open mics. There's a bunch of don't tells out there
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So like when i'm home and I want to work stuff out like there's no shortage of stage time at all
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Wow, so I mean kind of just checked all the boxes. It's awesome, dude. It's so peaceful
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It's so beautiful. Like it's quaint. It's got it's got everything I need
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Like I said the airport's nearby comedy's nearby targets eight minutes away
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17 minutes. That's good. Yeah, it's not bad at all, dude
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and I mean we're in the cities all the time for work right like we're always talking I'm always
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in New York I'm always in LA or Miami Chicago or whatever like when I'm not there I just want
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peace like that's what I actually have what made you pick that I mean Rhode Island's just
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an interesting place no absolutely you know it's kind of like it's kind of romantic
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Rhode Island to me has like this like beachy kind of romantic scene but also like this
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thuggish sort of scene well I didn't know how like mob deep it was dude I had no I had no idea
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rhode island was like run by the mob for a while which was pretty fucking awesome i was doing shows
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at mohegan sun in connecticut and this is around the time i was just like just starting to look
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for like maybe i'll get a house someday my life's starting to change and i was on zillow and i found
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a house like an hour away and i was like shit i'll just go check it out before the show's tomorrow
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and i went check it out just fell in love with it no yeah so i mean totally random didn't know
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anybody there a couple of my friends have moved out there ever since they live with me so it's
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it's kind of a nice little compound oh you got friends living with you yeah absolutely have you
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to kick anybody i don't think what's that been like you guys splitting wiener pills out there
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what are you guys doing out there bro it's like you live there that's good to hit both on the head
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is uh pretty impressive yeah yes and yes man we're rationing it up there brother oh yeah dude
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now i will say this if the wiener pill factory ever closes dude there is gonna be the market is
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gonna be hot for those bro oh my god it's the new quaaludes you think they get better with age i
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didn't even think about that i'm gonna sit on a couple put some of my safe yeah in a little time
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capsule give one of your grandson one day uh hey eat this now your diaper won't fit
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that's ridiculous dude i kind of love living with the homies it's it's nice i mean the house is big
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enough to like my boy kyle lives upstairs i live downstairs like those days i don't even see him
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yeah we'll meet we'll meet together in the kitchen for like an uncrustable around 4 p.m that's about
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it dude it's so peaceful it's just chill when you're there like what types of things you get
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You know, do you actually have enough time to take off when you're there?
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I know you just had a, I saw you guys were filming and you were filming in Vancouver.
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Yeah, I was in Vancouver for like seven months last year.
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Like, I didn't think I was going to get this role at all.
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And then they called and were like, hey, you got it.
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Did you have touring dates yet to cancel and everything?
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but luckily they let me keep as many of them as I could,
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Matt Reif among 10 cast in Netflix's FTX series.
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not a chance i wish paul roe was in this he's a he's fucking great
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oh somebody's instagram you thought that was that guy
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i'm still fine no don't sing your way out of it man
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I think some of those wiener pills got my optics off, dude.
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The side effect is you can't get celebrities right anymore.
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I did a thing with Bert for the Netflix festival
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Of like a non-comedian I've fucking ever met
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dude look how ripped yeah man sometimes i like to uh i like to reminisce about summertime
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summertime baby it was hot and mom would try to make the best out of things though and she said
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one day she said i'm gonna take y'all to see the world's biggest anthill about 70 miles from us
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and so we sat there and we weren't really excited but we was curious and sometimes that was enough
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in the summertime to get you out of the house and mom didn't know but i'd snuck me a little deviled
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egg in my pocket so i could get had me a little snack i'd snuck a little de down in my pocket
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with a piece of ice next to it so i could keep it cool in there and we got to that anthill and it
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was i mean you couldn't even imagine how big it was you need you needed two people to imagine it
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at the same time even to have the imagination of it it took two imaginations and they had all types
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of ants in there they had ants they had uh step ants uh ants once removed they had can'ts they had
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ants that just couldn't do it anymore you know they just said they was dealing with impairments
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or high blood pressure and we were about 95 minutes into the tour we'd been you know it was
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And they had a little rest area, a little bathroom area.
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I said, I'm going to sneak off behind these toilets
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maybe have me a little cut of that DE that I had in my pocket.
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Those ants had picked my pocket clean, brother.
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And they were challenging and they were exciting
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A safer Ontario means more police and prosecutors
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It means building new jails to keep criminals behind bars.
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And it means there's no need to worry when I play at the park.
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We're making every corner of Ontario safer to make all of Ontario safer.
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being a part of like that pedigree of a project is awesome Anthony Boyle and Julia Gardner are
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the leads of it and they're just such fucking great actors really like if they're not nominated
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for an award for the for the show I mean it's robbery they're they're so so talented to like
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get to like learn from people like that day after day for seven months was just an awesome
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opportunity it was so hard though like the dialogue was just not something I was familiar
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with like it's all about crypto shit so like every line I'm having to like google what I'm even
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saying oh really was that intense oh my god so obviously memorizing the lines was a lot more
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difficult than just like a day-to-day conversation yeah but it was a good challenge i love i love
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acting i want to do more of it for sure yeah yeah i think so but the thing about acting is it takes
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away from that stand-up it takes away from that stage time it definitely does um it's hard to go
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because if you have those long days were you having long days oh yeah i mean you're on set
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for sometimes a 17 hour day right you can't go do stand-up at the end of that day no but i mean
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most of the seven months i was filming monday through friday and then saturday morning i'd
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get on a plane to go do a show saturday night got it fly to the next place sunday and then i'd have
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to take like a red eye after the show sunday night to be on set at like 6 a.m monday morning
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so there was some weeks where i'm showing up on like no sleep oh but if you want to do all if you
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want to do it all like that's the price to pay for it but also the stand-up like i've been doing it
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for i mean literally half my life and i'm so like blessed to be in the position that i'm in right
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now like it's fucking insane the opportunities i've got to have over the last couple years that
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there starts to become more of a question of like what what now with stand up like i've i've sold
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out madison square garden i've done the hollywood bowl it's like what what is supposed to be after
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that like for me that that's when like the fun of just like the the creative behind is what kind of
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has to propel you like i still have like these funny thoughts these stories that i want to tell
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you have to just enjoy doing stand-up like you find something to chase but it's not always
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a venue sometimes it's just expression yeah dude i think it's interesting you say that
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like i've been at a spot right now where like like we had like my friend and i made a movie
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that we did that we made ourselves right that came out and we did the whole process and we
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just taped a comedy special we did like there's been some things that have just come to an end
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right and touring yeah um and now and that's all finished right now like for like the first time
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in 20 years i don't have a tour date on the books and i don't ever have to have one if i don't want
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how does that make you feel it's it's it's a lot of things it's been like i've had a little bit of
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depression i didn't know what it was from i think some of it was from i don't there's not a ton to
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do like there's podcasting yeah but i haven't really felt like i don't know i haven't felt a
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lot of motivation and i don't know if some of it's because like um there's just not a ton to do like
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i mean do you feel fulfilled in that field sometimes i feel like well what do i like yeah
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i think part of it's like yeah well what do you what do i want to do now what about did i just
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start stand up like 20 years ago when i've just been doing it and like and then now what do i
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want to you know i want to keep doing it i do know that i want to keep doing it i don't know
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if i want to get on stage like right now but there's part of me that's like yeah well what
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else do you want to do what else do you you know i think i kind of wish that there was like a like
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a family aspect in my life right now like wife and children but that's not there so it's like
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that's okay it's just like you know you gotta wait till that comes along but i do think there's some
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like um like having patience with like not the craziest days and that's okay and what's going
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to be next and i don't know right i think having patience with i don't know is kind of tough for me
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especially when you're used to working for 20 years.
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whether it's a tour or whether it's filming something
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I'm only home for like two to three days at a time.
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I'm like, fuck, I feel like I need to be doing something.
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like it's okay to like take a break and just be healthy and you know be where your feet are at for
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a little bit yeah i think that's that's that that's the tough part for me right now a little
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bit and then i think some of it's asking god like well what is you know like does god want me to be
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doing what you know we're just like i think you know i i go to that place of prayer for like yeah
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where you know help me figure out what i what do i want to do because i'm not feeling like a ton of
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like um i just don't know that's the thing and so it's just kind of interesting you know i think
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it's i think that's totally fine man yeah it's just hard to be like it's incredibly hard man
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when you've been chasing something for so long and you feel like you've accomplished isn't the
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right word but you at least got to a place of comfortability to where you don't need to be
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killing yourself every single day yeah it's hard man i'm going from 100 to zero or two you know
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yeah it's hard to coast yeah it's hard and you start to i mean all the little things come in
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like well if am i doing enough or i'm gonna fall off or these things are i have fallen on like all
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and some of that's all just bull it's all it's all bullshit it's all just whatever yeah but all
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those little things kind of come in and you start you put each one on the scale of you and be like
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what weight does this really have and sometimes it jumps on the scale itself some of these fears
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or things and you don't even know it and you're under the weight of it before you realized oh i
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didn't even put this there this just kind of showed up much of it is ego you know what i mean
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how much can i put that aside and how much is actually important to me that's the biggest thing
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is yeah no it's so hard how much of this is ego too and what yeah what's important what do i need
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And then what is my voice best – how can my voice best even be used moving forward for myself and for, like, anything, you know?
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I can't thank you enough for even understanding what that feels like.
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Like, I mean, we – and I have slowed down a ton.
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I mean, we were doing 40 to 50 shows a month between, like, 2024 to the beginning of 2025.
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five i mean six to seven shows a six to seven nights a week two shows a night dude your schedule
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was scary dude i remember we spoke one time you're having a sleep you're having sleeping
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disorder yeah man you called about that i really appreciate that by the way you're having a
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sleeping disorder i have horrible insomnia like i i literally cannot fall asleep without like the
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assistance of something yeah what so what how'd you even a i mean i guess it's easy to figure out
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but did you notice what was keeping you up were you drinking coffee late in the day no no i don't
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do any caffeine at all like never never have can't cannot do it my brain just like you know
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when you're about to fall asleep and then there's just like the the light switch just goes off your
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brain's just off now you are like unconscious yeah i can't fucking flip the switch i can't do
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i can get so close my brain just cannot do it i'm i'm not even like thinking about things i'm not up
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anxious about anything i'm not worried about anything there's not anything in particular in
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my life that i'm worried about just can't do it and i've been to sleep doctors i've got therapists
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what's that did you go to sleep doctors yeah yeah and they all i mean the problem is they all just
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want to they want to just prescribe you medication but i'm like do i that makes me feel even crazier
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that makes to make me feel like i have to have help to do the most basic human thing feels
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fucking crazy so i mean i do take something that does help me get to sleep doesn't keep me asleep
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probably less than 30 hours ago i did it we shook hands as soon as i came in here man now i have
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showered once since then i mean you ever do you ever accidentally get a wake-up nut though when
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you're trying to fall asleep where that boosts the energy on accident like what do you mean
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like there if you jerk off in the beginning of the day what is that wake-up nut a wake-up nut
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is kind of like about that i imagine it's like a shot of b12 it's like getting into a cold plunge
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like there's just something that kind of shocks your system you're like okay i'm ready to i'm
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to tackle the day so you wake up and do a nut sometimes just depends on the day you know what
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i mean depends on the weather wow really yeah man if it's sunny out i'm not gonna i'm gonna
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jerk off in the gloom oh yeah dude i don't know i'm more like emo i think i'm that dude i'm that
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tim burton nut monkey dude i think i'm more like you know it's cloudy out we got a 40 chance of
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nut bro see that feels depressing to me like my dick's not gonna give it its all i'm dude my dick
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gave up i don't think my dick ever even wanted to be a part me and them in a partnership but yeah
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i agree but on a sunny day i'm jerking off the lord has blessed me with this beautiful sun and
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i'm gonna be like oh let me show you what i can do just add a little something to it you know
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what i mean no i want to be walking on sunshine dog yeah i guess you're right bro i want to add
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i'm trying to ride that ride that high yeah you're right brother different avenues to it for sure
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If you jerk off after, I don't know, 7.30 p.m., that's more of a downer, I feel like.
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Honestly, they can't figure out what the problem is, which drives me fucking crazy.
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I'm like the one person in the world who has whatever problem I have with my brain doesn't seem possible.
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Right, like you're like a wake squats or something.
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You're like Bigfoot, but it's like for somebody that won't sleep or whatever.
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Like if you've seen him, he doesn't sleep or whatever.
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Dude, I just saw this thing the other day about when Michael Jackson went to Brazil.
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Dude, he did a lot of things that he like challenged the status quo.
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Like he wanted to go to Brazil to the favelas to shoot.
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like comics um in the la scene uh dane would come in sometimes but out the window i was on stage
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on time and out the window next door there was a oz costume shop a-h-h-h-s like uh and uh
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onomatopoeia yeah onomatopoeia dude and he was uh and he pulled up in a with some security guards
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and got out and went in there it was like after hours they let him go into the costume shop no
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way yeah you would open up the store for michael jackson i'm on stage and i see and i know he lived
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can see out this window on stage, and the audience
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can't see. It's from the second story. Oh, they think you're
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making it up. Yeah, they're like, you're a f***ing
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I get some guy yelled, and I'm like, whoa. Just because I
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He's really there. He's not my fucking sleep
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sleep and then oh yeah what were some of the modalities that they because because i'm assuming
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you went pretty deep down this hole trying to figure this out oh yeah because you had to take
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a break right at some point right yeah man i had to cancel i had to cancel shows and um you had how
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many doctors for it i had like six doctors at some point all doing different things in different
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categories or whatever and like what were they were they taking your blood like what were they
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doing blood tests they check they check all that kind of stuff i was doing scans on my brain or
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whatever they're trying to measure, like what parts of it don't do and don't turn off, that
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kind of thing. Apparently I'm normal, but I just cannot sleep, dude. It's awful. But
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yeah, I did have to take a couple of weeks off. I like passed out on the way to a show
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and people were fucking pissed, dude. I mean, it was like an hour before the show was supposed
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to start, but like I hadn't slept for like five days. What was going on? Like, were you
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manic? Oh, incredibly, incredibly, dude. I mean, I'm up like crying between the hours
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just because I'm like, I just want to go to sleep.
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I'm like journaling to like my fucking dead grandfather.
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jerking off back to doing everything I can.
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and I like nearly fainted and like fell into the bushes
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Like, I wouldn't even be able to sit down on the stool
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once if something falls it's bro a tornado touches down in the middle of a concert he didn't cancel
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it yeah he's done dude it's i think people die at the concert yeah it's over he can't be on stage
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you know guess i'm the problem and like people are getting hit by lightning of course you got
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twisters touching down yeah of course yeah that's crazy there's a twist just throwing people up on
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stage yeah man it was like people are passing by you in the air you can't please everybody man
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you know he would be sand in my people are just flying people are wishing they had sand in their
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boots because they're fucking would be anchored down better it's like cut the guy some damn slack
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man he just wants to be he just wants to do his best he's fucking awesome dude you know uh i had
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i had kyle um dress up as him for the for the uh amas amas that was for yeah because they had me
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presenting and um i was doing here he's sitting here with us one of the best photographers
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Dude, yeah, now look, I'm not saying I get one.
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They had me presenting for it, and they had me presenting in a country category,
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And the bit was to basically get everybody to be like, oh, my God, Morgan Wallen is here.
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And he had this big old mullet wig with a little hat down.
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The bit was supposed to be that, like, the camera goes to him.
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But he looked so much like him that people were like, okay, cool.
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And all the country pages and stuff picked it up and everything.
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They're like, oh, Matt Reif takes a dig at Morgan Wallen.
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I'm saying he's definitely too fucking good to be here.
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You know you're the entertainer of the year.
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Who the fuck else is doing multiple stadium shows?
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it's like wow what this is just for you you know 100 it's just talking about ego earlier right
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right it's just for the ego of these companies a lot of these things you know they want to keep
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this idea that some select people get to decide who the the entertainer of the year is it's like
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let the numbers decide oh 100 you know i couldn't agree more it's like with the trying to give a
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podcast in awards or something earlier i think this was this year or last year and like do you
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want to be in the award you have to pay to be you know you're you got paid to be in consideration
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they got you gave you a nomination but then you have to pay to be uh to see if you if you you'll
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be like one of the top five or whatever that's so weird and it was like first of all pay us to
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nominate you it was that was part of the edge of it right you have to pay to continue to be
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nominated it's like um and I can't remember who it was but it was like uh but that was part of it
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And then they gave the award to, like, I think it was Amy Poehler's podcast, which is great, right?
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She's one of the most talented entertainers that there are.
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But if you're not giving that award to Joe Rogan, then what are we even doing?
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He wasn't even nominated for it because he didn't self-bid himself.
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But it's like if you're not giving it to him, then we're playing some game of yours.
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it's proving that you have a connection with the people right like those people are paying to come
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see you that's harder money that they saved up they got a babysitter this is their anniversary
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whatever it is those people are coming to see that like that success speaks for itself if you
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can move people to come see you in real life what does it matter what eight people voted in the
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middle of hollywood or nashville or whatever it is yeah i agree dude um like that's the true success
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i think just let it be what it is you know why you know i don't know i think i also have like a
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i get some angst towards some of that hollywood stuff so i think i'll get it i have a little bit
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of a chip in my shoulder about some of it i don't even know why all the time um let's show this clip
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right here and yeah dude morgan could go morgan could literally go back in time before before
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people even knew him any people like i heard he's good you know he could go to like 40 years ago
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And people will somehow be like, yeah, I heard that guy's good.
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Dude, you're like my fucking hot lesbian aunt that's AI, dude.
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i don't know you guys look too similar though let me uh let me show this award show part
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i think we can all agree that the current state of country music
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some pretty good hands right i mean just tonight alone we've seen riley green
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keith urban and actually making his very first ama appearance morgan wallen is here
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In 1996, Michael Jackson shot a music video in Rio de Janeiro favelas.
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The world didn't know that this historic shoot was only possible
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Yeah, the government said it was too unsafe for him to come,
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but he wanted to come and be around the people.
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Spike Lee's camera pans across the hills of Dona Marta,
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but the setting of Far Cry from Hollywood Studios is no ordinary set.
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the police refused to set foot in dona marta and yet the cameras rolled that had to be pretty
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brave bro yeah man i mean to be that loved did it say that they looked out for him i would imagine
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so so when michael jackson arrives in rio to shoot in a favela it's not the mayor or the governor
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who has the final say it's marcino vp the man hunted by police is also the one who ensures
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the king of pop safety so uh he was the head of one of the most powerful criminal factions in the
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city charismatic and ruthless marcino had established himself in a world where hierarchy
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is carved out uh carved in fear and cemented by weapons what set him apart from other hill bosses
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was a strange intellectual depth almost unsettling for a man at war with the established order
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it's just pretty wild that he went and shot that there feels like he could have did it in burbank
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you know what I mean right would never have access to you and also there's probably you know you get
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in some dangerous neighborhoods it's dangerous yeah but I mean it sounds like the people he's
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getting approval from are like nobody's gonna fuck with you we would be the people to fuck with you
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right nobody's gonna fuck with that's the thing that's awesome that's awesome bro that that's
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what I'm talking about that's the people you like if you're for the if you're with the people you're
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with the people you know it doesn't matter what these other like little you know fancy people say
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about this or that i don't care you know say this guy's the the number one award winner this guy's
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this or whatever you know the truth is the truth 100 you know replacement for real life yeah
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anyway sorry i feel kind of i don't know why i feel kind of animated about that i like it um
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it's passion take me on a little bit more of so so you bought this ed and lorraine's house take
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me on the house that you bought and and what you guys have done with it i know there was like
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sell the house and we were the first people that they
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um so i mean to get to be a part of arguably the most prominent piece of paranormal history
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on earth being the annabelle doll in the warren's house is fucking awesome dude um and we got the
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house like as is like we have all their old clothes all their old tape recordings i mean
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there's like there's hundreds and hundreds of old recordings and letters from cases that never got
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turned into movies and tv shows and stuff like that and it's so cool man i mean the house itself
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museum aside is fucking terrifyingly haunted but there's like such a warmth to it like
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regardless of what they did and who they were and what they were around all the time like
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it still feels like such a cozy family home so we've we've opened that up to the public to be
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able to be stayed in as an airbnb and it's attached to the museum which holds oh god i think
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it's something like 700 artifacts or something like that in the museum as well as the uh annabelle
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doll and take me through like uh just a brief synopsis of the family and the annabelle doll
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for people that don't know uh i mean they're ed and lorraine were the most famous ghost hunters
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pretty much in the the history of it i mean they they helped i mean i guess documented i'm gonna
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say a few hundred families and they were spousal they were married yeah absolutely dude yeah she
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was a psychic medium and ed was uh was an author and um they uh they put out a lot a lot of good
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books and um but they helped a lot of fucking people and they're i mean they are the family
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behind like the largest scary movie franchises in the world between annabelle doll the conjury
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movies amityville horror all that good stuff and they uh how they help a lot of people you said
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they helped a lot of people well i mean a lot of people dealt with like possessions and haunted
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homes a lot of haunted objects and everything and they would go to help these families with
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either casting out the spirits um via exorcism sometimes it was taking an item like the annabelle
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doll off of the family's hands and putting it in a more secure place stuff like that
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so you have the annabelle doll now yeah it's pretty crazy bro it's a pretty white thing to own
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yeah that is huh yeah i mean i do you believe in ghosts yeah i believe in ghosts but i get
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scared about it because it's like you know if you go summon ghosts if you summon like
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if you look at it as like the devil i think there's different ways to look at it if you
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look at it as like a spiritual thing like maybe something that's in between here and there um
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but if you look at it as like satanic you're trying to summon satan and that stuff is a little
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scary oh yeah i don't fuck with that stuff at all regardless of like there being a demon literally
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attached to that doll like i don't fuck with it i'm not hanging out with the doll that was the
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crazy thing people i mean that's a very passionate community and it's one that i respect that i'm
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happy to be a part of but people thought i was like because i'm a comedian that i was gonna like
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disrespect this doll they thought i was gonna turn this house into a fucking frat house and
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Annabelle was just gonna be crowd surfing like a stretched out blow up doll. Oh, yeah, I could see that dude
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People always want to like think about stuff like that. Did you do anything cool with Annabelle?
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Like were you guys able to even like have her like bring her out to have like a tea or something? No god
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No, we would never let her out of that box ever
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We've only had to move the box a couple of times and I even I don't fucking touch that. Really? I let Elton
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And we have we have a couple of priests that help with that
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I'm terrified of it. Wow. Yeah, I'm never there by the way
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People thought I was living at the house with Annabelle.
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If it's going to exist, it might as well be like contained.
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Do you feel like, do you want to create more stuff around like horror genre?
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Like, is that something you start to feel like?
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Cause you said you're kind of at this space where it's like, you're kind of thinking,
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well, yeah, what else is possible and what else, what I like to do and what direction?
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I mean, on the entertainment side of things, like I would love to develop some kind of
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like a horror project, whether it be a TV show or a film or something like that.
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But I mean, we're also even expanding in that space.
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Like we're, we're moving the museum and expanding it to a location in Salem,
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Salem, Massachusetts, this, I think it's going to be this September or August that it's going
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So, I mean, there's a couple other properties that we could potentially be buying as well.
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Like, it is so new to me that I think it's very exciting.
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And this creates a lot of opportunity for people to educate themselves on that world.
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People are fascinated by it, but they don't know a lot about it.
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Have you had like a supernatural experience of your own?
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Of all the investigations and stuff we've done, I mean, I've seen and heard so many things.
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I like EVPs, which is like the voice recordings the most.
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You're getting a direct response to a question you ask.
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I know this hasn't been tampered with in any kind of way.
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To me, that feels so as close to undeniable as possible.
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there can't just be this there has to be something out there there's no way i won't ever see this
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person again so the fact that i can go communicate with like other what i assume are people or
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spirits of people to me that brings me like a little bit of warmth knowing that like you know
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maybe i'll maybe i will see that person again and maybe you know maybe everybody gets to see
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their loved ones again yeah yeah was that did your grandpa pass away recently or no it was i think
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it's going on three years this october maybe four three years oh man i'm sorry to hear that
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He had cancer, but it was like they found it out of nowhere.
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His dogs pulled him on his leash and pulled something in his abdominal slash rib cage a little bit.
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It was hurting him for a while, and it got worse.
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And he started coughing a lot more and everything.
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And eventually, you went to the doctor, and they did a whole scan of everything.
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And they were like, dude, you've got stage four cancer, like like lungs black.
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So it was he was he was perfectly healthy like five months before he passed.
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Yeah, that was definitely that was definitely like my best friend.
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That's that was like my father figure growing up and everything.
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I spent every weekend of my childhood with him every single weekend.
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I definitely wouldn't have got into comedy if it wasn't for him.
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Dude, yeah, it almost looks like your daddy's so young.
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He's the one who used to take me, like, the open mics when I was, like, 15,
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and he would pay, like, the $5 a head to, like, show, like, bring your show shit.
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or like why did he he took you over there because he knew you wanted to do it yeah yeah like he
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thought i was funny like we would but we would fucking kill each other laugh every weekend my
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entire childhood um so it was really cool he got to see me he got to see me sell out a comedy club
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i think it was the cincinnati liberty funny bone yeah before he passed which i think is the hardest
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part it's like you kind of like what we were talking about with ralphie earlier it's like
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if there was one person i wanted to share all this with it would have been him so i feel like
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he doesn't get to see this kind of sucks he's out there steve that's his name yes what's up steve
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shout out big steve my guy oh dude he fucking loved ralphie too did he oh oh dude that's so
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cool bro he can hear us i feel him right now steve's milling around bro with his 97 different
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haircuts yeah bro that was like the shortest his hair ever was he used to grow it down to like his
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um i'm gonna pivot a little bit some of your comedy specials your first few came out on youtube right
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yeah yeah i put out the first two and then i did a crowd work one on youtube as well
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and then did you do one on a stream on a streaming platform uh then it was netflix yeah i did natural
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selection for netflix did you feel any difference because like one is more of it feels like it's a
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it feels like it's more for the people like from you know just it feels like it's did you feel any
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difference between like doing some that way and doing one for netflix for um i mean you do a special
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for netflix for like self-validation to be like i have i made it to what is supposed to be the
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pinnacle platform for comedy but i think the difference was the youtube stuff i did entirely
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like by myself like it was just my friends helping me like i directed the first one then i'd got eric
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griffin to to direct the second one and even the crowd work one which was like a totally
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experimental thing i literally did it with me and uh and my buddy elton actually ran camera by
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himself was me and one person did an entire crowd work special so i mean it was exhausting but it
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was super super fulfilling to like have a hand in a little bit of every piece of the creative for
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that so i mean i think it was different in uh in that sense also the um the the reach of viewership
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i think is different for youtube and netflix because not everybody has netflix not everybody
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likes netflix and you got to have a subscription to it versus youtube it's so easy to share like
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you know i do it myself completely you know i don't know i just think about that sometimes and
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what that's like oh no i battle with it all the time i'm doing my next special it'll be towards
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the end of the year i can't really say when yet but i don't i don't know what i'm gonna do with
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it just yet i'm not 100 sure there's different pros and cons obviously yeah and you're at a
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place right now where you can kind of do what you can do what you choose yeah absolutely which is
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pretty nice yeah i just want to figure out what fits best you got kind of like like pinned with
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like being the crowd were like your crowd work started to kind of like take clips and make it
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so that a lot of people were doing crowd work do you feel like that that's kind of a true statement
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yeah i would say so i mean i definitely wasn't like the first one to do it like uh like schultz
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was a big inspiration for me doing that like his crowd works fucking he's amazing at that he's so
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good at he was doing this thing that even made me want to start doing any of my youtube specials
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where he was doing like a new minute every single week like he would post a new clip every single
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And that's 52 minutes of material throughout the year.
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And he would sprinkle crowd work in with that as well.
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And I was just like, holy shit, I see the importance of content in the stand-up market,
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which I don't think anybody had really been paying attention to.
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Like, you put out specials, but that's once every year, maybe once every two years.
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But we weren't like, comedians weren't being in people's faces all day.
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Like, you weren't prominent on a platform and people kind of couldn't avoid you,
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which I think is, you know, prominent for the algorithm.
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well especially if you don't have if you're not pod if you don't have a regular podcast like with
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podcasting you do because you just have clips right of course but if not yeah it's hard to
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find like what is that thing without doing a sketch or like planning this big thing and that's
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that's why i like doing the bit of crowd work that i do do in my show because like it's new
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and refreshing right like it's i'm not doing the same stories and jokes night after night after
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night that you have to deliver like it's your first time ever saying it like this is something
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so new and spontaneous that i can post online it's not burning any of my material yeah dude i
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I saw the one where you saw one of your teachers.
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It felt like he was trying to steal your shit.
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I'm just fucking joking with Trevor, dude.
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But did it ever feel like then you had to be the crowd,
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because he's gotten so prominent with his characters that he does,
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It's such a specific lane that nobody else has been doing.
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um i asked him i was like do you find people coming to your show and like just wanting the
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characters and he was like all the time like sometimes i'll be in the middle of a story and
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somebody be like do crowd work and i'm like i'm gonna fucking get to it if i feel like it okay
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it's not that's not all this is but like i'm a goddamn jukebox yeah it's crazy man but i mean
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i do it because i enjoy it you know yeah that's like when i was in like like couldn't when i was
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like doing those wiener pills it's like get an erection and you're like i'm trying man give me
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a few minutes. Yeah, let me warm them up a little
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angle so he won't notice it's missing, you
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Do you ever, when you're touring, like, do you ever
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a bad rap for people being like, oh, you're just
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doing it because like you don't have the material that's such a hack response to have to it like
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that's it by what means does that mean that yeah yeah dude yeah like i was shooting this thing in
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lexington a few weeks ago and somebody yelled out aids right in the middle of the show and it was
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just like it's a woman too jesus and usually age is more of a guy's thing or whatever i guess
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so then what are you gonna not acknowledge it i know dude i was like oh that's how bad things
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have gotten it's like people just yelling aids out dude that's the other hard thing as well is
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like uh venue wise now the smaller venue i do the more people yell out because they want to be the
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person that like gets talked to like they want to be the next clip i'm like it doesn't work like
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that it's usually the least assuming person you talk to it's probably like you're gonna get the
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best shit out of it it's not like the like the pick me yeah person in the back that's true dude
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it's always like that a comedy club is like so intimate we're all kind of feel like we're hanging
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out that in like a living room to where it's nobody really wants to be like the dickhead to
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interrupts like that's kind of perfect and an arena so big that like you i think they assume
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they you can't hear them so they're not going to waste yelling out like anywhere in the middle
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ground like a theater people are like i know he'll fucking hear me yeah we yell some wild shit
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yeah dude i think it's like there is this weird thing where you yell because you kind of want to
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be heard but you do not want to be called on there's some of that energy too for some people
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oh of course like you want to be a part of it but you don't want to be a part of it oh i love the
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person i love like the like the wife brought her husband and the husband didn't want to sit up
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front he's like what if what if he talks to me and the wife's like it's not all about you ron
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you know what i mean and then you end up talking to that guy he's like this is my fucking worst
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nightmare the wife's loving it i love that dynamic has it ever backfired like take me on one that
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backfired was there have there been one that backfired like because you because when you
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open it up to the crowd that's another thing suddenly 40 people or they want to have a you
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know they want to offer a suggestion it's very hard to direct a room full of people who are like
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okay now it's my turn so i mean that mean that does happen quite often i mean usually i'm pretty
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good at shutting it down and everybody can kind of be cordial but it happens but you also get
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duds you know what i mean like you fucking you interview people you know what it's like to talk
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to somebody who you can't hold a conversation with so i mean that happens all the time i'm
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not gonna post that clip obviously so yeah it's not magic every time but when you do get it
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it's such a fun feeling to have that moment right then right there with people yeah dude one time
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there was a guy in his wife he had a wife or girlfriend whoever it was had the craziest
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like you have no cartilage left from holding those up they were just yeah they were you could
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just feel like one of you could feel um one of her uh vertebrae having trouble god damn
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yeah you couldn't feel it them hindenburgs yeah yeah she had them damn blimps and front blimps
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so anyway dude but they were craziest looking tits and she you and the guy's like i said oh
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He's like, you know, stock vending machines, you know?
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And I was like, and what do you guys put in him?
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But then you see where you think he's getting the milk from.
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His wife's just sitting there all quiet with the craziest tits.
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Acting like she doesn't have crazy tits or whatever.
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You ever see somebody who, like, pins a hat on their hair and acts like it's a real hat?
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Yeah, I said, well, where are you guys getting the milk from, right?
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And that was just, and dude, there was nothing else through the rest of the night that was
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like, there's just something about that thing that's in the moment where, and it was just
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Like a seven dick pile up right in his own pants
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It looked like he shit the front of his pants
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Oh when somebody shows up with that stepdad cock
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I'd have been afraid to come out of that thing
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Cameraman just like wouldn't get the shot of it. And I was like why wouldn't he?
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Sometimes they're like three inches away from somebody's face, and I'm like get out of there. You have a zoom
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hold on it's tangled up in his dick hold on a second hold on look at this fucking thing you're
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moving the camera bro look at that thing man big bro got that front yard dog alien when it's coming
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out of her fucking stomach yeah that's what it looks like wow yeah that's a lot man turtleneck
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dick is just a different confidence and he's wearing a turtleneck too yeah no yeah man he
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knows what's up that's insane that's christmas dick a christmas dick if you weren't a turtleneck
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holiday hog tight pants brother yeah he knew he you gotta know that's not comfortable there's no
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way that's oh no that's all tight brother i'm so glad my dick isn't that big yeah so glad about it
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yeah same same um but yeah man you get some some weird stuff like that what about uh are you
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married you're not married oh yeah no single okay and do you start thinking about getting married
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or anything like that or do you even think about that kind of stuff or like yeah does your mom
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bug you about that what's your mom doing in your life these days because she was giving you a hard
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time about working for ralphie what is uh does she still like a have that managerial energy or
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now she kind of trusts where you're at no she's she's so happy with where i'm at dude i just got
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her her second house because she yeah the first woman just wasn't working out and she was like
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by herself in the middle of nowhere Georgia
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and she's like nobody comes and visits I'm like no
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Colorado where my sister lives now she has her
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oh your sister has a couple kids yeah she's got two
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daughters oh that's your mom right there what's her name April
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uh christina top top right corner the blonde hair and who was that your ex no no no no that was um
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that's god arguably probably my most famous crowd work thing was she's like this really hot
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mom actually grandma who lives in iowa and i met her on stage she gave me like these cookies and
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this like really sexual shirt and everything and i bro i was like 10 minutes into the show
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when this happened i did like an hour and 20 minutes just talking to her and it was
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crazy crazy good time the entire time like we were great chemistry great banter the crowd was
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fucking loving it but at the time you can only post a 10 minute clip online on like instagram
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and stuff so i had to edit it all down to that like the whole show was that which never happens
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by the way like that sounds like i didn't have material ready for the show but like it was just
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such a really cool in the moment thing it went stupid it's got over like i'm sure collectively
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over a couple hundred million views dang yeah really yeah it's awesome no way she's awesome
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I mean, sometimes crowd work is, it's different every time.
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You don't know if you're going to talk to, you know, super hot mom or biggest dick you've ever seen
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or somebody, you know, somebody all crumpled up in the corner.
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With crowd work, there's something really special about it.
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okay so we get to we have like five weeks in europe straight this is night one of us landing
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in romania of the whole trip night one five weeks is a long time it's a very long time
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night one we're like oh we're gonna go out have some drinks it's friday night we'll see what
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romania is about kyle gets roofied and robbed the first night on tour how do you know you got
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roofied kyle i woke up in an ambulance 50 50 minutes away from the hotel at 9 30 in the morning
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They had to carry him through the lobby and everything
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So I'm texting with him, I'm like, yo, do you want Jackson and I to come
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oh yeah he's so he's so funny he's hilarious um i was like do you want jackson out of we'll come
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come back and get you right now and he goes no it's all good i'm heading i'm heading back to
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the hotel right now i was like are you sure he goes yeah i'm heading back to the hotel
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go to sleep i wake up at 9 30 in the morning my phone's ringing off the hook and i'm like
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fucking what they're like yeah kyle's in the back of an ambulance right now it's like no
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fucking way you communicate with him kyle no i could barely open one of my eyes and i was i
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knew i got beaten up by strippers i remember that we're sitting that's all i remember do you have a
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grill in right now yeah okay that that's interesting but we're sitting in the van day one after his
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recovery it's all quiet and we're trying to ask him a little things about we're trying to give
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him some space and he just goes i think those strippers were mean to me it was so so somber
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we're like what he goes yeah i think they pushed me down a lot it was one of the meanest things
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i've ever heard that's wild to say that specifically i think they pushed me down
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what's up what's up uh what's in the news dude anything in the news that we wanted to look at
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oh yeah what's anything good to talk about oh what do you think about these data centers stuff do
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you think about that kind of stuff like because that's kind of bro i i just had to help stop them
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from putting in one um in rhode island no way i'm at yeah they had like have a whole town hall
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meeting and everything like that you went to it i couldn't go but my friend went and spoke on my
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behalf which was very nice she was very passionate about it and i mean she had my approval i i
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couldn't agree with her more it's just it's it's so peaceful out there it's gonna it's it's just
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fucking up what we have man i mean i don't know too much about them i'm not even gonna pretend
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like i do yeah for sure but um the one thing the most prominent thing that stood out to me because
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it wasn't gonna be that far from my house was there was gonna be like a non-stop humming coming
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from the building i was like i don't want that i love the look like i can hear birds outside dude
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yeah yeah yeah well especially yeah like something just humming in the distance dude
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New York passes data center moratorium and consumer protections as environmental and housing proposals stall.
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Data centers are built for continuous operation.
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Power cooling and network paths are duplicated so a failure of maintenance event doesn't drop.
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Workloads, having parallel systems and physically separated paths.
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uh well my thing is just this like so we we're already keeping a lot of data right
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like our phones we record stuff all the time it's on the cloud
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the amount of data that they must want to store now
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must be astronomical compared to what we're doing yeah so that's what i don't understand
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unless we're going to go into like a surveillance state right where which is that's what it feels
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like a lot of times they already are right because then they're gonna have to record it around the
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clock everywhere everything yeah and they're just gonna put these rant they're just gonna put these
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storage places and random places around the country that's so strange to me yeah
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aaron brokovich i know was just talking about it um i want to get someone on to talk about some of
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these data centers just to learn a little bit more about it and what's going to be going on
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yeah let's see what this says right here this is tech billionaire oracle ceo larry ellison
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confessed as a dystopian ai mass surveillance network citizens will be on their best behavior
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because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on
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and it's it's unimpeachable the cars the cars have camera you know cameras on them all right
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we have i think we have a squad car here someplace uh but those kind of applications using
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AI, if we can use AI, and we're using AI to monitor the video. So if that altercation had
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occurred, that occurred in Memphis, the chief of police would be immediately notified. It's not
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people that are looking at those cameras. It's AI that's looking at the camera. No, no, no. You
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can't do this. It would be like a shooting. That's going to be immediately, that's going to be an
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event that's immediately, an alarm is going to go off. It's going to be, and we're going to,
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we're gonna have supervision in other words every police officer is going to be supervised
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it's gonna be wild what the fuck man i mean if you play that beginning part again to play the
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first 20 seconds what does he say this one part citizens will be on their best behavior because
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we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on uh and it's
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because we are constantly reporting it sounds like they're like like they're going to be
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reporting to him you're gonna that's the thing it's so fucking weird dude i mean do we have to
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be watched all the time i don't know how we can stop it now that's the scary part why do we need
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it i i mean i understand they're pushing the agenda of safety but like we have to how much
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safer is it gonna get is it just gonna be for accountability you think i think that's it's like
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and also there'll be a level of control there because yeah i would say so yeah if you don't
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do certain things then you're entering this space well you didn't opt you didn't do things the right
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the perfect way this exact way yeah so then what are the repercussions of that it's fucking weird
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dude i don't even i don't even want to live in this time to be honest i know it feels just kind
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of like it's it's too futuristic it's too it's too invasive when would you have liked to have
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been alive if you could like pick a couple of decades to have been like oh prime you
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i think probably born in because i think you but part of you does i feel like want to kind of know
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you want to be a part of the world in the sense you want to like you you hope that the world ends
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well because otherwise you feel like what's the point i think that starts to happen yeah
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you for me anyway i'm like you want to i feel like for past generations i better feel like
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let's leave it better we're all building towards something and then now suddenly i feel like we're
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all standing in a cul-de-sac and we're like what the fuck are we building towards anymore our
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grandparents are like doing only fans now they're like we're checked out we don't care it doesn't
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even matter dude like everybody like i do feel that way some of that energy is like what are we
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doing yeah i don't know i don't know what it looks like a generation after this one you know
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i have no like i have no idea what that looks like yeah i i think i would have i would have
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liked to have been born maybe in like 60 1960 yeah grow up in the 70s and then you're a young
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adult in the 80s and the music culture alone for that would have been fucking awesome oh it's great
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for film everything was magical i've heard good things yeah everything was magical and then you
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get to see how dystopian it's getting and be like yeah i'm glad i'm glad i'm leaving dude i feel so
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weird being like the last generation of people who wasn't like chronically online like i didn't
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this isn't young for some people but like i didn't get a cell phone until i was like i think i was
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almost almost 15 something like that it's like i still got the childhood of like i got the privilege
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of boredom yeah i think that's good for your brain to be a kid and have nothing to do and have to
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figure it out how to entertain yourself go go make up a game go play pretend go walk around
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and go throw something through somebody's window yeah we'll go break some shit i think that's good
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for you yeah i think your mom came home you're like you got arrested you're like yeah i don't
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know what else was i supposed to do yeah yeah i threw something through someone's window i didn't
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know it would break just shit like that like you just didn't know anything and i think that i think
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it makes you a better person oh dude so now wandering around just bored hoping something
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would happen a car drove by you just watching it go by just watching it dude laying on your floor
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and like hoping your mom wouldn't come home soon but also hoping your mom would come home soon
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somebody's around yeah here's some racket yeah i think it's good for you man and there's that
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that's gone people will never have that again taking a thousand naps if anybody came to the
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door you would go talk to them even if there's like a you know a like a registered sex vent or
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whatever didn't even matter you keep the chain on to keep them out but you still at least talk to
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them because it was somebody to talk to of course and they were charming you know yeah they were
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good at what they did i remember having to like ride your bike across town to see if your friend
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was home oh and they weren't oh god and you just had to go back yeah dude across town you biked
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miles oh across grass dude it was yeah oh yeah you'd find a new way to go what is this video
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right here we'll watch this and we'll get you out of here man and you got a show tonight okay
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i have heard about these flock cameras this is these just start these are like some of the um
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early uh cameras are going up everywhere mass surveillance public safety uh they are linked
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to the new ai data centers um let's play it you won't believe the stickers i found somebody is
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putting these buggers up on every flat camera in town not enough people know that these are not
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just license plate readers these flock cameras build profiles on individuals that are walking
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by and in vehicles they use things like gender clothing behavior and even biometrics to build
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profiles on you for their nova platform even integrating social media profiles email data
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in places that you go and flocks data feeds directly into palantir's gotham which already
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powers ice deportation what if this is gta 6 like they're scanning everybody in real life in the
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real world everybody's gonna be in the game that that's why it's not out yet that first of all is
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the excuse that they need for why it's not out and two that would be absolutely amazing dude i mean
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they just change a little feature about you but you're like you know that's you but but in the
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future they could do that some of these companies could then license your existence somehow where
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you add in certain areas into a video game like that and that gets kind of crazy dude that's
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pretty sick yeah let's finish out here let me see flock cameras have exploded across the u.s
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because they're cheap turnkey crime fighting tools that let even small departments tap into
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a national vehicle tracking network flock sells subscription packages that include the hardware
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cellular backhaul their cameras continuously capture plates time stamps and vehicle metadata
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We're going through the rest of this year, so it should be fun.
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I'll be back here in Nashville in October for Bridgestone.
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My friend, is somebody dying or getting married?
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was like a big festival head and he helps him look for his lost son in the festival so it's just me
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him and his girl christine co who's a hilarious actress she was on dave yeah so we kind of help
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him look for his lost son amen bro yeah dude um best of luck man congrats on everything dude thanks
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for stopping by and spending some time with me bro it's a pleasure i know we've been trying to
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figure this out for some years now so thank you for finally making the time i appreciate it it's
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a blessing man your life seems active and busy it seems like you stay uh active in your own life as
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much and just, you know, show up for yourself and get things done. That's exciting. It's inspiring.
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Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be
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cornerstone. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found. I can
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